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NASBY GOES TO .NEW YORK.
j His Adventnres with a Nigger Delegate
from Tennessee.
NEW YORK (at a cheap beardin house,))
July 4, 1868. J
Kf I hod knowd just wat I hed to go
through with, I never wood have figgered
I for the posishen I now okkepy. Hed I
knowd the trouble with was to beset iue,
the Corners mite hcv gODe onrepresented,
and tbo Dimocricy uiite bev nominated a
candidate without my help. I am at a
eheap boardin-house, wich is salubrusly
sitooatid on an alley, the landlady bein one
uv the anshent Kings of Ireland, wieh her
name is O'Shauguessy. I coodent get
rooms at the Aster, nor the St. Nicholas, ez
I coodent git a elerk to look at me for an
hour, and when 1 did succeed in rivitin the
attenshun uv one, he fled into a pashenand
ordered me to move on, with the onfeelin
remark that he hed no room foreich ! And
that insult mite be added to injury, the
onfeelin woman who presides over the man
shen I inhabit, peremptorily rcfoosed to re
cceve me until I pade in advance. I tried
several places, but ez I hedn't no baggage,
the prcvailin opiuyun seemed to be that
advance payment wood be better, and I was
forst to return to her.
My adveuchers on the route were noo
merous, if not pleasant.
At some pint in Ingiany, where we
changed ears, I found the train we hed to
take full uv delegates. In lookiu round for
aseet, 1 diskivercd but one that hadn't two
in it, and that one had in it a disgustin nig
; gcr, who hed the impoodence to be well
drcst, ami had a carpet sack beside him.
My Demokratie blood riz to wunst. SeeiD
that in a car filled with Demokratie dele
gates, any thing I shood do to a nigger
wood be safe, I stawkt proudly up to him
holdin my nose.
"Good Lord 1" scz I, "wat a smell,"
"Good Lord!" ekoed the delegates wich
got on at that stashen, "wat a terrible
smell.-"
"My gentle Afrikin frend,"sedl, seez
iDg hini by the collar, "I regret the necessi
ty uv sayin disagreeable things, and still
more uv doing cm, but the fact is yoor im
poodence in gittin into a car uv white gen
tlemen, with the disgustin odor inseperable
from and part uv the Afrikin race is rather
too much. And more especially do I won
der at yoor keepin yoor seet, while I find
these other white gentlemen are standing."
"Out with the nigger!" yelled the lately
arrived delegates, "hustle the stinkin cuss."
''Merciful hevens, wat a smell!" sung
out others uv em, "hist him!" hist him!"
Seeing myself thus backed, and feelin a
little zeal wood be safe, ez niggers can't
vote, I knockt his hat out uv the winder,
and fullered up that demonstration with a
serious attempt at liftin him out uv the
seat. I wood hcv succeeded, but the nig
ger resisted vigorously, to-wit: He knockt j
three uv my front teeth down my throte, '
pulled out wat little there waz left uv the ;
bare that hangs in scanty festoons about my 1
venerable temples, and blackt both my eyes.
I wuz lyin on my back in the passage, sonn -
what astonisht, the nigger standin over me,
with his boot heel raised over my face, when
some gentlemen came in from another car
and restrained him.
"Mr. Williams," sed tha, "let him up.
He's poor white trash, and not wurth wast
in yoor indignashen onto. Let him up,
Mr. Williams, let him up."
"Sirs," sed I, risin to my feet, tremu
lous with rage, "iz this the treetment 1 am
to expect awl the way too Noo York? Am
Ito be pounded to a jelly by a nigger—a
stinkin nigger, sirs, whose oder even now
makes the car outenablc to gen'leuicn uv re
filled sensibilities—and to hear the nigger
addresst as 'Mister,' after that, instid uv
bein tored to pieces by the infuryated speck
tators! O, shame, wher iz thy blush!"
"Yoo mizrablc cuss," sed wun uv these
gentlemen, "apologize to wunst to this gen
tleman fur yoor iiisukiu roedness, or we'll
chuck yoo out uv the cars. Apologize, sir,
to 3lr. Josef Williams, delegate at large for
the Stait uv Tennessee.
I almost fainted. This nigger, then, wuz
a delegate! He wus a regular delegate,
: armed and equipped with regular creden
-hels to the Demokratie Nashnel Conven
shen, and I bed been guilty in my zeel uv
assaultin uv him ! Gladly I apologized, and
further, I humbly begged permission to sit
beside hiin. wich he accorded with a gra
eioosnis I never saw ekailed.
It wuz astonishin the change that crept
over the Injeany delegates. They crowded
around us and shook hiin by the hand—they
didn't smell any odor at all any more; on
the contrary they seemed to like him. They
addrc.-,t him ez "Mister," and several uvctn
in introdoocin him to ther friends who got
on at various stashens, yoosed the prefix
"Honorable." It's wonderful wat a differ
ence it makes with a nigger to hev a vote
and also how he votes ! Hed that Williams
bin infected with Ablishnisui, I make no
doubt that the stench wich I reely fancied I
smelt when I fust undertook to subjugate
him, wood hcv continyood to the end uv
the trip. In olden time it wuz observed
that slave niggers didn't smell—it was only
the free ones. It is a settled fact now that
Dimekratic niggers are inodorous! 1 mite
hev known, however, that the nigger wuz a
free nigger, by the way he pitched into nie.
No nigger in a state uv servitood wood ever
hcv did sich a thing. That much they owe
tu the war. anyhow.
My principal ohjick in goin to Noo York
wuz to do wat I cood toward secooring the
nomination uv Jethro L. Kippins. I found
the delegates badly tore up. The offers
made for votes wuz so redikulously low that
there wuz much disgust manifestid. The
trouble wuz that the markit wuz overstockt.
Hed the Coovtnshion been pretty ekally di
vided, and the ballance of power held by a
few clost mouthed souls, they could hev
made a good thing uv it. But where a
whole Uonvenshen is in the markit and all
their inflooenshel friends, no candidate kin
afford to buy. I withdrew Mr. Kippins to
wunst. Ez he hez but a small farm, and
that mortgaged to a grocery keeper, the del
egates I approacht I'aft me to skorn.
I wuz on the Committee of Resolooshens.
orruther was in tho room ez a sort uv ad
visory committee while the resolooshens
wuz being drafted. General Forrest, uv
Tennessee, wuz partikerly anxsbua that a
retolooxhcn should be adoptid denouncin the
Radicals, who wuz with unholy hands, a
strivin to destroy the best Government the
sun ever shone upon, and one the destruc
tion uv wich wood be a calamity wieh un-
BEDFORD, PAM FRIDAY, AUGUST 7. INGS.
born millions wood shed teers ever. He
desired a resolooshen pled gin tlie Pimocra
| sy to stan by the old Stars and Stripes, with
flag had braved a thousand breezes, and
wuz synonomous. et 6cttry. Mr. Wool
> ley, Mr. Cobb. (Mrs Cobb's husband.) and
Perry Fuller, pertikelery, desiicd a resoloo
shen demandin the turnin out of offis uv
corrupt men, that the Government might
be administered with suthin like the purity
with distinguished it durin the administra
; shcn uv the late lamented Book anon, at the
mensbun uv whose name every delegate
present held a handkcrchcr to his eyes for
five consecutive minutes, ez the great greef
: bed fallen onto bitn. '
•Vallandj'gum insistid that a plank be tn
| scrted wich reeognized nigger suffrage, but
that wuz withheld until it cood be definitely
ascertained whether Mississippi wuz rcely
carried by nigger votes or not. Kf a major
ity uv the niggers did rcclv vote the Demo
kratic ticket, it wus decided that they shood
be recognized cz our ekals—cf not, we '1 see
'em d—d fust.
Chcef Justice C'base wuz espeshelly arii
yus for a resolution denounsin in the sever
est termsthem onprincipled, fanatical, Bad
kels, who lied for years been laboriu to mb
vert the government, by interfcrin with the
persuns and property uv citizens, and dso
pledgin the Convenshun to thai wise con
servatism without wich thcr cood be no per
manence in our government.
I dropt into the Soljicrs' and Sailors' Con
venshun, but I didn't stay long. Them
whose noses wuzn't red all wanted to be
either President or cabinet orfisers: and uv
the balance uv em, the leastest sed the let
ter. My sole indignated ez I saw seated
among em the very sutler who refoosed tnc
credit when I wuz scrvin ez a drafted man
in 1562; and also a claim agent who got $lO
uv me on the proinis uv gettin my bounty,
wich when he g, t it he absorbed in fees,
costs and commissions. There wuz uv
coorse troo men. There wuz sojers there
wich resigned eariy in the war on akkonnt
uv its bein a d—d Ablishin war, and others j
who left beeoz Linkin wuzent rapid enuff in
makin uv em Major Generals. There wuz
no limit to ther speckin. Every wun hed
the speech wich he delivered at the Cleve
land Convenshen in 1566 carefully preserv
ed, and they all insisted on deliverin em,
wich ez I left they were doin, all to them
selves. Ef they kin stan it I am willin.
We are goin to htva Solj'ers Convenshen in
Richmond to ratify the nominashens, wich
will amount to suthin. Wc shall hcv For
rest there, and Boregard and Breekeuridge,
and thor speeches will count. We will hev
the flags uv the two Governments entwined,
and we will hcv the moo.-ic uv both sections
played. Sich a Convenshen will amount to
suthin.
Wat the platform will be, or who the can
didates will be, the Jxird only knows. lam
prepared for anything, and so are all the del
egates. Ef its Pendleton, on a repoodia
shen platform, well and good—ef its Sey
mour, on a Nasbncl Bank platform, j'est ez
good. I .-hood be happy to ace Btecken
ridge the choico uv the party, and delighted
ef Hancock shood bo chosen. I kin huirab
for Chase, and with ekal vigger kin swing
my hatlor Vallandyguui, and I find all the
delegates similarly affected. The Post Offis
is the lean kine with swaliersup all the oth
ers. We are willing to sink everything in
Post Offis. That my sincerity may aot be
doubted, let it beremcmbcred that I hev rid
witliauigger frotu Ingeany to Noo York;
hev been whaled by one and hev felt good
over it, hev bin hurrabin for an old line
Abolishnist, and swearin the while I liked
it. Ef any other evidence uv flexibility is
needed, I feci ckal to the ta-k. Politically
I am ckal to all emergencies.
PETROLEL M V. NASBY, P. M.,
(Wich is Postmaster.)
I'EACK Oil W Alt--HONESTY OK
KOBUEUY.
Such are'the issues presented in the ensu
ing campaign.
General Grant -ays, "Let us have peace."
Francis P. Blair says, "Let us have war,"
and the Democratic party, or rather the
convention of rrbeJx and n-jjiuliators which
lately met in New-York, have adopted him
as their candidate for Vice-President; their
candidate for President, not having lately
had the courage to avow his intention to
promote anarchy, must rest his claim to the
so-called Democritic nomination upon his
attempts to incite riot and arson in New-
York on the 14th of July, 1863.
The Republican party says, Let peace
and safety for every man under the protec
tion oflaw be the condition of all this fair
land; let equal rights and equal representa
tion be the lot of all its people; let even
rebels again share in the duties and the priv
ileges of citizenship when they have purged
themselves of their rebellious spirit.
The Democratic party says: Let the laws
of Congress be over ruled by force under
lead of a President chosen by us, and by
means of an artpy controlled by us. Let
loyal State governments be dispersed by the
army of the United States led by the rebel
leaders whom they lately conquered. Let
loyalty be a disgrace and treason an honor.
Give cheers to the butcher Forrest, and
shake hands with the slave-master Wade
Hampton, not because they have iepented
their misdeeds, hut because they glory in
them. Give them once more the control,
and let them again oppress the loyal men by
whose aid the Union was maintained.
The Republican party, by the declarations
of its platfonn, says, Let us have honesty;
and let us maintain our credit and promote
economy by meeting our contracts as soon
as we can do so. Let us not ignore the !
promise of the legal tender notes to pay dol
lars to the bearer on demand, buit meet that
promise in real dollars as soon as we can, >
and then let us provide for the payment of j
our other bonds when they are due.
" The democrat party says, Let us refuse to j
recognize the promise of the legal teuder
notes, and let us force the creditors of the
Government, who hold bonds bearing inter
est, to take in place of them these notes
which bear no interest, and which we never
intend to pay.
The Democratic party says, These five
twenty bonds were given to men who fur
ished the United States army with shot and
shell and powdet with which some of our
brethren, who else would have been here in
convention with us, were murdered. Shall
we pay such obligations? No! let us tax
tbeui! let us ignore the fact that the income
of these bonds is now taxed in the same
manner as all other income ! Let us deceive
the people by the false statement that they
are not taxed, and then under the guise of
taxation, let as confiscate them. We caro
not for widows and orphans, or savings !
banks which hold these bonds; we appeal
not to reason or to principle; onr power has
always been in the ignorance of oqr follow
ers and is so still."
WHILE our soldiers wore fighting the bat
tle ot Gettysburg, Horatio Seymour was
making a speech in which he denounced
every effort of the Government for carrying !
on the war, which lie declared an enormous
waste of men and money. Two weeks later
he addressed a mob of rioters and murderers
in New 7 ork, promising them that all
measures for recruiting the strength of our
armies should be "suspended." And the
next year when Sherman was cutting his
way to the .-ea, aud Farragut thundering at
the gates of Mobile, he presided over a Con
vention which called the war a "failure,"
aud demanded a "cessation of hostilities."
bhould not the soldiers be proud to vote for
such a candidate —especially upon the
recommendation of patriots like l'cndleton
and Yallandighatn.— Alb Eve. Jour.
LONGFELLOW'S FAREWELL*
O. W. HOLMES.
Oui Poet, who has taught the Western breeze
To waft bis songs before hiin o'er the seas,
Will find them wheresoe'er his wanderings
reach
Borne on the spreading tide of English speech
Twin with the rhjthinic waves that kiss the far
thest beach.
Where shall the singing bird a stranger be
That finds a nest for him in every tree?
llow shall he travel who can never go
Where his own voice the echoes do not know,
Where his own garden-flowers no longer learn to
grow?
Ah gentlest soul! how gracious, how benign
Breathes through our troubled life that voice of
thine,
Filled with a sweetness born of happier spheres,
That wins and warms, that kindles, softens)
cheers,
That calms the wildest woe and stays the bitterest
tears.
Forgive the simple words that sound like praise;
The mist before me dims my gilded phrase:
Our speech at best is half alive and cold, .
And save that tenderer moments make us bold
Our whitening lips would close, their truest truth
I untold.
We who behold our autumn sun below
The Scorpion's sign, against the Archer's bow,
Know well what parting means of friend from
friend ;
After the snows no freshening dews descend
And what the frost has marred the sunshine will
not mend.
So we all count the months, the weeks, the days,
That keep thee from us .n unwonted ways,
Grudging to alien heat as our widowed time :
And one unwinds a clew ? artless rhyme
To track thee, following still through each re
motest clime.
What wishes, longings, blessings, prayers shall
be
| The more than golden freight that floats with
thee !
And know, whatever welcome thou shall find—
Thou who hast won the hearts of half man
kind—
The proudest, fondest love tlion Icavest still be"
hind!
pteaUiWMus.
HEATING AND VENTILATION
A correspondent sends us a drawing and a
description of a steam heating apparatus,
with a request for our opinion as to its
merits. In an article published in the first
number of the current volume, we discussed
rhe subject of the supply of cold air to
furnaces employed of warming buildings.
The request of our correspondent has sug
gested some general remarks upon the re
lative merits of steam and hot air for bea
ting purposes, from which he may sufficient
ly infer our views of the apparatus submit
ted.
There is a radical difference in the princi
ples of heating by steam and hot air which
cannot be overlooked in forming a true
e-tiuiatc of this subject. The heat suppli
ed by steam apparatus is for the most part
radiated heat, and that supplied by hot air
is conveyed by moving particles, and im
parted to tho surfaces of bodies by contact.
Persons in a room heated by hot air solely
are, to use the words of Prof. Silliman,
"immersed in a hot air bath, and require,
consequently, several degrees move heat by j
the thermometer, for comfort, than when
radiant heat forms a party of the means of
an artificial temperature."
There is a prevalent notion that air parts
with a portion of its oxygen in passing over
the heated plates of iron in furnaces. The
surfaces of these plates, however, absorb
very little oxygen, after they have become
in a measure protected by the coating of
oxide which always forms upon them. This
objection, therefore, only has force in regard
to new furnaces. The air is, however, vitiat
ed by the products of combustion, not only
of the organic particles which are generally
impeifectly retained within their proper
channels.
A prevalent error in regard to the use of
steam pipes, etc., from heating, may be
also noticed. It is thought by some that—
to use a common phrase —"the heat is not
so dry" as that obtained from furnaces.
The phrase, properly speaking is a scientific
absurdity. Heat is not a thing like a sponge
to soak up moisture. But if it is constructed
to mean that the air is more moist when
heated by hot air furnaces, an error is com
mitted, unless as in some cases special pro
vision is made for keeping the air saturated
with moisture by small steam jets or their
equivalent.
The capacity of air for moisture increases
with its temperature, and if the amount
necessary to completely saturate it, is not i
artificially supplied, it will seize upon and
appropriate moisture from all objects with
which it conies in contact. The skin and
the lungs are called upon to pay tribute, and
chapped hands and faces, bronchial and
increased sensibility of these organs mus'
i levitahly follow. A higher degree of heat
is generally imparted to the air passing
through the flues of furnaces than is effect- :
ed by most kinds of steam apparatus. From
this cause, and also from tbe fact that the
Organic particles are not burned by them,
the air is more wholesome in rooms heated
by steam than in rooms heated by hot air.
An entirely different plan for ventilation
ought to be adopted when the fresh air ad
mitted to rooms is cold, than when it is
heated, as is the case with furnaces. In
the latter case the pure air being fcated,
i rises at once to the top of an apartment, and
the air containing impurities settles to the
bottom. An open grate with a fire
reheats it and posses it through the chimney
to the outside of the building without crea
ting dangerous drafts of air, and is the best
means of ventilating apartments. When
cold air is admitted the impure air must be
drawn of at the top off the room, but unless
it is passed through heated flues the ventila
tion will be very imperfect. The admission
of cold air is liable to create injurious drafts,
and is therefore not to be recommended.
The plan of heating rooms by steam, and
ventilating by means of grates and flues
with an apparatus for supplying fresh pure
and warm air to take the place of the air
drawn off, and jets to keep it properly
saturated with moisture, is probably open
to fewer objections than any other.—Scien
tific American
Sill WALTER SCOTT'S FIRST LOVE
For some time after he had begun to as
sociate exclusively with the members of the
Club and the Speculative Society, Scott con
tinue- 1 to be careless, not to say slovenly, in
his attire, as he used to be when a schoolboy
and a writer's apprentice. All at once his
habits changed in this res[>ect, and he be
came a well-dressed young man—a squire,
as his companions pronounced him, of
dames. He had fallen in love with a young
lady whom he encountered at the church
door, and conveyed to her own home, shel
tered from the rain by his own umbrella.
His family and ber's were not on any
terms of iutimacy. Mr. Scott happened, in
deed, to be her father's but the
man of business did not pretend, probably
did not desire, to be reckoned among the
familiars of his client. Indeed, so honorably
sensitive on that head was the writer, that
he no sooner observed how matters were
tending with the young people, than he con
sidered himself bound to put the lady's fath
er on bis guard. The wanting was well
received and made light of. and the acquain
tance went on, more especially as young
Scott made his way, as he soon afterwards
did, into the set of which the young lady's
brother was a member.
Hence it came to pass he met the young
lady frequently, not in Edinburgh only, but
in her own and other country houses, aud
that she being addicted to poetry and ro
mance, received him frankly and kindly as
often as he came. This sort of intimacy was
kept up for years—throughout the whole
interval, indeed, between 1792 and 1808;
and Scott, regarding it as he regarded all
things else, through the medium of his owu
imagination, flattered himself that his pas
sions were reciprocated. No word escaped
him, however, to the lady herself, either in
conversation or writing, indicative of the
state of his own feelings. He resembled, in
this respect, the most bashful of the lovers
described in his novels.
He told his secret to many of his friends,
and among others to Miss Cranstoun, after
wards Countess of Purgstall, but to the ob
ject of his devotion be said nothing. It is
worthy of remark, however, that neither the
passion itself nor the secresy in which it was
nourished, excited the slightest untoward
influence over his character. As first love
is apt to do witli such as him, it deepened
in him the poetic temperuiainent; but it
made him neither kss industrious nor less
manly. Thus far the tide of fortune may
be said to Lave rolled with a steady current
in Scott's favor. He was in fair practice at
the bar, considering his age and standing.
The advocates had a] "pointed him one of
the librarians. He w;is rapidly establishing
a good name as a man of genius and great
research. He was about to cxi>erienee bis
first sorrow, and it was a bitter one. En
couraged in part by the success of his trans
lation, in part by the partial assurance of a
friend, Miss Cranstoun, he made up his
mind to tell his talc of love; and finding
himself under the same roof with the object
of his affections, he besought her to give
him her heart, and was rejected. She had
110 heart to give. Another had it in bis
keeping, and he was one of Walter's dearest
friends. It would be ungenerous, if it were
possible, to depict his feelings on that occa
sion.
This much, however, we are bound to say:
that he over-mastered them with a [tower of
will that is marvellous; and carrying in his
soul a grief which never died, he never al
lowed it—no, not for a day—to stand between
him and the manly exercise of his faculties,
lie quitted the house, made his way in the
Perthshire, and threw himself, with appar
ently increased zeal, into the researches
which were to him at once business and re
creation; while strange to say, only one short
poem by his hand survives to tell that such
an incident ever befell him. There Is, how
ever, no doubt that there arc traces of her
in the heroines of the "J>ay," "Rockeby,"
and "Bed-gauntlet."— London Qmirterlu
Review..
A NOTED PHILADELPHIA LADY.
HARRIET LIYERMORE.
This remarkable [icrsonage died lately in
Philadelphia, where she had for several
years resided in comparative obscurity. M e
have watched carefully for some account of
her life, adventures and experience, but not
mjich appears to be known of her by the
present generation. Mr. Whitticr iias cele
brated her somewhat in song, and a few
scanty facts of her are given in the N. Y.
Evening Post , probably from the pen of Mr.
Bryant,
If those two gentlemen, whose memory
runs back to the days of her active life and
ministry, could give the world a more com
plete memoir of her, it would doubtless be
read with dee}) interest in this hour so fer
tile in female biography. She was born in
Concord, New Hampshire, on the 14th of
April, 1788. Her father was St. Loe Liv
errnore, born in Londonderry of the same
State, in 1761, and died inTewksbury, Mas
sachusetts, in 1832. The family has been
well known and distinguished in New Eng
land since its earliest settlement.
Harriet was a religious enthusiast, a firm
believer in the second coining of Christ on
earth, long before the doctrine had been
proclaimed by the seet known since the time
of Rev. William Miller as Second Advent
ists, or Millerites. And what she believed
she went forth and publicly proclaimed with
i great boldness and eloquence.
Her superior social position, splendid per
sonal appearanc-c, her fine culture, her usu
; ally meek and musical voice and utterance,
; joined to an earnestness and sincerity
amounting almost to wildness at times, all
i combined to give force to her ministrations
' and for a time she was a marked character
|in the New England States. The social as
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well as religious condition of her country
stirred Iter soul to its profoundest depths;
and, could a full biography of her now be
furnished, it would doubtless appear that
many of the progressive ideas of to-day were
inspirations with her, full fifty years ago.
At on; time we find her in Egypt, giving
our late consul, Mr. Thayer, a world of trou- j
ble arising from her peculiar notions. At j
another time we see her amid the gTay olive !
slopes of Jerusalem, demanding— not bog- ■
ging—money for the "Great King;'' and
once when an American, fresh from home, j
during the late rebellion, offered her in Pal
estine a handful of greenbacks, she flung |
them back to him with disdain, saying: "The !
Great King will only have gold!" At one
time, years ago, she climbed the sides of
Mount Libanus and visited Lady Ilestor
Stanhope, that eccentric sister of the young
er Pitt. She seems to have been at some
time a visitor to the home of Whittier, for
in his almost inimitable poem, "Snow
t Bound, ' he speaks. of her at the fireside,
1 where on
"that wifttcrfligbt
Flashed back from toatronicyef, the light,
t nmarked by time, and yet not young,
The honeyed music of her tongue
And words of meekness scarcely told
A nature passionate and bold.
Strong, self-concentrated, spurning guide,
Its milder features dwarfed beside,
Her unbent will's majestic pride,
She sat among as, at the best,
A not unfeared, half welcome guest,
Rebuking with her cultured phrase
Our homeliness of words and ways.
A woman tropical, intense
In thought and act, in soul and sense,
She blended in a like degree,
The vixen and the devotee.
Her tapering hand and rounded wrist
Had facile power to form a fist:
The warm, dark languish of her eyes
Was never safe from wrath's surprise.
Brows saintly calm and lips devout
Knew every change of scowl and pout;
And the sweet voice had notes more high
And shrill for social battle cry."
The poet beautifully throws the mantle
of charity over her in the conclusion of his
sketch. — The Revolution.
SEASONABLE HINTS.
The intensely hot weather, succeeding
weeks chilling rains, comes with unusual
severity. People drop stricken with death
in the streets, they sink senseless as they
sit at their desks or tables, and are found
dead in their beds. A few suggestions for
preserving life and health in such a season
may not be amiss.
First, the external condition of the body.
It should be kept scrupulously clean.
Nightly bathing is almost a necessity. If a
bath tub is not convenient, a sponge or bit
of linen or cotton cloth, with a quart of
tepid water, is sufficient. The water should
not be cold spring, well, or aqueduct water
just drawn, but that which has stood for
twelve honrs of daylight to absorb oxygen
from the atmosphere. Better, perhaps, is
a bath of warm water, as the reaction, after
toweling, produces coolness and invigorates
the body. Better take the bath after sup
per, before retiring, rather than in the
morning before eating, as it will induce a
pleasant sleep, and a bath when the stomach
is empty is anything but healthful, empirics
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Still air is perceptibly warmer than air in
motion although the thermometer may
register the same degree of temperature in
both cases. The reason is that the currents
of air bear away the effects of perspiration,
inducing a more rapid evaporation from the
surface. For this reason the use of fans for
producing an artificial breeze has common
sense as well as custom to recommend it. A
rapidly evaporating liquid applied to the
exposed portions of the body induces a local
and temporary coolness. Aqua ammodia
(hartshorn) is excellent for this purpose. A
little of this solution occasionally used on
the hands and lace will, from its rapid
evaporation, carry off the perspiration and
leave the skin cool. As sold at the druggists
it is too strong; it should be diluted with
four volumes of water. For clothing, wear
some absorbent next the skin, thin or gauze
flannel: eschew linen or bleached cotton;
outside, these will do well enough. In the
hat wear a wisp of green, grass, cabbage
leaf, or damp towel, wbeD going out to
brave the darts of fiery Sol. In the writer's
experience as a campaigner in Virginia be
found this to be an excellent preventive of
coup de solid when on tho march, and com
pelled the practice by the men under his
command.
Eating and drinking should be regulated
in hot weather. In the winter one may eat (
and drink almost everything he pleases; he
can digest almost anything. But when the
system is enervated by excessive heat it is a
necessity to attend carefully to the quality
and quantity of food and drink. Fat meats,
solid farinaceous food, as puddings and
bread of indian meal or wheat flour should
be shunned. Fish, lobsters, clams, and
oysters are not desirable food. Fresh
vegetables and fruits, salted fish, meats,
an! smoked hams are healthy. Pure ice
water is excellent: not, however, in large
quantities, but taken a swallow at a time.
The stomach does not need a load of ice
cold water, only the mouth and throat need
lubricating. Drink slowly of ice water.
Cold coffee and tea are no better than cold
water, and iced milk is dangerous, as it is in
any form highly heating. After all,
however, any radical change of habit in eat
iDg or drinking will prove to be worse than
useless. A very good substitute fbr stimu
lants is a cool drink made of Brown's ex
tract of ginger with iced water sweetened. ,
It is both cooling and stimulating.
Keep your house cool by shutting out (
during the day the external atmosphere. ,
Close the blinds and keep the doors shut. .
Open every aperture to your chimneys and (
the scuttle on the roof. Thfls you will have 1
ventilation and at the same time diminish
the nuisance of flies. Sunlight is a great ,
health invigorator, but we can do without ,
it for the short heated period. <
Above all, do not get excited, indulge in
no controversies, preserve a calm exterior .
and a quiet mind. Have a clear conscience
and a courteous manner, and the "sun shall
not smite thee by day, neither the moon by
night."—Scientific American.
WHAT WE SAW.—Fourteen smalt boys up
a green apple tree partakingofthe unripened
fruit The aforesaid apples large as walnuts
and as green as cucumbers. We asked a
little fellow how many he had eaten, "twenty
-1 three," was the quick reply. We bade him
1 farewell telling him of the of
worldly affairs, and the policy of preparing
for a home in the skies, he listened atten
tively and seemed deeply affected, bat on
i rnoviDg away we considered his ease hope
less as the young man yelled out: "Wait a
: minute, mister, till I finish this hatful, and
| I'll go any where with you for five cents.
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A DROT.T. interview between a literary
Bohemian an 4an internal revenue officer
occurred the other day. It is thus relate ':
Officer —What is your revenue !
Bohemian —I havn't any.
Officer—What was it last year?
Bohemian —Nothing.
Officer—What was it the year before?
Bohemian— Exactly the same.
Officer—What do you do for a livin; ?
Bohemian —Anything I can.
Officer—You eat?
Bohemian—Yes when I get a chanac.
Officer —Where?
Bohemian— At lunch tables, when they
are free.
Officer— Where do you ;Wp?
Bohemian—With any good fellow who in
vites me to his room.
Officer—Suppose he don't invite you?
Bohemian —Then I walk the streets all
night, or go to sleep in a drinking saloon,
or ou Sunday in tho churches.
I Officer —You must have some money?
f Bohemian—lf you think co, I wish you'd
find it. I'll give you half.
Officer—llava you no property of any
kind?
Bohemian —Not that I know of.
Officer —Have you a trunk?
Bohemian —I did have one.
Officer —What did you do with it?
Bohemian —Lent it toßarnuni'selephant,
and he carried it off.
Officer —What do you pretend to do?
What do you call yourself?
Bohemian—l make no pretensions. 1 call
myself a dead beat.
Officer —Do you ever do anything?
Bohemian—Not when I can help it.
Officer —You're a curiosity. Tell me
frankly what kind of business you follow?
Bohemian —Minding my owu.
Officer —You're a hard case.
Bohemian—l'd rather be that than a
hard shell Baptist.
Officer—Well, there's no use trying to
get anything out of you.
Bohemian —If words were pearls I'dmakc
you rich.
Officer—l suppose you live by your pen?
Bohemian —No I live by my wits.
Officer—Don't you write?
Bohemian —When I can get it to do.
Officer—Why didn't you say long ago?
Bohemian—Why didn't you ask me?
Officer —The devil take you!
Bohemian —He won't without a revenue
stamp; but if he should, it woulda t much
matter for my life is insured.
PUNCTUATION PUZZLE.— The following
article forcibly illustrates the necessity of
punctuation. The Montana Herald says it
can be read in two ways, making a very Lad
man or very good man, the result depending
wholly upon the manner in which it is
punctuated:
He is an old experienced man in vice ar. I
wickedness he is never found oppo-ii:; the
works of iniquity he takes delight in the
downfall of the neighborhood be never re
joices in the prosperity of any of hi- i. :low
creatures he is always ready to assist in de
stroying the peace of society he takes no
pleasure in serving the Lord he is uncom
monly diligent in sowing discord among his
friur.ds and acquaintances he takes no prid
laboring to promote the cause of Christianity *
he has not been negligent in endeavoring to
stigmatize all public teachers he makes no
exertion to subdue his evil passions IK
strives hard to build up Satan's kingdom be
lends no aid to the support of the gosj ■ I
among the heathen he contributes largely to
the evil adversary he pays no attention to
good advice he gives great heed to the devil
he will never go to heaven be must go where
be will receive the just recompense of re
ward.
MATRIMONY EXTRAORDINARY. —Tfc
Wilmington, N. C., sa\>: Thccolor -i
people of this city seem determined that
their race shall not be exterminated, the
statistics of the Star to the contrary not
withstanding. An amusing illustration of
this fact occurred at the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, corner cf lied Cross and
Fifth streets, on last Thursday night. A
large congregation had assembled to witness
a marriage, and the ceremony was scarcely
concluded when the departing audience was
arrested by the exclamation, "Hold on,
there!'' when another couple proceeded up
the aisle to the altar, and a license having
been exhibited, were soon made one. The
second candidates were just leaving, when
they were also arrested by the entrance of a
third party, who, in their turn, were quickly
manufactured from two into one. These
three marriages occurred in about twenty
minutes' time, and is about the quickest
time on record as having been made in the
annals of matrimony.
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE SEXES. —
What makes those men who associate
habitually with women superior to others?
What makes that woman who is accustomed
to and at ease in the company of men supe
rior to her sex in general? Solely because
she is in the habit of a free, graceful and
continual conversation with the other sex.
Women in this way lose their frivolity, the
faculties awaken, their delicacies and pecu
liarities unfold all their beauty and enptiva
tion in the spirit of intellectual rivalry. And
the men lose their pedantic, rude de
clamatory or sullen manner. The coin of
the understanding and the heart is inter
changed continually. Their asperities arc
rubbed off; their better materials polished
and brightened, and their richness, like fine
gold, is wrought into finer workmanship,
by the figure of women, than it ever could
be by those of men. The iron and steel of
our character arc laid aside, like the hardi
ness of a warrior in a time of peace and se
curity.
LITTLE THlNGS.—Springs aro little things
but they are sources of large streams; a
helm is a little thing, but it governs the
course of a ship; a bridle-bit is a little thing,
but see its use and powers; nails and pegs
are little things, but they hold the parts of a
large building together; a word, a look, a
smile, a frown, arc all little - things, but
! powerful for good or evil, 'ihiuk oi this.
I and mind the little things, I'aj? that little
1 debt; if it is a promise, redeem it; if it is a
I shilling, hand it over. You know not what
\ important events hang upon it. Keep your
! word—keep it to children; they will mark it
sooner than any one else, and the effect will
probably be as lasting as life. Mind the lit
tle things. f , , .
IN good society we are required to do
obliging things to one another; in K
society we arc required only to say liitui.