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SOUTHERN STANDARD MCM INN VILLE, TENNESSEE. SATURDAY, NOV. 19, 1887.
Family Life in Switzerland.
C'o'uliill Magazine.
Since the application or the Code
Napoleon to Switzerland, families
may be regarded roughly as joint
Htoek companies, managed by the
parents for the common benefit. It
is known that when both parents die
the estate will be divided into equal
portions among the children, boys
and girls sharing alike. All money,
therefore, which is drawn from the
estate by sons or daughters for extra
ordinary purposes is debited against
them. If a boy, for instance, elects
to be a doctor, he anticipates his share
in the eventual division. All labor
expended by them on the estate is
reckoned to their credit. If a boy
stays at home and works like a farm
servant, he acquires a future claim
in proportion to service render
ed. It is for the interest of each
member to pay off debts upon the
property or to increase its value.
Consequently when o son goes out in
to the world, after his education has
been completed, it is expected of him
to remit a portion of his earnings to
the family fund. This stands in lieu
of work he might have done at home,
and also as a recognition of his early
rearing The precise amount to be
thus contributed by individuals is de
termined by. feeling and . instinct
more than by any fixed rule. The
system cannot have the exactitude of
a mercantile concern ; yet it approxi
mates to that standard. The result is
. that both sons and daughters in a
Swiss family feel it their duty either
to discharge personal functions in the
home or else to send a part of their
gains yearly back to the common
stock. Not unfrequently a son gives
the father or mother all that he has
made for several years. If he has re
ceived advances from the family es
tate he applies hjs savings to the re
payment of this loan. But the' time
comes when he thinks himself justi
fied hi founding a private estate.
Then he opens an account at the
bank ; and from that moment for
ward his expenditure is more econo
mical, his profits stnsibly increase
So important is the principle laid
down by Aristotle that social institu
tions aepena upon the things men
own and love as their particular pos
sessions. The relations in which Swiss ikm
pie stand to their Oemeinde (Conv
mime), and to their family, deter
mine their conduct in a very remark
able degree. Whithersoever they go
in the world, whatever occupation
they engage in, they never lose that
tie of interest, as well as of sympathy
which binds them to their birthplace.
It is there, if the worst comes to the
worst, that they have rights of main
tenance. It is there, that when the
old folk die, they can reckon some
scrap or shred ot the fields beloved in
boyhood. Consequently they only
emigrate for a season, with the object
of amassing capital ; and after run
ning adventures in ail parts of Eu
rope, they most frequently marry a
woman of their own village. The
fwiss rareiy Decome colonists in our
Anglo-Saxon sense of the word. They
rarely build up large fortunes in for
eign countries. N hat they want to
do is -to make money, and to come
back better off than their neighbors
who stayed at home. They are mod
est in their desires, for a very moder
ate amount of wealth places them in
a superior position among their kin
tired. Such being their scheme of
conduct, they naturally prefer to take
a home-bred girl to wife. She will
appreciate the goods of fortune they
have won ; she will not be above the
services demanded from a housekeep
er. She will inherit something
to p bo added to her husband's j
property. AVith. more of ease and
comfort than they enjoy ed in boy
hood, they look forward to renewing
tne oiu rounu 01 namely joys and uu
ties. This abnegation of vulgar am
bitions, this piety , for the past, this
contentment with the solid tilings of
the world, demand our respect. The
social institutions ot the commune
and the family, as they are framed
in Switzerland, contribute largely to
the state of things I havo described.
We must also make allowance for tho
sense of personal dignity, inalienable
from a Swiss burgher, who in his
own place has no superior, and who
is eligible to the highest political offl
ces of hi9 national government. But
I am fain to imagine that, over and
above all these considerations, the ro
mance of the Swiss mountains lias
something to do in creating this at
tachment of their neoplc to its soil
Complaisance renders a superior
amiabkyui equal ngreeable,and an in
ferior acceptable. It smoothes dis
tinction, sweetens conversation, and
makes everyone in the company plea
ed with himself. Add-on.
HUMAN LIFE.
BY KEY. J. KEID SHANNON.
He said : Human life is a tangled
skein. Life with its afflictions and
troubles makes up a problem that is
the supreme mystery of the ages a
problem whose solution must be ad
journed to the day of eternity. Here
we come face to face with locks that
we have no key to fit. Here we voy
age upon waters that we have no
plummet to fathom. Ood never in
tended that our life in this world
should be one of song and music
one of tropical bloom and verdue.
The divine order of things is such
that the threads of trouble run
through the warp and woof of every
life. Sooner or later, above every one
wave " the oaks of weeping." We
start out in this world expecting to
cross the Jordau and enter the Ca
naan that is full of trailing vines and
rich pasture-lands and beautiful olive
fields,, but like Mose9 of old we die
on this side of the Jordan, viewing
from the Mount Nebo of disappoint
ment the Canaan of our hopes from
afar. True it is that our life has its
days of rosy dawn and golden noon
time and gorgeous 6uuset. But a
change comes, and the serene blue of
summer hours merges into the cold
gray sky of wintry days. The birds
are songless, and life seems like a gar
den of blighted flowers. God intends
that these changes from the bright to
the dark side of life Shall be to us full
of everlasting benediction. The sea
sons of nature are made fruitful and
healthful by having the fair weather
interrupted by foul weather. It is
the eointr down of the sun and the
on-coming of the night of darkness
that unvail to us countless worlds of
brightness. As in nature so in our
life. Were we never overshadowed
by trouble what a charm would we
find in this world. It would . be to
us as a land flowing with milk and
honey. How sweet and fragrant
would be its flowers ! How bright
and radiant would be its rainbows !
We would want to build our taberna
cles on earth and remain here, and
like the Vienna nobleman of whom
Luther speaks, we would say, " If
God will only give me this world to
enjoy He can keep heaven to him
self." It takes more grace to bear
prosperity and be true to one's soul
than it takes to bear up under adver
sity.
When a man is living in the tropics
of perpetual sunshine it takes a great
deal of divine grace to keep him from
forgetting the God above him and
the immorality beyond him. As
Bunyan's pilgrim in the Arbor of
Ease lost the roll out of his bosom, so
has it been with many a professed
Christian in the arbor of prosperity.
In the troubles and misfortunes that
come to people there is a voice that
says: "Arise and depart for this is
not your rest." ' Many there be who
enter the Promised Land of surren
der to God only after they have cross
ed the desert of some great affliction
God gets possession of many hearts
only when they have been broken by
trouble. As what are called "four
o'clocks" bloom only when the sun
is going down, so many people bloom
spiritually only when thesun of their
earthly hopes has gone down below
the horiz' n. Upon the dusty
craves oi seimicnerea nopes nave
bloomed flowers of immortal fra
grance. The royal Jvoninoor amid
the jewels of God's promises is, "that
all things shall work together for our
good if we love God." Then all ap
parent adversities will carry beneath
their surface everlasting . prosperity
Then every wind that strikes us in
this lifo will be a south wind, having
n its bosom eternal warmth and
sweetness and blessing.
They Were Country Boys.
New York Correspondent.
The three big men. of Wall street
are Jay uouiu, .kusscii sage ana
Cyrus W. Field. Each are country
bred boys, each started without mon
ey, and each is worth millions today,
All that they have they have made
themselves. In Gould and Sage the
commercial instinct is very strongly
developed. They are masters of
finance. So is Cyrus W. Field, but
he possesses faculties of mind and
manner that are totally lacking in
Gould and Sage. Field is fond of
rare works of art. He owns some
very valuable pictures. He has a
fine library, and he is fond of society
and likes to entertain and be enter
tained. He is a man of liberal edu
cation. He is well up in the classics.
He knows a great deal altout politics,
art, religion and science. He is fond
of tho poets, and he enjoys a good
novel. Gould seems to have but one
object in lift'. He is a great money
maker. He is worth over $100,000,-
000. Yet he works as hard for a dol
lar as any man in New York. Field
is not so fond of money. He is worth
$25,000,000 and doesn't seem to care
to make more. Ho is resting now.
His life has been an active one, and
he can afford to take the world easy.
There is no busier man on this conti
nent, however, than Sage. During
working hours no day laborer works
harder than he. He is full of vim
and dash, and although his hair is
white he has still a seemingly inex-
mstible supply of youthful vitality.
No one knows the full value of a dol-
ar any better than Sage, and no one
knows how to hold on to it better,
a a. a .
Ie has the reputation of being small,
and mean, and stingy, but it is unde
served. He gives liberally to those
who deserve it, but he does not open
his purse to those who are as well
able to work as he. Having made
all his money himself, he knows its
true value, and a score of times while
engaged in big financial operations
he has found it to be his best friend.
n his home, Mr. Sage is one of the
most delightful men. His home is a
palace. All that money can do to
make it comfortable has been done.
n society he is as gallant as a Ches
terfield, and in the society of ladies
he is as charming in manner as a girl
with her first beau.
How A Woman Buys Shoes.
When a woman has a new pair of
shoes sent hornei she performs alto
gether different from a man. She
never shoves her toes into them and
yanks and hauls until she is red in the
face and all out of breath, and then
goes stamping and kicking around,
but pulls them on part way carefully,
twitches them off again to take a last
ook, and sees if she has got the right
one, pulls them on again, iooks at
them dreamily, says they are just
right, then takes another look, stops
suddenly to smoth out a wrinkle,
twists around and surveys them side
ways, exclaims: '.'Mercy, how loose
they are," looks at them again square
in front, works her foot around so
they won't hurt her quite so much,
takes them off, looks at the heel, the
toe, the bottom, and the inside, puts
them on again, walks up and down
the room once or twice, remarks to her
betterhalf that she won't have them
at any price, tilts down the mirror
so that she can see how they look,
turns it in every possible direction
and nearly dislocates her neck trying
to see how they iook irom inai way,
backs on, steps up again, taKes mirty
or fortv farewell looks, says they
make her feet look awful big and nev
er will do in the world, puts them off
and on three or four times more, asks
her husband what he thinks about
it, and then pays no attention to what
he says, goes through it all again,
and finally says she will take them.
It's a very simple matter, indeed.
Unsusoected disorders of the kid
neys are responsible for many of the
ordinary ailments of humanity which
neglected, develop into a serious and
pernaps iauu uinmuy. mpcucucc
would suggest the use of Dr. J. li.
McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm.
Sold by Dr. W. II. Fleming.
Business Courtesy.
In visiting business ottices one
meets a great variety of persons.
Most are kind, ceurteous, and ac
commodating ; others are fair to me
dium in theso respects ; another class
fortunately very small are in ill
humor nearly all the time, full of
gruffness, and cranky, having much
of the nature of such unpleasant and
fretful animals as bears and porcu
pines ; a fourth class are languid and
indifferent in their replies to civil
questions, and are apt to be tinctured
more or less with a sort of supercil
iousness and a well developed self
importance. These persons appear
to think that if they would unbend,
throw off their awful dignity, and
try to be accommodating, they would
not be estimated at their true worth
and importance. This class is gener
ally composed of young men who
have more conceit than good sense,
and it requires a good many years
for some of them to get cured, the
time required for a cure depending
upon the vigor of their mental con
stitution. The newspaper man has
met all of these characters and " sized
them up," and can pigeon hole them
as rapidly as a postal clerk can pigeen
letters.
Anwtite and sleen may beimprov-
ed.everv uart of the system strength
ened and the animal spirits regain
their bouvancv bv the use of Dr. J.
II. McLean's Strengthening Cordial
and Blood Purifier. For sale by Dr.
. H. Fleming.
The fuller conceptions we gain of
justice, the more we shall enter its
spirit, and the more it will actuate
our lives.
THE OPIUM HABIT.
The Most Abject of Slavaries Is There
Any Emancipator?
The New York papers lately pub
lished a very pathetic story about a
very popular emotional actress. It
was to the effect that she had become
a confirmed victim of the opium
habit, involving an almost total loss
of physical and mental powers, and
actual destitution.
The story was at once denied by
her friends, who say she has suffered
simply from nervous prostration, is
It . 1 1
in no neeu oi pecuniary am, arm is on
the way to speedy recovery.
Opium victims are usually hope
less, helpless slaves, mind weakened,
lacking energy for any effort toward
recovery, rapidly drifting into in
becility and untimely graves.
A peculiar feature is that victims
craftily conceal it from their nearest
friends. A young lady at school near
Philadelphia was recently found to be
secretly addicted to it, keeping her
"medicine" in a school-room ink
stand, and injecting the fluid into her
arm with a stylographic pen !
In the Chicago Farm. Field and
Slockman, September 24, 1887, is this
letter signed S. T. O., from Barstow,
Ky. : "I missed the paper that had
my letter in, so I did not know you
made the r 'quest to know what it
was I used to break up the morphine
habit, until 1 got a letter from a gen
tleman asking information. I should
have answered sooner. It was War
ner's safe cure. I should have given
it when I wrote the letter, but it
looked too much like an advertise
ment."
This voluntary statement goes to
confirm thoclaim made by the pro
prietors of Warner's safe cure, that it
is the only remedy in the world
1
wnicn nas any aeciaea power over
diseases of the kidneys and liver, and
that this terrible habit cannot be
cured until these organs have first
been restored to full health, because
they are the ones chiefly affected by
this drug,
Editor Win. A. Bode, of Alton.Ill.,
was completely cured of the opium
habit, acquired by long use In a pain
ful malady, with Warner's safe cure.
It cannot be cured at all if the kid
neys and liver are diseased.
It is not claimed that there is any
thing in Warner's safe cure alone
which will do away with the habit,
except that it puts the kidneys and
nVer in a healthy condition, civine
the whole system that strength and
tone without which any attempt to
throw off the habit would be vain.
It is because physicians have dis
covered mat no otner remedy is so
l li 1 , .1.1 " A It
ueiic nciHi in restoring neaun to me
liver, kidneys, and general system as
the one stated that it has come into
general use in connection with the
special remedies for the cure of the
dreadful opium habit.
One of the worst features of the
opium habit is the deadening of men
tal and moral sensibilities in propor
tion as it weakens the physical system
and will power.
Why You Feel
So weak and exhausted is because your
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sanitary condition of a city to be per
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sewerage, as to expect such a compli
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about two and a half minutes, and Mint,
on its way, it makes bone and muscle,
brain and nerve, and all other solids
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the great nourisher, or, as the- Bible
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Is it any wondor, then, that if the blood
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