10 El -1)1\ . IL b (=/\ Lf 1 t s 4) 40. ( d k` foil; Vaper---poottir to politics, 41gringthrt, fittraturt, #ollltstif nub u; carrel ttt'. ESTASLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISHED BY At. W. JONES & JAMES'S. JENNINGS, WAYNESBURG, GREENE CQ., PA trOFFICE NEARLY OPPOSITE TUE PUBLIC sqx ARE. La 1211E1E11RM% Bussourreos.-82.00 in advance ; $2.25 at the ex pinnies of six months; $2.50 atter the expiration of the year• Ativernsitatears inserted at $1.15 per square for three insertions, and 25 cts. t square for each addition al insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) mr- • A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. Jon PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the best Style, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Sob I.N quesburg Nusittess Cads. XTTORNETS. WED. L. WYLY. J. A. BUCHANAN, D. B. P. Hess. RITLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, Attorneys & Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. Will practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining counties. Collections and other legal business will re teive prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 28, 1863.-13, FORMAN. .1 R. RITCHIE. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Va. Er All business in Greene, Washington, and Fay. Mae Counties, entrusted to them, wilt receive prompt Sept. 11,1861-Iy. Z. W. DOWNEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.* 11:7"Nike in Ledurith's Building, opposite the Court pease, Waynesburg, Pa. a. •. a'CONN4LL rel 3 A EnrA72lMl l 2 IiTTORNE 111 AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg• Pa. Ut "Once In the "Wright lit ,ne," Bast Door. Collectioes, &c., will receive prompt attention INsynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. • DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. °Mee In Sayer.' apildhag, adjoining the Poet Office. Sept. H, 1861-Iy. A. SLAM JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, &TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Wayneeburg. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. PIET'BIOIANS B, M. BLACHLEY, M. D. PILIESECITAN & SiTIAZON, pie!—suggehurs Building, Main St., iEBPECTFULLY announces to the citizens ot Waynesburg and vicinity that be has returned from Hospital Come of the Army and resumed lie prau. dee of medicate at this place. Waynesburg, June 11, 1382.-ly. • •. DR. A. O. CIROSS ivouLD nry respectfully tender bie services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre dadon of human life and bealtb. and strict attention to Mildness, to merit a abate of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. BOGY lairerzerreur Wen his serf/ices to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and impose. Wise opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention to business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. April 9, ISM DRUGS M. A. lIARVEY,. Omuta and Apothecary, and dealer hi Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. '10 , 7 1 WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Deelet in Foreign and Domes .le Dry Goods. Groceries, Notions, /cc., Main street. L. 1861-Iy. CLARt, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House, oppositt the Court House, Main street. Sept. It, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goode, Oro• reties, QUeeesWere, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SHOE DEALEILL J. D. COSGRAY, soot and ghee maker, Main street, nearly opposite "Eirmer's and Diever's Bank." Every style of star Mid Shoetkeonstantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 1011-Iy. N. R. MCCLELLAN snot and oboe maker,Slachiey's Comer, Main street: Boots and Shoes of every variety always en hand or made to order on short notice; Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. G 2.0011.11.1211 & ---- ,JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries. Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of lit stses, and Gilt Moulding and Looking GM= Plates. Oreelk paid for good eating g pp!es. saps. 11, 1881-Iy, JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goods Generally. Wilson's ?kw Building, Main street. Sept 11. 1961-Iy. OOR& iko. LEWIS DAY, Dealer in School and Miscellaneous Books, Station lak, Magazines and Papers. One door east of roster's Score, Main Street. Sept..ll , 1861 Is. glaLei Awn Sys SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, 00, Harness and Trunk Maker. old Spa suett. I 1. 1861-1.- FiOOPER & HAGER, Masailmmo and wladosale and retail dialontia T aid Iteeir. Sept Came. npoit t ee... Iltaisotreer. .-41; • ." • ; 011111011/0110101 111 1 1 111 , gefik rm. lit=ut , ,triawiuge-6 X.WIS BAY. : 1 BREAKING DOWN. The assertion that we are weter than our forefathers, (says a Lon don paper,) and break down sooner, is one of those statements which people make or deny according to their prednceived opinions. Our notions of the last generation are, of coarse, taken from the old people whom we have known ; but this is judging from picked specimens. Men like Lord Palmerston, Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord Campbell, of course, give their juniors 4he im pression that they belonged to a race of giants; but the fallacy is obvi ous. We may reasonably hope that of those who read these lines in the vigor of their age, a certain number will 4)rget them at least half a cen tury before their death, and will live to excite the wonder of another gen eration at the vigor which distin guishes their eightieth or nine tieth year. It must, however, be admitted that the advance of knowl edge and civilization has in no way a direct tendency' to lower the aver age vigor of the race. It keeps many weakly persons from dying.— Sanitary reform and the progress of medical skill tend to destroy a sort of invisible sieve through which peo ple used to be passed, and which, if the human race regarded merely from the, cattle-breeder's point of view, was a highly useful institu tion. It is- often said that the change of medical treatment shows a diminution in strength ; that peo ple in the present day cannot stand bleeding, which thirty years ago was universal. This is one of those assertions which cannot be tested with accuracy. It is hardly possible to say whetter the change is in the practiee or in the patients. A doc tor who was lately developing the ordinary view upon the' subject to one of his patients, 'was asked how long was it since he had bled any one. He replied, "Upward of ten years." "Then how can you tell," was the rejoinder, "what would have happened if you had bled them ?" If we look to specific facts there does not appear much reason to think that the present generation is losing its physical vigor. Armies in the field both march as well and fight as well as ever. The taste for ath letic amusements has grown into something approaching to a passion. The average length of life has con siderably increased, and though this, for the reason given above, is con sistent with diminution in aVemge vigor, it is prima facie evidence of the reverse. Above all, the habits of life are far healthier than they over were. Our laborinc , classes are bet ter fed, better housed, better -educa ted ; the middle and higher classes take infinitely more exercise than they used, and are, in all their hab its' more sober and temperate.— Many digeases which used to rain the constitution, have been greatly tamed, and some have been almost extirpated ; and if these causes do not improve the race, it is impossi ble to say what will. a. J. lIIMEMAN It is better to go to sleep on the right aide, for then the stomach is very much in the position of a bottle turned upside down, and the con tents of it are aided in passing out by gravitation. If one goes to sleep, on the left side the operation of em tying the stomach of its contents is more like drawing water from a well. After going to sleep let the body take its own position. If you sleep on your back, especially soon after a hearty meal, the weight of the digestive organs, and that of the food, resting on the great vein of the pody, near the hack bone, compress es it, and arrests the flow of the blood more or less. If the meal has been recent and hearty, the arrest) is more decided ; and th 2 various sensations, such as falling over a precipice, or the pursuit of a wild beast, or other impending danger, I and the desperate effort to wet rid of it, arouses us, and sends on stag nating blood; and we wake in alright, or trembling, or perspiration, or feel ing exhaustion, according to the degree of stagnation, and the length and strength of the efforts made to escape the danger. But, when we are not able to escape the danger— when we do fall over the precipice —when the tumbling building crush es us—what then 't That is death ! That is the death of those whom it is said, when found lifeless in the morning--" That they were as well as they ever were the day before ;" and often it is added, "and ate hear tier than common 1" This last, as a frequent cause of death to those.who have gone to bed to wake no more, we give merely as aprivate opinion. The possibility of its truth is enough to deter any rational man from a late and hearty meal. The truly wise will take the safe aide. For persons who eat three times a day, it us any sufficient to make the last meal ER sold bread sad butter and a cup of same warm drink. An one can sta rve on it ; while a pcallarrnmoo gas habit soon boasts taF il aPP•tite nenikillinns 40 gof a day Of domfort s outset of Health. ri; istEllantou,s, POSITION IN SLEEPING. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1863. REFINEMENT OF BEHAVIOR. There dwelt in Verona a Bishop who possessed natural abilities, and was well read in the Scriptures; his name was Giovanni Matteo Giberti. Among other praiseworthy habits, he was courteous and liberal to the noble gentlemen who visited him, entertaining them With a magnifi cence, not extravagant, but such as became a Churchman. It happened that a nobleman styled Count Rich ard passed that way, and spent many days with the Bishop and his family, who we're, fbr the most part, well bred and educated men. The agree able manners of the gentle cavalier gained for him the esteem and com mendation of his hosts. But he had one little bad habit, of which the Bishop became aware, and taking counsel with his attendants, he pro posed that the Count should be in formed of it, lest it should be of some prejudice to him. For this purpose, he summoned a discreet attendant, and directed him to mount his horse the next morning, and to accompany the Count, who had already taken leave, for some distance on his way, and at a proper opportunity to make to him the proposed communication. The attendant, whose name was Galateo, was a man advanced in years, very learned; extremely agreeable in his manners, of good address and of a gracious aspect, and one who in his day had lived much at the courts of great princes. Riding along with the Gaunt, he en tertained him with pleasant dis. course, until the time came for him to return to Verona; when, as the Count was taking leave, he thus ad dressed him with a pleasant counte nance, and mild accents : "My lord, the Bishop, my master, returns your lordship infinite thanks for the hon or you have done him by entering and sojourning at his poor houso; and as a return for so great courtesy, he has given it in charge to me to make you a present .on,his part, and most kindly prays you to receive it with a cheerful mind. You are the most graceful and polished gentle man whom the Bishop has everseen. For this reason he has attentively observed your manners, and exam ining them particularly, has found nothing which was not in the, high est degree agreeable and commenda ble, except an ugly motion of the mouth and lips when eating, accom panied with a noise very disagreea ble to hear. It is this which the Bishop has sent me to make known to you, and he prays you to endeav or at once to rid yourself of the hab it, and desires you will receive in the place a more costly present, this his loving reproof and advice, being as sured that no ono else in the world would make you such a present."—. The Count, who had never been aware of this bad habit, blushed a little at this reproof, but like a brave man, taking heart, he said, "Tell the Bishop that if all the gifts which men make to one another were like his, men would be much richer than they are. For his great courtesy and liberality to me, I return him infinite thanks, amal assure him that I will hereafter diligently guard against my bad habit. God go with you."—G. Della Casa. A Persevering Woman. A young married woman in Bran don, Vt., whose husband . enlisted in the 6th Vermont regiment, could neithei read nor write. Beino p devo tedly attached to her husband, and cut off from all communication with him elcept by letter, she could not endure the thought of being com pelled to submit his epistles, designed for her alone, to others to read them for her. And with the refined in stinct of a true woman and Ncife she shrank with aversion from com mitting the secrets of her own heart to the pen of an amanuensis. So, day after day since her husband's ab sence, she has taken her two little ones by the hand, and led them to the district school, laid aside her bonnet and shawl, seated herself up on a bench by the side .of her chil dren, and devoted herself to study. Within a brief period of time, so earnestly has she set herself about; the task, this devoted wife and mother has surmounted every obsta cle, and (although alien born), has acquired the rudiments of an English odication. She now writes a fair hand. and reads with fluency. DON'T WANT ANY Ilitoax,—A pri vate in one of the New Hampshire regiments, now with the army of the Potomac, writes home that he now has two pair of shoes, six pairs of stockings, five pair •of drawers, four pairs of shirts, three pair of pants, five coats, two caps, one hat, one . pair of gloves, and three blank ets, and concludes his letter with the very modest request to "send no more at present." aw-Tbe distinction between liking and loving was well made by a little girl six years old. She was eating an egg at breakfast, which she seem ed to relish very much. “.Do you love it r' asked her aunt. "So," re plied As . oliad, with a Alt* of- di* Vat • 1. like it. if Litoreti it I 614* Vim it." OF WOMEN. I do not hesitate to say that the women give to every nation a moral temperament which shows itself in its politics. A hundred times have I seen weak men show real public vir tue because they had by their sides women who supported them, not by advice as to particulars, but by forty fying their feelings of duty, and by directing their ambition. More fre quently, I must confess, I have ob served the domestic influence grad ually transforming a man, naturally generous, noble, and unselfish, into a cowardly, common-place- place-hunt ing, self-seeker, thinking of public business only as a means of making himself comfortable and this simply by contact with a well-conducted wo man, a faithful wife, an excellent mother, but from whose mind the grand notion of public duty was en tirely absent.—.De Tocqueville, The Lilliputian Couple. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Stratton (General Tom Thumb and Miss La vinia Warren) arrived in Washington on Thursday. They attended the hop given at Willard's hotel Thurs day night, in which they participa ted, and were, of course, the "observ ed of all observers." A number of ladies and gentlemen (among the lat ter many members of both Houses and officers of the army and navy) were presented to the General, who introduced them to his lady. Friday morning the Lilliputian couple were waited upon by. many high officials, and afterwards paid their respects to the President and Mrs. Lincoln, to meet a number of guests who had been invited by Mrs. Lincoln. On Thursday they drove out to Arling ton Heights to visit a brother of the bride, who is in the Fortieth Massa chusetts regiment. ANOTHER VICTIM. A few days since, Mr. Edward S. Terry was found dead at it low drinking house of New York city, his death resulting from an inordi nate ase of ardent spirits. A few years ago, he was a lawyer of emi nence and ability, moving in goo I society. and at one time he was a law partner of Charles 0' Connor, a leading lawyer of the New York bar. THE MOTHER MOLDS THE MAN. When I lived among the Choctaw Indians, says one, I held a consulta tion with one of their chiefs respect ing the successive stages of their progress in the arts of civilized life; and, among other things, he inform ed me that at their start they made a great mistake. They only sent boys to school. These boys came home intelligent men, but they mar ried uneducated and uncivilized wives; and thejiniform result was, the chil dren were all like their mothers.— The father soon lost all his interest both in wife and children. "And now," said he, "if we would educate but one class of our children, we should choose the girls; for when they become mothers they educate their sons." This is the point, and it is true. No nation can become fully enlightened when mothers are not in a good degree qualified to dis charge the duties of the home-work of education. The Richmond Prisoners. Prisoners from Richmond say that the rebel prisons in that city are filled with loyal citizens from Eastern Ten nessee and Northwestern Virginia, and that they are treated ten times worse than the prisoners of' war.— About a week before the prisoners left Richmond, an order cams from the rebel Secretary of War ordering the release of two citizens of East Tennessee, who had been in confine ment for eighteen months. The jailor, to whom the order was ad dressed, upon looking over his books, found that the two men whose names were specified, had' died three months previous. North Carolina. The Salisbury, N. C., Watchman, learns from good authority that a large number of deserters and tories have banded together in that section of country. where the counties of Moore, Randolph and Montgomery join, and have committed numerous and serious disturbances against the lives and property of true Confeder ate citizens. • _ • ..• mar Praise, when the reasons for it are given, is double praise; censure, without the reasons for it, is only half censure. Mr Pride and Opulence may kiss in the morning as a married couple; but they are likely to be divorced be fore sunset. *lira° who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without s•bilt--ose more like ly to cut Ware!f than anybody oho. 111,4 t is Inessatable to think what s mast ems' separate men of print:We. velem offices want, from *en of no principle who want offices. THE DEPTH OP SPAOE. In 1837, Prof. Bessel, of Germany, com menced a series of astronomical measures for getting the exact distance to the fixed stare, a thing¶hat had never been done.— The instrument which he used, in connec tion with a powerful telescope, in his ex periments was called an Heliometer (sun measurer.) After three years hard la bor, he was `eo fortunate as to obtain a parallax, but so very minute, that he could hardly trust his reputation upon it. But after repeated trials, and working out the results, be was fully satisfied that he could give the true distance to 61 sygin.— But who can comprehend this immense distance? We can only convey an idea to the mind of this distance by the fact that light, which travels 12,000,000 of miles in a minute, requires not less than ten years to reach us Just let any one try to take in the idea. One hour would give 720,000,- 000 of miles: in one year, then-8760 hours—this gives 6,307,200,000, and this multiplied by ten gives 63,072,000,000,000. This according to Prof. Bessel, is the die. tance of the nearest fixed star to the sun. And all astronomers confirm the correctness of Prof. Beesels calcula tions. But this distance, great as it is, is nothing to be compared to the distanco of the Milky Way. Sir Wm. Herschel says that the stars or suns that compose the Milky Way are so remote, that it requires light, going at the rate of 12,000,000 of miles in a minute, 120,000 years to reach the earth. And he says there are stars, or rather nebula, five hundred times more remote ! Now. make your calculation ; 120,000 years reduced to minutes and then multiply that sum by 12,000,000, and the product by 500. What an overwhelming idea ! The mind sinks under such a thought ; we can't realize it ; it is too vast even for human comprehension. David says, Ptsnlm ciii. 10: "The lord bath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom (or government) ruleth over all." SCHOLARS AHD STATEMHIL It is nothing new for English statesmen to be accurate and pro found scholars. Curran, the Irish orator, carried his Virgil always in his pocket; and his biographor found him crying over the fate of the un happy Dido, in a storm at sea, when every other person on board would have seen Dido hung up at the yard arm with indifference. Fox, the English orator, statesman and histo rian, complains in his letters of the interruptions of politics, while he speaks with delight of whole days devoted to the classics. Sheridan pored over Eripides day and night, and drew from the Greek poet the inspiration of his eloquence. Pitt was the best Greek scholar in the kingdom—so says Lord Greenville, who was his constant companion in such studies. His apartments were strewn with Latin and Greek clas sics; and they ware, at all suitable times, his favorite theme of conver sation. Sir Robert Peel won the first honors of the University at Ox fokl, both in the classics and the mathematics. In his inaugural ad dress when entering on the lord-rec torship of Glasgow University, he declares that . "by far the greater proportion of chief names that have floated down and are likely to re main buoyant on the stream of time, are those of men eminent for classical tastes." "Take the Cambridge Cal endar, or take the Oxford Calendar for two hundred years," says. Lord Macauley, "look at the Church, Par liament, or at the Bar, and it has al ways been the case that the men who were first in the competitiop of schools were first in the competition of life." And so thoroughly are the leading minds in Great Britain con vinced of this truth, and the practi cal interest which it involves, that by a recent law of Parliament civil and military appointments at home and in India are based upon compe titive examinations in classical and mathematical studies. We are not surprised, therefore, when we see statesmanship and scholarship go band in hand in Great Britain. —Bib. Sacra. How to Select Flour. First look at the color. If it is white, with a slight yellowish or straw colored tint, buy it. If it is very white, with a bluish cast, or with black specks in it, refuse it. Second, examine its adhesiveness ; gbt and knead a little of it between your fingers ; if it works sticky it is poor. Third, throw a little lump of dry flour against a dry, smooth, per pendicular surface ; if it falls like powder it is bad. Fourth, squeeze some of the flour in your hand ; if it retains the shape given by the press ure, that, too, is a good sign. Flour that will stand all these tests it'is safe to buy. A poor carpenter, named Cyrus Holmes, living at Plattsburg, Ohio, has lately fallen heir to property in Westchester county, New York, val ued at $214,000. if you would be tolerated, be tolerant. If you would bear inue truth, tell it. If you wouldn't lbw troubled, don't 1:4 tiviOlasorne. oot GEN. MITCHELL AND THE NEWS- BOYS. It happened once to the writer of this to hear the late Gen. Mitchell address a company of newsboys. On an invitation from his friend, Mr. C. W. Field, be came down on Sunday evening to attend the meet ing for the newsboys. At his very first words to the lads, it was appar ent that he was deeply moved. The sight of the ragged, shoeless, weath er-beaten little fellows seemed to call up his own hard struggles in child hood. "Boys," said he, "I feel that when I see you that I am one of you! No one of you can be poorer or more friendless than I was ones. I have known what poverty is !" It may be imagined that with such an introduction there was a. deathlike stillness. Every boy's eye was fas tened upon him, and his tones seemed to vibrate to each one's heart. He went on to tell his story, but with a simplicity and feeling which it is impossible to recall now. "When I was a boy of twelve ' years I was working for twenty five cents a week with an old lady, and I tell you, I had my hands full ; but I did my work. faithfully. I used to cut wood, fetch water, make fires, and scrub and scour of mornings for the old lady before the real work of the day comihenced ; my clothes were bad, and I bad no means for buying shoes, so was often barefoot ed. One morning I got through my work early, and the old lady, who thought I had not done it, or was specially ill humored then, was dis pleased, scolded me, and said I was idle and had not worked. I said I had ; she called me 'a liar.' I felt my spirit rise indignantly against this, and, standing erect, I told her that she should never have the chance of applying the word to me tigain. I walked out of the house, to re-enter it no more. I had not a cent iu my pocket when I thus stepped out into the world. What do you think I did then, boys ? I met a countrymen with a team. I addressed him boldly and earnestly, and offered to drive the leader, if he would only take me on. He looked at me in surprise, but said he did not think I would be of any use to him. 'Oh yes, I will,' said 1; 'I can rub down and water your horses, and do many things for you, if you will only let me try.' He no longer ob jected. I got on the horse's back. It was hard traveling, for the roads were deep, and we conld only get on at the rate of twelve miles a day.— This was, however, my starting•point. I went ahead after this. An inde pendent spirit, and a steady, hon est conduct, with what capacity God has given me—as he has given you— have carried me successfully through the world. "Don't be down hearted at being poor or having no friepds. Try, abd try again. Yon can cut youP way through, if you live to please God. "I know it's a hard time for some of you. You often are hungry, and wet with the rain or snow, and it seems dreary to have no one in the city to Care for you. But trust in Christ, and he will be your friend ! Keep a good heart, and be determi ned- to make your own way, honest ly and truly, through the world.— As I said, I feel for you, because I have gone through it all—l know what it is, God bless you !" The boys were most deeply touched by this. Shirt-sleeves moved fur tively up to eyes not used to such emotion, and other boys found it necessary to whisper some very good joke to one another, in order to pre vent any feminine display. In thinking of this simple, feeling-full word to those outcast boys, one could understand the power ho is said to have had i n his speeches. His heart was full of com passion. Ho was from the people, and ho felt for them. His words of kindness add encour agement to the newsboys will not soon be forgotten by them.--:/nde pendent. BEDS AND BEDROOMS. How A BED SHOULD BE MADE: We have observed, in the preceding note, that about five-eights of all we eat and drink, passes out of the system in tho form of worn cut, effete mat ter, through the pores of the skin, and that consequently our beds soon become saturated with these poison. ous gases. Hence nur beds should be often cleansed or changed. MATaRIAL OF A BED: The best material for a bed, is one which can be most easily stitred and exposed to tho air, and which will be least liable to bold the impure gases.— Good clean rye straw, or the slit basks of corn are in all respects the best material for either man or beast to sleep on. They are sufficiently flexible and answer best the two con ditions named above. How TO MAKE TRZ TICK.: Make the tick of common material and in the usual way, except that it should be leftopen in the middle the whole length from head to foot, and the edges of the opening should barnacle 'to lap over each other about *Riot, and provided with battens et) as th NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4,. NO. 38. button up close. Then in filling the tick these lappels can be thrown open and the straw laid in smooth and straight. In making the bed it can be opened, and the straw thor oughly stirred and exposed to the air, and the foul gases allowed to escape. The labor of emptying and filling is thus rendered very easy. How ems CliraiNSlD : If the straw is good and clean, and proper care is taken in making the bed, it need not be changed oftener than once in two months in winter, and once a month in summer. But certainly as often as this the straw should be taken out, the tick thoroughly washed and boil ed, and carefully dried and aired, and then filled again with new clean straw. OBJECTION : The objection has been raised to this plan, that it would take so much straw, and be so mu trouble to take care of, a bed fiT emptying and filling, that it would not be feasible. But if you had a horse yuu would not hesitate to bur nish him fresh straw for his bed ate ry night. And is your own bodily health and purity of less consequent* than that of your horse ? BZDSTILAD : A bedstead should nev er have a high bead-board or foot board to confine the air. In this respect the cottage bedstead with its little banisters at the head and foot is commendable. It should he of medium height; as carbonic said gas being heavier than the pure air, sinks to the floor. - VALANCES : Valances, or the little short curtains which are sometimes seen around the lower part of a bed stead are an abomination. They keep a portion of foul, vile air con fined under thtbed that inconstant ly permeating up throne! the bed, and filling it with pestilential vapors. If any person desires to smell what a nasty smell is always found un der a bed surrounded by such cur tains, let him put his head under, and he will be convinced. There should be no obstruction to the free circuit tion of the air under a bed, from en four sides. SLZ2PING-110031 : The bedrooms Ought to be the larsnst room in the house, always so in sickness, and should be on the sunny side of tins souse where the bed car be exposed to the direct rays of the sun every day, except in the very hottest weather of summer, and then it should be sunned a little while eme ry morning. The bed should Ewald in the middle of the room. TWO PHASES OF FAIN LIPS. Farming, like every other eailing, has its advantage* and disadvan tages. The farmer 'is the most in dependenkand the most dependent man in existence. With Farming, as with every other branch of bus iness', judgment, prudence, and *eau only are requsite to success. To the man wbo possesses these, an agricul tural life brings the pleasure of inde pendence, with all the charms of 'va riety. To. such, the fluctuation of trade, the rise and fall of stocks, the rumored protests, or rumored bank suspensions, have little or no terror. Life has charms for him which it has not for men of other professions. He welcomes the changes of the sea sons at their approach • be is 'sot afraid of being behind-hand with his crepe.--being overtaken by early frost, or disconcerted by a premature spring. He welcomes every change of the seasons, being . always well prepared for their coming. But with some it is far different— , they are never at ease—everything around them goes wrong. With them it is too hot or too cold—teo wet or too dry. No matter whethdr the sun shines, or whether the clouds drop rain, snow or hail—the weathy er is always wrong. No matter whether the market price of wheat is fifty cents per bushel—it is always too low, and the higher it goes up, the less inclined are they to sell. Theis' cattle and hogs are helping themselves to corn at hone, or plun dering their neighbor's. In this way they are' continually in trouble, and lead a restless. unsatisfied life. There is nothing more important on the farm than system and order. Never undertake to do too much— do one thing at a time, and do it well. Lay down a plan of the work to be done, and do that first which needs doing the most, and finish it before you leave it. Never _put a till to-morrow what can be done to , day ; delays are proverbially dan. garotte, and to none more so than to the farmer. Never exceed your means by attempting to erdtrysto ' more than you can do well, and in duo season. Keep a memorandum of your work, household expenses, cost fe labor, etc., and balance with the come of your business. Under such management, you will, at times, understand the exact state of affairs. The farmer shockl know his profit and loss just as uneh as the merchant. Okillorve Maim few hinter, aad son will Sod rmlgh tomato- in din routing of your farm oporationn.
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