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DKS ARC, ARKANSAS.
Has and will keep on band a largo and good
selection of
F ii li i ture
Of all kinds, suitable for the market, which
he offers on very reasonable terms. Also, a
lot of
Ij I >1 E .
\ j n. GKO. W. VADKN is doing business
i\! with J. Sims Ai.i.f.n, and would res
pectfully inform his old friends and acquain
tances, that he is still alive and kicking at the
old stand, and would be most lipppy to see all
of his old friends, renew acquaintances and
both start anew to fortune. < all, gentlemen.
I promise to do you no harm—but think I can
make it to your interest to do so. junJo
!)I1S ,YUO
SALOON 2 2
HO! everyone, that would have something
good for the inner man! Old Peach and
Honey, the finest Whiskey, Brandy, Wine and
Bitters of every kind, fitted up and accommo
dated to the taste of the
MOST FASTIDIOUS.
Fresh Oysters, Sardines, Crackers, Cheese,
Nuts, Fine Cigars, Fine Tobacco, Apples,
Fruits, Ac. In fact, everything pertaining or
belonging to a first class Saloon, may be
found on band at the Bus An*’ Sai.oon, on
liuena visin 01., h<*m uum * *■
vis’ Drusr Store. Call and sue that is all so.
,1 II. WILLIAMS.
Dos Arc, November 3, 18GG.—tf
WVBRY AND SALS
—BY—
POE &. WELLER,
WOODRUFF ST., - - - DCS ARC,
(XEAJi THE “CITIZEN OFFICE.”)
milE TRAVELING l’l'B
1 lie will tind the Prnpri . )ijl.-1 jtOSL
etors of this Stablt; always prcpa. e«t to iuruisii
HACKS. REGGIES and HORSES to go to
any part of the country. Horses boarded by
the day, week or mouth,
ootIUtf. TOE & WELLER.
II AH 0\V I UK HOilSE,
NOS. Cl, G3 AND 03 ADAMS STREET,
Mlr-UPmS, TEA A.
TTRTE proprietors tender many thanks to the
L public for the liberal patronage extended
to them for the past year. The house has
within the past few months been thoroughly
Renovated, Painted and Furnished.
The House is now open to the ptthiic at the
following rales :
Transient, per day.S 3 00
Per Week.i.R18 00
Per Month.SCO 00
Day Board Per Month,.S33 00
OPEN AT ALL HOURS.
HARDWICK ,k NEALTP.
«et27-3iit Proprietors
DES ARl’ ADVERTISEMENTS.
It. G, GILL, J. G. GILL,
G 1 L L & B R O.,
Des _A.i?Ci Ark.,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED TIIEIR
NEW STOCK OB'
FALL AND WINTER
GOODS,
CONSISTING OF LADIES & GENTS
DRESS GOODS,
OF ALL KINDS,
Hits, Cap-, Boots, Shoos,
LADIES CLOAKS AND HATS,
CSotDlnsi, jSotloiiss, I'tmcy "VVliite
GOtl JAW
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Usually kept iu Dry Goods Houses. Also a
nice lot of
FAMILY GROCERIES,
Queensware, Hollow-Mare, Hardware,
Glassware, &c., &c, •
MTe take the greatest pleasure in showing
our stock, and furnishing n list of prices to
the public, so they may be their own .judges
as to where they can get the best bargains.
M e will pay the highest market prices
for all kinds of Country Produce «sul Cotton
Please give us a call before purchasing else
where.
oof8- GILL & BRO.
Des Arc, wYi*k.
H AVING purchased the entire interest of
IJazen, Rliiltency & Co., would
respectfully inform the public, that they arc
now receiving and opening, a most desirable
stock
CLOT LI TNG,
IJoOts and i®9lioos?
AND A GENERAL STOCK OF
a R O C B ±1 IBS.
These were all purchased at the lowest fig
ures, and will be sold to their old -cwsloniers.
all good new ones, and cash buyers, as low as
any well regulated House in the State.
The Ladies will find a full line of Goods—
handsome, good and cheap. An extra bar
gain in Ladies’ Cloaks, Hats, and Dress
Trimmings.
Be sure and give us a call, and we will
guarantee a pleasant and satisfactory trade.
We have on hand a good supply of Bagging
and Rope, and in a few days will he iu re
ceipt of
Kiieon, Lard, Fish, Cheese, Su
gar, t’ofiee. Molasses. Candles,
Soap, Cooking Stoves, Castings,
And in fact, almost every article usually sold
in this market.
HAZE A & McPITEESON.
Des Arc, October 5, 1800—oct8-tf
x>rs.xjc3rS i ~
A WELL SELECTED STOCK OF
FRESH DRUGS,
MEDICINES AND CHEMICALS,
School Kooks and Stationery,
Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Window-Glass, Per
fumery, Patent Medicines, Wines, Brandies,
Whiskey, for medicinal purposes.
Dromgoole’s celebrated Southern Remedies,
invariably for cash, at small profits.
inl2l m nxEY & imo.
JOHNSON & DAVIS,
"Wholesale & Retail
DRUGGISTS,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
KEEP Oil hand a large assortment of Drugs,
Medicines, Paints, Oils, Perfumery,
Patent Medicines, Wines. Brandies, Whiskey,
for medical purposes, which we will sell low
for cash. Prescriptions and orders filled
promptly. july21-tf
Des Arc Motel,
SlAJim & EWMDS,
Ri'opi'ietoi's.
r?V[!J8 establishment is now open, for the
X reception of the
TRAVEMXG PSMiLIC.
All persons having regard for convenience
and comfort, would do well to give us a call.
Our table will always be supplied with the
j host that tlie market affords. f«b2S
A PORTABLE EXGIXE AM) BOILER.
ONE Portable Engine and Boiler jpr
with all the fixtures. I? is now in
good running order. A bargain can h(»x~v^x .
had. by applying to Ptitnuel Carr. Arc,
iipmediftifily, ertS-rf
The following fragment t of a poem was
banded to us by Mr R. N. Coilcy, of ‘Woodruff
county, with the request that it bo published.
We present it to our readers without criti
cism, leaving them to judge of it according
to their own standard of taste.
[/'or the Den Arc Vilizcn.]
DESIRE OF WEALTH.
BY F. L. STEEL.
We next inquire
W !i a t is the proper object of desire?
Is wealth? with many this appears to be,
Of all, the greatest object they can sec.
This quite absorbs their feeling and thought,
And with intense avidity is suught.
For this they slight the culture of themind,
For this to ignorance they become resigned;
For This e'en comforts to themselves deny,
For this forgot that they have soon to die.
Why all this mischief? Let us take a view
Of everything unbounded wealth can do,
And see if it is right to be distressed
Because we lack the wealth by some possess’d;
To learn if it is this that we require
To satisfy the heart’s sincere desire.
Riches exempt us, it is true, from toil,
Possessed therewith we need wot till Alio soil:
We need not exercise ourselves in trade,
For money brings the things by others made.
That leelmg by which many are annoyed,
The shame attached to labor, wo avoid;
We need not even labor with the mind,
If rich, unless we feel thereto inclined.
However much we wisdom’s stores neglect.
Many will be dispqged to show respect ;
And we may do what others may not dare,
And scarcely let the crime excite a care.
The claims of justice riches can avert ;
if rich, we may do wrong and nut be hurt.
We can obtain what gratifies the sight,
And pamper well the craving appetite.
The hotly and the mind we tlius might please,
But would it all supply the heart with ease?
Ah! no; whatever profits wealth affords,
True bliss cannot be bought with golden hoards
Why uttered Solomon the grievous sigh?
Why “Vanity of vanities” his cry?
Could not his wealth briug peace into Lis
heart ?
His vast abundance happiness impart ?
Ureat works he made, and houses reared;
His vineyards, doubtless, beautiful appeared;
His gardens and his orchards with their trees.
Bid what they could their, wealthy lord to
I [is pools of water for li is forest wood
Afforded every profit that they coni'.'!;
His numerous servants, uicn and taaids,
essayed
To make lnm happy by their constant aid.
Of gold and silver he possessed enough,
Could bliss have been secured by shining
stuff;
Whatever sounds sweet music could employ,
Were made to lteip to till his soul with joy.
The world regarded him as great and wise,
Aud nought he kept back from his longing
eyes ;
Nor to his heart denied ho anything
Which to it he believed would pleasure bring.
But ah ! his spirit must vexation feel,
Wbicli all his riches had not power to heal;
Because he had left off to fear the Lord,
Aud heeded not as formerly his word.
Vca, 1 have seen, and hence can testify
That it is true which many men deny,
That wealth alone, however great the hoard,
Cannot to man true happiness afford.
One, once I knew, whose wretched ease I may
Employ to prove the truth of what 1 say :
Large was his farm and fertile was his soil,
And num rous were liis slaves thereon to toil;
And everything tbut money could command.
It scented he could with ease have brought to
hand.
Was he not happy? Nay, methiuks that he
Was a true picture of true misery.
His homo was desolito ; his second wife
Left him to wcuu It is way alone through life ;
His widow'd daughter's conduct was so base
That she had fallen into deep disgrace;
His eldest sons despised each other so
As to produce within him greater woe;
With tits one of his younger oft was seized,
His mind was feeble and frame diseased.
Early in life lie went down to the grave,
Nor had li is father’s wealth the power to save.
His youngest son, at college far away,
A victim fell to death’s relentless sway.
Aud when this rich man died, no child was
there
To show to his remains the proper care;
They seized his servants arid with them lied,
And left the neighbors to inter the dead.
U boasted wealth, thy poverty We seel
Why didst thou let those numerous evils be ?
Why didst thou not with peace domestic bless
That wealthy man, and make his troubles less?
Because sweet peace does not from riches
spring;
i is not an cart n Dorn, out a Heavenly ming.
What Will the South Do.
The bloody struggle from which the
! South lias but recently emerged, though
it has left her almost a ruined waste,
has elevated her in the eyes of the
world, and her people arc looked upon
as the most devoted and patriotic
I among the nations. Brave, chivalric,
I and daring almost to rashness on the
I field of battle, they are generous, kind,
| and moved by a spirit of forgiveness in
i peace that places their character in the
I very beauty of sublimity. Generous as
foes and warm hearted as friends, the
Southern people arc not to be surpassed
in those traits which form the loveli
ness and Christian principles of eivili
i gallon.
j This people is now called upon by a
radical minority, who, by chicanery
and the fortunes of war, seized upon
the reins of government to ratify the
I constitutional amendment, a document
which, if carried bv the votes of the
south, would stigmatise her with shame,
and lower the nobleness of character
which she has won upon a hundred well
fought fields to one of cowardice,
i "What will the South do ?” ask the rad
meals. We will answer. The South will
I stand by the pledges she-gave when her
armies surrendered. She has given her
! word to that, and she will never break
| it. She will stajid hv the constitution
of our fathers, and defend that great
i charter of tlie people's liberty with nil
the power at her command. She will
be true to the union—if that union is
one of ccjiialitv to all—but if she has to
ratify the constitutional amendment to
i enter the great sisterhood of states, she
; will keep out until Gabriel has blown
the last note on his trumpet. What!
ratify an instrument that would degrade
ns in the eyes of the world? Never!
never! never!*—[Appeal.
jiQy* Wbnt are we to-morrow that we
are not trt-day?—Older.
I From the Liverpool Courier, (October 12.J
i Estimated Future Supply of Cotton.
The object of this circular is to en
• (leaver to reduce into a definite shape
the probable cotton supply from this
period to the end of 1807. .Such a de
finition would no doubt have been more
accurate if its publication could have
been postponed until the 1st of .(unita
ry, 1807, hut its practical utility might
then he questioned and I might not
have the honor of writing it. People
who have oftentimes troubled them
selves to array in lines of figures the
cotton of the future have been assailed
by those who disagreed with them, as
if they could by their statistics either
enlarge or diminish the supply, or as if
they were inflicting a grievous injury
either upon the supplier or the consum
er, by venturing to appraise the capaci
ty of the world to supply or to con
sume. Hypothetical statistics can do
no harm, because t heir character is writ
ten oil their face: the only way which
they can be confuted is by other hypo
thetical tigurcs, which would be scarce
ly a confutation after all. The general
view about cotton lately has been in
favor of a prospectively over-master
ing supply, against which the present
level of prices would have no chance.
The following considerations seems to
me. scarcely to Warrant that general
view :
The latest American accounts, which
may be taken for what they are worth,
indicate two millions of bales as the
maximum yield of the current crop; I
assume that yield as about the balance
of many conflicting statements. W’luit.
then, will be the weekly supply of all
cottons for America and Europe forthe
sixtv-four weeks terminating with the
year 18t>7 ?
The stock in America is.. bales 200.000
Present American crop.2,000,000
2,200,000
India cotton afloat.2(2,000
Eleven months’ shipments of
India cotton, at an average
of 140,000 bales per month,
to arrive by the 'end of De
iahv i inn;iii
1,782,000
Egyptian crop. 450,000
Mediterranean. 75,000
525.000
Brazil. 500,000
Peru and West India. 125,000
625.000
Stock in Liverpool. 737,000
Stock in hull and London. 90,000
Continental stock-. 210,000
1,037,030
Total.6,169,000
Our weekly home consumption this
year lias averaged say 48,500 bales : and
the continental consumption has been
(including of course what they have
got direct) 20,000 bales per week : then
the American wants are about 16,000
Bales weekly, and this amount may be
augmented, as the Americans are again
making coarse goods, such as sail cloths,
heavy drills, etc. However, 1 sum up
the week requirements of the world as
follows :
64 weeks for England, .bales. 3.104,000
64 weeks for Continent.1,920,000
64 weeks for America-.1,024,000
Total. . 6,048,000
If this estimate of Consumption beat
all warrantable, as compared with that
of supply—specified above—we should
be leit, in Great Britain and the Conti
nent, with scarcely any stock at all at
the end of next year. America would
be better off, because by that time her
new crops of 1867-68 would be coining
in during October, November and i>e
cembcr that would suffice for her re
quirements. But in-as-much as wants
of Europe would always necessitate a
stock of some 600,000 bales. %ve should
: /kt‘ onni'fia li'U'n tn ncnimtiiivo mil* wiiik
j plies, and reduce our consumption.
I calculate, therefore, the consump
' lion as follows, viz:
Eng. 42,000 b. pr week bales 2.700,000
Continent, 28,000.1,800,000
America, 16,000... 1,024.000
5.540.000
Leaving a stock for Great
Britain ajid the continent of,
viz:
400,000 bales Liverpool. 1
50,000 bales London.- 600,00C
■ 150,000 bales Continent. )
6.124.000
A mercantile physician called in to
; prescribe, or prescribing without being
j called in, for the manufacturers, who
1 are now complaining of nuremunera
tive weaving, would obviously make
use of the "short time" recipe. But if
\ the American supply be only 2,000,000,
! events will force short time upon the
i manufacturer without waiting for its
J prescription, for if is clear from tin
above figures that we arc working u|
i our cotton supply on far too liberal ;i
scale, instead of nursing it carefully un
1 til we see clearly before us the certain
ty of an adequate supply. If, pc rad
1 venture, a killing frost should conn
I early, or the labor question provoke
new difficulties, or the President's at
titude toward Congress induce politi
i cal complications adverse to a regulai
l cotton trade—as it would be, of course.
; to all other trades—and the yield of the
season of 1866-67 for the 1’nited States
should fall below 2,000,00!) bales, can it
be doubted that we should again have
inflated cotton prices?
Yet will any one pretend to say tlup
such contingencies arc beyond th<
i range of probability, or that with sue!
contingencies on the card, the future
I supply of cotton can be called unusual
, )y promising?
If our supply of the raw materia
were well sustained during the ncv
J slrtv-four weeks, in all probability the j
I world would take oil the 6,000,000 bales
; during that period in yarns and goods !
! nt about the same proportion of price j
values as those which have ruled dur- :
lug the last lour months ; because our
average production of piece goods have
been during Ibis year much above the
average of the last four years, still the
over sea markets, and even the home
markets, are not over supplied With
'goods. Moreover, the experience of
! the last six months lias been an excep
tional one as regards consumption,
which has had to encounter various ad
I verse influences in the shape of plague,
pestilence, famine, and battle, variously
represented by cholera, rinderpest.
• careitv of food in India, and the rec
tification of the Prussian frontiers. I
had almost omitted the greatest pesti
; lein e of all, viz : the ten per cent, mlui
; mum rate of discount at the Hank of
' England, which can in no sense he said
to have stimulated the production of
piece goods. It is indeed very vent a r
i kahle, remembering all these untoward
: influences, that so much cotton should
i have been consumed during their con
; linuaiice. If our present rate of con
] sum]»tioti continues some months lon
| ger. I believe that cotton will not only
! g.-t no lower, but that it will, on the
| contrary, very considerably augment in
value.
I Arc our prospects for Surat supply
during the next half year particularly
promising ? I till ing I lie last few months
| the trade lias taken of East India cotton
i about 20.000 bales weekly, and the cx
[ ports from Liverpool and London have
been 15,000 bales, or 35,000 bales allo
i gether. Our present supplies of Surat
I are—
i 300,000 bab s Liverpool stock.
0k,000 bales London stock,
i 239,000 bales at sea.
10,000 bales shipments telegraphed.
| 50,000 bales overland for five months.
I 40,000 bales October shipment.(?)
| 793.000 bales.
which at 35,000 bales per week, would ,
! be our supply to the first week in March, i
i and leaves us no stock. Yet if spinners j
i are to have a fair assortment of cotton
from winch to select wnat inev m anr, a
stock of Bengal and Surat in London |
amt Liverpool together should not he :
much under 20,l)0(X What probability I
there is of the existence of stivh a stock
next spring I have endeavored to point
out. The matter is worth a little dis
cussion, for if the stock of Sunils seri
i ouslv declines, spinners must go to the
i longer staples and pay dearer rates.
<lentlemen sharing my views will there
fore consider iOd per lb- for Dhollcrah
as a very moderate price, and will ad
mit that at all events, cotton shipped in
Bombay at about that figure, to arrive \
about February next, ought not to cause
iinv anxiety in the minds of its impor
ters. ‘ J. FOX Tl'lLXEIL
M inch ester, October, I860,
----
Arabic Inventions,
j Xo oilier country lias produced so
many able naturalists as Arabia; and it
! may be regarded as the native home of
botany and chemistry. Certainly the
Arabs knew troth, especially the latter,
better than either the Creeks or the l‘o
mans. So far as history gives us any
account on the subject, they were the
tirsl who applied chemistry to the pur
poses of agriculture. The medical
i schools which they established through
; out their extensive dominions are still
celebrated throughout the world; and
! they were attended for nearly three cen
turies by tiie most learned men in all
; parts of Christendom, as superior to all
others.
It is to them we owe not only the
numerals which hear their name, but |
I also the decimal system and logarithms, i
! it was Adelanl, an English monk, who
lirst translated the Elements of Euclid
j from the Arabic into Latin, with the
commentaries of Abou’l W’efa.
We owe to the Arabs the lirst aeeu
j rate calculation of the obliquity of the
j ecliptic and the circumference of the
j globe; it was they who taught ns the
eccentricity of the sun and the. preces
sion of the enuinoxes. as well as the
j difference between the solar and the
| sidereal year. Many of the most usc
' fill thing's for which we give the credit
I to others, or claim it for ourselves, have
been taught us by the Arabians. This
is true even of paper, although it had
been known in China for more than a
thousand years before the Saracens con
quered Spain. But it was the Arabs
wlio brought it into Europe, and they
had been using it themselves for centu
ries previously. They had paper-mills
I in Samarcand as early as 64<J A. I)., but
; the first paper-mill in Christian Europe
j was established at the end of the thir
teenth century. Even then there was
not one outside the boundaries of Spain
The Italians and French have in turn
claimed the honor of having invented
I the compass, but nothing is more clear
ly proved than that ii had been known
to the Arabians centuries previously.
Jn a similar manner it has been sought
to rob them of the honor of numerous
j other discoveries, including that of
gunpowder, the discovery of which is
generally attributed to a German chem
ist. We might mention the names of
the Arabians who are known to have
j made these and many others, but they
have been so very carefully kept out of
sight by self-interest, egotism, and pre
judice, that they are no longer familiar,
, save to the students of the Oriental
• languages. But we have Arabic words
enough, even in English, to show what
an influence the Arabs have exercised
on our sciences and arts; such, for ex
ample, as zenith, nadir, azimuth, alge
bra, alkali, elixir, cipher, tariff, carat,
alcohol, almanac, decode, demon, sher
iff, juleps, magazine, lute, and others—
Arabic all.
JStT/’ We frequently bear of our gen
erals capturing "pieces of artillery.”
"What’s the use of continually taking
pieces?” says Mrs Partington "Why
not capture whole ones?” ^
Life’s Autumn,
Hike the leaf, life lms its fading. We
speak and thiitk rtf its Sadness just, as
we think of the autumn season, tint
there should be no sadness at the fading
of a life that lias done well its work.
If we rejoice at the advent of a new
life, if welcome the coming of a new
pilgrim to the uncertainties of this
world’s Wiiy, why should there be so
ninth gloom when all these uncertain
ties are past, and life at Its waning
wears the glory of a completed task?
ISeaul ifill as is childhood in its fresh
ness and innocence, its beauty is that of
an untried life. It is the beauty of
promise* of ipring, of the bud. A I16
lier ami rarer beauty is Hie beauty
which the waning life of faith and du
ty wears. If is the duty of a thing
completed; and as men come together
to congratulate cacli other when some
great work has been achieved, and see
in its concluding nothing hut gladness,
so ought we to fool when the setting
sun llings hack its beam upon a life that
has answered well life’s purpose. When
the bud-drops are blighted, and the
mildew blasts the early grain, and there
goes all hope of the harvest, one may'
well be sad ; but when the ripened year
sinks amid a garniture of autumn flow
ers and leaves, why should we regret
or murmur? And son life (hat is readv
and waiting for the “well done” of God,
whose latest virtues mid charities are
its noblest, should he given hack to God
in uncomplaining reverence, we rejoic
ing (hat earth is capable of so much
sadness, and is permitted such virtue.
The Egotist.—The egotist, like the
monotone, is full of one, all-engrossing
subject: that is, himself. Self-gloritlca
tion is the only kind of conversation
that intereits him. He fatigues poOjdtl,
and provokes their ire by his continual
reference to his wonderful sayings and
doings, lie has always somethings to
tell indicating his talents, his interest,
his influence, his great general impor
tance. lie never wearies of relating
how lie foresaw everything, foretold
everything, advised or managed every
thing; how much people honored, res
pected. consulted, preferred him. You
arc led to wonder how even the world
on lmfnpn lin woe llfifli 011(1 li/IU' it
will dowhon he shall have passed away.
Witli.n certain limits lie is generous to
others. All liis friends and relations
are remarkable, eminent; each is the
very foremost man in his peculiar
sphere. If they are merchants or han
kers, they are millionaires, and their
transactions regulate commerce and
money market; if they have salaries,
they have twice as much as others of
the same class ; if they arc authors, their
works lead the age, they get fabulous
sums from their publishers, and are
rend by millions ; are they legislators,
it is they that rule; arc they soldiers, it
is they that win the battles. Whatever
he has seen it is quite superior to what
ever any one else has witnessed. Ts’o
one ever saw so tine a sunset, so grand
a storm, of such big hail-stones. His
watch is perfect, and keeps better time
then any other. Everything with
which he is in any way connected be
comes invested with an air of greatness
and superiority'. He never failed or
was baffled in any thing he undertook.
Whatever may be the subject of con
versation, he lias some special informa
tion upon it, not accessible to ordinary
mortals. lie is very sensitive to ridi
cule or banter, when he can be brought
to think you have dared so far, and you
need not hope that he will ever forgive
you. There is only one way to get on
with him. and Unit-is on the principle
that it is better , to llatter fools than to
light with them.
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Tut: Beauty of the Virgin Mary.—
There is no mythology, ancient orinod
ern, a more poetical idea than tliaj of
Virgin Mary. The women whom poets
dream of are all terrestrial. This one
has nothing of the frailties or the faults
of her sex. The Catholics believe her
to have been born without the original
sin; to have been a mother without
ceasing to lie a virgin, and. loth to be
lieve that a body that had been a taber
nacle of God could sutler the decompo
sition and decay which is common to
mortal remains, hold as an article of
faith that, instead of dying like others,
she ascended bodily into heaven, borne
by the tremulous hands of angels. She
has uo fault; she shines pure and spot
less, and is believed to exercise a great
influence upon the destinies of her vo
taries. The painters and poets repre
sents her as beautiful. She is usually
represented as standing on a globe with
a foot on a serpent, because, as mother
of the redeemer, she is supposed to be
the one that was to crush the serpent.
Hh* holds the infant Jesus in her arms,
a divine example of the sanctity of ma
ternity. and wears a white dress, long
and flowing, with a blue cloak, indica
tive of her great faith and supreme in
nocehee.
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Cautioi s Mkn.-Voiuo men use words
as riflemen do bullets. They say hut
little. The few words used go right to
the mark.
They let you talk, and guide with
their eye ami face, on and on, till what
vou say can he answered in a word or
two, and they lance out a sentence,
pierce the matter to the quick and they
are done.
You never know where you stand
with them. Your conversation falls
into their mind as rivers juto a deep
chasm, and is lost from sight by its
depth and darkness. They will some
times surprise you with a few Words
that go to the mark like a gunshot, and
then they are silent again, as if they
were rejoicing.
Such men arc safe counsellors and
, true friends in every ease where they
i profess to he such. To them truth is
! more valuable than gold, while preten
sion is too gauzy to deceive them.
Words without point, to them, are like
titles without merit, only betraying the
weakness ot‘ the blinded dupes who
are ever used as promoters of other
men’s schemes.
Put Him Through. IS
A brace of lovers entered a photo- fl
graph saloon and wanted their pictures H
taken. The lady gave preference to her H
swain, who,she said “had got to be tuck H
fust and rale natural.”
lie brushed up his toAV head of hair,*K
gave a twist or two to his handkerchief, 8|
and asked his girl if his collar was V.,
and placed himself in the operator’s B|
chair Where lie soon assumed the phy^i^H
siognoriiiea! characteristics of a PdO^Hj
mortal in the dentist’s hands, andabout:^E
to part with one Of his teeth. fl
“Now do look putty,” begged the la-9!
dy. casting at him one of her mo8t
guishing glances. ■ ■ I jHj
The picture Avas taken, and AvlienJ^E
produced, it reminded the girl, as sho^^^
expressed it—“Jist as Josh looked when^H
he got over tlic mcazles!” and as thisj^H
was not an era in her lover’s history»«
particularly worthy of commemoration,
she insisted “he should stand oucoBji
more.”
lie obeyed, and she atteftaed him
the chain
• Josh," said she* "jist look like smii-fl|
ing and then kinder don’t.” „ ■ jH
Tlic poor felloAv tried tb' follow tlic^H
iiuletinite injunction.
••Lai” said she, “you bottle all p'ttekcr*^H
ed up.” _ j jflp
One direction followed another, bt^H|
with little success. At length growing^H
impatient, and becoming desperate, sli<aH|
resolved to try an experiment whicH^H
-he considered infallible, and cxclaim-SS
•1 don't koer if there is folks’arotmd/j^B
.She enjoined the bperatbr to stanc^H
ready at his camera. She then sat dowdH||
in her fellow’s lap, and throwing hijHjj
arms around her neck, managed to casjH|
a shadow of flaxen ringlets as a screetMH
between the operator and the proce&tl^B||
iugs Avlikdi, hoAvevcr, were betrayed bjjBI
a succession of amorous sounds, Avliic]H||
revealed her experiment. When IhfSH
billing and cooing had lasted a fetiflB
minutes, Hie cunning girl leaped
Josh's lap, clapped her hands, ana cfitjBB
to the astonished nrtisjt.
“Now you’ve got him I Put lii^^H
tlirough 1”
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Varieties of Bad Temper.—Baflj
temper is oftcuer the result of imhapPjH||
circumstances than of an unhapj^^H
organization: it frequently, howeve^RH
Inis a physical cause, ami a pccviaHS
child often needs dieting more thaSB
correcting. Some children arc mol^^B
prone, to show temper than others, anjHH
sometimes on account of qualith^^H
which are valuable in themselves. FdHjjl
iinstance. a child ofaelive tcmperamcnflH
sensitive feeling, and eager purpose t®H
more likely to meet with constant jatBlf
and tubs than a dull, passive chil^^H
and, if lie. is of an open nature his fi® .
ward irritation is immediately showBHj
in hursts of passion. If yor rcprc^^H
these ebulitions by scolding and
nislinicut, you only increase the evil b®H
changing passion into sulkiness. A|
cheerful, good-tempered tone ofyo^^B
own, a sympathy with his trCtihle whciSR
ever the trouble has arisen from flb
conduct on his part, arc the best aiitB§S
dotes; but it. would be better still tB||i
prevent, beforehand,' all sources
annoyance. Never fear spoiling eldfl
dren by making them too happy. Ha^Rv$S
piness is the atmosphere in which aMfeSaji
good alfeetions grow—the wholeson^BH
warmth necessary to make the heatM^-^
blood circulate healthily arid freel^^^S
uulmppiuess—the, chilling prcssu^H|
u h'n li produces here an inflamatiajH
there ati exccresenee, grid worse th^H|
all. “li.e mind's green and yellow* sloHHj
lies?,'—ill-temper.'
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62T They trill ft good story oh j®ran
early appearance of Dr. Bethuue inmgmjm
clini'eh then located on the outskirt|fHll||
the city of Rochester. The ediiice w®
placed in the bbnlre of a large gqn^Ejjj^
or park, and H. being summer tim^]^H[|
open doors niafle the green aisle car^KHR
'appear like a continuation of the
>y law n outside. At least so the m®j&£l
ter appeared to a half dozen geese, n®H§§
quietly walked into tlie church ju8|HHl
the. preacher was closing a splen<flH|
pa^-age of eloquence, and was qimt.®a3«S
the lines: fflaBpa
•At bo arc iliose arrayed in white?” eteJfll&riji
A green, half-grown country boy,
-unnosi d the oiiotation so ehmiieii®lrll
propounded required answer, at o
replied, in a bashful lisp ; “Them—t
there’s geetb.” The wings of the yo
minister were thus abruptly cii
while he was a-fiight, and the ones
rayed in white” were the only
individuals in the audience.
At their Hope's End.—The
I World, says the South Las not
worse to tear, as a consequence of
late elections, than a protracted e
>iou from Congress. Negro suff
cannot lie forced on them except b
I amendment to the Constitution, w
i they can checkmate. New penal
| for treason are equally impossible,
the prohibition to pass ex post f
laws.—The Old penalties have been
initted by llie President’s proof
lion of amnesty and his individual
dous. The State governments w
have been formed in the South ea
be upset, because Congress never c6
in com act with them except in jud
i of their competency to furnish ere
tials to members of that body,
gross having already done its ut
against the South, that section lias n
big to fear in consequence of these
tions, beyond what it already sufie
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fi^*A little boy having been
praised for his quickness of
gentleman observed when
were -u keen in their youth they
generally stupid and dull as they
vanco in years.—“What a very
bo\ \ ou must have been, sir, then
plied the child.
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A Matter of Taste.—Two Ya
women and two negroes ran for
at the lato Northern election.
1 the negroes were elected a
men defeated.