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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1858-11-11

TO SPOIL A DAuGHTER.--Be always
telling her how very pretty she is.
Instill into her young mind an un.
due love for dress.
Allow her to read nothing but works
of fiction.
Teach her all the accomplishments,
but none of the utilities of life.
Keep her in the darkest ignorance
Of the mysteries of housekeeping.
Initiate her into the principle that it
is vulgar to do anything for herself.
To strenthen the latter let her have
a lady's maid.
Teach herto think that she is better
than anybody else.
Make her think that she is sick when
she is not, and let her lie in bed taking
medicines when half an hours out-of-
door exercise would completely cure
her of her lazincss.
And, lastly, having her such an ed
ucation, marry her to moustached
gentleman who is a clerk with salary
Of $3.50.
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SCENE AT THE GATE OF PARADrsE.--A
poor tailor being released from this
troublesome world and a scoldlng wife,
appears at the gate of Paradise.
"Peter asked if he had ever been to
purgatory"
mo" said the poor tailor, "but have
been married.!
"O" said Peter, "that's all the same
The tailor had scarcely got in be-
fore fat turtle-eating alderman came
putting and blowing.
"Hallow! you fellow" said he, "open
the door quick"
"Not so fast" said Peter, shave you
been to purgatoryl"
"No," said the alderman; "but what
is that to the purposel You let in
that poor half-starved tailor, and he
had been no more in purgatory than II
"But he has been married." said
Peter.
Married." exclaimed the alder
man,"why have been married twice,
"Then please 60 back again, ss,s o
Peter, Paradise is not the Piaes w.
foolsl'
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REMARKABLE VERIFICATION
OF A DREAM. i.

A lady from the South, sojourning at
the house of Mr.. John Elitch, No. 36
East Fifth street, for some weeks, drea-
med night before last that favorite
sister, to whom she was much attach
ed, and whom she had left at Mobile
in the enjoyment of perfect health,
had died, and so greatly was she griev-
ed that she awoke at once, and could
not sleep again. She was in great
distress, and walked about her room,
wringing her hands and weeping as
if her heart would break. Several per-
sons in the house, among them Mr.. Z.
himself, endeuvord to comfort her, assu-
ring her of the folly of mourning over
an idle dream. The l9dy, however,
insisted upon the truth thereof, decar'
ing that she knew her sister was no
more. She had supposed herself at
her bed side, she said, and had supper.
ted her sistcri in her arms. She had
seen every lneament and expression
of the face of her relative, who grew
paler and paler, and her breath shor.
ter and shorter, and asking to be lif-
ted up. pointed to clock in the apart
ment where the narrator imagined she
was, and as it struck the hour of two,
the suffering patient fell back and ex-
pired,
During the remainder Of the night
the distracted woman paced the floor
in all the agony of bereavement. 1t
was useless to reason with her or to
seek to assuage her sorrow. Morning
came, and the breakfast hour, but she
could not touch a morsel Of food.
Still the storm ofwoc swept across her
| soul.
About ten o'clock a messenger from
the telegraph Office entered and dcliv-
cred dispatch addressed to the lal ~.
1t was dclivcred--She tore open the
envelope with trembling hands, and
her eye glanced over these words:
MOBILE, Alabama, Oct. l3
MRs.----: Your sister died ofyellow
fever at two o'clock this morning.
The poor woman simply said: 81
knew it," and fell lainting to the floor.
For more than fifteen minutes she lay
in a profound swoon, and when she
recovered, it was but to weep and ag
onisc ancw.--Cm Eng.
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"LovE Is LIFE"-On topic kindred
to the above, Douglas Jerold has the
following beautiful remark. "rhe
human heart has, of course its pouting
fits, it determines to live alone, to flee
into desert places, to have no employ
ment-that is to love nothing, but to
keep on suIlcnly beating, beating, un-
till death lays his little finger on tho
silky thing and all is still. 1t goes a.
way from the world, and straightway,
shut from human company. it falls in
love with plant, a stone--yea, it
dandles a cat or dog. and calls the crea.
turo darling. Yes, it is the beautiful
necessity of our nature to love some.
thing.
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and yet within sight Of the house Of
which he had been the pride and the
joy. There he was killed and devour-
cd, the eyrie being at point which
was inaccessible to man, so that no
relief could be afforded. In destroying
the child, the eagle so placed his gay
Jacket in the nest, that it became II
fixture there and when the wind blew
it would hutter, and the sun would
shine upon its love trimmings and orna-
ments. For years it was visible from
the lowland, long after the eagle had
abandoned the nest. What sight it
must have been to tho parents OF the
victim.
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r0R ;sEssss,sEBA sPRsN q

, Fur the accommodation of the public who,
Wish to visit Bersllebu Springs Win McAilnn-
lille or Tracy City, the Stages III run TO and
rom those PAGES, daily, connecting with the
ars aI eucI place, as follows;
Leave McMlnnvI'Ic every morning at 7
clock, and arrive at Bersheba Springs The
-amc day at 2o'cIock.
Leave Bershebu Springs every morning at
! o'clock, and arrive al McMlnnyilIe T., ii
,clock, a. n.
Leave Tracy City every evening at o'clock
md arrive at Bersheba Springs the same eve
lngot 8 o'clock.
Leave Bcrsheba Springs every morning at
| o'clock, and arrive at Tracy City at II o.
FLOCK the same day, giving passengers llr to
axe dinner at each place before the DEPART
llre. Passengers will be carried TO and trcn
he ears at each place.
NJ. A. PRICE.
july is ByJ. ,, ,MARsHALL, Agt.
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Josh was brought before a country
squire for stealing hog, and three
witnesses being examined swore that
they saw him steal it.--A wag having
volunteered as counsel for Josh, know
ing the scope of the squire's BRAIN
arose and addressed him thus: May
it please your honor, can establish
this mans honesty beyound the shad
ow of a doubt; for have twelve wit.
nesses ready to swear that they dio
not see him steal it. The squire res
ted his head for few moments upon
his hand. as if in deep thought. and
then with great dignity arose. and
brushing back his hair, said. "ifthere
are twelve who did not see him steal it,
and only three that did, | discharge the
prisoner. Clear the roomF'
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EprroRrAL LIFE.-But few ever think
Of the labor dcvoIving upon an editor,
one who is faithful to his high calling.
II is not so much what is printed as
what is not printed that makes paper
valuable. Capt. MarIyatt evinced a
proper appreciation OF an editorial
life when he wrote the following
remarks: 81 know how periodical
will wear down ones existence
One days paper is no sooner corrected
and prdnted than on comes another
1t is the stone of Sisyphus, an endless
repetition oftoil, and constant weight
upon the mind, a continual wearing
upon the intellect and spirits demand
ing all the exertions Of your faculties,
at the same time that you are com.
PEELED to do the selerest drudgery'
To write for papnr is very well ca' !.
to edit one, is TO condemn yourSe'' ~
slavery"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1858-11-11

Good Night! have to say Good Night
To such host OF peerless things!
Good night unto that snowy hand
All queenly with its weight ofrnss!
Good night to fond delicious eyes,
Good night to chestnut .braiLs of hair,
Good night unto the perfect mouth
And all the sweetness nestled there
The snowy hand delains me, then
lll have to say" GOOD Night" again
But there will come time, my love.
When, if,l read our stars Alright,
shall not linger by this porch
With my adieus, Till then, Good Night
You wish the time were now7 And |;
You do not blush to wish it So
You would have blushed yourself 10 death
TO own so much year ago
What both these snowy hands! ah, then
III have to say GOOD Night" again!
r. B. ALDRlcu.
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Written for the WINCHESTER Home Journal.
To Miss s., of Winchester.

Lady, I've seen thee as a dream,
Which Fancy wakes at morning hour,
Pure and bright as mornings beam
And lovely as its loveiest flower,
Indeed, indeed, thou art La Belle,
The Beautiful, and full Of mirth,
As young (awn or wild gaze!le
Bounding along the sunny earth.
Thou art being one must love,
So kind, so gentle and SO true,
Innocent as dear young dove,
When from its mother first it lew.
love thee for ',hnt bright, brown tress,
Which rpples with such lovely grace;
And for thy heart and nobleness,
And chiefly for thy beauteous face.
SHELBYyILLE, Oct. 26. a.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1858-11-11

VINO NoT TO MARRY.-Marry no
woman who has never learned domes-
tic economy. The prosperity OF a
man depends very much on the skill
and judgment OF the vile, in the cX-
pcndturc for the comforts and luxu-
rics of the family. The man spends
his money earned by his toll and care,
for the expenditure of his family, but
the amount of comfort and pleasure
which a given expenditure will afford,
depends on the skill and cares Of the
wife. 1t is not in human nature to
respect or love those, through whose
carelessness, we fail to get the amount
of comfort to which our labor and
money entities US; in short wife,
ignorant and careless in domestic
economy, is not loved long. Better
not get her, young man!
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Such companion could not salts
fy the cravings of a heart like mine,
that clamored for an equal, one that
could stand by me in the hour Of bat.
tie, as we'll as peace, that could firm
ly and unainchingly breast the storm
by my side, and while clinging to my
arm for support for her own !rail form,
could yet sustain, and comfort, and en-
courage, by dauntless words and he
roic acts, if my own energies should
fail in the contest. One that could be
my ornament and delightin prosper
ity, my refuge and comtort in adver-
sity, my wife and companion at all
times.
Such a one had lost by my folly;
such one had not gained.
10 one whose uttermost yearnlDg,
asked for nothing but an obcdient
truthful, affectiOnate, conscientious
wife, Emily would have been the EN-.
bodment of all that was lovely, all
that was desirable, but to me, whose
exacting spirit called for something
more than those, joined to mere pas
sive subjection Of thought and action,
she was far from it. | pined for some-
thing had not, something to satisfy
the clamorous cravings ofmy longing,
famishing soul. Igrew restless, un-
easy, gloomy and distracted, even,
fear, sometimes moody and irritable
and know not what would have been
tls result, had not an event taken
place which gave a new direction to
my wayward fancies. A daughter
was born to me. A tiny, little thing she
was, with, as she grew in years, soft,
brown eyes and dark curling hair, and
a very decided will of her own and
yet one which ever yielded most rea.
dily to reason or affection. She was
a very precious child. Even from
her birth, almost, she was my constant
companion, and was never so happy
as when she was in my arms, or on
my knee. And she,-it was curious
10 observe how minutely, even in her
babyhood, she watched every change
in my countenance and her own were
moulded accordingly. Did | look sad,
yAtear was in her eye and the tiny,
rese'bud lip half quiyercd as she gazedi
die my eye brighten and smile steal
over my face, how joyous the express.
ion upon those soul-lit, infantine lea.
lures! Can you wonder that ] named
her Madeleinel Her mother called
her Lena, but to me she was Made.
Ieine, almost my lost Madeleine come
back to me. With what delight
watched the unfolding of that perfec,
mind, with what joy listened to the
prattle of those precious lips, as she
began to walk about with me, first in
the grounds about the house and then
rs she grew stronger and older, in the
woods, and upon the winding shores oil
the ever changing lake, or stood be.
side me. (for she was too earnest, too
active to sitl as ! rowed her in our
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1858-11-11

A young gentleman very o0''e.,eu
and vain of himself but who' by-the-
bv, was rather despised, with a face
much pitted by the smallpox, was,
~, long since, addressed by chap,
,vbo after admiring him for some time,
said to him, "when carved work comes
in fashion you'll be the handsomest
nan lever put eyes on"
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Loves Sacrifice.

give thee all, can no more,
Though poor the Offering be;
My heart and lutte are all the store
That can bring to thee:
A lutte whose gentle song reveals
The soul Of love full we'll;
And, better far, a heart that feels
Much more than lutte can tell.
Though love and song may fail, alas!
To keep ife's clouds away:
At least twill make them lighter pass,
Or cid them they stay.
If ever care his dIscord filings
O'er lile's enchanted strain,
Let love but gently touch the strings
Twill all be sweet again.-Mo
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1858-11-11

A TOUCHING IsclDEsT.--One of the
saddest stories that we ever read was
that of little child in Switzerland,
pet boy, just as yours is, reader, whom
his mother one bright morning dressed
in a beautiful jacket all shining WIN
gilt and buttons, and gay as mother
love could make it, and then permitted
him to 20 out to play. lie had scarce
ly stepped from the door of the Swiss
cottage. when an enormous eagle
sn,tcbed him from the earth, and bore
him bigh UP among tho mountains,
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Written for the Winchester llomc Journal.
LIFE.
BY o. d. MARTIN.


Life has a pleasing smile Tor youth,
And lines his path with flowers,
And as he slrays with Hope and Truth,
For many sunny hours,
He cannot see the piercing thorn,
Which lies amid tbs roses,
He knows no night, for al is morn,
Until his summer closes.
But winter with his icy form,
Bestows his cold caressos,
On many ayou,h whose heart is warm,
To rack him with dislresses,
And night comes on. and life is dark,
And coldly blow the brcezes,
Until at last the vita spark
Within his bosom freezes.
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NOl Ee' r..

Valuable Town Lots and desirable
Fomily Residences near the public square
for sale or exchange for young Negroes,
or in part for good Mules, Mich Cows,
Sheep and Hogs. Four lots with i'm.
provcments, all in one block, surrounded
by streets running in every drec,ion.-
Fifty acres of Land on Little Hurricane
Greek, with water'po"er where there was
formerly a cotton factory in operation--
also, One and Two horse Threshers and
Scparators, made by &. Westinghouse q
Co, of Schenectady, n, Y, whidh they
insure. Call and see one operate in
,hre>hng any kind Of grain, and see their
bills, certificates, &c, &c. HsD@ A good
bargain may be had by calling soon on
the undersigned, who is authorized TO cell.
aug22 p. !. CURLE.
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Little Female Cater Boots

A little love stirs up my heart, as tides
stir up the ocean,
A snow white muslin, when it lies,
wakes many curious notion,
All sorts of lady fxings thrill my spirit,
as they orter,
But lil,le female gaiter boots are death and
nothing shorter!
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MONEY!! MONEY!

ANY person sending me 81 WI receive bv
etnrn null receipt by which insure lhem
o make from 81 5O ,o5 10 and 10 o. per
doy for ut least nlne months in the year wl,ii
scarcely no capital at all. The public need
not be afraid, as assure them it is 10 hur.
bug or Yankee notion. II. W. j.,
lune3 II Cenlreyile, Leon Co., Texas.
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]NADELEZN
A HEART HISTORY.
CONTINUED.

NorE-A reward of $50 was offered some time Slnc'
In the Home Journal for the best Original story WRITER
for it's columns. Several were written, and alter lcl'
sal of each, "MADALElNE-A llEA"r iiISiohN' was cor
sidered the most deserving It's s.e 'e simple YET beau
tifu and thr all will be highly interested we have not
single dUubt.-EDIToH.
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.Eusrsf eZyyicGJ
FALL. AND WINTER
GOODS.

The undersigned are now receiving their
stock Of Fail and Winter Coos,
CONSISTING IL TART OF
Silks, SQtnctts, C0ssimeres, Nerinos, D.
LANES, Ginghams, Cloths, Jeans, TWeeds,
ShuNI~. Shcc'iugs, Nhtrtngs. blankets, Finn
ncIs, Hoop Skirts, WooIIen and Merno UN'
dcrvear for gentlemen and ladies, Ready
unde CIoIhng, flats
Late @G Styles,
Cars, boots, Shoes, hardware, cutlery, Glass
Ware, uecnsWarc, and a variety OF articles
too tedious TO name, all Of which are offered
for she at
Reasonable prices for Cash.
All prrsons are In.Il,d 10 call and examine
for themselves.
MARTIN & SON,
All Kinds Of good barter taken IN exchange
for good, al such prlces us we can sell at A.
on,n, NJ. 4 $.
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Administrators AetiCe.

All persons having claims ngninot he estG,e
of II. f. Robertson, due, will please prcscn.
them to the undersigned duly autheGilca'cd'
And all persons indebted to s"id estate arc re-
oured to come forward ana make Paymrn Mt,
or the same will be placed in the hands Of
proper persons for collection,
II. II. SMITH, Adm'r,
March ll,lS5S. #
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w. j. SLATER, Editor.
GOOD NIGHT.

.pIedged 10 no Party's arbitrary sway,
wa follow Truth Hherecr She leads Tie way
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CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
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STEAM MACHINERY FOR SCREW PRO-
PELLER SLOOP-OF-WAR.

NAVY DxpARrxxsrs ,es,sa $50
December 49, 1857
GEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
- Steam Machinery for Screw Propeller will
the complete Of the steam machinery and appenases
aud placing board propeller show building in the
The must be specific putting
eessu operation include all patent fees
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design the machinery will DO
tho greatest Of keeping view simplicity Of com
strueo readiness Of for adjustment when in operation
not being subject to arrangement the working parts being
department speed power with the
coal which the space available for that purpose will admit
The boilers 70 Be IRON with telescope smoke pipe which be
propeller with the for stng, to DO Of
Tor tho perfect working Of the
whole be Of the most approved kinds The tbunkers
fresh from which BIO made not than 800 gallons per
day all the tools and duplicate pieces and satisfactory
efficient cruising steam be included
siton, and list of them must BIO furnished.
for tho shaft to adapt the vessel for he a @
machinery boilers and appendagc viii provided expense
it may have for hosting the heavy machinery
ss s Sc ,as :" s steam s s snr and the fuel
the berth deck commencing twenty feet aba the
expected coal for II days full scamng daily consump
en Of which the bidder will his and the weight
with tho tools and spare work. must not exceed 800
pounds ri @ la@r apa'
forward senpo will be about s5 feet tho between tbs
line tho keel under the propeller will
feet.
manufacturers who desire copy
the section Of the vessel making application to the
Tho proposal must be accompanied by specifications
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The terms payment will be that when oneour
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