I* DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA s
Hiara&ao morning, ©clobrr 8, 1857.
Stletteb IMrj.
SJTVLNTY-SIX.
'BV WILLIAM C. BRA ANT.
What heroes from the woodland sprung.
When, through the fresh-awakened land,
The thrilling cry of freedom rung,
And to the work of warfare strung,
The yeoman's iron hand !
pills flung the cry to hills around,
And ocean-mart replied to mart,
And streams whose springs were yet unfound,
Pealed far away the startling sound
Into the forest's heart.
Then marched the brave from rocky steep,
From mountain rivers swrft and cold;
The bolder of the stormy deep,
The vales where gathered waters sleep,
.Sent up the strong and bold.
As if the very earth again
Crew quick with God's avenging breath,
And from the sods of grove and glen,
Rose ranks of 1 ion-hearted men,
To battle to the death.
The wife, whose babe first smiled that day,
The fair, fond bride of yester-eve,
And aged sire, and matron gray.
Saw the loved warriors baste away,
And deemed it siu to grieve.
Already had tlie strife begun ;
Already blood on Concord's plain
Along the springing grass had run,
And blood had flowed at Lexington,
Like brooks of April rain
The death-stain on the vernal sward
Hallowed to freedom all the shore ;
In fragments fell tke yoke abhorred—
Tir feststeps of a foreign lord
Profaned the soil no more.
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PisttllaHtous.
Haw his Hat Trembled Him.
DV IIAZF.L GREEK, ESQ.
'• When I was a young lad, just beginning
to think about the girls," said Charley, " I
was monstrous pious, and went to meeting
every Sunday ; but I have since come to the
pouclusion that it was not so much for the
Miicern I felt for the ' good of my sotil,' as it
was for the sake of gazing about the room,
RUii thinking to myself which girl was the
prettiest, and which one I would rather marry.
" Well, one day I singled out a girl who, I
thought, eclipsed all creatiou for beauty ; iu
fact, 1 was soon head-over-heels in love with
her. But a few moments sufficed for me to
form a resolution to see her home, pop the
question, and, if possible, to strike a bargain
immediately. I was ail in a tremble. The
sermon seemed a week long, and very uninter
esting. Many, no doubt, were praying for
their neighbors and their neighbors' children,
Imt with me it was different—l was praying
for the meeting to break up.
"At length the meeting did break, and I
broke with it—for my hat ; but to my surprise
and mortification, I could not find it until af
ter the object of my affections bad gotten so
far the start of me, that it would have requir
ed quite an effort to have overtaken her. Be-
Mes, there was another consideration —my
lat had been under foot, aud was so badly
oiled that I was rather ashamed to be seen
kith it on. Taking all these things into coo
peration, I resolved to wait for the next op-
Kirtunity.
" From that time I was a changed chap. I
ould think of nothing but the girl I had seen
it meeting, except it was that of persuading
he' governor ' to buy me a new suit of Sun
lay clothes. The old lady sided with me iu
his la>t particular, and between us both we
ucceeded in carrying our point. I was rig
out in style—cloth coat, satin vest, cassi
wre pants, and to crown all, a beaver that
ost five dollars. This will fix things, thought
; could I but see her now, I might set her
lown as mine.
"In a few evenings there was a prayer
neeting at ' Union Nleeting-honse,'and I, with
"J new fixings, wended my way thither ; not,
'owever, until my mother had given me much
rond advice concerning the management of my
lew rigging—more particularly my hat, as I
"'d but a short time before got my old oue
rushed up at meeting.
' I had not been iti the meeting-house long,
>efore she whom I most anxiously expected
am e in and from thence until the services
"ere concluded, I was in a sea of trouble, lest
owe fellow should cut me out, or something
>f the kind.
"As soon as the congregation was dismiss
•l ' yoked ' her, and off we started. When
r c reached her home the sun was just setting,
ln u so, to be mannerly, her old dad asked me
0 stay all night.' 1 had no objections, and
' tcr supper was over, I told Betty (for that
'he girl's name) that I'd like "to chat with
lp r a little more. She had no objections, but
Mwc must g 0 t 0 th e kitchen, as the old
_ didn't like to be disturbed by a light in
T : |'ig room' when they were to bed. To
1 l '"is I consented, of course, and so we were
°°n on the very best of terms. I should have
)een e x ( remely happy but for one cause—the
, a ®p °f plenty, in the form of grease, was
■undantly impressed npon everything in the
excepting the chairs upon which we
r and consequently I was much troubled
jut my new hat. What should I do with
• 1 did not want to have grease npon it—
'• that would never do ! Finally I resolved
eep it on ray head, judging that to be the
place. Being thus relieved of my great
embarrassment, I went about the work of
Tf* in real earnest.
i m „ • r niany fine things had bee® said, and
ctn r , ria £ e r °ntract had been partially entered
> proposed a ki? e . You may be sure she
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
refused, but I insisted. A scuffle ensaed, which
lasted Until she was completely exhausted.—
Being unable to hold out longer, she turned
up her pretty lips and said : " If you must kiss
me —here ; but don't you ever uudertake such
a thing again—you brute !"
" I stooped over to perform the operation,
when, all of a sadden, I felt an unusual light
ness about my head. Before I had time to
think whether I was going to faint or not, I
heard a kind of splashing about my feet, and
easting my eyes downward, I saw —great hea
vens ! what did I see ? There lay my five
dollar beaver, completely immersed in a filthy
compound of dish water, encumber peels, ' ta
ter ' skins, and the Lord kuoWs what besides,
that had beeu accumulated in a tub, under the
fascinating cognomen of ' swill.'
" There was a predicament for yon. What
should Ido ? If Betty had observed it, the
matter would not have been so bad ; but she
had not ; could I tell her ? No ! heaven for
bid ! At first I thought of lifting it out, but
imagining the spectacle it would present, iny
courage failed me. " But then," reasoned I,
" she will be sure to see it ere long, and then
how she will blush ! Already she is looking
at me, as if she is wondering why 1 don't kiss
her—perhaps I had better not stay any lon
ger and suiting the action to the wo*d I
made a leap for the door, and was off like a
comet From thence all was confusion, until
I found myself at home—bare-headed—receiv
ing a raking fire from the old man and the
; old woman at the same time. This is bad
: enough to think of, but it is not the worst.—
! There is one thing that now rings in mv ears
and will continue to do so as long as I live—
llt is the last words of Betty. Poor thing,
i supposing t'mt I had taken offence at her re-
I sistance, she called after me as I shot out of
! the door :
" Oh, Charley, come back ! I was only in
fun. Come back, do ! Oh ! Charley !"
Do Right.
A wealthy merchant remarked a few dajs
since that he was fully convinced from his own
experience, that the means to achieve success
lay iu a nut-shell—no RIGHT. " When I say
success," said he, " I meau not only the accu
mulation of fortune, but the ability to enjoy
it—to live a useful, happy life." What is the
use of much wealth if we know that it was ob
tained by wronging the widow and orphan, by
the tricks of trade, selling articles for what
they were not, aud a thousand modes of un
fair dealings ? Can a man be happy if he
knows he has stripped a poor family of its
last dollar, sent a dagger to its very heart,
drawn away the final drop of blood, leaving
their bodies writhing in throes of untold agony,
pinched by hunger and cold, their spirits de
jected and gloomy—hope crushed out and
despair fast hurrying them on, on to ruin ?
Granting that men grow better by doing kind
ly acts, and feel the better for seeing others do
them, how sickening it mnst be to the true
man to know that by false dealing lie has eur
ditd the milk of human kindness in one breast,
turning it to bitter gall ! If wealth conies
by such meaus let it not come at all. Shall
an active man, possessed of God-given powers,
at his dying hour turn back to his past life
and be able onlv to say : I have done nothing
to add to the wealth of the world in gold or
silver, or in artistic productions, but have
coveted the labors of others, heaped treasures
sordidly to myself, foolishly supposing that I
might trample down all feelings and sympathies
not directly productive of gain ? Or shall he
rather be able to say that, while I have indus
triously gathered wealth, I have douc it with
cheerful looks, kindly words, warm sympathies;
I have done it by making things which have
added to the comfort of men, by bringing '
within the reach of the poor great means of j
present enjoyment, the opening of a brilliant i
future, by throwing lights of sympathy on the j
dejected, lifting up the down fallen, strength-1
ening the weak, infusing in all a fervent belief
in the brighter part of their being ? Such a j
life will enable a man to throw off jiis wealth I
as a scale, at the last day, bearing away only !
the imperishable soul which has accumulated i
strength along with the mass of wordly goods '
justly and usefully obtained, would von, young
man, belong to the latter class, do right. How
much better to do right, if you die not worth
a farthing, and feel that you have rather ad
ded to the good faith in the higher life on earth,
than to die while rolling in the luxury, pomp,
and pride ot ill-gotten gains ! Then do right! j
and if tempted for momentary ease and vanity i
to abuse your better nature rest assured that j
both the body and the spirit will suffer in a |
ratio corresponding to the transgression. There
is but one road to happiness and coutentroeut
—do right.
To EXTINGUISH. —An Irishman being on a
visit to some of his relatives, a little more pol
ished than himself, was requested on going to
bod, to be careful to extinguish the candle ; he
was obliged to ask the meaning of the word,
when he was told it was to put it out. He
treasured up the term, and one day he was sit
ting at home with his wife, enjoying his pota
toes and buttermilk, when a pig unceremoni
ously walked in, whereupon he said, (proud of
his bit of learning) :
" Judy, dear, will you extinguish the pig ?"
" Arrah, now, Pat, me hooey, what do yon
mane ?"
" Hush, then,you ignorant crathur," replied
Pat, " it maues to put him out to be sure."
THK NEED OK SYMPATHY. —No class or con
dition is exempted from suffering and woe
None in this world are so situated, as to be be
yond the need, at some time of the soothing
and solaciug influence of an unaffected sympa
thy. Disease and death are common to all
Who does not know of some friqpd or neigh
bor, who tasted the bitternesg of losing a be
loved ehild, an endeared wife or a loring pa
rent ? Who does not know of some family sur
rounded by all the comforts, and enjoying all
the happiness of life, that had its joys turned
mourning ?
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
Farm Life a School of true Manhood.
The men who have left their marks npon
the ages in which they have lived, have done
a great and noble work for the race, have beeu
with few exceptions, men of noble physical
mould. The foundation of theirgreatness aud
of their fame was laid in the patient training
of their physical powers. Such a man was
Washington, and most of the worthies who
were asociatcd with him in the struggle for
our liberties. Such was Clay and Webster,
and many of their contemporaries in our na
tional Senate. Their early days were spent
upon a farm, and the thoughts of their declin
ing years were given to the improvement and
the cultivation, and the embellishment of their
respective homesteads. Ashland and Marsh
field will long be scenes of pilgrimage to the
husband as well as the patriot.
The whole tendency of farm life is to develop
the body healthfully and systematically. The
child is not pent up in the narrow back-yard
of a city dwelling, nor turned into the throng
ed and filthy street to pursue his sports. His
eyes open first npon green fields and fragrant
meadows, and his first footfall out of doors is
upon the matted grass beneath the shadowy
trees of his rural home. He drinks in health
from every breeze, and ail the scenes around
him call forth that playfulness which performs
so importnant an office in our earlj training.
And this leads us to speak of the influence
of farm life upon the home virtues. No oc
cupation can be more favorable to the cultiva
tion of those qualities which are the charm of
the domestic circle. The farmer is mnch more
at home than is possible with any other men.
How many there are in our cities, who can on
ly see their families at etenring, of on the Sab
bath. They live for their business, and this
from its location takes them from home early
and late. llow many from this same cause,
forsake housekeeping and huddle into boarding
houses and hotels, where the charm and beau
ty of the family, as God instituted it, are en
tirely lost, and children fall under a thousand
unfriendly influences that would never reach i
them at home. With the best arrangements '
wealth can command in the city, it is well
nigh impossible to keep children under the in-!
fluence of their parents, so that they shall have
a distinct family character, and bear the mor
al, as they do the physical image of their pro
genitors. Pareutal influence is dissipated
amid the varied social influences to which :
they are subjected from their earliest days.— j
Then what perplexities harrass the man of hu- j
sincss in the city—his capital often invested j
in profitless enterprise, exposed to the degra- j
dations of dishonest men, betrayed, cheated,
and ruined by knaves and bankrupts. Prom ■
the very character of his business, lie has to i
trust far more of his available means to the in
tegrity of his fellows than the cultivator.—
His debts are often scattered over a wide ex
tent of territoiy, and collections are not only
expensive, but exceedingly uncertain. But his I
commercial credit depends upon this uncertain- j
tv, and he is often compelled to fall back upon ■
nothing, a ruined man.
Ninety-five failures in a hundred, among'
most business men in the city, tell a sad tale j
of the perplexity and sorrow, the corroding \
cares and anguish, of mercantile life. How I
can a father, goaded with these anxieties, from
the beginning to the end of the year,do justice
to his children, even if the business allowed
him to be with them a part of the time ? He
is not in a frame of mind to superintend their
education and to perform a father's office.
The farm preserves the family in its integ
rity. The notne has in it that charming word
and that before charming thing, the fireside,
around which parents and children gather, and
where the bright and cheerful blaze upon the
hearth is but a true type of the flame of love
that glows in every heart. The parents have
been drawn together, not by the sordid motives
of wealth, or the ambitious desire of social dis
play, but for the personal qualities seen in each
other. The glory of the fireside to the hus
band is that the wife is there ; and to the
wife that he is there who is the head of the
woman, aud the band in that home circle.—
Here they gather at morning and evening,
and at noon. Their board is almost always
surrounded with the same circle, and here
they spend the long winter evenings together.
—FroM (he American Journal of Education.
A RICH ORATORIAI. CLIMAX. —The Toledo
Blade says, that a story is told of an aspiring
orator who held forth on the fourth of July, at
one the mauy celebrations in the " rural dis
tricts" iu Ohio. His maiden speech duly pre
pared, and the telling portions committed to
memory, he found himself, in a state of thrill
ing nervousness, before the people. All went
on well, and he had, in a measure, recovered
his self-command, when lie arrived at the great
climax of his speech—that portion of it in
which he was to allude to " The American
Eagle." Proudly he beguD, and tossed off
almost flippantly, " The Eagle, gentleman, that
proud bird 1 the emblem of our liberties, gen
tlemen, as she stands—"when suddenly the
rest of his labored simile faded from his memo
ry. Terrified at the discovery, he gasped—he
seized, nervously, a tumbler of water, and turn
ed it, by mistake, inside his cravat, and took
a fresh start, with a rush of desperation which
bid fair to bursting the bonds of his fettered
imagination, and soar majestically away on the
wings of the apostrophized " bird." The
American Eagle ! The American Eagle, gen
tlemen, that frond bird of onr liberties, as she
stands—standing—as she stands—standing"
(with great vigor,) " with one foot on the Al
lcghanies and the other on the Rocky Moun
tains, and stretching her broad winds from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, shall—strecliing her
broad wings—with one foot on the Rocky
Mountains, and the other one on the Allegha
nies, shall—shall howl, gentlemen and fellow
citizens, in the glorious freedom of—her native
air I"
Bfir There is an inscription on a tombstone
at La Pointe, Lake Superior, which reads as
foljows :—" John Smith, accidentally shot as
a mark of affection by bis brother."
Coffee—lts Origin. Culture, &c
Coffee is believed to be a native of Abys
sinia, and came dowu to us through Arabia,
Persia and Tnrkey. It was carried into the
last country by Selim, after his conquest to
Egypt, but it was not until 1554 that it was
publicly sold iu Constantinople. The Turks
are forbidden the use of wine, and aence coffee
is iu great repute, on account, of its exhilarat
ing qualities. The city of Constantinople is
filled with coffee-houses.
Coffee was introduced into England by a
Turkish merchant, named Edwards, whose ser
vant was skillful in preparing it, and who, un
der the patronage of his master, established
the first coffee-house in London, in George
Yard, Lombard street. Coffee was then sold
for four or five guineas a pound. A duty was
soon levied upon it of fourpcnce a gallon, w hen
made into a beverage.
The cultivation of coffee was introduced
from the East into the West Indies, as well as
South America, by the Dutch and French.—
Coffee trees were also carried from Mocha to
Holland, and so late as 1714, a plant was pre
sented to Louis XIY., by the magistrate of
Amsterdam, and was placed at Marly, under
the care of the well-known Jussieu. A few
years afterwards one of the shoots of this very
plant was sent Cayenne and Martinique. In
these tropical regions the plant flourished ex
tensively, and there is now a large export
therefrom. In two centuries Coffee has made
its way throughout the whole civilized world.
Before the commencement of the eighteenth
century it was not known, except to some sav
age tribes in Abyssinia.
Coffee cannot be grown in any countries
where the mercury never sinks below 55 deg.—
The tree grows to the height of twelve or fifteen
feet, with leaves something like that of the
common laurel. The blossoms are white, much
like those of the jessamine, and they issue from
the angles of the leaf stalks. When these
flowers fade they are succeeded by the beans
or seeds, which when ripe are enclosed in a
reddish berry. Every berry contains two of
these seeds cr beans, which are surrounded by
a yellowish glutinous pulp. They are as well
known, convex on oue side and flat on the oth
er, with a slight furrow in the middle of the
flat side. They lie in the berry with the flat
sides together.
Coffee plants are set Out at regular distan
ces, and flourish best in dry soils. They com
mence bearing when about two year eld. The
effect of a coffee plantation in full bloom, is
very beautiful. The whole field looks as if it
had been visited by a gentle fall of snow. In
Arabia, and at the East generally, eoffee is
much finer flavored than it is in ihe West In
dies and South America. It is gathered with
fur more tare in the former than in the latter
section. The Mocha coffee is, undoubtedly,
the best in the world. Its superiority is owing
to superior climate, soil, and culture. Next
in reputation to the Mocha, are the Java and
Ceylon coffees ; theu those of Bourbon, Kar
tiuique, and Berbice. The Jamaica and St.
Domingo coffees are, comparatively speaking,
very poor.
The housekeeper has done much towards
procuring a fine aromatic cup of coffee when
she procures the best article. There is much
yet to be done, though, in order to the great
result, and that much lies in the roasting.—
The best berry that Mocha ever produced may
be offensive to the taste, if improperly roasted.
The roasting should be done in a close vessel,
otherwise much of the fine aroma will be dissi
pated. The best machines we have seeu are
hollow cylinders formed of sheet iron, which
are made to revolve upon an axis, and which
are turned with a crank. The fire should be
brisk under the cylinder, and the crank should
be continually in action when the roasting pro
cess is going on. When the coffee has attain
ed a deep cinnamon color and an oily appear
ance, and when above all it sends forth a rich
aromatic flavor, it should be taken from the
lire, well shaken, and suffered to cool. Those
who know, add that not more than a half
pound of coffee should be roasted at once. In
Italy they roast coffee, very frequently in the
flasks of glass used for oil, very well it is done
in this way. The non-conducting power of the
glass is thought to give it an advantage over
metal of any kind, and the coffee is thought
to be less likely to burn.
Another requisite in order to a good cup of
coffee, is to have it roasted and ground just
before it is wanted for use, or if not, it should
be kept in vessels as nearly air tight as possi
ble.
THE DISAPPEARANCE. OF WOMEN. —Punch has
thus expressed his distress at the disappearance
of women from the face of the earth :
There are no women now-a-days. Instead
of women, we have towering edifices of silk,
lace and flowers. You sec a milliner's ad
vertising van that slides along with a rustling
sound, and yon are told that it is ft woman ;
but as you cannot approach within several
yards of the monster obstruction, you cannot
tell what it is, beyond something that looks
like an entireshop front put in motion, with all
the goods iu it exposed* for sale. I really be
lieve if any showman would open an exhibition
where one could see a woman, such as were iri
my young days, when they used to be fair,
slim, slender, graceful, well proportioned, and
everything that was beautiful, instead of the
animated wardrobes, unrecognizable bundles
of fine clothes, that they now are—l really
believe that an enterprising showman like that
would realize a large fortuue.
ft®" A clergyman observing a poor man
by the road side breaking stone with pick axe,
and kneeling to get. at his work better, made
the remark, ■' All, John, I wish J could break
the stony hearts ol my hearers as easily as you
are breaking these stones." The man replied.
" Perhaps you do not work upou your knees."'
otir frioii<fsf the horticulturists
aware how mnch they are indebted to printers ?
We wot not—hot it is a fact, that the Horti
cultural Society in Scotland was founded by
Fatriek Neil I, a printer.
Interesting To Pork Eaters.
Dr. Dixon, the racy editor of the Scalpel.
dissects the dietetic qualities of a porker us
readily as he slashes into the anatomy of dis
ceased humanity. Either the Doctor is right,
or Moses of old is wrong :
" The wisdom of the Jewish law which
prohibits the use of pork will soon be acknowl
edged by all rational beings. That swine are
afflicted with scrofula and tubercles, we have
repeatedly shown, and every killer of hogs
well knows it ; the indigestibility of the flesh
is acknowledged, and if people were enlighten
ed, the hog would only be raised for his fat
alone. This is available in all cases instead of
whale and other fish oils—a few excepted for
the liner kinds for eating. Mutton aud beef,
if our farmers even become enlightened, may
profitably take the place of the hog, and would
[ add greatly to the health and dignity of tho
farmers household, llog husbandry is debas
ing. The influence of pork eating on the far
mer is degrading. Good husbandry would
furnish other fats for the farmer say nothing
of butter, which the present catalogue of the
grasses, cereals, and enlightened irrigation,
furnish in abundance. If—and we emphatical
ly aver it a correct critarian—the material
and getting up of the family meal classifies the
occupant of a household among rational aud
intellectual beings, then we say that those on
whose table pork is most frequently found are
the least intelligent and most grovelling in
their views. We know distinctly that the full
bearings of what we utter, and precisely how
it will be received, nor do we care a farthing
for the anathemas that will be hurled at us
for the assertion. What motive remains for
his elevation, if a human being is taught to
look no higher than to such a repast for the
nourishment of the body, aud to the nearest
priest for the welfare of his soul ? Now com
pare this fairly with the new farmer, such as
we have ofteu seen him at the family meal—
ay, as you may now find him all over onr
country, with his salt, hog, potatoes and sour
rye bread, and his miserable husbandry, and
thousand excuses for not raising sheep, protect
ing and feeding his cattle, and changing and
cultivating his fowls and seed, and attending
carefully to a good Vegetable garden. You
need but small ecarch for his pig-pen, his foul
barn yard, his whiskey bottle and tobacco-box,
or his nauseous pipe. He will largely defend
his favorite luxuries ; the hog is his grand ex
emplar of manners and physiologies, his om
niveorous animal laboratory that couverts the
product of the products of his farm into the
great staple—pork. Poor Sir Walter Raleigh !
we have often shed a tear fcr your sad fate ; !
bnt our wicked fancy lias often pictured ve j
making an offering to the devil of a hog stuff- '
ed with tobacco. The devils, we think, select
ed a very appropriate lodgment when they
besought the Saviour to send them into the
the hogs ; it is a great pity that the entire ;
family of swine were not compromised by thut j
same two thousand."
EXTRAVAGANT LIVING —We hear a great
deal about the extravagance of the rich ; but
if the question be closely examined, it will be
found that the greatest extravagance is ex
hibited by the poor. Extravagance is a rela
tive term, and depends on three facts, name
ly : A man's income ; his necessary expenses ;
and the amount he expends for luxuries, or
things not necessary. A man whose income
is but ten dollars a week, and whose necessary
expenses are nine do (Jars, would be extrava
gant should he spend a dime for an unneces
sary article ; while a man aitli an income of
twenty dollars a week, and only ten dollars
expenses, might indulge in several dollars'
worth of luxuries, without rendering himself
obnoxious to the charge of extravagance ; and
a millionaire, with an income of a hundred
thousand a year, might economically revel in
luxury.
The test of frugality is : Docs a man live
within his income ? Does lie save something
every week ? Is he better off every year than
he was the year before? If he can answer
these questions in the affirmative, he is an
economical and thriving man, however small
or large his income may be. Of course there
are degrees in thrift and economy, in expendi
ture and extravagance ; and the wise man is
he who, while sagely providing for the future,
with enlightened foresight and amiable prn
deuce, does not permit selfish parsimony and
brutal avarice to murder the enjoyment of the
present.
Is THE SEF.U CORN SF.LECTF.D ?— NOW is the
time to attend to it. Look out the most for
ward, thrifty stalks, where there are two or
three good ears on each. Let these ripen
thoroughly—if practicable, more than the
genera! crop, which should be cut before the
stalks are dry, in order to make most of them
for fodder. Select only for seed such ears as
are entirely filled out at the tips and hntts
with plump kernels. Let these be kept in a
dry place over Winter. The old plan of braid
ing them in tresses, and hanging them np, is I y
no means a bad ore, though some may think
it troublesome where fifty or a hundred bnsh
els of seed corn is wanted. It pays just as
well, proportionally, to expend time and care
for a large amount of seed, as where only a
few ears are wanted. Proper eare in the se
lection of the best ears will not only improve
quality, but also the quantity of the next crop.
And further, a little extra care in ripening and
keeping seed dry, may save an extra plant
ing next Spring—perhaps save the loss of-a
crop.
ft§y- A friend of Charles Lamb once said to
him, "I am about to open a preparatory school
for children. What sort of a siun shall I put
out ?" " The Murder of the Innocents," was
the prompt reply.
A gentleman who has a tery strong
desire to he a funny man, sat down upon a
hooped skirt ther other day. With a despera
tion prjuul to any emergency, he whistled, "I'm
setting on the style. Mary."
VOI,. XVIIT.— xo. 18.
Miasm and Malaria.
Are the great ifeath agents throughout fho
largest portion of the habitable globe.
Miasm ig Malaria, but Malaria is not
Miasm.
Miasm is an emanation from decaying tege
totion. Malaria is bad air, whatever may be
its source. Ail impure air is Malaria.
Miasm is so farmed by a sun of ninety de
grees, that it rises rapidly above us, and is in
ocirons. The cod of the morning and evening
of the summer time condenses it. and causes it
to fall to the surface of the earth, where it is
breathed by man, and is the fruitful cause of
pestilence, plague and epidemic fevers. Thus
the higher persons sleep above the earth, the
the healthier is the atmosohcre.
While as a gcnefal rule it is better to sleep
in apartments having a window and the fire
place open in all seasons, yet, where miasm
abounds, evidencing its presence hv chills and
and fever, fever and ague, diarrhoeas, and tho
like, it is better to sleep with closed windows
than to have them cpen, because men are known
to fatten in jails and small prison cells, while
the breathing of malaria a single night has orig
inated diseases which, from the violence of the
reaction, are scarcely distinguishable from tho
effects of swallowing corrosive poisons, as wit
ness the National Hotel disease.
But although the air inside of a house is su
piied from the Outside, yet, if the windows and
outside doors are closed it is supplied in such
small quantities, through the crevices, that it
is at once heated by the indoor air, and car
ried to the ceiling, where it is above reach.—
The difference between the thermometer in
our hall and the one out doors, about five o'-
clock of a summer's nioruing, is ten degrees.—
Hence dnring, the prevaleney of miasm, at
least in August and September, it is belter to
close the chamber windows, but let an inner
door and the fire place be kept open.— Hall's
Journal r f Health.
TASK CARR OF Yocft THOUGHTS —Sin begins
in the heart. If you keep your thoughts pnre
your life will be blessedness. The indulgence
of sinful thoughts and desires produces sinful
action. When lust hath conceived it bringeth
forth sin. The pleasurable contemplation of a
sinful deed is usually followed by its commission.
Merer aiiow yourself to pause and consider
the pleasures or profits you might derive from
this or that sin Close your miud against the
suggestion at ouee as you would lock and bolt
your doors against a robber. If Eve had not
stood parleying with the devil, and admiring
the beautiful fruit, the earth might have yet
been a paradise. No one becomes a thief, a
fornicator, or a murderder at once. The mind
must be corrupted. The wicked suggestion
must be indulged and revolved in the thoughts
until it loses its hideous deformity, and the an
ticipated gain or pleasure comes to outweigh
the evils of the transgression.
Your imagination is apt to print forbidden
pleasures in gav and dazzling colors. It is
the serpeut's charm. Suffer not the intruder
to get a lodgmeut. Meet the enemy at tho
threshold, aud drive it from your heart. As a
rule, the more familiar you become with sin,
the least hateful rt appears ; so that the rao e
completely you preserve your mind from un
holy and wicked thoughts, the better. Avoid
the place where obscenity or blasphemy is heard.
Cultivate the society of the virtuous. Read
nothing that is uuchaste or immoral. Make ft
covenant with your eyes. Familiarize not
your mind with the details of crime. Never
harbor malicious or envious thoughts. Direct
your thoughts towards pure and holy subjects.
Contemplate the character of the spotless and
perfect Son of God. Keep your spirit un
tainted, your thoughts uncoutaminuted ; so
shall your life be virtuous. Asa man think
eth, so is he. Take rare of the thoughts
and tire actions will take care of themselves.
SANG FROID. —Fred, the prince of wags,
was jogging home rather late, and a little
"happy,'" when, passing hy n dark alley, a
large two fisted fellow stepped oib, seized him
bv the collar and demanded his tnonev.
" M-o-n-e-y ! humph !" said Fred, " money
I've none ; lint if you will hold on a momeut
I'll give you my note for thirty days !"
£55?" A young lawyer, who had long paid
his court to a lady without much advancing his
suit, accused her one day of " being insensible
to the power of love.'"' "it does not follow."
she replied, " that I am so. because f am not
to be won by the power of an attorney."—
" Forgive me," replied the suitor, "but von
remember that all votaries of enpid are so
licitors."
BegF When Franklin was embassador to
tl;e English court, a lady who was about be
ing presented to the king, noticed his exceed
ingly plain appearance, ashed who he was.—
On being told that he was Dr. Benjamin
Franklin, the American embassador, she ex
claimed, " The North American Embassador,
so,sliabbily dressed !' " llush, madam for
heaven's sake," whispered a friend, " he is the
man who bottled up thunder and lightning."
TIIF. BEAITV or A Bursa.—Goethe was in
oompany with a mother and her daughter,
vhee the latter, being approved for some fault
blushed and burst into tears. He said :—-
" How beautiful your reproach has made your
daughter. The crimson hue and those silvery
tears become her better than any ornament of
gold and pearls These may he hung on the
neck of n wanton, but these are never seen dis
connected with a moral purity. A full blown
rose, besprinkled with the purest dew, is not
so beautiful as this child blushing beneath her
I arcnt's displeasure, and shedding tears ot sor
row for her fault.. A blush is the sign which
nature hangs out to show where chastity and
honor dwells.'"
A French wit said of a man who was
exceedingly fat, that nature only made him to
show how far tho human rkiu would stretch
without breaking.