ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA :
Thursday Morning, July 26, 1860.
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THE BATTLE FIELD
Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands.
Where trampled by a hurrying crowd,
And Bery hearts and armed hands
Encountered in the battle cloud.
Now all is calm, and fresh, and still;
Alone the chirp of flitting bird,
And talk of children on the hill,
And bell of wandering kiue are heard.
~So solemn host goes trailing by
The black mouthed gun and staggering train ;
Men start not at the battle-cry,
Ob, be it never heard again !
Soon rested those who fought, but thou,
Who minglest iu the harder strife,
For truths which men receive not now,
Thy warfare only ends with life.
A friendless warfare ! lingering long
Through weary day and weary year,
A wild and many weaponed throng
Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear.
Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof,
And blench not at thy chosen lut ;
The timid good may stand aloof,
The sage may frown, yet faint thou not.
Xor heed the Rliaft too surely cast.
The foai and hissing bolt of scorn ;
For with thy side shall dwell, at least
The victory of endurance born.
Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again ;
The eternal years Of- God at'e hers ;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
Yea, though thou lie upon the dust.
When they, who helped thee flee in fear,
Die full of hope and manly trust,
Like those who fell in battle heir.
Another hand thy sword shall wield.
Another, hand the standard wave,
Till fr-.in the trumpet's mouth is pealed
The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.
THE TREE OF TRUTH.
ADDRESS,
PREPARED FOK THE
Sunday School Cclcbranoi* at Towanda.
JULY . IRCO,
BY JAMES MACFATti AXE *
FADIF.S AND GENTLEMEN* ': —Tt is sufficient
I that 1 lecogiiize your presence by saying-, that
I \ have not been invited to address you. If,
I tlim-Tore, my remarks fft.il Vb p lease you, I
■ lies yon to remember (and I hbpc you will
J excuse my abruptness in saying,) that tbey
were not intended for toil. \ would that they
'■id Been On the contrary. I have the more
I diScnlt task of combining simplicity and in
fraction in Speaking to these little Indies and
gentlemen, who will be the meu and wotaien
of a later, aw iser, and I hope a better gene
lation than ours.
CHILDREN :—When our revolutionary fath
ers were about to engage in a long and bloody
war, their representatives ih Congress pub
lished to the world, cighty-fodr years agd this
day. a declaration giving their reasons for as
serting their independence. They bc-gin by
Saying "We hold these truth* to be self evi
dent," and they then go on to Set forth the
naturul rights of man. But if we were t'O in
quire tuc reason why that UCblatation met
with ft response in the heart Of the whole coun
try, of posterity, and of the World, we will
tnd it was because it waS trile. If We ask
I what it was that gate tlieth strength to theit*
I arm*, courage to their hearts and victory to
their battles, the answer will be because they
hid truth on their side. This little word
' r 'i'k occurring iu the Declaration of lude
pitulence lias suggested to me a fitting sdb
ject cn which to address you. I would not
lose this opportunity, when so many young
persons are listening to me, of saying some
■ til'"? that may be of benefit to you—some
I word of admonition or advice which if reraem-
I 'wed and observed, ruijht make you better
I tea and womeu tbau you otherwise would
I harp been.
Bat, children, in order that you may
treasure tip what I shall say to yOri about
truth and understand tbe connection of all I
p hall say with the main subject) I shall have
compare it to something, for the minds of
children like those of men and women (who
after all are only grown up children) can re
tain and profit by instruction much better
when it is imparted in the form of an illustra
tion drawn ironi surrounding objects. We
are here in the woods, and I can do no bet
ter than to point you to a tree, byway of
comparison, and 1 now promise you not mere
ly make a speech to you, but to tell you
Mtory about a tree called the Tree of Truth.
ca 'l to your mind one of those tiue
ar ge oid trees whioh you have seen growing
? Uk '° °pen fields. It has large &ud strong
00 3 spreading in every direction and sinking
, ee P "; t0 fhe ground which anchor it so firm
-1 0 the earth that no storm that ever blows
'sufficient to overturn it; its truuk is of gi
e n ic size ;it extends its huge limbs out-
Srii S | 3cd n P war d 3 . aD d a whole Sunday
Lo 1 sheltered under its shade.—
tree h f ° re your P ran d fal h e '' 3 w ere born that
m , 88 een growing. The hot sun of sum
'uead ias f ear a^ler year.been poured upon its
with r:e frosta of autumn havo as often
stor- 6 r' ts ' eaves - I 1 h a# felt the terrific
snow , maDy a Cold winter > with wind - at,d
hnrt-'t, ' ce aod Yet every spring its
T e . B*° "eD i it has been iu due season
Sne S . , Us garniture green - and this
itrr-, 48 cc> ntinaally grown larger and
tippj s6 -' aod its ro °fs have struck deeper aud
e per into tbe earth.
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committee of arrangements.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
This then is the description of the Tree of
Troth, as I shall call it. I have spoken of
its large and powerful roots. The root of the
tree of truth is called Religion. There is no
more essential part of a tree than its roots.
Many branches may be eti t off, —there are
some tree 9 the trunks of which may be
cut down, and they will spring up from the
root again, bat no tree can grow without
roots ; nay, without them it cannot stand up
right. If you only injure the roots, the bright
green leaves would lose their color and mois
ture ; turning browu and dead they would fall
to the earth and return to dust ; the limbs
would afterwards become rotten and one bv
one fall off, and soon the wasted and decaying
trunk itself returns to the earth from which
it sprung. The root religion is the life of the
tree of truth. There are, it is true, persons
of truth who have no true religion, but they
are indebted to the influence of the religion
of the liible for that virtue. There are per
sons out there standing in the broad sunlight.
We are in the shade, yet there is here both
light and heat ; we as well as they feel the
diffusive influence of the heaveuly lumiuary,
although wo are shielded from its direct rays.
Again, if we examine the roots of different
trees, we will find a strong resemblance among
them. However different looking the trunks,
or limbs, or leaves may be, the roots look very
much alike. So, children, while there are
many virtues in the world they ail have the
same root. The root of the tree of truth is
Religion, as in fact it is the root of every vir
tue. This part of the subject I shall not dwell
upon, because it is taught you by others and
better teachers. This is not the day and I
am not the man to tell you of " the root of
the whole matter," or of the showers of grace
by which it is nourished. It is with the tree
of truth as it appears to the wayfaring man,
that 1 have to do, and I shall only repeat in
order that you may not forget it, that religion
is the oiigin and root of truth and of all that
is noble and good iu the world.
Passing on, then, from the root, as I have
said, and coming to the mighty trunk of the
tree, or truth itself (for it is an old saying
that truth is mighty ) I regret, children, to
be obliged to say to you that perfeet truth is
a very rare virtue in the world. There are a
great many person*, some of them well dress
ed people, fine ladies and gentlemen as well as
many who are not, who say a great many
things they ought not to say. Your short ex
perience has no doubt Served to teach you
that it is not safe to believe all you hear, and
dear children, when you get older, you will be
astonished to find how this wOrld is given to
lying. I wish each of you to understand that
your father and mother and Sunday school
teacher are not included in these remarks.—
They are al! doubtless very pood people, and
always speak the truth. I would not impair
votir confidence in Vonr friends. Rut I repeat
that a striet adherence to the plain, holiest
truth, in all things, and 011 all occasions, is a
very beautiful, but a very rare virtue. Yen
will find out soon enough how corrupt is hu
man nature, and 1 will not further enlarge up
on the lamentable fact that the world i"S filled
with falsehood. And now, children, how do
you suppose this happens, that so many peo
ple have contracted this unnatural and dread
ful practice of telling tilings that are not
true? I will tell you. They learned it when
they were little bojs and girls like you. They
did not start right : their principles, thaj is,
their roof, is not of the right kind. Trees or
plants naturally grow up as straight aS an ar
row, but suppose that when they are young
and tender sortie person should betid llietn
over a shdrt distance from the ground and
keep them in that position. They would then
grriw crooked and deforced, and after they
had grown so and become old no power on
earth can make them grow straight again. So
it is with early habits : let children like you
get into the way of telling falsehoods, atid
grow tip indulging in that habit, and they .nev
er can reform it. Your souls, children, are
like those white dresses that some of the la
dies and girls are wearing. You see they are
perfectly clean and as white as snow. But
suppose that by some accident tlley Should be
come spotted with a few drops of ink. How
at once would their appearance be changed,
and their beauty and usefulness destroyed.—
Beware, then, how you soil the purity of your
soul, destroy your peace of conscience and
harden your heart by falsehood.
How shall I describe to you the beanty of
truth and the deformity of falsehood ? False
hood is like a dark and gldomv cavern where
light never enters. It is infested with hiss
ing serpents, venomous reptiles and savage
wild beasts. But truth is a lovely valley, with
green fields and woodlands, watered by a fine
river, with a thriving city 011 its hanks. It is
enlivened by the sun in his splendor, gilding
every dome and every hill top with his glori
ous rays. A refreshing shower has just fallen,
and in the east appears a rainbow, the bond
of truth between God and man, just as it ap
peared for the first time to Noah, when
" Each mother held aloft a child
To bless the bow of God
the pledge of seed time and harvest, summer
and winter, until time shall end.
Children, some of you know what poisnv is.
There are certain drugs which, if swallowed,
produce great sickness and pain, and if the
the proper medicine is not immediately used
the person dies in great agony. So it i. in a
moral sense with falsehood. Truth is like the
pleasant, wholesome food about to be spread
on yonder tables ; but now suppose in one of
tbe dishes were placed a quantity of arseuic
or strychnine of which if you were to put a
very small quantity on your tongue with the
tip of your finger, it would produce your
death. How every little boy and girl would
flee from that part of the table ! Oh ! then,
childreu, avoid the first falsehood as you would
the fatal drugs I have described to you. It
will poison your blood, corrupt your moral na
ture, and make you despise yoarseif and be
despised by others.
I suppose you all understand what it is to
be t meanjted 1 A certain substance is rntro
i duced to your blood to prevent your getting
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
a terrible and loathsome disease. But now
suppose that some wicked physician instead
of using the right kind of matter was to in
noeulate yonr arm with seme noxious and
hurtful substance taken from Rome animal
suffering with hydrophobia, or some other hor
rible disease. The blood he would draw from
your arm would be very small. The matter
he would insert would be very little. Yon
would think it could do you but little barm.
But oh ! children, do vou not see that it will
enter into your veius, thence it will be car
ried through your arm into yonr body, and
your whole system will be affected by it ?
Swiftly it will go to your head and to your
heart. You will be deprived of your reason
and die a horrible death. Beware, then, of
the small beginnings of evil. Let nothing
tempt you to tell the first falsehood, or if you
have thus sinned, resolve with the help of God
that it shall be the last. Think not that it
is a little sin, for its consequences may be
great and terrible. Children, you may neVcr
hear my voice again,—much that t uow say
you will soon have forgotten ; but I beg you to
try and remember this one word of advice—
always speak the, truth though you should die
for it.
Children, you may begin to think that it
takes me a long time to tell you the story of
the Tree of Truth. But in fact this is a great
big tree, one of the largest and finest in the
grand forest of human virtues. However, jou
can see for yourselves how I ain progressing.
I have passed over the roots with a mere men
tion, and disposed of the trunk or main body
of the tree, which is generally the heaviest
part of it, and we have now arrived at the
branches. So be encouraged and pay atten
tion, until we get to the top of the tree, —for
of course we can go no higher, and then we
mast come down and go to dinner.
Now we will ascend higher and hastily de
scribe to you some of the limbs and branches.
Just above the trunk or body of the tree of
truth are two small limbs, or rather a limb
with a branch growing from it, which although
they are different, look very much alike. I
call the limb frankness and the branch candor.
A candid person when he does speak, speaks
without disguise, and says ail he ought to say
without reservation or concealment An uu
candid person may deceive yon, notwithstand
ing what lie says is true ; but he does not tell
the whole truth in regard to the subject mat
ter, and in fact is guilty of falsehood, the es
sence of Which is the intention to deceive.—
Candor requires that you say all- that you
should say. Frankness difiVrs from candor in
being more comprehensive. It means openness
or freedom in speaking, and is otherwise called
ingenuousness. A frank person will be candid
also, but a candid person may lack the dispo
sition readily to communicate, which is the
characteri-tic of frankness. These are tiuali-
ties which should be cultivated in the young
Truth loves the light, and while an excessive
propensity to tell everything is to be avoided, 1
—yet governed by proper prudence, a frink,
open, ingenuous disposition is one of the most
pleasing qualities in the young or the old.
Next we come to a large limb called justice,
which gives to every One his due, and causes
men in their dealing with each other to con
form to the eternal principle of right and
wrong. You as children have but little to do
with this, and therefore I shall say but little
about it, as I vVish to be practical, but -will
remind you that justice grows no where but
011 the tree of-truth. Fairness is a branch of
this limb. When any subject is introduced,
some people will talk Only 011 one side" of it,
and in fact will only look at dr Consider One
side of it. They condemn or approve,unheard
or beforehand, and are prejudiced against this
One and in favor of that one, without sufficient
cause. Truth requires that we sh'ould exer
cise fairness and equity in the small as well as
the more important relations of life.
I nntst here warn yort against the most de
testable species ct falsehood, called slander, or
falsehoods injurious td the character of others.
I call tlliS the most hateful kind of falsehoods,
because it combines the Clements of sin
against God, and malice against man. In fact
I would Luke yoti avoid ail manner of • vil
speaking. In ycur progress through life when
you meet with a bad story abdut any dne, even
if it be true, do not soil your hands by taking
it up and carrying it farther, —yet what a sur
prising propensity there is acnong mankind of
all ages, to play in the dirt.
Now we come to a large and important
limb of the Tree of Truth. I shall call it by
the general name of fidelity, by which I mean
a careful aud exact observance of ail your en
gagements, or in plain English (and that after
all is the best way of talking) always stand
ing to your bargains and doing as you agreed
to do. * Especially children I would have yoti
know, and you cannot know too soon, the im
portance of faithfully complying with pecu
niary engagements, or paying debt". When
you become old enough to transact bnsiucss,
remember never to go into debt, without
knowing how you arc to pay ; otherwise you
wiil soon be in the painful predicament of not
being able to fulfil your promises. You will
find that your word has been pledged and you
cannot redeem it. Beware then how you
pledge your word, and be assured betorehand
that you can do as you promise, and if you
are able, do not fail to do as you have agreed,
cost what it may. No man of right principles
is loose on the subject of paying his debts. If
be is careless in this respect he is unworthy of
being trusted in any other. Understand me, I
do not refer to those, who from misfortune are
unable to pay what they owe. I speak of
those who recklessly contract debts without
reference to their probable ability to pay
them, or who negligently put off payment
when they are able to do it. As yon arc
growing up therefore and forming your char
acters, 1 beg of you to remember this branch
of the tree of truth, uot 6imply to avoid gross
fraud amounting to dishonesty but to maintain
a religions fidelity to your promises of every
kind, great and small, because you have so
promised. Do what you have agreed to do,
and do it with alacrity, promptly, punctually
or at tb6 right time, for punctuality, is a
branch of this limb. It is upon the faith iu
men's possessing these qualities,that they ever
trust each other at all ; they are the basis of
all commercial credit, for ability alone is not
sufficient to entitle any one to credit. If you
were governed by interested motives alone,
policy would dictate your observance of these
precepts. But I urge it upon your notice, not
as a mere money muking principle, but on high
moral grounds, that you be careful what pro
mises you make, and then faithfully do as you
have agreed to do.
Now children I have a curious inquiry to
make about the tree of truth, that you have
perhaps not thought of. You have often seen
trees that have been grafted. There is a
branch on the tree of truth that does not be
long to it by nature, but has been placed there
by the band of man. Let us examine whether
or not it is grafted upon it. Truth in all its
branches should be maintained in our lives and
actions for its own sake, because it is right.—
But strange to say what some men do from
the fear of God, others do from the fear of
the reproach of their fellow men, without re
gard to principle. This is called a sense of
honor, and honor is the branch I have referred
to. Men Who are actuated by this feeling
scorn to tell a falsehood, or to do a mean ac
tion ; they are high-minded and aim to accom
plish noble deeds, which will make them re
spected by their fellow-men. They desire
above all things the esteem of men, and they
live in fear .of disgrace and shame. They
avoid everything that is base and vile, or that
will stain their characters or lessen their rep
utation With them character is every
thing, and the world is the judge whose sen
tence they fear. I will say nothing against
all this, —it is very well if men can be induced
to do that which is right from any motive.—
But is this branch really growing upon the
tree of truth ? Is it not more correct to call
it a parasite, a hanger on, like one of those
wild vines yort have often seen in the woods
growing up beside a tree, adhering to it, some
times covering it all over, looking very grace
ful and beautiful,and to the superficial observer
appearing to be a part of the tree, whereas it
does not belong to it because it does not grow
from the same root ? But as I said before, I
have nothing to do with the root, that is not
my business, but belongs to Mr. Douglass, Mr.
Nichols, Mr. Childs, Mr. Foster and the other
clergymeu, and to you Sunday School teach
ers. This is not Sunday but the 4th of July.
I am not a preacher and must not preach you
a sermon, but only tell you a story. But I
find (to use a popular expression) I am con
tinually " running the thing into the ground "
by referring to the root of the matter. I will
be careful to avoid this hereafter, and not en
croach on other people's privileges.
And now, children, I have described to you
all the branches of the treo of truth that I
shall mention, except one, and that is the tip
top of the tree, and its natne is Honesty. The
other branches spread cut horizontally, but
this is perfectly straight and points directly
towards heaven ; for honesty or integrity
means uprightness. Besides this, while it is
not the largest, it is one of the s'iffest and
toughest parts of the whole tree. The strong
wind may suddenly bend the tree top over, but
it shows its power of resistance by defiantly
flying back against the wind just as far the
other way, and after vibrating, it always ob
tains the .victory, and when the wind goes
down it calmly resumes its stubborn, up point
ing position. So a truly honest man (that
noblest work of God,) may be tossed about
by the misfortunes, calamities and troubles of
life, but always at last be is found morally as
upright and stiff and straight as tile tree top
when the storm is over. Honesty has refer
ence particularly to property, and means truth
not in regard to speaking, but in your deal
ings with others in business matters. And so
surely as one thing leads to another, so surely
are truth and honesty connected. Every liar
is not a thief, but in almost every case a thief
is found td be a liar. Falsehood is but the
beginning find leads to dishouesty. Honesty
is like gold, which is found in the world mix
ed with all sorts of dirt, but still it is gold—
the fire cannot consume it ; on the contrary,
it cOmes out from each trial more pure and
bright than et'er. And believe tue, children,
no mail deserves the name of a man who has
no integrity. Such is the well considered ver
dict Of right-minded met) everywhere.
Aud now, children, having attained the top
of the tree, you thay think my story is told.
Hut do you not see that our tree is only a na
ked skeletou ? Where arc the leaves which
should cover the whole tree, which give it
neithef its frame nor strength, but which
clothe the whole with beautiful drappry ? The
leaves of the tree Of truth I shall call Sinceri
ty. Going into the woods in winter persons
sometimes mistake one kind of tree for another.
You have no guide but the size, shape and
bark ; but when the leaves are out yon have
an unerring indication. The face of a man or
woman is what you most look at, and so in
looking at a tree many of the branches may
be entirely hidden, although they give it its
size and form, but the leaves form the face of
the tree—they strike the eye—tbey give it its
color aud outline—on them more than all de
pends its beauty, and to them we are indebted
for the repose we enjoy under its pleasant
shade. Sincerity is the beauty of the tree of
truth, and is the opposite of hypocrisy, which
is a concealment of one's real feelings, charac
ter or motives. To be siuccrc i 3 to appear
outwardly what you are at heart, without dis
guise or ialse appearances. When you see
two men meeting each other aud appearing to
be very good friends and expressing great re
gard for each other, and as soon as they sepa
rate saying all manner of spiteful things of
each other, you know there is no sincerity in
either of them. I said two men, for ladies
never do so. Politeness and good manners
are very pleasant things, but tbey do not re
quire the sacrifice of sincerity. In vour ac
tions, language and conduct, children, study
to appear as you really are. Look within,
j examine yonr own heart and pot on before
' others ouly that appearance that yoa would
have if they knew was passing in your Inmost
soul.
Such, then, is the Tree of Trnth—its root,
its trunk, or body, its several branches and
its leaves. Children, is my story told ?
What ! shall I say this glorious tree is bar
ren ? Oh no, no, for it is also a fruit hearing
tree. So fine a production of the great Crea
tor, this tree of Paradise, could not fail to
produce rich and abundant frnit Other trees
bear in their proper season only, hut this one
bears in all seasons, and on all the days of the
year, frnit for time and fruit for eternity ; for
the tree of truth lives forever. It is always
richly laden, and what is mcst tvonderful, the
more it yields the more and the more it bears
and the larger and the finer is the frnit.
But I will not weary you with the recital
of its productions. Among the plenteous
fruits of the tree of truth are self-respect. The
man of truth can properly think well of him
self, for he is, as it were, clothed in the robe
of an angel. He is pure at heart in this res
pect, at least. He is strong and brave and
fears no one, For the guilty alone have cause
to fear, ne enjoys the esteem of the wise
and good, and the respect of all men, for the
most depraved must respect the man of in
variable truth. But better than all this, he
enjoys a peace of conscience, which the whole
world can neither give nor take away ; and
last of all, with truth growing from the prop
er root lie has life everlasting and the crown
of Innocence in that world where naught but
truth can ever enter.
LOOK OUT FOR THE WOMEN—Young man,
keep your eyes open when you are after the
women. If you bite at the naked hook, you
are green. Is a pretty dress or form so at
tractive ; or a pretty face, even ? Flounces,
boy, are no sort of consequence. A pretty
face will grow old. Paint will wash off. The
sweet smile of the flirt will give way to the
scowl of the termagant. Another, and a far
different being will take the place of the love
ly goddess who smiles and cats your sugar
candy. The coquette will shine in.the kitchen
corner, and with the once sparkling eye and
beaming conutenance she will look daggers at
you. Beware ! Keep your eye open, boy,
when you are after the women. IF the dear
is cross and scolds at her mother in the back
room, you may be sure you will get particular
fit* all over the house. If she blushes when
found at domestic duties, be sure she is of the
disbrng aristocrocy—little breediug a::d a
great deal less sense. It yon marry a girl who
knows nothing but to commit women slaughter
on the piano, you have got the poorest piece
of music ever got up. Find one, whose mind
is right, and then pitch in. Ih'V, don't be
hanging round like a sheep-thief, as though
you were ashamed to be seen in the day time,
but walk up like a chicken to the dough pile,
and ask for the article 'ike a man. That's
the wav to do it.
PFENTY OK COAL.— Professor Bogers has
been making estimates of the supply of coal
which the fields of Pennsylvania, and other
places, are able to furnish from which it will
be seen that at the present rate of consump
tion, 100,000,000 of tons per annum, the coal
fields of Pennsylvania alone would meet the
demand for 3164 years. If this consumption
were doubled, viz : 200,000,000 tons, the
Great Appalachain field would meet the strain
for 6937 years. If it were quadrupled, viz :
400,600,000, the producible fields would suffice
for the world's supply for 10,000 years to
come. To this we must add the consideration
that new coal fields are brought to light as
exploration becomes more extensive and ex
act. Dr. Nordenskion, a learned Flemish
traveller who has just returned from a visit to
the Arctic regions, announces that he found
Anthracite coal as far North as Spiizbergen.
One of the most remarkable features of the
coal system of the globe, is its liberal distri
bution over the Northern hemisphere, where
it is most needed. And it will probably be
found in the unexplored regions of Central
and Northern Asia.— Patriot and Union.
MRS. P AKTIXCTOJF ox WEDDINGS.— " I like
to 'teud weddings," said Mrs. Partington, as
she came back from one in church, and hung
her shawl op, and replaced her bonnet in the
long preserved bandboX. " I like to see young
people come together with the promise to love,
cherish and nourish each other. But it is a
solemn thing, is matrimony, a very solemn
thing, where the minister comes into the chan
cery with lus surplus on, and goes through
the ceremony of making them man and wife.
It should be husband and wife. It isn't every
husband that turns out to be a. man. I de
clare I never shall forget when Paul put the
nuptial ring on my finger and said : ' With
mv goods Ito tltefe endow ' He uhed to keep
a dry goods store and 1 thought he Was going
to give me the whole there was in it. I was
young and simple, and didn't know till after
wards that it meant only one calico dress ft
year."
Rdy* Jenkins says his brother, who edits a
paper out west, is doing first-rate. He has
had two new hats within the past three years.
Jenkins is inclined to take on airs.
If a dog's tail is cut off entirely, will
it not interfere with his locomotion ?" " Not
exactly ; it will not affect his carriage, hut it
will stop his wagging."
I mean to abandon my habits of life,"
said a dissipated gentleman. " Are you sure
sir, they are not abandoned enough already ?"
asked his friend.
fi&P' On a person asking another if he be
lieved in the appearance Of spirits, he replied,
"No; bnt I believe in their disappearance,
for I have missed a bottle of gin 6ince last
night."
9®" Among the articles announced for sale
in an auction, we perceived en article entitled
" mahogany child's chair." The father of this
wonderful child must have teen of the Wood
family
VOX.. XXX. —NO. 8i
(tbacational gtpdmrat.
[We copy the following timely remarks
from a little sheet published in Illinois. It is
hoped that teachers will read it carefully and
think upon it, for " thought leads the way."—
It is thought that improves and strengthens
the iktellefct, or rather that developes it, —
draws it out. Thinking, not talking, make.s
the wise man. Thought induces thought.—
One hour of close thinking furnishes material
for days of thought. This subject appeals to
teachers particularly. They deal with mind,
with thinking beings, and their business is to
buildup mind, to give direction to thought,
and present subjects for it td feed, yea, rather
feast upon ! Their minds should be well train
ed by close application,—not to follow blindly
the leading of others, but to think for them
selves to originate ideas, —not to think for
their pupils, but to know how to make their
pupils thiuk for themselves. There is in our
schools, and among our teachers, too much
thinking done by prory ; too much laziness
upon this subject. Pupils dislike to think,
and ask the teacher to think for them. Teach
ers dislike close long-continued application,
and provide themselves with keys. Teachers,
that is not the way to improve yourselves, or
benefit sour pupils.]
Thought Leads the Way.
Thought adjusts and rebuilds society. In
every great moral reform that transforms the
relations and conditions of men, thought leads
the way. It is the precursor of all great ac
complishments, the magic agent that creates
all systems and machineries in invisible per
fectness before they jut out into the world..
Men are prone to judge of things by their
s'ze and form as seen by the physical eyes.—
A granite mountain they are willing to call a
great fact, and an engine that jars through
our land a living and useful one. The steam
er that ploughs the foam of ocean, or tho
reaper that almost intelligently cuts our wheat-
Gelds, they bow to with some reverence, be
cause here they can sec action and usefulness
which at once press homo to their conscious
ness. When thoughts have put on a body of
wood and s'e-el and are at work in matter to
furnish man food and raimeut, their various
forms, their action and their results are seen
and admired. 15ut who thinks for a moment
that thoughts are as real and as perfect in
themselves before they are given iron muscles
as afterwards, or that thought always con
structs a ma"iiine before its steel joints are fit
ted together ? No grand cathedral or work
of art was ever reared but it first stood forth
in some man's brain in all its perfectness. No
noisy locomotive ever thundered across our
land until it had taken a noiseless trip in some
man's bruin ; and no steamer ever ploughed
the ocean billow until after it had sailed on
the calm ocean of some man's mind. Thought
leads the way in every great enterprise. Man
never trod a pathway in the civil or social
world but thought had gone before him and
opened the way. When you see men engaged
in building the vast blocks and factories of
our cities, or turning the untamed lands of our
country into beautiful homes, you know that
thought has been there aud given them plans.
When you see a beantiful church edifice, you
know that a good heart has given the world a
good thought ; and when you glance over our
country, and study our excellent social aud
moral reform organizations, and our grand
system of free schools, you know that philoso
phy has been abroad and sowed the land with
thoughts of wisdom which are now just blos
soming forih into form aud beauty.
Living thought is the forerunner of all great
discoveries. Before Columbus crossed the stor
my Atlantic, his thought had taken many an
excursion to the new world, and roamed over
its broad fields : and before the telescope
points to a newly discovered planet, thought
lias already traveled the way to its home, and
measured its bulk, and calculated its weight.
Thought heralds every great improvement.
It is nlways in advance of action. Before a
city is built or its foundation planned, thought
has searched out a place for it ; aud long be
fore a railroad track is laid, thought, with un
seeu fingers, has traced its course. TuuS
thought is ever in the foreground, leading on
to a higher state of civilization, and greater
intellectual capacities and improvements.
What, then arc to be our conclusions when
we see thought leading off in some new direc
tion ? Arc wc not to suppose that man with
active hands will soon follow it ? Are we not
to believe, when we see thought attacking
some rude topic in science, or some untamed
agency in nature, that it will Subdue it, and
make it a servant ? Who ever dreamed,
when thought first sailed to the skies and
made battle with the lightning, that the fiery
angel should be subdued and become our swift
est note-bearer ?
But thus it has ever been in the past. ;
thought has always been in the van and tri
umphed, and to-day, the world is filled with
its grand exploits ! Who then can forercad
the future ; who can search out the channels
in which thought may yet travel, or measure
the accomplishments of the intellect that aro
yet unrealized ? Infinity stretches off beforo
us. Lot the thoughts, bold, living and cheer
ful lead on, and the world will follow !
Thought leads the way.
Conversation is the daughter of reason
ing, the mother of knowledge, the health "f
the soul, the commerce of hearts, the land of
friendship, the nourishment of contest and
the occupation of wit.
£27* Friendship hath the skill and obfert
tion of the best physician, the diligence of tho
j best nurse,- and the- patience o? best mother.