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Cross-Tie Tom.
A TAIE OF TWO THAMES.
BY BRIDGES SMITH.
•How’s work ?’
Goodness gracious, bow many more times
that brace of words were to be tbiown at rue
that day ! It really setmed as if all tbe tramp
ing printers ol the whole country bad suddenly
rendezvoued in May town, and were determined
on baviDg work. Nearly every ten minutes
some ragged knight ol tbe cross-tie would drop
word of praise for his pard. I wondered if I at
any time should ever fall so low as to tramp and
steal my way through life ! And*that ^partner
claimed a share of my thoughts. Why ? How
many hundred of young printers on the tramp
have I seen ! Why should this old man’s pot
awake such an interest in me !
Worn out with fatigue the old man dropped
off to sleep, and I went home to my babies. How
nice it was, thought J, to have a home, a steady
situation and an appetite that did not crave
liquor. There upon that hard floor, with the
icy wind whistling dismally through broken
panes, slept a man old enough to be my grand
father. And more, he had walked two hundred
miles in ragged clothes in the coldestof weather;
aDd still more, he was without a cent or any
thing to eat. Should I take him to my home,
feed him, and give him abed? No; because if
I performed this one act of goodness, my home
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in and ask the status cf trade. _ r o ,
These tramps- these baggageless gentlemen of j wou ld soon become an asylum for tramps, and
ireless leisure—belongto that strata of printer- t jj e p re tty picture* that I was wont to admire of
careless
dcm which underlies the more respectable ot
the cralt, and we look upon them as a merry,
characterless crew, without principle or the least
claim in the world to respectability. We who
are better off give them work as w e would so
many machines, simply because they can set
type as well as if they were paintully respecta
ble. And when they drop in on us ana pro
pound the usual question, it depends upon the
humor in which we are in whether thej are an
swered gruflly or civilly.
But on this particular day of which I write,
there setmed to be an over-supply and of course
such a shower cfirauds could not he expected to
put a man in an amnLle Lv.mor. 1 lad been
visited by ail sorts and sizes that morim g, hut
only, one of iLtnt interested me. And when
1 heard a heavy, noisy shambling on the stairs,
1 imagined a new comer was on his way to my
tkj-parior, as the hoys called my cilice n«xt to
the roof. And sure enough 1 saw an old vote-
lan pause upon the top steps and blow. No
wonder. >He had completed a journey ot two
hundred miles on that top step.
Such a curious little lellow he v as too ! A
little shrivelled up face, straggling gray beaid,
and just a thin, narrow tnnge ot w hite hair
around his head. His age was certainly some
where in tLe seventies, lor his form was bent,
and there was a dullness growing over his eyes
that usually appears w hen old age creeps on.
An old bread cloth coat of the shabby genteel
older was bnitoned acicss his breast, and al
though his shirt was of the blackest flannel he
wore a paper collar fresh from the box, put on
and adjusted, I suppose, when a few miles from
His shoes were mere shells and the rag-
pretty picture that I was wont to admire of
home comfort would soon be marred end spoil
ed by the ingratitude of vagabonds. No; it was
all his own tanlt—let him reap the reward of his
own waywardness.
When I reached home my thoughts were still
on the tramp. I told my wife about him, and
by my earnestness she soon became as deeply
interested in the unknown ns myself. Togeth
er we wove a web of romance about the boy
whom the old man thought tbe ‘squarest man
on earth.’and pictured liis past with colors as
bright as the tints ol the rainbow'.
Tbe morrow came, and when I got down to
the cflice the veteran was still snoring away as
contentedly as if he was on a bed of down. rath-
i r than on the bare floor with an old specimen-
book for a pillow. Finding that there was no
work in the city, he shuffled about the streets
examining the buildings and points of interest.
Printers, you know', are intelligent people, and
although they have some very hard cases among
them, can appreciate art or science as readily as
savants, or scholars.
I longed to see his compagnon du. voyage. I
bad learned in a few hours to regard him more
in the light of a distinguished arrival rather
than an expected tramp ; and whenever the
street door opened I found myself starting to
tbe door as if to meet some old iriend ; but the
unknown did not appear. So far did I carry
my interest that I even asked the veteran con
cerning his non-arrival.
‘Ob, he’ll he along after a w’hile. Maybe
they put him iff the train, and he had to tramp
most cf the way. He said he’d meet me here,
and if he lives he’ll keep his word.’
I felt relieved. He icas coming, and sooner
What a tower of strength is Bishop Dogget!
How keen his observation. How the ardor of
youth again illumes his finely featured face
when he explains to us the office of the Holy
Ghost. How he loves to rehearse the Pentecos
tal demonstration. Why cannot greatness and
goodness survive the wreck of other perishable
matter? but alas! it has to fail.
Bishop Kavanaugb a veteran in the cause of
revivals. Where was the sinner so brazen in
the depths of degradation, that his persuasive
powers could not induce to turn away from his
evil ways? or the defiant infidel that his argu
The Moffett Register.
This ingenious arrangement has attracted
much attention, and its success as a financial
plan has overshadowed the moral principles in
volved in its operation. We pronounce it one
of two things, viz: an intolerable injustice or merits were not silenced before the majesty and
a means whereby the State winks at crime. ! °. f ^mhoan ar * es “ in thundering tones
T „ J . ..... i he proclaimed the sin of unbelief as the most
If selling liquors which intoxicate is a legitr j ^ amn i n g in the category.
mate business, then the State has no right to The versatile, untiring, energetic Dr. O. T.
impose upon it a tax.which it does not impose Summers, so merry and yet so sad, like the an-
.. T , .. s oa t„ r cient Roman when he wants his hearers to
upon other avocations. If the liquor-dealer is lftngh he laughs himself> and when their
engaged in a profession which is no loe to soci- j sympathies are to he aroused, ah ! who can
ery, then he deserves the protection of civil
government, and does not merit its discrimina
ting and UDjust taxation. But says one, the
liquor dealer’s business does antagonize the best
interests of society. Then we reply the States’
duty is not taxation but suppression. If it is
an evil, then civil government is not to wink at
it, but it is to eradicate it. All those other pop- !
ular laws of license, whose purpose is similar
be more sympathetic ? He is always equal
to any emergency, whether nearly ob
scured by piles of ‘proof,’ in the publishing
house, or lecturing his young men at the uni
versity, lest their feet should slip, or in the
crowded church speaking words of cheer to the
pilgrims as they journey heavenward, or words
of warning to the wicked while pursuing the
paths which lead to endless death. Who could
| preseive that uniform good nature as secretary
of the grand Sanhedrim of the Methodist church
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The fact in the matter is, drinking is a crime,
and civil and municipal authorities who license
it—who for a consideration permit it—are not
less criminal than they would be in licensing a ! stairs,
man to carry concealed weapons. They are
worse than Esau. He for a consideration sold
his birthright, which was his own. They for a
consideration make merchandise of the birth- j
right of society—which has been entrusted to i
them.
We repeat it—drunkenness is a crime. We
have felt this very puDgentiy, and as we think
lence the question whether they should leave
the basement of the new church and hold their
services in the auditorium by simply saying,
‘Brethren I see tobacco juice and other things
on the floor when you al! leave this room, which
show that we are not decent enough to go up
There is Dr. McFerrin, what a plain, grand,
good old man, known and loved of ail. Where
is he not useful? Who has joined more hands
in holy wedlock ? Who could swell the number
sm-stricken souls 'at our Tennessee camp-
meetings more than he ? Who can sympathize
most deeply with the bereaved ? Who is sent
for more frequently to perform the last rites
for the dead? Ah! who spoke words of com-
„ ... fort to the dying on the battle field, when the
pertinently, when we have seen the officers ol bullets were falling like hail, when the ground
v-a was gta j ned w i t h the crimson current of ebbing
life, who closed the eyes of many loved ones and ,
town.
gtd toes of his dust-begrimed socks peeped out 1 or later I would behold the old man’s pard
boldly.
r Ihe weather was cool, and the day unusually Nestling sgainst one of the Blue Ridge moun-
raw, and the old man betook himself to the tains, in Virginia, one of the Southern States, as
glowing stove. Then he warmed himself, and ! if to keep out of the reach of the icy winds,
when a leeling of comfortableness came over ' was one of those fine, old-fashioned manors,
him his tongue began to wag, and in less than where broods ol aristocratic blue-bloods lived
ten minutes he had pumped all necessary in- , and nourished in the good old days when chiv-
lormation out of me. This done, his tongue i airy and hospitality were the cardinal features
grew absolutely reckless and wagged me a com- 1 of the Southern gentleman. Great round pil-
plfcteand detailed account of printers, towns i lars lent a grandeur to the long, broad piazza;
and troubles with whom and winch he had been
in any way connected
Work being light, and having become deeply
interested in the old man, I gave him on old
box to sit upon while I listened to his yarns.
Do you nse tobacco?' And when I handed
him my pocket piece of Virginia leaf, he^ept off'
wide oaken doors with the proud name of Hun
tingdon graven on silver ; spacious yards and
grandly towering trees—all betokened that the
Huntingdon home had teen the retreat of
wealth and refinement for years and years—be
fore.
Colonel Huntingdon was a proud man. His
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about three extra-sized chews, put one in hist pride had been inherited, and though it knew
mouth and the other two in his pocket just as ^bo reason or limit, it was honestly transmitted
cool)} as it it had been a condescension on his I'frolb one .generation to the other. Possessed of
part to rob me of my tobacco. Then when the great wealth, the colonel planned for each of
quid was properly and comloriably placed ] Lis sons a high station in life. Himself, the
among Lis snags, he reseated himself on the , only son of a Huntingdon, he nursed the de-
bex with a grunt of contentment, and unwound sire in his heart of hearts that as fortune had
a story after this fashion. j smiled more tavorably upon him in giving him
•Well, I got restless up there in Washington. ; three heirs, they should occupy such stations
The boys weren’t making any too much wealth, , in life as would be in full keeping with the
and the new administration of the government: 1 name and pride of Huntingdon,
printing house beiDg awlul strict, 1 stood off'I Horace was the eldest, and he inherited none
my bearding house, and me and my pard -it j of that pride which bad iru.de liis father’s uarna
out. Travel was tolerable good south of Balti- i so great with his people. The other brothers,
Luther and Ralph, were more of their father's
inclination, and while they engaged in play
Horace was busily mending broken gates and
doing such work about the heme as he could
find to do.
It so happened that when he was about nine
years old, he happened into the office of the
Eagle, the weekly paper of tbe village, and then
tor the first time saw how newspapers were
made. He was so interested that before he
went home he had made up his mind to be a
printer. The work of setting type, of making
a newspaper seemed to please him, and his
dreams that night were full of presses and type.
Knowing his father's aversion to labor of any
kind, and how great would be his rage should
he learn that one of his sons was learning a
trade, Horace d< termined to learn without his
knowledge, and when his father thought him
at school the bi y was setting up the Eagle. Pos
sessing rare intelligence and a quick, grasping
mind the act of printing soon became no longer
a mystery. He was correct and swift—two es
sentials in a printer. Bat bis glorious work
met with an aLslruction. The teacher one day
mentioned the continued absence from school
of the young typo, and when called to account
there was nothing else to do but tell the facts.
The Colonel was enraged beyond description,
and considered the family disgrac< d beyond re
demption. He whipped the truant uumerci-
fnlly and set forth his fntnre course in no very
pleasing colors. Bnt the boy was determined
and upon every opportunity worked at his fa
vorite occupation.
And the fatal day came at last. By some
means the Colonel discovered the boy's secret,
and he was almost frantic with indignation.
All the pride oi the Huntingdons was aroused
and reason had flown in affright.
The day was terribly cold. The snow was
falling thick and fast, and all nature seemed
decked out in white array. A pressure of work
in the little printing office kept Horace at work
later than usual. Darkness came, and he
thought he could slip into his room without
being observed. But when he had pulled off
his jacket and dropped one shoe, the door of
his room opened, and the servant carried him
bodily into the presence of the assembled fami
ly. The scene was one fit for a picture. The
mother sat weeping ; the father walking to and
fro with a countenance livid with rage ; and
the children motionless, as if dreading some
dreadful calamity.
When Horace was carried in the Colonel's
rage broke forth into flame. Seizing the boy as
if he had been some ravenous brute, he laid the
lash with a heavy hand, amid cries and sobs of
his wife. Her piteous appeals for mercy were
unheeded, and the lash cut into the flesh. And
yet, the boy stood the torture nobly. The pain
was severe, bnt his will was strong, and as he
received the lashes with an air that bid defiance
to even stronger infliction, the rage of his fath
er increased. Exhausted by his exertions, and
ertzed with
the law arrest a drunken man after he had shot
another, instead of before the murder was com
mitted.
Again we declare drinking is a crime, and that
is an unfair statute of the State which taxes and
fines the seller and permits the drinker to go
free. It is not enough to reply that the dealer
tempts the drinker to sin. So does the drinker
tempt the dealer to sell. There is no allowance
to be made for either. They are equally invol
ved in a crime which merits and ought to re
ceive not only the frown and contempt of soci
ety, but the strong, punitive hand of the civil
law. Stop the Moffett Register; stop license;
stop selling; stop drinking; stop sinning.
General Church News.
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more ; but if }0U want to catch blue Muz. s just
loot it aw hile on that Baltimore and Ohio rued.
Cussed if I didn’t huv-) more trouble on that
trip than I ever had in my life, and I’ve walked
over every toot of the United States. It was
fearful cold, and pard and me stood it like
little soldiers. <Ve got along tolerable well in
the daytime, but we caught thunder and light
ning at night. Had to steep under water tanks,
and come ding nigh freezing. Well, we drop
ped in on the boys at every town we struck,
bnt never got more than a day’s work. Got
down here to Charleston and picked up some
subbing but it didn’t amount to much. Pard
got iD a week in Savannah and I came in on
ahead ot him. He’ll be ’long in a day or so,
arfl now it you want to see a real live whiteman
with a soul in him, I just want you to drop y our
eyes on that boy. He s the Bquarest man on earth,
and you cant find his beat in the matter of
sticking type in this country. He's stuck to me
through thick and thin, and if 1 do buck
against the tiger casionally and squander some
ot my wealth drinking red liquor, its all the
same to that boy, and he never fills me chuck
up with this and that sort of Christian advice.—
And st meitmes I have to stand off the landlady
when 1 get short ot lands. Its wrong, 1 know,
bnt yen bee when a fellow gets drink in him,
and he loves liqnor like I do, there’s no telling
w hen he'll stop, and the lucre that ought to flow
into tbe till of the landlady who tarnishes me
my daily hash, goes into the till of the whisky
man—Well, that pard,—that boy who is on a
tour with me, always settles those unpaid bills
and squares me up to date. Of course you
think it a ding shame for the boy to do it.—
Well, row see here ; if you knew how charfully
that boy pays ’em, and bow he don’t care a cent
how big they are, yon’d praise him up juBt as
much as I do.’
And tbe old man made me fall in love with his
pard betore 1 had laid eyes on the generous
soul.
Now I’ve done seme tramping in my day.—
tock an overland trip in California once, and it
come mighty near settling my husk too. Went
all over the West ctce ana bad the best sort ol
a time, bcmetimes 1 rode, but 1 walked most
ol the route. Struck the Shakers in Kentucky j
cnce, tome across the Dunkaidsin Virginia onct
on a long trrmp, arid they treated me like aj
prmce. iactis, I’ve been everywhere, and my
legs are jusi as good as anybody 's pegs. Pto-
jlt are getting sorter down on tramps though.
Polks don’t piance out with a big plate ol vic-
tnls like they used to. You have to put up a
mighty sight ol chin music and work heavy on
their sympathies to get even a biscuit. The
way we have to do now is to carry along a paper
bEg ol ciacker6 and sausage. Can't depend on
hospitality any longer, It’s a dead issue. Sleep!
why 1 Laven’t slept on a bed in two months,
I think I d feel queer on a bed with a nice suie
enough sheets. We sleep in the printing offices
along side ot the stove, and board at the same
plaits. Y- s, it is a hard way to live, but a fel
low gets used to it : 1 den t mind it. Give n>e
another chaw of that tobacco, itB the best I’ve
struck in a long time. Went to Canada once,
there’s the ce untry for trouble. 11 a fellow gets
strapped m Canada, God help him. The stations
in Canada art about tilty miles apart, and the
worst cold walking a man can tackle this side
ol Alaska. Now, if that pard of mine comes
along, I’d be proud if you’d give him a day’s
work just to see how the boy can stick type.—
You 11 find him square in any thing you put him
at, and just the best boy in the whole world, or
I’m the boss liar.’
And as I listened to the veteran rattle on with
fcia glib talk every now and then putting in a
Rev. Olympia Brown Willis, of Bridgeport,
has accepted a call to the Universalist Church
of Racine, Wisconsin.
Ee< l'. P. .Newman, D.D., takes the pastorate
of the Seventh Ave, or “Central,” Methodist
Church, of New York.
An exchange says there are thirteen distinct
denominations of Methodists in the United
States, aggregating a membership of 3,315,000.
The Chicago Presby tery reports one thousand
four huifdreu ftH iofcrtef-n received by its
churches ^hiring the yew on profession of Taith,
and that nine choreoesTiave rid themselves of
debt, raising Sl‘28,‘200.
The Appeal, Refcrmed Episcopal, edited by
five or six bishops and as many more clergy
men, says: “We have eliminated baptismal re
generation, sacramental grace, sacerdotal func
tions, and apostolic succession. We have less
of these things than others, because we have
none of them whatever.
The Twentieth Annual Convention of the
Sunday-school Association, of Illinois, will be
held at Decatur, beginning Tuesday, May '21st,
at 10 o’clock a. m., and continuing in session
until Thursday evening, May 23. The general
outline of the programme for the international
Convention will be followed.
A diamond ring, given by a blind young lady
at the annual meeting of the Baptist Missionary
Union in Providence, towards paying the debt,
was sold and resold in the inteiest of foreign
missions until it l^ad gained $1,100 for the
cause. The Tabernacle Baptist Church then
presented it to the original owner, with the re
quest that she w’ear it as long as she lives.
Rev. P. B. Morgan, of St. John’s Protestant
Episcopal Church, Cincinnatti, has formally an
nounced his withdrawal from fellowship in that
church on account of its Romish tendencies,
and his intention to unite with the Reformed
Episcopal Church. Mr. Morgan is to become
pastor of St. Paul’s Reformed Episoopal Church,
Chicago, vice Dr. Hunter, who has returned to
the Methodist Church.
The General Assembly of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church will meet in Lebanon,
Tenn., May 16.
gazed on their brave, manly forms for the lust
time? It was Dr. McFerrin! Give him the
hand of friendship wherever you meet him.
His virtues cannot be told in volumes.
Atlanta has show'n the magnanimity of the
Georgians in opening their houses to these del
egates, thus manifesting the true spirit of broth
erly kindness. Every one we meet says : ‘O, I
have nice conference members.’ They are all
so delighted it is difficult to decide who has
the best. In reality the great Southern lumina
ries of Methodism are flashing among us daily.
Apparently, their lights are concealed by
technicalities during conference transactions,
bnt when their true status of eloquence is at
tained under favorable influences, the South
may well be proud of her talent in our midst.
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Although this creature is a savage, he does
not inhabit the western plains, nor draw regu
lar rations of mule meat or spoiled flour from
the government. He infests the street cars of
our cities. The inflexibility of the human
joints is a prominently noteworthy feature in
the make-up of this gentle savage. His knees
are his strong joints. Entering a car which has
a vacant corner seat, he fills the vacancy by-
placing himself in an angular manner in such
a position tJ^it when one leg is hoisted to its i
place on trq^ of the knee-joint of the other leg, !
the uppermost leg can swing either across the
aisle, or lengthwise of it, or with a diagonal
movement partly lengthwise and partly across, j
By this method be can succeed in bringing his 1
extremities in contact with more people than he
can reach if in aoy other position. Ho occu- j
pies from two io four seats, according to the i
amount of space vacant when he puts himself!
in position. Sometimes he arrives in the mid- ;
die of the car, as suddenly as if shot with great
violence out of some distant cannon.
Dumping himself down in any vacant seat,
he hoists the offending leg and wags his gigan
tic boot against all who may want to pass. After
haviDg one boot thoroughly wiped off by the la
dies’ dresses, he elevates the other to have it
swept and garnished in like manner. He rea
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A Brief Notice ot a Pew .of the Delegates.
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At this plaee are now to be seen the pioneers
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worldly possessions, cannot be imagined than
that uncontrollable pride, he the Methodist itinerancy, which has been the
dragged Horace to the door, and in tones that
could not be misunderstood, bade him never
darken it again.
With a spirit undaunted and by force of that
will that makes more men than fortune, Horace
bent his steps from the home of his youth. As
he closed tire front gate, a gontle voice called
him. It was his sister Julia, who had slipped
out from the house and carried him her own
shawl. With tears in their eyes, they bid each
other good byo.
(TO BB COHTXNUKD. )
Nothing maintains its bloom forever: age
succeeds age.—[Cicero. -
starting point with them all.
They are here from the mountains of Virginia,
the wilds of Texas, the shores of the Atlantic
and Pacific, to consult on the interests of the
Methodist Church.
Do not the names of Pierce, Doggett, Kava-
naugh, Summers and McFerrin call up a host
of memories in oar minds ?
Upon whose shoulders is the mantle of that
zealous veteran, Dr. Lovick Pierce, now aged
nearly a century, to fall ? Many souls have
been born into the kingdom through his min
istrations, and crossed the river in advance of
their leader, now waiting under tbe Tree of
Life to welcome him when the Master shall call.
with their more or less expensive dry goods,
and if they can thus sweep, they need have no
objection thus to dust his number elevens.
While loosely swinging liis legs and with bis
big boots waving defiance at all who enter, this
savage is apt to meet another savage of similar
turn of mind and boots, who sits opposite him.
Two such creatures at once blockade a car.
When there are a dozen of them in one car,
as is often the case, the aisle becomes like one
of the old-fashioned corduroy roads with about
half the logs knocked out. By stepping skil
fully over the intervening logs, a slow and
troublesome progress can be made.
It seldom occurs to Man-With-His-Legs-
Crossed to lift his offending members out of the
j way. A request to change his position some*
I times throws him into a towering rage. Some
times a suggestion that he is occupying more
room than his share causes him to lift his eyes
in undisguised astonishment and to wonder if
the conductor thinks he is an infant, that he
must be compressed within a space of six inches.
Again, on being remonstrated with, he inno
cently expresses surprise and says that he was
unaware of his having been an inconvenience
to any body, but seeing that he seems to be, he
will take down bis legs and sit squarely up
right. From that moment to the termination of
his ride he is a martyr, with mute appeals for
compassion resting on every feature of his sad
dened countenance.
It i3 manifestedly unjust to ask Man-With -
His-Legs-Crossed to ride in such a conveyance
as a street car unless he is furnished with a
whole one to himRelf. A being so unused to
regarding the pleasures or convenience of his
fellow travelers would probably like to have a
whole car and to pay exactly six pence for his
passage. Until the price of horse-feed reaches
lower depths than have yet been known it is not
likely that the car companies can meet his ne
cessities. Meantime, the only coarse ot proceed
ing which will avail is to get some of his rela
tions, the Kickapoos. and let them foot up a
settlement with him which will effectually dis
place him from the cars.
Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads
us day by day.—[Lamartine.
Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in
its own coin.—[Madam Deluzy.
Happiness is no other than soundness and
perfection of mind.—[M ircua Antoninas.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and
thrift the fuel of magnificence. —[Sir P. Sidney.
He that is respectless in his coarse oft sells
his reputation at a cheap market. —[Ben. John
son.
Where love reigns disturbing jealousy doth
call himselt affection’s sentiment.—[Shake
speare.
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Staple Goods to dealers. No peddling
Expen net* paid. Permanent employ
menu address S. A. GRANT & GO^
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$1209
Central Route.
The Connecting Link Between the Trunk
Lines of the
NORTH AND EAST,
and the
Gnlf of 3Iexico on the South,
FORMS THE
GREAT THROUGH ROUTE
AND
Main Artery of Commerce and Trade
TO ALL POINTS,
and offers the best route, on quick time, with more com
forts, better accommodations and greater security than
any other Line.
BUY YOUB TICKETS AND SHIP YOUR FREIGHT
BY THE
HOUSTONand TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY,
Pullman Palace Drawing-Room and Sleeping
Cars Run Through
FROM
HOUSTON TO ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO
WITHOUT CHANGE,
and bnt ONE CHANGE to all prominent points
NORTH AND EAST!
Trains Leave as Follows s
No. 3 St. Louis and Chicago Express Leave? Hoaf'-on
daily at 1 p. >i.; Arrives at St. L.niis daily at 6 05 r.
arrives at Chicago daily at 6.55 a. m.
No. 1 Leaves Houston daily (except Sunday) at S 15 a. m.,
and arrives as follows:
10.00 r.:
10.45 a. at.,
“ daily (except Sunday) at 9 p j
No. 4 Leaving St. Lonis daily at 8.47 a. m.
“ “ Chicago “ “ 10.00 v. m.
Arrives at Houston
No. M “
In effect January 6, 1873.
F. L. MANCHESTER.
Eastern Passenger Agent,
417 Broadway, N. Y.
A. ALLhE,
Northern Passenger Agent,
101 Clark street, Chicago.
E. K. SCOTT,
Ticket Agent, Central Depot, Houston.
J. WALDO, A. H. SWANSON,
General Ticket Agent, •en’l Sup’t.
Houston, Texas. 151—tf