Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-24
SUNDRIES.

RICHEs-Thc more experience VIC
have of the world, the more that exc
perience should show us how little is
in the power of riches; for what
indeed truly desirable can they
estoW upon us? Can they give
beauty to the deformed, strength
to the weak, or health to the infirm ?
Surely II they could, we should not
see so many Ill favored faces haunt
ing the assemblies of the great nor
would such number of feeble wretch
es languish in their coaches and pal
aces? Can they prolong their own
possession, or lengthen his days who
enjoys them? So far otherwise, that
the sloth, the luxury which attend
them, shorten the lives of millions,
and bring them with pain and misery
to an untimely grave. Where then
10 their valne, If they can neither
embellish nor strengthen our forms,
sweeten nor prolong our lives /!
Again, can they adorn the mind
more than the body2 Do they not
rather swell the heart with vanity,
puff of the checks with pride, shut
our ears TO every call Of virtue, and
our bowels to every motive of pas.
sion,-Eelling.
BRAIN GRowTH-Persons who talk
do not always think most. Iquestion
whether persons who think most
that is, have most conscious thought
pass through their ninds-necessari-
ly do most mental work. "Be aye
sticking In a tree, Jock, it will be
growing when you are sleeping"
So with every new idea that is
planted in O thinkers mind. 1t will
be growing when he is sleeping. An
idea in the brain Is not a legend
carved on q marble slab; it is an i'm
preston made on a living tissue
which Is the seat Of active nutritiye
processes. Shall the initials | carved
in bark grow from year to year with
the tree! And Shall not my recorded
thought grow into new forms and
relations with my growing brain?
Daniel Webster told one Of tAe
greatest scholars, that he had to
change the size of his hat every four
years. His head grew large as his
intellect expanded. Illustrations of
this same fact we're shown me by
famous phrenologist in London,
But organic mental changes may take
place in shorter spaces of time. A
single night of sleep has often
brought q sober second thought
which was a surprise to hasty con-
c.usion ofthe before,-O. ". Holmes.
TIE WISE MAN-Tbe learned man
is only useful to the learned; the
wise man is equally useful to the
wise and the simple, The merely
learned man has not elevated his mind
above that Of the others; his judge
ments are not more penetrating--his
remarks not moro delicate, nor his
actions moro beautiful than those of
others. 1t is wholly different with
the wise man; he moves far above
the common level; he observes
everything from a different point of
view. In his employment there is
always an aim, in his views always
freedom, and all with him is above
the common level.
The BEAUTIFUL. - Perception of
beauty Ia one of the most decided
characteristics by which man is dis
tinguished from the brute. We dis
cover no symptoms of admiration
in animals OF a lower grade than
ourselves. The peacock excites no de-
ference from the splcndor of his plu-
mage, nor the swan her snow-white
feathers; and the yerdant fields, in
her summer bloom, attract no more
than as their fiowery sheets allure
the insect tribe, who in their turn
are followed by their foes. To man
alone belongs the prerogativc of ap.
preciating beauty, because admiration
is graciously designed as the means
Of leading him on to moral excel
lencc,
PRAY m YoUE FAMILY.-Says Rev.
Norman Mcleod;
"I shall never forget the impress
sion made upon me, during the first
year Of my ministry, by mechanic
whom had visited, and on whom |
urged the paramount duty Of family
prayer. One day he entered m,
study, bursting into tears, as he said
"You remember that girl, sir; she
was my only child. She died sud-
denly, this morning; she has gone |
hope to God. But if so, she can tell
Him what now breaks my heart,
that she never heard a prayer in her
fathers house, or from her fathers
lips! Oh, that she were with me but
for one day againw
CoNTEKTMENT. - Never complain
of your birth, yonr training, your
employment, your hardships, Never
fancy that you could be something
il you only had different lot as
signed you. God understands what
you want great deal better than
You do. The very things that you
dcprecate as fatal limitations or OBJ
struclions, are probably what you
most want, What you call bin
ORANGES obstacles, discouragemcnt
arc probably Gods opportuui-
tics; and it is nothing that the pm
tient should dislike his medicines,
or any certain proofs that they are
poisonous. No; truce to all such
impaticnce. Check that devlish envy
which gnaws your heart because you
arc not in the same lot with others
bring down your soul. or rather
bring it up, to receive Gods will,
and do His work in your lot IN YOU
sphere, under your obscurity, against
your temptations, and you viii find
that your condition is never opposed
to your good, but really consistent
with 1t.
EGG EATING HpNs.-A writer in lhC
journal Of Horticulture recommends
any one who Is troubled with hens eat
ing their eggs, to break an egg and dus
the contents nicely with fine Cayenne