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Michigan* 



Michigan is one of the greatest wheat-growing 

 States of the West. The amount she yearly 

 sells cannot be less than 5,000,000 of bushels. 

 This one product at sixty cents per bushel, {jives 

 §3,000,000, and makes lor her an immense lake 

 trade Almost every article of agriculture can 

 he raised in rich profusion, and with her rich 

 and only sparsely-cultivated soil, her great in- 

 land seas, canals and railroads, she must soon be 

 -one of the richest Slates in the I'liion. In pass- 

 ing through the interior, the observing stranger 

 will discover unerring indications ojfa high slate 

 of prosperity iu the occupants of many of the 

 estates — lor he will notice, not uiifmpieiitly, 

 three several gradations iu architectural skill 

 on the same farm. In the first place, the small 

 cabin huilt of rough logs, with two little win- 

 dows, about as large as the port-holes of a 

 ' frigate, sometimes wilh only a single pane ol 

 glass, and a chimney at one end of the hut, con- 

 structed of slicks and clay. The single room 

 answers all the purposes of a kitchen, dining- 

 room, parlor and lied room, for the parents, with 

 perhaps half-a-dozen liltle bare-looted white- 

 beaded children. Thifl liltle hut was hastily 

 thrown up by the poor emigrant, in the dense 

 forest, as a shelter for himself and family, on his 

 first entrance into the wilderness, and he must 

 be content with it until he shall he able to erect 



* a more convenient residence. A little further 

 on, a building of somewhat greater pretensions 

 may be seen. This is also constructed of logs, 

 but larger and more commodious, being divided 

 into two or three rooms, with one oi more addi- 

 tions in the rear. The windows are larger, the 

 glass in them more abundant, and a brick chim- 

 ney peeps through the tools. The fields have 

 been enlarged- — good barns have been huilt — and 

 the numerous stock, and farming implements 

 indicate that the owner has overcome the difficul- 

 ties and hardships of his forest home, and is 

 now in comparatively comfortablecircumstaiices. 



. '. few years more brings the two-story porlicoed 

 /louse, painted and corniced, and surrounded by 

 a picket-fence with a green gateway — and if the 

 owner's flaxen-haired daughters have grown up 



• into gentle maidens of taste and refinement, the 

 yard will he ornamented with rose-bushes and 

 beautiful shrubberies. The barns and sheds, 

 the handsome buggy before the door — the fat 

 and sleek cattle — the almost houndless fields, 

 where the yellow grain is waving in "billowy 

 pride," now denote that Uod has prospered the 

 enterprising emigrant — that he is above the 

 frowns of poverty, and no longer fears the 

 " proud man's contumely." 



The Wife. — It needs no guilt to break a hus- 

 band's heart; the absence pi content, the milt- 

 terings of spleen ; the untidy dress, and cheer- 

 less home ; the forbidding scowl and deserted 

 hearth; these and other nameless neglects — 

 without a crime among them, have harrowed to 

 the quick, the core of many a man, and planted 

 there, beyond the reach of cure, the germ of 

 dark despair. Oh 1 may Woman, before that 

 long, sad sight arrives, dwell on the recollections 

 itlf her youth, and cherishing the dear idea of 

 that tuneful time, awake and keep alive the 

 promises she then so kindly gave; and though 

 rhe may be the injured one — the forgotten, not 

 the forgetful wife — a happy allusion to that hour 

 of peace and love— a kindly welcome lo a com- 

 fortable home — a smile of love to banish hostile 

 Words — a kiss of peace to pardon all the past, 

 and the hardest heart that ever locked itself 

 within the breast of selfish ma i will soften to 

 her charms, and hid her live as she had hoped, 

 for years, iu matchless bliss — loved, loving and 

 content — the soother oftlie sorrowing hour — the 

 ■source of comfort and the spring of joy. 



The Bath— Hints for the Season. 



There is a great deal of good sense in the fol- 

 lowing suggestions of some letter-writer in the 

 Mobile Tribune; suggestions, loo, which are 

 good for any latitude : 



' "To tin; young, we earnestly say — as you are 

 now throwing aside your winter clothing, bathe ; 

 if you would avoid colds, the sine precursors of 

 all sickness, bailie; and if you would enjoy your 

 youth, blitheness of limb and cheer of spirits, 

 bathe frequently. The ancients knew its effica- 



if you 



ey, and practised it throughout, as (he wisest of 

 the mod, ,ns do. The theory of Beau Brummel 

 has grown into a Proverb— ' there is no perfume 

 like that ol fresh linen; no cosmetic like pure 

 water, and plenty of it.' But what boy has not 

 fell the invigoration of a swim, or what man fa- 

 tigued, of a free ablution ? Bathe, then 

 would be healthy. 



"But while bathing is so important to the 

 young, it is no less so to the mature. Of all the 

 ihonsand ills ihat flesh is heir to, none can ex- 

 ceed these three common curses— dyspepsia, 

 rheumatism and gout. Though when these are 

 once seated they are deemed immovable, the 

 most experienced physicians assure us they can 

 be prevented, as they are clearly traceable to tiie 

 stopping up of the pores of the skin. 



" I hen if you would preserve your digestion 

 ami enjoy th c g 0m \ t|,jngs of this life, bathe! If 

 you would avoid rheumatism, and indulge in that 

 joyous exercise which brings health anil every 

 other comfort, bathe! And lest vou be bed-rid- 

 den, and tortured everlastingly with gout, bathe, 

 and bathe freely. 



" With the best of motives, we again affirm, i r 

 there be a cheap luxury iu the world, it is a hot, 

 cold or shower bath." 



The Old Printer. 



Something of a fancy sketch, but too near the truth to make much 

 fun of. 



I see him at his case, 



With hid anxious cheerless face, 



Worn and brown: 

 And the type's diseasing click, 

 As they drop within his siick. 

 Seems of Life's old clock the lick 



Manning down. 



Years, years away have flown, 

 And the printerl ong I've known, 



Boy and man; 

 Time was when slep elate 

 Distinguished his gait, 

 Anil his form was tall and strait 



We now scan. 



You could see him every day, 

 As he passed along the way 



To his toil; 

 He labored might and main, 



A living scant to gain, 

 And some interest small attain 



In the soil. 



And hope was high at first, 

 Anil the golden cheat he nursed, 



Till he found 

 That hope was but a glare 

 In a cold and frosty air, 

 And the promise, pictured fair, 



Barren ground. 



He ne'er was reckoned bad, 



But I've seen him smile right glad 



At " leaded" woes, 

 While a corresponding frown 

 Would spread his features round, 

 Where virtue's praise did sound, 



If 'twere " close." 



Long years he's labored on, 

 The morning hues are gone, 



From his sky; 

 For others are his hours, 

 For others are his powers, 

 And his days, Iikepa9sing showers, 



Flitting by. 



You can see him, night by night, 

 By ihel.unji's dull dreary light, 



Standing there, 

 With cobweb curtains spread 

 In festoons o'er his head, 

 Thai sooty showers shed 



In his hair. 



And when the waning moon 

 Proclaims of night the noon, 



If you roam, 

 You may see him, weak and frail, 

 As his weary steps do fail, 

 In motion like thesoail, 



Wending home. 



Character and Integrity. 



We have somewhere seen a notice of a Rot- 

 terdam thread merchant who hud accumulated 

 liliy thousand dollars by his own industry, punc- 

 tuality and integrity, and it was remarked of 

 I'ini that he never let a yard of bad thread go out 

 of his hands, and would never take more than a 

 reasonable profit. By these means be acquired 

 such entire public confidence, that bis customers 

 would as willingly sen j fl bIim , man or a child 

 to buy for them as to go themselves. 



We refer to the case not to intimate that we 

 have no such instances among ourselves, but for 

 the purpose of suggesting the great value to any 

 business man of such a character and the ex- 

 ceeding agreeableness to dealers with him of the 

 confidence he inspires. And we affirm nothing 

 extravagant in saying that the character for strict 

 integrity acquired is of as much real worth to its 

 possessor as the pecuniary savings of his indus- 

 try. Let such a man lose by any misfortune all 

 his money, be is still a man of capital, of weight 

 of influence, and is the superior, on mere busi- 

 ness calculations, of many a man of large monied 

 means. 



But the beauty of the thing is this, that any 

 man, however small his business and limited his 

 capital, has just as good an opportunity of win- 

 ning confidence us the millionaire. Integrity in 

 small things is even more impressive than integ- 

 rity in great things. And after all that men may 

 say in praise of the enterprise, skill, shrewdness 

 and tact of particular business men, there is one 

 character towards which all minds instinctively 

 render their reverence— and that is, the man 

 who had rather be honest than wealthy, and 

 who prefers integrity to gold.— Mw York Dry 

 Guods Reporter, 



II is form by years is bent, 

 To his hair a tinge is lent 



Sadly giey; 

 And his teeth are sore deeayed, 

 And his eyes their trust betrayed — 

 Great havoc Tune has made 



Willi his clay. 



But soon will come the day' 

 When his form will pass away 



From your view, 

 And the spot shall know no more 

 The sorrows lhat he bore, 

 Or the disappointments sore 



Thai he knew. 



— Boston Path Finder. 



A young dandy, who sported an enormous 

 monstachio, asked a lady what she thought of 

 his looks. "Why," said she, "you look as if 

 you hail swallowed a squirrel, and left the tail 

 sticking out of your mouth." 



Singular case. — The marriage of Mr. Henry 

 Apple and Mrs. Sarah Apple was solemnized at 

 the clerk's office in Indianapolis on the 7th inst., 

 by Judge Smith, one of the Associate Judges of 

 this county. Mr. and Mrs. Apple have been liv- 

 ing together as husband and wife for some twen- 

 ty years, and have raised a large family of chil- 

 dren. Their re-marriage was made necessary 

 by the following mysterious train of circumstan- 

 ces, as we learu by a friend who was present ut 

 the examination of the case in the circuit court 

 now iu session in this city. Mr. John Apple, 

 many years ago left this county as a volunteer of 

 the Black Hawk war. During bis absence a 

 traveller passed through the county who inform- 

 ed Mrs. Apple that her husband had been killed, 

 that he, the traveller, had aided in burying him, 

 and bad marked, with an axe, the tree under 

 which he was interred. Apple did not return 

 and no doubt was entertained by his wife or her 

 friends of his decease. 



Time passed on, nothing was beard to dis- 

 credit the traveller's story, and Mrs. A., after 

 having continued for a proper length of time in 

 a stale of supposed widowhood, was formally 

 married to Mr. Henry Apple, a farmer of this 

 county, with whom she has since cohabited. A 

 few months since, it was authentically ascertain- 

 ed that John Apple was actually living! A di- 

 vorce was obtained by Mrs. Apple and she was 

 re-married on Monday last, as above stated, to 

 Henry Apple, the man with whom she has heen 

 innocently living for many years past as her sup- 

 posed husband. We have beard no cause as- 

 signed lor the singular manner in which the first 

 husband acted. — Indiana State Journal. 



