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The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20
As bespoke he gravcly drew forth Har
yey's card from his pocket.

AS bespoke ne gravely drew lorth Haf'
vey's card from his pocket.
Il have ordered coffee and pistols fol
tomorrow morning, and who knows
may stand chance for Miss Northwood's
hand yet
Harvey snatched the card and sent il
spinning in the air, bursting into merry
laugh, Tom joined him heartily. Their
hands met in n cordial grip, as they ex.
claimed--the one,
you may thank me, Harvey, for teach
ing you your own mind
And the other
Il understand you, Tom; you're the best
friend | ever had. See if don't prove
my gratitude some Of these days, by firt.
ing with the woman you're in love with.
You're welcomed cried Tom, 'by the
time Pm in love you'll be like lion, sans
teeth and claws--a married man and no
longer dangerous
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

What are you starring at, sir, may
ask? said an imperialed, moustached
blood to 'hoosier' on a Mississippi
steamboat, who had been Watching him
as a cat watches mouse, for some fif
teen minutes.
Thought SOL exclaimed the hoosier the
moment the other spoke; | said you had
a mouth, and l was only waitin' to be sar
tin abou, it, that might ask you to Ii
quor. Stranger, what will you drink
or had you rather fght?-I don't care
which myself.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

The secret of good luck is to have cour,
age in misfortune. Next to faith in God
and his overruling Providence, mans
faith in himself is salvation. 1t is the
secret Of all power and success. 1t is
the secret Of good luck, so called. 1t
makes man strong as the pillarded iron,
or elastic as the springing steel. Itopens
the gate of enterprise and wealth. AND
while others bow to chance and accident
he makes chance and accident bow tc
him; and he moulds them to his purpose
and harnesses them to the car Of his for
tunes.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

A piece Of candle may be made to burn
all night in sick room, or where dull
light is wished, by putting finely powder.
ed salt on the candle until it reaches the
black part of the wick. In this way, a
mild and steady light may be kept thro'
the night, from a small piece Of candle.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

A Frenchman being troubled with govt
was asked what difference there was be.
tween that and the rheumatism. He re.
piled;
One very great difference; suppose you
take one vice, put re finger in, you turn
20 screw till you can bear no longer-za,
is 20 rheumatism; den s'pose. you give
him one more turn-zat is re govt!
The explanation was quite satisfacto
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

| suppose, said an arrant quack, while
feeling the pulse of patient, that you
think me fool?
Sir, replied the sick man, I perceive you
can discover mans thoughts by his
pulse!
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

Speaking of hoops, Punch says that a
man who intends getting round his wife
must start very early in the morning!
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

We never know great character until
something congenial to ithas grown up
within ourselves.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

Why are kisses like creation? Because
they are made out of nothing, and pro.
nounced good.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

A DAMPER.-A young man politely Of
fered his services to young lady for a
party. On their way he cudgeled his
brain for some time to start an interesting
topic of conversation to amuse her with;
he could hit upon nothing until he met
several cows. Here was a topic which
the swain Immediately laid hold of, and
with much simplicity remarked:
Now, amt it strange what motherly
appearance COW has?
To which the young.lady replied,
do not thinks'it strange at all, sir, that
a COW should have a motherly appear.
ance to a calf.
Humph! the calf was silent during the
rest Of the walk.
FAsHroNABLE.--A lttle girl at school
read thus:
The widow lived on small limbacy
left her by relative.
What did you call that word! asked
the teacher; the word is legacy, not limb
acy.
But. Miss Johnson, said the little girl
Pa says Unjust say limb, not leg.
---->~-
A fellow was vending his way, shor
time ago, through. some narrow passage
when he met a pretty, modest girl.
Pray, my dear, said he, what do 20,
call this passage'
Balaam's passage, replied the girl.
All, then, continued he, | am like Ba
laam--stopped by an angel.
Aid l, said the girl, as she pushed pas
him, am like the angel-s,opped BY al
ass.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20
COMMON HONESTY.

stood to be the paying of ones debts
This, as far as it goes, is well, and the
man who performs the act punctually and
invariably, is by no means bad illustra.
ton Of an honest citizen. But are there
no other considerations which require OBJ.
servance+-are there no other items which
should enter into the calculations Of q
man in his dealings toward his neighbor,
than the mere obligations embraced in the
matter Of dollars and cents! We fancy
there are others which may be pointed
at.
Is it honest in the over'reaching trad.
er to grind the face Of the poor man whose
means are limited-who from time to
time pays his creditor every dime he owes
him, but who is necessitated to ask for
temporary accommodation, to supply the
daily wants Of his family?
Is it honest in woman to (eign esteem
for the other sex, and protest love for
the man whose purse or estates only she
favors? Or is it honest in men to wrong
the gentler sex by pretending affection
for their persons, when they seek but
their fortunes?
Is it honest to disregard the opinions Of
others altogethcr-to infringe upon the
common rights Of all men in society-to
assert one thing and intend another-to
offend the common laws Of morality and
good breeding-to assail private charac.
ter unrighteously- to indulge in good pre-.
cept rather than in good practice?
To these propositions our readers will
readily "answer"no. Yet how much Of
this do we meet with, every day in the
world-how little Of the opposite? Ola
truth the really honest man is. the noblest
work Of God!
I New LITANy,-Here is liteny, which,
although not exactly orthordox, will pass
among sinners:
From tailors' bills, doctors pills, ives.
tern chila, and other ills--deliver us.
From want Of gold, wives that scold,
maidens old, and by sharpers 'sold'-de.
| liver us.
From singing flies, cold. black eyes,
bakers pies, and babies cries-deliver
us.
From seedy coats, protested notes,
sinking boats, and illegal votes-deliver
! us.
From creaking doors, wife that snores,
COMPOUNDED bores,' and dry good stores
protect us.
From modest girls, with waving curls,
and teeth of pearls-never mind.
TIT FOR TAr.-The following notes,
says an exchange, passed between two of
our bellies:
Dear Anna: Please send me the collar
you wore at Mrs. P--'s last evening
as | wish to get one like. it.
ELLEN B,
Dear Ellen: make it rule never to
let any Of my apparel go out ofthc house
unless worn by myself.
ANNA G.
P. S.-If you will come around to the
, house, you may look at the collar as. much
as you please.
In few days afterwards, Miss Anna
. had want Of her own, and expressed it
/ to Ellen as follows:
Dear Ellen | have an engagement to
ride on horseback this evening, will you
lend me your saddle?
ANNA G..
3 Dear Anna: | make it rule never 10
let my saddle go out Of the house, unless
used by my self.
ELLEN B.
P. S.--1f you will come around to the
house, you may ride it as much as you
please in the house!
-<-
A Frenchman being troubled with govt
was asked what difference there was be.
! tveen that and the rheumatism. He re-.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

Applause is the spur Of able minds, the
end and aim OF weak ones.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

Advertisements inserted at one dollar per
square for the first, and fifty cents for each
subsequent insertion. A liberal discount
made on yearly advertisements.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

Every man is volume, if you know
how to read him.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20
Written for the Home Journal.
LIES CHANGES.
BY HENRY EMERSON.

by HENRY EMERSON.
There was time, when free rom care,
roamcd the wide world DER,
And smiled as each fresh cup Of Joy
Was lillcd,and drained once more.
There was time my heart was nee
From all the ills ollie
That gricvc the mind, and rack the soul,
With their unce0sing strife.
Then came change-I stood alone
And lricndless on LIES verge,
Ana listened to the notes of woe
That swclled the luncralnirge.
The friends loved, the hearts priced,
beyond all earthly lore,
From me were snatched by deaths cold grasp
They're gone. lorevermore!
Iheaved sigh,.I dropped tear,
Tomost their lonely grave:
Twas all they asked--all ] could give
had no power to save
And now alone, alone stood,
Amid carths moving throng.
My buoyant hopes and lofty taims
Seemed all forever.gone.
Arother.chOngc, and with It came
An end of all my grief,
Where all was dark, ..a now 10 bright.
And have found relief
Twas an angelic woman's smile
Observation-Disclosures pain
met hcr-loved her-then I said
would not glieve again.
Around her pure white brow, so fair,
qhe.silken ringets twined,
And every glance bespoke the soul
That was within enshrined.
She raised her eyes, so full OF love.
AS ifshc would address me,
And spoke in accents low and sweet,
The gentle words, "God bless thee!"
WINCHESTER, February, 1857.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

Ambition often puts men upon doing
the meanest Offices; so climbing is per.
formed in the ,sms posture as creeping
-Swin
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

An editor named Moore has been get
ting married in South Carolina, whereup'
on another editor Of the same State chron'
icles the fact and adds:
I'VE wish success TO our friends ne'r
enterprise, and more subscribers to both.
or in other words. we wish the parties
every happiness the world can give, and
little more.
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THE MARINERS HYMN.
BY MRS. SOUTHEY.
longer dangerous

Launch thy. bark, marinerl
Christian, God speed thee!
Let loose the rudder'bards--L
Good angels lead theel
Set thy sails warily,
Tcmpests will come:
Steer thy course steadily,
Christian, steerlhomel
Look to the weather. bow,
Breakers are round thee;
Let fall the plummet now,
Shadows may ground thee.
Reef in thy foresail, there!
Hold the helm fast!
so--let the vesscl.wear-1
There sweep the blast.
"What of the night, watchman'
What Of the night7"
"Cloudy--all. quiet
No land yet--all's right"
Be waketul, be vigilant--
Danger may be
At an hour when all seemeth
SeCurest to thee.
Howl gains the leak so fast1
Clean out the hold
Hoist up thy merchandise,
Heave out thy gold,--
Therc--lef the ingots CO.
Now the ship rights;
Hurrah! the harbour's near
Lo! the red lights!
slacken no sail yet
At inlet or island,
Straight for the beacon steel,
Straight for tho high land;
Crowd all thy canvass on,
Cut through the. foam
Christian! cast anchor now
Heaven ia thy homet
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

Society, like shaded silk, must De vie~
cd in all situations, or it, color
rsivs III.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

The Arabs always allow a man to di
vorce himself from a wife who does not
make good bread. Were such a'law in
our country, half the young married la.
dies, we fear, would be in danger Of fall.
ing back into single blessedness, while
the young ladies who are not yet mari
ried-but mum: we are single yet!
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

Mr.. Spikes proposes embarking in the
exhibition business. He will pay hand.
somely for the following living curiosi'
ties
A man who has become opulent by i'm.
bibing bad liquors at the corner groceries,
and singing comic songs in the streets
late onight.
A stump orator who can make speech
without abiding to 'our ship Of State,
and to our Revolutionary forelathers.
A Washington letter writer who has
ever been guilty Of telling the truth.
A young man Of literary taste who
does not strongly opine that he could
treble the circulation of any paper by ia.
king the editorial Department. under his
own exclusive charge.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-02-20

P. S.--1f you will come around to the
house, you may ride it as much as you
please in the house,
The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04

Of 1t is evidently the design of fac
ton in this Territory to denounce all per-
sons who are opposed to further action,
under the Topeka Constitution, as wayer-
ing in their fidelity to the Free State cause.
The people, the Independent voters of
Kansas, cannot be whipped into the sup
port of measures they do. not approve, by
such policy. 1t is believed tlsas very
large majority of the actual voters, outside
of Lawrence and Topeka, are adverse to
that instrument, or Organization under
it, unless it is first re-submitted to vote
of the whole people, and Before that is
done, it is revised and amended by Del
egatc Convention appointed by the peo-
pie to do that work. -
Were it not for the large amount ofscrip,
and the salaries of officers dependent upon
the success of the Topeka Constitution, it
is believed by many, that it would be al
lowed to go by the board without further
effort to give it life.
If division of the Free State party
comes, in consequence of determination
to force the Topeka Constitution through,
at all hazards, We would suggest that the
people viii be on one side and the aspi-
rants for Office on the other.
The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04

Among other facts to show the failure
of the attempt, supported as it was BY the
conniyance of the Government at WISH
ington, to crush out the Free State spin.
of Kansas. wo may mention the follow.
ing: The Lawrence Herald of FEes1M,
which was destroyed year ago Is .
nuisance, and whose editor was imprisOh.
ed four months for treason, for daring TO
publish a free and independent neWspa-
per. now boasts of a weekly circulation Vi
5000 copies. It comes 10 us printed mi
style Of execution not outdone even in thi:
city, being printed on a steam power
press-the only one, we will venture 70
say, west of the Mississippi, save at s
Louis, which is also 3 flss-iabor city. 4
complete job and book Office and binder
are attached, the whole establishment
having been recently renewed, at cost d
$8,o00.-G 7 Tribune, June 18th.
The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04
Word TO the Press.

The Potter Pa, Journal has taken
pains, on one or two occasions lately, to
give us back-handed compliments, indi-
cative, doubtless, of the feelings of the
editor towards us. They and their author
are of so little consequence, that We would
not have noticed them, except to answer
the entire class of his calibre and mental
proportions. The inuendo that we have
ever been, are now, or ever will be, un-
true to Free State principles, is SO base a
SANDER that it would be work of super
erogation to refute it. That Republican
journal should make such assertions with
out any evidence but the mere ipse dirt
of disappointed political huckster, and
his satellites, the penny-a-liners, is not only
surprising, but it also shows want of
fairness which every member of the fra
ternity of editors deserve at the hands of
each other.
When JoHS S. MANN, Esq, edited the
Journal, we should have felt hurt at such
an insinuation. For many years when
the Free Soil party was in seemingly
hopeless minority, that gentleman and the
principal editer of this paper 'did battle
shoulder to shoulder in northern Penn
sylvania, against slavery and intemperance,
long years before the present editor of that
paper had any political feelings in COM
mon with ours. But John S. Mann is a
.nobleman-one of natures own, and when
he retired from the press, the fraternity
lost one of Its very best members. Success
10 him.
All we ask of our brethren of the press,
of whatever party or clique, is fairness.
We are willing to stand BY our opinions
always, as they are stated By ourselves,
but We are not willing to stand By the
Misrepresentation of others.
The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04
Fourth Of July a. rseun,ssA <. 7,

On Saturday, July 4th, the glorious an.
niversary of our National independence,
will be celebrated in "the good old fash.
toned way" and by the LAYING Of the
cornerstone ofA.e Bridge across the Kansas
riuer, with civic Odd Fellow and Masonic
honors.
Addresses may be expected from Cor.
WALKER, See'y STANTON, Mr.. PEHRis,
Gen. EAsTIS, and other distinguished
gentlemen.
Hon. r. r. REESE, N. W. Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Kansas, will be
present and participate in the ceremonies
Delegations arc invited from the Shaw.
nees, Delawares, Potowatomies, Saes and
Foxes, and other tribes, and from Iowa,
of their orators speeches may be expected
The celebration is to be one of brother.
hood and friendship, to manifest the In.
fuences of peace and prosperity, and our
fellow citizens of all portions of the Tel.
ritory, and from all parts of the Union are
invited to meet together at Tecu.asak
the Neutral Council Gpoand,r and have
9 glorious time.
Ample arrangements will be made fof
the accommodation Of guests, and esrs.
eialy for ladies,
4 pRbiis dinner viii be prepared, and
during the afternoon music will be in ct.
tendence for Dance in the Grove. G.
The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04
Big Springs.

1t is stated that steam saw mill is
about being erected by Cincinnati COM
pany, at Big Springs. We understand
that the town site has been recently sur
veyed and that measures are being taken
to ereer several public buildings. among
which are college. The United Breth-
ern have a church nearly completed, and
the Christian denomination are taking
measures TO erect one at an early day
The town company have good reputa-
ton for business tact. and we have no
doubt they viii succeed in making fine
point there.
The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04

The aseanest thing we are acquainted
with is breach of confidence. Letters
sent TO another. under the seal of s.pri-
vate and confidential" among eESsTLE-
MEN, have always been treated as sacred;
but those who have Selfish motives to
serve, and who are not governed BY honor,
disregard the confidence reposed in them,
and give publicity to whatever falls in
their way, which they can use to che det-
nment of another.
The tendency of such conduct. On the
partof persons protesting 10 be gentlemen,
is to destroy all confidence in each other.
Perhaps it is better to be occasionally in
iured BY an exposure of private correspon-
dsnce, than to become distrustfaI of all
men; but the latter follows, 8 natural
consequence, which we cannot easily
overcome.
The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04

Alright feeling is at work in this section
of our country, which must eventually
prove beneficial to the cause of freedom.
Already have steps been taken, which, in
some Iarts of the South would be looked
upon as treason, and the iRstigators of the
movement would be treated to free pass
out of the country. with a gentle hint
never to be seen there again.
A rortion of the press has spoken out on
the question, and the people have sus-
tanned it in its advocacy of liberty. 1t is
not improbable that at no distant day
Free State will be formed out of portion
of the now slave State of Texas. Present
prospects indicate this. The triumph of
freedom in Kansas, or the certainty there
of. has proved to be ofmost incalculable
benefit 10 freedom everywhere. Thou
sands of anxious hearts in the South which
beat right for liberty, although forced to
be silent, viewed the struggle on our
plains, with the deepest interest As eur
skies frightened, their hopes strengthened,
for they knew that slavery must elder
advance or reeede. It cannot remain s.
tionary. When it looses Territory, tie
border States in which it is already estab-
lished, feel the effect, and the dark tide
which threatened to inundate new land
rolls back farther than its lowest mark
before.
When the time comes that the voice
of the people of the South shall have a
free expression, it will bo found that
thousands are with the right, who, from
policy, were before considered the warm
friends and defenders of the peculiar in
stitution. Three hundred and fifty thou
sand men cannot forever caiole and force
those who have no interest in the matter
to uphold a system which is only for the
benefit of the few and the injury of the
many. All this chivalrous feeling for
the hoary curse win vanish as light
breaks in upon the people, and they fully
understand the question and know their
strength. Examples of this can already
be seen in northern Texas and Missouri.
Let the true lover of freedom work as
with renewed heart, for the fruits of his
labors as already seen, and they are all
he could wish. The freemen of Kansas,
laboring under greater difficulties than
ever settlers encountered before since the
establishment of our Union, have the eyes
of the world turned upon them. How
important tits that their every step should
be taken with care, and measures be adopt
ed only after patient investigation and
thought.
| Slavery is not invincible, but can, we
trust, be eradicated peacefully. Slowly
it may be, but none the less surely. The
time may not be far distant when the ex-
pertinent of free labor, with all its al
tendents, shall be tried in States now
deemed the strongholds of slavery. The
ball is rolling Alright, let us keep it in
motion.