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IS IT DESTHOYED?
BY REV. ALFRED X. GILBERT.
'"When slavery raised itself in opposition to the
government, we destroyed it altogether. — Mr.
S'trard's Speech, Feb. 22, 1566.
But the Muse of History askcth,
Is the labor truly done ?
Is it true the captive baskcth
In the light of freedom's sun ?
Are the fhackles truly broken,
Or but changed to other form?
Has the nation honest spoken,
Or but cringed to 'scape th* storm ?
Vain the loss of perished treasure,
Vain the homestead's vacant chair,
Vain the blood in copious measure,
And the death shrieks on the air,
Vain the widow's moans of sorrow,
Vain the orphan's tear drops bright,
If the freedmen stand to-morrow
Robbed of but a single right.
God's great purpose never falters:
Years may pass and crime grow strong,
Bat the fire flames on his altars
That shall burn to dust the wrong.
Oh ! in pity to our children,
Let us justice nobly do !
Let the boon we gave the bondman
Be no heritage of wo!
Open up the path of honor
To all earnest, manly feet;
Even thougH the face be dusky :
What of that when heroes meet ?
Color is the rude distinction
Of a barbarous, childish age :
Pales it unto quick extinction
'Neath the wisdom of the sage.
Dusky faces gazed on Wagner:
Dusky forms Port Hudson scaled ;
And in Petersburg entrenchments
Dusky men were heroes hailed ;
Dusky hands have held the musket:
Dusky guides have led the van ;
Dusky scouts bronght priceless knowledge :
Dusky braves to victory ran.
(shall the hands that held the musket
Poised to save the nations life,
Shall the hearts that burned with valor
On the field Of noble strife,
Shall the feet that walked full weary
Wliereso'er the flag might wave,
Now be crushed in cruel scorning
By the land they helped to save:
On the page of history shaitfing
Punic fraud and Roman wrong,
Shall America ungrateful,
Furnish food for scornful s ing :
Never! Never. -
Mali as man -ball honored be;
No distinction, save of merit,
Made among our people free.
Theu will centuries of labor
Of the great and good of earth
Culminate in beaming glory-
In the true republic's birth :
And the wildest dreams we've cherished
Of a future blst and grand,-
'Mid the love of God full shining,
Be fulfilled in F IIEKDOM'S LAXD.
THE 11 AH VEST CALL.
BY WM. n. BIRLEI9H.
Abide not in the Realm of Dreams,
Oh man, however fair it seems,
Where drowsy airs thy powers repress
In languor of sweet idleness.
Xor linger in the misty Tast,
Entranced in visions vague and vast:
But with clear eye the Present scan,
And h<ar the call of God and man
That call, though many voiced, is one
With mighty meanings in each tone:
Through sob and laughter, shriek and prayer,
Its summons meets thee everywhere.
Think not in sleep to fold thy hands,
Forgetful of thy Lord's commands ;
From Duty's claims no life is free.
Behold, to-day hath need of thoc !
Look up ! the wide extended plain
Is billowy with its ripened grain.
And on the Summer wind's are rollci.
Its waves of emerald and gold.
Thrust in thy sickle ' nor delay
The work that calls for thee to-day :
To-morrow, if it come, will bear
Its own demands of toil and care.
The present hour allots thy task !
For present strongth and patience ask,
And trust His love whose sure supplies
Meet all thy needs as they arise.
Lo ! tho broad fields with harvests white
Thy hands to strenuous toil invite:
And he who labors and believes
Shall reap reward of ample sheaves.
Up ! for the time is short! and soon
The morning sun will climb to noon :
Up ! ere the herds, with tramping feci,
Outrunning thine, shall spoil the wheat.
While the day lingers do the bc.-t!
Full soon the night will brirg its rest,
And, duty done, tbe rest shall be
Full of beatitudes to thee.
JfcaS"* A story is told of a Western candi
date that came upon "a poor white man,"
who had a vote to give, if he did do his own
milking. The candidate, Jones, asked him
if he should hold the cow, which seemed to
be uneasy, and the old man consenting very
readily, he took her by the horns, and held
fast till the operation was done.
"Haveyou had Robinson (his rival) round
here lately?" ho asked.
"Oh, yes, he's behind the barn holding
the calf!''
A gentleman was one day arrangcing
music for a young lady, to whom he was
paying his attentions. "Pray, Miss Josie
anne,' said he, 'what time do you prefer?
She replied carefully, Any time will do—
but the quicker the better.
"IT'S a great nleashure intirely to be
alone, especially when you've yer swateheart
with yer," says Paddy shane.
"THEY say 'cotton is declining,"' ex
claimed an old lady, as she removed her
spectacles and laid down her paper. "I
thought so," she continued, "for the last
thread I used was very feeble."
A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS.
Wi fejfeUHttMMS.
CHARLES DICKENS.
HOME I.LFE OF ' L BOZ.''
I had long felt an ardent de-irc to make
the acquaintance of the eminent author
whose works, and especially whose ' David
Copperfield," I had read and re-read. In
formed of this desire, my old neighbor Paul
Feral (who is the most obliging fellow in
Christendom), offered me a letter of intro
duction to Charles Dickens, which I accept
ed with alacrity.
The moment I reached London I asked
for the celebrated novelist's address. I was
told that "Charles Diekenslived at Gad-hill,
about twenty-four miles from London by
rail." I wrote to Mr. Dieken: the next
day. The following morning I received a
note, in very good French, and in a fine,
regular hand, which formed a marked con
trast with the terrible scrawl of your humble
servant. 31 r. Dickens informed me in this
note that he was scarcely ever absent from
home except on Saturdays (when he went to
London to superintend the publication of his
last novels, which appeared in numbers,)
and invited me to come out to see him.
The railway from London to Gadshill is
built on the right bank of the Thames, and
runs parallel with the river almost the whole
way, consequently thejaunt is a very pleasant
one. The train takes about an hour to run
the distance, so at the end of sixty minutes
I got out of the railway carriage at Gadhill's
station ; and, as I had not infortned him of
my coming, I had to walk up the hill on
whose summit lies the village in which is
.Mr. Dickens' residence. As I drew near
the first house of the village, and was about
to ask my way, I saw a gentleman coming
up the hill behind me with a firm and rapid
step. He was a man about fifty years old,
of average height, good shape, straight as
an arrow, with moustache and goatee turn
ing slightly gray, md having the energetic
look and decisive air of our officers of the
Chasseurs d'Afrfque. I asked him in exe
crable English, "Will you please tell me
which is Mr Dicken's house?"
The gentleman replied in good French.
"Allow me to show you the way there.
I atn Charles Dickens."
On the way he talked in the most friend
ly manner about Paul Feval, whose talents
he esteems very highly, and about Fechtcr,
with whom he is extremely intimate. I no
ticed that he had a very sympathetic tone of
voice, and a clear and abrupt way of talking
which added to his military manners.
We reached his house, situated at an angle
of the village. In front of it lay a lawn,
stretching to the road. A large garden,
likewise belonging to Mr. Dickens, lies on
the other side of the road. It is reached by
a subterranean passage under the road.
The stable yard, the stables and carriage
houses are on the right of the house.
Like most English cottages, Mr. Dickens'
is plainly built and kept up with the most
nnrforji npfUr. It 13 UOt lUOrii tL *w r> sto
ries high. As yon enter, there is a small
drawing room on the tight, containing Air.
Dickens' library ; nest is Mr. Pickens'
study, which is very plainly furnished, and
has no ornament except two or three bron
zes. The window-open on a sort of garden
surrounding the bouse, and, as the house
stands on a high piece of ground, an exten
sive view of the neighboring country may
be enjoyed from them. On the left is the
large drawing room, filled with
everything to make one comfortable, and
decorated with great luxury, hut with no
attempt at show. Perfect taste reigns over
everything. The drawing room opens in
the dining room ; under the dining room is
the kitchen. Above those rooms are the
bed chambers, which are irregularly distrib
uted, but they arc extremely comfortable
and profusely furnished with those needful
and vast utensils which : r en - >ble to
the toilet of every Engli hiuan.
After talking a few moments in hi study,
Mr. Dickens introduced me to his family.
It consisted that day of his daughter and
sister-in-law. He has several other chil
dren, as many as six or eight, I believe, but
his sons kept in London by their professions
rarely come out to see him, except on Sun
days. Another of his daughters is married
to a cousin of Wilkin Collins, the author of
"The Woman in white." The daughter I
had the honor to meet in Gadshill is a young
and beautiful lady of twenty, whose courte
ous and kind features are a good deal like
those of her father. Roth of the ladies
spoke French, and their conversation had a
French turn, which was probably due to tho
annual visit they made to Faris. Dickens
is very fond of France and the French.
Whatever may be the popularity ho en
joys in his own country, be is too vigorous
ly attacked by hypocrites, pseudo christians
and humbug philanthropists to be free from
enemies. He gives them no thought, and
none the less continues his crusade against
abuses. I need scarcely say that, while at
tentively reading bis works, without being
carried away by the charm of the events he
unrolls before one's eves, one may discover
a great many philosophical views and obser
vations upon social economy. While wri
ting in a tone of railery, he sometimes
advances very practical ideas, which would
be esteemed very highly were they suggest
ed by the official pen of a political writer.
Dickens' favorite time for working is in
the morning. He ri cs very early and sets
to work at. once. He lightly breakfasts at
half past nine and continues to work until
twelve o'clock. At this hour he lunches.
After lunch he goes out into the fields, and
does ndt return home until half past six
o'clock. He walks every day some eight or
ten miles.
Dickens' writing is, as I have said, fine
and regular. Ttisrot unlike Haul Fin al's
hand. Tie keeps and has had hound the
manuscript of some of his works. It seems
to me his favorite novel is "David Copper
field." However he rarely speaks of his
works ; but when he is driven to talk of
them, he talks about himself with rare im
partiality, without vanity and without false
modesty. His conversation is striking by
its vivacity, natural tone and the absence of
everything like humbug and studied atti
tude.
In England, where old abuses are more
difficult to uproot than anywhere else, and
where custom acquires the force of law, a
foreigner can scarcely conceive what talents
and energy arc required to overthrow a de
fective institution by attacking it openly.
Dickens has never assumed the airs of a
refoimcr, either in his conversation or wri
tings ; nevertheless few men have exercised
so much influence as himself on the nation
al mind. The reforms which are just begin
ning to be introduced into the incredible
intricacy of English pleadings and legal
practice were prepared, so to say, furtively
several years ago in his works by calling
public attention, and by stigmatizing the
rapacity of pettifoggers. His railery has
none of the brutality of English sarcasm,
neither does it consist of a cutting word or
a biting phrase, as i* the case with some of
our French writers. It is felt everywhere in
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1860.
the aggregate of the evehts and persons he !
groups and makes act against the enemy
whom he incessantly attacks.
Born at Landport, Portsmouth, in Febru
ary, Mr. Dickens is now fifty-three years
old. Judging by his gait and appearance,
the vivacity of his conversation, and the lus
tre of his gray blue eyes, one would scarcely
thing he was forty years old. Nevertheless
his hair which still curls, is beginning to sil
ver. His family wished to educate him for
the bar. The two years he passed in a so
licitor's office (this solicitor was an intimate
friend oi his father) made him familiar with
the intricacies of English law, and proved of
signal service to him afterward in more than
one of his novels. To escape the bar, and
at the same time earn a livelihood, he report
ed for the True Sun, and afterward for the
Morning Chronicle. It was in this latter
newspaper he wrote srtne short, dotached
articles, which were afterward collected and
published under the title of Sketches of
Isoz. In 1837 he began to publish the Post
humous Papers of the Pic kwick Club. It
was published in numbers, and had an im
mense success, and established his reputa
tion at once.
Charles Dickens possesses a remarkable
talent for reading. lie reads admirably and
with wonderful spirit. I have been told by
several persons that he acts comedy with
rare perfection, and that it was formerly one
ot his favorite amusements. He is, as I
have already said, on intimate_ footing with
Fechtcr, who has obtained an immense suc
cess in the part of Hamlet, and who is now
the manager and one of the Chief actors of
the Lyceum Theatre.
After my first excursion to Gadshill I
returned there withM. and Mme. Fechter,
and staid two or three dayswith him. It is
impossible for anybody to be more _ aimable
and kind to guests than arc Mr. Dickens and
all his family.
There are two enormous Newfoundland
dogs in the yard, which visitors arc warned
not too approach too near, and two small
dogs of more friendly humor. There is
very little seen of the in his or in
any other English house. Ihe service is
performed rapidly and noiselessly, and no
body seems to pay it attention. Dickens
favorite wine is Bordeaux wine. Dickens is
extremely hospitable. lie is fond of receiv
ing company informally and intimately
every day of the week, especially Sunday,
despite the English custom which is begin
ning to be somewhat modified on this sub
ject. A happy and kindly nature, his emi
nently systematic inlluencc is a charm which
works on every one brought in contact with
him.
FOR YOUNG .MEN AND IT OMEN
Better die in the cradle than live to no
purpose or use in the world.
The young man or woman who sees no
more in life than personal elevation or ag
grandizedment, is the pitiable victim of a thin
delusion.
The young man or woman who neglects to
obey every generous impubef'rotn youth up
itiG -1 uU, whiJir.p an:i swathing it
self in a silken shr. J from the bles
sed light and air. F:r gertcrwoo
arc the frequent sunbeams glinting from
heaven to earth, and playing around the
hearts of men and women.
All should bear tins in mind ; that no
young man. though lie be rich in millions,
ia so rich that he can afford to dwarf body,
soul or mind, by neglecting even the least of
the duties precedent fo the development of a
true manhood.
Theje is no poverty like that of the spirit.
The true man, though coarsely clad and fed,
is a prince among nature's nobility, while a
mean spirited prince is a contemptible
beggar and pretender among conventional
noble.-.
Every young man should strive first, and
to the last, to attain to the full moral stature
of a MAN. For this includes everything
that can go to establish enduring repute.
Fame is oltcner miscalled than won.
Greatnes- is constantly misapprehended.
A great intellect doep not make a man great.
But the quality of greatness inheres in a
true union of superior intellect and moral
excellence.
Tiius Abraham Lincoln, more than any of
modern American publicists, deserves, and
will receive the award of greatness in Amer
ican history. He was. among men, preemi
nently conscientious and good.
He had not the mighty intellect of Web
ster, nor the subtlety of either Calhoun or
Seward ; but he hasa higher place in history
than either, for'he had out one ambition in
life —to be the benefactor of his kind.
To accomplish this ho lived very near the
people ; joyed in their joy, grieved when they
grieved, in all things sympathized with them;
end finally died tor them !
Martyrs are not too plenty, even riow-a
days. And we can pay Lincoln no higher
compliment than to sty that his life was pure
and unselfish, and his death as noble as that
of the noblest of those who fell in the hour
of battle. „
The record of this great man, from hisboy
hcod to his death, is a record of persistent
endeavor to attain to the true stature of a
MAN.
His example ought to be a life lesson to
every young man. When we say that don't
understand us as saying that evervbov should
try to be President. Lincoln as lit tie expec
ted to be President as Autocrat of the litis
sias. But the Presidency was an incident of
his life labor, not the object.
The man who makes public position,
empty honor, or wealth, the object of life,
will die of moral and spiritual penury and
want.
To act from right motives, unbiased by
selfish ambitions, is to put money at com
pound interest. The man who makes it a
rule to do right, and abide the consequences
makes a great pace toward true manhood.
Such a man cannot hope to have the good
opinion of the selfish, the unprincipled, and
the breakers of tfle laws. But he will, in
his soul have outlived the fear of man.
Set out in life with your face toward the
undying light. Put all doubtful enterprise
behind you. Resolve to be true to your
highest impulses. Take the responsibility.
You have to answer for yourselves, to
conscience, to your Maker. No man can
appear for you. Therefore the question is
not, "Did "my father, or grandfather, walk
thus, or so, "or so believe an 1 practice?"
but rather —"Is this right, or Wrong? Is
that true, or false?"
He is exceedingly roor who pirv* his faith
upon another man's sleeve. Tb t faith is
best which is most intelligent!' herished.
That course is best which is uK -;t V.telligently
determined upon.
Time Is the property of no man. No man
has any surplus time to waste. So, if a
young man haunts bar-rooms and saloons,
lie is a thiet of Time, a waster of that to
which none can lay special claim;
Morally to waste time is a greater crime
against society than the theft of money.
Money may be replaced; time lost once is
lost forever.
If a man is worth just what he benefits
community, what is the value of the young
man who spends his days and evenings at
the taverns, the saloons or the groceries?
These habits go to make up a man's rep
utation ; for the goings out and coming-* in
of all are known to somebody, and so be
come notorious.
Wild young men comfort themselves with
the fact that some distinguished were
fa t young men. But they forget that such
is not the rule. In the exceptional eases
men have achieved distinction spite of
youthful follies.
The logic of such youug men is had. Were
dissipation the prerequisite of usefulness,
their conclusion would be correct. But the
premise is utterly false.
Success is not the creature of fortuitous
circumstances. Least of all can a young
man expect to succeed in life by disregard
ing all the conditions precedent to success.
To shine is no evidence of merit, or solid
attainments. Vegetation, in a certain stage
of decomposition, becomes luminous. Bril
liancy in sonic men only marks the decay of
moral force.
These are but fragments of thought. If
a siugle one of our readers gets profit out
of the mass, then our labor is well bestowed.
WHERE'S SMITH.
If there's a man by the name of John
Smith in the L'uited States, he i.- hereby
informed that there is a letter for him in the
Post Office. — Bait. Sun.
The last we heard of Mr. Smith he was
living in Michigan.— Toledo Blatlc.
That's a mistake. He was sent to the
penitentiary from here for appropriating a
keg of scrap iron whiskey. — Buffalo Adver
tiser.
All wrong. John Smith has been sent to
Sing Sing lor participating in a Copperhead
convention at Albauy.— Broom County Re
put Mean.
The identical John Smith above referred
to recently appeared in this city, and is run
ning a snake and monkey show at the corner
of' Fourth and Commercial streets. — Atchi
son Cress.
Yon are badly posted for newspaper men.
John Smith was blown up by a steamboat
on the Tombigbee a short time since, and
has not come down yet. — Mobile Times.
Our eotemporary is a little premature.
John Smith has come down, and says the
blowing up lie got was not by a steamboat,
but by Mrs. Smith. — Mobile T,ibune.
All wrong, gentlemen. There are two
John-. Old John is selling razor strops in
New York, and the young un is running a
bank in Chicago; a Pharoli. we believe, they
call it. — Wilmington In dep.
What a stupid set! Every well informed
man ought to know that old John Smith is
a popular artist of Madison, having been a
whitewashes here since the flood. And. by
the way.a prominent Democrat has owed
him fifteen dollars for a job in that line for
lo! these many years.— Madison I 'ourier.
Mi.-taken, gents; John Smith isarcsident
of Louisville, Kentucky, and came up here
on Tuesday to show the Hoosirs how to man
ipulate the' franchise. John is now pining
in the e -jnty jail, charged with illegal vo
ting. Let him pine.-— lndianapolis (ia
~. te
There is certainly a mistake somewhere.
That tli,-re is more than one John Smith is
scarcely probable, and that said John so
journ- in "tli; e parts" is a fact that will not
admit •la doubt. We know him! lie is a
vcrv ; ;il"t; nt -itiz-'n, having served seve-
raid' Ivi ra in Ihe county jail, alms
house, and 'th r offices of like trust. lie is
also a leading Democratic politician, one of
that class up to voting "early and often,"
h v .-infer from the number of times
tint his name is found on the poll book.
Wo i him register lat otic of the hotels
k-t w k. and shouldn't bo at all surprised
if he is found to have voted at all the dif
ferent elections held at that time. We
don't think,however, that he was fully "up
to time" in New York. — Tribune.
A PES PORTRAIT
A writ r in the Atlantic Monthly for .Sep
tember. has made President Andrew John
son a study, and shows himself in the de
lineation of character, an apt limner. The
fob owing i> the portrait produced. The
Cin- innati Cunncr i tI thinks it will answer
for a likeness.
"The President of the United States has
so singular a combination of defects for the
office of a constitutional magistrate, that he
could have obtained the opportunity to mis
rule a nation only through a visitation of
Providence. Insincere as wuh as stubborn,
cunning as well as unreasonable, vain as well
as ill tempered, greedy ofpcpularity as well
as arbitrary in disposition, veering in his
mind a- well as fixel in his wil', lie unites in
his character the seemingly opposite quali
ties of demagogue and autocrat, and converts
the Presidential chair into a stump or throne
according as the impulse seizes him to cajole
or command. Doubtless much of the evil
developed in him is due to his misfortune
in having been lifted to a position which he
lacked the intelligence adequately to till. He
was cursed with the possession of a pojver
and an authority which no man of narrow
mind bitter prejudice-, md inordinato coif
estimation can exercise without depraving
himself a> well asuijuring the nation. Kgo
tis'ie to the point of mental disease, he re
sented the direct and manly opposition of
state-men to his opinions and moods as a
personal affront and descended to the last
degree of littleness in a political leader—
that of betraying his party in order to gratify
his spite. He of course became the prey of
intriguers and seycophants—of persons who
understand the art of managing minds who
are at once arbitrary and weak by allowing
them to retain unity of will amid the most
palpable inconsistencies of opinion, so that
inconsistency of principle shall not weaken
the force of purpose, nor the emphasis to be
at all abated with which they may bless to
day what yesterday they cursed. Thus the
abhorror of traitors has now became their
tool. Thus the denouncer of Copperheads
has now sunk into dependence on their sup
port. Thus the imposer of conditions of
reconstruction has now became the foremost
friend of the unconditional return of the
rebel States. Thus the furious Union
Republican, whose harangues against his
political opponents almost scared his politi
cal friends by their violence, has now became
the shameless betrayer of the people who
trusted him. And in all these changes of
base ho has appeared supremely conscious
in his own mind, of playing an independent,
consistent, and especially a conscientious
part. Indeed, Mr. Johnson's character
would be imperfectly described if some at
tention was not paid to his conscience, the
purity of which is a favorite subject of his
own discourse, and the perversity of which
is the wonder of the rest of mankind."
BOylt is with health as with property ;
we rarely value it or know how best to use
or to take earn of it until it is gone.
YOU MB 39 J JTO 49.
TO THE APPRENTICE.
Aspiring apprentice, a word or two in
your ear. If you desire success in any mat
ter pertaining to this life or the coming,
you must have a purpose—a determination, j
that God helping you, you tcill achieve suc
cess. You may be poor, friendless, un- |
known -your clothing scant, your stomach ]
half filled—your place may be at the foot of j
the ladder ; no matter. Whatever your j
position may be, do your duty in it, stoutly
and perseveringly, with your eye fixed far i
ahead and upward.
Keeping the purpose before you that you
will rise, be obedient to your employer, at
tentive to your business, obliging to your
shopmates, and courteous to strangers; and
seize every opportunity to improve your
heart, you mind and your workmanship.
Do everything well —no slighting, no hiding
defects, aiming always at perfection. Watch
those who are skillful, and strive to equal
and excel them. Secure the friendship of
all by deserving it. Allow no opportunity
of rendering a service to pass without im
proving it, even if it cost you some labor
and self-denial. Be of use to others, even if
in a small way ; for a time may come when
they may be of service to you. A selfish j
man mav get ahead faster than you; but
selfishness is contemptible,—and you need
not envy his success; when you achieve
your object nobly, you will enjoy it, and be
respected.
Always bear in mind that character is
capital. To gain this you must be so scru
pulously honest that you would be as willing
to put live coals in your pocket as a penny
that is not yours. Never run in debt; do
without what you cannot at once pay for,
even though you should suffer somewhaL
No matter what the amount of your earn
ings may be, save a portion every week, and
invest it in a savings bank of good standing;
it will grow, and will stand you in good stead
some day. Better temporary abstinence
and constant plenty afterward, than unearn
ed present comfort and future perpetual
want. Never lie, openly or covertly, bv
word or action. A liar may deceive bis fel
lows. —God and himself never. Conscious
of falsity, a liar can have no self respect,
reputation cannot be achieved.
With a noble purpose as the end of your
actions, and with action becoming your pur
pose, your success is merely a question of
time—always provided you have some brain
and abundant common sense. The Ameri
can Printer.
THE TEACHER'S CHARACTER.
A gentleman cabling upon a teacher
recently, said. /
"I notice with great pleasure that your
character is imprinting itself upon my little
girl, and on her own account, more than any
other, I regret going iuto the country. The
other day overhearing her say to her brother,
'Whatever you may say, Miss Wilson would
think that is wrong, and it is wrong. I
asked, "Did you ever hear Miss Wilson ex
press her opinion on the subject?, 'No,
father,' she an.-wered; 'but we always know
without her speaking. She seems to make
you know what is right by just looking at you
u* i'-J-o neLaxuod when WO do WrOnflT,
because she's so good herself.'"
Here was the point. The gentleman had
spoken correctly: the teacher was imprinting
herself upon her class: her look, her tone
and manner, as well as her spoken words
were constantly protesting against wrong
and encouraging to well doing. She was
daily reflecting into the young minds around
her, herown powerof judging and of feeling.
She was drawing them towards right, as the
sun draws moisture into the clouds, and was
sustaining them by the buoyancy of her own
loving smile. She had won their love, made
them trust her. and now she could hold
their attention till the spark of truth had
been so enkindled in their minds that o
could bo acted upon, and used as a part itf
their mental furniture.
This is only teaching. To do this, our
own natures must be aroused to that intense
out-going energy, which, like steam, seems
to infuse life into what before was dull and
motionless —Then how quickly the face re
veal-the glowing light within! The eye
the very attitude, bears witness to the quick
ening power. Every thing that arrests the
attention teaches either good or evil; and we
can confer no greater benefit on any one
than to influence hint so that his mind shall
be set towards the light, and observe those
things which tend to truth and holi
ness.
Here is the mother's Dower. Day by day
as she answers the child's numberless ques
tions, she may teach it to see God's loving
care in all things, and (urn its young affec
tions heavenward. But, on the other hand, if
petulance rule her own spirit, she will surely
see full soon, its manifestations in her child
and perhaps blindly wonder at its develop
ment, forgetting that her irritable tones and
looks have surely taught their own lesson.—
Quiver.
TRUTHS FOR WIVES.
Iu domestic happiness the wife'sinfluenoe
is much greater than her husband's; for the
one, the first cause —mutual love and confi
dence —being granted, the whole comfort of
the household depends upon trifles more im
mediately under her jurisdiction. By her
management of small sums, her husband s
roeon4 .-iwlit are created or de
stroyed. No fortune can stand the constant
leakages of extravagance and mismanage
ment ; and more is spent in trifles than wo
men would easHy believe. The one great
expense, whatever it may be, is turned over
and carefully reflected on, and the income is
prepared to'meet it; hut it is pennies imper
ceptibly sliding away which do mischief;
and this the wife alone can stop, for it does
not come within a man's province. There
is often an unsuspected trifle to be saved in
every household.
It is not in ecououiy alone that the wife s
attention is so necessary, but in those nice
ties which makea well regulated house. An
unfurnished cruet stand, a missing key, a
buttonless shirt, a soiled tablecloth, a mus
tard pot with its old contents shaking down
about it, arc really nothings; but each can
raise an angry word and cause discomfort.
Depend upon it there 13 a great deal of do
mestic happiness about a well dressed mut
ton chop or a tidy breakfast tabic. Men
grow sated of beauty, tired of music, are
often too wearied for conversation, however
intellectual; but 'hoy can always appre
ciate a well swept aearth and smiling com-
A woman may love her husband devoted
ly—may sacrifice fortune, friends, family,
country, for him—she may have the genius
of a Sappho, the enchanted beauties of an
Aruiida; but melancholy fact —if with these
! she fails to make his home comfortable, his
heart will inevitably escape her. And wo
men live so entirely in the affections, that
without love their existence is void. Better
submit, then, to household tasks, however
repugnant they may be to your tastes, than
doom yourself to a loveless home. Women
of a higher order of mind will not run their
risk; they know that thoir feminine, their
domestic, are their first ditiH.
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HOW TO COOK A HUSBAND.
Many of our married ladv readers are not
aware how a, hhsband ought to be cooked,
so as to make a good dish of him. We saw
lately a receipt in an English newspaper,
contributed by one "Mary," which points
out the modus operandi of preparing and
cooking husbands. "Mary'' says tnat a
good many husbands are spoiled in cooking.
Some women go about it as if their lords
were bladders, and "blow them up." Oth
ers keep them constantly in "hot water;"
while others, again, freeze them by conjugal
coldness. Some smother them in hatred,
contention and variance, and some keep
them in pickle all their lives. These women
always serve them with "tongue sauce."
Now it cannot be supposed that husbands
will be "tender and good," managed in this
way; but they are, on the contrary, "quite
delicious' ' when "well preserved." "Mary"
points out the manner as follows: "Get a
large jar, called the jar of carefulness,
(which, by the bv, all good wives have ou
hand) Being placed in it, set him by the
fire of conjugal love; let the fire be pretty
hot, but especially let it be clear. Above
all, let the heat be regular and constant.—
Cover him well over with equal quantities
of affection, kindness and subjection. Keep
plenty of these things by you, and be very
attentive to supply the place of any that may
waste by evaporation, or any other cause.
Garnish with modest, becoming familiarity
and innocent pleasantry; but if you add kis
ses or other confectionery, accompany them
with a sufficient portion of secrecy, and it
would not be amiss to add a little prudence
and moderation."
WOMAN
Mrs. Stevens the sweet story writer, has
somewhere thrown off this excellent pass
age;
'Woman, woman! —truly she is a miracle.
Place her amid flowers, ioster her as a ten
der plant, aud she is a thing of fancy, way
woraness, and something of folly—annoy ed
by a dew drop, fettered touch of a butterfly's
wing, ready to faint at the rustle of a beetle.
The zephyrs are too rough, the showers too
heavy, and she is overpowered by the per
fume of a rosebud. But let real calamity
come rouse her affection, enkindle the spirit
of her heart, and mark her then. How her
heart strengthens itself; bow strong is her
purpose. Place her in the heat of battle,
give her a child, a bird, anything she
loves or pities, to protect, and see her, as
in a related instance, raising her white arms
as a shield, and as her own blood crimsons
her upturned forehead, praying for life to
protect the helpless. Transplant her into
the dark of earth, awaken ner energies to
action and her breath becomes a healing and
her presence a blessing ; she disputes
inch by inch, the stride of the stalking pes
tilenee, when man, the strong and brave,
shrinks away pale and affrighted. Misfor
tune daunts her not; she wears away a life
of silent endurance, or goes forward with
less timidity than to her Turidal. In prosper
perity she is a bud full of imprisoned odors,
waiting but for the winds of adversity to
scatter them abroad —pure gold, valuable
hut untried In the furnace. Tn short, wom
an is a miracle, a mystery.
THE SPONGE BUSINESS IN THE BAHAMAS.
—The sponge business has become a promi
nent department of industry. It is almost
entirely the growth of the last twenty years,
and nets annually about $20,000. The
sponge is fished and raked from the sandy
bottom of the ocean, at the depth of twen
ty, forty, or sixty feet. It belongs to a very
low order of animal life, organization hardly
being detected. When first taken from the
water it is black, and becomes exceeding of
fensive from decomposition. It is so poi
sonous in this condition that it almost Blis
ters the flesh it happens to touch. The first
drocess is to bury it in the sand, where it
remains for two or three weeks in which
time the gelatinous animal matter is ab
sorbed ana destroyed by the insects that
swarm in the sand. After being cleaned, it
is compressed and packed in bales like cot
ton. The sponge has been applied to a va
riety ot new purposes, and within the past
few years has quadrupled in value.
must pity that young man who,
with a iittle finery of dress and recklessness
of manner, with his coarse passions all da
guerreotyped upon his face, goes whooping
through the streets, driving an animal much
nobler than himself, or swaggering into
some haunts of show aud calls it "eryoyiug
life." He thiuks ho is astonishing the
world; and he is astonishing the thinking
part of it, who are astonished that he is not
astonished at himself For look at that
compound of flash and impudence, and say
it on all this earth there is anything more
pitiable! He know anything of the true
joy of life? As well say that the beauty
and immensity of the universe were all en
closed in the field where the prodigal lay
among the husks and the swine. —Uhapi. n
TnE UMBRELLA IN FRANCE— A Paris
letter writer gives a humorous description of
how the umbrella was introduced into
France. He says;
"The war drove so many Southern fiuui
lies abroad they formed a large sized colony
here, and when they raised their nmbrellas
to keep off the sunbeams they kept one.an
otLci iu vuuiitciiancc. The other foreign
ers here seeing so many umbrellas raised on
sunny days, thought; naturally enough, it
was a Parisian custom, and conformed to it.
They found it comfortable and persuaded
their friends to adopt it. In this way the
firing on Fort Sumter has made the Paris
ians adopt the Southern fashion of using
umbrellas to keep off the sunbeams as well
as the cloud-drops."
THE MOTHER'S DUTY.— The mother
must reflect that education, in its true sense
is not a mere mechanical task; nor does it
consist in a series of admonitions and correc
tions, of rewards and punishments, of impre
cations aud directions, strung together with
out unity of purpose or dignity of execution.
The mother's great endeavor must be to
build up humanity; the passions, appetites,
intellectual power, mental energy, oome un
der her attention in this work. It is for her
to strip the grosser husk from passion, and
to develop the go mi of enthusiasm, which
lies concealed within it, to purposes of good;
not so much to repress the appetite, as to
fix its impulses upon pure and wholesome
food.
THK WARMTH OP MOONBBBW.— -One
very cold night, a jolly old fellow, who had
been drinking too freely at a tavern, started
for home in a gig, and on the way was upset
and left by the side of the road. Some per
sons passing a short tine after, discovered
him holding his feet up to the moon, and
ejaculating to some invisible person, "Pile
on the wood —it's a miserably cold fire!"
man who covers himself with costly
apparel and neglects his mind, is like one
illuminates the outside of his house and sitt
within in the dark,