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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.