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IF ¥1111 ta Jiyj ^ iff r SU '?* ■“ * lUW 11 \ *£\ m Sr?* OJJ vwxe\ 'Hf. „ L'*ii J^V gY A C H l J liC f I VOL. II The Lost Girl. We publish the following bnlloA at tbo re¬ quest of a lady friend: Young people hear, and I will tell A story of a soul in bell: A lady who was young aud fair; But died in sin and dark dispair. Her tendor parents oft did pray For her poor soul Trom day to day; They gave her council, good and wiso, But she delighted still in vise. She would go to partios—dance and play, In spite of all her friends could say. “I will turn to Hod when I get old, And then bo will receive iny soul.” At length she heard the spirit say: "Thou sinful wretch forsake thy way, And turn to God or you shall dwell Forever in the flames of hell.” “I am too young,” she iheu replied, "My comrades all will mo deride.” Tbo spirit then hi her farewell, And soon consigned her soul to hell. It was not long till death did some, To call this helpless sinner home; And when upon her dying bed, She called her friends and thus she said: “My friends I bid yon all farewell, I die. I die, and sink to hell; There I must stay and scream and roll, Forever in these flames to dwell.” Her parents both weeping around With tears lulling to the ground; She cried, "dear lather pray for me, I'm bound for vast eternity. My weeping mother, fare you well— The pain I feel no tongue can toll— 0. parents dear, i’ll soon begone; Your hop* tor me is ever crushed,” Errors of Matrimony. The man and woman who marry to¬ gether are bound for life by a solorem compact. If you strip marriage of all its sentimental language what is it but a simple binding arrangmeul between two persons for the mutual advauiage of each other! Apart from the natural instinct that b ings the sexes together, the ono is looking for a help mate to add to bis comforts, and tbs other one to sustain and protect through life With these they take all the attendant risks, ana trusting in the lore they bear io one another, take each other fur bet ter or lor worse. Unfortunately the warmth of the honeymoon cannot always be mtdnraincd; and abiding love must be bated on muiual resj ect. Nothing can be more trying to love than the little faults which crop out after mar¬ riage, but as in a most litteral sense we must take, one another for better or for worse we should try to look as kind ly and leniently on those traits that give us auuoyanee as wo can, knowing the better we are able to bear them and the less we are able to think upon them, the better it will be for our peace of mind and happiness. Many marri¬ ages have turned out unhappy because of the lack of this mutual forbearance. Young people th ok they have made a in stake in marriage when the mistake is ouly iu their own behavior since they were married. Good husbands make good wives and good wives make good husbands; and the scolding or intem¬ perate or slaternly partner often has but himself to blame for the misery that clouds the life and desolates the home. Uultitudes who feel that their marriage was a mistake, and who make their existence a life- long misery, might by a little self denial and forbearance, and gentlcneis, and old-time courtesy make their home brighten like the gates of Eden, amb bring back again the old love that blessed the happy golden nays gone bj. Beauty and style are not the purest passport to respectability—some of the noblest specimens of womaDbood the world has ever seen have presented the plainest and most unprepossessing ap> pearance. A woman's worth is to be estimated by her real goodness of heart and tho purity and sweetness of her character; and such a woman, with a kindly disposition and a well balanced ioiad and temper is lovely snd attrac¬ tive. Be her face ever so plain and her form ever so homely, she makes the beat of wives and the truest of mothers. She has a higher purpose in life than the beautiful yet vain and su¬ percilious woman, who has no higher ambition than to flaunt her finery in the streets, or to gratify her inordinate van¬ ity by attracting flattery and praise from a society whose compliments are as hollow as they are insincere. OUU OWN SECTION—WE LABOR FOR ITS A f)V ANtLVI£N 1\ CLEVELAND, GA., SATURDAY MOKNING, MAY U, 1881. A Negro Sermon. Just over the river from Aguatine is a black village called “Africa.” It con¬ tains many ebaboy cabins and a church ot the outward appearance of a narn. Last Sunday as I was walking out, I fell in with an old grizzled darkv shambling along, his legs rather forward of the center of his feet, and asked him where he was going. He replied, “leo goin' to de church, and I’se ’fraid I’ui a leetlo late ” 1 inquired if the pteacber was a man of power. He said: "1 don't knew him mysef; be counts from de Indian River parts, but I heer ho is tie giftedest man in de State.’ I thought l thought I would not lose the opportu¬ nity of hearing so distinguished a puK pit orator, and wont along witu the old man. The church was about two-thirds full of colored people, from gray headed old graudpap.s and grandmas to rows of little picauuinnies whose curly pates, big black eyes and shinlug mouths just showed above the bench as they looked around to seo the “buckra” man who bad come over the river to their church. Tho preacher sat upon some oioTated boards, as black a uegroas ever depart¬ ed from “Africa’s euuuy fountains.” His so-called nose was a barely percep¬ tible eruption upon his face, aud two little shot holes represented nostrills, while the vast proportions of his mouth fully compensated for all diminutions in other features. He arose, and in a loud strident tone stumbled slowly and with many mistakes through a chapter of Jeremiah, after which the congrega¬ tion, some with sweetuess and some with scalplifting harshness, sung sever¬ al verses of a bvmu, the chorus of which was; Ye darters of Jerusalem coma out de wilderness Oouie out de wilderness, come out de wilder ness; Ye darters af Jerusalem, come out do wilder¬ ness, Aleanin’on de lamb. The minister then prayed, first loudly, then earnestly, and then tumultuously for a quarter of au hour, beseeching the Lord among other thiugs, “to unloose his stammering tongue and gib Ins voice a heap of power-” After another hymn came the sermon, and although 1 took no Dotes, I will try to give you Borne specimen bricks of the structure: My tex is in tho 10th oh Matthew, at the 30th verse: “Butde very bars ob yer bead ar all numbered." I hopo be¬ fore I gets fro to bring some sinuer ter whar 1 was fetched ter at a meetin like dis. It is fourteen years ago last month sense I quit grubbin’ in do palmetto stubble ob sin and begin workin' in de deep loam ob righteousness. Fore den 1 used ter be as lost a sinner as any nig geron de Indian River. Here warnt no boys in de gang (et 1 do say it) that could swar more, chaw more terbacker, driuk more whiskey, or jerk a chicken off de roost wid lose noise dan I could. 1 used to loaf trios' all day and prowl all night shore. Oue night I went to ’vival meet in’jes for fun aud ter see do gal . Ac first a laffed to bear de bruddsrs and sisters 'sprees dar feeliDS. butde preach¬ er bad ue power ob de eperrit mos’ re¬ markable, and as be bet wid his emo¬ tions I begun ter git kinder Bkeered. Then I felt sorter creeps run all ober me, and I tbort the shakes was comm’ on, but then I knew I hadn’t been exs posed and it warn’t time ob do year for dem, and Ilka a streek ob ligbtnin’ it came ober me dat I was gittin’ religion. I commence ler holier ‘Glory hallelujah, glory ter God, I’m comiu’!’ and got down on ter my knees and hollered more, and den I rolled on de floor and flung out my arms and legs and kicked and stamped, for I knew de sperrit ob de Lord was rattlin’ wid de debit, and I yelled to de debbil ‘git outer dis yer chile,' and finally I fainted clean dun gone away. When I came ter mysef de brudders and 3isters was strokiu’ me and sayin* ‘He is saved; de Lord bab save him,' and I felt qtfiet and soothin’ as tho’ I war drinkin buttermilk, and dan I know dat my mortal soul war safe on de top shef, whar de debbil couldn't nebber reach it no more. De nex’ mors nin’ i find dat 1 bab los’ my jack-knife and broke ter main spring ter my watch, besidee leavin’ a good ombrelier in de seat which some Christian brudder or sister has took care on eence, I ’spose as I iub nebber seen it again, but I didn't oar, I win more dan I lose, for I got religion dat night. But tt>r return ter de word ob de sa¬ cred book, De hars ob yer head ar all numbered* It is obverous dat do great Mass don’t continue dis great perticker larity to de hot man race far we must look at de hazy word iu de full scope and we see in de verse before dis dat not a sparrer falls ter de grouu’ widout deFadder. So yer se dat de great Massa count dor hars jess de same od everything big an’ little as be do wid mau. Forder is ao doubt about it, dis am a big job and no raortle man couldn't do it, l have heerd of a light* □ in’ figgerer up Noil dat cau couut faster <lan all de iQturnin’ hoards in do Souf, but his countin’ ain’t no more to dia yere iu de lex’dan a fiddle bug to a black bar, But some ob de big larn’u’ preachers say dat de Lord doa t count all de hars he has made. Day tiuk he couldn’t do it. it would take too much time. Bjt don’t yer bleeve eui, Day is week in da faith. Whoa dey come tt r a touga sp it in de holy word day be¬ gin ler ; lay bido ways and ter talk about wreug translations and do origernal Greek and all dem dodges. But don’t yer weaken. I take de scripter joss as 1 fine «ai, and l take em strait and in de full strength. Now ef deae big book men dat go prowling off iu do side trails would let alone ds Tigernal Greek and stick to do lex dey would have trouble, it would all come right, for de tex’ don’t say ho counts all do bars on eberytiDg, hut only do bars on vie head ar uumbered. Now mos ebcr> ting don’t hab much hars ou do Dead such as de mule and do bar, and djen lots ob tings like de turtle and do g4terand fish aud birds don’t hah any, aisd a good many ob do hoomau family ar babies widout taar, aud a good many ur bald headed, and all dat helps, so ej yer stick to de tex’ yor see it ain’t n« impossible job, aud de Lord can do it easy. Ho dou’t count all hars, dat wouldn't be reason¬ able, but l say ter yer don’t go back on God’s word and dat ill de bars ob de head ar numbered, lor Ido tex’ says dey “arc ail uumbered’’ (I: hopo dat little nigger who is making gat cradles out ob de shoe string ho has sneaked out ob dat old man’s sho un&vr do seat will re member dat God is counting do hars oh his henu aud knows je:s what game he is playin’ ) Yes, brudders and sisters, de great Masse, carps for eberyting. What make him care for skoeters aud snakes and fleas aM rgaters is tuor'n wOmw. Ef-.w* dem we’d c unit era out, but it is 11 notion and we can't iuterfar. But yere good God dat counts all do ob de bed, when ho giuou de odor is jess as strong agin yer as lie was yer afore, and ho pums:i jess as as He love, Mebbe som ob yer yer l ab been punished iu dis yor and yer look back and tiuk how uaudder useter draw yer ober her and take pine slat and keep comiu' wid it till it seemed as tho’ she ueber stop and as of yer was all afire de pint whar she war workin', but wasu’c nullin’ butstroberries and cream tor de fire aud de heat and de pain de great Massa will give ter do onro pemant siuuer. lie will keep pilin’ou Ue tire and surin' in do brimstouo till dor poor sinner can’t bar it a mintt and den make him bar it forebber. A white man de udderday link lie stumble cause I bain’t no larnin,. forgot dat all do prophets but ono from de plowshare and he ax ‘Where did God come from f’ Says 1. ‘Whar did God come from—you ax dat? Den 1 ax you whar did God from f* And he said de holy book God came from-1 forgot de name place ana de holy one from Mt,-, 1 forgot de name ob de mountain too. Says I,‘Does descriptors say dat f’ be, Dey do.’ Den says I, 'God bab right to come from dar. God made mountain and he hab de right to go dar ter make it and ef he had de right to dar ter make it, he had Ue right come away from dar when he had done.’ So yer see when de white tbort he put me iu fie hole be lose argymeot hisaef*—Florida Cor* field Republican. Uiubrclla Language. To place your umbrella in a rack dicates that it is about to change ers An umorella carried over a the man gettiug nothing but the drip pings of tho rain signifies courtship. Wheu the man has the umbrella the woman the drippings, it marriage. To carry it at right .angles your arm siguifiies that an eye is to lost by the man who follows you. To put a cotton umbrella by the of a nice silk une indicates ‘exchange is no robbery-’ To lend an umbrella indicates ‘I a fool.' To carry an open umbrella just enough to tear out meQ’s eyes knock off their hats indicates T am woman,’ Poor and scanty feed makes cattle, poor manure aud short crops. b1 "33' "If? -g1‘1}1~ =‘ '3 " \L ‘ a," 1 ;‘ i 35.41;).“1‘. TTSI 3 B TINTED GLOSS DON’T >nalc»> nr on your buildings villi untried and ci.ivliuble articles at your expense. DON’T PAY for water ami benjine fl.fO to £2.00 per gallon. DO PITY the Lucas reliable an l gui rauteed tinted gloss PAINTS. Circulars nrui Sample Cards of Paint mailed ou application. JOHN LUCAS & CG. HI MOUTH FOCKTII STllKKT, X’li l ludclphla. April 2nd 1881. f,ms. THE BEST OF ALU LINIMENTS FOR MAN AND BEAST. For more than a t bird of a century tbo 9 f Mexican Ka stmutc iilt'ovcr X,Inline the nthnsbeen world Known TOmniions as the only safe reliance for the relief of accidents and and pain. 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