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Female Physicians.
From the Address of Ann Preston, M.
D., to the Graduating Class of the Fe
male Medical College of Pennsylvania,
delivered March, 1864, we select the
following paragraphs ;
Allow us, before we part, to urge
upon you the necessity of guarding
your own, health, by all prudent and
right precautions. This is a part of
your capital, and an instrument essen
tial to full success. Medical practition
ers, as a class, have not been noted for
attention to hygienic rules in their own
persons. That esprit de corps which
has despised personal danger, may have
contributed to this neglect. It is true,
there are objects more sacred even than
health and life. There are occasions—
they will come, probably, to you, when
no personal consequences--be they death
or long disease—ran deter the true phy
sician, or the true won Tan, from stand
ing at the past of danger; but nothing
save duty, should keep you from cul
tivating religiously those healthful hab
its in regard to rest and exercise, sleep,
food, dress, ventilation, &c., upon
which the power of sustained and ef
fective exertion is made to depend.
Abounding as is the vitality that some
of you possess, it has, nevertheless, its
stern limits. The expenditure of nerv
ous energy that your duties will involve,
will require seasons of relaxthm, of rest
and quiet for its renewal. By system
atically guarding these from unneces
sary interruption, and by adopting
sore general method in the employ
ment cf your time, you may do much
to render it more available for improve
ment, as well as to lesson the wear of
daily duties.
Ladies, in view of the possibilities of
your future, our farewell is mingled
with deep congratulation. Not that
success will come without patient exer
tion, nor that hard things, and dark
days may not be eneouutered, You,
also, must combat difficulties, tempta
tions, sorrows, and disappointments,
But these are the tests of life ; and those
only who meet them, and overcome,
become clothed with the garments of
strength, and hear in their inmost souls
the paeans of victory. •
God grant that no mistake on your
part, no lack of proper knowledge, care
or caution, may overwhelm you with
the awful consciousness of being respon
sible for the fatal termination of a case
confided to your fidelity and skill.
Entering the sanctuaries of families,
ministering at the ,sacred altars of life,
knowing the secrets of sad hearts, and
the needs of yearning humanity, we
can ask for you no deeper blessing,
thar that you may prove equal to the
glorious opportunities "to do good and
ru coqinunicate" which are opening be
fore you.
Whatever may be the gifts of nature
or of fortune, none are really strong,
save as they ally themselves• to truth
and right—to the everlasting and un
changing, and those alone retain through
life their sweet, childlike faith in virtue
and in humanity, who practise the one,
and strive to bless the other.
Ifeeping the Divine ideal of the per
fect physician before you, may you be
healers of the sick, sympathizers with
the poor and the suffering, enlighteners
of the ignorant, sate depositories of con
fidenee, faithful and wise eonesellors.
Even the silent effluence from a puve
inward life is a power for good, and a
perpetual sweetness in the world.
Walking onward with serene and
full trust in the Invisible, and the All,
Faithful, knowing that "duties are
ours and consequences are God's,"
you may lay yoUr burdens upon the
arm of Divine strength, and realize in
your own blessed experience the joy of
those who "walk on earth, yet breathe
empyreal air,"
Looking out for "Slightl."
There are spore people always look,
ing out for slights. 'They cannot pay a
visit, they cannot receive a friend, they
cannot carry on the intercourse of the
family, without suspecting some offense
is designed. They are as touchy
as hair-triggers, If they meet an
acquaintance in the street who hap
pens to bp pre-occupied with business,
they attribute his abstraction to some
motive personal to themselves, and take
umbarge accordingly. They lay on
others the fault of their irritability. A
fit of indigestion makes them see imper
tinence in everbody they come in con
tact with. Innocent persons, who nev
er dreamed of giving offense, are astki
ished to'findisoMe unfoitnnate• wqr4 or
ionic, momentary taciturnity mistaken
for insult. • ,
How to Keep Children Healthy.
The mortality among the children in oar
cities, as well as in the country, is sad to
contemplate. Is there any necessity for this?
Are all of these cbildreu sent into the world
to be thus early cut down? Are notzine out
of ten of these early 404 the result of ig
norance? What parents ever lost a 'Child,
except by accident. without thinking : "If
I had treated it
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, Pk, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1864.
Liquor in the Army.
Gen. Howard made the following sensible
remarks as to liquors iu the army, in a late
speech:
"I did not drink at college, I did not drink
at West Point; but, when I got into the army,
I found it was all the fashion. If you went
into an officer's quarters, the first thing was
to offer you something to drink. It was
thought you did not treat him with proper
respect if you did not. I fell into the habit.
I drank whisky, and offered it to others.—
When I was stationed at Florida, I once of
fered whisky to an officer, and he declined.
I urged him to drink, and he drank. A short
time after, I attended him in the horrors of
delirium tremens, and I made up my mind it
was wicked, and that I would never do it
again; and 1 have not. Ido not keep it in
my quarters or my tent. Ido not offer it to
any officer or to any man, and I will not.—
I know it is a hard stand to take, ezpecially
for a young officer; but I can say, from my
own experience, that it will pay."
From the Child's Paper
In the Beginning.
•'Where did you get yoar nice new warm
sack ?" asked a lady of a little girl.
"Prom God, ma'an," said the little girl
modestly.
"Why, did not your mother make it ?'-
asked the lady.
"Yes, mother SEW= it," said the child.
"And did she not buy the cloth of the shop
keeper ?" askod the lady.
"Yes," said the little girl, "but the shop
keeper bought it from the factory where it
was spun and wove, and the factory man
bought the wool from the farmer, and the
farmer took it from the Lamb's back, and the
lamb got it from God, who clothes the little
lambs with their soft wool to keep them
warm. The lambs could not dress themsel
ves, nor could their mothers dress them.—
God dresses them. So God is in 'the begin
ning, mother says, and without God I should
not have had it.'
That is the very first thing the Bible says:
"In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth," And so of everything in the
world Owe, every thing we eat, drink, wear,
or use, if we follow them up to the begin
ning, ws SW and God, It is God, God, God
everywhere.
Oratorical Generalship among Ohi!-
dren.
In skirmishing with boys and girls by
way of question and answer, it requires
considerable skill to avoid a surprise.—
In their unsophisticated minds, thoughts
lie in a much more natural order than in
ours. While we deliberately plot our
questions with a view to connect them
with certain answers, they are expected
to reply off-hand; and sometimes, i our
eagerness to carry one point, we leave
another unguarded, and are out-gener
aled.
In addressing a Sabbath school of col
ored children, the orator was desirous of
impressing upon his hearers the very
limited knowledge of the wisest of men.
some of you know more than the rest,
but that is very little, and what do I
know he exclaimed with considerable
emphasis, when *wore of voices replied:
Nothing sir !
In a recent magazine, it was related
of a temperance orator, in one of our
western towns, that in addressing an
assembly of boys, he said :
Now, boys, when I ask you a ques
tion you tuust'ut be afraid to speak right
out and answer me. When you look
around and see all these fine houses,
farms and cattle, do you ever think who
owns them all now? Your fathers own
them, do they not ?
-Yes, sir!' shouted a hundred voices.
'Well, where will your fathers be iu
twenty years from now ?'
'Dead!' shouted the boys,
'That's right. and who will own all
this property then?'
'Us boys!' shouted the urchins.
'Right. Now, tell me—did you ever,
in going along the streets, notice the
drunkards lounging around the saloon
doors, waiting for somebody to treat
them 1'
`Yes, sir; lots of them.'
Well, where will they be in twenty
years from now r
'bead exclaimed the boys..
'And who will be the drunkards
then 1'
IDS boys!'
This was the most natural reply in the
world, as it followed right on in the or
der of the questions. The orator prov
ed himself to be a bad general by not
sending a skirmisher forward before he
pot his feet loestioq, to see what the re
ply might possihly he.
Meditation.
In order to have the body invigor
ated, food must not only be eaten but
digested. And if we would have our
souls nourished and our spiriting
strength renewed, we must not only
listen to discourses in the Sanctuary,
but likewise meditate upon them when
we rfatirP to oar dwfdling's. The litter
duty however is too much neglected.
Phillip Henry says : "It is Wier to go
she miles tO hoer a sermon than to spend
one ven:aet afan haw in mediating
au it when I oome home, And observ.
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From the Child's Paper
The Two Apprentices.
Two boys were in a carpenter's shop.
One determined to make himself a thor
ough workman ; the other 'didn't care.'
One read and studied, and got books
that .would help him understand the
principles of his trade. Re spent his
evenings at home, reading. The other
liked fun best. He went off with other
boys to have good times. Come, he
often said to his shop-mat 'leave your
old books ; go with us. 'What's the
use of all this reading?' If I waste
these golden moments was the answer,
I shall lose what I can never; never
make up.
While the boys were still apprentices
an offer of two thousand dollars appear
ed through the newspapers for the best
plan for a state-house, to be built in one
of the eastern states. The studious boy
saw the advertisement, and determined
to try for it. After careful study he
drew his plans, and sent them to the
committee. I suppose he did not really
expect to gain the prize ; still there is
nothing like trying.
It was not !ong before a committee of
gentlemen arrived at the carpenter's
shop, and asked if an architect by the
name—mentioning the boy's name—
lived there. No, said the carpenter,
no architect. I've got an apprentice by
that name. Let's see him said the com
mittee. The young man was called. and
sure enough his plan had been accepted,
and the two thousand dollars were his.
The committee then said he must put
up the building; and the employer was
so proud of his success, that he willing
ly gave him his time and let him go.
This studious carpenter's boy became
one of the first architects of our country.
He made a fortune, and stands high in
the esteem of everybody; while his fel
low-apprentice can hardly earn by hip
daily labor daily bread for himself and
his family.
Who loses a youth of improvement,
loses the best beginning which a boy
can make in life.
From the Child's Paper
The Brave Boy. .
I was a going down one of the av
enues when I came to the corner of a
street where an intelligent looking lad,
thirteen or fourteen years o! 1, was
sweeping the sidewalk. As I. waited
for the cars, two other boys came up to
him, and a very animated conversation
followed. The new-comers had skates
in their hands, and began telling their
friend of the "splendid time" they
would have on the ice. It was Satur
day, the weather was cold and clear,
and they asked him to join them that
afternoon on the pond. He replied
that his employer had some work for
him to do, andahe was very sorry, but
he could not go.
"Well then, to-morrow we will have
fun."
'oh, not on Sunday," exclaimed the
brave boy in a firm voice, but with a
pleasant smile.
I took the car, but not without carry
ing in my heart a feeling of respect for
one who had stood firm for his con
science. He bad the courage to give
up hits own inclination for wbat he felt
to be his duty.
4 child who is morally brave, is the
one who, having fixed principles of hon
or, truthfulness, regard for parents,
conscientiousness in the fulfilment of
his-duties, respect for his Maker's will,
adheres to them. If that child knows
that web and such 4, thing displeases
his heavenly Father, be will not by any
human power be induced to do it ; he
is truly brave. ALPS,
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The Song of the Summer Wind.
I come from the Southern shores of balm,
From the spice -fields far away ;
I come with the breath of orange-blooms,
And the light of the Summer day;
I kiss the cheek of the fevered child,
And play with her sunny hair;
I soothe the woes of the sorrowing ones,
And release their hearts of care.
I bear aloft, to the white, white clouds,
The wondering school boy's kite,
And he gazes up till his eyes grow dim,
With a look of fond delight ;
While o'er the brow of the laughing one,
I toss the auburn curl,
As by the throng, in the lingering eve,
My pathless way I whirl.
I open the cups of the dainty flowers,
By wildwood, field and dell,
And I rock the fairies fast asleep
Who hide in the lilly's bell,
The tall grass nods as I wander by,
Aqd the brook up-murmurs with glee,
And joy and gladness spring up in my path,
Wherever my pathway be.
Oh, what would the warrior's banner be,
Were it not for my gentle power—
Aye, dark would be the patriot's hopes,
And darker Liberty's hour,
But the starry flag of Freedom's land
Floats gaily along the way,
And the freeman shouts with joyous pride,
As he views my force to-day.
I come with the voice of Hope and Truth—
I coins with the good God'a love,
And I bring earth's weary ones a taste
Of the joys of that land above,
I wisper to them of that inner light—
The love that never dies—
How the Soldier of the Cross may rest
On the fields of Paradise.
iordlantolto.
[From the Philadelphia Age.]
General Grant's Operations Compar-
ed with those of McClellan.
The siege of Richmond has at length
begun. General Grant has adopted
McClellan's plan of 1862, and has so
far developed himself as to show that
his operations will be in almost every
essential part a copy of the former
siege. McClellan approached Rich
mond from the east. Grant approaches
it from the northeast. AlcClellan's
northern flank was at Meadow Bridga,
and in the early part of his operations,
his southern flank was near New Bridge
six miles below, on the Chibkahominy.
Grant's northern flank is near Meadow
Bridge, and his southern flank is mov
ing towards New Bridge. McClellan
drew' his supplies from White House ;
Grant'does.the same. McClellan's first
maneuver; after reaching the Chicks
hominy, was'' to cut the Gordonsville
railroad between Hanover Court Houst
and Richmond. Grant will do it as
soon as possible. McClellan picketed
and held the country between Hanover
Court House, the Painitnkey, and the
Chickahominy. Grant is also doing it.
In almost-every particular the present
siege is a copy of the former one.—
Grant, however,
has an advantage
which McClellan had not. He controls
the military operations throughout the ,
entire country, and has now in has ar- 1
every available soldier. At this
Intent there is not an idle company
vwhere. Every man has been sent
t. His future operations bid fair to
similar to McClellan's. The enemy
ill confront him on the Chickahominy.
:is camps tall be on the borders of
ie swamps and his pickets in them.—
[o will find, as McClellan did, that
no Meadow bridge to New bridge is
le very strongest portion of the con
:derate defenses. Like McClellan he
rill avoid them, and must of necessity
;o further down the Chickahominy,
irosa over and advance against Rich
mond from the southeast. He cannot
go up the Chickahomiuy and approach
the town from the north or
Wi,ite House is east of Richmond, and
Grant thus exposed it the confeder
:es could easily come out of the south
le of the capital and cut off his sup.
: es. Grant has other advantages
'r McClellan. lie has the benefit of
- 11att's experience. He can avoid
mistakes of 1862. McClellan stir
red the ground, and left him socurate
ts, The signal corps of 1862 have
.on record the position and estpat
nearly all the confederate defenses.
-ee of McClellan's best officers—Han
, Meade and Smith—are aiding
Ant. fie and his troops have had
o years longer experience of war.—
great mistake made in 1862- 7 the
ibution of the federal army all over
country, and the failure to reinforce
Ilellan—has been rectified. But
. necessity General Grant will find
3 elf following McClellan's footstep*.
started from the Rapidan, intending
void them, but ' circumstances have
at him tnititm. lie bpi begun
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How Gen. Grant set out on his Cam
paign.
When he went away from here the
last time he fully understood the nature
and magnitude of the work before him.
' He was perfectly satisfied with all things
and modestly claimed that in his plans,
God would grant him victory. He also
remarked to his friends that, between
two such armies as Afeade's and Lee's,
success depended upon steady, persist
' ent pounding on the enemy, saving as
many of his own men as possible. He
believed he had the larger number of
soldiers, and a corresponding excess of
physical strength and endurance; and
by adopting his course he would be able
to wear out the enemy. Says Grant:—
"I will narrow this matter down to a
point. Suppose the enemy has two
thousand and I have three thousand
men ; can there, need there be any
doubt as to the result g The Army of
the Potomac is raised to destroy Lee's
army,and for that grand object I am go
ing to use it. With determination, and
patience, by my plan, I can and I will
whip the enemy." Now, when one re
calls and considers the conversations of
Washburne with his friends since he left
Grant's immediate presence, and the re
markable and characteristic dispatch by
Grant to the government, saying. "I
propose to fight it out on this line if it
takes all summer," and, withal, his few
announcements of fighting, resting, or
manoeuvering before the strongholds of
the desperate foe, is it not easy to see
how everything accords with what Grant
said when he left Washington 7 Veri
ly the American people have need of
patience and hopefulness in these times
that try men's souls. Clouds and sun
shine, calms and storing follow each
othea now-a-lays with wonderful rapid
ity.
" I Don't Like My Business."
There is no greater fallacy in the
world than that entertained by many
young men that some pursuit in life
can be found wholly suited to their
tastes, whims and fancies. This philos
opher's stone can never be discovered,
and every one who makes his life a
search for it, will be ruined. Much
truth is contained in the Irishman's re
mark : "It is never airy to work hard."
Let, therefore, the fact be always re
membered by the young, that no life
work can be found, entirely agreeable
to man. Success always lies at the top
of the hill ; if we would reach it, we
can do so only by hard, persevering ef
fort, while beset with difficulties of
every kind. Genius counts nothing in
the battle of life ; determined, obstinate
perseverance in one single channel is
everything.
Hence, should. any of our young
readers be debating in his mind a change
of business, imagining he has a genius
for e.ome other, let him at once - dismiss
the thought as he would a temptation
to do evil. If you think you made a
mistake in choosing the pursuit or pro
fession you did, don't make another by
leaving it. Spend all your energies in
working for and cling to it, as you
would to the life-boat that sustained
you in the midst c ‘ xf the doe= If you
leave it, it is almost certain that you will
go down ; but if you cling to it, inform
ing yourself about it until you are its
master, bending your' every energy to
the work, success is certain. Good,
hard, honest, effort, steadily persevered
in, will 'bake your love for your busi
ness or profession grow ; since no one
should expect to reach a period when
he can feel that his life-work is just the
one he could have done bee, and
would have liked best. We are allow
ed to see and feel the roughtmses in
our own pathway, but none in others ;
yet all have thew—Mats .3lcrchant's
Magazine.
Female Friends.
From Caxtoniana we take the follow
ing "It is a wonderful advantage to
a man, in every pursuit or vocation, to
secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In a woman there is at once a subtile
delicacy, of tact and a plain teundness
of judgment which are rarely combined
to an equal degree in man. A woman,
if she is really your friend, will have a
sensitive regard for your character,
honor, reputation. She will seldom
counsel you to do a shabby thing, for a
woman friend always desires to be proud
of you. At the same time, her con
stitutional timidity makes her more than
your male friend. She therefore set
! dom counsels you to do an imprudent
thing. By female friendships, I mean
pure friendships—those in which there
is no admixture of the passion of love
except in the married state.
A mm's best female friend is a wife
I of good sense and good heart, whom
be loves and who loves him. If be
have that he need not seek elsewhere.
But, supposing a man to be without
such 4 helpn4ate, female friendshii• he
Must kill hairs, or his int( Eect will be
without a garden, and there
' ill be
many an unheeded gy even in its
strongett fence. Bet** and safer, of
oonrie7qqati friendihiri where dicer-
ities 44: 7 m. rs or oirotitnstinclui, pia! ! :,14,
idea Grieve 'ent of the question. Mid.
die !Utilise rarely this einntege ; rip* .
stidoki agi 'brie. We - pay hive lik=
iftele friendships wit/timed inedigeNie
and those muck • - diestsmeeetree.'
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, N 0 .3.
Progress of Agrioulturel Knowledge.
Mr. John H, Klippart says, in a lec
ture delivered before the Teachers' In
stitute, at Deleware, Ohio :
The little knowledge which we have
of the modes by which insects may be
impeded in their destruction of ntftch
that is valuable to us, has Fobs* pro
ceeded from our contempt of their indi
vidual significance. The security oftrop
erty has ceased to be endangered by
wolves, bears, raccoons, opossums,
and even squirrels of late, and yet our
wheat fields are subject to the ravages
of the midge, and our gardens are des
troyed by aphides and caterpillars. If
the wheat cultivators of Ohio had thor
oughly understood the naiural history
of the midge, a loss of nearly ten. mil
lion bushels in 1854 could have been
avoided. Owing to the depredations
of the midge and other insects, the farm
ers of Ohio have lost nearly twenty mil
lion bushels of wheat during the five
years last past. From 1850 to 1853,
both iuclusive, the crops averaged 146
bushels per acre; the crops of 1854 then
should have been 21,548,641 bushels;
instead of which it was 11,819,100
bushels only, being a decrease, from the
average aggregate of 9,729,541. The
crop of 1856 was less than the average
from 1850 to 1853 by 6,247,357 ; the
losses attributable to distructive insecta
may be stated as follows :
1853,
1854,
1857,
Total,
Or about 14 per cent. of the entire
amount produced from . 1850 to 1856,
both inclusive, or 30 per cent. of the
amount produced during the four years
from 1853 to 1855. There is no iw
dustrial pursuit in the State, other than
that of agriculture; which cculd sustain
such extensive losses wtihout seriously
embarrassing not only those immediate
, ly concerned, but the entire industrial
community. In the Province of Cana
da this scourge was terribly destructive,
during the past year, destroying at
least one third of their crop, or about
8,000,000 bushels.
' Again, there are beetles which de
' posit their larvre in trees in such formid
able amnbers that whole forest perish
beyond the power of remedy. At one
place in South Carolina, at least ninety
trees in every hundred, upon a tract of
two thousand acres, were swept sway
by a small black-winged bug, and yet
the people there shoot the red-headed
wood-chuck, the great enemy of these
insects, because he occasionally eats a
cherry or spoils an apple. Almost all
our forest trees are infested with insects
which are destroying them. Since the
removal of forests insect forms appear
to be multiplying, and we now hear
complaints of insects destroying apple,
peach, pear, plum, and cherry trees as
well as their fruit; fifty years ago there
were large orchards in Ohio, but they
escaped the ravages of insects for
more than a quarter of a century.—
The enormous injuries which insects
cause to man may thus be held as one
reason for ceasing to consider the study
of them as an insignificant pursuit, for
knowledge of their structure, their
fetid, their enemies, and their general
habits, may lead, as it often has led, to
the means of guarding against their in
juries.
Mr. Bright of Philadelphia, in a let
ter to the Gafdener's Monthly, puts forth
the tbllow•ing
Manure, then, I say, chiefly upon the
surface. Do not waste your manures
by mixing them deeply with the soil:—
Plant shallow. Keep roots of all trees,
plants and vines, as near the surface as
possible. There are weighty reasons for
the position assumed in the last sentence,
which I have not space now to mum
crate. I say again, plant shallow.—
Let your soil be deep and dry, but plant
near 0.4 e surface. To farmers I would
say, manure the surface as much as pos
sible. Top-dress your grass, after mow
ing in July or August, under a burn:
ing summer sun; top-dress iu the fall,
} before and during the autumn rains;
manure the surface while the snow is on
the ground, while the March winds
blow, and while •the April rains fall.—
Manure your grass, instead of sour oorn
and wheat, broadcast, at any time when
you have manure and leisure, and
I will guarantee that you will be abun
dantly satisfied with the result.
To fruit-growers I would say, do not
fill your soil with manure before yOu
plant trees, grape vines, <te. Plant .it
good natural soil, and manure from the
surface, spring and fall, liberally and
properly, and I will guarantee you surfs
cess far greater than if you plant in
holes and trunehes filled with manure,
as the custom is. Surface manuring
and nualuiiiiig aro the true doctrines. I
am sure of it.
TO Fsaatima.—A good farmer will
never keep more than ten , dogs to eveyy
sheep. lie will deep out his stables at Leta
°noel every month. He will keep flve or ail
sticks of wood cut up ahead, more than Whet
is necessary for immediate sae. ,//e IFP/3X*
go to town and get on a spraf olimpqr
three times a week, at least lßtars . l4,o2 r ,
Be will be very careful not to ent p
0111 alias-fence, unless his neigMa• trthire
to help, him. He will riot' Wore Ws Wank
by View in bed- After S Otheilt Ac LAW
_hev• his oars wallett 1144010111011rillik.
wad his men at work as aivix, imhtaa
.. 401110 atilagr.
THE FA RMIER.
3,640,348 bushels
6,729,53 l g*
6,247,357 "
19,617,240
Sncfaoe Manuring.