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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12
Sensation of Starving.

For the first two days through which
a strong and healthy man is doomed to
exist upon nothing, his sufferings are
perhaps more acute than in tie remain
ing Statcs--he feels an inordinate, un
speakable craving at the stomach, night
and day. The mind runs upon beef,
bread and other substantials, but still,
in great measure, the body retains its
strength. On the third and fourth days,
but especially on the fourth, this inces-
SAINT craving gives place to II sinking
and weakness of the stomach, accom-
panied by nausea. The unfortunate
sufferer still desires food, but with loss
of strength he loses that eager craving
which is felt in the earlier stages.
Should he chance to obtain a morsel or
two of food, he swallows it with n
wolfish avidity; but five minutes after
ward his suilerings are more intense
than ever He feels as if he had swal-
lowed a living lobster, which is clawina
and feeding upon the very foundation
of his existence. On the fifth day his
cheeks suddenly appear hollow aud
sunken. his body attenuated, his color
is ashv pale, and his eye wild, CLASSY,
canibalisn. The different parts of the
system now war with each other. The
stomach calls upon the legs TO go with
it in quest of food; the legs, from very
weakness, refuse. The sixth day brings
with it increased suffering, although
the pangs of hunger are lost in Al
oycrpowing languor and sickness. The
head becomes giddy the ghosts ol
well-remembered dinners pass in
hideous professions through the mind
The seventh day comes, bringing in
creased lassitude and further prostra
tion of strength. The arms hang life
lessly, the legs dag heavily. The de
sire for food is still left, TO degree
but it must be brought, not sought
The miserable remnant OF life whicl
still hangs to the sufferer is burdcl
almost too grievous to be borne ye
his inherent love of existence induces
desire still to preserve it, if it can b,
saved without tax upon bodily exer
tion. The mind wandcrs. At ont
moment he thinks his weary limbs can
not sustain him mile, the next he il
endowed with unnatural strength, and j
there be IL certainty of relief befor,
him, dashcs bravely and strongly for
ward, wondering whence procceos hi
new and sudden impulse.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12
Women of Burden.

"It is remarkable" says writer on
German life, "what great burdens
German women carry on their heads
One may meet them constantly with
great tubs aud kettles of water on their
heads. Many of them carry loads OF
vegetables to market i'll great white
wooden tubs, wearing little round
plated mat next the head. One sees
the strangest loads, too, poised in mid.
airl Vegetables of all kinds and
cheese are carried by them. Suddenly
a woman comes along with an immense
pile of faggots tied in bundles, some
for burning and some are saplings, for
brooms and baskets. Another comes
bearing great baskets of turf for KIM
ding fires; and often do we see on
these women's heads loads of kindliDg
wood. The German peasant woman oc-
cupies q position little better than a
slave, performing the most mental ser
vices for a mere pittance. Any night
around the fountains and water-tanks
NAV be seen crowds OF these young
women with great tubs to carry water
for their use the next morning.
These persons should have a word
spoken in their behalf, for they have a
weary life and their position is pitai'
bic one. They are expected to black
boots, carry burdens, do any and all
kinds of drudgery, and are paid mere
nothing for their work, depending @
great deal on Trinkgeld collected foi
odd Jobs and errands of all kinds. In
many German houses they are giver
monthly tile extra sum. They aro
expected to do anything and everyt ing
that in our country the men servants
do. Coming from the opera a host o.
these girls may be seen with shawls and
wrappings for their mistresses to veal
going home. Women occupy certainly
in common a position far below the
American woman in relative position
in society. In the streets they are con
stantly seen pulling wagons fit for ont
horse to draw. The woman is only
servant, as it were, not the hostess, a.
we understand the term, in her owl
home"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12
ASPLRA TION,S.

Are there not aspirations in each heart
After a better, brighter world than this?
Longings for beings nobler IN each part,
Things more exalted stepped in deeper bliss?
Who gave us these? ? What are they? Soul, in thee
The bud is budding now for immortality.
Death comes to bear me where long to be-
One pang, and bright blooms the immortal mower;
Death comes to lead me from mortality
To lands which know not one unhappy hour.
have hope, a faith from sorrow here
I'm led by Death away. Why should start ana
fear?
II have loved the forest and the field,
Can not love them deeper better, there?
If all that power hath made me doth yield
Something of good and beauty, something talr,
Freed from the grossness Of mortality,
MAY not love them all, and better all enjoy?
A change from woe to joy, from Earth TO Heaven
Death gives me this; II leads me calmly where
The souls that long ago from mine were rlHeh
May meet again. Death answers, many prayer
Bright day, shine on be glad days brighter far
Are stretched before my eyes than those Of mortals
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12
Absent -Mindedness and Mental
Power,

In is worthy of notice that growth OF
the MUD is often accompanied by an
apparent loss of power in particular
respects; aud this fact is exceedingly
important, especially to all who desire
to estimate the condition of their own
mind. The mental phenomenon called
mot very correctly absence OF mind is
often regarded by the person expert
encing it, and still more by those who
observe it in him, as n proof of failing
powers. But it often, if not generally,
accompanies the increase of mental
power. Newton displayed absence Of
mind much more frequently, and to a
much more marked degree, when his
powers were at their highest than in his
youth, and not only did instances be-
como much less frequent when he was
at an advanced age. but the opposite
quality, sensltiyenees to small annoy
ances, began then to be displayed.
Even an apparent impairment OF the
memory is not necessarily indicative Of
failing mental powers, since 1t is often
the result of an increased concentra-
ton OF the attention ON subjects spe-
cially calling for the exercise of the
highest forms of mental power-as an
alysis, comparison, generalization, and
Judgment. ] have already noted that
profound thinkers often refrain from
exercising the memory, simply to avoid
the distraction Of their thoughts from
the main subject of their study. But
this statement may be extended into the
general remark that the most profound
students, whether of physical science,
mathematics, history, politics, or, in
fine, of any difficult subject of research
are apt to give the memory less exer
else thnn shallower thinkers. O
course. the memory is exerted 10 con
siderab1e de9rre, even in the mere mar
shsliug oi thoughts before the theurie
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12

outline of the vessel, and the flash of a
gun 1t that moment showed her lying
on her beam ends, with the seas break
ing heavily over her.
"Where are the fishermen, captain?'
said, as that individual hurried to-
ward us.
81 cant't tell what's the matter with
them. L have knocked at every door in
the village, but cannot get q soul out. "
"Tll try thcm," said l. "There's
one fellow here whom they call in the
Irish Mihaul Tabac, because he's SO
fond of his pipe, and his cabin lies just
opposite u.s."
Jumping from the gig, I approached
Mihaul's dwelling. Through the chinks
Of the rudely constructed door / could
see the glare of the rush light inside.
I knocked and shouted: "Come out,
Mihaul, man; there's ship on the
rocks. Come out and lend hand"
"The devil a step you will stir from
this cabin to night" muttered female
Aoice, soto UOce inside.
"Let me out, I tell you; 'tis the
young master himself"
"Never an out you'll go while that
murders going on. Who'd take care OF
us if you were gomez
"Come ont, NIihaul," / repeated ;
"what are the women holding you back
for ?"
"Oh, master, master, don't ask him,
and he wild big family; don't ask him,
master, dear" implored one of the
women. "Oh, but this is the unlucky
night for us all, and the ould boy fly
away wild Hoche for bothering Bally-
vaughan wild his soldiers. IT'S little
love the English, but what will we do
when they both get at s?'
SIN The name I God, :" / cried, "what
do you think is the matter? There is a
ship on the reef here, and we want all
the hands we can muster"
"Matter enough" was the reply ;
"didn't we hear them big guns, AID
don't we know the Frinch is landing
Oh, master dear, leave us alone in our
cabin, and let Bonaparte get his sol
diers out by himself. Sure Mihauts
neck wouldn't be safe if he was ever
seen in company with Gen. Bonaparte
--ould Napoleon himself"
now began to comprehend the state
of the case. The dcnizens of the hum
BILE village of Blllyvaughan evidently
had lost sight of the historical facts OF
the last half century, and from the reg
ular nd heavy firing supposed that the
formidable Bonaparte was landing his
army, with the idea OF freeing Ireland
from English rule. The words of the
old song:
Tie French are oh the say
Says the Shan Van Vocht
The French arc on the ray,
They'll be here without delay,
And the Orange will delay,
Says the Shan Van Nocht
were still fresh in our minds.
After long address / succeeded in
reassuring Mihaul's female relatives
that Napoleon woS not landing on tho
coast, but was dead and buried in st.
Helena. His appearance raised the
siege in the other cabins, and we had
soon strong force on hand. The ship
proved to be one of her maiesty's gun
boats, and although she went to pi ces
in a fewhours, the men were all rescued,
without the loss OF a single life. The
joke of tie landing of Bonaparte is still
told with gusto at the dinner of many
gentl man on the west coast of Glare.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12

out Of which the earth was formed !;
and she was formed in that way when
part of her face was toward the earth,
and that then the action of the earth
kept her in that position. In his con-
Guiding remarks tho lecturer said that
astronomy was the ouly science which
seemed to point to beginning and to
an end--if not the end of material
space, still of the system of which this
earth forms part.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12
were still fresh in our minds.
The Tronhadonrs of France.

Notwithstanding the romantic interest
attaching to these men of song, it is n
fact thatthc average troubadour thought
far more of amusing his audience than
of improving it. Far from being a
moral teacher, he was, in nine cases out
of ten, just the reyerse-being very
much more of an acrobat and n buifoon
than a poet. In this respect he paid
much less attention to the counsels OF
Vidal, Nat de Nous, and Raymond de
Miravels than to those Of Giraud Cal
anson, who concludes an elaborate lee
ture to his comrades in this way {:
"Learn to play on the tabor and Gym
balls, to prepare nine instruments with
ten cords, to handle the many stringed
fiddle to strike the harp and guitar, to
blow the flute, and to contrive dance
that shall suit the notes OF the bagpipe.
Learn also, to throw and catch little
balls on the points OF knives, play tricks
with baske S, initiate the chirp of birds,
and to Jump through four hoops"
The practice of these fiddling and
Juggling tricks degraded the profession
"a thing that was greatly deplored by
high-miuaed trouvers. One of this
class, Giraud Riquier, OF Narbonne, pc
titioned Alfonso ell Sabio to exercise his
authority in restoring the gay science to
its pristine dignity. AS a means there
to, Giraud suggested the publication OF
an edict in which the poets, the singers
of poetry, and the butfoons should be
classified apart. Alfonso made no at
tempt to effect this arrangement per-
haps he saw it was beyond his power
nor did any other prince accept the task
from which he shrank. So until Prov
ence ceased to be the land of song the
name of troubadom continued to con,
found the man of original genius and
exalted sentiment with the merest stroll.
ler. The Provencals of all grades were
enthusiasts in their admiration of song,
and liberal to excess in their reward OF
singers. Money, jewels, clothes, and
horses were scattered in protuslOr
among them. Posts and pensions, too
were to be won by proficiency in the gay
science. Probably the wealth OF th'
better class of troubadours had some
thing to do with the glamour OF 70
nance thrown over them; for minstrel
sy in silk is very different matter from
minstrelsy in rags.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12

RECIPE FOR MODERN NovEL.-An
advertisement in the London Athennum
informs the authors where they can get
"s,udies of character" for 5s. Cd. each,
conversations " for 3s. Cd. each, and
"original wood portraits " for IS. 81.
each. All the author of to-day will
have to do, then, is to devise his plot
Tor, more easily to steal it from the
French); order his quota of character
studies, conversations, wood portraits,
ETC., and patch the pieces together at
his leisure. Thackeray sighed for man
to whom he could say: " Kill the bishop
in the next chapter; let the disease be
gout; read up the symptoms, etc, in
the medical dictionary" and who could,
In fact, do all the mechanical part OF
novel writing, leaving the author only
the pleasure Of creation. If he had
lived till now, he might have had his
wish.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12

can be formed or weighed. But the
greater part of the mental action devo-
ted to the formation or discussion OF
theories is only indirectly dependent
upon the exercise Of memory.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12

The Northern Pacific rail way com
pany claim 1,17S,000 acres OF lanu in
Washington and Oregon, and 5,l20,o ,ooO
in Dakota.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-12

THE REPRODUCTION OF PAST STATES
OF CONSEQUENCES Carpenter, III
the Contemporary Review, gives, some
interesting illustrations OF physiological
influences on the habits OF thought.
The reproduction of past states OF con-
ciousness is described to be an auto
matte action. The theory is that the
chemical action OF blood in the brain is
a sort of registering process, which, II
it is properly pursued, leaves an indel-
ible impression that can always be re-
produced under the proper inhuenc s.
A case OF forgetting and recovering
language is peculiar illustration OF a
sudden change in the action of the
blood. DIR. Abercrombie tells of man
who had been put into state OF stupor
by an injury aud, in this state, began to
talk as though he had been thirty years
absent from Wales, and had apparently
forgotten the Language altogether. Up
on the recovery OF his health, the man
began to talk the English language and
completely forgot his Welsh again. a
curious fact within the knowledge OF
the wliter was the ease OF sfudent IN
Germany who was exceedingly anxious
10 acouire The German language as soon
W. ,,nss;bIe. He had some knowledge
+ bnt was unable to use it in con.
versation. Yet, in his sleep, his mind
evidently snsrossed with the study, ns
| oould hold conversation, unders'sna
PERFECTLY and talk fuently
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

Augustus W. Cutter has been nOmina ted for
Congress by the Fifth district Democratic con.
vention Of New Jersey.
The Cincinnati Gazette predicts that the Re-
publicans will carry Ohio this fall by thirty thou.
sand majority, and once again order the Demo-
cratic party to q back seat
On Saturday, at Richmond, Va, in the United
States Circuit Court, the grand jury indicted T.
A. Chapel and ]. M. Murray, two more judges
OF election in Petersburg, for violating the en-
forcement act. This makes sixteen Petersburg
judges that have been indicted.
At the Tsmmany county convention, held in
New York on Saturday, VIM. H. Wickham was
nominated for mayor, James Hayes for register,
and VIM. L. Cole, editor Of the IriSh american,
Samuel A. Lewis, Of the Jewish Messenger, Mag.
nus Gross and ]. VIM. Gurtzer for aldermen at.
large.
Ex-Governor G. C. WAshburn is said to be the
favOrite Of the snti-Carpenter Republicans Of
toned as significant that Mr.. Washburn declined
to attend q recent conference OF Republican lead
ers who came together for the purpose of re
solving that the party should stand by Carpenter.
The Conservative Senatorial convention, to
nominate a candidate for The vacancy in the
State Senate from the Richmond (Va.) district,
after tWenty-seven ballots, on Saturday nomi.
mated DR.. A. J. McRae. The principal contest
ants were General Bradley T. johnson and Col.
w. q. Darlington, but the latter withdrew, and
the result was above stated.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-12

were passed among the luxurious, not to
say idle, scenes of plantation life. Not
single incident of his career would lead
even the most credulous to suspect him OF
any more serious design against his fellow
men than an effort TO secure, in the ordt-
nary and respectable way, comfortable
livelihood. With ambitions that arereadily
gratifed, and with modest appreciation of
his own worth, he has never assumed to
lead, and has rarely been heard from re-
garding public matters except when ur-
gently called upon for his opinions, or for
information in his possession.
These are the men who. have been writ
ten into prominence lately; which their
actions certainly do not sustain, and which
their abilities, either as politicians or as
members OF Congress, do not warrant. Like
the mythical dragons, which St. George
demolished, it has been said of them that
their ponderous tread shakes the earth; that
double streams offire, birthstone and smoke
exude from their nostrils. and that when
they lash the political earth with their tales
pun deliberately intended here-olSO
ern outrages, the air around is tinged with
blue and pervaded with sulphurous odors.
Now, we submit that the Opposition press
is doing these gentlemen gross injustice in
forcing them upon their readers as types of
horrible and tyrannical intriguers against
the peace and quiet of nation. But
the Washington correspondents aforesaid
are mainly responsible for this exaggera-
ton. The majority of them affect to de-
spise the mental abilities of the gentle
men to whom We refer, and. to disbe-
ieve the very natural assumption that
being human and shaped like ordinary
men, they have any brains at all. Yet
when either one of them is seen in the
vicinity of the Department of Justice or
the Executive Mansion, some of these
enterprising and imaginative scribblers
rush to the manipulators of Western Union
and franklin lightning, and thrill the souls
of their thousands of anxious readers with
stories of approaching military usurpations,
with tales of unparalleled Outrages, and
with romantic views of the manner in
which the authorities are deceived by the
misrepresentation of brace of daring,
''unscrupulous and unrelenting Radical
''conspirators This is the way political
heroes are made. and the way the Opposi-
ton press unwittingly aids men who would
otherwise have some difficulty in attracting
public attention to mount the pinnacle of
fame. We do not believe that either Mr..
Spencer or Mr.. Hayes would raise finger
to put stop to this kind of work; and we
know they do not seek its continuance, for
the reason that they ask no favors of their
opponents; but, as gentlemen who as we
have said, aim to do their duty quietly,
honestly, and without ostentation, they
meekly submit to the infliction, acknowl-
edging it to be the result of either the
ignorance, the necessities, or the malignity
of disreputable horde of sensational scrib-
blers.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-12

By THE resignation of Mr.. George E.
Baker of the Office of comptroller, which he
has held for three years, the District gov
eminent loses the services of one of the
most efficient of its many officials. The
friend and confdant of the late Secretary
Seward, Mr.. Baker came to this city thir-
teen years ago to accept the important po-
sition of disbursing officer of the State De-
partment, and the best commentary on the
value Of his services in that trust is that
during the succeeding administrations he
held it with honor to himself until he vol
UNFAIRLY relinquished it to accept the oner-
GUS task ofcompuOller Of the District. His
services in organizing and conducting that
Office are too well known TO need repeti-
ton, but it is safe to say that in his retire.
ment TO private life he takes with him the
good wishes of all who have had any con-
nection with him, either official or per-
sOnal, and the earnest hope that for years
to come he may enjoy the wealth and bless
ings he so richly merits.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-12
HOW POLITICAL HEROES ARE
MADE.


MADE.
Senator Spencer and Representative
Hayes, of Alabama, have lately been writ
ten into unexpected notoriety. They hap
pened to be in Washington when the ''new
rebellion" broke out in the South, and, for
few days, were very active in explaining
the condition of affairs in that section.
Thereupon a certain number of those imag-
NATIVE gentlemen, known as Washington
correspondents, began TO characterize them
as leaders Of public opinion, as managers
Of the Republican party, as manipulators of
the Administration, and finally as conspira-
tors who have formed plot to renew the
reconstruction Of the Southern States.
Probably no one has been more aston
ished at all this than the two inoffensive
and transformations gentlemen have been
themselves. 1t is true that Senator Spencer
has gained deserved credit as political
manager of more than ordinary shrewd-
ness, and that he has on many occasions
been able to furnish reliable information to
the authorities regarding Southern affairs,
but those who know him best would be the
last to suspect him of possessing desire,
not to say anything about the ability, to &C
complish one-half of what is ascribed to
him. He is satisfied, in a quiet and unas
Stunning way, to do his duty as Senator,
and has succeeded, despite the fippant, I'M
founded and malicious criticisms of his po-
litical enemies. He acknowledges that he
is carpet-bagger, and has borne the badge
of that class with pride, because he earned
it by loyal service to the Government dur
ing the war, and he has so far conducted
himself with such regard for the good name
of the class that not a single charge
or suspicion of the many disreputable
ones brought against him has been proven.
Yet 1t is the fashion to select him as a
scapegoat for the sins-some real, it must
be admitted, but the majority of them
imaginary-of others.
Representative Hayes is a native of Ala
bama, and a gentleman whose early years
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-12

The North Carolina Democrats are dis
cussing the prOpTicty or necessity of amend
ing the constitution of that State by the
usual method of a constitutional cOnven-
ton. The reason advanced for the pro-
posed changes is that the Democracy is
now in power, and can so alter the organic
act as TO meet their ideas of governmental
policy. In other words, they propose to
elk things now with a view to the loss of
power in the future, and while they are
about it will probably arrange for the viz
tual disfranChisement of the colored race
They will strive to do this in such a way
as not 10 interfere. with the apportionment
for representation in Congress, and at the
same time TO make a white mans govern
ment in all respects.