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From the Central Georgian.
Things of Beauty.
The golden bands that closely bind
The dark, broad brow of Dawn—
The rosy blush that deeply dyes,
The blushing check of Morn.
The degp'ning tinge, ttlf glowing tints,
That ’round Aurora plays,
As thro’ the cloud-linM, curtained east
She meets the Day god’s ga2e.
The streams of SparMins light that glide,
O'er blooming leA and deli—
The dazzling rays, of noontide’s blaze,
Are crown’d with beau ty’s spell.
The ling’ringiigbt of fading day—
Eve’s banner, gray, unfurled
The star-gemmed arch, of night, that spans,
The quict.J»leeping world.
The quiv’ring. crystal, peArl-lifee drop,
That rustles in each.flower,
Cn drooping pendant, emerald leaf,
Os vine-clad, wood-land bower.
The dancing rill that gently laves
It’s moss-bound, fern-draped shore—
Laughing cascade—thundering fall-,
Where foaming waters roar.
The swelling bud, the full-blown flow’r
Fanned lightly by each breeze,
While nodding with sweet careless ghfcri,
To stately, leaf-crown’d frees.
The dark bluc.Opray-wreath’d wave that leaps
To hiss the struggling beams,
Fair Lima flings on Ocean’S bveast,
In silvery, shaft like gleams.
Me. kindling glance from woman’s eye,
Thai, loviag thoughts reveal—
The joy-lit smile, and blushing cheek,
Bear benuiy’s witching seal.
Forest Home. Sun Bkam.
TV-" ■ .
How the Wife Felt.
A man, at whose house I was a
guest, told me that he had been a
hard drinker and a cruel husband ;
had beaten his poor wife until she
had almost become used to it.—
“But,” said he, the very moment I
signed the pledge I thought of my
wife—what would my wife say to
this ? Strange that I should think
of my wife the first thing, but I
did; and as I was going home, I
said to myself: Now, if I go home
and tell her all of a Sudden that I
have signed the pledge, she’ll faint
away, or she’ll up and do some
thing; and I Wllst break It to her
by degrees Only think of it!
Why the night before I’d lifrve
knocked her down; just as like as
not; if she h&dn’t looked to please,
and ndw I am planning to break
good news to her for fear it would
upset her.”
As near as I could gather from
what he told me, he found his wife
sitting over the embers waiting for
him. As he came into the house he
said:
“Nancy, I think that ”
“Well'Ned, what is it?”
“Why, I think I shall —that is—l
mean to—to —Nancy, I mean-^ —”
“What is the matter, Ned ?”
“Yes,” said he, “the matter’s just
this : 1 have signed the temperance
pledge, and, so help me God, I’ll
keep it.”
} ‘She started to her feet and she
did faint away. I was just in time
to catch her; and as she lay in my
arms, her eyes shut; her face so
pale* thinks I; she’s dhad and I’ve
done it now. But dead ;
her eyes, and then she
put her arms round my neck ; and
I didn’t know she was so strong, as
she piffled and phlled till she got
me dotvu where I had not been for
thirty years—on thy knees. Then
she said: “O God ! help him J”
and I said Amen ! and she said, “O
God, help my poor Ned, and
strengthen him to "keep his pledge,”
and 1 hollered Amen 1 just as loud
as I could holler. That was the
first time we ever knelt together,
but it was not the last.”
—A German elothier in Belfast,
Maine; recently sold a man a pair
bf boots. A few dayji afterwards
the man returned with theih, and
Raid that he went out iritd the barn
yard to work, where ’tftas a little
wet,' acid the soles canie off. “Mine
Got, mine friend* yofl didn’t ought
to vafk roiiMd to demi Day ish Cav
alry boots; made to ride mill”
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1871.
From the College Bell.
English Grammar.
BT D. P. HURLEY.
I need hardly premise, that the science of
language holds the first rank in the coarse of
study in the schools of every, grade where it is
taught. It deals both with the laws of
expression and the expansion of thought.
Indeed, the analysis of language is the anal
ysis of thought. Resolving complex forms of
speech first into the proximate, and then into
their ultimate elements, and then again re
combining those simple and primary elements
into compound and complex forms; investigat
ing. alternately by logic and aesthetics, the
Varying lorms of words and phrases and sen
tences, are operations which come nearer, per
haps than any other in which we, as educa
tors are engaged, towards subjecting spirit it
self to the crucible of experiment Mind
thinks In words. Language, with all its sub
tleties. is an emanation of the subtle power of
thonght. The cause and effect are correlative.
It is this intimate, immediate, indissoluble
connection And correlation between mind
and language, between human thought and
human speech, between the soul itself and the
mould into which it is cast, between the im
palpable essenee and the concrete and palpa
ble forms it takes, that gives such transcend
ent importance to the genaral class of studies
known as philological. There m, hence, no
depirt'iUent of education, no branch of stndy
for which greater care should be exercised in
the selection of the Very best text-book obtain
able in the market. .There is perhaps uo sci
enee, no class of text books, in which more
striking and substantial improvements have
been made within the past quarter or hatfcen-
tnry than in English Grammar. The minds
of educators It9Ve been eat uestly exerted in
that direction ; and so numerous aim so diver
sified have been the works from time to time
offered to the public, that the views and preju
dices of e'rery class of teachers could hardly
fall to find embodiment in someone or anoth
er ol them. TlVelr scale of merit is hence ex
tensive. From the poorest to the best, the
range is wide. Io consideration of the prem
ises, we may be pardoned for the appropriation
of a few hasty paragraphs to the general sub’
ject of English Grammar.
. Th® large number of grammars now before
the public may be grouped into three classes.
First, those which deal mainly with the words
of our language—their inflections, and their
grammatical properties, real and imaginary—
•ueh as Murray, Smith, Kirkbam, etc. This
class of authors seem to have derived their
system in great measure from Universal Gram
mar. literally importing principles from other
languages, having at best bat a partial and
restricted application to our own. Third,
those which treat our language as composed
of elements, words, and gronps of words, des
ignated id their technical nometfclature, ac.
cording to their composition and form, and
classified according to the office they perform
in the structure of English sentences—such as
Greene Sill, Welch. Clark, Harvey, etc. Sec
ond, those combiniug to varying extent the
characteristics of the first and third classes—
such as Bullion, Piuneo, Wells, Butler, Quack
•nbos, etc.
Those ol the first clars were long ago super
seded in most schools of prominence by those
of the second class; and those of 'ke second
class are being rapidly superseded by those of
the third claps In all institutions of reputable
standing. We do not hesitate to announce
onr decided preference for the third class. In
the course of a number of year*’ experience in
teaching, we have used Greene, Sill, Welch
and Clark. We have also nsed Smith and
Piuneo, thrust npon us by force of circnm
stances. We have carefully examined a large
number of other authors, aud are now using
Harvey. Ot tho e with which we are ac
quainted we like Clark and Harvey best.—
Both are good; and while their systems are
essentially identical, each possesses individual
peculiarities which distinguish it, each has
points of excellence superior to the other.—
Clark is elaborate and exhaustive ; Harvey is
comprehensive and practical. Clark is the
text book of colleges aud normal schools. Har
vey finds ready and extensive favor in com
mon, and grammar schools. Clark’s is a well
graded series- Harvey’s is perhaps better,
though less comprehensive. Clark's synopti
cal tables, in which he exhibits at a single
view a full and perfect skeleton of each entire
part of speech, constitute a distinguishing fea
ture of bis treatise, and are of immense practi
cal value hi the process of imparting connect
ed and comprehensive viV#s to classes. J3e
sides, his diagrams give form and substance to
the subtle abstractions of Analytics' Giammar,
and a visible mechanical shape and mould to
the elements of thought and expression, secu
ring at once the double advautage of that defi
niteness, of knowetdge which comes through
the sight, and contributing to that fixedness
and coutinuity of attention which makes an
ineraailile impression npon the memwy. As
geometry by visible delineations of its doc
trines, by diagrams addresses the eye; and as
arithmetic and algebra aud chemistry r nder
their abstractions concrete oy visible symbols;
so does Clark by his system of diagrams briny
to his aid that most perfect, of all human sense®,
through which knowledge of aM kinds is most
easily aud rapidly acquired, the most accurate
iu its character, and the most enduring in its
impressions upon the memory. Clark’s Gram
mars, mori&ver, have Stood the test of time.
First published in 185fi, they have since found
•heir way into schools of every grade, and
have been universally approved, we believe,
t>7 educators who have used them. Clark’s
Grammars are now more firmly established in
the favor and confidence of enlightened edu
cators than at any former period. Besides,
he has, by a thorough revisal, made important
improvements in his Practical Grammar, snch
as the experience of the class-room, and the
progress of grammatical science suggested,
and by eliminations and additions, has brought
jt fully np to the standard of the present. His
revised edition was published in 1870.
Clark's series is iiooijilete in three parts—First
Lessons. Practical Grammar and Anal vsis. His
First Lessons is unquestionably a Work Os
rare merit, and adpijrably adapted to the use
«f beginners, as we are able to testify from
experience. The elements of Grammar are
presented in a series of gradual, oral exercises,
couched in the plainest language practicable.
It opens with Analysis, which the merest
child can comprehend, and closes with Synthe
sis. the correlation of its predecessor ; nd from
commencement to conclusion, Analysis and
Synthesis qq hand in hand. He begins with
a simple intransitive sentence, consisting only
of two words, adding to this, element after
element in the development of big subject, nn
til, b£ a gradation almost imperceptible to the
he reacheS the most complex forms of
the English sentence. Mis Practical Gram
mar is all we have said of it, and much more.
His Analysis is altogether such a work as an
acquaintance with the former part of his se
riea would lead us to expect, it is an able and
valuable production, standing side by side
with Welch’s celebrated Analysis of the Eng
lish Sentence.
Os Ilarvey, much might justly be said in
commendation, did space not forbid. We are
now using Harvey, and are mnch pleased with
its practical character, and the ease with which
it is comprehended by the learner, and tft6 ex
tensive and critiHh, and even philosophical
views of the science of our language, which
classes readily acquire by its use. One of the
striking and most valuable features of the
work is its system of constancy repeated re
views, which render it almost impossible for
even a careless or an inexperienced teacher to
teach it otherwise than thoroughly. It is
framed for thoroughness. It incorporates the
principle and the necessity of thoroughness.
A fundamental idea of the author, in the .ar
rangement and discussion of topics, and tWs
methods of their development, was, evidently,
to secure that indispensable attribute oi true
scholarship. The typographical execution of
the work, too, has been rendered tributary, in
a high degree, to the accomplishment of the
general purposes of the author. A single
glance at a page discovers, in the clear, bat
deeply shaded black letter, in which
the leading topics, etc., are printed, the entire
skeleton of its contents. Thus, the outlines of
Grammar are exhibited, page after page,
throughout the entire hook.
Harvey’s Grammars—especially his Ele
mentary-present not only the science of onr
language in the admirable style above indi
cated; bat they also teach the instructor who
uses it how itshould be taught- This is a fea
ture of the work of immeAr value to that
laige class of teachers who have but little
experience or tact in teaching grammar. We
think we have never seen a grammar so Weil
adapted to abridge the labor of both teacher
and pupil.
Harvey’s is a late grammar, published in
IS68; bnt during the short period since its
publication, it has acquired an enviable repu
tation, and an extenrive introduction into the
schools of the North and North-west, especial
ly the common and grammar schools.
Hat vey is a teacher of large experience,
and distinguished success, and his work bears
murks throughont Os its origin in the aetpai
experience of the school-room. It is simpler
and less elaborate than Clark’s, and for that
reason might be thought better adapted to nse
in common-schools. We however think
Clark’s quite simple enough lor any class old
enough to derive advantage from the study of
grammar. There is a slight difference be
tween them in tbeir classification of the ele
ments of the language, but the dirt .trencs is ’o*T
but little practical moment. According to
Clark, there are five elemeuts; the subject,
predicate, objective, adjective and adverbial
elements—three principal and two subordi
nate. Harvey agrees with Chirk as to the
number and names of the elements, but has
two principal and three subordinate. The dis
feretice is that Clark makes the objective a
piincipal element, while Harvty classifies it
with the subordinate. Their classification and
nomenclature bear a striking similarity to
each other throughout. Indeed, Harvey hag
adopted the system of Clark substantially in
the main, with such modifications of arrange
ment, development, phraseology etc., as were
judged necessary to *>ra*!tic*l uiility by facil
hating the process of teaching aud harning.
The system of elemental classification, and
the *>;ener#l doctrines of the science enuncia
ted by both are strikingly philosophical, and in
evideut harmony with the genius, laws and
structure of our noble language.
The synthetical feature is prominent in noth.
It is treated throughout, as it should be, in con
junction with analysis,.each aiding the other
in illustrating the abstruse principles and laws
of elemental relation and sentential struc
ture. The two processes are antithetical, and
as may well be supposed, the resolution of a
senteuce into its elements, and the putting to
gether again of those elemeuts in the recon
struction of the senteuce, will impart a know-l
edge of our language nmre rapidly and more
thoroughly than can bo doue in any other way.
This is a marked feature of both Harvey and
Cfih-k, and contiibutts la-g-ly to the value of
their works.
In the classical languages, the relations of
Words to each other was largely indicated by
terminal changes in inflected words. Hence,
those languages adm'tted great latitude of ver
bal transposition. Our language is radically
different. While its clausal flexibility is quite
as great as in Latiu or Greek, it is quite differ
ent with the word elements of clauses. Much
very much depends npon the petition of words
in au English senteuce. The same may be
said ol those groupt of words which perform
a distinct office in the structure of a sentence.
Hence, the normal position of words and
groups of words iu sentential structure is a
part, and an indispensable part, of the science
of the English iauguuge. How else can it be
properly nsed in the expression of thought ?
How can the student know how to ‘’speak
and write the English language correctly,” un
less lie learn the laws ot position which usage
has established ? We hazard nothing iu as
serting that the sense and intelligibility of au
English sentence depends more upon the posi
tion of its elements thau upon the grammati
cal forms of its words. And yet grammars of
the fibst and second class give little or no at
tention to it. Clark and Harvey, however,
treat the snbject extensively,, systematically,
and ably, if not exhaustively. The laws of
natural position Are gtveii; and the rules for
transposition arid inversion, with extensive
illustrations.
Phuctuatibn, too, wiiifeh is so poorly tinder
stood and so cliieasily practiced eveu by the
so-called educated, and upon which the sense
ornousense of a period so essentially depends,
is admirably and lucidly taught in the excellent
works of Harvey and Clark. Their system of
punctuation is based upon their doctrine of
the elemental composition of onr language as
tanght in their grammais, and in that connec
tion, is strikingly simple and easily understotki
Indeed, it seems to be a natural outgrowth
from their system of analysis.
The foregoing brief criticism falls far short
of doing justice to the high merits of the
grammars mentioned. »otbing short of a
critical examination of the works themselves
and a patient and laborious comparison of
them with other authors, or subjecting them
to the surer test of the class-room, can ade
quately exhibit their marked and almost im
measurable superiority over most others, and
especially over those of the first and second
class. It is hoped, however; enough has been
said in the small space allotted u&to direct pub
lie attention, tlie attention of teachers especial
ly who may not be acquainted with tbein, to
their salient points of excellence.
Rogues Falling Out;—Mama—
“What is baby crying for, Mag
gie?”
Maggie—“l don’t know.”
Mamma—“And what are you
looking to indignant about ?”
Maggie—“ That nasty, greedy
dog’s beeh and took and eaten my
’puogc-take !’’ : ,
- Mamma—“Why, 1 saw you eat
ing a sponge cake a minute ago !”
Maggie—“O, that was baby’s !”
Ocean Currents.
BY PROF. W. G. HATHAWAY.
[concluded.]
It is not at all necessary to coti :
elude that all or any of the present
dry land appeared at that age
of the world; there is evidence
even to tne contrary. Evidences
that I caDnot here introduce, are not
wanting to show that this earth,
with all its seas, oceans, rivers,
mountains and plains have been to
tally changed, or greatly modified
by some cause which has produced
a change of polarity; that region
which now constitutes the poles,
in some remote age, was at the
Equator, this may have occurred at
the deluge, or at a inoi e remote peri
od. That such a change has taken
place there is scarcely x’eason to
doubt
It is well worthy of observation
that amid all the permanence and
stability of this vast universe Where
suns, stars, and planets, scarcely
seem to change their position from
age to age, yet we knoW that not
one of them remains at rest. All
are in constant motion, and upon
these very motions’) doubltless, de
pends their stability. The founda
tions of the everlastin&hills are lar
from being seciire. \Vhole conti
nents have been submerged, and
the ocean beds have become dry
land. There was an age then when
no Gulf Stream rolled its healing
and balmy waters across the Atlan
tic, when no soft summer air was
wafted away oo its bosom upon the
British isles. Nay, the time was
when these isles were not. The
New World ” even, had a begin
ning as well as a discovery. Wheth
er the Alps looked out upon the
Atlantic before the Andes saw the
Pacific, or whether both were
“born in a day” it matters not.—
I hey came into being by the hand
of the Creator obedient to the laws
of force.
The western continent has been
thrown up sometime during the
ages, the rotation of the earth and
the present shape of continents and
sea coasts have diverted,tho grefrt
rush of the Equatorial waters into
a great variety of currents, govern
ed by the uniform laws of action.
South America stretching out
her elbow into the Atlantic Ocean,
divides the great stream of tropical
waters seeking its passage west
ward round the earth. The main
branch rushes on northwest into
the gulf, and finding no issue, is
turned away backward to the
northeast, to supply the equilibrium,
by the waters being drawn away
from the east by the earth’s rotation,
and the polar currents. While an
other branch forces its way along
the Brazillian Coast, as it intent on
finding its way westward; baffled
in this, it flows on down the coast
of Patagonia, till near Cape-Horn
m latitude about 55 deg. south,
where tho motion of the earth is
slow, and being retarded by friction
ioj more than 3000 miles along the
coast, its force being exhausted by
reaction it mingles with the An<
tarctie current and is borne north
east-ward to the Indian bceafi, and,
on approaching Australia, it curves
away to the north and west, and as
Burning its old position in the Equa
torial Stream, to perform anew cir-
cuit. While the western continent
stretching nearly from polo to pole,
moves eastward by the rotation of
the globe, the waters of the Pacific,
for want of equal specific gravity
with the land, falls to the west, and
tends to form a depression or lower
surface along this vast coast line
from Patagonia to Alaska, which is
immediately restored by currents,
flowing from the north and south
down the coast of California and
Mexico, and up from Patagonia to
Peru, called the Mexican and Peru
vian currents These two currents
on approaching the Equator, both
curve to the west and unite in one
broad stream which flows across
the Pacific, and obedient to this law
of gravity and rotation, the south
ern half flows on among the islands
between Australia and Borneo, into
the Indian Ocean; the northern
half obstructed by the Jnpdii Islands
is deflected to the north and east,
sending a branch back across the
North Pacific and another stream
through Behring Straits into the
Polar Sea.
It will not be necessary to dwell
at greater length on these rivers of
the sea; sufficient has been shown
to establish the principles frequent
ly referred to above, which may be
stated as follows:
The solid nucleus of the earth by
excess of specific gravity moves
eastward with much greater veloci
ty than air or water. The waters
of the ocean for want of equal
gravity; and consequently wanting
adhesion, fall bfick to the west along
the whole line, from north to south,
in a broad belt, both sides the
Equator. This movement tends to
form a lower level of the waters on
the west side of both continents,
which is immediately supplied by
the waters of the colder regions of
the uorlh and south seas. These
last mentioned cold waters are rein
forced by the Gulf Stream on the
nofthbast, and by the Japan cur
rent on the northwest through
Behrings Strait* while counter cur
rents in the southern ocean constant
ly keep up the equilibrium towards
the south pole. These priuciplhs
With what has beeh stated abovi ill
regard to coast lines and deflected
motion, will enable almost any per
son oh the examination of a true
map, or globe; to designate how;
and where ocean currents must nec
essarily be formed, and get a clear
idea of the causes of their force and
action.
I can scarcely conclude this arti
cle without calling the attention of
the reader to the manifest designs
of the great architect of nature,
Dot only in the original construction
of all things, which He pronounced
good, but in all their subsequent
modifications. He has constantly
kept deducing from this first good,
the highest perfection ; all for the
apparent purpose of affording the
means of ameliorating the condi
tion of his creatures who have wan
dered away from Him, and last,
their right of inheritance to that
blissful region, allotted to innocence
and peace, amid the sparkling foun
tams and flowery arbors that adorn
ed the Eden of love. He would
entice us away from the dangers so
thickly scattered in the paths of the
deret\ by the wisdom, beauty
and benifieence, displayed in his
works, and lead us through these
up to Him whose abode is in a land
not stained by sin, nor darkened by
the pale shadows of dea^h.
It will scarcely be disputed that
the air for want of specific gravity,
and by its extreme fluidity falls be
hind the surface of the ocean, as it
is carried eastward by .the earth’s
rotation, and that by this meixlis4.be
Trade Winds are produced. This
same principle when applied to the
sea and the heavier mass of the sol
id earth, will as clearly account for
the westward' movement of the
waters of both oceans between the
tropics.
If the above principles are true,
When applied to the Trade Winds,
they are also true to the Equatorial
Stream. Therefore, wo conclude
that this theory of specific gravity,
combined with the form, and revo
lution of the earth, modified by the
intervening shores of continents, is
lands and headlands, governed by
the laws of action and reaction, will
account for all, or nearly all the cur
rents thus tar known to navigators.
It is not certain when, or how this
earth obtained the.rotatingimpiilse.
The cause of rotation must be per
petual; Or in time it must cease. A
continuous effect without a contin
ued cause is simply an absurdity.—
This earth may have had no rota
tion on its axis in the first periods
of its existence.
One of the most sensible and
most ratjorial views to establish a
perpetual cause, for .perpetual revo
lution, may be Found in the “Elec
trical Theory of tho Uni verso,” by
T. S. Mackintosh, an English au
thor little known in this country.—
It is a work of rare merit, and well
worthy of perusal. It contains
more original matter, in the same
space, than many volume? ,of mod
ern, writers on Philosophical sub
jects of much greater pretensions.
The cause of tl\e earth’s rotation,
as indicated By Mackintosh, Was in
substance as follows: It is a well
known fact that there is an electri
cal influence produced by the sun’s
rays upon the earth and the atmos
phere surrounding it. Admitting
that the sun’s rays excite electrical
action between the two bodies, we
will suppose the sun to be on the
meridian of Chicago, at noon, shed
ding light and heat over half the
globe ; that portion ninety degrees
cast of Chicago, has been all day
exposed to thip influence, causing a
positive electricity to trip atm os
pliere and earth on this side, while
that portion or hemisphere exclu
ded from the sun’s biys, for the
same length of time, has imported
its electricity and become negative.
Now, that part of the atmosphere
longest exposed to the sun, having
become saturated, is repelled, while
that portion just emerging into the
Sun’s light at the west, being nega
tive, is attracted ; these two forces
act like the jets of water from the
two arms of Barker’s centrifugal
mill: This repulsl'dn of: or by the
saturated atmosphere four thous
and miles east of our meridian, and
this attraction of the same four
thousand miles west of us, would
act like a band passing round a
drum, the slack side being in the
direction of the sun, and the con
tact on the dark side. Here We
find a cdilstaiit cause, prodiicing a
constant effect. The earth when
set in motion would act as an im
mense fly-wheel to equalize and
regulate these forces. If the sun
by attraction and repulsion, or any
other influence, causes the rotation
of the earth, and it seems extreme
ly plausible to say the least, we
have found a positive evidence that
the earth did exist before this force
producing rotation was balled into
being. Wo find in Genesis i: 16,
that the sun was not created until
after the third day, or age. Os the
world. Then there was a time when
the earth did not revolve as now.—
We arc also informed in Genesis i:
9, that the gathering together of
the waters, was during the third
day, or age of the world, how long
theße days were, we certainly can
not tell. If the edrth in its first for
mation was a perfect Sphere, as is
generally cdtfficded, the most phi
losophical way of gathering togeth
er the Waters that covered the
earth, would be to set it revolving!
This would break up the settled
equilibrium of its parts, diminish
ing the force of attraction by cen
trifugal force, increasing the press
ure on its crust in one place and di
minishing it in another ; upheavals
and depressions would necessarily
follow ; the strata dpubled, elevated
and depressed; would form basins
and ridges of mountains where the
waters might be gathered and the
dry land appear,
My Wife.
OCSerCc with what love and re
spect the good man and worthy
husband speaks of the dear crea
ture whom God has given him for
a companion through life. Note
his actions and observe his better
half, and you will see that her im
age is reflected in him. I care not
how austere and 6trong-minded he
may be, so that he loves her. Her
influence is felt every day, and her
loving words and feminine depend
ence exert a power within him
which otherwise might have slum
bered unknown and forgotten. In
the language of Balwer, “Iter im
age glossed in his s6ul, lures him on
to those inspiring toils by which
man masters men.” Our greatest
statesmen, our greatest heroes, all
attribute their success in life to
the potent influence of either a wife
or a mother’s love.
Man must have something to
love, something to stimulate him
and raise him from that state of
thraldom in which the cAres and
anxieties of an everyday life usual
ly plunged him.
What friend can take a wife’s
place ? Who but she can adminis
ter consolation which is ever free
from the suspicions, the hope of in
terestedness, other than a deep anx
iety to make sToi'.5 T oi'. happy ? Let all
the world forsake and abandon you ) i
let trials come upon you and calam
ities befall you, yet in her presence
and loving affection you may al
ways find a harbinger of love, truth
and devotion.
Men have a yearning for disinter
ested love. Once convince a man
that he is beloved for himself alone,
independent of bis wealth, his rich
es, and his station, or any of the
many advantages of which he may
be possessed, let him see, I say,
that he is loved for himself, and
you make him your slave for life.
Such a man blessed with a noble
woman for his wile, is capable of
performing things that would dis
courage him had he not someone
to offer him those little words of
consolation wlMch lighten the bur
dens of life.
A Northern Man’s Opinion.—
Tho editor of the St. Louis Jour
nal of Education, who accompanied
the editorial excursion of western
editors to the South recently, says,
editorially, iu tho last number of
the Journal.
The great need of the South, it
seemed to us, is a Largo infusion of
just that element of probity 1 , ertergy
and enterprise, who go South to
live and to build up and re-people
and re-clothe the waste plßceh of
that beautiful but desolate land.—
They do hate the raefe “carpet-bag
ger,” and we do not blanie them ;
but V?e ’dre siirfe, frolii careful inqui
ry and earnest conversation with
large numbers of the leflmttjSJ ttten
of that section, whom it was our
privilege to meet, that men of char
acter and integrity who go there de
termined to identify themselves
with the people, and to become zit
izens and producers manufacturers
and merchants, and not mere “office
seekers,” will be cprdially,welcomed
there. More than anything eW }
“the South” now needs a product
ive and producing element. Young
men of integrity and enterprise,
even if their capital is small, can in
a few years acquire, a competence.
The Late War in i?kANCE'.—
The par indemnity assessed upon
the city of Paris, amounting to
$40,000,006, has be6n paid. The
entire sum was conveyed to the
German headquarters at Versailles
on February 13th, and was com
posed one-half of drafts upon Ber
lin and the other half in notes of
the Bank of France, inclosed in
two sealed iron chests. The Ger
man Commissioners at first desired
to count the notes in the chests, but
abandoned the idea when the fact
that the seals were uritoWchcd was
pointed out to them. The Gerfflau
Commissioners also produced a sum
of fifty millions of francs for $lO,-
000,000 in French notes, which, ac
cording to the treaty, were io be
exchanged by the French Commis
sioners against thirty millions of
francs in gold and twenty millions
of francs in silver. The exchange
occupied several days, and the Ger
man Commissioners, after endeav
oring to coiln t the edin; abandoned
the task arid checked the payment
by weighing the gold and silver as
it was transferred to them.
“ Thou Shalt not Covet.”—We
commend a closer observance of
the “Ten Commandments” to the
editbr tli<3 Montgomery Mail, who
perined tHb following i
There must be something in the
wind. Our good brother Grant, of
the Jacksonville Republican, has
received a cotiiplirheHtary ticket
over the Ya. and Tenn. Air Line
Railroad to New York and back,
the hack company granted him a
family ticket to and from Gadsden,
Parker & Bros, sent him a fine
breech-loading shot gun. E. G.
Barney sent him a complimentary
passjover the S., R, «fc £>. R. R
and Montgomery Broß. gave him
some first rate crackers ahd a floor
mop ! And all in one week top !
Who wouldn’t be an editor in Jack
sonville ?
—A Sail Jose (California) paper
has a Sensation, article of a column
headed; “ A Girl Possessed of the
Dpvilj” this may be a novelty in
San Jose; but girl? similarly pos
sessed are so abundant that they
have ceased to excite special atten
tion here.
My Early D^ys.
SY PROF. J. H. HATHAWAY.
O, give me back my joyous youth,
Those days of confidence and truth,
Ere disappointed hope was none, *
Or I had wept at sorrow’s shrine
My trusting heart knows not the wile
OI flat’ry’s false, deceitful smile ;
The world looked beautiful and bright,
The future, radiant with deltg^f.
O. give me back my Hative hills,
Those crystal streams and gushing rills,
The fields so green, the forest wild.
O’er which I wandered when aclititt )
For sweeter then was every Sower,
Enchanting then the shady bower.
The fields were clad in brighter green,
The air more balmy and seifene’.
The star af hope shone proudly o’er
My early days, those days of yore,
But now, no light-, no cheering ray
Illumes my dark and dreary way.
The cooling breeze that fanned my brow,
Has lost its power upon me now ;
The angry stprpi, the wind’s low sigh,
Alike unheeded ptisa fcy.
Alas! those happy days are o’er,
My early friends tiro now no more ;
I saw them one by one depart,
It crushed my hopes and broke my heart.
Farewell to fancy’s pleasing dream,
farewell to bill and valo and stream,
Fa-etGll, ye scenes I Jpved so well,
Home of my youth, a long farewell.
—Hei >yTip i suppresses a moment’s
anger, may prevent days of sorrow.
Hard drinking—sitting on a
rock and sucking icicles.
Steel is the most dangerous of
metalß ; it assists in the composi
tion of the sword, the pen and crin
oline.
I would give nothing for that
man’s religion whose very dog and
Cat are not tho better for it.—Row
la n Hill.
—“l’m sitting on the ‘style,’
Mary,” as the fellow said, when He
cooly sat down on his sweetheart’s
new bonnet.
The saying that “there is more
pleasure in giving than receiving,”
is supposed to apply chiefly to
“kicks, medicine', arid advice.”
A little bfiy, in Richmond, pH
being asked Hy his mother if fife
would not like to be an angel and
have wings' replied that he had
rather be a HAwft drid live on chick
ens.
A physician said of a quack
that “he was . such ah ignoramus
that, if he could take a lantern and
go down inside his patients, he
wouldn’t find out what the matter
was.”
Poetry is the flower of litera
ture ; prose is the corn, potatoes
and meat; satire is the aquafortis;
wit is the spice and pepper, love
letters are the honey and sugar, and
letters containing remittance? hr 6
the apjile-aiijiiing^.
- “ A, pompous schoolmaster once
said to a chubby-faced lad who
was passing him without raising
Hjs bas, “Do you know whp I arm
yoii pass me in this ill man
nerly way? You are better fed than
taught, I think.” “Wa’al, maybe
it be so, mister,” said the boy “fur
you teaches me, an’ I feeds myself.”
—* O Pa, Mr. Smith was lierß
this morning, and when ma told
him that you would not be back till
late, he said her lips were like hon
ey, and that he wished he was a
bee and then he kissed her. They
gave me a piece of candy not to
tell anyone, but I don’t think they’d
mind you, you’re lid well acquainted
with ma.
Ciistortief) to ft clerk iii &
hardware store(. —“S?bqw men smalt
low-priced shears: “Cterk (facetb
ously) “Perhaps yoii vfleari a pair of
’shears.” Customer (severely).—“ I
mean precisely what I said.”—
Clerk (defiantly, opening a speci
men article). —“ Are there hot two
blades here, apd don’t two blades
make fijiair.?” Cilstoiher (triumph:
a hll^.—-“ You Have two legs, does
thae make you a pair of Men ?”
The shears were done lip in pro
found silence.
Many eloquent warnings hare
been uttered from the scaffold. At
a recent execution of a murderer lii
Missouri; he said to those who had
assembled to witness his Ignomin
ious death :
‘‘Whiskey and the bearing of pis
tols have ruined me. If you do
not waut them to rain you; if you
do not wdHt to tie imprisoned, and
in the end brought to the scaffold'
don’t drink liquor, don’t carry fire
arms;”
There is a volume of wisdom in
that short sentence.
ifflu The way in which Robert
Bonner commenced to lay the foun
dation of that ridiculously large for
tune of his is said to be this: Ho
worked at and cdSe a8 a printer at $8
per week, atld Wrote letters td bodti
try papers. When fife had saved up
SSOO he bought ttib Merc;Hants’ Led
gfef; and now hh Owns Dexter, and
J. EUidtt; find Nebudchadiieajjarj
and Ramises the flrstj and ever so
many othfer fidgs: He has, besides
much city lot, two or three millions
in stocks and things, aud an income
of $4,000 a week, on which he man
ages to rough it. But then he’s an
economical man.— YLo.rptr'r
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