Offi DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
Sarartnn fllotnillD, December 22. 18S5.
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THE COTTAGE DOOR.
BY T. 11. lIKKVERT.
HUTF sweet the rest that labor yields
The humble and the poor,
Where sits the patriarch of the fields
Before his cottage door ;
The lai K is singing in the sky.
The swallow in the eaves,
And love is learning in each eye
Beneath the summer eve !
The air amid the fragrant bowers
Supplies unpurchased health,
And hearts are bounding 'mid the flowers
More dear to hirn than wealth !
iVaee. like a blessed sunlight, plays
Around his humble cot,
And h ippy nights aud cheerful days
Divide his lowly lot.
And when the village Sabbath bell,
Kings out upon the gale,
TL- father bows liis head to tell
The music <>f its tale—
A fresher verdure seems to fill
The fair and dewy sod.
And every infant tongue is still,
To hear the word of (Tod !
Oh. happy hearts — to him stills
The ravens when they cry,
And makes the lily 'neath the hills
So glorious to the eye—
The tm>ting patriarch prays, to bless
His labors w ith increase :
Sa h ' ways are ways of pleasantness,"
And all such " paths are peace."
DJisttllittimts,
Taking Care of Number One.
•• Every one for himself." This was one of
Uwri'iire Tilgbuiau's favorite expressions.—
AMI it will do hiiu 110 injustice to say that he
usually acted up the sentiment iu his business
t-aiwietions aud social intercourse ; though
ipmnledly. whenever a too manifest exhibition
of selfishness was likely to affect hiui in the
•stiination of certain parties with whom lie wish
ed to stand particularly fair. In all his dealings
this maxim was alone regarded ; and he was
11'vor satisfied unless, in bargaining, he secured
the greater advantage, a thing that pretty ge
nerally occurred.
There redded in the same town witli Tilgh
man a western town —a certain young lady,
whose father owned a large amount of proper
ty She was his only child, aud would fall heir
to all iiis wealth. Of course this young lady !
had attractions that were felt to be of a most
weighty character by certain young lneu iu the
town, w ho made themselves as agreeable to her
-- jio-sil>!e. Among these was Law fence Tilgh
man.
'• Larry," said a friend to him one day—they
had been talking aliout the lady—"it's no use
•<T von to play the agreeable "to Helen Wal
iOt."
" And why riot, pray V returned Tilghman. !
" They say she's engaged."
" To w horn
"To a young man in Columbus, Ohio."
"Who says so ?"
''l can't mention ray authority; but it's
good."
" Kiuraged, ha ! Well, I'll break that en
gagement, if there's any virtue in trying."
" You will 1'"
'Certainly. Helen will be worth a plum
wlicii her father dies, and I've made up my
mind to handle some of his thousands."
" lint, certainly, Larry, you would not at
lempt to interfere with the marriage con
tract ?"
I don't believe any contract exists," replied
die young man. 44 Anyhow, while a lady is sin
-1 regard her as in the market, and to be
won by the boldest."
•Nil!, we should have some respect for the
rights of others."
Every one for himself in this world," re
plifd lilgluuau. " That is my motto. If you
•" u 't take care of yourself you'll be shoved to
wall in double (juiek time. Long ago 1
-'lived to put some forty or fifty thousand
'•mars between myself and the world by uiar
"wire, and you may la; sure that I will not let
pportuiiitv slip for any consideration IIc
•-R niust lie mine."
Additional evidence of the fact that the
; "mg lady was under engagement of marriage
■""'i came to the ears of Tilghman. The effect
~to produce a closer attention on his part
i 0 Helen, who, greatly to his uneasiness, did
•N'Tn to give him much encouragement, al
ttaoghslie always treated hini with jioliteness
-j ll ' attention whenever he called to sec her.
'" l 't was not true, as Tilghman had heard,
( lb-leu was engaged to a young man in
"Embus; though it was true that she was
-• '^ rr es[>ondence with a gentleman named
I |'rr. and that their acquaintance was inti
•ind fast approaching a lover like char-
T; " '' |p not indifferent to the former,
showed so strong a preference for
• ." "I 1 to feel an awakening in-
Lllghman was quick to perceive this,
V T Preatlv elated him. In the exultation
l( '< lings he said to himself:
v.- ■ s '" nv th's Uolumbua man that I'm
Vr 1 ' 1 h.' m - boldest wins the
° u ' f l n 't give much for his engage-
KH'' ' mia " Was a ni( * n 'bnnt > and visited the
•, r , r ' w ' , c py T.v year for the purpose of buy
•aim ' "g'frt he crossed the monn
t'lri- 3 ' M " :l ' Sn,nf> mpn *'hen they leave
it 'J . among strangers leave all the
G;! ,' rPO, '' n g Hiey may happen to have had
" m a man was Tilghman.—
r.r'i- s,e Pl' e d into a steamboat,stage
' "ad < nr, the ererv-onc-for-himself prin
,. whirli K ( . was governed manifested it
nakrd deformity and it wa: at
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
once concluded by all with whom he came in
contact, that, let him be whom he would, he
was no gentleman.
On going up the river, on the occasion re
ferred to, our gentleman went on the free-and
easy principle, as was usual with him when in
public conveyances ; consulting his own incli
nations and tastes alone, and running his el
bows into any and everybody's ribs that hap
pened in his way. He was generally first at
the table when the bell rang ; and, as he had
a good appetite, managed while there to secure
a full share of the delicacies provided for the
company.
44 Every one for himself," was the thought in
his mind on these occasions, and his actions ful
ly agreed with his thoughts.
On crossing the mountains in stages (this
was before the railroad from Baltimore to
Washington was completed) as far as Cumber
land, his greedy, selfish, and sometimes down
right boorish propensities annoyed his lellow
passengers, and particularly a young man of
quiet, refined, and gentlemanly deportment,
who could not at times help showing the dis
gust he felt. Because he paid his half dollar
tor meals at the taverns on the way, Tilghman
seemed to feel himself licensed to gormandize
at a beastly rate. The moment he sat down
to the table he would seize eagerly upon the
most desirable dish near him, and appropriate
at least a half, if not two-thirds, of what it con
tained, utterly regardless of his fellow-passen
gers ; then he would call the next most desira
ble dish if he could not reach it, and help him
self after a most liberal fashion. In eating he
seemed more like a hungry dog, in his eager
ness, than a man possessing a graiu of decen
cy. When the time came to part with him
his fellow-travelers rejoiced at being rid of one
whose utter selfishness filled them with disgust.
Iu Philadelphia and New-York, where Tilgh
man felt that he was altogether unknown, he
indulged his uncivilized propensities to their
full extent. At one of the hotels, just before
leaving New-York to return to Baltimore, and
there take the cars for the West again, he met
the young man referred to as a traveling com
panion, and remarked the fact that he recog
nized and frequently observed him. Under
this observation, as it seemed to have some
thing siuistcr in it, Tilghman felt at times a lit
tle uneasy, and at the hotel table rather curb
ed his greediness when this individual was pre
sent.
Finally, he left New-York in the 12 o'clock
boat, intending to pass 011 to Baltimore in the
night traiu from Philadelphia, and experienced
a sense of relief in getting rid of the presence
of one who appeared to know him and to have
taken a prejudice against him. As the boat
swept down the bay, Tilghman amused himself
first with a cigar on the forward deck and then |
with a promenade on the upper deck. He had
already secured his dinner ticket. When the |
fumes of roast turkey came to his eager sense 1
he felt "sharpset" enough to have devoured a
whole gobler ! This indication of the approach
ing meal caused him to dive down below,where
the servants were busy in preparing a table. !
Here he walked backward and forward for
about half a hour in company with a dozen
others, who, like himself, meant to take care of
number one. Then, as the dishes of meat be-!
gan to come in, he thought it time to secure a
good place. So after taking careful observa
tion, he assumed a position, with folded arms,
opposite a desirable dish, and waited the com
pletion of the arrangements. At length all
was ready and a waiter struck the bell. In
stantly, Tilghman drew forth a chair and had
the glory of being first at the table. He had
lifted his plate and just cried, as he turned part
ly around—" Here, waiter ! bring raesoine of
that roast turkey. A side bone and a piece of
the breast !" when a hand was laid on his
shoulder, and the clerk of the boat said, in a
voice or authority :
" Further down ! Further down ! We waut
these seats for ladies "
Tilghman hesitated.
" Quick ! quick !" urged the clerk.
There was a rustling behind him of ladies'
dresses, and our gentleman felt that he must
move. 1 u his eagerness to secure another place
lie stumbled over a chair and came near falling
prostrate. At length he brought up at the low
er end of the table."
" Waiter !" he cried, as soon as lie found a
new position, "waiter, I waut some .of that
roast turkey !"
The waiter did not hear, orVas too busy with
some 011 c else to hear.
60 loudly and earnestly was this uttered that
the observation of every one at that end of the
table was attracted towards the young man. But
he thought of nothing but securing his proven
der. At length he received his turkey, when he
ordered certain vegetables, and then began eat
ing greedily, while his eyes were every moment
glancing along the table to see what else there
was to tempt his palate.
" Waiter V he called, ere the first mouthful
was fairly swallowed.
The waiter came.
" II ave you any oyster sauce ?"
"No, sir."
"Great cooks! Turkey without Oyster-sauce!
Bring me a slice of ham."
" Bottle of ale, waiter!" [soon issued from
his lips.
The ale was brought, the cork drawn, and
the bottle set beside Tilghman, who, in his
haste, jioured his tumbler two-thirds full ere
the contact of air had produced effervescence.
The consequence was that the liquor flowed
suddenly over the glass, and spread its creamy
foam for the space of four or five inches around.
Several persons sitting near by had taken more
interest in our young gentleman who was look
ing after number one than in the dinner before
them, and when this little incident occurred,
uoul not suppress a titter.
Hearing this, Tilghman became suddenly
conscious of the ludicrous figure he had made,
and glanced quickly from face to face.
The first countenance his eyes rested upon
was that of the young man who had been his
stage companion ; near him was a lady who
had thrown back her veil, nnd whom be in
stantly recognized as Helen Waleot ! She it
war- who stood behind hirn when the clerk eiec-
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER."
ted him from his chair, and she had been both
an ear and eye witness of his sayings and do
ings since he dropped iu his present place at
the table. So much had his conduct affected
her with a sense of the ridiculous, that she
could not suppress the smile that curled her
lips ; a smile that was felt by Tilghman as the
death-blow to all his hopes of winning her for
his bride. With the substance of these hopes
went his appetite ; and with that he went al
so—that is, from the table, without so much as
waiting for the dessert. On the forward deck
he ensconced himself until the boat reached
South Amboy, N. J., and then took care not
to push his way into the ladies' car, a species
of self-denial to which he was totally unaccus
tomed.
Six months afterwards—he did not venture
to call 011 Miss Walcot—Tilghman read the
announcement of the young lady's marriage to
a Mr. Walker, and not long afterwards met
her in company with her husband. He proved
to be the traveling companion who had been so
disgusted with his boorish conduct when ou his
last trip to the east.
Our young gentleman has behaved himself
rather better since when from home ; and we
trust that some other young gentlemen who
are too much in the habit of taking care of
number one when they are among strangers
will be warned by this mortification, and cease
to expose themselves to the ridicule of well
bred people.
CURIOUS LAKE OF PITCH. —The last number
of Silliman's Journal contains an account of
that remarkable curiosity, " The Pitch Lake
of Triuidad," West Indies. It is situated on
the western shore of the island, near the vil
lage of La Bruye, which is built on a founda
tion of hard pitch. The lake stands about
ninety feet on a plateau above the village, is
circular, and half a mile in diameter, surround
ed on all sides by a dense forest. Its face is
intersected with a net-work of water channels,
which gives it the appearance of marbled pa
per. The surface of the pitch is pretty hard,
and when the water channels are dry, it can
be passed over on foot. Iu the centre of the
lake the pitch appears to bo constantly and
silently rising up in a mass, aud what is very
singular, numerous pieces of wood are con
stantly coming up to the surface from below.
These are from one to several feet in length,
and are forced by the peculiar pressure to as
sume an upright position, so as to appear all
over the lake like stumps of trees protruding
through. It is believed that this pitch lake is
boiling slowly below. Streams of sulphuret
ted hydrogen gas frequently issue from beneath,
the temperature ef which is 97 degrees Fah
renheit's thermometer. The centre of the
lake is somewhat plastic, or soft, but arouud
the sides the pitch is very hard. The water
in the streams and small pools is pure and
soft; fish are numerous in them, aud alligators
make them their habitation. Large spriugs of
petrolum, or rock oil, are in its vicinity, and
about a mile northward there is a bed of brown
coal cropping out upon the sea shore ; it is
about twenty feet thick, and appears from its
dip as if it passed under the lake. The pitch
is of great depth, for it has been dug into
eighteen feet in many places. It is believed
to be a submerged mass of vegetable matter,
undergoing slow distillation by volcanic action
underneath. This store of bitumen appears
to be inexhaustible. It is used with wood for
fuel by the American steamers plying on the
Orinoco river. Mixed with pebbles and sand
it makes excellent pavements, and ground
floors to houses. With ten per cent of resin
oil, it makes a good pitch for ships. The Earl
of Dundonald has purchased a tract of twenty
six acres of it, and has instituted experiments
to discover, if possible, some means for making
it a substitute for india rubber and gutta
pereha, water-proof or vulcanized fabrics ; and
lie has already made some vulcanized cloth,
which, from appearances, bids fair of future
success. If such a result crown his efforts—
aud every person must wish him success—such
nu inexhaustible supply of cheap material as
this lake furnishes will soon bring down the
price of such goods in our country, and thus
confer unspeakable benefits upon our people.
THAT NIGHT AND THAT MAN. —Twas night!
The stars were shrouded in a veil of mist—the
vivid lightnings flashed and shook their fiery
tresses in the face of heaven—the deep-toned
thunder rolled across the vaulted sky—the
elements were in commotion—the storm spirit
howled in the air—the winds whistled, the hail
stones fell like a shower of pearls, the large
undulation of the ocean dashed upon the rock
bonnd shores, torrents leaped from the moun
tain tops—in short, awful beyond imagina
tion. Dutch Bill sprang from his couch with
veugeauce stamped upon his stern brow ; mur
der iu his heart, and the instrument of death
in his hands.
The storm increased, the lightnings flashed
with a brighter glow, the thunder growled
with a deeper energy, the winds whistled with
a wilder fury, the confusion of the hour was
congenial to" his soul and the stormy passions
that raged in his bosom. He clenched his
weapon with a stronger grasp, a demoniac
smile gathered 011 his lips, his hair stood 011
end, he grated his teeth, raised his arm, sprang
with a fearful yell of triumph on his victim,
aud relentlessly murdered— a bed bug !
TRUE BENEFACTORS, —The day laborer who
earns, with horny hands and the sweat of his
brow, coarse food for a wife and children,
whom he loves, is raised by his generous motive
to true dignity ; and though wanting the re
finements of life, is a nobler being than those
who think themselves absolved by wealth from
serving others. .It is worthy of note that the
meu and women who think the most highly of
themselves, and most meauly of others, are
those who render back to society, for the good
things they enjoy, the smallest return of per
sonal effort. The world's true benefactors,
and therefore its true noblemen, are they who
serve it, humbly and carncstiy, to the bc6t of
j the ability God hae given them. All other?
! are but counterfeits and pretenders. Chinning
The Artesian Well in Paris.
One of the most extraordinary things in Pa
ris (or, indeed, in the world) is the artesian
well of Grenelle. It was begun in 1834, and
finished after several forced suspensions, about
the year 1841. It is bored in the centre of
the court of the Abbatoir, goes 1700 feet into
the bowels of the earth, and the column of wa
ter, nine inches in diameter, rises in a copper
tube 122 feet above the surface. From this
elevation it descends by meaus of another tube
to the ground, and is conducted to the reser
voir at the Pantheon, whence it is distributed
for the use of the inhabitants. The tempera
ture of the water is constantly about eighty
degrees Farenheit. It holds several salt 9in
solution, among the rest iron, (which colors
glass submitted to its action) and is highly
charged with carbonic acid gas. Now, what
is most interesting about this well is that the
facts developed by it, it being the deepest yet
bored, have served to explode the old doctrine
that such wells were mere examples of a jet of
water having its head on some mountain or
high table land, passing through the ground,
and springing to the outlet up to the height of
its head.
The force that drives a column of water up
to an elevation of 1800 feet, aud with such ra
pidity as to supply 3,400,000 gallons in 24
hours ; the force that shows itself so variable,
sometime comparatively quiet, at others almost
terrific iu its violence, is thought to be volca
nic, and to result from expansion within the
inner crust of the earth—to be, in fact, a sort
of explosive escape from an artificial valve in
the immense steam boiler on whose surface we
live. When the well was first opened, and be
fore the water was carried to its present height,
vast quantities of mud came over, from which
the height of the column now clarifies it. But
for a while the residents in the vicinity were
greatly alarmed, thinking that the ground on
which they lived was being gradually under
mined by the uction of the water, aud that
some day they would be engulfed. This notion
has long ceased to alarm them, as it is evident
that the anger has pierced through the rocky
exterior into the very iuterior, the soft central
mass of the earth, whence the detrius that
frightened the Parisians proceeded, and not,as
they ignorautly imagined, from just beneath
their houses.— Paris Correspondence Newark
Daily Advertiser.
CURIOCS TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR. —Professor
Trench, in his latest work on the English lan
guage, points ont a curious typographical er
ror in the 20tb verse of the 23d chapter of
Matthew. The words "which strain at a gnat
and swallow a camel," the professor thinks
contain a misprint, which having been passed
over in the edition of 1611, has held its ground
ever since. The translator intended to say,
" which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel,"
that being the correct rendering of the origi
nal, as appears in Tynsdale's and Cranmer's
translations, both of which have "strained out."
It was the custom of the stricter Jews to strain
their wine, vinegar, and other portables thro'
linen or gauze, lest unawares they should drink
down some little unclean insect, as a gnat, and
thus transgress the Levitical law. It was to
this custom the Saviour alluded, intending to
say that the Scribes and Pharisees, while they
strain out a gnat from their drink, would yet
swallow a camel at a gulp.
WOMEN vs. OXEN.—A certain clergyman
once addressing his audience in the southern
part of New Jersey, had occasion to quote
Luke XVI. 16 —20 : "A certain man made
a great supper, aud bade many, and scut his
servant at supper time to say to them that
they were bidden, come, for all things are uow
ready. And they all with one consent began
to make excuse. The first said unto him, I
have bought a piece of ground, and 1 must
needs go and see it: I pray thee have me ex
cused. Another said, I have bought five
yoke of oxen, and I go to prove ; I pray thee
have me excused. And another said, I have
mnrricd a wsfe, and therefore, I cannot come."
" Now," said the venerable clergyman, "you
see the man that bought the land merely wish
ed to be excused. The man that bought the
oxen merely wished to be excused ; but the
man that married the wife said positively 'there
fore (for this reason,) I cannot come .' So you
see, my hearers, thaf a woman can draw a man
further from Goi> than FIVE YOKE OF OXEN 1"
Say SIR DAVID BREWSTER makes the follow
ing remarks relative to the structure of the
sun : —So strong has been the belief that the
sun cannot be a habitable world, that a scien
tific gentleman was pronounced by his medical
attendant to be insane, because he had sent a
paper to the Boval Society, in which he main
tained that the light of the sun proceeds from
a dense and universal aurora, which may afford
ample light to the inhabitants of the surface
beneath, and yet be at such a distance aloft as
not to be among them ; that there may be wa
ter and dry land there, hills and dales, rain and
fair weather, and that as the light and seasons
must be eternal, the sun may easily be conceiv
ed to be by far the most blissful habitation of
the whole system. In less than ten years after
this apparently extravagant notion was con
sidered a proof of insanity, it was maintained
by Sir William Herschcl as a rational and pro
bable opinion, which might be deducihle from
his own observations 011 the structure of the
sun.
CURIOUS COMBINATION. —It is understood that
the dress-making business is about to be incor
porated with coopering. A number of active
coopers will be required to hoop the ladies'
petticoats ; the model of female elegance be
ing now a molasses cask or beer barrel.
S&~ That was a keen reply of the buxom
lassie to a little pigmy of a man who solicited
a matrimonial connection : "O, no," said the
fair lady ; " I cau't think of it for a moment.
The fact is, John, you arc a little to big to put
into a 'radfe, and a little too small to pyt into
1 bed
Percussion or Fulminating Powder.
If the word "diabolical" can he properly ap
plied to any substance that chemical artifice
has produced, it certainly belongs to this,which,
from the terrific power and force of its ex
plosion, deserves that title. The extraordinary
power of fulminating mercury, or, as it is com
monly termed, percussion powder, prohibits its
use as a projectile, because we have not made
any cannon capable of withstanding its force,
iu any quantity at once. Sufficient to project
a ball or bomb-shell, would completely shatter
a cannon on the instant of explosion. It is a
strange mixture that produces fulminating pow
der, such a combination as none but a true
chemist would think of making. Fulminate
is prepared with nitric acid, (that is, spirits of
wine,) aud mercury. These substances are
the representatives of the atmospheric, the
botanic, and mineral portions of the world ;
and although they are here united, they have
little affinity to each other, and are waiting to
fly asunder at the slightest call. The full of
a feather upon pare fulmiuating powder will
cause it to explode. We would describe the
method of its manufacture did we not fear to
do so, lest some of our ingenious readers should
attempt to produce it. None but persons of
the greatest experience should ever touch it.—
Not long ago the principal operator of Apothe
caries' Hall, a man extremely cautions, and of
profound experience, was shivered to pieces
while drying an ounce of it.
As a means of igniting gunpowder, it has
proved in warfare of great service, as it adds
to the force of the powder. Eight and a half
parts of powder fired with percussion caps,
are quite equal in force to ten parts of gun
powder, fired iu the old way by means of the
"gun and fliut." One ounce of fulminate is
more than enough for charging a thousand
caps. In charging the caps, the fulminate is
mixed with a quarter of its weight of water
aud half its weight of gunpowder ; the whole
is then ground together with a wooden mailer
upon a marble slab. Percussion powder, like
gunpowder, owes its terrific force to the con
centration into a solid form of the elements of
air iu the immediate juxtaposition of combus
tible materials, which, when fired, assume in
stantaneously the air, shape and bulk, which
is, by the heat developed at the instant of ex
plosion, fearfully increased in size. All sub
stances that contain a great deal of oxygen
will explode more or less when in contact with
combustibles ; although not included in the
category of warlike stores. Thus, at Gates
head, during the late fire there, dreadful ex
plosions took place, although no gunpowder
was present. Some of the ware-houses con
tained vast quantities of nitrate of soda, a sub
stance of similar composition to nitrate of
potash (saltpetre). The naptha and the sul
phur being mixed with this, formed a com
pound precisely similar to, although not iden
tical with, gunpowder. Chemists are, how
ever, acquainted with many substances far
more explosive than fulminate, such as chloride
of nitrogen, a pound of which would annihi
late the strongest fortress in the world. By 1
the time the chemists have taught U3 to con- i
trol this frightful power, let us hope that the
peace of nations will have rendered it useless.
Scientific American.
THEJTKUF. WIFE. —She is no true wife who
sustains not her husband iu the day of calamity,
who is not, when the world's great frown makes
the heart chill with anguish, his guardian angel,
growing brighter and more beautiful as mis
fortunes crowd along his path. Then is the
time for testing whether the sweetness of her
temper beams only with a transient light, or
like the steady glow of the morning star,
shines as brightly under the clouds. Has she
then smiles jnst as charming. Does she say,
" Affliction cannot touch our purity, and should
not quench our love ?" Does she try, by happy
little inventions, to lift from his seusitive spirit
the burden of thought ?
There are wives—nay, there are beings who,
when dark hours come, fall to repining and up
braiding—thus adding to outside anxiety the
harrowing scenes of domestic strife—as if all
the blame iu the world would make one hair
white or black, or change the decree gone forth.
Such know not that our darkness is heaven's
light ; our trials are but steps to a golden
ladder, by which, if we rightly ascend, we
may at last gain that eternal light, and bathe
forever in its fullness and beauty.
"Is that all !" and the gentle face of the
wife beamed with joy. Her husband had been
on the verge of destruction—all his earthly
possessions were gone, and he feared the result
of her knowledge, she had been so tenderly
eared for all her life ! But, says Irving's beau
tiful story, "a friend advised him to give uot
sleep to his eyes nor slumber to his eyelids
until lie had unfolded to her all his helpless
case.
" And that was her answer with the smile
of an angel— ls that all 1 I feared bv your
sadness that it was worse. Let these beauti
ful things be taken —all this splendor, let it go;
I care not for it—l only care for my husband's
love and confidence. You shall forget in my
affection that you were ever in prosperity—only
still love me, and I will aid you to bear the
little reverses with edeerfulness."
Still love her ! a mau must reverence her,
aye, and liken her unto the very angels, for
such a woman is a revelation from Heaven.
BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE.— In a late article in
Frazcr's Magazine, this brief but beautiful
passage occurs : " Education does not com
mence with the alphabet. It begius with a
mother's look—with a father's smile of appro
bation or a sign of reproof-—with a sister's
gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's no
ble act of forbearance—with handfuls of flow
ers in green and daisy meadows—with bird's
nests admired but not touched-—with creeping
ants, and almost imperceptible emmets—with
humming bees and glass beehives—with plea
sant walks in shady lanes, and with thoughts
directed in sweet and kindly tones, and words
to mature to acts of benevolence, to deeds of
virtue, and to the sense 0? all good, to God
himself."
VOL. XVI. —NO. 28,
How TO EDUCATE A MAN* or BUSINESS. —In
the education of a business man, it mu9t nev
er be forgotten that his future life will be a
life of action, and not of study. Great care
must, therefore, be taken that" the health be
not impaired in a strife for useless honors,
that the feelings be not suffered to grow over
sensitive in recluse contemplation, nor the
mind lose its spring and electricity under a
load of cumbersome and unpractical learn
ing. It has been said that at least one fourth
of the students of colleges leave them with im
paired health ; full one-half are too sensitive
to bear the rude jostliugs of the world ; and,
perhaps, two-thirds of the balance have some
defect that would seriously mar their happiness
and usefulness. A collegiate educatiou can
not be recommended, and if attainable, is not
desirable. A counting house is the business
man's college. When the youth has finished
his course of preparatory educatiou, at a school
or private seminary, under the charge of an
instructor, who teaches as much by conversa
tion as by a prescribed course, he should go
into a counting house, that he will learn order,
method, obedience, and acquire a knowledge
of life and the business of life. It is there
that he will learn the value of time and the
value of money, two very important things to
know. Whatever of conceit he may have
brought from the village academy is soon
rubbed out of him. He learns to obey, to sub
mit and to be patient—to endure reproof with
out anger, and to b£ar eoutradictions with
good humor. He is obliged to keep bis wits
about him, to decide quickly, to have accurate
eyes, and truthful ears, and to learn that there
are just sixty minutes in an hour. A count
ing house education will be of advantage to
every man, whatever his future education may
be. A moral education need not be dwelt up
on. This is especially a work of self-cultiva
tion. No one's principles can be called temp
tation proof but those which are the result of
logical conviction, and for which repeated
sacrifices have been made. As ability to com
municate varied and practical knowledge by
conversation is a qualification that especially
fits man to be a teacher, it should nor be over
looked in the selection of one.— Freedly's Trta
tise on Business.
How TO KKEH SILKS. —Our lady readers may
be glad to learti that silk articles should not
be kept folded in white paper, as the chloride
of lime used in bleaching the paper will prob
ably impair the color of the silk. Brown or
blue paper is better ; the yellowish, smooth
India paper is best of all. Silks intended for
dress should not be kept long iu the house be
fore they are made up, as lying in the folds will
have a tendency to impair its durability by
causing it to cut or split, particularly if the
silk has been thickened by gum. Thread-lace
vails are very easily cut. But dresses of vel
vet should not be laid by with any weight up
on them. If the nap of a thin velvet is laid
down it is not possible to raise it up again.
Hard silk should never be wrinkled, because
the thread is easily broken in the crease, and
it never can be rectified. The way to taka
the wrinkles out of silk scarfs and handker
chiefs is to moisten the surface eveuly with a
sponge and some weak glue, and then pin the
silk with some toilet pins arouud the selvedges
on a mattrnss or feather bed, taking pains to
draw out the silk as tight as possible. When
dry, all the wrinkles will have disappeared.
The reason of this is obvious to every person.
It is a nice job to dress light colored silk, and
few should try it. Some silk articles should
be moistened with weak giue or gum-water,
and the wrinkles ironed out by a hot flat-iron
011 the wrong side.
DKCI.INE OK AUTHORITY. —The parent of to
day is an extremely mitigated form of the par
ent of fifty years ago. He has, no doubt, the
same fondness for his child, but he is no lon
ger capable of enforcing the discipline which
the child's social destiny exacts. The parent
of to-day coaxes where the other was content
to command ; and the child, consequently, in
stead of growing up with a back-bone—in
stead of preserving some vestige of the whole
some rudeness and simplicity of Nature—too
often finds himself in the very crisis of life
dyspeptic, enervated, and inclined to dissipa
tion. The conjugal relation attests the samo
fact. The husband of to-day is not the hus
band his grandfather was before him. His
grandmother had a certain awful reverence
for that sublime and stately functionary.
Hut what wife of to-day has any awe for her
husband? "Catch her," indeed! Woman's
rights are extremely well understood, even
where they have not consented as yet to the
foolish symbolisms of dress. In the public
sphere the same signs are visible. No one
any longer reverences the Governor, and no
one goes to see the President except with the
patrotic intention of getting office. Time
was when the little boys wonld cease from
mnmble the peg, and reverently 6tep off tho
sidewalk, when old Or. Rogers or the great
Dr. Mason passed, feeling that there was an
inconceivable amount of sanctity locked away
in those sable shrines; but Dr. Spring or
Bishop Potter might travel the town to-day,
his countenance perfectly ral'a it with " Shak*
speare, Milton and Hooker," and find no ur
chin so humble as to do him reverence.
How TO PRY IVMPtftX AND MAKF. THF PIK
Perhaps some don't know the best way to dry
pumpkins. It is this :—Cut thorn up and
stew Ihnu till they are soft and dry : ponnd
and strain through a enlander ; then grease
pie-pans, and spread it on a quarter of an ineh
thick and dry it ; roll it up, and pnt it away
in a tight box, or bag, from the Each
one of these rolls will make a pie. It is very
easy now to make a pie. lut in sweet milk,
and let it soak about two hours ; put in an
ogp, table-spoonful of sugar, a
of ginger, and one of allspice ; and if yon
are lovers of pumpkin pie, as we are, you will
prouounee it good.— Ohio Farmer.
Hfirif want, eqemiea, strive to axeel other'',
if you want friend-, let others excel you