The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-23
SING MORE.

SING MORE.
Cultivate singing in the family. Be-
gin when the child is not yet three years.
old. The songs and hymns your mother
sang, bring them all back to your men,
DRY, and teach them to your little ones
the hymn and the ballad funny and
devotional mix them together, to meet
the similar moods, as in after life they
come owe us so mysteriously some
times. Many a time and oft, in Broad
way and Wall street, in the very whirl
OF business in the sunshine and gayety
of Fifth avenue, and amid the splendor
of the drives in the Central Park, some
little thing wakes up the memories of
early youth-the old mill, the cool
spring, the shady tree ty the little,
school-house-and the next instant we
almost see again the rudy cheeks, the
smiling faces and the merry eyes of
schoolmates, some gray headed now .
most "he moldering in the grave"
And anon, 1.-The song my mother sang"
springs unbidden to the lips, and sweet
ems and sootbes these memories.
At other times, amid the crushing
mishaps of business, a merry ditty of
the olden time pops up its little head,
breaks in upon the ugly train of
thought, throws the mind into another
channel light breaks III from behind
the cloud IN the sky, and a new cour-
age is given to us. The honest man
goes singing to his work and when the
days labor is ended, his tools laid aside.
and he is on kis way home, where wife
and child, and tidy table and CHEEKY
fireside await him, he cannot help but
whistle and sing.
The burglar never sings. Moody
silence, not merry song, weighs down
the dishonest tradesman, the perfdious
clerk, the unfaithful servant, the per-
iured partner.
4 RUSSIAN MILLIONAIRE.
European gossips are discussing the
fabulous wealth OF a recent. y-risen
millionaire-a Russian Baron who has
made al enormous SUN of money in
Russian railroads. This gorgeous per-
son is said to possess an animal income
of -, 600, 600 francs, and is consequent
ly comfortably removed beyond the
vulgar necessity of hurrying down to
the store or Office on "A cold winters
morning without breakfast or gloves
BE carries IL his train thirty servants,
sixty musicians, sixteen Russian and
Swedish singers, and an army OF cooks
and confectioners. he has an Oriental
palace in every city of any size in
Europe. Passing thrangh the small
Swiss canton Of Tessin, he was struck
by the exquisite beauty of the scenery,
and, IabbIng his gold-headed cane into
his servants to build him d palace
there. Great mlllionaires like Monte
Cristo do not trouble themselves with
details, SC the palace IS going up rapid
ly. The novelty Of such a thing must
have passed away. The Baron feels
himself compelled every two years to
clean out his household, by abandoning
his residence, ordering Il new set OF
servants, and wiping out ali his ac-
qu%aintances, to supply their places with
new ones. The poor man is miserably
off after al. He is harassed with the
belief that somebody is aiming 10 cir
cumvent him and absorb his wealth,
and consequently Is less happy than the
ill-paid employee who knows certainly
that similar designs are entertained by
lis creditors. He has more to lose.
TIE old IRON mine At Salisbury,
Conn, which has been worked over $50
years, recently declared a dividend OF