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A CONUNDRUM.
To wed, or not to wed, that is the question ;
Whether 'tis better for ns young folks to
suffer
The stings and arrows of a single life,
Or to take up the cross of matrimony,
And thus end them ? To fall in love, to
marry
Some one ; and by a marriage to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand little
wounds
j That we are heir to-'tis a consummation
J Devoutly to be wished. To love-to be
loved
To marry ! perchance to dream !-aye, there's
the rub ;
For in that state of wedded bliss, what
dreams may come, "
When we have shuffled off this single state
Must give us pause. There's the consid?ra?
tion
That makes calamity of married life;
For who would bear the whips and scourge of
woman's tongue,
The butcher's bill, the milliner's account ;
Or when in course of time there comes a
being
For whom you must give up each husband's
joy.
0, Holy Moses ! Give os patience and sub?
missiveness
To pace the floor at hours of night,
And stop the midnight melody of the young
lord
At whose behest we miserable men must bend
the knee.
***** *
Yet midst the griefs and pinching things of
married life
At times we feel that we are happy and well
blest. OSCAR.
BILL ARR
Tiaining a Soy Gets in College.
It is right, I know, for a man to be
conservative and tolerant and respect?
fully considerate of other peoples' opin?
ions, but how can a man be so and take
the papers. When he reads the non?
sense of men claiming to be educators,
he gets disgusted with fools, and when
he reads the venomous lies and slanders
of politicians, he is equally disgusted
with knaves, and so between the two
their utterances in the public press
keep him vexed about half the time.
Nevertheless, it ta the duty of a good
citizen to keep np with the age in which
bc lives, for he can do something, and
it is bis doty to read and be prepared for
coming events and raise his voice on
the right ?\?e. It has been a great
d:awbackcrfti the South that her people
did not read enongh and were too con?
tented with their ignorance ; bat they
are waking1 up now, and you can hard?
ly find a family in this region that does
not take some paper. I mix with the
common people a good deal and I know
families who take a paper for their chil?
dren to road, although the parents can?
not. ' This ts all right and it is encour?
aging. After a poor farmer boy has
learned to read and write and cipher,
he can get a right good edncation from
the papers, and he can get it cheaper
than in any other way. I would rather
my boys would depend on three or four
good papers, that would not cost more
than ten dollars a year, than on fifty
dollars worth of Latin and Greek and
algebra and geometry. They will be of
more benefit to him in the practical
business of life. Of course, if he is to
be a professional man, he must study
the sciences and go to college, bnt it is
a hazard-a great hazard-to send a.
boy to college, and the reason is plain.
Four years at school and four more
at college takes eight of the best years
of a boy's life, say from 12 to 20, the
very years that his physical system
needs physical exercise and physical
training; the very years when his
habits of life and for life are fixed ; the
very years when he -should mix labor
with study and let his brain and his
muscle all work along together and
sustain each other. College habits are
habits of physical indolence. A college
boy has no education to work anything
bat his brain when he comes away, and
looks around for business. His physi?
cal nature abhors work-he can't stand
it. His habits are fixed and habits are
as binding as fetters, and he sees no
agreeable opening except the law or
medicine or politics, and so the laud is
full of quacks and pettifoggers and
small politicians who afflict the people
and do no good for themselves. These
small lawyers sit around town and
watch for strife among nabors like a
buzzard watches for a carcass. They
nurse and encourage all sorts of petty
litigation. The doctors gallop off to
see a sick patient and keep him sick
until it takes hts little crop to pay the
bill. The politicians get up a rumpus
in the newspapers and slander one an?
other until the people don't know who
to vote for. aud they don't care And so
it goes, and it would have beeu better, far
better, for the whole batch to have stay?
ed upon the farm and married clever
country girls and gone to raising chil?
dren and chickens in an honest and
honorable way. Now if, I say if, the
college "boys would go to farming 1
would rejoice to see the boys go to col?
lege, for the higher the education the
more refined is the happiness that
knowledge gives and the better farmers
they would make, but they will not.
And for like reasons I have never fa?
vored the higher education of the negro.
rr . .
Iiis race is physically ordained for
labor, muscular labor, and he likes it.
A college life is his utter ruin as a man
and a citizen, and lie conies out a gen?
teel African vagabond. 1 received a
letter from one of t?icm in Atlanta the
other day that was full of profane abuse
and blasphemy for the views expressed
in one of my letters and he demanded
the name of that Boston traitor as he
called him who said he pitied us when
he stw the ignorant horde that had
been entrusted with the ballot.
Well, that darkey bas been to college
and is now an educated vagabond. The
trouble with Mr. George W. Cable is
that he does not consider the negro as
ai race bu* lets his large philantrophy
consider them individually. He finds
i case where a negro became an
expert from -having the advantage of a
high degree of culture, and he makes
bim a type of the race, and puts a de
Hand upon us for a like civilization to
lill It reminds me of the educated
jog that, a, few years ago, was. exbibi
fcd, over tho. Scuttb, and- could play
cards, and tell the truie of day upon ?
watch, but I don't think it follows thai
we should, therefore, educate al
the bogs in the country. The ex
ceptions always prove the rule. Nc
negroes have made any progress ic arts,
or science, or politics, or the pulpit
except those who had Caucasian blood
in their veins. The cross does well foi
a ti ruc, but it is nature's last effort, foi
nature abhors it, and from the unnatu?
ral union cooes a feeble posterity 01
none, after the first generation. Some
of the noblest colored people I ever
knew were of this kind. Fred Doug?
las and Senator Bruce and all the color?
ed men of note are among them. The
barbers of the South are of them, and
almost without exception they arc a
law-abidiog, intelligent and well-man?
nered class of citizens. I have great
respect for them, for they attend well to
their business, and are entitled to more
respect thao some of their customers.
Mr. Cable seems to think that justice to
the negro requires we should mix with
them on equal terms iu our churches
and schools and cars and hotels and
theaters, and this shows his utter igno?
rance of the race as a race, for they will
tell bim almost uniformly that they do
not want to mix. They want equal
privileges, but they do not like to mix.
The race instinct is agaiust it. Your
recent editorial on this subject was most
admirable and most true, and this
reminds me to say that no philosopher
or philanthropist understands the negro
like those who were born and bred with
them, and tho negro knows it. He bas
to-day more respect for the old masters
than for his so called northern friends.
When he feeip fully assured that Dem?
ocracy docs not mean slavery or oppres?
sion, but rather an enlarged freedom
and protection he will no longer rely
upon northern politics or northern
promises, and will quietly affiliate with
his own people. We are getting along
very weil together now, and. I think
some of our abstractionists are attach?
ing too much importance to the race
problem. It is premature. It may
become a serious problem for our chil?
dren and my faith is they will be pre?
pared for it. It is said they are in?
creasing more rapidly than the whites.
I have never believed it and I put no
trust in the census that reports it. The
birth rate may be as great, but the
death rate is at least three to one. Our
city records prove it annually. They
do not marry like they used to, nor do
they take as good care of their children.
But suppose they are increasing more
rapidly. It'does not follow that they
ever will or ever can control the ,coan
try or its government. A few men
control it uow. Not the many-money
and property control it, and always
will. Mooey controls us all, whciher
we know it or not. Money is the lever
of Archimedes and thc negro will never
have it because he does not want it.
It is not his nature to accumulate. He
lives and toils for his present good. A
few do acquire property, but- only a
few, and that proves the rule by the
exception. He cannot accumulate if he
would, because be bas no fitness fr. thc
arts and the tricks of trade by which
most of our race get rich. The negro
rarely cheats or deseives any one in a
trade. Ile is frank and open and does
not know how to plot a fraud or conceal
it. lu all this I admire him, for he is
unlike the white man. Solomon says
'a lie sticketh close on the joints
between the buyer and the seller,' but
he meant it for a Jew, and it is true of
the Gentile, bat not of the negro. The
negro will steal, for that is an instinct
of his race and be cannot help it, but
he will not steal much. His inclination
that way is limited, but when a white
man steals, the more he gets the better
satisfied be is.
Well races are races, and we must
study them. This study will teach us
that the African, the black negro, was
by nature and nature's Ged created and
fitted for labor rather than for college or
the theater or the fioc arts. But let
the experiment of high education go on.
Let us try it for another twenty years,
and perhaps the problem will be solved.
In the meantime let Mr. Cable possess
his soul in patience and I hope the New
York Tribune will learn in due time
why it was that one million of the
nation's wards failed to vote for Blaine
in the last election. The editor of that
pacific journal has put that conundrum
at us very frequently of late and seem9
impatient for an answer. Well, we
give it up. Why don't he ask the
wards ? As the Scriptures say, 'He is
of age, ask him.' I told John Thomas,
the other dry, that one of his Yankee
friends up North wanted to know why
he dident vote for Blaine, and he stop?
ped short and looked surprised, and
said : 'Well, boss, what's he got to do
wid it?' And then I asked another dar?
key, and he said, 'Gosbamity ! boss,
I didn't knaw he v. a s ruonin.'
BILL ARP.
Squeezin' Times.
On a train going West the other
evening were two residents of the city,
who were canvassing the general situa?
tion as to business, and both agreed
that it was a iiine when every business
man should pare his apples very close.
Behind them was a farmer and his son,
and, as the gentleman finally ceased
talking, the old man observed :
'William Henry, did you hear what
they said ?'
'Yes, dad.' "
''Bout iron furnaces bustiu' up, and
rollin' mills shuttin' down V
'Yes.'
'Hullsale houses goin' to thc wall,
and coner groceries beiu' knocked high- j
er'u Gildroy's kite?'
.Yes, I heard it all; and what of ,
it?' I
'What of it!' echoed the old man, as J
he half-wheeled io his scat. 'Why. you ?
infernal, thick-headed idiot, it means
that i'm goin' to git ready fur squeezin' j
times, and if you don't pay me them $7
you owe me by next week Thursday, .
I'll cover my shorts by g?vin' you the
all-firedest lickin' a William Henry J
ever fooled with.'-Wall Street Kens.
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'Mamma,' said a little boy to his (
mother, the other day, 'let me see you 1
break Maud S's record ; will you V i
'What do you mean ?' asked the moth- J
er. 'Why,' said the boy, innocently,
?Bapa says you can talk faster than a J
horse can trot.*; ' *" rJ :,?'; "j
What Our Editors Say.
Greenville Netcs.
New York City, which is a center of
civilization, has a municipal govern
meat which is as corrupt, unscrupulous
and imbecile as any of the burlesque
State governments of the Sooth during
the reconstruction period. Fortunately
the Democratic party is not fully re?
sponsible for this condition of affairs as
the Republican aldermen are quick and
unanimous to form thievish combina*
tlons with so-called Democrats. All
parties are one in the wild rush for
'boodle.' As far as we can judge by
the newspaper reports, there is not one
of the eDtire twenty-one city fathers
who bas even a faint resemblance to a
gentleman. South Carolina may have
to teach the respectability of the me?
tropolis bow to effect a political revolu?
tion some of these days.
Newberry Herald.
'An Ohio business mab who bas been
traveling through the South says :
Mississippi and Alabama are covered
with mortgages from one end to the
other, and they are both practically
owned by the merchants of New Orleans.
The planters of those States have a cns*
tom of mortgaging their crops before
they are grown. The crops fail, and
they secare their notes by a mortgage
on their plantations. They grow deep?
er and deeper in debt, and the resnlt is
that their estates have fallen into the
hands of their New Orleans brokers.
Land is very cheap in Alabama and
Mississippi now. Some good timbered
property can be gotten as low as 50
cents an acre.'
We fear that the above has much
of the truth in it, and that it is more
or less true of other places. How we
long for the day when our people at
large shall find their way out of the ruts
of poverty, and when the fillet-crowned
seasons, well-directed labor and wise
economies, may yield them the amonnt
of prosperity so essential to their peace
and happiness.
The Senate Ignores and Violates
the Constitution.
Edgefitld Advertiser.
The .Senate by a vote of 18 to 15,
defeated the House bill to provide for
taking the census of the State this year.
Senator Talbert, on the ground of econ?
omy, voted for striking out the enacting
words of the bill, although the new cen?
sus-as shown by the census of 1880
would have eutitlcd Edgefield to one
more Representative. The defeat of
the bill will save thc State at least fifty
thousand dollars ; but it is in plain
violation of the Constitution to neglect
taking the census this year. Some of
our most distinguished Senators, how?
ever, were among those who voted
against the bill. As regards Senator
Talbert's vote, he was at least con?
sistent, inasmuch as he persistently
voted against every form of expendi
tur, save the ?14,000 for the militia.
In our opinion Senator Talbert pushed
economy too far. It is not well to try
to make people believe they are so ut?
terly and hopelessly poor. In the long
run, they will be willing to pay nothing,
and the State may go to the dogs.
When one considers that property in
South Carolina is returned at far less
than its real value, ail this frantic and
unremitting talk about onerous taxation
is in a great degree bosh. We earnest?
ly hope our people will not fall into the
error of thinking they are so wretchedly
poor, as to forget all State pride and
State dignity.
Mr. Cleveland's Letter.
New York Times, Rep.
The reception given to Mr. Cleve?
land's letter is hardly less noteworthy. i
than the letter itself. In the first place, I
there is scarcely a perceptible dissent i
from the doctrines it lays down or the
spirit it expresses from any Democratic <
source, nor is there any attempt among :
the Democrats to explain away its sig- J
nificance. On the contrary, many
Democrats indorse it emphatically and
cry out, as Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana,
loes, *He will trample out this accursed
spoils system.' Only among a few of ,
the Democratic Senators is there found i
i disapproval of the letter on the ground i
)f expediency. On the other hand, .
the letter is received with unexpected j
cordiality by the Republican press.
Many papers that were extremely severe ?
toward Mr. Cleveland during the cam- (
paign frankly recognize the manliness, ;
the sincerity, and the strength of his
present position. i
It is reserved for the more violent
ind more intimate Blaine organs, such ,
is the Tribune, of this city, and the
Utica Herald, to throw doubts on Mr. j
Cleveland's good faith, and to try to ?
extract from bis clear and simple utter- .
inces some double meaniug that will i
jive an opportunity for sneers and a ;
pretense for calumny. i
Gov. Cleveland's Hesigation.
New York World, Jan. G. 1
Grover Cleveland retires to-day from :
,be office of Governor of the State which
ic bas'filled so well. Who shall say i
bat Republics are ungrateful when the <
acople take the faithful Governor by the 1
land and lift bim into the higher and 1
jrouder position of President of the '
United States? ?
It is seedless to review Grover i
Cleveland's acts as Governor when they J
lave jost received so signally the ap- '
)roval of the nation. It is sufiicicut to *
iay that the qualities he displayed as ?
Executive of the State-his steadfast J1
idherence to the public interests, his 1
contempt of the arts of the demagogue, <
lis fearless championship of popular '<
.ights, his unyielding incorruptibility, i
lis plain truthfulness, and withal his s
?terling Democracy-were his pass-ports 1
o the favor of the people all over the
[Inion, 1
It is an encouraging fact, especially i
br young men, that the seed of honesty
ind sincerity planted in New York bore
ts fruit in every State and won foi the t
rood husbandman the richest harvest \
hat can be reaped by an American. ?
The President-elect carries with him <
mt of the Empire State a record which <
sill remain clean and bright io the larg- i
.r sphere of usefulness to which its fu- f
ure pages will be devoted. i
It is fortunate that in retiring from [ I
be Governor's office the President-elect I '
eave's the unfinished year of his term ' <
in the bands of a gentleman who will
carry on the good work of efficient,
honest government with a firm and ca
pable band. Gov. Hill will make a
worthy successor of Gov. Cleveland.
The Chicago Advocates of Murder.
New York Sun.
We read with pain and shame the re?
ports of the speeches at the socialistic
meeting in Chicago on Sunday. Men
and women stood up before hundreds of
people and announced their desire, if
not their purpose, to become cowardly
murderers.
The capitalists, said one of the speak?
ers, named Griffin, most take the non
capitalists into partnership, 'or else,
with the assistance of dynamite, leave
the world.' AoGtber bloodthirsty ora?
tor advocated murder as a remedy for
social ills, and took no pains to guajrd his
words. Even women applauded these
diabolical sentiments, and, more than
that, went further than the men in de?
claring murderous impulses. Miss Lee
said that she was ready to shoulder a
musket to kill 'a mean, dirty, awful
capitalist.' Mrs. Parsons said that she
was as able as her husband to throw
dynamite effectively, and she advised
ministers of the gentle and loving Gos?
pel to tell their parishioners to 'trust in
dynamite, instead of 'to trust in God.'
Such bloodthirstiness and such blas?
phemy are unspeakably shocking, espe?
cially when they are uttered by women.
But the language used was that of
insanity, and for the time, at least, the
speakers were downright lunatics. Yet
we are glad that the meeting was allow?
ed to go on undisturbed, for the frantic
orators blew off steam, and so were less
dangerous characters in a civilized com?
munity. Besides, it is well for the
people to know just what are the feel?
ings of these crazy monsters who arc so
much enamored of blood and murder.
The horror excited by such boastfully
proclaimed sentiments will be almost
universal among those they would con?
vert to their criminal creed ; and labor
will be spared the fearful injury the
advocates of assassination would inflict
on it.
Meantime, in hundreds of savings
banks many thousands of capitalists are
accumulating the money which, accord?
ing to this creed, should doom them to
brutal assassination. Every prudent
and hard-working man is doing bis best
to make himself a capitalist, and the
effort renders him a better citizen and a
more self-respectful being. It encour?
ages thrift, sobriety, and order, and
saves the man from many temptations.
But because of bis self-control and wise
foresight these Chicago lunatics would
put dynamite in his path to blow him
up
It is capital and the organization of,
capital which give him work and bring
within his reach the best fruits of civili?
zation ; yet these bloodthirsty scoundrels
ask him to kill the capitalists and drive
the money from the land. All that thc
world has gained by centuries of peace?
ful industry they would destroy witb
dynamite, turning society into a pande?
monium. They would change the
workman from an honorable American
citizen, who has the ballot with which
to right his wrongs and express his
sentiments, into a dastardly midnight
assassin.
And what do they want to bring
about ? They do not know themselves.
They are ignorant of the philosophy of
the socialism of which they prate.
Meantime, true and desirable socialism
is quietly, but surely, advancing in
every enlightened country. Russia
aside, political freedom bas been won
throughout Europe, and it has always
been the foundation of this republic.
Now, we see very clearly that, instead
of the contest for political rights which
has occupied this century, the twentieth
century will witness a prolonged effort
for social advancement and social eman?
cipation ; and in that struggle capital
?ind labor will find themselves allies,
ind not antagonists.
Steamboat Invention.
Chronicle and ConetUutionalitt,
The steamboat question, as to priority
of discovery, is assuming lively propor?
tions. Our esteemed contemporary,
the Wilmington Star, has contributed
very valuable information on the sub
ject, led thereto by an extract in our
Washington correspondence, which
stated that Senator Platt, of Connecti?
cut, was about to make an elaborate
investigation of the whole matter, and
would try to fix the real credit of this
momentous invention.
Senator Platt is chairman of the Pat?
ents Committee, and has unusual oppor?
tunities for throwing all the light
possible on the matter. He is a just
man and may not insist npon the North's
exclusive claim in this particular, al?
though it is sometimes the habit of the
New Englander to 'want the earth.'
Our brother of the Star is in error when
calling the Connecticut Senator 'Me
Too.' That was Conkling's colleague,
DOW in retirement. Platt, of Connec?
ticut, plays second fiddle to no man.
Now our Wilmington contemporary
insists that we were in error when as?
cribing to John Fitch the glory that
bas been given to Fulton, and declares
that James Rumsey, of Maryland, was
the individual to whom the laurel of
right belongs. The documentary proof
is very strong ; but Fitch fought back
md made out a strong case, if not a'
ca lid one. Until better advised, we
.hall, as a patriot, be content to believe,
is the Star docs, that Rumsey, of
Maryland, has the better claim, al?
though an expert writer in Appleton's"
Cyclopedia distinctly states that 'an ex
imination of thc evidence leaves no
reason to doubt that the first practical
success in steam navigation was made
ay Fitch.'
Let us hope that Senator Platt will
Snally be able ?o decide the proper
jtatus of Rumsey, Fitch and Fulton.
Mr. Pulitzer, wife of Joseph Pulitzer,
:he editor of the New York World, in?
cited 110 boys and the same number of
?jirls, ranging from three to tee years
>f age, to Florence Hall, in that city,
>n Christmas, and distributed $1,500
worth of overcoats, shawls, toys and
sugar-plums among them. They were
ill children of poor parents, living in
ihe Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth
Wards, on the East side of New York
By The Pire,
Ehe sat and mused by the drift-wood Ure,
As tho leaping flames flashed high ?ad
higher?
And the phantoms o? youth, as fair and
bright.
Grew for her gaze in the ruddy light
The blossoms she gathered in life's young
days
Wreathed and waved in the flickering blaze;
And ?he laughed through a sunny milt o?
tears
That rose at the dream of her April yean;
And ever and aye the sudden rain
Flashed on the glittering window-pane.
Sobered and saddened the pictures that
showed r
As the driftwood logs to a red core glowed,
And the fancied figures of older time
Passed with the steadied step of their prime;
The daisiea and snowdrops bloomed and died,
Red roses and lilies stood side by side,
While richer and fuller and deeper grew
The lines of the pictures August drew;
And ever rmi aye the falling rain
Streamed frick and fast on the windowpane.
Tho drift-wood died down into feath*?ry ash,
Where faintly and fitfully shone the flash;
Blowly and sadly her pulses beat.
And soft-was the fall as of vanishing feet;
And lush and groin a< from guarded grave
She saw thc grass of the valiey wave;
And like echoe* in ruins seemed to sigh.
The "wet west wii.d" that went wandering
by. ,.
And caught the sweep of the f?llen rain,
And dashed it against the windowpane.
-All the Year Bound.
D??? CT DISEASE
What a Medical Mani Says on the
Subject.
In considering the question of fool
suitable for a diseased body, one must
remember that tho whole body is debil?
itated in illness, and that the stomach
partakes of the general -weakness, even
if, as frequently the case, it does Hot
suffer specially. As the stomach 4s* of?
ten our mainstay in cases of prolonged
disease, it is very important- that ever^
attention should he given it, so that it
may be kept as efficient as possible and
may not fail ns in the hour of our ne?
cessity. It wonld strike any one as ob?
vious that the very lightest of foods
should be taken at these times, and
that the stomach should not simply not
oe overburdened, but should be placed
as much at rest as thc physical require*
ments of thc patient will allow. But
this is not always understood. For in?
stance, I had been impressing on a pa?
tient suffering from intense stomach ir?
ritation the necessity for light, very
light, food, and she soon afterward
asked me if she might not have a little
roast pork! She was otherwise sane
enough, though one can scarcely cred?
it it
Food must be light and tempting, or
an invalid can not take it at all, and it
is well known that if yon tell the pa?
tient what you are preparing for him
beforehand his unstable fancy grows
sick at the food before he has so much
as tasted it Make it and bring it just
ready for eating. By arousing the fan?
cy thus nourishment may be taken and -
much good gained before tho mind has
wearied of the food.
Milk, again, is our grand resource in
disease, containing, as it does, all the
elements of food that the body requires
in a form that is easily assimilated, and
it is, besides, a food that can be pre?
pared in many tasty ways. If there be
irritation of stomach, and plain milk
is rejected, mix it with one-third of
lime water, or half as much fresh soda
water, and it will answer better. In
any disturbance of the stomach, food
should bo given in small quantities,
frequently repeated-even teaspoonful
doses-of soda water, or soda water
and milk in acute cases; while if the
vomiting continues, koumiss may check
it
Beef tea, chicken broth, and similar
foods are very nourishing, but patients
soon tire of them, and can with diffi?
culty be induced lo take them after a
little while. Indeed, it is very wiso to
change your diet as much as possible,
and tempt the languid stomach with
variety. Oysters arc highly nutritious,
and can be prepared in various ways,
making excellent dishes. In many
cases white fish can be eaten with ad?
vantage, and invalids still nearer re?
cover}' can tako boiled mutton, or an
underdone chop. But meat should bo.
taken with caution, and the lighter
kinds adhered to until the stomach
regains vigor. Mutton, fowl, white
fish, etc., must bc taken in preference
to heavier foods, and five meals a day
of a light nature aro to be preferred to
three heavier ones, when suffering from
debility, while in worse cases food
must bc taken every hour or two, or
much more frequently still if required.
Never neglect-yourpatientfs food-have
something always at hand ready to be
taken when needed. Make your foods
fresh, and do not keep "warming them,
up"-warmed up foods are unpalata?
ble in health and unbearable in sick?
ness. Booths and soups may be
strengthened with lentils or pearl bar?
ley-the latter depriving beef tea of its
purging tendencies.
Patients are often thirsty, and in
gratifying that thirst take care the
food is nourishing. B.irley water is
very nice, as are black currant tea,
lemon tea-with the pips removed to
prevent its being bitter-and a few
drops of dilute hydrochloric acid in
sweetened water makes a good drink.
Lemonade may sometimes oe taken;
and in vomiting, which produces at
times the most distressing thirst, the
sucking-of small fragments of ice is
very agreeable, and tends to .soothe the
stomach also.
Jellies and blanc mange contain
much nourishment and are digested
easily; rice,, milk, sago gruel and simi?
lar things are of service; and if there is,
during convalescence, a dislike for
food, a 6mall quantity of wine or bran?
dy before a meal acts as a whip and
sets up a temporary appetite, which is
often of tho highest benefit to the suf?
ferer.
These remarks will indicate the lines
on which we should work * feeding
invalids; there are endless varieties of
food and methods of administering
them, and these ?~e often our only re?
sources. It wonld be well, then, to
learn how 'o prepare .tasty and whole?
some dishes, so that when sickness does
come, we may be ready to meet it at all
points, -Leeds' Mercury.
The Conntry Editor.
. ~t .;. -
The country editor lives nearer to
his readcrs.than thc city editor doe?.
The country editor knows by sight and
by name a goodly ji'roporiion ai his
subscribers, and to a large extent he is
familiar with their family history. He
personally congratulates them upon, the
birth of a child, and sympathizes with
them when death takes a loved one
from thc family circle. Ile attends the
funerals, thc weddings, the anniversa?
ries, and all other sorts of gaxherings.
Ho joins their societies, religious and
otherwise, acts as President or Secreta?
ry or as a private member, discusses
questions with them, writes essaysand
delivers speeches. He is a trustee of
all sorts of local enterprises,, and tries
to make himself generally "useful as
well as ornamental.-Danville Advert?*
ter.
A Baltimore paper says that city
alone put up thc past season 14,400,
000 cans of peaches, 2.000,000 cans of
peas, 300,000 cans of string beans, 100,
000 cans of pears, 3,000,000 cans of to?
matoes, 1,000,000 cans of fruit and oth?
er vegetables. . _ _
Kassian Cruelties
The fi??h?flb?id (Ky.). Her&d prints
the following readable letter from Gen?
eral C.,Jt Clay, ia defense of Kassia
and the, Russians! r ....
In your journal of a recent date ls a
paper whicli is a type of the malignant
calumnies of tfte ami-Russian press tor
a century or more.* . ? lived in St Pet?
ersburg for near nine years, and made
Russian life a study, mingling with all
classes for that purpose. I dined with,
the Emperor and imperial family? and
took cabbage and soup and black bread
with the woodmen who came from the
interior on boats and rafts. Perhaps
there is no American, living or dead?
who can speak with more authority,
than I can On thc real character of
Russia. I believe there is no more :
charitable or humane nation on earth
than Russia. I give the proofs. There
are no deaths by absolute poverty- ia
Russia, as in the great cities of Paris,
London, New York and other European .
cities. Besides the charitable associa?1 "
tions established! by law; tile first nobles
in Russia, men and, women, yearly, by
organized societies;, collect funds by
r; needle work,' add other methods,
clothes,- . soup-houses .and oread,
which are distribtited all winter in Str
Petersburg; and such methods are pur*
sued in other cities. The infants that
are drowned and thrown into sewers itt-.
Europe and America, are taken at ?
day old, if need be/ and brought np at
the public expens? in St Petejsbur&i.
Moscow, and other cities/ These child
re nj when grown up to a suitable age*
ar? pct to, service, ."and maymake, a
generous Hving: Russia liberated her
slaves, not by ivar, and! gave them :
lands. America did neither. ~ -
I dmed.with the nephew of Prince
Dolgorouky, Governor General of Mos?
cow (Viceroy), and a liberated serf or
slave was at the tabl? as a guest and ?. :
made the best dinner speech on the oc?
casion. The f?issisi? /ojkfi, all^j^ieij:
pleasure-jrrounds* beside t??^ubBe,
Earks to tue whole people." . they never ...
ar the gates and close the doors'
against the .'rabble," as. in J3hgla?i???
and America. In somm'er^-th^.vsj^j^.
are open and the wind?ws ...^fapot.,
blinds, that the humblest n^asarit ma$
see and hear the music On aftvir?? '
occasions of a private nature au tJie.
poor are feasted or otherwise^ enter*
tuined by suitable means. In England; ?
and America even house- servants -??bi l f
treated with contempt, and ?ny owji.
family remonstrated on ?y return b?"t .,
cause I said good morning, as was my. -
habit in Russia, to them. The Russian ., >
noblemen speak kindly always to their
inferiors; the Englishmen and Amen- '
cans out of thc south rarely ever. The
Russian Empire is large and sparsely^
populated, so that tiic means of sub?
sistence do not at all press trpon the,*
increase of population.'. In the largei.
cities, as I said, no absolute suffering
for the necessaries of life is possible. ?1
Now, as to prisons. There was at. ' %~
no time while I was in Russia, so far
as I know and believe, one equal in its
infamy to the Kentucky Penitentiary; ~;
And Governor Blackburn deserves hot- :
denunciation, but eternal honor/ for^ . ?
his manhood and philanthropy,- against
the barbarian clamors of the press;' -
for his reform. } When I was in Sk\ - ^
Petersburg the elf olera . was several, ',
times in that city of ???.0?0, and there;; - ^
was no moro sensation than if the;
measles or whooping-cough prevailed;* -
Every subject of the disease was t^eh ^
at once to Wholesome hospitals, well*
attended, and then,- when eonvales-.
cent, returned without charge* to their
homes. ";.
The streets of Sr. Petcnbtrrg were s>'
hundred times cleaner than the streets,'
alleys and bock-yards of Richmond..
They nevr burned down the pest-. .
houses in Russia, as they did the other!
day in Madison county, when small-,
pox prevailed. As to" prisons and Sf*L
beria, I am glad to have an opportuni?
ty to refute some of the world-wide,
calumnies of the anti-Russian presa.;
Siberia is not so vile ja country as ta*
French penal colony of Cayenne, no? * ,
the original Australia of England:
Three Siberian-born ladies " married. "J .
nobles in St Petersburg one " th*v?->-?
Prince Suwarrow, the grandson of tho
Prince Suwarrow of Napoleon's times;.
the other sisters married well, one an - T
officer on the stan* of the Empewfc" X *
have heard them spealc'of^^
land" as would a German. And these'
were the descendante of Siberian exiles?,
1 do not hesitate to say that of. all the{
people I ever knew" 'the Russians are*,
the most genial and hospitable. It "s.
true the ranks in Russia are verydj*y
tirict and .marked, bot tho hnmafie
spirit of Russia thaws all coldness,*
breaks all conventional barriers, and
fuses the whole into one national fee!-!
mg as in no other land. That is the.
reason of the invincible courage of the
Russian army. What calumniators^
call "stolidity" is unshaken and heroic^
patriotism I could lill a book of aimfc
tar proof, but I hold:
"Ob, wad som? power thc glftie gie tui
To eoe ouwel's as lt ber? sceus?"* * ?
m., .m < I ? --
Phillips Brooks on tho "Drummer.*
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in tbe\.
course of his remarks at the New En-,
gland commercial travelers1 dinner nt*
Boston said that commercial travelers'
should be proud of their missioa in
this most exciting and interesting nine-,.
tecnth century. This is certainly the
greatest commercial century that theV
world has seen. One cannot go any?
where to-day but he meets, the com?
mercial traveler. The speaker ^ad.
seen a caravan coming into the, jute's.
of Damascus* and vhose^in. tf??i cara*-,.
van, he said, w^reessenltfally commer?
cial travelers, thongh perhaps some-.
what different in aspect from the . gea-.
tie men' about .tke table before him..
Every age has had its characteristic,
men, and they were generally travel?
i?g men. One age had its mediseval,.
knights, another its roaming Grecian
scholars, another its German mechanic
who went about from point to point iri:
Europe. In ourage the . commercial
traveler is distinctive. He sets clearly,
the standard of the t?m?C But he can-, -
not accept the privileges without a?se?
taking on himself, .thc responsibilities,
of his calling. ?a him depend tho
standards of peace and morals of our,
time. This world is. going to increase,
or decrease injntegrity.. charity and in,
th? spirit Of freedom .and fewc^t/fr^
cording to Xbe spirit of oui commercial
m?n. In Venice there was.pnce a law.
that no ship should go to the East with-,
out bringing hack to Venice some por-.,
tion of the magnificent ruins there to'
put into the structure. bf St Marks**>
There is a certain poetical value in this-^
law, he averred^ evcnsfor our own t!me?
rio man and no ship .bWaright to go*
ont in .th?se &odcra\-times without,
bringing back- something to" enrich the>
humanities of* the age." Great men of .
old despised commerce. . Virgil fer*-?
Ibid that, with the golden age/ would'
come a cessation of trade.- The best 4
and keenest spirits* ?? . the R?dern." age?,
look to commerce as the most ; pctontf
factor in the humanizing of the worl<p>*
Tennyson, in his noble verse, discards *
tho conception of Virgil and sings ?hr
ode to the glories of commerce. :The
speaker believed that thc best interests
of the race were safe in the hands cf*
commerce and commercial men..