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■ame. No other practice is solicited.
Dawson, Ga., January 80lh, 1868—ly
DR. R. A. WARNOCK,
OFFERS his Professional services to the
citizens of Chickasawhatcbee and its
vicinity. From ample experience in both
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W hit profession. janl6’6Btf
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dateson, Ga.
jan 16 1868 ly
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THE DAWSOiN JOURNAL.
Vol. 111.
POETRY.
There'* uo such Word as ‘Fail.’
Heed not this cold world’e taunting jeer,
But in thy might arise;
It often proves misfortunes here
Are blessings in disguise,
If lukewarm friends should us disclaim,
Our lot we’ll not bewail;
Nor will we own there’s such a name,
Or such a word as fail.
I’ve seen the oak beneath the storm
Bow dowD upon the shore ;
I’ve seen it raise its stately form,
And flourish as before.
If storms assail our earthly bark,
We’ll brace the shatter’d sail,
Though frienda be few and protpects dark,
There’s no such word as fail.
I’ve seen the ship lie tempest tossed,
Upon the troubled main;
That vessel which all thought was lost
Is sailing free again.
When driven on before the blast,
And enemies assail,
We’ll nail our motto to the mast,
“There’s no such word as fail."
Full many** pilgrim by the way
A look hath homeward cast,
Sorrowing again hath turned away,
But reached the bourn at last.
W ben kindred, too, grow cold and shy
While list’uing to our tale,
We’ll say, dress on, the goal is nigh,
There’s no such word as fail.
’Tis when the fuming masses meet,
The’ assayer’s furnace glows,
And higher as we raise the heat
A purer metal flows.
If Providence should thus award,
Our efforts to po vail,
Then will we shout with one accord,
There’s no such word as fail.
Oar God is just ; revere Diswill,
Let faith our fears disaim;
His work in season He’ll fulfill,
And shelter us fiom harm.
Then let us tiust in Him whose voice
Is heard in every gale,
And even in our prayers rejoice
There’s no sneh word ns fail
A Beautiful 1 xtiucf.
It was Light, Jerusul ni slept as
quietly amid her bills as a child upou
the brea-t of i's ut' ther The uoise'ess
sentinel stood like a stature at bis post,
and the philosopher’s l>mp burned dim
ly in tbe recess of his chamber. But a
darker night was abroad upon the earth
A moral darkness involved the uatious
in its unligbtcd shad >ws. Keasou shed
a taint glimmering over the minds of
men, like the cold, insufficient shining
of a dis'ant star. Tue innmrtalpy of
man’s.spiritual nature wasuokuown, his
relations to heaven undiscovered and
bis future destiny obscured in a cloud
of mystery.
It was at this period that the two
forms of cthcrial mould hovered about
tbo land of God’) chosen people. They
seemed like sister angels sent to earth
on some embassy of love.
Tbe one of majestic stature and well
formed limb, which her snowy drapery
hardly concealed, in her erect bearing
aud steady eye, were exhibited tbe high
est degree of strength nnd confidence
Her right arm was extended in an im
pressive gesture, upwards, where right
appeared to have placed her darkest pa
vilion ; while on the left reclined her
delicate companion in form and in coun
tenance the contrast of the other, for
she was drooping like a flower, when
moistened by refreshing dews, and her
bright but troubled eyes scanned the air
with ardent but varying glances. Sud
denly a light like the sun flashed out
from the heavens, and Faith and Hope
hailed with exalting songs, tLe ascend
ing star of Bethlehem.
Years rolled away, and the stranger
was seen in Jerusalem. He was a meek,
man, whose happiness seem
ed to eonsist in acts of benevolence to
the human race. There were deep tra
ces of sorrow on his countenance, tho’
no one kaew why he grieved, for he
lived in the practice of every virtue, and
was loved by all the good and wise.—
By and by it was rumored that the
stranger worked miracles; that the
blind saw, the dumb spake, tbe dead
leaped, the ocean moderated its chaffing
tide, aud the very thunders articula ed,
'be is the Son of God! Euvy assailed
him with the charge of sorcery, aud the
voice of the impious judges condemned
him to death. Slowly and thickly gird
ed, he asceudcd the bill of Calvary. A
heavy cross bent him to earth. But
Faith leaned upon nis arm, and Hope,
dipping bur pinions in bis blood, mount
ed to the skies. — Exchange.
Rules for Growing Old.
At the cooimeocouieoi of Yule Ool
lege, years ago. Rev. Darnel Waldo, as
the oldest graduate present, £of the
class ts 1788, bus closed a speech to
the assembkd Alumni:
“I am au old roan. I have seen near
ly ■ century Do you want to know
how to grow old slowly and happily ?
Let me tell you. Always eat slow —
masticate well. Go to your food, to rest,
yur occupation smiling Keep ag od
nature and suit ttiu,nr every wheie. —
Never give way to ang r. A vi> lent
tempest of paseiou icais, down a eoi.s i
tutlon more thau a typhus fever Cul
tivate a g od mem ry, aud to do this
you tuusi always be commute oati*' - re
peat what you have read; talk ab ut it.
Dr. Johnson’s gerat mem- ry was owing
to bis ooiuuiuiJitativenuss You young
men who are just ieivinx college, le me
advise you lu choose a profession iri
which you can exercise your talents the
beat, and at the same time be honest ”
The man who rim up a till lei; of!
when be eame to set le it.
DAWSON, OA., TIIURSDA\, FEBRUARY 30, 186S.
Tbe heven Sleeper*,
BY MARK TWAIN.
Every body has beard of tbe seven.
Christian martyrs of Ephesus,
says the LaCrosse Democrat, who
were enclosed in a cave in the third
century, and discovered two centuries
after. Th 6 legend says they slept all
this time, and so did a dog they had
with them, and all waked up and oame
out after their great slumber. Mark
Twain, who bas recently visited Ephe
sus, gives us, iu a letter to tbe Alta
Californian the following, as his version
of the legend
In the Mount of Pion, yonder, is the
Cave of the Seven Sleepers Once upon
a time, about fifteen hundred years ago,
•even young men lived Dear each other
in Ephesus, who belonged to the uis
pised sect of the Christians. It came
to pass that the g od King Muxim'.liau
us (I am'telling tbis story f.r nice lit
tle boys and girls) it came to pass, I
say, that the good King Muximilianus
got to persecuting the Christians, and
as time rolled on he made it very warm
for them. So the seven young meu
said, one to the other, ‘“Let us go up
and dust.” And they got up and dut
ed They tarried not to bid their fath
ers and mothers gO"d bye, or any Iriend
they knew. They only took certain
moneys which their parents bad,' and
garments that btlonged to their triends,
whereby they might remember them
wieu far away, and they took also the
deg Knmehr, which was the property
of their neighbor Malcbus, becau c the
beat did run his head tuto a noose which
one id the young men was carrying
ar let-sly, and they had tint time to r -
lna.-e biua ; and they took also cer'a v
chickens that seemed lonely in the
neighboring c >ops, and likewise some
bottles of curious liquors that stood
mar lie Gester's window ; and then
they departed from the city. By and
by they came to a marvelous cave iu
.to Hill of Pi-.n, au t entered into it
ands -sltd, and presently they hurried
on again. Bit they f.cg.'t the boftl :fl
of curious liq iors, and lett them be
hind.
They traveled in many lands, aud
Lad masy stratigo adventures. They
were virtuous young men, aud lost no
opportunity that fell ia their way to
make a livelihood. Their motto was
iu these words: “Procrastination is the
thief of time.” And so, whenever they
did come upon a mao who was alone
they said : “Behold this person has the
wherewithal—let us go through him.’—
And they went through him. At the
end of five years they bad waxrd tired
of travel and adventure, and longed to
revisit tbeir old home agaiD, aud hear
the voices and see the faces that were
dear unto their youth. Therefore they
went through such parties as fell in
their way where they sojourned at that
time, and journeyed towards Ephesus
again. For the good King Maximili
anus was become converted unto the
new faith, and the Chri-tians rejoiced
because they were no longer proseouted
One day as the sun weot down, they
came to the cavo in tho Mount of PioD,
and they said each to his fellow : “Let
us sleep here, and go aDd feast and make
merry with our friends when the morn
ing cometh.” And each of the seven
lifted up his voice and said: “It -is a
whiz’’ So ' hey went iL, and lo 1 where
they had put them, there lay the hot
ties of curious liquors, and they judged
that age b and not impaired their excel
lence. Wherein the wonders were
right, and tbe beads of the same were
level. So each of the young men drank
six bottles, and behold they felt very
tired then, and lay down aud slept very
soundly.
When they awoke one of them, Jcb
aones tSmitbianus said, ‘We are naked ’
And it was so. Their raiment was »11
gone, and the money which they bad
gotton from a stranger whom they had
proceeded through as they approached
the city, was lying upn the ground, cor
roded and dusted and del iced. Liko.
wise the dog Ketwebr was gone, and
nothing save the brass that was upon
bis colar remained. They wonderid
much at tluss things. But they took
the money and tboy wia> pi and ab' ut 'heir
budus some leaves, and cniii. up to tho
top of the In.l. lUi b lliey wire pet*
pined. The wccdcilui knprioi Dia
na was gorn y many grand edifices lb' \
bud i.evi r «- cn before stood in me env ;
men in strange garbs moved about tho
s reels, and everything was chang' and. !
J bannes said : ‘ It liardly Seems like
£pbeaus. Yet here is the groat gym
nasium ; here is tho mighty theatre,
wben in l have seen 70,000 men as cm
bled; here is the Ag'iaj thtru is the
fount where the sainted John the Bap*
list immorai and tho converts; yonder is
the prison cl the good St Paul, where
we ait did use to go and toueh the an—
eeiot chains that bound him, and be
oured of the distempers; 1 see the tomb
of tbe disciple Luke, and afar off in the
church wherein repose the ashes
of the holy John, where the Chris
tians of Ephesus go twice a year to gath
er tbe dust from the tomb, which is
able to make bodies whole again that
are corrupted by disease, and cleanse
the soul from sin ; but see how the
wharves encroach upon the sea, -and
wbat multitudes of ships are anchored
in the bay ; see, also, bow the city hath
stretched abroad, far over the valley
beyond Pion, and even unto the walls of
Aya9sa, look, and 10, all tbs hills are
white with palaces and ribbed wi h
colonandos of marble. How mighty is
Ephesus become!”
And wondering af wbat tbeir eyes
had seen, they went down in tho city
and purchased garments aDd clothed
tbemse'vee. And when they have pass
ed on, the meiehant bit tbe coins which
they had given him, with his teeth, and
turn'd them about and looked curiously
upon them ; and cast them upon his
counter, and listened if they rang, and
then he said, ‘these ho bogus.’ And
they said,‘depa.t thou to Hades,’and
went their way. When they were come
to their houses they recoguied them, al
bi.it they seemed and mean ; and
they rejoiced and were glad. Tney
ran to the doors and knocked, and
strangers opened and looked inquiring
ly upou them. And they said with
great excitement, while their hearts
boat high and the color of thrir faces
came and wont. Where is my father ?
Where is my mother ? Where aro Dy
ot;i-iu) and Serapion, aud Pericles aud
D icuo ? And the s'rangets that open
ed said, ‘we know not these.’ The sav
en said, ‘bow you know them not?—
How long have ye dwelt bote, and whith
er arc they gone that dwelt here before
ye ? And the strangers said : Ye
play upou us with a jest, young men
we and our fathers have sojourned uti
der the roots these six generations; the
names ye utter rot upon tbe tombs, aud
they that bore tin in have run their brief
race, have laughed and sung, have
tornetbe sorrows and the weariness
that were alotted them, aud are at rest;
for nine score years the summers have
conic and gone, and the autumn leaves
have fallen, since the roses faded out of
their,checks, and they laid them to sleep
with the dead. Tbe seven young men
tun ed then away from theii homes, and
strangers shut tbe doors upon them.—
The wondering marveled greatly, and
looktd in*o tbe faces of all they met,
as if they hoped to meet some sue whom
they knew ; bul all were strangers and
passed them by and spake no friendly
wotd. They were sore distressed and
sad. Presently they spakeuatoa citi
zen and said, ‘Who is the king of Ephe
sus ?’ And the citizens-nswered and
said, ‘Whence come ye that ye know
not that great Lsertfus reigns in Ephe
sus?’ They looked one at the other
greatly perplexed, and presently asked
again, ‘where, then, is the good king
Maximiliaous ?” Tbe citizens moved
him apart as one who is afraid, and said,
“Verily these men bo mad, and dream
in dreams, else would they know that
the king whereof they spake is dead
above two centuries ago.’
“Then the scales fell from the eyes
of the seveD, and one said, “Alas thrt
we drank of tbe curious liquors They
have made us weary, aDd iu dreamless
sleep these two long centuries have we
lain. Our homes are < esolate, our
frieuds are dead Behold tbe jig is up
let us ante up und pass the buek.’—
And the same day they went and laid
them down and died.
“Such is the story of the SeveD
Sleepers (with slight variations.) and I
know it is true, for I have seen the
cave myself "
A Word to Bovs —You wero made
to bo kind and generous. If there is a
boy in school who has a club foot, don’t
let him know that you ever saw it. If
there is a boy w th fagged clothes, don’t
lulk about rags in his bearing. If there
is a lame boy, assign to him si me part
i l tbe g»me that does not require run
ning. If there is a hungry oDe, give
him a part of your dinuer. If there is
h dull one, help him to get bis lesson.
If a larger or stronger boy has injured
you, fiog vo him, and request the teach
er not to punish him. Ali the school
will sh"W by their countenances bow
mu'. b newer it is to have a great soul
than a grt.at fist.
Ti « Acw Y- t'k Tribune, looking at
the condition of things in the tsoutb,
»ny s:
“Root, hog or die ” But there are
no fiogs there to root. The niggers
have stole them all; every squealer and
gr outer.
The Su urday Review says:
* There are, it must bo owned, but
few things on earth of less intern Lat
first sight than a young girl in her
teens ”
Bu; we don’t think so.
A t'onnectiout infant was so un
fortunate as to be bora with three
coeen.
Tlie End Not Yet.
Tbo Charleston Mercury says ; “Peo
ple continually speak as if tbe days of
revolution were past. They seem to
think that the country has settled down
into a state that will endure forever.—
Hero, at the South, we are prone to be
lieve that what prevails now -will grow
more aud moro intensely real. We
senm to have filled our minds with the
fears that because disorganization, dis
order aod desritution characterize South
ern social life in the present, they must
continue to characterize our life io the
future and be confiocd to ours alone
At the North, of course, just the oppo
site view is taken. There the public
journals and the public speakers harp
on the glorious coiclurion to which four
years of war have brought them. The
Government of tho United States is held
up to all the world as a model of well
regulated, vigorous and flourishing ad
ministration. The present Condition of
the couutry is p-oiuttd to as tbe crown
which comes after the cross of Mi flitting
—the reward which has enriched the
efforts of self sacrificing devoted pa
triotism
“It is true that the din of arms is
hushed, it is true that actual oonfliot
is an cud. No longer are armies uiu;-
aballcd and hurled against each other ;
and no longer do bbzing homes and dt
vaatated districts tell the story of an in
vad< r’s progress. Tbo territory whioli
acknowledges the sway at Washingt n,
is preserved uubrokeu—the North and
the South are odcs again under one
government.
“But the country is, to-day, in the
theories of a revolution as violent as that
which came to an end nearly three years
ago. There are battles that are blood
less ; aud the which rests on the
wager of such battles is sometimes &8
weighty as the fate of an empire.
“The seat of the government is the
centre of this revolution. The three
departments* into which every “govern
ernuient of h»s” be divided,.aud whiob
are derigntd to operate, not as cheeks
only but as supports to one another,
are iu open hostility. The legislative
department deals doable blows against
the Executive and Judioiary. Tie rad
ior* leaders iu Congress do all in their
power to break down the President’s au
thority ; they disregard Lis vetoes as if
they were empty words—they thrust
back a Cabinet Minister iuto the office
trom which he. bad been ej j. ted,and h y
propose to se* up a military dictator who.
shall be invested with more than impe
riotarial powers, and shall be responsi
ble to no earthly tribunal. They lim
it the jurisdie iou and fetter the decis
ions of the Supreme Court—in frenzied
zeal for tho euforeement of their iniq
uitous Reconstruction aals, they seek to
forbid any appeals being taken iu cases
which may arise under the provisions
lor ertubiisliiog “more efficient govern
ments in the rebel States.” Breaking
loose from the restraints which the con
stitution bad thrown around them, these
revolutionists have rushed into r wild,
tumultuous, reckless license.
“Three years ago, when the civil war
ended, tbe Northern people had an op
portunity of restoring, in greater than
its origonal firmness, the Union of the
States. Tbe South had acoepted in
good faith the issue as decided by arms,
and fair, equitable dealing might have
gained for tbe government a strength
that, humanly speakiDg, seemed irre
sistahlo and perpetual But ihe North
ern people threw away this opportunity.
They suiieudcrcd themselves to the
guidance of political and militaty trick
sters aud fanatios, under the uarno of
government, they set up an enjiue of
oppression and tyranny They showed
themselves willing to be deprived of
tbeir own liberty, if only they might
destroy the liberty of other men. With
a clamorous abhorrence of slavery, they
proved that the slavery which they real
ly bated was that of being restrained
from trampling on their fellow white
men. For a government nobly rating
on the contents of tbo governed, they
substituted a government resting on the
piiitoft'ie bayonet. Fora constitu
tion and stable laws, they substituted
tbe capricious w ill of a tyranieal majori
ty. And for ten sovereign States they
substituted ten conquered provinces.
“In the stern economy of the moral
universe there is no forgiveness of sirs ’
Tho officers if tbe government are
the servants of the people. It happen
ed once that Acsem called in vain on
his trained hound* to desist. The North <
ern people will find, perbajs, when it is
two late, how the Greek fable may have j
been prophetic in its teachings, and how I
others tbaD Acaem maybe devoured!
by their own dogs.
There is a good deal of the brute in
man. For example, he is generally dog
matio, olten pusillanimous and some
times easily coiv-ed ; occasionally cat- I
egorical, and is always ready to be
made a ‘ lion’’ of.
It is said by observers that women I
wi b dark hair marry much sooner than
others. Our experience, says a wiry
tyjK). bus been the contrary, the major- j
ity of the marriages bung among the '
light headed females.
An Illinois negro ordered his wile
to put crape on the door, preparatory
to beating her brains out with a chair;
but sAe furnished tbe corps by cu ting 1
tbe thread of bis sable existence with
her inissors.
The editor of he Bristol (W) News 1
gave his printers a holiday on New
Year's because, as he said, he had uoth
ing else to give them.
The radical* of Tennessee talk of
building a mansion lui Browulow—
His father, tbe devil, has one ready
Jur him —ard vtell protected iroimtUe
cid.
INTo. 3.
BrcntliiUK versus Tight Lacing.
The free aud easy expansion of tkt
chest ia obviously indispensible to the
full play and dilatation of the lungs.
Whatever impedes it, cither in dress or
in position, is prejudicial (o health ; and
ou tho othoi hand, whatever favors the
expansion of the chest equally promote*
the healthy fulfillment of the respirato
ry function. Stays, correts, aud tight
waistbands operate moet injuriously, by
compressing the thoratic cavity and im
peding the due dilatation of tbe lung*,
and in many instances they give rise to
consumption. I have seen one case in
wh»cb the liver was actually indented by
the excessive pressure, and loDg contin
ued bad health and ultimately death
were tbo results. Io allusion to this
subject Mr. Thar kray mentions tli t
men can exhale, at one effort, from si*
to ten pints of air, whereas in women
the average is only from two to four
pints. In ten females, free from dis
ease, whom he examined about tbe age
of eighteen and a half, tbo " quantity of
■iir thrown out avoraged three and
half pints; while in young men < f the
same age be found it amoußted to aix
pints. S >m- allowance is to be made
for natural differences in tbe two sext s ;
but enough remains to show a great
diminution of capacity, which can be
a-’cribed to no other cause than tbe use
of stays.
At the Hotel Dieu, the great hospi
tal at Paris, a young giri of eighteen
lately presented berse'f to Brcschet for
bis advice. Oa the right side of her
throat she had a tumor of variable size,
but never larger than one’e fist. It
reached from tbe collar bone as high as
the thyroid cartilage; (called in com
mon language, Adam’s apple;) when
pressed downward it wholly disappear
ed, but returned a| soon as tbe pressure
was removed; it was indolent,soft, and
clastio. It was observed to be largest
when the chost was tightly laced in cor
sets In short, by placing the ear on it
the murmur of respiration ooold be
heard in the tumor, which proves that
a protruriou of the lung*, having no
longer sutfioient space in their natural
position, were squeezed out of it, aDd
were forcing their way up along tbe
neck.
The “Cloed Time Coming.”
Mark Twain takes this view of the
millemum of women’s rights :
In that day a man shall say to hie
servant:
“Wbat is the matter with the ba
by ?”
And the servant shall reply:
“It hae boon sick fur hours.”
“And where is its mother ?”
“She is out electioneering for Sallie
RoVoins.”
And such conversations as these
shall transpire between ladies and ser
vants app'ying for situations:
‘ Can you cook ? ’
“Yes.”
“Wash ?”
“Yes.”
“All right. Who i: your choice for
State Milliner?’’
“Judy McGinni s.”
“Well, you enn tramp.”
And women should talk politics in
stead of discussing the fashion ; and
men shall nurse tbe baby while their
wives go to the polls and vote. And
in that day the man whe hath bcauti
ful whiskers shull beat the homely man
of wisdom for Governor, and the youth
who waltzes with exquisite grace shall
bs Chief ol Podce in preference to the
man of practical sagacity and deter
mined energy.
Every man, I take it, has a selfish
end in view when he pours out elo
quence in behalf of the public good in
the newspapers, and such ia the case
w ith me. 1 do not want the privileges
of women extended, because my wife
holds office m nineteen different lernn o
useoria lions, and I have to do all her
ejerking. If you five the women fnli
sweep with men in po itical uttaiis,
thby wilt pioceed to run for every of
fice under the new dispensation That
will finish me. She won and not have
time to un anything at all, th. b, aud
one solitary thing 1 have shirked up to
the present lime would full ou me, and
my family would go to destruction ; for
1 am not qualifi and for a wet nurse.
A pert litt e girl boasted to one of
her little friends that her father kept u
ourriage.
‘•Ah, but my father drives an omni
bus ” was the triumphant reply.
Bomo sentimental youth observes
that the wedding bell is melody fluw
ing down a summer’s rainbow iuo a
bed of rose leaves.
A gentleman at a miD-trel party
asked a friend, in a whisper :
‘‘How shall 1 sttr the tire without in*
ten up ing the musks f’
‘ Between the bars,” replied tbej
fri'-nd.
“Do you know a man hereabouts,? in
quired Digby, “with a good falssetto
voice ? ’
“No ” said Quild f ‘ but I can show
you a man with a goqd lalse set o’
teeth.”
A young lady went out with a rath
er timid beau sleighing, one evening,
complacently remarking to him that
she seldom went a sleighing but she
got chap* oo her lips. Ihe young man
took the bint' 3 -and 1 chopped.
Tbe Value of Art.
Art, like literature, ia good for noth
ing if it bus uo meaning, and ia worn*
than no h:ug if it has an evil one. To
be vuLuubte, and meet with tba appro
bation of tbe people, it muat boos
great demecra k. truths —ail truth ia
democratic— expressed in a manner
that spejks for itself and cannot fail to
be uuders wxl. It must not be simply
tbe pautoHiimist of tyranny aud super
stition, ns in times past, nor the mere
expression of senseless vanity, mean
ingless fancy, servile imitation ants
childish egotism, as iu the present.—
Art, to bo anything, must have a soul
in it—and not only a soul, but an in
telligent one, capable of intelligible ut
terance. To be populur among a dem
ocratic people, it must have a good
soul, lull of generous impulses and
truthful conceptions; and its high
prichU mu tbe tnen who can arise
above narrow * conventional standards
und absurd ideas of digniy. Like
Garibaldi, they must not be ufruid to
appear in a'democratic garb and sym
pathize w-i h those whom they wou’d
serve; and, like Nnpole»n, they must
obey the impulses of tbeir own indi
viduality, aDd strike oat new modes
lor themselves, it they would be suc
cessfully felt. When art scrvij tbo
people, the peop'e will support it, aod
not before ; and until it titles thi ■*, and
artists paint ideas instead of mere pic.
tures, uiid paint for Ihe age they livo
in, instead of making dia'orted compil
ations and imitations oi the old mas
ters, it is ridiculous and insulting to
common sense to talk of the lack of
appreciation of the fine arts among the
people. False standards must ba
dropped, true ones adopted, and tho
canvas must bt made to speak to tho
people and for tbe people; then Amer
ican artists will have nothing to com
plain ol As it is, they have nobody
to b'ame but themselves.— Selected.
Smishiue tu Winter.
Sunshine is beeutifol and joy inspir
ing always It is God's smile light
ing and cheering tbe w< rid. All things
animate and inanimate take on anew
life in its presence. Not a flower but
gratefuTy recognizes it, not a song
bird but carols tbe sweeter under its
touch. How the rivu'ets flash, and
the broad waters shimmer to its glance,
while the vulley atmosphere is golden*
ly a-haze, and the grand old wood*
aud mountains are all a flume with ite
kisses. Earth, thut uuder the cloud
and the u’ght shale seemed like one
stricken with a mighty sorrow, now
treads her round of apace like anew
crowned queen. Who amid ihe gush
ing sunshine can thiuk of aught but lile,
health, joy, music, beauty and splen
dor ? Under the cloudless canopy of
Heaven, seems not the fitting place for
grief, gloom, or Jeutb ? Ob the voices
ot sunshine are voices of lile— glad ex
uberant life ! And *nn*hine id wiuier
most beautitul of all. How it glorifies
tbe purit es of frost, snow and ice, now
dissolving and now sparkling them
with u tnousand fold jewel radiance.
Cleopatra swallowed u pearl? Wnat
myriad pearls and diamonds, outshin
ing tbo wealth of “Ormuz and of In
dia, 1 ' does the winter sunshine swal
low ! And yet, though its gladdening
wurmth swallow pearls and diamond-,
not one hue of brightness or beauty
does it borrow Nothing can add t»»
the sunshine. Welcome to its \v n’er
beams, reminiscent and prophetic «f
seasons of blossom and fragrance.
Over the leafless woods nnd verdure
les* fields, athwart an iutermiuab e
enow it glistens northward t<> the pole,
it floats and flashes, clothing the
shrouded earth with an inexpressible
splendor.
WAGO key.—S me time sgo, on tbe
Sabbath dny, we wended our way to one
of our churches, ami instead of a ser
mon heard an address upon some mis
sionary or other benevolent subject.
After tbe addiess was concluded, two
brethren were sent round with the bas
kets for contribution Parson L——,
who was one of the basket bearers, tak
ing the ride upon which we sat. Im
mediately in tur frout, aod upon the
n- xt seat, negligently reeltoed our friend
Bill H , a gentleman of infinite bu
rn i r aud full of dry jokes. Parson L
■ tx'ended the b» ket and Bill slow
ly shook bi* head.
“Com", Wil iam, give us something,”
said »be Parson.
“Ciin’t do it,’’ replied Bill.
‘V\ bv not ? I* not the cause a good
one
“Yes, but I am not able to give any
thing.”
“Poh ! poh ! I know befer, you must
give a bettor >ea»ou than that.”
■‘Well, I owe too much money—l
roi'« f be just before I am generous, you
koow.*
“But, William, you owe God a larger
debt-tlrm yi U owe *ny one else.”
“That’s true, parsor, but then he ain't
pushing me like the balance of mu cred
itor,!”
Tbe parson’s face got into rather m
curious condit-on, and he ns seed on
W ire Grass Reporter.
Lawyers have to invent so many
excuses for crime in others that they
noon learn to pardon it in themselves.
A Galveston paper calls negro suf
frage n fixed feet, and a Houston edit
or retorts by asking who fixed it.
A Parisian actress reoen ly appear
ed at tbe Porte St. Martin 'J beatre
robed in a balo of elec'rio light, and so
little else that even the Frenchmen
hissed her,
“Am I not ali tie pule f” inquired
a lady who was short and corpulen.,
of an old bachelor.
“You look more like a big tub,” was
tbe b’unt reply.