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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNIlNG, JANUARY 20, 1875. No. 3. THEHERALD 15 PUTBLISRED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C.H. BY INH& F, GRENEKERt Editor and rropriecor. Tenmsq $2.50 per a5inuM., Invariably in AdvanoCe. r-P,Tb@VLp isstopped at the expiration of DO? The X. rk denotes expiration of sub seion. *11WMceaneous. THOMPSON & JONES, 13 ental. Surgeons, 10WEMRY C. H, S. C. A (Graduates'of thefPennsylvania College of Dental Sargery.) Nw. 19, V7-11-tf. THE. CHRISTIAN INDEX, ATLAN-TAi, GEORGIA. 0MOiLE THE-BAUTIST DENOMINATIONS U':.- -..---o- A Ew. D. SHAVER D.D)., : EDITOR. 7 ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Rwy. D. I. BUTLER. Dp-. J. S. LAWTON. H~ CORREMrNDING EDITORS. Rzir.S. HENDEIISON,D.D., ALPINE, ALA. RzV. . B.TEAGUE, D-D. " SEL31A, ALA. 11wf. T. G. JONES, DJX., - NASHVI=L, TEN. j 14*-0 Sta~y goevtd t the Tenetsan eat inteests Ythe BaptiAt Denomination, t"is paper, which for nearly half a century, Isas been the organ and favorite of the Bap tist of Georgia. and for the past seven bmrflntte-*ame igdtmn relation to V, of Alabam& aMI portions of TUtk. Cooltna. Florida and ippi-will. in the future, merit, by 1 the excelency of its character. their highest reciation. The reader wifl lind that, be- i tbp. qnantity of Moral and Reli Mith which itis freighted week ectiona ofmndscellaneousread TUC lete sum=nary.of reliable IntllIene-bthdomestic and foreign wMl render themLindependent of other pa. orrecty printed Market Reports of allgcts will make th paper in- T h OUR FIRST-BORN. BY QUEERQUILL. 0 The finest child they ever saw!" So all the gossips said, saw a someth ing very small, And most intensely red- b -sort of centre to a claud Of ruffies, puff and lace .nd felt, with all a father's pride, I saw my first-born's face. H .was lovely-so his mother said; So both his grandmas swoe 'ho dear old ladies, as they are, k Could ne'er agree before, & 'was lovely! Well perhaps it was; . Although to speak the truth, due allowance must be made d For such decided youth. is head seemed an uncertain fit, it His eyes were rather small, cC is nose-I don't pretend to Judge 1 Are noses born at all? is little flabby, punched face Looked so extremely raw pi Dould but shudder as I heard, a1 "Oh, ain't he like his pa?" g1 Ie waved for a week or more ti Aboat our treasures name; . o two of these must we consult Could fix upon the same. w must be Alfred, James and John, SE And Henry, Charles and Paul, atil, unless one name should offend, We gave him none at all. ie ills through which the infant passed, 1 Sure ne'er was passed before; a r each disease that babies can h ave m He had, and fifty more. e teethed and teethed-for aught I know He might be teething still, Sc it that I stopped the doctor's cares th By settling up his bill. e lived through colic, thrash and croup; th He lived through heat and cold; lij e l1ved through dosing, steaming cures Though cracks and cats untold; 2e fiabby little puckered face, bz IU rosy, hard and brown, fe i take the odds that he can lick The biggest boy in town. W1 A SECOND LORLEI. * to -0- fr Unfortunately for myself and ev 7body who ever saw me, I am ary beautiful. Itis not egotism to take that remark, for I have had la [enty of mishaps on account of M ~y looks, and every ill that can be 1la famnily has been laid to the t ~ore of "Frank's terrible appear ice." When I was a child every ting went wrong. Once on a fer-g rboat a young and lovely lady, th atting and talking to me, became e. >interested that she quietly back- at Soff the edge,and only the presence e mind and daring of her husband St ~sed her in a very damp and ioing condition. Nurse scolded, th amnma raised her hands in horror, ad the lady gave me the name of Lorlei," which I have ever since I stained. I was a continual source of anx ty lest I should be kidnapped b.y me childless people, and made ao a circus-rider, or an heiress. [y life was miserable, with the g nard set around me to say nothing n F adozen or two toilets aday, my fa air to be combed and brushed in'.r ssantly, and myself kissed and d )dled like a lap-'dog. It grew no etter, later. My sisters happened > be very plain, and I couldn't elp it i'T! got all the invitations, ouquets, and proposals, and they seived none. To'make it worse, ne of my admirers died of heart dis se, and left me the large fortuneg jat should have gone to his sisters; ad then they loved me excessively, f course! I combed my hair in the most orrible way I could invent, wore buif collars up to my ears, plain. resses of sober color, made faces t myself in the glass by the hour, a d all to no purpose, My hair t rould turn into the cnnningest la ttle ringlets about my forehead, nd fall down in a golden mass of urs just at the wrong time. The eck above the ugly linen no amountg f s could make other than white nid well-turned ; and the clumsy b ress lhid a form of the most perfect iould-stately, smooth and round- tc d as only a healthy English girl an ever hope to be. I couldn't have any girl-friends, :r without meaning it I captured ~ beir lovers ; they grew jealous and alled me names ; and the attach 2ent usually ended in a storm of a ears and reproaches on the one art, dismayed repentance on the e ither. I couldn't have a gentle. aan friend, for, if single, he pro- P >osed in a month, and, if married, 1 he wife came to the rescue, and I a ot the worst of it. I tried ones >lan, and you shall have the result ; c~ :cut my hair off nearly close, and ~ nerey me I-I had done the busi- ' tess. I was handsomer than be- I ore! I looked a very picture of 13 nischief, my hair curled tighter ' han ever, and my eyes would dance, " ;ite of all the sober books I read, e Ld all the sad things I tried to c ehn f 4o utHtyit hn cofIene,oAn day hno h aanttect ou oe~rij nyconfidne Cone ay henshe o ame to the city to buy some furni E nre for har conniirs 20Q8% QM4 t a romised that as soon as her sons barted for school, I would be with er to spend the summer. I made Ly preparations secretly, and only a the day of my departure asked ad received permission to go un atched and alone. Used to my eaks, mamma asked no questions, at gave me some advice-"to wear thick veil in the cars, not to take y gloves off, and not to wink at iy one." As though I ever know giy did wink! My own sisters would not have iown the little brown mouse of a r that sat so demurely in the car on 3 way to Rockbridge. I had or ,red a wig made of bright red 6ir, and it was a very marvel in way. Short, crisp, fiery curls vered my head closely, well down k the neck, and twining lovingly ound my ears. A dress of water -oof of the most ungraceful cut Ld make, green glasses, shoes and oves two sizes too big, and with e exception of mouth and 9om exion, I was hideous. Auntie )uld not believe that it was my. if, until I had shown her my eyes, Ld spoken to her several times. There was not a soul on the ace that had ever seen me, except [nt and uncle; and as they called a "Lorlei," the servants never sus eted that I was the Frank Morri n they had heard so much of from e young masters. There were few ighbors, and I rather avoided em. For the first time in my e I was ugly, and consequently jppy. I rode the horses, sat on the a-nyard fence during the milking, d the chickens, ate apples and w butter, took long walks in the ods, and my big feet and scarlet ir never invited a second glance )m any one I passed. What ,ppy, jolly days they were to me, ly those who are blessed with o much beauty and long to flee )m the consequences can imagine. One morning I took a book, and ing through the orchard, follow the stream to a favorite nook, y down, and laughed the pretty, sical laugh that was at once a easure and a bane. I laughed to ink of myself in this rig inan era-box; and looking at the ter, I said, "Why not be a real orlei' for a while ?" No sooner ought than done. Off came the imsy shoes and knitted stockings, d holding my dress up I went lashing in the shallow waters. I epped on a big stone ; it rolled .th me, and I sat down cosily in e middle of the brook, wet to my sist, and my dismay finished by e heartiest laugh you can imagine. aoking at a part of the bank that had not before 'noticed, I saw a ntleman, in sporting dress, hold g a fishing-rod in one hand and ving the other at me in the most nial and pleasant manner. It ight have been that rn,y eyes did >t match my hair; at any rate, I nied that he stopped laughing ther suddenly, and coming close >Wnl to the water stood eyeing e inquiringly. I had been angry at ist; but my usual sense of humor uine to my aid, and sitting there, ith the lapping water full about me, held my sides, and laughed with *m until I was tired, and my cheeks owed like two roses. "Well," he finally said, stopping laugh at every word or two, "you e succeeded in your loudly ex 'essed wish, and made a veritable ~orlei' of yourself." "Did you hear me ?" I asked, feel g for the first time a little shy, id rising slowly to my feet. He w that I could not come out of te water in my bare feet, and ughing still, he answered: "Yes. But I fear you will con ane a water-nymph until I am me, so good-bye." And as sudden -as he had come, he disappeared. I put on my shoes, and made the est of my way back to the house. ant Hetty laughed at me when I Id her of my adventure, but stared hen I described the man. "Bless me, child," she said, "it is alter Gray, who lives on the next ri, or rather owns it, and lives in ew York. I did not know he was :home." The days flew by on golden wings; rery one seemed more happy than e last. I took an apronful of eaches and a book, and lay down ithe hammock under the elm for lazy time one morning. I was ~arcely settled when I heard auntie llng me, and then steps coming ear to me. I raised myself, and ho should be with her but that alter Gray. He laughed hearti Son recognizing in my aut's iece the "water-nymph," but soon Lade me feel at ease by his court us and merry manner. He had ame over to see if he could buy cow of uncle, and over the merits f butter and milk we grew quite iendly. Auntie would have him umy+n inna, andIT tried to@enavt the country girI, and be as awkward as possible. Two or three times I almost betrmyed myself by some unguarded remark; but by drop ping my fork, upsetting my milk, and knocking my chair over when I rose, I managed to seem ill-bred enough to suit my course frock, absent collar, and tumbled hair. To my utter astonishment, Mr. Gray asked me to go to a pic-nic at the school-house the next day. While I was staring, first at him, and then at myself in the glass, Aunt Hetty quietly said, "She will go with pleasure." I was ready to beat her, but beyond a few mutter ed words, I said nothing until he was gone. Then I made a few re marks to her which made her look so sorry, that I kissed her and pro mised to go peaceably. I made myself look as countrified as possible, next morning, and my looking-glass told me that I waa no longer even passable. Mr. Gray made no remark about my appear ance, except to ask if the glasses were absolutely necessary, and on my gravely assuring hm that they were, he helped me into the carriage, and away we went. How I enjoyed the glances the girls gave me, and their evident contempt for my dress and manner! I found myself alone with Mr. Gray, toward the end of the afternoon, and we sat down on the moss at the foot of a tree for what I called a good talk. His manner had been perfectly kind and courteous, and he had done everything in his power to make me forget the difference between myself and the pretty country girls I had met. After a little I forgot my part, and letting the glasses fall unheeded in my lap, I pulled off the yellow cotton gloves I had worn all day, and lying backward, clasped my hands above my head, contentedly. After a minute he said: "Maggie Thorne is entirely thrown away on that old man. What a life for a bright, fair woman to live, shut away in that quiet house." Following his glance toward the house on the other side of the road, I lazily answered : "lIperial Casar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." The look of utter amazement on his face was too funny as he gasped out: "Miss Lorlei, what are you? Hid eous and lovely at the same time, an uneducated country girl firing Shakspeare atme in that style. You wear these green glasses all the time, and yet I have noticed you can see much farther and better without them. You have the most exquisite hand I have ever seen, and your feet are large enough for a man. You bow like an empress, and tumble over your dress the next minute. I can't understand you." I kept my face through all his speech; and then gave him answer, pulling on my gloves: "I don't know what you mean by Shakspeare, and you need not insult my feet: I can't help their size. What made you bring me, if only to tease ?" And without fur ther ceremony 1 left him more mys tiied than ever. I saw him very often in the next two months, and learned to like him very much for his kindness to my awkward self. How much I liked him I scarcely knew until a letter from anamma came, saying that summer was long over and people were growing very curious as to my whereabouts. With a cold feeling at my heart, I took the letter in my hand, and went through the orchard to the place where I had played "Lorlei" for the benefit of Walter Gray. Bitterly I regretted my masquerade, for I thought he could never be brought to like the red-haired, clumsy girl he had pitied and been kind to. I lay on the grass crying, holding in my hand some of the-dead leaves lying all about me, and thinking how like my own hopes they were. How long 1 lay there I do not know, till some one dropped on the grass by me, and a cool, soft hand held my own. "Crying! water-nymph?" and be fore I knew it I found myself close held by two strong arms, and a dear voice speaking to me. "Your aunt says you are going away, Lorlei; going away to be edu cated, and taught many things it is right for you to know. I dare not let you go, little one, until I ask if you will think of yourself as my own Lorlei, and try to become as graceful outwardly as your pure, good heart and natural abilities will let you. I have learned to love you very much, and you will let me hope, will you not ?" For an answer, I lay quiet, look ing up in his face, and thinking how nice it was, and fearing to ek..1 the spell by showring him my "Do you like this awkward, ugly, clumsy, red-haired girl.!" I finally managed to ask, with a long-drawn breath of satisfaction. "Stop the adjectives," he answer ed, closing my mouth gently with a CE -Is (and how glad I was my moutu was pretty)! "At times you are more graceful than any one I ever saw, and as for the hair--" I sat up eagerly, and asked; "You like yellow hair, don't you." "Yes," he said, wondering at my eager look and mannex. "Turn your head away, and pro mise not to look," I said, turning his head so that he could not see me. "I promise," came the voice I was waiting for. With trembling hands I took out the pins, unfastened the elastic which held my red wig, and pulling it off, turned his face toward me. He looked as though he had een a ghost, and stared at the red hair in my hand and the golden on my head, in mute astonishment. "Yes, it's mine," I said, answer ng his look; and I pulled one of bhe short curls hanging over my yes. And I can dance and sing, ind play the piano, and I love Shakspeare!" I could get no fur lber, for reasons lovers can perhaps )xplain; and when, an hour after, in my pretty white ruffles and wo nanly finery, I crept into the sit ing-room, I found Aunt Hetty talking to Walter, and saw him gravely kiss her hand as he came boward me. When I saw the light Ln his eyes as he looked at me, for he first time in my life I thanked Qod for my glorious beauty. There was a grand time when I went home, and for a while my "un fortunate appearance" ceased to be the general theme of conversation. My first anxiety, when nurse brought me my littte Fannie to ook at, was whether she was pretty. I need not have troubled myselL Her nose is flat, her mouth is wide, and only her blue eyes and sunny temper keep her from positive plain ness. She has relieved me from all fear of perpetuatig the race of "Lorleis." From THE AwDE for January. SizeReflus. LITTLE BEIVNIE. "I wish I was a kitten, mamma," said sleepy little Bennie. "I could curl up all day by the fire, and play when I liked. I wouldn't have to go errands, or pick up chips, or anything else I hadn't a mind to. I could lie in bed in the morning, and when I got up I would be all dress ed, and wouldn't have to be washed or combed. Oh, dear, I don't like to go errands, mamma." Little Bennie was lying on the hearth-rug during this whine of his, with the white kitten by his side ; and as he looked up to his kind mother, the amused smile on her face grew mistier and fainter until it entirely disappeared. But what ailed Bennie!? He seemed to grow smaller and smaller; his finger nails grew pointed and sharp; he felt smooth and velvety, and he had a nice long tail which he whisked ferociously about; for he began to find out somebody was tormenting him. Where lay the white kittie when he began to scold, lay now a boy thatbooked liked him. And,book ing a! himself, he found he was a white cat, like the one he was tor menting but a few minutes ago. Had he got his wish!? Oh!I wasn't it nice. To be akitten, and not have to work any more, seemed to be all he could desire. But ! if he could only gat away from the great boy who held him so tight, his fin gers pressing into his sides, (which felt sore and uncomfortable as if they were in the habit of being squeezed). He found, by looking at his paws, that his nails would come in and out, and he wondered if he couldn't stick them into that great boy's hand that held him so tight-even in the sound sleep which he seemed to be enjoying. For a momen't he felt almost afraid to make a trial; but he extended them a little wvay, making a little mite of a scratch; and still the great boy slept on. Gathering courage from this he plopghed them deeper in the hand that restrained him, and was duly rewarded by its letting him free. Oh, wasn't it nice ! He galloped over the soft carpet, under the chairs, and over the great sleepy boy who lay by the fire. In a chair by the,window sat a lady who looked liked his mo ther. And she looked at that image on the floor as if she felt sorry about something. Why ! it was his mo ther ; and he tried to tell her he was Bennie, but only succeeded in making a pitiful howl that set the boy by the fire squirming. His mother looked at him and said, all he could answer was, meow! guess you had bett-r go out doo a little while." And she walked i the door, and he by har side, swite: ing his long tail, of which he wi awfully proud. But when he g< out doors-oh, my, didn'the cut c pers! He rushed up and dow the garden walk, he ran up an down the tall trees, and playe with the fallen leaves, and capere around, until he reached a pon where swam some gold fishes. "Won't I have one of them, said he; and he put his paw int the water; but it didn't look vez good; and he thought he wouldn have fish for dinner that day. At that moment a bird flew ov( over his head, and he thought sl would taste good. So he rushe after her, over rocks and fences, ti she lit in a tree, and he climbed ul But the bird made an awful screeel ing, and he wondered what it coal -all be about Up in a little crote of the tree, away up high, was little black bunch, and he woul like to know what was in it. So t climbed away up and looked dowi And what do you think! Snug i a little nest, made of hair and woo were four tiny birds, with scarce] a feather to cover their backs. 01 won't they taste nice, thought h and forthwith proceeded to take bite. But just as he succeeded i poking his nose in among the bir< lings, to see which was the fattei (for he was a great epicure), such screeching and squalling salute his ears that he drew back in dii may. On looking around, he di covered that the boughs of the tr( on which he was clinging were fai ly alive with robins, which the ory.< the old mother bird had called to tb rescue. "Oh! is that all?" said h "Who's afraid of a bird 1" And I again proceeded to take a bite. Am the screeching still continued. Bi Kitty scratched his head with h paw, and thought to himself ' have heard, or else I dreamed, thi 'a barking dog never bites;' an may be its the same with birds." S gathering fresh courage he opene his mouth But such a comm< tion! ~It seemed as if fifty shar little swords were sticking into h back ; for the infuriated birds wei picking him, till he beat a retrei down the tree, and scampered aws over the lawn, till entirely beat on he lay down under a tree, and fo got his troubles and his hunger a good nap. But in dreamland h troubles still clung to him ; for 1 dreamed that the great big dog thi lived at Farmer Brown's across i river was bunting for rabbits, an had found him. fle awoke with start to find his dream only tc true. There stood old Black Lio1 with his great mouth open and h red tongue hanging out, and tiw great rows of teeth, so sharp an white! Up sprang Kittie, an scampered towards the house wil Lion in hot pursuit. "I wish wasn't a kitten," said he, "I ha rather be anything else." He readl ed the house, and jumped upon i window-sill just as he felt Lion hot breath upon his back. Not minute too soon was he, and I scratched at the window till h mother opened it, and I awoke to find it a dream. His mi ther was just opening the windo to let his white kitten in, and i noise awoke him. "I'll never war to be a cat again, mother ! Ill g errands, or do anything you war me to do. I had rather be Benni than anything else." His mother kissed him fond] and told him how happy she woul be if he forgot his selfishness an ill temper. And Bennie, with teal in his eyes, told her his dream, an how he missed his mother's carei his cat life. And with many pr< mises for good behavior, in the il ture, from Bennie, we will leaa him in his mother's kind care, an some time 1 will tell you somethin more about him. Too CIvL BY HALF.-A correl pondent of the Lewiston Journi relates an Androscoggin legen< which has probably been mellowe by time, though the narrator sa3 he could give the names, if I choose, as he know the parties we in his boyhood. It appears that og a clear, cold, quiet morning, som fifty years ago, a family were seate around the table taking their breal fast, when a rap was heard at th door, and, as the custom then wat the outsider was bidden to "comn in," when a man past middJ life entered, and, after the usum salutation, seated himself in a chai: He was a neighbor living some ha a mile distant. He was asked to si up and est some breakfast, but I answered, "I don't suppose I.ougi to stop, for our housesis on ire they sent me to tell you." Enumn of enris-Chienosa I THE CORNER-STONE OF W1 rs MAN'S EDUCATION. When less than thirty years a4 h the examining committee of t IsBoston public schools recommen ed the introduction of Physiolos into the department for girls, tl d movement occasioned much surpri d and some opposition from the teac d ers. It was not their own ign a rance. for most of them were hai students in other directions, b1 some thought it useless, and mat of them supposed it to be indelicai 1 for young women to be acquainte with the laws of their own being. The committee said in their r< port: "Those parts should be learnE first which are most essential the physical, mental, and mor well-being of the individual. woman might be an excellei imother of a family, and yet kno nothing at all about the causes h the French or American Revol hi ton. She could nut, except t a accident, bring up her children wi healthy minds and bodies, unle she were acquainted with the it portance of pure air and a whol some diet, and the indispensab necessity of good physic%1 and mo al habits." In another paragraph they spec of "the absurd phenomenon of gir a studying algebra at the momei when they can find no time for ph t siology or the principles of dome a tic economy; solving equation, b fore they have become acquaint( with the importance of pu:e air at a healthy digestion; studying t] binomial theorem, while they a r- ignorant of the laws of their om structure ; as if it were more prob ble that they would become pracl cal engineers than practical how wives; or makers of roads a d bridges, than mothers, nurses, teachers of children." To this one of the teachers iror s cally rejoined that "they shod have said darners of stockings ar itt d washers of dishes; for her part a dl had something else to do .besid rocking the cradle and singing It laby!" Less than two years afterwai Sthis same young lady assumed ti s positian of wife and housekeep~ and when a few more y:ars hi trolled away, I found her the d voted mother of a half dozen healt1 ful and intellig'ent girls and boy Reminding her of her indignal "question, "Do you think- that hi tory, algebra, and other studies al e to be neglected, wvhile we learn i Lt best way to keep the house in ord< eor nurse the children 1" she replie d thoughtfully, "It is no matter noa a for Ihave learned those very things once so despised,and am still happ: 'but if I could not have had my del L5 mother to live with me the first fe years and teach me, I might na areceived1 a punishment I watn able to bear !" You will obsera we do not argue for ignorancei d any other science, for the neglE of mathematics or languages, pain Ling, poetry, or sculpture. Attend ethese if you have time, taste, at a opportunity; but first of all, an afar more imperative, study the las eof life.-Sience of Health. e ABOUT EEIs.-The eel season lnow at hand; the recent rains ha Sing started them in the Susqueha tna and all the creeks and strean tntheir fall journey back to tid - water, and the consequence is th e large numbers have been caught tdifferent parts of the country wit in the past few days. The eel tra 7 els up stream in the spring, and r d tu.rns down to the salt waters in ti a fall, always going in large school| - There are 'a great many peculiai d ties connected with the eel that bi n few people know of. For instanc - there are some eight or ten kini 1- of th-em, of which several neve e enter into fresh water. Some d the varieties are, when full growl ten or twelve feet in length, weigl ing one hundred pounds. The kix here, the common fresh and sa s- water eel, is usually from twelvei l twenty-four inches in length. Eel I, it has been proved, have both sex< d in one, and spawn somewhat aft, a the manner of other fish. Like ti e turtle,they can travel out of the wat< 1 for some distance, from streami I stream, so that in almost every rivi e let, however small, they can 1 d found. The gills or breathing c E- gans, are covered up by a mo e delicate curtain, which acts like i, valve and a reservoir for water, e to speak, to keep its gills moil e during the time it is out of ti i stream. It has a heart in its tai -. the same as is known to exist tf the salmon, with pulsations it about ninety-four to the minute. Lt Have the courage to show r 4 spect for honesty, in whatev< guise it may appear, and your co tep o ihietYaddpi ty ywonQ!3 xii e tempt for dishonesty and duph te_ he whomSOever e3hibited' - I BIRDS AND BA61ES. "Katy, child, how can you neg o'lect your bird all the long day ie without a bath or fresh water to d- drink. Poor little thing! look at y its soiled plumage and drooping ie head. It cannot sing while in se this condition. Exceeding care h- must be given to insure songs and 0- sprightliness." -d Katy, blushing under the rebuke t given in the presence of a stranger, LY gently and lovingly cared for the be neglected bird. d - In the cradle we saw a little im mortal of five montlis, not as weil - eared for as the bird. It moaned ,d and fretted. 'o "What ails ny baby ? It is al strange that my babies are so fret A. ful and ailing. I used to think it how happy I should be with them. W I love children ; but I declare, they. A perplex and fret ine almost to a- death." Oy Looking at the serofulous, hun. gry little waif, we could not re 5s frain from saying, "Do you little a- mother love your baby as well as e your birds? If you do, then why le not take as good care of them ?" r- "Why, Mrs. Young, do you for a moment think that I neglect my Lk babe ?" Is "I do not think you intend to It neglect it; but I am qlito sure y- you understand bird nature better 8- than you do baby nature," e- "Do please-.._xplait_yourself," l and she-aat down to tfurse; the id child. ie "Are you sure you will not be e offended or hurt ?" m "I am willing to hear you," she a- replied. :i- "Birds are pretty and musical. 8- Babies are precious and immortal. td Precious because bone of our bone, >r flesh of our- flesh, part and parcel of father and mother, both in body, - soul, and spirit. They are, more Id over, re&ecting our loves and hates, Ld our hopes and fears. All passions le and ambitions entertained during Bs their helpless,. plastic, ante-oatal a- life are reflected in brain an,t body and spirit of the child. Look at d the grieved,bungry eyes, and quiv ie ering lips. Press it to your bosom; r, caress it ; kiss it. Your baby is ad dying for love." 6- "Do I not give it all.the care. I 1- can ?" '5- "You think you do; but did you at from the beginning love this child? -Did you weieomue it and ask for it eas the mother of Samuel did? Were 1e you full of joy- and thanksgiving? 3r Did you in your heart exult and d, consider yourself 'blessed among i;'.omen ?' Ah, little mother, God pitPy you. By your dread and dis Y; like of the unborn child, barriers sr were built. Your babies are envel W oped in clouds. The body cannot re thrive where separating walls teven of dislike exist." 1e [ Science of Realth. et TiuDErS oF ANE..s.-It has beeni t- well remarked by a clever author to that bees are geometricians. The Ld cells are so constructed as, with the d least quantity of material, to have c>s the largest sized spaces andI the least possible interstices. The mole is a meteorologist. is The torpedo, the ray and the v- electric eel are electricians. n Whole tribes of birds are musi 1s cians. 6- The beaver is architect, builder It and wood cutter. He cuts downs a trees, and erects houses and dams. h- The marmot is a civil engineer. v He not only builds houses, bat con e- structs aqueduicts and drains to ie keep them dry. B- The ant ir, a soldier, and main-! 'l- tains a regular standing army. it Wasps are paper manufacturers.' e, Caterpillars are silk einners. la The squirrel is a ferryman. With ~r a chip or piece of bark for a boat, of and his tail for a sail, he crosses a ~'stream. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and many Ld others, are hunters. It Black bears and herons are fisher o men. s, Ants are day laborers. es Monkeys are rope dancers. 16 M.u'S D.EPENDENCE UPON Wo er M.A.-Manf relies far more than to he is a-.are for comfort and hap. 11 piness on woman's tact and man ye agement. He is so accustomed r- to these that he is unconscious of' St their worth. They are s i deli a cately concealed, and yet so cease 'o lessly exercised, that he enjoys st their effects as he enjoys the light e6 and atmosphere. He seldom thinks Show it would be with him were 'they withdrawn. He fails to ap tpreciate what is so freely given. He may be reminded of them now and then ; be may complain of in 0- truisioni or interferenlce but the ir frow'n is smoothed away by the a. gentle hand, and the murmuring i- lips are stopped with a caress, and the manaement goes on. ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inscrted at the ratc of SLE-0 per square-one inch-for first insertion,4 7je. for each subsequent insertion. &o:ble column advertisements ten percent on above. Nutices of' meetin&.,*btuaiessud tribute of respect, same nres Pecr squaire as ordivalY ad.vertisem3ents. Special notices in local colupog 20 cents per l ine, Advertisements not marked with abe num ber oftinsertions wff be kept In dil forisid and chaw.ed accordingly. Special contbimt m2de wfth -la& adver tisers, w!rb liberal deduakuos on stove rates. Done witb Neatness anad Dispmeb. Terms CasL. HIAPPY' ]LIUMINDS.-It is a man's 9WHI flault if fie is unhappy with his %Vif*C2 ina nineecases onL of ten. It is a rery exceptional woman %who wvill niot be all she can t(i an attentive husband, and a more ex ceptionable if she finds herself wilfuliv ne,lected. It wo)uld be very easy to hate a inaft -whIo hav ing bound a woman to him makes no effort t6 render her hauppy; harf! not to love one who fis Coll stant anid tender; and.wheieia'.Wo man lovcs she always. strives to The great men in this wvorld have often been wretched Wn their domestic relations, while eolfmon men have been excedingly hAPPY the reason i's r'eey plikin: al;sorbed in themselves, those who dcs*'o the world's applause are earehess. of their little viorld at. home ;, while those who have noneof this .e,_otis*m -strive to keep the hearis. that are their o*n.,and are- happy, in their tenderness. No %voiuan wili love, a man. the. bettei- for being renowued..-Wd o minecut. Though.hc.be first among men, she WWl be' only pron~der, not fonder;' and if she- to"i -im' throng'h his renownr6 0h.il not' even be proud. But i-ive hei loie.