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Change of Schedule.
ON THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUGUSTA RAILROADS.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28tii,
1874, tlie Passenger Trains on the Georgia
and Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as follows:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Hag Passenger Train Will
Leave Augusta at 8:45 a m
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Arrive in Atlanta at 5:45 p m
Niggt Passenger Train.
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Arrive in Atlanta at 6:22 a m
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Macon Passenger Train.
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at Camak with trains for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman's (First-Class) Palace sleepin
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on h
Georgia Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent.
(Superintendent's Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June
29, 1874,
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Special Notice.
MISS HUDGINS can now befound at
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CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1875.
EVENING.
One by one he roses falling,
Strew with leaves the withered way ;
One by one the gleams of sunlight
Fade from out the autumn day.
Hour by hour the sun declineth,
Day by day the sunlight dies—
Feeble grows the weary footsteps,
Dim with tears the fading eyes.
But, still upward, upward climbing
From the valley’s smooth expanse ;
Upward o’er the barren mountain—
Steady keep the upward glance.
All the blossoms left behind thee—
Naught be\ond thee but the snow'—
Falter not, still messing onward,
Cast no lingering look below !
In the valley lie the shadow’s,
But the peaks are bathed in light—
In the splendor of the sunset,
Blessed harbinger of night!
Rest thee, rest thee, weary pilgrim,
Fiom the dangers of the way,
Far beyond the night is coming,
And beyond the night the day.
llorrible Phenomena.
Tt is generally known, says an old
paper, that in Barbadoes there is a
mysterious vault, in which no one dares
to deposit the dead. It is in a church
yard near the seaside. In 1807, the
first coffin that was deposited in it was
that of a Goddard; in 1808, a Miss A.
M. Chase was placed in it; in 1812,
Miss D. Chase. In the end of 1812,
the vault was opened for the body of
the Hon. T. Chase; but the three first
coffins were found in a confused state,
having been apparently tossed from
their places. Again was the vault open
ed to receive the body of an infant, and
the four coffins, all of lead, and very
heavy, were found much disturbed. In
1816, a Mr. Brewster’s body was placed
in the vault, and again great disorder
was apparent among the coffins. In
1819, a Mr. Clark was placed in the
vault, and, as before, the coffins were in
cc nfusion.
Each lime that the vault was opene
the coffins were placed in their prope r
situations—that is,three on the ground’
side by side, and the others laid on
them. The vault was regularly closed;
the door, (a massive stone, which re
quired six or seven men to move), was
cemented by masons, and though the
floor was of sand there was no marks
of footsteps or water. Again the
vault was opened in 1819. Lord Com
bermere was then present, and the cof
fins were thrown confusedly about the
vault—some with their heads down,and
others up. “ What could have occasion
ed this phenomena ? In no otuer vault
in the island has this ever occurred.
Was it an earthquake which occasioned
it, or was it the effects of an inuudation
in the vault?” These were the ques
tions asked by a Barbadoes journal at
that time ; and no one could afford a
solution.
The matter gradually died away, un
til the present year, when, on the 16th
of February, the vault was again opened,
all the coffins were again thrown about
as confusedly as before. A strict inves
tigation was made, but no cause was
discovered. Was it, after all, that the
sudden bursting of noxious gas from
one of the coffins could have produced
this phenomena? If so, it is against
all former experience. The vault has
been hermetically sealed again, when to
be reopened, we cannot tell.
In England there was a parallel oc'.
currence to this, some years ago, at
Hauton, in Suffolk. It is stated that
on opening a vault several leaden
c< ffius, with wooden cases, which had
been fixed on biers, weie found dis
placed, to the great consternation of the
villagers. The coffins were again placed
as before, and the vault was properly
closed when again, another of the fami
ly dying, they were again found dis
placed ; and two years after, they were
not only found all off their biers, but
one coffin, so heavy as to require eight
men to raise it, was found on the step
which led down the vault; and it
seemed perfectly certain that no human
baud had done ibis.
No Time for Anything.
*“ The great, difficulty in this country
is, that we have no time for anything.
The very walk of an American shows
that he is in a hurry. An Englishman
buttons his coat and gloves, and goes to
business as deliberately as he goes to
church. An American business man
flies after the car, struggling with his
coat-sleeves as he runs, plunges in head
foremost, and plunges out at the end
without regard to his neck. Chief
amongst our accidents stand those which
occur because people jump upon flying
trains, or departing boats. To wait ten
minutes is something not to be thought
of. Dinner is not eaten, it is swallowed
whole ; aud when one comes to the des
sert he finds that the fruit was picked
before t was ripe.
“ Everything is hurried through,
from the building of a house to the cur
ing of a ham. The women who work
on sewing machines stop before they
come to the end of a seam. The dress
maker sends home your drsss with bast
ing-threads in it and no loops to hang
it up by.
“ There is none of the slow,sure,com
pleteness of the old world about any
thing, and even fortunes are made in
a hurry, and lost in the same way It
any man we know, is getting rich by
the slow and patient process of saviug,
be sure that he was not born upon
this continent.
l T et people live as long here as
as they do anywhere else, and the days
are tbe same length. Why is it that
we have no time for anything?”
Mary Kyle Dallas.
Would thatwe could avoid extremes,
and then the people of the old world,
as well as the new would be better off.
A Short Sketch of an Editor.
Once upon a time an editor, after re
volving in his weary mind a few of the
wearing problems which are the myste
ries of his singular profession, left the
seclusion of his office and sallied forth
into the busy world to do among men as
he was done by. He had long years be
fore been disabused of any impression
which might have haunted his mind
that he kn?W anvthing about editing a
paper, for every man who came into his
office knew more about the business
than the unfortunate editor did, and
never seru* led to tell him so. But the
poor man thought it would be a very
agreeable and pleasant thing to do as
others did, and it was for the purpose
of following general custom that he
went out on this beautiful day so long
ago-
The sun was shining brighly,the dull,
distant hum of insect lile in the adjoin
ing country came to his ears; birds
were singing, and so serene and peace
ful was Ute aspect of nature that it
seemed impossible, iu such a bright
and beautiful world, there could be so
much misery, wretchedness, wickedness
and total depravity. But there was all
the same, for there was the editor to
prove it.
He went into the office of a lawyer,
with whom he was slightly acquainted,
and, seating himself in a chair, put his
feet on the desk and began to whistle
“ Silver Threads Among the Gold ” in
a loud tone of whistle. The attorney
looked astonished, and asked what his
visitor wanted. He said nothing, but
took a bundle of papers from the pigeon
bole, and began to look them over and
read out aloud. When he get through
the indignant lawyer took his visitor by
the neck and gently but firmly kicked
him down stairs.
“ And yet,” mused the unhappy man
as he brushed off his clothes and went
limping on his way, “ that man was in
my office only day-before-yesterday and
read thi-ee of my articles before they
w ere published. It is strange how dif
ferent it is when I read his.”
He went into a dry goods store and
just had time to get behind the counter
when a lady came in and asked for some
brown satin.
“ Yesam,” he said.
After creating an earthquake in that
part of the store, he followed her direc
tion and got what she wanted.
“ How much do you want ?” he ask
ed, “ about half a column ?”
She stared.
‘‘ Thirty or forty lines be enough ?”
he enquired.
She said she wanted half a yard.
“Ah!” he said ; “ about eighteen
squares —yes, yes.”
“ And cut out on the bias,” she con
tinued.
“Certainly, buy as much as you )
please.” And he began to tear the
goods in various shapes, when the mer
chant collared him aud put him out.
“ And yet,” the poor man mused as he
went on, “ that very man wrote two ar
ticles for the paper the o her day, de
claring that they were better than any
thing I had written in six months, and
although seventy subscribers had stop
ped their paper —when they were pub
lished, he never sent anything around
to pay for it.”
He turned sadly into a drug store,
took a prescription from a poor man
standing there, looked it wisely over,
took a little quinine, arsenic, morphine
and strichnine, put them in powders,
and told the man to give his wife one
every two hours until s e didn’t com
ply in any more about her head As he
went out of the door one of the powders
spilled cn a dog’s back, and the animal
died in three seconds. The editor was
arrested, and only released on giving a
solemn pr< mise to support the sheriff
for a re election
“ How is it.” he wondered, “ that all
classes of me n , of all occupations, have
found time not only to perfect them
selves in their own business and profes
sions, but to master mine more thor
oughly than I have been able to do by
giving my whole time and strength to
it ?”
He sighed as he walked into a bank-
He put his head into the paying teller’s
window and shouted “ Hellow !” as loud
as he could roar. Then he drummed
on tbe glass with bis fingers, and was
forcibly ejected by the porter.
“ I give it up.” he said, “I am the
most worthless of mankind. I don’t
know how to attend to anybody's busi
ness but my own ; ” and so he walked
drearily back to his dismal sanctum,
where he found seven men,four of them
perfect strangers to him, occupying the
chairs, poring over the exchanges,
reading the proofs and commenting
thereon, and making fun of his pet ar
ticles. He sat down on a wood box and
tried to think u r a leader for tbe next
day’s paper, and dropped a tear as he
recalled his boyhood’s happy days, and
the time that would elapse before pirate,
sitting in hl3 own particular arm chair,
would get through cutting the best
things out of the latest papers and put
ting them in his hat. But he look
ed out the window and saw an expati
ated local trying to write up his notes
against the side of a brick house on the
other side of the street, and he felt
some gleam of comfort from this com
pany in his misery and took courage.
Moral—There was a moral to this
story when we commenced, but we have
got so far fqpm the commencement that
we have forgotten what it was. Never
mind ; readers always skip the moral
anyhow.
——
Advertisement from a Washing
ton paper: “ Wanted, a well rested
youth in my office. Preference given
to one who has not forgotten more than
his employer knows. Addresses,” &o.
Tlie Crime of “ Burlciug.”
On the 19th of November, 1827. an
old man named Donald died in West
Port, one oi’ the purlieus of Edinburgh.
He lodged with a man named William
Hare, and died owing him four pounds.
His creditor saw but one way of reim
bursing himself, aud that was to dispose
of the old man’s body to the doctors.
Hare found a ready accomplice in Wil
liam Burke, another man. aud also oue
of his lodgers. The body was removed
from the coffin, and a bag of tanner’s
bark substituted for it. The lid was
screwed down and the little funeral
passed off as usual. The same evening.
Hare and Burke stealthily repaired to
the university, and, meeting a student
in the yard, asked for the rooms of Dr.
Monroe, the Professor of Anatomy.
The student happened to be a pupil of
Knox’s, and upon discovering their er
rand advised them to try Knox’s place
in Surgeons’ Square. There they sold
the body for £7 10s., a large sum for
them, and very easily obtained. They
had not courage to go regular into the
business of body stealing, and so Ilaie,
the vilest of the tvo, suggested a fresh
stroke of business, which was to inveigle
the old and infirm to his quarters and
“ do for them.”
Hare started in search of a victim;
and prowling through the slums,met an
old woman, half drunk, and asked her
to his house. He gave her whisky un
til she became comatose, and then with
Burke’s assistance strangled her. The
body brought £lO.
The appetites of the vampires were
now sharply whetted, and they entered
systematically upon the work of murder.
Vagrants, street walkers and imbeciles,
were allured ou various pretexts to the
house of Hare, made drunk, and suffo
cated. Emboldened by their success,
they began to pursue their thuggish
practices even in daylight. A woman
named Docherty was stifled and left
half exposed under some straw, was
seen by two lodgers, who notified the
police. Thirteen victims had been se
cured in eleven months, and all taken
to the same place and sold. The prison
ers were tried December 24, 1828,when
Hare, the blackest of the villains, was
let off by turning “ State’s evidence,”
and Burke was convicted, hanged and
dissected.
The effect produced upon the public
by this horrible disclosure is indescrib
able. Anew unheard of crime, that of
“ Burking,” was added to the list of at
rocities of which human fiends are ca
pable Astonishment and terror spread
through the community. Households
gathered their members within doors
before dusk ; workmen walked home
from their day’s toil in groups, as if in
fear of being waylaid. The facts were
appalling enough, but a thousand exag -
gerations and inventions filled the air,
and intensified the universal excitement.
—Popular Science Monthly.
■
A l!a<i Man.
He slid into a butcher store on Cen
tral avenue the other evening, and took
a seat on the far end of the counter. —
He was a tall, placid man with an old
gingham un brella under his arm, and
when the butcher asked him what lie
wanted, he said :
“ Nothin’ particular. Jest dropped
in to see how you was gettin’ on.”
The butcher looked at him, wonder
ing what business it was of his, any
how ; but he was too busy with custom
ers to pay much attention to a man who
had only dropped in to see how he was
getting on.
Finally the man broke the silence
again :
“ Snug little place you’ve got here.”
“Snug enough,” said the man of meat.
“ Y x es,” continued the tall man, “ a
man must crawl before lie can walk. —
Ever read the lives of distinguished
men ?”
The butcher said he hadn’t; didn’t
have time.
“ Ah, si*’,” said the tall man, “If
vou had you would know bow great for
tunes are made from small beginnings.
A. T. Stewart started around with a
pack on his back. President Grant
used tp ride a mule in a tanbark ring,
at fifty cents a day, and look at him
now —in every ‘ring’ in the country
that has got any money in it.”
“ All true, sir,” said the butcher, who
intends to vote for old Bill Allen.
“ Look at Boss Tweed,he used to drive
a dray .and now he is worth over a million
dollars and is in jail.”
“Can that be so ?” said the butcher
meditatively.
“ Of course it’s so,” said the tall man ;
“and there are thousands of others
whom I could mention who began busi
ness without a cent, and are rich men
to day. I tell you, my friend, a man
to be successful nowadays must make all
he can and keep all be can lay his hands
on.”
Here the stranger remarked that he
must be going and took his departure ;
and when.a neighbor dropped in shortly
after and wanted a five dollar bill
changed, the butcher couldn’t change
it-. The reader can imagine where the
butcher’s money went.
The Memory op a Mother. —
When temptations appear, and we are
almost persuaded to do wrong, how of
ten a mother’s word of warning will cal'
to mind the vows which are rarely
broken. Yes the memory of a mother
has saved many a poor wretch from go
ing estray. Tall grass may be growing
over the hallowed spot, where all her
earthly remains repose; the dying leaves
of autumn may be whirled over it, or
the white mantle of winter may cover it
from sight; yet the spirit of her, when
he walks in the right path, appears, and
mournfully calls to, when wandering off
into the ways of error.
Neighborly Courtesies.
Jaky Watts and Benny Richards.two
Washington boys, were sitting in the
dark in Watts’ kitchen cracking hicko
ry nuts, and telling one a : other how
how good their respective fathers were.
Jaky heard his father’s step up stairs
and suddenly became silent. 31 r. Watts
had thrown out a hint at the dinner
table that he would tend to Jaky when
he came home for tying his little sister
lupin a bag. When Jaky heard the old
! man's step approachiug the kitchen
stairs, he said :
“ Benny, something makes me feel
as if I had left the back gate ( pen. I’ll
be back in a minute,” and hurried out
the door.
Mr. Watts came down into the kitch
en, shaking with suppressed rage, and
seeing a long figure sitting in the dim
light of the fire he grabbed it by the
car and raised it from the chair. Ben
ny set up a terrible howling. Mr Watts
waltzed him around the room, jerking
out such remarks as :
“ I’ll teach you to perpetrate such
things in my house; you thought you’d
maltreat your little sister, did you ? I
suppose you'll want to put me in a bag
next ?”
The Richards boy put up a prolonged
howl, interrupted occasionally by a
“ Ouch !” and a vigorous effort to cover
some tender spot with his hands.
Mr. Watts gave him a final wrench
and slung him against the table, with
the observation that lie guessed be
wouldn’t forget this right av/ay,
Benny rushed out of the house snuf
fing and snorting and uttering all sorts
of threats against Watts. Jaky stopped
him in the yard, and, with an expres
sion of open-mouthed wonder, he ex
claimed :
“ Why, Benny, what in the world is
the matter ? Do you feel sick ?”
Benny did not stop to explain, but
sneaked over the fence and home, drop
ping a bad word oi a sob at every step
of the way.
Jaky looked very meek as he came
into the houre, rubbing his legs and
showing a disposition to run at eveiv
motion his father made, and looked ex
actly as if he had been whipped.
Mrs. Richards called next day in a
high state of indignation. She took up
her quarters in the basement hall with
her Benny under her arm, and told the
Watts folks just what she thought of
them. She became highly inflamed and
choked with passion,and reminded them
that they could not ride over her, if
Mr. Watts did hold a government office,
not if she knew herself. She’d like to
see herself associating with people that
would set upon and maliciously mal
treat a tender infant. Then she danced
away with the assurance that they had
not heard the last of it.
Mr. Watts investigated the matter a
tittle, and he and Jakv held a business
meeting in the woodshed, much to
Jaky’s disgust. The matter was thor
oughly explained,and Mrs. Watts sent a
bowl of currant-jelly around to Mr.
Richards.
Mrs. Richards says she never really
knew what a dear good lady Mrs. Watts
was before ; but Benny says that all
the currant-jelly in the district cannot
efface the memory of one night, and he
longs to be a man, so that he caa re
venge himself upon Mr. Wafts.
Waiting for a Cave.
Three or four days ago, within two or
three miles of this city, a Washington
street merchant, who had business in
the city, came to a small creek,beside
which a native was washing his shirt.
The man was sousing the garment up
and down and around, and as he soused
he whistled a merry tune.
“ Do you have to wash your own shirt
sir ?” inquired the merchant, as he
halted.
“ Not alius, but old Bet has got one
o’ her fits on jest now,” was the ready
reply.
“ Then you don’t agree very well ?”
“ Purtv well on the general thing.
Bet s kind o’ mulish, and I’m kind o’
mulish, and when we get our backs up
we crawl off to see who will cave first.”
“ I should think you would want
some sopp ?”
“ l do”
“ Why don’t you get it then ?”
“ That would be caving to Bet,
stranger. She’s squatted on the only
bit of bar soap ’tween here and Vicks
burg, and she’s jest aching for me to
slide up and ask bfer for it.”
“ And you won’t ?”
“ Stranger,” said the native, as he
straightened up, “ don’t I look like a
feller that would wear a shirt three
months afore I’d cave in and holler for
soap ?”
The merchant sided with him, and
as he drove on the man soused the shirt
up aud down and whistled :
I’m gwine up the river—
Hear me holler.
Vicksburg Herald.
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Influence of F- od. —An excellent
hint is given in the following item :
Dr Hall relates the case of a man
who was cured of his biliousness by go
ing without his supper and drinking
lemonade. The next morning his pa
tient rose with a wonderful sense of rest
and refreshment, feelirg as though the
blood had been literally washed,cleansed
and cooled by the lemonade and fast.
His theory is that food can be used as p
remedy for many diseases successfully.
As an example, he cures spitting blood
by the use of salt; epilepsy, by water
rnelots; kidney affections, by celerv ;
poison, by olive or sweet oil; erysipelas,
by pounded cranbeiries applied to the
part affected ; hydrophobia, by onions,
etc. So the way to keep iu good health
is really to know what to eat and to
kuow what medicines to take.
VOL. VI.—NO. 13.
Baltic of foni^dprateMoucj - .
Ex Attorney General Akerman has
recently given an account of’ his experi
ence in Confederate money. lie says ho
was a member ol Governor Brown’s
Georgia militia, and was ordered, late
in the spring of 18G5 to report for duty. ,
Having a case to attend in court and
knowing that matters were m such a .
desperate condition that the Confedera
cy must soon go to pieces, he did not
start at once, and in a few days the
headquarters were transferred to \u
gusta and he was ordered to report
there. On his arrival he iound that the
general on whose staff ho held a position
had been captured at Macon. He.bow
ever. reported to the officer next in com*
niand, and was by him given a furlough.
This business occupied a part of one
day only, and, as be arrived in Augusta
in the evening he was able to leave for
home on the second morning, remainin'’ l
at the hotel two niyhts and one day;
On calling for his hill it was made out
at the rate of 8100 per day.
Before leaving home his wife had re
quested him, il possible, to get a card
ot hooks and eyes and send it to her.
During the afternoon which he had
spent in Augusta he went in search of
it. Many of the stores were closed,but
he finally fuund one open and succeed
ed in purchasing an ordinary card of
hooks and eyes for 810. On his way
back to the hotel he saw in a store win
dow some very inferior greenish glass
tumblers. Glassware was very difficult
to obtain in the Confederacy duiing the
war, and Mr. Akerman, who had ju t
married the year before, had not been
able to get any. The price of the tum
blers was 81GO a dozen. fie bought
three of them for which lie paid Bdo.
On his way to the railroad station ho
saw some shoe blacking for 820 a box,
and purchased one box. This was the
last occasion on which he had to uso
Confederate money, except to pay for a
railroad ticket home.
♦ —.
Cheating an Innocent Old Man.
One day last month, when trade was
dull,a Vicksburg grocery clerk procured
a piece of sole leather from a shoemaker,
painted it black, and laid it aside for
further use. Within a few days an ol i
’ hap from back in the country in
quired for a plug of chewing tobacco.
The piece of sole leather was tied up,
paid for, and the purchaser startl'd
home At the end of the sixth day lie
returned, looking downcast and deject
ed, and walking into the store he in
quired of the clerk :
“ Member that terbacker I got here
the other day ?”
“ Yes."
“ Well, was that a new* brand V*
“ No—same old brand.”
“ Regular plug terbacker, was it V *
“ Yes.”
“ Well, then, its right here in my
jaws, sadly replied the old man. “ I
knowed 1 was gittin purty old, but I
was alius handy on bitin plug. I nev,
er seed a plug afore this one that I
couldn t tear to pieces at one chaw. I
got my teeth on to this one,and bit and
pulled and twisted like a dog at a root,
and Ive kept bitin and pulling for six
da3’s, and tbar she am now. the same as
when you sold her to me !”
“ Seems to be a good plug,” remark
ed the clerk as he smelled of the coun
terfeit.
“She’s all right; pg me <h a t’ s fail,
ing !” exclaimed the old man. “ Pass
me out some fine cut, and I’ll go home
and deed the farm to the bov, and git
ready for (he grave !” Vickslura Her
ald. J
Max Adler tells anew story, the gist
of which is as follows : Bill Slocum was
nominated for Mayor of Pencader, and
one day, in a street conversation, ho
remarked, “ J’ve got to win.” He
pronounced it, l’ve’ got t’winand
old Mrs. Martin, overhearing it imper
fectly, went around and reported that
Mrs. Slocum had got twins. The boys
at once decided to serenade Bill, and
that night they marched out to his
bouse, with a band playing “Hail to
the Chief,” several ward clubs, some
fire companies, a group of white-dressed
girls in a wapon, a lot of banners, and
plenty of enthusiasm. Bill made a
speech about the canvas-, and then there
were shouts of “ Where’s the twins'.”
“Hold ’em up to the window !” and the
like. Bill said ..here was a mistake, but
the band sarcastically played “ Listen to
the Mocking bird,” and the boys shout
ed louder for the twins. When the
truth prevailed the assembly dispersed
in disgust, and Bill was overwhelmingly
defeated at the polls
g ■
A Word About Marriage -a phy.
sicianw rites thefullowing sensible advice:
“ profession has thrown me among
women of u! 1 masses, and my experience
teaches me that Cod never gave man a
greater proof of his love than to place
woman here with him. My advice is :
Go—propose to the most sensible
girl you know. If she says yes.
tell her how much your income is
—from what source derived—and tell
her you will divide the last shilling with
iier and love her with all your heart m
the bargain. And then* keep your
promise. My word for it, she will live
within your income,and to your last hour
you will regret that you did not marry
sooner, Gentlemen, don’t worry about
feminine extravagance and feminine
untruth. Just you be true to her,
love her sincerely, and tell her of it
frequently, and a more fond, faithful,
foolish slave you will never meet any
where. You won’t deserve her, I know
but. she would never see it. Now throw
aside pride and selfishness, and see what
will become of it.