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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 31,1871. . ;' VOLUME XIX?NO. 19. ?
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A SUMMER DAY.
There's a gaping rent in the curtain,
That longs for a needle and thread ;
There's a garment that ought to be liu*
ished,
And a book that wants to be read.
There's a letter that ought to be answered,
There are clothes to fold away,
And I kuow these tasks are waiting,
And ought to be done to-day.
But how can I mend the curtain
While watching thesilvery cloud?
And how I can finish the garment
When the robin calls so loud ?
And the whispered trees are telling
Such stories above my head,
Tlmt T rein lint hut. tin uml liulon
. And the book is all unroaji.
If I try to read the letter,
I am sure oue half the words
Will be in the curious language
Of my chattering friends, the birds.
The lilacs bloom in the sunshine,
The roses nod and smile,
And the clothes that ought to be folded
And ironed, must wait awhile.
I lie in the cooling shadows.
And gaze at the summer sky,
Bidding the cares and troubles,
And trials of l?fe pass by.
The beautiful summer blossoms
Are falling about my feet,
Aud the dreamy air is* laden
With their odors rare aud sweet.
The honey-bees hum In the clover,
The grasses rise and fali,
The robin stops and listens
As he hears the brown thrush call.
A .v.l tl.sv Kiwlo o!n>. f.. h.u u<-vf?lir
411111 iiic uiiun aiii^ iv/ mo o?/iuj ,
TL'e butterfly flics away?
Oh. what could l>e sweeter than living
This beautit'ul summer day?
PEARLS AND BLACKBERRIES.
"No!" said Dr. Darling, slowly?
"no! I can't believe tho ovidenco of|
my own senses!" And as he euunci- j
uted tho words with impressive distinctness
ho looked solemnly at Harry
Clifford.
Ho might have found a worse-looking
individual to fix his regards upon
lhan this young M. D., who had
taken his first lessons in bones, muscles,
and human auatomy, with I ho
therapeutics belonging thereto, in the
JiLtle office across tiio hail, and was
juht preparing to hang up a shingle of
Jiiaowii; for Harry Clifford was tall
and hud a huge auburn mustache, and
merry eyes that laughed liko spring*
of water in tho Sunshine.
2>r. Doling took off his spectacles,
jfoldod ithem, and deliberately placed
t'hem in their case, still without taking
his eyes from his ceophyto.
Hurry Clifiord smiled ; but he looked
a little : embarrassed, LOtwithbtanding.
"She would have you in a minuto, if
you w-?to to propose;" pursued Dr.
Darling, dropping great red-hot
splashes of sealing-wax over a sheet
of blotting paper, and stamping them
with his monogram soul in an aimless
sort of way.
"Yes; but I toll you. Sir, 1 don't
want to'propose,"j>uiii Ifarry, staring
* at the iiUerwincd D. J. D.'s as if they
were the most interesting tilings in
the world.
"You don't want a pretty girl for a
wife?"
"Not that pretty girl in particular,
doctor."
"Nor fifty thousand dollars?" added
the doctor, pronouncing the momentous
words in a manner that
made them sound very weighty indeed.
"I w'ould not object to the fifty
thousand dollars in itself, Sir; but, as
a moro appendago to Miss, Bradbury?"
"I believe the boy is crazy," ejaculated
Dr. Darling. "Well, well, as the
Scotch proverb has it, 'a wilfu' man
nmau hao his way,' and 1 shall interfere
no farther. By-tiic-way, Harry?"
"Yes, Sir?"
"You are going to the city this afternoon
?"
"That is my present intention,
Sir." *
"Stop at Depierrc's will you, and
leave Mrs Darling's pearl brooch to
bo mended. I ou^ht to have dono it
a week ago; but a mau can't think oi'
every thing."
' Certainly, Doctor;" and Harry
Clifford deposited tlie pcarl.brooch?
an old-fashioned ornament of massive
gold, set with tiny secd-pcauls?in his
waistcoat pocket.
"fiather a careless way to carry
jewelry, young mau!" said Dr. Darling,
elevating hio eyebrows.
"Oh, I nover loso any thing!" asserted
Harry,, in an off-hand sort of
way.
Tho morning sun was casting
bright, flickering threads of gold
across the kitchen floor; the morninggloiies
and Mad eii vines, trained
acrosa the casement, stirred softly in
the mid-July air; and Ursula Percy,
Mrs. Darling's orphan niece, was
busy "doing up" blackberries.
Fresh as a rose, with hazol eyes,
softened to intonse blackness at times
by the shadow of their long lashcp,
and smiling scarlet lips, she stood
there?her calico dress concealed by
the house-wifely apron of white dimity
that was tied round her waist, and
her black curls tucked remorsely back
of hor ears?looking demurely into
the bubbling depths of the preserving-Kettle,
like a beautiful parody on
one of the whitcly scoured pine tables
beyond a glittering tin vessel was upheaoed
with the beautiful jot-black
fruit, each seporato berry flashing like
the eye of an Oriental belle.
' Ursula!"
The protty young girl started, vcrj
nearly dropping hor skimmer into thi
prosorving-kettio.
'How you startlod mo, HarryI"
llarry advanced into the kitchori
"with an admiring look at the brigh
I
face, flush#! with a little blush and
good doal of stove-heat.
"You' are always at work, "L
sula."
"I have got to work, Harry,
earn my own living," Ursula I'ori
answered, with a light uplifting
her exquisite black brows: "I a
not an heiress, like Miss Era
bury."
"Confound Miss Bradbury!" c
claimed our hero. "I her nothing bi
Miss Bradbury tho whole time."
"She is a vory sweet young lad
Harry," said Ursula* in mildly r
proving accents.
"T hut?what n. lot (
blackberries you Lave hero, to be sui
Ursula?"
"Forty quarts," said Ursula, d
murely. "Aunt Darling always ci
joys them so much in the winter."
Harry put a honey sweet globule <
fruit into his mouth.
"Blackberries are a beautiful frui
Ursula."
"Very;" and Miss Percy skimmc
diligently away at tHo bubbliug ca
dron. "Especially whon you are d<
ing thorn up," added the young M. D
with rather a clumsy effort at cou
pliment.
Ursula did not answer, Harr
walked up to the range and took bot
her hands in his.
"Ilarry, don't I Tho berries wi
burn."
'Let 'cm burn, then ; who carcs?"
"But what do you want?" she as!
cd, struggling impotently to escapi
and laughing in spito of tho grav
look phe fain would have assumed.
"To sco your eyes, Ursula."
Sho lifted tho soft hazel orbs to he
fnci; then withdrew thorn with sud
don shyness.
"Do you know what answer I rea<
in I l<ftoo nvi^o dnnvnet 9" Jin w lilUT\r>rr*i
Ill llivov VJ V>k?j uwtli VWU * ?IV f? wnfter
a moment or two of silence, bro
ken only by the hissing and simmoi
ing of the boiling blackberries.
"2fo."
"I read yea /"'
"Oh, Ilarry, I dnro not. Uncle ani
aunt aro so dgterminod you shal
marry Miss Bradbury."
"And I am so determined not t
marry her. Is a man to bo give
away as if ho wore a house and lol
or a bundlo of old clothes, I slioul
like to know? Ursula?"
"Harry, they are burning! I an
sure of it. I can smell them. Oh, d<
let go my hands!"
Ilarry Clifford deftly seized up th<
big iron spoon, and stirred the boilindepths
vigorously.
"It's all your imagination, Ui
sula!"
. "Xo, it's not; and if they aro tin
least bit scorched they will bo spoilet
for.Aunt Darling."
"13ut, Ursula?"
The creaking sound of an opening
door beyond suddenty dissolved tin
tete-n-telc. Ursula almost pushed liar
ry Cl'fford out of the kitchen.
"You'll bo on the piazza to-nigh
when they liavo all gone to .the con
cert?" lie persisted in asking througl
the crack in the door.
' Yes, yes, any thing?every thing
only go!"
And Harry went, beginning to rc
alizo that love-making and proservin;
do not assimilate.
"Your pearl brooch, my dear
Oh, I remember now. I gave it L
Harry more than a week ayo to hav
mended. I dare say it's done by thi
timo?" and I)r. Darling turned
peetantly to our hero.
"I?I'm very sorry/' began ITarr
"but the brooch disappeared in th
most unaccounlablc manner from m
vest pockct. I know I put i
there?"
"Yes," dryly interrupted tho cldc
gentleman, "I remember seeing yo
put it there, and you assured mo a
tho timo that you never lost an;
thing. So tho brooeh is gone
VII i
-"Yes, Sir, it is gone* But Mri
Darling may rest assured," Harr
added, with a glance toward thatladt
"that I will replaeo it at the ver
earliest opportunity." -
"Oh, it is of no consequencc at all I
said Mrs. Darling, with a count"
nance that said plainly. It is of tli
very greatest consequence! "Pc:
haps wo shall find itsomewhero abot
the house."
But tho days slipped by one by on
a-d the doo:u of the pearl brooch r
inained involved in the deepest my
tery. JLLany Clifford bought anotht
one and presented it to Airs. Darlin
who laughed, and piuncd it into tl
folds of the thread lace barb she woj
at her throat.
"But it's so strange what can ha\
become of the other I" said Mrs. Da
It was in tho golden month <
September that tho old doctor an
Mrs. Darling made up their minds 1
invite Miss Bradbury to tea, '
"We'll have pound-cake and pr
served blackberries," said Mrs.. Da
ling, who always looked at tho m
terial side of things,
, "And if Harry don't como to terr
now. he never will," added her hi
i?j ...i,~
UU11U, win; uiuii i/.
"Got oat the boat china and tl
chased silver tea-service, Ursula," sa
Mrs. Darling.
"And wear your pink French cali
child; it's the most becoming dre
you have," said her uncle, with a lc
i ing glance at tho bright littlo bi
nette.
And Ursula Percy, obeyed both
J their mandates.
Miss Bradbury camc?a handson
vnnnrr ladv. with a smoo
"J J O ? .
: "society" manner that made Urm
; foel herself vory countrified and co
raon indeed.
"Dciicious preserves those!" si
i, Miss Bradbury.
t 'cIhoy ai'o of Ursula's raakinj
a said Mrs. Darling. And Ilarry Clifford
passed his plate for a second suprr
ply.
"I remember tho day they were
to brewed, or baked, or whatever it is
ry you call it," said he, with an arch
of glance at Ursula.
m ~ Suddenly old Dr. Darling crew
d- purplo in tho face, and began to
cough violently. Every one started
x- up.
ut "lie's swallowed tho spoon 1" cried
Miss Bradbury.
y, "Oh, oh !" he's got the appoploxy J"
e- scroamcd Mrs. Darling, hystericallj\
"Undo! dearest uncle!" piped up
of poor little Ursula, vaguely catching
re at a glass of water.
But Dr. Darling recovered without
c- anymore (dis astrous) sj-mptoms.
11- "It isn't tho spoon, and I don't
como of an apoplectic family," said
of he. "But upon my word, this is
about tho biggest blackberry I over
t, camo perilously near swallowing!"
And ho hold out his wife's pearl
d brooch, boiled up in tho blackbcrrios I
1- Thcro was a momentary silence
j- around the tabloj and then it was
broken by Mrs. Darling? ono of
i- tliese blessed old ladies who nevor
sco an inch beyond their own spectay
cled noses.
h "My goodness gracious 1 said Mrs.
Darling; '-how could it ever have
II como into the preserved blackberries?
I?don't?see?"
"But I do P said Dr. Darling, look:
ing provokingly knowing. "Tcsjl
j, seo a good many things now that I
e didn't see before."
And Ilarry, glancing across the tablo
at .Ursula, was somewhat eonsolod
r to porccivo that hor chock was a
- nhado more scarlct, if that were possible
than his own.
J lie followed the old doctor into his
i office when the overling meal was coni
eluded?Ursula did not know how
- sheerer would have lived through it,
were it not for Mrs. Darling's delightful
obtuse.ness, and Sophy Bradbury's
surface-charm of manner?and plungi]
od boldly into the matter.
II "Doctor?" ho began, valiantly;
but the old gentleman interrupted
o him.
n "There's no need of any cxplanai,
lion my boy," ho said. "I know now
.1 ? ! J_?*. i. 1 -
u wny you uiuu o warn, 10 luxury iuis*
Bradbury. And J don't say that 1
a blame 3-011 much; only I came very
0 near choking to death with Ursula's
blackberry jam!"
c And Doctor Darling laughed again
j until, had his epouso been present, she
would *urely have thought a second
attack of apoplexy among the inevitables.
0 "Little Ursula 1" ho added. -'Who
1 would have thought of it? Well,
you shall have my blessing."
The pearls were all discolored, and
; the gold of tho old-fashioned brooch
3 tarnished with the alchemy of cook
ing; but Ursula keeps that old ornameiit
yet, more tenderly treasured
t than all tho modern knick-knacks 1
- with which her young husband loads
1? her toilet-table. Atid every year,
when she preserves blackberries, l)r.
; Darling comes to tea, and makes ponderous
witticisms, and protends to
s- search in tho crystal preserve-dish fer
g a "boiled brooch 1"
But then jolly old gentlemen will
? liavo their jokes.0
What tlie Microscope Reveals.
T,n\*?r?nlir?r>f.lr f?-?!I? n? nf (in inRflfit,
y seen with tho microscope, of which
o twenty-seven millions would only
y equal a mite.
it Insects of various kinds may bo
seen in tho cavities of a grain of
,y sand.
u Mold is a forest of beautiful tree*,
,t with the branches, leaves, and fruit.
y Butterflies are fully feathered.
Hairs arc hollow tubes.
The surface of our bodies is covcr3.
ed with scales like a fish; a single
y grain of sand would cover ono huny
dred and fifty of these scales, and
y yet a scale covers fivo hundred pores.
Through these narrow openings tho
I" sweat forces itself lileo water through
5. a sieve.
!C Tho mites make fivo hundred steps
r- a second.
it Each drop of stagnant water contains
a world of animated beings,
..0 i:un,.tn ..O
Qj | UllliJIIIU, ?> 11II iio HIUOU lli/UJ VJ CIO I
e-1 whales in the sea.
s- JSaeh loaf lias a colony of in.sccts
>p grazing 011 it, like cows on a mead<r
?w.
ic Moral ?Havo some care as to the
L>e air you breatho,.the food you eat, and
the water you drink.?Home and
'0 Heultk.
of Remedy for Low Spirits.A phij
losophical writer says that exercise
Lo for the body, occupation for the
mind, these are the grand constic.
tuents of health and happiness, the
r_ cardinal points upon which evcryu
thing turns. Motion seems to be a
nrent nreservinf* r>rincinle of na
? I O X it
ns tare, to which even inanimate
is- things are subject; for the winds
waves, the earth itself, are restless,
and the waving of trees, shrubs and
,l" flowers is known to be an essential
part of their economy. A fixed
J-j rule of taking several hours' exer>v_
cise every day, if possible in the
u- open air?if not, under cover?will
be almost certain to secure one ex
of emption from disease, as well as
i attacks of low spirits, or ennui?
ic, that monster who is ever wavlavinsr
th the rich and indolent. Low spirits
cannotexist in the atmophereof
m* bodily and mental activity.
lid *
If laughter is tho daylight of the
5," soul, a smile is its twilight.
An Exhausted Husband.
The following bit of charming pneophistieation,
purporting to havo .
been written by a young wife in New ;
York to her prim and ppeetacled mai- 1
den aunt in Boston, will bo read with 1
curious interest by tho moro onlight- 1
cned reader: 1
My Dear Aunt.?Although, you
fnlrl mn wlinn t intriffifl ttaii in mv 1
VV1V? k MVj 1? 11VII JL 1U I I WW J vu vv J
wedding, that I was too J|pung to
marry, and not capable of choosing a
mate for lifo properly, and with duo
consideration, I know that you may
now feel that I was wiser than you
thought. In selecting dear Orlando 1
I have gained a most affectionate and 1
attentive husband, and one who has i
neither a fault nor a vite. Heavens!
What must a girl suffer who finds
herself united to a dissipated person,
neglectful of her, and disposed to seek
the society of unworthy persons, who
drink, smoke, and do all sorts of
dreadful tilings 1
Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfection
!
To-day is my eighteenth birthday,
and we have been married a year.
Wo keep house now, and 1 can make
pretty good pie, onl}r the under crust
will be damp. However, 1 think that
must bo in tho oven. Onco I put <
peppermint in the pudding sauce instead
%f lemon flavoring; but then
Orlando was trying to kiss me, right
before the girl, who didn't much like
cither of us going into tho kitchcn at
all.
Tho flowers are coming up beautifully
in the back garden. We sowed
a great many seed, but hardly expected
so man}- plants. Among tho most
numerous is one variety with a very
largo leaf, that scratches one's fingers,
and don't smell nico. I wonder what
it is. Orlando frightens mo by talking
about weeds; but weeds always
come up, don't they ?
Dear Orlando I 1 come back to him
again?rso excellent, temperate,. and
true. Tell all tho girls to marry as
soon as they can, if they can find a
husband like mine.
' I havo but one trial?business takes
him so much away from mc. A lawyer
must attend to business, you know;
and sometimes they cany on tho case
until two at night. Often and often
ho has examined witnesses until halfpast
twelve, and eomo home perfectly
exhausted. And tho nasty things
will smoke, so that his dear coat quite
smells of it. And as it makes him as
ill as it docs mc, I havo to air it, and
cniMi-ilrlo I Itn linino- wif.il rnloimn Wft
1 " "" r> o? ? i
Lcr before ho dares to put it on again. (
I had a terriblo fright tho . other ]
night?dreadful. Orlando had told
mo that .business?I think ho said it
was a'case of life and doath'?would
detain him late. So I sat up as usual,
with a book, and did not worry until
one o'clock. After that X was a liLtlo
anxious, I confess, and caught a cold
in my head peeping through tho upstairs
window blinds; for, d\nr aunt,
it was not until three o'clock that I
heard a cab driving up the street and
saw it stop at our door; then I
thought I should faint, fur 1 was sure
some dreadful accident had happened
to Orlando.
I ran down to open tho door; a
friend of Orlando's who is not, I confess,
very much to my taste?such a
red faced, noisy man?was just sup- .
porting my dear boy up the steps. j
"Oh, what has happened?" cried I
"Don't be frightened, Mrs. Wliito!"
said Mr. Smith. "Nothing at all;
only White is a little exhausted. Application
to business will exhaust a
man, and I thought I'd bring him
homo." '
"All right Belle," said Orlando, i
"Smith tells the truth?I'm exhaus- '
ted." ' i
And, dearest aunt, ho was'bo much. I
so that he spoko quito thick, artd i
couldn't stand up -without tottering. |
Mr. Smith Was kind enough to help
him up-stairs; and he lay upon the <
l^ed so prostrated that 1 thought ho i
was going to die. Then I remembered
tho French brandy you gave i
me in caso of sickness. I ran to got
it out. 1
Ilavo a littlo brandy and water,
dear?" I said.
"The very thing. Smith is exhausted,
too. Give soino to Smith," said
he.
And so I reproach myself for my
not having thought of it before Mr.
Smith was gone. But I gave a glass
to Orlando, and, under Providence, I
think it saved his life; for, oh, how
bad ho was!
"Belle," said he, quito faltering in
his speech, "the room is going round
so fast that I can't catch your eye.
And besides there's two of you, and I
don't know which is which."
I knew theso cro dreadful symptoms.
"Tako a drink, doar," said I, "and
I'll try to wako Mary, and send her
for the doctor."
"No," said ho, "I'll be all right in
tho morning. I'm all right now.
Here's your health. You're a brick.
I ." And over ho fell, fast asleep.
Oh, why do men think so much of
monoy-maldng? Is not health bettor
.than anything else.
Of course he had laid down in his
hat, I took that off first. And I managed
to divest him of his coat. But
when it came to his boots?dearest
aunt, did you over take off a gentleman's
boots? probably not, as you
aro a 6inglo lady?what a task I IIow
do they ever got on? I pulled and
r?nlln/l nml nlmnk and wrifrflrled. and
17W,,vw) ? - DO 1 ?
gave it up. But it. would not do to
leave them on all night; so I went at
it again, and at last one came off so
suddenly, and over I went on the
floor, and into his hat, which I had
nut down thoro for a minuto. ?could
havo cried. An3 the other came off
in the wamo way, juat as hard and
just as sadden at last. Then I pat
soft blanket ovor Orlando, and sat
my sewing chair all night. Oh, ho
heavily ho broathed! And I had,:
you may fancy, the most dreadf
fears. Ho might havo killed himsc
by his over-application to business, f
all thft I knew. Tho perfect ones {
first, it is said.
Oh *how difforcntlv shnnlH T
felt had anything happened to ray b
loved Orlando, lie has not had i
jxhausting a day since, and I thir
bo sees the folly of overwork ; thouj
if courts will kocp open so late, wh
:-an poor lawyers do ? I think it
srery inconsiderate of the judge,
svonder whether he has a wifo?tl
mean old thing.
Sterling Advice.
A lady makes some sensible suggc
Lions, in a London journal, on tl
subject of marriage or celibacy, a fo
which wo anuox, and say th
[here is a great deal of trutU^
ihem :
"When a girl marries alio ought,
a certain extent, givo up her acquain
mces, and consider tho company
bor husband tho best company si
2an have. Tho young wtfe must leai
looking carefully, if she does not i
ready have a good knowledge of
01*A montr /irnnl1rtn+ aaaItai
i-ilVi w W* V iumi*J VAWIIVIIU wvaui
oooks, but she must not follow the
mplicitly. My own' plan, for eon
lime after I was married, was to tal
jome recipe given, and note careful
tvhat ingredients could bo dispens<
svith. Tho second time I general
managed it at half tho expense,
iseful plan is to keep a blank book
ihe kitchen table drawer, and whe
jver a deviation from the orthod<
jookery book is made, to jot it dow
Do not wait .till you have waahi
four hands; let tho book be fingc
narked rather than lose an idea. Y<
ivill thus learn more of househo
jconomy than if you trust to momoi
done ; and when your daughters gro
jp, what a fund of practical inform
,ion It will bo for them 1
"To a great exten^ tho celibacy
)ur young men is owing to the wt
n which girls are brought up.'
IMirougb mistaken kindness mothc
>ften themselves do what tlioy oug
.o make their daughters do.. L
;hem.teach house-keeping on a fixe
nethodical plan, and they will th<
earn their history, French and raus
ill the better. It is natural and rigi
-hat a mother should wish to see h
laughters well educated ana eve
nighly accomplished; and it is a ml
,ake that good and careful. educati<
jhould unfit a girl for the homely d
iies of cooking, dusting, otc. On tl
iontrary, those duties would bo bett
icrformed if mothers would, at tl
tame tiino that they seek talented i
itructors for their daughters, impa
,o them some of their own culinai
.alent; thero would be moro go<
ivives and marriages. Littlo gii
jhouhl he taught, as early as possib!
perform simple household duti
fiOQ'..Jy ; and as they grow older, I
.hem become .gradually acquaint
with the theory of house-keeping
such a manner that, when they a
carried, they will bo ablo to ada
hemsclvcs to their circumstanc<
ind be useful as well as pleasing coi
panions to their husbands."
The Ruts of J4fe. ,
Get out of them if 3*011 wish to li
long. Men and women must ha
rccrcation, must havo amusemet
must havo diversion. It is who]
some for the mind tD break awi
from its daily vocation or emplo
mcnl every night. The man wl
goes from his pouutiug-house or 1
work-shop at tho close of the da
and docs not leave it behind him, b
sits at the family table in moodinei
broodingovcjpastoccurrences, weig
ing probabilities, casting conjecturi
laying plans, and when the meal
over sits thinking, thinking, thinkir
by the hour, and goos to bed to tc
and tumble* and worrj', cannot li
long, the brain or tho heart m_uat,?i
way.
"I1? TqInml nf Pnlin flin wiirri
JL II L11 ioiivuvt v. 0
roads lead over hills mado of liir
stone; the wheels havo run in t
samo track for generations and ha
so worn into the solid stone that t
hubs scrape the surface, and there
no getting out of tho rut until t
bottom of the hill is reached. So
the lives of many, the mind, und
tho influcnco of worldly care, gots
run in a particular track; in otb
cases, tho occupations arc of such
insufferable samenoss from ono yea
end to another that its workings I
comes mechanical, and out of th<
lines they cannot work at all; ben
1 ho stupidity of such a largo norti
of the farming population of all cot
trios; tho peasants of England a
Ireland, Franco and Germany a
Ilussia as well. . .
And our wives, in largo towns a
cities, swoop and dust, and arranj
and wash and sow and provide, in o
incessant round, summer and wint
xt_ ?tlinv rrrnw thin n.nfl on.
XM O WUliuwi ~ ......
worn, and woak and nervous. 0
out of the ruts, all of you?pay
neighborly visit throo nights in
week, or for two afternoons Jot th<
bo a ' let up."
Get out of the rut, reader, two
throo hours a wock, and thero will
no time lost by it in the long run;
it givos activit}7 to tho moral natu
it cultivates tho affections; it wal
up observation ; it exorcises compi
son ; it gives breadth of view on
subjects; it makes a man moro m
ly ; it malcos a woman moro worn
ly.?Haifa Journal of Jlculth.
a Work Daring Sleep,
in
w Thoso eases in which thq?fcajn is
hard at work during sloep, instead oi
"J. being totally oblivious of ovorything,
may be called dreaming or somnamor
bulism, according to the mode in
5? which the activity displays itself
Many of thorn are full of interest.
70 Some men have done really hard menie"
tal work while at sleep. Condorcet
finished a. train nf nnlnnlnlinnfl in his
'k 9leoj> which had much puzzled him
during the day. In 1856 a dollegian
. noticed tho peculiarities of a fellow18
student, who was rather stupid than
1 otherwise during his waking hours,
10 but who had got through some excellent
work In geometry and algebra
during sleep, Condillac andjFranklin
both workod correctly during some oi
their sleeping hours.
Tho work done partakes in many
ss- cases more of the nature, of imagina
ae tivo composition thau of scientific
w calculations.
at Thus a stanza of excellent -verse u
in in print, which Sir John Ilerschel if
said to have composed while asleep
to and to havo recollected when he
it- awoko. Goethe often set down or
of paper, during tho day, thoughts and
he ideas which had prosented themsolvcf
rn to him during sleep on tho preceding
il- night. A gentleman ono night dream'
it. cd that he was playing an entirety
ry new gamo of cards with threo friends
m when ho awoke tho structure and
fio rules of the game, as creatcd in the
*e dream, came one by ono into his mem
ly ory and ho found them so ingcnioui
3d that ho afterwards frequently playcc
ly the game.
A Coleridge is said to have composoc
in his fragment of "Kubla Khan" du
n-N ring sleep. IIo had one evening boor
>x roading Purchas' "Pilgrimsome o
n. tho romantic incidents struck his fan
3d cyj ho wont to sleep and his busj
sr- brain composed "Kubla Khan."?
sn When ho awoke in tho morning h<
Id wroto out what his mind had inven
ry ted in sleep, until interrupted by i
w visitor witn whom he conversed foi
a- an hour on business matters; bat
alas! ho could never again recall th<
of thread of tho story, and thus "Kubli
\y Khan" remains a fragment, Dr. Gooc
? mentions the case of a gentlemar
rs who in his sloop composed an .odo ir
lit six stanzas and set it to music,
et Tartini, tho celebrated Italian vio
d, linist, ono night dreamed that th<
)n devil appeared unto him, challenged
ie him to a trial of skill on tho fiddle
bt and played a piece wonderful for its
er beauty and difficulty; when Tartin
jn awoko ho could not remember the ex
is- act notes, but ho could reproduce th<
>n general character of tho music, whicl
a- ho did in a composition ever sinci
he known as tho "Devil's Sonata." Lori
er Thurlow, when a youth at college
hfi funnil ViimunIP nno ornninrt nnnKln f<
wuuvt uiiugvi* vii v v< vniit^ uu^tvtv w<
n- finish a piece of Lalin eompositioi
rt that he had undertaken ; ho went t<
'*y bed full of tho subject, fell asleep
finished his Latin in his sleep, romem
la berod it next morning, and was com
lc, plimontcd on tho folicitous forn
cs which il presentod.?All tfie Yea
et. Round.
sd
in
ro Benefits of Sunshine.
pt
iS? Seclusion from sunshine is ono :o
n" tho misfortunes of our civilizcd life
The samo causo which makes the po
tato vinos white and sickly, .whei
grown in tho dark cellars, operates t<
produce the palo, sickly girls that ar<
reared in our parlors." Expose cithoi
y.Q to tho rays of the sun, and they be
vo gin to show color, health and strength
lt Ono of tho ablest lawyers in oui
country, a victim $f long and hart
ly brain labor, camo to mo a year ag<
suffering from partial paralysis. Thi
l",0 right leg and hip were reduced in size
jja with coustant pain in tho loins. II<
? was obliged in coming up staira to lif
up tho left foot first, dragging th<
3S right foot after it. - Palo, feeble, mis
h' erablo, he told me he had been failinc
?fl for several years, and closed with
"jg "My work is done. At sixty I fim
myself worn out."
'k* r j. j i. P. 1 .1...
)ss I airccteu mm 10 iic uown unuur i
vo large window and*allow tho sun t<
whine on every part of his body; a
"tfcst ten minutes a day, increasing-tin
time until ho could expose himself t<
1C_ tlio direct rays of the sun for a ful
|1C hour, llis habits wore not essentially
vo altered in any other particular, li
j10 six months lie came running up stair
}8 like a vigorous man of forty, and dc
[,e clarod, with sparkling eyes, "I hav<
jn twonty years more of work in me."
er I havo assisted many dyspeptic
to neuralgic, rheumatic and hj-pochon
er driacal pcoplo into health by tho sui
an euro. I havo so many facts illustra
r>R ting the wonderful power of tho sun'
30, dircet rays in curing certain classe
,80 of invalids that I havo serionsl;
iCe thought of publishing a work to b
on denominated tho *"Sun Crfro."?Horn
in. and Health.
nd
nd
"{Stay by all jjieans.a ujncir
nd nati dentist, who had become nervou
jo, by frequent burglaries in his vicinitj
no was somewhat startled recently b;
er. having a man come daily at the sam
re- hour each evening, and sit on hi
rot doorstep. lie finally suggested thai
a if it would bo all tho same to him, h
a would bo pleased to have him divid
3ro his attentions, and sit on some neigl
bor's doorstep for a while.
or "But it wouldn't bo tho samo,
bo shouted tho visitor in roturn, "no
nnvthincr liko it. You are a dentis'
j -- 0 - ro;
and I havo an iufernal aching toot
ics that I haven't tho courage to hav
iri- pulled. I como horo every afternoo
all trying to make up my mind to have
au- out, and as soon as I come in sight <
an- your hotiso it stops aching, and j
long as I sit on your door step, wliei
the confounded thing knows it can
get pulled if it gives trouble, I have
j somo rest. Now, if you vfant me to
c go to another dentist, I will."
"Ob, no,". was "the tfeply "under
' those circumstances, stay by all
' moans, my friend."
?
Wond8rftil Sagacity of a Dog.
I The Portland (Me.) Press says:
l "The following story, strange as it
i may appear, is vouched by several
witnesses whose testimony is uni
impeachable. A short time ago a
i female Newfoundland dog was in
the habit of coming.to the house
k of a lady in this city who would
j. throw to it pieces ofuold meat,
which the dog would eat, and, hav,
ing satisfied its hunger, go away
. again. So confirmed did this hab?
it becom6, that at* a certain hour
. daily the lady would expect the
j dog and the animal would put in
J an appearance. A few days ago,
? before feeding her, the lady said to
her, 'Why don't you bring me one
' of your puppies V' repeating the
question several times as .she stood
\ at the window, the dog looking at
; her in the face with an expressifm
r of intelligence, as if it understood
I every word the lady said. The
I next day, to the lady's astonishment
i at the usual hour, the dog returned,
- and lo, and behold! was accompa5
nied by a little puppy. The lady
1 fed both dogs, and then took up
. the duddv into the window, when
the old dog scampered off and did
not return for three days. . At tho
> end of that time the dog again appeared,
?vhen, after feeding it, the
lady said, 'Next time bring all
your puppies, I want to seO thqin^
and yesterday morning, sure
enough-, the dog returned, accompanied
by three Newfoundland pups
Several of the {neighbors saw the
' whole transaction, and . declared
that they considered this one ol
the most wonderful proofs of the
sagacity of the dog they have evei
known. Where the dog came
from and to whom it belongs is hot
known, but we have the name ol
the lady and " also of those who
were eve-wituesaes to tha occurrences
as narrated by us."
i "
Hints for . Warm Weather.?a
} little very simple knowledge would gc
1 a great way in warm weather". Hen
2 are a plenty of amateur sportsmer
1 coming home in disgust on account o
> mosquitoes, and thousands of stay-at
5 home, who find life almost uriondura
1 blfc on any terms for flies. If eithei
5 party knew it, carbolic acid is th<
') sovereign remody for all their troubles
* A few drops of evaporated or pouret
l" upon the clothes will keep the winget
1 pests at a eafo distance; and if th<
r pure crystallized acid is used, no grea
annoyance will result to human be
ings. Eestaurant .keepers ought t<
know this, and keep the swarms o:
flies away from their windows, "When
f.hov sflf.t.lfi nnrf hnzz in t,ha torment oi
J ?
i passers. The musty taste of tho Cro
tou water complained of by those
- who "mako its acquaintance ncrtvlj
i every summer, may be corrected by
5 throwiug a few scraps of sheet-iron
3 into tho water-tank or cooler. Thif
r provonts water from decomposing
- and keops it pure and sweet. It will
oven prevent tho water from growing
<* offensivo and unwholesome on long
1 sea voyages. People are constantly
} rushing about in tho- hot sun, com3
plaining of headaches and giddiness,
> when all they need for safety and
3 comfort is a wet handorchief in the
t crown of tho hat.
9 . *
? "Ain't Got 'Eir."?Three ol
' the dirtiest, most ragged little ragamufiin^
in this city entered one oi
x magnificent drug stores iii the place
3 Marching up to the counter, one
t said:
a. "I wan't a cent's worth of root
3 candy!"
1 "Get out,you ragamuffin! We
' don't sell a cent's worth of rock
1 candy."
8 Slowly and sadly they filed ou1
" of the store. On the sidewalk a
D consultation took place. Tliey re
, entered the door.
' "Mister, do yon sell three cent'i
i worth of rock candy ?"
. "Yes."
s "Well, we ain't .got 'era!" auc
s tho proccssioa moved out again.
Y
o ' *
t A saw-mill is the last gift accep
ted by Mr Grant. It may be han
dy to have in the house to ge
board.
i8
?
r, Smiles and Frowns.?It is al
y ways in your power to make \
o friend by smiles; what a folly, then
8 to mako an enemy by frowns.
e
0 Keep Away from Bad Habits
?No person ever got stung by hor
?? nets who kept away from wher<
ir they were, it is just bu mm um
t habits.
U1
h
? True Friends. ? Value th
it friendship of him who stands b;
rf you in the storm; swarms of iii
is sects will surround yon ju the sou
o shine.
SCRAPS.
v '< . v.;*
A Londoner has boetv arrasi x.
for forging American bonds.
The hair of a six-year old girl fti
TW ;* Xr, + : . ZJ^ * '
10 tuniiujj ' :r
' ' 1 4 , ; T . ?*
An Indiana cat attacked .a .copperhead
snake last week and killed
it. . %s f '
The Tailors' National Conveft
tion holds forth in Philadelphia.'
The bosltfires in Canada ere be
coming numerous and destructive
* V*
The American Scientific Association
assemble at Indianapolis - today.
.< . i
Crops in the "West of England;
have been much damaged by than- .
der storms.
1 V*f
Tlio &11an>1ianv fllftr riftnn/111 in
JL11V JJ.JlVg.lUUJ Vl?J . '
broke up the other night in
rough-and-tumble fight. , ~ .
"West Virginia is to have a A*:- ;i
railroad entitled the Chariest#*
Ripley and Parkersbarg.- ^ ,
The Waverly Centennary was generally
celebrated in Great Brittwo, . *
Canada and the States. {
They run a sewing machine-atr**
Cincinnati by hot air?Hotair bc-v
ing the girl's name,
r Japan has adopted a^golct ao&
silver coinage corresponding. to
that which was once ottra. ?
A Burlington young, jladjr says
the armless woman ofBarhtnn's
8hoWr"writcs a very good foot.
The board of health of NewOrleans
arc prosecuting their,n^^
men because they don't shingle
their cows.
[ An old gentleman being, asl&l .
? what be wanted for dinner, replied :
t **An appetite, good * company,
" something to eat, arid a clean" Bd|>
1 kiu." ; * '
i " ? '
? Wisconsin man applied for- a *
divorce on the ground that His wife y
. had become weak, and^couldu-1 p
work on the farm as"she used ib.''
C* v?.r
Benefit your friends that they
may love you still more*dearly;
L benefit your enemies that they M&y
J become your friends.
Xiuuvauuu 10 iin;uiujittwuio \Yim
' self-indulgence, and the impulse 6f
vanitv is too often mistaken for the
; impulse of nature.
3 Difficult; excites, the . mtnd to
' the dignity which sustains and fi!
naHy conquers misfortune, and the
B ordeal refines while it chasMri^.
^ Complete returns from all but
' six counties ,in Kentucky make
p Leslie's majority 36,0000, and that
> of other Democratic candidates
f 39,000.
^ '* , - * *
| Mr. A. T. Stfwart never once sat
. for a portrait or photograph. -Noth.
ing will induce him to do so; and
a personal request -from the.H^n.
T11.? 1 x
j uouu'xmgui, was puuujijr, uut-uiiu,
ly, refused. ' .
I - * ...r.
; (. Some time ago the lecturers at
\ 'Surgeons' Hall, London, resolved
' to admit women students to. their
lectures. Since that time, how>
ever, they have reconsidered that *
' decision, and now the women will
' not be admitted.
King Amadeus, of Spain, is indeed
surrounded with difficulties.
f He is not only unpopular witli his
" people, who cannot findsrstaud
' *him, since he camyt speak their
language, but no private
5 fortune, he is compelled to live oil
his civil list alone.
Papa Jesse R. Grant, according
! to the Cincinnati Commercial, "ex:
presses a willingness, in view of tlic :
pressure upon mm, to -resign tfce
k CoviDgton postoffice, but' insists
1 npon naming hie successor." IT
" this privilege is granted him, a Mr. #
Miller clerk in the office, is repre3
sented as the favorite individual,
who will probably "divide."
I Mr. John Hopkins is reputed as
the richest man south^ of Masou
and Dixon's ]iue. He-is the largest
stockholder in the Baltimore
- and Ohio Railroad, and ttorth $8,"
000,000, much of which be has
t given to endow the John Hopkins
University, on the outskirts of
n i,! n:i_ tt_ .j
Dam mure ^iiy. xlo cumuieiiceu
. life in Baltimore many years ago
a as a small grocer, and by industry,
honesty, and perseverance amassed
' his collossal fortune.
A new and timely toy has been
invented by'aningeniousjmechanic
' of New York oity; It is a miniaj
ture steamboat, the machinery of
[ which, on being wound up, explodes
by means of a spring, scatteeing
portions of the bpat and
the little men, women and children
e by which it is occupied in every
y direction. The object of this'pleasi
ing toy is to familiarize children
i- early with contingencies of stcaip
boat travel,