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I * ' ' * I . ' $2 PER ANNUM. AR^TRARY SWAY,17 8 | 1.KA0S THE' WAY!"^ IN ADVANCE. NEUTRAL IN POLITICS-DEVOTED TO LITERARY, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. VOLUME III LANCASTER, C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING,MARCH 15,1851. N UMBER .3, <Eutored according to an Act of Congretw, in the yc*r 1854, by R. 8. | CHAPTER V I * /n, t-n r r>,ttr mr-r-v . t _ . . Bailey, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for South Carolina.) 3lit (Drigiiiul itnnj. WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE "LEDEGR." I THE TWO FAMILIES, OR TIIE A TALE OF DOMESTIC LIFE. BY R. S. BAILEY. CHAPTER I.?CONTINCKD. "I acknowledge all Miss Ida says, but she is looking on the dark side. It does not follow as a matter of course, that every man who has committed one sin, must necessarily become the vilest of sinners. Even our Saviour says, none arc perfect." I "But I do say this" said Ida "an individual does not become the vilest of sinners at once, tho gamester does uot become the abominable gambler at once, neither does the inebriate become tho drunkard at once." "As she repealed tho last words, Henry's embarrassment waa too apparent to avoid detection. "Ida" said he "you are aiming at me, and God blass you for it, for I am glad to see you have some feeling for me. I see you must know all. I do not care to inquire where you learnt it, I am glad you know,for I intended to tell you." ("To tell mw!" said Ida "What for! " "Idontknow what for" replied llenry "unless it is because I love you Ida. And now I expect you hate me.? But, Ida, before you condemn me, listen to one word I have i I in extenuation of iny conduct. 1 whs deceived. I did not wish to appear unsociable, and tlia liauor? wo-, gor than I supposed, and ldn II Is the first time, and I assure you ifu the last.M "Ood so grant it" said Ida. It is useless to record the balance of tbo conversation, enough is given to show how matter* would end. The ice <was broken, and when Jlenry I-ft lita. uigni, lie had obtained the promise from Ida to liecome bis wife. On the following day when it became generally known that Ida waa the Htlianced wife of Ilcury Munroe, the whole household rejoiced with her. Mrs. Wcntworth had a high opinion of both of the boys, as she called them; Mrs Melton declared Ida was a little gipsy to deceive her so long,tli.it she had a mind not to go to the wodding, and Kllen although warm in her congratulations from a hearty desire to soe her sister happily married, was also secretly rejoiced that now it would f be useless for Arthur to strive for her hand, as it now beJ longed to another. And was Ida happy ? Yes. And yet with all her gayety and vivacity, there was a touch of melIancholy. So was it when Henry called the following evening, and spoke to her of love slid happiness as they glided along the varied and beautiful walks, of Mrs. Melton's garden. UI do not Henry," said Ida "I cannot account for it, I know 1!yn\x luvtt ido, Mid I have every oonnuence m you, i>ui even i when 1 cast my eyes to yon beautiful moon 1 imagine I read in letters of Mood : ' Your path will not always bestrewn with flowers." "Ida you terify me, you have no cause to harras*, and trouble yourse lf thus; I love you Ida, and my chief delight will be to study every plan to iucreat* your comfort and happinese." "I know that Henry, and I do not fear you, but I do (ear others." "Fear others Ida, who can you fear I" "I do not wish to offend you Henry, hut it seems to me your brother casts some terrible glances towards you sometimes." "It is true Ida my brother once quarrelled with me becauae I loved you" bull do not think ho would marry any woman, -even if be could obtain her, without her free consent, and I am sure when we are married, he will not seek to injure us, bwidrn, I think frvHS h? conduct of late, he i? partial to Ellen." "May be as you say," said Ida "hut I cannot help feeling 1 T SMS fw.Mi llssa iulitnuii rti.inasu f f..<?I f 11# a HHMf |F*7I g mil nv MUM# HIW liMVHnv ..Wf/JMHIOO ? ?VVIt the miser with his gold, I miu alarmed lost my treasure should M lw tnkou from inc." To this reply Uonry imprinted a warm kiss on her rosy cheek. "It is well to be serious sometimes," continued Ida "there can be no bappinee* without moments of pain. You recollect thuee beautiful line* of Moore. 'In the morning of life Ac T * lie re are two rcrms: ? "Whia we see Ike Aret glory of youth pern us by, Like a leaf on the stream thel will never return, When onr cup, which bed sparkled with pleasure so high. KM taataa of Dm etAer, the dark flowing urn ; Then, then U the time when affection boida mi With a depth and a tendenioaa joy never Vpve, nuraed among ploaauraa, U faith lew aa they, * But the love bora of aomw like aorro w, la troa. la dimes foil of eaaahine, though aptaodid the floweie, Tbdr algha have a? ftwahwcaa, their odor no worth; iTiatko cloud and the ndat of oar owa Ma of showera, That call the rich eplrlt of fragrancy forth. 80 U U aot mid apioodor, prosperity, mirth. That the dapth of lovo'a gaaoiaua apirit tpptat; To tho aanahiae of aaaflae k may Aral owa he birth, flhi aoal of ha Warn to dntwa om by team j IP. > .. To Jfen, Press'*] by their wants, all change is ever welcome.?Ben Jonsi For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.?J/ilton. It was a coH winter that. The shoo maker in his 1 shop shook as though he had an ague. Wood, there none, and turf the fuel of old Ireland, was scarce. For days, for months, for years had McLean the cobl worked in that little shop; money had never been abiind with hiiu, but in this year of scarcity and starvation, his privations wore greater than they had ever before beer The truth was, the poor man saw no brighter prospect be him. and now, when we introduce him to the reader, ho listlessly on his stool, with his hands idle, the very pict of despondency. You, reader, may be blessed with a pr dent store of the good things of life, the grim visage ot i ery, want, starvation, has in all probability never obtru* itself into your presence. Ilad you ever hail realize j <v one fourth of the destitution now weighing down so lica< upon McLean, you would too no doubt idly sit and trj ferrett out now nli>?.c f..? U'1 * ?nr! luiuiv suaur. vv ii.ii was thinking of? We will see. ?H John ' said his wifo, (a neat tidy looking womai about thirty-five) stepping into the shop "we can't live I way. Our children are suffering from cold, and there is turf, they are famishing for foot!, and their is no hread John my husband, we cant live here, we must go to An ica." She had touched the key, and it reverbratcd. "Just so Lizr.v, I was thinking of the same thing. L rick O'Leary writes from the States, that they have m< there twice a day." "As a |K>st script, ho says that his employer who rend letter, told him ho knew better than that, for he got m three times a day. Patrick says lie told him that was truth, but if he writ the like of (hat to old Ireland, the p pie would not believe it, so ho says ho wont write three, I two. lie says that is (lie place for poor jroople. That tli get better paid, buy provisions cheaper, and then of con dont have to work so hard. Lizzie that is the country us, but how we would gel there, is another matter." John McLean was a good easy kind of n man, but v< ind^iei1? ,!*e m?',l-t-gj ixflosee tTieni reduced to their present deatituto ondiln but ho was too tuueh like men wo sec every day, nppnren very willing, yea an\i uis to provide for themselves and fa iliea, but then too indolent nud careless to provide for the In McLean's ease though, he deserved some cominisernti he was no', blessed Willi th >se privilodges which in.-, at kind enjoy in this republican country. His labour hrouj. him but inadequate remuneration, he was compelled to j high prices for the necessaries of life, which together w the high taxation, rendered him unable, even had he bi more industrious,to provide as lie should, for those who w near and dear to him. John had a wife though, yea c phalically a wife. Not merely a woman who possessed the title, abused the prerogative, hut one, who in addition a wife's duties, did even more. Through her exertion, ( family was kept up. McLean had never Insfore thought so earnestly of th poverty as he did now, b<-cause they had been kept up. Where the means came from, lie did not care to trouble mind about. They had a!wav? had food and cloth ng, n of cold days Ami nights, the additional comfort of a lurl t McLean may have known thai his small earnings did i bring all this, but be did not trouble himself to find < whence they came. But now, we say, the poor fellow v brought to his "wit's end," his children were in want ? ! fo and they were all suffering from the cold. It was at t time, that McLean's wife advi-ed a change. John alvvi knew his wife's judgement better than his, and even had |uu>n ,.r..I ... ?... I "1.1 I I.. " ?'V\ II JM/TVAJ ?* IIIU OlIHIIH, 1113 v?l?||HI IIJIM- UIVUIIUM *! 1 <le !t but now, lie thought just as she did, and yet, lie s no probable means for etiecting it. "Well John" said bis wife, ' what you say is true enoU| but wo will never see ourselves better otl, we are gett worse off ever)' day. We hail better go, and go at 01 And I will give you my plan. It is luckv for us J< dm, tl wo have only two clhildron. Now my notion is, lh it I first and carry Jimmy, who is now a smart sized boy, w uie, and leave Catherine with you. We will sell every th we can to raise the money to carry Jimmy and myself o the water, and when I get to the now country, I will nn money enough by God's help, in a little time, to bring i and the girl. I know what we have wont bring much, I all I want is, enough to take us over, if there is more tl enough after the snlo of our chattels for that purpose, I \ lenvo it with you." John McLean loved his wife, and when she spoke thus leaving him, it touched a green snot in the poor fello heart. LIo did not at once reply, he could not s|?cak 1 to expose his weakness, but he looked what he would hi spoke i. , "No John" said his wife "you know my husband I 1< you, and always have proved a? affectionate witb. Id want to leave you, but it is for our good. Yon know husband, I will have no eaay time to go through. 1 will placed in a new world, amongst strangers, with no moi and with no friends, but God he will protect me, and knows it is for your benefit and our children's benefit, I induced to encounter these dangers and privations.' Tl..... -?~V . _ S.I! !/. T V fl - .1 Aiiun bjivm; m irin uuiiimiu^ wuw?joiin wan s<uidiu?u. In a nbort time every thing which could be spared, i sold and .N.rs. Mcl<ean with her hoy, bade adieu to Irelar soil, and in an emigrant shin took passAgc for this land freedom. This noble republic, whero the poor can live, well as the rich. CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT, CURIOUS NAME8, The following names are given in " Lower's English ! nanea" as specimens of the names of the old Puritnni England about the year 1058. The names are taken fr a jury list in Sussex County. They will cause a smile in day ; Faint-not llewett, Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Co? ton. Make-peace Meaton, God reward Smart, Stand-fasthigh Stringer, Earth Adams, Called Lower, Meek Dre* He-courteous Cole, Repentence Avis, Search-tho Scripti Moreton, Rill-sin Pimple, Return Spelman, lie-faithful J ner. Fly-debate Roberta, Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith Wli More-fruit Fowler, Hop?-for Rending, Graceful Hardi Weep-not Hilling, Seek-wisdom Wood, Elected Mitel Tlie-poace-of-God Kniirht. Mild Mcbtard.?Mustard for instant u*? should I* mi with milk, to which * ipooofal of cream may be added, * At ?>:?.' m*mA w, u^: '' % AIMMUKAL. = From t'ir Farmer and J'l'ititrr. recll Rambling Thoughts on th$ Agricul-| ,Nou ture of the Upper part of Eouth Car- "l & olina. I forc' Mr.ssit.s. Kuirous: Asa p;4~tial return and for llio kindness an<l liospit.-^ity which only itllo ',as heen shewn mo by the citizens of this hnpi was part of your State, I beg leave to submit! whit to them, through the mediufo of your j that ^, r useful i uirna!, the result of such liini- ! 'hue v n t I ^ te<l ui<|iiiries as I have boon *en.ah led to wort (t make, in relation to the important inter- st<-rr fore e^t which your publication is'calculated hy t sat to promote. With no practical know- have ur? ledge of the peculiarities of votir climate, I w;l l?VI- , ' | . nj or the crop< best suited to it,) I cannot cniet |,.J hope to oiler anything that will be either whie ion new or useful to the intelligent farmers whie k'hy of this portion of your State, and will not ra' c ^ ? therefore presume to obtrude ilpoti tl.em coun crmlo speculations on subjects, with which ! ' i of they are tiiuclt more familiar than 1 am. and 'his But encouraged l?y the assurance that lie *N,'I no who causes two blades of grass to grow wh.c * where but one grew before, is to that ex- ^,;it tenia public benefactor, I will venture to temp other a few suggestions and remarks upon povei 'at- die soil of this portion of South Carolina: S:u> ;:it the modes of culture which seem to be A' liis l)ra?tieed here, adding a few general re- l hrst oat marks upon the systems generally juir-! as ** the sued in portions of our own country and work co- of Europe, most advanced in Agriculture, ' ni l ^ The geological features of this and the hy j? ^ adjoining districts of Abbeville and Tick- '?g < for e,,s? artb n* hir as 1 have Inul an op- team, porttinity to observe them, verv similar. \ry (Juris, granite, mica, talcoso and clay e,o" ^ ' . )t)- quartz, tu?> the prevailing rooks of those 0,1 tly districts. These, I need not inform your deser in- loaders, are ail primitive rock>, \ud the '?urt ,n* three first being composed of '.! c same row miu<rais, (viz : mica, quartz, and felspar.) il,igl? ,jlt in different proportions, often pass into row ,.,v each other by almost imperceptible gra- duly itli dations. (Jneis, which largely predomi- OVcr M'u nates over all the others, contains from 4 H 8Cc t ro j to 10 per cent, of pot ash, about one per done ^ cent, of lime. There is in all these, as al woua to so in the veins of quartz, considerable iron, 8Ceaii lie i from the oxide of which your soil takes I'ght! its deep led eolor. Quartz when pure, is II. u pure silez, or snnd, but many of these dinar l||S veins are atuiierous, or gold bearing, and land" ind | I have no doubt that some of them will one 1 ire. | hereafter be profitably worked, l'rom the poun j abrasion and decomposition of the rocks shotil JUt i to w hich I have referred; the soil derives in vvi vas 1 oti its mineral properties, and in litem when paret his ! combined in due proportions with organic New svs | matter o' humus, possesses in a high do- | snow i ! Rroft (he elements of enduring fertility, j ten j j and although it may not possess all tho latitti fertilizing properties of some of the best visab gli, soils of tho Northern and Western States, sowii ino will in many respects compare favorably ruarj lint' l?"forc I proceed to the eon- poita ! federation of the system of farming which : proct ith j seems to be generally pursued in this and ' now i?g ! the adjoining district*, suffer mo to say years v?r j tha', in my opinion, this State has by its fu .QU giv'ng away the lands belonging to it, \ork bus pursued a mistaken policy, and done much clitnsi ran to retard an improved system of agricul* as de *dl ture. The difficulty of introducing use- As t j. fill improvements will be felt wherever friabi w-'s new 'an<'* quality can bo obtained now hut on the terms w hich the lands of this State after ive ! have been granted, and the effects of this befor I policy here have been not only to add corn >%n( largely to the possessions of many who crop my p'fviousif owned more land than they fall r Ih. could either occupy or improve, but has incre icy also led to tl o system which ?o genora'Iy cbes ',c i prevails, of opening new fields and new sumr a,n farms, instead of attempting to reclaim low the old. 1 am aware that other reasons seed vas may be urged her* in defence of ibis pri- with id's milive and in the end ruinous system, same ' which do not exist in some other sections clove ' BM of country. These are: 1st, cheapness lasfor and facility of preparing for cultivation tho I your lightly timbered oak and pino lands, clove by girdling the larger trees and burning ips < '.r the smaller on the land*. 2nd, lighter and whei I 111 F'? 7 om easier cultivation while the vegetable cotnl onr mo?ihl nj?on the surface may last; 3rd, cvibc nP" tbe greater exj?cn?e of obtaining the for- the t on' tilii'.iu^ manure* of guano, marie, lime and has 1 ire# *T!?um. deemed #o nectary in the ro- Engl 4,y. j sua<itati?>n of exhausted soil# and so ex- thinl lite, I tenaively used in some sections of our year 'n|f? country. As the course which the two Tho ,c ? first of the above reasons would justify, have are the first steps in a system of husband- diffe xed ry which ao enlightened experience has men condemned. I wi'l not here enter into and fti/? , V +tr *n .-J hw?e>*l.vi Lift ^ er caicuiauon or argument to si new improvements should not le while there are old ones to bt timed. " As 110 body but a sav Id cut down a tree to get its fruit,' >od husband would not clear up t to wear out the soil. Of the last reason noticed above, I w ill 1 remark that I fully appreciate rtatice and value of the manures :h I have rcfered, but having she your soils contains carbonate and pot-ash, I h ive 110 doubt y 1 and impoverished land may be d t?> more than their oiiginal lorti be means which have, wherever I been tried, accomplished tliis res I now, gentlemen, proceed to purpose of this comtnuuieat! h is to describe briefly the me !i have secured to the best ngricu! li-tricts of r.urope, and of our o try, constantly increasing fertili bring this home to 3*our farm* render it more intciigihle to them endeavor 'o describe the eoti b I think a practical Knglish hern firmer would pursue, in tm,? r :c.-I .?/ .v-iwiv iu KTllillV I lies 3 ts-hcil lands of this part of re deep and thorough plowing is I Hep towards recussilfttion thry woi ?in after the press of this spri was ov?r, and the condition of I w?>u!d permit, commence for whe lowing with a heavy wing, and tni r mould hoard plow and a s(r<> , being careful to break up eve of the kui;L,,ti>..,;? ?' -nrs. incites Wti'Tf o ... ^uge and oilier vegetation i e surface. Such a plow as I hi ihe?l would cut a furrow twelve cen inches in width, leaving the f siiee as might he preferred, at i to the horrizon or bottom of the f of forty fivo or fifty degrees. or early in August, they would it with a harrow, to prepare it and or cross plow ing w hich should immediately after harrowing. Tl I then let it rest until just bef ng, when they would again pi y to prepare die land for (he sc i\ i:?iX often witnessed, the extra y efi'eets of (hiauo on impoverish i, I would here recommend that fit liundred and fitly to two huiuii ds to the acre, (well pulverize Id be sown broad cast and harrow lh the wheat. The land is now p 1 for seeding with clover, which York would be sown on a lit in March, at the rate of eight lounds of seed to the acre. In t ide I should think it would he i ae, to sow it either at the time ig the wheat, or in January or I' r. This completes the first most i Hit, and most extensive step iu I ss of rcoussitation. The land wo be allowed to rest in pasture t i or until the clover had attaii II size, and in Juno <>r July in N , or in August or September in t lie, lhey would again plow for wh ep ami as thoroughly as at lirst. he land will bo rendered loose a le by the action of ibo clover it v roipiire but one more plowing wh being 1.arrowed should bo done j e needing. As corn in N. York, r or cotton bore, would bo the n in the seri?s, they would Into in >r early in the next spring plow n ailing the depth to eight or nine to guard against the drougths ncr. The corn crop they would wiili wheat the saino fall and ng with clover, or they would folio* oats, har'oy or peas and these i fall with wheat and again seed w ir, giving the land the same rest e. This in F.ngland would be cal lour or five course rotation viz : ir; 2n?l, wheat; 3r<l, corn, hero tu >r peas there, 4 th oat.s or barley, J it. It it litis rotation of crops wlii >ined with the tillage I have <J d, lit At has accomplished so much tgriculttiro of the countries wher [teen adopted, and no good farmoi and or the Northern States wo c of cultivating the satno crops t ? in succession on the same field reason for this is that all the croj i innuuicraled abstract front the rent proportions of the mineral ta which enter into their composil which are necessary for their nour m i flSBBy low ' meat. An<l therefore a succession ot'th he same crops on the same fields will soei ! re- I deprive them of some of those mineral in ago gredienta that are indUponsible to thei " so growth and maturity, the | Now as the course I have endeavor3rd od to explain, may appear to your pat icre reus as unnecessarily expensive. I hej tlie j leave to say to tlicm, that if thev wil i to ! try it, to the extent of one or any giver >wit ! number of acres, I will guarantee thai 0f the extra product of the first crop sha! oltr : reimburse the extra expense. Now, gen ro. ' tlomen, before 1 close this desultory, and lity I fear uiiintelfigblo article, allow me tc hev ' ttIV(' expression to the feelings with which ult. ! your fine country has impressed me.? the , ' hough charmed with the natural beautv ion, your scenery, your agreeable and I ho;i!tliv ? tli<? ?*?? ??? .?! t ryu.-i J ??v- vii iiauuiil i'"l lllin U| >tii- your suil?the excellence c.f your roads, wn in fine with every tiling except. those aliv> hnndoned improvements and their deser.rs I tod dwellings?those impoveiished and | [ ; desolate old tieldsto which I have referred. rs,. i These have I confessed, whenever presenor t?*?I to my view, impressed me with fecial '"J?8 madness. In closing allow mo to hi- hope that what 1 have here written will >11 r he received hv your patrons in the spirit which has dictated it, and heliovo ine, [he gentlemen, your friend and servant, illd J. SlOCfM. ilg m " What we drink; Tea and Coffee. I A correct knowledge of the beneficial, ' j or deleterious elfocts of any kind of meat <>r drink, can only be obtained by expering ence. The food of man is exceedingly di rv versitied, and so is his drink. No person am set up his standard of meats and Hie food ami urimc iiio^t-noii..o;hcrs. T* people living in a certain locality, may he. ive totally utiauited \o people living in ? ?],f. v.r fcrent ono. -t?>l ^Iw^i,|p inmossi > hie for a person living in the arctic region* I to ohtaiu the same food as one residing a" | in the tropics. The Esquimaux cannot ,ir* [ raise wheat, nor the Laplander maize, or In rice; they must therefore u?e just such I food as their own climates can produce. ' Some assert that water alone is the liatu. I ral drink of man ; this may ho true, hut ,L how can we he satisfied ot its correctness J It may just as truly he said, that all are grains, vegetables, tiuits, and tlesli, should 1>W he used without he ug cooked?in their I natural state? as to assert that water aloiie is the natural beverage of man.? ljr" Human beings are not guided hy instinct, ed hut reason and experience, and this :s the jin reason whv civilized men neither eat nor j <!rink like the brute creation. All nations and peoples, above the very ',1' lowest stages <>f barbarians, u-esome kind of beverage, as a necessary concomitant re- of life?just as much as their solid food, i pi i We tiud that many nations have used rj(, I different periods of their history ; this is 5# manifest ?i in a most extraordinary man l" | ncr by the general use of tea and eolfec "' s J at the present day, by European nations id- and l?y ourselves?beverages with which : 0f our forelnlhers three centuries ago, were i totally unacquainted. These beverages, when llrst introduced into Europe were 1 denounced I'rotn pulpit ami press, as being ihe temptations ot' the evils spirit, and yet, for uld tor ail this, neither pen lior tongue have Wo been able to stay their use or progress.? i j This is a serious (pieslion, for 37,069,312 lbs. of black and green teas wa re used ww in tlie United States in 1853, an 1 no less his we are sure, than 22.'),000,000 lbs. of eat cot fee, the latter averaging 8 1-2 c.s. per pound, and the former 37 1-2 cents per . lb., the value of which is ?33.250,01)1. raking our population to be 27 000,V1" U00?not far from the tnark now?and ich allowing for iuf.t-.its, children an I those ust who do not use such beverages, it is a intj fair estimate, to assume, that the ainouul of tea and coll'eo were consumed by < ne third of our population, which would amount to 25 ll?. of cotVee, and liear'y nee 5 pounds of tea l?.r each, but even allowin ing that one h df of our population indulge 0j in the use < f tl>03c beverages, it amounts . . to 15 lbs. of tea and colfee per annum, for each?an enormous quan'ty. If these iiui beverages are injurious injurious to health, v it it follows that wu exhibit the very essence the ?f foolishness I>y paying ?33,250,091 per jjjj annum, for them in their raw state; certainly this cannot bj very creditable to our a* boasted civilization. The prevailing opinion of scientific men 1st, at the present day, is not unfavorable to rn. their use; Knapp asserts, that tea and ir .^ i - .i Stli nJI ui'vtTiigcw, are more man more . habiu, and Licbig is friendly to ilieir u*c, 1 asserting that ton contains the active con1?'" stitnento of mineral spring*, for In somo parts of the worhl the inhabin \i tants?such as the nomadic ti'bes of Tar* p jfi tary, who are a sturdy and healthy race, use lea both as a beverage ami a solid food. They use the leaves as we do dried wo apples, and the beverage as we use soups. .? A man and a nation may abuse a good w j beverage, and then blatno the beverage oil ''or l',u ev'' faults of their own iinprudencc. A change of food is beneficial tc _ " man; and so it tnay bo with drink. A aon certain kind of food may agree with ? 'tsh- person's constitution for .a number o| e 1 years, and then it may cease, perhaps ^ I from a cause totally uuexplainable, to l?e I beneficial, or rather, he will find it conducive to his health t<> change it for r some other. There are habits of a very I bad character, which are so transpar. cat as to bo seen at a glance, but it is not so with tea and coffee. As this 1 question has a very important bearing ' oil tlie health and the purses of our ' 1 people, it deserves more than common i attention, food, drink, clothing, houses, I ! acd I'u.-I, are the grand physical necesI sarics and comforts of life. We could do well without gold; it does not add a sinjle essenti il comfort t" life, hut it is ' very different with any of our coitittion foods or drink*. The richest man in the i j world, merely gets his living; he cannot _ j eat and drink more than the well-fed ; peasant?so far as the essentials of existence are concerned, there is not difference 1 | between them. Every question, then, of f: food or drink, is of incalculable importance; I far more so to us than those which relate i to Court dresses or Itussiun wars. This | question?the use of tea and coffee?is I one respecting which no person should i feel indifferent. If such beverages arc I iiiiiii-ionj *i 1 ' I ?j wiim: s.-i v mey arc, let, us s ivo i "iir m.-iicv aiul health by abandoning I thriii forcu r?but first of all, let us have j tin- conclusive proof, by accumulating evidence, of their deleterious influence e?1 tablis|ifi|.? Scientific American. ..... RiN'is. ?" A ring wliencA.ir used by the church, signifies, to use the ivorld oflilurgical \viiters," integritas fidei," the perfection of falelit , cet; so that the wedding ring symbolizes the eternal or entire fidelity the wife pledges to her husband, cud alio wear* the ring as the badge of this fidelity. lis office, lio n is to teach and remind her of the liideiity she owes to her husband, and swore to him at the marriage eereinouy." r.riTArns.?Many curious inscriptions on tombstones, placed there by the last will and desire of their eccentric tenants, havo of the stranoe'blVi'W- ^very body lias heard ,i . ~ , *<s ' " oils poettstffiSk* bc in"-'rib';'1 ~??ric?onsjr <?u a rug."? and of his e'|n die original neighbor and inveterate eie iny, close alongside, who luid his epitaph prepred in advance with the words, "Hero lies I snugger. Than that other bugger.!" sliowing the ruling passion strong in death,* and a determination not to he outdone, even while lie "slept his last sleep." Among several very odd specimens of a similar character going the rounds of the Press, is this one in a cemetery near Cincinnati: "Here lies ,\vlio came to this city and died?FOR TlIK It E.N E FIT OF HIS HEALTH*.' Charleston AV. News. "Sxor My Paper."?The following remarks are too good to be thrown aside,without at least a passing nolee. They are truo to the Utter, and suitable, to all localities. We are of opinion that the weakest capacity I cannot fai. to uderstand them: It is astonishing what exalted notions some persons have of their o vn importance. They seem to imagine they are altogefhcniecessarv to the onward roll of our little world, and that if. bv nnv means, they should bo shoved out of tlie way. the screws would he so loose that the old machine would no longer hold together: ami. of course, if stich important person ges only s..y to an editor, 1 "stop me nnner." tie whole i'st!>h!isliii??i?* | must po to pot instantcr. We hn\e often j laughed in our sleeve?thought outwardly looked grave as an ow i- -When one of these regulators of the woi.d bus marched into fair editor..! sanctum,and ordered a discontinuance of his paper. And it always tiojs ns pood t.i see le?u the st. rch is taken out of him, while the editor Mailing replies, "Certain-, si', with the pretest pieasurt, just ?? soon as the clerk has entered a hundred or more names, which have just been sent in." Tho mighty man wilts down like the narrative of a whiped spaniel and h" shrinks away muttering to himself, '"Weil, i am afraid that slopping my p iper has not tuined him after all." * These swells, who slop their papers on I account of some initT which has found its way into their cranium, are sure to watch j the tiui" of tho next issue, thinking that an| other number will make its appearance: tnd I they are sure to borrow their neighbor*eopy , to see if it does not contain the editor's lUrew ell address to his readers. We once know a minister, who in describing the christian's char. ctcr.and liie circumspection of hi* walk, said the way to heaven required as much care a* it did for a eat fo Walk on a wi II: and so with an editor, if he ^ is to please every body.?Krchniige i Tut: Cnitiams'a Wife.?CliatepttbiianJ discourses beautifully of lids llifltne : "Man, in uniting himself tojher, regain* n bodv, i* incomplete without his wife; lie lias s retigtli, alio has beauty;, he la bora in the fields; lie does not understand the details of domestic life, but hi* Coin panion prepares the repast, and he* smiles sweeten existence. lie has hiscrossca, th? partner of his couch is there to soften thetn; t, his day may he ?ftd and Moulded; hut in tho chaste arms of his wife ho finds comfort and lepose. Without Woman, tnan would he rude, gross and solitary."Wo man spread* around him the flowers of ' * exist ance, as the creepi-rs of the forest decorate the innjest'c Oak with their odorif? erous garlands. Kindly, the pair Wvennb ted, and tn death are not separable; in " t dust they lay side by side, and their aouis f are united bqvowd the limits of thwhsftib," * v< 4 ' ' y iaMK?*51