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XVrtst Oike Another.
Look into your brother's eyes, man,
■And bid him read your own ;
One half (ho si rife of human life
Is born of guile alone!
Deceit creates full half our bates,
And half our loVc it slays
Look in eaoh other’s eyes, man,
And meet each other's gaze.
I’ardqn your brother’s faults, man,
And ask that ho fo’rgiv,
Colnld -human sin no pardon win,
s*o mortal soul might live.
No need of Heaven.were none forgiven.
For none would reach its doors :
Pardon your brother’s faults,‘man
And bid him pardon yours.
Feel for your brother’s grief, man,
No 1 ierfrt is saleTmni wo,
Though- lips and eyes full oft deny,
•The sorrowing weight below,
A gentle \v4fo, a pitying smile.
May sweetest balm impart.
Feel for your brother's grief, man,
And may you win his heart.
Stand by your brother’s side, man,
And bid him clasp your band,
ro’liim be just and yield the (rust
That you from him demand.
How simply wise, with soul and eyes,
To trust and still be true
Do to tbos</we love mar,
~ What we would have them do.
A Beautiful Exper^kxt.—The
following beautiful chemical expo
r.ment may be easily performed by
a lady, to the great astonishment of
a circle at her tea party : Take two ,
cr three leaves of red cabbage, cut
fie.m into small bits, put them into
i basin, an.d pour a pint ot boiling
water on them ; let it stand an hour,
Jien pour it off into. a decanter. It
will be a finefelue color. Then take
four wine glasses; into one put six
drops of strong vinegar; into an
other six drops of solution of Soda;
nto the third a strong solution of
alum, and let the fourth remain em
pty-. The glasses may be prepared
some time before, and the few drops
of colorless liquid that have been
placed in them will*nOt be- noticed.
Fill up the glasses from the decan
'ter, and the liquid poured into the
-glass containing the acid will be
come a beautiful red ; the glass con
taining the soda will become a fine
green; that poured into the empty
one will . remain unchanged. By
adding a little" vinegar to the green
It will immediately change to a led,
and on adding a little solution of
Soda to-the red it will assume a fine
green, thus showing the action of
RCids and alkalies on vegetable blues.
Grief.—Oh, grief ! thou art class,
fed amongst the depressing passions.
And true it is, that thou humblest
to the dust, but also thou exaltesf to
the clouds. Thou ehakest as with
ague, but also thou steadiest like
frost. Thou sickenest the heart,
but also thou healest it’s infirmities.
— ■ 4»» :
. Thirty persons were recently pois.
oned at Coral, Michigaj), by eating
Sausages. That’s what comes of
leaving the brass collars on dogs.
From the Augusta CoptiUition (list:
The Fence CfcuesfWii.
The-fence question has long been
agitated in agricultural periodicals
and by State Legislatures. That it
is a matter of great importance can
not be denied. The great mistake
seems to be:that fences are built t°
keep out, instead of keeping in stock.
In several States a change in this re
spect has lately been made by law.
In these States the penalty of pay
ing daina'ges wlterg cattle are killed
by railroad trains is cast upon the
owners of the animals instead of up
on the companies. The reason giv
en for this change in the law is very
sensible, viz: that railroad compa
nies and the traveling .public suffer’
far more by the detention of anc( in
jury to trains by the running qver
and collisions with cattle on the
track, than the farmers do by the
loss ot the stock. Nor, say the fra
mers of the law, is this all, for hu-'
man life itself is endangered by cat
tle being suffered to wander about
upon railroad tracks upon which
trains, loaded with passengers, are
constantly running.
The Atlanta Limitation, for De
cember, prints a valuable article on
the Fence Question, front the pen of
Rev. C. W. Howard. Mr. Howard
in October last, addressed certain
inquirice/to the Presidents'of the
several railways ■in • Georgia, upon
the aiqouot of their losses undeu the
head of stock killed. The answers
disclose the fact, that the annual'
reel:.mations from these roads, by
owners of stock running at large
aggregate to about seventy thousand
dollars.
To this amount is to be added
"losses from accident to the trains in
running over them, and the injuries
sustained by passengers and Lain
officers and. hands. . tinder the first
item, the Georgia Road alone paid
for the year ending with last April
$11,278 30 ; and one cold, stormy,
dark night, last winter, had a.train
wrecked and some of the passengers
hurt—one of them fatally—run
ning over the working seers of a'
neighbor!mg farmer, (so called,)
who had rewarded his cattle for a
days labor by turning them out doors
on such a night to brows on the lit
tle dead and withered herbage they
could find ou a December night
Thus, instead of being punished for
cruelty to life cattle, and for jeop
ardizing human lives on an express
train, he got an exorbitant price for
his steers, the railway pocketed a
heav-y loss and the passengers accep
ted their danger and sufferings with
out renio n'strsfnce.
Mr. II ’Ward sums up his long and
able article as follows:
The evil effect of the present
fence law may be thus summed
U P : '•.' '
1. It causes a hazard of human
lifg upon our railroads.
2. It impedes business, by imped
ing the speed-of railroad trains.
3. It imposes >t lax of more than.
SIOO,OOO annually upon the railroad
and (hrough them upon the people
of Georgia, who, in the end pay
it.
4. It causes a large aica of land
in the older counties to be thrown
out, to grow up in briers and use
less bushes* In those counties there
is not timber enough to refence the
plantations, and where there is, the
negroes will not split the rails.
5. It thus greatly diminishes the
taxable property of the State, inas
much as thousands of acres of .land
now useless would be brought into
piofilable cultivation, if it were not
for the necessity of refencing
them.
G. The fence tax which the land:-
holder pays is ten fold the amount
of all the other taxes paid by him.
7. The moral effect of the present
fence law is bad, as it promotes ani‘
mosaics and litigation among the
neighbors from the necessarily im
perfect way in which it is carried,
out. A lawful fence is of rare oc
curence in the olderTounties.
8. The repeal -of the fence law
would libeiate an incredible amount
of life and energy amotig farmers
from the depression caused their
inability to work their own lands
for want of fencing material.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, F.RIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1873.
9. While the number of our live
stock might be diminished by the
repeal of the fence law, (though that
is problematic), its character and
value w'ould be improved. It.is al
most impossible to improve live
stock where inferior male cattle,
hogs or sheep run at largo. A tri
lling animal may be turned out to
live or.die as it may happen; but it
is only a valuable animal of its kind
that the farmer, would take the
pains to keep in an inclosed pas
ture.
10. One of the most rapid, and at
the same time economical methods
of improving land, is to allow its
natural growth to fall upon it and
decay. Under the existing fence
law, when a piece of ground is turn
ed out it becomes the grazing ground
for the neighborhood. Every valu
able planx is eaten out; the grasses
are killed and it becomes occupied
by useless: busbar, which impover
ish rather than enrich the soil. This
grazing is legalized theft upon the
property of the land-holder
1,1. The existing fence law is un
constitutional, as it embarasses the
property-holder in the peacublo use
of his own properly.
These eleven points are capable
of abundant argume»iLa4»d illustra
lion. They are pfeented in lids
explicit form to be amplified byofelt
ers. -
The writer doe% not pretend, to
offer a law whichfully- meet
the emergency. Tfife fttfhjerit' is not
without difficulties'. No law Can he
framed which will nbt bear hardly
upon some person. Butwe certain
ly have legal minds who'can devise
some’means by which the •,present
intolerable burden may be lighten
ed. -
The fence law, so far as it relates
to the railroads, we are informed by
Major. Screven, was made the sub
ject of a printed report to tho Legi
slature in 1869. A bill passed the
last. Legislature granting certain
privileges to several counties, which
was the begijiing of legislation in
the right direction, but which is
said to be defective in its details
and limited in its scope. The wri
ter, thus far, has been unable to pro
cure a copy of either the report or
the bill. As the proprietors of the-
Plantation are within easy reach
of these documents, they would do
good by the publication of both of
them.
Practically, this fencing in the
Stock and.turning out the crops is
found to work well. In large por
lions of the European continent,
this is the practice. In fact, it
would be impossible to fence in the
crops. A fence law like our own
would depopulate a large portion of
Europe, as it must before long de
populate the cider portions of Geor
gia. . . . -• '
As this is a subject of common
importance to the railroads and to
the land holders, and these are the
two commanding interests of t~e
State, the writer ventures, respect,
fully, to suggest a conference be
tween the authorities of the State
Agricultural Society and the i ail
roads. Such a conference might
restdt in (he framing of a bill which
would be acceptable to the Legisla
ture and relieve the people from
the burdens of the present fence
law. C. W. Howard.
Test of Cuaiucter.—We may
judge of a man’s character by what
he loves, as readily as by his asso
ciates. If a person is wed to low
and sordid objects —if he takes de
light in that backanalian revel, the
vulgar song and.debasing language
—wb can at once tell the complex
ion of his mind. On the contrary,
if lia is found in the society of the
good—if he loves purity and truth
—we are satisfied that he is an up
right man. A mind debased will
not be found in a holy assembly, nor
among the wise and good. He
whose affections are encircled by
goodness, Seeks not bis gratification
at the haunts of vice.
There is this difference between
happiness and wisdpm; he that
thinks himself the happiest man, re
ally is so, but he thinks'himself the
wisest-man, is generally the greaest
fool.
Health.
Health is the foundation of all
individual and national happiness
and prosperity, moral,- socil, mental
and material. \Vithout it, the labor
of the brain, the heart and arm is
in vain. .The bruit? -is. weakened
and bewildered by sickness, the
arms crippled, paralyzed, aud. the
heart becomes liarlened and selfish,
and ceases to burn with the noblest
of virtues—pity and sympathy for
the poor and ignorant, and charity
for the weak and sinning. In view
of the essential importance of health
to both our temporal and eternal
destiny; it is strange how it is neg
lected and wantonly and criminally
abused.
..We are probably the most sickly
and short-lived civilized nation on
the globe. This is the more singu
lar when we relict that our skies
are bright, our soil productive and
our population scattered and r.mall
in number. In Asia and Europe
where the air is poison, food scarce,
and the masses are crowded in filthy
garrets and huts, exposed to the
heat of summer aud the ice of winter,
ragged and without medicines, no
wonder that-man is of tew days, his
life full of sickness and misery. It
slianld be fnr different here where
no tropic sun scorches with its kiss
.aud no polar snows freeze the blood
'astt goes sluggishly through the
veins. Our afflictions spring not
from the ground or from the skies
—our blessings - are turned ihto
curses, not by God, but ourselves.
No stranger hand strikes the deadly
blow-. We are our own execution
ers. Wo cease to enjoy when we
abuse, and our very liberty rivets
the most crushing and burning
chains upon our limbs. Weexhaust.
vitality enough in a few nights of
dissipation and few days of frantic
struggle for wealth, fame and pow
er than a European would do
year: and this too, when we speak
the language, read the literature,
study the laws and worship the God
of a bravo and hardy race whose
flag lias been borne in thunder and
triumph on every land and sea. ■ •
The causes of our bad heallh as
individuals and as a people, lie deep
hid. in the domestic manners and
customs of our country.' They or.
iginale in our amusements; our
dress; our abase of the natural laws
of health and then a resort to quack
cures j our haste for riches ; our
food and its preparation, and in.tbe
general want of system and adapta
tion to a single trade, profession,
labor and pursuit. We have only
time and space .to refer to one of
the many causes which influence
and slimlate our ill-health and pre
mature deaths. ...
We live too fast. We eat, sleep,
play and work in confusion and
* We swallow, not chew, our
frequently badly cooked food with
out that best aid to digestion—cheer
ful conversation. We believe an
ounce of preventation is better than
a pound of cure and that all the
Doctors in the world can -never
bring back health once lost by dissi
pation, exposure and gluttony. If
we bad the power exercised by the
President, we would found, a cook,
ing-cojlege to be conducted by Pro
fessors in strict subordination to
the principles of chemical science,
and make It death without benea l
of clergy for a man to wear a dirty
shirt longer than a month ; to sleep
a week in a bog hole without food
or fire; loose a minute in eating and
conversational the table and not
whistle and doff his hat and. place it
on one side in the company of ladies
—and never care a dur-n. Great is
Radicalism and such Chesterfields
are its prophets.
The editor ot one of our ex
changes has just had his family re
inforced, and'makes the following
remarks :
JJiug out wild bells—anrl tame ones toe —
Ring out the lovt'r’s moon,
Ring out the little slips and socls,
Ring in the bib and spoon ;
Ring out the muse, ring in the nurse,
• Ring in the milk and water,
Away with paper, pens and ink—
. My daughter, oh, roy daughter.
-When women are’ iu arms they
never oppose the liberty of the press.
Hill Arp oil Freedom.
Fra’hot rekonsiled. I thought I
was, but I ain’t- I’ve been irying
to make’ peace and make friends
ever.since the confounded old war was
over but it wont do. I’ve seen folks
cursin round by the day, like they
was tryin to get even that way, but
they didn’t*- * I’ye knowned some to
moan and grieve over it till they
pined away and died out of it. I
don’t know whether that was a auo
ces or not. Talk about ma::nerM.
customs and statistik 1 Why wo
wasn’t the same pqgple. A Geog
raphy made in January '65, wasent
worth a cent in June ? We didn’t
have the same ways. We was sub
jugated, superceeded, and that'new
clover begun to Bpread all over the
sunny land. Jim Mullens says it
always grows in conkered countries.
It was curioqs to see the darkies
steppin off the lot without axin.
The pass bisness was abolished be
fore we ever though about it. I've
got some printed ones now as a me
morial.
“Let the bearer, Cim, go to his
wife’s house, at Torn Claytou’s, and
stay till Monday 7 morning.”
Wm. Arp.
Discontinued —defunct —passed
away with the glory of his western
hemisphere. We used to say : '
“Here, Bob, go and cath' Selim,
and saddle him, and bring him here
in five'minutes, you black raskal—
hurry up, you sun of a gun, or I’d
straiten you with a thrash polo 'tell
you cairt see.—
Go sir.”
Nuw its
“Oh, see here', Bob, I would like
to have my horse brought out,' if
you ain’t doing, anything partikler;
bring him as soon as you can, will
you ? ”
And there’s the poor women—
poor souls- it’s all we can do to ta
per ’em down to the situation.
‘•What did you spill that water
'for, Jullyann, you lazy trilling con
tcmptablo huzzy—postively you
aint worth the salt that’s put in your
vifctles ; didn't I tell you the next
time that y r ou spilt water on this
floor I’d give you a thousand—now
take that, and that, and that, and
that. Now go, and get your wash
rag and come here and wipe it up,
you good for nothing imp of dark
ness 1”
But that’s gene out pf fashion
and now its:
“Come here Saray Ann, I want
you to go and see your aunt Fran
cis and ask her if she wont come
and do my wash ip this week. Tell
her 111 be very much obliged \o
her if she will. Now run along and
be quick and I’ll let you go the cir
cus.”
Well, it hurts ’em, I know it does.
It hurts the generation mity bad,
but the children grown u p and
commin on don’t mind it, for they
never knowd much about slavery
times. We old people wont last
long no how, and perhaps by the
time we pass away and anew crop
grows up oii-both sides, the North
and South," we’ll be better friends.
I hope so, for if wo havent been an
unhappy Irmily. for 50 years I don’t
know where you’ll find one. I cant
help reoaliin them old times when
my old carriage drivers sot up.on a
high dickey, with a stove pipe hat.
on and cracked a proud whip over
a pair of crickin blood bays, and a
little yaller nig standin up behind
the carriage a holding to the straps
arid a feeling biger and grander
than Julias Ceuser Demostbenees
Alexander Bonaparte. Okl times
farewell! Vain world farewell!
Now I’ve got no fore nigger, nor
hind nigger, no blood bays, nor
nothin, and if I want to go anywhere
thahk the good lord for bis mercies
lam allowed to walk. Well
thing’s different, even this here
newspaper we’re ru-nning. Them
old fashund runaway nigger - picters
that us to be scattered along down
a whole column is pH vanished.
Them picters of abskonded darkeys
just a trotting off- with the hind foot
stickin uff and lookin like the top
side of an Alabama trappin a stik on
the shoulder and a little bundle on
the end of it; gone, all gone !
Run away frum the subserber a
coal black nigger, named Dave
about 17. year* old, 5 feet 6 inches
high. Anybody cate him, lodgin
him in j"il can git ;S2(L reward.
Darn’em—there's more of ’am
catch the jail now than they did then
Them old pictur dies are for sale
cheap at thi&ofiis, They aint no
use now but the jail, its kept full
from court to court. Some of ’em
want masters, shure, and they got
em, too. I rekon Alexander and
Grant’s railroad ohaiu gang now
thjoks slavery days, was a perledt
garden of Eden. , .
But somehow I like the plagy
things, and while I last on tho top
side o,f the silo I want ’em hangin
around. I like my dog, Bowse, and
1 like them; but blame try cats es
I like the way the thing happened.
I wish then was some way to get
satisfaction. Old Greelsy’s hand
busted, and little Alex’s advisin
peace on earth and good will to man
but I dont like the way'it was dun.
I want a now deal of tho kards.
Mrs. Arp don’t like it, .and a*s long
as she don’t I don’t and I dont ex
pect to.
True and Falsie Hearts..
They dwell in every community,
and their attributes are visibly to
human eyes as the good and bad
actions of all accountable beings
are. The false heart is as constant
as tho waves of an ocean, it is the
abode of human selfishness where
no refind and tender feeling and
sentiment ever enters in, its passions
are strong, and its ambitions are
wild, but ever restless, changeable,
and transitory. It cleaves to us in
our prosperity, and so long as an
intimate association with us can
bring to it . any social, political or
business ffstinction, it courts,
curries, and cajoles us into the be
lief that its interest in our welfare
is as sincere and earest as our own.
The true heart is ap unchangeable
as eternity, it cleaves to us through
every w r orldly trial and misfortune,
it regards our feelings with chari
ty and our mistakes with pity and
forgivness. The unchangeable love
of such a heart it the must price
less boon in the Heavenly dispen-.
sation of God’s great gifts to hu
manity. It is often the last prop
that sustains a drooping soul, that
staggers under Its heavy burden of
sorrows and adversity. No atom
of self love, no quality of deceit
lurks in the placid bosom where it
dwells. A true heart is as incapa
ble of a mean action as a bird is
incapable of flying without weDgo.
— JSuyene.
Love Sickness. —lt is a gnawing
disease; and peoplo who have it
bad bite their nails, Lite their lips
and bite each other’s lips.
They like solitude and meditate
a great deal on “solitude sweeten*
edi”
That’s what makes it so bad when
it becomes epidemic like the horse
disease.
It breaks up society; breaks up
families ; breaks up old friendships
and breaks a good many hearts.
But it is’t such a very bad sick
ness to have after all.
It don’t take a fellow right off
from his feet like the ague. It’s a
little warming to the blood, but it
don’t burn like a typhoid fever.
It don’t require quinine, nor jal
up, nor squills, nor any other bitter
stuff’. ,
Bitters could never keep o.ompa
ny with any thing so sw^et.
—“ Phairest of the phair,” sighed
the lover. Phancy .my pheeling when
I phoreseo the phearful consequenc
es of our phleeing phrom your pha
ther’s phannly. Phew phtllows
could have phaced the music with so
much phortitnde as I have ; and as
phickle phortr.no phails to smile up
on our iore, I phind.myself phorced
to phorego the pleasure of becoming
your husband. Phair, phair Phran
ces. Pharewcll, pharewell, pherev
erl- ” “ Hold, Phranklin, hold ! ”
screamej. Phranees, “ 1 will phol
low yoU pliorever ! ” But Phranklin
phled and Phrances phqintcd.
An Irish schoolmaster sht thG fol
lowing “copy” for one of his pupils:
“ Idleness clothes a man with., na
kedness.”
Fattening Yourg Wo- •
men.
Throughout the interior of Af
rica, and. Indeed, in some parts
ot Asia,'a woman is prized ' for fat
ness. Beauty is associated with
excessive obesity ; and such being
public sentiment, mothers seasona
bly commence a system of dietio
treatment that makes their daugtors
irresistible. Colonel Keating’s givo
an account of the process of fatten*
ing young women for a Tunis mar
ket. As soon as betrothed, she is
cooped up»in a small room, .with
gold shackles on her ankie? If
her proprietor has lost a wife by
death, or divorced one, their anklets
aro sent forward for the new 7 mat
rimonial candidate. When Bhe has
attained a desirable size, indicated
•by filling the pattern rings, she,;is
in triumph to her n:w
home. '
The preparations of fdod that act*
ually produces the coveted dimen
sion—mountain of fatness—is called
draught, made of the seed of a veg
etable peculiar to the country.—
Some positively die from excessive
fatness in an effort to surpass in
that bewitching accomplishment rival
candidates .for matrimonial posi
tions. Theso-famous mortals are
not the poor girls. They are the
highest orders of society, aud there
fore are ambitious like fashionables
in some civilized States, of securing
an elevated position with a rich hus
band. Bruce, the traveler, saw a
great queen in Africa—a gem of
women, the envy of her sex and
wife hunters—who weighed over
four hundred pounds.
Can science explain the actions
of those seeds philosophically? *■
<Uoo«l-3tye.
It is a hard word to speak.—
Some may laugh that it shoud be,
but let them. Icy hearts are never
kind. It is a word that has choked
many an utterance, • and started
many a tear. The hand is clasped,
the word la speken, we part and
are upon the great ocean of tithe—
wc go, to meet where ? Take care
that your good-bye be not a cold
one—it may bo the last you% can
give. Ere you can meet your
friends again, death’s cold hand
may have closed his eyes and
chained his lips forever. And he
may have died thinking that you
loved him not. Again it may be
a long seperation. Friends crowd
onward and give you their hand.
How you detect in each “good-bye”
the love that lingers there; aud
how you may bear away . with you
the memory of those words many,
many days. We must often seper
ate. Tare not yourselves away
with careless boldness that defies
all love, make your last words lim,
ger—give the heart full, what- of
it ? Tears are not unmanly.
A toper got so much on his storm
ach the other day that said organ
repelled the load. As lie leaned
against a lamp post vomiting, a lit
tle dog happened to stop, by him ?
whereupon he indulged in this
soliloquy: “Well now, here’s a
conundrum. I know where I ato
the black beans, I remembered
where I ate that lobster, I recollect
where I got that rum, but I’m
hanged if I can recall where I ate
that little yallor dog.”
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*Tm a self-made man,” said a na
tive of Stonington the other day, t»
a New York gentleman, with
whome he had been driving a sharp
bargin. “Glad to hear you say.
so,” responded the New Yorkel 7 ,
who had been worsted in the'trado,
“for it relieves the Lord of a great
responsibility^’
A lady about to marry was
warned tliat her intended, although
a.good man, was- Very exceatric.
Well, sho said, if he is very unlike
other men, he is more likely to be a
good husband.
If you would relish your food,
labor for it; if you' would enjoy
your clothes, pay for them before
wear them; if you would sleep soun
dly, take a clear conscience to bud*
with you.
NO 1.