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Alcoholic Extracts.


The function Of alcohol is to di-
minish the necessary function of liv-
ing.'-John Fiske.
'Alcohol enables US to violate the
laws of nature without suffering i'm
mediate and speedy destruction.
Parton.
Alcohol is the monarch Of liquids.
America was subjugated by alcohol
as much as by gunPOwder. .--Sava-
rim.
Can We imagine a beverage com
pounded of such ingredients as nux
vomica, hcnbanc, opium, arsenic,
sulphuric acid, oil Of turpentine,
sugar of lead, tannin, aloes, and
quassia, without an involuntary
shudder?-Harley.
a fiattering devil, a sweet poison,
pleasant sin, which whosoevcr
doth commit cOmmitteth not a
single sin but bccometh centre and
slave of all manner Of sIn.-Augus-
tine.
The Creator in constructing the
human body made it perfect. AL
cohol is foreign to the body.-Car-
penter.
Milk for woman, wine for men,
and brandy for heroes.-Anon.
Alcohol is q mental machine; it
enables US to translate force into
time. 1t is a time-saving machine.
Medical Times.
Alcohol is destroying moro souls
than all the ministers IN Great Brit
tain are instrumental in saving
Wesleyan Chronicle.
Wine fills the hearts of men with
kindly feeling towards each other,
renders them sympathetic, makes
them tall1ative, and induces them
to cOnfde their joys and sorrows to
each other.-Plutarch.
Men are much better acquainted
with each other while drinking
than at other times.-PlatO.
In vino veritas-therc is truth in
wine. 1t was the saying of all an
tiquity that deep drinkers arc great
takers, and that vino induces US 10
speak the truth.
Intemperance springs from the
depravity Of the human heart, and
can only be cured by having a new
heart.-Dr. Smith.
Alcoholism as a disease is dying
out. The question used to be be-
tween much alcohol and a little.
The question now is between very
little and none at all.-Laucet.
I have pondered over it as Others
have done, and l am inclined to
place the desire for fermented Ii
quors side by side with the desire
for immortality, for both are un-
known to the brute creation, and 1
regard them as distinctive features
of the masterpiece of the last sub
lunary OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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Mine Prorcrbs.


A heart for wine is q heart for
kindness.
A real wine drinkcr laughs with
bis eyes.
Beware Of the wine vault, facilis
desccRstS AUerHi.
Burgundy smiles, hook winks,
eampagne laughs.
Port for the people, clarct for the
gentry, burgundy for princes.
Good wine should drink smooth
like liquifed velvet.
Love stole its purple light from
the wine cup.
Cupid aud champagne exchange
many glance.
OF wine and love the first taste
is best; no second sip equals it.
The bottle is of the aristocracy;
treat il like q gentleman.
The Caliban Of wine is port, the
Ariel champagne.
The bottle is the most voluptu-
Gus Of assassins.
The religion of wine is universal
lst.
Value vine like woman-for ma
turity not age.
Whisper no gallantries at table
till the champagne has gone round.
Wine wit is the souls rainbow.
Wine and youth are fire upon
fire.
Good wine is milk for the aged.
Wine is a turn-cOat, first u friend,
then an enemy.
When the wine is in the wit ID
out.
Wine of the second bottle is
bad story-teller.
The drunkard's fault is not the
wines, but his own.
Your stomach is your wine col
Ter; keep the stock small and good.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-04
PInIn TnIIs 20 Girls

Your every day toilet is a part of
your character. A girl who looks
like a Hfury" or a sloven in tho
morning is not TO be trusted, how
ever finely she may look in the
evening. No matter how humble
your room may be, there are eight
things it should contain, viz 4
mirror, washstand, soap, towel,
comb, hair, nail and tooth brushes.
Those arc inst as essential as your
breakfast, before>which you should
mako good and free use of them.
Parents who fail to provide their
children with such appliances, not
only make a great mistake, but
commit 4 sin of ommission. Look
tidy in the morning, and after tao
work is over, improve your toilet.
Make it rule of your daily life
TO "dress up" for the afternoon.
Your dress need not be anything
better than calico, but with rib
bon or some bit of ornament, you
have an air OF self-respect and salts
faction that invariably comes with
being we'll dressed.
A girl with fine sensibilities can
not help feeling embarrassed and
awkward ina ragged, dirty dress,
with her hair unkempt, if strang-
CT 4 neighbOr comes in. More
over, your seli-respect should de-
mand the decent apparel of your
body. You should make it point
to look as we'll as you can, even if
you know nobody will soc you
but yourself.-HousehOld.
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Memory of Faces.

When a man has the painters fac
uIty of recollecting faces, and with it
a quick and retentive memory OF
small facts, the combination gives
him great social power. This was
Macaulay's case. He never forgot
the face of a manwhom he had met in
society, and with the face he remem-
bered all the silent facts connected
with the owner of it. Few things are
moro flattering to an ordinary NOR
tai than being thoroughly remember
cd by a great lion with whom he has
perhaps had brief interview several
years before. 1 doubt if this faculty
exists to any great extent among our
public men; indeed, 1 have often
been surprised at the absence of it.
A Russian baron of the true divine
light school once maintained to me
that this was an effect of republican
institutions, or, what came to the
same thing. that the opposite was the
result of monarchical institutions. He
said that kings and princes were OBJ
Hged to see a great many persons,
wherefore Providence had conferred
OH them various means of being gra-
cious to those persons, of which
prompt recognition was one.-Galaxy.
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GEN. Jo. IOHNsrON's CAMPAIGNS
CuaSc of the Trouble Between that
Chieftain and the Confederate
President.


The Nashville Banner has review
/ ed, from advance sheets; Gen. John
stOn's narrative of his campaigns
during the late war. Subjoined' is
quoted that portion relating to his
| troubles with President Davis Ad-
ministration, and about which so
much has been written during the
past eight years:
The review of the Mississippi
campaign, including the sharp cor
respOndence between Johnston and
PembertOn, in which the latter is ma
terially worsted, and the long letter
from Davis to Johnston and reply,
contains much of historic interest
to the reader, but we have no space
to include extracts from it here, and
so come Immediately to the chapters
beginning with the authors ap-
pointment to the command of
Bragg's army which he assumed on
the 27th December, at Dalton. Here
begin the operations, about which
so much speculation has been in
dulged eiTecting the rupture be-
tween Johnston and the Admins
tratiOn, which gives to the book,
next to its great historic value, its
especial interest to the unmilitary
as well as the military reader, Civ
ing the inside and true version of
what, at the time, appeared to the
outside world unaccOuntably' mys-
! tcrious. No important reader can
rise from the perusal Of this portion
/ of the narrative in doubt as to the
complete yindicatiOn of Gen. John
stOn from the unjust reflections up
on his competency, implied by his
unfortunate removal from the COM
mand of the army at that critical
| IiuncturC- the very climax, so to
speak, of the important campaign
| he had so ably conducted, under the
! adverse circumstances of an army
/ in front of him, numerically supc-
rior, and behind him a superior au-
| thority seemingly incapable of an
! intelligent comprehension of his
situation. If he had been permitted
! to pursue his plan of operation to
their legitimate conclusion, not
withstanding these disadvantages,
there was, if not the reasonable
probability that he would ultimate
] lv have chockmated the enemy, at
! least the certainty of exemption
from the fatal disasters which i'm
mediatcly succeeded his removal
from command. But to return TO
the narrative.
When General Johnston reached
Dalton, he found a letter from the
Secretary of War, without the Off
cial signature of that Cabinet ofii-
Ger, The "stilted pOppycOck" of
which, to quote an expressive Wat
tersonian smile, seems to have pro-
vOked the recipient into a depart
ure from his accustomed equanimi-
tv, as may be inferred from the
| slightly sarcastic tenor of his COM
ment: "Unable at the time to dis
cover the honorable Secretary's OBJ
iect in addressing such letter to
one thought competent, apparently,
to hold the second military position
in importance in the COnfederacy,
or to find in it much that was in
structive, replied Immediately and
gravely." The reply treats mainly
OF the Secretary's suggestions TO
him to resume offensive military Op-
erations; shows the inadequacy of
commissary supplies, arm and
field transportation, and the gener-
ally VnfaYorable condition of the
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why do NOT ore har,Is Bear Annually.

With few exceptions our best varie-
ties of apple trees are not annual
bearers. There is no reason why in
telligent fruit men should not have
this desirable result under perfect
control.
Various experiments have been re-
sorted to, to improve on nature S
mode, one of which is to cut back in
June to three or four buds, that would
come out next year, and force them 10
grow, thereby gaining a year. But
as this practice is calculated to arrest
root formation, upon which the life
of the tree depends, it finds few fol-
lowers.
Another and less Objectionable mode
is to remove one-half the blossoms
the bearing year and it will bear the
following year. To this plan it may
be objected that you are asking more
than nature will stand. FIowering
is more exhausting than fruiting; and
your tree is in too weak n condition to
go through the same process the fol-
lowing year.
Again-and this practice finds the
most advocates-thin out the fruit
from the trees after it sets eve
ry year, and thus have fruit annually
from each tree. By this mode it is
claimed that you viii have apples Of
superior size.
In planting, all that is necessary to
have annual crops is to divide your
trees, or orchard, and have them
bear alternately, Just as have done.
have two orchards; the small and
the other not very large, but call it
the money orchard. Ny small one
gives me a family supply, in what is
called the apple year. My larger or
chard never has failed to bear large
crops in the odd year, when 1 could
command my own price for them, for
it was not the apple year.
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A PriceIess Recipe for Farmers

Every farmer who has to fence his
land knows too well how quickly
posts planted in the earth become
rotten; especially in damp spot. AL
of them will welcome the following
process to prevent rUttenness, pro.
cess as wonderful in its effects as it is
simple and Ialmost cOstless. 1t is
taken from lie Bien Public, of Dion,
France.
Take linsced oil, boil it, and mix 1t
with charcoal dust until the mixture
has the consistency of an ordinary
paint. Give to the post single coat
Of the mixture or paint before plant
ing them, and no farmer, even living
the age of patriarchs Of old, viii live
long enough 10 see the same post rot
ten.
"Some years ago 1 discovered the
way of rendering wood more durable
in earth than iron itself, says the au-
thor of the communication, "but it
seemed to me so simple, and so mex
pensive, that did not think il worth
while to make much ado and fuss
about IT. Posts of soft wood thus
prepared were removed after remain
ing seven years in earth, and were
found as sound as when they were
planted. The only precaution TO take
is to use only well dried posts before
covering them with the charcoal
paint"
The above recipe is certainly cheap,
and seems to be well worth the trial.
If what is said of the efficiency of
that simple and cheap (about two
cents per post) process be only half
true, certainly it would save yearly
millions of dollars to the farmers and
telegraph companies. For it is said
that the farmer, even in his teens,
who will plant posts having rC seiyed
coat of this "Perpetp;ty Post Paint, 3"
viii never live Iong enough to see the
same post rotten.-F'hilliPs' Southern
Farmer.
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Southern women in Warrington.


A Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune" gives us the fol-
lowing, among other gossip:
The noticeable women here this
winter have been, many of them,
from the South; and their beauty is
of the luXuriant type, not common at
the North. Mrs. Jeffries. a pOetess of
some merit, has attracted considera-
BILE attention. She is a blonde, with
yellow hair and magnificent shoul-
ders. Mrs. Jourdan Westmoreland,
also an authcress of some merit at the
South, has her train of admirers. -
She last week delivered a lecture upon
Kisses" to a crowded audience, COM
posed mostly Of gave and reverend
Legislators.
She explained to these wise men,
when to kiss, where to kiss, and how
to kiss. In view of the vexed ques-
tiOns before our distracted country,
you will be glad to learn our states
men listened spell-bound, and will,
doubtless, be free in future from the
shameful Ignorance they have hereto
fore manifested on this question.
-AAAAOn5 NAAG AHAtA N0AAAln 4
must not forget 10 mention Mrs. Gen.
Gaines, who, with the lovcliest golden
wig, and the eye and laugh of a girl
of l6, has fitted about yerywheTe,
as though there were no such thing
as old age or troublesome lawsuits in
her world. Also, Madame Levert,
who, as a distinguished and reliable
admirer of hers informed me could
carry on a conversation, in twenty
seven different languages with TWEEN
ty-seven different people at once.
She is a rather fatigued-lOOking per-
on, on the shady side Of 90. but with
an interesting face aud mqnner. Then
there is Madame BertinetG, a mag
nificent creature, who would weigh a
ton-with all sorts OF small men
dangling in her train.
What chance, think you, have
graceful, brown-eyed girls, like Edith
Fish and Bessie ConlIling, or pretty
brunettes, like Miss Van Rensselaer,
or Miss Bradley, fresh from the hand
of Nature, against these fine old crea-
lures, with their blonde wigs, their
rouge and powder, their fine necks
and diamOnds2
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bank notes, with which the country
was soon flooded. The necessity of
actual money IA the treasury, and the
mode Of raising IT, were generally un-
derstOOd IN the county 1t was that
The Government shOuldttake the cot
ton from the owners and send it TO
Europe as fast as possible to be sold
there. This was easily practicable,
for the owners We're ready to accept
any terms the Government might fix;
? I'd sending to Europe was easy in all
the first year Of the Confederacy's ex-
istence." This would have given the
COnfederacy a treasury richer than
that of the United States, instead of
flooding the country with an almost
worthless currency-a soldiers month
ly pay not sufficient to buy one meal
for his family at home, and compell-
ing them to choose between their mil
itary service and the strongest obliga-
tions men know-their duties to wives
and children; while, under the wretch
ed ,impressment laws, the Govern
ment was actually impressin@ the
food the soldier had provided for his
wife and children to support them IN
his absence. General Johnston pays
a 44t II anu JUST tA4DAlS " LAAC AOg eAAbf
and zeal of people aud soldiers, prov
ed by liberal contributions and long
service without pay, but with much
priyatiOn. The fourteenth, and last,
chapter of the work comprises the
synopsis of President Davis unsent
message to the Confederate Congress,
e0uching the removal of Johnston
from comnrm9, WIN -s4AASStoEsS- rca
ply-a sincere and pointed recaPitu-
lation of which we have above refer
red to and quoted. Fall justice to
the history cannot be done in the hur-
r1ed newspaper review. 1t must be
read, chapter by chapter, to be appre-
ciated, and there is little doubt but
that it will receive pretty general pc
rusal and appreciation.
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4 French Red-ROOnn.

Now go to the bedroom, and from
the door absorb it with your eyes,
for never have you seen n picture
more complete. The walls, the hang
ings and the seats are all in pale blue
satin (she is fair), edged sparingly
with velvet of the same shade, and
embroidered daintily with moss rose
buds, swathed in still paler yellow
leaves. But this description, though
exact, gives no idea of the effect pro-
duced by that wondrous tissue of
the incredible effect of delicacy and
thorough feminine elegance which it
sheds prOund. The room is filed
with vague, floating grace; its very
detail is combined to aid and sustain
the almost fairy aspect 1t presents.
The bed is shroUded in thickly wad-
ded satin curtains, inside of which
hang others made of muslin so Yapor-
ously filmy that its folds seem almost
mist, the coverlet, which hides the
Iace-t trimmed sheets and pillows, as
in blue satin, lined with elder down,
and covered with the same veil of
floating white, hanging down in deep
flounce over the woodwork of the
bed. The toilet-table is the same
a nesting maze of transparency and
lace, with blue beneath, and knots
and streamers of mingled satin and
velvet round. On the chimney-piece
stand a clock and candlestick of
Sevres china The piano is in pale
6Ois do rose, mot rosewood, which Is a
very different substancs), inlaid with
plates of painted Sevres to match.
At night light comes from above,
where hangs a lamp of Sevres again.
In our day, with our active ideas and
actual wants, such rooms as these are
typical; they represent the highest
form of realization of modern taste
without Its faults, or rather with as
I little of them as is consistent with
the expenditure Of so much money
and so much thought In these rare
vases, vanity seeks for another satis-
faction than that of glare, but vanity
/ is at the bottom all the same; the
only difference is that itais accompa-
MED by a true sense of art
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Was Lincoln am InndeI.

Ward III. Lamnn, the rcputed au
thor of a life of Lincoln, his intimate
friend and law partner for many years
answers a criticism of Henry Ward
Beecher in relation to Mr.. Lincoln's
religious views, in q letter to that
Reverend gentleman which concludes
as follows:
He enterf ined the belief that the
Holy Scr.psures were not of divine
inspiration On this point his mind
had reached a fixed and Unalterable
decision. lie was an infidel, and
rested in his conclusions. 1t would
certainly have been pleas mt to me to
have closed the chapters of his biOg-
raphy without touching upon his re-
ligious opinions; but such an omis-
sion would have violated the funda-
mental principal upon which every
line of the book was traced. Had il
been possible to have truthfully as
serted that he was a member of the
Church of Christ or that he believed
IN the teachings of the New Testa-
ment, the facts would have been pro-
claimed with q glow of earnest Ond
unfeigned satisfaction. / come now
to complain of the injustice which you
have done me personally when you
say that the heartiness of his augu-
ments upon Mr.. Lincoln's religion
casts a certain doubt 7 )on it, and
leaves the impression that he was in
spired by an anti-Christian animus.
Pardon me, my dear sir; although not
a protesting Christian myself, 1 may
say that few men possess a deeper
veneratiOn for the Christian religion
and all that the orthodox church re-
CARDS as sacred, than the humble in
dividual whom you make the subject
of your samewhat severe criticism. l
may not always employ the language
which would best declare my mean-
ing, but when so many very good peo-
pie in pious and loyal zeal sought TO
make their idol (and L might say
mine) a devout and rigid Christian, 1
deemed it unjust to him and injuri-
GUS to Christianity itself to permit
such an error to pass without correc-
tiOn and refutatiOn-
WARD II. LANION.
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Management of Chickens.

Early chickenhood Is the time when
poultry-breeders should assist nature
in developing the size and growth of
fowls In it the frame of the future
bird is nodded, its size increased or
its growth retarded, just in proper
tion to the degree of care aud atten-
ton then bestowed. Whatever be the
object sought in raising chickens,
size, with very few exceptions, is one
of the principal points looked for; and
this can only be obtained to a degree
of perfection by the proper treatment
of chickens from the time they are
Matched until they arrive at maturity.
Feed well, feed often, and keep the
chicken-pcn clean, are golden rules
which should be emblazondd on every
chicken coop in the poultry yard.
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Love in rhs Niaelesal1 tenllll5

Love In the NinescentH teHlilsy
Look where they Ill together fasg 10 face
Each is the other : perfect complementSs
Her bright looks lfted y N impetuous
grace
To his deep eyes oC passionate intent.
Lovers, those twog Absurd, IfyOu eor'd
hear
Her fluent woman's talk, his terse replies,
THIS seeming would not cheat your yisiIant
ear,
And you would swear that lovers looks
are lies.
They're intellectual people; and their ta'',
Is'orthe last new thing in books or ai..
In shoEt, they're doing "shoff' before they
walk
To Mis- isite's lecture, quite Ignoring
"heartl'
How dared you sl,ial them Iovcr-s They
LChalt
Like rs.iel friepi.--ii iu ae-~propcr
place,
You werelbut tHlaklag Of The sigh he gave,
Aud Of the eilaFmed look on these two
faces
No more to buudeuu. WAIT, a pinki-h
kaf
FpSh the Dlu.h rose in hos bosom fiu'ters
AlOwn.
As 4 dislOdsed by some Sharp ,hrob Of
al ses.io. on her simple robe orbrowu.
ID nk. despite Of 'shop,' t@sre', not an
- inch
\ u ali her dainty fashiouius that his looks
q Se not gone over; ehOugh he docs not
finch
At her keen banterins, and tails close
ii Of-booR,i
And' 50, OF soursr, IN, eye, have seen ihe
OF that pink waif, wrecked - Der
bosom's swell;
lie beuds and picks it up. ana- lhat is al;
There 3 no story, nothing more to ten.
No.mas .l,st.aers with v,h.t a rVvercn,
hAu4
He stirs her dress FOLDS how be lins the
leaf
As il some tidy impulse, understand,
Came through their puzzliRg talk 10 his
relief
But when he thinks her looks are other 1
where
lie sudden lifts 1t 10 hi, craving hps;
Her eyes surprise HIN, and n color rare
Her forebead's whiteness holds In warm 4
eclipse.
said there was no story: just two looks
Crossing each other. That was long ago.
Seither is married, both are deep in
books!
A. is the fashion, Mind to Heart said, Noi