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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
H,EARY-LONEL Y-RES I'll ESg-
HOUELE,SG.

Weary hearts weary hearts by cares of life or
Yc are wandering in the shadows-ye are sighinq
for rest;
There is darkness in the heavens, and the earth is
bleak below,
Aud tho Joys We taste to-day may tomorrow turn
TO woe.
Weary hearts God Is rest.
Lonely hearts lonely hearts this is but land Of
grief;
Yn are pnng for rcpose--yc are longing for relief ;
What the world hath never given -Bnee and ask of
God above,
Aud your grief shall turn to gladncss-if you lean
upon his love!
Lonely hearts God is love.
Rostless hearts! restless hearts ye arc to!ling
night and day.
Aud the flowers of life all withered, leave but the
thorns along your way;
ic ara waiting, yc are waiting, till your tOilings
here shall cease,
Aud your every restless throbbing, is a sad, sad
prayer for peace.
Restless heart! God is peace,
Breaking hearts! broken hearts! ye arc dcsolate
aud lone,
And low voices from the past DER your present
ruins moan:
In the sweetest of your pleasures there was bitter
Aud a staress night hath followed ON the sunset
Of our Joy.
Broken hearts! God is joy.
Homeless hearts, homeless hearts! through the
drcary, drcary years
Ho are lonely, lonely wanderers, and your way is
wet with tears;
In bright or blightcd places, whcresoever you may
roam,
We look away from carIhland, and ye murmur,
"Whcre is hOmo?"
Homeless hearts God is home.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
Fretful Babies,

Babies often cry without any appar-
cnt reason; but mother can usually
discover reason if she stops to think
about it. And it is worth stopping to
think alb ut, no matter if the house
work or sewing he delayed while in
consequence. Perhaps it has eaten
something which disagrces with its
stomach perhaps it is thirsty, for little
babies are often thirsty, and will drink
a tcaspoonful of cold watcr with the
greatest eagerness, and be quiet aud
satisfied after it. Perhaps is little sock
10 tied too tightly, as my baby's was
the other day. ] found II deep rcd
mark Ground her little ankle, which at
once explained her fre!fulness. More
likely than anything else the flannel
band around It's bowels-if happily one
is there-or its skirt-band is pinned too
tightly. | know baby who has cried
a great deal since its bilth. / think
the chief of it is because he has always
been dressed too tightly. The mother
said to me one afternoon when the child
was so cross she hardly kneg what to
do, "Tve great mint to undrc3s him
and put on his night-gown; he is al
ways real good then" SO she did, and
he commenced to be good at once.
Mothers should search for all possible
causes when their babies get fretful.
They should not be too ready to attri-
butte thei, crying to nervous tempera-
ment or to hunger, for it is more likely
to be caused by the prick Of pin or an
Overfed stomach than either.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
Courtesy.

Nowhere is well l-bred courtesy, the
lack of it, more observable than in trav-
cling. On the steamboat and in the
cars the quiet observer readily detects
those who have been educated under re-
fined influences, or those who, without
special cultivation, are possessed of ma
tive politeness. 1t is not education
alone, nor wealth, nor high social posi-
ton, nor costly trappings that make one
a pleasant travelling companion. There
must exist kindness of feeling toward
strangers, general recognition of equal
rights in the comforts aud convenierces
providedfor the public, and aquickened
discernment for the needs of others.
The gentleman who spreads out bis
luggage on a couple of seats in the
cars, and persistently reads his news
paper, determinately unconscious that
others who have paid as much as be has
are looking in vain for seat, is as truly
ill-bred as the country girl who noise
ly eats her pint of peanuts, scattering
The shells on seats and floor, regardless
of the annoyance she gives her neigh
bors. In this democratic country we
travel in public conveyances too much
os though they were opr own private
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
An Economical Wife.

The following letter from lady
Compton to her husband, Lord Comp
ton, aftcrward Earl of Northampton,
written in the year 1910, the eight year
of James l., shows that our grandmoth-
ers were not so sparing of their hus-
bands purses, after all, us some would
have us think them:
My SWEET LIFE-NOw | have de-
clared to you my mind for the settling
of your state, | suppose that 1T We're
bost for me to bethink and consider
within myself what allowance were
meotest for me. pray and beseech you
to grant to me, your most kind and low
ing wife, the sum Of g2,600, quarterly
to be paid. Also, / would, besides that
allowance, have 1900, quarterly to be
paid, for the performance of charitable
works and those things l would not,
neither will, be accountable for. Also,
| will havo three horses for my own
saddle, that none shall dare to lend or
borrow; none lend but ], none borrow
but you. Also, would have two gem
tlcwomcn, lest one should be sick, or
have some other let. Also, believe it,
it is an indecent thing for geutlewo-
man to stand humping al one, when
God hath blessed their lord aud lady
with great estate. Also, when l ride
hunting, or hawking, or travel from
house to another, L will have them at
tending: so, for either of those said
women, must and will have for either
of them horse. Also, will have six
or eight gentlemen and will have my
two coaches, one lined with velvet to
myself, with four very fair horses and
coach for my women, lined with cloth,
and laced with gold, otherwise with
scarlet, and laced with silver, with four
good horses. Also, 1 will have two
coachmen-one for my own coach, the
other for my women. Also, for that it
is indecent to crowd up myself with my
gentleman usher in my coach, | will
have him to have a convenient horse to
attend ME, either in city or country. And
I must have two footmen. And my de-
sire is that you defray all the charges
for me.
An for myself, besides my yearly al
lowance, 1 would have twenty gowns o
apparel, six Of them excellent goot
! ones, eight Of them for the country, ont
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
Clothing the Neck.

The good sense of the following is
apparent, and it comes to us from high
authority "The clothing about the
neck should be very moderate in guam
tity. and worn so loose as to pr, vent the
slightest compression. The great er-
rors frequently committed in clothing
this part of the body, consist in wearing
such an amount as to overhead and
weaken the throat. and thus render it
easily susceptible to cold, or in wearing
it SO tight as to retard the circulation
Of the blood to and from the head.
Great care should be exercised upon
this point, as the arteries and veins
leading from the heart to the brain are
situated so near the surface in the neck
that slight compression there serves to
check the flow Of the blood. Many
cases OF congestion of the brain and
headache sre partially or wholly caused
Wy too tight collars md araYats. "
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

carriages. How often the eleventh and
twelfth passengers in an omnibus, who
know they have full claim to seat, are
discomforted by the outspread gar
ments, the immovnble attitudes and
blank faces of those who may have en-
tered the stage before them. Common
civility demands that n movement be
made to give room until the complement
is filed afterwnrd courtesy and gener-
osity will often prompt to attentions
which justice may not require. 1t is
surprising how much the comfort and
pleasure of any journey, whether long
or short, is enhanced by these little
nameless courtesies which are offered
instinctively and unoiliciously to stran-
gers, by refined, well-bred travellers,
and persons in whom native tact and
delicacy almost make up for the lack
of the educating and refining influences
of society.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

six of them very excellent good ones.
Also, would have to put in my purse
e2,00O, and you to pay my debts. /
would have 10000 to buy me jewels,
and a, 900 to buy me n pearl chain.
Now, seeing have been, AMI I'm 50
reasonable unto you, | pray you to find
my children apparel, and their school
ing, and all my servants their wages.
Also, | will have all my houses furn-
ished, and my lodging chambers to be
suited with all such furniture as is fit,
as beds, stools, chair, cushions, caslSets,
silver warming pans, cupboards Of plate,
fair hangngs, and such like.
SO now that ] have declared to You
what / would have, and what it is that
I would not have, | pray yo1, when you
be an earl, to allow mo e., 900 more
than now desire, and double attend
QnCe,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
ported it that his partner had drawn his

| i"'p NlNIucIll.
For some moments the crowd stood
IN respectful silence then Jim Slipson
invited the crowd to open his few re-
maining bottles, and drink deep to Joe's
good luck in the next world. A stretcher
was then improvised, and Joe was car
RED to the office of the Quickledge
company There was no formal lying
ln-state, there was not n single flower
placed on the rude catafalque; but men
OF all degrees crowded to see what re-
maiued of the hero, and many of them
when they went away showed the first
indications OF soul that had ever been
seen in their faces.
The three partners sat down to SUP.
per, and gazed sadly at the empty
chair. The major finally broke the ST.
lence.
"A christian couldn't have died more
nobly," said he.
Christian " exclaimed the deacon.
"The publicans and harlots shall 20 in.
to the kingdom fore you-an' me We
only offered our money while he gave
his Nh."
Blessed be the PROMISES" said the
professor. "'Give and it shall be Civ
en- unto you. Joe gave his life; can we
believe he will get anything less in re-
turn?"
GEE burnt oH'rins'll make an atone
ment nowadays" said the deacon,
" he's done his best an nobody could
do more"
The deacon took upon himself the
mournful duty and pleasure of making
n headboard for his deceased partner,
and of painting thereon a suitable in.
scription. For hours did the deacon
rack his brain for suitable passage of
scripture which would be appropriate
and he finally painted on the headboard
the verse
"Greater love hath no man than this.
that man lay down his life for his
friends"
But while it was drying, and the dca-
con was absent for a few moments, some
lleterodox person strolled in, read the
and, seizing the paint brush,
wro'c--
" How bout feller that saves Ingin
babies that hain't his friends ?"
And thus reads the inscription to this
day.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
Brilliant Success.

It is permitted to few men or compa-
nies to achieve acknowledged superiori-
ty in any important position or business.
The present generation has witnessed
stupendous rivalry in several branches
of industry, and notably the Sewing
Machine business. Amid multitude
of competitors, steadily and surely the
Wheeler & Wilson Company held their
way from the beginning, upon fixed and
honorable principles. Long since, their
leading position in America was estab-
lished. Abroad, at London, in 1852.
they won the highest premiums; at
Paris, in 1867, they distancedeighty-two
competitors, and were Ia awarded Yard ar.das dns
highest premium the. the only nIyy;bitsd i,1,S . and
lastly las amid unparalleled competition.
foIlowed the splendid triumphs at
Vienna, noted in our advertising col
nnlnG,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
Permanence of the Church.

Those who think the church may be
ignored or dispensed with probably
take q narrow view of the matter.
Though they may be educated and cul-
tlvated, they have little real sympathy
with the great masses they are, per-
haps, acute, but they are certainly shall
low. l mean, Of course, shallow and
narrow as regards this point. They are
not in fellowship with that human ma
ture which, in all lands and all times,
demands a worship of the invisible,
which rises always above the seen to
the unseen, which humbles itself be-
fore the Most High and is exalted,
which finds itself lifted up by casting
itself PROSTATE before the eternal truth
and the infinite beauty. The church is
as permanently founded and rooted in
human nature rs the state. 1t springs
up of itself everywhere, whenever man
begins to rise above the savage state.
Confucias has his church Buddha has
his church; Xoroaster has his church.
They have all existed during twenty or
thirty centuries, based wholly on the
need of social worship. They rest on
the deep instinct which makes men feel
that they are stronger, better and wiser
for going together to worship before
God. The worst church is better than
none, just as the worst state is better
than none. A bad government is better
than anarchy. A bad church is bet
ter than to live without God in the
world, because that is sure to end in
brutality and moral death. The church
is the home of the poor, the comfort of
the sufferer, the friend of the oppressed,
the support of the dying, the hope of
the bcreavcd. 1t comes to those upon
whom society has laid heavy burdens,
and takes them by the hand to raise
them up.--J r. WnrkC.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

Princess Louise wouldn't 60 to the
big wedding at st. Petersburg because
her husband, the marquis, DIDN'T nave
the necessary ancestry to entitie MIN 10
n seat at the emperors table,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

Precious SroSEs.-In Germany each
precious stone is invested with a sym
bolical meaning, and every month of
the year is said to be under the intlu-
ence of one of these stones. We print
the list
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

Miss DRINKS. -Wercad in the columns
of an exchange that young man OF
Utica, being adorcd of the female sex,
attended ball A. which his glove was
much sought after in the mazy whirl.
As the time approached for spiritual
consolation, a young lady observed up
on his card the frequent repetition of
the name "Drinks." Ola, me !" OK
claimed the innocent. "Drinks What
a peculiar name for a lady; she must be
a stranger here. / know all the ladies'
of quality in town, but never heard of
Miss Drinks before" Strange that she
was ignorant of the equality" of a
spirit over whom the ladies Of Ohio are
now exhausting the short catcchism,
and vcntilating the long hymn book.
1t is almost as good as Lady Bah in
High Life Below Stairs" who does
not know who wrete Shakespeare"
but supposes it must be "NIr. Preface" ]"
rs she secs his name on the first page.
We recommend Utica as good place
from which to choose wife. Such
raivete deserves to be rewarded.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

A parson and lawyer were talking
about tLe direction Of the wind. We
go by the courthouse vane," said the
lawyer, and the parson replied, :" We
go by the church vane." Well, p" re-
torted the lawyer, sin the matter Of
wind, that is the best authority"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
Insanity Rare Among Savages.

eff we may rely on the observations
of travellers" says the journal of Men
tai Science, "thcre has always been
comparatively little insanity among saw
ages" Admitting this to be the case, it
is not difficult to guess at the reasons
of their comparative immunity. In civ
ili2ed society there are three principal
causes to which we may trace nearly
every mental, disorder, viz, hereditary
predispostion, intemperance, and men
tai anxieties. Now, savagcs are almost
exempt from the operation of these
three causes. They do not poison their
brain with alcohol until the white man
introduces it to them. The weak in
mind and body are not carefully attend.
ed to and kept alive as among civilized
people; if they are not actually destroy
ed, by natural or artificial means they
are got rid of, so that they do not them
selves swell the numbers Of insane in
their own generation, nor increase them
in the next generation by propagating
their kind. Again, savagcs do not in
termarry in the same family; among
them tho prohibition of marriage cx
tends often to distant relatives, persons
having the most distant blood affinity
being forbidden to marry. 1t can
scarcely be doubted that the reason of
such prohibition was their experience of
tho evils resulting from the inter-marri-
age of relativcs-an experience which,
distinct rs is the lesson which it teaches,
has not yet availod TO check tho inter
marriages of first cousins among civil
lied people.
Lastly, the savage has few ard simple
wants springing from his nppotitcs, and
these he gratilies. With him there is
no eager sLraning beyond his strength
after social aims that are not intrinsical-
Iy worth the efforts they cost, no disap-
pointed ambition from failure to COM
pass such aims, no detection from tho
reaction which follows the realization
of an ovcrratCd ambitious passion, no
anxious sense Of responsibility he has
no lifelong hypocricies to keep up, no
tOrmenting rcmOrSe OF conscience, no
painful reflections of an exaggerated
self-cOnsciOusnCss; in short, none of
the pas ions that constitute the chief
wear anu tclr O1 ClNlllZtu lie.
SAVED HIS WHIPpING.-Al little urchin
seven or eight years old, in school
where Miss Blodgett was teacher, COM
posed the following and wrote it on his
slate at prayer-time, to the great amuse-
ment of the boys:
" A little mouse ran up the stairs
To hear Miss Bodgett say her prayers
The teacher discovered the rhyme, and
called ont the culprit. For punishment
she gave him his choice to make another
rhyme in five minutes or be whipped.
SO, after thinking, and scratching his
head till his time was nearly ont, and
the teacher was lifting the cane in Il
threatening manner, at the last moment
he exclaimed
Here stand before Miss Biodgett;
She. going to strike and I'm going to dodge
IT,
A parson and lawyer were talking
about the direction Of the wind. I" We
90 by the courthouse vane," said the
lawyer, and the parson REPLIED, " We
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

SAVED HIS WHIPPING.- "A little urchin
seven or eight years old, in school
where Miss Blodgett was teacher, COM
posed the following and wrote it on his
slate at prayer,time, to the great amuse-
ment of the boys
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-23
GENERAL NATURE-No. 67.l
An ACT to create two additional land dIstrIcts

An Act to create two additional land districts
in the State of Kansas. ~
Be 4 sacc.ei By the Senate aud House Of Rep
rsseHtatireS Of tie United States Of America In
Congress assembled, That all the western Dor
ton of the State Of Kansas, included ss fol-
lows, TO wit, commencing at the northeast cor
ner Of township ten Of range sixteen, and run.
ming thence west to the western boundary Of
the State; thence south, along said boundary
east, along said parallel line, to the southeast
corner Of Rush county, thence north to the
place Of beginning, be, and hereby is, consti-
tuted q new land district, to be called the west
err land district.
Sec. 2. That all the western portion Of the
State of Kansas, included as follows, to wit,
commencing at the northeast corner OF Barton
county, and running thence west to the north
west corner Of said county; thence south TO the
southwest corner Of said county; thence west
along the fourth standard parallel line TO the
western boundary Of the State; thence south
along said boundary line to the southern
boundary Of the State; thence east along said
boundary line to the southeast corner OF Bar
hour county; thence north TO the place of begin
ming, be, and hereby is, constituted new land
district, to be called the Arkansas Valley land
district; and shall in addition, include in the
district the lands lying in Rice and Reno coun-
ties.
Sec. g. That the President, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby au-
thorlzei tc appoint register and a receiver for
each Of said districts who shall discharge like
and similar duties and receive the same amount
of compensation allowed to other officers dis
charging like duties in the other land offices Of
said State.
Approved, June 90, 1874.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-23
GENERAL NATURE-No. CO.,
An ACT to encourage the establishment o
e,hno1s

pHblic marine schools.
Be q 'Haetsd by tEs Senate and House Of Rep
reSe7ltaiUsS Of The United States Of ATaerIcG IN
Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Navy, to promote nautical education, is hereby
authorized and empowered to furnish, upon the
application in writing Of the Governor of the
State, q suitable vessel of the Navy, with all
her apparel, chRrts, books and instruments of
navigation, provided the same can be spared
without detriment to the naval service, to Do
used for the benefit Of any nautical school, or
school or college having q nautical branch, es-
tablished at each or any of the ports of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk
and San Francisco, upon the condition that there
shall be maintained, ct such port, . school or
branch Of a school for the instruction Of youths
in navigation, seamanship, marine elginery
and all matters pertaining to the proper con-
strUctiOn, equipment and sailing Of vessels or
any particular branch thereof: And the PresI-
dent of the United States is hereby authorized,
when in his opinion the same can be done with
cut detrimenJ to the public service, to detail
proper officers Of the Navy as superintendent
of, or Instructors in, such schools: Pr0UideG,
That II any such school shall be discontinued,
or the good of the naval service shall require,
such vessel shall be Immediately restored to
the Secretary Of the Navy, and the officers so
detailed recalled: And provided further, That
no person shall be sentenced to, or received at,
such schools as punishment or Communication
of punishment for crime.
Approved, June 20, 1874.