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Volume LII. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1871. Number 49 THE Southern Ytrronbr. Y E. A. HARRISUN, OEMS & CO. Terms, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance EXCELSIOR Fire Kindler. Something Entirely New & Novel. Will take the place of Lightwood in Kindling Fiies. Will Kindle any Wood or Coal Fire Instantan eously. The Kindle itself is not consumed, and will last for years. TEN CENTS worth of Material will last a Family one Month. It is less than one-tenth the expense of Light* wood. HOTELS BOARDING HOUSES, and other public places will find the kindler indis pensable. The COST of this useful invention will be saved by its use in one week by any Family. PRICE, 75c. For sale by L. VV. HUNT CO. Sep 25, 36 tf r Farmers, Please Notice. V^ E are in receipt of 300 bushels Red Clover SEED. 100 “ TIMOTHY. 300 “ Kentucky Blue GRASS. 200 “ Orchard GRASS •2U’* •* Red Top or Herds GRASS. 25 “ Alsike and Sapling CLOVER. These SEED have been selected and pur chased by ns in the West, directly from the growers, and are fresh and pure. \V<* keep a complete stock of every class of IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY and SEED, which we would be pleased to have you call and examine. ECHOLS ,V WILSON, Jaikson Street. Augusta, Ga. and Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. September 5, 35 tf r Fine Furniture ! THOMAS W O O ID, next to Lanier House, MACQn GEORGIA Parlor Suits, in Walnut and Mahogany; Cham ber Suits, in Walnut, (Oiled and Var nished,) Mahogany, Oak and Maple. Also, Enameled Painted Sets, in large variety. Large lot of Maple and Walnut Bedsteads, from S5 to $90 Chairs of all descriptions, Mattresses, and Pillows. Wall Paper, Window Shades, and well selected stock of Carpets, Oii Cloths and Mattings, CHE A P F OR CASH. COFFINS Rosewood, Mahogany, Walnut, Cedar and Imitatations. Metalic Cases and Cas kets. new styles, at reduced prices. Oct. 17 tf 41 NATURE’S Free from tlie Poisonous and Health-destroying Drugs us ed in other Hair Prepara tions. No SUGAR OF LEAD-No LITHARGE-No NITRATE OF SILVER, and is entirely Transparent and clear as crystal, it will not soil the finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN snd E F FI C IE N T—(Wideratums LONG SOUGHT FOB AN D FOUND AT LAST! It restores and prevents the Hair from be coming Grav, imparls a soft, glossy appear ance, removes Dandruff, is cool and refreshing to'.he head, checks the Hair from falling off, and restores it to a great extent when prema turely lost, prevents Headaches, cutes all hu mors, cutaneous eruptions, and unnatural Heat. AS A DRESSING FOR THE HAIR IT IS THE BEST ARTICLE IN THE MARKET. DR. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction, Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR BROTH ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put up iu a pannel bottle, made expressiy for it *ith the name of the article blown in the glass. Ask your Druggist for Nature's Hair restora- t> T e, and take no other. Eor sale in Milledgeville by L. W. HUNT •LCO. In Sparta, by A. II. BIRDSONG & CO. p Jnlv 2 tv «J Feb28’71 tv. TTMARIiWAIiTERS w&rbp.s Vioaasj, Broad St., Augusta, Ga. marble monuments, tomb STONES &c., &c. Marble Mantels and Furniture-Marble of oil kinds Furnished to Order. All work for the Country carefully boxedfor shipment. M’ch 12 p’7U ly. RFebl,’71Iy ESTABLISHED 1S2S. Mo ho FBEEMAM, dealer in Watches, Jewelry AND S3 a a 57®!? tSA Lf* C=» £> 312 BROAD STREET AUGUST!, Ga., nr Hatches and Jr.icelry Carefully Repaired, Jan. 31, 1871, 4 ly. ~ PORTER FLEMING, COTTON FACTOR AND C'OIUIISSION JIEIKSIAXT, Office, Jackson Street, opposite C. H. PHINJZY & CO. AUGUSTA : GEORGIA- H aving made arrangements with the Planters Loan and Savings Bank, to advance on cotton in Store, at the lowest rate of interest, many years experience, and the low rate of commissions, I trust will insure me a full share of business. Oct! 31,43 3m PULASKI HOUSE Savannaii, Ga VT II. WILTBRECEB, Proprietor. T. J. Jennings- [J- T Lmith- W* P CrCnVford Jennings, Smith tf Co. COITOX FACTORS —AND— General Commission Merchant No. (J McIntosh St. Augusta, Ga. W e are Agents for the Sale of the following. FIRST CLASS FERTILIZERS- Sell’s Superphosphate—Cash, §58 00 “ “ “ Time, 0(5 00 ono Soluble Guano—Cash, §53 50 “ “ “ Time, 60 00 tug 12, fun. p L. J Guiimarliu. John Flannery L. J. GUILMARTIN <1 GO. COTTON FACTORS —AND— General Com mission Merchants, BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, oA. Agents for Bradley’s Super Phosphate of Lime, Jeweli’s Milis Yarns. Domestics, Ac. Ba ggi«g, and Iron Ties, always on hand. Usual Facilities Extended to Gusto MEItS. August 15, 3m r 18 4m,n Wm. H. Tisox. Wm. W. Gdrdan TISON & GORDON, (established, 1854 ) COTTON FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, 112 BAY STB2ET S A VANN AH, GA. B agging and iron ties advan CED on Crops. Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign m int of Cotton. Careful attention to all busi- nes3, and prompt returns Guaranteed, oct. 9 r t n 4m. C H Phinizy F. B. Pliinizy. C. H. PHINIZY 1 CO. Ootto n Factors, JACKSOIV STUFF T, AUGUSTA, GA. Consignments respectfully solieted. September 2, 46 4m p r W. Duncan. J. H Johnston. M. Maclean. DUNCAN it JOHNSTON, Cotton Factors AND General Com mission M e r c h a n t s, 9-2 Bay Street. SAVANNAH, GA. We are prepared to make the Usual advance on Cotton. oct. 9 l td 4m. OS O tf < § M O r* _ s H *4* I THE "GREAT- BLOOD. PU.BIFIER ^ ^jg U * £t yFTQniB These Bitters are positivc-ly invaluable ia They purify the system, and will euro Remittent and Intermittent levers, Nf-Rvnu S'OTSggKimVERBQMPLAINT and are a preventive of Chills and Fever. All yield to their powerful efficacy. \P,E GOOD FORT-HE MENTALrGRGANIZATION Are an antidote to change of Water and Diet. , to tho wasted frame, and oorreet all { Will save days of suffering to the sick, and The grand Panacea for all tho ills of life. T RY-'O-N# BOTTLE «PhP WanM mmn there, me Diduuaiu x r0I ,x PEKCPiEE IT jj BITTERS/^ tottT? ^rCOT&- pninwurrr &EB2MTInToungorOid,Married^ *“ * 'or Single, these Bitters are un- r equailcd and have often been tbs' means of saving life. T. R-Y—O NE BOTTLES R 11 R RADWAY’S READY RELIEF CURES THE WORST PAIXS In from one to Twenty Minutes NOT ONE HOUR after reading this advertisement need any one SUFFER WITH PAIN. Radway's Beady Belief is a Cure for every MW. It was the first and is THE ONLY FAIN' REMEDY that instantly stops the most excruciating pains, allays Inflamation, and cures Conges tions, whether of the Langs, Stomach, Bow els, or other glauds or organs, by one appli cation. In from one to twenty minutes, no matter how violeut or excruciating the pain the Rheumatic, Bed-iidden, Iufirm, Crippled Nervous, Neuralgic, or prostrated with dis ease may suffer. The application of the Ready Relief to the part or partB where the pain or difficulty exists will afford ease and coinfort. Twenty drops in half a tumbler cf water will in a few moments cure Cramps, Spasms Sour Stomach Heartburn, Sick Headache Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind in the Bowels, and a Internal Pains. Travelers should always carry a bottle of Radway’s Ready Relief with them. A few drops in water will prevent sickness or pains from change of water It is betater than French Brandy or Bitters as a stimnlent’ FEVER AND AGUE, Fever and Ague cured for fifty cents; There is not a remedial agent in this woild that will cure Fevei and Ague, and all other Malarious Bilious, .Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow, and other Fevers (aided by Radway’s Pills) so quick a Rad way’s Ready Relief. Fifty cents a bottle HEALTH! BEAUTY!! Strong and pure rich blood—increase of flesh and weight — clear skin and beautiful complexion secured to all. DR. RADWAY’S Piscellantflus. Has made the most astonishing cures so quick so rapid are the changes the body un dergoes, under the influence of this truly wonderful Medicine, that Every day an Increase in Flesh and Weight is Seen and Felt. TUB UllB.MT BBOOU JPBI2IFMBIS Every drop of the Sarsapariiian Resolvent communicates through the Blood, Sweat, Urine, and other fluids and juices of the sys tem the vigor of life, for it repairs the wastes of the body with new and soud material. Scrof ula, Syphilis, Consumption, Glandular dis ease, Ulcers in the throat. Mouth, Tumors, Nodes in the Glands and other parts cf the system, Sore Byes, Strumorous discharges from the Ears, and tho worst forms of Skin diseases, Eruptions, Fever Sores, Scald Head, Ring Worm, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas. Acne Black Spots, (forms in the Flesh, Tumors, Cancers in the Womb, and all weakening and panful discharges. Night Sweats, Loss of Sperm and all wastes of the life principle are within the curative range of this wonder of Modern Chemistry, and a few days use will prove to any person using it for either of these forms of disease its potent power to cure them. Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent excels all known remedial ag< n‘ s in the cure of Chronic, Scrofulous, Constitutional, and Skin diseases; but it is the only positive cure for Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary and Womb diseases, Gravel. Diabetes, Dropsy Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine Bright’s Disease, Albuminuria, and in all ca ses where there are brick dust deposits, or the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like the white of an egg, or threads like white silk, or there is a morbid, dark billions ap pearance. and white bone-dust deposits, and when there is a pricking, burning sensation when passing water, and pain in the Small of the Back and along the Loins. DR. RADWAY’S PERFECT PURGATIVE PILLS, perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse, and strengthen. Radway’s Pills, for the cure o, all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels- Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Head, ache, Constipation, Costiveness, Indigestionf Dyspepsia, Billiousness, Bilious Fever, In flammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all De rangements of the Internal Viscera. War ranted to effect a positive cure. Purely Veg etable, containing no mercury, minerals, or deleterious drugs. Observes the following symptoms resulting from Disorders of the Digestive Organs: A few doses of Eadway’s Pills will free the system from all the above named disorders. Price, 25 cents per Box. Sold by Druggists. Read “False and True.” Send one letter- stamp to Radway &. Co., No 67 Maiden Lane, New York. Information worth thousands will be sent you. r July 4 1871. 26 ly Principal Office 101 W. FifthSt,, Cincinnati, O. The only .Reliable Gift Distribution in the country ! L. D. SINE’S Eighteenth Grand Annual D is tribution/ To bt Drawn Monday, January 1st, 1872, $200,000.00 IN VALUABLE GIFTS! Two Grand Capital Prizes! $10,000 in American Gold ! §10,000 in American Sil ver ! Five Prizes of $1,000, Ten Prizes of §500, each in Greenbacks ! One Span of Match-d Horses, with Family Carriage and SILVER-MOUNTED HARNESS, worth $1,500 Five Horses and Buggies, wiih Silver-Mounted Harness, worth $6000 each ! Five Fine-Toned Rosewood Pianos, worth $500each! 25 Family Sewing Machines, worth $500 each ! 2300 Gold and Silver lever Hunting Watches (in all,) wonh from $20 to $300 each ! Ladies’ Gold Lconiine and Gents’ Gold Vest Chains. Solid and Double-l’latad Silver Table and Teaspoons, Photograph Al burns, Jewelry, &e.,&c. Numbers of Gifts 25,100 ! Tickets limited to 100,000: Agents wanted to sell tickets, to whom Liberal I*:emluuis will be Paid. Single Tickets; $2; Six Tieko's $10; Twelve Tickets $20; Twenty-Five Tickets $40. Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a description ol the mannsr of drawing, and and other information in reference to the Dis tribution, will be sent to any one oidering them. AH letters must be addressed to I,. D. SINE, BOX 86. omce, 101 17. 5th St. Cincinnati, Ohio. 95 5t. rpn DR Deo 25 The Bead. BY EMILY C. HUNTINGTON. Why should we only link our dead lo thoughts of the coffin and the filtering shroud, and never sur round them as we do the living with the light of beautiful fancies and sweet imaginings ? Why should we turn shuddering away from the thought ot those whose memory, when living, was a cherished thing, because the hand ot the Merciful has given his beloved sleep? Are they not beautiful, those quiet forms ? Is there not peace upon their pale brows and on their stirless lips ? Lie not the hands lightly over the bosom, and is the slumber less happy than that which falls with the night— shadows, because no dreams are hunting it, and because they wake from it in the shadowless sunlight ot eternity ! A little child, almost moth erless. The father, with heart well- nigh sinking with its pain, took the child in his arms and carried him to the room where the lost one lay in her pale beauty. F or a moment the little one gazed silently upon her, then lifting his radiant face exclaim ed earnestly, “Beautiful mamma !” The father folded the little artless comforter closer to his heart and murmured softly, “Ay, beautiful— lovely in life, and surely far more lovely now that ‘the light of immor tal beauty silently covers her face.’ ” Yes, call them beautiful—our beautiful dead. Think of them al ways as at rest with the blessed.— Think of the white robes and the tuneful harps ; of the spirit wreaths bound about their sliudowless brows. Think of the hands that bore the cross so wearily here, now lifted be fore the great white throne ; of the voice that trembled with its tearful pleading, now full and clear swell ing the chantings in the upper terns pie’s choir. Think how the feet that faltered and bled along a rough and darkened way, now tread the streets of that golden city where they have no need of the sun nor of the moon, for the Lord is the light thereof. Mother! is there a household name that was once upon thy lips like this very breath, but now is on ly uttered with tears and trembling, so saddening it has growm with its visions of the churchyard marbles? Is the cradle empty, mother? Did the little hand waste and stiffen and slip slowly aw’ay from thy clasp ; and the little waxen limbs, so ten derly folded away from the cold, are they crumbling under the daisies ? Have you seen the quivering eyes upturned to your face as if pleading with you to save your baby from its agony ? Ah ! yes ; and the baby is dead now’—dead, and all the living seern not half so dear as “the little hindering thing” that is gone. Yet “it is well with the child.” The lit tle wandering lamb is safe within the fold, instead ot crossing these bleak and wintery moors of life.— Lay the tiny hands upon its breast, there will be no cross for them to bear ; close the waxen lids over the eyes that will never look upon sor row ; kiss the dear lips that never learned to syllable our earthly words, and say thankfully, “Ah ! the blessed baby ! it has gone to the bea-utiful dead.” Gone hence ! Gone to the death less land! Why do we call this green eat lb, all dotted as it is with graves, “the land of the living ?” Why do w r e say of our beloved, they are still in the land of the living, while they wander here where sweetest anthems die away in sob bings low? Ah! they who reach that “land of the living,” go no more out forever. There is a city whose inhabitants shall not say, 1 am sick ; there is a land over whose flowers the shadow of the destroyer never fails, “and there is no night there.” They are there, our beautilul, our blessed dead, and in the hereafter, w’hen the sun of our little life goes dow n behind the mountains of eter nity, w’c shall join them in that land of the living, and when the sea is Voudouism in Louisiana.—The Planter’s Banner says: The conjur ing mania seems to be on the increase among the negroes of St. Mary and along the Teche in Louisiana.— Though one ol the most foolish things on earth, the liegroes have an unsha- kened confidence in it. Any old rough-looking negro, with an old bag containing bones, hair, lizard heads, and other ends of traps and trash, in keeping with a wild Africanimagina tion, can pass himself off as a con jurer, and the negroes are all afraid of him. He pretends to have pow er to put spells upon other negroes, sickness, insanity, delusions and death at In's will. If any negro is sick and the disease is a little odd in its symptoms, the wild fancy of llte negro immediately attributes the ill ness to voudouism. It is astonishing to notice the alarm which these negro impostors create among their own race. The cunning of some of these conjurers is often remarkable. Last season, one of them collected some live lizards, and, attending a voudoued patient, pre tended to take one of these reptiles from her arm. He would allow no one to see him do it, but as soon as it was done he sent lo the field, and the hands rushed to the quarters lo see the remarkable lizard which had just been extracted from the artn of the woman, who for weeks had not been able to do anything on account of the horrid infirmity inflicted upon her by a conjurer. The same crafty conjurer made a practice of collecting the joungest alligators he could find in the swamps, using them for the same purpose as he used the lizards. So far as we can learn, all the genuine pure-blooded Africans believe in Y T oudouism to a greater or less ex tent. It is a part of their nature, inherited from their African ances tors, and it will go down lo their posterity through a thousand gener ations, if the race does not become extinct. Puzzlings Doctor, Inflammation of the Kidneys in Cattle.—Cattle ate occasion ally subject to inflammation of the kidneys, bearing considerable re semblance to acute red water, but attended by more symptoms ot pure inflammation of that organ in other animals. At first there are seldom any indications of disease beyond a straining effort in voiding urine, and which is ejected forcibly and in small quantities, the loins being more than usually tender, and perhaps a little hot. In a day or two after- ward, the beast becomes dull, and careless about its food, the difficulty of stalling increases ; blood is per ceived to mingle with the urine ; the horns and ears cold, the pulstf’ fre quent and hard, and the breathing quickened. Diarrhoea or dysentery is now observed ; the evacuations ate fetid; they, loo, are discharged with effort and in diminished quan tities, and at length cease to appear. The difficulty of passing the urine becomes greater, the animal strange ly bows its back and groans with pain, and if not relieved, becomes paralyzed behind and dies in lime or four days. The treatment con . sisls of plentiful bleeding, active purging, emollient clysters, fomen tation over the loins, or an applica tion of a mustard poultice lo them, bran mashes, gruel and a small quantity of succulent food. past it will matter not how mourn fully its billows once moaned upon the shore. With many readers, brilliancy’of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake butter-cups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will la6l long; lo the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may fre quently refresh the memory of the receiver. Of all passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is—to watch the success of our enemy; its wages—to be sure of it. Advantages of Crying.— A French physician is out in a long dissertation on the advantages of groaning and crying in general, and especially during surgical opera tions. He contends that groaning and crying are two grand operations by which nature allays anguish; and that the patients who give way to their natural feeiings more speed ily recover from accidents and ope rations than those who suppose it unworthy a man to betray such symptoms of cowardice as either to groan or cry. He tells of a man who reduced his pulse from 126 to 60, in the course of a few hours, by giving full vent to his emotions. If people are at all unhappy about anything let them go into their rooms and comfort themselves with a loud boo hoo and they will feel a hundred per eent. better afterward. In accordance with the above, the crying of children should not be too greatly discouraged. If it is sys tematically repressed the result may be St. Vitus’ dance, epileptic fits, or some other disease of the nervous Mr. M., an army surgeon, was very fond of a joke (unless perpetra ted at his own expense.) and hail, moreover a great contempt for citi zen officers, who were re-nowned more for their courage than their schoiaisbip. One day, at mes^, af ter the decanter had performed sun dry perambulations of the table, Captain S., a brave and accomplish ed officer, and a great wag, remarked lo the doctor who had been somewhat severe in his remarks on the literary deficiencies of some of the new offi cers— “Doctor M. t are you acquainted with Captain G !” “Yes, I know’him well,’ 5 replied the doctor; “lie is one of the new set. But what of him ?” “Nothing in paiticular. I have just received a letter from him, and I will wager you a dozen of old port that you cannot guess in six guesses, how he spell cat.” “Done ! It’s a wager.” “Well, commence guessing,” said s. “K, a, double t.” “No.” “K, a, double t, e.” “No.” “K, a, t, e.” “No! try again.” “C, a, double t, e.” “No, you have missed it again.” “Well, then,” returned the doctor, “C, a double t.” “No, that’s not the way; try again—it’s your last guess.’' 1 “C, a, g, h, t.’' “No, that’s not the way ; you’ve lost your wager,” said S. “Well,” said the doctor, with much petulance of manner, “how does he spell it ?’’ “Why, he spells it c, a, t,” repli ed S, with the utmost gravity of manner, amid the roar of the mess, and almost choking with rage, the doctor sprang to his feet, exclaim ing— “Captain S-, 1 am too old a man to be trifled with in this manner!” A Cure for Cancer.— Accounts of speedy and effectual cures of can cer by the use of clover lea continue to reach us from all directions.— From Brooks county, Georgia, a res ponsible gentleman writes lo the Knoxville Whig, giving the case of a lady who had been afflicted for eigh teen years with a cancer which had resisted the efforts of the best medi cal skill to affect a cure or even an alleviation of the disease. The can cer had attacked her on the right cheek, just below the eye, and had eaten pretty much all that side of her face, together with the eye, and the greatest portion of her nose. This lady has been completely cured in a few months by the use of clover lea. The red clover is used ; the tops are boiled in water, and the tea is used externally and internally. About a quart a day should be drank, and the tea should be used as a wash twice every day. This remedy should have the widest publicity. It is in expensive, and if it should fail to ef fect a cure, in any case it can certain ly do no harm.—New York Sun. A Cure for Nervous Headache.— “Take two pounds of the bark of the root ofblackbcrry, add a suita ble quantity of water; boil for two hours, then pour off’the liquid, then add more water; continue to boil and pour off till all strength is ex tracted; then strain, add all boilings together, simmer lo two quarts; strain; add lour pounds of loaf sugar, and when cool add half a pint of the best French brandy. Dose, a table spoonful three times a day, fasting. If it does not arrest the disease in a day, gradually increase the dose as the stomach can bear it.” Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness arc houses without win dows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, princi ples, morals or manners. Wisdom and Truths. Tell not your secrets to your ser vant, for he will then be j’our mas ter. Next to busy bees, bootblacks fur nish the brightest example of im proving the “shining hour.” A music dealer in an Eastern town announces in his window a sentimental song, “Thou Hast Loved Me and Left Me for twenty- five cents.” If you would have a faithful ser vant, and one that you like, serve yourself. The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruit ful herbs or plants for the benefit ot others. Life is made up, not ot great sac rifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. How to ruin a son.—1. Let him have- his own way. 2. Allow him free use of money. 3. Suffer him to roam where he pleases on the Sabbath. 4. Give him full access to wicked companions 5. Call him to no account of his evenings. 6. Furnish him with no staled employ ment. A New Bedford barber cut off part of a boy’s ear on Monday in giving him a close cut. The knight of the shears expressed the opinion that the boy being young it will probably grow out again. Temperance, indeed, is a bridle of gold ; and lie who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a n an. He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. A recent comfortable writer says : \Ye resemble the self-complacent old squire in ihe family pew, spoken ot by Washington Irving, who chuck led at seeing the eyes of his poorer parishioners directed toward him whenever the parson spoke of the difficulty of a rich man entering the Kingdom of Heaven. Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us when we are suffering un der affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and lo render our more poignant. The talent of turning men into rid icule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the gratifica tion of little minds and ungenerous tempers. Politeness i3 like an air-cushion— there may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully. A good word is an easy obliga tion ; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. Mind this.—It is better to accom plish perfectly a very small amount, than lo half-do ten times as much. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common suffering is a far stronger link than common joy. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles ; the le9S they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. grief A Thought for Boys.—A great many boys tomplain that there are no places. Perhaps it is hard to get such as you like. But when yon get a place—and there arc places— this big country, we are sure, has need of every good boy and girl, and man and woman in it—when you get a place, we say, make yourself useful in it ; make yourself so neces sary, by your fidelity and good be- system. What is natural is nearly __ . _ always useful; and nothing can bejl ,av * or » *hat they cannot do without more natural than the crying of chil- y ou - Be willing to take a low price crying' dren when anything occurs tagive them either mental or physical pain. [Good Health. In all evils which adorit a raraedy, impatience should be avoided, be cause it wastes that time and alien, lion in complaints, which, if proper ly applied, might remove tha ca^u;e. at first, no m uter what the work is if it be honest work. Do it well ; do it the very best you can. Begin at the very lowest round of the lad der, and climb up. The great want anywhere is faithful, capable work ers. They are never a drug in the market. Make yourself one of ihsc, and there will always he a place for you, and a good one too. The Warm Hand of Sympathy. —Till we have reflected on it, we are scarcely aware how much the sum of human happiness in the world is indebted lo this one feeling —sympathy. We get cheerfulness and vigor, we scarcely know how or when, from mere association with our fellow-men, and from the looks reflected on us of gladness and en joyment. We catch inspiration and power lo go on, from human pres ence and from cheerful looks. The workman works with added energy from having others by. The full family circle has a strength and l.fe peculiar lo its own. The substan tial good and the effectual relief which tneu extend to one is trifling. It is not by those, but by something far less costly, that the work is done. God bus insured it by much more simple machinery. He has given to the weakest and poorest the pow er to contribute largely to the com mon slock of gladness. The child’s .-mile and laugh are mighty powers in tins world. When bereavement lias left you desolate, what sub stantial benefit is there which makes condolences acceptable ? It cannot replace the loved ones you have lost. It can bestow upon you nothing permanent. But a warm hand has touched yours, and its thrill told you that there was a liv ing response there to your emotion. One look, one human sigh, has done more for you than the costliest pres ent could convey.