Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 07, 1873, Image 4
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THE DUTCHMAN'S INSURANCE POLICY.
A good story is told of a German by the
name of Smidt, who had taken the precaution
to insure the life of his wife for $5,000, and
his stable for $900, believing the former might
die and the latter be burnt, and he could not
get along without some compensation for the
loss. Both policies had been taken from the
same agent. In a few months after the stable
had been insured it was destroyed by fire.
Smidt quietly notified the agent, and hinted
to him that he would expect the $900 at the
earliest possible moment. The agent at once
sent a carpenter to ascertain the cost of erecting
a new stable of the same dimensions, haying
ascertained that the property was insured
for more than it was worth. The builder reported
that he could replace the stable with
new material for $500, but unfortunately there
was an ordinance preventing the erection of
frame buildings?the old stable having been
of wood. He was asked to estimate the -cost
of a brick stable, and reported the amount
$750. The agent then notified Smidt that he
would build him a new brick stable in place
of the old frame one, but Smidt became very
indignant at the proposition, sayiug :
I do not understand dis insurance business.
I pay you for nine hundred dollar, and when
my shtable burn down you make me a new
one. I not want a new shtable. I want nine
hundred dollar.
The agent reasoned with Smidt, but all to
no purpose. When the stable was about finished,
Smidt went to consult a lawyer, thinking
he could still get the amount of the policy,
besides having the new stable.
The lawyer, however, informed him that
the company had a right to make good the
loss by building a new stable, and expressed
surprise at his bringing suit against them.
"l$ut," said Smidt, "I insure for nine hundred
dollar, and dis feller put up dem shtable
for seven hundred and fifty dollar?I do not
understand de insurance business."
Finding that he could not compel the payment
by law, he became disgusted with the insurance
business altogether. Calliug upon
the agent, Smidt said:
"Mr. Agent, I vant you to stop de insurance
on mine vife. I do not pay any more
monish dat way: I not understand dis insurance
business."
Agent, surprised : "Why Mr.Smidtyou are
doing a very foolish thing. You have paid
considerable upon this policy already, and if
your wife should die, you will get $5000."
"Yah, dat ish vat you tell me now," said
Smidt. "Yen I pays you on my shtable, you
say I get nine hundred dollars if it burnt
down. So it was burnt, and you not give me
v~.. r? ~l/l
mint; iiiuiJisii* iuu y/, uat was uu uxu
frame shtable, and you not pay me mine nine
hundred dollar. Yen minevife dies, den you
say to me, 0, she vash an old Dutch woman ;
she not wort anydings; I get you a new English
vife! And so I lose mine five tousand
dollars. You not fool Smidt again. I not
understand dis insurance business."
BSF* A professor of Cornell University recently
published a number of hints as to
"What to do in cases of accident. One of
these was as follows: "If you choke, get down
on all fours and cough." One of our neighbors?Woodward?read
this, and determined
to remember it. Day before yesterday he was
eating his dinner alone, and he choked upon
a piece of beef. Instantly he got down upon
all fours and began to cough. Just then,
Mrs. Woodward came in, and the impression
made upon her by Woodward's extraordinary
attitude and his barking was that he had suddenly
been attacked with hydrophobia. So
she first seized the pitcher of water, and took
it from the room. Then she sent one of the
girls up stairs for the mattress, which was
thrown over Woodward, while Mrs. Woodward
and the family sat on it and held him
down. The madder he got the more alarmed
was Mrs. Woodward; and the more he swore
and foamed at the mouth, the more she insisted
on the hired girl giving an extra turn of
the clothes-line around his leg and tying him
to the stove. When the doctor came, he pulled
Woodward's arm from under the mattress
and bled him, and put flyblisters on his feet,
and promised to come round in the evening
and shave his head, in order to cup his scalp
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so lis lu relieve 11 is urn in. ?r neu uie uueiui
called that night, Woodward had a prize-fight
with hira in the parlor, and after sending the
medical man up to the bath-room to wash the
blood from his nose and cool his eye, Woodward
went out to hunt for the Cornell professor.
There will be paiu and anguish in that
institution of learning when Woodward arrives.
He means war to the knife.?Max
Adeler.
Young Paddy McShane, sure no lad
could be bolder, coaxed Biddy McShae to be
sharing his lot, and Pat had a lively young
pig on his shoulder, and she on her head-bore
a big iron pot. From the town just at nightfall,
as home they were walking, through a
dark, lonely thicket their windig path lay ;
Biddy sat down the pot, stopped her laughing
and talking. Paddy turned round, and asked
her the cause of the delay. "Oh," says
she, "I'm afraid you'll be acting uncivil; I'll
not go alone through the thicket wid you ;
for Paddy, avick, you're as wild as the divil;
you'll be kissing and squeazing me, that's
what you'll do !" "But the pig," replied Pat,
"that I've lugged so securely, if loose, back to
town like the devil he'd trot." Och, Paddy,"
says she, as she glanced up demurely,
"couldn't ye's put the pig uuder the pot?"
Dutch Humor.?A German in a western
town who has not paid attention to learning
English, had a horse stolen from his baru the
other night whereupon he advertised as follows
:?
"Von nite, de oder day, ven I was bin
awake in my sleep, I heare soraetings vat I
links vas not yust right in ray barn, and I out
shumps to bed and runs mit the barn out;
an ven I was dere coom I seez dat my pig
gray iron mare he vas bin tide loose and run
mit the staple off; and efer who vil him back
pring, I yust so much pay him as vas kushto
mary."
6?F A Methodist miuister who lived on a
small salary was greatly troubled at one time
to get his quarterly installment. He had
called a number of times, but each time he
had been put off with some excuse. At last,
he weut to his steward and told him he must
have his money, for his family must have the
necessaries of life. "Money!" replied the
steward, "you preach for money; I thought
you preached for the good of souls !"
"Souls!" replied the minister, "I can't eat
souls, aud if I could it would take a thousand
souls like yours to make a decent meal."
teaT A gentleman in New Orleans was
agreeably surprised the other day to find a
plump turkey served up for dinner, and inquired
of his servant how it was obtained.
Why, sah, replied Sambo, dat turkey has been
roosting on our fence three nights, so dis
moruin' I seize him for de rent of de fence.
fiSf "How is it Miss, that you gave your
age to the register as only 25? I was born
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the same year with yourseir, ana oeing ou, you
must be " Young lady?"Ah, you see,
Mr. Assessor, you have lived much faster
than I."
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8^** "Father what do you mean by raising
things in a hot house ?"
"Why, my dear boy, you are being raised
in a house too hot to hold me sometimes."
There was a broomstick seen to start about
that time; the man made tracks.
An old man's advice to a young man is,
don't love two girls at once. Love is a good
thing, but it is like butter in warm weatherit
won't do to have too much on hand at one
time.
8ST One of Josh Billing's maxims is "Ris<
early, work hard and late, give nothing away
and if you don't get rich and go to the devil
you may sue me for damages."
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KNOWLEDGE OF MATTER.
The question might be asked, how do we ;
know there is anything in this world but our- j
selves? Whether this question is of much!
practical importance or not, it is very inter- ]
' esting, and the investigation will do us no 1
harm. The only way we can certainly know :,
that there is anything in this world but our j (
lone selves, is by means of the senses, sight1 (
and touch. If we were brought into this j
world without the capability of seeing or feel-1 (
ing anything, but had the full use of the other
three senses, it is difficult to understand how
we could know that there was anything else j
in existence but ourselves. We could see i (
nothing, hence we could have no knowledge i j
of color, of shape, form or size. We could ]
| feel nothing, hence we could know nothing of
what is meant by the words hard and soft, ,
rough and smooth. We might hear sounds, |
but could not tell where they came from ; we ,
would be able to taste, but could not kuow
| that the sensation was excited by anything out- |
outside of ourselves ; we could smell, but could
not tell whence the odor proceeded.
It is true that after we gain a knowledge of
the external world by means of the senses, ,
sight and touch, that we learn much about it
by means of the other senses. Sight and [
touch must go before, and the other senses ,
follow after. It is scarcely possible to con- '
ceive how miserable would be the condition of '
a human being deprived of both these senses.
Perhaps such a case has never occurred in the 1
history of the world. Persons are sometimes
born blind or deaf, and some it may be, destitute
of the sense of taste; but we never ,
heard of any one who could neither see nor
feel. Such a creaUtfe would be little if any
better off than a tree or a sprig of grass.
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HOW DO WE KNOW !
We often hear people say that they know ^
that such and such a thing is so and so. Thus
we say that we know that we are living; we '
know that a rock is hard, and a ripe peach
soft; we say that we know there is such a
city as New York, and that there once lived
in this country a great mau by the name of
George Washington. Now it may be asked,
how do we know these things? If any one
will think about it for a moment, it will be
discovered that the mode of acquiring knowl
edge in some cases is quite different from '
what it is in other cases. We know some '
things because they have come under our !
immediate observation. That is, we have
either seen or heard or felt or tasted or smelled
them. If we had no eyes, we could not
tell that a rose was red aud a lilly white;
if we had no ears, we could not know that the
discharge of a gun makes a loud noise; if we 1
had no sense of touch we could not know that
iron is hard and cotton soft; if we were destitute
of the sense of smell, we could not know 1
that a rose smells sweet and a skunk offen- 1
sive; if we had no sense of taste, we could not 1
know what is meant by the words bitter and ]
sweet. In this case all things would taste '
alike, or rather there would be no taste in
anything.
It is manifest that we gain our knowledge
of the external world by the aid of one or all '
of the five senses. One of the ways by which
we know is by means of our senses.
We say that we know some things with !
which our senses have very little, if anything 1
at all, to do. We say that we know that 1
George Washington once lived in this coun- 1
try?that he, as general, commanded the :
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war. Now it is evident that we do not know i
this fact in the same way that we know that 1
iron is hard. We never saw George Wash- j
ington ; there is perhaps, not a human being on '
earth that was at any battle fought by George i
Washington. How then, do, we know that 1
there ever was such a man as George Wash- <
ington ? The only way that we could know 1
this and similar facts, is by being told by some 1
one that such was the case. Some one testi- 1
fied to us that George Washington once lived
in the State of Virginia, and that he was cho- ]
sen commander-in-chief of the American ]
forces during the revolutionary war. We <
believe these facts just as firmly as if they had i
come under our immediate observation. Of 1
the many things which we say that we know, 1
only a very few are known to us by means of i
our senses. Testimony is to us the great 1
source of knowledge. One actual observation i
extends over but a very small section of this
world. Some of us never saw a larger stream
of water than our father's spring branch, yet
we know that on the west of America there is
the great Pacific ocean, which is eight thous- <
nnrl miles widft. nnrl on the east of America '
i there is the Atlantic ocean, which is three j
I thousand miles wide. Only a few of the i
j present inhabitants of America ever saw Eng- '
land, Ireland, or Scotland. The only way ]
that we know, and perhaps the only way that
most of us ever will know, that any such coun- j
tries do exist, is from the testimony of others, j
Either some one has told us about the exis- <
tence of such places, or we have read in books |
of their existence. Take away from any of (
us all the kuowledge that we have acquired (
by testimony, and very little will be left. ,
This, no doubt, is one reason why a liar is so i
hated and despised in every country, and by j
all kinds of people. Really, a liar is a very ';
dangerous creature. The information he ,
I gives us is false, deceptive and daugerous. ,
! By it we are liable to be misled and ruiued.
Our minds are so constituted that when we 1
j acquire knowledge either by means of our ! 1
j senses or by the testimony of other persons, |1
j we know that we do know what we have I
, learned. This is called consciousness. Were i;
j this not the case, our knowledge would be of! (
; no use to us.
Is it not Profanity ??"Swear not at j <
all!" - A word to girls and young ladie3 : '
You would not swear?the thought is hor- j,
| rible?yet, you say, perhaps, such words as, j
I "Mercy !" "Goodness!" "Gracious!" King-1,
dom !" and the like, in common conversation, j
1 I have heard many such expressions fall trip-1
! pingly from rosy lips.
j Mercy, goodness, and grace are attributes i
1 -*UIn r\P noon IP if io nnf 1
I (JX VJUU. J.Li 1111S Vicn Ul but. Wigb, 11 11/ 10 uuu ;
profanity, it is very near to it, to use thera as \
j expletives.
i At the very least these are idle words, and
I idle words are sinful.
Let your conversation be simple, straight-'
forward, and free from anything which |
threatens to break the third commandment.
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I Dog Partnership.?A writer in Land and ,
! Water testifies that he long knew a pointer
and greyhound that formed a partnership, to
! which the first contributed his power of scent,'
and the other his swiftness of motion, as their
' respective capital. Every few days they j
1 would go out rabbit-hunting. The pointer
! seeking the game, and indicating where it j
! was, while the greyhound would ruu it down. J
1, They would then enjoy their game-dinner and
.! return to their several homes. The same
, writer records a similar arrangement entered
'; into between a terrier and collie. He aiso j
gives an account of a dog that hunted both '
i sheep and rabbits, and, to guard against de,
tection and punishment, washed himself in a
, j stream, and wiped his coat on the grass, be- i
I fore returning from his excursions. I
leading for the <fabbatlt.
CONDUCTED. BY
KJEV. ROBERT LATHAN.
lOrlginnl.]
DEATH.
Sin brought death into our world, and sin
keeps it here. Had sin never entered our
world, there never would have been any death ;
and were all sin removed from this world, all
death would cease. The reason there is no
death in heaven, is that there is no sin there.
Before God wipes away all tears from our
5yes, he washes away all sin from our souls.
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an the evils or tins worm culminate in ueuiu.
A.U the miseries of the next world consist in
an endless death. The world of woe is a land
jf deep despair. The only sounds that the
inhabitants utter, are deep hollow groans,
bitter sighs?wailing and gnashing of teeth.
No .one speaks a word of comfort to their
souls gnawed by remorse. The pit of perdition
is a chamber of death, without a tear to
relieve the intense grief. Heaven is the reverse
of this. It is a place of life?endless
happy life.
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"WHY WILL YE DIE?"
The manner in which multitudes of the
human family spend their lives, gives no
grounds for any hope that it will be well with
them, either in this world or in the next.
3ome live as if there was no hereafter ; others,
as if God had no claims upon them, and, not
a few, live as if their whole work was to insult
the God that made them, and by whose
kind aud indulgent providence they are daily
fed. To such God propounds the question :
"Why will ye die?" Ample provisions have
been made to save sinners of every kind and
character. God has, at infinite expense, provided
for the ransom of the siuner from the
condemnation that is in the law, and also for
the purifying of the sinner from the moral
filth and pollution of sin. Why will any
sinner in the midst of such plenty, perish ?
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died and made
an atonement, the Holy Spirit is able and
willing to sanctify the mostsiu-polluted wretch
of Adam's race. If any are lost who is to
blame? The sinner himself. Of this he is
conscious. In the Bible, and in the providence
of God, he is exhorted to turn from his
sins. The only reason that can be assigned
why any are lost, is they will not come to
Jesus and be saved. They choose darkness
rather than light; they love sin more than
righteousness ; moral filth more than holiness;
hence, they die because they will not be made
alive in Christ Jesus.
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[Original.]
"CONVENIENT SEASONS."
Many of our race contemplate at some time
in the future, making their peace with God.
With regard to this thing they are in earnest.
The young and gay determine so soon as
they have drained the cup of pleasure, that
they will turn to God and live lives of faith
upon the Son of God. Every one has some
particular period in the future at which the
change is to commence. This is, by universal
consent, denominated the convenient season.
Then it is supposed there will be no obstacles
in the way. At present, according to
their owu decisions, "they cannot come."
To most who are thus proposing, this convenient
season will never come. In all probability
every period in the future will be more
unfit for making preparation for eternity than
the present. Our hearts grow harder every
Jay, and our minds become duller and more
stupid every moment. Not a few of the human
family contemplate repenting and turning
to Jesus when they are prostrated upon a
lying couch. In all human probability the
?reat majority of such persons will be tyriblv
disanDointed. A death bed is the most
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inconvenient place, and the dying hour the
most inconvenient, to turn to God. All the
difficulties that attend repenting and turning
to God array themselves in deadly hostility
in that hour when the soul is about to bid an
idieu to the clay tabernacle.
The only season that can be called with any
propriety a convenient season to make our
peace with God, is the present. To-morrow
)ur bodies may be racked with pain and our
reason dethroned. To-morrow we may, in
fear and terror, fly to God ; but God may only
laugh at our fears and mock when our calamities
come upon us. There is a point, no one
knows where, when God says, "Let them
xlone." To-day, Jesus says "Come unto me."
To-morrow, he says, "Depart from me."
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EARLY PIETY.
It is to be feared that too many think that
children are incapable of believing in Christ.
The impression generally prevails that a profession
of religion should not be made until
the professor arrives at the years of maturity.
This practice is founded upon an erroneous
principle. It takes it for granted that the
young do not need a Saviour; or that they
ire incapable of believing; or that they are
incapable of making an intelligent profession
cf religion. Children need a Saviour. The
babe not an hour old, cannot be saved without
the attoniug blood of Jesus Christ. Children
at a very early period are capable of exercising
saving faith. There is no reason why
they may not love God, their heavenly father,
is soon as they love their earthly parents.
No good reason can be given why the little
child should not make a public profession of
religion, and be admitted to all the privileges
cf the church here upon earth. It is admitted,
on all hands, that little children are, by
God's grace and Spirit, made meet and fit for
the church triumphant. The greater always
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includes the Jess, it is true that cnnuren
cannot comprehend much that is meant by
the words faith, repentance and new obedience
; but this is no reason why they are not
fit to become members of the church. There
are many in the church who are men and
women in years, but only babes in knowledge.
The church is a school. The ministers of the
pospel are the teachers. Christ is the great
teacher. In this school provision is made for
beginners as well for the most advanced pupils.
The smallest and youngest scholar in
the school enjoys the same privileges as the
largest and oldest.
&2)1" As a rule, the man who docs most for
the church abroad, is the one who does most
for it at home. Liberality in things pertaining
to the support and extension of the gospel
is not going to stultify itself by a contradiction.
Home support and upbuilding, and
foreigu benevolence and enterprise, are ouly
parts of the same work. The nearest and the
l?a. ?-1,1 fnnmrtr ?a olilra nnrlpr Vli.Q
remotest uem ui jcwiuvi iu *,w?.? ?
care, though one is at his door and the other
out of sight beyond the hill. So the missionary
fields are ours as much as those in which
we have our daily walks, and God requires
that we shall have a harvest from each.?
United Presbyterian.
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Jfca5D' Those words, which to the believer are
divine promises, are to the unbeliever divine
threats. The cloud that stood between Israel
and the Egyptians shed light over the God
led hosts of Moses, but scattered dismay
through Pharaoh's armies.
Ipsttitattwuis leading.
LIFE IX THE TROPICS.
I The idea generally entertained of the tropj
ics is that they are Eden-like regions, abound|
ing in the most brilliant flowers, the most
magnificent birds, as well as the most varied j
I and abundant animal life. To compare them j
with temperate regions in these particulars, to . 1
declare that the temperate zones are, in fact, I
the true lands of floral and animal abundance, j
would have sounded to our ancestors like the
language of a madman. Yet the voice of;
modern discovery has dispelled tins uieai, as i
it has destroyed a dozen other strongholds of;'
ancient belief, and onr fancies must veer to a
new conception of the realms of perpetual i
summer.
We are now assured that there is no special j
abundance of flowers in the tropics. Wallace |
tells us that equatorial landscapes are marked i1
by fine foliage and a rarity of flowers. The |
large and magnificent flowers which we know j1
to lae of tropical origin are rare, and are gath
j ered from widely-separated districts. The i
' short period of bloom usual in these regions [
also causes a paucity of floral adornments,
and as a rule temperate landscapes far exceed
tropical in variety and abundance of flowers.
The same may be said in regard to bird and
animal life, the tropics in this particular also
falling far below the tcmperates. Strain wandered
for weeks through the woods of Central
America without seeing any animal, and rarely
a bird, and, so far as he could judge, the
rivers contained no fish. Even the frigid '
zones appear to surpass the tropics in this respect.
Thus, in Alaska animal life is abundant
in summer, and the rivers swarm with
fish; the white hare, the moose and beaver
abound. The Kamtchatdales have thousands
of reindeer, and as a rule the short summer
of the extreme North is marked by a great
auimal abundance. So in regard to the song
of birds. It is almost entirely a temperate
phenomenon. Song is indeed rather an ex
ceptional feature than an attribute of birds.
The singers are comparatively few, and these
| few dwell chiefly outside the tropics. Why
these few sweet-voiced tribes have beeu so far
favored above their contemporaries is one of
the questions in natural science which yet
await a solution. Yet, in the tropics are found
the largest and finest beasts, the most poisonous
reptiles and insects, the most brilliant
birds and flowers. The carnivorous fierceness
may be one principle reason of the paucity of
life, as it needs a wide district to support each
of these rapacious animals. So there may be
a lack of food necessary to support other gentle
creatures. We have an instance of this in
the temperate zones in the abseuce of bird
life in the pine forests. The great woods of
Russia are strangely silent frein this cause,
the pines seeming incapable of sustaining the
smaller animal life.
The character of life in the tropics is in remarkable
accordance with the intensity of solar
light and heat to which they are subjected.
The fire of the sun seems to impart fierceness
to the animals, its rich hue3 to give intense
brilliance to birds and flowers, its production
| of malaria to fill with venom the insects and
reptiles. The equatorial regions are thus truly
the lands of the sun, whose warmth and
brilliance is typified throughout the tropics in
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there gaining an impulsive and passionate
character which is foreign to the cooler yet
more enduriug dwellers within the temperate
zones.
A STAGE-DRIVER'S REMINISCENCE.
Everybody in California knows, or ought to
know, or at least knows of Colonel Andrew
Jackson Garabill, familiarly called by his numerous
friends, "Jack Garabill" for short, in
early times a pioneer packer of Trinity and
Siskiyou. Aware of the fact that the Colonel
had, in early life, filled the responsible position
of stage-driver in Tennessee and Alabama,
the writer once asked him if he had
known Land Admirable Reeside. "Know
old Reeside, Judge? Why, I never knew
anybody else; he was a trump, you bet!"
Having struck a favorite theme, he continued:
"I druv stage for the Admiral out of
Montgomery the whole of the winter, and it
was mighty rough, I tell you. Thar had been
a power of rain, equal to California, and the
roads were awful heavy; in fact, in some
plrces it was just as much as a four-hoss team
could possibly do to pull an empty stage.
Well, in addition to the regular mail under
lock and key in the leather bags, there was always
a lot of canvas sacks filled with about
a ton of documents and seeds, mostly the latter,
franked by Members of Congress. I'd
start out about two o'clock in the morning
with all this deck-load, making things awfully
heavy. As I would be about startin' the
Admiral would take me one side and confidentially
remark. '.Tack, vou've pot a biff load of
passengers, and a tremendous large mail; you
had better distribute the Congressional matter
as soon as you can.' 'All right says I;
and sho's you're born, about a mile out of
town, in crossing over a creek swelled by the
late rain, overboard went every canvas bag.
They floated down stream and lodged in a
pile of drift-wood on a sand bar three-quarters
of a mile below. The water jn the branch
fell early in the spring, leaving a large pile
qf loam about the drift-pile, and as the warm
weather cum on them Congressmen's seeds began
to sprout, and by the middle of summer
you ought to have seen my truck patch. Thar
was pumpkins and squashes by the million ;
parsnips, carrots and all kinds of beets; rutybeggars
and other sorts of turnips. And
gourds runnin' all over the drift-wood and up
into the trees; you'd ought to have seen them
gourds! The niggers from all the plantations
thereabouts was in clover. They cum
from all quarters and gathered gourds until
they couldn't rest. I 'spose you remember
the old saying, 'A fool for luck, a poor man
for children, a Frenchman for dogs, and a
nigger for gourds.' Well, Judge, the seeds
they gathered from that ere truck patch of
mine that fall was scattered all over Northern
Alabama, and although my mode of distributing
them thar Congressional documents
may not have been exactly according to Gunter,
yet I consider it did the country at large
a powerful sight more good.?San Francisco
Celt.
?
Sympathy.?Sympathy isa delightful thing
to receive when one is sick or in trouble.
Some people require more sympathy than they
can expect to receive. For every little ache
or pain they require sympathy; if they are ;
too hot, they must be sympathized with; they !
tell all their griefs and disappointments, and
if they do not seem as serious to their hearers |
as they do to them, they complain they can I
get no sympathy. A lady said to her hus-1
band, the other day, "Oh, my dear, I havfly
| such a fearful pain in my head." "I know it,!
my love," answered her husband, (a "brute," |
of course) "and you have a pain in your back !
and in your side, and you think you are going j
to be sick." "You have no sympathy for me," :
indignantly replied the wife. "My dear," i
said her husband, "I had an immense fund of.
sympathy, but you have overdrawn your ac- j
couut; I have used up all the sympathy Ij
could raise, on your terrible aches and pains, i
and now I have none left." Before breakfast i
was over, the headache had quite gone, and, j
perhaps, the lady reflected that there was a
little in her husband's remarks. If you ask j
; people for sympathy too often, and on occa-!
; sions which are not serious, the supply of the i
| real article is sure to run out and they give
| you a bogus substitute which is unsatisfying,
j They say, "I'm sure I'm sorry," "Dear me,"
and that sort of thing, and think, "Confound
i the woman, she is always complaining." On
the other hand, those who rarely complain,;
] can, in most cases, find some one who will !
i give them real sympathy in their troubles, J
: and, what is better, put them in a way to re-1
j move them. Children are spoiled by being 1
. sympathized with; they become querulous and
! peevish. It is better if a child comes to you [
to show a scratch on its finger, to say, "That's
| nothing ; it will soon be well," than to mourn
I over "mamma's lmby," and kiss the finger,
and say, "it's dreadful bad." By this course 1
you bring up children to be cowards. Call
for sympathy when the occasion requires it,
but be careful not to make your calls too fre- (
quent, lest you overdraw the account. 1 (
t (
We Shall Meet Again.?The fiat of,t
nature is inexorable. There is no appeal for r
relief from tire great law which dooms us to
dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves of: J
the forest, and the flowers that bloom and 1
wither in a day have no frailer hold upon life j
than the mightiest monarch that ever shook ;
the earth with his footsteps. Generations of 11
men will appear and disappear as the grass, t
and the multitude that throng the earth to-day j ?
will disappear as the footsteps on the shore, j *
Men seldom think of the great event of death . t
until the shadow falls across their pathway, f
hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones, |,
whose living smile was the suidight of exist- j <
ence. Death is the antagonist of life, and 8
the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton
of all feasts. We do not want to go through j f
the dark valley, although its dark passage : 8
may lead to paradise; we don't want to lie ,
down in the grave, even with princes for bed- ; t
fellows. In the beautiful drama of Ion, the ; 1
hope of immortality, so eloquently uttered by 1
the death devoted Greek, finds deep response 1
in every thoughtful soul. When about to
yield his young existence as a sacrifice to hate,
his Clematha asks if they should meet again,
to which he replies, I have asked that dreadful
question of the hills that look eternal, of
the clear streams that flow forever, of the
stars among whose fields of azure my spirit
has walked in glory. All were dumb, but as
I gaze upon the living face, I feel confident
that there is something in the love that mantles
through its beauty that cannot wholly
perish. We shall meet again.? George D.
Prentice.
+
Climatic Relations of Diet.?Meat aud
fats, a writer in Popular Science Monthly says,
repair the losses of the system much more
speedily than vegetable substances. The latter
are suitable for the inhabitants of warm
countries who do not require to produce heat,
it.. 1 1:?? *i
wuicn U1B Ulinuspueie supplies tucui nun
abundantly. The inhabitants of cold regions,
on the contrary, whose accession of heat ought
to be as continual as energetic, are urged by
insinctto use meats and fats, which throw out
great heat in their combustion. For instance,
it is a physiological necessity that the Lapps
should feed oi) the oil of cetacea, as it is a necessity
for men of the tropics to consume only
very light food. The activity of respiratory
combustion and the kind of alimentation thus
vary with climate, so that there is always a
certain proportion maintained between the
thermic state of the surrounding medium and
that of the animal furnace. In like manner,
in the same climate, persons who perform
great mechanical labor must eat more than
those who put forth but little " movement.
This fact, long ago observed, has received of
late the clearest and surest demonstration.
Yet, perhaps, it is not kept sufficiently in view
in the management of public alimentation.
Many examples prove the benefit that industry
would derive from increasing, in all possible
ways, theamountrof meat used in laborer's
meals.
.
8S?" A woman shduld never, at any time,
at home, among strangers or anywhere
else?suffer any familiarity from any one.
There is a class of men who travel extensively,
are business men, but are entirely unprincipled
and unfit for respectable female society ;
they let no opportunity pass to attempt a familiar
acquaintance with females who are
obliged to travel without male escorts; you
,11 ; |?
can ceil one 01 ineiu in a luumuui u_y uic swic
and impudent look he casts upon every woman
in omnibus, car, cabin or parlor. A woman
who will not suffer the least familiarity
from one of these well-dressed fellows, is very
soon left free from their annoyance. To be
openly and pointedly repulsed, very much
hurts their pride and vanity?the great stock
in trade of these men.
To be too familiar even with your own sex,
you will often see in them some fault or blemish
^hat will cause you to think less of them;
had not familiarity existed, you would never
have known. Too much familiarity in the
exchange of confidence, the communicating of
secrets to one another, often leads to quarrels
and domestic difficulties. Never suffer yourself
to be familiar, even with your best friends;
to a certain extent it banishes your own selfrespect.
+?+
Married Life.?This is good counsel
from a wife and mother:
"I try to make myself and all around me
agreeable. It will not do to leave a man to
himself till he comes to you, to take no pains
to attract him, or to appear before him with a
long face. It is not so difficult as you think,
dear child, to behave to a husband so that he
shall remain forever in some measure a husband.
I am an old woman, but you can still
do what you like; a word from you in the
right time will not fail of its effect; what need
have you to play the suffering victim ? The
tear of a loving girl, says an old book, is like
a dew drop on a rose ; but that on the cheek
of a wife is a drop of poison to her husband.
Try to appear cheerful and contented, and
your husband will be so; and when you have
made him happy you will become so, not in
appearance, but in reality. The skill required
is not so great. Nothing flatters a man so
much as the happiness of his wife; he is always
proud of himself as the source of it.
As soon as you are cheerful you will be lively
and alert, and every moment will afford you
an opportunity to let fall an agreeable word.
Your education, which gives you an immense
advantage, will greatly assist you."
Healthfulness of Fruits.?Fruits and
berries at this season of the year are not only
precious luxuries, but great promoters of
health. They act upon the liver, promoting
that secretion naturally which many are in
the habit of obtaining only by means of artificial
medicines. They thus avert many a
disease resulting from a torpid condition of
the liver. Another way in which they act
beneficially is in the mechanical effect their
little seeds produce in passing through the
bowels, very much the same as the watering
of an irritated eye-ball when any bard substance
touches that delicate organ, and this
water, by dissolving the hardened contents of
constipated bowels, keeps them in a healthier
state than any pill or purgative invented by
the apothecary. There can be no doubt that
in the summer and fall seasons, people who
live mainly on fruits and berries and coarse
bread cau almost ensure exemption from sickness,
while those who eat heartily of solid
meats and vegetables two or three times a day
are liable to all the diseases that flesh is heir ,
to.
+ + :
Be Cheerful.?Look happy, if you do J
not feel so. Present a cheerful exterior, 1
though your heart and mind be troubled. JNever
wear a face which, as Sidney Smith says, 1
"is breach of the peace." Dr. Johnson used 1
to observe that the habit of looking at the best
of a thing was more to a man than a thousand
pounds a year, and Samuel Smiles observes ::
"We possess the power, to a great extent of I
so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts !
upon objects calculated to yield happiness |
aud improvement, rather than their opposite. J
In this way, the habit of happy thought may
be made to spring up like any other habit.
And to bring up men or women with a genu- ,
ine nature of this sort, a good temper and a i
happy frame of mind is, perhaps, of even more
importance, in many cases, than to perfect!
them in much knowledge a.id many accom- j
plishments."
I'
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every man's right, and every man's most necessary
possession. If every man be obliged,
as he will answer it to God, to possess himself
of truth, he must be free?free not only to
think, but to speak; free to go in quest of
truth ; free to bring it home, free to confer
with his fellows concerning it, and free to
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