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[For The Huuny South.]
HE COMES NOT.
BY 8. R. JONES.
He cornea not—ah! be cornea not,—
Ob, why does he delay?
I re waited many a weary night
And many a weary day;
And yet he cornea not. Ia he dead ?
O God, my heart will break;
I pray no harm may happen him,
For hia unborn baby’s Bake.
He comes not—ah ! he cornea not,—
It was not always so,
For once he lingered by my side
And soothed my fancied woe;
Hut now he stays away from me.
Nor proffers to protect:
0 God, how hard it ia to bear
A husband's cold neglect!
He comes not—ah! he cornea not,—
But I adore him yet,
And when he comes, ni7 every wrong
Will instantly forget.
Dearer to me than life is he,
And all that life can give,
And it is harder far than death
Without hia love to live.
He comes not—ah! he comes not,—
He has been seldom here
Since first he fondly called me wife
And made my life so dear.
And when he comes, he’s cold, unkind,
From eve till early morn:
O God, how harder far than all
To feel a husband s scorn!
He comes not—ah! he comes not!
It surely cannot be,
When thou art born, my baby dear.
He’ll think so slight of me;
At least he’ll come to see his child
Once every little while.
Kate Armour had disdained to carry the tini
est parcel.
They had come to a spot in the road where a
grateful shade fell from some large elms, and
there they sat down to eat and drink. Tom was
in his best humor for some reason, and made a
joke at which his wife laughed. On that, flat
tered by her appreciation, he told her that “ any
way her teeth were like pearls.”
Praise is sweet to a woman, and she had heard
no compliments for a long time, and she smiled
at him again.
“I’d grow good looking again, if we had bet
ter times," said she; “and there's mother with a
box full of money, and no one to spend it on.”
TEM PERANCE.
UNCLE DABNEY AND THE FROGS
Exact dates are not material, and old people
sometimes forget; but I think it was about the
year 1817 that “Uncle Dabney ” taught his first
school, at the mouth of Cloud’s Creek, in Ogle
thorpe county, and I was one of his pupils. I
was called a “bad boy,” but he always forgave
me when I did wrong, “because I alirays knew
my lessons.” He generally kept a long hickory
switch near him, as a terror to evil-doers, though
I never knew him to use it but on one occasion,
when Mose W—, contrary to his orders, brought
Gloucester and Bristol, who made two speeches,
according to the report made two somewhat con
tradictory propositions. He was not a total ab
stainer; he was also sure it was hopeless to re
claim the drunkard except by total abstinance.
“ He was himself trying to do without it. He
had been gradually reducing the quantity of al
cohol he had allowed himself to take, and not
having found the slightest inconvenience from
the reduction, he was physically encouraged to
go on.”
Sir Harcourt Johnston was able to report that
his head was clearer, his intelligence nndimin-
ished, and his capacity for work greatly increased.
The Archbishop of Canterbury remembered that
TEACHERS’ DEPARTMENT.
BY A CORPS OP K.tHSEXT TEACHERS.
Special to Teachers.—The attention of all teacher*
ie called to this department, and contributions are solic
ited for it. An able corps of distinguished educators
have taken it in hand, and will give it special attention.
We hope to make it generally interesting.
Extracts from an Address on Science-Educa
tion, by Prof. Leroy Broun.
In discussing the educative value of the study
of science, it will in no manner be a part of our
“ Why, what do you mean, girl?” said .Scot- 1 p,arh brandy to school in his bottle, instead of at Rugby a friend brought him a budget of the purpose to present science in antagonism to the
cher. “Box full of money! Her money is in bringing niilk. Mose cried, “Uncle Dabney” greatest rubbish of teetotaler’s songs and hymns, classics.
the bank, I suppose, like other folks.” cried; but as I did not like Mose, I thought The gentleman who gave them to him believed The value of classical education has been
Kate laughed. “Uncle Dabney” ought to have come down on in his heast and soul that the man who did not proven by many generations of scholars, and is
“Mother never will put money in the banks,” him jjjje be waa beating an ox, instead of letting get drunk was the perfection of human nature, too firmly established in the educational world
said she. “ She’s sure they’ll fail. She has in- jt f a u t be gentle dew. But as Mose brought 1 and that the surest way of salvation was to join
vested it in other ways; but she has thousands no more brandy, I suppose “Uncle Dabnev ” that particular branch of the temperance society
did what was best. to which he himself belonged. The Church of
At that time nothing was recognized as a school England had not given way to such rubbish. As
unless it had an exhibition; and for this purpose a body it had both zeal and discretion, and its
sometimes in an old red box under the bed. She
I throws things on top, and says that is the best
way to hide it. I’ve often worried over it ai
home.”
“Yes,” said Tom, “it’s foolish, but women
are mostly fools."
Then he finished his bread and cheese and
arose.
“I’ll go back to the tavern and get a drink of
beer,” he said. “You sit here—you and the
child.”
Then he stooped down and pinched the boy’s
cheek. Not for months had her Orson been so
charming. Kate was really comforted.
we erected a large stage and bush arbor, which
was also used as a school-room during the sum
mer evenings. Underneath the stage, owing to
its dampness, a large number of frogs would
congregate. I had procured a long, black pop
lar root, resembling a black snake. YVith a gim
let I bored a hole where its eyes should he, and
inserted two glass beads of resin for the same.
The root being large where it was broken off, I
also improvised a mouth, inserting a piece of tin
painted red for the tongue. So, in the evening,
while our teacher was “setting copies,” I began
to amuse my6elf by “snaking the frogs,” and
zeal, tempered by its discretion, had resulted in
the production of that great and important move
ment which had brought them together.
Shortly after this great series of meetings this
Church of England Temperance Society sent to
to be disturbed by the advocacy of any special
subjects of study. In this discussion, we design
in no manner to under-estimate the value of
classical culture. It is not, then, to the seeming
antagonism between the permanent and pro
gressive studies into which the subjects of edu
cation may be divided that we invite your atten
tion: for in fact the antagonism is only seeming,
one character of education being but the supple
ment of the other; but we propose to present
the Queen a request that she become its patron, j before you some thoughts in reference to the es-
To this Queen Victoria replied; i pecial claims which the physical sciences have
“Her Majesty has already expressed her opin- j as subjects of educative value,
ion in favor of the objects which the Society de- What, then, constitutes an education? Shall
sires to promote, and consents to become Patron we say that the object of education is to teach us
of it, organized as it appears to be on a basis how to live? Do we adopt Milton’s definition
which includes all who advocate temperance ! of a complete and generous education, as “that
without insisting on total abstainance. The \ which tits a man to perform skillfully, magnan-
She sat in the grateful shade for a long time,
not wondering that he was long in coming back
when he had reached so desirable a goal as a | .. Uncle Dabney” soon discovered that theatten- Queen holds that education and the enlighten- | imouslv and justly, all the offices, both public
tavern. And after awhile she fell asleep. It was I {j on Q j- t be children was withdrawn from their nient of the people, together with the improve- ' and private, of peace and war;” or do we say,
a long, sweet sleep, und in it she saw her mother hooks by something more enticing under the nient in their moral and physical condition, will ; with DeMorgan, for a man to be educated, “he
stage. Going to the edge, he looke'd under and gradually do much to induce temperance and j must learn something of everything and every-
’ ■ • ■ diminish the evils complained of.” j thing of something?” Whatever definition we
These paragraphs are presented without italics may adopt, we will all agree that that education
or other effort to emphasize. They emphasize j is of value to the possessor which increases his
POOR KATE.
At the stroke of twelve, one night, when there
was no moon, the door of a large and handsome
house, in a pleasant country place, was opened
softly, and a girl crept out and looked anxiously
about her. She was a pretty young creature,
with a soft, foolish sort of face, and she had an
air about her that told of good living, and free
dom from all care as to ways and means.
Her dress was a handsome one, suitable for
traveling, und in her hand she curried a leather
ba 8- . . ,
Closing the door softly behind her, she hur
ried softly down the garden path, and at the gate
found her hand clasped by the strong hand of a
man—a handsome, tall fellow, though even in
that light one could see he was not a refined
person. Indeed, the man was her mother’s own
hired servant, with whom she was about to
elope.
To say why she had been so foolish as to take
a fancy for him — to explain the feelingB that
induced her, young, beautiful and educated, the
daughter of a wealthy woman, with a good posi
tion in society —to fall in love with a fellow who
had nothing but a certain amount of coarse
good-looks to recommend him, would be to suc
ceed where all of the wisest men in the world
have failed thus far.
Who has ever been able to give the reasons for
a woman’s infatuation for her lover? Indeed,
she has none.
and the old house where she was born, in
strangely vivid dream. Her mother sat and
looked at her in the loving way, and on her lap
lay a little dog that had been a great pet of hers
in that sweet long ago. The tiny creature began
to whine.
“Lie still,” she said; “lie still. What ails
you, Pinky?”
But Pinky whined louder.
“ What can trouble him?” she said again.
And then she was broad awake, and it was not
her little dog that wailed in her arm, but her
child—Seotcher’s baby—and the sun was sink
ing, and she was alone. Tom was doubtless very
tipsy on the tavern steps by this time, she
thought. Yet it was not his habit to neglect
business, and he had said it was needful to
reach their place of destination by dark, that he
might present himself to his employer in the
morning.
Impatiently she wnited. But the moon had
arisen, and still he did not come. All that she
could do was to turn back and seek him at the
tavern. She had no money—no food. Such as
he was he was her husband, and in a sort, her
protector. She arose, took up the bundle and
the baby, and trudged back to the tavern. Scotch-
er was not there. A man dressed as she had de
scribed him drunk there about noon, but had
gone the other way.
And now Kate began to understand that he
called on me to come up, which I did by jump
ing on the platform, falling and hurting myself,
and trying to cry. Calling me before him, with
the hickory in his hand, he said:
“John, did you hurt yourself?”
I replied in the affirmative.
“Now,” 6aid he, “is it not bad to be hurt
again?”
I said it was.
“There is one condition,” he continued, “on
which you can get clear of a flogging, - that you
go under the stage and run the last frog out. ’
I told him I would comply, when he ordered f° read these paragraphs and then say if I
all the school down, and they surrounded the am n °t right in longing for one of those all
stage, “Uncle Dabnev” getting down himself. ! conquering temperance revivals which “Uncle
Seizing my snake bv the tail and “wobbling” ! Dabney’s” heart was ever ready for. As it lies
it at the “plagues of Egypt,” they commenced directly in my line I will say that of all these
seeking more light; and as they emerged from English advocates of temperance, in my bumble
their dark covering, merry shouts of laughter
rang out on the air, the teacher leading. I ran
a bevy of them to “Uncle Dabney,” but this
time poked my snake too much in the light; and
he, mistaking it for a real snake, turned and fell
down, jumping on his “all fours” to get away.
Running up, I pushed my serpent between his
legs, and believing, from a side view, that the
snake had caught up with him, he called on the
school:
‘Boys, kill—I say—kill—him ! Don’t let him
themselves. I address myself to reflecting and ability to provide for the physical necessities of
thoughtful men, many of whom are far ahead of life, which increases his capacity for enjoyment,
me as temperance advocates. I want each reader j disciplines his intellect, ennobles his nature,
for himself to behold the picture, and draw, for j and enforces the acknowledgement of subjection
himself, the social proportions and status of the j to divine law.
people these men and this queen represent. I All the boasted progress of this nineteenth
There are many men who read The Sunny South | century is due to the progress of science, and
to whom I cheerfully concede much greater 1 through science positive additions have been
power of intellect than I possess. I want them made to human knowledge. The subjects of
study have thus been greatly multiplied.
All men cannot.be and should not be educated
in all respects alike. The wants of the society
are not those of the individual. The principle
is comprehensive, “unity for Ike individual, variety
for the State. ” From this principle arises the de
mand for classical as well as scientific educa
tion. In former years, where one person de
manded a scientific education, ten required
classical culture. In later years, this dispropor
tion is being somewhat diminished.
Science-education is a necessity, not a luxury.
Especially is this true of society in the Southern
States, existing as it does in an abnormal condi
tion with all its potential energies, the accnmu-
Often in the years that blot her folly out, she : * be , m ba f n « at 1 ti “ eS '7°ui Ce in a P oor
asks herself: “ Why did I love that man?” and ! “ an « garret, with his little children, once in
J 1 "'A k’ 1 " At last, the white spire of the
finds no answer.
A man can generally say, “She is pretty,” in
the same case it does not need even that to make
a woman an idiot. And so I cannot tell you why
Kate Armour left her happy home, her mother,
who loved her, her friends and all her luxuries,
for the kisses and praises of that boor of a
groom, who had no honest worth to compensate
for his lack of education and manners.
Go she did, however, and the two were mar
ried in the nearest town. Tom Scotcher having
no doubt whatever that Mrs. Armour would re
lent when she heard that her girl was really
married, and that he should lie down in clover
for the rest of his days. He reckoned without
his host, however. The mother replied to her
daughter’s first letter by forbidding her ever to
write again.
When the answer came the groom was very
angry. However, he was in love, in his coarse
fashion, just then, and after sulking an hour or
two, he turned to his wife and said:
“ Well, you’re ns handsome as a picture, any
wav —and hang the woman !”
Then he took her by both arms, holding her
so tightly that he left the marks of his fingers
upon them, and kissed her on the neck. A fierce,
hot kiss, from which she shrank with a little
scream, crying;
“Tom, you bit me!”
So he had. At least, it was a sort of bite. She
did not know what to make of it. Afterward she
learnt.
It was the first lesson he had dared to give her
in the difference between the love of a brute and
the love of a gentleman. And it was not long
before she learut that a passion utterly without
sentiment, falls like a curse upon any woman’s
life.
Tom had no sentiment. Y’et, for a while, her
fresh beauty charmed him, and it was better
with them than it was afterwards; for, while it
lasted, he behaved decently.
He found work suited for him, and did it
He spared her what he could, as he said, “for
finery,” and, she, though she began to under
stand the difference between being Miss Armour
and Mrs. Tom Scotcher. clung to him as long as
he yet told her she was “the prettiest girl any
where.’
For a year she was often uncomfortable and
very remorseful when she thought of her mother,
but she was still blind enough to be happy at
times. Then a little baby lay on her bosom,
and she was very delicate and began to fade a
little, and then ’fom came home tipsy once or
twice, and she could not tell which were worse,
his liquor-flavored kisses or her curses. And
then—disenchantment having begun on both
sides—a red-cheeked girl, chambermaid at a low
tavern, made her jealous.
Jealous of Tom Scotcher !
And reproaching him with it, and he had a
, , , , , , - . . • , ., : bite your teacher!’
had abandoned her. At first, going by herself • Ht . made u y np f ormt rd, and at the same time
to a spot where no one could see her, she cried j drew the “deceiver ” back. The whole truth
over it, and felt very wretched. Then hope filled | q asbe( j upon him, and seizing it by the tail, he
her heart. Now her mother would relent. Oh ! ; sa j,j.
“John, are there any frogs left under there?
This is a real frog fooler."
I told him there were; so under he went, and
soon the frogs began to come out “fast and furi
ous,” while renewed shouts went up from the
school.
Now, the Rev. A. G. S , one of the trustees,
and of sedate countenance, chancing to pass by
at this juncture, imagined, from the noise, that
we were trying to turn “ Uncle Dabney” out.
Galloping up, he commanded us to stop, as
brother Jones should not be turned out of
school. Explanations soon followed, and the
whole scene was so ludicrous that an involun
tary wave commenced at the divine’s mouth and
never halted until it reached his ears.
assuredly her mother would relent and take her
home.
She returned to the tavern, and asked the way
to Grapemore. It was nearer than she thought-
only fifteen miles away. Towards it she set her
face. Slowly and painfully she toiled on, beg
ging her bread as she went.
an old lime kiln,
church where she had been baptized arose from
the green distance of tree-encircled Grapemore.
Then she saw an old red barn with which
she was familiar, and its farm-house, and a
group of hay-making people.
The last farm on the road to Grapemere, and
new hope gave her strength. She would not lag
until she met her mother.
She washed her own face and that of her child
in a little pond. She shook some of the dust
from her clothes, and walked on more slowly,
coming at last into the trim street, with its
houses half hidden in their fine gardens, in
which stood her mother’s dwelHng-place. Yes,
she must be forgotten—she must, she would.
But what was this? Usually the street was so
judgment, the man most like unto the good and
useful and enthusiastic “Uncle Dabney,” was
the gentleman who shocked the nervous arch
bishop by presenting him at Rugby “a bud
get of the greatest rubbish of teetotaler’s songs
and hymns.” Believing as I do with the old
Grecian Epaminondas that “it is the man
that makes the office and not the office the man,”
I pronounce this humble gentleman greater than
the archbishop and greater than the queen who I lations of generations, destroyed by devastating
is the patron of the archbishop’s society. He is | war. Sound reason demands that provision
even greater than Wilberforee, who could not j shall be made first for what is necessary, for
what is useful. The practical necessities must
take precedence of the purely intellectual.
Public Schools.
draw the line between the thimbleful and bucket
ful. Wilberforee is a teetotaler, but the gen
tleman is an enthusiastic teetotaler after “Uncle
Dabney's” sort. Despite the ungracious sneer
that escaped from under the archbishop’s sur- I ———
plice, that the gentleman was very fervent in his j _ “ YYe are too well satisfied with what our pub-
zeal and greatlv abhorred drunkenness,drunken- ] schools have accomplished, and too proud of
ness is a beastly thing, and an archbishop who j them. They have accomplished much; they
gets drunk makes a beast of himself, and a queen j have secured to us our republican government;
who is patron of a society whose chief ridicules i but they have not produced among the masses
the man whose principal object in life is to keep °f our people that culture which is the proper
men from getting drunk, may have a beast for a j culture of good schools. Proof of this lack ol
son if they do call him prince. If queens would ! culture is evident wherever men gather in pub-
take admonition, this one might reflect that it is 1 be places.
a common expression applied to drunkards, “He ! “The methods of teaching are defective. I
drinks like a fish,” and that already satirists cannot approve of that method which tends to
have spoken of the heir-apparent of her throne j fbe exercise and development of little else than
‘the Prince of Whales.” It might even do
this good archbishop good to reflect that human
experience proves the wisdom of YVilberforce,
Books ” was announced, good lessons were j and that no man can he a moderate drinker
I said by all, and that evening teacher and school i without being in danger. There is too much
j seemed happy. \ humanity in us all for moderate drinking to be
My love for “Uncle Dabney” increased, and, ] safe. Queen Victoria became patron of the society
how could it be otherwise when the simplicity of ! because total abstinence was not insisted on.
\ the child and the daring of manhood were united j Leaving the reflection that the good queen her-
I in one character? And now, far away from my self ma y he in danger, I close by asking how her
I old home, an invalid from age, and living in j compromise with alcohol compares with the wis-
the past, his name is as fresh to me as the waters j dom of Israel’s king, who said:
that scatter their spray over the rocks of the : “Look not thou upon the wine when it is red; , .. - .. f ,
quiet. Now a crowd filled it. People ran to ; thousand rills of my native State, Georgia. ; when it giveth its color in the cup; when it | ™ an y branches. One man cannot know every-
av ' A fs-rx cAmn oV»Anfirwv oAmfl zvvvrtwzv krta fVnx <<t moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like thing. NV hen bo much is required of one
finvriF ninvPY »> a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” And again: teacher, he ought to be a walking cyclopedia.
UjYLiti liABJt.1. j n-y^ine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and i ~
In my last article concerning “Uncle Dabney” whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” Some Points for Young leachers.
and the temperance policy he advocated, I pre- j be^by j Do not assign a lesson for young pupils to
upon the Episcopal Church is intended to be P™ pa ™ “so u
the memory.
“Another evil of our system is, that classes
and schools are too large. When I see the large
school-house in which hundreds of pupils are
gathered, I am often painfully reminded of the
crowded barracks of soldiers. In these school-
buildings, the large classes placed under the
care of one teacher, necessitate a mechanical
uniformity, and prevent the teacher from adapt
ing himself to the individual wants of his pupils.
“Another defect is found in the way in which
we apportion to the teachers the branches to be
taught. We require one teacher to teach too
and fro, some shouting, some crying. And the
densest of the crowd was about her mother’s
house. What had happened ?
With heart beating wildly, Kate clutched the
arm of a poor woman who was near.
“YYhat is the matter?” she asked.
“ Why, it is a murder,” said the woman, shiv
ering as she spoke. “You’re a stranger, ain't
you ? You don’t know old Mrs. Armour. She
was killed last night for her money. Seems she
kept a considerable sum under her bed in a chest.
She’s been slain with a hatchet.”
“ Oh, my God !” screamed Kate, “ who did it?”
“Well,” said the woman, “they say a man
that used to work for her, and ran off with her
form—one that will cleanse the high places and
purify the white house as well as the cabin. Un
derlying and supporting this statement is the
stern, deplorable fact that intemperance prevails
, , . , ,itoa much greater degree amongst those who oc-
daughter, was seen here last night. May be , CU py w hat are termed higti positions, both ®f-
that s all talk. tV hy, how sick you look. ^ You 11 g c j a [ an( j social, than amongst the common
masses of the people. Whilst (thanks to the
good men who are now, and have been for some
sented him more prominently than before as a
temperance revivalist. It will be remembered . _
that I closed that article with the declaration ! allowed. These thoughts take the shape they do
that one of the great needs of men everywhere, j *fi expression, because the illustration used just
at this time, was an overwhelming flood of re- j happens to he at hand. They are equally appli
require two hours.
Have common sense enough not to expect your
cable to all denominations and to all men. Nor P u P ila “° re t With ° Ut
do I intend this article for English consumption. ! a ^ £ , . , , . ..
If we reform ourselves we have enough to do. ! .. Be J U8t enou « h not . r f ,
Priests and preachers and doctors of divinity of j Bon when ^ do Dot P ermlt the P u P ,ls to do
all sects and persuasions who occasionally indulge
drop your baby. Here, help ! help ! Here's
woman in a fit or something.”
And help came.
Kindly hands did all they could for the stran
ger with the lady’s face and the beggar’s clothes
whom no one had recognized.
But God had been merciful! She was dead.
themselves by “taking a little for the stomach’s
sake,” might each receive some individual ben
efit by pondering the remarks of the Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol, and of Sir Harcourt
ABOUT WOMEN.
A woman is composed of two hundred and
forty-three bones, on# hundred and sixty-nine
muscles, and three hundred and sixty-nine pins.
The latest French definition of a lover is a
man with whom one woman deceives another,
with whom she deceives herself, and whom she
deceives.
A man may occasionally kiss the wrong woman
by mistake, but when he makes a practice of it,
the right woman finds it out, and that's what
bothers him.
A philosopher asserts that the reason why
ladies’ teeth decay sooner than gentlemen’s is
because of the friction of her tongue and the
sweetness of the lips.
The aristocracy of New Mexico wed in high
style. At Alburquerque, week before last, Miss
( time so vigorously at work) the virtue of sobri- J Johnston. And if temperance men everywhere
! ety is fast becoming generally prevalent amongst read this article will catch from it some of
| the humbler classes, “Uncle Dabney’s” great I tbe “revival’’ fire of "Uncle Dabney’s” spirit, I
S enemy has intrenched himself in the castles of j w *ll be gratified,
the great, and is using the churches and the de- ; —
partments of government as his fortresses. A Dozen Reasons for Abstinence.
American illustrations of this lamentable truth j r .
i cluster so thickly upon every reflecting mind ! The National Temeperance Society gives these
| that every Christian gentleman in this country j twelve reasons:
blushes to behold the reeking corruptions that j L Because intoxicating drinks contain an ele-
mark the prosperity of mankind’s enemy, from
Have a definite, fixed length of time for your
recitations, and never overreach it.
If you are forgetful, make a pupil in your
class monitor, to tell you when to stop the les
son in time to hear tbe review or give the pre-
j paratory drill.
Introduce every recitation by reviewing briefly
| the preceding lesson.
Conduct the recitation with a view to having
I the pupils realize the points involved.
Take time, before excusing the class, to reca
pitulate points made.
Just before assigning the next lesson, givepre-
; paratory drills on the coming hard points.
Be sure that the whole lesson has tested the
ment which is calculated to derange the human reasoning power, not the memory of the pupils.
English Synonyms.
the whisky ring clear on down to the petty crea- system, and are not essential as articles of diet j
tures of accident, who, though high in official ! to persons in health.
station, are low enough to be conspirators with ! 2. Because drunkenness is a national besetting i
plunderers, and willing partakers of the fruiis sin, leading to the commission of various crimes, A flock of girls is called a bevy, a bevy of wolves
of illicit sin. | and tending to produce pauperism, lunacy and j is called a pack, a pack of thieves is called a gang,
But it is so hard in this country to say where j death. j a gang of angels is called a host, a host of por-
mere partizan politics end and truth begins that | 3. Because an immense sum of money is an- j poises is called a shoal, a shoal of buffaloes is
I had best forbear further reference to American [ nually expended upon intoxicants which might i called a herd, a herd of children is called a troop,
facts, and leave the ready intelligence of the he laid out in food or manufactures. j a troop of partridges is called a covey, a covey of
reader to draw from his own fund of observa- j 4. Because many millions of bushels of good beauties is called a galaxy, a galaxy of ruffians is
tion proof that my position is well taken as to j grain are perverted from the use for which they I called a horde, a horde of rubbish is called a heap,
America. That I am correct as to our mother were intended by the Creator, and applied to the | a heap of oxen is called a drove, a drove of black-
country, will not be doubted by any one who j manufacture of alcohlic drinks. j guards is called a mob, a mob of whales is called
will take the trouble to investigate the condition 5. Because a vast amount of time, labor and a school, a school of worshippers is called a con-
of the English as to temperance. It suffices for capital are wasted upon their manufacture, sale | gregation, a congregation of engineers is called
my present purpose to present a paragraph taken j and consumption. ! a corps, a corps of robbers is called a band, a
from the Loudon Globe, May 29, 1875. 6. Because intemperance hinders the progress : band of locusts is called a swarm, a swarm of
“The Church of England Temperance Society of civilization, reformation, education and re- people is called a crowd, a crowd of gentlefolks
has had a cluster of meetings. The first of them \ ligion, and is destructive to the soul’s prospects, is called the elite, the elite of the city’s thieves
was in the library of Lambeth Palace; this was 7. Because total abstinence, while persevered and rascals are called the roughs, the miscellane-
gluss and foolishly twitting him with the fact LolaChnves and Don Marcino Arrnigo, both rep-
that she had left wealth and luxury for him, and resentatives of wealthy fami i ieSi were made one.
might have married well, he struck her. ho er ^ correspondent says that a full battery took po-
love ended and the lowest depth of misery was m ‘ front of th ' e bri de’s residence and fired
reached, hhe saw the man she belonged to for , sa j u j e . a military band was transported , ,, , , . . , , . , , , , - . , , . , ,, .- ,, . ,,
life in his true colors. from Santa Fe for the occasion and discoursed Allowed by conferences on two successive days in. must prove a remedy for drunkenness, and ; ous crowd of the city folks is called the comma-
And now he often told her that she had lost mus jg a jj n j K hf that over a thousand guests tbe rooms tbe Society of Arts, and the in- | acts as a preservative for the unfallen. j nity or the public, according as they are spoken of
all her good looks, and was nothing but a drag . t f b ’ 1 ‘',. f . , .. . .. ® . . j evitable meetings at Exeter Hall concluded the : 8. Because I find I can more effectually aid by the religious community or the secular public
on a young fellow who could marry “the pret- u mina.ted ® ’ e ' series. Of course, at Lambeth, the Archbishop the drunkard, and warn the moderate drinker, —
tiest girl going, if he were single.” i ' ’ of Canterbury presided, supported by four bish- by personally setting the example of abstinence.
“Oh, mother, mother, if you only knew,” the The splendors of the trousseau of the young ops; at one of the conferences, the Duke of ! 9. Because abstinence is safe, while moderate
girl often sobbed in secret; hut she could not Duke of Alba, brother-in-law to Empress Eu- YYestminster took the chair, and the Exeter Hall j drinking is dangerous.
go home with Scotcher’s baby in her arms. genie, who has just married the Duke of Medi- meeting presented the novel attraction beyond 10. Because abstinence removes one very great
Indeed, she had not the re«olution necessary na-Cceli, the wealthiest man in Spain, may be the speeches, of a performance of sacred and stumbling-block to the reception into the heart
to enable her to run away. A little, soft, silly inferred from the outlay in pocket-handkerchiefs, secular music. The society consists of both of the gospel of Jesus Christ
thing she was still, and ever would be. ; There are sixty of these objects, one dozen of “total abstainers” and “moderate drinkers.11. Because abstinence may be distinctly and
Scotcher, with his habits, lost one place after which cost $2,400, the rest being somewhat less We imagine that there is a feud, or at least, some clearly proved to be scripturally lawful if it be
another, nnd they moved on and on, living here costly, but still enormously expensive. The sharp criticism between the trio. The Bishop deemed expedient.
and there; sometimes with plenty to eat, some- mere embroidery of the ducal arms on the dozen of Carlisle knew that many abstained, not from 12. Because it is a Christian duty to exercise j Dryden.
times with half enough, until the child was a handkerchiefs cost $1,400. The arms of Ber- liquor, but from the Society, because they con- 1 self-denial even in things lawful, when thereby “ Hie thee, gentle Jew.”—Shakspeare.
year old. Then, one morning, Scotcher having wick were joined with those of Medina-Coeli in skier that more than fair weight was given to the the welfare, salvation and happiness of our fel- “ You waste your time with a foolish knight.
found work in a neighboring town, or so declared, these wonderful “wipes,” the double escutcheon abstaining section. On the other hand, Mr. ; low-creatures may be promoted. The “judicious Me an’t please you; I, Antony Dull.”—Ibid.
they traveled across the country, the wife carry- being embroidered in gold by a new system of Basil Wilberforee wanted to know where the Hooker” says: “Even things lawful are well “ Both yourself and me cry lost.”—Ibid.
Ling"the baby on her arm and a bundle in her metallic thread, being perfectly flexible, of pure moderate drinkers draw the line between the ; prohibited when there is fear lest they make the | “Say, is it me thou hat’st and fearest?"
;hand. * gold, and that does not change in washing. thimbleful and the bucketful. The Bishop of. way to things unlawful more easy.” ■ ron.
It is Me.—We find many examples of “It
is Me,” by writers of good credit We give a
few examples:
“We shall shortly see which is the fittest ob
ject of scorn, you or me.”—Goldsmith.
“ Mary and me in the mud.”—Cowper.
“ Me and George should not part in anger.”—
Thackeray.
“Scotland and thee did in each other live.”—