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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-15
Thoughts From Rochefoncalt.

The accent of mans native country
is as strongly impressed on his mind, as
on his tongue.
We are never made so ridiculous by
the qualities we have, as by those we
affect to have.
Most women lament not the loss of
their lovers so much out of real affec-
tion, as because they would appear to
be the more worthy of having been be-
loved.
We pass often from love to ambition !;
but,we seldom return from ambition to
love.
In conversation confidence has a
greater show than wit.
No disguise can long conceal love
where it is, nor feign it when it is not.
To fall in love is much easier than to
get rid of it.
Affected simplicity is refined impos-
ture.
Prosperity is a stronger trial of virtue
than adversely.
1t is common fault never to be sat
isied with our fortunes, nor dissatisfied
with our understanding.
Women often fancy themselves to
be in love when they are not. The
amusement of an intrigue, the emotion
of mind produced by galiantry, their
natural passion for being beloved, and
their unwillingness to give denial all
these make them imagine they are in
love, when in fact they are only coquet-
ting.
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The Reason Why.

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll in answer to
the question as to what caused the great
political reaction of last week, said !:
'tFirst--extravagant appropriations and
second, the refusal to reduce taxation.
At least $75, 900, 900 should have been
taken from the burden borne by the
people; SIC, 200, 900 should have been
taken from sugar, and the entire tax
from tobacco. The Republican party
should have taken such steps that all inter
nal taxation could In one year from nO'U DC
abolished. The people are tired of pay
ing war taxes in time of peace. They
want collectors and treasury agents and
gaugers and all sorts of detectives and
spies discharged. Third, the Republicans
should not hare postponed tariff reform.
The Tariff Commission was mistake.
The people sa,u It ,ras only an affidavit for
eaztinuGnce, r,tse for delay, and that the
Republicas party ,rus not going to act.
Fourth, prominent Republicans have
been trying to kin each other. The
great struggle has been for office. We
have too many politicians and not
enough statesmen. The fight against
Cornell was unfortunate. Pennsylya-
MIA was tired of Cameron rule, and
everywhere there seems to have been
hatred and disgust. "What win be the
effect upon the presidential contest in
1SS4Y asked the reporter in the inter
view. sIt looks to me, now, that Gen.
Sherman viii be the next President.
The Republicans viii be compelled to
take such a man as Gen. Sherman,
and Sherman IS the only such man
knOE Y s5s warts, HalEbreed1, reform
.ask factoFY could not flemsn can all /
IN soldier and
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-15

APPEAL: Growing out of the unbri-
died license and bulldozing spirit mani
tested by Fedora! officers during the
days of reconstruction, some United
States marshals and supervisors occa-
sionally assume airs and prerogatives not
warranted by any power conferred upon
them by the United States laws, and
especially at elections push their way to
n conspicuity that Is, to say the least,
offensive. A fragrant case of this sort
is that of one Lyles. of Byhalia, Miss,
who by his conduct prevented the polls
being opened at that point on Tuesday,
and without any cause arrested Mr..
Watson, of Holly Springs, who had
gone there to hold the election, and was
of course the custodian of the box, the
registry of votes and the poll books.
These Lyles demanded to see, and on
being refused threatened arrest. To
avoid this and prevent any trouble,
Mr.. Watson finally agreed to show him
the books, and went to his fathers,
where he procured them, but on his re-
turn to the town was arrested by Lyles.
If there is any law by which this man
can be made an example of it ought to
be invoked. Watson should have him
punished for criminal assault and intim-
idation in the performance of his duty,
and the people of Byhalia should create
a fund and employ the best lawyers in
the State to make an example of Lyles.
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What the Physicians Of the Future
Must Study.

Physiology especially has developed
during the past fifty years, SO that il
has almost become a science by itself,
but it still remains a part of the wider
science of biology. Here again we see
difference between the studies of the
ancient and modern physician. To
day, and still more in the near future,
the physician mGst extend his studies
beyond man, and the reason is plain.
Man, with whom alone the physician
formerly supposed himself concerned,
is but an isolated being disconnected
from the rest of nature Nature
tolerates no such isolation No living
being, even the simplest, exists, or can
exist, independently of other things. 1t
affects them and is affected by them,
and what is true of the simplest is yet
more true of the more complex, and
most of all of man. Nature is one, and
all her creatures are parts of the whole.
For this reason man cannot be fully
known merely as man, he must also be
known as a part of the animal king
dom. No one can well understand
human anatomy or physiology who
knows nothing of that of the lower
animals. Comparative anatomy and
physiology have thrown much light upon
many obscure problems to which
the study of man gave rise. There
fore, would most earnestly urge upon
all medical men the study of biology.
1t may be replied that the courses are
now crowded, but it is certain that the
successful physician of the future must
know something of nature as whole.
Already many of our most important
theories as to disease-the structure
of organs, cell-growth, celllife, and
many more-have come to medicine
from biology. In an address before the
International Medical Congress held in
London in August, 1881, Professor
Huxley remarks that "the search for
the explanation of diseased states in
modified cell-life, the discovery of the
important part played by parasitic or
ganisms in the etiology of disease, the
of the action of medicaments
by the methods of experimental physio-
logy, appear to me to be the greatest
steps which have ever been made toward
the establishment of medicine on
basis. Ineed hardly say, they
could not have been made except for
the advance of normal biology. There
can be no doubt that the future of pa
thology, of therapeutics, and therefore
Of practical medicine, depends on the
extent to which those who occupy
with these subjects ara train
cd in the methods and impre gnated with |
the fundamental truths of biology. |
And venture to suggest that the col
Iective sagacity of this congress could |
occupy itself with no more important |
question than this: How is medical
education TO be arranged, so that, with
out entangling the student in these de-
tails Of the systematist which are
valueless to him, he may be enabled to
obtain FIST grasp of the great truths
respecting animal and vegetable life
without which, Notwithstanding all the
progress Of scientific medicine, he will
till find himself an empiric Profess
.or George 81. Perkins, in Popular
Science Monthly for September.
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The Retort Sarcastic.

Judge Tarbell tells the following joke
on himself A short time after his re-
tirement from the bench he happened
to meet an old friend whom he had not
seen for some time. The Judge, all
smiles and heartiness, efervesced over
his friend in such way as to provoke
the inquiry:
"What Office are you a candidate for
now Judge Z?
The Judge made deprecatory move.
ment with an outward turned palm, and
said:
"For none at all, my dear brother
Pm simply candidate for the Kingdom
of Heaven.
His friend regarded him sor1owfully
for an instant, and. then, with more vie
tban politeness, and more profanity than
either, said
..Tll Bet you don't carry 8 Dr. town.
shipF
Doubtless the Judge lost sight of lht
mans profanity IN admiratiep Qt BIZ
suhlimslg truthful candor
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-15
Aphorisms from Shakespeare.

In all emergencies play the man.
See first that the design is wise md just;
| That ascertained, pulsue it resolutely.
| Do not for one repulse forget the purpose
That you resolved to effect.
Rich honesty dwells often in a poor
house, as pearl in an oyster.
For thine own sake, never do others
wrong.
The soul of a coxcomb is in his
clothes.
There are those who will steal into
our favor, and for week will escape dis
eovery; but once found out they are
known for life.
Wrong is twice wrong against those
who never wronged US.
Be they no more believed
That palter with US in double senses
Keeping the word Of promise to our ear,
Eo break it to our hope.
Forget, forgive; conclude and be
agreed.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet precious jewel in his head.
Marriages i'll joined are like panels
of timber-warp, warp.
Many gain experience at price that
makes them sadder.
Time is the old justice that examines
all offenders.
1t were better to be disdained of all,
than to steal confidence and affection
by deceit from any.
Every one can master a grief but he
that has it.
Affection may one day smile again.
Happy and worthiest of esteem are those
Whose words are bonds; whose oaths are GA
cles;
Whose love sincere; whose thoughts immacu-
Whese, tears, pure messengers, sent from the
heart;
Whose heart as far from fraud as Heaven from
Earth.
Learning with reason makes youth,
by anticipate experience, old.
Cease to lament for that thou cans't pot keep
And study help for that which thou lamentest.
It is prudent to make a virtue of ne
cessity.
A beauteous wall doth oft close in
pollution.
Some are born great; some achieve
greatness and some have greatness
thrust on them.
The miserable have no other medi-
cine, but only hope.
The Law, and not the judge, condemns
the criminal.
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Studies in the South.
From the November Atlantic. ]

From the November Atlaptic.l
One might soon fill volumes with
stories of the war and of the state Of
things just after its close, which are told
everywhere among the common people
Of the South. In every place which 1
visited the inhabitants said that there
had been much improvement in the
"state of society" in the last eight or ten
years, and this is probably true. The
assurance gives encouragement regard
ing the future, but it also inspires the
reflection that before the improvement
was made the region could not have
been a very desirable place of residence.
1t was common to hear people say,
Things has been a great deal better
since Jack Belden and Con Peters was
killed" Then would follow story of
repeated murderous assaults on the part
of these men, of crime persisted in for
many years, until the whole region was
in terror of these desperadoes. At
last, OH some dark night, company of
men ride up to the house of one of these
outlaws and summon him to "come
out" Then there is pleading and resist
ance on the part of his wife and some
hesitation on the part of the outlaw him
self. But it was said--and this seemed
to be curious and strange-that the
taunt of cowardice is almost always
and the fellow soon resolves
to face his besiegers. He selects his
best weapons, puts double charge in u
shotgun, removes his family to the
safest part of the room, opens the door,
md is at once riddled with balls from q
'core of guns, which had been carefully
limed so as to cover every part of the
doorway, and had been steadily held in
hat position since before the first sum-
mons to the man within. l could not
earn whether in such cases man feels
he reused instinct of fight, OF whether
le opens the door because he knows
hat the end has come, and merely ac-
epts the inevitable.
In some instances, after a story of this
ind, people would add There's two
r three other men hyar that'll be killed
efore long, l reckon, an then this
ountry Will be very peaceable." This
nay be an effective method of improv-
lg the moral character of a commune
Y, but | should prefer a residence some
here else, as long as missionary work
this kind appears to be necessary.
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common Quotation Errors.

"God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" was long attributed to the Psalms
of David, until oft-repeated corrections
have convinced people that the senti-
ment belongs to Maria in Laurence
Sterne's Sentimental Journey" The
epigram, "Spare the rod and spoil the
child, . is still often quoted as one of the
Proverbs of Solomon, and is rarely at
tributed to its author, Butler (see
'Hudibrat," Part H., canto 2, e843)
The nearest approach to any such phase
to be found in the Bible is the text,
HE who spareth the rod hateth his.
son" prov. xiii, 2E. The reference
to tpouring oil on troubled waters" is
often supposed to be scriptural, though
the Bible does not make any such allu-
sion. "Man wants but little here be-
low" Is an expression no older than
Goldsmith's Hermit, though it is gen
erally quoted either as Scripture or
from a line Of an ancient hymn. "Man-
sions Of th, blests are mentioned in the
revelations, not Of st. John the Divine,
but to the Monk of Evesham ca. u.
1895. ALI the Year Round.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-15
I Want Mother.

An old man lay on his sick-bed struggling
with death. Disease had worn out his body,
and SO affected his mind that he was insen.
sible to all things and persons around him
| His family and one or two other friends,
stood by his bedside, for it was evident that
he had but few minutes to live. He roll
ed his head, as if in great pain, and made
several efforts to speak. At length we could
distinguish the words, "Mother! / want
Mother! Why don't mother GOMEZ" His
mother had been dead nearly fifty years.
He was probably unconscious that he had
wife and children and grandchildren
around him, or that he was himself any
thing but a child. When he was really
child he had his troubles, as all children
have, and then he used to carry his little
griefs to his mother, for he knew now that
he was in trouble, and he thought if his
dear mother would come she would comfort
him.
Oil that children could now understand
what precious things their young affections
are 1t is sad to see how soon they some
times part with them, and how easily they
are made ashamed of them. Boys who love
to lay their heads in a mothers lap, to kneel
by her side and offer their prayers to God,
and who feel as though they could not go to
sleep without her coming to their bed and
kissing them, and saying a parting ''good
night" are sometimes ashamed of this
simple and sweet attachment. Bad chill
dren, as such are spoken of in Proverbs, Xxx:
Is, Tidicule them for these expressions of
artless love, and call them babyish. When
they become old enough to go out into the
world, evil companions teach them that it
is childish, unmanly to follow the councils
nh oh uaA in oh ayaA
laugh about "anxious mother" and they
are too often successful in their mean efforts
to wean them from the purest and happiest
affection which belongs to this world. Then
they part with the best love of earth for
ever.
Would that our little readers knew with
what earnest but vain longings, they may
look back for these blessed young affections, |
should they live until youthful hopes have |
expired, and the cares of life have become |
oppressive. We could tell them of men of |
ripe age, strong minds, and who have |
reached high destinations in the world, |
who have had hours when crushed by /
troubles and worn down by suffering, they |
have been heard to exelaim, " Oh, that / /
were a little child againl Then l would
carry my sorrows to my mother, sob upon /
her bossan, and she would take me in her
arms and comfort me SO sweetly."
Children, cherish your youthful affec-
tions. IF you lose them, they can never
return to you in their present freshness.
Sourish them through life, and there will
never be a month, perhaps never a day, but
hey will help you to understand the still
more tender and confdiDg affection which
srings to the redeemed child of God the
owe and watchful care of his father in
Heaven.
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xoRH1no on TIE IRISH COAST.

fThe incident which prompted the writ
| ing of the following lines was related to tbt
author by friend on his return to America
from i visit in Ireland. On the voyage
over an old Irishman told him that he had
been thirty years ia the States, and that be
was going home 10 spend the evening Of his
life amid the scenes of his b0yhood. The
old mans deep anxiety to see Ireland once
more made the authors friend take a special
interest in him. The night before the boat
reached the Irish shore they both remained
on deck, and as the dawning broke they
were rewarded for their weary vigil by be-
holding the dim outlines of the Irish coast.
The sight awakened the old mans slumber-
ing enthusiasm, and his fist empassioned
exclamation was "The top o'the mornin' to
you, Ireland, alanna, !!
Than a. mo- Dhail but there il is
The dawn on the hills OF Ireiani-
Gods ange's lifting the nights black veil
From the fai~, sweet face of Ey sireiandi
o IrelaH1 ism il grand you look,
Like bride in her rich a1ornin.
And with ali the pent-up love of my heart
bid you the topo' the morn;n'.
This one brief honr pays lavishly back
For many year of mourning;
/ d almost venture another fight
There's so much joy in returning
Watching out for the hallowed shore,
All other attractions scornin';
o Ireland don't you hear me shout?
l bid yeu the top o. the morning.
Ho, no Cleana's shelving strand
The surges are gradually beating;
Kerry is pushing her hea1lands out
To give us the kindly greeting;
Into the shore the sea- birds fy
On pinions that know no dropping,
And out from the cliffs with welcome charged.
A million of waves come trooping
U kindly, generous Irish land,
So real and fair and loving,
No wonder the wandering Kelt should think
And dream of you in his rovingsi
The alien home may have gems and gold,
Shadows may never have gloomed it,
But the heart will sigh for the absent land
Where the loVe-sights fresh ill mined it.
And doesn old Cove look charming there,
Watching the waves in motion,
Leaning her back up against the hills.
And the tips of her toes in the ocean2
wonder don't hear Shandon's bells
Oh, maybe their charming's over,
For it's many year since began
The life of a western rover.
For thirty summers, ashore machree,
Those hills now feast my eyes on
Ne'er met my visions, save when thou rose
Over memorys dim horizon,
Zen SO, twas grand and fair they seemed
In the landscape spread before me;
But dreams are dreams, and my eyes would |
open
To gee Texas sky still Ger me.
Oh, oft upon the Texan plains,
When the day and the chase were over,
Ny thoughts wonld fly Ger the weary wave
And around this coast-line hoverl
And the prayer would rise that some future
day,
All danger and doubling scornin'
may help to win my native land
The light young Liberty's mornin'.
low fuller and truer the shore-like shows
Was over scene so splendid
feel the breath Of the Munster breeze
Thank God that my exile's ended
DID scenes, old songs, old friends again,
The vale and the cot | was born in
)h Ireland up from my heart of hearts
Ibid you the top O. the mornin'
THE (Bostop) Republic.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-15
Industrial Education in the Public
Schools.

There is a growing feeling among the
students Of industrial problems that our
whole conception of education is gem
eral, and of industrial training in par
ticular, needs revision and enlargement.
This feeling is based upon such easily
observed facts as the following: To our
infinite sorrow and disgust, paupers are
on the increase, because our schools too
often educate their pupils out Of harmo-
ny with their environment, thus justi.
flying the charge that education (falsely
so called) units its possessors for useful
industry.
The simpler and less important posi-
tions in the worlds work shop are as u
rule greatly overcrowded, while in the
upper stories there is a vast amount of
unoccupied space.
The work done in the lower stories is
often exceedingly shabby, for many who
aspire to the upper stories fail to enter
or, if they apparently enter, soon end
in failure.
The chosen few who truly enter, and
build up magnificent industrial fabrics
with the splendid fortunes which such
fabrics imply, fail to educate their chill
dren to carry on their good york, or to
do work Of similar value in some other
department of useful industry.
A whole community Of prosperous
workmen may be well nigh reduced to
beggary by the incoming of some new
invention, by change in the fortunes or
tastes Of consumers.
When old industries are swept away,
and new ones established on the wrecks,
there is usually little power on the part
of workmen to adapt themselves to the
new conditions.
The relentless law of the survival Of
the shrewdest and most INSCRIPTIONS,
instead of the Christian law of mutual
and cooperation, too gen
orally prevails among individuals and
all kinds of human organizations.
That all education should be industrial
and that every one should be industri-
ally educated, we believe to be perfect
ly tenable proposition. Popular Science
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Analysis Of American HumOr.

American humor is something of its
own kind, as purely and peculiarly a
part Of the United States as pumpkin
pie. We have among us the viyacity
of the French, the fun of the Irish, the
graver mirth of the English, and the
epigrammatic expressiveness of the
Scotch; this curious mixture has made
our wit what it is, and every American
humorist shows the traces Of it. IF We
analyze the element of the distinctive
kind and sort of writing which passes
under the general head, we shall be sur
prised to see the resemblance among
themselves and their difference from all
other foreign species. We are born fol-
lowers of Baron Munchausen, and exag-
geration is at the bottom Of the most of
our hun.or. When John Phoenix said
that he called out to the crowd on shore,
{ Good-by, Colonel and every able
bodied man IN it raised his hat and cried
sGood-by, Colonel" in response, he
touched the great nerve of American
humor; and when he stated that he
held the belligerent editor down over
the press ssby means Of our nose, which
we had inserted betwehn his teeth for
this purpose, he showed the second
trait Of the Characteristic comic writer
namely, lndicrous juxtaposition and re-
versing Of ordinary ideas. And 50,
when Artemus Ward says to the young
man who dissurbs him IN the theatre
'.Td appint your funeral to-morow after
noon, and the corpse should be ready,
be gives us the third feature, quaint
and odd turns Of dialett.
81 these three points, then exaggera-
ton, ludicrousness, and odd forms Of
.paech-we fnd the distinctive pecu-
Iiarities Of our American VII. Prof S.
II. Duf6eld Il IT. Y Independent
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COLUMBUS (GA.) ENQUIRER: The
best indication of what is being done for
the colored people in the South isin the
fact that in the sixteen Southern States
the white school population is $780,
961, and the colored 1903, ,257. There
are 16, ,669 colored public schools, forty
four normal schools, thirty-six colored
institutions of secondary instruction,
fifteen colored universities and colleges,
twenty-five colored schools of theology,
three colored law schools, two colored
medical schools and two colored deaf
and dumb and blind institutions.