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ERE we ftre! dou't leave us out, 

 Jnst IjceaUBe wc^'rejiitle- boysl 



Thi>UKli we're not bo bold nnd stout, 

 lu ttie wcrld we make a noiso. 



You're a year or two ahead, 

 Hut we. step by btep, advance; 



All the world's before you spread- 

 Give tlie littlu boys achaucel 



Never slight us in your play, 

 Yuu were once as small as we: 



■We'll be big. like yon, some day, 

 Then perhaps our power you'll see. 



■\Ve will meet you. when we've ijriiwn, 

 With a brave and fearless (glance; 



Don't think all this world's your own- 

 Give iho little boys a chaueol 



Little hands will soon be strong 

 For the work that tliey must do; 



Little lips will sing their song 

 When these early days are through. 



So, you big boys, if we're small. 

 On our toes you needn't dance; 



There is room enough for all- 

 Give the little boys a chance. 



Time Waits for No Boy. 



Jack and Harry had to recite their lessons 

 to their fiilher every d.ay at two o'clock, but 

 they were thoughtless hoys who liked to play 

 and idle away the time, so very often the les- 

 sons were not ready, because they had put oif 

 studying too long. Over and over again had 

 they been reproved, until at last they thought 

 they would really try to be dilUgent and punc- 

 tual. For almost a week they did pretty well, 

 but then there came a day when the sun was 

 so bright and warm and the air so soft that it 

 seemed as if nothing in the world could draw 

 them away from under the old apple tree, 

 where they lay in the tall grass on their backs, 

 looking up at the cool green leaves and the 

 peeps of blue sky. There they lay and talked 

 of all that they meant to do, and the things 

 they wished they had, and the places they 

 wanted to visit. 



" Uncle Heni7 is going to send for us some 

 day very soon," said Harry, " to go with him 

 out to Mr. Cheesebro's farm, to stay all night 

 and the next day. Won't it be splendid? I 

 shall carry luy fishing rod, for there are trout 

 in the brook, and I may carry Ben's gun and 

 hunt hares." 



" "i'es, and what good things we shall have 

 to eat," said Jack. "There'll be mince pies 

 and doughnuts, and roost goose and pickles, 

 and plum pudding. Do you remember, the 

 other time we went, how Mr. Cheesebro gave 

 us great slices of cake between meals and 

 filled our pockets with nuts?" 



" Guess I do!" answered Harry. " I have 

 been wanting to go again ever since. Sammy 

 Cheesebro said next time we came he'd have 

 a party and play old-fashioned games. Won't 

 it be fun? I wonder what day uncle Henry 



is going." ., T , t. 



" He said pretty soon, said Jack, hope- 

 fully. " Say, Harry, you know that big swing 

 they've got out in the baru, and the high hay 

 mows ! Oh, what fun we shall have ! I wish 

 we were there now, and then we shouldn't 

 have that awful arithmetic lesson to learn." 



" That awful geography lesson, you'd better 

 sa}'," replied Harry. "I took a look at it 

 before I came out here, and it's dreadful. We 

 have to bound every country in Asia. Can 

 you do it?" 



"No, but it won't take long to learn. Say, 

 Harry, see that fish hawk away up in the sky. 



wish I had a bow and aiTOW. 

 . "Ho! I don't. I wish I had a rifle." said 

 Harry, shaping his eyes to look up. 



And so they planned, and dreamed, and 

 talked, lying luxuriously in the tall nodding 

 grass, with birds to sing over them and flow- 

 ers to sweeten the air. If they had only 

 learned their lessons first! But time flew, the 

 hours sped by, and when at last they reluct- 

 antly arose and went into the house after their 

 books, behold, it was one o'clock, and there 

 was lunch waiting for them! 



They stared at each other in dismay, and 

 then, being very hungry, they began to eat 

 their sandwiches and gingerbread, aud talked 

 over the situation between the mouthfuls. 



"We never can learn it all, never!" ex- 

 claimed Harry. " There are two endless sums 

 in practical payments to work out, and then 

 all those countries! If we had two hours, 

 even!" 



"Tell you what," said Jack, let's set the 

 clock back an hour! He always looks at the 

 clock before he calls us, and he won't think 

 nor find out about it." 



Harry whistled, thought it over, aud made 

 up his mind. 



" All right," ho said. "We'll do it. Your'e 

 awfully sharp. Jack. Here, pull that big 

 chair around, so I can stand in it and reach 

 up to the hands." 



It took but an instant, the clock ticked on 

 as tranquilly as before, but now the hands 

 pointed to twelve instead of one, and the 

 boys had the two hours they wanted for their 

 studies. 



A» ay they hurried to their books, and while 

 the quickest one worked out the long sums, 

 the other delved at boundaries. It was hard 

 work, but they kept at it as if the)' were run- 

 ning a race. Half an hour after their father 

 ctime up the avenue, walking very fast, and 

 almost out of Ijreath. 



"Bless me!" he said, as he looked at the 

 clock. I thought it was a great deal later than 

 this! So much for getting one's lunch away 

 from home. Brown must have his as early as 

 eleven o'clock. Well, I'm glad it's no later. 

 I shall have time to write two or three letters 

 before I coll the boys." 



And he shut himself into his library among 

 his papers. There was quiet in the house for 

 an hour longer, during which time the boys 

 applied themselves almost breathlessly to their 

 tasks. The arithmetic exercise was ready.and 

 the boundaries were almost learned, only it 

 seemed as if Jack never could get Siam and 

 Anam right. 



At half-past one by the clock their father 

 come out of the library. 



"Come, boys," he called loudly. "No 

 lessons to-day ! Hurry on your jjlckets and 

 hats; uncle Henry wants you to go out to Mr. 

 Cheesebro's -with him, and I'm going to drive 

 you over to the train." 



How the boys sprang up and shouted, and 

 dashed away their books. They were all ready 

 by the time the horse was at the door. Harry 

 had not forgotten his fishing rod, and Jack 

 wore his trousers that had the deepest pockets. 

 Their mother stood on the steps to see them 

 off. 



"Hurry along!" called their father from 

 the carriage. " We've none too much time. 

 The train starts at ten minutes past two, pre- 

 cisely !" 



"Oh! why!" faltered Jack, and Harry 

 stopped short, looking dumbfounded. 



" What's the matter?" cried their father. 

 " Hurry, I tell you! We've no time whatever 

 to lose." 



" The clock is too slow!" said Harry, des- 

 pairingly. 



"Slow! no, it isn't. I set it by railroad 

 time myself this morning. What do you 

 mean?" 



" We put it back a whole hour," the boys 

 confessed, mournfully. 



" What on earth did you put it back for?" 

 exclaimed their father. 



' ' So we could have time to learn our les- 

 sons." 



Their mother looked grave and pitying. 

 Their father jumped out of the carriage, and 

 called the hired man to tjike the horse back to 

 the barn. 



" Well, my lads, " he s,iid, "come into the 

 house, and I'll hear you recite your lessons. 

 You've lost your chance of going out to Mr. 

 Cheesebro's, aud I think you have pretty tho- 

 roughly learned another lesson besides your 

 geography aud arithmetic. Come in." 



Akt young miss would rather have her cor- 

 sets tight than her "feller." 



HAT are you living for? What is your 

 aim, and what do you intend to do in 

 this world? Have you no object, no 

 aim, no notions of your own? We are 

 living in an age of progression, and 

 each is expected to act his part. A part which 

 will be of use to the world, an honor to them- 

 selves, and a glory to our nation, Each is 

 expected to make an effort, an effort for the 

 good of all. Good aspirations lead on to ever 

 increasing efforts, and indicate the grandeur 

 of our destiny. We must have high aud noble 

 aims, and then strive to reach them. Success 

 is sure to follow earnest, unceasing toil. It 

 may take long years of labor, but still press 

 on. You will be all the better for your striv- 

 tng. Life is a race, and many are on the 

 course. Yon must either run or be trodden 

 under foot. The multitude is moving on, you 

 must not look behind, or defeat is certain. 

 Young man, have an object in view, and then 

 press on to gain the prize. " You can if you 

 will." Will you? What if you should fail 

 once or twice? Men are scarce that have 

 never failed in their undertaking. You must 

 not expect to succeed better than others. No- 

 thing valuable is oVjtainable without labor. 

 Your success will depend upon yorf strict ad- 

 herence to your business. "As a first prin- 

 ciple, let every transaction be of that pure and 

 honest character that you would not be 

 ashamed to have appear before the whole 

 world as clearly as to yourself. It is of the 

 highest consequence that you shotild not only 

 cultivate correct principles, but that you 

 should place your standard so high as to re- 

 quire great vigilance in living up to it." 



The above is a quotation from Lawrence. 

 Every young man should adopt it as a rule by 

 which to govern his life. And to you that 

 may read this, I would say, form a purpose 

 of your ovm. Try to be something. There 

 is a place for you, all you have to do is to 

 find it. Aim high and you wiU hit something 

 above your lev^. Reader, have a noble ob- 

 ject in view, and then with all your might 

 press forward untU you reach it, and it is 

 yours. J. H. Funk. 



BanviUe, Iowa, Oct. 15, 1874. 



EnncATioN of Giels. — There are elements 

 at work at both ends of the system of female 

 education, that are destined to achieve great 

 results for women. One is the school of 

 Natural History at Pennikese Island, at which 

 more than half the pupils are female teachers, 

 and the other is the establishment and gradu- 

 al spread of kindergarten schools for the nurse- 

 lings. Undoubtedly the opening of colleges 

 to women and the co-education of the sexes 

 is another element not less potent in its ef- 

 fects. The aptitude of women for patient in- 

 vestigations, for mathematical calculations in 

 which time and accuracy rather than boldness 

 and originality enter, her delicate touch, her 

 quick perception — all these eminently fit her 

 for excellence in various departments of natu- 

 ral and mathematical science. Education and 

 training is all she needs to open w ide to her 

 many fields of useful labor hitherto occupied 

 almost entirely by men. 



So long as boys and girls, men and women 

 live in the same family, we must believe in 

 co-education within certain limits. The basis 

 of friendship is sympathy, and the greater 

 the sources whence that sympathy flows, the 

 stronger and more enduring will be the friend- 

 ship. Love is friendship sublimated — we do 

 not refer to that passion of quick growth and 

 decline which springs from physical contrasts 

 of temperment, but that which has its seat in 

 reason is judicious, and by consequence grows 

 mightier and more absorbing as youth departs 

 and autumnal ripeness clothes the intellect 

 and the heart with those qualities that com- 

 mand honor and veneration. So we would 

 have the boys and girls study substantially 



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