MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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DUTIES OF PARENTS. 
Mucn, very much to, and from the ne¬ 
cessity of the case, much must bo required 
of teachers in the discharge of their ardu¬ 
ous and responsible duties. It has never 
beon, it never can bo overrated. Discharge 
their obligations as well as they may, very 
few of them, if any, can come so near the 
standard of perfection, as to leave nothing 
at which parents or trustees may not cavil. 
It is perhaps no more than right that pa¬ 
rents should feel a deep interest in the 
proper education of their children. But 
have parents no duties in the matter ? Is 
there nothing for them to do—nothing to 
refrain from doing, which may properly be 
styled the duties of parents, not only to 
themselves and their children, but to the 
teacher ? As speaking our views wo here 
copy portions of a report from Joel Manx, 
published in the Rhodo Island Educational 
Magazine: 
“ Tho necessity of their hearty co-opera¬ 
tion with teachers is so great, that we hope 
to bo excused for presenting again this 
topic. The efficiency of Schools, particu¬ 
larly as it respects discipline, depends great¬ 
ly on this co-operation. If parents speak 
iil of tho teacher in the presence of chil¬ 
dren ; if they take up in their defence when 
they have been subjects of deserved correc¬ 
tion; if they even pity them as those who 
have been ill-treated, 'it will encourage in- 
subordination, neglect of study, and im¬ 
proper behavior, and make it more and more 
difficult to govern, oithor by mildness or 
severity. Parents are surely not aware of 
tho injury they do to their own children, 
and to the School, and to tho neighborhood 
by such a courso. 
”Wo might say also that thero is an utter 
impropriety in the direct interference of pa¬ 
rents with the exorcises and government of 
tho School. If a teacher fails essentially in 
performing his duty, or does what calls for 
interposition, a complaint should be made 
to the proper officers, and they are bound 
to attond to the matter. All lynch law pro¬ 
ceedings are illegal and impolitic. They 
multiply difficulties and remove none.— 
They weaken the authority of the teacher, 
and encourage imprudence and idleness. 
Wo may add a word hero on the subject 
of the proper government of children at 
home. That is the place where in youth 
the character receives its first impress and 
is chiefly formed. If parents think they 
can safely turn off tho government and dis¬ 
cipline of their children on school teachers, 
they are greatly mistaken. If they do this, 
they are false to the trust committed to 
them by the Creator, and recreant to the 
welfare of the State and country. ‘A child 
left to himself bringeth his mother to 
shame,’ is a truth inscribed on the page of 
inspiration, and illustrated in the experi¬ 
ence of mankind. It is not difficult to de¬ 
termine by the conduct of children at 
School, whether they are properly managed 
at home. It is rare for a teacher to have 
difficulty with those who have been trained 
to subordination, to respectful behavior, and 
obedience under tho paternal roof. And we 
think wo may say in truth, that there is no 
one thing, that more seriously threatens 
danger to our republic, than the rearing up 
of a generation which from early life have 
been permitted to have their own way,—to 
set aside law and authority at their pleas¬ 
ure, and to make their own depraved wills 
the rule of their actions. lie has not be¬ 
gun to form a correct view of education, 
who does not know that the most important 
part relates to this matter.” 
BRILLIANT SCHOLARS. 
We referred, recently, to the fact that 
our brightest students do not make our 
most prominent and efficient men ; and that 
those who, yearly, take the first collegiate 
honors aro rarely heard of afterwards in 
professional or mercantile life. In a late 
numbor of tho London Literary Gazette, 
we find the following : 
“ Mr. Hugh Miller, the geologist, in a 
loading articlo in tho * Witness’ newspaper, 
of which he is editor, has written an able 
and ingenious reply to Mr. Macaulay’s as¬ 
sertion, in his late Indian speech, of the su¬ 
periority of distinguished university men 
for tho practical affairs of life. The instan¬ 
ces adduced by Mr. Miller, if they do not 
refute Mr. Macaulay’s statements, at least 
show how much may be said on the othor 
side of the question. ‘ Tuo boys were once 
of a class in the Edinburgh Grammar School 
—John,over trim, precise, and dux; Walter, 
ever slovenly, confused, and dolt. In duo 
time, John became Bailie John, of Hunter 
Square, Edinburgh ; and Walter became Sir 
Walter Scott of tho Universe.’ ‘Oliver 
Cromwell got but indifferently through col¬ 
lege; John Churchill spelt but badly, even 
after he had beaten all tho most accom¬ 
plished soldiers of France; and Arther Wel¬ 
lesley was but an uniformed and vacant 
young lad for some time after acquiring his 
first commission.’ In literature, besides 
Scott, the instances of Goldsmith, Cowper, 
Dryden, Swift, Chalmers, Johnson, and oth¬ 
ers, aro cited, to show that excellence is of¬ 
ten attained after tho absence of precocity. 
Tho converse, indeed, is too often true, and 
tho proverb of ‘ soon ripe, scon rotten,’ too 
ofton verified. The competition scheme, 
according to Mr. Miller, would have, on the 
whole, the effect not only of excluding the 
truly able, but also of admitting the ineffi¬ 
cient. Tho class is large of thoso who seem 
to attain to their full development in tho 
contests of the academy and the college; 
and, eminent there, are never heard of after¬ 
wards. Mr. Miller’s own case is one in 
point, whero highest scientific and literary 
ominonco has been gained without juvenile 
scholastic distinctions. Mr. Macaulay’s 
rhetorical paradoxes must, therefore, be re¬ 
ceived with great mistrust.” 
At first glance, the superficial thinker 
may draw from this an inference unfavora¬ 
ble to the higher branches of education.— 
But, only .the superficial thinker would thus 
be led into error. Education with a pur¬ 
pose is one thing, and education without a 
purpose is another and a very different 
thing. Now, among the crowds in college, 
has one in ten an object in life to be gained 
through education as a means? No; not 
one in twenty. How few ever look beyond 
tho day of graduation ? When the brilliant 
student leaves his Alma Mater, too often all 
his learning becomes either dead lumber, 
or a mere matter of ornament and display. 
Ho finds no use for the lore he so studious¬ 
ly acquired. 
“ On the other hand, take a young man, 
with a strongly developed purpose, yet de¬ 
ficient education, and as he lives, and works, 
and strives, to rise above his position, he, at 
the same time, applies himself to the sources 
of knowledge, and quickly draws therefrom 
the needed intelligence. And yet defect 
will ever cling to him in consequence of 
early educational disabilities, because, for 
the large portion of his time, ho must be a 
workor, not a learner. Early advantages 
would have given him a double power. If 
wo expect our sons to become efficient and 
successful men, we must induct them, early 
into the practical affairs of life, as well as 
provide for their liberal education. We 
must let them come in contact with tho ef¬ 
fective and productive, as well as tho schol¬ 
astic world. Take a boy from school at 
fifteen or sixteen, and give him two years 
of close application to some business or pro¬ 
fession—then return him to school again, 
and he will acquire a more thorough edu¬ 
cation by the time ho is nineteen or twenty, 
than if he had been kept at his books the 
whole period. Moreover, such a boy will 
bo in little danger of being spoiled by learn¬ 
ing. In this period of useful labor, the men¬ 
tal powers are tested, and aims in life do- 
voloped, so that tho subsequent education 
may have specific reference to the future 
business or profession. It is a very difficult 
thing for a boy, or his parents, to determine, 
while the former is yet at school, tho busi¬ 
ness for which ho has a particular adapta¬ 
tion ; but let the boy engage for a year or 
two in some productive employment, and 
the difficulty, in nine cases out of ten, will 
cease to exist .—Home Gazette. 
“MEN WANTED.” 
Yes, men are always wanted. The supply 
seldom meets the demand. And yet many 
complain that there is no place for them— 
they can find nothing to do—they are not 
wanted in the world. Inefficient, lazy, un¬ 
skillful men are not wanted; but men of ca¬ 
pacity and industry—men who have made 
themselves master of their business—be it 
sawing wood or preaching sermons—are al¬ 
ways wanted. A skillful mechanic seldom 
need seek long for employment. An ener¬ 
getic, upright merchant has always plenty 
of business. 
An able lawyer never waits long for 
clients. Tho country has need of all its in¬ 
dustrious and skillful citizens. Its manu¬ 
facturing and mechanical establishments, 
its banks and railroads, its mercantile and 
marine interests all demand intelligent and 
active men to conduct or assist in conduct¬ 
ing them. And the supply of such men is 
not equal to tho demand. Many promising 
projects fail for the want of capable and ex¬ 
perienced men to take charge of them. 
Lot tho rising generation ponder well this 
truth. If they would take an active part 
in the world’s business, and receive a due 
share of its honors, they have only to pre¬ 
pare themselves by giving diligent atten¬ 
tion to their business. Let the young me¬ 
chanic, instead of spending his evenings 
loafing at the corner, improve them in ac¬ 
quiring knowledge of tho history and prin¬ 
ciples of his trade. Let him not bo content 
with a slight knowledge of businoss—let 
him study its theory and master its prac¬ 
tice. Let him follow tho example set by the 
great mon which every trade can furnish, 
and success is certain. Ho will not have to 
wait for an “opening,”—lie holds in his 
hands tho opening key. Ho need not seek 
for employment—employment will seek 
him. Men aro wanted—let our youth see 
that they make mon of themselves.— Port¬ 
land News. 
THE COMING CENTURY. 
Mr. Everett said in his recent speech : 
“The pioneers are on the way ; who can toll 
how far and fast they will travel ? Who 
that compares the North Amorica of 1753, 
but a century ago, and numbering but a 
little over a million of souls of European 
origin; of still more, tho North America of 
1653, when there was certainly not a fifth 
part of that number,—who that compares 
this with the North America of 1853—its 
twenty-two millions of European origin, and 
its thirty-one States, will venture to assign 
limits to our growth—will dare to compute 
the time-table of our railway progress : or 
lift so much as a corner of the curtain that 
hides tho crowded ovents of tho coming 
century ?’ 
Time brings about somo queer revolutions. 
A writer in Putnam’s says that the man who 
will be President of the United States in 1,- 
900 is, in all likelihood, running barefoot at 
this very moment among tho huckleberry 
bushes of Oregon, while the leader of tho 
next war of invasion is not tho son of an ex- 
Congressman, but the youth that will bo 
corrected next woek, for giving a pair of 
black eyes to an apple-vender in the vicini¬ 
ty of the Fivo Points. 
Did,mind. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
WISCONSIN.—No. I. 
Boundaries —Early Explorations — History — In¬ 
crease of Population—Condition of Settlement 
— Soil. 
Wisconsin is bounded on the north by 
Minnesota and Michigan ; on the east by 
Michigan and Lake Michigan ; on tho south 
by. Illinois, and on tho west by Iowa and 
Minnesota. It stretches in a north and 
south direction 285 miles, and east and west, 
255 miles. Its area in land is 53,924 squaro 
miles, or 34,511,360 squaro acres. 
Tho first visitors to this State wore 
French missionaries. In 1660, Rene’ Mes- 
nard was appointed to visit Green Bay and 
Lake Superior, to carry the cross to the 
wig-wams of the savages. Trusting in “ the 
Providenco which feeds tho little birds of 
the desert, and clothes the wild flowers of 
tho froest,” ho plunged into the wilderness, 
and reached tho bay, which ho called The 
resa, in October. Eight months afterward, 
by invitation of Hurons, ho started for tho 
bay of Cho-goi-mo-gon, via. Keweona Lako 
and the Portage, where he was lost in the 
woods. His breviary and cassock was sub¬ 
sequently known to be among tho Sioux, by 
whom, it is probable, ho was slain. Elevn 
years later, Allonez and Darlon visited 
Green Bay, and tho region betwoen tho Fox 
river and tho head of Lako Michigan, pro¬ 
claiming tho Gospel to tho Mascoutins and 
Ivickapoos on tho Milwaukee river, tho 
Miamis at Chicago, and the Foxes on tho 
river bearing their name. During tho 
months of May and Juno in the following 
year, (1673,) Marquette and Joliet, with 
fivo other Frenchmen, ascended tho Fox 
river to the portage which separates that 
stream from tho Wisconsin; and having 
crossed the narrow head lands, tho two 
brave discoverers of tho Mississippi embark 
ed alone on the Wisconsin, and passed down 
through tho hoart of tho State which has 
since taken its name from that noble river. 
As they sailed solitarily down tho stream, 
“between alternate prairies and hillsides, 
beholding neither man nor tho wonted 
boasts of the forest,” how faint wore their 
conceptions of the agricultural wealth of 
tho country stretching far around them, 
and of the position which Wisconsin was 
destined one day to hold among the sistor 
band of commonwealths, which wore to 
spring up on this Continent. 
Tho territory of which Wisconsin is a 
small part, was ceded by France to Great 
Britain in 1763. It thus remained until the 
independence of tho United States was ac¬ 
knowledged, twenty years afterward. It 
was then claimed by Virginia as a part of 
the Illinois country, which Col. G. R. Clark 
had conquered, and that claim was not re¬ 
linquished until March, 1784. Nor did the 
British fully relinquish their claim until 
1796, the year after the ratification of Jay’s 
treaty. After several subdivisions of the 
great North-west Territory, in compliance 
with a request made tho previous year, Con¬ 
gress passed and approved, April 20, 1836, 
an act establishing Territorial Government 
for Wisconsin. Its organization was com¬ 
pleted on the 4th of July following. Tho 
portion of the original Territory, now con¬ 
stituting the State of Iowa, was cut off in 
June, 1838. At a session of tho Legislature 
held the previous year at Burlington, (now 
in Iowa,) the seat of government was lo¬ 
cated at Madison. Tho first session held at 
the present capital was in November, 1838. 
the Slate of Wisconsin was admittod into 
the Union May 29th, 1848. 
Only seventeen years have elapsed since 
Wisconsin was a wild tract of land, inhab¬ 
ited mostly by Indians. Since then she has 
dispensed with nearly half her territory; 
has arisen to a first class Stato; and con¬ 
tains more than threo hundred thousand in¬ 
habitants, or about tho samo number as 
either of tho old States of New Hampshire 
and Vermont. Tho census of 1850 shows 
that Wisconsin has increased in population 
in a groater ratio than any other State. In 
1S25, it was only 1,444. In 1840 it was 30,- 
000; and its ratio of incroaso the next ton 
years was 890 per cent. 
Wisconsin has more squaro miles of ter¬ 
ritory than New York; has as many acres, 
it is probable, of arablo land ; and has the 
resources for supporting nearly as many 
pooplo. Now York has been a Stato since 
the original confederation; now contains 
3,100,000 inhabitants; and will probably 
one day contain 5,000,000. There aro those 
now living, who will see in Winsconsin two 
millions of people, and twice that numbor 
will, it is likely, be cultivating her prairies 
and digging in her inexhaustible mines, a 
hundred years hence. Millions of acres, 
which have been surveyed and sold, aro as 
yet unimproved; and millions moro—not 
less than two millions—have boon surveyed 
and aro unsold. Much of tho land which 
lies in tho market, is in the fat valleys of 
tho Wisconsin, La Crosse, Black, Wolf, and 
Baraboo rivers. Tho trail of tho red man 
is still visible, but tho axo and plowshare of 
civilized enterprise are soon to do their 
work thero, and tho teeming soil is to pour 
its treasures into the lap of industry. 
The prairies of Wisconsin, though not so 
large as thoso of Illinois and somo other 
States, are numerous and exceedingly rich. 
Their soil is composed of a dark brown, 
mellow mould; tho subsoil, of a clayish 
loam. The soil of tho timbered lands is 
somewhat similar to tho subsoil of tho prai¬ 
ries, both in its naturo and productive 
powers. The so-called “ evergreen dis¬ 
tricts,” though sandy and less fertile than 
tho prairies, aro good for grazing purposes, 
and much moro productive than tho pine 
plains of New England. Oak openings aro 
numerous and extensive, and constitute the 
“gardens” of tho State. They owe their 
present condition, it is said, “to the action 
of the annual fires, which have kept under 
all other forest growth, except thoso varie¬ 
ties of oak which can withstand the sweep 
of that element. This annual burning of 
an exuberant growth of grasses and of un¬ 
derbrush, has been adding, perhaps for 
ages, to tho productive power of tho soil.” 
Thus have the savages, by the means of fire, 
cleared up this young State, to a large ex¬ 
tent, and prepared it for uses of civilization. 
J. Clement. 
EARTH-SHINE AND MOON-SHINE. 
Tiie phenomena of “ tho old moon in the 
new moon’s arms” is thus explained in 
Chambers’amusing and instructive Tracts: 
“ It has been stated that tho moon is in¬ 
visible when out of sunshine. This is strict¬ 
ly true, although a word of explanation may 
bo needed to prove the fact. Often, within 
a day or two of the time of new moon, the 
dull surface of its body may be soen faintly 
traced out on tho twilight sky. Not only 
tho crescent of tho shining portion is visible 
—the entire face of the hemisphere turned 
towards the earth is also obscurely percepti¬ 
ble. The old moon lies, as it is said, within 
the arms of the new. Now, tho light by 
which tho old moon makes its appearance 
under these circumstances, is really sun¬ 
shine, notwithstanding tho position the so¬ 
lar orb holds beyond the lunar sphere; but 
it is twico-diluted sunshine—tho silver has 
been transmuted into load by the touch of 
earth. Tho sunlight does not penetrate 
through tho the moon’s substanco, but it 
comes to the earth—is thenco thrown back 
to tho moon, and from tho moon returns to 
earth again. At tho time of new moon, tho 
earth, it will bo remembered, is on tho op¬ 
posite side of tho moon to tho sun ; conse¬ 
quently, tho illuminated half of the earth is 
shining on the moon, and the leaden hue we 
perceive is tho moon seen by earth-shino.— 
This earth-shino is thirteen times stronger 
to the moon than tho moon shine is to us, 
on account of tho comparatively larger di¬ 
mensions of tho terrestrial sphere. Some 
astronomers stato that this earth-shine on 
tho moon changes its ash-grey tint into a 
green one when tho part of the earth oppo¬ 
site to tho new moon is that which contains 
tho verdant and forest-covered plains of 
South America. There can bo no doubt that 
this earth-shine on tho moon is moro vivid 
when tho terrestrial atinosphero, through 
which it has to pass, is clear, and that is made 
dull when that air is laden with clouds and 
mists. Arago believes that we shall, somo 
time or other, be ablo to ascertain the mean 
state of our own atmosphore’s transparen¬ 
cy, by watching tho ashy tints that appear 
on tho obscure portion of the moon. 
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF RUSSIA. 
Tiie following amiable family picture may 
bo interesting at this time, when Russia is 
thrusting her ursine nose into the politics 
of Europe. 
Peter I—the founder, as ho may bo call¬ 
ed of the present imperial family—was the 
murderer of the two daughters and the son 
of his brother Ivan, and thejmurderer, (it is 
assorted, according to moro than ono of the 
analists of his reign,) by his own hand, of his 
son Alexis. Ho was himsolf murdered by 
Menzikotf, (a name that has again risen up 
in history,) the favorito of his wife Catha¬ 
rine, and who, when united to Peter, was 
tho wife of a living husband, and their chil¬ 
dren declared afterwards incapable of roign- 
ing, because born in sin. Anne, the eldest 
daughter of Ivan, put 14.000 Russians to 
death, and banished twice as many. A 
revolution displaced the younger Ivan to 
put on tho throne Elizabeth, daughter of 
Peter I., and her reign was remarkable for 
her drunkenness and debauchery. Peter 
III., her successor, was notoriously the off¬ 
spring of crime, and was dethroned and 
strangled by his wife, Catharine II., the 
samo infamous woman who had assasinated 
tho dethroned Emperor Ivan, and whoso 
own son, Paul—the father of tho present 
Emperor Nicholas—was strangled by his 
courtiers. 
Reading Works of Thought. — It is 
wholesome and bracing for the mind to have 
its faculties kept on tho stretch. Reading 
an essay of Bacon’s, for instance, or a 
chapter of Aristotlo or of Butler, if it bo 
well and thoughtfully read, is much like 
climbing up a hill, and may do one tho 
same sort of good. Set tho tortoise to run 
against tho hare; and, even if ho does not 
overtake it, ho will do moro than ho did 
previously, more than ho would over have 
thought himself capable of doing. Sot tho 
haro to run with the tortoiso : ho falls asleep. 
Written for the Rural New-Yorker. 
“GONE-ALL GONE” 
Friends of my childish years, 
Where are they now ? 
Where are the lips that pressed 
My cheek and hrow ? 
Where is the beaming smile, 
The love-fraught tone ? 
Cometh the echo back 
“Gone—all gone.” 
Hopes of my childish heart, 
Why did they fly ? 
Why did my fancied bliss 
Thus quickly die i 
Why did it leave me thus 
Strangely alone ? 
Ever to whisper low 
“Gone, all gone.” 
Dreams of my early days 
Come to my heart, 
Though all I loved has faded, 
Why need ye depart ? 
But mock me not now with hopes 
Forever flown, 
Tell me not now of joys 
“ Gone, all gone.” 
Hush thee, my trembling heart, 
Why should I weep ? 
Though friends that I loved, rest 
In Death's long sleep. 
Though the visions of cliildliood 
Long since have flown, 
Faith points where peace and joy 
Ne'er can be gone. 
THE SABBATH A FRIEND. 
Not long since, an agent of one of our 
benevolent socioties called upon an individ¬ 
ual who had on a former occasion, years 
ago, contributed liborally. lie was told that 
his “ cause was an excellent one,” and so 
forth ; “ but,” added tho individual, “ I have 
constituted myself a life-member of your so¬ 
ciety, and do not expect to bo called upon 
any longer for donations.” “ You have mis¬ 
understood the meaning of life-member¬ 
ship,” said tho agent. “ Ah ! how so ?” in¬ 
quired tho benevolent gentleman. “ Life- 
membership means that you are to continue 
to give to this cause all your lifetime, and to 
increase your donations from year to year, 
as the Lord prospers you.” 
Strango and ridiculous as it may seem, 
there aro, occasionally, amiable and intelli¬ 
gent men who blunder into such a notion, 
and think to insuro themselves for lifo 
against the calls of agents by once for all 
constituting themselves life-members !— 
Tho attention of such is solicited to tho 
abovo legitimate and common sense defini¬ 
tion of life-membership. 
1. To Education. Compare countries with 
and without tho Sabbath. Its ministrations 
powerfully quicken and invigorate the hu¬ 
man intellect, while a vast amount of knowl¬ 
edge is accumulated. 
2. To Government. Whero aro honored 
Sabbaths and Despotism co-existent ? It 
shows the nature of human rights—adapts 
laws to the actual wants and circumstances 
of men—creates a conscience that sustains 
laws and qualifies men to make as well as to 
obey laws. 
3. To Health. By promoting cleanliness, 
by furnishing needful rest for the body and 
mind, by promoting choerfulness and elas¬ 
ticity of spirits through its power to produce 
a peaceful conscience, and by its sublimo 
inliuenco over tho hateful passions of mon. 
4. To Good Morals. By keeping in sight 
the character of God by unfolding the claims 
of His holy law, by creating a distaste for 
unlawful pleasures, by creating a public sen¬ 
timent that frowns on immorality, and thro’ 
that sentiment causing wise and effectual 
laws for the suppression of vice and crime. 
5. To Piety. By causing a right view of 
God to prevail, by constantly pouring on 
men’s minds those great elements of piety, 
tho divine truths of Revelation, by thus 
generating all right affections toward God 
and man, by shadowing forth and pointing 
men to the Sabbath of Heaven. 
Therefore tho Sabbath is the Friend of 
the nation, the family, everybody’s friend, 
and never fails to repay true and devoted 
friendship for it with the most precious 
blessings for time and eternity.— Boston 
Traveller. 
SATURDAY NIGHT. 
Saturday night ! How tho heart of tho 
weary man rejoices as, with his week’s wages 
in his pocket, he hies him home to gather 
his little ones around him and draw conso¬ 
lation from his hearthstone for tho many 
hard hours ho has toiled to win his pittance. 
Saturday night! IIoiv the poor woman 
sighs for very relief as sho realizes that 
again God has sent her time for rest; and 
though her rewards have been small, 
yet is sho content to live on, for her 
hoart builds up in the future a homo where 
’tis always Saturday eve ! How tho care¬ 
worn man of business rolaxes his brow, and, 
closing his shop, saunters deliberately 
around to gather up a little gossip ere he 
goes quietly homo to tako a good rest!— 
How softly tho young man pronounces tho 
word, fora bright-eyed maiden is in waiting, 
and this Saturday night shall bo a blessed 
time for him—thero will be low words spo¬ 
ken by tho garden gate, and thero will be 
pressure of hands—perhaps a pressure of 
lips—blessed Saturday night! To all, kind 
Heaven has given a little leayen which 
works in the heart to stir up tho gentlo 
emotions, and Saturday night alone seems 
the meet and fitting time for dreaming gentlo 
dreams. Blessed Saturday night ! and we 
can but pray that through life wo may bear 
with us tho remembrance of its many holy 
hours now gone into the far past—memories 
which every Saturday eve but recalls like a 
benediction pronounced by one loved and 
gono. 
MEANING OF “LIFE-MEMBERSHIP." 
