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Uttuwrous JJepartmcttt. An Irish Mystery.?Once upon a time my father killed a big pig?the biggest and I fattest ever raised in Munster. It was all cut i up into nice, beautiful strips, and packed away into a big barrel. And never was pork more elegantly put down. We put in a layer of salt, and a thin layer of pork ; and thin another spread of salt, and thin more pork ; and when we'd done that the barrel was full; thin we poured in some brine my mother bad scalded and skimmed ; and we covered it up, and put a big stone on the top of it. That, ye see, was to keep the pork under the brine. It was just a week after Christmas?and that's New Year's Day?when me mother said to the old man, says she, "Dennis, ye must begin on the new pork." And thin me father said to me, says ne, "i want ye to come ana hould the candle while I open the new pork barrel." So we went down in the cellar?me father with the hatchet and I with the candle. Father took off the cover, and there was the brine as clear and sweet as ever. The ould man ran his hand down, but not a bit of pork could he find. He stripped up his sleeve and then plunged into the brine to his shoulder. "Blood and zounds!" said he, turning as pale as a ghost?"Mike, me boy, every blessed bit of the illigant pork is gone intirely 1" And sure enough, so it was. And thin we looked, and by and by we found where the mischief was. We lifted the barrel up, and looked under it; and there, right in the bottom, was a big hole, where the rats?bad cess to 'em?had gnawed through and carried off the pork! "Took the pork away through a hole in the bottom of the barrel ?" queried the listener, incredulously. "Yes," replied Mike, innocently, "every bit." "And left the brine ?" "Yes?every drop." "Will you have the kindness to tell me how that possibly could have happened ?" "Ah!" said Mike, with a nod and a wink, "that's* the mystery !" +. Rather Bad Shoes.?A Yankee, arriving in Boston without money or friends, was revolving in his mind some plan whereby he could raise the chink, as he expressed it. Jonathan had never visited a city before in his life. He strolled into a shoemaker's where an advertisement, "Wanted, a firsfr-class bootmal">i. " onrworod nn tJio annrlnnr nnH Bpnnstcd n^i^mivu vu vmv ** ? the proprietor: "Do you want a first-class bootmaker here?" "Yes." "What do you pay?" "That depends on your capacity. H a ve you worked at custom-work ?" "I reckon. You just try me, captain, I ain't skeered a bit at tryin'." The proprietor gave his new hand a bench and materials, and bade him make a pair of ladies' gaiters. Soon after he left the store on business. Jonathan made a shoe, but such a horrible affair that, ashamed to show it, he hid it in the leather shavings ; just as he completed his second shoe the proprietor returned. He flew into a passion at beholdiug the botched shoe. "You confounded rascal, so bad a shoe as that has never been made in this establishment," he exclaimed. Would you like to bet on that, stranger?" "Bet? Yes. I will bet ten dollars no such work as that was ever done in this store." Jonathan walked to the shavings, dragged forth his first shoe, and coolly pocketing his ten dollars, walked off. ? ? ? A Missouri planter, having allowed his swine to range in the woods, at one time missed several of them. Suspicion at once rested upon a certain neighbor, and the planter resolved to watch the actions of his porkloving neighbor. One day, while riding through the woods, the planter came upon the man in the act of lifting a fine young porker to his saddle in order to take it home. "Now," said the planter, "I have caught you at last." "Yes, massa, you's ketched me dis time." "Well, I shall send you to prison." "O, no, massa, you ain't gwine to send me to prison. Just you think of ray poor wife and children," and the poor man put up such an earnest plea for his wife and children that the planter's heart relented. "Well," said the planter, "I'll tell you what I'll do. You pay me for one-half of the number of swine you have killed, and sign a paper not to kill any more, and I will let you 99 g?"No," said the lover of his neighbor's pork, "no, massa, I'll pay you for all I have stolen, but as for 'signing away my liberties,' I can't do it." ? fta?" A quaint Scotch minister was given somewhat to exaggerating in the pulpit. His clerk reminded him of its effects upon the congregation. He replied that he was not mv#rfl nf ik nnd wished the elerk. the next time he did it, to give a cough by way of a hint. Soon after he was describing Sampson's tying the fox's tails together. He said: The foxes in those days were much larger than ours, and they had tails twenty feetlong. Ahem ! came from the clerk's desk. That is, continued the preacher, according to their measurement; but by ours they were fifteen feet long. Ahem ! louder than before. But as you may think this is extravagant, we'll just say they were ten feet. Ahem ! ahem !! still more vigorous. The parson leaned over the pulpit, and shaking his finger at the clerk, said: You may cough there all the night long, rnon ; I'll nae take off a foot more. Would ye hae the foxes wid nae tails at all ? Not Pleasant.?We hear strange things from Texas?still, nothing very strange after you get used to them. When our friend Blott was in Texas, he stayed at a hotel one night, and was much annoyed by something stinging his legs. Upon awaking in the morning, he found those limbs covered with small incisions, from which the blood flowed freely. Blott went down and made an awful fuss to the landlord about the ferocity of the bugs in his house, and when the landlord indignantly -denied the existence of such an insect in his establishment, Blott marched him up-stairs to see for himself. Upon turning down the covers it was found that the gentleman with whom Blott had slept had forgotten to remove his spurs, and was even then kicking wildly in his sleep. After that, Blott, while in Texas, always slept with each leg in a pump log. ftaF* A shrewish wife quite sick, called to her husband to come and sit by her bedside. ,,rTkia id o carl ronrlrl mv ftpnr " SAld t.hft wife, plaintively. "Very," concluded the man. "Were it not for leaving you, I would love to quit it." "Oh ! my dear." eagerly responded the fel-1 low, "how can you think I would interfere ' with your happiness ? Go, by all means." i The lady got well. 4??* Old Dinah, our colored laundress, passed I a just criticism on fashion when one day in a j gossiping mood she asked, "What do you tink o' dem panyas what the ladies wears ^ahind of 'em? "We think they are very ugly," we replied. "Reckon dey am !" she exclaimed. "Why, if dem air things growed dere,! dey'd have all the doctors in Boston a cutting j on 'em off if it took a bar'l of floricorn to do 1 it!" I 4ST On a recent trip of one of the Illinois ! river packets, a light draught one, as there ( were only two feet of water in the channel, i the passengers were startled by the cry "Man overDoard !" The steamer was stopped and preparations were made to save him, when he was heard exclaiming: "Go ahead with your old steamboat! I'll walk behind you." SOP A very?mall, dried-up, thin man was recently taken quite ill; but being better the next day, some one asked his niece what they j did for him ? "Why," she exclaimed, "we laid him on a plaster!" 1 |p8if*HatW0MSi Heading. HOW DOES HE SLEEP 1 BY CHARLES F. DEEMS, D. D. A mau who achieves any great thing in any department of human effort must have assist-1 ants in the shape of employes, lieutenants, j deputies, marshals?whatever you may choose to call them. He has brain enough to fur- j nish direction to the energy of many men. j His success or failure will be due in a large measure to the judiciousness of his selection. He must know his men. They must be capa-1 ble. They must be faithful. They must have j no bad habits. This last brings me to what I wish to pre- j sent to ray readers. One of the most important things to know j about any man upon whom you are going to Slace any dependence is, how he sleeps ? leeplessness may sometimes be involuntary. There may have been some shock to the man's, Ti?rvps whinh has madfthim insomnolent: but sleeplessness is more frequently voluntary, j Men choose to push their studies or their work j into those hours when they should be asleep. It does not matter for what cause any mau may do this; the mere fact of not sleeping spoils his case. He may spend his nights in the theatre, in the'Study, or in the "protracted meeting." It will make no difference; the result to the body will be the same. The sleep was not had, and for that the man must pay. One man may do with a little less sleep than another; but, as a general rule, if you want a clerk, a lieutenant, a lawyer, a physician, a legislator, a judge, a president, or a pastor, do not trust your interests to any man that does not take on the average eight good, solid hours of sleep out of every twenty-four. Whatever may be his reason for it, if he does not give himself that, he will snap sometime just when you want him to be strong. The intellectual and moral connections of sleeping have, I think, not been sufficiently appreciated. Men and boys have been praised for "burning the midnight oil." Now, this "midnight oil" is a delusion and a snare. The student who is fast asleep at eleven o'clock every night and is wide awake at seven in the morning is going to surpass another student of the same intellectual ability who goes to bed after twelve and rises before five. In sleep the plate on which the picture is taken is receiving its chemical preparation, and it is plain that that which is the best prepared will take the premium. Men who are the fastest asleep when they are asleep are the widest awake when they are awake. Great workers must be great resters. Every man who has clerks in his employ ought to know what their sleeping habits are. The young man who is up till two, three and four o'clock in the morning, and must put in his appearance at the bank or store at nine or ten o'clock, and work all day, cannot repeat 4-U?r. *vHAAAnn rw nr*TT ?nif llAllf O nQrta I TV lUlO UJUUjT uajo nituuuu M vviwuiu shakiness coming into the system, which he will endeavor to steady by some delusive stimulus. It is in this way that many a young man begins his course to ruin. He need not necessarily have been in bad company. He has lost his sleep ; and losing sleep is losing strength and grace. Here is the outline of a history of a suicide within my own knowledge: A young man?a stranger in New York?in a good situation? in a large boarding house?pleasant young companions?spends evenings out?goes to midnight parties, from eleven to seven?his nerves disturbed?a little drink?a little mistake in business?another drink?reprooffrom. employer?more drink?more mistakes?loss of situation?no help from frivolous companions?money all gone?theu credit all gone? then turned out of boarding house?wandering in the street?mortification?desperation? shoots himself. Now, it does not always come to this; but all people who are losing sleep are somewhere along this line. They are somewhere in the rapids. We must begin a reform in this department. "People who call and profess themselves Christians" must refuse to go out in the evening to any amusement, to any entertainment, to any religious exercises, from which they cannot return at ten o'clock, to be in their beds at eleven. The absurd and ruinous custom of guests arriving at nine and ten o'clock and supper being served between eleven and twelve must be opposed. Well-to-do officers and members of the several churches must be made by their pastors to feel that if they give such entertainments they are responsible to a measure for the deleterious results that are to come to the bodies, to the intellects, and to the souls of their guests, young and old. Employes in every department must be made to understand that intelligent men are not going to entrust important matters to the hands of other men who do not sleep. How dare any merchant consider himself a Christian who works his clerksall nightand then holds them responsible for the bodily, mental, and moral ?*i?L injury mey ouve susmiinju, uuu >yihuu icat? upon his interests ? Our religious services, our business, our amusements, our police regulations must all be adj'usted to this great necessity of our nature. Instead of asking our acquaintances, when we meet, the usual question of "How do you do ?" we might teach a good lesson by that other question, "How do you sleep?" SUMMER DIET FOR INFANTS. At a recent meeting of the Public Health Association of New York a series of resolutions were passed requesting Dr. A. Jacobi to furnish for the use of the Association a schedule of directions concerning infantile diet in summer, and to present the same at a future meeting. On last Friday evening, at the rooms of the Medical Journal Association, Dr. Jacobi responded to the resolution, prefacing his remarks by an elaborate address on the physiology of infant digestion and food. The following is the schedule: Overfeeding does more harm than anything else; nurse a baby of a month old or two every two or three hours; nurse a baby of six months and over five times in twenty-four hours, and no more. When a baby gets thirsty in the mean time give it a drink of water or barley water. In very hot weather, mix a teaspoonful of whisky with a tumbler full of water (no sugar.) Boil a teaspoonful of powdered barley (grind it in the coffee-grinder) aud a gill of water, with salt, for fifteen minutes. Strain it and mix it with half as much boiled milk and a piece of loaf sugar. Give it lukewarm through a nursing-bottle. Keep the bottle and mouthpiece in water when not in use. Give babies of five or six months half barley-water and a half boiled milk with salt and loaf sugar. Give older babies more milk in proportion, j When babies are very costive, take oatmeal i instead of barley, but be sure to cook and i strain it. When your breast-milk is half enough for the infant, alternate with bread and food. i In hot summer weather dip a small piece of. litmus paper into the food before feeding. If j the blue paper turns red, add a pinch of ba-1 king-soda to the food. Babies of six months may have beef tea or beef soup once a day by itself or mixed with I other food. Babies often or twelve months may have i 1 -C 1 J ,1 : e k/vr.fof !, a UIUSl Ul UlCUU auu a picuc ui nut i;?ioi<.un to suck. No child under two years ought to eat from your table. The summer complaint comes from over-, feeding and hot and foul air. Keep doors and windows open. Wash your children with cold water at least twice a day. Ten times is not too many in the hot season. When babies throw off and purge give them nothing to eat for four to six hours, but all the cold air you can. After that you may give a few drops of whisky in a teaspoonful of ice-water every five or ten minutes, but no more, until the doctor comes. When there is vomiting and purging give no milk. Give no laudanum, no paregoric, no soothing syrup, ho teas. A discussion took place, in which a majority of the physicians present participated, and it was their unanimous opinion that if printed copies of the schedule could be distributed much good would result from it. + ? LIGHT AND THE COMPLEXION. The action of light on the human skin is manifest. It browns and tans the teguments by calling out the productions of the coloring matters they contain. The parts of the body usually bare, as the skin of the face and hands, are darker than others. In the same region country people are more tanned than town residents. In latitudes not far apart the inhabitants of the same country vary in complexion in a measure perceptibly related to the intensity of solar light. In Europe three varieties of color in the skin are distinctly marked: olive-brown, with black hair, beard, and eyes; chestnut, with tawny beard and bluish eyes ; blonde, with fair, light beard and sky-blue eyes. White skins show more readily alterations occasioned by light and heat; but, though less striking, facts of variation in color are observable in others, me ftcytnoArahic race has but half its representatives in Europe and Central Asia, while the remainder passes down to the Indian Ocean, continuing to show the gradual raising of climate by deepening brown complexions. The Himalayan Hindoos are almost white; those of the Decean, of Coromandel, Malabar, and Ceylon are darker than some negro tribes. The Arabs, olive and almost fair in Arminia and Syria, are deep brown in Yeman and Muscat. The Egyptians, as we go from the mouth of the Nile up stream toward its source, present an ascending chromatic scale from white to black; and the same is true of the Tuariks, on the southern side of the Atlas, who are only light olive, while their brethren in the interior of Africa are black. The ancient monuments of Egypt show us a fact equally significant. The men are always depicted of a reddish brown ; they live in the open air, while the women, kept shut up, have a pale yellow complexion. Barrow asserts that the Mantchoo Tartars have grown whiter during their abode in China. Kemusat, Pallas, and Gutzlaff speak of the Chinese women as remarkable for a European fairness. The Jewesses of Cairo or Syria, always hidden under veils in their houses, have a pallid color. In the yellow races of the Sumatra Sound and the Maldives the women, always covered up, are pale like wax. We know, too, that the Esquimaux bleach during their long winter. These phenomena, no doubt, are the results of several influences arising at once, and light does not play the sole part in them. Heat and other conditions of the medium probably have a share in these operations of color. Still, tUrt nm.ilin.. onil rw.n'arfnl cffonf nf llimitUlllQ tuc pcuunai a. 11 vi pwn^nui vuvw w* ?utU.Uv?.w radiation as a part of them is beyond dispute. Popular Science Monthly. The Hour of Death.?Death, in natural ways, comes to more persons in the neighborhood of five o'clock in the morning than at any other of the twenty-four; the fewest about the hour of one in the afternoon. In the early morning the world is still, the atmosphere heavy with the damp of the night, and the body debilitated, often, with the long fast from suppcr-tirae, with nothing to rouse the spirits or the circulation. At about one o'clock in the afternoon the air is most generally fully dried by the sun, has more life, more oxygen in it, hence it is more purifying, more invigorating, while the bright daylight itself has an elevating, vitalizing tendency. These facts should be borne in mind by those who are nurses to the sick; for by extra attentions of various kinds the critical hour might pass, and,{if so, the patient is more liable to live over for another twenty-four hours. It is said by observant physicians that each seventh year of life is critical; which means that every seventh year is liable to be fatal, but if that is passed over with improved health it gives a reasonably certain lease of another seven years; for example, the most of those who become consumptive do so about the age of twenty-one?a year sooner or later4 but twentyone is the largest average when the disease becomes decided. About forty-two, the sixtimes-seven, is by far the most critical time of life in women. If that is passed healthfully they have a good chance of seeing three-score. Tx ...MI 1 i? i' j it win peruups uc luuun wuiuu ^uui ui ihv including sixty-three than at any other specified time between forty-nine and seventy. These things suggest that increased attention should be given to the health at these critical periods. - A Little Judicious Praise.?No heart is insensible to words of praise, or the kindly smile of approbation ; and none are utterly above being affected by censure or blame. Children are particularly sensitive in this respect. Nothing can discourage a child more than a spirit of incessant fault-finding, and perhaps nothing can exert a more baneful iuffuence upon both parent and child. If your little one through the day has been pleasant and obedient, and you say to him, "my son you have been good to-day, and it makes me happy and if, with more than a usual affectionate embrace, you say, "Good-night, my dear child," a throb of suppressed feeling fills his breast, and he resolves on always earning such approval. If your grown son or daughter has accomplished some difficult piece of work; rendered you essential assistance, or has climbed some steep in the daily drill of study, or has acquired some new accomplishment, or better than all has gained the victory over some besetting sin, acknowledge it, praise them for it. Let them see by your tendency the deep joy and comfort it gives you. Thus you will create a great incentive to right conduct, and lay a broad foundation for a character which shall be redolent with succulent fruit and fragrant blossoms. Tiie Courage to Live.?We need not preach the courage to die?that is common enough?but the courage to live, to be honest in spite of poverty and neglect; to be true, though all is dark except where God shines in ; to be faithful, though heavens fall and hearts break and friendships turn to gall. Yes, we must teach men to dare to be unpopular, to be misapprehended, to be ahead of the times, to follow the voice of God, though it leads into the wilderness, to tell the devil to his very face that he lies, and also to give hira his dues?an act which requires the supreraest courage at times. I wouldn't give a farthing for the triumphant faith of the death hour, unless it comes from a triumphant faith that makes our life full of noblest daring, that is ready to fling aside honor, wealth, the praise of friends, rather than impair for one moment the soul's integrity. Oh! for such a courage?the courage to think, to act, to tell the harsh truths, to overthrow splendid falsehoods, to disown sweet lies, and to banish tenderest associations, rather than to check in the least the free movement of the sovereign soul. We all must die with more or less equanimity, but we cannot live in the full splendor of our being except by courage and determined exertion. The coward, uuder circumstances, may! die grandly ; but never, under any circumstances, can he live grandly. Foijder-Corn.?This may be sown in succession, and a very small area of ground, well j manured and well prepared, will yield a great : amount of food for stock. We have found ; that which is sown early is more easily man-1 aged in curing for winter, drying before the ; autumnal rains come on. Many persons recommeud Sugar Corn, Stowell's Evergreen, Dutton, and other varieties, as containing more saccharine matter than the ordinary field-corn, but on this point we cannot knowi ingly speak of our own experience. The ordiuary western mixed corn produces an abundance of stalks, which grow tall and furnish 1 a vast quantity of forage for use, both green , and dried. Sow in drills about two and a half feet apart, and use about three bushels of seed to the acre. Cut when the pollen drops : plentifully from the tassels. leading (0* the JMkth. CONDUCTKD BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] FALSEHOODS. One of the mysterious things in this world, j is the origin and spread of falsehoods. Few persons can relate a common neighborhood or street rumor exactly as they heard it. Fewer persons, it would seem, really desire to relate it as they heard it. This is more especially true with regard to rumors that are injurious or scandalous in their nature. A purblind man can see microscopic motes in the eyes of his neighbor. A man with very little of what is called the becoming in behavior in himself, can see every little wayward act or false step in his neighbor. By a process of diabolical involution, these small motes are increased at every rehearsal, until they finally become high mountains. By a process of addition and subtraction, a thing not very bad in itself, becomes huge in proportions and hideous in appearance. The dirtiest work in the world is retailing | scandal. It is too menial for a man of intellect ; it is too low for a gentleman ; it is too sinful for a good Christian. One of the characteristics of a good Christian is that he does not take up an ill report against his neighbor. [Original.] THE PROPAGATION OP THE GOSPEL. The spread of the gospel may be set down amongst the miraculous. Naturally, men do not like the gospel. They hate it. This is true of all men, in all countries and at all times. Still the gospel of Jesus Christ has survived all the opposition which has been waged against it, and spread and flourished under circumstances that would have exterminated any and everything else. Impediments have been thrown in the way of the spread of the gospel by foes without, and by professed friends from within; but neither open foes nor traitorous friends have been able, in any perceptible degree, to impede its progress. This is a convincing proof of its divine origin. Had the gospel been of man, it would long since have been numbered with the things that once were, but now are not. Although the gospel is of divine origin, and is kept in existence by the intervention of God, still it is propagated amongst men by the use of instrumentalities. God does not come to individuals, and by a direct and irresistible exercise of his almighty power quicken them into life, justify them, adopt them into his family and purge and purify them from all their sins, and make them fit for heaven. In each and every one of these particulars, secondary instrumentalities are used, and ordinarily, without the use of these instrumentalities, no change takes place either in the state or condition of the sinner. In the spreading of the gospel, God acts as he does in almost every thing else. We say, with eminent propriety, that God opens his hand and supplies the wants of every thing that liveth. He does not supply the wants of every living creature, without an effort on the part of any and all his creatures. Man is required to use industry and economy. He plants and cultivates, but the increase is at last wholly of God. In his great wisdom and infinite goodness, God permits man to be a co-laborer with himself. In a similar way the gospel is propagated. Paul plants and Apollos waters, but God gives the increase. Neither Paul nor Apollos, by themselves, can effect anything; and without Paul and Apollos, God, in his wisdom, does not propose to effect a thing. The gospel is propagated by the use of human instrumentalities. God, in his great goodness, permits man to be a co-laborer with himself in this great work. This is the reason that Christians are required to contribute of their substance to the spread of the gospel in lands where it is not; and to the sustaining of it in those lands in which it has already been planted. Sometimes men say the gospel is free?without money and without price ; and, therefore, all this cry from the pulpit and religious press for money is uncalled for. Some even go farther than this. They say that the contributions made by Christians are desired only, or mainly, to support a certain class of society in ease and idleness. This is a dangerous position. Sunshine, rain and air, are as free as the gospel. So is the productive principle of the earth. These cost us nothing. We cannot buy them?we cannot " - ? 1 ? * I. _ P sell them, is this any reason wny me larmer should cease to plant and cultivate ? No one ever came to such a suicidal conclusion. The gospel is free. Our redemption costs us nothing. The salvation of our immortal souls is worth more than all the gold and silver in the world. Were we possessed of all the world, we could not pay the ransom price of our polluted souls. All this is Bible-taught truth, and yet we must labor with God for the salvation of a ruined world. We must plant, we must cultivate ; we must contribute of our substance ; we must devote the energies of our minds and of our bodies to the propagation of the gospel, as if the whole success depended upon our individual effort, and we must do all we do as if the success of all that we do depended upon God. "I Thought Every One Loved the Bible."?There was once a very clever and learned gentleman, but an infidel?that is, one who did not believe the Scriptures?and he was traveling among the mountains and valleys of Wales. He came to a roadside cottage in a lonely, lovely spot, and as he was very tired and thirsty, stopped to ask for a drink of water. It was a little girl he spoke to, sitting at the cottage door with a book on her knee. She instantly rose and said, "Will you have a cup of milk, sir? for you are hot, and the cold water would hurt you." He was very much pleased with her kindness, and thought he would like a little chat with her. So when she came out with the milk, he said, "I see you are getting your lesson there, my dear." "No, sir," she answered ; "I am only reading." "Why, what book ?" "The Bible, sir." "What," said he, half smiling to himself, as he gave her back the cup, "do you like that book, then ?" For a moment the little maiden did not answer for surprise; then, lifting her bright eyes to his face, she said, "Why, sir, I thought that eve- ; ry body loved the Bible." And the gentleman bade the child good-bye, and slowly rode along. I did not know what he was thinking of then; but years after, when he had become a true and humble Christian, he used to tell of that little girl, and say, "And I, too, now that I understand what the Bible is, am almost as ready to wonder at ray question as , she was; for every one who really knows it must surely love it too." BST Wheu traveling along we may choose the shortest and most convenient road, though | j it be somewhat slippery and dangerous, pro-! j vided we are conscious we have prudence ! enough to guard against those dangers. But | he must be a merciless and unfaithful guide, who, knowing that a number of weak, thoughtless children would follow in his foot-steps, j should choose a path safe to himself, but in which it was morally certain the greatest part ! of his followers would stnmble and fall. Children's department. | [Original.] THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. The revolutionary war commenced with the battle of Lexington, on the 19th of February, 1795, and ended with the battle of Yorktown, and surrender of Lord Cornwallis, on the 19th of October, 1781. The treaty of ! peace was not signed until the 3rd of September, 1783. During the seven years of active hostilities, our ancestors suffered great deprivations and accomplished many deeds of daring which should never be forgotten. The greatest sufferers were women and children ; and the mightiest heroes in that struggle were the wives of the warriors. Some of the moat illustriuos examples of female heroism are to be found amongst the mothers, wives I J iltAAA m/M% 11 kftnf TT Ami Q1 uuu sichcio ui uuuae nuu nvu nucuji iui mvn posterity. The names of these heroines, or at least of most of them, are unknown to the historian, and their noble deeds have been preserved only by tradition. Many of their noble deeds of daring have, no doubt, been greatly exaggerated ; but more of them, in the lapse of time and exciting scenes of the ' present moment, have been forgotten. During the revolutionary war the country was overrun by two different foes?the British, and what were at that time called Tories. The latter were residents of the couutry, and often were a heartless set of monsters. From them the poor women and helpless children suffered more than from the armies of the invading foe. The Tories knew the circumstances of every family, and whenever a family procured a temporary supply of provisions, they would pounce in like so many hungry wolves and devour the last morsel. It is related of one family, that it was reduced to the most desperate condition by the depredations of the prowling monsters. The husband and father was in Sumter's army. The children?seven in number?were all sick with the small pox. In the house there was not a single bandfull of meal nor a scrap of meat. This condition of things had existed for several weeks. The wife and mother, a stout-bodied and brave-b< irted woman, had fed her household on wild roots, acorns and minnows, caught from a small stream during the fall months. Winter had now set in, and with it her family had been visited by the small pox. She saw her darling babes apparently drawing near to the other world ; but whether their end was hastened more by hunper or bv disease, she could not tell. O " " " * Long watching and scarcity of food, and bad food, had emaciated her own body ; but her heart was still brave and true. The only house at which it was at all probable she could obtain assistance, was distant at least ten miles. Leaving her children scattered over the hour-c, no one being able to render any assistance to the other, she set out to obtain some assistance. A small quantity of meal and the head of a beef was obtained. With a glad heart, and also with a heavy heart, she set out for her home; glad because she had something for her darling babes to eat, and heavy lest she might find some of them sleeping the sleep that knows no waking. When she arrived, she found all the children alive. In haste she commenced to prepare for them something to eat. Part of the beef head was put in the pot to cook, and bread was put in the "spider" to bake. Before the meal was prepared, the Tories came flocking in, and the first thing that was done by them, was to run their bayonets into the pot and take out the beef head, and then into the bread. Like so many hungry vultures, they commenced devouring the provision which seemed so necessary to the existence - ?/? * mi /? _ ot a whole tamuy. me conamon 01 tnings at this juncture was desperate. Resistance was impossible. The tender-hearted mother showed herself equal to the emergency. She slipped out of the house as if desiring to escape the notice of the Tories, and waved her bonnet as if beckoning some one to come to her. The trick had the desired effect. The plunderers, who were at heart great cowards, supposed that the woman had some Whig friends near by, and took to their heels as fast as they could. Just at the time they were leaving, an officer in Sumter's army rode up, and the Tories, no doubt, were in great distress lest they would meet with their just deserts. STORY OF A STAGE DRIVER. I once knew a man who, now in wealth, was once a stage driver, of whom I will here relate an incident: He was striving to make a connection for the sake of a large load of passengers which he was carrying, and he broke down not far from the dwelling of an old curmudgeon. The driver went to borrow his lumber wagon to take his passengers on with. The man was absent from home, and his wife refused to lend the wagon. "You are perfectly right, madam," said the driver, "but I must have it. I shall take it and settle with your husband for it when he returns." He took it, and brought it back in good order. When he came to settle for it, the man met him fhll of anger and thundering with rage. Aftersome expostulations he said: "I have come to settle with you for the wagon." "Well, you shall," said the man. "What shall I pay for the use of it an hour or two ?" "You shall pay me $50." He made no objection to the charge, handed the man $50, shook hands in the best good nature, and then mounted his coach and drove off, his passengers protesting against his yielding to such an exorbitant demand. Two or three weeks afterward he found this i t - t_ j; 1 J man Hanging arouna ms uuurumg pmce, auu said to him: "Good morning, sir." Said the man, "I came to see you about that wagon." "I thought I paid you for it. How much do you want?" "That money has burned me ever since I took it from you. Here is your 850?I can'i keep it." It was with difficulty that he could be made to take 83?a fair price for his wagon. When the neighbors heard this story, and looked at the affair from beginning to end, they said : "Was it not the best way after all ? Was it not beautiful ?" ?. A Bit of Advice.?I was in a towering passion and turned and walked rapidly away from the quay. "Come here, boy, I've something to say to you," shouted a gruff voice, as I moved off. I turned, and observed that the shout was uttered by a rough looking jack-tar, sitting quietly with his clasp knife. "Well, what is it?" said I, coming up to him sulkily. The man looked at me gravely through the smoke of his pipe, and said, 'You're in a pasion my young buck ; that's all and in case j you didn't know it, I thought I'd tell you. I burst into a fit of laughter. "Well I be- j lieve you are not far wrong; but I'm better j now." "Ah ! that's right," said the sailor, with an approving nod of the head; "always confess when you're in the wrong. Now, younker, j let me give you a bit of advice. Never get into passion if you can help it, and if you j can't get out of it, give a great roar to let off j the steani, and turn about and run. There's I nothing like that. Passion ain't got legs. It cant hold on to a fellow when he's running. If you keep it up till you've almost split your timbers, passion has no chance. It must go astern." ?bc farkvillr tihqmm. TEIIMS?IN ADVANCE! 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Yet It employs A A some of the best contributors In the country? rl Including Oiil Hstntros, Its leading editor, ft Cwho receives a salary of three thousand dot- jr Alars, equivalent to about ten dollars per day. r Each number contains nearly eight hundred p wm dollars' worth of matter, which costs the subIt scrlher about eight cents. & Hope and Joy?two beautifully tinted crayon portraits worth Four Dollar*?will be mailed ?J N free to every subscriber to the Magazine at SliO A E Specimens free. Agonts wanted. Address 8. JJ a WOOD A CO., Nowburgh, N. T. Y Hope M Jor-Hoje aid Joy U United Tolce of the Press.?Wood's Ul magazine Is one of tho monuments of business ** U enterprise which mark the age.?McOuxliA Borne ft P Journal, Phlla., Pa. ... .As Its title promises, It n Is devoted to the Instruction and entertainment \J E of the family circle,and,In order to place It with- r> &ln the means of readers In moderate clrcum- "f Jstancea,lt Is furnished at a remarkably low rate fi In proportion to the lnterestof Its contents.? N. m a T. Tribune. . .It Is essentially a home magazine, M V and Is Just the thing that one would most desire /\ Y to place In the hands of his wife and little onca, U or that a man of business would himself take (J H up for the employment of a leisure hour.?Pod ft Wilmington. N. C Were we out of our 9 X chair editorial, as a "private citizen," cnt off mm r from our exchange list and all that, one of the t P tint magazines to which we should subscribe U , would be Wood's Household.?RegiMer, Ilart- ^ & ford, Ct. ....It Is an intellectual and moral ft J educator, highly prized by all who become ac- , . i-Mainted with IL?ChriMian Advocate. If L O popular writers are, therefore, good writers ft Yand If high prices provo tho merit of literary " wares, tnen Mr. wood's magazine Is a good M H one.?Tie Irule)>endent, New York Its artl- V Ocles breathe a spirit of economy, morall'y and A virtue which Is highly refreshing In this age of f\ p fashionable folly ana extravagance.?Sentinel, Vi p Ed I no, Mo It Is undoubtedly one of tho A t freshest. liveliest journals we have examined. S A ?Retard, Springfield, Tenn Tho article* Z J are short, piquant, and of such unquestioned | excellence, that this periodical ought to be both ft familiar and welcome In \erv many bouse- ff 5s holds. Wood's Is a marvel of chenpnem :md am w -i ...m. ?/... iv.,1. TV__ fc ursi^iow i|uam; wuiuvmcu.?4>tw <v>>? _ Wood's HonseMfl Magazine 1 "n<Srk"R c j SASH AND BLINDS, j MOULDINGS, Brackets, Stair Fix- I tures, builders' Furnishing Hard- j ware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire j Guards, Terra Cotta Ware, Marble and | Slate Mantle Pieces.. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALTY. > i Circulars and Price Lists sent free I on application, T. P. TOALE, 20 Hayne and 33 Pinckney streets, Charleston, S. C. ' i JpSf Orders received by my Agents, Messrs. JEFFERYS A METTS, atthe j i Citizen's Savings Bank,Yorkville.S.C. j | White Pine Lumber for Sale. | October 3 40 ly ROSE'S HOTEL, (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) COLUMBIA, S. C. THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and Business Houses, located on the south-west corner of the State House Square, has been recently re-opened and renovated, and will now compare favorably with any Hotel at the South. ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to and from every train, freo of charge. Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodation of ladies. TRANSIENT BOARD $2.50 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. September 12 37 tf CHARLOTTE, COL. AND AUGUSTA E. R. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,) Columbia, S. C., September 22,1872. J ON and after this date, the following Schedule will be run over this road: going south. Train No. 1. Train No. 2. Leave Charlotte, 7.15 A. M. 8.20 P. M. Leave Columbia 2.29 P. M. 3.30 A. M. Arrive at Augusta, 7.42 P. M. 8.20 A. M. going north, Leave Augusta 6.35 A. M. 5.50 P. M. Leave Columbia 11.53 A. M. 11,05 P. M. Arrive at Charlotte.... 6.15 P. M. 6.00 A. M. Standard time ten minutes slower than Washington ; six minutes ahead of Columbia. No. 1 Train daily. No. 2 Train daily, Sundays excepted. Both trains make close connection to all points North, South and West. Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all nrinninal Doints. " YAMES ANDERSON, General Sup't. E. B. Dousey, Gen. Freight and Ticket Agent. THE MORNING STAE. DAILY EDITION: THOUGH only five years old, has the largest Daily Circulation of anv newspaper in the State, and a circulation in Wilmington fifty per cent, larger than that of any other paper. WREKLY EDITION: Now combined with the CAROLINA FARMER, making one of the best Family Newspapers in the South. Circulation very large and rapidly increasing. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : Daily Star, 1 year, $7 00 " " 6 months,..*. 3 50 " " 3 months, 2 00 Weekly Star, 1 year, 2 00 " " 0 months, 1 00 " ' 3 months, 50 It may bo safely asserted that no newspaper ever established in* North Carolina has made such rapid progress as THE MORNING STAR. .zgrS'uid for Specimen copies. "Addr. s, WM. II. BERNARD, Wilmington, N. C. OUR PARTNERSHIP" WITH "OLD SOL" STILL continues, and we are prepared, better than ever, to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES of every style, at our gallery in the "Adiekes' Building." A lot of nice ALBUMS always on hand. Also Stereoscopes and Views. J. R. SCHORR <fe RON. April 10 15 tf ysa . For over FORTY YEARS this PURELY VEGETABLE LIVER MEDICINE has proved, to be the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC for Liver Complaint and its painful offspring, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic, Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heartburn, CHILLS AND FEVER, Ac., Ac. After years of careful experiments, to meet a great and urgent demand, wo now produce from our original Genuine Powders THE PREPARED. A Liquid form of SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, containing all its wonderftil and valuable properties, and offer it in ONE DOLLAR BOTTLES. The Powders, (price as before,) $1.00 per package. Sent by mail, 1.04 per package. par CAUTION ! Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved wrapper, with Trade mark, Stamp and Signature unbroken. None other is genuine. J. H. ZEILIN & CO., MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA. SOLD BY AI.L DRUGGISTS. February 0 60 6m Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. JL 10 YEARS pubuc test Dr. Crook'** WINE tar I To have more iai lfiA eh merit than any similar preparuHon ever oflered the public. Tt is rich in the medicinal qualities of Tar, and uneqimled for diseases of the Throat and Lnngs, performing the most remarkable cures. Coughs, Colds, Chonic Coughs. It effectually cures tlicin all. Asthma and Bronclitis. Has cured so many cases it has been pronounced a specific for these complaints. For pains in Breast Side or Back, Gravel or Kidney Disease, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Jaundice or any Liver Complaint, It has no equal. It is also a, superior Tonic, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, Restores the Weak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, Removes Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers, Gives tone to your System. TryDr.Crook's WineolTar October 3 40 ly THE HOME SHUTTL.E SEWING MACHINE. mHE best Cheap Machine in the Market. If the I. number sold is a criterion of merit, it is the BEST MACHINE in use, as there have been more HOME SHUTTLE MACHINESsold in the State during the last twelve months than all other Sewing Machines combined. You can buy a HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE for about half the money you willhaveto pay for a first-class Machine, "so-called." W. L. GRIST, Agent. GEO. S. HACKER, Minn oaou Akin mikin captadv UUUflj 0Hgn ?n? Whinv I nw a vn a j CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS is as large and completes Factory as there is in the South. All work manufactured at the Factory in this city. The only honse owned and managed by a Carolinian in this line in Charleston. Send for price list. Address, GEO. S. HACKER, Post-Office box 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and Warerooms on King street, opposite Cannon street, on line of City Railway. December 5 49 ly KING'S MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. DAILY TRAIN. HEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD will run daily, (Sundays excepted) as follows, making close connection with trains on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 71 o'clock, A. M. Arrive at Chester at 91 o'clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 4 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkvilleat 6 o'clock, P. M. All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the departure of the train. GEORGE W. MELTON, President. Starker gun. PARKER BRtfS WEST MERIDEN.CT. CARQLIIA LIFE flHIH ?IY MEMPHIS, TENN. Branch Office, - Baltimore, Maryland. ASSETS, $1,1UU,UUU. Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS President. Gen. WADE HAMPTON, Pres. Baltimore Board. J. D. KENNEDY, State Agent. W. B. SADLER, Yorkville, Special Agent. June 27 28 ly & K TO PER day' Agents wanted! 0 O A jAll classes of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particulars free. Address G. Stinson dk Co., Portland, Maine. October 3 40 ly A rranta may learn something greatly to their advantage and obtain specimens and full particulars free, oy addressing WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, Newburgh, N. Y. WRAPPING PAPER. A LOT of TIDDY'S large-sized WRAPPING PAPER on hand and for sale, by W. L. GRIST, Agent.