lowa gtattlig. FATHER'S A DRUNKARD 'AND MOTH- ZLIS DEAD. Out in the gliorny night sadly .I roam, I have no mother dear, no,p)easant.horne ; . fnr 'one 'Vidiald'ery, Even if wor BeEtsieal!quld ' Barefoot and tired I've wariderekall day, Asking' for work—biifq'm too small, they On the'.damit ground I must now lay my head— " Father's a drunkard and mother is dead 1" itothei, oh I 'why did you leavelne alone, With no one to' love iie, no friends and no home? Dark is the night,and the 'term rages wild— God pity 13tesie,• the drunkanrs lone child: We were so happy till father drank rum. Then all our go i ;rows and troubles begun ; IretiVeigieti paler and' wept every i day,, Baby and I were too, hungry it., play. ,Slowly,they -faded, and .one summer night Foundaieir dear faces all silent and :whi s te;'. Thep, with big tears eluwly drepping r i.said "Father's a drunkard and Moiler' is 'ltied CROn"--41PlikeTs oh I 10y,'&4, - - Oh if the "tenip'rance.: ,only could find Paz wretched father and talk very hind If they could stop him from driokingl—why, then, . I shoultbe so very happy again I , Is it too late "limn of temp',rince," please try, Or poor little Bessie may soon stsrve and die. All day long I've been begging for bread— " Father's a drunkard and )notherls;dead I" cnonus.—Mother, oh 1 why, &e. . - CA:USES OF INSANITY. AN INTERESTING PAPER FROM THE BIIPERIN TERDENT Olt AN" ENGLISH•Aithark. Dr. Ciouston, physician , superintendent 'of the •Edinburgh asylurui:in, his annual repprt says : . Glancing over the summary bt assigned taus- 1 es, it ii3.7.at, once-seen Aat inteMperaiiim stands • out as by far the meat frequent.. , jt a alOne caus- ed forty'eight t ot 10, or,about twenty per cent• of the cases, Muckls properly said about the preventionl.ofl diseases nowadays. Most 'an.- questionably the Ell* total 'the mental di seases.in onr,city might Itti•e been 'lessened in that :404i it,tlie.alaiis nature hadc:been better'ObeYed. Fifty Of:the cage thus reSttiiing frOli \ AriUk ing and excesses 'being paupers, each costing . 227 a year -to the publiC•rates,,over, 21,300;will have been'paid 'for - One 'yCar 4 s production of lunacy from very preventable causes, aud,-of coo7se, this takes no account of the cost of th• old incurable eases, already , in the asylum from the same cause. ', sure = that intemperance Was the 'remote cause of the' disease' in 'more of the cases ; hut; even l allowmg for tbose, , ire cannot put this down as acconntingju, ; any 'way tor\ more than One in four in all cases of iUsanity.-- In assigning inteinpertinee as the cause of in sanity in a number of - eases; twb - thinks must not be. forgotten. - 'The ilyst is, that the taking of stimulants may not be a cause at all, but merely a symp ttm of the brain • disorder;, and, as a matter o>' fact; it is Wien one of the early- symptoms ' many cases. ,The second thing to be keptin,mind is that there are many cases in which it Is the real cause Ot-ilie the . tiientai balanceliis always been so unstable and , the brain werking so easily overset that a very lit tle alcoholindeed'viii; firing on - in attack of in sanity in these persons, just as in those same people fright or. a little over' excitement, will upset their sanity. :This is the class ot persons -Who, i n'my experience, "get upset by religious revivals. , • The resetting and rt"cuperative power that is really an essential part of - a healthy, nervous system, whereby the (fleet of not toe long con tinued overeating or overdrinking, overfeeding or overwork, are at once recovered from, is wanting . in these people. Nature provides that short excesses'o not do much harm to healthy people. It is. a poor sort of boiler whenever the exact pressure needed for its daily' workis exceeded. Before 1 leave this subject I may mention that I have not reckoned in any way themere drinking craving or the inability to resist-it insanity. 1 believe niis may or may mot be a real ,insanity in differeio caSes, but it wm from developed and unmistakable mental alienation that all my patienta'aufiered. When the causes of insanity of our efitity-four . private patients are Compare(' with thole of ale - 222 paupers, the diffeffsbce #s most stintini, and entirely bears out the general law already indi eattd. - • - 01 tiloseightpeiglt private patientsonen , tal causisi,ProdUced - thOdisease:in about thirty eight, physical being only twelv,e per oeut..un der them, while in the pLupers they were Mist one-third numerotia. These facts= tend strongly y to show that the highei in the Simlal scale go'the more strongly do cure:ytilen tal and 'moral shocks act in upsetting whealthy, mental balance, and that 'those causes ogerati more powerfulli oil the lower classei of siown PopulsOon ttuskan agricultural. , or , • A wonderful: uticzoacoßic watch has been pres.:nted'.) Macignhon by. the &We de l'Etorlogekk''a Booll. 00 n• so small,_that to tell the hour a glass of high . inagnifyitig power isneeded. 'Til DuedAmm e 'ale was,pres ent when this jewel , handed:to the Marshal, anitrelated holt his ancestor; the Due de PeuthleyrOyore,watobea in his vest buttons The Duke sobse i gttetitl7. ',ordered aot pf, putian cbroioometeie. for-shirt ffnd wrist lauds, Which will'be*dila'Ainis for 'tiii_Eihibition , of 1878. onouus. A CHINESE WAY OF DEALING ITH ,CORRUPT - OFFICgRB. The following extract from a China papetf gives a picture of .paternal government in•that'l CANtitry,in which the, precept of-not Sparing that rod isi carried into practice in • a way-which ought, to strike - terror into. .030. - hearts orthe official hierarchy. The- bamboo' ' hai long keen' known as ameffective - instrument : fc;r! goire'rnt . ing the musics' arid the'noiiection of offendera against, the . Chinese . code, hut there is' some; thief, novel as well as startling in: the idea of l a degraded official' being made to"-hold but his hand for a hundrod - blOiVis , to be adthiniatered on. the palms as. a- preliniinary caitigatton . for lilfthrersation. - such a inodnot 'dealing .Witif , s offitial pFactices were- - to become general we - might' soon hope to see anotable improtenieht-in the administrative deptirtmenta*bieb in Cbitia'are so notoiously bad andctirrtiPt.- ' . • !' We learn , ' that win of the' triandictins here,' had s windied .3 the :government' Out Of large I sum: of inotierwhensinakinsg oiettaseta Of 'War like tnaterialeattllonilKengduiiiii the Pizititno-' san affair, sal'`brought up for trial before the / redoubts,bletTinA the On'thelciurth of Augast this degradtd offieial witainihjeCtecl i 'its an introduction 'to son:milling' for him; to-a logging of one hundred bloiii.,On Ai() palms of has bands.' He 'Wit ' to have . hee4 ,hatnbooed 'in the usual way as other criminals obi thg hreechhut for hit hitter. crying and ire., hement entreaties, , coupled with the tact of his' not poi ng in very good health. The defaulting official is"surnamed Min, and is .related to a TitOutal t of. that nape wbc) was degraded at the, -sante thne . with the - Viceroy Ting Han in the Waising affair" No branch' of \ business can' be, successfully, prosecuted without labor, arid it is eqUally , true that a fair amount of intelligence is needed, in, ordirto succeed. Some people have an , idea, that anybody can run st:! farm, whether, they i haVe any intelligence of not ; but this is a gre at Itthitake.' ' - - Farinlngmeans more than ,merely following . a plow, or . plodding from day to daYwithout forethonght:or System: That many people are. failiireiits fanners is true ; but in „nearly every case the . failure arises not rrom a want of good, soil 121i , gopd Inarketkbut from a want ofinoper application ;of the Means Within`,reach _of ev. ery Who will :Avail Of , them. A man cannot .run a farm Without sy s tem ; and he must knoiv that his„time ismoney, ( that, his land will not'produce' without proper _ealtiya. tion, that different pieces ot the slime farm: are , adapted:to different .crops, and that every seed Must be put in the ground at the, proper seal son. - - • ._ _ •U is just, as logical to talk of an ignorant sah6ol-teacheetia an ignorant Winer. ,By ; this we do not mean t ineralk 'book knowledge.; for sotrie,inen haireynore practical sense , in running a farni'who cannot react or write than be who farnis it in algebraic style and in - the dead lan-, gnages. Theoretical knowledge is good, when :when made inactibal ; but en held as a mere form. . , of knowledge it is worse than no ideas at all, iin'educated farmer is not 'a,matisO much of books as 'of good hard 'sense. .He avails him , , • „ • self of the experience others, learns by ,ob, - sertration4 corrects his own mistakes, and lays 'his plans in ac4ordance...with allthe facts with in his reach: These are the men who ktceeed, ind'tnake tariniug a bUsiness vhich - yields' its rich'har vests and blesses mankind with the fruit of•his intelligence , and industry. °• ' - Wonderful ,ere the changes - that have been cffected of. bite'- years it:t the manufacture - of leather by the use of chemicals and-maebinery, in place of the old fashioned tan and the slow manipulation of the - currier and tanner.— If some of our leather manufacturets could be *resurrected,-nien who were - accustomed td soaking their'hides for years, and'iurning them assiduously at certain seasons—how they would stare to see the present prOcessi But every day we hear of something now in this three- A joint _ stock company recently formed in Detroit tor the purpose ot tanning leather in an houi. We give the information for what it is worth ;'but, it . ceriainly does look like sleight ;Aland. The prOcess is a ,chemical 'one per formed by the , "action of certain inexpensive , materials, the compounding of which in the right prOportians is a secret. It is claimed that robes, umned,with the hair on, ant soft as the finest wool • hides of the deer horse, dog etc are smooth and soft, while. calf ands kip show the texture and grain :which ,good shoemakers most admire.. ',lip - hip*: is required except to give the prhper coior to the leather. , . , Bark is wottli from ,cight, , ts nine , dollars a cord;:and'abiintlwo bundred cords are requir 'ed to"lan one i th'ousand hides by !the common . Method; Two cords*cOld be sufficient ftfqijlrg the 'proper co t or to the same number 4 hides and the sawn in this item will be,enormous.— We utideratia d that the company are turning out kip two liousand to three thousand hides a Month. . , ~ . , _,_ : , 4:i* the ar aiiie to asqe with' tateres Geotge Dawacin, at Pinning-, !Ai n , E n gian% , said that the ehlee oC a *ans' Louie was not 'only . given to" , shelter, food and ,neat, faitalso . to SUrriiund 'ebildren..yritb tboie faiisighia and sounds by which the Janie of . beauty inlibt be developed ;There' „were not `a poets was reaOluir 80 sung - throughout tbe year, and wopiered"why' 'their, eh joie' vulgar. The beauty of .towns was _ one . of the thaitiekteele4 dnilei, and . ' one, fol tb,ritoai s erving 'Jr iltnivn- Was 'beautiful; people took aOa tir It ii toli .ve An Its P,O iTatite4 4(4 )2 tat .t*Bitatitt =v2i11.4, rr , `,1: 4 ;.. ~? :'Ol.-:•;':,.' GOOD SENSE NEEDED. LEATHER IN ONE HOUR. l iele is wearin' , we have not. been ain, but shell. watch the .reult, =t==Ml KIDNEY COAIPLAINT. Probably there is no complaint that Billets the human, !system. which is e - riffle undertitood at this present time, as come of the varied forms of Kidney- Com:, plaints. ;There isnis,thisease 'which such nenteliiiiii or' more alarming in its results than when the kidneys fail, to secrete Aron the blood the nrioncid, and„etherpolii-, on substances. ,which the; blood accumulates in its , circulation through 'the system. , _ _ It from any mute ttbo kidn e ys fail` f ail`; • perfdrm the functions devolving, upon them, the ac,cnmujattonsare taken up by the absorbents and the''whote system, thrown nue a state of , disease.Tansing• great paid and , suffering. and very often immediate death, Bence the , importance' of keeping' the kidneys - and. 'blood in a healthy condition. . thrnugh which all the; impurltiet the blood Must' pass. IZ==Ml There is no remedy,known.to medical science which. has-proved itsellmore •valaiible in cases of Kidney Complaints than the, Vegetine. It acts :directly upon he secretiohii; cleanses and purifies the blood, and in stores the whole system to healthy action. The. lolloising ex tra ordinary • care of.greitt sufferers, who had been given up•by the best physicians af , hope less cases *l4 speak• tor aketneelvesi and should. that lenge the moat piofound attention of the medical fac ulty; as , well es of those •whO are suffering froth Kidney Complaint. • • • rift 13*8T Itt*RICRIE, , . Fart Marshfield. Aug, 22:1870. Mr. Steventi':' Mar 'air—l am seventy-one years of , age ; have suffered many years with kidney complaint, weakness in my back and stoma‘cia, I was induced by frletds to try ' " your regetine, 'and I think 'it the beat medieine for weakness of the kidneys: I ever used.: I have tried manyretilides for this complaint. and never, found so much relief as from the Vegetine. , It Strength- Cns and itvigorates the whole system. Many of niyAc - quaintances have taken it, and I -believe it to be rood ' f°r F °/ t h P PPP/100 610 r which flis'Xt . tommenda "Yours trulv. Jos La ri: SHERMAN: PRONOUNCE D Bostnn; May :30.1871.. 11.R.Stevein v esq.•: , Dear have been' badly if.`' flitted with Kidney 'Complaint_for ten years; , hairs suf-,• fe.red greatpain in • my 'back. hive and side, with great difficulty in‘passinicurine, which.was often, and in veil small quantities, freqftently accompanied withb,l9oo, :and excrutiating pain: ' ' - ' = ' I have faithfully' tried most of the..popular , remedies. recommended for• my complaint :'1 have - been ander the treatment of some or the most skillful physicians' in BoAon, all of whom pronounced ,my , case incurable.-- This was my condition when I was advised by a friend to try Vegetine. and I coula see' the good effects from the drat dose I took. and from than moment I kept on improving until 1 was entirely cured, taking in all, I should think, about six. ,bottles. F.. i i ~ 1. .~i'.3... ~i`-F 1114711t.„' ' • FALL WINTER. 000141 , liOw on wile, in new •,1 b DRESS ": ; GOODS; BLApg. ? 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