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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
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BY L. WETHERELL. 
*• Flavine light, we seek to impart it.” 
WHO IS THE TEACHER OF YOUR CHILDREN 1 
Of all earthly employments we know of 
none whose importance ranks higher than 
that of educating children. Education may 
be either moral, religious, intellectual or 
physical. No person can be said to be well 
educated, who has not received, moral, re¬ 
ligious, intellectual and physical cultivation 
and training. To do this work well, re¬ 
quires the most gifted and higly cultivated 
minds. But, alas! how few such minds 
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relatively, are engaged in this responsible 
calling. 
Parents, as a general thing, are fastidious 
enough in regard to the dress of their chil 
dren. It is a common practice for mothers 
to select the material of which the clothing 
of their children is to be made and to see 
that the garments are cut and made in 
becoming manner;—aye more —in such 
style as shall render their dear ones as at 
tractive as possible to all observers. None 
but a first rate dress-maker, tailor or barber, 
when they can be found, will do for such 
parents as would render their children 
pleasing to those with whom they are ex 
pected to associate in childhood, and from 
among whom it is expected they will select 
the friends and companions who will be 
their solace in riper years. With all this 
we have no fault to find—it is well—this 
ye ought to do. It is right for parents to 
take care that their children be dressed in 
g ^ a proper and becoming manner. It is un 
fortunate for a child to be so dressed as to 
cause him to be a subject of remark. It 
wounds his self-respect —it causes him to 
avoid society for fear of being laughed at 
If it be essential that what pertains to 
the exterior be thus well cared for, how 
much more so is it concerning that which 
is to endure and enjoy or suffer when the 
sun himself shall grow dim with age and 
the stars shall be extinguished by that law 
of decay and change, which is stamped upon 
man’s body. It is mind that distinguishes 
man from all other animals that live, move 
and have their being upon earth. Would 
that parents when they find it necessary to 
call in aid to assist them in educating their 
children, or when they feel compelled to 
send them abroad to avail themselves of 
such assistance as they need, were as fas¬ 
tidious in selecting a teacher, or teachers, as 
they are in what pertains to dress. 
Who are teaching your children- 
brought into life through your instrumen¬ 
tality, and destined to exist forever ? Whom, 
we say again, have you employed, or are 
you employing, to help educate your off¬ 
spring mentally, physically, morally and re¬ 
ligiously? Have you duly considered this 
point? Right education is a symmetrical 
development of all the powers and capaci¬ 
ties of the child, with such cultivating, dis¬ 
ciplining and training as shall produce the 
highest perfection of human character. 
We doubt, notwithstanding the large 
number of gifted and learned men engaged 
in teaching, whether there can be found 
among all the vocations of human life, in 
relation to the number employed, so many 
persons totally unfit to do the work which 
they engage to perform, as in the busi 
ness of teaching children. This state of 
things is owing mainly to the belief which 
many entertain, that anybody can teach 
young children. This notion is productive 
of an incalculable amount of evil. No pa¬ 
rent, however remiss in (his duty, entertains 
any such notions concerning mechanics. He 
would not send his gold watch to a tinker 
of a blacksmith to have it repaired—nor 
his cloth for a coat to a common seamstress 
to have it cut and made. Why then send 
your children to be taught by one who has 
never read nor studied a work on Intellect¬ 
ual Philosophy ? To one who, perchance, 
can teach nothing but words and books— 
for he knows nothing beyond them—to one 
who has never felt nor known that words 
are but symbols, and only valuable as they 1 
shadow forth the realities that lie beneath 
them, as it were. 
We have endeavored in what we have 
said to awaken parents to the importance of 
considering well whom they employ to ed 
ucate, or to help in educating their children. 
See to it, that the teacher is competent to 
do the work well which you employ him to 
perform. Be as careful, at least, in select¬ 
ing an instructor as you would be in choos¬ 
ing a mechanic. 
THE “IS BEING BUILT” PRINCIPLE. 
Tur. house “is being built ”—money “is be¬ 
ing collected ”—are now common phrases in both 
written and colloquial language. If this form of 
the verb bo English—then it is good English to 
say, the house was being built, the house shall or 
will be being built, the house has been being built, 
and the house shall or will have been being built. 
None will maintain that this is elegant language, 
however strongly it may be advocated that it is 
English. 
Instead of this new phrase, is it not better to say 
the house is building?—money is collecting ? Does 
not this form of speech sound much better than 
the former? Then why not use it to the utter ex¬ 
clusion of the other ?—Rural New-Yorker. 
This is an old question, and is not likely 
to be settled to the satisfaction of all parties 
by discussion. 
ers of a similar kind. Not every new word 
or phrase incorporated into our language 
can be set down as an “improvement.” 
He sums up by saying .hat he prefers 
the compound perfect participle, to the im- 
A TAME PELICAN. 
, , , This bird is the personification of pets, 
pci ect, when applied to the collection of He becomes as tame as a dog. He is des- 
money—or in other words, he prefers a dol- titute of tricks, but has a sober strut and a 
serious air of consequence and dignity about 
him that make him the delight of his friends, 
and the admiration of all beholders. 
1 here was a tame male of the species, 
whose-name was Jack, at the post at Tampa 
|-Bay, and he still lives, doubtless, in the. mem 
ory of its inhabitants. Jack's master was IIos 
lar in the hand, to a dollar in circulation— 
alias, money collected is more available lor 
immediate use, than money that is collect¬ 
ing, though the collector be ever so honest 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
A Pronouncing German Reader, to which is pital Steward; and his quarters were, of 
added Method of Learning to Read ami under- course, among the sick. Unless replied 
stand the German Language with or without a M » , ?, ” 
Teacher. By James C. Okhbschlagkr, Pro- wUl1 a mull «<- ln the morning, he would fly 
fessor of Modern Languages in Philadelphia, and out on the bay to fish, and generally be 
t 4 ™* UMil 1,8 ll "'" 
ton &. (.o. 1850. along, grazing the fences and roofs of the 
The object of this volume, as stated by ll(,Uses > and fli PP in g down again to within 
the author, is, to teach the pupil to read and ! bur , or fi . v ® ftiK from lhe ground, and alight 
, , , „ . . tor the nighi, on the hospital porch. Here 
understand German, supposing no previous he woultl p | ume himself, crouch down, and 
acquaintance with the language, and with rest his long bill, of the length of his body, 
out a teacher. We commend this book to on his back, beneath his wing. This was 
all who are studying thisimportantlanguage. b ' s seeping posture; and when he had 
& everything comfortably arranged for the 
being s 
Harpers’ New Monthly Magazine for night, nothing could tempt him to change 
We will take the New Yor- May, is published. This number opens his position. You might approach him, or 
kei s side, and see where it will lead us, and with a general view and description of the tt>aze l'' m > or P a t his sides or head, or tempt 
give a few examples on the “house is buil- « Nove]t Iron Works „ j. New Yor k hv him ' vilh ds, U but h « would never move, 
ding principle; “ the horse is riding” —“the j A The’fid ♦ • ’ ^ With his eyes as clear and placid as an in¬ 
board is planing”—'“ the floor is sweeping” * c A ® * * The article contains seve- f ant > s he would follow eery motion you 
-“the boy is whipping”-the thief is ta- ral beautiful illustrations. This number made; but he knew his popularity too well 
kmg”—“the sheep are shearing.” We completes the second volume, and the first to give himself any further trouble concer- 
don’t profess to have looked into the root year of the Magazine’s being, and like its fling you. 
of the matter but it strikes us that such a predecessors is filled with a variety of aood 0f course he was a prime favorite with 
word as building is a participle of an active the soldiers, often flying up to see them at 
transitive verb, and that it implies an agent lhe P ubl * her8 Intead *> the ir quarters, and taking his chance with 
and object—thus a man is building—a house, the Magazine a strictly national work, de- the crows at anything fishy that fell from 
Here ibe the grammatical requirements are voted to the diffusion of intelligence, virtue the company kitchens. Jack's visits were I „f God,-from the penetrate m which 
lull. A house is building—wha u . In this and patriotism. Its pages are to be enrich- pretty regular, however, and as he showed ° ^ 
form of speech we have an absurdity, be- e d with original matter as well as with the an unbounded laith in his friends, they did 
cause it is impossible for a house of its own choicegt ductions of the English p res8 not forget him. A fresh mullet was his 
volition to perform a transitive action. We £ , J? , f failing: he always remembered the house 
prefer, as a general thing, the other—though 1 nje, they have resolved to furnish the where he got one, and at some unsuspecting 
in many cases, the language sounds better world’s best Magazine. Terms, $3 a year, hour would flutter himself again under the 
How little cause for exaltation in the 
eyes of the world, or in the estimation of 
our own hearts, do we find when we look 
calmly and in the light of Divine Truth 
upon ourselves as standing before Him 
who seeth and judgeth all things. With 
what leelings of sell abasement are we 
forced to recall the many sins we have 
committed, the many duties we have neg¬ 
lected, the many precious opportunities we 
have slighted, or perverted into curses rath¬ 
er than blessings. How humiliating the 
eoriviction of the instability and froward- 
ness of our minds, the hardness of our 
hearts, and the proud, rebellious nature of 
tlie spirit within us. In how many ways— 
by what an immeasurable distance—have 
we “come short of the glory of God,” leav¬ 
ing unfulfilled and unhonored the great pur¬ 
pose of our being. 
The duty of self examination, however 
painful to perform, is sometimes forced upon 
us. We cannot—we will not, wholly and 
forever, shut our eyes to our own moral 
state and progress, but must sometimes 
look upon it from the stand-point of Eter¬ 
nity. Reason, Conscience, and the Word 
ot God awaken us to examine turse’ves; 
and when we do so truth)ully — the Spirit 
searching our hearts—we are compelled to 
cry out: “There is no health in us.” We 
may resolve to amend, we may seek to 
remedy or to hide our sinfulness; we may 
put forth all our strength against the in¬ 
dwelling evil: but yet upon careful self-ex¬ 
amination, “our hearts condemn us ,”—and 
what shall we not fear from the judgment 
to the ear to use the present particple alone, or 25 cents a number. For sale at D. M 
To say a house is “ being built,” may not Dewey’s, Arcade Hall, Rochester. 
be philologically correct taking the words - 
in their strict dictionary and grammatical The Massachusetts Teacher. —This 
definition —but yet usage has made it so— excellent monthly for May, is received 
for after all, language cannot be confined The first article is on “Moral Training ” 
by arbitrary rules laid down in books, but ,, , .. D • „ b ’ 
w ,, J ,i J the second, “ Recitation ot Poetrv”— th rd 
must change, as society changes. Forms ^ ? uliru * 
ot expression and the use of words cannot ^ ie d eac ber s Encouragements”—fourth, 
remain like the laws of theMedes and Per- “ Mutual Exercises;” another on “ Compo 
sians, else we should have no improvement, sition” —and others on various and interest- 
At any rate, we had rather run the risk of ing subjects. We commend the “Teacher 
having a debt “being collected ”—than to • 
have it off “ collecting,” let the books or 
book worms .say what they please.- 
Commercial Advertiser. 
-Bffalo 
porch, with a flapping that aroused the 
whole household; but he was gentle in his 
manners, and would not intrude a second 
time where he found he was an unwelcome 
guest. His pouch was capacious and very 
dilatable, running round the lower rim of 
his under bill, and corrugated up when he 
was at rest, so as scarcely to he seen; hut 
he would peck at you when coming near 
him, and it would then fall down for a few 
inches. His hill was about eleven inches 
long; and, owing to this great length and 
to all teachers. Terms, $1 a year We I 7®, smallness b * s head, it possessed very 
J 1 little power. In fact, 1 know no bird more 
will cheerfully receive and forward the sub¬ 
scriptions of any who desire the work. 
The editor of the Commercial differs 
somewhat from us concerning the passive 
form of the phrase denoting a progressive 
condition. While we prefer the form, “ the 
house is building” by man, the Commer¬ 
cial prefers the phrase, “ the house is being 
built,” by man. We both mean, undoubt¬ 
edly, to express the same st?te or condition 
of the work in progress. Now 
of these two modes of expression can be | m every 
FEMALE EDUCATION. 
There are a few common phrases in cir¬ 
culation, respecting the duties of women, to 
which we wish to pay some degree of at¬ 
tention, because they are rather inimical to 
those opinions which we have advanced on 
this subject. Indeed, independently of this 
there nothing which requires more vigi- 
^ ance tbatl the current phrases of the day, 
:f the former 0 f which there are always some resorted to 
dispute 
poorly off than the pelican in this respect; 
but his Immense size and unruffled good 
nature guard him equally from offensive 
and defensive operations. I have seen a 
man, bending his arm at the elbow, thrust the 
whole of it, tothe shoulder, into Jack’s pouch. 
He was fed by opening his bill, and 
pitching a mullet fish a foot and a half in 
length, and two or three pounds in weight, 
into this receptacle. Everything would be 
distended to its utmost for fifteen minutes, 
when the slow process of swallowing and 
digestion would commence; but, as in the 
case of the larger species of serpents, the 
part first swallowed would be acted upon 
by the gastric juice, whilst the other part 
and from the sovereign 
shown to be free from ambiguity, there can authority which it is often vain to make any 
be no question as to the elegancy of the a PP ea l- “ The true theatre for a woman is . , , . 
two. The German scholar says, das Ilaus sick chamberNothing so honora- its 
• 7 , , , . . , .. ,. r ble to a woman as not to be spoken of at o es,inatI0n - lhe pouch seems to be udap- 
wird gebant, the house is building. “Is a!1 » These two phrases> the^delight of k ‘ d ’ not for carrying fish, but for keeping 
building what l inquires the editor of the Noodledom, are grown into common places them ’ Untl1 lhe .P arts are sufficiently dilated 
Commercial. Not anything, sir; for the upon the subject; and are not unfrequent- 10 a ^mit of their passage to the stomach, 
tenses of the passive voice compounded ly employed to extinguish that love of * dea lbat tbe P ebcan suckles her 
with the participle in ing are never used knowledge in women, which in our humble y0U ^ g k , Wlth .. b j°. d ir 1 om 1 ber ° wa 
but in the third person, and with relation opm.on.us of much importance to cherish. 'Xm‘aiTesf of Ikini"Vr'tcntci.i.mht 
. a , Nothing, certainly, is so ornamental and , ncn attest, oi picking or scratching his 
to inanimate objects; or at least such as are delightful in women as the benevolent vir- breast wlth the short hook he has at the 
incapable of the actions mentioned. Let tues; but time cannot be filled up, and life end of tb . e bil, » with tlie head perfectly 
the editor of the Commercial apply this employed, with high and impassioned vir- erect ‘ Literary World. 
principle or test to the phrases which he has tues - Some of these feelings are of rare 
given, and he will remain, we think,on “the °ccurience—-all of short duration—or na- 
New-Yorker’s side.” ture would sink under them A scene of The following supplies a somewhat fuller 
. distress and anguish is an occasion where account of the enormous fossil eggs_if 
I here is no difference of opinion about the finest qualities of the female mind may eggs they be—found in the Island of Mad- 
present passive form, as the house is be displayed; but it is a monstrous exag- agascar, of which we gave a short notice 
THE ROC EGGS. 
the 
built, nor about the past, the house was 
—cucuk tuc jjouso was b' e |' at ' on t0 tel1 women that they were born some time since:—“ The Mauritian men- 
buiU. Why then should there be about 2? V 3r ®J enes of .^stress and anguish.— tions on the authority of a Bourbon journal, 
.1 • ,, , 9 T Nurse, father, mother, sister and brother, if that a singular discovery has been made in 
he program^ the house » budduy/ In they w«„t would be a violation of Madagascar, hossil eggs of an " 
the first two forms, the perfect participle the plainest duties to neglect them. size, have been found in the bed of a tor- 
of the verb build is used, while in the latter But, when we are talking of the common rent. The shells are an eighth of an inch 
phrase, the imperfect participle is used to occu P adons °f life, d° I10 t let us mistake thick, and the circumference of the ego- 
show that the work is in a progressive con- lhe accident f tb(i occupations;—when itself is two feet eight inches lengthways, 
dition. This form of the missive voice is T f r ° UIn S ho ' v thetvyenty-three hours and two feet two inches round the middle. 
. , , , . . ’, °^. 1 ie da y are *° be l d l ed U P> if is idle to One which has been opened contains eight 
to us, not only elegant when used in rela- tell us of those feelings and agitations above and a half litres, or about two gallons! 
tiofl to inanimate objects, but is both syn- tlie level of common existence, which may What was to have come out of these egos? 
tactically and philologically correct. employ the remaining hour. Compassion, Bird or crocodile? The natives seem°to 
We do not aaree with the Commercial ^ ^ ° b ~ be WeU acc l uai 1 nted wUh a « d * a y that 
that usage can make what is philologically m a n (and no woman) can fill up the twen- 
wrong in speech, right. Usage sanctions ty-four hours by acts of virtue. But one is 
set ” for sit— “lay” for lie—“run” for a lawyer, and the other a plowman, and the 
ran— “done” for did— “went” for gone, third a merchant; and then acts of goodness 
(as, “ I should have went,”)—“ begun ” for of _ CO “P assion and {ine feeIin g 
horrun u „ c „ e I are scattered up and down the common oc- 
began-« co,m for came-" see " for saw cupationa of life*: We know women arc to 
—“drownded ” for drowned—“ attaclcted ” 
be compassionate; but they cannot be com 
for attacked—“ we had rather run ” for we passionate from eight o’clock in the morn- 
rather run, &c. If usage has sanctioned > n g till twelve at night; and what are they 
the phrase, “ the house is being built,” and t0 d °- the interval ? This is the only 
made it right, then it has doubly approved ( l lus . tlon Vk0 1!U0 been putting all along, 
„ 4k r •, , , 7 a PP rovea and is all that can be meant by literary ed- 
aH the aforesaid barbarisms and many oth- ucation— Sidney Smith. ■ 
an ancient tradition is uniformas to the for¬ 
mer existence of a bird large enough to 
carry off an ox. This is only a little smaller 
than the roc of oriental fable, which waited 
patiently till he saw the elephant and rhi¬ 
noceros fighting, and then carried off both 
at one swoop. Some fossil bones were 
found in the same place fs the eggs; but 
the Bourbon editor says that he will leave 
it to the pupils of the great Cuvier to de¬ 
cide to what animal they belong. If they 
should prove to be the bones of a bird of 
size corresponding to the eggs, the discov¬ 
ery will indeed be an extraordinary one.”— 
Calcutta Englishman. 
cannot behold sin with the least degree of 
allowance, if our consciences refuse to ac¬ 
quit us. What can we do, but to throw 
ourselves into the outstretched arms of the 
Savior, trusting alone in the atonement He 
has made lor us. Throwing away all other 
thoughts, aii other hopes, we may claim the 
promised salvation, and by faith in Christ 
find rest for our weary souls. Our hearts 
will become the abode of Jove and peace; 
of “love which easteth out all fear,”—“of 
the peace which passeth understanding,” 
and it is our happiness to seek in all things 
to do the will of our Heavenly Father. 
By such a spirit of humility, of self-ex¬ 
amination, ol dependence upon the merits 
oi Christ alone, can we move onward in 
the way ot life. The means by which 
we have gained access to that way are 
those by which we are to progress therein, 
ilie “new heart” must throb ceaselessly in 
our bosoms—Us pulsations sem.i.ig ihe life¬ 
blood of renewing grace through every 
thought, word and deed of our Christian 
life. Then we shall feel the infinite impor¬ 
tance of tlie probation-day of life—winch 
God saw lit in his boundless love to send 
his Sun to taste; to sutler and to die—to be 
as man, our teacher and our example—as 
God, our Mediator and Redeemer. Then 
shall we learn the value of the soul, for 
which the Deity has done so much—has 
made so capable ot enjoyment or misery— 
of ascending to suoh heights of perfection 
and happiness, or of sinking to such depths 
of degredation and despairing woe. 
An abiding sense of the Omniscience of 
God—seeing and knowing our secret deeds 
aud our inmost thoughts, will prompt us to 
humble watchfulness of spirit; to earnest 
and careful examination of our hearts and 
lives. How much we need the indwelling 
grace of God, as our strength and comfort 
in the various trials ever incident to the 
frail child of mortality. How important 
that with oar whole hearts; our whole lives, 
and all our powers of body and mind be 
dedicated to Him to whom we owe all that 
we have and are. May that spirit which 
prompts to self-examination, to watchfulness 
and prayer,—which desires to live to God 
and his glory, and not only to learn His 
good w : Jl and pleasure but to do the same, 
ever actuate and possess our hearts as the 
law of our lives, and through Christ our 
hope of the life to come. j. h. b. 
Faith the Parent of Love.— The rea¬ 
son why man is not excited to the love of 
God by the revelation of God’s love to him, 
is just because he does not believe that 
revelation. This is the barrier which lies 
between the guilty and their offended Law 
giver. It is not the ingratitude of man, 
but the incredulity of man, that needs, in 
the first instance, to be overcome. It is the 
sullenness, and the hardness, and the ob¬ 
stinacy of unbelief, which stands as a gate 
of iron between him and his enlargement. 
Well and simply said.— Shelton in one 
of his sermons, says:—“ An upright is al¬ 
ways easier than a stooping posture, be¬ 
cause it is more natural, and one part is bet¬ 
ter supported by another; so it is easier to 
be an honest man than a knave. It is also 
more graceful.” 
Persons who are always innocently 
cheerful and good humored, are very use¬ 
ful in the world; they maintain peace and 
happiness, and spread a thankful temper 
araong6t all who live around them. 
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