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CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16.1876.
WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE.
BY ROANOKE.
Lindley academy was in a blaze of
excitement. Dr. Lind ey, the princi
pal, had offered a prize to the pupil who
at the end of the term should stand at
the head of his elass, the award to be
determined by a public competitive ex
amination. The term had just com
menced that morning, and when in “a
neat little speech" the doctor had an
nounced his intention of presenting a
handsome gold watch to the “best boy,”
every pupil in the room inwardly con
eluded that he was to be the fortunate
possessor,and fingers involuntarily found
their way to watch fobs.
Grouped beneath the spreading
branches of a huge elm that towe’ed in
one corner of the plav ground attached
to the academy, ttood a knot of four
youths who were eagerly discussing the
doctor’s announcement of the morning.
They were Albio Welles,Harold Fletch
er, Will .Montgomery and Ned Ailes
boys apparently sixteen or seventeen
years of age, nice*looking, healthy and
intelligent. The first three named were
talking very earnestly, while Ailes, who
stood apart from his companions, was
carelessly switching his legs with a wil
low wand, while he lazily watched the
doctor s pet dog Fido chasing a butter
fly over the grounds.
“Well, Al,” exclaimed Ilal Fletcher,
a tall, dark-eyed fellow, with black
curly hair that rippled carelessly back
from a broad, forehead; “I suppose
you have made up your mind to wear
the watch, haven't you ?”
“Oh, indeed,” responded the other.—
'T haven’t given the subject a great
deal of attention. I should’t have any
objection to sporting it though I must
say.”
“Now there’s Ailet.he looks as if he
mount business.” broke in Will Mont
gomery. “Look at him, will you ?
The trio turned to look at Ned, who
had wandered off ad zeti yards to the
assistance of Fido in capturing the but
terfly. Montgomery’s remark recalled
him, however.
“How’s that Will?” he said ; “who’s
business ?”
“Will was saying,” answered Albin
Welles, “That you looked as if you
meant business, and intended to carry
off the watch the doctar offered this
morning.’,
“0,” rejoined Ned, laughing, “W’ell
I don’t know but I might enter the list
ard contend with you for the possession
of it, A l , though it would be a novelty,
wouldn't it fellows ?”
Everybody laughed ; for Ned, though
naturally bright, had a decided aversion
to books and had won the title of
“Careless Ned,” from his disposition to
dispense with study as an unnecessary
requirement of the instition; though on,
more occasions than one he had been
called on to demonstrate some knotty
geometrical theorem, or construe a dll -
ficult line of the /EneH or Auabasis,
which his uio'e studiuus classmates
found inipossible to master. He made
the remark jestingly and laughed hear
tily at the idea of his contesting with
Aibin Welles, who was the doctor’s
special pride, beciuso of his studious
habits and was verv generally regarded
as the “head buy” of the school, Ned
Ailes did not occupy a very high niche
in the worthy doctor’s esteem, and of
ten he had been sharply scolded for his
careless end indo'ent propensities, but
aparantly without effect.
But now as the dayes wore on it be
came evident that Ned had indee ' en
tered the list for the possession of the
duct als prize. While he yet c ung to
his base ball and gymnastics, he em
pjnyed many a spare hour in solid study,
ami before many weeks had clasped
} i'-o.n the day when the doctor bad
; made tr.e great annoucemcnt, it became
apparent that Albin Welles was to have
a strong competitor in the race.
*'■ * * * *
To morrow is exhioition day at the
Lindley academy, and to-morrow will
be known the issue of the heated con
test for the gold watch. The struggle
has been s: arp and earnest but it has
also been thoroughly good natured.—
At first the leaders in the race had
hi u Albin Welles, Francis Blair, Eu
gene Grayson, Harold Fletcher, Edgar
Ailes. but as the weeks wore on Blair
and Grayson fell behind, and it was ap>
parent that Fletcher, too, was “out of
the fight,” though he still held on
pluckily. And now, on the “the day
before,” it was admitted that the great
contest would lie between Al Welles
and Ned Ailes. Dr Lindley was in ec
stacies over the great improvement that
had been wrought in Ailes and he
watched the sharp though friendly ri
valry between him and \V dies with the
most-pleasurable emotions. The doct; r,
though he always exerted a sharp disci
pline over the boys under his charge
was fair and impart al and possessed a
vein of dry humor which at times
would set them in a roar. He conduct
ed ti e religious services of the school
and every .Sunday morning preached in
the little chapel attached to the acide
uay.
On the day before the examination
was to take place Ailes aou U elles stood
on the pi zi talking oi the struggle to
(v>uiO off on the niorrot/, and giving ex
pression to their mutual hopes and
tea!s.
While they were thus engage the
ctor npnroacktd, and after greeting
the schoolmates, said, “Edgar, will you
please run up into my study and get u.e
my tp .'Clacks. I ldt them lying on my
desk.” •
Ned >parng to obey the reques* while
•‘Truth Conquers All Things/’
Albin strolled off to join Will Mont
gomery and liar dd Fletcher,*who came
along arm in arm
As Ned entered the study his eyes
fell upon the doctor’s spectacles which
lay upon the uesk, which lay upon the
d“sk, but his glance took in something
else. It is was a document neatly fold
ed, and endorses o itside as the list of
questions to be asked at to morrows ex
animation, and as Ned reached for the
spectacles he was agitated by a vi
olent inward struggle. ,e had set his
heart on achieving a victory over his ri
val, and here now was the glorious op
portunity !
But his generous uature revolted at
the idea of taking an advantage in such
a cowardly mantis’*, and as he averted
his heai his eye fell upon another tftan
uscript which the doctor had* likevnse *
left exposed upon his desk. It was the
ser on for next Sunday, and the first
words Ned’s eyes encountered was the
text wlish was written in astrong, bold
hand at t le top of the paper, and which
read as follows : “ Thou art weighed in
the balance and found wauling.” In
that' brief instant Ned’s battle with
himself was decided In that moment
he had been weighed in the balance
and not found wanting. For he reso
lutely turned on his heel and left the
j study. Aud when he handed the doc
tor bis spectacles his face fore no trace
of the great struggle he had in the lit"
tie room up-stairs, and from which lie
had came out victorious.
* * * * * sfs *
What a jolly crowd of school boys it
was marched into the big study-hall
next mor< ing !
And whai, a very large crowd there
was, too, to witness the examination ex
ercises ! And what a very hot fire of
questions the examiner poured into the
company of boys, and how very soon
the ranks began so grow beautifully
less till at last the two rivals. Nod Ailes
and Al Welles, were left standing alone,
and tile struggle went on. Finally the
examination was concluded, and af cr a
great comparison of papers and great
fluttering, the doctor from his little
platform told the result of the fat tie
And whe > he anuo inced that to Edgar
Ailes the first prize- a gold watch had
been awarded, what a tremendous cheer
went up 1 And 'lie second—a silver
watch —to Albin Welles, hew they all
cheered again! And*ihe third prize—a
gold pen and holder—to Harold Fletch
er, another cheet ! And to Will Mont
gomery and Frank Blair and Eugene
Grayson —“ honorable mention ” —more
cheers again ! And that evening when
the little quartett again stood grouped
beneath'he oid elm, and Ned and Al
and Will and Hal shook hands all
around how happy and thankful Ned
Ailes felt that, he had been “ weighed
in the balance,” and not found wanting,
and had won the battle fairly and hon
estly !
——. —-
Preparing Fowls tor Wintering,
An article iu the Rural New Yorker,
on the subject of preparing the poultry
house for winter, contains the following
suggestions :
Examine the interior of the houses
and see that they a*-e tight. If you
expect a goodly stock of eggs from your
fowls, you must keep there is no better
wijy of doing this than by lining the
house with strong paper. It is the
cheapest lining, and if saturated’with a
moderately strong solution of carbolic
acid, will keep vermin at bay. Don’t
say thet this is ‘ too much troable.”—
So it is a trouble to bed the cattle and
feed the stock, but you mus expect to
take some trouble if you demand a pro*
fit for them. Don’t begrudge trouble
in the fowl house result will be
- in the filling of the egg besket,
and there is no portion of the farm that
will pay a higher percentage of profit
on the outlay of labor than the hen
yards.
If you have an old wiodowsash
about the place, for which you have no
special use, put an extra light in the
southern or eastern end of the fowl
house. It will be grateful to the fowls
in winter, on coli da\s, when they will
huddle together in the house to escape
the biting winds. The sash will enable
them to bask in the sunlight without
going out of the bouse, and increas
ed good health of the chictens will re
pay your troub'e.
Those who intend to house birds for
the winter should let them run as much
as possible now, while the grass i green.
Don’t shut them up until the last mo.-
merit, and they will so much the better
bear the winter’s confinement.
Lay in a st ck of dry dust from the
road. Collect it with a road scraper
and store it away in one corner of the
barn, where it will remain dry, for win
ter use. It will he invaluable for the
fowls to dust in while the ground is fro
zen, and will tend to keen them free
from vermin.
See that the few’s have, before dusk,
a few landfills of while corn and a
com Triable roost. Ifky ur fowls are to
be kept iu health, they mu.-: not bo left
all night with empty crop*, nor allowed
to roust io exposed places. The plan
of allowin 'a fowl-tho exqui-dcp priv- |
iiege ( f ro 'Sting on a "rickety beam and j
an empty crop” is anything but eco
nomical. D > t have the roasts one ;
above the other, or the birds v.ill be
continually fighting for the high -st
pl'ces
Feed yonr fowls liberally, and they 1
vriil return it to you with inter --t
Keep them cleanly arid disease wilt be j
a rarity. House them comfortably and
they will lay regularly. “ Regular |
meals ” is the secret of the successful
fancier.
Mr. Warner Tries It.
Mr. Warner, a respectable and law
abiding citizen.of Baker street, rode
home m an express wagon the other dav
heaving a hand fire extinguisher and the
driver for company.
“ What’s that thing ? ' asked his wife
in contemptuous tones as she opened the
hall door
“ What's that? Why that’s a fire
extinguisher—best tiling you ever saw
—meant to got one a year ago. ”
“Jacob, you are always making a fool
of yourself,” she continued as she shut
the door “ Every patent right man
gets around you as u cat lays for a
mouse.”
“Dv)es,eh ? If you know anything at
all you’d know that eveiy store aud office
?n Detroit, has one o’ these. They’ve
saved loti?of buildings, and may save
ours.”
“You throw it at the fire,don’t you?”
she asked in sarcastic tones.
Ho carried it up stairs into the clos
et without replying, and she followed on
and asked :
“ Don’t it shoot a fire out ?”
“If you don’t know any thing, I’ll
learn you something. It is full of chem
icals; you strike on this knob on top.
and she’s all ready to open this faucet
and play on the fire.”
She grinned as she walked around it,
aud finally asked :
“Do you g:t a horse to draw it
around ?
•‘No I don’t get a horse to draw it
around. You see those straps ? Well,
I back up, put my arms through them,
and here it is on my back ”
“ I see it is,” she sneered.
And can t L run co any part of the
house wi*h it ?” he demanded. iSee
see >?”
And he cantered along the hall, into
the bediooms and out, and was turning
the head of the stairs, when his foot
c.ught in the carpet. ilc threw up his
arms and she grabbed at him, and both
rolled down stiirs. Me yelled and she
yelled. Sometimes he was ahead, and
then she took the lead, and neither of
them had passed under the “ string,”
when the extinguishei, bumping aud
j miming, began to shoot off its charge
of chemicals.
“You old !” she started to sa* T ANARUS,
when a stream from the nose struck her
between the eyes, and she didn't finish.
•• W hat in otu.c-h ! ’ roared Mr.
Y\ arner, as he got a dose in the ear
i hey brought up in a heap at the
bottom of the stairs, the stream playing
into the parlor, against the hall door,
and up stairs by turns, and she gasped :
“ I'll have you sent r a fool asylum.”
“ M hu’s a fool ?’ he roared, dancing
around, with his eyes full of chemicals.
“I’m fainting,” she squeaked.
• “And I’ve broke my back,“he shout
ed.
It was a sad house when those two
highly respectable oid people got so that
they could use th ir eyes and discuss
matters calmly. And she doubled up
her fist, and hoarsely said :
“ Take that investigator, or distin
gu.sher, ot whatever you call it, back
down town, and tell everybody that you
are a lunatic.”
And he said ;
“ Dummit,! know more than all your
family put together.”
The Man Who Wovsift Read.
“The man who doesn’t read is always
pratling about how things used to be.
He is a knowing fellow,lull of worn out
truisms. He is a rich aud inexhausta
ble mine for every sharper that travels
on his wits, sel'ing poor clothes at high
prices, or au expired patent right. The
man who doesn’t read has a very large
for “i vz fangled ways,”oud be„
iieves m Iks euildren getting along as
he did, and boasts that he never went
to school Dut two quarters. We like
this sort of men, there ought to be one
iu every community, just for the bene
fit they ate as an example for parents
who do believe they owe something to
their families themselves, than to be
i more brutal machines. The man? who
: doesVt read usually has a mission—it
; is to grow c >rn and pork, and pay taxes
; or work through the week at his forge.
His home is a place to eat and sleep,his
life a round of drudgery, a struggle .or
br ad and butter.”
“ The man who doe? not read falls
behind the age iu which he lives; drops
into the narrow groove of his f ersoua
observation,and he declares the progress
around him to be departures from the
virtues and goodness of by gone times.
! Every day has a superstitious sign,every
I change of the moon, every sudden vuri
! ation in the weather, fids Luo with
piophesy which bodes ever} body ill luck
The man who does not read misjudges
the common natural laws of matter, the
easily explaiaed changes of vegetaoie
and auimai life are subjects for super
stitious dread and trouble. The grea
progress ot the world in literature, sci
ence and ar , the news of the day at
home and abroad, arc blanks to the man
who does not read.”
Irate subscriber (excited and point
ing to an objectable article.) —“ What
does that mean ? Every statement is
false. Editor ( azing reflectively at
the avricle in question) —“ I shouldn’t
wonder if the whole article was a typo
graphical error.”
Asa stern-wheel steamboat was pass
ing up the Onio River the other day a
little girl who was standing on the ho,
tel stoop ran into the house to her
mother, calling out : “ Mother, moth
er, come aud see this steamboat—its gut
a bustle on.” j
In Idvnnre.
The First Dollar.
Many years ago a gentleman from
the town of Mothune, Mas?., while on
a visit to a prominent merchant in
Boston was asked by the merchant if
he knew a hoy in Methane that he
could recommend to work in his store
At first the gentleman eou’d think of
no one. for he knew none but a faithful,
honest boy would suit the thrifty mer
chant At length, however he called
to mind a boy of excellent character in
his neighborhood, but feared he would
hardly and ■>, as his parents were very
poor, and he had no education rr other
advantage to fit him lor such a p si*
tion.
But the description of the boy’>
habits pleased the merchant so much
that he handed the gentleman a dollar
with which to pay the hoy’s fire to
Boston by stage, and requested him t )
send the lad to the city, and if on a
personal interview all should not nr. ve
satisfactory he would pay his fare b ck
home again. Tie gentleman, ns re
quested. visited ‘lie boy’s parents, and.
stating the merchant’s proposal advised
them to send the Dov for trial. II >
then gave him the dollar which was
sent to pay his fare to Boston, and de
parted
Under similar circumstances ninety**
nine out of every hundred boys would
have said, “Now for a good time. 1
never saw a city and never rode in the
stage. Oh, there will be so much to
see, and it will be such a long ride, and
here is money sent to p,.y my fare.” Not
so with this boy. Putting the money
carefully in his pocket he said to him
self, “This is the first dollar I ever had.
how I wish f could save it. It is only
twenty-five miles to Boston. I can walk
there in ad iv. I’ll doit and save my
dollar.
11 is mother patched up his c'othes as
well as she could, and catly next morn
ing the little fellow parted with his pa
rents at the door of iheir humble homo,
and set out on h s long tramp to the
great city, which ho reached, tired and
dusty, a litt’e before sunset. He soon
found the merchant, who sternly asked
“ Where have you been all day ? The
stage came in hours ago ” The boy
thought he had displeased the merchant
at the outset, and with downcast he‘d,
and tremulous voice he answered, “l did
not come on the stage, sir.” “Did not
come on the stage ! What do you mean?
Didn’t I send money to pay your fare?
The bey thought it was all up with
him sure, and amid gathering tears he
managed to reply. “I am very sorry,
sir—l did not mean to offend you I
thought I would walk and save the dol
lar. I never have had one before.”
Placing his hand upon the boy's head
the merchant replied, *' My little min
you did exactly right. Come home with
me and get some supper.” Then turn,
ing to a bystanders he remarked, “ T
wouldn t take a thousand dollar- for the
boy to day.”
The boy has grown to manhood and
has since become widely known in bus
iness circles He is now owner of the
extensive mills at Methucm, the Pem
berton mills at Lawrence, a batiKing
house in B -ton, and one of the finest
farms in Massachusetts.
Siuli-Bozitig.
‘‘My son,my son,’’mildly exclaimed a
reproving West Hill mother, yesterday
morning, untie that cat from the gate
latch, take that rope you’ve stretched
across the side walk, let vour little
sister out of the woodshed unfasten the
cellar door and let the hired girl come
up and get to her work, take that sign
f “ boarders wanted” off of Mr. Poson
by s iiont door.let 31 r. Jasper's dog out
ot that barrel, throw that paper ofgun<
powder in your p.cket out into the
street, and then come here and tell me
where you were Friday and Saturday,
that you wern't at school.” The boy
said '.e wasn’t prepared to answer them
just then, but he would insist on throw
ing out ‘he report of the school-teacher
on the ground that he (the hoy) had
been unduly intimidated from attending
school by the terror of long, hard les
sons, and iurther by the practice of
buil-d "zing in the parish, as he could
establish by reliable witnesses. PeniL
ing the decision of the Board le filed
a number of protests, but his mother
pronounced his attitude ’•evolutionary,
and sent to his father’s office for troops,
which arrived about tea-time, and the
local government was at once supported
and order enforced, and, as the boy
went up to bed without his supper, and
in custody of the troops, the throes of a
fee people, struggling in the iron grasp
of a domestic despotism, could be heaid
away down on the next street,where the j
other bo jo were lifting gates off their I
binges and carrying them down to the I
creek.— -Burlington Ilaicki/r.
A Beautiful Idea —Away among
the Alleghanies there is a spring, so
small that a singieox in a summer’s day
could drain it dry. Its'eals i's unob
trusive way among the hills till it spread
out in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it
streatches away a thousand miles.leaving
on its banks more than a hundred vil.
lage3 and cities, and many a cultivated
firm, and bearing on its over a
hall a thousand steamboats. Then joins
ing the Mississippi, it streatches away
and aw iy twelve bundled miles more,
isii it goes into a great emblem of eter
nity. It is one of the great tributaries
of the ocean, which, obedient only to
God, shall roll and roar, till the angel
witn one foot on the sea and the other
the land, shall lift up h.s hand to heav
ea that time shall be no longer. r
with moral influence; it is a rill—-aa
ulet—a river—an ocean, buundle
atboru’ess as eternity.
A i>% SUM I.3:A’TS.
’ drtpgiseßieuJs will he charged at*];?
rat ■ of- One ]J liar per tqr.fcr* for Jb* fir*
‘Ji-erfb a, : i:d fifty for n.rh f ., ~•
fjiarit n c: fun. Ten lines <f this ftj ••
make a square.
Local notice*,fifteen < nts pr him %v S*
first in*eiti n aad ct rent* fi-i # a :h -..b
--soqm n! ins *rtier.
Nr , .nl ef>i:li • -*s will fie B.iv- wi'i. *
r.iii - tu.*
fit tar fivU ui-stt* tsoi)+ i-uj u kite v. iiv nr
by c*mU
XG. 17.
IVidnwri,
u inter kr| r apples, sea-n ne * \r.; • • \
1 clvudtd meerschaum, a va-o uimhiml,
: which ttic scent oi the roses stall ionics.
11 these have a rare, ripe, evanescent.
: flavor that sugge.-ts, bur eantmt ox’-ie-s
i the charm o{ tin* widow. A young wai-
O'V is. per hap-*-, the most interest jug ,and .
j> ft iii nature —or in an. Bite l’ n
sent- its experience without its vt * ink U -
or its gray hairs. She it is m tirimo.v .
beauty and maidenly freed <ui co.nbrn
ed. She i- grief with a h.ughiii.- eye
<orroA ta a In use of festival —a ti nr
moon in a sable clou-1. She i : ( v)swet..
for anything! Juke all g.-, and tliim.'
siie can only be created at a great i
rifieo. Mr-. Browning s a\s .-hit a man
mu,,tbe pretry fh. roughly spoiled be
lore be can leave a widuvv. This bhel.
swan—th. 9 mournful Phoenix r s-s
eiey out ef the funeral urn that hold
the ashes ol the husband ; herrt.
Pei u " ipo a•* try the briny tear and
ptocaed 1 (i'dite ./*<<.. /, Poets, siai* -
men heroes, and philosophers h v • each
felt the indefinable influence of wid nvr
bond. Its quality is not sustained. It
falls alike upon the just and the ut j ,st
i'ldward Piadiagen t married the widow
I'di/abcth Dray; though 1.0 knew sl e
brought civil war for her dowry N-d
v\ aiker, Joe Addison, Sam Johnson,
George Washington, Napoleon Bon;/
parte, John Wesley, j ony Weller IT a
DistaeJi, and all the other boys man el
Widows Henry V ill was ’so font 1 , i-f
them that lie took two, and King David
was so pleased with Abigil, the widow
of Nabai, whom he took to wife,that he
turned Bathsehba into a wid >w on pu t
p 'Sc to marry i *,r. When Judith ceas
ed cogitations over the virtues of the
late lamented dauissasoi Bethulia,puts *
off her mourning and adorns herself in
brave attire to set out for the camp of
flolofernes, we feel instinctively that she
wiii come back with his heart.his crown
or head, which she goes for. When tin
old widow Nmaoi c >unscls the young
widow Kutii how to lay her snares in
the harvest fields of her kinsman, and
spring her net on the thr sliii.g Hour,we
know at once that the wealthy Bachelor
Bop.z might as well order the w. dding
garments. Allan Balhsjy write a smig
telling how to woo a widow. He might
as well left directions hmv to get s’;
with lightning.
Advice fo €lvls.
An exchange says : Why will gii l
iun away to get married? Wo give it,
up,answers the Louisville Courier Join
nal. But we know a let hero that would
bo glad enough to stay at home or jump
at the chance to walk off arid get iniiv
ried. The boys ain’t around asking
them like they did—takes more mom y
to run them now-a-days than it dx9 t■>
run a steamboat. Alt ! girls, it’s your
own fault. Swap your silks and satin
for lawns and calicoes; shut up the pi
ano and dive into the wash tub; throw
away your fancy needle work and tackle
a red hot stove in the kitchen. Instead
of receiving Browne, the baker’s son,in
the parlor, keep your eye skinned for
Bill Burns, the blacksmith’s son. as he
goes home from work, kiss his dirty face
through a brok n pane of g!as in the
kitchen window, and after a while when
ho learns his trade, and you know your
business, get married, go to housekeep
ing by yourselves, help eaeh other, livo
happily, to raise a family that will be an
honor to your names and credit to them
selves, die happy,and the angels will not
turn their backs on you up there.
Drunkenness' — l have heard th *
wail of children for bread,and have seen
the babe pulling at breasts as dry as if
the starved mother wos deed. I have
known a father to turn a step d.iuehi,<
into the street at night, bidding thes b
bing girl, who bloomed into womanhood,
to earn her bread there as others v re
doing. I have bent over the foul p diet
of a dying lad to hear him whisper that
his father and mother, who were sitting
half drunk by the fireside, had pulled
the blankets tfi bis body to sell for ID
quor. I l ave seen the children blanch
ed like plants growing in a cellar—f' r
weeks they never breath a meuthful of
fresh air—lor the want of rags to cover
their nakedness, and they lived in con
houal terror of a drunken father or
mother coming to beat them. Ido not
recollect ever seeing a mother in these
wretched dwellings handling her infant
or hearing the little creature erow or
laugh. These are some of drink's do
ing-q hut nobody can know the misery
I suiiercd amid these ?;enos of wrctced
ness, woe. want and sin. — Dr. Guthrie.
Sincerity is the most compendious
wisdom, and an excellene instrument of
the speedy dispatch of busin ss, i; cre
ates confidence in those we have to deal
wi*h saves the lab r of many inquiries
and brings them to an issue in a few
words. It is like travelling on a plain
beaten road, which commonly brings a
man sooner to his journey's end th,*
by-ways, in which men lose themselyeV.
In a word whatsoever convenience mav
be thought to be in falseh >od and dis
simulation, it is soon over ; bu, the in
convenience of it is perpetual because it
brings a man under an everlasting j ea |,
oasy and susp eion, so that h is not be
lieved when he speaks the truth, , ior
trusted perhaps,when he means h >ue>'v
W hen a man once forfeits the reputv
non of his integrity he is set f a . t and
nothing will then serve his turn neither
truth nor.falsehood.
due ed.t<>r who was old that his ar
c.e was e’er as mud, pr mptiy replied:
oil, that covers the gr und any
now.” “ J