..JJLUR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: | Morning, December 9, 1858. | .SHctfcb ipottrj. THE TWO ANGELS. BT U. *• LONGFELLOW. ...p.',, onr of Life and one of IVath, ' ruu .j o'er our village at the morning broke ; , |iwn was on their faces, and beneath, - sombre houses hearsed with plumes of smoke. -altitude and aspect were the same. , Kr their features and their robes of white ; , e was crowned with amaranth, a* with tiame, j * v'lone with asphodels. like Hakes of light. ul sank within me. as in wells water* sink before an earthquake's shock. T eoard the nameless agony. •Sf terror and the tremor and the pain, r t re had tilled or haunted me, A _ : i w returned with three-fold strength again. •, dor I o|ened to my heavenly guest, , j, >tened. for I thought I hear God's voice ; , knowing whatso'ecr He sent was best, , . neither to lament nor to rejoice. th a -mile that filled the house with light, gv errand is not Heath, but Life," he said : j. ere 1 an-wered. passing out of sight, a his celestial erotmsy he sped. -*i- at thv d or, O friend ! and not at mine, The with the amaranth wreath, , ■ descended, and with a voice divine *: • -ed a word that had a sound like Heath. T*s Ml ap-'n the house sudden gloom, t thai w on tho-e features fair and thin ; j soft v from the hushed and darkeued room, T* aacels issued where but one went in. • '(I 'll If He but wave his hand, • r t Uect. the rain falls thick and loud, wis smile of light on sea and land, U H< looks back from the departing cloud. . of Life and IVath alike are his ; a .- tH> leave they pass no threshold o'er ; ; th • would wish or dare, believing this, utiat H message to shut the door ? REIPOIR-T OK THE CO. SUPERINTENDENT, Tor the Year ending Jnly 1, 1858. Be necessarily occupied from the 2nd of 1*57. until the 16th of July, in examin : . hers, in the most of the districts, for 1 --nttier schools, I had but little time to o-hools during the summer term. Titis • was however of great advantage in giv v * an opportunity to lx*eome acquainted : i rectors and the patrons of the schools ?ar!v a period in my official labors, but sequence, I have not, eveu yet, been aide •: everv school in the county, which 1 in . to do before visiting any one twice. " s 1 found the teachers as a body anx •ocome better teachers, and desirous of .* Themselves of every opportunity for • imeat. I therefore decided to hold a se f Teachers'lnstitutes, or drills, iu differ .us of the county. In accordance with sr. the first Institute in the county was "*• *ed at Orweli Hill, on the Tth of Sep ' this was followed by others at Smith v, Towanda, and Terry town, respect • rich drill continuing ten days. At those ales five hundred teachers in all atteuded. I i. were drilled, mostly in the elementary 1 ' Ha •. mmon school education. The I day of each was devoted to the examina I f the teachers in the several townsliijw I ited This was an ex}>eriment, and was I .d to work as well as anticipated. In- I ' was tried for the purpose of gaining I • f p vMe. in order that a creator num- I r ays micht be sj>ent in drilling. It was " * h some misgivings ; and, like very I L -y 'T new plans in the educational field, I --n abandoned, not because it was a new .t because it was not a good one. Too I ; "--It cannot he given to the Directors, - sad friends of education generally, a! w th which they entered iuto the •"i -ted in carrying out the arrange the Superintendent relative to those All the teachers iu the county did I 4 d. ami in many instances, the delin- I • were those who stood most in need of I ' >'"] • ~>n given, but, as those meetings "tiuued, at least for the next W ' is hoped and expected, that such I "■ w , hereafter attend, or give up the I f teaching altogether. t -wn-hip there was organized in *s*. a township drill, which promises HH ' tha tcbooU in that district. It is ex '-a: ''. her town* will follow the exam ■ "*•' Xevspttptrs. —The editors of our T ?{ "- have proved themselves to be .s of education, by granting free ■j -* column- whenever they were solie -c purpose of diffusing information I ' \- 'pie The county association is fe -A g. v. work for the schools, and the \ u; =. the quarterly meetings are nu- K '.' at'.'-nJed, and questions of vital ira ■ . the teachers are ably discussed, its : proceedings are always looked for H ' r -er?>t sfp t 1 AAJ —The great majority of oar -- 4 are stiii poor, many being totally * p-rpoaes for which they are used; - yards, shade trees or out-houses; no * v- for pupiL or teachers, and in B uo furniture, uot eveu biack ® x * ver*l gxid houses have however |p i . - durmg the year, aud directors T subject. IB t *" *usthe inhabitants are opposed - r biMM by & patw ui : THE BRADFORD REPORTER. this being the only legal method of building,' the directors cannot, or do not, move in the matter, and people will not. The result is, the old dilapidated houses remain and are used. Some of these difficulties are giving way and directors are beginning to levy a building tax iu districts where such a tax has been hitherto strongly opposed. Too many Houses and Small Schools. —One cause that retards the progress of our schools is the desire among the people to have small districts, or rather the desire of every man who has a family, to have a school near to his dwel ling. Before the passage of the present law, many school-houses were built in small settle ments, to accommodate three or four families. In these houses schools were kept open for two or three months during the year. Now the inhabitants claim the directors must make their immediate neighborhood one of the districts, because there is a school-house in it. The cou sequenee is that more schools are allowed than I are absolutely required, and more thau the people of the town are willing to be taxed to support, cheap teachers are employed, schools I are coutinued iu poor, inconvenient, uncomfort able houses ; the people complain of the high tax aud poor schools ; directors allow the mat- ] ter to remain, not because they believe it for the best, but because they cannot see how to make it better without offending their neigh bors. I do not suppose that this state of things to be peculiar to Bradford, but it is certainly doing much iu this county to make the system unacceptable to the people, In some of the towns in this county directors are taking hold of this matter in earnest in reducing the num ber of schools to the actual wants of the inhab itants. Iu some localities the subjeet ot grad ed schools is beginning to ataract considerable attention, and it is hoped that in the course ot tw o or three years, we shall have several schools of this class iu the county. Teachers. —There are in Bradford a large uuml>er of teachers, most of whom are natives of the county, and inanv every year go to oth er portions of the State to find employment during riie winter. I have granted 2 county and 925 provisional certificates:—almost treble the necessary supply for the county. Among such a Dumber of teachers, there will be some at least, who are not only inefficient, but in many respects, incompetent. So many go to other couuties to get schools, and in many in stances they are our best teachers, that all our schools canuot be supplied with teachers of the first or even of the second grade. There seems to be a disposition to eucourage girls and boys to commence teaching while quite young; several females are engaged in our schools who are under seventeen years of age, and some even are uuder sixteen. The results I in such cases are what every person, who thinks upon the subject, would anticipate. The schools are badly managed, badly governed, if governed at all, and badly taught. I have in every instance discouraged such persons from teaching, and have advised directors to employ persons of more maturity. Notwithstanding, we have some poor teachers in Bradford, some who would do more good and much less harm, by engaging in other departments of industry; some who are in almost every particular unlit tor the responsible position they have assumed. Still we have also a baud of noble, devoted, ambitious, self sacrificing teachers ; teachers, who will compare favorably with those of any other couutv in the State. All are not faith ful. eonipeteut, intelligent, systematic, lire tuck ers ; but many, the most of them, are. All are not itnproviug every means within their reach to become better teachers, but many are ; and my regret is, that, owing to the extent of my field of labor, and the great amount of work to be performed, I have not l>een able to reuder theui more assistance in the commeudable ob ject of self-improvement. PHrectors have evinced willingness as a gen eral thing, to co operate with the Superintend ent in the elevation of the schools of the coun ty. Whenever they have been called upou to visit the schools with him, they have uniformly complied with the request, or have givt-n a val id reason for not complying. The intercourse between them and the Superintendent has been free, familiar, and ultimate, and always of the most friendly character. It is not asserted or supposed, that all of our directors are just such meu as they should be for directors, or-that all do their wnol? duty ; ou the contrary it is to be regretted that the people are oftentimes so thoughtless in regard to the selection of men to fill that office. That, too frequently, the only recommeudation the individual elected presents to the voters, is his opposition to the principle of taxation for school purposes. It is to be regretted also, that they do uot visit the schools more frequently, when not accom panied by the Superintendent, and that they do not look more carefully to the personal and moral qualifications of those to whose care they commit the intellectual, physical, and moral well being of the youth of their respective dis i tricts. While this is admitted, it is claimed that a majority of them are doing well in the dischaige of the im;>orUnt duties imposed up ou them by their fellow citizens. The under signed is nnder lasting obligations to them for their promptness and uniform kiudtiess. The school law is still opposed in many por- I tious of the county. The men who struggled with poverty aud privations in the first settle ment of the*country, aud who educated their families at great expeuse. feel the burden of school tax to be unreasonable, unjust and op pressive ; feeling thus, they are honestly op posed to the system of supporting schools by taxation, this being the opiuion of uiany of our oldest, and most respected citizens, it becomes those who are charged with the administration of the school laws to treat these honestly en tertained views and feelings with candor and fairness. Men of their age and standing in so ciety, do not readily change their opinions and view s upon questions of State policy ; and such changes are seldom if ever produced by at tempts to force opinions upou them. If the subject be judiciously treated, and all officially connected with the school system, are faithful in the discharge of their respective duties, there is good reason to believe that this oppo sition will grow ies a-J utith the whole PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. ! people shall heartily acquiesce in the principle, I that a good English education is one of the " inalienable rights," of every sou aud daugh ter of the " Keystone State." CHARLES R. COBURN, Towanda, July 1,1858. County Sup't. THE WISDOM OF THE CROSS. —Calvary is therefore a place where all the terrors of Divine Majesty conceutrate themselves ; the Cross, a scaffold, aud a place of horrifying revelation of that wrath, which burns down to the lowest hell. Certaiuly so it is. That i bloody scene has, however, another side. Yiew ed from the latter, Calvary appears as a hill, whence cometh our help, and as the fountain ! of our peace ; the Cross as the standard of our liberty, and the true tree of life. The greatest couceivable problem is solved in the cross of Christ, and a contradiction reconciled, thau which there could not have been invented one ' more striking. He that dwells in heaven is faithful, just, aud holy, and a consuming fire ; and yet he must pronounce the wicked pious, j and treat transgressors as righteous. Is he able to do this ? Not without denying himself and being at variance with himself. We can- I not judge otherwise but in this manner : we must regard it as impossible, and the under standing of the most enlightened seraph would have been unabie to discover iu what impos sibility could ever have become possible. Never , theless, blessed be the highly exalted aud onlv wise God ! the greatest of nil enigmas is solv ed, and way to render possible that which is impossible discovered. Hear what Paul says, : with an emphatic repetition : " To declare I , say, at this time, his righteousness, that he I might be just, and the justifier of him that ; beiieveth in Jesus." Have you understood j it ? The bloody execution is the basis on which God, without infringing upou his holiness. S truth, aud justice, eau now readily justify the ungodly, absolve the accursed, and beatify those who are worthy of death. SWEARING. —If ever I wished I had no ears, it is when I hear a boy swearing. Who made ' you ? Who keeps you alive ? Who gave you • a tongue? Who gave you speech? Who clothes and feeds you? Who pat a soul in your body ? Who sent his Son to be your friend and Saviour ? Who opens heaven to , you ? Whose earth do you live on ? Whose sky is over your head ? Whose sun shines up on you ? Whose Sabbath do you rest on ? Ali the answer will be, God. Is be not great and good ? Should you not love him and thank him, and mind him, and enjoy him ? Yet what does the swearer do ? He takes God's name iu vain. Ileuses it upon a thought less and wicked tougue. Did God foresee there would be swearers, and did he make any law against swearing? Yes : " thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name iu vain that is God will hold him guilty who takes his uame in vaiu.— Child's Paper. THE EVIL OK A BAP TEMPER.—A bad tem per is a curse to the possessor, and its influence is most deadly wherever it is found It is al lied to martyrdom to be obliged to live with one of a complaining temper. To hear one eternal round of complaint and murmuring, to have I every pleasant thought scared away by this : evil spirit, is a sore trial It is like the sting |of a scorpion—a perpetual nettle, destroying ! our peace, reudering life a burden. Its influ l , ence is deadly, and the purest and sweetest i atmosphere is contaminated into a deadly , miasma wherever this evil genius prevails. It has been said truly, that while we ought not , to let the bad temj>er of others influence us, it t would l>e as unreasonable to spread a blister j on the skin, and uot expect it to draw, as to think of a family not suffering because of the , bad temf>er of any of its inma'.es. One string 1 out of tune will destroy the inu-i* of au instru ment otherwise perfect ; so if all the members of a church, neighborhood aud family do not cultivate a kind and affectionate temper, there ! will be discord aud everv evil work.— Steele. DISCOVERIES WITH REFERENCE TO THEFI ANET MA RS —It is found that there is not a planet within the reach of our telescopes which pre sents an aspect so like that of the earth as Mars; whose surface is independently of the change able atmospheric influence, shows an ap|>earance of well defined seas and continents—this being found to be very specially the case at the time when the geographical lines of demarcation were so beautifully d.-tinct that Sir John llersohel called attention to them, saying that h- was able to make a tolerable map of the surface. The predominant brightness of the polar re gions leads to the supposition that the poles of Mars, like those of the earth are covered with perpetual snow. The seas are also pronounced to be of a greenish hue. resembling the color i of our own : and the laud a red tint, perhap.l owing to a quality in the prevailing soil. TANNING DEER SK:NS. —The method usually practiced in preparing deer skins for market is as follows: The skins are placed in a barrel of water with enough of ashes to make a weak ; lye. They remaiu there uulil the hair comes off easily with a graining knife, and they are then grained. They are then bung up to dry until they are hard and fliDty, aGd then they are soaked in a little rain water with a little ' ' soft soap ; the water being about blood warm. To dry them wringing is resorted to, and after this process, the wriukles are palled out by the 1 hand. They should uext be smoked with rot -1 ten wood or sawdust, iu a long trench for a ' . day or so, the skius being placed loosely in a box or barrel, and again washed in rain water. ' This process is repeated two or three times and a very well tanned skin is the result. I | THE weathercock, after all, points to the ' highest moral truth, for it shows man that it is a twin* thing to a tpvt. A WOMAN was arrested last week, at Sand - Lake, for not supporting her husband. Is this II one of " woman's rights f " RESARDLE3S OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." [From The Kveniug Post] THE PRIEST AND THE ROBBER. Madame de Beaumont relates the following story ; Last summer, while in the country, I made the acquaintance of a very venerable and worthy Roman Catholic who was up wards of eighty years of age. More thau forty years ago, said lie, I was sent for from the prison for criminals, to con fess a highway robber, condemned to death : r.nd, as was the custom at that time, I was locked up with the prisoner iu the small chupel attached to the prison, i used all the argu ments enjoiued by our holy religion, and did my best to bring the poor fellow to a sense of his terrible situation, aud his urgent need of repentance, but all my efforts appeared to make uo impression. He was absent minded, pre occupied, and did not seem ever to hear me. " Young man," said I, " do you realize the dreadful certaiuly that at sunrise, this very j day, your soul must appear before the throne of God ? Why do you not listen to my exhor tations ; and what at this dread hourean take your thoughts away from your jierilous situa tion ?" " You are right, holy father," said he, "I ought to listen to your kind exhortations, and be grateful for the interest you take iu my sad fate, but I cannot banish the conviction that it is in your power to save my life." " Save your life !" cried I, "how can I save it ? and if I could, ought I attempt it ? If I ; succeeded in saving your life, which 1 consider impossible, 1 should but enable you to go on in your career cf wickedness and crime." j "If that is all that prevents yon from hear ing what I have to say," the |nior fellow repli ed "you may set your conscience at rest, for I am brought too near the scaffold and the fatal axe to again run the ri.-k. Help me to escape, | aud 1 swear from this moment to live aud die I an honest mau." j hat could Ido ? A fellow mortal implo ■ red me to save him from a dreadful death. lie had sinned, but would sin no more. He was young, too, and but for the palenees caused by the foul air of a felons cell, and his own e 1 hesitated, but finally could not resist his earnest entreaties, that I would at least listen to his plan. He at last over came my scruples, and I listened, and in short joined my exertions to his trying to devise how his delivereuee could be brought about The chapel in which we were locked had but one window, which was very near the raft ers of the building, aud more than fifteen feet from the chapel floor. " You," said the pris oner, "have but to put the chair upon that pul pit, which is movable, and be placed agaiust the wall, under the window ; then stand upon the chair ; I will get upoo your shoulders, then spring up to the window, and out of it ; then get npon the roof of the chapel ; and once there, I shall find away to get in safety to the ; ground." This hazardous undertaking was soon accomplished without noise or accident, and after having replaced the pulpit and the chair, I sat down quietly to await the coming of events. After having l>eeu thus seated three or four hours, which my robber employed, no doubt, in a very different manner, the execu tioner and jailer, getting impatient, knocked at the door, came into the cha|tel, were astoiii.-b --ed to find me alone, and a?ked what had be come of the prisoner. "He must be an angel," I answered with all the simplicity and raininess I could assume, "for 1 assure you on the word ' of a priest, he went out of that window." The headsman, who lost his vile pay and [K-rquis ites by this flight of the prisoner, wa of course in a brutal passion, aud, after inquiring in no gentle terms whether I meant to make a fool of him, hurried off to find the magistrates.— They came immediately to thech&pei, I remain ed seated as before. 1 assured thera that the prisoner did take flight through the window ; that the being who could accomplish an act so extraordinary might be looked nj>on as an an | gel—certainly not a criminal ; that I myself I might even beg one possessed of -uch suj>er human power to intercede for sins, in-tead of receiving his confession : and, finallv. if the prisoner was guilty, which could hardly could he the case, in view of hi* miraculous escape, I was not placed there to be his keeper. My manner was calm and serious for mv solitude j of three hours had quieted the nervous agitation I had felt at first. The magistrates h>teued to my recital with evident misgivings, not at ail complimentary to thesouuduess of my intel lect, but, finally laughing contemptuously at my evideut stupidity, they wished my protege a getxf journey, w i.ether on angel's wings orou his feet, and walked away. I quickly walked out of the chapel, breathing, as inav be will imagined, much more freely than I Lad done for tiie iat four eveuttul hours. Some twenty-five years after my robber's flight, I was traveling alone in the forest of Ardennes, so familiarly known to ail readers of Shakespeare. I had lost my way, and night was corning on, w hen I overtook a man dress ed in the garb of the country, who first looked very hard at me, then asked me where I wi.-h --ed to go to, adding that the road we w ere tra veling was extremely dangerous—that if I chose to pat myself under his guidance, be would take me to a peasant's cottage, where I could pass the night in safety. I was in doubt as to my best course, and the scrutinizing look of my rude companion was far from er.cocrag iug. But, I said to myself, lam completely in his power, and if he means to murder aud theu rob me, there is no escape ; and I, there fore followed him with fear and trembling. I was not, however, kept long in the anx ious snpense, for we soon arrived at the cot tage he had mentioned, and my guide, who was its owner, told his wife, as he entered the door way, to lay the [touhry yard under contribu tion, and to prepare the best supj>er she could in honor of her husband's guest, meaniug n.v unworthy self. While they were executing these orders the peasant went on: of the cot tage, bnt soon came back leading in eight chil dren—sons acd daughters "Mr children," he said, " thank this good man on your knees for your lives, for without him you would have never been born, nnd I should not now be alive, he saved my life " I then, in the nmost surprise, looked at my host more closely, and brought to tnind the countenance of the robber whose flight I had aided. I was of course overw helmed with caresses by the children, and received the kiudest attentions from the peas- ant and his wife. When aloue with my host, I asked him to relate his adveutures, and espe cially to tell me how lie had managed to get so welloff in the world as appearauce indicated, " You may remember that I promised to live aud die an honest man," said be, "and from the hour yon have saved my life I have kept my word. 1 begged my way from the prison door to this part of the world, where I was born. I was hired as a farm laborer by the former own- | er of this cottage aud the lands belonging to it, and having gained at hrst the confidence and afterwards the friendship of my employer, he j gave me his daughter, au only child, in mar- i riage. Heaven has blessed luy determination, , and given me strength to lead an honest and useful life. lam rich in the world's goods, but all I possess is yours, and I shall now die in peace, since I have again seen you, and it is in ray power to lie grateful" 1 replied to his warm protestations that 1 was but too well re paid for my agency in effecting his escape from death, by his having made so good use of the years that he had passed. I would not, of course, accept any money from my grateful host, but could not refuse to | remain with him a short time, and no prince could have been better treated. He did, how ever. force upon me one of his horses for the remainder of my journey, and he insisted upon being my guide until 1 was well on my way, and fairly beyoud the reach of danger. ONLY TIGHT.— " How flushed ; how weok lie is ! What's the matter with liina?" " Onlv tight." '■ Tight P " Yes, intoxicated." " Only tight !" Men's lesf and greatest gift, his intellect, degraded ; the only power that rises him from brute creation, trodden uu der f-ot for a debasing appetite. " Only tight the mother stand- with pale face and tear-dimmed eye, to see her onlv -on's disgrace, and in her fancy pictures the bitter woe of which this is the fore-shadow : iQ £- " Only tight !" The gentle sister, whose \ strongest love in life has been given to her handsome, talented brother, shrinks with eon tempt and disgust from his embrace, and brush es away the hot impure kiss he imprints upon , her cheek. "Only tight!" and his young bride stops in the glad dance she is making to meet him. and checks the welcome on her lips to gaze in ter ror on the reeling form and flushed face of him who was the " god of her idolatry." " Only tight ?" and the father's face grows dark and sad as with a bitter sigh he stoops over the sleeping form of his first !>orn. He has brought sorrow to all those affection ate hearts: he has opened the door to a fatal indulgence ; he has brought himself dow : to a level with the brutes ; he ha* tasted, exciting his apj>etite to crave the poisonous draught again ; he has fallen from high and noble manhood, to babbling, idiocity, and heavv stu por ; brought grief to his mother, distrn-t to his sister, almost despair to his bride, and bowed his father's head with sorrow, but blame him not, for lie is " only tight. n GOD BLESS You NY LITTLE FELLOW. — A crippled beggar in a large city was striving to pi k np some old clothes which had !>eeii thrown him from the wiadow, when a crowd of rude j boys gathered about him, mimicking his awk ward movement-, and hooting at his helplessness and rags. Presently a noble little fellow came up, and poshing through the crowd, helped the poor crippled man to pick up his gifts, ar.d place them in a bundle. Then slipping a piece of silver into hi* Lands, he was running awav, when a voice far aljove him said. " Little bov with a straw hat look up !** He did so, and a lady, leaning from au upp*-r window, said earnestly, " God bless yon ray little fellow G->d bless yon for that." The lady was the wife of a man so d stinguished among the great men of the world, that every one of those bovs would have been proud to obtain her approba ; ti-m : and when she wrote down his name as one -he wished to remember, he felt more than paid for al! that he had done. A- lie walked along he thought how glad lie had made his own heart by doing good. He thought of the : poor beggar's grateful hx>k ; then of the lady's smile, and the w;-ri!s of appr val : and last, and iK-tter than all. he could almost hear his Ileav mly Father whispering, " BK-sed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercv." Little reader, w hen you have an apjKirtunity to do good, aud feel tempted to neglect it, remember "the little boy with the straw hat." OVERDOING THE THING. —The Mobile Jltr rury gives an am::-:ng account of a negro baje tismal scene in Mississippi, wherein a negro known as Big Will figured conspicuously.— Despite Will's irreverence we pobiish the story. | " The bottom of the creek was of siipjtery soap stone, which, just liejoud the p>iut waere a sufficient depth was obtained for a pop>-r administration of the ordinance, broke suddenly off into a deep hole. Big Will attempted to to do s directed, but like his race in matters of religion generally, overdid the thing ; his feet slipped from under him, and down he went iuto the deep hole, dragging the minister along with him. The a-tonisbed crowd was horrifi ed as they both disappeared beneath the sur face. For a few seconds bubbles rose to the | surface to mark the spot where they went down, and then Big Wiii aroe snorting and spouting water hke a porpoise. A s Will regained the shelving rock and made towards dry the minister was discovered clinging to his leg with bull dog tenacity. As soon as Will's sp*-ech returned to him he was hard to exclaim, " Gosh, IGor A'mighty, white folks some on you gwine to 10.-e a u:gg<_: w.d thLs u—-> —d fuvi.shuecs 1" VOI,. XIX. NO. 27. YOLK So.x SHOULD LUAU.V A TRADE. —Tbeic is an important feature in the regulations of u master mechanic, which is frightful to some kind parent's hearts. And that is, the five to seven years apprenticeship the boy that learns a trade must submit to. But it is excellent discipline. It takes the lad at H critical period of life, when he perhaps has a disposition averse to steady employment—when he is in clined to roam at large amid the contaminat ing influences about him, and puts upon him a steady round of duties, severe at first, but soon becoming from habit agreeable : and when his steady habit and industry ure established, be comes forth a man, the master of a trade, of fixed principles and good habits--a blessing to himself and community. If parents would but look at this right they would declare that, had they many sons, they should learn trades. Contrast the youth just alluded to, with him, who having a horror of an apprenticeship is allowed to run at large.— At the roost critical moment of his life for forming habits, he is forming those that are the reverse of industry. He is not fitting himself to be a man, by wearing away his boyhood in idleness. The pratica! parent sees this,'yet has not the fortitude to avert it. At 21 yeurs of age, when the first-named lad come out a good machanic, it is wonderful if the other has not fastened habits upon himself that will be bis ruin, if lie lie not ruined already ! More than one excellent man in our community, can say with thankfulness, that it turned out so, that to hi* half dozen years' apprenticeship he knows lie is indebted for the habits of industry and sobriety be has obtained. That when he was put out to a trade, he was put on a pivot, as it were. Had it not been for the firmuess of his parents he would not hove become nn ap prentice. If he had not done so, scarcely a doubt he has that he should have been a ruin ed lad ere his minority expired. This was the turning point. SALT. —Salt is indispensable to man as a part of his food. It is stated that with every bushel of ilour, about one iouud of salt is used in making bread alone. Every adult consumes about two ounces of salt weekly. The omis sion of a proper quantity of it in our food favors the engenderiug of disease. We read that when the ancient laws of Holland ordain ed men to be kept on bread alone, nnmixed with salt, as the severest punishment that could be inflicted njion them in their moist climate, the effect was horrible ; the wretchedcrimin alt are said to have been devoured bv worms.— M ungo I'ark mentions that lie suffered great in convenience from the scarcity of this article ; " The long nse of vegetable food created so painful a longing for salt no words can suffi ciently describe it." Almost all graminivirous animals seem to have the same necessity for the use of salt in their food as man. An ex emption from the rot is generally enjoyed by sheep fed on the salt marshes, or when salt is regularly mixed with their food. In the States of La Plata, in South America, the sheep and cattle, when they discover a pit of salt clay, ru-di to feed upon it : and. in the struggle, rnar.v are trodden to death. ID Upper Canada the cattle have an abundance of wild pasture to brow-e ot in the woods ; but once a fortnight they return to the farm of their own accord, in order to obtain a little salt ; and when they have eaten it, mixed with their fodder, return again to the woods. Salt is new used exten sively in England and all Europe, for fattening cattle. In Spain, they attribute the fineness of their woo! to the quantity of salt given to their sheep, lu England, one thousand sheep consumes at the rate of a ton of salt annually. GUSTS. —The bed of Og was 27 feet long and 7 feet broad. The height of Goliab wan 11 feet—his coat weighed loOnnd his spear head 1!) jiounds. The body of Oresies, sou of Agamemnon, leader of the Grecian expedition against Troy, was 111-2 feet high. The giant Gaibara. brought from Africa to Kooie in the first century, A. D., was ten feet high, and a woman 10 feet—Maxima.-, a native of Spain, the Iloman Emperor, was 0 feet high. Maxi ma-, originally from Thrace, another Roman Emper. r, was 8 1-2 feet high. His wife's bracelets served him lor finger rings His strength such that lie could draw a loaded wagon, break a horse'.- juw with his fUt, crash the harde-t -tone- with his fingers and cleave trees with his hands. His voracity was equal to his strength, eating 40 jiounds of flesh and drinking 18 bottles of wine daily. Brvne and O'Brien, Irish giauts, were S feet high. A Tenues-eaii giant lately died 7 1-2 feet high, weighing m 7 feet n juches high. Tha Canadian giant 8 feet high. EVFRV MAN'S LIFE A PI.AX OF Gon—Everv human soul has a complete aud perfect plan, clterished for it in the heart of God— a divine biography marked out winch it enters into life, to live. Tnis life rightfully unfolded, will be a complete and beautiful whole, au experience led on bj God and ui.folded by the secret na ture of the world ; a drama cast in the mould of a |>erfecl art, with uo tmrt wanting, a divine study for the man himself, and for others ; a study that shall forever unfold, in wondrous beauty, the love and fatthl'ulueasof God ; great in it cou eption, great in the I'iviue skill by winch it is sh|ed ; above all. great in the mo mentous and glorioas iawev it prepares. What a thought is this for every human son! toeheriah What dignity does it add to life ! What sup port does it bring to the iriai of life ! What inducement does it add to send as oo iu everything thut constitutes our excellence I We live m :be Ihviue thought. We fill a p.ace in the great everlasting, plan of God's iiiielhger.ee. We uever sing oelow h;s chord— never drop out of his counsel. " THF. ministry have thrown me oveiboard." sail a disappointed politician, "bat I've strength enough to >w!m to the oiber side." Five glasses o: vLLkey&tula gallon of beer will eaablc oae to a sc:. Scfpcut wa*u ou err iacd.