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Foot Prints on the B*ad of Tima.
We come upon the stage of life, full
of youthful hope and faith io every
thing—believing all to be pore and
true —bright prospects casting abeatt
tifal radiance over the future; the fresh
aesN of the heart has not assumed the
tints of autum, nor chills of winter—
the one impulse—we must act our
part in this greet Btage. We will have
our sunshins and shadows; its pleas
ures and sorrows. Ws are now mak
ing footprints no waves of oblivion can
erase long after hope is dead and we
find that which we deemed so bright
and true, and faults and fleeting delu
sions—cheating hopo, faith and time.
Many who acted their parts on life’s
stage have left footprints bright and
indelible. Men, brave and trne have
hied lives of greatness—honor to their
came, a blessing to posterity. Wash
ing, a man dear to onr hearts, left an
endying fame, that crowned monarehs
might well envy. Napoleon Bonaparte,
tbe mighty conqueror, left footprints,
tut not like those of Washington. Am
bitiOQß was his God; at this shrine he
offered everything that stood between
him and his personal advancements. In
imagination we will visit the tombs of
the dead —not lingering by the tombs
of kings and queens, but find our way
to the poets, and reflect on the foot
prints left by the silent sleepers who
enhanced nations by the sparkling wit
and genius. Allison, the silent spec
tator, Hilton, the blind bard, whose
gifted imagination soared so far above
all earthly objects. Shakespeare, the
greatest of all —the lustre of whose
name made kings grow dim. Who
read human nature as an open book.
Wo linger spell-bound over these toot
prints and exclaim:
"The lives of great men remind us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing leave hebind ns
Footprints on the SaDd of time.
Let us then be up and doing
With a hrart for every fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing
Learn te labor and to wait.'’
8 mo footprints tell a sad tale of
the iustahili;r of human grs*tn<B>; eo
much lost utKl wasted great -mso
who could leave footprints tin w'nil 1
endure the monumen’s of marble
hare beer, crumbled to dost. But.
ala 6! they Milow the talents that God
has given them to go under tbed-rk
of intemperance; passing swey
is c matured by every breeze and writ
ten nj'O* every fading flower, and soon
the tc otprints we are to-day making,
will be left behind on the sands ef
time, and the places we low occupy
will be filled by others, and what foot
prints, my readers, are you leaving on
the sand of time. Fathers, are you
living, brave, earnest lives, that you
woeld have those young sons oopy?
You are journeying tawafds the art
ting sun of existence. Are you leer
ing beautiful traeee.or dark and drea
ry, that the tear* of loved ones can not
erase? Let not the trail of the ser
pent darken your Eden, but make it
beautiful with the memory of good
deeds, that in-afeer years its inmates
will linger lovingly over your foot
prints. Mothers, what footprint! are
you making? Are you teaohing those
young daughters that life has no high
er aim than to bow at the shrine of
fashion? How often do we hear it ex
claimed, “Oh, young people will be
young, ao let them hare all the pleas
ure they oan." Thie will do for the
present, but in-after life it will leave
only regret. To-day we have as bright
iatelleota atnoog ns as nations belorij
miaiis that might leaye footprints that
would endure as monuments to their
names; but men can not pause long
enough from their pursuits for wealth,
and ladies linger two long at their mir
rors arranging their toilets. They
have been taught that life has but one
aim, and that is to win a husband—
and do you suppose they are going to
be old maids No, never! Not when
there are so many fashionable young
men who can be won so easy by such
frivolous things—never thinking or
caring for the inner pniitios of the
heart and mind, Young men, what
footprints are you striving to make?
Are you striving to be a man that will
he honored from generation to genera
tion, as s Daniel Webster, or George
Washington? Some yonng taen have
no higher ambition than to be fast
young men. Spend all they can get;
drink all the whisky they ean beg,
flirt with the girls, and oreate a sensa
tion generally. See him as he stag
gera home from the bar room at the
lone hour of midnight, his body soarce
ly able to support his luty head.
What think you of these footprints—
will they do for his yonnger brothers
to copy? But the evil footprints stop
not here, for he wins woman’s heart
but to crush and to break it, considers
it toy to be thrown aside and trampled
under foot. Step on it, erasb it yonsg
man as you would an autumn leaf,
what matters it. Think you, it is ou
ly a weak woman’s heart you have
broken? That was bravely done, and
to you it may bo fiae sport, toying
with a true and trusting heart. These
footprints may icesa to you aa lightly
made, and will bp erased by the next
passing breeze, but only atop and re
fleet. It will daiken the hope and
blight the life, of one, who’s love
would hav-e brightened your future
lilt*. Remember the- heart can nut
kuow but one true love, and if that be
blighted it huddeth not again. Y<nug
men, those cruel footprints will he re
corded ab- = vo, aivi s- the a t
reconing win E P.
Is Druti!•:< in-•- * II r<- t • ?
A paper n ‘ H *d m Invlirir y”
was lead before the (J ngr> of An
thiopologiets iu ne- Yoik the o ter
day, in which the writer took die
ground that drunkenih*bi was a do-ease
transmitted Irom pa tents to ebildran—
a view, by the *av. held by many
well informed persons, it nor absolute
iv correct.
In this opinion, bowev*r, Dr C E.
Hpitaka, a distinguished specialist in
nervous diseases, does not coincide
While he dos not belieye that alcohol
ism is hereditary, he uods the less ad
mits that vice in parsnta weakens
children, and that by reason of this
weakness, the children are more liable
to contract intemperanoe. Alcoholism
in the anoester ia more likely to pro
dues epilepsy and imbecility in the
offspring, he believes, than to repeat
itself.
Ex Surgeon General William D.
Hammond, if another eminent man
who does not believe in the transmis
aion of inebriety. He can find nothing
to induce him to believe that a man is
aors liable to become! an inebriate be
same his lather or mother was one.
He maintains that drunkenness ia a
habit, and declares that he nevsr heard
of bnt one clearly established instance
of transmitted habit, that was of a
man who took a cup of tea exaotly at
midnight overy night. This man's
father and grandfather had the eame
habit. This man broke himself of it,
bat is not recorded whether or not his
children inherited the habit.
There are not wanting physicians
who entertain viows opposed to those
of Drs. Hammond and Spitzka. A
gentleman very successful iu the treat
in'nt of nervous diseases says that, in
his practice, when he has traced the
history of an inebriated patient, he has
generally discovered inebriety in the
family. This ought not to prove a
great deal, as the families in which at
least ono drunkard can be foand are
quite numerous.
Another physician of prominence
informod the Anthropological Con
gress that inebriety is hereditary to a
certain extent, but believed it is more
likely to show itself in the second and
third generations tha in the first. He
said ho was satisfied *that, even if the
offspring of drunkards have not an in
herited appetite for strong dtink, they
acquire it more readily than the off
spring of temperate people, and be
come wrecks much sooner.
Since doetors disagree, who ean de
cide? A farther and mote searching
investigation is conseqently needed.
Meanwhile all persons of alcoholic pro
clivities would do well, now as ever,
to abstain from the habitual use of in
toxicants, not only for their own good
but for that of posterity.—[Exchange.
Humorous.
The latest out—The boy kept after
school.
The anatomy of melancholy—aboil
ed old hon.
An office that seeks the man is the
police office. *
The silent watches of the night are
not Watefbnrys.
When the cdptain ■want* to atop
the vessel, doeJ he halt etay-sail.
Even truthwgelf vera
cioue It lies at the btntom of a well
Tie man who is always a pickle
doesn’t preserve his temper Worth a
cest.
There nre t*o things that a woman
will always jotup at—a conclusion and
a m u*e
■‘ls hie wo! h iiv ug?” has become
- society ques ion it depends on iiie
l i vei
••One good tom '< <*rve ano'ho”
van never spoken ot (te paper Oilar
a this i ime ot the ye i
1 is un new thing or a popular
man n> b banque ei at a hotel, yet
s me people would call it a present inn
ovation
When tbe spider described the beau
ties of his parlor to tbe fly he foigot to
state that it was furnished on the in
Btallment plan.
A musician recently submitted a
song to a publisher, entitled ‘‘Whydo
I live?” After reading a small por
tion of it, the publisher wrote the com
poser as follows: “Because you sent
it by a messenger boy."
At the oirons recently the leopard
began teasing the elephant. The ele
phant bore it in majestic silence until
the thing oeased to be amuemg. Then
he growled, “Hush, child, or I’ll knook
the epets off you."
Tke democrats and greenbackers of
Michigan have fused. Together they
had a majority in the last state elec
tion, There ia no imaginable reason
why there should be h greenback par
ty at this etege of proceeding!, unless
it be to help the democrat! to success,
and we hope the relio in Michigan will
attend strictly to business on election
day.—[Telegraph.
The average Mexican laborer
suppertß his family on ten cents
per diem invested in corn, rice and
beans,
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