St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-27

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sold to old Mrs. Thistlepod fol
fourteen cents; you will think abou,
the frkin of axle-grease you paint
ed with butter and sold for thitty-
seven cents for table use; you will
think of the u1ertgage you fore
closed on poor Ragwesd's farm,
after he had paid you thirteen per
cent. for the money for ten years;
yon will think Of the leads of three
feet eord-wood you hauled to town
and sold at full market price; you
will think Of the sand You sifted in
the brown sugar!yea will remem-
Der how you sold 100 pounds of
coal for a ton; you will think of the
paper you took for a year and a
half and neEer paid for; you will
recall thousand little meannesses
and weaknesses of which you have
been guilty; you zill think how you
made your money and how preci-
GUS little good it ID going to do you
ia the country whittier you are 60
ing; and. poor man, if you have
fastened your faith and trust to
nothing better than Mother Ship
ton, or Vennor. OF General Hazeu,
or some celestial ramp of comet,
the sound OF the trumpet. the
voices OF the beasts, the seven thun-
dera. the hail and Gre mingled With
blood. the darkened sur. the yials
Of wrath and the Foice of the eagle
could not add to ypur fears. When
the end Of the uotad comes for you,
that will be the ozly end you will
take any Interest in. It gill be
awful enough for You. if it comes
before you arg feadS for it. and un-
less you know yon have a dead sure
thing on eishty-nine years or more
and you know whether you have |
or not-you keep one eye olen all
the time for the end of the world. |
So. don't you worry about two
comets. or conjunctions, or peri
helia. or eclipses. or spots on the
sun. They have nothing to do with
your case at all. You laay not live
to see the world burned up, and
You pass away in the great final
dissolution of all things. but you
are going to live to your end of the
world, and don't you forget it.
That's all you have to do with it.
Ion 60 home now. and quit worry
ing about prophecies. Admire the
comet without fear. Study astron-
omy for its wonders and beauties,
md not for fanciful and ignorant ,
ind superstitious terrors. You go {
lone and sell clean goods by full I
measures and honest weights; teach
7our clerks that thirty-five inch q
tick doesn't measure a yard of
lress goods; don't weigh yourself Z
With the hay. and the wagon by it t
elf; make your ton of coal weigh b
wenty hundred. and cut your wood d
our feet long; be honest and square d
u your dealings; pay your pew rent c
very week, and your newspaper
description in advance; read the i,
evised Testament oftener and 60
0 church regularly; be manly, and G
ay your debts rs fast as you can, v
nd live SO that you can look every b
IAN in the eyes when you meet v
i'm; give up swearing and try fam-
y prayers as substitute; don't be ei
fraid Of any man that ever wore d
at, and always stand by your own II
onest convictions; aud theE, if
ome night comet with a tail like O,
torchlight procession. and the q
erihelion OF Jupiter. and an eclipse ii
the sun. and old Mother Ship
IN. sbould ell file into your trout in
ard and kick and tbump at the it
Dor. and say: "We want you, old
AMI" you would hop cheerfully Il
IL of bed and shont hack. aAu