The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-13


their heavy skirts over the hills and nountai
of his life; cares and sorrows lashedt their b,
dens on his shoulders; trials and yicisitud
assailed him; but amid them all he had Ike
his hope, and now, ere the middle watch "
passed, the angels had set their seal upon hi
and dropped upon his brow the wreath of t.
umph The gloom was gone forever; and
he stood with bis feet secure, the sunshn
from the eden hills" fell around him, al
far out in the valley of the future be saw h
"fadeless laurel trees" within whose shat
- his Arnnins dar.Ps oh o..ld obb away, softly ar
gently as the dream of heaven.
"Hope on--hope eyer!' this is the true ph
losophy. If life is chilled by passing woe,
dimmed by care hope is a song bird in 20,
heart, breathing hymns continually. Whe
Alexander, as he was about to undertake h
expedition against Persia, distributed the fin
estates of his crown among his countrymen, h
was asked what be had reserved for himself
He answered, "Hope!" So every soldier i
life's battlefield should reserve his hope, 70
it shall lead him on, no matter whaf opposes
to fame and conquest
Brother, give up all else you have, if yo'
will but, like Alexander, keep your hope,
A good story is told of a doctor in Beverley
day in the street sexton, with whom he was
acquainted. As the usual salutatons were
passed, the doctor happened to cough.
1t is a striking and significant fact, which
has been strangely overlooked by thdologians
and utterly ignored by creed-mongers, that
throughout the bible, there is but one defna-
ton of religion. 1t is in these words: "Pure
religion and undefled before God and the Fa-
ther is this: to visit the fatherless anA widows
In their affilcion, and to keep himself unspot-
ted from the world. flames 1: &c.
How easy to be neat! to be cleahl How
easy to arrange the rooms with the most grace
full propriety! How easy it is to invest our
houses with the truest elegance! Elegance re-
sides not with the upholsterer or the draper; it
Is not in the mosaics, the carpeting, The rose
wood, the mahogany; it exists in the spirit
presiding over the chambers of the dwelling.
Contentment must always be most graceful it
sheds serenity over the scene of its abode; it
transforms waste into garden. The home
lighted by these limitations of nobler and
brighter life may be wanting in much the dis
contented desire; but to its inhabitants it will
be palace, far outvieing the oriental in bril-
liancy and glory.
Napoleon is said to have remarked of ply
slclans, whom he found to be materalsts:-
They do not believe man has a soul because
they cannot find it with a dissectng knife"
why, DOCTOR" said the sexton, 'Eou have
got cold. How long have you had that"
'Look here, Mr.. - said the doctor, with
show of Indignation, "what is your charge for
interments?"
"Nine sbillings," was the reply.
"Wel, continued the doctor, Gust come
into my office and I will pay it. I don't want
you to be so anxious about my health"
The sexton was soon even with him how
ever. Turning to the doctor, he replied:
"Ah, doctor, / cannot afford to bury you
yet. Business has never been SO good as it
has since you began to practice"
Since the above conversation, neither party {
has ventured to joke at the expense Of the
other.
There are certain exciting epochs in wo-
mans life that are never forgotten; such as,
Tor lnstance--the first time she carries para
sol, the first time she receives valentine, the
hrst time she goes an evening party, the first
time she wears velvet dress, and the first t
time she puts On the wedding ring. I
For unauthorized economy, commend us to S
the German. Give him salary of 40 cents t
per diem, and in ten years he will own q
brick block, fat horse, nine children, and
Frow broader than she is long, and rs good r
natured as blind kitten. a
The celebrated author of Lacon sells the t
following: once heard gentleman! make g
very witty reply to one who asserted that he s
lid not believe there was truly honest man a
n the world. "Sir," said he, 'sit is quite i'm q
possible that any one man should know all the S
world; but It is very possible that spme one il
nan may know himself" I
"Slocum, how is it to-day-can you take il
hat note up?" "I'm sorry to saw I can't: $
never was so cramped in my lfe" sBy the c
way, you are always cramped, are YOU not?" d
I'm sorry to say am; and yet there is
atural cause for it." "What is that?':t "Wbv. v
was weaned on green apples and water-me a
ons." =
tie chat embarks on the voyage of life will a
lways wish to advance, rather by the impulse d
i the wind than the strokes of the car; and IL
nany founder in their passage, while; WAITING "
or the gale. 6,
here ne ,eliow' hold this horse" "Does he tc
iek?' "Kick! no; take hold of him. Does Y,
9 bite?' "Blte! no, take hold of thu. bride. n
say "Does take two to hold him?'1 mol" til
Then hold him YOURSELF
One of our exchanges tells Of man who 81
'ent to Virginia to get his growth, And who
as become so tall that hot soup freezes he.
re it gets down into his stomach. of
II small boy be called a lad, is il proper til
} call bigger boy a ladder? &C
The feathered songsters are cottager's mu. Sc
{, and flowers the poor mans poetry. W
A correspondent of the Intelligetscer at pl
nded the African church in Atlanta, tIeorgia. hs
i Sunday Of last week. and in giving an &C. W
,unt of what he saw there says: M
1.-THE preacher compared the world 10 spi- st,
er's web, and the spider he compared to the w,
vii. He warned the niggers to look before he
put his 1901 down. SAID ne, fly light on
. web, one foot fass-he put down did udder, th
It fass-he lay down to prize himself out. he H
ng fass-den de debil come and git Him. At of
is point good old negro woman respond tn
!, sUh, uh, Lord, dat de way the tsebil cit ca
n all" or
The Buffalo Democrat considers the cholera "a
W one of the institutions Of the country, -
Ike our inalienable right to elect kriaves to re-
ice, to blow up steamboats,. and to build 70
nkrupt railroads" The statistics Of cholera ais q