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South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23
A Word of Entreaty.

THE incarnation of self sacrifice finds its
in the souls and bodies of
farmers wives, and especially such as are
mothers. We refer now to the almost uni
versal disposition among them to convert
themselves into absolute drudges, simply
for the sake of saving a few dollars, which
they believe will advance the happiness
and welfare ofthose they love. Thousands
of women go down to early graves every
year, victims to this deplorable mlsappre-
hension of results, of how they may best
serve those they wish to serve.
At this season of the year, when the
hard and earnest work of farm-life opens
and asserts its demands, and country wo-
men are deciding for themselves the ques-
ton, we beg leave to put in an earnest
entreaty in behalf of the children. For
their sakes, consider that your life and
health are more to them to the very last
moment of your life, than any amount of
money you may be able to lay up for their
use. We write from a sad and profound
experience. Our w mother, a proud,
ambitious woman, with a delicacy of con-
stitution too often characteriZing cur coun-
try women, full of nerve and with a great
force of character, found herself at the
early age of thirty-eight "just ready to
begin to enjoy life" as she sadly expressed
it, Obliged to relinquish ito leave the
comfortable home she had toiled so hard
to win and adorn, and to know that her
children were o o to be motherless. AL
though a very little girl then, it made an
impression that subsequent years have
only confirmed. OVER WORK, the impulse
of which was EoOe and ambition for her
children, killed her. How gladly would
each and all of us, part with every dollar
that has come to us, from the basis of her
tolls, if by so doing we could have our
motherl The mistake she made, although
so palpable t US now, she saw only when
too late.
We well remember one day, during the
time when she was rapidly nearing the
limit of her life here, of a conversation
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

she had with a friend, in which she de- |
plored her mistaken love, and hoped her
own. daughters would never do as she
had done. 1t was only the old story of
half the mothers who go to heaven a great
many years before they ought-working,
consciously beyond her strength, for 'only
this once" but doing it not only once, but
again and again, until the last possibility
exhausted.
Oh, wives and mothers, be wise before
it is too latei Live so as to enjoy erery
day of your life. Ten years hence, or
even tomorrow, you may die. Live so
that your presence will gladden. the lives
of your dear ones, more than anything
your hands can win for them. Don't
think you serve them wisely or lovingly
by sacrificing your health with a view to
Economy, (which is never economy, but
the rankest extravaganza. What if the
farm be notpaid for this year, or next, or
even next? There is not much to fear so
long as you retain your health; but eDery
thing to fear if you lose it.
So, if your best judgment tells you that
you shall need help this coming summer,
follow your judgment in the matter. Aside
from the children, and what you owe to
them in caring for your health, you owe
equally as much { yourself You have a
right to life andohappiness, if you are a
woman. So many women act as if they
were of secondary importance, simply be-
cause of their being women, and married
ones, that their action provokes com
ment, if nothing more.
On the subject of Help" we have hith-
erto had somewhat to say, so that we have
now only to suggest male domestics where
females cannot be procured. An active
boy from ten to fifteen years of age will
tighten the'labors of a house almost, if not
quite, as much as a full grown domestic.
Such can always be had, if not in the
country the city swaTms with them, and
benevolent societies are always ready to
supply the demand.
1t is customary with many women to
leave the decision of such matters with
their husbands, or the linen folks" 1t
would be safe and pleasant to do so if the
" men folks" were only what they should
be, instead of being, Oftentimes, thought
less, careless, and selfish. We have known
men to be " bright and shining lights in
the church" carry a pious face from Sun
day morning until Sunday night, and as
sumo all the phases of conventional piety,
while, at the same time, their wives or
daughters, or both, were actually uOrking
Themselves to death under the approving
smile of their masterI The physical health
of horses and cattle were intelligently re-
garded, but, then, the loss of a wife is a
"~dispensation of Providence" and the
consolation that ONE in the shape of
another is %cheerfully accepted of at the
end of a year.
So, as long as such men exist, it is
neither safe nor advisable to always abide
by the decision OF the " head of the house"
unless half of it at least, grows on your
own neck. The exercise of any faculty
or quality strengthens and develops it;
and so long as the Creator, in his wisdom,
endowed women as well as men with the
quality of judgment, why should they not
exercise it, at least in their WI behalf
Rural NeU Yorker.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

Early in the fifteenth century we have
Beau Twain, called the Scholar" He
wrote a beautiful beautiful hand. And
he could initiate anybody's hand so closely
that it was enough to make a person laugh
his head off to see it. He had infinite
sport with his talent. But by and by he
took a contract to break stone for a road,
and the roughness of the work spoiled his
hand. Still, he enjoyed life all the time he
was in the stone business, which, with in
considerable intervals, was some forty-two
years. In fact, he died in harness. Dur
ing all those long years he gave such sat
isfaction that he never was through with
one contract a week TIL government gave
him another. He was perfect pet. And
he was always a favorite with his fellow
artists, and was a conspicuous member of
their benevolent secret society, called the
Chain Gang. He always wore his hair
short, had a preference fer striped clothes,
and died lamented by the government.
He was a sore loss to his country. For he
was so regular.
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mighty Hunte r-with-a-H og-eye) Twain
adorned the middle of the eighteenth cen
fury, and aided Gen BraddOck with all
his heart to resist tie oppressor Washing
ton. 1t was this ancestor who fired seven
teen times at our Washington from behind
a tree. So far the beautiful romantic mar
ratiye in the moral story-books is correct
but when that narrative goes on to say
that at the seventeenth round the awe
stricken savage said solemnly that that
man was being reserved by the Great
Spirit for some mighty mission, and he
dared not lift his sacrilegious rife against
him again, the narrative seriously impairs
the integrity of history. What he did say
was:
at amt no chic . no usei AT mans SO
drunk he can't stan still long enough for
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

above the earth outside, unless he is sure
there is a good cavity under it well venti-
lated. Bricks that are manifestly porous,
or which change color very much when
rain falls, parapets with no copings, walls
where the pointing is not thoroughly
sound, without cutters, and the like,
are TO be looked upon with great dislrust /;
and an unsound roof or iIl-arranged gut
ttrs (of which, by-the-bye, few non-pro-
f%essional persons can form agood opinion)
ought to be looked upon with as much
disfavor as a dining-room of the wrong
shape, o a drawing-room that looks
gloomy. In one word, in choosing a house
in which a man intends himself and his
family to live, he should look out for the
indications of damp as pointing out the
presence of one of the most serious ne
mics to his comfort, if not TO the continu-
nee of their life, which he can have to
encounter.-LOndOn Tool Journal.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23
W and Children.

In an article in the May number of art
on the influence of toys in educating and
forming the tastes of children, Blanchard
Jerrold writes charmingly on the subject
of flowers. He says:
al would have flowers crowded in the
school room windows of the very young.
l would build broad open balconies for
the baby scholars; where, during every
daylight moment of fair weather, they
might have fresh air, and bits of beauty
Towering under their inquiring eyes. 1
would have the Pouponniere of Brussels
copied, making elementary education be-
gin mot when a child has been already
erected into a little monster by bad parents
and evil surroundings; but in its protract-
ed cradle, in the first shaking of its rattle,
and the first pointing of its fingers to pic
lures and plants. We shoulder our chill
dren would-see the good results of such
cradle teaching; of aesthetics thrown into
the alphabet, into the toy-shop, the play
ground, and the adornments of the school
room. For the child that is alive to the
simplest lessons and beauties of the field,
that can delight in striving to imitate-if
only with straw or paper--a beautiful
form placed before it, is far on the way to
a higher education, even should subsequent
events prove untoward in its path, than
the creature of dull, uniformed sight in
fancy, who may be kept well at school
under good masters. A feeling for the
beautiful, a delight in it, which is at pres
emf almost unknown in England, is that
which we shall strive after, not in art
academies but in infant schools and nurse
ries. The toughest Dutch doll is the
Venus di Medici to the child that nurses
it. We give the ugly thing to the child,
and so make for ourselves the after diff
Guilty of proving that dolly is ugly. The
remark applies to nearly all toys; certain
ly to all that are English.
PRUssING's White Wine Vinegar is q most
Snnerh article for tahle nse Marranted nure.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23
Valuable Hints.

Aregular habit of body is absolutely essential
to physical health and clearness of intellect. Nor
is this all. Beauty Of person cannot co-exist with
an unnatural condition of the bowels. A free
passage OF the refuse matter of the system through
these natural waste pipes, Is as necessary to the
purity OF the body as the free passage Of the ofal
OF a city through its sewers Is necessary to the
health of its inhabitants.
Indigestion is the primary cause of most of the
diseases OF the discharging organs, and one Of its
plant, besides being dangerous in itself, has many
disagreeable cOncomitants-such as an unpleasant
breath, a sallow skin, communicating blood and
bile, hemorrhoids, headache, loss of memory and
general debility.
Hostetteris Stomach Bitters remove all these evils
by removing their immediate cause in the digestive
organs. and regulating the action of the intestines.
The combination of properties in this celebrated
preparation is one of its chief merits. II Is not
merely a stimulant or a tonic, or an ambitious
agent, or a nervine, or a blood depurent, or a ca
tnartic, but all these curative elements judiciously
blended in one powerful restorative. 1t lends ac-
tiy1ty and vigor to the inert and enervated stom-
ach, relieves the alimentary canal of its obstruc-
tons, and gives tone TO the membrane which lines
1t, gently stimulates the liver, braces the nerves,
and cheers the animal spirits. No other remedy
possesses such 4 variety of hygienic virtues. 1t Is
to these characteristics that it owes its prestige as
a household medicine. Experience has proved
that 1t Is as harmless as ii is eficacious, and hence
1t Is as popular with the weaker sex as with the
stronger.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are sold in bottles
only, and the trademark. blown in the glass and
engraved on the label, is the test Of genuiReness.
Beware Of counterfeits.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23
GoDEY's LApY's Book.-aTbe Mus.

GODEY's LADY's BooK-"The Music
Lesson"-a steel plate-graces the July number,
along with a colored fashion-plate, containing six
beautiful designs Of dresses; also extension sheet
with its large number of late fashions in d-Sss and
lingerie articles; a page of children's fashions; an
interesting wood engraving Of 1.-The Peddler.''
There are an unusual number Of designs for fancy
work given, among which will be found, in the
front of the book, five designs for making up and
onamenting a portfolio cover for manuscripts,
drawings, etc. Cooley has presented his patrons
this month with a novel slipper pattern. The ease
with which it can be worked gives promise of its
becoming q fashionable slipper for gentlemen. .
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

GENTLY DOES IT. Without pain or irrita-
ton, DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs re-
lieve the eonstipated bowels, at the same time
so thoroughly tOning their inner membrane
and restoring their mechanical action, that
it seems as if they had been reorganized on
an improved plan Yet the result is solely
due to nature, reinforced and sustained by
the best vegetable Alternative and tonic that
ever passed the lips of the sick and suffering.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

Augustus Twain seems to have made
something of a stir about the year 1t60.
He was as full of fun as he could be, and
used to take his old saber and sharpen it
up, and get in a convenient place on a dark
night, and stick it through people as they
went by, to see them jump. He was a
born humorist. But he got to going too
far with it; and the first time he was
found stripping one of these parties, the
authorities removed one end of him, and
put it up on a nice high place on Temple
Bar, where it could contemplate the peo-
pie and have a good time. He never liked
any situation SO much o. stuck to it so
long
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

"THE EXCELSIOR Choir" edited and
published by CARL BUSD. This musical monthly
Is filed with new music of q high order, and is
ust what is needed in every choir. Endorsed by
leading professors and teachers; replete with
gems; beautifully printed; gives an anthem, or
set piece, aa each Commenced in April,
1871. If you want it for a year, send twenty-five
cents to CARL BUND, care of Roots Cady, Chica.
CO. and get all who sing in your choir to do the
same.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

Then for the nett two hundred years
the family tree shows a succession of SOL
diers-noble, h~igh-spirited fellows, who
always went into battle singing, right be-
hind-the army, snd who always went out
a-whooping, right ahead Of ii.
This is a scathing rebuke to old dead
Froissart's poor witticism, that our family
tree never had but one limb to it, and that
that one stuck out at right angles, and
bore fruit winter and summer.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

TooTHAcHE proceeds fromagu e in the face,
operating upon the exposed nerve of q de-
cayed tooth. Rub the gum thoroughly with
the finger, wet with JohESon's AnOdyle Lini-
ment ; heat the face well, and lay a flannel
wet with the liniment on the face also put a
little of the liniment into the cavity Of the
tooth on cotton.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23
Wnnn's HnrSEunrn

"Ellen"|a story for parents-by Mrs. NJ. A. E.
Ripley, is the title of the one hundred dollar prize
story in the June number of this excellent dollar
monthly. Several interesting stories, sketches,
poems, ETC., make up the other contents of this
lumber. This magazine is only S1.OJ per year;
10 cents for single number. Valuable premiums
for subscribers. S. S. WooD s. Co., Newburgh,
N. Y.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

DR.. S. o. RICHARDSON'S SHERRY WINE BITTERs
educated, physician, is one of the most pleasant
and valuable tones of the day. Persons recover
ing from protracted illness, or those who at this
dice, habitual constipation, or any disease arising
from a disordered stomach, liver or bowels, viii
lind in the Sherry Wine Bitters a friend more to be
desired than gold.
Sold by all Druopists
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THE system frequently gets out of order,
and should be at once regulated, else other
troubles will ensue when physic is needed
take Parsons Purgdtive PHS they are a safe,
wholesome and natural medicine.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

DR.. Pierce's portrait, name and address on his
private government stamp upon each pack
age. $40
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Arthour Twain was a man of considera-
BILE note-a solicitor on the highway in
William Rufus time. At about the age
of thirty he went to one of those fine old
English places of resort called Newgate,
to see about something, and returned
again. While there he died suddenly.
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Extracts from Mark Twain's Auto
biography.

Ours is a noble old house, and stretches a
long way back into antiquity. The earli-
est ancestor the Twai1s have any record of
was a friend of the family by the name of
Higgins.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

weight at the farther end, hold the parti-
ton wall up to the desired position as the
roof is Observation-Disclosures.
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GREAT ATTRACTION FOR THE BOYsi

AAAE kAAANNEr-~
Life and adventures Of Robert Houdin, the most famous
couiurur the world has ever known, just commenced m
No IS Vol IV) OF HANEY's JOUENu- showing how,
when a boy, he Acquired his inst lessons in magic, his
youthful hans and mishaps a an Mnateur cOrFlrer,
his amusing and startling adventures. how ne per
formed his marvellous feats, his great magical contest
with the famous Arabian jugglers. his Invention OF curious
musical AMI other aui0maia, ETC., etc. forming one OF the
most fascinating narratives ever writien- livery boy VIII
Ions 10 read this: also thc charming Story Of a little Rus
sian Peasant Boy who rose 10 be 4 PRICE, School Boy
Story, Sea Story, and multitude Of attractive tales
sketches, correspondence, puzzles, amusing arts andrecre-
atoms, etc, etc; and, to afford al the opportunity to test
Haney's Journal. We make the following liberal Ofer:
Rare Chance.-Haneyi Journal, a handsome eight
page 40 long coumnsl Illustrated family paper, VIII be sent
sir months on trial 10 any Re10 subscriber for the nominal
sum Of 23 cts. Send R01c and ty IL Single copies OF
any ne 2sdealer-n0ne free
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