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V ? t V /, , y ; r ~ volumk 11. i.v ' v T \Y I V SI STICKS. % ::o 'v;-. - -v. ? Hours With Men :iti'! Women of ih<> Revolution. ^ -opvri rlitoil, !>'?S8, by Funk A Wa/mtlls. t Y' !l pleasant day in parly March, 1801, I crossed the Hudson Kivor in a small hoat with in o\j)crt oarsman, from the western shore of Tnppnan lhiv to the mouth of the Crdton River. i was then on the quest for materials for lev "Hudson from the Wilderness to tie- . en," first published in the I .on Ion >'t Jouvtml. Wo i i: *. l ^ - i. r , i /i passeo liiiK- sipiaoinns c>r me m>ai'iiice on tlio way, anil tarried a n *> 1 while at ('roton (formerly Teller's) pointV visiliiijr Italian villa and the vineyards of I )i\ * nd'-rY . where hundrdes of tons <"/ In.- vr rapes wore raised every veur. then rowi'd up to ( roton I'av and passed under the drawbridge of the Hudson * River Railway into the month of the ('roton River. We found the .current <?f the stream very rapid, for the tide in the Hudson was ebbinj*. When nearly abreast the \ an t'ortlandt Manor House, the oarsman found it impossible to stem the our- > * rent any longer, and as the water was > too shallow to bear tlie boat to' the rij^lit bank, as I desired. 1 was landed on the rue^ed left bank. 1 clambered up the acclivity alon<^ the margin of a little brook, cheered ^ bv 1110 notes of (to me) the first bluebird of the sea on,'perched on a spray overhead. Following the post-road that skirted the elevated shore of the stream, ! reached the rieke'y uhi<di ... ,. . .. i nriug."?the iurnous"t roton I fridge ! of Revolutionary times -at or near sunset. It was a picturesque struct, lire, spanning rocky gorge, through : which the Croon Riwr was running! I rapidly. Near the bridge I obtained j a charming view of the mouth of the j Croton, with Dover Kill Island near, j the broad 'I'appaau Bay and the blue hills in the distance beyond. After making a sketch of the old bridgo 1 strolled down the road on the high light bank of the L'roton, as1 t it sloped toward tho Hudson, and reached 'the Van Cortlandt Manor i i House at twilight. At its entrance gate i mot Colonel I'icrre Kan t'ortlandt, the proprietor of the estate, and < eccptod his cordial invitation to pass the night under his roof. J was i :.. 11.. i ii * * * - KlllUiy WClCOIlied l>v -HI'S. > Jill v ort landt, ?a daughter of tho eminent Professor T. Romeyn Boek, of Albany. .The house* yet presorvod in its ancient aspec., :s near the shore of what was one* the toper part, of the beautiful , Croton Ba>, in which vessels of considerable si/.e often anchored, and which was also the resort of vast flocks of wild ducks and shoals of shad. Karl^ i.. PHI heavy rains and inciting s(l >ws caused the sweeping away of ti great Proton Bum, and an iminensc volume of water released rushed river ward, carrying nfitfh it loosened earth sufficient V e ^ to half fill Croton Bay and convert :? - ~i.~n unveil <-'i n a miiiiiow Ma't'llll. fho Van Cortlundt Manor House was erected at tlio bojnunini'' of the O O last century by .lohn Van Cortlundt, son of Stephen Van Cortlandt, the first proprietor of the cutout domain, whoso, father, OlofT Stevens \ an Cortlundt, was a linial descendant of the Dukes of Courland, in Kussia. His ancestors, when deprived of them duchy, emigrated to IJouand, v.heneo Orloll came to New Netherlands in 1080, in the service cf the Dutch West India Company. The family name was Stevens or Stevenssen, that of Van Cortlnndt being only titular. The family became allied bv i marriage, in time, with the Van Uonsselaers, the Schuylors, the Bayurc|s, the Do I'oystera, the Living-; stoiw, and othc leading families in; the province and State. The Manor Ilouse was built of heavy stone, and the thick walls of: the basement story wore pierced with loopholes for the use of musketry, in defence. These still remain. The mansion commands, from its i>road piazza in front, an extensive view to the southwest of Tnppaan Hay and the rugged hills beyond. Itissheltored on the north by a high hill covered with sturdy forest trees. At the time of my visit there was j a broad lawn at the front, and a path , led through the oid garden to the ancient ferry-house, a building occu-1 pied during the Revolution as a' "BE TL JErSTTZE ; n< >is r <> > . i :?i it < c. i .a. itoOKitn, i * it i > 11 m 11 <* i*. \ i^uard-hoiise. Tito Baron <lo Kalb was stationed there in ITTH, and in tin* wintsr of 1782 a detachment of Now York levies, havintr just returned there from a scout to Morrisana, u-nxu .. K !..? ?.1 <>b .. wu.,1 r tl.O I.-. ry-house l>\ some of the oiioiny's cavalry. Olio of the 'ontinentals" \v;is killed; the romainder esettpod on the ice. The broad entrance hall of the mansion was adorned by the horns of stately sta^s, killed on the manoi when wild deer roamed over the domain. The rooms were enriched with nuuy family portraits, anei"nt audi modern, and other \vorks of art; and the library displayed many precious mementoes of the colonial and Revolutionary period*.suf'fieiet t to hold the attention of the enriou antiquary for days. ()n t' o nomine* after inv arrivnl at , t \ i -i * - * * - - me .uiinur iiouso .Mrs. \ :im I ortlamlt invitoil inn to visit aged twin-sisters living at tho village of Proton, about two mill's up '.ho rivor. She kindly accompanied mo to introduce me to the nonagenarians tho were over ninety years of ago. ()n the way wo drove into the beautifully situated cemetery of the Vim Portland!. family, on tho summit of a hill west of the mansion. It commanded an extensive view of the Hudson southward, with the 'entire range of tho Palisades from Piormont to Hoboken. \t a little west of the cemetery, at tin? neck which connects Croton Point with the main land, is the^site of the old fort or cattle of A itrh-a icitn (the original name of the Croton 1 liver) was pointed out. It is said to have be^n the oldest Indian fort south of the Highlands. It was built by the Saciiom Proton, and there he gathered his parties for hunting or for war. At a little oast of the sit<> of the fori wo came to A'ifc/t-it-n'a/t burviii<r PTound, in a beautiful nook at the entrance to "flaunted Hollow,'' concerning which old superstitions supplied many weird stories of early times. The people believed that they saw in the eroves and olcns the forms of the departed rod-mtfn whom they called the Walkino" Sachems of J Teller's Point. < )nly one of the twin sisters could be seen- -Mrs. Miriam Williams the other, Mrs. Kuuico McGord, !* ing too feeblo in mind and body to receive visitors. Their maiden name was Teller, and they had long been widows. Tliey were descendants of Andrew Teller, who in 1(571 married a daughter of ( >lofF Stevenson Van Cortlandt, at d a sistt r of the first proprietor of tlv \'an ( ortlandt Manor. "Teller's Point" received its name from a descendant of his who occupied it. The memory of Mrs. Williams seemed to be but very little impaired by age, ihe reecollections of her childhood and early womanhood being1 very vivid. She well remembered incidents connected with the encampment of tiie American urmv it Yerplunck's Point, in the fall of 1182. She and her sister were then twelve years of age. She remembered seeing Washington ride up to the gato in front of their house one day, with only a single attendant, dismount and ask her father, who was Standing near, for some food, as ho had been detained on busines below. The twins were standing at the chair as the General entered the house, and placing his hands on their heads said: "You look as much alike as two eggs; may you have long,life." "The wish of the great man lias been granted," said Mfs? Williams. ' for wo have lived Jonir. We were o ninety years old l i-l August. Wo had ve;fy liti'e in the house at. that time wherewith to entertain such a guest. My mother could set upon the little table only some old ham, fresh rye bread, sweet butter, a bit of choose and some cold water. Wo children were peeping through the open door into the room, and I remember as well as if it happened yesterday .eeing General Washington, before sitting down to partake of the simple meal, placo one band on the table and closing bis eyes ask a blessing. Father, meanwhile, stood with his head uncovered in the furthon part of the room. And here," said Mrs. Williams, "is the voiy tublo at which General .Washington stood v K-u vCVv 3 TO -2"?-CTI3 "V\7"CTSX i. C0N1V and asked a blessing," pointing to small oval table standing near nor'. "You seem to have much bodil strength and good health," 1 remark fed, uf<?r a woman so old." "Yv s," she answered: "sister and have never had any dangerous sick ness. We were married when w wt:nT <puie >uun;^; nuve i;nviiys live prudent and* generally happy lives ill ways had plenty of sloop, and wer no gadabouts as most women ar t:o\vada\ s! Why. you'll hardly la: liovo mo when I toll you that noithc of us was ovfr moro than live or si niiloji fr.?in *a !!#?.* <? we woro born. Tit Tollers are a strong-bodied ant1 lon? lived people." The story related to mo a ho hot rs itor was .a conlirmation of th niMiranoe ,It. t the Tellers possosso er.'dt '?od Iv vie-or. "l>o you remember the Krone army encamping near hero the sain fiiW when you saw ( 'euoral ashine ten?" I ltiouirod. u( )h, yes," she said. "Thoy oau from the south. They crossed t river at Kine's Forrv, and all man r. ed hy our house. They encamped Cromford, helow here. 1 rotncml how afraid and vet deliohted sist< ? n * and I were as we watched them fror our window as they passed by W never saw so many soldiers, nor sue iditlerinrr uniforms as some of th ; ?> m oflicors wore; and wo never hoan such drums bent. We were bowil dered with the show, and dreamed c it many ni-dits afterward." J r> I said farewell to the venernbl woman on whose head the hand < Washington had been laid, at d t whom kind words had 1 m utlere hy his lips. \t her carriage in fron oT Mrs. Williams's house I parte company with Mrs. Van t .tjtland and .soon afterward rode to the hofts of a friend about two miles furtlie north. With a i eiehhur of his w climbed to the top of Prickly Pen Jlill, the sununit of wnich, live hun died feet above the river, was quit thickly strewn in some places with ppecies t>1 cactus bcurinir thut nana from which the eminence derived ii titled. From that elevation we obtained most extensive view of the lowi Hudson and its shores, and a clustc of localities of the most stirrin events of the old War for Indepent enco. That pinnacle Washingto i made his chief point of obsorvatio while the American army was et i camped near, in the fall of 178' '! I.f?m \v tKitllurton niwl 1.1 ?- olVinnr ... . . .. m.-.k M - l< >i| IIIIM I t I ."> *'UIV;V I ii ami Roohambeau and his French oil eors had viewed the scenery togetI er wilii proband admiration. A or.o sweep of the vision might h seen the loftv cruras of tlie Higl lands and the Pishkill Mountuii ; str. iv. :.i.?g erstward, with all tIks ii U naming < o intrv adjacent, to Pool skdi, vOrplrnck's Point and Ston Point, tho theatres of important mil tarv events during the War of lli Revolution, dio.i drawing to a clos< P. fore them was Havorstraw, net which Arnold and Andre complottcc Teller's Point, off which tiio Vultui lay when Andre went to meet Ai j nold, and from which she received caiinonadini' that drove her down tli O river; Kino's Ferry, where the Atne; ican armies crossed and recrossed tli : Hudson and Andre made his way t the eastern shore; Tarry town, whei he was captured, ami Long Wharf i Piermont, near Tnppnan, where i was executed. All tlicse, with il villages on the eastern bank of tl Hudson from Crui/or's* to Yor O Island, might be soon. As we were looking at Teller Point, projecting far toward tli western shoro of tho Hudson, I r< marked that 1 hud a most interestin interviow at Croton that mornin with a member of tho Toiler iamib a woman ninety years of age an possessed of exceedingly'groat phyi iinil viimr PS""' "Ono of the twin sisters?" said on of tl)6 gonntlonion. "1 nover kno a Toiler who was not possessed of a ftbundanco of bono and sine.v. Ma\ you over heard the styry of a Fisl j kill bully who encountered a yolin daughter of a roller living i , th : neighborhood?" n "J have not." "Oh, you must hear it. That To lor had two buxom daughters, a litt I more than twenty years of age. I is said that either of them could li Mmb Mm. ' iiifimi wk . * . tl 0 1ST ID TOUR WCR \\\ S. THURSDAY u a barrel of cider. Their father wasl noted for grent strength and also for y wrestling and pugilistic skill. One ; day at the close- of tlio Revolution a large, rough-looking man oamototho 1 ' door of Teller's housed--an old-fashionod double door- -and loaning on * o the under one, the upper ono being d f open, asked one oF the daughters < vtlllllll, III il lllUO IIKIMIKT, e "'Is Hill Tailor homo?' o " 'My father is not at homo,' au* >- swerod the j*irl. 'What do you want r of him? 1 attend to his business x when ho is awn v." o " 'Vou can't 'tend to "t this time, - unvlutw. Nobody hut Hill Tailor himself can,' said the ?n,uit man. x " 'Come in and toll mo what, your o business is,' said the tfirl, as she D 7 il opened t'"* (loer. i. j. th/; ',l Vt ir and she closed 11 if, COr<a cheat ,l10 "lTur tloor ? ' , 1 .'y<l:ty oecui ne.^V \f~ |' ,'ou'nd the nei?rhborv\ I he daughter, souse or tho stochj^^ ^,am' se0 ' tell ye/ growlWe Tuttlo of of, .. V?\ UP tll0r0, I \J ^ie. 'Fhoy , Yyposs rustler i&o down to Jrastler.' Pi business you : Ld girl, ll cun r ' nd seizing the j and the seat irew him over 5 botore it. ? limself up, and , nt a few mom- j <> on1' ' ' 1 *o'h JSTm \\ is .standing in i! tin*, h arms u-kimbo and i sini 1 i11 placidly, he sneaked oft with- j il out u U'rue a word. . s l, i u 'Any more business to be at *,d- i j- oil to?' asked the girl in a provoking r ly pleasant ^'oioe. The man was ioo e | crestfallen to tarry a moment, lie ir i joined some companions at the river, - I who wore waiting for him to return e with Toller and give them the excite- ! a inont of a tussle. i, " 'J )id you see TollorF asked one s i of the company.' " 'N'tw, 1 didn't,'said tlio follow, :i in a tono of supremo disgust; 4l see r one of old 'Pallor's ijals, and that's . >r all 1 want to know.''" Jf ! UliNSON .) . LoSSINO, LL. I >. i lie Holds the Fence. n n . ' A 1 )otroitor, purchased a piece of! , land in the west end of the county. J After the purchase had been completed he on^aged a surveyor's sor- j vices to see if he had boon cheated. The discovery was made that a line-' ^ i , * ! icnce was over on ins land oi^ht o I. , * j inches. When he wont to the own-1 ; er of the adjoining property with 1 lie j the statement the man renlied: i-1 * "Stranger, tho row about that fence began twenty-eight years ago. y It was then live feet over the lino, i-1 and the two men lit and lit until one! ,0 was killed and tho other crippled. After awhile it was moved a foot, and then two other owners lit and lit tin- | til tho lawyers got tho two farms, j 1; The fence was then moved another) e j foot, and the two new owners spent j half the.year in jawing each other ! ai." ?i?x. other half in lawingr One il ' died and tho other sold out on a 10 mortgage, and when I got this farm i'-1 the fenco was moved another foot. io Then 1 lit and lit, and two years ago () was kicked in the ribs and laid up fori I three months. I 'wring that time the! .(A n fence was moved to tho present line. I i So it's still on your land?" ^ 10 ?s.": le i ' 'Welfc, I "spose the proper.thing is i j row. If vou'll go out by tho barn ' with voir revolver I'll come out and ^ hunt for v on with tho shotgun. If I you git the Irop on mo don't le.t go, 's | hocaui o . sbtll shoot to kill." It i I. Detroiter some timo to convince h<* farmer that he didn't care for eight inches of land, anil " that h wouldn't have the fence niov-j g ed for v >d, and when he had succeed-< v,! cd tho old man drew a lon</ breath of! ' ' I 1 0 (] relief ami replied: "That's kind 'o you, and it leaves my hoys a chance to fit and fit after i Pm ^one. I liopo you aint coming out here to live alongside o' mo?" wj "No." ,, "Glad on't. #lf you please, git. j some man who'll want them other' 0 eight inches. The hoys and I is; ' lonesome for excitement."- -Detroit g Free /'ecus. is * ? Who says that advertising does j not pay? A Chicago burglar ovorj looked $80 in a bureau drawer, and 1 the papers so announced. Ho returned the next night and not only If secured it, but a suit of clothes beft sides.?j\. )'. (trophic. \ V ZK: itoxjk OO* MAY 31, 1888* THIS SUNDAV SCHOOL. Founded in 17HJ l?y a Printer of Gloucestershire. Sunday schools were founded about tho close of the vear 17S1 by Robert Raikes, a printer in (iloucestorshiro. Business leading hiin into the suburbs of the town inhabited by the lowest class* of people, lje was surprised by seeing multitudes of miserably mooed children, who made the Sabbath day a carnival of noise and ru^t, in which eursino and swearing had a Ir.ree part. To check III is profanation of the Lord's day he enoaoed four women, teachers of week day schools, to instruct such children as ho should send mom on ine Muulav in reading ami the church catechism, for which they were to receive one shilling each. A visible improvement, being effected in a short time, both in the manners and morals of the children. Mr. IJaikcs* scheme attracted general attention. Her majesty <v>ucen Charlotte admitted him to an audionce, and expressed high approbation of his plan. Numerous schools formed on the same model sprang up in the principal towns, and a society, under high DRtronage *|wns formed in London in 1785 for the establishment and support of Sunday schools throughout the kingdom. This was the first stage of the Sunday school. G11 ATI' 1 i'Ol'S I NSTUrCTlO Y. A great impediment to prosperity was the expense of hiring the teach1 O ers. It is not certain who fir i. conceive.I the id *r of gratuilious in-truetion, but this in time came about, and the result was that by the year 1800 tonrhn .r ic tl.o Sunday school was almost universally without rouuinorat ion. In 1808 the Sunday School union was formed, which, hv its numerous publication, agents and branch so '..-ties in tho different parts of the kingdom, exercised a wild influence. O 7 The Institute of the Church of Knjrland, wlTfch operated in a like manner, is of a similar date. Scotland boasts of Sunday schools as early as 1782. Hut it was not tdl 1780, when the Society for Promutiny Jieligious Knowledge aniotip the Poor was formed, that they were publicly recognized, n ? until 1707, when the first Freo Sunday School socioty was organized, that free Sun1.... iii ? uuy senooi oecamo general. At first these met with considerable opposition from portions of the ecclesiastical court, but tnis soon vanished, and Sunday school unions existed in most of the 1 argo towns. Sunday schools in Ireland had been in a measure anticipated in County Down in 1770, but the sysJ ' w torn pursued by Mr. U&ikcs was not adopted till about 178b, since which date its system has been similar to that of England. In Ireland tho Sunday School society was established in 1809. The Human Catholics, in the United Kingdom at least, have numerous Sunday schools. I UK IIKS'I IN A M Kit If A. The First. Day or Sunday School society, formed in Philadelphia in 1791, is the first pormanent Sunday school organization in the United o States of ,"1 deli there is trust worthy record, it was composed of members of different denominations, including the Society of Friends. Its constitution required that reading and writing from tho Bible and such other religion- and moral books as the society approved should furnish t.ie coaj.-.o of in- traction. Tho Now York Sunday S hoot' union was organized in 1810, the Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School union one year later. These three societies recognized the union of different denominations, and led to tho organization of tho American Sunday School union at Philadelphia in 1824. Tho object of this union was to concentrate tho efforts of Sunday schnol societies in different sections of the Unitod States, and to start schools wherever there were children found in sufficient numbers to attend them. It naturally camo# about that as new states wore settled and the various denominations were strengthened, increased attention was given by each to its own Sunday schools 1 crisrTiF^r." ' HI .ttO I'rr A i i u i)i. ami denominational unions to promote these weio formed. As years 1 t?assi 1 the (inestion book \vn add? d to the orijrinal recitation, and at length in a f^reat decree superseded it. Later on came lessons, helps, texts, maps, black-board exercises, etc. In the earlier schools reward tickets were jjpven, and when these had sufficiently accumulated they were exchanged for hooks. This stimulated the production of works of a character suitable to young minds, and from this has boon developed the Sunday school library. Tlint Noble Allium), Man. Dearly beloved, itjs natural for ' weak, finite man to turn to the , clown for funny things, but really some of the funniest things you read falls from the pen of the wiso man. Now read this I don't know who wrote it. I lin<l it in a "rcligiophilosophical" paper, hut ?f it doesn't make von smile yon are devoid of j the sixth souse: "When one C(t ^ in sight of the nohler side ofhumar:*' ?' ty it is no linger a surprise thnt**Christ suffered martv-doni for the race." Now, it, was a man who l wrote that; no woman ever said such a thing; it was a man, and if the in a a goes to lleavon lie will 'he l?it' terly disappointed if a delegation of angel and all the apostles do not meet him ten miles outside the gate with an address of welcome and the I freedom of tho city in a gold box. j I We are a nice set of fellows for a j God to suffer martyrdom for. Says this same complacent man: "Until; . beings are .ill right; we are; simply darkened hv the shadow of a social systoie that offers a premium upon our worst traits, and deliberately crushes tho nobler part of us."' : < )h, yes, we are all right aren't we? Wo are naturally, Jpreternaturallv, supornaturally, angelically good, hut the shadow of a social system "offers promiuns" and "crumies" us; a right healthy "shadow" that combines the functions of a country fair j and a stono-breakor. I low 'good wo ; are le nature. You hnvo to teach tlio lisping child his prayers, but ho learns to lie naturally at, home, and learns to swear the first day ho goes to school, lie hates his lessons and loves to lish. Ho plays "hookey" and runs away from Sunday-school, even as he runs to the circus. The man forgets the text before the sermon is half through, n.nd ho forgets the sermon next day but he remembers every word of a vile story fifty years. lie growls flbftllt flirt ivntnr i"n)n ). >? ...... t j %..W uuo jmjra IUI' his whiskey without a murmur. The State hus to keep tip whipping-posts to keep him from heating his wife; it maintains almhouses ftjr liis neglected paronts and 'asylums for his abandoned children; it build jails to keep him from stealing, penitentiary to keep hitn honest, gallows to keep him from murdering, and but for tho terror of hell lire bo wouldn't try to i * go to Heaven. Oh, yes}> man, gen- i I orally considered, is a sweet b'ird, 1 and when wo come to look at it, tiio ! race conferred an undying honor j ' upon its Savior in permitting Ilirn i to become a martyr for a crowd of ? j such exalted beings. All that ails j lis is tho "shadow of a social system" 1 that we--by tho way, who establish' j od that social system- the at.gels, or | ! these magnificent "human beings" n n 1 with a trunk full of "nobler part?1'?I Ji../. One Monl 11 l>?iy. Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, is l vi; ing iii B1Uheart. Ho now re- i side; in New Mexico, \\4iero ho has a ranch of fifteen hundred acres, ami is interesting himself in a foil lulling as- i social ion, to bo conducted on vejretn- ! rian principal, and a part of his mis- . sion to Indiatma is to secure forty in- I fants. The Doctor is surgeon for the 1 association, and ho expects to secure the children in Elkhart and surronn- | ding cities. He lives on one meal a day, breakfast The fou Ming homo is an experiment intended to deinoni strftto that the baser passion arc ( aroused principally by tho use of animal food. Ho expects to make good children as well as long lived ' ones by feeding them one meal a day of a light vegetarian diot. At tho club J oil oh? Look at Hrown over there in the cornor. Smith?Yes; buried in thought. Jones?Mighty shallow grave, ain't i it? NUMBER Hi<'IIIIdr??ii atul Moiicj. Somninglv children art- trained in all branches of education but this; yet from earliest childhood thoy should ho taught to value money, not only as a power to bo duly respected, but that its consolation is a positive duty, in order not only to provide for old noc and as one of I O the grout motive powers of advancement and civilization. homo may say thov do not euro for monov, vet as a wiso woman said: "Oh no, thov <lo not care for monov but thoy want very badly what money will brinir." I know of several v n families who, with tho means of starting well in life, with intelligence, ami advantageous surroundiurrs, are D P 1 now drifting into absolute poverty for want of this early training. In one instanco old a^e is harassed and weighed down l>y the aspects cf the "wolf at tho door," which, with an early training of the fine talents nossesvod. would have* -kept him .'or* K"rr at buy. ^n another, oarents in their old 7 \ . i i r i i ' ? I y " 1 10 icave :> toveiv co'.Wtry home, and weat [to join tho striiL^j^linif liuntlr'.u'in a neighboring city with a half dozen children iis untrained as thems dve . N *t (mining in the saving and oxnonditure of money would have kept them l>v industry comfortable and thriftv. Tho persons occupying tho farm previous to this family supported euito a largo family and made enough money besides to buy another farm. As an fnstancc of what can be done we will draw from the expo* ionce of another family. While very small tho mother tauglu her children to count by usir.fr articles about the homo, such as table and chair legs, windows, doors, and so on. IW this menus they very soon learned the rudiments of arithmetic. As soon as possible they were sent t>n errand*, and to market, and taught to look sharp after the value received for money, had to bo exact ifc counting the change so as to have justice for both parties, and if anything was wrong they wero sont to rectify it, and wero made to tako tin- responsibility. They also had tasks about tho liouso, and understood that they wore to attond to thom without their attention bointf called to tho- duties. They wore kept busy, and formed habits of industry, and growup to bo excellent business men, and at an early ago had tho offer of several advantageous situations. Two boys ol the same family, wore each given a child's bank of metal and an account book. in their own hand-writing they entered in tho nooK Hi 1 the sinus of money tliev received as gifts, or which tliev earned by extra work, cte. The money received was divided into three parts, but into several receptacles, and lodged in the bank. ()no portion was to bo saved, the next reserve for gifts or charity, and the last they were to expend as tliev pleased, with the exception of a restriction as to candy and cakes. IJoth these boys wore cneourag'd to take pleasure in some 'natural taste fur mineralogy stamp-collecting. etc. Such tastes arc strong protootii ns to boys, and they gain valuable knowledge with the habit of research. Parents should show respect for si.oh occupations, and the continued effort "re quired to follow them thoroughly, which should bo insisted upon as a matter of education, and as forming property in the form of valuable knowledge, that always has its use if only in elevating the taste. In another case young lady teacher, whose father being one of the enlightened kind taught his r> r> daughter how to transact various r> kinds of business, how to value and purchase property, etc., became so proficient in all such mutters that in the savings of some years she at different times made advantageous purchases of small properties, 'in* rents of which would have, snpnorc.ed her had her health of powers failed, as they did in after years through deafness. How much mote real love of his children had such a father than one who says: H)h! lot them enjoy thomsolves while 'hey are young," and then sends them forth totally unfit for tho contests of life and labor! /V< '