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BE EARNEST.
Be earnest in thy ca 'lnj,
Whatever It may be ;
Time's sands are ever falling.
And will not wait for thee.
With xeal and vigor labor;
And thou wilt surely rise ;
Oh ! suffer not thy neighbor
To bear away the prize.
Be earnest in devotion.
Old age is drawing near;
A bubble In life's ocean
Thou soon wilt disappear.
lluth's 3Iistake.
"So you are going to town again,
are you, Bob?"
Ruth's blue eyes were filled with
tears, and her childish face wore a
grieved look, but the voice had a
commanding ring in it that spoiled
the effeet of eyes and face.
Rob West stood in front of a mer
ry, crackling hickory fire, that sent
out a warmth which penetrated every
corner of the tidy little sitting room,
lie was brushing his clothes briskly,
and, being thus occupied, did not
look up at his little wife's inquiry,
but wondered "What was the matter
now."
If Rob had only looked up and
seen that beseeching, yearning look,
that pretty interlacing of the fingers,
how different would have been the
ending of my story.
,4Yes, Ruth," he said, in a bright,
cheery voice, that rang through the
room like the song of a bird, "I must
go, but I will be at home on the sev
en o'clock train."
"Must go! What for, I would like
to know ?"
"Never mind, Ruthie, yon would
not understand if I should take the
time to explain it. What does that
little head know about business?"
Rob's playful words, that he had
imagined would soothe her, had the
very opposite effect.
"Oh, of course I don't know any
thing. What a pity you did not
marry Mary Edwards. No doubt
she would have been capable of un
derstanding you and your business
both."
Ruth spoke with a sarcastic, taunt
ing ring to her voice, as she began
energetically to brush the dust olf of
the mantle with her apron that Rob
had raised but a moment before.
Rob compressed his lips tightly to
keep back the angry words. lie was
not perfect, far from it, although his
heart was large and warm. lie had
many faults and infirmities none
knew them better, none regretted
them so deeply as he. Rob had
formed a resolution long before that
he would never allow himself to get
angry when Ruth did, and lie would
keep that vow be it ever so hard, and
it was hard, for Ruth was quick as a
llabh to anger, and as quick over,
bursting out with hot, impatient
words, and ready to make up in the
next breath.
"No, Ruthie, I did not want Mary
Talwards. I am satisfied with my
choice, and wish you could say the
same."
"Well, for my part, I think you
ought to be satisfied, when you know
that I might have married Will Ellis
and lived in a fine house, with ser
vants to go and come at my com
mand, instead of this little ten-by-twelve
frame, and niyself the house
hold drudge."
Ruth's temper was up to white
heat now, and she did not care what
she said.
"Well. Ruthie," Rob said with a
deep sigh, "it will all be right some
day. I will grow rich or die, and
you cau many rich."
"Great danger of your growing
rich, and about as much of your dy
ing; better get your life insured if
you are going to die."
"All right, I will. Now I must go.
I shall be obliged to drive IJird sin
gle to-day, Speed is lame. I don't
like to drive her alone, she feels too
good this cold weather. Rut brush
my hat, Ruthie, and get me a hand
kerchief, while I harness up, and I
will try her."
Rob heaved a deep sigh as he
walked out to the barn. Ruth's an
gry words bled Ins tender heart; for,
with all her faults, he loved little
brown-haired Ruthie better than the
whole world, although she tried him
sorely sometimes. lie harnessed
IJird to the light buggy and drove
around to the hitching-post, tied her
and entered the house to find his
wife standing just where he had left
her, with the same frown on her
brow, and the same pout to her pret
ty lip.
What in the wide world possessed
Ruth, and caused her to be so un
kind to Rob, would have been hard
to tell. She knew that she was cross
and pettish, but could assign no rea
son for it, only she wanted some
thing, aDd ehe did not know what.
Oh, how her heart ached to lay her
head on that great, brave, handsome
young fellow's shqulder the hus
band who would have died for her '
and, with her face very close to his,
sob out her repentance and crave his
forgiveness for her bitter words! But
pride, stubborn pri Je, held her back.
Rob came and stood by his wee little
wife, and looked sorrowfully down
upon her.
"Ruthie, I love you sq. Don't
make me feel my insufficiency to fill
your heart. Kiss me, pet, and say
good-bye." Rob drew her to him,
and waited for her to raise her lips for
the caress, but he waited in vain ;
and, bending down, he pressed a fond
but sad kiss on her brow, while he
said, "Well, Ruthie, if von will not
kiss me goqd-bye, I shall have to go
without it, for I will be compelled
to drive fast to catch the train now.
Never mind, we will make it all up i
when I come home." - I
Rob turned, and, with a lingering
look, went out. The last sound that
Ruth heard was the quick patter of
Bird's feet on the frozen ground, I
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 2471876.
then he was gone.
"I do wonder what Rob wiU think
of me! He knows that I did not
mean one word that I saic. Oh,
dear! I wish I had kissed him before
he went away." So thought Ruth as
she stood at the windqw watching
his form out of sight.
What a long, long, weary dav it
"was i I he afternoon set in cold and
gloomy; but inside, thanks to Rob's
strong arm, all was warm and bright.
Old Rover lay stretched out at full
length before the cosy fire, while Dot
sang merrily in his cage. "How dare
he sing!" Ruth thought, when she
felt so down hearted and sad. She
went to the window and looked out
on the gloomy surroundings, but
found no relief or comfort there.
She turned away with a sigh, and
out of a little box in the closet she
brought forth some mysterious pat
terns and dainty fine linen, and was
soon busy with the great problem of
fitting together those tiny little gar
ments. In the meantime Rob West drove
as rapidly as rough roads would
permit to the station, his mind rilled
with thoughts of Ruth and all she
had said. Maybe she was right in
censuring him for condemning her
to the dull and laborious life of a
farmer's wife, when she might have
been the bride of wealth. Then the
words, "Better get your life insured
if j-oii are going to d'ie," kept ringing
in his ear. Of course he was not
going to die, but perhaps it would
be a wiseplaa; and then, if he should
die, Ruthie would have something
to live on.
Rob arrived at the station just in
time for the train, and soon he was
in the busy city. After he had fin
ished his business, he entered a well
known life-insurance otlice, and pre
sented his noble form at the desk for
a policy, payable at death to Ruth,
lie found no difficulty in securing
what he sought, and with a deep sij;h
of relief for, he knew not what he
placed it in his breast-pocket and
started for home.
"Poor little Ruthie," Rob thought
as he wended his way to the depot.
"I must be kind and forgiving with
her just now. I expect she can't help
being nervous and irritable."
And at tho same time, away off in
the little cottage, Ruth was thinking,
"I am so sorry I treated Rob so bad
ly! I will have a nice warm supper
for him, and afterward we will talk
it all over."
Half-past seven, eight o'clock. Oh,
how the minute baud drags along!
The little table was spread with a
dainty little supper, the verv things
that Rob liked best. The bright fire
sparkled a welcome from the great
wide chimney. Rob's comfortable
arm-chair stood in the warmest cor
ner, waiting to hold something in its
great strong arms, but still lie tar
ried. "I know he has had time to get
here," Ruth thought, as she opened
the door ence more and peered out
into the darkness.
Some one is coming, but it isn't
Rob. One, two, three lanterns. What
can it meau ? Nearer and still nearer
they come. Something vague- and
unformed strikes a chill to her throb
bing heart. They have opened the
gate, and are driving in. Who can
it be ? She never moves but watches
them with a stony stare as they lift
out a heavy burden and pause at the
door. She steps aside, and they en
ter and lay Rob's mangled form on
the snowy bed. Then, like a Hash,
Ruth realizes what has happened,
and, with a cry of agony that those
rough but kind-hearted men will
never forget, she sprang to his side.
"Rob! wake up! Its little Ruthie!
Don't you know me? Oh, Rob! have
you left me alone?"
Without a struggh. Ruth sank
down, senseless and cold. All night
rihe lay in a deep stupor, and when
morning came a wen little life-blossom
was laid, pale and cold, by its
father's side. Many true-hearted
mourning friends followed Rob's
form to its last resting-place, talking
one witli another how Rob's horse
had shied and thrown him over a
high bank, causing instant death.
Ruth came slowly back to life and
bitter remorse. The bitter history of
the past came sweeping back to
memory, with Rob's kind actions,
and her waywardness, blending to
gether to form a most unwelcome
picture. Oh, it was a trying hour
when the life insurance came to light,
adding wormwood to her already
bitter cup. She felt now what it was
to be young, with life before her
stretching far out in the wide, grand
future, the sky bright with expecta
tions, the kind hand and tender heart
of Rob at her command. With such
associations, it was pleasant to be
j-ouug. But to have fallen from the
brightness and bloom of expectations
into a desolate waste of darkness and
remorse, the sky overcast with dark
clouds, which loomed up between
her and the bright future, mountains
high, to wait, weary and trembling,
for admission at death's door, with
the words, "Th? old must die, the
young may die," fresh in her mind,
and still be young, was, indeed, a
bitter, bitter fate.
Ruth accepted Rob's gift that he
gave with his life, and with a meek
heart used it as aid to her deeds of
pharity, with which she spent the
time of waiting for God to call her
away, "to make it up with Rob."
Godey's Lady's Book.
The man who is curious tq see
how the world would get on without
him can find out by sticking a cambric-needle
into a mill-pond, and
then withdrawing it and looking in
to the hole.
Prof. Iluxley was so seriously ill
during his voj'age homo that had not
a doctor been near he might have
left an appreciative world. He is
not recovering fast.
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Air ami its Elements.
Air, says Dr. Playfair, is the most
familiar of substances, the first with
which an infant becomes acquainted
on entrance into the world and in
death the last to be given up. Yet,
strange to say, its nature and con
stitution have only become partially
understood within the past century,
and even now scientific knowledge
could only be regarded as on the
threshold of thp subject. Iu the
year C40 B. C, Thales, a philosoph
er of Miletus, traveled into Egypt,
and having observed the manner in
which (the laud was fertilized by the
overflowing of the Nile, promulgat
ed the theory that everything was
made of water, and that all life re
sided in it. Thales had no aids to
forming a correct theory other
than his untutered senses, and as
far as they had led him they ap
jieared to prove the currency of his
views. In 518 B. C, Aleximenas
said Thales was wrong, and that
it was the essence of life. His reas
onings appear to modern ears utter
ly preposterous, but they were the
first davvnings of philosojihy. Five
centuries before the Christian era,
Diogenes, of Appolonia, thought over
the'same subject, more as a psychol
ogist than as a natural philosopher;
he considered air the unima mundi of
the world, and that it was a spirit,
usually benevolent, but liable to fits
of temper, and hence storms, mists,
fogs. These philosophers were of a
disputatious school, and did not en
deavor to test their ideas by experi
ments, but in 348 B. C, Aristotle,
who examined things as they were
somewhat more closely, divided a!l
substances into what he named four
elements earth, air, lire, and water,
and this nomenclature continued till
little more than a century since.
Little further was known about air
till A. D. 1100, when a Saracen, nam
ed Olhausen, found that it had
weight, and that, instead of extend
ing through all space, as previously
supposed, it ceased to exist beyond a
certain dstauce from the earth. He
fixed this limit at 58 miles - a good
guess, as modern observers had as
certained it to reach a height of
about 4UJ- miles from the earth.. In
1C30 Galileo investigated ihe action
of the common pump. Aristotle had
said that water rose on drawing oil
the air, because nature abhorred a
vacuum. Galileo fou:.d that water
would only rise in a tube 32 feet or
o3 feet; did nature then permit of
the vacuum? He soon saw that the
water rose because of the weight of
the air, and that the limit of a pump's
action was fixed by the weight of
water to be raised. After his time
Torricelli applied this principle to
mercury, and, as he anticipated, it
would only rise about thirty inches
iua pump, as it was about thirteen
times heavier than water. Thus the
first barometers were made, and the
foundation laid of modern discover
ies as to the subject.
It was found that air weighed
about 15 lt. per square inch, and
that it varied from day to day with
the weather. The next great discov
erer was Otto von Gnerikc, of Mag
deburg, who invented the air-pump.
His work on the subject of air, con
taining an account in Latin of his
discoveries, was still extant, and the
lecturer had one of the two copies
now preserved in this country.
Guerike had several failures in his
attempts to pump out air, but at
leugth made what were still known
as the Magdeburg hemispheres, two
hollow semi-globes, which could be
tightly fitted together, and from
which the air could be withdrawn.
The original hemispheres were dis
played upon the tables with which,
in 1054, Guerike exhibited to the
Emperor, at the Diet of Ratisbon,
his noted experiment of harnessing
eight horses to each of the exhausted
hemispheres, when they were unable
to draw the two 2arts assunder.
Guerike had a water-barometer at
tached to his house, with the figure
of a man iloating on the water, aud
this popularized the instrument.
Boyle, the next investigator of the
air, was the first to endeavor to as
certain its chemical constituents. He
got so far a3 to prove that there were
"fictitious airs," but never sufficient
ly distinguished them from common
air. Soon after this, Hales separated
a number of what were now known
to be constituent gasses of air; he,
however, regarded them as so many
impurities to be get rid of as much
as possible. Black was the first to
use the plural of the word air, and
to use a balance for weighing air.
Before his time it had been supposed
that the difference between mild
lime, or chalk, and caustic lime was
that the principle then called phlog
iston was imparted to the latter by
the action of fire. Black argued that
if so, quicklime ought to be heavier,
not lighter, than chalk; and after
some study and experiments he prov
ed that its lightness was due to the
withdrawal of carbonic acid from it,
either by the action of heat, or of a
stronger acid, and that quicklime re
covered this from the atmosphere if
exposed to its influence. He also
showed that this acid was evolved by
decaying substances, and passed into
the air at every breath of men and
animals. He also made important
discoveries as to latent heat. All of
Black's discoveries were made when
he was about 24 years old, and it was
to be regretted that, though he lived
to bvi 80, he made no further discov
eries. Cavendish soon afterward discov
ered hydrogen, the source of light
and heat, and observed that it enter
ed into the composition of water. In
1772 Rutherford discovered the great !
diluent of air, nitrogen, by placing I
mice, one at a time, in a receiver,!
and as they died, washing away tho I
carbonic acid produced with lime-
water, and putting m a fresh mouse,
till at length the little animals died
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directly they were introduced. Two
years subsequently Priestley discov
ered oxygen, and observed" its won
derful power of supporting light.
He was persecuted and driven from
England, and went to Paris, where
he showed Lavoisier how to make
oxygen, and then to America, where
he died. Lavoisier never admitted
that this discovery was imparted to
him by Priestley, although latterly he
confessed that he did not make it.
Lavoisier carried forward the study
of air, having a power of generalizing
the observatiors of others, and in
vented the caliorueter. In the height
of his observations he was guillotined
during the Revolution. A solemn
procession was formed at a later date
and Madame Lavoisier publicly burnt
an effigy of the old element phlogis
ton, and a requiem was sung to its
memory, as a token that the old
chemistry had passed away, and a
new one was inaugurated. That sys
tem now in its turn becoming anti
quated and out ofj date. Till within
the last few years air was supposed
to be composed of the elements laid
down by Lavoisier's chemistry oxy
gen, nitrogen, and carbonic acid, but
Liebig showed that there was a small
portion of ammonia in the air, which
is washed down in the rain; ozone,
an active form of oxygen, had also
been discovered, and certain minute
organisms had aiso been found in
the air. Fresh observations were ever
being made, which tended to show
how little was yet known about the
air.
In conclusion, the air that is viti
ated by the carbonic ' acid liberated
by breathing of men and animals,
and the smoke of many furnaces and
fires in these regious, is conveyed by
tho action of trade winds to the tro2
ics, where the acid forms the food of
a luxuriant vegetation. The air, by
circulating, is constantly being puri
fied, aud by tho benificent action of
the law that plants should subsist,
not only on decaying substances, but
upon the gasses evolved by animal
waste, tho balance of nature is preserved.
Healthful lieds.
Germany excels any country with
which I am familiar in tho cleanli
ness of its beds. It seems as much
a part of yearly house cleaning, with
them, to have the hair removed from
the mattresses, to have it well beaten
and sunned, and the cover washed,
as it is with us to have carpets whip
lied ami freed from their disease-begetting
dust.
I grant it would be a difficult and
expensive undertaking for an Ameri
can housekeeper, for skilled laborers
are ra-e, and when found must be
well paid, as they should be.
Knowing the obstacles, then, in
the way to a thorough renovation of
our beds, we should take all the
more care to protect and air them.
Every bed should have especially
made for it, the size of a tick, a white
tacked comforter, not so thick as to
be unmanageable in washing; over
this the sheet is placed. Every bed
in daily use should be subjected to
the purifying rays of the sun at
least once a week, and should be
left open for the reception of air and
light some time before being made
up. Beds not frequently used are
often found very musty and disa
greeable to guests. The parlor bed.,,
that swallow their contents by a
magic touch, are fair w ithout, but in
time, for the lack of proper airing,
they become foul within. Science of
Health.
His (ioorl Reasons.
A man who does business on
Main street was yesterday button
holed at tho postofiico by an ac
quaintance, who observed:
"They say that you have left the
church and joined tho one down
street."
"Yes, that's so," was the answer.
"Didn't like the preaching, eh?"
"Oh, the preaching was good
enough, and the pew-rent wasn't too
high, but they are a queer set up
there. Most any of them will lend a
man ten dollars if he's pinched, but
it isn't three days before they come
spooking around and want it back.
I want to get somewhere where the
brethren are more absent-minded, or
where they won't walk a mile in a
heavy rain without an umbrella to re
mind me that time's up."
"And you like it?"
"I think I shall. ' I borrowed fif
teen dollars of a member nearly
three weeks ago and he hasn't said
anything about it vet."
Prince Gortchakoff, tho Russian
premier, is noted for his abstemious
habits. He never drinks wine and
never smokes. He drinks a cup of
coffee in bed before rising, and eats
but two meals a day. Retiring very
early iu the evening, he sleeps ten
or twelve hours. His regular habits
have kept his frame in such excellent
condition that he does not feel the
infirmities of old age at all. He was
born in 1798, entered upon his dip
lomatic career under Count Nessel
rode, and became the Foreign Minis
ter of Russia at the close of the
Crimean campaign.
Saj'S tli3 HurlinytOH Jhwlceye:
There is a North Hill man who goes
to Church three times a Sunday, who
alwaj's sings "I'm glad salvation's
free" so lqud that the deacon, whose
ears are very seusitive, can't get
within four pews of bin; with the
contribution basket.
During his week's stay at Shef
field the Archbishop of York conse
crated two new churches, reopened
a third that had been restored,- laid
the foundation stone of another, held
twelve special services, addressed
tho workmen of three d;iferent fac
tories, and preached twenty-five ser
mons to vast multitudes.
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Chemistry of the Fattening Pro-cess.
A lean cow or ox is in a very diff
erent condition, chemically consid
ered, from fat animals of the same
kind. In the first place the poor
animal consists of about two-thirds
water, the fat one of only half, that
is, in total weight. A fat animal is
in a dry condition, a poor animal is
like some of our bog meadows, very
wet. When the fattening process
begins, water commences to dis
appear, and fat or suet takes its
place; a,nd the increase in bulk dur
ing the process is largely of adipose
matter. It is a curious circumstance
that, during fattening, the proteids,
or nitrogenous compounds, increase
only about seven per cent., and the
bone material, or inorganic sub
stance, only one and a half per
cent.
The cost to a farmer for fattening
an ox is much greater at the close of
the process than at the commence
ment; that is increafe in bulk or
dry weight at that period is much
more costly. If it costs three cents
a pound for bulk for the first month
after a poor animal is put in the fat
tening stall, it will cost five cents
the last month. If, then, a farmer
consults his monej' interest, he will
not carry the increase in fat beyond
a certain point, provided he can turn
his partially fatted animals to fair
advantage. Farmers have perhaps
learned this fact from exierience
and observation, aud hence compar
atively lean beef abounds in our
markets. While this is an advantage
to the farmer, it is very disadvanta
geous to comsumers of beef, for the
tiesh of a fat animal in every case is
much richer in fixed nourishing ma
terial than that of the lean, and it is
never good economy to purchase
lean beef. It is better to purchase
the poorest parts of a fat animal than
the best of a lean one. The best
piece of a fat ox (the loin), contains
Irom twenty-one to twentj'-eight per
cent, more fixed material than the
corresponding piece in a lean one,
and curiously enough the worst piece
in the lean animal (the neck), is the
richest in nourishing material. The
tlesh of the neck improves very
little in fattening, hence, economy
considered, it is the best portion to
purchase, as its value is in a measure
a fixed one.
Horse Hesh is as nutritious, con
sidered as a food, as that of the ox
or cow. The relation of nitrogen
ous to fixed material is rather higher
in a horse than in an ox, and the
amount of water is less. There is
no good reason why horse llesh
should not be used as lood. it is
prejudice alone which prevents its
employment. It is a regular article
of sale in the meat markets of Paris
at the present
Chemistry.
time. Journal of
Tkkatment of Ckoit. A German
physician, Dr. Stehverger, recom
mends the treatment of croup by ths
inhalation of pure glycerine through
one or other of the well-known form
of atomizing apparatus. He was led to
try this remedy for croup from ob
serving its good effects in cases of
hoarseness and loss of voice. After
application, the cough becomes
more free and moist, and children
are enablad to sleep almost immedi
ately upon being relieved by the in
halation. It is, however, believed to
bo of importance to make use of the
remedy early and frequently, as, if
delayed, it may have no effect what
ever. If the glycerine be pure, it
may be 'used unmixed; if not, it
should be diluted with a little water.
The inhalations are repeated, accord
ing to the necessity of the case, at
intervals of from half an hour to an
hour and a half, and for about fif
teen minutes at a time.
Celia Logan denies that New York
women are much given to opium, but
asserts that arsenic eating, for im
provement of complexion, is a com
mon practice. She says: "A few
years ago cosmetics containing bis
muth were in general use, but were
found to yellow the skin until it be
came tawny and created sores arid
pimples. The family docter pre
scribed arsenical blood purifiers.
The patient was told to stop using
these when the eyelids became puffy
and she felt bloated; but it was
pleasant to taste, it rounded out
the form and beautified the complex
ion. Therefore tho doses were in
creased instead of diminished; and
so jirevalent now is arsenic eating
that any one able to recognize
look it gurcs cau pick out its
the
vic-
tims."
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The Widow and the Bocqitet. A
pretty widow, says the Raleigh,
North Carolina, Sentinel, whoso hus
band has been dead several years,,
received a beautif ulbouquet the other
day. The man that sent it had been
flying around her with an earnest
ness worthy of a dry goods clerk, and
it was with extra delight he saw her
pass his store that evening with the
bouquet of flowers in hand.
"Am so pleased to see you with
them," said he, and a thousand little
enpids dimpled in his smile.
"Yes," she replied, "it was very
kind in you. I -always knew you
liked him; l am taking them to his
In the government of Tamboff in
Russia a peculiar religious sect,
which has for some time existed in
Siberia, is making many proselytes.
Its leading doctrine is that all must
marry on becoming of age, but that
the husband must be subordinate
to the wife, recognize her as the
head of the family, and at least once
a week confess his sins to her. In
other respects the members of this
sect are orthodox (Greek) and attend
the Russian church. Thev call
themselves "Purifiers" or Puritans,
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NO. 5.
The Public Itoth Denounced.
Prof. Rcamy's Views of the Hygiene,
of Ilathiitg.
The Cincinnati Commercial has a
full review of Dr. Reamy's interest
ing lecture ou the "Use and Abuse
of Baths" before the faculty and stu
dents of the Ohio Medical College,
from which we extract the following:
But important as it is to keep these
millions of sudatory ducts open? it is
very questionable whether the lavish
use of soap and scrubbing brushes
has the tendency to do so. In fact,
the contrary may be presumed; for
the application of soap to the outer
cuticle, scrubbed well into the pores
with a rough brush, roust rather
block up the cappillaries than open
them. The application of very warm
water surcharges the skin with blood
while that of very cold water drives
back the blood and contracts the
capillaries.
There are other reasons, however,
why soap and scrubbing brushes are
not oujy unnecessary to health, but
even inimical to it. The outer cuti
cle, or scurf skin of the body, is.
composed of the soma material a,s the
nails, although the fiber is somewhat
differently arranged. It is, in focf,
the enamel of the skin, and its proper
preservation gives to the skin of a
beautiful woman the ivory polish so.
much admired. It is the protection
of the true akin beneath. But, like,
the substance of the nails, it may be
painlessly scraped or scrubbed off.
It can all be scrubbed off easily.,
enough, if one keeps scrubbing long
enough. Under the microscope it is
scaly, like the skin of a fish; and
these scales may be easily scraped
away. Nearly all soap contains
strong alkalis, which soften th.
epilheiuia or scurf skin, and reiiiV
it easily removed by rough scrub
bing. A strong flesh-brush, rou
towel and hot water are all wonder
fully efficacious in removing th:
protecting membrane, but axe whol:
unnecessary to health and cleanliui
The only really healthy and pro. .
water bath costs little or nothn.
and can be taken at home. Son-,
say they have no time to tako.a bitt-.
but this bath only requires tighi
minutes before breakfast, which e
cry one not ordinarily lazy can take
Go to a tinner and get him to make
you a tin tray, about two inches deep
and eighteen inches square. This
will cost about sixty cents. Then
buy a sponge, which will cost you
about a quarter. With the tin pan.
a sponge aud a gallon of water, you
have all tho requirements for art ex
cellent bath, and every person should
take such a bath daily. It is only
necessary to sponge yourself thor
oughly from head to foot, and wipe
dry with a soft towel. The exercise
of doing this one's self no one else
should do it is excellent. The water
should be about the same tempera
ture as the atmosphere, if you are
healthy and strong, but if the weather
is intensely cold, tepid water may be
substituted. Bnt the bath should
not be taken with the window open
or in a current of air, and the water
should be of the same temperature
as the atmosphere in the room.
Tooth Wash.--The simple camT
phor water, arpia camphora of the
shops, is one of the best and cheap-,
est washes for the teeth and mouth.
Its detersive power is great, leaving,
the mouth and gums very clean and
sweet. It is fatal to. parasite, and
therefore discouraging to tartar and
decay. It has also a healing influ
ence upon aphthous, sores (canker) q
the mouth and throat. It lessens
sensibility of the teeth, and tends to ':
resolve the small abscesses known as
gumboils. We recommend it as a
Buuu.uu ui uuiu ui iiiu (.cue i. Aiierq
are many sore throats, and we are
not sure but that they include those
of a bad type, which appear to be.
speedily relieved by gargliug with
camphor water in the incipient stage.
The antiseptic property of camphor,
or power to destroy minute organ
isms, gives it value iu applications
to the skin and mucous membrane..
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The Fmsx Aim of Edccation. I
accept without qualification the first
principle of our forefathers; that ev
ery boy born in the world should be
put in the way of maintaining him
self in indejendence. No education
which does not make this its first
aim is worth anything at all. There
are but three ways, of living, as some,
one has said by working, by beg
ging, or by stealing. Those wlio do
not work, disguise it in whatever
pretty language we please, are doing
one of the other two. The pracii-..'.
necessities must take precedence f
the intellectual. A tree must h
rooted in the soil before it can 1'
flowers and fruit. A man must le.-; '.
to stand upright upon his own f
to respect himself, to be indepemli
of charity or accident. It is on t
basis only that any superstruetur
intellectual cultivation worth
can possibly be built. Froude
Thirty j-ears ago in California .
would flock in crowds to
a glimpse of that rare spect;
women. Early one morning
noised about in the Canon
that a women had arrived
night. Everbody went to t
ing ground but only the 1?
calico dress was visible. "F
out, we want to see her,''
rough miners to the husban
wife is sick," said he; "
been robbed by the Indians, a.
want rest." "Fetch her out," m
only reply. She came to the
thev swung their hats, gave r--cheers
and a tiger, collected S
in gold, cheered agaiu, and
home satisfied.
Dr. John Dore, a distinguis
Mason, aged 81, died at Richm;
j Va, on tho ICth.
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