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The Snow.
Oh ! the snow,_ the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below ;
Over the housetops, over the street,
pver the heads ot the people you meet,
Dancing,
Flitting.
Skimming along ;
Beautiful enow ! it can do no wrong,
Flying to kiss a fair lady’s cheek,
Clinging to lips in a frolicsome freak,
Beautiful enow from the Heaven above,
Pure as an auge, gentle as love!
Oh ! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Ho v the flakes gather and-laugh as they go,
Whirling about in maddenii g fun.
It plays in its glee with every one,
Chasing, *
Laughing,
Hurrying by ;
It lights 011 lhc faco aild s l ,a J klea *“ the
eye! *
And even the dogs, with a bark and a
bound,
Suhp at the crystals that eddy around ;
. The town is alive, and its-heart in a glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful enow !
How wild the crowd goes staying along
Hailing each tither with humor and song !
How the gay ‘sledges, like meteors, flash
fiy.
Bright for the raomeht, then lost to the eye ;
Bringing. •
Swinging, •
Dashing they go,
Over the crust of the beautiful snow !
Snow so.pure when it falls from the sky,
To be trampled in Uiud by the crowd rush
ing by,
To be trampled and tracked by thousands at
feet,
’Till it blends with the filth iu (ho horrible
street.
Once I was pure as the snow—but I fell!
Fell like the snow-flakes from Heaven to
hell ;
Fell to be trampled as filth of the street ;
Fell "to.be scoffed to bo spit on and beat;
Pleading,
Cursing,
Dreading to die,
"Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a morsel of brood,
Hating the living and fearing the dead ;
Merciful God ! have i fallen so low ?
And yet I was once like the beautilul snow,
Once I was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like its crystal, a heart like i: 8
glow ;
•Once I was loved for my innocent grace
Flattered and sought lor the charms of my
lace!
Father,
Mother, *
Sisters, all.
God, and myself, I have lost by my fall ;
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by,
Will take a wide sweep, lest I wander too
nigh; ‘ . .
For all that is on me or above me, 1 know,
T her or is nothing that's pure as the beautiful
• > snow..
How stiange it should be that this beautiful
snow,
Should-fall on a sinner, with nowhere to go !
How strange it should be, when the night
comes again, . •
If the snow and the ice struck my d'esperate
brain,
Fainting,
• * Freezing,
Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too mean -toe a
moan,.
To be heard in the streets of the crazy‘town,
Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming
down,
"To lie r and so die, in my terrible wo
sVith a bed and a shroud of the beautiful
snow.
[Little Things. —The precious
aiess of little things was never more
beautifully expressed than by 13.
F- Taylor, in the following : “ Lit
tle words are the sweetest to hear;
little charities tlv the farthest, and
stay longest on the wing; little
lakes are the stillest; little hearts
are-the fullest, and little farms are
the best tilled. Little books are
the most read, and little songs most
loved. And when nature would
make anything especially 'rare
and beautiful, she makes it lit
tle—little pearls, little diamonds,
little .dews. Everybody calls that
little which he loves the best on
earth.”
“ Hair manure” is what a young
lady inquired for in one of the Keo
kuk drug stores last week, when
she wanted a bottle of hair reuewer.
CUTHBERT MM APPEAL.
For the Cnthbert Appeal.
A Tour Through Texas,
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Information for Emigrants.
ATASCOSA COUNTY,
County Seat, Pleasanton, popula
tion, 4,000, all whites. Area 1262
square miles. This is quite a.
sparsely settled county, its settle
ments, like that of many of the fin
est counties on the frontiers, hav
ing been prevented by the Indians.
This is strictly a stock-raising
county, though the inhabitants
raise an ample supply of the cereals
and other farm products, for their
own use, and this is done with very
little labor. This county is admira
bly adapted to the raising of hogs,
as the mast is very abundant, and
the hogs keep fat all the year round
without being fed. The water is
remarkably clear and pure, Atasco
sa is the principle river. The soil
is generally sandy and of easy cul
tivation. The principle timber is
pOst-oak and live oak. The cli
mate is remarkably healthy, sick
ness being of rare occurrence. —
Fully three fourths of the county is
prairie. * *
BOUDERA COUNTY,
County Seat, Boudera City. The
population dofcs not probably ex
ceed one hundred families. Area,
938 square ifuiles*. It .is a stock-
Yaising county. There are but one
or two- churches and schools.
Wheat, corn, ry-e, oats, etc., are
grown on the beautiful Medina
River, beyohd-the river there are
few farms. Sheep, as well as cattle
are easily raised, and hogs thrive
well on the mast. Boudera City is
thirty mil.es from San An(onio. No
part of the world is more healthy:
• Bastrop county, •
County Seat, Bastrop. Popula
tion, 12,300 ; whites 7250; blacksj
5050. Area, 1001 square miles.—-
Acres in cultivation 25,500, and
ten times as much good land still
uncultivated. Lumber abundant
for all purposes. Acres in cotton
19,000; acres in corn, '6900; in
wheat, etc., 500, There are in. the
county fifteen steam mills tor grist
and* sawing lumber, and sixty-five
cotton gins and presses. Average
product of corn per acre, 25 bush
els ; of cotton, 400 lbs. lint; of
wheat 12 bushels. Acres "cultiva
ted by one hand from 15 to 20.
Abput two thirds of the farm laV> r
is done by* white laborers ; wages
§ls per month. The freedmen are
nearly worthless and not improv
ing.' Good improved* lands are
worth $lO per acre; gopd unim
proved, §2 to $4. Lands are leased
in-the county principally "at one
fourth cotton and one third of oth
er crops. All farm products are
abundant and cheap at prices about
the same as in the other counties
nominated. No railroad in this
county yet. Galveston is the chief
market. There arc no minerals, but
is abundant, there is
one cotton factory and one stone
ware factory in this- county. The*
town of Bastrop has 1200 inhabi
tants ; churches and schools are all
over tho ‘county. The Colorado
River runs through the county, and
has been navigated by steamers
but it requires improvement to
make it valuable.
caylor county.
This eounty is unorganized.—
Area 900 square miles, its bounda
ries and rivers may bo seen by re
fering to the map* of Texas, (which
I can furnish your readers at short
notice.) The Brazos River runs
through it, and its bottom lauds are
very rich. This county is mostly
high, broken, and rocky. The hills
rise nearly to mountains between
the Brazos and Big Wichita. This
is at present a stock county with
but few inhabitants.
BEE QOUNTY,
County Seat, Beeville. Popula
tion about 1000. Area,' 900 square
miles. 'Lids is almost exclusively a
stock-raising county, and the few
inhabitants have, many of them,
very large stocks of cattle and some
.flocks of sheep, the increase of
which has made them quite wealthy
from a Small beginning, in a few
years.- The soil is sandy and gen
erally poor. The want of seasona
ble rains in summer renders qrops
uncertain here And the counties
west of hcre % Lands are very
cheap, and are free to all without
purchase for stock-raising. Provis
ions are quite abundant and cheap.
St. Marys is the chief market. I
may here remark that in all of my
travels I found provisions plentiful
and.the best the market afforded.—
The Texans dont seem to care any
thing for sh.ow or dress, bat they
are going to have a plenty to eat
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1872,
and that that is good,
BELL COUNTY,
County Seat, Belton. ‘ Area,
1097 square miles; population, 10,-
000 (9000 white, -and black.lOoo )
Acres in cultivation 25,000. Good
farming land not cultivate 50,000
acres, three-fourths of the county
is'prairie, the rest woodland.
The products.of this county are
the same as the others, cotton and
corn the staple products. One hand
usually cultivates 20 acres ; wages
§lB per month, specie. The usual
price of good farmlands sls per
acre,, unimproved $5, pasture lands
§l. Provisions are • plenty and
cheap. The. usual prices are for
corn 50 cts.; wheat $1,50 ; oats §1 ;
barley, slpotatoes, §1,50 ; syrup,
75 cts. per gallon ; butter 12+ cts;
lard, 10 cts; bacon, 12|; beef, 2
cts ; mutton,.3 cts ; honey, 12+ cts.
per lb; poultry, per dozen $3;
eggs, per dozen 10 stock cat
tle §4; milch cows, $10; oxen
per yoke §3O; farm horse §6O ;
mules $75 ; hogs, §2 ; sheep, §1,50.
This county is equally divided be
tween farming and stock-raising.—
All farqiers havo stock around
them.of all-kinds, $s they are raised
with scarcely any trouble or expense.
BEXAR COUNTY*,
County’ Seat, San Antonio. Area
1456 square miles. San Antonio is
next to Galveston, perhaps the lar
gest city in the State, "with a popu
lation of some 18,000. This city
Yvas founded by the Spaniards more
than a.century ago and a large por
tion of its population are Mexicans.-
There are a large number of schools*
in this city. The public free school,
with from 200 to 300 pupils, There
is also a Catholic College for fe
males, aud a German and English
school that is admirably sustained.
The San Antonio and San I’edro
.Rivers wind their way through the
city and arc of immense value*"to
the county. The lands are watered
by irrigation, and arc worth from
§5 to SSO . per acre, according to
locality. . T. M. A.
Changes in tjie Bankrupt Law.
—Congress, on Monday, passed a
bill amendatory of the bankrupt
law. It allows all exemptions al
lowed by State law on the first day 7
of January, 1871. It also exempts
a widow’s dower, or other estate in
lieu thereof, if the State law so pro
vides ; also life insuiance to the
amount of five thousand dollars.—
The time during which bankrupts
may be discharged upon payment of
fifty per cent, of their indebtedness
extended .until July Ist, 1873;
judgments obtained against persons
of property, before petitions in
bankruptcy are filed, are to be lirSs
and fully satisfied. Changes in thr
methods of appointing registrate,
in the matter of marshal’s fees and
other less important particulars,
are also mader.— Exchange.
Nickel. —The fact may .not . be
generally* known that the consider
able quantity of nickel, from which
our smaller coins are made, comes
from a single mine, which is the
only one in the country* that is now
being worked. This mine is situa
ted in\Lancaster county, Pennsyl
vania ;it has been worked for sev
enteeo years and developed to a
depth of two hundred feet. - The
length of the lode is between two
and three thousand feet and it pro
duces from- four hundred to six
hundred tons per month employing
in the working of the mine a force
of one hundred and seventy-five
men. In the. arts, nickel is growing
rapidly into favor as a substitute
for silver, in plating steel, iron and
other metals. Its commercial de
mand is rapidly increasing, and as
it is much cheaper .than silver will
undoubtedly be adopted in'the man
ufacture of many articles as a sub
stitute for that more precious met
al.
—lt is a great mistake to set up
our own standard *of right and
wrong, and judge people accord
ingly. It is a great mistake] to
measure the enjoyment of others
by our own ; to expect uniformity
of opinion in this world; to look
for judgment and experience in
youth ; to endeavor to mold all dis
positions alike ; not to yield in im
material trifles; to look for perfec
tion in our own actions ; to. worry
ourselves and others with what can
not be remedied.; not to alleviate
all that needs alleviation, so far as
lies in our power ; to consider ev
erything impossible which we can
not perform ; to believe only what
our infinite minds can grasp; to
expect to be able to understand ev
erything. The greatest of all mis
takes is to live only for time when
any moment may launch us into
eternity.
Two friends meeting, one re
marked, “ I have just met a man
who told me I looked exactly like
you.” “ Tell me wliq it was, that
I may knock him down,” replied
his friend. “ Don’t trouble your
self,” said he, “ I did that myself.”
Romance of the Roof
Camly Pulling Cat astro
phv.
Mark Twain tells the following:
"When I was fourteen I was liv
ing with my parents, who were very
poor, and correspondingly honest.
We had a youth living with us by
th name of Jim Wolfe. He was an
excellent fellow, seventeen years
old and very diffident. He and I
slept together—and one very bitter
winter’s night a ccrusin • Mary of
mine—she is marriudnow and gone
gave what they called a candy,
pulling in those dayg in the west,
and they took tiie saucers of ho t
candy outside the house into the
snow, under a sort of' old bower
that came out from the eaves—it
was sort of an ell then, all covered
with vines—to cool this hot candy
in the spow, and they were all sit
ting around there, in the meantime
we were gone to bed ; wo were not
invited to. attend this party, we
were too young. All these young
ladies and gentlemen assembled
there,.and Jim and I were in bed.
There was about four indues of snow
on die roqf of. this ell, and our win
dow looked out into it, and it was
frozen very hard.
A couple of cats were .assembled,
on the chimney in the middle of this
ell, and they ivero growling at a
fearful rate, and switch’ng their.
tails about % and going on, and we
could not sleep at all. Finally Jim
.said, “for two cents I’d go and
shake them cats oft* that chimney ;”
so I said, “of course you would ; ”
“well,” he said, “well, I would;
I have a mighty good notion to do
it;” say*s I, “of course you have a
great notion to do it.” I hoped he
might try it, bu( I wag afraid he
wouldn’t. Finally I did get his am
bition up, and he raised the window
and climbed out on the" icy* roof,
with nothing on but his socks and a
very short shirt. lie went climb
ing along on all fours on the roof,
toward the chimney where the cats
were.. In the meantime these young
ladies and gentlemen were enjoying
themselves down under the eaves,
and when Jim got almost to th.e
chimney, he made a pass at the cats,
and his heels flew up and lie shot
down and crashed through
vines and lit in the midst of these
ladies and gentlemen", aud sat down
in those hot saitcers of candy, and
there was a general stampede, of
course, and he came up stairs
dropping pieces of china-ware and'
candy all the way up, and when
he got there—now, anybody in tbe
world would have gone into pro
fanty or something calculated .to
relieve the mind under such circm
stances, but he didn't—he scraped
the candy* off his legs, nursed his
blisters a little, and said : “I could
have ketched them ctfts if I hadn’t
slipped.”
“ Coming thro’ the- Rye” —A
New* Version. —ls a cat doth meet
a cat upon the garden waif, and if
a cat doth greet a cat, oh, need
there be a squall l? Every Tommy*
has bi3 Tabby, waiting on the wall,
and yet she welcomes Ins approach
with an unearthly yawl. And if a
kitten wish to court a cat upon a
w*all, why don’t he sit and siveetly
smile, and not stand* up aud bawl,
and lift his precious teeth, and
moan and main, as it ’twere colic
more than love, thqt made the fel
ler groan ? Among the twain there
is a swain—his voice is known full
well—but what’s his name and whores
his shame, I- do uotcare to tell. He’s
sweet upon tlie other sex, his valo
nous passions rise; he can’t resist
►the tender glance of their seductive
eyes; and so w ith groans and hor :
rid threats lie rends the evening
air, and makes those midnight ren
dezvous impossible to bear.
Counsel fob Parents. —[Nerv-
ous children suffer untold agonies
from fear when put to bed alone. —
No tongue qan tell the horrors of a
lonesome room to.such children.—
A little delicate boy -whom his pa
rents were drilling to sleep alone
used to cry violently every night,
and his father would come in and
whip him. ' He mistook his perti
nacity for obstinacy, and he thought
it his duty to conquer the child’s
will. One night he said : “ Why
do y6u always scream so, when
you know you will be punished ?”
“ Oh, father, father !” said the lit
fellow, “ I don’t mind you whip
ping me, if you only stay with me.”
The father’s eyes were opened from
that moment. lie saw that a hu
man being cannot bo governed by
dead rules, like 14 plant or an ani
mal.
They say that the potato . bug
in Kansas is causing all the con
verted farmers to back slide.
Thoughts.
And, after all, what is wealth ?
and in the,end what matters pover
ty ? The rude box that contains
the poor man’s remains is as soft a
resting place for the dead as the
splendid receptacles prepared for
the rich..
The briny tear of the poor man’s
child shed in grief over her father’s
grave, is as heart born and pure as
that of a princes's shed at the tomb
of the king.
<The wild rose, planted by his dis
consolate wife to mark the spot
where her hopes lie buried, is as
noble tribute to his honest fame as
the stately monument of marble or
brass erected to the memory of the
rich.
And at the last day when the
trumpet shall sound-to awaken the
dead, it will as soon arouse the poor
man from his humble sleep beneath
the sod as the rich man who re
clines in a princely vault, and the
green sward that covers the one
yields up its charge as readily as
the marble tomb that contains the
other*
What, then, is the distinction be
tween'the rich and the poor, the
high and low, tho noble and the ig
noble liy birth ? Miserable worms
that we are, the span of life is but a
dot on tho cycle "of eternity; and
yet wo live in arrogance and folly
as though our days were not num
bered.
"Occupation.-- What a. glorious
thing it is for the human heart !
Those who work hard seldom yield
to fancied or real sorrow*. When
grief sits dow*n, folds its hands, and
mo'ninfully foods upon its fears,
weaving the dim shadoivs that a
little exertion might sweep away
into a funeral pall, the strong spirit
is shorn of its might, and sorrow
becomes, the blaster. When troub
le flows upon you dark and heavy,
toil not with the waves, and wres
tle not with the torrent, rather
Seek by* occupation to divert the
dark Yvatcrs that threaten to over
whelm you with a thousand chan-,
uels, Yvhicli the duties of life al
ways present. Before you dream
of it those waters will fertilize the
present and give birth to fresh
flowers, lb at-w ill become pure and
holy in tile sunshine which pene-.
trates to the path of duty in spite of
every obstacle. Grief after all is
but a selfish feeling, and most self
ish is the man who yields himself
to the indulgences of any passion
which brings no joy to his fellow
man.
* Shun * Affectation.-^— I There is
nothing more beautiful in the young
than simplicity of character. It is
honest, frank and attractive. How
different is affectation. -The simple
minded are always natural. They
are, at the same time, original. The
affected are never natural. As for
originality, if they ever had it, they
have crushed it out, and buried it
from sight utterly. Be yourself,
then, young friend. To attempt
to be.any body else is worse than
folly*. It is an impossibility to at
tain it. It is contemptible to try it.
But suppose you could succeed in
-imitating the greatest man that ev
er figured in history, would that
make you any better ?. By no
means. You would always suffer
in •comparison with the imitated
one, and be thought of only as a
shadow of a substance, the echo of
a real sound, and the counterfeit of
a pure coin. Let the fabric of your
character, though ever so humble
be at least real. Shun affectation.
To Young Men. —Young man
save that penny ; pick up that' pin ;
let that account be correct to a far
thing—find out- what that article
cost before you say you will take it
—pay that half dime your friend
handed you to make change with, —
in a word, be accurate, know what
you are doing, be honesty and then
be generous, for all you , have or re
quiie thus belongs to you by every
rule of right and you may put it to
any good use you please. It is not
parsimony to be economical. It is
not miseroy to save a pin from loss.
It is not selfish to be correct in
your dealings. It is not small to
know the price of articles you are
about to purchase,an- to remember
that little debt you owe. What if
you do meet Bill Pride decked out
in a much better suit than yours,
the price of which he has not learn
ed from the tailor, who laughs at
your faded dress, and old-fashioned
uotious of honesty and right,' your
day will come. Franklin from a
penny-saving boy, walking in . the
streets with a loaf of bread under
his arm, became the companion of
Kings. . . *. ■ >
71 a son if Miscellany.
Let each love all—and all be
free-
The bible is the charter of the
Mason’s liberties.
Masonry is a school of the best
feelings of the heart.
Let no man call God his Father,
who calls not man his brother.
If our.symbols were better taught
we should need less of srde-de
grees.
As in the Creation, tjyening came*
before morning, so in our raystis
work.
Anti- masory blew its blast and
purified Masonry by blowing out
the chaff. . •
Masonry is a progressive science
and to be obtained only by time,-pa
tience and industry.
In tbe Lodge there are no Mon
archists, or Aristocrats, or Repub
lican—but Masons—Brethren
It is impossible for Masonry to
degenerate; the worst evil that can
befall it is the negloct of its friends.
The Masonic is a Society whose
liberal principles are founded in the
immutable laws of Truth and Jus
tice.
Observe well the old landmarks
—inquire after the old paths and
rally around the old standards of our
fathers.
• There is but one road leading to
the portals of Masonry, the king and
his most humble subject must trav
el the same way.
Henry Clay was as early as 1809.
In 1819 he was Grand Orator of the
Grand Lodge of Kentucky, and in
1821 its Grand Master.
Masonry needs no voice, boyond
its own mild and endearing precept
and teachings to bespeak its claims
to the just estimation and confi
dence of thp world.
Were I to "travel in a foreign
country, I should consider my Ma
sonic relations the surest safeguard,
aside from Divine protection that
could be thrown around me.
The mission of Freemasonry is
one of mildness and peace. It car
ries with it no.panoply qf power,
but its own purpose; its own eice!
ence and value.
If Yve disregard in our inter
course with the world, the duties
which Maspnry teaches we cannot
hope to advance its reputation,
or to impress upon the uninitiated
the value of the Institution.
In the year 1425 Freemasonry
was prohibited in England, occa.
sioned principally by tho Bishop of
Winchester, Yvbo was desirous of
obtaining sole government of
the State of affairs, and conceived
the idea that the Craft, as a body,
was inimical to his designs.
The duty of relieving the dis
tressed is unequivocally taught by
the Gospel of Christ, and enjoined
as an item of Christian faith and
practice ; yet it can be said without
fear of contraction, that no class of
men has ever carried them out so
invariably and universally, as the
members of the Masonic Fraterni
ty.
Keep it to Yourself.
You have trouble; your feelings
are injured, your husband is unkind,
your wife frets, your home is not
pleasant, your brethren do not
treat you just right, and things in
general move unpleasanlty.
Well, what of- it ? Keep it to
yourself. A smouldering fire can
be found and extinguished ; but
when the coals are scattered, who
can pick them up ? Firebrands,
when together, can be troden un
der foot, but when tied to the tails
of Samson’s foxes, it is difficult to
tell where they will burn.
Burry your sorrow. The place
for sad and disgusting things is un
.der the ground. A sore finger is
not improved by pulling off the rag
and sticking it in every body’s
face ; tie it up and let it alone ;it
will get well itself sooner than you
can cure it. Charity covereth a
multitude of sins. Things thus
covered are.often cured without a
scar y .but when they are once pub
lished and. confined to medling
friends, there is no end to the
trouble they may cause.
Keep it to yourself. Troubles are
transient, and when a sorrow is
healed and past, what a comfort it
is to say, “No one ever knew it
until it was all over.”
— 1 < "
If there is really a delightfully re
freshing sight on this earth, it is a
newly married man sliding toward
home with his first washboard.
—“ I will preach frem dat por
tion of the Scripture dis evening,”
*Baid a colored dominie, “ where the
’Postle Paul pints his ’Pistle at the
’Phesians.”
Mixed Families.
Marriages sometimes make queer
relationships. A man out .West
writes to one of the papers, giving
his own status as follows :
“I married a widow who had a
grown up daughter, My father
visited our house very often, and
fell in love with my step-daughter,
and married her. So my father be
came my son-in law, and my step
daughter my mother, because site
was my father’s- wife. Sometime
aftefward, my wife had a son; he
was my father’s brother-in-law and
my uncle, for he was the brother of
my step-daitghter. My father’s
wife —i. e., my step-daughter—had
also a son, he was, of course, my
brother, and in the meantime my
daughter. My wife was my grand
mother, Because she was my
mother’s mother. . I was my wife’s
husband and grand child at the
same time. And as the husband of
a person’s grand-mother is his
grand-father I was my own grand
father.”
Gone Out Forever. —Like droop
ing, dying stars, our dearly loved
ones go away from our sight. The
stars of our hopes, our ambitions,
our prayers; whoso light ever shines
before us, suddenly pale in the firm
ament of our hearts, and their
place is left empty, cold, and dark.
A mother’s steady, soft, and earn •
est light, that beamed through
wants and sorrow ; a father’s strong,
quick light, that kept our feet from
stumbling in the dark and treach
erous ways; a sister’s light, so
mild, so-pure, so constant and so
firm, shining upon us from gentle,
loving eyes, and persuading us to
grace and goodness; a brother’s
light, forever sleeping in our soul,
and illuminating our goings and
comings ; a Triend’s light, true aud
trusty—gone out forever ! No 1
the light has not .gone out. It is
shining beyond the stars, *ivhcre
there is no darkness forever and for
ever.
Old John Robinson met with a
mishap at Bingliainpton, New York,
on the 13th. His menagerie and
aquarium tents " were blown down
and" the wagons tilted over, while
the tents were full of people. Sev
eral persons Were injured, but not
seriously. The crowd of terribly
frightened people, in a drenching
pelting storm, and amid the up
turned cages of roaring and shriek
ing animals, presented a wild and
most appaling scene.
We don’t know who Hiram Green
is, but his head is level. Recently
he said:
All the difference I can see be
tween the late Artemus Ward and
U. S. Grant is, that Artemus Ward
was willing to sacrifice all his own
and his wife’s relaahuns to save the
country, while U, S. G. is willing
to sacrifice the country to save all
his OYvn and his wife’s relasliuns.
. A story is told of an editor
who di<?d and went to heaven, but
was denied admittance, lest be
should meet some delinquent sub
scribers, and bad feelings be en
gendered in that peaceful clime. —
Having to go somewhere, .the edi
tor next appeared in the regions of
darkness, bht was positively re
fused admittance, as the place was
full of delinquent subscribers.—
Wearily the editor turned to the
celestial city, and was met by the
watchman at the portals with a smile,
who said : “ I was mistaken ; you
can enter —there is not a delin
quent subscriber in heaver.”
Punctual Men.— “ Punctual
men,” says A. Ward, “ are nuis
ances. Where their heart should
beat they have only a clock ticking.
Your # Doctor is like the one I tell
about sometimes. lie was very
punctual. When his wife died he
went to her funeral. As the earth
fell on her coffin everybody around
cried. AH he did was to take out
bis watch, look at the time and
say; “Well, we’ve got her under
and its just twenty minutes past
two !”
Is it So ?—Some one . who as
sumes to know says that womanly
despair for the loss of a lover en
dures three months in the winter,
and two in the summer ; the sec
ond month the lady becomes inter
ested in the new style of hair dress
ing; the third she burns her love
letters. Twelve months afterward
she bears of her lover’s marriage,
and wonders how she could have
loved a man with a red moustache.”
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A Western New York miss
ungardedly volunteered the remark
in the family circle that when gen
tlemen eat warm maple sugar it
gets into their rqustaches and makes
them scratch.” Her father is curi
ous to know how she found it. out.
NO 27.
Five Points ot Fellow
ship.
Brothers, come auil let us ponder
What we Masons vowed to do,
When, prepared at vernier altar.
We assumed the solemn vow ;
Foot and knee, breast, hand and cheek—
Let them now our duties speak. ♦
Foot to foot on mercy's errand.
When we hear a brother's cry,
Hungry, thisty, barefoot, naked,
With God's mercy, fly;
This of all our thought the chief,
How we best may bring relief.
Knee to knee, in earnest praying,
None but God to hear or heed
All our woes and sins confessing
Let us tor each oiher plead ;
Let the spirit of our call
Be to pray for brother all.
Breast to breast; in sacred casket,
At life’s center let us seal
Every truth to us entrusting,
Nor one holy thing reveal;
What a Mason vowed to shield
Let him die but never yield I
Hand to back; a brother's falling—
See ! his burdens are too great!
Stretch Ibe generous band and hold him
Up before it is too late;
Each right hand's a Masou's prop
Made to hold another up.
Cheek to check; in timely warning,
When the temptor strives to win.
Urge a brothers bouudeu duty.
• Warn him of approaching sin—
Warn him of the deadly snare,
Win hiqi with a brother's care.
Brothers! often let us ponder
What we Masons'vowed to do,
When prepared at yonder altar
We assumed the solemn vow ;
Foot and knee, breast, hand and cheek,
Let them oft our duties speak.
Work and Win —Whatever you
try to do in life, try with all your
heart to do well; whatever you de
vote yourself to, devote yourself to
completely; in great aims and
small be thouroughly in earnest.
Never believe it possible that any
natural or improved ability can
claim immunity from the compan
ionship of the steady, plain, hard
working qualities, and hope to gain
its end. There is no such thing or
such fulfillments on this earth.—'
Some happy talent and some fortu
nate opportunity may form the two
sides of the ladder must be made of
stuff to staud wear and tear; and
there is no substitute for thorough
going, ardent and sincere earnest
ness. Never put one hand to any
thing on which you cannot throw
your whole self, never affect depre
ciations of your work, whatever it
is. These you will find to be gol
den rules.
Why do Children Die ?
In answer to this question, the
Medical Record holds the following
language:
‘ The reason why children die is
because they arc not taken care of.
Prom the day of birth they are
stuffed with water, suffocated in
hot rooms and steamed in hot bed
clothes. So much for indoor. When
permitted to breath a breath of pure
air once a week in summer, and
once or twice during the colder
months, only the nose is permitted
to peer into daylight. A little
later they are eent out with no
clothes at all on the parts of the
bodyjwhich most need protection.
Bare legs, bare arms, bare necks,
girted middles, with an inverted
umbrella to collect the air and chill
the other parts of the body. 'A
stout strong man goes out on a cold
day with gloves and overcoat, wool
in stockings, and thick double
soled hoots, with cork between and
rubber over.
The same day a child of three
days old, an infant of flesh and
blood-, bone and constitution, goes
out with hose as thin as paper, cot
ton socks, legs uncovered to the
knees, neefc bare, an exposure which
would disable the nurse, kill the
mother out right, and make the fa
ther an invalid for weeks. And
why ? To harden them to a mode
of dress which they are never ex
pected to practice. To accustom
them to exposure which a dozen
years later would be considered
downright foolery. To rear chil
dren thus for the slaughter pen, and
then lay it to the Lord, is too bad.
We don’t think the Almighty bad
any hand in it.”
A good deacon, making an
official visit to a dying neighbor,
who was a very churlish and un
popular man, put the usual ques
tion, “ Are you willing to go, my
friend ?” “Oh j es,” said the sick
man, “I am!” “Well,” said the
simple minded deacon, “Pm glad
you are, for all the Neighbors an
willing!”
An old lady thinks the bonds
must he a family of 6trong religious
instincts, because she hears of so
many being converted.