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TURN WOLD, GA., NOVEMBER 10, 1862.
Save a Dollar.
All who wish to secure The Country
man for $1, for another year, had better
subscribe, or renew, between this and
Christmas, as I shall be compelled, after
that time, to raise the price of subscription
to $2. This paper is well worth $10 a year :
aud the speculators and extortioners have
ruined everything so, that I shall be com
pelled to put it up to one-fifth of that
amount.—Be in time to save your dollar.
Evil Effects of Dancing.
“ The following anecdote is related of a
tract distribution, at the hospital in Nash
ville :
A soldier, whose legs had been carried
away above the knees by. a cannon ball,
and who had been long a patient in the hos
pital, one day, while sitting up in bed, said
to his nurse, ‘ When will those tract dis
tributors be around again V ‘ Today,’ she
replied. ‘When they come, I would like
something to read/ he added. A colpor
teur came in,during the afternoon, and made
a hasty distribution of tracts, giving one to
each bed, without stopping to read the ti
tles, or to sec the fitness of the selection'.
The poor fellow who had lost his legs, re
ceived a little 4-page message, and be
gan to read with great eagerness. The nurse,
noticing bis interest, stole up hehind him,
to see the subject of the tract, when, to her
astonishment, she read the following title :
‘ The Evil Effects of Modern Dancing.’
Repressing her laughter, she said to the
man, ‘ That tract is hardly suited to. your
condition.’ ‘ Well, madam,’ he reolied, ‘to
tell the truth, I think my dancing days are
about over.’ ”
Instead of distributing tracts to make
the soldiers long-faced and gloomy, everv
means ought to be adopted to make them
laugh, and becheeiful and happy. Instead
of distributing tracts to keep them fiom
dancing, some humane society ought to
print my articles in favor of dancing, in a
tract, and circulate that in the army.
P. M., Marietta, Ga.
The subscription of the gentleman of
whom you speak was paid by a friend in
this county. If be lias not taken bis paper
out of the office, it is his misfortune, as he
has missed reading many a good thing
which his friend paid.for him to see. No
one need he uneasy for fear The Country
man will be sent to him, unless he is
made a subscriber by his own act, or some
friend’s. There is not a single dead-head
on my list.
the countryman.
I WEEP FOR ALL WHO DIE.
I wefep for all who die ! ,
Friend of my heart, in pallid slumber laid,
1 seek thy tomb in yon sequestered shade,
And weeping, sadly sigh !
Stranger that mount’st the sea
Of sombre death, to voyage with the dead,
No friend nor kinsmen near thy dying bed,
I weep for thee.
Infant who sip’st of life
One single drop,then shun’st the bitter draught,
I who the chalice long have quaffed,
I weep for thee.
An Adventure.
The other day, I went to Eatonton, and
as I was going to my office, I saw a man
under ] of the oak trees in front of the
bank, take something out of his buggy,
and shake it at me. From its appearance
—(it was wrapped up in paper)—I took it
to be a bottle, and commenced to make
tracks—of course in an opposite direction
—for the bible gays, resist the devil, and
he will flee from you : and if a bottle is
not the devil, what is ? And 1 often find
it best, instead of standing still to resist
any sort of a devil, and wait for him to run
from me—I often find it best to run from
him. But notwithstanding I made the
tracks, I soon found myself confronting
the bottle. I put it to my lips, at the re
quest of the donor who put it in my hands,
and the contents tasted very well indeed.
It took me a long time to get a taste. ‘The
within’ was so thick it wouldn’t run out fast.
Taking the bottle with me to my office,
aud setting it down on the table before me,
I read on a piece uf paper pasted on the
bottle, as follows ;—“For J. A. Turner.—
Made from ribbon cane. One gallon of
syrup tc 8 of juice. One gallon of first-
rate molasses to 7 of juice. Average—1
pint of jui ce to the stalk. Eight hours to
boil down to syrup. Seven and a half
hours to boil to molasses. I will make
something over 100 gallons this season, and
if I don’t go to the war, look out next sea-,
son. You will hear from me, &c.—T. Jeff
Davis.’’
I take it that the “ &c.” means another
bottle or so of syrup. Friend Jeff, may
you live a thousand years, and send me or
my great-grand-children a bottle or so of
syrup, every year. Sweet has been my
communion with you. You'do well to re
member the poor editor, who publishes his
paper at $1 a year, when it is worth 10 or
12; and in a county -where the ordinary
refuses to send me advertisinents, even
when he receives instructions to do so.
—And, friend Jeff, liow you did find favor
in the eyes of the little Countrymen!
TV hen I told them Jeff Davis sent me that
syrup, you ought to have seen how grand
they sat up, and ate sweetening which thev
thought and said president Davis sent their
father. They behaved just as if they
thought they were every one editors, and
participants of their father’s glory.
Free Spoken Ambassador.
“After the death of Charles VI., the
Spanish ambassador, Don Pedro Rouguillo,
at his first audience of the new king, James
VI.. being requested to state freely his opin
ion of the state of affairs in England, bis
excellency fold James, ‘ that he saw sever
al priests about his majesty, who would im
portune him to alter the established relig
ion in England, but prayed him not to
hearken to their advice, lest his majesty
should repent of it when it was too late.’
The king,being a good deal displeased with
this counsel, asked the ambassador with
some zeal, ‘ whether it was not customarv
in ^pain to advise with their confessors V
* Yes, sir,’ replied the ambassador, ‘ we do
so, and that’s the reason our affairs succeed
so ill.’”
Lancelot Addison.
“ Lancelot Addison, a native of West
moreland, born in 1632, was educated at
Oxford, where he distinguished himself by
his ability and application. During the
period of the Commonwealth, he lived re*
tired in the neighborhood of Pet worth, but
was active in disseminating church and king
principles. Alter the restoration, he. was
chaplain at Dunkirk, and at Tangier, and
subsequently obtained the living of Milston,
in Wilts, and was made a prebend, a dean,
and an archdeacon. lie died in 1703.
His literary talents were considerable, and
he published several works, mostly theo
logical.”
Human Imperfections.
“ That historian who would describe a
favorite character as faultless, raises anoth
er at the expense of himself. Zeuxis made
5 virgins contribute their charms to his sin
gle picture of Helen : and it is as vain for
the moralist to look for perfection in the
mind, as for the painter to expect to find
it in the body. In fact, the sad realities of
life give us no great cause to be proud, ei
ther of our minds, or of our bodies : but we
can conceive, in both, the possibility of
much greater excellence than exists. The
statue of the Belvidere Apollo is quite as
likely to be married as lie that will have
no wife until lie can discover a woman that
equals the Venus of Cleomenes.”