Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-12-19

CT If we were to tell a number of our friends
that they don't know what home is, they would
grow somewhat ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. use hard
words.-And yet it may be remarked that the
number of persons who know what genuine
home is, by experience, is surprisingly few. One
man in good circumstances will tell us that he has
fine house Of his own, in which every comfort and
convenience are provided. He has a wife and
children there, also, and they give life to the
place. Very true. But does he prefer that
home, thus furnished and enlivened, to every
other place in the worlu? Does he sigh when
the hour for leaving comes, and smile when he is
permitted to return docs he love to sit by the
cheerful fire and fondle the children, entering
into all their little disputes with curious inter-
est? Does he take particular note of the bird in
the cage, and the cat near the fire If not, he
has no home, in the dearest sense of that dearest
of words. If his mind is altogether absorbed in
the dusty ways of business-if he hurries from
the house in the morning, and is 10th to return at
night-if, while he is at home, he continues to
think of the journal and ledger, and repulses the
advances Of the prattling children, he has no
home; he only has place where he lodges and
takes his meals.
All happy is he who knows and appreciates
the full bliss of home; whose heart is warmed
and humanizcd by its cheerful influences, and
who feels how superior in purity of pleasure are
all its enjoyments to the turmoil delights of out
door life. Thrice happy is such man. He has
discovered the only paradise this world can af-
ford. 1t is only such man who can have a deep
and sincere pity for the unfortunate creatures
who are homeless. He regards them as be-
ing cut off from the best influences of the
earth, and exposed to the action OF all the
darkes waves Of life. He feels kecnly for him
who has no ireside-no dear ones to welcome him
with smiles, and prattle over the history of the
day-no tongue to sOOth him when heavy cares
have troubled the mind and rendered the heart
sore and the sympathy of such man is not
slow to overflow in acts of benevolence. A good
home is the source of the fountain of charity in
the heart.
Our advice to those who have no homes, such
as we have described above, is to get them as
soon as possible. They can never be contente
and subtantial citizens, nor thoroughly happy
men, until they follow this counsel. Get homes!
Fill them with the objects of love and endearment
and seek there for the pure delights which the
world beside cannot afford: ~. s,- p. ,f
A DRoP OF OIL.-Evcry man who lives in
house, especially if the house be his own, should
OIL all the various parts of it once in two or three
months. The house will last much longer, and
will be much more quiet to live in. Oil the
locks, bolts and hinges of the street-door, and it
will shut gently with luxurious case, and with
the use of small amount of force. A neglected
lock requires great violence to cause it to shut,
and with so much violence that the whole house,
its doors, its windows, its very floors and josts
are much shaken, and in time they get out Of
repair all sorts of ways, to say nothing Of the dust
that is displaced cvry time the place is shaken.
The incessant banging of doors, scrooping Of
locks locks, ereasng and scr screaming Of hinges, is
should sometimes be oiled, and they will net more
certainly and with such gentle force that there
will be little danger of breaking any part of them.
The castOrs of tables and chairs should be some
times oiled, and they will move with such gentle
impulse and so quietly that sleeping child or
old man is not Weakened. A well oiled door lock
opens and shuts with hardly whisper. Three
penneyworths of oil used in large house once
year will save many shllings in locks and
other materials, and in the end will save many
pounds in even the substantial repairs Of house;
and an old wife living and sleeping in quiet re-
pose will enjoy many more years of even temper
and active usefulness. Housekeepers, pray do
not forget the oil. A stitch in time saves nine,
and drop in time saves pounds.-Ihe Builder.
MONETARY AND CoxxERcrAL.-Money matters in
this city are still tighter than they ever have
been. The banks are doing nothing except a
small business on New Orleans, and not bank
ing house in the city is discounting dollar
Our merchants are depending entirely on their
own resources, but they are standing up brayely.
Hogs are worth IS net, cash, with an upward
tendency.-Lou. Times, Dec. 8.
SEBAsToPoL.-Since the allies can't take it,
the st. Louis Intelligencer has been trying to
spelli it. Our contemporary afhrms it is spelt Sc
bGstopol, and is compound Greek word, made
up of Sebdtos and polls; the former of which
signifies august, most holy or sacred-the latter,
a city-together, the august city. Sebastos was
word appropriated by the Roman Emperors of
the Eastern Empire. It was On imperial prefix
and was the Greek equivalent for the Latin Au-
gustus, which was applied to the Caesars. u
e. The locomotives, in passing through the
neigbborhood of Marion, Ohio, are obliged to
blow their whistles till they get out Of the woods,
in order to keep the deer OF the track.
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