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think there is little cant about that Do you
think that young women ara quite the exeep-
tons in human nature that they are taught to
consider themselves? Do you not think that
they, like other persons, need to make some
preparation in their youth for what they are to
do, and to do well, in their middle age and old
age? Am altogether strong-minded and wrong
in thinking so?' pleaded she, timidly, looking
into his face. f.a IS
lTO BE Continued q
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RIcHEs.-On a Sultry, hot summer day, an
honest old man was blowing his own field, when
suddenly, under the shade Of an oak, he beheld
godlike figure slowly approaching him. The
man started back.
al am Solomon" said the phantom, in a
confding voice. "What art thou doing here,
old MANI"
" If thou art Solomon" was the reply, chow
canst thou ask mel When was youth, thou
didst send me to the ant; | saw its method of
living and it taught me to be diligent, induStri.
GUS, and persevering, and gather the super
huous for stormy day. What l then learnt,
| still continue to do"
Thou has studied thy lesson but half" re-
piled the spirit Z" go once more to the ant, and
learn from it also how to find rest and quiet in
the winter of thy years, and how to enjoy that
which thou hast boarded up."-From the Ger
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ScHooLs.-Now, although, as 1 have said
before, there were no souls and no need of
schools and languages for Gods sake and the
Scriptures'-yet were this alone a sufficient
reason for establishing everywhere the best
schools for boys and girls-that the world has
need of skillful men and women, in order to
maintain its secular condition. The men
should be fit to govern the land and the people
the women should be well able to guide and
preserve house, children, and servants. Now,
must such men be made out of boys, and such
women out of little girls; therefore, it is inn
pertant to train and educate little boys and
girls Alright for such work.-Aartin Luther
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DIFFERENCES IN THE CHURCH.-I remember
once, at Merton College Chapel May, l944,)
while Archdeacon Manning was preaching an
eloquent sermon on the eternity OF reward and
punishment in the future life, was looking at
the ro@ of windows opposite, and | saw that
there were seven all different in pattern and
construction yet all harmonizing with each
other and with the building of which they
formed part; a symbol they might have been Of
differences in the Church of Christ From the
varied windows opposite | looked down to the
faces Of the congregation, all up-turned 10 the
preacher, with expression how different Faith,
hope, fear, in the open mouths and expanded
eyelids of some sort of silent protest in the
compressed lips and knitted brows of others; Il
speculative inquiry and interest, or merely ad-
miring acquiescence, in Others-as the high or
low, the wide or contracted head prevailed; and
all this diversity in organization, in habits of
thought, in expression, harmonized for the time
by one predominant object, one feeling the
hungry sheep looking up to be fed! When
sigh over apparent disagreement, let me think
of those windows in Merton College Chapel, and
the same light from heaven streaming through
them all and of that assemblage Of human
faces, upiifted with the same aspiration, one
and all.-.HrS. jameson.
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MARRIAGE OF KISDREp.-A bill has passed
the House of Representatives of Georgia, BY a
vote of ffty-six to ffty-twO, prohibiting the in
termarriage of first cousins, under a severe
penalty, and cutting off the inheritance of issue
The preamble to the bill asserts that many de-
formations of mind and body are of congenial
origin, from the practice of near kindred inter
marrying with each other.
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CoSyERsATIoN-Liberty is fine thing; it's
great help to conversation, to have leave to
say what one viii. have seen woman of
quality, who has not had one grain of wit, en-
terrain whole company the most agreeably in
the world, only with her malice VaabgTgh,
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The OLDEST MEETING-H OUsE-The old
(Unitarian) Westinghouse of the first parish in
bingham was erected in l6Sl-'2 1t is the old
est house of worship in New England, and said
to be the oldest in the country, Except one in
jamestown, Va, which has ceased to be occu-
pied,) and, for aught that appears, may still
serve the parish for fifty years to come The
pastorate OF this church has been vacant but a
little more than two years since l635-a period
of 223 years. The house is nearly square OH
the ground, with what is called hip-roof; or
four roots-one on each side, rising to point
IN the centre, and the apex crowned with bel
fry and spire This arrangement permits the
bell rope to fall into the broad aisle, except that
1t Is drawn up into the attic whenever the house
is to be occupied. The old house attracts much
attention from visiters and strangers.
Several years ago, it was the custom of the
churches in town To suspend services at their
respective houses on the afternoon of Fast day,
and assemble in the old ship" so called, to
listen to a temperance address from some one
of the pastors, each taking his turn. On one
of these occasions, Rev. Mr.. DYER, then a
comparative stranger, was speaking from the
high old pulpit, not observing the proximity Of
the pulpit lamps, he threw out his hand little
too far, and up went ..oue of the glass shades
with numerous rapid somerscts, till it nearly
reached the old sounding board then changing
its course, it came down, barely escaping the
head of the President of the meeting, who sat
below in front Of the pulpit, and was shivered
to atoms at his feet.
The incident caused slight merriment for
the moment, and will not soon be forgotten by
those present. 1t is mentioned simply as one
of the events connected with the old house
The present pastor of the society was ordained
July I'd, 1906, and though rising of eighty
years vi age, vet walks the streets with more
elastic step than many men Of tifty.-COngrega-
ti0Hdiist.
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lures so minute that hundred millions of them
may be comprehended in the space of a cubic
inch. But these creatures, until they are lost
to the sense Of sight, aided by the most power
full instruments. are seen to possess organs
fitted for collecting their food, and even captur-
ing their prey. In reckoning the size of such
atoms, we must not speak of billions, but of bill
lions of billions
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BY EDWARD SPENCER.
HotO Ms. Fleming Played the Queen.

ltHAPrER SEVENTH coNcLupEDl
g Woman's spite You wear sieel-mail;
woman takes housewife from her breast
And plucks the delicaiest needle oul
As iwerr rose. and pricks you carefully,
'Nrath nails, meath eyeiids in your riis,-say,
A beast would roar, so TORTURED, but y mal.
human creature, must not sh all not finch,
No, for shame - ~
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Houses IN ITALY.-A letter from Florence
il; the Providence Journal, makes especial
mention of the solidity of Florentine houses.
Ihey are built of stone, and last for centuries
A, conhagration would be next to impossible
Fhe city could hardly be destroyed by fire. In
few houses is there sufficient combustibe ma
terial to make blaze great enough to commu
nicate to the adjoining house. he ceiling of
tie first story is almost universally brick arch
These arches, in some houses, are also carried
through all the upper stories. The floors are
in every case of brick, ground to different de-
grees of smOothness, or Of cement, handsomely
painted in imitation of marble. Wherever it
can be done, plaster is substituted for wood, as
ir the casing of doors and windows, or other
kinds Of ornament. What, by our mechanics,
is technically called "furring," is unknown
there.
Whoever goes to Italy, as many do, expect
ing to find the principal part Of the buildings of
marble, will be disappointed. Marble structures
form the rare exception instead of the rule.
Full ninety per cent. of the buildings of Italy
have succeed or plastered exterior walls. This
is true Of Naples, Rome, and Florence, and it
is of Munich, Dresden, and Berlin. No coun-
try Of Europe, with the exception of France, is
50 well supplied with stone of various kinds for
exterior construction as the United States Of
North America. II is on the inside and not
upon the outside of churches and palaces that
bne sees the most liberal expenditure in mosaic
tavements and panellngs, in marble columns
and entablatures, and altar decorations. There
IL no doubt that more marble has already been
used in America in exterior construction than
III all Italy,
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:. DIvIsIBILrTY OF MArTER.-A curious calcu-
lation has been made by DIR. Thompson, the
pell-known English philosopher, to show to what
degree matter could be divided, and still be
sensible to the eye. He dissolved grain of
nitrate of lead in FIVE hundred thousand grains
Of water, and passed through the solution a
current of sulphuretted hydrogen, when the
whole liquid became sensibly discolored. Now,
a grain of water may be regarded as equal to a
drop of that liquid, aud drop may be easily
spread out so as to cover a square inch of sur
face. But, under an ordinary microscope, the
nillionth of d square inch may be distinguished
Ly the eye. The water, therefore, could be d.
yided into five hundred billion parts. But lead,
il grain of nitrate of lead, weighs O.62 grain !;
AN atom of lead cannot weigh more than
b3lO, 00O, 900, 000th of grain, while the atom
q sulphur, which, combined with the lead, rem
yered it visible, could not weigh more than,
~, Oh, 000, 000-that is, the two-billionth part
Of grain. A billion is million of millions.
If a person were able to count at the rate of two
Hundred in a minute, and to work without in.
terinission twelve hours in a day, he would take,
to count billion, 6,944, 944 days, or l9,025
fears 3l9 days. But this may be nothing TO
the division of matter. There are living crea-
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ing their prey In reckoning the size of such
atoms, we must not speak of billions, but of bill
lions of billions.
DIR. Lardner, in one of his recently-published
scientific works, endeavors to convey TO the
reader some idea of the enormous speed of the
locomotive going at the rate of seventy miles
an hour. Seventy miles an hour is, in round
numbers, one hundred and FIVE feet per second,
that is, motion in virtue of which a passen-
ger is carried over thirty-6ve yards between
two beats of a common clock. Two objects
near him, yard asunder, pass by his eye in
the thirty-hfth part of a second and If thirty
hive stakes were erected by the side of the road,
one yard asunder, the whole would pass his
eye between two beats of a clock; if they had
any strong color, such as red, they would APP
pear continuous fash of red. AT such a speed,
therefore, the objects on the side of the road
are not distinguishable. When two trains hav-
ing this speed pass each other the relative We
locity will be double this, or seventy yards per
second and if one of the trains were seventy
yards long, it would fash by in a single second.
10 accomplish this, surprising the driving
wheels seven feet in diameter, the piston must
change its direction in the cylinder ten times
in a second. But there are two cylinders, and
the mechanism is SO regulated that the dis
charges OF steam are alternate. There are,
therefore, twenty discharges of steam per sec
ond, at equal intervals and thus these twenty
pufs divide a second into twenty equal parts,
each puff having the twentieth Of second be-
tween it and that which precedes and follows it.
The ear, like the eye, is limited in the rapidity
of its sensation; and. sensitive as that organ
is, it is not capable of Distinguishing sounds
which succeed each other at intervals Of the
twentieth part of a second. According to ex-
periments that have been made, the fight of a
cannon ball was $500 feet in one quarter of
minute, equal to five miles per minute, or three
hundred miles per hour. 1t follows, therefore,
that railway train, going at the rate of seven
ty-hve miles per hour, has the velocity of one
fourth that OF cannon-ball.
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San Andreas independent., 1858-06-19

CHEERFULNEss.-" Keep in good hu-
NOR. 1t is not great calamities that en-
bitter existence" says an excellent wri-
ter; "it is the petty vexations, the small
jealousies, the little disappointments, the
minor miseries, that make the heart hea-
Wy and the temper sour Don't let them.
Anger is pure waste of vitality it is
always foolish and always disgraceful, ex-
cept IN some very rare cases, when it is
kindled by seeing wrong done to another;
and even that noble rage seldom mends
the matter. Keep in good humor.
"No man does his best except when
he is cheerful. A light heart makes
nimble hands, and keeps the mind free
and alert. No misfortune is so great as
one that sours the temper.
"Until cheerfulness is lost, nothing is
lost. Keep in good humor.
:" The company of good humored
man is perpetual feast he is welcomed
everywhere-eyes glisten at their ap-
proach, and difficulties vanish at their
presence. Franklin's indomitable good
humor did as much for his country in the
old Congress as Adams fire or Jefferson's s
wisdom he clothed wisdom with smiles
and softened contentious minds into ac-
quescence. Keep in good humor."
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E. v. Es @ u 70 Il Cd n,
WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER

MAIN ST., OPPOSITE ODD FELLOWS HALL,
SAN ANDREAS,
NNHERE may be found a large assortment
w of good Brass Clocks, such as sR
Eight Day, and Thirty Hour Striking E1IA1
and Marine Alarm Clocks Also, beau G.lE
tiful Parlor and Bedroom Clocks, all of which
will be warrantad to keep good time one gear.
Also, fine magnifying Glasses, with double
power, expressly for examining Quartz Rock.
Also, Spy Glasses, Spectacles, thermometers,
Pocket Compasses, American Pocket Knives,
Steel Tweezers, Watch Guards, Keys, first
quality Italian string, fnger-boards, tail
pieces, bridges, rosin, bows, sc.
Also, large assortment of fine Gold Pens,
Gold Fob Chains, Fob Buckles, Seals, Slides,
Ladies Gold Curb Chains, Belt Buckles, Pen
ellis, Silver thimbles, Coral Beads &c. Also,
fine Gold Rings, EARRINGS, Breast Pins, Lock-
cts, Snaps, Infants Coral and Gold Armlets,
Necklaces, &c.
Special attention will be given to all work,
such as repairing Clocks and Watches, manu-
featuring Rings, EARRINGS, Specimen Pins, &c.
N. B. All work warranted if well used.
l would also embrace this opportunity of
thanking the public for past favors, and hope,
by trying to please them, to still merit their
appreciation. jy 1l-tfv2:28
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PERSONAL Blessed in
fuence of one true loving human soul on
another! Not calculable by algebra, nor
deducible by logic, but mysterious, effec-
tual, mighty as the hidden process by
which the many seed is quickened, and
bursts forth into tall stem, and broad leaf,
and glowing tasseled flower Ideas are
often poor ghosts; our sun-flled eyes can
not discern them; they pass athwart us
in thin vapor, and cannot make them
selves felt. But sometimes they. are
made of flesh; they breathe upon us
with warm breath, they touch US with
soft, responsive hands, they look at us
with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in
appealing tones; they are clothed in a
living human soul, with all its conflicts,
its faith, and its love. Then their pres
ence is power, then they shake us like
passion, and we are drawn after them
with gentle compulsion, as fame is drawn
into fame.-Blackwoods Magazine.
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My FRIEND.-The following we clip
from the Trinity Journal:
| had friend, in whose faith trusted
shadows gathered by the way-side, but
his cheerful words drove them away
After awhile a demon came up from hell
and made its den in his heart, and then
his blood grew cold, his eye downcast,
his hearing dull as the deafness of the
dead, and treacherous purposes trailed
around his brain, dark and sinister as ra-
ven spectres. Then the love | bore him
died, and from its stifening tongue rose
bitter maledictions. 1t cursed him with
the curse of oblivion it babe his memo
ry sink in the whirlpool of forgetfulness,
to damnation SO deep and dreary that in
bringing mercy and pardon to hell, Om-
niscience would grope for the lost, like a
blind man, in bewildernent 1t babe his
memory stand still forever, like pillar of
darkness, where dead hopes lie buried
in a sepulcher of dismal night, so bound
less, dark and gloomy that corpses would
gather their shrouds closer about them,
and that grave-worms blind and raven
GUS, would crawl in uncertainty for their
prey. This was the curse of expiring
friendship; chattering 6end recorded
it on withered leaf from the Tree of life.
One from the damned came and took it
down to despair, and sweeping round and
round the fiery maelstrom thrust it under
the crucible in which Judas was assaying
his Thirty Pieces of Silver!
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outen winders, they rolled outen the
doors in punches, they clom the Chin
neys, they hid under the hous, they tux
tu the thicket, they rolled in the wheat
field, lay down in the krick, an some TUX
1t out in good ole runnin toards home
Sicily she squatted in the spring up tu
her years, an while she wur a drowndin
the mess owe bees onder her coats, / went
tu her, sez | "youv'e got anuther
new sensashun, haint ye ?" "Oh, SUIT,
these bominable insex, they're jis burnin
me up! "Gin em sum sody," sez |,
+" in broken dostes-that'll cool em off. !"
She shot fire at me outen her eyes an |
thot I'd best go. Clapshaw crawled un-
der chaff pile in the barn an TUX hit
out in singin an groanin. Sicily an him
didn't sleep tugether fur nj ontu a week,
an all becase Nv them ar hot-footed bonn
Unable insex. Thar warn't an oman or
gall at that ar weddin but what thar
stockins an frocks wur tu tite fur two or
three days. Bees am wus on wimmin
than men folks, emmy how, they hev a
farer chance at EN-. Owe all the darn d
misfortinate weddins that hapined sence
Adam married that ole heifer that wur so
fond Nv talkin to snaix an eatin appils,
doun till now, that wun owe Sicily Burns
an Passon Clapshaw, wus the durnedest
wust wun fur Mise, disapintment, breakin
things, skare, trubbil, hurtin an vexa-
shun owe sperret. They won't gee to-
gethur, mine that got too bad start.
You haint time to listen now how ole
Burns finished his bull-ride, an how [
kun tu du that lofty speciment NV run
min. I'll tell that agin. Eff emmy body
axes arter me, tell EN- I'm over in Fannin
on my way tn Dahlonega, fur sum on EN-
will kill me eff they ketch me. Hits an
orful thing Georgy, tu be a material born
burned fool. You've never sperienced
hit, hev ye? Hit hes made powerfully
agin our family; an all OWN tu dad |
orter jist bust my he'd open agin bluff
owe rocks, an wud du hit eff l warn't a
cussed coward. All my pendence is in
these yere laigs-d'ye see EN-? Eff they
don't fail | may turn human yet some
day !; that is, sorter human; enuff tu be
squire or a skool cumishiner Eff |
wur jist es smart es Pm mean an ornery,
I'd be President owe a Wild Cat in
week. Hez liker riz whar yuve bin p
Much on han?
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LEISURE MoMENTs-FoR THE BOYS.
All, boys lose not single moment of
your life that can be pro6tably spent =
Sands make the shore, drops make the
ocean, and moments make up the glori-
Gus sum of your life. Each hour, each
moment, that you waste or lose, can never
be recalled, and it is lost to you forever.
There is no boy who has no leisure
moments-time that he can spend as he
wishes and they may be made valuable,
if he will rightly use them; or he may
spend them without profit. 1t has been
legacy left to us-the advice of all
great and good men, who have excelled
in learning-Never lose a leisure moment
that can be usefully employed. Do not
scorn to make use of your time, if it is
short. Never say it is only trife-of Of
no value-too short to heed-too little to
be of any use. Our Creator has given
us everything for our benefit, and our
time is the most valuable of all; yet it is
the most wilfully wasted and squandered.
If you cannot spend your time in the
company of those whose conversation and
manners will improve yours, spend it
with books, alone; never with wicked
companions, for Evil communications
corrupt good manners There are al
ways good books, both interesting and
instructive, that you can read in your idle
moments, and they contain information
that will be useful to you afterward
Yes, boys, save your leisure moments.
Hoard them they are more precious, if
rightly used, than sands of gold.
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VALUE OF KIND WORDS. Kind
words are looked upon like jewels in the
breast, never to be forgotten, and perhaps
to cheer, by their memory, a long, sad
life; while words of cruelty, or of care
lessness are like swords in the bosom,
woundlng and leaving scars which will be
borne to the grave by their victim. Do
you think there is any bruised heart
which bears the mark of such wound
from you? If there is living one
which you have wounded, hasten to heal
it; for life is short-to-morrow may be
too late
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nal Look here, young man. Cast your

Rg-Look here, young mani Cast your
eye over this. 1t may do you good
And when you have read it, stick it up
in some place where you will be apt to
see it at least once day. 1t is equal to
fifty of our modern sensation" sermons !:
"Keep good company Never be idle
Ii your hands cannot be usefully en-
ployed, attend to the cultivation of your
mind. Always speak the truth. Make
few promises. Live up to your engage
ments. Keep secrets, if you have any.
W hen you speak to person, look him in
the face. Good company and good char
acter is above all things else. Your char
acter cannot be essentially injured except
by your own acts. If any one speaks
evil of you, let your life be so that no
one will believe him. Drink no intoxi-
eating liquors. Ever live (misfortune
excepted) within your income. When
you retire to bed, think over what you have
been doing during the day. Make no
haste to be rich, if you would prosper
Small and steady gains give competency,
with tranquility of mind. Never play at
any game of chance. Avoid temptation,
through fear you might not withstand it.
Earn your money before you spend it
Never run in debt unless you can see
way to get out again. Never borrow, if
you can avoid it. Never speak evil of
any one. Be just before you are gener-
Gus. Keep yourself innocent if you
would be happy"