Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-08

Think how the abstraction Of the Sab
bath would hOpelessly enslave the
wOrEing-classcs with whom We are
Identified. Think of labor thus 90
ing IN in one monotOnOus and eternal
cycle, limbs forever on the rack, fin
gers forever straining, the brow for
evcI throbing, ,Sthe shoulders forever
dropping, Iand loins forever aching,
the restless mind forever scheming.
Think of the beauty ii would etfOce,
the merry-heartedness 1t would extin-
guish, of the giant strength it would
tame, of the resources of nature ii
would crush, of the sickness it would
/ bring, of the projects it would wreck,
of the groans 1t would eXtort, of the
lives ii would immediate, and of the
1 chearless graves 1t would prematurely
/ dig! See them tOiling and mOiling, |
sweating and frettinG, grinding and
| heving, weaving and spinning, sew
/ ing and gathering, moving and repair /
/ ing. raising and building, digging |
and planting, striking and struggling, 1
/ in the garden and in the field, in the I
/ gralery and i'll the barn, III the fac /
/ tory and in the mill, in the warehouse |
and in the shop, on the mountain and /
in the ditch, on the roadside and in /
the wood, in the city and in the cOun- /
try, out at sea and on the shore, in .
the day OF brightness and of gloom. |
What a picture this world would .
present if we had no Sabbath
''The gereatest herdsman Ill the
world" is the title claimed for Sam
uel w. Allen, of Texas, who owns
225, 600 cattle. He has one ranch
eighty miles long and forty wide,
between Nevada and Colorado rivers,
the largest on the continent, which
pastures 120, 900. Two others ac-
commodate, respectively, 10000 and
30, 900. These cattle all sUbsist on
native grasses of part of Texas. His
herds require the attention of at least
four hundred herders and brandeTs,
and the use of 5000 horses. He
brands 10000 calves every year to
keep Up the supply. The value of his
stock, exclusive of the land. exceeds
five million and Il half. He is the
chief meat purveyor for New Orleans
and the ncighboring counties on the
Gulf coast.
WHAT a HORSE DID. Blind instinct
led a hore belonging to DIR. Allen, of
SacO, Ne, to act rs follows:
Standing before the doctors Office
he started up the street for his stable.
At that time the entrance to the
premises was through n double gate,
fastened inside with a staple. The
horse was seen to approach, put his
head over the gate and with his teeth
lift up the hasp, then moving back a
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his shoulder against one side of the
gate and pushed it open; again back
ing down he advanced aud pushed
open the other gate; and then back
ing again lie went through the en-
trance, without injury to the carriage.
He seemed to know that it was neces-
sary for him to draw the carriage /
squarely through the centre of the
eutrace.
The BoDY OF RELIGION \ Chris /
tian life cannot exist without its body. /
Habits or religion are the body of /
living. He who neGlccts outward OBJ
servanCe, who lives without church .
membership, without attendance up
on meetings, without private or fami-
lv devotion, without fixed habits of .
DeutNOltntC - II 4hS ~ NV q SL4Ool-
lv life. There is no soul so strong
that it can afford to dispense with its
earthly tabernacle while it stays here;
there is no Christian life so vigorous .
that it viii not languish if it be de-
vorced from those outward acts and 1
habits that are its body. He that will 4
be thoroughly prepared for :rial and /
thoroughly furnished unto every good /
work Will protect himself and sup
port himself by that wall Of habit |
that gives fixedness to good purposes /
and outward expressions to holy as |
pirations. The strong spirit in the |
robust body is an ideal realized III the /
life of the Christian whose earnest |
heart reisices in its duties, and whose |
most trifling duties are regularly per
/ formed with an earnest heart.
Boards AND BRONCHITIS. - Full
/ boards have long been regarded rs a
/ defense against bronchitis and sore
! throat, and it is asserted that the sap
/ pers aud miners Of the French army,
/ who are noted for the size and beau
ty of their boards, enjoy special i'm
| munity from affections of this nature.
The growth of hair has also been re-
| commended to persons liable to take
cold easily. 1t Is stated that Walter
Savage IIandor was 4 sufferer from sore
throat for many years, and that he
lost the morbid disposition by allow
ing his beard to grow, according to
the advice of the surgeon TO the Grand
Duke of Tuscany. A writer in The
Dublin University Magazine, however,
referring to this theory and TO the
examples cited in its favor, states that
he adopted the same course as Ian
dor, for precisely the same reason,
and with fair success, but IS bound
to state that he knows of Individuals
with long flowing boards who have
not been saved from attacks Of brOn-
chial and laryngeal disorders.
ATRorr1NG RACE WoS By a PACING
HoRSE.-At the late Franklin county
Fair. held at Columbus, Ohio, on the
18th inst, the closing day of the fair,
the trotting purse, mile heats, three
: in five, was won by Vent i Euller's
} dun geIding Postle in 239!!, 237}l 237 :, g.,
= trottin@ three straight heats without
, a break. The curious feature Of the
, event is that the same horse won the
pacing race, for the same amount Of