The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 11, 1869 Page: 3 of 4
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oiiiiaren, obey your ^Parents in all things iu tUq Lord, tar this ia right, X-'Oye oi^e another.
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tor Youth und Children.
OUR PREMIUM LIST.
Wishing to enlist all the readers
f the Homb Advocatk as agents,
especially the children, we offer the
following premiums:
For five subscriber*, with the
money, (twp dollars each in cur-
rency/) any one of the following:
No. 1. Views in Bible lands—
Hjria and Mount Lebanon.—The As-
syrianSoulpturesafrthe Nabt-il-ILalb;
(lie Convent of St. Antoino; the Ce-
dars of Lebanon; view from the
summit of Lebanon; Baalbec; Da-
mascus; Interior of House in Damas-
<Jiis; Palmyra; Antioch; D'Ain-el-
Liban—(the Natural Bridge); the
Dog River.
No. 2. Views in Bible Lands—Seven
Churches of Asia, etc.—Ephesus,
Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis,
Philadelphia, Laodicea, Tars us j Is-
land of Levant, Rhodes, Cypriis,
Patmos, Crete, (now Candia.)
No. 3. Cities of Palestine.—Jaffa,
or Jeppa, Jerusalem, Bethany, Beth-
lehem, Hebron, Sychar, or Shechem,
Samaria, Nazareth, Cana of Galilee,
Tiberias, Tyre, Sidon.
No. 4. Views in Jerusalem.—Jeru-
salem from the Northwest, the Mount
of Olives the Garden of Gethsemane
and Mount Moriah, the Valley of
Jehoshaphat, Tombs of Absalom and
Zechariah, Pool of Siloam, Tombs of
the Kings, Mount Zion, the Jappa
Gate, Tower of David, and Valley of
^elion, the Interior of the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre, Via Dolorosa,
the Jews Wailing Place, the Mosque
of Omar, the Pool of Bethesda.
Each of the above, premiums is
-accompanied with a little book giv-
ing a description and short history
of each view. The pictures are
colored and very beautiful. The first
club will be entitled to choice of pre-
miums, and will please designate by
number. If the same person sends
a club of ten, that will take two of
the premiums, etc. Remember all
the pictures enumerated under each
number go as one premium.
No. 5. For one subscriber and two
dollars in currency, we will send one
of the following books: The' State
-of Life, Show of Animals, the Wish,
Kind Little Boy, Little Tom, John
Merry, Riinbow, Village Reformed,
Sunday School, John of Score, John
Price, The Idiot, Wonderful Lamp,
Charles Murray, Thomas Brown,
Broken Bough, Aunt Fanny, War,
Thanksgiving Day, Two Masters,
Sabbath Breakers,, John Robins, the
Bible Recommended, Joe Bennet,
Mary Gosner, The Vine, Milk for
Habes, Way to be Happy, Lost Child,
Vicars Garden, Two Lambs,Temper,
Poetical Lessons, Prodigal Son, A.
L. Campbell, Sin Found Out, Betsy
Brown, Emily and Brother, The Tulip.
Catharine Prescott, Frances and
James, Dying Robber, Lords Prayer,
Too Late, S. S. Child, Laura and
Helen, Self Denial, Lucky Stone,
Cigars, Elizabeth, (Aunt Lizzie may
be.)
No. p. For two subscribers, and
lour dollars, we will send one of the
following books: Christmas Eve at
the Cottage, May Day at the Cottage.
The above premiums will be sent
by mail, -postage paid. Remember
< very subscriber takes a book except
those who club for the pictures.
State distinctly which premium of
the lit tit four you wish, or what book
of those enumerated
If the book has been previously
taken, we will send one of the
others,
For tlie Home Advocate.
TO TIIE CHILDREN.
Well, children, I want to have a
nice talk to-night. Every thing is
easy; we will not notice any thing
outside—just shut oursolves in. I
think of 8<i many thiiigfs "I'^rant to
say I hardly know where to bogin.
You are dreaming of Christmas, and
Christmas stories and trees, and so
many nice things ort them. Santa
Claus will have to be busy to supply
all the little folks. ne can work
wonders I know, and I do hope you
will all be happy. But to two chil-
dren there are no pleasant vtsictoi of
Christmas; I will tell you why: they
did a very wicked thing—they broke
a commandment, "Thou shalt not
steal.'' You know God wroto that
on the tables of stone which he gave
to Moses. These little boys had news-
papers to sell; every morning you
could hear them calling out the name
of the paper. Well, in an evil hour
they coveted something which be-
longed to a merchant. They looked
at the articles and thought that would
be better than selling papers, and
they from looking and coveting be-
gan to arrange in their minds how
they could take them and not be
caught. At last they coucealed
themselves in the store and succeed-
ed in getting off with the stolen
property; I suppose they disposed of
it. The next evening they were in
the same place again, and embolden-
ed by theirsuccess, were trying to get
off with more and costlier things, and
they were discovered and caught.—
The things they topk the first time
had.been missed and the gentleman
had set a trap for them and he caught
them. Now they are in the lock-up
awaiting their trial. In an evil hour'
they coveted what was another's —
one sin led t* another, then they stole
it and now they are shut up in a dark
prison; they can have no comforting
thoughts, no light there for them. I
felt so sorry that little boys should
do such wicked things. Now I have
been told that in this great city there
are some very wicked men and wo-
men who teach their children to steal
and swear, and those who steal will
lie to conceal it. Poor little children,
to have such parents! Yon, dear lit
tie readers of the Advocate, should
thank God for kind, religious parents.
I thought, Well, perhaps they were
never taught any better. God holds
you accountable for your privileges.
Always do like the little girl I read
of; she was tempted to doanaughty
thing, but she concluded she would
ask God if he had any objections
first; I thought it an excellent plan.
Try it, children, and see if he does not
guide you by his spirit in the right
way. Now these boys have had a
chance to go to Sabbath-school I
know, for I saw over three hundred
volumes of nice books for a Sabbath"
school where the poor were invited to
come, and teachers waiting to teach
them. I asked some of them, poor
children, if they would not go. So
you see they have a chance to read
God's word and nice ladies and gen-
tlemen to teach them. I feel sorry
when the bell rings and I nee so ma-
ny children on the Square playing,
breaking the sabbath. The down-
ward road is easy; after a while it
will be another commandment and
soon until the jail, then the peniten-
tiary; but that is not the wor«t of it;
when they come to die oh I it will be
a terrible hour for them. When tjtfy
stand before God to^ccount forth 1
their sins, it Mfltt not be with such as
it was with t
who died last
her ma shi'e was
ed to nip btfoth'
for him
the pWwww.
and praylwtt^hor;
then said "I want
how I lovo Jesus."'
lks^e
swrcwne. alBd
little girl
Sho told
ho want-
She sent
py when
iukl him to nine
iC did so and 6he
nt to sing 'Oh !
Sho kissed them
all good-bye. Sho lived some time
afterwards and then went to live
with ^ier d*ar Jesus nhe loved; she
was a faithful scholar at her Sab-
bath-school last Sunday morning.—-
They laid her little body away in the
cold, silent grave to wait for the last
trump to awake the sleeping millions.
Children, live so you will have joy
when you come to die. The good
Lord says, "Seek me early and ye
shall find me." "Let me live thnlifie
of the righteous that my last end
may be like his " Good-night; you
will hear from me again.
AUNT LIZZIE.
New Orleans.
A CHILD'S LETTER.
"JMark Tieain'" Puzzled by One.
The most useful and interesting
letters we get here from home are
frofh children seven or eight years
old. This is a petrified truth. Hnp-
pily they have got nothing else to
talk about but home, and neighbors
and family—things their betters
think unworthy of transmission thou-
sands of miles. They write simply
and naturally, and without strain
for effect. They tell all they know
and then ston. They seldom dream
in abstractions or homilies. Conse-
quently their epistles are brief, but,
treating as they do of familiar scenes
and persons, ahvays entertaining.
Now, therefore, if you would learn
the art of letter writing, let a child
teach you. I have preserved n let-
ter from a little girl eight years of
age—preserved it as a curiosity,
because it was the only letter lever
got from the States that had any
information in it. It runs thus;
"St. Louis, 1865.
"Uncle Mark, if you was herp I
could tell you about Moses iri the
bulrushes again. 1 know it better
now.' Mr. Snmvbecry has got his
leg broke offa horse. He was riding
it on Sunday. Margaret, that's the
maid, Margaret has taken all the
spitftnons':<mjdi! rtlop buckets and old
jugs out oPyour room, because she
says she don't think you are coming
back any more,(you have been gone
too long. fefssy field!I ioy's mother
has got another little.baby. She has
them all the time. It has got little
blue eyes like Mr. Svvimley that
boards there, and lodfe&jusi like him.
I have got jv new doll ; but Johnny
Anderson pulled one of the legs out.
Miss. Dusenberry was here yester-
day ; 1 gave her yonr picture, but
she didn't want it. My cat has got
more kittens—oh I you can't think-
twice an many us Iiotta Belden's.
And there's one, such a sweet little
buff, one with as ft art tail, and I nam-
ed it for you.
All of them's got names now—Gen.
Grant, and Ilalleck, and Moses, and
Margaret, and Deuteronomy, and
Capt. Scmmcs, and Exodus, and
Leviticus, and Horace Greely—all
uamed but one, and I am saving it
becausc the one I named lor vou's
been wick all the tima since, aud 1
reckon it'll die. ^lt appears to be
mighty rough on the short-tailed kit-
ten for naming it for me. I wonder
how the reserve .vicliui will stand
it ?J Uncle Mark, I do Hat-
tic Caldwell likes you, and I know
sho thinks you are pretty, because I
heard her say nothing could hurt
your good looks—nothing at all—
alio said, even if you wore to have
the small-nox ever so bad, you would
be just as good looking as you wero
before. And ma says she's ever so
smart. [Very.] So no more this
time, because General Graut and
Moses are fighting.
ANNIE.
This child treads on my toes in
every other sentence with perfect
looseness, hot in the simplicity of
her time of life she doaeu't know it.
I consider that a model letter*—an
eminently readable and entertaining
letter, and, as said before, it contains
more matter of interest and real in-
formation than any letter ever re-
received from the East. I had rath-
er hear about cats at homo and their
truly remarkable names than listen
to a lot of stuff about people I am
not acquainted with, or read "The
Evil Effects of the Intoxicating
Bowl," illustrated on the back with
tho picture of a ragged scalawag
pelting away right and left in the
midst of his family circle with a junk
bottle.
A THIMBLE.
The name of this little instrument
is said to have boon derived from
"thumb bell, being first thumble, and
afterward thimble. It is of Dutch
invention, and was brought to Eng
land about the year 1605, by John
Lofting, who commenced its manu-
facture at Islington, near London,
and pursued it with great profit and
success. Formerly, iron and brass
were used ; but latterly, stool, silver
and gold have taken their places, In
the ordinary manufacture, thin plates
of metal are introduced into a die
and then punched into shape. In
Paris, gold tUwbles arc ..manufactur-
ed. to a largo extent, Thin sheets
of sheet-iron are put into dies of
about two inches, in diameter. These
being heated red-hot, are struck
with a punch into a nufinbCtf of boles,
gradually increasing into depth to
give them proper shape. The thim
ble is then trimmed, polished, and
indented around its outer surface
with a number of little hoieij by
means of a small wheel. It is then
converted into steel by the cementa-
tion process, tempered, scoured aud
brought to a blue qolor. A thin
sheetof gold is then ii|tr0dttcedjuio
the interior, aud fastened ty the steel
by means of a polished steel man-
dril.. Gold leaf is then applied to
the outside, aud attached to it by
pressure, the edges being fastened
in a small groove made to receive
them. The thimble is then ready
for use. Those made in this manner
do not wear out, as so inlany ordi-
nary gold thimbles do, but will last
for years. The gold coating, if cut
away by needles, may bfe easily re-
placed ; but the steel ia of an excel-
lent quality, and very durable.
.0,
Strange Death.—On the 12'fh ult.,
Elijah Kinsey, of NacogdocheH
county, while in his'cot Ion field pick-
ing cotton, dropped doad. Mr. Kin-
sey was a hale, hearty man, and
thcro was seemingly no causc for
his death.—San Augustine Beacon.
A PRODIGY IN MATHEMATICS.
II. Glaze informs us that he recent-
ly found at Fayctteville, (Payette ?)
Mo, a young man by tho name of
Field*, seventeen years old, and en-
tii ely ignorant of letters or figure#,
who could, iusicta of tbrea minuted,
solve any problem given. Tho ft>h
lowing are a few of the examples
and the time faken In solution: The
number of ueoessaij to
reach to the sua, allo^ng s&e Sea-
Beods to one grain of wheat, and
thirteen grains of wheat to the inch:
Answer, 491,800,000,000, given
in two minutes. What would $3,000
nrnoytft to in ten years, compounding
interest at ten cents ? This ex-
ample ho worked in three minutes,
absolutely correct, although lift had
to carry a score of decimal fractions
What wduld a horao bring (there
being 82 nails in his shoes,) allowing
3 cents for tho first, 6 ctmts for tffli
sepond, 9, 21, 81 and bo on t This
required thirty:two distinct multi-
plications, aud rtju up into trillions,
yet ho did it hi threo minutes. Thoao
examples will suffice to ahpf his
wonderful power. Ho is very ignor-
ant on all other matters; ncvfcv
learned his letters, and does not
know one flguro from another. Ho
is very uncouth in his appearance,
and has no faith in his fellows. He
can do anything in mental arithme-
tic, even in couplex fractions.?**
Macon Journal.
What do you think of that, chil-
dren ? Now don't turn Yankee, and
ask Uncle Frank his opinion—ho
might be skeptical. But there are
said to be many wonderful mental
prodigies In the world. Never had
such in our school, though some ex-
cellent workers.
RA'N'i.Knn DlSTiuCT - FpRAXS OF TIIV.
Wkatheh.—rln several parts of tho
world there is no rain at all. In the
Old World thoro are two districts of
this kind: tho Desert of Sahara in
Africa, and in Asia, part of Arabia,
Syria, aud Persia; the other district
lies between north latitude 30 ° ami
50 ° , and between 75° aud 118°
of east longitude, including Thibet,
Oobiar, Shama, and Mongolia. In
the New World the rainless districts
are of much less magnitude, occupy-
ing two narrow strips on tho abodes
of Peru and Bolivia, and on tho
coast of Mexico and OautemalH,
with a small district between Trini-
dad and Panama on tho coast of
Venezuela.
Per contra—tho climato of the
Khasis Mountains, which lio north-
east from Calcutta, ia most remarka-
ble for the excessive fall of rain. An
English traveler established the fact
that in the month of August, 1841,
there fell 2<U inches of rain. This
grout rain fall is attributed to the
abruptness of the mountains that
face tho Bay of Bengal and the in-
tei veiling swamp §00 mites in extent.
It is not easy always to account for
the erratic conduct of the weather
upon any established scientific theo-
ry, for it is asserted that there is a
district in Siberia in which, during
winter, the sky is constantly cleav,
aud where a particle of snow never
| falls.
In Galveston some black leg politi-
cian is offering, through the News
to bet frotn ono thousand to^tcn
thousand dollars that Wheeler of
; tbc nogro is clectod to tho District
; Clerk ship. A safe bet if no body
' else was in the rave.
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Patillo, F. J. The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 11, 1869, newspaper, December 11, 1869; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235571/m1/3/: 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.