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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
MAKE YOUR MARK. 
In the quarries should you toil, 
Make your mark; 
Do you delve upon the soil ? 
Make your mark; 
In whatever path you go, 
In whatever place you stand, 
Moving swift or moving slow, 
With a firm and honest hand 
Make your mark. 
Should opponents hedge your way, 
Make your mark; 
Work by night or work by day, 
Make your mark; 
Struggle manfully and well, 
Let no obstacles oppose, 
None right shielded ever fell 
By the weapons of his foes— 
Make your mark. 
What though born a peasant’s son, 
Make your mark; 
Good by poor men can be done— 
Make your mark. 
Peasant’s garbs may warm the cold ; 
Peasant’s words may calm a fear; 
Better far than hoarding gold 
Is the drying of a tear. 
Make your mark. 
Life is fleeting as a shade, 
Make your mark. 
Marks of some kind must be made, 
Make your mark— 
Make it while the arm is strong, 
In the golden hours of youth; 
Never, never make it wrong; 
Make it with the stamp of truth — 
Make your mark. 
Masonic Magazine. 
CAR ETIQUETTE. 
Somebody —not one of the drawing-room dil- 
lettanti, but one who has taken lessons in heart- 
politeness—must write the Railroad Chesterfield, 
or the Way farer’s Book of Etiquette. It is curious 
to see how the “gentleman” and the “lady,” as 
well as the “hog,” or the “bear,” stick out in 
the little indications which people manifest in 
traveling, more than under any other circum¬ 
stances. 
The following paragraph, taken from an 
exchange, illustrates the great necessity of such 
an oracle for the migratory multitude: 
Pretty and Graceful. —It is now-a-days a 
very common affair to see two ladies (?) enter a 
railroad car half an hour before the time for the 
leaving of the train, throw the back of one seat 
over so as to sit vis-a-vis, lumber the spare room 
with shawls, bundles and band-boxes—and then, 
when the cars begin to be filled up, take 
every precaution to prevent any one from 
occupying either of what should be vacant seats, 
and in many instances compelling passengers to 
stand, when a spirit of accommodation would 
allow them a comfortable position. Such persons 
should be informed by the conductor, that when 
they buy a ticket, the purchase of the car is not 
included. 
None of us but have had similar scenes come 
under our notice. We are reminded at this mo¬ 
ment, of a singular movement on the part of an 
individual in the Central Railroad cars, which 
came under our observations a few weeks ago— 
a movement which combined in a striking de¬ 
gree, at once the j udicial and the executive in 
the person of a single self-appointed Tighter of 
human wrongs. 
Two ladies, fashionably dressed and appa¬ 
rently intelligent, but of the species indicated 
above, had taken their seats in the cars, facing 
each other, and eking out to the greatest pos¬ 
sible extent what they called their “baggage,” 
(though the live stock of the party were far 
worthier that name,) with shawds, reticules and 
little “ fixings,” so as to effectually exclude all 
comers from the two vacant seats. The cars 
soon became uncomfortably crowded, several 
were standing, and many were the ineffectual 
applications made for the unoccupied places 
referred to, but all to no purpose. When, at 
last, an elderly gentleman and his wdfe, coming 
in, and meekly requesting a place, the young 
lady, who sat with her brazen face to¬ 
wards the passengers, consented to allow the 
lady of the new comers to sit opposite her, but 
no mortal would she permit to occupy the seat 
by her side. Consequently the husband was 
compelled to find an asylum in some remote 
part of the car. The indignation and contempt 
of all the passengers had, by this time, attained 
to about the murmuring pitch, but things went 
on in this way a few stations further, when a 
stalwart, hoosier-looking chap, who sat directly 
opposite the elderly lady,on the other side of the 
aisle, seeming to have been visit ed by a sudden 
inspiration, rose, marched up to the self-com¬ 
placent young pre-emptioner, and said in a tone 
that would have made a nor’-wester nervous : 
“ Hello ! sa-ay—look o’here! I bin thinking 
we can make a better ’rangement than this. I 
should like to hev that old gen’lman and his wife 
sit together, I should. They’d ride a heap more 
comfortable. Now spos’n you and this other 
gal turn over this seat and sit together, and I’ll 
fetch the old gen’lman and sit him down along 
side of this woman.” 
With a supercilliousness that was “beautiful 
to see,” her ladyship replied : 
“No, I thank you, sir. I want this seat for 
my baggage, and I shall not give it up to any 
body,” and up goes her nose into an angle of 
45 degrees. 
“ Wa-all now,” persisted Hooshierous, “ that 
don’t seem reasonable, that you should litter up 
a hull seat with them little traps, when places 
is so scarce. Hang ’em up onto a nail; stick 
’em under ye ; set onto ’em ; there's lots o’ways 
to fix it.” 
Snap went the eyes again, and up cocked the 
little nose,- as she retorted— 
“ I shall do no such thing sir; and moreover, 
I’ll be obliged to you, if you’ll just mind your 
own business.” 
“ Well, now, you see, I’ve set my heart unto 
fixing this, and it dont seem ’stho’ I could think 
o’ being disappointed. And I’ve about made up 
my mind, that unless you fix it so, I shall be 
obliged to give up my seat to the old gen’lman, 
so’s to bring him as nigh as possible to his wife, 
and I shall hev to come and set along o’ you. 
I dunno but you’d like the ’rangement; I’m con¬ 
sidered some, among the girls where I live.” 
A look of determination began now to gleam 
from the corrugated face of the countryman, 
and the young lady, with mingled alarm and 
indignation, hastened to reply— 
“ You’d better take care what you do, sir; 
I’m not to be insulted with impunity.” 
“Oh, I’m responsible,” was his only answer, 
as he led the old gentleman to his own seat, and 
immediately commenced crowding into a place 
by the side of the young lady. This movement 
she resisted, when, encircling her waist with his 
brawny arm, he lifted her up, as though she 
were a child, planted her down firmly at the 
further end of the seat, and settled himself com¬ 
fortably into his place. 
“There,” said he, “ that’s the dandy. Now 
let’s hev a little turn o’talk. You’d find me one 
o’ the pleasantest fellows you ever did see, in 
private conversation.” 
The reader may well suppose there were 
screams and struggles, and eyes that flashed 
through tears, and threats of vengeance by the 
quantity, while the passengers on every side 
staggered by the Cromwellian boldness of this 
coup d'etat , and more than doubtful of its pro¬ 
priety, but rejoicing, in spite of their misgivings, 
over the sudden retribution that had befallen 
the common enemy, were vainly striving to 
conceal their merriment. 
“ You brute! you villain! I never was so in¬ 
sulted in my life! It’s outrageous for the passen¬ 
gers to permit it! Conductah! conductah! wa— 
augh—ow! Where’s the conductah ? We’ll see 
if ladies are to be insulted in the cars with im¬ 
punity ! ” 
““Fetch on your conductor! ” says the impertur- 
able squatter, “ I’d like to have him tell us what 
a lady in a car is! ” 
Out bounded the lady in a rage. “ I’d rather 
jump off the track than sit with such a beast." 
Immediately the Hoosier rose, turned over the 
revolving back, removed the lady’s “ things” 
carefully to the seat on which her companion, 
mute and terrified, was sitting, placed the pas¬ 
sive old gentleman and his wife, (who obeyed 
him with an amusing reliance upon his superior 
ability,) into the vacant places, and returned 
quietly to his own seat, with the exegi monu- 
menturn air of a man who has “ served his 
generation.” 
The ejected lady soon returned to the side of 
her companion, and in a crest-fallen and unob¬ 
trusive mood, retained her place to the close of 
the journey. 
Our story is done. We hardly think we 
should have attempted it, had we anticipated it 
would prove so long a one. We’ll not spin it 
out any further with philosophizing, but let 
every reader make his own “improvements.” 
We don’t believe the all-pervading young lady 
on the cars, at any rate, is in any doubt about 
its Moral. — Syracuse Chronicle. 
An Intense Native American. —The most 
decided case of nativeism we have recently 
known is that of a person in this city, who was 
asked to attend the Pilgrim Ball, at Plymouth, 
on the 22d inst. He replied that “ he was not 
going forty miles to attend a celebration in 
honor of the arrival of a parcel of foreigners.”— 
Transcript. 
Over-paid. — An Irishman, who had jumped 
into the water to save a man from drowning, 
on receiving a sixpence from the person, as a 
reward for his services, looked first at the six¬ 
pence and then at him, and at last exclaimed, 
“ Well! I’m over-paid for the job.” 
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Taking it Easy. — A traveller in England, 
observing a peasant at work, and seeing he was 
taking it remarkably easy, said to him: 
“ My dear friend, you don’t appear to sweat 
any.” 
“ Why no, master; six shillings a week ain’t 
sweating wages.” 
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Where to Cut it. —A Yankee boy had a 
whole Dutch cheese set before him by waggish 
friends, who however gave him no knife. 
This is a funny cheese, Uncle Joe, but where 
shall I cut it ?” 
“Oh!” said the grinning friend, “cut it 
where you like.” 
“Very well,” said the Yankee, coolly put¬ 
ting it under his arm, “ I’ll cut it at home.” 
Fatherless. —As Father Morris was walking- 
through a parish famous for its profanity, he 
was stopped by a whole flock of the youthful 
reprobates of the place. “Father Morris! 
Father Morris! the devil’s dead!” “Is he?” 
said the old man, benignly laying his hand on 
the head of the nearest urchin; “ You poor 
fatherless children!” 
On Horseback. —A gentleman riding on 
horseback through the town of-, one day, 
met an awkward fellow leading a hog, whom he 
accosted in the following manner: “ How odd 
it looks to see one hog lead another!” “ Yes,” 
replied the chap, “ but not so odd as it docs to 
see a hog ride on horseback!” 
