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VIII he Succeed.

In nine cases out ten no mans life Will
be a success if he does not bear burdens
of childhood. If the fondness or the van
ity in father or mother have kept him
from hard labor if another always helped
him out Of the end of the row :; if, instead
of taking his turn at pitching of. he moved
away all the time-in short, if what was
light always fell to him and whatwas
heavy about the same work to some one
else; if he has been permitted to shirk till
Sinking has become habit-unless
miracle is wrought, his life will be fail
ure. and the blame will not be half so
much his as that of weak, foolish parents.
On the other part. if boy has been
brought up to do his part, never allowed
to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or to
dodge work, whether or not it made his
his heart ache or his hands blaok-until
bearing heavy burdens becomes matter
of pride. the parents, as they hid him
goodbye, may dismiss their fears. His
life will not be business failure. The
elements of success are his, and at some
time and in some way the world viii re-
cognize his capacity. Take another point.
Money is the object of the worlds pursuit.
1t gives bread and clothing:and homes and
comfort. The world has not Judged
wholly unwisely when it has made the
position a man occupies to hinge compar-
atively more or less in his ability to earn
money, and on the am punt of his posses
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Show Thyself a Man.

Now there are two courses, either of
which you can take. One is to say: 81
am not living or dressing SO well as my
companions, and must have fine clothes
and better fare" The other is to say
with stern manliness: 81 have come
here to make my way; and honesty and
simplicity require that should not live
any higher than / myself can earn the
means of living. / will be no mans pau.
per or beneficiary 1 will make what /
take /; and what I make and take shall
support me-" The dicipline which you
get from this latter course of self-denial
is better than going to college. Many a
man cradled i'll learning gets no dicipline !;
but young man, who, having been rear
ed and trained in self-indulgence, leaves
his fathers and comes to the city and
says. Il will be beholden to no man; /
can afford to live as plain as any man,
both in regard to diet and clothes. if it
is necessary to my manhood. l will not
have anything which cannot fairly earn
[ will not have anything which l cannot
fairly earn myself" Such young man
gets discipline which is worth univer-
oACJ OouOaeiOu. LJ ioi ming tuuo Pun PooS
and adhearing to it, he is educating him
selfin the very elements of manhood. He
is making man of himself.
Do you think men think less of you
because you dress plainly? Do you think
your chances in life are less because you
feel ashamed to show man where your
room is, and where you sleep? Why,
many man has slept in barn who was
better than many others who sleptin man.
sions and palaces. A man ought not to be
ashamed to say:"I am poor and cannot
do SO and So" 1t is the curse of America,
since there are no orders of nobility here,
men are ashamed to admit they are poor.
The young man defends himself, and says:
Il am not so poor as you take me to be-"
Even sensible people yield to the temp
tation of the devil, and are ashamed to
acknowledge that they work.-Plymo.tlt
Pulpit. -
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Daughters Of the House.

1t is for you, young ladies, who have
come out of the nursery and short dresses
and who are now no longer little girls,
that l would hold friendly talk with
this morning. You have been budding
dainty all these years. You have un-
folded gracefully in the sunlight of home,
and are now blossoming in society. You
are dear, sweet, fragrant flowers, too. il
you are only sweet clear through. If your
| fragrant loveliness is something saved up
for company, aud not worn every day at
home, then you are only sweet on the sur
face. If you wear your smiles and bright
looks at soirees ard receptions, and lay
them off when you come home, why it
shows that they are only part of your
finery, and not signs of beauty within.
If you keep them on, it shows that they
are genuine, and will stand wear.
Now listen to one who loves you and
has your good at heart. and who also has
some sympathy for the little brothers and
sisters, and for the tired mother who
watched and tended you. She has borne
and had patience with your childish follies,
and led back your childish feet when they
starved. You have pricked her heart
with little briers till it bled. many a
time. You can now pierce it with grown
up thorns. Will you do it? You can
create murky atmosphere of storm,
when she is striving wearily for sunshine
and peace. You can drive your broth
ers to seek diversion away from home
anywhere-so they can move or speak
with nobody to scowl and fret, while she
is striving, with her painting mothers
heart, to hold them to her. The older
sister should be pillar of strength at
the mothers side, instead of welding an
influence that must be constantly parried
and counteracted.
While many noble sisters have borne
their brothers up against mighty tides of
temptation, and helped them to plant foot
upon the firm rock, others, and not few,
have goaded them on and on, into temp
tation, into the swallowing sea The
have not meant it. At glimpse of such
consequences, they would have been ap-
palled and frightened ; but they have done
it nevertheless. They have made home
such seethiEg strife, that no rest was
found for the sole of the foot; and when
the ark failed, what else could one ex-
pect of boy, than that he should take
to the waters outside? When he is drawn
into the vortex, and his drowning cry goes
up, will not other boys sisters hear and
heed the warning? Will they not try to
make the family circle bond strong and
loving enough to hold them in it! Will
they not try to make the beautiful sweet
ness they know so well how to assume,
real thing, that has not to be assumed nor
pat off? .e,-N.
lAword to you, dear girls, for your flu
ture. Such daughter and sister as you
are, such wife you will make and what
sort of a dowry of heart and temper do
you choose to carry into your husbands
home? Wrath, bitterness, storms, or gen.
tlepess, sweetness and calm sunshine?
The man you marry win find you out, no
matter how sweetly you smile upon him
now. With your lovers you may seem
one thing, and be another, but with your
husband you will surely seem what you
are.-Our Ffreside Fricna-
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sions. If he is miseraHly poor, it argues
some defect in his expenditures, or a lack
of fitness to cope with men in the battle
for gold. When a country boy leaves
home it is generally to enter upon some
business, the end of which is to acquire
property ; and he will succeed just in pro-
save in his childhood.
IF all the money he has had comes of
planting little patch in the spring, and
selling its produce, after weary months of
watching and toll, in the fall-or from
killing woodchueks at six cents head
or from trapping muskrats and selling
their skins for shilling setting snares
in the fail for game, and walking miles in
the morning before the old folks were up
-husking corn for a neighbor, on moon
light evenings, at two cents bushel-
working out an occasional day that hard
work at home has made possible-he is
good to make his pile in the world.
On the contrary, if boy never earned
a dollar-if parents and friends always
kept him in spending money-pennies to
buy candies and fsh-hooks, and to satisfy
his imaginative way -and he had grown
to manhood in the expectancy that the
world will generally treat him with sim
liar consideration, he will always be
make shift And the fault is not so much
his as that of those about Linn who never
made the boy depend on himself-did not
make him wait six months to get money to
replace lost jack-knife.
Every one has to ride it at one time or
another. If the roughing comes in boy
hood, it does good; if later, when habits
are formed, it is equally tough, but, being
educational, is gencral1y useless. And
the question whether aAyoung man will
succeed in making money or not depends
but upon his willingness to do ''his part,
and upon his having earned money, and
SO gained knowledge fits worth. Not
a little of his valuable experience the
country boy gets on the old farm, under
the tutelage of parents shrewd enough to
see the end from the beginning, and to
make the labor and grief of children con-
tribute to the success of subsequent life.
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INFLUENCE OF FLowERS.-Fiowers
exert wonderfully softening, refining,
and elevating influence upon the charac-
ter. There are few who are not suscep-
tible to it,nin favorable circumstances
The model Farmer Of olden times, who
begrudged bis wife or daughter bit of
land to bcautifv, who denounc all bios
SONS which resulted in no marketable fruit
as useless and plowed up the bright pinks
and marigolds with ruthless hand, has
passed away, we trust, or at most but. a
few of the species remain. 1t is becoming
more and more the pleasant fashion, not
only in towns and villages, but in seclud-
ed rural homes where the plain farmers
family toll hard, for the children to have
little spots of ground where they may
raise flowers to charm the eye. If parents
only realized : the educating powers of
plants, and how keeniy most children en-
joy watching the growth and develope-
ment of vegetable life, they would foster
the desire they so often express 'to have
a garden of their own." Now, in the
early spring time, let at least few seeds
and roots be obtained let bit of the
yard, or, if this is not possible, some flower
pots, be devoted to the amusement and
instruction of the little folks. 1t will
not merely keep them out of mischief to
have some pleasant occupation in the open
air, it will be health giving and mind and
heart improveing. Don't forget the flow
er seeds
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TENNESSEE THURSDAY. AUGUST 8. 1879.

mined the moral fabric. God only knows
to what extent the love of dress, the cost
OF dress, the waste of time, the arts of
winning admiration have weakened the
moral nature, and brought the innocent
to life of sin. And why must woman
and not man be thus enslaved by fashion !?
Has nature made her less beautiful that
chemistry and mechanism must supply an
artificial lovelincss? If man can be in
dependent of imperious fashion, why not
woman? If man may dress simply by
the laws of taste and comfort, why not
woman? If man need not chase the but
terfy of fashion, nor be bound to a vam-
pire that sucks his very life-blood. why
must woman? If a man may spend more
time ever text books and standard litera-
ture than over fashionplates and fantastic
patterns, why not woman? If life is too
precious for man 10 fritter away in the
mere seeking of admiration, why not too
precious to be wasted by woman? Nay,
if young ladies would give themselves to
mental Improvements, and to the accumu-
lation of solid, practical knowledge, they
would be more admired and would better
insure their real happiness. a mind CIV
en- to the love and pursuit of fashion be-
comes too tickle to be made happy either
by affluence or affection. The young
man who marries such a butterfly of
maiden will soon find that silks and cos
metics are not the real foundation Of con-
nubial bliss Then let Christian parents
be wise and prudent in bringing up their
daughters, Let them be brought up, not
to be the slaves of fashion, but to the
mistress of neatness and good taste, and
to acquire that mental independence and
culture which insures graces that the i'm
perious hand of fashion never gave to
body or soul.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
killing of the Outlaw Tom Low
Ea cry. ~

Thursday night last, Mr.. A. ). Wishart
brother of the late Col. f M. Wishart, who
VAS so foully murdered by the outlaws,
three months ago, having called to his as
sistance a few resolute and daring young
men, set out for Scuffietown to look after
the outlaws, and, if possible, to avenge
the death of his brother. Proceeding to
the neighborhood of the outlaws, the band
secreted themselves along the roads usually
travelled by them in their walks about the
country. and waited patiently to put their
design in execution Nothing was seen.
however, of any of the gang, which now
consists of three members, Stephen and
Tom Lowery and Andrew Strong, until
Saturday morning about s o'clock, when
Tom Lowcry appeared in sight on his way
TO Union chapel, where the candidates
were to meet and address the people on
chat day. Tom was armed with rifle
and three repeaters, and walked leisurely
along, unsuspecting Of danger, until at a
point opposite where the young men where
concealed, he noticed the tracks they had
made in crossing the road. He now
seemed suddenly alarmed and commenced
cursing bitterly, when suddenly the band
instantly discharged their pieces. Each
of the four shots took effect, and uttering
a veil of terror and pain:, t.he outlaw plGug
ed into the swamp and ran about fifty
wards, when he fell down dead. Seizing
the body they carried it upon their shout
ders to the public road. distance OF half
a mile, where they pressed passing wag-
on. and thus carried the body to Lumber
ton. where it was delivered to the Sheriff.
On Lowery's body was found the arms
alluded to above, and gold watch, the
property of Mr.. John McNair. AS the
Young men approached him when he fell
in the swamp, he made an attempt to
draw his pistol on them, but was too weak.
One hand was clenched firmly about his
gun "a Spencer rife) so much SO, that 1T
was with difficulty that the fingers could
be unclasped. At the time the young
men fred on him, he was walking leisure
ly along the road in company with a white
man by the name. of Prevatt, who came
very near being shot as the young men
fired on the e:Ss.aw. -
The body was fully identified as that OF
Tom Lowery, and was delivered 10 ms
wife on Sunday morning, by Sherln
Mcmillan, who had sent for her to come
and get it. 1t was inferred by his friends
at o'clock of the same day, somewhere
in the precincts of Scufletown. The
same day Sheriff Mcmillan paid the re-
ward offered by the county, 81 1000, to
the young men, and it is to be hoped that
the State will act as promptly in paying
over the $4,000 offered last winter IN the
Governors proclamation. eHo as4
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SIMPLICITY OF CHARATRER There is
nothing more beautiful in the young than
simplicity of character. 1t IS honest;
frank and attractive. How different is
affection. The simple minded are always
natural. They are, at the same time.
original. AS for originality. if they ever
had it, they have crushed it out, and
buried it from sight, utterly. BE your
self, then, young friend. To attempt to
be anybody else. is worse than folly. 1t
is an impossibility to attain it. 1t is
contemplate to try it. But suppose you
could succeed in initiating the greatest
man that ever figured in history, would it
make you any better? BY no means.
You would always suffer in comparison
with the Initiated one, and be thought of
only as a shadow of substance, the echo
of real sound, the counterfeit of pure
coin. Let the fabric of your character,
though ever so humble, be at least real.
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Hope.

Hope has the power of soaring with a
strong and unstriving pinion from all that
is dark and drear, into the radiant Amos
phere Of poetry. 1t takes us into world
of dreams, and causes the heart to wonder
amongst visions. 1t diverts the thoughts
from the real to the ideal, and leads us
amongst the picture-gleams of fancy to
linger in the fairy realms of art. 1t has
tens us into a visionary world, that we
may have dreams of glory, power, and
fame. 1t unfolds dazzling scroll, and
shows us engraven on it an immortal
name. Its holy task is to exhibit to us,
and we are treading along harsh path,
a time of dizzy joys, and change into
bright entertainments the stern realities of
actual life. Nor do the strength of its
dreams, the nobleness of its desires, and
the beauty of its thoughts, cease to actuate
and influence our hearts even when life
grows pale and wanes fast, when we turn
our thoughts from earth to heaven, On the
couch of sickness and weakness, aud when
the faint voice and fainter pulse speak in
warning whispers of time to die. 1t
boldly walks along with us, prompting
the spirit never to repine, from the cradle
to the grave.
We all hope. IN every one of US that
passion finds an object to feed upon. We
all form some beau ideal-we all sketch
some fancy portrait, which we fondly
cherish, and hope to find the fair original.
When hope first sheds its influence upon
the heart, all ones rowing thoughts are
concentrated upon one object. A vacuum
within is filed, of which we have never
before known the extent Needless in
difference to success in life fnrsakes one.
A new stimulus succeeds; the mind re-
wolves splendid success. All the alluring
avenues of fame spread open before US.
We burn to achieve some arduous enter
prise which shall be worthy of the mind
of man.
But strong as is the spell of hope to in
cite and inspire us, equally strong is it to
elude and to deceive us. The fraud is
sweet, but bitter pain and keen despair
await to torment us upon our awaking
and finding its chain broken and lying
around US in glittering fragments. The
heart that trusts the syren smile of hope
drinks the most copious draught of pleas
ure while its grasps it soul-sought treasure
but when the mystic CLEAN departs, the
heart sinks coldlv, and too often breaks
am DIST the worlds unkindness.
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Moran Courage.

OF all towards the moral coward is the
most contemplate. Henry Ward Beecher
says: II don't blame a man when he sees
a squad of cavalry coming down upon him
if he takes to the woods pretty lively, but
a man who makes his resolution in calm
moments, good, true and noble resolution
and when in company does not have the
courage to avow them, is not excusable.
There be many who will not lie deliber-
ately, but they will equivocate. There's
many man that having done certain
things, is ashamed to admit it. he hides it.
Now. though the telling of the truth is
sometimes bitter, there is no gold so valu-
able as that mans reputation who can't
lie when brought to trial" True, Mr..
Beecher. true; but how little Of this
genuine moral courage after all is found
in the world. George Washington, it is
said, could not tell lie, but with that
single exception, and we have only
Georges word or it, We do not remember
to have seen on record anywhere an ac-
count of man, who could not, if he
would, do it occasionally.
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The Tharldom CT Fashion.

n
The fetters and freaks and follies of
fashion are the most fatal foes to female
education. A girl thus bound. and thus
daily bowling at Fashions shrine will make
but slow and superficial attainments in
study. Poring over fashion magazines
and an earnest application to literary pur-
suits do not go well together. A mind
absorbed in dress, display. in mere per-
sonal attractions, can enjoy no pllancy
for mental pursuits. and no independence
for the formation of the individuality of
character. A child of folly and deyo-
tee of fashion can never attain to scholar
ship or to real soundness and solidity of
character. The frivolities and yanities of
fashion are opposed alike to intellect,
strength and moral stability. The dis
grace and sorrow that come to many
homes fare because fashion had under
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Labor.

Labor, honest labor, is mighty and
beautiful. Activity is the ruling element
Of life, and its highest relish. Luxuries
and conquests are the results of labor;
and we can imagine nothing without it.
The noblest man on earth is he who puts
hands eheerfully to honest labor. Labor
is q business, an ordinance of God. su-
spend labor, and where is the glory and
pomp of the earth-the fruit, fields and
palaces, and the fashionings of matter for
which men strive and war? Let the labor
scorner look to himself, and learn what
are the trophies. From the crown of his
head to the sole of his foot. unless he is
Carib, naked as the beast, ne issthe
debtor and slave of soil. The labor which
he scorns has tricked him into the stature
and appearance of a man. Where gets
he his garmenting and equipage? let labor
answer. Labor-which makes music In
the mine and furrow and the forge.
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TvKIrrEs FOR THE HERALD AND TKIBUSE-l
Little Ray.
&C. h-etU-I y Gci1o eerJ
BY ALPHA.

when June In her royal beauty
Reiyned Queen of all the land.
And strewed old earth with flowers,
from her lavish generous hand;
Wben rose buds crept to our fingers,
And roses were under our feet,
And roses were twined above us
In many a garland sweet atL -
The sweetest of all the rose buds
Queen June youchsafed to send,
TO gladden. our hearts and homestead,
And its magic presence lend.
TO our hearts that were often heavy,
And our eyes that were often dim
TO Danish the sorrow and tears,
And turn our thoughts to Him.
Who SO loved us He sent an angel
That glorious morning i'll June,
Into our lives of Discord,
To put our hearts in tune
So whether a rose bud or angel.
We thank God every day,
That He sent the wee little baby,
Whom we have christened-..Isayr ~
RIVERSIDE, July 2Sth, 1872.
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Shall We Meet Agaia?

The following is said to be one of the
most brilliant articles written by the Ia
mented George ID. Prentice:
"The fiat of nature is inexorable
There is no appeal for relief from the
great law which dooms us to dust We
forest, and the flowers that bloom and
wither in day have no frazier hold upon
life than the mightiest monarch that ever
shook the earth with his footsteps. Gen
erations of men will appear and disappear
as the grass, and the multitude that throng
the world to-day, will disappear as the
footsteps on the shore. Men seldom think
of the egrelt event of death until the
shadow falls across their own pathway,
hiding from their eyes the faces of loved
ones whose living smiles was the sunlight
of their existence. Death is the antagonist
of life, and the cold thought of the tomb
is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not
want to 20 through the dark valley, al
th ough its dark passage may lead to para
disc we do not want to lay down in the
damp grave, even with princes for bed
fellows. In the drama of Ion, the hope
of Immortality, so eloquently uttered
by the death-devoted Greek, finds deep
response in every thoughtful soul. When
about to yield his young existence as
sacrifice to fate, his Clenantha asks if they
should meet again, to which he replies =
Il have asked that dreadful question of
the hills that look eternal-of the clear
streams that flow forever-of the stars
among whose fields of azure my raised
spirit has walked in glory. All were
dumb; but as | gaze upon thy living
face, feel that there is something in the
love that mantles through its beauty that
cannot wholly perish. We shall meet
agaiu. Clemantha.