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Volume 3 (1858-1859) (592 pages)
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136 HUTCHINGS’ CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE.
ob de yearthly princes. De shake ob his
foot make de whole yearth collapse. Wid
all his greatness nobody trusted him.
Dey thought he was a friend ob de people, but he was deir greatest enemy—he
wan’t no whar, too. Let de awful groan
dat went up from de feet ob Pompey’s
statue, whar he fell, answer. Coming
from de East an de West, from de Norfth
an de Soufth—de answer will be no whar!
An den coming down to de middle ages,
dar was Gineral Buckanam, bless um, de
great American Prince—de great hero ob
de American people. Dey made dis .
“man ob war” President ob dis great
nation, an his heart swelled big wid pride, .
an Jike Nebucudnezza—ha—he said, “Is ,
not dis de great Babylon dat I’m boss
ober—dat I treated for in de offset ob .
life among my friends,” an echo answers
from de four wind of heaven‘ Y-a-a-s.”
Could his friends trust um? Let de disappointed applicants for orfice answer
dis pregnant question. Dey who he'
promised eberyting too, yet he guv ’em
nuffen. An how did de Lord sarve ’im? .
Why, he busted up de Kansas constitu!
tion an Ce party dat elected *im has all .
gone to smash. When he said in his
sanctotum in de eulogistic language ob .
Massa Spokeshare, ‘‘ Dat he lafft to scorn .
de powers ob man,” twenty-five million ,
thunderbolts war dashed at his head, but '
he dodged um all, an landed safe in de
fight. But dat aint de question. De)
question is— Put not your trustin Princes.”” If you see a politician hereafter,
an he wont do to def on, brudderen, an
de atmosphere gits too heavy for ’im, an
he tries to swell out bigger dan all men
on yearth—beware ob ’im. Dems um.
Dare lost on yearth an made up ob sin
an selfishness, iniquity and wire-pulling.
Dare for de Soufth, or for de Norfth
For one extreme or udder.
Darefore, belobed brudderen, “ Put not
your trust in Princes.”
Tue late Sidney Smith made a caleulation, by which he found that between
the age of ten and seventy he had eaten
and drunk forty four-horse wagon loads
of meat and drink more than would have
preserved him in life and health! “The
value of this mass of nourishment I considered,” he says, ‘to be worth £7,000
sterling. It occurred to me that I must,
by my voracity, have starved to death
fully one hundred. This is a frightful
calculation, but irresistibly true.’ On
this text Mr. Alcott, the well known writer on dietetics, discourses as follows:
It is a generally conceded fact, among
those who are best qualified to judge, that
we of the United States, as a general! rule,
eat about twice as much as the best interests of our systems require. My own
observations, which I think have not been
behind those of other men, either as regards extent or accuracy, go not only to
confirm this long-asserted fact, but somewhat further. I believe we eat, as a nation, MorE than twice as much as we
ought; and hence, as there is a vast dif
. ference, and one large portion (the slaves)
do not greatly exceed their real wants, it
follows that some of us waste much more
than one-half of what we really consume,
perhaps more, nearly two-thirds, Further than even this I am compelled to go,
and to say most unhesitatingly and nnequivocally, that much less than half the
money we actually expend for food, if expended as the best interest of health and
economy clearly dictate, would, taking
life together, greatly increase our present
aggregate of mere gustatory or animal en. joyment.
As to the bulk of this enormous waste,
he makes the following calculation:
Tf the loaded wagons of food which the
twenty-five millions of the United States
would waste in sixty years, according to
the above estimate, were placed along so
many turnpikes around our globe, each
horse and wagon occupying, for convenience sake, a distance of two rods, they
would form two hundred and eighty rows
or circles, encompassing our globe! Our
readers may calculate for themselves, and
see whether the deduction, if not the data,
as far as they are ours, are not, and must
not be “irresistibly true.”