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PiOrtlialltinO.
Edmund Burke, one of the greatest
men, spoke or wrote as follows :
"Thank God, guilt was never a ra
tional thing; it distorts all the faculties
of the mind, it perverts them, it leaves
a man no longer in the free use of his
reason ; it puts him in confusion. He
has recourse to such, miserable and ab
surd expedients for covering his guilt,
as all those, who are used to sit in the
seat of judgment know, have been the
cause of detection of half the villainies
in the world." * * * "God fbrbid,
that guilt should ever leave a man the
free undisturbed use of his faculties.
For as guilt never rose from a true use
of our rational faculties, so it is frequent
ly subversive of them. God forbid
that prudence, the first of all the vir
tues, as well as the supreme dictator of
them all, should ever be employed in
the service of any of the vices. No, it
takes the lead, and is never found where
justice does not accompany it, and, if
ever it is attempted to bring it into the
service of the vices, it immediately sub
verts their cause. It tends to their dis
covery, and, I hope and trust, finally, to
J. A. J. Bin/LANA:I
J G. IllTClaig
As a confirmation and in illustration
of the above remarks, which are full of
wisdnu, read the following story, told
by the ex-chancellor, Lord Loughbor
ough, athrwards Earl of Rosslyn, which
I extract from a very interesting paper
("Diaries of a Lady of Quality"), in a
late number of the Edinbnrgh Review:
"At a large school in the country, a
rebellion took place among the. boys.
The master, very anxious to know the
name of the ringleader, at length either
by throats, or bribes, or both, induced
one of the boys to disclose the name of
Davison. He was, of course, severely
punished and expelled, carrying away
with him sentiments of deadly hate,
instead of the affection he had formerly
felt for his school-fellow. Many years
intervened, during which they never
had the least intercourse. The young
man who had peached went to the East
Indies. He returned and landed on the
coast of Devonshire. Stopping to dine
at a small inn, he inquired of the waiter
what gentlemen lived in the neighbor
hood; and hearing that the squire of
the parish was a Mr. Davison, the name
struck him ; he thought he recollected
that his thriller school-fellow used to
talk of his home in Devonshire, and
while his dinner was getting ready, he
determined to go to the squire's hOuse.
A maidsservaut, opened the door ; he
sent in his name, saying that, if Mr.
Davison had been educated at such a
school, he would recollect it. •He was
introduced and most cordially received
by his school-fellow, whom he had
found laid up in a fit of the gout, and
was pressed to dine, with many apolo
gies for bad
. fare, test., Mr. Davison
having, unfortunately, given permiss,
ion to all his servants to go to a neigh:-
boring plane, and having kept only the
woman, who was his nurse. Mr. Da
vison appeared so rejoiced in talking
over old stories with his friend, and
pressed him so strongly to be charita
ble enough to pass another day with
him, that at last he consented. Next
morning the unfortunate guest was
found with his throat cut sfrom ear to
ear. Of course, the maid-servant was
taken up on suspicion ; indeed, as it
seemed impossible from its nature that
the wound could be self inflicted, and
as she was the only creature in the
house excepting her master, who was
unable to move, there did not seem to
be a doubt. The trial came on ; Mr.
Davison appeared as prosecutor; Lord
Rosslyn was his counsel. In spite of the
poor girl's protestations of innocence,
the case seemed nearly decided, when: -
Mr. Davison sent a note to his counsel
desiring him to ask the girl whether
she heard any noise in the night ; Lord
Rosslyn objected ; but his client insist
ed. This tiepins tp haye been one of
those strange perversions pf intellect by
which guilt is Qrdaiued tq betray itselt
when ail the artifices which bas accom
panied it is lulled to sleep. What
could have been the object of this in_
quiry does not appear; its effect was fa
tal. The girl replied that she recollected
hearing a noise along the passage,
which had awakened her, but that, hav
ing been much fatigued during the day,
she was too sleepy to get up and in
quire the cause. More questions were
asked ; the noise and various other cir
cumstances described; suspicion arose
against Ali. Davison; and the business
ended in avowing himself the murder,
er. - (le said that from the moment in
which he first helield the face of his old
school-fellow, he had determined up-
on revenging his ancient, quarrel by the
death of the offender. He had crawled
on his hands and knees from his own
room to that of his unthrtunate guest,
and unable to support higraelt without
the use of his hands, he found great dill
ficulty in opening the door, but, help
ing himself by his teeth, had at last
achieved it, reached the bed, and per,
petrated the horrible deed. Ile 4:leo
crawled back, and had contrived tq
free himself from all blood-stains, he,
fore he got into his own bed. It was
the extraordinary noise made by his
crawling wkiicli had clisturbed the maid
servant, am 1,, at last, .led to his dafection.
JOHN PHEL•N
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gdp•The people of Lancaster, New limp
etre, otilehrrtell . de the 14th init., the hurl
thith mosteetury of the ittetoniff their
twat
A Dark Story.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1864.
Terrible Story of a Young Mother.
The Frankfort (Germany) journals are
teeming now with reports of a trial
which was being held in that city, and
which has revealed a tale of misery sur
passing that which any sensation nov
elist has penned. The arraigned crim
inal was a woman in her 25th year,
named Julia Krapf, who was charged
with the crime of triple infanticide.
Notwithstanding her youth, she looks
fully fifty, so wrinkled with hardships
of every kind is her face, and so bent
beneath the weight of care her form.
Her husband, who was an engraver,
committed suicide three years since,
leaving her with three young children,
and nothing to support them. The
poor woman worked late and early for
them. She took in washing and .she
took in sewing, but owing to the low
ate of wages, she received, she could
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not succeed, with all her industry, to
drive the wolf from the door. But her
situation became desperate when work
failed altogether, and a sore foot pre
vented the unfortunate woman from go
ing to seek more. Then came the land
lord, who,finding her wretched sticks of
furniture would not, it distrained, pay
a week's rent, ordered the tenant to
leave the premises. What to do, then,
she knew not; and one evening as the
children became clamorous for bread,
she made up her mind to suffocate her
self and them with a piece of charcoal
which she borrowed from a neighbor.
This neighbor shortly after went to Ju
lia Krapfs lodgings, and found her still
living and all the children dead. When
arrested.and brought to trial, the un
fortunate woman, with tears streaming
down her cheeks, said she could not re
gret what she had done, because it was
more merciful to kill her children than
tqjet them endure all the pangs of dy
ing of aarvation.
A Singular Contest
Iwo gentlemen of high birth, the
one a Spaniard and the other a German,
having rendered Maximillian 11. many
services, they each, for recompense, de
manded his natural daughter, Helena,
in marriage. The Prince, who enter
tained equal respect for'thern both could
not give any preference, and afteranuch
delay, told them that from claims they
both had to his attention and regard, he
could not give his assent for either to
marry his daughter, and they must de
cide it by their own prowess and ad
dress; but as he did not wish to risk the
loss of either or both by suffering them
to fight with offensive weapons, he had
ordered a large bag to be brought, and
he who was sueoessful enough to put
bis rival into it, should obtain his daugh
ter. This strange combat between two
gentlemen was in the presence of the
\whole imperial court, and lasted half an
hour. At length the Spaniard yielded
to the Germaq, Andre Etlmarp, the
Baron of Tetherd. who, when he had
got his adversary the bag, took him
on his back, him at the Em-
peror's feet. the following clay
niarrieci the bc:;:kitiiul Helena.
A Neglected Scratch.
A clergyman lately told a story about
a man with whom he boarded when a
college boy. The man was at his work
one frosty morning, and happe.ned to get
a little scratch on the back of his hand.
A single minute's attention would have
caused it to heal in a day or two. It
was neglected. A slight inflammation
appeared, when a single poultice would
have reduced it, but it was neglected.—
The whole hand became inflamed, and
should have had the best medical atten
tion, but it was neglected. The arm
and shoulder and back were seized with
pain, and now all was alarm and confu
sion. Twelve physicians were soon iu
attendance to consult upon a case.—
The question was, whether the cutting
off the limb would save the man's life,
and it was decided to be too late! The
disease had gained a mortal bold, and no
human skill could arrest it. A vicious
habit, an indulged little sin, a neglected
duty, how easily they are taken care of
if we are in season with them, but how
stubborn and ruinous they become if they
are jPt , AIRIT!
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A CAVE OF MUMMIES IN MEXICO.-.
General John Wilsoa, who has arrived
at San Francisco, 'from Sonora, Mexico,
has with him a few curious relies, which
deserve the attention of archaeologists.
They consist of a human foot, with
pieces of the wrapping which encloses a
large number of mummies found in a
cave near Chiricahin, near the line of
Sonora and Chihuahua. . The cave is a
large one, which the mummies appear
to fill to the depth of nearly forty feet;
arid though in the neighborhood, among
the Indians, are traditions extending
back some five hundred years, there is
nothing that can explain the filling of
the cave with these bodies, which appear
to have been preserved by the pres
ence of a large amount of saltpetre.
A young married lady traveling a
few days since from New 'fork to Syr
acuse, and sutlhring from consumption,
had been laid carefully on npillow in
the oars by her husband, while her lit
tle girl remained by her side. At Lit
-40 Falls a ha fell asleep, and the child
commenced fanning her, saying ma-
ma. sleeping. A passenger, however
noticed the peculiar ablifesess of her
lips,. and on 4bsely **4 dis
covered that she was dead,
A Terrible Case of Starvation.
Says the London Daily Telegraph,
June 29 : Like a gaunt and ghastly
shadow from another world startling a
blidal feast by its unannounced intru
sion—like the terrible writing on the
wall—every now and then the report of
a coroner's inquest drives the blood
back to the heart, and turns laughter
into sighs. The morning's paper, open
ed in the pleasant breakfast parlor, re
ports the great doings of England, and
its mighty commerce, of its ceaseless en
terprise, of the thousand evidences of
its almost unimaginable wealth, of its
splendor and its power; but we tarn to
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another page, and side by side with the
records of pomp and state the eye is
arrested by the heading of some such
paragraph as "Death from starvation."
Now, it is an aged woman friendless
and atone,now a strong man prostrate by
sickness and stricken in his prime, anon
the parent of a group of helpless chil
dren who are flung on the tender mer
cies of the world ; for hunger knows
neither age nor sex, feeding alike on all.
The latest ease before us illustrates the
condition of a too numerous class. A
poor woman named Ellen Smiles, aged
fifty-seven, lived with three children in
Osborn street, Whitechapel ; her hus
band died some weeks ago, and she and
her family occupied one miserable apart
ment, destitute of furniture, unless that
name can be given to a bed on the floor.
The family consisted of two girls,
eighteen and nine years, and a boy of
fourteen ; but the whole means of sup
port fbr the four persons was derived
from the labor of the eldest daughter.
She was a maker of match-boxes, and
early and late the poor girl toiled with
aching and weary fingers to win a
mouthtull of bread for those around her.
The pay—it that word may be used—
was two pence per gross, twenty-tour
dozen, boxes and lids, out of which the
paste used in the work had.to be found,
and string provided for binding the
bundles as they were finished. All her
endeavors brought but five shillings,
two shilling and sixpence of which went
for rent, and or the other moiety four
persons had to live—to sustain vitality
on sevenpence—half penny each for
seven days! The end is already known.
The mother fell ill on Saturday week,
and, by the advice of a fellow-lodger,
the daughter went to the workhouse
for relief. Then conies the old, old
sti,ry ; through ignorance she went to
the wrong place ; she applied to the
relieving officer forSpitalfiolds instead of
the one fUT Whitechapel parish, and she
got nothing, but was told to come
again on Tuesday morning. On Mon
day night the lodger heard the girl
walking all the dark hours in the room
where her only parent lay dying, and
where death And famine reigned su
preme. A doctor was sent for, and
food begged from the neighbors ; but
the fight was past, and ere the medical
man arrived the poor mother's troubles
on earth were over.
At the inquest on Friday, evidence
was given that the organs of the de
ceased were heartily, but that the sto►n
ach and intestines were perfectly emp
ty : facts proving that she could not
have taken any food for a long time
previous to her decease. Many sad
tales have been told in our pages of
death from privation and want, but
none has exceeded this in its intense
agony and tragical accessories. Noth
ing that has ever been written or paint
ed of human woe surpasses the night
scene in this Whitechapel lodging house.
The imagination of Shakespeare him
self hits conceived no picture more aw
ful 'and heart-rending than that of the
poor daughter—yet a girl in years—
without food, without money, without
friends, without a stool to sit on to rest
her tottering limbs, alone with a dying
mother and a starving brother and sis
ter, walking around the pallet in hope
less despair, with none but the Allsee
ing Eye to look down and pity her.
Alen Smiles will soon be forgotten ;
those who are bone of her bone and
flesh of her flesh will kneel at her holy
grave, shed bitter tears, and turn away
forever ; but the main features of this
human tragedy are daily played, and
are too common to be kept constantly in
mind by the busy public.
A Very Old Relic.
The was brought to our office on
Saturday last, by Elisha C. Heritage,
Esq., a relic of antiquity really remark
able. It is an earthen pipkin, which
bears the date it was made deeply and
distinctly marked before it was put into
the kiln--the year 135`2—five hundred
and twelve years ago—one .hundred
and forty years before the discovery of
America by Columbus. It is in excel
lent preservation—a few little pieces
being broken out of the upper edge.
The which was also dated in the
same way was broken in the last twen
ty-five or thirty years. The family of
Mrs. Heritage (who was a Miss Souder)
can ..trace its possession back for more
than a hundred years. It was brought
from Germany by Peter Souder, who
Settled At Pepn's Neck, Salem county,
10`'Gren. 'McPherson, who was killed Rear
Atlanta on Friday, was engaged to he mar,
ried to & beautiful and ‘ccomplished young
lady of Baltimore. The dispatch announcing
his death by accident tell into her hands on
its arrival. it was addressed to her mother,
who, not being able to see well Without the
aid of her glasses, passed it to the
engaged t( the deceased, to *ekes
it recortled his death she instan tlykinted.4"
The emit was peculiarly aistrelmralt•
:yle of Religion.
Some one, whose head is usual'y "lev
el," has written out his ideas of religion
as follows : It will do to read and think
about:
We want a religion that goes into
the family, and keeps the husband fr,in
being spiteful when the dinner is late ;
keeps the wife from being spiteful when
the husband tracks the newly washed
floor with his muddy boots, and makes
the husband mindful! of the scraper and
door mat ; amuses the children as well
as instructs them ; wins as well as gov
erns thew ; projects the honey-moon,
into the harvest moon, and makes the
happy hours like the Eastern fig tree,
bearing in its bosom at once the beauty
of the tender blossom, and the glory of
the ripened fruit. We want a religion
that not only bears on the sinfulness of
sin, but on the rascality of lying and
stealing; a religion that banishes all
small measures from the counters, small
baskets from the stalls, pebbles from
cotton bags, clay ti.oin paper, sand from
sugar, chicory from coffee, beer root
from vinegar, alum from bread, lard
from butter, strychnine front wine, and
water front milk cans. The religion
that is to adymico the world will not
put all the big strawberries and peach
es on top, and all the bad ones •at the
bottom. The religion that is t o
sanctify the world pays its debts.—
It does not consider forty cents return
ed for one hundred given, according to
gospel, though it is according to law.
It looks upon the man who has failed
in trade, and who continues to live in
luxury, as a thief. It looks 'upon a
man who promises to pay, and who fails
to pay it on demand, with or without
interest, as a liar.
Domestic Economy.
Three pounds of flour, at eight cents
a pound, is said to contain as much nut
riment as nine pounds of roast beet,
which, at twenty-five cents, is $2,25;
that is, twenty-five cents' worth of flour
goes as far as nine times that much
money spent for roast beef, as weighed
at the butcher's stall. A pint of white
beans, weighing one pound, and costing
seven cents, contains as much nutri
ment as three pounds and a half of roast
beef, costing eighty-seven and a half
cents. Of all the articles that can be
eaten, the cheapest are bread, butter and
molasses, beans and rice. A pound of
corn meal (Indian) goes as far as a pound
of flour; so that fine family flour, at $l6
a barrel in New York city in July, 1864,
and corn meal at four cents, the latter is
just one half less expensive. If corn and
wheat were ground, and the whole pro
duct, bran and all, were made into bread,
fifteen percent. of nutriment would be
saved, with much greater healthfulness.
aarMrs. C. Both writes frona
Zurich, Switzerland, to the Milwaukee
Life, this characteristic incident: "Yes
terday,June 22d, the greatest celebration
ever known in Switzerland took place
at Winterthur, a thriving little city about
fifteen miles from Zurich. It was given
in commemoration of the foundation of
the town a thousand years ago, at which
time the keys were given up by Rud
olph of Hapsburg, who had until then
held the town. The city was crowned
and garlanded in the most tasteful man=
ner. and the street procession was tats
more magnificent and varied than that
of the usual carnival. All the old
weapons were borrowed for the occasion
trom•the various museums throughout
Switzerland, and exact representations
were given of numerous historical sceiies
heretofore considered quite too. oomph-
G ated and difficult for carnival represea,
titien."
Campaign Miscellany
A soldier in Grant's army tells the
following touching incident of the war:
"In one of the fierce engagements with
the rebels near Mechanicsville, in May
last, a young Lieutenant of a Rhode
Island battery had his right foot so
shattered by a fragment of shell that, on
'e,aching Washington, after one of those
wrible ambulance rides, and a journey
a week's duration, he was obliged to
idergo amputation of the leg. He tel
zaphed home, hundreds of miles away,
at all was going well, and with a sol
ices fortitude composed himself to bear
s suffering alone. Unknown to him,
il - e,ver, his mother, one of those dear
serves of the army, hastened up to join
Le main force. She reached the city at
Midnight, and the nurses would have
?pt her from him untill morning.—
fie sat by his side finning him while he
lept, her hand on the feeble, fluctuating
, ulsations which forboded the results
t what woman's heart could resist
ie pleadings of a mother then? In the
arkness, she was finally allowed to
lide in and take the place at his side.—
ie touched his pulse as the nurse had
,ne. Not a word had been spoken;
it the sleeping boy opened his eyes and
id: 'That feels like my mother's
ind! Who is this beside me? It is
mother; turn up the gas and let me
'e mother:" The two dear faces met
one long, joyful, sobbing embrace,
(..1 the fondness pent up in each heart
sobbed and panted, and wept forth its
expression. The gallant fellow, just
twenty-one, his leg amputated on the
last day of his three years' service, ua
dement operation after operation, and at
last, when death drew nigh, and he was
told by tearful friends that it onlf re
mained to make him co + rtable,said, 'he
had looked death in the tare too many
.:roes to be afraid now,' and died as gal
lantly as did the men of the Cumberland.
A New York correspondent referring
to what he saw in one of the Washing
ton Hospitals writes thus:—"The pa
tience of the poor fellows is wonderful,
but they cry out with pain when the
sponge or the doctor's hand touches the
wounded limb. One brave boy of eigh
teen was shot through the thigh. The
whole leg quivered, and his suppressed
groans were awful Just as the nurse
turned the light calico quilt over him,
he spied a Bole as big as a copper cent
near the fbot. ''For Heaven's sake,
doctor, sew up that wound in the quilt,
wo you?" The flies find entrance
under the sheet through the smallest
aperture. The next patient was one
whom the doctor had told a mouth ago
that he couldn't live. "I will live," he
answered. "I'm as good as six dead
men yet." His thigh was then one great
e-uurrenous ulcer. After three weeks
of the most watchful care, it was now
covered with its first skin, and the doc
tor says lie will recover. Yet his trials
are not over. "I will have to open this
spot with my knife," "No, doctor, you
won't, will you—it'll do without—say
yes:" But the knife did its office.—
"Ah, here is another schist of matter
that must be opened." That was with
in three inches of the former.
The poor fellow begged that the doc
tor would make "all the matter come
out of that one hole." But finding it
impossible, he said, "Well, nurse, hold
this arm over my head, and hold it
tight." In another minute the cut was
made, and this brave man will probably
be on his feet in a fortnight. These
scenes are heart-breaking. If those
who live in comfort at home could only
realize how much the soldier suffers on
his hospital bed, they would work with
both hands for their relief Help, help,
all you can, brothers, sisters and friends
—ielp the Sanittuy and Christian Com
mission.
From the Washington Chreicle.
To Obtain the Removal of the Re
mains of Soldiers to their Homes.
For the accomplishment of this desire
of the friends of soldiers dying in army
hospitals in this city, the Government
provides every facility within its power,
as it does to secure their decent inter
ment here, when the bodies are not call
ed for by their friends.
The course to be pursued by their
friends is as follows : To be on hand
themselves, or by deputy, fully author
ized by letter or telegraph message, be
fore the death of the soldier; go to the
hospital and secure a retold of the
death and a request for provision for
interment, signed by the surgeon of
the hospital, anti addressed to Captain
Moore, A. 44. M., 134 F street west,
with said memorandum ; to proceed to
said office befbre four o'clock P.
and there obtain an order upon the su
perintendent of the issuing office for a
coffin and hearse, when the body will be
transported to ally point in or about the
city, whither the friends may desire it
to be sent, whether to the embalmers,
the express office, railroad depot, steam
boat, landing, or elsewhere. The coffin
should be enclosed in a box, which the
friends or their agent should procure
and have taken to the hospital, that the
coffin may be so enclosed before /its re
moval from the hospital. The Govern
ment furnishes said box for officers,hut
not for privates. The cost of the box is
about six dollars.
In all these matters the agent of the
State to which the soldier helorkged resi.
dent in this city, can and should assist
the friends or their agent. The State
of Pennsylvania authorizes its agent to
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furnish a ticket of transportation (from
this city to their homes), of the body,
and one person accompanying it ; the
State of New York furnishes part trans
portation. The friends of soldiers of
other States to pay all the expenses
themselves.
At some of the hospitals the bodies
are embalmed, but not gratis, because
not at the expense of the Government ;
except at the Campbell Hospital, in
charge of Surgeon F. F. Sheldon,
where every one dying at said hospital
is embalmed without any expense to
the friends of the deceased. At the Ar
mory Square Hospital, the chaplain,
Rev. Mr. Jackson, prepares bodies of
the patients there or from other hospit
als for transportation for $lO each. The
charge of regular embalmers is from $l5
to c-i2O.
Care should be taken that the bodies
are well embalmed, otherwise the rail
roads will not carry them. They have
been compelled to put them off and
bury them by the roadside in several
instances, on account of the miserable
manner in which they were prepared.
Unless the friends secure the body
before burial at this season, they cannot
obtain it, fbr the - Government allows no
bodies to be exhumed until October.
This affection is very common at
this season of the year. It is induced
by the direct action of the sun's rays.
The premonitory symptoms are, pres
sure on the head, tingling of the blood
in the veins, and difficulty in breath
ing arising from the heat of the air. It
is very seldom that persons of robust
health and temperate habits are affected
with it. The affection in most cases
is preceded by debility of the constitu
tion, great physical exertion, violent
outbursts of passion, or immoderate
potations of either cold water or alcohol
ic beverages. When a person is "sun
struck" he down suddenly as if un
der the influence of an apoplectic fit:
and unless death be the immediate re
sult, the attack is very likely to termin
ate in inflammation of the brain. In
all cases of •sun stroke" the antiphlog
istic regimen is brought into requisi
tion, such as the application of cold to
the head, bleeding, both general and
topical. Coffee and strong tea are ad
ministered sometimes in cases of great
stupor.
Among the Arabs who wander in
the burning desert, whose diet consists
principally of vegetables and camels'
milk, cases of "sun stroke" are very
rare, the reason being, as alleged, that
their blood is not vitiated by phologistic
,neats or stimulating drinks. It is said
that Sir Jos. Banks remained in an oven
for twenty minutes where beef was be
ing cooked without being injured in.
the least.
Sun stroke was not unknown in the
days of Eisha, the prophet, as we learn
from the case of the Shunamite's eon,
2 Kings, 4 : 18-20. ~A nd when the
child was grown, it fell on a day that
he went out to his father to the reapers.
And he said unto his father, 'Mg head,
my head P And he said to a lad, carry
him to his mother. And when he had
taken him to his mother he sat on her
knees till noon, and then died." A
case is recorded also in the Apocrypha.
Manasses, the husband of Judith died
of coup de suleil. Judith 8 : 2-3.
"And Manasses was her husband, of
her tribe and kindred, who died in the
barley harvest. For as he stood over
seeing them that bound sheaves in the
field, the heat came upon his head, and
he fell on his bed and died in the city of
Bethulia ; and they buried him with his
fathers in the field between Dothaim
and Balamo."
The ln•eventives of this affection are
already well known, abstinence from
stimulating meats and drinks ; and the
wearing of large leaves or wet cloths on
the head. Fisheruces, in order to protect
themselves, fill the crown of their hats
with sea weed well moistened.
The Question of Economy.
There are many reasons which now
unite in commending to all the most
thorough economy. The scale of taxa
tion now provided is much heavier
than we have ever known before, and
future exigencies may even increase it.
To meet it is a patriotic duty ; but it
cannot be done with ease, it' at all, un
less personal economy becomes the rule
with our people. Secondly, the pros
pect now is that this year's crop will
not be elual to those of the two last
years, so that the partial scarcity, added
to the general enhancement of prices,
will he in danger of bringg a new
cause of distress on the community.—
Thirdly, Senator Sherman, who speaks
as the probable financial leader in the
Senate, says that "the limit, of paper
money is reached," and the new Sec
retary of the treasury seems to coin;
cide with those financiers who recom
mend the gradual contraction of the
currency. This process, immensely as
it is needed, will be irksome and sure
to bring on more or less of “hard
times." If to these reasons we add
the duty of saving in order to assist
in keeping up the fall strength of-uur
armies, and helping the sick and
wounded among our heroic defenders,
the duty of ecenomy „will - sWvaz ho
apparent to ail. On that, side ja,
g eir
tv, whether the war be yet lon
short,
.or whether the mach talked . of
crash ensues, or is averted, as !ea 'Ws
means only it can be.
Coup de Soleil.