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Year: 1867

The moon is thought by old wives to influence
the life of child Thus the child born on the
first day of the new moon is fortunate in all its un
dertakings, and will live long; one born on the
fifth day, will be vain and deceitful; one born on
the sixth will live long; one born on the 7th will
have life of trouble; one born on the ninth will
be rich one born on the tenth will be great
traveller; one born on the eleventh will be devoted
to religion one born on the sixteenth will be CRATE
full and unfortunate one born on the eighteenth
will be brave; one born on the nineteenth will be
full of malice; one born on the twentyfrst will be
strong and healthy, but selfish; one born on the
twenty-second will be cheerful, but inclined to low
society; one born on the twenty third will be un.
governable, will forsake family and friends and
wander in foreign country-unhappy through
life; one born on the twenty fourth will have ex
traordinary ability; one born on the twenty-ffth
will be desperately wicked and come to fearful
death; one born on the twenty will be
amiable; one born on the thirtieth will have the
acme of all good gifts, temporal and spiritual.


A baby's nails must never be cut till it is a year
DID, or it will be thief A child with a blue vein
across its nose will never wear its wedding clothes
should it chance to outlive its infancy it will bring
sonow and disgrace to all belonging to it. A babe
that cries at its christening will not live long; if
you bathe it on Sunday it will be SORROW free if
on Wednesday, it will grow fat, if on Friday, al
its sins will be forgiven if on Saturday, it will be
unhealthy.


There are certain other superstitons applying to
the town people: IF you cut your nails on Sunday
it provokes Monsieur le Diable to such degree
that he'll shave you all the week, andlead you into
mischief. If you clip your hair at the new moon,
it will grow long at the full; as the moon wanes
your hair will fall out IF you don new clothes on
Sunday you'll be happy; if on Monday, they'll
tear; if on Tuesday, they'll burn; if on Wednes-
day, you'll have plenty if on Friday, you'll be
unlucky; if on Saturday, you won't live to enjoy
them. Every one, silently or openly, is little sus-
picious regarding Friday, yet few could give rea-
Year: 1867

THE DRUNKARD'S DAUGHTER.
Out in the street with naked feet


saw the drunkard's little daughter;
Her tattered shawl was thin and small;


She little knew, for no one taught her.
Her skin was fair, her auburn hair


Was blown about her aching forehead;
Her sad white face wore sorrows trace,


And want and woe that were not borrowed.
Heart broken child, she seldom smiled;


Hope promised her no brighter morrow
Or, if its light flashed on her night,


Then up came darker clouds OF sorrow.
She softly said, ''We have no bread,


No wood to keep the fire burning"
The child was ILL., the wind 80 chill


Her thin, cold blood to ice was turning.
But men we'll fed and warmly clad,


And ladies robed in richest fashion,
Passed on the side where no one cried


To them for pity or compassion.
That long night fed, and then the light
OF rosy day in beauty shining,
Set dome and spire and roof on fire,
And shone on one beyond repining.
Asleep-alone-as cold as stone,


Where no dear parent ever sought her;
In winding sheet Of snow and sleet,


Was found the drunkard's hfeless daughter.
Year: 1867

p% The Eufala (Ala.) Ne,os has good story Of
a Radical Office seeker, at negro meeting some
where near that place. Rad was trying to get
Cuff to understand that the history Of the world
demonstrated that the negro race was not capable
Of making legislators or rulers, but might do very
well to assist others to Office by their votes. He
told them that there was not single instance in
history where an African had ever become ruler
among the whites. After his speech was closed,
IN old leader mot opposed to taking Office himsef)
replied that he was all wrong-that negroes had
been rulers, and the Bible, the greatest Of authors
Year: 1867

On the seventh day of the seventh month
holy observance was obtained to the chill
dren of Israel, who teasted seven days and
remained seven days in tents. The seventh
year was directed to be Sabbath of rest to
the land and ut the end Of seven times seven
years commenced the grand jubilee. Every
seventh year the ground lay faIow and ev-
cry seventhycar there was release from all
debts, when bondmen were set free. From
this ancient Jewish law may have originated
the custom Of. binding young men in seven
years apprenticeship, aud of punisiing
criminals by transportation for seven, twice
seven, or three times seven years.


Ancently child was not named before
seven days, not being accounted to have life
fully before. The teeth appear in the seventh
month, and are shed in the seventh year, when
infancy is changed into childhood. At thrice
seven years the faculties are all devclored.
manhood commences, and the individual be
comes legally competent to all civil acts. At
four times seven a man is in full possession
of:his strength at five times seven he be-
comes grave and wise, or never; at seven
times seven he is in apogee, and from that
time he gradually decays; at nine times sew
en- he is in his first cIimacteric. or wear of
danger; and ten times seven, or '.three score
years and ten" has by the royal Psalmist
been pronounced the natural period of hu-
man life.
Year: 1867

JUsT WHAT WE THIxK.-The World says
''If the President Is capable of yielding, it
woHld have been better to save the country
from this long turmoil by yielding 10 2 ago.
BY his vigorous opposition to Congress he has
exasperated the Radicals, and educated the
South into stubbornness. At an earlier stage
the South would have submitted more easily,
and Congress have been less exaeting. The
President cannot justify himself either moral
ly or logically in keeping everything at log
geTheads for so long period if the quarrel
is to be settled at last by Congress having its
own way. He should either not yield at all,
or have yielded sooner, aud saved all this
gratuitous mischief"
Year: 1867



 The Southern Cultivator for Februa- ", in an article headed, ''Work for the Month" has the following on the i'm portance of planting plenty of corn and planting early:

 ssCorn planting commenced in the climate of lower Georgia this month, and when early planted makes almost invariably the best crop. If you arc buying corn, better send a few dollars to any Northern secdmen advertising with us for little King Philip, or any other early field corn. It will cost you from three to five dollars per bushel.- ? Plant early, on rich soil, and you will have roasting cars and ripe corn before you know it. Plant of this only for summer use. . Do not let a mania for cotton plant ing trouble you again, and prevent put ting in bountiful crop of corn. Corn has no tax on it. The tax on cotton is so enormous that were full crop and low prices to come again, it's payment would ruin the already crippled plant cr.a ns ss84 VT E& Es Ga

 It behooves us then, to cultivate the untaxed crops largely. Moreover, no man is safe with frcedmen's labor, ill donating half so much ground to cot ton as he formerly did with the same force, for if he does he will have to throw it out or not half tend it, as was the case last year..

 When you cannot manure, throw out all your poor, worn-out lands. and use only the best. A half crop of cotton will bring in more money than full one, and to try to plant full crop this year, would compel us to purchase our food another year.. The facilities and rates of transportation will llnot justify this. e

 Plant, then, plenty of corn, and plant early, in deeply prepared ground, so as to prevent, by the early maturing of the crop, and by a full supply of mois- ture in the soil during the periods of growth, the casualties to which it is subject, under other conditions, in our. summer drouths.
Year: 1867

and other points say the whisky men


are going to make desperate effort


this Winterto get Commissioner Roll


lins out of the Internal Revenue Bu.
reau, and to secure material mOdifica-
tions in the law relating to the col
lection of the whisky tax. They are
down on Rollins because he has done
50 much latelyto break up illegal and
fraudulent establishments. 1t is re-
ported that they are perfecting an or
ganization In New York to buy up
newspapers and congressman, and
that they will not hesitate to- strike
at McCulloch ifthey find him in their
Year: 1867

OTTowA, CANADA, November H.
A movement is on foot in the Senate
to petition the Imperial Parliament
to make change in the Constitution,
so as to provide for the election of
Speaker of the Senate by that body,
instead of by the Crown. 1t is under
stood the Government policy on the
militia question is to drill 100000
men annually twenty-five days. This
makes the militia expenditure about
three millions of dollars per year. l
Year: 1867

Lest it should be thought that the
hinge on which this story turns is so
great departure from the usual habits
of priests in the Church Of Rome as to
be impossible, l wish to state that the
two chief circumstances that of a priest
being seen to faint in the confessional,
and that of a priest drawing criminal
into conversation about his crime, and
then taking part in giving him up to
justice-wcre related to me by-a friend
who is closely connected with the Ro-
man priesthood. There would be no
merit in such story if it were an in
vention. But where stringent rules
exist, and it would be unjust to infer
that they are broken, there is good rea-
son for occasionally dwelling on the ex-
ceptions which-rare though they
may be-prove them to be sometimes
evaded.


l was on a walking tour in the Tyrol.
My companion Knocked up at the vii
lage of Zell, in the Zellerthal, and, as
we had not much time to spare, left
him to recruit himself while | went
alone to see the waterfall at krimml. |
was climbing the steep track which
leads out of the valley, and groaning
little under the weight of my knapsack
as | stepped from one of the boughs Of
which the path is composed to another,
when an old woman hailed me, and Of
fered to relieve me of my burden. She
was strong and hearty old creature,
though bent almost double from long
life of porterage. My knapsack was
soon transferred to the basket on her
back and while l went on twice as
nimbly as before, the weight did not af-
feet her visibly. | had full leisure to
observe the grard scenery of the glen.
which she did not seem to notice


When | stepped on a jutting stone by
the roadside and peered over the preci-
pitous side of the ravine to the torrent
dashing and breaking some hundreds of
feet below, | was not sorry to have my
back and shoulders free from weight
that would have made craning perilous.
As we rose higher the fr-woods grew
more gloomy the sides more abrupt,
the roar Of the torrent more awful. We
Year: 1867

4 SMALL boy said to man who was
expressing his surprise that bakers
horse did not start at the explosion of
crackers around him on the Fourth,
"Why, sir. that horse has carried crack
ers this forty years
Year: 1867

JACKSON SHUTS, the president of
our New York Board of Health, on
hearing it announced that the chances
were that there would be no smallpox
in the city during the present season,
remarked, that, in that case, the city is
not to be pitted so much as is generally
thought.


SHOULD NOT THINK.-A sarcastic
writer says: Shutting ones self up IL
convent, marrying, and tbrowingones
self over precipice, are three things
which must be done without thinking
too much about them "
Year: 1867

Governor Seymour presided over the re
cent NY. Democratic State Convention, and
the course of his remarks on taking the
Chair, said he was opposed to repudiation.
or course the leaders ofthe party win try
to conceal thsir real sentiments until they
get into power, as they did in 1862 Those
who understand human nature, and are
acquainted with the dishonesty OF the Cop
psrhead leaders, know, that so sure as they
attain power again they will either repudi-
ate our debt OF assume the Confederate
debt. Tho holders of the Confederate
bonds can well afford to pay each Copper
head member of Congfess one hundred
thousand dollars to vote for their assump-
ton By the United States, and who believes
that one of tho number would refuse the
tI<tc. Many Of them would require no
bribe to induce them to vote FOR the meas


ure. They have been so accustomed to
doing the bidding of their Southern friends
that they would cheerfully vote billion
or two of dollars into their pockets merely
to prove that they were still their devoted
friends.


Ia 1862 this same party made all kinds
of patriotic professions in order TO obtain
power, but they had no sooner obtained it
than they showed their cloven feet. The
leaders Of the party are playing the same
game again, and if the peopls trust them
they will live 10 regret it.
Year: 1867

The House committee whose busi-
ness it is to inquire whether Mary
land has republican form Of COVER
ment or not is now session in Wash
ington. They expect to be able to
report to Congress at its next meet
ing g, lA -h
Year: 1867

The Democrats in Tennessee announce
thsir intention to nominate and vote for
negroes for Office. They hops by this
course to create division in the Republican
ranks, but they will be apt to slip up in
their pice little calculations. They may
induce a negro ROW and then to accept a
nomination from their party, but the rene
gades will carry very few negro votes.


To illustrate Suppose the Republicans
were to nominate an Irish or Dutch Den =
ocrat, how many Irish or Dutch Demo-
Gratis would vote for him? If any think
the negroes are mors clannish than the
Irish or Dutch, or that they are less attach
cd TO principle than any nation Of people
they will find out their mistake some day.
Many of the negroes are undoubtedly very
ignorant sbou; governmental affairs, but
they are learning rapidly, and possess al
ready too much sa5acity not to know who
are their friends.
Year: 1867

Common schools and universities of the
highest grade go hand in hand. One can
not flourish in State without the other.
The universities ought to furnish teachers
for the common schools, and common
schools prepare our young men for en-
trance TO the higher walks oi learning in
the universities. Such is the relation be
tween the two in thuse States where edu-
cation has become universal. Oar party
justly claims to be party OF progress, and
education. Let us show the world that in
this State we are alive to the spirit of the
new era, and that we are equal TO our pre-
Tensions
Year: 1867

The State Militia, which had been repre-
sented by venal press and by designing
politicians as swarming in every highway
like the locusts of Egypt, and everywhere
overawing the quiet people, and commit
ting innumcrablc acts of violence, number
ed all told, seventeen hundred men-half
of whom were mustered into the service
but a few weeks before the election. This
force, represented by the enemies of the
State government 10 have cost millions of
money, has only cost the State a little the
rise of the tenth part of one million. Clio
thing, rations, &C., were purchased on the
most favorable terms, and strict economy
was preserved throughout. As soon as the
elections were over and the country quiet
ed, directed General Joseph A. Cooper,
chief in command, and a prudent, firm and
experienced officer, to pay off and muster
out Of the service all but five companies
Most of these companies were ordered to
the western division of the State, in several
counties Of which the conduct of disloyal
men is bad, and calls for correction. The
small force now in service is under the
command OF Major Robinson, prudent,
brave and reliable officer. / am anxious
to rid the State of this item of expense, and
will do so as soon as the rebelIious portion
of Middle and West Tennessee will permit
! me to disband those troops.
Year: 1867

had witnessed the grief Of a mother or
husband, conhdlng tales of incipient bald
ness to the family physician, and seeking in
vain for some means of restoring the hair on
the unfertile head of the beloved one. To
tell the truth, we might smile at the anxiety
of marrying mother who had just made
the discovery that, unless she got rid Of her
daughter by certain time, her daughter
would get rid of her hair, ard become an
unstable article; but we hope we should
know how 10 respect the noble sorrow of a
husband wishing in vain that in middle age
the tresses of his wife were as luxuriant as
in early youth, and refusing to be consoled
because they were not. Those who have
read Mirabeau's rather too passionate love-
letters must remember how frantic he used
to get at the notion of his Sophies shedding
her beautiful hair. In brief moment of
calmness he tells her how to save it without
employing any of the preparations recon-
mended by DR.. Constantin James. She is
to avoid pomatums and washes Of every
kind, and to moisten it often with cold
water. AS Mirabeau, soon after his liberia
tion from prison, quarrelled with Sophie,
we are left without information as to the
effect of his very simple receipt. Who
knows but that it failed, and that his ardent
love cooled in consequence.


MAKE your hair grow il you can, t" is DR..
James's rather superhuous advice. Plough
with the comb, harrow with the brush,
manure with quinine pomatum, and you
may perhaps improve your crop. If not,
your losa is only ANAL pecuniary one, and
what you lose, the perfumer gains. But
don't dye your hair on any account, and, In
the first place, for the reason suggested In a
couplet of ovld's addressed to young lady
who had ungratefully tried to change the
true color of the magnificent hair given to
her by nature:--


81 told you not to dye your hair,


And now you have no hair to dye"


But loss of hair is not the greatest evil 20
be apprehended from the use of hair-dyes.
The celebrated French actress, Mdlle. Mars,
lost her life through it. She dyed her hsii
before going to bed, was attacked during the
night with brain fever, and expired the next
morning 1t is not very long since Belger
the principal bass at the Royal Italian Opera
} was poisoned BY some mineral Substance
with which he had colored his moustache
J and DIR. James knew a captain In the Gard
} Rationale who almost dyed himself to death
J Men who paint their moustachios shoul'
abstain from soup.
Year: 1867

The mists of death hang low upon lifes sea:


The unseen shore ~
Beyond the darkness rises silently


For everrmore;
The golden city flashes from the strand.
But mortal eye sees not the distant land.
Unnumbered prows are turned toward that far


But never yet
Returning voyager with struggling oar,


Or canvass set,
Hath brought US tidings from the land afar.
Whose gorgeous light is not of sun or star.
But there are voices in that unseen land,


Which we have heard,
Ut loved ones standing with us hand in hand


With smile and word f
Ihat klndled here our hearts with frien Isbip,s
GLOW,


And breathed on us their music sweet and low.
And there are footsteps on the golden street,
Made sacred rhythm, gliding soft and sweet


Or sad and slow,
Along the paths we trod by hearth and home.
But strangely ceased and left us lone to roam.
And there our souls that thrill with love etern,


Who look on Him
For whom the stars in endless lustre burn;


Where seraphim
delighted bask around the throne of light,
In ceaseless wonder at the infinite
We knew them here, and wept with them and
smiled


Our life was one;
We met and parted, still of each other beguil-
ed; ~


Their work is done
And they are resting in the morning land,
And we are toiling yet with heart and hand.
We group them oft in visions of the soul,


A joyous band
As on the peaceful hills of light they stroll


In that fair land;
Or wander ON the shore with loving gaze,
To watch the corners from the dark sea haze.
Speed on, my bark. lfe's stormy sea across,


The mists will rise;
And every pain and tear and earthly loss


In strange surprise
Shall vanish, when the unseen shore shall greet
Ihlne eye, and thou shalt touch the golden
street.
Year: 1867

Cheerfulness, that compound of many excel
lencies, comparable unto ''the powders of the
merchant, may scarcely be claimed to be called
virtue; but it is the friend and helper of all
good graces, and the absence of it is certainly a
vice. If cheerfulness be not health, assnredlv
melancholy is disease. Practically. cbeerfnlne:s
occupies very high position, and without #
the Christian laborer is destitute of very con-
siderable element of strength. Cheerfulness
sharpens the edge and removes the rust from
the mind. A joyous heart supplies oil to our
inward machinery, and makes the whole of our
powers work with ease and suficlency hence IL
is of the most importance that we maintain a con-
tented, cheerful, genial disposition. The longer
| am engaged in my Master service, the more
am confident that the JOY of the Lord is and
must be our strength, and that discomfort and
moroseness are fatal usefulness. With all NV
heart would say to my fellow servants, IRE
joice in the Lord always not only for your own
sakes, but for the sake of the work which is so
dear to you. Whoever may advocate dreary
dullness, | cannot and dare not do otherwise
than impeach it as an enemy of religion
Reu. c. H. Spwgeon. p i
Year: 1867

Everybody remembers the fable of the old
man and the bundle of sticks, separately they
were broken with ease, bound together they
were infexibe as the trunk of an oak Organ
ization gives US just this power-NortoM Nr-
Qiaian.
Year: 1867

People who brood over their sorrows are usual
ly successful in Matching numerous family; and
those who nurse their rage to keep it warm"
are sure ofa comfortable temperature of indigna-
tion. ~
Year: 1867

"Generation after generation, saws
fine writer, "hsve felt as we now iceland
their lives were as active as our own.
they passed like a vapor, while nature
wore the same aspec OF beauty as when
her Creator commanded her 10 be. They
will have the same attractions Tor our OIL
spring vet unborn. INA, she had once for
US as children. Yet a li,,le while, and all
will have happened. The 'hrobblng
heart will be stuffed. and we shall be at
rest. Our funeral shall find lis way. and
and prayers will be said, and we shall be
lef alone in silence and in darkness Tor
the worms. And it may be for short
time we shall be spoken Of. bot the things
of life will creep in. and our names VIII
soon be forgotten. Days will continue
to move on, and laughter and song Will
be heard in the room in which we d;
and The eyes that mOUrned for US will be
dried, and gIrsen again with JOY and
even our children will cease to think OF
us and will not remember 10 lisp our
ame -
Year: 1867

New YoRK, June 1s.
During the thunder storm this afternoon
the Roman Catholic church, situated on For.
ty>second street, near Ninth avenue, was
struck BY lightning and injured in such man
ner that it will have to be taken down.