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^IJ?1^JSEAY & CQ- ^PERSON, S. C., THUESDA^BroT^Y^, 18W. ? " -": /---^?H?M^^^^1^ WASTES Of LIQUOR. Bubttanco of an Ad*tv**l Delivered lu Ute Saeoad Freabyterlaa Church, Knox ville, Tannesaee, Sunday Might, May lid, 18SO, by the Faatar, Kev. F. E. Startle. I purpose to address you to night, Christian friends and fellow-cititens, on the wastes produced by the liquor traffic in our country, State, county and city. And if I can present before you euch facta and figure? AS will startle our peo file into a sensr of peril and rcsponsibil ty, and stir tnem up to such action aa the condition of things demands I shall be abundantly paid for my time and pains. I wish to lay before you simply the financial or economic side of this subject, a aide that affecta every person in tho land. Aqd by tho wastes of liquor I meau the direct and indirect losses it causes to the American people by 'wast ing their substance, earnings, time, health and life. There aro legitimate uses for alcoholic liquors, everybody admits, iu medicine and various arta and industries. But it is stated on tho very best authority that sufficient alcohol is illicitly distilled every year, and on which no revenue is paid, to meet all the legitimate require ments of the nation. Bo that we may, without fear of exaggeration, character ize tho entire amount of intoxicating liquors known to exist in our country as an out and out watte. It is of no good whatsoever, ob the' other hand a positive injury, as it makes no equivalent return, * only destroying the means and bodies and life and homes of the people ; and KO adding nothiug to the permanent1 wealth of the nation,, being lifeless and harmful it cornea under tbe head of rfc- j struclive industry and may be set down aa a wholesale and criminal waste. OUB NATIONAL "WASTE. In 1867, , in these United States, $1,000,000,000 were iarestcdinthe liquor business. In 1870 there were 241,715 licensed and unlicensed retail drinking . saloons, and 7,276 licensed wholesale liquor establishments, a total of 248,091 places where intoxicates liquors ^ire Bold. > ' The amount of liquor consumed in this country in 1872 was 887,000,000 gallons ; it would fill a canal four feet deep, four teen feet wide and over 100 miles in \ length. Tho 240,000 saloons formed into j line would make a street over a thousand . miles in length. Tbe drinking millions in our country, five abreast would mako a solid column extending six hundred mites. ' The drunkards five abreast would extend over sixty miles. There are one hundred and forty funerals every day in our country from victima of strong drink, men gono down to drunkard's graves of whom God's word Bays explicitly they shall not enter into the kingdom of ?'beaven. . First under national waste look at the precious grain and fruit are destroyed every year in the manufacture of the liquor annually consumed by our people. This vast quantity of grain, given to feed the body and prolong lifo, by tho lust mid sin of man converted into wholly in nutritions and injurious drinks. Infinite ly better were it for the whole ?land if | this entire amount were annually buried in the Atlantic ocean. These nearly 50,000,000 bushela of grain would fur nish over 600,000,000 four pound loaves of bread, or aeventy-nina to every family in the land. How can a nation expect long to prosper, or with what face ask an omniscient and righteous God to givo them fruitful harvests and keep from them pestilence and famine when they are devoting tho sacred products of hea ven to elemen&B of destruction and death. And what wonder is it that thousands in the land are half fed, and the times bu come depressed and people clamor for bread I lt is .publicly stated that.every year at least -$36,000,000 worth of grain aud fruit are destroyed in tho manufac ture of the liquor consumed by tho Amer ican people. Next look nt tho enormous waste of i money directly spent for liquor in the United States. -The American people claiming to stand at the.head- of the world iu civilization and public example apead every year for intoxicating drinks over $700,000,000. The assessed value of all the real estate and personal prop erty in the United.States ia about $14, 000,000,000; i. c.. nt that cati mate, our j people drink down&very 25 year? the en tire value of tho country's.-wealth. Our annual dr'ak bill is l-13th of the ngero Sute war expenses of North and South uriug the late ?trifo between the States. It would pay off tho national debt in leas thau 8 years. Ic. would educate all the illiterate persons in the United States ; pay ali the taxes, support all the pau pers, rim many of the greatest industries, and build churches for all the houseless religious societies ic- the land, 'willi a vast surplus left over. The tual amount spent- in the United States ?very year tor education is $95, 000,000; for li??*or;?5(00,000,000; cost of I liquor over education $005,000,000. The total amount spent to support the Gospel everv year ls about $48,000,000 ; coat of liquor over religion, $650,000,000; amount contributed per inhabitant - for j education, $2.00 ; for religion, $1.11 ; for i liquor, per inhabit&nt, $17 ;' eight times tv? much for liquor PS for education, nod fi?Mn tl nina an m?cb. for ii?EOr ?? reli gion. '" Our people spend nearly as much every.year for liquor aa they do for food ; in 1870 more-$79.25 per family for food, and $81J4 jper family for liquor. Hext looa: ai ibo rr ivs io of ii um mu ? in dustry directly and indirectly caused by the liquor traffic. If th*,600,000. roon engaged in the liquor < islnesH in the United States wereproductively and prof* itabty employed at$500 a piece, it wc .td amount, according . to representation made before our National Congress, to $800,000,000 every year. The loss of at !e??.t.hrJf the timo of 600,000 drunkards in our country would amount, at $500 each, to $160,000.000. Tho loss of labor of one day a week, of 1,500,000 tippling persons would amount every year to $140,000,000. Then 800,000 public paupers, caused by liquor, in our country, with their 200,000 dependent children, cost the Re public $1UO,000.000 more every year. The loee of time and labor of about 10, 000 insane persons*, made so annually by stftjn? drina:, would; amount to. about' $5,000,000. The loss of time and indus try of idiots, made by intemperance, would amount $15,000,000 dr V20,000,000 every year. (Congressional statement?.) Dr. Willard Fatter says "that 10 per cunt, of Ibo deaths' of thlb country every \ year are due to alcohol, and that the average age of an intemperate person is j about half that of u temperate person.3* Say? Dr. Hargreaves, M. D.. whose state ments wera quoted betoro the American Congre**: "We are confident that suffi cient evidence can be adduced to show that bob ! for tho use of intoxicating d ri ilka the sieh raf* ?* veil at the death rolt. of our country would be reduced to not le*? than half what lt is to-day." Says Dr. Hitchcock. President of the! Michigan Board of Health, "There arel 08,000 persona constantly sick or invalid in our country from liquor," and no won* der, for science states that alcohol is au "acrid narcotic poison," and in these United States -every year on an average over five quarts of purest alcohol In drinks are consumed by every man; wo man and child in the Nation, or nt that rate. Can vre wonder at the extraordi nary sick and death rate when uar peo ple are drinking liquid poison? Now the money value ot those who die by premature death from liquor-at least 150,000 persons every year-and of ihoso who aro sick and invalid and disabled, and the value of their sick' bill and the value of tho time of those who nurse them, etc., ?kc., must run up into incal culable million? of dollars-an utter loss to the Nation. Then the money value of tho time and industry of the perhaps 6-." 3.000 men. variously idle or employed all over thu land, os a directconsequence of the liquor traffic, jailors, detectives, policemep, watchers, constables, jury men, witnesses, clerks, judges-two thirds of whom aro necessitated by in temperance-men diverted iYcin produc tive works-and the money value of the hundreds of officers and servants and nurses, etc., etc., over and io our State and county institutions-so far os obliged to be so employed by liquor-would run up to scores of millions of dollars more. And we have, at thc very lowest, between two and three million of men wasted every year to the nation by and in cou sequence of the liquor business. And now what is tho appalling- aggre gate of our natural waste ? $1,000,000, O00 misemployed capital in the country (in 1867) invested in the horrible busi ness. I do not know what it ia to-day. Between thirty and forty millions of dol lars annually squandered in grain ; over $700.000,000 spent every year for strong drink direct. Hundreds of millions of dollars of lost timo and labor, through men engaged in the business, or directly and indirectly employed outside of pro ductive work in consequence of it. And the vu'uo.of the various buildings of the entlra country, so far as they are obliged tV> exist, on account of liquor, penitentia ries, work-bouses, lock-ups, asylums, alms-houses, private charitable ' institu tions, etc., together with the amazing suma directly taken from tho people iu taxes to maintain and protect society from tho perils and insecurity caused by this universally disturbing traffic, and in addition to this the money value to the people of all the property, public and private, destroyed on the land and on the sea by the baoi". of intemperance, and wc are obliged to state the national waste caused by liquor, directly and indirectly, at several thouaand millions of dollars every year. In f ye word-.i of another : "The liquor traffic is marshalled against civilization, liberty, justice, humanity, morality and religion. It produces poverty, ignorance, crimes of every degree, idiocy, vice, in ri an i tv, madness, disease and death." At least $2,000,000,000 every year are lost to the American people by thia uni versal and iniquitous institution. Will uot heaven's awful retribution descend on tho notion unless there is repentance and reform? The Care of the Eyes. According to Dr. R. B. Carter, a dis tinguished English specialist, most of the blindness in civilized communities is due to ignorance and negligence. lu a valuable work on the eyesight just is I sued Dr. Carter holds that but a small percentage of defective vision is due to natural causes. Of persons generally supposed to havo been "born blind" he states that probably 99 out bf every 100 "bring with them into the world eyes as food and ns useful os thosoof their neigh ors." The causes of blindness in infants are more frequently to be found in care lessness and ignorance than in all pos sible injuries and diseases nut together" and ore chiefly due< to the neglect of proper, precautions ns io light, cleanli ness and temperature.. The eyes of in fants are not more sensitive to light, but owing to the imperfect development of the bones of the skull and to other defi ciencies they are not protected as aro tho eyes of older children and of adults. Great caro is therefore necessary to pre vent their vision from being impaired or totally destroyed by sudden or constant exposure to ? dazzling light. Impure air, cold draughts and sudden changes to a lower temperature also have a disas trous effect. Later on in life, myopia or short-sighted ness, that jso?t annoying and unnecessa ry form of visual failure, is produced most frequently through ignorance aa to the importance of saving tue eyes. Per sons of strong, healthy night are tempted to uso or rather abuse their eyes without reference to tte future, ana the conse quence is that in a very few vars they oro distressed to find that n& can no longer distinguish objects at a little dis tance, end that much of tho lifo, tho color and tho charm'of a landscape, ns well as tbs individuality of faces and forms, is wholly loot to them. In this connection the significant fact is cited that there.is ss alarming increase or de velopment-of shortsightedness during Bchool-life, and that it is largely duo to preventable canses. Badly-lighted schools, with imprope-ly constructed desks and seato for children form, ac cording to Dr. Carter, "2 great ma chinery for the development of "myo pia" Badly-printed hooke, the uso of prtl? ??iu iffipcrfc?? ink tts Vt Tiling, t" gother with tho causes already men tioned, combino lo mako the escape of some school-children from short-sighted ness little leif? ?bran marvelous. The injury or the eyes fu adulta- iu often due to insufficient or excessive light; the want or misuse of spectacles, impurity of the air, too prolonged and uninterrupted'nee of tho eyes, sudden exposure . to intense Iight, and other causes which may readi y be avoided with a little care and dis cr?tion. The increasing attention which is being directed to the care of tho eyes by tho admonitions of specialists and the diffusion of wider knowledge on tho sub ject will probably result in great and permanent good. Certainly if a reform can bo effected in the appliances of our schools alone, with a view of preventing short-sighteducss, - the discussion will have accomplished vast and mos-V benefi cial results. . "VT???E? NsvEit THINK.-If the crab bed old bachelor who uttered this seuti ment could but witness tho intense thought deep study and thorough inves tigation of women in determining the best medicines to keep their families well, and would note their sagacity and wisdom in selecting Hop Bittern as the best, and demonstrating it by keeping their fami lies in perpetual health, at a mere nomi nal expense, he would bo forced to ac knowledge that such sentiments aro baseless and false.-Picayune. - Tom Jaye? would fight anybody br ? anything at a moment's ne',.ce, and yet ho bad to be coaxed for two weeks to have a tooth pulled. - The Governor 01 Texas was burned in effigy, in Montagne county on Satur day, 8tn instant, on account of his action I in commuting the death sentence of Krebs I and Preston. Abridged from "A Talk With Girls asid Their Mothers.*' "Hut there are girls, too, in thc cities and tho towns. Do not they deserve to be talked with in a friendly way, aa well as the boys ? Haven't you something te say to them ?" Thus a chorus of girls, and their mothers. I confess to you. maidens and matrons, that tho task to wf.ichyou thus summon ed me waa ono that-I undertook with some diffidence. When I was talking to boys I was sure of my ground. Something about boys I du know, for I have been a boy ; but Loo wisdom of experience fail? me when I try to discuss tue prob lems of life as they present themselves io girls. That I might have something worth saying I determined, ' therefore, to seek instruction by sending a circular letter to a large number ot those who once wore girls, but who now are women I of experience and reputation, asking them to tell rae- > ? "1. What are the most common de ? fects in the training of our girls ? ( "2. What principles of conduct are ? most important, and what habits most esi sent?a!, to tho dovlopcmeut of a useful and noble wamanbood?" This circular, brought mo more than forty letters, and it is upon the truths contained in these letters that this talk will bo founded. I only undertake to re flect, iu an orderly way, some of tho ad vice of those wise women. I shall give you their words sometimes, and sometimes my own. I shall find it necessary, now and then, to turn in this talk from the girls to theil mothers.. Indeed, a large share of wbal ls written in,theso letters is intended foi mothers rather than for girls, and cannot therefore, be BO freely used in this pla? as I should like to uso it; but tho girli are generous enough,-1 am Bore, tc b< willing that their mothers, and theil fathers too, should have some share of th? advice. In the first place, then, girls make i great mistake in being careless about the! saith. I do not'know that they an any more careless than boys, but tbei habits of life, and especially their hab its of dress, are generally taoro inju rious to. health than those, ?f boys. Tin great; majority, of our girL' take much les vigorous exercise in tho open air' than i good for them; tbos? wuo can wall three or four miles without exhaustioi are exceptions. "It seems to me a mistake," says on of rry. correspondents, "that boys au gi ri A hh oui d be trained sp differently, pat Medially In regard to out-of-door sport! With a strops love for everything in ns ture, I remember ns a child what tortor it was tobe kept always in-doors, in som feminine employment, while my stron brothers (strong on this very accoun perhaps) could spend all their leisui timo in the open air. I was much interei ted years ago in reading asketch of Hai riet Hosmer's girlhood. Her fathe having lost all h's children by consume tlon, and finding ber delicate, resolvei to bring ber up aa a boy, teaching he all sorts of athletic Bports, and thus mal ing her a strong, healthy woman. The lack of exercise on the part of gir is due, no doubt, in part, to the foolie styles of dress, in which itiB impossible fe them to bo out in rough weather, or I make any considerable muscular exe tion, "The lack of warmth in clothin and the foolish adjustment of what worn," is said in one of these letters to I ono of tho chief causes that produce "tl peculiar nervous diseases to which worn? are subject." I wish I could make you all underarm how great a mistake you make when ye sacrifice health, or tho physical comic on which health depends, to appearan or to any other earthly good ; when y< neglect to provide, hy regular exerci and wise care, ? good stock of physic vigor for the labors and burdens of tl coming years. Without this foundatio all that you can learn in Behool, ai all that wealth can buy for you, w be worthless. "Intellect in ?n enfc bled body," says some one whom I que from memory, "is like gold in a soe swimmer's pocket,-it only makes hi sink tho sooner." - Another great mistako that many orr girls are making, and that tb mothers are either encouraging or : lowing them co make, is that of spendi their time cut of school in idleness, in frivolous amusements; doing no wc to speak of, and learning nothing nbc the practical duties and'the serious ca of lifo. It.is not.only in tho wenlth families that the giris - Are1 growing indolent raul unpracticed in houBehi work ; indeed, I think that more att< tion ia paid to tho industrial traini nf girls in the wealthiest' families th in the families of mechanics and of peo; in moderato circumstances, where 1 mothers aro compelled to work hard tho while. The habits of indolence and of he lessnesB that are thus formed aro not I greatest evils resulting from this I practice: tho selfishness that it fest is the worst thing about iL How dev of conscience, how lacking in all true se of tenderness, or oven of justice, a j must be, who will thus consent to i vote all her time out of ??hool to pic uring, while her mother ls bearing the heavy burdens of tho household ! A the foolish way in which mothers th? selves sometimes talk about this, ?' In tho pr?sence of their children, mischiovous in the extreme. "O, ? tie is BO absorbed in her books, or crayons, or her embroidery, that she ta no interest in household matters, an do not like to call upon her." As if daughter belonged to a superior or of beings, and must rot soil her ha or ruffle her temper with necessary hot work I The mother is the drudge ; daughter is the fina lady for whom toils. No mother who suffers such a s of things as this can preserve the res*, of her daughter : and the respect of daughter no mother can afford to los Tho result of all this is to form in minds of many girls, not only a dist for labor, bnt a contempt for it, an Eurpose to avoid lt aa long *aa. they y some means or other. There is scarcely one of these f letters which does not mention thL one of tho chief errors in the trainin] our girls at tho ' present day. It is universal, but it is altogether too pr lent.' And I want to say to you, g that if you are allowing youreelvei grow bp with such habits of icdoli andsuch notions about work, you preparing for yourselves a miserable ture. Closely connected with what has been said, ia tba mistake cf many j in making dress themain business of I quote now from one of my let whose writer bas bad unusual opporl ties of observing tho things she scribes: "From the time when the little one totter to' the mirror 'to r.ee 'how sw< abe looks in ber new bat/ to the ! when tho brido at the altai gives i thought to tho arrangement of her i and veil than to the vows she in ta upon herself, too large a share of and thought is devoted by mothers daughters to dress." "I have beard," writes ooo of ny cor respondents, "a vain mother" say of her beautiful baby, Tm so glad it's a girl : I can dress her so much finer than I could a boy.'" O woman I woman 1 to what depths of d?gradation you have sunk when you can look into the. face of a baby lying in your lap,-the face of a child that God has given you to train for the service of earth and the glory of heaven,-and have such a thought as that find a moment's lodgement in your mindi The pity of it, tho pity of it, that children should ever be given to Buch women I It ?9 one of the inscrutable things of Provi dence. What can Buch a woman do but destroy the BOUIS of her children ? Ido not think that the girls, or their mothers, ere wholly to blame for this ab sorbing devotion to dress. The vanity of women is stimulated by tho foci tsbnessof men. A young women who is modestly and plainly clad is much leas likely to attract tho notice of young mon than ono who . is gorgeously arrayed. From bright, intelligent, finely cultured, sensible girls, whoso chief adorning is not the adorning pf braided bair, or golden or naments, or of gay clothing, tue young men often turn away in ouest of some creaturt all glittering in silks and jewel? 3', with a dull mind and a selfish heart, ut I beseech you to remember, girls, that a youtig man who cares for nothing but "et;, n " in a woman is a young man whose admiration you can well afford to do without. JJ; that is ail he cares for in you, you cannot trust his fidelity;-when you and your finery have faded; tome bird in gayer feathers .than you are wearing will easily entice him away from you, ana tho sacred ties of marriage and parentage will provo no barrier to hin wayward fan cies. The girl who catches a husband .by fine drees too often finds i that the prize she has won. is a broken heart. .? Another mistake that many of our girls are making is in devoting too much ol their time to novel-reading.. The reading of an occasional novel of pure and health ful tone may bo not only an innocent di version, buta good mental stimulant; bat tho reading of the lighter sort of nov els (which, if they do not teach bad mor ality, do represent life in a morbid and unreal light, and awaken cravings thal never can be satisfied), and the reading of one or two or three o? thom in a week os is tho common habits of many of om girls, must provo grievously injurious t< their miuds ? ud hearts. It is mental dis sipatiou of a very dangerous sort; its in Aneubo is moro insidious than, but ] I am not Bure that it is not quite as fata to character as, the habitual uso of strom, drink. Certainly the mental dissipatioi of novel-reading is vastly more preva lent than the other sort of dissipation not only in "the best society," but in th second best, as well; and five women* lives are ruined by the one where on life is wrecked by the other. "Ruined,' do I say ? Yes ; uo weaker word tell the wholo truth. This intemperate crav lng for sensational fiction weakens th mental grasp, destroys the love of goo reading, and tho power of sober and to .tional thinking, takes away all relis from the realities of lifo, breeds discor tent and indolence and selfish ness, an makejr tho: ono who'is addicted to it weak, frivolous, petulant, miserable bc ing. I Bee girls all around mo in whoi these results are working themselves ot steadily and fatally. Another mistake which our girls ai making-or which their parents ai making-is foo early initiation into tl excitements and frivolities of what called society. It was formerly the ru for girls to wait until their Bchool-da; were over before they made their appea ance in fashionable society. At wh age, lot ?B inquire, does the averaj young lady of our cities now make h debut f From my observations, I shou answer it at about the age of three. Th? are not older than that when they begin Sy to children's parties, for whh ey are dressed as elaborately they would be for a fancy ball. Fro this age onward they are never out of s ciety ; by the time they are six or eig years oid they aro members of clubs, ai spend frequent eveuings out, and the d mandu of social diversion and displ multiply with their years. "It seems to mo," writes another, "tb ono prominent defect in our mode training of girls is undue basto in ma ing them society young ladies, and eui vating a fondness for admiration by la iah display of dress. Before leaving t nursery, many a ch?d does penance being made a figure on which a vt mamma may gratify her taste in ciega fabrics aud exquisite laces to be exhil ted at a fashionable children's pari This trait easily becomes a controlli one, and girls scarcely in teens, with t blaze manner of a woman of the wei will sum a lady's dress, tell you at or the quni.iy of the material, the rarity the laces, the value of tho jewels-ey veuturo an opinion whether or not it one of Worth's latest designs, show] what opt scholars they have become.' I am sure thai the early contact oft girls with tho vanities and the insinci ties and the excitements of social 1 is doing a great injury to many of thc Girls of from twelvo to sixteen years age, who ought to be in bed ev J ry ni] al nino o'clock, are out at parties midnight, and sometimes later, thus . straying their health and keeping tl young heads filled with thoughts wh are not conducive to healthy mental moral growth. And ss for the children's parties which my correspondents apply, word* such severity, I cannot conceive a thing more hurtful than they are, in way that the? are Generally manu If a little company of children could" brought together In the afternoon or the early evening, all plainly dressed that they might romp and play to tl hearts' content and take no thought their raiment-if they could be heall ly fed, and wisely amused, with no rei to kissing games, and no suggestloi beaux-that would be inuocent coon but to dress these children in silks : laces, in kid gloves and kid slippers-v frizzed hair and jewelry-to parado tl up and down the drawing-rooms for foolish mothers whd aro in attendanc comment on their dresses in their hear saying, "O. you dear little thing 1 I street you look 1 What a bcouti ful dr How that color becomes hcrl" then chaff them about their lovers and sw hearts, and laugh at their prccw flirtations,-ob, it is pitiful I plti I say .to you, mothers,-that if there any children for whom my heart aches these innocont, beautiful children whe being sacrificed on the altars of fofl fashion.' The children of the poor, t ly elad, poorly fed, rudely taught, not any mor? to b? pitied tum ar? EL of the children of tho rich ; their bc may suffer more/but their souls are any more likely to bo pampered and rupted and destroyed. 1 will mention only one more sad toko which some. J, hope. not many our girls are mski. j*, and it shall bc scribed for you in tho language of who bai hod the amplest opporlunit, knowing whereof she speaks, . "The most common defect in the ti ing c "girls ia, in my judgment, th? fiorlng of the command to honor obey parents. From the ago of thin girl* and parents alika seem to regard thie commandment as a dead letter. The girl of thirteen regards herself as her own mistress; she is . already a woman in her own estimation, and hos a right to do as she likes. If she prof?re po go to parties, sociables, and ao.fortb, .three or four evenings in a week, rather' than ?pend her evening* lu study, she does so. Both she and ber parente, however, 'ex* peet and demand that sho io tobe : nuked at graduation as high fs th a laborious, self-denying, faithful worker io her class, "Again, in one congregation in this city I know of four cases well worthy of thoughtful consideration. The four fault ? ?lies all are respectable, such people as form tho majority of your own con^r^ges tion. In each of three of these fumilies ia only ono child. Bach one of these three girls left school when she cho?r. to do so, went'into society when she pleased, spent aa much time on tho street as sba liked, and all three, still under twenty( have n viv become a by-word and reproach among all who know them. In the fourth family, there were three girls, two of whom cast off all restraint, while father, and mother wore regularly taking part in prayer meetings. This father and mother excused themselves by saying they did not know what their girls were doing, yet the girls lived at home all thc time and their neighbors knew all about their conduct." This habit of running loose, of constant* ly seeking the street for amusement, and oven of making, chance *cquaibtauccs there, is practiced by some of the girls ol our good families, and it is not at all pleasant to see them on the public thor oughfares, aud.tb witness their boyden ish wayo. I know that they- toaan ru harm by it, but it '-.ften results in barm the delicate bloom of maiden modesty ii soiled by too much familiarity with tin public streets of a city, and a kind o boldness Ja acquired which is not becom lng in a woman. . Such aro some of the errors which ar< frequently committed In the training o our girls, and some of .the dangers b which they are exposed ; I am sure' thai ?ou will see that none of them are imag nary, and that all of them are serious I know that many- of yon girls, am mothers, too, aro. fully aware of them and on your guard against .them. If '. havo succeeded in drawing tho mon careful attention of any of you to any o them, t shall net have written in vaiu. Sf. Nichotatfor Mag. That Boy. Tho other day a lady, accompanied b; her son, a very small boy, boarded ' train at Little Kock. The woman had careworn expression hanging over be face like a tattered vail, and many of th rapid questions asked by the boy wer answered by? unconscious sighs. . io ..Mai" said tao boy, "that man's like baby, ain't ho ?" pointing to a bald-head ed man sitting just in front of them. "Hush." "Why must I bush ?" "After a few moments' silence, "M: wbat'a the matter with that man head?" "Hush, I tell you. Ho's bald." "Wbatvabaldr" - "His head hasn't got any hair on it, "Did lt come off?" "I guess so." "Will mine come off?" "Sometime, may bo." "Then I'll bo bal j, won't I ?" "Yes." "Will yon care?" "Don't ask so many questions." After another silence the boy e: claimed: "Ma, look at that fly on tb man's bead. "If you don't bush I'll whip you wht wa get home." "Look I - There's another fly. Look 'em fight ; look at 'em I" "Madam,'.' said tho man putting aaii a newspaper and looking around, "wb is the matter with that young hyena?" The woman blushed, stammered o Something, and attempted to smoo back the boy's bair. "Ono fly, two fly, throe flies." said tl boy innocently, following with hie ey a basket of oranger, carried by the new boy. "Here, you young hedgo-hog,"said tl baldheaded man, "if you don't bush I bavn the conductor put you - off tl train." The poor woman, not knowing wb else to do, boxed the hoy'? ears, and tb gave him an orango to keep him fro crying. "Ma, have I got red marks on - n head?" .Til slap you again if you don't bust ''Mister," said the boy,-after a she silen.ie, "does it hurt to bo bald-hen ed?" . "Youngster." eaid the man, "if you keon quiet I'll give you a quarter," Tue ooy promised and the money w paid over. "Tho man took np his paper and i aumed bis re**di*u*v. "This is my bald-headed money,'' at tbe boy. "When i get bald-headed I goin' to give boys money. Mister, ba all bald-headed mon got money?" Tho annoyed man threw down his \ Ecr, aroao and exclaimed : . "Mada creafter when you travel leave tl young . gorilla at home. Hitherto always thought that the old prophet v very cruel lot calling the she bears kill children for making snort of 1 hqad, but now I ?rn forced' to believe tl he did a Christian': act. If your boy h been in the crowd be would bave di first. If I can't find another seat ont train I'll ride on the cowcatcher ratl than romain here," "The bald-headed man is gone," ai the boy and the woman leaned back n blew n tired sigh from her lips.-Xi Hock Gazette. - A curious looking package, i dressed to Samuel J. Tilden, .was left Mr. Tilden's residence in Gramercy Pi recently. It proved to bo a double-fa ax of brilliantly polished steel,, wit! handsome handle of hickory wood, one face of tho ax were the initials "S T." With the ax was a letter etat that it was made and presented by Jai Curran of ,616 . Washington street. 1 Curran is a mechanic and a devoted mirer of Mr. Tihk -. The gift, he ai was entirely aymUfiieal. The hick stick is in remembrance of Andrew J? son, and the two faces of the ax rei Renting two presidential terms. It io, Curran's desire, he says, that Mr. TilrJ on entering the White "??use in li carry wita him tht ax Xe, serve aa a c ?tant reminder to tho future occupy or the White House not to allow tl *~ - ."-?ti ....... ..WM .- . ?- >fw W UIVJIO .?IC.?? termo. _? _ , ?. - Watroua was inclined te break engagement to marry Miss Swayno, Galveston, but abe insisted that ho she keon his promise. Ho said that ho willing to take bis chance on the tost of a cent-held to marry, and tail no marry."Miss Swayno consented. 1 cent woo thrown, and Watrous won. ' girl, however, refused to abide byi d?cision, and bas began ? lawsuit damages. Bill Aro Dis??ese? a Privilege Ones* Mon. % , Mu. EDITOR : It ls not ruy dlspoaU tlon to complain much about anything, but then it sometime! becomes aa necev snry foran umbieindividual to set him* self right before tho public as it is for Alex. Stephens, or any other member of Congress "who h ss to publish a weekly peraonni rnrd. I therefore rise to a question of privilege. When I was com* mcntingj^n my last upon the hardships and severity of the cid niuo laws of Connecticut, and mentioned ono of 'era that fined a man twenty shillings for "kissing" bis wifo on L ?mday, some ia dividual in your of ?kv, ii../J--'.cd by Satan, modo me to say "killing . Instead of kissing; and the idea bas gone forth tn your numerous readers that my opinion in :hac the fine was too much/.hai it was dis proportioned tc the offense. Then, again, its a reasonable inference that if it was only twenty shillings for killing a wife on Sun-lay, it wouldn't bo anything on a Monday. I'm afraid I'll never get over thL. That type setter is, I reckon, a Universalist, and ha? no fear pf the bad ftinco, or eUe he's tied to a wife io law hat ho can'tmanage no better than he does his mother-in-law, and is mad be cause tho old blue laws are out of date. Nov?, I think that the intention of the anti-Sunday wife kissing law waa good, considering that those old puritans wanted to force a man to bo extremely bumble and abject on the Lord's day, for if a man has got a pretty, wife, and she comes out arrayed io hor . basti clothes with a little touch of cologco Itv the hair and a sweet Sunday amita Ho her lips, he bad better not ooculate much if he is aeriouqly trying to be bumble, for there is a degree of exhaustion about! thst business that knocks up all hu mility. Well, the scriptures do say that when Jacob kissed Rachel he lifted up bis volco and wept, but I reckon that was because she wasn't his wife right then, and he was afraid she never would be. Or it may be she was the fire?1- wo man he ever did kiss, and it overtime him so ho wept for joy. I'veoften von dered at the poor fellow's devotion to .he ?firl-worked for the stingy old father parteen years for nothing, and had to take the giri in rotation, at that. Miss Rachel Laben must have been the pret tiest girl in all the country to have ini ? spired that long Buffering ??ve,. fur ino like of it don't happen now a ?sys, nei ther among Jews nor Gentiles. The main' thing POW is not how pretty eho is, hat! how much boot will the old' man throw; . in. I wish I could see a young man: dead in love with a purty girl, ana when: he asked for her hear too pld man say, "well, that's all right, you may have her,i but you must set in and-plow and boo and dig on my farm for seven years first." Why he would take it as an insult, and: run away with her in two weekB. I any seven years ! He would'n work nary lick, but he would want tho old man to work for him wLilo he and Apgllna were spending the summer at Catoosa Springs. But I reckon its all right, only I don't like to hear of a young man examining the old man's tax returns before he courts; his daughter, One day I was called be fore the war to help an old man parcel I out his property ; I thought he wanted to make a will, bat no, he wanted to ad minister ou his own estai e just Uko he was dead, for ho bad an l?ea that some of hin children were getticg a little Im patient. Ho said be waited to please 'em, but he didn't want to di* to do it ; and so ho divided his negroes and bis lands and his stock and notes cr d money all into six lots, five for the children and one for the widow, and be guvo it to 'em by deeds and billa of salo, and then be went homo happy and lived with his widow till he died. I reckon that's a very good way, for when a man gets old and tired, its well enough to cut loose from care and business and execute biB own will, provided ho keeps enough to make hic.celf comfortable. It is a piti ful sight to ECO a maa work os hard as A. T. Stewart did, and as BOOU as ho dies some f?ier, no kin to him, steps in and gobbles up his cumins, and then some vandals come along and steal his bones and hide 'em. That's bad, aint it? I believe I'd rather be what I am, an um hie farmer with a good pleasant homo, and not enough of this world's goods to excite S?ybOuy'? ?DVy, I've worked hard Co-day, harder than usual, and I'm tired, and when I'm tired, I feel honest and happy. I've been setting out potato slips, and had to g*/. down to it. It's a hack bendin?; Kw knee bending business. Mr. Motwti sent me about 2,000 from Vino Hill, and a whole lot of tomato plants, and as . thc day was cloudy, mo and Ralph, my twenty-year-old. undertook the job. We don't raise such slips down here; they were nearly two- feet long; I thought at first they were some of last year's vines ha bad cnuillated and ? kept over. I be lieve it would pay me to go un and stay a month with him and learn now tb do things. If I was a young man I would choose -horticulture for my profession ; there's more ?cS?ci?ent about it than farming. Now, if somebody will tell roy wife how to raise young turkeys she will bo perfectly happy;-she bas a sick ODO every day wrapped up in a rog by the fire ?nd it dies every time, and the chit* dren dig another little grave and bury it and Btick up two more slicks. My wife gives 'em black pepper and onions mix ed'with doagb, oed ere ry th lng eise tn?? the old women tell her, but they just ketp dying like they did lost year. It grieves the good woman to see the little thiniis suffer so. and it zrlevcs me to think I wont have any for Christmas un less I buy 'em. . Yours, BILL A RP. Cartersville, Ga., May 18, '80. - Henry Watterson deals wllb a Btory long current in political circles that Til dan held a mortgage for $350,000 on the Louisville Courier-Journal building by saying in an interview that he went to Tilden "as my lawyer," asking him to negotiate a loan ana thnt Tilden intro duced Watterson to S. D. Babcock who, with A R. Eno. another New York cap italist, advanced the money wanted. r*It is and was a purely business matter." says Mr. Watterson, but under all tho circum stances it bi not surprising that a differ ent construction hos bein placed upon the .subject. - Professor A. Graham Bell bas de posited wi*.? the Smithsonian Institute ? sealed pacasge containing an account cf the first resulta obtained by him with an Instrument which he conceived two years ago, and by which light can be transmit ted inat ?a thn ?^l#>n]ione transmita sound. "Whether this means," saysjho Boston jieratd, "that tho actual sunlight which, for inttanco, is flooding London or Con stantinople while Boston Hes steeped in darkness of night, may be cabled to the Hub for illuminating purposes, or wheth er it is that images of objects may be made visible nt a distance, does not ap pear." M| ? ' . Worms do exist in toe human body to a great extent, and aro often the causes of disease and death.' Sbrincr's Indian Vermifuge will destroy and oxpel them from tho system. 1 ?" . :,"IM' 1 11 '."-^ Tho WIiHUker Crue. It is possible that som? person at West Foi nt eateroa! Cadet Whittaker's- room while ho was ?.way and stole the papel on which to wr!'a a note warning hint that ho wai to be "fixed." It ia possible that there is a person at West Point so Sod a hind st forging, and who has so oroughly studlea Whiualcer's writing that be could imitate lt In euch ? way as to deceivo five very ' studious experts: though this would imply that tho person is more skilful in that Uno than any de tected rogue, who over went to; Statq prison, lt is posible, as Whittaker prs^ tends; that the resemblances In paper which seem so strong a point against him are only general.: It ia possible even fori Whittaker io have so. torn a sheet QI ?iaper that a piece torn by another man rom another sheet would fit with Whit taker's pieces so' as to make the apparent reconstruction of a perfect sheet. All these points are possible. But iwhat la; tho probability of their occurrence? .Or,' above all, what ls tbo'prbbnbllity of tho, coincidence of so many bf them as moat coincido to establish Whittaker's inttoi canoe? Perhaps the reader scarcely needs,to be informed that tho probability of ?bel occurrence in one train1 ' ?- circumstances; of BO many barely or remotely pbsoiblo facts is iufluitely small. But if we eup pose that copies of Whittaker's chirog-: rapby had been secured, that choy badi been fetudiod so well as to m ak o possible) wonderfully successful Imitations, - that poper froto hil own room had beep stolen,! tho note written upon.this and safoly do n?sited where ba alono would find it, and If we suppO30 that all the Italian or Mn-jhlavelllau traits thus implied aro 'to ba found in the bold and sometimes nb atreporous boyB with which West Point is filled un, .what must wo suppose, wai the motive ? Was it a friendly Intima tlob? Why would that friend wi?Vt? 'mitote, Whittaker'o hand ? Wa* it thc act of an enemy? Wpuld an enemy warn a man if ho knew bim to be ip danger, but not in such danger as to in volve loss of life? In order to get any motireatall which will connect all these Machiavellian proceedings with tho send' lng of tho note of warning we must cup noso that the shadowy personages who uid tho hazing imagined that Whittakei wbttld be accused of outraging himself, and ihey miwi have iiimgipcd tuio nov Ri the last moment hilt from the first step and have counterfeited bis hand lo malu the note a part of tho evidence agalhai him. This is a violent hypothesis.^. Does even Professor Greener believe tba this is possible ? But it requires neither tho admissibi of a very violent hypothesis nor the rc cognition of the likelihood of the occuc ronce of a wholo range of' unlikely fact' if we suppose that whittaker, hi meei wrote the warning and did his own out rage. For this it requires only that wi should believe Whittaker to be a cluttts? trickster and deceitful rogue. Is it like ly that Whittaker would deceive on; one? In judgi.bg the .possibilities, bi this seora we hove somo'incta to measiin by. . Whittaker said that he was beato, with an Indian club, and the bloody dal was found in his roo-a. No bruises wer found on him, however, 'that the clul could have given, and the doctors sa: blood was drawn from him only at th ears. Ho himself testifies that bia ear were cut only after tho clubbing was don with. Who, then, daubed tho club wit blood ? There is a decided appearadc. that it was Whittaker. - He pretende that be was unconscious for seven hours ; but his own testimony shows th. be was in a sound and conscious cond tion at the very time di which bis thom of the outragesupr.cy?d bim to bo hel| lesa and senseless. > He pretended be wi so tied that bo could not escape; but h hands were practically free and the kno were within his roach. Those polKs will indicar?' shelbi Whittaker would try to deceive *nybod; He |s reported to have said that ibo; di crepanoics in his testimony provo ?Sis i: nocence,. since if ho had invented, h ?tory ho would not have varied from i This'only indicates that ho baa nevi studied tbs subject of evidence, and th he does, not understand all that ia mea' by tho ancient law, which declares tb "Liars must have good memories." ? is uot strong os to memory.-Xvcw Ju? Herald. THE C^OTEDEUATJBB. A jut Y.~-For E Slishmen especially, tao story of tl Lmorican civil war must always poss* tho mott powerful attractions. On bo Bides the principles involved were > tiro which most deeply; affect our own na?p al feeling; the language, tho raco; tl ideas of th? combatants were our ow Tho army of Northern Virginia in pu ticular, from the uaturo of the defence bad to maintain, and the chartacer earned and sustained, enlisted,, and w for generations' continue to ?nlis:, t; strongest English sympathies. It fong v;ith English tenacity, English indiffi ence to ,odds, what Was frc ra the first' very doubtful and soonbec-.^.-.e an c! dently losing battle. Once only was fairly beaten in open field: over a over again, both ontho offensive and ? ?be defensive, it proved: jtsclf moro th a match for apparently overwhelm! odds. Ita composition, resembled ft closely that of our own volunteer rc, monts. Ita chiefs were men whoso < p Bona! character and public conduct d ployed ali tho virtues on which. Eoglii most pride themselves ; aa the j* iJ.o of Virginia are perhaps tba m thoroughly English of eli the- many < rf.-?!* which tim mo?iP.r raen hnn. nfanl in every part or thc world., General I waa as perfect a typo of the English fl dior ana gentleman a-j hiatcry can '?hr. "Stonewall" Jackson reproduced, w many of its eccentricities, but acaro ona of its worse end meaner features, j histori? character of the Puritan lend. Stuart, l'iizhugh Lee and Wade Han (^>n reminded ihoao who.closely rollo? their career of the finest examples of I allah Cavalier loyalty and simplicity Landon Saturday Review. - Mr. Eddy gave Miss Hintzlomai fine set of jowelry, at Newberrt, N. and she wore it for several wtoks. Tl ho brought a suit-to recover it, on ground that he had simply lent it to 1 She testified that, bv the terms of a ? thal agreement, she was to pay fox* jewelry by kissing Mr. Eddy every rat ing for a hundred days. He called > Sot his kiss, on bis way to work, ev ay for about a month. Then he g bold, and wanted to take a hug aa wei a kiss. -There waa no provision in bargain for hntnring. and eh o re pul him^evea rcsirfctiug'his kisses to a n ioUCIJ Oi ' itio ii|ia vi uer en?oar. thought he was Jdhg cheated, and he his effort to recover. - A couple in the backwoods cf MI gan desired to marry, but they Wera within reach of a clergyman or: Jual There .waa not, in fact, a human bi within twenty miles. So they VT roto as much of a marriage ceremony aa 1 could remember, including niSruu* responses, signed their names to the < ument, and pronounced themselves J band and wife. '"?.."?"?.?'i'T'?*?'*??'?^^ i .' i J," : Waa? Hawyfan atul flin Leg? It is rather monterai to look au Wado Hampton ' lo the Senate: narring hi? stump of is J?g and subjecting hi? splen did physique to the disgrace of crutches. He 13 the only cripple in tho body-I moan visibly so.1, To be sure hi? col. league, the dashing Butler, baa but one leg, but.you rrilgui watch bim move about for ten y/Ja#/A'i4 .not kuow it, so perfectly docs hf* ?ri' Age bis cork. To bo sure, too, there?-. j moa who suffer, sometimes1 intensely, for tryi rtg to otop bullets la the late unp?easantTic like Gordon nnd Ransom and Maxey : hut their infirmities are hot visible Not sr with Hampton. He is ia the very primo of life, scarcely wer.fifty, sud ahopelcss cripple. Nobody ; feels ?pala on hooking at Aleck Stephens, for Iii?ease is j?st'tho result of a'stow' anti'natural process of' decay, which ho ratler scorns to relish. /Hat you insensibly fed a de?p sympathy with Hampton's loos as with ibo late tonator Morton's, infirmities,, becnuso otb came along prematurely, like, tho hurricane on the oak. and marred.pow erful frames. A_d tho General croons over his abbrev'vitcd limb al!, tho .ti:no not in any growing br teoty spirit, for ho ia the soul of patience, hut it must bo remembered that his whole life has' been -one of - nerve; vim, dash, and his present . forced innctivity.muat only intensify - tho memory of bia flaring tJploits and "iaov iug accii^nts.by flood aud field." Can it be suppl *J& ?hat when Morton sat in the Senate, a big, chained dog; the defense less p'ey of the smallest .cur thaft hod legs md could use thom, ho never fretted af tho picture'of his" past activity," whpn -he Used td' bound into the s?dulostbls Governor'sh(3ce>in wat. times; anddiuh ito camper arsenal} the very embodiment of, physical vigor as he lashed bis horae VO a* white foam through tho excited weeta?- No wonder, then, that while tho General nurses his leg, hoalso nuraos manly regrets. Several interesting hmi donta happened lately Ia 6 single dayl as told by ene of Hampton's intimate friends. The General, iii tho hope of picking : up some ; views about cut legs, . nasa way.".of stopping peoplo similarly nflflcted. As he, wa? standing .on -his crutches in tho main hall, near the Sen ate entrance, a large roan came along, rbi* light? legi lott above the knee, and ho bad some patent -arrangement that scorn ed Uko a framework, light and portable, to help him out of his scrape. Accoat Tri* nlrb. Hdmhtori spoke of their mutual 'infirmities, and asked how that arrange ment: worked. "Very well/'replied tho stranger. "It is an invention of my owo"-and ho weat on to explain lt. "May I ask where you lost your leg?" inquired' tho General..' "Yes. certain!)*, it wept off when Hampton charged our liattery at Gettysburg." ' "Indeed ; I'm grieved to hear lt;*1 said tho General, verysiricerely; "My name is Hampton." They shook h?nc\a very warmly over the .bloody:chasm,..und;the:stranger turned out, to be Beprcsentatiyo Caulk, pf Wis consin. t,;!Lator in tho day tho Gcucral wa?; on his way horno iu tho street car when a, man entered with only one arm? the other gone at the socket. The General invited bim to a seat and managed tho payment of his fare. "Wh?re did you losa your arra?" asked Hampton. * ; , "Well, slr, it was nt Geifyahurg," an swered tho man, "when Hampton made that terrific charge with his cavalry." Whereupon those two shook and made up and the manhow says if Hampton is put on the. Democratic ticket he ?ill swallow it hook and line. It was on the same bloody field that Fleasanton and Hampton mot as riva! cavalry leadens, and they met only ou. Wednesday last ?fer tho pipe of pesco. . Pleasanton waa enchanted with his old enemy, and said that ho was the drily.soldier ho over heard of who told Ins whole truth in case of defeat. Let me tell another in stance of, Hampton's kindheartedness, and then the reader can possibly judge why lt is that he is the idol of tho col Urea raer of thc South'. ? Recency: it wii*. oe remo. ?iDorcd, he went to Mississippi, cn tho death of his sou, While thoreho mot three old slaves of his. They called to pay thrir .respects, and in an apolo getic way told ^Wak* WedrJ" that they had to fight ibp.thalrfreedom end hoped UP ura uou wni bud about it Ga inquiry he lenrned of them that sdi three had been" woiinded oa board, the "Monarch" during tho war. They know; nothing hf how their account ntood, or might stand ander .ho law, w?tn the United.States Treasury,, and tho General's first act when'ho carno back waa to obtain thom t?euslohs, ThaVs tho way tho "rebel brigadiers" are deprivtug' th? Southern negroes of their rignta.-J?roo?^n iJ^fe A LANC WiTnorjr LiuaHtEB.-Tho Irish have been described'by novelista and travelers as llght-hca?ted and rol licking people-fell of fun and quick lo repartee-a devil-me-caro race of folksi equally ready to u?Uv5 or io nght. I havei not found thom so. I found thom . IQ the we*t e? ?re?*sd a sad and despon dent people : care-worn. broken hearted ?^shrouded in gloom. Nover once ia the hundreds of cabins I entered, never oneo. did I nee a merty eye or hear the sound of .?merry voice. Old men and boys, old women and girls-young men and maid? cns-all cf them, without a solitary ex ceptio^, were gravo or haggard, and every household^looked as if the plague of the ?ttl'born had smitten it that day. Rachel? weeping for her children, would have passed unnoticed among these worm hearted: oesiants. or. if she had been noticed they would bave only said: ''She is ooo of ns." A homo without a child ls cheerio?* enough : but hore, is a whole region without a child's laugh in it. Cabins full of children-and no boisterous glee I No need to teil these youngsters to be quiet The famine has tamed their restless spirits and they crowd around the bit of peat fire without uttering: a word. Often they do not look a secondtlrno at the stranger who comes into their cabin. Can Americana con ceive of e. country whose only happy children are In 'a public institution? If S?n can do BO, then you. see the west -of eland ia thc- winter of ?80U- Now, don't nay, .''God pity them ; 'just pity them yourself first They, need no more ?t&v?ra- but ihey nacd moro meal. 'James Redpath tn New York Tribune. - The condition of the ooh Air flocks all over Aria Minor ia causing the great est concern. Tho intense cold (the snow - in tuan* places having b$ea four to six feet deep, and rendering It impossible to teach the animals) is caasiag the death of hundreds of thousand*, ^ngora and ivrir uiucr?winc?? ^"tuvi* ?n??<?j ? ?wen bf SO per cent, suet tho moriahty wea continuing. - Miss Sarah Martin, ft Cherokee girl, wrote a letter to the EvangeliX iXL. Moody. The letter was shown to ti wealty friend of Mr. Moody, who vva* BO well pleased wUh it that he plwi?d $1,000 at the disposal of Mr. Moody for tho contl?uatlon of Miss. Max tin's education. - On tho 4th instant th? United Ststes Senate was presided over hy Bruce, tho colored Sonatox. from Misaissi pp!.