Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-05

RELIGIOUs.-The sacrament Of the Lord
Supper will be administered in Che Pres
byterian Church in this city, Sunday Octo-
Der 18th. The preceding services will COM
menee Friday night, the 18th, at o'clock.
DIT, How He NIcKs 'EM-Our prolific
friend "Joe," in i've days Of item-snatching
has imported a Sbare-backed Arabian band
of one hundred and seyenty-fiye perform
ers," impr0yised on one corner seventeen
and twenty sweetly admiring fem. sOles,'
added one hundred years 10 the venerable
head Of our old friend L. B. Mason, and
with the smeke OF one pipe Of tobacco,
drowned nine innocent didapers in the elias
sic waters Of the famous 4" forks.7 Come,
Joe, don't sacrifice all your buttons, and
hopelessly disintegrate your suspenders, all
in enc week. Do give the 'dear people,
time TO digest the didapers at least, be
fore opening communication with China
through fhc medium Of wells, or bridging
the Atlantic with eobWebs, or snatehing
passing comet from its eccentric wander
ings, and turning 1t over TO Barnum-
OK THE TRIPOD.-Our alented friend
Mr.. j. II. Caruthers, has taken the position
Of local editor of the Plaindealer. Most
heartily do we welcome him into the ranks
Of the "Chosen Of the Earth" and most
sincerely do we predict for him a course OF
Increasing brilHancy as an editor. With
wit, humor, and genius Of high order. he
combines that kindness of heart and genial
sOciability which precludes poison from
the keen shafts that he wields so mastery.
Thrice welcome, friend Joe, upon the Tri-
pod; and instead OF the atop Of a morning.
or = "whoIe day." we wish you long life,
measured by decades Of usefulness and
fame.
YoUTH CONES ONLY ONCE.-That there
is but one period OF youth all know, but
the lessons that IL teaches few appreciate.
Aside from thefaet that youth is the season
for sowing and cultivation, It should be re-
membered that it is also the season OF joy.
Lies stern battle begins when the years Of
youth have past, and home is the strong cas-
tie amid whose walls preparations for the
conflict are made. Tender as the flower is
childhood. yielding as the young tree is
youth. Fierce sunbeams droop or wIthers
the one, while rude winds bend. disfgure,
or break the other. In quiet valleys, shut
out by towering mountains from desOlat-
ing storms, nature is ever most generous,
beautiful and strong; and amid homes
where purity, peace and JOY reign, are nur-
tured the truest and noblest OF the human
race. The flower cannot bloom, or shed its
fragrance on the twilight air, without the in
spiratiou Of the caTessing dew. The yOung
tree, as il rears its feeble branches, cannot
grow beautiful or strong without the pa
rental protection Of the aged monarchs OF
its fsrest home; and the Hmpid stream,
whose flashing waves and musical fow de-
lights the eye and charms the ear, must
spring from sources as pure and stainless,
and joyous as itself. So it is with humani-
ty-the child must be nursed IN the tender
lap Of love-the youth protected from rude
storms by the strong arms OF parental solic-
Itude; and where the brook and river Of life
meet, there must be a present hope born of
Retrospective joys, and buoyed by sur
roundings full of promise, If we would
have men and women whose lives Will il
lustrate the beauties, sublimitios, and
matchless joys Of truth and usefulness.-
Then, amid the other duties OF parentage,
let none forget that other and dearer duty
still, TO make joyous and bright the
young years that come but once. Let them
aid their children, as the years feet past, to
snatch at least the "rainbows on the foam
as the river goes speeding on" Fer be it
ever remembered, that from the hallowed
summer houses OF happy homes, spring
those human eyergreens, that through the
lengthening years proudly and triumphant
~ defy the snow and sIeet and storms OF
disappointment and adversely.