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The Parting Hour.
Thcro ? s something in the “parting hour-’
Will chill the. warmest heart—
Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends,
Are fated all to part;
But this I’ve seen—and many a pang
11ns pressed it to my mind—
The one who goes is happier
Than those lie leaves behind.
No matter what the journey be,
Adventurous, dangetous. tar,
To the wild deep'or bleak frontier;
To solitude of war—
Still something cheers the heart that dales
In all of human kind,
And-they who go art* happier
Than those they leave behind.
The bride goes to the bride groom's home
With doubting* and with tears,
But dot# not llope her rainbow spread
Across her cloudy tears ?
, Alas ! the mother who.remains, .
What comfort can she find,
But this—the gone is happier
Than one see leaves behind ?
Have you a friend —a comrade dear?
Ail old and valued Iriend ?
-Be sure your term of sweet concourse
At length will have an end !
And when you part—as part you will—
O, take it not unkind,
If he who goes is happier .
Than you he leaves behind,
God wills it so— and so it is;
The Pilgrims on their way,
Though weak and worn, more cheerful are
Than all the rest who stay.
And when, at last, poor man subdued,
uics down to death resigned,
May he not still be happier far
Than those he leaves -behind ?
A Truthful Sketch.
Let a man fail in business, what
au effect it has on his former credi
tors ! Men who have taken him
by the arm. laughed and chatted
with him by the hour, shrug their
shoulders with a cold —“Hdw do
you do?”
Every trifle of a bill is hunted up
and presented that would not have
seen light for moths to come, but.
for the misfortunes of the debtor,''
If it is paid, well and good ; it not,
•the scowl of the sheriff perhaps
meets him nt the corner. A man
that has never failed knows but lit
tle of human nature.
In prosperity he sails along gen
tly—wafted by favoing smiles and
kind words from every body. He
prides himselt on his name Snd
spotless character, and makes his
boast that ho has notan enemy in
the world. Alas the change ! He
looks at the world in a different
light when reverses come upon him.
He reads suspicion, on every .brow.
He can see doubt in every face. He
hardly knows how to move; or do
this thing or the other ; ther.e are
spies about him ; a writ is ready
for his back. To know what kind
of stuff the world is made of, a
person must be unfortunate, and
stop paying once in a life time. If
he has kind friends, then they are
made manifest. A failure is a
moral Reive; it brings out the
wheat and shows the chaff, A man
will thus learn that words and pre
tended good will do not constitute
real friendship.
A Strange Case.—There is a
woman now lying bet ween, life and
death in* a Western city whose
case has only been equaled once in
medical annals. The pulse is regu
lar at sixty, and all the bodily ac
tions are perfectly, performed. The
skin is natural and the eye presents
no. unusual ‘appearence, except a
certain fixity, and. yet this woman
has bad for six days a bullet, fired
from her husband’s revolver, em
bedded in her brain. One of the
most touching and pitiful facts is
that the patient, in a sad kind of
way, seems to be conscious, though
unable to speak. She is incessant
ly trying to get her wedding ring
off of her finger, and at one time
appears to have imagined that she
had unloosed it, for she made a mo
tion as though about, to throw it
away, but apparently repenting,
attempted to restore it. The ring
occupies all her thoughts. She
continually regards it, and will hold
<ip her hand as long as her strength
lasts, to look at it,
For the Ctithb,-rt Appeal.
A Tour Through Texas,
OK
Information for Emigrants.
GENERAL REMARKS ON TIIE COUNTIES.
. I shall now endeavor to give a
short description of all the* counties
of Texas taking them alphabetical
Ly. It will be seen that the popula
tion of the counties is sometimes
given and some not, and when giv
en, it is generally only approximate,
as the census had been completed
and published, in but few cases
when I left. As far as the census
returns have come in they show a
large increase during the last de
cade, the increase varies from fifty
to eighty per cent. If this be taken
as a criterian for the whole State,
the total population at this time
cannot fall much short of twelve
hundred thousand It is estimated
that the immigration to the State
during the past year has been about
two hundred and fifty thousand.—
It has certainly far exceeded the
immigration of any previous year;
but, from present indications, the
. immigration will continue to in
crease from year to year for many
years to come. . It ia only recently
.that the great advantages of the
State have attracted much attention
abroad. But there is room enough
yet*for hundreds of thousands of,
emigrants. Ycpir readers will proba
bly be surprised to see that so
small a portion of the labor of the
State Is performed by negroes ; in
some counties negro labor varies
from about one tenth to one half or
two thirds in others. Though in
fact the .proportion of negro labor
•in the whole State is n’ot* probably
over three tenths of the whole, and
the proportion is becoming less
from year to year. The price of
farm products arc nearly the- same
in all the counties, and’hence, I will
omit giving them, except in a few’
instances, to save the repetition of
the same figures. I- shall only give
a general description of a few of the
average counties so as not to bore
your readers. The prices that I
shall give of provisions, land, stock,
etc., arc liable to fluctuation at dif
ferent seasons ol the year and :fs
emigration" - . increases lands are
bound to be higher.
Anderson County, "County Seat,
Palestine —Area, 1098 square miles,
population, 150,007,500 whites- and
7500 blacks. This county is two
thirds timbered, acres cultivated
about 12,000 in corn, and the same
in cotton, and 15,000 in wheat and
other' erops. Sugar cane can be
raised well, and small grain, pota
toes, sorghum and tobacco succeed
Well. Average crop of corn oh iq>
land. 20 bushels "per acre; of cotton
1,000 pounds; of wheat 15 bushels;
’ one hand cultivates usually 10 acres
’in corn and 8 in cotton. About sev
enseighths of the labor*is done by
fveedmen. §25 (coin) is the usual
wages per mouth. The usual price
of good farm lands is $2 to $5 per
acre. Unimproved lands 50 cents
to $2,50 per acre. Farms can be
bought on a credit by actual setlers.
The profits of a farm usually, with
good management, will more than
pay for it the first year. The
prices of farm*producls are 50 cents
for corn, potatoes the, same. Syrup
,§1 per gallon ; butter and lard 10
cents; bttcon 12} beef 2 cts.
per pound ; mutton 3 ce lts ;. honey
10 cents; poultry per "dozen §1,50;
eggs per dozen 10 cents; stock cat
tle §5; milch-cows §10"; oxen SSO
per yoke ; farm horses §SO ; mules
$75; hogs, grown §5. Anderson
is more devoted to farming than
stock raising, but every farmer has
his stock, which really costs him
nothing but a little trouble. Any in
dustrious farmer can make money,
but few make the necessary efforts.
The nearest railroad is 90 miles—to
Bryan, they have navigation by the*
Trinity -River to Galveston, about
four months in the year. Freight
to and from market §2 per 100 lbs.
This county produced in 1870, 7,*
500 bales of cotton and -.probably
8500 last year. Iron ore is abun
dant, and. was worked during, last
year. There is about 20 churches and
as many schools is this county.
. ANGELINA COUNTY.
County Seat,. Homes, Area, 1059
square miles, this county votes
about 600, population about 2500,
with about half as many negroes.—
Petroleum is very abundant in An
gelina, and in the South east part
of the county it runs in springs
from the surface called tar springs,
companies are commencing to bore
for it. This county has no prairies,
and therefore is not a stock raising
county. The prices of provisions,
stock, lands, etc., arc about the
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1872.
same as in Anderson county. The
rivers are the Angelina and Neches,
which are navigated b.y small steam
ers, high up as Marion and darks
ferry, all the winter and spring.—
The market is Shreveport, La., dis
tance 125 miles- by wagons; cost
two cents per. pound for. hauling.—
Cistern water is being generally
used in. families, but few springs in
this county.
ARNHER COUNTY.
This is one of the frontier unor
ganized counties, it has but little
good farming land,but ( is well adapt
ed to grazing, having fine grass in
abundance, and plenty of water.—'*■
Its settlement Inis been delayed by
Indian depredations. The popula
tion is small, and cannot, be accu
rately stated, for want of the census
returns, area is 900 square miles.—
This county is considered one of
the most valuable iu the State for
.its minerals.
AUSTIN COUNTY.
County Seat Bellville—popula
tion 10,000 and increasing fast.—
Area 1034 square miles, chief mar
kets, Houston and Galveston. It
wdl be seen by the map that this
county is well supplied with rail
roads, the Texas Central passing
through it, and the Washington
county road connecting, with it at
Hempstead. It is also well sup
plied with rivers, the Brazos.being
the longest. Though this is a fine
agricultural county, with , great
abundance of timber for fuel and
fencing, yet stock-raising is carried
on to a large extent, some beards
numbering 3000 or 4000 head ; and
some flocks' of sheep numbering.
2000 of, 3000 head. The building
timber is chiefly brought from the
adjoining counties of Grimes and
Washington, consisting of pine and
cedar.-
There are several high schools,
and many common schools in this
county, and churches of all denomi-
are plentiful in all neigh
borhoods. Cotton is the great sta
ple product as in most all other
counties, corn is abundant and cheap.
r L'hp cereals are not raised to any
gr*eat extent but all other products
are easily raised. Farms in bot
tom lands arc worth S2O to S3O per 1
acre, improved ; and upland $lO to
sls ; uncultivated lands, $3 to §l2
per acre. Avei age yield of cotton
in bottom lands one bale (500 lbs.
lint) to the acre ; on uplands, about
one half bale ; of corn 20 to 30,
bushels per acre, of potatoes 200 to
400 bushels per acre, 15 acres are
usually cultivated by one hand,
most of the labor is performed by
the farmers themselves. There are
several malm factories at Hemp
stead ; such as an iron foundries, a
a cotton and wood factory, a pot
tery, a wagon factory, a broom fac
tory, a cotton-seed oil -factory, a
larg#*tannery, etc. In fact Hemp
stead is one of the principal manu
facturing towns of the State, and
reminds one of a northern manufac
turing town.
Any one that contemplates going
to Texas should have a map of Tex
as so as to enable them .to under
stand the situation of the counties,
as they will better understand-them,
by -so doing, as I shall omit th'e
boundaries, any one desiring maps
can get them from me from 75 cts.
to sl-,50, owing i6 the style, by ad
dressing me at Cotton Hill, Ga.
T. M. A.
Superficial Education
Real education is the formation
and training of the mind. To train
the mind requires hard, patient and
independent thinking and work ;
the mere crude teaching a youth a
bundle of facts, which he acquires
with no labor, and, only retaining,
neither digests nor assimilates, is no
training at all; they in no way
nourish his mind, but, deposited
there, are as utterly raw and undi
gested as he swallowed them. He
may be a full man, but it is theriull
ness of a bottle, which "will pour
out what has been previously pour
ed in, whether vinegar or claret;
he may be a/- convenient depository
of other men’s thoughts—he- may
have sufficient capacity for holding
them —but to call such men edu?
cated is-a misuse of terms, in the
Strict sense of 'the word, and .to
trust 'men to his superintendence is
a misuse of humanity. He plunges
into the arena of politics, the sea of
literature, or the fury of a revolu
tion, unchecked by any glimmer
ing suspicion of his own folly, and
hurls thrones to the ground,, sees
the people massacred, and Europe
ig conflagration, without feeling
compunction or remorse. lie is as
insensitive as a bottle or a bag,
take away what it is filled with,
and what remains '.—Cayley.
Tlie False Edsscatiou of
our Daughters.
The English nobleman who sends
tO Paris fo|his' daughter’s dresses,
is reasonably certain that he, and
his daughter’s husband after him,
can continue sending, and that in
the training of his child he is foster
ing no habit which can not be right
fully'indulged in. The American
knows, if he knows‘anything,- that
the habits of luxury iu which his
child is reared, unfit her for the du
ties Os life to which she will in all
likelihood be called—that he can
not hope that his family wealth can
long survive him, any more .than
that his daughter will love a man to
whom that wealth will be unimpor
tant. Experience and observation
alike tell him that wealth, in this
country, rarely continues in a family
three generations, and that at any
time lie may find himself a poor
man again. Yethe regulates his
life and that of his children as if his
wealth and theirs were assured
forever, and as though the habits
of a lifetime were to be broken like
wisps of straw. His daughters
are not fit to marry any but the
rich men they experience so much
difficulty in finding; and a man -of
moderate means is careful to avoid
askfng them to change their habits
of life. There are iew sadder pict
ures than the one we see when some
’ such woman of braver heart than
most of her sex chooses the portion
of a'poor man’s, and vainly seeks to
adapt herself to a life of which she
lias hitherto known nothing. The
habits of girlhood bind her . like
.strong fetters, and ignorance of
domestic duties weighs her. to tli e
earth, the loss of social position, or
the levered effects she makes to
support it', wear out her life in bit.
ter repinings, until her health gives'
•way, and she dies, leaving her
•faults to vex the world in her
children, and her vitures undiscov
ered save by the husband, who
hides from "himself all else of her
memory. —lip pi ncott's Magazine.
. Story of a Sign."
In Newport, R.'l., a groeer who
kept a shop was noted for his grasp
dog disposition. One day l.e nail
ed up a salt cod on one of the. shut
ters of his shop, and underneath it
he wrote in chalk:
‘Cod-fish for sale cheap for cask
here.’
Presently in came an acquaintance
and said :
’ ‘What do you have ‘here’ ou that
sign about cod-fish for ? You dont
sell.cod-fish dr any other goods in
any place but here. Anybody.
wo*h!d know where you sold.them
without that word..
‘Tirat’s so,’ said the grocer; ‘boy
wipe out the-word ‘here’ from the
cod-fish sign.
Tlie boy obeyed, and tiie next day
another critic appeared. Said lie :
‘For cash! whoever knew‘you to
trust for any goods ? Why do you
say you sell cod-fish for cash ?’
‘You are right, said the grocer :
‘boy, wipe out the words ‘for cash’
from the cod-fish sign.’
This was done, and shortly- after
a third critic came to tfie shop, ob
jecting to the word ‘cheap.’
‘Who ever knew you to undersell
other 'dealers ?’ said he; ‘you don’t
sell any cheaper'than they. Your
prices are just the same as theirs,
and more,- if you can get it. Cheap!
cheap ! what do you have that word
for r
‘Well, it is not of much use, said
the'grocer ; ‘boy, wipe out the word
‘cheap’ from the cod-fish sign,’
Again the boy did as his mas
ter bade, and the same day. critie
No. 4 found fault with the phraso,
‘for sale.’ Said lie:
‘Fof.sale ! no one ..ever knew yo£i
to give away cod-fish. Os course
you keep them for sale: there is no
occasion for telling people what ev
erybody knows.’
‘There is something in that,’ said
the ’grocer ; boy, wipe ouf ‘for sale’
from the cod-fish-sign.
This left the salt ccd and the sin
gle word ‘codfish’ beneath. It was
but a few miuutes after that custo
mer who came in to buy some goods
remarked to the grocer : ; * .
‘What a funny' sign you’ve "jKrf
out there: any one would know trm
is a codfish nailed on your shut
ter. . . ,
‘So'they would,’ was the reply;
‘boy, wipe, out the word codfish
from that sign.’
‘The boy obeyed, and the fish re
mained With no’ inscription.’
—The appointment by the Mor
mons of ydssionararies to evange'
. lize Europe and the United States
looks very much as if the tail was
trying to wag the dog.
Tobacco.
BY A SMALL BOY.
Tobacco grows something like
cabbage, but I never saw none of jt
boiled, although I have eaten boiled
cabbage, and I have heard men say’
that cigars that were given them on
election day for nothing were - cab
bage leaves. Tobacco stores are
mostly kept by wooden Injuns, who
stand at the door and try to fool
little boys by offering them a bunch
of cigars, which is glued in the In
jun’s bauds, and is made of wood al
so. Hogs do not like tobacco; nei
ther do I. I tried to smoite a ci
gar once am] it-made me feel like
epsom salts. Tobacco was invented
by a man named Walter Raleigh:
When the people first saw him smo
king they thought he was a steam
boat, and as they never saw a steam
boat they were frightened. My sis
ter Nancy is a girl I don’t know
whether she likes tobacco or not.
There is a young man named Ho
Roy who comes to see her. die was
standing on the steps one night,
with a cigar in his mouth, and he
didn’t know as she would like it,
and she said, “Le Roy, the per
fume is agreeable.” But when my
big brother Tom lighted " his pipe;
Nancy said, “Get out of the house,
you horrid creature ; the smell of to
bacco makes mo sick.”
" J
■ What is Life.— Life is but
death’s vestibule and our pilgrimage
on-earth is but a journey to the
grave; the pulse, that preserves our
dead march, and -the blood which
circulates our life is floating it on
ward to-the depths of death. To
day we see some of our friends in
health; to-morrow we hear of
their decease. W-e clasp thq hand
of the stranger man but yesterday,
and to-day wo closed his eyes. We
rode in a chariot of comfort but an
hour ago, and in a few more hours
the last black?chariot must convey
us to the home of all the living.
Stars die rnayhaps ; it is said that
conflagration’s have been seen afar
off in the other,, and astronimers
have marked the funerals of other
■worlds—the decay of those lights
that wc have imagined set forever
in sockets of silver to glisten as the
lamps of eternity. Blessed be God
there is one. place where death is
not life’s brother, where life reigns
alone, and ‘.‘to live,” is not the first
sylable winch is to be followed by
the next “to die.” There is aland
where death knells ar@ never tolled,
where winding-sheets are never wo
ven, where graves are never dug.
Blessed land beyond the skies. To
reach it, we must die.
Training Girls. —Training girls
for household duties ought to be
considered as necessary as instruc
tion in reading, writing and arith
metic, and quite as universal. We
are in- our houses more than half
our existence, and it is the house
hold surroundings which affect most
largely the happiness or misery of
domestic life. If the wife knows
how to “keep -house,’' if she has
leaiyied how things ought to be
cooked, how beds should be made,
how carpets should be swept, how
the furniture should be dusted,
how the clothing should be repair
ed,- and turned," and altered, and
renovated ; if she knows how pur
chases can be maje to the best
advantage, and understands the
laying in of provisions, how to*make
them go furthest and last longest;
if she appreciates the importance of
system, order, tidiness, and the
quiet management of children and
servants, then she knows how to
make a little heaven of home —how
to win her children from the club
house, the gambling table, and the
wine cup. Such a family will be
trained to social respectability, to
business success and to efficiency
and usefulness in whatever posi
tion may be allotted to them.—
Hall's Journal.
Wise Words. —Foolish spend
ing is the father of poverty. Don’t
be ashamed to work. Be your own
master, and do not let-society and
fashion swallow up your individu
ality. Do not eat up or wear out
all you can earn. Compel the sel
fish body'to spare'something for
the profits saved. Bo stingy in
jour appetite, but merciful to ne
cessities. Help others, and • ask
not help for yourself. See that you
are proud, but. let pride be of the
right kind. Be too proud to 'be
lazy, too proud to be in company
you cannot keep up with in expense
too proud to lie, or steal or cheat;
too proud to be stingy.
—The quickest way for a man
to forget all common miseries is to
wear tight boots. *
What Ihe Features Indi
cate.
We are told that the extreme of
both largeness and''smallness of
stature are not favorable to the
strength -of intellect. Giants and
dwarfs are generally deficient in
this respect, and* excessive corpu
lency or • meageruess is -seldom as
sociated with'mental activity. Aris
totle, and Bonaparte, however, were
very short. Charles Janies Fox
was exceedingly fat, Daniel Webster
both broad and tall, and Lord Nel
son a living skeleton.
A large head is generally-the ac
companiment .of a great intellect ;
but a small one with a comparative
ly extensive forehead is quite con
sistent with mental capacity.—
Raphael, Charles . XII., Frederick
the Great and Lord Brougham
were illustrations of the latter fact.
It is. said any nose which is less
than the bight of the forehead is
an indication of the defective intel
lectual powers.
The eyes indicate character rath
er by color than form. The dark
bluo are found most commonly in
persons of a gentle and refined char
acter. Light blue and grey in tlie
rude anj energetic. Lavator says :
“Hazel eyes are the more usual in
dications of a mind masculine, vig
orous and profound ; just as a ge
nius, so called, is almost always as
sociated with hves of a yellowish
east bordering on hazel.”
Thp higher the brows rise the
more their possessors is supposed
to bo under the influence of feeling,
and the better controlled by his
character.
Avery small eyebrow is an indi
cation of want of force of charac
ter.
A tolerable large mouth is essen
tial to vigor and energy, and a very
small mouth is indication of weak
ness and indolence.
In a manly face, the upper lip
should extend beyond and dominate
the lower, and fleshy lips are often
er found associated with voluptu
ous, and meager ones with a pas
sionate nature.
The -retreating chin indicates
Weakness, the perpendicular
strength and tlie sharp acuteness
of mind.
The Widow's Wiles. —They
tell about a blooming young widow
who used to’ live next door to Mr.
Smith, who was a widower and ‘a
timid man, whose mild eyas beam
ed blandly through his spectacles.
The widow had a kindness for Smith
and he reciprocated it; but he had
barely enough courage to carry on
the campaign. So at last the wid
ow pretended to be terribly afraid of
thunder and lightning, ahd whenev
er she saW a gust coming up, she us
ed to smooth her hair and rush in
to Mr, Smith’s house.
Then when she heard a peal of
thunder, 'she would scream, rush up
and throw her arms around the neck
of the mild-eyed Smith, and im
plore him to protect her, and Smith
always looked anxious and embar
rassed and said he would. Then
she would faint, and Smith feel half
glad and half sorry. About six
thunder storms settled the business;
and now she is Mrs. Smith—lie is
only sorry that her apprehensions of
the lightning were not realized. He
says, if ever there was a person who
ought to have been torn to pieces by
electricity, it is that widow. She
has thunder storms every day now
in Smithes house, and it is lively
and vigorous for’ Smith around
there.
The Use of a Wife. —A brute of
our acquaintance read the other
day of the case of a man who ob
tained $750 damages from the Mid
land Railway for injuries sustained
Jay his wife. He. has ever since
sent his better half a daily
trip by rail, and-says it will do her
good ; but that even if it does, her
harm, it will do him good, so it is
all the same. He adds, that a wife
who travels- about a good deal is
likely to be a treasure to her hus
band in case of accidents. — Fun %
-—ln a recent debate, a member
of the ‘ California Legislature ex
claimed : “The honorable gentle
man from Claveras County is un
doubtedly a person of great abili
ties, a man of talent, a natural born
genius; but there is one thing I de
fy him to do, and that is to bite, the
bottom out of a fryingpan without
smutting his nose.”-
—A reporter who obtained en
trance .to the studio of a noted
young lady sculptor, states that she
wus at work with “her arms bare
to the should*?! and her ankles like
wise.”
From the Savannah News. .
She Hi ever Cared a Snap
Oh surely you have met her,
At the park or on the street—
She wears her hair in jaunty curls
And dresses deuced neat.
Iler Grecian bend's a bouncer,
And her hat the merest scrap
Os silk and straw and ribbons—but
She doesul "care a snap.-"’
•She sports a Dolly Varden
Os yellow, red and greeD,
And skips along in bronzed bootees,
The neatest ever seen.
When she trips the crowded pavement
l'ou can hear her flounces flap
As she boldly swings her parachute—
But she doesn’t “care a snap.”
The boys call her ‘•stunner,” :
And mauy a love lorn chap
Tips his beaver as she passes—
She doesn’t “care a snap.”
And her epitaph will lie,
When Death’3 cold hand shall rap
Upon her varnished chamber door :
“She never cared a snap”
Something for the Girls. —ls a
young man greet you in a loud,
free and hasty tone; if he know pre
cisely where to put his hand ou his
hat; if he stare you right in the eye,
with his own wide open; if ho turn
His back to you to speak to another;
if he tell you who made his coat; if
he sqeeze your hand; if Tie eats
heartily in your presence; if, iu short
he sneezes when you are singing,
criticise your curls, or fail to be
foolish in fifty ways. every hour,
then don’t fall in lovo with him for
the world. lie only admires you,
let him do or say what he -will.
On the other hand, if he be mer
ry with every ono else, but quiet
with you; if he be anxious to see
that your tea is sufficiently sweet
ened and your dear person.well
wrapped up when you go into the
cold ; if be talks very low ; if his
cheeks are red, and his nose only
blushes, it is enough. If he .-romp
with your sister, sigh like a pair
of bellows, look solemn when you are
addressed by another gentleman,
and, in fact, if he be the most still,
awkward, stupid, yet anxious of all
your male" friends, you may “go
ahead,” anil make the poor fellow
happy.
Popular Errors. —To think that
the more a man eats the fatter and
stronger he will becohie. To be
lieve that the more hours children
study the faster they learn. To
conclude that, if exercise is good,
the more violent it is the more good
ia done. To . imagine that every
hour taken from sleep is au hour
gained. To act on the presump
tion that the smallest room in the
house is large enough to sleep in.—
To imagine that whatever remedy
Causes one to feel immediately bet
ter is good for the system, without
regard to more ulterior effects. To
eat without an appetite ; or to con
tinue after it has been satisfied,
merely to gratify the taste. To eat
a hearty supper for the pleasure ex
perienced during the brief time it
is passing down the throat,' at the
expense of a whole night of disturb
ed sleep, and weary waking in the
morning.
Diffuser's of Happiness. —Some
men move through fife filling the
air with their presence and sweet
ness, as orchards, in October days,
fill the air with the p'erfume of ripe
fruit. Some women cling to their
own houses, like" the honeysuckle
over the door, yet like it, fill all the
region with the subtle fragrance of
their goodness. How great a bless
ing it is to hold the gifts of the soul
that they shall be music to some
and fragrance to others 1 It would
be no unworthy thing to live for,
to make the power which we have
within us the breath of other men’s
joy; to fill the atmosphere which
they must stand in with a bright
ness whith they cannot create for
themselves.
Passing Round the Hat, —The
incident related below didn’t occur
in these parts:
" The hat was passed arouud in a
certain church for the purpose of
taking up a collection. After -it
had made the circuit of the house,
it was handed to the minister, who
had exchanged pulpits with the reg
ular preacher, and he found not a
eent in it, He inverted the hat
over the pulpit cushion uud shook
it, that its emptyness might be
known, then looking toward the
ceiling, he exclaimed with fervor:
i‘l thand thee, O God! that I got
my hat back froTh this congrega
tion,”
—“Come where my love lies
dreaming,” says an up-country
swain, ‘-‘and see how she looks with
ttio paiut off.”
NO 26.
All Right.
How many of us but uso the
pression a dozeii times a week, arid
have it stick in the throat, at least
half of them ? It is coming to be a
hypocritical appendage of business
and a social intercourse.
A sponge? goes behind the cotirt 1
ter, and cuts off a dime’s worth of
tobacco or cheese, with an excuse
that he wants “a sample” and tlie
grocery man says, “that’s all right/ 5
A customer returns a pair of
shoes to the dry goods man soiled
and injured after a half day’s wear,
grunting, “ they are too small,” and
the merchant says, “that’s all
right.”
A church member put his name
down for $25 to pay the preacher,
and when calls lie pays only $lO,
with the remark that “limes are too
fo~al_”and the parson snys; “that’s
all right.”
A loafer makes a regular practice
of coming into a printing office, and
begging a copy of the paper, stating*
he “just wants to read it,” a short
time, and the editor groans with
ghastly politeness, “that is
right”"
An extravagant debtor tells a
patient creditor eVet'y in
meets him that he intends pacing
that account “to-morrow, certain,”
and the poor dun turns off with
“that’s all right.”
And so it 'goes. It’s all wrong
and we say it’s all right, and by our
want.of spirit and independence en
courage laziness, imposition, stingi.
ness, and every other sin under the
sun.
A broom with a heavy handle
was sent as a wedding gift to a
bride, with the following senti*
ment:
‘•This trifling gift accept from nic,
' Its use I would commend ;
In sunshine use the brushy part,
In storm the other end.”
A Mother’s Holy Work.— Many
a discouraged mother folds her tired
hands at night, and feels as if she
had, after all, done nothing, ah
though she has not spent ah idle
moment since she rose. Is it noth
ing that your little helpless children
have had someone to come to with
all their childish griefs ahd joys ?
Is it nothing that your husband
feels safe when he is irtVay to bis
business because your careful hand
directs everything at home ? Is it
when his business is over, that
he has the blessed refuge bf home;
which you have that day done
your best to brighten and rfine ?
O weary and faithful mother! you
littlo know your power when you
say, “I have done nothing.” There
is a book in which a fairer record
than this is written over against
your name.
—“lt seems that after the old
folks had gone, he di.dti’t do noth*
in,” but jest sot a syin’ and groan
in’ as if he was in great distress;
enough*to break the heart of a stone,
till Miss Ofelia took pity on his
sufferings and asked him wouldn’t
he take some pepperrhent draps,
thinkin’ he had the kawlick or
maybe somethin’ wuss. And then
dowp he went on his marfow bones,
and told her it wasn’t the stomick
ake, but the heart ake he had, and
nobody but she could cure him.
And then he swore a dreadful oth
that he’d, do somethin’ desperate
it she wouldn’t hare him. Wal,
what do yoit think the gal done ?
Blushed all maner of kullers, and
said she’d konsider on it or told him
she’d no idea of changing her situa
tion ? No such thing. She looked
him rite in the face and axes him,
sez she Mr. Grub, does your moth •
er know you're out.
A man addicted to “ tangle
foot,” having imbibed considerably
more than was for his good, took a.
seat by the fire, and soon “ didtft
feel as well as be used to.” .Near
the fire was a brood of young
lings in a basket, that had been
brought in, the weather being
stormy. The heat made the
sick, and the disposition was strong*
within him to relieve his overcharge
ed stomach. No vessel being*
handy except the basket of gos* ,
lings, the load was quickly deposits
ed there. Calling his wife he ex*-;
olaimed, “ Phe-Phcfibe, where
I (hie) eat those goslings?” ,
' "’ .
The following effecting query
was addressed to his sweetheart
a poetical lover in Egypt: " B f 4
If you was a dog and 1 was a hogs
And I got into your master’syArd
And your master was to sick yon on tM
Would you bite me rery hard ? 'fa
—Hong, slim eggs are males;
short, round eggs are females.
