The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-10-23


LET THE CHlLDtES SLEEP.-We earnestly advise that
all who think gFeaE deal who have nfrm health who
are III trouble or who have work hard to take all the
sleep they can get without medical means
We caution parents, particularly not to allow their
children be walked up Of mornings-let nature wake
themup she willaot do it prematurelv but have care
that they 60 he'd early hour let it be earlier
and earlier, until it is found that they wake up them
selves in full timd dress for breakfast Being walked
up early and allowed 70 engage in difficult any stu
dies late, and iust before retiring has given many
beautiful and promising child the brain fever or de-
termined ordinary ailments to the production Of water
the brain.
Let parents make every possible effort to have their
children go to sldap pleasant humor. Never scold
give lectures d. in ally way wound childs feelings
as it goes bedl Let all Danish business and every
worldly care at bedtime and let sleep come to a mind
at peace with God and all the world
WORKING ANDl TmNKNG.-It is no less fatal error to
despise labor wbsn regulated by intellect says Ruskn
than to value it Tor its own sake. We are always in
these days, trying to separate the two we want one man
be always thinking and another be always work
ing and call dne gentleman and the otheran opera
tive, whereas thd working ought always to be
thinking and tle thinker ought to be working and
both should be gEntemen in the best sense As it was
we make both dngentIa, the enc envying, the other
despisng bis brdtheE and the mass of society is made
up Of morbid thinkers Ald miserable workers Now it
is only by labor hat Thought be made healthy and
the two cannot BIZ separated with impunity All proes-
sions should be liberal and there should be less pride
felt in peculiarly Of employment and more il excel
lency Of achievehent
NEGLECTED DtTY.-No man has any right to manage
his affairs in sud way that his sudden death would
bring burdens arid loss1s other people. There may
be cases where tnan really cannot help cntangle
ments or where from ueXpcrence or lack of Judgment
he has brought Fis airs into such state that the in
terests of others deuerd upon his life he should make
all possible haste to eztrcae himself from such posi-
ton. Honor and honesty demand that he should so
conduct his busbess that his death should cause no one
TO be wronged And to dying, although all IN en-
everywhere believe THAT all other men viii surely die
yet they unite ii thinking that they themselves are e
ceptons to this rule; or, at least they act if they
thought Thit is radically wrong 1t is every mans
duty, in every transaction in life, to be influenced bv
the fact that at any day at any hour he may die
PoLITENEss. In politeness as in many other things
connected with THE formation of character, people in
general beginning with the heart and trusting that to
form the manners, they begin with the manners and
trust the heart u chance influences The golden rule
contains the very life and soul Of poeuess. Children
may be taught ID mike a graceful courtesy or gen
tlemany bow but unless they have likewise been taught
to abhor what is seish, and always prefer another's
comfort and pleasure to their own their poltcness will
be entirely artificial and used only when it is their in
terest TO use ~ On the other hand, true benevolent
and knd-hearef person. will always be distinguished
by what Is caleli native politeness though entirely g
norant Of the cdnventional forms Of society
Niger Az A DL&CE.-The happiest man in the
world is suppost to be- "a Niger at dance In our
opinion this rule is too limited "nigger is not only
happy at daucd, but IN every position. darkey may
be poor, but heIis never low spirited. Whatever he
he invests in fun and devitry give him dollar
aud in less thar h5r he will lay dimes of it
out in yellow neck-tit4 a cracked violin There is
something in al African that sheds trouble as duck
will water Who ever knew ''culled possum" to com
NIT suicide? The negro Is strongly given to love and
jealousy but nd has ro taste for arsenic He may lose
his all by betting against roulette but be don't find
relief for his despair white folks do by resorting
charcoal fumes new bed-chord but BY visiting 'de
fair sex" and participating III the may influence of
ode occiputal cbmvolution of der clarinet"
4 Coon JoE3 on FRENoNT.--A gentleman who has
returned to Arkansas from a visit to St. Louis commu
nicates to an arkansas paper good joke gene
raj Fremont, vito, 1t seems got up, mounted and equip
ped body of troops a special body guard; their
horses SUPERIOR and their arms and appointments
Of the finest del 1ription. He proud Of it. 1t
10 be his pet but day this fine body went out to
perform sundrf evolliions about two miles from the
city and they ever came back. They were last heard
Of in general II frdee camp where they accidentally
found their way If any one wants to Fremont mad
it is only necessary t5 mention body guard in bis
presence
AN IRISH PA LAcE--A contractor overheard one Of
his party lame atiug his hardships since coming to
America drawing for contrast, bright sketch Of his
life in the could couuthrvn
"Oh," said the complainer, with sigh, 'av wos
only book agint me fathers pash'
Your fatbeEs paIish, is it. is it, responded fell
low workman, with jolly squirt Of his eye the dis
tressed noble scion Sure, an We wor there, We
moight stand du the groun an reach yer han down
tn chimbly am open the door nv t'
4 Coon STotY.-A gentleman who in Augusta
when the yankee prisoners passed through there their
way to New Oeans relates the following conversation
between one Of The prisoners and 'culud gemman:"
Yankee from Gar window to darkie on patform-Are
you d slave fteemaH? Darke--WeIl Iaint what you
might call frfe Niger but I'm right smart reer dan
you is bout dill time. Athens (Ga) Banner.
To SOFTEN RUTrY-In removing old broken pancs
from window it is generally very difficult to get of
the hard dry pity that sticks round the glass aud its
frame Dip Email brush in a little nitric or muratic
acd-to be oh aimed al the drlggst-and 20 over the
putty with it, Let il rest while, and it will soon be-
come so soft that you can remove it with case.
ART OF WAf.-TAs greatest success in the art Of war
is revealed by elbgon in speaking Of the battle Of
Waterloo. LII said. I'VE pommeled the French, and
they pommeeE u.s. aad il seems we pommeled the hard
est
A distinguished divine on a certain occasion, while
preaching at Ibis usual cloquence and power, said
Brethren kometimes illustrate my subject in this
manner;n and putting his handkerchief to his nose
blew blast lo d enough to wake the seven secpers
That was not tie intended illustration but of his
hearers thought it was
Gen SumneF, commanding in California, issued the
following genekal order on the Sd instant. No Federal
troops in the department of the Pacific will ever suren
der to rebels The hills are green far away, as the
Irish say, or It's Distance lends enchantment to the
view" an English poet has it.
80 you arc going to teach SCHOOL, said young la
dy to her maiden aunt well, fer my part sooner
than do that IIEoud marry widower with nine chill
dren." II SHOULD prefer the like myself" was the
quiet reply, but where Ii the widower?"
Why are sH2ep the most disspated and unfortunate
of animals? because they gambol in their youth fire.
quent the turf very often black legs, and uni
ysrsaly feecfd.
clergymda consoling young widow the death
of her husban remarked that she never could find his
equal again. l'll bet you will! said the sobbing fair
one not utterly disoonsolate at the prospect ahead.
A ncgress, kpeaking of her children, said of one who
was lighter cdored than the rest. Il neber could bar
that ar brat Rase he shows dirt SO easy"
We do not know that any person would be forgiven
by God for killing himself but certainly great many
would be forg Even BIZ mankind.
Every man chershes III his heart some obiect-some
shrine al whh his alteration is paid unknown to bis
fellow morta$.
Secret kind resses done to mankind are as beauti-
sal as secret Injuries are detestabe. To be nvisibly
oo q as ro like as to be inyisibly evil is dabocal
Many public men consider themselves the pillars of
the State WI are more properly the catterpllars of
STATE reachink their high positions only by crawling.
The man who couldn't stand it any longer has taken
.eat and feds quite comfortable.
Tbera Is Nothing agrees worse than proud mind