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""" ^ . A REFLEX OF POPULAR EVENTS. I Ski'oted to |)rogrcs?5, the gtigMs of ihq mut the gifusioit of Useful among all glasses of tStloi'lung $jfti>R. t. "VOLUME til ~ GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINATTHURSMY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, I860. NUMBER 2& II r - ' ' -v " " 2 ?*?' ? ?? jt Cjit ? witjjtrft ?nttr)ir?e < ?? r ISStTBD EVERY THURSDAY MORHOTO, vr I AfrJt!TSIICIN & BAILEY, , rKorkibWRs. O. JL MaJwnkHu ... . J. O. Bailey. BW. Y?. PB1CK, F/dHar. C. Bi. BlcJniikli^ AwhUiut. r TERU8: , 0X1 DOtX AR A YEAR. In Advance. (tatEo'lar Auda Half, if Delayed, f l?v3^?l8KMKNT8 TViRita( at7i een,> T?r. P1u,Mr* ?*12 lhM*? (er kwe) ftir (be flratlm'ortNin } 60 for the boc| and; Hfcrlbc third U t.' e .'birteeath ; 20 for i the fiwlcaUh to the tweut > -Bi.Tth ; 16 for the twvnty-aereoth to the Uitrty-tim'1 > 1? for the fortieth to the lfty-eeo*to4. Yearly or half-yearly contractu undo, and a libera AcdaoUoto few the nb.tr e raU?e fiTvon. Adr?rilnaiwitiMt?Bli}wtPi<r(etr>ct alt.Mihl tiirre the mmVr eff ih>eerthme ?r.rVo?l iu>?>'U >v tht-m. They -will be pahlirhod a?4 charged l'or . ftill ortlnrnd diut 1 U*I?!LJ - -1 - ?I - frltrMi ^pnrfrtj. | If We Knew: f If we Itnew the cares and crosses Ootflfltng round our ndglibor'i war ; If we k?ew Om Hule losses. Ik- ' Sorely grievous day hy day, J- ? Would we then so oft on ehi.b' him i For bis luck of thrift end r?lu, | J.,e*sdi?g on iJls heart a shadow, T.diyitig on our lives n st.iin ? P 1# two knew tlio clouds above n\ I . ite1d l>y geotVs Messing* there. I \Vouhl w? turn away ai), trctnlfljrig in our blinda'vd W?ak despair! | V'wW we shrink from little shadows, r firing on the dewy grass, TOhilo 'tis only bird * of Kdcn, . . , . . . . (Just in nterey flying past t J ? . ...? J /' > ^'' *1 If wo knew the silent story, * ?| Quivering through llie heart of pnih. ] Woulil our womanhood dare doom them ( ' BOek to haunt* of gfillt againf Life hath many a tangled crossing? Joy hath niuny a t>realc of woe, ? And tho cheeks, tear washed, are whitest; j p This the bleesed nngele know. ^ ],*t ut roach into our bosoms For a Way to other lives, . ' H? And with love toward eriing nature, Ca* Cl>#?|ah good that still survives; So that when Otirflkiobed spirits ? nmy say. denr Father, jrvtge us As vr? judg? our f. llow mm. - I jf 51. Domriiiir ?tnnj. From the Nrw Ymk I.? .!lt?-r. IDJL,E HANDS. bt t, b. Anrnt'R. Mr. Thornton eame liomb .it his usual mid day hour, And as he went by the parlor door, lie saw his daughter, a young lady-hi? nineteen, lounging oU the sofa with a book in |ier hands; The whir of his wife's sewing machine struck on his ear* at the same moment.? Without pausing at the parlor, lie kept to the room from which cnmo the Bound of industry. Mrs. Thornton did* not observe the entrance) of her husband. Slid was Jf bending close down'over her work, and ,? the noise of her machine was loader 4* than his foot?lcp* on the fin..r. Mr.' ThnrnlAM QIaa.1 r ? ? ' itrfvi kwu IUUAIIIJJ ai iivi IUI hume A momenta without *r>eaking. ^ " Oh dear !'' exeiaiined the tire<^t\-oI ' "Then why do you si\ killing your W ! Mr. Thornton'a a* peel was tmuiunlly her hushaud'a Wutwie** more than once, jT ' apecmny on; <nInr p %r.wMfoffiftlW f*bttt it*'nil wrong At home." If 1'yjjflyjpjW(4>>WtArtd you, Ilarvey.?1L J*- t YlithM i* wfong at home, pi ay ?" JfL / wMCVKV you loeit, in pain and Jj pHKfiSw^r fl*iw that >cw|rig machine, *$ <h>uy hter loungee over n ^Itjbb'l Effle'a fault. She often n?fc? Kfertr I eAfi't'#w (W-child drudgery. ller enough. Let her j g- i Y comfurt while *he ''aWMW^CTil^rfoir non*,"-replied !' ?n the word, ' ,,a mH^c ^ ^ tjfr * *amir*l)'y " And as to ease and comfort, as \6u say, If Effie ia a rigjitniir.ded girl, she will Lava ihore lru? enjoyment in die' consciousness Unit W.. lightening her mother's burdens, than it is possible fcb obtain from the finest novel written.?Excitement of the imagination is'no snhstilute/or (hat deep penbe bf mind that ever accompanies itnd succeeds the right discharge of daily duties. It is a poor compliment' to Effie'ii mol-al sense to snppose that she can he content to sit with idle hands, or tt> employ ihcm in light frivolities, while her mother is worn <Jlown with toil beyond licr strength. Hester, it must not he !" * And it shall not be !" said a quick, Ill III vuivt5. Mr. Thornton and his wife ftartfd, and turned to the speaker, who find entered the room unobserved, and been n listener to neatly nil the conversation we have recorded. " It shall not be, father !" And Effie came nnd stood by Mr.Thornton, ller face was c.'tnson ; her eyes flooded With !ear>\ through which light was flashing ; her form drawn np erectly ; her manner resolute.' . 4*lt isn't nil rhy farfilt* she'said, as she laid Irtr hand on her father's' arm. 11 I've asked mothers great manv times, to let me'help her. but she always pat me off, and satys'it's easier to don thing herself, than fi? show another. Maybe I ant a little, dull, lbrt every on? has to leant, yon know. Mother d'atti't get her hand in YniHV' with that rowing notdiilie fbr tw<v or three wtteklj and I'ttt cerintn h wdnldn't take me any longer. If she'd-otdy teftch we how to uee .it, I eould JioSp her a great deal.? AiiJ,'i?idyod, father1, lYn wfllinjrP ' ; J 4C&p?/kein fn: 'the right r^irib my datrrditef," 'sftifl' Mr. ThttrMOny anprOvlitkrty.* ahVadd' be ws?ftilly employed sis well t*s 4t?'nd in the \>ry things' moat Hkely to be requited of litem wVm they Iteeotrte wnnwrt in tho respondbU-positions wf wives and morhSts. Ifrpowf nprtti it,'EIHe;'tsti idle Jpflhood i-t not' the way to a clleeiAtl worVmnkbod'. "l'>ni ir- tind <t*v now, the very tiiTrtgs'ilmi ><ijFI*' required <<ftyt?u in after vettrs. nnd theii jVwt wilMmve an -acquired facility. Ili,t}t-??md 'VWill' uill'mnke easy what 'might come hard, imd be frit atr very bitrlleftsoiito/' ' " And you would have her abandon all aelf improvement"," raid Mrs. Thornton. "One up nfusic, reading,'society " " "There arc," replied Mi*. Thornton, as his wifr paused for another word. 14 some fifteen or rixteon hours of each (Jay, in which mind or hands should be rightly employed. Now, let us see how KfTIe is spending those long and cverrecuning peiiods of time. Come, my daughter, tit down. Wo have this subject fairly before us. It is one of a life long importance to you, and should l?e i wolf considered. Ilow is il in rega'd to.the employment of your time. Take yesteiday, for instance. The records of a day will help us to get towards tho result aftet which we are now search - to ? V ? . , ing. ' .'I Piffle sat down, and "Mr. Thornton drew a chair in front of hits wife and daughter." 44 Take yest^idnv, for instance," said the father. 44 flow was it spent! You rose at seveh, T think I" 44 Yes, sir ; I caniie <1oWn Just a* the breakfast bell vfns rung,11 replied Eflie. 44 And your mother was up a' halfpa"t five, I know, and complain?! :>f filing so weak that die could iiardly dress herself. Hut, for nil this, she was at work until bfcakfast time. Now, if yofi bad risen *t and shared your mother's work until seven, yotr would lmri> tnl-An ?r? tinnr f? li?i. '"rl ""7 tiers, and certainly lost nothing ffona yotir music, self improvement, or social intercourse. H r>w wns-it after breakfast If How was tlie motring spent I1' **I practiced on flie piano an hour after breakfast." " 80 far so good. What then I" ,, "I t-oul '* The-Cavalier1 tintii eleven o'clock " ' ' b *" I -It Mr. Tb orrHon shook hisYiead, ant? asked; u Afte* eleven, how wan the time spebt T \ ii f ?;! * ?.* " I drowsed myself and went'ont." " At what time did yon go ont t" "A little after twelve o'clock." '' An hour 'was spent in dressing !" "Ye*, efr.4' ' 44 Where did^joti go ?"' ' I called for Helen Boyd, and we toflk n wRlk down Broadway.** ' 44 Afrd came'home jiist.ln time for dinhWr* 1 tllluk "1 met you at the doof.f d ipU tell ' "4 Vfea, tdr.ni ',4' rbiiwI^nM V " HoW^n* ititftef ditiberr*" I "I atept from three until fire, and ! then took n bath and (!iW?^ inyaelf.?< I From Mx until tea lima, I at the 5 pailor window." ' * And ntor lea f* liJ " ltertd the Cavtriter' until' I went t< bed .H ' i u At what honr t" ''' 41 Jfleren oVlAek." 1 " Now we can make up the account,' hahI Mr. Thbr'ntfth? " You roaoat sever and retired at clerWr. Sixteen houri And from your own acoonnt of the day but a single hour was spent in anything useful?that wax the hour at the pianc Notr, your mothet Waa up at half pas fire, and went to lied, from sheer, ina l.ility to sit at her work any longer, a half-past nine. Sixteen hour* for ho P .V also. llow inuch reading did you do in thai time f" * And Mr'i Thorntim looked nl b?s wife. H Heading T Don't talk lo me of reading ! I've no time to read 1" Mix. Thornton answered a little impatiently. The edntrast of her daughter's jdle hours with her own life of exhausting toil, did not affect her mind very pleasantly. " And jeti* said Mr. Thornton, ** you were always fond of reading, and 1 can remember when no day went by with-* out an hotir Or two passed with yonr books. Did you lie down after dinner t" " Of course not." M Nor take a pleasant walk down Rrondway f Nor sit at the parlor win dow with Effle ! How about that 1" Theie was no reply."' 44 Now, tbe case i* a very plain one," continued Mr. Thornton. " In fact, nothing could be plainer You upend from fourteen to sixteen hour# every day in hard vvoik, while Kflie, taking yesterday as a sample, spends about the same time in what is little better than idleness. Suppose a new adjustment were ta take place, and Eflio were to be usefully employed 'id helping you for eight hours ofeach day, rite would still have eight hours self improvement and recreation, and you, relieved from your preetcnt ?vertn*-feod condition, might get 1 back a portion of the health and Spit its i of which these too heavy household duties have rybbed you." - Father P said Effie, speaking through tears that were falling over her face, "I never saw things in this light. Why haven't yon talked to me before! i I've often felt as if IMdike to help mother. Hut.she never gives rue anything to do; and if I offer to help her, lie says t* * You can't do it/ or/4 I'd rather do. it myself.' Indeed, it isn't all my fault !" I -" It;-may not hare been in*tlie past, Effie," replied Mr. T hornton. 4* l$ut it eertamly. niBi lie in' Mlie future,, unless there i* a new arrangement of things. "It -is A falsa social acntiututit. tliat lots tdnnghleis^lecnme idlers, while mothers, fathers and sons take np the daily, Imrf den. of wiuk, afid bear it through all the busy hourai" ( -sot', -,'r.- 7v L Mis. Thornton, did not come grace fully into tiro -new-order if things pro posed hv her husband and accepted by KfTte. False prido in her daughter, that future ladv ideal. and an inclination to do herself. rather than take lite trouble to teach another, were ell t-o many impedimenta. Hut Efiio and her father were Loth iu earnest, and it was not long before the overtasked mother's weary face began to lose its look of marines*, and her languid frame to come up to an eiect bearing. .She couhl find time for the old pleasure in books, now and then, for a healthy walk in the street, and a call on some valued friend. And was Eflie the worse for this change t Did t hie burden she w as sharing with her mother depress her shoulders, and take the lightness from her step f Not so. 'l'iae languor engendered by idleness, which had begun to show itself, disappeared in a few weeks ; the color came warmer into her cheeks; her eyes gained in hiightnesa. She war growing, Sn fact, ntoie beautiful, for a mind cheerfully conscious of duly was moulding every lineament of her countenance into a new expression. Did aelf improvement stop? O, no/ From one to two hour* were given to close practice at the jrfano every day. Her mind, becoming vigorous in tone, tnsloorl /\f onnrno 1 or! !?%? * "" a bolter order of rending than bed been indulged before, and she was growing towards a thoughtful, cultivated, intelligent womanhood,, Rhe also found time, atuid Iter home duties, for nti hour twice a woek with a Gcnnnu teacher, and she l>eg?n, also, to cultivate a natural taste foe drawing. Now that eh? was employing her hour* mcfully, it teemed wonderful.Jiow much time she found at her disposal for useful woili. llow cheerfu) and companionable die grew 1 Sho did not seem like the Elite, Thornton of a lew months before. In f*ctr the sphere of ths cut ire household wa* changed. , A* an idler, Effie had . been a buulen to all the rest, |nd the weight of thai burden hud been sntli cieui to,.depress, through weariness, the spirits of all. Hut now }hat site was standing up. self sustained, and not only, self sustained, bnt a sharer in the btudcus of each, all .hearts came back to a lighter measure^ beating rythmically and in conscious enjoymont.. ? ( u./ oil' fS' ?s>*?' I'-r?? , /? * A cbutsiw Irishman roeeired for his - labor a one dollar bill on one of the ' I Ohio bank*, on wlitoh be ?M obliged ) to Iom ten s?Rls discount. The next day he wee passing down Main street . and saw a dollar biU lying on the side> walk, on the same bunk, ?nd gazing on it, he e\flaiined : " Bad Inch to tiielikea .. of ye?wire way ye lie; divil a finger will J pot qii ye, for I loet letv cents bv ' a wicked brother of yours yesterday." Pure lore lathe sunshine which steah < slowly and silently up to the barren hill I of Hfe, end stay# to bless ue with presence throrgb all life's Weary way * ' ? ?m l"h, ?*' < ?' ?w?T t Sail wa??} gtvm ? lioli fUb, and Ira \ vrotds produce ? eokloesa. . ' " . V / v ftSiscrllnnrmts Hfnbmg. - * */ .* ** * . '* . 1 ' " ' * # Harp Sermon, ? [The following sermon went tue round* of the papers ?opi? y?nw ago, but we give it again for it* good humor, and for the, want of something better. It, will lose nothing by a sec ond rending. .Would like to get bold of "6nt Loveugood's .Daddy Acting Home," " Harp of a Thousand Strings," &e.] . , . 4,' My Beluv-ed Breetliering-^-I am an j unlarnt hard shell Baptist preacher, of whom you've no doubt heern before, and I now appenr here to expound tho Scripture* nnd pint out the narrow way which lends from a vain world to the l^_,* * strecis 01 trie jeroosaluin. nnd my text which I choose for the occasion is in the-knife of the llible somowhere between the second Chronicills nnd the Inst chapter of Timoihv Titus, and when you Hnd it you will find it in these word*: And -they shall gnaw a file nnd flee unto the mountains of Ilquidnm, whar the lion ronrcth nnd the tvangduodle moiii'neth for its first bom. : i Now, n.y bieelheiing. as I hare before told you, I am itn unedditptled man. and know- nothing ahout grsntnier talk and collidge highfalootiag, but I'm a plain unlunit preacher of the Gospil w lint's been foreordained, jrnd called to expound the Sciip urea to a dyiu' wyrid, and prepare a perverse generation for the day of wrath;,/or they shall, gnaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of IIupsidam,.w har the lion ronryth atid the wangdoodlo inournetli for its first i.s . ,r.f ' 1 *'k] (Kid / nt v, U ntaivZ 1 My beluv ed breetlionne, the text say they shftll gnaw a file. It do'h't say may, but shall. And now there's inoro'n ono Kind of fi)e. ThcfeV the hand snw file, rnt tail filp, single file, double file and profile; but the kind of file spoken of here l?tt't onto of them klitd heft her; because it's a fiprfyex of speech; mv flr^othering, and means goin i! alone,getting nkcied ; for thvv shall w h mo and flee unto llie mountains i f Ilepsidam, whar the lion roatyili and thd whngdoodle tuournetb for h* first imin And. now ijie.ro l>e some lrere with , fine closi on thar bncks, brass rings on j lliar fingers, and laid on tharhnr, what goes it while fhev'ro young; and tlmr be brothers here what, as long as thar constitutions and forty cent whirkey Inst goes it blind; and thar ho sisters hero i what, when they git sixteen years old, cut thar tiller ropes and goes it with a rush ; I say, mv dear brecthering. take care you don't find when Gahriol blows his last trump. that you've all went it 1 alone and ukered ; for they shall gnaw 1 a file and flee unto the mountains of Ilepsidain. whnr the lion roareth and tho wnngdoodki mourneth for its firstborn. - . And, my hreetliering, 1 bore's more dams besides' Ifepsidain. Thar'* Ilottendnm. Amsterdam, milldsm, and don't care a dam?tie last of sliieh, my dear brecthering, is the worst of *U, and reminds me of a circwmslans I once knew in the State of lllenoy. 1 hore was a man what build him a mill on the east fork of Agur cicek, and it was a good mill, and grown a site of grain, but (lie man what built it was a miserable sinner, and never give anything to the church; and, my lueetherin, one night thar come a dicadful storm of wind and rain and the fountains of the great deep was broken up, nnd tire waters rushed down nnd swept that man's mill dam into kingdom come, nnd Jo and behold, in the morning when lie got np I) A fi\1IA/l lliot lift ?" ?' 1- * -I , ..V .WMIIM ?!!*?% UV ??nn n\n H ui 111 n UHIII. Now, my young hreetherihg, when storms cf temptation overtake ye, take care you don't fall from grace and hecouie like that man's mill? not worth n dam; for they ahull gnaw a (tie and flee unto the mountains of Ilepsidani, whnr the lion roareth and the wangdpodle mourneth for its first horn. , Whar thi lion roareth and the wangdoodlo mourneth for its first born.? Tlds part of the text, my hreethering. ?s another Agger of speech, and isn't to lie taken as it says. It doesn't mean the howlin wilderness, where John the jard shell Baptist was fed on locusts and wild nsses; but it wean*, my hreethering, tl?o city of New Yorleane, the mother of harlots and hard lot*? Whnr corn is worth aix hits -* bushel one day nnd narry red the next; whar niggers are as thick as black bngs in a spoiled bacon bam,' and gamblers, thieves and pickpockets are skitiug about the streets like weasels m a haru yafd?whar they have cream colored ~u.t~i M..t-~mm, ?i ??*/ ov?j ^iivitv* vni i rilivr WTJ PRIUVII^i with brandy ai^d augar in'envr-what honeal iner. are acnrcer than hen'a teeth, and a atrange woman onoe Ink in your helmed preecher and bamboozled him , out of two hundred and twenty acven dollar* in the twinklin of a aheap*# tevi j ' i hut rhe can't do it agin, Ila'Moiiy for they ahall gnnw a file end Unl< the mountain* of H^paid^mr, wbar tin lion roaretband the vangdoodle mourn I eth for \"o fira'. oorn. " i Wy Ueelherlng, I am captain of tha . > Catboat you ? tied up thar, and F?< got aboard of her dour, bacon and oata and potato** and apple*, and a? goot t Monongehaly wbUky a* you overdrank nod Fin mighty aptou git big price fo it alh* Hut what, oh, toy hreethering. w ould-it Ml bewuth if it hadn't re I id gin I Thar nuihin like lelidgin, tay brectlier tag. It's tatter nor silver and gold jimcrack, and you can no more get to heaven without it than a jaybird con Ay without a tail. Thank the Lord !*nrf an uoeddtyjuled toAo', my KrectUeHng, but have Mirched the fcoiptures from Dan to Uurshetae, and found old Zton right side up; hard shell relidgin the l*tt of rclhlgins. And it's not like the Metho dial what expects to git into heaven by hollerin kcllfiiw nni ISIta itJ.. i:-. I what git* upon the board gage and goes the whole hog ; nor the United lJreethen rig what shakes enclt other by the seats of the trowscrs and tries to lift tbvirsc-lves into iieaven. nor the Outlierlicks what buys thru tickets from titer { reesta?lull it may l>e likened, my ueelheritig, unto a man what had to cross n river,jind when lie got thar the ferry boat was gone, mid lie just rolled Op bi* breeches and waded over?hallelujah ! for they shall gnaw a file, and fico unto lite mountains of liepsidani, whar the lion roareth and the wangdoodle tnourneth for its first born. l'nss tbo hot, Brother Flint, and let every hard shell shell out. Amen. Brandy and Health. ' M A glass of brandy can't, hurt anybody. Why, I know n person,?yonder he is now, on high'vxOhange,-*-* epecimen of manly beauty, a portly six footer. Itfe has the bearing o(? priate, for lie is one of our merchant princes.? IIis face wears-the line of health, and, at the age ef fitt^'-lii IhsWlte quick eiivstic M^p, of. < ur young men of twenty live, and 1 know that lie never goes to bed witliout terrapin er Oyster nip | per, wub .plenty of cluunpngne; and, more tlfan that, bo was never known to bo drunk. >t?q here is a living example find- disproof of the temperance twaddle about the dangerous tendency of an occasional glass, and tire effect of ft temper do use of good liquor*." Now, it so happened tlinl this specimen of *mfo brandy drinking whs h ro lation of oilrs. lie died in n year or two nfier that, of >? chronic diariboea, a Common end of tliQse who nro never out of liquor( lie left six children, and he had ships on every sen, end credit at every counter, which he never lied to use. Four months before he died, (ho wns a yenr dv'r.g.) he could eat or diink nothing witliQut distress ; nnd the whole alimentary canal was a mass of disease; in the midst of millions, he died of itiKiiRtion. This is not the half, reader, lie had been a steady drinker, for the last twenty-eight years. He left a legacy to his children, which we will not mention. Scrofula had eatenup one daughter nt fifteen ; another * in the madhouse, the third and fourth were of unearthly beauty, but tlioy blighted and paled, and faded into heaven, we trust, in their sweetest teens ; another is tottering on the verge of l}ie grave, and only ono is left with all his senses, and each of them is as weak as water. .'Why, we came from the dissecting room and made a note of it, it waa*Q horrible. [IIa I I'm Journal of Health. Tub Lira.* Oxes.? Did' you ev?r think how much work a little child does in a day I How, from sun rise to sun*' set, the dear little feet patter round??o us?so aimlessly. Climbing up here, kneeling down there, running to another place, but never still. Twisting and mining, roiling ami reaching and doubling, as if testing every b<>ne and inns cle for tbeir future uses. It is very cu rious to watch if. One who doesso may well understand the deep breathing of the rosy littlo slee|x>T, as, with one arm tossed over its curly head, it prepare* for the next day's gymnastic*. Tireless through the day, till that time comes, as the maternal love, that so patiently accommodates itself, hour afttr hour, to its thousand wants and caprices, veal or tancied. . ' ; A husy creature is a little child. To he looked upon with awe, as well as de light, as i^a clear eye looks trustingly , ipto faces that to (iod and map have essayed to wenr a mask. As it sits down in the little chair ponder, precociously, over the while lie you thought Tunny* to tell it. As rising and leaning op your knees, it *>'% thoughtfully, in a tone tnat should provoke a tear, not a sf?>le?"if I don't believe it.** A lovely, and yet a fearful thing, is that little child I?I'rincipia. * Cnossr.n evkd people get inloagOod many awkward scrap**. We shall never forget the stonr tolJ of ili'e cross eved butcher who hacfeniployeO ft **egrG to hold the Tica<1 of it bullock he vm About "lightering. Mead*. <i,sthe butober noised his ax? !ii,i^? air, he scorned to r he looking dLoejff" At the negro instead of0ie lullocJc. "'Look here, boM P' exH viftimed Sambo, *lth ft good deal of | nervous trepidation, " I* you gwine to > striko' whnr yon is looking V MOf ? course. 1 art', you Hack varmint," was . the reply. >'ou 8^ somebody else to hold de bullock,n ejaculated the t negro, as he made tbe tallest kind of # tracks out of the slaughter house. m ntfE&t - ' ] Debt is a horse that is always throw* ing its rider. Fools ride bin bare-back r and without a b?Idle." 88^ 1 ' Bight to Sixteen. Hall's Journal of Health, which is regarded as utmost standard, in matters peituining ?6 the physical economy of man, has the following, in regard to the importance of propsrly directing and controlling children bet ween the ages of eight and uxteen. We a*k the' ntten lion of parents to it. It is a matter in which all are deeply concerned, and which claim* earnest attention : Lord Shaftfeabury recently slated in a public meeting in Totidon, that from personal observation he had ascertained. Iliatarf the sdult male criminals of (bat city, neatly all hml fallen iuto * course of crime between the ages of eight and sixteen years ; arid that if a young man lived an honest life up to twenty years of age, there were forty-nine chalices in his favor, und only one against him, as to an hohorable life thereafter. Thus is it in the physical world.? Half of nil who are horn, die under twenty years of age, while four fifths of all who reach that age, *and die -liefore another "score," ewo their death to causes of diseases which were originnt ed in their "teens." On a careful in qtiiry, it will b? ascertained (tint in nearly all cases, tins chum, of inoral and pieinaluro physical death, are pretty much one and the mme, nnrl are laid between the age* of H eight and sixteen year#." Tin* is a fact of startling import ,to fat hen aud mother*, and show* ? feiu-fil responsibility. Certain ly a parent should secure and retain and l 'exercise absolute control over the chili miliI sixteen ; it calthot' be a difficult matter to do this, except in very 'Are oases, and if that control is not wisely and efficiently exercised, it must be the parent's fault; it it owing to parental neglect or remiss**, llcnce the real source of ninety eight per cent. oT the crime of a country such as England or the United States, lie* at the door of the parents. It is a fearful reflection; we throw it before the mind* of the fathers and mothers of our land, arid there leave it, to be thought of in wis rlom, remarking only as to the eailv seeds cf bodily disease, that they arc nearly in every case sown between sun down and bed time, in absence from the family circle, in the supply of spending money never earned by the splendor, opening the doors of confectioneries and soda fountains.,of beer and tobac co and wine, of the circus, the negm ininstiel, the restaurant and the dance; then follow the Sunday excursion, the Sunday diive, with easy transition to the company of those whose ways lead down to the gates of M>oial, physical and moral ruin. Froin height to sixteen," in these few years r.re the destinies of children fixed! in forty-nine cases out of fifty; fixed by the parent! Let every father, and mother, solemnly jtqw : " Bv God's help. I'll fix my darling's destiny for good by making home more attractive than t e street." Be a Man. w B* A MAJf," by filling the place you are in. If ybu are h man, bo a man, ovary whit a man. If you are not a mnn, ((lory in this; b? a woman in the true sense of the word. If yon are a I youth, or child, do not those disdain pro ' duetive disciplinary years. Art* you poor or rich, humbled or honored, cilixen or magistrate, be your position what it mAj, if yon cannot improve it, ahow yourself a man in it. To the young I say, do not make haste to become men prematurely; but seek to become the host specimen* of Toutli. Men'* garments do not become boy*; youth ia the fttepping stone to manhood, the appienlice^liip of life. God has adapted re?ponaibililie? lo relations, and these to natures and spheres. Seek lo show yourselves true to the nature and sphere you are in ; it is thus you will prove yourselves to he men in the best sense. Let us magnify the position we are appropriately in. 'aud show ourselves to lip the noblest specimens of what God mh^o ua to he. w Bk a man," by cultivaHttyyoursetf. There is ne?l of n sound body, Invlgo rated bv habits of virtue end healthful enterprise; hut there is more need of a 1 nohltypiind, disciplined bv culture and subject to principle. This is essential to <lie highest eute of manhood. Tincultivated mind, like unsubdued soil or Unite gtrengilL fsils of its highest pro..ductivencs*. Tho whole mind and heart needs thus to ho developed and disciplined. We cannot ?bow ourselves men-hi anj true sense till wo raise our standard of thinking, of netingjoand purpose to the fughcet practicable point; and to gain this high ground wo must take covenant wkh labor, we must resist temptation, and put the hee| upon the neclc of inordinate appetite and in diligence. We must store the mind and taste with what W useful and wholesome t we must I* able to go from r?Dk? to fffwl mikI tmm affrn-l K?nt in 1 cause, Upon I lie strong chain of reason itig ; and we ought 10 know how to i>rm those chain* by closo links of logic. We measure n.em, not by stature, nor station, nor by age, nor sex, no* sirenm stances, but by cultivated power*, and the success with which they are able to bring those powers to bear upon the noblest interest of earth. Wnv is John Smith like a badly' cooked buckwheat cuke) Because he isn't Brown. lib ViyA V *. ' \ *V 'J ' H Osrrtv. Morel 8oaaio;o. You all know, if not, I can inform you thereon, "that the chn*f city of California is soinewhat^infested by Chinamen. An acquaintance of ours was junior purine , end occasional in a firm whose business it ?m to m11 fish, books, cod linen, rope's end*,#**1 other odds nqd omlr. Om? tTqjr, a John CMII nil mil. followed by a- train ehotp led of liii countrymen, arranged tandem r fashion, enteredjthe establishment,wand after peering afoUnd for n few seconds ? ScuSSi* .5 " Cauna win twine?got liim r , ** Yea !** ?m the answer. 44 Ho# much takee f " One dollar a pound.*!" lt Umpti! gire fifty cenUP " Get out I" said the junior partner, With a tnenncing gesture, and John Chinaman departed, followed by Lie tail; and hi* countrymen. The train passed 'and repassed the .t-v w i ? - u?ur several i linos, and at Mot re entered. John, looking round as though ha had never before been there, again inquired of them: i " Cotton seine twiue?got Lira 1" Yetf" " How much takeel" ? " 6ne dollar a pound f* "Urnph, givce seven five cents." i3 " ,<^t out 1" cried the excited partner and the Chinese population departed he before. ' l* t'*** .The wild gqesa pre^satali paraded past a few times, a fid then re entered. The spokesman, after gaxiag around some time, llfled up ids eoice a third lime and thus he spohe't " * 'r:; *' Cotton seine twine?got himl" "YesM" '* llo" maeh takoe t" ,f The salesman whispered to Patrick, the porter, to hand liiin n clejivCr.? This had, ho gnrtped the astonished John Chinaman with his left hund.*ntid raising his cleaver with the right,exclaittred : " One dollar n pound ! I" John gave one look at the cleaver, another at the face of the salesman, aud yelled out: " 1 take one hundred pound !', The bargain was thereon closed. Rabies anP Watkk.?What a pity that bnbios had not some more intelligi Mo mode of expressing their desires, or that doctors, nurses and mothers, were not wiser. How often do we hear oue of those sweet .little, darling babies, that always look "just precisely like the daddy," crying at lh^ tip-top of its voifce for water, simply because it is thirsty.-? w .1 ? ? * - many moiiicr* never ttonk ot giving their chiiii n drink of water, but, to stop iu cries, force it to the breast, at which it eagerly grasps, thinking to satiate its burning thirst, But, alas 1 how sad the disappointment?for, after ila> little stomach has been filled to iho biim with its natural food, it cries on harder than ever. We have tnof.e than onw been cnl for by the parent, on the tjU^posilion that the child was suffering foe medical aid, vrjien, by giving it a few leaspoonfutU of good, pure, sparkling cold water, it was relieved of all its troubles.^ <; : . We often tell mothers and nurses to give the child w'dtcr. But many think that will not do, and, instead of allowing the child to allay its thirst, attempt to arrest its cries by giving it a pup, catnip tea, Godfrey's Cordial, Bnteftinn'a Drops, etc., etc.', thas cuaiing a morbid appetite for .rum qnd other poisons, re1 suiting in deleterions effects on the health and moral* of the child. Mothers, will you think of thia, and remember that, although a child may drink milk, or nurse at the breast, it may often suffer as much from the want of water,"n* adults who take more solid food! Imagipe how terrible a situation, to be deprived of wator in hot days to allay our burning thirst. The fluids, u nm repienianen t?y taking water into the syatoni, would noon l>o diied tip, aud our bodies turned to dust. , f Kc. Med. Jourwtt. - Tub Farrow's Kkim.v.?A My in Ver?i)otit write* id a new pa Indie* ate fopd of good thing*?why don*\ they send us tuore ljke the following, awl butter t? ^ Vt v *' " The Post-office iu our village was kept in tho bar room of the tavern, a ?real report for krohger*. An ohl chap more remaikable for his toaisenewk awl infidelity, than for ' ? good nwirinerr, wm hitting there one day .w ith a lot of bOoii companion*, when the Method^ minister, a rew-coiper, entered ?i\d r*v ed for his lei'teTS. ? Old Swipesepoke up, b1 unt^' n you the Methodist mwewor jtmt come lioio to preneb ?" pm," pluMHtmly ropfi<>d the ????? ister.,:. ;< ' ^rP u WdH/?*id Swipes, H will you t?lh I me liner old tl?? rlavil ?* f" * K^P yoor own family record,M quickly, leliuned i|io preecher, mikI lety lh? house *uiid tho rq*r? of the eotnpH* ?yr 4_mA_ A MAN who had pureliDHcd A pnir of new shoes, finding the rojtd to he rstlu-r h rough ope, decided on putting tl p ?ho?? under hie ?r?n, and wn'king hon * barefooted. After a while he ?iul>l <<| bi? grem toe, U?ki g the nail ofi' asclean as a whistle. " How lucky!" he exi qlaimed, what a tremendous kick thnt would hava been for Ibe ehoee P