Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 August 1872 — Page 2

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DON'T SLOP OVER* r"

TKIN't mIOD over." ibe old man said, As be plac-d tote Wd on the young man's

Go It b?#'f ro®801' I? J1'#l' Oolt While leather and horse shoes last u£ it while hide and hair on horse Will bang together, O, go it, of course— Go it rapid aae »er you can, But don't slop over, my dear young man.

Don't slop over. You'll find some day• That keeping an eye to the windward wll« pay A horse inav run a little too'Jo®*' preacher

preach

And a JP°®t

Just a fraction too strong,

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wleas*es the world with

May write and regret In time*. Keep the end of the effort always In view, And don't slop over, whaiever you do,

Don't slop over. The wisest men Are bound to Klop over now and then, And yet the wisest, at work or feast Are the very ones who blunder the least. Those who for spilled milk never wall Are the ones who carry the steadiest pall. Wherever you go. go In for the fat But don't slop over—and freeze to that.

Don't slop over, distrust yourself, Nor always reach the highest shelf The next to the highest will gen'rally do, And answer the needs of such as you. Climb, of course but always stop, Aud take breath a little tbla side of the

And so 'you will reach It in wind and strong Without slopping oyer. Thus ends my song."

CAMP MEETING.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial has been attending the oatnp meeting at Urbana, Ohio, where Rev. Inskip spread his big tent, and gives the following as the closing scene of the last day:

Mr. Inskip was in the stand when we arrived. He seemed to have received a new baptism of power. He had surprising unction and freedom. He im plored unbelievers, on this last day, to no longer defer their soul's best interest, but to accept the cup of salvation as Christ offers it. His voice trembled and thrilled with emotion as it rang out like a brazen trumpet over the heads of thousands.

Now all look to Christ, and e-v-e-r-y m-a-n for himself. Lot the prayers be •O mighty God, bless me'—not us, but me. Let me sink lower in the pool than ever before, down, down beneath the purple water." Then the shout, and the moan, and the song went up in a babel of confusion, when suddenly

Mr.

Inskip cried out. "Listen!" In a moment all was still. "Now," said he, "we want power, and there is nothing more powerful than silence—deep, awful silence!" The hushed and bowed multitude bent them to his will, and not a sound was heard in all that crowd. The very birds in the trees above us hushed their songs and were still, as if In astonishment at this deep, unwonted silence. But, hark! Quivering soft and plaintively, ovor all this silence, a faint feminine voice cries: "Saved! Glory! Hallelujah!" That broke the spell, and a loug, loud, thrilling shout rant the heavens. "Now," said the leader, "all that have power enough to do so, go out into these cottages and tents, ami into the avenues, and talk of Jesus. Go! Go!" And they went. Like automatons moved by a hidden spring, thoy obeyed his will, and the scene was ol earnest, solemn enthusiasm.

Ladios and gentlemen, young men and maidens, all became voluntary missionaries for Christ Jesus. There was not the least confusion. The mighty will of the leader guided them over the breakers and piloted them rnpldly through the eddies of confusion, and

there

but

was no wreck. "There,"

said the leador, "goes a sister, and she is going to bring in two souls she don't know whero she is going, neither do

I know

she will bring in two souls."

Ah! could that bo possible? We waited with suspended breath for the result, lor we knew he could not possibly have a knowledge of her movements. With a tllrill of awe we saw her coming at length, and by her side two human souls.

Mr. Inskip saw her coming and merely said, "I knew it was so." What comment upon such a circumstance? Tbo missionaries sped on—in the cottages, in the tents, in the avenues, and across the ravine, doing the leader's will. This movement was not confined to believers, but many a hardened sinner was brought low. The scene was iudescribable. At length Mr. Inskip said, "Now, friends, don't think you have reached the maximum of powor, lor you haven't, now pray but If you pray for what you don't expect to receivo I will commence singing." At length the voice and confusion was Methodlstical,—Vut one word from the leader hushed the storm of emotion. lie onlv said, "Let us be still," and immediately a (treat hush fell upon the multitude, broken at last, by a sweot, low voice singing

Refining Are run through my heart Illuminate my soul Scatter thy light through every part

And sanctity the whole. Such perfect aeneralshlp as guided this meeting made everything move on sweetly and smoothly. His watchful eye regarded the Interest of every one in the crowd. No one was permitted to stand up or otherwise obstruct the •lew of those In the rear. After the prayers and testimonies wore ended, the'throng sang "I am so glad that Jesus loves me." There is no word that Just suits those peoplo like the word "glad."

Tho return of the Association next year is under contemplation, but there iiro onlv certain conditions under which thoy will consent to come. Mr. Insicip announced to-day that hereafter they would bold no camp meeting where any superfluities were sold on the around. Tobacco, cigars, confections or nil kinds, with all other superfluities, must be dispensed with (or the sale of them on the ground,) or they would hold no meeting.

A DELICATE FEMALE. A cotemporary says "The appropriate character ol a woman demands delicacy of appearance and manner, refinement and sentiment, aud gentleness of spetch. modesty in fueling and action, a shrinking Irjm notoriety and publlo gase, aversion to all that is ooarse and rude, and Instinctive abhorrence of all that tends towards indelicacy and impurity, either In principle or action." That's fast the sort of woman who lives in Brooklyu. She is delicate and refined, and all that sort of thing. One dsy last week she caught her husband talking with the servant girl. She pitched the servant girl out of door*, and then went for her husband. He tied to the street. She pursued. Her language was devoid of everything approaching that which Is ooartM or rude. Notwith*undi ig her anger, she only called him a blear-eyed old jackass, a contemptible, sneaking fornicator, an Illegitimate eon of a female dog, a murdering thief, and a mangy-souled poltroon. had the most intense admiration for the way In which this woman milntalned the appropriate characteristics of ladyhood.

rAT AND THE PIQ.

A countryman having killed a pig, snd not wishing to divide with his neighbors, as was tb» custom in that country, said to bis man (who by (he way. was a son of the Emerald Isle):

Pat, if I give the neighbor* who have given to ine, a piece ol my pork, 111 have none left forjnyself. Can you tell me what I an to4!e?"

Be dad, sir," said Pat, "It's myself that can do that same thing." Good," said the oountryman, rubbing his hands, and looking at Pat.

Now tell me what I can do." Faith, sir," said Pat, sure and when the craythur is claned, just be afther hanging It against the door where every mother's sou of them will see it, and early in the morning, before any one is about, get up and take in your pig, and hide it away. Thin when vour

was shtole."

So when the pig was cleaned it was hung up outside the door, so that the neighbors might see it. The countryman anxiously awaited the approaching night, and at last retired to bed. but not to sleep. Pat, under cover of the darkness or the night, crept round the house and stole the pig.

What was the astonishment of the countryman, when at early dawn he arose to Lido away his pig, but lound no pig there, can be better imagined than described. In the midst of hits be wilderment, Pat came in with bis usual, "top 'o the morning to ye, sir," and giving him a knowing wink said:

Masther, how about the pig Well, Pat, the pig was stolen in re ality."

Faith and that sounds just as natur alas if you lost your pig." But, you blockhead, I tell you the pig was stolen."

Faith and be gorry masther, the devil a bit 'o me thought you could do so well. Just stick to that, it's as natural as life."

By St. George," roared the now irate countryman. "I tell you that the pig was stolen." "Och! be jabers," says Pat, "stick to it, and yer neighbors will belave you, and a devil a bit of it thev'll get. Faith, I didn't think ye could do so well."

SEALING THE VOW.

A correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser, writing from the Round Lake camp meeting, tells the following story:

Many people sleep in the same tent here, being separated by partitions. As young Methodist fellows are thrown with pretty young ladles a good deal, it is nothing against them that they sometimes fall in love.

Last night they saw this happen: A vounn Methodist tellow from Ballston had become quite interested in a pretty daughter of a religious farmer. Last night, while a dozen cold-hearted fellows wearv, trying to sleep, they were continually disturbed by the lovers' spoony talk which they distinctly heard through the cotton cloth partition.

They heard him say, in alow, sweet Clarendon voice, "Now, Caroline dear, do let me seal the vow—do!" 'No, James, I cannot. What would my father and mother say replied a sweet girlish voice. 'But, Caroline, you have promised to bo mine—now let us seal the vow— let us, do let us—won't you Do kiss me!' 'No, James, I can not, Oh, I can not—'

In a moment the tent partition parted, and a big-whiskered brother, who wanted to sleep, shouted: 'For God's sake, Carrie, let him seal that vow. He'll keep us awake all night if you don't.'

The vow was sealed. -4, "When I told a young lady, who is here from Congress Hall, about this sealing joke, she said that 'James reminded her of some of the Congress Hall fellows—only they wanted to seal things before there was anything to seal.' She said Brown's boys, down in New York, got engaged to young ladies just to seal the vow, and, after they bad sealed it all Winter, they went ofT and got up another vow with fresh young lady.

I told her that such bad young men ought not to be countenanced—that every young lady should set her face against them. 'Alas!" she replied, 'I have set my face against them too much already. They will never reform till we take our faces away from them altogether.'

DETERMINED.—A Louisville "Jim" is kind enough to impart to the Drawer the following incident that recently occurred in one of the colored circles in that city:

The head waiter in one of our hotels was a few days since made the recipient of a young pig. Never having had a "party" of that sort to take care of before, he was at a loss to know how to feed it, but finally concluded that the leavings of the table would answer the contract. These he supplied in liberal quantity, and as a consequence piggy soon got very sick. One day, after having served to it the usual collation, the colored gem man was observed filling a large can with ice-cream, and on being told that it was no food ror a pig, replied, "Golly! he's jes' got to learn to eat dessert or die!"—Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine lor September.

IIOLMRS ON FLIES.—Mighty curious creatures, these same house (lies! Talk about miracles! Was there ever anything more miraculous, so far as our common observation goes, than the coming and tfaQ going of these creatures? Why dldn*t Job ask where the flies come from and where they go to I did not say that you and I don't know but how many people do know anything about it? Where are the cradles of the young flies Where are the cemeteries of the dead ones, or do they die at all except when we kill them You think all the flies of the year are dead and gone, and there comes a warm day, and all at once there is a general resurrection of 'em they have been taking a nap, that Is all.—[September Atlantic.

AND new we are told that the snake Isnjt devoid of affection. It mcurns sadly as the cooing dove over ita loat mate. We are sorry to hear this, as It has always been our habit to widow as many snakes as possible.—But we will not solemnly swear to do so no more until we try what effect sentiment will have when we see a reptile crawling at our feet. A Kentucky exchange tells the following: "Some lime since a man named Barger, who resides In Cumberland Oonnty, while getting tan bark in the woods, killed a very lam rattlesnake, lied it to his wagon and dragged it home. The next morning he round the mate to it coiled op under hla wagon, having followed the trail of Its dead companion the distance of two miles, leaving its track in the dost sllalong the route*

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the pig Capital Idea. Pat." exclaimed the countryman •'I'll do it, by St. George."

TERRE-HATJTE SATURDAY. EVENING MAIL. AUGUST 31. 187-2.

CEAR IVAN.

A FteasiW Leaf from History.

Czar Ivan, who reigned over Rnasla about the middle of the sixteenth century, frequently went out disguised, in order to discover the opinion which the «ople had ot his administration. One Jay in a solltaay walk near Moscow, be entered a solitary village, and, pretending to be overcome by fatigue, be implored relief from several of the inhabitants. His dress was ragged Ills ap-

earanoe mean and what ought to excited the compassion of tne vlllagers, and Insured his reception, was productive of refusal. Full of Indignation at such Inhuman treatment, he was about to leave the place, when be perceived another habitation, to which he had not yet applied for aid. It was the poorest cottage In the village. The Czar hastened to it, and knocked at the door a peasant opened it, and asked him what he wanted. "I am almost dying with fatigue and hunger," replied the Czar. "Can you give me lodging for one night

Alas!" said the peasant taking him by the hand, "you will have but poor fare you come at an unlucky time. My wife is about to become a mother but come In. You will at least be sheltered from the cold and such as we have you are welcome to."

The peasant then made the Czar enter a little room full of children. In cradle were two Infants sleeping sound ly a girl three years old was sleeping on a rug near the cradle while her two olsters, the one fivo and the other seven

Jeaven

ears old, were crying and praying to for their mother, who was ic room adjoining.

Stay here," said the peasant to the Czar. "I will go and get something for your supper."

He went out, and soon returned with some black bread, eirgs and honey. You see, all I have to give you, said the peasant "you are welcome to partake of It, with my children—I must go to my wife." "Your charity, your hospitality," slid the Czar, "mubt bring down blessings upon your house. I am sure Heaven will reward your goodness." "Pray to Heaven my good friend," replied the peasant, "pray to Heaven that my wife may get well. That is all I

And is that all vou wish, my friend to make you happy?" "Happy! judge for yourself I have five fine children a wife that loves mea father and mother, both in health, and my labor is sufficient to support them all." "Do your father and mother live with you?" "Yes they are in the next room with my wile." "But your cottage here is so very small." "It is large enough it can hold us all."

The peasant then went to his wife, who, an hour after, was happily past all danger. Her husband, in a transport of joy, brought the new-born child to the Czar.

Look," said he, "what a fine, hearty child he is. May Heaven preserve him, as it hath done my others."

The Czar, sensibly affected by the scene, toek the infautchildinhis arms, and said:

I know, from the pbysiogomy of the child, that he will be quite fortunate he will arrive, I am certain, at great eminence."

The peasant smiled at the prediction and that instant the two eldest girls came to their new-born brother, and their grandmother came, also, to take him back. The little ones followed her. And the peasant, laying himself down upon his bed of straw, invited the stranger to do the same. In a moment the peasant was in a sound and oeaceful sleep but the Czar, sitting up, looked around, and contemplated everything with an eye of tenderness and emotion—the sleeping children, and their sleeping father. An undisturbed silence reigned in the cottage.

What a happy calm! what delightful tranqnility 1" said the Czar. "Avarice and ambition, suspicion and remorse, never enter here. How sweet is the sleep ol innocence."

In such reflection and on such a bed did the Emperor of the Russias spend the night. The peasant awoke at the break of day, and his guest, taking leave of him, said

I must go to Moscow, my friend. I am acquainted there with a very benevolent man, to whom I shall take care to mention your kind treatment tome. I can prevail upon him to stand godfather to your child. Promise me, therefore, that you will wait ior me, that I may be present at the christening. I will be back In three hours at the furthest."

The peasant did not think much of this mighty promise but, in the goodnature of his heart, he consented to the stranger's request.

The Czar immediately took his leave. The three hours were soon gone, and nobody appeared. The peasant, therefore, followed by his family, was prearing to carry his child to church jut, as he was leaving his cottage, be heard on a sudden the tramping of horses, and the rattling of many vehicles. He knew the imperial guards, and called his family to come and see the Czar go by. They all ran out in a hurry, and stood before the door. The horsemen and carriages soon formed a circular line, and at last thostage-coach of the Czar stopped outside tho good peasant's door. The guards kept oack the crowd, which the hope of seeing their sovereign had collected together.

The chariot door was opened, the Czar alighted, anJ, advancing to his host, thus addressed him

I promised you a godfather. I am come to fulfill my pledge. Give me your child, and follow me to church."

The peasant stood like a statute now looking at the Czar with the mingled emotions oi astonishment and joy now observing his magnigcent robes and the costiv jewels with which they were adorned, and now turning to the crowd ol nobles that surrounded him. In this profusion o( pomp he could not discover the poor stranger who had laid all night with him upon the straw. The Czar silently enjoyed his perplexity for some moments, then addressed him tbos:

Yesterday yoa performed the duties of humanity, to-day I am come to discharge the most faithful duty of a sovereign—of recompensing virtue. I shall not remove you from a situation to which yoa do so much honor, and the Innocence and tranquility of which I envy, but I will bestow upon you each things as may be usefal to yon. You ahall have numerous flocks, rich pastures, snd house that will enable you to exercise the duties of hospitality with pleasure. Your new-born child shall be my ward, for you remember." he continued, smiling, "that I prophesied he would be fortunate."

The good peasantooald not speak but with tears of grateful sensibility In his eyas, be ran Instantly to fetch the child, brought him to the Czar, and laid him respectfully at his feet. This excellent sovereign was quite affected he took the child in his arms, and carried

It to church: and after the ceremony was over, unwilling to dsprfte bim of his mother's care, he took him to the cottage and ordered him to be sent to bim us soon as be oould be weaned.

The Czar faithfully fulfilled his engagement. caused the bov to be educated in his palaeo, provided amply for his future settlement in life, and continued ever after to beta favors upon the virtuous peasant and his family.

HOARDING HOUW LJFE*

The FwlofM^akfast^^DU^urfeg on it.

To think of it! Not even a dog to lick his band, or ft oat to purr and rub her fur against him! On, these boarding bouses! What forlorn people one sees stranded on their desolate shores! Deoayed gentlewomen with tho poor wrecks of what once made their households beautiful disposed around them in narrow chambers as they best may be, coming down day after day, poor souls, to sit at the board with strangers their hearts full of sad memories which have no language but a sigh, no" record but the lines of sorrow on their features or orphans, creatures with growing tendrils and nothing to cling to lonely rich men, casting »»bout them what to do with tho wealth they never knew how to enjoy, when they shall no longer worry over keeping and increasing it young men and young women, left to their instincts, unguarded, unwatched, save by malicious eyes, which are sure to be found and to find occupation in these miscellaneous collections of human beings and uow and then a shred of humanity like this little specialist, with just the resources needed to keep the "radical moisture" from entirely exhaling from his attenuated organism, and busying himself over a point or science, or compiling a hymn book, or editing a grammer or dictionary, such are the tenants of boarding houses whom we can not think of without feeling how sad it is when the wind is not tempered to the shorn lamb: when the solitary, whose hearts are shrivelling, are not set in families.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.

A MASCULINE WOMAN. This story of a masculine woman is from the Kansas City Times of recent date: "The calaboose sometimes has for its tenants some rough characters. Yesterday a woman was turned loose whose proper name is Fanny Taylor. The stated to our reporter that she was born in Spottsvlvanla county, Pa. When young she ran away with Robinson & Eldred's circus with which she remained several years as a female athlete and gymnast: She afterwards learned the shoemaker's trade and served five years In this business, part of the time passing as a man. She then served two years as a blacksmith in t^e patent bolt and nut works in St. Louis, and claims to be able to shoe a horsa as well as a man. She served as blacksmith in the Tenth Missouri cavalry from 1862 to 1864, and was taken prisoner in Alabama and sent to Richmond, where she revealed her sex and got her release. She was many times arrested In Richmond for fighting or gambling. Some of these fights were very serious. She boasts of having a fight with Joseph Mayo, mayor of Richmond, and afterwards had a prize fight and won it. She made her escape lrom Richmond and returned to St. Louis, when she was sent to Jail lor shooting in the Bowery theatre. She made her escape by climbing a wall and letting herself down by a blanket cut into strips. She then assumed her own clotning, and, passing as a woman, escaped detection. She has run as a brakeman on the Missouri Pacific for nearly a year, but was discharged for drunkenness. Her greatest enemy is her temper, which is very high, and when inflamed by strong drink is demoniac."

A STRANGE RELIGIOUS RITE. There is a Mrs. Smith over in New Jersey who has engaged a Coolie to do her housework for her. Like all Chinamen, he uses exaggerated and preposterous terms when addressing a su-

erior. And HO, a few weeks ago, when wished to know if he should bring the washtubs up out of the cellar, he approached Mrs. Smith and used the following formula which he had studied up with great care: "Would the beauteous dove who broods like an angel of peace over this fair haven of domestic felicity, cooing soft notes to her affectionate mate, desire me to conduct the wooden vessels from the sublime subterranean apartments where they are excluded from the glance of her soft eyes?" Perhaps It was his broken English, or it may have been his warmth of manner, but Mrs. Smith Imagined that the wretched Mongolian outcast was making love to her so she floored him with the broom-handle, rolled him down two pair of stairs, and then sat on bim and thumped him opja lot, while Mr. Smith held him by the legs. The Coolie conceived an idea that this ceremony must be invariably incident to the removal of tubs from American cellars—that it was some kind of a religious rite which has to be performed always on washing days and now every Monday morning he stnffs newspapers under his clothes in order to go through with the performance with as much comfort as possible.

INTIMATE A CQ UA INT A NCES. Of all disagreeable people who cumber flw earth, the most to bo dreaded are intimate acquaintances the peoplo who think themselves justified by virtue of having known yon a certain length of time, and having been, by circumstances, thrown into close connection with you, in meddling with your affairs in an utterly inexcusable way. People who enter your room when yon are absent, and help themselves to anything they may happen to want, just the same as if you were present who allow you to search for the missing a: tide till you are discouraged, and in yonr own heart accuse the servants ol stealing it, snd then wslk coolly In some morning to return it, without dreaming of apologizing for the onwarrantable liberty they had taken. These are the people who look over your shoulder when you aie writing letters who borrow your last new novel before you have cut the leaves who, when you present them with tickets to concert or sny other entertainment, quietly ask for your own remaining one, that some mend may accompany them who always call upon you just at meal time who invite themselves to your couatry house in the Summer, and your town residence for the Winter and whose requirements—whether It be for your dinner or the perusal of jour love letters—are always granted, for the reason that the superlatively cool Impudence evinced in the asking leaves you so astonished and bewildered that it never strikes you then can be snv other resource.

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A man of pure heart and close conscience, bates nobody, and is a happy being.

Better than faineis still the wish for fame, the constant,trainings for a glorious strife.—[Bulwer

The master of superstition Is the people, and In all superstition wise men follow fools.—[Bacon.

Enlarge not thy destiny, saitli the oracle of old endeavor not to do more than is given thee to do.

Offer up not sincerity to lore. No love is gennlne whose altar asks the sacrifice.—[C. A. Bartol.

Nature has sometimes made a fool but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.—[Addison.

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife go up when thou choosest a friend.—[Rabbi Ben Azai.

Why can't we look at our faults first and then Jook at our neighbors it would be a cipital practice.

Tbe religion of Christ is peace and good will the religion of Christendom is war and ill will.—[Landor.

It is more difficult and calls for higher energies of soul to live a martyr than to die one.—[Horace Mann.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, audit will ever bubble up, it thou wilt ever dig.—[M. Antbnius.

What an absnrd thing it is to pass over all tb& valuable parts of maa, and fix our attention on his infirmities.— [Addison.

There are few defects in our natures so glaring as not to be veiled from ob servation by politeness and good breeding.—[Stanislaus.

Nothing is impossible there are ways which lead to everything and If we had sufficient will, wo should always have sufficient means.—[Rochefoucault.

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest and writest, bat of the firmness of thy mind and the government of thv passions and affections, —[Fuller.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it would not behold the sun If the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the God-like charm us?—[Goethe.

SAYINGS OF SPURGEON. Spurgeon sententlously expressed a number of thoughts In the following appropriate sentences, which he publishes as "advice gratis

No one is more like an honest man than a thorough rogue. Do not choose your friend by his looks handsome shoes often pinch the loot

Don't believe the man that talks tbe most, for mewing cats are very seldom mou8ers.

By no means put yourself in anoth er's power: if you put your thumb between two grinders they are apt to bite.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing withot reading it, and make sure that it means no more than it says.

Do not get to law unless you have nothing to lose lawyers' houses are built on fools' head.

Put no dependence on the label of a bag, count money after your own kind.

In any business never wade into wa ter where you cannot see bottom. See the sack open before you buy what is in it, for ho who trades in the dark asks to be cheated, nu-n lii-1 1 Iti'll. .:-

THE AGE OF MENuti

Professor Faraday adopts Flourin's physiological theory that the age of man is one hundred voars. The duration of life he believes to be measured from the time of growth. When onoe tbe bones and epiphyses are united the body grows no more, and it is at twenty years this union is effected in man. The natural termination of life is five removes from the several points. Man being twenty years in growing, lives five times twenty years, that is to say, one hundred yearsj the camel Is eight years in growing, lives five times eight years, that is to say, forty years the horse is five years in growing, and lives twenty-five years, and so with other animals. The man who does not die of sickness lives anywhere from eighty to one hundred years. Providence has Slven man a century to live, but he oes not attain it because he inherits disease, eats unwholesome food, gives license to his passions, and permits vexation to disturb his healthy equipoise he does not die, he kills himself. The Professor divides life into two equal halves, growth and decline, and these halves into infancy, youth, virility and age. Infancy extends to tbe twentieth year, youth to the fiftieth, because it is during this time that the tissues become firm virility, from fifty to seventy-five, during which the organism remains complete, and at sev-enty-five old age commences.

IN one of Mr. Armstrong's letters from Salt Lake City to his paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, that gentle mau gives an interesting account of a Sunday service at the Tabernacle and says:

Three elders edified us with sermons, all of them defending the peculiar ideas of the Saints in the most commonplace and feeble way. We must have picked out a day fo'r a "poor preach," for I never listened to such consummate blasphemy and such a conglomeration of mere words anywhere in my life The "Saints" partook of sacrament, and the twelve elders for ten or fifteen minutes, on a front platform en gaged in tearing into minute fragments several loaves of bread. It was then passed around to old and young. While the bread was being passed aronnd, one ol the elders took occasion to stoop a little below the platform, untie bis shoe, pull off bis stocking, and deliberately pare his corn Were I a Mormon I would be exceedingly grateful that be pared the corn after he broke the bread!

OtJB collision with tho comet has been —for us—indefinitely postponed. We crossed its path this year In safety, and will not have it to do over again for a hundred and thirteen years. So we are safe and the people of 1985 most take care of themselves. Every year, about the 11th of Augnst, there is a shower of meteors. An Irish legend claims these brilliant drops to be tears shed by St. Lawrence, and as comets are supposed to be consolidated tear-drops ot the weening Saint, the 12th of the month wass convenient time to fix upon. It is yet undecided bow the earth will be treated in 1085. One unpleasant philosopher thinks the comet will have such vast powers of attraction that it will pull up a tidal wave "2,000 toiaes above the ordinary sea level," which, receding, w#uld deluge the earth, except Mont Blanc andf the Andes and tbe Himalayas.

VINEGAR PI*.—One cup sugar one- $ hall cup of vinegars boil together a few minotes. Cool and add one egg, one spoonful of flour or a little rolled cracker, and ono spoonful ot butter, Bako with two crusts.

PICKLED PEACHES.—One-half gallon sharp vinegar, 4 pounds sugar, tounoes einnamon, 2 ounces cloves: put the spice in a bag boll the mixture fivo minutes, then put in tbe peaches ands boll five minutes take theip out and put in more put the peaches in jars and pour the mixture over them hot when cold cover them tight.

To MAKK SCOTCH CAKE.—Take one pound of fine flour, a half pound of fresh butter, a half pound of finely sifted loaf sugar mix well in a paste, rolU out an Inch thick In a square shape,? pinch the edges so as to form small I points ornament with comfits and or-| ange chips bake in a quick oven. When of a pale lemon color it is done.

CORN SOUP.—Eight large ears, cut ofT the grains and sorape tbe cobs. Cover this with water (not too much) and boil,, until perfectly done. Now add two: a it to a stir in two tablespoonfuls of butter, rolled in a tablespoonful of flour, leu the whole boil ten minutes have ready^.* the yolks of three eggs well beaten,: pour the soup on them, stirring hard all the time. Serve immediately, after.' seasoning to taste.

TOMATO PRESERVES.—Forsix pounds ot tomatoes use tour pounds of sugar, quart ot water,nnd half a dozen lemons/ The tomatoes may be green or ripe. Prick them with a fork and cut thelemons in slices. Dissolve the sugar in water, and when the syrup is clear and boiling hot, add the lemons and., tomatoes, and boil till they are trans-' lucent tnen skim out the tomatoes on*-' splatter to cool. Boil down the syrup, and pour It scalding hot over them.-

MEAT BALLS.—A savory way of preparing meat is in the form of meat balls made thus: Cold boiled or raw beef or pork chopped very fine put into a dish, together with eggs—one to each half youtid of meat—crumbs of light bread, soaked and mashed fine, a couple of medium-sized onions chopped (may be omitted if not liked), seasoned to taste, with salt, If tho meat isJ fresh, pepper nutmeg and alspice, andfn form into egg-shaped balls, with tho hand if too moist, to form well, add a little flour, and fry In plenty ot lard.

iilrt fc* 4 HEALTH ITEMS. ,,

Cholera morbus Is caused by conjestlon of tho liver induced by drinking ice-water, over-e*tiug or over-heating.

Dr. Trail says a wet shoet pack Is the,, best thing in cholera morbus. Tho., next best is a tepid sitz-bath. Drink little sips of cool water, and take no medlciue.

A full glass of water at bedtime andf another just after rising will often re-1 lieve dyspeysia. ..

Medical Home,""*we "'don't' know, whether it is good aothority or not, '1 gives the fallowing recipes. They promise too much:

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A tea made of ripe or dried whortleberries, and drank in the place of water, is a sure and speedy cure for a scrofulous difficulty, however bad.

tea made of peach leaves is a cure for a kidney difficulty. A plaster made of fresh slacked lime aud fresh tar is a sure cure for a cancer, which, with all its roots, will soon ..

TRIUMPHANT FOR TWENTY YEARS.—* .. More than twenty years ago the Mustang Liniment made its debut in tho West. Its cores of the various external diseases ot horses and cattle, astonished the planters aud farmers of the Mississippfand Ohio Valleys, and a demand for it sprung up which necessitated its manufucturo on an extensive ssle. Soon the discovery was made that it was a grand specific for rhematism, gout, neuralgia, earache, toothache, and othtr external ailments of man-:, kind. Then it was tried as a healing,-* pain killing application, in cases of outward injury, such as cuts, bruises, burns, spasms, fcc., and was found equally serviceable. Tbe feme of the new remedy for some of the most palnfol ills that afflict mankind and tho lower animals, spread rapidly, and Mustang Liniment soon took rank In every Stato and Territory of the Union as a standard euro.

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ONE-HALF the people canfiot takd 1 Castor Oil from its terrible nauseating taste, and recoil in the throat. The Castorla prepared by Dr. Pitcher, is purely vegetablo, perfectly harmless, pleasant to take, and more effective than Castor Oil. It does not distress or gripe, but regulates the system, and operates when all other remedies have failed. It acts like magic for Stomach Ache, Constipation, Flatulency, Croup and Worms. It contains neither Minerals, Morphine nor Alcohol. Its^ soothing, quieting effect, produces natural sleep, and partlculaily adapts i& to crying and teething children, article has ever met such unqualified endorsement by tho Physicians. Take no mote Bitter Pills, Narcotic Syrups, I Griping Purgatives or Sickening Oils. Tbe Castorla costs but 35 ceuts, and* when once tried you will never bo with-f ,(.j out it.

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