The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-11-09
The go5t.
Athens, Friday, November %, 1850.
The Rising Generation.

The Rising Generation.
We have often deprecated the system
of training which multitudes Of children
receive. We turn in vain fora spot where
childhood is properly trained; where it Is
respected as childhood and allowed to be
childhood. In solitary instances, perhaps,
we might find families who understand
what is due to infancy and the wants of
nature demand for the growing child
But they are few and far between. Chill
dren, now days are looked upon as so
many puppets on which to display lace,
jewels, gmcrackery, and the last new
modes in hounce and whalcbone. Cor
setted, bestarched, be-iurbelowed, and
bedizened off, they look like so many
mer-women grown down, until even in
face and conversation they lose the fresh
ness and simplicity of childhood in the
monkeyisms of grown up folly. What of
childhood may be left in them-these
miniature cards OF fashion--is crushed
out of them by the idea Of being little
bellies and beaux, by miniature flirtations,
among which this time is spent in vieing,
to the utmost particular, with the affec-
tatons, rivares, jealousies, and appoint
ments making of their elder, though wis
er models.
Turn where we will, childhood is abus-
ed. They are allowed their own way F;
they become men and women before they
have passed the Threshold Of youth ;
they have no respect for seniors, and are
as mannerless as bears. They have in
doctrinated into them false views and
false notions Of society; they are pulled
up with pride and conceit; they are
trained into fops and dolts by fashionable
mammas and indulgent papas, as an
imals are trained by show mastcrs-for
exhibition. What then are we to look
for from the coming age? Naught else
but that the follies, eXtravagances, de-
bauchcres and dcpravities of the present
age will be increased to four fold degree.
The next generation will truly illustrate
the visiting the sins Of fathers upon their
children
BITE OF A RATTLEsNAKE CURED IN Two
HouRs.-The Petersburg Express publish
es the following from a reliable cores
pondcnt:
A carpenter while engaged few days
ago in pulling down an old house, and in
removing some of the rotten timbers near
a. L;tta,, l,,n a r,t lac,, al. 20
In few moments his finger was swollen
to four times its natural size, and a red
streak commenced running up his hand
and wrist. A deadly languor came upon
him, and vision grew dim, clearly indicat-
ing that the subtle poison that was cours-
ing through his veins was rapidlyapproach-
ing the citadel of life. But a remedy was
tried, merely by way of ofexperiment, which,
to the surprise of al present, acted like Il
charm, the component parts of which
were onion, tobacco and salt, of equal
parts, made into a poultice and applied to
the wound, and at the same time cord
was bound tightly about the wrist. In
TWO hours afterwards he had so far recov-
cred as to be able to resume his work. |
knew an old negro who cured a boy th9t
had been bitten by mad-dog, by the same
application.
sSy- young lady was burnt to death in
St. Louis last week. She had just return
ed home from church, and hastily ap-
preached the fire blazing on the hearth
to warm her heads. Upon turning sud
denly around, the skirt of her dress,
which was greatly expanded by hoops,
took fire, and instantly enveloped her in
flames, and before assistance could be
rendered she was so much injured that
she shortly afterwards expired.
Ray- 1t is stated that excellent Baldwin
apples are now selling in Worcester,
Masss., for rs cents per barrel. The crop
is enormous, and one farmer alone has
raised some 500 barrels.
nayA The man that don't advertise has
got his store hung all round with shingles
and pieces of barrel heads, inscribed in
lampblack with "Irish Pertaters, ,"''Korn-
Meel," "Flower," ''Awl Kinds of Kuntry
Prodoose," "Kallker," and "Kandles," ,"
"For Sal Here" He says, "Thar aint no
sence in noospaper advertising, so long
ds ~ 10 ShouSh " 'NhN' w MS
own business, and kin stand at the dore
and holler the .ellers imp He has just
made "big" speculation.-IIearing that
the corn crop had entirely "gin out" he
has engaged lot from the West at one
dollar and thirty cents per bushel! Won't
he open his eyes when he finds his neigh
bors, who do take the papers, selling it at
ninety cents?-Miotdle Georgian.
CURING BEEF.-By most of the modes
now in use, the beef becomes too much
impregnated with salt, and is not, as a
consequence, so fine for eating. By the
following process this difficulty sprevent-
ed, and the beef will keep until the fol
loving summer: To eight gallons Of wa
ter add two pounds of brown sugar, one
quart of molasses, four ounces Of saltpe-
ter, and fine salt, until it will float an egg.
1t has been repeatedly tried and found
very fine. a famous beef eater says it is
the only good way.