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™ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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THE NEWS AND FARMER.
LOUISVILLE. JEFFERSON COUNTY GA.. OCTOBER 26, 1876.
■p o ctrit.
[Origin aI.J
AT REST.
There is on earth !
No calm surcease of pain,
And those who seek to find it*
S',rive evermore in vain.
No rest! Life’s waters ebb and fiow—
Tide like, the heart o’erflows with glad
ness,
And then the joy goes out in woo.
There is no rest on earth !
We drink ana yet we thirst.
And the tilings we love the most.
Are those that perish first,
fto rest! Our fond hopes die,
And like tbs rustling leaves of Autumn,
In the valleys sorrowing lap they lie.
There is no rest on earth!
The air is never still,
The sea perpetual moves,
Tis God’s eternal will.
No rest! Our minds forever roam.-
The soul forever seeks some place,
Where it may make its endless home.
“There is sweet rest in heaven,”
For the weary pilgrims feet;
For the traveller “Homeward bound,”
’Tis a place of “sure retreat.”
At rest! Forever more at rest,
Secure from sorrow, sickness, death,
In a land of “perfect rest.”
Oct. 20th, 1876.
A NOBLE*MARTYR.
“The noble army of martyrs praise thee.”
Dear Doctor Kennedy :—To the
memory of Doctor Myers, who was for
so many years the indulgent encourag
er of my humble muse, it is only natur
al that she should wish to present a vo
tive offering, although not rich or rare,
yet true and heart-felt and bedewed
with tears.
The Church a noble martyr mourns,
And yet exults to know.
That, still, the martyr-spirit burns,
As in the long ago ;
That still, the faith of the olden-time,
Muvesindn to deeds subl.me.
As when our sai.ited Myers* it moved,
When to his post, he flew,
Andj to his suffering people, proved
The pastor aithful, true ; -* -•
Who hastened back, when far away,
Near them to watch and pray.
Not Balakiava’s vaunted deed,
In bravery ltis excelled.
And though fame have for it no meed,
The Church, that it beheld,
Thanks God for him, who “rushed” by
faith
“Into the jaws of death,”
Oh ! long, long had he garnered up,
The promises of God ;
Not he the man, then, who could atop.
For dangers on the road
Marked out by God for him to go—
Enough that path to know.
What though his life was sacrificed !
From the •‘three-score and ten,”
What a few years, when saved by
Christ j
And, oh ! in heaven, when
The marty’s blessed crown he wears,
And bliss of angels shares !
Oh ! ho* effulgent it will be,
The star-bestuded crown,
Of him, who of his ministry
Made “full proof,” and laid down
Ilis life upon God’s alter, when
’Twas needed most for men.
Bless God! that not in vain we search
For acts of faith, as when
They strirred of yore the pristine church;
Y os, bless God 1 that again
We’ve had one brought to us so nigh,
So holy and so nigh,
Columbia, S. C. M. Martin.
*Rey. Edward Howell Myers, who
returned from the North on" the first
announcement of yellow fever in Sa
vannah, to his pastoral charge there.
WANTED!
“J3E CAREFUL IVHAT YOU SAY.”
In speaking of a person’s faults,
Fray don’t forget your own ;
Remember those witti homes of glass,
Should seldom throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do ‘
But talk of those who sin,
‘Tis better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge of things
Until they’re fairly tried ;
Should we not like their company,
W e ktlow the world is wide.
Some may have faults—aud who has
not
The old as well as young.
Perhaps we may for aught wo know,
Have fifty to the.r one.
I’ll tell yon of a better plan’
And find it works full well;
I try my own defects to cure
Before of others’ tell;
And though I sometimes hope to be
No worse than some I know,
My own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence
To slander friends or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know;
Remember, curses sometimes, like
Our chit kens, “roost at home”
Don’t speak of others’ faults until
We have none of our oiCu. *' '
[Original.]
ROME.
“There is perhaps in the English lan
guage, no word that has so many tender
precious memories clinging about it,
none perhaps, the mention of which
will awaken so many holy emotions,
and take such absolute control for a
time of the human heart, divesting it
of the sternness that like a erustation,
forms over it, perchance from con
tact with care and business and a cold
calculating world; as this one word,
“Home.”
ft is said that the > otd “Mother,” is
1 the sweetest expression, and we know
that it is full to ovoifiowing with love,
and hope, and goodness, and that it falls
on a child? ear with a music that angels
might well love to lislbn at. We know it
bears with it what artistic sound can
never supply—a soul music, that con
sistsofail that is best and holiest in
the human heart—a pure confidence,
which is a part of life itself, aud that is
sweeter to the memory of man than
aught else but the thought of heaven ;
and with that it is blended, as the rain
bow is colored from the crystal rain
drops transfused by the beautiful light
of the sun.
But, t has not that breadth and compass
of influence that characterizes “Home,”
and that causes so man}'to regard it as
the only object worth attaining in the
future in the way of earthly
content and happiness,as to them it was
in the past, the greenest lovliest spot on
earth, fostering all that was good in
them, and erecting in their beings a
monument of fraternal affection that
through all life stands undestroyed,
pointing heaveu-ward.
We have been led to pen a few
thoughts on this subject, by our knowl
edge of a circumstance, which of course
is not isolated as an instance. A short
time ago a conductor on the Central
Road, had two little girls under his
charge, carrying them op the road—
beautiful bright children. Upon being
asked about them, he said he was tak
ing them to the Orphans Home. The
ravages of the pestilence that “wasteth
at noonday” in the doomed “City by
-the’Sea,” had sundered the last tie of
relationship that was known to bind
them to any one. No Home ! Never to
know any home ! Never'to lfoow what
wealth there is in a mother's matcft!;“;
watchful love, flowing on undiminished
An such eximberance. that even the cold
stream of death is not sufficient to drink
it up. Nut to have a father's protection,
and kindly support and counsel through
the temptations and allurements of ma-j
taring womanhood, no brother's strong
arm to lean on, or manly footfall to lis
ten for, when the long shadows die out
into dusk. None o* the attractions of
home to make all after life holy. We
thought of all this and it made us feel
immeasurably sad.
And yet, when the fact stares us in
the face, and we are obliged to meet
its merciless gaze, and real its death
record written by the cold pen of des
tiny ; that there are hundreds of children
homeless and parentless, “None to love
none to caress” and worse perhaps,
none to point them to him who
notes even the fall of a sparrow ; it
makes us sadder still.
Some are to be reared by strangers,
who perchance may be kind but "can
never give them a mothers heart, they
can never lean on the love throbbing
bosom of the one that gave them birth.
Some will “tread tiie stormy street”
and Walk through the rough paths of life,
to meet the rude gaze of bad men, and
an unfeeling world.
How true it is, that only those who
have good homes, can appreciate tho
undescribed blessing, and privilege
of suolt priceless boons, for around
them all the loves of life linger, and
about them the hopes of heaven so
often bud and bloom into a more per
feet life. When appeals are made for
the homeless child, they should be heed
ed. He that is a father to the father
less and a husband to the widow will
bless such gifts. *
[communicated.]
THE CONDITION OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
While Romo was full of mirth anrl
luxury, and her citizens were basking
in the sunshine of ease, and opulence,
the hilns and Vandals were forging
claims to fetter the inhabitants of the
Seven Hilled City. When Rome was
poor her sons were brave and hardy ;
but when She became rich, they grew
careless, effeminate. Thus the most
splendid empire the world has ever
seen was trampled down by the north
ern nations of Europe. While she was
weak her soldiers were in readiness,
but when she became powerful, and
deemed no enemy formidable, her
gloTy was laid In the dust.
The above lines a-e written to show
the tendency of tho human mind.—
When an opportunity presents itself,
the proud spirit soon “stoops to things
of low estate.” The appetites and feel
ings ftre soon disordered, and every
thing is sacrificed for their gratifica
tion.
So long as a nation* freedom is in
danger, the people are vigilant, and
ever jealous of their interest. But let
that nation appear to he firmly estab
lished with no foe within nor without,
and, soon, the people become uncon
cerned. Indifference in any nation,
parly or individual, is ihe sure in
dication of destruction. JFhere there
is no fear, sure destruction comes and
sweeps them away with a mighty |
flood. . _ )
'The people of Georgia imagining
themselves safe Irom every assault,
have laid aside every feeling of deter
mination, and care not how the river
runs so they float.
The Democrats have been thinking
that the Radicals were near extinct, that
there was no use to be anxious aboutj
the elections, aud the government of.
the State. But tnis was a sad mis
take.
The leaders of the Radical party,
and even men who claimed to bo on the
other side, rejoiced at, the divisions of
t:.e Democratic party ; men claiming to
be intelligent, and actuated by good
motives, even dared to run as inde
pendents, and thereby affording the
Radicals a chance to run in their man.
It is very bad to see the whites ar
rayed against each other, just fir the
sake of a few paltry dollars. wj|are it
may cost the sacrfice of everything
that is worthy of emulation. Divided
as the whites were at the last election.
The negroes could have easily elected
the most illiterate vagabond. In ad
dition to this, the minority did not
know, and did not care, about the day
for election. They thought that ail
would be right; but providence never
helps those who do not help them
selves.
The Radicals know that they can do
nothing only by working indirectly,
and if we are not more diligent , about
consolidating onr efforts, all former
victories will be of no avail. The
proud goverment of Georgia will be
wrested from the Democratic party,
and Bullock and his clan will soon pos
sess the reins of government.
This is no ideal picture. Look how the
elections have resulted in Burke and
Washington. 1 n the former county the
whites disappeared, and, the negroes
gained a victory. In Washington, the
Independents were elected mostly by
I the negroes, which proves that some
! thing was wrong about those whom
1 they supported.
Nothing affords the Radicals more
joy than to see a quarrel and harangue
about office. If they ever make a rise,
they expect to do so, when there is a
broach in the Democratic ranks.
Then let every ina l be at his post
hereafter, rea ly to do his duty ; and not
be running around trying to get in some
office.
Let the office find the man, and not the
man the office, If any attempt to gain a
position by unfair means,whether it be to
the detriment of his own principles, or
to the destructiQn of his own party, let
him be discarded from the society of
honest white men, ;— —
not be vain glorious about your
weugth, for it all may prove detriment
al to your best interest. Remember
that while Belschazzar was feasting and
driuking, Cyrus took Babylon, and led
away the King bound in chains
Burk.
~A NE IV SA ACTUM BUUACER.
Uow to Get liid of Exchange Fiends and
Bores.
[Burlington Hawkeye.]
j The Ilatv if eye has just got into its
j new editorial room, and it is proud to
| say it lias the finest, most comfortable,
j complete, and convenient editorial
| rooms in America. They are finished
off with a little invention which will be
'of untold value to the profession of
| journalism when it is generally adopted,
I and we know that it will rapidly come
into universal use as soon as its merits
are understood and appreciated. We
believe it is fully equal, in all that the
term implies to the famous Bogardess
Kicker, less liable to get out of order,
and less easily detected by casual visi
tors. It is known as “Milddlerib’s Au
tomatic Welcome.” The sanctum is on
the saute iioor as the news room, being
separated from it by a partition, in
which a large window is cut, easily
opened by an automatic arrangement.
The table is placed in front of that
window and near the head ot the stairs,
and on the side of the table next to the
window, directly opposite the editor,
the visitor’s chair is placed. It has an
inviting look about it, and its entire ap
pearance is guiles3 and commonplace.
But the strip of floor on which that chair
rests is a deception aud a fraud. It is
an endless chain, like the floor of a
horsepower, and is operated at will by
the editor, who has merely to touch a
spring in the floor to set it in motion.
Its operation can best be understood
by a personal inspection.
Yesterday morning about ten o’clock
Mr. Bostwick came in with a funny
story to tell. He naturally flopped into
the chair that had the strongest appear
ance of belonging to someone else and
began in his usual happy vein : “I’ve
got tho richest thing— oh ! ha, ha, ha!
—the best thing—oh, by George, I can
not —oh ! ha, ha, ha! Oh! it’s too good i
You must never tell where yon got—
oh, by George! I can’t do it I It’s too
good 1 You know —oh, ha, ha, ha, oh,
he. ite, ho! You know the—oh, by
George, I ca—.” Here the editor touch
ed the spring, a nail grab under tho bot
tom of the chair reached swiftly up and
caught Mr. Bostwick by the cushion of
his pants, the window flew tip, and the
noiseless belt of floor gliding on its
course bore the astonished Mr. Bostwick
through the window out into the news
room, half way down to the cases, where
he was received with great applause by
tho delighted compositors. The window
had slammed down as soon as he pass
ed through, and when the editorial foot
was withdrawn from the spring and the
chair stopped and the nail grab resumed
its accustomed place, young Mr Bost
wick found himself so kind of out of
the sanctum, like it might be. that he
went slowly and dejectedly down tho
stairs, as it were, while amazement sat
upon his brow, like.
The next casual visitor was Sir. J.
Alexis Flaxeter, the critic. He had a
copy of the Hawlceye in his hand, with
all the typographical errors marked in
red ink, and his face was so wreathed
in smiles that it was impossible to teii
where bis mouth ended anti his eyes
began. He took the vacant chair and
spread the paper out before him, cover
ing up the editor's manuscript. "My
keen vision and delicate sense of aeon-,
racy,” he said, “arc the greatest crosses'
of my life. Things that you never see
are mountains in my sight. Now, here,
you see, is a.”—The spring clicked soft
ly like an echo to the impatient move
ment of the editor's foot, the nail grab
took hold like a bull dog he l ping a Bur
lington troubadour over the gar.! t
fence, the chair shot back throffgu the
air like a meteor, and the window came
down with a slam that sounacd like a
wooden giant getting off the shortest bit
of profanity known to maa, and all was
silent again. Mr Flaxeter sat very
close to the frosted window, staring
very blankly at the clouded glass, see
ing nothing that could offer any expla
nation of what he would have lirinly be
lieved was a laud slide, had he not
heard the editor safe in his guarded den
softly whistling, “We shall meet but we
shall miss him.”
Then there was a brief interval of
quiet in the sanctum aud a ruslling of
raiment was heard on the stairs. A
lovely woman entered and stood un
awed in the editorial presence. The E.
P. on its part, was rather nervous and
uncomfortable. The lovely woman seat
ed herself in the fatal chair, Bhe slap
ped her little gripsack on the table aud
opened her little subscription book.
She said : “I mn soliciting cash contri
butions—strictly, exclusively, and pre
emptorily cash contributions—to pay
oil' the church debt and buy an organ
for the Mission Church of the Forlorn
Strangers, and I expect—.” There are
times when occasion demands great ef
fort. The editor bowed bis bead and,
after one brief spasm of remorse, felt
for the secret spring. The window
went up like a charm ; the reckless nail
grab hung back for a second, as if held
by a feeling of innate delicacy, and th u
it shut its eyes and smothered its pit
and reached up and took a deathlike
hold on a roll of able and infiucnriai i
newspapers and a string of network
and tape, and tbo cavalcade backed out
into the newsroom with colors flying.
forms, and as the lovely woman gazed
at the inky face,' she shrieked, “Merci
ful Heavens, where ain li'” and was
borne down the gloomy stairway un
conscious, while the printers whose
cases wers nearest the window heard
the editor singing, as it might be lo
himself, “Dearest sister, thou hast lei!
tu.”
An hour of setenity and tranquility
in the editorial room was broken by a
brisk business like step on the stairs,
the door flew open with a bang that
shot the key r half way across the room,
and a sociable-looking, familiar kind of
a stranger jammed into the chair, slap
ped his hat over the inkstand, pushed
a pile of proof, twenty pages of copy, a
box of pens, the paste cup, and a pair
of scissors off the table to make room
for the old familiar flat sample case, an.i
said in one brief breath : “I am an
agent for Gamberton’s Popular Cen
tennial Hybrid's History and American
Citizen’s Treasure Book of Valuable
Information sold only by subscription
and issued in monthly part3—whole
work complete in thirty parts each
number embellished with one handsome
steel plate engraving and numerous
beautifully executed wood cuts,no sim
ilar work has ever been published in
this country, and at the exceedingly low
price at which it is offered, only two
dollars per volume.—” The spring
clicked like a pistol shot, tho window
went up hall" way tbrough the ceiling,
the nail grab took hold like a three-bar
relled harpoon, and the column moved
on its backward way through the win
dow, down through the newsroom, past
the foreman, standing grim and silent
by the imposing stone, past the cases,
vocal with the applause and encourag
ing and consolatory remarks of the com
positors, on to tho alley windows, over
the hills, howling, yelling, shrieking,
praying, the unhappy agent was hurled
to the cruel pavement three stories be
low, where he lit on his head he plunged
through into a cedar, where he tried to
get a subscription out of a man who
was shoveling coal.
A FINANCIAL DRINK.
‘Do you take trado dollars at par?’
asked a stranger of a banker in Main
street salioon this morning.
'Certainly, take anything,’ replied
the accomodating tumbler sliuger.
* Well, then, give me some whiskey,’
said the stranger. Tiie barkeeper set
out the tumbler and glass and the
sttanger poured out and swallowed his
drink and started for tho door.
‘Hold ou there, whore’s that trade
dollar?’ said tiie barkeeper.
‘Oil. I haven’t got any trade dollar,’
replied the stranger; I only asked for
information.’
A shade of sadness stole over the
barkeepers fnco as ho discovered that
somebody had borrowed the pick han
dle he keeps under the bar for such
emergencies; and the soda-water but
tle that swished through the air only
came within about six feet of where
the stranger stood the moment before.
ADVERTISE IN- THE NEWS &
FARMER.
DRIVEN TO THE BIBLE.
One otthe uses of afflictionie’todrive
us to the word ol God for council and
conitoi t. In prosperity we do not so
much feel the need of rich treasure*
contained in the Bible, but when afflic
tions, litre mighty waves, roll over us,
solhat we are stripped of all human
prospects and must rely simply upon
God, then it is that we want to know
what it is our privilege to obtain from
Bod by prayer, what God has done for
otiiero under Simula, circumstances,
what our best couisamaybe under
our peculiar trials, and bow we may And
relief. 'JL.ose teachings and direcitons
are in the Libia for us, but how few
. roil them out, or get a correct under
u-aud,tig of their practical import with
rt. t .n •• lea to sec and feel tucir need
wIJSSm. ' Tad closest tv a V:r- v. •”
iinu occasion, in times of affliction, to
searca more diligently for the deep s
things of Cod. as revealed to us in his '
word. After ail, we should not wait to
be thus driven to the Bible, but should”
make ourselves so famil.ar with its
promises, that we might al
ways have them at baud when we need
the directions ai.d the comfort winch
they alone can give uu
If, however, we have been negligent
about searching the Scriptures until we
have brought leanness of soul upon our
selves, it suould be esteemed a mercy
that afflictions come upon us and cause
us to teel our need of tue “green pas
tures” ot Bod’s Word. Who would ev
er learn how much others could or
would help him without being first
brought into such a state of dependency
as to call for aid? Bod often m mercy
leads ns through dark paths so that we
may more clearly discover our need of
Ilis light. Often He permits us to
come into such extremities as will drive
us to lay hold upon iLis strength alone.
Then it is that we want to know moie
of God. Then it is that we fly to His
blessed word, and, as a hungry man
relishes iood, so do we relish the Word
of God when driven to it by affliction.
We not wish to be understood as thougu
we could not relish the Bible in days of
prosperity, but when a deep sense of
want leads us tnseoebaud meditate in
the law ofthc Lord, we do it with an ua
u Ily keen appetite, and with great
sa inaction to our souls. Blessed is
the man that delighteth in the law of
rd, and a a, doth meditate day
11:1 " ?kt, and Oh s ied be God for that,
ne in •• f leads us to di*..
e bid '.y.* :iM| of His pre-
R- ' Of CARVING A
j t h A E l .
i ! ere is no'.hiiig a young unmarried
ma.i nk.. e.ter t.ian to go to a dinuer
a., t.iw house oi a lrietid aud to be ask
ed to carve a turkey. lie never carved
a turkey before in ms life, and with an
old maid mi one side ot him, wateiuug
him closely, amt on the other side a
lair girl lor whom lie has a tenderness,
lie teals embarrassed when he beam,’
First he pushes the knife down toward
one of the thigh joints, lie can’t lhffi
the joint, and he plunges tue knife
around in search of it until! he makes
mincemeat out ot the whole quarter of
the fowl. Then he sharpens his knife
and takes it again. At last, white mat
mg a terrific dig, cc hits the joint sud
deuly, and the leg (lies iuto tiie maiden
lady’s lap, While her dress trout is cov
cred with a shower of stuffin g. Tiieu
he goes for the other leg, and when the
youg lady tells him he looks warm, the
wcaiuer seems to him suddenly to be
come 400 degrees warmer. This let'
he liually pulls loose with his fiufferT
iie tnoii lays it on the ed>e
of tlie plate, and' while he is hacking at
l ie wing he gradually pushes it on °the
clean table-cloth, and when he picks it
up it slips from his bund into tlie in-a
vy dish and splashes the gravy round
I-..- six square yards. Just as he made
up lus mind that the turkey has no
joints to its wings, the host asks him if
fie thinks tne Indians can reallv be civ
ilizcd? The giri next to hiui "laughs
arm he says he will explain his views
upon the subject after dinner. Then
he sops his brow with his haiulkeroheii
and presses th 3 turkey so hard withthe
lorlc that rt sltdes out of tho disir and
upsets a goblet of water on the girl next
to him. .Nearly frantic, he gouges
away again at the wings, gets them
off in a mutilated condign, and dio* i„.
to the breast. Before he can cot any
oh, the host as,vs him wiry he don’t help
ouc tin turkey. Bewildered, he puts
both legs ou a (.late and hands thorn to
the maiden lady, and then helps tue
young girl to a plateful! of stuffing,
ami while taking her plate in. return
knocks over the gravy-dish. Than he
sits down with tho camluess of despair
and tans himself with a napkin, while'
the serveut girl clears up the table
He d “ BCn 't discuss the Indian question
that nay, lie goes lroiue right after
dinner, and spends the night trying t,>
decide whether to commit suicide or to
lukeleasous in carvin '
At a recent prayer-meeting iu Chi
cago, the following shdeiiunts were or*,
voued on a blackboard* Strong drink
costs SI.OOff,OO3,OCK> a year in nmney
mnkes fifty per cent, of nur insane it
makes sixty-fiiwo per of our pau
pers—it causes directly seventy five per
cent, of our murders—-it make j eighty
per cent, of our <iCrouuaU-.it sends
torth ninety tiveXyr keat. of our vicious
youths, au.l it sCiids one every six rain
tries into a-’ nurkurd’s *rsvj, of nearlv
lOJ.tVV) a year. ,
NO. M