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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 211 1877.
The Moneyless Man.
Is there no Hoorefc plnee on tin* faoa of I ho earth
Where charity tlwollefh, anti vit no hath birth -
Wht ro Itc- Mins in mercy ami kin ! new* will hoavn?
Ami the poor and tho wretched may ask and re
ceive y
Is there no place where a knock from t> • - poor,
Will briipr a kind tin-b • t '■ • <■
Oh! ■■'Ml' ii tin l w• -
There is no oy,*n *
(Jo look in yon halls, ■whore tim o';arnloliv*.r*a light
Drives off with its splemior the darkness of night;
Win re the rich lntnginj curtains with shtulowy
fold,
Swtvp gracefully down with their trimming* of
gold;
Whore the mirrors of silver take up and renew
In long lighted vistas, the bewildering view,
Go there in your patches and find if you can,
A welcoming smile for a moneyless man.
Go look to yon church with its cloud reaching
spire.
That gives back to the sun its same look of rod
iii e:
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous
within, •
And its walls scorn ns pure as a soul w it bout sin,
Go down the long aisle, see the rich and the great,
In tho r>mup and the pride of their worldly estate,
j Walk down in your patches, llml if you can,
1 One who opens a pew to a moneyless man.
i Go to vour Judge in his dark flowing gown,
! With his scales wherein law woighteth equity
> down;
! Who frowns on the weak ami smiles on t tie strong
I And punishes right whilst he just (lies wrong;
; Where juries their lips on the Itible have laid,
i To rentier a verdict they have already made,
Go there in your court room, find if you can,
Any law for the cause of a moneyless man.
Go in yon bank \s here Mammon has toled
j it is hundreds and thousands of silver and gold;
Where sale from the hands of tho starving and
poor,
Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore;
Walk up to the counter and there you may stay,
'Till your limbs grow old and your hair turns gray
You’ll lind at the bank not one of tho elan,
Idas money to lend to a moneyless man.
Then turn to your hovel, no rav.n has fed
The wife, who has suffered, too long for her
bread;
There kneel by horpalh ! and kiss the death frost
from the lips of the angel your poverty lost,;
Then t urn in yo-ut agony upward to God,
And bless, while it smites you, tho chastening
rod,
You’ll And M the end of life's little span,
Th re is a welcome shove for e. money less man.
Curiosities of Life-
Lay your finger on your pulse, ami
know that at every stroke M ine ituim rtal
j.a -0- to bis nut. r; Mime fellow-bc.ng
. ..... ihe river nl‘death; ami if we think
■ i well wonder that. it. should
h o loinr before our turn r unes.
! 1 ii e!'a i wiie ilv- die before seven-
On no j . ill in toll Ih 'I >llml lives to
be one litituire ! years old; and but one in
s hundiod roaches sixty.
The married live longer than tho simile.
There is one soldier to evi ry eittht per
sons, an 1 "’it. of .-very thou and born only
ninety oo.e wo Minos take place.
1C you lake i In n .uni persons who
have reached .-vuii'y years, there arc of
clergymen, orators, and public speakers,
forty-three; farmers, forty; workmen,
thirty-three; soldiers, thirty-two; lawyers,
twenty-nine; professors, tweuty-sevon;
doctors, twenty-four.
Eoys, Listen to Thi3.
True as the Gospel is the follotfog,
said by Robert (Jollyer, of Chicago: '*
“It is true that, the working, slice :;tw
ful men of to-day were once poor, indus
trious, self-reliant boys. Vml t lit:
thing will he repeated for, from Qua:
ranks of the hard-working, cconomi'SH'
temperance, and persevering boys of to
day, will emanate the pro rrussivc, promi
nent men of the future.
“Every mao doing any sort of work in
Chicago to day, was raised a poor man’s
son, and had to fight his way to his place..
Notone ul them, as I can ascertain, was
a rich man’s son, and had a good time
when he was a boy. All boys should grow
as strong as a steel bar, fighting their way
on to an i ducatii/i), and when they are
ready, plunge into lifts with that tradition
al half dollar and a little bundle tied up
in a red handkerchief, as I have known
great, men to start. I tell you that iu five
and I wenty years, when most, of u- that
arc in our middle age have gone to our
retribution, the men of mark in this
country wi. ot be the (ins of those whose
father'- can give them all they wish for,
and ten times more than they ought to
have, but will bo those who are brought
up in farm houses and cottages, cutting
their way through the thickest hindrances
ofeVcty sort; and all the brown : tone
non ■ -e. this in -tropobs will be as nothing
to b. mg out, ilie nobleman.”
What to Read.
An exchange say : “I* is very haul for
pome boys and gi:l ■ to behove what older
people tell them concerning the selection
of reading matter. If a book, is van ex
citing and thrilling, and pronounced by
their eiders unfit, to be read thi is only
tin r.:a.-i.a why th-y should rt ad it;
fm: idden fruit being always sweet.”
"i tr ■ !-, ; !•■, too true, li the book |
air c.I- in . u-breadf li escapes, daring !
i- : . u h i o iu ir,' they aigue. (
..jury .in I i:e more reining of such ;
.o i, 111 V .Now ii-icoi a moment., :
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; in it' L
\ on ■!r richest and
I■, : | :.i. : I e "1 'ale. H i.'lt
... ■ i!.., .... . . /II (he cl 1
uniadi ./ e,lie: ue u.iged, he grutv dull
and •iuiraisii, id- eye- bee.one weak and
watery, v-'isiie In- 'c eil ni.e' .cue.l ami
rotted away a v.'/jr.-i m ./., when he
glow O 11,. lim 1, tie !><•'•*. u ' crave tu
i.accu ami dritil-. a- a n.i"iiis of
whetting hi.- . > ■; , cute and of
giving him a relish tor wholesome food. ‘
1 Alas, what a mistake! Now, if I were to
ask you what perfects the growth of the
body, you would readily answer: the food
wo cat. .lust so it i. in regard -to the
mind. That develops itself in accordance
with the nourishment, it receives, Do
'•on tid'd; ‘tf yirl who passe her til'll* in
i■; minis - dvr !■ \e -ioi. stories, or trashy
novels, v.itl ever grow up into am thing
but a silly, weak-minded, sentimental,
woman, with a brain as devoid of one
solid thought as her life is oi'noble pur
pose? Ami tho boy who, hour after hour
is found perusing a dime novel, a book of
exciting highway robberies, or an obscene
newspaper, do you think he will ever de
velop into a pure-souled, higlotonud, no
ble minded man, a man destined to make
his mark in the world? No; for just.as
impure food will dwarf and injure our
whole physical system, just so impure
reading will taint and corrupt, our whole
mental organization. Then think of this
boys and girls, and be careful what you
| select to read, for, be it said with shame,
i hundreds of books ami newspapers of the
very lowest, vilest kind may be found ail
over our country.
“That Other Little Boy.’’
The Columbus Enquirer tells a good
story of a character well known in ante
helium days to visitors to the Chalybeate
and Warm Springs in Meriwether county.
He was generally known by the name of
- “Old Finch,’ and “had the misfortune
of not recollecting names, even those ol
his own family, said to have been the re
sult, of an injury to his head, received
when a lad. On account, of his infirmity,
he always called everybody ‘Little Hoy.’
Gruel hint with “Good morning, Uncle
Finch,’’ and invariably came tho reply,
j “Howdy little boy,” regardless of age
: or sex.
The old man was seriously sick at ono
time, and his good wife, knowing that he
had sadly neglected his “hereafter,” and
believing he was not long for this world,
sent for a pious clergyman to talk and
pray with. The good man wrestled with
the old tinner, but. without- apparently
m tving him, when he tried anew tack.
“Squire," .said the good man, “you arc
very iek. your friends think you will die.”
‘ I think to too,” i 'plied I le-ic I ‘inch.
“Arc you riot afraid to die,” continued
the good tuan, “and meet your God?”
“Oh. no! no!” quickly replied Uncle
Finch, “f ain't afraid of Him. It’s that
other little boy that I’m afraid to meet."
Uncle Finch didn’t die, us his friends ex
pected. lie lived till a lew years ago, and
we trust ho went to a place where the
“other little boy” will not disturb him.
Little Tilings by Josh Billings.
A kros word iz a little thing, but it iz
what sti iz up the el pliant.
A kind word iz a little tiling, hut it iz
just what soothed tho sorrows ov tho set
ting hen.
An orange peel ori the sidewalk iz a
little thing, but it haz upset many a
giant.
An oath iz a little thing, but it. iz re
corded io the grate ledger in heaven,
A serpent’s fang iz a little tiling, hut
doth iz its victory,
l* baby iz a wee little thing, but a con
‘kx’able waz once a baby.
A hornet’s sting iz a little thing, but it
sends tho school boy home howling.
A star iz a little thing, but it kan hold
this grate world in his arms.
A tung iz a litt e thing, but it fills the
universe with trubble.
An egg iz a little thing, but the huge
kroker.lilc kreop.s into life out ov it.
A kiss iz a very little tiling', but it, be
trayed the Son ov God into tho hands ov
hiz enemy.
A spark iza little thing, but it can light
the poor man’s pipe, or set the world to
burning.
'1 lie acorn iz a ittlo thing, the black
bear and his family live in the oak that
springs from it.
A word iz a liitlc thing, but ono word
lias been monny a man’s destiny, lor good
or for evil..
A penny iza very little thing, but the
interest on it from tho days of Cain and
Abel would buy out the globe.
A minute iz a little thing', but it. iz
[ long enough to pull a dozen aking teeth
or to get married and have your own
mot her-ir.-law.
A lap dog iz a little tiling, but he iz a
very silly tiling besides.
Life iz made up ov little things. Life
itself iz but a little tiling; one breath less,
then comes the pbuueral.
i A striking instance of sagacity in a lob
ter is recorded by Mr. Barker, of the
Rothesay Aquarium, in a letter to one of
the Scotch papers, It seems that three
i lobsters were placed is u tank previously
; o rnpici by flatfish, and in which, inad
. ctently, a flounder had been left buried
i he: bin; 10, where it died. One of the
lobsters, “a veteran of unusual size,” soot)
<ll ' red the dead body oi ilie bounder,
and, dragging it from i;s resting place,
re :ud with it to one corner ol the tank,
is hoi tly afte: ward.-, it was noticed that the
fo i-.der ..a n.iw ing. It was impossible
that toe lobster could have eaten it in the
time, and the h ndleofanet revealed die
fact that upon the approach of the two
lc/.ser lobsters lie had buried the flounder
ii oeathn heap of shingle on which be
now mounted guard. Five times within
the two hours was the flounder unearthed,
and us often did the wily lobster rebury it
with his huge cia..s, eaeh time ascending
the pile and turning a bold front to bis
companions. This story shows conclusive
ly what a vast amount of quenched intel
ligence may sometimes lie concealed in a
salad.
I Lofe an Honest Poy.
There’s a German who keeps a corner
grocery in Keokuk, mid he had a call from
a little tiny the other night, who ha I I".en
sent to ei’t a two-dollar bill eliane.. In
boy received tlmclnc - > v.Med i.onn.
with it when it \va oh cow . u that t hero
was a quarter which was r; th : , i ad,
l hough good, in the change, and m ihat
the quarter was just twenty-live cents
more change than the folks who sent the
bill were entitled to.
’I be boy was sent back to return it. and
of enur e the ragged ‘fractional’ was sent
with him.
Entering I he store, and holding out the
ragged money, the boy said:
“ Vou changed a two-dollar bill for me,
here’s a quarter’
Our (h nuan friend, seeing the ragged
money and fancying that lie would have
to take it back, interrupted tlio boy by
exclaiming:
“Shangc oodinks! I slianged no pills
mit you!’
"V ( , you did, and bore’s a quarter”-
“Mein Got, vasalicsl Neter in my life
did 1 see .sieh a pey . Id dls you you
nofer slianged me mit any pills.”
“Why, I was in here not half an hour
ago, and you gave me a quarter”—
“Gif you some quarters- gif you some
quarters! Dmidcnvettor, young teller,
you dink I bin gone crazy mit my prams?
I don’t, gif you some quarters. Now,
make your elf seldom ride away, puforu I
put shoulders upon your bead!” arid he
commenced to move out from I t Lind the
counter.
‘ Ult, you didn’t give me no quarter, eh?
All right, all right, squire, I’m just a
quarter ahead,” and ho started to go out.
“Now,” said the Gorman, putting him
self in an attitude of admiration, “and it is
what I like to see pet tor as noting else.
I lofe an honest poy, and I shoost been
trying you, sonny. Yaw, it vas me what
makes a shangc mit and ir pills, and 1 knows
it all dor same, hut. i vas trying you. I)u
P - -Ii a elieeuy poy, and ! gifs you a nice
pig a p pies for your honesty,’ and, pocket
ing the quarter, he led the boy back to
the rear of the store, and selecting an
apple about the size of a marble, lie pre
sented it to the boy, and patting him on
the head, said :
“Now run along homo, sonny, and dell
your folk.-- vut a nice p-e a u-t, i-f-u-1 old
slieiitleman it vas who gif you and it nice
apple.’’
-W . -> > ,1
Idleness.
This is one of the great curses of this
country. It is humiliating to see the
stout, healthy men who make a business
loaliiltg, not, at all ashamed to cat the
bread made by the exertion of others, and
allowing themselves to be clothed by the
worn lingers of sonic over- worked mother,
;i - ter or wife. The times are hard, but,
they are made harder than they naturally
arc by this dead weight of idleness which
weighs upon tiie energies of the indus
trious people, and places them at disad
vantages in the fight against nnfortuno
circumstances On this subject tho
Oglethorpe A’e/io well says:
“If there is anything we dislike to see,
it is a batch of able todie 1 men sitting
around a store door, whittling, playing
draughts, pitching rings, talking polit !>••.,
shooting flips and marbles, and engaged
in every known occupation except making
un honest livelihood, when in all proba
bility tho wife, or mother, or sister is at
home toiling to earn the very bread they
eat. Such men are generally loudest in
l heir denunciation of hard tim s, but w hat
do they to hatter the condition of tho
country? In penning the above we intend
nothing personal to any one individual,
but say to tlm reader, ‘if the shoe fits you,’
re olvo, like a man, to outgrow it, by sordt
ing an honest living at whatever you can
find to do. There is a law in this State
jiitni'-hiiig vagrants—such as this class of
loafer,-; undoubtedly are-and it is tho
duty of the public to enforce tbe same, j
without regard to person, color or previ- i
mis condition. If a man won t work, lot !
h:in be. sold to someone who will use the
cowhide if necessary and make him work.”
The Sewing Machine Swindle.
Judge Gilberts Jeri ive action in a
flowing machine case tried before him in
Brooklyn will be very generally commend
ed. The agent of a sewing machine com
pany had sold a machine to a person on
what is known as a “lease.” The pay
ments under such a sale are to bo made b -
installments, but the maoh.ne is only
“leased” to the purchaser, the payments
are designated “rent,’’ and when default
is made, if oven on the very ln-l install
ment, the agent steps in, reclaims the
machine und retains all the money that
lias been paid upon it. This one-sided
bargain is a cheat on its face, and besides,
a large addition is generally made to the
honest price of the machine when thus
sold on time. In the Brooklyn ease the
purchaser had paid eighty dollars, when,
failing in meeting an in (ailment, tli -
machine was -adzed and carried off by the
agent. The victimized purchaser brought
suit to recover the amount he had paid.
Judge Gilbert immediately directed the
not unwilling jury to give plaintiff aver- j
diet fur the full amount with interest. The :
counsel for tlm company pleaded for delay.
“Not an instant,” was Judge Gilbert’s
reply. This is treating these sharp
dealers to a little of their own medicine.
“Not an in taut," is their reply when a
purchaser asks for time. The Brooklyn
decision will probably encourage a number
of persons who have lost both their money
and machines by such sharp practice to
attempt to recover either the one or the
other. .V 1 . IJfrahl,
NUMBER 17.
'I he Arabs have a fable of a miller who
was one day startled by a camel's nose
tlii i .t in the window where he was sleep-
I in;.'.
‘i very cold outside,” said the
' i only want to get my nose in."
i m nose was let in and then tho neck,
uni fir.. iy tlm whole body. Frescntly
i the under became inconvenienced by tho
uiy.si'dy companion he had obtained, in
a mom certainly not largo enough for
both. -
“if you are inconvenienced you may
leave,” said the camel; “as for myself, 1
stay where 1 am.”
The moral of the fable concerns nil.
When temptation occurs, we mu. t not
yield to it. We rnu.-L not allow .n M.ncii
as its 1 nose” to come iu. Everything
like sin is to be turned .nvay from. He
who yield.; even tho smallest degree will
soon be overcome; and the hi.-1 state of
that man is worse than the first.
’Beauty and stylo are not the surest
passports to respectability—some of the
noblest specimens of womanhood that the
tho world has ever seen have presented
the plainest and most unprepossessing
a | pea ranee. A woman’s worth is to ho
estimated by the real goodness of her
heart, the greatness of her soul, and the
1 parity and sweetness of her character;
and a woman with a kindly disposition
and a well balanced mind and temper, is
lovely u:.d attractive, be her face everss
plain-and tier figure ever so homely; she
; makes the be.-a ol wives and truest of
mothers. Elio lias a higher purpose in
litue than the beautiful yet vain and
| supercilious woman, who has no higher
; ambition than to flaunt her finery in tho
; streets, or to gratify her inordinate vanity
extracting by flattery and praise from a
j society whose compliments are as hollow
as they are insincere.
Why She Planted Roses.
A blacksmith had in his possession,
but under mortgage, a house and piece of
land. Like many others, lie was at one
time fond of the glass, hut was happily
induced by a friend to join the temper
ance society. About three months after
ward he observed his wife busily engaged
in planting rose bushes and fruit trees.
“.Mary,” said he, “I have owned this
lot for live year, and yet I have never
known you to care to improve it in this
manner.”
“Indeed, replied the smiling wife, “I
had no heart to do it until you gave up
drink. I had often thought of it before,
but I was persuaded that should I do it,
some strangers would pluck the roses and
cat the fruit. Now, with God’s blessing
this cot will he ours, and we and our
children may expect to enjoy the product;
wc shall pluck the roses and eat the
fruit.”
Ami they did. Their cottage was
kn jV.'ii as tho prettiest cottage iu the
neighborhood-
A gentleman stepped into a tavern and
saw a filthy drunkard, once a respectable
man, waiting for his liquor, lie thus ac
cost.'! him: “Why do you make yourself
t lie vilest of men? - ’ “I ain’t the vilest,”
said the drunkard. “ You are,” said tho
gentleman, “see how you lo k —drink
ih it g!a>and you willljj in the gutter.”
“I denyynur pozzition,” said the other;
“who is the vilest the tempted or the
tempter? Who who was the wor-worst,
I Satan, or (liio) live?” “Why, Satan,”
said the gentleman. “Well, (hie) well,
behold the tempter!” pointing to the bar.
The barkeeper not liking such allusion to
bis calling, turned the man out of his
: house without his dram.
Different cities have different atmos
pheres, and so have human beings, t
j have met persons whose very presence
| .scene I like a breath of spring air, sweet
: and pure and cheering—filling my heart
: with peace and my soul with light. There
! are others who seeui to carry an invisible
fog about them that settles cold and dose
on those with whom it comes in contact..
Tn the society of such persons 1 fuel
choked, as though a puff of carbon had
swooped down on my feeble lungs. A
sunny wholesome nature is the most
desirable thing in life.
At the Methodist Sunday School the
members answer to the roll call by repeat
ing a verse of Scripture. When a certain
old bachelor, about the only one we have
hi town, was called, be folded his arms
very complacently, and said, “l will luvo
them that love me. Tliev that seek me
early shall find me. ”
You can never do an injury to another
without feeling that injury rebound ami
strike yourself. You aie fated evermore
to drink the bitterness of the cup you
have mingled for a brother.
“Is whisky an animal or a vegetable
product?” asked an instructor in one of
our public schools. Whereupon a bright
littlug-irlreplied: “Vegetable.” “Why?”
“Because it is pa’s nip.”
A widow in Connecticut brought recent
ly a suit against a young man for the value
of fuel, lights and food consumed whilst
he was courtin ' her daughter.
A girl with dreamy eyes and calm
serenity of manner may be a bit of artless
innocence, but ten to oriu she is lazy, and
has no ideas to excite her mind or her
tongue,