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LIST OF PATENTS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, 
For the toeek ending March 19, 1850. 
MOOKE’S EUKAL NEW-YOEKEfi: AN AGRICULTUEAL MD FAMILY JOURNAL. 
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To E. H. Ashcroft, of Boston, Mas.s., for im¬ 
proved method of applying fusible metal to boilers. 
To M. C. Bryant, of Lowell, Mass., for im¬ 
provements in looms for wiring piled fabrics. 
To J. B. H. Chatain, of New York, N. Y., for 
improvements in machines for planing ornamental 
mouldings. 
To E. F. Condit, &. A. Taylor (Assignors to 
Woodbridge Eaglesfield,) of Springfield, N. J.. 
for improvement in machines for making a 
bodies. 
To Chas. Downer, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in Weighing Frames. 
To E. L. Evans, of Mount Holley, N. J., for 
improved apparatus for trimming vessels 
To S. Fahrney, (Assignor to A. & J. Fahrncy,) 
of Boonsboro, Md., for improvement in tools tor 
preparing hubs for boxes. 
To S. S. Fitch, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in Abdominal Supporters. 
To J. P. Groshon, of Yonkers, N. Y., for im 
provement in Seed-Planters. 
To S. Harris, of Philadelphia, Pa., for improve¬ 
ment in hoisting machines. 
To F. D. Hayward & John C. Bickford, of Col 
Chester, Conn., for process of rolling India rubber 
cloth. 
To G. H. Hoagland, of Piermont, N. Y., for im¬ 
proved method of employing the exhaust steam. 
To H. H. Huntley, of. Cincinnati, Ohio, for 
improvement in Cooking Stoves. 
To J. R. Innis, of l!laston, Pa., for improved 
beaters in hide-handling cylinders. 
To J. MacGregor, Jr., of Wilton, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in double oven cooking stoves. 
To J. W. Nystrom, of Stockholm, Sweden, tor 
improved centripetal Propeller. 
To Wm. Ostrander & Win. Webster, of New 
York, N. Y., for improved method of forming sheet 
metal tubes. ■ i at i 
To John Pridham, of New Brunswick, N. .1., 
(Assignor to 11. H. Day, of Jersey Citjs N. J.,) 
for the use of the Oxide of Pin in the manufac¬ 
ture of India rubber. 
To P. P. Quimby, of Belfast, Me., lor improve¬ 
ment in Steering A'pparatus. • . 
To F. Ransom, of New York, N. Y., lor im¬ 
provements ill pumps for ships, &c. 
To N. Routzahii, of Middletown, Md., for im¬ 
provement in Churn-dashers. 
' To E. Sawver, of Boston, Mass., for improved 
movement of the pointing dies in spike machines. 
To A. H. Tinglev, (Assignor to E. W., H. F. 
&, A. H. Tinglev,)' of Providence, R. 1., for im¬ 
provement in machines for sawing marble. 
[ To Asa Whitney, of Philadelphia, Pa., for mi- 
( provement in cast iron car-wheels. 
To D. R. Williams, of Prospect. Conn., for 
( blind slat operator. , 
( To G. W. Yerger, of Pliiladelphia. 1 a 
provement in Artificial Legs. 
^ MOWING AND GRAIN CUTTING MACHINE 
[ Mil. Wm. B. Coates, of Big Lick, Roanoke 
\ county, Va., in a letter to the North Ameri- 
i can Fanner, describes a new invention of 
( his, which he is about to have patented. It 
; is :i machine for cutting grain and grass, 
twelve feet long, si.\ wide and four high, 
rcstino’ <.tn three wheels, one on each side, 
tind one smaller one- to balance the oth¬ 
ers. placed towards the front. The tongue 
is placed tit the left side, so that the inside 
horse wtdks about a foot from the grain. 
“The front// the machine has an inclined 
con)h, to run close to the ground, find 
straightens all flat grain; a horizonttil comb 
enters the grain, permits it to run back to 
the intersection of knives, and a horizontal- 
circular saw, when it is cut and thrown 
back into a conducting trough with a revol¬ 
ving bottom, which cai’ries the grain out to 
the left of the machine, and places it on an 
inclined plane, from whence it is carefully 
deposited in a regular line on the ground. 
The back of the machine has a rake, of pe¬ 
culiar construction, which can be used to 
rake and lay the cut grain in the same man¬ 
ner as a horse rake, or to rake the mowed 
grass into a regular thickness, as it proceeds. 
The machine can be lowered or raised, so 
as to cut high or low', by tw'o small levers, 
one on each side of the main frame. It will 
^ need no one but a boy to ride the oft-horse, 
when cutting grain, oats, barley, &c., the 
grain being laid as a cradle would lay it, 
and at the same time the rake collecting all 
and every stalk lying on the ground, much 
more effectually than a horse rake.” 
PAYNE’S HYDBG-ELECTRIC LIGHT. 
Ed. Boston Journal: — I have lately no¬ 
ticed, in the Washington Union, an account 
taken from the Baltimore Sun, of the won¬ 
derful discovery of a Mr. Browm, of Bal¬ 
timore, of a method of consuming water, in 
combination with resin, for the purposes of 
light (which, by the way, is claimed by a 
Mr. Baxter, in a communication to the N. 
Y. Journal of Commerce, as an English in¬ 
vention.) Now, Mr. Editor, if the produc¬ 
ing of light from a combination of the gas¬ 
es evolved from water and resin, although 
quite an improvement on the present meth¬ 
ods of obtaining carburetted hydrogen, is 
considered so wonderful, what will be said 
when the fact is made known, that water 
alone is now', and has been for months, in a 
neighboring city, in use for purposes of light, 
heat and power ? 
The writer was one of a party of gentle¬ 
men who visited Worcester on Saturday 
last, for the purpose of witnessing Mr. Hen¬ 
ry M. Payne’s “Electro Magnetic Decom¬ 
poser.” W^bile there we saw, in one hour, 
three pints of pure water decomposed into 
component gases, without the consumption 
of acids or metals, and with the use of no 
motive agent, save the descent of a w'cight 
of 67 pounds, a little over two feet; the 
gases evolved from which amount of wa¬ 
ter were employed, in our presence, both for 
purposes of heat and light, and which were 
absolutely produced without any other cost 
than the interest on the cost of the machine, 
which is about three hundred dollars. 
I now make these general statements, con¬ 
fining myself to the facts which I then wit¬ 
nessed, without comment or surmises as to 
w'hat the machine will ultimately accomplish, 
proposing soon, if nothing happens, to give 
your readers a more detailed account of Mr. 
P.’s experiments, as I may witnef5s them. 
Edw'in Lee Brow'ne. 
ROCKS OF LATTE SUPERIOR. 
BY LEW'IS CASS. 
for ini' 
SYMPATHIES OF SOUND, 
It is owing to the sympathetic communi¬ 
cation of vibrations, that persons, with a 
clear and powerful voice, have been able to 
break a large glass tumbler, by singing- 
close to its proper fundamental note. We 
have heard of a case where a person broke 
no fewer than twelve large glasses in suc¬ 
cession. The sympathy of vibrations or ten¬ 
dency of one vibrating body to throw an¬ 
other into the very same state of vibration, 
shows itself remarkably in the case of the 
going of two clocks fixed to the same shelf 
or wall. It was know'n, near a century ago, 
that two clocks set going on the same shelf- 
will affect each other. The pendulum of 
the one will stop that of the other, and the 
pendulum of the clock which is stopped, af¬ 
ter ti certain time, will resume its vibrations, 
and, in its tnni, stop that of the other clock. 
Mr. Joint Ellicott, who first observed these 
effects, noticed that two clocks, which varied 
from each other ninety-six seconds a day, 
agreed, to a second, several days when they 
were placed on the same rail. The slowest 
of these two clocks, which had a slower 
pendulum, set the other in motion in six¬ 
teen minutes and a half, and stopped itself 
in thirty-six minutes and a half. These ef¬ 
fects are clearly produced by the small vi¬ 
brations communicated from one pendulum 
to the other, the shelf, or rail, or plank, on 
which they botlt rest. It has been found 
that two conflicting sounds produce silence, 
as two converging rays of light produce 
darkness.— Tlerechell on Sound. 
Upon the southern coast of Lake Supe¬ 
rior, about 50 miles from the falls of St. 
Mary, are immense precipitious cliffs, called 
by the voyageur le Fottrail, the Pictured 
Rocks. This name has been given them in 
consequence of the different appearances 
which they present to the traveller, as he 
passes their base in his canoe. It requires 
little aid from the imagination to discci-n in 
them the castellated tower and lofty dome, 
and every sublime, grotesque, or fantastic 
shape, which the genius of architecture ev¬ 
er invented. These cliffs are an unbroken 
mass of rocks, rising to an elevation of 300 
feet above the level of the lake, and stretch¬ 
ing along the coast for fifteen miles. 
The voyagers never pass this coast except 
in the most profound calm; and the Indians, 
before they make the attempt, offer their 
accustomed oblation, to propitiate the favor 
of their Monitas. The eye instinctly search¬ 
es along the eternal rampart, for a single 
place of security; but the search is vain.— 
With an impassable barrier of rocks on one 
side, and an interminable expanse of water 
on the other, a sudden storm upon the Lake 
would as inevitably insure the destruction 
of the passenger in his frail canoe, as if he 
were on the brink of the cataract of Niagara. 
The rock itself is a sand-stone, wliich is 
disintegrated by the continual action of the 
water with camparative facility. There arc 
no broken masses upon which the eye can 
rest and find relief. The Lake is so deep, 
that these masses, as they are torn from the 
precipice, are concealed beneath its waters 
until it is reduced to sand. The action of 
waves has removed every projecting point. 
When we passed this immense fabric of 
nature, the wind was still and the lake was 
calm. But even the slightest motion of the 
waves, which in the most profound calm ag¬ 
itates these eternal seas, s-wept through the 
deep caverns with the noise of the distant 
thunder, and died away upon the ear, as it 
rolled forward in the dark recesses inacces¬ 
sible to human observation. 
No sound more melancholy or more aw'- 
ful ever -vibrated upon human nerves. It 
has left an impression which neither time 
nor distance can ever efface. 
Resting in a frail bark canoe, upon the 
limpid waters of the Lake, we scented almost 
suspended in the air, so pellucid is the ele¬ 
ment upon which we floated. In gazing 
upon the towering battlements which im¬ 
pended over us, and from which the small¬ 
est fragments Avould have destroyed us, wc 
felt, and felt intensely our own insignificance. 
No situation can be imagined more ajipal- 
ling to the courage, or more humbling to 
the pride of man. We appeared like a 
small speck upon the broad face of creation. 
Our whole party, Indians, voyagers, sol¬ 
diers, officers and servants, contemplated in 
mute astonishment the awful display of cre¬ 
ative power, at whose base we hung; and 
no sound broke upon the ear to inteiTupt 
the careless roaring of the waters. No ca¬ 
thedral, no temple built with human hands, 
no pomp of worship could ever impress the 
spectator with such humility, and so strong 
a conviction of the immense distance be¬ 
tween him and the Almighty Architect 
SEEPING THE SABBATH. 
Incombustible Preparation for ood. 
^ —The following receipe for rendering wood 
incombustible, has been, wc believe, tested 
in regard to its efficacy, and although per¬ 
sonally wc have not seen it proved, think 
we can recommend it a.s being of much 
utility, particularly when applied to the stir- 
face of wooden roofs, or other places partic¬ 
ularly exposed to tlie action ot tire. 
\ It is very simple in its preparation, which 
; reipiires the operator merely to take a quan- 
( tity of water proportionate to the surface of 
^ the wood he may wish to cover, and add to 
( it as much potash as can be dissolved there- 
I in. When the water will dissolve no more 
potash, stir into the solution first a quantity 
< of flour paste, of the consistency of com- 
( mon painter’s size; second, a sufficiency of 
i pure clay, to render it of the consistency of 
i cream. 
< When the clay is well mixed, apply the 
} preparation, as before directed, to the wood; 
^ it will secure it from the action of both fire 
;ind rain. In a most violerit fire, wood thi^ 
< saturated may be carbonated, but it will 
^ never blaze. 
> If desirable, a most agreeable color can 
t be given to the preparation, by adding a 
if small quantity of red or yellow ochre. 
Iridium, which forms the so called “Dia¬ 
mond point of tlie Gold Pen,” is the hard¬ 
est known mineral next to the Diamond, 
and is the only one which at all answers the 
purposes required in the delicate manufac¬ 
ture of which we are speaking. Iridium 
is imported to this country from the mines 
of Siberia, and from South America, and is 
obtained through agents in England—being 
purchased on this side expressly for the use 
of the gold pen manufacturers. Its price in 
o-ross bulk ranges from ^30 to $75 per 
ounce; no good qualities being- procurable 
at a lower rate than $30. Indeed, some 
years ago, very excellent samples are known 
to have commanded $100 an ounce. The 
same quality, again, which was valued at 
$15 and $20 per ounce, now brings $50 
As the demand has increased, the quality of 
the mineral has also grown poorer; it being- 
now quite difficult to procure good qualities 
to any large extent—the bulk of that im¬ 
ported being at least seven-eights waste, 
Tub Horse-Shoe Magnet. —Tliis is the 
best form for a potverful magnet, curious 
though it may be. It was discovered by 
Professor Henry, now of the Smithsonian 
Institute, Washington. Pi-of. Henry and Mr 
Ten Eyck constructed a horse-shoe magnet 
weighing 00 pounds, which supported more 
than two thousfind pounds. 
The power of a magnet is estimated by 
the weight its poles arc able to carry. Small 
magnets lift more according to their weights 
than hirgc onc.s. Sir Isaac N cw ton wore iu 
a ring a magnet of only three grains in 
weight, yet it could lift two hundred and 
fifty times its own iveight. Small horse¬ 
shoe magnets of one ounce weight will lift 
thirty times their weight. Professor Hen¬ 
ry’s magnet was indeed a rare one. 
ALL THE UNIVERSE IN MOTION. 
The Creator has given us a natural re¬ 
storative-sleep ; and a moral restorative— 
Sabbath-keeping; and it is ruin to dispense 
with either. Under the pressure of high 
excitement, individuals have passed weeks 
together with little sleep, or none; but when 
the process is long continued, the over-driv¬ 
en powers rebel, and fever, delirium, and 
death come on. N or can this natural 
amount be systematically curtailed without 
corresponding mischief. The Sabbath does 
not arrive like sleep. The day of rest does 
not steal over us like the hour of slumber. 
It does not entrance us almost whether wc 
V,'ill or not; but, addressing us intelligent 
being's, our Creator assures us that wc need 
it, and bids us notice its return, and court 
its renovation. 
And if, going in the face of the Creator’s 
kindness, tve force ourselves to work all days 
alike, it is not long till we pay the forfeit— 
Tlie mental worker—the man of business 
or the man of letters—finds his ideas coin¬ 
ing turbid and slow; the equipoise of his 
faculties is upset; he gro-^ys moody, fitful, 
and capricious; and with his mental elasti¬ 
city broken, should any disaster occur, he 
subsides into habitual melancholy, or in self- 
destruction speeds his guilty exit from a 
gloomy world. And the manual worker 
the artisan, the engineer,—toiling on from 
day to day, and week to tveek, the bright in¬ 
tuition of his eye gets blunted, and, forget¬ 
ful of their cunning, his fingers no longer 
perform their feats of twinkling agility, nor 
by a plastic and tuneful touch mould dead 
matter, or wield mechanic power; but ming¬ 
ling his life’s blood in his daily drudgery, 
his locks are prematurely grey, his genial 
humor sours, and slaving it till he has be¬ 
come a morose or reckless man, for any ex¬ 
tra effort or any blink of balmy feeling he 
must stand indebted to opium or alcohol. _ 
To an industrious population, so essential 
is the periodic rest, that when the attempt 
was made in France to abolish the weekly 
Sabbath, it was found necessary to issue a 
decree suspending labor one day in everj'^ 
ten. Master manufacturers have stated that 
they could perceive an evident deterioration 
in the quality of the goods produced, as the 
week drew near a close, just because the 
tact, alertness, and energy of the workers 
began to experience inevitable exhaustion. 
When a steamer on the Thames blew up 
a few 'months ago, the firemen and stokers 
laid the blame on their broken Sabbath; 
it stupefied and embittered them—made 
them blunder at their work, and heedless 
what havoc these blunders might create.— 
And we have been informed that when the 
engines of an extensive steam-packet com¬ 
pany, in the the south of England, were 
getting constantly damaged, the mischief 
was instantly repaired by giving the men 
what the bounty of their Creator had given 
them long before, the rest of each seventh 
day. And what is so essential to industrial 
efficiency is no less indispensable to the la¬ 
borer’s health and longeinty. ~North Brit¬ 
ish Review. 
Present Appearance of Jerusalem. 
kliss Martineau, during her late visit, had a 
\'iew of the holy city from the top of the 
mission church, presents the following pros- 
SAINTED MOTHER.” i 
The mother of John Randolph taught his ^ 
infant lips to pray. This fact he could nev- ^ 
er forget. It influenced his whole life, and ) 
saved him from the dangers of infidelity.— <; 
He was one day speaking on the subject of < 
infidelity, to which he had been much ex- < 
posed by his intercourse with men of infidel < 
principles, to a distinguished southern gen¬ 
tleman, and used this remarkable language: ' 
“I believe I should have bccu_ swept 
away by the flood of French infidelity, if it 
had not been for one thing—the remem¬ 
brance .of the time when my sainted moth¬ 
er used to make me kneel by her side, ta¬ 
king- my little hands folded in hers, and 
caused me to repeat the Lord’s Prayer.” 
Every mother who reads this anecdote 
may read an important practical lesson, 
which she ought to use in the case of her 
own children. No mother can ever know 
how great will be the influence on her son, 
in all his future life in this world and in the 
world to come, of teaching him to pray.— 
How appropriate, how beautifid the conduct 
of that mother who teaches her little son to 
kneel by her side as he retires to rest, to 
lift up his young heart to the God tliat 
made him, and on whose care and mercy 
he must rely in all the future years of his 
existence! If all mothers would teach their 
children to pray with and for them, how 
soon would this world’s aspect be changed, 
and bud and blossom as the rose! And 
the mother who does not teach her cltildren ' 
to pray, has no ground to believe that she 
shall ever meet her children in Heaven, or 
that she will ever reach there herself.— 
Prayerless mothers never find admission to 
Heaven. 
POPULAR DELUSIONS. 
If, for a moment, we imagine the acute¬ 
ness of our senses preternaturally heighten¬ 
ed to the extreme limits of telescopic vision, 
and bring together events separated by wide 
intervals of time, the apparent repose which 
reigns in space tvill suddenly vanish, count¬ 
less stars will be seen moving in groups 
various directions; nebulee wandering, 
condensing, and dissolving, like cosmical 
clouds; the milky -way breaking up in 
parts, and its veil rent asunder. In evei-y 
point of the celestial vault, we should re¬ 
cognize the dominion of progressive move¬ 
ment, as on the surface of the earth, where 
vegetation is constantly putting forth its 
leaves and buds, and unfolding its blossoms. 
The celebrated Spanish botanist, Cavanilles, 
fii-st conceived the possibility of “seeing 
grass gTOW,” by placing the horizontal mi¬ 
crometer wire of a telescope, with a high 
magnifying power, at one time on the point 
of a bamboo-shoot, and at another on the 
rapidly unfolding flowering stem of an 
American aloe; precisely as the astronomer 
places the cross tvires on a culminating star. 
Throughout the whole life of physical na¬ 
ture—in the organic as in the sidereal world 
—existence, preservation, production, and 
development, are alike associated -with mo¬ 
tion as their essential condition.— Hum- 
holdVs “ Cosmos.'' 
Plowing by Steam.— The Banffshire 
(England) Journal states, that a patent for 
a steam plow has been taken out by the in¬ 
ventor, Mr. James Usher, of the firm of 
Usher & Co., of Edinburg, and the machine 
will shortly be before the public. The ma¬ 
chine is constructed to plow six fun-ows at 
once, thus doing the work and saving the 
expense of six double horse plows. 
Dobs not the echo of the sea-shell tell of 
the worm that once inhabited it? and shall 
not man’s good deeds live after him and 
sing his praise ? 
pect: 
“ The extent and handsome appearance 
of Jerusalem surprised us. The population 
is said not to exceed fifteen thousand; but 
the city covers a great extent of ground, 
from the courts which are enclosed by east¬ 
ern houses, and the large unoccupied spa¬ 
ces which lie within the walls. The mas¬ 
sive stone walls, and substantial character 
of the buildings, remove every appearance 
of sordidness, when the place is seen from 
a heio-ht; ^d the clearness of the atmos¬ 
phere, and the hue of the building materi¬ 
al oive clear and cheerful air to the whole, 
according little with the traveler s precon¬ 
ception of the fallen state of Jerusalena.— 
The environs look fertile and floui'ishing, 
except where the Moab mountains rise loftj 
and bare, but adorned with the heavenly 
hues belonging to the glorious climate. 
The minarets ghttered against the cle^r sky, 
and the arches, marble platforms, and splen¬ 
did buildings of the mosque of Omar, 
crowning the heights of Moriah, were v'crj 
beautiful.” _ _ 
I acknowledge no Master of requests in 
heav'cn but one—Christ my Mediator. I 
know I cannot be so happy as not to need 
• Ytor so miserable that he should con 
temn me. Good prayers nevei came weep¬ 
ing home. I am sure I shall either receive 
what I ask, or what I should ask.—Bisko 2 ) 
Hall. ___ 
An elder in Scotland was once asked how 
he liked a preacher, who had officiated on 
the Sabbath previously. He replied, “Yery 
much.” “Was it his preaching that pleas¬ 
ed you so much ?” “’fhat w'us good, toit I 
liked iiimbestin prayer; he left out nothint/.' 
Dr. Cullen, when dying, is said to have 
faintly articulated to one of his inmates, “I 
w'ish I had the power of writing or speak¬ 
ing, for then I would desciibe to you how 
pleasant a thing it is to die.” 
It seems strange that in this era of en¬ 
lightened progress and general education, 
delusions as gross and palpable as those 
with which a. cunning priesthood bambooz¬ 
led the semi-barbarians of the dark ages, 
are swallowed with as much facility as if 
they were gospel truths. No extrav'agance 
of ancient superstition which history or tra¬ 
dition hits handed down to us, transcends 
the supernatural wonders which vve find 
gravely described in newspapers edited by 
men of education, and made the subject of 
philosophical dissertations as matter of fact 
in their tone and as positive in their dicta 
as if the subject treated of was some new 
invention in machinery. _ ^ 
Underground knockings, clairvoyant rev- } 
elations, spiritual excursions through the ) 
whole universe of God, the miraculous dis- ^ 
cover}' and cure of diseases, conversations ^ 
with “ spirits of health and goblins dam- 
ned,” and scores of other “ mysteries ” which ; 
throw into the shade the vagaries of the ; 
New England witches, are vouched for and ^ 
believed by men who seem to have.com- ) 
pounded for extraordinary acuteness in oth- > 
er matters by agreeing to swallow blindfold ^ 
every bugaboo theory that conflicts with the ^ 
laws of nature. We find in the Western j 
New York papers several communications, ; 
evidently written by men of education and < 
talent, insisting strenuously on the superaat- ( 
ural character of the Rochester knockings. \ 
These sticklers for the miraculous will not 
admit that their own senses may have been 
deceiv'ed. Sooner than doubt the infallibil¬ 
ity of their own ears and eyes, they insist 
that the Almighty has released a host of 
spirits from heaven and hell, and despatch¬ 
ed them to Rochester to hammer on the 
floors and knock chairs and tables about.— 
And yet Herr Alexander or Adrien have a 
thousand times performed tricks far more 
inexplicable than the Rochester knockings, 
and equally unsusceptible of explanation or 
detection. 
There is, after all, some excuse for the 
credulity of the age. So many startling 
discoveries have been made within the last 
fifteen years, that people begin to think it 
unsafe to doubt anything. But there is a 
very simple rule by which all marv'cls 
should be tried. If they are susceptible of 
an explanation under the general principles 
of cause and effect, they should not be rash¬ 
ly rejected; but if in violation of the har¬ 
mony of nature; if irreconcilable vvith the 
la-ws which govern the universe; if their 
reality would necessarily involve the direct 
interference of spiritual agency in human 
affairs, we are justified by the consistency 
of God’s government as manifested in the 
undeviating regularity of natural operations 
and the harmony of all discoveries with cer¬ 
tain fixed and apparently immutable laws, 
in pronouncing them delusions. 
Great talent renders a man famous, 
great merit procures respect; great learning- 
gains esteem; good breeding alone insures 
love and aftection. 
The humblest author must embalm some 
flowers of thought; write often, then, that 
they may blossom over your tomb. 
O, for youth once more, that green spring¬ 
time, before suspicion hath mildewed the 
fair fiowers of the ideal future. 
Buy not, sell not, where self-respect is bar¬ 
tered, for that once lost, the mainspring of 
honor is rusted and decayed. 
Reprove not a sconier, lest he hate thee; 
rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 
