The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-01
1t is easy to talk-itis hard to do. We can
all nf ne talk hut can re all do BENJAMIN.

! cant, between the two. He or she who tall
the most, as the world goes, does the leas
Either is exhausting-and as contrastlve in NJ
ture as in position. The man who starts o
slap-dash and puts his hands and head squar
upon the shoulders and hips of things, is tn
doer 1t is he who rules the world, whethe
its circle be the neighborhood of his locality
the city, State or nation. He who dallies-
!, talks-and talks and dallies-never does els
of consequence. His hands have no power 0
grasp; his brains no pluck and energy, Hell
the talker.
d We like the doer. He is the man, or sh.
e the woman for US. Talk may have its place
S but it never yet of itself made pin, lifted {
a brick, weaved fabric, or germed useful
!, solid thought There is as much difference
S between the two, as between a gingerbread
, horse at the bakers, and a bold PAGER at the
race course.
In ancient times, the nations who were the
most polished, the most civilized and the most
skillful in the fine arts, were passionately fond
of red hair. The Gauls, the ancestors of the
modern French, had the same preference, al
i though that color is now held in disrepute bv
their descendants, who like black hair. A taste
for red hair, however, still exists in extensive
regions. The Turks, for example, are fond of
women who have red hair, while the modern
Persians have strong aversion to it. The in
habitants of Trpoj, who probably learned it
from the Turks, gave their hair red tinge by
the aid of vermilion. The women of Scinde
and Ocean, are fond of dyeng their hair red
and yellow, as the Romans did, in imitation
of German hair. There is among Europeans
generally a strong dislike to red hair; but in
Spain, red hair is admired almost to alteration,
and there is story told of one of our naval
commanders who luxuriated in fiery locks, be-
ing idozed, and earessed by the Spanish la
dies, and looked upon as perfect Adonis.
DIR. Rush tells us when he was called upon
to attend on their death-beds, aged Swedes,
who for 40 SO and 60 years had lost the use
of their native tongue, the long suspended fa-
Guilty would be recalled in approaching death,
and they would talk, pray and sing in Swedish
DR.. johnson also, when it came his turn to
die, spoke not in the march of his own males |
lie rhetoric-passed by even the cadences of
hose Latin hymns in which he had once SO
much loved to dwell-but was heard with bis e
sinking voice muttering child's prayer which f
le had learned on his mothers knee Strange
indeed, is the Providence, and yet SO wisely =
Illustrative of the absence of time as an ele- G
nent in the divine economy, which thus brings c
ogether the two extreme points in human his
ory-birth and death! OF OF
There is, at present. good business doing II II
4 hardware in this city. One of our merchants, in
Tho has an eye to the interests of the trade, pa
as invented new mode of catching black
sh, viz: with steel trap. It has proved so re
lccessful an operation thataall our fishermen F.
e providing themselves with steel traps; and Fo
re demand for that article is now greater than 30
e supply! The instrument used is of the old w
shioned sort, with iron teeth closing togeth- ~,
The modus tperandi is decidedly unique -
re trap is set and baited, properly provided cep
th sinker and let down into the water An in t
linous click below denotes the amusement at aw;
nd; the fish attempts to steal the bait, but ~ -
the trap steals the fish, when, NM q
sto! be is drawn up to the surface-often No
ee at time, and at the rate of one every disr
lutte! The of-fsh-ial returns for one DAYS E
# are renortad of sbova ono h,,droJ ~ perl
IRE is Isaak Walton? a anJ
thousands of men breathe, move, and live a BIO
ass of the stage of life, and are heard of no E
e. Why? None were blessed by them; on @, t
Po'n' " 'Ae,n Dc TIC n'eahs Vi thelt Chr
mptlon; not line they wrote, not word R
spoke could be recalled, and so they per- with
d; their light went out in darkness, and the
were not remembered more than the in !, n
yesterday. Will you thus live and die, s s,i
man immortal! Live for Something Do his t
|, and leave behind you monument of A,
lie that the storms of time ca1tnot destroy. be ae
e your name by kindness, love and mercy, ass u
lie hearts Of the thousands you come in p'i Al
act with year by year, and you will never parel
orgotton. No; your name, your deeds,
be as legible On the hearts you leave be- *
as the stars on the brow of evening. s sn5n
It deeds will shine as brightly on the earth Al
e stars of heaven. -
re pains we spend upon our mortal selves
perish with ourselves; but the care we give
VI good heart to others-the efforts of Ut
terested duty, the deeds and thoughts of IA
atfectlon--are never lost; they are liable toms
waste, and are like force that propoeates y
en- changing itself but not losing its in ana
ty. In short, there is a sense in which no. sToy
human dies; nothing, at least, which pro- drink
from the higher and characteristic part awful
ans nature: nothinr which ba doas &c use o
ct of Gods ,,o.,l IT, .f.:I who
.,o d;.oelItI 1""'o,iai e'i'c- comm
one; but mind partakes of the eternity of tons
i's'' "leHC opiflt, ana thoughts, truths, IoilP
ons, once given to the world, are never s slad
They exist as truly, and perform their du f ;"u
S actively, thousand years after their comp
l, as on the day of their BIRTH it is n
lie of the great secrets of health is light tn the m
'r and yet it is great self-denial, when fuas
hungry and tired at the close of the day, We
little or nothing. Let such one take tains
rely single cup of tea and piece of cold the LIE
with butter and he will leave the table nd1
~ pleased with himself and the world, as the no
had eaten hearty meal, and be tenfold Lethif
Tor 1t the next morning. Take any two last 70
onder similar circumstances, strong, hard :, Jose
ing men, of twenty-five years; let one IAN lanes
his bread and butter with a CUP of tea. G r
the other hearty meal of meat. bread. Hyam
pes, and the ordinary ct ceteras. as the Kelso,
zeal of the day, and I will venture to af- ton,
that the tea drnker will outve the otbe, an ex
years. ~ ~
none pause in the pursuit of good; let Crane,
pause IN the work of reparaton; they who genera
life to-day may be in death tomorrow, 0. Wi Wi
is no repentance in the grave; no pray Ra aul
praise in the silent tomb. Of nthe