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VOL. VI. .THE APPEAL. PUBI.IKHED EVERY FRIDAY, By J. P. SAWTELI. Terms of Subscription: One Year...,S3 00 ['Six Months....*2 00 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. }LBT“ Ko.Rttention paid to orders for the pa £er uutfess accompanied by the Cash. Ratos of Advertising; : One square, (ten lines or less,) $1 00 for the first and 75 cents for each subsequent inser tion. A liberal deduction made to parties \vho advertise by the year. Persons sending advertisements should mark the number of times they desire them inser ted, or they willtbe continued until forbid and '•liarged accordingly. . Transient advertisements must be paid for at the time of insertion. If not paid for before the expiration of the time advertised, 25 per cent, additional will be charged. Announcing names of candidates for olhce, |5.00. Cash, in all eases. Obituary notices over five lines, charged at regular.advertising ra , es. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of. Corporations, So cieties, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisements. „ ~ x „. . * Jon Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars, Cards, Blanks', Handbills,etc., will he execu ted in good style and at reasonable rates. • All letters addressed to the Proprietor wif be promptly attended to. 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, OK 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.” m • ————— 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.