The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-05-30

| The creditor wants i. He wants II today
t1e perhaps is poor. His family possibly
need bread or clorhing and would suffer II
they have them not lie has depended on
the sum due him. He has made promises
whose iuflmerl must be contingent upon
! its reception. He goes to you and asks you
for it. You have not thought of it. You
have made no provision for its payment, or
having tie money you wish TO appropriate
it 10 other purposes, and YOU coolly reply
to the request. "calI again." And he per-
haps calls again. and your second reply is
"call again" And what right have you to
tell him 10 call again. You owe the debit
and It is due, md why should you not
nav it? What right have you to put him
off? "You diln't think of i,"-but why
didn't YOU think of it? 1t isyour duty to
think of it. No man has rig hi 10 contract
deb, and then forget it, He who has
waited for you will not forget it. it you do.
He will remember it, His hungry vile
and children will require him to do So
And now we ask why he should call again!
lfyou owe him and cannot or will not pay
him, we think it is you and not ne that
should call. You should 90 to him and
not summon him to come 10 you. We
used 10 hear great deal about the poor
debtor, but our experience has led us to
think and talk good deal more ab~1 the
poo. creditor. Our sympa'hies, we must
confess, are considerably absorbed in the
woes of the creditor. To owe is bad
enough now and ever, but TO get what Is
owed you is worse.
II were far better for all men that swe to
take the initia,ive--to 90 and pay promptly;
bat if they must be called upon. let them
no, be ever repeating that heart-sickenlng
response, CALI AGAIN.-Lew isto,cn Jour.
TIE SALT LAKE.-Lieut. Gunnison, OF
the Typographical Engineers. who has
been employed for long time past in the
survey of the Great Basin in which the
Salt Lake is situated, speaks OF the Lake
as an object of the greatest curiosity. The
water is about one-,hird salt. yielding
that amount on boiling It's density is con-
sideraby greater than that of the Dead Sea
One can hardly get his body below the sur
lace. In sitting position the head and
shoulders will remain above water. such is
the strength of the brine, and on coming to
the shore the body IS covered over with an
incrusation of salt, in fine crystals. The
most surprising thing about it is the Tact
that during the summer season the lake
throws on shore abundance Of salt. while
in the winter season it throws up slauber
salt in large quantities. The reason oi
this is left to the scientific TO judge, and
also wha, becomes or the enormous amount
of fresh water poured into it by three or
four large rivers-Jordan, Bear, and WEBB
er-as there is no visible oullet.-Bugalo
Com. .1dv.
Place basin of cold water beside your
bed. When you wake in the morning,
din your hands in the basin, and sleep Will
not again seal your ,reacherous embrace.
This is the advice Of an aged clergyman,
who had been in the habit Of rising early
during a long life.
A Coon ONE.-The Boston Post says
that correspondent from Ma'behead
writes that the only bell that was tol'ed In
that town upon tine announcement OF Inc
depsrtu-o Of Sims, belonged 10 a church
that has clause in its deed prohibiting ne
eroes from holding pews in it.
THE UNION SoLD.-Mrs. Partington. OF
being told that Mr.. Richie had sold "Ih'
Uoicn," excla lined, ALAS! uln>! l feare'
he would do something awful when hear'
!, that Congress had detected the bill to iden
,itv him wonder if he sod TIE people
with it, and if have got to become n'gge
slave. !fso, I shall emulate TO the Soutl
where they know how to treat the poor crit
ters." And Mrs. Parlineion sighed deeply
took up her knitting anj said no more.
The following is copy of the sign upo'
an academy for teaching youth, in one
the Western States: "Frecman and Huggs
School Teachers. Freeman teaches the boy
and Huggs the girls.
The Locofoco presses are abusing the
Wing party because fifty three millions o'
dollars was appropriated by the late Con-
gress for deiraving the expenses ol the
Government. They had better remember
that the late Congress was, in both oil It's
branches Locofoco Congress; and that, II
il was guilty OF the crime of making unne.
cessary and was,eiui appropriations OF the
public money, the people will probably see
the proprisiy Of not electing another Loco
foco Congress during the present genera
tion.-Lou. Jour.
Always speak the truth. BY doing 'h's'
your chance Of a broken head and an early