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^ ?* ? * i > * w# ^fes. ' * " ^ miIMa I II I I A. liEIVLISX OUT POPULAR EVENTS. '"TV . 1- -,.1-^ ; L?'??L- _l? 1 - 1 1 I I" . " ' _ ___lA geiot^d to |3rogr^5, the Rights of thq ?onth, and the gijfusiott of Useful |)ncu;tylge among all glasses of UHotjhtng gtten. I ??. .11 . ...--- h?? ? >1 ,i> |>. ? .. m ..,? n . . . ... ... - , I .? , - I . . 1 .? ...... I I m , i ii <Tji '7#j'i ji ' *v ." . . ' y."v '.* _*. 'i'."* ; \ i1- ? ? ? > )i ^ ' " f >? ^ ?*- > . *?-? . ? ? -- ? ?. . i J ) ,?<i, > ? . i i ! YOLUitE VI. ; GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORN INI!, DECEMBER 8. 1859. . NUMBER 81^^ Tifi SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE I Th# first ajArtning Indication 1*?* KU"I f"?" ho w*pn,i * ? ?*?-? Xa Uml jBirtrr *J?or?4ejr Mdmlai, ^ 3PBICE & fil'JUNKIN. PROPRIETORS. - s > Win. P. Prion C. M. MoJunkin. $1 a Year, in advance; $1.50, if delayed $rinM ^artrij. ^ i . ; , Prom the American Star, (Mexico.) I My Mountain Home.* jwrn. jud^.b uooir. Ob t gWb'ttio back my mountain home, Vher* the wind* aro fresh and fro<J, And thoeo with whom t ??od to roam, h Wlion heart* boat merrily. ,. Ob! gi?n m? book thoee hap^r bourn, . * '*+. tu2* J ha to whllod away, When freo -**om ow*'' controlling powers. And sorrow* blighting .way. Oh! gtre me back few' .-And beanty'a magic apel\> * 'And bring again, wtaate'er tho Coal, ina ?uui?o I i?.?? ? , Oh t give me back the early dream, Of better days to come, \ And thirst for glory ne'er again, tShiUl tempt mj feet to roam. h -~g? *>h! giro me back the cherished hope, That I vh lorcd by one, - - "Whose glance*, Wro ton* tone bright star, < Upon tny pathway shone. And when these Joys again are mine, And war's wild -antes are o'er, 111 cease far Artec maids to pine, And seek my native shore. " The Vsgie ^Circle's " ufc&ie 000.0, Clings round my memory yet, And ever will, tjll the last star In hope's bright heaven eUall set. Sty mountain home! my mountain home! My thought* are still with thee, Thongh scorched within the torrid sone, Or rocked upon the r^>u.? uil " *?.i wi a 1 u? I # - ? ?ft ' IUC*" leo, May 18,184ft. > ... ,. *OrMrtk Sin 3lmtisiiig ?>tonj. From * I'uddleford end its People." Squire Longbow in Mourning. JThe following te a ebapter from a late humorous publication, issued from the press of Dkkby <& Jackson, New York. It was presented to us by Mr. J. PaTtBBioK, Bookseller, Charleston.-? The book is full of the rarest humor. Send for , a copy aC-** Puddlcford and Its People."-?Kd. E*vaaf-Rmi^ " Squire Longbow sincerely mourned the loss of Ida wife-?internally and externally. Externally, he wasuweof the strongest mourners f ever saw. lie wore a weed, floating from his hat* nearly a foot long. H was the longest weed that had ever been mounted at PuddWford; but our readers must not forget who Squire Longbow was?a magistrate, and leading man in community.? And while the reader is about it, he may alto recollect that the Squire Is not the only man, east or West, who has ventured upon a little ostentation over the grave of the departed?nor Woman either. Who was to bo the next Mr*. Longbow 1 That vM the question. The public, Indeed, asked it long before the Squire. Who was to have the honor of nresidlnt* (. the finnlr-'i S UTl.-t woman wan to b? placed at the head of society, in Fuddlaford t The 8tripsee and Beagles, Aunt Bsnora, Aunt Graves, and sister Abigail, and scores of others, all hegan to speculate upon this important subject, Even Turtle nod Betes indulged in a few general remarks. Aunt Sonora gave it m her mind, that " the Squire ought to be pretty skeery how he mar ried any body, kose if ha got one of them flip' per-tnr gibbe.t aort o' wimrnin, she'd tnrn the whola house reside out, and he'd be one of the most miserableat of all men,* She said " If ho k?ow'd what was good for himself, he'd jest ksep clear of all the young gals that ware fussing and figeting round him, and go right in for soma old atand-by of a woman, that knowV) how to take the brunt of things?but, lorn ft-me," continued Ann! Sonora, " there's no doing nothing with these old widowers?they're all like my IT nolo Jo, who married in a hurry, and repented arterwards?and the poor dear okl soul aru't had * minute's peace since." The Swipsea and Beagles^ who, it will be re eollastad, belonged to a clique fiat had, In Mines past, warred ngainat Longbow A Co., " tbot it won id bo shameful for the Bauire to marrr at all ?it would be-an insult agin the memory of poor old Mrs. Longbow, who was dead and gone.' (ttoHM people, yon know, reader, Sbnse the liriog, lifll defend the deed.) " And If (h? Sqniro should marry, (kef should think, for their part, that the'J riae up out of for grqve, and haunt hlml 8b o could never alcep e*#y. If eb? knowM that the Squire had got ftmno at her wowmn, who was eating her preserves, and wearing out her I clothes, and lording it orer the hoaee lHto all I tMsaece'd.'* Other opinion* arore cxprmed l>y other p?r-| one?1(1 feet, the Bquire'a widowhood, was tht * great concern of Pi^ddUfovd. " He wfta eo well on to do," m Ajyeftxjnom seed to call It) that be ?ra* considered, a great "t?tah." ^ ' After a few wecke of eorrow, the Squire himaalt' really began to entertain notions of matrl irony. It la true bo bed pa**ed tb? age of alxtr, and it required a effort to get up a <u ' , oienfamoaot o/,r?*mono? to ewrry. owt ?ueh an attUryrlao, ftympto:n? began, liowercr, to wax a*. attendance at church. The Squire had always bean a kind of heathen, in this rotpcct, and bad foe many years set a poor exath^a 1 l>nt people, who want to marry, will go to clittreh; Whether thia Is dona to get up a reputation, or simply to take a survey of the unappropriated female stock yet remaining on hand, I cannot say. The Squire %qs "fixed up" amusingly, the first timelsaw bim at church. Ilia hair had been cut, and thoroughly greased- lib shirtcollar covered his.oars; and his boots shone like a mirror. Aunt Sonor* said h? looked " enyraost as good aa new." Aunt Graves was In the choir that day, and she sung as alio never sang ' before. She blnwed alt the heavy strains of music?strains that lifted Iter on her toee?directly into Squire Longbow's fnoe. Whctlwr Aunt Graves had any design in. this, ia more than. I can say; but I noticed some twinges about the Squire's lips, and a sleepy wink of the eye, that looked a little like magnetism. It was ridiculmia Un ?l,rf. "" -1'' ? (l 1 k ... w.v. ui?i? wiuiiiu uc Biorin d by nm. io. But the Bquire exhibited other symptoms of matrimony. He grew more pompous in hip do- 1 ciatona, disposed of cases more summarily, and quoted law-latin more frequently. It wju about this tin re that nc umkcu snout mo "mix Torn- ' ica" instead of the "vox PopiiH? He used to "squash" proceedings before the case, was half ' presented, and, in the language of Turtle, " l?e 1 around At a great rate." Turtle said, " the ' old flcj 'dre Was getting to be nn old fool, and he m-as goin'have him married, or dismissed from office?there no liviny with him," Tliere were A great many anxious mothers ] alxxit Puddleford w.'io were desirous of forming ] an alliance with the Z<ongbow family. Even 1 Mrs. Swipe*, as much ns ?.? openly opposed the Squlft'l marriage in general, eeerotly hoped a ^ spark might be struck up between him and fcrr daughter, Mary Jane Arabella Swip*"<? I *nd Mr*. J Swipse was in the habit qf sending her t.'.aughter ^ over to tlie Squire's house, to inquire of ln.n "to know if she couldn't do sometliin' for him in i?'' inelancholy condition and sister Abigail went down several iimu to ** jj.it thiugo w lights," ' and wns as kind and obliging, and attentive to 8 all the Bqnire'a wants, as ever Mrs. Longl>ow was 1 in her palmiest days. On these occasions, 8ister C .1 ?i-? i .. ? . - 1 D... ?kv. iu ri'iiiiixi (lie pqmre ot " hie great bereavement, and what an angel of a wife he had lost; and that thing* didn't look n? * tbey need to do, when *bc wti aronnd, and *he " didn't wonder he took on ao, when the poor * thing died." But, reader, Ike Turtle had ordered thing* ' otherwise. He w?a determined to strike tip a match between the Squire and Annt Grave* 80 Ike made a special visit to Aunt Graves' one evening, for the purpose of " surveying and sounding along the coast, to see how the waters , laid, and how the old soul would take It," to uee his language, I have already given an outline of Aunt ' Gravca; but I will now say farther, tba* she never bad an offer of matrimony in her whole life. Sho was what is termed a " touehy " old maid. Sho professed to hate men, and<^ffeeled great distress of mind when thrown Into their society. Annt Graves was just ironing down the seams of a coat that she had finished, when Ike called. ? Ike opened the conversation l?y reminding Aunt Graves that " she was livin' along kinder lonely like." "Lonely 'nngli, I a pose* she replied, snappishly. " Don't you newer bare the blues, nnd got sorter obstrcp'roust'' Annt Graves " didn't know as she did.* " Why, in the name of old Babylon, dontyoO marry 7* "Marry I nt& marry?marry a man?a great, awful man I" and the Iron flew through the eeama like lightning. I " Yea," eontinnod Ike, ? marry?marry a man=? | why, Woman, yon are getting as old and ns yellow as autumn leaves. What have you been livln* for ??you've broken all the laws of Scripter Into picees?and keep en breakin' on 'cm?adding ain unto sin, and transgression onto transgression, and the thing's got ter be stopped. Now, Aunt Graves, what do you think*?there's Squire Longbow, as desolate aa Sodom, and he's got ter have a woman, or the old tnan'H run as crazy as a loon a-thinkiu' 'bout his household affairs | and yon know how to eook, nnd to wash, nnd to Iron, to make pickles and soap ; and then, you're a proper ago?what say ?" Aunt Groves ran to the fire, plunged her goose into the ashes, and gave the eoals a smart stir. She then dropped down in her large rocking' chair, leaned her check upon her eibow, fixed hor eyes u|k>q the Iloor, and came near going oft* into hysterica. Ike dashed a little water into Aant Grave*' face, and alio revived. After having gained strength, aha replied in anbetaacc to Iko's query in a very languishing, die-away gir: "She couldn't any?she didn't know?if it wna a duty ?if ehe could really believe it woe a duty?if she was celled on to fill poor old dead-and-gone Mrs. Ix>ngl)ow'e. place?folks were horn inter the world to do good, and ehe had so far boen one of the moat unprofitablert of servants; hut she coald never marry on her own aeconnt? " " In other words," exclaimed Ike, cutting hor short, " you'll go it." ^ ... * Aunt Graves agreed to " reflect on't" *A a % -A 4L:_ a..?a? at il-? it, was iiuw IUII^ nuiT una consuii^iuon mm Mr*.i &wif*e brgan to " smsll a rat," ?* alts aai J. Mia cor itnaiKbd Mary Jan* Arabella " never to darken the doors at that old hog, Long* bow, agin; and m for that fomals critter, G rarer, tkt'd got a husband living down at ths JSaot'ard, and they'd all gat into prison for life the first thing they lcnow'd." Sister Abigail declared, "?Wd hays Annt 'Grsvea turned out of ehnreh, if she married a A ' * tlllf WOW n great deal for 8i?ter Abigail to say, for the lind been the bosom friend of Aunt Graven " people out of the church and people in the church, shouldn't or^er jino themselves together?-it was agin' ktaripter, and would get every thing Inter a twiet." Hut Ike Turtle had decreed that the marriage should go on. Me eves went so far ae to Indite the first letter of the Squire'a to Aunt Graves.? This Jotter, which Ike exhihted to his friends, as one of his hest literary specimen^ was indeed a curiosity. I preanme there is nothing else like it on the faco of the globe. It opened by informing Aunt Graves that since the "Iom of his woman, he had felt very gricvous'like, and couldnt fix b?? mind onto any thing?that- the wnrl?l didn't seem at all r.a it used to do?that he and his woman had liv'd in peace for thirty years, and t.hc marriage state was nat'ral to him'?tlmt he had always Hk'd Aunt Graves since the very first time he see'd hef, and so did his woman too and many more declarations of similar import, and it waa signed " 5. Longbow, Justice of the Peace*" and sea/erf too, like his legal process, that lu% dignity might command, even if his perron did not wiu, the affections of the elderly damsel. Aunt Ur?TM surrendered?and all this witliin I two month* after tho death of Mrs. Lonebow.?^ | rho Sqnire ca?t off his Weeds, and made violent preparations for matrimony ; and on a certain pight?I shall nover forget it?the affair came iff. Thero was a great gathering at the Squire's?i a sort of general invitation had been extended ar and near?the Swip?e and Beagles, Aunt. Bono-a, and all. Great preparations had been made in tho way of eatables. Tho Squire was rigged n a now snlt of " homemade," (made by Mrs. Longbow, loo, in her life-time,) a white vest,and jc woreA cotton bandana neck-handkercliief, with icavy bows, that buried bis ehin, and a pair of pumpssnd clouded bluestockings. Aunt Graves' Irees cannot be described. She was a mass of luttering ribbons, and she looked as though she kvould take wings and fly away. Bigelow Van Slyck and Ike Turtle eonducted Jte marriage ceremony?tho one took the ecoleiasti.'"b the other tiiccivii management. "When ho cou|?J? were ready, Turtle sat down in front >f thenv wii'" the statutes under his arm, with iigclow at his r.^d't hand. Turtle examined 'be statutes, amid profound "lleiice for some time, turning down one leaf hero ind another thero, until he found himself tlior>Ughly prepared for the solei.on occasion. Finah y. he arose, and with a gravity that no man ever >ut on before or since, exclaimed : " Miss Graves, hold op yer right hand and wear." Alias Graven said " alio was a member of the jhnroh, and dar'aent awear." Ike raid it was "legal swearing lie wantcd( cording to the staters?not the wicked sort?ho vented Iter to awear that she was over fourteen fears of age?hadn't got no husband living, no where?warn't goin' to practice no fraud nor nolhin' on Squire longbow?and that she'd jest as good a right to get married bow as she ever bad." Miss ft raves looked Wank. Squire Longbow said ' he'd run the risk of the fourteen years of ago and the fraud, and finally he would of the whole on't. The staters was well enough, hut it warn't to be presumed that a justice of the piece noii/d run agin 'em.? Borne folks didn't know 'em?he did." Ike said * there was something another in the stntcrt about wimin's doing things ' without anv four or compulsion of any body,' and he guessed he'il take Miss Graves into another room, and examine her separately and apart from her intended huslwnd." This was a joke of Turtle'* The Squire said " that meant married wimin ?arter the ceremony was over, that ere would be very legal and proper." Mrs. Swipee said J? for her part she thought the oath or-ter bo pnt?it would bo nn awful thing to see a poor cretnr forced into marriage." Sister Abigail thought so, too. Aunt Sonora hoped there wouldn't be nolhin* did wrong, so people could take the law on 'em. Turtle sold " that they needn't any on 'era fret their gisrards?he was responsible for the la' of the case." Bigelow then rose, nnd told the parties to }inc hands, and while they were jined, he wanted the whole company to sing a psalm. The psnlin was snng. Bigelow then commenced Ihe Wedding process. " Squire Longl?ow," exclaimed Bigelow?" this la your second wife, and some folks say the third, and I hope you fed the awful position in which you find yourself." The Squire said " he felt easy nnd resigned? he'd gone inter it from respect to hi* woman who was now no more." ' Ypn do promise to take this ere woman, to cut her, and drink her, nnd keep her in things to wear, so long as you nnd she lives." "I do that very thing," responded tlia.Sqqire. "And yon, on your part," continued Bigelow, turning to Aunt Craves, " promise to behave yourself and obey the fclqnlre in nil things." Aunt Craves said " she would, Providence per milling." ^"3 Thia roorriage ceremony, I believe, is nenrly word for word, _; "Then," said Turtle, "wheel yourifclf into line, and let's have a dance," and drawjog out his fiddle, the wholo crowd, in five minutes, were tearing down at a most furious rate; and when 1 departed, at about midnight, the storm was raging still higher) the whisky and hot water eir enisled freely, Turtle looked quite abstracted about his eyes, and his -footsteps wefe growing more and moro uncertain, HulMphanl's face shone lUte a dmmmond light, the voices of the females, a little stimulated, were as noisy and confused'as those of Habel, and ysu* humid* servant?why, he walked home as straight as a gun?of course ho did?and was ablo to distinguish a hay-stack from a meeting Uou 'c, any wbarc along the road0 * & JHisrtHntirntw T\ rnbiug. Old Cognac. Everybody has heard of tbo Innocent gentleman *ji(f assured hi* guests that tlio brandy on his sideboard was bought from old Mr. Cognnc in person. Let the |cst pass. The man who imagines, nowadays, that ho is drinking old Cognao nt the bor of any American hotel, falls into M complete nn absurdity. The quantity of brandy made in the district of which the little town of Cognac, in the department of tlio Chnronte, is the commercial oentro and entrepot, may in good years amount to some 20,000 buttsThe annual product during tho sorer, bad grope 1 year/" preceding 1858, probably did not reach i 5,000 butts. The production of grape brandy was oqunljy or still more reduced during those seven years all over France. But there lias been no day in all that time when we could not buy measureless quantities of Cognac brandy in 1'nrie as in New York?and, what is curious, it was all "old Cognac." Young Cognac does not appear in commerce or nt the bar. Now, in a scries of good years, four-fifths of tho so-called Cognac never saw the vineyards of the Clinrentc. During these late bnd yenrs nine-tenths of it ncvor nw vinnVAPil af oil If ?a nnf rKoitllod rvpfino 1 flton but distilled beet juice; be very thankful even if it bo pure boot juice. In 1853-54 more than one half of the nnmerotts beet sugar manufactori. s in Franco were, if my memory does not grossly mislead me, changed, by a slight alteration of their machinery and its application, into beet brandy distilleries, tf tlierij my fast young friend, you will make a fool of yourself, do it patriotically at least, with honest American whlsky? (if even that can be had,) ond not with a triply falsified French brandy. If, on tho contrary,{you are a temperance man, encourage American viticulture. Where light wine is cheap and plenty, drunkards arc scarce. The bar-rooms of tho "magnificent" St. Guzzle at New York, or of the St. llibble at New Orleans, (qneer establishments for saintly patronage,) turn out more drunkards in a year, than all the 6,000 wine shops of Paris. (Cor. of th? Southern Kicld and FcmiJei Another Bell. Tlio strokes are the measured beating of tho march of ? mini jn lJir out over the unknown waste beyond us, even while the glowing lips of the living are clinging convulsively to the yet warm ones of the ?len<l. The hour is now dark for them, and the swollen hearts are aching with sorrow. One of the household band has fallen away before his autumn, and tlu!re i? a gnp in the closely knit circle by the hearth. The passionless lip, check and brow, bear away to the grave the impress of a thousand frenzied kisses. The mother, sister, or wife, do not know all.? Thank God that they do not! The fiery imprint of the fangs of the demon of the cup, has been hidden from their eyes, and they dream not that his manhood was slurred by the leprosy of a common curse, and his body swollen with the poison which lurked in every vein. The bell will tell on for the early slain. To the world they will go down like men. But in the slaughter-houses where they were lured, the red-beaded Cains will know who slew them. There is a sad chapter veiled from the world's eye. And when the marble which affection rears over (he sleepers shall read of n noble life, the demon of rum shall slime noiseless through the rank grass of tho grave, and look in mockory upon the lie. To Hie, is a common loh But there is something peculiarly sad in looking over tho waste of human life, from tho drinking habits of our people. Entf*nehed in our midst; licensed by our government; and working out wholesale desolation and murder " by authority,'" the slaughterhouses spread their toils by every path we trend. There are pit fulls in every path, and there is not one among us so richly endowed by God, or so deeply loved on earth, as to turn for one moment, the stony hearts which fatten upon ruin. The bell will continue to toll for tbe dead, and | liuman victims to bo wrenched from home and friends, and flung out upon the smoking alter of tho Christian Moloch.? Hlitroitrin Chief. SqnvKfcixo m* IIaxu.?It is hut lately that we nnderstood the strange constructions that, are sometimes put upon a squeeze* of the hand.? With some it is entirely equivalent to a declaration of love; that is very surprising, indeed. I Wo must take hold of a lady's hand like hot poi tatocs; afraid of giving a squeeze lest we burn | her fingers. Vcfy fine, truly f Kow, it was our ancient custom to s^neem ererV han<l lhat we got In our olaws, especially a fnir one. It is n<> wonder that We have never been sued for a iireacb of promise. We would riot give a rusty nail for one of yonr cold, formal shakes of tlic hand. Every person who intrudes one or two fingers for your touch (as if ho wero nfraid of catching a distemper) should go to school to a while a jolly old farmer, lie shakes with a vengeance ; and shakes yonr body, too, unless yon should happen to be as thick as himself. Well, there is nothing like It | it shows a good heart, at any rate, nud we would wither a man would ernsli i iuv wry uonee 01 our nngora, Ami ehnkA o:ir 1 shoulder out of joint, thnn thnt ho should poke otit a paw, as if ho wore ahoufto com? in contact with a bear or a hyena. TU? ladies mny rest a<surcd of thin, that a men who will not sqtie^e their hand when be geteJiold of it, does not deserve to have a hand in hie possession; ?n<l t lint he hae a hvart 743 titaee smeller tliau a grain of m ester <1 seed. i > tise i" ? 1 A mono the Advertisement* in a late London paper, we read that " two sinter* want washing." Iv you have good teeth, don't forget to Inngh ' now and -^5 r- ~ ~ Manner of Milking. The manner of milking has a more powerful and lasting influence on the product tvencss of the cow than .moat farmers arc nwnie of. That a alow and cureless milker soon dries up the heat cows, every practical farmer and dairyman knows. The fir?t requisite of a good milker is, of course, the utter cleanliness. Without this, the milk is unendurable. Tho udder should, theft-fore, he carefully cleaned before tho milking commences. The milker may begin gradually and gently, but >ho?ld steadily increase the rapidity of the operation till the udder is emptied, using a pnil sufficiently lnr<js to hold nil, without the necessity of changing. Cows nfo all very sensitive, and the pail cannot, ho changed, nor can the milker Stop or riso during the process of irtilkins, with' out lending the cow more or less to withhold her milk. The utmost care should he taken to strip the Inst drop, nnd do it rapidly, and not in a slow necliircnt mnnner wlit?t? i? < > on the yield of llie cow. If any milk is left, it :e | re-absorbed into the system, or else becomes enked, nnd diminishes the tendency to secrete ft full quantity nfterwnrda. If gentle nnd mild treatment is observed nnd persevered in, the of? crntion of milking appears to be one of pleasure to the auitnal, as it undoubtedly is ; but if nn op *"'?? is rmrstied?if. ftt evcrv restless movement, enttsed, pcrbnps, by pressing a sore teat, the animal is harshly spoken to, she will be ljkely to learn to kick as a habit, and it will be difiGonlt to overcome it afterwards. To induce quiet and readiness to give down the milk freely, it is better that the cow should be fed at milking time with cut food or roots placed within her easy reach. The same person should milk the same cow regularly and not change from one to another, unless there are special reasons for it. [,V?i York Observer. ? -*< ? - Otin ilox'fc?.-?-At the Georgia State Iuiir, held at Atlanta during the month of October, the Rev. C. W. Howard delivered an extemporaneous nndress, from the report of which wo make the following extract. It was expected that the Hon. Edward Everett would accept the invitation of the Society to nddrces them, hut circumstances prevented his being there, nnd Mr. Howard was prevailed upon to occupy the place, which he did in nn eloquent and able manner i Lot ue then, the speaker said, make our home, steads beautiful. Let us furnish them wifti Imnl. nnd store the mind with that knowledge Which is a novor failing source of pleasure. Li t our daughters bo taught music, that at early dawn nnd dewy eve, the melody of the woodland 1 songsters may he responded to by the sweeter warblers around the hearthstone?or when, at noon tide, wc would tnjoy seclusion from the mid-day heat, our repose may be sweetened byits soothing strains. Let us plant shade trees that, in old age we may sit beneath then* and rest.? Let the matron and the maiden plnnt and nourish beautiful flowers, sweet scented shrubs, and tender creeping vines. Plant also the charming evergreen, and by such means as these cause our homesteads to be an object of love from which j we would desire never to part on earth. And ] let old age plant with trembling bands, trees to boar fruit in the future* Fruit trees arc the moid graceful legacy old age can bequeath to posterity. When these things at'e done, when the old man and the gladsome youth, the graceful mnt ron and the rosy nnd blooming maiden, shall unite to make this home-beauty an object, nnd it shall becomo general, then wc may expect our population to becomo permanent?contented to live, raise and educate their families, die nnd be buried nenr the old nnd cherished homestead.? Then, in reference to our homesteads, we rnL'ht I appropriate the heaven-inspired sentiment, " En i ??? ? irmi 1111 nuii ? itnvc mec, or 10 rt'utrn irom Jollowing after theer fur whither thou goc?t I will go; and where thou lodgest 1 win lodge: thy people shall be tny people, nnd thy God my God ; where thou dieet I will die. And there will 1 be buried: Tlio Lord do srt to me, and more ?lsot if aught but death part thee and me." Conff-sstovh of Infiuki.itv.?" I seem,'1 says Tlume, " affrighted And confounded with the solitnde in which I am placed by my philosophy.? When I look abroad, on every side I see dispute, contradiction nnd distraction. When I turn my eye inward, 1 find nothing hut donht nnd ignorance. "Where nm If or what, ami? To what condition shall I return f I am confounded with questions; f hegin to fnney myself in a moat deplorable condition, environed with davltnej***, every side." Voltaire snys1. " Tiie world abounds lor*, and a bo with victims. In man wretchedness than in nil other niiimiil' getheri" llow did he judge of ill lly lu^WPF heart, llo adds: " Man loves life, yet he knows lie must die ; spends his existence in diffusing the miseries ho lins suffered? outting the thronts of his fellow creatures for pay-^chen ting and being cheated. The bulk of mankind are nothing more I ?han a arowd of wlS'telmi- snnsllv Ariminnl equally unfortunate. 1 wish I ha<l never been horn." Ilonr v.hut Pt. Pan' anys, 4 T hare fomrht a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept, the faith, Henceforth there 1* laid up for me a crown of rtghteotumcK*, which th? the righteous Judge, will give me at thnt" deVi" f Lutheran Obterrrf. i 4 ??> ' Aft proof of the fnet tlmt g'rk" nre useful articles, ond that, the world could not very well get ftlong without them, ft Igt? writer states it n* a fact, thai if all the girls were driven out of the world, in one generation, the hoys would nil go out fttler thciu. < <?? ? r- rr.uftOKft in n crowd, myft Prentice, -houhl Keep tin* if elbow# ?ui of ?neh other's stomnehs, yet ? man's stomach {softener injured by the crooking f his own elbow than by those of his no i^liborst m\ My l*atiiic?.-*ln a storm nt Ma, when the dan? gor pressed, unit the Jeep seemed ready to d?voef the Toyagcra, one man stood composed and enrefnl nniiJet the agitated throng. They asked him eagerly why he feftred not?was he an experienced seaman, and did he too teftfloa to *? peet flint the ship would ride tho tempest through? No; ho was not an expert sailor, hut ! lie was ? trustful Christian, .lie *?? not sure tlint the ship would swim, but he knew that ita sinking could do no harm to liiro. Hi* answer whs, "Though 1 sink to-ilay, 1 shall only drop gently Into the hollo*- of my Father's hand, for ho holds nil these waters there!" The story of that disciple's fuit.li triumphing in a stormy aca presents n pleasant pfeture of those who read it on the solid land"; but if they in safety are strnu .v in!? lauii, tlioy will nut iu troublepartake of his consnlation, The idea is beautiful; but a human soul, in its extremity, cannot play with a beautiful ideaj If the heart docs not feci llie truth firm to ban upon, the eye will not long lie satisfied with its symmetry to look nt St ran* gers may speak of Providence j but only the children love it. If they would tell the truth, those who nre alienated from God in their hearts do not like to he so completely in His power. It is when I am satisfied with 1H? mercy that I rejoice to lie In his hand.? A mot. Turn w tjiVr.-?If we die to-day, the stttt wtlt shine as. brightly and the birds sing as sweetly to-moirow, Business will not be suspended a moment, and the great mass -will not bestow a thought upon our memories. Is he deod ? will be the solemn inquiry of a few as tliey pass to their work. But not one will mlas tis except our immediate connections, and in a short time they will forget us, as merrily as when we sat beside them. Thus shall we nil, now active in life, pass away. Our children crowd close behind us, and they wilt soon be gone. In a few years not a living being enn eny, "I remember him 1" Wo lived in another age, and did business with those who slumber in the tomb. Thus is life. How rapidly it peases 1 A toYE-sicx swain, in order more fully to nacef* b.';r. the sv.ir.d of h!s " lady liro," closed a Isttor with the following verse ! " K yon were n dog and I was a hog A roolin' away in the yard, If the old man should say, ' Drive that hog Away,' Would you worry or bite very hard 1 An exchange says a sentiment so sublime de? serves an nnewcr, and ventures to suppose (til lady's reply: " When 1 am a dog and you arc a hog, A wandering front the sty, I'd not breathe a bark, but merely remark Go it porkte I root bog or die 1" " Dons Ilobson keep lent!" "Certainly; what* ever is lent to him, he is sure to keep." | " Cavitai. punishment," as the boy aatd, wheit I the schoolmistress seated him with the girls. Why is an old maid like a dried orange t Be" | cause neither of them is worth a good squeecc. Tiikr.r. is a man down east so tall that he has to use a ten-foot pole to pick hiR teeth with. My son, what would you do if your dear father was suddenly taken away from you Y Swear and chaw tobneker. Ax Irish gentleman playing cards, having on inspection found the pot deficient, exclaimed, " here's a shilling short, who put it in Y" " Ttirr tell me wine gives strength," said For, one day, " and yet I, who have jnst drank three bottles, cannot keep myself on ray legs !" Ax Irishman, In writing a biography, informs his readers tlw?f his hero was very young at the | time of tiis birth. "Mr.. Smith, shall T help Jrott toth> gutter V* "Thank yon. maun, I hrlnng tf. the Tempqranoo Society, and never take anything strong." Tiikuh nre truths which some men despise because I hey have not examined them, and 'which they will not examine, because they de?pise them. A physician is the nnfovtnnnte individual who | i? expected every day to perform ft miracle, j namely, to reeoiieilo health with intemperance. If you nmke love to n widow who baa a I (laughter twenty yearn younger tlmn herself, hogin by declaring that you thought they were ain? tcrs. A nov Was asked one dny what made him no dirty, and hit reply was, " I nrn made, so they tell nie, of the dual of the ground, and I reckon I jfeV just workin' out." IH* Cmua here, my doitry 1 want to aak you all |ftotit. your nister. Now, tell me truly, baa nhe (pit, n benu t" * No, it'a tlie jnnnders ; the doctor snya so." Ktnnnw;, during courtship, U nllowable, W not? Young hearts hnve young *yn?p>" ! and young sympathies nre the parent* f k:n ' J and tender rentiniante. A man was offered a gists of soda w ater, the other dny, hut he rejeeted it with indignation. " I?o you think I am a salamander," said he, " td dtink water boiling hotY" Fifty guiy^once nte everything a certain matt I hnd in his hJmso. The next guest he turned out hy simply pointing to his date bo*. What was the date? Mnreh 4th?'Mi (Mareh forthI?fifty lit*!) Sr.\ftr. moments nre the gold dnat of time. Of nil the portion* of our life, spare momenta hra the most fruitful in good or evil. They rtrO the gaps through which* temptations find the easiest access to the soul. Xkvkr bo rude, or sny to nmnni "There's Ihe I' door." Address him more politely, thus; " Klc VRte your golotha to the the suinmit of Jour p?' I ricrnninm, and allow me to present to your detw? : oiteU'uiioii thnt scientific piece of m < r I ? bicli constitutes the egr^^c ' in fmeut." *}&* |