The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-11-03
Turned FAuYep.--ln the vicissiludcs

TURNED FApwgp.--ln the vicissiludcs
Of this life, what strange alterations
take place. Wa see change ON The
face Of Nil things earthly. The trees
ofthe forest bud AMI open their leaves
Of living green to the breath of ba|my
brcczes 10 Spring time, and all sum.
mer do they afford an asylum for the
mirtlful carol of the woodland song
stcrs. BIT the hoar lrosls Of Autumn
come and crisp them into the scre aud
yellow leaf, and soon they fall 10 The
ground aud again return TO the dust
from whence they had their biIth,--
These are changes with which all hrt
acquainted and which we all expect
Yet as we said before, there are same
changes which partake Of the mar.
vcl'o ~, and nonc more than the Fact
that VIM. Il. Witt, whose name is as
familiar as o household word to all oil
us, has actually saul on his store and
bought him IA larm-rciircd from III"
busy whirI OF mercantile life, with IT'S
thousand and ona cXcitcmcnis, and
gone into the happy retirement Of
turning. Joy 80 with you, Mr. Witt
Scores of strangers vii! yet come
through our pleasant town, and all
will be startled when their inquiries
are answered with gone to farming"
The next question they viii ask, Oh!
how sllal it be answered Shall we
say mot yet" lie still persists in his
love for cclibacy. He has not yet JED
some fair damscl to the altar Of lily.
men. The blind boy has not yet shot,
tn. barbod arrow to bis hrarl.' Don't
co npcl us to give these answers, Mr..
Witt. Look around you, and see how
all things invite you. All things are
ready, and n thousand maids say
"comc." Marriage licenses are plcn-
ty, and parsons are by no means
scarce. AIrcadylh demand iorthcm
has commenced in our midst, and yet
"you are not saved" How long Uil
you neglect this important privilege.
Can you not find some one to love,
some one TO carcss, some one your
lonely life to bless? A good wife is
the best gift Of Gods providence. il
u man is in grief, she will cheer him ;
in trouble, she will console him /; in
wrath, she will sooth him with jos, she
will make him doubIy happy; in pros.
perity, she will rejoice with him; in
disgrace, she will back him against
the world, and dress with gentle argu-
mcnts and warm Notwithstanding
wounds made by the poisonous arrows
of outrageous fortune. In your
sickness she will be a sweet physician
to you, better far than all the many
followers of Acsculapius in the world.
We know that old maids and bachr-
Tors are said to be equal in wisdom
TO the hogs in Nsop, who, although
they had great desire for water, would
not leap into the well because they
could not get out again. Old bachc-
Tors arc said to afford an example OF
this kind Of wisdom, but don't be
humbugged with such syrcn songs
When once in the well, one will find
its waters sweet, so refreshing, so alo-
Iious, that you wouidn't get out if you
cOuld. Aye. you would drown first
And then that home will not be home
without some n to manage the do.
IIltHllC uuullS. hIu tItll, HOW DiCiS-
ant to feel the gentle pressure of her
snow.whitc arms MS she twinrs them
around your neck and sweelIy says:
''C0mo to dinner" Oh couldn't Won
work so much better then when You
went out among your hands to till the
soil We know you could, and until
you get you n darling wife, remember
you are not much farmer, and We pc.
tition to the score Of farmers who
take the Home Journal, to not receive
you into their craft until you get n
wife.
Ok our outside we publish a full ac'
count of the recent grand wedding in