cA.. ;1, -- ,:.o(r.ritssTfi- ptirtill
At the Well.
She stood beside the ancient well,
Like some enchanted water sprite;
The iosy sunset round her fell. , •
- Flushing her forth with glioWing light;
No rustic was she, thmtgb bhe dipped
- Her bucket in the fountain deep,
Laughing to see bra* direct dripped
The water from-the bending S'Vreep,
If ever ingertroubled pool—
As the old legends love to say—
An angel stirred the, waters cool
Within that Well at close of day ,
The snnset'e gold was not more bright'
Than the rich trAsselkof her hair;
Just where they rounded to the light,
While•melting on her shoulders fair.-
:
• - Eyes laughing, and yet full of pride, -
.And fuller still of love and hope ;
And cheeks as delicately dyed .
• As flowers. which in the moonlight opo
• The lips half parted, and yet mute,
The dazzling arm,-the slender form,"
Light perched-upon one slender foot—.
All bathed in rev radiance warm:
• •
As if to greet her' own bright eyes,
She bent rabove the Mossy curb ;
I longed, yet feared hy some surprise,
The beauteous vision to distirb.
" Wilt give aThirsty traveler drink r
She:we it, with a blush divine;
Which blinded me that I did thifik
.
' was Hebe standing on the lrink
Of Helicon, and dipping wine
In-goblets that like gold did shine.
•SYSTEM. AND NO SYSTEiIf :
OR, THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.
'How very neat your house. is; Mrs. Fields!'
exclaimed a liVely young girl, as she threw
aside her bonnet, and seated herself near the
table where the lady .addre.ssel was sewing.
.‘ Now we haven't but just finished breakfast,
'and .oar. house ts -all jn an uproart while here,
.you arc with pot nicely, away in its
place, and I._ have* doubt wi.l ilie more sew
ing-before'slintier time th s an I shall accom
plish in -two days. - .
Mrs. Fields smiled and looked itrchly at the
fair speaker," who seemed puzzled as she re:
fleeted on the state of thingsmentiOned.
Now do tell me what the secret is. Mrs.
Fields,' she continued, earnest!v, and I will
be stye to make a goOd use .of it: •:
`Then you
_think Awe 'is some mystety
abut the matter!' asked the lady Mrs. Fields,
good humoredly.
'Of course there is; if there was not; thins
would - g6. - on - as smoothly with me as with
von. I'm sure mother and I work all the
time, and we can't do tiiiire •
' Shall I run the risk of offending you, Lucy,
and tell'yeu where Lthink; all the difficulty
•
You will not offend hie by'anytitinz you
can sax-, for lari sure I w'Aitt to be - set right,'
was the unhezitatinz reph
• You say your - family - has just .finished
'breakfast?' .resumed Mrs. Fields. • Before
ou cane here, did you stop to wash the
di:he_s, sweep and dust, and peiforrci the other
:liouseho:dduiies
. ,
declare I forgot all about it r exclaimed
Lucy, coloring eicessivelr 'or rather I
thought I could do all these thins rust a's
veil ,urea I returned'
• "It is now nine 'o'clock,' continued Iris.
Field , glancing 'significantly at Limy, • and
it is no more than reasonable to conclude that
it worild take you another hour, perhaps more,
to perform as they should be, the various du-'
ties.l .have ntm d. It would then be quite
time to set about, preparing dinne'r, as twelve
o'clock in the country, is considered the best
dinner. hour. Thus, according to my ideas,
the best part of the morning is lost.'
• I don't_ - quite understand it. set,'° replied
the young 'for 'when I risoearly;l don't
reem to accomplish any more; and as for ,
sewing I never think of such a thing so_early
in the morning.' •.
"*ein is as necessary in housework asin, l
any other matter, my . dear Lucy. Let me
mention some things I have seen. The other
day I,called in at a neighbor's about tea time.
The lady of the house yequested her daughter
to make a fire and lay the table, which the
lattir immediately proceeded to• do. I felt
curious to know if the lady had a methodical
way of dOing those things, and accordingly
made bold to watch her movements. In the
first place she proceeded to the shed in great
haste aid came back with a, handful of shav-
togs,llich she AlepoSited the stove; then
she r eturned to 't he,sbed fur a few chips and
twos4c6•a of wood. - 1 These were soon con
Burned, and Fhe wa): obliged to retrace her
steps and obtain another supply. After this
she employe] herself five minutes in-looking
for a misplaced broom tu sweep up the-shav
ings she bad littered all the way from the shed
to the store. Ju-t think, , four journeys to
get enough materials to build a fiier -
Mrs. Fields paused a moment, but the
blu , hing girl made no reply, and she con-
tinued: -
- 'The young lady , then spread the cloth,
bUt • discovering that it was ba,ilv stained,
.went in - search of. ant:diet': This done, she
returned to the closet twice for half a dozen
plates, and as many cups and saucers. Ti.e
knives were then. laid, .but - alittle exainina
lion convinced her that' they looked decided
ly the worse for use; so they Werel.gathered
up and conveyed to the 'kitchen, !where a
quarter of an Iran- was spent in performing a
duty which should have been attended to
immediately after dinner. ; So she proceeded,
making; a separate journey for every article,
until tired and heated she glanced at the, fire,
and preceired while -attending to the knives,
ete.,•she had forg,otten to reatenish it; and as
a natural consequence, itliiad entirely gone
out. Then the task of rebuilding aa,l hive
related ha.l to Le, repeated .. When I left the
' house, I really pitied snryonog friend, who
looked; and I -doubt not felt; more tired than
1 r•Lpahl after ; a : day's- work. ,
- '` You 'must:mean -rne,_Larn stun!' exclaim
el :Lucy frankly, 'for I arn'always planged
so - When I try to do anythitto: "'What is the
reasint I wonder r , ,
,
tbe , bead as weir tis Abe hatidr, inr
dear. . Work by s3 - atetn, and, in fact, do eve
rything systematically. Have a place for
everything, and everything in its place. It is
an old Maxim, -Vat a very good one:
‘l3ut just tell me bow you would have man
ned ill my .place r
•In regard ,to . .the fie, I r Should bare
,filled
a hand . Wisbet, with Sharinga,hips and. witod
at once then I should have-carried r the tit
tle to the water-pstil and filled.jt ; Akita spar
in; myself the-treable of 'planing back and
forth' between the-sink anti stove four titoei.,
with a dipper fille'd With water, which drip-
ped all the way; while at the same fime,,l
could have watched•the &re'
I never shall become a good .manager, and
. there is no. use in trying; was the desponding
reply.
'Do not feel discouraged, my. dear Lucy
time works wonders, and if you really make '
the attempt' in earnest, I doubt not you will
succeed. Lisa calculation; not only 4efleut
upon the means which you use to bring skint
a detiredsresult, but also anticipate that result
a little;: see if it will prove, in all respects, 'a
sufficientsrecompeuse for your labor. Compare
the various circumstances and facts which
tuence your determtnation. and he sure that
the result gained will .proportionate. Do you
understand me, my dead she added,
ingly..
Perfectly,' replied Lucy, who appeared
much interested. Please g 6 on' ,
' I - recollect it case in point, which may,
perhaps, better explain my meaning,' resumed
the lady ; ' and I daily see so much confu
sion disorder, and even unhappiness, occa
sioned by mismanagement, want of head
work, or a neglect of the small things in life,
that I feel sure that it can do no harm to
hear the story.
' A number of years since, I had for n
neighbor a man named William Wood. 14
was well. informed, sensible, and apparently
industrious; and some years previous to my
arrival in that place, had' come in possession
of a valuable farm. It was then in the beit
of order, but now how changed ! Fenens
were down; walls-in a decidedly unsafe con
dition ;' stones . , both , large and small ,. lying
around to dull the edge of the mower's scythe.;
trees bearing. aloft their dead, scraggy
brandies, as if remonstrating at the neglect;
large crevices could be seen in the barn and
sheds, through which the wind whistled
-mournfully; while here and there a bOard
clattered a midnight accompaniment. Un
hinged doors were kept - partially in place by
large sticks of wood- braced against them;
while swine ran about the premises at will.
The. house was in very much the same
condition as the out buildings.- Broken panes
of.glass, filled with old hats, bits of.eloth, etc;
loose clapboards; a decayed roof, through
which rain was sure Co find its way for want
of a few .shinghs ; -and window blinds with
broken fastening-, were a few of the outward
characteristics. The yard in front was fil)eil
with cart's; sleds, (it was in the summer re:i
son remember,) old barrels, boards, a grind
stone, two large hogsheads, a-pile of tumult
-wood, and seEeral - farming implements. Ih
fact to,reach the door on a dark night withodt
accident was a work of -considerable inge
nuity,
Id a. 'Wool had a workshop and a work.
shed, but apparently did not consider it. ne
cessary to use either, as the dooryard was the
most convenient - , and saved him many stept.
' Mr. Wood seemed to be always busy, when
at home t 'but somehow accomplished little or
nothing. It might be owing to the fact that
the breakfast table was pushed 'against the
house immediately after use, and with its
contents,suffered to remain untouched, while
she disposed of the morning by calling upon
her neighbors ;. after which she began to pre
pare for 1 dinner, at the same time hasti
washing the dishes, acid exclaiming ' for 13 r
rt y.
part she didn't see where the time went t
Not a Minute was wasted in again perfo -
ing this necessary duty after the mid-day
meal; for Mrs. Wood calculated that she
could kill two birds with one stone;_ and
that. was
_to leave them until she prepared
breakfast next morning; a way of gaining
time which I do not exactly understand.
' She had no particular hear for dining;
sometimes dinner was ready at half-past eleven,
another time at . one, and again at two.. 'lt
was an D i ll maidish notion said she, ',for peb
ple to think that they must restrict themselves
to certain hours.' As for- herself, she had
rather wait. till she got hungry, thatt-to eat
just because - the hands of the clock pointed
- to a certain hour r
`Mr',, Wood invariably spent Saturday
afternoon and evening in washing and'rol
ing; for!she considered it a pity to waste t h e
first part of the - week, in the perfomtnce Of
such trifling duties ; consequently, the mete.
hers of the family caught many n.severe cold
frOm pitting on damp linen the morning
following. It was a source of great wonder
to why they were always late to dwell;
other people with larger families were miter
in their places, but for a clue to the mystery,
I refer yoy to the following conver.ation4-
only one of many that frequently transpiro.
' I deciarls if it isn't nine o'clock !' exclaim
ed Mrs.! Witod, one Sabbath morning as sbe
eatered the kitchen: I mtiat have overslept
myself, but I haven't done such a thing foi l a
long tithe. -
'0 yes. mother. , on have!' cried tr
shrill. rbice of little, Tommy ;-• for Charley
Bruce says he always goes to Sunday Schclol
before we're up? ,
'Be still, child,' says Mrs. Wood, rebuking
ly. Charley Bruce is a bad boy, and ypu
mustn't play With him. Now, girls,' contm
ued Mrs. Wood, you wash the dishes while
[ grind the coffee.'
Wheti I-was at Aunt Sarah's she used to
wash her dishes, grind her coffee, - and lay the
fire the 'night before,' remarked the youngest
daughter, as she reluctantly prepared to obey.
I should think you would do so, mother;
aunt
-says it is much better.
Yutir aunt is a fussY, - old maidish woman,
and I Ors my_ ways are as good as hers; [at
any rate I like them as well,' retorted the
mother looking rather displeased. ' She nay
teach her own girls what she pleases, but I
flatter myse'f that I-can attend to mine, wTr
out any assistance.'
1 like to stay there,' pursued the daughter;
and • I think she must manage better than
we do, or she couldn't find so much time for
sewing. You know - she does all ber oven,
while we put ours. out.
'lt
of
her extra management, or it
thing of the kind. .She has got the kntc of
slighting' her, work, and I hamlet, that's an
the difference:. replied Mrs:. Wood, ra er
100mb:illy; for, if the truth must hi told, She
felt rather jealous of the' praise which her
daughter was bestowing so latiihly on her
sister in-law. But Make hastel,' she added;
'talking won't get breakfast, nor prepare ue
for church.' -•, _ •
After much trouble with
° the, fire, which
refused te - barn on the account Ohba
cation, of wet wOod,. *Mai bed agfferedilly
Contact with a shower of , rain, And a grea t
deal.ofrunnipg abouf. and scolding on he .
part of " Mrs. Wood,. a cold and unpalatable
breakfast was despatched, .and preparations
for church were then commence'.
!• WE ARE ALL EQUAL BEFORE GOD AM) THE CONSTITUTION."--.James Bitchauan.
gentrost, - ,Susque4aitita Counta, Vrnint, tlimban
,111
Mother, mother,!' cried Anna, from the
top of the attar%
• What new V was the rejoinder of the pa
rent, aashe left oir, for a moment, the task of
aearchin - g fof a pair of hose in a crowded
trunk, who'e contents were mixed together in
inextricable confusion,—an undertaking v. hich
seemed as hcipeleas as looking for n needle in
a haymow. -
'I can't find my muslin sleeves,' replied
Ana*.
0 dear P exclaiMed Mrs. Wool: They're
in thewashtub, I do believe; it rained so last
night I couldn't dry them. Can't you wear
the other pair,?' she added, after a tnotnent's
pause;
I suppose I could, if they were to be found;
but you have.so many pleas for things, that
I never know where to look for them,' was
;he true, but rather unfilial rejoinder of the
daughter; as she set about looking for the
lost article.
"Mother, you promised to sew batons on
my waist !" shrieked little Tommy, at the top
of his .voice. "I knew you wouldn't when
you said to." ,
"I forgot it, child, or rather I haven't had
time. Come here and let me pin it,' she re
plier'.
"But you went a visiting four afternoons
last Week, for I counted," pursued the'child,
as he slowly placed himself in a positiOn to
receive the pinning.
"Here are your gloves," said Mrs. Wood" to
Anna. "1 lonnd them at the bottom of this
-trunk, and how they got there, is' more than
I know."
"I don't want them now,"
she replied, "for
I have borrowed a pair of Charlotte ; but I
do wish I knew where the mate to this odd
glove is,"
"What a trial I do have !" exclaimed the
mother. fretfully. "Charlei, what are you
doing I" she added, as a tremendous crash
called her attention to the closet.
"Don't be maimed, mother," said Charles,
a young,man of nineteen. ' "I've only smash
ed four 'plates- in attempting to find the
clothes blush."
. "Another set of china broken I what could
possess you, Charles ; to mount .up tbere'to
g. t a brush." -
'Because I found it there last Sunday,"
was the agologetical reply. "I was less un
fortunate then, h.rwever, if it was in a curious
kind of a place."
"It's my turn now to enter complaint," re
marked Mr. Wood. "I believe I'm minus a
dickey." -.
"Sure enough ! but never mind, husband ;
I've-got twenty 'minutes to fix one in before
the second bell ringa," was the hurried reply
of the anxious looking wife, as she hastened
awry. It is unnecessary to relate how she,
did it ; but Mr. Wood,by exercising patience,
at !evil received the desired "dickey."
'At length, Tommy, Anna, Charlotte and
Charles were declared ready, and preceded
by Mr. ,Wood.and the tired mother, who had
but a few minutes to make her own toilet,
they entered 'the church just ns the sermon
was being commenced, attracting the atten•
tion of every eye by the lateness of their ar
rival. This was no new thing, however, and
the Wood family did not heed it. _
'As I said before, Mr. Wood was not an
indolent than, but somehow or other,he never
brought mach to pass. Sometimes he would
do a little of one thing, and then a little of
another; now ploughing a little and then
sawing a small quantity of wood. He was
always ri month longer in cutting his hay
than his neighbor, and the reason was, that
instead of applying himself diligently to one
thing, he would work very hard, two days in
mowing, and afterwards lay by three or four
to recruit his strength for a second etTort,—a .
proceeding, which generally gave his hay
the benefit of several showers, and obliged
him to store it in a damp state. He was "'-
ways commencing jobs, but never finished
them, at least, in their proper season. Somc.
times he would abruptly leave Ith important
piece of work, and spend the rest of the day
in fishing or hunting. - • ,
`He wasp kind, accommodating neighbor,
but. all knew his failings. It was a _ want .of
system, my dear Lucy, a lack of attention to
the details in life, and an utter neglect of
that meth.xlical arrangement of things which
is absolUtely necessary to the success of any
Undertaking, great or small. The continued
ill Success of Mr. Wood was entirely owing to
this serious fault, and to this Cause Slso can
be imputed all the anxiety, trouble, and
especially the `Sunday morning trials' of his
,wife.
Life is made up of small things: in fact,
our happinesA, or utiliappinesg, detittids Mort
upon them than_ we are aware of. Cultivate,
then, my dear Lucy, habits of order and reg
ularity. Attend to duty first and pleasure
afterwards. Resolve that you will he
systematic young lady; and take the word
of one Who lies experienced great good from
the advice she gives, that by Such a course
you will gain the respect and estem of friends,
be far happier, and cannot fail to benefit those
who come within . sour influence.'
•
Ass, ACCIDE , N TAL SHOT .— Ron. Benjamin
Franklin Wade and Hon. Joshua heti! Old -
dings, used to be constant competitors itt the
benighted Ashtabula, their present placC of
residence. Tn the early part of, his practice,
Wade was defending a man again-t an ac-'
tion for and after having condoled
a very effective speech to Ilia jury, sat awt-
Wardly leaning backward, his feet on the
counsel table, and facing Giddings, who was
attempting, to be eloquentsin behalf of his
Client. Old Gid, as be was familiarly c all e d,
bad a:little
_smattering of, Shakopeare, and
Low determined to bring that great author
to his aid. "Gentlemen of the jury," said, he
With much aril( r :
" lie that deals My parse, steals trash :
But he thai . iobs me of my good name—
—Ahem!" At this point, to his great dis
comfiture, Shskspeam deserted him. Ile re
peated _ '
But he that roba me of my good natoo•-"
But the Dard.Of Avon, as if unwilling to aid
either 'him or his client, proved treacherous.
Again be repeated :
* But be that robs mode* , good name- 0
Another pause. " Takes that I never had,"
whispered 7tYstdei as if prompting him, and
so'distittetlyas to be- heard by all in the
tom. Amidst the laughter and his 'own
conftision,Giddings brqught, his Speer.% to
sucit'a lame in'tptitent •CclnefusiO,'that
his client'recovered and a quaitei cents
to, his lost character. -
or Notuers' adebbing.
1W ONE WIIO WAS "THAR."
The county of. , "away up in the
mountains," boasts of one of the best judges
in California. tn
On the bench he is fir, ‘de
tided anß prompt, n 4 caring a snap' of his
finger for either the applause of friends or
the mutterings of enemies. ne is perhaps
the most devoted man to. the "law” - in all
creation, and has his head so full of what he
terms 'judicial talk," that ho noi unfrequent
ly finds himself making learned charges
and passing sentence outside of the court
room. •
On a recent occasion, the judge was called
on to exercise the `'power and authority in
him vested,' in the case of a Young couple,
who desired to have their hearts united in
the holy bands of wedlock. Of course he
consented to perform the pleasant duty, and
on the appointed evening, was promptly on
hand, at the house at which the affair was to
come uff.
The room was Crowded by the beauty and
fashion of town; and done looked more digni
fied or happy than the judge himself, who vies
dressed within'un inch of his life.-
It is customary on occasions of the kind
referred to,for the good folks of the mountain
towns.to pass around the wino quite freely,
and to their evirlasling credit, we will ,adtl,
they consider it no harm for one to manifest
-his interest in ft joyous event,by getting 'live
ly.' The judge is an ardent admirer of-the
fair sex, baking in the course 'of his life led
the third one td the altar: To use his own
language be. Wit great admirer of weddings,
and that he should become a little mellow
amid the &minus scene of the evening, was
not to be wondered at by those who knew
him intimately.' lie bad the weakness of_all
good judger. Ile would take his "toddy."
The • wine hid passed' round and round
and round. °The music had ceased. The
time for making Joseph Bower= and Nancy
Iltirkins 'One' had arrived. Every heart
throbbed with.the most delightful emotions.
The young getillernen desired to know how
Joe would stand it,and the young ladies were
anxious to see ItoW Nancy would stand the
awful shock. Others, again, who had closely
observed the turn of affairs during the ever
ning, fired their attention on the judge, to see
how he would come out of thmerape.
At length the trying moment was an
nounced. The judge arse very cautiously
from The chair which he had occupied in one
corner of the room,: mid casttnglits eves over
the company, he recognized the sheriff of the
cmnty, who was presen't as an invited guest.
Tire judge had imbibed just enough to make
him 'forget: the nature of his business. ' lle
was full of ,his 'judicial talk,' and required
nothing but the presence of the sheriff to
start him. Looking sternly at the officer, he
sl olted :
"Mr. Sheriff, open the Court, and call
order !"
A general twitter followed this command,
b the midst .of which the sheriff took the
'court' gently by the arm, and led him to his
seat in the cornet, at the same timeinforming
the august personage of his mistake:
Everything now bid fair for a pleasant and
sudden termination of the atfai rointil another
annoyance, which was nothing less than the I
sbsence of the bridegroom, was observed. It
turned out that he had just stepped across
the street to join his- friends in a parting
drink, but bef ! rre his return some cold blood
ed. wag had whispered into the ear of our fog
gy judge the cause of "delay in proceeding:''
Instant's the chair in the corner moved, and
in that direction all eyes were fixed.
"Mr. Sheriff,' slowly drawled the judge,
"bring Joe into the court on a supenar"—the
judge had, his own way of pronouncing the
word—then addressing the bride, who stood
in the foreground,and hung her head: in con
fusion,
he adde I :
"I spore you're the pla'striff. Well, don't
take on. Innocence arid virtue will be pro-
tented in this court."
-This was the saddest blander of ail.—The
judge was again made to see his mistake, and
would have been considerably set back . bad
it not been for a cortecti_ve in tl e shape of
'forty drops of the critter,' which he iinme
diatelrapplied.
In a few moment: all was ready in right
down earnest, - the bridegroom bad arrived,
full of joy. The bride in 'gorgeous array'
stood at his side. The company pressed for
ward.- The excitement was "intense. The
judge never looked so dignified in his life-
He evidently felt every inch of a judge.- •
B-B o-ow-ers," commenced the
man of law in that distressing style of spc6e,h i .
with winch he was invariatily trorililed alien
under Lite intluenCe:of liquor. 0.1,10 e B 15-
owerP,- altand up. 11;1%1'4-Ton anything to
a-s say. W-w-why sentence—"
"St , p, i!op, stop,Judge,' shouted the sheriff
- from the back part of the, room.—" You
are going•to marry the man, not to bang
him !"
_Thejudge drew a lour. breath and blink
ed rapidly; bilt stood the - ground well. Re
covering biinself he •proceeded; "J-J-oe
11-B-Isowers, do y : yrdu t•take N-N Nancy
llarkins for y-y-your wife, so help y-y-yott
God?"
This was a tolerable eon and' Joe as
rented.
"N-Naney Harkins, it now remains fur the
e-c-riourt to—"
'Here ' the sheriff again iiiterrtipted ttte
judge, reminding him of his real business.
Miss N-Naticv," - resumeil the Judge, afer
being set right, "d-do you take J Jae B-Bow
ers for a
. husband,. tto the best of your
knowledge and b belief, or d.do you not ?"
"You Get !" softly answered the light
hearted Nancy.
The Judge then took the hinds a thO
happ,,v couple and joining diem; wound up
the Yusiness as follows :
"ft now r-r-remains for this h-h-here Court
to pronOnnee you, Joe Bowers add Nanyt
[jerkins, man and wife: and" (here the judge
patfsed to wiped the perspiration from his
face,)—m•m may G-God'O-Or-mity h-have
m -mercy on y-your relea. e
cal iitar
'The elimpanyririarea. . Joe' and. Nancy
weakened.- The sheriff' 'Whi'Aaken with a
leaving. The. , let Ifiriself, put is a
glass of apple jack. Taken ArY [mail and
large, it- - was.the - greatest wedding ever wit
nessed. . • • .
= 'l''b9 twig efieottra .waE to rAise• a mob
would he; when 'they are assembled , -and at
work, to let off a keg of powder under them.
rniitg, cSltembrr 2, ink.
English firammar and Par . sing..
W cot the following fragnientfrom an ex
change:.
Take this sentence. "A judicious teacher
is governed by circumstances, in the admin
istration of discipline to children." It is a ,
grammatical sentence, but when submitted to
the paring process, it is not good sense any
more than brass buttons are good cents. Cir
cumstances, ailminiatnition, discipline, and
children, are in the objective , case*so far,
good; for circumstances are often objection
able; the administration (if we may believe
most of the Baton papers) is decided lyso j dis
cipline is objected to by Young America; and
children are certainly the most:objectionable
affairs I know of. ("Oh! you horrid old bitch!"
says the widOw.) According to the rule that
prepositions govern the objective case, all
these long, words are governed by the short
eat ones in the language. The meaning of
the sentence is, that circumstances govern the
teacher, and the teacher governs the children:
thus making circumstances occupy the lead
ing (Ely the bye,l wonder if they
came safely through the late commercial cri
sis; there is always so mash owing to cif
cumstances that they must have :Iheavy out
wending debt.) But grammar will have it
that the teacher being In tho u noronaitive case;
only governs the verb, and a passive verb at
that; (more of a sinecure than most enjo', I
suspect) while the circumstances 'and the
cbildren are govefned alike by the prepos
itions—a most preposterous idea ; an idea,
in fact, which was never taught to shoot prop
erly. The administration and discipline are
not under the control of the teacher, as -of
right they shonl,The, but they too ate got•
erned by these diminutive objects, with as
absolute sway as the little corporal 'governs
France. Now with such ridiculous doctrine
conred vs a daily task, bow, I ask, can chil
dren ever be induced to acknowledge the au
thority.of the teacher?
Again : Adjectives belong to nouns which
they describe. 'Do they!' Dick Turpin was a
highway robber; did the highway belong to
the robber ! Duties are collected by revenue
officers; does the revenue belong to the offi
cers! A boy fishes; does the fish agree with
the boy! I should think they would be in
the'objective ca3e,.. A man falls; sdoes falling
agree with the man ! "Sometimes," says
the Widow, "especially when he falls in love."
am inclined to jdin issue -with you there;
I. would as lief fall into hot water, and nine
times in ten it amounts to the same thing.
" I thought you told me once you loved wo
, men." :30 do; but loving, and falling in
love, in the dim( acceptation of the term,
are as dissimilar its , swimming and learning
to swim, In the ondscase, you flounder about,
frightened and half choked, with all sorts of
rainbow hues before your eyes, 'and all sorts
of strange music in your ears, completely at
the mercy of the new element you.are in—
your own 'awkwardness but increases your
mishaps t while in the other, you "breast the
swelling tide," serene and buoyant, or revel in
its luxurious embrace with delicious abandon:
To he sure, yob must go through with the
one before yon can enjoy the other. -
A GILATEPUI.Anst—When Judge Hen
derson, of Texas, was first, a candidate for
office, ho visiteti a frontier 'county, in which
he was, except by deputation, ri stranger. Hear
ing th tt a trial for felony would take place in
a few days, he' determined to teltltiteer for
the defense.. The -prisoner was charged with
having stolen a pistol; the defence was " not
witty." The volunteer counsel conducted
the defense with great ability. lie confused
the witnesses*, palavered gle court, and made
an able, eloquent, and successful argument.
The prisoner was acquitted—he had not sto
len the pistol. The counsel received the enthu
iastic applause of the audience. inno
cent client availed himself of the earliest in
terral,in the hurricane of congratulations to
take-his counsel aside. "My dear sir," said
he, "you have saved me, and I am very
grateful. I have no money, do not, expect
to have any, and do not expect ever to see
you again; but to show that I appreciite
your services you shall have the pistol I"' So
saying, he drew from his- pocket and pre
sented ,to the astonished attorney, the fey
pistol the attorney had just shown he bad
never sto!en or Kadin bitpossession.
GOING SN KS.—Not long ago; in a neigh
hosing city, as a butcher stood at his stall
selling meat, he saw. a man stoop down and
pick something .up.
" What have you got there?" asked the
butcher.
. .
The fellow said, "It looks like money."
On esamination it proved to be a $lO bill,
I suppose," said the butcher, "it is one I
dropped, when making change, a little;
ago!, •
To wldch the finder replied "I think I
ought to have one-half; for, had it not heti
fur me vou wduld not have seen it again." ,
The butcher, kfloWing. it hot, te ,. 116 . bill;
thought lie couldn't : do lessthin to comply
with the fellow's request; he therefore took
a five•dullar bill . out of his pocket=book aiid
gave it to him, taking the ten himself.
Soon afterward the butcher was purchas
ing some goods in a store, and, offered, the
bill in payment to the itcnekeeper, San Pro
flounced it conntetfeit. The botch& wigs
surprised,, and not overwell , pleased ; but on
considering, thought the best thing he could
do would be to store the ten-dollar note away
in a safe place and ,say 'nothing about . the
wav in which he had over reached , himself.
•
FRIN'tING OFFICE Jorvs.-zlt is customary,
in printing offices, when a particularly green
youth commences learning his trade, to make
him the object of various - yikes. Ile is often
sent to a neighboring office for an imagitiaty
article, and wholly original in the mind of
those who perpetrate the jokes. Once upon
a time a '•devil" was seat to F—a--!rt office
for a "quart of iidiforial." lle , vhts sent back
with the picture of, a jackass. This was
rather iettfrii Upon the jokers, .batitliify i4i
mediately told the - briyin go to F—z— s and
tell him it was "cditgrial" they wanted, and
not the etfitoe.
ADVAICTAtiES VA' Doctor,`
said an old lady, the otitheor day, to her family
physician,
4 kin yoti; tell me how it irthat
some felks is born , dumb l" . ;
certainly madam !" replied the deCtor: "It
owing to _the fact that they canie.ifotki the
world without the power of speech !" "La,
me !" remarked the old lady ; ' now jest see
what it is to loave a edication i : rye axed
my. old -man , mor nor a bandrol times-that .
ere sink: thing; and all could get 0111 of
him ea',' I(<I.SC thPy is: "
--t•r
, and Paiitimi.
. ,
Dt.tchess County has many tracts of land
where the' - aysteM of Messrs, Belden '.would
We commend the folloirilig, from the
N. Y. 'Tribune, to the especial notice of out
agricultural raaders ,f - I
Upon one of the hot (lonia July, we visit
ed the farm ~of Belden,Dover
Plaina; ~P,utcl;ess County., ; , We shotld have
- saidjarrns instead. Of farm, since
. the 87t
acres of groned owned by him are made up
by the union pf several farms with the origi
nal homestead of one of the three Belden
brqthera, who settled along 'the foot of the
hills-that bound the rich tract_of land that
gives namoto the locality. It is hardly nec
essary to say that the original improvef." of
the - land only imprival the forest off, while.
the land lay unimptoYed in-value or product
iveness., In fact it was Palled ", run down"
when Mr: Belden bought it. . The portion
that lies on the hills is natural pasture, and
is more profitable for, ftrlysitit,than for culti
valloti under-the Op*,:,under the old sys
tem, however, it had' been plowed and hoed,
and plowed and planted again, and sowed
to oats Red rye, and .seetlell'to i geas,s, and
mowed and pastured alternately and al
together , not so' profitably productive as
to induce tee, ciiiners to keep up the same
round of fanning. The system•of small in
closures added ..greatly to the expense, and
small pastures, overstocked, heceme dry and
almost worthless; while the grain crops with•
out manure i were not profitable. We found
upon some of these farms, where mixed hus
bandry had been the rule, all the interior
fences broken so as to give free range to a
herd of fat bullocks that- wete.fee4ing wilere
they pleased upon , pastry° that would afford
in Many places a goaA Ir kth to the molter,
actually better- than, porIM of the mowing
fields upon adjoining ferias, and the whole
affording the Owner a greater profit, without
much labor, than the same land ever,did to
the man who toiled with tlie Plai.ankl hoe
among the stones;oi , itt inclosing his little
fields elth-Mil Niiee lir stone walls. The
truth is, that tract after tract has been con
verted into pasture, end such lane anywhere
wirbin a ImntltEd chiles of ftew-York",is and
will be always proffiable for milk defies, or
grazing" Western bullocks, or making mut
ton. Now the only-question we will at pies
ent discuss is, lloW to convert these unpro
ductive hillsides into fat pastures, such as Mr.
Belden can show as ptoof pOsitive that the
thing can be done with profit. if you doubt
it go and see what he. has done, and ask Idol
how be did it. He has but One surlier; and
it is very short: •
"Plaster."' .
" What l nothing else?"
"Nothing but plaster."
‘'l i
" You do not stuck your land very hcav; "5 .
"No, you must not graze your land bare.
Give it piaster, and grass will grow. Let a
fair portion of that remain upon the ground,
and more will grow. Give it more plaster,
and soon—l don't know how long; at any
rate you see what it has done fur me. I
couldn't do without plastet."-
Him much to the acre?"
" Well, I put it, on a little stronlerlhlm
most folks do; say about a ton to fifteen
ames."
" What time of the year.
" Well, there I differ again from others:—
Everybody said, sow plantar in the spring;
but I found that I Could haul it better—for it
is piety heavi stuff to get up to my upper
farm when the roads are bad—in the fall, and
I don't ,sol 9 It !takes any difference. The
land; tdd, and ddn't cilt tip with the '
wagon wheels in the fall as It does in the
spring, and so I , had rather, sow plaster in
the fell. I guess it•don't iake much odds;
the main thing is to get it oh at any rate.".
Now, all we have to say, is, that if this Mr.
Belden and his brother Daiiti L., who have,
an equal quantity of land treated in the same
way, can afford to buy worn-out farms and
treat them in this way, the owners cannot
afford to sell them; they had better buy plas
ter and make pasture for themselves.
SETTING On' STRAWHiRRIES.—Now is (lie
best time for' setting out strawberries. A
correpondent of the Massachusetta Plough
man says that they should be set out iff rows
three feet apart and one foot from each other
in.the rows, -Let the soil be mellowed at
least one foot deep and wiled wfili tifeaclow
muck and rotten leaves. No other niaritiret
will be needed- in a gcod soil. So treated,
you will have fruit neat summer. The hest
article to shade them with, from tdiatifuch
heat, is the comoion'rd flower pcit. `'young
planta.or rthitierrifrom the old vines, can be
taken for the ne w bed. In the fall cover all
the, ground between the rdsry4ith leavei, two
or three inch& dief retrain so all the
year, and renew the saiiie — eiery tall. They
iceep the fruit clean, and Check the growth
of weeds. sit protection over this, with mats,
tliriEritet the cbld, weather is also useful. It
is advisable to plant in rows, and at this dis.
tance, for several reasons. TheFcan be more
easily taken tare of, the fruit can be with.
inbire conveniently, and the summer pro
teetot used to more adiantage. For this
tatter purpose use white millinet, which can
boliglit for 14- cebti per yardoi lea; two
yards wide, Cut it in halves, lengthwise, and
place over the tows, upheld in the middle
with' sticks about a foot long, -at suitable
distances. This will keep away the birds ef
fectually, and also serve to ream a great deaf
of moisture so rthidh heeded in the hearing
season. Keep the plaUts welt watered; and
let the cultivator take his Ehoice of the qiffe
rent kinds.--:Prdtfle Forniiri rJ.. .
Otitl tetiows.—The present gnaicial con
dition of the Grand Lodge of tbeindependent
Order. of Odd Fellows, of the State of Penn
syltanie; is as follows: Ifildded . Vassal ,
at commencement of fiscal _ l / 4 ieLci, 8827,49;
received from alt sotireee- during the year.
sB762,l9—malting a totol of $8589,811 The
e:cpendi t urea during the i priedanimated
to 89073,14. There Mit 'flow Ili tile Slater
540 sbrdinato lodge, catiC Ind air
tileinbers s were admitted dtiringthoqiiii; and.
358 rejected 389 - were" admitted by bard,
titi7 were reinstated. During the ;veer 440
members died.. -There are now in Ate Order
1084 past ORA and 44,110 contributing
members..-The receipts into all the lodges
amounted to 8204,483 41 . - . There were -re
' lleved 4'644 memberi and 848 *Hosted (anti
ind 384 brothers ware buried by the
ledges;" t'or ,relief of brollieri ;
do.' of widowed'fintilies, $6884.18;46r ed
imitiotiof orphan's, $1151;t0; burying the dead,
$19,888 81--tuakieg st-lotol of 8113,081 75.
folumt 15, Sunati
Draining. Prey 5in4.12j14 Prom
ThOttta. , . •
That draining 'deepens the soil,!_linereases
the effect Of Manures,' and' 'lengthens the
aq~epb ,•
; ef.,e.tking,thi - hod, we have airway.
shown; the. fact that it prevents the injurions
effects'of drouths,'
,however - seems's! paradox,
remains to be accounted for. • ,
WA knti* drat a (hip rind me - How soil ,
retains moisture nmcblretter than, a shallow
and bard-one. '.ceteris held in the soil ke
tweet' th minute panichrtof earth. If these;
pitttCies.tr elieskd togntke!_compactly, th ere l
is no a pace Ten hetween,r.thein for watei.,'i
Compact subsoils are hut.little perriteablt-to I -
water, compared with the same when broke I -
up, pulverized, and mellowed. ,The Ape ,iel
porous and drinks in moisture like A stsjuie'i L
the other absorbs ie it bfit small quantities,
and rapidiy parts with , them on, the,applica
tti heat. ,-'The one tikes it from the air,
which passes freelrthrough it ; the other im r •
pervious to the, air, or any slightly-powerful
influences, remains unchanged. Undiained
soils, as we }have shorn,
.compatt
atit; ISliTi7 reins; by the evaporation of the
with which they' are saturated; drained
soils, on thal contrary, become
same amount
from the filtration of the same amount of
moisture into ILO, drains below., - •
Draining prevent., injury ; drouth by!,
givihe a better growth to plants in the early ',-
summer. seed sown on , any soil c.antainiog
stagnant water, sends no roots below that A
water-line, tint tray for a while g row well
from roots near the surface. ljn.'t etdroeth -
come,•the water-line sinks rapidly, the roots
having no depth to seek moisture below, are
parched and borned,, ; end without rain; the
efOp Is ftfbparablY injured. On, a drained •
ft 44 {deepened soil the roots gO -closer: Without
obstruction, and-are tkukprepared to .wiih 7 ,
stand the • effects of the long continued dry, -..
weather so often experienced.
If it be granted,as we think it must bAthae
dNifljng Skeertl!... l ,lrni mellows the . soil; it
follows that draining prevents , drouth from
affecting injuriously the growth •. of. platital
In 1854, an excessive dry season, Prot . Filo
of Massachusetts, gathered a mass of teati
mony in regard to its effects on the crops.
and the best means of - preventin g injury tri _
the same. The rettirns,caMe back;, as with
one isail.A; in hisroi dt deepening and cnelloWl
ing the soil; by draining, -deepithiughi . n
subsoiling, and frequent culture, e
of hoed _crops. 'The drouth; affected dee
ploughed land very little; on those that were
faithfirly,,stilisoiled; the,cern i leavesi did riot
roll et, ell„ while on thctio„that iirere
ploughefl, the corn crop , suffered - mucb, and
other crops were seriously affected.' A oase
has been stated, where a crop of ht - ns were
planted, grown and ripened on a drained and
stifiseiled without a shower of fifteen
minutes de.ration, sOpply
~of water front
any source, save from the clews of heaven and' •
the moisters„froni 'beneath. At the satire
time in elds adjacent, vegetation was paiched
anti crisp, making no growth, whatever TM
lack of moist n re.—Courttry Grideman. •
_... • ~ .c . ...,
A:Opresd Eagl e Toast. • •
At Prentiss O'sn'tre; Mo„.on : „the' Sill: the
following was the second regular sentiment :-
Oen NATlON—Beg[tten amid the sto ..
of the sixteenth century, its infantile mova
tderits Were riirii and indistific.ly*ii on boast
the May Flower, on the rock - of, Plyaiouthl,
at Janiestown,on the plains of Monongahela,
and on the heigh ts of Abraham; the "capritiOs
squalls" of .its infancy were hiulid iu tho to -
party ot, tostoU, in ,Faneuil Hall, - on th
plains of oecord; Lexington and Bunk r
11111; in his boyhood he ran barefooted an
bareheaded over the fields of Saratiga, Tre .
ton, Princeton; Monmouthand TOrktow ,
it
w - 4)041; his mother itiid t urning her out f
doors; in his youth ffe strode: over the'prairias
- of the iinundless West, acid called tbetti h A
own, paid, tribute to the deaf:Kits of tattiii
in powder and ball, spit in his father's fa
from behind the cotton bales at New Orleaus,
whipped the mistress of the ocean; revelled in
the : halls of Mofitetudia; straddled the Rocky
Mountains; had With one fectt ‘ upon golden
sated-atiff iffi Other upon codfish and iumb44,
defied tbe world; in his manhood, clothed in
purpiii. and linen, he rides over the continent
in cushiciiied curs, ridei over the ocean in pal
ace steamers, sends his thoughts oft wings of
lightning to the world around, -.thunders at
the door of the
,Oelestial Empire and at Owl
poittill.ot distaq Japan . , slaps
_his poor old
decrepit father in hie face; and tells him to
be careful hOW, he pi4ki fi lth any of the pick.
arcicinti; gricf threatens, to make .11 sheep . I -
ture out of allltbe laild that j oins him. ' t
he will dcOn old age, God only knows. M y
iit y , q
he live ten thousand years, "and his Shad.'*
never be..less."_ ..
• how COFFEE CAME i4Y BE
somewhat- singular tef trace the inaitnet iitl
•
which Arose the titie of the voinnion beverage'
of coffee, viitlicitft ,Which few .persons;tu eqtyr
half or,whole civilized country ih the *mid,:
now make a breakfast. At the tithe Oolttin-!.
bus discovered, America, • it bad never been
known or used. It only gr ew in Arabia and
Upper Esthiopia. The dise:,oiary of its jute I tt9l
a heverage ,ascribed to the superior of
Monastery, in A.rahlti, Who,. desirous of pre y ;
venting the monks from sleeping , ,at , their
nocturnal services, make thein'dnnk the lt.;1
fusion of coffee,Vpoli the repqrts of shepher 34
who observed that their' &Oka *ere mere
lively after browsing ()tithe fruit Of that plant,
Its ieputatioli spread thriM„,oh fib adjscene
coutittiesi.atidlfi
. nbout pints it reached
Perla: 'A single That brought there in 17i4;
became the parent stook . Of all the' krenek
coffee plantations. OHS West Indies. 'Thel
Dutch' tntroduced it itita 3affa and thetast
Itkdies, and the French ma Spanish all oVer
South An:feria sod the West Indies. rid
I extent' of thei Chisattrion tat now banly
be realized. '_The Untted States alotte earl,
ally e.ottsurce it at the cost on Its landing, Of
from fifteen W &teen Millions of dollan4.
That of tea is a little over eight millions of
dollars.--You may. know the Arabian or
Mocha,' the beat coffee, by its stnall beak of
a dark yellow color.--Th'e lava and East Ind
ian, nett, 41 quality, me larger and of a paler
vellb'w. The *est' Indilln has a blakhl or
greenish gray tint: I
/Er The irabs have this lae,onia aignMent
against duelling, whieh they consider it silt*
euetote. "if a men insults you," say they,
"kill hint on the spot; bat do tiot gift hint
the op&ftenity to kill as wet hist& you,',!
ipir some people's hearts anti Oink in
them. like dried nuts: You min hear theit
raffle ss they - -