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; - w m & : wink WMLm m . : MiMM MM P A THE STRONGEST BULWARK OF OUR COUNTRY-THE POPULAR HEART. 0; tUPEXTER & GRAYSCrT, Editors. CLENDENIN & CARPENTER, Puplishers. fOLi. II. RlPTHERFORBTONi,'. NO. S. 1 - I . v i . :- . : : -., . filOFESSIONAL CARDS. J.j W. HARRIS, M. D. 'rjTynpii'n, Surgeon ami Obstetrician. . Off, liif prtlWaional services to the citi zens ol jljli i i f -rt'irci f ii ' n vicinity, . AH csifj8 entrusted lo las care will receive prompt Mention, , lit- rriit V ut iiMiim in, in i uii.-e or iesnience ii'ii !'' jprotessiotKiUy iibsout. 1 ly wlit OJlIYEU HICKS, M. D., j ". RUTIIERI-ORDTOK, K..C. ' -Coin nuesthe practice-of Medicine, p)U;-r,fai' vlv. Midwifery, ' in ..Ruther fonltoij, rtnd the KiUToun'ding . cor.n try. " j- . - . : ' : ' ' . ly- 7" s GAjtli'lKK. JN"'. C!UV ".YXCM. GjUTUEU & . IVY X: I'M, MA-TI'OKNTKVS T L.VT. Inn--"" 'ill IV.ji liil 1 M:p;tT))P feint t V'Ml. ;nr.l ii.-i. : vt in 'i.iii:iiys o.l Ci.i;t iv' ' .h-w - I , MuiIh;: M.-I'vi-H. 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At la? t rnf dy thoy had a fray, -Arid Timothy declared ' He'd " fix old Dun. ' as sure as gun,'" If both their lives were tparcd. ... - So off he went, with this intent, And Fold his stock in trade ; His earririgs hard he spent for lard, And started for " the grade." i (This place, you know, is where trains gP""- . .- -x . Upon the steep hillside, And where with lard it. isn't hard io ce' Tip . . .-' He too': a pfick rnd spread it thick, Remnrl' ing with a smile, "There'll be some funw:hen Mr. Dunn Commences to strike ile !" ' - - - - He lay in wait ; the train was late And came a puffing hard. With heavy load, right up the road "To where he'd spread the lard. They tried in vain that fated train . Could not ascend the grade ; The wheels would spin with horrid dm, Yet no advance was made. i - - Then little Tim :'twas bplcl in him Cried out in accentshrill, r u Remember me,, Conductor D., YYhen you get up the hili r ' Success in trae'e is up a gride That we should all ascend, And with a will help up the hill Our fellow man and friend ; When "on the road, ' don't incom mode, , Tlie seekei after pelf. Or, ten to one. like Mr. Dunn, You won't get up youreelt To be truly happy, forget your own unhappiness in ministering to some one more miserable than yourself. Whoever carries coals lo another will warm his own hands; besides, Jjesus tells us that there is blessedness in giving. v- - ' Good humor is the clear blue sky of the soul, nn which every star of talent will shine more clearly, and the sun genius en counter no vapors in his passage. Whut Is flic Trnc Tiicorj of JCducatioa ? That which secures the noblest manhood. Man is a croature of manifold endowments and conflic ting elements, and is in the midst of ten thousand educating influ ences. . Great mountains are educators. The men that climb the Tules and breathe , their air and see their glorious visions, are different from the men that dwell on the plains. The soa js an educator. He who sees its great vave3 dash upon the short1, looks forth on its rastness. and listens tc its eternal murmur. ings, ip.ust be a different man from him who never saw :t. Day ana night, c louds and sky and air are educators. They leave their shadows on the soul aa Well as on the vision. The street is an edu cator. The child who wanders at night, free from parental re straint, among its influences, is reasonably .-ure to be educated for perdition. Companions are edu cators. Where is the man who can say that hejs not different from what he would have been bv reason of the vital impress of some other; soul on him ? We often in our conception confine education to the work of tlie JuJ structor. What should be the aim of the school ? Perhaps ve cannot state it bettor than in say iug it io the briugino; into fullesj strength the noblest faculties of tlie soul. If education has made1 any progress in thes latter yearsl it is in tins line. Formcrlv the schools were expected to impart knowledge, and tlie mcniorvwas i.i armi t r Y nii n or child reir were made to learn the namc3 of arhifra'rv characters. The names of twenty-six characters without meaning were imposed as a tasl on tlie meniorv. sometimes i was accomplished in a few days and sometimes it took a year.! Then words without meaning1 were laid on the taxed faculty,! till at last, by chance,' as some' word which hadau idea in it came before" them, they gained their .first conception of what a written tongue is. That a training be gun in that way ma' be of ines timable advantage no one can doubt ; but is that the right be-' ginniiVfiT? Now very young chil dren in kindcrorartens are taught forms and ombinationSj-and their childish faculties are hrotWht into play literally and j t'xercised. T he' are led by a gentle entice ment into a course of intellectual trnimnsr. "And w hen they begin to learn written lansjuage,. the symbol of some object w hich in tercsts tht m is put belore them, and thev secure am! retain its irrt ress The letters which rcom-jio.-e it are easily retain?4 and so are the Avords which describe its qualities.'. How much easier when they see the picture of u horse, and are toM the hoise is w-hito, to remember how the Word white looks, than to look at a Word Avfiich lias five letters and no meaiiin0:, and remember it. We know liow easy tlie motion of the muscles is in the play" of child-' ho. d or in the sports of manhood, how hard the same motions in the dull and long continued labor of life; how easy labor is in the ardor of pursuit, how hard with no end in view. As years advance and pupils get the use of their faculties, se verer studies follow, those that call into use and task observa tion, invention, reasoning ami nicmory. There, is no ascent tt the heights of knowledge audi poweivwithont labor. Keeping ever in view the de velopment of the thinking power, teaching the pupil to instruct hi n i sel f, the t r n e ed ti cator i n qui res: " How can I best impart instruc tion ?" Through all the avenues by which knowledge enteis the soil, object and oral teaching have their advantages. An apple ta ken from a child may give a les son that shall be remembered on the processes of growth, the ger mination of seed, the agency of! air, eartu, light, heat and ram in vegetable life. A cup of water may give a lesson on he sea, its source, the processes of evapora tion, the clouds, the rain, "and the uses of this element in life, and so the great laws Which regulate health and, the continuance of life may be made known. The habit of observation is of tho groateit value to the child. Life will le worth more to the boy who knows the name and song of ee ry bird that warbles in the thick et, and makes friends of every flower that blooms in his path. In the classics and in the exact sciences modes are not so greatly changed. Attainments here are not secured without severe men tal labor. How to secure this is the question, and how to secure it with safety to the mental pow ers and to life and health: One pressing que-tiQu'with the teacher is how far shall studies to which the pupil is averse be re quired ? No doubt one who is averse to mathematics may need for a time the discipline of the severest studies, but in the main every soul should be trained ac cording to its aptitudes. To give an easel and brush to a Newton, and to-put a Michael Angelointo trigonometrv and the calculus, would, be as absurd as to Insist that a 'vhale should swim in the air or an eagle should fly in the sea. ThV teacher that discovers to a hoy powers that are si umber in g within him, may be of incal culable service to the world. It is said that Sir Humphrey -Daw, when congratulated on the I great discoji crroaiest discoverv he ever made was the genius of Michael Fara day. The hope of making gold en discoveries in the. mines of the soul is a great incitement to the true teacher. - In cverv true theory of educa- tion. the intellectual -m subscr- vient to the moral. There is no dount tnat tlie discipline or a good scho A is a moral tliscipli lie. lie who has learned the lesson of unquestioning obedience to right ful authority, has learned one ol the first moral lesson 8 of life. There is no question that in tellectual training favors moral development. I he trcdned mind sees the . relations of truth and must see the great law ot sin anL tdcath ahd righteousness and .life, that rulW in all the dominion of mind. But"; there isno doubt that there shouldbe direct moral training, andjhat the only effect of moral graining must be religi ous. Abstract right is beautiful, but cold and spiritless. Obliga tion to God, accountability and' the destinies of the future are real and instinct with life. How much month science, technicall v so called, and should be taught, We will not decide ; but of this, jve are sure, from the first dty of the pupifs school life till the last, God and our relations to him, sin and its wages ot death, the condi tiohs ol purity, blessedness and immortal life should be clearly set forth, and tl 10 great moral rao- iives connected with them, en breed. ' The best education looks o a perfect manhood, and a ier fect hiftiihood is found only in a (perfect moral and spiritual life. WilVosL Economy may be practiced in a thousand ways, and one way is in our fueL IFood that haa been sun ned for a few days after cutting and splitting it, and then housed four months or more, is worth for the family purposes of wanning, cooking, and washing, almost twice as much when green. But few farmers real ize the value of dry wood, especially during the winter season, and hence bat little wood is stored during the summer season. Be sure to furnish plenty of oven wood. This should be piled in apart of the woodhouse by itself. It will promote kindly feeling in the family will save much time otherwise lost in kindling fires with green wood. Then let us pre pare a good supply of dry wood for winter, full six months before wanted for use. Cor. Country Gentleman. Turned to Stone. A SOLIDIFIED BRIDE. . Dr Jorsck, of Marksville, La., in a letter to the New York Sun of Saturday, says: "Mr.- Frede rick Ilallcr is by professiona lawyer. Hje early acquired, how ever, quite a tondness for the na tural sciences, especially geology. He has, herhaps, the laret and most complete geological cabinet in Louesiana. Something over a month ago he married, taking as his bride a charming young girl of sixteen. As physician to her father's . family and an intimate friend I was an honored guest at the marriage ceremony. I am sure I never saw a more beauti ful and happ- bride. Next afternoon- she and some three or four of her most intimate friends went into Mr. Haller's "Rock -.Study," to look over the cabinet of curiosities. Among the curiosities which Mr. Haller had gathered Were several round boulder3 brought from Arkansas. These boulders on being broken present in the central spice a crys talinc formation, and areussuallv not much larger than the double fist. .One of, these, however, was unusually large, measuring twenty-one inches in Circumferance. Frequently the internal surmce, always hollow, contains water, or rather a concentrated solution of silica in"' water. This fact Was known to one of the young ladies, who mentioned it. . At-once it was proposed to break the large one, and several ineffectual attempts were their au a colored man, a servant on the place, who was'requestcd to break open the rock. A. pitcher being placed underneath the boulder as the man held it, 'one sturdy blow of his stalwart .'arm cracked '.it, and the fluid within ran our and was collected in the pitcher. scarcely losing a drop, there be- ins: a half pint of it. The b ride,' without ever giving it a though, conceived the notion of drinking the water from the boulder. She poured mosf of it into a glass tuuiblej'uearly fil ling it, and, liftingTit to her lips, she drank first to the health ot ner husband, then to that of un married friends in the robrjv, wish ing them shortly to- be happy brides like herself, and drained the glass. But in a few minutes the youthful bride complained of excessive pain in the stomach, and began to realize the -rashness of her action. A Messenger was sent in hast for her husband and , myself Mr. Hal lerVotfice being hear my own, wre received the rnossage almost simultaneously, and we rapidly drove togethei in iny buggy to his house. Win u we arrived she was dead, a TKfriod of fiftcecr. min utes having elapsed". frC'm the time of e'xt uction of life. They were just laying her out on my arrival. To my surprise I found she had grown in that short peri od so rigid a to render it difficult to straighten her. limbs. In the course "of three-quarters of an hour her entire body lecame as hard and inflexible as bone. On more minute examination and inquiry I found that the dis solved silica she had takeu into her stomach had been absorbed and transmitted by the. chy lopoie tic apparatus and blood vessels throughout the system, and that her vholo bod was a petrification. The case being so singular and so sudden, the husband and the bride's family consented to a par-iiaiposl-rtLorfeni exa miua tiau , other medical men coming to my assis tance. '.. - We found it impossible to cut tl trough any. portion wi h our scalpels! Dr. Enrguson broke his scalpel in the first attempt. We were enable only to break through the chest With a hatchet, finding" extreme difficulty in cnteriugthe thoracic cavity, the contents be ing all solidified. The, heart was found as firm and as solid as stone, resembling a piece of cornelian as to both color and consistency Stranger than Fiction. A North German paper adver tising for the American heirs "of the fortune of a widow lady at Amsterdam, as follows, goes on to say : The story of the death of the two women, as long ago as 1852, j and the finding of their murderer,. twenty-two years after, the reve lation ofxactuall occurrences which, are. as terribly tragic as may be found within tho lids of romance. The widow, Catherine Spelleing, and herx daughter Dorothy, were joint possessors of diamonds, and money, bonds, etc., to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and occu pied a house by themselves on. Harlan street, Amsterdam. One day, in the summer of 1852, a placard appeared on the door, saying they had gone to the coun try. Six weeks rolled around and still the placard remained on the door. The suspicions of the po lice 'were aroused by the long ab sence of the women, and the house was entered. The placard was found to be a fearful decep-r tion; the bodies of. the two wro-. men were found on the .floor, their diamonds, money and bonds missing, and no clue to the mar derer or thief found. 1 In July last, he house was torn, down, and in its destruction came to light a circumstance equaling in borrow the assassination or the two lone women. Between the house taken down was a space of ton of a man, caught midway be tween the top and bottom, and ou the ground beneath him were found the diamonds, the bonds anoV the money of trie two mur dered, The assassin, in attempt ting to escape, had missed his ' tooting, falling bctwween the houses, and with a sfirp. of blue visible above the"high walls of his living to mb he had starved to deatbDclphi Chronicle. An Un welcome Guest. Our young friend Parker went , round the other evening to visit the two Miss Smiths. After con versing with them awhile, Miss Susan excuses herself for a while, and went: uri stairs. Presently Parker thought he heard her coming, and slipped behind the door, and suggested that the other Miss Smith should tell Miss Susan he had gone. But it was't Susan ; it was old Mr. Smith in bis slip pers. As be entered he looked around and said to his daughter: Ah, ha ! So Parker's gone. Good riddance. -1 was just conl,m, ' down to keep my eye on him. I hope he has not proposed to you, I didn't want any such a lantern jawed, red-headed idiot around here. He hasn't got the sense of a ruta-baga turnip, or mohev c nough to buy clean shirt.; He gets none of my daughters. '' I ' 11 shake the" life out of him if I catch him here again, mind me." Just as he concluded, Susan came down and not pcrceiying - Parker, she said: "Thank goodness, he's gone. That man is enough to provoke a aint. I wTas awfully afraid he was going to stay and spend tho evening. Mary "jane, I hopeyjou didn't ask him to come again ?" Then Parker didn't know whether to stay - thero or bolt, whie Mary Jane looked as if she would like to drop into the cellar. ' But Parker final ly wal ked- out. and rushed to the entr seized his hat, shot Jown the front steps, and went home meditating upon the emptiness of human happiness, and the uncertainty of Smiths. Ho has not called since, and his life thus far has been unmolested by the jjead of the Smith family. A muddy stream, flowing into one clear and sparkling, for a time rolls along by itself. A little father down they unite, and the whole is impure. So youth, untouched by sin, may for a time keep its purity in foul com pany ; but a little plater, and they mingle. I, - il ,-fi M' r if 1 i p, i; I' I ! I 'f '4 :
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