Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1841-01-09
NO. 8.
From the Philadelphia Sentinel.

SIldll always NC Hhbob6 10y Al
sy to see that society is or may DC the
gamer by their presence. u Is not
well to consider them tax and a bur
den. for while they consume tllhe Oh
our super1uities they create occasions
for the exercise offeelings and conduct,
which are of more value TO us than our
donation can be to them. There is a
beautiful philosophy in that axiom Of
the Saviour that il is more blessed TO
give than to receive, and whoever SUBJ
iects it to experiment finds his sweetest
pleasures springing from sympathlzing
Communion with the miserable; and
that while the poor man needs our gen.
tie mercies to feed and warm him, not
less do we need his necessities 10 keep
our hearts unfrozen and joyful.
The season has arrived when the
poor demand special considerations
We advise our readers to remember
them. 1t lis good to give. It's better
TO give to unworthy and bad people
than not to give at all. The charities
of God are all 10 bad people, at any
rate to people who are no better than
they should be and we should not
rake out our fellow creatures faults
when they are lank for food and shiv-
ering amid pitiless elements.
It's well to have on hand in the be.
ginning of the season nice store OF
little frocks, (woolen are best, both be-
cause they are warmer and do not take
fire so readily, stockings and such like,
for the young Of poor people. 1t is
well to talk about the poor at your Ia
bles and firesides, especially when the
weather is stormy and very cold; and
encourage the youngsters to lay up
little for the needy, and never to laugh
at the poor, the deformed and the Grip
pied.
"Tis little thing
To give n cup Of winter yet its draught
OF cool refreshmeni drain'd by feved lPs'
| Nav send shock Of pleasure 10 the soul
Moro exquiste than when nectareanJulco
Renews the life of Joy in happiest hours.
IT'S little thing to speak some common wofd
| or comfort which hnth lcst its use;
Yet on the ear OF him who thought to die un-
| mOuTIlCu
| Twill fall like choicest music.
4 FEVER AND AGuE.-The editor OF
the Champion of Democracy thus "lets
out" We do not envey the man his
aguc but we are not sorry he has it.
1t shakes a capital article out Of
him.
"We can shake hands with an earth.
quake, crack jokes with tarnado,
dance on the top of a volcano, out
laugh a thunder storm, whistle 'the
wind out Of countenance, drive hurri.
cane tandem, catch whales in the Mal.
stroom and boilihemin the crater Of
Vesuvius; we canlxiss 4 pretty woman
land laugh when II feel our cheek tin
gle under the inflsction of her delicate
hand-but we cannot write editorials,
when our ague fit is threatening to
to make ten thousand little stars from
the fragments Of this world OH which
we live.
All that we mean to say is, that
IMAM can't expect to do much, when
he is alternating between those agreea-
bic states Of heat and cold; wherein
consist the beauty of fever and ague.
Some old philosophers were ofopinion
that the wicked would be punished
hereafter by being first par-boiled and
then cast into anice bath; and this pro-
cess was to be continually repeated.
Only think Of it, q whole eternity OF
fever and ague!
| A poei once said "variety's the spice
Iofllfe that lends existence habits zest;'
but the poet, although he was good at
theory, knew nothing at all ofpractice.
Hot and cold, cold and hot, there's va
riety-'no specie aboutit, unless quinine
comes under that genus; and so far
from, "lending existence" TO any thing
IT knocks man into nonentity, much
quicker than railroad could.
Conlound the fever and ague
Hold on! we take that back Spoke
TOO late, by George! Here it comes
with kind Of sh-a-a-a-a-k-ing, and La
sh, sh, shi-vering, and hu, hu, hui
hudlIngs and a, a,a-ho, Lordf
STOP THAT BALL.-There is German
performer at the circus in Philadelphia
whom the Spirit Of the Times represents
US most extraordinary person. He 10
perfect Hercules, and handles huge
Dali, weighing over hundred weight,
with as much ease and Cexterity as no
would Juvenile potato. He filings this
iieavy ball into the air, and, extraordinary
as 4 may seem, catches il upon the back
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