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. From the W. R. Washingtonian.
‘AWAY WITH THE BOTTLE.’
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Tl'NK— Campbells are Coming.
Away with the bottle— away, away,
The curse if upon you unless you obey ;
For the Lord, who is righteous, hath noticed thy sin,
And soon shall thy just retribution begin.
Thinkest thou to escape from the snare thou hast laid,
Thy'foot shall be caught in the ‘gin’ thou hast made,
And while glory and honor are sought for thy name,
Thou shaltsink in the depths of pollution and shame.
Look thou on the bottle with redness of eyes—
Drink thou of the poison there hid in disguise,
And let thy fair fame be exchanged for disgrace.
While the mark of thy traffic is seen in thy face.
o,give this foul spirit no longer control,
Thou art killing thy body and cursing thy soul;
Fly, fly ! from the fiend, ere he make thee his prey,
Away with the bottle—away, away.
Lafayette, Aug. 20. 8. B. C.
The following beautiful lines, published in the
Western Morning Star, were written by a daugh
ter of the late President Harrison, and addressed
to the Delegates of the Cincinnati Washington
Temperance Society.
Go, warn the youth who gazes
On the wine-cup’s ruby glow,
That beneath the sparkling nectar
There lurks a treacherous foe.
And bid him fly, while reason
Exerts her potent sway;{
For, once dethroned, to that dread foe,
He’ll fall an easy prey.
Full many a widowed mother
Will bless you in His name,
Who always hears ihe orphan’s cry,
And grants the widow’s claim.
And many a wife rejoicing
O’er husband “ lost and found,”
Will feel, at mention of your name,
Her grateful heart rebound.
On with the glorious banner
Os “ Temperance and Reform,”
Break down the haunts of Satan!
His very “ stronghold storm.”
And nobler triumphs will be yours,
A more enduring fame
Than that which wreaths the conquerors brow,
Or circles round his name.
From the Olive Plant.
A Life and Death Picture.
As the summer’s azure sky,
Was the clear blue of his eye,
And his laugh went ringing by,
On the air;
When a happy guileless child,
On two parent-hearts hesiniled,
And with angel-love beguiled,
All their care—
Cherub-thoughts were in his face,
As he ran his frolic race,
Bearing mirth from place to place,
Like a bird ;
•
Ah, no mocking bird more free,
Sung his song of varying glee,-
Where is now that minstrelsy,
Once we heard!
Bright boy of days gone by,
Lurid flames glare in thine eye,
And I hear a tiger’s cry,
From his lair!
Thy ribald accents fierce,
Thy father’s bosom pierce,
And thy mother’s days are tears,
And despair!
Tall thy form since last we met,
But thy brilliant eye is set,
And with deadly dew is wet
Thy pale brow ?
God grant redeeming grace,—
Gone is every demon trace,
And death’s calm is on his face,
Mercy now!
Charac eristics ot the Temperance Reform.
It is bold, fearless, above board. The impos
ter always has about him something he cannot or
will not explain: something that must be con
cealed. or ne cannot succeed—hence he is at
times cowardly: he seeks to veil himself in mys
terv. and rover his purpose in obscurity. His
success depends upon the weakness of those he
acts upon. His appeals are to ignorance, scepti
' j cism, passion, credulity. In the end, the impostor
| always fails.
The temperance reform comes to town in the
day time, and eornes to the most densely popula
ted,intelligenttowns; there is nothing it somuch
dreads to look in the face as a lazy, ignorant, vi
| cions audience. If. courts investigation; it in
j vires reason, analogy, experience, to come and
' mike an experiment upon it.' .Nothing pleases
j Temperance more than to see an intelligent,
j honest mar. go away, saying, “ I’ll go home, and
i give you a lair trial.’'
It appeals to facts. “ See here,” says Tem
perance at the dose of a lecture, “ here is a man
whom I found two weeks ago almost burnt up
; with rum, as you yourselves who know him,
know. I shook rum out of him, put tpod in him,
washed and dressed him: he has been with me
j now two weeks, and did you ever see such a
! change in any man before 1 It cost me nothing,
\ and it cost him nothing; on the contrary, he is
! nov.’ worth one dollar a dav more than he was
| before I took him. I brought him here as a spe
-1 ciinen : what do you think of my work 1" Noth
; ing but stupidity can stand out against such
argument and demonstration.
Temperance goes into the shop where the ma
ker and seller stand ready to hand it out to all
who can pay for it, and says to him, “ ft's wrong
for you to (so that; what you give that man i till
kill him ; what he gives ydu will do you good ;
that is not fair nor honest; is not your conscience
, uneasy 1 Jlon’t you think thatyou ought to give
it upJXow what can be fairer titan this?—
| Wnat more fearless, honorable or above board?
Temperance has nothing to be ashamed of, noth
■ ing to conceal. It appeals to truth, fact, observa
tion, experience: it asks to be tried by its own
merits, and scekß no foreign aid. In the end,
Temperance always succeeds. —{Selected.]
A Temper nice Incident.
An old taper of our acquaintance in ail adjoin
i ing county, took it into his head to eschew bis
evil practices, and join the Washingtonians.
, Acting upon this resolution, he put his name to
I the Pledge at one of the evening sessions of the
society, in the plare where he resided. The next
morning bright and early, our friend arose from
bed, dressed, cleared up his throat with three or
fourahems! and made for the door. His wife,
not having much confidence in his resolution to
abstain from his previous habits, and suspecting,
as was his custom, that he was about to visit the
grog-shop for his morning dram, called out to
him, and demanded where he was going. “ I’m
going to feed the cattle,” was his reply, as he
closed the door and walked in the direction to the
barn. The wife, hastily dressing, put out after
him. He passed the barn and made for a small
thicket ot cedars that ran along the margin of a
stream overhung with rocks. His wife followed
on. She saw him approach a ledge of rocks, and
concealing herself behind a bush, watched his
operations. He stooped down, picked up a stout
I stick of wood, and commenced poking away
among the leaves. Presently a junk bottTe, filled
with blue ruin, was disclosed to view. “ Touch
not, taste not, handle not, the unclean thing,”
muttered lie to himself, as he rolled it over and
over with his cudgel. “ And you are there, are
you, Mi. Manongahela ?—You must have had a
cold time of it last night, for one of your warm
nature and fiery spirit, Mr. Oh-bc-joyful,” said
he, as he gently tapped it on the bottom “But you
and I must part nay right stout triend,” and then
he whirled the bottle round and round with such
amazing velocity as to make the leaves fly in eve
ry direction. Tiring w ith this part of the per
formance, he seated himself upon a fallen tree to
philosophize. His wife looked on from her hid
ing place, wondering what was to come next.
After remaining in this position for some time,
his eye transfixed upon the bottle, he suddenly
jumped to his feet, swung his stick high in the
air. and with a—“ d it your eyes, take that!”
shivtred the bottle into a thousand fragments.
[ Hash . and Genius.
“ Doctor,” satfi a poor fellow whose physician
had interdicted his smallers, “ doctor, now do vou
think that a liltleJffandy just once in a while,
would hurt me ‘much? 5 ’ “Why, no,” drawled
out the doctor very deliberately, “ I suppose if
you took a very little—very seldom—it would’nt
much—but if you don’t take any—it wont hurt
I you at all.”
j That’s the point. “Do thyself no harm,”
j much or little. Take none. Sign the pledge
and help us to persuade every one to do the same.
[ Temperance Agent.
Hinis to the Working Classes.
Next to the virtues of industry and sobriety in
the working classes, may be ranked the virtue of
carefully preserving their humble gains, and hus
banding them in such a manner as to make them
avail to the utmost of their capability. There is
no greater difficulty than to make men believe,
and practically act upon the belief, that, if they
j will but save thenence, the pounds will take care
jof themselves. For the purpose of enforcing our
I remarks, and showing by arithmetical calcula
tion the sure and progressive increase of small
i sums, if properly secured, we subjoin the follow
ing statement, which is indeed a worthy hint, not
only to the laboring, but to all classes. * We ear
nestly commend it to tile atttention and action ot
; our readers.
; “If a man, 21 years of age, began to save one
I dollar a week, and put it at interest every year,
he would have at 31 years of age, 5650; at 41 ’
SI,150; at 71, $11,500. When w* look at these
sums, and when we think how much temptation
might he avoided in the very act of saving them,
and how much good a man in humble circum
stances may do lor his family with these sums,
we cannot help wondering that there are not
more savers of §1 a week. He who saves this
j sum may not only pay his own way, but help the
afflicted, and subscribe to various benevolent
I societies. In short he may show mercy to thou
sands in this world, and he may help them on
their way to a better. The above calculation is
! from an English paper, and the interest is reck
oned at about one half the rate in this country.
' Isa man here were to save Si a week during the
■ time specified, he would, at 71, be worth nearly
i 20,000, provided the interest be computed semi
annuajiy at 6 per cent, per annum.”
We would merely add, that the gum at 71,
1 would exceed that above specified, in this State,
as the rate of interest is 8, instead of 6 per cent.
[KnrannaA Georgian.
A Health Preservative.
| Cheerfulness, constant and habitual cheerful
! npss, is earnestly recommended by, a sensible
writer, as one of the most effectual preservatives
of health, especially during the heat of summer;
and this preventative of disease is within the
reach and power of every person, however poor,
embarrassed, or crossed and straitened in circum
stances they may be. Some there are who op
pose this theory, and aver that they cannot con
trol their natural feeling; that they cannot be
cheerful when they are perplexed or distressed in
mind; but yet it may be often observed, that the
same person who denies the power to control his
own feelings, if even while fretting and repining,
he is suddenly aceosted by a person in whose
presence he wishes to appear to the best advan
tage, the frown and scowl instantly vanish, and,
assuming a smile, and expression of vivacity, he
speaks up blandly, and converses in a lively
manner, and, in fact, not only appears better,but
actually feels betterthan he did three minutes be
fore'. We never yet saw a person who could not
occasionally assume the cheerful, when it suited
his or her convenience and. interest. Why,
therefore, will people maketlicmselvesandfriends
gloomy and miserable, bv indulging an evil habit,
which is so easily overcome? Resolve to be
cheerful under all circumstances, and you will
add much to the health and happiness of your
self, and all with whom you associate.
[American Mechanic.
Cure for a Cancer.
A lady who had for several years been afflicted
with a cancer extending all over the breast and
stomach, and during that treatment under physi
cians, without deriving any benefit, was advised
to try a poultice of what is termed carrot dock, a
smail long leaved variety which grows with a
long root,* and al-oto dr nk a tea made from it,
to be sweetened with the syrup of sarsaparilia.
She did so, and in a very sliort time the whole
surface affected with the ulcer, assumed an ap
pearance indicative of healing, except a small
deep spot on the ribs of her left side, and in a few
weeks was, with that exception, covered with
skin, haying before that, for a long time, been in
a condition of the most painful excoriation. In
about two months after it, the rest of the cancer
was healed over and to all apjiearance well, in
i taking off the poultice from the deep spot alluded
j >o above the core came out, accompanied by a re
port similar to that made by the uncoiking’a bot
tle of porter. From this period but a few weeks
elapsed before that place also was healed over.
It has now been two years since the cure was el*
freted, and no symptoms as yet have occured, to
cause apprehension of the teturn of the cancer.
! The tea from the dock was continued for some
j time afterwards.— American Farmer.
*\Vc know two varieties of smail leaved dock: the
one has a short tap root, wi'h many lateral Acs the
other a long slender one without 'other latffids, this
latter kind is the one to be used.
The following is the to the enigma by
“W. F.” puWshed in outlast. (We have re
ceived three correct answers..)
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Solu
tions—Ware, Iller; Lille; Loire; Iseo; Ain;
Marc; Halle; Ems; Niemen; Ree; Yarc; Har
inin; Aar; Rome; Rheims; Iser; Saale; Oeiras;
Nismes.
For the Washingtonian.
An Enigmatical Rebus.
To the Young Student in Geography.
T wo-fourths of a cape, in America ( South,)
Two-sixths of a city, for riches renowned,
Four-fifths of a stream in Asia, source and mouth,
, One seventh of a county in Georgia found,
! One-eighth of a stream, bounds Georgia by east,
Two-seventh of a city of New Jersey state,
j One-fifth of a mount in Georgia (not the least.)
Two-sixth 6 of a mountain of height very great,
One-fifth of a kingdom the oldest e'er known,
One-eighth of a river that flows in the west,
Two-fourths of a mountain that Sicily doth own,
One-fifth of a stream by Carolina possessed.
In these all united, will quickly be shewn,
The name of a body Augusta doth own
No w, to this little rebus an answer 1 crave
Through the next “Washingtonian." Shall lit have? :
J. S. P.
of the Piney Woods.
Orme.
When this intelligent historian presided in the
export warehouse of Madras,jMr. Davidson, who
acted under him, was one morning at breakfast
asked by Mr. Orme of what profession his father
was? he replied, that he was a saddler. “And
pray ” said Orme, “ why did he not make you a
saddler 1” “ I was always whimsical,” said Da
vidson, “ and rather chose to try my fortune as
you have done, in the East India Company's ser
vice. But pray, sir,” continued he, “wfcat pro
fession was your father V’ ‘My father,” answer
ed the historian, rather sharp!), “was a gentle
man.” “And why,” retorted Davidson, with
great simplicity, “did he not breed you up a gen
tleman V Books and Authors.
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BY JAMES McCAFFERTY?
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community, especially at the present time.
The determination our citizens have evinced,
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most intemperate to a sense of duty. This should be
hailed as an omen and harbinger of good. The spirit
ol Reformation is aw akened throughout the length and
breadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is
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»wv'! il '’ an iudefatigable Temperance agent.
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a ™ progress of the cause, with their interesting
lacts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to
Interest wholly to subside, or tiie slumbers
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G- A the y w ; ould the return of the long absent
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