The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1866 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 6.1
BELLVILLE, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1866.
{ NO. 19.
(tatqwan.
J. P. OSTERHOUT, Proprietor.
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BELLVILLE. AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS.
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Austin County, Texas,
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BEN T. &. CHARLES A. HARRIS,
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BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas.
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Attorneys at Law.
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Grimes county, Texas,
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BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas.
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BUILDING ON THE SAND,
'Tis well to woo, 'tis well to wed,
For so the world hath done
Since myrtles grew, and roses blew,
And morning brought the sun.
But have a care, ye young and fair,
Be sure ye pledge with truth ;
Be certain that young love will
wear ,
Beyond the days of youth !
For if you give not heart for heart,
As well as hand for hand,
You'll find you've played the un-
wise part,
And "built upon the sand."
'Tis well to save. 'Tis well to have
A goodly store of gold, .
And hold enough of shining stuff,
For chaiity is cold.
But place not all your hope and
trust
Ir. what the deep mine brings;
We cannot live on yellow dust,
Unmixed with purer things;
And he who piles up wealth alone.
Will often have to stand
Beside his chest, and own
'Tis "built upon the sand."
'Tis good to speak in kindly guise,
And soothe where'er you can;
Fair speech should bind the human
mind,
And love link man to man,
And stay not at the gentle words;
Let deeds with language dwell;
The one who pities starving birds,
Should scatter crumbs as well.
The mercy that is warm and true
Must lend a helping hand,
For those who talk yet fail to do,
But "build upon the sand."
kellaiteras.
open door, leaving the house with a
most unearthly yell. To this day
the husband was ready to testify that
Lorenzo not only could, but in his
Eresence did raise the devil, for he
ad seen and smellad him.
LORENZO DOW.
Every body has heard of Lorenzo
Dow, the eccentric itinerant pBeach-
er. Belated one night in his travels,
he entered, quite nnceremoneously,
an out of the way house and request-
ed lodging. The woman of the house
objected, having for a friend one
whom Lorenzo soon ascertained was
not her husband. But Lorenzo in-
sisted, and shy at length consented-
immediately fastening, against furth-
er unwelcome visitors, the only out-
side door of the house. ' Soon a loud
knocking was heard. It was her
husband, unexpectedly returned.—
Unable to leave the house, the friend,
to conceal himself jumped into a large
box conveniently at hand, and hasti-
ly covered himself with the hatchel-
ings of flax it contained : by which
time the wife had unfastened the
door and admitted her husband.-
Having spent the evening at the tav-
ern, he was just tipsy enough to be
both boisterous and courageous. He
soon made the acquaintance of Loren-
zo, whom he had heard much of but
had never seen. He had been told
that he could raise the devil; and he
insisted upon his immediately doing
so—not that he believed in any, but if
there was any he wanted to see him.
In vain Lorenzo objected; protest-
ing his unwillingness and the danger
attending it, etc.; but the more than
half drunken husband insisted. At
last, said Lorenzo, "If you are deter-
mined to see him, open the door, put
out the light, and stand out of his
way, or he may take you with him ;
for when ho comes it will be in a
flame of fire, and I warn you of the
consequences." Lighting a bunch of
matches, that there might be the
greater smell of brimstone; and mut-
tering over a few unintelligible sen-
tences, Lorenzo set fire to the hatchel-
ings, and cried out: **Come forth,
thou evil one, and begone forever!"
when out sprang the man, completely
enveloped in flames, and put for the
Your slave-bound' women show it in
their confidence lacking looks. Both
of ye at heart believe you're dol
morally wrong,-and contrary i
mon decency !
Tkfi ImendeiT Constitu-
tion.
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A NEWSPAPER IN A FAMILY.
The minds of active children are
ever agog after something on which
their fancy may rest. The principle
of human faculty can never be satis-
fied short of enjoyment in something.
This being a self evident position, the
question fairly arises, what is the
beBt food for such minds? If we
wish their faculties to remain useless,
deprive children as much as possible,
of sources of information, teach them
that all polish of whatever kind it
may be is superfluous. Then they
will either be drones or vagabonds,
acc >rding as the bent of their inclina-
tions may lead them. But on the
contrary, if you would like to have
the offspring of your charge both ac-
tive and useful, place such incentives
before them, as would lead a tender
and sensible mind into a train of use-
ful thoughts, which would so bias
future conduct, as to justify the say-
ing of the wise man, "Train up a
child in the way he should go and
when he is old he will not depart
from it." One great source of this
bending the twig, may be attributed
to the reading of newspapers. There
is not at any ono time, more matter
placed before a child than he may
think he can peruse in the course of a
week; after which soon arrives
another treat, until it becomes a mat*
ter of course; and in proportion to
the expansion of the mind of the
child, will the eagerness for each suc-
cessive paper increase. When once
this thirst for improvement, and in-
formation has gained an ascendency,
the little fooleries and foibles that so
frequently disgrace neighborhoods,
and in which none bat the frivolous
and uncultivated are engaged, will
be done away. At the same time
such children are more attached to
industry, for when the toils of the day
are over, a mental collation awaits
the mind at home, in the character of
a weekly visitant, and the children
are not seekiug relief from toil by
perambulating a neighbor's premises.
PLAIN TALK IN MORMOJT-
DOM.
Free speech seems to he breaking
in upon Mormondom. The Union
Vedette, published at Salt Lake City,
talks as if it were not afraid of Brig-
ham Young. It says : •
A Mormon at Coalville, Summit
county, 40 miles from here had two
"babies'1 born to him the other night,
by two of his wives, with just forty
minutes difference between the infants
ages. But what's the worst about the
barbarous thing is, that one of those is
the other's mother, but not an un-
common thing in Utah! The "hap-
py husband" has been here with the
Saints full sixteen years, working like
a hired man, and yet has only an
abode cabin, with only one bed in it,
and a garden patch, as the result of
their Utah enterprise. That's all
that's left from the yearly tithings—
barring the babies.
Then follows:
QUERY FOR the SAINTS.
We will bet a bran new briar stem
and mere sham thrown in, that there
isn't a polygamist posted enough in
law to give the relations which exist
between the children begotten by the
same father but by different "wives"
—where one of those "wives" was
'the other's mother—a case quite com-
mon here in Utah. And we'll go
them a pipe-stem better, that there
isn't a Philadelphia lawyer in the
country who can solve such mis-
cegenation cases, scientifically, scrip-
tually or correctly. O! fie! sic! on
such beastly barbarism as thai; and
well ye know and show it in your
very countenances that it is so.—
ABOVE HIS BUSINESS.
It is a serious evil that many a
young man has fallen into to be above
his business. A person learns a
trade, and then he must go to shop-
keening, or street-loafing, or turn
politician. Fool! If he can not
make a living at his trade, we are
sure he can not any other way. And
then young men brought up to shop-
keeping must buy farms, or houses,
or some other foolish things they
know nothing about, and what is the
result 1 Head over heels in debt
and certain failure. Multitudes have
been ruined by being above their
business and branching out into what
they know nothing about.
There is no trouble about young
men who don't feel their importance,
and are willing to work at their trades
or professions till they eet a little
beforehand. With a small capital to
fall back upon, they can feel like ven-
turing into other business—and by
this time will have formed habits
that are likely to keep them straight.
Those who succeed nest in life are
men who stick to business and make
money before they buy farms and
houses and commence speculating.—
Look at our successful men, and you
will see where lies the secret of suc-
cess.
You will find that they never were
above their business, and never paid
for the doing of a job which they
could just as well do themselves. Of
this we are sure; if all men will be
prompt and punctual, stick to their
business, and not bo too proud, they
will eventually succeed, and become
independent.
The Great Rule of Conduct.—The
rule of conduct followed by Lord Ers-
kine—a man of sterling independence
ipvPotis adherence
to trutli-are worthy of bein
it
of principle and scruj
>y of being en-
graven on every young man's heart.
"It was a first command and counsel
of my youth," he said, "always to do
what my conscience told me to do,
my duty, and to leave the conse-
quence to Grrd. I shall carry with
me the memory, and, I trust the prac-
tice, of this parental lesson, to the
grave. I have hitherto followed it,
and I have no reason to complain that
my obedience to it has been a tem-
poral sacrifice, I have found it on the
contrary, the road to jprosperity and
wealth, and I shall point out the same
path to my children for their pursuit.
And there can be no donbt after all,
that the only safe rule of conduct is
to follow implicitly the guidance of' ,, },
an enlightened conscience."
. have given some care and at-
* to the examination of the pro-
. amendments to the constitution
■o State, and in the main we oen- j
vT the proposed changes, wise and
jcessary. It is not all that we
could have wished, but it is not in
the power of human wisdom so to
legislate as to suit the peculiar notions
and prejudices of every individual.
The alterations proposed in the Judi-
cial Department of the government
can haraly fail to meet the approba-
tion of eveiy thinking man in
the State. The enlarged powers Of
the County Court are calculated to
promote the Bjieedy execution of jus-
tice both in civil and criminal cásee.
The altered status of the negro ^will
be likely to bring them frequently on
charges of a petty character, before
the courts, and as a matter of'écoito-
my to the State and county, it :is de-
sirable that this class of cases should
be speedily disposed of. We also
believe the convention did Well in
lengthening the term of office of dis-
trict judges. Politics should be kept
out of judicial selections, and as long
as these elections are so frequently
held, we must expect politics
political prejudices to stain the judi-
cial ermine. Our natures incline ua
to the support of our friends, and we
may mean to do ever so well, but
native prejudice will sway our judge-
ment. *
If these amendments should be
rejected by the people, it would ne-
cessitate at no distant day another
convention, subjecting the peojple to
taxation to defray the expensea of a
new convention, and we are opposed to
all measures calculated to add to the
burden of our already overburdened
people. It is folly to suppose that
the old organio law will meet, all the
requirements of our altered situation.
Changes are demanded, end they
have been made, at a vast expense to
the State.*let us not reject these with
the hope of obtaining any better in
the future. The late convention
was composed of the beet talent in
the State; and we are likely to find
as little tc condemn in their action, aa
we could possibly hope from any Al-
tura body. We advise the people
every where to vote for the amend-
ments.—Crockett Sentinel.
Take care of your health and ta.,.-,
plenty of sleep. Let no one v
pain or weariness. When a r .
tired he should lie down until h.
fully rested, when, with renova
strength the work will be better dour,
sooner and with self-sustained alac-
rity. - The time taken from seven to
eight hours' sleep out of each twenty-
four íb time not gained, but much
more than lost; we can cheat our-
selves, but we cannot cheat nature.
A certain amount of food in necessary
for a healthy body, but if less than
the amount be furnished decay com-
mences the very hour. It is the same
with sleep ; any one who persists in
allowing himself lees than nature
requires will only hasten his arrival
to the mad house or the grave.
Little Ella is about four years old.
()ne day she committed an act of dis-
obedience and her mother correcting
her, spoke ipno gentle tone of voice;
the child threw her arms around her
mother's neck and exclaimed, "Dear
mamma, pray forgive me I—If I bad
known how spunky it would have
Mr. Beecher, in his lecture on
"Reconstruction," made this moot
happy illustration of the relations of
Mr. Lincoln and his successor to
the Radicals:
The kind and patient Mr. Lincoln
was cudgeled and whacked by Con-
grass, and he bore it with a patient
spirit, reminding him of some horses,
ely act when cudgeled, as
it was to brush files off.-—
they commenced whacking
únson, they found a pair of
hrough the dash-board, and
it the wagon and took to trees
jushes, crying, "Beast, brute;"
since then, they had cudgeled
ire carefully.
Teacher—"How many kind of
axes are there, John ?"
John—Broad axe, narrow axe, poit
axe, axe of the Legislature, axin price
and axe of the Apostles."
Teacher—"Good, goto the head of
the class."
j ♦ ?«'
j,Mr .
heels
Bob, lower yourself into the weft
and holler tot help."—''WTiat for V*
—"To frighten daddy, M make
some fan." Bob did as he Was desired,
but got more then be bargained for.
It was administered with a hickory
sapling.
■
The love of a cross woman it is
said, is stronger than the lore of any
other female individual.
Like vinegar ,
the afectioasef a high strung woman
never spoil It's the sweet wine that
made you I wouldn't have done so." beoomes acidulated, not the sour wine.
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Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1866, newspaper, May 18, 1866; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180236/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.