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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
children. They should never have the least 
anxiety to accumulate property for their chil¬ 
dren, provided they can place them under in¬ 
fluences which will awaken their faculties, 
inspire them with higher principles and fit 
them to bear a manly, useful and honorable 
part in the world. No language can express 
the folly of that economy, which to leave a 
fortune to a child, starves his intellect and 
impoverishes the heart. 
FLOGGING A CLERGYMAN. 
About twenty years ago, when there were 
but few settlements in the northern parts of 
Ohio, an itenerant preacher of the Methodist 
Society, by the name of Johnson, was em¬ 
ployed to travel on an extensive circuit in 
that section of the country. Johnson was a 
man somewhere about the middle stature, 
with brawny shoulders and endowed with 
great muscular strength, and a degree of 
courage and self-possession adequate to any 
emergency, qualities which admirably fitted 
him for conflict with the rude and boister¬ 
ous element pervading the society by which 
he was surrounded. In his manner he was 
ever affectionate, but faithful in whatever he 
considered his duty, without regard to con¬ 
sequences. The fearlessness with which 
he assailed the strongholds of depravity and 
licentiousness, had the effect of drawing 
down on his head the indignation of a cer¬ 
tain class of characters, who determined to 
get rid of him, insulted and annoyed him in 
various ways, but through his coolness and 
shrewdness, not only were their plans en¬ 
tirely defeated, but not unfrequently their 
wicked devices were made to recoil upon 
their own heads. 
After every expedient had signally failed, 
it was resolved as a last resort, to cause the 
preacher to be waylaid and severely beaten, 
with the assurance that unless he should de¬ 
camp immediately, the same course of treat¬ 
ment should be followed up until the desired 
effect should be produced. As the instru¬ 
ment of their vengeance,they were induced 
to select an Irishman of the name of Kenne¬ 
dy, who had the reputation of being the most 
athletic man in the country, and who for a 
stipulated reward readily undertook the dis¬ 
graceful business. 
One time as the clergyman was riding on 
horseback, he was met in an unfrequented 
spot by the ruffian, who was also on horse¬ 
back ; Kennedy saluted him with mock re¬ 
spect, and informed him that he intended to 
give him a sound drubbing. 
“ Ah, but my dear sir you had better go 
about your business. If you try it, you will 
be sure to get the worst of the bargain.” 
“ There’s little fear of that,” exclaimed 
Kennedy, “ I have basted stronger men than 
you before to-day.” So saying he aimed a 
blow with his fist at the preacher’s head, in¬ 
tending to knock him of his horse, but mis¬ 
sing, received one in return, which brought 
him instantly to the ground. The preacher 
then dismounted, and picking up his chop 
fallen adversary, threw him over an adjoin 
ing fence. 
The bully finding that he had got hold of 
the wrong customer, wisely concluded upon 
a cession of hostilities, and looking over the 
fence he cried out, as the preacher was pa¬ 
tiently waiting for another attack— 
“ I say, Mister, will you be good enough to 
throw my horse after me 1” 
Johnson was thereafter permitted to ride 
and preach without the smallest molestation. 
Pleasant for Tobacco-Chewers. —The 
Worcester Transcript says : We notice a 
man about our streets, collecting into a bag 
old stumps of cigars. In our large cities, the 
collecting/)f old cigars is made a lucrativ 
business, as they are readily purchased by 
tobacconists, and manufactured into fine cut 
chewing tobacco. 
The Duties of a Mother. —She should be 
firm—gentle—kind—always ready to attend 
to her child. 
She should never laugh at him—at what 
he does that is cunning —never allow him to 
think of his looks, except to be neat and 
clean in all his habits. 
She should teach him to obey a look—to 
respect those older than himself; she should 
never make a command, without seeing that 
it is performed in the right manner. 
Never speak of a child’s faults, or foibles, 
or repeat his remarks before him. It is a 
sure way to spoil a child. 
Never reprove a child when excited, nor 
let your tone of voice be raised when cor¬ 
recting him. Strive to inspire love, not 
dread—respect, not fear. Remember you 
are training and educating a soul for Eter¬ 
nity. 
Teach your child to wait upon itself,—to 
put away a thing when done with it. But 
do not forget that you were once a child. 
The griefs of little ones are too often neg¬ 
lected ; they are great for them. Bear pa¬ 
tiently with them, and never in any way 
rouse their anger, if it can be avoided. 
Teach a child to be successful, whenever 
opportunity may offer. 
Game of Marbles. —This has for ages been 
a favorite game among boys. At times it 
absorbs everything else, and becomes for a 
season the only sport of the school play¬ 
ground. It is not. by any means a very de¬ 
sirable game, for several reasons. It neces¬ 
sarily compels to a stooping, squatting pos¬ 
ture of body, and as the marble tossed is so 
light, it can not tend to muscular action and 
development. But its moral effects are its 
worst features. It affords many temptations 
to dishonesty—crowding or reaching too 
near the marbles thrown at—jostling in the 
smallest degree the elbow of a competitor— 
or speaking so suddenly as to disconcert him. 
For these and other reasons, we incline to 
discourage it; especially as it is so likely, 
and tends so directly, to produce the love and 
to foster the habit of engaging in games of 
chance, and betting upon success, than which 
nothing is more injurious.— Schoolmaster. 
Hurrah. —This word is pure Sclavonian, 
and is commonly heard from the coasts of 
Dalmatia to Behring’s Straits, when any of 
the populations, living within these limits are 
called on to give proof of courage and valor. 
The origin of the word belongs to the primi¬ 
tive idea f hat every man that dies heroically 
for his ountry goes straight to Heaven 
{Ha- to Paradise), and it is so that in the 
shock and ardor of battle, the combatants 
utter that cry, as the Turks do that of Allah ! 
ach animating himself by the certitude of 
immediate recompense, to forget earth and 
condemn death. 
Noble Reply. —An officer of distinction 
and tried valor, refused to accept a challenge 
sent by a young adventurer: “I fear not 
your sword but the anger of my God. I 
dare venture my life in a good cause, but 
can not hazard my soul in a bad one. I will 
charge up to the cannon’s mouth for the good 
of my country, but I want courage to storm 
hell.” 
Warm. —It is so scorching hot in Dayton, 
and so perspiring, that the editor of the Jour¬ 
nal in that city keeps a large “ cullud pus- 
son” by him constantly, with direction to 
“ wring him out ” every ten minutes. 
HINTS FOR MARRTAGEABLE LADIES. 
If a man wipes his feet on the door-mat 
before coming into the room, you may be 
sure he will make a good domestic husband. 
If a man in snuffing the candles, snuffs them 
out, you may be sure he will make a stupid 
husband. If a man puts his handkerchief on 
his knees while taking his tea, you may be 
sure he will make a prudent husband. In 
the same way, always mistrust the man who 
will not take the last piece of toast or Sally 
Lunn, but prefers waiting for the next warm 
batch. It is not unlikely he will make a 
greedy selfish husband, with whom you will 
enjoy no “ brown” at dinner, no crust at tea, 
no peace whatever at home. The man, my 
dears, who wears goloe shoes, and is careful 
about wrapping himself up well before ven¬ 
turing into the night air, not unfrequently 
makes a good invalid husband, that mostly 
stops at home, and is easily comforted with 
slops. The man who watches the kettle and 
prevents its boiling over, will not fail, my 
dear, in his married state, in exercising the 
same care in always keeping the pot boiling. 
The man who doesn’t take tea, ill-treats the 
cat, takes snuff, and stands with his back to 
the fire, is a brute, whom I could not advise 
you, my dears, to marry upon any consider¬ 
ation, either for love or money, but decidedly 
not for love. But the man who, when tea is 
over, is discovered to have had none, is sure 
to make the best husband. Patience like his 
deserves being rewarded with the best of 
mothers-in-law. My dears, when you meet 
with such a man, do your utmost to marry 
him. In the severest winter he would not 
mind going to bed first .—London Punch. 
“A MAN’S A MAN FOR A’ THAT!” 
Can you rub it out I Wet your finger and 
with it rub out the veins in the hewn granite ! 
and then try and destroy the fact that though 
a man be poor he is still a man. The but¬ 
terfly has more reason to be proud of the col¬ 
ored dust of his wings, than man of the col¬ 
ored dust of his pocket—the snail of his fan¬ 
cy built shell, than the nabob of his palaces ; 
for God has given them, but how ofien on the 
contrary has man stolen his magnificence 1 
Who sleeps the sounder, the poor little 
child that falls asleep upon the husk-mat, or 
the dainty thing that lies on feathers piled ! 
Whose dreams are the pleasanter, the little 
urchin who springs with delight at the illu 
sion of a bright sixpence found by the road¬ 
side, or the miser who wakes with frenzied 
eye and tortured brain, crying, “ Murder, 
murder, thieves!” 
Wealth surely has its advantages, but he 
who considers haughtiness, disdain and de- 
rison as among the number is a fool. That’s 
flat! but get away from the conclusion, if you 
can. Old Pharaoh found it out„to his heart’s 
content—so did Haman and any quantity 
more of them. So, if you are poor don’t de¬ 
spair, neither fret if the nose is sometimes 
turned up at you. Noses turn to dust like 
other things, and though you have not got 
gold, still remember, “ A man’s a man for a’ 
that!” 
Where to Find a Wife. —In one of the 
factories in Maine recently, the proprietors 
reduced the wages, whereupon there was a 
general determination to strike , and as they 
were obliged to give a month’s notice before 
quitting work, they have meanwhile issued 
a circular to the world at large, in which is 
the following interesting paragraph : “ We 
are now working out our notice, and shall 
soon be without employment; can turn our 
hands to ’most anything; don’t like to be 
idle—but determined not to work for nothing 
where folks can afford to pay. Who wants 
j help I We can make bonnets, dresses, pud 
