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THE MASONIC JOtJENAL
[From the Hebrew Leader.
The Fall of an Acorn—a type
of the Ressurrection.
I5Y MBS HAKKIET WARD IIODSOJT.
Pensive, alone, I wandered forth amid i' e
antnninal wood.
Where eddying lea\ es of brightest tint fell
round me as L stood,
And I had paused beside a brook, close by a
mossy dell,
"When suddenly upon my path a tiny acorn
fell.
And as I mused upon the scene in melancholy
mood,
The falling leaf, the dying j^ear, the mournful
solitude,
I queried if ambition lured the acorn fi-mn tTie
bough.
To perish with the mouldering leaves or rot
’neath winter’s snow.
Or had the wandering, sighing breeze or bird
on soaring wing.
Or breath oftlowers borne aloft in solomn
whispering.
Or nickering sunbeams’ rosy light orsparkling
waters free,
In all their varying, tempting charms beguiled
it from the tree?
Or was it natures' inward voice, the wondrous
law of God,
That taught it ere it rose above’t must mingle
with the sod,
Assimmilate with crawling worms, albeit of
lofty birth,
,i?ileiit but not lorgotteii lie, while smouldeiing
back to earth.
Fears passed away ; sorrow' and change the
incident effaced.
For grief within m3' achsing heart liad all but
pain erased;
Yet memory drifting back in dreams I longed
once more to see
The d(*ar familliar face of friends, the homo
that sheltered me.
Again I stood within the wood, but, ah, how
changed the scene!
A sapling oak of perfect form and leaves of
living green.
Was growing on the very spot beneath the for
est tall,
Wiieii very many years before I saw the acorn
fall.
And as I gazed in awe and thought on the Al
mighty power
United with a father’s love, restoring tree and
flower,
I wonder‘d why ^VG mourn our dead that rest
beneath the sod,
Almost foi’getting that they live above in
Heaven with God.
Putnam’s Rescue.
Gen. Israel Putnam, subsequently
much distinguished i,i the Revolution,
commanded, during the old French and
English War, a corps of pa.tisans on the
northern frontier. In a skirmi.sh with
the Indian allies of the French he was
taken captive. The bravery and enter
prise ol Putnam made him no ordinary
prize, and as a usual expression of their
high respect for his character as a soF
dier, it was determined by his savage
oaptois that the utmost ingenuity of tor
ture should be exercised in putting him
to death Putnam was therefore bound
to the stake, and the faggots piled around
him ready for ignition. In this extremi
ty he was about consigning himself to
uttei despair, when he beheld a French
officer approaching. Putnam w'as a Ma
son, and with the precarious, but only re
raaining hope that the Frenchman might
be a member of the Fraternity, bespoke
to him in the mysterious but universal
language of the Craft, and made that ap»
peal which is .so sure to reach the Ma
son’s heart. It was seen and felt, and
quickly responded to. For notwithstand
ing the danger of disappointing a crowd
of Indians preparing to feast upon the
agonies of a tortured,enemy, the French
man rushed through the.bandof savages,
and severing the^ cords that bound his
brother to the stake, he rescued the life
of Putnam at the imminent peril of his
OW.11. Putnam, through all his subse
quent idveutures, never failed to admit
that he -oweii his life to Masonry, and
acknowledged that nothing but the force
of the Ma.spnic appeal would have- in
duced the French officer to risk the dan
ger of displeasing or exciting his Indian
allies, by thus rescuing their conquered
and already condemned enemy from the
staif^,—Kentucky Freematon.
Chicken Cholera.
The Georgia State Agricultural Socle
ty, at its recent meeting, offered a re
ward off250,for an infallible remedy for
chicken cholera. Whereupon an enter-
pn.sing German youth named Max Weir,
of Greenville, Ky., recommends a deooo-
tion of “smart weed’’ {Polygnuium Ily-
dropepper), as follows:
“The w'riter, a boy of thirteen years,
has been in the chicken business for the
last two years. This year, 1876, my hens
hatched over eight hundred chickens,
which I watched over in sunshine and
storm for months. All seemed to be do
ing well until the cholera appeared am
ong them. My financial prospects dark
ened, and my heart grew sad as I saw my
favorite hens departing this life.
“Calomel, sulphur, coal oil, assafeetida,
salt, etc., were tried faithfully, and no
good result obtained.
“I then tried a new remedy which was
recommended, and the mortality ceased
at once. Previous to this I had lost three
or four hundred chickens, and nearly all
were drooping. My chickens have im
proved, and I have lost but one in three
weeks, and hope the cholera is banished
from my poultry yard.
“The weed I used is called 'smart
weed’ in Kentucky, I gathered about
one bushel of the weed, and put it into a
large iron kettle ; added about ten gal-
ions of water, and boiled down until a
bout two or three gallons of dark liquor
remained. This liquor I mixed with
meal, about three pints to two or three
gallons of meal, and fed the same to two
bundled olvokens twice a day for three
days (preparing the decoction anew from
time to time as needed); then every other
day for a week. My chickens, it appears
have been saved by this remedy.—■South
ern Farmer. .
Had Ifo Fun in Him.
One of the members of the Methodist
Conference recently held here, was out
for a walk at an eany hour one morning,
and while on Howard street he encoun.-
tered a strapping fellow, who was draw
ing a wagon to a black smith shop.
"Catch hold here and help me down to
the shop with this wagon and I’ll buy
the whisky !’’ called the big fellow.
“I never drink,” solemnly replied the
good man.
“Well, you can take a cigar.”
“I never smoke,”
The man dropped the wagon tongue,
looked hard at the member, and asked :
“Don’t you chew ?”
“No, sir.” was the decided reply.
“You mu.st get mighty lonesome,”
mused the teamster.
“I guess I’m all right—I feel first rate.”
“I’ll bet you even that I can lay you
on your back,” remarked the teamster.
“Come, now, let’s warm up a little.”
“I never bet.”
“Well, let’s take each, other down fqr
fun, then. You are as bigas I am, and
I’ll give you the under hold.”
“I never have fun,” solemnly answered
the member.
“Well, I'm going to tackle you any
way. Here we go.”
Tlie teamster slid up and endeavored
to get a neck hold, but he had only just
commenced to fool about when he was
lifted clear off the grass and slammed
against a tree box with such force'that
he gasped half a dozen limes before he
could get his breath.
“Now, you must keep away from me!”
exclaimed the minister, picking up his
Cane.
“Bust me if I don’t!” replied the
teamster as he edged off. “What’s the
use in lying and saying that you don’t
have any fun in you when you’re chuck
full of it! Slame it. You wanted to
break my back, didn’t you ?”•—Detroit
Free Press.
Natural Photograpliy.
Some curious stones have been dis
covered in Tula de Hidalgo, Mexico, of
which a nativo correspondent writes ;—
There is a stratum not very thick com-
po.sed oi scales of rock of the same kiml,
placed horizontally, upon which stratum
there is a whitish green earth, all expos
ed to view by the rains The exterior
coatings have been broken off by the
action of time, forming a small promon
tory of fragments, which, as can readik’
be seen, present a great variety of ap
pearance, and each face has received and
is constantly receiving the landscape in
front of it, by means of a color so perfect
that I believe that art it.self cannot pio-
duce such relative exactness, as you will
see by the samples. The faces that re
ceive said images are only tho.se on the
sides, where the scales of the rocks have
been beer, broken, and never those on the
flat surface, which indicates that the
grain or pores of the rook are horizontal,
and that they oontributa, by absorbtion,
to produce the phenomenon. It is ob
served that some of 'ohe faces of the rock,
the newes', ones, receive two images at
the same time, inverce or opposite, that
is to say, one whose base rests
-FOR THE-
lASOFIO FEATEEHITY
IN
N. C. and the South.
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2here are in the South 200,000 Freemaw^-
aml recognizing the imperative need fo,-ar»
ular and i.ermauent Organ peculiarly snigi
to the demands ot this vast number “who a
Imxcd tcgcther by an iudissolute chain of a ,"
cpiaffectiJn, we are now publishing a fim
“EKZ-HONTHLY
Hlasonic Newspaper,
Such .'.S the dignity and advancement of the
Fraternity will approve, whicli is tlie
CUE A FES T P UBLICA TION
IN THE
UNI EH STATES
devoted strictly to
MASONIC INTERESTS.
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IVifh a joumalistio experience of several
years and a determination to give all our time,
talent and energy to the promotion of this im
portant entorprise we hope to receive from our
Masonic broilireu that liberal contideiieeand
support, wliich. by an entire devotion toitssuc-
cess no hope to merit.
Terms 11,50 per Year, and all money
should be sent by Check, i’ost-Uflice order or
IlegistcredLetter
Addrcs.s
E. A. WILSON,
Geeensboko, N. C.
955 to $20 E
per (lay at lionic. Samples worth $1
’ree. Stinson k Co.,Portland, Mamt,
the
upper angle of the ground and the
vortex above, and the other inverse,
whose base rests al.so on the upper angle,
the same as those produced by an optical
apparatus of only one lens. The faces
which begin to receive the first impres
sions only present the images of the near
est trees with wonderful perfection and
beauty ; those which have been in one
position for a long time without varia-
tiqn, present the complete landscape
witnin the whole visible horizon, and
even the most distant mou-itain.s by
which it it is limited. In these the in-
verse images appear to have been lost,
the vertic.al image corresponding to thU
natura. position of objects, remaining.
It appears, also, that the ink with which
the images are painted is indelible, but I
know not to what degree of resistance.
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