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C. F. READS; H. H. FRAZIER, EDITORS., }
Ibr the Indtpcicieni Reptildiath
IIIVNI)11ft
STORM.
Ps a rock by the seaside, 1 satt'musing
I thought of the beggar, the king nit his throne,
rg i o t• and tlOrich, or the - mighty and ph:tut!,
Of the millions thencorered by night i e Sable
.
Ti; , poor in iweetislunther hail forgotten their toils,
\\*lklle the rich weite carousim , at banquets and balls,
1 - / chinking, unhediling, nu hglings of fear
T o mmiimmzn than or*arn them that 'lmianger 11113 neitr.
o n m y right Inv !fie smooth and unruffled ocean,
brerte on Its surface nor a wave in commotion ;
me left lay the city with its thintsands.aslccP';
All was calni thgrai - e`O'ef the tend rind the. &cp.
The glorious full moon RSA floating on high,
And time stars,like bright spangle.'swere set in the sky;
All was bright and as mire as the abodes of the
pare one dark, murky cloud lying law in the *di!
In a moment it enrcad like ti pall o '
er the night i
The moon and-the stars 'ranished quickly from sight;
Ani black, rolling.columes, each to others AIIteCINIS
Like battalions of "Stnies'on pranging black steeds."
Tie boai•ensars all Ming in the drapery of death;
10 all naltire-icipears 15)f galiplit for birath
I, , ws Muttering tintirder begins now to
;Ind theMman of the winds sounds a knell to the soul.
The trmpr...t now bowl, as it .swoops thro' r Tale
inr 'LI • I 21
...e,-cnar ,, ,e ,l fury t ram and wit.t
The mks of the livest oppose It Fain;ln 1
t"fr .all nt:c ftliglity in battle when Slain:
ti.e dirkneis_pf.F.gr,qt,!' th w e w. it;lps,ml %lc
tiMi,/}1 thretttili the.Fk
11 . 1m9k m iMin/Ipiiniin'f?,
And the liaresin their fury to rito;intains do'rc+ll.
.
lite triple-forked Lightning. fatai alie;!
o ik e . t he
, prile.l lofty spire , aneklt,bitrita
T into,fla tie;
h.il e , red roltirlievor qity ' ke lieiiren 84:eal;
na t"e .ks and tlia earth s'eein titether
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nosh fp(' CCeat.4 t o (1.1,111, the flames spread around,
the spire and, ttie, Arch felt tviek to the Aniund.
the nett. and kite pi.cir Nit the
F.t.'4;er i§ rieari
A proud, noble- Ship from the high riffling - wave
,1341'd Ilion rocks, 'odd the 'shrieks, of the brave,
Who see hg the lightnings that flash o'er the sky,
That no refute i s. left; and the death they
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h.on 'rte the loud shriek ana.tup tiihl frintie itirnteri
1 heir tifoughts were but anguish,their lidpe but tiesp . air
helper *as Uear,,nel.rrlend that could sate,
And the nett.lurid Wolf' lit them down to their
euean.in .ury tht , wr tts : trarle coca on high, ;
irs! e'er the Mad terimett the acs-4;.11.4 did cry - ;
ihr lightning's glare Armed in terrific display
Th:. surging of waters and the white foaming spray ;
While the war of the odeln—the commotion on high—
a battlo incarnate between earth an t \sky,
11'.'e that battle of old, where the gods teok th tield
And theer , h rrimintaina were htirled; they itiortied atilt
to stet•]. . s-•
.
Atoce and belcive, throngh earth, air, and sea,
Inc.; tetnpet.. lei_loo . sei Hung itself wild.y.nd feee— •
1 1, id the mliing aibunitra 7 :the lightning'ttred . glare--
lhe burning of buildin;2e, and shrieks of dispitr.
Re trees were torn up by the•strength of the hlast ;
TNe canvas was. torn into ?ihrefill., at the tract;
While shingles and hoards, !Jiro' the air, and in flame,
t•Nneby the tempest o'er tuOuntain a id p
iiricene is terrifichall ming:tA rf:th 1. 1 1-#
convul,sions must cease or nature eapire.;
5 , 1:11 a storm wilkat last hreak the sleep of the tooth,
and call forth - the dead to their anal-day doom.
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I unto God who alone had the power
T- preperre-me and ‘Pave me in-that frantic hour;
I relt, in nil - heart that the high and the low
Art , *like unto him, where his power he 7rould emir
Sat TliCrLicig, 'in spladttr tricht rhPshur. arrse,
The seenes of the night were brought to a close ;- ,
There was no' cats, nu ship, no seu to he seen,
No ;. - 7roii.)4og, no lots/girt:7, 'twas nought but a cue
WHAT IS TO BB DOHS WITg ,0112.
CHARLEY
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ET 11ARRIET DE•EC liEtt STOWS.
Yes—that is*;the . question ? The fact, -* p,
112. re. seems to be no place' in heaven above,
or earth beneath, exactly 'sale and suitable,
ogeept the bed. While lie is aileep there
our souls have rest—we know where be is,
and shat he is about, and sleep is a gracious
state but then he wakes up bright and oar
and begins tooting,Vpomiding, hammering,
singing, meddling, and. asking_ questions; in
overturning the peace of society gener
ail vi for abeut thirteen hours (If' eyery twen
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tv-fintr.
Everybody -wants lb know • what to do
with him—everybody is quite sure that he .
cat stay where they - are.. The took cant
hare him in the kitchen, where he infests the
pantry to get bur' to , make paste for his
.
'sites-, or melt lard in the new sauce-pan. If
be gets-into the Wood:shed, he is sure to pull
the woodpile down upon his head. If he is
sent up into the garict, you think for-a while
,that you have settled the • problem,; till you
fad what a houndl4ss field for activity is at
°tee opened, :amid -all the . packagV. •uses,
hav, barrels, - and •east-off rubbis e. Old
letters, newspapers, - trutk4 of miscellaneous
etments, are ail -rummaged, and the very
-reign of old chaos and•old night is instituted.
Ilese es,end less -capacities* in all, and he is -al
.wsys ban - meting something, or knileking
something apirti-or- sawing, or planing, or.
drawing buses and barrels - in alt directions
In build cities or railroad tracks, till every
bead itches quite down to f the lower
floor, run) everybodv declares ilitit„-! - Cluile.) -
must be kept,out of the garret. •
Thom you send Charley to seliotit, and hope
vou are tairly rid of him, fur a few hburs - at
least, --Rut he comes heme'noisiertind more
bree4yoban ever, having learned of some
.tuentyp other • Charleys every separate re
soureeifor .keeping up a commotion that the.
superabundant vitality of each can originate.
I.lv can _dance like Jim Sit - nth—he has learn
ed to smack hilt lips like Joe Brown---and.
Briggs has shown him how - to mew like
a tat,and he enters the preinisles with Ta new
war-whoop,,learned from Torn. Evans. lie
feels large and valorous ; he has learned that
he is a boy, and has a general- impression ~
that he is growing immensely strong ands
kuawiig, and despises. more than -ever..the•
conventionalities Of parlor life; in fact, he is
more than ever an interruption in the way of
decent folds who want to he quiet. :
.It is true s that, if entertaining. persons will
devote themselves exclusively. to -him, read
ing-undlelling stories; he may he kept quiet, ;
)sit then this .is discouraging work,' fur he
wallows a story as Rover: does a piece' of
.meat, and looks at you' for another, Without
• the slightest' consideration; so that thin, re
f.aret: is of short duration, and then the. old
questioncontes' back': What is to be. dune
- with him . 1
.Bat, after all, Charley can not. he
..wholly
tiirked, for, he- is an institution—a tkiletnn
- and -awful tact .;• and on the answer
_to_ the
question, What is to he done with him 'I de
penBs a futtire. -
Many a hard, MOl'o4_, hitter man bas come
fretu aCharley - thined oil'-and neglected
Many a parental heall-iielie has Come from a
Cbatley left to nni.the - streets; that 'mamma
and sisters might play. ou theliianu and write'
etters in per. ins easy iu getr id . of if •
there are fifty wayi oldaing that; He is a
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sprit that can. be proiriptly . raid,'
,htit if not
laid aright_ will come back - , byduid.bv, a
atrotitt, hunt armed,T - ttlich you- tah not • eend
hint off at pleasure.
Minima and sisters had better pay a little
tas to Charley now, than a terrible one by.
and.hy. 'There is something sittitilleatat 111
tiprold ,English phrase. tiith which our Boit.
Tian render us familiar, a ;lAN-Child—a MAN
child. There yon - hate the Word that should
make you think more than. twice before you
answer the question,,—" Wllat skill we do
with Charley 4' .
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Voi• tai -dity
lie is tit•out• fekl, i itutink 'rid
can Make hint laugh,
,l - .ocan make him cry,
you can Persuade, coax, and turn him to vour
pleasiire ;• yob Chit make his eYea filltitni..hi '
hbsom swell iti l th the recitals 404 4nd no:
ble deeds; Ir. snort, you Cah mOula Mtn it
you will only take the trouble. , . -
But look ahead some years, When that lit
tle toffee 041 Hitt in 'creep bass tiinei ; • when
that sinall loot shill! liii , e il ittiiifa a - 4 , 4 : 4 2i1l
tramp; when a rough &mil shall mver that
little, round chin; and the wilful strength of
ma noon n ; u oil; !!Ell Milt! firm; Then yon
w o ld 'give worlds for the ley to his heart,
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be able tit 'Nth end guide hint to Tour .-
Will ; Put.it,y9ii Wiklose that !ley no* he is
little; yiht lit j• 'Scal.ett etifetidly, xi - Ith iear!?;
some other day, and refer find it:
Did housekeepers have a pioVerb that ofie,
hourigct in the minnini is' neVer found all
day, It bai it siege:ince in ibis asp,.
line ihiiiit is tit fitt_rmied :about' titiriey;
that, rude, and busyj_and noisy as he is, :Mu
irksome as carpet wars and parlor ruks are
to him, he is-still asocial little creature, and
wants v) he wherethe rest ofthe household
are. A 'fotiM et-et ~!_ *ell iidatlied tot play,
can not charm him 4 the hour when the fam
ily is in re-union ; he hears the voices in the I
parlor and his plai--rooni seemi desolate. it
may be Waritted hi- a turtniee; and lighted
with gas; but it k 4i/fitrin ;4 - al:filth and light
he shn.ers for ; he yearns for the tall: of the
family,-which he soiniperfectly coMprehends,
sod he limas to take his playthings down and
play by ynn, and is hieesNintli ptbuliging
that of the fifty improper thing's - Which he la
liable to do in the parlor, he will not commit. -
one if you will let.him stay there.
This instinct of the lips, one is N'iture's
watiitt pl2a—iJod:e a.„ . rnonitittn. "b; how
- matt+ a mother who 'has neglected a, because
it Was irksome to have the child about, has
',.longed at twenty-five to keep her son by her
side, mid he would not! Shut out as a little
Arab: constaMly ic,l3 thdt he is noisy i that ,
he is awkward and meddlesoMe i :OM a
plague in general ; the be} has found at last •
! his own company in the streets, in the high
! ways and hedges; where he runs till the day ;
comes ilien t! - .•rarents want their son, and
! the sisters their brother, niid tlfr!t they are
' =cared at the face he hrings back to them, as
he enines•all foul and smutty from the corn
: panionAi - p to which they have doomed him. •
Depend upon it. if it is too much trouble to I
keep your boy in . yolit society, there will .be
. found places. for him =warmed and Ugh:o
witthio friendly tiectiz—li - liete he' n•ho kJ.;
some mi-chief still for idle haTids to do ; %I ll]
;,for him ifyou do not. You may put
a tree%nd it will grow while you sleep,
a son yOu can not—you must take trou-h
-w him. either a TEry little now, or a-great
erre
out
but
le 11
deal
. 11p:1nd-by.
Let him stay with you at least some por
tion of every day ; bear his noise and his
nofant ways. Put aside your book or work
to tell 11;m a story; ur chow him a picture;
devise,still parlor plays for hint, for he gains
nothing ling being allowed to spoil the corn
f‘irt of the whole circle. A pencil, a sheet
of paper, and a few patterns will sometimes
keep him
. quiet by you for an hour, while
you are talking, or in a corner he may 'Mild
a block-house, annoying noliody. If be does
no* and then . disturb you, and it costs you
more thought and care to regitlate him there,.
balance •which is the greatest evil—to be dis-
Urrbed now, or when he is a man.
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Wall you, can give your 'Charley, if you
are a good man or woman, your presence ie
the best and"safest thing. God nt.cr meant
him to do without you . any more than ehicitens
were meant- ba grow withon ‘ t being brooded.
Then let him have some place in your
house where it shall be.no sin to hammer
and pound,-ruid . make all the litter his heart
desires. and his various- schemes. require.—
Even if you can ill afford the room, Weigh
well between that safe asylum and one which,
if denied, he may Make for himself in the
street.
Of all devices for Charley which 'we have,
a few shelves which we may dignify with the
name - of cabinet is one of the he t. He nicks
up,shells and pebbles and Stone:i, all odds
and ends, nothing mules amiss; and if you
give'iitit a pair of scissors and a little gum,
there is . no end of the labels he will paste on,
and the hours he may. innocently spend sort
ing and arranging. .
A bc.ttle of liquid gum is an invaluable re
' source for - various purposes, nor must \ou
t mind though he varnish his
_,nose and fingers
I and clothes, (which he will doof coure,), if
ihe does nothing worse. A- cheap -paintbox,
i andtsome engravings to color, is another;
and &f you will give him some real paint and .
kmtty to paint and putty his brcats and ears,
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. he ; is a ntade man..
All these things make trouble—to be sure
they do—but Charlet' . is 'to make trouble,
that is'the nature of the institution ; you are
only to choose between-safe and wholesome
't trouble,. and the trouble that comes at - last
li like - -a W-hirlwirld. God bless the little fellow,
and send us all grace to know -what to do
with him.—lndrpendent.
• ITOW I / 4 PADDY OBTAINED Assottmos.—An •
Irishman went to confosion, and while relit- 1 1
in_ his sins, his eye lit on a plug .of tobacco 1
stieking s half out of one of the pockets of his I
fitther-confessor's pants. The furtive instinct I
(tithe spit of the Green Isle was tempter] be- 1
' yond its strength by the .sight ; sO, heedless
I of time and l lace ' he slyly transferred "the
P
i bit o'backy '. into his own poeket,andpfSer
lenuinerating a hir-serieit•of viOlationS of the
I command of God and holy Cbuich, .conelud.
led by.saying i ''An' sure, father, i I s etule a
, plug O'tobacky." "" You roust restore either
-it or its value to the owner," said the priest.
I "Take it, thin, yerAiverence,".isaid Pat, pro
..clucitig the stolen article. -" I don't want it,"
replied' the - priest; " give it to the owner, I
I say" - -"
sure, an ; I offered it to the owner,
"-
I said Pat, "an' not abit would,de,take if, yer
riverence.". "Oh! - -it that's the case, then
you may ksep it." "Thanks to yer fiver
enee," rejoined Pat, repoticetieg . the weed ;
" I'm riddy for the alriOlution:! - '
MIS
"IFREED I OII AHD naamr nanorimui &ILLMEG2I7 AHD VMOK©,99
WI. I . ayburgns Zpatninondas insists that " 1343-d•ii f" 1 tftmi4 get no further. It
litr; Lydttritis BRaniinondas shall stay at was icier than my experience of the previous
hofile islitOhts—litr. E. didobeys. and of night, and I hauled down my flag without
..t.
course gets tut WM, df itt striking another b10w.. ,
--,------ I ato: now *offering from a- severe attack
Mini. il.tycurgus Epaminondas, my wife, is i of rheutrtaligiff; -
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a,lad). ofj rather an arbitrary disposition.—
When she puts her foot, dottii It tomes down
with a nibstsieter i d
r0.ne.... vini. so also when
she says anything she generally intends to be
distihc,Li tliid.rstoo4 as meaning it.
For a
.7 1
have no notice d 4
i..t.a.,
week past I :it'..atir.ais
tir st, coMng storm. Clouds haste been final:
Ini 14 Pi!, *ti•ii4iiiiil 7 ky l , ilierettain.,;4 each
day in magnitude anu -uart;;;esg. .:".elt be
fore last It burst upon my devoted bead, and
the maim }•i- in which the vials of wrath were
poofed ok.qicin the is the siilgeet o f th e
present elpistie..
, When we were Grit married, Mrs. F. NA S
accustom id to sit op nights till I came home,
no ,mattet low late t stayed., Peat . expands
hi! L:llll.,ttattl.&iii.:---eli s 6 ii. Was with us;
the warinpt of the Nice she felt for me at the
beginning, stretched' out her sittings-up till
two o'cloCk—matrimonial experience cooled
her and enntracted the 'Lotus l degrees, un ;
til e latterlY, she has retired at nine. precisely.
tiid ; trot-41a Ilke 'a "stirred-up bear when I'
ediiie hi, fiCr diertrbing her slumber:
4 {
Fur a week or two sae nits insisiNl that I
'Mist conie home earlier, and night before
last she ti' ! sentite positive, and told me flatly
that Imu!st be home at nine o'clock, that
evening„ 44,.
" Mrs.l.E.,' said I, inte.rtuptinr her, " I
shall be r't home just as early, or just as late
as suits n y convenience. Lam master- of
my-own house, maam. I shall come home
to-night at. twelve, very likely later;,at all
ei - ents, itwill . tot. Pe tmtil 1 please; under :
stand me lkirsA., until i please.' -..
Mrs. 1.1., burst into tears, and sobbed out
something shoat destroying her happiness.
I laughbd derisively.
"Vito Wretch !" Ariake...l she, changing her
tone fronl i the brokenlwarted to her natur.:l
style, " 3 ,.: n nasty, black-hearted, flinty.frced
-Matte, yon'll be master here, will y ou.—
Well see. Stay out after nine to•night, will
you—yoti—" .
- At this Fiat I dodged out of the<oloor
with mi 4 haste than comported with my
dignity, ligt jrtst in time to sate my bind
from cowling in contact with a chair Thy ami-.
able spouse hurled at Mb.
1 Int.•t,th'lt night, three choice spirits—Smith,
June , ;, and Brown. .IVe drank—we played
—and d'-ink. We " took no note of time,"
not tie t• i;`,lltest. The clock struck in vain
—we didn't hear its ;kerning voice, and if'
we had, it wouldn't have made any (Lifer
tAce; we were all married men,.all loved'en-
joyment, and being away from home deter
tined to make the most of it. But all en
joyment has an end-- - oUrs had. At, one o -
cluck we separated, each wending his way to
his respe:tive home.
I fount the way to the door easy enough.
i but tiot.l rough it, for it was locked=some
; thing 'Nit . had: never occurred before. I
: Ituoulted-s:-no answer. Again I knocked t, ith
the same result. - '
iN, t' Loe•ed out," thought' 1. "Thank you,
Mr: E.. I shall try .the windows." I went all
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around ire house, and found to my horror
that eve y window' was nailed down secure
enough t have kept out all the burglars in
Christent om. It vilts a bitter cold.night and
in part in • with my friends I had forgotten
my= over oat, and there I stood shivering in
the cold viral Outside, while my wife lay
slo ps in led r Just as alt hope was departing
I bethou&ht - me of one window I had not yet
tried. I belonged to a room used as a wash
room, at d imagine my joy when I found it.
would o • en. With eager haste I shoved it
up, sprang lightly upon the sill, and let my
self down—slosh : into a barrel _of ice-cold
water tht had been -carefully placed under
the window, by whose hands I had no difli
-1 Culty in lei.ermining. In getting out I tipped
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MONTROSE, THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER 9, 1858.
it over. I
Half-froze I trird the door that led into
the kitchen, hut it was locked. There was
but one way to get out of the roomil, and that
was by the window. I determined to get out
i
into the 'street, and take my chance of finding
a hotel pen. I turned to the window, and
In ! it Ind slid down, and the patent fastening,
had become fixed in such a manner that I
could mit get it open. I was angry, and man
ifested it in a variety of ways, but it availed
nothing hind I cooled down and considered
my fix: ,I It was far from pleasant. Prisoner
in a wash-room, eight feet square, cold as
Greenland, without an over-coat, wet through
up to tif ' waist, and no prospect • of getting
out unti my amiable wife should see fit to
release etc !' I always prided myself upon
being something of a philosopher, so I.deter
mined IP make the best of it, and be as com
fit-tat:lel as I could under the circumstances.
I laid Myself down, but alas! the same kind
hand that 'had locked all the doors and all the
windowS but one, and under that one had
placed a barrel of water, had also poured a
barrel Or 'two on the floor, which, with the
_me I had tipped over, made the water on the
floor about three inches in depth. As the
cold water touched my back and side, ,it
shocked me so that I turned over, thus soak
ing every thread on me. I arose very hasti
ly, my IT , hilosophy gave way, and my pent-up
emotions poured forth like a mill.tail. if
Mrs. E 4 g oes to the place I wished her that
night, «e will be just: as much too warm, as
1. was t hen to cold: Being unable to get out,
or lie down,-1 stood up and made up my mind
too staid it. The chattering of my teeth
would have eclipsed a negro bone player, and
I shook ! enough fur a whole family of Mau
'mee %alley people, in the ague season. Af
ter a While my legs ached and I determined
to lie down at all hazards, but my clotheS
were fr i ozen stiff, and [could not bend ajoint.
So the7e I stood, leaned up against the wall,
waiting for daylight, cursing Mrs. _ E., and
swearing at my wile, alternately.
A tstevcn o'clock Mrs: 8. arose. I yelled
like a Comanche, and in she clone.
" Why LyeurgUs, is that you 'I . Mere
have ylou been all night ? , Why, bless me I.
you'rg gut wet throughoind your clothes are
frozenittir.. Dear:met" And she looked
as innivent as though she had not planned the
trap into which I had "falfen; end was not
now 14ughing'in her sleeve at the success of
her scheme.
"I'• ke no down," growled -1, " and lay me
bv thy kitchen stove.'
She did so, and its I lay there she heat ov
er me with— -
"/Lyeurgus, my dear, how very wrong
it/Wai in you to stay away from nee all
night. i i' -
REES
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Rt the Independent Reptslicati
nitssioit:
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IME!EMX!
Gasvm: llontra, weary not,
Tho' so hard tutly cent thy
Holy trate to thee are,,gtvcil, -
rreCititni iOnIS to rear fO'r fietti , en;
•
And tito're:q gritit 124;
God ton notch will never Ilse:,
Each full Strength lie gives to bear,
AR their weight of earthly care.
ikea - ven those ciiols sli:111 shine,
Gems in that Er4frn Nf Wine ;
Never think thy lot is tont,
When so great is thy reward.
TiOy office thine,
Hri - Mei• f , efixt.4 to uedenslirinc, -
.With a love en deep,
That 'twill shield them from all wrong.
W fe, loving and faithful wife;
Pmer mission !lath not life,
I.c.re's sieet Fumriticeg m ade,
Neter shag go •unrepaid !
Effiltlll thy lin.tumd'a fo , ;t-stepn Ftray
tr^tu the ltrnibht and nstrcm• way,
Round hitti afro* the wings of love,
Surest safeguard they udll prole.'
Woman, thine'e a blesAed :There—
Thou wert sent umm's heart to cheer
-Vale he I:fe's battles
.fipbt,
Thor. krephis armor bright !
—.rho o !L. 4
FARMERS' HOMES.
DT fIORACE GREULEY
I rtoiis among the urgent needs of our
Agriculture a more intimate and brotherly
mtervoutse among our neighboring farmers
and their families. apprehend that we are
to-day the least social people on earth, and
that this is especially true of our purely ag
ricultural distric . is. The idle and dissipated
are gregarious ; but our industrious, sober,
thrifty firming population enjoy too little of
each others' society. In the Old World, fur
the most part, the tillers of the soil live in
villages or hamlets, surrounded, at distances
varying from ten rods to three miles, by the
lands they cultivate and sometimes own.-\—
When the day's labor is over, they gather,
in g.,ipd weather, on the village gmen, under
a spreading tree, or in some inviting grove,
and song and story, ccarrersation and a moon
light dance, arc the cheap solace of their pri.
rations, their labors, arid their cares. But
our American farms are islands, separated
hy" sc.:l'R of forest and fencing ; and our farm
ers, their families, anti laborers, rarely see
those living a mile or two atray, save when
they pass in the road, or, meet on Buntlay
church. ibis isolation has many disadvan-
tales, prominent among which are the obsta
cles it interposes to the adoption of improved
processes and happy suggestions. As," iron
sharpeneth iron,' so the simple coming to
gether of neighbors and friend brightens
their intellect and accelerates the process of
thit,kng. The fitriner not merely profits by
the narrations of his 'neighbois' experience
and experments in this or that field of pro
duetion-Lhe gains quite as much by the stun.
u!us given to his desire for improvement by
the facilities afforded for gratifving that de
?.ire. It is well that he should be enabled
to share the benefits of others' observations
and aehicvment ; it is even better that he
sl ould 1w incited to observe and achieve air
bimself. :But, more than all else, it is im
portant that he should now and then be lift
ed out of the dull routine of plfiwing, tilling,
and reaping-7-that he should be reminded
that ",the life is more than meat," and that
the growing of grain and grass, the acqnisi
tion of flocks and herd., are means of living,-
not the ends of lite. Especially is it impor
tant to give a more social, fraternal, intelleck
nal aspect to our rural economy, in view of
the needs and cravings of the rising genera
tion, who, educated too little to enjoy soli
tude and their own thoUghts; too much to en
(lure-the life of oxen, are being unfitted by
their very acquirements fiur the rural 'exist;
enee which satisfied Ulm less intellectual,
less cultivated grandflithers. It is the most
melancholy fe . ature of our present social con
dition that very few of our bright, active,
inquiring, intellectual youth are satisfied to
grow up and settle down farmers. 4fter all
the eloquence and poetry that have been lay
-1
-
aed upon the limner's 'vocation—its inde
pendence, its sccurity,'its dignity, its quiet,
its happiness—there arc not many decidedly
clever youth, even in the household of farm
ers, who are deliberately' choosing the farm
er's calling as preferable to all others. 'fund
reds drift or settle into Agriculture because
they cannot acquire- a professional training;
Or because they, hate to study, or because
they cannot get trusted for a stuck of goods;
or some one of a hundred other such rea
sons ; very imi'because they decidedly pre
fel- ON life to any other. Advertise is the
Same paper to-morrow ftir a clerk in a store
and for a man to
. work a farm, the wages in
each case being the same, and you will have
twenty applications for the former place to,
one fur the latter. This fact argues a grave
error somewhere ; auk. as t don't believe it
is in human nature, nor in that Providential
necessity which requires most of us to, lie
(Filters, I must believe it is to be, detected
in the arrangements and Conditions under
which farm labor-is performed. We must
study out the defect and amend it. When
the rural neighborhood shall have become
; more social and the figrmer's home more in.
tellectual-,when the best Woks and periodi•
• cal:, not only - Agricultural but others also,
shall be found on his evening table, and his
hired men be invited to profit by them—the
t general repugnance of intellectual youth to
1 farming will gradually disappear.
Nor Can I refrain from insisting on the
beautifying of the farmer's homestead as one
of the most needed reforms in our Agricul
tural economy. We Americans, as a peo•
plc, do leis to render our homes .attractive
than any other people of equal means on the
earth. And for this there is very much es.
case.. We ate "roiling stones" which have
not yet found time to gather any very grace
ful moss. We are on our filar& from-West- -
ern Europe to the shoir of the Pacific, and.
have halted from time to time by . the way,
but not yet settled. That tittered and tender
attachment to Homo which pervadesall other
, human breasts, has but slender hold upon
us. There are not many of us who would
not sell the house over his own head if he
were Offered a good price for It. Not one.
=ll
1 fonrth of us new live in the houxesisire were
born in ; not half of us confidently ixpeet to
die in the hotnes we now occupy. Hence
we cannot be expected to plant trees, and
' wain vines, and set flowering shrub.
• f as we
might do if we had, in the proper sense of
the word, Homes. But we ought to have
Ilomes—s.we ought to resolve to have them
I soon. I would say to every head of a fami-
; !r, whatever else you oinrdo of forbear to
I do, see& y . :ltlr home forthwith, and resolve
. 10 abide by. it. ?Alit
,y6llr ;:P/it move, If move 1
you must, be infield* jail. list. I would
I say to our .Youth, never tntifty; tteer Ax
upon any place of' abode or occupation, until
you have selected your Home. If you will '
hair& it in-Cfregon of California, so be it ; -but
PI it truitetkfierei and so et - ton as may be—at
least before vote forth any, other ties that
' prombe to be enduring. though it be but
a, hut on a patch of earth, let it bra • yout.
Pied home etertnore_, and begin at once to. '
improve aiirl iteatitify it in every bout that
i can be spared - from more pressing, stn Lions 1
1 and needful repose. •So shall Your late yeafa
, he calm and tranquit , --so shall you realize
1 arid diffuse the blessedness which inheres in
that sacred temple, Horne!
i How light the occasional label' end how
great the stiecese"with which even the hum
blest home may be enriched and beautified,
' especially by Tree-Planting, is yet but im
perfectly realized. Only the few can live ie ..
lordly mansions; but roadsid'o elms v2hich
shade the lowliest cot may he as stately and
graceful as any that stud the park of the
wealthiest merchant—the proudest earl. As
I am whirled through our rural districts, and
; see house after house unsheltered even by a
I ' , lngle tree, I mourn -the heedlessness, the
blindness, which thus denies tnem an orna.
1 ment and comfort so completely within the
i reach of the poorest. The farmer who goes
' to mill or to ioarket may return with a sap
ling which, once fairly planted (and it is a
Igood half-day's work to prepare the ground
for and properly plant a tree) and effectually
shielded from injury, Wilt be a 'solace and a
I joy to his family and their successors for cen
turies. In a country whose arrests are so
rich in admirable trees as are ours where
the Buckeye, the Tulip, the Elm, the Maple,
the White Oak, and the 'Hickory are so ea,i,
ly proceredit is a shame that even one ha
man habitation ,eci touch as a year old should
still be ablest by shade trees. Every school
house, every church—at least where land
*.pT still be bought by the acre—should be '
'half hidden by a grove of the most umbra
geous, hardy, cleanly trees, and every school
boy should consider himself a debtor at least
by.one tree to the little edifice in 'which the
rudiments of knowledge were first instilled
into his understanding, until such a grove
shall there have been completed.
In our capricious, fervid climate, we nerd
shade trees; but not these atone. The dearth
of -Fruit especially in the West is still al.
tnost'universal. Not one dwelling in ten is
flanited and backed by such a belt of Apple,
Peach, Pear, Cherry, Quince, and Plum trees
as s hould thrive there. Of grapes, there is
not a vine where there should he a hundred.
Even the hardy and easily started Currant
bush is not half so abundant as it deserves to
be. Most farmers would deem it a waste. to
devote two square rods of each of their gar
dens. to the Strawberry; While the bare idea
of cultivating Raspberries or Blackberries
strikes a large majority of them as intensely
ridiculous - . Now there is no dispute as to
the-fully of cultivating that which abound
on every side and - may be obtained without
labor or care ; and I judge, from observe
tionS on the fence.sides and corners of many
•farms ' that the cultivation of anything of the
briar kind on those farms would be n most
superfluous undertaking. Yet Ido not the
less insist that as'a people We have fir to lit=
tie fruit, and that most of this is of 'needless
ly inferior quality ; that the - grossness of our
food is the cause of Many painful and dis
abling. diseases which a flee and frequent use
of good fruit would prevent; that, even re
garded solely in the light of profit, our farm
ers ought to grow more and better fruttboth
for their own use and for sale; and that no•
ble orchards,as well as.forests must in time
diversify the-bare landscape even of the great
prairies," breaking the sweep of their fierce
winds, and increasing the i,salubrity of the at
mosphere and contributing in a thousand
ways to the physical enjoyment and spiritual
elevation of Man.
Are "Paths" and "Metaphysics" Singular
" Pains" is considered as either singular
or ,plural, some of our best. writers -using it
in either way. This word is evidently of
French extraction, being the same with peine,
pains or trouble, and was originally used in
a singular furin . thus, " Which may it please
your highness to take the payne for to write."
Wolsey's letter ,to henry VIII. It seems
probable that. this Word, after it assumed a
plural form, was more frequently used as a
singular than a plural noun. Modern usage,
•however, seems to incline the other way.
celebrated grammarian, indeed, has pronounc
ed- this noun to be in all casts plural; but
this assertion mieht be proved erroneous by
numberless examples.
"The pains they had taken was very
great."—Clarendon.
b " flreatTains ha's been taken."—Pope.
" No pains is taken."—Pope.
In addition to these authorities in favor of
a singular usage, it-may be observed, that the
word" much," a term of quantity, not of
number, is frequently joined.with it, as—
" I found muck art and pains employed."
—Middleton.
" He will assemble materials with much
pains."—Bolingbroke.
The word much is never joined to a plural
noun—much labors, much papers, would be
insufferable.
"Metaphysics" is used both as a singular
and plural noun.
"Metaphysics has been defined, by a writ
er deeply read in ancient 'philosophy,: ." The
science of the' principles and causes 'of: all
\things existing."—Eacyc. Brit. •
Jlere the word is •uscd as singular ;
wish the fullowing,exareples: • .
" Metaphysics has been represented by
painters aad.sculptors as a woman Crowned
and blindfolded, holding a sceptre • in her
hand,.and having at her feet ant : hourglass
and a globe." . ,'• '•
"Metaphysics is that science In which are
, understood the principl of other sciences."
- . -Hutton.
In the following etampl it is construed
.116-s pllttia noun ;
•
or Plural!
.H. 11. FRAZIER, VIU.BtISHEIL-"y.0L::,4-.--N049.
" Metaphysias tend only to benight the un
derstandink in a cloud of its own making."-
4
]inns.
" Here; indeed, lies the justest and most
plausible objection against a considerable
part of metaphYsies, that they are vita prop
erly a science. Hume.
The latter of these usages is the more com
mon and more agreeable to =llya's. The
same observation is,applicable to the terms
politics, optics, pneumatics, and other similar
names of sciences.
"But hi order to prove more fully that
rio:!ties admit of general truths."—Hume.
Here the tam is used as plural.—Cront
ktyntdopy. _
WHAT CAUSES INDIAN 131111rER 1
'•We ptapose euggesting an answer to the
above inquiry. As we lookout upon the
fare of nature, robed in the cerulean rail that
at present ettvelops the earth, and the balmy'
air playing softly upon our cheek, we can
scarcely believe that it is the latter end of
October, bordering _ closely on the chilly
blasts and darkling don& of November.—;-
Yet it is so. Indian summer is upon us, the
last warm kiss of the waning year.
Rot whence come these_ balmy days and
this smoky atmosphere ? Are they the re
sult, of our "red brethren" in - the Wegt burn-
ing their prairies? To one boyish-niind this
was a sufficient ex[ilanation t yet we confesa
that stray. doubt % . votthl at times cross our
minds when we reflected on the vast distance
which the heat and smoke had to travel, and
the vast fires necessary to produce such plan:
titie4 of these materials. , And when we grew,
to riper years and learned from Parley—that
wonderful 'man—that the. Indians burn , the
prairies in the spring instead-of the fall; 'We
became further skeptical on - the.subjeet, our
farther's ipso dixil to the contrary notwith
standing. upon furl he r.in‘ est i ! tation, W< al
so learned that the aboriginal 'sumMer.makers
were rapidly'disappearing, and/the' prairii.s
becoming cultivated grain fields, which need
ed po burning ; yet the Indlan Summer, de
.creased not with these changes. And now
we were fairly puzzled.
,I,That caused Indi,
an summer was set down among the unsolv-
ed problems of our eflthitun, till our eoltef4e
days (balmy and soft' as the present—life's
real Indian summer) dawned upon us, and
then we asked the Professor of Meteorology,
who of course knew. The result of our , in.
gniry we will endeavor to gite so. far as we
remember it.
The name Indian Summer no doubt was
given to This period trOm the fact that it af
forded .the Indians of our continent, from
time imMemorial, a favorable opportunity
for gathering their corn, which was their har
vest. It was therefore their sutrimer hr this
neculiae sense, mid hence the inane.
iiow for the cause
Two phenomena here meet u. ‘shielt aro to
be accounted for ;' first, the mild temperature
!so late iti the season, and secondly, the unus
ual amount of haze in the atmosphere. Thoy
bot h depend upon the same cause, viz., the
absence 'of nodal currents or winds of any ac-
count and the consequent calmness of the at
mospheke. And this state of things results
from the gradual diminution of heat in the
surt:tee of the earth, which has been going On
since the first of August. During the spring
and early summer months the earth receives
and absorbs more heat through the day than
she radiates during the day and night. The
consequence is that the. sorfitee acquires ;t
-high temperature. About the last of July,
by-the shortening of the days, the amount of
heat received has diminished so as to only
equal that radiated. After this period, the
radiation during the lengthening nights ex
.ceeds the absorption through the day and re
duces the elevated temperature of its surfitee
down to its medium. This is reached about
the last of October, or the first of November.
The earth has then become too coot to give
rise to ascensions] or local horizontal currents,
and as a consequence no cold Sir from higher
latitudes reaches us, in , the shape of chilling
winds, nor are clouds and showers-formed in
the atmosphere ? by
.t he admixture of cold and
warm air. 5 Hence there results a period of
mild days, in which the sun pours down -his
still vigorous rays with no cold . winds to
counteract their effect, while the moisture
which exists constantly in the form of invisi
pie - vaporin.the atmosphere, not being carri
ed up by ascensions' currents to fiirm show-,
ers, or swept away by horizontal gales, to be
diffused elsewhere, becomes visible to the
eye, in the form of a bluish gauze-like haze,
such as we see at present. The popular no
tion that this haze is smoke, is of eouNe er
roneous. No 'conflagration could produce
such quantities,-nor would it, when produeed,
be-carried to- us from a distancQ when there,
are no winds. But while we assert that it is
net smoke caused 'by combustion, we admit
that it partakes of the/general nature of
smoke, which is nothing more than watery
vapor arising troM burning wood and ton&
visible by passing; into cool air. We also'
admit that the-smoke from .chimney' , Sze.,
intermingles with the haze of this season, and
being of the same specific gravity, instead of
rising, comps to the earth, as in damp, foggy
weather, thus bringing to our senses‘thsodor
of burning wood. It Will be perceived, there
fore, that-the smell of smoke which confirms
the unreflecting in their opinion that - the at
mosphere is filled with this substance,,erising
from some burning material, admits of a
ready explanation; without the nntenable the
ory to Which they fed compelled to resort.
Watery vapor is•lighter than thri air, at the
earth's surface.- Hence 'when it becomes tki,f
fesed or-formed in it, it diminishes the - spe
cific gravity of, the-whole ntmospliere_The
smoke,
therefore, from chimneys, with ifs
sooty odor, comes to the surface, not being
able to rive -in an atmosphere •of its own
weight -
There are many - collateral points' connect.
ed with this'subject ; some of which may be
necessary-to the properlunderstandiWg of the
above explatinthins. wereanlnot di-seises
the whole related ground , in n newspaper ar
ticle.-- Hoping that what we beye , eaid Jima) ,
throw Some:light on this hazk sqliedt, we re
main, Justra.--Gerntantolv& Telegraph.'
Cmcrawrma.-4.n old divine, `- cautioning
the clergy_ f _againat engaging in , violent contro.
the -following hapriy. similes: "If
we will be.contending, let us contend . like
the olive and the vine, who shall4rodnes the
moat and the beat fruit; not like the Aspen
and the elm, which shall make the most noise
in the wind." .
•-swre •
Er Now spakieoil *limy one.
::rte ":~Y}~c?'i~^vi.
‘7`."
lllpsie and Flowers: - ~.
Two gifts God has.bestowed, on us th at' --' ,
have in theriiselves no guilty trait, and: show
an essential . divineness. Music is , one, of
them, which seems as thoughit - .were never '
born of earth, but linkers with. 'us l'ioni the
gates of ' heaven: lquisk, 'which breathe!'
over the gross, Or sad, or doubtirg,heart, to /
inspire it'with a consciousness. of its most; , A
I''
mysterious affinities, and. to:touch' the ' - cerdei-' /
of its undevoted, unsuspected life.. And the
other gift is that of jroutpre, which, , thong . .
born of earth, we may *ell believe/W:4-
thing of earthly sell' grows in the)ihiglier
realm—if any of -its methods: are continued •
/ in
—if arty of its forms , are identi4l;the . , will
live bn the banks of the river Of / ,:life - Flow;
ers that in all our gladitess„in /all oar sot-,
row, are never incongruous —alsr ys - appro. - -
priate. Appropriate in, the/ c rch, -as ex
pressive of its purest of most vial themes,
and blending theirsweetness ith the incense
of prayer. Appropriate i the joy of the
marriage hour, in the/lon)t- inms. of the sick
room, and crowning / 411 / h prophecy ihts • fore
heads of. the dead./ 'hey *give completeness
to the association i of/childhood,,and are ap
propriate even < l.ly the side of. ld age,strange
as their freshness contrast, with the wrinkles •
and the greyhairs ; for still thy are sy& .
botteal of the soul's perpetual_ youth, the in
ward blossoming of immortality, the ama- ,-
.ranthitie crown. In their presence we. feel
that when the body shall drop es a withered -
calyx, the, soul shall glr fitrth as a winged , _
seed. Ree. A'. H. Chapin. • .
_...........—...,—.-.............--------.
Tux Ater OF TIONXING.—Ont oFtW best
ways of improving the art of thinking is to
think upon some subject 'before you read up,
on it, and to observe after what manlier it
has occurred to the mind of some ireat mas-.
ter; you Will then observe whether rid have
been too rash or too timid, What-you have
omitted, and in what yon have exceeded ; and
by this process you will insensibly. catch a
great manner of viewing a question.. It is
right in study not only to think r whbn any
extraordinary incident provokes you to think,
but torn time Ito time to review whist has
passed ;to dwell upon it, and to see what
'trains of thought voluntarily; present them
selves to your mind. It is a most superior
habit fur some minds to refer all the particu
lar truths which strike them4o other truths
more general ; so that their knowledge is
beautifully methodized, and the general truth
at any time suggests all the'Particular •exein
i plifications, or any particular exemplification
at once leads to the general truth. This kiud
of understanding has an immense and deeid,
I ed superiority over those confused heads in
which one fact is piled - upon another, AVithout
the least attempt at classification and arrange.
meat. Some men always read With a pen in
their hand and, comtnit to paper any new.
thought that strikes them ; others trust to
chance for its reappearance. _Which of tkese
Tres: method to the conduct of the un
derstanding, must, I 'suppose, depend ii•great
ideal upon the, particular undefstanding in
question. - Some men can do nothing with
out preparation; others Null, with it ;,soine
are timittains ; some • reservoirs.—Shiney
Smith..
CM
MlST.tliKii OF PEISTSRS.—Some people are
continually wondering, at the
." carelessness"
of editors in allowing so many errors and
blunders - to_ appear in their columns, and mar
the print. Such people know .very
,little of
the difficulties—we had almost said impo!ii-.
bilities—of keeping them out. The most
careful attention to.these matters will not pre
vent errors from creeping in, even-when pro
fessional proof readers are engaged expressly
for the purpose. ' And When it is - borne in•
mind that in most'papers such an expense is
necessarily dispensed with, :and the: proofs,
on that account, are often hurriedly examined,
the fact will no longer appear strange. ,In
'.connection with this subject, the following
anecdote is nut inappropriate. .. [
A GlltSgow publishing house attempted to
,publish a work that .should be a perfect spe
cimen of typographical accuracy; . After hav
ing been 9reftilly read . by six . experienced
proof readers;' it was posted, up in the hall of
the University, and a - rewar of fifty pounds
offered to any one who shOuld . detect-an er
ror. Each page.remained rico Weeks .in this
place; and yet., when the Work . was issued,
several errors were discovered, one of which.
was in the first line, of the first page: .• •
When such was the case in . a city long eel.
ebrated in Great Britaini for publishing, the
fine St and most correct editions of the classics,
what -is to be expected in: a newspapei,'.whitylt
must necessarily be hurried through.„the press
while it is neat-; and where the compensation
Will lewdly afford one ." experiened - proof
reader," let-alone six: The wonted accuracy
of our papers is. really astonishing. s : .
•
Cit'SA . 01 1 ' FROG SrioWzas.----The-act nal fact
that considerable spaces of ground have been
suddenly covered with numerous small frogs, - •
where there were no frogs: before, - has . been
proved' bcy - ond a doirbt. - ,•Serne :have called
in the aid of waterspouts, 'whirlwinds, - and -.-
similtir causes, to account for their elevation
into the regions of air, arid Home have even
thought that they were formed la. the cloudi,, ,
from whence they , werilireciPitated:' It _has
generally been.itt August,'-and _Olen after a
season-of drouth, that these hordes*of frogs •
have made, their appearance; but with Mrs.. .
Siddons we all exclaim,
:"'How got they 1
there'?" , Simply as follUwir: Ihe animals '
have' helm hatched;•aMt quitted their tadpole
state and their pond' at , this slime--; time,-- days
before they be,conie visible:. to, or ob
served by, mortal eye. Finding it -unpleas
ant in. the hot, -parched
,:fields and - always
running a great chance - of - -being,. then- •anti
there dried - tq,by
_the' heat: of - the • sun; . they .
wisely retreated tO tho•Ceolest and •danipest
• places they could find; viz., under clods -and .
stones, where, on account of their dusky
. col ,
or, they escape notice.. Down comets. the .
:rain, •and,.Out tome - the frogi, 'pleased" with
the Chance. • ..FtirthWitif tippearee an article
in the Country :paperi.-the, good folks fleck '
to:see the phenomenon , . There're thaill;ga.
- hopping about . ;- the visitors ; remember', the
showeri_ottd-- - a." simple countryinim" Swears.
the-frogs fell in ho shower, - and be - saw, thetri '
falh . frogs;"ileit te,:cotintrytaitt, Altai; ate'
all 4,10104; and ohody undeceives theta, nor -
are. 'they :willing' to be: undeceived.--Buck
land's Vuriositie.!* ,of-Nattsial Hisforv. : :
Saate.,—Dosth'e younger brother, and so
likO him that limier dare to trust tnyeelf
with biro without.kit% wy trayersgt:.
TAM/Ft Via.' .
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