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Volume LIII.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1872.
Number 2
THE
jjoutbnn jKemier.
BY
E. A. HAREISON, OSME & CO.
Terms, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance
rtf
Fife Kindler.
Something Entirely
New & Novel.
Will t;;ke the place of LigLtwoo din Kindling
Fires.
Will Kindle any Wood or Coal Fire Instanta*
neously.
Tha Kindle itself is not consumed, and v ill
lart for years.
TEN CENTS worth of Material will last a
Family one Month.
It i* less than one-tenth the expense of Light*
wood.
HOTELS HOARDING 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. 1’ltICE, 75c.
For sale by L. W. HUNT & CO.
S»p. 25, 38 tf r
VINECAR BITTERS
Farmers, Please Notice.
W E are in receipt of
300 bushels Red Clover SEED.
J 00 “ TIMOTHY.
oO'O “ Kentucky Blue GRASS.
200 “ Orchard GRASS
200 •* Red Top or Herds GRASS.
25 “ Alsike aud Sapling CLOVER,
these SEED have been selected aud pur
chased by us in the West, directly from the
growers, and are fresh and pure.
Wo keep a complete stock of every class of
IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY and SEED,
which we would be pleased to have you call
and examine.
ECHOLS h WILSON,
Jackson Street, Augusta, Ga.. and Broad
Streat, Atlanta, Ga.
September 5, 35 tf r
fjAIIE undersigned respectfully informs the
A- citizens that they are prepared to furnish
Timber, any amount and size, at their Lum
ber Yard in Milledgeville, at low rates. Call
on our Agent, Mr. C. B. Mundy, for terms and
prices. N. & A. CARMANNEY.
dec!9-tf
HIGH SCHOOL
of the
MILLEDGEVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH,
At Midway, in sight of Milledgeville.
This ■ on J School will be better than ever next
ye,i, and opens on the Second Monday of Jan
uary, 187*2.
'p e ims reduced to suit the times $3, $4,
and $5 per month, to suit classes.
President of the School, R. H. Ramsey, Esq,
with entire control. Assistants, in the highest
branches, Rev. Robert C. Smith, and Rev.
Charles W. Lane,
Boarding at reasonable rates for pupils or
funifies in the village of Midway.
Apply to R. H. RAMSEY, Esq-
william McKinley,
dec-19 1m r President of Trustees.
NATURE’S
J. tTiLnin Proprietor. B H. McDoxai.d ft Co., Prrgglste end
A X't«, San Fr.nciieo C,L, and St and 3 4 Commerce St, X.X.
MILLIONS Bear Testimony to their
Wonderful Curative Effects.
Thoy «e not a vile Fancy Drink, made ot Poor
Rum, Whiskey, Proof Spirits and Refuse 1,1-
4u ors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the taste,
called “Tonics,” “Appetizers,” “Restorers,” Ac., that
lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true
Medicine,made from the Native Roots and Herbs'of Cali
fornia, free from all Alcoholic Stimulants.
Thoy are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and
A LIFE GIYING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Reso-
vator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all
poisonous matter and restoring the blood to a henlthy con
dition. No person can take these Bitters according .to
directions and remain long unwell,provided their bones
are! not destroyed by mineral poison or other means,
and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair.
They are a Gentle Purgative as well as a
Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit of acting as
a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation
of the Liver, and all the Visceral Organs.
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, in young "or
old, mnrriod or single, at the dawn of womanhood or at
the turn of life, those Tonic Bitters haTe no cqnal.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheuma
tism and Gont, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Bil
ious, Rcmittout and Intermittent [Fevers,
Diseases of the Biocd, Liver, Kidneys and
Bladder, these Bitters have been most successful.
Such Diseases arc caused by Vitiated Blood,
which is generally produced by derangement of the Di
gestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache,
Pain la the Shoulders.Coughs, Tightness of the Chest,
Dizziness, Sour Bructatlons of the Stomach, Bad Taste
In ths Mouth, Bilious Attacks. Palpitation of the Heart,
Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain In tho regions of the
Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the
eflsprings cf Dyspepsia.
They inrigorate the Stomaeh and etimnlate the torpid
Liver and Bowels, which render them of unequalled effi
cacy in deeming the blood of all impurities, and Impart
ing new life and rigor to the whole system. ■>.
FOR SKIN DISEASES, .Eruptions. Tetter, Sal-.
Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Car
buncles, Ring-Worms, Scald Head, Sore Bros, Erysipelas,
Iteh. Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Die.
eases of ths Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally
dug up and carried out of the system in a short time liy
the use of theee Bitters. One bottle in snch cases will
eonyince; the most incredulous of their curative effects.
Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its im
purities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Erup
tions or Sores; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and
sluggish in the veins; cleanse it whea It Is font, and
your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure,
and the health of the system will follow.
Pin, Tape, and other Worms, larking in the
system cf so many thousands, are effectually destroyed
and removed. Says a distinguished physiologist, there
la scarcely an individual upon tRe face of the earth
whose body Is exempt from tk„ presence of worms. It
Is not upon the healthy elements of the body that
worms exist,but upon the diseased humors.and slimy j i f orm , ( .f A;...,*. ir.
deposits that breed these living monsters of disease. No beseioims or aisea.be its potent power to
eure them.
Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent
RAHWAY'S READY RELIEF
CUKZ2S THS WORST PAX3JJS
in from ono to twentx minutes. Not
One hour.
after reading this advertisement need any on*
SUFFER WITH PAIN.
ay's Ready Relief is a fare for trery
rm.
It was the first, and is
THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY
ihat insiautiy slops the most excruciating
pains, allays Inllamation, and cures Conges
tions, whether of ths Lungs, Stomach, Bow
els, or other glands or organs by ono appli
cation.
In from one to twenty miuutes, no matter
how violent or excruciating ths pain the
Rheumatic, Bcd-'idJeu, L.Jisni. Crippled,
Nervous, Neuralgic, or prostrated with dis
ease may suffer.
The application of the Ready Relief to the
part or parts where the pain or difficulty exists
will afford ease and comfort.
Twenty drops in half a tumbler of water
will ir. a few moments cure Cramps, Spasms
Sour Stomach Heartburn, Sick Headache
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind in the
Bowels, and a Infernal Pains.
Travelers should always carry a bottle of
Rad way’s Ready Relief with them. A few
drops in water will prevent sickness or pains
from change of water Ir is betater than
breach Brandy or Bitters as a stimulent*
FEVER Aftl> AGUE,
Fever and Ague cured for fifty cents; There
is not a remedial agent in this world that was
cure Fctci and Ague, and all ether Malar ice',
it lious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow, and other
I avers (aided by Rad way's Pills) so quick as
Rad way’s Ready Rcliei. Fifty cents a battle
HEALTH ! BEAUTY !!
Strong and pure rich bioud—increase of fi^sh
and weight—cb-ar skin and beautiful
comp’e.vion secured to all.
DR. RAD WAY’S
SABSAPARILLIAJ' BESOLYEAT
Has made the most astonishing cures so quick
so rapid are the changes tire body un
dergoes, under the influence of
Ibis truly wonderful Medicine,
that
Every day an Increase in Flesh
and Weight is Seen and Felt.
YWMS CiKIi.aTT ISI.OOD f*I'JItt-IKIi
Every drop of the fsarsaparilian Resolvent
communicates through the Blood, .Sweat,
Urine, aud other fluids and juices of the sys
tem the vigor of lite, for it repairs the wastes
of the body with new and soud maieriai. Scrof
ula, Syphilis, Consumpiion, Glandular dis
ease, Ulceis in the throat, Mouth, Tumors,
Nodes in the Glands and other parts of the
system, Sore Eyes, Struraorous discharges
from the Earv, and the worst forms of Nkin
diseases, Eruptions, Fever Sores, Scald Head,
Ring Worm, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas. Acne’
Black Spots, Dorms in the Flesh, Tumors,
Cancers in the Womb, and all weakening and
painful discharges, Night Sweats, Loss ot
Sperm and all wastes of the life principle
are within the curative range of this wonder
of Modem Chemistry, and a few days use
will prove to any person using it for either of
a
d*po»it* that breed these living
System of Medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmintics,
will free the system from worms like these Bitters.
J. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD A CO.,
Druggists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, California,
^and SS and J4 Commerse Street, New York.
B3UBOLD BY ALL DRLUGISTS AND DEALERS.
For Sale by JOHN M. CLARK, Drugist.
Milledgeville Ga
Free from the 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 ths finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN
and E F F I C I E N T—desideratums LONG
SOUGHT FOR AND FOUND AT LAST !
It restores aud prevents the Hair from be
coming Gray, imparls a soft, glossy appear
ance, removes Dandruff, is cool and refreshing
to the head, cheeks the Hair from falling off,
and restores it to a great extent when prema
turely lost, prevents Headaches, cuies all hu
mors, cutaneous eruptions, and unnatural Heat.
AS A DRESSING FOR THE H4IR IT IN
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
np in a paunel bottle, made expressiy for it
with the name of the article blown in the glass.
Ask your Druggist for Nature’s Hair restora
tive, and take no other.
For sale in Milledgeville by L. W. HUNT
A CO.
In Sparta, by A. II. BIRDSONG &. CO.
p July 2 ly- r Feb2S’Tlly.
PORTER FLEMING,
COTTOY FACTOR
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Office, Jackson Street, opposite
C. H. PHINIZY & 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
DARBY'S
T
FLUID
invaluable Family Medicine, loi
-*• purifying, cleansing, removing baa
odors in all kinds of sickness; for burns
sores, wounds, stings; for Erysipelas,
rheumatism, and all skin diseases; lor
catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, diptheria;
for colic, diarrhoea, cholera; as awash to
soften and beautify the skin; to remove
nk spots, mildew, fruit stains, taken in
ternally as well as applied externally; so
highly recommended by ali who have used
excels *11 known remedial agents in the cure
of Chronic, Scrofulous, Constitutional, and
Skin diseases; but it is the only positive cure
for Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary
Bad Womb diseases, Gravel. Diabetes, Dropsy
Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine
tright’s Disease, Albuminuria, aud in all ca
ses where there are brick dm-t 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 aud along the Loins.
DR. RAD WAY’S
PERFECT PURGATIVE PILLS,
perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet
gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse, and
strengthen. Iiadway’s Pills, for the cure o.
all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowcls-
Kidneys, Bladder, A’ervous Diseases, Head,
ache, Constipation, Costiveness, ludigestionf
Dyspepsia, Biiiiousness, Bilious Fever, In
flammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all De
rangeinents 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 Radway’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 Rqd way & Co., No 87 Maiden Bane
New York. Information worth thousands wil
be sent you.
r July 4 1871. 9« lv
it—is for Bale by all Druggists and (Joun-
ry Merchants, and may be ordered di
rectly of the
PROPHYLACTIC CO.
161 William Street, N. F,
pDec24’701y. rMnyS nJune3 ly
T MARKWAL.TERS'
MA.EBI.ff «OJ*S e
Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
marble monuments, tomb
STONES &C., &C.
Marble Mantels and Furniture-Marble of all
kinds Furnished to Order. A!1 work for the
Country carefully boxed for shipment.
M ah 12 p’70 ly. neb I, 71 1 y
BROWN’S HOTEL,
Opposite Depot, MACON GA.
w. F. BROWN & CO., Prop’rs
(Successors to E. E. Brown & Son,)
W F. B^OWN. Gso. C. Bbown
Wm. H. Tisoh. Wm. W. Gordin
TIS0N & GORDON,
(established, 1654 )
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
112 BAT STSEET
SAVANNAH, GA.
B agging and iron ties advan
CED on Crops.
Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign
ment of Cotton. Careful attention to all busL
ness, and prompt returns Guaranteed,
oet. 2 r a n 4m.
FACTORS AND
Commission Merchants,
&*r*j¥W*M*
U-sual advances made on Cotton in Store
oct. y r ta 4»
PULASKI HOUSE
Savannah, Ga.
W. II- WILTBEllGEB, Proprietor
THE GREAT’ BLOOD .PURIFIER.
PROPERTIES#. A PLEASAKPBRINK.
ALLSKIN Dl SEASES£ ERUPTIONS
DYSPEPSIA A GENERAL DEBILITY;
NERVOUS .0! SFASESltlVER COMPLAINT
SES0FTHE KIDNEY&.BLADDER
ARE COOP FORTHE MENTAL ORGANIZATION,
THEY WILL RESTOREY0UTHFULVIC0R
IRREGU LARITYDF THE B.OWEL S
CURES NEVER WELL PEOPLE
The grand Panacea for all the ills of life.
TRY ONE--BOTTLE
PHYSICIANS THERE,
PRESCRIBE IT H
me Standard
B rT T E R yv&li A
07 Sc C&? ^ !p
CERIillT jr In. Young or Old, Marrie^^LACTHIE.
-or Single, those Bitters are unN
^equalled and have often been the'
means of saving life.
TRY_0 NE BOTTLE.
CHARLESTON HOTEL.
E. II. JACKSON,
Proprietor.
CHARLESTON, S. G,
From the Univert'ty Monthly.
higher fesile‘Education.
The time was when the highest
aim of woman was to b« a good
house-keeper. Now this branch of
knowledge is not to be despised, and
there is a counter danger of its be
ing neglected, against which \ve
would warn our. female readers.—
Household thrift is a necessary and
valuable attribute of woman. Do
mestic health and comfort, the phys
ical well-being of children—with
which their higher well-being is
closely connected—the happiness ol
husband, father and brother,and the
pleasures of home, all in a great
measure depend on it. But it is not
the chiefend ol our wives and daugh
ters to cook bread and darn stock-
ings.
Next came the idea that what are
called accomplishments are the highest
good of of womankind. Females j
were excluded from severer studies
under the notion that they were not
fit for these studies, or that these
studies were not fit for them. That
we are still to some extent under
the influence of this opinion is appa
rent from the fact that the grade of
education in their institutions is in*
ferior fo that of our male colleges.
We advocate Literature as against
mere house-keeping and against
mere ornament. A liberal educa
tion is claimed as the rightful boon
ot woman. It is uot necessary to
stop to define accurately what is
meant by a liberal education. The
general sense of the term is well un
derstood. It is such an education
as is atlorded by the belter class of
colleges in this country, and more
completely by the Universities of
Great Britain and Germany.
Amongst us, however, and to some
extent in Europe, an evil tenden«y
is developing itself in accordance
with the materialistic proclivities of
the age. The wonderful discoveries
in the physical sciences, and the
countless applications of them to
material purposes, have given a
mighty impulse to this class of stud
ies. However beneficial this may
be in many respects, the effect on
education is highly deiet<l.ious.—
These things exalt out animal na*
tures, and augment our physical
comfort; but they do not, to a cor
responding degree, improve the
mind and adorn the heart. Our in
stitutions of learning have not whol
ly refused to spmpalhize with the
age in its descent towards a gross
and degrading materialism, alike
detrimental to the intellect and sub
versive of the best social affections.
Let us resist this downward ten
dency! Sad will be the day when
philosophical and classical studies
shall be neglected.
That the female mind is capable
of pursuing these studies, is evident
from the eminence to which many of
the sex have attained. The names
of Madame de Stael, Mrs. Somer-
ville, Harriet Martineau, Hannah
Moore, and other illustrious women,
will occur to the reader. Woman’s
capacity is further shown by the pro
ficiency of many of the pupils in our
higher institutions. If she have the
capacity, why should it be repress
ed ? It nature has endowed her with
the ability to tread the walks of lit
erature, and to enjoy the nobletu
thoughts of men, and the manifold
works of God, why should she be
kept forever drumming on the piano,
or making awkward black marks on
pasteboard ? Should she whose soul
swells with the majestic rhythm of
of Milton, or flows along the chaste
and even levels of Addison, be con
demned all her days to circumscribe
her thoughts within the limits of a
button-hole ?
These exalted capacities beget
aspirations. Many women whose
energies are wasted in the trifles of
fashionable life, are conscious of
power to rise into the loftier regions
of thought. A miserable distortion,
and a painful sense of want, must
and do follow from this repression of
their better natures. We do not ut
terly condemn accomplishments.—
Within proper bounds, they are
useful and elegant. Where there
exists a special talent for any of
them, it should be highly cultivated.
But we pretest against requiring the
whole generation of females to run
one giddy and undeviating round of
of light and fantastic education.
Most of them have no taste for these
things. The majority of the people,
both men and women, that we meet
with in this every-day world, are
made for more solid and homely pur
poses. Few can hope to shine in
these aerial spheres. Think of the
immense outlay of time, labor, and
money expended in learning music,
and with what result ? You meet a
boarding-school Miss, with the ink
not dry on her diploma, and ask her
to give you some music: she is very
diffident—cannot play without her
notes; the note* are produced; with
straining mind and cramped fingers,
she heats a humdrum on the tortur
ed instrument. \ct ten years, thou
sands of dollars, and infinite toil
have been expended in learning this
single art. What stores of knowl
edge would the same time and labor
have acquired ! What a noble hbia-
ry would (his money have bought!
We do not preccive the peculiar
felicity of having a cosily piano
which the young lady cannot play
on, and no books except a dozen yel
low-backed novels and trashy maga
zines. Half the money and half the
labor would have furnished her with
plenty of books to read and plenty
of sense lo understand them. It is
insult to the charming genius of
music, that so many of her votaries
perpetually bring l*me, blind, and
halt offerings to her altars.
As already remarked, \vh«re one
exhibits capacity for music, it should
be cultivated lo the highest pitch of
excellence. It is a rare and illus
trious gift, aid demands oar hom
age. The human voice being a nat
ural instrument, being ia some meas
ure adapted to music in ail, and be
ing required lo pour forth its melo
dies in public worship, does not lie
within the scope of the previous re
marks.
Another reason why “accomplish
ments” should no longer enjoy pre
cedence is, that that they ara in most
instances a temporary acquisition.
They do not last. In a very few
years after leaving school they are
neglected. We may complain of
this, and rale the ladies roundly for
it; but still the fact remains, they
almost all quit their practice. If
from the promptings of vanity in
themselves or their parents, they
have been led for many years to
walk in a vain show, and to pretend
to love and understand that which
they bate and of which they know
nothing, the miserable mask cau no
longer be worn. If the chief end of
banging on a piano be to win a hus-
band—as the Orientals hang costly
pearls around their daughters in or
der to attract suitors—that end is at
tained, or they despair of attaining
it; in either case the curtain falls
and the doughfece drops. It is im
possible that it should be otherwise.
What mother, with children and ser
vants around her, with the cares of
dinner, and the sweet thoughts of
her husband’s comfort, feels dis
posed to forsake this earthly para
dise for the purpose of creating a
wretched discord among stringed
instruments!
The Occidental nations all require
the presence of woman in society ;
amongst us,she constitutes its bright
est ornament; her influence pre
serves it from rudeness and excess.
It is of great consequence, therefore,
that her education should fit her to
shine in society. Now the charm of
social life is conversation—conver
sation, as distinguished on the one
hand from a prosy monologue, and
on the oiher from a flippant gossip—
a genial discourse, in which two or
more personshaving many points of
sympathy, freely interchange their
thoughts for mutual profit and pleas
ure.
Far inferior to thisare all the gau
dy but deceitful trapping of the card
table and the dance. If she would
diffuse the greatest pleasure most
widely, let her talk well; but in or
der to talk well, she must talk intel
ligently, and she cannot talk intelli
gently unless she be intelligent.
In order that the superiority of an
educated person in conversation
may appear, it is not necessary that
that the particular topics should be
introduced on which he is specially
informed ; but it will be seen, what
ever may be the subject.
“Education gives fecundity of
thought, copiousness of illustration,
quickness, vigor, fancy, words, im
ages ; it decorates every thing, and
gives the power of trifling, without
being undignified or absurd.”
Now, can the whole round of the
ornamental branches give these ?—
Can a smattering of Grammar, and
a snatch of History, and a total igno
rance of the Belles-Lettres afford
them ; There must be thorough cul
ture ; young ladies must study hard
and long; their days and nights
must be given to the whole field of
polite literature. They cannot talk
of that which they have learned by
rote; it is not enough that they re
tain half an idea here, and the fourth
of one there ; there knowledge will
break down too soon; they will
never be quite sure about any thing,
and hence will be afraid to venture
a remark. That they may be at case
in society, they must be on the gen
eral level of the intelligence of those
around them.
Nothing can be more delightful
than the conveisation of an educated
and refined woman. Her bird-like
voice charms the sense; her flowing
thoughts charm the soul; her beam
ing eyes and kindling cheek thrill
and transfix the heart. Words take
on fresh forms as they fall from her
Tips; and common ideas ate trans
muted into poetic fancies and pious
aspirations as they pass through the
alembic of her mind. No wonder
that men gather around her, and
with chivalrous devotion lay down
at her feet their free-will off*rings
ofhomage, respect, and love. She
reigns a queen iu the hearts *'f the
other sex; she is the glory of her
own. T. A. Horx.
Jkkfkrson’s Ten Rules—Jeffer
son’s ten rules are good yet, especi
all) so f»r those who have the train
ing of the pupils in our public schools.
They are so short and concise, and
embody so much of value, that it
would be well if they were clipped
and put where we could see them
often. They read as follows:
1. Never put off till to-morrow
what you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before
you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not
want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having
eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we
do willingly.
S. How much paiu the evils have
cost us that have never happened.
9. Take things always by the
smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before
yon speak; if very angry, count a
hundred.
Make Home Attractive.—There is
one thing I would be glad to see
more parents understand, namely,
that when they spend money judi
ciously to improve and adorn the
house, and the ground around it,
they are in effect paying their chil
dren a premium to stay at home, as
much as possible, to enjoy it; but
that when they spend money unne
cessarily in fine clothing and jewel
ry for their children, they are pay
ing them a premium to spend their
time away from home, that is, in
those places where they can attract
the most attention, and make the
most display.
A WIFE’S POWER.
The power ot a wife for good or
evil is irresistible. Home must be
the seat of happiness, or it must be
forever unknown. A good wife is
to a man wisdom, courage and
strength; a bad one is confusion,
weakness and despair. No condi
tion is hopeless to a man where his
wife possesses firmness, decision,
and economy. There is no outward
prosperity which can counteract in
dolence, extravagance and folly at
home. No spirit can long endure
bad domestic influence. Man is
strong, but his heart is not adamant.
He delights :a enterprise and action,
bat lo sustain him he needs a tran
quil mind; and especially if he is
an intellectual man, with a whole
heart, he needs his moral forces ia
the conflicts of life. To recover his
composure, home must be a place
of cheerfulness and of comfort.
There his soul renews its strength
and goes forth with fresh vigor to
encounter the labor and trouble of
life. Bat if at home be finds no rest,
and is there met with bad temper,
sullenness, jealousy or gloom, or is
assailed by complaints and censure,
hope vanishes and he sinks into des
pair. Such is the case with too
many who, it might seem, have no
conflicts or trials of life; for such is
woman’s power.
ui is.” If ever a hard student dies
y«»»ng it is because he has not lived
rightly.—Dr. IV. W. Hall.
Leaving Home.—The generation
that is now rising to industrial pur*
suits in the rural districts of the
United -Mates, ought to be impress
ed with the idea that they cannot
belter their condition by hastening
away from their homes and trying
their fortunes in a great town. In
nine cases out of ten, as proved by
actual statistics, they are better off
as they are now. Indepenbence,
knowledge, culture, character, the
good opinion of others, are all as ea
sily acquired in the country as in a
great majority of instances, is wealth,
that attainment which is prized a-
bove ali oiliers. How many who
have made the change have regret
ted it all their lives, aud their chiU
dren after them. There is uothing
in our social condition more to be
deplored than the haste to be rich
that has taken such a hold of the
American people, and now prompts
this fondness for cities. It has been
wonderfully stimulated by our in
flated currency, aud it can now be
controlled only by moral agencies of
the most effectual kind. There are
many tilings more desirable and
more respectable than wealth.
A very ungallaut journalist, who
has recently visited all the courts of
Europe, says, in a letter to the Etoile
Beige, ihat^he did not see a single
good-looning princess. As for the
Grand-duchess hereditary of Russia,
about whose beauty so much has
been written, he says that she is a
thin and sour-looking creature, who
appears lo be over thirty years of
age. Queen Olga of Greece he calls
a pert-looking little woman, who ev
idently lacks brains. The Empress
Augusta of Germany he charges with
dressing in too youthful a style.—
“Her majesty,” he says, “is a home
ly woman; and so is her daughter-
in-law, the fat and ungraceful crown-
princess. The Princess Frederick
Charles, in whom I expected to find
an angelic beauty, from what I had
read about her, is a coarse-featured
lady, with very imperious and awk
ward manners. She appeared tome
more like a housekeeper or a farmer’s
wife than a princess.”
Low SriRtTs.—Exercise for the
body, occupation for the mind, these
are the grand constituents ot health
and.happiness, the cardinal points
upon which everything turns. Mo
tion seems to be a great preserving
principle of nature, to which even
inanimate things are subject; for the
winds, waves, the earth itself, are
restless, and the waving of trees,
shrubs and flowers is known to be
an essential part of their economy*
A fixed rule of taking several hours 3
exercise every day, if possible, in
the open air, if not under cover, will
be almost certain to secure one ex
emption from disease, as well ns
from attacks of low spirits, or ennui—~
that monster who is ever waylaying
the rich and indolent. Low spirits
cannot exist in the stmosphere of
bodily and mental activity.
Study and Longevity.—Be
cause brain work promotes the con
sumption of nutrition quite as much
as bodily labor, a hard student will
get ravenously hungry. The thing
which keeps a man in health is the
constant renewal of the particles of
bis body; labor uses up the new
particles oi nutriment, and works
off the old ones; eating supplies
new ones in their stead, and in this
way the body is always kept new
and young, an J vigorous and thrifty.
If a man does not work at all, sits
still for a great part of his time, the
old, worn out particles of the system
remain in it and clog it up, and be
fore long the body becomes torpid,
and the mind dull, in time approach
ing to idiocy. The brain, like the
body, appropriates the nutriment of
food to its uses, and works off the
old, effete, matter. Kant, one of
the most profound thinkers of his
generation, living beyond three
score and ten, gave it as ihe result
of his observation that “Intellectual
pursuits tend to prolong life;” and
President Humphrey, of Amherst
College, said at the age of eighty-
two, “I have yet to see the man
who died from the effects of hard
study.” Newton, the greatest think
er of his time, lived to the age of
seventy-three; aad Herschtl, the
Anecdote op D ague bee.—M.
Dumas related the following anec
dote of Daguerre. In 1825 be waa
lecturing in the Theatre ofSorbonne,
on chemistry. At the close of his
lecture a lady came up to him and
said, “M. Dumas, as a man of sci
ence, I have a question of no small
moment to me to ask you. I am
the wife of Daguerre, the painter.
For some lime he has let the idea
seize upon him that he can fix the
image of the camera. Do you think
it possible? He is always at the
thought; be can’t sleep at night
for it. I am afraid he is out of his
mind. Do you, as a man of science,
think it can ever be done, or is he
mad?” “In the present state of
knowledge,” said Dumas, “It can
not be done; but I cannot say it
will always remain impossible, nor
set the man down as mad, who
seeks to do it.” This was twelve
years before Daguerre worked his
idea out, and fixed the image; but
many a man so haunted by a possi
bility has been tormented into a
madhouse.
Perhaps there never was a great
er epicure in private life than one
one Mr. Roistone, of London, who
in ten years literally ate up a fortune
of one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds sterling. He not only tra*
versed all Europe himself lor the
sole purpose of gratifying his appe*
tite, but he had agents in China,
Mexico, and Canada to suDply him
with the rarest of delicacies. A sin
gle dish .sometimes cost him fifty
pounds sterling. Finally his fortune
was reduced to a single guinea.—
With this he bought a woodcock
which he had served up in the bigh-
greaiest astromer of his age, lived : esl style of culinary art. After resting
beyond ninety, and so did Hum-1 two hours lie jumped into the Thame*
boldly the immortal author of “Cos- Westminster Bridge,