otne ftading.
THE SABBATH.
Fresh glides the brook that blows the gale,
Yet yonder4alts the quiet mill; - 1
The whirling / wheel, the rushing sail,
Row motionless and still
Six days of toil, poor\ child i?t
Thy strength the slaveloflwant may be';
The seventh thy limbs escape the Flain—
A God hath weds thee free
tender teas theialv that gave,
This holy respite to tb4 brertst,
To breathe the gale, to watch the wln 1,
And know the wheel may, rest
But where the waves the gentlest. glide,.
What image charms to light thine eyes
The spire reflected : on the tide
Invites thee to the skies.
To teach the soul its nobl. worth,
The rest from mortal toils; is giten
Go snatch the brief reprieve from earth,
And' pass—a guest to 'l3eaven. 1
They tell thee, in their dreaming school,
Of power from old dominion hurled,
When rich and poor, with juster rule,
S.►all share the altered world. -
Alas ! since time itself began
That fable bath but fooled Ole hour
.Each age that ripens power in man
But subjeets man to power.
Yet every day in seven, at ilPastl,
One bright republic shall be known ;
Man's world a while hash surely ceased,
When God proclaims His own !
Six days may rank divide the poor,
0 Dives, irdm Thy banquet hall'
I The seventh the Father opens His door,
And holds his feast,fur all I
MODERN . CONVEIWA.TION.
,To listen to the conversation ; if by such 'a
name it can indeed be iiignified, of the young
people of the day is, to any .one who has‘been
accidentally absent from London' for even one'
season, to listen to an unknown tongue. .
UrdinarY English is almost entirely eschew
ed by , these young persons, Who discourse in a
jerky and disjointed mannerin an argot Of
their own, compounded apparently of contriL•
butions from the turf, the stable and the vo`- I i
cabulary of the street,' Arabs interspersed with
ejaculations from Punch and telling morceaux
trom•trepical songs in broad burlesques.- You
..may listen lf . you chOose ; but if you fait in.: the
shibboleth you will find yourself calmly ignor
ed and left to comprehend or not; as the cage
may be. But it is not only the manlier; it is al
-
So the • matter of the discourse, that is some- ,
what appalling to a reflective mind.
Disregard of the refinements of the English
language and contempt for the commonest re
strictions of grammar are bad enough, but Ithe
i i
throwing to the winds of very vestige of de
cency or reserve Is far wo e,And. it, is to this
state :3 things that we are, abroaehing With
rapid strides. I
Subjects which should not be so much as
named or even alluded to ig•-.the presence of
ladies are now.common topics of conversation I
even before the youngest girls, nay,. are often
introduced by them, in, ignorance, let \ us chart=
tably hope, of their true meaning. Formerly' a
married woman of many years' standing would
haveblushed hotly and have considered that, a
gentleman had postively insulted her if he had .
referred to divorce cases al other cognate
aclandres. Now the rule seeds to be that any
thing may be said to any one, and women ',ap
pear to be postiyely ashamed o r not lowing
every detail of the most unsavory sca i i4l, in
stead ot,as should - be the ease, being hetly, in
dignant '
at such things being refer i red, to ' , in
their presence. It proceeds from the very low
opinion which men now entertain of women,
and which they are at small pains to conceal,
though they often veil it carelessly aid half
ontempuously under exaggerated compli
ment. .
And to what is this low opinion due ? 41def
ly to the conduct of the young married *Omen
who, empty headed and follish, think it very.
hill° be treated: with proper deference and
respect, and encourage doubles e 4 d
endres anti
abandon all womanly, dignity for t.he sake Of
auncting round them 'an ostentatious court of
fast men / who treat them; almost en caniaiade
to their faces, and sneer at them and 'pity their
husbands behind their backs. Even in these
tree-and-easy days a man is generally quite
keen enough to appreciate ari
Ind
the sort, of
woman to whom he is talking, 'lnd tbere is hut_
little danger of his commencing a doubtful
story without some decided enconrageMent.
The girls have caught the infection from the
fast young married women, and endeavbr to
emulate them in freedom of conversation, jeal
' ous of the manner in which their partners s i re
rniblesslYlured away from them, and leiger to
be quoted as exceptiOns to the dictum-of the
day that "girl's are so heavy ,in hand." And
their mothers, who should 'be wiser, are weak
enough to argue that it is the fasl/ion ;'that if
their girls are quiet and digeified they will by
voted prudish and slow,' and that it will dimin
ish their chances of marriage. Indeed i so great'
is the force of custom that:. topiei; of conversa
tion that would once have appalled them now'
aPpear perfectly natural, and they "see no .
harm" in their girls talking like others. Ent
even in a purer atmosphere, where the taini f
the fast set has , not yet penetrated, converts -
tion, though free froth indelicacy ; is still liable
' to the indictment of being probably slang and
certainly insane. ~
Palo and "finking," linking and polo—on
these the charges are rung ad (2071 1 41 m ; • while
it is Surely a devefopment peculiar4o modern .
dads to hear young men graft- discussing
toilets in all their details' with t e keenness of
appreciation formerly believed- t.', l ,' be peculiar
,to milliners.
._The reason `of the frivolity r wen ral ilia- -
course is not difficult to discover - fleepe sub
lea require to tie read about and tlidught'ov--
er, and the young people of the day would
grudge an hour td what they would consider
such uninteresting pursuits.
Fortierly a gill who -knew nothing about
what was going on in the world beyond her
inpnediate circle of friends and round of amuse
ments would hOe been exceptionally ill-in
formed ; it wPs expected of her that she should
be able to converge at,leasi-on such simplez,sub
)ects, for installed, as the loss of the Deuikch.
iand, the .tragedY of the - Mosel, the Malay
war, or even the result of the last election that
may have taken place. Now, unless tbe infor
mation is impart4l to her by her partners in
the ball-room or 3the skating-rink, sate knows
withing whatever; of what, is passing around
her; save, indeed,p the newest piece of scandal
or the last announced marriage. She has no
time, even If she ;possessed the inclination ; in
London those miming hours" that once afford
ed at least the Possibility of quiet reading and
intellectual growth ha 4 been ruthlessly swept
away by the Juggernaut of fashion and crux -
ed beneatft the wheels of the Pliinpton skate li ;
in,the country sbe is walking with the ?ports
men, even if she herself does not shoot, rifling
to hounds, rowing in the nearest piece of water
when the water is warm, or skating upon it
when the frost confines the hunters to their
loote boxes: Nit l urally she is too tired' for any
literature deep9r . iban alight and prohqbly last
novel to prove aOractive to her ;;Jand, indeed,
it physical fatigue did not insure this result,the
incessant excitement of the life would have
much the same effect.
if the Muscles Of the body are left long un
used they becom stiff and comparatively use
. , i ,
less; at least as mticb may be said for the pow
ers of the mind. i If day. after day and week'
after week girls re allowed to live 'in an in
cessant whirl of dissipation, never opening a
book graver than a novel, and seldom reading
even that, never I peaking of any subject deep
er than the last skating fall, , the next polo
'match, or the most
. remarkable dress of the
day, what ., hope ie there that their brains will
ever mature into the capacity for better things?
Rather, will theyl L not go on from bad to worse?
—London World. ; .
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THE' WEALTH OF BRAZIL.
All intelligent travelers who have visited
Brazil speak in the most
~ glowing terms ot the
country. Protesa i or Agaisiz regarded it as the
most productive and interesting country, on the
globe, and the one in which it is the easiest to
obtain a livelihoo i d. Some who have sailed up
the Annazon declare that a vessel can be load-.
ed with Brazil nuts at an expense of only a
few cents per bu i hel. These constitute a valu
able article of commerce, while the oil extract
led from theui is Very , desirable. All the tropi
cal- truita are produced in Brazil altruist without
cultivation.. The, soil in many parts of the
country will prooluce twenty successive crops
of cotton, tObaccn, or - sugar cane, without the
application ot manure. No country in the
world approaches the llind ot Dom Pedro in
the variety of it.i forest productions. Profes
sor k k
Agassiz states that he saw 117 different
kinds Of valuable 'vrt)ods that were cut frona a
piece of liind not half a mile square. They rep
resented almost ( every Variety f color, arid
many of them !werewe capable of receiving a
high volish. Orr
_tree /furnishes wax that is
used for candles, another a pith that is used fOr
food, and still 'another yieldi a juice which is
used in the, Oar ot intoxicatinq liquors.—
There is a single variety of palm from which
the natives of Br.slil obtain, food drink, cloth
_
• ing, bedding, coidage, fishing-tackle, medicine,
and the\ material Uley , manufacture into dwell
ings, weapons, karpoons, and, musical instru
ments. Doubtless the day\ is not distant when
the valuable 'wo!?ds of Brazil will be used hir
various useful an 1 ornamental purposes. Bra
zil is not•only a' wooden country," but a coun
try that produces the mosr i wonderful woods in
I
the world. •
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LOVER AND 'HUSBAND: _
. . ,
\ Perhaps there; is no:more painful time in a
,
woman's life than the time'of transition, when
the assiduous brier' is passing' into the matter
of-fact huOand, land -the -wooer is, gradnally
changing into the matter. \ Women, who are
So much more s'nsitive than men, more Send.
mental, too, and less content to trust in silence
to an --undemOn4rative 'affection, are for the
}-, • i
Most ' part happy only while they: are being
MadelOye to .It is not enough. to - he loved ;
they want to •bel told:twenty times a day, and
.ti.) have the harmonies of life enricbed by - a
crowd of "occasional notes," embroidering the
solid substauce ,by which they live: •
I •
`Men, on the, .'contrary, get tired of making
• ~
love. When they.have wooed' and won, they. ,
are content to ,bel quiet., and to take all the !rest
for granted. - They are not cold, however be- .
cause they . are edcu' ; and to most—and those.
1130 best—pract+l kindness:is better than Oat
wry, security ranks before excitement and hys- •
' terra, and life .paised . in- serene friendship, fear
ing no 'evil, kno l +ng no break, and needing no
:praising, is better tl4n life passed
. in a perpet•
ual . turmoil of passiOn, where there are seenus
, s,nd tears,. and ( i doubts aud broken hearts, if
there are not enifleka ' courtships and fatiguing
demonstrations : i - 1 . • . , .
•
.
' .A. pump that lis used much brings water
nuickly.and he who. prays much In secret will
ot have to 'wait long is public before the init.-
it comes: Be;AlJcided about ,the matter. Do
not be put or: ;Vise - very idea of 'vsiting im
plies patience in asking. You mu 4 exp - ect the
answer, and keep waiting' until i(4ames.
..El!-
jah kept prayingland looking for rain until the
.clond made 'its- ".. r i ppitrzenc . e. :Then . he --knew
'that tbe‘,ansiver:Was ceming. .... ..
Like.an inundation of the Indus is the course
of tune We loot. fm the homes of our chit&
hood, they are cone ; for the friends of our
childhood, f ne ;' . the loves and ani
mosities of sere are they ? Swept
away by the
the attriay
Study to b
THE DEMOCRAT, JUNE 21, 1876.
t have been pitched in
THE GRAVE
'Grace Greenwoqd. the •celebrated American
author*, writes thus to New. York from Lon
don :
Wesqninster A bey is the first shrine to
wards which all good Americans wend their
pious *Ay. I fon d it little changed from the
time of my first ,isit. lIV hat is' a quarter of a
century; to the Mkhuseleh of. ministers ? We
sought it in a right worshipful spirit) and, true
and tender reverence, which proved that trans
,planting had failed to kill the o ld
, English root
of sentiment—that "many waters cannot
quench ..love." C4iming back to the temples of
our fathers, faith; o the ancient monuments of
our gloiiqus dead, ooking into the solemn arch
es still-dim with I he morning twilight of our
history; we felt like so many "loat sheep' of the
house of Israel" r turned to- the old fold.
Afterattendinglservice, which surely did not
lesson our reveren l tial feeling,we walked direct
ly to the Poet's Cerner, and in a brief moment
were stabding on the very slab which covers
the grin're of Charles', Dickens. It is a most un
obtrusive stone, bearing only his name , and the
date of his birth tnd death. I had come that
morning from Ttivistock Square, where I had
gazed Wistfully a$ the house in which on my
first visit to Lowy:on I had seen Mr. Dickens—
young, happy, brilliant—surrounded by his lov
ing family and tiroops of loyal friends, and it
al'. seemed so recent that the bright scene al
most effaced trommy memory thelater picture
of Charles Dickers in Anierica, so sadly chang
ed—looking so w orn and overstrained, yet so
'strangely restless-I-so resolutely and preternat
uarlly active—alie in every nerve and fibre of
body add brain— o receive and to give out—to
enjoy and to su,r. SO it seemed to me, as I
stood there, that he had gone before his prime,
in the 'rooming tlplendor of his fame ; and I
could not be reconciled to his lying there in the
sombre twilight •tvhich better befits the sober
ness of age, and the pomp and exclusiveness of
'what is railed nobile birth.
It is a grand tl4ng, doubtless, to be buried in
Westminster Abby, but it is a dreary sort of
isolation in death for a social, kindly like
;
Dickens. No fri nd can come to keep him
company ; no child may be laid by, his side: 7
He love=d light, land warmth, and color ; all
cheerful sights and sounds. Change was tieces•
nary to his alert spirit, and'he should have been
laid in Some plealant open burial-ground in or
near the great ci, with the sounds and move
ments Of,every l ay -life about him. That' was
the life he loved ; to paint. He never was at
home 'With lords ind ladiel He has gone into
magnificent baniShment here,wbere. s the perpet
ual tramp of st range feet, coming and going, is
like the ebb and low of a I sea across the gran
ite which shuts Wm down amid unkindred dust
where no faintest influence of the sun, no inti
mation's of the changing seasons, can cotne.—
~
But they say his coffin was heaped high' with
flow ers l Midsunimer went down with him it:kt.
to the grave, and was kid away with him in
fragrant, darkness there. And on each anniver
sary of his death there are placed on that cold
gray slab, the sweetest and brightest flowers of
;this festal month—crosses of white fillies and
roses, "pansies tfor thought," "rosemary fur re
membrance," and always a peculiar. offering
from some unknown htind—a wreath of scar
letgeraniums, looking in that shadowy corner
like flowering flame,' the very expression -of
plus. iouate love Lnd sorrow. ' -
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THE ICULTIVATION OF SYMPATHY.
1 „„,
--.--110 41-••••••
Sympathy is : n especial characteristic of
women, and its effect upon the human heart
may be cCmparet to the action 0 2 light upon
the optic nerve ; it transfers the \ picture from
without and seats if in 'the soul. By exciting
all the ;feelings *per to the_ suffering object, it \
4
gives -_ us the' in st perfect conception , of his
misery; causes u almost to forget our own sit
uation,r and time l y ourselves , the Auflerers.—
Though it is prollable this principle is no other
than a! modification of self-love, yet, as its ,ef
-1
'fects are instantaneous, and habit redbces it to
a kind of second
t ry instinct, experience justi;
ties us in the distinction between OAS source of
benevo)ence and that Which is an act of reason
grounded on an principle. , ..
SyMpathy is n t improperly termed amoral
taste, and, like taste I
.in finell it
n the tine will
of improvement by reason and cultivation.—
.
The sense of danger, frequently experienced,
stren-tberts our I antipathy to vice ; and. the
sense of utility i creases, by a - .common effort
of the (mind; 0 i give of \ that moral beauty,
which we learn tpi be profitable to us. In .very
refined! persons, 1 sympathy proves a fruitful
1 i
source of virtue v. - -but, in common minds, its
operatiCns are fe ble and uncertain ; for,,as the
sympathetic feels
,igs may be.increased by pro
per culivation, sc they
. may be almost a.nnihi-1
laterrhY false reasoning, by being conversant
with scenes of cr elty, or even by neglect.—
Reason!, then, fur ishes us with a rule of con.'
duet; flunded on the considerations of our real
and permanent interest, and sYmpathY, by a
i
ii i
kind ollinstant 1 I spiration, prompts us tC those
benevolent aclio s where self is not immedi
ately cOncerned. In the training, therefore, of
the futUre woma , care should be taken to ed
ucate the sympatied, in order that the desira
ble means may be attained which dieting fishes
between the sympathy of reason and that mere
blind impulse dictated by !feeling, which bastes
• i
its pity on unwo thy' or undeserving_objects,
1 - ~ .
No mocking in
so h011nw" as th
happiness. What
Happin'ess ' is no
mould, and tilled
a glory ;shining - 4
en. Shia- is a - di
certain of its su .
upon, itifrom anta
age . of . t parad is e:: .1
,
Be often rem ,
It Is to lys saved,
Ilike angels, and
to alt eternity.
•
Discretion in s
F CHARLES DICKENS.
this world ever sounds to me
tof being told to cultivate
t does such advice mean ?
a potato to
be, planted in
with' manure. 4appi4eas is
r down upon us out of limy
vine dew which the su'al, an
mer evenings, teAs dropping
,ranth bloom and golden!fruit-
bering Mint a nlessed thing
gp heaven. to be imade
dwell with, God anii
eech Is more than eloquence.
26' eriLTENAHOID s
The Attention of the readers or the boxousair, le ailed to the fact - that!
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gat the above nsimed place, audits° to the fact that :goofs bought in this way
TIIET CAN BE BOUGHT OUP WHEN CASH IS ERN.
, -
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bought close for cash can be sold at low prices. To 'satisfy yourselies of this fact, when at Binghamton, call and
examine the general stock of Furniture and prices at 16 Chenango Street.
May 31, 1876.
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Everything * New and :Fresh at Popular
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•
MO yards of best'prints in market, sold during the past
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