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REQUIEM
Gone thou art in youthful sweetness,
Time's short, changeful voyage is o'er ;
Now thy beauty in completeness
Blooms on heaven's unfading, shore ;
What to us is life behinz.l thee?.
Darkness and despair alone !
When with sighs we seek to find thee,
Echo answers moan for Moan.
SPEECH OF MR. GETZ,
OF BERKS COUNTY,
On the Bill to Amend the Law of Libel
In the - House of Representatives.
Mr. Speaker—As a member of the profes
sion which'the bill now before the House most
closely concerns, I ask to he heard in its fa
vor. Our existing law of libel has come
down to us, unchanged, through many gen
erations, except so far as judicial decisions,
which stand in conflict with each other, may
be said to have changed it, or, to spook more
properly, involved it in uncertainty. It is, I
believe, the solitary instance yet remaining,
of the old English code governing public
wrongs, which has been suffered to escape
the modifications demanded by the changing
.circumstances of the times. By the provis
ions of this law, as our Courts usually rule,
every publication of any nature affecting the
character or reputation of an individual, no
matter whether it be true or false, or with
what motive published, is presumed to be
malicious, and puniShable as a crime. The
defendant, in a public prosecution for libel, is
not allowed to rebut that piesnmption, br
showing that his publication is true, and that
it was made with good motives and for justi
fiable ends; but is estoppe.d at the very
threshold of the trial, by the absurd maxim—
" the greater the truth, the greater the libel,"
Now, sir, in every other criminal case of
which our laws take cognizance, the motive
constitutes the governing principle. Malice
—" malice aforethought"—either directly
proved by the nature of the act itself and its
attendant circumstances, or made clear by
irresistible inference, is essential to consti
tute the offence. Even the taking away of
human life is not held to be a crime, unless
malice enter into the deed. Viper' what prin
ciple. of justice and equity, then, I ask, sir,
are publications of a' libellous nature made
exceptions to this general rule, and their au
thors punished for the commission of a mali
cious act, when, in fact, malice may not have
been in all their thoughts? , And by what
rule of reason and common sense is the im
portant distinction between the individual
Who has no character to be defamed or de
stroyed, and him whose reputation is dear as
life itself, entirely done away with, and pun
ishment meted. out alike, whether the evil
deeds of a scoundrel be exposed, or the char
acter of an honest man be maligned ? There
may have been a reason for this law at the
time it had its origin—for I would not so far
question the wisdom of our English ances
tors, as to say that they adopted any law
without reason—but, sir, I contend that such
reason, if it ever existed, does not now exist;
and when the reason of a law ceases, the law
itself should cease. I have high authority to
sustain my position on this point. Lord
Campbell, one of the most distinguished ju
rists ol.England, in writing upon the law of
libel, uses the following language :
wit seems to me that the ground upon
which it is said that private defamation is
criminal, is ‘vholly fallacious. The ground
-generally alleged is,.that it leads to a breach
of the peace.. I do not think this is so, either
on principle or-in practice. On principle, I
think that- defamation is a crime like theft or
battery of the person. * * In prac
tice, prosecutions for libel are uniformly in
stituted and conducted by the party injured,
and merely with-a view of vindicating the
character of the party injured, or of having
revenge upon the libeller, and-not in the re
motest degree with any view to the protection
ofthe public peace."
But, take another vieiv of the subject. The
newspaper, to which the law of :ibel now
chiefly applies,-is a publication of compara
tively recent ,origin.' When this law took its
rise, it. had rib existence. ; and even so late as
when Blackstone wrote, it had not assumed
the character add "importance it now possess
es, in England and:in the United States. The
-newspaper, si:, had grown to . be a mighty
power in the State. In England, it takes
Tank, in influence, at least, with Queen, Lords
and Commons; and is dignified as " the
fourth, estate of the realm." In this country
it is the great vehicle of information upon
every topic of public interest—the medium
of free interchange of thought—the censor of
the conduct of public men—the sentinel upon
the watchtower of liberty—the advocate of
the people's rights, and' their defender and
champion against monopoly, oppression, and
wrong, in all their protean shapes. - And yet;
sir, this newspaper, which was unknown
when the law, of libel originated, is now al
most the only object of its pains and penal
ties. Is not the thing, a palpable and mon-.
strous absurdity? I have a high veneration
for antiquity, and would not, by any word of
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mine, east reproach upon the wisdom of
. the
past, to which we are so largely indebted for
much that is-valuable in our modern litera
ture and law. But I have a greater regard
fort The demands of the Present, and the ne
cessity it lays upon me to turn aside from the
musty records of a by-gone age, and meet
the wants of my own day and generation.—
We may rii4e the leather-breeches of our
.
o , randfatheeq-as curious relics of the olden
-;
time, and treasure them in our closets with
filial veneration. But, were we to' rag them
from their places of repose, and attempt to
wear them in place of the garments which
custom now sanctions, I apprehend, sir, we
would not only find them extremely rough
and inconvenient, but expose ourselves to
public ridicule. It is just so with many of
the customs and laws of our forefathers. One
after another they have outlived their use,
and their inconvenience and absurdity - have
become apparent. Change is the inevitable
lot of all things human ; and no where do
we see it more strikingly exemplified, than
in our criminal jurisprudence. Even the
Common Law, which Coke styled " the per
fection of human reason," has been so modi
fied and changed by statutory enactments,
that were he to come In life again, and resume
the profession be so richly adorned, he would
have to begin his studies anew. Why should
this law of libel be made the single exception,
and continue to stand upon the books, when
its policy and justice have long since ceased
to exist ? Nay more, sir, why should the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in repub
lican America, retain it, when even monarchi
cal England, the country whence we derived
it, has totally repudiated it? The fact may
not be generally known, but it is neverthe
less matter of legal history, that in the year
1843, the English House of Lords appointed
a select committee, composed of its most
eminent members " learned in the law," to
consider the whole subject of the law of libel
as it then existed ; which committee, after
taking the testimony of four of the Judges of
the highest Court of the kingdom, together
with that of numerous other witnesses famil
iar with the question, made an elaborate re
' port, in which the opinion is unanimously
expressed " that various alterations in the ex
is'ing law are imperatively required, both for
the safeguard of character, and the protection
from vexatious proceedings of those engaged
in communicating useful information.'' The
report was accompanied by a bill, containing
substantially the provisions of the bill now
before this House, which received the assent
of Parliament, and is now part of the statute
law of England. Ido not refer to these pro
ceedings because I think that the example of
England should govern our legislation, .but
merely to show that the change this bill pro
poses, is no novelty, at which the most con
servative-stickler for "things as they are,"
need take alarm. But it is not necessary to
look beyond our own country for precedents
to warrant a modification of our law of libel.
Several of the States, more alive to the im
poitance of maintaining the liberty of the
press in its fullest extent, than Pennsylvania
has seemed to be, have made this subject one
of constitutional regulation. The Constitu
tion of Rhode island declares that
" In all trials for libel, both civil and crim
inal, the truth, unless published from mali
cious motives, shall be sufficient defence to
the person charged."
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The Constitution of New York contains
this liberal provision:
"In all criminal prosecutions or indictments
for libels ; the truth may be given in evidence
to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury
that the matter charged as libellous is true,
and was published with good motives, and
for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquit
ted ; and the jury shall have the tight to de
termine the law and the fact."
The Constitutions of New Jersey, Missis
sippi, Michigan, lowa, Wisconsin, and I
know not how many other States—for time
did not allow me to consult them all—con
tain, word for word, the Article I have just
quoted from•the Constitution of New York.—
Now, sir, the object of the bill before us, is
simply to make our Pennsylvania law of libel
conform; in some degree, to what is the pres
ent law of England, and the constitutional or
statute law of, I think I may safely say, at
least one-half the States of the Union. And
why should this not be done? Is the mess
of Pennsylvania less respectable--less fit to
be trusted with the liberty which is its vital
element, than the press of our mother coun
try or of our sister States? Surely not, sir.
The people we represent do not fear their
p r ess, else it would never, under their patron
age, have crown to the influence and power
it now holds. Honest men have no cause to
fear it. They never shrink from the truth.—
and the truth, honestly 'and fearlessly tittered,
for public information,' is not, and never can
The very mission of the press, is
to truth; and it is only the canting
hyPoC%te, the crafty demagogue. or the
.smooth-faced villain, who dread it. For such
as-these, it is not our business to legislate.
If, sir, it ever was t he policy of the law to
encourage suits and prosecutions for libel, its
policy at the present day clearly is to discour
age them. In support of this assertion, let
me ask you who are the , persons that we now
find most ready to take advantage of the libel
law ? Not men of good report, who have es
tablished for themselves a name and reputa
tion which command the respect of the com
munity. No, sir ! not these—but your sneak
ing rogues and notorious evil livers, who,
with the view to extort' money, or the thirst
for revenge, come into court and dernand
reparation for injury to character, when char
acter they never had. I appeal to every law
yer who hears me, whether, in his experience,
if is not one of the rarest things to see a pros
ecution for libel, instituted by a man whose
claims to respectability are undisputed ? If
this be so--if those for whose protection the
old English law of libel was established, no
longer avail themselVes of its provisions, why
retain it for the benefit of a class whose ex
posure by the press is often one of its most
imperative, although unpleasant duties 2 The
bill now before us is not designed to afford
any license for the malicious defamation of
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character, but to protect from malicious pros
ecutions those who, in the honest discharge
of their duty, publish what is true, for pub
lic information. It -maks. no change which
time and experience, and the example of
States around us, have not shown to be right
and proper. I, therefore, appeal to the mem
bers of this House--all of whom, I doubt not,
are w illing to acknowledge some indebtedness
to the press—to pass it, as an act of plain,
but long delayed justice to the people's truest
friend and most faithful servant—THE NEWS
PAPER.
Live within your Means
We don't like stinginess. We don't like
"economy," when it comes down to rags and
starvation. We have no sympathy with the
notion that the poor man should hitch him
self to a post and stand still while the rest of
the world moves forward. It is uo man's du
ty to deny himself of every amusement, every
luxury, every recreation, every comfort, that
he may get rich. It is no man's duty to make
iceberg of himself—to shut his eyes and ears
to the sufferings of his fellows—and to deny
himself the enjoyment that results from gen
erous actions—merely that he may hoard
wealth for his heirs to quarrel about.
But there is yet an economy which is every
man's duty, and which is especially com
mendable in the man who struggles with pov
erty—an economy which is consistent with
happiness, and which must be practiced, if •
the poor man would secure independence.
It is every man's privilege, and it becomes
his duty to live within his means; not up to,
but within them. Wealth does not make the
man, we admit, and should never be taken
into the account in our judgment of men.
But competence should be secured when it
can be; and it almost always can be, by the
practice of economy and self-denial to only a
tolerable extent. - It should be secured, not
so much for others to look upon, or to raise
us in the estimation of others, as to secure
the consciousness of independence, and the
constant satisfaction that is derived from its
acquirement and possession.
We would like to impress this single fact up
on the mind of every laboring man who may
peruse this short article—that it is possible
for him to rise above poverty, and that the
path to independence, though beset with toils
and self-sacrifice, is much pleasanter to the
traveler than any one he can enter upon.
The man who feels that he is earning some
thing more than he is spending, will walk
the streets with a much lighter heart and en
ter his home with a much more cheerful coun
tenance than he who spends as he goes or
falls gradually behind his necessities in ac
quiring the means of meeting them.
Next to the slavery of intemperance there
is no slavery on earth more galling than
that of poverty and indebtedness. The man
who is everybody's debtor is everybody's
slave, and in a much worse condition than
he who serves a single master.
For the sake of the present, then, as well
as for the sake of the future, we would most
earnestly urge upon every working man to
live within his means. Let him lay by
something every day—if but a penny, be it a
penny—it is better than nothing ; infinitely
better than running in debt, a penny a day,
or a penny a week.—lf he can earn a dollar
let him try, fairly and faithfully, the exper
iment of living on ninety cents. He will like
it.
"People will laugh." Let them laugh.—
"They will call me stingy." Better call
you stingy than say you do not pay :your
- debts.
"They will wonder why 1 do not have bet
ter furniture, live in a fitter house, and attend
concerts and the play house." Let them
wonder, for a while, it won't hurt them, and
it certainly won't you. By and by you can
have a fine house, and fine furniture of your
own, and they will wonder; again, and come
billing and.cooing around you, like so many
pleased fools. Try the experiment. Live
within your means.—[Maine Farmer.]
Ancient Relics
"TIrERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE. DAYS."—
The lowa State Gazette says while the work
men were engaged, yesterday evening, in the
excavating for the cellar of Gov. Grimes'
new buildings on the corner of Main and
Valley streets, they came upon an arched
vault some ten feet square, which on being
opened, was found to contain eight human
skeletons of gigantic proportions. The walls
of the vault are about fourteen inches thick,
well laid up with cement, or some other in
destructible mot tar.—The vault?is about six
feet deep from the base of the arch. The
skeletons are in a good state of preservation,
and we venture to say, are the largest human
remains ever found, being a little over eight
feet long ! We will examine these interes
ting relics more thoroughly this morning, and
give our, readers a more
,particular account of
them to-morrow. The vault and skeletons
will not be disturbed further until this after
noon, and all who desire to look upon the re
mains of this race of giants, should do so this
,morning.
TRITTII IV CONVERSATION.--The love of
truth is the slid - tubas of all noble' conversa
tion. This is the root of all the charittes.—
The' trees which spring from it may have a
thousand branches, but they will all bear a
golden and generous fruitage. It is the lofti
est- to acquire—willing to 'communicate, and
more willing to - receive—contemptous of bet
ter curiosity, but passionate for glorious know
ledge. Speech without it is but a babble ;
rhetoric is more noisy but less useful than
the tinmen's trade. When the love of truth
fires up the passion, puts its lightning into
the brain, then men may know that the proph
et is among them. This is the . spring of all
heroism, and clothes - the martyr with a flame
that outshines the flame that kills him:—
Compared with this, the emulations of argu
ment, the pungencies of sarcasm, the pride
of logic, the pomp of declamation, are as the
sounds of an automaton to the voice of man.
pa-Lady in hoops—Little boy can I go
tht ough this gate to the river 1
Boy—Perhaps, a load of hay went through
this morning.
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MAY 21, 1856.
A person was brought up before the Police
Court at Syracuse on Tuesday, on charge of
wearing male apparel while being a female,
of making love to the Syracuse belles, and
marrying a woman, &c. There is no doubt of
her femininity, though her counterfeit of a
man is said to he perfect. She is English, is
supposed to be about 40 years of age, went
under the name of Alfred Guelph, and recei
ved.remittances from England, part of which
goes to the support of a sister in Syracuse.—
In reply to a question, "Are you a male or
female '?" she answered : "Your officers can
tell you," or "have told you." She refused
to give any more direct answer to the in
quiry in relation to her sex, and was commit
ted for further examination.
The Standard says that a few weeks since
she assumed the garb of a man, and made
the acquaintance of a young lady named Miss
Lewis. After a brief courtship they were
married by Rev. Mr. Gregory of the Episco
pal Church, and the parties have since resi
ded together as husband and wife. The mar
riage ceremony was performed about three
weeks since, and the bride's father suspec
ting there was something wrong about his
new son-in-law, obtained a private interview,
and informed her of his suspicions that she
was not what she pretended to be. At first
she claimed that she was a man, but on clo
ser questioning finally admitting that she
was a female. A partial examination was
made at this time by the father-in-law and
he immediately arrested her and placed her
in the watch-house, where she has remained
since Saturday evening last.
We have r,ot learned the proper name of
this singular woman. She is about 40 years
of age, with marked features, prominent nose,
high cheek bones, black hair, worn long (for
a man) and curling at the end, and apparent
ly brushed and oiled I,v:th care. She wears
a glazed cap, blue coat, blue shirt, dark vest,
snuff-colored pants and gaiter boats, and a
shawl over her shoulders ; speaks with con
siderable confidence but is not very commu
nicative.
It is understood that when this eccentric
woman first came to the house of the bride's
father, she was attired in female apparel, and
her clothing was changed to man's attire,
with the knowledge of the family. The pro
bability is that the family supposed her wo
man's dress a disguise, and that she was as
suming the proper habiliments of her sex.
The la . dy's father was averse to the match,
but the bride still clings to her woman hus
band, and claims that the arrest is a conspi
racy against them. They were allowed to
meet in one of the ante-rooms of the Police
Office, a.•d embraced each other with the
greatest marks of affection.
The Justice, as we have already remarked
remanded her for further examination, as it is
understood that other charges will, probably,
be brought against her.
There is one fact which it is not likely the
world will ever learn, to wit that happiness
is not necessarily dependent on outward con
dition, The man of robust health often com
plains of trifling and even imaginary disea
ses as much as the confirmed valetudinarian;
a man with millions of wealth may as really
be a pauper, stinting himself and dreading
poverty, as the day-laborer, who has no cer
tainty in the morning that he may have bread
enough during the day to satisfy his hunger ;
he who acquires fame and influence may be
even more dissatisfied than the one who is
hopelessly struggling to attain the same emi
nence ; in social life, they are by no means
the most happy who have the most conveni
ences; envy and jealousy are by no means
confined to the neglected. Thus through the
whole circle of human experience, they seek
happiness in vain who seek for it in outward
circumstances. The mind is its seat. Cul
tivate cheefulness, contentment, benevolence
and above all, godliness, which includes the
others, and happiness, which the world pur
sues after in vain, or at least as large a share
of it as is consistent with our present fallen
condition, will come of itself. This is a se
cret worth knowing. It will operate far
more effectually than the empirical prescrip
tions of the world. —[Presbyterian.
11.:7A clergyman in Pittsburg, Pa., lately
mart led a lady with whom he received the
substantial dowry of ten thousand dollars,
and a fair prospect for more. Shortly after
ward, while occupying the pulpit, he gave
out a hymn, read the first four verses and
was, proceeding to 'read the fifth, commen
cing—
- "Forever let my gratefnl heart."
when he hesitated, balked, and exclaimed :
"Ahern ! The choir will omit the fifth
verse," and sat down.
The congregation ; attracted by his appa
rent confusion, read the verse for themselves,
and smiled almost audibly as they read :
"Forever let my grateful heart
His boundless grace adore,
Which gives ten thousand blessings now
And bids me hope for more."
CUT TlifS OUT.-A correspondent 'of the
London Literary Gazette," alluding to the
numerous cases of death, from accidental poi
soning, adds :
I venture to affirm, there is scarce even a
cottage in this country that does not contain
an invaluable certain, immediate remedy for
such events—nothing more than a dessert
spoonful of made mustard, mixed in a tum
bler of warm water, and drank immediately.
It acts as an emetic; is always ready, and may
be used with safety in any case where one is
required. By making the 'simple antidote
known, you may be the means of saving
many a fellow creature from an untimely end.
BEAUTIFUL SENT IMENT.—An exchange
asks very innocently if it is any harm for
young ladies to sit in the lapse of ages.
Our opinion is that it all depends on the
ages selected. Those from eighteen to twen
ty-five we think are rather . hazardous.
It7The longest day is now discovered to
be the day before your wedding.
A Woman Married to a Woman
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The Growing Crops
NEW YORK.—The Rochester Democrat of
the 3d inst., says: In this region the crop
looks well, but is thin in some places, on ac
count of the sowing of the grown wheat last
fall. Farmers put on one-gnarter more seed
per acre, in order to make up for what was
defective ; but they say that, after all, some
fields show that the germinatiog principle
was affected more extensively than they sup
posed. We here strangly for a good, sound
crop of Genessee wheat this year, that the
reputation of our flour may be rest oreo, and
the farming community again be able to speak
of Genesee wheat as the finest grain grown
under the sun.
Onro.—The new crop of wheat in Ohio
looks exceepingly promising. From Lake
Erie to the Ohio, the fields are covered with
the beautiful green plant, tio , .v some six or eight
inches high, and without a bare spot in sight.
It is the conviction of the farmers and others,
that unless some unforeseen disaster checks
the growth or destroys the wheat before ma
turity, one of the largest crops that have been
gathered will rejoice the farmer next autumn.
The Toledo Blade has information that the
wheat crop looks finely, and is growing with
astonishing rapidity in the southern and
south-western portions of the State.
Speaking of the prospects for good crops
this year, the Urbana Democrat says : As us
ual, the farmers in some sections of the coup -
tryare beginning already to predict a shurt
crop. There is not the slightest indication
of such an occureuce. All our country friends
assure us that the prospect of excellent crops
was never better.
MICIIIGAN.—The soft, seasonable showers
of few days past, says the Detroit Advertiser
iof the 2d inst., are making the most for the
1 wheat, and are doing for it all which can be
I done; but in many places, and especially
i where the snow was blown quite away, it has
i been winter-killed. Where it has been pro
itected by sheltering f rom woods prevailing
blasts, and where the snow lay undisturbed
upon it, the crop hardly ever looked better.
The peaches, unless in very sheltered situ
ations, are generally cut off, not for this year
alone, but the trees are killed outright. In
conversing with farmers of observation in
Oakland, Livingston, Genesee and Kalama
zoo, we learn that such is the case, almost
uniformly. In the county of Wayne, the
same thing is true, and even upon the Detroit
river, a coice and favorite exposure for
peaches, they-are mostly killed. In speak
ing of this subject the Lansing Republican
says : "We notice that many of our neigh
bors have cut down their peach trees, the
severe winter having killed them to the
ground. No more peaches in this vicinity
for years. 22
iILLINOIS.—The Chicago Press says : From
all parts of the country where winter wheat
has been sown, we learn from our exchanges
and from travellers, that the fields give prom
ise of an abundant crop. This is generally
1 true of our State, though the plants may
I perhaps be winter-killed upon some of the
More exposed ridges, and there has been hard
!ly rain enough to bring,them forward rapid
ly.
The De Soto Farmer, published in Jackson
, county, says the prospects of farmers in
' Southern Illinois, for large crops, were never
better o than they are this season. Every
field of wheat looks well. Grass begins to
I afford pasturage. Half of the peach crop is
injured : apples promise finely. In the tim
ber districts there is little injury to the trees.
MARYLAND.—The Elkton papers note a
great improvement in the appearance of the
i wheat crops since the late rains.
Wiscossrx.—The Wisconsin papers say
that the wheat is growing with astonishing
i rapidity in the southern and south-western
I portions of that State.
Suspicion.
Suspicion is the infant lion, that time and
age maketh terrible. ' and that goeth abroad
seeking what it may devour. 'Tis the poison
that lurketh upon the tongue of the serpent,
the-Scorpion that woundeth . with its sting.
The suspicious individual is always a contin
uous line of rats. He sees, hears, nor dreams
of anything in which he does not' " smell a
rat."
IThe most harmless action of his neighbor,
vunder his suspicious and inquisitive disposi
tion, is made a matter of serious investiga
itionl because he knows there is somethino . . in
the wind, for he saw his neighbor Mr. E.
speaking confidentially to Mr. G. this very
morning in the market. He puts that and
I that together and connects this whispering
1-in the morning with something he heard in
1 , the bar-room last week ; and h is satisfied
that there is something wrong somewhere.—
But the most terrible part of such a man's
character is, that he places such faith upon the
corollaries he drew from his false premises,
that he does not hesitate to give wing to the
I base suspicions of his mind, and is frequently
the means of bringing about a disaster which
would never hive happened but for him.
IMany a happy fireside has been rendered
desolate—many a prosperous young man
1 -brought to ruin—many an amiable and vir
-1 tuous young woman has been driven to de
spair by the fiendish innendoes of the auspi
cious. No man however upright and honest
—no woman, however irreproachable—no
maiden however pure, is safe in the neigh
borhood of the suspicious man. He has all
the curiosity of Paul Pry, without his good
nature, and the malignity of the devil, without
his talent.- Rotten to the core of his heart I
himself, lie has no faith in the virtue and hon- i
esty of others, and in consequence, his life i
is, at the best, a prolonged misery.
If you cannot speak well of what you dis
cover in another do not without just cause
speak ill of it—never let suspicion be breath- 1
ed upon the air, for it taketh the semblance I
of reality and fiieth abroad to do evil. i
Enlarge rather than diminish the mantle of I
Charity ; and Earth with her tongues, and •
Heaven with her harps, will sing an anthem
to your praise.—Butlcr Herald.
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BY EDUCATION men become easy to lead,
but difficult to drive—easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.
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VOL, 11, NO. 48,
There is often a very great error commit ,
tell in allowing any of the exercises of the
school to proceed while the order is in any
de7ree below the proper standard. Let every
teacher, on the first day and first hour, and
on all succeeding hours and days, see that
there is just the right standard of quiet and
order before any exercise is commenced, and
let any and every exercise be promptly and
entirely suspended unless . this standard is
maintained. But, how long should the teach
er wait for quiet to be restored ? The spirit
of our advice on this point may be gathered
from the following reply of an Eastern rail
road superintendent to the conductor of a
train. "How long shall I wait at sta
tion for the up train ?" "Wait sir, until the
axletrces of your car-wheels have rusted off;
then get a new supply-, and wait till they rust
off." So, let the teacher wait until the solid
walls of his school-room shall crumble to de
cay, before proceeding with any sort of exer
cises in a disorderly school. Neither reading
nor spelling, algebra nor philosophy, are mat
ters of such infinite consequence that they
ate to be taught at the expense of martyrdom
of everything else valuable. But we have
one method to suggest, by way of securing
and maintaining this order, and we then
dismiss the topic. It is the imperative, nev
er-ceasing duty of the teacher to provide ev
ery child with something to do. All of the
study-hours of each class, with the specific
time set for the preparation of each lesson,
should be most carefully and judiciously ar
ranged by each teacher. it is idle to expect
that the simple announcement of a lesson to
a young child will be sufficient to insure its
proper proportion of attention, in compari
son with, and in connection with, all other du
ties and lessons. It is indeed, scarcely safe to
leave this to the Option of the older pupils in
any school. If not absolutely required, the
practice should be very strongly recommen
ded, to the most mature students, to have fix
ed hours for preparation for each recitation.
with all the younger pupils, we regard this,
in connection with what has been previously
said respecting communication, as a sort of
starting-point to future success. —Phi° Jour
nal of Education.
BE SINCERE.—The great thing to be be at
tended to in prayer, that which is the very
essence of it, is reality ! Every sentence
must be the vehicle of truth. All ialsehood
is wicked ; never is it so wicked as in pray
er. The utterance of lies, direct in the face
of God and truth, is the very climax of ini
quity. As the Searcher of hearts, he "desi
res truth in the inward parts." He is pre
eminently "the God of truth, by whom ac
tions are weighed," and to whom "all things
are naked and open."
One of the most awful fires that eve: oc
curred in Philadelphia, took place on Thurs
day a week between 1 and 5 o'clock. It
commenced in the large paper warehouse of
Jessop and Moore, No. 24 North Street above
Fifth ; whence it speedily spread to Com
merce, then crossed to Sixth, then to Market,
where the destruction was terrible. The
wind was blowing strong at the time, render
ing all efforts to stay the flames abortive. It
is estimated that the entire loss will reach
nearly $2,000,000. One fireman was killed,
one stabbed, and several others seriously in
jured.
"Boss, I want twenty-five cents," said a
jour printer to his employer.
"Twenty-five cents 1 How soon do yon.
want it'?"
"Next Tuesday."
“As soon as that ! You can't have i:.
have told you often that when you were in
want of so large a sum you must give at least
four or five weeks' notice.”
UA gentleman was promenading one of
our fashionable streets with a bright little
boy at his side, when the little boy called
out :
" Oh, pa, there goes an editor !"
" Hush, my son," said the father, " don't
make sport of the poor man ; God only knows
what you may coma to yet."
Speak "kindly to the young. Oh, cast
not a cloud o'er childhood's pours. Enough
at sorrow will come by and by to sadden the
spirit, and we do wrong if we cherish not the
fresh - young heart iu its joyfulness and pu
rity.
'Let the miser have his gold, and the
man of honor his emblems of renown, but let
my portion be the boon of friendship, secured
within some faithful heart, in which peace,
contentment, and every virtue, reign perpetu
ally supreme.
E L ..A.ri Exchange, speaking of a drink he
once had occasion to indulge in, says he
couldn't tell whether it was brandy or a
torchlight procession going down his throat.
DCT'It is a commcn remark that those men
talk most who think the least, just as frogs
cease their croaking when a person brings a
light to the water side.
rr -- Exceedingly modest young lady--
"Isn't this a very pretty baby, Mr, Brown I"
Brown—" Yes, my dear, boy or girl I
- Young lady—"He belongs to the female
persuasion ; sir."
A Southern editor has purchased
race horse an expense of $2,000, for the pur
pose of catching his runaway subscribers.
9 - .Tealousy—Tormenting yourself for fear
you will bo tormented by another.
D'Time's chariot wheels make their car
riage road in the fairest face.
a - The remembrances of past happiness ;
are the wrinkles of the bout.
L -- IViiat is it you must keep after you
have given it to another? Your word.
[How should a husband speak to a scold
ing wife? My dear, I love you still.
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Order in School.
.Another Awful Fire.