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the habit of drinking ardent spirits, - v ;■
X 1. When he is warm. S li. When he Dat wetk. >
/: 2. \Vh< hhe is cold. C 12. ‘’ hen he is icil3. f $
V 3. When ho is vet. / ,1 JV fore
J 4. When he is dry. J 14. A tier meals.
f. When he is dnll. \ ifi. U i\en he gofs np._ *
u. When he is lively. I Hi. When ho goes to tea. • $
•* j Wh h ravels. / 17. ‘'■ hollidays. \-
6 \ s. Witen he i> at home. ) IS. On Pul*li<-occasions
/ B. Witen he isin company I 18. On any day: or .N
X iO. When h**is alone. / 20. Onany orca-ion.
2.-4?“ livery friend to Temperance G
x*should take the Temperance ILnner: \
II If Temperance men will not support X
) the Temperance Press, who will V yL
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MOMk AND ItELKJIQUS.
Sst:sssons Hudiditcc.
Religion’s ray tio clouds obscure,
But o’er the Christian’s soul
It sends its radiance calm and pure,
Though tempe:‘,s round it roll;
Ilis heart may break with sorrow’s stroke,
But to its latest thrift,
J ,ike diamonds shining when they’re broke
Religion lights it still.
Liu is Dead. —Yes—the friend who
•'tvas oy our side but yesterday—whose
laugh was as loud as our own, and
whose spirits were as light as the most
active—is now dressed in tho habili
ments of the tomb. His voice will en
liven no moCe—no more will his pres
ence cheer —no more will joy and glad
ness spring up in the hearts of those who
were wont to be relieved from the Lie
novoletice of his heart. Ho is dead !
lie has looked his last on the field and
flower, spoken the last kind wer i and
given the last kiss of affection. The
flowers of spring will bloom and with
er upon his grave—the hire's will sing
high above his resting place, and the
merry voices of children will float upon
t the air—but the sleeper will not awake
till the sound of the archangel’s trump
shall call the dead to life. May we
learn a useful lesson from the sudden
departure of one who so recently was
engaged in the active seerees of life.
May we so live, that if called as sud
denly from the pursuits of time, we
may be prepared for that belter world
where the weary are forever at rest.
Now.—“ Now is tlie constant sylla
ble ticking from the clock of time.
‘Now,’ is the watchword of the wise
‘Now,’ is on the banner of tho prudent.
Let us keep this little word always* in
our mind; and whenever anything pres
ents itself to ns in the shape of work,
■ whether mental or physical, we should
Jo it with all our might, remembering
that ‘Now’ is the only time for ns. It
is indeed a sorry way to get through
the world by putting off till to-morrow,
saying,‘Then’ I will do it. No! this
will never answer. ‘Now,’ is ours,
‘then may never be.”
A man’s true wealth hereafter is the
good he does in this world to his fellow i
men. When he dies people will say,
“What pr perty has he left behind,
him?” But the angels who examine j
h/iri in the grave will ask, “What good
deed hast thou sent before thee?”
LADIES DEPARTMENT.
Maternity
Woman’s charms are certainly many j
and powerful. The expanding rose
just bursting into beauty, has an irresis
riLie bewitchingness; tho blooming
bride, led triumphantly to the hyineni-j
al alter awakens admiration and inter
est, and the blush of her cheeks fills
with delight; hut the charm ofmaterni- (
!y is more sublime than these. Ileav-J
en has imprinted on the mother’s face
something beyond this world, something
which claims kindred with the skies — ■
‘be angelic smile, the tender look, the
waking watchful eve which keeps its
I fond vigil over her slumbering bah
These are objects wdiicii neither the
J pencil nor the chisel can touch, which i
j poetry fails to exalt, w Inch tlie moit el
oquent tongue in vain would eulogize,
! and to portray which all description be- •
| comes ineffective. In the heart ofm ui
| lies the lovely picture; it lives in his
j sympathies, it reigns in his directions; j
liis eyes look round in vain for such i
another object on earth.
Maternity—extutio sound! so twined 1
■ round our heart that it must cease to j
tlirob ere we forget! ’its our first!
love! ’Tis part of our religion! Nn- 1
tore has sot tiie mother upon such a I
pinnacle, that our infant eyes and arms!
| are first uplifted to it; we cling to it in !
j manhood, we almost worship it in old
i age. He who can enter an apartment,
and behold tlie tender babe foe ling up
- on ils rm tilers’ beauty, nourished by-tiie
| tide of life w hich flows through her:
generous veins, a panting bosom and .
grateful eye, is no man, but a minster,
lie who can uouroach the cradle of
i I
; sleeping innocence without thinking i
I “of suen is tlie kingdom of heaven,” !
|or view tlie fond parent over its beau
ties, and half retain her breath lest site!
should break ils slumbers, without a
veneration beyond ali common feeling, :
is to be avoided in every intercourse in i
j life, and is fit only for the shadow of 1
! darkness and the solitude of tho desert.
Ju V ENILE DEPARTMENT.
Henry uiay—xuivico to Sfoungiu^a.
1 Two years ago, during Mr. day’s
i address to the students ot N. State
and National Law Scliuoi, ui ilailston,
Spa., out; object ol widen is to train
young men in the art oi extemporane
ous spousing, he said, when counting
on tne advantages of the institution, “i
owe my success in life, to one single
fuel, viz,: ttiut at tlie age of Zl 1 com
menced, and coeiiiHiod for years, the
’ success oi dady reading and speaking
j upon the contents of sumo historical or
. seieuiilio book. These oft baud efforts
i were made sometimes in a corn iieid,
! and at ethers ill the forest, and not un
; frequently in some distant barn, with
‘! tho liorse and tlie ox ior my auditors.
: it is to tins early practice ui the great
I art of arts, mat am 1 indebted for tlie
I primary and leading impulses that stim
ulated me forward, and have shaped
’ and moulded my entire subsequent des
tiny; improve, then, young gentlemen,
ihe superior advantages you here enjoy.
Let not a day pass without exercising
powers of speech. There is no power
iike that of oratory. Cmsar controlled
men by exciting their tear.-.; Cicero by
captivating their affections and swaying
their passions, i iiu influence ot tne
one perished with its author—that of 1
the other-continues to this day.”
A Word toLitlla Gi.ii.
Who is lovely i It is tlie little girl
• who drops sweet words, kind remarks,
land pleasant smiles as she passes a-!
long; who has a kind Word of sinyputhy !
. for every bov or giii she meets in trou
ble, and a kina hand to help her com- j
panions out of diilicully; who never
scolds, never contends, never leases her
! mother, nor seeks in any way to dimiu- 1
j ish, but always to increase her happi- ;
ness. Would it please you to pica up:
a strin ’ of pearls, drops of gold, dai
| monds or precious stones, us you pass j
along tlie street! But then * arc pre- !
■ cions stones wb*h can never be lost.— ’
Take tin hand oftho friendless. Smile
lon the sad ami dejected. Sympathise
’ with those in trouble B: rive every
where to diffuse around you sunshine j
and joy.—lfyou do this, you will be
sure to be loved.
A clergyman happened to pass a
boy weeping bitterly, lie halted, and
asked. “What is tin's nn ter my link
fellow!” —The buy replied, ‘'Before j
we could hardly get enough to eat of’
, any thing, and now what sltull we do? <
for there’s another one come
‘•Hush thy murmuring, mul wipe off
those tears,” said tho clergyman, “and
! remember that He never sends mouths
! without He seuda victuals to put irit.o
them.”
‘‘l know that,” said the boy, “But
then He sends all tho mouths to our
house, arid the victuals to your house.’
A ladv making inquiries of a hoy a
bout his father, an intemperate man,
who had been sick for ssn- time, asked
whether lie had retained his appetite.
‘ Xo ma’am ’ says the hoy, “no 1 . *x
actly; his appetite is very poor, but his
drinkalife is as good as eve r.
A Dutchman, in describing a span of
horses which he hud lost said :—“Dev
wash very much a like, especially the
off one. - ’ He said “that one looked so,
much like both, he could’nt tell de o’ her
from which, when ho went after de one
he always caught ether, and whibt tfie
..lie almn-t to dealt: l- r m- 1 ’ the other
kicked at him.”
PENFIELD, GA. AUGUST Id, t
For the Temperance Banner.
Nkwnan, Ga.,Julv 27th, 1352. ‘
Legislation and n;m legislation.
Mr. Editor: —Through y6ur last col
, umns wo son in a composition, some re
! flections upon this all important sub-i
;j- of. It seems that the antuor of which,
i claims that “coming events cast their
shadows before.” This we admit to h •
true in some instances, but to make the
■ assertion broad and unmodified, we i
i most certainly doubt its truth. Let;
| this be the case or not, tho difference i
is a trifle, having no learning whatever
; upon the subject at issue.
Who ever J. R. T. is, he doubtless
bad policy in not wishing to truce from
the beginning of the Temperance Ref.
orma’.ion, its various stops. For had
ho presented to your readers, iho sub- >
ijectin a tine light, from its original
source and foundation, hi? would have
] proven most plainly, that lie himself is,
in error. But we noticed ha wisely;
shuned this. Then, Mr. liditor and
I readers, let us notice the argument he
| uses, to prove that tho time inis not yet
I at lived for American freemen to go in
-1 to legislation upon this subject.
! The first, refers you to the “downfall !
jof that good old noble pledge, to which
tiie Sons of freemen first enrolled their
names.” Well has he called it good ■
! and noble, for if there is any thing now ‘
j under the canopy of heaven, next to re
! ligion, for which we should be thankful
jto a merciful and benefleient God, it is
that pledge. To see its fruits, we have
but for a moment to revert your minds
to its day and time. An i ninny an in
ebriate do you see, who thanks God
that he ever put it in man’s bosom, to
institute such a pledge ; many a deli
cate, once heart-broken female, do you
see, who t6-day might have been trem
| filing in the deepest agonies of woe, will
i rise with feelings, beyond the power of
| language to express, cry, “God be
praised.” But he states to you that tlie
banner, that waved in such triumph,
| lias fal'en, is crushed to earth, and
i is now numbered with tiie tilings that
; were. This we deny being tho case.
| For it is not in our bosom to believe
| that lovers of home, country, and State,
1 will ever see that victorious banner
! fall and expire, mangled in its bearer’s
blood. We deny also, that *ho old
pledge is not yet alive. For proof, we
refer yuti to tho iuto Convention held
; at Newmm, where you see many from
! all parts of the State, still firm, stead
fast, year .mmoveabi -, rallying around
| its standard
L> :! again, lie points you to something
i new, (tlie Sons of Temperance.)—
From ins writing, we draw no other
inference, than to iiis opinion, these are
they, who have crushed to earth that
I good old pledge. ‘‘Alas! what differs
t more titan man from man.” J low in ;
creation could lie have come to this
i conclusion, who will tell me"? U’e
j ourselves acknowledge that tho Sons j
were something new , we acknowledge i
; they were a great improvement, yet !
nevertheles, though every Wnshingto. I
iiiau is ti it a Son, yet every true Son is ]
j a Washingtonian. Then surely if our;
i non-legislation limn was engaged in I
i battle against some enemy, who had I
Alain his millions, lie would not oh-!
j jecl. to having the aid of his fellow men, j
j who were skilled in the art of war, arid !
whose government was such, that it ev
or held m readiness tor battle its sold-’
j iei'o. No. in), riot n solitary objection I
1 would lie raised, but iike the old tern-;
I pc ranee man and son, ho would sav !
come one, come ali, join in a solid
phalanx., and let us go against this dire. I
fid ( It Illy until WO Wreak our hands
in Ins blood. Next lie points us to tlie
faun making l.is stump speech, avowiu H
the principles of moral suasion. He
asks, “do wo d.my it!” We answer i
no. Why ! Because tvo are ever’
proud to acknowledge truth. Wo
therefore admit that every Son of Tom.
perunco, speaking ns a Son lor the or
der. has Claimed moral suasion mid i
naught but morel suasion. Hoes not
tile very actions of some of the Sons set
ting in the late Convention at Ncwnan,
prove most dearly that their speakers
are authorised to say naught else?
Ho we not see Sous there most rigidly
opposing legi-lntion, tin reby sliowiim!
tnat tiieir political privilege is not in
theieast affected by tiieir pledge ! ‘JAlfis’
is not all. Wo are authorised to aay, ’
! that it is made known to every one pe
litioning to become a Son, that by i,is
pledge his political or religious rights
will not be effected. Thus we see it i.-,
made known to each one before hand,
that upon this subject, (the subject of
legislating,) he can act according to the
dictates of his own conscience. Then
wo sec why they ‘have said they were
. not for legislating. Hut should they
all come together and agree that it was
i right to legislate, who could blame
them? “Wise men do sometimes
change their notion ; fools never do.”
But went lias been said heretofore in
regard to legislation, has not been said
as Sons of IVuiporunce, hut as ejti//.| ls
i Vmeri. i as ci'i'A*,,,. „f n Repub!; i.u
i Government. And who, I ask, would
debar these from this privilege ? would
1 any freeman upon whom shines the
rays of the sun, over whom the Hag of
liberty spreads its gilded mantle, be so
i Holfish, so anti-republican, so joalouu of
; the noble Sons ! Surely, surely not.
But again, lie asks, ‘-is not moral
suasion, all that has been possessed for
the last three or four years, suliieient to
move the temperance ball with suliieient
velocity ?” We answer no. And
though he desires that while thesuhjcct
j has been agitated tor legislation, it has
; been on the decline, and its very found- j
at ion tottering. Still, to-dnv, we see it j
standing, lookid|| over a sin-cursed i
1 world, with beauty, hope, and
light that it e\Tr • dff\n days that are
past, But the baling* not vet move
with suificient vclomrr. We would
remind J. R. T. that this jsan age of
| improvement. will ho or any one
else. l*o willing to lot'this tvAst impor
tant subject lie dormant, while every
other art and science known, is daily
progressing with double speed ? Are
they willing to stand with fold arms and
see their fellow men, one alter another,
rush headlong and engulf themselves
forever in oblivion ! “Oh ! man, how
: long ! how king, will you trifle with
kind nature’s plan ?” The God of na
j turn never intended that you should
! thus act. lie never intended that man
!by eating meat, should thereby cause
’ bis feilow-man to stumble and fall. Arid
bow often has it been the case, that your
fellow-man, the inebriate, hearing you
(oppose this subject, ami say, that it
| Was your privilege to drink ardent spir
; its, has thereby tumbled headlong in the
I ditch ; thus you see, though he did no!
! drink’ to idols, yet lie drank to excess,
i Tills we give as a very good reason
( why we should legislate upon this sub.
| ject; for other reasons, we ask you to
j search that law upon which our law is,
and should be based, and see if it will
not bear us out in legislating : convince
us that it will not, and we sav not an
other word.
But why is this dust kicked up at this
time about legislation ? Because the
: subject, never before has been agitated
|by the people of Georgia? By no
| means. We can show to you, that tho
! subject has been legislated upon long,
I long since. Where says you ? W
j answer, in imposing a fine upon the
j ivinil-dealers in ardent spirits. And
i we ask you if the State of Georgia has
the right to impose a (ins of live or fifty
Jollars upon a man for poisoning li is
tieighbor, it it has not the right to im
! pose one of live thousand or State-im
prisonment ? Answer ye who wish it
\ was not so. Answer ye band of rug-
I ing warriors who would have the no
! blest deed that you country-men could
do, crushed to ear/li.
But perhaps you sav, that it lias no
! right to impose any fine whatever, for j
i the reason that the liquor seller does
j not force Ids neighbor.: to drink, and ;
j the re fore it is taking away the freedom I
of men. Then we ask you if the .State
j has the right to prohibit a man burning
(down his own house, if it has not the
1 right to prohibit him killing himself
through neglect? A again : let us
i make a supposition : Suppose you, a
mail was to begin to retail, or sell by ,
the barrel, arsenic to his neighbors, and
J thereby daily slay them think you, the
i State would do right in stopping him !
yes, every thinking man would answer
yes. And why ? Because arsenic,
kills instantly. And wlu.t iF it does, it
(is at last, no more fatal than liquor.
We think :tie citizens of Georgia
have not investigated this subject as i-,
becoming true, civilized and enlightened
men.
I low long oh ! sleeping citizen 1 - - ., v. ill
you remain care!, rs and listen wiilinn
feeling hearts, to the cries and grans ot
widows and orphans! Oli r awake
from your revery and come to their
aid sink - or rise on popular current. —
Let us do to our fellow men ns we
would have them do unto us. Let us
rally around the temperance cause un
til its waving banner shall spread all
over the republic, and fliield by its infill
ence every freeman, every bond-mac, 1
from the dismal, gloomy grave of the
drunkaid.
SPELT \CLKS.
i\fo 2.
Having lectured at Philadelphia on
1 Saturday 10th. Inly, I spend the Sabbath
in the neighborhood, and preach at
Sweet Water (Jump Ground to a large
audience, spend the evening with Pro.
il. J. I s'-r out early on Monday morn
ing on the E. ‘Pen. ears and arrived ut
my friend J. 11. Huffs by breakfast.—
lln is a consistent .Methodist and a de
voted talented Son of Temperance. I
lectured the suin ’ day before Red Clay
Division ami public, having a good
crowd, got eight p, titioiis. There was
some excitement sure, produced ; an
old Methodist got. ‘ ‘powt rful mad with
iii”, and one ladv whose husband gave
in his p< m, tin ’atone Ito leave him
for said art.
Red Gill V is a splendid Division, u
Working Division. and I opine will (
.henceforth bo onward. I dined with <
t'io Rev. P. L. Wade—who spends his -
summers in (lie np country, has a neat
summer seat—himself n good and de
voted Son. (JnTuesduy 12th, 1 run
up and sea Chattanooga, an ! as my
friends did not get my letters, have sev
i oral davs to spare.
On Friday 10th go to Spring Place, j
here too is a good Division, and will re
■ main so while they have such men ns a
Hank, Turner, Brawn, li 11, Gant and
very many others of the “same sort,”
too tedious to mention, i lecture on
Saturday to a crowded house and-re*
o live petitions, Rev. Mr. Selvidge,
leftist, preached on Sunday at 111
; o’clo.T*, and myself at 0, P. M.
Before commencing lecturing oti Sat- 1
j urday received the following, written
I by a poor old man, a superannuated in
ebriate. it speaks in teriilic tones ol
the evils of intemperance, and just see
what this poor unfortunate man cays in
j regard to Legislation or the vote of the
people at the ballot-box.
I give his plain unvarnished story j
; literaUunet vsrbatum. It was addressed j
to me: •
“Murky County. July 17, IS-dJ.
j Sir: —[ am not a Son nor a son of a
■*s >n, hut bid the Sons Godspeed in
what they profess to be their design.— I
j 1 will give you the instance of my own
j case us 1 estimate it, as near as I can ;
l below, but it will fall far short of the j
fact, or true estimate. I give it in the !
i form of a sum. and as the rule you will
; multiply each number given bv the j
i product of tlie one just preceding it: j
Ist. My 1 osses in twenty years in I
! cash and property, has been live thou
j sand dollars. Now multiply the above ;
by the leaves of the forest for value of j
j the impaired state of the constitution
j and physical powers.
2d. Multiply as above the sands of
j Ibe sea for the value of moral churac- j
tor.
hi. Multiply the spears of grass, the
leaves of the forest, the sands of the sea!
and sands of the whole earth, and stars
of heaven as the rule states, for the loss j
of the love and power of God, and when j
you get this sum worked, tell me what!
I liave been my losses in twenty years
; career, by the use of alcohol, and asso
ciating with its kinfolks. To sav noth
ing of what has visited my family as a
natuial consequence, and in such ca
ses, we see the miseries of the parents
(ifnot their iniquities,) upan the chil
dren to the third and fourth generation;
and strange In tell, i yet love the and I
stull. It is also as strange, to see smart
men trying to kill this king by cutting j
oli his fingers and toes, when they see :
: the cutting olf of one makes two more j
to come. If you Sons will prepare the
1 hatchet to cut oil’ this old king’s head,
1 will strike the blow at the box.
You can use these lines and my!
name in any way you may think hon
orable for the advancement of the good
of man.”
.TUIIiS HIiNRY,
Son of William.
To D. P. Jones.
I got th<? old man’s petition, you and
i the public can analyze tlie above as
best ■ suits von.
in L. P.& F.
I). P. JONES.
P. S. I propose to start to
Oak I till Division to be with them to
morrow at tiieir celebration. I only
•.rot home day before yesterday.
• D. P. J.
The Rum seller s Dream.
W. J', wife, tins is too horrid : 1 can
net con inue this business uny longer.
“ W iiy, dear, what’s the mutternow ?”
“O, such a dream, such a rattling of
dead men’s bones, and such an army
of starved mortals, so many murders,:
..iicn cries, and shrieks, mid yells, arid
such horrid gnashing of teeth, hiuJ •
glaring of eyes, and such a blazing fire,
and such devils!—oli! 1 cannot endure
it. My hair stands on end, and lam
so filled with horror I can scarcely
speak ! Oh. ifever I sell rum again !’ j
“My dear, jou are frightened.”
“Yes, indeed, I am; another such a
night will I not puss for worlds.”
“.My dear, perhaps-—”
“Oh, don’t to me. lam determined
not to Have anything more to do with
rum, anyhow. Don’t you think Tom
Wilson canto to me with iiis throat cut
from ear to ear, and such a horrible
! gash, and it was so hard for him to
speak, and so much bluod ; and says
be, ‘H e here, Joe, the result of your
rum selling !’ .My blood chilled ut the
sight, and just then the house seemed
to turn bottom up, the earth opened, and
u little imp took me by the hand, say
ing, ‘Follow me.’ As 1 went, grim dav.
iis held out to me cups of liquid lire,
saying, ‘Drink this.’ I dared not re
fuse. Every draught set me in a mgc.
Serpents hissed on each side, arid iiom
above reached down tin ir heads and
w hispered, l ßumndter /’ f>u and on,
the imp led me, through tiie narrow
pass. All at once he paused and said, ,
‘Are you dry?’ ‘Yys,’ I replied. Then
lie struck a trap door with his foot, ami |
down, down we went, and legions of fi-.
ory serpents followed us, whispering,
‘Drunkard! Drunkard!’ At length
we stopped again, ami tlie imp asked me
as be tore, ‘Are you dry ?’ ‘Yes,’l re
plied.
lie then touched a spring, a door
‘lew open, there were thousands of old
worn out rum drinkers, crying most pit
eously, Rum, rum, give me some rum!
\\ lien they saw me, they stopped a mo
ment to see who 1 was. Then tlie imp
cried out, so ns to make all shake again,
4 lift hi sc.ltcr !’ and, hurling mo in shut
the door. For a moment they fixed
the.i’ ferocious eyes upon me, and then
, uttered a united yell, Damn him !
! which filled me with such terror l
awoke. I here, wife, dream or no
dream, I will never sell another drop
(ofthe infernal stuff. 1 will not.”
From the Olive Branch
Smoking Ministers
We sometimes say a word on the
use oi tobacco. But we mean no harm
to any one. “Every tub must stand
on its own bottom,” as the old lady said
when she undertook to quote Scripture.
And although wc consider tho use of to
bacco in any of the forms in which it is
generally used, to be u filthy kind of
I slavery, which does vastly more hurt
•hail good, still we leave every person
: to act himself freely, in regard to using
it. It appears, however, that there is
(considerable “stirring up” on tiie sub
ject id late. It was very seriously con
: sidered by the Universulist Convention,
: held recently in tiiis city. And it was
: also before tlie Methodist General Con
lerenca at its late session. In a circu
lar addressed to that body, on ‘he us of
(tobacco in the American churches, Rev.
| Geo. I'rask makes the following state
( ment :
“On ihe authority of Dr. Coles, I
! would add, tlie American church annu
ally expends SS,OOO,(KH> on this vilo
narcotic, and less than #1,000,000 on
benevolent objects, oi fur tlie conver
! sion of the world.”
it is very proper that tiiis subject
j should come before tlie ministers, for
| consideration; for if there is a fault in
regard to the use of tobacco in the
churches, it mav in a great measure
! be attributed to the clergy themselves.
We do not say that ministers ought to
| be constantly preaching on tiiis subject
’ —it might ue spoken of very seldom.
But we do say that ministers ought to
set a good examplo, or their preuening
will he of hut little use.
We have seen somo pulpits, which
have been occupied by tobacco-chewing
ministers, sufficiently liltliy to make
a decent man sick—every tiling had
been saturated with saliva, and cover
ed with “old soldiers.” If you enter
such a mans study on serious business,
; you find it densely tilled with smoke”
and before he can answer you, he must
open tlie window and relieve liis mouth
of the essence of Virginia.
Wh ii wo see these things, wo think
of the question of Job : “Who cun bring
a clean thing out of an unclean?”
And we are strongly tempted to ask
ourselves iiow Paul would have looked,
were he in the pulpit (licking out his
text, With a quid of tobacco between
bis teeth? to how Peter would have
seemed, taking out his silver snufF-box,
, and rapping it with liis knuckles be
fore fie applied the tickling dust to his
olfactories? or how ihe Master of both
woiibl have appeared with a cigar or
pipe in His mouth, when He entered
the Temple, and drove out those who
\polluted, it. with a scourge of small
i cords ‘
If tin! statement of Mr. Trask is true,
• hat the American churches spend five
times as much for tobacco ns they do
; or benevolent objects, wo think a re.
term in these respects is very desirable,
nd ministers can do much towards
effecting such a reform; hut never can
jt be done while they set tho example.
Pile church, too, should look into this
suhji! t. Five millions of money annu
ally, might relieve a world of human
i sutler mg. But spent in tobacco, it is
worse than thrown away.
A Cure >or Warts.— Take a leaf
of a plunt'called a house leek, which is
quite common about household, peel it,
bind it upon a wait when you go to bed!
In the morning, the v/art wi I be soften
ed to such an extent that you may pul!
half of it oil. Repeat the application
two or three nights, and tho excresen
e s will disappear, leaving no mark he
hind.
A poor emaciated Irishman having
cai ed a physician in a forlorn hope,
the latter spread a large must rad plas
ter, and immediately clapped it on the
poor fellow s lean breast. I'at, who,
with a tearful eye, looked down on it
said, “Docther, it strikes me it’s a dala
of mustard for so little mate.”
Advantage ir u bettor soldier than
rashness.
Jealousy is the greatest of misfortunes
and excites the It a.-r pity.
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