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DESPISING THE LOWLY.
The Sandoy Sohool was jftst assem
bling as Jennie Carlton and her friend,
Kate Seymour, took their, seats before
Miss Wilson, who hod recently entered
the school as teacher.
Miss Wilson bad not yt studied the
difficult traits of character in her schol
ars, but this morning she was painfully
struck by the manner in which Jennie
Carlton seated herself, spreading out a
new silk dress to make as much display
of it as possible.
Kate Seymour, followed her example,
also shook out her dress and readjusted
her sash. It was done with an air not
at all fitting a place where they had
come to learn to be followers of the
meek and lowly One. Miss Wilson
was grieved to see the spirit they ex
hibited ; but, not wishing to reprove
them before others, she simply said :
“ Young ladies, please do not take
np quite so much room. See, you havt
left but little space for Charley and
Lucy Munson, and I am expecting a
new scholnr to-day.”
‘‘Oh, are you ? Who is it. Miss Wil
son ? Anybody w know ?” eagerlj
asked Jennie Carlton.
“ It is a lijtle boy, and I hardly’ think
you know him. lie is just coming in
I see, auJ,as b*'ssuch a iv,timid litth
fellow, F-w<H go myself ami bring him
to hie class.''- J| mm 4* ■ •
Thus Skying, Miss Wilson rose from
her setft.jVertt to the-door, and soon re
turned, leading's little hoy, and seattnf
him next -to Charley Masson. As the
Superiiitea Vsnt Imd not yet appeared
to open school, Kate and Jennie began
whispering together.
“ Well, Ifleclarey’exclaimed Jennie,
with a scornful tojs bf her head ; “ we
need not bare UttuWcd opnselves to ask
the name of the ew sclmlarH
“ Xo,,indeedreplied Kate; "one
look at his clothes was enough to ill
us that Sam Patch would do very web
as a name for him.”
“Hash, girls!” said gentle-lieartcd
Lucy in an undertone; "he will hear
you; and if his clothes are patched,
they look as neat as cau be.”
“ Neat or not, I don't like to he
crowded in this fashion ! And for such
a common-looking hoy. too!”
Thus unkindly
up her silk dress, as though it was like
ly to be spoiled by coming in contact
with any one less aristocratic than she
considered herself. In the meantime
Miss Wilson was speaking very kindly
to little Willie Jones, the bright, happy
boy, who had entered her class. After
giving him something to learn for the
following Sunday, she pointed out a
text of Scripture for him to look over
and repeat to her a3 soon as she had
heard the rest of the class recite their
lessons.
Willie, with an intelligent smile, took
the Bible from Miss Wilson and at
once tried to commit the passage oi
Scripture to memory. As soon as tiie
Superintendent entered, Willie, with
others laid aside his book and reverent
ly knelt during prayer, then rose and
listened with delight to a sweet hymn,
in which many of the children joined.
M iss Wilson then heard her class recite
their lessons, after which she talked
with them for a while upon the sinful
fulness of pride. She spoke of the
blessed Savior—how meek and patient
he was when despised and rejected of
men. And merely because be seemed
of lowly birth, when in reality he was
King of kings, and had come to redeem
the whole world.
She told them, too, how often, when
wandering about to do good, be bad not
where to lay his head. Miss Wilson
tried to impress upon their minds the
foolishness of showing pride over mere
worldly possessions, which are so fleet
ing, instead of striving to obtain that
heavenly wisdom which is above all
price and far more to be desired than
jewels of gold or silver, or costly rai
ment.
In speaking of pride and its effects,
she related a story to illustrate what she
was saying. Kate and Jennie listened
with interest to the story, though not as
if it in the least concerned or was in any
way applicable to them.
At the close of school, their pastor,
Rev. Mr. Stanley, rose and said :
“ Children, I have received quite a
large package of mite-chests to distrib
ute among you. They are intended for
you to take home to drop into them all
the pennies you can spare to help pay
the salaries of our faithful missionaries.
Good men who have left all the com
forts and luxuries of home to go otl
into new States or foreign countries to
minister to those who need the bread of
life; and to watch over them as you
arc here watched over by the Church.
VOL. Ill —NO. 21.
While we have so many blowings, do
vou not think we ought to hoTh sustain
them ?”
■■4m#
“ Yes, sir !” replied several voices in
rhorns.
“ I am to hear you .respond so
•ordiaUv, dear children. And, as many
of you have a liberal allowance of poo-
Icet-moncy, I do not doubt bnt you can
•asily add quite a little smn towards
lie missionary fund ; others may have
to practice more self-denial, bnt they
♦ill be all the happier for so doing.
Xow. I hope each one of you who takes
i box will try your best to fill it.”
Mr. Stanley was about to seat hifci
ielf, when, once more glancing around
unong the little (lock before him, in a
kind, pleasant voice, he added :
“ If there are any here who feel that
hey cannot give more than a few mites,
I would assure them that they will lie
squally acceptable. Our Heavenly Fa
'‘her requires us to give only according
o our means. And the widow's mite,
Juu know, was as acceptable in his
light as the offerings of the rich; for
die gave hot aH.”
As these bwt words were uttered,
Willie’s eyes sparkled, and he looked so
* iright and happy that Miss Wilson at
nice asked:
“ Willie, would you like have a inis
non-box to take Itouie ?”
“ Oh, yes, caa’am. if you please ; for
1 may have a fijwiiites to put in it, and
1,-would so like to send them to the
>ood missionaries.”
“Then yon shaHhave one directly.”
Kate and Jennie, after a little proud,
boastful whispering together, decided
that they could easily fill a mite-chest,
nud were among the first logo forward
and get tliem; others, in a more hesita
ting manner, said they would try and
to aomothiog. Hut. poor Willie was
Umei to go Ilf* ate all nor nta; so
Miss Wilson —out of pity for his sensi
tive, shrinking disposition, and well
knowing that illness had caused hint to
become even more nervous than most
children—said she would get a Imx for
him. As she left her seat, Jennie Carl
ton thoughtlessly exclaimed :
“ What! is Sam Patch going to have
a box, too ? I wonder where he will
get anything to put in it ?”
Willie, tliis time plainly hearing what
was said of him, turned and fixed his
eyes upon Jennie; then, as if suddenly
comprehending her meaning, his eyes
filled with tears, his lips quivered, and
his little hands were stretched forth and
clasped over both knees, as though he
would thus hide from sight the small
square patches upon them.
For an instant not a sound among
them was heard. Willie, at first, wus
too much grieved and shocked to utter
a word. He seemed paralyzed; then
like a ray of sunshine through a deep
cloud, a sweet smile lit up his delicate,
pale face.
Even the rude girls were struck by it,
an l Lucy Munson, in a half-awed, trem
ulous voice, said:
“ Willie, of what are you thinking ?”
“I asked our Heavenly Father to
keep me from getting angry, and some
thing seemed to whisper my- text to me :
•* A man of sorrow and acquainted with
grief.” Then I remembered all that
Miss Wilson told us of our Savior, who
was “ reviled and persecuted when on
earth, and had not where to lay his
headso I could not any longer l'eel
angry, but glad that I have a dear mo
ther, home, and so many things to be
thankful for, if my clothes are poor and
patched.”
Willie’s reply to Lucy, while Miss
Wilson was detained by their pastor,
was given in such an earnest, artless
manner, that Jennie Carlton, who over
heard it, felt abashed, and Kate Sey
mour for the first time realized that she
had been showing wicked pride all the
morning. It was a lesson to her. For
long afterwards she confessed she had
never forgotten that sad, grieved look,
of poor Willie’s chased away by such
a happy, peaceful smile.
Asa sequel, wc will add that though
Jennie Carlton’s and Kate Seymour's
mite-cheats were tolerably well tilled, it
was not through self-denial, but help
from their indulgent parents. W hile
Willie, of whom scornful words’ had
been uttered at bis having a mite-chest,
had, through labor and self-denial, near
ly equalled them in his contributions to
the missionary cause.
The Prime of Life.
Between the ages of 45 and GO a man
who has properly regulated himself may
(be considered in the prime of life. His
matured strength of constitution ren
ders him almost impervious to an at
tack of disease, and experience lias
, given soundness to his judgment. His
mind ts resolute, firm and equal; all his
functions are in the highest order; he
( assumes mastery over his business;
' Imilds up a oom|>lenoe on the founda
! tion he lias laid in early manhood, and
passes through a period ot‘ life attended
by many gratifications. Having gone
a year or two over GO, he arrives at a
stand-still. But athwart this is the
viaduct called the turn of life, which,
if crossed in safety, leads to the valley
of “old age,” round which the river
winds, and then beyond, without boat
or causeway, to elfeet his passage. The
bridge is, however, constructed of frag
ile material, and it depends how it is
trodden whether it bend or break.
Gout and apoplexy are also in tle vi
cinity to waylay the traveler, and thrust
him from the pass; but let him gird up
his loins and provide himself with a
titter staff, and lie may trudge on in
safety and peifect composure. To quit
metaphor, the turn of life is a turn
either into a prolonged walk or into the
giave. The system and'powers having
reached the utmost expansion now
begin either to close like the petals of
a bower at sunset or break down at
once. One injudicious stimulant, a
single fatal excitement, may force it
beyond its strength, while a careful
supply of props and tiie withdrawal of
all that tends to force a plant w ill sus
tain it in beauty and vigor until night
lias entirely set in.
Condition of the Negro.
Atlanta ConutUutxon.
It is a great pity that some of the
rabid republicans could not be induced
to make a round of visits to the south
in order that they might compare the
condition of the negro in Georgia—
where he has been living under a dem
ocratic ad ministration for several years
—with the condition of the negro in
South Carolina, where he has been liv
ing under a democratic administration
only a very short time. In Georgia, he
is contented and conservative, leaning
most kindly in the direction of democ
racy ; in South Carolina he is restless,
and, for the most part vicious. In
Georgia, he is industrious, economical
and reasonably well otf; in South Car
olina, lie is too indolent and careless to
strive to overcome the streak of the
vagabond that runs through him. In
Georgia, he pays taxes upon property
worth more than $">,000,000; it would
astonish us if it could be shown that
the negro in South Carolina pays taxes
on one-fourth of that amount. In
Georgia nearly every county lias one or
more school-houses for the negro, and
while his education is progressing slow
ly, owing to the limited funds at the
command of the state, it is progressing
none the less surely.
Upon the whole, we think it will not
be many months before the stalwarts
will have the melancholy fact brought
home to them in the most convincing
manner that if they will let the south
ern negro alone, he will let them alone;
and we are of the opinion that the
march of events in the near future will
convince them that it is best to leave
the southern negro to his fate. When
that time comes, all that the south asks
is, that the Btalwarts be estopped from
making raid upon negro suffrage.
Death of a Centenarian in Irwin Count).
Jlawkinttille Dinpatch.
From a correspondent we learn that
Mr. Gibson Gray, of Irwin county, died
on the 2Gth of December, having ar
rived at the ripe old age of one hundred
years the day before his death. He was
possessed of a wonderfully vigorous con
stitution, aud up to a short time before
his death could walk ten or more miles
a day. He served in the war of 1815.
—Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
When it is remembered that there is
no doctor living in Irwin county and no
liquor sold within the county limits, is it
very remarkable that a man should at
tain the age of one hundred years when
not surrounded by such evidences of
civilization ?
HAIVnVBLL, UA„ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1870.
Prayerful Tramp Outwitted by a Homan.
A gentleman living on South College
street is having some improvements
made in front of his residence. A
s eek, oilv tongued, ministerial looking
man stopped in front of the house yes
terday, seeing the mistress of the es
tablishment, and remarked, dolefully ;
“ Madam, I see God has prospered you,
that lie lias blessed you, that lie has
given you of tiiis world’s riches, and
God be praised for His kindness in
having thus made you comfortable. 1
wms once so blessed ; I was not as you
now see me, hut the Lord will take care
of Ilis shepherds, one of whom I am.
I'm, madam, a prayerful man, and may
be .found morning, noon and night ad
dressing the Throne of Grace,” and as
he said this lie assumed an attitude of
abjiect supplication.
“ Well, what do you want ?” she
asked.
“ In the providence of God, madam,
I am out of a shirt, and she that givelb
to the least of these,-—”
The lady had disappeared and reap
peared with a shirt and gave it to him.
lie then remarked : “ In God's harvest
I
of the righteous you will be garnered
with the best; you will lie given at the
resurrection a scat on the right side ami
lie ©ne of the brightest jewels in the
crown.”
Disgusted at the man's evident hy
pocrisy, she remarked : “ I've got
plenty of shirts, many more than 1 want.
Send all the other tramps here, and I’ll
supply them. Our nephew died of yel
low fever in one of the infected dis
tricts, and as we can’t use them, and
get anybody to wash them, we have de
termined to give them all away to the
tramps."
The pious aspect of the man at once
underwent a change; he dropped the
•onfH parcel, and afte* " ll “ c, “'
phasis, “ D—u the yellow fever shirt!’
went hence.
A Tremendous Eater.
On a wager William Laduke, of Ver
gennes, Vermont, undertook to eat in
ten hours two pounds of pork steak,
four large potatoes, one half a pie, two
slices of wheat bread, each one a quar
ter of an inch thick, one quarter of a
pound of butter, halt a bushel of ap
ples, and to drink two cups of tea. At
seven o’clock in the morning he began
his task by eating five apples,. He
then ate one pound of pork steak, two
large potatoes, one slice of bread, one
quarter of a pie, one-eighth pound of
butter, and drank one cup of tea. The
remainder of the forenoon was spent in
walking about an 1 eating apples, of
which lie had devoured twenty-three at
12 o’clock. At noon he ate one pound
of pork steak, two large potatoes, one
slice of bread, one eighth-pound of but
ter, and drank one cup of ten. He was
then weighed, and found to have gained
seven and one-half pounds. For the
next three hours he averaged about two
apples per hour. At half past 5, p. in.,
he ate the last apple and won the bet
with half an hour to spare. His weight
when he began was 145 pounds, show
ing a gain of eight pounds in nine and
one-half hours. Seven and a half
pounds of this he acquired in the first
five hours, the last five hours adding
only one half pound to his weight.
The half bushel of apples was heap
ing measure, and numbered just sixty
rive apples. Laduke is twenty-six years
old, five feet seven indies in height,
and has never experienced a sick day
in his life. He is a thin, spare man,
and has always worked out for his liv
ing, usually among the farmers. He
experienced no unusual difficult)’ from
his square meal, and offered to bet five
dollars that he could eat another peck
of apples the same evening.
Superstition.
A ndenton Intelligencer.
It is surprising that any sensible per
son living in a civilized couutry should
believe in witchcraft of any description,
and yet there area great many colored
people who firmly believe in what they
term *• cunjuring.” Butafew nights ago
one of their regular breakdowns was
held three or four miles from town,and,
as usual, a difficulty arose over the danc
ing, whereupon one of the parties to the
feud rushed up to the other aud rubbed
bis hand over his eyes, which immedi-
WHOLE NO. 125.
Htely begun to swell until they were clos
ed, and the party was for a time com
pletely blind. This whole thing is at
tributed to witchcraft, which the negro
who rubbed his hands ever the other’s
eves is supposed to possess, whereas
there is no doubt that he had put some
poison on liis hand which produced the
reuilt. If the whole party were prose
cuted in the Courts, it would bo apt t<
show the cause of the swelling and ti
punish the party causing it. Such pro
tences are only used by the shrewdei
colored men to impose on the foolish
and credulous.
Josh Hillings.
I hav no ohjeckshun to a man part
ing hiz hair in the middle, but I slial
allwuzz insist upon his finishing up the
job bi wearing a short gown and peti.
koat.
Thare iz such a tiling az too mucl
energy. I have seen thozo who wen
like a hound in the chase, get aw at
ahed of the fox.
Thare are a grate many roads that
load to heaven, but after vu get thai
thar will only he one gateway to enter
I.‘ we would only profit by our own
experiences or the experiences ov oth
ers, it would lie almost impossible lb
even lightning to strike ns; hut rathe
than do this, we prefer to knok on'
what fu brains we have got agains
sotncbo'.ty's stun wall, and then how
about the weakness ov reason or tin
malice ov fortuno.
Thare iz nothing thnt we have got to
little ov, and we think we have got si
much ov, az originality.
It iz the little bits ov things that frol
and worry us; we can dodge an cle
pliant, but han't a fly.
It ain’t so much the amount a mat',
knows, az the ability to use what be dm
IV HU 111/ MIC llg|lk,.HW MW !***. -V...
makes him a power.
I hav been tricing to find out for tin
last forty years at what time ov life n
man iz the most phoolish, and just m.
soon as I find out I will let you kno.
The hardest man to convince iz the
one who ngrees to everything j’u say
How to Help Your Wife (let Rich.
llav li iih vilU I)i*patell.
A correspondent writes that the bar
keepers in Maysville, Kentucky, pay
upon nn average, $2 per gallon for whis
ky. One gallon contains an average oi
sixty-five drinks, and at ten cents a
drink the poor man pays $6.50 per gal
lon for bis whisky. In other words, lie
pays $2 for the whisky and $4.50 to a
mm for handing it over the bar. Make
your wife your Imr-keeper. Lend her
$2 to buy a gallon of whisky for a be
ginning, and every’ time you want a
drink go to her and pay ten cents for i!.
By the time you have drank a gallon
she will have $6.50, or enough money
to refund the $2 borrowed of you to pay
for another gallon of liquor, and have
a balance of $4.50. She will be able to
conduct future operations on her own
capital, and when you become an ine
briute, unable to support yourself, shun
ned and despised by all respectable per
sons, your wife will have enough money
to keep you until you get ready to till a
drunkard’s grave.
Jierer too Late to Marry
A ujunta Keening Newt.
On Wednesday last Athens was the
scene of an interesting and uncommon
ceremony. At the Baptist church, Miss
Martha Atlanta Lumpkin, daughter of
the distinguished cx-Govcrnor Lump
kin, was married to Mr.T. M. Compton,
of Athens. The bride is about fifty and
the groom about sixty years old, and
they were attended at their wedding by
three couples of the young people of
Athens. They goon a tour to Atlanta.
The two names of the Gate City, “ Mai
thasville” and “Atlanta,” were both
taken from this lady, who is the last
representative of the distinguished fath
er. She still resides at the old stone
mansion, in Athens, occupied by her
father when Governor of Georgia, aud
it is the wish of her friends that naught
hut peace and happiness shall be her lot
iu life.
A student in want of money sold his
books, and wrote home: “ Father, re
joice ; for I now derive my support from
1 iteraturo."
LORD I'LL AX’S DAUGHTER.
The Fact* or the line Set Fort© ta
Fro**.
Oil City l>trrick.
A chieftain to the Highlands bound,
cries i ■ /. .1
“ Boatman, do not tarry, and I’ll give
to thee a dollnr and a half to row mo
me across the lake.'*
“ Now, who be ye would cross Loch
Guvle this dark and stormy night?”
asked the ferryman, with much curiosity.
“What is that to you, you bald-head
ed snipe of the valley?” replied the
chieftain, growing pale around the gills.
If I pay you a good round sum for your
services, it np|>cnrs to me your interest
in the matter should end there. Do
you require the pedigree of every man,
woman and child you take across in your
infernal a :ow? If it wasn’t that I’m in
i hurry I'd slap your jaws for your im
pudence, but ns it is,” displaying a hand
ful of coin, “ns it is, I’m the Chief of
Ulva's Isle, and this—Lord Ullan’s
laughter. Ilis horsemen hard behind
as ride, and should they overtake us
here in the glen it would go hard with
us.”
Out spoke the hardy Highland wight
vvliile he unlocked his skit! and told
item to get in.
*• I’ll go, my chief, I’m rcadv ; but,
-onsidering the terrible storm, I liopo
rou will make it two dollars, ullbough,
is u matter of fact, I do nit venture
iirth for a more money consideration,
ait for your winsome lady. I have
ieen there to sonio extent myself, and
•an appreciate the situation, so, by my
voril, the bonny bird in danger shall not
arry. Sit a little more in the middle
o trim the boat, please, mid we go!”
By this time the storm grew loud
ipace, the water-wraith was shrieking
ind things looked most almighty dark.
Jut, still, as the wilder grew the storm,
ud as the night grew drearer, adown
ho glen rode at least a dozen men with
hi Ullan at ihe head on a cream-color*
il mule.
"Oli, haste thee, haste!” the lady
lira ; “ though tempests round us galh
r, I’ll meet the raging of the storm, but
u>t my angry pa.”
So on they rowed amid the roar of
inters fast prevailing, and when Lord
Ullan reached the shore his wrath was
1 i 1 1 11 * * - wonder.
or sore dismayed, thro*storm and snnm-,
he disc tvered his daughter out in the
Hint, with a smile on her lips and salt
pray in her eye, and both arms around
mr lover. For a while it seemed that
ie would take it out of his hired man
md the cream -colored mule, as he de
•lared lie would have the former be
lendi'd as soon as he got home, and the
latter he was hammering over the ear
with a club. Presently he took another
lack:
“ Come hack ! come hack !” he cries
in grief, “ across the stormy water, and
I’ll forgive your Highland boy, my
daughter 1 oh, my daughter! and also
settle the bill with the ferryman.”
“But the young lady could not he
caught so easily. Neither could the
voting man, who told the ferryman to
press on, and then turning around in
the boat, still keeping one arm about his
sweetheart to prevent her falling out,
called to to the old gentleman :
“ Much obliged for your kin 1 invita
tion, my dear sir, but we will not come
back at present. You can expect us,
however, in the course of a week or ten
days. Till then, adieu !”
Lord Ullan culled again. ‘ Twas
vain; the loud waves dashed the shore;
returned, they would not think of it.’
In fifteen minutes they were on the oth
er side, the ferryman was wondering what
lie would do with a twenty-dollar gold
piece, and the young couple were in
quiring the way to the nearest Justice of
the Peace.
Economy of Time.
Dost thou love life ? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff life
is made of.—Franklin.
Think naught a trifle, though it small
appear;
Small sands the mountains, moments
make the year,
And trifles life. —Young.
Believe me when 1 tell you that thrift
of time will repay you in after-life with
a usury of profit beyond your most
sanguine dreams, and that the waste of
it will make you dwindle, alike in in
tellect and in moral stature, beyond
your darkest reckonings.—W. E. Glad
stone.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere betw-een
sunrise and sunset, two golden hours,
each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered, for they are gone
forever. —Horace Mann.
The first steam engine on the conti
nent of America was brought from
England in 1753.