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YQL. II.
SANDERSVTLLE. GEORGIA, JULY 4, 1873.
-J. M. G. 3TEDLCICE. JYTKEO ABLIXE. R. It. HODGEES.
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POETRY.
Tliree Old Saws.
nr Lucy LABCosr.
If the world seems cold to you,
Kindle tires to warm it!
Let their comfort hide from view
Winters that deform it.
Hearts as frozen as your own,
To that radiance gather ;
You will soon forget to moan,
■* ‘Ah! the cheerless weather.”
If the world's a wilderness,
Go. build houses in it!
Will it help your loneliness
On the wind to din it?
Raise a hot, however slight,
Weeds and brambles smother,
And to rotif and meal invite
Some forlorner brother.
If the world’s a vale of tears,
Smile till rainbows span it;
Breathe the love that life endears,
Clear from clouds to fan it.
Of your gladness lend a gleam
Unto souls that shiver;
Show them how dark Sorrow’s stream
Blends with Hope’s bright river.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
Mayor Huff's Address.
Mayor’s Office, )
Macon, June 1, 1873. f
To the People of Upper and Lower Ga.
As you are aware, the Georgia
•State Agricultural Society will hold
its next annual Fair at this place,
commencing on the 27th day of Oc
tober.
Every, true Georgian is justly
proud "of his native State—rich in
minerals as it is varied in soil—weal
thy, indeed, in all that should con
stitute a people prosperous and hap
py. Me have here that diversity of
production and peculiar adaptation
of the various sections to the dif
ferent industrial pursuits which com
bine to make up the natural ele
ments sufficient for an Empire. In
agriculture, as in everything else,
harmonious concert of action
strengthens and supports each sec
tion of the State. Lower Georgia
has her peculiar interest to foster
and protect and her great strength to
boast of. The same may be said of
upper and middle Georgia. The
city of Macon occupies a grand cen-
tral’position geographically, and her
citizens have provided within her
limits fair grounds and equipments
equal, if not superior, to any in the
United States, for the accommoda
tion of visitors and for the exhibi
tion of any and every article which
may be brought here for show. The
Executive Committee and members
of the State Agricultural Society
have evinced a determination to
make this next the great Lair of the
State. The handsome and liberal
premium list now being circulated
throughout the State speaks for it
self. An examination of its pages
will convince every one that the So
ciety means business. But the
“county displays” are looked for
ward to as the prominent and great
leading features of the Fair, and
will doubtless present a grand pano
ramic view of each county and sec
tion such as has never before been
witnessed by the- people of Georgia.
The purposes of this appeal are,
therefore, to invite and urge every
county in the State, if possible, to
be represented in some way, so that
we may have no blanks in the pic
ture. To do this is a plain, patriot
ic duty; a duty which, if zealously
’performed, will conduce to the pros
perity and success of every county
in the State, without any regard
whatever as to which gets the $1000
premium offered. This premium will,
of course, go to the county which
shall furnish the “largest and finest
display.” But, as will be seen by
reference to the premium list, there
are three other handsome premiums
to be distributed among other coun
ties. as follows:
A premium of $500 to the county
making the second best display.
A premium of $300 to the comity
making the third best display; and
A premium of $200 to the county
making the fourth best display.
There are now three prominent
counties in the State which are
known to be bending and concentrat
ing all their vast powers and resour
ces upon this great contest-—one in
Upper Georgia, one in Middle Ga.’
and one in Southwestern Georgia.
Other counties will report progress,
and enter the list for competition at
the next meeting of the Society, to
be held in Athens next month.
But while the foregoing county
prizes are intended to represent the
leading features of the premium list,
they are by no means the most at
tractive. The city of Macon has uni
ted with the society in the effort to
present a list of rewards that will
not only please but actually reeom-
50
50
50
50
25
25
100
100
pense the exhibitor for some labor
and expense. And among others
which may be referred to with pride
and satisfaction, are the following:
For best acre of clover hay... .$ 50
. For best acre of lucerne hay.*.. 50
For best acre of native grass... 50
For best acre of pea-vine hay.. ’ 50
For best acre of com forage... 50
For largest yield of Southern
cane, 1 acre 50
For best and largest display of
garden vegetables 25
For largest yield of upland cot
ton, not less than 1 acre 200
For best crop of short staple cot
ton, not less than five bales.. 500
For best one bale upland short
staple cotton.. 100
(and 25 cents- per- 1 pound for
the best bale.)
For best bale upland long staple
cotton 100
(and 25 cents per pound paid
for the best bale.)
For the best oil painting, by a
Georgia lady 100
For the best display of paintings,
drawings, etc., by the pupils of
one school or college 100
For the best made silk dress,
done by a lady of Georgia not
a dress-maker
For best made home-spun dress,
done by a lady of Georgia not
a dress-maker......
For best piece of tapestry in
worsted and floss, by a lady
of Georgia 50
For best furnished baby basket
and complete set of infant
clothes, by a lady of Georgia..
For handsomest set of Mouchoir-
case, glove box and pin cush
ion, made by a lady of Geor
gia _
For best half dozen pairs of cot
ton socks, knit by a lady over
fifty years of age, (in gold)...
For best half dozen pairs of cot
ton socks, knit by a girl under
ten years of age (in gold)....
For the finest and largest display
of female handicraft, embrac
ing needlework, embroidery,
knitting, crocheting, raised
work, etc., by one lady
For the best combination horse.
For the best saddle horse....... 100
For the best style harness horse. 100
For the finest and best matched
double team 100
For the best stallion, -with ten o£
his colts by his side 250
For the best gelding 250
For the best six-mule team.... 250
For the best single mule 100
For the best milch cow 100
For the best bull 100
Eor the best ox team 100
For the- best sow with pigs 50
For the largest and finest collec
tion of domestic fowls 100.
For the best bushel of com.... 25
For the best bushel of peas.... 25
For the best bushel of wheat... 25
For the best bushel of sweet po
tatoes 25
For the best bushel of Irish po
tatoes 25
For the best fifty stalks of sugar
cane 50
For the best result on one acre
in any forage crop.......... 150
For the largest yield of com on
one acre •. 100
For the largest yield of wheaton
one acre 50
For the largest yield of oats on
one acre 50
For the largest yield of rye on
one acre 50
For the best result on one acre,
in any cereal crop.......... 200
For the best display made on
the grounds, by any drygoods
merchant 100
For the best display made by any
grocery merchant 100
For the largest and best display
of green-house plants, by one
person or firm 100
For the best drilled volunteer
military company 500
Eor the best brass band, not less
than ten performers 250
(and $50 extra per day for
' their music.)
For the best Georgia made plow
stock 25
For the best Georgia made wag
on, (two horse,) 50
For the best Georgia made cart. 25
These are among the many pre
miums offered by the city of Ha-
don, and the State Agricultural So
ciety, aggregating in all more than
$15.000. # But it is not to the value
of the premiums that we look for
rewards. The exhibition promises
nobler results than this. There will
be a great moral influence growing
out of it. The political economist
will here find food for his thoughts.
The artisan will scan, with eagle eye,
the work of his peers. The thrifty
farmer; the enterprising merchant;
the fowl fancier, and the stock im
porter ; the horticulturist—all will
be entertained, pleased and instruct
ed. Here we will learn the sources
of supply and demand in our own
State. Here we will learn where,
in our own State, each and every
article is produced,' raised or manu
factured. Our people will here be
taught where, in our own country,
they may follow that pursuit best
suited to their interest and taste,
without being forced to hunt homes
among strangers, as is now too of
ten the case. Exhibitors from Up
per Georgia will here find a market
for the ready sale of much, if not
all, of their perishable articles at
| full remunerative prices. In addi
tion to all this, much general good
must necessarily grow out of these
annual reunions of so many of the
thinking and working men and wo
men of the country. The spirit of
State pride is fanned into new life
by these meetings, and we forget,
as it were, our individual misfor
tunes in rejoicing over our mutual
successes. Let us then devote one
week in next October to the very
profitable work of meeting and dis
cussing the important agricultural
and commercial interests of the day.
Let it be a week devoted purely to
the explosion of' false theories and
putting into practical operation the
safe, sound, business ideas of the
times. Among other things, let us
prove, by the variety and merits of
our exposition, the great and abso
lute danger .and folly of looking to
railroads, rivers or canals for relief
from “hard times.” Let our Fair
in October be the only argument ad
duced by ns to prove the utter falla
cy of that grand idea, that ignis fal
um, called cheap transportation,
which has. so suddenly become the
all-absorbing theme among men in
search of relief. For it may in time
—indeed, it has already—become a
serious question with thoughtful, ob
serving men, whether we have not
now too much transportation. Our
seeming advantages may sometimes
become our greatest misfortune.
That which is oft-times a conven
ience is always a blessing. It may
become a vital necessity for us to in
quire whether or not these immense
railroad lines—traversing and cor
duroying, as they do, our country
from mountain to seaboard—are re
ally feeding or absorbing ns ? That
transportation which fosters and en
courages our improvidence while it
depletes our pockets, may be the
transportation least of all others
wanted in this country. And the
objections now so strongly urged
against our railroad systems might
not be entirely overcome by these
proposed water lines. It is not,
however, the practicability of these
grand sell ernes fur reducing rrelgnts
that we must stop now to consider—
for no matter how feasible they may
be, Georgia is in no condition to
wait their completion. The emer
gency—bread—is upon us, and we
must go to work, and go to work to
day. We must teach our boys, by
precept and example, that the great
virtue of life and the necessity of the
age is to be found in the truth of the
old Latin maxim, “Labor omnia vin-
cit.” The people of Georgia should
never be dependent upon any line
or any system of transportion for
the meat and the bread, the hay and
the fertilizers used upon their farms.
Such a policy will bankrupt and
starve out any people in the world.
Show me the man with a fat smoke
house and a well filled bam, and I
will show you one who is not affect
ed by low-priced cotton or high
transportation. On the other hand,
point me to that farmer with a lean
smoke-house and an empty corn-
crib, and I will show you a misera
bly poor and mistaken wretch, whose
dependent and destitute condition
can never be reached by high-priced
cotton, or relieved in any way by
cheap transportation. The truth is,
we have been betting our bottom
dollars so long on three fatal cards,
called “credit,” “cotton,” and “cat
erpillar,” that we now have nothing
left us but our mules and lands; and
in seven-cases out of ten these are
pledged to some warehouse firm for
supplies to make this year’s crop
with. And yet, in the face of all
this crouching poverty and embar
rassment, we leam from the news
papers of the country that more
land is planted in cotton this year
than last, or even any year since the
war. No wonder, then, that we
should be crying out for more trans
portation.
Fifteen years ago, when I first
commenced the produce business in
Macon, my little orders for grain
and meat seldom went farther west
than the fertile hills of Cherokee
Georgia, and the narrow valleys in
East Tennessee. I had time then
to write and send letters for these
supplies and wait the return of quo
tations before buying. I, with oth
er merchants, 'purchased there, at
our leisure, all that was necessary to
supply the wants of Middle and
South-western Georgia. Now we
send our immense orders by tele
graphic wires to the rich fields and
broad plains of Illinois and Missou
ri ; and if, by any chance or ill luck,
a railroad bridge is burned or a
transfer boat is sunk and a little
blockade occurs en roicfe, a panic
ensues and a meat, bread and hay
famine at once threatens every man
and beast south of Chattanooga.
This is our miserably poor and help
less condition to-day—fearful and
unreasonable as it may appear to
outsiders. But that annual defi
ciency of fifty millions of bushels of
grain ki the four States of Georgia,
Alabama, Florida and Stratif Caro
lina, commented upon so Igravely by
the late Canal Convention in Atlan
ta, tells fce whole story. We have
suddenly Awakened, as it were, from
a deep sle«p and discovered the un
welcome fact that we are a poor,
thriftless, nonproducing, all consum
ing, dependent people. And just so
long as the iarmers and planters of
Georgia pursie their present mad
policy of buyiig fertilizers to make
cotton to buy corn, bacon and hay
with, and th'«n pay two per cent a
month for mcney from April to No
vember of eaci year to run this wild
schedule, just so long will, they be
pitiable beggars and borrowers at
the doors of transportation offices
and Georgia shaving shops, provid
ed a worse fate does, not speedily
overtake them.
The truth is, the whole country
has become one common counting
room and large gambling shop.—
What we once did with the axe and
the hoe, the plowshare and the reap
ing hook, we nov seek to accomplish
by 1 strategy and. chance, credit and
speculation. And we must, sooner
or later, come back to first principles
or we most perish. We have too
many able-bodied young men in
shady places; too much tape catting
and pin selling and too little cotton
chopping and hay curing: too many
yard sticks thrown around loose on
smooth-top counters and not enough
lioe-handles and plow-stocks; too
many law books and lager beer bar
rels in proportion to the rail-split
ting and ditch-digging; too much
foolish fashion and foppery, and not
enough sledge-hammers and saw
horses—in a word, too much whole
sale idleness-. Georgia has to-day,
buried in the rich bosom of her va
ried soil and precious mineral beds,
greater wealth and grander results
than can ever be worked out by ca
nal projects or Congressional enter
prise. And how is to be done ?—
Not by- dreamy theories and mythi
cal plans, but in talking com instead
of canal—in diversifying and devel
oping our own vast resources—in
writing more about home effort and
less about foreign immigration—in
planting less cotton and manufactu
ring more yarns. In this, and this
only, 1165 tl*o grp-lli: 5^PY*r£>i: Cl-tinTgi a
success—agricultural as well as fi
nancial and commercial. We are im
mensely rich in resources but miser-
erably poor in the handling of them.
What we want is icork—honest, hard-
fisted, intelligent, well-directed toil,
labor and application in developing
.and utilizing what we have here at
home rather than so many spasmod
ic efforts to bring from abroad that
which we should not bug. Our pov
erty, like our pride, is the result of
misapprehensions and mistaken ideas
of ourselves, of our country and of
each other. The abolition of slave
ry in the South has developed a vast
world of sickly, sentimental, lazy,
indolent, stupefied, inert and unapt
population of young and middle-aged
men, some of whom have known bet
ter days. These men put on old
store clothes, hang around dirty
grogshops and dingy hotels, smoke
cheap segars and drink' mean whis
ky, affect old habits and anti-war
style, talk politics a little and curse
destiny and free negroes more, fret
and fume over the results of the late
war, write and sign up mortgage
liens on then- cotton crops before
they are planted, pay two per cent,
interest on money for nine months
in the year and then promise to pay
annually in the fall more money per
acraJoi^commercial manures to scat
ter Over their lands than some of
them originally cost.
And, finally, when inattention to
business and general bad policy and
mismanagement have brought them
and their State to the extremity of
desperation—when- ruin and bank
ruptcy stare us all in the face—we
issue proclamations, call public meet
ings, invite distinguished gentlemen
from abroad to come here and sym
pathize with us. We meet in ban-
quiet halls, drink much ehampagne
and discharge mor6 fc gas over the
great and absorbing questions’ of ca
nal schemes, Congressional aid and
cheap transportation, than was ever
mg
pended Jay our fathers in. discuss-
g the Declaration of American In
dependence. And what does it avail?
Will these idle and extravagant de
monstrations ever work out the great
S robleiu of Georgia independence?
io! Never until labor becomes pop
ular will money get easy. Never,
until we feed fancy less, and learn to
fatten chickens and hogs more, will
want disappear and plenty step in.
When these plain secretsof life shall
have been, learned, when the wild
mania for speculation shall have de
parted from our farm houses and
plantations, when our planters shall
learn, from experience to abandon
Wall street brokers and “cotton fu
tures,” and come to deal more di
rectly in the productions o£ square
little “spots” of potatoes and corn,
when agriculture shall become the
ruling feature and controling interest
iff our State—then, and not until
then, will we become an independent,
prosperous and happy people. And
we have here in Georgia all the ele
ments necessary to this great end. —
Here God has blessed us with eve
rything essential to the prosperity
and growth of man or beast, if only
worked out Everything) from a
chicken au£ a chum to a cotton field
and a coal bed, from a ground pea
patch on the sand hillsf o a gold
mine in the mountains. These are
among the rich, rare and multiplied
resources of Georgia; these consti
tute our strength, our refuge and our
power.
Think of it, farmers and planters
of Middle Georgia! Here we are,
in the heart of the Empire State, the
boasted owners of lands without
stint, blessed with a climate and soil
where two crops of grain or two of
potatoes, or one each of pea vines
and hay can be successfully grown
on the same land the same year, and
yet we go to Baltimore to buy guano
to make a little cotton to sell in New
York to get money to bny hay, oats
and com away out in the rich States
of Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri.
And just so long as we are the vol
untary patrons of produce dealers,
heartless rings and pampered mo
nopolies, such as now own and con
trol, operate and direct our only
lines of trade and transportation
north, south and west, just so long will
we belfit subjects for lien-dr-afts and
homestead laws, mortgages and re
pudiation. The South must work
out her own independence. The
remedy is ours, -if we will only apply
it. Too often have we been beguiled
by plausible schemes for great im
provements and financial relief.—
Let ns no longer be lulled into a
false security by any promises which
--can be made, outside of our own
harvest fields and hog pens, our hay
patches and cane mills. It is here
we shall find it. To this end the
State Agricultural Society throws
open the doors of her Exposition
halls, offers her premium lists to the
public, and invites competition from
every section of the country.
It may sometimes suit the interest
of small politicians to excite section
al antagonisms in the State; but no
such petty jealousy is to befound in
the heads and hearts of those engag
ed in the industral pursuits. All are
expected at the Fair in OoHJiar.—
Macon unites with the State Agricul
tural Society in a cordial invitation
to every county in the State to be
represented. It will impart new vig
or and energy to every industry; it
will disseminate knowledge and cul-
.ture among the great masses of the
people; it will kindle a lofty emula
tion among the working classes; it
will present one vast field fortesting
theories and tiring conclusions; it
will cement us, as a people, in the
bonds of fraternal union, and none
should be deterred from fear of de
feat- -for tlte triumph of one will be
the triumph of all, and there will be
no rejoicing over any defeat.
From the ladies we expect much
—yes, almost everything. Without
their kindly aid and handiwork we
shall have no Floral Hall, arid with
out that pleasing feature in perfec
tion the Fair can never be a grand
success. The good women of our
country saved us here two years ago
—without their timely effort the
Fair of 1871 would have been an
immense failure. Their hearty co
operation now is all we want to in
sure success.
Let us then unite in one mighty
effort to throw together, in one com
mon display, the grand and aggre-
gate specimen resources of our proud
old commonwealth. Let it be such
an exposition of our pride "and our
strength; such an evidence of our
skill and taste, our genius and our |
energy, and especially of our love for j
agriculture and our homes, as shallj
challenge, in kindness, the competi- f.
tion of the South, while it excites the '
envy and admiration of the world.
W. A. Huff, -
Mayor of the city of Macon.
-A »»♦«■•« i
Avoid Evil and do Good.—It is !
to be feared that many Christians :
think that their whole duty is done r
when they avoid evil. Their piety ■
is negative rather than positive.
Says a preacher:
“A man who stays at home does
not commit as many sins as he who ■
travels on the road. Nothing is so ’
faultless as nothing. If a person 1
wants to be safe, let him get under
the sod. The grave is the fool’s *■
paradise. It is no trouble for a man {
to break a sheep to the harness, but j
let him try a horse, if he wants to ’
know what there is in blood. De-'
feat is more honorable in a man • 1
that works, than victory is in a slug- j
gard. Living just to get to heaven j
is selfishness, and selfishness in
Christianity is one of-the worst kinds
of selfishness. A Church is good
accordingto the work it performs.
A rose null grow just as well in an
earthen pot as it will in a silver one.
Cheap Cake*—Two cups flour, one
of sugar, one of sweet milk, five table-
spoonfuls butter, two eggs, one table
spoonful cream tartar; one half of
soda.
NO. 1.
Cholera Treatment-
The following, says the Tennessee
Baptist, is communicated at our spe
cial request. The writer, Capfr. Duf-
field, an old steamboatman on the
Mississippi, ha§ treated nearly a
thousand cases, first and last, and
with the most signal success, by the
treatment below given, which orig
inated with Dr. Hawthorn, of Liver
pool, England, and for which he re
ceived a seance of plate and the
thanks of the profession. Let eve
ry one cut it out and preserve it,
against the time of need, and let ev
ery family have the remedies pre
pared at hand, for in the hour least
expected the enemy cometh :
Editor Baptist : Seeing that the
cholera is prevalent in Memphis and
many other points at present, I take
the liberty of giving you a memo
randum of medicine I used in 1848,
’49 and ’50 with a success and entire
satisfaction, together with the mode
of treatment:
Becipe-Po wdered opium 12 grains,
camphor half a dram, capsicum 9
grains, spirits of wine and conserve
of roses of each sufficient to mix;
make into.12 pills; from four to ten
of these pills to be given immediate
ly, as the severity of the case may
indicate, to be followed immediately
by the following Antispasmodic
Mixture: '
Chloric ~ether, aromtic spirits
of ammonia, camphorated spirits,
tincture of opium, of each one dram,
cinnamon water two ounces; mix
and let the patient swallow it imme
diately after the pills. Wash the
whole down with a glass of unadul-
tered brandy or whisky, flavored
strongly with cloves, essence of gin
ger or some warm aromatic spice.—
In the meantime have him covered
with additional blankets and bottles
of hot water, bags of hot salt, hot
bricks, or what ever can be most
easily and quickly procured, to be
applied without delay to the feet
and different parts of the body, so
as to restore the temperature and
produce perspiration as quickly as
possible, for upon perspiration we
must rely for the restoration of what
has been lost by .vascular depletion.
As soon as the perspiration has be
gun to flow freely, give the patient a
strong brandy punch, to be taken as
hot as he can drink it. After this no
drink should be given till the perspi
ration has flowed freely for a few
minutes. The stomach will then re
tain it, and he should be indulged
freely with copious draughts of ren
net whey, warm toast water, flavor
ed with some agreeable spice, mint
or balm tea, or any snch agreeable
beverage. When copious perspira
tion takes place, the discharges from
the bowels cease and the danger is
over ; but the perspiration must be
kept up until the secretions are nat
ural, which will be in abont 12 or 14
hours, and be known by the action
of the kidneys in the proper direction
given to the urine. Death is caused
m cholera by vascular depletion, as
is well known to the medical profes
sion, therefore the rationale of the
treatment. The antispasmodic pills
and mixture holds, as it were, the
bark of life at anchor until, by the
application of dry heat, the temper
ature of the body is equalized and
perspiration produced, and by this
means the loss from vascular deple
tion is replaced and the patient sav
ed ; therefore, first place the patient
immediately in bed, in a horizontal
position, covering him with an addi
tional blanket, and apply dry heat
as directed, giving him the pills and
antispasmodic mixture, followed by
the brandy and brandy punch as di
rected,and if the physician gets to the
patient before he gets into hopeless
collapse he can and will save the pa
tient. This is about the treatment
laid down by Dr. G. S. Hawthorne,
of Liverpool,'and I know, if pursued
with boldness and skill, will save 99
out of 100 cases of. cholera.
In all clearly developed jsases of
cholera that have come under my
observation, an entire suspension of
urine took place after the first few
discharges from the bowels.
Yours, very truly,
B. Dl fitkld.
Winchester, Tenn., June 12,1873.
No Plac£.—A great many boys
complain that there are no places.
Perhaps it is hard to get just such
as you like. But when you get a
place—and there are places—this
big country, we are sure, has need
of every good boy and girl, and man
and woman in it—when you get a
place, we say, make yourself useful
in it; make yourself necessary to
employers; make yourself so neces
sary, by yorir fidelity and good be
havior, that they can not do without
you. Be willing to take a low price
at first, no matter what the work is
if it be honest work. Do it well;
do it the very best you can. Begin
at the very lowest round of the lad
der, and climb up. The great want
anywhere is faithful, capable work
ers. They are never a drug in the
market. Make yourself one of these,
and there will always be a place for
you, and a good one, too.
A Bit of Advice.
I- was in- £wiowering passion and
turned and walked rapidly from the
quay.
“Come here, boy, I have something
to say to you,” shouted .a gruff voice,,
as I moved off,—and I tamed and:
observed that the shout was uttered
by a rough looking jack tar, sitting
quietly with a clasp knife..
“Well, what is it ?” said-I coming.
up to him sulkily.
The man looked at me gravely
through the smoke of his pipe, and '
said, “You’re in a passion, my young
buck; that’s all, and in .case you
didn’t know it, I thought I’d- tell
you.’ 1
I burst into a fit of laughter.—
“Well, I believe you are not far
wrong; but I am better now.”
“Ah f that’s right,” said the sailor,
with an approving nod of the head;
“always confess when you are in the
wrong. Now, youngster, let me give
you a bit of advice. Never get into
a passion if you can help it, and i if
you can’t get out of it, give a great
roar, to let off the steam, and turn
abont and run. There’s nothing like
that. Passion hain’t got legs. It
can’t hold on to a fellow when he’s
running. If you keep it up till you’ve
almost split your timbers, passion
has no change. It must go-astern.”
Tact.—Love swings on little hin
ges. It keeps an active little serv
ant to do a good deal of its fine work..
The name of this little servant is
Tact. Tact is a nimble-footed and
nimble-fingered servant. Tact sees
without looking, and has always a
good deal of charge on hand; tact
carries no heavy weapons, but- can
do wonders with a sling and stone;
tact never runs against a stone wall,
but always finds a sycamore tree up
which to climb when things are be
coming crowded and unmanageable
on the level ground; tact has a won
derful way of availing itself of a word
or a sprite, or a gracious wave of the
head; tact carries a bunch of curi
ously fashioned keys, that open all
kinds of doors; tact plants its mono
syllables wisely, for being a mono
syllable itself it arranges its own or
der with all the familiarity of friend-
shi; tact, sly versatile, divining, fly
ing tact, governs the world, yet
touches the big baby under the im
pression that it has not been touch
ed at all.
Only the Chiseling.—A Christian
mother lay dying. Beside her a lov
ing daughter stood, smoothing from
the deatfi-damp brow the mattered
hair. Prolonged suffering had made
deep lines on the once beautiful face;
but still there rested on those fea
tures a calm, peaceful expression,
which nothing but a hope m Jesus
could give. Tears fell upon the
pallid face, from eyes that were
closely watching the “changing of
the countenance.” Conscious of the
agony that caused them to fall, the
mother, looking heavenward, whis
pered, “Patience, darling, it is only
the chiseling.”
Reader, the Master Sculptor “seeth
not as man seeth.” There are many
deformities that must needs be chis
eled off before thou canst find place
in the gallery on high.
When a grumbler or a tale-bearer
comes to you with a complaint, cen
sure, or scandal concerning any
friend or stranger, you may rebuke
his errand by asking, well, sir, or
madam, have you said anything
about this to the person whose char
acter is involved ? Have you men
tioned the matter to him who is
most concerned ?” Ten chances to
one, you will trap a coward, or a liar,
or both! From these busy-bodies
that hear about the real or fancied
ills of other people, have seldom the
courage or Christianity to obey the
scripture injunction to go first of all
to the very individual of whom wrong
is reported or suspected, and talk
with him face to face and heart to
heart. Try the next slander-monger
you meet by this rule, and see the
beantifnl effect.
Soft Gingerbread.—One cup
butter, one cup molasses, one cup .
sour or buttermilk, one cup sugar,
one table-spoon full cinnamon,
two eggs, about five cups flour.—
Work in four cups first, and then
add cautiously. Stjr butter, sugar,
molasses and spice together to a light.
cream, and then set them to slightly
warm; beat the eggs; add the milk
to the warm-mixture—then the eggs
and lastly the soda and flour; beat
very hare!. Half a pound of raisins
cut will improve this excellent gin
gerbread. Flour them well before
patting them in.
Good Wheat Crops in the West.—
The St. Louis Democrat of the 18th
inst. says: “There is a paragraph
circulating among our exchanges to
the effect that the present winter
wheat crop (now largely being har
vested) is a bad failure. From every
quarter of ‘Missouri, Kansas and
Southern Illinois we hear but. one
story, namely: That no crop ever
looked better or promised to yield
better wheat, or more of it, than the
one now ripening.”
