The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-11-09
About Drink.

When woman is universally ackrowl-
ed to be the weaker vessel, how is it she
gets through without any Intoxicating
drink? and how is it that she can bear.
the deepest sorrow the world may bring
her without one narrowing thought in
liquor9 With the god-like portion of hui
manity it is generally the reverse. Is
Adonis tilted by his Prosperine, away no
flies to the nearest grocery to drown his
blightcd hopes in sng of whiskey.-
Is the speculation in which Smith invest
ed his whole fortune, failure, off he
rushes in the footsteps of Adonis-carc
less of the sorrow of Mrs. and the little
Smiths, so that he succeeds in Supplying
his own chagrin. Does q cloud arise in
the domestic sky of Brown, and tempest
arise from the depths of the teapot =,
bang goes the hall door, and he goes
down the street to euchre and mellow
horns, leaving Mrs. Brown to q whole
day for reflection" Does the world 20
amiss with Jones docs he fail in getting
situation, and succeed in getting dun
from bis landlord, he takes to drinking,
poor fellow, and there's an end of him.
And SO on through the whole list of
Browns and Smiths and Joneses. They
have no pluck! Take the fortitude and
energy out of hundred such hearts and
you will find it excelled by that of one
moor SAVING pir1 -.
Cnoilc IN HoRsAS will give you a
recipe which have kl ,own TO cure in IA
few minutes. knew 4 horse taken with
i. on tread wheel to carding machine,
so that the owner thought he could not
live. lie got the veterinary surgeons,
and they did what they could, and all de-
cided that the horse must die. The mans
wife, who believed and practiccd hygiene,
from the time the horse was taken tried
to persuade her husband to use a wet
bandage, but he insisted it would do no
good. After all had given up that the
horse could rot live, by her entreaties-
| the doctors saying 1t could do no good or
| hurt-he took n thick bed comforter,
bound it around the horse, went to the
well and drew water, and poured it or
! till thoroughly soaked. 1t seemed like Il
! pot boiling. In less than fifteen minutes
from the time he commenced the water
| ing process, the the horse was up and
eating, to the great surprise of the horse
| doctors, who knew it could not live. The
horse did good service afterwards. This
recipe gave several years ago. and it was
copied into most--as was told by an ed.
itor--of the agricultural, and many of the
other papers in the United States. Many
have tried and proved it. Try it, brother
! farmcrs.-Eamtr'S AdrocatG
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.-Hon. George Ban
croft once delivered an address before the
New York Historical Society, in which
he said:
mot the half of Franklin's merits have
been told. lie was the Father of the
American Union. IL was he who went
forth to lay the foundation of that great
design at Albany; and in New York he
| lifted up his voice. Here among us he
appeared as the Apostle of the Union
1t was Franklin who suggested the Con-
grcss of lI14; and but for his wisdom,
and the confidence that wisdom inspired
it is a matter of doubt whether that Con-
gress would have taken effect. 1t was
Franklin who suggested the bond of this
| Union which binds these States from
Florida to Maize. Franklin was the
| greatest diplons,list oi' the eighteenth
century. He never spoke a word too
soon; he never spGl =, word too late +;
he never spoke a word too much; he
never failed to speak the right word at
the right season."