Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-08-19
How Much do you Pity Him

When misfortune brings one low.
all are more ready to sympathize
than assist.
a poor man was crossing a decay
ed bridge, when il broke. His horse
and cart were lost in the food be-
low, and he barely escaped with his
life. They were all he had to earn
a living, all he possessed, and now
they were gone. Poor man-he
stood looking at the place where the
accident occurred, not knowing
what to do. As is usual a crowd
gathered round lamenting the loss,
several wealthy men. among them.
y Frenchman stood by saying moth
ing, but listening to the rest.
Turning round suddenly to the man
beside him, who was famed for his
miserable character, he said:
"llow much do you pity this
MANI"
''Indeed, sir pity him very
| much"
"That is not what mean. pity
this man twenty dollars-how much
do you pity him!"
This is something new. "Why-
IL"
''No excuse-you pity him much
you pity him twenty dollars?"
The old Iniser was obliged TO give
in and lay down the money. Thus
he went round, getting the amount
of heir pity in dollars and cents.
Before night tn poor man was dri-
wing new horse and cart-that was
the right kind of pity.
BRAIN Persons who
talk do not always think most.
| question whether persons who think
most-that is, have most conscious
thought pass through their minds
necessarily do most mental work.
''Be aye sticking in a tree, Jock, it
will be growing when you are sleep
ing" So with every new idea that
| is planted in thinkers mind. 1t
will be growing when he is sleeping.
| An idea in the brain is not legend
carved on a marble slab; it is an i'm
preston made on a living tissue
which is the seat of active nutritive
processes. Shall the initials l carv-
ed in bark grow from year to year
with the tree! and shall not my re-
corder thought grow into new forms
| and relations with my growing
brain? Daniel Webster told one of
| the greatest scholars, that he had
to change the size lof his hat every
| four years. His head grew large as
| his intellect expanded. Illustrations
Of this same fact were shown me by
famous phrenologist in London.
But organic mental changes may
| take place in shorter spaces of time.
\ single night of sleep has often
brought a sober second thought
which was a surprise to a hasty
! aannIusian .af- -tlSa, ,ls.z-l==z.====-
How Daniel webster Prepared his
Speeches.
In one of the debates in Congress,
which suddenly called Daniel Web
ster to his feet, he made brief but
most eloquent speech, apparently
without any opportunity for pre-
vious preparation. In the course of
his remarks, he threw out the follow
| ing sentence, which has ever since
| been admired as one of the most
harmonious and expressive in the
English language. lie was speaking
of our military conflict with Great
| Britain: ''Our fathers raised their
flag against a power to which, for
purposes of foreign conquest and
subiugation, Rome, in the hight of
| her glory, is not to be compared; a
power which has dotted over the
whole globe with her possessions
and her military posts, whose morn
ing drum-beat, following the sun in
its course and keeping pace with
the hours, circles the earth with one
continuous and unbroken strain OF
martial airs of England" AS he sat
down one of the Senators congratu-
lated him upon his speech, and al
luding to the above passage, said
that TO him it was inconceivable
how Mr.. Webster in a speech so
manifestly unpremeditated, could
have formed so perfect and so beau
tiful a sentence, which with hours
of study, he could not improve
Mr.. Webster replied that the pas
sage was not Xtemporancous; thai
in his summer vacation he had visit
ed Quebec, and while standing OF
the massive and almost impregna
BILE citadel there looking out upOI
the wonderous scene, of nationa
grandeur and of natures lovelines
spread before him, the idea occur
ed to his mind. He immediatel,
, took his seat upon gun, and will
. pencil and paper, sketched tn
/, thought in the most appropriate
, language he could at the momen
command. Upon arriving at hi
: hotel he set down at his leisure
! | and wrote it and rewrote ii, wit
many interlineations and erasure
I. | until he had moulded it into tn
: form ofwords which satisfied him
He then laid it aside in his retentiv
: memory, TO be used when the occa
: sion should offer. The Opportuni
= ty arose on that day.
4 COOP RULE.-Rev. DIR. William
Wisner, of Ithaca, New York, use
Z great plainness of speech in preach