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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
The sixty-ninth annual report of tlie Regents 
of the University has been presented to the 
Legislature. The Board of Regents is composed 
of the Governor, Lieut. Governor, Secretary of 
State, and Superintendent of Public Instruc¬ 
tion, who hold their appointments ex-officio ■ 
John Greig appointed in the year 1825, Julian 
C. Verplank appointed in 1826, Gerrit Y. 
Lansing and John K. Page in 1829, Esrastus 
Corning and Prosper M. Wetmore in 1833, 
John L. Graham 1834, John MoLean 1835, Gid¬ 
eon Hawley and David Buel in 1842, James S. 
Wadsworth and John V. L. Pruyn in 1844, 
Robert Campbell in 1846, Samuel Luckey and 
Robert Rankin in 1847, Philip S. Van Renssel¬ 
aer in 1849, John N. Campbell in 1851, Eras- 
tus C. Benedict in 1856, and there is one va¬ 
cancy, occasioned by the death of Jabez D. 
Hammond. 
The officers of the Board are Gerrit Y. Lan¬ 
sing, Chancellor; John Greig, Vice Chancel¬ 
lor ; Samuel B. Woolwortii, Secretary. Re¬ 
ports have been received by the Regents from 
all the Colleges subject to visitation, except the 
Troy University. The aggregate number of 
Students in general Literature and Science, in 
the colleges reported for the collegiate year (end¬ 
ing at different periods, from July to December, 
1855,) was 1,111—an increase over the number 
reported in 1855 of 137. Number of Medical 
Students in attendance has been 632—a decrease 
of 267 since last year. 
The comparative condition of the respective 
departments during the last three years is thus 
in obscurity. Blight, boy at the head of the 
class, do not disdain to hear the opinion of your 
heavier neighbor. Though your thought may 
be better than his, yet it is well worth while 
for you to hear what he lias to say ; we owe 
more than we think to those less learned than 
ourselves. Anil as you hope for a favorable 
appreciation in future, remember that those on 
whom you depend for esteem, the older they 
grow and the more experience they have of the 
world, especially if that experience be not of 
the sunniest character, will more and more learn 
to prize goodness of heart above cold intellect¬ 
ual splendor; that to do good to others you 
must labor for them and not for yourself.— 
Though it m.ay sometimes lie that beneficent 
results follow the carrying-out of plans con¬ 
ceived in selfishness, it were an outrage on the 
moral harmony of the universe to suppose for 
an instant that the highest or even great gene- 
al good can ever result from purely self-seck- 
ng efforts. The men of past ages who are held 
in dearest remembrance by mankind at the 
present day, are not those who most dazzled the 
times in which they lived, but such as shone 
with a steady, earnest light, and wrought not to 
be named, but to be helpers of their species.— 
Yes, the highest honors must ever be reserved 
for the earnest, unselfish, truthful laborer. For¬ 
tune denies the envied title to him who seeks 
the reputation of benefactor, and bestows it on 
him who humbly and reverently strives to be 
what the other so ardently longs to appear. 
South Livonia, N. Y. A. 
itsffu l flic. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
LEAD PENCILS—MANUFACTURE, ETC. 
presented: 
Lit’y Colleges. 
Med. Col. 
Total. 
Reported in 1854.. 
. 886 
847 
1,733 
Do. 1855.. 
. 974 
899 
1,873 
Do. 1856 .. 
.1,111 
632 
1,743 
PARHELIA, OR MOCK SUNS. 
Whole number of Academies subject to the 
visitation of the Regents is 212. The number 
reported by the Regents at the date of their last 
report, was 210. Academics incorporated only 
provisionally, are not included. 
No reports have been received from 47 Acad¬ 
emics, and the Regents believe that several of 
them have become extinct, and have taken 
measures to ascertain the fact. 
In the year ending February 1st, 1854, the 
number of students attending the Academics 
was as follows :—Males 10,194, females 12,481 ; 
total, 22,675. In the year ending Feb. 1, 1855, 
the males were 10,913, females 11,911 ; total, 
22,824. For nine months ending Nov. 1, 1855, 
the male students in attendance numbered 
8,951, female 9,398; total, 18,349. 
Up to the 1st of January, 1856, the sum of 
$54,188 43 has been granted by the Regents, 
under the authority of the Legislature. In 
1854 there were 86,724 volumes in the Libraries 
of the Academies; in 1855, 91,296 do., and in 
1856 93,211. 
An improved system of Mcterological Obser¬ 
vations, instituted by the Regents at the several 
Academies, has been conducted by the aid of 
an appropriation made annually for the purpose, 
and a continuance of this aid is respectfully so¬ 
licited. The general summary of these obser¬ 
vations, prepared by F. B. Hough, has been 
published under authority of the Regents. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
THE SCHOLAR. 
BESIDE-BESIDES. 
The literary world needs to be set right as to 
the use and meaning of these words; for igno¬ 
rance has originated, and affectation or careless¬ 
ness have rendered common, a general misuse of 
the former word. 
A question of this sort is the more readily 
disposed of by reference to the meaning of the 
words. Beside means, primarily and precisely, 
by the side of, and is always a preposition. Be¬ 
sides means in addition to, in which sense it is 
an adverb. There are some cumulative defini¬ 
tions, but these are the basis of all the others. 
The common error consists in using beside as 
an adverb — a custom that has the appearance 
of an affected prettiness in composition, and has 
much the same effect on the nerves as the ex¬ 
treme use of the subjunctive in conversation; 
for instance, “if my friend I’eter say that I did 
so and so, he is in error.” The adverbial mis¬ 
use of beside is on this wise : “ I wish you to un¬ 
derstand my orders, and, beside, I wish you to 
obey them ;” “ beside, I would have you remem¬ 
ber so and so.” In these and similar cases, the 
writer or speaker means moreover, and ought, 
therefore, to use the adverb besides. 
The distinction is made obvious by illustra¬ 
tions. Beside means “by the side of,” and is a 
preposition. 
“ The lovely Thasls situ beside thee.” 
Besides, when meaning “in addition to,” is 
also a preposition : 
“ And besides all this, between us and you 
there is a great gulf fixed.” 
Besides, when meaning “ moreover ” is an ad¬ 
verb : 
“ Set you down this, 
And say, besides, that in Aleppo once.” 
These illustrations are simple specimens, but 
an intelligent writer will readily see the force 
of their application ; and it is to be hoped that 
flic use of beside as an adverb may be “reformed 
altogether.”— K Y. Evening Post. 
[Concluded from last week.] 
A mischievous species of deception certain 
scholars of high ambition but less industry are 
apt to practise oh themselves, and which cheats 
them out of a great deal of valuable time, is the 
mistaking and substitution of longing for labor 
—aspiration for effort—air-castle buildings for 
laying the foundation of a solid edifice. The 
liability to this habit is particularly marked in 
persons of melancholic temperament—persons 
who generally look too placid and innocent to 
be suspected of laying plans, but who, many 
times, under the impression that they arc in¬ 
tensely and profitably busy, are extravagantly 
dreaming of the good they will accomplish and, 
may be too, of the consequence they will enjoy 
when they shall have become learned and in¬ 
fluential. Day-dreaming is, indeed, a vastly 
agreeable but nevertheless a poorly-paying 
business. Knowledge comes not in answer to 
the dearest longing, and the most ardent wish 
is utterly powerless to accomplish its own ful 
lillment, but must ever be allied to humble, per¬ 
severing, earnest effort, or it is of no practical 
utility. Another pernicious habit of study is 
that common to quick, impatient natures, and 
consists in sitting down behind an open book 
an hour or so, occasionally glancing at the page 
long enough to catch the letter of the text, but 
not ilwellingon the words with sufficient earnest¬ 
ness to gain anything of their spirit, commit¬ 
ting them to memory in such a manner as to 
appear very fluent at mere recitation, and giv¬ 
ing one’s self the credit of acquaintance with 
the author thus run through. Such mental ex¬ 
ercise is no more study than hunting crow s 
nests is hoeing corn. Acquaintance with an 
author does not of course necessarily imply 
adoption of his opinions—that is quite' another 
thing ; but unless the pretended learner has 
gained an idea of what the writer’s meaning is, 
lie has studied him to no purpose. 
The true scholar will beware of placing an 
undue estimate on mere intellectual triumphs. 
One of the most common fruits of the attain¬ 
ment of great mental superiority, is contempt 
for the less exalted. Even those who have ris¬ 
en from humble beginnings, many times so far 
forget the trials through which they struggled 
in the early part of their career, as to look with 
indifference, if not scorn, on those who are yet 
NEW-YORK FREE ACADEMY. 
This Institution has just issued its Seventh 
Annual Catalogue, from which it appears that 
its present usefulness and prosperity are greater 
than in any former year. Its faculty and in¬ 
structors comprise a corps of twenty-three gen¬ 
tlemen of great culture and experience, who 
give credit to the institution which in turn re¬ 
flects honor upon them. The Introductory Class 
contains 395 students; and the regular colle¬ 
giate classification is as follows : Freshmen, 96 ; 
Sophomores, 45; Juniors, 33; Seniors, 21; Res¬ 
ident Graduates, 12; making the total number 
of students in all departments, 602. The course 
of study pursued in this institution is an en¬ 
larged and liberal one, embracing, in addition 
to the usual College programme, an extensive 
and interesting department of the Fine Arts.— 
The library and the laboratory of the Free 
Academy, already greatly enriched by many 
valuable acquisitions, are being gradually ex¬ 
tended and enhanced in value and usefulness.— 
The introduction of the lecture system has been 
attended with much success, especially in the 
department of Chemistry.— Selected. 
A Veteran Schoolmaster. —Mount Brydges 
has the honor of possessing one of the oldest 
“ native born” schoolmasters in Western Canada. 
A Mr. S. 1*. Stiles is now residing in that vil¬ 
lage in the enjoyment of a pension of $210 per 
annum, and he is upwards of seventy-two years 
of age. He taughtjschool during the past forty- 
seven years in the townships of Mosa, Ekfrid 
and Carailoc. The last-named township now 
possesses inhabitants upwards of fifty years of 
age who received instructions at his hands.— 
Mr. Stiles is a venerable old man and occupies 
his time in a manner becoming his age. There 
are few school teachers in Canada who can 
boast of having worked so long and so devoted¬ 
ly in the educational service of their country.— 
Canadian Free I’ress. 
Eds. Rural :—I send you a drawing of the 
Parhelia, or mock suns, seen at Irondequoit 
Bay, in this county, Jan. 8th, 1856. About 3 I’. 
M., the atmosphere being hazy and filled with 
frost, I first noticed this beautiful phenomena. 
The halo around the true sun was of a silvery 
white, and the two mock suns intensely bright, 
and in their usual places. When some ten de¬ 
grees above the horizon, the true sun lanced out 
whitish rays in the direction of the mock suns, 
and also toward the zenith and horizon, as 
shown-in the engraving. Above the halo, was 
an inverted rainbow of the usual colors, and 
very bright, extending upward nearly to the 
zenith. At the time this phenomena appeared, 
the western sky was nearly clear from clouds, 
and the weather intensely cold. It remained 
in all its brightness about an hour, and then 
began to fade gradually, but did not entirely 
disappear until after sunset. s. m. b. 
These Parhelia often present very remarka¬ 
ble appearances, and our correspondent copies 
for us accounts of several observed in the 17th 
and 18tli centuries, from which we extract the 
following : 
“ On the 28th of August, 1698, about 8 o’clock 
in the morning, there were seen at Sudbury, 
England, three suns which were then extremely 
brilliant. Beneath a (lark watery cloud in the 
cast, and nearly at its centre, the true sun shone 
with such strong beams, spectators could not 
look at it; and on each side were the reflections. 
Much of the firmament elsewhere was of an 
azure color. The circles were not colored like 
the rainbow, but white ; and there was also, at 
the same time, higher in the firmament and to¬ 
wards the south, at a considerable distance from 
tho halo, the form of a half mote, but apparently 
of double the size, with the herns upward.— 
This appearance was of a fiery red color, imi¬ 
tating that of the rainbow. This phenomena 
faded gradually, after having continued about 
two hours. 
“ Two mock suns, a halo, and an arc of a rain¬ 
bow inverted, were seen at Lyndon, Eng., Octo¬ 
ber 22d, 1721, at 11 A. M. There had been an 
aurora borealis the preceding night, with the 
wind at west-south-west. The two parhelia or 
mock suns, were bright and distinct, and in the 
usual places, and each had its tail of a white 
color, and in direct opposition to the true sun ; 
that toward the east being 20 or 25 degrees 
long, and that toward the west 10 or 12 degrees, 
both narrowest at the remote ends. The mock 
suns were red toward the sun but pale or whit¬ 
ish at the opposite sides, as was the halo also. 
Still higher in the heavens was an arc of a 
curiously inverted rainbow, about the middle of 
the distance between the top of the halo and 
the zenith. This arc was as distinct in its 
colors as the common rainbow, and of the same 
breadth. The red color was on the convex and 
the blue on the concave of the arc, which seemed 
to be about 90 degrees in length, its centre 
being in or near the zenith. This phenomena 
was seen on the following day, and again on 
the 26th.” 
As an implement with the uses of which we 
are so familiar, there is probably none whose 
origin, the materials requisite to construction, 
and the mode of manufacture are so little known, 
as the Black-Lead Pencil. 
Plumbago, a substance commonly called 
black-lead, is a carburet of iron—a combination 
of carbon and iron,—found in masses of calca¬ 
reous earth, beds of quartz, &c. —varying in 
size from a pea upwards. In North Carolina a 
mine was discovered some years since, in which 
this mineral was found in large solid lumps, often 
weighing hundreds of pounds. It is incombus¬ 
tible and being easily worked, has been exten¬ 
sively used as a “metallic paint,” mixed with 
oil, and roofs and out-houses coated with it. As 
it hardens its power of absorption of moisture is 
lost, and consequently it retards decay. When 
pure, its composition is nine-tenths carbon and 
one-tenth iron. 
At what period pencils were first made from 
this mineral is not known. The earliest record 
being in the year 1686, at which date we find 
mention in a work issued by Sir John Pettus, 
entitled Fleta Minor. Speaking of black-lead he 
says : “Of late it is curiously formed into cases 
of deal or cedar, and so sold as dry pencils, 
something more useful than pen and ink." 
The Parisian mode of treating the mineral, 
where it is not encased, is as follows. The 
plumbago is first pulverized, then mixed with 
pure clay, also powdered, the proportion of clay 
being governed by the hardness of the pencil 
desired—the average is about equal parts of each 
ingredient. It is now thoroughly ground and 
subsequently wetted to the consistency of paste. 
Form is then given to it by pressing it into 
grooves. When the paste has had time to dry 
somewhat it is put with the mould into a heated 
oven when the lead shrinks sufficiently to fall 
from the grooves. These leads are now set up¬ 
right in a crucible and covered with powdered 
charcoal, or fine sand, and, thus covered, are 
heated, the harder the pencil the greater the 
degree of heat required. 
AN ANGEL OP PATIENCE. 
Beside the toilsome way, 
Lowly and sad, by fruits and flowers unblest, 
Which my lone feet tread sadly, day by day, 
Longing in vain for rest. 
An angel softly walks, 
With pale, sweet face, and eyes cast meekly down, 
The while from withered leaves and fiowerless stalks, 
She weaves my fitting crown. 
A sweet and patient grace, 
A look of firm endurance true and tried, 
Of suffering meekly borne, rests on her face, 
So pure—so glorified. 
And when my fainting heart 
Desponds and murmurs at its adverse fate, 
Then quietly the angel’s bright lips part, 
Murmuring softly, “ Wait 1” 
“ l’atienco I” she sweetly saith— 
“ Thy Father’s mercies never come too late ; 
Gird thee with patient strength and trustingffaith, 
And firm endurance wait 1” 
Angel 1—behold—I wait— • 
Wearing the thorny crown through all life’s hours, 
Wait till thy hand shall ope the eternal gate, 
And change the thorns to flowers. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
SABBATH IN THE COUNTRY. 
The cedar of which cases are formed is first 
sawed into long planks and subsequently in 
rods. Grooves are then cut out by the aid of 
machinery—each of which receives a layer of 
the lead. The mineral is cut into rods the size 
of the grooves into which it is inserted. The 
two halves of the case are now glued together 
and finished by being turned in a cylindrical 
shape. 
Pencil-points were first used about the year 
1820, at which time a Mr. Morgan invented 
what was then termed “ the ever-pointed pencil- 
case.” It was similar to that in use at the pres¬ 
ent day ; merely “ a slider, acted upon by a 
screw, projecting forward a little cylinder of 
black-lead.” These “points” are formed by 
passing the mineral, after being cut into square 
rods, through holes in a steel plate—the first 
one is octonagal, the other two giving a cylin¬ 
drical form to the point. 
From their general and increasing use, the 
manufacture of these minute conveniences has 
f>Town to be one of great importance owing to 
the amount of capital invested, the number of 
persons employed, and the practicability of the 
article in all its multitudinous forms.— k. 
Rochester, N. Y., 1856. 
THE PRESENT YEAR. 
Important Discovery at Babylon. —A Lon¬ 
don paper states that Col. Rawlinson has just 
discovered among the ruins of ancient Babylon 
an extensive library, not indeed printed on pa¬ 
per, but impressed on baked bricks, containing 
many and voluminous treatises on astronomy, 
mathematics, ethnology, and several other most 
important branches of knowledge. 'I hose trea¬ 
tises contain facts and arguments which, in his 
opinion, will have no small operation on the 
study of the sciences to which they relate, and 
which throw great light upon biblical history 
and criticism, and the history of our race. 
The year just commenced is the latter part of 
the 80th and beginning of the 81st year of the 
Independence of the United States ; the 6,569th 
year of the Julian period ; the latter partot the 
5,616th and beginning of the 5,617th year since 
the creation of the world according to the Jews ; 
the 2,609th year since the foundation of Rome 
according to Varro; the 2,632d year of the 
Olympiads; the latter part of the l,272d, and 
beginning of the 1,273d year of the twelve luna¬ 
tions since the Hegira or flight of Mahomet, 
which took place the 16th of July, A. 1). 622. 
The Alphonsine tables make this year the 
7,089th from the creation ; the Greek Church 
the 6,362d, and some Eastern Churches date it 
sixteen years later than the Greek Church.— 
The Chinese adopt the Sexagenary cycle, of 
which 60 cycles have now elapsed, their era 
commenced 2,700 B. C., so they now deem 
themselves in the year 4,555. The Talmud 
makes this year 7,200 ; the Septuagint 7,757, 
and the Samarian Pentateuch 6,565.— Osivcgo 
Palladium. 
The Sabbath is always and everywhere beauti¬ 
ful. With its throng of hallowed memories, 
stealing gently into every willing heart, and 
brooding, dove-like, over tho slumbering world, 
it reaches up a hand to heaven and brings down 
many of those unfading beauties that “spring 
eternal ” on the fair bank of the “ River of Life,” 
and scatters them along the pathway of every 
humble worshiper of its Divine Master. 
A Sabbath in the crowded city is indeed 
beautiful; but, to me, a Sabbath in the solemn 
stillness of the country, is far more beautiful.— 
The spirit of beauty takes the solemn hours 
gently by the hand, and leads them on from 
the time when the sun lifts himself up above 
the eastern hill, until he fades away behind the 
“ pleasant glories ” of the western sky. Nature, 
both animate and inanimate, seems to know, 
and with open arms, welcome the blessed Sab¬ 
bath day. Every sound that breaks upon the 
stillness, seems mellowed into tones of exqui¬ 
site sweetness, and all, mingling and commin¬ 
gling with the songs of prayer and praise, that 
go up from sanctified hearts, one great volume 
of holy incense, rises upward to God. 
And when the Sabbath bells, sweetly send¬ 
ing out their song of invitation, bid the wor¬ 
shipers come to the place of prayer, how beau¬ 
tiful the scene ! Earth can furnish no lovelier 
one ! Tennyson has so charmingly described 
it, that no other words would seem appropriate : 
On to to God’s house the people prest; 
Passing the place where eaeh must rest— 
Each entered like a welcome guest. 
One walked between his wife and child. 
With measured footfall, firm and mild, 
And now and then he gravely smiled. 
The prudent partner of his blood, 
Leaned on him, faithful, gentle, good, 
Wearing the rose of womanhood. 
And in their double love secure, 
The little maiden walked demure, 
Pacing with downward eyelids pure. 
These three make unity so sweet, 
My frozen heart began to beat. 
I, too, will enter and mingle with the wor¬ 
shipers. Everything is familiar to me. How I 
love to look once more into those faces, lighted 
up as with heavenly radiance, and feel the warm 
grasp of a brother’s hand. How 1 love that 
aged man of God, down whose thin cheek the 
tears will flow, while he tells the simple story 
of the cross, and points the sinner to Calvary.— 
Another and still another have stood within 
that sacred place, for whom homes are made in 
heaven. Here and there a place is vacant !— 
The question, where are they ? is soon answer¬ 
ed, for a gentle voice is at my ear and whispers, 
“ They rest from their labors and their works do 
follow them." 
How dear to every Christian heart is the Sab¬ 
bath ; for each is a sweet antepast of that hea¬ 
venly Sabbath which shall never end. Let us, 
then, my brother, seek to thrust out from our 
hearts all worldly thoughts on this consecrated 
day, and hold sweet communion with the God 
of the Sabbath. So shall our life be hid vnth 
Christ in God; our death a rest from labors, and 
our eternity one unending Sabbath. s. a. e. 
Schoolmasters in the Crimea. —Twenty Nor¬ 
mal Schoolmasters are either on their way, or 
will immediately proceed to the seat of war, for 
purpose of opening and conducting schools for 
the instruction of the army. 
The Monad, the smallest of all creatures, 
swarms by myriads in a drop of water, for it 
has been computed that within this small space 
five hundred millions could be comprised ; and 
this calculation is not a stretch of the imagina¬ 
tion, as the monad is never found to attain a 
length greater than the twelfth thousandth part 
of an inch. In' a cubic inch of a certain kind of 
mold, consisting entirely of animalculie, more 
than 41,000,000 of distinct beings, were estimat¬ 
ed by Ehrenberg to exist. 
Small Affairs. —The fly-spider, says philos¬ 
ophy, lays an egg as long as itself. The cater¬ 
pillar has four thousand and forty-one muscles. 
The eye of a drone has fourteen thousand mir¬ 
rors in it; and to effect the respiration of a carp, 
thirteen thousand three hundred arteries, veins, 
bones, <fcc., are necessary. 
The Trade of Lecturing.— The Presbyterian, 
an influential religious paper, pointedly observes: 
“ Recent newspaper developments have made 
the public acquainted with the fact, that a new 
and somewhat lucrative occupation has been 
inaugurated. Men who have failed in one of 
the learned professions ; who have gained no¬ 
toriety in pulpit extravaganzas ; who have 
written books for which they seek to gain a 
larger market, or must by some means make 
their bread, have assumed the office of lecturers- 
general to any such portions of the great public 
as may stand ready to give them their ears and 
their dollars.” 
Percussion, or fulminating powder, as it is 
called, possesses such extraordinary power that 
it cannot be used as a motive power, there be¬ 
ing no cannon capable of withstanding its force, 
if fired in any quantity at once. Sufficient to 
project a ball or bomb-shell, would complete¬ 
ly shatter a cannon on the instant of explosion. 
The fulminate is composed of nitric acid, ex¬ 
tracted from sulphate, alcohol, or spirits ot wine 
and mercury. 
It is less pain to learn in youth than to be 
ignorant in old age. 
FRUITS OF BIBLE READING. 
The late Rev. Dr. Innes, of Gifford, in Scot¬ 
land, after a life prolonged beyond the days of 
most men, literally fell asleep. Through life a 
truly peaceful man,his latter end was peculiarly 
so ; without the suffering of disease or any 
acute pain, the pins of his tabernacle seemed to 
have been gently loosed. Some days before, 
one of his parishioners, a farmer, called, and 
seeing him cheerful, said he was glad to soe 
him so well, and that as mild weather was at 
hand he would soon get better, and be visiting 
them again. He replied, “ No; I wish no such 
flattery. You see here a poor old man on his 
bed; but without alarm ; I tell you that. Hear, 
and tell all your neighbors, my parishioners, 
that my comfort now and hope for eternity is 
just the Gospel of Christ I have preached to 
them sixty years, and there is no other.” He 
was wonderfully composed at all times; but a 
week before his death, one called, and seeing a 
small type before him, asked him if he saw to 
read without his glasses. He said, “ Oh, no ; 
I cannot see to read even my Bible without 
glasses; but,” strengthening his voice, “ I am 
thankful that I have a Bible that I have read 
and I can mind some texts that I can see and 
feel now as I never did before. O, it is a pre¬ 
cious book 1”— Selected. 
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