(HE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
Thursday Morning, June 16, 1859.
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HAUNTED HOUSES.
BT HKNRT W. LONGFELLOW.
All house* wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through th open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floor.
We meet thera et the door way, on the stair,
Along the passages they come and go.
Impalpable impressions on the air,
A sense of something moving to and fro.
There are more guests at table than the hosts
Invite ; the illuminated hall
Is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts,
As silent as the pictures on the wall.
The strangei at my fireside cannot see
The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ;
But he perceives what is ; while unto me
All that has been is visible and clear.
Wc have no title-deeds to house and lands ;
Owners and occupants of other dates
From graves forgotten streteh their dusty hands,
Aud hold in mortmain still their old estates.
The spirit world around this world of sense
Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
Wafts thro' these early mists and vapors dense
A vital breath of more ethereal air.
Our little lives are kept in equipoise
By opposite attractions and desires ;
Tbe struggle of the instinct that enjoys,
And the more noble instinct that aspires.
These perambulations, this perpetual jar
Of earthly wants and aspirations high,
Come from the influence of an unseen star.
An undiscovered planet in the sky.
And as the moon from some dark gate of clond
Throws o'er the sea a floating bridge of light,
Across whose trembling planks our fancies crowd,
Into the realm of mystery and night—
So from the world of spirits there descends
A bridge of light, connecting it with this,
O'er whose unsteady floor, tha sways and bends,
Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss.
jse ltcltb Calf.
[From the Atlantic Monthly.]
LOO LOO.
i FEW SfEIKS FROM I TRIE HISTORY.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
SCENE 111.
IN a worltl like this, it is ranch easier to plan
generous enterprises than to crry them into
effect. After Mr. Noble had purchased the
child, he knew not how to provide a suituble
home for her. At first, he placed her with his
colored washerwoman. But if she remained in
that situation, though her bodily wants would
be well cared for. she must necessarily lose
much of the refinement infused into her by that
environment of elegance, aud that atmosphere
o! love. He did not enter into my analysis of
his motives iu wishing her to be so far educa
ted as to be a pleasant companion for hims.-lf
The only question he asked himself was, How
he would like to have his sister treated, if she
had been placed in such unhappy circumstan
ces. He knew very well what construction
would be put upon his proceedings, in a socie
ty where handsome girls of her parentage were
marketable ; and he had so long tacitly acqui
esced in the customs uround him, thai In* might
easily have viewed her in that light himself,
had she not become invested with a teuder and
sacred interest from the circumstances in which
he had first seen her, and the innocent, confid
ing manner in which she had implored him to
supply the place of her father. She was al
ways presented to his imagination as Mr. Dun
can's beloved daughter, never as Mr. Jack
son's slave. He said to himself, " May God
bless me according to my dealings with this or
phan ! May I never prosper, if I take advan
tage of her frieudless situation."
As for his protegee, she was too ignorant of
the world to be disturbed by any such thoughts.
" May I call you Papa, as I used to call my
father ?" said she.
For some reason, undefined to himself, the
title was unpleasant to him. It did not seem
as if his sixteen years seniority need place so
wide a distance between them. " No," he re
plied, " you may be my sister." And thence
forth she called him brother Alfred, and he
called her Loo Loo.
His cariosity was naturally excited to learn
ail be could of her history ; aud it was not long
before he ascertained that her mother was a
superbly handsome quadroon, from New Or
leans, the daughter of a French merchant,who
had given her many advantages of education,
but from carelessness had left her to follow the
condition of her mother, who was a slave. Mr.
Duncan fell iu love with her, bought her, and
remained strongly attached to her until the
day of his death. It had always been his in
tentiou to manumit her, but, from inveterate
habits of procraNtination, he deferred it, till
the fatal fever attacked them both ; and so Aw
child was also left to follow the condition of
her mother." Having neglected to make a
will, his property was divided amoug the sons
of sisters married at a distance from him. and
thus the little daughter, whom he had so fond
ly cherished, became the property of Mr Jack
son, who valued her as be would a handsome
colt likely to bring a high price in the market.
She was too young to understand all the de
gradation to which she would bo subjected, but
•he had once witnessed an auction of slaves,
•ad the idea of being sold filled her with ter
ror fcoe had endured six months of corrod
ing homesickness and constant fear, when Mr.
Noble caiue to her rescue.
After a few weeks passed with tbe colored
washerwoman, she was placed with au elderly
French widow, who was glad to eke oat her
n!i income by taking motherly care of ber,
•ad giving ber instructions in music aadFreach.
Trt ca;te to which she bo onged on the troth
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
er's side was rigorously excluded from schools,
therefore it was not easy to obtain for her a
good education in the English branches. These
Alfred took upon himself ; and a large portion
of his evenings was devoted to hearing her les
sons in geography, arithmetic, and history.—
Had any one told him, a year before, that
hours spent thus would have proved otherwise
than tedious, he would have believed it. But
there was a romantic charm about this secret
treasure, thus singularly placed at his diposal;
and the love and gratitude he inspired gradu
ally became a necessity of his life. Sometimes
he felt sad to think that the time must come
when she would cease to be a child, and when
the quiet, simple relatiou now existing between
them must necessarily change. He said to
the old French lady, " By and by, when I can
afford it, I will send her to one of the best
schools at the North. There she can become
a teacher and take care of herself." Madame
Labasse smiled, shrugged her shoulders, and
said, " j\ous tenons." She did not believe
it.
The years glided on, and all went prosper
ously with the young merchant. Through va
rious conflicts with himself, his honorable res
olution remained unbroken. Loo Loo was still
his sister. She had become completely en
twined with his existence. Life would have
been very dull without her affectionate greet
ing*, her pleasant little 6ongs, and the grace
ful dances she had learned to perform so well
Sometimes, when he had passed a peculiarly
happy evening in this fashion, Madame La
basse would look mischeivous, and say, " But
when do you think you shall send her to that
school ?" True, she did uot often repeat this
experiment ; for when she did it, the light
went cut of his countenance, as if an extin
guisher were placed upon his soul. " I ought
to do it," he said within himself ; " but how
can 1 live without her?" The French widow
was the only person aware how romantic aud
how serious was this long epistle in his life.—
Some gentlemen, whom he frequently met in
business relations, knew that he had purchased
a young slave, whom he had placed with a
French woman to be educated ; but he had
told them the true state of the case, they would
have smiled incredulously. Occasionally, they
uttered some joke about the fascination which
made him so indifferent to cards and horses ;
but the reserve with which he received such
jests checked conversation on the subject, and
all, except Mr. Grossman, discontinued such
attacks, after one or two experiments.
As Mr. Noble's wealth increased, the wish
grew stronger to place Louisa iu the midst of
as much elegance as had surrounded her iu
childhood. Whan the house at Pine Grove
was unoccupied, they often went out there, ai.d
it was his delight to see her stand under a Go
thic arch of trees, a beautiful tableau rirant,
framed ir. vines. It was a place so full of heart
memories to her, that she always lingered there
as long as possible, and never left it without
a sigh. In one place was a free which her fa
ther had planted, in another a rose or a jessa
mine her mother had trained. But dearest of
all was a recess among the pine-trees, on the
side of a hill. There was a rustic garden-chair,
where her father had often sat with her upon
his knee, reading wonderful story-books, bought
for her on his summer excursions to New York
or Boston. In one of her visits with Alfred,
she sat there and read aloud from " Lalla
Rookh " It was a mild winterday. The sun
light came mellowed through the evergreens,
a soft carpet of scarlet foliage was thickly
strewn beneath their feet, and the air was red
olent of the balmy breath of pines. Fresh and
happy in the glow of her fifteen surpmers, how
could she otherwise than enjoy the poem ? It
was like sparkiing wine in a jewelled goblet.
Never before had she read anything aloud in
tones so musically modulated, so full of feeling.
And the listener ? How worked the wine in
him ? A voice within him said, "Remember
your vow, Alfred ! this charming Loo Loo is
your adopted sister"; and he tried to listen
to the warning. She did not notice his tre
mor, when he rose hastily, aud said. "The sun
is nearly setting. It is time for my sister to
go home.
" Home!" she repeated with a sigh, " Thu
is my home. I wish I could stay here always.
I feel as it the spirits of my father aud mother
were with us here." lie sighed for an ivory
palace inlaid with gold, he would have wished
to give it to her—he was so much in love !
A few months afterward, Pine Grove was
offered for sale. He resolved to purchase it,
and give her a pleasant surprise by restoring
her old home, on her sixteeulh birthday. Mad
ame Labas>e, who greatly delighed in manag
ing mysteries, zealously aided in the prepara
tions. When the day arrived, Alfred propos
ed a long ride with Loo Loo, iu honor of the
anniversary; and during their absence, Mad
ame, accompanied by two household servants,
established herself at Pine Grove. When Al
fred returned from the drive, he pioposed to
stop and look at the dear old place, to which
his companion joyfully asseuted. Bat nothing
could exceed her astonishment at finding Mad
ame Labasse there, ready to preside at a table
spread with fruit aud flowers. Her feeliugs
overpowered her for a moment, when Alfred
aid, " Dear sister, you said you wished you
could live here always ; and this shall hence
forth be vour home."
" You are too good !" she exclaimed, and
was abont to burst into tears. Bat he arrest
ed the r course by saying, playfully, " Come,
Loo Loo. kis mr hand, and say, 'Thank you
Sir, for buying me.' Say it just as yoa did
six years ago, you little witch !"
Her swimming eyes seemed like sunshine
through an April shower, and she went throagb
tbe pautomiue, which she had often before per
formed at his binding. Madame stepped in
with her little jest: " But, Sir when do you
think yoa shall send her to that pension ?"
" Never mind,,' he replied, abruptly ; " Let
os be happy !" And he moved toward tbe ta
ble to distribute the fruit.
It was an inspiring spring day. and ended it
the loveliest of evenings. The air was filled
with the sweet breath of jeeaneioes and orange
blossoms. Madame tone bed the piano, and,
Jo quirk cbediecre to the eirclinf ecind, A1
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS or DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
Fred and Loo Loo began to waltz. It was
long before youth and happiness grew weary
of tbe revolving make. But when at last she
complained of dizziness, he playfully whirled
her out upon tbe piazza, and placed her on a
lounge under the Cherokee rose her mother
had trained, which was now a mass of blos
soms. He seated himself in front of her, and
they remained silent for some moment, watch
ing the vine-shadows play in the sunlight. As
Loo Loo leaned on the balustrade, the cluster
ing roses hung over her in festoons, aud trailed
on her white muslin dra|>ery. Alfred was
struck, as he had been many times before, with
the unconscious grace of her attitude. In im
agination, he recalled his first vision of her ear
ly chilhood, the singular circumstances that
had united their destinies, and the thousand
endearing experiences which day by day had
strengthened the tie. As these thoughts
passed through his mind, he gazed upon her
with devouring interest. She was too beauti
ful, there in tbe mooulight, crowned with
roses !
" Loo Loo, do you love me V* he eiclafm
ed.
The vehemence of his tone startled her, as
she sat there in a mood still and dreamy as the
landscape.
She sprang up, and putting her arras abont
his neck, answered. " Why, Alfred, you know
your sister loves you."
" Not as a brother, not as a brother, dear
Loo Loo," he said, impatiently, as he drew her
closely to his breast. " Will you be my love?
Will you be my wife ?"
In the simplicity of ber inexperience, and the
confidence induced by long habits of familiar
reliance upon him, she replied, " I will beany
thing you wish."
No flower was ever more unconscious of a
lover's burning kisses than she was of the strug
gle in his breast.
His feelings had been purely compassionate
in the beginning of their intercourse ; his in
tentions had been purely kind afterward ; but
he had gone on blindly to the edge of a slip
pery precipice. Humau iiature should avoid
such dangerous passes.
Reviewing that intoxicating evening in a
calmer mood, he was dissatisfied with his con
duct. In vain he said to himself that he had
but followed a universal custom ; that all his
acquaintance would have laughed iu his face,
had he to'd them of the resolution so bravdy
kept during six years. The remembrance of
his mother's counsels came freshly to his mind;
and the accusing voice of conscience said, "She
was a friendless-orphan,whom misfortune ought
to have rendered sacred. What to you is the
sanction of custom ? Have you uot a higher
law within your own breast ?"
He tried to sileuce the monitor by saying,
" When 1 have made a little more money, I
will return to the North. I will marry Loo
Loo on the way, and she will lie acknow'edg
ed to the world as my wife, as she is now with
in my own soul."
Meanwhile, the ophan lived in her father's
house, as her mother had lived before her. She
never aided the voice of Alfred's conscience by
pleading with him to make h°r his wife ; for
stie was completely satisfied with her condition,
and had undoubting faith that whatever he did
was always the wisest and tbe best.
SCENE IV.
They had lived thus nearly a year, when,
one day as they were riding on horseback. Al
fred saw Mr. Grossman approaching. "Drop
your veil," he r-aid quickly, to his companion ;
for he could not bear to have that Satyr even
look upon his hidden flower. The cotton-bro
ker noticed the actios, but silently touched his
hat, and passed with a significant smile on his
uncomeh countenance. A few days afterwards
when Alfred had gone to his business in the
city, Loo Loo strolled to her favorite recess on
the hill side, and lounging on the rustic seat,
began to read the second volume oP'Thaddens
of Warsaw." She was so deeply interested in
the adventures of the noble I'ole, that she for
got herself and all her surroundings. Masses
of glossy d irk bair fell over the delicate hand
that supported her head ; the morning-gown
of pink French muslin, fell apart, and reveal
ed a white embroidered <-kirt, from beneath
which obtruded one small foot, in an open
work silk stockihgs ; the slipper having fallen
to the ground. Thus absorbed, she took no
note of time, and might have remained until
summoned to dinner, had not a slight rustling
disturbed her. She looked up. and saw a coarse
face peering at her between the pine boughs,
with a disgustiug expression. She at once re
cognized the inan they had met during their
rtde ; and starting to her feet, she ran like a
deer before the hnnter. It was not till she
came near the house, that she WHS aware of ha
ving left her slipper. A servant was sent for
it, but returning saying it was not to be found
She mourned over tiie loss, for the littie pink
kid slippers, embroidered with silver, were a
birthday present from Alfred. As soon as he
returned, she told him the adventure, and went
with him to search in tbe arbor of pines. The
incident troubled him greatly. "Whata nox
ious serpent, to come crawling into our Eden!"
he exclaimed. " Never come here alone again,
dearest ; and never go far from the house, un
less Madame is with yon."
Her circles of enjoyment was already small,
excluded as she was from society bv her anom
alous position, and educated far above the caste
in winch the tyranny aud custom so absurdly
placed her. But it is one of the blessed laws
of compensation, that the heman soul cannot
miss that to which it has never been accus
tomed. Madaroe's motherly care, and Alfred's
unvarying tendeme*?, snfficed her cravings for
afiection ; and for amusement, she took refuge
in books, flowers, birds, and those changes of
natural scenery for which her lover had such
quickness of eye. It was a privation to give
up her solitary rambles iu the groonds, ber in
spection of birds' nests, and her readings in
thai pleasant alcove of pines. Bat she more
than acquiesced in Alfred's prohibition. She
said at oooe that she would rather be apriaooer
within the house all ber days than ever to see
thai odious face again.
Alfred fell so Impulse to seize h' by the
throat, and strangle him on the spot. But
why should he make a scene with such a man,
aud thus draw Loo Loo's name into painful
notoriety ? The old roue was evidently trying
to ferment a quarrel with him. Thorouglv ani
mal in every department of bis nature, lie was
boastful of brutal courage, and prided himself
npon having killed several men iu duels. Al
fred conjectured his line of policy, and resolved
to frustrate it. He therefore coolly replied,
" I have seen such slippers ; they are very
pretty and turned away, as if the subject
were indifferent to hiru.
"Coward!" muttered Grossman as he left
tbe counting-room. Mr. Noble did uot hear
him ; aud if he had it would not have altered
his course. He could see nothing enviable in
the reputatiou of being ever ready for brawls,
and a dead shot in duels ; aud he knew bis life
was too important to the friend less Loo Loo
to be thus foolishly risked for the gratification
of a villiao. This incident renewed his feelings
of remorse for the false position iu which lie
had placed the young orphan, who trusted him
so entirely. To hisgeuerous nature, the wrong
seemed all the greater, because the object was
so unconscious of it. "Itis I who have sub
jected her to the insolence of this vile man,"
he said within himself. " But I will repair the
wrong. Innocent, confiding soul that she is, 1
will protect her. The sanction of marriage
shall shield her from such affrouts."
A!a9, for poor humau nature ! He was Kin
cere in his resolutions, but he was not quite
strong euougb to face the prejudices of the so
ciety in which he lived. Their sneers would
have fallen harmless. They could uot hu\e
taken from him a single thing he reailv valued.
But be had uot learned to understand that the
dreaded power of public opiuiou is purely fabu
lous, when uiibustuiiied by the voice of con
science. So he fell into the old snare of moral
compromise. He thought the best he could do
under the circumstances, was to hasten the pe
riod of his departure for the uortb, to marry
Loo Loo iu Philadelphia, and to remove to
some part of the couutry where her private his
tory would remain unknown.
to muke mouey for this purpose he, had
more and more extended his speculations, and
they had uuiformiy proved profitable, if Mr.
Grossman's offensive conduct had not forced
upou him a painful consciousness of his position
wuh regard to the object of his devoted affec
tion, he would have liked to remaiu iu Mobile
a few years longer, and accumulate more ; but,
as it was, he determined to remove as soon as
he could arrange his affairs satisfactorily. He
sat about it in good earnest But, alas ! the
great pecuniary crash of 1?>37 was at haud. —
liv every mail came news of failures where he
j expected paymeuts. The wealth whicD had
; seeuied to be so certain a fact a few months
before, where had it vanished ? It Lad flouted
1 away, like a prismatic bubble on the breeze
He saw that ruin was inevitable. All that lie
' owned in the world would uot cancel his debts.
Aud now came the horrible lecoilectiou that
Loo Loo was a part of his property. Much
as he had blamed Mr. Duncau lor negligence
I in not manumitting her mother, he had tallen
i into the same snare, in the fullness of his
prosperity and happiness he did not compre
hend the risk he was running by delay. He
j rarely thought of the fact tbut she wus legally
: his slave ; aud when it did occur to him it was
always accompauicd with the rcccollectiou that
i tbe laws of Alubamadid not allow him to
emaucipaie ber without K end;ug her uwuy from
the State But this uever troubled him, be
cause there was aiw'ays present with him that
vision of goiug to tbe North and making her
his wife. So time slipped away, without his
tuking unr precautious ou the subject ; aud
now it was too late. Immersed in debt as he
was, the law did not allow him to dispose of
anything without the conseut of his creditors ;
and he owed teu thousand dollars to Mi Gross
man. Oh, agony ! sharp agouy !
There was a meeting of the creditors. Mr
Noble rendered an account of all his property,
: in which he was compelled to iuclude LouLoo;
but lor her heoffered to give a note for fiiteeu
hundred dollars, with good endorsement, pay
abie with interest in a year. It was known
that hi? attachmeut for the orphan he had edu
cated amounted to almost infatuution ; und
his proverbial integrity inspired so much re
spect, that the creditors were disposed to grant
him any indulgences not incompatible with their
own interests They agreed to accept the prof
fered note, all except Mr. Grossman, lie in
sisted tliut the girl should be put up at auction
For her sake the ruined merchant condescend
ed to plead with him. lie represented that the
lie between them was very UilTeretit from the
merely convenient connections which were so
cemmon ; that Loo Loo was really good and
modest, and so sensitive by nature, that expo
sure ts public sale would nearly kill her. lue
seifish creditor remained inexorable. Itie very
fact that this delicate flower had been careful
ly sheltered from the mud and dust of the wu v
side, rendered her A more desirable prize, lie
coolly declared that ever s.nce he had seen her
in the arbor, he had been determined to have
her ; and now that fortune had put tiie chance
iu his power, no money should induce him to
relinquish it.
The sale was inevitable ; aud the enly re
maining hope was, that some kiud friend might
be induced to buy her. Ttiere was a gentle
man in the city whom I wiil call Frank Help
er, be was a Kentuekiau by birth, kmd and
open-beurU-d— a slave holder by habit, not by
nature. Warm feelings of regard had long ex
isted between him and Mr. Noble ; aui to him
the brokeu merchant applied for advice iu this
torturing emergency. Though Mr.Helper was
possessed of but moderate means, he had origi
nally agreed to endorse his fneud's note for fif
teen buudrcd dollars ; and he promi-ed to em
powor some one to expend three thoosaud dol
lars iu the purchase of Loo Loo.
" It is uot hkely we shall be obliged to par
so moch," said he. " Bad debts are pouring
in upon Grossman, and he hasn't a mint of
money to spare, however big be may talk. We
will begin by offering fifteeu hundred dollars ;
and she will probably be bid off for two thoo
seod."
"B!d off' O ray Go* V •jell!:** tha
wretched man. lie bowed his head upon his
out stretched arms, and the table beneath him
shook with his convulsive sobs. Ills frit i d
was unprepared for such an overwhelming out
burst of emotion He did not understand, no
one but Alfred himself could understand the
peculiarity of the ties that bound him to that
poor orphan.
Recovering from his unwonted mood he Hi
quired whether there was no possible way of
avoiding a sale.
" I am sorry to say that there i 9 no way,
my friend," replied Mr. Helper. "Toe laws
invest this man with power over you ; and
there is nothing left for us but to undermine
his projects. It is a hazardous business, as vou
well know. You must not appear iu it, neith
er can I ; for I am known to be your intimate
friend. But trust the whole affair ro me, nnd
I think I can bring it to a successful issue."
The hardest thing of all was to apprize the
poor girl of her situation. She had never
thought of herself as a slave, and what a ter
rible awakening was this lrcm her drearn of
happy security ! Alfred deemed it most kind
and wise to tell her of it himself; but he dread
ed it worse than death. He expected she
might swoon ; he even feared it might kill her
But love made her stronger than he thought
When, sfter much circumlocution, he arrived
fit the crisis of the story, she pressed her hand
hard upon her foreheod, and seemed stupefied.
Then she threw herself into his arms,and they
wept, wept, wept, till their heads seemed crack
ing with the ugony
"Oh, the avenging Nemesis!" exriaimed
Alfred at list. " I have deserved all this. It
is all mv own fault. I ought to have carried
you away from these wicked luws. I ought to
have married yoQ. Truest, most affectionate
of friends, bow cruelly I have treated yon !
you, who put the wellare of your life so COH
fidinglv into my hands !''
She rose np from bis boom, aud looking him
lovingly in the face replied—
"Never say that, dear Alfred ! Never have
such a thought again ! Yoa have been the
best and kindest friend that woman ever had
If I forgot that I was a slave, is it strange
that you should forget it ? But, Alfred, I will
never be the slave of any other man—never !
I will never be put upon the auction staud. I
will die first !"
"Nay, dearest, make no rash resolutions,"
I have friends who promi?e to save you, arid
restore us to each other. The form of the sale
is unavoidable. So, for my sake, consent to
the temporary humiliation. Will vou, darl
ing V
He hud never before seen such an expres
sion in her face. Her eyes flashed, her nos
trils dilated, and she drew her breath like one
in the agonies of death. Then pressing his
band with a nervous grasp, she answered—
" For your sake dear Alfred, I will."
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
THE FAMILY CIRCLE —The Baltimore Sun,
nliudiug to the prevalence of crime nmcng
boys, properly asserts that one of the main
causes of the decline of morality is the decay
of parental discipline. The family circle, the
domestic hearth, is the true fountain of purity
or corruption to public morals. Most people
become w hat they are made at home. They go
forth into the world to act out the character
they have formed in the first fourteen year? of
their lives It is alleged in excuse that chil
dren have become more unmanageable than
they used to be. We reply that human nature
and human relations are unchanged. Children
are just as amenable to authority as they ever
were This is the main purpose for which Pro
vidence has made them helpless aud dependent
—that they may be trained to obedience, or
der, industry, and virtue It is not true that
parents have not absolute control over the ir
children as they ever bad Where there is de
pendence, obedience tnav be enforced. The real
fact is, that parents are too indolent, to indif
ferent, to take pains to train up their children
in the way they should tro. It requires perpet
ual vigilance, and they get tired, it requires
self-control to exercise a proper authority over
others. Self conquest is the greatest victory
of all. There can be no just parental discipline
w here there is no character to back it.
CUIMOUS CALCULATION —The vast number of
inhat itants who do live, and have lived, npon
the fa.-c of tbe earth, appears at first sight, to
defy the powers of calculation. But if we sup
pose the world to have existed six thousand
vears ; that there now exist one thousand
millions ; that a generation passes away in
thirty years ; that every past generation arer
ages the present ; and that four Individuals
stand on one square yard, we w iil find that
the whole number will not occupy a compass
so ere it as one fourth the extent of England.
Allowing rix thousand years since the creation
and a generation to pa-s away in thirty years,
we shall have two hundred generations, which
at one hundred millions earn, will be two hun
dred thousand millions, which being divided
by four persons to a squire yeard, wiil leave
fifty thousand nrliions of -quare yards ; there
are, in a mile square, three millions, ninety
seven thousand, six hundred qu ire yards ; by
which, if the former sum lie divided, it will
give sixteen thousand one hundred and thirty
three square uiies, the root of which, in whole
n imlieis, s abont one i.undred and twenty seven
so that one hundred and twenty-seven mt'es
square will be found sufficient to contuiu the
immense and almost inconceivable number of
two hundred t'iionand millions of hamon beings
which vast number rather outnumbers the
second? of time that have passed since creation
—English Paper.
fgff" A rchoolboy of abont six years of age
approached the master with a bold look and
self-coufident air, when the following dialogue
ensued :
" May I be dismissed, sir?"
" What reosoo have you for makirg the re
quest, Tboraae ?"
" 1 -reef to take my woexu out f'esg+'og,
VOI.. XX. —xo. •>.
MORTAMT V OF Cuit.DßEx ix KISSIA.—A ter
rible picture of the mortality of ciii!dreu in
Russia is given in a joumai culled the Ilo*sij
Dnrmik. It appears that H vai-t proportion of
this premature death i*> assignable to that caru-
Itssness of mothers, which continually expos®
children to fatal accidents. " The indifference
of our pea c utry, M observed a writer in the
journal above mentioned." with respect to their
children exceeds ail belief. They give them
selves not the least concern about tbeir off
spring. The consequence is that only u very
small proportion of the children brought into
the worivi reach maturity. The mortality of
chil iren tinder livo years of age is, no doubt,
considerubio in all countries, but in Russia It
is frightful. .Many more than one-half of ths
ci iidreu t>orn in this country die in the very
earliest period of infancy. One-eighth die be
tween the ages of five and tea, uad another
eighth between ten and twenty ; thus threu
fonrths perish before reaching mature agw.
Where ure we to look for the cao.se of tbis
mortality '{ It cannot be referred to climate,
f<-r throughout the whole extent of Russia
there is no cliuiute more inimical to health
than that of St. Petersburg; and yet iu the
capital the deaths in infancy ure not. es in oth
er parts of the empire, in ibe proportion of one
half, but only of one-third, to the births. The
reasou is that the children are more cared for,
and their physical development is better at
tended to iu St. Petersburg tbun iu the prov
inces. The ignorance a-d superstition of the
lower classes of the people have, iu many In
stances. a most fatal influence on the manage
ment of children. Of this, the following facts
afford a melancholy example. Last Aogast
small pox of a very maliguaut character broke
out in several villages of the govermeut of Vo
ronetz, and made fearful ravages among th®
children of both sexes. The activity of th®
disease was considerably heightened by the bu
mid climate, the uncleanliness of the people, the
bad quality and ecantiness of food, and the ig
norance and cegl.gence of mothers iuthe treat
ment of patients. A physician residing iu one
of the iufected districts found a young cbiid
suffering under a most terrible attack of small
pox. lie offered his professional assistance,
which wus obstinately rejected by the mother,
who observed that if it were written that her
child must die, no doctor could save him How
ever, the poor woman was fondly attached to
her child, and at length she yielded to thedoo
tor's recommendations, and 6aid : " Well you
may try to cure bim, and may God help you •
On being a-ked why the child bad not been
vaccinated, she replied that when the men came
into the vlllcge to vaccinate the children she
hid her boy, and though the men came into her
hut several times they could not find him Yac
ciiia'ios., she observed, was an impious practice,
and she could r.ot charge her conscience with
the eiu of making her child a victim of it
' But,' said the doctor, ' you could have b®eu
ccmjK-lied to have your child vaccinated.' Th®
woman shook her head sorrowfully, and wept.
Another woman who happeued to be present,
said that she had a child, and that if any doc
tor were to vaccinate it she would suck th®
matter or tveu bite out the piece of flesh with
her teeth to prevent the diabolical operation
taking effect This opinion on the subject of
vaccination is gatieral among the Ruskolmks,
or schematics, of thedistricl of Kcrotoiak; but
it also prevaiN in districts in which there ta BO
schism The Russian peasantry generally look
upon a doctor with distrust : and, iu cases of
sickness, they invariably prefer the assistance
of the village sorcerer."— Bulletin.
Work —There is a peculiar nobleness and
even saeredness in work. Were he ever so
benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there
is always i:ope in a man that actually and ear
nestly works : in idleness aloue there is perpet
ual desinir. Work, never so mammonish, mean
is in communication with nature ; the real da
sire to get work done will itself lead one and
more to trutn—to nature's appointments and
regulations, which arc truth. Consider how
even in the meanest sorts of iaoor, the whole
60u! of man is composed iuto a kind of real har
mony, the instant lie sets himself at work.-
Doubt, deire, sorrow, remorse, indignation d
<p;.ir i'self—all th-se,like hell-dogs lie belc&gu
r .i£r the soul of the poor day-wotker. us of ev
ery man ; but he bends himself with free valor
agiinst his task, and ail of these are stilled.all
shr-nk murmuring far off into their eavs Bles
sed is he who has found l;i< work ; let him a?k
no other blessediK-s— C<irhlt.
Straxck Concf.it —Toe insane oft*n enter
tain the nios' Indicrous idea of their own con
dition. Tui re is man in nn asylum in one of
the ncigidtoring States who has become insane
in consequence of a ftii'nre in business. He ex
plains the reason of h.s incarceration as fol
lows : " I am lure because of a slight mistake
in bnsine-s. I wa c engaged during the winter
; n miking nioaqn'tnts' *iu:r, which I expected
to sell in the summer. I had ten thousand of
them on hand when the season opened, but un
fortunately I had forgotten to make them in
pairs. They acre all left hand wings, and con
sequently I loet the sale of them, and wascom-
to suspend payment!" lie relates this
story with a gravity and earnestness which tea
tines to the sincerity of his own belief in the
explanation.—Basic* Journal.
" Witrv I arroTc" n id Spriggin*, "at the
houe of my deceased friend, " he w*s per
spiring hi* last. I stood by his bedside and
said, M he was too far gone to talk : * Brother,
if you feci happy, jut squeeze my baud'—and
he sf it."
3T Teacher—' Boy at the foot, spell
tance.'
Boy—' Ad, ad, mi-t, mit, tan o, tance,
admittance.'
Tocher—' Give the definition.'
Boy—' Twenty-five centa—children half
price!'
paths of virtue, though seld>m
those of worMl* creates art thosa of
f .acfintsesr ted pea-*