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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. JULY 28, 1877.
The Drunkard.
Hopelessly wandering through tho cold street—
Ills clothes ull iu tatters - no shoes on his fret;
With count enanee Moated ami ruin-frenaiod eye
Tired ot living, yet fearing to die.
How the crowd Je* v rsas he shuttles along,
No look of pity, or lov e in the throng;
How his heart burns as he looks on the scone,
Thinking of what is, and what might have been.
Once he was youthful, light-hearted and gay.
Life to him then seemed a long sunnner'sdny;
Now, he is penniless, friendless and old.
And shakes like a reed in the pitiless cold.
Once ho had energy, freedom from fear,
A bright beaming eye and an intellect dear;
Tvvas seldom that, son ow or trouble would come
’Till he gave himself up to the donum of rum.
Drink was the serpent that wrought, his first pain
And fixed on his record, unsullied, a stain;
Drink t hat he hailed as a friend in his glee.
Hut, oh! what a friend did that, friend prove to be l
Slowly, but surely, with devilish art,
It palsied bis frame and ate out bis heart.
And placed the black brand of disgrace on Isis
brow,
And made him that wreck of a man he is row.
Oh! ye who are und* r the rum demon’s spell,
And pour down yo ir throats his vile poison of
hell,
Of his subtle arts 1 beseech you beware,
Kre you llnd yourselves wrecked on the shoal of
despair.
Ye may light him awhile, but believe me, at, b n th
The strongest will fall and succumb to his
strength;
If you court him at all you will struggle in vain,
To b ink the strong links of tho rum demon’s
chain,
DUTY OF PARENTS
IN SUSTAINING
Sabbath Schools.
BY KIEV. JAMES A. CLEMENT,
PART V.
Parents, do you see your duty? Do you
understand it? Will you contend against
the Almighty? Will you rise uj> and say
there is no use in talking or reading the
law of the Lord to infants? Will you
question the Divine mind in tho premises
or bring your short and finite mind’s ap
prehension in opposition to the infinite
and All-Knowing One? Who has the
best right to know whit impressions can
be made upon the minds of infanta, the
One who wtio made them, or jioor frail
mortals? Does ho not enjoin upon us
the duties already referred to? Will wo
then question the propriety of their ob
servance? Or stop to reason with our
Maker, asking Dim what good tan it do?
Did Abraham stop to reason with the
Almighty, when he required him to take
his son, Isaac, his only son, and offer him
as a sacrifice? Not lie; hut instantly
obeyed tho Divine behest. Shall we then
because we cannot understand the modus
operaudi, or how knowledge is imparted
to the little ones, shall our ignorance in
this regard restrain us from a performance
of a plain and explicit duty? Or, shall
wo be exonerated from blame or guilt, if
wo refuse or neglect to obey the high be
hests of Heaven in reference to our chil
dren?
Shall our want of understanding upon
this point, release us from the obligation
to commence their religious ins*ruction
from the time of their birth? Is it not
presumable the Creator understood the
capacity of the intellectual and moral
nature lie had implanted in the child at
the beginning of its existence? Vial that
ho well understood the means by which,
and the time in which, it could and should
he taught? And does lie not say in no
mistakable terms, that as soon as it is
born into tho world, the process of train
ing of religious education is to commence
and be continued until life’s latest labors
shall have an end? ’Tis true, we cannot
understand how :t is, that the reading of
the law, or speaking of religious things
are impressed upon the moral natures of
the little ones; hut our finite comprehen
sion is not to bo the rule to determine the
truth or certainty of the fact that it
should he done. God says, it is for tho
purpose that they may learn, and observe
to do all his commandments. That they
can learn at this early ago is a settled
fact, determined by the All-Knowing
One himself, notwithstanding our inabil
ity to understand and comprehend how it
can he done. For how the words of
another jailing upon the tympanum ol
the ear of a child, cart produce an effect
ujton the mind and heart, we cannot tell;
but its truth is daily demonstrated before
our eyes. .See that mother, as soon as
she receives her new born infant into her
arms, she immediately begins to caress it,
jtlay with it, and talk —as her liege lord
tauntingly tells her—her baby talk to it,
and the result is, by this continual caress
ing, the child very soon gives forth the
pleasing smile, so that wfien the mother
is pleasing and caressing, the child will
smile and laugh, but let, the mo her
change her voice and pretend to scold it.,
and how soon its little lips begin to quiver
and tears gather in its eyes.
And yet, for ull this, you tell me the
little babe is unconscious, and no use to
attempt to try to teach it anything; that
it is incapable of understanding anything!
Is it not conscious when it can distinguish
and understand as easily us a grown up
person, the difference between the sweet
caresses and ti e frowns of its mother?
Upon tho same principle then, that tho
mother impresses upon the mind of her
child the difference above referred to,
j upon that same principle, whatever that
may ho, we are to impress upon the in
fant mind religious truth. Was it not by
this same process adopted and practiced
by Lois, the grandmother, and Eunice,
the mother of Timothy, that enabled him
to understand tho Scriptures from his
infant days? And can we believe other
wise, that this was tho same principle
upon which Elkatmli and Hannah acted
that so early enabled their son, Samuel,
at the early age of three years to minister
before the Lord iu his holy temple? All
these parents being Jews, well under
stood the Divine law upon the early train
ing and instruction of children, and no
doubt acted according to the Heavenly
mandate and were duly recompensed for
their care and toil.
Are these things mysterious? 1 will
show you a greater mystery in all proba
bility th.ru this, even. Read the third
chapter of tho book of Numbers, and you
will there find where two and twenty
thousand children from a month old, and
upward, are sail to be ‘ keeping tho
charge of the sanctuary.” “And their
charge shall he the ark, and the table,
and the candlestick, and the altars, and
the vessels of tho sanctuary wherewith
they minister, and the hanging, and all
the service thereof.”
Now, did you ever hoar of such a thing
before, as an infant only a month old
keeping the charge of the Sanctuary of
God? Do you believe it. - '’ I tear not.
“J.et God he true, but every man a liar.”
How it can he, or was done, I hnow not,
l understand not; God says so, and that
with me, is an end to till controversy ujton
the subject. If 1 discard belief iu the
premises, because I understand it not,
and will not believe anything because I
cannot, understand it, what is there then,
that I will or do believe? I will discard
Myself ij '•)') vi a. -lire, beerr'e I camiiot
understand tho union of my soul, Ami
spirit, and body. I cannot cxjtlain or
understand, how the same dew whitens
in the lily and reddens in tho rose. I
cannot toll how by the exercise of my
will, I raise my hand to my head, and let!
it return to my side. Who can cxj.lain
or understand the jihilosophy ol light?
The modus oj.crandi, 1 do not, cannot
understand or explain. But the facts we
all know. God does not require me to
explain or understand them, bee-use they
are above and beyond the capacity of the
finite miud, and are to bo received upon
the dictum of the Great I Am; “O ye of
little faith, how long will ye doubt?”
“Blind unbelief Is mire to err,
And HeanhiH work in vain;
(od in hi own inlierprotor,
And lio will make it plain.”
(TO HE CONTINUED.)
Gone Out Bumming.
A Nevada paper is responsible for tho
following:
A book agent of this city has just re
turned from the Honey Lake country.
The agent one day stoj>ped at a cabin,
situatedriii the edge of the foothills. Be
fore reaching the cabin, half a dozen
dogs of assorted sizes arid unrecognizable
breeds started up from under stunted
pines or came running from sheds about
tho place, yelping and barking like a jiaek
of coyotes, In the wake of the dogs
.‘■warmed forth seven or eight bareheaded,
flaxen ! aired children, plainly all of one
breed, the forest breed. The juveniles
were followed by a gaunt, saffron-eom
plexioned woman of about, forty. By
cooking for many years before an open
fireplace, she had become as effectually
smoke-cured as any herring.
To th<B woman who thus appeared tho
agent made known his business.
“Wall, stranger, I’m afeerd ycr come to j
the wrong place el yer got nothin hut
books to s.. 11. Kf yer had some j> order
or caps, or suthiri’ in the umernition line, j
yer might sell some to my ole man. As !
ter bodies, stranger, we’re not much on ;
the read liyar. ”
“Gould l see your husband, mam?”
asked the agent.
“\\ all, stranger, I reckon yer could cf j
yer was whar he was; lie's big enough for j
to see. Lord knows.”
“lie’s not at, home, then?”
“Stranger, he’s not at home.”
“Will he likely to return sooti?”
“Can’t say, stranger; lie’s a little on
sartin,”
“Which way has ho gone? 1 may meet
him somewhere in the settlement.”
“I pepkon not, stranger; he’s gone out
bumufin’.”
“Gone out humming! Wliat do you
mean by that?”
“Wall, stranger, he tuck down his gun
this taornin,’ and from a wink ho guv me
as he started away I calkerlate he’s gone
oft soma whar to bum a sheep or two. ”
Wliat men are deficient in reason, they
usually make up in rage.
The Lords of Creation.
A correspondent of the Pittsburg
Chronicle reads the following lecture to
the husband of the day:
Why don’t somebody toll tho husband
of the day that he must come homo to his
wife with a smile instead oftho inevitable
sorowl upon his face? That if he will bo
about half as polite to his wife after as
before marriage, she will he grateful and
astonished. That lie must not he too tired
to do a little thing for her if she asks him
plea-anil,v. Tout it would not hurt, him
or his “dignity” to take the baby in his
strong anus for a time while his wife rests
her weak and weary ones. That he must
spend less money in the purchase of cigars
and chewing tobacco and something
else, so that there may be more saved, or
exjiended uj o i home comforts. That if
the mutton chops happen to he not quito
to his liking, he might consider that his
wile was probably so busy with something
equally, or more important, as to have
been unable to attend to tho chops, and
if ho would pleasantly say, “My dear, l
supposo you were too busy to look after
tho Mijqier -1 know it is all right when
you are not,” they will be all right next
time, if such a thing is possible. That ho
must learn to eject tobacco juice beyond
instead of upon lii.s shirt front. That a
mustache dripping with cream or coffee is
nut tho most artistically beautiful sight
hi the world. That ho mu t oneo in a
while, say twice a year, or three times —
L don’t want to startle all the married
men into apojdexy—offer his wife a rea
sonable amount of money lor personal
expenses. That when an amiable man
loses his amiability over a cruet-stand, or
a key, or a shirt,, or a t ble-elolli, or a
mustard-pot, he ought to be —well there!
Who ever saw an “amiable husband?”
That Barrel of Salt.
One of tho firm who run a commission
house on Woodbridge street is a man of
muscle. He can lift a barrel of flour as
easily us a common man lifts a bag of oats
and it. scaicely makes his ears grow red as
lie heaves a barrel of salt into a farmer’s
wagon. For weeks past he has been
boasting of lib strength of muscle, and
wanting to see something he couldn’t lift,
arid the boys around the store got their
heads leg.(her the other day. 'I hey took
a salt barrel ami filled it with broken pig
iron, old weights and other things, put
two inches of .-alt at either end, and rolled
it to the curbstone; und at a favorable
hour a dray backed up in the most iuno
eent m.tnt.or and art tinier from it grocer
for a barrel of salt whs handed out. Tho
drayman arid two of the boys fooled
around the barrel so long that tho strong
man got out of his chair in disgust, threw
off his coat arid said:
“You - fellows Dad better got porous
plasters for your bucks. Get out of the
wav and give me a chance!
lie seized the barrel by tho chimes and
lifted away. It didn’t move. Ho gritted
his teeth and laid out to pull tho hoops
right off. The hoojis stayed right there.
So did the barrel
“lt takes four good men to lift one o’
them barrels,” said the drayman.
“Noncsctisel I've lifted a score of them
and I’ll jiiek this up or break my hack.
I guess the suit must bo wet.”
lie got in position, drew a long breath,
and then lifted till his eyes looked like
two towels left out mi tho clothes-line in
a dark night. The barrel didn’t lift.
Dig iron was too much li r muscle, and the
liiter sat down on tho walk. His back
used to be plumb tip and down, but it
hasn’t been since that, lift. His eyes are
getting buck to their original positions,
and the red is leaving the hack of his
neck, and ho sees two men handle a bag
of dried aiqiies nr a bu.-hoi of beans
without a woid of comment.-- J)ctn>il
free J'rcss.
“A lover” writes us: “Suppose I see
a young lady ho.no from cliuroti, and the
night is dark and rainy, ami un n arriv
ing at her house she darts through the
door without saying as much as ‘good
night,’ leaving me standing outside —
what would you advise me to do in such
a case?” You had better start fur home
iiinnediuicly, if you have an umbrella.
Under no circumstance should you stand
on the steps of the young lady's house
ail night. It would he preferable to crawl
into the nearest friendly store bov, and
await for day-light to appear ir the rain
to disappear —Norristown Herald.
Gov. Carroll, of Maryland, was married
a month ago to Miss Thompson, two of
whoso sisters were already married to two
brothers of the Governor, and now his
only single brother Lengaged to his wile’s
only sin.le sister. This way the Carroll
boys have of gobbling up all tho Thomp
son girls, or t.!;e Thompson girls have of
gobbling up ad the Carroll hoys, or both
have of gobbling up one another, is a
species of matrimonial monopoly that, the
rest of the young folks ol the Statu ought
t a frown down.
A singular accident occurred at Dale
Pinto, Texas, the other evening. While
a Mrs. Roller was milking a cow her son,
a man of Wentyvfive years, was standing
near with a stick thru; or (our led long
in his left hand, tho hand lusting against
the loft groin. While in this pnajiion the
cow kicked, striking the end of the stick,'
and driving the opposite end against the
lower jiart of Mr. Roller’s abdomen, [De
ducing inguinal hernia, from the effects
of which he died the next evening.
“Some woman, hut heap lots of fool,”
was the remark of an .ndiau when he saw
tin; Omaha females pul on trail;.
NUMBER 30.
Gems of Thought.
No man should ho a judge in his own
cause.
To a man full of questions, make no
answer.
Life is a duty, and one ought to desire
its preservation. Wilfully to lot it decay
would be a sin.
I Solon being asked why, among his laws,
there was not one against personal affronts
answered that lie could not, believe tho
world Vo fantaliieal as to regard them.
Whoever sincerely endeavors to do all
the good he can, will probably do much
more than he imagines, or will ever know
to the day of judgment, when the secrets
ol all hearts shall be made manifest.
Honor and justice, reason and equity,
go a great way in procuring prosperity to
t hose who use them; and, in case of fai.uro
they secure the best retreat and tho most
honorable consolation.
The shill should he, so to order tho time
of recreation that it may relax, and refresh
tho part that lias been exercised and is
tired, and yet do something which, besides
the present delight and ease, may jiro
duee wliat will afterwards bo jirolitable.
A passionate temper renders a man
unfit for advice, deprives him cf his rea
son, robs him of all that is great and no
ble in his nature, makes him unfit for
ennu i'- i tiim, destroys friendship, changes
justice into cruelty, and turns all order
into confusion.
Tho fountain of content must sjiring up
in tho mind; and ho who has so little
knowledge of human nature as to seek
Imp;dnr-s by changing anything but his
own disposition, will waste his life in
fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs
which lie jiroposes to remove.
The governor may lie deceived; lie
brareth the sword, and may strike with it
improperly. But if, to remedy ari occa
sional inconvenience of this sort, you dis
solve government, what will he the con
sequence? More mischief will bo done by
the people, thus let loose, in a month,
than would be done by the government
in half a century.
A short time since a merchant of this
place bought a lot of genseng from a
countryman, and jiaid him for tho same
in coffee. Thinking (ho bulk was small
in comparison with its weight, he exam
ined it closely, and was morally shocked
to find that the larger roots had been
dri led out and 1< ad run into the onvltjesy
We have heard of Connecticut wooden
hams and nutmegs, but are incline J to
the opinion that the average mountaineer
cun take care of himself.— Ashevill:
l ’ionccr.
A Vermont parson has a profane parrot
which is a terrible grief and scandal to his
jiarishi.iriers who insist that he shall get
rid of his pet or they will get rid of him
in a pet. The parson says he will have to
do something as the pious people come in
pair; to hear the feathered pagan swear,
and stay so lone that he hardly gets time
to mid or write his sermons, and the
worst of it. is, they all expect his wife to
ask them to stay co tea.
The woman who sat down on a cactus
at a picnic last summer, was one of the
first on the ground at the picnic to-day;
and another female, who got so badly
bitten by woodtieks last summer that she
took her solemn oath sho would never go
toanother picnic t he longest day she livod,
nearly fractured her leg in trying to crowd
into the first wagon to start for the ground
this morning. Time is a great healer.
This curious item comes srom Havana,
III.; “An empty whisky barrel on the
platform at Virginia, a few miles south of
this place, exploded at, one, p. m. tu day,
with terrible force, sending a messenger
hoy who was sitting on the top thirty feet
into the air. On his striking the ground
both his legs were luoken, and he was
badly cut in the head.”
“I tell you, sir,” said Dr. one
morning, to the village apothecary, “I
tell you, sir, the vox pojmli should no 1 ,
must riot, be disregarded.” “What,
Doctor!” exclaimed the apothecary, rub
bing his hands, “you don’t say that’s
broken out in town, to >, lias it? Lord
helji us! what unhealthy times those
are!”
William Kiel, of Eighth avenue, New
ark, was cleaning his finger nails on Wed
nesday with a pair of scissors. II is young
wife began teasing him to buy some fur
niture, and lie became angry' and threw
the .scissors at her. The two blades pene
trated her eyes just beneath the eyeballs.
A physician said that tne woman could
not recover her sight.
When a woman gets into a crowd she
always carries her parasol in the most
awkward position possible, and as her
wrath rises with every revolution she is
oldie and to make, it is a lino study in
physiognomy to watch her face when sho
reaches the jioriod of greatest doubt as to
whom to hit.
They toil of a Burlington elder, a very
explicit and conscientious man, always
given to explain himself very clearly, who
began hi,; | ray or last Thursday night,
“J'aradogieal as it may appear to Thee,
0 Lord!”
Charles O’Conor began lifo as a news
boy; but the newsboys have rarely men
tioned him since he quit the business.