The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-10
EARLY RISING.

There is capital anecdote of the reign of Louis
XVI of France, according to which some Court
ladias got it into their heads from some book they
had been reading that it must be glorious thing
to sec the rise. But that took place in the
only hours in which they were uniformly in bed
what was to be done? After much consideration
it being impossible of course for them to think Of
rising early, they resolved to have party to sit
mp all night and ride out to a neighboring hill just
before day to witness the strange phenomenon
This was all duly performed and they went to bed
astonished at the degree to which they had rural
lied themselves
Daniel Webster it seems during many years of
his residence in Washington, used to get up
hour before sunrise in winter, light all the fires
with his own hands, having knack at that sort
of thing and then start off to market with his bas
ket on his arm, to purchase himself the daily pro-
visions, thus gaining many an hours march on
most of his associates.
In New York there has been formed Young
Mems Early Rising Association, all the members
of which are pledged to be up at certain hour.
1t originated with about half dozen young men,
who having kept up this habit for some years were
surprised at its beneficial effects, and at the
in life of their associates.
a little watchful experience will render this
not surprising to any thoughtful man. He who
daily rises at five instead of seven, adds perhaps
i've thought and exertion. Life will be preserved
All other animals but man sleep through the dark
hours and wake with the light The time Of all
the occupations of the day will be moved forward
or backward by the time Of rising The early
takes time by the forelock, and is always be-
torchand with his competitor and his enemy, anti
cip1tes their designs, and has all his affairs ar
ranged so that they cannot be disturbed or modest
ed Such man will drop to sleep in his chair at
o'clock So much the better. Consider the CT
feet on the young man. 1t is at late hours that
bad company becomes most dangerous. Byron
abuses the the light beneath which a
thousand times more wickedness is done than the
sun, and he who at twenty is never out Of bed af-
ter ten, will find it has saved him fortune and
earned for him a character before he is forty, of
which he may well be proud Many young man
in college has been saved from disspated habits
by the ringing of the college bell for morning pray
ers at five o'clock. After getting up thus early
and working hard at study all day, he was glad to
get to bed between nine and ten, fairy worn out
with honest useful hopeful toll instead of making
a night of it in idle dissipation.
Intellectually can do twice the work while
his mind is calm and clear, as it is early in the
day, and it is not and cannot be, later. 1t was
before ten o'clock generally that Sir Walter Scott
wrote his sixteen pages per day of those novels
which the delights of the civilized world; and
it was before nine o'clock that in city DR..
Barnes wrote those commentaries on the Scripture
of which four hundred thousand volumes have
been sold in this country, and as many more in
Europe The very self-denial and sefcommand
indicated and encouraged by this habit is not its
least value lie who learns to govern himself in
one matter will in others.-PhH. Ledger.
MATRIMONIAL DIFFICULTIEs.-A married cou-
pie residing Friend street. the canal, found
that, after few years of connubiai felicity, they
were the most miserable mortals alive, being una.
bic to agree upon any one point of domestic econo-
my and diplomacy Their daily cares were sure
to eliminate in an evening quarrel, and they some
times aStonished each other with blows, accompa,
MED by the usual marks of their respective dis
tinguished considerations. Finding life disagreea
bic, and being able to agree upon no other point
they finally concluded to try the last grand expert
ment together by jumping into the Scioto. Night
before last was the time set for the attempt. A
raw and biting air prevailed but their resolution
fixed, and they descended the bank together
each trying to nerve the other by depreciating his
and her rurage with b tier words. They reach
the bank OF the Scioto-hand IN hand they stood
upon the bank of that abyss which mortality il
wont to regard with horror. The air was cold, and
so was the water-neither was congenial, neither
was the existence they were about to leave. This
thought was decisive, and they plunged into the
water, which was not deep, but very cold. The
man could swim and his first impulse on rising tc
the surface was to strike out for the Shore but he
wanted to see what his wife would do She came
suffering and blowing to the surface, and sup
posing in the darkness that her lord was at the
bottom, called loudly for help, and sank again
When she next appeared the husband caught her
and they both reached the shore in safety, wet
cold, freezing. Crestfaen and ashamed of the
foolish act they went home together, negotiated
treaty of peace, and commenced anew; salts
fed that nothing be worse than the bottom oil
the river. There is a fair prospect of the
couple going down the hill of life together Gziety
and in peace-Ohio Statesman.
A HOPEFUL SoN-IN-LAw-A letter from Con
Stantinnnle states that the first thing Nourry