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WE now have the i>l- Jure of informing
the piaiwhi's of fLtfi|>h>h and adjacent
counties, tliatE. McDonal las erected anew.
large and Commodious M •ehonse, on depot -
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ted buiidiugn, bcaulilt grounds, magnificent
grove, and reasonable ates. „
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f President A F. C.
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guarantee for the future.
Thankful for your liberal patronage hereto
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promise to make every effoit to merit the same.
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It is not a Physic—it is |,t what is popu
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as a Powerful Attentive and.Tucqnalled Pu
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and remedy for nil iu purities of the bit, id, or
for organic weakjktp with their attendant
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as a household remedy.and should be freely
taken in ail derangcimtiis of the system. H
gives health, vigor and one to.all the vital
force-, and animates anf|'ortiftes aii weak and
lytnphauc tt mp' rann tit
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CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1871.
The Force of
/ Throw an apple up the hill.
Down the apple tumbles Tffji;
Roll it down, it never stops- ’
’Till within the Vale it drops ;
So are ali thing* prone to love,
All below, and all above.
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Down the mountain'flows the stream,
Up ascends the lambent flame,
gmoke and vapor mount the skies,
All preserve their unities. „
Naugbl Wow, and naught above,
Seem averse, but prone toteve.
Metals grow within the mint,
Luscious grapes upon the vine
Still the needle marks the pole,
Paits are equal to the whole,
’Tis a truth as clear that love
Quickens all below, -above,. . .
Wmm
Man is born to live and die,
Snakes to creep, and birds to fly :
Fishes in the water* swim, .
Dove* are mild and lions ;
Nature thus, below, above,
Pushes all things on to love.
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Does the cedar love the mountain ?
Or the thirsty deer the fountain ?
Does the shepherd love hiawrook l
Or the miller court the brook ? "
Thus by nature all things .move,
Like a running stream oi love.
Is th* valiant hero bold ?
Docs the miser doat on gold •
Beck the birds in spring to.pair?
Breathes the rosebud scented sir ?
Should you this deny you’Ti prove
Nature ia averse to love. r '
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When young maiden's courtship shun,
When the moon outshine* the suu,
When the tigers lirahs beget,
When the sfiow is black as Jet,
When the plaueU cease to move,
Then shall Ndturc cease to love.
The C*rea4 Mission of Wo
men.
Greit indeed is the task assigned
to women Who can elevate its dig
nity? Not to make laws, uot to lead
armies, uot to govern empires ; but
form those by whom laws are made,
armies led, aod epipires 'governed j
to guard against the slightest taint
of bodily infirmity, the “frail, yet
spotless creature, whose inoral, rto
less than phy|iqal being must bo de
rived from hereto inspiritthose prin
ciples, to inculcate those doctrines,
to animate those sentiipenls which
generations yet nations
yet uncivilized, will learn to oless, to
soften firmness into mercy, and chas
ten honor into refinement; to exalt
generosity into a virtue with a sooth
ing care; to allay the anguish of the
mind ; by her tenderness to disarm
passion; by her purity to triumph
over sense,to cheer the scholar sink
ing under his toil; to be a compen
sation for friends that are perfidious
—for happiness that has passed
away. Such is her vocation. The
couch of tiie tortured" sufferer, the
prison of the deserted friend, the
cross of the rejected saviour—these
are theatres on which her greatest
triumphs have been achieved.—
such is her destiny ; to visit the for
saken, and neglected ; when mon
arehs abandon, when counsellors be
tray, when justice prosecutes, whorl
brethren and disciples flee,to remain
unshaken and unchanged, apd to ex
hibit to this lower world a type of
that love, constant, pure, am 1 inef
.fable which in another we are taugh t
to believe the test of virtue.
'M.< ’ —
How to Ssiccceil.
PresidentForter, pf -Y*|e Gfllege,
recently gave to his students a.com
pendium of advice, which has rarely
been. surpassed for comprehensive
brevity. lie said;
Young men, you are the arch
itects of your own fortunes. Rely
upon your" own strength of body
and sou]. Take for your star, self
reliance, faith, honesty, and indus
try. Inscribe on your banner
“ Luck is a fool, Pluck is a ber t o,”
Don’t take too much advice; keep
at your helm and steer your own
ship, and remember tbrfc the great
art of commanding is take a fair
share of the work. Don’t practice
too much humnnity. Think well
of yourself. Strike Gut. Assume
ypu r own pistil k>n. Put
Bise above the envious anojeatousT
Fire above the mayk you intend to
hit. Energy, iuvmeibie determina
tion, with a right motive, are the
Don’t stvear. Don’t deceive. Don’t
marry until you can support a
wife. Be in earnest. Be self-reli
ant. Be generous. Be civil Read
*****wm’
ness, make money ana ao good
with it. Love your God and fel
low-man. Love truth and virtue.
Love your country and obey its law.
the millenium is near at hand. —
Exchange. tb *
Bought Him Oet — r i’wo young
gentlemen, who are brothers, resi
ding less than fi&3& f Miil4p ; At
lanta, were courting a young lady
—daughter of a near'neighbor—
both being in dead earnest. One
res?,
cleir. e propositi uri a^
and'a'|'tarriage > ouickly followed.—
Atlanta, Sun. fy
Why ifol next year be like last ?
Because lW year was 1870, and
next year wa (toe )
NOBODY BUT JOHN.
“Someone is coming,” Baid I, as
the clack of the shutting gate fell
on my ears, and I looked at Mag
gie’s soiled, untidy dress, and tum
bled hair.
Maggie started, and glanced has
tily from the window; then sat
down again in a careless way, re-
she did so:
‘•lt’s nobody bat John.”
Nobody but John ! And who do
you think that nobody was ? Only
her husband.
Nobody but John.
A few momepts afterward John
Fairbura came into the room where
we were sitting and gave me one of
his frank cordial greetings. I had
known him years, and ioDg before
his marriage. I noticed that he
gave an annoyed glance at his wife,
but did not speak to her. The
meaning of this annoyance and in
difference was plain to me ; for John
had come of a neat and tidy family.
His mother’s house keeping had al
ways been notable. She was poor;
but as “time and water are to be
had for nothing”--this was one of
her sayings—she always managed
to have things about cleau and or
derly.
Maggie Lee had a pretty face*
bright eyes, and charming little
ways that were very taking* with
the young men, and so qnite a belle
before she got out-of her teens.—
She had a knack of fixing her rib
bons, or tying her scarf or arrang
ing her hair, shawl, or dress in a
way to give grace agd. charm to her
person. None but her most intD
mate frieds knew of the untidiness
that pervaded her room and person
when at home and away from com
mon observation.
Poor John Fairborn was taken in
when he married Maggie Lee. He
thought he was getting the tidiest,
neatest, s sreetest and most orderly
girl in town, but discovered too
soon that he was united to a care
less slattern. She would dress for
other people’s eye*, because she had
a natural love of admiration; but
at home and for her husband she
put on her old duds, and went look
ing often “like the old scratch,” as
the saying is.
On the particular occasion of
which I am speaking—it was after
sbo and John had been married over
a year—her appearance was almost
disgusting. She did not .have on
even a morning dress; only a faded
and tumbled chintz sack above a
soiled skirt— no collar—slippers
down at the hoels, and dirty stock
ings. Her hairiooked like a hur
rah’s nest; if any one knows what
this is—l don’t;' but I suppose it
is the perfection of disorder. No
one could love such a looking crea
ture. That was simply impossible.
“Nobody but John !” I looked at
the bright handsome young man
and wondered. He ate his dinner
almost in silence, and then went
back to his work. I had never seen
diim so moody.
“What’s come over John? I ask
ed, as he went out.
“Oh, I don’t know,” his wife an
svered. “Something wrong at the
shop, I Fuppose. He’s had trouble
with one of the men. He is fore
man, you know.”
“Are you sure it’s only that ?” I
asked looking serious.
“That or something about his
work. There’s nothing else to wor
ry him.”
I was silent for awhile, debating
with myself whether good or harm
would come of a little plain talk
with John’s wife. She was rather
quick temprred, I knew, and easy
to take oftence. At last I ventured
the remark. *
“May be things are not just to his
liking at home'.’’
“At home !” Maggie turned on
me with a flash of surprise iu her
face. “What do you mean?”
“Mon Hke beauty, taste and neat
ness in their wives as well as in their
sweethearts,’ I said.
The crimson mounted to her
hair. At the same moment I saw
her glance at a looking-glass that
hung opposite to her on the wall.—
She sat very still, yet wWi a start
led look in her eyes, until the flush
faded away, and her face became
almost pale.
“Maggie,” said I, rising and
drawlhg nfy arm around her, “come
up stairs. I have something very
serious to say to you.”
We walked from the little dining
room aud up to her chamber in si
lea ce. I then said:
“Maggie, I want to tell you about
a dear friend of mine who made
shipwreck of happiness and life.—
It is a sad story, but I am sure it
will interest you deeply. She was
my cousin; and her name was ”
Maggie bent forward, listening
attentively. “What?” she asked,
as I hesitated on the name.
“Helen.”
“Not Helen White, who married
John Harding and was afterward
deserted by her husband?”
“Yes, my poor, dear cousin He
len. It is .of her I am going to
tell you.” •
“I never knew why her husbaud
went off as he did,” said Maggie.—
“Some said he was to blame, and
some put all the fault on her. How
was it;?’’ ' ; "
“Both were to blame; but she
most,” I replied. “John Harding,
like your husband, was one of the
neatest and most orderly of men.
Anything untidy in his home, or in
the person of his wife, annoyed and
often put him out of humor ; but
he did not, as he'should have done,
speak plainly to his wife and let her
see exactly how be felt, and in what
he would like a change. If he had
done so Helen would have tried—
as every good wife should—to con
form herself more to his tastes and
wishes. But he was a silent moody
sort of a man when things did not
go'jusf to suit him, and instead of
speaking oat plainly, brooded over
Helen’s faults, and worried himself
into fits of ill-humor. And what
was worse than all, grew at length
indifferent to his home and wife,
and soaght pleasant surroundings
and more * attractive company
abroad.
“Every man thus estranged from
bis home is in danger, and Harding
w&s no exception to this rule.—
Temptation lay about his feet—and
that commonest temptation of all
an elegantly-fitted up billiard and
drinking saloon.
“They had been married just
about as long as you and John have
been when the sad catastrophe of
their lives took plaee. I had called
to spend the day with Helen, and
found her in her usual condition of
personal untidiness and disorder.—
When her husband came homo to
dinner, I noticed with painful eon
cern that he had been drinking—
not very freely, but j ust enough to
show itself in captious ill-humor.—
Helen had not dressed for dinner
but presented herself at the table
without even a clean collar, ar.d
with anpld faded shawl drawn about
her shoulders. She looked any
thing but attractive.
“I saw her husband’s eyes glance
toward her across the table with an
expression that chilled me. It was
a hard, angry, determined expres
sion. He was scarcely civil to me
and snapped his wife sharply two
or three times dining the meal. At
its close, he left the room without
a word, and went op Stairs.
“What’s the matter with John ?"
I asked.
“Dear above knows !” replied Hel
len. “He’s been acting queer for
a good while. I can’t imagine
what’s come over him.
“Does ho come in this way often ?”
I asked.
“Yes, he’s moody and disagreea
ble most of the time. I’m getting
dreadfully ivorried about it.”
“As we talked we heard John
moving about with heavy footfalls
in the rooms above Presently he
came down, and stood for a little
while in the hall at the foot of the
stairs as if in hesitation. Then he
went to the street dooiy passed out,
and shut it hard after him.
“Helen caught her breath with a
start, and turned a little pale.”
“What’s the matter ?” I asked,
seeing the strangeness of her look.
.“I don’t know;” she replied with
a choking voice, laying her hand
at the same time pn her breast, “hut
I feel as if something dreadful were
going to happen.”
“She got up from tho table, and
I drew my arm around her. I too
felt a sudden depression of spirits.
We went slowly up to her chamber,
wheie we spent the afternoon; and
I then took upon myself the office
of a triend, and talked seriously to
my cousin about her neglect of per
sonal neatness, hinting that her hus
band’s estrangement front his home,
and altered manner toward herself,
might all spring from that cause:—
She was a little angry with’ me at
first, but I pressed the subject home
with a tender seriousness that did
the work of conviction; and as
evening drew on, she dressed with
care and neatness. With a fresh
ribbon tied her in hair, and color a
little raised by mental excitement,
she looked charming and lovable.—
I waited with interest to see what
impression she would have made on
her husband. He could not help
being charmed back into the lover,
I was sure. But he did not come
to tea. We waited for him a whole
hour after the usual time, and then
sat down to the table alone; but
neither of us could do more than
sip a little tea.”
“I went home, soon after, with, a
pressure of concern at my heart,
for which I could not account. All
night I dreamed uncomfortable
dreams. In the morning, soon af
ter breakfast, I ran over to see Hel
en. I found her in her room, sit
ting in her night-dress, the picture
of despair.
“What is it?” tasked eagerly.—
“What has happened ?” She looked
at me heavily, like one not yet re
covered from the Bhock of a stun
ning blow. ''
“Dear cousin ! what is the mat
ter ?” I said.
“I now saw, by a motion of her
hand, that it held, tightly clutched,
a piece of paper. She reached it
to me. It was a letter, and read :
“We cannot live happily together,
Helen. You are not what I believ
ed myself getting when we were
married—not the sweet lovely girl
that charmed rfty fancy and won
me from all others. Alas for us
both that it is s^! There has been a
shipwreck of two lives. Farewell!
I shall never return.” -
“And this was aU; but it brake
the heart of my poor cousin. Tp
this day, though ucarjy thra* 3 years
have passed," she has heard
from her husband.’ *-,#
“I saw her last week in the coun
try home to which aha has been ta
ken by her friends—a wreck both
in mind and body. She was sitting
in an upper room, from the window
of which could be seen a beautiful
landscape. She was neatly attired,
and a locket, containing her hus
band’s picture, hung at her throat.
Her head was drooped, and her
eyes upon the floor, when I entered;
but she raised her ayes quickly and
with a kind of start. I saw a mo
mentary eager flush in her face, dy
ing out quickly, and leaving it inex
pressibly sad.
“I thought it was ,John,” ®h e
said, mournfully. “Why don’t he
come ?”
I had to stop her ? for Maggie
broke out suddenly into a wild fit
ot sobbing and crying, which lasted
for nearly a minute.
“Whai ails you, dear ?” I asked,
as she began to be a little composed.
“Qh! you have frightened me so.
If John should—”
She oat short the sentence, but
her frightened face left me in no
doubt as to what was in her
thoughts.
She arose and walked about the
room in an uncertain way for some
momets and then sat down again,
drawing in her breath heavily.
“If young Wives,” I remarked
believing that in her present state
the truth- was the best thing to say
■—“would take half the pains in
making- themselves personally at
tractive to their husbands, that they
did to charm their lovers, more of
them would find the love continued
in the husband. Is a man, think
you, less admirer of womanly gvaee
and beauty after he becomes a has
band than he was before?”
“Hush! hush !” she sa ' ( T * n
choking voice. “I see it all I I com
prehend it all.”' And she glanced
down *at herself. “I look hateful
and disgusting ”
After a plain, earnest talk with
Maggie, I went home. I give her
own words as to whathappened af
terward.
“ I was wretched all the after
noon’. John had acted worse than
usual at dinner time; and what you
told me about poor Helen set my
fears in motion and worried me half
to death. Long before the time he
usually came home, I dressed my
self with care, selecting the things I
had heard him admire. As I look
ed at myself in the glass, I saw that
I was attractive ; I felt as I had nev
er felt before, that there was a pow
er in dress that no .woman can dis
regard without loss of influence, no
mattei* what her position or sphere
of life.
“Supper-time came, I had made
something that I knew John hked,
and was waiting for him with a
nervous earnestness it was impossi
ble to repress. But the hour pass
ed, and his well known tread along
the little garden walk did not reach
my anxious ears. Five, ten, twen
ty minutes beyond his honr for re
turning, and still I was alone. Oh !
I shiver as I recall the wild fears
that began to crowd upon me. I
was standing at the window, behind
the curtain, waiting and watching.
AH at once I saw him a little dis
tance from the house, but notin the
direction from which he usually
qame. He was walking slowly, and
with his eyes upon the ground ; his
wholo manner was that- of one de
pressed or suffering- I dropped the
curtain, and went back into our lit
tle breakfast room to sec that sup
per was put quickly on the table.-r-
Jolin came tn, andi went up stairs,
as he usually did, to change his coat
before tea. In a few minutes I rang
the tea bell, and then seated myself
at the table to ; wait for him. Be
was longer than usual in making
himself ready, ucd then I heard
him coming down slow ly. and heav
ily, as if there was no spirit in him.
“My heart beat strongly, but I
tried to look bright and smiling.
Tli ere was, oh ! «o dreary a look on
John’s face as I first saw it in the
door. He stood still just a moment
with his eyes fixed on me ; then the
dreary look faded ©ut; a flash of
light passed over it, as he stepped
forward quickly, and coming to
where I sat, stooped down and kiss
ed me. Never beforo was his kiss
so sweet to my lips.” *
‘fl have found my little wife once
more,” he said, softly and tenderly,
and with a quiver in his voice. I
laid my head upon his bosom, and
looking up into his face answered.
“And you shall never lose her
again.”
Audi think he will .not. The
sweetness of that hour, and the les
sou it taught, can never be forgotten
by my friend Maggie.
'
A Western lawyer, in de
fending a client recently, astonished
the judge and jury by the following
burst of eloquence : Gentlemen,; 5 !
do not den y the fact of my cl'-Jits
having killed a mafr; but^ s that
any reason why you shou!« d° 80 ?
No such thing, gentlemen. You
may bring the prisons' in “guilty,”
the hangman may d® bis duty, but
will that exonerate y oa •No SQ ch
thing. lii that ~asc you will all be
murderers. Who among yon is pre
pared for Ge brand of Cain to be
stamped o* his brow to-day ? Who,
freemen, who in this land of liberty
and flght? Gentlemen, I will
pledge my word that not one of you
has a -bowie knife or pistol in his
pocket. No, gentlemen, your pock
ets are odoriferous with the per
fumes of segar cases and tobacco of
rectitude, in the pipe ot a peaceful
conscience ; but hang -my unfoi tu
nate client, and the scaly alligators
of remorse will gallop through the
internal principles of animal verte
brae until the spiual anatomical coin
struetf on is turned into a railroad
for the grim and gory goblins of
and It is needless to say his client ww
acquitted.
When a man and woman are
made one by a clergyman, the ques
tion is, which L the one ? Some
times there is a long struggle be
tween them before this matter is fi
nally settled.
The Open Polar Sea.
Report of Lieutenant Payer of the
German Expedition—The Best
Route to the North Pole.
Tho Geographical and Statistical
Society of Frankfort on-the-Main
has received a report from Lieuten
ant J’ulius Payer* one of the two
leaders of ihe German expedition to
the North Pole. It is dated “Octo
ber 0, from the Norwegian coast, on
board the-ship Harald Raarfage,”
and prevents some new facts of
very great interest. After some
introductory remarks, the report
goes oi> to saj”: *
The preliminary expedition for
the exploration of the sea between
{Spitsbergen and Nova Zerabla,
which is to bo followed next year
by an expedition of greater magni
tude, has achieved a very unexpect
ed result, one which is opposed to
all previous calculations. The rea
son why the principal object of the
expedition, viz: The exploration of
King Karl’s Land —has not and
could not be consistently carried
out, will be explained to yon by na
vai;Lientenant Weyprecht personally
As an offset against this failure,
there appears, however, the discov
ery of an extensive open polar sea
ia place of ’the unknown waters
which were formerly considered un
.navigable. . Tho' Russians, the
Swedes, and even tho German ex
pedition of 1868, vainly attempted
to penetrate even as far as the
southern part of the polar sea. But
the result.now obtained is calcula
ted to give a different tufn to liter
whole polar question, and to create
anew basis for the exploration of
the North Pole.
WHY TIIE FORMER GERMAN EXPEDI
TION FAILED..
It is.very much to bo regretted
that the great German North Polar
expedition of lSfiO-JO did not take
this route through, the sea
of Nova Zcmbla, as it was original
ly pointed out by Dr. Peter
mann, who doelared it to be the
best route for penetrating into the
heart ot the Polar basin.-
In spite of the fact that the high
est authorities have hitherto decid
edly opposed ' every route • east of
Spitzbergen, and the numerous Rus-'
sian expeditions during the present
century have not even been able to
sail round the northern part of No
va Zembla, and although the Nor
wegian, Johanneson, last yCar, close
to the coast of the double island to
the Sea of Kara, to the Sea of Ba
reetz, was considered an extraordi
nary and doubtful event, in spite of
these facts to the contrary, our ex
perience has proved tho existence of
an extensive open sea north of Nova
Zembla.
The Sea of Kara has been explor
ed by the. navigators Simonson
and. Nattisen, and others, and re
ported to be almost completely free
, from ice. Sitnonsen has not found
any ice even around the Wh^ e s '
land. On the tiie strength of these
explorations, the connection of the
open sea of *Nova Zembla with the
waters of the north of Siberia may
be -considered an established fact.
With this discovery vanishes an
immense territory of ice from our
maps. The year 1871 will undoubt
edly be represented as very favora-.
ble to the ice navigation, although
“ unfavorable ” years have often
been spoken of without cairw or
proof. But the walrus hu»«ot's of
Noringla are uuanimons ir regard
ing last summer as the vvivst season
ever experienced. Eve*, the steam
er Germania of the frerman expe
dition, has not in pene
trating into the S<ta of Kara. In
Norway the fact Aat sailing vessels
things I
si look
saw that
have achieved higher results than
steamships is attributed to the faulty
construction of the Germania as a
sailing vessel as well as a.steamer,
and it is, therefore, '■* matter of
great importance to subject this vCs
sel to an impartial examination.
The uksui.t of viie polar expedi
, ; TION.
The (Wslion now arises, how'
came tb?result of the present polar
vovap? to be so essentially different
fror> - all that had hitherto been ex
' n-vie need ? We are as far from
jfte presumption to believe that we
‘baveacted with more energy and res
olution than our predecessors, as
from placing Onr little enterprise on
a degree with the large expeditions
that went before ns. The key of
the riddle is simply this.: that near
ly all expeditious have “entered and
left these waters too early in the
season. The best and only period
for navigation is the autumn. An
other reason for the ill success of
all these expeditions was that they
kept too - neat the coast of Nova
Zembla or Spitzbergen, as it now
appears to penetrate north forty to
forty-five degrees lmgitude is the
most suitable part of the sea of
Nova Zembla. We reached seven
tyninc northern latitude almost
without any difficulty, audit w*s
only the want of provisions that
prevented us from going 7unhcr
north.
The probable cao*f of this favor
able state of tb*' ice in the sew of
Nova Zempte in the autumn ap
pears to.be the Gulf Stream. From
the perfection and comparison of all
Previous observations this cannot,
however, be said as certain, but only
as provide, in favor of our opin
ion we may mention the fact that
in this higli feititude .*he tempera
ture of the -winter ia September is
tfcffec to five degr.es '.rigber than
that Os the fall; s»fo the frequen
cy of-the foi*T the stream to the
northeast, to the coast of Nova
NO. 52
Zemble, tile
of the Gulf Stream, fttjc blue color
ordinary number of sraalrv extra-
Iu flie beginning of September’'la.
Gulf stream seems to leave* the
coast of Nova Zembla, and to ap
pear further west, of perhaps ex
tend itself over a muck larger spaoe.
This stream of warm \vater is not
equally deep, and loses power as it
extends further north, One of the
most note-wortv facts is the large
number of whales in the sea of No
va Zembla. The scientifiio experi
ments made during our voyages
consisted in observations of rise
temperature of the surface of the
water, in regular meteorological re
searches at different depths, in geo
logical examinations of col lection#
of istones and plants, &o,
Keep Out oi Debt.
Half the perplexity, annoyance,
and trouble that men have
world is in consequence of getting
into debt. It seems to be Datura}
for some people to buy and incu t
obligations without measure, ao
long as they can avo'd paying ready
cash. Give one of this sort a
chance to buy on credit, and the
questions of price and conditions
of payment are matters that he
cares but littlo about But what a
crop of trouble springs up from the
seed of debt. How many sleep,
less nights result from it? llow
many’gray hairs it brings, and hew
often it shortens life—sometimes
leading men to commit suicide or
murder. , And yet, how easy a thing
.it is to keep clear of this terrible
monster. Every young man should
form a fixed and unalterable deter
mination, before commencing his
active business career, not to incur
one penny of indebtedness under
any circumstances. Never borrow.
Never buy anything unless yp»
have the money to pay for it at
once. Pay no attention to “splen
did opportunities,” “bargains,”
“rare chances,” and the like. Such
affairs are only the traps which debt
sets to catch victims. If you see
anything that you would like to buy,
or if any offer is made that you
would like to accept, look, first, st
your money-pile, and make the an
swer depend upon that. Always
pay as yon go. If you are short ©f
money, yon guage your demands
accordingly. Foster habits of econ
omy, live within your means, buy
notliing that you cannot properly af
ford, and you will go on through
fife free from the miseries and troub
les that ever beset the 'path of the
debtor. ’ /
Pitre Walter, §4
The value of pure watcrAj* ®k®*
itary agent, cannot be w,w?er-es*
timated. Especially .ajrttW great
care be bestowed upon fJ c selection
of the water that is jrAi for drink
ing and cooking, dw while in many
cases, really excell Jit water is read;
lly accessible, it#® also the case that
much of the wder that finds its way
into our body* 3 is very unfit for that
purpose. ”he great evil in the case
of most linds of water is the pres
ence of,«i'g3nie matter; in other
wonb/dead and decaying animal
and Vegetable matter has found its
w; .y into it. In the country, where
supply of water is obtained from
a spring bubbling from a bill-side
and constantly changing, this diffi
culty does not prevail to any great
extent. But in thickly peopled dig*
trials where wells are sunk beneath
the surface, we often find wpiter so 1
impure that it produces disease.— *
This is especially the cals where*
wells and cesspools are in proxii»ipi
to each other. Jt is a generally rei
ceivcd, idea that after Water _hpi
been filtered through a thick layer
of soil it becomes purifiedffrote dll
organic matter, and that dais is true
to a certain extent tbereajan bo no
doubt. But it ofiou happens that
liquids highly charged w|lh organic
mattes will flow through fissure* in
the ground for a consi* Arable dis
tance without losing mi|h of their
impurities. ' Alderman fdeebi tells
us that after a heavy application of
liquid manure to hist fields ■ Ifagt*-
drains that are situatedi three aod
four feet below the surface alwat*
discharge large volts mots of highly
-colored liquid. Jf the ease
under circumstances f that would
seem to afford the vers best condi
tions for | e i'eet filtration, what
mfist be the result where thetßs
tance that the sewerage has ft> passis
not wry great, and wheregit con
s tan tly tio ws th rqugh the name fis
sures or channels?- Techmdogist.
A Kentucky corvers^Wn—“Hel
lo, dar, you darkty w#t you are
for dat old blind ? ”
“ Well, I duunq* mout
thirty-five dollars.”
dollars! I’ll you five”
“ Well, you iiiay4«ave ’itn ; I won’t
stand on thirty dollars—in a mult
trade.” i .
Childhood £, like a mirror,catch
ing and refining images all around
it. Rememter that an impious or
profaye tlur.ight, uttered by„a pa
rent’s lips nay operate on a young
heart like a careless spray of water
upon polished steel, staining it with
rust which ho after scouring can
efface - '
James W. Marsha 1 , the discover
er of gold in California. has retimed
to his home, Lainbertville, after m
absence of ;?6 years.
Chicago is to open anew thea
tre on Christmas Eve, built since
the fire. It will accommodate J2OO
persons.
What part of speech is
A conjunction.