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MARCH 24, 1871 THE LTJTHBRAM VISITOR; OOLRflBIA, SBC! Children's ami hymns of thaoksgiv raid-streets answered the tic rejoicing of the* people lein. The towers at ffid the A. R. of that dispatch. It 1 surprising if the wfees < telegraph are^fome tii the walls of those very PIANO ng sensible advice Is jfatickmam 4hd ke/ec led by river# of era*|— awes all shining and neen t th our fruit in its seram— dot blast about usait tp f «lh frf ' S> 'a *■ . * £ the bright living sir amts reah from the throne pfOod, l hope and joy * brigh : beans th in life—in thought and the “Bright, beaotifhl land of Go«L* In oar days, hearts and darts, living on loving, dying for one an other, and all that sort of thing, ia “plaj*4 ootj* mageapidt, m onr German friends so accurately aod idiomatfadfr express it We want a solid foundation to todM matri mony on | blocks of bullion, and cement of greenbacks, and supports of bonds, and girders of stocks. None of your ethereal castles in the air will answer for onr modern ladies of fashion. Ckmtomum en JSapayoa turn airy residences, and dot suited to a Northern climate with the thermome ter at xero iu the snn in the winter, and ninety in the shade in the sum mer. The Jlancee of the period pre fers brick 8 and mortar if they are more prosaic. Cottages can no longer be erected in this city under onr Ate laws, and lodges in vfifct wildernesses will do well enough ia summer when the play or catching trout and bant ing deer is beiug enacted, bat will not accommodate a modern ball or give recan tor the Genian. Our girls are not brought up to save; not they. Spending ia their strong point, and in that we will back them against the world. Am av erage American wife will get through more money that any tom ale repre sentative of any nation on earth; and if onr wives can not rain their husbands, nothing can. They hate account books and despise arithmetic, and know It is low to go into the kitchen or look after their servants. Their fathers have worked for them all their yonnger days without limit ing their expenditures. Why should not the husband follow this excellent example T It was only the other dsy that a fashionable lady sent her sa|v phfre engagement ring, Just given her by her lover^ to Tiffany to be valned, and when she found it was a “doublet,” actually a sham, or at least half a sham, and only worth three hnndred dollars, she dismissed her lover ignotninioualy. Bhe fore saw what such economy meant 8be was to have “doublet*’’ tried on her at every turn. Her ftifcuiture would be a sham, and cheap; her horses poor and ugly; her house in a aide street, ami not on the avenue; her dresses American silk, and made by third-rate milliner*; her Jewels mean pearls or common garnets; bar car riage second-hand perhaps. Horrors! Was she not sensible in patting an extiuguisher on such possibilities f “Saved from thee” indeed! Why, where is the font Husbands are not engaged on those oondHisns, and their privileges are limited while their duties are plainly deioed.— Citizen and Round Table. ittfitrou Watered Flowiu Do faith Shine laagfced aod said Leave (i recur Ufa •- " •*’ mmam....: but ia retrenchment, don’t begin at the wrong cud. Let yonr family newspaper be among the last things lHihlfl. ’You oift]spare many mat tors of household use tor better than you can spare your paper, It tells you all that is going on la the world around you ; it instructs you in mor als and religion ; It interests you In your leisure hours; its timely infor mation saves yon many dollars, and enables you to tarn as many more; it assists your wife ia her household duties, you in your form, or shop, or store; it makes yon intelligent among your neighbors; it hss its word of encouragement, of aid, of fitness for every condition of ttfr. It is a member of your tomily, and the most inexpensive ooe, and “pays its way” a thousand times over. Look well before you begrudge the ooe eent a day that yonr paper coots; retrench on yonr table, your clothes, jour adornments, your horses, dogs, tobscoo, etc., etc., before you give op your paper. Ami yet, this is the spot where many begin to do what they' call “economise ;• they deprive themselve and their families of what of Mbs Martin to hafe Mattie PUiu with her lesson* before school. She would not do it for nay other girl, sod but for her IM4 have got* Arrive at Colombia of triumph, “didn't I toll you oof Mrs. Brown looked, and sore enough the ground seemed to be alive with light brown hugs, crawl mg out of tho north, Homo of thorn bod gotten spun Hw rose troto and were bursting off their brown shell* and shaking "ft their thin flimsy wings, upon each of which was a black “W.” Then bright yellow bauds went across their backs and wings. They had black shining eyes sod dark green beads, and looked very j«rett> la the bright sunlight. Boom were flying to t>e 1-r.ucl*. .1* trees, and Charlie again declared that the “dower w sarnmt, watchful- - ul, zealous and wto, it, patient, cheerful - cord to win the U T jin vF.Trains upon the AC. run the follow mjr aehedale fluto Jfe. t. •found, off her brow, arid, calmly, “Gams, sit down and tell me which vers* U is you repeat aoxt Sabbath to your toucher.* in advance. w »*tks or anvu r for one square (one tori. tag, falling branches fading, withering !e nd blighted hud* at Uy snffurelh king and is kind. Char ity cnvirUk not." Grace cast her eyes on the ground; she remembered how she bad re solved that morning, while learning • cop* dull ami doleful heart ! worldly, myM etrtfee ' soulless, careless breast* s, barren, fruitless live 11 Uy eurieth not;* ami tears rushed to her eyre when she thought how soou she had forgotten it ■Now, Grace, l will hear what the trouble !* with your kind teacher and poor tUile XeUie Plain." “Oh, dear motto*, I am almost Mhcpedjhi toll yon that I was pro voked at Nettie for being so much smarter than myself, and I know that Miss Martin hel|is her to flower remit, Charlie, though lave been In tho grooud a long These are locusts, aod they •very seventeen years. I was n young girl the last time 1 rar sin—our guilt o’ertlkrotr. thine atoning blood, I I* from stain and filth m sin i thine own spotless robe.- nakedness within. all truth and grace, as from thy throne ou high ; \ thy holy dwelling pi* e, Wc ! Pom m« not by. I with thy love and trot i, jar dull, cold, doleful h< arts u our sun ay youth, ! irith Ufe ouir inward yai ks. jbrilliant noontide bean ^rarerai Clothe wh ’ Our vi! £l, Spirit i Kail mad si Train*, for doubts this, let him take a single number of the family paper, and examine it in all its departments, see what la contained, and theu think whether, for the tow eents it costa, be can afford to dispense with It. Many a paper, Indeed almost every Yot four successive* advent note bad bc< through die church tha: • The hymns, the prayilj nous, all spoke ,of the t . ing of Christ. To it ai;| churchman, 1 had Ust«-i I end I hope devoutly. It il itself, drcaar-wise, with I light of painted wumIo- -r golden, purple and Otiusl ceasive pews, where f f feather.- and flower- j laces, and the portly apectable citizens wen 1 bowing in responses. B gospel, joining in the ; k in other way* Sanity the wonderful truth* u | the ambjccx of the serin.- | At tones, like a vii m light, some doctors} or J epistle or gospel wool. f meat, pierce the gtoou I and 1 would start a> bad touched me, with mi. thrill. “The mght is § THK DSY 18 AT HAKT>." i I >1 My soul vibrated i». I like a harp. Wsts^j^J night, the long night oTB groping agony aud bln I almost over—ia the day §. Again: “They «ua. f Son OP XiX COXING t I WITH POWkB AXI) GUI And taken these iking* l* 1 Look! “I set, Grace, you hare not beard that the doctor thinks Nettie will be n cripple ell to* life; and as her parents can not afford to rapport her, ns they are so poor and have so many bale ones. Nettie Is study Shine on Rouse 1 Renews; Qtucke Give us t yjpefe Fill im* wflfl the glorious sheen Of heaypk’i truth unending. Make osrtotU* with life to start, With faith pa* eyes on thee abov i; Fi}| us with zeal, and grace impart tyrant i^by benizou of love. 0, tune tifidi ipason of our hearts, Thine own self to us revealing ; With praise make vocal all its psrt, With lifesind light and feeling. ■ ’*4' . I [1 t # • ' Then will plar lives so brightly shim , . With liding green bo richly dressV , . ^ Our heart* burst forth with love dl' ine, wers the eneharist.” ^ - , ; tu, . • j n fruit divinely fair, \ love and joy revealing, jglorioius robes we wear, ireu’a own signet sealing And then jk lall prosper all we do, Come to 1 and joy, or woe and m (tow, For peace and glory writ ns thro’ The eriOres light of (hxT« Th-moknnt. m Fa. which is practtoally worth the snb w-riprion price for several years. “ Cbastor Arrive ak Chsriotse, N. C, that In ttore she may br able to take a few little children to teach j and Mias Martin has kindly offered to help her all she can." “O motto* ! bow mo 1 ever for give myself for being so laftsmu! When shall I ever have that spirit of charity that eorfeth not T “My child,* said Mrs. CortK too derijr, “Jnst as soou as yon jray earnestly for it God will give it to yaa, for W fo more wilting to girt Leave rbsriotte, X. C Death comes nasoagbt to every board, amt at its spectral bidding some beloved one gore forth to bis mysterious home. Time and pbfloeophy may tench rorifnntion aalsj hearts made demv late by Ha coming, but they can never fill the vacancy therein, when she that was our mother no longer casta a halo about our darkeoed hearth. A mdther's place—so loved, so worshiped—oooe empty, moat be ever so. A breast race pangml by “Their! C. BOLKMGHT. ttmp't. R. Uonrr, (imenl Freight as ;rt Agent. There was a poor man nbose In toUertual fsculUes had not adrsnred In harmony with his physical growth, sod for this reason his i a fan tile name had here perpstnated in bis man hood. Bat “God bml chosen the fool fob things of the world to confound the wfee.* rpRAIN* so the tone 1 ran drily, Haadny» « Laovv Andrnun at Arrive at W snails at Uaneous reach with beulfug forget the gentle being whose suffer ing* begot hi* life. A mother is truly our guardian spirit spon earth. Her gomlare* shields and protects; she walks with our infancy, our youth and mature age—ever sheltering ns with her absorbing love, and expatiating nor many sins with her blesmd prayers. And when our- mother, with all her burden of lore, her angelic In fluence, her sainted care, cease* to* beauteous life, bow much we lose at home, of happiness, of heaven, no one can reckon ;! for our mother was none but ours, and we only can know how holy she was—bow sacral her memory must ever he. Bat may we not borrow ore sols tire from the thought that our loss fo heaven’s gate; that surety sue angel watches over us, erasing with grateful tours tbs record of our sin, and making earn our path to her with blessed aud bisesiug prayers. * [flunication of intelligence ctric telegraph, now dome at the East, recall* an circumstance of.anslent ompare it with the i lode lately iu sending ney a to *>ple from Ephesus, j he« ^ was completed to the ice from Smyrna. The fesagfc was dispatched ?ver The ct by the t into nst intercatii history, l Whitewash.—Take half a bushel of good, nikslaked Mare, sinks it in bod ing water, and keep it covered during the slaking process. Strain the liquid through a sieve, and add a peck of clean salt, dissolved in warm water; and three pounds of boiled rice or wheat paste, mid half a pound of die solved glue; add five gallons of wa ter to this mixture. It fo best to put it on hot, bat, in that case, use only old brashes. For the interior of dwellings do not use any salt, and to the above lime add about two pounds of Spanish whiting. It makes the lime clearer looking If a little indigo fo squeezed among ft. Coperas will make it a buff color; blue vitriol a bine color. EXTRAORDINARY SriXRSSm Hated oa the ground that he might net have sufltorent c*parity to ram ~ prebend the doctrines pf the gospel 8 end the evidences of coo vendue. Jj They concluded, however, to exam 3 Ine him. sad began with the subject u - demption ia nigk * Owning ! The Am* o; I ouming—routing into thi.-l power and great glory ? monrent* when I thou which I rnae up in m> I the church seemed giorit J Will this really en j " ill this solid, comm.. . see itf Will these ski. 4 York* brighten and flasl •p*fcun»ed faces in this cirl mg to see him coming f So our minister piv | so * e »o senuon, stnl tbi I u I felt a thrill v] heariug. Hot u« the 'i | ^•wwd passed down th.j »«*ehbar, Mr. Block tv me not to forget th. ' the bank directors on Al )d»«; and Mrs. Gohlth y »y wife’s ear a cl j ••riret her Thursday rec< •y wife, as she came m | ^ had observed the < ] of Mrs. Penny ui an. I P. B. USTUa 4 80*1, OPTICIANS ANr>g VrAW«&£ JUAattiUU. the r latter ancient bright aod pretty, oaly Mule ugiy wo the earth." elena, the mother of ic Great, was prosecd researches in Jefosa a series of towers t4 * the sea coast from 1 tinople, and when she) lat she and the Christ ; WSmf stantine her pios she cai« built ak to Const effected IB liH0«£. Tm Pint PKOBDU tti M» In Orinto* and November, 1070, AWAKDKD TO oiiAS. x, avxaro, KOH THK BKST PH NOS, ever Rnlrimorr, New York, PhQai)el)>hia •ad Bontoa Uuufiictmn. Ofkm and Amr Wamvoai, No. 9 Jf. Liberty Baltimore. Md. 8TIBFPB PIANOS neatria all the blast improvement* ta be fiMtud Ins firet-clsss l*iano, with «<ldi- tiawil tapn>Tf*M»to of hi* own invention eat to he found in other instnuaent*. The tone, touch sod finish of three instru ment* can not be excelled by sny maaa- flecond-hrad Piano* always on hand, from #:.% b.fsto Padar Onrnn*. from the br*t%nk«n, at from flfiO to flMO. • Rrfrrte* oho bare oar fSanoein wee.- Gen JeSrWr. Icdarin.Ya: C W Melton, Vba+et, S (’; /Hfoidth. tArefor, S C; WATCH KS & FINK “ 4 Well. If so, whose work is that f “H>, Goff did a part, and I did a jwirt.' “‘Ah, what part did you do, her greaf tliscovexy, the uncove ring of the beams of wood in the pit fear Calvary, I jwbit-h she believed, for some reislon which we mpy fe®* 1 doubt, tet >e the wood of tho (free of Christ, she “telegraphed” fthe account tit the discovery to dlfert son in Byzauji rm. A fire Mazing ori the hill of Ari a sent the intelligem e» to the hill | Hamah, the city of £ am Wky is Food Required t—The ques tion seems almost a Ward, so familiar is G»e fbet; and yet the mmwot-te U involves one of the grandest chapters in the history of science. In Its sin plest form it may be given ia three words—1t is fuel. We require food frequently for just too same reason that a fire reqnires coals frequently, and a lamp oil—because we are burn ing away. 8trange as thto may ap pear, ft fa a most certain fact. The air that we breathe into oar tong* contains oxygen, and this oxygen combine* with or “ ‘Why. I oppraed God all I could, and he did the rest. 44 ‘The rerelt of the etamteMfoMl was, that so far as they ronW judge. the Holy Spirit hod been Main my> theological teaeher, and Had indeed cmded him Anew hi Ihrld, “not of works, lest any shook! beast.’”— t nr\Aitnn /Yffvivf)f. Be Nodal at Home.—Let parents talk ranch and talk well at home. A father who fo habitually silent in his own hodne may be iu many respects a wise man, but Ire Is not wise in bis silence. We sometimes see parents, who are too life of orery company they enter, doll, silent, tin- interesting at home among their chil dren. If they have not mental pr tivity and mental stores sufflo. lienee it flew to the: hill i, where the city of ( fori i splendid in its Komaa 11. They saw it from jfar- 5, and lit their fires to? tell •'those who watched on shall have golden crowM$mtfd never die again” j) “Will everyU*. I v have thoae pret- ty wings and bright bodies, mother f “No, those who are good sad Imra.dfoJNter farhor, and try to obey torn. Bod hoys sad girl* w(fl rim oat of toe earth, too, bat fAttle Mary'i T%<Mfkte.-lM#e> Mnry had Just come from the window, where toe hod been faring out upon the western sky, mantled with cloud* of the moot gm-gcon* Hues. “Paps,” sbe said, “do rod know what f think when T ace those pretty clouds t “No ; what do Jmi think of them, Mary r “1 olwpys think they are God's red*. Doesn't be bare heantffhl veils, p«p«, to hide him from osf” “Troe coougfa little one,” thought I; “the Hoods which veil hfm from onr sight are beautiful. There tea rainbow on them, If we will see it; they shine with mercy slid trnto.* “ Woe not that a pretty thought of little Mary f And does 1t oof re mind poo of toe thee when the veil shall be parted, and Re “to* 11 come with Hoods, And etety eye shall see htfflf* * ’faKuui-1 know can not *•** wod 1 rarer ithiuk Earin for my thiii * 0ok ttpoti it as moralt \ w \ ^ spoke of the sem my wife, “what a sc! I wonder Ui;. 0rk fo not drawn t< > What can be in. . m diacoursee! dra't forget opal ring for a d The Christ. aU 80 0,1 ^»king 0 f evei itl chureh—ami \ "fflOg of me.” dear,” said I, -> J r** toe us if nil or ?T*to‘ We go to eh in we l»ear a. false, if they an 32? tb *>’ * For in If ire al burns tin* muselrs \ fast M the the spurt) r Lebanon that goes to. the sea of and so itfl along the sliorc by Berytus Tripoli j qu il Laodicea af Syrii the story was dropped the line nit Antioch, thou the lordly told magnificent city;] L S Ikou^lo fff'TOer it does the coalrin a fire. The beat produced in a man's body in the coarse ef a day Is considerable in quantity, though not vary intense in quality. Taking the average, it is MKWgh to rains five and a half ffal Ions of water from freezing point to boding point, aud this fo about the beat that would be given off daring the burning of a pound of coafa. A11 this heat comes from the slow wast ing or burning of the substance ef the body, so that it fa evident that if we did not make up for this constant loss by eafhig food, oar organs would soon be wasted awaited consumed it. Columbia, their own household. Ireland ex ports beef aod wheat, and Mvcs on potatoes; aod |hcy fare as poorly who reserve their social charms for companion* abroad, and keep their dullness for home consumption. It is better to fnstrurt children aud make them happy at home than it is to charm stranger* or amuse friends.t A silent honso )* h^duli place for young people—a place from Which they will escape if they can. They will * talk or think bf being “shnt op” there; and the youth who doe* rat love home fa in dauger. * id i riMf naKHw of 1.000 Snuthcraer* v*-l,o ha Uvnjrtit th* Striff Piano dure the Hose the war. Fab 1 22—tf JACOB 8. SOHfOMSB ; DtiLSi nr . fly away to a dreadfal, dark pteee, world.' of Issue It cross* the hills above Phi’ ever, and nothing to make any one fe»n*r* tT t “Wall, matharl f am determined to be a good boy , for I want to go to there VwnHf ul garden* yaa told ago as iti went from bill to hi riiv fii/sknd Pergam&s, and Ida, “foray-fooiitained Ida,” anc pfains of jTroy. From the sui ofr high Giyaapus (Olympus in i the ittbibitants of the new j of Coqsfejntiue saw the flash ofl expected imessage, and their sm REWARD A motpent’s thought irill show how cloeei^''this agrees with well known fact-. Why does an animal become so thin daring the slow and 'flluufal hs* cured wpBj j ii;