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?tttttOT0tt9 jpepaprtuwiit. SCIENCE vs. LUCK IN KENTUCKY. At that time, in Kentucky, (said the Hon. Mr. Knott, M. C.,) the law was very strict against what is termed "games of chance." About a dozen of boys were detected playing "seven up" or "old sledge," for money, and the grand jury found a true bill against them. Jim Sturgis was retained to defend them when the case cam^ up, of course. The more he studied over the matter and looked into the evidence, the plainer it was he must lose a case at last?there was no getting around that painful fact Those boys had certainly been betting money on a game of chance. Even public sympathy was roused in behalf of Sturgis. People said it was a pity to see him mar his successful career with a big prominent case like this, which must go against him. But after several restless nights, an inspired idea flashed upon Sturgis, ana he sprang out of bed delighted. He thought he saw his way through. The next day, he whispered around a little among his clients and a few friends, and when the case came up in court he acknowledged the seven up and the betting, and, as his sole defence, had the astounding effrontery to put in the plea that old sledge was not a game of chance. There was the broadest sort of a smile all over the faces of that sophisticated audience. The .Tndcre smiled with the rest. But Sturcis maintained a countenance whose earnestness was even severe. The opposite counsel tried to ridicule him out of. his position, and did not succeed. The Judge jested in a ponderous judicial way about the thing, but did not move him. The matter was becoming grave. The Judge lost a little of his patience, and said the joke had gone far enough. Jim Sturgis said he knew of no joke in the ; matter; his clients could not be punished for ' indulging in what some people chose to consider a game of chance, until it was proven that it was a game of chance. Judge and counsel said that would be an easy matter, and forthwith called Deacons Job, Peters, Burke and Johnson, and Dominies Writ and Miggles to testify ; and they uuanimously and with strong feeling put down the legal quibble of Sturgis, by pronouncing that old sledge was a game of chance. "What do you call it now ?" said the Judge. "I call it a game of science!" retorted Sturgis, "and I'll prove it, too!" They saw this little game, o He brought in a crowd of witnesses, and produced an overwhelming mass of testimony to show that old-sledge was not a game of chance, but a game of science. Instead of being the simplest case in the world, it had somehow turned out to be an excessively knotty one. The Judge scratched his head over it awhile, and said that there was no way of coming to a determination, beinat aa monu man /villi/) Kn krntlflpllf in uauov JUOV wo UIWMJ UIVU VVU4U w WAVW^MW IM court who would testify on the other side. But he said he was willing to do the fair thing by all parties, and would act upon any suggestion Mr. Sturgis would make for the solution of the difficulty. Mr. Sturgis was on his feet in a second: "Impannel a jury of six of each, Luck vs. Science?give them candles and a couple of decks of cards, send them into the jury-room, and just abide by the result!" There was no disputing the fairness of the proposition. The four Deacons and the two dominies were sworn in as the "chance" jurymen, and six inveterate old seven up professors were chosen to represent the "science" side of the issue. They retired to the juryroom. In about two hours, Deacon Peters sent into court to borrow three dollars from a friend. (Sensation.) In about two hours more, Dominie Miggles sent into court to borrow a "stake" from a friend. (Sensation.) During the next three or four hours, the other dominies and the other deacons sent into court for small loans. And still the packed audience waited, for it was a prodigious occasion in Bull's Corners, and one in which every father of a family was necessarily interested. The rest of the story can be told briefly. About daylight the jury came in, and Deacon Job, the foreman, read the following verdict: "We, the jury, in the case of the Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. John Wheeler, et al., having carefully considered the points of the mo a on/1 toato^ tlio mprits nf the several the ories advanced, do hereby unanimously decide that the game commonly known as old sledge, or seven up, is eminently a game of science and not of chance. In demonstration thereof, it is hereby and herein stated, iteratated, reiterated, set forth and made manifest, that during the entire night the "chance" men never won a game or turned a jack, al though both feats were common and frequent to tne opposition. And furthermore, in sup- ' port of this our verdict, we call attention to the significant fact that the "chance" men are all busted, and the "science" men have got the money. It is the deliberate opinion of this jury that the "chance" theory concerning seven up is a pernicious doctrine, and calculated to inflict untold suffering and pecuniary loss upon any community that takes stock in it." "That is the way that seven up came to be set apart and particularized in the statute books of Kentucky as being a game not of chance, but of science, and therefore not punishable under the law," said Mr. Knott. "That verdict is of record, and holds good to this day." J?* Two Dutch farmers at Kimlerhook, whose farms were adjacent, were out in their respective fields, when one heard an unusually loud hallowing in the direction of a gap in a high stone wall, and ran with all his speed to the place, and the following brief conversation ensued: "Shon, vat ish te matter ?" "Veil, den," says John. "I vas trying to climb on te top of dish high stone wall, and I fell off, and all te stone wall tumbled down | onto me, and has broke one of mine legs off, j and both of mine arras, smashed mine rib in, | and deese pig stones are laying on the top of mine body." "Tok riot oil9" Suva the other: "vv. vou ! "u ""v ?v- -? , hollow so big'loud I tot you got te tootache." j Slightly Mixed.?A New Bedford paper says that one Saturday evening recently, a lady, who lives near a church in that city, was sitting by the window listening to the crickets, which were loudly chirping, the mu? i sic from the choir rehearsal being faintly audible, when a gentleman dropped in familiarly, who had just passed the church and had the music full in his mind. "What a noise they are making to-night!" said he. "Yes," replied the lady, "and it is said they do it with their hind legs!" In county, a Quaker maiden, who had reached the age of sixty, accepted a matrimonial offer from a man who belonged to the "world's people" and the Presbyterian church, and began to prepare for her wedding.! As usual, a delegation of friends from her | meeting waited on her, and remonstrated with her for marrying out of meeting. The bride elect heard the visitors patienSy, and said: "Look here! I've been waiting just sixty vears for the meeting to bring along its boys ? That seemed to settle the matter. The delegation "farewelled," and evaded the premises. A dyspeptic at Troy read that by sending a dollar to a man in New York he would receive a cure for dyspepsia. He sent the money, and received a slip with the following printed on it: "Stop drinking, and hoe in the garden." The man was mad at first, then laughed, and finally went to hoeing, and stopped drinking, and is now as well as ever. "Bridget, what has become of the tallow I greased my boots with this morning?" "I fried the buckwheats in it." "Oh, I was afraid you had wasted it." Agricultural gepadweui EXHAUSTED FARMS. There are four elements that go into the construction of every living thing, both animal and vegetable ; these elements are iron, lime, potash and salt Now it is evident to any thinking mind, if this be so, that any one of these elements be lacking, feeble results follow: For instance, taking a very large, big boned man, whose bone structure seems almost giant-like, and which depends mainly on lime for its structure, and let such a man be deficient in iron, and he is deficient in strength. Though his bones be sufficiently large to constitute a giant, yet how often have we seen his heels thrown into the air by the quick movements of a strong, closely built, small man, whose whole system was fully developed. Then again, give the animal all his proper proportions to the full development of every part until it has fully matured, aud then cease, or leave out only a small part of one of the elements, and he soon ceases to be perfect; for instance, keep a man on wheat with nothing taken from it, which in this state is one of the very best articles of diet for the development and preservation of both mental and physical powers in use; now change the diet, and give him what is termed the best brand of flour, and you will soon observe the difference, both in mental and physical powers, for the reason that the greater portion of iron and nntsaK ic witVihpM As it is in the animal, so it is in the vegetable kingdom. Farmers use the same size dung cart, and haul to their corn and wheat fields, the same number of loads their fathers did, but they fail to realize half the crops they did. After repeated trials they stop in despair, and wonder what the matter can be. They look to the sky but fail to find any fault there. Some one tells them that the forests J are all cut away, and that consequently there is not so much dew as there used to be; but not being very scientific they can't see the point. Still standing in doubt, another comes along and tells them to add another plow to the beam, and get two more yokes of oxen and put it up to the beam. They finally think that must be what is needed, as the old surface has been plowed so long ; and so, after much sweating and hard pulling, they have succeeded in turning the old, black, good-fornothing surface eighteen or twenty inches out of sight, and in its stead have brought to the top a splendid light blue, and with the usual J amount of manure plant their crops. Theresuit is best known to those who have done likewise; they finally get mad and run away out West. Now, then, let us consider the cause of the deterioration of their farms. We will look first at the barn ; here, on the outside, below the eaves, on boards hear the ground, is daguerreotyped the perfect form of a dung heap; but what has that to do with the matter ? L^t us see. Through the holes just at the top of the picture has passed through all the solid, and but little, if any, of the liquid matter * * i ii - 1- 1 x AL.I l tnai nas passea me ammuis Kept m umt uam, perhaps, for a century. This is, indeed an important discovery of an intelligent farmer, in quest of a farm. He at once corresponds with the owner, out West, and finally purchases it at a cost of a small fraction above the taxes on it. We ask him why he was such a simpleton as to purchase an old worn out farm when he could have bought one in its virgin state. He invites us into his laboratory, and there answers the question by taking one pound of liquid excrement from animals, and takes them apart, and proves, at least to our satisfaction, that there is about four times more salt and potash in the liquid than in the solid ; we (having a vague idea of the requirements of vegetation) see the point at once. Now let us watch this owner, and see what he does. There is a cellar under the whole barn, almost as tight as a house cellar; he don't allow the sun to peep in nor a draught of air to pass through; in the place of the old holes in the side of the barn are windows ; we find him in damp weather under the barn, with doors open, forking over manure, and occasionally see him apply water to some. IVa nol. +V?a .oooftit fnr kafr Thp Aimwpr is ?Y C ooa tug i gucvu AVI vaimvi A..v that it is getting too dry, and manure should always be kept moist until applied to the soil. Now we find him plowing; we observe that he is breaking up ten acres of wet and ten acres of dry soil; he plows the wet in dry, windy weather, the dry in moist, damp weather. We ask the reason for this discrimination. He only answers: "I desire a good crop the first time, and if the seed is good, and the season, I will get it." In ten or fifteen years the original owner returns (having exhausted his splendid virgin Western farm) to find.his old farm in grand condition and the old barn once more full of sleek fat cattle. Moral?Stay at home and stop abusing good nature, by returning all she gives you. X. Y. Farmer. To Cook Vegetables.?It is often observed that a meal from vegetables is not satisfying. I have found it frequently happen that the persons who thus objected, did not know even how to boil a vegetable. The rule is simple, and should never be forgotten. Every kind of vegetable intended to be served whole should, when put to boil, be placed at once in boiling water; and this applies especially to potatoes and vegetables from which the outer cover has been removed. IJow it often happens that potatoes, etc., are, to save i time, placed in cold water and left to boil j gradually. It is just this which allows the nutritious matter to escape and renders the meal unsatisfying. When, on the contrary, the water, boils from the moment the vegetable is immersed in it, the albumen is partially coagul'ited near the surface, and serves to retain the virtue of vegetables. The reverse is, of course, the rule for making soup, or any dish from which the water will not be drained. By placing the vegetables in cold water the albumen is slowly dissolved, and actually mixes with the water?a process most necessary for the production of nutritious soup. It is to be hoped that those who have a special need for the most their money can produce, will learn, in whatever haste they may be, not to boil all albumen from potatoes, reserving for their meal only the starchy matter.? i Exchange. Warm Shelters.?Cows in milk require warm shelter at this season of the year, or they will be apt to shrink rapidly in quality. ! At the same time, a barn that is too warm and not properly ventilated, is to be avoided. A great deal of loss is occasioned by exposure to cold winds and storms. If the weather is cold and sunny, cows like to be out in the j yard in the middle of the day, and no doubt i it does them good. But to let them run out I all day and often in stormy weather, is what j we hope no intelligent reader is guilty of. j Feed them a few roots after each milking, beI ginning with the round turnip first, if there j are any, then the Sweed, and then wind up : in the spring on the mangolds. We think a j cow in milk ought to be carded quite often, | and this is not a very.busy season of the year, why not set a regular time for it every day. j Ploughman. Farmers Keep Accounts.?The Northwestern Farmer says: "Farmers who never keep accounts, and of course are nearly all in debt, yearly have enormous store bills to surprise them. They doubt the honesty of the merchant, and their families are berated for extravagance. Receipts and expenditures are never noted the profits and losses in any branch of farming are unknown. Unconsciously debts multiply, for it requires much less time and ability to dispose of money than to aoquire it. Accounts properly kept would admonish them when to spend and to check up. Carelessness in another, consequently such farmers have little system in the building of residences, barns, or out-houses. Fences are poorly kept up, and a systematic rotation of crops is seldom practiced." I I?* An acre contains 4,840 square yards. A ; square mile contains 640 acres. these images is idolatry. It seems most absurd that a man would bow down and worship and adore a dumb idol; but such is the fact Some of the most illustrious men of antiquity, were gross idolaters. It is very remarkable, how easy the transition from the worship of the true God, to the adoring of dumb idols is. We have a striking example of this in the history of the Jews. On several occasions this favored people made for themselves vile images, built for them costly temples, and most devoutly bowed before them. This is a warning to us all. It is probable that the depraved state of our | minds leads us to become idolatrous. We are naturally moral cowards. We tremble and dread the avenging hand of God. We are conscious of guilt, and dread the temporal and eternal results of sin; but are ignorant of the true and living way of escape from God's wrath. Not only are we ignorant of the way of escape, but we are ignorant of the charac fleatlittg fot the JM&atb. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] RELIGION AT HOME. True and evangelical religion is produced in the soul by the operation of God's Holy Spirit This being the case,, we might naturally expect a great change to be produced upon the individual who is the subject of such operation. The Bible language, with respect to such an individual, is that he is a new creature. This change is exhibited by the individual in no place, and under no circumstances, so much as at home and in the midst of his own family. At the house of God, in the midst of great religious excitement, impulsive natures often feel as they never felt before, and often act and say as they never acted and said on ordinary occasions. They [ weep and they rejoice; they sing and they pray as they do not and cannot on ordinary I occasions. Their souls are filled with delight, and their consciences are as mute as the dead. The inexperienced are apt to be egregiously deceived with regard to these operations. That these effects often are the product of ** /JAAI* A/lmU o tviAmnnf'a VJTUU O opillt) UUC3 UUU auiuil Ui a tuuiu^uv a doubt; but that they are sometimes the result of mere impulse, excited and intensified by surrounding circumstances, is just as true. Most men are just like wild beast Reason seldom reigns supreme. It is said that the ' most timid bison leads the herd. Just so it often happens that the most fearful, and not the most pious, make the most noise and attract the most attention. There is a grief so terrible that it dries up tears, and there is a devotional feeling that is so deep and so genuine, that the heart and not the lips groan. It makes a man feel and say and act like the publican, spoken of by our Saviour. It fixes the heart as well as the eyes upon the ground, and the only words that it permits to escape from the lips are "God be merciful to me a sinner." Every one knows that it is more difficult to influence one man than a thousand. An orator with Cicero's powers, might talk all day to a single individual and not move him with his eloquence; but in the midst of a miscellaneous audience, the same individual would be swayed with the multitude. The point we desire to get at is simply this: Our feelings at church are not the safest index of our piety. The circumstances are suchjas to produce feelings which may, or may not be, true and genuine devotional feelings. There is, beyond all controversy, such a thing, however absurd it may appear, for an individual to act very pious in church in the midst of professed Christians, and to act very impious at home in the midst of his family. There are men now liviner UDon this ereen earth who can and do pray loud and long in public, who have no family altar nor closet. There are men who would not, for any consideration, use pro* fane language publicly, and who would be ready to censure those who do, who do swear and swear most profanely under their own roof and before their [own children. There are many individuals who dread, with a most servile fear, their fellow-men, that do not fear God. Man is absolutely a medley of contradictions. In the language of the poet, "he is little to be trusted." A man may give his goods to feed the poor, and still be destitute of love either for God or the poor. Self may be the absorbing thought in his mind. A man may make long prayers in the most public places, and pay tithes of all his income Jnto the treasury of the Lord, and still be naught but a hollow hearted hypocrite. You cannot judge with unerring certainty, of the means of living which an individual posseses by his public appearance. * It is a notorious fact, that silks and satins are often worn by those whose physical frame is preyed upon by hunger. A fine coat is no sign of full cribs, and pantries lined with the staff of life. If you would learn the real condition of many individuals you must go to their houses. You will find things very different in many instances from what you at first sight would expect. You will find plenty where there was very little show, and you will find penury and squalid want where you expected an abundance. Just so in a religious point of view. Some persons are all for show and nothing for reality; others are all for reality and nothing for show. Some men are nothing away from 1 1 A ?"*? kln.L/\nf Qflnon Ap iKo Dome | UUt priTOUJ III LI1C mgncob ocuou vi mv word at home; some men are priests with mitre and flowing robes away from home and nothing at home. Some men say nothing about their religion away from home; others say nothing about it at home. There is no place like home in more senses than one. A man's house is the temple in which he and his family worship God, or it is ( the place in which a man throws aside his hypocrisy and acts out himself. If any man wants to know how much influence the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ has actually had upon him, he can easily learn the fact by examining into his home-conduct. Is he as meek as a lamb in public, and as fierce as a hyena at home? Is he as devout as a saint in his pew in the church, and as profane as a heathen under his own roof? If this be the state of things, it-is not universally true that there is no place as sweet as home. The first thing that every sinner commences after his conversion is to set his house in order, and when death comes it finds him busily engaged in this work. God said concerning Abraham, "I know that he will order his house aright," and He blessed him for it, and He made his house a blessing. The religion of the truly pious man makes his home, however humble it may be, more than any mere earthly palace. [Original. J IDOLATRY. The history of our race proves the fact that man cannot be absolutely without a deity. Such is his nature that he must reverence and adore some god. Ignorance and fear caused men to fabricate images or likenesses of their gods. Barbarians and heathen nations have multiplied these images beyond the powers of arithmetic to calculate. The worshiping of ter of God. This ignorance increases as we become more sinful. Hence, it may be said, that ignorance and sin are inseparably con- : nected. Superstition and idolatry are the characteristics of ignorant men. Whenever men forsake the living and true God, they are on the way that leads direct to idolatry. One sin leads to another, until the fearful result is attained. One of the noticeable features of idolatry is the weakening effect it has upon the mind. In fact it is indicative of an imbecile understanding, and a depraved moral natur^ Nothing but ignorance, the most debasing,'and depravity the most degrading, can be^redicated of the man who will bow down lifeless stone or a venemous reptile. ' One of the many blessings of thegospel of Jesus Christ, is that it frees men from slavery to dumb idols. Every nation whffib has not been christianized is a Pagan nationj|hid every individual who has not been brifflRht under the influence of the gospel, is etHMpdolatrous in practices, or prone to idolatr^uome men are disposed to over-look the net that we owe our redemption from Paganism to the Bible. No amount of human learning can induce the idolater to cast aside his dumb aa ? mAMn Uiimnn 1 Aft unin n* 1UU1B) Jiur unu mcic uuujau icaiuiug ^lcycuu X any one of us from plunging headlong into 1 the moral degradation of Paganism. Some of the greatest men, in a mental point of view, the world has ever produced, were idolaters. ? Socrates may be instanced as an example. * Nothing but the word of God, and th^^ht- i ening influence of the Holy Spirit, can "cure a the mind of idolatry, aud nothing but these s can prevent us from becoming Pagans. 4 [Original.] ^ AM I A CHRISTIAN ! 1 \ Business men resort to many measures by ^ which they may be able to tell how their af- c fairs stand. This is right and proper. No t individual should be regarded as a good finan- a cier who does not watch the debts aud cred- 8 its?the incomes and outlays. The truth is, every man must watch his business. "Keep ^ the shop, and the shop will keep you," is true j! and applicable in every department of life. <j With respect to the things of this world, men a generally are wise. Merchants, as a rule, a know whether they are doing a safe business ^ or not; farmers are able to form a very good ? estimate whether they have made or loit mon- ^ ey by tilling the soil; but it is to be feared 8 that many do not know whether they are e Christians or not. Men have, as a general t rule, very vague and undefined ideas of what J it is that constitutes Christianity. Some, and ^ it is to be feared not a few, seem to thinkH;hat ' ! being born and educated in a Christian land, J or in a country or neighborhood which, by common consent, is regarded a Christian, and not a Pagan country, makes and by right constitutes an individual a Christian. Then being born and educated in Africa would make a man an African in the technical sense M of that word. This theory is so absurd that u it refutes itself. g Again some think that to be the offspring c of Christian parents, constitutes an individ- 81 ual a Christian. To be the son or daughter of ? a rich parent may, and in all probability will, ^ make an individual an heir or heiress of a ^ large estate; but there are somethings we do tl not with absolute certainty inherit. Virtue o is neither bought nor sold, given away nor re- a ceived. The celebrated Patrick Henry said 11 there was one thing he would give his children 0 if he could, but it was not in his power. That jr thing was the Christian religion. Many a w Godly parent has had a trifling?imdlefcsonAl and, on the contrary, many an exen^pjlarily u pious son has had a triflng sot for a father. a "We have Abraham to our father," was a 0 pillar upon which some of the deluded Jews ^ leaned. Again some, and it may be a vast multitude of us, think that if we have, in a regular way, entered the church, and had our names ^ registered upon the church book we are safe. ^ There are many things which, upon the plain ^ principles of common sense, show that this u would not be a safe rule by which to judge of v the actual number of Christians in the world, n No experienced general would conclude that because he has on his muster roll one hundred a * ? ' .1 i* 1-- t thousand men, tnac mereiure ue n?o tun* number of men who will charge a breast- p work. His experience would teach him that e many men can be found at dress-parade who c cannot be found soon after the command is <3 given to charge bayonet. Just so there are e many names which have been enrolled as Christians, the bearers of which will never be seen when the day of battle for Christ and c his gospel comes. Many persons classify as c Christians, all those who have been baptized 1 in the name of the triune God. Hence, we 1 often hear it said that such and such individual was christened, meaning by this that the individual was made or became a Christian. ? This is a grand mistake. There is as much r difference between baptism and regeneration 1 as there is between profession and practice. 1 A man may dress like an Englishman and 1 yet have no love for the British lion. What J then is Christianity ? it may be asked. It is ( believing in Christ Jesus the saviour of sin- r ners. It is not simply believing that Christ 1 is the son of God, and that he lived and died i to satisfy the law of God in its preceptive and penal demands, and thus redeem sinners ; but 1 it is this intellectual assent, and a hearty ac- . ceptance of Christ to be our Saviour, and a { cheerful resignation of our wills to be governed i and controled by Christ. ] The Christian is a new man. His mind is 1 enlightened out of God's word and by God's 1 spirit; his heart is renewed, and Sie'afie7$R5ih- J ate part of his nature purified and elevated ; , his will is subdued and made submissive to \ the will of God. How are we to know that 1 these things have taken place in our cases in- i dividually? There are two ways by which this may be known. By our consciousness J and by our works. We know with unerring certainty whether we love our neighbors or j not. No man needs any metaphysical argu- < ments to prove to him that he loves fi&par- i ents. He has the testimony of his own con- 1 sciousness to the fact, and this is all the evi- ] dence that he needs. The world knows the fact that a child loves its parents by its obe- ] dience. All Christians are the children of f God. They have been begotten by the Holy i Spirit and affections of children given to them. < Do we love God and obey his law? If so, 1 we are his children?Christians; if we do not 1 love God and submit ourselves to his law, our ( case is, to speak most charitably concerning it, doubtful. I Change.?Time effects every thing .animate and inanimate. The huge piles of granite which we often call everlasting, crumble j into dust; the mighty oak which proudly mocks the storm, grows old, withers and dies. I Man and beast return to their native dust, i In the midst of this constant change, how wonderful to contemplate the fact that God < watches over the atoms so that none are lost, i nor is there any increase. The atoms that < now form our bodies may have once been fro- ' zen in the ice-bergs of the polar regions; or < bleached on the plains of the torid zone, worms i may have fed upon them, or they may have 1 fed upon worms. IpMrttffltef ** JMittas. MONEY MAKING AND MONEY SAYING. A fact to be borne in the mind of everyone ,vho desires to accumulate wealth is this : It s not the money that we make but the money ve save that makes us rich. A man may enjoy an annual income of ive thousand dollars, but unless he saves >art of it, he will be no better off at the end >f ten years, than the poor laborer who has )een receiving only one dollar per day during he same period. Every man should endeav>r to live within his means and to save a porion of his income. No matter how small ?our income may be you can and should save i part of it, to assist you through the long veary hours when hard times come and you lave no employment, and to help you through he attacks of sickness; or if you should ne ilessed with continued good health and steady :mployment and continue to save a part of rour earnings all through the active working rears of your manhood, it will then be ifl your wwer to buy and pay for a comfortable home, vhere you can spend the remaining years of rour earthly life in quiet and comfort, surounded by your family, your books and 'our friends where you will have time and op>ortunity to contemplate and admire the glomus works of your Creator, and enjoy the fellowship of all the gre^J, minds who have ived in the different ages of the world. There during the last weary miles of your arthly course you can calmly picture to yourelf the beauties and pleasures of the life bernnd the crave. We should remember that it is by providug for the helpless hours of sickness and old tge that civilized man proves himself to be uperior to the savage ; and the man who fails o save a portion of his income is guilty of jross neglect of duty, both as a man and as a nember of a civilized community. The man vho supports himself and family, and provides or the infirmities of old age, no matter how >bscure he may remain, has lived a truer life han the world renowned poet or painter, who tfter living a life of ease and honor dies in ome charitable institute. Now reader, if you want to become wealthy rou must commence now to save a portion of rour income. No matter how small it may >e, you can save a part of it, and don't become liscouraged because your savings appear small .nd trifling. Have patience, and continue to ,dd whatever you can. The first hundred is lardest to save. Every dollar that you add o it makes it stronger. Put your savings into he bank. When your money is in the bank ou are not so apt to break into your nest and poil your nest egg. Be economical in your xpenses; do not let empty pride lead you ino ouying unnecessary or expensive clothing, ust look at what it costs a young man to Iress in a new suit, supposing that he pays or his "rig" in land worth five dollars per ere. Silk hat costing $10 2 acres. Coat " 35 7 " Vest " 10 2 " Pants " 15 3 " Boots " 15 3 " Other fixings 10 2 " Here we have a young man strutting around nth the price of eighteen acres of good land pon his back ; quite a respectable farm to lve away for one suit of clothes, and yet you an see both old and young who carir just ich farms upon their backs; but the laboring ian may exclaim, "I don't wear such expenve clothes." We will admit that, but ii the iboring man who receives only ten or fifteen ollars per month would endeavor to save iree dollars of his monthly wages, at the end f the year he would have enough to buy seven ores of land worth five dollars per acre, and 1 this way he would soon have a farm of his wn. Don't say that you can't do it, for you an if you try; but you must put your money l a bank or in the hands of some person horn you are certain will take care of it; but ntil you^%uyeyour /an5? Tt^iira 'nf every ble-bodied man's power to get a home of his wn if he will only save what he earns. Releraber that a fool can make money but it ikes a wise man to save it. INFLUENCES OF*THE MOON. An article, translated from the German, in litieWs Living Age, says: What of that mysjrious disease, somnambulism? Can it be isDuted that the moon causes somnambulists ~ " X 5 walk in their sleep ? I answer, no! but let s see how the moon acts, in order to conince ourselves that it has no wish to fraterize with mysticism? It may be assumed hat sleep-walking is an abnormally vivid tate of dreaming, not only of the reproducive, but also of the volitive faculty. Now, b is established that such vivid dreams are iroraoted by everything causing unquiet sleep, . g., a heavy supper, stimulating drinks, and ither causes. It is a fact which has been fre[uently observed, that, owing to these influnces, somnabulists, or sleep-walkers, often nake their perambulations at times when noonlight is not marked in the almanac, and ve all know that there are many persons, [uite healthy, too, who can not sleep at all, ?r only badly, when a light is burning in their )ed-rooms, by reason of being unused to it. Precisely the same influence is exercised by he moon's light on persons inclined to somlambulism. Hence some have hit upon the ixcellent idea to prevent the moonlight from intering the somnambulist's sleeping room by neans of shutters or thick curtains, and belold the somnambulist remained quietly in lis bed, not troubling himself about the full noon that shone brightly outside. The experiment was reversed, and, at a time when here was no moonlight, brightly burning :andles having been brought into the somlambulist's chamber, he was seen to walk in lis sleep as though the finest full moon were uling the sky. As has already been said, things are the nore readily believed the more they tickle he fancy, and hence it is no sufficient reason jo regard a thing as true because it has been iccepted for years or even for centuries. Unprejudiced observation must decide, and it proves by thousands of cases that the condi,ion of the intestinal tube, and the effect of vermifuges, is precisely the same at the increasing-as at the waning moon. If, therefore, there are physicians who to this day administer vermifuge during the moon's wane, the consoling assurance is theirs, that its action will be the same as if administered du ii ring me moon s increase. The belief in a special lunar influence upon the growth of plants results from very defective observation, and is altogether unfounded. It is said, for instance, that wood cut during the moon's increase rots faster than^that felled iuring the moon's wane; but at no time and aowhere has this assertion ever been tested by i single and sensibly made experiment. One person echoes this absurdity afler the other, pet it has never entered anybody's head to fell two trees, equally sound and of the same kind, to keep them under like circumstances, and then to watch the changes. The same remarks are applicable to the assertion that certain plants thrive only when planted during the waning moon, while the contrary is the case with others. We all know that not everything which is planted, or sown, thrives, nevertheless, these people are very careful in noting every instance where a plant, put into the ground at the wrong time of the moon, did not thrive as a new confirmation of their rule; the instances, however, where a plant, planted in the right time, did not thrive, are attributed to the weather. And the weather! Does not experience teach us that the moon surely has an important influence upon it ? My answer is, No! The moon has not only no important influence on the weather, but not even any which is in the least demonstrable ; and, if experience be appealed to, I reply that it is that very experience which contradicts the opinion ef the moon's weather-making. I do not, it is true, mean that experience which is gained by the individual and experienced observer who occasionally notes when rainy weather happens to set in about the time of the new moon, or fair weather at the moon's full; but that experience which is acquired in observatories, and at meteorological stations, where the general nature of the weather, the state of the barometer, the direction of the wind, and the degree of the moisture in the atmosphere, are recorded twice or three times every day. Now, the tables at the Munich observatory, kept more than forty years, and with the greatest care, inform us that on the days of the full moon, of the new moon, and of the two quarters respectively, the weather does not change more often or more rarely than on any other day. Only such experience is entitled to consideration. The moon's physical influence upon our earth is, in common life, very greatly overrated. This influence, according to the known laws of physics, can be exerted in only three ways?by the moon's attraction, by the reflected light of the sun, which it sends to the earth, and by the emissioh of heat. The moon's attractive power being six times less than the earth's, dwindles into a mere nothing for objects on the earth's surface, as, owing to the distance of 52,000 miles, it is greatly preponderated by the earth's attractions; so that its action may, indeed, be calculated, but, on account of its extreme smallness, cannot be an object of perception. If, when the moon is overhead, we send a soap bubble or feather into the air, we shall not be able to perceive the moon exerting the least attraction. But how is it with the phenomena of the tides ( They depend, as is known, on the sun's and moon's attraction, the moon, much smaller, but much nearer, attracting bv a third more strongly than the sun. The elevation caused by this oombined attraction contains about one hundred cubic miles of water, a mass which, in round numbers, weighs the trifle of one thousand billions hundred weight But it would be a grievous error to suppose that this enormous weight is raised by the moon in the same manner that a man lifts a hundred weight, or a magnetattracts a nail. Looking at the glassy surface of an island lake, and, though it be ever so large, when the moon is in the zenith, not the slightest rise of the tide will be marked. The conditions upon which the high water is dependent are furnished by the extraordinary facility with which small particles of water are displaced by that vast body of water called the Pacific Ocean, extending over more than one-quarter of the globe. Other causes co-operate, which, to explain, would lead me beyond my design. An explanation : of the whole may be found in a good physical geography. To confirm the belief in a lunar influence ! upon the weather, it has been asserted that tne moon must act on the ocean of air?the atmosphere?in the same manner that it acts on the ocean of water, producing a kind of ebb and flow. Theoretically, this had long been assumed; but it required the nicest observations of years, upon the most delicately constructed barometers, before philosophers succeeded in proving certain very minute fluctuations due to the action of the moon. Yet what are these fluctuations against those of the barometer in our latitudes, often amounting to several lines at a time, and whose immediate cause is the difference in heat, to be referred, consequently, to the sun ? Hence we find no reason here either to ascribe to the moon any influence upon the weather. Ibe ftorbvilte tfuntittr. ? - a TERMS?IN ADVANCE t. 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