The weekly clarion., 1879-10-22
VOLUME XIII.
LETTER FROM WILLIAM.

EDITORS CLARION: Early rising is on
OF the best things known to man. but is no
generally appreciated. / am compelled t
rise every morning at O'Clock. Fearinl
to miss, get mp any time between i've an,
six o'clock as l may wake. Thinking to al
lay mental anxiety and to insure punctuaIi
ty IN my business | went TO the expense O
getting me an alarm clock In order tba
might have no mistake about it, l went t.
| /. X Clark, formerly of Canton, Miss, anC
| told him my programme. He proposed T.
sell me a cuckoo clock, a wooden arrange
ment with very long pendulum, and
rather liked its looks. l asked him to make
It cuckoo, aud be did 50, whereupon de
cided that the cuckoo was too mild !
I told Mr.. Clark / wished an ALARM
cloek-nOne of your rattlers, but one
that was regular alarm, sure enough.
| He said he would send me one in
! about week, and, in order that there
might be no mistake, he promised to set it,
He directed me not to start the clock to
running, when | got it, until was ready to
| lie dOwn-say nine o'clock, and he would
L
$40 A. NJ The clock came and regulations
were observed. Clark is Mississippi man !;
and l thought all was right. Nine o'clock
came; l started my clock and went to bed,
sure that | should be aroused at the proper
time, without having to get up and look
just ten minutes after one O'Clock, 1 was
walked by a terrible noise, filling the entire
house have been in John Holmes factory
at the Skillet, in Winston county; have
been in many saw mills | have heard brass
bands in halls, but all put together,
they did not make such a noise as
heard. There was a German servant
girl in the house. She began to cry fire.
Every lady under the roof began to scream
and run hither and thither. The gentlemen
Of the house began to throw out trunks,
when suddenly the whole noise was stopped
knew what caused the fuss, and ran to the
clock and stopped the pendulum, but not
the noise. l was very coolly notified next
morning, that any more jokes of that kind
would be resented. Truly, although no joke
was intended, l find that the ladies re-
fuse to speak to me, and something serious
may result. The whole trouble occurred by
the alarm clocks going off at the wrong time,
and by there being more of the alarm than
wanted. l wish now that l had taken the
Cuckoo clock. If it had gone off at the
wrong time, no harm would have resulted.
Mr.: Jones has often spoken to me on
this very subject and has warned me
of the evil results. When | have been
enthusiastic about any thing, he has said,
g William, take care that you are not pre-
vious." This advice has often been of ad-
vantage to me, and, ut times, I have seen
the best men injured by going off before the
time. Almost every man is charged with
an alarm, and all through life, he is setting
it. A majority of men set their alarms to
go off too early, and many set them right,
but something is wrong, and the noise comes
before it is needed
Mr.. Jones has given this subject much
thought, and has decided that, although
alarms are good things, when they work
right, yet so much depends on their opera
tion, he recommends every man to get rid
of his alarm, altogether. / knew this was
alarm clock was a different thing; l under |
stood him to speak figuratively, but fgu-
or not, alarms are dangerous.
The other view of the subject, touching |
the cuckoo clock is this: things are often
overdone, as Bro. Smith says; eve put in
too much powder" | put in too. much,
speaking liguratively and 1 am sufferer |
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my clock out of the house. Whether Mr. |
Clark will take it back and give me a cue
koo clock, is to be determined. 1t may be
that must fall back on first principles, |
and lose my money.
The scriptures contains many admoni-
lions on the points submitted; and 1 have
read the book of Job through for comfort.
am more reconciled since my reading, but
am inclined to think that precise applica-
ton of Jobs principles and those of his
friends, cannot be made to cases growing
)ut of alarm clocks. These instruments are
4 new thing, under the sun.
The beautiful rain has fallen in most places,
and the grass is making the prairies look
green and fresh. This circumstance offers
promise of good fat beef during the approach
ing winter. In no country in the world,
,an YOU get better beef steak than you can
IN Texas. At Hampstead, in the hotels,
the steak is brought to the guest in little
frying pan, broiling hot.
I will be brief in speaking of Texas do
not wish to appear as an immigrant agent,
but as a genuine chronicler of the times, for
The CLARION, l offer the opinion, that after
taking out all the recognized disadvantages
and drawbacks, Texas is the best country
for the agriculturist-one who works-that
The sun shines on to-day. The more L see
IF it. the more l wonder at the marvellous
fertility of soil to be found and appropriated
nv men of small means. In conversation
4 few days age with planter in the southern
mart of Austin and the northern part of Fort
Rend counties, was told that he will sell
lands. at two dollars per acre, that will pro-
luce one bale of cotton or fifty bushels of corn
oer acre remarked to the gentleman that
n near the Brazos and San Bernard, there
must be sickness. His reply was: Il have
lived there for twenty years and never paid
one dollar to a physician, for myself.
He told me, also, that he was raised in Hen
1erson county Kentucky. The Gulf Col
1rado and Santa Fee Railroad passes
through his plantation. The gentleman,s
name is Col w. Guyler, and his T. .. Is
Bovine Bend, Austin. county. Col Albert
Harrison, formerly of Noxubee county,
Mississippi, is his neighbor.
l know Mississippi is great State. Its
people are great, etc. etc, but Texas lano
: better. hope in saying this, have not
>+ten the lessen of my alarm clock
orgo' WILLIAM.