The Sauk Centre Herald (Sauk Centre, Minnesota), 1868-02-13

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SAUK CENTEE, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1868.
NUMBER 36.
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-A.t   Sauk  Centre,   Minn.,
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JOB PRINTING
of all kinds executed on
best style.
short -notice in the
Sauk Centre Cards.
3V. H.  MUSTER,
Attorney   and    Counselor   at Law, Notary
Public and Conveyancer,
Special attention,  given to proceedings in
Bankruptcy\in the United States Courts.
Sauk Centre, - - Minnesota.
Office over the Post Office.
TT|R. B. R. PALMER,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
jW Residence near the Mill, Saiuk Centre. "©>
'N.
H. MINER,
Insurance -A-gyent,
Sauk Centre, - - Minnesota.
Represents the soundest and most relia/ble
Fire, Life and Accident Insurance Qojn-
panies of the Eastern and  Western
States.   Office over the Post Office.
DILL LARD SALOON,
A. DE GROAT, Proprietor.
Third street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Has first class Phelan A Collender Billiard
Tables.
Choice? Wines, Liquors, Ale, Porter and
tJiEars.
St. Cloud Cards.
R. A. PELHAM,
Surgeon
Permanently  located in
Dentist,
SE   Cloud.
Broker's Block.
Office
Dr, Pelham will visit Sauk Centre February
17th, and remain 18 dayta. Having had fourteen years experience in the dental profession, he feds Confident of giving satisfaction
to all rSquifing his services. All work warranted and at moderate prices.
Edward O. Hamlin
—HAS XSSIWED—
The Practice of Law
IN ST. CLOUD, MINN.
Special attention given   to  proceedings in
Bankruptcy in United States Courts.
'   Office in Alden's brick building, up stairs.
Oct. 1,1(S67. octl0-6m
H. L. GORDON. I.. W. COLLINS.
Gordon   &c  Collins,
Attorneys   at   Law,
St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota
&3- Particular attention given to business
in adjoining counties.
ILLIAM J. PARSONS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oormaine street, over Burbank Bros.,
St. Cloud, Minnesota.
/~1HAS H. ALSOP,
Civil Engineer, Architect §■
Draftsman,
Office of the Northern Pacific Rail Road,
Broker's Block,
ST. CLOUD
MINN.
jan30
J. WHITEFIELD,
House &; Sigrn Painter,
Graining, Glazing, Pape'r Hanging, 4c, done
with neatness and.on reasonable terms.
Work warranted equal in quality to that
a freed upon or no charges made. *sr* Paint
g hop next door to Thomas 4 Co's.
Sauk Centre, Minn., June 5,1867.
I""  AND OFFICE  &  REAL  ESTATE
-* AGENCY.
IV.  H.   Miner,
Lands sold on commission. Farms composed of Prgirie, Meadow and Timber Land
for sale.
PersWBs xEssirifrg to enter Dated, with Cash,
Scrip  or  Land Warrants, or to file Pre-
Emption claims, can do so at my office
and avoid the time and expense of
£6,trip to SLCJoud.
Office overlthe  Post Office,  Sauk  Centre,
. Minnesota.	
BANK 0F8T* CLOUD
GENERAL   BANKING   AND   EXCHANGE   BUSINESS   TRANSACTED.   ,
Gold and Silver,
Land Warrants, College Scrip and Foreign
Exchange bought arid sold. Particular Attention given to COLLECTIONS, and Proceeds Promptly Remitted.
Office epoiufcom 9 to 12 A. M., and 1 to 5
p. M.
St. Germaine Street, St. Cloud, Minn.
J. G. SMITH, Cashier.
St. Clond Jan. 30.1888.
RUDOLPH   SHCENEMANN,
WATCHMAKER,
St. Germaine Street,
ST, CLOUD,       - MINN.
A   GOOD assortment  of Watches, Clocks,;
Jewelry, Silver and Plated wpre always'
on had.   Galvanizing done. Repairing neatly done and warranted for one year. ly
Alarge lot of Spectacles for sale..
o
OHN CHRISTGAU,
"♦Boot &   Slioe MaJker,
Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minn.,
A complete stock of Boots and Shoes kept
constantly on hand"; and made to order on
short notice.   Good fits warranted.
Repairing  promptly  done,   at reasonable
prices.   All kinds of Shoemaker's Tools for
sale.
ANDERSON,
Boot& Shoe Maker.
Third Street Sauk Centre, Min.
Boots- 4 Shoes made to order on the shortest
notice, in any style desired.
All work warranted to fit. Reparing done
on short notice.
Satisfaction guaranteed in every  instance.
Sauk Centre,   Jan. 301868.
jan.30m6
ITY RESTAURANT. '
JOSEPH GOYETTE, Proprietor,
Washington  Avenue,  St.  Cloud, Minnesota.
A ladies'' and gentlemen's Ice Cream Saloon has been fitted up in first class style on
the second floor. Ice cold Lemonade, and
Soda Water flavored with all kinds of syrups.
'Fresh and Canned Fruits, Confectionery,
and Nuts of all kinds.
Hot Meals, Lunch, Coffee, Tea and Pastry
furnished to order.
FERGUSON:
Watchmaker
SAUK
Watches,
AND
CENTRE, MINN.
Clocks and Jewelry carefully repaired and warranted.
«3~ All work from a distance promptly attended to and safely returned.
SAUK CENTRE HOUSE,
(General Stage Office,)
SAUK CENTRE,       -       -      MINN
B. P. BARNUM, Proprietor,
Has been thoroughly refitted and furnished,
throughout, under its new management.
The comfort of guests will at all times be
made the special care of the proprietor, and
no expense or pains' will be spared to give
entire'satisfaction to boarders and travelers.
Excellent Stabllne attached to the premises. E. P. BARNUM.
Gr.  E.  IAENIG,
Merchant   Tajloiy
and Dealer in
Gents' Furnishing Goods,
(Next door to the Sauk Valley Drug Store,
SAUK CENTRA  MINN.
S-A.IIVT PAUL.
*e& Marine.
Tiie   Infidel and his Daughter.
[Suggested by the well known and memorable Interview between th^ brave old Ethan
Allen and his daughter on the eve of her
death, when she asked the stern Infidel in
whose faith he would have her die—his or her
mother's]
, The damps of death are coming fast,
M"y father, o'er my brow;
The past with all its scense has fled.
And I must turn me now
To that dim future, which in vain
My eyes seek to descry4; -
Tell me, my father, in this hoar,
In whose belief I die*-.^
In thine ? I've watched thesoornful smile
And heard thy withering tene, ..
Wheh'er the Christian's humble hope
■.i-HJWas:placed npon thine own?
■   I've heard thee speak of coming death
. .Without a shade of gloom, j
And laugh at all the childish fears
That cluster 'round the tomb.
Or, is it in my mother's fiilth ?
Now fondly do I trace
Through many weary years long past
That caJi» and saintly face!
How ofen did I call to*mind
(Now she's beneath the sod,)
The place, the hour, ln which she drew   ■
My eager thoughts to God.
'Twas then she took this sacred book,
And from its burning page
Read how its truths support the soul
In youth, and failing age;
And bade me in its precepts live
And by its precepts die,
That I might shar» a home of love
In worlus beyond the sky.
My father shall I look above,
Amid the gathering gloom,
To him whose promises of love
Extend beyond the tomb 1
Or course the* being who bath blessed
This checkered heart of mine ?
Must I embrace my mother's faith,
Or die, my sire, Dy thine 7
The frown upon that warrior brow
"Passed, like a cloud, away,
And tears coursed down the rugged cheek*
That flowed not till that day.
•'Not lnmke," with choking voice.
The skepectic made reply,
"But in thy mother's holy faith,
My daughters, may'st thou die."
A PEIEGTRIC ON WOMAN.
Read directly j then read first and third
and second and fourth lines of each verse,
and lo t the difference.
The bliss of him no tongue can tell,
Who In a woman doth confide;
Who with a woman scorns to dwell.
Unnumbered evils wiil betide.
They fill each leisurable day
With joy and innocent delight;
With cheerless gloom and misery,
Are none possessed while in their sight.
They make the daily path of life,
A pleasant journey strewed with  flow-
en;
A dreary scene of painful strife,
They quickly  change  with matchless
powers.
Domestic joys will fast decay,
- Where female influence is unknown;
Where'er a woman holds the sway,
A. man is in perfection shown.
She's never failing to display
Truth in its native lovliness;
A heart inclined to treachery,
A woman never did possess.
That man true dignity will find,
, Who tries the matrimonial state;
Who pours contempt on womankind,
. Will mourn his folly when too late.
grave, while poor old Wooden-head
muddled on, dying by the half century
of the same poison. It might seem as
if nature gave a man so many pulses of
life, and that when he had squandered
them he must die a bankrupt, and that
the fiery heat flashes them out in swift
leaps, and they are gone in one red
corruscation, while the sluggish nature
burns them with the slow, phosphorescent mouldering of old punk-wood, that
only shines because it is dead, and the
deader it is the longer it will shine,
and not illuminate a square inch of
earth in all its glimmering life or
death.
jptatawf.
BRAIN AND DRUNKENNESS.
George H. Burleigh in N. T. Advocate.
I knew in my younger days, an old
man who for sixty years had been an
unflinching drinker of strong drink,
and he was often cited by  shallow rea
The essential thing in us that makes
liquor intoxicating is brain, a certain
amount of which must go to the making
up of the sensation of drunkness. It
is that organ that alcohol attacks with
deadly (S#rtainty, and, just in proportion
as the brain is fine and active, the
touch of alcohol is rapid and fatal. If
it were possible to complete the suggestion whioh Hard-head gives, and
furnish a man, with no nerves, and consequently with no nervous centre, you
might fill him with rum as you would
a jug, and he would not tip over until
some toper took him by the ears and
tried to drain him off; but, while men
are made with brain enough to feel
tickeled when a glass of gin begins to
touch it, they will suffer the inevitable
reaction, which measures precisely the
disturbing force, when the full action
of it is spent on the nervous centre.
The vital powers call supplies to the
worn places. If the brain is busy, a
large demand is made on the capital
stored in the laboratory of the stomach,
whatever they may be, and woe to the
poor cheated brain, if, instead of some
thing that makes tissue, it proves to be
something that stimulates and excites
aetion. No atom of alcohol ever become flesh, or bone, or blood, or brain ;
and the deluded nerve that asks for
bread will bitterly resent the terrible
insult that offers it—not a stone, which
were comparatively innocent, but ft
drop of liquid fire I
The supreme folly of the theory that
makes alcohol a supporter of life and
renewer of wasted energies has been
fatal to just those who could least bear
it—the men of brain, the men of
thought and study. Nothing more
thoroughly exhausts the whole nervous system than long continued mental labor. It is not like handiwork, or
the weariness of any one set of muscles,
which may find relief by .simple cessation, or even by change of labor ; but
every nerve had lent its best spring to
the great center, which was so absorbed
in its own act as to ignore the draft till
when the weary work is ended, every
nerve collapses at once, and you feel
that what in you is most tired has nothing to lean on. Then comes the tempter with his lying gospel of " Alcohol a
food," and yon partake, and for an hour
feel invigorated. You have put a more
perfect air-pump on your exhuste df*s-
ceiver and sucked out another whiff,
and really believe the breeze has come
again. You have pawned next week
and bought an hour with the ticket,
and think you have an inexhaustible
mine of wealth. But vital forces cannot live on "tick." The pawnbroker
sells dear what he buys cheap, and you
pay the difference. Brain stimulated
is not brain fed, and next week refuses
the draft on time that you would offer
to pay up old arrears.
The very reason why so many wits
and geniuses have gone down to a
drunkard's grave is in this   fatal   idea.
FOR MARRIED POLKS,
soners in proof of the innocence of the  Because they had wits and genius they
Keeps on hand a choice stock o;
Cloths, Cassimeres, Tailor's Trimmings.
Fashionable, and Business Suits, made to
order «3id in the latest styles.
Cutting done to order.
dc!2m6
s
AUK CENTRE
Livery, Sale and Feed
Office on Third street, one door west of the
Printing Office.
Having our Stable completed   and well
stocked   we are now prepared to furnish
those who wish, with good
Horses and Carriages or Sleighs al all times
on reasonable terms, so that
-A.11 can   Take  a Ride.
H. Doty a e. l. wright,
Proprietors,
Assets oyer
ST. PAUL, MINN.
$530,000.
Insures Buildings, Merchandise and other
Property, against Loss or Damage by FIRE,
at Rates as low as other first class Stock
Companies.
Particular attention given  to  Insurance of
Farm  Property,   Isolated  Dwellings
and their Furniture,
FOR ONE, THREE OR FIVE YEAR .
Also Inland Navigation Risks on Cargoes or
Freight.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Theo. Borup,
Peter Berkey
WrF.Davidson,
W. P. Murray,
Geo. L. Farwell,
J. C. Burbank,
John L. Merriam,
W. W. Eastman,
John S. Prince,
Horace Thompson
Wm. Lee,
John Nichols,
E. F. Drake.
J. C. BURBANK, Pres't.
JOHN NICOLS, Vice Pres't.
S. S. EATON, Sec'y.
W. A. WEliliS, Gen'l Agent.
N. H. MINER, Local Ag't.
SAUK CENTRE, MINN.
v DWARD DREBLOW,
Cabinet  Maker,
Main street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Keeps constantly on hand a complete stock
of Furniture, Coffins, &c.
AH orders will receive prompt attention.
beverage that must, they said, be a
very slow poison, when it left a man to
die a natural death at three score and
ten. But, boy as I was, the argument
failed to satisfy me; for I saw that the
old man's wits were like the circulation of a tortoise, something bf the
slowest. His head was round and hard
as an oak gnarl; and the convolutions
of his brain must have been as shallow
as the creases in a hard-shell pumpkin.
I have seen a tortoise lie nine days
with his head cut off, without convincing m*e that vertebaate life has no special dependence on that organ, and I
had heard of the antediluvain toads
who hopped about in their sixtieth century, after being liberated from a bed
of solid rock; and yet; somehow, breath
was a heresy that I could not resign in
favor of such brilliant examples of living without it. If my toad's vital fluids
had traveled fast, he would have exhausted his capabilities in a day or an
hour when closed up in the rock ; if
my turtle's heart had been a lightning
trip hammer, the ninth day would have
seen him transformed into insects or
grass, instead of sputtering away at an
endless dying, parting with a life that
was so near death that death itself
didn't know" the difference, and so let
it run; and if my old toper had been
blest with a thimbleful of brains, he
would have burned out in a few years,
and gone under one of the tomhstones
he used to steal—for that was among
the manly virtues of this great exemplar.
Another manl knew in those days—
a young man full of life and genius,
brilliant, witty and cultivated, with a
brain fine tempered as Damascus steel,
and not a vice to stain his name but
the fatal fondness of the social class.
And he, too, was used as an argument.
His life proved how respectable a
thing it was to drink, how it comported
with good bijth, good manner* and the
brightest intellect; and since it proved
so many things, it would have been
asking too much to demand that his
example should illustrate the safety of
the practice of drinking. Alas! before he was thirty all his genuis was
blasted, and   he   filled   a  drunkard's
perished miserably, where the dullard
would have gone for a half a* century,
and only be notable for the hardness of
his head. The brain that can bear alcohol without sensible deterioration has
no fineness of fibre, no delicaoy of action, no sharply defined impressions of
things natural, moral or spiritual.
My venerable old toper stole gravestones ; the sot, you know has no sense
of decency 1 The hard-head, whose
quart of whisky rides steadily in the
top of his skull, thinks the world is
fiat and its principal, product is rye 1
Even oui; brilliant thinker gets-oblivious
of niceties, and a low thought, an obtuse conclusion, or a perfect insanity,
creeps into his utterances to mark the
spot seared by the hot foot of the spoiler. Names are not needed to point
this moral; they leap to your memory
at the very mention of the thought;
and you sigh to think what pages are
blotted by the demon fingers, that
should have been all chaste and beautiful with the touch of angelic   genius.
Andrew Lee came home from life
shop, where he had worsted all day,
tired and out of spirits ; came home to
hirwifo, whe was also tired and out of
spirits.   .
" A smiling wife and a cheerful home
—what a paradise it would be" said
Andrew to himself, as he turned his
eyes from the elouded face of Mrs. Lee
and sat down witb knitted brows and
moody aspect.
__Not a word was spoken by either,
Mrs. Lee was getting supper and she
moved about with a weary step.
"Come," she said.flfc.iast, with a side
glance at her husband.
Andrew arose and went to the table.
He was tempted to speak an angry
word, but controlled himself and kept
silent. He could find no fault with
the chop, nor the fragrant tea. .-They
would have oheered his inward man if
there had been a gleam of sunshine on
the face of his wife. He noticed she
did not eat.
" Are you not well, Mar/?-*;'j
These words were on his lips, but he
did not utter them, for the face of his
wife looked so re'pellanfc that he feared
an irritating reply. .
And so, in moody silence, the twain
sat together until Andrew had finished
his supper.
As he pushed bis chair back his wife
arose and commenced clearing off the
table.
"This is purgatory I" said Lee to
himself, as he commenced walking the
floor of their little breakfast room,
with his hands thrust into his trowsers
pockets and his chin almost touching
his breast.
After removing and taking things into the kitchen, Mrs. Lee spread a green
cover over tho table, and placing a
fresh-trimmed lamp thereon, went ont
and shut the door after her, leaving
her husband alone with his unpleasant
feelings. He took a long, deep breath
as she did so, paused in his walk, stood
still for some moments, and then drawing a paper from his pocket, sat down
by the table, opened the sheet and
commenced reading. Singularly enough
the words upon which his eyes rested
Were " Praise your wife, for pity's sake,
give her a little encouragement. It
won't hurt her."
Andrew Lee raised his eyes from the
paper and muttered, "Oh yes, that's all
very well—praise is cheap enough.
But praise her for what? For being
sullen and. making her home the
most disagreeable place in the world?"
His eyes fell again on the paper.
"She has made your home comfortable, yonr heart—bright and shining,
your food agreeable, for pity's sake tell
her you thank her, if nothing more.
She don't expect it. It will make her
eyes wider than they hare been for ten
years, but it will do her good for all
that, and you top."
It seemed to Andrew as if this sentence was written experessly for him
and just' for the occasion, ft was a
complete answer to his question,
"Braise her for what!" and he felt it also
as a rebuke. He read no further, for
thoughts came too busy, and in a new
direction. Memoiy was convicting him
of injustice to his wife. She had always
made his home as comfortable for him
as she could make it, and had he offered the light return of praise or commendation ? Had he ever told her of
the satisfaction he had known or the
comfort he had experienced ? He was
not able to recall the time or occasion.
As he thought thus Mrs. Lee came in
from the kitchen, and taking her work
basket from the closet, placed it on the
table, and sitting down without speaking, began to sew. Its. Lee glanced almost stealthily at the work in her
hands and saw that it was the bosom of
a shirt, which she was stitching neatly.
He knew that it was for him she was
at work'.
" Praise your wife." These words
were before the eyes of his mind, and
he could not look away from them.
But he was not ready for this yet. Ha
still felt moody and unforgiving. _ The
expression of his wife's face he interpreted to mean ill-nature, for which he
had no patience. His eyes fell upon the
newspaper that was lying spread out
before him, and he read the sentence,
" A kind, cheerful word spoken in a
gloomy house, is the little rift in the
cloud that lets the sunshine through."
Lee struggled with himself a while lon-
and I've heard more than once what
a good wife Andrew Lee must have.".
Mrs. Lee turned her face toward her
husband. There was something light
in it and light in her eye. But there
was something in the expression of the
countenance that a little puzzled hi**;
*' Do you think so 1" she asked quite
soberly,
a "What a queerquestion 1" ejaculated
Andrew Lee, starting up and going
round to the side of tbe table where
JtisN wife was sittings " What a question,
Mary I" he repeated, as he stood before
her.
" Do you ?" was all she said,
' " Yes, darling-," was   his warm spoken answer, and he stooped  down and
kissed her.     How   strange   that  you
should tsk me such a question I"
"If you would only tell me so, now
and then, "Andrew, it would do me
good." Mrs. Lee arose, and, leaning
her face against the manly breast of
her husband, stood and wept.
What a strong light broke in on the
mind of Andrew Lee. He had never
given his wife even the small reward
of praise for the loving interest she had
manifested daily, until doubt of his
love had entered her soul and made
the light around her thick darkness.
No wonder that her face grew clouded,
or that what he considered moodiness
and ill-nature took possession of her
spirit.
" You are good and true, Mary, my
own dear wife. I am proud of you, and
my first desire is for your happiness.
Oh, if I could always see your face in
sunshine, my home would be the dearest place on earth."
"How precious to me are your words
of love ahd praise, Andrew," said Mrs,
Lee, smiling up through her tears info
his face. " With them in my ears, my
heart can never lie in shadow."
How easy had been the Work fot4 An.
drew Lee. He had swept his hand
across the cloudy horizon, and now the
bright sunshine was streaming down
and flooding that home with joy and
beauty.
WEDDINGS.
Broke his Agreement.—" How much
do you charge, massa magistrate, to
marry me and Miss Dinah?"
" Why, Clem, I'll marry you for two
dollars."
" Two dollars ! What do you charge
to marry white folks, massa ?"
" Five dollars."
" Well, you marry us like white folks
and I'll give you five dollars too."
" Why, Clem, that's a curious notion ;
but, as you desire it, I'll marry you
like the white folks for five dollars."
The ceremony being over, Clem and
Dinah being ene, the magistrate asked
for his fee.   .
" Oh 1 no, massa; you no cum up
to de 'greement; you no kiss de bride."
" Get out of my office, you black
rascal I"
ger.
A Brooxlyn firm, which sells gentlemen's furnishing goods, announce
themslves .as " hosiers, glovers and
shirters." This recalls the sign of "John
Brown, hatter and capper," and " Hans
Soehs, shoer and booter."
A young n*an who- receives a "blowing up" from his sweetheart calls her a
1 wind-lass.
His own ill-nature had to be'conquered first, his moody, accusing spirit had
to be subdued.
He thought of many things to say,
and yet he feared to say them, lest his
wife should meet his address with a rebuff. At last, leaning toward her, and
taking hold upon the shirt bosom at
which she was at work, he said in a
voice that was 'carefully modulated
with kindness :
" You are doing the work beautifol-
ly.Mary."
Mrs. Lee made no reply. But her
husband did not fail to notice that she
lost, almost instantly, that rigid erect-
ness with which she had been sitting,
nor that the motion of her needle had
ceased.
" My shirts are better made iaid
whiter than those of any other man in
the shop," said Lee, encouraged to go
on.
" Are they ?" Mrs. Lee's voice was
low, and had in it a slight huskiness.
She did -not turn her face, but her husband saw that she leaned a little towards him. He had broken the ice of
reserve, and all was now easy. His
hand was among the clouds, and a feeble ray was already struggling through
the rift it had made.
1    "Yes, Mary,"   he  answered  softly,
" Faith," in the Independent, discourses thus of " Weddings:"   •
Did any of you ever think for an ib-
stant what reason prompts nine-tenths
of the girls  to  marry,  anywhere from
eighteen to twenty-five ?    Is it because
" they are dead  in  love" with  the object of their choice? ' "Nothing of the
sort;"  rather   from   this   truth—that
they'd   " die   before  they'd    be   old
maids."   Then, too, it's  a nice, grand
thing to have   an   elegant   new wardrobe ; ntfl   to   mention  the sensation
they make   when   they   get   married.
Shame colors my cheek at the remembrance that my own  sex are not truer
to their higher principles in this matter.   And much as I dislike to say it, J
will in justice to the race  affirm that
more men marry for love than women.
The  grand mistake of both  parties is
this:   They marry for   halcyon   days
alone :    They think of nought but the
ruby-hued  joys they may quaff while
the sun shines.   The evil days—when
the bright cheeks  are  pale,  the teeth
gone, hair thin and grey—are not reckoned as  part of their lot.   They query
not of their own hearts :    Is your love
and devotion wide and strong enough "
to   the   end ?     No;   it   is   not these
thoughts that fill their minds.    It's our
house,  our  carriage,   our  servants we
will keep now, or sometime, when the
papas  die  and leave  the greenbacks.
Isn't it so, girls and boys ?   The woman
rarely hears the   "still,  small  voice''
that asks, should your  husband  prove
unsuccessful in has future  business career, could you,  with   a   bonny sweet
smile,  say, " Never mind; we'll climb
the   hill   together!"  and   doing your
part well, make life a blessing to both ?
No ; she doesn't entertain  that, or the
more important  query :" If temptation assail the  partner of our joys and
sorrows, and he,  proving weak, fall into error, is   there   love and   devotion
enough to sustain you till you win him
back from sin and dissipation?"   The
conflict will be fearful and long; hence,
be prepared, my sisters,   to  encounter
in these struggles, if they are sent upon you, ere you promise to " love, honor and obey;"    And   the   husband—is
he quite  sure that,  if   the   wife fades
early  and loses  much of  her girlish
beauty, or if the hand of disease is laid
heavily upon her, and she becomes a
life-long invalid—is this  man sure he
can resist the tempter and remain devoted to  his  early jrife ?"    We young
folks are net wholly to blame—nay, indeed.    Our fathers   and  mothers are
greatly at fault.    They  bring us  girls
up to suppose that  we must marry apd
start in life just  where they are ending
it; and that it would be positive abuse
to permit u« to wed  a man whe would
allow us to  keep  house  in  any thing
less than  a two  story with the same
number of hand-maidens.    Well there
are not many of   us   who  could  with
less; for   the proportion  is small   of
those who know  how  to perform well
the slightest household duty.     Save
your hands, girls j always  dress up early in the morning, and keep so all day,
lest you fail to  marry a fortune.    The
boys are   no   better off.   A family is
deeply afflicted if their promising son—
their hope, joy and pride—casts an admiring glance evei* on  an   honest girl-
who sustains herself.    No style, no fortune.    " No  nothing !"    Spare  us this
disgrace, my sob I    And  he  generally
complies, and -marries Flora,  the dear
girl who has  " nothing to wear."    No
matter if  the pas and mas did use to
work ; that's* by-gone—so let it remain.
But I leave you now to your own reflections,  hoping some grains of good
may fall in j rich   soil, and bring forth
some tempting fruit.
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