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SONG OF THE SUMMER FLOWERS
We come w . th smiles of gladness,
Tho' we're followed by decay;
And we claim a kindly Welcome,
For we have not long to stay.
Grant us a gleam of sunshine,
A kiss from summer's breeze,
few of heaven's dew-drops:—
We ask no more than these.
Then in your daily pathway,
So cheerfully we'll bloom.
And 'round your pleasant dwellings
We'li lavish rich perfume.
Your hours of toil we'll sweeten,
We'll smile away your care;
And we'll ever bid your sorrows
A holy aspect wear.
There arc many human blossoms
With natures like our own,
Whose bloom, from earth's fair bowers,
May betas quickly gone.
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Such, pure Rile buds of beauty,
Arc the angels of life's way,
Oh, cherish them with kindness.,
While in your hoines they stay
Give them plenty of Love's sunshine,
With piety's gentle dew :
And let the breath of tenderness
Their every step pursue.
Then, while they dwell among you,
They'll brighten all your hour:-;
And when they pass to heaven,
They'll go gently, like the flowers
The Farrners'" High School.
The Board of Trustees Of the "Farmers'
High School of Pennsylvania," met in Har
risburg, on Tuesday, July 17, 1855, pursu
ant to adjournment. Members present,
Messrs. James Gowen, Frederick Watts,
Wm. Jessup, A. L. Elwyn, James Miles,
IL N. M' Allister, John Strohm, A. 0. Hies
ter and Robert C. Walker :
On motion of John Strohm, FREDERICK
WATTS was called to the chair.
The committee appointed at the last meet
ing to view the several farms proposed to be
donated to the Farmers' High School, made
the following report, which was adopted ;
To the Board of Trustees of the Farmers,
High School of Pennsylvania.—Your com
mittee to whom was assigned the duty of ma
king an examination ot the several points
proposed for the location of "The Farmers'
High School of Pennsylvania," report that
they have been engaged for the last ten days
making such an examination as will enable
them to put the board in possession of the
facts in relation to the subject. The first
place visited was Centre county, where Gen.
James Irvin proposes to donate to the insti
tution either of three farms of two hundred
acres each, which lie contigious to each oth
er, at the junctions•of Penns and Nittany
Vallies, with the preemption rtght to two
hundred acres more, adjoining either, at any
time within five years. The land is worth
now, sixty dollars an acre. This additional
quantity, Gen. Irvin proposes to lease to the
Institution until the expiration of the five
years, at a reasonable rent. This point is
situated about the centre - of the united val
lies; about twenty miles north of the Penn
sylvania railroad, at the mouth of Spruce
Creek, and eight miles south of Belletonte.
The land is a fine quality of limestone, suffi
ciently rolling in its surface, all cleared and
fenced but about thirty acres on each farm :
there is no stream of water upon the surface
of either, but water is easily obtained by
digging. The land is comparatively new,
having been all cleared within a few years,
and the grain now growing upon it shows
the great fertility of the soil. •
The next point we visited was in Erie
county, where Judge Miles proposes to give
to the Institution two hundred acres ot land,
which is situated about eighteen miles west
of the city of Erie, and lies above the mouth
of Elk Creek, between the railroad which
bounds it on the south, and the lake
shore. This land is in its character a sandy
loam, highly fertile, with about one hundred
acres cleared and cultivated, and the residue
in heavy timber, of oak, hickory, chesnut,
ash and hemlock : this point in its situation,
is commanding and beautiful. Judge Miles
will also give a preemption right to any ad
ditionarquantity of land which may be desi
red. at sixty dollars an acre.
Your committee next viewed the estate of
Geo. A. Bayard, Esq., of Allegheny county,
situated on the Youghageny river,about three
miles from its mouth, and eighteen miles from
the city of Pittsburg. This estate consists
of six hundred acres of free stone land, worth
at present prices thirty-five dollars an acre.
There has been a very large expenditure up
on this• estate, in the erection of buildings,
fences and other improvements, which are
made of the most substantial and durable ma
terials. A large brick mansion has lust been
created, and is yet unfinished ; there are two
large barns and many dwelling houses on the.
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running water is abundant, and the whole
property lies in a bend of the Youghageny
river which is navigated by steamboats at all
seasons of the year. Air. Bayard proposes
to sell this property to the institution, at
such a prico, arid upon such terms, as to time
of payment, as would make the purchase de
sirable and profitable.
We were then invited to view the estate
of Col. Elias Baker, situated on the Pennsyl
vania railroad, about two miles south west of
Altoona in Blair county. Col. Baker offers
gratuitously two hundred acres of land, all of
which is cleared and fenced, except about
forty acres, and lies on both sides of the rail
road ; that on the south side, about sixty
ar:res is of a very good quality of free-stone
land and that on the north, is a good quality
of slate land. There are upwards of two
hundred acres more in the tract which may
be purchased at twenty-five dollars an acre.
This land is finely watered, Mill Creek pas
sing through it, and aver-head water can be
brought to any buildings which might be
erected upon the premises from a large and
unfailing spring. These are the only points
which have been examined by your commit
tee, but since their return, they have recei
ved a communication informing them that
Mr. H. Easton, of Franklin county, offers to
donate far the purposes of "The Farmers'
High School" two hundred acres of land, of
the value of sixty dollars an acro upon con
dition of its location there, or that he will
contribute liberally, with others, to induce
its location anywhere Within the county of
Franklin.
In the examination made by your commit
tee, they were accompanied by several mem
bers of the Board, Messrs. Robert C. Wal
ker, U.N. McAllister, Hon. Wm. Jessup,
and Hon. A.. 0. Heister, of whose opinion
and council we had the advantage. It was
a remark, common to us all, that the feelings
of interest of the people of Pennsylvania had
never been awakened to the importance of
this subject.. Everywhere we went, and ev
ery one we saw, seemed to increase the im
pression, that this of all things else, is what
Pennsylvania wants—a place where farmers
may safely and cheaply educate their sons in
the science and practice of agriculture.
There is not one point viewed by your
committee which would not be eligible for
the location of "The Farmers' High School."
But so little has heretofore been known
throughout the State of the movement now
being made for its establishment, and the de
termined purpose of the Board of Trustees
to act speedily, that it would be inexpedient
and injudicious that your committee should,
at this moment, recommend the adoption of
one site as more eligible than the others.—
One already offered, we have had no oppor
tunity to see and doubtless others will be
presented possessing advantages to command
the attention of the Board.
The point where the school shall be loca
ted is a matter of very great interest, and
should not be hastily determined upon, nor
until Treater publicity should be given to the
fact that the Board are about to act definite
ly upon the subject.
Which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES POLLOM,
FRED'IC WATTS ;
A. L. F.LwY.N.
The committee then offered the following
resolutions which were agreed to.
Resolved, That when this Board adjourns
it be to meet again at this place on' Wednes
day, the 12 of September next, at 10 o'clock,
A. M., and that the Board will then proceed
to determine finally the point where the
"Farmers' High School," shall be located.
Resolved, That the duties of the committee
heretofore appointed to receive communica
tions and examine proposed points of loca
tion be continued; and should any further
propositions be made, that they report the
same to the Board at its next meeting.
WHEREAS, The determination of the Board
speedily to put the "Farmers iligh School"
into operation renders it necessary that a
Principal to conduct its operations and teach
ings, and especially to aid in its organiza
tion, should be chosen ; therefore,
Resolved, That Dr. A. L. Elwyn, John
Strohm, and Wrn. Jessup, be a Committee
whose duty it shall be to select a proper per
son for that purpose and that they make re
port to the next meeting of the Board.
P. S.—After the Board had taken action
upon the foregoing report and resolutions a
gentleman orDauphin county, a member of
the Executive Committee of the State Agri
cultural Society, appeared before the Board
and said that at the next meeting, the citizens
of Dauphin county, to induce the location of
the School here, would offer to pay the sum
of ten thousand dollars, and with a view to
its attainment he would head the susciiption
with one thousand dollars. A delegation of
Messrs. Gen. W. Patton and John Morrow
from the county of Blair, on behalf of her
citizens, proposed that they would purchase
and pay for two hundred acres of land of
Col. Baker, in addition to what he offers gra
tuitously. Thus presenting to the Board a
grant of four hundred acres on condition of
the location of the School there.
A communication was received from Jo
seph Bailey and referred to the committee
having charge of the subject, inviting the
Trustaes to look at a large tract of land in
Perry county which he proposes to sell upon
liberal terms to the Farmers' High School.
A communication was received from ' Al
gernon S. Roberts stating that the imperative
demands of public business prevented his at
tendance.
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On motion of John Strohm, the proceedings
of this meeting were ordered to be published,
with the request that all papers in the State
would copy the same. On motion the Board
adjourned.
ROB'T. C. WALKER, Secretary.
it is said to h - ave been remarked by
an old politician, that "if the people of the
extremes could change . ivork for a year:----if
the southern people could come to the north,
awl the nothern people occupy the south, for
twelve mouths—it would cure them both of
all ill feeling."
11 — Honesty is the best of policy.
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HUNTINGDON, AUGIST 1. 1855.
A Frightful Snake Story
The following incident was related to
us the other day by one whose veracity is
unquestioned, and who was an eye witness
of the fact. It is more appalling than any
we recollect to have ever read in the history
of these reptiles :
Some time last summer the inhabitants of
Manchester, Mississippi; gave a barbacue,
which was attended by most of the beauty
and fashion of the town and surrounding
country It happened that among the guests
there was a young lady, Miss M., recently
from one of the eastern cities, who was on a
visit to her relations in. the neighborhood of
the town.
Miss M. was a. gay and extremely fashion
able young lady, and withall possessed an
uncommon share of spirit and courage, ex
cept in a matter.of snakes and of those she
had so great dread .that_ she scarcely dared to
walk anywhere, except in the most frequent
ed places, for fear of encountering 'thern.—
Every effort was used, but without
to rid her of her childish fears. They haun
ted her continually, until at last it became the
settled coviction of her mind that she was
destined to fall a victim of the
_fangs of a
rattlesnake. The sequel will show how
soon her terrible presentiment was fulfilled.
Toward the close of the day, while scores
of the fair feet were keeping time in the
dance to the music, and the whole company
were in the full tide of enjoyment,,a scream
was heard from Miss M., followed by the
most agonizing cries for help. The crowd
gathered around her instantly, and, beheld
her standing the perfect image of despair,
with her hands grasping a portion of her
dress with all the tenacity of a vice. It was
some time before she could be rendered suf
ficiently calm to tell the cause of her alarm:
and then they gathered from her bro
ken exclamation that she was grasping the
head of a snake among the folds of her .tress,
and feared to let go her hold for fear of re
ceiving the fatal blow. This intelligence
caused many to shrink from her, but most,
of the ladies, for their honor be it told
determined not to leave her in her direful
extremity.
They besought her not to relax her hold,
as safety depended upon it, until some one
could be found with courage enough to seize
and remove the terrible animal. There
were none of the ladies, however to perform
the act, and the situation of Miss M. was be
coming more and more critical every mo
ment. It was evident that her strength was
failing fast, and that she could not maintain
her hold many minutes longer.
A hasty consultation among the calmest of
the ladies was held, when it was determined
that Dr. Tison, who was present, should be
called to their assistance. He was quickly
on the spot, and being a man of uncommon
courage, he was not many minutes within the
circle of half fainting females, until he caught
the tail of the snake and wound it round his
hand to make sure of his hold.
He then told Miss M. that she must let go
at the =fluent he jerked it away ; and to
make the act as instantaneous as possible, he
would i sropounce the words one, two, three,
and at - ThWmoment he pronounced the last
word, she must let go her hold, and he doubt
ed not he could withdraw the snake, befor
it would have time to strike. All stood
breathless horror, awaiting the act of life or
death, at the moment the word three was
pronounced the doctor jerked_ out the largest
and most diabolical looking bustle that was
ever seen in Mississippi. The whole affair
was then explained. The fastenings of the
machine had become loose during dancing,
and had shifted its position in such a way
that it dangled about the lady's limbs and in
duced the belief that it was a snake with an
enormous head.
The doctor fell right down in his tracks
and fainted—he did.—Mississippi Journal.
AN "ATTACHMENT."—We have heard a
good story, of which an Alabama Sheriff was
the hero. Court was in session, and amid
the multiplicity of • business which crowded
upon him at term time, he stopped at the
door of a beautiful widow, on the sunny side
of thirty, who, by the way, had often bestow
ed meltirif• glances upon the foresail sheriff.
He was admitted, and the widow appeared ;
the cenfusion and delight which the artival of
her visitor occasioned, set off to greater ad
vantage than usual the captivating charms of
the widow M. Her cheeks bore the beauti
ful blended tints of the apple blossom; her
lips resembled the rose buds upon which the
morning dew yet lingered, and her eyes were
like quivel.s of Cupid; the glances of love and
tenderness with which they were filled, re
sembled arrows that only wanted a beau (par
don the pun,) to do full execution. After a
few common-place remarks
"Madam," said the matter-of-fact sheriff,
"I have an attachment for you,"
A deeper blush than usual mantled the
cheeks of the fair widow ; the downcast eyes,
whose glances were centered upon her beau
tiful foot which, half concealed by her flow
ing- drapery, gently patted the floor; she with
equal candor replied :
"Sir, the attachment is reciprocal."
For some time the sheriff maintained an
astonished silence; at length he said : _
"Madam, will you proceed to court ?"
"Procreed to court !" replied the lady with
a merry laugh : then shaking her head, she
said :
"No, sir ! though this is leap year, I will
not take advantage of the license therein
granted to my sex, and, therefore, I greatly
prefer that you should proceed to court."
"But, madam, the justice is waiting."
"Let him wait, I am cot disposed to hurry
matters in so unbecoming a manner ; and,
besides, sir, when the ceremony is performed,
I wish you to understand that I greatly pre
fer a minister to a justice of the peace."
A light dawned upon - the Sheriff's brain.— :
"Madam," said he, rising from his chair with
solemn dignity, "there is a great mistake
here ; my language has been misunderstood;
the attachment of which I speak was issued
from the office of Squire C., and commands
me to bring you instantly before him to an
swer a contempt of court, in disobeying a
subrnna in the case of Smith vs. Jones I"
We drop the curtain.
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The Wife that wouldn't Die
There are some persons who are never sick
without thinking themselves very much
worse off than they really are. Of this class
was Mrs. Haskins, a young married lady
and the mother of two fine boys. On one
occasion, being visited by a fever, the conse
quence of imprudent exposure, she gave her
self up to the melanchoky fancies which usu
ally assailed her and persuaded herself that
she was going to die.
In consequence of this melancholy presen
timent, she assumed so woe-begone an ap
pearance that even her medical attendant was
startled into believing that she was much
worse than from her symptons he had judg
ed her to be.
Under these eircurnsta.nces he advised her
to make what earthly preparations she had
yet to make, while she had yet time to do
so.
:Mrs. Haskins was an affectionate mother,
and the thought of parting from the children
to "whom she vas so warmly attached, at a
time when, more than any other, they nee
ded a mother's care, was peculiarly distres
sing.
"Their father will be kind to them, no
doubt, and see that they are amply provided
for, but nothing that he can do will suppl:,
to them the loss of a mother."
Gradually the idea of a step-mother sun.-
gested itself to the lady's imagination, and
such was her care for the happiness of her
children that she became reconciled to an
idea so repugnant to most wives, and actual
ly began to consider who, among her ac
quaintances, was best fitted to become e sec
ond Mrs. Haskins.
At length het choice fell upon a Miss Par
_ker, an intimate friend of her own. Feeling
anxious to have this matter settled, she dis
patched a messenger post-haste for Miss Par
ker, who after a brief interval made her ap
pearance at her friend's b - Aside.
"My dear friend," said Mrs. Haskins, in a
feeble voice, "I have sent for you for what
perhaps you will consider a singular reason.
But believe me, it is a mother's anxiety that
prompts me. lam very sick and cannot
live long. So the doctor tells me, and my
own feelings tell-me that it must be so. The
situation in which I shall leave my two boys,
who will thus be deprived of a mother's
watchful care, distresses me beyond meas
ure. There is only one way in which my
anxiety can be relieved, and this it is which
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has prompted me to send for you. Promise
me that when I am gone you will marry
Mr. Haskins, and be to them a second moth
er. Do you refuse me ? it is my last re
quest P'
Desirous oT comforting her friend, Miss
Parker assented to her request, adding :
1 1: will comply with your request, and
more.w.illingly, for I always liked Mr. Has
kins-"
"Always liked Mr. ilashins !" exclaimed
his dying wife, raising herself on her elbow,
her feeling of conjugal jealousy for a moment
overpowering maternal affection, "you al
ways liked my husband, did you '? Then,
I vow you shall never marry him if I have
to live to prevent it."
And Mrs. Haskins did live. The revul
sion of feeling resulting from Miss Parker's
unexpected declaration accomplished in her
case what the skill of physicians had been
unable to effect.
There is an old saying, which like most
old sayings, has in it not a little truth; that
when a woman will, she will, depend on it,
and when she won't, she won't, and there's
an end on it. So it was in the ease of Mrs.
Haskins. She was determined that if Mr.
Haskins ever does have a second wife, it
shall not be Miss Parker.
For What is a Mother Responsible?
She is responsible for the nursing and rear
ing of her offspring, for their physical in
struction and growth, their exercise and
proper sustenance in early life. A child left
to grow up deformed or meagre, is an object
of material negligence. She is responsible
for a child's habits, including cleanliness,
ordor, conversation, eating, sleeping and gen
erally propriety of behaviour. A child defi
cient or untaught in these particular will
prove a living monumentto parental regard,
because a mother can, if she will, control
children in these matters.
She is responsible for their deportment.—
She can make them modest or impertinent,
inn . Pnious er deceitful, mean or manly ; clow
nish or polite.
She is responsible for the principles which
her children entertain in early life.
For she is to say whether those who go
forth from her fireside shall be imbued with
sentiments of virtue, truth, honesty, temper
ance, industry, benevolence and morality :
or those of a contrary character—vice, fraud,
drunkenness, idleness, covetousness.
She is measurably responsible for their re
ligions education. The beginning of all
wisdom is the fear of God, and every moth
er is capable, to a greater or 'less degree, of
promoting this in the minds of her offspring.
"Train up a child in the way he should
go and when he is old he will not depart
from it."
A child is man in a small letter, yet the
best copy of Adam,before he tasted of Eve or
of the Apple; and he is happy whose small
practice in the world can only write his
character. His soul is yet a white paper un
scribbled with "observations of the world,
wherewith, at length, it becomes a blurred
note book. He is purely happy, because he
knows no evil, nor bath made means by sin
to be acquainted with misery. He arrives
not at the mischief of being wise, nor endures
evils to come, by foreseeing them. He
kisses and loves all, and when the smart of
the rod is past, smiles on his beater. The
older he grows, he is a stair lower from God.
lie is a christian's example, and the old
rnan's relapse; the one imitates his pure
ness, and the other falls into his simplicity.
Could he put off his body with his little coat,
he had got eternity without a -burden, and
exchanged but one heaven for another.—
Bishop Erie,
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Childhood
Story of the Revolution
The following story, related by a mother
to her children, a few years since, will show
the spirit that existed among the people of
New England at a trying period to which it
relates :
Late in the afternoon of one of the last
days in May, 7 76, when I was a few months
short of fifteen years old, notice came to
Townsend, Mass., where my father used to
live, that fifteen soldiers were wanted.
The training baud was instantly called out,
and my brother next older than myself was
one that was selected. He did not return till
late at night, when all were in bed• When I
rose in the morning I found my mother in
tears, who informed me that my brother John
was to march the day after to-morrow, at
sunrise. My father was at Boston, in .the
Massachusetts Assembly. Mother said that
though John was supplied with summer
clothes, he must be away seven or eight
months, and would stiller for want of winter
garments. These was, at this time, no store,
and no articles to be had, except such as each
family would make itself. The sight of a
mother's tears always brought all the hidden
strength of the mind to action. I immediate
ly asked her what garments were needful.—
She replied "pantaloons."
"Oh, if that is all," said I, "we will spin
and weave him a pair before he goes."
"Tot," said my mother, "the wool is on the
sheep's back, and the sheep arc in the pas
ture."
I immediately turned to a younger broth
er, and bade him take a salt-dish and call
thorn to the yard.
Mother replied, "Poor child, there are no
sheep-shears within three miles and a half."
"1 have some small shears at the loom,"
said 1.
"Bat we can't spin and weave in so short
a time."
"I am certain we can, mother."
"How can you weave it? There is a long
web of linen in the loom."
"No matter ; I can find an empty loom."
By this time the sound of the sheep made
me quicken my steps towards the yard. I
requsted my sister to bring me the wheel and
cards, while I went for the wool. I went to
the yard with my brother, and secured a
white sheep, from which I sheared, with my
loom shears, half enough for the web; we
then let her go with the rest of the flock.—
sent the wool in with my sister. Luther
ran off for a black sheep, and held her while
I cut off wool for my filling and half the
warp, and then we allowed her to go, with
the remaining part of her fleece. -
The wool thus obtained was duly carded
and spun, washed, sized, and dried; a loom
was found a few doors off, the web got in,
woven and prepared, cut and made, two or
three hours before my brother's departure,
that is to say in forty hours from the com
mencement; without help from any modern
improvement.
The good old lady closed by saying, ".1
felt no weariness; I wept not—l was serving
my country ; I was assisting poor mother ;
was preparing a garment for my darling
brother. The garment being finished, I re
tired and wept, till my overcharged and burst
ing heart was relieved."
This brother was, perhaps, one of General
Starks best soldiers, and with such a spirit
to cope with, need we wonder that Bur
goyne did not execute his threat of marching
through the heart of America
What Constitutes Riches
"To be rielt," said Mr. Marcy, our wor
thy Secretary of State, requires o.lly a satis
factory condition of the mind. One man
may be rich with only a hundred dollars,
while another in the possession of millions
may think himself poor; and as the necessi
ties of life are enjoyed by each it is evident
the man who. is best satisfied with his pos
session is the richer."
To illustrate this idea Mr. Marcy related I
the following anecdote : "While I was Gov
ernor,of the State of New York," said, he
was called upon one morning at my office by
a rough specimen of a back-woodsman who
stalked in and commenced conversation by
inquiring 'if this was Mr. Marcy 1'
"I replied that was my name."
"Bill Marcy'!" said he. I nodded assent.
"Used to live in Southport, didn't y.e 3''
"I answered in the affirmative, and began
to feel curious to know who my visitor was
and what he was driving at.
"That's what I told 'ern," cried the back
woodsman, bringing his hand down on his
thigh with tremendons force; 'T told 'em
youwas the same old Bill Marcy. who used to
live in Southport, butthey wouldn' tbelieve it,
and I promised the next time I came to Alba
ny to come and see you and find out for
sartin. Why,you know me, don't you Bill 1"
"I didn't exactly like to ignore his ac
quaintance altogether, but for the life of me
I couldn't recollect ever having seen him be
fore, and so I replied that he had a familiar
countenance, but that I was not able to call
him by name."
"My name is lack Smith," answered the
back-woodsman, 'and we used to go to school
together thirty years ago in the little red
school house in old Southport. Well, times
has changed since then, and you have become
a great man and got rich, I supposi,..3 l
"I shook my head anti was going to con
tradict that impression when he broke in :"
"Oh, yes you are; I know you are rich;
no use denying it. You was controller for
—for a long time, and the next we heard of
you you were governor. You must have
made a heap of money, and I am glad of it,
glad to see you getting along so smart. You
was always a smart lad at school, and I
knew you would come to something."
"I thanked him for his good wishes and
opinion, but told him that political life-did
not pay so well as he imagined. sup
pose,' said I, 'fortune has smiled upon you
since you left old Southport 't;
"Oh, yes,' said he, hain't got nothing to
complain of; I must say I've got long right
smart. You see, shortly after you left South
port our whole family moved up into Ver
mont and put right into the woods, and I
reckon our family cut down more trees and
VOL NO, 7.
cleared more land than any other in 11:e
whole state.
"And so you have made a good thing of
it. How mucti do you consider yourself
worth? t asked ; feeling a Hifi?, curious to
know what he considered a fortune as he
seemed Lobe so \Veil Satisfied with his:
"Well," he replied ; don't know exactly
how much I am worth; but think (straight
ening himself up) if all my debts were paid
I should be-worth three hundred dollars clean
cash.'—Aud he was rich; for he was satisfi
ed."
The Morning
The morning itself, few people, inhabitant
of cities, know anything about Among all
our good people, not one in a thousand sees
the sun rise once in a year. They know
nothing of the morning. Their idea of it is
that it is that part of the day which comes
along after a cup of coffee and a beef-steak, or
or a peice of toast. With them, morning is
not a new issuing of light, a new bursting
forth of the suit, a new waking up of all that
has life from a sort of temporary death, to be
hold again the works of God, the heavens and
the earth ; it is only a part of the domestic
day, belonging to reading newspapers, an
swering notes, sending the children to school,
and giving orders for dinner. The first
streak of light, the earliest purpling of the
east, which the lark springs up to greet, and
the deeper and deeper coloring into orange
and red, till at length the "glorious sun is
seen regent of the day"—this they never en
joy, for they never see it. 1 never thought
that Adam had much advantage of us, from
havin ,-, seen the world while it was new. The
manifestations of the power of God, like his
mercies, are "new every morning" and fresh
every moment. We see as fine risings of the
sun as ever Adam saw ; and its risings are as
much a miricle now as they were in his day,
and r think a good deal more,because it is now
a part of the miracle that for thousands and
thousands of year he has come to his appoint=
ed time, without the variation of a millionth
part of a second. Adam could not tell how
this might be. l know the morning, and I
love it. I love it, fresh and sweet as it is; a
daily new creation, breaking forth and call
ing all that have life, and breath, and being,
to new adoration, new enjoyments, and new
gratitude.— Webster.
Our Years as we advance in Age
We are all sensible, in proportion as we ad
vance in age, how much shorter a year ap
pears to be than it did in earlier days. Let a
man who has passed his grand climacteric,
look back upon the time he spent at school or
college, and it seems as if a life had been
passed at each. Let the same man look back
on the last four or live years, and, in compari
son with the former, they scarcely appear
more than so many months. Well, then, let
us suppose a person to have numbered the
allotted three score years and ten, or by rea
son of strength to have come to four score
years; or let us suppose him to have continu
ed on this earth for many hundred annivers6.-
ries of his birth, and if each year should di
minish in proportion to the number already
passed, as it is reasonable to think it will to
what anarrow span must a year be reduced !
Thus in all probability, nay to an almost
certainty, the antidetnvian life appeared to
the then inhabitants of the earth far less pro
tracted than we are in the habit of supposing.
But this thought may be carried still farther.
If our measures of duration continue in the
future state, what could a year appear to a
spirit who had lived down thousands and mil
lions of the same ! Would it not, according
to this law, be reduced to a minute, to a sec
ond, to less and less ad infinitum? 'And
would not this, with other circumstances
which I shall not advert to now, induce the
notion that time has no independent existence
in itself; or that, at all events, the stream of
tithe will not run on beyond the limits of this
world, but will lose itself and be swallowed
up in the wide ocean of eternity?—Christian.
Observer.
, Don't Speak so Cross !"
"Don't speak so cross," said one little boy
ti yesterday in the street to another. "Don't
speak so cross, there's no use in it." We
happened to be passing at the time, and
hearing the injunction, or ratherexhortation,
for it was made in a hortatory mariner, we
set the juvenile speaking down as an wabryo
philosopher. In sooth, touching the point
involved in the boyish difficulty which made
occasion for the remark, he might properly
be considered at maturity. What more could
Solomon have sail on the occasion 1 True,
he hath put it on record that a "soft answer
turneth away wrath,"—and this being taken
as true, and every body knows it to he su—
it is evidence in favor of the superiority of
the law of kindness over that of wrath.—
But our young street philosopher said pretty
much the same thing substantially, when he
said—" Don't speak so cross--there is no use
in it." On the contrary, it invariably does
much harm. Is a man angry ? it inflames
his ire still more, and confirms in his enmi
ty him who by a kind word and a gentle and
pleasing demeanor might be converted into .
a friend. ft is in fact an addition of fuel to
the flame already kindled.—And what do
you gain by it 1 Nothing desirable, certain•
ly, unless discord, strife, contention, hatred,
malice, and un charitableness, be desirable.—
The boy spake the "Words of truth and so:
berness," when he said, "Don't speak so
cross—there's no use in it."
TII E MOST ORIGINAL SPELLIIsiG.—Wd
have ever seen is the following. It beats
phonetics :80 you be—a tub. 80 oh ! pea
—a top. Be 80—bat. See 80—cat. Pea
80—pat. Are 80—rat. See a be—Cab.—
Be you double tea—butt. Be a double ell—z
ball.
"F
'I''ATUnR, what do you mean by raising
things in hot houses P 7 "Why, my dear
boy, you are being raised in a house too hot
to hold me sometimes." The mother raised
the broomstick, and the man disappeared in
a hurry.
"What plan," said one actor to anoth
er, "shall I adopt to fill the house at my ben
efit ?" "Invite your creditors," was the sure
ly reply.