The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 29, 1866 Page: 1 of 4
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J. P. OSTBRHOUT
A T TORNE Y AT LAW,
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas.
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BELLVILLE, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1866.
{ NO. 25.
futitj.
mir*i ww>nr■ r> rrrrct'c ~i* *ri~ri~in*ir^*T~m—ra
SHE LAID DOWN LIFE,
by mary ha¿RI8.
She laid down life as easily
As if it were not new—
A half-worn garment that had scarce
Been drabbled in the dew.
She «aw the morning sun arise*
But, ere the heat of day,
She wearied of the march of life,
And softly stole away.
An angel hand had guided her;
And when the anagel came,
She laid her earthly garments by.
And took another name.
way <of adoration.; and when supr
Abating the Romans for pence* the
3a*tbajgeniau ambassadors "kissed
he feet of the council."
The kiss of homage—^the character
of which is not indicated in the Bible
—was probably upon the forehead,
expressive of high respect, which was
brmeriy, if not now> in use among the
Bedouins.
The Rabbins, in the fsMv ¿etícate
irit which animated much of whati
She
the brightness
smiled upon
then,
That opened to her view;
As though its wondrous loveliness
Were nothing sltange or new.
And rose up quickly at the call,
And joined the angel band:
WbHe friends were weeping here
on earth,
She reached the glory-land!
Sho seemed so like a snowy clend
'Composed of morning dew,
Which, ere the sun was risen high,
Had faded from our view !
A. CHESLEY,
attorney at law,
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas*
tyOffcce in the Court Ho««ea3¿|
apr'13 ly
BEN T. & CHAKLES A. HARRIS, ;
attorneys at law.
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas.
aprl3 iy
I. O. SEARCY...OEO. W. CARTJtR K. H. BOOIfB.
SEARCY, CARTER & BOONE,
Attorneys at Law.
•GALVESTON AND ANDERSON,
Grimes county, Texas.
fob2-ft-ly.
b. f. elliott, ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
-an&-
IdMd Agent,
■*BE.LLViILXJ& *•• ••••••TEXAS.
ieblft-fB-ly. '
Z. Hunt N. Holland.
HUNT & HOLLAND,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLVILLE,
Aipstin County, Texas
in
Psalms, ¿i. 12; of humble gratitude,
in Luke, vii. 38 <; of welcome, in
||kella«s.
THE OEIOIN OF KÍS3INK*
by x london rEftl'umer.
%
Vhat it is « custom of remote anti-
quity, appears from the Book of Gene-
sis (xivii, 26.) when Isaac kissed
his son Jacob. This kiss is remark-
able as the fifst recorded in history.
Indeed, the Bfole aboui; with all
sorts of kisses. We have die kiss of
homage, in Esther, v. 2; of subjection,
i in 1 Samuel, x. 1: of reconciliation,
in 8 Samuel, xiv. 3S ; of valediction,
Ruth, i 14; of approbation, in
gri
vii. 38!; of welcc
Exodus, xviii. 7; oif loVe and joy, in
Genesis, xxix, 11; of sorrow, iu Acts,
xx. 37$ of peace, in Romans, xvi.
16; and of idolatrous Ve veranee, in
Rosea, xiii. 2. There are cdso
spiritual kisses, as in Canticles, i. 2;
sensual kisses, as in Proverbs, vii
17; and hypocritical kisses, as in 2
SaraneJ, xv. 5. Kisses are also trai-
torous, such as Jaob*s to Amasa,
wticn he kissed and then slew, (in 2
Samuel, xx. 9,) and that of Judas to
to Christ, when lie kissed and then
betrayed. It was customary to kiss
the mouth, aud also tta beard, which
lattnr is stili practiced by the Arabs
Kissing the nand is not biblical.—
Kisáiug the feet was an expression
of lowly and tender regard, in Lake
ii. 38. We are told that the mem-
bers oif the church of Ephesus wep
sore at St. Paul's departure, "fell on
his nock, and IrissrfA him.' The kiss
of peace was an apostolic custom
ana continues to be one of the rites
in the Eucharistic services of the
Roman Catholics, which for obvious
reasons is omitted on «Good Friday.
Among heathem nations it was
usual to throw kisses to the sun an<
to the moon, as well as to (foe images
of the gods, fearful of touching them
with profane lips. Kissing the ham
is first heard of among the Persians.
Xeuopbon relates that it was custom
ary for them to kiss whomsoever they
honored. Kissing the feet of a prii
was a token of subjection, wbicn i
at times carried so far that the prin
of the foot received the kiss, eonjrey
ing the impression that the very dust
became sacred by the royal treads—
When Demosthenes Was carried into
a temple, he kissed his own hsnd by
nee
was
ey wrote, did not permit more than
hree kinds of kisses—those of rever-
ence, of reception, and of departure.!
Kissiug tie toot hss beeu exacted by
he sovergin pontiffs as a mark of re-
spect since the eight century. St was
Irst paid to the Pope Constantino by
the Émperor Justinian, ou his entry
into Constantinople. When the cere-
mony takes place, the Pope wears a
slipper, embroidered with a cross,
which is kissed, and not the toe as it
is generally believed. Recently
Protestants have not been required
to do so—a slight inclination of the
knee being merely expected. /
As an act of ordinary salutation
the kiss is still common on the cou
tinent of Europe and in the East. It
was interchanged by the early Chris-
tians, in their assemblies, as a token
of their love one to another, and took
place just prior to the communion.—
When (according to the Hebrew
practice, aud the still existing cus
torn of Oriental churches) die meu
and the women sat apart, the kiss of,
peace was given by the men to the
men, and by the women to the wo*
men. However, the peculiar circum-
stances have vanished which gave
propriety and emphasis to such an
expression of brotherly love and
Christian friendship, it was also for
a mark of respect among our fore-
fathers that for one person to wilt*
or s*\y that he "kissed the hand" of
another, was a formulary of equiva-
lent import with the expression of
obudieuce and servitude with which
our communications and intercourse
with the world are now usually at-
tended. To this frequent allusion is
made by Shakspeare and the dramatic
peets.
The word Kiss is constantly used
by poets and authors in a figurative
sense:
"From yon island gentle breezes
Waft a fragrance o'er the deep,
The kisses of a thousand flowers,
Stolen from them while they
sleep."
If Í <1*0 you twenty cents for your
brooms, yon WÜJ not otyaeft to take
the price of them out in goods!'
"No, I ears If I do,' replied
Cyrus
"Well, at yon areaneld customer
I will allow yon twenty cents a piece
for this lot. Let ae seo twenty*
four times twentv makes just four
hundred and eighty oents. What
kind of goods will you have Cy-
rus t"
"Well, now, John, reckon it don't
«sake aa^y difference to you what soft
•of goods I take, does it f'
"Oh, no, nottall ■ net si nil 'asid
John.
"Well, then, as it don't ttske any
•difference, I will take the ametont in
them brooms of yours at twelve and
a half cents a niece. Let me see-
four dollars and eighty cents will get
thirty brooms and ten cents over. It
don't make much difference, Jehu,
about the ten cents, but as you are a
right clever fellow, I believe I'll take
tfce change in terbacker.'
*'Wlien Cyrus went out of the door
with the brooms aud "terbacker,"
John was seized with a serious break-
ing out át the mouth, during which
time he was distinctly heard to vio-
late the third commandment several
times by the by-standers, who all en-
joyed the joke.
Hem ts a receipt £wit*eplng a hus-
band and making hicr¿ood-natursd:
"Keep his linen in prime condition,
with the rsqiisite degree of iliffiis—;
never let him know the want of abut-
ton; give him woH-broilud beef-stake,
whoLsome bresd.and a tpuklin* eui
of coffee for his bnkbit j
ling babies and Woken so „
of his sight; do not annoy Urn with
the blunqsn aud extsawnmio «C
"Biddy," greet his evening arrival
with a clean, lightsome face, welcomed
air, and a welcome kiss j have ready
n cheerful supper, a bright fire intli
«rate, an easy-chair, witl*. oomfotabla
gown and slippers; be merry,and tell
him some sgreeable news; dually/
give him a well-made bed in a cony
chnmbetv"
Very good. Now—well—verily,
our moral cook-book does not contain
a single receipt for making and keep-
ing a good wife. That is strange.—
The inftrenoe is plsin. Either wives
ss a class am not tender enough to bo
worth preserving any way, or else
husbands have not skill «nough to fol-
low a receipt if they had on*—Ex.
Soup or Nothi*g.++M a very e
«cellent hotel, not a buufeed nr
sai
a Yankee trade. •-
' *' *
a certain farmer, who in the course
of a few veare purchased several dol-
lars worth «of goods, (and always pa¿d
for the them,) called at the store of a
village merchant—his regular place
of deaHag—with two dosen brooms,
which he offered for sale. The mer-
chant (who by the way is found of a
bargain,) examined his stock, sad
id:
"Well, Cyrus, I will give you a
shilling a piece for these brooms.'
Cry us seemed astonished at the of-
fer, and quickly replied:
"Oh, no, John, J, can't begin to
take that for 'em, no how; but I'll
let you have 'em for twenty cents a
piece, and not a cent less.'
"Qyrus, you are craqy>' replied
John. "Why, see here/ showing a
fine lot of brooms, "hsre is an article
a great desl better than yours, (which
was true,) which I am retailing at
twelveand a half cents a piece, (which
true by seven and a half
Crinoline and BaptUm.—At De-
troit last week a rather amusing scene
took place during the baptism of a
young lady by the pastor of the Ta*
beraacle. Tne minister requested
her to assume the dress peculiar to
such occasions, but she declined to
take oif her hoop skirt; the minister
told her' of the inoonvenience that
Would result from her obstinacy, but,
liks a true female, she penisted; but
when she came to descend into the
bath the inflated skirt touched the
water and robe up round her like a
balloon. Her head was lost to the
she was swallowd up
skirt. The minister
then tried to force her down into the
bath, but she was kept above the
surface by the floating properties of
crinolins, and was buoyea up so suc-
cessfully that it was not until after
much difficulty, and many forcible at-
tempts to submerge the lady, that the
minister succeeded, in baptising the
fair one. Fhalfy, it was effected, to
the relief of tks minister and the se-
riously inclined audience> who oonld
Mot keep from chuckhog in their
sleeves, and laughing in thior pocket
hankerchiefik
was not
cents-)
"Dont care for that,' answered
Cyrus: "your brooms are cheap
enough, you can't get mine for less
than twenty cents anyhow;' and pre-
tending to be more than half angry
shouldered his brooms and started for
the door.
The * merchant, getting
over the loas of a good customer, and
fearing that he might go to another
store, and never return, said:
Ml
congregation
in the «weáiin
ex-
i
from our parts, they Vera une* f
short of a waiter, when a newly arriv-
ed Hibeftn was hsstUy made to sup-
ply the place of a more expert hand.
"Now Barney," «aid mine host,
"mind you serve every msn with soup
the first things-servo soup first."
"Dudad, rli do that seme,' said the
alert Barney.
Soup came on, and Barney, after
helping all but one guest, came up to
tho last one.
The Two Atete*.—There ie^ nearly
always something of Nature's own
gentility in all young women, (except,
indeed, when they get together aUd
fall a giggling.) It shames us men
to see how mucn sooner they are pol-
ished into conventional shape tnsn
our rough, masculine sugsbk A vul-
gar boy, requires Heaven knows what
assiduity to move three steps, I do
not say like a gentlemen, but like a
boy with a soul in hims but give the
least advantage of society or tuition
to a peasant ^M, and a hundred to
ore but she will glide into refinement
before the hoy osn mske a bow with-
out upsetting the table. There is
sentiment in all women) and that
gives delicacy to thought and taste
to msnner. With men it is
scquiredt an offspring of
lectual quality; not, as with the other
sex, of tne morals.—Bikeer Lytton*
'Soup, sir I' said Barney.
'No roup for tae^usftlttie
"But you must have !t *-it is the
rules of the house.'
"D-u the rules of the bouse!' ex*
claimed the guest. —When I don't
wantsoup I won't eat it.'
"Wélv said Barney, with all due
solemnity, **sll I can say is just this,
it's the regulations of the house, and
é*n the **op else wifl ye get till ye's
have finished the soup 1'
The traveler gave an and the soua
Was gobbled.
The Bert he Could Do-rAn amy
chaphtfu relates the following fanny
story. Seeing a dirty-faced, butter-
nut urchin at the fence in front of n
house, the preacher stopped and said;
"Is yenr father at hornet"
"No; he's gone to church."
*Is your mother in t"
"No; she's gene too.*
"Then yon are aM by yourself?"
"No; oam'sio thar, buggin the nig-
HfgaL"
^That's bad 1" *
it's bad, but it's the best he
do!"
into!
"So you ass going to keep house,
are you?" ssidan slderly msMen to a
blushing bride.
"TssT — ♦
"See hete, Qyrus, hold on á while, she mangfcetuiud it.
the reply.
"Going to have a girl, I suppose,"
The newly made will colored, and
then softly responded "natty didn't
know whether it would be a girl or
boy."
* ■ * ■ —
An old lady bsing asked to sub-
scribe to s newspsper, declined on the
ground that when shs wanted news,
she mai
The lsdies have adopted tho
Whirlpool" The"Bivulet" is worn
by those who have enough, of their
own grown hair to a!bw it to trail be-
hind naturally or hang In tresses*—
The "Frizzle" of all the hair on the
head is deaoadnated by sailors ss the
"Hurricsne at Sea or the] "Fright on
Lend.'
An English married lady haz con-
sulted her Iswyer .on the - question
whether, having married her husband
for his money, end that'money being
all spent, she is not at liberty to
ryaipin.
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Good.—At tho Printer^ Festival
at Cleveland, on Fianhlin's birthday, mm
the fallowing waa the fifth regular llM
"The Editor and the Lawyer-*
The Devil is satified with the
of the fonher. but requiree the oti
of the latter"
I" V
"la your masterup?" asked
early visitor ofa nobleman's valet
"Tee sir," njoiued the valet,
great innocence; "the btttlsr.
cavrled bin up aboui 3 e'elook."
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Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 29, 1866, newspaper, June 29, 1866; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180242/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.