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Year: 1871

Some cay animals have no reasoning
faculties, but l sometimes think they
have. Take the horse, for instance +; he |
will identify his master at u distance,
among any nuab ber Of persons, even
though he may be dressed as much like
the others as possible. I once read an
anecdote Of horse whose master was
accidentally injured long way from
home; this horse returned to the house,
and neighed so loudly that it brought
the family to the door, when they saw he
was alone. The son mounted him and
rode back, when the horse carried him to
where his injured mas'er lay on the
ground. Had it not been for this faith
ful animals sagaclty, the man would
have perisheI


A friend of mine once was coming
home from distant town in the night
and lost bis way after trying vainly to
find it, ho laid the reins on his horses
neck, and said, Go home, Fannie
She turned into another road unk now
to him, and tho gentleman wa. soon at
his own door. Horses are very quick of
discernment.


An elephant also remembers the
slightest favor or injury. suppose you
have oil heard the story of the tailo,
who gave an elephant cabbage or some
such thing every day; but once ht
pricked him with his needle. Tn,
menagerie to which he was attached
moved away from the town that day
but some months after, returned tina
say, long after tho tailor had forgotte
the affair. Not so the elephant. II
showed his fnc memory by going to
pool Of dirty water and filing his t'un
With the liquid and squirting is all ove
the tailor, who sat sewing at his bench.


Once an artillery train was going ov,
sroad 10 India, and man fell of.
another second the whecll would ha,
gone over bis body when an elepha,
which was walking by his side Instant
without any ono telling him, lifted Il
wheel from the ground, and the fall,
man was Suhurt. Did not that she
Sagscity-almost scasoainY tovess ?.


Young Folks &srai.
Year: 1871

The beautiful schooner Loleta of
Seattle arrived at her wharf on Thurs
day evening last, in tow of the Tug
Samson. She made the trip from San
Francisco to Cape Flattery in the IN
preeedented time of five days and four
hours. At Port Townsend she broke
both anchors in a heavy blow, and drift
ed ashore, doing some injury to her rud-
der post and false keel. These injuries
will be readily repaired. The taut little
craft did not leak drop.
Year: 1871

This most painful of the diseases
of the nails is caused by the i'm.
proper manner of cutting the nail,
generally Of the great toe,) and
then wearing a narrow, badly
made shoe. The nail beginning
to grow too long, and rather wide
ut the corners, is trimmed around
the corner, which gives temporary
relief. But then it begins to grow
wider in the side where it was cut
off; and. as the shoe presses against
the corner, the nail cuts more and
more into the raw flesh, which be
comes excessively tender and ir-
ritable. If this state continues
long the toe becomes nlceratei, and
fungus (proud fiesl) sprouts up
from the sorest points. Walking
generally increases the suffering,
till positive rest becomes indispen-
sable


Ireatment.-We omit all modes
of cutting out the nail by the root,
and all other cutting or torturine
operations. Begin the effort at
cure by simple application to the
tender part of a small quantity of
perchloride of iron. 1t is found in
drug STOKES in a fluid form, though
sometimes in powder. There is
Immediately moderate sensation
of pain, construction or burning
In a few minutes the tender sur.
face is felt to be dried up, tanned
or mum nificd, and it ceases to be
painful. The patient, VINO could
not before put his foot to the floor,
now finds that he can walk upon
it without pain. BY permitting
the hardening, wood like flesh to
remain for two or three weeks, it
can easily be removed by soaking
the foot in warm water. A new
and healthy structure is found,
firm and solid, below. Thereafter
If the nails be no more cut around
the corner and sides, but always
curved acroes in the front end,
they will in future grow only
straight forward; and by wearing
a shoe of reasonably good size and
shape, all further trouble will be
avoided. Bostsoick's Med. and
Sur. Journal.
Year: 1871

A MARRIED WOMAN Who Gors
TO ScHooL.-The love of learning
IN some minds does not die after
marriage, and perhaps not after
death. There is a little nerson
with long, f1axen hair, a straight
thin nose, and watery, blue eyes.
attending one of our city schools,
who has been married over year
Herself and her dear old man
(tbeir combined ages about IS
years. came here from Alabama
shortly after they were made one.
They were considerably annoyed
at first by the bulky charges of
interruptions boarding house keep.
ers' and were kept knocking around
like a cloud in a gale of wind for
some months. Finally, however,
peace settled upon them in a two,
roomed cottage in a back alley,
where they can live cheap. She
has been going to school for cou
pie OF months, and whenever the
weather is fine her little negro ser.
want goes to meet her with the ba.
by about 3 o'clock in the forenoon.
IL is as curious as interesting to
observe the little fiaxen.haired
mother exchange her books and
slate for the bundle of shawl with
a face peeping ont of it at the street
corner. 1t is also affecting to OBJ
serve that little face grow red
under the multiplied kisses of the
school, as they are applied, with
nndiminished fervor, day after
day.-Nemphis appeal.
Year: 1871




Easto-s Southern CssZtsyator
We ofen hear house.keepers saw
what q beautiful cucumber vine
we had, but the drought has killed
it; its too hot to raise cucumbers
any how" Try my plan. good
reader, and sec if you wont think
differently hereafter. Dig holes
three feet deep two and a half feet
wide, put in one peck of hog pen or
COW pen manure, one peck of very
rotted cotton seed, two tablespoon.
fn!s OF salt and enough of surface
soil to fill the whole, and mix well.
Around this hole dig a treuc!,
twelve inches deep and FIJI half tnll
OF fine charcoal; the rest with dirt
plant three seed in the CENTRE
When mp thin to one, keep we'll
hoed, and just when the vine starts
to run, cut a thick busl,y tree about
six feet high, sharpen and drive
down near your vine and trail the
vine upon the bush. Get a large
gourd or tin can, attach metal piSe
and sink this pipe four or five inch.
es under the ground near the root
SO that by filling the 'gourd or can
with water, (Which should be done
once day,) it will water without
wetting the surface which should
be kept well pulverized with an
iron rake. just at er every good
soaking rain put a pint of LIQUID
manure in your can. Proce, d "a
above, and the number of cucum.
oers that one vine will produce will
astonish any one. Keep them we'll
gathered. Two or three will come ,
for every one you pull off.


Will some of the ladies give me
a good receipt for making cucum.
ber pickle .


YOUNG BACHELOR


Forest Home, S. c., Jan, 1871.
Year: 1871

The mere fact that children are
born with their fists doubled up
is q strong proof that nature in.
tended that onr success in this,
world should depend on the cour
age with which we flight onr way"
through it.
Year: 1871

The pumpkins grow so large ont
west that they are obliged to turn
them over by putting the ends of
rails under them. One of them
scooped ont forms a very good
meeting house for small society
Year: 1871

Goethe was in company with a
mother and daughter. when the lat
ter, being raproved for something
blushed and barst into tears. He
said to the mother: How beautiful
your reproach has made your
daughter. That crimson hue and
those silvery tears becomes her much
better than any ornament of gold or
pearls; those may be hung on the
neck of any woman; these are ever
seen connected with moral purity.
A full-blown flower sprinkled with
the purest hue is not 50 beautiful as
this child blushing beneath her
parents displcasure, and shedding
tears of sorrow for her fault. \ blush
is the sign which nature hangs out
to show where chastity and honor
dwellS "
Year: 1871

From the Louisville Courler-JOurnal.


4 radical paper over in Indiana
accuses us Of having said that the
Cardiff Giant would make Il safer
and better President than General
Grant. We have no recollection of
having said anything OF the sort,
And it is strange, too, that We never
said it, for we have always made it Il
point never to leave such truths un-
said


We believe truly" says the
Camden Republican. that when Gen
eral Butler went into the Senate
where Garret Davis was speaking
he had no idea of insulting that gen
tleman." Maybe he hadn't; but he
ought to know that for him to go in
the presence of Il gentleman any
where is to insult him,


Secretary RObesou's scheme for
getting into the the White House is
unique. to say the least of it. 1t is
simply to run for the Vice Presi-
dency with the Hon. Victoria c.
Woodruff, and then, if the ticket
succeeds, to marry the President.


We would like much to say of
General Butler when he dies that
he leaves


"A name to after times.


Linked TO one virtue and Il thousand
but we very plainly see that his
want of the virtue Will inevitably
spoil the quotation.


4 correspondent at Lexington
offers to send us "a lot Of old news
papers containing much Anticipated
news" We are greatly obliged to
him, but we don't need the papers
now, as we get the Cincinnati En-
quirer regularly.


Mexico, says the Albany Argus.
SIS on the eve Of a revolution We
don't want to put the Argus to any
unnecessary trouble. but we should
like for it to tell Us when Mexico
was on the eve Of anything else.


An exchange says Grants admi-
nistration IS rs weak as water
Very true. and vet it has more
whisky mixed with it than any adj
ministration We have ever had.


\ negro page in the National
House of Representatives This is
indeed the darkest page in the his
tory OF Congress.
Year: 1871

FEMININE CRITICISM. - The Tri-
bune complains that certain obscure
journals take it to task from time to
time for a lack Of appreciation of
the fair sex, and undertake to give it
lessons in criticism, and that the
following is what they demand:


Criticism must sheathe its claws: ::
put buttons on its foils; lay down
Its truth telling spectacles; look
only through Ios9-cOlOred glasses,
AMI speak no language but that fur
nished to order by the friends and
adherants OF the epicence genius
1t must shut its eyes to faults that
are jumping at them from canvas or
marble. Even silence is a crime.
1t must wreck its own conscience
by praising denominations. If it can
say nothing Of the work it must
praise the artist All women have
something ami ,ble about them
praise that say the fierce defend
ers Of feminine effort. If the LADY
in question he deficient in personal
charm, praise her hat, or her water
proof, or her bronze boots. If a
man cannot find something worth
praising in a woman, he is a brute
and a savage.


The Tribune says that it is not
to con such lessons, that
though it is not disposed to treat
women precisely as men, there is a
point at which chivalrous reticence
and indulgence should cease.
Year: 1871

4 good story is told of a man who
went for the first time to a bowling
alley and kept firing away at the
pins to the eminent peril of the boy,
who. SO far from having anything to
do in setting up the pins, was
actively engaged in an endeavor to
avoid the ball of the player, which
ratified on all sides of the pins with
ont touching them. At length the
fellow, seeing the predicament the
boy was in. yelled out as he lnt drive
another ball, Stand in among the
pins. boy, if you don't want to get
hurt
Year: 1871

When an Ohio man finds his wife
unusually pleasant in the morning,
he says he don't care about any
coffee, and then he takes some of the
coffee to chemist and has it ana
lyzed. They most always find more
or less poison. That is an uncertain
way to live.
Year: 1871




A Canadian farmer named Harvey. and
whose melon patch had suffered much from
the stealing propensitics of boys in the
neighborhood. recently attempted to put
stop to his trouble in an ingenious way.
One night as some men were passing his
farm they heard the report of gun, aud
ran to the. place whence the sound proceed :
ed and there found Harvey standing over
a boy who lay moaning. said he had been
shot in the back. and refused to tell his
rame. The farmer ordered the men To
leave, telling them he intended TO shoot
any other person he mi ght ind stealing his
melons. So the neighbors were terrifci
and boys refrained from rcbbinr the patch
thereafter. The joke consisted in the fact
tha. no one had been shot at al. the boy
being in collusion with the man, and mere
ly pretending that he had been wounded
Year: 1871

SENSE AND SExrrMExr.-Honey is not
for the mouth Of an ass.


Every one is the son of his own works


1t is not always the dark place that him
ders. but sometimes the diE eye


Liherality may be carried too far in
thn>. who have children to inherit from
them.


Wisdom is the talent Of buying virtu-
Gus pleasure at the cheapest rate.-Ffe'd-
ing.


Prefer loss before unjust gain for that
brings grief but once; this. forever
Chiffon


Poverty, like other bullies. is formida-
BILE only to those who show they are afraid
Of it.


Virtue, though In rags. may challenge
more than vice set of with the trim OF
greatness.


He who gives advice to a self-cnuceited
man stands himself in need Of fcounsel from
another.


Wit should be used as shield for de.
fense rather than as sword to wound 9th.
ers.-Fmler.


But the greatest error of all is the mis-.
taking or misplacing Of the last or farthes,
end Of knowledge. e.-Bacon.
Nothing that is not real crime make.
a man appear So contemplate in the eyes
of the world as inconstancy.-Addison.


The study Of literature nourishes youth
entertaius old age. adorns prosperity, So
laces adversely, is delightful at home, and
unobtrusive abroad.-Cicero.


When Socrates was told by q friend
that his judges had sentenced him tc
death And has not nature said he,
passed the same sentence upon them 2


There are few mortals so insensible tha,
their affections cannot be gained by mild
ness. their confidence BY sincerity. Their
hatred by scorn or neglect.-Zimmer.
man.


4 beautiful form is better than bean.
tiful face; beautiful behavior is bettel
than beautiful form it gives higher
pleasure that statutes and pictures it is
the finest of the fine arts.


II Is by the PRONUNCIATION of sound NOR
ais in the community. and more especially
BY the training and instruction of the
young. that woman performs her part to.
ward the preservation Of 4 free govern.
ment.- Webster.


When you have anything to communi
cate that viii distress the heart Of the per.
son whom it concerns, be silent in order
that he may hear from some one else. Q
nightingale bring thou the glad tiding.
of spring and leave bad news to the owl


Whenever you argue with another wi
ser than yourself. in order that other.
may admire your wisdom. they will dis
cover your ignorance When one man
ages a discourse better than yourself, al
though you may be fully informed, do no
start objections.
protest against the unfair distribution
of the worlds work. which can only b,
well dcne when every man and woman i,
fitted to work, left free to choose the field
ia which 10 work. and condemned by pub
lie opinion If they refuse to work.-Csli,
BGrleiyh.


Like morning dream life become
more and more bright the longer We live
and the reason Of feverything becomes NOR
clear. What has puzzled US before seem
less mysterious, and the crooked path
look straishser as We approach the end
RscAfcr.
Year: 1871

Don't forget that the great closing sale at LEVY
BROTHERS Is being continued. During tho late
spell of rain, hail. and sleet, the proprietors and
employees have given the stock thorough over
hauling, and have added many articles to She
cheap list already published in this paper. Even
should the weather not clear OF before the 'cbange
Of the moon,' those In want Of dry goods should
not delay making their purchases, as many cheap
lots may disappear before the clouds vanish.
Year: 1871

THERE Is no greater comfort than well fitting
shirt and we advise all in want OF perfsct.fting
shirt to call on Z. Il. SPENCE Il SON and leave
their measure for some OF those celebrated Penn
broke shirts. They are as good as the best and az
low as the lowest. Perfect 1T or no sale. Call at
1900 Main street for all kinds of gentemen's wear.
Year: 1871

A SYSTEM OF VOTING by the audience at the
Skating Rink assemblies for the fsvorite skater
Will take place at every night assembly, and the
one getting the largest number OF votes at the end
al the week will receive free admission TO the
rink for one week and Il badge of honor. This
system will he commenced next week.
Year: 1871




Which shows a majority of 357 In favor
of the subscription.


The large majority in favor of the promo
sition is terrible rebuke to the illiberaiity
OF the controlling spirits in the SUSPENSION
Bridge Company, and shows conclusively
that the people are determined to crush out
the monopoly that has been so damaging To
the interests of the public at large. some
OF the stockholders are not responsible for
the narrow-mnded policy pursued bv the
present Bridge Company, but in their views
have been overTuled by the majority of
stock against them. We believe If the prc-
position to cross the bridge by the street rail-
road had been left to the vote of the stock
holders, that the privilege would have bsen
granted, but in all such matters there has
been a controlling power that could not be
moved.


EdSefieid having taken the initiative in
this great public improvement. and sub
scribed liberally in behalf of the enterprise
It now deyOlyes on Nashville To second her
efforts. The county Of Davidson, too, is
expected to come to the rescue. and help in
an enterprise which will I've of public bene-
lit. Keep the ball moving until the Cum
berland IS spanned with magnificent stone
arched bridge which viii last forever.
Year: 1871

. The result of the Texas Congressional
election is of greater consequence than many
imagine. 1t will have considerable effect on
the election for new Legislature on the
Fl 22d Of December next. The State has lust
revealed Democratic majority of about
fifteen thousand. after canvass in which
abe ruling party did all that cunning pro-
scription could do, TO secure a majority ON
, C the other side. If this should be repeated
in December, the Radi al party will, it is
predicted, be completely oyerthrown, and
The State pass into the hands of its real
people, with prospect of an impeachment
HI Gov. Davis, and the trial of those officials
who have been guilty Of corruption and op-
preston in Office
Year: 1871

In view OF the attempts made by the
Freeedmen's Bureau officials to whitewash
Gen. Balloch's late financial transgressions,
it may be well TO state that the Secretary of
War is Of the opinion that under the exist
ing laws, Gen. Balloch is guilty of felony.
The secretary says if his department had
charge of the case Gen, Balloch would
long ago have been turned over to the
bureau Of justice. Balloch's case is now
in the hahdS of the Treasury officials, and
there is no prospect that the delinquent will
ever be dealt with except to have report
palliating his offense. #M
Year: 1871

The New York Eagle contains the
following scathing notice of the new
Supreme Judges who so quickly decided
the legal tender case:


What can be said of the swift sub
serviency of Messrs. Strong and Brad
ley? Let the curtain fall and cover them
from view. They sat in the case which
in its principles they had advocated as
attorneys in the same court. They rem
dered the decision which they stipulated
to render in advance and as the price Of
their appointment. Jefireys was not
more plastic to James than these Ameri-
can judges have been to the President
who appointed them and to the railroad
corporations in interest whose counsel
they were before and whose judges they
are now. In country whose sense of
honor was not debauched and whose con-
science was not drugged, these men
could not hold up their heads an hour
after denouring justice in her own tenn
pie. Hereafter no honorable man can
call them honorable For as long in the
future as this tribunal exists, its proud
history in the past survives to wither its
renegade members Of to-day. With the
departed honor of the Supreme Court
has vanished the last excuse for respect
ing a system prostituted beyond recog-
nition. If the people consent to any
thing less than the political extirpaton
of the influences that have made such
disgrace possible and actual, then will
Americans have lost the right to every
thing but to the disgrace itself, and to
the contempt of their posterity.
Year: 1871

Doctor Hall in his health articles gives
the following reasons why married per-
sons live longer than those who remain
single:
Bachelors are always in state of un-
rest; they feel unsettled. II indoors
after supper, there is sense of solitari-
ness, inducing a sadness, if not settled
melancholy, with its depressing inau-
ences; and many hours in the course of
the year are spent in gloomy inactivity,
which is adverse TO a good digestion and
a vigorous and healthy circulation. His
own chamber or house being so unin-
viting, the bachelor is inclined to seek
diversion outside, in suppers with friends,
in clubs which are introductories to in
temperance and dlicentiousness,o or to those
more unblushing associations which, un-
der coler of darkness, lead to the speed,
ruin of health and merals; and when
these are gone, the way downward to an
untimely grave is rapid and certain. On
the other hand, marriage lengthens a
mans life by its making home inviting;
by the softening influences which it has
upon the character and the affections;
by the cultivation of the better feelings
Of our nature, and in that proportion
saving from vice and crime There can
be no healthful development of the
physical functions of our nature without
marriage; it is necessary to the perfect
man, for Divinity has announced that it
was not good for man to be alone.


Marriage gives laudable and happy
object in life-the provision for wife and
children, their present comfort and fu-
ture welfare, the enjoyment in witness
ing their happiness, and the daily and
the hourly participation in affectionate
interchange of thought and sentiment
and sympathy; these are the considera-
tons which antagonize sorrow and
tighten the burdens of life; thus strew-
ing flowers and casting sunshine all
along its pathway.


Voitaire said: 1.-THE more married
men you have the fewer crimes there
will be. Marriage renders man more
virtuous and more wise. An unmarried
man is but half perfect being, and it
requires the other half TO make things
right; and it cannot be expected that in
this imperfect state he can keep the
SLTdlBuJ pdIu VI TCCJituuCt any nOIO
than a boat, with one oar can keep
straight course. In nine cases out of
ten, where married men become drunk
ards, or where they commit crimes
against the peace of the community the
foundation Of these acts was laid while
in single state, or where the wife is, as
is sometimes the case, an unsuitable
match. Marriage changes the current
of mans feelings, and gives him
center for his thoughts, his affections
and his acts. Here is q home for the
entire man. and the counsel, the affec-
tons, the example, and the interest of
his better half keep him from erratic
courses, and from falling into thousand
to which he would other
wise be exposed Therefore, the friend
to marriage is the friend to society and
to his country"