THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ROCHESTER. 
Under a form of government similar to our own, 
a perfect system of Common Schools will always 
be a crowning glory. Within these walls is fos¬ 
tered the spirit that upholds free institutions — 
without the intelligence and virtue here inculcated 
the days of the Republic arc numbered. Our legis¬ 
lators have had, at least, a partial view of this 
principle, as nearly all the States have provided 
permanent school funds to aid in furnishing tuition 
for the masses, and in many of the cities of the 
country, the only requisite to the obtainment of a 
good, practical education is a display of energy 
and studiousness upon the part of the scholar.— 
Rochester has not been behind her sister cities in 
thus furnishing mental aliment for her youth, and 
her score of District Schools, with upwards of a 
hundred teachers, speak well for the liberality of 
the citizens. 
Among the noticeable features of the school sys¬ 
tem in this city, is the change taking place in 
school buildings. Each year seems to make its 
mark in this respect—old, rigid, inconvenient 
tenements, in which scholars were 
“Cribbed, cabined and confined,” 
are giving way to enlarged, elegant, convenient 
edifices. For this speciality our Educational Board 
annually devote from §5,000 to §10,000, and in a 
few years we can favorably compare the entirety of 
the buildings devoted to educational purposes in 
Rochester with those of any other inland city of 
the Union. 
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PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. XIV. • 
The above illustration fairly represents one 
(among the first erected of those to which the term 
“modern” might apply,) of our more prominent 
school tenements — No. 14, situated on Scio St.— 
J. R. Vosburgh, Principal, assisted by Misses M. 
S. Anthony and E. S. Dickson. It was construct¬ 
ed in 1850, and cost seven thousand dollars. The 
building is of brick, 68 by 56 feet, two stories in 
height, and surmounted by a belfry. The ground 
floor is divided into two rooms, 41 by 33 feet, used 
as the Primary and Intermediate Departments — 
the former being under the charge of Misses R. 
Wood, I. Jory, and E. Manvel; the latter cared 
for by Misses F. A. Ai.ling, J. F. Quinn and J. F. 
Wright. The remaining portion of the lower 
floor is occupied by a recitation room 10 by 16 feet, 
halls, wardrobes, &c. The second floor contains 
the Senior room, 66 by 42 feet, Library, Recitation 
rooms, &c., and is admirably adapted to the pur¬ 
poses for which it is designed. The average at¬ 
tendance for the last term is stated as follows:— 
Senior, 144; Intermediate, 111; Primary, 178. 
In the Report of the Principal, to the Superin¬ 
tendent of Public Schools, the remark is made:— 
“It has been a cardinal principle to impress on 
the minds of our pupils the importance of thor¬ 
oughness. This maxim has ever been kept before 
their minds, ‘not how much, but how well.’”— 
With such a course, strictly carried out, we won¬ 
der not at the popularity which No. 14 has attain¬ 
ed, and the meed of praise those directly interested 
(the parents) are always ready to award the faith¬ 
ful and consistent teachers. 
In order to spread a knowledge of School Archi¬ 
tecture, we will probably give a few more of our 
home educational buildings, together with others, 
that can lay greater claim to fitness for Villages, 
or Rural Districts. 
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How the Professor Got Out of the Well. —A 
few years ago, Professor-, of Bowdoin College, 
was overseer of the building of the High School 
house in Brunswick. In the cellar of the same was 
a well, walled with brick, whose sides were conse¬ 
quently smooth. One day, being left alone in the 
building, he went down cellar, and in his haste un¬ 
consciously fell into it. Here was a predicament 
for any one possessing no more immortality than a 
College Professor; standing in five feet of water_ 
at the bottom of a well sixteen feet deep — at the 
bottom of a deep cellar — with no soul in hearing 
distance! After shouting himself hoarse, he be¬ 
thought himself of a piece of chalk—a remnant of 
the last recitation — which he applied to the walls, 
to solve his situation. The statement of the ques¬ 
tion was — let x equal how I shall get out ; y equal 
depth of water; z equal distance to the water; and 
by means of his knowledge of Algebra he actually 
worked himself out, wonderfully showing the pow¬ 
er of mathematics.— Bangor Times. 
Education in Pennsylvania.— The annual re¬ 
port of the Superintendent of Common Schools of 
Pennsylvania, shows that there are 11,281 schools 
in the State, being an increase of 325 over 1857; 
that the number of teachers is 13,856, and that the 
average of salaries of male teachers per mouth is 
§24,25, of females §17,22. 
Schools of Philadelphia. —The public schools 
of Philadelphia require for 1859, §572,196 for cur- 
ent expenses, and §146,300 for the erection of new 
school-houses. The high school has 516 students, 
all but 14 of whom are females. One normal 
school has 429 pupils. The total average attend¬ 
ance at all the schools is 56,616. 
Much has been said and written on both the art 
and science of teaching. But I apprehend that 
half of the battle of teaching is won when the 
teacher comes before his pupils with that freshness 
which is the result of daily study. It is this more 
than anything else which gives life and animation 
to teaching. 
The teacher should never make present attain¬ 
ments, in any study, a finality. There is hardly 
such a thing as a finality to any subject. What 
have been considered as finalities have given way 
like gossamer, before investigation. 
Teachers should study many authors on every 
branch which they are called upon to teach. All 
the better if they review them for the hundredth 
time; some new thought will be elicited and old 
ones revived. The teacher will thus go before his 
school anticipating his pupils’ difficulties, and can 
impart instruction with eloquence, incite attention, 
awaken thought, and cause the vacant stare to give 
place to conscious intelligence. 
Without study the teacher will soon exhaust his 
stock of knowledge. He will then wonder at the 
restlessness of his pupils and the difficulty in 
managing his school. He has fairly taught him¬ 
self thread-bare and the keen eyes of his pupils 
see it. This must be the fate of every teacher who 
does not study and keep posted. 
We place this habit of the teacher of studying in 
advance the lesson to be taught, in the front rank 
of qualifications for success. Because a teacher 
that has this habit is earnest and striving to rise 
in his profession, and, as a consequence, will im¬ 
prove both himself and his school. 
The teacher should not only study for ideas, but 
for methods of imparting the same, and inciting 
thought in his pupils. Here is another secret in 
teaching. Where manner and matter go together 
in the teacher, success must follow. What is the 
best method of presenting a subject, should be a 
constant thought with the teacher. Any one 
method of conducting a recitation will become dull 
and monotonous. 
In short, the teacher who would discharge the 
debt which he owes to his profession must be the 
most studious and industrious of men. If we hon¬ 
or our profession, it will honor us.— If. Y. Teacher. 
PHYSICAL EDUCATION. 
I agree heartily with the views of the last 
month’s editor, upon the importance of introduc¬ 
ing bodily exercise into the schools, and I approve 
of all his reasons. If they could be read by every 
teacher, and by every school-committee man, as 
often as once a month through the present year, 
they might produce a very general action; and I 
know of nothing more likely to have that effect.— 
My object in writing now, is to suggest the intro¬ 
duction of a set of exercises which may be per¬ 
formed by the children standing by their seats, 
and which, although less valuable than moroactive 
exercises in the open air, may be used as an excel¬ 
lent substitute. They should consist of various 
more or less rapid movements of the hands and 
arms. 
I will mention a few; and any person who will 
try them for a while will find their value, and will 
easily devise others :—1. Place the hands back to 
back as high over the head as possible, and bring 
them down rapidly as far on each side as can be 
done without striking any object. Repeat this six 
times. 2. Stretch the hands as far forward as pos¬ 
sible, palm to palm, and swing them thence hori¬ 
zontally as far back as possible, and repeat. Do 
the same with the hands back to back. 3. Bring 
the right hand firmly back to the height of the ear, 
and strike forward with the clenched fist, but not 
to the full length of the arm. Do this three times 
with the right hand, and as many with the left. 4. 
Strike down three times with the clenched fist of 
the right hand, then as many times with the left. 
5. Make the right clenched fist revolve three times 
in as large a circle as possible. Do the same with 
the left. Repeat all the exercises, except the last, 
with both hands at once. 
This will be enough for a beginning. I have tried 
these exercises for many years, the first thing in 
the morning, and similar exercises with the lower 
extremities, to the very manifest advantage of my 
health and strength.— Autous, in Mass. Teacher. 
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Schools in Ohio. —From the Annual Report of 
the School Commissioners in Ohio, for the year 
ending August 31, 1858, it appears that the amount 
of money received for the benefit of the school 
system was, §3,357,678; expenses, §2,739,837. The 
total number of white and colored youth in Ohio is 
843,227; the number of youth enrolled in the 
schools during the year was 611,720. 
The total number of teachers employed in the 
State is 20,240. The average wages per month in 
common schools, for male teachers, is §27 89; 
female teachers, §12 95. In the High Schools the 
average wages of the males is §6181; of the females 
§32 82. The number of school-houses heretofore 
erected was 9,795, and the value of the same §2,- 
905,395. The number of houses erected in 1857 was 
589, of the value of §391,305. The number of 
school libraries in the State is 6,437, of the value of 
§135,958. The number of books in the libraries is 
245,887. The value of school apparatus is §37,198. 
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Educational Fund of England. — The whole 
amount of the vote for public education in Great 
Britain, for the year 1858, was, in round numbers, 
£663,000; of which sum £157,000 was expended 
for building and furnishing schools; §400,000 in 
paying various classes of schoolmasters; and £57,- 
000 in defraying the expenses connected with the 
management of the schools. 
Alabama State School for the Deaf and Dumb. 
—The Alabama State School for the Deaf and Dumb 
was opened at Talladega, on the 1st of October last, 
and placed under the charge of Dr. Jos. II. John¬ 
son. The present appropriation of §2,500 per an¬ 
num is sufficient for the education of seventeen deaf 
mutes; while the census returns show an aggre¬ 
gate of 151 in the State in .1850. 
“ The only victory that costs no tears,” said 
Napoleon, “ is that over ignorance.” 
WILD, OJB CANADA GOOSE. 
ANECDOTES OF WILD GEESE.-NO. I. 
It is with feelings of the utmost delicacy, that I 
prepare the following facts for publication, know¬ 
ing that by many they will be looked upon as a 
hoax, and without the reader is acquainted, or 
wishes to become so, with the habits of wild geese, 
I will advise him to read no further. 
All who have had much experience in life know 
of incidents which they would not like to see in 
print with their own signature attached —and 
why ? For the reason that they seem so very im- 
probdble the reading public would not believe—and 
we might suffer for having exposed facts that were 
never before known, and might not be observed 
again. But, those who are interested in what my 
article treats of, if they have ever had like experi¬ 
ence, or anything like it, I hope will make it known 
in a similar manner as myself, and gratify at least 
one lover and breeder of this peculiar bird. 
For ten years a pair of wild geese and their 
young (most of which I early disposed of) have 
occupied a pond adjacent to my house, which 
would always quickly come to the call of my whistle, 
and many an hour have I spent in their com¬ 
pany, studying their habits. In winter, when 
they were confined in warm quarters, I was par¬ 
ticular to feed them punctually, and by playfully 
talking to them awhile, I could familiarly handle 
them, and, seemingly, they considered me their 
friend. 
In the spring of 1857 my old gander disappeared 
mysteriously, and as I did not suppose the old 
goose would lay without a mate, I borrowed one of 
a distant neighbor, and put him into the pond with 
my geese. Much to my disappointment he soon 
commenced to make love to a female only a year 
old and finally paired off with her—showing no 
liking for the old goose, and she as little for him. 
The party that obliged me, finding it incon¬ 
venient to tend his geese in winter, and ascertain¬ 
ing that I could do it with butWlittle trouble, re¬ 
moved the goose (mate to the ganger I had borro w¬ 
ed,) and several of their young f' J t) my hands. In 
the spring of 1858, as soon as-^t ice commenced 
to break up, I gave the geese iibvj tiVaud they went 
into the pond together; but wh,^gt%'tly surprised 
and vexed me was, that the gander would not re¬ 
turn to his old consort. With apparent disgust did 
he seem to view her constant attendance, coquettish 
bowing and love-making in general, and often did 
he turn his back upon his former affectionate wife, 
and with gallantry unsurpassed, with his unsophis¬ 
ticated new one, sail happily away to some seclu¬ 
ded nook, where they could enjoy themselves un¬ 
molested. Seeing this state of things and know¬ 
ing I should have no goslings, I wrote my friend 
how his naughty gander behaved. In reply lie 
advised me, “ that as I had kindly wintered his 
geese it was no more than fair that he should sum¬ 
mer mine ;” and “ that no doubt existed in his mind 
—if the old gander and goose were back again on 
their little island, where they had hatched out four 
broods, they would re-marry and again commence 
domestic duty.” 
Accordingly the geese were caught and trans¬ 
ported to my friends, where I arrived about noon, 
and feeling a curiosity to see how they would be¬ 
have, we concluded to dine before letting them out. 
As the old pair and their young approached the 
pond, it was evident they instinctively knew their 
former home, and on reaching the water they 
evinced their unbounded pleasure by the maddest 
antics imaginable, so much so, that we could not 
but remark and enjoy their mirth. And “ now,” 
my friend said, “see if the old pair don’t make at 
once for the island,” and true enough they did, but 
not alone—the last lady-love was with them. 
The shadow of polygamy seemingly darkened 
the vision of the old gander, when about half way 
to the island, and turning back, he looked, at first 
on one and then the other, who meantime were 
bowing their heads and swimming about him jab¬ 
bering like a flock of jay birds, when, (we wished 
him dead,) with a perfect vengeance he rushed to¬ 
wards his old mate, pushed her the distance of two 
or three rods, pulling her feathers out and biting 
with all his strength. Then, hissing, fiend-like, he 
returned to his mistress, and with the air of a man 
who has washed his hands of a very disagreeable 
job, swam for the island, introduced her to its sa¬ 
cred shores, pointed out this thing and that thing 
of interest, as he led her towards the spot, over 
which he had kept watch the previous year, while 
his lady, fatigued, day and night gave her warmth 
and comfort to the benefit of his forthcoming 
young. 
While we leave this couple so happy let our sym¬ 
pathies return to the old goose who, with down¬ 
cast head, and plumage all awry, watched the hard¬ 
hearted wretch in voice and movement. Sadly the 
picture came to her of their early happiness—of the 
time when instead of this young coot, she was the 
apple of his eye—of the eternal devotion he vowed 
her when their little ones chipped the shell and he, 
prouder than earth’s crowned king, led them to 
the water—how, as they grew up companions of 
the lilies, and alike as beautiful, each day her love 
grew stronger for her guardian and defender—nor 
did the doubt of his constancy ever cross her 
mind. 
Hers had been the pliant ear and memory to 
listen and retain his happy pictures of other lands, 
which he had visited ere the unkind hand of the 
hunter pinioned his wing, and he it was that in¬ 
stilled into her soul the joyous hope that time would 
heal their deformity, and together, on the wings of 
love, they might journey untired to her fancied 
land. Such thoughts as these, if my acquaintance 
with them has taught me rightly, and many 
others, an instant’s space more then sufficed to im¬ 
press her memory, and as she beheld her truant 
husband leave their former happy isle and convey 
the spoiler of her happiness to other familiar 
places, and felt herself by him unnoticed as a thing 
that were not, she cried aloud in heart—breaking 
agony—better than my existence do I love thee 
and now I know thou care not for me —on thy head 
be my suicide, for I die—and, pressing her head un¬ 
der water and reclining on her side and back, with 
but little perceptible flutter, ere my friend (who 
cried, “she will drown herself") could enter a 
ready boat and reach her, life was extinct. Well, 
we knew she had died of a broken heart; and to 
be sure nothing ailed her, we made a careful ex¬ 
ternal and internal examination and found all as 
it should be. What I have related is£ru£7i and can 
be proved, and I consider this incident of con¬ 
stancy and affection worthy of record. 
Dedham, Mass., 1859. E. W. K. 
©!)c Hcotciucr. 
The Pioneers ; or, Tub Sources of the Susque¬ 
hanna. A Descriptive Talo. By J. Fenximore 
Cooper. Illustrated from Drawings by F. O. C. Dae- 
i.ey. New York: W. A. Townsend & Co.—1S59. 
[pp. 505.] 
This is the first volume of a new and splendid edition 
of Cooper’s works, now in course of publication—to be 
followed by a volume each month until the entire series 
is completed. The re-publication of the works of the 
foremost of American Novelists in a superior style and 
enduring form—with fine illustrations, and all the latest 
improvements and revisions of the author—is highly 
creditable to the enterprising publishers, and speaks 
well for tlio taste of the reading public. The typogra¬ 
phy and illustrations, as well as the externals of the 
volume, are faultless, and will commend the edition to 
every admirer of American Literature. The edition is 
sold by subscription, at $1 50 per volume, and the great 
demand for it already, proves that our people appre¬ 
ciate the taste and enterprise of the publishers in issu¬ 
ing the series in a form so beautiful aud enduring. Of 
the merits of Cooper’s Novels it is unnecessary to speak 
in this connection, for the author has long ranked first 
among the delineators of American life, scenery and 
manners. The publishers well remark that “ this edition 
will derive enhanced interest from being illustrated by 
Darley, an artist who, for years, has made the pages of 
Cooper a congenial study. His drawings, conceived in 
a spirit and with a breadth worthy of the picturesque 
pages of his author, have been preserved in all their 
fidelity by the best engravers in the country.” D. M. 
Dewey is the agent for Rochester and vicinity. 
The Land and the Book ; or, Biblical Illustrations 
drawn from the Manners and Customs of the Holy 
Land. By \Y. M. Thomson, D. D., twenty-five years 
a Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in Syria and Pales¬ 
tine. Maps, Engravings, &c. In two volumes. New 
York: Harper and Brothers—1859. 
This is the most interesting book on Palestine for the 
general reader that it has ever been our pleasure to 
peruse. The author has been for twenty-five years a 
missionary in Palestine and Syria, and consequently 
is at home in these lands and familiar with what he 
describes. Indeed, a large part of the work was actu¬ 
ally written in full view of the scenes delineated—in the 
open country—on sea-shore or sacred lake—on hill-side 
or mountain top—under the olive or the oak, or the 
“ shadow of a great rock.” Some of the recent works 
on Palestine have been made tedious to the generality 
of readers by extended critical and exegetical discus¬ 
sions, valuable to the thorough bible student, but use¬ 
less to the mass of readers, as, unless understood, they 
only annoy and confuse. Our author has avoided this, 
aud has simply stated what he saw, in the manner and 
customs of the people in the country, and its ruins, and 
its vegetation, calculated to throw light upon the scrip¬ 
ture, and most admirably has he accomplished the 
work. The book is written in a pleasant, conversational 
style, and the reader soon becomes absorbed in its pages, 
and in spirit accompanies the author in his travels over 
mountain and vale—to the shepherd’s hut and hermit’s 
cave—to the palaces of kings and the temples of the 
gods—and to places hallowed by the foot-prints of the 
Redeemer of the world. Sold by D. M. Dewey. 
Father and Daughter, A Portraiture from the Life. 
By Fredrika Bremer. Translated by Mart IIowitt. 
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros. [pp. 348.] 
This is really a recent work by Miss Bremer— issued 
from advance sheets of the London edition with remar¬ 
kable expedition. The publishers affirm that the vol¬ 
ume of 348 pages was put in type and stereotyped, the 
paper for a large edition manufactured, and the work 
completed and bound ready for sale in forty-eight 
hours. Though this speed does not add to the intrinsic 
value of the work it shows that the publishers pessess 
superior facilities and enterprise. Of the volume itself 
it is only necessary to say it is written in Miss Bremer’s 
charming and chaste style, presenting natural home 
scenes aud pictures of social life. Sold by Dewet. 
Efisodksof French History During the Consulate and 
the First Empire. By Miss Paedok. New York: 
Harper & Bros. [pp. 361.] 
A plain, well-printed book of about 350 pages, con¬ 
taining 25 episodes or stories, principally of high life, or 
rather royal life in France, during the First Napoleon, 
and are instructive as showing in the private life the 
hidden motives for public measures, and traits of char¬ 
acter explaining acts otherwise incongruous. They 
were collected by the compiler while engaged in writ¬ 
ing a royal biography, and are presented to the public 
as mere episodes, without regard to chronological order. 
Sold by Dewey. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AWAKENING THOUGHT-A SKETCH. 
One clear and frosty morning in December, 1854, 
in one of those picturesque valleys in Western New 
\ ork, my friend G-and myself were strolling 
along, commenting on various topics of interest 
that suggested themselves, when an object in the 
glittering landscape attracted our attention and 
drew forth our admiration by its boldness and 
grandeur. To me it appeared nothing more than a 
cliff, lofty and majestic. My companion expressed 
his thoughts in glowing language and striking 
similes—portraying its beauty and the silent lesson 
it there taught. Speaking of other things, he said: 
“I can see beauty in everything around—the crisp 
snow beneath our feet—the leafless tree by the 
roadside—the jutting cliff on the hillside, and the 
sun flooding the vale with his golden light, but 
reveal the inimitable beauties of nature. Frank,” 
said he, “ there is untold beauties everywhere dis¬ 
played, if we will but behold them.” 
A new liglit dawned on my mind. Can it be, 
thought I, that the world is indeed so beautiful that 
he can see fanciful jewels in the frozen rain-drop, or 
leafless forest, and I, gazing on the same objects, 
not behold it? Ah! beauty with me, then, was as¬ 
sociated with gay colors and brilliant trappings, or 
some quiet retreat, where the hand of refinement 
had adorned it with graceful festoons of flowering 
shrubbery. 
We separated—each returned to his vocation in 
the school-room, in the brown school-house at the 
foot of the hill. Nature, even in her rough and 
uncouth aspects, no longer appeared unlovely; for 
a train of thought had been awakened which wa3 
to run parallel with, and almost become part of, my 
existence. The flinty rock, as we surveyed it and 
thought of it3 creation and purpose, its constituent 
elements and grim face, furnished a field for many 
thoughts and speculations. The tall “evergreen 
pine” seemed a thing of grand beauty—for it seem¬ 
ed a type of man as it stood clothed in living green. 
It was once tiny and pliable as the infant mind; 
now it stood immovable as an aged Christian 
clothed in a fadeless armor of beauty. 
May we not also liken the leafless oak to the 
hardened sinner who in youth neglected the means 
of grace, and sought not the pearl of great price, 
and now stood shorn of its freshness and beauty, 
cold, chilling and uninviting, yet sublime in its 
wreck and decline? * * * * We 
went West, to the “land of blooming prairies " 
and as we roamed in frolicsome glee over the ver¬ 
dant plains, covered with multicolored flowers; 
we could but exclaim with Read, 
“ Gentle flowers are springing near mo, 
Shedding sweetest breath around; 
Countless voices rise to cheer me 
From the ground,” 
Even the humblest flower seemed “ a thing of 
beauty.” The tiny, sensitive plant, and the broad 
lily, vied each in their sphere to make the prospect 
lovely. Our occupation was teaching, and in fine, 
pleasant weather we walked forth with our youth¬ 
ful charges, pointing out here and there the many 
varied beauties spread out before usi The widen¬ 
ing landscape—the distant grove and the meander¬ 
ing brooklet were each pointed out to the delighted 
group, for each one seemed to perceive something 
new, and unperceived before, in the prospect before 
her, as objects were likened to some fanciful picture 
as drawn by the Great Artist. 
A few days after one of these rambles, “Mary,” 
came to me,—after she had taken a long walk one 
fine morning, with a face glowing with delight, ex¬ 
claiming :—“ Oh ! such a delightful walk as I have 
had, everything looked so pretty. The snow looked 
like a crystal sheet—the frozen rain-drops seemed 
pendent jewels on the shrubs—the brook seemed 
to go laughing by, the sun was glorious with its 
flood of light, and the shrubs, trees, fields and 
prairies seemed the furniture of one vast palace 
fitted up for us to enjoy and admire. I am so glad 
you took us out to walk and told us of the beauties 
of nature. I’ve been so happy since. Everything 
seems so different; so charming and adapted to 
make us happy if we will but permit it so to be.” 
I was well repaid for all I had said to guide the 
youthful mind to a just appreciation of the Beau¬ 
tiful. Thought had been around; Mary saw what 
she had always seen before, but with very different 
thoughts and feelings. Nature was seen in its true 
light,— she gazed upon it with a wondering look, 
admiring its varied beauties, and with a light heart 
she resumed her task. 
I need not add more; enough has been said to 
illustrate my theme, and we’ll let the thoughtful 
young reader pause and think how he can best 
make himself and others happier by a few thoughts, 
bright and happy, communicated with love and 
friendship. Frank W. G-. 
nornby, N. Y., Jan., 1859. 
A Noble Sentiment. —Some true heart has given 
expression of its generous nature in the following 
beautiful sentiment:—“ Never desert a friend when 
enemies gather round him; when sickness falls on 
the heart—when the world is dark and cheerless is- 
the time to try a true friend. They who turn from 
the scene of distress betray their hypocrisy, and 
prove that interest only moves them. If you have 
a friend who loves you and studies your interest and 
happiness, be sure to sustain him in adversity. 
Let him feel that his former kindness is appreciated, 
and that his love is not thrown away. Ileal fidelity 
may be rare; but it exists in the heart. Who has 
not seen and felt itsjiower ? They deny its worth W 
who never loved a friend or labored to make a M 
friend happy.” 
All the world cannot pull down an humble man, -L 
because God will exalt him; and all the world W 
cannot exalt a proud man, for God will pull him vfJ 
down. W. 
A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft. 
