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JOHIT C. BAILEY, PRO'R. GREENVILLE. 80UTO CAR0L1NA,
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Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisement!
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^ Obituary notices, and all matters inuring to
to the benefit of any one, ure regarded as
Advertisements.
jtlrrtrli ^ottrij.
The Drunkard'* Child.
BY Mas M. U OZIAS.
^>iuw nearer, mother, let your,baud
lift gently on my itching brow s
1-8 cool, soft touch will ease luy puin,
1 feel Hint I qui d)l"g now.
Mother, I Jo not fnar t<? die.
I know, my S*uvlour cull# me home <
And fel, 'lis hurl to say farewell?
To leave you in this world alon *.
Who'll comfort you when I am g >n? f
Who'll kiss away the fulling lour?
Who'll share your lonely mid.tight waloli t
Wlio'll we<p wilh you, and hope, and
fear I
Onec there were hiipj.y, blissful d ?ys,
When friends and fortune on us tioi'cl.
Willi joy we h iited his cubing Wep.
And 1 win not u drunkard's child.
. T 11 father ili.it I lord him still,
I shall not sec Ills laoe agtin,
For e'er he seeks his humble home,
1 shall he free from care and pain.
That father oims; but nil too late,
Another gu-at hud ho. n before,
I)i?:tLlt aI I.la lit.-lM ........ t?.-t
clilM ?
' Twits iniJniglit ho lr, an<l all wan o'wr!
Down l?y thai ooM a'id beauteous form
lie knoll aii'I prayed, and (Jo I did hark
Unto Ii a prayer, und led him forth
Into lite lij^lit?" Out of tlia Dark."
llEMINISCENCIiS
OF Til K
QQliMTY QFQREEKVLLLEi
BV EX QOVEUSOK B. F. PERKY.
[OONTINDKD FK<>^ LAST WKKK.]
O eenvillc District, now dubbed
a County, lies in the north-western
part of South Carolina, and contains
705 square miles. The thirty
fifth degree of North Latitude
runs through the upper part of the
County. The length of the County
is between fifty and sixty miles,
and the width, on an average
about twenty miles. Greenville is
laid off into sixteen Townships,
Dunklin, Oak Lawn,Grove, Gantt,
Austin,. Greenville, Butler, Paris
Mountain, Chicks Springs, Bates,
O'Ncall, Highland, Glassy Moun
15i i 11 K.il.irlu I fin../.! I'l ?
??.<*? mmi??i'm v/io? v;ianu< 1 IIU
County is drained by tho North,
south aii?I Middle Saludas, Euorec
River, Reedy River, South and
Middle Tygors, South l'acolett
und their tributaries, Beaver Dam
Creek, Unburn Creek, Gilder
Creek, &c., ?fcc. On the waterCourses,
the low lunds are very
tortile, and worth forty or filly
dollars pe? acre. There is a great
ileal of valuable up lands in the
County, which sells for ten dollars
per acre. The poor ridge land is
worth from one to iivo dollars per
acre A large poitioti of the up
per part of the County is monti*
Cajnous, but thickly populated, and
the lands produce well. There are
portions of tho mountains which
cannot bo cultivated. B'.:t they
are capable of being made pastures
tor thousands and hundreds of
thousands of sheep.
In the eai !y sottlemont of Greenville,
tobacco was a considerable
crop, which the farmers carried to
market in rolling bogheads. If Lt
did not bear inspection as to
quality, it V.'j? burnt. But the
Ctliiure of tobacco, was, in a few
years, discontinued, except for
bonio consumption. Indian corn
^was the great crop of tho District.
'Very little cotton was planted till
within a few years past. In 1840
there were only two hundred and
seventy live bags ot cotton made
in the whole District. During the
past year there have been sold in
tho city of Greenville, nino thoussand
bags of cotton. The Western
stock passing sixty tniles through
Greenville, gave a market for all
tho corn and fodder made for sale.
Alter tho railroads wore constructed
through Tennessee, Virginia
ntid Georgia, this stock driving
ceased, and the fanners began to
cultivate more extensively cotton
and wheat. Sinco the abolition of
slavery, labor has been uioro diffi- |
cult to procure, and hence the!
farmers have sown every year a
great deal more small grain, and
paid more attention to the improvement
of their lai ds. They have
used large quantities of commercial
manures on their Cotton nni-1 I
wheat. i
The County of Greenville fa admirably
adapted to manufacturing.
tier water power in untur- ]
pu?Hed, and may be found in every i
Huction of tho County, suitable for |
taming any amount ot machinery, t
, any one could desire. The climate
. is pleasant in summer, and tnodert
ate in winter. The thermometer
ranges in July and August, trom
" 80 to 92 degrees of Iarenheit.?
The nights, however, arc always
i cool and refreshing. In winter,
the thermometer seldom fulls below
20 degrees, and it is not every
year that ice can l>e procured for
sutntnor use. Thcro is generally
one cold spell in the winter, lasti
ing only two or throo d?c?
-, .. ,.v..
tho thermomotor may fall as low
as 10 degrees below freezing point.
Vcrv often no snow tolls atoll during
the winter, and if it does, it all
disappears m a day or two.
The mountain scenery of Greenville
is, indeed, grand and picturesque.
Caspar's Head, in the upper
part of tlio County, is famous
tor tho magnificent view it affords
for hundreds of miles around.?
There is a fine hotel on the top of
tho mountain, which is always, in
summer, resorted to bv visitors
from the low country. There is a
fine spring of cold wafer on the top
of the mountain. Paris Mountain
rises up near tho contro of the
County, and is disconnected with
all the other mountains. On the
top of this mountain, whirl: affords
a most picturesque view of the surrounding
country In every dircc
lion, there was formerly a hotel,
which was greatly patronized as
long as it was keptopen. Gener
til Thompson lived on the southern
extremitv of Paris Mountain, and
made very considerable improvements
there. Since his death, the
mountain has been purchased by
IJ. L. P. McCortnicK, of Charleston.
The view of the city of
Greenville, from this point of tlfo
mountain is truly beautiful, and
greatly admired by every one who
visits the mountain. Pine Mown!
tain is only t.ireo or tonr milos distant
from tho city, and the prospect
from it is very much that of I
! Mr. Jefferson's MonticUlo. Gen
1 r?*?
uiiii liiompsoit once lived on tbe
top of tlimountain. It now belongs
to the Estate of Dr. Theodore
Croft. Glassy Mountain, near the
North Carolina line, is also famous
for the beautiful and cotiuiiaiiding
prospect presented from its summit.
Hogback, Melrose and
D >ckety are in the same neighborhood
There are a great many
persons living on all these mountains.
Fiddler's or Bike's Mountain,
lies three or four milos east
of the city, and the residence of
Dr. William Butler, Thomas
Lowndes, William Lowndes and
Dr. Samuel Dickson, were formerly
on this mountain, lion. Benjamin
Wilson now owns the residence
of Dr. Dickson.
Gold hue been found in several
portiohs of Greenville County.?
The mine of Vardry McBco on
South Tyger River, sixteen miles
above the Court House, was very
proli ably worked for a great number
of years, and a company has
been operating on it since the war.
Iron was manfactured in the Cpunty,
years ago, and the ore is found
in many parts of it. Black lead
has been discovered in several
places. 1 have seen specimens of
the clay or stones from which chi
na ware is made, found in the
County ; and Mr. Poinsett pro
nounccd it equal to any lie ever
saw. Tlioro is said to be limestone
in the lower part of tho
County, and no doubt it may bo
found in our mountain region.
Clover, Timothy and Herds
Grass grow finely in Greenville,
and there is now a disposition on
tho part of many of our best farin
era, to pay attention to tbe cultivation
of tho grasses. Tho average
yield of corn on our bottom lands
is from twonty-five to forty bushels
per aero. Whcro tho red lands
have been well prepared and manured,
tboy have produced twenty
bushels of wheat to the aero.?
Oats, rye and barley grow finely
everywhere all over iho County.
The c.imato and soil are admirably
adapted to the growth of peaches,
apples, pears, plums, nectarines
and cherries. Tho Irish potato
grows as well here, and especially
in our mountains, as it doos any
whcro.
As to health, climate and
waters, Greenville cannot be surnaoaori
Kw one *-f ! ? I T ?.i
,??V
ted Statoi. In tbe early settlement
ot the District, fur tliii tv
years, as I hare already stated,
there was 110 practicing physician
in the District. Most of the old settlers
wholivod to an advanced age,
never tooU a do?>? of fyiedicino in
their livos. Soino ot them lived
to an extreme old age. was
provon in court, the other a??7;
that Jeremiuh Trammel), who died
a tew years since, lived to be ope (
hundred and fourteen year? oldIt
is a remark ihlo fact, that tbe \
people of the United States, are
more migratory in their habits
than any other nation ot people on <
lie face of fhe earth. They are al- i
\
\
? e ?... ?u??giijk meir
? homes, never satisfied with doing
well, but always wishing to do better.
There was a stroujr tide of
emigration from Greenville to Alabama,
Mississippi, aud the upper
part ot Georgia when tboee countries
wore first settled. No doubtthat
the population of our County
would have been double what it is.
l ? ?
out Tor the emigration to the West.
It is a singular tact, that very few of
the citizens of Greenville are now
living on lands which belonged to
their fore-fathers. In other words,
it is a very rare occurence to find
the descendants of ono of the first
settlers of Greenville, in possession
of lands which belonged to their
ancestors seventy or eighty years
ago. This is very much to be regretted,
for I think it destroys in some
measure lovo of country. If the
homestead has descended through
several generations in the same
family, it is natural to suppose
that it will be dearer to the poe
sessor, than one which ho has jnst
purchased. Ho will love it more,
and morG readily fight for it.
Droughts are more frequent and
freshets much greater in Green
| vine, mau they were in the early
! SttMlenunt of the District. This is
no doubt owing, in a great mens
ure, to tlio clearing and cultivation
of the lands. The water
paesscs off' more rapidly, and the
8()il has becatno border and more
packed. Deep ploughing and subsoiling
would prevent, in a great
degree, the disastrions effects of a
drought. There was, however, a
terrible drought in Greenville in
1780 or 1787, and 1 have beard
my father say that ho and his
neighbors did not taste bread for
three months. They lived-on game
entirely, which was then most
abundant. The forests abounded
with deer and wild turkeys.?
There was very little of the land
i n cultivation, and hence, a
drought in a neighborhood was
sorely felt. There were no roads
except Indian trails, and very little
communication with other portions
of the State.
[continued next week.]
innie Laurie
Nearly everybody has sung, or
heard sun*;, the beautiful ballad of
k4 Annie Laurie." Annio Laurie
was no myth. Nearly two hundred
years aero Sir It l?orf I.?hm?
of Muxweltun, in Dumfrcisshire,
Scotland, quaintly wrote in hi*
family register tlicso words:
44 At the pleasure of tire Almighty
God, my daughter, Annie
Laurie, was born on the 16th day
of Ducember, 1682, about 6
o'clock in the morning, and was
baptized by Mr. Geo. llunter, of
Glencftirne.,, Annie's mother was
named Jean Riddle, to whotn Sir
Robert was married 44 upon the
27th day of July, 1674, in the Troti
Birk ot Edinb., by Mr. Aunarie,"
as was al6o recorded by her father
himself. Posterity owes to Mr.
William Douglas, of Fiugland, in
Kirkcudbrightshire, (who wooed
but did nut win the capricious Jinliie,)
the song of 44 Bonnie Annie
Laurie," wherein he celebrated the
beauty and transcendent iter tection
ot the maid of Maxweftoti.?
Poetic justice would have required
that Annie should havo rewarded
with hor hand the poet lover, who
was determined to ualia her naine
immortal; but as it trauspired,
she preferred another and a richer
suitor, a Mr. Alexander Ferguson,
of Oaigdurroch, and him she mar
ried. The William Douglas here
mentioned is supposed to be tiie
original of the song 44 Willie was a
Wanton Wag," and it Is related of
nun mat, alter having been refused
by Annie Laurie, be married a
Miss Elizabeth Cleric, of Glenboig,
in Calloway, by whom he had a
family of four sons and two duugliters.
Thus is it that while the
song of " Annie Laurie" lives from
age to age, the names of all con* I
cerned with the original of it sue*
vive in the recital of the romantic
incidents connected with its coinposition.
? - Mibaukau
said on Lis bed of
death : " Crown me with flowers;
intoxicate me with perfumes; let
me die to tho sound of sweet music."
Madame Holand, the stronghearted
woman of the revolntion,
uttered only : " Oh, Liberty I"?
Caiuile Desmonlins uttered only
execrations on the road to the guil
lotine. Dan ton said to the executioner
: * I have had a good time '
of it; let mo go to sleep ; then you
will show my head to the people ; 1
it is worth the trouble."
Nkw York papers published
obituJ?r??* Of " Bill Johnson," * i
dog that, could stand upon one
unU l/einfl? hipiaelt on the
nozzle o| a pbawpa^^ bottle.
A Milwackkk phqrch bell has i
on it: *'In memory of Minn*0 J.
Hodges, weight 7*4 pound#," I
Jl
/
xnsintsrtainmsnt of lfapoleen at
St Helena in 1840.
| Every thing being prepared for I
I the important operation, at half an
| hour after midnight ot the 14th- j
15th of October, tbe twenty-fifth
anniversary of the arrival ot Napoleon
Bonnporte at St. Henlena,
the first blow was struck which
was to open the grave where he
had slumbered lite sleep of death
so long. Even the workmen who
were engaged in digging ont the
earth seemed to be impressed with
awe at the extraordinary work
I.-- ?'
mej were performing. All was I
hashed as death. Not a sound j
was heard save now and then the 1
word of command necessary to direct
the labors as the work proceeded.
The waning moon occasionally
threw her pale light upon
| the scene below, bat again she
would he obscured by dark clouds,
and the rain fell in torrents. No
light would then bo visible but the
glimmer of the numerous lanterns
used by tbe workmen, and the solitary
watch fire which was burning
near tho tent, thus giving the
scene the appearance of a bivouac;
ac; yet none movod ; nil remained
as it wore chained to the spot (the
aged Uertrand, Gourgand, and
others, French, together with the
appointed officials on tha part of
England,) exposed to, but regardI
* -
iess oi too inclemency of the
weather, anxiously watching the
work as it slowly proceeded.?
There was much difficulty occasioned
by the moss of cement and
masonry obstructing the approach
to the slab that covered the coffin.
The coffin was then lifted out ot
the tomb by means of shears, and
de|>ositi?3d on the ground on the
left side ot the grave, whence it
was carefully borne bv twelve
men of the Iloyal Artillery to a
tent erected for its reception, when
the service Levee du eorpe was
l>erformed.
The outer mahogany coffin having
been removed, the inner ones
wero carefully placed within the
lead ancoffin contained in the sarcophagus
6ent from France, and
the lius of the old leaden and the
second mahogany coffin wore cut
t irough, and 60 opened. The old
tin coffin, the last cover whiel.
or to the town, there to be trans- ,
ferred by hie excellency in person
to the care of his royal highness ,
Prinoe do Joinrille.
Naw York sends one oolorod
man?an ex soldier?to the State i
Radical Convention, and be goes i
in strong for Greeley. I
shrouded the remains, became
thus exposed to view, and at one
o'clock (his excellency, the governor
and staff having arrived in the
inean time from Plantation House)
this was also cut through, when
the satin covering over the body
appeared, which the surgeon cf
the " Belle Poule" gently raised,
and thus displayed the body of the
emperor. It was in excellent condition,
and seemed to have been
almost 'miraculously preserved ;
there was an appearance ot mould
all over the body and habiliments,
but his features, nearly unaltered,
were immediately recognised by
his old friends and followers.?
The hands, which Dr. Guillard
touched, (and he was the only person
who touched the corpse,) were
perfect and firm " as a mummy,"
ue said, and the appearance of tho
whole body was that of one who
had lately been interred. The
eyes were fallen, and the bridge i
of the nose a little sunk ; but the i
lower part of the face, remarka <
ble f r its great breadth and ful i
ness, wus perfect. His epauletts i
and the several stars and orders !
on his breast were tarnished; his I
jacket-boots covered with mildew, 1
which, when Dr. Guillard slightly
rubbed, came off, and the leather
underneath wus perfectly block
. _ j * if ... i
nuu souna. 11 is cocked hat lay
across his thighs, and the silver
vase with the imperial eagle,
which contains his heart, stood in
the hollow abovo the ankles, but
had assumed a bronze hue.
The body remained exposed to
view troni two to three minutes,
when it was sprinkled by tho sur- ,
goon with some chemical compo- ,
sition, and the old tin, as well as
the old and new leaden coffins, ,
were carefully soldered up by M. ,
Leroux, a French plumber, who
attended for that purpose. The (
sarcopaagus was then closod and ,
locked, and the key delivered by ,
Captain Alexander to Count Chabot,
with the remark that, as he
and the witneseea sent out from
Franco had been enabled to satis- ,
fy themselves that the body of the ,
late emperor was really deposited
in the sarcophagus now before
them, he hod, by order of his ex- |
cellency the governor, the honor |
of delivering over to him the key *, ,
atid hod further to inform them (
that everything was in readiness
to ennvev lk? tvwiv u/irl* rlno Kah.
The Air Lin* Read.
Tbe editor ot the Atlanta Constitution
writing from Greenville,
8. O., thus speakes ot tbe progress
of the work on this great euteri
prise.
M This road will be abont 245
miles long when completed.?
From Charlotte to Spartanburg, n
distance of seventy miles, there
are ahnnt 11 ?* 1 *
. _ invuMiia uanag
working, tbe grading is nearly
done; track-laying has begun at
the Charlotte end; tbe bridges
are in rapid progress of construe
tion, ana the contractors think
that by the first ot February they
can have this section ready tor the
cars to run over. Between Spartanburg
and Greenville, a distance
of thirty miles, there are over
eight hundred hands grading.?
The track laving will begin in a
short "while from Spartanburg this
way, in order to facilitate the work.
Tbe contractors think that this
section will also be ready for the
trains by February. The first of
May at farthest will probably 6eo
the daily trains running from
Charlotte to this point. From
Greenville to Atla'itu the road
will be about 145 miles long. Of
this distance the cars are running
front Atlanta to "Gainsville, 53
miles. About 25 miles are graded
this side of Gainsville and
nearly ready for tbe iron. About
eight hundred hands are working
on this part of the road. We
t.ius have about 67 inilcs from
there to this poiut to be completed
entire. The ehoico of route
will soon be made and tbe work
put under contract, and it nothing
untoward happens tbe entiro road
will bo in use in twelve months
from ibis time. The money is on
linnd In ? 1 *'
.v ?U?U IUO 1UIIU, UIIU 11)0
purpose is to push it through
without delay.
44 You have seen that the Anderson
route has been ignored,
and it has been determined to run
the road by a more direct line,
probably striking near Tugaloo.?
The Anderson route was tound to
be seventeen utiles lunger and a
million dollars more costly on account
of the rivers to be crossed.
The Anderson people threaten an
injunction, claiming that the Charter
gives litem a vested right to
the locatiou of the road througu
their section.
4* The statement that the Penn
sylvapia Central Railroad, us a
corporation, has bought out the
road, is iucorrect. Men interest
ed in the management of that have
taken the entire contract to build
the road, for which they get pay
in road stock except 14 per cent,
in money. Tom Scot , Simon
Cameron, two Bultimore and New
Yo'-k capitalists, from the company
o f contractors. A Mr.
Dickinson, of New York, was the
original contractor, I am informed,
at a sum of six millions for the
whole roud. Scott & Co. paid
him a bonn* of $300,000, and took
his contract.
About ,400,000 of stock has
been taken by the cities, counties,
towns and eliivons ?n ?li? ?
Charlotte takes $250,000 ; Atlanta,
$300,000 ; Spartanburg and county,
$250,000; Greenville and
county $300,(XX) ; Oconee and Pickens
counties, $200,000 ; .Jall conn
ty, Ga., $50,000, and its citizens
$30,000. Atlanta citizens have
taken $34,000, and 1 am sorry to
leurn that some wealthy ones,
dooply interested in the road,
have not paid their supscriptions
promptly. This is not in accord
with the public spirit and promptness
for which Atlanta men are
noted.
Motukk.? Around the idea of
one's mothor the mind of innn
clings with fund affection. It is
the first dear thought stamped upon
our infant hearts, when yet soft
and capable of receiving tbo most
profound impressions; and all the
after feelings are more or less in
comparison. Our passions and our
wilfulness may lead ns far from
tho object of our filial love; we
may became wild, headstrong and
angry at her counsels or opposi
non ; utu when death line stilled
her monitory voice, and nothing
but calm ftemory remains to recapitulate
her virtue and her deeds,
affection, like a flower beaten to
the ground by a rude storm, raises
up her head and smiles amid her
tears. Round that idea, as we
have said, the mind clings with
tond affection ; and even when the
earliest period of our loss, forces
memory to be silent, fancy takes
the place of remembrance, and
twines the imags of our departed
parent with a garland ot graces
and beauties and virtues, which wo
doubt not that she possessed.
Taw gold and silver scnle we-e
stolen from the Stato Department
at Washington, and melted. The
thieves were arrested.
I Living Mead 011 OmI Body
A strange story, of a living head
on a dead body, is related in tho
case of one James T. Anderson, of
Iowa. One aftern;x>n, when on a
visit to an ancle at Qlenwood,
Iowa, he was exercising on a pole
placed from one tree to another in
the back yard. Ue had on a pair
of gaiters tipped with patent leath
er. lie swung down from the pole
by his feet; the leather slipped,
...j i. - *?? ?
nuvi ii? leu. Lie struck bis neck
just where it ioirts the shoulders.
He was bewildered, but perfectly
conscious. His body felt as though
smashed to a jelly. lie experienced
a horrible tingling; and
when the doctor came Lie told him
not to touch him,^ his body wns
broken to nieces, llis neck was
broken, inflammation set in, and
all thought bis eud was come. To
the surpriso of all, in a few days
he began to mend, lie was shortly
after removed to his step- father's
house, whore he still resides. Time
hung heavily on his hands, and he
resolved to learn to write with his
mouth. lie accomplished tin's,
and, as he says in a letter to J. K.
Nutting, he soon wrote a tolerably
good mouth. He is now trying
to paint, and hopes by this means
to earn something tor his support.
He has been, and still is tenderly
cared for by his sister, herself a
cripple, and speaks in the highest
terms of Ids step-father, who,
thongh a poor man. hns shown
him every kindness, llis worst
enemies are tbc flies which buzz
nbont liis face. Ho holds u leafy
twig in his month, however, and
manages to twirl it aliout in a
wonderful way and drive off his
?prinentors. This case is without
a parallel, except that of John Carter
of England, who was injured
in a similar way, and who became
a famous painter?James, at the
time of the accident that left him
with a dead body and a living
head, was a fine handsome young
man. He weighed two hundred
pounds, and there was not a superfluous
once of flesh on his body.
?? Relative
Rank of Cities
The cities of Now York, Phila
defphia and Brooklyn, maintain
the same relative rank as to popu
lation that they did iu 1860.?
There has been considerable shifting
of placos, however, among
those that now constitute the romnindor
of the twenty foremost
cities of tho Union :
During the last decade St. Lou
is bos ascended tbe scale from the
eighth to the fuurth.
Chicago, in a similar propor
tion, changes from tbe ninth to
tbe fifth.
Baltimore, which in 1860 was
tbe fourth, retrogrades to tbe
sixth.
Boston pursues tho same direc
tion, from the fifth to tbe seventh.
Cincinnati retires a step, from
the seventh to the eighth.
New Orleans falls back from
the sixth to the ninth.
San Francisco, taking a noble
forward leap, vaults from the fif
teenth to tho tenth.
Buffalo lags behind, from the
tenth to the eleventh.
Washington niake3 a stride
from the fourteenth to the twelfth.
Newark, New Jersey's thriving
metropolis, drops, nevertheless,
froin the eleventh to tho thirteenth.
Louisville, twelfth in rank in
1860, is now assigned to the fourteenth.
Cleveland, ^foirr steps forward,
mounts froin tho nineteenth to the
fifteenth.
Pittsburgh alono retains the
same relative rank now as then,
the sixteenth.
Jersey Citv rises frt&n tbe twentieth
to the importance of seven
tecntli.
Detroit recedes irom tho seventeenth
to tlio eighteenth.
Milwaukee from tho eighteenth
to the nineteenth.
Albany, which una, ten years
ago, the thirteenth, now takes the
old place of Jersey City as the
twentieth.
QtjiNiNB
Biscui.s ? One of the
London bakers has introduced a
dietetic novelty in the shape ot
quinine biscuits. Each biscuit i*
estimated to contain one-fourth of a
grain of quinine, and for delicate
stomachs, or where it is desirable
to disguise medicine a9 mnch as
possible, or to combine food with
medicine in a perfectly agreeable
form, those biscuits are likely to
become very popnlar.
Thrbk-fourtiis of the dfficnl
tieu and miseries .of men come
from tho fact, that most men want
money without earning it, tame
without deserving it, popularity
without temperance, respect with
1 I *
uiii viimu aiiu iivttvuii iiuutii no
linoM.
tka Poor Man's Best.
u Every one oat of town I" 80.
the paper* say. So men tell ono
' another, talking of the dullness
that infects business and social life
alike. But through the streets of
the great city still roabes the roaring
tide, and no eye can see but it
fills its banks as nigh as ever.?
Still the vast boat, in unthined
ranks, spreads through every avonne
and by way ; still the inighty
hum of laber fills the air ; there is
no I1011&); no rest. Th?
?? ?u ?<1 II1CI
vacation comes to bnt a very small
part of the world, after all. To
poverty and cure there is 110 respite.
Yes! Tomorrow U Sunday.?
As its sun rises the3o streets will
lie hushed. Through the long
hours of the summer day, quiet
will brood where for six days labor
has surged without ^ause. And
in every homo thete is rest. The
poorest laborer is tree. The tools
lie untouched. The tired limbs repose,
the wearied brain iuay lio
tallow. For this day husband aud
wife, parents and children, are together.
The affections, the gentle
thoughts, the aspirations toward a
higher life, that are almost crowded
out by the stress of daily toil,
come forth to brighten the heart.
Unconsciously there flow in
strength nnd courage through
which the burden shall be taken
up with good heart. And the si*
lence ot the great city, the music
of the great bells through tho
calm, litly voice, the quiet of tho
heart, the joy and peace, in which
wo thank God for the Sabbath
thut brings to all something of
his rest.?Beecher.
?
A Beautiful Extract
" Generation after generation,"
6ays a tine writer,44 have felt as wo
feel now and their lives were as
active as our own. They passed
away like a vapor while Nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as
when her Creator coinmauded her
to be. The heavens shall be as
bright over our graves as they are
now around our paths.
The world will lmvn ?h?* on.?^
attractions for our offspring yet
unborn that she once had for ourselves,
and that she now has for
our children. Yet a little while
and all will have happened : Tlio
throbbing heart will be stilled and
we shall be at rest. Our funeral
will wend its way, and the prayers
will be said, and our friends will
all return, and wo shall be left behind
in silence and darkness for
the worm. And it may bo for a
short time we shall be spoken ot,
but the things^of life will creep in
and our natnes will soon be forgotten.
Days will continue to move
on, and laughter and song will bo
heard in the room in which he
bled; and the cjo that mourned
for us will be dried and glistened
with joy ; and even our children
will ceaso to think of us, and will
not remember to lisp our names.
Then shall we have become, in the
touching language of the psalmist,
4 forgotten and goes oat of mind.'"
Railway Travel.
Do not travel at night if you
can avoid it.
Take your breakfast always before
starting on a journey.
Obtain a seat near the isle and
near the centre ot the car, and
near the centre of the train. ?
Never 6tand an instant on any
car platform.
Purchase nothing whatever to
eat on a rail-train unless it is a
simple sandwich to be eaten at
noon.
Keep your ticket under your
hatband, or the inner lining.
Avoid conversation while the
cars are in motion, becauso the
overstrain of the voice to make
one heard above the noiso of 4ho
wheels has been such that in many
cases there has l>een such a tension
of tlio vocal chords as to impair
the voice for many months.
All reading in rail-cars while in
motion i? injurious ; bnt the injury
will be greatly mitigated by
rending only a quarter of an hour
at a time, and for the next fivo
minutes let the eyee be directed
to very distant objects. Those alterations
from things near to thoso
remote is a very great relief and
rest.
Make no now ncquaintancca on
a railway tia'u, especially of thoso
who are diap sod to push their attentions
oti you.
Books.?It is chiefly through
books that we enjoy intercourse
with superior minds; and these
invaluable means of communication
aro within the reach of nil.?
In the best books great men talk
to ns, give us their most precious
I twtmrli ta Bnit *1. ? !- ' 1 1 '
KI.U I'WUl IllCir UiUU^lllH
into .ours. Heaven be thanked
fur books ! They are the voices of
the distant and the dead, and
mako ns heirs of the spiritual life
of past ages.