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VOLUME XXXVI.
RETROSPECTIVE.
Bf
T. STEPHENS.
How lonely and cheerless this waiting,
Impatiently, treading the floor,
W th nou.ht but the clock's solemn ti.hing
To breuk the dull stillness all o'er.
My thoughts, they stray tackwards. far
backwards, To
years that are long past and o'er.
Then, as to night, I was anxious,
And impatiently treading the floor.
Then 1 v as boyish nnd impulsive,
I loved lor to wander and roam,
Far from all kind oues who love me,
Far from all dear ones and home.
Though, before going, I faltered,
I was wrong, and iny heart rebelled sore,
With those thoughts iu my mind still conflicting,
I was anxiously treading the floor.
And, fo-night, oh ! so plain o'er the shadows,
O'ercast by Ihc long tedious years.
The dear ones and home far behind me,
Distinctly and Tivid appears.
Are they still living and happy
As t hat night when I left iliuu of yore?
I would that to-night 1 could think so,
Impatiently treading the floor.
SPEECH
Delivered at Providence, Stjjtfb
County, S. C., Rkfork iue Claremont
Mounted Riflemen?P. P.
Gailleud, Captain?and the
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U/AITA1.N?VCiUJJMl U, IOI l , va i u r.
Duties and Ublioations of the
Citizen, by
Dr. E. J. REMRERT.
My FrJljiP Citizens: We have reasons
to.dny to lift our voices, in pro*
found gratitude and praise to that Doing
who directs and overlooks the destiuies
of nations, us well as of individuals.
When I look around rue upon
this assemblage of my fellow citizens, I
can tut iceall to mind the fact that
but a short period ago when our calls
were made for our citizens to assemble,
in order to take counsel upon public
affaire, it was with slow and solemn j
tread that wo wound oor way to our!
places of res-ort: a sadness and a glooui
hung like a funeral pall over our heads. ;
while with bated breath we counseled
together. The very winds that blew
around us chanted a mournful dirge,
and our noble pines, that waved in
grace and dignity above us, in their
sighs, suDg cut a requiem aud a syui- i
pathy lor a proud aud gallant people
who lay powerless arid prostrate under
the heel of oppression and wrong. The j
/.f I itarlv 111 wlliwi> altnrfi filir !
UVUWV'O * u Jiti-V I.J, ?? n ?-V.
sires had worshipped, s-?t in manacles
and chains, with eyes uplifted in agony
acd in despair t<? heaven, ai.d the
proud eugle, our national liid, lav
wounded and piuioned at her feet. The
very stars of heaven, that were a wonder
and a mystery to our revolutionary
mccsto's, looked down upon us froui
above, and " in their bright leaves " wc
sometimes thought we could read a les- ,
son which held out a hope for the fu- |
turo. Through all these long and
dreary years of suffering we have shown !
to the world n forbearance under trials,
and a moral heroism of character not
excelled in the palmiest nays of Greece
slid Home. It is to this fact that is
due this assemblage to-day, where we I
can worship as our hires have done "under
our own vino and lig tree, with
none to molest or make us afraid." The
chaius aro struck from the limbs of the
Goddess of Liberty and our eagle is on
his wings again.
These preparations that I sec nrouud
inc are emblems of peace?not of war.
Through the manifestations of the1
highest qualities known to the human 1
family wo have boldly fought and
peacefully won a battle and a victory, '
more honorable than Austcrlitz, more
illustrious than Trafalgar.
In order to secure in tlia future the
right use and exercise of this victory, it
is necessary that we should bo fully impressed
with the duties and the obligations
of the citizen. You will re mem'
bcr that in the teachings oh history the j
flush of victory oflcD entails final defeat i
by engendering that listlcssne:>9 and |
luxurious repos** which resulted in the
final ruin and destruction of Hannibal
and his bravo Carthaginians at Capua ;
which lost Athens her identity as a
State, and finally delivered Koine to the
power uf the Goth.
The citizen finds his country and his
houic only in the midst of Republican
institutions and n government founded
alone on the will of the people, expressed
and controllid by constitutional
checks and limitations. No crowned ;
monarch in robes of state and power
lords it over him. No orders of titled
nobility moves in proud contumely above
and around him. No firms and ceremonies
of an unapproachable priesthood
cr hierarchy fixes and settles his faith
and his future. Hence he occupies towards
his government and his couutiy
a relationship of great moral responsibility.
Great in peace as well as in
war. Manly courage, love of country
firifl ilin t.mr iifn nf niitrintisni have ('Vol'
been with civilized uutions cultivated |
and esteemed as among the cardinal
virtues. The hills of Athens have rung
with the burning eloquence of Demos
thciifg, in his efforts to arouse the
Athenians to a sense of their danger
and to inspire them with that manly
courage which was necessary to free
tlieui from the galling yoke of the Macedonian
conqueror. The forum of
Homo felt the tires of Cicero, win so
glowing patriotism, no doubt, helped !
to light up that inspiration in the
breast of the great poet aud friend of
Maecenas when lie penned the immortal
lines, " Dulco ct decoium est pro
patiisi uiori "? ' It is sweet aud honor
ublo to dio fur oae'i country." Mo
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doubt, our own Henry drank dvp at
the fount of this great inspiration uh< n
his tougue and voice were heard to
ring out the golden words, "Giveinej
liberty or give me death." There are
no people who have established a ;ov- '
erumenl aud a civilization but w ho i
have presented in the character of some '
of their leaders striking landmarks:
which stand out like Alpine summits,
as modeis for their country and their
nation. Mothers arouud the fireside
on bleak wintry nights have rehearsed
their deeds to their children. The
Troubadour, the child of song and the
harp, in the middle ages in his travel*
from castles and lordly halls have saved
many facts and deeds of during to history
which would have been Ibst to alter
ages. ' The blind old man of sciiv
rocky isle," has pictured in noble epic \
the character and life of Greece and
Troy, and held up to our gaze in those
fur distant times characters from
whose study we drink in inspirations of
patriotism and love of country. However
great may t>e the names of modern
leaders, the imagination loves l<> linger
around the hills of chu-ic Greece,
which have been the silent witnesses of
llin* J.j nrr.inf nn/1 irmillt in human
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character. Few countries c.m produce
a pass of Thermopyle, or exhibit a monumental
inscription to which they can
point with the pride of Sparta. "(Jo
stranger, tell it at Laccdaenxm that wc
died here in obedience to her laws "
What government can place upon its
role of honor a name more illustrious.
Kcgulus, whi-sc devotion and sell*>uorifice,
though be lived within the peri-Mi
of historical data, has rendered his
character ia some sort unnatural and
mythicalt
While England can proudly direct
the traveler to Iter Westtuiusior Ab.
bey, where rest for egos the ashes of
her illustrious dead; and modern Europe
as wvll as ancient nations tnny be fertile
iu characters whose minds have served
to unfold and bring to light the great 1
truths of nature. While they open the
records of their great deeds, both in
the field of battle and in the domain of i
statesmanship, the government of tho I
Uuitcd States will yieid tho palm to i
none in Iter robe of honor, though the >
storms and and tempest af but one bun- i
drcd years have played above her. she i
stands to-day stalwart and towering in i
the strength of her youth; with helmet, i
sword aud buckler uutattercd and uu. 1
?avh t liPniifrh #lio prmflict and blood of I
the umgt fearful civil couvuUioos ever I
recorded in the annuls of history. This '
fact, ui)' follow citizens, is due to the i
unswerving patriotism of her citizens,
guided in their distiny by the finger of
his country, in the trials of Valley
Forge, as well as when ho penned his
farewell words to a people whose gov- ]
eminent ho had done more than any 1
other to establish, and whose liberties i
he had transmitted to coming genera- j
lion'. What country can invito tine
attention of the historian and the phi* i
losopher to a nobler cluster of citizens i
than assembled at Congriss Hall, at <
Philadelphia, to deliberate upon a form
of Government, and to put afloat upon i
the current of tio:e their declarations of
Independence? The poor exiled colonies
for conscience sake, froiu tlioahorcs
of Great Europe, now began to build
their nests over this broad continent, <
and to plant the nettle and thorn ns
testimonials for the protection of their i
brood lor ages to erne. In tbo midst <
of their careful deliberations, watered
by their sterling virtues, our const itu"
tiou took root, and may its tree, with
our eaglo perched upon its loftiest
r>.H <,w.ur nn/1 fhoiri.sh 'till tillJO
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shall be no more.
Yet while wo houor and applaud,
and venerate the memories of those illustrious
heroes, statesmen and citizens
whose intellect, nerve, energy and pt.
trintUm built and established this treat
and complicated system of (iovernment,
which has showered so many blessings
upon the human family. From this
stand-point, at the end of a country,
we can readily perceive that the states"
nirn of the South, committed a great
and most unfortunate mistake. The
representatives of the North foresaw,
that upon the successful establishment
of a government, in which such liberal
principles were inculcated, cherished
and protected, that the emigration
would set in from Kurope, and from
thut source abundant labor would flow;
capital would come; the values of proter'v
increased and its people strength
?'iiI'd bnili f<.r offence and defence. The
South on the other Xaud, wedded to
her idol, ' The Institution of Slavery,"
insisted upon and enforced its protection
in the constitution of the country; thus,
the Oiiental religions, it became fastened
upon the hacks of her people,
identified with her future, and dovetailed
into every fibre of her civilization
and her life. A upas tree from the
shades of which, there was no c.-enpc.
Hut ?w lieu the grct?f founders of our
government, clad in the simple virtues
of their nature, were busily framing a
government lor the protection of the j
natural rights of the human race, they ,
failed also to u:nkc arrangements to !
protiet their country from the wily
snares of the ambitious demagogue and j
the slimy trad ofuior.il wrecks which!
are strewn along the pathway of the
past. This they may have left as the
duty of the Church, the State and the
School 'i he people, so as to inspire
an honorable ambition, encourage a
generous emulation, and to touch and
inculcate that obedience to the laws, is
one of the fir.-t duties of the citizen. A
w ant of moral tone, nn-i that knowledge
which enables u citizen to appreciate
tbe duties and obligations which ho
owe* to bis touutrjr, joopardiiei thu
lecw.- inaafK JL-??
DEN, S. C., NOVEMBE
right of 8uffragc which is the greatest |
boon of a free people; and the ballot
box, whicb ought to be the palladium
for his protection, is at once transmuted |
into the fortres of the tyrant, the breast
plate of the demagogue and the shield
of the villain. As an illustration of
this fact, you have but to cost your
ecys back. IIow incumbent it is upon
the coutry. North, South, East and
West, where such grand results arc in -!
volved, and such dangerous sequences
arc sporting upon the hazard of the
die, to establish such ariangcmonts us
will ensure a moral tone among over
the Ocscrt waste, through which you
have just passed?full of siroccos with"
out an oaic.s; when alter a lout: and :
bloody conflict, in which the North !
had triumphed, as it would be supposed, j
had glutted their revenge by tho luanu. j
mission of our slaves. In the stead,
when they had given them tho right of ,
suffrage, leaving them and us to work
our own destinies, they seut down upon i
113 n horde of laud-pirates and robbers,
who seized upon the passions, prejudices
and superstitions of the ignorant and j
untutored African, worked hi in up into j
a material of discord and ruin, arrayed
liim on the side of theft, robbery and
arson, encouraged hatr. d to education,
culture and property, elevated ignorance
above intelligence, falsehood and crime
above honesty and obedience to the
laws, levied ami exacted upon an impoverished
people an croueoos and oppressive
taxation, without representation
and held us under n tyranny and a bondage
more gallini; than that of the Cz.'.r
<if Htijui.i nr ecpn ihn Sultan ofTurkey
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And this under the free inspiration of
tlie constitution, for which our fathers
fought, bled and died, an j in view of
the sculptured form of the UodJoss of
Liberty; the lirnbsof which our fathers
helped to chisel. Not satisfied with
this, they ordered the armies of the
nation to enforce this great wrong, and
this gring outrage, with the bayouet,
upon an uuaruied and defenceless people.
My fellow-citizens, Con. (iranf can
never take his place by the side of the
great uicn of this nation. True, at an
immense sacrifice of life, he led armies
puccrssfully to battle. lie has shown
nerve, tirmuess and resolve; but. by the
sido of his great antagonist, Lee in all
the lunDly virtues, he sinks into insig.
nificance?whether we view them
through the glasses that look deep down
into the human heart and draw out the
fibres of its great pulse. o.Jn tl]e strutL*gy
of managing and leading armies of
men to successful issues. If the picture
had been reversed, what a change tiie
world would have witnessed? Now,
while the one is traveling across the
Atlantic, feted and honored by tl.c
potentate and tyrant, the other is
calmly sleeping "his last sleep" beneath
the willows of Lexington. 11 ?s
great heart is broken and silent, but
his memory will live forever, presenting
in character ami in worth of all Americans.
the nearest approach to the father |
of his country.
The campaign of 1STG, both national
and state, will ev? r be designated as
the most memorable tho world has ever
witnessed. It carried within its immense
bosom the nm to rials of war as
well as of peace. The tendency of foreign
wars is to cement a people ; but it
appears as one of the inscrutable facts i
of nature and of life that no nation has :
Ac,i....nl1 tlw.ua intnrnnl imh vil 'si. mS !
I'VVI fVUjie U I MVOV IIMV'IIX* v ...
which find their parallel only iu the:
volcanic upheaving* of mother earth, j
w ho'c gathering fires deep within her j
womb belches forth as if all the unary j
passions and maddened furies were dis*- J
tilled within her. The splendid and .
beautiful forms of (Jreico and Home '
were torn into bleeding and mangled
carcasses by their Scry sons. Ueruiatiy
draped her heavy ntid turbulent exist"
ctiee through a war of thirty years.
Kneland has felt the horrors of a
doomsday Look and the war of the
roses. Franco, revolutionary France,
the land of the vine and the dance, has
seen Iter terrors of blood, fan we expect
to pass unscathed and unscorcKod
along the dreary and bloodstaiued path ?
A government whoso vitality does not
lift itself superior to the throes of revolution
and is wanting iu hearts laden
with the fruits of patriotism, cannot live.
The 7th of last November witnessed
the sublime sight of the citizens of fiis
4 of tlldir j
immense government u^itiuuuu^ ..i i...
various election precincts to deposit
tlioir votes for 1'resident und Vice
President. Two great parties, Democratic
and Republican, were arrayed
against each other. The groat quesfion
of national interference with the
internal affairs of the States was
then undergoing solution. The parties
struggling for power, by an extraordinary
incident which may not
occur again in all the history of the republic,
wor? so equally divided that
Congress settled ibc question?big with
such momentous issues to us?by the
appointment of a commission whose doci-ion
should he final. The Republican
party, of which (Jen. Grant had been
the great exponent, represented oppression
and interference with the rights
of the States. The commission decided
in favor of Hayes and Wheeler.
Whether this decision was just or not,
it is not our purpose to inquire; hut
the decision was made, aud it must rest
the weal or woe of the republic. The
inaugural in some sort brought quiet,
through its patriotic breathings, to tho
overtrained nerves of our oppressed
people. Rut when Mr. Hayes issued
the order for the withdrawal of the [
troops, which in future times will render
the pngo of nis history luminous, he
at oneo lifted himself above party and
partisanship, aud placed himself soj
R 21, 1877.
curely upon the plune of the great lie.
rocs, patriots and citizens of the republie.
My fellow citizens, for this great and
grand act of obedience to the eonstifu_
tinn and the laws, for this sublime arid
practical conception of our government
and the genius of our institutions I'resdetit
Hayes has forever endeared himself
to the hearts of the Southern people,
arrested the current of feeling
which was running back upon the general
uovcrnraent, and filled the breach
made by revolution nnd blood. Let him
belong to whatever pirty he may, he
his by this net alosrc rendered u service
to the republic almost unparalleled in
its annals, and worthy the tr.cn who sat
in counsel with Adams and Jefferson,
Washington and Monroe.
But while these great events were
transpiring upon the arena of tha nation.
there was being worked out within
the borders of ourowu State, under the
leadership of our noble Hampton, inci
dents no lc.-s thrilling and important;
aud which helped to pave the way fir
this national jubilee. The Democratic
Convention which met in Columbia in
its wisdom saw tit to select as their candidate
for Governor, Generul Wade
Hampton, a favorite son of South Caroliua.
The Republican party, amidst
the upheaval of its destructive und disordered
elements, brought forward that
royal carpet-bagger, D. II. Ohamberluio,
' Hyperion to a satyr." The one the
flag bearer of the intelligence, honesty
refinement, patriotism and property of
the State. 'J'he other dragging darkly
along the way the chains heated io the
fiery furnace of passiou, prejudice and
the diresi hate. The one with tho brow
of Apollo, frank, open and beaming
with patriotism; the other with the
frown of Cain, whose offerings at the
^ 1- - M<A?A ?r.i A/itiw] l\t?
Hilar HI His V'luillljr nvic "J
genius of lior civilization The oue
who by his manly bearing, liberal sentiments
and love of country broko the
dark clouds of prejudice and passion
by which he was surrounded, and drew
upon himself the admiring gaze of the
nation; the other at the forgo of Vulcan
was welding instruments l'or his
country's ruin.
My fellow citizens, shall I attempt to
draw a picture to you of the condition
of our poor State at the ppeuing of this
eampniga ? Our people discouraged
and impoverished under a long course of
oppression and wrong. Upon their
faces could te traced lines which, as an
index to their hearts, showed that their
spirits were broken, and that they felt
they were standing upon the brink &f a
fearful catastrophe. In the imperiled
state of (affairs they had lost confidence
in each other. It was almost impossible
to collect together a corpornl's
guard at any placo of meeting, so tho"
roughly dispirited had they become.
Such is hut a faint and imperfect outline
of the condition of affairs when
Gen. ilamptoii began his campaign.
With the firm, unrjuiveriog Derve of
the veteran and the warrior; with the
clear and far seeing perception of the
statesman ; with his great heart full to
overflowing over the wrougs of his no*
live State, big with patriotic emotions
and love of country, bo resolved upon
her redemption. Ho gathered np the
smouldering ashes of her former self,
and raised a fire upon her altars again
He re-dedicated her fanes and her tern
pies, and invited her citizeus to worship
again as they were wont to do. He
appealed to the uiemoriet of her great
sons, whose deeds knew no death. He
claimed tlie battles they fought nnd
won. Ho pointed to the forums their o!oquenco
had ti.kcn. With Carolina,
dear Carolina, his fong begun. With
Carolina, dear Carolina, his thenio did ,
end* Ho aroused our pcoplo from
mountain to seaboard. The wells of
patriotism which ho opened in the
mountains dashed against the hills,
overflowed the plains and expended
themselves at the seaboard. OIJ ocean
herself, in her derp-souuding murmurs
caught the inspiration of his theme.
With a Damascus blade he entered the
densjof iniquity. and he broke the nngsof
the robbers. My fellow citizeus, our
State is redeemed and you arc safe.
What meed af gratitude can we offer to
our great deliverer ? I am no worshiper
of heroes, but I can love a soul so
gnat, so grand, ho truo.
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I Mil in UIH UI1U31 u I inn
it behooves you to jruard carefully the
future. lU'Uiembor that ''the price of
liberty is eternal vigilance*" In these
organizations your safety depends; not'
for oppression, but for protection, liemember
that you are in the midst of
a race, by nature different, towards
whom you should cultivate and exercise
the most liberal sentiments. ]iut
remember that you must caro for those
rights and those liberties which have
been so carefully handed down to you.
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J no cnaiice urn iiuius mciu is wivu.
lleumtnber through what seas you have
passed to reach the heaven where you
rest. Ail is not dono! You must
hand down to posterity a burnished
escutcheon, upon which is engraven the
constitution of your country, set therein,
' like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Like the vestal virgius, you must keep
the fires upon your alters perpetually
burning, for u Hampton may not be
here to rekindle them agaiu."
The tobacco industry is one of tho
greatest and most valuable in tho country.
Its influence, therefore, on our
prosperity is hard to estimate. Still,
acknowledging that the national treasury
is much benefitted, it is little satisfaction
for a woman to find that her
husband has been spitting all over the
frout room o&rpct.
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NUMBER 19
The Capture of Hyenas.
The following mode of tying hyenas
in their den, as practiced in Afghanistan,
is given by Arthur Connelly, in
his Overland Journal, in the words of
nn Afghan chief, tho Shirkaroo Synd
Dnond ;
"When you have tracked the beast
to his den you take a rope with two slip
nots upon it in your right hand, and
with your left holding a felt cloak before
you, you go boldly but quietly in.
Tho uniuial does not know the nature
of the danger, and, therefore, retires
to the Lack or the den, but you 6ay
always tell where hie head is by the
glare of his eyes. You keep moving
gradually toward him on your knees,
siid when you nre within distanoe throw
the cloak over his head, close with him
and take care be does not free himself.
The beast is so frightened thst he
cowers back, and though he may bite
the felt, he cannot turn his neck round
to hurt you, so quietly feel for bis fore
legs, slip the knots over them, and then
with one strong pull draw them tight
up to the back of his neck and tie them
there. The beast is now your own, and
you can do what you like with him. We
generally take those we catch home to
the trail, and hunt them on the plaio
with bridles in their mouths, that our
dogs may be taught not to fear the
brutes when they meet them wild/'
Hyenas are also taken alive by the
Arabs by a very similar method, except
that a wooden gag is used iustead of a
felt cloaS. The similarity in the mode
of capture io two such distant countries
as Algeria and Afghanistan, and by
two races so di&Vrcnt, ia remarkable.
From tho fact that the Afghana con.
sidcr that the fat requires great pres.
crice of mind, and an instance being <
given of a man having died of a bite iu
a clumsy attempt, wc may infer that the
Afghan hyena is more powerful or ferocious
t'luu bis African congener.
Cheerful Women.
In marrying, men should seek happy
women. They make a terrible mistake
when tbey marry for beauty, or for
talent, or for style; the sweetest are
those who possess the magic secret of
being happy under any end every cir- ,
cuinstance. llich or poor, liigh or ,
low, it makes no difference, the bright ,
little fountain bubbles op just as mu* |
sically in their hearts. Nothing ever
goes wrong with them?no trouble is ,
too serious for them to make the best of
it. Was ever the stream of calamity so
dark and so deep that the sunlight of a
happy face falling across its turbid
tides would not make an answeriog J
gleam ? Why, then, joyous tempered
people don't kuow half tho good they
do. No matter how cross nnd crabbed (
you feel, no matter if yonr brain is full
of meditation on "afflicting dispense*
lion?/' and your stoinachc with incdi.
cines, pills and tonics; just sot one of
these cheery little women talking to
you, and wo aro not afraid to wager '
anything she can euro you. The long ,
drawn line about the movth will relax '
?the cloud of settled gloom will vanish
nobody knows where, and the first
thing you know,you will be laughing! '
Ah. what blessings are these happy J
women ! How o!ten their little hands !
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gUHIH Hit; puuuci UU.1 uwtmuv v< > ?)
with almost an invisible touch ! How
we look forward through the weary day 1
to their Gresido smiles ! No one knows, '
no one will ever know until the day of
judgement reveals, how muoh we owe
to these helpful, hopeful, uncompl&in- ,
ing, happy women !
Rich Without Money,
Many a man is rich without money. ,
Thousands of men with nothing in their
pockets, and thousands without even a
pocket, arc rich. A man born with a
good sound constitution, a good stomach,
a good heart, and good limbs and a
pretty good headpiece, is rich. Good
bones are better than gold; tough muscles
than silver; aud nerves that Gash
fire and carry energy to every function,
are belter than houses and lund. It is
better than a landed estate to have the
right kind of u father and mother.
Good breeds and bad breeds exist atnoug
men as really as among herds and horses
Kducatiou may do much to check
ovil tendencies or to develop good ones;
but it is a great thing to ioltliit the
right* proportion of faculties to start
with. The man is rich who has a good
disposition?-who is naturally kind, patient,
cheerful, hepoful, and who has
a flavor of wit and fuu in his composition.
Tlio hardest thing to get on with in
this life is a man's own self. A cross,
selfish fellow?a desponding and complaining
fellow?a timid and care bur*
dened man?these are all born deformed
on the insido. They do not limp, but
their thoughts do.
A Hunter's Prayer.
An Arkansag mnn was out hunting,
and having fired away all of his ammu*
nit ion but one charge, he espied a large
bear coming. Knowing thut it would
Co hard with him if ho missed, ha took
deliberate aim nnd fired, but did not hit
the bear. Iu this position, not knowing
what to do, he bethought himself of
prayer, and ho commenced; " Oh, Lord,
I've never asked anything of you before,
and if you'll ooly help me out of
this scrape I'll never troublo you again;
now, do help me this once. I know
I've been an awful sinner; I've fought
and drank, aud lied and cursed; but if
I've been so wicked that you can't help
roe, oh, lord, don't help the bear; just
hold off and keep dark, and I'll show
you the d?cleat bear fight that you
em beheld."
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The Curiosity of a Fly.
Talk about the curiosity of a woman 1
We will back a lly agaiost any woman.
Just watch him as he traverses a bald
rum's crr-oiiim, halts on the eyelid, and J
taking a curii?s?ty dance around him,
WRltzcs over the end ol the nose, peeps
up one postril, and having satisSed hia
curiosoty there, curvcrttes over the other
lip and takes a planco up the other.
With a satisfactory smile at hauiog seen
all there is to be seen there he makes a
bee-line for his chin, stopping a moment
to explore the cavity formed by
the closed lips. Arriving at tbo chin,
he takes a notion to creep down under
the shirt collar, but suddenly hesitating
ho turns around as if ho had forgotten
something, and proceeds to an explora*
tion of tho care. This cancludod, he
carries oat his original intention, and
disappear between the neck and shirt
collar, emerging; after a lapse ef some
minutes, with on air seemiug to say he
performed his duty. What matters the
frantic attempts to catch him, the enraged
gestures, and profane language?
They disturb his equanamity not a moment.
Driven from one spot he alights
on another; be has got a duty to perform
and be docs it.
A Mean Man.
j V
Some gentleman were talking about
ifteanness, yesterday, writes "Elf Per*
kins," when one said he knew a man oa
Lexington avenue who wafrthe meanest
man in New York.
"Row mean is that?" I asked.
"Why, Eli," he said, "be is so mean
that he keeps a five cent piece with a
string tied to it to give to beggars, and
then when their backs are turned he Wjj
jerks it out of their pockets.
"Why, this man is so confounded
mean," continued the gentleman, "that
be gives his children ten cents apisoe
every night for going to bed without
their supper, but daring the night, ./
when they were asleep, he went up
stairs, took the money out of their
clothes, and then whipped them in the
morning f?r losing it I"
"Does he do anything else ?"
"Yos, the other day I dined with
him and I notiocd the poor little servant
eirl whistled all the way np staus with
the desert, and when I asked the* mesa
rtlil scamn what made her whistle BO
happily, kflMid:
"Why,'Keen her whistling so she
can't eat the raisios oat of the cake."
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Be Bootable.
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Men who isolate themselves from society,
and have no near and dear family
tics, are the most nnconfortable of ha* (
man beings. Byrou says that "happi- j
doss is born a twin," bat tho phrase, /
though pretty and poetio, doos not go
far enough. We are too gregarious,
and arc intended to march through life
either in single or double file. The man ^
who cares fur nobody, for whom nobody
cares, has little to live for. You must
have a heap of embers to make a glowing
fire. Scatter them apart, and they
will become dr? and cold. So to have
a brisk, vigorous life, you most have a : Vj
group of lives to keep each other warm, to
afford mental encouragement, confidence
md support. If you wish to liva the
life of a man, and not of a fungus, be
lociablc, be brotherly, bo charitable, bo
sympathetic, and labor earnestly and
patiently for the good of your kind.
Singular Story of a Woatel.
The following story was told to us as
being a positive fact, the narrator pro?
fessing to be one of the workmen who
witnessed the performance of tho said
weasol: A party of men were prying
stone in a field, and found under a largo
rock a nest containing four yoong weasels,
which they captured and put to
aro ai^a TTrmn fliA rat n vn aT thft aM
\j iiu diuoi vpvu miv i ovyi 11 ui ?n\ viu
weasel, quite a scene ensued' She became
very excited and angry, and at
unce set off, but soon returned, and going
to the little pail containing the
drinking water for the men, she spit
something in it, and was about to go off
a second time, when she discovered her
nest and her young, all alive and unharmed.
She immediately vetutnod to
the pail, and continued jumpiug and
pushing at it until it was overturned,
thus saving the lives of the men she
evidently meant to punish for the do*
atruction of her offspring.
The Snow Prayer.
A little girl went out to play one day
in the fresh, new snow, and, when ah*
came in, she said :
'Mamma, I couldn't help praying
when 1 was out at play."
i "What did you pray for, my dear/'
asked her mother.
"I prayed Jthc Snow Prayer, mamma,
that i beard id the baudsy school.
"The Snow Prayer I what do you
mean, little one ?"
"I mean that beautiful Snow Prayer,
in the Bible, mamma; you know it,
"Wash mo, and I shall be whiter than
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Women are formed for attachment. _
Their gratitude is unimpeachable. Their
lore is an unceasing fountain of delight
to the man who has once attained and
knows how to deeeree it.
Fame is like a shaved pig with a
greased tail, and it only after it baa
slipped through the haods of some
thousands, that some fellow by good
luck holds on to it.
A physician advertised that at the
request of bis friends, he had removed *\ ^^B
near the ohurck yard, and truatod that ^ ... .
his removal would aooommodate man/ dH
of his pstieota. We doubt of it.