Slctftu to politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, iHoralitji, anb encral Intelligence.
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VOL 15.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH I, .1855.
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Published by Theodore Schoch. i
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AT THE OFFICE OF
THE JEFFEZHsOft'aAI?.
The Old, Old Home.
BY REV. EDWARD C. JONES.
When 1 long for sainted memories,
Like angel troops they come,
If I fold my arms to ponder
' " On the old, old home.
v The heart has many passages
Through which pure feelings roam,
T But its middle aisle is sacred
To thoughts of old, old home.
Where infancy was sheltered,
Like a rosebud, from the blast;
Where boyhood's brief elysium,
In joyousness was past,
To that sweet spot, forever,
As to some hallowed dome, ' -
Life's pilgrim bends KBsH'ision,
'Tie his old, old home.
: A father sat how proudly!
By that dear hearthstone's rzy,
And told his children stories " r
Of his early manhood's day;
And one soft eye was beaming,
From child to child 'twould roam;
Thus a mother counts her treasure,
In the old, old home.
"The birih-day gifts and festivals,
The blended vesper hymn,
(Some dear ones who were swelling it
Are with the Seraphim.)
The fond "good-night''at bed-time.
How quiet sleep woud come,
-And fold us altogether
In the old, old home.
Like a wreath of scented flowrele.
Close intertwined each heart,
But time and change in concert,
Have blown the wrath apart.
But sainted, sainted memories,
" Like angels, ever coma
If I fold my arms and ponder
On the eld, old home.
Judiciously Cool.
The New Bedford Standard teils the fol-
tutxtj;;.
A friom? nf nnrs w!io has been unfortunate
enough to be taken down with the varioloid,
left his bording-hoi.se very quietly and sud-
.u . c... .t'.' ..r .i;
dcnh'.asfoon' as the first symptoms of the di
reuse began to manifest themselves, and took
hi.i qunrtere at the hospital. In order to allay
the anxiety of h:s landlord cs to his where
abouts, he dropped him a note, stating that
he 'entertained no personal hostility towards
the house, but he did not wish lo associate
with the boarders?
True Dignity of an Editor.
Messer, of the Sunbtiry (Pa.) American,
Ic a bit of a wag. In the last number of his
paper he says that 21 years ago, three young
.gentlemen of Smithfitld county, and one from
a neighboring town, were examined together
by a committee of twelve lawyers, and the
next day admitted to practice at the bar. One
of the young gentlemen, after a career of
usefulness and distinction at the Bar, served
several sessions 'in Congress with great credit
t ! i
to himself, andVnpw occupies the important
r . r 1 1
Bnu proud pontffh of Governor elect of this
great Commonwealth. The second was also
one of the mcit dictinguifched members of the
bar, and represented the cotinty in the Lfgis-
lature with distmgutbhod afaitit'. buixsc -
qucntly, he located himself in Schuylkill coun -
tv and is now President Judse of that import-
i u .
dnt "District.
strict. Thcthirdisnowadistiguished
in Western Pennsylvania. TheTourth
-but here wc must let Mr. Messer speak for
. lirnficir: .
Thc fourth, the writer of this article, bar -
ing higher aspirations, now occupies the ele-
vatcdpoeiu'onofediiorandproprietorofacoun -
try news-paper, and looks Sown with compla-
J r . ,
cency upon his valued Inends and old assoc.-
- ates, with whom he has spent some of the hap-,
piest hours of life, knowing full well.Jfthey
have not reached so high a pinnacle on tho
ladder of fame, it wal not for the want of
r merit or ability on their part."
.OCrWhen-young men have nothing to live
upon but love, they commonly fall in Ibvc and
;gct married just as if hugging and kissing
,were a substitute for mutton chops, or as if
pterins of endearment would supply the place
jpf mashed taters and fricasecd chickens.
f t 07 Accommodation. Strict Business Man
y vJ-J'Patrick, hereafter I want you to commence
etwork at five o'clock and quit at seven."
.ipatrick " Sure and wouldn't Ivho as well
if lJi commence in the morning atsovenand
' leaYe off at five in the evening?"
Kr An editor who never -inmto twice wore
he speaks, says that the first dresses worn by
onr nrimitive ancestors in the Garden of Eden,
r
were bare (bear) Skins.
(fcj-lf our Mker thought it wrong for Adam
to live single when there was nota woman on
earth, how criminally guilty are old bachelors,
with the world full of pretty girls.
From the Nashville Medical Journal.
Death from Old Age.
Tho following
accouut of death
from
s Dr.
old
ace. bv the distinguished div
A. L
Li. P. Green, of Nashville, will be read
, with great interest by every student of
I nature. The death of Aunt Phil's, as the
' doctor beautifully expresses it, was truly i
, u .nuiuiui uuuiu, iui uittwi vtv.
is not according to nature, but might tru- -
' 1t tm nlnccnil nnlnr flio hn.lfl (It aCCl-
, tJ -
, dents" or "casualties : ' !
Dit. Eve -Dmr Sir.- I promised you 1
that I would furnish you with some of the
facts connected with the last days of Aunt
Philis, an old negro woman of mine, who
iiieu last tan. Aunc x'unib was ut tuu
time of her death, at tho lowest estimate,
111 years old, and the probability is that ;
she was several years older. I1 or ou y
years older, .borou years .
she has enjoyed uninterrupted health, and,
! as far as I have been able to learn, she
: was never sick in her life, except at the
i birth of her children. For thirty years
' of her life, and down to within three years
of her death, she did not seem to under-
I vears before her death ; up to that time
1 she was in tho full enjoyment of all her
i sense?; and at 104 years would have mar
j ried an old negro man of 75 if I had not
objected. Her sight failed not in the usu
I al way, but she became near-sighted, not
1 being able to see objects at a distance.
Soon after this her hearing declined, but
i up to the time of her death she could hear
, better than old persons generally do. The
i first indication of mental failure was that
of locality, she not being able to find her
) way to a neighbor's hou?c; yet her mem
ory seemed perfect in all other respects.
; She recollected her friends and old ac
; quaintances, but could not find her way
; to their houses. I at first supposed that
"' this was owing to defective sight, but on
1 examination found it was in tho mind.
! Still her locomotion was good ; she had
i the full use of herself, and could walk
1 i t i 3
: strong anu quicK ukc a young person, auu
held herself up so straight that, when
walking from me, I often took her for
some of the vouncer servants about the
j premises. The nest, and to me the most
j singular sign of decline was, that she lost
I the art of walking not that she had not
strength enough to walk, but forgot how
t to walk. The children would lead her
; forth and interest her for a while, and
he would get the idea, which seemed to
, t 1.1
delight her very much, anu sue wouiu
walk about the yard and porches until
some person would tell her she had walk-
cd enough but she would no sooner take
her seat, and sit for a few moments, bc-
fore all idea of walking would be gone,
and she would have to be taught over a
gain. At length she' became unwilling
fn trv to walk unless she had hold of!
iiuju ui
something; take her by the arm
, would walk, and
soon as you would let her go she wouic.
stop, and if no further aid was afforded
her she would get down and crawl like a ;
child; and at length became so fearful
that she refused to walk altogether, and;
i;uimuuu iu si uu.lu
IiaU lAJ UU put LU UUU UUU lUHCll up uai. u
, child. After a while she became unwil
ling to get up altogether, and continued to
t. .1 i. 1 - A i. T 1 1 . ..1 151ro o
lie until she died. All this time she
seemed to be in good health, iook her rcg-
ular meals, and her stomach aud bowels .
were uniformly in good condition. I of- '
. ten examined her -the best I could and
she had no pains, no sickness, no aches or ,
. "u "vl ' ,
any kind, and from her own account, and
able to wag
hj and tb(J whUe jQ fm(J
Spjrjts 'fbe intellect and thc mind seemed .
to be perfectly good, only that she did'
. not seem to know wLcrc she wasit thc
j time. J
At length one of thc children said to
j me that Aunt Philis was getting cold, and
; on examining her I fonnd it even so ; tho
j uemuie c"lu"B""f , . ""V
regular meals, and did not complain of
anything; and the only change that i rc-
jcoflectQYwas tbat she slept a little more
tl)an uguaj Tie coi(lness increased for
jtwo day.-, when she became as cold al-
j m0st as a dead person. Her breathing
i .i !
oegan at cngtu to snorten, auu g4w , ,uui-
began at length to shorten, and grew shor
ter till she ceased to breathe. Death
closed in upon her. like going into a soft,
sweet sleep, and for two minutes it was
difficult to tell whether she was breathing
or not. Therc was no contortion, no
struggle, no twisting of thc muscles, but
after death she might have still been ta
ken, on a slight examination, to have been
in a deep sleep. So passed away Philis
the only natural death lever witnessed, i
The number of languages spolrcn in tue
world, amounts to three thousand ana six-
ty-four. Thc inhabitants of the globe pro
fess more than one thousand different reli
gions. Tho "Rsnnimrmv nnvs l?nvnfd TavlorJ
are afraid to die of a windy day;.lest their
souls should be blown away. - '
1 go me siigntcst cuaugu ui ui "it'"" sooner than if directed to Freetown: which oiaius ju-agiu, nun uiapimuuatuu, au"icciving tl
: time exercising but little power over &cVLyj n an extended correspondence, told him there was hFs authority for the ;
i hpv Thr fir!-, sirrn of decav was that i.. cn . v Anni,nrnli1n nnnrsp. he had taken, direct from the Dc-i
. 1 1 - 1 i . . i - I : I. nMnnnr.. nnnn
- - c i ui 1" u i, iu cuuiu v;auo, uu ui iiuuamtiuun - ,
nf v,i.rif ulufh took nlace about three t ri lnni Sip t nnrfmenfc. The carrier ODened the doc-te000j
From Harper's Magazine.
Specimens of Coolness.
" T 7 i n.
In the way of calmness, perhaps the
following 13 about as cool as anything tho
reader has ever encountered, at least in
tho "Drawer :"
! A ?unS lawJcr gct his first noto for last was an eighteen penny piece! Havn't
'collection. It is against a country custo-, vou got a pood qarter about you?' '
jmer; so he sits down and writes him a let- f I gave him the 'good quarter,' said
iter in due form, advising him that 'his Mr. 13 , in mentioning the circum- (
I note has been loft for collection, and that, stance to a friend, 'and as I went up to
time, and that imincdi-,
ate attention
mtion to it- will save costs,' etc.,
In about ten days he received this
:
etc.
answer : :
Yalley Forks, Nov. 15, 18.
"To F N B Esq Dear Sir I re-
ceived your polite note of the fifteenth in-.
stant this ciav. it was
It was directed to tho ;
BOst0fHcc at Freetown.
The mail comes
i ?n m t 1
irom your vmage to xonspKinsvuiu uveiy .
day by tho flta(Te which runs from your .fused several times, a short while ago, to
plaJcc i0 Owcgo leaving your village at G( deliver the mails at a post-office on his
O'cocj jn ilQ forenoon. From Tomp-' route he wanted his pay out of certain
kjnsvjiie thero ;s a mn cvery othor day '
tQ preet0WDj ana aiso yauey Forks.
F thence there is a cross-mail around
tl hn tiT0Vlrh the lower towns iu this
miT1f,. tn nnr ni!lf,P nTir.ft - Wfifii.. i1Ilfc the1
nn:;fmocfm.s nn tho rnnt nan't, mad vp.rv
well, and sometimes keep a letter over one
mail to spell out the direction.
lnt.tors to this office,
generally in about three days after you'
mail them, and about a week or ten days i
.nf.ot sailer any m,W frii It '
At i T ii 1 t 'a. 1 l
tms time; mu tuougut it uust, as vuu
seemed a little ignorant of tho geography !
of this part of the country, to give you ;
this information, that you might in future,
know how to direct to, j
. (Dnnr RiV mn riri rr,ofnllp
'JOHN" CALKINS ' i
S. As to that note, vou say 'it has1,
t., ' i a.; nc f?,n
he rem
of two
'coolness' that he thought were quite
freezing. He went on to say :
'A sharp-nosed, glib-tongued woman
was marketing with her basket on her
arm in one of the markets of Cincinnati, j
when she stopped before a 'station' where
hominy grits buckwheat, flour, etc., were
sold by tho small quantity. Unlike the
present time, everything was down then
to the lowest figure. Going up to the
seller, she said :
"'What do 'ou ask a half-bushel fori
Indian meal ?'
"'One shilling, ma'am.'
" A shilling eh? Ain't that rather
high V
"'High! Shan't
I give
vou a
half
bushel? If you think a shilling is a high
price for half a bushel of Indian meal,
I'll give you a half bushel oomc, now.'
" 'is it sifted V ased the woman indi
cating that even as a gift, she was not!
going to take it unless it was 'first-rate.'"
Something akin to this was the other
instance of 'coolness.'
A merchant in New York, formerly a
, . fl:0i,: ;t,r nf!
run a long time.' I can only say, as the , "u 1L
boy said of the molasses, Zrt her runP "jtook place in the w
v.Arr fiw'a ,n n Cr-i.A nf.nnr iv,nw .temNew i ork, a
arkedthat he had heard or read j l .u" ",.ailv'" """"
cases of independent, impudent and for nativf lan.d
a.nVIlC; the 'Empire State,' after residing in the
Jusfc "ImetroDo is for some ten vears without!
. . took jfc l)ig hcad tQ upside clown, anu crossways surrounu-
hia ocf t0W'Q for a fcw d a S 1Te I ed by his aids, and finally handed it back
fl therc lho d bcfore thc Founh to the man, saying :
Ju nd during the celebrating ofl ' 1 aPP0SC lfc f.mc k",d. ff.a
( oncounterod .habeas corpus, and we 11 have to let thc
i mnnv of his nld friends and aenuaintanceS.
J A .
, While he was conversing with one of them,
; a man with but one arm made his way
, into the circle where he was standing, and
. said,
j "Ain't you W B , that
' used to live here some time ago. down
, KJ t
there to 's store ?
"I am the-the same," was the reply.; company ac a smau party uruuay
'Yes; well, I thought so. Don't you "g nest. 21 Spr.gg.ns' place Mon-
remember wzc" juay.
"Can't vsay that I do-though your TTl-'Captaii, .Brown presents
face is familiar to me, too, somehow." eomphments to Mrs. Jenkins and re-
"Why, it is my arm that does it. I - grots that thirteen privates will be dc-
had two when yod knew me. This arm",ined by habeas corpus writs and two
rmovin.the stumn of an arm that was
t nor ifiiri i -v;im iiitii u uu. lii.u u tu i v o
y o
four years, by the hu'stiug of a cannon.
you Remember old Ben
did tf , ffl d . work d
-, that
lown to your
im,n7
The recognition being now comnlcto,
fl, mnn wmTtnn.
"Can't vou give a poor cripple some-
ti rm n V.fit. lmil n't
, 1 j f . th A-urtl . of juiv t Wouldn't
: 1 ,rt! J' "
liaVC lOst my aim.
a-neeu ior tue iourt
have lost my arm."
Mr. B too
pocket two twenty-
M B tQok frQm h;g waistcoat'
tv-five cent nieces and
J ..i . ..i..
it- i? i
Came ID UUU at lUUlC, anu UUUUiug uyui,
said in a loud and
iinnnfiinnf o 'i iriiio.
bVUUUVyUUIUl 1 1
per
"Your brother that lives here give mc
a dollar this morning: vou- didn't give me;
but luilf a dollar. Couldn't you give a
roller a little more?"
Not wishing being a New lork mer
chant to be outdone in 'liberality by a
relative in the -rural districts.' he again
took from his pocket two quarter dollar
pieces, and handed them to tho cripple.
j Without deigning a reply, the man took
j the money and walked off.
reSUmeUlllS Conversation WltU Ulb Uiuuu.. , 1 , m, nrl,i,ton nnn-oi- snpnro the. (ivtf r
The man backed out after receiving thc tippler lid of his right eye! The eye was perhuman power secure, in the hist, any
xiil man oaoMJu out aiiti icv.vin0 tuu ri litterallv frozen shut His thing like results which would be accom
money, without a word of thanks, and f"'1 plisbed without any appearance of effort
he saw him no moro until, while J0.: the ids in mo- on the part of the superintendent, in the
seated at dinner, thc one armed bore tiilliculty tnair ue hope iu. nua cwinm, rnn , r
i .... i. i Vi. i..i: tinn A m.w w nd was blowincr. and tho second case!
same
evening,
was lighting his candle at the
'bar, being about to retire for the night,
tlio'im ent Bolioitor, canie up to im
w;tj
Just as
'I say, B , do you know that such wc would say read the followingtar-
one o' them quarters that you cave me'tide. Others sav "we know that we
bed, and after 1 had retired to rest, 1
'could not help thinking that my maimed
friend 'stood up for his rights m a way
;.,.. J , , jT-
that was a caution to all givers. Here-;
that was a caution' to all fivers
Ipudiated the idea altogether that 'beggars
'should not bo choosers,' that is, if they
chose to De !' j
. . .
U00l ose .ana. a wo or. -cm.
A ATnJl iKirrinr nn n nortnin rrvilf.A
- - .
carrier on a certain route re
moneys received at the post-office tor a
special purpose, and which the deputy
post-master, in tue aDsence, iou,
'se
sired
ac
the no
1 subscribers, among others
15 Ut Just WCCK
. .
as he passed along, the deputy handed
nim out a document neaueu uy uiu uunuu .
Jimojit, pretenJoi to m3, and bandiDE it
V. n o 1- forlnmf1 if. nil rirrlif nnrl fnrKftd n. I
s , -or, .
ver the mail and has since left it with
commendable punctuality. The doeu-,
ment, nowever, was a conimiasiou uom,
Brig. Gen. Wm. B. Greathouse. appoint-!
ins said denutv to a lieuteiiaotship in!
the militia of the district of Indiana !
the above to one of the citizens,
. , .? r .
no saiu it roxniaactt mm ox an auair iua
ar of 1812. In Wes
poor fellow from the
the
and
con-,
trary to his natural inclinations. lie
went to a neighboring town to get rid of j
military servico. -&wag of a clork in a '
lawyer's office told him bethought he
- - a a Vr 1
could 'fix up something that would do,
and forthwith drew up a singular docu
ment, in which legal phrases, Latin,
Greek, &c, were freely mingled, and a
big seal applied, and handed it to him to
go to out the quarters, and when the
names were being called, to step forward
and cry, 'hear ye, hear ye!' three times,
and then Dresent the document to the
General, and all would be right. The i
honest fellow took it, and at the appoint
ed day appeared on drill. The names
were called over, and General Bloom, fil
led with military glory, paraded up and
down tho line like a turkey cock, while
the names wero being called. Suddenly
ho was appalled by the appearance of a
lean and lank individual stepping from
the ranks and saying, as he held the doc
ument over his head :
'Hear ye ! Hear ye ! ! Hoar ye ! I !'
Alio mail steppuu uu iu
mi . i. l i
tho ueneral
presented him the document lhe
General opened it, viewed it right side
The fellow made tracks quick with his
PpP0,1"'
and was one of the chaps who
didn't 'serve m thc war ot 1S12.' M.va?is-
ville Journal.
'O
An Invitation. 'Mrs. Jenkins re
quests the pleasure of Captain Brown's
1 ... -n ,
. ii i t?:.i
1 sergeants are onine sick u iub nS 01
Cantain Browns 'compauv will lavc
. i -
i
"1" pleasure in uiung uu m.a. u'y
i i r . ... n H.i
Friday evening.'
J tflAiN H 1'Jlii QUU i' ui'JSi nil. rJiuoi
e don'fc iutend t0 bra about our oold
j weather, but wc never recollect hearing
of an instance in which a man's eye was.
frozen
n or, could not give. The carrier ue-, iU1&Jll"uu 1 "J ' " J ' r " , t ., .. ..-
to see the deputy's authority for chanic, or merchant say it is too smau ; " -
ting as he did and appeared ill dis-; a business for us" or "we have other mat- j " boffie ;nfluence ig th(J
poseu to listen to retiaou. au vvU&s ters to attend to." Iou cannot nave a ftnr;Msf OT, i uae. mntu,i,;n,
n shut, except that to which we nowjtue fidelity of thc workmen; let gentle-
' refer. The driver of a sleigh coming from
j Jamestown to Xeuia on Saturday mom-
.... , -xr
mg, just as lie was entering -vem a ex-
hibited to his passengers an icicle about
o loro n ft l.nnWslmk. nnndnnt. from the
or ornrfi ns n. nnKS ni. nunuiiiiL irom liiu
V , ,.i
. J T3 ,
nassencrers in mc sit'igu iveut tucii., la-o,
covered. Dayton Journal.
.
It requires capital to start a dailcy pa -
per. It will stop itself.
r T
a GTnnn LnrLin-,! iina Knnn morlr
in raris ior a xurisisn guuuumuu or tur-
-rx fl! 1 .1.1 i- J'
.
ll KToiir V-yilr ittfrnl mnn
been transferred from tho Tombs to a lu-i .fiSrThere are 100 Churches in Pitts
natic Asylum. ,burg.
(Sbxtcatianal.
j&g- Some parents when asked to vi.-it
schools inquire "Of what use is it." To
should visifc them but wc catmot spnre
,. ,r . .,. it
the timo" Yet' lf thesc sanic Person9
have a pig to fatten or a colt to train, they
will not trust them to another person's
charge, without frequently visiting them
and ... how tI arc manngea. They
. , f xl - , A , .
will find time for the pig or colt, but not
for children. lhey think it is sufficient
to furnish them with books and start them
to school. There is a certain scbool.with
to school
72 pupil
.72 pupils, not 100 mile3 from btrouds-
burg, which has been in operation four
,i0:t nf
; "-"b
'great exertions, but eight parents have
! visited it. nowever, beforo the end of
inoxt montb we hope to be able to record
a gUtc Qf Lefc nQt th(J
n n r wi t r thf.r run adt rtrnn
tuia. xiuujuuiuui tuuu ""iwu
'of the present ago must be the men and
WOinen or the nest; ana tney arc now re-
ieir education, either good or
is your duty to see that it is
Fathers and mothers, if you have
neslected .his do mt let another
T- nn.-.r. V.. ntxU-..L " A nrm
wcua p-aa uv nuuaim buuiu uaie ic-
iri Jt Do nofc wait for aQ inted
f
' . . t . . . . " 4l
not on their best behavior and sec the
every day working of the school. We
beg of you, do come. D.
From the Ohio Journal of Education.
Why do Schools accomplish so Little?
It is a common complaint that ourschools
are indifferent, that scholars seem to ac-
cotnplish but little, comparatively, with
all the boasted improvements of modern
i- III! - I 1 .I-i I
times, misis aounuess oiten true : we
have no wish to deny it. It is equally
true that there are reasons for the fact,
Children do not act without motives they
will not stutry without inducements to
mental effort; yet they cannot bo expect
ed fully to appreciate the value of knowl-
'edge, or to improve their time because
they feel the importance and necessity of
so doing. Other motives than those which
impel the adult to seek information, the
professional man to improve himself, or
tho man of science to prosecute his re-
searches, must be brought to bear upon
them. Among these motives, one ot the
most powerful is the love of approbation,
not of their fellows merely, nor of their
Teacher alone. They need to feel that thc
eyes of their parents, of the men & women
in the district whom they are accustomed
to respect and revere, are upon them; that
if they 'conduct themselves with propne
ty, it is seen ; if they improve, it is no
ticed; if they manifest ingenuity and in
telligence, it is observed; and that if they
are courteous, frank, truthful, magnaui
mous and conscientious in all their inter
course, and faithful in all their duties, it
will be known and approved of all men
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trade, be employed upon a work which
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would require mouths for its completion ;
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let each bo paid lor his days work, wheth-
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er he did little or much, and whether that
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was well or llifdono ; let no one of their
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to another, to compare the idleness of one
with the diligence ofr-anothcr, the ingen
uity and taste of a third with the dulncss
and awkwardness of his neighbor; and
would it bo possible for any master-workman,
unless elevated almost infinitely a
bove them, to prevent them from falling
into habits of carelessness and indolence?
What motives to fidelity, to effort for im
provement, could he bring to bear upon
them? But let thc same men be employ
ed on the same enterprise, under thc same
superintendent, and let him frequently
receive calls from his fellow-citizens, mau-
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Inlannod and which thn laborers were em
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bodying in fair and beautiful proportions
under his direction; let them drop to the
workmen expressions of their admiration
of the plan and skill of the designer; lot
men of character and influence commend
men of intelligence and taste notice tho
individual artists and inquire their names;
J n1 nnt ll.ncn l;rirrori 'he fftlnllv
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case? And could anything short of su-
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rl n n,nlr th nlntlon f tho
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courbu genorauy pursueii wu roiuim
jto schools of every grade? Children and
1 i youth arc influenced iu thc same manner
though to a much greater ex-
j tent, by the motives above named, ccd
we sav. that sohools cannot rationally be
isited and en-
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(couraged by parents and citizens?
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A First-Eate library.
Young man, have you a good library ?
No. Why not? I can't afford it. j Why
can't you afford it? Because I'm too
poor. Do you smoke cigars or chew to
bacco ? Yes. How much do they cost
you per annum? A trifle a more trifle
only a mere trifle. How much do they
cost you each day? Well, as I am very
temperate, only about a' dime for cigars.
At the end of the year, do you feel any.
better than you would if you refrained
from the use cf tobacco! No, I .can't
say thafc.1 do.
Well, they cost you each daymen cents;
or, a little over thirty-six dollars per an
num. Oh, not so much; but stop, let me
sec yes, you're right! thirty-t-ix dol
lars a" year. Now, that sum would pur
chase a firt-rate library; you spend it,
for what aye, for what? Do you com
prehend the reason that you are too poor
to have a library do you comprehend the
reason? Hillsdale Gazette.
Schooling'.
The Teacher's Association of Coldwa-
tcr, Michigan, lately adopted the follow-
tblc
which childhood is subjugated
i And Whereas, The parent is the natur
' al guide as well as guardians of his chil
j dren; therefore
i Resolved, That the Jtomc circle ia the
great school room, and all other teachers
are but the parents assistants.
Resolved, That the intelligent, active
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, . be"t interests of our
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pupils
Let parents see to it that scholars.at-
tond school regularly, are there at proper
time in the morning and at
noon, ana
that they study lessens thoroughly.
Tho
Scbooll-master cannot do everything
An Oregon widow thus writes her ex
perience during her sojourn on the Pacific
coast: " I have indeed been most unfor
tunate; both of my arms are slight palsied,
each of my legs have been broken, my
health is generally bad, I have had four
husbands in my time, but they all up and
died poor things, and I had four yoke of
oxen, and the cussed Indians stole and
eat them."
A genius has discoverd a process for
converting old topers into a cartridge box.
Their superiority for that purpose consist3
iu their being always dry.
The Loss of a Wife.
In comparison with the loss of a wife,
all other bereavements are trifling. Tho
wifel she who fills so large a space in tho
domestic heaven: she who busied herself
so unweariedly for the precious ones a
rouud her; bitter is the tear that falls up
on her cold clay! You stand beside her
coffin and think of the pat. It seems an
. amber-colored pathway, where tho sun
shone upon beautiful nowers, or the stars
hung glittering overhead. Fain would
thc soul linger there. No thorns are re
membered save those your hands may un
: willingly have planted. Her noble ten
der heart lies open to your inmost sight.
' all beauty, and purity. But she is dead!
p ' I ' 1, a 1 4 n n t. I. thnt Imrl )tnn -rrtt,-. hnAm
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, rests in the still darkness, unpn a pillow-
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of clay. 1 he hands that have ministered
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so-untiringly are folded, white and cold
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beneath the gloomy portal. lhe heart
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whose every beat measured an eternity
of love, lies under your feet. The flow
ers she bent over with smiles, bend now
above her in lears, shaking the dew from
portals that the vendure around her may
be green and beautiful.
Therc is no white arm over your should
er; no speaking face to look up into the
eyes of love; no trembling lips to mur
mur, 'Oh, it is so sad.'
There is so strange a hush in every
; room, no light footstep passing around.
No smile to meet you at nightfall. And
j thc old clock ticks and strikes, and it was
' such music when sho could hear it! Now
U cfrll-p 11 k ft fi knpll on tho hnnrs tbrniirrli
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u on'
1 which you watched thc shadows ot death
gathering upon her sweet face.
And cvery day the clock repeats that
old story. Many another talo it tclleth
too, of Keautiful words and deods that are
registered above; Yet feel Oh, how of
tcu that tho grave cannot keep her.
Our Drawer.
HickortNut Oil ANew Light.
Hickory nut oil, considered equal to tho
beat lard or sperm oil for burning and
machinery, is manufactured by Mr. War
ren Eastbrook, of Duytou, in this State.
The nut oil remains in a fluid state at very
low temperature, and it doc3 not 'gum'
like thc ordinary qualities of oil. It is
used in very delicate machinery, and
when properly refined could be used by
watch-maker. Thc pig nut is preferred
in thc manufacture, ou aocount of its-thin
shell, and greater abundance of oily ma
terial. Mr. Eastbrook believes that oil
manufactured from tho ordinary shell
bark and sweet hickory nut, would-come
into general use for the table. Toledo
Republican.
If five and a half yards make aipcrchj
how mauy will make a cat fish?'
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