The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-15
TROTWOOD'S MISCELLANY.

Cup to July first" says an Eastern
exchange, "the whaling ship of
DAvis's- strait have not caught a
whale" Gentlem3n, why in tho world
don't you spit on your bait?
go
Milton has written us this sentiment,
which every youth in the country should
ponder over: 81 call a complete and
generous education that which fits a
man to perform justly, skillfully and
magnanimously all the offices, both
public and private of peace and
war, with tho hope of living to be brave
mon and worthy patriots, dear to God
aud famous i'll all ages"
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"MsmOry is a Paradise from which
we cannot be driven. Even our first
parents could not be driven from it,
joan Paul.
"SI0 Reward-Ran away from
Jerome Lott at FlatIands, n. Y, a negro
boy named Jack, 81 xteen years old. lie
had on his neck An iron collar marked
J. L., the name of his owner.-May 20,
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Don't jump out OF your skin, my
colored reader. Hold To your boots and
trust i'm dod. We are not Advertising a
lost slave; We copy this from many
hundreds of a similar reading in Judge
Blacks. Slavery in New England" It's
the way the fellows who didn't believe
in slavery after they got rid of you,
advertised your escape.
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"Pythygoros used to say that a wound
from the tongue was worse than a
wound from the sword, for the latter
effects only the body, the former the
spirit" PythygorOs was great Greek;
but perhaps he never sat on a tack.
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My young friend, you have been
taught to believe your father was a trail |
tor, your uncle the son of a traitor, and
your grand mother the mother of n rebel. !
Do yOu know that on the 18th day of
December 1914, just p days before old
Hickory Jackson and his southern
troops We're lying behind their breast
works mt New Orleans, holding their
breath and waiting 10 soc the white of
the British eye to send their bullets to
tho right spot and save the Union
Do you know, l say, that convention
had assembled that day in tho classic
town of Hartford, Connecticut, and
though they deliberated with closed
doors they agreed upon plan, if the war
was not ended to secode from the Union?
Well they did.
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Therefore again, say, You " go
out TO The Arsenal tomorrow, and when
that good old dag of our glorious
country climbs that pole, to catch the
first glimmer of the southern sunbeam
and rustic with its bright folds in the
tremulOus zephyrs of our southern
cline;
You just take off your hat, and in the
name of Kings Mountain, and New
Orleans, and Chepultepec, and the
Alamo, you just yell as loud as you
please and knock the man down that
don't like it. Tell him [ said you might
and that can prove you have the right.
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There is little beauty in the setting
sun to the blind man. Reader, did you
ever think that people could be mental-
Iy blind? And spiritually, too?
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Reader, sometimes a school teacher
is only an intellectual idiot. A teacher
ouco asked his class in philosophy why
lightning never struck twice in the
same place, and the boy at the foot told
him ''it never needs to-" He had never
thought of it before.
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Up to date no dispatch seems to have
arrived i'm Pittsburg from benjamin
Harrison congratuIating the Honorable
Andrew Carnegie.
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"Glimpses of Heaven" is "A new book
just out by a noted Presby erian preach
err. It will now be in order for Bob In
gersOll to write on the glimpsas of the
other place. But before doing so we bog
that he will come down here and try
to thresh wheat in the rain every day.
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The hanging of Col. King il indeed
sad theme and one not to bo dwelt on.
Tho law of our land il the work of man
based on common sense aud reason;
and both of these-and even the physi-
cal law of our nsture-have long ago
decided that no one may escape the
consequences of his own acts.
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A great many biographies continue to
be written of great mon, but Parton's
Life of Andrew Jackson is as far ahead
of them all Jackson himself was
superior to their subjects.
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within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swirl anu tuneful tongue;
II falsehOOd's honey IL disdained,
And when it could not praise was
chained;
II bold In virtues cause Il spoke
YET gentle concord never broke
This silent tongue shall plead f.r thee
when time unveils eternity"
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y The above verse which we write from
memory is one Of poem we once saw
written ITO a Skeleton" found in West
minister Abbey. The author is un-
known aud tho London Times offered
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