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Again I hear that creaking step
- He's lapping at'the do'or .• '
Too well I know the boding sound .
That ushers in a bore.
'de not tremble when I meet
The stoutest.of 'my foes,-
But ,Beaven defend me from the. friend
Who cornes- T but never goes
He talk's about his'fiagile health,
And tells me of the pains
He suffers from a score of ills
Of which he never complains . ;
And how he struggledonce - with death
To keep the fiend at - bay. -
On themes like those away - he goes—
But never goes away! '
WhenPM. he comes—that dreadful man—
Disguise it as 1 may,
I know that, like an autumn rain,
He'll last throughout the day.
In vain I speak of urgent tasks ;
In vain I scowl and `
pout;
A frown is'no extinguisher—
It does not put him out
finean to take the knocker off',
Pitt crape upon the door,
Or 'hint to John that I am gobs
To stay a month or more.
I do not tremble - when I meet
•
The stoutest of my foes,
But Heaven defend me from the friend
Who, never, never goes!
Cure for the Cholera!
In 1852 the.Cholerit visited our tows,
and I was called upon by a neighbor to
attend on him as nurse ; I attended on
him about ten hours when he died.
Observing him in his sickness, I came to.
the conclusion that. my patient most
have died from the want of positive
electricity. I then concluded there
could tie no care except by the restora
tion of what was wanting—which is
positive electricity. I then thought of
frestfanimal bloodknowing from ex
perience of some former trials that ani
mal blOod contains a great deal of posi
tive electricity; after it is extracted
from the vein. So I tried ail experi
ment on a negro, and it relieved him of
the cholera in three hears, but he died
in,two, days after in a stupor, caused as
was supposed from having 'taken too
,much opium; however it gave me to
understand that I must have strictly the
right track for the care of the Cholera.
I pursued the prescribed carp herein
mentioned on mien more persons—four
intliis`town, and'in 1854 at Haint Louis
three more ; hut I was so opposed that
I could not gain admittance to the City
Hospital nor the Quarantine by the
r doctors or the city authorities.
I give yon herein the remedy.: When
the Cholera symptoms appear, fresh
blood or meat from any healthy animal
or fowl, such as beef, mutton, hog, or
foWl, of any description, will . do to be
applied to the stomach and bowels, and
in one half hour after the application is
mede, the . pulse 'will assume a healthy
action, and in three hours the cholera
symptoms will have suhsided. If the
patient should be dry, some warm tea
may be given: No calomel, opium, or
Spanish fly poultice to .be used.
I consider my application all sufficient
—everyone that will see this, may put
his own construction omit, bat my rem
edy prescribed herein will speak for
itself. In cholera times,there will be no
time for hypothesis. The cure itself
will be sufficient for this:time.
I request this to be published in all
the American journals, and to go over
tha world for all mankind, and to go be.
fore the cholera and not behind it, as
some of our paper writers proposed. I
hope this will be all over "the United
States before the cholera makes its ap
pearance. God give his blessing
to these few hues. •
This remedy is also applicable for
bowel complaints , and dysentery the
same as cholera.. • •
. VALENTINE .13 AVNER.
Potosi, Mo., September 1, 1865..
sr On the 14th inst. the wife of Mr.
Jacob Zerr, living at Geiger's Mile,
Barks county; was siting' in the left ear
by a bee. From the effect's of the sting
Mrs. Zerr was in a few minutes throWn
into a violent spasm, frothing at the
mouth; her limbs becoming rigid, her
jaws , tightly locked,' and losing entirely
the power of speech. For a time the
most lierione consequences- were appre
hended, but finally she was partially
restored by robbiug her with camphor
and brandy. A physician was 'seat for
whio thought she would,recover entirely
in a few days. '
or if you wish that your own merit
should be recognized, recognize the
meritsiotothere.
Air The attempt to read many books
often ends in thoroughly reading none.
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MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1866. VOL. XIII.-NO. 1.
HistOry of Doineitie 'Things;
Are an Italian invention, and, In 'the
days of Queen Bess, were a perfect nov
elty in England. At the close of the
sixteenth century, onr ancestors in eat
ing, made free use of their fingers, as the
Turkish nobleases at present de. They
'were indeed,_ most indelicate at their
tables, scattering on the table cloth all
their bones and parings. 'To purify
themselves from the filthy condition of
their tables the servant bore a long
wooden "voiding knife," by which he
scraped the fragments from the table in
to a basket, called "a voider." Base
ment and Fletcher describe the thing—
" They sweep the table with a wooden
dagger."
In Germany the use of forks was long
ridiculed, and Some uncleanly saints
actually preached against the unnatural
eastern, "as an insult on Providence not
to touch our meat with our fingers."
The use of the fork was ridiculed as a
strange affectation for a long time in
England ; and it does not appear to
have been mach used before the raptor&
floe.
D'Archennoltz, in his , Tableau, de
l'Angleterre, asserts that an English
man may be discovered anywhere, if he
be observed'at table, because he places
his fork on the left side of ,his plate ;.a
Frenchman, by using the fork alone with
out the knife
,; a German, by planting it
perpendicularly into his plate; and a
Russian, .by using it as a toothpick.
TOOTHPICKS
Seem to have come in with forks, as
younger brothers of the table, and seem
to have been borrowed from the nice
manners of:the stately Venetians. This
instrument was anathematised as the
fantastical ornament of " the complete
signor," the Italianated Englishman.
One of the last actioas •of Charles the
first, when preparing for. -his execution,
was to give,away ibis gold toothpick •as
a present orl memorial to some individ. .
ual on the scaffold.
COACHES,
On their first invention, offered a fruit
ful source of declamation as an inordin
ate luxury, particularly among the as
cetics of monkish Spain: The Spanish
biographer of Don Juan of Austria, de
scribing that golden age, the good old
times, when they only used "Carts drawn
by oxen, riding in this manner to court,"
notices that it
• was found necessary to
prohibit coaches by a royal proclama
tion "to such a height was this infernal
vice got, which has done so much injury
to Castile." In this style - nearly •every
domestic novelty has been attacked.
The injury inflicted in Castile by the
introduction of coaches could •Only have •
been felt by the purveydrs df carts and
oxen for' a morning's ~ ride. The same
circumstances occurred in. England.
When coaches began to be kept by the
gentry, or were hired out, a powerful
party found "their occupation gone."
Ladies would no longer ride on pillione
behind their footmen ; and judges and
counsellors, from their lens, would be no
longer conveyed by water to Westmin
ster hall, or jog on, - with all their gravi
ty, on a poor palfrey. Taylor, the water
poet and man,
.wrote - an invective
against coaches, dedicated to all griev
ed with " the world ro t ating on wheels."
Taylor also wrote a tract, in which is
the following :—" Within our memories,
our nobility and gentry could ride well
mounted and sometimes walk on foot,
gallantly attended with four score brave
fellows in blue coats; which was a glory
to our nation far greater ,than forty of
these heathen•timbrels. It is a doubt
ful question whether the devil brought
tobacco into England in a coach, for both
appeared at the same time." He after
wards complains that where the gentry
used formerly to keep from ten to a hun
dred proper serving men, they now made
the best shift, and for the said of their
coach" and horses, had only - "a butterfly
page, a trotting footman, and a ' stiff
drinking coachman, a cook, a clerk, a
steward; and a butler, which hati - forced
an army of till fellows to the gatehonses
or prisons." - This satirist of the man
ners of the town farther observes; that
as soon ,as a man was knighted, Ws lady
was lamed.for ever, and could not on any
account be seen but in aeoach. As the
females had been accustomed to robust
exercise on foot or on horseback, they
were now forced tesnbstitnte a domestic
artificial exercise in their garden. He
proceeds—" They use - more diligence in
mateliiniktheir coaclvhorses than in the
marriage of their: eons and daughterd." -
The tiater-poet, 'were . he now living;
might he'vcractenoWledied that if, in the
changes of time, some trades disappear,.
FORKS
other traddi rise up, and in 'an eiclinage
of =ides of indimtry the nation loses
nothing. The hinds which, like Tayl
,
or's,4oWed boats, came to drive cbaches ;
these complainers on' all novelties, un
awares, always arisWeitheraselvel. Our
satirist affords us • a most proaperons
view 'of the condition of "this new trade
of coacbmakers as 'the gainfullest about
the • '
TOBACCO:
It was thought at the time of its in
troduntion into England, that the nation
would be ruined by the use of tobacSo.
Like all novel tastes, the newly import
ed' leaf maddened all ranks. " The
money spent in sinoke is unknown,"
says a writer of that day, who feared
there were more then seven- thousand
houses in the trade of tobacco: - James
the first made an attempt to allay the
extravagance, in- his memorable "coun
ter blast to- tobacco." His majesty
vainly endeavored to terrify his liege
children by saying that a they were
making sooty kitchens in their inward
hearts, soiling and infecting them with
an unctuous' kind of soot, as bath been
found in some great _tobacco eaters,•that
after their deaths were opened."
Were we further to, carry on a specu
lation of this nature ; we should have a
copions chapter-to Write of the opposi
tion to new discoveries. The illustrious
name' of Vesalius in the study of anato
my, who was incessantly persecuted by
the public prejudices against dissection
culation of the blood—of Lady W.
Montague in her introduction of the
practice of inoculation, and, more re
centlyethat of vaccinatimi—and the rid
icule.of the invention of gas light, are
sufficient evidence that. objects. of the
highest imporfante to mankind, on their
first appearance, were slighted and con
demned.
PURITY. OF CHARACTER:4IO nry Ward
Beecher draws following beautiful
parallels
"Over the beanty - of 'the plum and ap
ricot there grows a bloom and beauty
more exquisite than the fruit iteelf--a
soft delicate flush that 'overspreads its
blushing cheek. Now if you strike your
hand over that, and it is once gone, it is
gone forever, for it never %grows but
once. The flower that hangs in the
morning, hiapdarled with dew—arrayed
with jewels—once-shake it, so that the
beads roll oft - and you may sprinkle wa
ter over it as yon please, yet it can nev
er be made again what it was when the
dew fell slightly upon it from heaven!
On
_a frosty morning you rmay see the
panes of glass covered with landscapes,
mountains,Jakes and, trees, blended in a
beautiful fantastic picture. Now lay
your hand ..upon the glass, and by the
scratch of your:finger, or by.the warmth
of the palm, all the delicate tracery will
be obliterated. . So there is in youth a
beauty and purity of character, which,
when once touched and defiled, can nev
er be Tutored ; a fridge more delicate
than frost-work, and which, when torn
and broken, will never be re-embroider
ed, A man who had spotted and soiled
his garments in youth, though he may
seek to make them white again, can
never wholly .do it, even were be to
wash them , with his tears. When a
. yoring man leaves hie father's house, with
the bleeeinge of his mother's tears still
wet upon his forehead, if he once loses
that early purity of character, it is a
loss that he can never make whole again.
Such is the Consequence of crime. Its
effects cannot be -eradicated ;'it can oh
ly -lie forgiven.
qrg A few days since, a young married
woman in Pittsburg, placed her Bleep
ing infant—three months old—in a cra
dle and left the room. Five or ten
minutestafteiwirds she heard a shriek
from the little innocent, •end` arrived in
time to see a large rat jump from the
cradle and escape through the open
door. Upon raising the infant she found
it cold in death, the rat having bitten
through the lip and cheek, producing
spasMs, in one of which the babe had
died. The corpSe was laid out in the
paricti, and being, left unguarlied a few
minutes, a swarm of rats entered and
attacked'it, devouiirig nearly the entire
face and ir - ms before their presence was
discovered.
far Tkrongh the. influence of the Le
lands—Rotel keepers-the races at
Saratoga ars : to be prohibited hereafter
as they are considered injurious to the
'character of the watering place, bring
together a large class. of gamblers, pick
pakets and welPdiessed thieves gener
.
airy,
How TO * PROSPER IN BUSINESS.—In
the irst:place, make up your minds to
•accomplish whatever you undertake ;
decide on oome, particular employment,
and persivere in it.' "AU difficulties
are overcome by diligence and • aSsuidi
typ
Be not afraid to work with your
hands, and diligently too. "A cat in
gloves catches no mice."
.
Be 'flags]. "That which will 'not
make a pot, will make a' pot lid,"
"Take care of the pence and the pounds
will take care of themselves."
Rise early 7. "The sleeping fox catch
es no poultry."
"Plow deep,
• While the slaggerd'a sleep,
And you' will haie corn to sell and keep."
Treat every one with respect and ci
'vility. "Evefyihing is gained - and
nothing lost by courtesy." "Good man
,
ners insare success."
Never anticipate wealth coming 'from
any other source than labor, and never
place dependence on becoming , possess
or of, any inheritance. ‘ l .lle who waits
for it gland man's shoes, may go a long
timmbarefooted." !' He :w,ho runs after
a shadow has a wearisome lace."
Above ell things, never despair.
Jod is where he was." " Heaven helps
them that helps themselves."
Follow implicitly these precepts, and
nothing can hinder you from accumula
ting.
ABOUT ADVERTISING.—There are now
and then business men to be found in
every community who do not or will not
recognize the benefits to 'be derived
from liberal advertising. They remind
us of the boy in Groton, Conn„ who was
.
sent one morning last summer by his
employer to New London with a bag of
green corn to dispose of. Th e boy was
gone
all day, and at night returned with
the bag unopened, which he dumped on
the floor, saying, " Tbere'e your green
corn ; go and sell it yourself—l .can't."
" Why," said the grocer, "haven't you
sold any ?" "Sold any, .no," said the
boy. " I've been all over New London
with it, and nobody said anything about
green corn. Two or three fellows ask
ed me what'! had in my bag, and I-told
them 'twas none of their d---d busi
ness." , ,
These mew wholreep-their ',bag,' and
will not take pains to inform the public
what they have totsell, - are-about as sa
gacious as the boy refered to.
LUCK AND Lseop..--Lnek ie ever wait:
ing for something to turn up. Labor;
with keen eyes and strong will, will tarn
up something.
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the post-
man would bring him news of a legacy.
Labor turns out at six o'clock, and, with
busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the
foundiltion of a competence.
Ln4.;11 whines. Labor whistles.
Luck relies on chances. Labor, on
character.
Luck slips downward to .indulgence.
Labor etrikea,upword, and to. indepen
dence. -
KEEP IN GOOD HUMOR.-It, is not
great calamities that embitter existence;
it is the petty vexations and . email jeal
ousies, the little disappointments, the
minor miseries, that make the heart
heavy aitethe temper soar. Don't let
them. Anger is a pure waste of vital':
ty ; it is always foolish, and always' dis
graceful, except in some very: rare cases,
when it is kindled by• : seeing wrong done
to another ; and even that noble rage
seldom mends the matter;
ADVICE FOR BOMB.—" Yon are to be
kind, generous and magnanimous," says
Horace Mann. "-If•there is a boy in
sChnol who bas a club-foot, don't let him
know-yon ever saw it. If there is a bby
with ragged clothes; don't talk about `
rags .in his hearing. 'lf there is a lathe
boy, assign him soine part of the game
which does not require much - running.
If there is a dult one, help him to . get
his lesson. •
PRESIDENT LINCOLN. — 4. We trust the
Lord le on our Lincolri;" said
'the-speaker of a delegation of Chriethin
men to that good Man, during one of
the &irkest days of the rebellion.
"I-do not regard that SO essential as
something eleei" replied Mr. Lincoln.
The. pions visitors looked horror,
• J . •
struck until the Presidept added
" I am most concerned 1.0 .kpow , that. ,
we are on the Lord's..sidfi."-
ar, A. gentleman, walking with two
ladies, stepped' on a hogshead hoop,,
that hew up . and struck him in the face.
"Good gracious !" said he, " which - of
you dropped that ?"
For the 2lfariettian
Intemperance—What it Costs !
Mr. Editor:—lt has been said that
all the talk about Intemperance is for
effect—to create an unnecessary excite
ment; various epithets have been ap
plied to the advocates of Temperance,
such as "Alarmists "—" Monomaniacs"
—" Men of one idea "—" Temperance
'on the brain "—" Fanatics," &c. But
facts are stubborn things,—Figures will
not lie. We now present some statis
tics taken from public records. 30,000
drunker& die in England every year,
(15;000 in London) so there are about
83 funerals of drunkards every day in
the yew. In 1858, 85,472 persons were
charged with drunkenness before the
magistrates ; 83,086 for assault, nine
tenths were the result of strong drink.
In London there Were in 1848 of Bakers,
Butchers, Cheesernongers, Fishmongers,
Grocers, Green Grocers, Fruiterers and
Dairymen 10,790 shops, and 11,000 pub
lic houses, where drunkards are made.
In Scotland a short time ago it was
found in 40 cities and towns every 149
people support a dram shop, whilst it
takes 981 to support a Baker ; 1067 a
Butcher; 2281 a Bookseller. One-half
the insanity, two-thirds the pauperism,
.three-fourths the crimes originate from
drunkenness. The cost in Scotland for
intoxicating drinks' is 300 millions an
nually, which is almost equal to the
whole annual income of the State. On
gin alone 135 millions are spent while
on Literature only 25 million of dollars
are spent. The furnishing of Crock -
ford's gambling hJuse cost $350,000 ;
: the whole building $300,000 and its fur
niture $175,000. There was spent on
'this place of iniquity alone more by sev
eral thousand dollars, than the whole
. .
sum raised l or the London city mission,
to
,fill thatsreat metropolis with happy
homesancl happy hearts. ltis believed
thet.these appaling. statistics of crime in
other countries are not lie great as that
noW existing in the United States, for it
is well known that there are now 300,000
drunkards in our country. Oh what an
-army to perish forever ! Call yon not
'this Intemperance on the brain.' The
Lacedemonians used to exhibit slaves
when drunk to their children, to excite
'in thema horror of drunkenness ; but in
our country drunkenness is legalized—
encourtiged and prevails• to an alarming
extent every , day new victims are laid
upon Its bloody altar. What an excite
ment there would be in Marietta if one
case of - cholera was here. Town meet
ings -would-be called—what a commo
tion. tiv:re would be now even at this
time, drunkards are being made at the
many rum shops in. town. Every day
we can see the horrid effects of strong
drink, and yet how quiet and calm we
appear to be—not a ripple on the sea
of life, to disturb our peace. Oh ! may
God awaken the people to a sense of
their danger, so as to cause them to act
vigorously in this matter. That drunk
ard making shall cease in this place.
lir There is an almost ludicrous ac
count in a recent article in the London
Times of the surprise with which the
Chinese 'at Shanghai' have perceived the
introdection of English sports inaugur
ated. It is said that when a grand ball
was given on board the admiral's ship
of an English fleet at Alexandria, in
•honor of a visit from the Pacha of
Egypt, that prince, after admiring great
ly the figures of the dance and the
gracefulness of the dancers, confessed
that there was one thing that did as
tonish him ; it was that distinguished
officers and ladies should like to fatigue
themselves in that way for nothing,
For his part; he was thankful that he
had slaves whom he could see dance
whenever, he choose, without himself
going through the labors of the motion.
I Mrs. Partingtou says she cannot
'understand, these market reports. She
can't understand how cheese can be live
ly, and pork can be active, and feathers
drooping,—that is, if it's raining ; but
for her life, she has no notion how whis
key cart be steady, or hops quiet, or
spirits dull ; nor how lard can be firm in
warm weather, nor iron unsettled, nor
potatoes depressed, nor flour rising,—
unless there hid been yeast in it, and
sometimes it wouldn't rise then.
seer At the Fourth of July dinner
given on board the steamer Scotia, the
following toast was offered : " England
and AmoriOa—mother and child ; both
..doing well."
:A South Carolina lady died late(
whei for thirty Six `days' prior to / 4,1
deitth, had sUbsiited solely on water,
G. M. C