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THE NEWS AND FARMER.
LOUISVILLE. JEFFERSON COUNTY. GA., OCTOBER 21, 1875.
A WELCOME FALL.
The Fall.! the Fall! the welcovn? Fall!
Thy temper benign we worship all.
Thy sweltering sire’s scorching reign
Is past, and wo are cool again.
Season bland of foliage gay !
When woods put on their bright array,
When Earth iter products yield the
while,
And languid faces learn to smile.
Then man targets the heat and toil
Summer inflicts—his bliss to spoil,
j Blest Kindliest of tiie year,
Without thee wretched, sad, and drear
Would man’s lot be—ins fearful doom
Two winters in sight—and worse to
come.
Tnen let ns be glad—each token and
sign
Of weatherly influence all combine .
To whisper that the proud season of
••Fall”
Is at baud, to comfort us one and all.
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A WORD WITH MOTHERS.
I
- rETK.It PAULEY.
Maternal influence is acknowledged
by legislators, philosphers, and divines,
to be one of the principal causes which
gives character to nations as well as to
individuals. This truth, so generally
allowed through history and experience,
ought, l’ctor Farley thinks, to bo suffi
cient to induce all who value the inter
ests of society or themselves, to inquire
how this influence can be made the most
of, and if there are not ways and means
to be made available to render a mother
the first and bo3t agent in education.
The relation in which the mother
stands to her child is such, that it re
quires on her part all that intelligence
can command, all that self-discipline
can accomplish, to enable her to fulfill
the important office witli which site is
invested by nature. Tito introduction
of a thing of helplessness to a sphere of
| activity—the dcvolopement of the un
! folded germ of human existence, and
the sentient principle, and. above sj 11,
j the fitting of the immortal part for the
i performance of its duties here, and for
, an eternal hereafter; this mighty work
I devolves upon the mother,
j To render the mother equal to the sor
rows, the trials, the anxieties, a:i-l the
cares incumbonf upon the maternal
■ state, nature, or ru' h.-r the divine Au
thor of nature, lias implanttd in the
mother's breast a love for iter offspring
1 dearer then life itself; but this holy,
: this bountiful affection, requires ;•> be
! supported by the highest intelligence,
j and to be regulated by tiie most com
prehensive knowle ige. The mother
’ inn ff reflect that t!m instinctive affection
| she feels for iter offspring, site shares in
| common with what, arc called the lower
■ animals; but tYn thinking love, which
i will alone enable her t o perform her du
ty to iter child, is the result, of experi
ence a id is dependent upon the reason
ing powers. The a ffection shown to a
child, which has no,, jin basis upon
reason, is liable to bring tiie child to
shame, and the parent to sorrow; and
hence wo frequently observe, in every
grade of society, that tiie maternal love
is not returned by filial affection, an 1
that disobe lienee an l slight is shown
where the deepest veneration ought t>
dwell, llow often does tiie fou l moth
er exclaim to her petted darling, “Ave,
you will not love me, when you grow a
man;” a prophecy suggested by every
day examples of disobedience, which
are too fearfully realized.
Why is this? Simply because it in the
fashion to lot education take its course.
Bbcanse it is the fashion not to study
human nature? because the mother
knows little of a child's mental an mor
al economy, and thinks it t(/ > much
trouble to inquire. In the earliest peri
o Is, how often is tiie child the victim of
his own self-will? how often the pla
gue of a whole household, the cause
of content ion between parents, of anx
ious days and sleepless night? As tho
I sun of life arrives, it comas not as a hor-
I aid of joy, it brings forth no buds of
promise.no blossom of hope, but stands
"all in a hot and copper nicy."—scorch
ing rather than illuminating, ami blight
ing rather than developing.
The mot her must, reflect that educa
tion. in its true sense, is not a more me
chanical task, a set of patent processes,
an accumulation of profound dogmas, or
a multiplication of cut and dried rules.
Nor does it consistiu a series of admo
nitions and corrections, of rewards and
punishments, of imprecations and di
rections, strung together witiiout unity
of purpose or dignity of execution, but
should present an unbroken chain of
measures originating in the same princi
ples—in a knowledge of tho constant
laws qf our nature, practiced in the same
spirit, a spirit of benevolence and firm
ness, and tending to tho same end—tiie
elevation of man’s moral nature, not on
ly above the sensual but even over the
intellectual. To tins every mother
stands pledged, and the great bond, tho
mind of her child, is drawn out ready
for her to sign.
Tims the mother's great, endeavor
must be to build up humanity ; the pas
sions, appetites, intellectual power,
mental energy, come alike under her at
tention in this work. It is for iter to
strip the grosser husk from passion, and
to develop tho gem? of enthusiasm,
which lies concealed within it, to pur
poses of good ; not so much to repress
the appetite, as to fix its impulses upon
pure apd wholesome food, with a view
to its imbibing principles of conduct,
to imbue the intellect witli the morality
of pure sympathy, and to turn those
mighty manifestations of mind, which
seem to rebound from the solid earth as
in contempt jf it, into the deep chan
nels ot humility, that they may run like
gentle rivulet-: to fertilize and keep
green tho otiie; wise sterile and sere des
ert of human e dSteuce.— Fen and Pane.
A CENSUS TAKERS EXPERI
ENCE IN ELMIRA.
I had just received my appointment
and started outdo begin my labors as a
‘Census-taker' .New to too business,
and having been forevvarno 1 of coining
troubles in the way of rebuffs from sen
sitive ladies, s: ipid folks and others, 1
■ iia 1 determine A- begin in such a way
las to win -id 1- mi'hose 1 was
...pprov.cn. it.*re is an account, ot tie
first call in my district in Chemung
icounty;
My folio blanks and pencil were all
, in good shape, an l after having rung a
J door bell, 1 calmly awaited an answer
i to my call. An oi l lady cautiously op.qi
-led the door. ‘Madam,’l said, and have
| called for the census-’ ‘Yes,’ she re-
I plied calmly, with a look that tol l she
I had failed to realize the force of my
statement. I repealed tho words—" M
adam. I have called for tiie census.’ A
stare of surprise and re-a-ljti-h meat, of
her spectacles prefaced the reply. -Yes,
what did you say?’ Again l .said, and
i with perhaps too much empha sis, •The
census—the census, you know.’
‘1 know, do l— :to, l don’t, ! guess
you’re crazy, ain’t you? Who be you?’
Thereupon, she grasped the door
knob and barricading with iter well-de
veloped form tho portals of her home,
showed me at a glance her mastery of
tho situation, should matters demand
an exhibition of her powers.
Thau quoth she : • Now ,’vi ter. 1 don’t
know who von be, nor wiuit you want;
but ifyou’ve leftyour s-nses anywhere,
we bain’t got ’cun, an 1 don’t want ’em—
and you’d better go along.’ Tiie words
were nothing to me —bat the derisive
smile that lighted. lu*r g;v> 1 old face an
noyed me. But intent on bn uness 1
opene ! my folio a, i 1 prepared to ask
tlm appoini.e 1 qu -siio.i.
‘M.i i.iat,’ i a-ke l, •are you the l.vlv
of the hou-ii’’ •>>:!, ho! you’re a pedlar,
are? Oh. I sea—but we don’t want any
thing to-day.’
•Ala lam,’ i rejoined, you don’t. tt:i lor
• stand me. I am after tho census.’
; A confused and anxious look again
; settled upon her face ; but with an -af
-1 ort site sati:
•Four ft How? you are crazy, ain’t you
—:na las a M ihave—.ut?'. 1 gu- ss
you won't hurt any bo ly—-bn;—i—..visit
j—but it.isn't got your senses—to now
do go along, won’t you?' Onen in ire 1
! essayed my work. *No, go, Ai i lam ;
you don’t un inrsiau 1, the census—the
ceu.su s, your ag- an i <> •nnpniio.i.'
Evidently, tho old In ly w.u alarum 1. A
look of earnestness cmm upon her, as
; sim nervpu sly r.vdio !, ffioolness gra
cious me ! how you do stick !’ and put
ting her he ill).- timl tn i half-shut door,
she scream • 1 wb-b a voice that would
, have honored a railway engine : vilar—
rit! II ir—;■ —rit? do coma here in u
. ininit an l see a fellow I tit is as crazy
as a loon ! Then lurii'ng to mr she a i l
e !, "Lord—a—sake ! I don't know what
, to do !' and then site tur:m l an i scream-:
: ed again—‘liar—;•—rit, why don't you
coma! Here l am with a man sis crazy
,as a bedbug! liar—r—r— it!’ and the
i welkin rung as with a clarion blast.
. The neigliborho > l was arouse i.
; Mon, women ait 1 ciiii Iren cam >.
; crowding around the steps an 1 filled the
• sidewalks about.
At this point, the scene bee.rue ex
citing.
Tim old alternated in s.warns
i for ‘liarrit,’ wiio fade 1 to appear; q> >-
lice!' and entreaties that i should
j leave.
! -Mothers ran about anl syroaiuo.l to
j their children to "come along quick, be
! lore you got hurt;' boys shouted vrazy
I feller, —hi!’ and dance 1 and aided in
all possible ways to tiie growing hub
bub.
J ust then appeared on the stairs with
in, ‘liarrit,’with her baby in liar arm;,
screaming louder than anybn ly else.
•What, mother, what is it?—oh, d-ar—
oh, dear—-oh—ii-ii!' and and iwn she sunk
in a swoon at the font of tlm stairs, while
I her lusty baby’s screams wore worthy of
a first-class Indian massacre, impress
ed with a sense of the absurdity of the
scene, I. unfortunately Imre burst into a
shout of uueoutroliablo laughter. Only
iny laugh was nee led to bring tho row
to a climax. I laughed, women scream
ed, boys .shouted. There was a g-:n :r
--nl running to an 1 fro. an 1 over till t.!u
confusion, the voice of the old in ly rung
out like a calliope, in a madness of
fright. 1 n the midst of it all, i wa; seiz
ed b} r half a dozen men, and just then
up came a policeman who recognized me
us a neighbor, and knowing my business
rescued me and gave me a chance to ex
plain to my captors and the crowd. In
In moment, the tumult of alarm was
changed to a scene of laughter that al-
I most rivalled the opening of the fra vt •„
j lVaoerly Eiderjiriee.
Once upon a time a French Goner
al on duty at Turin started witli his
j wife to a court ball. Tue lady had
I just thrown off her outer cloak when
I she was taken ill. A doctor anl a
.'few ladies attested her, and tho (ien
loral was soon seen wrapping a lively
boy iu his coat and hurrying home,
ward. The hoy so born is Admiral
! Do la R inciore-le-Noury, who wjh r>-
Icently removed from tlm commas of
the Mediterranean squadron forfeis
! playing too much Uouapartist zot*
1 Why is a kiss like a sewing machine?
Because it scams so goo 1.
HAS THE SOUTH A LITERA
TOR n ?
It. ha* been denicl that the South
possesses a literature; bid tinv v. V.
have watche l tin later <levelopineu< a of
the S nit hern intellect will be fore.' 1 to
acknowledge that sli ■ already ‘jives
promise of making for herself a dis
tinct and original place in let: ers.
Previous to (he war, the ,South had
comparatively few writers; but (ho:-
who were nr putiate 1 wi h the charn
teristics of her people could nif fail
to perceive rich elem mts of a future
literature in the original turn of th night
the exuberant im* cinal lon, an 1 th > a--!
11 'E .■ ,>1 .rg .vi.-tCiii ; a.iio.l : g.onl.—- 1
That ( hose were rarely manifested in
literature was owing partly to the nat
ural reticence of tin Southern mint,
partly to the absence of the stimulus
of literary society ami coteries, an l
partly to the noble distrust of its own
powers, always fun l in intellects that
form high standards of excellea u> —
ideals that have never been cast in the
utilitarian mould of dollars and oetiU.
Mush was due also to constitutional
languor and indolence which needed fo
be broken up by soma stirring, revolu
tionizing influence. In spite of these,
however, there wore a few golden oa'-
croppings that serve 1 to show the
wealth of the mworkel mine. Such a
hook was the‘‘Household of 1! uiveruy'
a thoroughly tropic book, of a wild im
agination and warm sensibility joined
to high culture and power of moral
analysis.
The wild wing of war swoops l down
and troubled tun calm fountain of
Southern thought and f; eliu g—broke
up its .sluggish stagnation, and set cur
rents in motion tant, ha I never stirre 1
before. It was like the working of a
spoil. As tile “shadows of beauty,
shadows of power” rose from the trou
ble 1 fountains in which the Genius ha 1
Using the blood of the “Deformel
Transformed,'' so fair creations up
started from the siirral ail agitate!
Southern mind. Fervid lyrics like
“My Maryland' an 1 the “U rn piere I
Hauler;" passionate lit Perames like
those of Mrs. IVost >a. and conn,less
other poem i of s Pule, thrilling boa i*y,
were seultere! through the very ephe
meral perm luta'.s of t hud time, prints 1
some of t u 'in, on wali-p iper in the
g'lm-bon'.-bloekal ■1 S >< oftii j Wait.
Is lion at last t!i> “cr l and war was
over," (ho run 1 mil dee -i.iel brain
force began ; > man'.:*. it. >lf in bn >ks
—Soutiiecn books —cm i some of
them, and betraying th ■ •• 'pre.i U .
liand.” but otheri showing both care
an 1 culture, an 1 all in boating a:i ori. -
nal vein and a certain freshness and
freedom of thought y and r to I) > foil ii in
rain Is that li tv * never be > i re c ricte 1
!>y the naiTow pu'c of literary eli pin,
out in those only which ii.ive wrou jhi
out tnair wore alter their ow.i mo l.sl,
an 1 have not been shape i aeeor ling to
what might salt the i leas of :t err r.,i
-set or what would brim; the best price
I in th i tit.wary market.
Northern pario licals, re eognizing
these <j i.tliti.'i of Ire shn.s.sa an l vi g >.•
in the pro l.i iiij.l3 of Southern pen
ware rpiie.c to tim e advantage of t!r\ii
i l ) reanimate their own lagging pages.
I For example, vra saa rlpp'-to/A- .fount .•/
] publishing tha serials of Christian
dei 1, a t l Rutl il.irtu'sau 1 Mrs. i'res
toa’.s p icun enriching tlta pa ges of
standard Northern monthlies.
Hut tha literature, of our country at
present is but, a lot’ashu 1 jwiug of what
it shall ba. If but a ;gen irons an l :stu
hla g iver.fluent be ensure toth > S ruth,
site possesses every otlicr e i:t Titian of
dim it *. seenjry, an i churn - ar lav >ra
bla to the development of Ilia highest
or Tar of literary exaallaaaa. Genius
lias always unfold s l most richly and
perfectly in Sj'itheru latitude. It
roadie 1 its nvnt glorious elHoreicanaa
under tha sunny skies of Grom an 1
Italy. Ills fr.a.u th; ;a a luroe s that the
iitaratura of stiaeaaditrg ages have
drawn their inspiration, being consid
ered perfect in proportion its they ap
proximated their antique mo Id. T.ie
highest praise bat o.ve l upon Milton is
that, his poem possesses something of
the Bible—the Bible, whose stthlima ut
terances rose from the olive- row.i and
heights and palm-shadowed plains of
the sun-kissed Orient, G-iethe, whom
his world-wide admirers delight to call
".Mas: ;r of the Beautiful,” w.i; so tho
roughly imbued with the spirit of clas
sic anti patty that his genius would
seem to belong to tint era rath >,r than
to the present.
But nations, like iulivMn its. fulftll
thair destiny. Th 6 fate of Or ■■ie a , I
Homs lias been aeoomp'iisha 1. Who i
the spirit of liberty died out in tlimu,
the spirit of art departed also—Dante's
sml alone having eauglit its dying cuho,
But here, in our own fair Liu 1. iva h iv
nearly the same conditions as those
which evolved the grand literature of
! Graeco and Home.
We have a great, free commonwealth
(soon to come out from iis temporary
aim low). We have the memory til'
heroic deeds. We have skies, sunny
an 1 blue as those of Italy; mountains
as the Alps (the Sierras of the South
west are far more desolately sublime).
Wo have magic, rainhow-hiuintn 1 lakes,
lovelier than the Como, emb > ime 1 in
Florida's groves of orange an i myrtle.
We have our mexicau Gulf blue ail
bright as the oEgean or the Me liturra,
neau, and our lnagnilioaut rivers, to
wiioio mighty volume of water the Ti
| lur would be as a rivulet. Then, too,
Iwe have a national intclle.it. ar leu,, va
i id • l, an i imaginative, with its 100 o > n
| bre tone li.ghfe 1 up by a hum or bid! -
| limit and fanciful, us may be seen in
| * >l ‘o • !i l ;ii- -.. . ; ..po more MX. o!
■■ ' • rt 1 ' '• ! .o.as is apparent
I iu certain ni alary Walsingtou’spoems
i an 1 sk -; • ■ -s.
1-' “ur w.-i b p shun imitation,
and lie true to th fir own i ieah; work
out their own con 'options in their own
manner, an l and -a v :.i -ir ins fir.ffMu
Bret 11 arte he. i it me., not at saeon I
ha 1 1. like ud nvn! w p >rs bottle I an I
boug-it of the drurM-e, hut from t!re
living fountain-hen 1 from lie humia
Ihfs arouu l t!i nil an 1 t!c semes in
th .r mi Ist. Tlm ; will the-,- b - able to
five i.a-iivi in i?i‘y a t 1 vital force to our
literature—i literature which is every
yea - l)t’o..r. lg m ire c >uaphm iu ..is I
put i ig higl.Jr ci-.ffns t i reeogul; ion. —
1 will cup inn.; to exp m 1 a s our coun
try develops her rich resources, in!.!,
in so an fu’ are age. it may repro la ■-
the 111 11. re ak type of lit er.p tire with all
its spirituality, its fervid ini igination.
its .-c.tnplicity. an 1 it i strength.— S' u ,y
S'mill.
WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR
BEAT.
i): - . lie.ir.l states tliat from an analy
sis of the lives of a thousan 1 represen
tative men in all tiie great branches of
human effort, be male the discovery
that the gold -i lean ijwa ; b stwoeii 1
an 1 40, the silver 40 an 1 :n. th • bran sn
b ' ween 20 an l 30, an 1 t!i - iron be
tween oO anl GO. L’lie superiority of
youth an 1 middle life over old ap■ in
original work appears all the gre.V er,
wh ;;i we c msidar the fact that all the
p >sit;.jus uf ho air an i profit, and pres
il ,ge—prou-jsorship anl public sta
tions—are in ilia hands of tne old.
Reputation, lore m< my an l position,
is maiitiy confme l to the old. Man
are not wi l ely known un. il long after
hey have done tiie work that gives
. ni their i'.iru a. i’orir.iits of great
ina.i are ,t Iclitsion ; s P:Pe > are lies.
Iki '.v are taken when turn have tv- ini •
fainona, which, on the average, is at
i -a’-t ewe-nty-?!ve years after t'vr di i
the work w'.r.eu gave tiier.a t.hier fame.
Original wori: re piires e Phu tt.tsai. if
all t.u original w irk dm > by ran un
der forty-five were a iniilila’. •l, t'vr
would bo reduced to barbarism. Men
are. :P t.:e:r best a’ l.rP. time wa. i ou
tuu uasoi and cxpa fie i• • are ni ts cv i
’l 1 ! : Iho i trio lo i ::v av-er
a.re is fro.n Uii' y--ight t-i lor y. Al'. ,*r
this tiiua the law ire axpericnoe in
craas ■; lip cffliu fa, un and • lines. li
t;.e in : o- n .re; cr.try o‘.-i tu in there
coma; u of P ; i-.ner later, wncu cx
!>•*.’. en i ci'.;; ;•> lir.ve an educi’iiig
p over.
—'JC-O • • -Coifc-- -
A.V AQUATIC VELOCIPEDE.
On the afternoon of October Oth. a
ai n >er of people assembled on tiie
wharf below Kensington Water Work ;
to witness tiro trial of what the inven
tor stalls an ajuitic wloeipe le. Tu
si..)"i-rto power of the machine is
• cigar shape I zbi • floats, flfty-l’onr
in -::es iu le >;h by fourteen in • hes in
diameter. T.vo of those floats are
p!r. e 1 opposite of each otiicr, ab up
•sis feel apart, sff-ffene 1 and hoi t in p >-
sit'reu by i";a ro b ruining to a chair
seal p! . ;e l .1, re.-: ly over tile centre. Tue
thirl rt >.a' is (il.ieed iu the rear and
midway bat-.vr. >u the two (Pliers. This
latter ll iat is likewise secure 1 tithe
chair by ro 1 >, but in sit -h a way that it
'sasa ru l Iv, 1 lie rider workin ;it by
mc.ius of ropes running to his scat.
Fu ■ wheel which is of iron an 1 weighs
forty put ill. is pl.t :e 1 directly iu I’roat
of tie chair. Ta • spokes, twelve in
number, fiueea inches iu length, with
il into at their outer extremites six in-h
--esspiare. Tue wheel is propelled by
the feet, as in nvelocipede. When the
ri lev was scale 1 iu tiie chair the fl iat.;
wore about half submvgel and the
•seat of the chair about three feat above
tho water. Tna weight of the entire
apparatus i; 100 pounds. Directly af
ter high water the velocipede was
brought arouu 1 into the river dock,
aril after performing several revolu
tions. such as turning, backing, rock
ing, it was star; e 1 straight across the
river to a stake-boat anchored half n
mile distant. ThU boat was rounded,
anl the machine brought back to the
•do fix, a distance of a mile in about ton
minutes, iu the home stretch it on
c m itered the waves of the steamboat
.inhu A Warner, but it rode thorn oul
safely, and without diminishing its
speed in the least.— VhilaAtd.phhi Led.
<jir.
A Fa lit < > i>s". uu r Not F.qr at,. —Du-
ring the war a Georgian started to Mari
ettawith so il >. soma chickens for sale
IJ • met a squ 1 1 of soldiers, and t.h >\
bought all lus chicken; but one rooster
ile in fisted they shoul-d take him. lm 1
they were out of mouay, an and conkin'?
buy.
The oil man said he. hate 1 to goon tr
town with only one chicken, and wa?
greatly puzzle l about it.
At last one of the soldiers said :
“Oilman, I'il play you a game o
seren-up for him."
"Agreed," say 9 tho old man.
Tney play 1 a long an 1 spirit ed game
At last tue soldier won. Tim oil mat
wrun j the rooster's meek and to.s.se l hin
at the so! liar's feet, nail mounted hi?
Hwab-tailcl pony and started home
After gc'rtng s nne two hundred yards h<
su-ldanly stopped, turned round, an:
rode back and said :
"You playo 1 a far game, an 1 won tin
rooster farly, but I'd like to know wha'
l i the li—l you put up agin that roos
j ter." —MrrhUaa lloniMta i l
1 Advertise iu tho New.; & Faumeb
JS r O. 24.
I fiV WAY ON TEMPERANCE
Re 'i a ' L. I . Jones, before, Sn
. No. 140, 1. 0. G. T.
Matlicma' ■ f>. -n tiie true substrate
of tho phvslil - -ioi -es, so does tempt
uu.re cninstit-ut uly basis of tho
grand moral wf- , vipie’s great a
grogate is genu in- tgion. for awhi
t here maybe tern; . .nice withoutchris
unity, there can be uo Christianity wit
off temperance. I shall not undertake
iiustrate this truth, either by argume
or example. It is snliiciant to state ti
fact, 'i itne and experience have ot
bi! n-rt ii as a axiom: th v lice of hi
. ~ .v | , txiux'l U : L,\ t I „
pi e.vs of prosperous and pcacefu!
munitio.s; shines in the light ofehr.
■e lm relies: is sc-, nin tiie smiles of in
w>.n?:i, a:>. I heard in tiie laughter oi
n vent cliil.lran. Tiiare are. perhaps,
high .- evi Io i -a; of man’s national pc
varsity than tho readiness with wiiic
lie co;itr.-mi.s, and the constancy wit
whio he cling-tto this fearful habit of in
temp wane ■. I know that after tlvi
hi i e 1 1.1 . boi-im >an appetite, there ist.
the dm ixa-.l a i’acination that dclic*
a mlysis ii ; •sp irk in of the wine-eiqv
that, as lie looks upon its beaded suraK
face, it glitters like the eyes of the CoH
iii;! or tiv basilisk’s, that there is
weird sploud: >:• in the very ruin that
makes. Blit 1 know, also, that evc!ifi§
under this murderous infill nation, tiiercP®
is a voice to break the spell; there is aNS
strength to direct the hid mu.s m-tasters.hS
Tliat voice is tho vviee of truth; thatßi
strength the power of will; an 1 that®
files. • are not obeyed, is far les; an in-H
dividual than a general fault. For itjrj
resides not only in radically wrong ideas M
v:' liberty itself, but in a false and fatal §j
system of social philosophy. That i;.-B
temperance saps the foundation of S
Sia'e t and destroys the vital elements I
of political life, whicii i's emblazoned I
upon almost every page of eartn’s iiis- E
t >ry. Its monuments are ruined cm- 8
pires. its trophies, wrecked fortune;, 8
weeping women, starving ehil Iren. 8
.'o.vlel prisons and broken hearts, g
let stat ismen can flu 1 b i warrant to
arrest its mighty march. That drunk
cnne s.s lias prevailed to mo fearful a a
oxl tn!-. is chiefly because it lias been
tolerate lor excused. If perfect sobri
t.v wa ; m 1 1; an in li spun sable con lition
t i.-•. ) -ia! eju iliiy an 1 public recognition,
tue pride of caste, (hen then the princi
ple of ;;eif-preservat.io:i would protect
a ::>in ;t t.k -le !.,', ..ia -i 1 ~i;sgr.-.ff-j
intoxiea!; >:i.
dsn:- woul 1 there be uneliarifiibleno is
in es'. i.bli ;'iin ;■ sneh a standard. Man
is a free agent, capable of choosing bo
tween right and wrong. By this Di
vine law of his creation, his .soul shall
live of die. Why not thou his body al
so. An las Jehovah in iiis infinite
mercy ha ; provide 1 a plan of salvation
for the o.re, so may moral and Christian
m ".i devise means for tiie preservation
of the other.
Far !ii in !, iu conclusion, l beg you
to rejoice with m • over these evil 'iicca
of a higher, a purer, an l nobler civiliza
tion, for they she 1 rays of sunshine
where night ha ; been, an 1 cakin lie
hope in many abo sain long darkened
by dispair. Gml Templars:
When l look upon these smybols of
our common Faith, these emblems of
our High an 1 noble purposes, when L ra
il :ot that they are witnesses of vow s that
none but the brave dare take and are hal
lowed by the love an.l prayers of all
Christian communities, I glory in the
thought that I too have bean gathered
within the sacred circle ; guard it well.
Iu the name of these young sisters whose
smiling faces reflect back the light of
Heaven; guard it well, in the name
of those young brothers upon whose
cheek3 the roses of health biosoin an l
whose hearts have known no sorrow ;
guard it well, in the name of these
wives and mothers who honestly hope
and watch anl pray,; I charge you
guard it well. 8. V r . J.
Summerville, Gx
KquAL to the Citisis.—When at
about tiie middle of the crosswalk she
dropped a well-filie l wallet out of her
hand. Then the trouble began in earn
est. She stooped over in front to pick
il up, but her lingers could not reach
the wallet by eighteen inches. She
changed her parasol into her right hand
and triad to reach sideways for the wal
let. It was no go, however, for her fin
gers did not reach anywhere near the
covelad article. She tiion tried to get
down on liar knees, but she might as
well endeavor to pick up a drop of wa
ter with Her ear. She reached backward
but her hand only extended downward
on a level with her hips. She appeared
to be much embarrassed. .No one
33ome-l to be passing at the moment,
who could assist her. All! a thought
struck tier su l lenly. Quickly taming
her parasol with the top o:i tho ground,
she glided a pretty little foot out from
beneath her snow-white skirts, tin 1 with
a gentle kick, the wallet lay in tiie con
cave parachute.
"Let me tell you what i heard to-day,
sail a young lady to her admirer.
‘•Well, tell us it, lam all ears,” rc
spoii led tho gentleman. The lady
earnestly gazed upon the speaker some
moments and then said as though nw
ly impressed with an overwhelming
fact: "Well, s> you are, to be sure.
You oughtn’t ever get your hair cut.”
Tho first snow of the season in this
part of the country fell last Sunday
morning on Alt. Riga, in the no#ha*ui
part of this county.—Win it’d (Ot,) Nr