The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-03-28
VOLUME l.---NUMBE

A Br2Ur1F1l EXTRACT THE following
is from q lecture delivered some fifteen
years ago, by Rev. John N. Mafit
aPhenix, fabled bird of antiquity, when
it felt the chill advances of age, built its
own funeral urn, and fred its pyre by
means which Natures instinct taught it.
All plumage, and its form Of beauty
became ashes; but ever would rise the
young-beautiful from the urn of death :
and chambers Of decay would the hedgg-
ling come, with its eyes turned toward
the sun, and essaying its dark velvet
wings, sprinkled with gold and fringed
with silver, on the baimy air, raising
little higher, until at length, in the full
confidence of fight, it gives q cry OF. JOY,
and soon becomes a glittering speck in
the deep bosom of arial. ocean. Lovely
voyager of earth, bound on its heaven
ward journey to the sun
So rises the spirit from the. ruins Of the
body, the funeral urn which its Maker
built. and death frees. So towers away
to its home; in the pure elements Of spir-
ituaity, the intellect Phoenix, TO dip its
proud wings in the fountain Of eyerlast-
ing bliss. -
So shall dear, precious humanity sur
vive from the ashes Of burning world.
So beautiful shall the unchanged soag
within the disc of Etcrnity's great lumiqss
ary with undazzled eye and unscorchea
wings-the Phoenix of imnortality-tss
ken to its rainbow. home ard Graded On
the beating bosom of Eternal Love."1l
How TO BREAK BAD HAB1Ts.-Under-s
stand clearly the reasons, and all the rea-
sons, why the habit is injurious. Study
the subject till there is no lingering doubt
in your mind.
Avoid the places, the persons, the
thoughts that lead to temptation.
Frequent the places, associate with the
persons, indulge in the thoughts, that
lead away from temptation.
Keep busy. Idleness is the strength of
bad habiss.
Do not give up the struggle when you
have broken your resolution once, or
thousand times. That only shows how
much more need there is for you to
strive.
When you have broken your resolution,
lust think the matter over, and endeayor
to understand why it was you failed, 90
that you may be on youl. guard against
a reoccurrences of the same circumstance
MEMoRANDuM.-The New York, Ea;
press gives the following:
con the Ist Of February, 1850, Senator
Hale, of New Hampshire, presented two
petitions from Isaac Jefries and other
citizens of Pennsylvania, and John I.
Woodward and others, praying that asome
plan might be devised for tie dissolution
of the american Union"
This petition received three. votes
John P. Hale, of New Hampshire; VII
liam II. Seward, of New York, Salmon P.
Chase, Of Ohio. The two lastare cabinet
officers.
Flower stems should always be cut
with a knife, and never with scissors, as
the tubes wilInot draw upthe water if
they are bruised and laeerated ana partly
closed Two or three drops of camphor
in every ounce of milk-warm water, will
often restore faded flowers, as it does q
fainting person.
A man whom DR.. Johnson once reprov-
ed for following useless and demoralizing
business, said:
"You know, doctor, that must live
The brave old haterof everything mean
and hateful, coolly replied that he did not
"see the least necessity sor that"
How brightly do little joys beam upon
a soul which stands on ground darllen-
ed by clouds of sorrow! So do stars come
forth from an empty slSy, when we look up
to them from deep well.
PRETTY FAsH1oN.-A new fashion in Ia
dies stockings has come out in England.
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