Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-05-25
s.NoTHING TO DO. "-Rev. J. F. W. Ware,

CONDENSED report VI HIS lculdih"'
His text was from Goth Matthew, Ith verse
"All the day idle The reverend speaker
said nothing to wear and nothing to read had
been treated Of y worse nothing than either
is nothing to do 1t touches lower moral
deep and bctrays a gravcr moral want.
The immense amount of aimless living, OF
nothing -to-doishness, which charactcrlzcs whole
classes of this, as Of every large communty,ba bad
as it is for the individual, is worse Tor the com
munity. The negro is not the only initiative
animal Example desccnds. IT the mistress
shows she has nothing to do, why wonder that
the maid does nothing -.
Isn't it L something fearful when you, thnk
of the numbers who have no aim in lllc but to
get through so many days and nights! what Il
milestone some people contrlvc to hang about
their nccks and call it life How Go they CON
trive not to be worn out with disgust at their
own society? Endowed with everything God
ever puts into Il man. and the world plnlnS Tor
workers in every conceivable field, and they
nothing to do men, magnificent III tallorS
goods. and women superb in all that art adds
to nature, consuming life at the toilette, over
Il novel, in elegant fripperles or yawnlnG and
longing for the next excitement and beside,
nothing to do Stars have something to do
atoms, dust, but these poor creatures nothing
On how many faces you may read tor rent, or
for sale, inquire within, offering vacancy to
any occupant No wonder a wandering satan
takes up so many of these empty abodes. -
There is not a bigger lie that much lying anl-
NAL man can tell than to say he has nothing to
do. There is no possibility for which God has
not demand for which man does not want and
suffer War has its eXcnptS but not duty.
The cry of nothing to do never comes from IN
earnest man. A sturdy bow will not utter it.
The world we live in is full of demand Spring
ing upon us everywhere there is a mission
ground before every soul. There are great I'M
pending dangers whose gloomy shadows adj
vance stealthiy and solidly upon LIS: There
are private sins ripeung into public immorall-
ties, class wants and wrongs, social evils, abuses
tyrannies, needing grave thoughts and brave
work These to be met only by the honest
doing Of individual honest souls, by the coun-
teractant force of well combined atoms by each
man s feeling he has something to do, some
word to say, some stand to take.
An.idle life is rs demorazing to woman
as to man There is no grosser selishneSs
than the life of the woman who has nothing to
do. Dowagers magnificent in poodles, misses
munifcent in smiles, the whole rout OF the
aimess are busy at the devils loom weaving
the mesh that is to bind their own souls IN
with the growing depravities their Incidence
fosters. The city is full Of things only woman
can do, waiting, pnlng TOR them
No man or woman can be held guiltless who
stands through life idle, under the plea OF
nothing to do For all there is Just So much
as by best effort they can do. Duty, like God,
is never far away.
SHORT WEIGHTS, &c-Latterly somebody
has been making an examination in mcrchan-
tile frauds. and finds sad result. 1T Is stated
most positively that Boston puts up short
weight in mackerel; Philadelphia makes
syrup out of starch New York gauges L barrel
uf whiskey or syrup that could not possibly
hold over forty gallons for forty-tour and 4
half, and waters it to any per cent. required
The citv of Cincinnati packs candles, lard, Wills
KEY, bacon and -four on the principle OF short
weight and long tarc; New York will put the
Genessee brand on anybodys -four in Chlca-
90 the other day it was ascertaned that the
coal merchants make 4 practice OF selling coal
short of weight by two hundred pounds on
ton, one of the dealers publicly boaSting that
he had been fined six times during the past
winter, but that it paid better to incur the risk
Of prosecution than to give full weight. -Bdh
An.ertctlA
HORACE GREELEY. We never expected to
find Horace Greeley committing plagiarism
What he knows about farming is utterly un,,
precedented, as arc also his views OF political
IL
New Orleans the sage Of Chappaqua seems to
have borrowed the famous words Of lady by
no means sage II have come to the South:
said H. C. ''lor the good Of all. These arc
lust the words of the German mistress OF
George |. of England when she found herself
surrounded in her chair BY a furious mob
why do you rage at me- she exclaimed
from the window Il have come to Engan
for all your goods oh YOU, yes! fercey
responded one of the mob, 'and for all our
chattels, too The people of New Orleans
evidently are more polite than were the people
of ofIIondon.--N Y World.
ORTHoGRAPHY.- There is 4 queer philoso-
phcr in Paris. 4 great cvcllcr, who has publish
cd a pamphlet. suggesting that all arbitrary
rules of photography be abolished by cttc'al
decree rs savoring Of aristocracy and deSpotlSm.
There can be no true, broad, and general free
dom, argues the pamphlctecr, where the cor
rect use of the alphabet prevails 70 be per
fecty free one must be permitted to spell as he
chooses In the meantime, and simultaneously
with this singular suggestion, the French
Academy is gravey discussing the propriety Of
dispensing with the second IN III the word
''hypotheneuSe.
NAPOLEON AT CuIsELuURsT.-lt is said
that the life of the imperial cxilcs at ChiSel
hurst flows on quietly, without ostentation or
show, and that those who have remained
true to Napoleon in his misfortunes entertain
the belief that their imperial master will once
again occupy the Tuicries. The .supposltll;9n
of the exiled Court at Chisclhurst Is that the
restoration of the empire will be carried out by
the Prussiaus The Emperor OF Germany ana
Prince Bismarck are they claim, IN favor OF
placing the Prince Imperial on the throne OF
France .,...5..
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