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-A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agrculture$arkets &e NatXK. <Y~ .. WEDNESDAY MORNIN, APRIL 15, 1874. No. 15 THEH HE RALD IS PUBLISHED IY-WEDNESDAY XOlMWXGl -~Editor imdProprietor. luvarlablY in ldvane-. Z7 The M vwk denotes eXptmtiOnou old Sweyn, the SAX011, Brave. hardy l-M. U01te, or7 tb* qbws~; tma)9O~ clal, 0' th kelr hpads in tierK, nor b1e jean. Or"" A t"ey.rouad -the fu"Of CiN~aseubowSifid of bown; M by the rev'rence, dw frMb ild to tire,_ Working their awks o'er huntsmlus- fbmct te w avA %w aSone;mey Td #d Tohad known; As*auzold tree 4", Imutest branches shake. * wil take. ? . I)1IU~'had done, AlV.md, thea Dif laid his spear aside. aud.tan theirtVJ&gott Z * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ p was t~rieCDWO~Otlk. lAt us to co 0"eyul had raised his MBo,at pali-mnedJixr?" ex elaimed Logan, in uncoritrollable gissio4, ddWibg bach his hand,and maing,avttion ~ if .be were ab6ut to slap the other in the face. The eyes of Wilson quailed not, nor was the smallest quiver of a muscle perceptible. From sonie cafiethe eourse of-Logan was not 4ifebuted. Instead of giving a blow, he assailed his autagonist with words otdeeper insult, seek ing thus to-provoke an assaulL --But Wilson was notrto be drives from the-citadel in.which he had en trenthdneslf9 am sepansarjwell," he said. "I would rather be a co-.v i, i&an y adJuiolence on him whom I once called friend." At this moment light .girlith laughter- and the ring of merry voices reach t;he ears dTour excited ong-:erg, sadtheb'ri!.tion of antagonism at once chaagqd. Lo gan *alked away in the direction rom which the voicescame, while the other two remained where they had been standing. ":W4y didn't you knock him do'u T" said the companion of' Wilson. The lator, whose faee *ias now rey sober and very pate, shook' is heid slowly. made no Ythir response. Z&'believe you are a eoward!"I mxclaimed the other, impatiently;, ird turaing off, Ie wentin the di-', ection taken by Logani. Theomen16 Wilson was alone i e sea~~i _e' on 6r ifie ground, oppeaad from-44e ,arty, .hose I NA d w telrupted Ai4m, y - i gr"e ,ok-n4 ee ing kir&Ce 1 ;Nt'R 6i4,14W, -satni4iioe for. I everal minutes. How much bel s0f4i itesee oT time M, it 4d describc. -trJjrtli his indig ,nt 1 - UPS"1'be1 verjr -'stitre. ~e nr jogg inha Whatj as right aAkuxane he was ev r ready to do, even at the risk t6 i irgf..of both hysicatnd men. wasr g ieay e nscious I wasshe of t-his." Yet te conseionsr less did not and equid'not protect ls fel . unjust and tinging- ib tdbiowardiee so nbdright againgthimn In i iiette reasons he felt ~uiinated ;-and there were mo seA wheni-he half regretted the orenrance that saved the inso' (it Lo an from punishment.-I Ihey'~ BAnini iN of weak-1 mesa; dab the .atrengh ofa manly.a haracter he was quickly himself Thb occasion of this misunder stading, -is briefly told. WilI ,otnade-one-of a little pleasure party for a neighboring village, haas spending an afternoon inj y shay retreat-on the banks of aI rt1 streani There were three or four foung mea and haif a doz wuaidens; and, se it -happens bn saheeasions, some rivalries were ecited among the former. These shuaddsonly have added piquancy to the rierry iterecotfrse..of all aties.and would, have done so, bad not the impatient tempera merit of Logan carried him a little beyowfd agood feelibg and a gene. ros deportment- toward others. Without due refteckion, yet in noi sacastic spirit, Edward Wilsone made a remark on some act of Lo dan thatinrsitated him exceeding An. angry spot burned instantly on his cheek, adhgreplied with words of'eutting insult ; so cutting that all present .expected nothing ld ir blefrwTor Wilson as his aswer ato the remnarkc And to da! It dlow das hiis fli-st im pulse; and it required moQrecour age to do this than to have strick en the insolent young man to the ground. A moment'or two Wil sQD. 'struggled with himself, anel then turned off and marched slow ly away. His flushed and then paling face, his quivering lips and unsteady eyes, left on the minds ot all who witnessed tbe scene an impression somewhat unfa&vorable. Partak ig of the indignant excitement of the moment, 'many of those pre sent looked for the instant punish. ment for his unjustifiable insul. When therefore, they saw Wilson turn away .without. even a defiarnt answer ; and heard the low, sneer igly uttered word, "Coward !" from the lips of Logan, they felt that there was a craven spirit about the young man. A cow~ard we instinctively despise ; and yet, how slow we are-to elevate that higher moral courage which ena bles a man to brave unjust judg ment, rather than to do what he thiks to be wrong,above the mere instinct whieb, in the moment of excitement, forgets all physical consequence. As Edward Wilson walked away fr'm his companions he felt that beW regadd a a coward. This was for him a bitter trial, and the more so. because there was one in that little group of startled aid ens for whose generous regard he would have sacrificed all but hon. or. It was, perhaps, half an hour after this unPleasant occurrence, that Logan, whose heart still burned with an unforgiving spirit, encountered Wilson under cirbum stances that left him free to re peat his insulting language, with out disturbiag thereetof the pArty, who were amusing themselves at some, distaneo, and. beyond.- the range-of observution. He did not saceeed .in-obtaining a personal encounter,.as he had desired. Edward. Wilson had been for Rome tiine sitting alone with his unhappy thoughts, when he was roused by sudden cries of alarm, Lhe - tone of which told his heart Loo plainy that some imminent langer impended. Springing to is feet he ran in the direction of the cries, and quickly- saw the a u se. of- excitement.. Recent 'eavy rains had swollen- the moun ain stream, the turbid waters of xhich were sweeping down with preat velocity. Two young girls, vho had been amusing themselves l~soie'distance above in a boat hat was attached to the shore by longrope; bad, through sotie ae :dent, got the fastening loose, and vere now, gliding. down, far out in ,beurrent,with a fearfully indreas og speed, toward the breast of a nill-dam s6me hundreds of yards )elow, from which the water was mandering- down a height of over wenty. feet. Pale with terror, he poor young creatures were traetehing out their iands toWArd Ireir companions on the. shore, Lad uttering heart-rending cries Frsnecor. Instant oction was necessary, or &Il would be, lost. .Theposition of he young girls had been discover d while they were. ,y.et some dis Eince abo.ve, and there happening to be another boat on the milidam, ind that nigh at hand, L6gan-and 1.o otler young~ men had loosed t from the shore. But, the dan ~er of being carrned over the dam, ,hould any one venture out in this >at, seemed:so inevitable, that ioeof them dared to encounter razard. .-Now .reaming a nd sringing their hands, and now irging these men to try and save sheir companions, stood the younig naidens of the party on the shore, when Wilson dashed through them, ad springing into' the boat, cried' >ut: "Quick, Logan ! Take an oar, or ll is lost." But,4 instead of this,-Logan step ped back a-pace or two from the boat, while his face grew pale with ear. Not. ao .instant more was wasted. At a glance Wilson saw that if the girls were saved it must be by the sta'ength of his own srm. Brav,ely he,pushed from the shore, and, with giant strength, born of the moment~ and for the easion, from his high, unselfish purpose, be-dashed the boat out iniiha.arran, -and,-beodingsto the~ ear,took tiectioa at an angle with the other boat, toward th dkWe the Water vas edpi ot'eY th~e dadn: At ev ry stroke the light skiff sprong forward a dozen feet, and scarcely half a minute e pad ere Wilson was beside the Sther bat. Bothiwere wMbithTu twenty yards of the fall, and the water 'iringtheiB^ down with a veloci ty that a strong rower, with every advantaie on his side, could scarce ly bave contended against success fully. To transfer the frightened girls from one boat to the other, in the'few n ments of time left ere the down-sweepng current would bear their frail vessel to tbe edge of the dain, and still to retain an advantage, was for Wilson, im possible. To let his own boat go and manage theirs he saw to be equally impossible. A cry of despair reached the young man's ears as the oars drop. pd from his grasp into the water. It was evident to the spectators of the fearful scene that ho had lost his presence of mind, and that now all was over. Not so, however. In the next instant he had sprung into the wvater, which, near the breast ofT the damn, wvas not more than two feet deep. :As ho did so e grasped the other boat, and bracing himself firmly against the rushing current, held it poised a few yards from the point where the foam-crested waters leaped in to the whirlpool below. At the same instant. his own boat shot like an arrow over the dam. He had gained, however, but a small advantage. It required his utmost strength to keep the boat he had grasped from dragging him down the fall. The qui.kly formed purpose of Wilson, in thus springing into th water, had been to drag the boa against the current. If hewer to let the boat go he could easil: save himself. But not once di( such a thought. enter his owi heart. "Lie down close to the bottom, he said, in a quick, hoarse voice. The terror-stricken girls obeye< the injunction instantly. And now, with a coolness thai was wonderful uider all cireum stances, Wilson moved the boal several yards away from the near est shore, until he reached a poinli where he knew the water belou the dam to be more expanded and free from rocks. Then throwinM his body suddenly against the boat and running along' until he wai within a few feet of the dam, he sprang into it and passed over witb it. A moment or two the light vessel, as it shot out into the air stood poised, and then went plung. ing down, The fearful plunge was made in safety. The boat struck the seetli. ing waters blow, and glanced oul rrom the whirliool, bearing its liv. ing freight uninjured. "Which was the coward ?" The words reached the ears of Logan, as he gathered with the rest oJ tbe eompany, around Wilson, and Lhe pale, trembling girls he had so heroically saved. Fair lips asked the question. One maiden had ;poken to another, and-in a louder roide than was intended. "Not Edward Wilson," said Io. Yan, as he stepped. forward and grasped.the hand of him he had so wronged and insulted. "Not Ed ward Wilson I He is the noblest ind the bravest!" Wilson made an effort to.reply. But he was for some moments too much excited and exhausted to peak. At last he said, "Ionly did w hat *as riht. May [ever have courage 'for that while L live." Afterward he renarked, when alone with Logan: "It. req;ired a. far greater exer aise of courage. to forbeartwben you. provoked. and. issultedme, in he presence of those whd eypeet. d retaliation, 'Thari it did~ to risk my life at the milidain." There is a moral heroism that rw can appreciate. And ita .ill sually be found, that the morally brave man is quickest to:lose the sense of personal danger.-when oth rs are in peril. In the Ile'.of Man, as I wras one iay walking on~ the seashore, I remember comtemplating w.i & h thriling interest an old, gray, ru ined tower, covered with ivy. rhere was a remarkable history sonnected with the spot. .In that ower was formerly hanged one af the best Governors the island ever possessed. He. had been ae esed of treachery to the kiog uring the time of the civil wars, and received sentence of death. [tercession was made on his be af, and a pardon was 'sent, but that fell into the bands of his bit. er enemy, who kept it locked up. and the governor was hanged. His name is still honored by the many, and you may often~ here a pathetic ballad sung to his mem ry, to the musics of the spinning. wheel. We must feel horror-struck al the fearful turpitude of that mari who, having the pardon for his fellow-creature in his possession could keep it back, and let bin die the death of a traitor. But let s restrain our indignation till we ask ourselves whether God mighi point his finger to most of us, anc say thou art the man. Thou basi a pardon in thine hands to sav( thy fellow-creature, not from tem p'ral, but from eternal death. Thou hast a pardon suited to all sent to all, designated for all. Thou bast enjoyed it thyself, bul hast thou not kept it back fron thy brother, instead of sending i to the ends of the earth ?"-EugJ Sowell. Talk about men losing theil senses when they are drunk ; it ii not always the case, for some men are all the sharper when they are atbout so full. A man by th4 name of IIanafrau,in Detroit, late ly applied to the station house ii that city to be locked up. Th4 sergeant appeared a trifle surprise( at the request, and proceeded t< interview him on the subject. "It's all right, old man, I*noi my biz. When I'm drnk ok woman can handle me like a child but I can whollop blazes out oi her when I'm sober. Lock me up, for I'm on it ter night, an' th< old woman is waiting for me t< eome home. Turn on the bolts old man." They 1iere turne< on. YOUNQ MEN. Alexander, of Macedon, extend ed his power over Greece, conquer. ed Egypt, rebuilt Alexandria, over run-all Asia,-. and died at thirty three years of age. Hannibal was but twenty-six, when, atter the fall of his father, Hamilcar, and Asdrubal, his suc eessor, be was chosen dommander in-ehief of the Carthagenian army. LAt' twenty-seven he captured. Sa guntum from the Romans. Bofore he was thirty-four he carried his arms from Africa into Italy, con quered Publius Sciplo on the banks of the '1'i6enus, routed Semproni ous, near the Trebia,defeated Fla minus on his approach to the Ap penines, laid waste fhe-whole coun try, defeated Fabius Maximus and Varro, marched into Capls, and, at the age of thirty-six,-was thun dering asthe gA& of Rome Scipio. A nicaus was nearly six teen .when be took an active part in the battle of Canium, and saved the life of his father. The wreck of the,Roman cavalry chose him then for tioirleader and hecon ducted them back to the capital. Soon after. a enty he was tppointd -pro-Cobul of Spain, where he took New -Carrhage by storm. He soon after defeated, successively, -Aqdrubal, (Hanni bal'ebrotfer Ma, and Hanno, crossed ito: Af"oa, negotiated with Syphaz, and Massashan king, returned to- psin, qulelted thein surrection. heie, drove the Car thagenians wt6ty firom the penin sula; returned to Ro, evised the diversid aat the Cartha genians by carrying the war into Afriear-ssed thither, destroyed the arny of Sypbaf, coinpeled the' retuli of annibal and de-. feated Aidrubal 9 second time. Charlemage was crowned King of the Franks before beWas twen gy-six. At -the of twenty ?ight hebid ceiqnsedAiuitania, andat the ege'or e'sty-ni'ne, e made himself master of the w hole Germap *4dFrench Anmpires. Char1eil.of Sweden wasde elared of age by the States, and undeeeded-hIsI father, at.the age 'of ~fteen. :At eighteen be headed .tli expedities aguinstthe Danes whoma he checked; and with a foerth of their number,. he cut to icebs the Russian army eom inanded by the Czar Peter, at lNarva; erossedthe Dwina, gained a Eipr .me Saxony,s and car ried his -arms into Poland.. At tweaty-one be had .coonered Po land, and dietated to her a new sow ereign. At twenty-four he had subdued Saxony; and at twenty seven he was conducting.2 his vic torious troops into the-heart of Russia, when a severe wound pre vented his taking commanid in person, and resulted in his over throw, and subsequent treacher ous captivity.into Turkey. - LaFayette was a major-general in the Ameriean army at.the age of :eighteen; was :bat twenty when he was wounded-at Brandy. wine, but twenty-two when he raised supplies for his army, on his own credit, at Baltimore, and but thirty-three when he was raised to the office of commander in-chief of the National GnarE of France. Napoleon Bonaparte commenced his military career as an officer of artillery at the age of seventeen. At twenty-four he successfully commanded the artillery at Ton l on. His splendid and victorious campaign in Italy was performed at the age of twenty-seven. Du ring the next year, when he was about twenty-eight, he gained a battle over the Austrians, in Italy, -conquered Man tau, carried the war -into Austria, ravaged Tytol, con eluded an advantageous peace, took possession of Milan and the Vene tian republic, revolutionized Ge noa, and formed the Cisalpine re public. At the age of twenty-nine he received the command of the army against Egypt; scattered the clouds of Mameluke cavalry,, mastered Alexandria, Aboukir, and Cairo, and wrested the land of the Pharaohsa and Ptolemies from the proud descendants of the prophet. At thirty be fell among the Paris lans like a thunderbolt, overthrew the dictatorial government, .dis persed the council of five hundred, Iand was proclaimed First Consul. At th6 age of thirty-one he cross ed the Alps, with an army, and de stroyed the Austrians by a blow Iat Marengo. At the age of thirty two ha established the Code of Napoleon ; in the same year he was elected Consul for life by the people, and at the age of thirty three he was crowned Emperor of ithe French people. Willam 'Pitt. the Brat Earl of Chatham, was buq twenty-seven years of age, when, as a member of Parliament, he waged the war of a giant against the corruption of Sir Robert Walpole. The younger Pitt was scarcely tweltyeats of age; when, with. masterly power, he grappled with the veterans of Pa-rliam6nt in Ia vor of Ameritn. At twentytwo he was called to tfe high and re sponsible trust of Chancellor of the Exchequer. t -was at that age when, be came forth in his' might on the affairs of the East Indies. At twenty-bne, during the first insanity 'of George III., ho rallied around the Prince of Wales. -Edmund Burke, at the 4ge of nineteen,, planned a refutation of the metaphysical theoriis of Berir ley and Hume.- At: twenty he was is the- temple, the admiration of its inmttes for the brilliancy of his genius, and the variety of his acquisitions. At twenty-six lie -published his cefebrated-eati'e, en titled "Vindication' of Natural So ciety." The same year he - pub lished his essay on the sublime and beautiful, so- inuch adftired for its spirit of philosophical inves tigation and the eleganee of its langage. At twenty-fve _he was frst lord of the treasury. George Washi-gtoi was- only twenty-seven years of age- when he covered the retreat of the Brit ish troops at Braddock's defeat-1 and the same year be was appoint-] -d commander-ia-chief of all the Virginia forces. General Joseph Warren was on ly twenty-nine yearsof age when, in definace of the British soldiers stationed at the door of the charch, he pronounced the celebrated ora tion which aroused the- spirit of liberty and patiotism that termi nated in the achievement of inde. pendence. At thirty-four be glo riously fell, gallahtly fighting in the cause of freedom on Banker Hill* Alexander Hamilton was- a lien tevant-cone is the' aru* of the American Roluiion, sind'aidde camp to Washitigton at theaae of twenty. -At twenty-five he was a mmsr -of on~gressi Tfrbi the State of New York; at thirty he was one of the ablest members of ihD Convention that ,framed the Constitution of the UJnited-States; at thirty.ofle he wan a member of the New York Convention, and joint author of the great work en titled the "Federalist" .At 'thirty two'ewasSeeretary of the Treas ury of the United States, and ar ranged the financial branch of the Gov rnpnent upon so perfect, a plan that no great .improvement has ever been- made upon it' since by hissuceecre. *Thomas Hayward, of South Car olina, was but thirty years of age when he signed the glorious re cord of the nation's birth, the de elaration .of independence; E 1 dredge Gerry, of Massachusetts, Bejamin Bush and James Wilson, of Pennsylvanaia,.were but thirty oa6eears of age; M. Thornton, of New Hampshire, Thonmas7effer son, of Virginia, Arthur Middle ton, of North Carojina, and Tho mas Stone, of Maryland, thirty three; 'and William Hooper, of North Carolina, but. thirty-four. John Jay, when twenty-nine. years old, was a -member of the Revlationary Congress, and, be ing associated with ILed and Liv ngs&on, oo the committee 'for drafting an address to the people of Great Britain, drew up that pa per himself, which was consider ed one of the most eloquent' pro-1 ductions of the times. At thirty two, he penned-the old Constitu ion of New York, and in the same year was appointed chier justice of that Stae. At thirty-four he was appointed Minister to Spain. At the age of twenty-six, Tho mae Jefferson was a leading merm. ber of the Colonial Legislature in Virgnia. At thirty, he was a member of the Virginia conven tion; at thirty-two, a member of Congress, - and at thirty-three, he drafted'the declaration of indepen dence. ' Milton, at the age of twenty, had written his finest mniscella neous poems, including his L/Aile gra Penserose,' Comus, and- the most' beautiful of Monodies. Lord Byron, at the age of twen ty, published his celebrated satire upon Bnglish bards and Scoteh re viewers; at twenty-four, the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Indeed, all the vast poetic treasures of his genius were poured forth, in their richest pro. fusion, before he was thirty-four years old, and died at thirty-sev en. Pope wrote many of his publish ed poems by the time he was six teen years old; at tienty, hiis es sa on criticism;- at twenty-One, the Rape of the Lock, and at twen ty-five, his great work, the Trans lation of the Iliad. Sir Isaac Newton had mastered the highest elements of matbemat les, and the aualytical method of Des Cartes,before he was tw,n_ty had discovered. the new. method. of infinite series, of fuetios, and his neiv theory of light and col ors. At twenty-five, he ..had dis .6overed the new- principle of the redecting telescope, the laws of qravitation; and the planotfry sys tem. At thirty, he occupied the matheiatical chair a. Cambridge. Dr. Dwight's conquest .of Ca naan was commenced at the sgo of sixteen, and finished-at twenty 'two, /At- the latter age.he coin posed his celebrated'disseration on th4 history, elogance, and po etry of the Bible, which was im mediately published and re-pub lished in Europe. KWOWLEDGE--IaS UI X AND ABUS . "What an excellent thing is knowledge," said-a ;hp boh:ing man to one who was -much cider than him.aaf "Knowledge is. an excellent thing,"repeated be; "my boys know more at six. and seven years. of age than I did at twelve. They can read all sorts of sUbjects. The world-ig a ;great des- wiser. than it used to be. Rverybody knows something of Overything now. Do you not think, sir,- that knowledge is an excellent thing.?" . "Why, sir," replied the old man, looking gravely, "that dpend entirely upon the use to whick it is applied. It may be a blessin" or a.turse... Knowledge istonly an increase of.power, saud-power. may be,a bod as well as a goed thing." "That is what- I fnot tsder stand," said :the.. bnstliag :listl man, "how power can be a bad thing." - "I will tell you,. meekly repli ed the old man. and then went on : "When the power of a horse is under restraint, the aimal is use ful, bearing hardens,. .dra~wing lads,4idparr.gnghis,maater ; but when that poweriaanrstrain qd, the .horse breaka his -bridte, dashe the carriage thiathe it drawing to piece.,- or throw. thee rider." "I see! I sel said the li&tle man. -- "When the :water of a large pond is properly conducted by trenches, it renders Lthe ilds around fertile ; but when it bursts through its banks it sweeps every thing before itr. and destroys the produce of the field." "I1ise! IVsee-f" said ie little man ; "Iee!" "When a iship is steered airight, the sail that she hoists enables her the sooner to get into port; but if steered wrong, the further she will go out of her course." ".I see . I see!" said the little man ; "I see clearly." "Well, then," continued the old man, "if you see these things so] elearly, I hope you can see, too, that knowledge,- to be a good. thing, must be rightly applibd. God's grace in the heart 'will ren der the kinowledge of the heat a blessing; but without-this it may prove to 'us no better than a curse."-IV. Y. Observer. INEXPENSIV HAPNEss.wThe most perfect home I ever saw was in a little house into the sweet incense of whose fires- went no.costly things. A thousand dol lars served for a year's living: of father, and mother, and three chil dren. But the mother was the creator of a borne; her relation with her children was the most beautiful I have ever seen, even a dull and common-place man - was lifted up and enabled to do good work for souls by the atmosphere which this woman created ; every inmate of her house involuntarily looked into her face for the key note of the day; and it always rang clear. From the rosebud or lover-leaf which, in spite of her hard house work, she always found time to put by our plates at breakfast, down to the story she had on hand to. be read in the evenings, there was no initermis sion of her influence. She has~ al ways been and always will be my ideal of a mother, wife, home-mak er. If to her quick brain, loving heart, and exquisite face,had been added the appliances of wealth and the enlargements of wider culture, her's would have been the ideal home. As it was, it was the best I have ever seen.-Heken Hunt. A Danbury young 'man, in the ardor oilhis affection, promised to cherish a young lady with a love that would survive an army over cat. THE PRACTICAL USES OF Everybody rejoices when a lazy fbllow is compelled to, work. It gixes supreme satisfaction to see a habitual shirk effectually cor tered. The most economical'and 6onsci,entious will now and then rejoice at the destruction-or injury of the most beautiful fabrics, if they hare seemed to give any fac itions imiportance to the body they vercd. !The neat kids, th4 sIiny boots, the fine broadeloth, never give their wearer so keen a pleasure as they afford to his home spun and hard-worked neighbor when any contingency compelling bi*..to put forth.his strength in soum menial occupation, splits-the kids, muddies the boot, and rum ples:t. broadeloth. Isuppose it is on. this principle that all those good, sensible, prao Lical people who considef- poetry the* natural -loafer of literature, sei -very oPpoktunity toput it io sobis honiely use, ad seem to light in seeing- it aresset. down to a plain, healthymora, or made to express a geographical or meteorologieal fact. The despiser of Tennyson, and1igporerof Whit. tisinvriably resorts to Th"rtr-rys bah Sepime, iApHr, Jae and Noveamr when :ewishes to ve4ify his dates. He looks forth from his wiLp ad discerns th? sign o sky. with muttered "Eveag red and orning gray Tabs the traveller an ki-wa." He evee regurates bis fousdSold dodomy with guch qoeitionil4 synopss as "A -tUkitel time -- - Sayes nine.". His children are tanght their irat Wssions:of thriftin:4he c no4 ",See apin andJet It lay, And ioif hiv bad luck all tlie day; see apfn and plkft sp, And a the day yosil havegood ck'? s often as there is a' funeral in his fa ily,he searhes the, bymnn book for a ryrna.-to-be placed on the tom ton e; nmd, it the-event ealts out-s fe1i original stanzas, from somte local muse, the eO[y is piesrved forever jis tlo family smpbook. It is but a few years since on? of 4tbese geniuses, who periodical. ry buesy pon t1|ie putlii sehoola writhi a scheme ok learRing, 0a su gared and honeyed that *the chit-" dron ery4forit;4-arned "Petei Par ley's G'eograpvhy"1 into erse, and set thousands of classes tossinging,. in conlcert, esmnpiste Jiet of bays, rivers, capes and cspitals. 'He was followed by 'one -who devel oped the samte idea in the re4nm of philosophy, and whose crown ing triumph was the couplet eby which he taught the order of the eolors of the rainbow: Onumeymystabiet these shalllive, Wh9ewe n spelithewdrd --Y-G-B--V." But more troublesome t o member than dates, -facts, and go ographical5statistics,-yet tuore inor-' Lifying to forget, are the require ments of 7etiquette. The comn pletest victory of those who lash solid facts to buoyant poetry, that Lhe whole may float gracefully in Lhemnemory, has been achieved by a genius 'who reduces the whole science to plain rules and puts ev ery rule in jhyme. L4ndor's coup let "That Is foolish who suppioses Those dogs are IN that have hot noses" was one of the-accidental touches which so often preede a great discovery. The ripergenius grasps the principle, and gives it a com plete application.. Thus we read: "'TIs pity If you have scold But woneltfthe sad fact he told, By every kind of uncouth mound, Annoying every on. around; So let the secret be condued To your own handkerchief and mind." Here is an essential principle of politeness so wedded to sweet verse that even a child cannot mis understand or forget it: "In company yonr teeth to pick, Would make refined beholders sick.' The world-wide discussion on the proper use of the knife and fork is all summed up and settled by this suggestive passage: "If you should, In a moment rash, Reverse their use, perhaps yoa'd gash A mouth already'far too wide, And shock all who might see beside. Bread, nuts, and fruit, dear sir, or madam, Eat in the mode of Eve and Adam." Verily, poetry is good for some thing, after all! but, like a wilful1 child, one mu* know how to man age it. The "Morris" of Indiana is re sponsible for the following poeti cal contribution : Young man spare that bustle! Touch not a single "pap.;? 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