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Dag. A.. WYLY. J. •. J. BUCHANAN, D. it. P. HUSS
WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS,
ttorneys & Counsellors' at Law,
WAYNESBURG, PA.
ror Itl practice in the Courts ot . Greene and adjoining
°entities. Collections and other legal business will re
naive prompt attention.
Clinton on the South side of Main street, in the Old
Bank'Snildmg. Jan. 28, 1863.-13,
J O. RITCH/E
A. • • PURINA R.
PURMAN & RITCHIE,
ATTOUNFSB AND COUNBELLORB AT LAW,
Waynesburg, Pa.
ffiND'Orttrv.—Main Street, one door east of
the old 8 Ink Building.
1L7A.11 ..mainess in Greene, Washington, and Fay
site-Counties, entrusted to them, will receive promp•
attention.
N. B —Particular attention will be given to the col
lusion of Pensions. Bounty Money. Back Pay, and
ether claims against the Government.
Sept.. 11, 1861-Iy.
a. W. DOMlfinr,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
grOtTice in 1 edwith'a Building, opposite the Court
Wave, Waynesburg, Pa.
A, A. M'CONNELL
aIIi'CONNELL ac UDTTM.&N,
477'ORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Waynesburg, Pa.
70311ce In the "Wright Hi se," East Door.
Cections, dtc.. will receive prompt attention.
'Waynesburg, April 23, 1861-Iy.
DAVID CRAWFORD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Main
Street, East and nearly opposite the flank,
Waynesburg, Pa., July 30, 1863.—1 y.
IMIEZE3
BLACK & PHELAN,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Office in the Court House, Waynesburg.
Sept. 11,1881—Iv.
SOLDIERS' WAR CLAIMS!
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ATTORN gY AT LAW, WAY N ESBU RO, PURINA.,
ILT AS received from the War Department at Wash
ington city. D. C., official copies of the several
laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms
and initructions for the prosecution and collection of
PENVONS, BOUNTY, BACK PAY, due dis
charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan
children, widowed mothers, fathers, sisters and broth
er', which business, [upon due notice] will be attend.
Ed to promptly, and accnrately, if entrusted to his care.
Office in the old flank Building.—April 8, 1863.
G. W. O. WALDDZLL,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
O!WHIR in Campbell's Row opposite the Hamilton
House. Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all
kinds solicited. Has received official copies of all the
laws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc
tions for the collection 01
PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY,
Dee discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan
children, ism, which business if intrusted •to his care
will Ce promptly attended to. May 13,'63.
PHYSICIANS
Dr. T. W. Ross,
Bfkiarissicasta3 Mauilgeocon.,
Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET
east, anal nearly opposite the Wright house.
Wad freshly g, Sept. 23, 1863.
DR. A. G. CROSS
WOULD very respectfully tender his services an a
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of
Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre
ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to
business, to merit a share of public patronage.
Waynesburg. January 8, Mg.
DRUGS
M. A. 11ARVEY,
Mensgist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints acid
Oils, the moat celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure
Liquors for medicinal purposes.
dept. 11, 11861-Iy.
BREROILANTS.
WM. A. PORTER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Roome
r Pry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street.
Sept. 11. 1861-Iy.
R. CLARK,
Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens
& are and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite
the Court House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
MINOR & CO.,
peatem in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gru
reties, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite
the Green House, mat t , street.
Sept. 11, 1881-Iy,
BOOT ADD SECOE DEALERS
J. D. COSGRAY,
Hoot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly npaosite
the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." gerary style of
B oot , an d shoes constantly on hand ar made lA ovder.
Sept. 11, 1861—IY.
GIMMUM:III & VAItIETIES
JOSEPH YATER,
*ale! in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions,
Medians., Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of
401 sizes. and Gilt Moulding and Looking Clews Plates.
14.31, 140
PIA Rid for aged eating App e a.
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JOHN IvIUNNELL,
Dealer in Groceries and Courectionaries, and Variety
Goode Goof
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MAXIMS TO LIVE AND THRIVE BY•
One of the wealthiest men in Phil
adelphia, as assuredly the least
proud of his wealth, as wealth, is our
respected and benevolent fellow-citi
zen, John Grigg, Esq., founder of the
great bookselling and publishing
house of Grigg & Elliot, (now J. B.
Lippincott & Co.;) which by the
boldness, extent, and success of its
business, gave an immense advance
to the sale and publication of books
in the United States. He has made
his way to fortune by following a
few plain and practical business
rules, which, in fact, constitute a
moral code for all who desire to
gain success, by.deserving it. These
rules, which we copy from the
American Publishers' Circular, aro as
follows :
1. Be industrious and economical.
Waste neither time or money in
small and useless pleasures and in
dulgences. if the young can be in
duced to begin to save the moment
they enter on the paths of life, the
way,will ever become easier before
them, and they will not fail to at
tain a competency and that without
denying themselves any of the real
necessaries and comforts of life.—
Our people are certainly among the
most improvident and extrava , t ant
on the face of the earth. It is en
ough to make the merchant of the
olg school, who looks back and thinks
what economy, prudence, and discre
tion, ho had to bring to bear on his
own business (and which are in fact
the basis of all successful enterprise,)
start balk in astonishment to look
at the ruthless waste and extrava
gance of the age and people. The
highest test of respectability with
me is honest industry. Well-direct
ed industry makes men happy.—
The really noble class, the class that
was noble when "Adam delv'd and
Eve spun," and have preserved their
patent to this day untarnished, is
the ; laborious and industrious. Un
til men have learned industry, econ
omy, and self-control, they cannot
be safely intrusted with wealth.
J. J. HUFFMAN
2. To industry and economy add
self-reliance. Do not take too much
advice. The busines man must keep
at the helm and steer his own ship.
In early life every one should be
taught to think for himself. A man's
talents are never brought out until
he is thrown to some extent upon
Ms own resources. If in every diffi
culty he has only to run to his prin
cipal, and then implicitly obey the
directions h© may receive, he will re
quire that aptitude of perception,
that promptness of decision, and
that firmness of purpose, which aro
absolutely necessary to those whc
hold important stations. A certain
degree of independent feeling is es
sential to the full development of
the intellectual character.
E=
.3. Remember that punctuality is
the mother of confidence. It is not
enough that the merchant fulfills
his engagements, he must do what
he undertakes precisely at the time, as
well as in the way he agreed to.—
The mutual dependence of mer
chaffis is so great, that their engage
ments, like a chain, which, according
to the law of physics. is never strong
er than its weakest link, are often
er broken through the weakness of
others that their own. But a
prompt fulfillment of engagements
is not only of the utmost importance
because it enables others to meet
their own engagements promptly; it
is also the best evidence that the
merchant has his affairs well order
ed, his means at command, his for
ces marshaled, and " everything
ready for action ;" in short, that he
knows his own strength. This it is
which inspires confidence, as much
perhaps as the meeting of the en
gagement.
4. Attend to the minutia of the
business, small things as weil as
great. See that the store is opened
early, goods brushed up, twine and
nails picked up, and all ready for
business. A young man should con
sider capital, if he has it, or as he
may acquire it, merely as tools with
which he is to work, not as a substi
tute for the necessity of labor. It
is often the case that diligence in
employments of less consequence is
the most successful introduction to
great enterprises. Those make the
best officers who have served in the
ranks. We may say of labor, as
Coleridge said of poetry, it is its own
sweetest reward. It is the best of
physic.
5. Let the young merchant re
member that selfishness is the mean
est of vices, and is the parent of a
thousand were. It not only inter
feres with the means and with the
end of acquisition—not only makes
money more difficult to get, and not
worth having when it is got, but it
is narrowing to the miad and to the
heairt , Selfishness "keeps a shilling
so close to the eye, that it cannot
see a dollar beyond?' Never be
narrow and coatractofl in your
views. Life abounds in inst.on of
the brilliant rnatata of a generous
day whet you fnean.—
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tfontittoottanfi take Ibt graht,o4
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WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1863.
that you mean to do what is just
and right.
6. Accustom yourself to think vig
orously. Mental, like pecuniary
capital, to be worth anything, must
be well 'invested—must be rightly
adjusted and applied, and, to this
end, careful, deep, and intense
thought is necessary if great results
are looked for.
7. Marry early. The man of busi
ness should marry as soon as possi
ble, after, twenty-two or twenty
three years 'of age. A woman of
mind will conform to the necessities
of the day of small beginnings; and
in choosing a wife a man should
look at-Ist, the heart; 2d, the
mind ; 3d, the person.
8, Everything, however remote,
that has any bearing upon success,
must be taken advantage of. The
business man should be continually
on the watch for information, and
ideas that will throw light on his
path, and he should be an attentive
reader of all practical books, espe
cially those relating to business,
trade, &c„ as well as a Igrtion of
useful and 'ennobling literature.
9. Never forget a favor, for in
gratitude is the basest trait of man's
heart.- Always honor your country,
and remember that our country is
the very best poor man's country in
the world,
DOMESTIC INFELICITIES.
Every lady . who has ever lived in
New York or vicinity, and been
obliged to depend on the intelligence
offices for servants, will appreciate
the following narration. It is well
known that the servants of the pres
ent day learned to value luxury and
ease in the kitchen, as much as the
u,istress in the parlor, and have car
ried their ideas beyond the bounds of
propriety in many cases, expecting
that the kitchen will be filled with
machines, for saving labor, which
they are to propel, by the smallest
possible amount of an outlay of
strength, on their part. An inter
view with one of these operatives,
the particulars of which are strictly
reliable, will illustrate my remark.
A lady from Flatbush, L. 1., was
visiting a friend of mine in A—,
Massachusetts, and it chanced, the
conversation one day turned upon
the trials of housekeeping, not the
least of which is the care of servants.
She said that she once, flot long
since, engaged a cook in New York,
and in dae time the damsel present
ed herself with the newspaper parcel
containing her wardrobe, for the
week of trial. Before proceeding to
lay off her bonnet, she turned to the
lady and said, "Now, Mrs. Bradford,
I always like to have a good old-fash
ioned tall; with the lady I begins with
before 1 begins. I'm awful temper
ed, but I'm dreadful forgiving. Have
you flecker's Flour, Beebe 's Range
—hot and cold water, stationary
tubs, oil cloth on floor, dumb waiter?"
Then follows her self-planned pro
gramme for the week.
Monday I washes. l'se to be left
alone that day. Tuesday I irons.—
Nobody's to come near me that day.
Wednesday I bakes. I'se. to be let
alone that day. Thursday I picks up
the house. Nobody's to come near
me on that day. Friday I goes to the
city. Nobody's to come near me
that day. Saturday I bakes, and Sat
urday afternoon my beau comes to
me. Nobody's to come near me that
day. Sunday I has to myself !
Rising. she asked for a look into
her sub-parlor. One hasty glance—
"No oilcloth on kitchen floor ? • I
can't work here." "You had better
go," sr.id Mrs. 8., "for you can't work
here." and she closed the door on the
indignant female with a hearty feel
ing of relief.
It is high time there was a radical
change in the management of ser
vants, for they demand so much, and
expect to render so small an equiva
lent in service. As strange truths as
these could be told every day, almost
every housekeeper has some bitter
experiences to pass through. The
first question a servant asks now-a
days, is not "what can 1 do for you,
ma'am?" but "what privileges do you
give, ma'am ?" and if company be not
allowed every evening when the dam
sel is not herself out, if the whole
Sabbath be not uranted for her espe
cial perquisite, from "matins" to
"vespers," if the "tricads" may not
be invited to a party occasionally, it
free access be not granted to store,
closet and pantry, tea canister, and
flour barrel, besides soap box, empty,
quite frequently, a lady is voted moan
and unworthy of being served.
se*-Experiments that have recent
ly been made in FranCe shOw that
a horse can live seventeen days with
out food or drink, and twenty-five
days upon water alone. If he con
sumes solid food without drinking,
he can live only five days. A horse
that had been deprived of water for
three days, drank eleven gallons in
three minutes.
Stir We had rather do anything
than acknowledge the merit of an
other, if we can help it. We cannot
bear a superior or an equal. fence
ridicule is sure to prevail over truth,
for the malice of mankind thrown
into the scale give the c9s4.ingweicrht.
WASTE OF CITIES.
Paris throws five millions a year
into the sea. And this without
metaphor. How, and in what man
ner? Day and night. With what
thought ? Without thinking of it.—
With what object ? Without any
object. For what return ? For
nothing. By means of what organ ?
By means of its intestine. What is
intestine ? Its sewers. Five millions
is the most moderate of the approx
imate figures which the estimates of
special science give.
Science, after long experiment
now knows that the most effective
of manures is that of man, The
Chinese, wo must say to our shame,
knew it before us. No Chinese peas
ant, Eckeberg tells us, goes to the
city without carrying back, at the
two ends of his bamboo, bucketsful
of what.we call filth. Thanks to hu
man fertilization, the earth in China
is still as z 3 oung as in the days of
Abraham. Chinese wheat yields a
hundred and twenty fold. There is
no guano comparable in fertility
with the detritus of a capital. A
great city is the most powerful of
stercoraries. To employ the city to
enrich the plain would be a sure suc
cess. If our gold is filth, on the
other hand our filth is gold. What
is done with this filth, gold? It is
swept into abyss.
We fit out convoys of ships, at
great expense, to gather up at the
South polo the droppings of petrela
and penguins, and the incalculable
element of wealth which we have un
der our own hand we send to the
sea. All the human and animal
manure which the world loses, if
restored to the land instead of being
thrown 7 into the sea, would suffi.ce:to
nourish the world.
These heaps of garbage at the
corners of stone blocks, these tum
brils of mire jolting through the
streets at night, these horrid scav
engers' carts, these fetid streams
of subterranean slime which the
pavenient hides from you, do you
know what all this is? It is the
flowering meadow, it is the green
grass, it is marjoram and thyme
and sage, it is game, it is cattle, it is
the satisfied low huge oxen at even
ing, it is perfumed hay, it is golden
corn, it is bread on your table, it is
warm blood in your veins, it is
health, it is joy, it is life I Thus
wills that mysterious creation which
transformation and transfiguration
in heaven. Put tliat into great cru
cible ; your abundance shall spring
from it. The nutrition of the plains
makes the nourishment of men.—
You have the power to throw away
this wealth, and to think me ridicu
lous into the bargain. That will
cap the climax of your ignorance.
Satistics show that France, alone,
makes a liquidation of a hundred
millions every year into the Atlan
tic fr-,m the mouths of her rivers.—
Mark this with that hundred mil
lions you might pay a quarter of the
expense of the Government. The
cleverness of man is such that he
prefers to throw this hundred mil
lions into the gutters. It is the
very substance of the people which
is carried away here, drop by drop,
there in floods, by the wretched
vomiting of our sewers into the
rivers, and the gigantic collection of
our rivers into the ocean Each hic
cough °four cloaca costs us a thousand
francs. From this come two results
—the land is impoverished and the
water infected ; hunger rising from
the furrow and disease rising from
the river. It is notorious, for in
stance, that at this hour the Thames
is poisoning London.—Tl ictor Ruyo.
A PARAGRAPH FOR LITTLE GIRLS.
The Wheeling intelligencer says :
"Every little miss who will look up
to the word, 'Housewife' in Webster's
dictionary will find the flame and
description of a little article that, to
the soldiers in the field, is extremely
acceptable One of the public schools
in Pittsburgh sent a box of them to
the Christian Commission, and the
youthful donors have been blessed
for the gift by as many soldiers as
there were housewives' to give
them.
The article is simply a receptacle
for buttons, thread, pins, needles,
tape, &c. Odds and ends of the
work-bag furnish the material,
though oiled muslin or other water
proof stuff is better. The moment
the box reached the field, 'Do give
MO one, sir,' was the word until the
last one was gone. The government
would economize by issuing them
to the soldiers, that they might
mend their own clothes, but the
schools-girls must do it instead. If
the girls of the public and private
schools would set at once to work
they could earn the gratitude of
every soldier that their presents
reach."
aiiirThe English, to their shame,
permitted the sister and only surviv.
ing relative of the late galiant Ad
miral Sir Sidney Smith, the hero of,
Acre, to live in abject penury. Re
publics aro not alone ungrateful.
tririf there was a little bell so
attached to the hearts of man as to
ring every time he did what wap ,
wrong, this would be a musical
world.
DON'T ROOK THE BABY.
If all the ultimate consequences of
one's acts are to be laid to his charge
says the Agriculturist, the man who
invented rocking cradles fbr cnildren
rests under a fearful load of respon
sibility. The down-right murder of
tens of thousands of infants, and the
weakened brains of hundreds of
thousands of adults, are undoubtedly
results of his invention. To rock a
child in a cradle, or to swing him in
a crib, amounts to just this: the rapid
motion disturbs the natural flow of the
blood, and produces stupor or drowsi
ness. Can anybody suppose for a mo
ment that such an operation is a
healthful one ? Every one knows the
dizzy and often sickening effect of
moving rapidly in a swing; yet
wherein does this differ from the
motibn a child receives when rocked
in a. cradle ? It is equivalent to ly
ing in a ship berth during a violent
storm; and that sickens nine people
out of ten. A very gentle, slow mo
tion, may sometimes be soothing,
though always of doubtful expedi
ency, but to move a cradle as rapidly
as the swing of a pendulum three
feet long, that is once in a second, is
positive cruelty. We always feel
like grasping and staying the arm of
the mother or r.urso who, to secure
quietude, swings the cradle or crib
with a rapidity equal to that of a
pendulum a foot long. If any moth
er is disposed to laugh at our sugges
tions or consider them whimsical,we
beg of her to have a bed or cot hung
on cords, then lie down in it herself,
and have some one swing it with the
same rapidity that she allows the
cradle to be rocked. What she will
experience in both bead and stomach,
is just what the infant experiences.
We insist that this rocking of chil
dren is a useless habit. if not accus
tomed to rocking, they will go to
sleep quite as well when lying qui.
etly, as when shaken in a cradle. if
they do•not, there is trouble from
sickness, or hiinger, or more likely
from an overloaded stomach ; and
though the rocking may produce
a temporary stupor, the trouble ie
made worse thereafter, by the unnat
ural means taken to produce quiet
for the time being.
THE GREAT FREDERICK OF PRUS
SIA.
In the small town of Prussian Si
lesia, there is chapel dedicated to
Virgin Mary, and considerably en
riched with valuable oblations made
by pious Roman Catholics. The sex
ton observed ono day that some of
the oblations had disappeared. The
suspicion fell on a soldier of the gar
rison, who was constantly seen the
first to come in and the fast to go
out. One day he was stopped just
as he was setting his foot out of the
gate; and being searched, two silver
hearts that bad been appended be
fore the Virgin were found in his
pocket. He had the assurance to
pretend that ho had committed no
robbery—affirming that the Virgin,
for whom he bad over professed a
peculiar devotion, moved by his pov
erty, had made him a present of the
offerings. This excuse, however, as
may well be imagined, availed him
nothing, and he was condemned to
die as a r3hurch robber. The sen
tence being, as usual, carried to the
king for his approbation, his majesty
convened the chiefs of the Catholic
clergy, and put this question to
them :—"Whether according to the
dogmatical tenets of their religion,
there was any possibility in the sto
ry the soldiers?" Upon which
they all unanimously answered, that
the event was indeed uncommon, but
not absolutely impossible. After
this declaration, the king wrote un
der the sentence—" The delinquent
having constantly denied the theft,
and the divines of his persuasion at
testing that the prodigy wrought in
his favor was not impossible, we
think proper to spare his life; but, at
the same, for the future, we make it
death for .him to receive any present
of the Virgin Mary, or of any saint
whatever.—FREDERICK."
THE POTATOE ROT.
Thos. Carpenter, 9f Battle Creek,
Mich., communicates the following
as his mode of fighting off the pota
to rot : •
"Now I will tell you how I man
age ; premising that I never yet had
potatoes rot in the ground, and that
I am 63 years ol€'. 1 plant my pota
toes in the latter• part of April or
fore part of May, and in the old of
the Moon. When they get up six
inches high, I plaster and dress them
out nicely, Now for the secret.—
When the sets show for blossoming,
then is the time to take two parts
plaster and one part fine salt; mix
well together, and put one large
spoonful of this compound on each
hill; drop it as nearly in the centre
of the bill as possible. Just as soon
as the potatoes are ripe, take them
out of the ground, bare them per
fectly- dry when put in the cellar,
and keep them in a dry cool plate.
Some farmers lot their potatoes re.
main in the ground, soaking through
all the cold Fall rains until thesnow
flies. The potatoes became .diseased
in, this way 'mere Bad cnors emery
year; hence the potato rot. . With
such management they should rot,"
TO MAKE CIDER VINEGAR.
The vinegar manufactured from
acids enters largely in the consump
tion of towns and cities and to some
extent into that of the country also.
Whiskey with all its adulterations is
used fbr the purpose of making pick
les, and in that manner lends its aid
to the destroyer of human life. Many
other different methods of procuring
the sours of life are practiced, and
many of which are not only produc
tive of deleterious influences to the
health of ourselves and our children,
but require far more labor than ought
to be bestowed upon that branch of
a house-wife's business.
We live in an age of labor-saving
machines, and we ought to•economize,
both in labor and money, as well in
the less important matters of living
as in the more important. And to
apply a little Yankee ingenuity in
this case is not so difficult as many
people imagine. Almost every fam
ily in the country have the materials
for manufacturing pure cider vinegar,
if they will only use them. Common
dried apples, witn a little molasess
and brown paper are all you need ito
make the best cider vinegar. And
what is still better, the cider which
you extract from the apples, does
not detract from the value of the
apples for any other purpose.
Soak your apples a few hours—
washing and rubbing them occasion
ally, then take them out of the wa
ter and thoroughly strain the latter
through a tight woven cloth—put it
into a jug, add half a pin. of molas
ses to a gallon of liquor and a piece
of common brown paper, and set it
in the sun, or by the fire, and in a
few days your vinegar will be fit for
use. Have two jugs and use out
of one while the otl'er is working.—
No family need be destitute of good
vinegar, if they will follow the above
directions.
SMALL TALK.
But of all the expedients to make
the head weak, the brain gauzy, and
to bring life down to the consistency
of a cambric handkerchief, the most
successful is the little talk and tattle
which, in some charmed circles, is
courteously styled conversation.
How human beings can live on such
meager fare—how continue exist
ence in such a famine of tapies, and
on such short allowance of sense—
is a great question, if philosophy
could only search it out. All we
know is, that such men and women
there are, who• wilt go on dwaddling
in this way, from fifteen to four
score, and never J ./1, hint ou their
tombstones that they died at last of
consumption of the head, and mar
asmus of the heart ! The whole uni
verse of God, spreading out its
splendors and terrors, pleading for
their attention, and they wondering
"where Mrs Somebody got that di
vine ribbon to her bonnet ?" The
whole world of literature, through
its thousand trumps of fame, abdur
ing them to regard its garnered
stores, both of emotion and thought,
and they think, "it's high time, if
John intends to msrry our Sarah,
for him to pnp the vuestion !" When,
to be sure, this frippery is spiced
with a little envy and malice, and
prepares its small dishes of scandal
with nice bits of detraction, it be
comes endowed with a slight ven
omous vitality, which does pretty
well in the absence of soul, to carry
on the machinery of living, if not
the reality of P. Whipple.
MEE
MAKE A BEGINNING.
Remember, in all things, that you
do not begin, you will never come to
an end. The first weed pulled up in
the garden, the first seed in the
ground, the first dollar in the saving
banks, and the first mile travelled on
a journey, are all important things;
they furnished a beginning, a prom
ise, a pledge, an assurance that you
aro in earnest with what you have
undertaken. Row many poor, idle,
erring, hesitating outcast is now
creeping and crawling his way
through the world who might have
held up his head, and prospered if,
instead of putting Off his resolutions
of amendment and industry, he had
only made a beginning!
TO HUSBANDS.
Winter wood, prepared in advance
and well seasoned, will make a sweet
tempered wife, a warm .room, and a
cleanly well.couked meal. It will
cost less wood. It will work easier
when dry than when green It will
make more ashes. which arc among
the best of manures. It, will be a sat
isfaction to a man to know he has
such wood on hand. Your fire will
seldom, go out ; and if it does, it can
readily be built with seasoned wood,
but—can it with green ?
litiarExperiments have shown that
a man's finger nails grow their com
plete length in roar months and a
half. A man living seventy years,
renews his nails ore hundred and
eighty-six times. Allowing each
nail an inch long, he has grown
seven feet and nine inches of finger
nail on each finger, and on fingers
and thumbs an aggregate ofseventy
seven feet and six inches.
Apar Conscience is the voice of the soul;
the passions are the voice of the body.
NEW SERIF.S.-VCIL..S, NO. 20.
A. writer in Blackwood paints the
following picture of the desolation
that surrounds and enshrouds the
once mighty Babylonian empire :
"In the distance, high above the
,plain, loomed a great monad of
earth. On both sides of us lay what
looked like long
,parallel ranges of
hills. These lines are pronounced
to be the :remains of those. canals
that once conducted the waters of
the Euphrates over the length and
breadth of the ancient Babylonia.—
What mighty canals, they must
have been, that stiil .showed under
the roll :of , eenturiee such substan
tial traces ! Now not so much as a
drop of water; no, not even a drop
of heaven's pearly dew, ever glistens,
where once ships must have navi
gated. These mighty banks that
carried fertility to every corner of
the ancient kingdom are now mere
useless, sightless mounds.
No morning mist, moistening the
thirsty earth, ever bangs over them.
No rain clouds ever shadow them,
tempering the rays of a fierce daily
returning sun. The - end of her that
"dwelleth upon many waters" /as
been brought only too surely The
awful prophecies had been fulfilled,
i and desolation, in alt its nakesinese,
in all its dreariness, was around us.
After riding some two hours We-ar
rived at the foot of the great mound
that we had seen in the morning.—
We dismounted and scrambled to
the top for we had even arrived at
the ruins of Babylon ; and this
great mound of earth that we wore
ou was the grave of the golden city.
I believe from the summit, raised
some hundred feet above the plain,
the walls of the ancient city may be
traced. But a hot wind driving
burning sand and the impalpable
dust of ages into the pores of our
skins, made every effort to open an
eye so terribly painful that wagave
up the idea in despair of either trac
ing walls. or indeed, of looking
about us much anywhere.
I remember seeing, away to , the
west, lines of willows, and a silver
thread w nding away in tl e distance;
and nearer. some unsightly bare
mounds, looking as if some volcanic
fire had been at work underneath
the smooth surface of the plain, and
had thrown these mounds up in the
spirit of pure mischief. That silver
thread was our first glimpse of the
waters of the Euphrates, and the
mounds of all that remain of the
once beautiful hanging gardens of
Babylon ; at least so the conjecture
of men of research has accounted'
for them. But so completely have
the prophecies been fulfilledso
completely has the "name and the
remnant been cut off" of all pertain ,
ing to the once mighty city, LW,.
even the great hill on which we
were standing is only by conjeeture
supposed to be the ruin of some
great building or royal palace that
stood within the walls—possibly the
palace of Semiramis.
We descended from the great
mound, and male for. those lesser
mounds which are supposed to be
the site of the banging gardens of
Nitocris and Semiramis. In one
stop—the only thing we saw in the
shape of a building in a state of ruin
was a mass of vitrified brickwork,
piercing the old soil and debris of
centuries, angle upwards. The
bricks were square, of large size, and
beautiful make, the angle of some
clear and sharp, as if the brick had
but left the kiln yesterday, instead
of nearly twice two thousand years
ago. Turning into a little hollow
way between the mounds, we came
suddenly upon the colossal stone
lion. Time with his leaden hand
had knocked away all the sharp
angles of the statue. The 'features
of the lion are completely obliter
ated, as are also those of the pros
trate form that lies so helpless, so
utterly and wholly human, beneath
the upraised paw of the king of
boasts.
The group presents itself to the
eye, owing to the wear of old Time,
much in the appearance of those
vast blocks of Carrara marble which
the bold chisel of Michael Angelo
struck into, and then, at the point
that the shapeless marble bad be
gun to assume the merest 4 . 4 akbozzo"
of the great, sculptor's ideas; the
block was suddenly abandoned and
left as a wonder and a puzzle to
future ages, so does this group of
the lion and the man now bear an
an finished, no wrought appearance;
but you cannot, look at it a moment,
and not instantly avow the majesty
and granduer of the idea that once
lay there so mightily embodied.—
This dark colssal statue, which may
once have stood under the gorgeous
roof of a temple, and before which;
the queenly Semiramis, proud and
supremely beautiful, may once have
bowed, stands now canopied by the
grandest of all canopies certainly—
high heaven—but never noticed but
by the wind that sweeps moaning
over it and the jackals that yelp
around, as they hold high revel over
the.bones of some camel who ba&
been good enough to die in the vi
cinity.'
Stir A union of Methodist denoa
iostions in Canada is sovr agitate('
'BABYLON,