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I rt J. P. SAWTELL.
£. H. PURDY,
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Sailes, Harness ani Ms,
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Corner of Whitaker and Bryan St 6.,
q SAVANNAH, GA.
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iSAVAMAH, GEORGIA.
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Cuthbert, Ga
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My Factory,
I live iu Good-Wili Kingdom,
And for twenty yefcrs Or more
I have owned this model factory—
Just yo* step inside the door.
There are many unseen weavers
Busily at work within ;
There are many wheels a-goiug,
But you hear no whir or dim.
See the Heart-wheel in the centre,
Large and strong, add never still,
With magueiid pdwer moving
All the other wheels at will.
Love, the fairest of my weavers,
Turns this mighty wheal, my frit-fed,
Weaving countless threads ot beadty
That no human strength cauvetfd.
Round this wheel, revolvingSkiftty,
Watch the wheels of l-Tope aud Joy.
And the triple wheels of Duty
Busy in *ny life’s employ.
How the 'heavers cheer each other,
And bow quickly aud mow well
They dfcey Love’s gentle orders,
It Would take me long to tell.
In this high and spacious chamber,
With its windows paned with blue,
See the Brain-wheel, of magio,
Weaving threads ol every hue.
Thought, the wisest of my weavers,
At this wheel unwearied stands,
Until Sleep, with weary fingers,
’Steals the distaff frefa her hands.
God npreivred this noble structure
’Twjs a God-like gift and free—
And fee put the weels in motion
With this solemn charge to me :
’“See you keep thin building holy,
Fair without and fair within ;
Keep ibo wheels all bright and busy,
And your work unstained by siu.”
But sometimes old Care, on crutches,
Hobbles in and clogs the wheels,
Aud then Sloth, thecunny vagrant,
Follows close behind hie heeds.
With a loathtsome breath of canker,
And his wallet full of dust,
And with stealthy steps approaching,
Specks each idle wheel with rust.
And sometimes old Mother Gossip,
Gadding where’er she doth chose,
On her way from Tittle-tattle,
Saunters in to tell the news ;
And that giddy coquette, Pleasure,
On her way to Folly-town.
Stops to show her gaudy trinkets
And The fashion of her gown.
And sometimes poor scowling Envy
Comes to tell me with a whine
That my neighbor owns a factory
Twice as large aud fine as mine.
But -these visitors come seldom,
And they do not tarry where
They mast stand in mortal terror
Ot my Watchmen, Faith and Prayer.
So I live in peace ami quiet.
And when anything goes wrong,
Or the days seeur long and weary,
Take niv harp and sing a song ■;
For my weavers 'weave the taster,
■And (frhe tvkei'is tnt'n ewi ter round,
When Itottch Viy harp ■with gladness
And awake a cheerful sonwd. Pearl |
divers.
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No Homk.—There are thousands
who know nothing of the blessed
influences of comfortable homes,
merely for the want of thrift, or
from dissipated habits. Youth
spent in frivolous amusements and
demoralizing associations, leaving
them at middle age, when the phy
sical and intellectual man should be*
in its greatest Vigor, enervated, and'
without one laudable ambition.—
Friends long since lost, confidence
gone, and nothing to look to in old
age but a mere toleration in the;
community where they should be
Ornaments. No home to fly to
when wearied with the struggles in- ;
cident to life; no wife to cheer
them in therr despondency; no
children to amuse them, and no vir
tuous household to give Zest to the
joys of life. All is blank, and theitf
is no hope or succor except that
which is given out by the hands of
private or public charities. When
the family of an industrious and
sober citizen gather around the
cheerful fire of a wintry day, the
homeless man is seeking shelter in
the cells of the station house, or
begging for a night’s rest in the out
building of ohe who started in life'
at the same time* With no greater
advantages; bat honesty and indus
try built up that home, while dis
sipation destroyed the others
Anna Dickinson says she pro
poses giving newspaper men, that
talk about her, “tit for tat.” Sol
Miller, a Kansas editor, replied to
this by saying: “All right, Anna,
we’ll trade; here’s your tat.”
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1871.
A Sale Investment.
In the second year of the late
civil war, I was married, and went
to live with my husband in a small
village on the Hudson, some fifty
or sixty miles from New York.—
The house we occupied was a large,
rambling mansion, of considerable
antiquity for this country, and
stood a little apart from the rest of
the village, surrounded by broad
fields and •commanding a glorious
view of the river aud the hills of
the Highlands It had been built
before the Revolution, by my.hus
band’s great grandfather, aud,
though destitute of many ‘‘modern
improvements,” was still a comfort
able and pleasant residence.
My husband was a lawyer and a
large real estate owner in the neigh
borhood, aud, at the penod of
which I write, was greatly per
plexed, like many other persons iu
the North, by the perilous state of
the times, and especially about the
safe investment of his funds, as the
suspension of specie payments, she
great rise in gold, and the military
disasters in Virginia, made it al
most impossible to tell where it
would be safe to deposit or to use
one’s money in any large amount.
In the course of his transactions
in real estate, it happened, one day*
that he received what was for us
then a large surn, about ten thous
and dollar*, which he brought home
and placed in my charge, tell ng me
at the same time that he should
have to fee absent during the even
ings attending to some business on
the other side of tUe river, and
should not be at home till about
midnight.
“You can place the money in the
safe, dear,” he said, as he gave it to
me, “and to-morrow I will try and
find some way to invest it securely.”
So saying, he stepped into the
buggy, which was standing at the
door, aod and ove away, taking with
him our hired man Silas, and leav
ing me w th no one in the house but
Dinah, an old colored woman, who
fulfilled in our modest household
the lonctious of coot and maid-of
atl-woi k, as she had long done ia
the family of my own parents, who,
on my marriage, had yielded Iter to
me as a valuable part of my dower.
I)iuah was indeed a character.—
She was tall and very T stout, weigh
ing, she would never tell how much*
wore than two hundred pounds.—
She was very bLack, and as lazy as
she was black. Ido not think any
one could move more deliberately
tbau Dmah did, that is, to move at
all. And, by a wonder,ul dispen
sation, she seemed to feel that
whatever her other faults might be
she was strong on the point of lo
comotion. For, when she had been
moving with a ponderous slowness,
almost maddening to a persou of or
dinary quickness, ewe of her favor
ite expressions was, “Well, Miss
Lillie, what shall I fly onto next?”
How she accomplished all she did.
the brownies only know. We used
sometimes almost tremble when
there was any special hurry about
our domestic arrangements, aud yet
Dinah always managed to bring af
fairs to a comsummation just when
a minute more would have ruined
everything, and, with undisturbed
front, would slowly enunciate,
‘‘Well, miss, what shall I fly onto
next ?”
It was nearly dark when my hus
band departed, and, after giving my
orders to Dinah, or rather my sug
gestions, I left her, aud made the
tour of the house, to see that all
was safe and properly locked up.—
This duty attended to, I went to
my bedroom, intending to pass the
time in reading until my husband
should return.
It was a large room on the ground
floor, with two French wiudows
opening on a broad veranda. The
windows were draped with long yel
low silk curtains, between which
the moonlight faintly entered, dim*:
med by the shadow «t the roof of
the piaaea, aad partly intercepted'
by the fringe of the woodbine
which hung from it. My bed stood
with its foot towards the windows,
and with its head about half a yard
from the wall. It was an old-fash
ioned structure, hung with yellow
silk like the windows, but I slept
with the hangings drawn back aud
fastened to tue head-board. The
bed was so large that no one ever
thought of moving it, except in
those seasons of household panic
called house-cleanings, when the
combined strength of three or four
men was called into requisition to
draw it into the middle of the room.
So elaborately carved was it that it.
went by the same of Westminster
Abbey in the family. At one end
of the room, at no great distance
from the bed, was a large safe, built
into the huge chimney of the man
sion, with a door high enough for
a person to enter standing upright.
Here I was accustomed to place,
every evening, our silver plate on
shelves which extended around the
sides, on which also were placed
boxes containing papers and other
Valuables. Opposite the foot of the
bedstead, between the windows, was
a mirror, running from the floor al
most in the ceiling. Like all the
other furniture ie the room, it was
old And handsome. How many
happy scenes it had reflected in the
hundred years it had stood there.
The night was exceedingly hot,
and I therefore left the windows
open, though I drew the curtains
before I seated myself at the table
in the centre of the room, lighted
the candles, and began to read, in
order to pass the heavy time before
the return of my husband.
After awhile, I heard the clock
strike nine, at which hour Dinah al
ways went to bed. Her chamber
was in the attic, the third story of
the houtfe. Remembering some:
household matter about which I
wished to speak to her, I Started
hurriedly up, and went into the en
try to intercept her before she got
up stairs. I had to wait about a
minute before she came, and our
colloquy continued three or four
minutes more.
When I returned to my bedroom,
feeling somewhat tired, I resolved
to go to bed, as, at that late hour
in the country, it was quit* certain
that no visitors would call, and my
husband could let himself in with;
the latch*key, which he always car
ried. I thought, however, I would
try to keep awake by reading, and
according placed a light stand and
the candles at the head of my bed.
I then closed and fastened the win
dows, undressed, and got into bed.
The key of the safe I placed as usu
al, under my pillow.
After reading perhaps lalf an
hour, I grew weary of the book,
and, quietly laying it down, remain
ed some minutes meditating with
my eyes fixed on the mirror oppo
site Hie foot Os the bed, in which 1
coutd see myself reflected, together
with the yellow silk curtaius behind
my head. I was thinking, not un
natural, how preuy I looked, and
ho* happy I was with such a loving
lmsbaod and such a large sum of
mouey secure in our safe, when sud
deoly I saw iu the mirror a sight
that made my heart stand still. A
head appeared her.ween the curtains,
drawing them slowly apart, and
? rasping cautiously the head board.
t was a man’s baud, large and
coarse and dark, as if belonging to
a mulatto, or to one greatly tanned
by exposure to the weather.
My first impulse was to start from
the bed, aod scream for he[p. I
repressed it by a strong effort of
will, and lay perfectly motionless,
except that I partially closed my
eyes, keeping them only sufficiently
open to watch the mirror. As
quick as lightning my mind took in
the situation In the few minutes
oi my absence from the room, while
talking to Dinah iu the entry, a
thief, a robber, a possible murderer,
had stolen in oy the piazza windows,
and had hidden himself either un
der the bed or behind its draped
head. He was doubtless armed;
and, if I cried out, and attempted
to escape from the room, be could
easily reach the door before I could,
aud for his own security would
probably put me to death. Dinah
was too distauc, aud too feeble and
clumsy to afford me any assistance,
aud besides was by this time fast
asleep in the third story. The man
doubtless knew that my husband
had that day received a large sum
of money, and had gone off across
the river, leaving me alone, or neat
ly alone, in the house. He had en
tered, caring only for the money,
and anxious, above all things, to es
cape undetected aud unrecognized.
If I let him know that I was aware
of his presence, I should expose my
self to murder, aod perhaps to out
rage worse than murder. My ob
vious policy was, to keep quiet and
to feign sleep. I thought also of
the money, and was not altogether
willing to resign that without an
effort to save it, aud to have at
least some clew to the identity of
the thief. I confess, however, that
this last consideration was not a
very strong one, and am afraid that,
if I could have seen my way clear
to au escape from the room aud the
house, I should have fled inconti
nently, without stopping to see
more than that terrible hand.
A moment which seemed an hour
passed while these thoughts rushed
through my mind. I lay perfectly
still, with my half closed eyes
watching the mirror. Slowly aud
noiselessly the frightful hand pulled
up Us owner* until I could see the
head aud face reflected in the glass,
and glaring at me with fierce yet
wary eyes. The man was a mulatto,
very dark, with evil passions writ
ten in every lineament. I could
scarcely refrain from shuddering at
the sight of his hateful visage, and
speedily closed my eyes to shut it
out.
I was not yet quite ready for the
ordeal through which I knew I 1
mus; soon pass. I wanted to move
my light stand a little out of the
way, and to so arrange the bed
clothes that I could spring from
the bed without impediment. I
Lhertfore gave a little sigh, and
movtd, as if about to awake, slight
ly ofening my eyes at the same
time. The head and hand instantly
disappeared. I then composedly
made the desired changes in the po-.
sitioc of the arrangement of the
clothes, put my watch with the key
of the safe under my pillow—so
near the edge that they could easi
ly be taken out, as I knew they
would be—extinguished one of my '
candles, said my prayers, and closed
my eyes* resigned myself to my fate,
with no very sauguiue or definite
hope of extrication from my peri
lous position.
I made tty breathing regular* and:
a little louder than when I was
awake, and lay with my cheek on
my land* counterfeiting sleep. At
last the stillness became more ter
rible than even my first agony of
fear- Several times I fancied that
I heard a soft step approach from
the place of concealment. Ab of
ten l was deceived. Then again
that dreadful stillness, in which I
counted the ticking of the watch
through the pillow. It was a posi
tive relief when he came out from
behind the curtain, stopped at the
table, and stood looking at me, as
I was well aware, though my eyes
were closed. I forced myself to
breathe regularly and aubidly. He
came closer; he bent over me. He
passed the lighted candle slowly
before my face two or three times.
I felt the heat, and saw the light
through my closed lids, which must
have quivered, though he did not
seem to observe their motion. —
Heaven gave me strength not to
move or cry out. Satisfied, appa
rently, he put back the candlestick
on the stand, and his band crept
sol'lly and slowly under the pillow,
and one by one, he removed my
watch and the key of the safe. He
stood so long looking at me that 1
felt impelled to open m-y eyes sud
denly apon him.
As he walked softly toward the
safe, I did partly open them, aud
cautiously watched him through
my eyelashes. I heard him fumb
ling with the lock* kira he
looked over toward the bed. My
eyes were wide opeu, but I closed
them in time uot to be detected.—
Watching him stealthily, I saw him
opeu the door of the safe, which
he entered without drawing the key
from the lock.
Here was the opportunity for
which I had waited and watched.—
I sprang lightly from the bed, with
one bound reached the safe, dashed
the door to, turned the key, and
with one long loud shriek fell pros
trate and senseless on the floor of
the dark room.
How long I lay upon the floor, I
do not know—probably for a few
minutes only—but, as I was un
conscious, it seamed, when I came
to myself, as if the interval had
been a long one. I was aroused by
his blows upon the iro i door, and
found myself weak after the loDg
nervous tension, but still calm. I
remember the satisfaction -with
which I thought, while I lay there
before rising, that he could not es
cape, mingled with a vagttc and
foolish dread that he might in his
rage burn the valuable contents of
the safe. He pounded desperately
on the door, and swore fearfully at
finding himself entrapped. But, as
I took no notice of his outcries, he
soon grew quiet.
Presently I rose, and, lighting a
candle, dressed mysrlf with all
sible haste and with tremblin g fin
gers, turning often to look at the
safe, from under the closed door of
which I more than half expected to
see blood trickling—why, I cannot:
tell, except that my mind was full
of images of boner. I was soon in
readiness. I had no means of ascer
taining the time, as he had my
watch in his pocket, and there was
no clock in the room. Taking the
candle, I hastened to arouse Dinah,
who, as I shook her, slowly opened
her eyes, and with scarcely any
more than her usual slowness pro
nounced her formula? “Well, Miss
Lillie, what shall i —Lord a J
massy! what’s do matter wid de
chile? You ain’t seen a ghost have
you, honey ?"
“No, Dinah ; but I’ve seen some
thing worse than ghost. I’ve
caught a robber, aud he’s in the
safe. What time is it ?” and, look
ing at the clock, that ticked slowly
and deliberately—as how could Di
nah’s clock help doing ? I saw to
my great relief that it was nearly
mid night.
We had scarcely got down-stairs
when I heard the sound of wheels;
A moment more, and my husband \
was in my arms, listening with
amazement to a rapid narrative of
my singular adventure. I would
not su2W him to open the safe un
til Silas had summoned assistance
from the neighboring houses. I
feared that my desperate prisoner ;
might still escape. When the safe
was opened, there sat my burglar
on the trunk, half stupefied for want;
of air, a knife in one hand v the pack
age of money in the other, and the
burned out candle at his feet. He
was recognized as an old offender,
who had not been long out of State
prison, to which, in due course of
law, he was soon sent back for a
term of years, which, I devoutly
hope, may last as long as he lives ;
for I confess I should not feel easy
to hear that he was again at large.
The look of rage fee gave me on:
coming out of the safe will not soon
he obliterated from my memory.
My husband, I need hardly say,
was greatly pleased with ray safe j
investment, and complimented me i
highly on the courage and coolness.
which had doubtless saved my life
as well as our money. The love
and gride with which fee regarded
me, and with which he Always, to
this day, rehearses my exploit, were
of themselvss a sufficient compensa
tion for the horror and the agony
of that long summer-night.
When a rakish youth goes
astray, friends gather to bring him
back to the path of virtue. Gen
tleness and kindness are lavished
upon him to bring him back to in
nocence and peace. No one would
ever suspect that he had sinned;—
Bfet when a poor Oonfiding girl is
betrayed, she receives the brAnd of
’ society, and is henceforth driven
; from the ways of virtue. The be
trayer is honored, respected and es
teemed—there is no peace for her
; this side of the grave. Society has
; no helping loving liand for her, no
■ voice of forgiveness. These are
earthly ntoralities unknown to
Heaven. —lndependent, Jickson
ville, 111.
“What ails your eye, Joe?”
“I told a man he lied.’*
Herrors of Aneient Wars—The Siege
of Jerusalem.
The siege that seems to epitom
ise all the horrors of such contests,
forming, as it were, the last crown
ing tragedy, was the siege of Jeru
salem by Titus, A. D., ’7O. The
city then contained, according to
Tacitus, six hundred thousand in
habitants. Josephus has well nar
rated the sufferings of his country
men, not merely from the Romans,
but also from the savage factions of
the two rival chief, Simon and John
—the former of whom held the up
per city, the latter the Temple.—
Their followers tore each other to
pieces up to the very moment that
•the Itomans broke through the
walls. The mode in which Titus
conducted this memorable siege
furnished a good example of the
manner in which the Romans con
ducted such operations. His le
gionaries having established their
camps on Scopas and the Mount of
Oliydb* began to burn the suburbs
of Jerusalem, cut down the trees,
and raisO banks of earth and timber
against the Walls. On these works
were placed archers and hurlers of
jaxelins, and before them the eata
pults and balistas that threw darts
and huge stones.
The Jews replied from the en
gines which they had taken from
Roman detachments, but they used
them awkwardly and ineffectually.
They, however, were very daring
in their sorties, endeavoring to burn
the Roman military engines and the
hurdles with which the Roman pio
neers covered themselves when at
work. The Romans also built tow
ers fifty cubits high, plated with
iron, iu which they placed archers
and slings, to drive the Jews from
the walls. At last, about the sis
teenth day of the siege, the great
est of the Roman battering-rams be
gan to shake the outer wall* and the
Jews yielded up the first line of de
fense. Five days after, Titus broke
through the Second wall, into a
place fall of narrow streets crowd
ed with brazier’s, clothiers’, and
wool merchants’ shops; but the
Jews rallying drove out the Ro
mans who, uot having made the
breach sufficiently large, were with
difficulty rescued by their archers.
Four days later* however, Titus re
took the second wall, and then wait
ed for famine to do its work within
the city. The Jews began now to
desert to the enemy in great num
bers, and all these wretches the Ro
mans tortured and crucified before
th« walls (at one time five hundred
a day)-, so that, as Josephus says*
“ room was wauted for the crosses,
and crosses wanting for the bod
ies.”
'At this crisis of the siege the
Jews, undermining one of the Ro
man Towers, set it on fire, and did
their best to destroy all the besieg
ers’ wofkg. Titus now determined
to slowly starve out his stubborn
enemies, and began to build a wall
round the whole city. This wall,
with thirteen forts, the Roman sol
diers completed in three days.—
Famine, in the meantime, was rav
aging the unhappy city. Whole
families perished daily, and the
streets were strewn with dead bod
ies that no one cared to bury.—
Thieves plundered the half-deserted
homes, and murdered any who
showed signs of resistance, or who
still lingered in the last agonies 0 f
starvation. The dead the Jews
threw down from the walls into the
valleys below. In the meantime,
the Rornan soldiers, abundantly
supplied with corn from Syria,
mocked the starving men on the
walls by showing them food. The
palm-trees and olive-trees around
Jerusalem had been all destroyed,
but Titus, sending to the Jordan for
timber, again raised banks around
the castle of Antonia. Inside the
city the seditions grew more vio
lent, the partisans of John and Si
•hon murderiag each otheF daily,
and plundering the Temple of the
sacred vessels
A rumor spreading in the Roman
camp that the Jewish deserters
swallowed their money before they
left Jerusalem, led to the murder in
one night, Josephus says, of nearly
two thousand of these unhappy crea
tures. Again a part of the wall fell
before the battering-rams, but only
to discover to the Romans a fresh
rampart built behind it. In one at
tack a brave Syrian soldier of the
cohorts, With eleven other men, suc
ceeded in reaching the top of the
wall, but they were there overpow-
Cd by the Jews. A few days after,
twfelVe Roman soldiers scrambled
up by night through a breach in'
the tower of Antonia, killed the
guards, and, sounding trumpets,
summoned the rest of the army to
their aid. The tower once carried,
the Romans tried to force their way
into the Temple, and a hand to
hand fight ensued, which termina
ted in the Romans being driven
back to the tower of Antonia. The
Jews, now seeing the Temple in
danger, and the assault recom
mencing, set fire to the cloister that
joined the Temple and the castle of
Antonia, and prepared for a despe
rate resistance in their last strong
hold. In the conflagration many
of the Romans Advancing too eager- j
ly* perished.
During all this fighting, the fam- t
ine within the city grew worse and
worse. Thu wretched people ate
their shoes, belts* and even the
leather thongs of their shields.—
Friends fought for foot, and robbers
broke into every house where it
was known that corn was hidden.
Josephus even mentions a well
known ease of a woman of Wealth
from beyond Jordan who ate her
own child. The walls of the tem
ple were so massive as to resist the
battering-rams for six days, so Ti
tus gave orders to burn down the
gates. At last, after a desperate
resietanoe, the Jews were driven
into the inner court and the temple
was Bet on fire and destroyed, ini
spite of all the efforts of Titus to
save it. When the Jews first saw
the flames spring up, Josephus says, 1
they raised a great shout of despair,
and sixteen thousand of the defeu-:
ders perished in the fire. The Ro
mans, in the fury of the assault,
burnt down the treasury chambers,
filled with gold and other riches,,
and all the cloisters, into which j
multitudes of Jews had fled, ex
pecting something miraculous, as
their false prophet had predicted.—
Titus now attacked the upper city,
and raised banks against it, at which
about forty thousand of the inhabi
tants deserted to the Roman camp, i
The final resistance was very fee
ble, for the Jews were now utterly
disheartened. The Romans, once
masters of the walls, spread like a
deluge over the city, slew all the
Jews they mot in the narrow lanes,
and set fire to the houses. In many
of these these found entire families
dead of hunger, and these places, in
their horror, the soldiers left un
plundered. The Romans* weary- at
last of slaying, Titus gave orders
that tio -Jew, unless found with arms
in his band, Should be killed’. But
some soldiers went on butchering
the old aud infirnL, and driving the
youths and women iOEd the court
of the temple. The niales under
seventeen were sent to the Egyptian
mines j several thousands Were giv
en to provincial amphitheatres to
fight with the gladiators and wild
beasts ; but before ail could be sent
away, eleven thousand of them per,
ished from famine. Altogether, in
this cruel siege, there perished elev
en hundred thousand Jews. This
enormous multitude is accounted
for by the fact, that when Titus sat
down before Jerusalem, thecity was
full of people from all parts of Ju
dea, come up to celebrate the Feast
of Unleavened Bread. —All the Year
Hound.
Russia covets,
Turkey fears',
Austria ponders,
Italia cheers.
Belgium—Holland,
Wait in dread;
Denmark’s pah ted,
Spain is dead.
France lies bleeding,
Prussia soars *,
Britannia shuts her eyes
And—snores!!
Advice to the Girls.
Do not estimate the Worth of a
young man hy his ability to talk
soft nonsense, nor by the length of
his moustache.
Do not imagine tfeat an extra rib
bon tied about the neck, can reme
dy the defect of a soiled collar, or
an untidy dress.
If your hands are browned by la
bor, do not envy the lilly fingers of
Miss Fuss-aud Feathers, whose mo
ther drudges in the kitchen, while
the daughter Lounges in the parlor.
If your dress is inconveniently
long, and a gentleman steps upon it-,
don’t be angry, but meekly ask his.
pardon, as you ought.
Always cherish a partiality for
smell of dish water—it is more con
ducive to health and far less expen
sive than “ Bouquet of Eden.”
If a dandy, cigalr between his fin
gers, asks you if smoking is offen
sive to you, tell him emphatically,
“ yes.” The habit should be, even
though the odor may not.
Do not pronounce squash pie
“ splendid !” nor a pug-nosed poo
dle “ sweet I” nor a dish of boiled
cabbage “superb.”
Do not judge of the intelligence
of a female acquaintance by the
number of yards of trimming on
her dress.
Do not waste your tears on the
imaginary sufferings es Alonzo and
Melissa, nor the trials of the dime
novel heroines Seek rather to al
leviate the woes of the suffering
ones on earth. ,
Learn the use of darning cotton,:
as well as of zephyr worsted and
the tatting shuttle.
Moos Fallacy. — l have seen
several articles in your paper in re
gard to cutting timber by “ moon
signs.” More than forty years ago
I cut for a number of years, at dif
ferent times in the year, cOnsidera
ble second growth beech for plane
stocks, which I think is the very
worst wood known to preserve
sound, or keep from getting “ dozy”
as we used to call it. Alter trying
many moony experiments, summer :
and winter* I came to this conclu
sion, that the true secret was to
cut the timber when there was the
least possible amount of sap in the
body of the tree—say the coldest
weather in winter, or the warmest
in summer —June or February,
when the sap is in the tops or in
the roots of the tree. Every tree I
cut after the sap began to start in
the spring was sure to “ doze ” un
til Junes, when I found it safe to cut
again-. ’Qdrt*eepondenoe ‘in the Sci
entific A.vkericatv.
An acre contains 4,840 squarie
yards. A squre mil© contains 640
acres. A mite is 5,280 feet Or 1,-
760 yards. A league is three miles,
A fathom is six feet. A hand, horse
measure, is four inches. A palm is
three inches. A pace is three feet.
VOL. V-NOi 6
—lt was a wise negro who, in
speaking of the happiness of mar
ried people, said, “Dat ar ’pends al
together on how dey ’joy deyeelves.”
—lt must be consoling for sick
soldiers on low difet in the military
hospitals during the War to sing:
‘‘When this gruel fraif is over wo
shall meat again.”
—“Mary,” said an old lady, “it
is-a very solemn thing to get mar
ried.” “I know it, mother,” re
plied Mary, “Rut it is a solemner
thiiig not to ”
To Cure dyspepsia—Close alt
the outer doGrs of a four-story
house, open the inner doors, and
then take a long switch And chase A
cat up ana down stairA till she
Sweats.
A couryman in a Detroit fac
tory bet the engineer a dollar that
he could seise the fly-wheel aod hold
it. He seized it, and was picked
up on a pile Os brick on the onUide
of the building.
A lazy bay niakei? a liriy man*
just as a crooked sapling makes A
crooked tree. Those who make our
great and useful men were trained
in their boyhood to be industrious.
—As the vapor taken from thO
oeban returns to it Again in rivers,
So slaoder and acts of selfishness
will cornfe back iu overwhelming
floods.
A little girl At Ohio, about;
three years Old, after being correc
ted the Other day for something
she had done, said: *‘Ma, I wish
Whipping cost something.” “Why ?”
replied the mother. “Because,”
said little ji'ert* “yoO never give me
anything tha* costs something.”
—A clergyman was once endeay
oriog to get a subscription in aid of
some charitable institution out of a
closefisted parish-oner, who attempt
ted to eicfisO hfatself on the ground
that he already Ovyed a great deal
of money. “But,” said the minis
ter, you owe Bod a larger debt
than yon dO Any one else.” “ That’s
so, pArsOn ; but then he ain’t push
ing me, like the balance of my cred
itors.”
—A sharp roan stopped at a Bos
ton hotel and got supper and lodg
ing, agreeing to kill all the rats on
the premises to pay for his enter
tainment). Ip the nlorning the
landlord ariced hint to go ift and kill
the rats, when the guest asked for
am Ar, after obtaining which he
Said: “ Fetch on your rats, Mr.
Landlord.” He hadn’t agreed to
catch the rats, don’t you see ? Can’t
get much ahead of these Bosting
chaps.
Grief and business havoeddOUk
been more thoroughly iPixhd than
in the following obituary advertise
ment. The residence of the de
tilnct we omit-, and the liable we
have changed, therefore it will nOt
worrit his friends: “Othneil Sit
greaves-, we are sorry to stait-, has
deceased. He departed this last
Mundy. He went 4th without any
struggle, and sich is life, lie kept
a nice store, which his wife now
waits on. His virchews wos nd
merous, and his wife inherits them.
We are happy to stait that he nev
er cheeted, speshnlly in the wate of
makeral, wich wos olways nice ahd
smelt sweat, and his surviving wife
is the same way. We niver new
him to put sand in his sugar, though
he had a big sand-bar In front of
his house; hor Water his lickers*
tho the Ohio river runs past his
door. Piece tu his remains. HP
leves I wife, 0 children, 1 kow, 4
hoses, a growner’s and other quad-
Fodpedfe to mourn his loss. But iii
the laugwidge of the poit, his loss
is tbare etumal gane.”
The Lies Struggle. —The world
knows no victory to be compared
with victory over our own passions.
The struggle of life is between the
flesh and the Spirit, and one or the
other finally gains the ascendancy;
Every day, and every hour of the
Ohristfan’s life, is this contest go
ing on, and sad it is to think how
often it is that Victory is declared
in favof of this earth, with its sin
ful passions. The Apostle Paul*
after having labored long and earn
estly in his Lord’s service—after
having done more for the spread of
the troth than all the other Apos
tles, still felt that he was a Ini man
being l , and liable at any time*
through the wefikrttess of the flesh*
to lose all. “I keep under my
body,” says he, “and bring it into
subjection, lest, after I have preached
the Gospel unto others, I; myself;
Should be a castaway.” If this
watchfulness was needed on the
part of this aged and long-tried ser
vant of God, what care and dili
genbfe ought we t» exercise, lest we
should lose all in an unguarded
hour? Qur path\Vay through life is
thickly set with snares for our feet.
The seductions of passion, the allure
ments, of vifce, things to arouse our
anger and Stir Up our heart’s feel
ill ;-s* await us at every turn of life’s
devious ways* and blessed indeed
is that man, Or that woman, that
meet* them all without harm.
TfHItK.—Do yottr own thinking.
YeS, that is the idea. Think for
yourself. It is well to listen to the
expressed thoughts Os others, and
it is an agreeable pastime to give
expression to your thoughts. But
■token alone Weigh what you have
heard and traverse what you have
said. It is tool l for you to do this*
tor it will assist ih curing you of
false notions* and ot eradicating un
profitable and vicious ideas, and in
time make you better men and wo
men’.