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Year: 1868

have long been an observer, as / an
a sympathizing lover, of boys. l like to
see them happy. cheerful and gleesome
! am not willing that they should be
cheated out of their rightful heritage Of
youth-indeed, l can hardly understand
how n high-toned, useful man can be the
ripened fruit of boy who has not en-.
joyed fair share of the glad privileges
due to youth. But while watch with a
very jealous eye all rights and customs
which entrench upon the proper rights Of
boys, | am equally apprehensive lest pa
rents, who are not forethoughtful, and
who have not habituated themselves to
close observation upon this subject, per.
nit their sons indulgences which are al.
most certain to result in their demoraliz
alton, if not total ruin; and among the
habits which have observed as tending
most surely to ruin, know of none
more prominent than that of parents
permitting their sons to be in the street
after nightfall. 1t is ruinous to their
morals in almost all instances. They ac-
quire, under cover of the night, an un-
healthy and excited state of mind, bad
language and practices, criminal senti-
ments, a lawless and riotous bearing
indeed, it is in the street, after nightfall,
that boys principally acquire the educa-
tion of the bad capacity for becoming
dissolute, criminal men. Parents should
in this particular, adopt most rigid, in
flexible rule, that will never permit a
son, under any circumstances whatever,
to 60 into the street after nightfall, with
view of engaging in out of door sports
or of meeting other boys for social or
chance occupation. A rule of this kind,
invariably adhered to, will soon deaden
the desire for such dangerous practices.


Education begins with life. Before
we are aware, the foundations of the
character are laid, and no subsequent in
structions can remove or alter them.-
Linnaus was the son of a poor Swedish
clergyman. His father had flower
garden, in which he cultivated all the
flowers which his means or taste cosild
select Into this little flower garden he
introduced his little son from infancy
and this little garden undoubtedly crea-
ted the taste in this child which after.
ward made him the first botanist and
naturalist of his age, if notof his race
Fireside Companion
Year: 1868

To REMOVE PERsPIRATIoN ODoR.-
The Scientific American says: The un-
pleasant odor produced by perspiration
is frequently a source of vexation to per-
sons who are subject to it. Nothing is
simpler than to remove this odor much
more effectually than by the application
of such unguents and perfumes as are
now in use. 1t is only necessary to pro-
cure some compound spirits of ammonia,
and place about two tablespoonful in a
basin of water. Washing the face, hands
and arms with this, leaves the skin as
clean. neat and fresh as one could wish.
The wash is perfectly harmless, and very
cheap. 1t is recommended on the au-
thority of an experienced physician, and
If ought to be tried at least by all those
whose persons are so offensive in this re-
spect.
Year: 1868

that white plume to leave their sight,
charged after him. Without waiting to
count his foes, he seized his bride in his
teeth, and with his pistol in one hand
and his drawn sword in the other, burst
in headlong fury upon them, and scat
tered them as if a hurricane had swept
by. Murat was thunderbolt on that
day, and the deeds that were wrought by
him will furnish themes for the poet and
painter.
Year: 1868

SINGULAR FACrs.-You may pass a
wet stick, or your naked hand, previous
ly dipped in water, through running
stream of molten iron, cutting it to and
fro as you do so, without the slightest in
jury to either. Water, or even Mercu-
ry, which freezes at II degrees below the
freezing point of water, may be frozen
into solid mass at the bottom of plat
inum crucible at white heat. The ex-
planation is that the hand, and the stick
do not really touch the iron, nor the mer-
curry or water the bottom of the cruci-
bic, a cushion of steam being instanta.
neously formed around them which pre-
vents contact with this extreme heat
much in the same way as sheet of
snow will protect the ground from ex-
treme cold. Laundresses try their irons
in this way. If the water on them rolls
off without boiling, they are too hot, but
if it sputters and boils, they are just
ready for use. The reason of this is that
this cushion of vapor is instantaneously
formed, and prevents the extreme sur
rounding heat from reaching beyond the
surface of the water. If the tempera-
ture is reduced by cooling off the furnace
bv the addition of more fuel, the water
almost explosively takes the form of
steam, and in this way without any
donbt, many boilers, which have been
proved equal to any other test, have col
lapsed.
Year: 1868

Never make your appearance in the
morning without having first bathed Cif
only with sponge and quart of wa
teri, brushed and arranged your hair,
and dressed yourself neatly and COM
pletely.


Keep your clothing, especially under
clothing, in perfect order. Never let
pins do duty as buttons, or strings take
the place of proper bands.


Examine every garment when it comes
from the wash, and, if necessary, mend
1t with neatness and precision. Do not
sew up the holes in your stockings, as we
have seen some careless, untidy girls do,
but take in broad margin around the
hole, be it small or large, with fine
darning needle and darning-cotton, and
cover the fracture with an interlaced
stitch, SO close as to be strong as the
body of the stocking, and fine enough to
be ornamental. Stockings mended in this
way need darning but very few times
in the course of their existence.


Never carry coarse embroidered or
laced handkerchiefs. Fine, plain ones
are much more lady-like.


Avoid open-worked stockings and very
fancy slippers. Fine, plain, white hose,
and black kid slippers, with only strap
or rosette in front, are more becoming.


Train yourself to useful occupation.
Remember it is wicked to waste time,
and nothing gives such an impression of
vanity and absolute Stiffness as habit
of idling and never having anything to
do.


If you are in your fathers house take
some department of household labor up
on yourself, and a part of the sewing,
and make it your business to attend to
it. Do not let call from this idle girl,
or visit from that, or an invitation
from the other, interfere with the per-
formance of your duty.


Let your pleasures come in as recrea-
tions, not as the business of your life.


If you want to marry, do not court or
try to attract the attention of gentlemen.
A little wholesome indifference, real or
assumed, will be much more likely to
accomplish the object. Consider, more
over, that it is better to be a woman than
a wife, and do not degrade your sex by
making your whole existence turn on the
pivot of matrimony.


If you can, cultivate to perfection
some art by which you could gain an in
dependent livelihood. Do it whether
there is a necessity for it or not. Do it
quietly, if you will, but do it, There is
no telling when or under what circum-
stances you may need it.-DemOrest.
Year: 1868

Rev. N. Pierce sends the following and
vouches for its truthfulness


have to relate an account of the pro-
ductiveness of the soil in this section that
| could not believe myself if | we're not
most fully convinced of its truthfulness
by the testimony of living witnesses
whose truthfulness is unimpeachable.


Rev. Jacob Cozad was an early settler
in Green Co., Ohio, township of Fair
field. He came to that place in the year
1904 from Virginia, being first made ac-
qualnted with the character of the soil
and climate of this Mad River country,
by search through for his two sons who
were stolen by the Indians and carried
away from their home in Virginia. Dur
ing that terrible anxious search he trav-
ersed all parts of this country, and after
the people had effected what is known as
the Maumee treaty with the natives, this
gentleman came with his sons and family
into this place in Ohio to find home to
settle his children around him.


Now for the story relative to the soil.
This tract of land is what is called pure
bottom land on the shores of the Mad
River. One particular lot of twenty
acres was planted with corn in 1904 and
upon the same lot for every successive
year since that time have they planted
corn, and in every instance gathered
good crop and in no instance have they
used any fertilizes or manure of any
kind whatever.


The black rich soil is from three to
nine feet deep, lying upon bed of clean
white gravel.


l questioned the story. But l had it
from the lips of gentleman who is
member of the family, and who in 1858
sold the land and knows whereof he af-
firmed.


To Vermont farmer who is obliged
to fertilize heavily every year in order
to secure a crop and who is obliged to
exercise his skill as to the best method
of rotation of crops, such a story seems
utterly ia bulous. 1t would seem that the
top of the soil would become exhausted
and worthless for they do not plow to ex-
ceed eight inches in depth, but there
seems TO be no drain whatever upon its
richness.


When it had borne ffty-two crops the
property changed owners, and at the
season when the corn was in its prime.
| At that time the corn stood eleven feet
high, and there was not missing hill on
the whole twenty acres.


l questioned as to the stocks and fod-
der, whether it was not plowed in and in
this way the soil enriched to some extent,
and this was the reply.


awe drive on and husk the corn as it
stands, and never cut it up and stock it.
Then in winter when the ground is froz-
en- we take pole some twelve or fifteen
feet in length and hitch horse at each
end and drive over the field the horses
abreast dragging this pole. By this
means the stocks are easily broken off,
Then in the spring just before plowing
we take a large heavy horse rake and
go over the ground raking the stocks in
to winrows and when dry set fire to them
and burn them off clean. Thus we pro
ceed from year to year and to all ap'
pearance the soil will last as long as the
world stands"


This l regard as a remarkable corn
field. Yours,


|
Year: 1868

"THE Poor YE HAVE ALWAYS WITH
YoU."-Not at alas aristocratic
Christian churches have it. The rich
have one place and the poor (instead Of
being with them, have another place or
none. In his address to the working
men of Montreal, Rev. Newman Hall
thus alluded to our exclusiveness, and
expressed his feelings with regard to the
worship of the poor:


In Surrey chapel, my own church,
as soon as the time comes to begin, all
the seats are free to anybody, rich and
poor together. While III the states saw
several very fine churches, beautifully
carpeted, and all the parts beautifully
trimmed but on asking where the poor
people sat, l was told they had mission
churches for them in different parts Of
the city. Now | like to see rich and
poor together. / like to see men of all
classes in the same building, and an earn
est welcome given to everybody"
Year: 1868

CHARITY-A BEAUTIFUL LEGEND
FROM THE RABBINIcAL WRITER'S -Once
upon time, as Abraham was sitting in
the door of histent, there came upon him
a wayfaring man and Abraham gave
him water for his feet, and set bread BE-
fore him. And Abraham said unto him
Let us now worship God before we eat
of this bread" And the wayfaring maa
said to Abraham, al will not worship
the Lord thy God, for thy God is not my
God but will worship my God, even
the God Of my fathers" Aut Abraham
was exceedingly wroth; and he rose up
to put the wayfaring man forth from the
door of his tent. when. 10 the voice Of
the Lord was heard in the tent, saying,
Abraham, Abraham, have / borne
with this man for three score and ten
years, and canst thou not bear with him
for one hour?"
Year: 1868

Madam" said an old gentleman to
his housekeeper, in primitive countries
beef is often legal tender, but" said be
emphatically thrusting his fork into the
steak, "all the law in Christendom conld
not make this beef tender"
Year: 1868

One of the exquisite wonders of the
sea is called the opelet, and is about as
large as the German aster, looking in
deed very much like one. Imagine a
very large, double aster, with ever so
many long petals of the delicate shade
of light green, glossy as satin, and each
one tipped with rose color. These lovely
petals do not lie quietly in their places,
like those of the aster in your garden,
but wave about in the water while the
opelet himself clings to rock.


How innocent and lovely it looks on
its rocky bed Who would suspect that
it would eat anything grosser than dew
or sunlight? But those beautiful waving
arms-as you may call them-have an
other use besides looking pretty. They
have to provide food for large open
mouth, which is hidden deep down
among them-so well hidden that one
can scarcely find it.


Well do they perform their duty, for
the instant foolish little fshlet touches
one of these rosy tips, he is struck with
poison, as fatal to him as lightning. He
Immediately becomes numb, and in a
moment stops struggling and then the
other beautiful arms wrap themselves
around him and he is drawn into the
huge greedy mouth, and is seen no more.
Then the lovely arms unclose and wave
again in the water, looking as innocent
and harmless as though they had never
touched a fish.
Year: 1868

The Auburn (N.Y.) Advertiser is response
BILE for the following strange story:


We have recently been informed of most
singular affair occurring during the last win.
ter, and which has only just now been made
public. 1t seems that some time in January
last, couple of married men, residing not a
hundred miles from this city, became, each
unsuspected by the other, enamored of said
others better Tor worser) half, and the matter
was carried on so far that each of the fair Tor
false) ones agreed to elope with her neigh
boris husband. An especially dark night
seemed to favor the design, and was chosen
by each as the favorable opportunity. The
evening train going east from this city con
yeyed the voyagers on their journey, one
couple getting on the rear and the other on
the forward car, unseen and unsuspeeted, it
having been arranged that the wife in each
case should 60 to the train unaccompanied,
and only be joined on board by her affinity"
just at the moment of departure. Arriving
at Syracuse, the pairs sought the waiting
room at the depot, where they would neces-
sarily be detained for some time while
waiting the train by which to continue the
journey. and proceeded to disencumber them
selves of the partial DISCUSSES assumed for
the occasion, when, to the unspeakable hor-
for OF each couple, 1t was discovered that the
affair had failed, for husband number one
recognized before him, in the now unveiled
face of his travelling companion, the linea-
ments of his own devoted wife, whose excited
nerves had hitherto prevented recognition
of her dear husbands form in the dim OBJ
scurity of the railroad car In similar
appalling manner was the stern reality forced
upon the other thunder-stricken couple, and
khna Il


ward. brought to this city two thenceforthly
faithful and constant couples, whose night
journey east, so suddenly executed without
apparent cause, occasoned no small wonder
ment among their nearest neighbors. 1.-The
Mistake of Lifetime was not patch to
the thrilling experience thus dished up for
these venturesome travellers, and we are told
by the iniorment who gave the above partic-
ulars, that no more faithful partners can be
found in town than are now the members of
these two matrimonial firms.
Year: 1868

THE LONGEVITY OF FooLs.-Selkirk of the
Gold Hill News, is just letting himself loose
in this style:


We never take up o Coppcrhead paper
now a-days that we are not reminded of the
curt and rather inelegant saying, g the fools
are not all dead yet" Such vehicles of
bombast and buncombe, lewdness and lies,
folly and fustian, never existed in any other
country, and could not exist week, were it
not for the asinine element in human nature.
With sharp witicism or sledge hammer
blow of argument, every sensible man can
bear, even if he be the subject of it. But to
this skinned to death, trashy blackguard, we
shall never get accustomed. 1t recalls the
days of green boyhood, when slang was mis-
taken for smartness, vulgarity for wit. and
bullying for courage. Puerile Stiffness,
blackguard, personal abuse and bombast
may appear in the light of accomplishments
in the eyes of Copperhead editors, but they
cannot, singly or combined, elect or defeat
Presidential candidates. No amount of living
can defeat General Grant, just as no amount
of hurrahing can elect him. Falsehood has
done much to wrong the people in time past,
and will do much to check the progress of the
nation in the future. But it cannot sway the
masses of men in country where the news
paper finds its way into every family. Polit.
ical trickery is likewise better understood
than ever before. Men do not take things
upon trust SO readily as they used to do. In
short, through reading, the people are toler-
ably conversant with men and measures,
and the biographies of nearly all the promi-
nent men in the nation have become common
property in the shape Of books which lie up
ON every table.
Year: 1868

To MARRIED MEN.-We mean you who
spend your evenings down town, playing bill
liards, smoking, drinking and gossippng
when you ought to be at home with your
families. Do you remember what fine prom
ises you once made to the woman who now
sits, night after night, with heavy heart but
busy fingers making or mending garments
for the little ones, (yonr children, while you
are dissipating with other idlers like YOUR
self, the very means of which they stand in
need. You complain of hard times, scarcity
OF work and want of money and your wife
works herself sick to economize and reduce
the household expenses. Why, you msera-
BILE grumbler, 1--WE were about to say bum.
mer,) you spend money enough foolshly
every month of your life to cothe and edu-
cate your children, and leave a nice little
sum to lay away for rainy day. Wife wants
a new dress. Cant afford it - no, but
you aan afford to spend fifty cents or a dollar
every day for lager. cigars, billiards, ar some-
thing worse. And then what abominable
lies you will tell your wife, and she, inno
cent soul. believes every word as gospel
truth. When she asks you in that kindly
manner, =" Husband, must you 90 down
town tonight? get tired and lonely with.
out you how you positively aver that
" important business" calls you away; and
then, as if guilty at the enormity of the fib,
promise to return early, a promise you al
ways break. of course. Are you aware that
you are laying the foundation for miserable
poverty-strcken old age? If not allow US to
remind you of It, and we do so earnestly but
in spirit of kindness You are planting
seeds of sorrow in the heart of her you have
sworn to cherish and love that will bear only
the pale blossom of death. Don't do SO any
more. Spend your evenings at home. Pro
vide yourself with books and papers, and
while she is engaged with her domestic du-
ties, read aloud for her instruction and
amusement. Our word for it you will see
the fresh tints of youth return to that fading
face. The happy never grow old.
Year: 1868

FUNNY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE A Connect.
cut paper says


An amusing attempt at suicide was made
near the poorhouse on the banks Of the Yam
tic, in Norwich, on Monday, by man about
thirty years of age. The man would wade
into the Yantic up to his knees and begin to
stoop down, when his wife would plunge in
and pull him out, all the while calling pit
eously for help. Then the two would stand
on the river bank awhile talking earnestly
when the husband, needless of the beseech-
ings OF his wife, would tear himself from her
arms and again plunge into the dark waters
with the fury of maniac, which would.
however, be cooled off by the time he got in
above his knees. The wife would again
lead him out and endeavor to persuade him
to give up the idea of suicide. After numer-
Gus attempts the husband was finally pre-
vailed upon to live little longer, and was
last seen going home with his faithful
spouse.
Year: 1868

FRoM Mr.. TnoMAs.-Wc have used Henley s
Royal Balsam in my family this winter. There is
talking. 1t throws every thing in the shape
of Cough medicine in the shade that l ever saw.
My wife was troubled with asthma or smothering
spells for years. and could get nothing to have any
effect until l struck this Royal Balsam" She is
now about, well. 1t cured of the worst cold
l ever had in my life in night. Whenever our
children have anything like cough, few drops
given going to bed-that is the last of the
cough. L never intend to be without it in the
house.


i. THOMAS, the paper man.
Year: 1868

THEFT ETRAoRDINARY-T Los An
geles Republican says:


On Saturday last a grave was dug in the
public cemetery of this city, for the inter
ment of a colored boy who was to be bur
led on the following day. Upon the arri-
val of the funeral procession at the grave on
Sunday morning, it was found that it had
been appropriated by other parties, and that
corpse was already buried in it. This we
takeit is something new in the way of steal
ing and hard to beat.
Year: 1868

A RICH farmer of Calais, aged 65, recently
married a second wife who is 10 years OF age
A daughter, by his first wife is 40 years old,
and her daughter, aged 20, is about to be
married. Thus there is a child who is q
years older than her mother. and grand
mother who is year younger than her grand
daughter
Year: 1868

In alluding to the conservative negro
stumpers of Virginia, the Washington Re
publican says: A Democratic niger does
not even smell bad 1t is wonderful to see
how soon a colored individual becomes man
and brother if he be on the Democratic
side.