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V0LU3IE AIT.
i' < > k t iu - .
v WOMAN'S QCicsriON
Y ELXZABKTH BARBF.T BROWNING.
]fU 0 \v you lmvo asked for the costliest
tic Ly the Hand above—
iV heart and a woman's life,
worn m's wonderful love ?
]-,)ow yon have asked for ibis priceless
thing
oliiM might ask for a to} ?
Yvli.it others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of a boy ?
m have written my lesson of duty out,
Mnn-hke you have questioned me—
I tit the bar of my woman’s soul,
1 util I shall question thee.
You require that your mutton sli til always be
hot,
Your socks and your shirts shall be whole ;
1 rtquire your heart be as true as God’s stars,
And pure as heaven your soul.
Yon require h cook for your mutton and beef ;
| require a far 1 etter thing :
A wa,iistiess you’re wanting for stockings amt
shirts—
I look for u man and a king.
A king for a beautiful reaim called borne,
And a man that tla: maker, God,
Shall lu tk rqioii ns he did the first,
And say, “it is very good.”
Inni fair and young, but the ron will fide
From my Mift, young chock one day -
Will you love me then, ’mid the tailing leaves,
As you did ’mid the bloom of May ?
Fyonr heart an ocean sn strong and deep
I may Lunch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day slit is made a bride.
Ijvtjuuv .ill filings that are grand and true,
til things that a man should be ;
Ifv u givo this all, I would stake my life
'Vu be a t you cteiyand of n.e.
If yon iviimot do this -a laundress and cook
bn enn hire with little to pay ;
Hutu woman’s heart and a woman’s life
Arc not to tie won that way.
MISCELLANY.
‘‘Coming Events Cast Their
Shadows Before."
In ffedt'e's “Life of Thomas Camp
the following anecdote is pre¬
served respecting the well known cou¬
plet of “ Lot hid
" i is the sunset qf life givas me mystical lore,
Aibl (timing events oast their shadows before.”
Lit: happy thought first presented
l,s ‘'H to his mind during a visit to
Jim f lie had gone early to bed and
diil meditating on the wizard's'warn-*
,n -/ h i! last uslci ]i. During the night
Id* tulilcnly awoke, repeating, ‘Events
cune cast their shadows before.’'
Tnis was the very thought that lie
' ia ‘i hen hunting for the whole week.
He rung the bell more than once, with
ittcteiKsed force. At last surprised
and annoyed by an unreasonable ap
pval, the servant appeared- The poet
Wa * fitting with one foot on the bed
a, '3 the other on the floor, with an air
"t mixed impatience and inspiration.
‘►Sir, are you ill V inquired the ser¬
vunt,
f ' Never better in my* life. Leave
11 c bie candle and oblige me with a
U M' otte.i as soon as possible.’
then started to his fed, seized
liis P'B and wrote down the “happy
thought”
Voiu- - _____ ^ ^ _
Owi, IneliuatlQH.
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I ‘H M choosing _• an occupation . for , life.
^ If yonr own incliiiaiioii, if possi
a boy is intent on betoj a law.
Vt'r i i pieaclier in no l, a doctor, 1 or a mei"
• ,
chant w n, TlT , ° 10 m ^° i
Mu me,- l °ut of him. l,ct him go. r lhe
' 1 " i ts of Itis nature teach hm his
, • •
1 , lu,n . 111 ,. hfe. r A . close , of . the ,
vi< w
Wurii i \ however, in% „ will soon convince .
■"} one that many have mistaken their
filing, No matter for that. The
ll,Ul who fas failed in his first love
not have b *en happy had he
k'en 1 a <n tul by olhe:s early in his
I'lioict ► o him labor would have
Lot J* il hm den and life servitude
(i a
tendony with the promising
i ^'/colmed /j . b<d"ie. pictures, hinq but the not advanta- in too
u,l j ec tio:is to the yariQiis vo"
llS ut ldu ‘ » 1,1011 ,ot ,dm carefully
£( .| ( C , U ( ,U) Hut impress
l,j ' CC - upon
lri C lln,) U tancc °* h honestly,
'u lus v:n S
a .oush , but to aim higher, with
lietit* lils 1,11,1 l " the lt * m quality t0 r *' e of a his ^ ove work, ad 00n,s and
u >h gi ity, rectitude and virtue
fiio Having done s i much, lea\ e
! to Inn. C hicayo LetfueV
her. ^ 'aw "baby cucum-
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JMIEME’S DIAMONDS.
T5Y ANNIE ROBERTSON NOXON.
Phcnie, as the beauty of the family,
had been indulged and allowed to
have her own way.
•It Euphenna demanded the north
Star I verily believe papa would
straightway begin building a ladder,”
said Nettie, who was, at certain sea
sons, obliged to undergo the indignity
of wearing her beautiful sister's cast
oil finery.
Now there had b*en a question of
sending one of the girls to aunt Char.
lotto’s, for the August season at Rye
Ix af’li ; and everybody knew before
hand tliat it would end just as it did—
in Euphemi t s getting agorgeous out"
fit, with a whole room full of silks and
lace. % which Nettie's skilful little fin.
gcis we:e to tiansfbinq an ith if»e^lie!p
of AIss Huggles, into a ravisning
wardrobe for the spoiled beauty.
Phemiu'B mother noticed the fever
in pale, little Nettie’s flushed cheeks,
ami with perhaps a slight twinge of
conscience, both the injustice of this
settingup a shrine for one child, and
damping the bright young life of an
otuer -
Don't b et Nettie,’ she said, so ith
in.’fy. 1 Vour time will come, by and
by vour sister is older, and it is to
be expected she should receive a little
more attention. I don’t think you
lack for anything, and ^our father
would be very grieved to heal* that
you had accused him of partiality.
lie does the best lie can for us all.”
'So he does, you kind, patient, little
smi!/ said No! tie, tumbling the crisp
white mull ot PhemnAs first ball dress
in a heap, and giving her mother a
penitential squeeze.
Nettie was fond of Pl.emi.e, Who
would not be? For Pnem e was very
livniHil.il, with wavy, yellow hair, ami
sea-blue eje».
‘llovv lovely she will be/ thought
tins second Cmdeiella, \vhde she
walchcd the flying tlwead, and dteam
ed sweet di earns of I hemic s ti -
un, l ) ^ s *
I sMan t need this blue silk, Net
t'e,* said Phernie, patronizingly, as
she overlooked Nettie packing her
trunks, ‘It will do nicely for you,
with one new flounce, and this giciia
dine Watteau you m >y have also.’
‘ 1 bans: you/ said good, little Net
tie, going on with her packing, with
out h oking up however.
‘There, how nicely you have got
everything in,' said Phernie, when the
packing was finished. ‘I am sure I
never con'd have ace miplished it half
so well.
S io continued, aft l a moment.
‘\\ hat a helpless giil I am ! I shah
be lost vy thout } on, Nettie; and shall
never, in the woihl, get up my hue.?
lla l‘ *
It , lonely , without . , ^ Phernie
was very
at the , farm „ house and , , Nettie r sat tin
:
der , the old , , apo'e , tree, counting . J( the
daisies , . . . the . tali , orchard , , grass, at
m
and , tlonking . , of r the , loamy .
sunset, ,
the , throl'Ding , . . inustc. . But, T)
waves a <t
must <»f „ all she , thought , , of ,. ni Phernie . ra"
diant blue silk and , pearls, , waltzing ,/.
in
away the , , happv , hours.
, ‘It T . all dream , ot .. enchantment,’ , ,
is a
wrote I hemic, ... m Ir-r 1 lady^likc , 11 hand. , 3
‘Dow Tr T I wish . , could ,, . be , here, dar- -.
vou
ling, and , could how aU .
see many are
ready at the , feet _ of „ your spoiled -iin hu
phe „*,m.>
Now v- ..1 the dream i was ended, ill and
l-me , tr,9e . . a
. ,s at asa.n »
'"
ftllor and more qneeuly. withtfiaad.
ded charm of being ? ‘engaged/
Nettie ... ready to . r fall down A and ?
was
worship Phernie, and almost hated
|jerseIf *f or ever having said spiteful
things ot ... nor. Pliem • e would n soon C n-»n »,«
, lost to , her . forever i !
Aunt Charlotte had taken charge
of the wedding trousseau, as Mr. El
dreth ’8 family—Air. Eldreth was the
gentleman Phernie was to
was extremely aristocratic, and she
dl . ea ded^tlieii’ criticise. She had writ"
t en ga manv letters, in this strain,
Phemie’s mamma and Nettie began
j nsens j]My to have a s n t of horror ol
Eldreth, and dreaded his
am m g them.
Euphernia laughed softly, and said,
qi| ie j dea 0 f uuy one’s fearing Ghat"
j. ,,
‘But we are such plain people, my
. . Nettie, wondeiing it
Perry’s Ltion would, if rigorous’y ap
{( ] ied t o herself, remove those horrid
^. cu ^j eg before became. Who ever
j, ear j of a girl, with black hair and
the* brown eyes, liaving freckles on
nose? Now, if she had horrid
I inolasscs^C'dored lmir, like poor AJiss
EASTMAN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, 1870.
Ruggles/thc tn. r m{u:i-m iker, it would
not be so odd.
Bhc mildly ventured on this impor
lant topic while combing out Pliemie’s
golden locks, one evening, over the
8nowy shonlders, which were wit hout
SJ) lt m - blemish.
"Pshaw, chiId ,, an8wered Phemi ^
g 0 „dnatn r edly. 'Don’t he absurd,
Charlie, I dar'e sav, will never s,te OD e
of yn)lr freckles. He won't care so
] ontr as I haven't any'
erne, Euphernia ! Did she ever
tllflllc ; n after ye ars, or that thought
} egs Meantime' speech?
there had been a mvste
riou8 lnterv ; ew> between Euphernia
Rn d her futh. r, i.i reference to his bri
dal present.
'Now that Charlotte has saved me
the expense of those flim-flams dca
rie/ SlW her fllther q don’t 'know
what I shall do for my share towards
fitting out my darling.’
‘Oh, j t ou precious old dear !’’ cried
Phernie ‘Would you really and tru
f y givc me what I want ?' And Pne
mie patted and squeezed him.
‘But you will be frightened, I know,'
sa id Phernie. ‘Shall I whisper V
‘Yes if you like.'
Down came the rosy month, audit
must be confessed that the poor old
gentleman, when he heard her whisper,
paled a little.
‘Diamonds, my pet,' he cried.
‘Yes r replied Phernie, nothing
abashed. The ice being once broken,
8 ) ie wag brave enough. ‘Beautiful,
big, flashing diamonds. Ah! they,
are , JOt s> horridly, awfully high,
p ap a. Lots of girls, no richer than 1
;im , wear them. And 1 am to be mar
rjedj you kl ow> And oh, I love them
g0 j j t j,as been lhe dream of my
pp.p
‘Well darling, we shall see,’ said
the doting old soul, kissing the sweet
)ip S gravelv.
The whole: liontoltolj was api'alleil
when this new freak uf Puemiu’s lie
camo known.
‘G >ed gracious, father/ said her
mother, ‘you would never think of
gl ,ch a piece of‘extravagance V And
though equally the slave of the spoiled
beauty, she turned pale at the
thought
Nevertheless, the diamonds were
offered lip as a sacrifice, in their crim
son-velvet case, fairly striking Nettie
dumb in silent adoration.
Phernie sat up half the night, watch
\ ng t j lc effect of the diamonds in her
bedroom min or ; while Nettie said her
payers, and fell asleep. And Phc
niie'-s cruel destiny stood by, mocking
Eie foolish girl.
F()1 . whcn Charlie Eldrcth came, and
saw the freckles, lo ! he liked them.
There, is nothing so perverse as the
human heart you will say. But there
wag no perverseness here. Charlie
realized, when he saw Nettie, there
were no cosmetics here. Nettie Siv
, lor . least real , a and . . blood , ,
was at uesfi ;
and—her , delicious, , .. .
currant tarts were
Hence TI it . came x to pass, that, , , after r .
awhile, .. „ Pnenue . played , , and , tc
1 sang
unheeding ifie aristocratic Air. , r
° ears,
Lldreth, . with dreamy , eyes, gazed .
through t the open window, to where ,
,r ’
two little, , , brown hands were feeding
flock „ of garrulous . . and , , he
a pigeons,
wondered , how , be could ,, ever , have
loved . anybody , . but this bewitching
J
Cinderella. Phernie . beautiful— . r ,
was
portrait . , be, gilt r frame—
as a 1 may m a
but how could she stand the wear and ,
tear of every-day J J life ?
Phernie, at last, realized it all. And
now she showed out ot what brave
stuff she was made. If her heart
ached, no one knew it. If she wept
the ^ fitter tears of hor life, it was
lon ^ after Nettie's eyes were closed
in m slumber biumuci.
Nettie has made many sacrifices for
me/she said, at last. ‘Shall I be less
womanly? No, let her be happy,
ever comes to me/
Pin mie was capable, you see, of a
great sacrifice, which none lightly ap*
predated except her father, who wept
for her.
So, one evening, she sought out
Eldreth. She sought him .out, wo sav,
advisedly ; for he no longer concealed
his partiality fur Nettie ; iu fact, he
was always with her. But, at last,
she c night him alone,
A glad light stole into his eyes, nil"
consciously to himself, as he heard
what she said.
‘And you are sure of what you say,
Phernie?'
Quite sure/ she replied, in her cold
est tones. ‘It was a simjmei's ro.
mancc, from which I have
and I beg you will release me/
An hour afterwards, Eldreth and
Nettie, walking under the harvest
moon, told their love openly, while
Euphernia, with swollen e^es, and a
broken heart, carried the glittering
diamonds, which now she could not
bear to gaze upon, and placing them
on Nettie's table, left these lines :
'These are my gifts to yon. darling
sister. Sometimes, when you wear
(hem. think of her who loved you bet.
ter than haraeK JSupbem.a.‘
Is WomauT _ Living ___ Lie ?
--
Every inexperienced woman who
takes getting married in the natural
way, m u ries a being created by h» r
own fancy from alt sorts of kakadu
scopie materials—from the romances
she has read, and the idealization of
her own rapturous conceptions. In
due time she finds him a cumin mplacc
being, made up chiefly of petty ani"
in.d wants ; a person of a small stock
ot and of no ambition to en
large it; narrow-minded, occupied in
small pursuits, much given to the
tie things of his own comfort, and ea
sily losing his temper at any privation
of them, and altogether a common
clod compared to the spiritual being
which her enchanted fancy created.
What does a good woman do? She
accepts the situation, makes a duty of
that which she expected tcT be a de¬
light, and keeps up the game manner
of love and worship, as if he were
still the sovereign of her bosom, and
her fancy had painted hink Does
this make her a living lie ? An article
i'i the London World, with this start
lin g l »ead, ‘Women’s Lying Lives/
S; ‘.VS it does. And it goes on to argue
that logically this practice of untruth
‘reacts upon her moral character/ so
that gradually she becomes absohne
ly incapable of rigid adherence to truth
in many matters in which truth is re
ally of some importance / ai d ‘yet
»><o owes to this very fact of being a
pers’stent liar that she isa faithful
and devoted wile/
Tins logical moral seems irrefraga¬
ble, yet it may be that marriage itself
is not logical, and, therefore, that its
morals and consequences cannot he
deducted by the strict rules of logic ;
Of it maybe that a finer drawia*
logic would make this faithful wi'ely
conduct, under this di. illusion, logi¬
cal and compatible with general truth¬
fulness Y\ hen woman finds the crea
tion of her fancy disenchanted, and a
commonplace and even vulg .r man,
she holds no one but herself to blame
fin- the delusion. She realizes how
insane her fancy was, and that it was
all her own. The consciousness of
this gives her meekness, and makes
her accept all the wifely part as the
path of duty, and to walk in it pa"
tiently. She feels that she ought to
feel for him that love which once peis
vaded her whole b ing, and that it is
her own fault that she does not Her
conscience is smitum that she ever al"
lowed him to believe he had possessed
her soul, and this makes her tonde
and true to him when all the halo with
which her imagination once enveloped
him is dissipated, and all the glow of
her feelings is cooled down;
This, instead of living a ln>, is the
devotion of her life to the faithful p- r
lormauceof that which she has under
taken, and to keeping the truth ofher
professions. It is the keeping of her
contract sacred to the utmost of her
ability. Thus, when we come to start
our logic from the correct premises, we
perceive that this is a wife’s sacrifice to
truth, and not the living a lie, and that
this chastened li f e—this constant bear
ing ot c the . cross—logically brings to
finer „ tenderness aud truthful"
women a
ness. T It makes . them considerate .,
more
and submissive wives, having always
toward the husband some feeling of re
morse for having deceived him. It
makes them more devoted to their
children, lavishing .upon them the well
spring ot love which hail ceased to
gush to the mgn. It makes them
more sp rituaLminded, more given to
seek the consolations of religion, more
charitable toward their neighbors,
more unselfish in all things. Indeed,
so paramount and all-pervading is the
influence of this delusion of love and
disillusion of marriage on the charac
ter of woman that we are not capable
of judging what she would be
the experience of this parmFse, and of
this fall, which comes to every woman
wtio manies in the natural way.— Cm
cinnati Gazette.
-•••-
They grow tafl woman on the Missis
sippi. A river poet writes that he
“kissed the clouds from her sweet fa
face." It seems almost in credible
he could do any such t’mig.
Good Society.
j
Many parents v\lv. have sons and
I daH g ht « ls growing np are anxious
Ihim to g< t *nto good socittj. This
is »" , ' 0 »'’ rable anxiety, il it interprets
| good society after some lofty fashion,
Parents, your daughter is in good Si»
clet v ' vh ™ she is with girls who are
-
! sweet - P™ and true-ln arted ; win
»re not van. and frivolous ; who think
of something else besides dress, or
flirting or marriage ; between whom
; and t,,eir P are " ts t,,erc isa confident;
j w ^ ln aie useful as v\ell as ornamental
ifl tlie ho,,s « 5 wh ° cultivate
rmuds and train their tiands to skillful
workmanship. It society of this sort
not *° h t * lCn none at all is
, preferoMe article.
to a worthless See
to 11 y° u ” n l ,re8s t-his on your
childre,, » a,ld aW all that yeu do
not encourage thom to think that good
s ,td< lX mat,tcl <d ^ ood clothe.?, oi
| VVCidd> b.. somebody,
j or
As y <m value 3’ our c, ‘ ild ’ s 9 ,ul « S™**
her a g al ‘^ the miserable c.untei feats;
and l,, M>«*css upon her that ii.teldgenre
and simplicity, modesty and goodness
are the only legal coin. The same rule
holds to boys as well as girls. You
would have these enter good s eiety
also.
Do not imagine that you have ac¬
complished it when you have got them
with a set of boys whose parents are
wealthier than you, who dress better
than you can afford to, and who pride
themselves on their social positi m.—
Good society for boys is the society of
boys who are honest and straightfor¬
ward, and who have no bad h ib'ts,
who are earnest and ambitious. They
are not in a hurry to become men.—
They are not amlitious fin* the compa¬
ny of shallow, heartless women, old
enough to be their mothers, and not
envious of their fiiends, who fancy
there is sometning grand in dulling all
the edge of their heart's hopes upon
such jaded favorites. Tuere is nothing
sadder than to see a young woman or
young man either priding themselves
upon the society which tuey enjoy,
when v, ri y it was a Dead Sea apple
that will choke them with its dust*
when they see some generous, juicy
10 coul their ■* l,d «»y iL '
hunger of their soul.
“Out of Sorts."
Dr. John Tood says some people aro
always “out of sorts." The weatliei
is always just what they dont want.—
I met one of these men awhile ago, a
farmer, who raised a 1.1 manner of crops.
^_* this va& rain a Avet will ^ a y> be an< fine ^ ^ for ‘^ r *
your grass
crop.'
‘Yes, perhaps ; but it is bad for the
corn and will keep it back. I don't
e sl^dl have a ciop.'
A few days after this, when the sun
ua9 ^ said, line smi for
^ oul culn , •
T es, pretty faff; but it is awful for
^ l0 r J‘ ; * wants C ° 1 T weather.
Again on a cold morning I met my
ll(d o ,| b° r aiJ d said :
‘This must be capital for your rye*
ies ; but it is the very worst
weather for the corn and grass. They
want heat to bring them forward,
The world is full uf such compluin
ers. Tuey keep society in a ferment.
Every one that coin ’s in contact with
them is made unhappy. Their faces
are long, their spirit is s mr, and their
words ate doleful. With such peiplc
everything is out of so-ts. Whether
the weather is hot or cold, dry or wet,
whether the sun shines or is obscured
113 by clouds, under 3 ail circumstances •
there is the same gloomy , outerv. _ If
the , weathei . is good lor vvtieat it bad
is
for the rye.; iff it is good for corn it is
bud for wheat. Thus they drag through
their existence complaining, and n >tl»
ing that G <d can do for them, nor the
whole realm of his existence renders
them at ajl comfortable.— Ex.
A prominent temperance refor ner
at Washington proposes to have the
authorities, quarantine against whisky
a> a gi-c-ai",- destroyer of l.m.iat. file
than yllow fever. lie argues that
the total deatfis from yellow fever in
the United Stab s for the past ten
years were only 21 f 000 14,000 of whom
died lastye/r. Inthe same time, ac
cording to a careful and probablymoa
s arable computati on, 050,000 liiut
have died from intemperance *, or at the
1 6 ° ' a inu a, tl \._ j
Air. Plum c« mruitte 1 suicide at Pal- i
mer, Ean., and Iqs wife, on hearing of
her bereavement, aiso kill, d herselt. j
Their daughter male an attempt, on j
the following day, to hung herself,!
but was rescued. ,
How to Propose,
j First of all yon must choose your
time carefully young man. Don’t ask
Angelina to m ike you the ‘happiest
men‘ifslic is hungry or tired, or
slei she be . imtauto .
py, us is apt to at
such times. Never forget >ourself so
far as to propose on returning from a
theater. She w ill have the style and air
ot some actor before her mental vision
and you can't compare with the ro¬
mance she throws over him. The best
way is to invite her to some entertain"
ment which you know she wants to at
t ml, and then propose to her just as
she is ready to start. Tnis will be
greatly to your advantage f-r she will
easily see that a reje tion will upset
an evening's entertainment, and will
larg ly influence her decision. In
summer a stroll through the woods
or a sail by in lonlight, affined equal¬
ly favorable opportunities for prop »g
ing; but never go fishing with that end
in view; tor you ca/t ayoid smelling
of bait, a perfume inconsistent with
lovemaking. In the fall of the year
you should avoid the woods, for they
are apt to be damp, Se< k the object
at her home, and, after reading to her
for a few 1 P o ns, just tell her frai kly
what you came for, admonishing her
that you propose taking your wife to
the national capitil during the winter.
But do not under any provocation,
propose on the day or evening you
take supper at the house, for their
is nothing that so impairs a young la-*
dy's affection for a man as to see or
hear him eat. As for method of ad
dress, it must be humble in the ex^
treme. A lover must speak ot his
lollies ami faults/ and occasionally
allude to himself as a ‘worm ' to
which may be added a parenthetic
desire to feed upon the damask of her
cheek. A bint as to dark fate in the
event of rejection lias been fimnd y
very efficacious and a suggestion of
the wave of dispair has worked won¬
ders. Follow these directions, and
your suit will prosper.
— —*► +
The Influence ot Marriage.
Marriage lias a great refining and
moralizing tendency. \V icro a man
marries early, and uses prudence in
choosing a suitable companion he is
likely to lead a virtuous, happy life.
But in an unmarried state all alluring
vices have a tendency to draw hitn
away. The Penitentiary rep >rts show
that a large share of drunkards are
bachelors. The more man ied men we
have the fewer crimes there will be
An unmarried man is but half a per¬
fect being, and it cannot be expected
that in this imperfect state* he can
keep straight in tile path of rectitude
any more than a boat with one oar can
keep a straight course. In nine cases
out of ten where married men become
drunkards, or where they c unmit
crimes against the peace of the com¬
munity, the fouu lation of these was
laid while in a single state, or where
the wife is, as is sometimes the case,
an unsuitable match. Marriage
changes the current of a man’s feelings
and gives hhn a centre fur his though
to his affections and his acts.
Congestive Chills.
These chills are exceedingly danger¬
ous and may attack persons suddenly
and unexpectly. The following rem¬
edy was published some years since in
a Virginia.paper tud was said to be an
unfailing cure. Give from ten to fifie.-n
or twenty drops of spirits of turpentine
toddy; , , mb , the , . chest
in syrup or spine,
and , extremities .. well ,, with .. . it at the
same time adding a small quantity of
oil of Turpentine to prevent blistering.
Toe extremities should be rubbed
uu.il reaction takes place. A cloth
saturated with the mixture should be
appl ed tothe chest. All families sit¬
uated iu the country and at a distance
from the loc itiou of a physician,shou d
keep a quantity of both on hand and
l,e thus prepared in cases of em >rgen"
cy to combat tbm dangerous disease ns
S00a as tive p ‘Ueut is attacked. Tue
disease is so swift in its efteo's that
the life may be destroyed before the
seivieeofa physician could be pro
cured. Tue remedy is simple and
cheap and the writ r stated he bad
known it to be tried in a number of
cases without failure in a single in
stance.— J$r.
A busy man at Columbus, Ohio,
keeps a phonograph ready for use in
Ins office, and when auybudy begins
U) tell him a 1 mg story, he says 'Just
talk into the instiu uent, and I‘ll ILteu
to it by and by/
NO. 3:5.
WIT AMD HUMOR.
| The circus c un 1 has his back up for
the season.
Mazeppa is believetl to have boon
j muoh alUohed w , lU horsc
‘This can't be beat/ as the m m said
when he bought the porcelain egg.
A fixed fact—One that gets in a
womaiffs head.
There are enough selfish men to ac¬
cept all the sacrifices woman can make.
When a tu rn has no min i of his own
his wife generally gives him a piece of
heis.
l'atience is a virtue which sonic peo¬
ple think every one needs but them¬
selves.
Young man! in beginning a court¬
ship, be sure you don‘t write, and then
go ahead.
In sitting for a picture the person
who winks at the camera g ts a reply
in the negative.
Those who work the hardest should
have the softest beds, but, alack, the
reverse is the rule.
The m m who tears another's coat
down the middle should be made to
pay up for back rents.
When the purse is empty and the
kitchen cold^ then tho voice ot flattery
is no longer heard.
A new way to fight a duel : Let
each of combatants swallow a dose of
poison, and then toss up for the emetic.
f Do you mean to insult sir, by
me,
culling your d »g by ray name ?‘ ‘Oh,
no, sir, not at ull ; I only meant to in*
suit the dog/
The Detroit Free Press has the news
that Missouri fanners are driving posts
into the gr mud to hang to when the
cyclones come.
Take two letters fiom money and
there will be but o >e Jett. But when
a dishonest carrier took money troiu
two letters there wasn't anything left.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is still at
Rome. — Ex. 'Sh 1 keep quiet then.
If you can get a woinau‘s"iight wo¬
man still in any place, don't disturb
her.
‘I had no time to stuff the chicken^*
apologized a landlady to her boarders.
Never mind, madam, it‘s tough enough
as it is/ replied one of tbem>
A pint and a half of St. Louis whis»
key kills a man quicker thau a rifle
ball, and when a Chicago man strikes
that town he is at once invited Jg>
drink.
‘Sallie/ said a fellow tohisgirl who
bad red hair, # Kcep away Iro n me, or
you'll set me on tire/ / No danger of
that,' repl-ed the girl, *yu.u‘»e too greeu
to burn.
A brute beast ot a iu iu says when
you want to get the best of an argument
with a worn m ot thirty, you should
lead off with*, ‘Now, a woman of your
age,‘ etc..
Actresses are continually losing val¬
uable diamonds^ while e liiors's wives
go right straight along and neve/
bother tfie world by announcing that
they have been robbed.
'Breakfast slfirts' are enumeiatcd in
gentlemen's fas lion reports. Must be
the “boi!«d shii ta M one s heard of; but
jt W()U ,j se ;m thal guoll vioLUU | 8 W0U |J
‘go against uiic‘s stomach/
When you hear a country church
choir singing, “Theru‘11 be no sorrow
there,‘‘ you conclude at once tfiat ei¬
ther the aforesaid choir will not be
there, or they will not be permitted to
sing.
GremiUnd is noted tor its absence of
cats. The long nights of six mouths
kills them off iu their efforts to meow
it through. To nervous old bachelors
this miei.ig uce is in favor of Green*
1 a ti d .