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Per the Presbyterian tanner.
Answer to a Sweet little Poem Written' by
Soldier Father to his Chi ldren.
BY MRS. E. B. auRnA24.
Father, now the shadows darken,
As thy face we see no more,
And the thought our spirits sadden,
As we hearken—softly hearken
For thy footsteps at the door.
How we yearn for thy caressing,
Per thy - warm and fervent kiss;
For thy sweet voice softly telling
Of a blessing-0 that blessing,
Father, shall we ever miss ?
'When we hear the loud wind moaning,
And the cloak ticks soft and low,
And we know that thou art roaming
'Mang the sighing and the dying,
Then the shadows come and go.
In the embers, softly gleaming
Through the twilight, cold and grey,
Oft we see the bright tear streaming,
Through the seeming—quiet seeming
For the•dear one, far away.
Could the dove but stop the mutter
Of the cannon's deadly roar,
And the sweet word eoftly . utter,
'Round us flutter—gayly flutter,
Chasing, wrong from sea to shore
Fain would we to thee have spoken
Of the olive-branch of peace—
Of the bands of treason broken—
Of-the hopes—the hopes that waken,
That the crud/ strife may cease I
Aami now, father! lieted.softly
While we whisper in thine ear;
Though thy way be red and gory,
Still the Lord—the Lord of glory,
Will to thee be ever near!
And though little hands lie listless,
Still we can forever pray;
For we know, though sad and cheerless,
Thou art fearless—:valliant, fearless,
And will aurely win the day.
" Cease, then cease, thy weary pining,
Pierce the clouds that cross thy way;
Thou must surely see the lining
Of the cloud—the .eilver lining,"'
Turning darkness into day.
Huntington, Indiana, Jan 6, 1864.
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Witte Street,
" Look out:, Ellen, right across the
street," said Mr. Walden, laying his paper
on his knee, and speaking to his wife, who
sat at the opposite front window. "Do you
see that young man ?"
" Yes, Henry ; I happen to know him—
one of your clerks," and the lady turned
her face, most sweet, most fair, from the
beautiful child, to whom she was tossing
up and down a cluster of silver-voiced bells,
and listening to its crow of triumph.
44 Was one of my clerks, you mean, El
len. That's the very young man we turned
off last week for helping himself to a ten
dollar bill out of our drawer. Yon remem
ber I told you about it."
" Yes; but I never suspected that he was
the one. You know he brought me messa
ges several times from the store, and I was
always pleased with his bright, pleasant,
courteous manner. He had n't the face of
a rogue, Harry."
"No; this was his first offence. I be
lieve the boy was as honest when he came
up from the country as ever one was : but
lie All into bad company, and there was an
end of him. There 'a no trusting boy or
man after the first theft," and Mr. Walden
took up his paper.
His wife glanced sadly aeaoss the street
to the slight young figure which was slowly
passing out of hdr range of vision. She
remembered its rapid, alert step, which had
struck her a little while before, and fancied
there was remorse and depression in the
altered bearing. Then her glance dropped
on the sweet face with the wide bloom on
its cheeks, and the childish wonder and joy
in its eyes, and her heart grew pitiful, and
reached out with a half mother-yearning
after the slight half-drooping figure, which
had just passed by.
She thought of him, friendless, disgraced,
desolate, this youth, in the great city, so
full 'of all temptation and enticement; and
she thought, too, of the mother he must
once have had, and who was just as proud
and fond of him as she was of her own boy
and involuntarily this lady whom wealth
and luxury, and all that is good and to be
desired in life, had not spoiled, reached out
her hands with a quick jesture of alarm
and protection to her child.
The gentleman opposite her, with his
pleasant face and portly figure, and his
hair a little sifted with gray, caught the
movement, and looked up from his paper.
What is the matter, Ellen ?"
She smiled, hall apologetically.
"I was thinking,.dear, what if that boy
were ours
Mr. Walden looked down upon his small
heir a little touched.
"I shall never place him in the midst of
such temptations as my warehouse."
"But this boy, had to meet them, and
because he failed •once, it seems to me that
it was bard to turn him right out into the
cold and dark of the world."
Mr. Walden smiled a little.
"0, Ellen," he said, " that would sound
very prettily in a story, and sentiment of
this sort is very attractive in a woman
like you • but it do n't do for us business
men. you;
got to be up to the mark,
hard, and straight forward, and practical."
" And yet; Harry, you business men have
bad Mothers to love you, and hays) sons in
your turn to love. That is the hard,
straight, practical truth."
When she paused, her husband said,
"Why, Ellen, what makes you take finch
an interest in this clerk, whom you've nev
er seen half a dozen times ?"
I don't know, Harry. Perhaps it's
because I look at my own boy and yours."
"Well, to , please you, I'll promise to
take him back once more, and give him a
trial:"
And Mrs. Walden rose up, went over to
her husband, pushed away the black hair
sifted with gray from his forehead, and the
kiss which fell there was the warm, sweet,
fragrant kiss of a lovelywife.
Half an hour later, Lucius. Street was
retraoing hit steps through the wide street,
flanked with its stately homes, down .which
he had wandered unconsciously, for some
spirit of unrest and unhappiness had taken
possession of him that day, from which he
vainly tried , to deliver himself.
Suddenly a voice ;called him on the oppo
site side--" Lucius I Lucius Street I"
He turned, and there, standing on the
beciaa atone aids dwelling; was Mr.
Walden beckoning to him. A blush burned
up into the boy's cheek; he hesitated.
And again Mr. Walden's voice came over
to him kindly, but authoritatively—" Lu
cius! Lucius Street!" And it compelled
his steps to the gentleman's side.
Mr. Walden looked on his former clerk
with kindly eyes, which were not to be
mistaken.
" Come in, Lucius, come in," he said.
And the youth followed him into the
great parlor, - whose gorgeousness fairly daz
sled
his eyes, and seating him in one chair,
took another by his side, and looking at
him, said, in a kindly voice, " Lucius, you •
have an honest face, and you had an honest
name till that time, and because of it, if
you had told the truth, we would have for
given and kept you."
The tears strained themselves into the
boy's eyes, his breast heaved, every limb
shook. Mr. Walden was touched. He
laid his band on the boy's shoulder.
" Tell me the truth now, Lucius," he
said "you shall not be sorry for it."
• The boy looked up; his face was white,
and worked fearfully. At last the half-co
herent words struggled out.
"It's all dim and blurred to me, Mr.
Walden; but I s'pose I did take the money,
although . I can't remember very well; the
wine had got into my head."
Mr. Walden shook his bead, " Bad com
pany, bad company, my boy," he said.
"It was the first time, the very first time
in my life," speaking steady and fervent
this time.
" I believe you; and now if, because of
this, we take you back once more to your
old place, will you promise, for your own
sake, not to fail again—to avoid all tempta
tions of evil wine and wrong companions,
for they have made you fall once, and they
will evidently drift you to your ruin ?" •
" I will promise you, sir.
4 ( Then be back, Lucius, to your old place
to-morrow morning."
The boy buried his face in his hands, and
burst into tears—tears which, in his case,
were the blessed " latter rain," in which
dwelt repentahce and a new purpose. And
Mr. Walden, touched beyond his usual self,
laid his hand once more on the boy's shoul
der, and spoke to him many words of coun
sel and encouragement, which were almost
fatherly in their tone, and even invited
him to remain to supper with his family ;
but the reinstated clerk declined doing
this. And when Lucius Street went out
on the side-walk once more, it was not as
he went in.
That night, at " Spark's Saloon," half-a
dozen young men and boys, bent on what
they called " mischief " and " fun," waited
vainly for another to join their company.
The barn was fired; the flames spread be
yond the original intentions of the incendi
aries. Much valuable property was des
troyed, but Lucius Street was not there to
see. He was faithful to his new covenant.
He withstood the jeers and persuasions of
his old companions, the temptations and
enticements of his city life.
As his years grew into manhood, he
arose to new positions of trust and responsi
bility in the great warehouse, and always
filled these to the satisfaction of the propri
etors and at last became head clerk in the
establishment. And it was not till the
evening of his appointment, which trans
pired ten years after his reinstatement in
the warehouse, that he related to Mr. Wal
den the evil into which he had fallen at
that time.
" I was on the brink of an awful preci
pice, sir," he said, with emotion which
fairly choked his words. "My ruin was
inevitable, and it was you, under Gbd, who
saved me."
"Not I, interrupted Mr. Walden, almost
as much moved as his clerk, " it was Ellen,
my wife, who did it all. You owe the
thanks to her." -
And then the senior partner, whose hair
was not now sifted, but crusted with silver,.
related all which had transpired between
himself and wife that afternoon in his sit
ting-room, ten years ago. And the young
man wept like a child again.
"I never knew before what made Mrs.
Walden so kind to me," he said ; I under
stand it all now."
" Come up to supper, to- night, and tell
her with your own lips," said Mr. Walden.
• And Lucius went, and hearing •it, Mrs.
Walden wept for joy, and thanked God in
her heart.
How few women take any interest in the
life, moral or physical, of their husbands'
clerks and employees! And here, at their
very doors, open• out great avenues, through
which they may walk like ministering an
gels, speaking good, true words, doing their
sweet, noble, most womanly deeds, which
shall be counted blessed and honorable of
the angels, and which shall be like good
gifts of frankincense and myrrh, pleasant,
and acceptable in the sight of God the Fat'',
er .—Ladies' Repository.
Christ's Golden Rule.
Who knows the Golden Rule ? You all
know it, I hope. You may repeat it :
" Whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them."
Who made . the rule
Our Lord Jesus Christ
Then we may be sure it is a right rule.
Have you all got the rule ? Have you all
got it by heart?
Now, children, what is a rule made for ?
To make things right by.
That is what Christ gave us all the Gol
den Rule for. You have it in your heart,
just as the young carpenter had his foot
rule in his pocket. But lam afraid that a
great many of you are so foolish that you
do n't use your Golden Rule. When some
playmate, whom perhaps you do not like
very well, asks you to do him a favor, and
you say, " No, I won't; you won't do any
thing to oblige me, and I won't oblige
you,"that's not , going by the rule. Stop,
litte boy, little girl, take out your rule;
here is something to measure. What does
the rule say ? "Do as you would be done
by." Go by the rule. That's what the
rule is for. When some boy strikes you,
or calls you names, and you clench your
hand to strike him in return—stop. Where
is your rule? You would be more foolish
than the carpenter's apprentice if you were
to strike back, while all the time you had
Christ's Golden Rule in your mind, which
tells you to do as you would be done by.
Remember, that Christ's Golden Rule is
given to you to measure things by. That
rule is always right. If you see a man, or
a woman, or a child, doing something that
is contrary to that rule, you may be sure
they are doing wrong. And remember
how foolish and how wrong it is for us, who
have the rule, to forget all about it, and to
disobey it. ,
Let us all try to make a= good use of
Christ's Golden Rule.
The Hymn and the Apple.
Little Lizzie was a lively, clever, and in
teresting little girl. All who knew her
used to say what a quick child she was.
Her parents were exceedinfly fond of lu3r,
atlii whhn she Wes in Vir eighth' yeti!. they,
PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.---WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1864.
sent her to what they considered a good
school.
Lizzie had been away six months, and
was home for the Midsummer holidays.
Her parents were delighted with her; and
her two brothers and sisters seemed to yield
up every thing for pleasure, while she, in
return, entertained them all with something
she had learned or done at, school.
" Father," she said on one occasion, as
she sat upon his knee," we all learn Watt's
Hymns at our school ;" and then, with deep
earnestness, she repeated several.
Now, it happened a few days after that,
some early apples were gathered from the
garden, and Lizzie much wished to have
one, but her mother said, " My darling, I
cannot give you one; there are not many,
and I wish to send them all away as a pres
ent. You shall have some of the next we
gather." Lizzie appeared disappointed,
and staid behind in the garden, while the
basket , . of rich fruit was carried into the
house ' and placed upon a table in the par
lor. Several hours passed by. The sun,
in rich splendor, tempted all into the gar
den; and the sounds, of merry voices ech
oed all around. Lizzie was not in the hap
piest mood, and when tired with her play,
she sauntered slowly back to the house.
She was not there long, before she found
that she was alone, and, as though some
sudden thought flashed into her mind, she
hastened to the parlor door. In an instant
it was opened, and she crept isoftly. to the
basket of fruit. Lizzie's hand was upon
it, but seeming to hesitate, she looked tim
idly round the room to see that no_one was
watching her, then glaneing quickly at the
apples, she took one in her hand and turned
to go. All of a sudden,. Lizzie stopped.
No sound had fallen upon her ear, yet her
little cheeks, rosy with health and excite
ment, turned pale, and the folds of her
frock• showed how she trembled. If she
had held a serpent, she would not have
thrown it down mere quickly than she re
turned the stolen apple to the basket, and
clasping her little hands together, tears
filled her large blue eyes, and she exclaimed:
"Guard my heart, 0 God of heaven,
Lest I covet what's not mine,
Lest I lake what is not given,
Guard my heart and hands from sin."
This one verse, with all its deep power,
stopped that young child in the moment of
strong temptation; and who shall say what
effect it had upon the whole of her future
life. She is a woman now, and has had
many - temptations, and perhaps the hymns
of her childhood have helped her more
than once.
Children, store your minds with beauti
ful hymns, and, above-all, always stop - and
ask God to keep you right when yolkitre
tempted to do wrong. •
isttilantotts.
I Cow Teaching Theology.
Old Mr.. Bunnell was a , peculiar man.
When a little child he was peculiar. He
did n't want, to rock, or creep, or walk, like
other children. He seemed to prefer to
creep sideways or backward, .rather than
forward. .And when a boy no play suited
him, no plan was exactly right. When
other boys wanted to skate, he wanted to
slide. When they ranted to slide down
hill, he wanted to run on the ice. When
they learned to read in the usual way, he
turned his book bottom upwards, and
learned to read in that way. Not that he
was cross or morose, but peculiar. He
wanted everything done in his own way.
When he became a man and rode bare-back
when •other people used the saddle, and
milked his cow on the right side instead
of the left, and used an ox harnessed with
the old horse, why, people said, "Mr.
Bunnell is a peculiar man, and let it all
pass.
But there were places where he found it
hard to travel with other people. Espe
cially was this so on the Sabbath. He
never could enjoy the singing in the church,
because the chorister always got hold of the
wrong tunes; and he could not enjoy the
prayers,' because they were too long or too
short, too abstract or too common. They
were, always out of joint. It the heathen
were prayed for, he, thought that the
heathen at home might as well be remem
bered. If the nations were mentioned, he
thought the Jews ought to be mentioned
by name. In all eases, somebody was left
out or put into the prayers that ought not
to be. He did n't " mean to scold or find
fault," he said, but he did "love to, have
things done right." Poor man I he never
had them done right.
But a greater trouble was the preaching.
He professed to like his minister, and did
like bim as well as he could like anybody.
But there were awful mistakes in the
preaching. Sometimes a most important
point, as he thought, was left out. Some.
times things were put in which nobody
could understand. Sometimes things almost
heretical were broached. What could he
do? He gave hints and propounded
queries to his minister, and his minister so
gently 'and kindly; passed them off, that
it seemed like pouring water on a duck's
back.
At length, when patience seemed about
to give out, and when he could stand it no
longer,he went over to his neighbor, Dea
con Wright, and poured his troubles into
his ear. Now Deacon Wright was a quiet
man, said but little, but thought more.
When he did speak, it was always- to the
point. He knew all about Mr• Bunnell,
had great patience with him and a' great
regard for him. He used to say, " Mr.
Bunnell loves to growl, but he never really
bites!!
,The Deacon was just going out to the
barn to fodder his cattle, when Mr. Bunnell
came up and-bid him ." Good evening—if I
can call such a cold night good."
" Now, Deacon, I've just one word to
say. I can't bear our preaching ;I .get
no good. There's so, much in it that I
don't want, that I grow lean on it. .:I lose
my time and pains!
"Mr. Bunnell, come in here l l'here's
my cow Thankful—she can teach you the
ology. I" .
" A cow teach theolegy I What do - you
mean ?"
"Now see. I have just thrown her a
fork-full of hay. Just watch her. There
now I She has found a stick (you know .
sticks will get in the hay), and see how she
tosses it one side and leaves it, and goes on
to eat what is good. There again ! She
has found' a burdock, and she throws it one
side and goes on - eating. And there ! She
don't relish that bunch of daisies, and she
leaves them and goes on eating. Before
morning she will clear the manger of all,
save a few sticks and weeds, 4lnd she will
give milk. There's milk in that hay, and
she knows how to get it out, albeit there
may bf, now and then a stick ore weed
which she leaves. But if she refused to
eat, and spent her time in scolding about
the fodder, she too, would g grow lean,' and
ray milk would be dried up. Just so with
oltr iirWabhini. Lit the 014 (Jew t'eVat. ybu.
Get all the good you can out of it, and
leave the rest. You will find a great deal
of nourishment in it."
Mr. Bunnell stood silent a moment, then
turned away, sayina, " Neighbor, that, old
cow is no fool, at any rate."—Rev. Dr.
Todd, in S. S. Times
Contrast Between two queens.
THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
I have frequently heard it said, in a tone
of censure, that our court is a very parsi
monious one—too economical a great deal;
but if it be economical, it is just and punc
tual in the extreme. It is certainly a fact,
that so far as her milliners and dress-makers
are concerned, her Majesty likes to know
the price of articles before commanding
them—a practice which her subjects would
do well to.*follow ;, and all her trades-peo
ple know lull well that their accounts must
be punctually rendered every three months,
when they are punctually discharged—an
other example, well worthy of imitation, and
one which, if: the ladies of our aristocracy
would but follow, they would find themselves
saving at least fifty per cent., on their mil
liners bills. They would, too, at once rob
the employers of one great and general ex
cuse for overworking their assistants=an
excuse which they consider all-powerful—
viz.: that their capital is so locked up by
the long credit they are obliged to give, their
;paid assistants
that they have to do with as few
assistants as - possible.- The Englis . h
womoies Journal.
THE EEPRESS OF FRANCE
The passion of the Empress for .dress
amounts almost to a monomania. The Em
press never appears twice in the same.dress,
but changes the material and •: the; color
every day. It is said that in the front cen
tre of the ceiling of ber private dressing
room, there is a trap-door opening into a
spacious hall above, filled with " presses,"
each containing a dress exhibited on, a
frame, looking like an effigy of the Empress
herself. In a part of these presses there is
a little railway leading to the,door, through
which the dressed-effigy descends•in to the
Empress. If it please her Majesty, the
dress is lifted from the frame and placed
upoh the imperial person ; if not, it is
whipped up, and another comes down in
its place, and perhaps another and another.
--Letter jrom Paris.
The Czar's Empire.
The Russian Bear is out foraging. The
Empire, of Alexander now covers a territory
`well nigh as large as fifty empires of Louis
Napoleon. It compasses an unbroken
stretet of land from the Baltic., to the Yel
low Sea. The Czar reaches out his finger
tips touching East and West. When he
changed his capital from Moscow to St.
Petersburg, he was thought to menace
progress toward Western Europe. But the
progress has been toward the rising sun.
During the last three years five acqusitions
have been - made first,, all Asia north of
the Amoor ; second, frontier posts in Cen
tral Asia, pushed out as pickets toward the
Indus ; third, the coast region of East Asia
from the .Amour southward, and nearer to
.Pekin than Cinoinnati to New-York ; fourth,
the island of Saghalien, as large as Penn
sylvania and having equal coal mines;
fifth, the Island of Yesso, as large as New-
England. ,
What is the value of these gains ? Let
no one suppose that the great territory, is
only a great snow field. The Amor,
larger than the Mississippi, is not more
frozen in Wilder in its great southern bend
than the St. Lawrence. Massachusetts is
further norther than the southern side of
its valley. The soil yields wheat, barley,
oats, and even tobacco ; 'the forests are be
yond description - for beauty and ship
'timber; the coasts will support fish
eries like Newfoundland ; iron has been
found, and gold looked -for; while every
where, in forest and on plain, uncounted
animals are only waiting to be skinned of
fashionable furs.
Alexander may build navies on the banks
of.the Amoor, and harbor them upon its
bosun. He may establish seaports, which,
fronting the whole long length of Japan,
will have hardly more ice in raid-Winter
than the Fulton ferry boats encounter from
New-York to Brooklyn.
His father was a shrewd man in, sending
Count Mouravieff into Asia to pick up
these new jewels for the crown. Tbe. new
Czar's vigorous use of his' fresh opportuni
ties if interpreted to mean that he has
knitted his brows into a threat against
China and British India. He doubtless
means to get all he can, and to keep all he
can get. Historyis full of novelties, and
among - them may yet be chronicled, as
among royal adventures, how the Emperor
made a 'progress to hie colonial' city of
Hongkong, and'how afterward, - on his way
back,.ke turned - an Englishman out of a
palankeen and rode in state into Calcutta.
Meanwhile, we recommend that the. British
fleet in the
_Gulf of Mexico naake — a voy
age of observation to the Bap, of Bengal.
—Ltd.
Schuyler Colfax, in lb Printing Office.
Samuel Wilkerson, Big., formerly of the
Buffalo press, now of the New-York Times,
in his admirable address as •presiding °Eider
attlie " Press dinner " given at Washington
recently to Speaker . Colfax, related the fol
lowing pleasant incident :
Eighteen -years ar,o, at one o'clock -of--a
Winter moonlight morning, while the
horses in the.-stage coach in which I was
plowing the ,thick mud of Indiana were
being changed at the tavern in South Bend,
I walked the footway of the principil street
to .shake off a great :weariness. I saw a
light through a window. A sign, " The
Register," was legible above it, and. I saw
through• the window . a' Man in his' shirt
sleeves walking gUickly about like one that
worked. I paused and looked, and imag
ined about the man; and about the lateness
'of the hour to which. it was protracted; ;
and I wondered if he ' was in debt, 'and
struggling to get out, and if , his wife was
expecting hiin i and had lighted a new can
dle for his coming, and: if he was,very. tired.
A coming step interrupted this idle dream
ing. When the walker 'reached my side,
I. rejoined him, and as we went I asked him
questions and naturally they were about
the — workla.ri in his shirt.sleeves. " What
sort of it man is he . ?" "He is very good
to the poor ; he works hard; he is sociable
with the people; he pays his debts; he is a
safe adviser; he doesn't drink whiskey;
folks depend on him.; all this part of Indi
ana believe in. him." Prom
. that day 'to
this,. I' have never, taken up the South
Bend :Register Without thinking of this
eulogy, and' envying the 'man who had just
ly entitled' liiinself.to it'in the dawn of his
Manhood. '
,
In the Wilderness Shall Wateri Break out,
Perhaps no more hopeless• enterprise
could be undertaken than to attempt , to re
claim the great African desert of Sahara,
where no rain ever . falls, and there are but
o'as'es it, give relief to the wis'ary
and fainting caravans that traverse it.
Modern science, however, laughs at seem
ing impossibilities. Skilful engineers in
the French army in Algiers proposed
to sink Artesian wells at different points,
with the strong confidence that thus water
could be reached and forced to the surface.
In 1860, five Artesian wells had been
opened, around which, as vegetation thrives
luxuriantly, thirty thousand palm trees
and one thousand fruit trees were planted,
and two thriving villages established. At
the depth of a little over five hundred feet,
an underground river or lake was struck,
and from two of them live fish have been
thrown up, showing that there was a large
body of water underneath. The French
Government by this means hopes to make
the route across the desert to Timbuctoo
fertile and fit for travel, and thus to bring
_ the whole overland travel and commerce
through Algeria, which will be one of the
greatest feats of modern scientific enter
prise.
Benevolence of British Christians.
The'receipts for,the past year of 43 of
the principal ; religious societies which held
their anniversaries in London were £951,-
092, or over. four and three-quarter million
of dollars. Nearly one-half of this amount
was for the 'support of foreign missions.
The beneVolent receipts of the Church
Missionary Society were over $766,000 ; of
the Wesleyan, $708,000; of the Society for
Propagating the Gospel, $456,000; of the
British and Foreign Bible Society, $421,-
000 ; London Missionary Society, $410,-
000; London City Mission, $183,000; Re
ligious Tract Society, $55,000.
Ifarm, 05arITtit, &c.
For the Presbyterian Banner
llartresting on the Prairie.
With your permission we will-::tell your
farmer readers how harvesting is done in
this country. We suppose that:a stranger
passing through our vast prairie farms just
before the grain is ready to be gathered,
would think it_ is impossible to harvest such
wide fields before a great part of the grain
had fallen into the ground. Well, if our
farmers had to depend upon foreign help,
and the use of such harvest implements as
were every where depended - upon but a few
years ago, and are still depended upon in
many places at this time, but a small part
of the grain raised on our prairies would
ever reach the stack yard niachiney
has rendered our farmers independent of
foreign help, and inventors have thrown im
plements which twenty years ago were suf
ficient and satisfactory, entirely in the
shade. You who farm surrounded by brush
and hills and pdaderous boilders, come
here—look at that field of wheat of one
hundred, or one hundred and fifty acres,
all ripe and ready to be. gathered l What
a task—what an army necessary to save it
But stop`a little in from four to six days
it is all nicely cut and safely. stacked.
From twenty-five to thirty acres goes into
stack everyday, and from two .to three ev
ery working hour. 'And all this without a
little army of men with dirty, rusty, sweaty
shirts; bleeding, blistered hands ; lame
horses, and aching bones, and vast loads of
sickles, rakes, cradles, &o. But to accom
plish the task we see six men of ordinary
strength, perhaps one or two of the compa
ny only boys, with two teams to propel the
machine which cuts the grain and deposits
it-into wagons, two or three' teams to haul
as many wagons, which receive the cut
grain and carry it to the stack-yard; a few
forks, and the whole posse is ready for the
field. The machine to be used is one of
no ordinary character. It is, simple, pow
erful, reliable And complete. It is appro-
priately called the Harvest Queen. It outs
a.. swarth ten feet wide,. consequently it
travels less than a mile to cut, one acre.
The cut grain falls back of the sickle on an
endless, revolving apron, which is so eleva
ted at one end that a' wagon with a large
bog can be.clriven under it along-with. the
machine, and receive the grain as it falls
from the elevated end. of the apron. NO
grain falls on the ground, none is bound in
bundles, shocked or pitched on the wagon
by hand. The grain is cut low enough to
get all the heads, which saves handling the
straw, and leaves it properly scattered over
the field. But without a moment's delay,
'the driver can adjust the -machine so as to
cut, the straw any desirable length.
This 'brief article will give the reader
some idea of the 'ease with which a few
hands can gather a vast amount of grain in
a very short time.
In many places harvesting is considered
(and justly) the most laborious part of farta
labor. With our prairie firmety it is not
especially when performed in the manner
described. All farmers do not adopt this
easy mode. Some follow the mode which
makes alight task a heavy one. So it al
ways has been; andso it will be as most
always!'
But, if the Editor will let this find a
place in the columns of the Banner, and al
low Its to trouble him again on this same
subject, we will agree to stop , here for, the
present; if he does not, we will stop here
any how. Yours, respectfully,
PRAMIE OBSERVER.
Plowing by Steam.
A writer in the Reyal Agricultural So
ciety's jnurnal in England, calls attention
to the advantages of steam plowing, which
has been introduced on some English farms;
where the, experiment proves that it is
cheaper, more expeditious, and more effi.-
cient than horse tillage. A steamplow
doei the work of frOni ienitOlWelVe
or even thirty to forty horses. It does not
tire as horses, do, and the soil is more thor
oughly cultivated by it. It breaks up the
soil to the depth of ten inches as easily as
a,`horse plow-does five•inches ; thus making
a constant and-great improvement of the
land, which is better drained by_the break
,ing up of the subsoil. Waste and poor
• lands have .thus become fertile and, produc
tive, and stiff clay lands have been trans
ferred into garden soils. Through contin
ued steam culture the land becomes lighter
and more easily worked, and several farm
ers who use it testify that the increased
worth of their crops is so great that their
lands have grown-in value one-third. The
Viceroy of Egypt is importing steam plosis
from England very largely, having a capi
tal 'of nearly $1,000,000 in them on his
own estate. He wishes to encourage his
people to use machines instead of anithal
labor. He intends to forni a model farm
'on a large Nale,lntrodueing the most re
cent English improveuients.
FORM OF A DEVISE OR BEQUEST
TO ANY 'O3T .TION
BOARDS OF . THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
ffhe State laws differ so much that no one
form will answer in all the States; but in every
dim it is essential' to give the HIGHT OORPORATI
HAMS'. ,
The oldest Board was nrigin'ally oared tho
Board of Missions' but is now incorporated un
der the laws of Pennsylvania under title of
"The Trustees of the Board of Domestic Missions
of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States of America."
Of the Board ofEducation the corporate
name is, " The Trustees of the Board of Educa
tion of the Presbyterian Church in the United States
of America."
The Board of Foreign Missions is incorporated
under the laws of New-York, under the style of
" The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyte
rian Church in the United States of America."
The Board of Publication is incorporated un
der the laws of Pennsylvania under the style of
" The Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Pub
lication."
The Board of Church Extension of the Gen
eral Assembly is not incorporated, but the fol
lowing form of bequest, it is supposed, would be
valid.
I bequeath to my executors the sum of --
1 dollars, in trust, to pay over the same in
after my decease, to the person who, when the
same shall be payable, shall act as Treasurer of
the Board of Church ExtenNon of the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the. United
States of America, located in the City of St. Louis,
Missouri, to be applied to the uses and purposes
of said Board, and under its directions, and the
receipt of the said Treasurer shall be a full
and legal acquittance of my said executors for
the same.
When real estate or other property is`given, let
it be particularly described.
RESOLUTIONS Of THE GENERAL ASSEM
BLY EN REGARD TO COLLECTIONS:
WHT:RBAS, Many of OUT churches do not con
tribute to'our benevolent enterprises, and where
as, it is desirable to test the power of simulta;
aeons effort ; and whereas, an emergency has
arisen, requiring the cooperation of all our
churches to save our Boards .from serious em
barrassment ; therefore,
Resolved, 1. That this Assembly earnestly re
quest all our churches that have no fixed times
for the purpose, to take up annual collections as
follows, viz.::
For the BOARD ON DOMESTIC MISSIONS
on the FIRST SABBATH OF NOVRMBRIL
For the BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS on
the. FIRST SABBATH OF JANUARY.
For the BOARD OF EDUCATION on the
FIRT SATIBATIL, OF MARCH.
For the COLPORTAGE FUND of the BOARD
OF PUBLICATION on the Finer SABBATH or
Atha..
Por the BOARD OF CHURCH EXTENSION
on the Fixer SABBATH OF JULY.
For the DISABLED MINISTERS' FUND on
the FIRST SABBATH OF SEPTEMBER.
Resolved, 2. That when the annual collactions
cannot be taken up on the days above designated,
it be recommended to take them up as soon
thereafter as possible.
THE HOME AND FOREIGN RECORD.
By order of . the General Assembly, the
publication of the Home and Foreign Record
in the quarto or newspaper form will cease
with the December number. It will from
thence be printed only in the octavo, or
pamphlet form, which will be advantageous to
those who annually bind it in a volume. The
matters it presents have a permanentinterest.
It is our duty, as Christians, to know what, as a
Chnrch, we are doing now; and, if preserved, it
will be a valuable record of the progress of the
Church to succeedine c zenerations.
The change preserifs a favorable opportunity
for pastors and others interested in the welfare
of the people, to make a new effort to circulate
the :Record among them. It is now several years
since any considerable accession has been made
to the list of subseribers, and it is thought that
m many churches there are numbers recently
added, who know nothing of the existence of
this periodical. It is hoped that the action of
the Assembly will meet the approval of the
Church, which could be shown in no better way
than by a great increase of subscribers.
THE HOME AND FOREIGN RECORD OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Is the organ of the Boards of Domestic Missions,
Education, Foreign Missions, Publication, and
the Board of Church Eitension, and is issued
monthly, at Fifty Cents a year for a tingle copy.
Packages to churches, for any number of copies,
at 25 cents per copy. Payment in advance.
Address, Mr... Peter Walker, 821 Chestnut Bt.,
Philadelphia."
POSTAGE--The postage of the Home and For
sign Record is one cent each paper, payable pier
terly in advance, at the office of delivery: • Biit
packages to one address are liable to one cent for
each four ounces contained . in them, payable
quarterly in advance.
Packages of the Home and Foreign-Record are
delivered, free of charge,
in New-York, Balti
more, Louisville, Cincinnati, Wheeling and Pitts-
Ax Orran.--Any missionary, colporteur, or
Other person, procuring new subscribers to the
Record at 50 cents each, shall -be entitled to 20
per cent. for ,each such subscription procured
and prepaid.
JUST PUBLISHEI)
The Presbyterian Board of Publication,
821 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia: •
COUNSELS FOR THE sonooLitoopir. A Man. Talk to
Boys and Girls on entering School. By John S. Hart,
!LL.D. 18mo. Pamphlet, pp. 24. PriOe 5 center.
An excellent little book for teachers and parents to place
in thelands'of children.
TRACT No. 26.
OUTLIVED -HER USEFULNESS. Pp. 4
SERIES FOR. YOUTH. 181110.:
THE RAILROAD BOY. By Mrs. Sarah A. Myers, author
of "Poor Nicholas." Pp. 180. Three Illustrations
' Price 26 . and de cents.
GRACE ABBOTT; or; Tna SUNDAY TEA-Parry. Pp. 144..
Three Illustrations. Price 25 and 80 cents.
AMY'S NEW HO IE, and Other Stories for Boys and Girls.
Pp. 216. Colored Frontispiece and two illustrations.
Price 4b and 50 cents..
THE YOUNG RECRUIT; or, UNDER Wliloll Rum. By
?dna Sarah A. Myers, author of "Poor Nicholas," &c.
Pp. 218. Three Illustrations. Price 38 and 40 cents.
AUNT BETSY'S RULE, and How it Worked. .Pp. 396.
Four Ilhietratione. Price 50 and 55 cents.-
. .
This is one orthe very best books the Board has pub
'fished, and intended to benefit parents as sc ell as children
A number of others are in course of preparation, and
will be issued shortly.
IN PRESS', AND WILL 22 RE:4IIY POR THE
HOLID'AYS.
DIAMONDS BESET, and MISS SEWSBURY'S LETTERS
TO THE YOUNG. Both beautifully printed on laid
tinted paper, red and gilt edges, level cloth, ayd*iilus•
trated.
Please address orders to
• - WINTHROP SARGIENT,.
Business Correspondent.
Ata- Any of the above sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt
Of the Catalogue price. teb2l-tf
CARBON f IL,
For. Brilliancy 'and Economy,
SURPASSES ALL OTHER ILLUMINATING OHS now in
market. It will biro in" ap 1101 , 68 of coal oh lamps, le per
• redly safe, and free from, all offensive. odor. Mtuinfacture •
and for tale by
W IVIAQIKEOWN
febf.ly tft7 L
"BEIM B sasrr,
. . .
W .D. itt i H. MICA.LLUX,
No. 87 Fourth. Street, Pittsburgh,
Have received their FALL sTCCH of
CARIOETS,
OIL CLOTHS;
DRUCCETS,
SHADES,
and all other goods in their line, which they offer at prices,
much reduced from , those of last
,maigns, having been pur
chased during the late DECLINE at
Loiavest Cash. Rates:
Church Carpets supplied as usual, at matt adiance
on vest. oct2l-2nl".
pnrksitus Eon
FEMALE COLLEGE.
REV. L O. DEEMING, D.D., Parifrum.
Best Sustained College in the State. •
Twenty Teachers. Superb buildings, to which %improve
ments have just been made at a cost of 520,000. Unsur
passed facilities in the OrnaMental branches. Thorough and
extensive course of study.
$45 4 ,00 per. term (14 weeks) pays all expenses in the
boarding department, except washing and fuel. Next term
will commence December 9th. Send to . President Pershi ng
for a Catabigne. ' SLIIPSON, rivet Wailes.
. •
IRON CITY COLLEGE,
Coreer of. Penn . and St. clih. Streets,
Pittsbuvgh, Pa.
The largest, cheapest and most successful BUilniliglS
IHAIOB OULLEGEin the United States: .. .
Stndents can enter and review at any time.
CIROULARS containing foil information. sent to way, ad.
dreps on i
applioatOn to the Prfadpahs,
. .
JENKINS &
tiorig47 lierthivon, pi. •
JOHN D. arconD 9. }r
331 . 11 C" 4C 4ED Mll3lllO 431 E qu o
MANUFACTURERS AND READERS ,"
Ix
Hats, Caps, and Straw Goods,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
1! 1 Wood Street, Pittabor g h
gays now on hand for Spring sales, as large and complat
naillY and Int,
assorbnent of Goods as can be found in any of a wl; '4
. attar,
cities, consisting of
Fur, Si 11 and Wool Bat
quality; GAPS of every
of every style and
fashions; Palm Leaf, Straw, Leghorn, and Panama
Straw, and Silk BONNETS, etc., etc. Persona wiebi l
purchase either by Wholesale or Retail, will find it t o
amol emor „
11F.IDE, OIL AND LEATHER STOR E
H. KIRKPATRICK & SONS,
No. 31 South Third Street,
lisrrwxiste bLessrr 4.IIDCLIESTNT2 ESTEZETS, Pmtesuezi,
Have for Bak
SPANISH AND GREEN SLAUGHTER HIDES, CAL,
TA AND PATNA SIPS, TANNERS' OIL, &0., A T '' ,
THE LOWEST PRICES AND UPON
THE BEST TERMS,
Aar
All kinds of Leather in the rough wanted, for I c y : ,
the highest marke' price will be given in cash, or
exchange for Thum Leather stored free of charge, and
on commission.
Liberal nob Advances made on Leather Como"
to Hs -
GENTLEMEN S CLOTHINi;
FALL AND WINTER.
CLOTHS, OASSINZBES, TEISTINGS, and OVERffitt
DIGS, will be found at
15‘1 1 11MArrAlEgalLiNg
Tailoring Establishment,
NO. 84 WYLIE STREET, PITTSBURGI, pl
$lO LIBRARIES
The American Sunday School Union
FOR DISTRIBUTION.
The so Sunday Schee? Libraries for distribution as
legacy in Will of the late CHARLES BREWER, wiii% e
ready for delivery on and after July 10th, 1800.
The Sunday Schools entitled to these Libraries aro
established in Allegheny County, Pa., 1&7103 March
1860.
Applicants will be required to subscribe to statement t
ki
lugname, location, and date of organization of the a c h e .
name and Post Office address of Superintendent; trot h .:
number of teachers and scholars in attendance, and an
ou nt .
then contributed for support of School.
Reasonable evidence, by amount of contributiona s o d co
erwise, of the permanence of the School Will be require&
Apply to F. R. BATON,
Of ELTON, PtIACEII3I & Co,
Wt.. 11 'Wirth Pt . , PittaVmrit
TIM CONSTITUTION - OF Trig
UNITED STATES,
Union League Pledge,
ra pamphlet form.' price 3 cente. $2.00 per bushel,
Single copies mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price.
Address all orders to
JOHN . P. HUNT, Publisher ,
litramnnin sall, Fifth Stra4.
EME3
DGEHILL SCHOOL,
• PRINCETOY, 5.7.
IFroin their knowledge of Edgehill School, under ths
of the ROT. Mesers. HUGHES and GATTELL, the u n d,,
signed cordially recommend thislnstitntion as worths rft,
confidence and patronage of. parents, who desire ler th..: t
sons a School, where duo attention is paid alike to the moni
and intellectual culture of the pupils.
JOHN 14IACLEAN, President of the College.
STEPHEN ALEXANDER, Prof. of Natural Phileseply
LYMAN. H. AT WATER, Prof. of Moral. Philosophy,
ARNOLD GUYOT, Prof. of Physical Geography.
' O.44USGRAVE GIGER, Professor of Latin.
JOHN T. DUFFIELD, Professor of Mathematics.
J. S. SCHENCK, Professor of Chemistry.
3. H. McILV.AINE, Professor of Rhetoric.
H C. CAMERON, Professer of Greek.
CHARLES HODGE,
A. T. MVILL,
W. HENRY GREEN, Profs in the 'Theological Benno's.
JAMES 0. MOFFAT,
0. W. HODGE,
J. M. AIA.CDONALD, Pastor of First Presbyterian Chinch.
JOSEPH R. MANN, Pastor of Second
For circulars, address either Of the Principals.
REV. JAMES -P. HUGHES, A.M.,
REV. THOMAS W. CAT TELL, A.M.,
suye-ly
Princeton, N. J,
WE INVITE THE ATTENTION OF
WE
the public to the PRITADXLPRIA
- Housekeeping Dry Goods Store
where may be found a -large assortment of all kinds of In,.
Goods, required in furnishing a home, thus rasing
trouble usually qxperiented in hunting such article!, is ss
rives phloem. in consequence of our givin g our attention
this blind of stook, bathe exclusion of dress and fancy good:,
we can guarantee our prices and styles to be the reettfacom
ble in the market.
IN.LINEN GOODS;
we are able to give perfect satisfaction,being the Oldest li•
tallished Linen &ore In the city, anhaving been for more
than twenty years regular importers from some of t tt.it
Manufacturers ln Ireland. We offer, also, a large stock of
FLANNELS AND MUSLIMS,
of. S beat Qualitti' es to be obtained, and at the very toxin
"prim. Also; Blankets, Quilts, Shootings, Makings Damask
Table Cloths, and Napkins, Towelling's, Diapers, Hockabacka
Table and Piano Covers, Damaske and 'Moreau, Lace and
Muslin Curtains, Muskies t Furniture Chintzes, Windex
Sbadingo, &e., &c. JOHN V. COWELL k SON.
S. W. corner of Chestnut and Seventh Sta.,
epSa.tf Philadelphia.
'SAPONIFIER,
OR,
CONCENTRATED LYE
FAMILY SOAP MAKER.
- WAR makes high prime; Saponifier helps to reduce them.
It metres Sear for FOUB, cents apound by using your kitchen
*a.. CAUTION! As spurious Lyes are offered also. ha
nareful and only buy the Paurneren article put up in Inns
cans, all others being Courreararrs.
PENNSYLVANIA SALT MANUFACTURING CO.,
PRILADELPIIIA—No. 127 WALNUT STREET.
PITTEHMEGH—P/TT STRUT AIM D111417E11501 WAY.
aa4s-3m
WIEST- BRANCH - HIGH - SCHOOL
MALB AND .111 MALE.
Duties resumed September Bth, 1862. The memos A
lions for BOARDING PUPILS are equal to any in the 615 e
The onorse of instruction thorough. Pupils received at any
age preparatory to entering the High School classes.
TERMS—for Boarders. $3O per quarter.
For Circulars, address
'P. DONLEAVY LONG, A.M., Principal,
sepl34f Jersey Shore, Lrourius Co., Pa.
FOR SCHOOLS, ACADEMIES, &C.
Songs of Gathering; Songs of Welcome; Songs of Meet
;ing
and of Parting; Songs of Brothers and Sisters and
Rome; Songs of the School-room; Songs of Study; Songs
of Play ; Bongo of the Woods, the Fields, and the Flowers:
Songs of Union; Songs of Freedom and our beloved Father.
land ; Songs of Mxeroise and of various Trades and Occupa
tions; Songs Merry; Songs Serious* ' Songs for the Chapel,
and Songs for the Consort, are to be found in the
ZEZ)V , VDg2. &Crg&D
-BY
GEORGE E. ROOT.
Contains OvOr 200 Ptecee of Music.
Copies mailed on 'receipt of 45 cents,
CHAS. C. HELLOS,
No. Si Wood Street, Pittsburgh
9 '
j D .
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Tea _ Dealer: and Grocer.,
114 EIMITARIELD STURM MUSSES%
Pure Trash Teas, and a general variety of Fine Groceries,at
the lowest Cash prices.
Gkioda carefully packed, and forwarded as desired.
Innl (16.1. y
C. WARRINGTON,
LATE OF For - RTIf STREET.
Would iniite.the attention of the Ladies to his well assorted
stock of BOOTS AND SHOES of him own make, or made to
order; and 8 superior - article in material, workmanship ,
style and finish; warranted not to rip, and to give gene ral
satisfaction, which he offers for sale as low as any Eastern
made shoe in the city.
• T. G. WARRINGTON.
108 Grant street, (opposite the Cathedral,}
sepl6,3m PirtaNtrgh. Pa.
. .
KNABE'S'P.LANOS ARE NOW CON'
..sidereilthe beet Pianos in the world, and are NO
marinated Air eight years. As to the relative merits of the
Knabe Pianos, we would re&r to the certificates of excel lews
in our possession frowThalberg, Gottschalk, Strarkosrh! ii•
Satter, and li. Tienptemps., A call is respectfully gnlicql
before pi:massing elsewhere. Persons at a distance wtil
please send for a circular. -"For sale at factory prices.
HAINES EROS. PIANOS are the beet Pianos in the coun
try at thepriee. GROVESTEEN & CO.'S PIANOS. NI
octave rosewood, fully warranted, for $250. MARSILAIL'
TRATEN'S Parlor Gem PIANOS fur ST2S. , ,
MELODEONS,-the best made. • Prices from $55 to $2.2'
immaarrE ism% 43 Fifth St., Pittsbargh ,
nonv2l.-1Y Sole Agent for above Instruments
JOHN A. RENSHAW,
corner of Liberty and Hand streets,
Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Would Invite the attention of the public to his ermo i "
and varied assortment of
• CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES,
'nes. Sugar Cared Rims,
Dried Beef; }ieh, Cheese, FOrelp
and Domestic Prune, Pickles and Sauces, Havana Cigars,
Fresh Italia and Ve getables, kn., besides a large stock of
H 0 USEKEEPING UTENSILS ,
Such ail, Wood and Willow. Ware, Japanned Tin Ware,
Heinsekesping Hardware, &c.,
WROLERALR AIM RETAIL
dr"' Goode carferdly packed and delivered free of charge
for cartage at any of the Railroad Depots or Steamboa t
Landings. Ciandoguee containing an extended list of foli
skit by mail if desired, and ail orders from a dinette* ol
receive our prompt and earefal attention.
.70BIT A. UNNBILAW.
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