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-..---- * - A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Market & . VO. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1874. No. 3 *THE HERA LI is PUBLISHED NVIRY WEDNESDAY NORINING9 T qwerrrI. invariably in Advance. OAOth expiration4 &7 The X mark denotes expiration of 8nb -suptionl. zttrv. d -e-M Wen= ]tha yoeww buerdn-anl AMvo wo rin- knife. -,.h_2bsm_yopwniof novels& And ezto thei . U%ilWnod t 'the Jeige' daughftr-th J edge who eome up last year dn adSunmiotf '~ lungs and the mountain 4~t~~balam ie pime vad -1ir; ~a.agh--wll,she readnovels, a3i Voeats what's the matterwith her. b7him&ayandatght. #166-inhk ca,~ up yw--d-U sO grew Mik pe4,all.whit&. & s'Up of a thi4g, ez Uight ani 49up and awayth Xrift smoke lown through tewoods -~ '.~~~tblwunt~mkind-no way, emIa s.'gArdye mind that honsez yot rtze the hil; -Toude? Well,now, tUes &all What,yoz *edevini yV*ft1--bjs4or fiOA (44f Cottio toiknW wat I wO4aps prettyan -~~~~i ~oes~ hla ongWs, and Iq. reknch A~w~go~Andtharareherbook5bU , I s~ys;ot a~y for me, ~ ~G&~d enough may be for some, but them an [From the Rural Sun. A meat and Bread Ser mon for improvident Farmers. 'BY BOAZ. Children have you any meat? John, chapter-verse-, I once heard an old minister preach a funeral sermon from ibis text, and he sAd that it could- be found somewhere in John.' I don't know whether hitold the ti;th or not, but, for the purpose of this ser mon, I will be rash enough to take for granted that -he did. I do not remember that I ever saw it-there, to my .shame perbaps be it said, but if my -present hearers know - little about the, matter as I do, LIean assert:with assurance, on the authority of our beloved bro ther.of a peculiar persuasion, that the text is there, and none.of you can .say aught to tbe contrary. Therefore I will say to you, my scaly back auditors, that my text ain John,and wo uitoyou and your children, and unto your children's children for coming generations ad infinitum, if you give not great -r heed to t;ht which your hum ble preachist has to say about the passage then to the particular lo cus in quo the beautiful language -was originally written whether in the Bible or almanac, or the die tionary, or any book under 'the sun. But the word. "originAlly" brings me back to the origin of my remarks, and forces out of my burdened heart the pathetic inqui ry, CHILDREN, HAVE YOU ANY MEAT ? Before proceeding to unveil the mysteries and to. :elaborate the beauties of my text in all their in trieste ramifications, I feel con strained to say that I suspect our peculiar brother misapprehended the meaning of the language, as he stood in the midst of the weep -ing relatives of the defunct whose funeral he was preaching, and, writh his eyes turned skyward,' propounded the searching inquiry, iiuiTss peradventare, he had failed in obtaining his matutinal repast, iniVwhich event it was natural that he should have been more thought ful of the comforts of his craving s -Mto the bereaved' b h ~ers. I am not p ig ieral sermon- my b uv I say unto you, tb adalure to-give proper.heed to th iahngs4fthis beautiful tei$ i9W be publiec ttio to the faferalgeyeo foe es,your far .ad ourcountry, and you thog h ad like thd1 a kin meancholy ghost th$ eksses Nlonighe River Styx obith'$s it o pay thea fer ri ~' youe voices will be heard, like,the voice of tlie He brews by the rivers of Babylon,. howling to every passing breeze, CHILDREN HAVE TOU ANY MEAT ? Awake, therefore, e -srothful dagiulturi4tawake, and lend me your ears, .while I elucidate and frdctify the' eerlasting truths that corruseate along the everlast ing crests of my text, like-like liks-plague it, like. "John Brown's soul that still marches on." I propose, then, to consider the meaning of the words in this bieautifu passage, -in a two-fold light. I-INDIVIDUALITY. II-COLLECTIVELY. I would remark that there are only two words in the text which I deem it necessary to- individual ize, and to catch .the true ring of, Sas the miser catcheth the ring of his goiai befora,he drops it into his old :sock and hides it under the hearth, and those two words are "children" and "meat." I opine. my beloved, that the word chil dren in the text has a much broad er signification than that segment Iof the human family which the old woman of the country spank with impunity, and glory in the blessed consciousness that they can do it agailnif they want to. I am per Ssuaded that in the full amplitude of its height and depth, its length Sand its breadth, it includes every Snative born American citizen, white and black, blue, and yellow; and gray, male and Temale, old and young, together with all the Srest of man and woman on the B face of this time-bound earth, an.d L' I do not Lhink, therefore, my be Snighted friends, that I would be a stretching my imagination too -far if I were to 'enture the asser tion that it includes even you. The word "meat" mneaneth not i alone the aggregated globules i which formeth the fleshy portions ~-of the corporeal tabernacles in which the spiritual essncenn of the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the deep "live and move and have their be ing," but to every eatable thing under the sun which the tongue of man hankereth after, or which he hideth beneath the broad bosom of his abdominal ocean, for it is said. "his meat was locust and wild honey." I say, therefore, my bre thren, that meat here means "vit ties" whether it be "chicken fix ins" or "flour doins," ham bones or corn dodgers, pickle pork or biled cabbage and I challenge the universal creation to refute the correctness of my doctrine. Judging by the shine of your eyes, my hearers, that you have imbibed my meaning thus-far, I will now proceed to the second head and take a bird's eye view of my subject. COLLECTIVELY. Having eliminated the true doc trine involved in the words chil dren and meat. It is easy to arrive at the collective meaning of the whole passage, and instead of say ing,- children, have you any meat, we may express the same senti ment in- the more artistic and poetical paraphrase, D! FARMER, HAtT THOU ANY "VIT TLES?" "Aye, there's the rub." Hast hou the Wierewitha--not to orge thy everlasting stomach it the next meal-but to feed thy ielf and thy family, thine ox an hine ass, thy hogs and thy cattle, 3ven unto the sheep that browse ipon thy pastures, and the gob Dler that struts in thy barn-yard, intil another crop shall come in ,he fullness of time. 0! my brethren if I could con 7ert myself into an angel and sbar with the speed ofthought through ut the. length and breadth of his Southerq clime, and pans ng at every doorstep, exclaim in 'thoughts that breathe and words that barn, FARME HAST THOU ANY "VITTLEs?" hew many :in this congregation ^Ould rise up and, shaking the dew frgpa from their shiaggy manes, inswaer proudly, -"YEA FATHER, I HAVE." Weeping, 1 pause for a reply. )h.l my brethren, many are call d but few are chosen, and hang log looks proclaim--.with trumpet tongue that most of you are in the rocative. Then wo unto you, fool sh farmers, for verily you are lay ng upr for yourselves hunger igainst the day of hunger. Wo into you I say, for the folly of ~he fooilish virgins that trimmed iot their lamps was wisdom com ared with your idiotic neglect. W'o unto you ~and unto your wives; wo unto your flocks and anto your children. Wo! wo! wo! Alas! echo answers wo! Excuse me, my beloved, while I pause in the presence of this pic ure to weep and-blow awhile. ' anity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is anity,-the son of David, king of Jerusalem, must have invented that idea on a 'full stomach, whereby his reason was clouded, for the doctrine which he there propounds is not altogether cor ret. A myriad of voices spring spontaneously from the universal nimated creation, and uniting in one grand choral strain, proclaim in tones of thunder that "vittles" is not vanity, and I feel sure, my brethren, that you will all take stock with me in that beautiful nd pathetic sentiment. Give me "vittles" or give me death. It has been beahtifully said that bread is the staff of life. I can ouch for the truth of this re mairk with painful fervor, for verily 1 say unto you that, in my meanderings thi-ough these elow grounds of sin and sorrowr, it bath often happened that portion of my earthly tabernacle, which is grace fully encircled with th~e waistband of my breeches, hath travailed for "vittles," and, even so have I been forced to vry unto the children of Mammon in the language of my text, CHILDREN HAVE YOU ANY MEAT ? if therefore ye raise not the "vittles," how can, ye have the staff, and if ye have not the staff how can ye support the life, and if ye support not the life, what in the thunder is to become of the country and the preachers? I will tell you, my agrarian brethren, what will become o1 you. You will sit, like the prodigal son among the swine, and dolefully I want bat "vittles" here below, And want that "vittles" qalek, Or I shall wipe my weeping eyes, And the bucket soonly kick. "o we wont," some chuckle headed brother will say, "we will arise and go unto our merehant and hny thn fatted calf on tick." But what if the merchant should t say: "O foolish 8nd impecunious gen- i Dration, ye seeketh after tick, and o no tick shall be given you save i the tick of the prophet Jonah." il You know; my brethren, he .! biied to obey the Lord on tick, and t 'h consequence was that he got a iucked in the sea, and swallowed t by a *hale, and walloped around b renerally in the way that made e 3im "git up and git." Just so will t< rou get soused in a sea of trouble, iwallowed by a whale of debt, and C walloped about untilyou will look p neaner than that yaller dog that v idam found slinkipg around his sl ritchen, and has slunk around the ti inivers~al creation ever since. i 0, misguided 'brethren,. are you a ,outent- to sit, like a legion of a bazuruses, at your merchant's a loor's and feed on the crumbsyou a ire free born American citizens as t ong as you whine after others for d Four "vittles ?" Then rise, rise, ye t lothful farmers, from the bog C ioles of credit, soar aloft on the n )lessed consciousness of having b aised your own "vittles," and e Fear after year you will rise high- e .r and higher, and when your a ives shall reach the 'sere and yel- g ow leaf," you will perch on the 81 piinacle of independence, and, -b planting the point of your thumb p )n the apex of your nose, you will 0 )e able to twist your fingers in'r e dateinpLuous defiance at the u iordes of Shylocks who lie in b wait for the unwary farmer, try- I ng to gobble up all be makes by t urnishing him with "vittles." C $ad when the caterpillar, like the a] Lngel of death, shall spread his S wings on the blast, and sweeping e rom cotton field to cotton field, -6 hall gather into his capacious I itomach the crop of the South, 5 hen rising from his feast, like an n agle with bloody talons, shall il tartle the land with his exultant b lreams of HILDREN WHERE'S YOUR VITTLEs ? hen you will be able to smile ' 'with a smile that'is child-like and land," and shout back the defiantS mswer : "I gt you that time old fellow, raised 'em myself."a Then from every hill-top and* mut of every valley between Boss 1 sheppard's ranche, a n d t h e areasers of Mexico, ten thousand V inmes ten thousand "sperits of just c a nen made perfect" will kick up heir heels and shout, BULLY FOR YOU.d We copy from the Christian Un- 1 on the following pen picture by I ,he Rev. Henry Ward Beecher: THE PROSTRATE STATE.4 t -e: It would be hard to find in the a istory of modern nations a more i addening or disgustful picture 'I >f the wreck and desolation of so- a ~iety than is presented at this mo- s, nent in South Carolina; and the c; ~ondition of .South Carolina, we b2 suppose while p e rhapsa more tl picturesquely miserable, is but a C ype of the social wretchedness ti mnd the political shame which at- t< ~ach to the other States of the far tl outh. These ate facts which ii oncern not alone the States in- a mediately immersed 'in this civic u shaos. The nation is a partner- a ship in diseases and disgraces as c: well as in benefits; with the suf- si Eering of one member all the mem- is aers suffer, and whatever is a blot b ipon Texas or Georgia stains ti through to Maine. The time has g lly arrived when all citizens y who do not believe that "our po- p itical system can stand anything '] mnd defy anything" should conde- p cend to cast some serious glance pon the hapless circumstances of b yur friends and brethren of the 1 Southern States. Of this we may ii e sure: that the present apathy u >t Northern people upon this sub- a ject is largely conditioned on their a ignorance of the real state of the g ease; and the difficulty with, us a has been that we could not all go a to the South to see for ourselves, t and that we could not thoroughly e confide in the testimony of those b who did go. lIt is greatly to be a desired that some Northern men b f real ability, and of unquestiona- r ble repute among us, could pass t through the Southern lands and e study the actual situation, and re- t port to us in terms which we y could altogether trust. From this point of view, we v deem it an event to be particular- t ly mentioned that one such citizen, a ktr. James S. Pike, an old aboli tionist, a journalist of high stand- p ing, and, by appointment of Presi- - dent Lincoln, late Minister of. the t United States at the Hague, took t th trouble to gn to South Caroli- o a during the last session of its iegislature, and to spend two ionths at its capital in the study f men and things. He has now iade his report, and has embodied tin a little book, just issued by the Lppletons, and bearing the gloomy [tie that stands at the head of this rticle. The book is so small bat it cati be read in an evening, at it is large enough to give to very American anxious reflection >r many a day. Mr. Pike finds society in South arolina "bottom side up." The eople of character and culture, ho, in a normal and righteous -ate of affairs, would give direc on and tone to public proceed igs, are trampled under foot by host of voting barbarians-"the Lost ignorant democracy that ankind ever saw"-"the dregs P the population habilitated in ie robes of -their intelligent pre ecessors, and asserting o v e r iem the rule of ignorance and. >rruption through the inexorable iachinery of a majority of num. ers." Carpet-bag rule-1s at-an ad in South Carolina, for the irpet-baggers were,on the oatside t least, white men. Even ne roes tainted with white blood,and a unfortunate as to have the no le blacness6f ther ancestral com lexion debilitated i1tp some shade f yellow,are beginning to feel the onteMptJq6US'anagoV_r f the nmixed''Africin,. who miins to ave thinks all his 'ow way there. ly sheer force of superior nunibers ie ignol*ut. aud u-nprincipled Lass havetaken complete posses .on of le -government of the tate. '&nd wha sortbf a gov rnment have they fokrmd? Ac Drdtng464hetestimony--of Mr. ike, the. rule of South Carolina bould not, be dignified with the ame of a government. It is the istallation of a huge system of rigandage' The men who have ad it in' control, and the men rhonow' have it in control,are the icked villains of the community. 'hey are the highwaymen of the tate. They are professional legis tive- robbers. They are men rho have stu~died and practiced de art of legalized theft. They ee in no sense different from; or etter than, the men who fill the risons and penitentiaries of the rord. They are, in fact, of pre isely that class, only more daring aid audacious. The safe, base bject is to gorge the individual rith public p1 u n d e r . Having one it, they turn around and buy nmunity-for their acts by sharing seir gains with. the ignorant, auperized, besotted crowd who ave chosen them to the stations iey fill, and which enable them iins to rob and plundel." If it be asked ijow the corrup .ons of the South Carolina. Gov enment differ from the exception I venality of certain :Northern leg. ilatures, this is Mr. Pike's answer: 'he latter, while less in effrontery nid in degree than the former, and yinging -from different 'causes, n also "be promptly remedied y exposure and .by an appeal to e intelligence and virtue of the instituency ; in the other case, iere is no such tribunal to appeal >. It is a moral morass in which ere is neither standing nor hold ig g:-ound." "So tainted is the mosphere with corruption, so niversallyimplicated is everybody bout the Government, of such a Laracter are the ornaments of ciety at the capital, that there no such thing as an influential ~cal opinion to be broughtagainst e scamps. They plunder and lory in it. 'How did you get our money ?' was asked of a rominent legislator and lobbyist. stole it,' was the prompt re ly." The impression made upon us y Mr. Pike's report concerning 'he Prostrate State is that noth ican save society there from tter dissolution' but the speedy chievement of rule by the classes rho ought always rule. We re ret that Mr. Pike, in announcing n opinion substantially the same this, seems to us to imply that ese classes can be ascertained by olor. We k.3ow that this cannot e his real me3anlng, but the force nd value of his book are likely to e adapted by a certain indiscri iinate denunciation of black men ecause they are black, and an qually indiscriminate commenda ion of wbite men because they are rhite What is wanted "to~ save oth Carolina is not a rally of rhite people against black people ; ut of honest men of all colors gainst scoundrels of all colors. We must not despair of the Re ublic, even though that Republic e South Carolina, and even hough it have -become a den of hieves. And the specific advice hich Mr. Pike gives as a sugges I tion of remedy t the people ol that State is in the main wise and good. He advises them to hold on to the faith-that the State can be redeemed; to make a systemat. ic effort to attraot foreign immi gration to the State; to get rid ol their hereditary prejudice against strangers; and of their old-time intolerence of opposing opinions, It is not a war of races or of colors that should be brought on; but a calm, resolute patient increase and combination of the forces of good in iociety against the force of evil. Society needs to be turn ed right side up; and in this ef fort let all men help who can, whatever be their color. . - - - e + - - We extract from a book published in 1871, called "Sketches of Creation,' written by Alexander Winchell, of Michigan, the following fine piece of composition. We have no doubt thal many of our readers who are looking forward to the great CQnflagration Day will be startled at a view so differeni from their own. After stating reasoni which, from a scientific point of view are plausible, he says: "The conviction can not be resist ed that the processes going forward before our eyes aim directly at the f nal extinction of the solar fire. Helm holtz saya: "The inexorable laws d. mechanics show that the store of hea in the sun must be finally exhausted.P What a conception overshadows ani overpowers the mind ! We are forcei to contemplate the slow waning of tha1 beneficent orb whose vivid light and cheering warmth animate and vivif the circuit of the solar system. Foi ages past unbounded giftrhave beet wasted through all the expandinj fields of space-wasted, I say, sinbo less than a half a billionth of his rayi have fallen upon our planet. Thi treasury of life and motion from ag to age is running lower and lower The great sun which, stricken wit! the pangs of dissolution, has bravej looked down with steadyandundimmei eye upon our earth ever since organis tion first bloomed upon it,isnevertheles a dying existence. -The peltiig rain o cosmical matter descending upon hi surface can only retard, for a limitei time the eneroachments of the mor tal rigors, as friction may perpetuate for a few brief moments, the vita warmth of a.dying man. The time il coming when the July sun will shini with a paler light than he now gives ui at the winter solstice. The nations.o: men, if they still exist, will have emi grated from the temperate to the equs toial regions. New diseases will hav< diminished their numbers. Polai frost will have crept stealthily and steadily from Behring's Straits to th< Gulf of Mexico. Continental glaciers will again hlave brooded over the land. The prairie blossi will have perish ed beneath a mantle of snow as limit less as now the prairie expanse. The fluent rivers will have been chained k~ their rocky banks. The ruinsofgreal cities will be bemoaned by wintry winds lrowli~ng past in rage at the pre sence of unending frost. If yet a nar row belt remains where sickly y'er dure maintains the desperate conflict with the powers of cold, it is a dwarf ed and arctic vegetation. The magnolis has given place to the birch. The cypress has been supplanted by the li cen-covered fir. The emerald has de. parted from the shivering leaf, an evea the hardy violet is pale untc death. All things have assumed faded and leaden hue. The Mongo lian is not known from the Canaan Even the sooty negro, if he be not ex tiet, blanched from the want of light and heat, can only be recognized bj his features. Pale, thin, and feeble the shivering reinant of humanity have gathered themselves together in to compact,eommunities for economy of vital warmth. Forests are con smed to thaw the soil. Temples costly structures-the patient'rearing of the golden ages of the race-are pull ed down to eke out the scanty supply of fuel. Men return to caves, whence they camne in the beginning. Na ture has become tileir enemy. Science and art are forgotton. The page whicl narrates the glory of the nineteenti century is like the narrative whici tells us of the labors of the men upo! the plains of Shinar. Year by yea~ the populations become less-year by year the dread empire of frost is ex tended. Forests have been consumed; cities have been burned; navies hav4 rotted in the deserted, ice-locked liar. bos ; men have immured themselvei in gloomy caverns till they have al most lost the forms of humanity. "The end arrives. Unless some sudden catastrophe shall sweep- th< race from beingin aday,ti e time wi] come when two men will alone sur vive of~silth& hiiin race. Two met will look around upon the ruins of th< workmanship of a mighty people. Tw< men will gaze upon the tombs of th< human family. Two men will stan< petrified a the sight of perhaps a hun dred thousand corps e s prostrate< around them 5y the dire hardship which every moment threaten to darr, them also away. These two men will gaze into each others faces-wan thin, hungry, shivering, depiing., Speech will have deserted tleM. Sir lent, g..zing each into eternity-more dead than living-an overpowering em otion-an inspiring .hope-and one of them drops by the feet- of the solesar vivor of God's intelligent race. "Who can sa*hat atid f.e iectons yill .rush for .an -instant through the soul of- the lastmin? Who shall istei t1 voie if he speaks? ,On whose .ear shallil4he accents of his sorrow, his wonder; ot his hope? Thrice honored, thrice.e altediman ! He:stands-there to testify for all mankiad. On ,him has beeti devolved the unique duty of ttei the farewell of our;race to its Sn(H and much-loved home. In what words will he say farewell? "Thelastman hasfcomposedhis bod to eternal -rest. The once fair':e&rtlE is a cold and desolate qorse. a,te's tears are ice; she weeps no more. The face of the- sbnis veiled. It is:.mid night in the highways.of the planets. The spirits of heaven mourn at the faueral. of Nature.. "Let not the reader be distresed at this picture The last two men will be neit,er our children. nor onr. chil dren's children. Our thoughts have been wanderings through yles df years. The clokofe.dtytck. not seconds, b entuies. We sal not anxiods!y measure tesa'ulsintensity froi day to day, fro fei er tO I yer,let w be ableftodiscodr rhis wan ing Wtregth. The embos bo ' ire will furpish warmth for the life df an ephemeron. A molten kistreain consumes ahundriear oin hg The..great globe, of thearth,.w 'iE i cooling noa t a in thirtyfive,thousan&y.qqrs, oge ,iphere of molten gthkite, adhIis4to@ sumed -me enouligpaiz that state:to this. .4he sun-iaao vast thal though he begai tocoo"t fA il moter epoch, the tenperature.retined to-day is 46,000 times as higi,as that [of the sfaceof ur T epoch lea his .ayP nib.y weakened- isat distante -.epessed rbyj mllionof yeag. " Whit thoughts.rie poaus as i Iutter theseiwords!-We'hanhiiron -oi'~planet, poised Ymtle mid4tfin finite spaadininite-time. Whenes 1we came,weknowunot;awhither are we Sbound, hope and faith only'esi'ravd SWe open our eyes for .a noin'ert, lifs an:infant .in its pp and auno thij rare closed; or, perchance,: like th'e waking somnambulist, in his fall froin the house-top to the, paveimint, rouse to an .instant's conscionsness of the rush of events and the. comin'g Iceas-.and the busy setisities of Na ture mov on as iwehadnteis ed." OPEN FIBEs.-A turnace in the cellar may:.be good to take- the chill from the house, and? to heat its halls and passages, but it:ougyt not to supersede the fireplae:in parlor and chamber,. at once the ventilator.of the room and its cen ter of cheer and joy. No ap'para tus of ventilation has yet been do, vised equal to t,he old-fashiofle& chimney. Even wrken no. fire 'Is made in .the sportre,~ thisaven,ue of the open air draws its enrrenss and keeps the atmosphei-4 pure, Where there' is no open fireplace, no free flue, there will :be: a sense of asphyxia in those stry nights whenth.erwindowsinust be fastened close. -Ev'ery roomn in the hous which is used to sit,in or sleep in ought to have a suaficient opening into the, chingney, larger than the orifice of a stove pipe. id matter if the heated air ssebi it;.it, is better to lose half fthe heated air than to be.breathing stagnant air that is-already .deprived of its oxygen. In the sprg' sind' au7 tumn, the fireplace&with wood an the andirons gives all the heat that will beo needed, and gives itanore gracefully than the blastsafrom any "register." T HE BLOOM OF AGE.-A good ifo man never grows old. Years may pass over her head, but if benevo lence and virtue d wellin her heart, she is cheerful as when' the spring of life first op>ened to her view. When we look upon a good woman we never thinkof her age; she looks as charming as when the rose of youth first -bloomed on her cheek. That rose has not faded yet; it will never fade. In her neighborhood she is the friend ,and benefac tor. Who .does not respect and ,love the woman who has passed her days in acts of kindness and 1 mercy? We rgpeatsuch awoman cannot grow old. She will atwaysB be fresh and buQyait..ia .spireAp and active in humnble deeds of mer. e y and benevolence. If theyoung lady desires to retain the bloom a and beauty of youth, let her not I yield to the- sway of fashion and . folly, let her love truth and virtue; iand to the close ofhfeshe Willre tain those feelings which nowmake " life appear'a garden of sweets-. V ever fresh and new. "Here you are; sir, wastiqf your vahube tiine-as they say t4 ne," -sid Charles Dickens'ene Inoring, many yeas ao; asisblittle'bf ran up to hinilon th4 'Brodstaiks saods, spade in :hand. we havfs ioften Wondred sindc lio* ihy pdople this-reoFwlhe- k6ow, Whatinmeant*b' wgiigti..VkI*% *-d4a siy.eey keinithires 6n thissobject foenihigfws deeestas iOearaeN. We!dl nOohw teablope,l'hat -elisic. id wodel of pto%iietyiadill'the virtues, ethployed; he time in wavingiv garment: by day,m unvnlin-it:atigh She tid miat'ieepoff hertiers, th warted to ~urgqsel hei- thatier :in~#ti4UIfssesuwas dwaL .When tlie sdit~r fonAd h'er ut, 'ileue the iedsed eofwas#t inftime-ut t that ibMent Zlfyse kioeked at the dooi after seeEgitany ntand eitieep.i~ fsete,he had icome hme,d'iit' fair Penelope had he=WUrd -Surely it is watoiuitkla old ortoise-tot andi t-the nimbl wiareuracin bt t sib 'y-old thing *lftecrawl on *iti bppitg, at abouiriths jace eii Vt down -the Btrai&i" day. Preseativj d'oii Soine e ard at afuri pas9 -h 8eisnO waeting timie- C4itihe~at ~vBate4-bnt,alliwh.% 8 e fifffid aoldst iss :& eays the%sire,~' ta t96 b iiloNie- ijan% pen ~thoofd hafeMon iBfIli a tieritwftfi, atliihi. e !a ni lsi man t aiet qisaolyapecslagAte od.octerdoInson wo,uld :ssj.M Jhet 'tOn etamle stimu WAhas.esasefe cruit his weary brain in the coin whoTesome Xeoisaon oe sueh houp q>dlos 1~ydap~ som best and ebes into the 'hpn * aa do. ered #ith ngager le sies ?" Recreation is nogajt when is i arfs rmaral worky an#Ia p pa9aggafor,e.a 3' SWe oonfeg wee ney.er feel .at homie witheako mtust al a~ bdog sWrstbiug. Tlei-e sa a ~ ri alMgp bookbynthe.inAthose odessional inteivals when be>hap. pened-to be Nept witi'gTr his tinner. We hlie'ndr'lhe b1lt Qs ~ah see tli n0-prdial prfor'manoe. We do not dubit it -wasia very duibbook,-forn*en who ac ehr stioeisureark aidIll. yall nufferbl to u. real werier is. nver ini a hurry,: apg the real idler, w mmy a4ddisnev;er anything else. Wiro -ever heard of Iord $n '6dk ;of.Wehi4gton, obordfBroagbsm beingAn;a hurry? Whe. wA see amann iaagreat hprry;we maaybe. pretty certain thiat his profession gonsists in 'doing"nothn and hahe idoing4bat adl. ro idlest man we ever saw was always. s mnnh pressed-- for time that.,he never bad- frve minteWs -tospare. r,pJang~ ($T&eneed ey;er, be in u1 ..aterrible hurry as tlis. ,If ye. .er finda.urselveo, it is probably -becatse.iwe fhave boeen ~wastingo'urtizie. 'We%have~ had ng system, and - have, thofsfore, done ip in hour what ougit .to have been finished in twenty.mi utes; dr, like the Jare;iweihate loi tered oni the way, and thEn we maIge.a,ppah, for iu nd arrive 'nat in time to miss the traina. Now mal8fly hares;there are eve ry morn~ig who arrive breat a in the city, because brealfst was half an hour late, or because they would not get up when the cloals struck seven. But pur,readers havea,right to ask.what constitutes, as a general rule, waste of time. We answer in a single .sentene-whatever hinders' or prevents .your doing your ork in. life. -Every one eapould rgaisie that his diuty her cosists :in applying himselfto2 some worthy mork, andhis' time theisaey andi thouwasg ppring4om wrk, doing work, and restingfromworic Wastcof time, then, beeoma thing.purelyt rela -tive. What is m~ere w^aste in one ease is real profi4tin another. The_ idle mnan who tiravels simply for pleasure, is simply wasting' his Q ADVEMO1INd HATXS'&' 75.for each ?~f hiIuAU Dogae' 4W.4 Lai& .one IPLtih tyorhea7h Wt.4get Vold - wso Ai -Ii. t '~~4 4 t" a , ce tW e w mbilew m Ma choo~werO~ - . *ikinhe went~p.~tO~9 ~ and handsou~~p~4j~pg1 *~