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Year: 1864

DoCIoR's VIsIrs.--lt is not only for lhe
sick man. but the sick mans friends, that
the Doctor comes. His presence is often
AS good for them as the patient, and they
long for him yet more eagerly. How We
have all watched for him. Wha. an emo
ton the thrill OF his carriage wheels in the
street, and at length At the door, has made
US feel, How We hang upon his words, and
what a comfort we get from smile or two.
if he can vouchsafe tIla, sunshine to tighten.
Who hasn't seen the mother prvinp into
his face. TO know If there is hope for the
sick infant that cannot speak, and that lie.
yonder, its little frame battling with fever!
All, how she looks into his face What
thanks if there is light there; what gre
and pain if he casts them down and dare not
say "hope!" Or is it The house-faher that
is stricken. The terrified wife locks on
while The physician feels the patients wrist
smotherng her agouies AS the children have
been called upon to stay their plays aud thei.
talk! Over the patient in the fever, the wife
expectant, The children unconscious the doc
tor stands as if he were fate the dispenser
of life and death; he must let the patient of
this time; the woman prays so for bis respi e
One can fancy how awful the responsibilit,
must be to a conscientious man; how crue
the feeling that he has given the wrong re
medy, or that it might have been possible
to do better; how harrs.sing the svInpath,
with survivors. If the case is unfortunate
how great the delight Of victory
Year: 1864

FINANCIAL.-The financial article of the
5. f. Bulletin, of Dec l2gfl speaking of the
luctualion in Gold in the Eastern markets
saws:


New York panera Of November l2th, in
speaking of the rise in gold to 260 and its
subsequent decline to 24O, state that the
Government had determined to use the influ
ences at its command to ''protect the people
from the exorbitant prices of commodities
occasIoned by the eXtravsgant price of gold"
This policy was decided upon, it is said some
time since, but WAS not to be carried into
effect until after the Presidential election.
Telegrapbic dispatches from Washington
state that number Of appliances at The
command of the Government can be brought
into requlsllion, and all of them are to be
employed in breaking down the market.
The Assistant Treasurer of New York had
been to Washington in consultation with the
Department on The subject.


Expedents have frequently been adopted
tor such purposes, but without any permal
nent success, and it can hardly be doubted
that future experiments Of a similar kind
will result in the same way, and produce at
most but temporary effect upon the mar
ket, to be followed by reaction and an ag>
gravation Of the evils complained of. No
expedient but direct and largely increased
taxation will meet the exgencies of the pres
ent programme"
Year: 1864

II two persons are to occupy bedroom
during night, let them step upon a pair of
weighing scales as they retire, and then again
in the morning, and they will find their
actual weight to be at least pound less in
the morning. Frequently there will be a
loss OF two or more pounds, and the average
loss during the year will be greater than one
pound. That is, during the night there is
loss of a pound Of matter which has gone
off from their bodies, partly from the lungs
and partly from the pores of the skin. The
escaped material is carbouc acid and decayed
animal matter. or poisonous exhalations. -
This is dffused throughout the air in part,
and in part absorbed throughout the bed
clothes If single ounce Of wool or cotton
be burned in a room, it will so completely
saturate the All with smoke that one can
hardly breathe, though there can on'v be an
ounce of foreign matter in the air If an
ounce of cotton be burned every half hour
during the night, the air will be kept con
tinuaIly saturated with smoke unless there
can be an open door or window for il to
escape. Now, the sixteen ounces of smoke
thus formed are far less poisonous than the
sixteen ounces Of exhalations from the lungs
and bodies of the two persons who have lost
pound in weight during the eight hours
Of sleeping, for while the smoke is taken
mainly into the lungs and odors from the
body are absorbed both INTO the lungs and
into the pores Of the whole body.


Need more be said to show the inheritance
of having bedrooms well ventilated and of
thoroughly airing the sheets, coverlets and
mattresses in the morning before packing
them up in the form Of neatly made bedl


.LOnrnaL OF HeuLth
Year: 1864

Et- We have had very heavy rains this
week-a continuation Of two weeks previous
weather. but hope that the end Of the storm
is about reached. Everybody is satisfied,
and now want suspension. The miners
are supplied, The ground is thoroughly wet,
and a dry spell Of few weeks is the best
phase the season could assume
Year: 1864

A rebel deserter, who came in four days
ago, declares that the state of affairs in
rebeldom indicate early offensive opera
tions in some direction the nature of
whith is Unknown. The men are told
that General Lee is about attempting a
change of project which will asto nish the
world.
Year: 1864

intermittent Fever, or Fever and Ague
Remittent Fever, Chill Fever, Dumb
Ague, Periodical Headache or Bilious
deed, for the whole class Of Diseases
originating in Biliary Derangement
caused by the Malaria of miasmatic
countries.
Year: 1864

am afraid those who profess TO be skill
prcsuming to instruct them in q business
in which each assumes to be an expert
From the time horse shoeing was first prac-
ticed as a separate trade, the same vanity
aHd sel-conceit seem to have universally
characterized the smiths, for when gen.
tleman desires to have his horse shod ac-
cording TO his own mind, it is general
saying that smiths do not want to be
caught their trade; this is as much as to
say there is nothing to be learned in our
art, nor ever will be, but what is already
known" A similar complaint was made
against the same head strong conduct, by
earliest writer's and what deserves special
notice is this: There is not one artizar,
however he may differ from another but
gives the same answer, under the impress
sion that he knew more than all his neigh
bors if not as much as all the world beside.
The same unamiable disposition threatens
to annoy the teachers endeavors for ages to
come. 1t has been maxim that Nature
has created nothing in vain and the saying
is 50 trite and tue that all reasonable peo-
pie agree that Nature should be the guido
IN all cur operations npon the Horse and
that ot Shoelng S admitted to Se among
the most important. But II you ask one
Of these obstinate artizans the use Of any


art Of the animal or inquire if some duty
has been assigned or some given function
to perform, he can give you no answer ex.
| ccpt to convince you that custom alone has
taught him all he knows. Hence those
who reason on such subjects conclude that
many errors have arisen in the practice of
the art and there should be 30 ground of
offence toward any one in consequence Of o
discussion If the subject by the most hum
bic son OF Vulcan.


BE this as it may, it is my Intention to
explain in sci les of articles the original
design ana proper manier ct shoeing
horses, which will bring me to consider the
uses and abuses introduced into the art
and its evil effects as well as lameness pro-
duccd from other causes. This | will do
as clearly and conciscly as | can, so that
every man Of ordinary capacity may be
able to judge for himself in these matters
Every one admits it is of no small mo-


mert, the wel-being and prosperity Of the
Horse in whatever service he may be EN-.
ployed, whether before the plow or wagon
for our support, to the carriage for our
pleasure or on the race-,rack for Our profit
or loss JoHS c. HARRISON.
McGREGoR, Feb'v Oath, 1861
Year: 1864

A BRAUTIFUL Bulwer
eloquontly says: 81 cannot believe that
the earth is mans abiding place. 1t can.
not be that our life is cast upon the ocean
OF eternity to float for moment upon its
waves and sink into nothingness Else
why is this, that the glorious aspirations
which leap like angels from the temple Of
the heart, are forever wandering about
unsatisfed ? Why is it that the rainbow
and the clouds clouds come over US, with
beauty that is not OF earth, and then
pass off and leave US to muse upon their
fuded loveliness2 Why is it that the
stars who hold their festival around the
midnight throne, are set above the grasp
Of our limited faculties, forever mocking
us with their uHapproachable glory -
Aud finally, why is it that bright forms of
human beauty are presented to our view,
and then taken from US, leaving the thous-
and streams Of our affections to flow back
in Alpine torrents upon our hearts We
are born for higher destiny than that
of earth there is realm where the
stars will spread before US like islands that
slumbes on the ocean; and where he be-
ings that pass before us like shadows, will
stay III our presence forever,
Year: 1864

e Tho death Of Thomas Motley, the
father Of the historian, At the nge Of eighty
two will deprive Boston OF one of Its most
familiar faces, and OF a connecting link be-,
tween the business world Of the present aud
the past generation. He begun his CONNER
Year: 1864

NEW STEEL-CLAD BLoCKADE-RUNNERs.-
-Four new paddle-steamers, built of steel,
and of great speed, are about ready to leave
Liverpool to engage in running the blockade.
They are named the Badger, Let Her b, Fox,
and Let Her Rip, and were built for the SER
vice. Another report says that these vessels
were to have a trial of speed in race to the
Isle of Man on the Goth of March. The Lon
don Post says:


Five hundred thousand bales of cotton are
stated to be now in the hands of the Con-
federate Government, while two hundred
thousand would suffice to pay off the whole
loan. A large amount of bonds have already
been delivered and cotton received in ex-
change, according to agreement. There is
apparently, increased facility for running the
blockade, and the difference between the de-
livery price Of cotton in the Southern ports
and that obtained for it in Liverpool may
stimulate the purchase of bonds; indeed, the
principal buying for the last week has been
on Liverpool account. There are also, as we
before stated, other negotiations in progress,
to which we shall probably before long have
again to refer.
Year: 1864

AN lNJOhED HUSBAND. - Il ne CnlcagO
Tribune is responsible for the following:


A man who has been absent from his family
for the past three years, returned home unex-
pectedly on Monday last, and going to his
home found baby about six months old
sleeping on the bed in his wife's apartmen t.
Enraged at this evidence of perfldy, he too
the child roughly from the bed and threw
it violently on the floor. OF course the little
one screamed; the wife rushed to the scene !;
and the husband commenced to pour out upon
her a torrent of the vilest abuse - but was
suddenly reduced to silence by the informa-
ton that the baby belonged to neighbor.
The lady being there to substantiate her
claim, and engaging Immediately in soothing
the sufferer at the maternal fount, there was
no room left for doubt.


The angry man begged that the story be
kept silent, but the mother Of the child was
in no mood for that sort of thing, and it is
now the laugh Of the neighborhood. Fortu-
nately the child was not seriously injured.
The Outraged husband" has been as good
natured as you please since then.
Year: 1864

GEN. GRANT AND THE SoLDIERs.-It il
said that when General Grant was going
down to Washington one day last week, the
train, having attached to it the special car
stopped at Brandy Station, some soldiers who
were waiting to go down asked If they could
not get into the car. "No," was the answer
of an officer; "this is General Grants special


car" Whereupon Grant, who was sitting by
the window, spoke and said. General Grant
occupies only one seat; the soldiers can ride y
Year: 1864

HARD HIT.-At lively village in
Illinoja, far from Woodstock, they
have a benevolent association, one OF
whose objects is to watch with and take
care of its sick members. Last fall, an
unmarried young lady was admitted to
membership. In couple of months she
was blessed with a bright-eyed babe, and
was cry sick. Some of the young
lady members expressed to the chief Of
ficer of the association indignation, and
asked if he really thought it their duty
to visit unfortunate one. "Well,"
said he, after much deliberation, 81 sup
pose that by your bylaws you are not
obliged to watch where h disease Of
the patient is considered contagious"
Year: 1864

THE KRU>MAN.-They are men of
Herculean type, contrast to most sa-
wage tribes, who are slim, muscleless and
of,-handed. Strength is the result of
regimen. Savages are less muscular, as
it has been proved, than we are. But
that is owing rather to their indolent lite
than to an inferior physical organization.
We have no ground for supposing that
these Kru-men were originally a finer
race Of men than the other tribes OF the
coast They are now the most athletic
race in the world. They are Goliaths
of strength as well as of stature. Regu-
lar work, and regulated diet can even
work marvels on the framework Of the
savage, and can modify not only an in
dividual, but a race. Every trader takes
a number of these for the term OF bis
voyage, which usually lasts two years /;
and they are also employed in the facto-
ries. They are paid from So 10 So per
month, the first month paid in advance,
and an agreement made to send them
back to their own country, free Of ex-
pense, rs soon as their time is out. Their
rations are usually pint and half of
rice per day, with meat or fish on Sun
days. Sometimes they have daily al
lowance of trade,rum.


The menNof-war are supplied from a
Kru colony at Sierre Leone with these
men, who receive the pay and rations of
common seamen. South of the Congo
their place is taken by the Cabinda tribe,
who are neither SO able nor so willing as
the Kru. They are such rank pilferers
that they will upset your boat in a surf,
save you with one hand and pick your
pocket with the other; for they are as
much at home in water as on land, and
may be classed among the amphibious
animals. They are gluttons and drunk
ards, in general but also faithful, hard
working and well.behayed, when not
too kindly treated. Then the low ma
sure displays itself, and Incidence ensues.
The old maxim, slightly altered


A Kru man, dog and a walnut tree,


The more you beat them the better they be-


applies well enough when the punish
ment is really deserved.-W Reade.
Year: 1864

EARLY RIsING.-There is no t m e
spent SO stupidIy as that which inconsid-
crate people pass in the morning between
sleeping and waking. He who is awake
may be at work or at play; be who is
asleep is receiving b refreshment ne
cessary to fit him for action: but the
hours spent in doing n d slumbering
are wasted, without Q il he 7 pleasure or
profit. The sooner you leave your bed,
the schooner you will be confined to it,
for early isin g conduces to healthful-
ness. When old people have been ex-
amined in order to ascertain b cause
of their longevity, they have uniformly
agreed in one thing only, that they ''all
went to bed and all rose early"
Year: 1864

The Christian minister is set for the
defense of the Gospel Of Christ. He is
to preach Christ and him crucified.' He
is not to preach Calvin, or Wesley, or
Charming. He is TO preach Christ. Je-
sus is 'the way, the truth and the life.'--
Without me, said he, you can do no
thing He is all to the soul, next to
God Indeed, he is Mediator between
God and man, the man Christ Jesus. -
He is a man in all that constitutes hu-
manity but be is more than man--he is
the Son of God. And Christ should be
preached as the hope of the world. We
can't have too much of Jesus in our ser,
mons. Not dead, bot a living Christ
we want the Christ Of history, but the
Christ, also, who is the same yesterday,
to-day and forever; ) who is to-day our
Saviour to-day present with spiritual
power, TO bless and to save.


1t is the great fault of most preaching
that it has more to do with philosophy
than with Jesus more with earthly than
with spiritual life. The great end Of all
true preaching is to make men true
Christians. And they cant be made
Christians merely by philosophy, or by
ethics. They must see Jesus nall the
plenitude of bis spiritual power; must
be united and grounded in Jesus; and the


love of God in Jesus must be shed abroad
in their hearts. To preach science is not
to preach Christ; fine writing is not
preaching Christ theory is not Chris
tianity. To preach Christ is TO preach
Him in whom the fuIlness of the God
head dwell to wit: who was God mani
fest in the flesh 1t is to preach Him
who is the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the end We must preach
Christ to bring men to God, for Jesus
says No man cometh to the Father but
by me- Let it, then, be the motto OF
every servant Of the risen Redeemer-
Preach Christ and him crucifed'.- Star.
Year: 1864

AN APPLE WAGER.-Two men at
San Francisco have an apple wager PEN
ding upon the capture of Richmond
The wager was made ten months ago on
these conditions If the Union forces did
not capture Richmond within thirty days
from that date, one was 20 give the other
a sound eatable apple. If Richmond
held out sixty days he was to give him
two apples, and so on, doubling the num-
Der for each month until Richmond was
taken--to the end of time if that event
did not occur before. The last payment
was 512 apples and a $40 gold piece was
spOilt in obtaining them, apples being 20
cents pound and fifty pound box be-
ing required. Should Richmond be ta-
ken, the present month, he would get
back all the apples he has lost, and one
more, which, as the price will then be at
the very highest notch, would make him
more than even but should it hold out a
year longer, and he continue to pay bis
losses, his last payment would cost him
$40,960, and be would be $3.50 out /;
in three months more he would be out
S6S6,340; and, should the war last from
this date as much longer as it has already
lasted since its commencement, no nation
on earth could begin to meet the terms of
the wager, even allowing it to be reduced
to cash basis, and the payment to be
made in greenbaeks.
Year: 1864

weave a tale--part old, part new;


The half, fact-the rest, q dream;
Yet many dreams, think, are tue,


However strange they seem.
So quiet was the summer day


That one could hear the far-of bees,
Till sudden winds from fields Of hay


Blew whistling TO the seas.
A fisher drew his skiff TO land,


Half up above the waters reach,
Aud left it grinding in the sand,


To strand upon the beach.
Along the shelving water-edge


His little son played up and down,
And gathered stately spears of sedge,


To braid them for crown.
But when he spied the rocking craft,


He climbed aboard with childish glee,
And, shouting to the breezes, laughed,


And wished himself at sea.
The skiff amid the splash and roar


Was like a warning finger laid
Across the lips of sea and shore


To hush the noise they made.
A double wave, with sudden swell,


Ran up the beach with foam and spray,
And dashed so high that when it fell


It launched the craft away
The fishers cherry-tre grew green


Between his cottage and the tide;
And sadder sight was mover seen


Than out they branched TO hide.
On curling waves, the drifting hull


Was waited past the harbor light,
AMI seaward like flying gull


It dwindled out of sight.
At sunset, searching for the child,


The fisher called and called his name,
But though his cry was loud and wild,
No voice in answer came.
Whereat, as with giants hand,


And stung with woe, he seized boat,
And dragged it down the gripping sand,
And through the surf atioat.
His oars gave groans for thrice a league,
And down his brawny beard ran sweat,
But not a sinew felt fatigue,


And hope inspired him yet;
Until his strength was oyerspent;


Then over on his painting breast
His hot, bewildered head he bent,


And, swooning, dropped to rest;
And dreamed that through yawning wave
The child, with sea. grass on his head,
Made entrance to a spacious grave,


And wandered with the dead;
Whence, rising to a beateous land,


The mortal child stood crowned divine;
10 whom the fisher waved his hand,
And sought an answering sign.
Then, waking with a sudden start,


And shuddcring in the chilly dew,
lie knew, by token in hls heart,


The vision must be true.
And when in grief he home returned,
And sat aweary in his chair,
And low and dim the hearth-fire burned,
He saw an angel there
pleasantest of pleasant things


That angels dwell in homes on earth,
Where silently, with folded wings,
They tarry by the hearth!
Year: 1864

God mend his heart who cannot feel
The impulse of holy zeal,
And sees not with his sordid eyes
The beauty of self-sacritice
Though in the sacred place he stands,
Uplifting consecrated hands,
Unworthy are his lips to tell
Of Jesus's martyr miracle.
Not to the swift nor to the strong
The battles Of the right belong
For he who strikes for freedom wears
The armor of the captive's prayers,
And nature protfers 10 his cause
The strength of her eternal laws.
While he whose arm essays to bind
And herd with common brutes his kind,
Strives evermore at fearful odds,
With nature and the jealous gods,
And dares the dread recoil which late
Or soon their right shall vindicate.
Year: 1864

/ 1t Is not common practice, we think
10 give salt to swine, occasionally, while


every farmer would consider it a prime
duty to offer it to his neat stock, horses
and sheep, as oten as once a week To


be sure, the swine get little, compared
with the amount given to other animals


In proportion to their weight, why do


they not need as much salt as the other


stock on the farm 4? We find an article


going the rounds of the papers upon the


use Of salt ,tor fatteRing scine. The


writer states that he selected two pairs of


barrow hogs, weighing 200 each. One
pair received with their daily allowance
Of food, two ounces of salt; them similar
y fed, none, In the course of week it
was easily seen that the salted pair had
much stronger appetite than the others,
and after fortnight it was increased to
two ounces apiece. After four months
the weight Of the sated hogs was $50
pounds, while that of the unsalted, FIVE
weeks later reached only 800 pounds, the
was repeated, with almost
precisely the same results.


IF sach should prove to be the general
result, most farmers have not gained all
the good advantages they might have done
from the food fed out From the example
cited there is no indication that the salt
excited a morbid appetite, and produced
unnatural flesh and fat. OF course a
sound judgment must be exercised in the
use of salt, as well as of grain or any 9th
er food. Another neglect of swia477-and
it must be a cruel one 1ftya4that
Of not giving them plentiful s. ply of
pure cold water. Why it is supposed
that the hog should not need water as
we'll as the COW and sheep is more than we
can tell. They do require it. When wa
-er is not given them, although fed with
swill they will drink heartily of the wa
.er collected in the yard or barn cellar,
after visiting their trough several times
md finding it empty and dry. Nothing
S more grateful to them in a hot day than
bucket of cold water, drank from clean
weet trough. We trust that farmers will
i've attention to the matter, and ascer-
am for themselves whether our sugges-
ions are valuable or not
Year: 1864

a Fellow with an Extensive Nasal Organ
His head was large and fiat at top,


Enormous was his eyes,
His mouth was huge; but, oh his nose


Was of enormous size
1t was n tunnel for his voice,


Through which his words would clang
From morn till night, without respite,


With many Nasal twang'
And though sound travels very fast
1t will the truth disclese-
1t took an hour for his words


To travel through his nose.
When dead, and in his coffin laid,
Free from all earthly woes,
They had to raise the coffin lid


To make room or his nose.
Year: 1864

A lady who had read of the extensive
manufacture of odometers to tell how far
carriage had been run, said she wished
some Connecticut genius would invent an
instrument to tell how far husbands had
been in the evening when they had just
stepped down to the post Office.