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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 304, 26 December 1874, Page 3

The dignity of a Georgia court-having been affronted by an applauding spectator, the judge somewhat vehemently remarked -—"...Now, dry it up; 1 will let you know that this is no camp meeting for exuberating your enthusiasm ; this court shall be respected', at "the., risk of outraging the seventeenth commandment to the constitution ; and if you open your fly-trap, or.. pat ra-pat with them' number fourteen - brogans of yours again, ;I will send yon togaol for thirty days." -: ■ -'. It is quite possible for the simplest workman or laborer for whom. I write to. understand what the feelings of.a. gentleman are, and share them, if he wilt; but . the crisis and horror of this present time • are that its desire of monev, and the fulness of luxury and dishonesty attainable, by common persons, are gradually making churls of all men ; and the nobler are not merely disbelieved, but even the conception of them seems ludicrous to the ordinary churl mind ; so that to take only so poor an instance of them as my own life ——because I have passed it in almsgiving, not in fortune hunting; because I have labored always for the honor of others, not my owii, and have chosen rather to makemen look to Turner and Luini.than to forward or exhibit; the skill ofiriy own hand ; because I have lowered, my rents, Eiiid -assured the comfortable lives of my poor, tenants, instead of taking from them, all, Xcould force for the roofs they needed;; because I love; a wood walk better than a London street, : and would rather watch a ; 'seagull fly than shoot it because !■ I never disobeyed my mother, have honored all Wcmeh with solemn wor-. ship, and have been kind even to the . unthankful and the evil; therefore the hacks, of English art' and literature wag their heads at me, and the. poor wretch who, pawns the dirty linen of.his. so«ldaily for :a bottle of sour wine arid a ci«ar- talks o£ ;the effeminate sentimentality of —ForsQlavigera. -■■■ . i;G*_'S