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TEACH ME TO BE A LADY, mamma
I have seen little girls before now asking
for sugar-plums, and teasing for a coveted
toy, or a new ribbon, but never before had
I beard such a request come from childish
lips. “Teach me to be a lady, mamma.’ 1
Then bow cheerfully that mother laid
aside her work and said :
“I should love above all things, to teach
you bow to become a lady, Nina in the
strictest sense of the word, and I trust
you are taking lessons to that effect every
day”
“Why, how can that be, mamma ? I’m
sure I havn't begun to play on the piano
atudy French, or take drawing lessons
either.”
“Very true, Nina, your education in
those things has not coinmenccd-yet; but
you are making some progress in the com
Eton branches, and by practice and per
severance, I think you will in time learn
to write an elegant hand, which
you kuow is one of the accomplishments
that every lady should endeavor to at
tain. Hut as the foundation to the good
the true, and the beautiful, as the stepping
stone to the high character of a thorough
ly wall bred lady, I would advise you first
of all, to become a Christian in heart,
word and deed, Nina, that the Saviour’s
love may be shed abroad in your youug
heart, causing it to overflow with love and
good will towards all, and prompting it
to avoid giving pain, even to tbe very
humblest of thoeoyou may chanco to
rneot in the journey of life. If pos
sessed with a desiro to add to tbe
eomfort and happiness of others, who
will never omit those thousand little
acta of courtesy, which it will be in
your power to bestow. Thus you
will almost unconsciously to yourself,
acquire pleasing and agreeable man
ners,.and it is upon them that your
reputation as a lady will in a great
measure depend. • i
“But really, Nina, your request
covers so wide a field I am at a loss
to know just at whut point to begin
giving any definite instruction. If I
am to be your teacher, though, in this
particular branch, we must have 'lino
upon line, and precept upon precept,'
day by day. Your manners at table
should receive attention first. I do
not mean by this to attach special im
portanco to such trivial matters as to
which is the most refined; eating an
egg from a cup, or from the shell.
Neither is it necessary to consider the
propriety of having your teaspoon in
your cup when you aro through, or
putting it in the saucer. I can sec
110 reason for these rules. But there
is both sense and reason in using your
fork in preference to a knife, as a ha
bitual mode of conveyance of food to
one's mouth. Then, when there is
soup or any' other liquid upon the ta
ble, be very careful to avoid swallow
ing it audibly. I have known persons
to lose their uppetiio’entircly, although
thoy had set down to a good dinner
with a fine relish, on account of that
diragreeable supping sound from some
innocent neighbor’s mouth.
“Another thing, Nina. Boisteri
-OUB conduct of any kind ought to be
avoided A lady should study to bo
quiet.' Loud laughing and loud talk
ing from her are not melodious sounds
and always grate barshiy upon sensi
tive ears. It only takes a few years
to transform a rude, noisy little girl
into a blustering scolding woman, a
disturber of the peace at borne, and a
most unwelcome visitor for a long
stay at the firesides of her nearest
relatives. Truly has it been said, ‘a
low voice is an excellent thing in wo
man.’ But you are a little girl still,
Nina, and may not bo able to under
stand all this yet. I will only call
your attention to one other point,
and with that finish up wbat "I sup.
pose you will regard as your first les
sons upon tbe important subject,‘bow
to be a lady.’
“Like all other children, yoa are
fond of asking questions, and I am
glad to have you do so. Yet you
sometimes touch upon subjects that I
do not think it best to explain until
you >ret a little older. YVhcri I tell
y ou this, daughter 1 bave a reason for
it, and mcaD to unfold them to you
when the proper time arrives. So I
do not want you to go to the servants
or to any Jone else, for information
concerning them Will you promise
me not to do it, Nina ?’ ”
“Yes, mamma, if it is your wish.”
“Thenrknow that I can trust you
in this, as in everything else, when
your word is given.”
HOW TO RAISE WINTER CABBAGE.
Ilaviog been requested by many friends
to give my plan of growing wioter cabbage.
1 have concluded to do so through the col
umns of the Press and Messenger, that
alt who wish to enjoy tbe luxury of fioe
large cabbage during the winter at a small
cost and trouble may do. so. The main
point in raising cabbage for winter’ in this
climate, is to bave them bead up late iu the
fall and early in the winter. If they bead
up earlier while the weather is hot they art
most certin to rot.
The seed uniel be planted in May or ear
ly in June, ami it requires much care and
attention—not much labor—to secure the
plants so late in season. If not protected
from the sun they will die as fast as they
come up, Prepare a bed in partially shady
location, if possible ; have the ground thor
oughlv pulverized, and if very well watered
lay off the beds iu small furrows, six or
seven inebs apart ; the seed thick ; cover
them carefully with a rake, or the hand,
which is better; press the earth gently on
them, if tbe locatou is much to tbe sun.
The shade must not be too dense, or they
will run very spindling and fall down.
Have tbe ground well watered every even
ing, unless the weather is damp.
After they come up, remove tbe shade
gradually and continue to water occasion
ally if noessarv, until the plants are well
rooted; work them well and keep all
grass and weeds down.
No one who is unwilling to bestow the
proper care and atleatioD, need undertake
to raise cabbage plants at this season of
the year. Plants raised in the spring and al
lowed to remain in the bed until the proper
time for transplanting will make good cab
bage, but not so good as planted later.
The stalk becomes too dry and hard.
They are to be transplanted in the
month of August, and in the following
manner: Dig boles the depth and width
of a spade, three feet apart each way; fill
them half full of well rooted manure, first
putting in ihe bottom a teaspoonful of Peru
vian Guano, if to be had, then fill the hole
nearly full with the top soil. All this must
be done in readiness for Irnuyplanting dur
ing the rnfiis In August.
Transplant deep, up to the leaves, in the
middle of the holes. By this lime the
plants will hsve long shanks, the whole of
which must be put into the ground. A
very good plan, if it is desired to raise
them on a large scale, is to lay off very
deep furrows with a large turn plow, pat
in the manure heavily, partially till litem,
transplant in them. They must be
hoed frequently, once a week is not too
often, and always in the morning when the
dew is oti-AII cabbage should he thus hoed.
The bottom leaves must not be pulled, or
they will not head well. Upon the ap
proach of very cold weather turn them
down to the earth, and aover up all the
stalks, leaves and all, well with dirt, sufti
ciently to hold them down, only leaving
out the top of the head. Thus managed
they will continue to head during the
winter. It may be necessary to put some
pine bark or straw over the head, to further
protect them if the weather is extremely,
cold,though I rarely found it necessary
Upon the first appearance of the heads
bursting to run to seed, cut -tliem'all down
and pul them away in a cellar, or any oilier
cool place, and they will keep until they all
can be disposed of.
Cabbage are very liable to be eaten up
in tbe fall by the green worm. They may
be caught by breaking off a leaf and putting
on the top at. night, when numbers of
them will be on the under side next mowi
ng This repeated, will soon destroy tin in
all. Fowls let to run among them will
destroy them n great many of them
Cabbage planted my way v II head very
low, near on the ground and fowls cart
reach them.
A sure preventive against cut worm is
to sow salt upon the ground in the tall or
winter at the rate of. three or four hundred
pounds to the acre, which is also a good
manure. •
I usually plant the Flat Dutch and
Drumhead. The Bergen makes a verry
large head, but uot so firm and bard as
the oilier. m .
Any one pursuing this plan to the letter
and failing lo raise as fine cabbage asever
came from old Buncombe, may set mv
down as a humbug.
The South Needs Farmers. —Crop
on the richest lands cannot be made with
out intelligent regular labor The negroes,
as a class, do not know how to work intel
ligently and left to tliem
selvees, they will not work with that stead
iness necessary to secure a. crop. Negro
labor must be supervised, and constantly
directed, and superintended by intelligent
wihte men, or must be largely supplauted
by while labor, before we can be again
a farming people. Tbeold’roods of far
ming will not suit these time* and circutn
stances. We do not now want planters
owning large estates, which they do not
see perhaps once a year. But we need
intelligent while farmers who will live on
their lands, cultivate no more surface tbaD
they cau superintend personally and well,
and labor with their own bauds, while they
habitually direct the efforts of their less
intelligent employees. When such a race
of farmer*, whether they come from abroad
or are reared in our midst dwell in the
South, we may again hope to be a pros
perous people in our material interests.
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1888.
"THE HOUR OP DEATH”—SCIENTI
FIC INVESTIGATION.
In Mr. John Tirab’s “Notable
Things of ■'Our Own Time” are
some accounts of the curiosities of
scientific investigation—among them
the following concerniug tho hour of
death :
Tbe author had soleoted over 5,000
cases of death and other circumstan
ces recorded, which he had tabulated
and exhibited on a largo chart, the
different being distinguished by col
ored diagrams. By that chart ho
showed that in one thousand casos of
death in children under five years of
ago the periods of tho greater mor
tality took place betwenn tho hours
of 1 and 8 A. m; that an extraordi
nary depression took place in the
succeeding hours between 9 and 12 m.,
and that tho ratio of mortality was
at, its minimum.
lie then compared those statistics
with 2,891 deaths from all causes,
and tho chart showed how remarka
bly tho wave lines of death compar
ed with death from consumption,
which, although they showed a gen
eral resemblance in the wave lino,
of doath compared with death from
consumption, which although they
swowod a general rcsemblanco in tho
wave lino, yet botwoen the hours of
4 and 8 a. m. thoro was a depression
which compared with the first four
hours period. Ho showed that small
numbers aro not sufficient for a sta
tistical truth, und bo therefore urgod
upon his provincial brethren to as
sist him in bis work by forwarding
him data for further investigation on
ibis interesting subjoot.
Ho contended that tho tables on
tho chart proved tho extraordinary
mortality in the early hours of the
tho morning when tho powers of life
wore at their lowest ebb, and, strange
to say, when tbo patient was most
cared for. He urgod tbo necessity of
feeding and stimulating the patients
at tbeir weakest hour, so as to tide
them over u critical perirxl ; and even
it death bo inevitable, to so support
tho patient that ho might at least
have a few hours more of life snatch
ed from eternity, to admit of his be
ing able fa carry out sotno neglected
iiuiy, pardon some enomy, or see some
beloved friend.
No I’i‘rson is Wj.hout Influence.—
Some persohs fall diacouiageil on the high
way of life, because they cannot ho this or
that great or eminent person. Why not
bn willing lobe themselves l No person
who ever lias, or ever will live, is without
influence.— Why not make the most of that,
Since you cannot grasp that which you
wish, why let what you have slip through
your fingers ?—No person in ihe world is
exactly like you. You have your own
faults, but you have also your own excel
lences individual to yourself, give them, air.
Because you are not a poet, should you
not be a good merchant? Because you
cannot go to college, should you therefore
forswear the alphabet ? Because you can
not build a palace, should you not rejoice
in your own bumble roof, aud that because
it is your own? Will not the sun also
shine into your windows if you do not ob
stinately persist in shilling it out ? If you
cannot have a whole n whole hot-house
full of flowers, may you not bave one sweet
rose ?
Evangelical Truth nt France.—
Tho Key. Loon IMato, of Nice, Franca,
now visiting in this country, stated in ;
a recent public address that of 46,000,- i
000 of people iu Franco, 89,000,000
are Baptists, und of tho other million,
hut a small minority hold evangelical
views, and thoso who aro tree from
state control aroibuta part of that
minority, consisting of some 80(J
small chnrches. They bave 70 mis-i
sionarics at work, and could employ
more but for want of means to sup
port them. But even in Franco, with
the government against us, we find
we can be free if we dare. Prom his
own prison experiences be could say
that the cell life nerves the soul to
dare everything for the cause of truth
and tbo Gospel.
Anew ityl# of missionary work lias ap
peared in London. The missionary puts
an advertisement iu the Times, oflering a
situation as housekeeper, and when a re
sponse is received returns a circular letter
stafing that he is unable to accept the per
son’s services, but that the wages of siu is
death and be has great sympathy with the
writer in her struggles with tbe world, and
hopes she will seek the true and only con
solation in religion, following it up with
numerous quotations from Scripture and
quite a sermon.
THE NEW WIFE
Mr. was a professor of religion
and was considered quite a good man.
Ho had the misfortnno to lose bis wife,
who was also pious. Having a large
family of children, ho found it neco9-
sary to marry a second wife. He
chose one that had moved in high life,
but norrly all of whose relatives re
jected the doctrines of evangelical re
ligion. _
He did not mean to be irreligious,
but he thought too much religion
would nbt please his wifo or her
friends, and for that reason he neg
lected family worship and other Chris
tian duties.
A short time after their marriago,
she said to him : “I thought when I
married you, I was marrying a Chris
tian.”
“ Why, my dear wile, do you doubt
my being a Christian ?”
“ Yes, sir; 1 do.”
“ What reason havo I given you to
think so ?”
“Boeauso, sir, a Christian prays with
his family, and you do not.”
His reply was: “I thought that tho
roadiug of the Bible and prayor would
bo unpleasant and irksomo to ono that
has been roared under such influences
aud miArod in such a eirolo as you
have.”
“Sir, you havo nothing to do with
all that. Your businoss is to do your
duty as a Cbristian. It is truo, 1 havo
moved in such a circle as you have
described ; but I have been influenced
bp a different one. Ido believe in reli
gion, and I do love to Bee Us professors
faithful and consistent.”
Her husband said to ber, “As it is
your wish,, l will erect a family altar
to-morrow morning.”
“Will you wait until morning? Wo
may belli of us bo in Loll before that
lime.
“ Why, my dear wifo, aro you will
ing ts rise to read the Bible and
pray ?.**
“ I am.”
Accordingly tboy arose and dressed,
husband read a portion of God’s word,
aud knelt in prayer; and when bo
had prayed, his wife was ready to
pray.
Their minister was afterward inquir
ing of this brother how lie got alolig
with tho family alter. His reply
was, “ By tho grace of God, has never
gone down since my wife and I creat
ed it that night”— American Messenger.
A Saviour for Nine Years Old.
—A little girl went to church one
Sabbath. She. listened with all her
might. Mr. Adams preached to
grown up poople; so Ido not know
lrow much of the sermon sho took for
herself; but when sho camo homo,
“Mother,” she said, “is Jesus a Savi
our for a little girl nine years old?”
Her mother, I know, said, “Yes,
indeed;” and lest sonic othor child
might think the same question,
1 want to say, “Yes, indeed!” Jesus
is a Saviour for a little girl nine years
old. He was nine years old himself,
and knows the sins and sorrows ol
nine years old. lie knows just how
you feel. He knows wbat worries
you. JIo knows > your little trials
and temptations. He knows what
makes you glad, and when you are
happy. Ho can feel for you. Ho
can carry your little sorrows for you.
110 can take away the evil of your
heart, and givo yon His Holy Spirit
to raako you good and happy.. 1 *
Ho is a Saviour also for ten years
and twelve years; and for a child of
ono year, and two years, and Ihroo
years, and so all the way up. Ho
i was a babe in bis mothers arm’s, and
a boy at his mother’s hneo; and be
workod and studied and played as
you do, and knows all about you; and
ho died upon the cross to save you
my little one. You need not be afraid
to go to him aud tell him all your
wants, and thank him for all youren
joyments.
“Let little children to the Saviour come,
From cottage and from hall;
For in hiß Fathers bouse is room,
And in hie iove for all.”
Affliction Sanctified, —Suffering
well borne is better than suffering removed.
1 know enough of gardening to understand
that if I would have a tree grow upon its
south side, I must cut off the branches there.
Then all its forces go to repairing the inju
ry, and twenty buds shoot out where oth
erwise there would have been but one.
When we reach the garden above, we shall
find that one of those very wounds over
which we sighed and groaned on earth have
sprin g verdant branches, bearing precious
ruil a thousand fold. — 11. IF. Beecher.
SHORT SAYINGS.
Syllables govern the world.— Selden.
A sorrows'* crown of sorrow is remem
bering happier things.— Tennyson ;
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch, as tbe sunbeam.—
Milton.
Posts of honor do not confer true glory.
It is the manner in which we fill eminent
stations that signifies us, not tbe stations.
I shall by and by have done preaching
and you done hearing ; but the consequen
ces thereof Will abide for ever;— Flavel.
Sinner, God loses nothing if you sre
lost, and receives no benefit if you sre
saved ; yet lie treats you to be reconciled.
“It is naught, it is naught, saitb the,
buyer; but when he is gone his way, then
bo bonstelh.”—Prov. xx : 14. Trader,
bow does this apply ?
Read of the horrors and miseries of
but one day, and be reminded that Hell is
slil! more miserable and everlasting.
“Turn to the right, and go straight
ahead,” was the reply of the lute Bishop
of Litchfield to a fellow-traveler who sneer
ingly asked him to point tbe way to heav
eu.
A bouse going minister makes a churoh
going people; as tbe people are sure to
show the courtesy of returning tbe min
ister's weekday visits by tbeir Sabbathday
attendance.— Chalmers.
We should act with as much energy *S
if we expected exerything from ourselves;
and wo should pray with as much earnest
ness as if we expected "everything from
God.— Flavel.
Not to hit a mark is to miss it; almost
to be persuaded to be a Christian, is to
remain an impenitent sinner ; almost to
enter tbe gate of heaven, is to sink down
to hell.— Witherspoon.
Our offenses against God and ourfellow
meu are far greater in the omission of <fu
tiesjdiiin in the commission of sins. Let
any on* tliinkat mrer faithfully, arul eee if
the weight of condemnation does not rest
there.
An old clergyman once said : When I
come to die I shall have my greatest grief
and my greatest joy; my greatest grief
that I have done so little for the Lord Je
sus, and my greatest joy that the Lord
Jesus has done so much forme.”
God is love. He is ready to pass by
all thy former rebellious, thy deep-dyed
transgressions, and to sign an act of obliv
ion for all that is past, if now, at last, thy
heart relents for sin, and thy will bows in
obedience lo the great commands and
calls of the Gospel.
For my own part, if my pocket was
full of stones, I have no right to throw one
at the backslider upon earth. 1 bave eith
er done as bad or worse than be, or I cer
tainly should if the Lord had left me a
little to myself, for I am made just the same
{materials; if there be any difference it
s wholly of grace. — llev. J. Newton.
I find that when the saints are under
trial and well humbled, little sins raise
great cries in the conscience ; but in pros
periiy conscience is a pope that gives dis
pensations and great ladilude to our hearts.
The cross is therefore as needful as the
crown will be glorious.
A wise and due consideration of our
latter end is neither to render us sad, mel
ancholly, disconsolate, or unfit for the bu
siness tmJ offices of life; but to make U3
watchful, vigilant, industrious, sober,
cheerful, and thankful to that God who
hath been pleased thus to make us service
able to him, comfortable to ourselves, and
profitable to others . and after all this, to
take away the bitterness and sling of
death, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The more we sink into the infirmities of
age, the nearer we are to immortal youth.
All persons are young in the other world.
That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh
and flourishing. Now, to pass from mid
night into noon on the Budden, to be de
crepit, one minute, and all spirit and ac
tivity the next, must be an entertaining
change. To call this dying is an abuse
of language.
Tub Relioiocß Tract Society- of
Paris —G. de F., tbe correspondent ol
tbe N. Y. Observer, states that this
Society 7 which is now in its forty-sev
enth year, has distributed since its es
tablish men t, about twenty-seven mil
lion tracts, pamphlets and instructive
books. It publishes a monthly review,
entitled: “The Friend of Youth”
Every year it publishes also, “Tho
Almanac dos Bons Conseils,” and 200,-
000 copies of this Almanac are circu
lating throughout France, chiefly
among tbe common classes. The ex
cellent Rov. Frederic Monod, and
othor servants of the "Gospel, have
rendered efficient aid to this Society.
VOL III—NO. 18.
THE DOOMED MAN.
There is a time, we know uot when,
A poiul. we know not where,
That marks the destiny of men,
To glory or despair.
There is a line by ua nnseen,
That crosses every path;
The hidden boundary between
God's patience and his wrath.
To pass that limit is to die,
To die ae if by etealth ;
It does not quench the beaming eye,
Or pale the glow of health.
The conscience may be still at ease,
The spirit light and gay ;
Thai which ia pleasing still may please,
Aud care be thrust away.
But on that forehead God has set
lodellibly a mark;
Unseen by mau, for man as yet,
Is bliud and in tbe dark.
And yet the doomed man’s path balow;
Like Eden may bave bloomed;
He did not, does not, will not know
Or feel that he is doomed.
lie knows, lie (eels that all is well,
Aud every fear ia calmed ;
He lives, he dies, he wakes in hell.
Not only doomed, but damned.
Ot where is this mysterious bourne,
By which our path is grossed ;
Beyond which God himself has sworn,
That he who goes is lost?
How far may we go in sin t
How long will God forbear 1
Where does hope end, and where begin
The coniiues of despair.
An answer from the skies is seat;
“Ye that from God depart I
While ft is called to-day, repent, ,
And harden not jour heart.”
Iceland is about to be made fashion
ably famous. The Empress Eugenie
is getting ready for a voyage tbitber
in tbe fino government steamer, the
Heine Horienso, and the ladies of
honor at ber Court are in great con
sternation. Sea siokness, icebergs
and hard tack with possible ship
wreck and frost-bites form no smiling
prospect for those dainty dames. But
Her Imperial Majesty smiles at their
terrors as coolly as though she were
in Iceland already. At the present
rate of improvement in steam loco
motion, the day is, undoubtedly, close
at hand, when not merely the crown
ed heads, but tbo common people will
bo abl? at moderate expense, to win
ter in tho Tropics and tummor near
the Arctic Circle, if thoy see fit.
Thus, an altogether now set of en
chanting excursions and delightful
resorts might be inaugurated with
oriormous profit, aud the neglected
shores of far Spitsbergen, Iceland and
Greenland after all bo made to bloom
and flourish from tho permanent re
sult of tbo summor’s profit and de
light. There will bo pleasure trips
bye-and-bye, from San Francisco to
Alaska, just as there are now from
Now York to Cuba in a different
sense, while from all parts of tho in
terior, tbo Rocky Mountains will bo
frequented by hosts of invalids aud
tourists in search of coolness and
glorious scenery.
Many Ways of Dknyino Christ.—
Hie Heber said :—lt is a fatal mistake
to suppose that there can be no apos
tacy from Christ, where we aro not
absolutely called on to deny bis name,
or to burn incense to an idol. We
dony our Lard whenever, like that
Demas, we through love ot this pres
oot world, forsake tho course of duty
which Christ has plainly 7 pointed out
to us. Wo deny our Lord whenever
we lend tho sanction of our counten
ance, our pruiso, or even our silenco,
to measures or opinions which may be
popular or fashionable, but which wo
ourselves believe to bo sinful in them
selves or tending to Bin. Wo deny
our Lord whenover we forsake a good
man in affliction, and refuse to give
countenance, encouragement and sup
port to thoso who, for God’s sake and
for the faithful discharge of tbeir duty,
are exposed to persecution and slander.
Antidot* for Poison.— A poison
of any degree of potency, whioh has
been swallowed intentionally or by
accident, may be rendered almost
instantaneously harmless, by swallow
ing two gills es sweet oil. An indi
vidual wiih a vory strong constitution
should take twice the quantity. The
oil will neutralize evory form of veg
etable or mineral poison with which
physicians are acquainted.
There is a rumor that the Pope will
bold an (ecumenic conncil in Decem
ber, 1869, and that not only Schismatia,
but even Angelican bisbbps are to be
summoned to attend.