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VOLUME III. OXFOlil), N. C., WEDNESDAY, EEBKUARY 14, 1-877. NUMBER 7. OOOD NATIJUE A\0 »LAIVDEK« Oh ! (lid you uot hear in your nnrs(!ry, 'Die tale that the i^ossips tell, Of two young girls that came to drink At a certain fairy well ? The words of the youngest were as sweet As the sinilo of lier ruby lip, 13ut the tongue of the eldest seemed t(» move As if venom were on its ti^) ! At the well a beggar accosted them, A spirit In mean disguise ; The eldest spoke with a scori’.ful brow, The youngest with tearful eyes ; Cried the Fairy, “Whenever ^ou speak, sweet giil> Pure gems from your lips shall fall; But whenever yow utter a word, proud maid, From your tongue shall a serpent fall.’' And have you not mot with these sisters oft. In tlie liaunts of the old and young f 'J’lie first with her pure ami unsullied lip ? The last with her serpent tongue f Yes; the first is GqocI Nature; diamonds bright On the darkest theme she tlirows ; And the last is Slander ; leaving the slimo Of the snake wherever she goes ! The Christian Advocate has an article taken from a jiamphlet, latelt' published by Rev. Atticus fl. llaygood, D.D., Ih'osiJent of Emory College, Oxford, Ga. We make the following extracts : “Our failure to improve our antebellum opportunities has al- read}' brought us great damage. If we still refuse to devise liberal things for tile higher education of our people, we will feel this lack very keenly in the near future. There are some who recognize .and deplore this lack to-day. The South needs more thoroughlv educated men,and women. It is doubtless true of other sections. But we know it is true of our own. We feel the need of them .now, ami in every department ■where educated men are needed. In tile pulpit, ill law, in medicine, .ill the scliool room, in jouriiiilisiii, ■we need them. On tlie bench, in the executive departments of.civil giiveriiineiit, in our .legislative halls. State and National, there is .no use in the variiish of mere words; unpopular as our theme .and opinions may be, we must say straight out what we. believe and have believed for years, we Southern people are suffering in calculable loss from out^ lack of Broadly, thoroughly educated men in important truths, both secular and religious; and as surely as we have a future, this lack will be felt more painfully' in the coming years. It is a sacred duty of patriotism that we sup ply, as best we may', this lack of men fully furnished for the work their country demands at their hands. Whoever, in the provi dence of God, is able to do some thing, though it be but a little, to broaden and deepen the founda tions of our educational sy'stem should ponder the words of Dinter, a Prussian school coun- salor, who said ; “I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education, as a man and a Christian, it tvas possible for mo to provide.” AVe knew a College boy', long time ago, who said he had been tiying the calculus on the prob lem of paving a S2.00 debt with Si.00. lie may' be trying till this d a y f or a 11 w e k 11 o w—w e k n o w t h a t he is a broken merchant. AVhv don’t oiir Conferences and trustees try the calculus on the |)rcibleiii of creating Hrst class Colleges without money ; of doing benefi ciary work without money’; of rivalling and surpassing rich and venerable institutions in Europe witiiout money ? It would be an improving, if not an entertaining divertisenient, truly. Do we, as yet, know this simple, self-evidencing truth, that a Col lege can not exist without money I That it cannot by any amount of skill or energy, be created ivith- out money f It is to be feared not. AVe know that it takes money to build railroads, facto ries, cities. But as to our Colle ges, we go on getting charters, inventing names, appointing trus tees, electing faculties. As if a College could be created by the magic of wind instrLimeiits ! Suppose we give up our Col leges ‘1 Then we choose between a tow grade of primary' education for our children and sending them abroad, but we do not choose the first, and we should not choose the second. AVe do not wish our children educated abroad, but at home. And it will cost more, in money, to send them abroad than to make our home Colleges, by- liberal endowment and eqiiip- iiieiit, all they need to be. KllIVS OF C-tSJ’J'IlAGE. Air. Robertson, a Scotch gen tleman, writes as follows of .a re cent visit to the site of ancient Cartilage : “Landing at the little town of Goletta, wlneii is the port of Tunis, and distant from it about ten miles, 1 put up at the hotel there, kept by an Italian. A wide but shallow lagoon stretches out towards the modern city on the, left, with which coiniiiunication is kept up by .trains which run at intervals during theday'. A mile or two out from the station, on a wide plateau, we come ujion the foundations of a tvall some three feet in thickness. Following this for three miles we come to some ploughed ground covered with fragments of broken marble col umns, with here and there a heap of ruins fast crumbling to decay'. Seated among these, we contem plate the history of a city w'liich was once the rival of Rome, and towards which the ey’es of the civilized world were turned. Here Hannibal, wlien.a boy nine years of age, was led to the altar by his lather Ilamilcar, and there, with his bauds upon it, made to swear eternal hostility to the Roman people—an oath which his after life proved had not been forgot ten by' him. On this hillside, in later years, the Roman envoy's stood ; and one of them, address ing the Carthaginian Senate, said, folding his toga over l.is arm, ‘In this fold ! carry' peace or war; choose you which y'ou will have.’ ‘Give us which you will,’ is the reply. ‘ Then take war,’ says tlie Roman envoy, lotting his toga fall loose; and war liorce and long continued was once more w’aged between these hostile forces. The only remains in anv way complete are the reservoirs and the aqueduct. The former are in a good state of preserva tion, and are constructed on a scale of great magiiifloeiice. They are calculated to hold a large supply of water. These have all been arched over, but some of the arches are beginning to give way, and have tumbled irito tlie .tanks. Round the margin of these pools paths extend, paved with small pieces of polished nial'hle about an inch square. All around may’ be picked up tlie fragments of broken pottery, broken jars, &o , which, doubtless, have been in use for the carrying of water by the maidens of the city. Tlie lovely' situation of the city, stand ing on that prominent headland against which the waves of the Alediterranean beat .as in days when the Roman fleet went down beneath them, went far to capti vate those who ultimately became its conquerors. That it might not be so accessible to foreigti in vasion accounts in all probability for the change of situation in the more modern city of Tunis. It was witli regret I found among the material collected for build- iiig purposes at the town of Go^ letta parts of marble columns with carved work of the most magiiiticent description, all of which are being broken up to erect snino humble steadings. The Italians and Spaniards of the Middle Ages have adorned their palaces with marbles from Car thage, and the A'’eiietians liave their friezes and columns which were once the admiration of Dido and of Ilaiiiiihal.”^:—AA lA Oi- server. WHO DID ITi TIJ.E Si'OiiE.y -WOKD, .Preaching is characteristic of Christianity. No false religion has ever prot ided for the regular and frequent assembling of tlie masses of men to hear rijffigious instruc tion and exhortation. Judaism had something like it, in the projiliets, and afterwards in the readers and speakers of the syn agogue; but Judaism was a true religion, designed to be developed into Christianity. The great appointed means of spreading the good tidings of salvation tlirough Christ is preach ing—words spoken, whether to the individual or to the assembly. And this, nothing can supersede. Printing has become a mighty' agency for good and for evil; and Christians should employ it, with the utmost diligence and in every' possible way, for the.spread of truth. But printing can never take the place of the living woid. AVhen a man who is apt in teaching, whose soul is on fire with the truth which he trusts has saved him, and hopes will save others, speaks to his fellow- men, face to face, ey-e to eve, and electric sy'mpathies flash to and fro between him and his hearers, till they lift each other up, higher and higher, into the intensest thought and the most impassioned emotion—higher and yet higher, till they are borne as on chariots of lire above the world—-tliere is a power to move men, to iiifliieiice character, life, destiny, such as no printed page can ever possess.—J. A. Broaclus, D.D. Not far from where we now write lies the body' ofa young man whose death was caused by tiie use of intoxicating drinks. He had a good, firm, natural consti tution, a healthy physical organ ization and development, and but for the use of rum, might have lived many' years, have been an hniior to his species, and in h’s life-work served his God and his generation, lint ho learned to love the intoxicating cup; he indulged his appetite, was a con stant customer at the bar of the rum-seller, and to-day lies cold in death, dying as a fool dieth. AVhat killed poor.S.? AYlio killed poor S.I It will be said that he died of delirium, and delirium is disease. That he died of disease. Yes, the drunkard’s deliriitni— a disease to which the human body is in no sense liable, except the poison causing it is taken into the stomach. A man is found dead by' the roadside. Upon examination, a.woitnd, evidently made by a dagger, is found, and the jury returned a verdict that the decease came to his death by the infliclion of wounds with a sharp instrument in the hands of some imkiiowii person or persons. And it is called murder, since wounds are in no souse the result of natural causes. But it is said that our neighbor died of disease, and some cull it iiifiain- niatiou of the brain. But let it be remembered that delirium tremens ne\-er conies front natural causes. It is not the result of cold, it is not produced by malaria. It is alway-s the result of violence, quite as much as knife or gunshot woitndsare. AVhat verdict should be rendered by a just ])ublic is this easel Shall it bo said that our neighbor came to Iiis death bv natural cau.sesi It would be a lie! These were not natutal causes. He came to his death from the effects of iiitoxioatiiig drinks, administered by- the hand of seme imkiiown person or per sons. In this insance there is mutder, just as truly as in the former. AVe are right in saving this, and defy contradition. charity will feed the wife and chil dren; but it will not be the rum- seller.'^’ charity. “Oh, Lord, how long!” Justice may grind slotv, bat it is sure!—Bev. 1^. W. Chaj)~ man, in Church Union, “ Irenatiis,” in New York Oh- server, gives an amusing account of the “AVomen’s Convention,” ■ecently' convened in AA^ashing- ton. Speaking of the strong minded women of the suffrage persuasion lie says i “They seem to forget that one star diff'ereth from another star in glory-: that there is one glory of the man and another glory’ of the woman, and that in the image of God, male and female, created ho them. J’hey' forget that the Lord liath said, ‘'tlio woman is. the glory of the man,” and “the 'man was not created for the the wo man, blit the woman lor the nian.’^ And emphatically did these wo men forget that the same blessed Lord, whose tvords they can no^t bear to hear, had said, and saith it now’, “I w:OLild have you to know that the head of every' man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and tire bead of Christ is .God.” AYlien that truth is ripped out of Holy' Beriptlire, when the in stinct of conjugal affection and sacred motherhood is smothered in the breast of woman, when the sweet charms and charities of so cial and domestic life are wither ed, and the growing infidelity of the age has struck down the last sentiment of reverence for the divine word and will, then this rebellion against the holiest in stincts of nature will be success ful in a land yet abounding in sensible women VULGAKISM li\ EANCHIAGE. A^ulgarism in language is a dis- tinguisliiug characteristic of bad But this man had a young wife, who to-day', but for rum, might have had an honest and true husband. Slie is a widow now in her youth. What made her a widow! AVhiskey! AVho made her tt rvidow? The men who gave it to him who tvas her husband! This man had several small children, left now to the tender mercies of a cold world. AVhat made them fatherless? Drink did it! AA^ho made them fatherless? The men who gave their father the poisoned cup! They' made them fatherless! Will tl ley now come fowarcl, and from their illgotten gains feed this widow and her helpless chil dren! AVill they' find her a home and provide herself and children clothing to keep them warm? Is it possible that the men who have been so unkind as to ))oison the lawful protector of this woman and her children, will now be so benevolent as to meet her natural wants? “Consistency, thou art a jewel.” Nay! Chari ty will bury the dead husband; company’, and a bad education. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers .of .the rhetoric of a vulgar man. He has alway-s some favorite word for the time being ; wditch, for the sake of using often, he commonl-v abuses; such as, vastly angry, vastly kind, vastly handsome, and vastly ugh'. I'le sometimes affects hard words, by way of ornament, which he always mangles. A man of fashion never has recourse to prov erbs and vulgar aphorisms ; uses neither favorite words, nor hard words; but takes great care to speak correctly and grammatical ly, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the use of the best companies. —Chesterfield. AA^illiain Cullen Brvan now approaching a century "of yeaivs is an example of the benefits of a sy’inmetry of life, “he is yet as brJliant, forceful and perfect as in earlier life.” No one faculty of nature should be unduly e.xerted, the intellectual, physical and moral, would be harmoniously exercised. It this rule is observed there will bo no dotage. ^ A Boston lady who was at the Exhibition on Pennsylvania Day, remarked to a friend tliat she saw all sorts of j-ieojJe, among whom was a woman with one eve, who thought she ought to be admitted for half price.
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