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THE SMOKY HILL AND REPUBLICAN UNION.
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DURATION OF LIFE.
BY ELIPIIAXET KIMBALL.
' With the inheritance of a good constitu
tion, and with a rational mode of life from
first to last, undoubtedly the human race
would reach tho age of one hundred years
or upwards, in health and cheerfulness.
The natural life of man appears to be four
times as long as the period of growth, or
in other words, growth occupies one quar
ter of the natural life. The human race,
in general, reach maturity in twenty-five
years, taking males and females together
males at the age of twenty-eight, females
at twenty-two. Bad constitutions come to
maturity sooner than that, and remarkably
good ones later. Persons who live to the
age of one hundred years and upwards,
without attention to the rules of health,
were no doubt more than thirty yeare in
growing. The same proportion of life to
growth undoubtedly prevails with all ani
mals and vegetables, from the enduring
elephant to the transient butterfly, and from
a spear or grass to tne Dig trees or Uali
fornia, which are known to have grown
thousands of years, but whose ages are un
known. By a great many persons health
is iguorantly and carelcssty destroyed. Al
most ever' one commits slow suicide. Life
is shortened at the rate of about twenty
five years. Those who die at seventy-five
might have lived twenty-five years longer.
In the first place, the constitution de
fends on that of the parents. In the next
place, injury to health begins before birth.
Vhatevcr injures the mother has the same
effects on bar unborn child, as errors in
diet, hard work, deficient exercise, care,
anxiety, grief, ungovcrned passions, &c.
It is obvious that great prudence on the
prospective mother is doubly important.
After birth, the greatest cause of sick
ness and a short life, especially in this coun
try, is wrong eating, which includes three
faults, namely, too much food, unwhole
some cooking, and an unwholesome way of
eating after it is cooked. It is doubtful
which of the three faults docs the most
harm.
Only a little too much food, or that
which is irrationally cooked, or irrationally
eaten, deranges the digestion of the meal,
which makes itself known by unpleasant
feelings. Overloading the stomach is be
gun in infancy. Too much food checks the
growth of the body, and lays the founda
tion of nearly all diseases. Partly from
this cause a great part of the young men
arc slender and round shouldered. A ra
tional abstemiousness preserves health, cheer
fullness and life, to a great age. " Eating
to live," makes living to eat, as temperance
is pleasure. In old age the stomach loses
in a great measure its power of digestion,
and the food should be lessened according
ly. Ardent spirits, by calling forth all the
powers of digestion, wear out the stomach,
Cud unfit it for food. Paregoric, from the
opium it contains, when given freely to in
fants to quiet them, dwarfs the body and
inind, and destroys the health.
In all civilized countries, the useful and
most rcspoctable part of the people injure
their constitutions and shorten life by hard
labor while the useless and pernicious ones,
as lawyers, merchants and poets, don't labor
enough for their health. It is in the period
of youth that hard labor does most injury,
although it is hurtful at any age. Almost
all boys and young gitls, who"-work out for
wages, havo their constitutionhrqken by it,
and are brought to an early death. Many
are the girls who ruin their health, and die
from teaching in the abominable schools.
It is proved by the records of the War Of
fice in France, that almost every young man
who entered the French armies before
reaching the age of maturity, died in the
service, and only those lived through it who
had entered after gaining full growth.
Excessive and premature labor of the
brain and nerves in schools and colleges,
with deficient muscular exercise, is a great
help in keeping people from living long in
the land. It is called " disciplining the
mind." It is not good discipline, it is
-labor. Reflection is discipline. No person
fcan educate another. Parents hurry their
children to be men and women, and hurry
them to their graves, not considering that
t education to be useful and harmless, must
-concur with Nature, which advances in slow
development in all things. Early rising
injures every one who goes to bed fatigued.
Sleep rests the brain, nerves and mind, but
not so much the muscles and the other
parts of the body. Nothing but lying
awake, and stretching the limbs and joints,
can euro bodily fatigue. A person gets
more rest from lying in bed awake two or
three hours in the morning, than from a
whole night's sleep. Laboring people, on
awaking in the morning, have a feeling of
soreness and stiffness, which goes off by
getting up and stirring about. That feel
ing is a process of Nature, which is neces
sary to the cure of fatigue. It is the im
mediate forerunner of being perfectly rested.
By lying abed while awake, and stretching
the limbs and joints, the soreness and stiff
ness is cured, and the person perfectly rest
ed. Getting up and stirring about stops the
sore and stiffness, but don't cure it. It
only puts off the cure.
So long as a person continues to get up
every morning with a feeling of soreness
upon him, he never gets rested, and his
constitution wears out. Nothing can ever
cure fatigue but lying in bed awake until
the soreness goes off. Fatigue goes off
sooner by keeping the thoughts on the body
when in bed. Thinking about other mat
ters prevents getting rested. A weak side,
back, or other lame spot, is soonest rested
by keeping the mind on that spot a fact
which proves that the mind is the body.
Laboring people should go to bed early.
Strong, healthy persons, who do not labor,
should go to bed late and get up early.
Children need a good deal of sleep and rest,
and should not be made to rise early. It
is hurtful to jump out of bed immediately
on awaking out of sleep the change is too
sudden and violent. It is apt to cause
headache.
Nature's operations aro slow in all
healthy conditions. The sun never rises
early. It never gets up before light, and
not till a considerable time after. It never
jumps up, but comes along slow. .Labor
fatigues sooner in the morning than in the
afternoon. It is best to move slow before
breakfast, and rest an hour after eating.
Hundreds of thousands of young child
ren die every year in the United States from
nakedness of the arm 3. The arms are one
of the channels through which Nature ex
pels disease from the body. Disease of the
right side and tho liver goes up into the
right shoulder, down the arm, and finds an
outlet near the elbow joint, with an itch
ing in that spot. Some of it follows down
and goes off at the wrist joint. Disease in
the left side finds an outlet through tho left
arm in the same manner. An itching near
the elbow joint is disease of some kind es
caping from the vitals.
The close connection between the arms
and vitals is apparent. A good circulation
of blood in the arms, with warmth and
moisture of the skin, encourages disease, cr
whatever tends to it, to go off through
them. Coldness, of course, has a contrary
effect, driving it back into tho vitals. Dis
ease in the lower part of the body goes
down the legs and out near the knee and
ankle joints. An itching on any part of
the body whatever is the working off of
something that ought to go. If there was
such a disease as " humor" it appears like
ly it would itch inside instead of out. A
person who goes to bed very much fatigued
is not perfectly rested the morning till his
head begins to itch all over. At the same
limo he has a peculiar feeling of the eyes
which makes him jam his knuckles into
them. It is the last stage in the process of
resting. In the corner of the eye, next to
the nose, is an outlet for disease and fatigue
of the head and eyes. Jamming the
knuckles into the eyes drive out what ought
to go. The presture should always be to
wards the nose, and it ought to be continu
ed so long as it feels good. It is a most
healthy operation, and has tendency to pre
serve the sight.
Cold water can be drank without injury
only by those who have health and heat
enough to warm it as soon as swallowed.
Ice water is dangerous unless in a raging
fever. In warm weather, with a sweaty
skin, the blood is coldest, as sweat carries
off heat. In a state of exhaustion from
heat and sweat, warm drink does as mueh
good as cold drink does harm. It is reviv
ing, and quenches thirst better than cold
drink. There are two kinds of thirst
that which arises from too much heat in the
stomach, with a dry skin, which needs cold
drink, and that from too little heat in the
stomach, with a very sweaty skin, which
needs warm drink. In all warm climates
the natives have cold blood. Acordiagly
in such countries Nature has provided a
variety and abandance of the hottest kind
of pepper to restore the heat of the body.
It is mixed freely with their food, which a
stranger from a Northern climate finds at
first too hot for his mouth and throat.
Cold water on a sweaty skin is death. It
has a tendency to palsy the nerves. Men
who have bathed in cold water in a state of
perspiration have been paralyzed from head
to foot. The bad fever sores, so common
among boys, are entirely owing to going in
to cold water. Deafness is often caused by
it. Many farmers get lasting fever sores
from haying on swampy ground with wet
feet, In warm weather, in a state of per
spiration, the warm bath is just what is
needed. With a sweaty skin it is injurious
to wash even the face and hands in cold
water. Warm water feels agreeable to a
moist skini and cold water the reverie. It
is a mistake that the warm bath is weaken
ing and exposes to take cold. When need
ed, it is strengthening, and fortifies against
taking cold. Cold water is less hurtful if
accompanied with friction, and then it is
the friction that does good.
As might be expected, the person who
has so little reason and prudence as to flit
in a draft of air in a state of perspiration,
will on other occasions go to the opposite
extreme and have too little air. They close
tight the doors and windows of tbeir bed
rooms, and breathe through the nighta foul
and poisonous air. In the morning they
have their beds made, full of foulness, with
out airing.
Great injury and many deaths are caused
by the improper use of cold water.
Luxury and show help to shorten life,
from the labor and care necessary to sup
port it. Besides, it is in bad taste. Noth
ing is meaner than fine houses and fine
grave-stones and monuments. No splendid
building in the world, merely as such, is
worth going a rod to see, A person of
good and rational mind loves small wooden
houses unpainted, weather-beaten and brown
with age. The handsomest house is a log
house. The naked wood is interesting and
impressive. Tne most impressive grave is
that which has no grave-stone whatever.
Baron Steuben showed good sense when be
directed that no stone whatever should be
placed at his grave. The handsomest grave
stone is a rough one picked up in the field
or woods, with no inscription but the name,
as all else properly belongs only to tbe
family record and the memory of friends.
Bunker Hill monument abstracts from the
interest and impressiveness of the battle
ground. Worse than that, tbe battle-ground
is gone. Its 3acred soil has been removed,
and the original appearance destroyed for
the sake of the so-called " ornament." Tbe
monument tells nothing but the unfeeling
ness and folly of its builders.-
Perfect naturalness and plainness are the
only ornaments in language, manners, and
everything else. A tree with the body of
it whitewashed has an unpleasant appear
ance. A woman with false bair looks hor
rid. Her face looks older for it by tbe
contrast. An old man with a young wife is
a shocking sight. Only those who are un
worthy of respect attempt to gain it by
show. As a general thing those who are
always " well-dressed " are useless and per
uicious members of society. One man or
woman is worth more than a nation of gen
tleman aod ladies.
Striving to gain property only for the
akc of being rich, shortens life. Besides,
unnecessary wealth everything else unneces
sary, gives no true enjoyment. Goodness
is the foundation of the firmness, serenity,
and cheerful! ncss which help to prolong
life. Boston Investigator.
AMUSING CALCULATION OF CHANCES.
It is easy to show you, reader, that five
hundred years ago the chances were ten
thousand to one tbat you and I would never
exist. If we look at the chances as exhib
ited in only two or three generations, we
shall be astonished and horrified at seeing
how narrowly we have missed having no
being. For instance, my grandfather was
a soldier in the Revolutionary army for six
years and repeatedly exposed to death. On
one occasion, when bis company was enga
ged by platoons, be was the only survivor
of two different attacks. Now, if he had
fallen in any of these attacks, he would not
have married, my father would not have
been born, and consequently I myself would
have had no being. Again, my father paid
bis addressed to a certain young lady, and
was engaged to her. Just before the time
appointed for the marriage, a misunder
standing arose between them, all ties were
dismissed, and my lather married another
woman the same woman who has since
done me the honor of being my mother.
Now, if my father had married tbe first
mentioned, I uever should have been born,
as ber children could not have possibly
been my mother's children, and my mother
might not have had any children at all.
You see, therefore, that a mere lover's
quarrel may change the whole line of a
family for thousands of years. In fact, if
Miss Smith is oouited by both Jones and
Jenkins, it is for Miss Smith to decide (as
she certainly has tbe power of doing)
whether she will be the ancestress of ten
thousand Joneses or ten thousand Jenkin
ses ; for on her choice depends the very
existence or non-existence of the possible
descendants. The whole subject is so full
of fatalism tbat the only thing we can do,
after once getting into existence is to shout
with tbe Arabs : Allah is Allah ! What is
to be will be. ElktorCs Autobiography.
y At a complimentary dinner given in
Boston a short time ago to the Congression
al Naval Committee, Hon. . Everett
alluded ironically to the British taunt
against the navy, because it had not caught
the Alamama. Napoleon Bonaparte sailed
from Toulon with 400 ships of war and
transports, yet Lord Nelson, with the fleet
with which be gained the battle of the Nile,
could not catch him although he sailed all
aroua the Mediterranean. He didn't
catch him the next year, althoagh Napoleon
stopped to take Malta and visit his relations.
In 1815 Nelson did not catch Napoleon as
he sailed from Elba. The Mediterranean
compared with the Atlantic and Indian aeas
where the Alabama roams at large, is bat a
mill-pond.
A BACKWARD COW RISE.
During tbe Revolutionary War, when a
corps of the American army was encamped
near tbe borough of Elizubctbtown, New
Jersey, an officer," who, by the way, was
more of a devotee of Venus "than of ware,
paid his addresses to a lady of distinction,
whom he was in the habit of visiting night
ly. On a discovery of the repeated ab
sence of the officer, and of the place where
interviews with his Dulcina were had,
some waggish friends resolved to play off a
handsome trick at his expense, which
should deter him from a repetition of his
visits.
The officer it appears, rode a very small
horse, of the ponj kind, which he left un
tied, with the bridle reins over his neck,
near the door, in order to ride off without
delay, when tbe business of courting and
kissing was over, and tho horse always
remained until backed by the owner, with
out attempting to change his position. On
a certain dark and gloomy night, when the
officer, as usual, had gone to pay his devo
tions to the object of his dearest affection,
and was enjoying the approving smiles of
the lovely fair one, his waggish companions
went privately to the door of the house
where ttte officer was, took his bridle and
saddle from the horse, which they sent
away, placed the bridle on the tail and the
saddle on tho back, and the crupper over
tho horns of a quiet old cow, who stood
peacefully ehewing her cud near the spot.
Immediately thereafter they retired some
distance irom tne bouse, and separating,
raised-the loud cry of alarm, tbat the ene
my had landed and were marching into tbe
village.
Our hero, on hearing this, took counsel
from his fears, and snatching a hasty kiss,
be shot out of the door with the velocity of
a musket ball, and mounted into the saddle,
with his back toward the head of the covr,
and plunging his sharp spurs keenly into
ber sides, caused her to bawl out with ex
cessive pain, and she darted with her best
gallop toward tbe camp. The officer still
plying his spurs with all his wine on board
finding himself hurrying rapidly back
ward, maugre of all his efforts to advance,
and hearing the repeated bawlings of tbe
tortured beast, imagined that he was carried
off by magic, and roaring out mostly lustily
that the devil had got him was thus car
ried into the very centre of the camp. The
sentinels, bearing the noise, discharged
their pieces and fled, and alarm-guns were
fired, tbe drums beat to arms, tbe officers
cried "turn out," with all the strength of
their lungs. The soldiers startled from
their sleep as if a ghost had disturbed their
dreams, and the whole body running half
naked, as quick as possible, in gallant des
habille, prepared to repel the terrible inva
der. When, lo ! the ludicrous sight soon
presented itself to their eyes, of the gallant
officer mounted on a cow, with his face
toward her tail, her tongue hanging out,
her sides gory with tbe gouging of the
spurs, and he himself almost deprived of
reason, and half petrified with horror.
A loud roar of laughter burst from the
assembled band at tbe rider and his steed ;
the whole corps gave him three times three
cheers as he bolted into camp.
He was carried to bis quarters in triumph
there to dream of lovers, metamorphoses,
backward rides, stern way advances, and
alarm of invasions, and thereby garnish his
mind with materials for writing a splendid
treatise on the novel adventure of a cowride.
THE SLAVE TELEGRAPH.
Some people think because few of tbe
s can read they do not know what is
transpiring in the country, having a proba
ble bearing on tbeir own future. This is a
mistake. Intelligence among them flies
from mouth to ear with marvellous rapidity
and every slave becomes a telegraph vpera
tor and station in this black chain of com
munication. Every slave heart yearning
for freedom is a battery, and every soul is
a generator of magnetic forces. To illus
trate the facts here stated, tbe following
extract is appropriate :
The Superintendent of Contrabands at
Fort Pickering, Memphis, tells the following
story : During the month of August last, a
negro woman and child came into camp,
and asked for aid. She said she had run
away from Noxubee county, Mississippi, as
she had beard of the freedom granted to tbe
slaves by Mr. Lincoln, and that she got the
information from ber brother, who could
read, and be read it in a Southeru news
paper. Being a house servant, she heard
the planters talk about tbe war, and read
about the battles, and then she would go
out to the negro quarters and tell her
brother, and be would slip off in the night
and tell tbe negroes on other plantations,
and get back in time for the morning call
for work. She says that ever since the
fight at Fort Sumter on the breaking out
of the war, the9 negroes were informed of
what the North was doing, aud that they
confidently expected to be free, and were
net surprised when the Proclamation was
issued. She said tbat the negroes bad
secret societies and met in the woods and
caves, and had signs and grips, and it was
the duty of every member to inform tbe
lodges of what conversations he bad heard
among the white folks. She further stated
that they frequently got Northern as well
as Southern newspapers, and that as a gen
eral, thing the house servants were well
posted in all phases of the rebellion on both
sides.
THE MONKEY IN CHURCH.
There was once an eminent clergyman
by the name of Casanboo, who kept iu his
family a tame monkey, of which he was
very fond. This animal, which was allowed
its liberty, liked to follow the minister when
he went out, but ou tbe Sabbath was usu
ally shut up till his owner was out of sight,
on bis way to church.
But one Sabbath 'morning, when the
clergyman, taking his sermon under bis
arm, weut out, the monkey followed unob
served, and watching the opportunity while
his master was speaking to a gentleman on
the steps, ran up at the back of the pulpit,
and jumped upon the sounding board.
Here he gravely seated himself, looking
round in a knowing manner on the congre
gation, who were greatly amused at so
strange a spectacle. The services proceeded
as usual, while the monkey, who evidently
much enjoyed the sight of so many people,
occasionally peeped over the sounding
board, to observe the movements of his
master, who was unconscious of his pres
ence. When the sermon commenced, many
little forms were convulsed with laughter,
which conduct so shocked the good pastor,
tbat he thought it his duty to administer a
reproof, which he did with considerable
action of his bands and arms.
The monkey, who bad now become fa
miliar with the scene, imitated every motion
till at -last a scarcely suppressed smile ap
peared pon the' countenance of most of the
audience. This occurred, too, in one of the
most solemn passages in the discourse ; aud
so horrible did the levity appear to the
good minister, tbat he launched forth into
violent rebuke, every word being enforced
by great energy of action. All 'this time,
the little fellow overhead mimicked every
movement with ardor and exactness.
Tbe audience, witnessing this apparent
competition between tbe good man and his
monkey, could no longer retain the least
appearance of composure, and burst into
roars of laughter, in the midst of which
one of the congregation kindly relieved the
horror of tbe pastor at the irreverence and
impiety of his flock, by pointing out the
cause of the merriment.
Casting bis eye upward, tbe minister
could just discern tbe animal standing on
tbe eud of tbe sounding-board, and gestur
ing with all his might, when he found it
difficult to control himself, through exas
perated at the occurrence. He gave direc
tions to have the monkey removed, and sat
down to compose himself, and allow his
congregation to recover their equanimity
while the order was being obeyed.
COLONEL DAHLGREN.
We have once alluded to the barbarities,
and shocking inhumanities of the rebels, as
exhibited iu their treatment of the brave
young officer, Colonel Dablgren. If any
thing were required to prove their utter
lack of the better qualities of mankind, the
following extract from a letter from a lady
in Washington, dated March 12, 18C4, wiil
supply the proof:
" Was ever anything so dreadful as poor
Ulric Dahlgren's fate? H saw hi.
servant to-day, who escaped when bis mas
ter was shot, and hid himself in a ditch
where he saw it all. He says they stripped
tbe body, cutting off the little finger for the
ring, and carrying off his artificial leg,
which was one of Palmer's most beautiful
and expensive inventions. When they left
the negro servant came out of the ditch,
and dragged his master's body some (lis
tance, hoping to hide it and bury it, but
another party appearing he had to hide
again. The second party pitched the body
over the fence, and digging a shallow
trench, thrust it in naked, and stamped the
earth down.
The next day they returned and put the
body of tbe poor boy in a box, and carried
it to Richmond. The negro was rescued
by a friendly black, after spending twenty
four hours in the wet ditch. II asked
tbe servant whether Dablgren really deliv
ered to his men the atrocious address which
the Richmond papers ascribe to him, and
he said be heard him say nothing of the
kind. H saw the Richmond paper
describing how be lay exposed at the depot
for crowds to gaze and jeer at, and was then
buried ' in a bole like a dog, a fit burial for
such a wretch And this was the end of
as gallant a young soldier as ever lived, who
at twenty-one had lost a leg in bis couatry't
service. It seems a small revenge.
: At the battle of Roanoke Island, Gov.
Wise's son, Jennings, was shot, while lead
ing the Confederate troops, and mortally
wounded. He was laid in the tent of one
of General Burnside's staff. He did not
know he must die, and sent to ask Burn
side if he would let him go on parole. He
died in four hours, with one of our officers
and an English officer with him, who gave
bim water, aod did what little could be
done to alleviate bis sufferings. When,
two days after, tbe Governor sent for Jen
nings' body, it was given him. Rather a
contrast in the two stories. I can't rejoice
enough that poor Ully was shot in tbe
saddle. If he bad lived to suffer, in the
power of such fiends, it would have been
fearful. L have known bim from a child,
and a finer fellows never lived."
19. A jealoas woman in Washington
cowhided her husband for dancing with an
old sweetheart, and was fined $3 and costs
for disorderly conduct and threats of violence.
A COSTLY PRESENT.
We are all taught, along with our geog.
rapby, bow, when a Burmese subject grows
over-rich or too popular, his sovereign claps
an extinguisher upon bim in the form of a
white elaphant a gift so sacred and weighty,
that the expenses of keeping the big brute
in proper Siyle, are pretty sure to crush the
proprietor. Can we fancy the iuward trem
or of a rich mau of Buruiah, when he hears
the tom-toms, the trumpets, the hideous
howling of the singers, the roar of the mob,
announcing tbat the elephant is on its road ;
He watches from his neat cane verandah,
hoping for the best hoping that the ele
phaut is only out for an airing ; that it is
not for him ; that it is for Bombaojce Looia,
who has saved two crores, and lives hard by.
Alas ! there is no hope. Here comes the
white elephant, stately, inexorable, enorm
ous, lie comes with his guards, his reti
nue, his hangers on and led captains, his
she goats which give him milk, his grass
cutters, his fruit purveyors, his mahout,
keepers, aluts, priests even all his house
bold, who must eat of the sweet and drink
of the strong, hereafter, at the cost and
charges of him to whom the king has given
the white elephant. There are chiefs, too,
who must be fed and flattered, aud sent
back with presents ; see now their gold
umbrellas and bossy shields, their Iudian
armor and China silks, flash glorious in tbe
sun ! How tho trumpets bray, how tho
drums rattle as the elephant halts ! And
out runs the poor trembling hypocrite, with
his bands outspread, salatuing, griteful, and
grovels in the dust before the hateful four
footed visitor that is come, literally, to eat
him out of house nod home.
Who Was Peter, ? There are few
positions of more delicacy thnn in interro
gating Sunday Schools, especially young
scholars. This is shown by the experience
of a clergyman who was opposed to having
any mirth in Sunday Schools. He thought
it injurious to all and unuecessary to tbe
entertainment of the children. He offered
to addressed the school and show bow they
could be well entertained seriously. The
following dialogue ensued :
" Children, 1 am going to tell you about
Peter ? Who knows who Peter was ?" No
answer. " Cannot any one of those large
girls tell me who Peter was?" "lean,"
said a little fellow over in tho corner.
' Ah ! that's a good boy. Now you come
up on the platform by uiy side and tell
those girls who Peter was." Jimmy did
as he was bid, and in tbe shrill voice of
childhood repeated, " Peter, Peter, was a
pumpkin cater, had a wife and couldn't
keep her." At thia point he was requested
to stop, but not before the full poiut was
taken by the school aud Mother Goose's
poem appreciated.
m
Old Age 15eautifui is old age, beauti
ful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of
a rich glorious summer. Iu the old man,
Nature has fulfilled her work. She loads
him with the fruit of a well spent life ; and,
surrounded by his children and bis child
ren's children, she rocks him softly away to
a grave, to which ho is followed with bless
ing. God forbid we should not call it beau
tiful. It is beautiful, but certainly not tbo
most beautiful. '1 here is another life
hard, rough and thorny ; trodden with
bleeding feet aud aching brow; the life of
which the cross is the symbol; a battle
which no peace follows this side ot the
grave ; which tho grave gasps to finish be
fore victory is wou ; and strange that it
should be so, this is the highest life of man.
Look back along the great names of history,
there is none whose life has been other than
this.
S Wendell Phillips and the Hon. Hor
ace Mann, once had a controversy upon the
slavery question in which Phillips claimed
that every victory that bad been achieved
in America for the slave, bad been secured
by tbe Garrisonians, and asked Mr. Mann
if it was not so. Mann replied that tbe
question reminded h;m of a circumstance
that happened when he had the honor of
being one of the Commissioners to visit tbe
Insane Asylum at Worcester. " While on
one of my visits to that Institution an in
mate asked me, What's the news? "No
thing, sir, uuless it be that a great storm
has ravaged our coast, and swept a vast
amount of property to destruction." "Ah!'
said the insane man, " that was the night
I whistled soP
Discretion. There are more shining
qualtiea in the minds of men, but there is
oone so useful as discretion ; it is this, in
deed, which gives a value to all tbe rest,
which sets them at work in tbeir proper
order, times, and places, and turns them to
tbe advantage of the person who possesses
them. Without it, learning is pedantry,
and wit is impertineuce ; virtue itself looks
like weakness; tbe best parts only qualify
a man to be more sprightly in errors, aad
active to his own prejudice.
A Tough Story. A Mormon priest,
named Nichols, made a nerve and bone all
healing salve, and thought be woald exper
iment a little with it. He f rst cat off his
dog's tail and applied some of tbe salve to
the stump. A new tail grew oat imwt
diately. He then applied some to the pieee
of tail which he cut off, and a new dog
grew out. Hs did not kaowv which rdog
was which.