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II,
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Mitigat lasanm, (rvpldum que semper,
Spiritual piecll cupiduui, quictcm
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HI.
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Quuiudiu flatus n:
Nowiim Chiinti i
ubivis jscubo
suet, ita virtue
•crcat, entente
e of Jf.tui sounds
mow. lien Is his wounds,
way his tear.
It makes tin* wounded spirit whole,
Au<] culms tbe ironIdi-d breast;
Tie timtinu to the hungry roul,
111.
Jems, my Shepherd, lliisbimd, Friend,
My Prophet, Priori and King ;
My Lord, my Life, tny Way, my Knd,
Accept the praise I bring.
IV.
Weak Is the effort of tny heart,
Ami cold my warmest thought;
But wbvn I sec Thee us Thou art,
I'll praise Then as I ought.
V.
Till then I would Thy lore proclaim
With every fleeting breath ;
And may Iho luu.ic of Thy name
Refresh my soul io death.
Wilkins’ Star Proverbs.
A light pursu darkens \ ho heart.
Air castles arc built from sun
beams.
Momentary joys combine to make
years of happiness.
Eloquent prayers please won—
fervent cues dolight God.
When a heart siring soaps, tho
report reaches beaten.
The man who owes must dig
until his debt is spade.
Ideas are the soldiors and good
judgement the generals.
Plant seeds of idleness if you
wiph to raise gebbit timber.
Characters are wrecked when
comkieace becomes a carelos and
bad pilot.
To defend tbe smiles of your
enemy, you may lose the smilee of
your frunds.
To climb a bill man must be
wide awake, but a dead man can
roll down a bill.
As .the golden moments pass
over us, they sprinkle Iho hair with
silver and fill the mind with gold.
An elegant church may tickle
tb« people, even if God is not tick
!ed by tbe high steeple.
Sleep takes away the sense s, yet
we would have none to take away
were it not for sleep.
If men knew as much about
the mselves as they usually do about
their neighbors, they would hardly
dare speak to themselves.— White
hall Time*
Ti
Mother, think of tke battle that
is being waged by worms against
the life of your child* There is
no night of rest with them; they
fight to kill Shrlner’a Indian
Vermifuge will annihilata them.
Only 25 cents a bottle. .
Thu youthful color, beauty and
lustre are gradually restored to
gray hair by Parker's Hair Bal
sam. ltu.
Why are very young dudes like
very new wheat ? Both art tco
green to thrash.
Natural History—Tho Bed Bug.
BY KIT WABKXN.
I have long wanted to write the
life and publio services of the red
bug. I have felt it an imperative
and pressing dnty but he’s a mon
ster of such hideous mien that I
tremble and falter at the task. He
is not, however, a specimen of to
tal depravity aud so I will soften
the asperities of my discourse by
beginning witu the silver-linings
atld virtuous bearings and com
mendable traits which telong to
his charactor.
The rod bug has as much inde
pendence and selfhood, as strong
conviotions and as settled purpos
es as any creaturo that breathes
the breath of life. He attends
strictly to his own business; he §m
ploys no agents, hires no bauds,
forms uo •combinations, requires
no protection, “asks no favors and
shrinks from no responsibility."
Though small of stature ho is not
destituto of influence; on the con
trary ho always makes himself felt
—always makes his mark in tho
community in which he rc.ides.
You may have to put on your
specks to see him, but you won’t
have to put them ou to fiel him.
“Ob for a closer walk,” is the first
thing ho thinks of when Uo secs
you and he’s very likely to get
next to you and make himselt fa
miliar ou a short ncqu'tintanco.
Tho red hug is humanivorous, so to
speak, he eats nothing but little
pieces of people.
lie makes a busiuess trip to all
the rural pieuies in the spring of
the year and goes without waiting
for tho ceremony of an invitation.
When he gots there he don't stand
round atid look at folks and staro
them in the face; ho tuckles the
(itsi one he meets, without evon
waiting lor au introduction.
Whou lie gets on you he trots
along until ne finds a satisfactory
locatiou and then scratches away
the trash and begius to draw his
rations and help himself, and lie's
no objections to goiug homo and
spending the night with you if
you’ll let him ride.
Tbe red bug is very industrious,
lie sticks to his busiuess and work*
faithfully and uncomplainingly,
and he invariably puts up a suc
cessful job and druws a pa) ing
dividend, unless his cnlerpriso is
nipped in tho bud.
He is quiet in his manners and
orderly in the arrangement of his
business matters. He never blows
a horn to anuouuce bis coming or
advertises for a situation,
hunts tbe situation till he finds it
then settles down for life and
perfectly willing to give uway his
legs, as he doesu't expect to used
them again.
The red hug and the ilea belong
to the same entomological family
—pule* penetrans—but the Ilea is
funny bird; ho tickles you half
to death even when in his swagger
ing strut, as he capers along your
serface; while tbe red bug glides as
softly as a moonbeam and never
serves you with a notice of his
presence.
When tbs red hag takes up with
you he is hard to got rid of. You
needn’t hint at him that he isn’t
wanted, he takes uo hints, and
you 6in f t gooff and leave him, and
you can't catch him napping and
slip away. He’s a bIi»Ur plaster
that “sticketh cloier than a broth
er,” or a mother inriaw, or any
other man, or words to that effect.
You can’t toll him off or drive him
offer put a bit in his mouth and
lead him off—he'd prop himself
mod pull back worse than a sullen
mule. He bsl no regard for the
authority of law and wouldu’t pay
the slightest attention to the sher
iff, armed with a warrant for bis
removal as an intruder. You
needn’t to want him lo pack up
and leave. He didn't come for
your accommodation end nothing
bat coercion con Induce him to go.
And he’s not coercible much; so
your only chance is to trust in
Providence and rub with kerosene.
And you’ll need a good deal ui the
troetand tbe kerosene too;
I tell you what, If a colony of
red bugs settles on you and makes
a clearing, you’re right apt to find
out something about it; you’re apt
tp find out the geographical loca
tion of the colony and what it’s
bounded by, for they’re going to
sot themselves to work and set you
to work.
And the sensor-nerves and the
motor nerves will begin operations,
and the brain will telegraph to the
fiuger-naila, “Scratch,” and you’ll
have to scratch like Old Scratch or
disobey the pressing injunction;
for tbe ouly ambitiou of the set
tlers U to gratify their own apetite
and make a corner in tormenting
tho persou they inhabit.
The red bug has six feet, an an
gular form and a rod'beaded body
lie never dies of his own accord,
It takes killing to mako him die,
aud a good dual of killing at that
aud sometimes when lie’s dead he
isn’t more than half dead.
The red bug eats very littlo, but
he eats it bad, and my experience
is that he east about as much when
he's first dead as wheu ho’s last
alive, for I know he hurts a good
dual worse than ho don’t hurt for a
day or two after he has swallowed
tho poisonous drug aud breathed
bis valedictory breath.
Lioncus and Fubricious differ
from me iu their views of the red
bug. Mine are tho best aud most
reliable, fi.r they sat cross-legged
iu the iabratory and took hi
long taw, with microscopes, while
I went lo the picnic.
There’ll be no red bugs when tho
millennium comes. Red bugs aud
a millennium wou’t mix.—Sumter
JujHibliciin.
‘ Woman’s Sphcro.
In tho cultivation of her taleuts
a liberal education is ttol out of
place, Indeed, an uneducated wo
uiau is as much a mistake ns an
uueducati-d umn. But her edu
cation must bo moro than the gloss
of “ accomplishment,” which lit*
her ns a curiosity or a delicious
piefco of bric-a-brnc. She must
devolop womanliness, not the qual
ity of a vine clinging to something
stronger, but the character of au
independent being, a worthy factor
in society. For some girls work is
not a necessity, and they hold
theiu.'Clves aloof from tho busiuess
of life and from all interests i
activities and its exigencies. Lot
me tell such that they arc a
honor to tboir sox aud traitors to
tho cause of their Divino Master,
who placed on them as much ob
ligation as on mu, Tho devil
holds a first mortgage ou every
aimless life. Aimlessness leads to
driftiug, und wo never dnlt up
stream. Woman’s “ contracted
sphere ” i* continually dangled lie-
loro us, There is no sphere of
power fur hutnau being which
exceed in iroportanco the sphere of
home. The hope of civilization
was in the home, aud iho hope of
tho home is iu tho mother. She
c.tu mate her child what she will
if her conduct ever) where ami un
der ail circumstances is such as to
inspire uot ouly his love but his
admiration It is often tbo girl’i
fault that she does not have this
sphere opened to her. Young men
refuse to marry because the young
women demand homes as good as
those of their affluent fathers and
ambitious mothers. In many cases
the fathers of tbeso girls were poor
when young. Is it more of a dis
honor to have a poor suitor than
to have had a poor father ? Tht-so
girls forget that the biersing of a
home is the sffectionato co-opera
tion of tbe partners. No better
definition of a*wife has ever been
given than that in the second chap
ter of God’s book, a husband’s
helper. There is no time when a
young man needs a helper moro
than when be is at tho bottom of
the hiif; a girl who is unwilling to
begin with him then is not fit to
be his wife When ho has reached
tbe top.—Dr. l*arkhur»t.
Tbo late Charles Dolmonico said
few people knew how to cock wa
ter. Tbe secret, he remarked, “U
in putting good, fresh water into a
neat kettle, already quite warm,
and setting tbe water to boiling
quickly, and then taking tt right
off for use in tea, coffee or other
drinks, before it is spoiled. To
lot it steam and simmer and cvap~
orate until tbo good water was all
in the atmosphere, and tbo lime
and Iron and dregs only left in the
kettle—bah 1 that ii what makes a
great many people sick, and u
worse then no water at all.”
A good old man -in'-Spaulding
county went to prayer-meeting tbo.
other night and unwittingly fell
asleep. He was called on to pray,
and, being dutifully punched by
his better-lie If, bellowed out: “Deng
It, Betsy, kindle It yourselfi*
Jacob and Bachel.
There is a great deal of argtr
ment among young and old people
as to iho propriety of young people
finking (peb other’s acquaintance
Without proper introduction, old
people claiming that any acquain
tauce made without au introduce
tion is improper, while many young
people claim that there are times
when an acquaintance can be mode
without the aid of these forms
which is liable to bo a valuable
one, and lead lo so much happiness.
But such thiugs are looked upon
as flirtations by many peoplo. An
aiquaiutauco thus formed is often
looked upon as productive of no
good. Young people cannot be too
careful about meeting strangers,
though they should use some judg
ment and not givo themselves
away. They bavo a precedent for
getting acquainted without tho aid
of outside frieuds, iu the caso of
Jacob and Rachel, tho particulars
of which flirtation can bo found in
the good book. It is not alleged
that Jacob was a masher, liko
many of tho Jakes of tho present
day, but according tp reports, he
ciptured ltachcl quicker than
wink. It seems that Jake was at
tbo well of lluruu, after water, and
Rachel came along with her jug
after aorno water.. They bad never
met before, aud yet Jacob was gone
tho first time she aimed her eyes
at him. According to scriptural
authority, “ It cuuia to pais that
after be had drawn water at the
well of Ilarun for Ivtchel, Jacob
kimed Rachel and lifted up his
voice und wept.” What he wept
for is not stated, hut tho host of
’em ore apt to bo overcome with
emotion in trying times.
Tho action of Jacob toward A
total stranger in these days would
subject him and her to comment.
Suppose, ut one of our summor
retorts, a Rachel should bo down
to tho spring lor u dose of liquid
liver cure, and a ydfing fellow
should draw llio water for her, and
bund it to her, and then kiss her,
aud begin to cry. They would call
a policeman, and the next day, or
the day alter, when tho policomen
got around, they would bavo the
crying kissor fired out of tbe
grounds, mid Rachel's mother
take her up to the hotel and take
her across her kueo aud box her
cars soundly, l'robably that was
tbo way they did busiuess ill oldeu
times, but it would bo a laughable
filing to sue now days. Suppose a
young Jucob and Rachel, strangers
to each other, living in ndjoiniug
homes iu Chicago, both tako tiu
dippers und go out to tbo milk
wugou for tho supply of alleged
ilk for their respective families,
and Jacob should tako Rachel’)
dipper and have it wliite^wasbcd
inside with the stuff tbe milkman
exchanges for tickets, and then tbe
Jacob should kiss tbe Rnchol and
lift up bis voice oud weep. Tbe
milkmau would faint a Way aud
full off tho seat. Rachel would
swat Jacob over tbe head with tbe
dipper of fresco material, peoplo
would stop on tho streets to see tbe
row, and a policeman would come
along and pull both Jacob and
Rscbol tor disorderly conduct, end
they would bo sentenced to 30 days
in tho house of correction. This
•hows what a difference thoro is in
tho practices of Jacob a*i Rachel
then and now.
If a later day Jacob wanted to
get acquainted with a Rachel, be
wouldn't stand around a well wait
ing for her to come after a jug of
water, ucither would be stand at
tbe corner grocery waiting for her
to como after two cents' worth of
yeast, aud kiss her aud weep. He
would raise bis pancake hat to
her, and say, “pleasant, day for a
stroll, you know, by jove,” and if
she wanted to “ stroll/’ she would
say, “ Well, I should assimilate,”
and that would settle it, bat if she
didn’t want any foolishness sfao
would toil him to go and walk a
match with himself. There arc
various theories as to the cause of
Jacob’s weeping on that occasion.
Wbitelaw Reid, of New York, one
of the great eat commentators, gives
it as his opluion that Rachel had
been eating onions, and that when
Jake kissed her and got a sniff of
the odor bo had to cry. That
looks reasonable, bat it is moro
probable that Rachel bit bins. Sup
pose Rachel had uot been kissed
for several months, and wanted to
be kissed real bad. She was a
warm hearted, splendid girl, and
when Jake dropped his jug and
took her io bis arms, there behind
the well curb, where nobody could
see them, aud was about imprint
ing the kiss on her mouth, she
looked up into his eyes and bit
him. She couldn't help it. Rsch
el should not be blamed for caus
ing Jacob to cry, and evidently he
did not blame her, because he mar
ried her. Very likely that one
kiss that caused him to weep was
what settled tbe business with
Jake. Rachel did very wrong, no
doubt, in allowing tbe strange man
to kiss her before she bad learned
his name, or what house he travel
ed for, but If she needed a kiss at
that moment, promised herself that
it should not count, and that it
should not occur again, considering
bow it turned-out, and how happy
they were os long as they lived, wo
should not at Ibis late day lay it
up against Raphe!. However, girls
of to*day should be introduced to
men, and know what their Inten
tions are, and learn something of
their stauding in society before
they givo them a kiss and cause
them to weep. Such things have
tho appearance of boldness, and
are uot right.—Peck's Sun,
Sound Doctrino.
Every physician and every scien
tist who has mode a ttudy of the
physical and mental organizition
of roan will tell him that no man
can violate any of the laws of na
ture without taking from himself
omethiug which ha can nevor get
back. This is true of tho physical,
mental and moral man. No mat
ter what a man’s religious belief
may be, there ore certain rules of
morals which if bo violates ho pays
the ponalty for, and no matter
what his ideas of physical life may
bo there are rules governing just
as inflexible, the violation of which
brings a ponalty just as certain.
The indomitable ambition uml the
wonderful will of Napoleon impell
ed him to labor when be should
bavo slopt, and he died young.
An unusually strong constitution
may enable a man to eat or drink
too much for years, but bo pays
the peually iu a shortened life and
a permanent old age. A man may
drink so much boer a day nnd live
to be a hundred—without it he
would have lived to be a hundred
aud fifty.— Toledo Blade.
The gratification which wealth
can botow is not In mere posses
sion, nor in lavishing it with prod
igality, but in tho wise application
of it.
' There Is no policy like politeness;
And a good manner is tbo best
thing iu tbe world, either to get
good name or supply tho want of it.
Fame, as a river, is narrowest
where it is broad, and broadest afar
off, so exemplary writors depend
not upon the gratitude of tbe world.
It is very well to talk of and
write long articles about the Mor
mons, Mormonism allows many
wires at once. Divorce simply
allows them in succession,
No man, for any considerable
period con wear one face to himself
and another to the multitude with
out finally getting bewildered as to
which may be the truer.
Odr life experiences, whether sad
or joyful, should be fertilizers to a
larger and strongsr growth of
character, os the dead loaves of
trees stimulate them from year to
year to higher and nobler propor<
tloos.
Who is great when be falls, is
great in his prostration, and is no
more an object of contempt than
when men tread ou the ruiua of
sscred buildings, which men of
piety venerate no lets than if they
stood.
Fame confers a rank above that
of gentlemen and kinds. As soon
as she issues her patent of nobility,
it matters not a straw whether tho
recipient be tho son of a Bourbon
•r of a tallow chandltr.
What a woild of gossip would
be prevented If it was only remem
bered that a person who tells yon
of the faults of others intends
tell others of your faults.
Np girl I* plain, soys Mr. Bus*
kin, who Is well-bred, kind or mod*
All real deformity means
of manners or of heart.
The more I Know of men tbo
better I like dogs,” is quoted as a
saying of Mme. Do Buei.
Cariosities of the Sea.
New York Son.]
Many curious forms of fishes
have recently been found in tbe
deep soa. One fish, dredged from
a depth of nearly three miles from
the surface, shows a complete tned
ification of structure. At tbi« dis
tance from the surface the pressure
can hardly be realized. It is esti
mated that this fish has to contend
against a pressure equal to two and
one*half tons to every square inch
of surface. A sealed glass tube,
inclosed io a perforated copper cov
ering, has at two miles beeu re*
duced to fino powder, while the
metal was twisted out of shape.—
Yet, the fishes are so constructed
that they withstand the pressure.
Their bony aud muscular systems
are net fully developed ; tho bones
are permeated with pores and fis
suras. Tho calcareous matter is at
a minimum, and tbo bonus of tbe
vertebra) are joined togothcr so
loosely tbnt in lifting tho larger
fishes out of the water they often
fall apart, Tho muscles are oil
thin, aud tho connective tissue
seems almost wanting. Yet these
fishes »ro ablo to dart about and
capture prey.
Suulight penetrates only about
1,200 feet below tbe surfaco of the
sea. At 8,000 toet the temperature
lowers to 40 degrees Fuhr., and
from about a mile from the surfaco
to the bottom, four or five miles,
the temperature is shout the s&me
tbe world over—just abovo freez
ing. How do the fisl.ee and other
forms that ltvo here see?
Their eyes are modified as well
as their other parts. The fishes
that live 500 feet from the surface
have larger eyes than those iu the
zone above them, so that they can
absorb tbo faint rays that reach
thorn. In a zouo below this many
forms with small eyes begin to
have curious tcutaclcs, leclers,
organs of touch.
Many ot these Utep sea fishes
bavo special organs upon their sides
aud heads, that me known to pos
sess a luminous quality. Other
organs are considered accessory
oyes, so that tho fishes have rows of
eyes upon their ventral surfaces
looking downward, while near arc
luminous spots that provide tliem
with light.
One of the largest of tbeso deep
sea torch bearers is a fish six feet
long, with a tall dorsal fin extend
ing nearly tho entire length of tbo
body. Tho tipi of this fin aro lu
minous, and also a broad patch
upon its head. Along tho sides of
the body are a double row of Jumi
nous spots.
One of the most ferocious of
those deep sea forms is tbe Chan*
liodus. Its month is fairly over.*
flowing with teeth that protrudo in
a most forbidding manner. The
fins are all tipped with flaming
spots, while along the dorsal sur*
face' extends a row of spots that
appsar liko so * many windows in
tbo fish, through which light is
shining.
The little fiskes csllsd Bombay
ducks are luminous over their
entire surfkce, and when numbers
ars collected together they present
an astonishing spectacle. One of
tbe most interesting of those giv*
ers is the Cbiasmodus, a fish that
attains a length of only thirteen
inches. The top of ita bead is the
principal light-giving organ, and
iu fins gleam with phovphprescent
light. It is not alone retnarkable
as a light giver. It turn- a jaw so
arranged that it can aeixo fiab twice
iU size and easily swallow thorn.—
IU stomach has the elastic quality
of India robber. It stretches to
enormous proportions, and appears
like a great transparent t balloon
boogiug under the fish and con
taining its prey, d
Tbe last expedition seat out by
Franco brought to light some re
markable forms. The dredge off
Morocco brought up from a depth
of over one ami a half, miles a fish
that appoared to ha all bead or
mouth. It was of smell >ize, end
the length of th^ntoutb was about
four-fifths of the entire body, so
that, if the body had been severed
behind the brad, it <m& two or
ibreo like it could bava been stow
ed away in tho capacious pouch.—
It probably moves very slowly,-
scooping mud und ooze into rite
mouth, sifting out the animal ports
and rejecting tbs ; tis«
Be wisely worldly, not worldly
Food for Thought,
To know how to wait is the great
secret of atfocesr. . -
Those who can command them*
selves command others.
All that is human must retro*
grade if it does not advance.
A room bung with pictures is A
room bung with thoughts.
The mind grows narrow in pro*
portion as tbe soul grows corrupt.
If you desire to he held wise, be
so wise as to hold thy tongue.
Be a philosopher, but amidst all
your philosophy—be still a man.
To win work and wait*»but work
a good deal moro than you wait.
Patience is the panacea; hot
where does it grow, or who can
swallow it.
Truth is impossible to be soiled
by any outward touch as tbe sun*
beam.
Knowledge without justice ought
to be called cunning rather than
wisdom.
Belter be unborn, than untaught)
for ignorance is tho root of miifor*
tone.
lie who can at all times sacrN
flee pleasure to duty, approaches
sublimity.
Nothing is more simple than
greatness; indued, to be simple is
to bo great.
Even genitH itself is but fine
observation strengthened by fixity
of purpose.
Every time we sin there is some*
thiug iu cur souls that sounds tbe
death knell.
A compliment is usually accom
panied with a bow, as if to beg
pardon for saying it.
Every day is a little life, and our
whole life only a day repeated
many times.
Our happiness and our misery
are trusted to our conduct, and
made to depend upon it.
Happiness grows at our oWu
firesides and is uot to be picked in
strangers gardens.
If you would never have an evil
deed spoken of in connection with
you, don’t do one.
The beam of the benevolent aya
givvth value to tho bounty which
tho hand dispenses.
Of all the evil spirits abroad at
this hour in tbe world, insincerity
is the most dangerous.
Tbo two powers which In my
opinion constitute a wise mau aro
those of bearing aud forbearing.
How many people would be mute
if they were forbidden to speak
well of themsalrea and evil of
others.
Tbe more we fear, the lees reason
we have to fear; that Is, if we fear
God, wo need not fear anything
else.
Always tako the part of an ab%
scut person, who is censured in
company, so far as troth and pro*
priety will allow.
Never ridicule sacred things, or
what others may esteem aa suck,
however absurd they may - appear
to you.
To things which yon bear with
impatience, you should aocustom
yourself; and, by habit, yon will
bear them well.
When a person loses hie rtpata*
tion the very last place where ho
goeetolook for it is the plaoo
whore he hat loet it.
It is never the opinions of others
that displease us, but the pertina
city they display in obtruding them
upon us.
Dispute not with, a man who is
more than sevonty years of age,
nor with a woman, nor with any
sort of an enthusiast. - ,
Tie down a hero, aud he feels tho
puncture of a pin; threw him into
battle, aud ho it almost insensible
to pain.
^• Tberejs no part pf rniu’e nature
a hioh the gospel does not purify,
no relation of bis lite which it dote
not hallow. ; *•
whoso fint emotion , on tho
view of an excelleut pioduotran It
to under Value it, will never kavo
one of his own to show.
Reflect upon your present bleat*
jngs—of. which every man * hoe
maiiy—not on your past misfbre
tunes, of which all men Lave boom.
;. Society is compoied of two great
classes-those who have more ftp*
petite than dinner, and those who
bavo more dinner than appetite.