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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE
BY JAS. A WRIGHT AND HUGH WILSON.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE
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time than mx moo the.
LITERARY WOMEN.
Because the good Father has bes
towed upon a woman the gift of “ex
pressing beautiful thoughts in graceful
words,” is it proof He has kept from
her the powerof being and doing all
things else ? It would seem so, from
the oit-repeated remarks we hear ot
literary women, as wires, mothers,
and housekeepers.
Because out of the depths of her
soul there guah words that lovers, hus
bands, and gives quote as the fondest,
deepest expression of thoir own affeo
tion, she is voted incapable of loving
very much. Because of the tender
ness of her heart, she can fold in
words of music that mothers all over
the land sing to their little children
for a lullaby, she is deemed nnfilted
for maternity. Because her band can
wield the pen, it is thought to be use
lens with tbo needle. Infect, because
she Las genius enough to write a song,
an essay, or a book, it is sufficient
proof with many, that 6be cannot
know enough to keep a room in order,
cook a dinner, or even give directions
to a servant; and for this reason, “she
ought not to marry.”
If this were true, if God, when He
places this one gift in the hands of
women, makes her a dunce in every
thing else, then she ought not to bring
upon herself duties which she has no
power to meet. But let us know first
if it be true. One says, “My own ob
servation has confirmed this judg
ment. A literary woman once invited
me to visit her. The invitation was
accepted, and upon entering her house
the most disagreeable confusion met
my astonished gaze.” The question
was then settled. But my dear friend
J' ou t( > think if you never saw a
fe.kingt in confusion, whose keeper wug
>«ipie. 'Vy ? 1 doubt not that if tbi%
-ver written a^{gggM
< Fair I lay, »r
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‘just as Lathy/%»vyS***i<f,'”Yr is becStnte
fib® is literary;'’ a'Ffi not as you should
have said, “It is because she is an un
t:dy woman,” just as people are al
ways roady to remark, when a
mother commits an outrage in the
training of a child, “It is because sho
is a step-mother,” and not as it should
bo, “It is becauso she is an unkind
woman.” Facts have shown that an
own child will be treatod cruelly wbeD
the mother is a bad woman, and geni
us and untidiness are not necessarily
found together, any more than step
mothers and cruelty.
If my pastor should appear in bis
desk on Sunday mornings with hair
uncombed and face unwashed, I should
never think of attributing his singu
lar appearance to his profession ; nei
ther should I uStern that all ministers
went to church in the same condi
tion.
Another instance is quoted : “I once
called upon a friend, and found her
sick, Buffering through need of care,
while her daughter was busily engag
ed in writing.” And so the cruel sol
fishness and heartless negloct of this
girl form the standard by which you
judge all literary women. "Whatever
she wrote, God knows that it had no
blessing in it for any one, becauso she
lacked the very goodness which is the
key to all pure and noble thoughts.
Be assured that the women who have
written truest and best bave been
those who bave lived truest lives, who
bave been most loyal to every duty,
and though the pen at times has had
to wait, have found it to be the very
discipline needed to mature and puri
fy thought, and have fonnd, too, in
the cares and duties love has laid up
on them, the springs of holiest inspi
ration.
If it be true that the greater love
for beauty and harmony a woman has
in her soul, the more disorderly her
house will be, and the more shabbily
she will dress; and the greater power
she has to write words that will rouse
all the tender feelings of others, the
more heartless she will be, it is high
time that poetry were crushed oat of
the hearts of women, that every ODe
who has felt its divine presence should
stifle the cry of her soul, “Woe is me
if I preach not the word God is speak,
ing to me,” lay down her pen and live
a life of mockery.
Many persons bave the idea that
when a woman writes at all, her whole
time is devoted to it, and that every
thing else must be neglected. What
bas been only incidental is often ta
ken as the measure of a woman’s life
work. .
Said Fanny Forrester, “People talk
about my writing as though that were
tbe only thing I ever did. Why don’t
they say something about my teach
ing, and all the other work I do.”
Mar*’ who res\4 with delight the
early stores of Mrs. Stowe, know but
little of their history. “Having mar
ried a man with more brains than
money, poverty sometimes knocked
bard at her door. When necessity
demanded, she would get a colored
woman, who lived near her, to take
care of tbe children for a day, and
shutting herself up in a room, would
write a story. With the money re
ceived for one Os these sho bought her
first feather-bed.”
The band that now writes out tbe
products of her wonderful genius
toiled faithfully for years in household
work, and even then gained credit for
only what she wrote.
And Mrs. Homans, through years
of toil and poverty, forgetting none
of her duties, neglecting nothing for
the comfort of her little boys, herself
their teacher, was singing tbe sweet
songs that have lifted the burden from
many a sick heart oppressed like her
own.
The composition of the beautiful
song, that bas brought to so many
sveoet thoughts of the dear ones gone,
“Over tbe River," was no interruption
to a day’s labor. It is to have been
written hastily, during an intermis
sion of work, at the Lowell Factory.
Many a young girl, prompted by
duty and unselfish love for father,
mother, brother, sister, or friend, toil
ing in onerous work from day to day,
and in an occasional spare hour coin
ing in words the pure thoughts, aspi
rations, sad yearnings of her heart,
has had come back to her, with prai
ses of her genius, tbo assuranoe that
a literary woman can know nothing
of the duties which she has so well
performed, that although she might in
time bo ablo, by a half day’* or an
Mining's writing, to earn money
wages, she could not pesaibiy have the
inclination or the brains to tell that
kitchen girl what to do, that should
she so iar forget herself as to marry,
her husband would die of starvation,
and her children cease to know that
they had a mother. In short, that she
is destined to*stand apart from the
most Bacred offices to which a woman
can be called.
It is doubtless true, that there are
literary women who neglect duties
which they have voluntarily taken
upon thomselvos, who make bad
wives, bad mothers, and bad house
keepers ; who had better nevei have
married; but it is equally true, that
is just as great a proportion of
those who are not literary, who come
under tbe same .head, aud I do protest
against every fault in a literary wo
man’s life being laid to tbe faot that
she is a writer, leaving tbe inference
clear that all other women are embod
iments of perfection, because they are
not writers.
A woman to be an efficient house
keeper is not obliged to wash, scrub,
bake, and do a'l the drudgery with
her own bands, and if she has the
power to furnish the money for which
others will do it, instead of drawing
it from the slender purse of a husband,
and at the same time bless humsnity
with good and noble thoughts, 1 can
not seo why it is not a fortunate thing.
And because she has this power, I de
ny that she cannot have the ability to
superintend the affairs of a household
and will not fiod that the time to ex
ercise it—that because she can write
well, she cannot love well, and loving
well, she will do the best thing she
can for those whom she loves.
I cannot that Mrs. Brown
ing’s “Fair Young Florentine” ever
felt lees tenderness iB the cares of bis
poet-mother's hand, less sweetness in
her kiss, or ever received from her less
care and instruction than would have
been bis, had she not been gifted to
“move two nations with one song.”
Be careful, then, my friend, and not
judge a whole class by two bad speci
mens, or you may retard the progress
of woman more than one speech and
one vote for female suffrage can make
good. —American Phrenological Journal.
The Secret op Health. —First,
keep'warm. Secoad, eat regularly
and slowly. Third, main regular bod
ily habits. Fourth, take early and
very tight
suppers, or better still, dodo |
at Fifth, keep a clean skin.—
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1868.
Sixth, got plenty of sleep at night )
Seventh, keep chereful and respectable
company. Eighth, keep out of debt. I
Ninth, don’t set your mind on thing* |
you don’t need. Tenth, mind you*]
own business. Eleventh, don’t set up;
to be afcharp of jny kind.
subdue curiosity- Thirteenth, avoir
drugs.
INDIAN RESEARCH AND PffiLOSOe;
PHY. 4
The history and philosophy of In
dia, though imperfect, oannot be
traced without recalling vividly our
own Christian associations. Penetra
ting into the fragmentary mysteries,
of the anoient Vedas, one feels at i
though conversing with the perplexed
sages of three thousand years ago.'
That the philosophical systems of In- .
dia are aucient there can be no ques- !
tion, though the claims of their learn- j
ed men to an antiquity reaching fer i
beyond the utmost stretch of histori
cal chronology are, of oourse, prepos
terous. There seems to be little,
doubt, however, that they themselves
are ignorant of the age of many ot
thoir philosophical documents. For
many of the arts in wbioh they excel
they know no origin later than ifw*>
structions professedly received from
tbe gods. One of their sstronomioal
works they claim to have been pro*'
duced 2,164,930 years ago. The time
of the establishment of their socia l
system of castos is yet unknown.—
Themselves being in such ignorance,
and believing suoh claims, we cannot
wonder that their heads have become
perplexed, and that all present activi
ty is forgotton, and progress negleo
ted, in reverence for the hoary re
mains of antiquity.
Their philosophy is within itself l:
wonder as indicating the hidden
germs of truth, and a civilisation*
mental power and acuteness that
Greece herself has never excelled.
Spiritual, moral, mental, and pbysica l
science were all investigated fearles#*
ly and intermingled in the philoso
phical creeds of those times. They
* * -fmi ' i j I*|»*>ln ;
eternal, the emanatory cause. From
Him all things prooeed; into Him all
are to return. Theirs is also a Trini
tarian.Tbeology, presenting from the
same source a Creator, a Conservator
and a Destroyer. Their physical doc
trines present tbe theory of atoms,
aggregated according to certain nu
merical proportions, to constitute tbe
world. Their logic had reached sftch
development as to leave little for the
Hindoo pupil to learn from Zeno or
Aristotle. Perfect happiness for the
human soul is to be attained by a re
turn to tbe One Eternal Substance,
and this return attained by an entire
mental abstraction, and a perfeot ap
athy and indifference towards all
earthly and existing things. These
theories indicate that there may once
have been the possession of troth, but
it had become useless fer any purpose
of satisfying the human mind. The
quantity, character and acuteness of
their philosophical writings are the
indices of continued thought and
great mental research, the cravings of
the soul after the knowledge of the.
Divine strangely sot forth in the mon
uments of the labor of ages, which
held abstraction as the moans of at
taining, to a supreme felicity consist
ing in a state of perfect repose and
virtual nonentity.
Before the Christian philosophy
these doctrines, enshrined In tbe hoary
drapery of antiquity, are beginning to
fade away. Sublimities unmingled
with deception or extravagance claim
tbe attention of men. Divine com
munion is still promised, not with a
loss of activity and entity, but a con
tinned individualization of increasing
force aud nobility, and an inspiration
from tbe contemplation of the ineffa
ble attributes of Deity that inspirits
the duties and ebarities of daily life
until the soul returns to the God that
gavo It, not to be God, but bring itself
to be like God. — Melhodiet Home Jour
nal.
Bones and Ashes.— Bones and
ashes pass through tbe housekeepers
hands every day... Wood is still the
chief fuel in tbe farm house, and tbe
value of the ashed is pretty well un
derstood. They are prized for the
lye they yield, and if there is a sur
plus from the soap making they help
the kitchen garden at tbe back door.
Tbe bones are generally thrown to
the dog and tost. Now if the careful
housewife would save the bonei a*
regularly as tbe ashes, she would
practice a wiser economy and help
her kiteken garden twice as fas'.
Bones arc worth twice as much a«
ashes for manure, if dissolved, and
the ashes will reduce them. Pul both I
into a barrel in ibe cellar, if you
please, and after mixing them half
and half, keep them constantly moist
with soap suds, the hotter tho belter.
The suds should be poured on in
such quantities as to leach tbo ashes,
’ll! a tow months tbo bones will be
disintegrated, and the whole mass
ishoutd be mixed, and will make an
excellent fertilizer lor tbe flower bor
der or the kitchen garden. —American
i Agricultural.
A WORD TO MOTHERS.
i “Dear Mother,” said a delicate lit
tie girl, “I have broken your china
“Well you are a naughty,
jcareless, troublesome little thing, al
ways in some mischief; go up stairs,
land stay in the closet until I send tor
jyou.” And this was a Christian molh
jer’s answer to tho tearful little culprit
j'who had struggled with and conquer
ed the temptation to toll a falsehood
to screen her fault. With a disap
pointed, disheartened look, tbo sweet
phjld Obeyed; and at that moment
; was crushed in her little heart the
•sweet flower of truth, perhaps uever
again in after years to revive to life.
O, what were tho loss of a thousand
r-< .
vases in comparison ! *Tis ti ue, an .
angel might shrink from the re«pon
abilities of a mother. It needs un
angel’s powers. The watch must not
■ for an instant bo reiaxi and; the scales
tof justice must always bo‘nearly bal
uticed ; tho busty word that the over
tasked Spirit sends to the lip, inns'
dio ihoro, ere it is uttered. Tue timid
and sensitive child must have a word
lof encouragement in season ; the for
• ward and presuming, checked with
( gentle firmness; there must bo uo
no trickery, for the keen
leye of tbe child to detect. And nil
4 when the exhuu.-ted frame sinks with
vigils, perhaps, und the thou
sand potty interruptions and unlocked
for annoyances of every hour, almost
r l it defiance any attempt at ay stem,
j Still, must that mother wear an un—
(ruffled brow, lost tbo.,smiling cherub
j “ k®* 9 catch .he ur,gry -frown..
T® if**ust iBoTu 1 eTfor oWn'^Vpi HT, TUFT
the buy, so apparently engrossed with
his toys, repeat the next moment the
impatient word his ear has caught.
For all these duties faithfully and con
scientiously performed, a mother’s re
ward is in socrot and silence. Even
he, on whoso oarthly breast she loans,
is too often unmindful of the noiseless
struggle until too late, alas 1 be learns
to value tho delicate hand that has
kept in unceasing flow the thousand
springs of bis domestic happiness.
But what if, in the task that devolve
upon tbo mother, sho utterly fail ?
Wbat if she consider hor duty per
formed when it is fed, and warmed,
and clothed ? What if the priceless
soul be left to the chanoe training of
hirelings? What if sho never teach
those little lips, “Our Father?” Wbat
if she launch her child upon life’s
stormy sea without ruddor, or com
pass, or chart ? God forbid that there
should be many such mothers.
HAYDN AND THE SEA CAPTAIN.
Haydn used to relate whimsical an
ecdotes of his stay in London. A
captain of the navy came to him one
morning, and asked him to compose a
song for some tr oops he had on board,
offering him thirty guineas for his
trouble, but requiring it to be done
immediately, as the vessel was to sail
the next day. As soon as tbe captain
was gooe, Haydn sat down to tbe pi
ano-forte, and tbe march was ready in
a short lime. Feeling some scruples
at gaining his money so very easily,
Haydn wrote two other marches, in
tending first to give the captain his
choice, and then make him a present
of all the three as a return for his lib
erality.
Next morning the captain returned
and asked for his march.
“Here it is,” said the composer.
The captain asked to hear it ou the
piano-forte; and, having done so, laid
down the thirty guineas, p icketed the
march, and walked away. Haydn
tried to atop him, but in vain—the
march was good.
“But 1 have written two others,”
cried Haydn, “which are better; bear
them, and take you* cboioo.”
“I like the first very well, and that
is enongh,” replied tbe captain, pur
suing his way down-stairs.
Haydn followed, crying out: “Bit
I make you a present of them.”
“I won’t have them,” roared the
seaman, with nautical asseveration,
and boiled out at tho street-door.
Ha;dn, determined not to be out
done, hastered to tbe Exolmnge, and,
discovering tho name of the ship and
her commander, sent tho marches on
board with a polite note, whioh the
captain, surmising its contents, sent
back unopened. Haydn tore the
marches (a a thousa. and pieces, and
never forgot this liberal Kngli-h hu
morist ns long us he lived.
CAN A CHILD COME TO CHRIST?
Hattie R. was uu only child. Her
father was a devoted minister, and
ihe care of little Hattie devolved up
on her mother, an eatne-a Christian
woman, who early sought to sow
good becd in the mind of her little
one.
When flattie was fivo years old
there was much religious interest in
I the congregation, and many were led
Ito the. Saviour. As Hutiio's mothei
'and a Christian friend were talking
|of the great things God was doing
I they perceived the bitter weeping of
little" Hattie.
“What is it, my child?” the moth
er askid ‘O, mamma, I bin e and y
jso mau> naughty thing-, and i or,
afraid I shall die.”
The lady then took her leave and
the mother was alone with her child
aud the Saviour, the hearer of pruj cr
Taking the lililo one in her arms the
mother said, “Hattie, do yon fed that
yon are a sinner ?” “Oy os, mamma”
“Well, what should we do when we
leal tb t we have offended God?”
“Ask iiiir. to forgive us.”
“God lolls us that ho «,’!! forgive
us when we disk him Me tejls g- ho
invos to have ii»tic children o’ me to
I should he L'rievcrt I my Into- d«u_h
ter did hot trust no, 1 j, j 9 , -o
with Jesus. Uo wants you to give
your heart to him. Shall we ask God
to help you to come to him now?”
The two knelt down, and the mother !
offered a fervent prayer that God I
would make this little one his own.
ttiyn t’our»>t . “•** Am*-,
in the totloEj g jViui. • : •tj :
wont you forgive me t .rail i he uaegli
things I have done, and make rue
your liitle girl, and help me to 'he
good all the time, ad lake me to
heaven when I din?”
When they arose from their knees
Hattie was Btill woeping. After lur
ther conversation they knelt again,
and the mother besought the Savior
to heal the heart he had broken.
Still Hattie continued to weep, and
her mother, taking her in her arms,
said: “So my litl.lo girl cannot be
lieve that Jesus will forgive her when
he sayu be will. Tho Saviour means
just what he says.”
A third time they knelt in prayer.
When they rose up from their knees,
Hattie looked up through her leurs
and said, “Mamma, there is a paper
in papa’s study that tells us all about
it; let me get it.” She was gone but
a moment; and returned with a Childs
Paper, and pointed to the arliole.
which was a simple invitation to lit
tle children to come to Christ, assur
ing them in Scripture language that
he would certainly receive them.
From that time Haul 's mind seem-
ed to be at rest. Sho loved prayer,
and seemed to take a delight in talk
log of Jesus. When alone with her
mother she would frequently say,
“Ma, let’s have a prayer meeting.”
Future months and years gave
sweet evidence that the work in tl e
heart of this little one was the gen
uine work of the Holy Spirit. She
lived near to her Saviour. B ing
called the severe suffering, sho b r.
all with a sweet submission. “It is
ray Father,” she would say; “let him
do whatseemotb bun good.”
Do not parents and touchers limit
God when they feel that tbe little
ones committed to their care cannot
be led to Christ? To th’u question,
“How soon should we begin to love
God?” a little girl gave this answer;
••As soon as we know who God is.”
Conversation While Traveling
—Those who have travoled much
know how very much pleasanter a
journey is when the tedium of the
way is relieved by pleasant conversa
tion. I have beard somewhere or « n
Irishman who us-d to, maintain must
positively that if twee. men. traveled
together .twenty miles, 'they tr. . elcd
only ten rnliut—eafth ; tu.ii aWurd tte
the looks at first sight, it reully ex
presses a great truth. How often, in
a railway carriage or in a stage coach,'
bars we been so much interested in
VOL. Ill —NO. 0.
fonversation with a companion that
we have reached a journey’s end long
before we expected to do so, and bave
found the fatigue of traveling twenty
mites in agreeable societv much less
than that ot traveling half the dis
tance alone. Every one has it in his
power to contribute, by the exercise
of this gift conversation, to the pleas
ure of his companions; and, in truth,
by conversing with many men, an im
mense fund of knowledge may be
treasured up.
MAN'S” SPHERE.
Tit' Omujpoient Gud bid light around His foot
stool shin*.
Where reigningslsrbness rat enthroned;
\nd then, in swift oßedhme* to the will of
God,
Light came—nod night dethroned.
Though pleased, the Lord not wholly satisfied
bMsIHi,
Aid in bored •til] His miigbt to prove ;
At length for man a paradise complete He
made
And gave—as token of Hie Jove.
This holy love ungrateful man has deeply
wronged,
Tho image of his God cUfiled,
\nd pardon from th’ unsullied Judge ie only
found
Through Chriet th« Lord—-whom men re
viled.
Thu* purdoned, man is made a champion of
the truth,
And knight Jiy our King thn Lord?
A diamond badge the molio of lua heart dii*
pi»y«:
4 * Live for thy country aud ihy Godl”
I With ki;»gh4y vow* und prayera etUl lingering
i on **p»,
H" i h < forth dtv<»*dv armed;
Go*iV w«*ri hie shield, hie helmet faith in
Cbriut the Lord,
lie strikes—and strike* Again unharmed.
Earth is the field where man must bravely fight
with sin.
Yea, more than tide, *ith ignorance, too;
With ihnnght endowed he within earth’s
labyrinth,
And hidden beauties brings to view.
■ D*Beanding deep within the earth he searches
J b’i»R
I For wonders never brought to light,
I A, ‘« ?«®V* into the heav'na lit with glittering
! at nr* *
! Like diuvnonda in the crown * f night.
Enlightened by his midnight wanderings in
I the fikjei, °
II- tell* to eaith newtaleaof heaven;
Ilia heavenly, earthly duties faithfully per
formed,
A place of rest to him is given.
. „ “HERMIT.”
—A R. Prenbytcnan. JJJJjJ
FARMERS’"CLUBS.
A “•Viter cited in the Southern Plan
ter and Farmer .•••-•wttek* Unit F,«
c y, .-a. j ■
'■■'Hr •oi.-Uiifty ' wah j.hys
,c- l inb tr. 1"" mooli muscular cx
i-roiso w*ari. s the c.oiiesand indispo
ses i hi' mind to exertion The Far
mer lias inn lung regarded his calling
as a physical mission, requiring little
qr no effort of the mind, but a ooig
stant tension of the muscle. Any
thing which should induce the* to
congregate together socially would be
a great hles-ing, but still more so,
when this meeting is for the purpose
of comparing notes upon their ooou
pation.
• “it would surprise a body of Far
mers who fins never tried it, to find
how much knowledge oould be gain
ed upon almost any subject bonneo
ted with Hgriculture, from twenty-five
a-erage Farmers, who should each
contribute the faots he knew relating
to it. Fer haps, no one of tbe twen
ty five would be able more
than a few facts concerning the topio
yet when each had contributed what
be knew, the suhjsot might be thor
ouughly elucidated and easily under
stood. When they come together no
"lie fully understands the subjeot, but
when the discussion is over every one
might a full kuowledge of
it.
And this leads us to speak of the
proper method ol conducting tbe Far
mers’ Clubs. First, there should be
as hule formality an 1 as few ruleg as
possible, consistent with g ...d order.
Select a man of prompt d-cision and
a few words of chairman, and tb*
most ready writer as secretary.
Avoid set speeches and prepared dis
sertations. You come togeiher to
communicate facts and not to display
rhetoric, it should be a meeting for
a free and informal interchange of
ideas in tlieconversalioiial wav. This
will be found much better and more
profitable th in debme. You cannot
well de ate a question without the
disputesM hr.Coiiiing interesting for
triuuipu in argniijcut-rdior- the success
of a uio—and tnir is not the object
m di - 'iris'.Tue object slHiukl be
anil' ku - wedge, to wuuia date facts
on whjoU to .base a ng.t decision
»' and apt t<» .di-tpi.uy a nitty in argu
me t, to the triumph in disputano*.
Suppose me question wore the “best
note to out wbuut?h it is- obvious
that wel experiments bear*
'ng upon, this subjeot would be neces
sary to determine it. Every one who
could give any fact showing the effect
of cutting wheat at. a peculiar stage
of growth would assist in elucidating
it. One could perhaps give the effect
upon rust, cutting wheat while green
snowing tbe quuliry of the grain to
be little ' ju .tl t.v i ; a- odiet cut it
w hpi rip,.,, t >ie t«« rust uga reined
thy.gr .in . fstete* tout no
Before np«. when Bo apponttSd.ia*
ihui'Mi .t.hv, i>'jriry „ph,ni J*. aq*d got
«*»■ >«tg«tr. p.-, .ft B p-rtetette 1»
el than when ne fiau cue ou lull ri
pening. And thus one after another
gives bis experience upon all sides
of this question, notil th* fact* r*a
i der its solution clear,”