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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH i9, 1872.
Number. 10.
THE .
Southern $cmiln\
B Y
j;A, HAEEISON, OEMS & CO.
--gs, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance
vCUn Diccctorn.
Cl T Y G O VERNMEN T.
y, lV . or _Samuel Walker.
j ol AlJermen—F B Mapp, E Trice,
r \ Caraker, Jacob Caraker, J H McComb,
Lry Temple.
", ,.',1; and Treasurer—Peter rair.
Marsii' 1 '—J Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
i,' ( .a:y Marshal aud Street Overseer—Peter
spxtuii—F Beeland.
p; t v Surveyor—C T Bayne.
i :-v Auctioneer—S J Kidd.
; Vmce Committee—T A Caraker, Temples.
M • i 1 -
.•act Committee—J Caraker, Trice, Me-
(lilt*.
i,a:J Committee—MeComb, J Caraker,
Cemetery Committee—Temples, Mapp, T A
(ATfikcr.
]j., ar ,] me *ts 1st and 3d Wednesday nights
m each men ill.
COUNTY OFFICEK3.
InUe M U Bell, Ordinary, office in Masonic
Fair. Clerk Sup'r Court, office in Ma-
. »i ■ Hall.
(Jijadia'i Arnold, Sheriff, office in the Mason- 1
ic Hall.
0 p Bonner, Deputy Sheriff, lives in the
country.
JosVas Marshall, Kec’r Tax Returns—at
Post Office.
b N Callaway, Tax Collector, office at his
stun*. , .
H Tenipl-s, County Treasury,office at his
stove.
Daac Cushing, Coroner, res on Wilksonst,
Jo/n) (/entry, Constable, res on Wayne st,
loa: i/ie Factory.
MASONIC
Ikaa".olent Lodge, No. 3, F A M, meets
; ,a : second Saturday nights of each month S
Masonic Hall- JCSflEA, W,M»
i. 1) Case, secretary.
T uple Chapter meets the second aud !
j. .Ii Saturday nights in each month.
S G WHITE, H. P,
(, D Case, secretary.
'! ledgeville Lodge of Perfection, A A S R
; t ve y Monday night.
SAMUEL G WHITE, S # P* G, M.
Pko D Case, fixe Grand £ec’y.
I. O. G. T.
M i! -ilgeville Lodge, No 115, meets in the
< nate Chamber at the State House on every
Knday evening at 7 o’clock.
C P CrawfoRu, W C T
K p Lane, secretary.
Ci,Id Water Templars meet at the State
IIins,- every Saturday afternoon at3 o'clock.
CIirKCII DIRECTORY.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sm ice 1st and 3d Sundays in each mouth,
ill o’clock am and 7 pm.
si.Libath : c'mol at 9.1 o’clock a m. S N
1; up’htcn.supt. Rev D E Butler, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
Hours of service on Sunday: 11 o’ clock, a
mid 7 p m.
Sunday school 3 o’clock p m—W E Frank-
ir.d. superintendent. |
Layer meeting every Wednesday at 7 j
Rev A J Jarrell. Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Services every Sabbath (except the second
in eli month) at 11 a ni and 7 pm,
Sabbath school at 9 1-2 a m T T W indsor
ewrintendent.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock
; m.
Rev C W Lane, Fastor.
The Episcopal Church has no Pastor at
iresent.
Farmers, Please Notice.
W E are in receipt of
300 bushels Red Clover SEED.
100 “ TIMOTHY.
300 “ Kentucky Blue GRASS. ’
200 “ Orchard GRASS
200 ■* Red Top or Herds GRAFS.
23 “ Alsike and Sapling CLOVER.
These SEED have been selected and pur
chased by us in the West, directly from the
grow ers, and are fresh and pur
We keep a complete stock of every class of
IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY and HEED,
which we would be pleased to have you cal!
and examine.
ECHOLS Sf WILSON,
Jackson Street. Augusta, Ga. and Broad
Street, Atlanta, Ga.
September 5, 35 tf r
The Dark Night.
T HE undersigned respectfully informs the
citizens that they are prepared to furnish
Timber, any amount and size, at their Lum
ber Yard in Milledgeviile, at low rates Call
on our Agent, Mr. C. B Mundv. for terms and
prices. N & A CARMANNEY.
decl9-tf
NATUKE’S
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Free from the Poisonous and
Health-destroying Drugs us
ed in other Hair Prepara
tions.
No SUGAR OP LEAD—No
LITHARGE—No NITRATE
OF SILVER, and is entirely
Transparent and clear as crystal, it will not
soil tne finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN
and K F F I C I E N T—desideratum* LONG
SOUGHT FOR AN L> FOUND AT LAST !
It restores and prevents the Hair from be
coming Gray, imparis a Soft, glossy appear
ance, removes l)a. (Luff, is cool and refreshing
to the head, checks (lie Hair from falling off,
and restores it to a great exLent when prema
turely lost, prevents Headaches, cutes all hu
mors, cutaneouseru ,tions, and cnnrinral Heat.
AS A DRESSING FOR THE i 1.11R IT 15
THE BEST ARTICLE LV THE MARKET.
DR. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction,
Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR BRO TH
ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put
up iu a pauuel bottle, made expressiv 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 Milledgeviile by L. W. HUNT
& CO.
In Sparta, by A. H. BIRDSONG & CO.
p July 2 ly. uFel>2S’7i «y.
A LUXURY OF THE PERIOD.
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FnTJM;WAJ|8«wi»™aMalMaai
Possessing powerful invigorating
TO.
TIES&A PLEASANT DRINK.
N DISEASES^ERUPTIONS.
They purify the system, and will cure
and are a preventive of Chills and Fever.
D&t&SES0FTHE'KfDNEy& BLADDER
All yield to their powerful effieacy.
—jL
tliliflil
Ar- an antidote to change of Water and Diet.
THEY WILL R EST0RE YOUTHFUL VIC0R
IRREGULARITY 0FTHE BOWELS.
CURES NEVER WELL PEOPLE
The grand Panacea for all the ills of life.
■php trtniidnpd PHYSICIANS THERE
J '“‘/oX PESCBm ii IS
SITTERS/^
f f x n Young or Old, Married'
/ ? ox Single, these Bitters are un
equalled and have often been the"
means of saving life.
try one bottle.
TIES
PRACTICE.
The Great Southern Tonic,
—AND —
Universally Popular Sli'iachic anti
Appetizer.
BETTER TONIC THAN QUININE.
Popularity is a pretty good guarantee of
merit in this scrutinizing an intelligent age,
and tried by this eritenond SUMTER BIT
TERS stands'first among the invigorating and
regulating medicines of the pres»n day.
OLD PREJUDICES ARE DYING OUT.
Everybody says SUMTER Bii 1’ERS
Cures Dyspepsia,
Prevents Chills ar t Fever,
Creates Appetite,
Restores the Nerves,
Cures Debility,
Purifies the Blood,
Restores Tone to the Stomach,
Pleasant lo the Taste.
Exhilarating to the Body,
And is the most
POPULAR BITTERS
For sale by L. W. HUNT & CO.,
Milledgeviile, Ga.
For sale by A. II. BIRDSONG &
CO., Sparta, da.
jai 23—r p
DARBY’S
PROPHYLACTIC
FLUID
.^^iljMjjriL-rfrTrfi-^ r* a BBI a—aa a—i r ■ o
riUJIS invaluable Fauniy -Medicine, loi
I m i — ii n i • — — — • ~~ ' * s,m**BZXMm***4**+*ai*~~- '
puriT} ing, cleansing, rcutoviug -'‘Q
odors in ail kinds of sici;uessj_jor_burns
sores, wounds, stings; lor Erysipelas,
rheumitisui, arid all skin diseases, h
catarrh, sore tiioutb. sore throat, nipthcria;
for colic, uiarmoen, cholera; as awash to
LEU. BI-SELL & BURRUM. Whole
•e Agents. an j Wholesale Grocers and Corr-
' >n Merchants, 177 Broad Street, AL-
WSTA, GA.
Cotton Food.
V FERTILIZER specially for COTTON.
X Sfnd for circular before purchasing,
buy it. Try it, and you will never regret
A. F. SKINNRR.
Agent Milledgeviile.
F. \V. £jms, General Agents,
Ah'.6 3tn r Savannah, Ga.
soften and beautify the skin; to reniuv
nk spots, imioew, Irurf staitis^_takei^^n^
terually as well as applied externally: so
high!y recommended by ;i!i^yrho^ive^uscd
jt is for sale by all lLuggisLs and Loan—
y Merchants, and may be ordered di
rectiy ol the
DA RB Y P R<) P U Y L ACT IG ■ ■ >
1GL William Street, N.T
p Dec24’70 ly. r^lay2 nJuue3 iy
PULASKI HOUSE
Savannah, Ga
W. H. WILTJJERGER, .Proprietor.
‘‘I can’t slatnl it any longer, Jane,
I’ll go out, and perhaps something
v i I turn up for us.”
‘It’s a cold night, Robert.’
‘Cold, yes! But it’s not much
colder outside than in. It would
have been belter if you had married
John Tremain,’ he said bitterly.
‘Don’t say that, Robert; I’ve nev
er regretted my choice.’
‘Not even now, when there is not
a loaf of bread in the house lor you
and the children.’
‘Not even now, Robert. Don’t be
discouraged. God has not forsaken
us. Perhaps this evening the liue
will turn, aud belli r days may dawn
upon us to-morrow.’
Robert Brice shook his head des-
pondingly.
‘You are more hopeful than I,
Jane. Day after day I have been
in search of employment; 1 have
called at fifty places, only to receive
the same answer everywhere.’
Just then, litile Jimmy, who had
been asleep, woke up.
‘Mother,’ he pleaded,‘won’t you
give me a piece of bread ? 1 am so
hungry.’
‘There is no bread, Jimmy, dar
ling,’ said the mother, with an ach
ing heart.
‘When will there be some ?’ ask- did.
ed the child, piteously.
Teats came to the mother’s eyes.
She knew not what to say.
‘J immy, I’ll bring you some bread,’
said the father hoarsely, aud he
seized itis hut and went to the dour.
His wife, alarmed, laid tier hand
upon his sleeve. £5he saw the look
in his eyes, and she feared to wh u
step desperation might load him.
‘Remember, Robert,’ she said,
sofemnly, ‘it is hard lo starve, hut
the re are things that tire worse.’
He shook off her hand, but not
roughly, aud without a word passed
out.
Out in the cold streets ! They
would be his only home next, he
thought. For a brief time longer Te
had the shelter of a cheerless room
in a cold tenement house, but the
rent would become due til the end
of the month, and he had nothing to
meet it.
Robert Brice was a mechanic,
competent and skillful. Three years
since he lived in a country village
where itis expenses were m< derate,
and he found no difficulty in meeting
them. But in an evil hour he grew
tired of his village home, and he re
moved to the city. Here he vainly
hoped to do better. For a while he
met with very good success, but he
found the tenement house in which
he was obliged to live, a poor sub'
stitute for the neat little cottage
which he had occupied in the coun
try. He saw his mistake but was
loo proud lo go back.
‘Of course 1 can’t have as good
accommodations here as in the coun
try,’ he said, ‘but it is something to
live in and be in the midst ol things.’
‘I’d rather be back again,’ said
his wife. ‘Somehow the city doesn’t
seem like home. There I u.-ed to
run in take tea with a neighbor, and
have a pleasant, social lime. Here,
l know scarcely anybody.*
‘You’ll get used to it after a while,’
said her husband.
She did not think so, but she did
not complain.
Bnl a time of great depression
came and with it a suspension of
business enterprises. Work ceased
for Robert Brice and many otheis.
If he had been in his old home, Ire
could have turned his hands to some
thing else, and at the worst could
have borrowed of his neighbors till
b tier times. But the friendly re
lations arising from neighborhood do
not exist in the city to the same ex
tent as in the country. So day by
dav he saw his scanty sum of money
waste away, and no one extended a
hand. Day by day be went out to
seek work, only to find himself one
of a large number, all of whom were
doomed to disappointment. If he
had been alone he could have got
along somehow, but it was a sore
trial to co ne to a cheerless room
and a pale wife and hungry children
with no relief to offer the n.
When on that evening Robert
Btice went into the streets, he hard
ly knew how he was going to redeem
the promise he had made to little
Jimmy. He was absolutely penni-
lcigs, and had been so tor three days.
There was nothing that he was like-
lv to find to do that night.
‘I will pawn my coal,’ he said at
last. l i cannot see my wife and
children starve.’
It was a well-worn overcoat, and
that cold winter night he needed
something more to keep him warm.
Weakened by enforced fasting he
was more sensitive lo the cold, and
shivered as
pavement
he walked along the
‘Yes’ Ire said, ‘my coat mu-t go.
1 know not how 1 shall get along
withm.t it, hut l can’t see tire chil
dren starve before my eyes.’
He was not in general an envious
man, but when he saw sleek, well
ted citizens, buttoned up to tire throat
in warm overt oats, come out of the
brilliantly lighted shops, provided
v\ith luxuries for happy children ai
home, while his were starving, he
uflered some bitter thoughts upon
the inequality of Fortune’s gifts to
come to his mind.
Why sh >u!d they be so happy and
he so miserable?
There was one man, shorter than
himself, warmly clad, who passed
him with his hands thrust deep into
tne pockets of his overcoat. 'There
was a pleasant smile Bpon his face.
He was doubtless thinking of itie
happy circle at home.
Robert knew him as a rich mer
chant, whose ample warehouse ire
often passed. He had applied to
this man only two days before lor
employment, and been refused. Ii
was, perhaps, the thought of the wide
•JitK rence between them, so far as
outward circumstances went, that
led Robert Brice to follow him.
Alter a while the merchant—Mr.
Grimes, drew his handkerchief slow
ly from his pocket. As he did so,
he did not perceive lint his pocket-
book came with it arid fell to ihe
sidewalk. m
He did not perceive it, but Robert
His heart leaped into his
mouth, and a sudden thought enter
cd his mind. He bent quickly down
and picks t! up the pocket book. He
rai-ed his eyes hastily to see if the
movement was noticed* It was not.
The merchant went on unheeding
his loss.
‘This will buy bread for my wife
and cliildn n,’ thought Robert in-
siantly.
A vi-ion of the comfort which the
money would bring that cheerless
room, light* d up his heart for an in-
slant, but then, for he was not dis
honest, there came another thought.
The money was not his, much as he
wanted it.
‘But, 1 cannot see mv wife and
children starve,’ he thought a^aiu.
‘If it is wrong lo keep this money,
God will pardon the offence. He
will understand mv motive.’
All this was sophistry, and he
knew ii. In a moment he felt it to
be so. There were some things
worse than starvation. It was his
wife that had said just before lie came
out. Could he met t her gaze, when
he returned with food so obtained ?
‘I’ve lived honest so far,’ h
thought—‘I won’t turn thief now.”
It was with an effort that became
to this decision, for ail the wh le be
fore his eyes tfiere was that vision
of acheeiless home, and he could
hear Jimmy vainly asking for food.
It was with an effort dial he stepped j
forward and placed 11is hand on the
merchant’s shoulder, and extended
the hand that field the pocket book.
‘Sir,’ he said hoarwly, ‘you have
dropped your pocket hook." 1
‘Thank you,’ said the merchant,
turning round, ‘I hadn’t perceived
my loss.’
‘You dropped it when you took
out your handkerchief.’
‘Anil you saw it, and picked it up.
I am very much obliged to you.’
‘You have reason to be,’said Rob
ert in a low voice. ‘I came verv
near keeping it.’
‘That would have been di-lir)ue«t,’
said Mr. Grimes, his tone altering
slightly.
‘Yes, it would, hut it’s hard in a
man to be honest when he is penni
less, and his wifi: and children with
out a crust.’
‘Surely you and your iam iy are
not in that condition ?’ >ai i thf mer
chant earnesilv.
‘•Yes,’ said Roheit, “it is only too
true.’
‘And you are om of work !’
‘For two nionths I have vainly
sought for work. 1 applied to you
two days since.’
‘I remember you now. I thought
1 had seen your face before. You
still want work ?’
‘1 should feel grateful fi»r it.’
‘A porter left ineyesterday. Will
you take his place at $12 a week ?’
‘Thankfully, sir. I would work
for half that. 1 ’
“Then come to-morrow morning,
or rather, as to-morrow will be a hol
iday, the day succeeding. Mean
time take this for your present ne
cessities.’
He drew from his pocket book a
bank note ami put it in Iloberi’s
band.
‘It’s $50,’ said Robert, amazed.
‘I know it. This pocket book
contains SI,000. But for you J
should have lost the whole.’
‘God bless you, sir ; good night!’
said Robert.
‘Good night!’
Jane waited for her husband, in
the cold and cheerless room, which
for a few days longer she might call
her home.
‘Do you think lather will bring
me some bread?’ asked little Jim
my, as he nestled in her lap,
‘I hope so, darling,’ she su 1, Bid
her heart misgave her. She Icired
it was a delusive hope.
An h »ur passed—diere was a -top
on the stair—her husband’s. I'
could not be, for this was a cheerful,
elastic step, coming up two stabs a
a time. She looked eagerly at ihe
do >r.
Yes, it was he. The do >r open d
Roheit, radiant with joy, enter, d
with a basket full ot substantial | J i O—
visions.
‘Have you got some bread, fath
er ?’ asked Jimmy, hopefully.
‘Yes, Jimmy some bread and meat
from a restraunt, and here’s a Itllle
tea and sugar, There’s a iriie ,vood
Washington Irving's First Love.
When young he In ca r e intimate
iy acquainted with a daughter ot
one ot tin- Knickerbockers of the
time, high in fa ni ly and wealth.
With the young lady he piessed his
-nit successfully ; and ill time the
fitlier might have succumbed, des
pite d e tael that he regarded the
resources wiih which Irving pro
posed to support a wife to > slender
to maintiio that style of luxury 'o
which his (laughter had been accus
tomed. In an evil hour, a# it seem
ed, a Dr. Creighton, a minister of
the Episcopal church, despite Ins
-Scolish parentage, fell in with the
2 ntleman whom Irving was desi
rous of making ins father-in-law.
The clergyman’s eyes were dazzled
by the young lady, and the eyes of
!ef., Jane. Let’s have a bright fire : the father had been blinded to a!!
and a comfiirtable meal, for, please
God, this shall be a comfortable
night.’
‘How did it happen? 'fell me.
Robert.’
.So Robert told his wife, and soon
a bright fire lighted up the before
cheerless room.
T he next week they moved to a
better home. The have never since
known what it is to want. Robert
found a firm friend in the savings
bank, and has reason to remember,
with grateful heart, God’s goodness
on the Eve of Temptation.
Education.
Trie common opinion is crude. Ii
is generally understood to signify
“<ib .‘.ini g knowledge.” Such ex
pressions as ihe following are cirn-
mon: “a common-school educa
tion “a commercial education,”
etc. This is very far from the true
idea- Education is discipline. Knowl
edge is necessary, but knowledge
does not always produce it.
That knowledge is valuable which
secures close thought. Some knowl
edge m iy be obtained without much
application, and is not, as a rule, of
much importance. Such is the
knowledge given by men who ig
nore discipline, and would lead
astray young men, under the popu
lar notion that they are to learn what
they wish to use. There is such a
thing as a drill, or discipline of the
mind, giving increased (lower to
think upon business affairs, but such
a drill is not received in three oi
six months, as claimed by most of
our commercial colleges.
Education is discipline—power to
think—and can only be obtained bv
long continued application. Thai
business education which alone is < f
real value, is that which is obtained
by coming in actual contact with
business; grappling with the prob
letns of chance as they are set in the
busy whirl of society.
The simple record of a transac
tion is one thing; the balancing of
chances—the study of men and their
wants—the comprehending of the
movements of society, so as to be
able lo tell its ebb and How, is quite
another. To claim that the former
constitutes a business education is a
farce.
Young men, if you wish lobe pre
pared tor business, think! Y'ou have
powers of mind ; therefore strength
en them. That which you most
need is close study of men and
books. You cannot afford to be a
machine. Dare to lie ihe architect
ot your fortune. Remember, that
your claim loan education is deter
mined by the power you possess of
independent thought. The power to
gather up the moving, bustling,
stirnng events ot the present, and
predetermine die result, is the best
diploma in the world. It is one that
is recognized anvwhere and every
where.— Western Agriculturist.
Home Conversation.—C h i I d re n
hunger perpetually lor new ideas.
They will learn with pleasure from
the lips of parents what they deem
it drudgery to si tidy in books; and
even if they have the misfortune to
be deprived of many educaiional ad
vantages, they will grow up intelli
gent it they enjoy in childhood the
privilege of listening daily to the
conversation of intelligent people.
We sometimes see parents, who are
the life of every company which
they enter, dull, silent and uninter
esting at home amongst their chil
dren. If they have not mental ac
tivity and mental stores suffUdenlly
for both, let them, first use what they
have for their own household. A
silent house is a dull place for young
people, a place from w hich they will
escape if they can. How much use
ful inlonnatiou, on the other hand, is
often given in pleasant family con
versation, aud what unconscious but
excellent menial training in lively
social argument. Cultivate to the
utmost all the graces of home con
versation.
The true cause of the inequality
of the sexes. In early life the boy
masters his opportunities, while the
girl always missis hers.
other considerations but tin* wealth
which Creighton offered, together
with his heatt- Time and persist
eucy pu-hed Irving from the scene,
and the girl, obedient submission to
her father’s urgent entreaties, gave
his preference to precedence of her
own. But the saddest part of the
story remains to Ire told. When the
question ot the marriage portion -> as
under consideration, the f nher s:at
ed that the family hail Been tainted
with insanity ; and, to guard against
ihe evils of harsii treatment, should
fiis daughter Ire affl cted wiih the
same malady, insisted that a eerlain
sum should be Sri aside, which, in
the event of such a calamity, should
be devoted to her maintenance on
her estate on the banks of die Hud
son, and that hi no event should she
be removed from the mansion tfiere.
The terms tire ardent suffer, [rop
ing for the best, complied with, b
may have been * he result of heretli-
itary disease, or of the effect to crush
out and kill her young hopes, but
not many years elapsed before the
young wife was a raving maniac.—
She became so violent dial confine
ment w'as necessary, and die family
mansion was converted into an asy
lum, Dr. Creighton budding another
house on a distant part of the esta e.
The unfortunate woman is still liv
ing, and on quiet nights tier shriek
may be heard- shrilling along the
banks of the river—almost audible,,
too, at the secluded’ retreat which j
Irving occupied. No heart but his
own knows how much ihe sad event
may have tinged his own life, or to j
what exertions it may have urged i
him in attempting lo drown all re-I
membrances ot his disappointment, j
Dr. Creighton has for years officiated j
at die humble chapel win re Irving I
worshipped; aid, singular enough, I
read the burial service for his rival.
To those who knew of these mourn
ful circumstances, the strange coin-
; cidence must have been exceedingly
painful. There are but few por
traits or busts of Mr. Irving in exis
tence, as he, in the last years of his
life, persistently refused to place
himself at the disposal of any artist,
however celebrated.
The Good Old Bible.—A Vir
ginia banker, who was chairman of
an infidel club, was once traveling
through Kentucky, having with hiin
bank bills to the amount of $26,000.
When he came to a lonely forest,
where rybbeiies and murders were
said to be frequent, he was soon lost,
through riding the wrong road.—
I he darkness of the night soon came
quickly over him, and how to escape
from the threatening danger he knew
not. In his alarm he espied at a
distance a dim light, anfl urging his
horse onward he at length came to
a wretched looking cabin. He
knock'd ; the door was opened by
a woman who said her husband was
out hunting, but would soon return,
| and she was sure he would cheer-
| fully give him shelter for the niyht.
Th» gentleman put up his horse and
entered the cabin, hut with feelings
that can lie bitter imagined than
de-cribed. Here he was with a
large sum of money perhaps in the
house of a robber whose name was
a terror to the country.
In a -liort time the man of the
bouse returned. He had on a deep
skm shirt, a hear-sk'n cap, and
seemed much fatigued and in no
talking mood. AH this boded the
infidel no good. He felt for his pis
tols in his pockets, and placed them
so as to be ready lor iric-tawt use.—
The man asked ihe traveller to re
tire to bed. but he determined to sell
nis life as dearly as he roald. f]is
fairs grew into a perfect agony.—
W ha! was to be done ?
At length the backwoodsman
arose, arid reaching to a wooden
shelf, took down an old book, and
said :
‘Well, stranger, if you wont go
to bed, I will, but it is always my
cu-io n to read a chanter of the Ho
ly Scrip!ures before I go to bed.
What a change did these words
produce? Alarm was removed from
i his sceptic’s mind. Though avow
ing himself an infidel, he had more
confidence in the bible. He felt
sale. He felt that a man who kept
a bible in his house, and Dent his
knees in prayer, was no murderer or
robber. He listened to ih • good
words, ami slept as calmly in that
cabin ns he did under his father’s
roof. From that night he ceased io
revile the good oid bible. He be
came a sincere Christian, and ofn-n
related the story of ibis eventful jour
ney to prove the folly of infidelity.
How to Prevent Spring Dis
eases.—From Dr. Hall’s new work,
“Health by Good Living,” we ex
tract the following valuable hints:
It is an indisputable, physiologi
cal truth that if the instincts of na
ture were yielded to in the Spring;
were cherished in her desire to take
less and less food as the weather
grows warmer, as they are yielded
in the Autumn in taking more, a ve
ry large amount of the diseases of
Spring and Summer would be avoid
ed. The great practical lesson to
be learned in reference lo the sub
ject, a question of health and dis
ease, yes, in multitudes of cases, a
question of life and death, is simply
this: As the Winter passes, and the
balmy Spring time comes on, do
nothing to increase the appetite ;
eat no more than is called for; do
not be uneasy because you have lit
tle or no relish for your food ; eat
less and less every day. The very
best way to increase your pleasure
of eating is lo change the quality ol
food; use articles less carbonaceous,
less warming; send from your ta
ble the pork and bacon, and fat
meats, oils, and sugars, and starch
es, and sago, and the tapioca pud
ding, and the dumplings, and th'-
r ch pastries; get hold of the early
‘greens,’ the spinach, th^salads, the
turnip-tops, the radish, the early
berry and the daily Iruil, and lean
meats; pay increasing attention to
the cleanliness of the skin ; be more
in the air; sleep in better ventilated
rooms; let your windows he raised
high at night and your inner doors
be left wide oo n.
Why cannot two slender persons
ever become great friends: Because
they will always be slight acquaint
ances.
When Lord Sid mouth once said,
‘My brains are going to the dogs this
morning,’ his friend ejaculated, ‘Poor
dogs!”
\ Hint lo Girls.
A wood engraver being asked why
he did not employ women replied :
“I have employed women very of
ten, and 1 wish I could leel more en
couraged. But the truth is, that
when a young man comes to me
and begins his work he leels
that it is his life’s business. He
is to cut his fortune out of the litile
blocks before him. Wife, familv,
home, happiness, are all to be carved
by his hand, and he settles, stead
ily and earnestly io his labor,
determined lo master it, and wiih
every excitement spurring him on.
He cannot marry until he knows his
trade. It is exactly the other way
with the girl. .She may be as poor
tis the boy, and as wholly dependent
upon herself for a living, but she
leels that she will probably marry In 7
and by, and then she must give up
wood engraving. So she goes on
listlessly ; ?he has no ambition to
excel; she does not feel that her
happiness depends on it. She will
marry and then her husband’s wages
will support her—She may not say
so, but she thinks so and it spoils her
work.’
“The part ol the holding of a
farmer or land owner winch pavs
be-t for cultivation ” said the im
mortal Charles Dickens,” is ihe
small estate within the ring fence of
his skull. Let him begin with the
»ight tillage of his brains, and it >hall
be well with his grains, roots, herb
age and forage, sheep and cattle;
they shall'thrive, aud he -hail thrive.
‘Practice with science,’ is now the
adopted motto of the Royal Agricul
tural Society.”
A Western editor speaks of a co
temporary who is “sodirty that eve
ry time he goes up stairs there is a
rise in real estate.”
It is no uncommon thing for hot
words to produce coolness.
Some one says the best way to
train a child in the way lie should
go, is for ihe person to travel ihat
way occasionally himself.
A man who has traveled through
New Jersey says he foun 1 some land
there so poor that you couldn’t raise
a disturbance on it.
Lawyers should sleep well—it is
immaterial on which side they lie.
According lo the articles of war it
is death to stop a cannon ball.