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REV. A. L. HAMILTON would respect
fully announce to his friends.generally,
that this old and popular Institution will be
re opened under his immediate supervision ou
MONDAY, October 1, 1877.
Ilis former patrons and friends will please
take due notice, and govern themselves ae
cordiugly. The spacious and comfortable
Boarding House and College Buildings are
now being repaired and re furnished in ele
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opening will be ready for business.
The Corps of Officers and Teachers
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and will represent the principal branches of
the Christian Churches. The College
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The Course of Study
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from the following exhibit:
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CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1877.
The Folly oi Trying to
Please Everybody.
(a fable revamped.)
Who yields L ; s mind to eve-y one
Finds soon or late he pleases none.
To illustrate, I will, if able,
Reduce to verse an aiic-eut fable.
A man and son, as it befell,
Determining their ass to sell,
Had with this object audio lent,
Set out on foot „a tmrke. beat ;
Not far advanced upon ibe way
They met some schoolboys cut at play,
“ Did e’er you see such fools,” said one,
“A- yon old Gaffer and his son*
tntd" : ng on the road afeot,
While one at le C L might ride die brute ?”
A no.tier c : ed, “you two legged donkey,
••Wny don’t you mount your precious mon
key ?”
The old mao bearing them defile,
Put up his son and walked beside.
Proceeding on, it was !hei • fate
To meet some men hi warm debate.
T oat proves,” said oae, ‘just what I say
“Youth conquers age in til’s, our day,
“ £ce cu that ass the son is found,
“While his aged father >re.’ Is the ground !
“Get off 'bat beast you young scapegrace
“And let your father take your place.”
To this rude jeeniog they assent,
And changing places, on they went.
A mile or so beyond, they met
At way.-ide inn another set :
“Unfeeling lather ! (so ibege talk)
“To ride and ibice b’s son to walk,
“The lad will soon g ; ve out he'll find,
“Unless be takes Inm on behind. ’
Still bent to please and raving trouble
Tbev acquiesce by nding double.
Approaching soon the market town
They met some -revelers going down.
“Pray fnend,” said one, - I'd like to know
• Is that your ass you’re treating so !
"A shameful sight, I do declare it,
“I wonder how the beast can bear it !
“If the poor creature had h's due
*‘ v ou would bear him. not he bear you !”
“AH things to please,” the man teplied,
“We will dismount and have it iritd.”
So getting down without more words
They bound the creature’.-, legs with cords.
Through which a beam they made to pass,
AeJ on thei l ' shoulders born the ass.
But if they had been jeered before,
They now wise jeered ten times the more.
The people Hocked lo see the s’ght,
Wiili eboofsand bravoes of delight.
Now safe'y pn-.-ipg rut slid ridge
Thev had. Li turn .o crass a bridge ;
Presccd by a crowd of men and boys
Who made the a'r <eseund with noise,
The air was irigbleoed (who can wonder?)
And struggling, burst the cords asunder ;
Ilis limbs thus 100 ened bom the beam,
He plunged and fell iuto the stream !
Ann hard against the reeky shore
Sank in the flood to rise no more.
The poor man fount .to his dear cost,
While none were pie. eil. bis ass was lost :
A h'.-son he, that day, had learned
Not soon forgot though dearly earnr and.
E. W.
Tlie BSt’r Koois.
“Belinda,” who we judgo, is
something between “sweet -i\teon,”
writes iliusly to the Boston Globe :
“I take my pen in hand to write a
few lines lo say that I think it ab nit
time for me to g>‘owl a little Every
one else his had a chance ami im
proved it we’l, and now can .“'Y and m
listen. Wn-it I am about .o meo : oti
js on a delicate subject —so debome
that, it is ‘o’d oolv in wbispe s hat
l*io.-o is such a tiling. It is coute i
ing ankles—those belonging to la
dies, otco.i-se, gentlemen never hav
ing tiny. This is about ankles and
the p>e*iy boys who tend iu 0"-
fashionable shoe stores. It would
seem at first as though one had noth
mg lo do with the Other, but they
have a good deal in common, sod t he
more the handsomer the cos on er,.
Recently a young m : ss in my pres
ence Died on ten pair of boots with
out a fit, aud between her dev re for
a perfect one and the prayer of the
clerk for none at all there was a
prospect of hejJ'pasMtig the after
noon that way. I could not bl tie
the fellow, for she was a bean y, but
I was sbocked at the abandon of the
lady. Ido not now wonder whv
positions iojsuch sto-es are desirable
and veiy scarce, especially iu these
days when the-’e is so much wick
edness. It takes me a long while to
get at what I intended to say, but I
have reached it at last. It is vc-v
improper for girls to allow young
men to tit their boots ; they should
do it themselves. I notice no gen
tleman assist me; if he attempted it
I would put on such a look as would
make him wither. It makes me
crawl to think of it.”
A lady on Washington street, who
is an enthusiastic Republican named
her canary bird Jim Blaine, lie did
not sing much but she loved him
tenderly until last Saturday, when
she discovered that Jim Blaine had
laid an egg. Now she declares that
no dependence can be placed on a
politician.
Solomon said thousands of years
ago that the destruction of the poor
is their poverty. It is just as true
now as when uttered.
False hair is now made to imitate
real hair so closely that it is hardly
possible to tell which is switch.
Tiie Volunteer Found!.
John Taylor was licensed, when
a youth of twenty one, to practice at
the bar. He was poor but well ed
ucated, and possessed extraordina
ry genius. He manied a beauty
who afterwards deserted him for
another.
On the mnth of August, 1811,
the Court House at Clarksville,
Texas, was crowded to-overflowing.
An exciting case was to be Died.—
George Hopkins, a wealthy planter,
offered a gross insult to Mary Ali
son, the young and beautiful w ife
ot his overseer. The husband
threatened to chastise him for the
outrage, when Hopkins went to A!
ison’s house and shot him in the
door. Tne murdeier was arrested
and bailed to answer the charge. —
The occurrence produced great ex
citement, and Mr. Hopkins, in order
to turn the tide of popular indigna
tion hud circulated reports about
her character and she sued him for
slander. Both suits were pending
—for murder and for slander.
The interest became deeper w'hen
it was known that Ashley and Pike,
of Arkansas, and S. S. Prentiss, of
New Orleans, by* enormous fees
had been retaiudd to defend Hop
kins.
Hopkins w r as acquitted. The
Texas lawyers were overwhelmed
by their opponents. It was a light
of dwarfs against giants.
The slander suit was ready for
Dial, and the throng of specta
tors grew in number, as in excite
ment. Public opinion was setting
in for Hopkins; his money had pro
cured witnesses who served his
powerful advocates. When the
slander case came up, it was le!t
without an attorney—all had with
drawn.
“Have you no counsel ?” inquir
ed Judge Mills, kindly, of the plain
tiff. “No, sir, they have all deserted
me and I am too poor to employ
any more,” replied the beautiful
Mary, bursting into tears. “In
such a case will not some cbival
rous member of the profession vol
unteer ?” said the Judge, glancing
around the bar. The thirty old
lawyers were silent. “I will, your
honor,” said a voice from the crowd
behind the bar. llis clothes look
ed so shabby that the court hesita
ted to let the case proceed under
his management. “Has your
name been entered on the rolls of
the State ?” demanded the Judge.
“It is immaterial,” answered the
Btranger, his thin, bloodless lips
curling up with a sneer. “Here
is my license from the highest tribu
nal in America,” and lie handed the
Judge a broad parchment. The
trial went on. He suffered the wit
nesses to tell their owr. story, and
allow'ed the defense to lead off. —
Ashley spoke first, followed by
Pike and Prentiss. The latter
brought down the house in cheers,
in which the jury joined.
It was now the stranger’s turn
He rose before the bar, not behind
it, and so near the woodeiing jury
Miat he could touch the foreman
with his long bony finger. lie pro
ceeded to tear to pieces the argu
ments of Ashley, which melted
away at his touch like frost before
a sunbeam. Every one looked sur
prised. Anon he C3ine to the daz
zling wit of the poet lawyer, Pike.
Then the curl of hi3 lip grew shar
per, his smooth face began to kin
dle up, his eyes to open, dim and
dreary no longer, but vivid as light
ning, red as fire globes and glaring
as twin meteors. The whole soul
was in his eyes; the full heart
streamed out of his face. Then
without any allusions to Prentiss
he turned short round on the per
jured witnesses of Hopkins, tore
their testimony into shreds, and
hurled into their faces such terri
ble invectives that all trembled like
aspens, and two of them fled from
the court house. The excitement of
the crowded room was beeom
ing tremendous. Their united
life-soul seemed to hang upon the
burning tongue of the stranger, and
he inspired them with the power of
passion. lie seemed to have stolen
nature’s long hidden secret of attrac
tion. But his greatest triumph
was to come.
Ilis eyes began to glance at the
assassin Hopkins, as his lean, ta
per fingers assumed the same direc
tion. lie enclosed the wretch with
in a wall of strong evidence and
impregnable argument, cutting off
all hope of escape. He dug be
neath the murderer’s feet ditches
of dilemmas, and held up the slan
derer to the scorn and contempt of
the populace. Having thus girt
him about with a circle of fire he
stripped himself to the work of
massacre.
Oh ! then it was a vision both glo
rious and dreadful to behold the
orator. IBs actions, too, became as
impetuous as the motions of an oak
in a hurricane. His voice became a
trumpet filled with whirlpools, deaf
ening the ears with crashes of pow
er, and yet intermingled all the while
with a sweet undersong of sweetest
cadence. His forehead glowed like
a heated furnace, his countenance
was haggard like that of a maniac,
and ever and anon he flung his long,
bony arms on high, as if grasping
after a thunderbolt.
He drew a picture of murder iu
appalling colors that in comparison
hell itself might look beautiful; he
painted the slanderer so black that
the sun seemed dark at noonday
when shining on such a monster. —
And theu, fixing both portraits on
the shrinking Hopkins, fastened
them there forever. The agitation
of the audience amounted almost
to madness.
All at once the speaker descended
from his lofty height. His voice
wailed out to the murdered dead,
and living—the beautiful Mary,
more beautiful every as
her tears flowed faster and faster—
till men wept and sobbed like chil
dren.
He closed by a strong exhortation
to the jury, and through them to the
bystanders; the panel, after they
should bring a verdict for the plain
tiff not to offer violence to the de
fendant, however richly he might
deserve it —in oilier words, not to
lynch the villain, but to leave his
punishment to God. This was the
most artful tuck of all, and was cal
culated to insure vengeance.
The jury rendered a verdict of
fifty thousand dollars, and the night
afterwards Hopkins was taken out
of his bed by the lynchers and beat
en almost to death. As the court
adjourned the stranger said : John
Taylor will preach here at early
candle fight.”
lie did preach and the house was
crowded. We have listened to Clay,
Webster and Beecher, but never
heard anything in the form of sub
lime words even approximating to
the eloquence of John Taylor, mass
ive as a mountain and wildly rush
ing as a cataract of fire.
1 iii tlie
In?lie oi (ilt acvn.
A strange discovery is reported
f'-om the Lake ot Geneva. A tou r
iso having lost his trunk, two divers
were employed to search for it.—
While they were below water they
found what they supposed to be a
village, since covered by the lake.
Their statements led to an inve-ii
gation of the spot by the municipal
authorities, who tonic ine.isu.es to
testkhe truth of the extraordinary ac
count of the divers. On covering
the placid surface with oil, these
latter were able to distinguish the
plan of the town, streets, squares,
and detached houses, making the
bed of the lake. The ruddy hue
which characterized them led the
observers to suppose that tlie build
ings had been covered with the fa
mous Vermillion cement which was
used by the Celts, Cimbri, and the
early Gauls. There are about 200
houses arranged over an oblong
surface, near the middle of which is
a space more open, supposed to
have been used for public assembla
ges. At tiie eastern extremity
lies a large square tower, which
was taken for a rock. A superfi
cial investigation seems to indicate
that the construction of these build
ings dates from some centuries be
fore our urn. The Council of Vaud
has decided to have the site of the
dwellings inclosed by a jetty stretch
ing from the land, and to drain off
the water, so as to bring to light
what promises to be one of the
most interesting archoeological dis
coveries of our day. —London 2'els
eyraph.
Men and children are like pebbles.
You know how pebbles on tlie sea
shore are rounded and made smooth
by being rolled against each other.
It is so with many men ; but now
and then we find a person who is as
crusty as some of the crabs we also
find on the seashore. The more he
is rubbed by others the crustier he
becomes. So, too some of the little
stones are made very pointed, and
do not get rounded by the others.—
Let us try to have all the politeness
that comes from obeying the Golden
Rule.
Counter claims—Your wife’s
shopping bills.
For the Cuthbert Appeal.
Wlial’s I lie Use i
bv e. p -r..
YV hat’s the use of going through
tlie world with a gloomy counte
nance i \\ by not live in sunshine
instead of shadow ? Why not laugh
as well as xveep ? Thus has some
one written, and we echo, “ What’s
the use?” What’s the use of tlie
wail of anguish that comes from
the mother as she bends over the
dead form of her first-burn child ?
’fis but the cry of a broken heart,
but she who feels it not is no moth
er. What’s the use of the furrow
ed brow and silvering hair, the
compressed lip that fain would
make no moan, of the father who
beholds his promising boy take the
downward path to dissipation and
ruin ? ’Tis but the tribute paid to
buried hopes and Dcver-to-be real
ized anticipations, but he who pays
not this tribuie is but a father in
name. What’s the use of the ago
nized prayer of the husband or wife
who sees his or her loved compan
ion slowly passing away ? ’Tis but
a cry for succor from a bosom tilled
with grief, but what true husband
or wife would not send up the pe
tition? What’s the'use of some,
who iu subordinate positions, and
kept down by force of circumstan
ces, to feel the iron enter their very
inmost soul, and their spirits chafe
in agony at the burdens imposed,
and insults (which they cannot re
sent,) offered by their task masters,
who, but in the possession of world
ly pelf, are as far beneath them as
earth from heaven ? ’Tis but the
protest of an outraged manhood, fu
tile though it may be, but he who
makes it not is no better than a
slave. There is a time to laugh,
but there is also a time to weep. I
am no misanthrope, and would not
have a sorrowful world, but chide
not thy brother if he groans under
the scourge that has, perchance,
never been lifted against you, and
ask not “ What’s the us£,” if he
bow beneath the strokes of adversi
ty, while you are happy and at
CuSC Stand not in your mighty
ship that has ever sailed through
calm seas, and been wafted on by
favoring breezes, and mock him,
who in his frail barque is struggling
amidst the billows of trouble and
misfortune. What’s the use of any
and all the evidences of suffering
that we see around us at every
step? Can you put an end to them?
As well expect the jwretch, who is
the victim of some terrible and
loathsome disease, to put on the ap
pearance of health at your com
mand; as hope to banish sorrow and
its indelible signs from poor, de
pressed humanity.
Fort Gaines, Ga., Nov. 20, ’77.
Planting Trees.
A “pioneer” says on this subject
“I have transplanted many hundred
forest trees in the last ten years,
and I have rarely lost a tree, and
most of them set in the fall. One
of the most important rules to be
observed i, before taking up a tree
mark it in some manner so that you
will know which is the north side,
so as to be able to reset it in exact
ly the position it grew in the woods.
This may seem to many of no im
portance, but to those who know
that there is in the bark nod wood
of all trees a radical difference be
tween the north and south sides,
the north side being close-grained
and tough, while the south side is
invariably more open grained and
brash, or soft, the importance will
be seen. If this is done, your tree
does not have to undergo a com
pleto change in all parts, and is
ready to start off and grow at the
proper time as though it had not
been moved.
The days of darkness come, and
they are many, but our eye takes in
only the first. One wave hides an
other, and the effort to encounter
the foremost withdraws our thought
from evils which arc pressing on
If we could see them all at once we
might be down, like Elijah, under
the juniper tree, and say: “It is
enough—let me not live !” But pa
tience attains her perfect work
while trials unfold.
“Why, Sammy,” said a father to
his little son lately, “I didn’t know
that your teacher whipped you
Friday.” “I guess,” replied Sam
my, “if you had been in my trow
sers you’d know’d it.”
It is easier to open a burglar-proof
safe than to get an education in a
fashionable boarding-school.
Good Advice and Good
Manners.
Much jewelry is vulgar.
Do not smack while eating.
Do not cut your nails in public.
Do not run after famous people.
Do not breathe hard while eating.
Cheese should be eaten with a
fork.
Feeing waiters is paying black
mail.
Serve vegetables on seperate
plates.
Unsweetened coffee cures bad
breath.
Do not give mere friends costly
presents.
A man’s dress should not be re
markable.
Short nails make the finger tips
grow broad.
Girls who part .their hair on the
side look fast.
In going up and down stairs pre
cede the lady.
A formal call is very long if it
last half uu hour.
Never take bits out of your
mouth with your hand.
Y r oung girls are trusted too much
with male cousins.
It is impolite to keep a musician
constantly playing.
Address your wife as “Mrs.,”
your hu-band as “Mr.”
A lady will not appear in the
streets alone after dark.
A young lady should'not stretch
her feet out in company.
There is too much promiscuous
kissing in this country.
Washington doffed his hat even
to a negro if he knew him.
Some men unpleasantly comb
their moustaches at table.
I respect prudes; though I’ve
been charmed with jolly romps.
Do not have pictures of game,
fruit or fish in your dinner-room.
A pink ribbon under the chin
makes a pale woman look brighter.
A man should not appear in shirt
sleeves before ladies in the house.
No man respects a girl who flirts,
though ho may flirt with her for
game.
The lady of the house should re
ceive the guests at a formal recep
tion.
Always take the last piece of any
thing—there is supposed to be
more.
Never pull your watch out in
company, unless you are familiar
with the people.
An engagement of marriage is lit
tle less sacred than a marriage with
ceremony.
Never cross a knife and fork on
your plate. Lay them nearly and
carelessly parallel.
It it is necessary to use your hand
kerchief sonorously, leave the room
quietly.
If you meet a gentleman friend
with a strange lady on his arm,
r aise your hat to both.
Introduce the geutleman to the
lady, unless the gentleman is con
siderably the elder.
Men who eat what they want
are usually more healthy than those
who are always dieting-
Notliing is prettier fur a young
ish girl than braids down the back,
and a full waisled dress.
Do not call a man Ja liar unless
you have a lump in your throat and
arc sure that he is a liar.
You need not call upon newly'
married people unless you were in
vited to the wedding.
Mex Without Occupation.—
Tlie man who has nothing to do is
the most miserable of beings. No
matter how much wealth a man
possesses, he can be neither conten
ted nor happy without occupation.
We were born to labor, and the
world is our vineyard. We can find
fields of usefulness almost anywhere.
In occupations we forget our world
ly trials, and our sorrows. It keeps
us from constantly worrying and
brooding over what is inevitable.—
If we have enough for ourselves,
we can labor for the good of others;
and such a task is one of the most
delightful duties a worthy and
good mail can possibly engage in.
A fashionable y T oung lady in Chi
engo was heard to remark that she
hadn’t got anything new this fall,
and didn’t expect to get much “un
til after father fails.”
A little boy was asked if he knew
where the wicked finally went to.—
He answered that they practiced
law here awhile, and then go to the
Legislature.
If men depended on the judg
ments of their neighbors for their
passports to heaven, no one would
get there.
NO. 49
Evils olTJossip.
We have known a country socie
ty which withered away to nothing
under the dry rot of gossip only.
Friendships, once as firm as grans
ite, dissolved to jelly, and then ran
away to water only, because of this;
love that promised a future as sta
ble as truth, evaporated into a
morning mist that turned to a day’s
long teats, only because of this; a
father and a son were set loot to
foot with the fiery breath of an an
ger that would never cool again bc
tween them ; and a husband and a
young wife, each straining at tho
hated lash which in the beginning
hod been the promise of a godbless
ed love, sat mournfully by the side
of the grave where all their love
and all their joy lay buried, and all
because of this. We have seen
faith transformed to mean doubt,
joy give place to grim despair, and
charity take on itself the features
of black malevolence, all because of
the fell words ol scandal, and the
magic muttcrings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrongs, and tho
deeper tragedies of human life
spring from the larger passions;
but woeful and most mournful are
the uncatalogued tragedies that
issue from gossip and detraction ;
most mournful the shipwreck t often
made ol noble natures and lovely
lives by the bitter winds and dead
salt-waters of slander. So easy to
say, yet so hard to disprove—
throwing on the innocent ail the
burden and the stain of demonstra
ting their innocence, and punishing
them as guilty if unable to pluck
out the stings they never see, and
to silence words they never hear—
gossip and slander are the deadli
est weapons man has ever forged
for his brotlter’s heart. —All the
Year Round.
It is (iiood to be Poor.
I cannot hut envy the poor man,
for his is the happiest condition of
life; the experience and the lessons
of humility and patience and the
devotion that he daily receives are
strengthening his character and
making his influence noble. I have
thought that poor, good men are
given us, that their lives may reflect
the eternal goodness of the Creator.
So many of the sweetest songs have
been sung, so many of the bravest
deeds have been done by men of low
estate, that I always look to them
for great achievements in thought
and act. I cannot say why' it 19,
but money seems to cramp our na
ture, developing only what should
be destroyed and dwarfing the bet
ter parts, and I wish non- of ns
could have more than enough to
satisfy' our reasonable wants, unless
for charity. If this world was the
sum of all we have been or hope to
he, even then the poor man holds
the vantage ground. Health and
contentment following his calling ;
happiness dearer than anything this
world can give is his of his own
right These reflections are the re
sult of a sketch of the lifo of a rich
man who lately died, who never
know what it was to have a pleas
ant moment, and whose only strug
gle was to get money, and having
it, to get more. He died without
benefitting himself or any one else,
perhaps making some miserable.—
From the hour he began to acquire
wealth he grew narrow-minded,
selfish and distrustful, and passed
his time in what seemed to be a
wretched way', without friendship
for men or love for God or spiritual
growth. Pardon mo for contrast
ing him with a neighbor who is
contrary to himself and his relations
to the other. It is a great victory
gained when wo can be humble and
contented, poor in goods and rich in
heart, good and able to do no wrong
for conscience sake.
The Hartwell Sun says there is a
woman liviDg in Hart county, Ga.,
“who has five distinct breasts—
three on one side of her chest and
two on the other. Her mother had
three, and afforded lacteal nourish*
ment out of all of them.” She could
nourish a whole litter of babies.
I do not allow the cares of office
to oppress me. Every day I mount
my horse, take a long ride in tho
park, and forget that I am Presi
dent.—Samuel J. Tilden.
“The rich,” said a Dutchman, “eat
venison because it ish deer. I eat
mutton because it ish sheep.”
The proverb, “Laugh and grow
fat,” What a saving of corn it would
be if pigs could laugh.
A little girl wrote : “I love my
teacher more than tun-kan tell.”