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“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its ’YeiSt Concerns/*
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1882.
Passing—Pawing,
[The following pretty little poem, which
wc llnd in the ltnleigb Farmer mid Me
chanic, is from the pen of General Itohert
M. Vance, and was written on a postal
card aboard of the last mail train going
south.]
Our life is like a mountain si roam
Whose surging waters know no rest,
Hv hill uud plait) they flash aud gleam
Till gather’d on the oceans breast.
Sometimes in culm, sometimes in storm,
Now white with wrath, now fleck’d With
foam,
Then, imag'd in the rainbow's form,
Tney onward move to find a home.
Sometimes tlieii song in sweet and low,
SomelintVn'lis sail like funeral dirge;
And tlien they scarcely seem to go,
Hut steal along the woodland verge.
lint oil! at length they shout with glee !
Old ocean’s roar break ou each ear ;
With joy they cry “the sea, the scu”—
Our rest will be forever here.
When In! the sunlieaiu, swift nnd true,
.Shall kiss them from old Neptune's rod,
And fogs and mist, o'er fields of blue,
Shull hear them buck through clouds, to
Clod.
Much is our life, asleep; awake,
Sometimes in smiles, sometimes iu fears ;
Sometimes sweet hope its flight shall take,
And leave ns pain and grief, aiid tears.
Sometimes the heart beats low and faint,
As troubles round our path increase,
And sin, and care, and earthly taint
Hide from our view the bow of ia*ace.
We look ahead and joyful greet
Some “spot of green,” just on before,
And fondly dream our tired feet
Wilt nestle there forevermore,
Alas 1 when near the close of day,
We reach wlmt seem’d the spot so fair,
We find it farther still away—
Mi rag'd upon the evening air.
This much we know—each pulse that
bents.
EncL step we take beside the shore ;
Each day, each hour, the Irav’ler greets
Shalt leave him less than were before.
So, when, with us, the day is done,
Wlien sight is dim, when life Is pa it,
May ‘dial, through his beloved Sou,
flring us to rest with Him at last.
FLANK ’EM I
Quarreling over the protecto
rate of the proposed Darien can
al is like fighting over an ab>
slractibn. Yet both sides to the
controversy show signs ot stub
bornees—two or three Eupopean
oowers insisting-on a joint Amer
ican ami European protectorate,
and the United States contend
ing for an exclusive American
protectorate. It is dilficult to
tell how the question will be set
tled, but it would be curious in
deed, if European capital, super
intendence and energy should
accomplish the great work and
then surrender the entire control
of it to I lie United States.
The bill inlrodu ed by senator
Vest, of Missouri, proposes aid lo
another gigantic enterprise,
which, if successful, would make
the United States entirely inde
pendent of the Panama canal,
nnd give it, in connection with
Mexico alone, a control in which
noEuropoan power could claim
any right of participation. It
would be a flanking movement
no less effect than sagacious.
We allude to the bill to afford
govornment aid to Capt. Eads’
proposed ship railroad across the
isthmus of Teliuautepec. This
isthmus is in Mexico, and is at
lea6t nine hundred miles north of
Darien. Fully eighteen hundred
miles of navigation would be
saved by crossing the continent
a t that point, by vessels sailing
from our Atlantic ports for any
Pacific port north of the 16th de
gree of latitude, or for Asiatic
ports. The dangers of naviga
CHEMICALLY TUBE.
tiou near Cuba and the Floaida
straits would be avoided, as well
as lit* perils to health in going as
far south as the equator. In case
of trouble, either domestic or
with-a foreign power, our gov
ernment eould send troops and
supplies to the Pacific coast in
ihuch Iras time than it could by
way of Panama. Then it would
not ouly have the exclnaived pro
tectorate, but it would have
means of anticipating or repell
ing European possession, which
it could not well possess as to the
Panama canal—the approaches
by sea to I lie Tehuantepec isllimu
being narrow and easily guarded
by a nation as proximate as the
United Stales.
We say liiuf these advantages
would be secured if I lie project
should be successful. If propos
ed by a visionary or untried man,
we might well distrust it on ac
count of its novelty. But Capt.
Kads hasdemoiistiated his sagac
ity and his scientific judgment in
regad to kindred works by the
snesess of ins jetty sysisin. The
late message of tile preident bear*-
testimony to his skill and capaci
iy in lhat great achievement, lie
is not a man whose porjects in ty
ho laughed at as impracticable
because they are novel. Besides,
be only asks for aid when he shall
demonstrate the feasibility of
bis enterprise, just as lie did in
regard to the jetties. lie pro
poses a work that would do more
lo solve in a satisfactory manner
the problem how lo restore the
prosperity of the .American ship
ping interests than any aid that
can be given lo it in any other
shape. It would be far wiser and
more profitable lo aid (Japt. Eads
in testing the practicability of
bis ship railroad Ilian lo quartet
with and perhaps fight Europen
powers about the protectorate ol
the Panama canal.— Home Cou
rier.
Writing for the Press.
There are thousands of young
folks who long to write lor the
papers and get well paid for it.
From the first they think they
ought to receive three or four
dollars a column, valuing tlieii
attempts by tbe labor expended
upon them rather than by their
capacity for pleasing the public.
Now to get handsomely paid one
must write handsomely ; to write
handsomely one must know what
the public knows,or would like to
anil be able to tell il in such a
style that the public will be
pager lo bear it. There are 'hou
samls who long to write, but have
no special aptitude or prepara
tion or resource for writing, just
as there are thousimis who long
to bo rich, bill cannot compass
their desires in lhat direction,
nnd thousands who long to be
beautiful, and vainly exhaust
fashion, cosmetics, corsets, and
all that in the attempt. Mean
time, Uto,-a who are bound to
succeed at writing and “have it
in them” to succeed, will keep on
steadily and quietly at their
books and pens, climbing tip
slowly, it mav be, but steadily,
to place and pay, first deserving
success and than attaining it—
just as men grow rich by small
accreations at first and larger ac
creations afterward. There is an
immense reading public, and
there must be an immense army
of writers to supply the demand.
As education and intelligence
advance, the demands on writers
for higher and higher grades of
literary work and newspaper
work, will advance, and the more
difficult it will be to fill the high
est place of honor and emolument
in the world whereof the pen is
the power. But the lists areopen
to, and sniuo must surely suc
ceed. Why not you as, well as
another?
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Clean Newspapers.
Boston Herald. 1
There is a growing feeling In
every healthy community against
the journals who make it their
special object to minister t* per
verted; taste by seeking out and
serving up in seductive form dis
gusting scandal and licentious
revelations. There is good rea
son to believe that the clean
newspaper is more highly prised
to day than it was four or live
ye*rs ago. It is also safe to pre
dict that, as the people in ail
ranks of life, who wish' to pio
tect their own families from eon- j
tnwinatiftn, become more con
scious of the permcioss influence
of a certain class of journals eall-
ed “enterprising,” because they
are ambitious to serve ‘up dirly
scandals, they will be careful to
see that the journals they per
mit to be read in the family cir
cle are of Ibe class that never
forget the proprieties of life.
Already men and women of re
finement and healthy morals
have had their attention called
lo the pernicious influence of
bid literature, and have made
commendable efforts to counter
act the same by causing the
sound literature lo be published
and sold at popular prices. These
efforts are working a silent but
sure revolution. The sickly sen
timental story paper, and wild
ranger and pirate story book, are
slowly yielding the field to wor
thier claimants.
To the piaise of the decent pa
per it may be said that where it
has a place in the family, and has
been read for years by the young
and old, it has developed such a
healthy tone and such a discrimi
nating taste that the literature of
the slums has no admirers. For
tunately the number of such
families is increasing in the land
and as they increase the journal
that devotes itself to sickning
revelations of immorality will be
compelled to find its supporters
solely among those classes that
practice vice or are ambitious lo
learn to follow such wavs.
Westminister Abbey.
The vastbeamsof tlie day were
faintly streaming through the
painted windows above me; the
lower part of the abbey are
wrapped in the obscurity of the
twilight. The chapels and aisles
grew darker and darker. The ef
figies of the kings faded into
shadows?; the marble figures of
the monuments assumed strange
shapes in the uncertain light;
the evening breeze crept through
the aisles like breath of the cold
grave; and even the distant foot
fall of a verger, traversing the
Poet's Corner, had something
strange and dreary in its sound.
I slowly relraced mv morning’s
walk, and as 1 passed out at the
postals of the cloisters, the door,,
closing with a jarting noise be
hind me, filled the whole build
ing with echoes. I endeavored
to form some arrangement in my
mind of the objects I had been
contemplating, but found they
were already fallen into indis
tinctness and confusion. Karnes,
inscriptions, trophies, had all be
come confounded, in tuy recol
lection, though 1 had scarcely
taken my foot Iroin off the thresh
old. What, thought I, is this vast
assemblage of sepulchres but a
treifsury of humiliation ; a huge
pile of reiterated humifies on the
emptiness of renown and the eer
tainty of oblivion l * #
is ever silently turning over his
pages; we are too much engross
eJ by the story of the present to
think of the characters and anec
dotes that give interest to the
past; and each age is a volume
thrown aside to be speedily' for
gotten. The idle of to day push
es the heroe of yesterday, out of
our recollection: and win, in turn,
be supplanted by his successor
of to morrow. What is the secu
rity of a tomb, or the perpetuity
of an embalmment f The remains
of Alexander the Great have
been scattered to the wind, and
his empty sarcophagus is now
the mere edriosity of the muesura.
*lhe Egyptian mummies, which
Cambyses or time bath spared,;
avarice now consunvetlr, Mez r aim !
cures wounds, and Phoraoh is J
sold for balsams.'’ What theu i$
to insure this pile which now
lowers above me from sharing
the fate of mightier mausoleums?
The time must come when its
gilded vaults, which now spring
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so loftily, shall lie in rubbish be
neath the feel ; when, instead of
the sound of melody and praise,
the wind shall whistle through
the proken arches, and the owl
hoot from the shattered tower J
when the gairish stimbeam shall
brake into these gloomy maiicioiio
of the ivy twine around
the fallen column, and the fox
glove hang its blossoms about
the nameless urn, as if in mock
erv of the dead. Thus man pass
es away ; his name perishes from
record and recollection; his his
tory is as a tale that is told and
his very monument becomes a
ruin. JTi ishiuyton Irving.
The Painted Caveiof Teias.
Mr. J. Van Wie informs tire re
porter of tbe San Antonio Ex
press that his grading fore's on
the Mexican extension of
Sunset railway are now a. Paint
ed Cave, on Devil’s rive.-, or
about two miles beyound. There
are three caves at this locality,
all ol which are painted, the fig
ures being buffaloes, bears, Indi
ans with bows and arr-ws in
warlike attiudes, Indians mount
ed on the chase, squaws, ect.
I’lie caves have boen tattooed
entirely within, and many of
these figures are still in a good
state of preservation. This work
was done by the red men in
years long gone by, as the oldest
white citizens remember tiiese
paintings, and say tjiey look very
much now as they appeared thir
ty and forty years ago. indicn' : -
the great age cf the pair.'. : . -. ...
Mr. Van \\ ie has occupied one
of these caves for kitchen and
diningroom purposes, it is about
forty feet long and ten feet wide.
Jt is approached by climbing a
hill, when the cave is entered
from Hie side hill. Its mouth ie
covered by clusters of vines
pendent from the branches and
boughs of a clump of blackberry
trees. In the top of the cavcris a
hole extending to the surface,
through winch Mr. Van Wie has
; run two stove pipes. Abiotlier
| cave still, its shape being round,
a capacity to hold seventy or
■ eishty people, is used for storage
’ purposes. The third cave opens
in a solhl rock bluff, being about
six feet in diameter at the mouth,
and extends backward a distance
of about one hundred, and fifty
feet.
The London Telegraph- of a
recent date, says : Thirty
human bones hav just beer.
landed at Bristol irom Turkey.
Picked up in the immediate
neighborhood of Plevna, carted
thence to Kodosto, they rrow go
lo enrich English soit To those
who do not give to snch a matter
much consideration,- it miry be 1
well lo mention that thirty tons
of bones mean the skeletons of
30,000 men. They do not include,
probably, many stones or pieces
of wood, but in all likelihood are
the actaal bones of the .llant
men who, from the inside aud
the outside of the wonderful
earthworks which Osman Pasha
made, ’ fought as hard as they
could for the nations to which
they belonged. The battles of
September 1877, alone contribu
ted nearly all Ibis number of
skeletons; but there wero other
terrible fights in July and August,-
and. again, when the dace sur
rendered. Each contest flourished
its quota of bones, and of these a
lavge proportion now comes to
England. It is appalling lo think
what was the actual loss of hu
man life in the space between
the Dauube and the -Efean. t : u:
one thing is certain ; the thirty
tons of skeletons landed at Bristol
do root at all adequately repre
sent the slaughter tfi<* toqk
place