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As, 'Turner's and Drover's Hank." Every style Of
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Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
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I'OUNDRY.
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A HOSPITAL INCIDENT.
Hospital No. 14, Nashville, Tenn.,
fcirmerly a Ladies' Seminary, is
warmed by a steam apparatus requir
ing coal for fuel. In consequence of
the recent interruption of railway
communication with the North, the
supply of coal here became exhaust
ed. unfortunately, just as the rainy
days and frosty nights of the winter
of this 'attitude had begun to render
artificial heat a necessity to the com
fort the thin-blooded patients. .
It was the second night of the
dearth of coal, the weather colif, the
evening far advanced. I was hasten
ing through the duties of nurse in
one of the wards, and Sister R, (late
ly come to rescue me) was lying in
her room, sick with chills and fever.
The feeblest patients had been pro
vided with bricks to their feet—on
the sly—it being expressly forbidden
by the \Valli Master, because the
bricks used the nights previous, de
spite the precaution of wrapping in
papers, had slightly dusted the sheets.
Many a "God bless you," and words
of comfort were uttered by the shiv
ering sufferers as the bricks came
around, closely concealed in the folds
of an overcoat, lest the sleeping Ward
Master should awake and arise in
wrath and mighty power !
I. • bad not seen Sister R. since
morning, and then only fora moment,
leaving her quite feeble,and now was
working with movements instinctive
ly quickened by thoughts of an an
ticipated visit to her room, though
only for a few minutes, before 'Lights
out!' was sounded.
"Oh, dear !" I heard a feeble voice
exclaim, "Mr. L., won't you please to
come here ?" I went to. the side of
poor Higby, and he continued, "Seel
I've spilt the cold tea you gave me to
drink in the night, all over my bed.
My hands are so weak I can't man
age the cup." "Never mind, Charlie,
rott, harm done ;" and I carefully ab
sorbed the moisture with a cloth at
hand.
"There, let me put the hlankets
close about yuur shoulders, for you
look cold."
He turned an appealing look upon
me, and said, "Oh, I am so sorry you
hadn't bricks enough for all, to-night,
for I'm so cold !"
I looked at my watch. In fifteen
minutes lights would be extinguish
ed; night dark; bricks in a wait
twenty . rods distant; no fire approach
able except the guard's, outside the
gate ; only by particular favor was
I allowed out with hicks before,
and what if a stranger guard was on
post? It would take some time, and
visiting sister would then be impos
sible for that night. I felt of his
hands, then of his feet, and was de
cided instantly. They wore like bits
of ice.
How pleased the poor fellow look -
ed when ho saw the decision! "I
make you a great deal of trouble,"
said he, "for which I thank you so
much; and when I get better I'll
wait on you, or do anything in my
power to repay your kindness."—
These were his last words
On my return I quickly threw
back the blankets trid arranged a
nice hot brick so it would not burn
his feet, wondering the while that
he should have dropped asleep so
soon: then approached his breast
with another for his hands, when, 0
horrors : the eyes were glazed—the
lips parted—the heart stilled. Life
was extinct.
The spirit of poor, patient Charlie
Rigby had winged its flight to that
better land where wars and fightings
are unknown, and the weary are at
rest.
AN INOIDENT.
Mr. Bates, one of the survivors of
the "Golden Gate" catastrophe, re
lates the following incident of a lit
tle girl, eight years old, whom he
rescued ; her name was Addie Man
chester. and her father lives in San
Franeisco. She said:
Oh, mister, eau you swim ?
I told her I could. She hoped me
so hard to save her that I determin
ed to try anyhow. I told her I would
try to save her if she would do just
as I ',old her. She said :
I will do just Eps you toll me. Save
mo, do, please-1 don't want to he
drowned.
I showed her how to act--to get
on my back and grasp me tightly,
but that she must not choke me.—
She promised to do just as I told her.
She was quite cool. Just as the fin"
got up to us, the vessel struck the
bar. L got over, taking• Addie with
me. She held on to me tight, as I told
her to do. I struck for the beach,
not tar off. The breakers ran very
high. I got past the first one in safe
ty with my burden. I got past the
second one also, After I passed the
third one, I found that Addie was
gone. 1 turned round and saw her
going oown behind me. A man on
a plunk, who was passing, grasped
ltr. by the hair and pulled her on
his plank. I saw she was safer
there than with me;ao I continued
on and was dragged on the beach.—
The little girl Was saved. .
sgrAit often as a man lays oupfcir God,
he lays up for himself. .
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ANOTHER ROPE-WALKER SMASHED.
The sensation mania has sacrificed
another victim. Au Italian acrobat,
by name Valerio, has perished in the
attempt.to pander to the gladiatorial
taste of modern London This skill
ed professor of a useless art was en
gaged, it appears, at Cremorne Gar
dens to perform the foolhardy feat
of walking some distance upon a
wire stretched at an elevation of six
ty feet from the ground. In this
achievement there was no attraction
but its perils. It bore close affinity
in this respect to the exhibitions
which have of late years been most
popular with a large section of the
metropolitan public. Even Blondin
created no excitement when he did
not risk the fracture of his spine.—
His evolutions upon the low rope
were as dexterous and as graceful
as those upon a rope placed at a dizzy
altitude—but they failed to draw.—
The explanation of this—observes a
writer in the "Morning Star"—lies
in the fact that a fall in the one case
could only have bruised him, while
in the other it would inevitably have
broken his neck. People flocked to
see Leotard because they knew that
if, missing his rope, he miscalculated
by a few inches the distance of his
fall, he would In all probability be
killed upon the spot. The feverish
enjoyment became still greater when
the poor little infant Nathalie risked
her imperfectly developed bones and
sinews in equally hazardous exploits.
The Risarelis transcend all their pre
decessors in their mad tempting of
Providence, and are consequently re
warded with enormous ppularity.—
No one can seriously contend that
their achievements and others of kin
dred character can ever lead to any
results of the smallest practical util
ity-. Every now and then a catas
trophe occurs which shows that the
anticipations of a fatal ending which
give spice to these disgusting shows
are by no means illusory. The
crushing of Selina Young into a man
gled cripple at Highbury Barn was
only one of a long series of similar
casualties; and now we bave another
of a similar nature to record On
Thursday eveuiug the wire upon
which the Italian Valerio was walk
ing broke, it is supposed in conse
quence of the effect produced upon
it by the lightning on Wednesday,
and he fell to the ground from a
height of sixty feet.He was taken
up insensible, with a 'fractured skull
and a broken collar bone, and on
Friday afternoon he died. It is high
time that some vigorous measures
were adopted to put a stop to these
dangerous and demoralizing exhibi
tions. Sensation mania, which is one
of the scourges of the present day,
displays itself in other forms beside
the thirst for perilous shows. It is
corrupting our literature; it is nour
ishing the spasmodic in every form
of writing, causing far less attention
to be paid to the sense and truth of
what is written than to the startling
character of the form in which it is
conveyed.—Foreign Paper.
Napoleon I. had faith in presenti
ments. "Paul," he observed to Count
Monthelon, in a conversation on the
death of that Russian emperor, "was
a man who had a soul, and was ac
cessable to noble resolutions, bu'.. all
his moral faults were concentrated
by the restless forebodings of that
animal instinct which I have so often
observed in some of my bravest sol
diers. Lascelles, for example, who
in the middle of the night wrote to
me from bivouac on the battlefield
of Wagram, to ask me to sign imme
diately- the decree for the transmis
sion of his title and his majorat of
count to his wile's son, because he
felt that he was about to fall in the
battle on the ensuing day; and the
unfortnuate man was right. Cervoni,
who stood near me at .chmuhl, and
now faced cannon for the first time
since the war in Italy, said to me,
'Sire, you forced me to quit Mar
seilles, which I los ed, by writing .to
me that the cross of the legion of
honor was only to be won by soldiers
in the presence of the enemy. Here
am; hut this is my last day,' A
quarter of an hour afterward a ball
carried away his head. Paul was con
stantly dreaming of conspiracies and
assassinations. He bad brought a
skillful mechanic from abl.bal, in or
der to make him a number of secret
passages, by which be might escape
from the different chambers which
he most frequently used in his palace.
There was one man alone who had
his entire confidence, and that was
Count PaEtlen, Governor of St. Pe
tersburgh, and chief director of the
police. lie was at supper with the
general the night before his assassin.
ation, when he received a letter re
vealing to him the most minute de
tails, the whole scheme of the con
apiracy, and naming . Count Pablen as
the chief, and waßing him that the
plot I,vaa completely tne for execu
tion. Some fatality prevented him
from breaking the, L seal, 4pd be
thought *riveTE. of When he re.
tired to his private apKtroente. Had
be opened the letter, helvotdct have
been saved."
airAn honest man is the 4oelast
wank :.or (abed—bat ,tho edition is
small:
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1863.
PRESENTIMENTS.
REBEL IMPRESSIONS OF PENNSYL
VANIA.
The Franklin Repository describes
at length the career of the rebels in
our border counties. Their freaks,
humors and prejudices, along with a
number of their outrages upon pro
perty and life, are told graphically.
From an interesting passage we ex
tract: Even intelligent rebel officers
insisted that Lincoln was a fugitive
in Boston, and dare not occupy his
capital, and the rank and file were
regaled with that and equally ab
surd falsehoods. Others declared
that he was habitually intoxicated,
and unable to attend to his official
duties because of his intemperance.
Those men were evidently taught to
regard President Lincoln as brutal
and barbarous in an eminent degree,
and they were amazed to finJ the
loyal of all parties alike respecting
him and the Government. Rev. Mr.
Pryor, father of the blustering Gen
eral oger A. Pryor, who didn't fight
Potter when in Congress, was with
Lee as chaplain, and seemed to have
a general supervision of the piety of
the army. He represented the pro
gress of religion as eminently satis
factory, and seemed to regard the
rebels as perfectly Cromwellian in
morals. True, they would steal ne
groes and from negroes, anything
else, from a ten-penny nail to a six
horse team; but they wero never
theless a model army, according to
Pryor, in all the attributes of Chris
tian character. Our people general
ly thought that the scale of Zion
must be very low down South.
The discipline of therebel army was
admirable. No private or subaltern
dared to disregard an order in presence
of his superior, or where his superior
officer was likely to be advised of it.
When the rebel columns filed through
Chambersburg, they marched with
the utmost order and decorum, and
laughing, talking loudly or singing
was not indulged in. Some of the
Border States, and most of the more
Southern rebels, had rather peculiar
conceptions of the Pennsylvania
Dutch. Quite a number were aston
ished to find our people speaking
English, as they supposed that the
prevalent language was the German.
At first, when they attempted deli
sive remarks, they would imitate the
broken English of the Germans; and
judging from Ewell's demand for 25
barrels of sourkrout at a season when
it is unknown in any country, even
the commanding officers must have
considered our people as profoundly
Dutch. It would require an intense
ly Dutch community to supply sour
krout in July. Our farm buildings
and especially our large and fine
barns all through the valley, at once
excited their sstonishinent and ad
miration. Quite a number of of f icers
visited the barn of the editor as a
matter of curiosity, although there
are many in our valley much larger
and quite well finished. The private
soldiers generally concluded that it
must be the church of some very
large denomination in this communi
ty ; and the outbuildings about it,
such as chicken-house, &c., were gen.
erally supposed to be servants' hous
es, and very neat ones !
A HERMIT
We have often read of hermits, but
never till yesterday had we the
pleasure of a sight of a real, genuine,
live hermit. Don Juan Maria de Au
gustinian. a man of world-wide no
.tority, honored us with a call. He is
nc Italian by birth, and a Catholic
priest by profession ; is sixty-three
years old, and has done the greater
part 4f both bprnispheres. For the
past thirty years he has dwelt in
rocks and caves, and hollow trees,
having the wild animals for his fel
-1 ma, never during that time baying
entered a house, unless especially in
vited to do so by its proprietor. He
has passports from nearly Ell the
principal nations of Europe, North
and South America and Mexico.—
He has resided for many years in
the latter country. He came to Kan
sas City last Fall, on his way to
Santa Fe, but as he would walk the
entire distance (he was tendered a
free - ride, but declined, as he did not
like to mingle with the world) put
it off on account of the approaching
cold weather, and for the past win •
ter has had his headquarters in a hol
low tree, some distance from West
port. He is now enroute for New
Mexico at this time, where he pur
poses to live with the savages. Not
withstanding his age and the hard
ships he has undergone, he seems to
evince powers of great enduranpe, as
all his movements and speech are
quick and energetic. With no dis
respect to him he reminds us of a res
urrected mummy. Ho speaks thir
teen different languages fluently.,
He seems to be a man of more than
ordinary kindly feeling for his race
yet dislikes their society and influ
ence. We bespeak for him open
hands and hearts with thcom ;whom
he shall meet on his closing journey
through lifts.
"Those who walk moskare gee
erally the healthieet; the .road of
perfect health is too na i rrow for
-F4OOO
SIT lfo me* set went WeittiteSesititi
r.ukc
THE SUNSHINE CURE.
Seclusion from sunshine is one of
the misfortunes of our civilized life.
The same cause which makes potato
vine 3 white and sickly, when grown
in the dark cellars, operates to pro
duce the pale sickly girls that are
reared in our parlors. Expose either
to the direct rays of the sun, and
they begin to show color, health, and
strength. One of the ablest lawyers
in our country—a victim of long and
hard brain-labor, came to me a year
ago, suffering with partial paralysis.
The right leg and hip were reduced
in size, with constant pain in the
loins. He was obliged, in coming up
stairs,. to raise the left foot first, on
every stair, dragging the right one
after it. Pale, feeble, miserable, be
told me be bad been failing several
years, and closed with, "My work is
done. At sixty, I find my self worn
out." I directed him to lie down un
der a large window, and allow the
sun to fall upon every part of his
body; at first, ten minutes a day, in
creasing the time until he could ex
pose himself to the direct rays of the
sun a full hour. His habits were
not essentially altered in any partic
ular. In. six months, he came run
ning up stairs like a vigorous man of
forty, and declared, with sparkling
eyes, "I have twenty years more of
work in me." I have assisted many
dyspeptic, neuralgic, rheumatic, and
hypochondrical people into health,
by the sun cure. I have so many
facts illustrating the wonderful pow
er of the sun's direct rays in curing
certain classes of invalids, that I
have seriously thought of publishing
a work to be denominated the "Sun
cure."
Many years ago, a clergyman who
had for years been a victim of dys
pepsia, and who had prayed for
death, as the only door of escape,
came, through the advise of a mutual
friend, to consult me. I advised the
disuse of all medicines, the generous
use of cracked wheat, good beef, and
much exposure to sunshine. To se
cure the last mentioned influence, 1
directed him to enclose twenty feet
square in his garden with a close
fence, and plant the ground within
with something, the cultivation of
which would occupy his mind. Then,
when the weather was warm, shut
ting himself in, be was to busy him
self, quite nude, waif' the cultivation
of bis vegetables, from ten to sixty
minutes a day, always indulging in
a thorough bath and friction before
leaving. He was radically cured.—
Dio Lewis, 3/. D.
THE REBELLION ON THE WANE.
The contest, says a North Caro
lina paper, is now narrowed down to
Virginia, N ., . rtb and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas
and portions of "Louisiana and Ar
kansas. In the last three named
States, the rebel force is compara
tively- small, disorganized, cut off
from supplies, without means to pay,
clothe and equip armies, and will
soon disband or yield to the over
whelming force that will ba brought
against them. Florida can be safe
ly counted out as a State in which
any considerable struggle will take
p!ace, and which will share the fate,
whatever it be, of the other States
in rebellion. Northern Alabama
and Georgia will soon be overrun by
expeditions sent out from the Arley
of the Cumberland. We have .be
sides posession of the great circuit of
railroads which have proved of spell
incalculable aid to the ,rehellion.
The contest, therefore is narrowed
down comparatively to five States,
or
less than half the number, which a
few months ego, presented a forinid
able opposing front to the progress
of the National armies. In this con
dition of affairs we see every room
for encouragement and hope. With
our forces augmented by the con
scription, it is reasonable to expect
a termination of the war by the
close of 1360.
The Polish Ladies
A long stay in Poland has a
most depressing effect on spirits.—
The universal mourning worn by
the women haunts you in your sleep,
and you feel that "black" is, after
all, The true ghost color. Wherever
you go you find the same poor, help
less creatures herding together in
the churches; and even !there not &-
ways free from the brutality of the
Russian soldiery. Under the
.1-re
teuce of searching for arms the
sanctity of the 1101/tie of G0...1 has re
peatedly been violated, and ,entries
stationed at the door not nhfroquent
-Iy.subject ladies to annoy::,,-;, not
insult, in going in and out. It is
the attitude of the women which an
noys the Russians still more than
, that of the men. There is no sacrifice
1 to which they will not submit, and
their spirit is indomitable- From the
Princess Sapieha to the petty trades
man,s wife, they devote themselves
heart and soul to the cause, slaving
night and day - at making clothes,
conveying Arms end ammunition to
to the insurgent camps, remaining
:41.1 night under prison wal:s for the
,(1101111C0 of reec t einl captives, and per
, twilling othqr heroic acts. Cqq}bine4
~pcith this power of eetf,wrifice,
,P -
;lis6 ladies postie.ee a poet lively .wit,
ooftAP pors•qsaa a match for
Ahl*.ol o P4 lo4 . — kdtVir9Rl le!" 417.
BRAIN WORK.
No man after the middle age, if
he hopes to keep his mind cleat',
should think of working his brain
after dinner, a season which should
be given up to enjoyment. The im
mediate fesult of postprandial labor
is always inferior to that produced
by the vigorous brain of the morn
ing. When mental labor has become a
habit, however, we know how weak
are the words of warning to make
a sufferer desist; and we are remind
ed of the answer made by Sir Walter
Scott to his physicians, who iu his
last illness foresaw that his mind
would break down unless he desisted
from his brain work. As for bidding
me not work said he, sadly, "Molly
might as well put the kettle on the
fire, and then say, Now don't boil."
It must not be supposed, however,
that we wish to deprecate even
severe mental labor; on the contra
ry, a well organized brain demands
exercise, and, like the blacksmith's
arms, flourishes on it. We believe
that pleasurable brain work can be
carried on to an almost limitless ex
tent without injury. A poet in full
swing of his fancy, a philosopher
working out some scheme for the
benefit of humanity, refreshes lather
than weakens his brain. It will
be found that the great majority
of those who have gained high hon
ors in our universities have also dis
tinguished themselves greatly in af
ter-life. It is the hard thankless task
work which tears and frets the fine
gi ay matter of the cerebrum; it is
the strain and anxiety which accom
panies the working-out of great
monetary transactions which pro
duces that silent and terrible ram
ollisseritent which gradually saps the
mind of the strong mai , and reduces
him to the condition of an imbecile.
—Cornhill Meg.
PENSIONS.
The question is often asked, "Who
are entitled to draw pensions?"—
The act of Congress, passed July,
1862, made liberal provisions for
granting pensions to disabled and
invalid soldiers who have served in
the army of tne Union since the 4th
of March, 1861, and also to all wid
ows• and children (under eighteen
years of age,) as well as mothers and
dependent sisters of soldiers killed
in battle, or who shall die by reason
of the wounds received or diseases
contracted while in the service and
in the line of duty. The provisions,
as a whole, are much more liberal
thari,the old pension laws of the Rev
olution or the war of 1812. The
Amount of pensions for total disabili
ty are fixed as follow : Non-commis
sioned officers, musicians and pri
vates, per month, $8 ; second lieu
tenants $l5; first l'eutenunts, $l7;
captains, $2O; majors, $25 ; all kinds
of higher rank, $3O. But a large
majority of those accepted pensioners
aro .only partially disabled, and the
amount of pension is rated accord
ing to their disability, which may
be one-fourth, one-third, two-thirds,
three-fourths, t te. The disability is
based on the proportion which,the
efl•'ects of a wound received or disease
contracted in public service actually
disables one from obtaining
hood.
t i ßpote John Mime'
The Germantown (Pa) Telegraph
,parrates the following :
"John Burns, over seventy years of
yeiiident of,Gettysbilrg, fought
,throughout the battle of the first
.day, and was wounded. no less than
five Aimes-- 7 tbe last shot taking
effect in big ankle, wounding him
severely. He came up to Col. Whi
ter, in the thickest of the fight,
shook hands with him, and said he
came to help. Ho was dressed in
his best, consisting of a light blue
swallow-tail coat, with brasshuttons,
corduroy pantaloons, and a stove
pipe hat, of considerable height, all
of ancient pattern, and doubtless au
heirloom in his.bouse. He was arm
lid with a regulation musket. He
loaded and fired unflinchingly un
til the last of his five wounds
brought him down. lie will recover.
His littlenottage was burned by the
rebels. A. purse of a hundred dollars
has been sent to him from German
town. Brave John Burns'"
that purse should .be nia , le a
thousand dollars forthwith.
PUBLIC DEBT
the official statement of the
public debt on the first of July, fur
nished hy the Treasury Department,
t,le tullvwing recapitulation is taken:
The whole debt at per cent intoreet $28,059,295
A t 5 per cent 101,297,639
At 6 per cent 431,275,875
At 73-10 per cent 139,920,500
The whole without interest 396,721,057
The whole public debt of the Uni
ted States on July 1, shown by the
tor& of the Treasury Department,
is $1,091,274,3CC,. )n the Secretary's
report of last, December be estimated
that by this dine the public del d t
would roach 1)1,122,297,403. The
expenditures, however, have been
slightly less than the Secretary an
ticipated, or rather the National rev
enue has been somewhat greater,
and the public debt is theretoro leas
1:e5,043,037 than the Secretary es
,tiimated Ip.st Weeßiber.
airThsy.4.llo‘. Arise away time, spur a
,free horse.
. NEW SERIES.--VOL. 5, NO. 10.
nt family Cita
BE KIND TO THOSE WHO DISLIKE
YOU.
Many will think this is diffloult,-,-
But it has been learned and practiced
by children. It bas a happy effect
on the disposiLion. To return evil
for evil could make perpetual die
cord in society. It is revengeful and
unchristian. Among your compan
ions are there any who treat you un
kindly? Endeavor to show them a
better example. Are there any who
speak unfavorably of you ? Try to
do them some good office. Propose
soul, design of benevolence in which
you can unite. Lend them some in
teresting book, and ask their opinion
of it. Especially avoid all quarrel
ing A contentious ch;ld is always
disliked. Good and pleasant man
ners will go far toward reconciling
differences. Be a peacemaker among
your companions. It is a noble char
acter. When the causes of unkind
feeling are examined they often
prove to be mere trifles. And for
trifles it is a pity that children should
lose the benefit of pleasant inter
course with their playmates. When
in company with your little associ
ates, do not insist upon always hav
ing your own way. If you give up
cheerfully to them, they will seek
your society, and enjoy it. In pro
portion as they love you, you will
acquire influence over them. Influ
ence is power, and this influence or
power you should use to do them
good. The intercourse of well in
structed children ought always to
produce good, for be who does good
to another steadily, and from a cor
rect principle, increases his own hap
piness. .Now it is easy to love those
who love you, but you must take
greater pains to be kind to those
who aro not kind to you; because if
it is not as easy, it is a greater vir
tue.
BAD EFFECTS OF INDULGENCE.
Parents, in an unwise fondness for
their children, often gratify every
desire, and put themselves to great
inconvenience to meet the notions
and wishes of their children. They
are really guilty of the greatest un
kindness by such a method of train
ing, as may be inferred from the fol
lowing remarks of Lord Jeffrey:
Young people who have been ha
bitually- gratified in their desires,
will not only more indulge in capri
cious desires, but will infallib'y take
it more amiss when the feelings or
happiness of others require that they
should be thwarted,.than those who
haVe been practically trained to the
habit of subduing and restraining
them, and consequently will in gene
ral sacrifice the happiness of others
to their own selfish indulgence. To
what else is the sel,_ebness of.prineee
and other great people to be attribu
ted ? It is in vain to think of culti
vating principles of generosity and
beneficence by mere exhortation and
reaaotting .liothin_g but the practical
habit of overcoming our own selfish
lless,,and of familiarly encountering
privations and discomfort on account
of others, will ever enable us to do
it when required. And, therefore, I
am fully persuaded that indulgences
infallibly product, selfishness and
hardness of heart, and that nothing
but a pretty severe discipline and
control can. lay the fbundation of a
magnanimous character.
HOME AFTER BUSINESS HOURS.
The road along which the man of busi
ness travels in pursuit of competence or
wealth is not a tnacadamized one, nor
dues it ordinarily lead through pleasant
scenes and by well-springs of delight. On
the contrary, it is a rough ; and rugged
path, beset with "wait-a-bit"
.thorns, and
full of pitfalls, which can only be avoided
by the must watchful circumspection.--
Atter every day's journey over this worse
than rough turnpike road, the wayfare
needs something more than rest; he re
quires solace, and he deserves it. He is
weary of the dull prose of life, and athirst
for the poetry. Happy is the business
man who can find that solace and that poe
try at home. Warm greetings from loi
ing hearts, loud glances trout bright eyes,
the welcome shouts of children, the thous
and little arrangements for our comfort
and enjoyment that silently tell of thought
ful and expectant love, the gentle minis
trations that disencumber us into an old
and easy seat tostore we are aware of it
these, like tokens of affection and sympa
thy, constitute the poetry which reconcile@
us to the 'prose of life. Think of this, ye
wives and daughters of business men
Think of the anxieties, the mortificatious,
and worse, that fathers undergo co secure
tor you con.tortable homes, and compen
sate them for their trials by making.thetu
happy by diet/ own fireside.
now to Cure a Felon.
A lady who has tried the remedy
says that when one of those painful
torments apears on the hand, the
person shou ld apply a picot) of ren
net soaked in .milk to the part effect
ed, and renew the application at
brief intervals until reheris fouod.
T his rennet may be obtained of any
butcher. This article was first rec
ommended by a skilful physician
and has been tried in many easel
with uniform 111044reit.
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