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Small Deceits. —Men at first de
ceive, knowing it: but by the constant
use of deception they cease to even
know that they are doing it. Gradu
ally it blinds the moral sense. And it
is in this direction that great'lies are
loss harmful than little ones. Men
think that a great black lie is very cul
pable. I suppose it is: but when an
armorer wishes by scouring, to cut the
very surface of metal down, what does
he do? Take a bar of iron and rub it?
No; he takes emery. Its particles are
as small as a pin’s point; and these he
puts on, and by scouring he cuts down
the surface—takes off the enamel.
You think that a great lie is a great
stn, and a great shame to man ; but af
ter all, these little lies are more danger
ous, because there are so many of them ;
and because each one of them is dia
mond-pointed. And these little petty
untruths which are so small that you
do not notice them; and so numerous
that you cannot estimate them, are the
ones that take off the very enamel of
the moral sense—cut away its surface.
And men become so accustomed to it,
that they do not recognize that they
are putting things in false lights, when
by word, by deed, by indirections, by
exaggerations, by shifting the empha
sis, by various dynamical means, they
present things, not as they see them,
but as they want to see them.
When Handel once undertook,-in a
crowded church, to play the dismissal
on a very fine organ there, the whole
congregation became so entranced
with delight that not an individual
could stir, till at 'length the usual or
ganist came impatiently forward and
took his seat, saying, in a tone of ac
knowledged superiority: “ You cannot
dismiss a congregation. See h°w I
can disperse them.”
Letters of Recommendation.—A
gentleman advertised for a boy to as
sist in hib office, and nearly fifty appli
cants presented themselves to him.
Out of the whole number, he, in a
short time, selected one, and dismissed
the rest.
“I should like to know,” said a
friend, “on what ground you selected
that boy, wdio had not a single recom
mendation.”
“You are mistaken,” said the gentle
man; “he had a great many. He
wiped his feet when he came in, and
closed the door after him, showing
that he was careful. He gave up his
seat instantly to that lame old man,
showing that he was kind and thought
ful. lie took off his cap when he
came in, and auswered my questions
promptly and respectfully, showing
that he was polite and gentlemanly.
He picked up the book which I had
purposely left upon the floor, and re
placed it on the table, while all the
rest stepped over it, or shoved it aside;
and he waited quietly for his turn, in
stead of pushing and crowding, show
ing that he was honest and orderly.
When I talked with him, I noticed
that his clothes were carefully brushed,
his hair in nice order, and his teeth as
white as milk; and when he wrote his
name, I noticed that his finger-nails
were clean, instead of being tipped
with jet, like that handsome little fel
lqw’s in jacket. Don’t you
c&ll those things letters of recommen
dation ? I do, and I w T ould give more
for what I can tell about a boy by
using my eyes ten minutes than all the
fine letters he can bring me.”
French Women.— A letter from Pa
ris gives the French women a severe
but well merited blow, in an article on
the degeneracy exhibited in French art,
saying that women militate against a
true culture in art. This correspond
ent says, were he at liberty to illustrate
remarks with proper names, and to
supplement criticisms with biography,
he might astound people by the light
he could throw on some of the causes
of the decline of art there. A great
many artists are burdened with two
families—the legitimate and an illegit
imate one. His expenses task his tal
ents to the utmost; he knews no rest;
everything he produces is fevered.
Those who have only a wife find it
hard to earn enough to supply her exi
gencies. The professional expenses
(models, travels, etc.) have to be dis
carded, the mind, deprived of those as
sistances, is neither as active nor as
fertile nor as vigorous as it might be.
Women there are shamelessly extrava
gant, and they selfishly sacrifice (killing
the goose which lays the golden eggs)
every thing to gratify their passion for
shining in society. Some distressing
stories are told of the heartlessness of
wives, and of the ruin wrought by them.
Advertisement.
I AM very much exercised, and I don’t care who
knows it. The fire that occurred on the morning
of the Ist inst., might have been pre'"-
vented by the prompt use of Babcock’s Fire JEx
tiuguisher, and it is the only machine that could
have put out that oily fire. It will subdue and en
tirely extinguish the most intense fires, from all in
-11 am able substances, such as oil, turpentine, petrole
um, tar, varnish, benzine, Ac. The City of Atlanta
should supply each of the Fire Co’s with at least two
or more of these machines.
CITY FATHERS, ATTENTION !
Your interests demand it !
L. B. DAVIS, Agt.
FOR SALE.
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