Jl'HE OUPIIAXS’ FHJEXD.
PUJLAC’llIJCO A1^I> JPKACi'iCii.
Many 3’eai^ ago asi incident
occurred in a iieigld^odiocKi where
the writer of till's,, then a bo}', re-
•sided, which made an im))re>>i>ion
on hw mind that will never bo
foig’>tten-
A farmer from one of the up
per counties, AYavren, Franklin
or Granville, porliaps, had gone
to the lisheries iu the eastern ^lart
of the State to lay in a supply of
herrings to eke out the meat su])-
ply for Ids family. ,Kea.r thotish-
eries he had the misfortune to lose
his hm*se. Then he hiniis'elf was
taken sick and lay iicveral weeks
before he was able to travel. Bv
tliis time his money was exhaust
ed and, as there were no railroads
in those da^’s, he started hoiii6 on
foot, depending upon charity for
subsistence by the wa}v
Late one evening lie arrived at
a farm liouso by the roadside
where lived a well-to-do, ^er^'
pious, and exceedingly close-tist-
ecl, .-stiEfigy old Clnistian fanuei’,
whom >vo will call Smith. Bro.
Smith led an vexeioplary life, lie
lattended all the .sippoiiitraeiits at
his church, occupied .a seat iu the
“Amen corner,” and .always put
in the orthodox gumiis in the
right places. He -held family
prayers, too, and frequently liad
.all hands, black and wliite, as-
;Bembled ni'ound tlio family altar
in the morning .devoutly thank
ing the Almighty for bringing
tlioni to “sec the light of anorlier
day” at least half an hour before
that light wa-s visible, especialh’
in very busy seasons.
This was tlie iiniu approached
by the weary, s-ick foot-tra\xier,
who told him Jiis misfortunes and
asked to be allowed to stay over
the niglit with him. “Well, my
friend, i am really sorry for you,
but our house is suiaJl and we
. have a large fannly ; besides, we
; never take in strangers. I’hero
- are several other houses along the
road and I am .sure you can stav'
at some of theuu” “How far is
it to the next house ?” “About a
.mile. Good by, niy trieiul, God
bless you,” and bro. Smith turned
into tlie gate and .shut it.
Tl'.e next morning a neighbor
who h.ad made an early start to
mill, discovered a body lying on
the bank of a bi’anch by the road
side, and on approaching, found
it to be the dea/1 bod}' of a man
—tliG man who had sought lodg
ing with bro. Smith the evening
previous, Au inquest vras lield
and bro. Smith wtus one of tliose
who testified before it, giving iu
his evidence with all the placidity
of countenance of a conscience-
propped good. Samaritan, remem
bering, no doubt with great selt-
satisfaction, that the Lust words
lie uttered to the poor stranger
the niglit l>efore, was to call down
God’s blessing on him.
(fAWifi. Bro. SinitJi always pi’ay-
el with grejit unction and feiu’or
tliat God would bless the [wor
and need}"; tlwt lie would feed
the hungry and clothe the naked,
and take caire of the fatherless
and the widow".)
We give the abo%”e incident to
exemplify the difference betweeii
prciichiiig and practice. Here is
another:
Some of our readers have,
doubtless, read the little j,)oem of
tlve fatlier and son on tlie subject
of oliarity. father pra'S'ed
difcil}'’ to the IjOnl to pit}^ the
j>’>or and necvly and to ftxd Ihe
liungr}^ Walking u itli liis little
boy tlirongii liis fields ju.^t before
LiU'vcst, wliich gave promise of
groat abundcince, ho began to
of the necessity of buihliug
new bmw to';'contaiu his grain.
His little boy seemed to be en
gaged ill deep tliought for a while,
then raising his head he asked,
“Father, don’t you jiray every
niglit and morning that God
would take care of the poor and
needy, and feed the Imngry f’
“Yes, my son, I do.” “Well,
father, don’t 3'ou think that, if
the Lord liad vour wheat, he’d
do it f’
7’he harvests all over this coun
try are abundant tins season. Nd
doubt many of the owners of
these abundant harvests pray at
least every Sunday and, perliajis,
some of them every day, that the
Lord will ble^js the poor and
needy, the ^vidow and the orphan.
Would the remark of the little
lx)y to his father be pertinent in
their case? “if the Lord had
that big pile ot corn, all those
stacks of wheat and oats, those
bales of cotton, barns of. tobacco
and bu.shels, of potatoes, he’d do
it?” God indeed l.as all t'lCie
tilings, but he ha.s placed them in
the iiands of his stews,rils to man
age, to see which of them will
prove “faitliful over a few things,”
that Iiereafter he may make them
“rulers over .many things.” Jf
any of these stewai’ds should
prove unfaitJiful to tlie trust re
posed in them, isn’t thei'e danger
tiiat they may be deprived of the
little at first-entrusted to them?
The Jxu'd has a vast amount of
property in the Lauds of liis
ageiit.^, in this country, in the
shape ot houses and lands, horses,
slieep and horned cattle, coni,
wheat, cotton, rice, tobacco, pota
toes, maiuifactured gootls, \\'ai'eB'
and mercluindise, on which, he’
J
Tail' TO TAU aSVER
AOAOE'TT. •
Gn Saturday last u-e'fook out
a ^omjianysQff >(5rpkaus to give a
concert at Tar Kiver Acadeiin',
e'glit miles from Oxford. We
had a very good audience and a
pleasant time. Bev. ilr. Ferrall
o])ened the exercises with prayer,
and afterwards made a very feel-
ang appeal in behalf of the or-
phauH. The' substantial farmers
alid the true hearted ladies of the
neiglib'orhood'responded liborallv
to the appeal by contributing to
the wniits'of the orphans of the
bounty wit.h^^’hich I’rovidence lias
blessed -tliVjrii* tlie' present yerr.
Wc' arh un'able,' at present, to
give ail aggregate of the contri
butions, but we will say that the
amount of flour, wheat, corn, po
tatoes and other tilings pledged,
will liMp us along for some time.
We were so well pleased with the
good people of that region and
bur sliort visit among thorn, that
we are detenaiued. to go again
when a fitting*
s'eiits- itself' ''
OtlTOliEfiS TiaotlGliTS.
It is sometimes considered
strange that, with the month of
(October we always iissociate the
idea of cbeerfuiness and mirth
and light-hearted labor. Itwould
seqiii as. if exactly the contrary
efiprt would be produced on us
by his crisp airs and his threaten
ing u.-kens. The dreary s«is€n
of short dark da-ys, gray weather,
and storms is apju-oacliing, the
imprisonment of the snow, the
black winter cold. The, flowers
are. gone, the leaves are going ;
irost. is.tilre^Vdy upon us; the sum
mer’s &uuitoring - is o.ver, the
nooulit stroll,-, tiie sunset sni!
yes but a. vory pen-cciitage j fPg. a,.,cl un-pbi-,
tor t'lcir use and wijoymeut. But tl.i.v,.,.,,,,,,,! i., d,,.,,., a„d sodden,
tins claim only paitiaiiy ac- and bup might suppose it debata-
knowledged by a few, and entire
ly ignoreil by the rest. He has
placed Ids repi'esentiitives here^
among us to receive the small pit
tance he demands as a token .)f
oumer-ship., yet these tenants of
ten drive off these representatives
and , refuse to pay to them tlie
rent, and try liy all means to get
their Loivl’s property entirely in
to tlieir own hands and ignore
him altogether as propnetov.
Well, lie will return after a
while and “begin to reckon u’itli
them,” and wiio is read}' for the
settlement ? *T was cold and
himgr}" and naked, sick and in
prison, and ye ministered ui?to
me.” -When? Where P “For
asmuch as ye did it to these my
brethren, ye did it unto me.” But
for a full explanation of the man
ner in which that settlement is to
be conducted, and the jioints, on
wliicli it is to turn, we refer the
reader to the 2bth cliaptcr of Mat-
tiiew.
Be Kino to Your Wife.—
Frieiul, your wifelo%’es neatness;
now, wlien you enter that home
which she is trying to make at
tractive to you, see that you show
a corresjxmdent desire. You like
to see t'oiir v^■ife ne^itly and taste
fully dressed at home; follow her
example, and throw ofii, with the
caa^ of the world, }'our soiled
garments and be deaii and tast\.
When you take your jaiper ti»
read do not read to y ourself and
leave her to loiiesoiise tliougiits
wliile sewing or mending, hut re
member that she, too, has been
working. K'Oad to lier wluitevcT
interest you, so dial her ijiterest
and opinions may grow with
yoiu's, and that slie may com-
])rehend something besides love
sti»rie.s, of whicli too manv' have
read more than they should
ble whether it were best to keep
alive or no.k instead of lejoiciiig
ourselvps o-ver tiio circiimstunccs
of life, as ib render such condi
tions, it were the boon wortli the
having*.
And yct.-sucli is the perversit}-
of imman JUilure that not when
Spring ru-stles all • her ])roml.se yf
})erfume and blossom, of warmth
and ea.se and bciiuty, when, the
saj) moLJnts;and the blood bub
bles and the year opens with re-
nen-ql of youth’s freshness, are we
half so cheerful as when this red
October hangs out his banners.
"W^c take no heed then of the fu
ture, and we forget that all the
splendor of his array cjia.nges
•pri^ently, like fairy" money, to
ashes, , .
■‘■‘Jingli'i yfUow re.it amt nrango,
Tlie !onvi'S, y.Jiii‘? ai lu+sW,
' Tln‘frop.^ are Indian [irinces,
lint glias^.s”-^
ghosts i\ hpse apiiaratioii doe.s not
give ils a ly iippreluns'cn. The
dazzling, ep-Joi- is enough for us
now; andnvith the golden sun-
shiiio of tlie?lms and beeches, the
roj’al piirple of fho ash, the dull
criinsrni and brown of tlie oak,
the superb and scarlet flaming of
maple and tujjelo and sum.ic, the
whole atmosphere is full of splen
dor, and w'c catch the spirit of
jubilee—}JOrhaps a battailous and
triumplmnt Jubilee—as w'c march
out to conquer the coming hosts
of winter.
“Red k'nves, tiiiling-,
Fidl uufailina".,
Dntppiijg, sailing,
Frodji riic'wwnd
I'liiU, uijpUaiit,
Stjuuls (letiant,
Iviivt '3 giant
Dritpjiiiig blood.”
ITtny much of this cheerfulniess
is duo to llie bracing influence of
the (.)cr'djcr uii', which is *apt to
ivurk like iron in the veins. Li»d
I how much to the effect of light
j und-ctilor upon th i nerves, u: »s
not quite easy to determine. Bv
the bracing atmo-snliero of the
seaside or of the mountains, hoiv-
ever, we are uot ahvays made
j piu'tieuiurly cheerful, but by that
of the suuuy October days, other
things being equal, the /-^appy
change seldem fails to be wroug/'t,
: and we m;iy proudl}' iuuigiue iu
OLirf^lves au uuguessed and uu-
c iiciuus susceptibility to beauty
that is able to work miracles and
turn even dead Laves into the
brilliant jewels of t/m tree.s iu Al
addin’s gai’deu.
There is sueJi an illumination
})i*esei.t every where, such an air\-
splendor lifting the woods them
selves, such a field of the ciotii of
gold set among all dead ferns and
brakesand stubble, tiiere i-i such
a lofty soaring of the lig*hted sky
above us and around, that the
will of beauty must be wrought
unaware upon the veriest dolt and
clown among us. Far off, t >0 on
the. horizon siudi hazes brooJ,
with tlieir soft deep violet tints,
now and then letting a sheet of
sunlight through to sift upon the
s-.ione, leading into tlie unknown
and borrowing of the i ifiuite, a id
giving a certain satisfaction iu the
view ; for wherever any sugges
tion of tlie iuli.iite is given, com
fort is to be found by' those mor
tals to whom the idea of mortality
is heavy with gloom.
Thus it is not impossible that
out of tlie mere affairs of the fan
cy, the hues of leaf and sky and
landscape, a positive liapi-iness i.s
wrougiit quite equal to ibe haopi
ness usuaiiy given by wliat are
reckoned more snbstanti.d things.,
It is well known that among, ilk-
most cheerful scu^raiions produc
ed byr externals aie those produc
ed by the vari(>us degreo.s ofr.-b.;
espenbdiy’ the sijades of cherry,
carnation, aiid dec]) crimson.
Tlie coquette understands a--
she knots a rep ribbon in her hair, i
and the l>eaut\', kio, wliose dam
ask blu.sh is her chief ornameti' :
tlie crinisoii-carpeted'rooni is the
one which instantly reiniiHis ’ ns .
of warnith jf.ud ideesure, Jiiid iu
which any gi-eat bill of .spirils
from a high temperature seeuis
iin])0ssihle; it is the'^gray sea
picture into which dhnner thrusts
the vcriniliou-colored buoy, and
transforms it; itistlierussetcolor-
ed autumn that nature enlivens
with tlie scarlet leaf. And vet
those reds are the color of blood,
the signal of battle, the exponent
of siaugliter and of fire: aud why
a color that i.s the vef}' flag of
uur, aud the rc['reseutntive of
cruel wounds ami deatl!, should
give us p’e isaut and comfortable
sensations is only exidicable by
the suppo.sitiou t lat iu itself the
rosy ray acts a stimulant upon
the nerves, exciting these- com
fortable sjiisations. TAere Is, in
deed, somet//iug rat/ter flattering
to our vauity iu tAe belief tAat
we are iJms strongly affected by
such ^cst7^etic forces ; but if it is
supposable tAat the most of us
Aave souls, tAe idea is ueitAer
very' extraordinary uoi* fantastic.
But quite apart from this mere
ly intellectual 0* nervous action
upon our batteries in tliis matter
of OctoJxir cheer is tl;e mucli
more ea.rtlil}' and solid content
occasioned by the completion of
harvest aud liarvesting, the knowl
edge that the round World over
the laborer is reaping bis reward,
that the eartli lias again paid lier
dividend to the race, that nature
has done liei* duty and kept her
prouiise, that tlie Great Guardian
still sees that neither seed-time
nor harvest tails in its season. In
deed, if the bursting of the z\}>ril
j kiaf a d fl. over makes one feel
AbatG-.al IS alive iu His world,
t oil the lipoiiing of the broad
-iiilds fioin east to wek of the
planet, the filling of tlie v.-ist
granaiies, the gift of the yea.-s
food to man aim beast, guo o.ie
even lii’iner as.suranco tl at t ie
great pulse is beating tliroagh the
days aud nights, aiul that the
eternal life and the eternal h^-c
go hand in hand. Wiiat wonder,
then, that, altiumgli wo do not
pause to consi^ler it, the Cv)n-
sciou.sness that ^ve .arc so’ su.-
rouuded by the Divine care tliat
11 j malice .f the fienwe •eBbiehta
can reacli us .should make us
light-hearted : enough to go for
ward gayly to meet the'icy'darts
that winter slings,- secure in ’our
power of protection, and delight-
iiig to turn old Jiusuaniis fnuu an
enemy fi.v a friend? Wb.o;-.in
deed, can be au\thing but, g-av,
unless there are some fai'ts' of
actual care and s-uTow aud jjahi
to supervene aud strip uwav , 11
the bright glamour from lift-,
wlieu the world around is so gay
that nature seenu-^ to make -lioli-
day and to liold him a clfxnT who
refuses to join t.lio I'evel—the
revel where the uoou suu hangs
iu au azure sky, aud soft breezes
curl, and resinoius balms inform
the air, and splendid colors -set
the scene,? And; tllon, as twi
light hangs iu tiie ' heaven, ready
t ) fail, aud a soft soikruu.tv «■;’
ti.at hour takes the })la.--e of jolli
ty, it seems rattier a sacruifo of
praise and tliauxs, i);)yvjiose ak;ir
has bjk-u shed the heart’s blood of
the year.' 'And in.ihat who.is iy
whether full .of biiss or fulk oi
a. Oils?? o
pain, that ha.^ no pmt ’ ’ •
'ihiiis we s v.i tyatfi after
i.-'erd 16 iiot/'/iiig s;
■ h's Octolr-r' ‘ti-’.e-
U,
sinj..uJa:-' ::i
iilinks.s^- , a:;-i
t.’/at, iu-dis 'a: c--ir'r.o'y..’ snijif
Ovoriid _ i) ■sikgufp;; . ■•pfiiig,
nk.'e f">\ fn.iiid.'ico.i^d .Ijy.uywpbm,
//a\’iiig ;,'Vi.s •c-varrumg pro.s-Ui,
r/ojii M>'igitoi'e 'i:.-r.Woti,gA-h>hr ■>-■1
:M • 1 uoiTo, a 11 dk//;(t i 1 ■' Os' "\v4.s‘' h >: 
a.s w.-iJ ;{.s jdo.'.soi'i- to orxj'ov 't-i-ix
i)ng//.f Octol)c.-hl;iw.fil'-e rOkO'.s,
. iuce '
u> iiujn-rj-.T’.i jii.i
Full! ’.viii.Js ski'! • -r-;
linn . -t . ■ • »1- •
•O’lscuro tliQ .Ycf . flio.se , f.'uli'i-:
luuii , , ■ • ■ 1 • •
.•Vutl f.riiiy CifS lc»v(;liiu-iid ui
lati> tiif miml. mu] jilui!! huvi
Thf iii'ou her u.-i
Ill (’'‘t'it.s."
, DaXOEIv O'S :i>Lw .> - )■-, r K.'R-
O.SKNE i.A3a>.s.— )I1 'l'![,.s.la\'
iibimt 11 luaiiw;, as J. .uv .■La.-t.;.!,
cokireij, froni V'. aviiiiKi)..ii'i>,
on 11 visit to I'a . I a- .fo.fari.i'i, ii..;-
I'i.()thei--iii-laiv, ru-ra, v. :i« iiii >
r tiriair, .si eitiiniud do-.vii ii koi-.-
sene oi! laiuji mi i
bracket i!,yai!i,st the \v,a]|. A.s t'l i
blaze was not lin-'ieil eiuireiv
she blew in the eiiiinnev to jniti;:.
out Tlie lainj) iij,stantl\- ex
ploded, burning- lier t'ai-o a-id
breast ilreadi'I’aa lor .leffn--
son and his wile laii in and tln-e-w
a Idanket over her, sniothei-iu ;
the flames, his w:tb getting iier
hands badly burnt in the atiehi'pt
I)i- Jieese was called, in and ren
dered the deces.sary medical at
tention.—Staunton Vindicator.
A good man addressed a Stin-
day-.school in Zane.sville, (.fliio,
i-ecently. lie told them of' tho
better world in tones so pathetic,
and -with tears so sincere, that he
seemed to touch the chords of fin-
est feeling in their gentle young|^'
bosom,s, and concluding his elcy
queiit harangue ho requested
them to sing “Jordan.” Bift, ink
stead ot “Jordan’s Stormy Banks,”
lie was astonished to hear shout
ed iu one nukrokeir clioru.s, “Jor
dan am a hard road to trabel.’’