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THE HOWARD LITERARY. THE T1PT0NS. Not long since the Ilowarda ha J a glimpee of Ben's nnpieatant country horns, and I fear to the boys at least, the world eemed none tbo better for Ben having lived in it. Come with me and I will give you a p'.easanter view of country life in tho family of the Tiptona, -which ronsists of five Dright, happy children. Walter, the elJeet, h tail, manly boy of eighteeen, while Nellie, tw o years younger, rather email for her ago, is a healthy, rosy-chrelced school girl. Gettie has just passed her twelfth year, and is a source of great pleasure to her mother iu the Tray of taking care of little Jiohbie and ISaby May, always keeping them neat and clean, and amusing theru in various ways until mamma geta back into the sitting-room, lis 5 o'clock, and "Walter and his two sisters have come f;om school, havin? placed their booka and wraps in their proper places. Nellio hae

donned a cican calico and large kitchen apron and if bnily engsqred helping her mother prepare the eveinat meal. Walter is chorine about the barn, the while whistl:nz ccntcntcdly as he pa.scs the vtall of the well-kept animals; he ptopa for a moment pattina each enc arfactiortately; tbe blacky pony vou ee i:i the back stall, toxins h'w head to vigorous?;" for his share of oats, belongs to Walter, his father l.avitis given it to him on bis pixteenth birthday. Ha has caraoJ it Trince, and has many pleasant rides on its back. Hero comes Father Tipton from tbe city. Fiansact words are exchanged by father and son. They then join in cariiijr for the team, the wagon reing put into its place, and a small door near the granary is opened, whero tbe harness is hung on lirpi pegs. This is & kind of closet and is tightly built, that it may be kept free from dust, with a small window at the xear end for airinc. Hero are a'so kept lap-rcbo, doiter, saddle and netting ; it is, in fact, the horses' wardrobe. This beinp done, father enters the honse, where a glad welcome awaits him ; even baby raises her tiny hands and in a cooinar way pays "papu," who now relieves little Gertie of her charge. Mamma has prepared the food for the bens so Gertie trips gayly cut to the poultry yards, for that is her much-loved evening chore. The fowls all know her and gather about her, each one seemingly trying to get nearest She now leaves them to chatter among themselves and enters the poultry house, which is a long, narrow, well-buil: structure with plenty of light ad iritted from the south side and roof, being occasionally whitewashed. It is thu kept free from lice; the floor is al?o kept clean, a quantity of fresh sand being scattered upon it, and hero are eeveral theavts of grain tied tightly with a twino string rurended from the roof, which serves the fowls very pleasant exercise on cold days when they are not admitted to the yard. Just see the eg boxes on either side and Gertie's basket tilling up as she passes them, having plenty of lime and ashes scattered on ono side of the yard and small particles of meat mixed with their food. The Tipton's have plenty of egsall tho winter through. Gertie now enter? the house with her basket of eggs and Waiter with a pail of milk. He carries but one pail. Hii' parens have learned that poultry-raising is more profitable than dairying, also less laborious, "fco only enough" rows are kept to supply the family with milk and butt-r. .All are now in readiness for the supper that awaits them on a cloth of snowy linen. Supper beii over and everything properly attended to, the family now repair to the pleasant sitting room, where a barging lamp shed its bright rays over choice iterature on the center-table below. Here the most delightful evening is passed. The f rt hour wiih the children is devoted to their school books. After that reading, music, and pleasant conversation. Walter is preparing himself to teach that he may help pave the way for a college education. He and his sister often attend church and social Catherines, bnt has no occasion, like poor belated Ben, for stumbling over a swill pail much less falling into an abandoned old shaft. But we must be going. May we be happier for our visit i3 theTwish of Jennie F. It. OUR PHRENOLOGICAL CITIZEN. More? Abaot "Bill Slorum ndj Something About "Jlanry Jare Crocker." Friends, and KsrixiALLY "Solicitor" I think the oddest specimen of the aboveearned c!ass it has ever been my lot to meet is Bill Slocum. Bill is no seventh son of a seventh 6on, but ha was the only child of his parents, who were each the only children of their respective parents. Whether this had anything to do with Bill's being as he is, I cannot say, but will look it up in tbe future. Bill's father was always caJlin peopled uttention to Bill's hesd, an braggin' that '"there was the bead of a Daniel Webster, and he meant that boy to be a prearhtr." Bill did have a funny head, that's sure. It was big at the top, bulgiu' at the ear, long at the neck, and, altopother, ratawampss at the nose, eyes and mouih. When Kilt got Lig enough to apprentice him out to the preacher trad tome way things didn't hit square all around for that. Ho was tho beet-naun:d fc-ller in the world, but things is bound, once in awhile in this world, to get in a Fnarl r.f themselves, and when they did this with Bill he had a fashion of putting a few words together that preachers often t:e, but Hi 1 never got thc-m combined just as the preacheis do, and his father finally give him up in despair in that line. He was farmed out, anil apprenticed out to every trade and calling there is, but ho alius come back the next day with the trade -r profession learnt. One day a phrenologial feller came to tow n and offered to feel all our heads for a quarter apiece, and do it blind-folded, too. Bill was the tirst to go up, and you never see a feller so surprised as that phrenolojial chap was. He said "never In a'l his life and born days bad he got hold of aich a bead." He sai l: ''BUI ud steal the rnOney oflf the subscription pUte in tneetin' an' boy a poor widder a pair of shoes with it, an' tr.ink Le was doin' a righteous deed." He tcld nt feller, anJ pulled the handkerchief down and winked at us when he nid it, "that 11.11 'u 1 run away from a little utid rie 1 boy of fourteoo that wanted to tight him, an' he'd turn right around an' go down an old well full of the damps to rescue a man choxin' t death at the bottom, an' never think of consequence. He also said: "Bill was awful fond of children. He'd always pet an' baby them to pieces, but if he was boss over aorphsn asjlnm he'd very likely K arrested for not gettin' them enough to eat, an' forge ttin' to g-t them clothes." Bill aked him "what hU particular bafinces in lift was; what he'd be likely to make the most mouey at?" The. feller mid "he couldn't find any sicb bump on Bill's head." He sai 1 "tho

marryin' bump was high. He expected if Bill 'ud marry a rich widder he d make more money that way than any other he knowed of' The rest of us fellers wouldn't have our heads felt after that. He hit it so on Bill we was afraid to have our virtues circulated around. But we all chipped in u' give him a quarter apiece to pay his bill at the tavern, then we got up a dance for him an' introduced him to all the goodlookin' girls to kind of crake it all up for him w hat he'd lost by our refusin. There ain't no rich widders around here an' Bill hadn't any money to go etf an' hunt any, but, for "all that, wo missed hiiu ono day. Mow, this country can lose all that's 'in it better'n Bill, for he is the livenest feller to hove around at funerals, an' weddin'r, an' places where folks needs chirkin' up a little, and you miizht ns well invite him to all of 'em, for If you don't he will invite himself and come accordin' to invite. Bill can tell more good stories and sin? mora funny eonjrs than anybody, and he is always so willin' to oblige you, or do anything to help anybody else, besides himself or his own folks, that it's no wonder we missed him an' got out a search warrant finally an' went out to hunt him, and whers do yoti think we found him? Bvwn below town about live miles lives old Nancy Jane Cracker, an old maid sixty-five years old if 6ho's a day, and for fifty years she's been huntin' a man, but never succeeded in gettin one, till Bill was foreordained an born for that purpose. Mancv Jane has a purtv good

eighty acres of land with a good house, an' several head of horse, chickens, calves and so forth, on it, an' Bill had gone dow n there an' took that all in, an' Nancy throwed in. too. Wo found him the second night after we started c it to hunt him, and we made hiai git np oat of bed an' treat to the cider, an' when we had eat up all the cakes and pies in the house we come home sadder an moro enlightened citizens. Nancy bad always kept a band to farm her land for Ler," but the dav after she married Bill she turned him off. It didn't take her long to find out 6he'd have to do it herself now. Nancy's the boss scolder and she soon told Bill what she thought of hiai. Bill toTd hor he didn't come down there to hire out to her, but to marry her, an' be hai done th:xt, an' if sho wanted a hired hand to git the old ono back. She had to finally do it, too. She then made Bill overeeer over the wood-pile, an' the chicken-yard, but when she found she had to burn chips, an' gather 'em herself, an' two of her best Bramah roosters laid dow n an' died for the want of water, then Nancy got righteously mad, au' told Bill to go in the house an' cock his&elf up on the parlor mantle-shelf along with the conch-shell an' the plaster paris flowerpot, an' other ornaments. But Bill he don't pretend to bo no parlor ornament. You see, be is too much needed around this country, an1 he knows it. He has to teach nil the young boys comein' on how to swim, an' where to find the biggest tish, an' heip 'em get in their w Liter supply of walnuts an' hickory nuts an' go a huntin' w ith 'em to see tiiut they don't sLoot theirselves. Then again he has to se that all the clocks an' sewin' machines is kept in good rnnn'tn order for all the women folks. Then Bill's the master hand in sickness, lie sees to all the sick .oiks an' will set up ten nights or has len known to without llincLin, with a sick friend. Nancy Jane wants to he ik Christian an do her duty by him she says. Si sometimes, when he stays too long, Iu-r and the hired man hitchns up an' goes to look for hitu. Nancy say t-lio reckons beitis the Lord give him to her she must kind of take cam of him, but it's a llabergasted job, an t I guess may be it is. But takin' Bid up one side an' down the tother, I will have to Bay that there is many a better man here that we could spare far better than we, as a community, can epare Bill. Yours truly, "Frank."" CHARLEY'S UXPSRIENCE. flow lie Went Hnter-YFItchIng with a Twltlrd Switeti. Der II. I- C. Feiexos The page has not been as well filled tha past few weeks as I would like to see it. and thinking perhaps it was partly my own fault, I conclude! to visit you again, if I have not lauch to say. "Wilmer" has advanced the subject of "water-witching with a twisted switch." Well, now, lam not going to f.rgue upon this subject, but will tell you something that came under my own observation some actual experience. Where the writer lives it is hard to get water in places that is good and plenty of it. Wo bad a well (and have it yet), but tho water was not very good and not very much of it. We used cistern w ater several years by filieringit, got tired of that and concluded if theru was water to be had within a reasonable distance of the house we wer going to have it. So I secured a hand well-anger, and bored for water in a couple of piaces. The second seeming to have the best indications, and tbe fact thut the bit dropped several inches ss if in a vein of water, and water coming to within six feet of tho top of tbe ground, caused us to have a well dug at that place, but. when we reached the depth at which the bit dropped (which was fourteen feet) we found nothing but a small basin no larger than a sraad dihpan, containing some sand and a few quarts oi water. U was uo go here, and the man wbo had done tho dieging said ho was goi.ig to get a peach-stick and hunt for water, which he did, but the places where lm said tliero wms water did not suit very well, so after he had gone hooe I got the peach-stick ("Wili.ier" calls it a switch. I presume it i the Name thing) and thought I would have some fun. I marched around lor awhile and nme to a mere suitable place for a well, where the Kick "pulled down." I told father about it, but he laugiied and made fun of me. I then asked him if bo would give tne $ if I got a good well of water at tnat place, he paid yes he would, that that would be the eahat part about it. Of course 1 was anxious totind out w hether there was water there or not, so I then went for the well auger and lored a hole eighteen feet deep. At sixteen feet I struck avein of sand and w ater, which came w ithin a few feet of the top. I concluded to tef-t thij one without digging, so I got a piece of gas-pipe about live or sit feet long and made a ennd pump, with which I worked almost onehalt a day trying to pump the water out of that hole, but made a miserable failure at it, tho water coming in as fast as I could pump it out Father then said ho believed them waa water to be got at that plac, and I began to think there were prospects of my getting tho We. bad a well dug there and have had plenty of good water ever since. That was near seven ye ra ago. Now, 1 am not a believer in planting seeds or doing work according to ctrtain siznsof the moon, nor in water-witching with a peach stick, nevertheless we hare a good well of water, and I do not suppose we would have ever thought of digging a well ther if it had not been for the peach tick. This well ia only about fifty feet from the old one. "Wyandot UewvJrop," I have been looking for an answer to my questions. "Carlton Fysche." "Fil-rim," "School

Boy," "Trixie," "Little True Blue," "Modest Carrie" "Pa-sy II." and "Br. Simison," welcome, come often. "Forest Flow er," glad to see you among us once more, also "Fompadour." "Evergreen," so you will exchange photos or autographs with B. E. C. Your address, pleaae. How many more will do the same? Hands up. So there is to be a book of II. L. C. poems published. Good! I w rote a poem some time i.go entitled 'Autumn Thoughts,' but never sent it in for publication. Will send it if desired. With greetings to all, the editor included. I remain your II. L. C. brother "Bute Kyed Charley." Central, Ohio, Feb. 16. "INCOG- COGITATINQ.

Of Intcratt Mostly to th Housekeepers of the Club. Dear Howard Fkiexiw I've been shut up in the house a long time, but this lovely day t&opts me out for a visit to the II. L c. I see "Hopeful Kats" has my chair and is bo very busy talking, and as she is a new comer I haven't the heart to disturb her. The next chair is upholstered with blue, and I never want anything blue any nearer me than tbe sky, so "Kate Stover" I'm coming around hero by you. I think, my dear, if you havo never cooked a meal in your life you must be the one who washes tho dishes, and that is how you know whero to keep the di.sucloth, or did you learn it when you were a "school inarm" boarding around. I would like to compare experience with 3'ou in that line. 1 he best thing I ever used for a dishcloth waj linen cheese-clcth, but as I do not have thai only when a relative wbo owns a cheese factory is good enough to give me some of his paitly worn strainers. 1 usually buy a yard of cotton cheesecloth, cut it "in two lengthwise, fold each strip, lun the raw edges together, turn and whip the selve edge. The yard makes two dish-cloths. Being whitevou always know if they are not cleai. It is no trouble to keep them clean, either, you will lind, and, being thin, they dry quickly, which prevents souring. Of course the'cloth that is used in washing dishe3 and tinware is not used around pot?, kettles or the stovo. When crash band towels begin to wear thin I get a new supply and take the old ones for dish-towels, thus I always have a plentiful supply on hand. I'm not fussy about manv things, but 1 am particular about my dish-towels. In the absence of old linen, salt sacks make good wash-rags. As The Sentinel advertises Pylc's Fearline, perhaps I may be allowed to speak a word for its eftieacy in removing dirt from everything it approaches. If used according to directions it is rather expensive, but a tablespoonful dissolved ia dipper of hot water and turned into the wahtub (using other soap of course) will aid materially in bringing out the dirt, and another spoouful dissolved and added to the boiler will make the clothes much whiter, and for scrubbing there is nothing equal to it. If you wash dishes on an unpainted pine shelf, just n cloth and some soap won't keep it white, but a bit of pear line and a scrubbing bruah wi l. J.ns.solve a little in a pail of mop-water, and see how it will make oilcloths and painted fl'Mjrs chine. Use it carefully and quickly on painted woodwork. "VVnat do I most need in the kitchen?'' I should say, plenty of dishes and tinware. I'eliver me from having to empty a dish when I w ant to use it. "Sister Agm s," w ht ever has set you to talking of house-cleaning at this time of the year? I did not mean to think of such a thing for two months yet "Edith Belle," you must bo quite proud of your Howard namesake. "Randolph" and "Only Sister," I congratulate you. "Farmer B&y," I heard of your disputing the right of a railway train. I did not think you were so daring and venturesome. Please dont try it again. "Pompadour," if you did not make your visits to the pae so irregular, no one could accuse you of deserting it. No, "Violet"' dear, not forgotten, but too buy to keep many regu!ar correspondents. Come often to the page. "Shadow," I think I know who you are. Here is a welcome and a seat by "Mary of Champaign," you will find her one of the "deurest and best." All new writers and members please consider that I welcome you it' 1 do not cull youi name. We are glad to bear again from "Forest Flower," -Silver Bell," "Pickaway" and " Vimcr,"and let us hear from "Beatriae," "Idelia," E!!a." "Esbie," "B. Elba," "V. P. Bar," "Trycho," "Humping Bose," "John's Wife," "Cheerful Invalid," "Dew Brop," "Nsnon" and others who have been silent so long. "Sister Minnie," ny best w ishes for your future. Oh, my! O, my! 1 forgot we were to write only half a column. Mr. Editor, if you will 'cue me this time, I'll try not to forget next time. Byebye, "Inhc,." Adrian, Mich.,. Feb. 17. WHERE TO FIND SYMPATHY. Drow.Ed S(vll" Will Tall Too Also Knmethlng About Frlen1h1p. Kind II. L. C. Friends Here I am once more. It is just two monthssiui-e 1 visited tho page. Suppose I have not been missed. There have been so many good letters written thai it seems lika folly for me to attempt to write. When The Seminel comes the first to claim my attention is the Howard pa;c "Solietior," please :ccept my thanks for welcoming mo to tho page. I tako great f pleasure in reading your very interesting ettere. I believe ii was you who spoke, of the society needing a doctor, as some of the at?ent ones must purelv be sick. Well, now, I always dread a call from a doctor, so I thought 1 had better drop in awhilo for fear you might send the doctor around. But perhaps this is too hard on Dr. Simson. 1 will just say that I do not object to a call from a doctor, providing the call Li not in the professional line. "Aranmore," thanks to you. also, for remembering me in your visit to tbe page. Home of tbe friends are inc ined to be a little hard on you. Now, I just think you must be a first-rate follow, and there is one place w liere you will always rind sympathy, and that is but you cannot guess. Give it up? Why, in the dictionary, of course. "Maud Maple," many thanks to you for bidding me welcome. I know we could be good friends, aud I do appreciate a cood, true friend. Friendship, where it is quite sincero and affectionate, free from aifrctatioii ami interested views, is ono of the greatest blessings of life. It doubles our joys and lessons our sorrows to have a friend in whom we can trust One who we know takes an interest in our w elfare. Ono who rejoices In our company, and who we know thinks of us in our absence. The duties of friendship arc sincere and disinterested atlection. There are mjny who pretend to love their friends, when at the satnetirno they only take a delight In them, as we delight In a fine picture or a good voice. . Frienifhip requires pufo sincerity and unreserved coutideuco. Sincerity every

one has a tight to expect of r.s, but every one has not a right to our confidence. Above all things the general tenor of our thoughts an'l ftclings must be shown to r ir friends exactly as they are, wilhout any of those disguises which are put on in our commerce with the world. Friendship in the highest sense of the word can only exist between persons of refinement, integrity and generosity. It our friends be who they may, we "should have a proper regard for religion, discretion, good sense and good temper. Some people get plenty of good fricnd3 but do not keop them. One day they are loud in the praises of some charming friend, and then, perhaps, a week later you mention that person s name and there is a freezing silence which tells you that they are friends no longer. It is very wrong to expect to keen the affections of our friends all to ourselves and then becomo angry when we fancy they prefer some one else. It we would keep our friends we must consider their confidence sacred and never listen to anything which we should feel bound to reveal to another without first toiling them. Jet us endeavor by our words and deeds to deserve the blessings of true friendship. With kindest regards and beat wishes to all I will bid vou good nijzht. "Bhowx-Eyed Sapie." "THE DETECTIVE" COMES AGAIN.

lie Dlseoites Woman's rrogross and Some Hhr SnbJeCt. Kind "H. C. C.' Friends. As I have not yet answered to the roll call of il I doem it proper that I do so at once, so I answer "here." I had one misfortune since my last chat with you. On the third Saturday of December, ''JO, I took my breechloader and started in search o! game, as you know pedagogue! cf the masculine gender do for a lecreation. I met with fine success in tlio forenoon, but while returning homo a timid hare invited me to try my expertnees. I sent tho leaden hail and checked the progress of that animal. Yes, and something was the matter with the "Detective's" anatomy. After recovering my senses, which occupied otuite a while, I found one of the chambers bureted and both hands badly torn and .bruised ; also a portion of my wearing apparel lorn off amidships where c portion of the Hying fragments passed. A close call, but euch are the trials of a "Detective." Some one ha asked mtv kindly to write moro concerning love and the matrimonk' pat.i. To what 1 have said in tbe past 1 will add this: As I sit reclining in my chair near tho desk my mental faculties arc in a path where the full blown (lowers of youth pass either to a state of love, social " bappineas, with all the noble acquirements of such, or to a state of misery, degredatlon and sin. There always seetcs to mo something rathetic when I consider the lot of womankind. No matter however pleasing and attractive the surface may be, it has been a record of trouble since the laying of the cornerstone of history. Sac-red record, intimating that it was not good for man to bo alone, speaks in the following chapter t.;at the that w oman's mission was to be blamed for the transgression . f her husband. Now, for the next thousand years she carried the vain t tic and druc!geiyofa slave absolutely recognized by only one qualification physical hjantvi r This may be noted and understood by studying tho h'story of past kingdoms. All rulers of tbe opposite gender were noted in a greater or lesser degree for their personal endowments. Even at the opening of the Christian fra w e lind her still under subjection, but from that time on she has steadily advanced until today she is man's peer intellectually and his superior socially. This is indeed a gratifying fact, but I am sorry to say that it is overshadowed by ono of the darkest c.nuds that has ever oast a shadow upon the horizon of human existancc. The wonan oi today has advanced intellectually and morally, but ha.s aadly retrograded physically. Every tttudent of history or reader of events has been conscious that woman's health of today is far superior to that of the beginning of tho prcs-ent century, 6ueh being caused by the demands of fashion and fads of Bociety, dress and custom. I will leave here abruptly and take the opposite sex. Mso, the lir.it violator of tLe law, the firs-t inebriate and lo, the many dcedd of degeneration that he has performed. How many little threads of life have been snapped by the animal instinct and pasBions of man. The tendencies and instigating dementi of this line are almost without number, but" one o the most prominent and chief of all ii intemperance. I wonder if the young man who patronizes those, places whose entrances are screened by green blinds or costly curtains, really means what ho says when paying his sweetheart bis be.?t alter. lions. He may mean (or rather attempt to do so) but I am sorry to say that he seldom fulfills his promises, yet how man y pure and noble young ladies join fortunes with a man of this typo with a view oi reformation, only in the end to lea 1 a miserable life, (iirls, never marry a man of this type. My t wenty-.-econ 1 milestone b within a few hours apace yet in that short peiiod 1 have seen several young buds seared a;ul futuro happiness Masted. During my short existence on thisterrestial ball 1 havo studied nearly all matters of interest relative to tho existence and welfare of mankind and 1 find 'tistime to begin to deviso some plan of reformation in tho various phases of human sociability. Y' t on Cewa the human tlita, lt?isilei and nuvr.r ut r i. Ifeftriitg on it (Well turki Hint rl! O'er limn main wivfj ho oret is laahctJ in furjr y tb terujx-H. Soma will founder, soma may wreck, Wiiile tome will r-utrr the harbor of rest. Some one has asked me whv The S'rxtixkl was wrapped in materiaf of its own likeness. Ab;o why some MSS. fall into the V B. The lat ter reminds mo of tha little boy wbo went a fishing on a log when bis mother told him to dig potatoes. It's bard to fish anything out of a "Detective." They always like to do that themselves, especially when they can make a sucker believe he is fishing for succor. I will now leave my fpw broken remarks with you and start in pursuit of "Bonny Bird." as "Fompadour" has wired mo to bring her to justice. Wishing The Sentinel and all writers success I now take my departure. "Detective." KIND WORD 3. A tattle Talk About Tbem from Scliool Olrl. , H. I C. Fairs ps Will you welcome t rot her to your band? Did I hear 'May Belle" say yes? Aunt Jennie, I agree with you on kindness. What ia there that it will not do? We know not where a klud word may fail or what w ill be the effect The hardest heart is often moved by a kind word. Oh, how many souls are - lost for the want of one kind word. How unjust we are. So unjust I fear ii God were to judge us as we jude others our chances would be email

for heaven. How miserly we are with our kind words. We act as if we were afraid they would escape from us against our will. What a pity they do not? When wo see a pful plunging into the depth instead of extending a hand to tave him we stand by and tell our friends he is going, to run. And to extend a kind word is the best way to rescue him. More kindness, more kind words is the cry of so many poor humans. Why don't more of us hear them ? Let your kind words fall like due upon the flowers and as it raises the drooping flower so will the words heal the drooping spirit of thoso within its reach. "Borrping Bose" and "True Blue," may a etrangf-r ask you to come again? I would like so much to get acquainted with all of you. Would any of you care to get acquainted with a school girl? Brooklyn, Feb. 20. "Iova G." HEADS AND FACES.

"Mark Thought II Wouldn't Dot Re Did and Here It Is. Dear H. L. C. Fkiesds It was not my intention to come again on this subject, but as it becomes one's duty to answer his oponent, 1 will briefly, and promise never to corno again on phrenolozy. as I presume you are getting tired of heads and faces. Friend "Zanoue" I read your last grand hit, read it several times, aud as yet I am unable to understand what you are driving at. I supposed when I addressed you before that you knew what this science was and its principles, t least, but found that I was laboring under a very fnlre delusion. It.sectns to me that you have gone beyond the limits of science from the way you aro getting the spirit'-rsl mid earthly mixed. "Frank," the very reason that phrenology isn't tcken up to euch an extent is because there nre so many doubter like yourself, though the majority commence in that wav, but arrive at the truth sooner or kter. You seem to think tbet this science mere guesa work, while physiology is substantial, which goes to show that you do not understand it at all, because tbe former baa just as manv prin- ; ciples and as substantial as the latter. I Ia there n branch of a"ima thnf i a more interesting or needs more earnest attention than the siudv of man? Man, the highest typo of living organization, tha ruler oi the world. Why nt study him? Verily they that do not improve their talents in this way are not wise. I have seen persons that were so prejudicially set against this science that they would not even look in a work of the kind. Thoy were, what we might say, "cutting their nose off to spite their face." I honestly hope there are no such bias-minded individuals as those in our Howard band. , "Zanone," come again please. Your poetry was good. Also "Frank." we ' are waiting patiently for the termination of "John Henry' and "Marv Ann's" destiny. "L'ttle Trixr," "Soil Tiller." "M. E. P.," "Vao Vidua." I see you are ad Benton representatives along with myself. I would be pleased to form your acquaintances. "Benzie," no, we caunot guess. What ia the reason. "Wilmer," by all means let us herefrom vou on tb subject vou proponed. "Evelyn Eversham," "Maud Maple," your last was guol; let's hear from you often. Come, you older members, you seem to "tire of welldoing." What U the cause of tH long do'3y? Hoping to sfeo yonr names on the jage sooa. I will say bon jour. "Mw:k.' Feb. B. THOUGHTS A30UT TRUTH. The Did Bock or All True Nobility ef 1lnrr. Dear H. L. C. Friends To the lover of truth life is a contant study. And where truth is wanting life is like a barren waste to the upright in heart. Truth, as it were, is the bed-rock of all true nobility of heart. Iook around us at the manifold works of iod. Everything made for some definite purpose i made so in tho beginning and will con- j tiuue so to the end of time. From t the most minute to the greah-st object in nature we see no deviation 1 lrom the lirst great plan. J.tit oh, that man. and man alone, the noblest of ail (iod's creations, should be four. 1 to practice deceit. When we think of ourselves as existing for a little! time, that is but an opportunity to prepare for a glorious etendtv; cf the awful heartaches at the hands of the opposite attributes of truth ; of the blos.-ines of truth when we see and feel them shining upon us through the human soul ; when we look j up and itel tne piercing eye upon us oi the iod who cannot lie. Who, 1 ask, is there among us w ho would not strive to be on the side of truth ? But to be so requires a constant watchfulness that w e be no' deceived. "Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues oMife." Dear friends, does Cod's word imply that we shall rest in the belief that we are to sit down at ourecseand make no effort to ree;c for the right, thinking that it will come to us ot itself ? Far be such eloth from us. In one sense it is true that "truth needs no champion." But when we see the rinht maligned and crushed to the earth is it not then we should hold up the light that error may be exposed and that truth may bland upon its pedestal? How hard we sometimes find it to discern between the true and the false; to detect the glittering tinsel from the pure gold; the malicious enemy from the angel of litiht and lovo. Oil, my Howard friends, to you as my companions in the interest of a common cause, allow me to uj jeal, in tbe words of the inspired page: "Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves." "Marv or Champaign." Feb. 18. "the Croquette." I em iltting sad and lonHr, At'.d tbf. tnd if sw. pping tr; I am thinking of hint iololy W booa tnl lot it waa to ilift. O tbe MdntM that will gather, And tha ancnitb tear that ktart; To b truer 1 Lad rathar Thau tuuilt ihould break my heart, Whrr it weeotng, hr l radneai, 0 tall tliou thU anguiphrd real, Where It trn In jor in I gltlo-t Let the Uart ot aorrow roll. White my head 1, still lo sorrow LI id and dele ii bang with now SaJly I look upon the niorro.', 'TU change from jeers -. ' I at happy, hope ahone brightly la the earl morn of yran: Thus it le, wo httk t-o Of what then demand our eert Then to fte me It wm rleuleg, My teeth were prarl, snowy white, Cherry red, my lips so teatl-g To set young men's hearts to flight. Perk locks o'er my shoulders strrsmieg Covering half ray rotiadrd arm, y Soft brown eyes with worlds of mraolog Neter dreaming sughtof harm. O Ood, pity tho poor coquette! Fur deeds ire done without thought Peels that we nerer rsa forget J Making life o vainly wrought. Vssrs batr use1 sni time U flceilnf, ' ' Like the cloudlets In the sky;

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But I retnem Vr well our tneeticg, Aod rauieiulior with a aigb, 0 the hasty words thus spaken, On that pWant famine r mon, Vol rrarsrdtng frl-odhip broken And l'-eTiog friend jrlrc. Iet your thoughti with miiia to inlr O'er the twenty jesr ow pwt ; Ti'. the uornlsg wh:l 1 ponder T'uel his heart was cr.'S iJ to la-t. Mrnin? dwud so still, yet eirr, My fiee wore a radiant (t , An l like to an olden fairy. My eVer.s as a rose In th- snow. I, nnder so oak tree swingiiii;, Ctoe to my feat ran a brook, Dut the swing kept constant fl-ruln-And I dreamily e'oeel the booi. 1 lookel oat into the di.taore. O'er the graiej meviow rime To me a ynnth without resistance 1'or I know his nohic uani. To r.post tie words there pokf n Is t r.-peat an old toPrf. For it lift a heart thf re brsk.n Anoth.-r on my list so Ionic. lie aoros tbe ocean aaHcd. Fut the winds and storm-. thT V, Aud the ship, though trotted, (ailed. Leering In the deep tba erew. Taere sre news that tho light-hearted When they ono. are forea to know, lUd tears from their eyes, uastartvd, Mingling with tho present woe. Frjaa oj facetted all tbe brigMneae. When the drnvtf'il news euuti o er, And my heart bereft of lighlaesa, S ink nerer to be Iirtid attain. We sometlmts lore without kasin.;, But hot ti rae Ms quite pialo Th.it my heart wa Torflowing With lore, bnt lore now in ain. Mat I'm sitting, sitting, s'trtng, V r lore of the years bast fie'l; Ke'e I s:t so lose:, knittiup, No uui kcows tbe k-ars I shed. .;lv'ry hrjoks hare turnsl 10 bitloe, I.Ike tJie stiRrr oecaa'e war; Ier orrw l-e ray pillowi Till I rst within tbe grare. O, t p dsrk ocean, stop thy marine! l ot ia iane ears i-.und ti'.y dreams Of a ship j;it et at tuoorinjr In the .lark aud lleat stream. 0. 11T bom l ei-l- Hie rircr is a wrary. ! -i-une pot; In the twilight ow 1 nhiver, rreuinir of my lone'f iot. Rii-cr. c-iothy svl. sad murmur. n. Hut tbe river anwer. "'.Vhy 1" 'Tin ti roc tho sad Jest warning Of the day when I sba! die. This reaierabu, lovely eoq i-tte, Bf fore harst yers ar spent, UooJ deed we ottea da lorjr.t. HaJ ones lie for our torment. 0. the rlrer still Is roaring! Hand ton.1 my bonnet o'er; There is eometbiog still emploring Me to walk uj on the shor Lone I start to tread the brahe Wfcere wo sat in tlnieaof yore, But the water farther reaches ; I shall tread the aand no more. Riser dot 11 jw on former, Xerer, neer esae thy rolt Till tbls aoul shall never sevor Frera the one In Ood'sowa fo'd. "LiTTtk Baowt-KvED Jayyit." Brareton Mills, W. V., Feb. 17, 191. Ia Sngar Makln' Time, in the state of Indiana, where tbe mighty Wabh flows. And behind it like the billows of tbe see the willow grows. Where alown the toUhty riser in the shlmmerin' summer sun. Where the long eand-benks lie hinlo' and the sonbeams, escryore, Uoee a dancia and a pranrtn' ever all tbe Titer's breast, And the elaf hills to the westward shows each elond eneirlel cret There 1 est to lounge in glory in my early manhood's 1 rjtne, -There I first saw Mary Ellen la Sugar niskla' Time. O, ber hair wis like the sossele on the stacks of waring eorn. And her voice was like the wsrbiiof ot the oriole at morn ; Uereyee were bits of arure, stolen from the summer's sky, And her ebeeks were red as rose, and not made with paint and dye 0, rare and radiant picture, just Ilk a l'Mely dream. As she lieked the sejar-lsdle in an ahen wreath ot steam; The rapture was a lei Jor to the paradise to elimb, When she blushed in red as I klued her Ia dugar tnakln' Time. Yon ran search this blessed Union from tha mount aia to the plain. And cas your letrojpe.-llon over all this wide do main. But from Maine to Californy. and bac k aIn to Maine, Bat the likes of May Ellen will never be seen again. But you see that old gray woman settin' on the portico, Busied with her yarn and sewin, and arocktn' to and fro. Well, that there same old woman Is the subject et my rbjnie. bhVs the Mary that I eourted In - fiugsr-mskitt' Time. rCuai.ES Mai-bice Csavi j.v. rotoniiie, III, I'eK SO. Cavttee) Itllt Talk. Peak H. L, C. Kkiexds It is written Knock and it shall bo opened," therefore I a poor farmer' boy knock at the door. "Who will to the first to welcome me? I do not ask for an elcvatod seat, but will take the etool and sit in tha corner. I will not diicusA any cf the subjects that have tcen sugjipsted by noine of the members of the dub, but will offer ft few thoughts on reform. Great questions are apitatinir tbe minds of our Btntofiinen and countrymen. Heformers of the past did not live to fee

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