@ Os, 4aptts. suirrEgrue AND THISTLE. ' The following ' , .poem, by Julia Ward"' Howe, appear in the September numbei of Hours at Home : Oh! delightsome butterfly At thy =mount revelry 1 Littte hart with sails latteen. With a many-colored sheen. Like some fairy craft that flies Where smooth mirrored Venice lies. Wings that thrill and lot:cr ever, Mocking evervynde endeavor. With - the passlion of the speech Bet beyOod thy insect reach. Would we grasp thee, as men ru h After gold. or glory's flash. 11l the hand ormight we trust.' For tby feathers are but dust—, eay to our unloved instance • "Beauty shovel:int in cod's distance." This Purple thistle is to thee An isiet In the summer sea That images eternity. As I ponder and rehearse Thls'poor idle morning's verse, Here y anchored est And tu to rbrief elysiumthou drain rem e al ss n . 'Breezy zephyr sweeps the fields, And the tnistie sways and yields. Sat the butterfly cones fast .• As a sailor to the mast, As a banner in the blast . Firmesthe widest sweeps its folds, till its pro id slave holds. I who picture thee, this flour Thus am clinging to my flower Winds on lofty errand sent Question me a .harm intent— •'Where's thy honey ?-where thy song? Bee or bird thou doe et wrong." Still I seek one last caress, One more breath of Joyousness. Ohl my Bower, the wealth thou haat ticiftly in my soul bath passed When the happy summer day That tuavelien toes nits sway. When Love's bloom has hurried by, Snow, ihy butterfly will die. Bearing to some gentler zone Thy loss spirit with her 0% 11. Thee how soon may I behold Lifelest in thy shroud of gold Nothing in thy plaintive death Wholesome Nature threatenet h. . Noliale corpse. with loathed hi, tint the little wings are still. YAW sue thistle keeps its growth. vain the - breeze his challenge bloweth; The gay PeIIIIOII floats no more Prom toe louvers meadow-shine. Might I, when my day'is done, Fail like thee. oh winged one! No contagion leave, nor soil. But spore and harmless spoil, One might keep with relics rare, Baying to the ..iranger's stare: she was. and sue was fair'', STATE AID FOE THE CAUSE .0 HIGHER EDUCATION. Remarks of * President it. AUDLEY BROWNE, of Westminster College Delivered August 12th, at Greensburg, Pa... Belem) the Pennsylvania state Teachers' Awciation. I congratulate myself that I address the teachers of Pennsylvania, represent ing the interests' of a million of children of the school age and students in public and private schools, academies and col leges, and that I 4111 L one of your number myself. It is cause for congratulation , that .there is a growing sense of com munity of• interests between teachers in all these various schools. The conviction ttows that we aid our own departments and the common cause by unity of action between all.' Jealousies are giving way, and, though wherwthought is free, differ , ences will and must exist, yet our differ ewes are such as . befit honest and earnest awn and women. My subject is "State aid foi higher ed ucation." I was associated with the State Superintendent—he in one depar tment of the government, I in another —in the proposed measure to secure eloser union of the various schools of the Commonwealth and render aid on certain terms to colleges. This end willun doubtedly be reached. Men who orgi ' nate great measures, are sometimes so nn fortunate 'as' to have been born before theft. time. This I hope may' not be the -case with Mr. 'Wickersham. His is a memittre to accomplish a grand objectand 'deserves speedy success, namely, \ the es s tabllibligg of unity amongthe educational -institutions of the State and`stimilating tea efficiency of them all, and I hOpe ju dicionalegislation will - soon give it \ effect. Mdgreatest with of the present genera. tion is the edueistion of the next. IR is a greater work than rearing fine stock or making improvements in arts and mann facturies. The community and common wealth that devote their energies to the great'work of improving the me and women of the coming generation, will, is the march of improvement, lead those who chiefly devote-their energies to the aevelopement of material interests. It is said of . certain districts in New England, that their soil being too poor for profit 'able agriculture, the people build school houses and churches and raise men. And it is the bosit of the citizens of the small - town of Lebanon, that they raise butter and cheese for the Norwich market, and Governors for the State of Connecti cut— the latter pre-eminence being attributable to their excellent schools. They have .raised five Governors already, three Trutotrulls, Bissell and Buckingham, and no doubt will rear more. It Is to be hoped that our - noble State may not cultivate the wealth of her soil and develope the riches of her mountains to the neglect of the cul, '.tare of the minds of her children, or allow her sister States to excel her in their in atitutions oflearning end labors in the de partment of education. For here,. after all, the greatest results are to' be obtained. `ate development 'of the material waits fiNif 'on. the larger development of the lute:NO/nal. What lY education? Not the mere knowbOge of facts • but the training of minds. Tho, jcnowled,ge is important; but the trainingt is much more so. Edri catioimeatea notbipg, but it does more; . it developes :the Creative power in the mind of man. -- Upontirhook devolves theresponsibility of abating the coming generation? Up. - on parents, the church and State. p a . rents stand first, and of parebts, the moth= err of the Joao are, foremost of all, its natural Instractori. "'Upon the Christian Church also.devolves a resPonsibUity, of which, however, I do not here speak. But the State is also responsible to pro Tide a suitable - education for those who are, soon to be mature citizens invested with the solenin respons!' of v.- hood'• and wOmanhood. when this responsibilit right to tax the realt wealth for ,purPoseg questioned. ,It is no. ,clause of;the Constil • • and the system of , co) it effect,.• • • dint where shall ''•`-4 1 111.1 1 we be content h. tion as shall'after = rant? Mall th' eseof eduestior vision to placerAtA Cii tOti, regret to tit" , schools the higliesv in the three !rel.' and "Rithmetic." The -system of public instruction, in general good, is `crippled . by its defective adadnistratiori. The school directors Win ,whose wisdom its efficiency 50,.1...,