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VOL. 2. NO. 16.] BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1872,
Beaufort County $fpublifan
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1872.
9^lCBM^ L> rvY?
P. M. WHITMAN,
WATCHMAKER & EK6RAVER,
MIYO'S BUILDING, BAY ST.
WILL GIVE HIS PERSON \L ATTEXtlon
to the repairing of of Watches.
Clocks and Jewelry. Ornamental and plain
Engraving done at short notice.
Gentleman having fine watches can test them
at this establishment by one of HOWARD cte
CO.'S S500 REGULATORS. jau.4-tf.
~H. M. STUART M. D.,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets,
DEALER in Drugs, Chemicals, valuable Family Med
ieines. Fancy and Toilet Articles, Stationery, Per
fumery, Brashes, Ac.; together with many other articles
too numerous to mention. All of which will be sold at
I the lowest price for cash. Physicians prescriptions care"
fully compounded. feb 11
JJ G. JUDD,
CLERK OF COURT 6 REGISTER OF DEEDS
and
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER.
CONVEYANCING.
JtW Office in the Court House. Oct. 2t*f
Ms. T.T HITCHCOCK.
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
?. s
Bounty, Pension and Claim Agent.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Dec lyr.
M.POLLITZEH,
COTTON F A 0 T 0 3
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Sept A.
j7 A7 EMMONS r
Dealer in fresh meats, vegetables
and Ice.
Which will ho rurnisnca in any quantity.
AfL 'r.'-tf.
* LIME! LIME!!
THF I'.KST BRANDS STONK LIME CONSTANTLY
oil hand au<i for sab- ai low orii?s lor cash.
WATiilt HOUSE, Hay st.
TOB A O.
rpiIK STANDARD BRANDS OF VIRGINIA Pl.Ft
X Toi?a.*e??, iu <'aJdi<-x, <'as-s. and llall-Kox s.r- i. <i
direct from the manufacturers' a c? nts for sale in quantities
to suit the trade at lowest whol saF pr;?-.?. v .
<1. WATFRHOI SK.-Bay st.
HAY AND (KITS.
A large lot just received by the schooner
^ . Altoona. For sale cheap while landing, for
cash only.
FlIMTHE A\D WOODEl IV JRE.'
Chamber sets, Bedsteads, Chairs, Tubsfc
Pails and Wrapping Paper.
G. WATEK1IOUSK,
Dec. 7tf Bay St.
SA\T0\ HOUSE.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
4
0 ?y O
?JMIIS HOUSE SITUATED ON BAY
St. com mauds a fine view of
BEAUFORT RIVER,
and many of the Sra Kinds. The travelling public wil|
find here a desirable and
CON V ENIENT IIO>fcE,
and the Invalid will find no better or no more liealthfu
climate on the
S 0 U T IIE R N C 0 A S T
to spend the winter. The House is within five minutes
walk ofSteam Boat, and fifteen minutes walk of IJai
Road communication. A good
LIVE II Y S T A B L E
has just been added to the House.
Western Union Telegraph Office on first floor.
M. M. KINGMAN,
Proprietor:
0NE THOUSAND SWEET ORANGE
Trees for sale, from one to three years old. Will be
transplanted if desired. Apply to
B. R. SAMS.
OcL2G Kay Street.
S. M A YO,
BAY STREET, BE A UFO I IT, S. C.
?SiDCaiKEBS. 1ST BDKD3,
QNWARE, HARDWARE, AND WOODI
E.V WARE.
Q ES
nra.4n.fi ,< ran man
v-^ tx .i.i/ i x vy vy 9
NET YARNS, FISII LINES,
AND CORDAGE.
GLASS,
r>AIJJT3 A3V33 OILiS,
WHITE LEAD AND TIHPEXTIXE. <>
Special attention given to mixing Paints,
and i/fass wt to order at any size.
leb 11
Travelers' Sketches.
u Fixing" the Hair in China.
I submitted to the operation in Pekin
as an experiment, and have to this day a
lively recollection of the performance.
Stretched at full length on a bamboo seat
or easy cliair, I was pummelled all over
the body, but more particularly on the
chest, legs and arms by a stout, brawny
attendant with his partially closed fists,
after the style once so popular at the
" Hammam," till I was fain to cry Peceavi.
Sometimes the "douche" is administered,
but only rarely. The barber's outfit is
simple, consisting of a good razor, which
costs about three pence, a strop which is
usually nothing more thanastripof stoutish
calico cloth costing a penny more. The
chief items of expense in this elaborate
" kit " are the accessories The metal basin
and the bamboo pail underneath, and
the pole surmounting all, which serves as
the emblem of his craft, are, however,
scarcely more expensive than the razor
and strop, so that on the whole it does not
cost very muali to famish a barber's shop
iu China. The tariff of charges of those
engaged in this branch of industry is correspondingly
low. Threo "cash," equal to
about half a farthing of British money is
the sura ordinarily asked for simply shavinfr
the head. If the queue is plaited and
interwoven with fresh silk the scale of
charge correspondingly rises* Shaving
and braiding the queue, retailing a wornout
stinnp and shampooing constitute all
the arts required of the barber. False
moustaches and beards of a rude kind,
such as are worn by actors in the public
shows, are not made by bis hands, and of
making perukes and wigs, bo much in
vogue among the civilized nations of Europe,
he is altogether ignorant In fact
the Chinese gentleman is far from being so
particular about his head as the English
gentleman is about his beard ; where the
latter shaves at all he usually 3haves daily,
if he diuos out he will often repeat the
operation during the twenty-four hours.
On the other hand, the majority of even
the better cla^pos in China shave but twice
a week, and the laboring classes but once.
In the case of mourning, the law?or
ra:her recognized custom, more powerful
than law?is to permit the head to go unshaven
for months, the precise time being
regulated by the measure of relationship
to the deceased. But as the thirteen
months' exemption from shaving prescriln-d
for the loss of either of one's
parents, if rigidly enforced, would produce
r crop of hair too exuberant for even Chinese
society to endure, where strict regard
for eii^iette forbids the clean polish of the
r.v/.or-blade, other expedients nro brought
into re |aisit:o 1 to keep the stumps of the
hair within due bounds. Since the incoming
of the Mantcliou power, barbers' sliops,
primitive and simple as they are now, must
have u: dergone a more marfed chango
than tlio-e we are accustomed to see nearer
home, for the native Chinese, till they received
this badge of a foreign yoke, did
not allow either knife or scissors to pass
upon their head, but were the "long haired
rare" which the Taeping insurgents are
wishing to become. Previous to their
subjection by the Tartars, the fashion was
to bind the long hair in a knot on the top
of the head, and there to fasten it with a
wooden or metal pin, as is often represented
in the old pictures of the Ming
dynnstry. The art of hair-cutting as practised
in the West, is as yet unknown to
the Chinese barber. It is hut rarely therefore,
that a foreigner calls in the aid of
native skill. Only, indeed, when he assumes
the garb of the country and goes
into the interior does he firul it necessary.
This, indeed, fonne the coup dc qruci to
the foreigner's metamorphosis. The "tail"
fastened on to the back hair deceives even
the pmetis d eye of the native, and, as Mr.
Fortune has drily observed, "even the dogs
cease to notice him."
Scones and Adventures in Holland.
An amateur sailor who is making a
canoe tour of the Zuyder Zee, writes an
interesting account of his experiences,
lie tried to sail h'.s canoe, the Hob Hoy,
over tho shallows called the Pampas, to
reach a curious island in the Zuyder Zee,
but failing in tnat ellort, went to sleep in
his limited stateroom, while scores of boys
sto^d. tering in the dark and wet, long
into the nigliti amazed at the lone traveler.
Next morning the Burgomaster of Mounikendam
visited the scene. au:l a worthy
gentleman with spectacles read al ud from
(.Au*ot%nn/n o lull oo/?Aiinf r\P 111 l* luiQt
(.UU U lUi! ?VVV/uuv "* V\ **-,
stopping at each paragraph to certify the
description by the reality. Before a favoring
breeze the ca' -e sailed over the sea to
the famed isle of Marken, whidh is uuit^uo
iu several ways.
The writer says:
A thousand people live on a small aroa
under the sea level. Their houses are in
seven groups, all built of wood except
three. Two pear trees are the onh forest
and a dozen geraniums the only flowers.
Standing on the little cemetery you see
ships sailing all around you and all above
your head. Let one breach be made in
that sea wall and all the land will melt
into the muddy oore of the Zuyder Zee.
The " Preester" hero is the sole element
| of intelligence, with Schiller and Goethe j
on his bookshelves, a cigar in his mouth,
and on his table a new English book translated
into Dutch, "John Ploughman's 1
Talk," C. H. Spurgeon. All the men and !
boys are fishers. They have 150 little
I sloops in their lilliputian port. Their
trousers are two bags, such as :he Turks
wear in Smyrna. Their church haa votive
offerings hung from the ceiling, model
ships, fishers' nets, and fish ski j,ping about
in miniature over the clumsy pews.
White caps cover the women's heads
down to the eyebrows, and black curls
come from below the front and turn upwards
at the forehead. A long tress of
hair hangs at the ear of each unmarried
girl, and two for those who have husbands.
About their bosoms are curiously
wrought bodices. The stuff for these is no
longer manufactured, so the dre^s is de: !
vised by will, and your niece wears tho
mantle of her great grandmother.
The interior of tho wooden houses is
very peculiar. One large room holds one
or more families, and it has> a pr at fire in
the middle, and no opening for smoke or
light or air.
In the few richer dwellings there is an
excess of ornament, all of one knickknack
type: china, brass, and carved work.
In one of these houses I found an old lady
of eighty-seven ; the walls of the houses
were entirely covered by about 300 delft
pl?flfes, pans, and saucers, all suspended
by strings ; bv Mack sculptural cabinets, '
brass cand1e?tje\?<. ' ?v*-?lers" of last cen- !
tury, ba-'' * ^ ry clocks
that last told time in 1820, pictures of Van
Tromp's battles, cats, tin cans, and a heap
of odd things, each with a history to it.
The people move about in boats from
house to house ?long little canals six feet
wide, with swing bridges turning on a
pivot and weightod at one end. Their notion
of England seemed to be this, "'It is
an island," certainly larger than Marken."
The North Holland canal, which was
cut to save a roundabout lrom Amsterdam
by the Zuyder Zeo, is more than fifty miles
long, and enables large ships to enter Holland
at its extreme Northern end. But
this canal is too long, too narrow, too tortuous,
and too shallow for the increasing
length and depth of our largest merchant
vessels. To save time, then, and mu' h
transhipment, the new canal open.3 to the
West instead of the North. It is fiifteen
miles in length instead of fifty-two. Its
depth is 2G feet available instead of 10
fear, and no bends or sudden turn, obstruct
the pas-age anywhere. Six . .ars
ago this work was begun by an English
contractor, Mr. Leo. ,
At present the* work is precisely in that
condition most interesting to inspect, being
just beyond the 6tuto in which any
doubt can remain us to its ultimate success.
Very likely the success will sap the other
canal, and reduce Niewe Diep to a mar ne
depot; perhaps it will also draw the gold
en tide from Rotterdam, but perhaps, too,
the merchants there will shift their quarters
to the better entrepot of Amsterdam,
and y?t, p< rhaps, indeed, when all is done;
n o in finrmuii Prinpn will at rwtcll Ollt.
his iron band and atk lor tbo new road,
and very graciously tbank those who
made it for him.
^ Tue dredging Is far better dono than it
was on the buez canal. The machinery
1 ha - been steadily improved and simplified,
ami the latest and best appliunce was only
compleicd in August last. ThiS consists
of a tube resting near the ooze <rt the Lottom
and containing a shaft witTi a centrifugal
pump, whicu draws up the sa^id aud
water bodily?about half of each in the
m.vture?and forces it along wooden pipes
floated on the surface of the wa;cr and
flexibly jointed by leather hides. The
slush is thus pouted through a conduct
about 300 fee. long and one foot b:oud,
which resembles a huge black snake coiled
and asleep on the .water, with its tail
turned over the bank at the side. Through
tlws tail, even when it is raised eight feet
above the level, a copious fluid rushes^
black as ink, but fertile for the next hundred
generations of cheese making Hollanders.
So simple is this plan, that ulreudy
it is being applied to the great
banks of the l'anube.
The writer concludes:
Holland, however, is just the place for a
canoe voyage, as the rivers, lakes, canals,
islands, and seas are all approachable on
the shores, having no cliffs or rocks, and
almost everywhere you can find a house.
The Dutch seamen are a hardy race, and
very kind to the traveler. Everv .-ailor
dolled his hat to me in passing, even in
the smallest creek, and much of my time
has been spent in returning a universal
salute, though that is not easy in my cos
tume of a red nightcap. Now I am off to
Friesland, leaving the canoe for a time,
and I shall ever retain most pleasant and
lively impressions of Holland and the
Dutch, as seen from the bottom of a boat.
The Great Canon of the Yellowstone.
The Great Falls are at the head of one
of the most remarkable canons in the world
?a gorge through volcanic rocks fifty
miles long,and varying from lOWto nearly
5lXH) feet in depth. In its i escent
through this wonderful chasm the river
falls almost dOOO feet. At one jtoiut where
the passage has beeu worn through a moun
tain range, our hunters assured us it was
more than a vertical mile in depth, and
the river, broken into rapids and cascades,
appeared no wider than a ribbon. The
brain reels as we gaze into this profound
and solemn solitude. We shrink from the
dizzy verge appalled, glad to feel the solid
earth under our feet, and venture no more,
except with forms extended, and faces
barely protruding over the edge of the
precipice. The t-tillness is horrible. Down,
down, down, we see the river attenuated to
a'thread, tossing its miniature waves, and
dashing, with puny strength, the massive
walls which imprison it. All access to its
margin is denied, and the dark gray rocks
hold it in dismal shadow. Even the voice
of its waters in their convulsive agony
cannot be heard. Uncheered by plant or
shrub, obstructed by massive boulders and
by jutting points, it rushes madly on its
solitary coarse, deeper and deeper into the
bowels of the rocky firmament. The solemn
grandeur of the scene surpasses description.
It must be seen to be felt. The
sense of danger with which it impresses i
you is harrowing in the extreme. You
feel the absence of sound, the oppression !
of absolute silence. If you could only
hear that gargling river, if you could see 1
a living tree in the depth beneath you, If I
a bird would fly past, if the wind would I
move any object in the awful chasm, to
break for a moment the solemn silence that
reigns there, it would relieve that tension
of the nerves which the scene has oxcited,
and you would rise from your prostrate condition
and thank God that he has permit- 1
ted you to gaze, unharmed, upon this majestic
display of natural architecture. As
it is, sypathizing in spirit with the deep
gloom <J{ the scene, you crawl from the
dreadful verge, scared lest the firm rock !
give way beneath, and precipitate you into
the horrid gulf.?P. Lavgford.
Betting on Raindrops.
The Calcutta merchants have adopted a
novel plan for whiling away idle hours.
According to the Pioneer, beting on drops
of rain is just now the fashion in Calcutta,
where even respectable native merchants
bet very large sums about the rainfalL
When the weather becomes cloudy wagers
are laid as to the time within which the
downpour may be expected. The wager ;
being laid, the crowd wait patiently to see
the water run out of the spouts, for a drizzle
is not recognized, and unless the water
drips from the spouts, the party who bets
that it will not rain has not lost. Sometimes
the utmost confusion prevails; it
rains for a few minutes and the cro^d
look anxiously at the spouts; if the water
does not drip the yell is terrific, l-u-ars
stt-ibnte it to foul play, and boyn are itn- 1
mediately sent up to the top of the home
to see whether the spout has been tsiupec- ,
ed with.
A. SMUGGLER FOR 0XC2.
One bitterly cold morning in December,
I, John Ca Iton, stood leaning upon the
pate of my little garden, gloomily thinking
over the badness of trudo. I was
.what they call in our parts a "jouster,"
that is, I kept a horse and cart, and went
about the country jousting or selling fish.
For several weeks there had been nothing
doing; indeed, so bad a season bad
not been known for years, and my wifo
Mary, the old horse and myself were get
ting unpleasantly near starvation. I
could have borne this if I hod to Lear it
alone; but Mary had been a valued servant
in tho parson's family and not used
to roughing it, and it cut me to the heart !
to see how thin and pale she was getting
for want of the necessaries cf life, which
1 did not know how to get. Poor girl 1
weuk as she was, she was the bravest of
the two. Many a time when I was ajmost
in despair, her loving anna would
be thrown round my neck, and she would
bid me cheer u;> and bear my troubles like
a man; and I have answered that if I
could bear th- m as patiently as a woman,
it would do better still.
While standing at the gate, puzzling
mvsolf what to try that I hadn't tried
already, I saw Tom Davies, a cousin of
mine, coming along the lane, looking as
sleek and comfortable as a well-groomed
horse. It had always I een a mystery to
mo how Tom lived, for let trade be ever
so bad. he never seemed to suffer, but was
well clothed, and looked jolly and happy.
He was always civil, but as he stopped
now to give me time of day, he noticed
how queer I looked ; and though I'm not
given to talking of my troublos, his sympathy
loosened my tongue, and I told him
how there wasn't a morsel of bread in the
cupi oard, and I didn't know how to put
anv there.
He t >ok a few whiffs of the short pipe
he was smoking, eyeing me hard the
while, and then told me that if I could
keep a secret, he thought he could put
me in the way of earning a triffe. I was
ready to promise anything when I heard
this ; and when 1 assured him that I would
be as secret as the grave, be bade me bring
my old horse to Hidlor's Cave on the following
night, punctually at twelve. He
would be there to meet me, but I wae to
ask no questions. There might he a trifle
of riek in what I should have to do but
nothing wrong ; at least, Tom saw no hurui
in it, though others might.
" It's smuggling!" I said to myself; and
I thought of Mary, who would sooner die
than know me to do anything that was
not just right. I was about to say no to
Tom's offer; but Mary's wan face rose up
before me, and as I remembered how biting
want was dragging her down to her grave,
I grew desperate.
" I'm your man, Tom, risk or no risk.
Ill be there to my tim^never fear me."
lie grasped the hand I held out, left a
shilling in it, and with a nod walked on>
leaving me with a weight on my conscience
that bad never rested upon it before.
All that d&v and the neat, I could
not meet Mary's eye without feeling as
if l^were hiding a crime from her.
When evening came I told her I was
wanted for a little job of moving at the
next village, and should not be home till
late. She never doubted the tale, but
smiled and kissed me when I went away,
leading old Bob by the bridle, and fancying
that I had never seen a darker night,
nor heard the wind moan so dismally before.
Rldler's Cave is situated in one of the
most lonely parts of the Cornish coast, and
there is not a house within a couple of
miles of the spot. After riding for about
half an hoar, I came oat of the lanes on
to the beach, and another mile or so along
the foot of the cliflfe brought me to the
io T Infn It I liooa
say cautiously, "All right, John, the boat
will bo here directly,-" and I was not sorry
to And Tom Davies mounted on a cob
alongside of me.
Handing me a flask with some brandy
in it, he bade me take a nip ; at the same
time telling me with no little glee that
the "ooastics ' were napping, and we
hhould do them jolly!
After waiting some flew minutes we
heard the regular click of oars in the row.
locks, followed by the grating of a boat's *
keel on the shingle.
We rode out and soon had several parcels
strapped on either side of the horses;
then with scarcely a word spoken we set
off; Tom giving me instructions where
to leave my load, and adding that it would
be as well to part as soon as we got off the
beach.
Away we went, but only to find out first
?just as wo quitted the shore?that the
Coast-guardsmen were not nap'plng after
all; two of them sprang upon us from
behind a boulder, and clutched at the
horses' bridles; but the creatures swerved,
and that saved us.
" Spur for your life!" muttered Tom in
my ear, at the same moment riding his
staunch little cob right at the men, I saw
one of them roll over od the sand, while
the other jumped aside shouting to us to
stop, but we never paused until we were
some distance down the lane leading from
the beach. Then Tom pulled up. " We
must part now," he said. " Keep to the
right and ride hard, for they will cut you
off If they' can where the lane winds toward
the cofit; but give the nag whip
and spur, and you will be there before
them. Off with you !" and so we parted.
After Tom had left me I began to remember
how akwardly dose to the shore
the windings or the lane Drought it, and
li< w easy it would be for swift runners to
take a short cut across some fields and
com? up with me. Bitterly I regretted i
being led into each a dangerous affair ; and
telling myself, with clenched teeth that
for Mary's sake I wouldn't be taken, I
rode cn more furiously than before.
The nearer I got to the sea, the more I
dreaded a surprise, and it seemed as if I
were so long threading the inn and outs of
my road, that they must be the first to reach
* the spot where I anticipated danger. Sud- !
denly I w;ib seized with the idea that if I i
oould leap the hedge 1 might evade them,
and quick as thought 1 put Boh at the
d?rk line of thorn bushes that loomed
ahead, just where the lane made the last
gharp turn toward the beach.
I remember the rising in the air, the
crash through the top of the hedge, and
my own fall, which was followed by the
most unearthly yell it is possible to imagine?a
shriek*that seemed to die away
into the bowels of the earth. Then a
hundred stars danced before my eyea?
there was a strange dizziness in my head
?all grew dark and I knew no more.
IIow long I lay before coming to myself
I cannot tell; 4or could I recollect,
for a considerable time after my senses
returnod, what it was that had happened.
Numbed with the intense cold, I was lying
on my back with the wind shrieking
above me; but where was the horse ? and
what meant the awful yell I heard after
taking the leap ?
I found that I was lying on & slope,
and turning over on my right side I
reached out one hand intonding to lean
upon it and raise myself. To my horror I
grasped nothing, for?it makes me shudder
to think of it?I had turned over into
the mouth of a partly disused piu Already
I was hanging half within it, and while
struggling to recover my balance, could
feel myself slowly but surely slipping further
into the hideous gulf yawning to receive
me. I gave one cry for mercy, and
grasped wildly about till I succeeded in
clutching on? of the boards with which
the shaft was lined. In another second
my body had slid down with a jerk that
nearly wrenched my hands from their
hold ; but the strength of dispair was ft
that clutch and I held ou. Then a death
ly faitttness crept over me as I thought of
the depths below, and. imagned myself
falliug, falling helplessly into them. The
strain upon my arms became intolerable,
and to ease it, I tried to insert my toes
between the crevices of the boards, crying
frantically but faintly for help the while,
though the sound of my own voice startled
me, it was so strangoly hollow. As I
raised myself a little, a piece of the rotten
wood broke off, and for a dreadful moment
I was hanging by one hand; but ere
my quailing heart could give another fluttering
throb I had regained my grip, and
found foothold too. More than this I
dared not venture in that profound darkness,
but I told myself that 1 was comparatively
safe as long as my aching limbs
would sustain me. When they failed I
knew that I should go down?down?down
?until 1 lay a mangled corpse by the side
of the poor horse whose dying cry stillrings
in my ears. f
Those were minutes of horror, and I believe
I must have gone off my head a bit,
for I fancied that fearful sounds came waiting
up from the pit, and that some invisl- - ?
ble power was trying to drag me down
into it Then a temptation assailed me to
let go, to end at once the anxieties of my
life and the pain and terror 1 was endur'
ing. But the poor, pale face of MaryMary
who was watching for me at homerose
before my eyes, and wiih renewed
strength I held on, and prayed to. Heaven
to save me.
As if in answer to the prayer, a gleam
*1? ?IS-V* !,iv.1.,?k ?I.A'
U1 Vlio U1WU D ii^Ub Uiuav vuavrugaa vuv
murky clouds, vanished, and then shone
out again so clearly that I was able to perceive
the ladder not many feet away. As
cautiously a3 my cramped limbs would
permit, I worked my way toward it, and
before the clouds gathered again, I was
kneeling on the bank above the pit, saved Y
Cold, weary and sad, I made my way
home without interruption, and told Mary
what had happened. As she hung about
my neck, shivering and sobbing, she made
me promise that I would never again be
drawn into anything that my conscience
told me wasn't just right; and thank God
1 wnvEbie to et%y that, eorrro "ftrtT" Hftbm -
or foul, I have been faithful to my word.
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How Men of Yarions Nations Grow Old.
Nationalities have a specialty as to how
they grow old, and I believe in my heart
Irishmen are not inferior in this respect to
any. A Frenchman cannot do it at all.
In the first place he will not accept the
march of time, but resists it like an enemy
he is determined to conquer; and by certain
appliances of false whiskers and cosmetics,
and a forced energy of spirit, and
a super charge of levity, he fancies he has
achieved the deception that has only succeeded
with himself, and made others believe
he is as young as he wishes to imagine
himself. It is not easy to say how
a German grows old, for he is never young.
The beer-bemuddlement of centuries is in
the life-blood of the ra'-e, and their very
childhood is dreary, fog surrounded, and
misty. The gnarled complexity of their
uncolloquial language impresses silence
on a race, who would need the impetuous
ardor of the South to clear the barriers of
their terrible compounds, and thr?se rough
gutturals that suffice to them for expressions
of passion.
Italians grow old gracefully enough.
They have leas of the levity that offends
ns in the Frenchman, and, though dignified,
have none of that pomposity which
an Englishman occasionally assumes, as
though to make bolieve that it is a matter
of choice, and not of necessity, that he is
white-haired and large- wai a ted, solemn of
gait and grave of utterance.
I am not sorry to be able to speak of the
lriSillilall do ui uuutucr uutiimaiit> t auu iu
say why I think he meets years in a better
spirit than most men. First of all, that
large stock of geniality which supplied
high' spirits in youth, subsides by time into
a species of humoristic pleasantry, sufficiently
dashed by fancy to be brilliant, and
enough matured by experience to avoid
the impertinence of levity. Few men go
through life more enjoyably, and, in consequence,
few men's experiences are less
darkened by discouraging impressions of
their neighbors, or by that distrust of humanity,
in the main, which shows itself hi
great depression or melancholy.?Cha/rlet
Lecer.
Half Acre Garden will Pay#
A correspondent in the Oermancoicn
Telegraph thus sets forth the blessings of
a well cultivated garden : Half an acre of
land in a well cultivated garden, will produce
as much towards subsisting a farmer's
family as any three acres on the
iarm, ue-iae me aavantage in ine cuitivation
of which would gratify a diversity of
tastes, and contribute much to secure the
blessings ofhealth, the labor of which
can be shared by the too young or too old
to toil in the heavier operations of the
field, and occasionally by the female inmates
of the house, or tho plowman from
the field, by way of relaxation from legtoil,
without any material impediment to
other labors. Every farmer will promote
his interest by bestowing on the garden m
due share of attention,
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