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BY HV BUCHER SWOOPE.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESD AY, OCT. 31, 1855:
YOL. 2.-K0. 11-TOTAL, 66.
, BEAUTIFUL STANZAS. '
Ift my bower so bright, as I lay last night.
The moon through the fresh leave streaming.
There were sounds iu the air, bat I could not tell
yor if I was thinking or dreaming. where.
?Twaa the sound of a lute, to a voice half mule.
That sank when I thought it was swelling.
And it came to my ears, a if drowned in the tears
Of the being whose woes it was telling.
The tones were so sweet, I thought it most meet
They should not be tones of gladens;
There are notes so fine. that, were melody mine,
They should only belong to sadness.
And the air-ereature sang, and the wild lute rang j
Like a bell, when a cherub is dying
I can tell no more, but the tale wa3 of woe,
For the souads were all lost in the sighing!
And still it rang on, till the stars were gone.
And the sun through the dew was peeping;
When I woke in my bower, every leaf every flower,
Every bud, every blossom was weeping '. .
; Harp of a Thousand Strings.
We find the following in a New Orleans pa
Where they picked it up we should like j
per
to know." It is one of the most unique sar
inons' we ever read, and it may be long before
oar readers are treated with 'another such.'
So 'dip in, gentlemen. The scene is laid in
the town of Waterproof :
I may say to you, my brethering, that I am
not an edecated man, an' I am not one of 'em
as believes that edecation is necessary for a
O'ospwl preacher, for I believe the Lord ede
eates his preachers just us he wants 'em to be
edecated 5 an' although I say it as oughtn't to
ay it, yet, In the State of Ind'urtiny, whar I
live,' thar's no man as gits a bigger congrega
tion nor what I gits.
' Thar may be some here to-day, my brcther
ing,; as don't know; what persuasion ' I am uv.
Well, I must say to you, my brethering, that
I'm a Hard-Shell Baptist. Thar's some folks
us don't like the Hard-Shell Baptists, but I'd
rather have a hard shell as no shell at all. You
see me here to-day, my brethering, dressed up
in fine clothes; youmou't think I was proud,
but 1 am not proud my brethrring, and altho'
I've been a preacher of the gospel for twenty
years, au' aitho' I'm eapting of the ilatboat
' . ,
that lies at your landing. I'm not proud my j
brethering.
I am not gwiue to tell edzactly whar my tex ; stantaneous chance, with incredible quickness
msy be found; suffice it to say it's in the leds j t,f eve aj quickness of hand, with iiieompre
of the Bible, and you'll find it somewhar be- j i,ensii,0 delicacy making them wheel about
twecu tl;o first chapter or Generations, and the i j,;,,, as jf they were the obedient servants of
last chapter or the book of Revolutions, and , j,;., v.;ii. - s,lc, exquisite skill makes one's
ttf.yoa'U go and sarch the Scriptures, you'll j own jianj3 seem utterly clumsy and insulli-
uwt only fiud my tex thar, but a great many 1
other texes as will de you good to rad, and
my tex, when you shill find it, you shill find it
to read thus: ' :
"And he flayed on a harp nv a thousand :
strings sperits uvjust men made erfeck." j sustained flight, broke out with a murmur of
' My tex, ruy brethering, leads me to speak ; encouraging applause."' Then followed in
ffsperit3. Now, thar's a great many kinds of ' uipk succession oilier not less remarkable
tpi.rit.1 in the world in the fuss 'place, thar's i fSAs 0( strength, agility and sk'.U feats on
the sperits as some folks call gosts, and thar's ' i0e8i with swords, with stones, with ribands
the sperits uv tiirpen-TiNK, and thar's the feats, indeed of all sorts, and all done with
sp writs as some-folks cnH liquor, a:i I've : a apparent case that madethnn not U-ss plea
got an good an .x: tiklo of th-'iu kind of sperits ; ?-lnt -than wonderful to see. . The Jugglers
.u in? JUtboat a ever .was futeh down the Mis- ; aeCiiied snttle and lithe as spirits,
iss:ppi river ; Lt thar's a great many other j tieJ or wrt1H(.,oti with joint or limb,
kinds of spi-rifs,' for tin tex says, i- -: j X..r founded on tbo brittle strength of bone
" "He 'played on a harp "nv ; ?VV-o--i-and Like cumbrous flesh. ' ' ' .7 .
strings, spirits nv just men made xerfek." ' j But the most wonderful performance that
. But 111 toll you the kind uv sperits as is I we saw this morniug, was a leat of pure Jag
ment in tho tex, is pirk. That's the kind ur ; gliug. of which I have never been able to find
sperits as is mout in the tex, toy brctheriugl any solution.' One of the old men came for
Xow, thar's a great many kinds of fire in the ! ward upon the gravelled and hard trodden ave
world. In Uie fuss place there's the common ; nue, leading with him a woman. He made
sort of Ore you light your cigar or pipe with, j her kneel down, tied her arms behind her, and
and then thar's foxfire, and camphire, fire be- blindfolded her eyes. Then bringing a great
fWi you're ready," and fire and fall back, and ! bag net made with open meshes of rope, he
many other kinds of fire, for the tex says, I put it over the woman, and laced up the mouth
" IIo played on a harp of a Ziosaand strings, J fastening it with knotted intertwining ' cords
sperits, uv just men made perfeck." .. , . ' ! j in such a way that it seemed an impossibility
But 111 tell you the kind or fire as is ment for her to extricate herself from it. The man
in the tex, my brethering it's hell firk ! air ! then took a closely woven wicker basket that
that's the kind uv fire as a great many uv you
will come to, ef you don't do better nor what
you hare been doin' lor ; .
"lie played on a harp nv a Aoand strings,
sperits uv just men made perfeck."
Now, the different sorts uv fire in the world '
may bo likened unto, the different persuasions j
of Christians in the world- Iuthe first place j
we hare the 'Piscapalions.'an' they arc a high !
ailin. and . liighfalutin' set, aud they may bo j
likened unto a turkey-buzzard, that flies up in-j
to the air, and he goes up, and up, till he looks j
no bigger than your finger naiV arl the fust
thing you know, he comes down, and down, J
and down, V&d is a fillln' himself on the car- j
kiM cf a dead boss by the sid of the road, and,
?IIe played on the harp of a thousand strings
(. And then thar's the Methodis, and they may
be likened onto the squirrel running up into a
tree, for the Methodis beleeves in gwine on
iron, one degree of grace to another, and final-
iy on to perfection, and the squirrel goes up
nad up, and he jumps from limb to limb, and
branch to branch, and the first thing you know
he cuius kerflumix, and that's like the Metho-
Uis, for they is alters fallen froiji grace, ah ! and,
f "Ho played on'a harp uv a ihouiani strings,
epcrits nv just men made perfeck."
And fhen. niv brethrinz. thar's the TTnrd '1
, w - -
Shell Baptist, ah!- and they have been liken-
.d unto a possntn on a simnion tree, and thun-
dcrs may roll and the eafth may quake, but
that possum clings thar still, ah ! and you may
uliake one foot loose, and the other's thar, and
youni'iy shake all feet loose an' he haps his tail
aronndHic limb, an he clings, an clings furev -
rr, for "He played on a harp uv a Aoit-and
tTi?!j.f, upcrits uv jtint men made perfeck."
The Juglers of India. .
. Front the first of a series of articles entitled
"Sketches of India," now publishing in the
Crayon, we extract tins following :
One morning alter I had passed some days
at Madras, I went to the "garden house" of
one of my English friends, to see an exhibi
tion by some Jugglers who had been sent for
the night before to come up from the Black
Town. The Jugglers of Madras are famous as
the best in India. They form a cast by them-
selves. Their skill is the result of the prac
tice of successive generations, and their art is
a hereditary one. It was about six o'clock in
a clear September morning, and our party con
sisted of live or six spectators. Coffee having
been served, we took our seat on the veranda
on the shady side of the house, and the Jug
glers, of whom there were 15 or twenty, men,
Womeu and children, ranged themselves he
fore us on the grass at the further side of the
avenue, ten 01 twelve feet wide, that run be
tween us and them. Behind them was a green
field, where, at some distance, grew a few trees
ami lowering shrubs. There was nothing near
them that could afford hiding place or shelter.
The men wore nothing but the dhotes or tight
cloth about their loins; two of them were ve
ry old, with white beards lying upon their
; dark skins. The woman were clothed in the
common bright, loose dress of the lower class
es, and the children were quite naked. The
inipliments of their art, their musical instru
ments, and the flat, and circular baskets in
which were their snakes, for the Jugglers are
also snake charmers by profession, lay around
about upon the grass.
One of the young men began the exhibition
with some common tricks of slight of hand,
remarkable only from the fact that his dress
and the ground afforded him no aids. Then
another came forward and throwing four brass
balls into the air, kept theia in constant mo
lion, now making them circle round his head.
rw tlirninr them in onnosite directions 1111-
...... o t
tjcr arll!S aj OVKr i,js shoulders, now cha-
sing one with another, never missing the in-
c5ent All the while-that this Juggler was
playing so beautifully with the glittering brass
balls, one of his companions beat upon a dull
drum, while the others looked on, and now
audtheu, at some peculiarly successful or Ion
narrowed toward the top, lifted the woman in
the net from the ground, and placed her in it,
though it was not without the exertion of
some force that he could crowd her through
the uarrow mouth. Having succeeded in get-
ting her into the basket, in which, from its
small size, she was uecessarily in a most
cramped position, he put the cover npon it
and threw over it a wide strip f cloth, hiding
it completely. In a moment, placing his
bad under the cloth, he drew out the net
quite untied, and disentangled. He then took
a long straight, sharp sword, muttered some
words to himself while he sprinkled the dust
P" the cloth, aud put some upon his fore-
head, then pulled off and threw aside the cov
ering, and plunged tho sword suddenly into
the basket. Prepared as in some degree we
j were for this, and knowing that it was only a
deception, it was yet impossible to see it
! without a Cold creeping of horror. The quiet
i and energy with which he repeated his strokes
j driving tne sword through and through tho
j basket, while the other Jugglers looked on,
t apparently as much interested as ourselves,
i were very dramatic and , effective. Stopping
after he had riddled the basket, he again scat
tered dust upon its top, lifted the lid, raised
the basket from the ground, showed it to us
.imtv. and threw itaway. At the same mo-
1 J J -
! ment we saw the woman approachiug us from
a clump of trees at a distance of at least fifty
! or sixty feet.
j Thoughout the whole of this inexplicable
i feat, the old man and the woman were quite
j removed from the rest of tleir party. The
j lasket stood by itself on tho hard earth, and
j so mucii'beneath the verandah on which wp
were itting, that v could easily we U
around it, By what trick our watchful eyes
were closed, or by what means the woman in
visiby escaped, was an entire mystery, and re
mains unsolved. The feat is not a very un
common one, but no one who had seen it ever
gave me a clue to the manner in which it was
performed. ;
Pantalettes vs. Pantaloons Further
Fluttering of the Petticoats.
Last Wednesday there was another grand
petticoat pow-wow, at Cincinnati. The es
pousers and advocates of the Woman's Rights
Movement, held their sixth annual Conven
tion in that citj-.
The attendance was not large, but the as
sembly preseuted a somewhat unike appear
ance. Many of the ladies wore bloomers, and
the gentlemen shawls. On the platform were
Mrs. Hannah W. Tracy Cutler, Mrs. Martha
C. Wright, Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, Mrs. Ade
line Swift, Mrs. Lucrctia Mott, Mrs. Lucy
Stone Bhtckwell Mr. Joseph Barker, and Hen
ry B. Blackwell.
After the election of officers the speeches
commenced. Lucy Stone Blackwell said :
In education, in marriage, in religion in
every tiling disappointment was the lot of wo
man. It should be the business of her life to
deepen this disappointment in every woman's
heart, until she could bow down to it no lon
ger She could wish that her sex, instead of be
ing walking show cases instead of asking
from their fathers or brothers the last new gay
bonnet, would ask their rights. (Applause.)
Mr. Wise, of North Carolina, read an ad
dress which was long and learned.
It treated principally of geology and women.
He seemed to claim for woman more even than
she does. He said "women are generally,
more competent to vote than their husbands
and sisters better fitted to judge than their
brothers, . the mother more
capable of exercising the elective lranchise
judiciously than her boob' son."
Mr. Denton became loftily magniloquent,
and seemed to rise with the occasion. He
had often heard his sister say, "Would that I
had been aiadc a man!" WhyT Because men
had prescribed their sphere to women. He
would not permit anything in Heaven above
or in the earth beneath, much less any man,
to prescribe his sphere to him. He concluded
with saying that the time had come for all men
and women "to stand 011 the shin bones of
our own manhood and grow up to -the infinite
Heaven."
Mr. Boyce, a Hungarian Jew, took an agri
cultural view of the question.
He said it had been repeatedly urged that
woman's province was to be a mother. He
would cry shame on such a statement, and be
hoped to rebuke it now into silence. ''Was
woman nothing but a rich soil on which to
raise a crop" -
- Mr. Ernestine L. Rosa delivered her views
on marriage, courtship, cradles, buttons and
stockings. She said; Among the poorer
classes, the female was taught a little house
keeping, and oh, how little ! to darn stock
ings, sow 011 buttons, and, if necessity should
require, to rock the cradle. Among the bet
ter classes, a little music, a little dancing, a
little bad French, to paint a little just enough
to practice on her own face. ,
She would rot underrate housekeeping. It
wonld, in time, no doubt, rank as one of the
arts and sciences. It had been degraded be
cause it had been left in the hands of woman.
She then discoursed on the happy period of
courtship. It was happy, because, during it,
man let himself down to the capacity of wo
man; but disappointment followed, because he
supposed he was marrying a woman, but dis
covered she was only a child, a poor, weak,
feeble being, with hands too small to use a
broom; and with a false- delicacy that caused
her to faint away at the mention of a leg of a
table. Applause and shouting. All the men
and women made ."remarks" on the subject,
and, on the whole, had a "good time of it." :
; Short Sermon on Money.
My hearers this is not only a great but a
mysterious world that we live and pay rent
for. All discord is harmony; all evil is good;
all despotism is liberty; and all wrong is right
-c-for as Alexander Pope says: "Whatever is,
is right," except the left boot, and wanting to
borrow money. You may want sense and the
world won't blame you for.it It would glad
ly furnish you with the article, had it aBy to
spare, but unluckily it lias hardly enough for
home consumption. However, if you lack
sense you are well enough off after all; for if
you commit a faux pas, as the French say,
you are let go with the compliment, poor fool
he does not know any better. The truth is, a
great deal of brains is a great botheration.
An empty skull is . bound to shine in company,
because the proprietor of it hasnotyw-it enough
to know that there is a possibility of making a
nincompoop of himself, and therefore he dash
es ahead, bit or miss, or generally succeeds
beyond expectation. Let a man be minus
brains and plus brass and he is -sure to pass
through the world as if he was greased from
ear to ankle; but rig up for him a complete
machinery of thought, and it is ai much as he
can do to attend to it. He goes to the grave,
ruffled and tumbled, curses life fcr its cares
and moseys into eternity, pack-saddled with
nitntal misery Oh for the hppiness of fools.
How to be Happy.
I will give you two or three good rules which
will help you to become happier than you
would be without knowing them ; but as to be
ing completely happy, that you can never be
till you get to heaven, The first is, "try your
best to niaks others happy." "I never was
happy," said a certain king, "till I began to
take pleasure in the welfare of my people ;
but ever since then, in the darke&t day, I have
had sunshine in my heart." My second rule
is, "be content with little." There are many
good reasons for this rule. We deserve but
little we require but little ; and "better is
little, with the fear of God, than great treas
ures and trouble therewith." Two men deter
mined to be rich, but they set about it in
different ways ; for the one strove his best to
bring down his desires to his means- The re
snlt was, the one who coveted much was always
repining, while he who desired but little was
always contented. My third rule is, "Look
on the sunny side of things."
Look up with hopeful eyes,
Though all things seem forlurn ;
The sun that sets to- night will rise
Again to-morrow morn.
The skipping lamb, the singing lark, and
the leaping fish, tell us that happiness is not
confined to one place. God in - his goodness
has spread it abroad on the earth, in the air,
and on the waters. Two aged women lived in
the same cottage ; one was always fearing a
storm, and the other was always looking for
sunshine. Hardly need I say which it was
whose face was lighted up with joy.
Signs for Marriageable Ladies. If a man
wipe his feet on the door-mat before coming
into the room, you may be sure he will make
a good domestic husband. If a man in snuff
ing the caadles, snuff them out, you may be
sure he will make a stupid husband. If a man
puts his handkerchief 011 his knees while ta
king his tea, you may be sure he will be a
prudent husband. In the same way, always
mistrust the man who will not take the last
piece of toast of Sally Lunn, but prefers wait
ing for the next warm batch. It is not unlike
ly he will make a greedy, selfish, husband,
with whom you will enjoy no"brown" at din
ner, no crusrt at tea, no peace whatever at
home. The man my dears who wears gold
shoes, and is careful about wrapping himself
up before venturing into tho night air, notun
frequently makes a good invalid husband, that
mostly stops at home, and is easily comforted
by slops. The man who watches tho kettle
and prevents its boiling over, will not fail, ray
dears,' in his married state, in exercising the
same care in always keeping the pot boiling.
The mau who dosen't take tea, ill-treats the
cat, takes snuff and stands with his back to
the fire, is a brute, whom I would not advise
you my dearstomarry upon any consideration,
either for love or money, but decidedly not
for love. But the man who when the tea is
over, is discovered to have had none, is sure
to make the best husband Patience like his,
deserves being rewarded with the best of wives
and the . best of mothers-in-law. My dears,
when you meet with such a man, do your ut
most to marry him. In the severest winter
he would not mind going to bed first.
Talkers. Undoubtetlly the highest perso
nal accomplishment in the world is to be a
good talker. With this charm alone John
Wilkes, though a prodigy of personal ugliness
was the most attractive man of his time. - "It
takes me," he said to Lord Sandwich, "just
fifteen minutes to take my face off." It was
this power, and not his poems, nor his dic
tionary, nor his heavy letters from the Hebri
des, that made Dr. Johnston the autocrat of
his day among men of culture, and will keep
his memory green while the English language
remains to prove that, in spite of his boorish
ness and insolence, and absurd prejudices, he
was the most . charming talker the world has
seen.. It was this power, more than all others,
that made the friends of Coleridge forget that
he was deficient in manly honor (the most fa
tal of defects,) that he was a slave to one of
the worst vices, and won for him not merely
the admiration, but the love and esteem of all
who listened to his wonderful utterances.
In our own country there have not been as
yet many notable conversationists. We are a
nation of speech-makers, but good talkers are
exceedingly rare We talk enough, (God
knows,) but good talkers require more culture,
more leisure, more repose, than we shall know
for many years to come.
A Wife's Prayer. If there is any thing
comes nearer to the imploration of - Ruth to
Naomi, than the subjoined, we have not seen
it Lord bless and preserve that dear person
whom thou has chosen to be my husband; let
his life be long and blessed, comfortable and
holy ; and let me also become a great blessing
and a comfort unto him, a sharer in all his
sorrows, a meet helper in all the accidents
and changes in the world; make me amiable
for ever in his eyes, and forever dear to him.
Unite his heart to me in the dearest love and
holiness, and mine to ' him in all sweetness,
charity and compliance. Keep me from all
ungentleness, alldiscontentedness, and unrea
sonableness of passion aud humor; and make
me humble and obedient, useful and obser
vant, that we rosy delight in each other ac
cording to. Thjr blessed word, and both of us
may rejoice in Thee, having our portion in the
love and service of God forever.
HIGHER!
Higher ! is a word of noble meaning, the in
spiration of all great deeds the ynipithetic
chain that leads, linK by link, the impassioned
soul to its Kenith of glory, and still holds its
mysterious object standing and glittering
among the stars.
Higher ! lisps the infant on its parent's
knees, and makes its feeble essay to rise from
the floor it is the first aspiration of childhood
to burst the narrow confines" of tho cradle in
which its sweet moments have been passed for
ever.
Higher ! laughs the proud school boy on big
swing ; or, as he climbs the tallest tree of the
forrest, that he may look down on his less ad
venturous companion with a flush of exnltation
and over the broad fields of his native village.
He never saw so extended a prospect bf ore.
Higher ! earnestly breathes the student of
philosophy and nature; he has a host of rivals,
but he must eclipse them all. The midnight
oil in his lamp burns dim, but he finds knowl
edge in the lamps of Heaven, and his soul is
never weary when the last ot them is hid be
hind the curtains of the morning.
And Ilia her! his voice thundersfcrth when
the dignity of manhood has invested his form,
and the multitude is listening with delight to
his oratory burning with eloquence and ringing
like true steel in the cause of freedom andright.
Aud when time has changed his locks to sil
ver, and when the world wide renown is his;
when tho maiden gathering flowers by the way
side as be passes; and the peasant looks to him
with honor can he breithe forth from his
heart the fond wish of the past.
Higher yet! he has reached tho apex of all
earthly honor yet his spirit burns as warm as
in youth, though with a "steadier and paler
light, and it would borrow wings and soar up
to high heaven, leaving its tenement to moul
der among tho laurels he has wound around it,
for the never ending glory to be reached only
in the presence of the Most High!
Beauty of the Dutch Women.
Colman, iu his "European Life and man
ners," gives thw following description of tins
Dutch women :
"I think some of them are the fairest and
handsomest creatures I ever looked upon, and
made of unmixed porcelain clay. Before I
left England, I thought the English women the
fairest I had ever seen I now consider them
as belonging to the colored races. The Dutch
women mucfl exceed them. TaKft the fairest
rose that was ever plucked, with the glitter
ing dew drops hanging among its pet.!s ; take
the fairest peach that ever hung upon the tree,
with its charming blended tints of red and
white, and they arc eclipsed by the transpa
rency and beauty of the , Dutch women, us I
saw them at Broeck and Saardam. if their
minds are as fair, and their manners, as win
ning as their faces, tlicn I. can .easily, under
stand the history of Adam's fall. ; It was im
possible, poor felow, that he should resist.
Then their costume is so, pretty and elegant.
A sort of thin gold helmet, fitting close to the
head, leaving enough of the hair to part grace
fully over the brows ; a thin but wide band of
highly wrought and burnished gold extending
across the forehead ; at the ends of this soma
rich and elegantly-wrought filigree ornaments
of gold, with splendid ear-drops of gold, or of
diamonds, set in gold, with a beautiful cap of
the finest Brussels lace."
Mr. Colman is right. Fifteen years ago a
Dutch woman behind a counter -handed '-the
writei" a glass of beer, and an ostrich egg to
look at, and he has never forgotten her, "from
that day to this." She was all that Mr. Col
man paints above. Boston Post. , '
"Fast" Times and a "Fast" Partt. One
of the most striking evidences of the peculiar
"velocity" of the times we live in, is the wri
ting and publishing obituaricsf people before
they are dead in fact while they are in ex
cellent health and growing in strength every
day. The foreign press is just now teeming
with long and lachrymose notices of the death
of "Sam," when in fact that gigantic young
fellow was never more "alive ' and kicking"
than at this very Moment. ' "The wish is fa
ther to the thought' with these elegiac wri
ters. So far from being dead, "Sam" has no
idea of ever dying. He belongs to the glori
ous list of immortals. He couldn't die if be
would, for he has a great mission to perform.
You may outnumber him for the present,
but you cannot kill him any more than you
can kill truth. He cannot even by annihila
tion diei Our fast friends of the. "Society for
tho Propagation of Humbug" may as well let
"Sam" alone. Memphis Eagle. ,
Advice to Youth Gratis. In climbing . a
ladder, always look up never down for in
doing .the latter a fall is imminent. So in life ;
aim to keep company with those above you ra
ther than with those beneath you in intellec
tual capacity and acquirement. Emulate your
superiors. ' If you ean't find them you "are
not fitted for their society, and better at once
turn attention to the dimensions of your ears,
and immerse "your muddy faculties in the
mystaries ofpoudrette, or putty making.
CCrispen says there's no danger of hard
times among the shoemakers, because every
shoe is toaVd bwfore it can be got ready for
market.
A Cheerful Heart.
I once heard a young lady say to an individ
ual, "Tour countenance to me is like the ri
sing sun, for it always gladdens me with a
cheerful look. A merry or cheerful counte
nance was one of. the things which Jeremy
Taylor said his enemies and persecutors could
not take away from him. There are some
persons who spend their lives In this world as
they would spend their lives if shut up in a
dungeon. Everything is made gloomy and
forbidding. They gomourningand complain
ing from day to day, that they have so little,
and are constantly cnxious, lest what they
have should escape out of their hands. They
always look upon tho dark side, andean never
enjoy tho good. They do not follow the ex
ample of tbo industrious bee, who does not
stop to complain that there are so many pois
onous fiewers and thorny branches on its road,
but buzzes on selecting his honey where he
can find it, and passing quietly by tho places
where it is not. There is enough In this world
to complain about and find fault with, if men
have the disposition.
Baked Beets. A good housewife assures
us that the mode of cooking beets herein de
scribed, is preferable to all others:
'Beet root cannot be too much recommen
ded to the notice of mankind, as a cheap and
salubrious substitute for the now failing and
diseased potato. - Hitherto the red kind has
been only used in England as a pickle, or a
garnish for salad; even the few who dress it,
generally boil it, by which process the rich
saccharine juice is lost, and the root conse
quently rendered less nutritious by the quan
tity of water it imbilies, as well as by parting
with the native syrup, of which it is thus for
cibly deprived; it is, therefore, strongly rec-
ommended to bake instead of boiling them;
when they will be found to afford a delicious
and wholesome food. t . This is not an untried
novelty, for both red and white beet root are
exteusivcly used on the continent; in Italy
particularly, they arc carried about hot from
the oven twice a diy, and sold publicly in the
streets; thus they are purchased by all classes
or people, and give to thousands, with bread,'
salt, pepper and butter, a satisfactory meal.
There are few purposes for which baked, or
even roasted or fried beet root, would not be
found preferable to boiled." Jg. Exchange.
Cheap Flour tux Best. The New York
Times has recently been discussing a question
of very great importance to the consumers of
flour, and the facts it has elicited - should bo
universally known. It alleges that little reli
ance is to be placed upon the brands found on
the barrels sold in the market, and that the
words '-extra Genesee" do not always indicate
that the barrel bearing tbeni contains the best
certain results elicited by chemists, vizi, that
the whiter the flour the less nutriment it pos
sesses, and the less digestible it is. Dyspeptic
people have to use bread ' about one-fourth
bran, which proves that the dark part of ' the
grain is the most healthful. The flour which
can be bought now for seven and eight dollars
per barrel is stronger and sweeter than the.
"extra Genesee," but as it is less white it is
generally rejected in favor of the dearer arti
cle. It is t into that housekeepers understood
this fact, and that thty bought flour not to
please the eye, but to gratify the stomach, and
at the same time have respectful reference to
the capacity of one's pocket. " J
New Kind of Sluar. A correspondent oft
the Detroit News gives the following account
of the discovery of a new kind of sugar , at
Provo city: "Last, week a . sweet substanee
was discovered on the leaves of the trees. ' A
few began to gather it by stripping off the
leaves and soaking them in watery in this way.
Dr. A. Daniels made eleven pounds of sugar
one da'; it looks and tastes like maple, sugar.
Many scores of men, woinerjand children, are
now engaged in gathering it. When it was
first discovered some said it was hoacydew,
others said that it proceeded from the cotteu- j
wood leaves, but it is found . on all kinds of
leaves and on the rocks. My children hava .
gathered and brought in a quantity of it, which
they have taken from the leaves, as it is depos-,
ited; many of the leaves have scales of this
sweet substance as thick as window glass, and
some a great deal thicker."
' Extraordinary Productions. The extra
ordinary effects of the application of Peruvian
guano to certain soils are widely known and
appreciated. But occasionally the results are
startling. On Saturday, Mr.-John Dorrauce
brought to the room of the Corn Exchange
Association some ears of corn, averaging from
luuu to i-w grains 10 tne ear, tne grains be
ing four or five times the size of ordinary corn. .
lie also exnibitca some largo Mercer potatoes,
weighing a pound each, and pumpkins, grow
ing six on a vino, weighing each 106 pounds.
These remarkable vegetable productions wero
grown on tho farm of Mr. Dorrance, at Bell
Mead, Bucks county, the guano used as ma
nure being that imported, by Mr. Samuel J."
Christian. AorAIf'nertcan.' "" ' '
tTP" English papers express the opinions,
founded qn careful examination, (bat Great
Britain will only require an ' importation of
30,000,000 bushels of wheat to supply every
possible deficiency.