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54 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.”