132 Ifam'iJj fMftiu, MY BOSE. BV THE INVALID. J had a Rose, ablushing Hose, little flower, Yf Wch bloomed iu wondrous loveliness Within my garden bower, tlhe evening zephyrs kissed its brow, . And lcfl bright jewels there. The clear and pearly drops of dew. So glittering and fair. The morning shed its fairest beams trpdn it* little breast, And joyously the humming-bird Sipped honey from its erest; The robin sang its sweetest song To cheer each lonely hour, And all hearts loved the little Rose, Which graced my garden bower. Ypt still it pined for realms of light, To reach its native borne; That genial dime, where chilling winds, And storms may never come; To bloom beside the crystal stream, And in the pasture green; Where only amaranthine flowers, And vernal shrub* are sfcen. Nor could our fondest lore detain : The gentle little flower, — But for a seasoii'Wtf, though sweet, Itblest our earthly bower; ,Then faded from our sight, to bloom IttMsown native dime, 1 InlOvelinejS 100 fair for earlb,, ; Untouched By blight or time. ' For the American Presbyterian; THE ORPHAN’S DREAM. Above the sun-lit sky, Amid those brighter rays, Where angels float, and pour the note Of everlasting praiise:— Where love, on golden wing. And truth, enrobed in while, With harp of fire, and golden lyre, Proclaim their vast delight■ Where martyrs sit on thrhnej, And bliss supremely reigns,. And voices all obey the call To ring, In heavenly strains:— My parents dear I saw, In visions of my bed, Their labors done, their victories won, And crowns upon their head- I woke to chide the fate That belli me mourning here, I longed to die, that I might fly, With them, to that bright sphere. A voice from heaven said, “ First give that life to me; If faithful, thon, where they are now, Shall there in glory be.” From the German. ABOUT THE MONTHS.—APRIL. . exclaimed little Adolphus, one day os ho came hastily into tho room. “Father, haven’t yon told mo that April is a spring month ?” His father, who was busy writing, answered his little son without looking up, “Yes, my son; spring begins on the 20th or 21st of March, con sequently April is the first complete-spring month.” Adolphus laughed. “A curious spring mouth, iudted,” said he; “just look out of the window and seel It is snowing flakes as large as it did in January.” “No matter,” said his father. “ April is an uncertain fellow, and just now it is his pleasure to imitate the fashion-of winter.” ”“I wish -I had known that before,” said Adolphus, with a tone of disappointment, “I would not have put my sled away behind the wood pile, where I can’t get at it.” “You must not suffer yourself to* he deluded by the fickle mon th of April. Leave your sled alone, and just look out and see how jll.arter April is already hanging out his rain niatitle around tho sky, and turning the snow into slush-.” “True,” said Adolphus, with a new ex {fression of disappointment; “now our walk this evening is done with completely. O you naughty April!” “Hush, hush!” said his father, “that is all wrong and very hasty. April is even more changeful than you have yet found out. The sun may break out and shine again in a very short time." U bus comforted, Adolphus wished to know more about April. Counting on his lingers, he found it was the fourth month, and his father told him if had 30 days. As Easter commonly falls in this mouth, it is sometimes called Easter month, and as the flowers now begin to eome out in their -beauty and variety, it is sometimes called the Month of Flowers.' Adolphus was inclined to lpurmur against giving such pretty names to sueh a stormy changeful month, but towards evening he was quite reconciled by seeing the sky all clear ot clouds, and by feeling the mild spring atmo sphere breathing over the earth. He and his father then went forth on their expected evening walk. ! Arid now as they walked abroad bepeath the bright-evening sky, the little lboy’fr'spirits were so raised that he could not say enough in praise of April. “Ah!” said his father, “you are just as hasty now with your praises as you were,a moment ago with vour blame. Yonder I see along the horizon a dark mass of clouds, and I fear we shall have to out short our walk, lest we may suffer from another of the tricks which our uncertain month is so fond of playing." Soon quite a storm arose, and before the two travellers had half reached their home, the dark cloud had rolled up over their heads, and a heavy fall of rain fallowing soon after, wet them through to the skin. After they had reached home, and had been made comfort able by a change of clothing, Adolphus’ father observed that all these changes were under the control of a higher power, namely the will of God, and that He sends rain and sunshine just as it appears to Him suitable for the growth and in creaseof plants upon the earth. April, he said, is a picture of the uncertainties of our life; as sunshine follows the rain, so prosperity follows ad versity and the reverse. It teaches us not to be deceived by appearances, or carried away by the delusive attractions of sin. It teaches us not to ihtike fair promises which we never intend to perform. “ Yes/' said Adolphus, “I have clearly serin how bad that Is; and in this respect I will not do as April did.” “ A good resolution,” said his father, “ and if you keep it, our walk will be of great use to you indeed.” kept his word. .He did not deceive anyone with fair words; and be called such words by the very suitable name of April promises. THE BUTTERFLY'S WINGS. - Williei bad come to visit bis cousin Ada, and they both were walking in the garden one fine morning, when a gay butterfly flew around them, attracting Ada's notice by its brilliant colors of various hues. • “Oh 1 what a beautiful butterfly, she ex catch it 1” cried Willie; and instantly taking off his cap, lie pursued it as it flew from flower to flower. , . “Oh l Willie, pray don t; you will ht#t it, cried Ada, running after him, and laying her hand on Willie’s arm. But Willie took no notice; like many other boys, he thought only of gratifying his own desire, regardless of the pain he might cause the poor butterfly. At length lie brought it to the ground, too much injured Ay again, and then taking it by its downy wings, he ran to Ada, exclaiming—, it is I caught at Isstj look, Ada V* “ Poor little thing—wbat a pity 1” “Tush Ada! don’t make such a fuss. But, look, all the is gone from its wings, it’s no use no;w,l«Eid;he threw it .on the grougd impa tiently. “Oh I Willie, why leave it half dead ? See ! it is trying to crawt'albne; pobr little thing! I’ll put you put of misery," So saying, Ada set her foot upon it, and covered it with gravel; then, taking her little hoe, she went to work at the weeds, sighing; to herself, “ I wonder how Willie could be so cruel?” Ada was a loving, gentle child; and so she conjd net bear to see any thing put to unnecessary pain. Willie was naturally lively and thoughtless, and often acted, more from impulse than any vi cious motive. “Willie,’’ said Ada, as though she wished to find, some excuse for his conduct, “You did not know that what looks like dust on the butterfly’s wings are feathers, did you?” “No, indeed,” exclaimed; Willie, looking at His fingers. “ Who told you that these are feathers, Ada?” “ Mother did. I will fetch you the magnifier, and we will go into the arbor, and then. you can look- at the dust on your fingers through it;” “Oh, Ada! I had no idea that butterflies were so beautiful,” said Willie, after he had examined them some time. V'. “ Everything God has made is beautiful, Willie; : and don’t you think He will bo displeased with us if we destroy wantonly what he ha® made ?” ; , “A butterfly is such a little thing, Ada*' I don’t think God cares for them.” “Oh, Willie! I’m siltt Gild cares for all hiS' works; for in the Testament we read that *not;a sparrow falleth to the ground without his notice.’'” “ The boys at school don’t think anything?of ohasing butterflies, Ada;/ they Would Hugh if you said it would hurt them. 'Ho you really think they feel pain ?” , “ Certainly they dd, Willie; don’t you think it. wo.uld h.urt , you if iqpy strong map were to take you byjthe,hair, and'drag you about? Or, sup pose someroughboy knocked down your dove as it flew, and then held, it up by the wings and' pulled- ” “Stop, stop, Ada!” interrupted Willie; “If any boy dared to use my dove so, I don’t know what I should do." And he jumped up and looked quite fierce for a minute. , ; ,“But, Ada, uiy dove is much larger than a butterfly,”'argued Willie, not willing to be convinced by his cousin. “Willie, you ought lo know that every thing can feel, however small; and as God has made t.is creatures to enjoy themselves, we must not put them to pain.” Then said Willie, with a sigh—“ But how is it you know so much, Ada ?” “Mother teaches me, Willie; and she-often says it is the duty of every oue to alleviate suf fering as much as possible, and by no means to give the least unnecessary pain. Bo you remem ber those verses we learnt last week on kindness to animals?” Home Monthly. “ Yes; say them, Ada.” “The lord who gives us daily bread Supplies their wants and hears their cry, "And every wrong which they eridure Is marked by his paternal eye. Winslow. “ Isn’t that beautiful, Willie ?” said Ada, wheu she had finished.- “Yes, very. I wish I had some one to teach me, Ada; but my mother is dead, and father is always out; so I never thought about these things till you told me. I’m sure I’ll never chase' an other butterfly, Ada.” Ada threw her arms around Willie’s heck, and whispered ► - ’ Recently, at a prayer-meeting, the following in stance' was related: A man was converted who had adopted infidel opinions under the teachings of his father. The convert had previously been an active opposer of religion. At an evening prayer meeting, a brother suggested that conversions are given in answer to prayer, and that wicked men, who seem abandoned, are sometimes converted in answer to the prayer of parents who have long been dead. Our convert lost his mother when he was too young to remember her, but now it occurred to him that she might have something to do with his conversion. He 'rode out to his father’s house to ask him about the matter. The old man ehided his son for being suck a fool ini religion, but at last told him that not only was his mother a pious woman, but that her last hours were occupied with prayers for her child, and in charging her husband to bring up their child iri< the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And there was revealed the hidden cause of an effect which filled the town with wonder. The infidel w’as converted in answer to, the prayers which his mother had breathed in his behalf when he was an infant too young to remember either her or her prayers. 1 may add, that his old fa ther was also converted soon afterwards. Soriie years ago, a class of young- men iira theological seminary spent several nights; in “ex perience meetings." Bach one related! so much of his past history as he chose, stating the cha racter arid- influ'euce of his parents, pastors, the church, and time iind manner of his conversion! The singularfact was- found out, that with one exception all these young men had pious mothers, whose influence wgs perceptible in the ; con version and subsequent course of life in their children. And recently a certain very able education secre tary related to a large body, of ministers many facts which show that pious mothers are a chiof instrumentality in replenishing the ranks of the ministry. .One minister told him how he had re solved to be' a lawyer; and‘though his mother had never talked much in opposition to his plan, yet he knew her wishes. “He could not go into the law over his mother’s prayers.” Courage, then, mother! Be certain that your labor will not be in vain in the Lord; FAMILY PRAYER AT A TAVERN. Rowland Hill was once driven by a storm into a village inn, and compelled to spend the night. When it grew late, the landlord sent a request by the waiter that the guest would go to bed. Mr. Hill replied, “ I have been waiting a long time, expectiug to be called to family prayer.” “Family prayer! Idou’t know what you mean, sir; we never have such things here.” “Indeed! Then tell your master I cannot go to bed until we have family prayer.” The waiter informed bis master, who in con sternation bounced into the room occupied by the faithful minister, and said, “Sir, I wish you would go to bed. I cannot go until I have seen all the lights out, I am so afraid of fire.” “So am I,” was the reply; “but I have been expecting to be summoned to family prayer.” “All very well, sir; but it cannot be done at an inn.' 1 “Indeed! Then pray get my horses; I cannot sleep iu a house where there is no family prayer.” The best preferred to dismiss his prejudice; rather than his guest, and said, “I have no ob jection to have a prayer, but I do not know how.” “Well, then, summon your people, and let us see what can be done.” The landlord obeyed, and in a few moments the astonished domestics were upon their knees, and the landlord called upon to pray. “ Sir, I never prayed in my life; I don't know how. to pray.” “ Ask God to teach you,” was the gentle reply. The landlord said, folding his hands, “God, teach us how to pray.” “ That is prayer, my friend,” cried Mr. Hill, joyfully;—“goon.” “ I am sure I don’t know what to say now, sir." And should you cruelly betray Your trust o’er those who can’t complain, Beware,' the measure that you mete, May be returned to you again. Oh,meekly learn of Him, who rules In tenderness the weak and small; And as He loves and pities you, Be kind and pitiful to all. Some sorrow, toil, or suffering, Must needs be, in this world below; Bnt let your earnest life-work be _ To soothe, to heal, and lighten wo.” “And when yon kneel to God in prayer, To seek his Holy Spirit’s aid, Ask for a gentle heart to lore All creatures that liis band hath made.” THE PRAYERS OF A MOTHER. awmciw ift * flftgtma tt a n it ffintgg* t (fira tt♦ “Yes, you do; God has you how to pray—now thank him for it.” • • “Thank you, God Almighty, for letting us pray “Amen! amen!” exclaimed Mr. Hill, and then I*™*, Hin wfa «... same villager a chapel and a school, as t ® 1f?”..- of the first effort of family prayer at the Black Liom” THE BEST PHYSICAL EXERCISE. The true idea of education is admirably unfold ed in the late inaugural of President Samson, of Columbia College. Dr. Samson writes of walk-, ing as a physical exercise in the tree vein ot an, experienced amaicur. He, doubtless,, has long practised in this thing what he preaches to others. We like bis ideas, and so shall reflect a little what he says, asking our readers to hear him inthe fot -1? As S to physical education, much has been safd about reviving old uopbi 1 osopliical metbod3, and milch has been done to keep alive; a true philoso phy, After all theorizing and experimenting; practical experience brings men back' to value most highly, because it lias been proved to be va luable, the simple, cheap; universally-possessed means of physical development and culture which, constituted the perfection of man’s material en dowment in Paradise —the plain diet and simple exercise of that perfect abode; “everything good for food,” together with the gentle working of every musfele, and the quiet play of every organ that attended tbh it walks” of Eden. Like the mind, the bddily poWers need for nurture, disci-; pline to control, abcr&xercise to give them energy’ iu action. It is the latter element that demands special notice. Not to speak of the end sought, the mere luxury of locomotion in walking was meant to be the purest and sweetest to man, as it has been the most constantly living of our phy sical enjoyments; and be who, through indolence or false philosophy, allows himself to become a stranger to the ecstasy of a- morning or evening ramble among the flowers and birds, might as well cease to be a man. . After all the inventions, erec tions, and temporary eulogizing of the gyiimasium —after the .costly experiment, for a tiiue, of horse back riding, nine-pin rolling, and other games, > after the novelty of military drilling, too exacting on the time and purse of the student, too starched and mechanical in the cost of carriage it gives, and too demoralizing in its associationsr—after all. devices, the wise man comes back to-the simple thing of walking In the old beaten track the man of perfect health and physical development, hale and hearty, holds on the even tenor of his way, til!, staff in hand, be steps into His grave. The history of this branch of education is most instructive. The empirical Greeks, especially the dreamy among their philosophers,-first introduced gymnastics. The end sought by these exercises was one not practical with us; and that end-the wiser Homans decided was not attained. ’lhen men were to fight hand to hand, and the gymnas tics of the Greeks seemed to be adapted to train meu to this mode of combat. Diodorus, however, the Roman historian, in the Augustan age, writes from Egypt: “They think that from daily gym-j nasties in the palsestfa youth will gain; Dot sound vigor, but only a temporary strength, and that at great risk of'injury;” and so the practical Ro 'mans, - too, thought: * ‘Tt”was“Ti6t,“then, , ffiafiS Egypt that Pythagoras and Plato, brought gym nastics; and when they.had introduced them into their schools, the practical followers of Aristotle so preferred the round-about-town ramble for phy sical culture, that they received the name of “ Pe ri pateties,” while the ultra conservative stoics were satisfied with promenading and lounging upon their porticoes. It is. refreshing, almast in vigorating iu itself, to the robust peripatetic ;of our day, panting and swelling with the thrill of his morning or evening walk, running through every fibre of his frame, just to think of; the men that have preceded him in this line which he has marked out for himself. He is the companion of Abraham; rambling over the hills of Palestine, of Jesus, walking two miles out of Jerusalem every night, and back in ihe morning, of Paul, “mind ing himself to go afoot;” and heis the fellow par taker with a long line of men in secular life, most masterly in their power of miud in every agC and laud, because the framework of mind’s mighty enginery has been kept in its . Strength by; the renovation of walking. It is instructive to the educator, when travelling in Europe, to observe the students of the German universities spending their entire summer vacations In tramps among, the Alps, with their knapsacks on their backs,' their stout shoes on their feet, and strong staves in their hand; gaining thus a vigor and health which is kept up duriDg the severe tasks of their sessions of study by evening promenades' on ■ the; shady walks around most of’ the cities, of Europe. In fact, all experience shows that, while other resorts may be valuable, as temporary restoratives, the location of ah institution of learning where long and .pleasant walks are not only possible, but necessary, with the addition of a covered prome nade for inclement weather, is the best provision for physical education. ' ’ ' This, was the time, perhaps, when Kenyon first became perisible what ,a dreary city is Rome; arid what u terrible weight is there imposed.rip human! life,.when any gloom withiu the heart corresponds to the spell of ruin that has been thrown over the site of the’ancient empire. He wandered; as it were, and stumbled over the fallen columns, and: among the tombs, and groped his way into the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs, and found no path emerging from'them. The happy may well enough continue to be suchybeneath the bril liant sky of. Rome; but, if you gb thither in me lancholy mood—-if you go with a ruin in your heart, or with a vacant site there, where once stood the airy fabric of happiness, now vanished, —all the ponderous gloom of the Roman Past will pile itself upon that spot, and-crush you down as with the heaped-up marble and granite, the earth-mounds, and multitudinous bricks, of its material decay. * It might be supposed that a melancholy man would here make acquaintance with a grim phi losophy. . .Hc individual griefs, that endure only frir one little lifetime; when, .t^ tokens .of such infinite misfortune on. an iinperialscale, and when so many far landmarks of time, all; around him, are bring ing the remoteness of a thousand years ago into the sphere of yesterday. -But it is in vain that you seek this shrub of bitter sweetness among the plants that root themselves on the roughness of massive walls, or trail downward from! the capitals of pillars, or spring out of the green turf in the. palace of the Caesars. It does not grow iu Rome; not even among the five hundreds various weeds which deck the grassy arches of the Coliseum. You look through a vista of century beyond cen tury—through much shadow, and alittle sunshine —through barbarism and civilization, alternating' with one-another like actors that have pre-arranged their parts--—through,a broad pathway of iprrigress ive generations bordered: by -palaces and temples, apd bestridden by old triumphal arches; until, in the distance, you behold : the obelisks, with their unintelligible inscriptions hinting'at a past infi nitely more remote than history can define. Your own life is as - nothing when compared with that immeasurable distance; but still you demand, none the leas earnestly, a gleam of sunshine, in stead of a speck of shadow, on the step or two that will bring you to your quiet rest. ; How exceedingly absurd! All men/from the date of the earliest obelisk—and of the whole world, moreover, since that far epoch, and be fore, have made a similar demand, and. seldom had their wish. If they had it, wbat are they the better, now? But, even while you taunt yourself with this sad lesson, your heart cries out obstreperously for its small share of earthly hap piness, and will not be appeased by the myriads of dead hopes that lie crushed into the soil ,of Rome. How wonderful that-this, our narrow foot hold of the Present,: should holdrits own ss con-, stantly, and, while eirery moment changing shoultf N. Y. Observer. MELANCHOLY. OF ROME, still be like-a rook betwixt the encountering tides of the long Past and the infinite To-come. ; Hawthorne’s New Romance. THE ART OF SPENDING MONEY. Mr. Donald G.Mitehell (Ike Marvel) delivered a lecture mßTooJdyu, recently, on the subject of “Spending, Money,” a summary of which we find in the Brooklyn Eagle. There are; more people who acquire the art of making money, than there are those who learn how„to spend it judiciously and properly?* ’’ K,, Mr. MiteheUsaidfhe subject was a homely ope, and perhapsJipwhght to apologize for it; but never theless, as money'inaking engrossed so much of our attention, spending money mast be an object of some interest, afad worth devoting an hour to. If there is an art bf making money, there may be a system in spending it. :■ During the past few years we had heard a great deal said about personal ex travagance, yet all these lamentations, had not tended to decrease it much. Financial crises had the effect of'dipiinishing, while they lasted, need les expeoditarifes, but when the crisis, has passed, people have gone back to their old habits. Every age has liad its satirists, who aim their shafts at its extravagances, but there is a great deal of un truth in these’satires. Extravagance is not bf any age, but of all tithe. In the reign of Tiberius, a fleet of galleys liras, despatched for a single dish for the. royal table.' . He. gave a. few.other, examples of the extravagant style of living among the Ro-, mans of that day, which could not be equalled in the present: age. Whole legibiis of. retainer, a ■ fleet- of pleasiire'-galleys, and luxuries of the table. A fast young Roman taking a-drive out on the Appian way,-would be preceded by a cohort of Nutnidian homfwen, and with .another eohprfc in the tear. 5 ’ affd'osientatfen werts not of large sums of mo ney— -tij the rich. A* person could be extrava gant and- ostentatioui on Gve hundred or a thou sand dollars a year, when they tried to make" peo ple stare at; the display they made, and spent their money for effect--• AH of us have a little of this weakness. No people in any civilized country in the world pay ah much proportionately for house rent as do , the. Americans. What we want-in a house is shelter and comfort; yet we convert it to a means of extravagance to show the extreme style to,which we,can make our incomes reach. An English noblemhn, with twenty to twenty-five thousand a :: ySa,i| would live in a plain, simple mansion, that thei,wife of a stock jobber, wbo makes seven or eight thousand a year, would disdain to occupy, i A cksrir here, 1 with a thousand or twelve hundred, a year, would'live,in a better house ,than an English tsidesman, who has seven or eight tbousanda-yeafc:; v; ~ . , ; Then the furniture on a similar scale, which was too good to be used, only on particular occa sions. A man’s, house ought not to be too. good -for him; be ought to feel equal to it. His house, like bis to bear some expres sion; and there a great .dbal of im portance and consequence displayed, we look for a corresponding . emptiness inside. There were the rosewood chairs and sofas, and all the elegant adornments of the"-psrlor, kept in ; brown linen covers, like a-ibiafted -battery, to be discharged now and then in the- face of some sewing society. It was appear richer than we really were. Paris was looked to as a standard of our style of living, yet no such extravagance, was -to be met with there. .He described the simplicity of the house.,and its furniture, occupied by M. .Guizot,..in’ Paris’, . by tjbe elite of that city. - This display did not deceive anybody; if a per son'was truly rich, his fellow citizens were sure to find' it but,:aud remind him of the fact by solicit ing subscriptions for charitable and other purposes: and if he '-was' poor, his neighbors knew it, not withstanding his display. What was wanted, was the nioral eoufa*toirve in an. old or small house. , In amusetneWwe spend less than any other people: -we shoot at’pleasure with silver and golden bullets, and measure them according to their cost. A,merchant; in the city, day and night for months, and-thenjfputting a few hundreds or a few thousands in, starts off to Saratoga, with 'his famiiypqrihks, sulphur water, over-eats himself, talks polities and gossip, until the season; and his money i®>nt, and returns. Simpler pur suits-of pleasure! are' over-looked. Music conld not be enjoyed wijhout the accessories of the opera; velvet cushions, tid gloves, feathers, and jewelry. Our hotel Systfenijcari-ied out the same principles of ostentation, ibjthe extravagances of upholstery and crockery-. ■ Our railroads were' got up on the same system. There .were handsomely cushioned carriages,, built wjth all the appearance of elegance, and comfort,.them were none better in, the world;' yet in the construction of the road and the build ing of bridges, and 'other plain substantial things, economy rather than safety .was studied. In our churches we carrj the elegance of our brown stone mansions, and orfr pews are richly furnished with carpets and cushions. In the great cathedrals of Milan, Rome, ana other cities of Italy, the.devotee musfe kneel on thsbare stone floor, or sit in a plain, rush:b;ottomed^ijai l r. Dress,was hislhext topic. It was the fashion in every age to ripicule the extravagance of dress, and to point oiij the simplicity of former ages; and in all some future poet would point in his of 1859. Extrava .gance in dress claim fence. Dress not indicate rank or station; in ■this.country, the servant may dress as fine as lier mistress, and run up a bill at the same mil liner’s. The perfection of the! art.’ of dressing, is in coibbining tbi simgleSt materials, : ’with regard to style, and, bleiding colors harmoniously. The extravagance- injbrriaments and jewelry was also alluded to in tHte cobnexion. He reniinded his hearers of JEsofes fable of the frog and the ox; they know what became, of the frog—rthe same fate awaited all littld animals who tried to appear.so much bigger , than they were designed to be. Wealth would ijbd some means of display, and luxury was to beicounfenaneed when a man could afford it. All that he contended for was that the than should be ejiflal to what he appeared; if he could afford to Suild and: live iD a brown/sione house, let him dg so. If.bis tastes were artistic, let him indulge|tbem. ; as he- could afford.; But mere lavish expenditure in the works of art did not, benefit art itself; it requires an enthusiasm for art, or acy other pursuit, to really advance its interests—-not.ajnere.expenditure of money. He instanced sevetg‘:gentlemeh. of wealth, who, by dgvoting theifTOie and attention, as well as their means, 4 had beetoe teal benefectors to the arts they pursued . Among them, Mr. Lechi, of Ism don, who made | fortune by selling razor strops; he bought severtl 'acres: of ground, and devoted his attention to tie.cultivation of it; and on his farm he developed- to their ; utmost perfection all. the resources o£i scientific, agiieulture, and he. is now looked to an authority in that science, and his directions are law. . : _ . , Another, gentteman was a builder by trade, who, by deyptiog himself, to the study.and development of .his former calling,, elevated it into an art. The true art .of spending money was to make it tell in practical Utility. It was certainly awkward to be poor, but being: ashamed of it did not make it any better, anij ,there was no need to be ashamed of honest poverty. • To spend money properly, its expenditure shonld : be reduced to a system, and such a system might be taught with advantage’in our schools, and; would be far better than the abf stract problems taught. ■ GEN. WASHINGTON'S PUNCTUALITY. On one occafioo,wheii Washington was Bit ting. for hia ipbltrait in Mr. Peale’s painting room, he looked?at hia watch, and said: “Mr. Peale, «iiy time for sitting has expired; hut, if three hftnutes longer will be of any im portance to you/;! will remain, and make np the. time by hastening my walk Up to the State House (where. Congresfwas in session.) ' I know exactly how long it wifi take me to walk there; and it wilt not do for line, as President, .to be absent at the hour of meWihg.” Mrs. Washington was as reuiarkable for punc tuality as her ilpstrious husband. At one time, during the Gemetal’s absence, he wroth to her to get Mr. James Peale.to paint her portrait in mi niature,and .to send, it. to him. .. Mrs.Washiiigton | wrote a note to the artistj saying that her presence at home was indispensable when the General was away, and it would not be convenient for her to attend at his painting-room.. She requested him, therefore, to come to her. house for the sittings, and offered to accommodate herself to any hour when it would suit him to be away from his studio. In his reply, Mr. Peale appointed seven o’clock in the morning. When he left his home to keep the engagement for the first sitting, it occurred to him that the lady might not be quite ready to see him at so earljr aU hour. He walked on accordingly, more slowly than usual. : Mrs. Washington met him with'the observation, “Mr. Peale, I have been in the kitchen to give my orders for the day; have read- the: newspaper,, and heard my niece her lesson on the harp; yet have waited for you twenty minutes.” . 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