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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
A WORD TO YOUNG MEN. 
Pay as you go-— Earn before you Spend. 
Here is a ru’e of life of high import to young men. How 
much of self resept, of public confi lence, and of manly 
feeling, has been saved by its observance. 
You stake your credit upon what have not earned the 
right to enjoy. Ts it fine clothes, good living, or personal 
ornaments — what right have you to them except the right 
of having first earned them by the sweat of your brow, or 
brain 1 Is there not some feeling of personal degardation 
an enjoying these things at the expense of tailor, jeweler,, 
or some other person. 
You h( ped to pay for them when you made the pur- 
ohase! On what assumed grounds was this expectation 
based ^ It may be you will do so— more likely you will 
not — and then what follows 1 Disappointment to your 
creditor, and renewed promise and disappointment. You 
withhold from him what is right, what he cannot well do 
without. You put yourself in his power to sue, to harass 
and to taunt you. You suffer humiliation, you avoid him 
in the streets for fear of duns — your manhood, and pride 
of manly character are abased — you feel yourself some- 
what less a man with an officer or an importunate credi- 
tor at your heels. 
And then what shifts, what evasions, what shameful 
devices — what injuries to your moral sense, what loss of 
self-respect and courageous self-confidence, follow. It 
snay be the beginning of evil with you, the temptation to 
the commi.'-sion of some crime, which you may hope to 
commit and escape detection. 
Does it require courage to withstand the temptation to 
enjoy what is not yours by right of honest purchase and 
full payment'? Courage is a manly and noble quality. 
Its exercise will elevate you, give you strength and pow- 
er. An act of courageous self-denial, conscientiously per 
formed, will inspire you with self confidence and self re- 
spect — ensure you sweet peace of mind, and the confi- 
dence of your acquaintances. 
There are heroic periods in the lives of men. May it 
not be the heroism you are called to exercise, young man 
to put your foot most sternly upon the temptation to buy 
what you have not the present ability to pay *? What if 
it COS'S your pride some humiliation 1 What if your as 
sociaies turn their backs upon you — theirs is the shame, 
not yours. Dare to be right and do right. This is hero 
ism. 
You avoid a world of temptation by keeping out of 
debt. You secure your personal freedom, and indepen- 
dence, your peace of mind and conscience, by it. — Okio 
Farmer^ 
Horses Stiffened and Hoof- Bound — A horse that 
is driven on a hard road is liat le to get stiffened I have- 
seen valuable horses driven on our plank roads a few 
days get quite lame. 1 reasoned to myself of the cause, 
«nd produced a remtdy which pioved effectual. I have 
since tried it on foundered, or hoof bound horses, and 
with good results. I made a solution of salt, and water, 
and applied it three times a day, by washing the legs and 
pouring upon the bottom of his feet, and holding them up 
a few minutes to let it strike in, and saw the wonderful 
effect in a few days, I account for it in this way : Salt 
will extract moisture from the atmosphere, which keeps 
the feet moist all the while ; it acts nearly like melted 
grease upon the foot. The hoof becomes tough, but yet 
pliable. Like a chunk of wood saturated with Salt or 
brine, it is tough, yet moist ; and so with a hor.«e’s foot 
And here let me add, the habit of rasping the cracked 
hoof to toughen it is all folly. Apply your brine, and it 
will effect a cure. Try it, and blame me if it does not. — 
Ohio Cultivator. 
THE ARTS OF BEAUTY. 
In a recent work on “ The Arts of Beauty,” by Lola 
Montez, alias Countess of Lansfeldt, ^re many good and 
sensible things. And among these, one of the very best 
is the following admirable and, we believe, infallible 
recipe for beautifying the female form. The principle 
could also be applied to males as well as females : — Ldfe 
ILLustraled. 
The foundation for beautiful form must, undoubtedly, be 
laid in infancy. That is, nothing should be done at that 
tender age to obstruct the natural swell and growth of all 
the parts. “As the iwig is bent, the tree’s inclined,” b 
quite as true of l\\o body as oi iht mind. Common sens* 
teaches us that the y»iung fioers ought to be left, UDiik> 
cumbered by obstacles of art to shoot harmoniously int« 
the shape that nature drew. But this is a business fbr 
mothers to attend to. 
It is important, however, that the girl should undeF- 
stand, as soon as she, comes to the yeais of discretion, or 
as soon as she is old rnough to realize the importance of 
beauty to a woman, that she has, to a certrin extent, ib« 
management of her own lorm within her own power. 
The first thing to be thought of is healthy for there can be 
no development of beauty in sickly fibres. Plenty ofejt- 
eercise in the open air is the great recipe. Everything 
should be done to give joy and vivacity to the spirits at 
this age, for nothing so much aids in giving vigor and 
elasticity to the form as these 
I have to tell you, ladies — and the same must be said 
to gentlemen, too — that the great secrets of acquiring a 
bright and beautiful skin lies in three simple things— as I 
said in my lecture on Beautiful Women — temperance, ex- 
cise, and cleanliness. A young, lady, were she as fair as 
Hebe, as Charming as Venus hers* If, would soon destroy 
it all by too high living and late hours. 
The Science of Going to Bkd.— T he earth is a mag- 
net, with magnetic currents constantly playing around it 
The human body is also a magnet, and when the body b 
placed in certain relations to the earth, these currents har- 
monize — when in any other position they conflict When 
one position is to be maimained for sonie time, a positiott 
should be chosen in which the magnetic currents of tne 
earth and the body will not conflict. This position, as io- 
dicated by theory, and known by expennient, is to lie 
with the head towards the north pole. Persons who 
sleep with their heads in the opposite direction, or lying 
crosswise, are liable to fall ini.i various nervous disorders, 
When they go back to the right position, these disorder^, 
if not too deeply impressed upon the cons ituiion, soon 
vanish Sensitive persons are always more refreshed by 
sleep w’hen their heads point due north. Architects, in 
planning houses, should bear this principle in mind. 
[Are any of our readers “scientific” enough to tell m 
whether there is any “sense” in the above % The ScientiJU 
American copies it without comment, but we are not ynt 
quite satisfied. Let the savans speak out !— Jr. Ed j 
Sorghum Strup — A prodigious number of saerhar- 
omeiers lor testing the strength of syrups have been made 
and sold in this city during the present autumn Their 
purchasers, as we have been intnrmed, were mostly west- 
ern farmers who obtained them for testing syrups Made 
from Sorghum Cane Frona this we infer that the new 
sugar plant was extensively cultivated during the past 
season, and that the syrup made from it will take tiM 
place, in a great measure, of common molasses, among 
our rural populatioes. — Scicnti/e Amcruttn. 
