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WILLOW WHISTLES.
BY OLIVE n. WADSWORTH.
The world is wide awake to-day,
Tlie laziest drones are bustling,
The brook slips by, the wind is gay,
And every leaf is rustling;
This shady bank, 'neath l>each and oak,
With lance-like grasses bristles,
And you and I, two idle folk,
Sit making willow whistles.
Oh ! heavenly sunshine of the May,
Succeeding Winter hoary,
What shade can shut its light away,
What gloom resist its glory ?
Down through our leaty canopy,
Dart myriad golden missiles,
And gild the brooks, the banks, the trees,
And even the willow whistles.
Such wealth of leaf! such worlds of green !
Such balm, no words can utter!
And all the birds that ever were seen,
Have gathered hereto flutter;
They pertly pereh, with heads away
Upon the swaying thistles,
And evidentlv wonder whv
Tall Talk.?A certain political speaker
closed an address, in behalf of his party with
the following peroration: "Build a worm
fence around the winter's supply of summer
weather; skim the clouds from the sky with
a teaspoon; catch a thunderbolt in a bladder;
break a hurricauo to harness; ground-sluice
an earthquake; lasso an avalanche; pin a
diaper on the crater of an active volcano;
hive all the stars in a nail keg; hang the
ocean on a grape-vine to dry ; put the sky to
soak in a gourd ; unbuckle the belly-band of
eternity, and paste 'To Let' on the sun and
moon, but never, sir?never for a moment delude
yourself with the idea that any ticket or j
party can beat our candidates."
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fla?* An Irishman being recently on trial for
some offense, pleaded "Not guilty," and the
jury being in the box, the State Solicitor proceeded
to call Mr. Furkisson as a witness.
With the utmost innocence Patrick turned
his face to the Court and said: "Do I understand,
your Honor, that Mr. Furkisson is to
be a witness foreninst me again ?" The Judge ;
said dryly : "It seems so." "Well then, your
Honor," exclaimed Pat, "I plade guilty, an' ;
your Honor plase ; not because I am guilty,!
for I am as innocent a3 your Honor's suck- j
ling baby, but jist on account o' savin' Mr.
Furkisson's sowl."
flaT A minister examined his school boys
thus:
"What is the meaning of the word repentant?"'
"Please sir, don't know."
"Now, if I had stolen a loaf of bread, what
should I be ?"
"Please, sir, locked up."
"Well, should I feel sorry?"
"Yes."
"Well, why should I feel sorry?"
"Please sir, cos you was cotched."
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Two urchins, five or six years old, returning
from school recently, were overheard
discussing great theological questions.
"Well," says urchin number one, "The
Lord owns all this world, don't he?"
"Yaas, I 'spose he does," responded number
two, "but dad says the devil's got a big morgidge
on it."
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Two Hibernians were passing a stable
which had a rooster on it for a weather vane,
when one addressed the other thus: "Pat,
what's the reason they didn't put a hin up
there instead of a rooster ?" "An' sure," replied
Pat, "that'saisy enough; don't you see
it would be unconvanient to go for the eggs ?"
flo?* A Galesburg farmer, whose pew rent
was raised to 825, exclaimed: "Great Ctesar,
here's a nice state of affairs?the Gospel going
up and pork going down. What's to be
come of us T'
A little girl sent out to hunt eggs, came
back unsuccessful, complaining that lots of
hens were standing around doing nothing.
We're makfng willow whistles.
How dare you, comrade, trifle so,
In thase grand forest temples,
And laugh, and beat your sappy bough,
And set me bad examples!
Such songs of praises here arise,
And never were found in Missals,
And we should haarken, were we wise.
Instead of making whistles.
They say the world's a vale of tears,
And man is born to trouble,?
The words sound idly in my ears
Beside the brooklet's bubble;
Friends change, I fear, and hopes grow pale,
The fairest project lizzl&s,?
I'm glad there's no t.uch word as fail
In making willow whistles.
The brook shows back two heads of brown,
Though one's a prettier color,
A Titian hue?no need to frown,
I've said but which is duller ;
They'll bo the same, both yours and mine,
When time their brownhess grizzles,
And then we'll laugh at Auld Lang Syne,
When we made willow whistles.
Scribner's for May.
tumorous Department.
BILL SIMPSON ON COURTS.
Many years ago the Legislature of Tennessee
passed an act to organize the county
of McNairy, otherwise Snake.
At that time the county embraced in the
limits of Snake was occupied by a steady set
of backwoodsmen, totally unacquainted with
courts, jails, etc. The county assembled at
the appointed site for the purpose of cutting
logs, making boards, etc., to build a court
house and jail. The only theme of conversation,
when the men were assembled, was the
court, etc. None of them had ever seen a
court in session, as yet developed. Each one
would give what his idea was of court, etc.
None, however, were entirely satisfactory,
until Bill Simpson was called on to give his
ideas. He said he knew all about a court?
Ua Vkiir) o ton? onif in fla *v\lina I
tuat uc iiau a lau ouiv iu iwi vu vuivu
One of his neighbor's hogs kept coming where
he fed his hogs until it got fat. One morning
he got so mad that he shot the hog; he
thought it would not do to throw it away, so
he cleaned and salted it. Shortly afterwards
his neighbor and a man came to his house,
and took him to town and put him in a little
office. About three months after that, this
man came and took him up to a large room.
A large man sat upon a high bench?a man
was sitting at a desk?about a dozen fine
dressed men sat in a place that was paled
around. The man put in a pen just behind
them.
He then called in twelve men, they took
seats in a box in front of the fine dressed men.
The man that was writing gave the twelve
men a book and said something about Bill
Simpson and State. Then one of the fine men
read something about Bill Simpson and the
hog, and he and another one of the fine dressed
men had the biggest quarrel you ever heard?
I thought they would fight every minute, but
they didn't. It was Bill Simpson and the
hog, and the hog and Bill Simpson, and sometimes
Mr. Simpson, but very seldom. After
they quit quarreling, the big man talked a
while to the twelve men, and then they went
out and staid a short time, and came back,
and said something to the man at the desk.
The man on the bench said something to the
man that put me in the office, and he took me
out and tied me to a persimmon tree, and
commenced fighting me with a cowhide, and
it made me so blamed mad that I shook all
the persimmons off the tree.
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"Kittie's going to join our Sabbath
School, she's coming with me next Sunday,
ain't you Kittie?"
"Oh ! I don't know, I've never been to Sabbath
School?what do you have to do?"
"Why, get saved, of course?and books and
albums and?"
"I meau, what do you have to do?do you
have to study anything?"
"Oh! it isn't like that. Its like church,
you know. Whm you first go in you have to
put your head down and pray."
"But I cant pray," says'heathen Kittie, "I
don't know how."
"Oh ! well, do as I do. Shut your eyes
and count fifty."
Agricultural iPqiarimmt.
CORN VERSUS COTTON.
Some writers in the newspapers are discussing
the question whether a large crop of corn
should be planted generally at the expense of
the cotton crop, or a large cotton crop at the
expense of the grain crop. I believe the j
I "centre-shot," advocated by Gov. Smith, of
j Georgia, is not where to put it, but proportionally
between the extreme limits, including
rotation. To see this question in its true
light, let us examine the working of heavy
cotton planting at the expense of the grain
crop. The entire preparation of a large cotton
crop requires more labor and expense
than a DroDortionate erain crop. Suitable
cleaning off of the land is requisite at an ear-1
ly period; and arrangements for applying!
fertilizers must be looked after in due time. ;
The price is high when you come to sum up ;
the drayage, freights, costs and wastage; and
then comes the chance of reaching unfavorable
results from dry or overwet seasons.
Sufficient arrangements for supplies of food
for labor and horses must be made. Corn
must be, in many instances, shipped, price not
low, when freights, bags, wastage, &c., are i
supplemented. Fodder and hay, too, must be
provided. An increase of doubtful, and to
some extent, ineffective labor for heavy cotton
cropping, must be secured. In many instances
liens must be given on the crops for
fertilizers, provisions, &c., which will, on an
average, reach forty per cent, on prime cost.
The farmer thus corapromits his independence
under the idea that he is wonderfully accommodated,
and making haste to grow rich.
His lands are much more exposed ; more
especially exhausted by the heavy rain and
washing and leaching during the winter and
early spring rains, which are likely to be
heavy. Here applies a moral taught in one
of .<Esop'8 Fables, in the case of the man who
had a goose that laid golden eggs.
Now, suppose the heavy cotton planters
succeed to their heart's content, what follows ?
More labor to gather it; more bagging to
clothe it; more iron bands to secure it; more
experience to get it in market; more grumblings
in selling it at low prices and discharging
liens; much of the cotton dirty and poor;
cold fingers ensue in opening cracked bolls
and lifting painted cotton off the ground. No
corn in the crib; no long food to winter
The nursnit of this Dolicv can never
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make the Southern planters, generally, a
thriving people. I have been a planter for
forty years. My policy before the war was to
raise my grain, corn, wheat, some oats, rye
and barley, some stock, and then as much
cottou as could be gathered in due time. I
have, measurably, pursued the same course
since, with hired labor, and am satisfied with
it. I cease to go into a minute contrast of
the results of the proportion and rotation
plan of cropping. The advantages, I think,
must be apparent to any thinking and experienced
farmer. I can easily see what classes
of operators are willing to see the doctrine of
large cotton planting prevail. Manufacturers
of iron, bagging, cotton, Western stockraisers,
phosphatic companies, railroad companies,
cotton and grain speculators, provision
and general dealers of various kinds ; all
these see, more or less, some gain to them.
They may gradually grow rich on our labor
and wants, whilst we sink slowly into poverty.
What an effort is already making to know the
amount of acreage planted in cotton ! What
calculations are already made as to the results?
For whose benefit? The planter?
No, verily no. Catch a weazel at sleep. The
sharpers in speculation are preparing. If we
are simple enough to put all trumps into their
hands, we have no good grounds to blame
them, but ought to reflect upon our own dealings.
When I see men advocating a peculiar
policy in anything, before I am carried away
with it, I stop to enquire, Where do their interests
mainly lie ? "Nuff sed."
Joirx C. Hope.
Lexington, S. C., June 2, 1873.
"How to get kid of the CUT WORM."?
Editor Southern Cultivator: Although not a
farmer, my greatest delight is in the Farm,
Orchard and Garden, and everything of interest
to these branches of industry, is highly
prized by me.
"How to get rid of the Cut Worm," is of
much interest to the farmer and gardener, and
every one can do it, with but little trouble or
expense?in fact the simplicity of the plan is
very likely the reason w,hy it is not universally
adopted. It is, to plant one or more China
(JP ride of India J trees and every fall gather
the leaves and berries and mix with all the
manure used, taking care to destroy the vitality
of the seed by heating or otherwise. If
a moderate quantity of the leaves, stems and
berries be composted with all manure used
and applied to the plants, no fear need be
felt of "Cut Worm." There will be none to
trouble plants man ired with this compost.
The China tree grows easily and very rapidly
in all the middle and Southern States,
and many persous consider it quite ornamental.
I would be obliged to you if you would
place this matter before your readers, asking
of them a trial, which will prove successful in
every case fairly tested. N. L. CLOUD.
Bainbridge, Ga., May lith, 1873.
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Remedy for Chicken Ciioi.era.?B. H.
Knapp, Esq., of this city, in a communication
to the Atlanta Sun, states that he has found
a mixture of two ounces each of red pepper,
alum, rosin and sulphur, to be an infalible
remedy for this scourge of the poultry-yard,
and adds:
"Last summer I lost more than fifty common
fowls from cholera, my Buff Cochins
not beiug at all affected. When glancing
over the columns of the Rural New Yorker, I
chanced to see the above mixture recommended,
and tried it?mixing one tablespoonful
in three pints, of scalded meal; and though
several fowls were in the last stages of the
disease, they recovered and I have not lost a
chicken since. In severe cases I would advise
giving about one-third of a teaspoonful
in a meal nellet to each fowl everv dav till
well. Put a small lump of alum, say the size
of a hickory nut, in their drinking water."
Simple Process of Hardening Plough
Points.?A friend who has been residing for !
a long series of years in the country, and who '
is an experienced mechanic, sends us the following
simple process of hardening plough
points or other farm implements, which he
says he has often tried with success:
After finishing, heat to a bright red, put on j
a lump of prussiate of potash; continue the
heat until the potash melts and runs over the
surface of the iron you wish to harden. Let
it burn until a blue flame appears, then plunge 1
in cold water.
I have often hardened the thread on a bolt 1
by the above process, and substituted it for a '
tap, cutting a good thread.
It would be advantageous to farmers to
harden their plough points in dry weather,
which can he done by auy ordinary smith, by
the above process. T. W. D.
Have a Scrap Book.?Every farmer j
: should have a scrap book, in which to paste
1 agricultural scraps. Every one, in reading a
: paper, will see a number of things which he
will wish to remember. He will nerhans see
suggestions, the value of which he will desire
to test, or hints which he will want to be governed
by in future operations. And yet, after
reading the paper he will throw it down
and probably never see it again. In such
case all the valuable articles will be lost. To
prevent such a loss, every reader should clip
from the papers such articles as he desires to
preserve and remember and paste them in a
scrap book. Such a book, at the end of a
! year or two, would be very interesting and
valuable.
To Prevent Iron from Rusting.?Kerosene
applied with a cloth to stoves will keep
them from rusting during the summer. It is
J also an excellent material to apply to all iron
I utensils used about a farm.
ftcading fur the jfrttatb.!
CONDUCTKD BY
ItEV. ROBERT LATHAN.
[Original.]
THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE.
God's providential dealings with his people
are often mysterious; but they are always
wise. Rarely do we see or fully understand I
what God is about to perform, until the act is
completed ; and even then, we see through a
glass darkly. The whole history of the world
teaches us that God made nothing in vain;
but all things were brought into existence for
a special purpose. The declaration of God
himself, concerning all the works of creation,
was, that "all was very good." The same is
true respecting the works of providence. God,
in providence, does nothing iu vain. Every
act, however small or insignificant it may appear
in the eyes of any of his creatures, is
done with some fixed and settled desigu.
In their beginning, all God's providential
acts are small. They are like the cloud that
the servant of the prophet descried rising out
of the sea. It was not larger than a man's
hand?a mere speck on the face of the sky.
It gathered, increased, and spread, until the
whole heaveus were covered with blackness,
and the earth deluged in water.
In the accomplishing of his providential
purposes, God rarely is in a hurry. With
implicit confidence in his wisdom and power,
he takes his time. Sometimes it consumes
the whole of a single individual's life to bring
about a single providential purpose of God.
Not unfrequently, several successive generations
of men pass away before some particular
providential purpose of God is fully developed.
The means which God employs to accomplish
his providential designs, are often apparently
insufficient and inappropriate. A single
man is often chosen as an instrument with
which to reform a whole continent. Weak
mi*/1 InoMn 00 flm mnanc ujKIpK Onrl aplaptc
to bring about his purposes may appear, they
! cannot be resisted successfully. God never
fails. Whatever he undertakes he accomplishes.
Men may undertake to thwart God
in his purposes, but discomfiture, sudden and
irremediable, awaits thera. No man is safe
who opposes the providences of God. His
destruction may slumber, but like the extermination
of the Araelekites, it will certainly
come.
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CONSCIENCE.
That faculty of our moral nature which enables
us to decide with regard to acts and
affections, whether they are right or wrong, is
called conscience. Everybody is conscious of
the fact that some things are approved of, and
others meet with only disapprobation. Some
I men. of very great learning and mental ability,
assert that man has, by nature, no such
faculty as conscience. They teach that this
moral sense, by which we decide that some
things are right and other things wrong, is
the result of education. This seems to be
an error. It is not within the proviuce of
education to create anything; it only develops.
Any one of the five senses is capable of being
educated. The eye of the sailor is said to
undergo a very peculiar physical change.
The sense of touch is rendered very delicate
in those persons whose occupation requires its
constant use. This does not prove that an
individual in whom the occular nerve does
not prist, pan he taucht to see : or that one
could learn to hear, in whom there is no auditory
nerve. To assert that conscience is a
mere creation of education, is a similar assertion
to that of saying that the nerves of hearing,
seeing, tasting, smelling and feeling, are
created or brought into existence by education.
No one, we think, would make this last
assertion. It is too absurd.
Taking it for granted that conscience is
one of the endowments bestowed upon all
mankind by the Author of our being, we remark
that its decisions are always bindiug.
By this we mean that we are bound to obey
the mandates of conscience. Whenever conscience
tells us that such and such acts are
right, we are bound by the laws of our nature
to perform those acts; and when our conscience
condemns certain acts as morally wrong, we
sin if we commit those forbidden acts. This
is not declaring that we invariably do what is
absolutely right when we obey conscience.
ti 1? i ?c
lilt; uuijr menus wu nave <ji juu^iu^ ui tuivio
is by the eye. If our eyes declare that black
is red, and green yellow, we are bound by the
laws of our nature, to treat black as if it were
red, and green as if it were yellow. Such
defects do not often exist iu the physical
senses, but they do sometimes exist. Whenever
they do exist, the individual is, by the
very nature of things, bound to be governed
by them and act iu accordance with their
perceptions, be these right or wrong. The
moral sense of all men, uuiversally, is in a
ruined state. ' Disease often greatly injures
the nerve of sight, or of hearing, orsome other
one, or of all the senses. In the same way
sin, which is a moral disease, has injured the
moral sense. Conscientious scruples are always
to be respected ; but they are not necessarily
absolutely right. Since the fall, the
only rule by which we can test an act, thought
or feeling, whether it be right or wroug, is the
Bible. Take away from us the word of God,
and we will still feel that some things are
right and that other things are wrong; but
what we call and feel to be right, may be absolutely
wrong; and what wg call and feel
to be wrong, may be a duty which we are
bound to perform. We should never forget
that since the fall, the Bible, and not conscience,
is the rule by which we are to judge
of the morality of an act. When the mind is
enlightened, the decisions of conscience are
never at variance with the decisions of the
Bible; but in our natural condition there
rarely is any agreement Detween tne x>iuie
and conscience. The Bible, and not conscience,
is a light to our feet, and a lamp to
our path.
He is Able.?God is able of these stones
to raise up seed to Abraham.
Able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him.
i What he has promised he is able to perform.
i Able to make all graces abound toward
you, that you, having all sufficiency in all i
things, may abound to every good work.
I commend you to God, and to the word j
of his grace, who is able to build you up and I
to give you an inheritance among all them :
that are sanctified.
Able to keep that which I have committed
unto him. !
| Able to keep you from falling, and present
you faultless before the presence of his glory, j
with exceeding joy.
Able to succor them that are tempted.
Able to keep all whom the Father hath
given him, so that he will not lose one.
Able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think.
Believe ye that he is able to do this.
AS?* The names of God correspond with his
[ acts; both mutually explain and confirm one
l another, and throw light upon his being.
OlhMrett's Department. |
WILLIE'S BREECHES.
BY K. a. 8AULSBURY.
I'm just a little boy, you know,
And scarcely can remember,
When people ask how old I am,
To tell 'em four last 'vember.
And yet for all I am so small,
I made so many stitches
For mamma's lingers that she put
Her little boy in breeches.
You may be sure that I was glad?
I marched right up and kissed her,
Then gave my bibs and petticoats,
And all to baby sister.
I never whine, now I'm so line,
And don't get into messes;
For mamma says, if I ain bad,
She'll put me.back in dresses !
I'd like to tell vou how I look,
And will, if Tarn able:
My eyes are black, my hair is white,
I'm taller than the table.
Sometimes I pass the looking-glass,
And, peeping in, I see there
A round-faced, rosy, roguish boy,
And mamma says it's me there.
There's buttons up and down my legs,
I'd count 'em all, but baby makes,
Just now, an awful racket,
She's sitting there, behind the chair.
With blocks and dolls and kitty
A playing "go to mamma's house,"
Alone, and that's a pity.
I think I'll go and help her some,
I'm sure it would amuse me,
So I won't bother any more
To talk?if you'll excuse me.
But first I'll stand before the glassFro
m top to toe it reaches ;
Now, look! there's head, and hands, and feet,
And all the rest is breeches!
A STORY AND A SEQUEL.
One of the richest men of New York, being
called upon for a speech at a public meeting
out West, said in substance:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I will give you a
true story, as I told it some months since to
another audience with a somewhat startling
effect. It illustrates the fact that honesty
aud industry are pretty sure to meet with
the reward they merit. About twenty years
ago I started one ffne Sunday morning on a
search for street children to attend a school
with which I was associated.
Near Norfolk street I saw a hatless, coatless,
barefooted, boy. His unkempt hair was
fiery red, and "seemed to be looking seven
ways for Saturday." Now I have no fault
to find with red hair. Cato had red hair,
Cicero had red hair, Robert Peel had red
hair, Silas Wright had red hair. Bulwer
says:
'Tis the golden treasure nature showers down
On those foredoomed to wear fame's golden crown.
I invited the red haired boy to attend my
school. He frankly and bluntly told me he
would not do any such thing.
"You ought to attend the school," I said,
blandly.
"Why ought I?" he inquired brusquely.
"We teach boys to be good," I answered.
"But I don't want to be good," said he.
"Why not want to be good ?" I asked, with
earnestness.
"Because I am hungry," was the prompt
reply.
"It is nine o'clock," I said, looking at ray
repeater; "haven't you had breakfast yet?"
"No, sir."
"Where do you live ?"
"Up in the alley here, with aunty."
"Nothing to eat?"
"Nothing to eat to-day, and aunty is sick."
"Will you eat some gingerbread and crackers,
if I go to the bakery on the corner and
buy some for you ?"
"Yes, sir, that I will, and glad to get 'em."
I purchased nine cents' worth of gingerbread
as red as his soft, luxuriant hair, and
he ate the supply with a relish that would
have astonished an alderman at a turtle-soup
festival.
"Would you like to have some more ?" said
I, to the hungry waif.
"Yes, sir, a little more, if you please," was
the quick response.
I handed to hira the second supply, and
then asked him what he thought about going
with me to my pet school in a little hall
around the corner?
"Well, sir," said he, "you have been so
good to me, if you wait here till I take this
gingerbread I have left to aunty, I will go
with you."
He soon returned to the sidewalk, where I
was waiting for him, aud accompanied me,
apologizing in his way for not having anything
to wear at a Sunday school.
It was his first day in school, and he did
not know how to deport himself. He had a
vague idea that slaps on the palm of the hand
with a ruler, pulling the hair, and pinching
the ears was a part of the discipline, and you
may judge of his surprise when he found
himself in the hands of a pleasant young lady,
who spoke to him kindly, without scolding
him for his untidy appearance.
Our red haired friend was highly pleased
with his treatment, and when the school was
dismissed hastened to tell every boy and girl
of his acquaintance about the kind reception
he had met with, and he persuaded a large
number of them to attend school on the following
Sabbath. He continued his work,
week after week, and was the most successful
missionary connected with the school. He
added so many boys and girls to our numbers
it was found necessary to move to a larger
hall, and even that soon became too small to
accommodate the teachers and scholars.
When a company of the boys was taken
from the city to the West, to be distributed
among the farmers, the red headed boy was
among them. I used to hear of him most encouraging
accounts; of his growth in moral,
mental and material influence and position ;
and although I have not heard from him of
late years, yet I feel sure that he is an honor
ed and prosperous man in the community
where he lives.
"When I," said the speaker, "had reached
this part of my speech, I was astonished to
see a very tall, red haired man rise in the
room to address the audience." He said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am the person who
stood on the 6treet in New York city and ate
the gingerbread! I came out West here, and
by minding by own business, I have earned
money enough to buy a farm. I own five
hundred acres of as good land as you can
fiud out doors. My horses and carriage are
at the door, and I shall be happy to take the
speaker to my house, where he shall bo welcome
to stay as long as he pleases."
Manners.?Manners are more important
than money. A boy who is polite and pleasant
in his manners will always have friends,
and will not often make enemies. Good behavior
is essential to prosperity. A boy feels
well when he does well. If you wish to make
everybody pleasant about you, and gain
friends wherever you go, cultivate good manners.
Many boys have pleasant manners for
company, and ugly manners for home.
We visited a small railroad town, not long
since, and were met at the depot by a little
bov of about eleven or twelve vears. who con
ducted us to the house of his mother, and entertained
and cared for us, in the absence of
his father, with as much polite attention and
thoughtful care as the most cultivated gentleman
could have done. We said to his mother
before we left her home, "You are greatly
blessed in your son, he is so attentive and obliging-"
"Yes," she said ; "I can always depend on
Charley when his father is absent. He is a
great help and comfort to me." She said this
as if it did her heart good to acknowledge the
cleverness of her son.
The best manners cost so little, and are
worth so much, that every boy can have them, j
Youth's Guide.
What not to Do.?Don't spit on the
floor; don't spit at all if you can help it
Don't drum with your fingers or feet; don't sit
i with your feet higher than your head; don't!
| go with dirty nails; don't trim or cleau your
nails in company ; don't clean your nose, ears,!
j or teeth in the presence of others ; don't eat j
with your knife ; don't blow your nose at the j
table; don't make sipping tea or eating soup j
a vocal exercise ; don't eat fast.
IpsMltattwusi fteadittg.
STORY OF THE FIRST TELEGRAM.
The bill met with neither sneer? nor opposition
in the Senate, but the business of that
House went on with discouraging slowness.
At twilight on the last evening of the session
(March 3, 1843) there were 119 bills before
it. As it seemed impossible for it to be reached
in regular course before the hour of adjournment
should arrive, the Professor, who
had anxiously watched the tardy movements
of business all day from the gallery of the
Senate chamber, went with sad heart to his
hotel and prepared to leave for New York at
an early hour the next morning. While at
breakfast, a servant informed him that a
young lady desired to see him in the parlor.
There he met Miss Annie Ellsworth, then a
young school girl?the daughter of his intimate
friend, Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, the
first Commissioner of Pateuts?who said, as
she extended her hand to him : "I have come
to congratulate you."
"Upon what ?" enquired the Professor.
"Upon the passage of your bill," she replied.
"Impossible! Its fate was sealed at dusk
last evening. You must be mistaken."
"Not at all," she responded. "Father sent
me to tell you that your bill was passed. He
remained until the session closed, and yours
was the last bill but one acted upon, and it
was passed just five minutes before the adjournment;
and I am so glad to be the first one
to tell you. Mother says, too, that you must
come home with me to breakfast."
The invitation was readily accepted, and
the joy in the household was unbounded.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth had fully believed
in the project, and the former, in his
confidence in it and in his warm friendship
for Professor Morse, had spent all the closing
hours of the session in the Senate chamber,
doing what he could to help the bill along,
and giving it all the influence of his high personal
and official position.
Grasping the hand of his young friend, the
Professor thanked her again ana again for
bearing him such good tidings, and assured
her that she should send over the wires the
firot moQQdcta> oo lior rotror^ TKo moffoi* rnaa
LM IOU lUWSUgVI UO UV1 t^llUtUl JL IIU KUCIVVWt fT UO
talked over in the family, and Mrs. Ellsworth
suggested a message which Professor Morse
referred to the daughter, for her approval;
and this was the one which was subsequently
sent.
A little more than a year after that time,
the line between Washington and Baltimore
was completed. Professor Morse was in the
former city, and Mr. Alfred Vail, his assistant
in the latter; the first in the chamber of the
Supreme Court, the last in the Mount Clare
depot, when the circuit being perfect, Professor
Morse sent to Miss Ellsworth for her message
and it came.
"What hath God wrought?"
It was sent in triplicate in the dot-and-line
language of the instrument to Baltimore, and
was the first message ever transmitted by a recording
telegraph.
The story of the first message has beeu
often told with many exaggerations. It has
roamed about Europe, with various romantic
material attached to it, originating mainly in
the French imagination, and has started up
anew, from time to time, in our own country,
under fresh forms, but the above story is simply
and literally true. An inventor in despair
receives the news of his unexpected success
from his friend's daughter, ana he makes
her a promise which he keeps, and thus links
her name with his own, and with an invention
which becomes one of the controlling instruments
of civilization for all time.?Scribner's
Monthly.
+ +
What Makes a Home.?I never saw a
garment too fine for man or maid; there was
never a chair too good for a cobbler, or cooper,
or king, to sit in; never a house too fine
to shelter the human head. These elements
about us, the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun,
are not too good for the human race. Elegance
fits man. But do we not value these
tools of house-keeping a little more than they
are worth, and sometimes mortgage a home
for the mahogany we would bring into it ? I
had rather eat my dinner off the head of a
barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the
Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all
my life, than consume all myself before I get
to a home, and take so much pains with the
outside that the inside was as hollow as an
empty nut. Beauty is a great thing, but
beauty of garments, houses and furniture is a
fnujrlrtr nrnomont ^nmnnrofJ toit.li rlnmPfltlf!
love. All the elegance in the world will not
make a home, and I would give more for a
spoonful of real hearty love than for whole
shiploads of furniture, and the gorgeousness
that all the upholsterers of the world could
gather together.?Theodore Parker.
1 ?
Romance of Arithmetic.?The most romantic
of all numbers is the figure 9, because
it can't be multiplied away or got rid of anyhow.
Whatever you do, it is sure to turn up
again, as did the body of Eugene Aram's
victim. One remarkable property of this figure
(said to have been first discovered by Mr.
Green, who died in 1794) is that all through
the multiplication table the product of nine
comes to nine. Multiply by what you like,
and it gives the same result. Begin with
twice 9, 18; add the digits together, and 1
and 8 makes 9. Three times 9 are twentyseven
; and 2 and 7 are 9. So it goes on, up
to eleven times 9, which gives 99. Very
good; add the digits; 9 and 9 are 18, and 8
and 1 are 9. Going on to any extent it is
impossible to get rid of the figure 9. Take a
couple of instances at random. Three hundred
and thirty-nine times 9 are 3051; add
up the figures, and they are 9. Five thousand
seventy-one times 9 are 45,639; the sum
of these digits is 27; 2 and 7 are 9.
Construction of Pianos.?In an ordinary
piano there are fifteen kinds of woods, namely:
pine, maple, spruce, cherry, walnut, whitewood,
apple, bass-wood, birch, mahogany, ebony,
holly, cedar, beech and rosewood, from
Honduras, Ceylon, England, South America
and Germany. In this combination, elasticity,
strength, pliability, toughness, resonance,
lightness, durability and beauty, are individual
qualities, and the general result is "voice."
There are also used of the metals, iron, steel,
brass, white metal, gun metal and lead. There
are, in an instrument of seven and a-half octaves,
514 strings, making a total length of
787 feet of wire and &UU feet ot wliite (covering)
wire. Such a piano will weigh from 600
to 1000 pounds, and will last with constant
use (not abuse) fifteen or twenty years.
Tiie Length of Days.?The days of summer
grow longer as we go northward, and the
days of winter shorter. At Hamburg, the
longest day has seventeen hours, and the
shortest seven. At Stockholm, the longest
has eighteen-and-a-half hours, and the shortest
five-and-a-half. At St. Petersburg, the
longest has nineteen, and the shortest five
hours. At Finland, the longest has twentyone
and one-half, and the shortest two and onehalf
hours. At "Wandorbus, in Norway, the
day lasts from the twenty-first of May to the
second of July, the sun not getting below the
horizon for the whole time, but skimming |
along very close to it in the north. At Spitz-1
bergen, the longest day lasts three months and !
a half.
Once upon a time before the negro had
acquired no other than a pecuniary value, an '
old colored divine who was holding forth to J
an audience of his own race on the watchful
care and goodness of the Almighty, and endeavoring
to impress upon his hearers the
value of a christian darkey in the eyes of
heaven, illustrated the point thus: "My bred-;
ren, though you can buy seven sparrows for j
a farthing, the Almighty has a book to put,
down where ebery one ob dem falls. Now if;
the Almighty takes so much care of the spar-:
rows, dat cost only one-seventh of a farthing,'
what you suppose he do for you, a thousand <
dollar nigger ?"
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