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Year: 1867




When the celebrated physician Aber-
nethy died, report said, that beside a will Of
some interest 90 his hs.rs, in a pecuniaFy
point of view, there was found among his
effects q scaled envelope. said 10 contain
the secret Of his great success, IN the heal
ing art and also a rule OF living, the follow
ing Of which would insure longevity.


4 large price was paid for the sealed en-
velope. 1t was found TO contain only these
words To insure continued health and
ripe Old age, keep the head cool, the system
open, and the feet warm.


Dry feet are warm feet generally, if the
system Is healthy. To keep the system


healthy, the circulation must be good. The


circulation IS not good without exercise


and exercise can only be really valuable


when gotten up by walking. Riding in a
carriage Is not exercise at ali Ii IS merely
inhaliug the air This IS very well so far
as it goes, but the lungs are not in full play


without the individual Is walking Horse
back exercise is very good, and is an i'm
prOyement on carriage riding, but it is not


the kind Of health creating play Of the mus


cles nature demands II Is aetiOn-action


Of the entire body-aud walking only viii
procure It, Now, the ladies Of Europe,
particularly those Of England understand
. this thing They walk miles per day, and
if any Of our pale beauties desire to know


how the English ladies keep up their fine
color, clear complexion aud superb busts,
We tell them that it is outdoor exercise


walking in the open air filing the lungs


with pure oxygen, by rapid movement on
sharp October day, when the sun shines
( brightly and the clear blue sky Is above.
I This is the secret of the rich blood OF The
English women and their almost uHivcT-


sally fne looks and malrouly beauty at fifty.
/ when at that age our American women axe
/ pale, sallow and Wrinkled.


To enjoy walk thick soles are needed.
Stout weelftting calf skin, high CATERS,
neatly laced, viii always set Of n pretty
I foot and improve a h0mely one. To guard
! that sensitive portion Of the human frame
( for the sole Of the foot Is kcenly sensitive
+ to the changes from heat to cold. or drynes,
/ to dampness) the boot sole ,har!4 be thick,
and as well made as human Ingenuity car
! do it. Then, even in moist weather, or in


a lain storm, the foot can he protected.


That insured all is we'll with the body.
Ladies walk more take long walks


yet tired, no matter how tired tired mus
Year: 1867

eles, in any well woman eighteen to forty


eight. only proves that they need to be


used habbv muscles prove that action is


wanted and such muscles also prove that


the system lacks tone. They are Ike a ViO-


lin with the KEYS loose the strings are


without vibration and the instrument is


dead. Buy the best Of calf half-b0ots, Ia


dies exercise with them till you are well


and brave enough to go out, well clad In all


weather. Wear no rubbers if YOU can
avoid it. They are bad for the feet. IF
you need 10 paddle in the slush and soft


snow Of spring put on rubbers, for the feet


must be kept warm and dry, but use them
as little as possible. Wear, when out of
doors, solid soled shoes take all the open
air exercise you can by walking, and you viii
be IN your old age as line looking as you
are now and moreover the next generation
will be as proud Of you as the young fry Of
England are of their stately mothers. We
have seen in Hyde Park, London, on a fair
day, hundreds Of grandmothers, fresh and
really handsome and scores of mothers
with marriagoable dapehters which, had we
boot1 ia che marrying iIue ourselves, 10
should hardly have known which to have
popped the question to, so dazzling was the
real beauty and youth of both. Our Amer
lean ladies can possess these charms and
carry them into the age OF three score, if
they viii walk more in the open air, and In
hale daily the health giving properties
which can be obtained in wearing out a
couple Of pairs Of tip-top ten dollar CATERS
per year. We hold that one ten dollar pair
Dt walking shoes will save twenty doctors
visits, at 5 each. Take your choice ladies'
Year: 1867




The following plain and sensible renorks
upon the absorbing question al The 5av '' ,no ,'s
reproduce from the North Americaa. ro-
served and moderate journal in these davs
OF extremists, and it never spoke the truth
more candidly and substantially


e can find little in the current state of
affairs at the South to induce a hope for
any permanent improvement in that section
so long as the landed aristocracy is suffered
to remain in undisputed mastery of the
country south of the border States. 10 hold
all the political offices. WELD all the politi-
cal power, I'LL every Legislature, control
every court OF justice, and dominate even
the temples Of religion. 1t is purely a mat
ter OF moonshlne to ever expect to reach
these ohgarehs by moral suasion. What
mas transpired since the close of the war Is
sailcient TO show that they will Weld to
nothing but pressure. They realize instinct
lively that just in proportion as we elevate
the masses of the southern poor people.
white and black their own powar rnnst ~.
minlsh, aad hence they oppose to every
movement we make for that purpose the
sternest and most determined resistance.


If we can reach them By no other pro-
cess, we shall be compelled to overthrow
the State governments behind which thew
stand ntrenehed so formidably. All the
measures we devise even to alleviate the
sutierlngs of the Southern people are frus-
trated, by these rebel 0ligarchs. Their pro-
LESSONS Of loyalty extend no farther than
submission that IL unavoidable, to an au-
thorlty they have recently resisted. For
this all attempts now at conciliation seem to
Us to be useless These rebels are rebels
STILL and deserve no other name.
As 10 our trade with that section. it does
not amount to half what our southern trade
would be If the southern masses were prop
erly paid for their toll, and had the means
OF living in any other way than a state of
abect misery and degradation. So far.
therefore, from having any reason to con
clllate them on account Of our southern
trade, we have cause for denouncing them
as the greatest possible enemies of that
trade.


I'VE have no hope that the bestowal Of
the suffrage upon the the colored people
south win effect change But it will do
something toward such a result, and we
must try much more, and perhaps much
longer, before we shall achieve final sue
cess. As to compromising with these arch
enemies of the national peace and prosperi-
ty, We have no need of that 1t Will be
thousand times better to fight out the bat
tie now, while We are at it, than to put off
the struggle, as was formerly our habit.
Year: 1867

Parental affection naturally inquiries what
it can hest do for the welfare of its children
in future years, and when the bosom which
now throbs with love to its offspring shall be
cold in death Many plans are laid, and
many DAYS and hours of anxious sOlicitude
are spent in contTiying ways and means Of
rendering children prosperous and happy
in future life. But parents are not always
wise in the provisions which they seek to
make for their children nor do they always
seek direction and counsel from God in this
matter The pest inheritance for children,
beyond all contradiction IS true piety to-
wards God, the salutary truths and princi-
pies Of religion laid up in the hearts of chill
dren-a good eiucaiion-go0d and virtuous
habitS-uubeudin principles of moral con-
duct-the fear Of God, and the hope OF
heaven This is the inheritance fol children,
and which all parents should be most anx-
ious to lay up for them.


Many an unwise parent works hard and
lives sparingly all his life, for the purpose of
leaving enough to give his children start
In the world, as it Is called. Setting young
man afoat with money left him by his rela-
tives, Is like tying bladders under the arms
Of one who cannot swim ten chances TO one
he will lose the bladders, or go to the bot
tom Teach him to swim, and he will not
need the bladders.


Give your children a sound education;
See to it that his morals are pure, his mind
cultivated, aud his whole nature made sub
/ servient to the laws which govern man, and
1 YOU have given what will be more valuable


than the wealth of the Indies. You hav'
given him a start which no misfortune cal
deprive him Of The earlier you teach HIN


to depend upon his own resouler, aait b.


blessing OF God the better,
Year: 1867

How strange it seems with so much gone
OF life ana love, 10 still love on
Ah. brother, only I and thou


are iefl Of all that circle now


The dear home faces whereupon


hat fitful freight paled and shone.


Heneelorward. hasten as we will,
The voices of that hearth are still
Look where we may the wide earth O. er
Those lighted faces shine no more.
We tread the paths their feet have worn,
We sit beneath their orchard trees,
We hear Ike them the hum Of bees
And rustic of the bladed corn


We turn the pages that they read,
Their written words We hnger o er
But in the sun they cast no shade,
No voice is heard, no sign is made,
No step is on the conscious fOori
Yet love win dream, and faith viii trust,
Since he who knows our need is lust,
That sUFauhuu, aoaaoTrhcre, meet we muSt
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress trees
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks TO see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play
Who hath not learned in hours Of faith,
The truth to flesh and sense unknown.
That Life is ever Lord of Death,
And love can never lose It's own
Year: 1867

A was guided in my choice only by the
blind affections Of my youth. | found an
intelligent companion and tender friend.
prudent mOnltTess, the most faithful of
wives, and a mother as tender as children
ever had the misfortune to lose. | met a
woman who, by tender management of nv
weaknesses, gradually corrected the most
perunacious Of them. She became prudent
from affection and though of the most gen
erOus nature, she was taught frugality and
economy by her love for me. During the
most critical period Of my life, she relieved
NE. She gently reclaimed me from dissapa-
ton she propped my weak and irresolute
nature she urged my Incidence to all the
eXertlons that have been useful and credita-
bic to me, and she was perfectly at hand to
admonlsh my hecdlessness or improvidence.
To her owe whatever [ am; to her what
ever l shall be. In her solicitude for my
interest she never for a moment forgot nv
feelings or character. Even in her occasional
resentment, for which | but too often gave
her cause, would to God / could only recall
those momentsil she had no sullenness or
acrimony. Her feelings were warm nav i'm
petuous; but she was placable, tender, and
constant: Such was she whom have lost,
when her excellent natural sense was RAPIDLY
improving, after eight years struggle and
distress had bound US fast together, and
nodded our tempers to each other: when a
knowledge of her worth had refined my
youthful love into friendship, and before age
had deprived it of much of its original ardor.
l lost her, alas the choice of my youth, the
partner Of my misfortunes, at moment
when had the prospect of her sharing my
better days. -Sir James 4H1ciatosh.
Year: 1867

THE MOTHER. There Is something in
sickness that breaks down the pride OF man
hood, that softeus the heart, and brings Ii
back to the feelings of infancy Who that
has languished even in advanced life, In
sickness and dependency; who that has
pincd on a weary bed, in the loneliness and
neglect Of a foreign land, but has thought
of the mother that looked on his child
hood. that smoothed his pillow aud admin
iSterel to his helpiessuess? OH there Is an
enduring tenderness in the love of a mother
10 & son, that transcends all other affections
Of the heart. 1t Is neither to be chilled by
scIf.huess, nor daunted by danger, nor
stiGcd by ingratitude. She will sacrifice ev-
cry comfort to his convenience; she win sur
render every pleasure 10 his enjoyment; she
viii glory in his fame and exult in his pros
Darily; and, If misfortune oyertake him, he
viii be dcarcr to her from misfortune; and if
disgrace settle upon his name, she will still
love and cherish him in spite Of his disgrace;
and if all the world beside cast him off, she
will be all the world to him
Year: 1867

a truthful soul, q loving mind.


Full Of affection for its kind


a spirit firm, erect, and free,


That never bGsely bend the knee
That VIII not bend a feather weight
OF slavery 5 chain for small or great
That truly speaks from God Within
That never makes a league with sin
That snaps the letters desPois make,
Aud loves the truth for It's own sake
That worshjps God and Him alone,
And bows no more than at MS throne
And tremb.es at no tyraut's nod
4 soul that fears no one but God,
Aud thus can smile at curse or ban -
This is the soul that makes the man.
Year: 1867

BG~WHEN General Butler first commen-
ced the practice of law he was noted for re-
markable shrewdness. While very busy in
his office one day, he was interrupted by the
entrance Of a farmer. Mr.. Butler desired
him to state his case as briefly as possible,
as he had important business to attend to.
The farmer asked him what redress he could
have against a person whose dog had stolen
a piece of meat out ofhis wagon Mr.. But
ler told him to make out his bill for the price
of the meat, and Unnecessary to enforce pay
ment. "Well, says he, ''Mr. Butler, it
was your dog stole the moatll' MAKE out
your bin, sir, replied Mr. B., and l will
pay it, which was done, and the farmer
went on his way rejoicing Not content,
however with his success, he must boast of
it to all his neighbors This reaching the
ears of Mr.. Butler, he Immediately sued out
a writ against the farmer in the sum of ten
dollars for legal advice which, with the costs
he was compelled to pay, and was dismissed
By Mr. Butler with the advice, that when
friend did favor for him not to let the
world know il.
Year: 1867

1t is said that at recent audience given
by the Pope, an American lady stepped for
ward upon the entrance Of his Holiness. and.
with the peculiar nasal tWang of the New
England States, thus spoke: Glow dye do,
Pope Plus Ninth l want to introduce YOU
to my dartsr Jane" His Holiness appeared
to take the matter very good humorediy, and
to appreciate the joke, while the Americans
present were overwhelmed with mortifeafion.
Year: 1867

The debate in the Connecticut Legfsla-
ture ON the divorce laws brings out the fact
that during the past year four hundred and
eighty eight dissolutious Of the marriage
bond occurred in that small State. and that
during the previous year there we're quite as
many divorces. One lawyer who took part
in the debate, said he had himself procured
within the year three divorces for one WO-
man! This beats Chicago.
Year: 1867

bio Of very extensive improvements.
, had intended to write of a con.
cert given by the young ladies last
evening, 10 which evidence was given
Of q very hi. b order of musical train
ing, and also Of q series Of gymnastic
exercises, but / have already written
too long letter, and I will conclude
with the remark that the teachers
employed in tho Seminary, from the
excellent Principal down, are both
competent for the performance of
their tasks, and enthusiastically de-
voted TO the work. "


There are in Oxford three other
Female Seminaries, all doing a good
work. OF those ! shall write at an-
other time.
Year: 1867

Girls, beware of transient young
gentlemen; never suffer the addresses
ofa stranger recollect that one good
steady farmer boy or mechanic is
worth oil the floating trash in the
worldj the alIurements Of dandy jack
with gold chain about bis neck, q
walking stick in his paw, some honest
tailor's coat on his back, and brnin'
less skull, can never make up the loss
Of o kind fathers hous3, a good moth
er's counsel, and the society Of broth
er's and sisters; their affections are
never lost while that Of such young
man 10 lost At the wane Of the honey
NOON. ITia trne.
Year: 1867

THE JANIS RIyxR.-Parties from down the
river report that at City Point the ice is solid
from shore TO shore. Near jamestown there
are several coal loaded sohooners and several
oyster boats bound TO this port waiting for
navigation to be eresumed.-Rickmond Timer :
Year: 1867

The HUMoRs OF POCKET PICKIEG.-A few
nights since as the sexton OF one Of the New
London [C&.) churches was ringing the bell
for O'Clock, stranger dropped in and wished
to be "showed about the church" The sexton
took his lantern and showed him very polite
ly about, but when the stranger had departed
out OF sight, he learned that ne was minus his
NJ
Year: 1867

The Detroit Press remarking on the
general disposition among farmers to
thin out their flocks,n in consequence of
the unsatisfactory condition of the wool
market, says: 1--WE believe this is n
mistaken policy. For the last twenty
years we doubt ifan instance can be
cited in which either high prices for
wool or extreme low ones have ruled
more than three years consecutiyely.
In disposing of their sheep on account
of low prices, and enlarging their focks
on account of high. ones, farmers have
therefore worked steadily against their
own interests. By the time they work
themselves into the position of small
producers, prices are almost certain to
be remunerative, and rice rersa. At the
present juncture there is double motive
for retaining possession of sheep, for by
the time the stock of goods that was in
the country at the time of enactment of
the tariff shall have become worked of.
wool growers will begin to reap the ben.
eft of that measure which thsy. conld
not do when the country was liter
ally flooded with goods, part of which
came into the country under the old tar.
III. Improbable as wool growing has
been during the past season, if there Is
any truth in the adage that misery
loves company, our farmers can derive
some consolation from the fact that thew
did better with the wool than those who
invested in it after it left their hands.
Year: 1867

A Radical journal in this State, which
is rather more pert than prominent,
wants to know whether We entertain
for moment the idea of entrusting the
Government of our country or State to
those very men who have done all in
their power to break the Government
and the country downf Whether it
does not seem natural that the men,
who had their hands in that crime,
should keep quiet, very quiet, and thank
God, that they live in country. where
a magnanimous though terribly out
ragged and insulted people is treating
them with an unhesrd of leniency y


The ground of the above elegant in
quiries is the course of the REGISTER in
denouncing the intoleraHt and proscrip-
tive measures of Radicalism in West
Virginia. Because we have seen fit to
protest, as best we could, against the
injustice done large portion of the
people of this State by the present Reg
istration system, We are held to advo-
cate the delivery of this State and ma
tion to the control of these men who
were connected with the late Confed-
eracy. The author of the above ques-
tions, if in earnest, deserves a straight
jacket much more than q refutation.
Nevertheless, as he is still at large, it
will be charitable to affect a belief in
his sanity. To such shattered remains
of reason as may have survived the re-
cent transfer Of himself to the powers of
darkness as represented by BoREAAN,
We address our reply.


In the first place, men of his kidney
have no right to utter such imperti-
nence. Had nobody done any more
than himself or owner in the way of
personal resistance to the rebellion,
there woulo now be two governments
in full blast on this continent. People
whose patriotism skulked and lodged,
and who brayed their loyalty" behind
other mems bayonets, and vigorously
waited for "the next CALL. have no
title to prate of a rebellion they feared
to face, or to denouace "a crime which,
oral they did to prevent it, would long
since have been contaminated. =,
Year: 1867

In the next place the man who ac-
cuses the Democratic party OF its or
gans, OF purpose to revive the dead re-
beilion is either q ninny or a knave. If,
at the time the war broke out, our "anx-
ious inquirer" was able to understand
the English language, he must know
that at least four-ffths of the present
population of this State had then
neither identity nor sympathy with the
secession movement. 1t is easy to see
that subsequent events have not de-
creased that proportion. Further facts
are unnecessary. To candid mind the
history of West Virginia is the best an
swer TO all Radical sneers against her
people. A corrupt man, whose very
soul is owned and inspired by superior
corruption, would hardly be convinced
by a revelation from Heaven.


In the next place, the investment of
the late rebels with political powers is
not, and for nearly two years, has not
been a political issue in our midst. The
simple question is, shall men, untouched
by treason, be disfranchised without
offence, evidence, OF trial, simply be-
cause they are opposed to the reign of
Radicalism in our bordersi For fully
year the practice has been pursued of
depriving men Of the right of suffrage
merely because they 9Oald not rote the Radi-
cal ticket. It has been pursued without
law, without justice and by irresponsi-
bic tribunals. 1t is wicked, it is
despotic, it is infamous. We advocate
its abolition. We contend that even
under Radical enactment, every man
who has not aided or assisted the late
rebellion, should vote, no matter
with what party he acts. The
Radical policy is to exclude
from the ballot, wherever possible,
every man who will not act with the
Radical party. We remember to have
heard, within few months, a prominent
Radical leader and legislator declare,
that mo ID Democrat or Conserva-
tive should be permitted to vote in
West Virginia" This is the anilnus
of extreme Radicalism. Opposed to it,
is the doctrine that every man whom
the Constitution of West Virginia de-
elares entitled to the right of suffrage
shall exercise that right. Will the
small sheet which we are noticing state
which of these opposing doctrines it is
now engaged in advocatingf