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gcpartmcat. ON GRUNTING. The following story, told of John Smith and his son, Virgil, is said to be a "true bill." Smith had a'very promising young horse, now for the first time in training for the track. The other day, Virgil, a bright little chap, some ten years of age, was speeding the colt around the trick, and was making the run in handsome style, when the colt suddenly shied, and threw the boy off. The cause of this was a young porker that had stowed himself in some brush, close to the track, a quiet spectator of the colt's performance, until the latter got almost opposite to him, when, hog-like, he made a violent grunt with the result mentioned. By the time his father reached the ground, the boy was on his feet unhurt. Said the father: "Virgil, you don't know how to ride a colt, to let a little pig like that throw you off. I don't want the colt spoiled ; want him to go round the track, and I'll show you a pig can't prevent him." "I'll bet you," said Virgil, he'll throw you, too, if a pig makes him jump like he did with me. "No he won't, Virgil; you can get in the bush there, and when I ride him round you can grunt like a pig. I'll show you how it is done," said the elder Smith. Accordingly the colt was caught and mounted by Smith, the elder, the boy in the meantime having taken his position in the bush to play the roll of pig, in which he succeeded to perfection, for when the sire, after a rattling run, had reached the proper place, he started like a young grizzly, and tearing out of the bush, caused the panic-stricken colt to pitch his rider ingloriously in the dirt. Gathering himself up, he said savagely: "What did you do that for? I told you to grunt like a pig?not like a blasted old hog." Would not Speak.?Pat having been empaneled in a case, was, with the rest of the jury, cautioned by the judge as they were about to adjourn for dinner, not to speak to any person nor to allow any person to speak to them concerning the case in progress. Pat was impressed with this warning. On turning the first corner he encountered Mike H , who wanted to speak to him about digging a well. Pat gave him a wild glance and passed on. Mike followed him, and seizing him by the arm, said : "Man alive! what is the matter with you ? Are you crazy ?" Pat freed himself from Mike's vice-like grasp, and planting a terrible blow between Mike's eves, hurried home to his frugal meal. His troubled look alarmed his wife. "In the name of all the saints, Patrick, dear, what's the matter with ye?" He made no reply, but, shaking his head, looked more distressed than ever, and commenced eating in a hurried and most voracious manner. She ran to a neighbor to have him come and see her husband. As they entered the back door, Pat shot out at the front. The neighbor followed. Pat started on the run, reached the court room four lengths ahead, and ensconced himself in the jury box, greatly relieved. A moment after court was rpr?npiif?<l in ramp nnnr Mike, both DeeDerS w|/v..v%? ... v*"-" rw"* ?'? i i closed, accompanied by constable Hoagland with a writ for Pat. Not daring to serve the process there, the officer called the attention of the sheriff to the matter. The sheriff, in turn, notified the judge. The judge asked Pat to explain. Pat rose with trepidation, and said: "May it plaze yer honor, didn't you tell us not to shpake to any one, nor allow any one to shpake wid us ? and sure Mike was bound to shpake to me, and the only way I could get out of it was to give him a mild whick bet<"onn ftio avaa fnr luoon't T hniinH t.O ohfiV V I? tV/11 uiv vjvg *v* iiMwt* v * wv-? ? J the orders of the court ?" Of course he was. The judge was sound, and Pat was allowed to be a "desartless man," and permitted to go his way. Why Don't You Respond??Old Judge W., of , in the Old Dominion, is a character. He was a lawyer, legislator, judge and leading politician among the old time Whigs of blessed memory ; but, alas! like them, his glory departed, and like many others of his confreres, has goue "where the woodbine twineth." Notwithstanding the loss of property and the free use of applejack, he maintained the dignity of ex-judge, dressed neatly, carried a gold-headed cane, and when he had taken more than his usual allowance of the favorite beverage, he was very pious at such times, always attending church, and sitting near the stand as erectly as circumstances would admit, and responding fervently. On one occasion a Baptist brother was holding forth with energy and unction on the evils of the times, and in one of his flights exclaimed : "Show me a drunkard!" The judge arose to his feet, and unsteadily balancing himself on his cane, said solemnly: "Here I am, sir! here I am !" A "AAJ /IAn 1 riAnnlncca/l J-lit; ciucr, tixuugn a guuu uuai uvupuoovw < by the unexpected response, managed to go { on with his discourse, and soon warming up to his work, again called out: "Show me a hypocrite! Show me a hypo-1 crite! Show me a hypocrite !" Judge W. again rose, and reached forward ! across a seat which intervened, touched Dea- j con D. on the shoulder with his cane, and said: "Deacon D., why don't you respond, sir? Why don't you respond ? I did when they called me!" A Big Dinner.?A couple of flat-boatmen nn ftip Mississinni river, haviner made an ex v.. ?v ... rr / ?t o traordinary good speculation?made, in fact, six hundred dollars, a very large sura to that kind of folk, twenty years ago?concluded that while they were in New Orleans they would for once in their lives see what it was to have a real first-class hotel dinner. They could afford it, and they would just like to see how it would go. So they went to the St. Charles Hotel, and ordered the very best dinner that that establishment could afford. When they had eaten to their complete and entire satisfaction (and the probable astonishment of the waiters) they called for their bill. The waiter in attendance misunderstanding them, and supposing that they wanted the bill of fare, laid it before them, with the wine list uppermost. "Whew Bill!" said Jerry, "here's a bill! Just look at it! Here, you add up one side and I'll add up the other, and we'll see what the old thing comes to." So Bill added up the prices of wines on one side of the list and Jerry added them up on the other, and they made the sum total $584. "Wh-ew. Bill!" said Jerry, "that's nigh all we've got! What are we goin' to do about it?" "We can't pay that," said Bill, "it 'ud clean us right out. The waiter ain't here now, let's jump out o' the window and put!" "No, sir-ee," said Jerry, "I'd never do sich a mean thing as that. Let's pay the bill and then go down stairs and shoot the landlord." In, Into and Under.?The vexed question of the proper mode of baptism was thus disposed of lately down South, by "Uncle Caesar, a colored preacher: "Now, breden," said he, "I hear great fuss bout dese words in and into; and folks want us to believe dat dey mean under, and dat when de Scriptur' speaka of an individual going down into de water, de Bible mean to say dat he went under de water. S'pose some day I goes ober to see Brudder Solomon, and Brudder Solomon wery politely say, 'Uncle Caesar come into de house,' do anybody s'pose dat dis nigger would go under de house? A dying Irishman, asked by his confessor if he was ready to renounce the devil and all his works, replied: "Don't ask me that; I'm going to a strange country, and I don't intend to make myself enemies." ^RisceUaueous fllradrog. THE SCIENCE OF ADVERTISING. Judicious advertising always pays. If you have a good thing, advertise it. If | you haveu't, don't. | Large type isn't necessary in advertising, j Blind folks don't read newspapers. Don't be afraid to invest in printer's ink, i lest your sands of life be nearly run out. Never run down your opponent's goods in public. Let him do his own advertising. Let your advertisements have something of the dash in them, without great exaggeration. You can't eat enough in one week to last you a whole year, and you can't advertise on that plan either. It's as true of advertising as of anything ! else in the world?if it is worth doing at all, I it is worth doing well. J Handbills and circulars are good of their | kind, but they cannot take the place of news! paper advertisements. Injudicious advertising is like fishing where there is no fish. You need to let the lines fall in the right place. No bell can ring so loudly as a good advertisement. People will believe what they see rather than what they hear. Small advertisements, and plenty of them, is a good rule. We were all babies once, yet we made considerable noise. When you advertise, see that you do it on the same principle that you buy goods. Get the most you can for the money. We don't recommend advertising as the best raav tn crat. a wife hut. wa Irnnw that it is the best way to get a good trade. People who advertise only once in three months forget that most folks can't remember anything longer than about seven days. If you can arouse curiosity by an advertisement, it is a great point gained. The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity in the world. A constant dropping will wear a rock. Keep dropping your advertisements on the public, and they will soon melt under it like rock salt. Quitting advertising in dull times is like tearing out a dam because the water is low. Either plan will prevent good times from ever coming. "Dull times," it is said, "are the best for advertisers." Because when money is tight, and the people are forced to economize, they /tlntnnn rt/1 IIAwllOAmflnffl f A In ttHYttjO icau tuo auvu u^iucuio iv uovvi tuui who sells the cheapest, and where they can trade to the best advantage. According to the character or extent of your business, set aside a liberal per centage for advertising. Keep yourself unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what business of utility you may be engaged in, for if intelligently and industriously pursued, a fortune will be the result. A Novel Duel.?Among the reminiscences told of the Franco-Prussian war is the account of a curious duel between two subordinate officers of the French army. "You intend to fight a duel, eh ?" asked the commandant. "Yes, colonel. Words have passed which can only be wiped out with blood. We don't wish to pass for cowards." "Very well. You shall fight, but it must be in this way. Take your carbines, place yourselves on a line facing Malmaison, where the enemy is. You will march upon the garrison with ennal sten. When sufficientlv near their posts you will then fire upon them. The Prussians will reply. You will continue to advance and fire. When one falls the other may turn upon his heels, and his retreat shall be covered by one of my companies." "In this way," concluded the commandant, "the blood which you both demand will be spilled with profit and glory, and he who comes back will do so without regret, without the remorse of having killed or wounded with his own hand a Frenchman, at a time when France needs all her defenders, and all her children. If you both fall, who shall say you are cowards ? I may also add that I thus give you an excellent opportunity for putting a couple of Germans out of the way, a service that will procure for you a good recommendation for reward and promotion." The matter was arranged as the commandant had dictated. At twenty paces from the walls of Malmaison, one of the adversaries was wounded, staggered and fell. The other ran to him, raised him up; and carried him off on his shoulders amid a perfect hailstorm of balls?both, henceforth, entitled to the greatest honor and respect from the whole regiment. + + Tiie Use of Riches.?Whether rich or poor, it is our duty to be economical in the use of money. Extravagauce is sure, sooner or later, to prove the ruin of those guilty of it. If it does not bring poverty and want, it must make the head of a family a slave?fill him with anxiety and care?make his life a burden, and bring him down with sorrow to the grave, a poor, heart-broken, disappointed man. Wives and children, whose extravagance of dress and parties are wasting thousands of dollars annually, know little of the sleepless nights and terrible headaches their follies bring upon those whose lives are devoted to make them happy. And, alas, what n 11 x. .1 - . *1 1 1_ 1 ioiiy 10 suppose mat iney oau ue umuu nappy by such excesseses! They are but filling their lives with sorrow and disappointment. Men worship mammon, and women worship fashion, and between the double idolatry the world is filled with sorrow. Let us ask the rich man how far his wealth has contributed to his happiness. Has it saved him from pain, from weariness, from sleepless nights, from sickness or the fear of death ? Has it made him contented, or reconciled him to the certainty and solemnity of a coming judgment? But God can enrich the soul with that "pure gold tried in the fire" which will ward off sorrow and bring substantial aud permanent bliss. Let us pray for the riches of faith, of humility and a contented mind, as the certain steps to honor aud a contented life. Drinking Water.?Drinking wine is a habit; so is drinking spirits, ale, cider, coffee and water. The last is thought a necessity; but to drink much is a habit. Some people drink little?not because their constitutions require less than others; it is their habit. These people never perspire so much as those who drink more. The more that is drunk the more water passes away, or the system would suffer. As it is, the strain affects it. The skin, kidneys, bowels and lungs are all drawn upon. The result is, as may be naturally expected, exhaustion. Fortius reason, the man who drinks much water, particularly during the summer and in the hottest weather, is less able to endure fatigue. The water is no beu' efit to him?that is, the excess. It must pass away, and this requires an effort of the sysj tern, which is the sweating process. Had he ! not used the excess of water, he would not have perspired so; it would not have been there for the system to expel. It is a habit to drink water so much; a false thirst is created. We should drink only what is needed. The j habit of drinking more will soon be overcome; ! and the person will feel much stronger and ; more capable of bearing fatigue. In winter, ' little fluid is needed beyond what our food ' furnishes; in summer, some more, but not ^ ^ j? j much.? Uountry uenueman. % Tongues.?Nothing but the proboscis of an I elephant compares in muscular flexibility to i the tongues. It varies in length aud size in | reptiles, birds and mammalia, according to 1 the peculiar organic circumstances of each. | A giraffe's tongue has the functions of a finI ger. It is hooked over a high branch, its 1 strength being equal to breaking off large, ' strong branches of trees, from which the tenj der leaves are then stripped. An ant-bear's ! tongue is long and round like a whip-lash, j The animal tears open dry clay walls of antI hills, thrusts in its tongue, which sweeps around *the apartments, and by its adhesive saliva , brings out a yard of ants at a swoop. The I mechanism by which it is protruded so far is both complicated and beautiful. A dog's tongue, in lapping water, takes a form, bymere act of volition, that cannot be imitated by any ingenious mechanism. The human tongue, in the articulation of language, sur passes in variety of motions, the wildest imagj ination of a poet. Even in swallowing food its office is so extraordinary that physiologists cannot explain the phenomena of deglution without employing several sciences. ? + Early Hours.?As we grow older, we learn wisdom in this matter. The gray-haired parent, whose dancing days are over, and whose limbs are not elastic, is glad to hasten bed-time, and to leave his daughters to their foolish joy in the late hours. He would lengthen his nights, in spite of his difficulty in sleeping. Very few persons over sixty years old care to sit up after eleven o'clock in the evening, and most would rather be invisible at an earlier hour. Old age may not need more sleep than youth, but it is more i covetous of sleep, and sooner disgusted with ; the day's excitement. "Go to bed early," is the advice which the elders give to the youn- ; ger race, all the more empathetic as they re member their own sins of this kind in the former years, and wonder that they could have taken such needless risk in those night frolics. That is the advice, too, of the medical journals and men. Was there ever a wise physician who would counsel his patients to sit up until ! midnight as a rule, or even as a frequent exI . r? mi 1 X1 : ception r i ne wisnom in tms ruaiier, neverI theles8,is of the kind that comes by experience, j and the sage warning of the elders oftenest | unheeded. ? Eating Without an Appetite.?It is wrong to eat without an appetite, for it Bhows that there is no gastric juice in the stomach, and that nature does not need food ; and not needing it, there being no fluid to receive and act upon it, it remains there only to putrefy, the very thought of which should be sufficient to deter any man from eating without an appetite for the remainder of his life. If a tonic is taken to whet the appetite, it is a mistaken course, for its only result is to cause one to eat more, when already an amount has been eaten beyond what the gastric juice is able to prepare. The object to be obtained is a larger supply of gastric juice, not a larger supply of food; and whatever fails to accomplish that essential object, fails to have any efficiency toward the cure of dyspeptic diseases. The formation of gastric juice is directly proportioned to the wear and tear of the system, which is to be the means of supplying, and this wear and tear can only take place as the result of exercise. The efficient remedy for dyspepsia is work?out-door work?beneficial and successful in direct proportion as it is agreeable, interesting and profitable.?Hall + + Unlucky Days for Matrimony.?A volume entitled the "Book of Days," quotes from a manuscript of the Fifteenth Century to the effect that there are just thirty-two days in ink If Iq Ino^uieo klo frt crr\ info 111C JCOi U|JUU ITIJIVU IV AO iUMU V IUMVAV w gv <uvv join-hand?namely, seven in January ; three each in February, March, May and December ; two each in April, June, July, August, September and November; and one in October; so that January is the worst and October the best month for committing matrimony ; the actually unlucky days being these? January 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15; February 6, 7, 118; March 1, 6 and 8; April 6, 11; May 5, I 6 and 7: June 7, 15; July 5, 19; August i 15, 16 ; September 6, 7 ; October 6 ; November 15, 16; and December 15, 16, 17. As, to which is the best day of the week, why Monday for wealth; Tuesday for health; Wednesday the bast day of all; Thursday for crosses; Friday for losses; Saturday no luck at all. * ? * fiST* When Jackson was President, a heart| less clerk ran up an indebtedness with a poor landlady to ?90, and then turned her off, as he did every other creditor. She finally went to the President with her complaint, and 1 " /?? 11? i 1 11-1 Al_ astea 11 ne couia not oe compeneu to pay me bill. "He offers his note," she said, "but his note is good for nothing." Said the President, "Get his note and bring it to me." The clerk gave her the note with the jeering request that "she would let him know when she got the money on it." Taking it to the President he wrote "Andrew Jackson" on the back of it, and told her she could get the money at the bank. When it became due the clerk refused to pay the note, but when he learned who was the endorser he made haste to "raise the wind." The next morning he found a note on his desk, saying that his services were no longer required by the government?and it served him right. Flies as Propagators of Disease.?A curious and perhaps important discovery has been made recently by M. Kletzinsky, a Vienese professor. Noticing that persons sick with the small-pox were often visited with flies, he placed near an open window of the hospital a saucer filled with glycerine. Soon the flies gathered and were caught like birds with glue. In their endeavors to free themselves, all the foreign matter which had adhered to thera was left in the glycerine, which was at once submitted to the action ot a microscrope. It was found that this substance, which was chemically pure when offered to the flies, was full of strange cells very like those seen on persons attacked 6y the smallpox, but never on flies. This discovery proves conclusively that these parasitical insects are not filthy, but can be a very dangerous means of spreading contagious diseases. Sometime.?We have all our possessions in the future, which we call "sometime." Beautiful forms and singing birds are there, only our hands seldom grasp the one, or our ears thejother. But, oh, reader, be of good cheer, for all the good there is a golden "sometime wheu the hills and valleys of time are all passed; when the wear and fever, the disapi poin^raent and sorrows of life are over, there j is a place and the rest appointed of God. i Oh, homestead, over whose roof falls no shadows or even clouds, and over whose threshi old the voice of sorrow is never heard ; built | upon the eternal hills, and standing with the ! spires and pinnacles of celestial beauty i among the palm trees of the city on high; I fli/ion Iriwo flnrl olmll rn<5f nnrlor thv j shadows, where there is no more sorrow, nor pain, nor the sound of weeping "somewhere." i ftS" Abolt of lightning took a great many , liberties with the things at a telegraph office i in Miss., some evenings ago. It melted the wires, danced a hornpipe on the head of a sleeping negro, unhinged a door, and disappeared through a window, smashing it in its progress to "smithereens," and altogether playing the very old Harry generally. The operator says that at the time of the concussion he felt like heaven and earth had kissed each other, and that for hours after his head felt as ! if a pile-driver had collided with an earthquake. ? Pictures.?A room with pictures in it and a room without, differ by nearly as much as a room with windows and a room without windows. Nothing, we think, is more melan! choly?particularly to a person who has to ! pass much time in his room?than blank I walls ; for pictures are loopholes of escape to : the soul leading it to other scenes and other ) spheres. Pictures engender noble thoughts, besides the gratification they afford their posj sessor. j SSf In a recent debate a member of the 11 California Legislature exclaimed: "The hon! orable gentleman from Calaveras county is i undoubtedly a person of great abilities?a ? o nofiiro 1 Knm rronilia Vlllf 1UUU U1 U1ICUb u uuwuitti wviu gvuiwg y wmh ' there is one thing I defy him to do; and that is, : bite the bottom out of a frying pan without smuti ting his nose." ?^ j 11.void those who take pleasure in ex posing others to contempt by jeering, mock, j ing or mimicking. Keep off from such as i from the heels of a horse that kicks all near 11 him. Department. From the Southern Cultivator for September. THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH. Cotton picking is the work of the present mouth on a Southern farm. Starting as soon as the cotton begins to open and keeping well up with it, is the farmer's true policy. 1st. Because the days are now long and favorable to the work. 2nd. The cotton will be cleaner and command a higher price. 3rd. It gives an onnortunitv to sell earlv. should nrices rule high. 4th. It gives a longer time to gin and pack?this heavy work, therefore, can be done at intervals greatly to the advantage of the mules. 5th. It enables the farmer to close up the year's operations promptly and to begin | the work of the new year with decks cleared and everything ready for action. Cotton picked in the forenoon should be sunned before being packed away in bulk; this is a matter often neglected, but very important. Begin with the second picking over to put aside cotton from which to save seed. We trust that greatly increased attention will be given to this important matter. We recognize the influence of parent on offspring, in the case of horses, cows and other stock. We select seed corn, save turnip seed from good bulbs and cabbage seed from good heads ; why should cotton prove an exception ? Nonsense, says one, it is all in the land?any kind of cotton seed will make good cotton on good land. Now there is just enough truth in this statement to mislead. Good laud and poor seed may make better cotton than poor land and good seed ; but how if good land and good seed are both brought together ? The "runt" on generous diet, may outstrip the strong and vigorous poorly fed, but place both on good and full rations and which will take the lead ? With mauy plants, getting seed oc casionally from some distant locality whose climate is not widely different, increases their productiveness. Is this true iu the case of cotton ? Iu the matter of stock, we think it desirable to "mix" the blood occasionally, procuring males from distant flocks. May it not be well to mix foveigu seed with the home raised every now and then, that they may mix ? These are points certainly worthy of attention and investigation. It will be noticed that we do not suggest importation from a locality with widely different climate. Where a plant is transferred from its original habitation to a poin'. whose climate is not congenial, its vigor is often diminished and it must pass through the slow process of acclimation. In such cases home raised seed is generally best. The varieties of maize for instance, which have long been cultivated with us, succeed much better than those brought from far northern or southern latitudes. I or instance seed of the large Oaragua corn from South America, sent out by the agricultural department last year made a fine stalk and bloomed, but with us, under favorable conditions, did not mature a single grain. So also the "Peach Blow," a productive and highly valued variety of Irish potatoe in the northern States, is wholly unproductive here, ofttimes not producing the seed put in the ground. On the other hand a gentleman informs us that by planting the same variety of potatoes, from home grown seed, through a period of ten or twelve years it has very decidedly improved in every respect. Holding or Selling Cotton.?Attention has been very strongly turned of late by Commodore Maury and others to a scheme whereby the producer may be enabled to fix the price of cotton, instead of leaving the matter in the hands of the purchaser. \Ve have had occasion heretofore to speak in commendation of the scheme, the essential feature of which is the obtaining of early, full and reliable information of the extent of the cotton crop of this ar.rl foreign countries, so that the farmer mav ; o~ ? j judge for himself whether production falls below, approaches or exceeds consumption, and whether therefore prices mu3t rule eventually high or low. Unfortunately, ignorance on these points is not the only difficulty. Another difficulty lies back of that, and for practical purposes, one even more important. We allude to the inability of the farmer himself, or of his commission merchant to hold his cotton long enough against the powerful moneyed combinations of speculators and manufacturess. Take a commercial centre like New Orleans, the largest and wealthiest in the South?there is not banking capital enough in that city to "carry," for any protracted period, half of the cotton which fiuds its way there. If the planter must have money at once, the only resort is to throw his cotton upon the market, and let the speculator or raanufactu-! rer pay what he will for it. The remedy we beg to suggest, is that the farmers of the South should practice stricter economy and self-denial, and get a year ahead in money matters, so as to be in position, themselves, to hold their cotton. Holding cotton for a little while and in the meantime, borrowing money at high rates, to be able to do so, is very apt to terminate disastrously?holding over for a whole year, if necessary, when the price is below what supply and demaud warrants, would make the farmer master of the situation. When labor becomes dearer, through strikes or otherwise, the price of iron and other manufactured articles go up promptly, because large capitalists own the works, and can hold back their wares from the market. But labor a- well as everything else used in making cotton may become dearer, and yet the price may not rise, because the poor farmer, out of money and pressed by creditors, must sell his cotton at once. Let not a few, but the bulk of cotton planters get a year ahead in money i ii iji ii /?_ it.. matters, ana iney couiu men ux me pnee ui cotton quite as easily as the manufacturer does that of his products. A limited number have always held cotton over, and as a rule these have sold at better prices by so doing, but the matter cannot be controlled by a few. The great majority must not only know?by the means proposed by Commodore Maury or something similar?that the supply is behind the demand, and that prices must, therefore, rise, but in addition to this knowledge, must have the ability to hold their cotton until a reasonable price can be had for it. As a people we are poor?let us realize it, and live according. Poverty is a badge of honor to the Southern man?it is an evidence that he did not run the "blockadethat he did not fatten in the commissary department; that he did not grow rich at the expense of the widow and orphan?no blood money taints him?no property stolen at the close of the war or bought from others who did steal it under cover of military authority, has found its way into his coflers. Let those who have done these things wear purple and fine linen and fnro snmnMinu?lv pvprv dav?thev mav live * ~ J J ~ ?J ? J ? m long enough to find out that a man s life consisted not in the abundance that he possesseth. On the other hand, let the true Southern man order his household as a poor man?let his children feel that patriotism, honesty, and fidelity to principle and self-respect, make the true nobleman, though clothed in homespun ; i that the possession of money is not the highest good, to be sought after with exceeding hot haste. Let such views and feelings coutrol our modes of life, and they will lay the foundations of a sure and honest wealth, of which we need not be ashamed. One of the earliest ! steps in this direction, would be the ability to control in part the price of cotton and other farm products, and retain for the farmer that large portion of the profits which at present passes into other hands. We commend this matter to the serious consideration of our readers. Judicious economy (not mean or j stingy) in itself is always commendable?it is I doubly so when coupled witn a great interest j like that under consideration. It is common to regard milk as little else than mere drink. But this is an error. Milk is really an article of solid food, being coagulated soon after reaching the stomach, j New milk contains) thirteen per cent, of digestible solids, and skimmed milk ten per | cent.; that is, the former fully one-half, and I the latter about one-third, of the nutriment I contained in the lean part of beef or mutton. leading for fir jiabbatb. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] GOD. A correct knowledge of the character of the Supreme Being lies at the base of true religion. That individual who has no knowlI edge of God is destitute of every thing that ! in any respect resembles devotion. He has nn linnps anrt nn fpnra hovnnrl the narrow line ? ?r? j i which divides the present from the future. His aspirations are few in number and groveling in character. The existence of a Supreme Being is clearj ly taught in the Bible. His existence is ta| ken for granted on every page of the sacred j Scriptures. Before man sinned and his intellect become darkened, there is every reai son for believing that he could clearly discern j the existence of God. He had no need of a j revelation to make known to him this impor| tant fact. A knowledge of the existence of God was concreated with him. He was conscious of the existence of God. "When man sinned he lost this knowledge, and also the power to discern, satisfactorily, the existence of God from the works of creation. In the exercise of his wonderful mercy, God made his existence known to the fallen race of man by a revelation. When we are informed by the Scriptures, that a Supreme Being -exists, the human mind readily finds collateral evidence of the fact in the material world. The magnitude of the works of creation i3 an eviA on nn nf f Vin nviotonnn nf a T^ninrr wKa la oil u^uw \J* utiv vaiowuvv v* mi A/wing nuv ?u um perior; by whom all this mighty fabric was brought into existence. Experience teaches us that nothing produces nothing. Every effect must have a cause. This world is an effect?it must have a cause. The Scripture teaches us that God is the cause. He created it. To this declaration the human mind readily assents. The material world bears witness to the teachings of the Bible in another respect concerning God. The Bible teaches us that there is one God and only one. The grand harmony which we find any where in the 1 c ? : ? *u:? wuiiio ui uicuLiuii is a DLii&iug pruui ui tuia declaration. No confusion exists in any portion of the vast dominion. All is harmony aud order the most sublime. That our religious feelings may he of the proper kind, we must have correct notions of the attributes of God. In order that our devotions may rise above superstition, we must know that God is almighty. The Bible is full of declarations concerning the omnipotence of God, and the world that we inhabit bears ample testimony to the truthfulness of this declaration. The conclusion of every intelligent mind is that no power less than Almighty, could bring into existence this world of ours. The tiniest insect that creeps upon its surface could be brought into existence only by an omnipotent God. It is good for us to meditate upon the omnipotence of God. Reflecting upon it we develop our devotional feelings. Insensibly we grow humble, and are ready to exclaim, "what is man that God should be so kind to him ?" In the' works of God, we see convincing evidence of his infinite wisdom. It is difficult to sav which is the more evident or the more wonderful, God's wisdom or his power as displayed in the works of creation and providence. Every thing is in perfect accordance with wisdom the most consummate. The wisdom of all created beings, when compared with that of God, is but foolishness. In the Bible we are told that God charges the angels with folly. So much greater is his wisdom than the wisdom of angels, that when contrasted, the latter appears to be foolishness. Goodness is another attribute of God. In all his dealings with his creatures, both as a God of creation and providence, we see the goodness of God mauifested. The pious Psalmist exclaimed, "Good unto all men is the Lord." "We see glorious manifestations of this attribute of the Divine Being in the ample provisions which is made for the happiness of all sentient creatures. God, in the exercise of his goodness, brought 110 creature intn oviofonpp until Via ViftfV nrnviflA/1 fnr it. ft home. This home is suited in every respect to the nature of the creature. What a miserable world this would be were God in the exercise of his omnipotence to drive his creatures from their homes. Death would reign every where. The fish cannot live in the air nor the birds in the sea. The polar bear would die at the equator, and the king of the forest would perish amid polar snows. God is also a just God. Justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne. We see many evidences of God's justice. Sin is always punished. He is angry with the transgressors of his law. Suffering follows sin as the shadow follows the sun. Justice and goodness are the same thing displayed in a different way. In other words, God's goodness and justice are the same thing dispensed to his creatures through different channels. To punish the transgressor is good?the greatest of all goodness. No study is so well adapted to make us what we ought to be, as the study of God as revealed to us in his word and works. It elevates and it humbles us. It keeps us from wanderiug in forbidden paths. "Touched With our Infirmities."?A poor lone woman sat one evening thinking how sad was her condition. She was old and almost helpless, with little of this world's goods which she could call her own. "Who cares for me ?" thought she. Suddenly this verse came to her remembrance: "For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." It was like a flood of golden sunshine. Her doubts and fears were gone. What need of earthly friends to cheer and soothe her declining years? Jesus knew her every care and sorrow, and he, "the Lord of Glory," was touched with the feeling of her infirmities. How precious the thought that we can all have such a Friend in every season of trial and distress. "I will not leave you comfortless," are the Saviour's gracious words. "My peace I give unto you ; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be atraid."?American Messenger' JQf We are touching our fellow-beings on all sides. They are effected for good or for evil by what we are, by what we think and feel. May flowers in the parlor breathe their fragrance through the atmosphere. We are each of us silently saturating the atmosphere about us with the subtle aroma of our character. In the family circle, besides and beyond all the teaching, the daily life of each parent and child mysteriously modifies the life of every person of the household. The same process on a wider scale is going on through the community. No man Tivetn to himself, and no man dieth to himself. Others are built up and straightened by our unconscious deeds; and others may be wrenched out of their places and thrown by our unconcious influence. 0 ? ? t&* Tale-bearers and tale-hearers are alike guilty; the one hath the devil in his tongue, the other in his ear, i frpartmriit. [Original.] DESTINED TO FAIL. There are two kinds of young men that aje J doomed to fail in all their undertakings. 1 The first class is made up of those who, in their own opinion, are wiser than seven men i that can render a reason. The several mem- 1 bers of this class are, in their own estimation, 1 a 1_ - J_ rri superior in every respeci iu everyuouy. xuey have, according to their ideas, superior intel- j lectual endowments, and sprung from royal i ancestors, and are by right the heirs to fame. ' Young man, whoever you are, that entertain such notions as these, let me tell you that they 1 will be your ruin. Nobody will care twenty years hence who was your father or your ( mother. Your saying, or even thinking you i are smart, will not make any one believe it , unless you do something great and wise, i There are a great many men covered with in- 1 famy and shame and clad in rags, who once were just such boys as you think you are. They were thought by their friends to be remarkably smart when boys. They were well educated. Many of them graduated in college with the first honors; but to-day they occupy the place in society that a cipher supplies after a significant figure in decimals. It takes up room and nothing more. Rub it out and the value of the significant figure is not changed. Add ten thousand ciphers to such figure and its value is not increased. Just so with those boys who are wise and great in their own opinion. They make men that take up room in this world and nothing more. The other class to which we refer as destined to fail, form the other extreme. This class of boys feel that they are inferior to everybody else. They are so modest or bashful, or so destitute of self confidence or something of this kind, that they permit everybody to do just as they please in every respect. This class of boys really has more intellectual calibre than that spoken of above; but there is a great defect in one particular. They want force of character. The other class has too exalted notions of itself; this class has an exaggerated notion of its inability. The members of the former class think they are so rich, there is no need to put forth any effort; and the members of the latter class think they are so poor that it is useless to try. They first think that they are already on the highest pinnacle of Fame's proud temple; the latter have no aspirations. Failure awaits both classes. The young man who overestimates himself is certain to become contemptible in the eyes of others; and the young man who does not respect himself, never can secure the respect of others. It a difficult thing for a young man to be dignified and not vain. It is hard to have a proper estimation of ourselves and not have a contempt for others. f Original.] GOOD MANNERS. It is impossible to pass through this world, honestly, without some capital. Every indi- ' vidual must have a base upon which to build. ? ? ' .t- u The Doy mat commences in me woriu wilu literally nothing, will be certain to end in nothing. Some young people are so fortunate or unfortunate, we are not able to decide which, as to be the heirs to property, and a fair position made for them by kind friends; but the great multitude of young people are born heirs to poverty and unknown to fame. Those that would take an honorable position in society and be useful to their fellow-men, must have some capital. Nobody can make i something out of nothing; neither can any one make something with nothing. What must tbey have? They have no money, no large plantations, and it will take a life time to secure these treasures. In fact the poor boy must have some capital in order to make money. What is that capital without which the days of the poor boy is to be spent in obscurity, and may be in even worse than obscurity? We reply that he must have gen1' ? ?.I? A Uai? aC aaa/1 monnniM I UUlliUililJf 111tt>LIIiCIS? iX UUJ Vi gvuu UIUUUV;!WJ fair common sense and industrious habits, commences in this world with a large deposit in a bank that is in no danger of suspending specie payment. The interest of this investment is not paid annually or semi-annually, nor even monthly, but it is forth coming every day. To a young man or woman just commencing the battle of life, there is nothing which contributes more to the gaining of a glorious victory than genteel manners. Every other weapon, whether offensive or defensive, may, by some caprice of fortune, become ineffective in the struggle. Wealth may be swept away in a moment; ancestral fame may become a badge of disgrace ; but courteous manners never fail. They make the man rich in gold, lovely ; and the man clad in rags, respectable and respected. If it be asked, in what does good manners consist, we reply in a bundle of little things. They consist in doing some things that by 1 - Hi i ' themselves appear small, ana in not uoiug other things which, when taken separately, may be regarded as mere trifles. The rainbow is a most lovely sight. Its colors are clear and distinctand its curve regular. Beautiful as is the rainbow, it is made of sunshine and rain-drops. Just so with good manners; they are made up of kind and generous acts done to others. Like the colors of the rainbow, these acts are all clear and distinct; and like the curve of the rainbow, there are no disagreeable deviations. It may be thought difficult to acquire good manners. So it is. We must commence to acquire then early in life. An old ruffian can never be converted into polite and gentlemanly manners. Remember this. ? ? If he said he Did, he Did.?The little T nm rrninrr tA toll VAI1 hftnnPIlpd illflt be ouv/ij M. ? ?? J I f J fore the war, when every one was very, very j busy. 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