Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
PERSEVERANCE. 
Nothing valuable is to be gained without labor 
and patience, and a few faint efforts after intellec¬ 
tual culture, never rendered him who put them 
forth either learned or great. There have been 
but few who did not, in childhood or youth, possess 
ardent aspirations for learning, and picture to 
themselves the great things that they were to 
accomplish in after-life. But how few carry out 
them plans. The failure is often owing to the 
want of perseverance. They become discouraged 
at the difficulties that they have to contend with, 
and give up the task they have undertaken. 
There are difficulties in the way of the accomplish¬ 
ment of any noble object, and the greatest natural 
endowments do not free the possessor from the 
necessity of persevering toil if he would become 
truly learned. There are those who profess to 
make men learned, (at least in some branches of 
literature,) in on easier method than any with 
which our fathers were acquainted ; but it may be 
doub'ed whether any person has ever yet found 
his way into the temple of knowledge by walking 
in the path which these individuals have marked 
out. He must have a wonderful intellect who can 
acquire a knowledge of Spanish or German ia 
twelve lessons; and yet certain professors would 
be happy to inculcate such ideas with the masses. 
If we would lay up a store of valuable knowledge, 
we must devote much time to its acquisition. 
now much encouragement there is for persever¬ 
ing effort. Perseverance has enabled others to 
surmount great obstacles. Sir Isaac Newton, in 
childhood, was thought uncommonly dull, and he 
ascribed the greatness of his attainments and dis¬ 
coveries in after-life, more to his perseverance 
than to the natural superiority of his mind. Dr. 
Adam Clarke’s childhood was very far from 
being characterized by any remarkable display of 
aptness at gaining knowledge; yet his persever¬ 
ance placed him among the most learned men of 
his age. Who has not heard of Demosthenes 
being hissed from the stage when he first attempted 
to address the people. Three times was it repeated 
before they would listen to him, yet bis persever¬ 
ance rendered him the greatest orator that Greece 
ever produced. It was not until after long years 
of training, that Cicero won classic fame. Even 
those who are the favorites of the masses, have 
often been indebted, in no small degree, to this 
peculiarity of character for the position they 
ccupy. Goldsmith bad his “Traveler” on hand 
for nine years, and his “Deserted Village” six or 
seven years. Moore often labored upon a song 
for two or three weeks before he deemed it 
finished. 
Reader, the Hill of Science is before you. There 
you gather the richest fruits, if ^’ou will only toil 
up the rugged steeps on which they grow ; but it 
is vain for you to dream of plucking them, with¬ 
out persevering labor. You will never gain the 
fruits by wishing them within your grasp. You 
must clamber up if ycu would get them, and the 
reward is worth the labor. When you have once 
gained the victory, you will be fitted to be more 
useful than you could otherwise be, and the pos¬ 
session of knowledge will open to you sources of 
happiDess that are unknown to uncultivated minds. 
Oak Creek, Wis., 1659. B. L. Leonard. 
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SELF-EDUCATION. 
Education may be called a knowledge of facts, 
be they mental, physical or spiritual, which have 
been collected, one time or another, in different 
ways, for the supposed benefit of the person or 
persons acquiring the same. Mind is the funda¬ 
mental principle upon which all this superstruc¬ 
ture of knowledge is to be based, and that it is 
dependent upon self to what extent these facts are 
to be accumulated and received, we will briefly 
endeavor to sbow. 
Let us first consider mind itself, which works by 
reception, retention and reflection. Under the 
last, (reflection,) we will include instinct and intui¬ 
tive perception. Not that instinct is reason, but 
it partakes of so much of it that it is difficult, if 
not impossible, to draw the true line of distinction 
unless it is to be admitted that beasts, birds and 
insects, along with man, are imbued with at least 
the elements of reason. And intuitive perception 
is, in reality, a higher method of reasoning than 
the common one—or by a combination otprinci¬ 
ples instead of ideas— Webster’s opinion to the 
contrary, notwithstanding. 
In the reception of knowledge the mind opens, 
as it were, to take inwardly what has been grasped 
by perception, outwardly. Memory retains this 
knowledge, and then comes reflection, a bending 
back of the mind abstractedly, or, through com¬ 
parison, upon itself, or facts within and known, for 
the production of other facts or knowledge which 
yet remains unknoion. 
But viewing these ideas in any way, or in what¬ 
ever manner one may choose, and applying them, 
or any part of them, to man, — even to beasts 
birds, insects, individually or collectively — they 
are governed more or less by will, and are some¬ 
times strenuously and powerfully influenced by it; 
and are inherent in tbe individual be it who or 
what it may. Knowledge can not be crowded 
upon the mind until permission of the will has 
been secured, and as soon as that has been done 
there is no coercion about it, for the mind then 
receives the knowledge independently of its own 
accord. The will may lie quiet and dormant, or it 
may be forcibly exerted; may be careless and 
indifferent, or on the alert and engaged in imme¬ 
diate action; may be irresolute and fickle, or 
determined and steady; and it is still part and 
parcel of the individual, and door-keeper of knowl¬ 
edge and education. 
Knowledge may by gathered by actual observa¬ 
tion, or by reading and adopting the opinions and 
ideas of others. It may be found in-doors, or out¬ 
doors; in private, or public; at home, or abroad ; 
in the common school, ia the college, or in the 
great school of life’s experience—the world at 
large—and it is immaterial wheiher by one or 
more, any ®r all, of these ways, means and influ¬ 
ences combined, it is, in fact, still dependent upon 
self. And for these reasons, and these alone, it 
seems we may rest assured that, in the abstract, 
all education is no more and no less than sef- 
oducation. s, j. w\ 
SCHOOL-BOOM ETIQUETTE. 
Manners re-act upon the mind that produces 
them, just as they themselves are re-acted upon by 
tbe dress in which they appear. It used to be a say¬ 
ing among the old-school gentlemen and ladies 
that a courtly bow could not be made without a 
handsome stocking and slipper. Then there is a 
connection more sacred still between the manners 
and affections. They act magically upon the 
springs of feelings. They teach us love and hate, 
indifference and zeal. They are the ever-present 
sculpture-gallery. Tbe spinal cord is a telegraphic 
wire of a hundred ends. But whoever imagines 
legitimate manners can be taken up and laid aside, 
put on and off, for the moment, has missed their 
deepest law. Doubtless there are artificial man¬ 
ners, but only in artificial persons. A French 
danciDg-master, a Monsieur Turveydrop.can man¬ 
ufacture a deportment for you, and you can wear 
it, but not till your mind has condescended to the 
Turveydrop level, and then the deportment only 
faithfully illustrates the character again. 
A noble aBd attractive every-day bearing comes 
of goodness, of sincerity, of re6nement, and these 
are bred in years, not moments. The principle 
that rules your life is the true posture-master. 
Sir Philip Sidney was the pattern to all England 
of a perfect gentleman, but then he was tbe hero 
that, on the field of Zutphen, pushed away the cup 
of cold water from his own fevered and parched 
lips, and held it out to the dying soldier at his 
side. If lofty sentiments habitually make their 
home in the heart, they will beget, not perhaps, a 
factitious and finical drawing-room etiquette, but 
the breeding of a genuine and more royal gen¬ 
tility, to which no simple, no young heart will 
refuse its homage. Children are not educated till 
they catch the charm that makes a gentleman or 
lady. A coarse and slovenly teacher, a vulgar 
and boorish presence, munching apples or ches- 
nuts at a recitation like a squirrel, pocketing his 
hands like a mummy, projecting his heels nearer 
the firmament than his skull, like a circus clown, 
and dispensing American saliva like a member of 
Congress, inflicts a wrong upon the school-room, 
for which no scientific attainments are an offset. 
An educator that despises the resources hid in his 
personal cariiage, deserves, on the principles of 
Swedenborg’s retribution, similia similibus to be 
passed through a pandemonium of Congressional 
bullying. — Bev. F. T. Huntington. 
THE TEACHING UJf PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 
Ip the term education may be understood in so 
large a sense as to include all that belongs to tbe 
improvement of the mind, either by the acquisi¬ 
tion of the knowledge of others or by increase of 
it through his own exertions, we learn by these 
results what is the kind of education science offers 
to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing; 
not to despise the small beginnings, for they pre¬ 
cede of necessity all great things in the knowledge 
of science, either pure or applied. It teaches a 
continual comparison of the small and great, and 
that under differences almost approaching the 
infinite—for the small as often contains the great 
in principle as the great does the small; and thus 
the mind becomes comprehensive. It teaches to 
deduce principles carefully, to hold them firmly, 
or to suspend the judgment—to discover and obey 
laio, and by it to be bold in applying to the great¬ 
est what we know of the smallest. It teaches us 
first by tutors and books to learn that which is 
already known to others, and then by the light 
and methods which belong to science, to learn for 
ourselves and for others—so making a fruitful 
return to man in the future for that which we have 
obtained from the men of the past. Bacon, in his 
instruction, tells us that the scientific student 
ought not to be as the ant who gathers merely, 
nor as the spider who spins from her own bowels, 
but rather as the bee who both gathers and pro¬ 
duces.— Prof. Faraday. 
I was Once Young.— It is an excellent thing 
for all who are engaged in giving instruction to 
young people, frequently to call to mind what 
they were themselves when young. This practice 
is one which is most likely to impart patience and 
forbearance, and to correct unreasonable expecta¬ 
tions. At one period of my life, when instructing 
two or three young people to write, I found them, 
as I thought, unusually stupid. I happened 
about this time to look over the contents of an 
old copy-book, written by me when I was a boy. 
The thick up-strokes, the crooked down-strokes, 
the awkward jointing of letters, and the blots in 
the book, made me completely ashamed of myself, 
and I could at the moment have hurled the book 
into the fire. The worse, however, I thought of 
myself, the better I thought of my backward | 
scholars. I was cured of my unreasonable expec¬ 
tations, and became in future doubly patient and 
forbearing. In teaching youth, remember that 
you once were young, and in reproving their 
youthful errors, endeavor to call to mind your own. 
— Selected. 
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i Influence.— It is not position that gives influ- 
i ence, it is character. What men are, determines 
i their power over others, not where they are: 
t themselves, not the places they stand in. When 
l Diogenes had been captured by pirates, and was 
- about to bo sold as a slave in Crete, he pointed to 
• a Corinthian, very carefully dressed, saying, “ Sell 
l me to that man, he wants a master.” His wish 
- was granted him; and the event demonstrated his 
sagacity. Character overcame position: that man 
- bought a master in buying Diogenes! 
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THE DIGNIT2 OF LABOR. 
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MEXICO ACADEMY,—MEXICO, 1ST. Y. 
*“ " al ?" Where is the coxcom^ so lost to consistency 
MEXICO ACADEMY,-MEXICO, 1ST. Y. —where the aristocratic dunce, so bereft of com¬ 
mon sense,—as to wish to tear from labor that 
crown of dignity which is hers by eternal birth- 
Dhring a recent excursion in Oswego county, Principal informs us that there is not a groggery right? Labor degrading! Let burning shame 
we sojourned a day in the pleasant village of Mex- or saloon in the village, and that none are allowed, mantle the cheek of him who sacrilegiously utters 
ico, and visited the Academy represented above, so that students are removed from tbe temptations so base a scandal. 
We believe this institution is the oldest of its class and associations of large towns, while they have The civilizing influences of well-directed labor 
in that section of the State, having bees organized superior educational advantages at a com para- are immensely great. Labor is the recognizance 
in 1820 and incorporated in 1826. The building i3 tively small expense. The Academy Reading of that beautiful law of reciprocitv which obliges 
commodious and beautifully situated. The Acad- Room is well furnished with periodicals—there are all to return an equivalent for their living, in the 
emy has five Professors and about one hundred two flourishing Literary Societies, and a large world’s great exchange. The law of labor is 
and fifty pupils. Many of the best students are Reading Association connected with the insiitu- absolute, and extends to all classes. The affluent 
pursuing a thorough classical course, preparatory tion. The Academy Buildmg is a fine brick edifice, must labor with the hand of charity to raise the 
to entering College. We are assured that espe- of recent construction, ninety-six feet long, fifty fallen and mitigate the sorrows of the poor ■ and 
cial attention is given those preparing to teach, feet wide, and three stories high. Prof. J. D. the poor, who are subservient to material circum- 
and that the Academy annually sends out from Steelb, a competent and enthusiastic instructor, stances, must and will, by the stimulus of neces- 
sixty to eighty Common School teachers. The is Principal of the Institution. sity, put forth efforts for self-preservation. All 
- - - - —- are held to the law of productive or beneficent 
«'m css | saved by the cackling of geese, their reputation efioft, however varied the springs of action in the 
mLI IlflTtl I Lull Of) has never been enviable, for to style a man a goose difierent classes. None are independent of the 
f\ Xi implies a very low estimation of his abilities. But °^ er - As Tennyson has sweetly sung: 
1/|1 ff7 geese have many redeeming features, and our “ All are needed by each one, 
ilB nfl ^jifw fr* en d Dr. Wight, of Dedham, who is a goose Nothing is good and fair alone.” 
IJk i fancier, tells a thousand singular instances of Without labor there can be no true development. 
S n j JfpIviTj- geese have many redeeming features, and our “ All are needed by each one, 
friend Dr. Wight, of Dedham, who is a goose Nothing is good and fair alone.” 
fancier, tells a thousand singular instances of Without labor there can be no true development, 
their habits. He has one noble old gander, who No matter if the necessities of our being impel to 
has refused even the leap-year advances of the it. They are the dynamic forces that move the 
. .. - ■ ■■ most beautiful goosey on the pond, and has main- sinewy arms to ail manly enterprise, all great 
ANECDOTES OF WILD GEESE. — NO. III. tained celibacy (on account of the bad example of achievements. I repeat, the great law of labor 
-f- his owner, we presume) through many years. The has its spring in necessity, — a wondrous and 
Last season among my wild geese wa3 a small, doctor owned a pair which for several years re- beautiful necessity, which fires up the mightiest 
deformed-looking bird, that seemed an outcast., as new - e d their pledges of mutual faithfulness, and impulses,—which unfolds the best faculties of our 
none would mate with Ler, and standing awkward- seeme d to exhibit a constancy most remarkable, natures,—which arouses aod dignifies the whole 
ly upon one foot she kept aloof from the flock, gi^g promise of at least a silver wedding of man, and clothes him with a power that moves 
displeasing me so muci that I seriously thought fidelity. A friend sent to the doctor two beautiful the world. 
of killing her; but “handsome is as handsome females of the same species, which he placed on The universe can present no finer instance of 
does,” and so in her case, a3 you will perceive the pond; and,when mating time approached, the God-like dignity, than an intelligent beiDg, labo- 
before I get through. I had hut one pair of tame 0 ]g g au der, won by the beauty of young Miss ricusly tasking his great powers in the production 
geese, and daring the season the goose laid a large Goose, deserted his old companion, and paid his of food for the race, or subjugating the material 
number of eggs, only ^tting upon "he last nine, devoir’s at the new comer’s shrine. The deserted forces of nature, and laying ttiem under contribu- 
As fast as she had lasjipifufiicient number, I took 0 ne refused all food, and her kind owner carried tion to tbe behests of humanity; one on whose 
them away and set under hens, and out ot her to the house, where by petting she regained forehead the beaded sweat glistens more gloriously 
theVwhole number I^Jt^ fortunate enough to get fi er appetite. After some days, thinking that her than a coronet of royalty; one out of whose toil 
about forty goslings. \ heart was healed, he carried her to the pond, 'spring all the marshaled utilities of commerce, 
The first hen came off, and in her rambles about When within sight of the water the false one with wealth, civilization, and the attendant retinue of 
the fields she was constantly attended by the de- fife new bride came sailing by, when the divorced art, the triumphal car of invention, and the pa- 
formed wild goose before mentioned. They seemed glanced at him, gave one quiver, and died in her geantry of scieace—a grand procession of peace, 
to agree very well, and vied with each other in owner’s arms! e. w. k. power and plenty, transforming the arid earth to 
showing their pupils attention. I watched with Dedham, Mass., 1S59. a fruitful Eden. Steadily and surely, as the sea- 
much curiosity this strange alliance, and could Remarks. —In a previous number our eorres- sods go and come, as the clouds pour down their 
not account for the attachment, until one fine pondent made the following inquiry:—“Let me watery treasures, and as the earth revolves, sweep¬ 
morning, wandering near the pond, the wild goose a sk if you, or any readers of the Rural, have ever ing annually around its great centre, Labor is 
with but little persuasion induced tbe little ones seen or heard of a. white vn\& goose? Two of my sowing the seed, garnering the sheaves, founding 
to follow her into the water, to the consternation friends that have been in California insist upon it cities, establishiog marts of trade, whitening all 
of tbe old hen, who, like fussy people we often that they have seen with wild geese, white ones, the seas with commerce, and from age to age, 
meet with, bustled and flew about, clucking and an( j more than that, have killed them. I cannot unrolling a gorgeous panorama of achievements 
cackling, entreating and enticing, in the most understand how this can be, and think they must and victories. s. b. r. 
flattering language; then, forgetting herself, have been mistaken.” “ Spring Side,” Middlebury, Yt., 1859. 
coming out in fierce old granny’s tones, threaten- fo this we have received the following reply -•- 
ing to demolish them if they did not obey her on f rom an 0 i<j resident of Oregon and California: Trimming Fruit Trees, Ac.— We are very fond 
showing their pupils attention. I watched with 
much curiosity this strange alliance, and could 
power and plenty, transforming the arid earth to 
a fruitful Eden. Steadily and surely, as the sea¬ 
sons go and come, as the clouds pour down their 
“ Spring Side,” Middlebury, Yt., 1859. 
the instant—but all to no purpose. The little Friend Moore: —Please say to E. W. K. that of reading your paper, and find much pleasure in 
ones were as comfortable on the water as a duck’s white wild geese are very plenty in portions of its perusal. I want to ask some questions. When 
foot in the mud, and to add to her heart-rending Oregon and California. In the Rogue River Val- pVrUcffia'r ^Ts 
agony, the goose, ahead oi the little troopers bow- j e y 0 f Oregon, I have seen thousands of white [ want to know if anything will cure heaves in 
ing and smirking, led oft for a remote part of the wild geese. I can produce testimony of hundreds, horses? I have tried a recipe that came in the 
pond to get rid, now that her object was accom- if wished ior.—Dartford, July, 1859. aT*° U ad B ° benefit -~ A - &•> Penn Yan > 
plished, of her very disagreeable non-aquatic From a gentleman in Saline county, Missouri, ^ ’ 
pond to get rid, now that her object was accom- if wished for .—Dartford, July, 1859. tound B0 benefit.— A. G., Penn Yan, 
plished, of her very disagreeable non-aquatic From a gentleman in Saline county, Missouri, ^ ’ 
neighbor; nor for a week did I see her back on we have also received the following information :— Remarks. Trim apple trees late in the winter, 
that side of the pond. The poor old hen looked “There are two kinds of wild geese in this county, S£ U March, but don t trim lor the fun of the thing, 
that side of the pond. The poor old hen looked “There are two kinds of wild geese in this county, S£ U March, but don t trim lor the fun of the thing, 
mournful enough for a few days, and then went a i arge kind and a small one, we call Brant's, or because you happen to have a sharp saw and 
to laying again. As fast as the other hens came some of which are perfectly white, except the knife, or a little leisure time. Trim for the benefit 
off, the wild goose would make her appearance three first feathers in the wing, which are black. of tbe tree > aad bare tbe object yon aim at well 
with her adopted children, and with her own, j have a friend who has a half dozen which he has settled in your mind. Cherry trees seldom need 
assisted by their influence, but a short time would fi ac j f or several years. Some they crippled and P ruQ ' n g, or are benefited by it. The heaves may 
intervene before she would entice the goslings t he others they have raised from them. They are be helped by judicious feeding, and some medi¬ 
away from the hens and introduce them to their n^t very numerous, but are occasionally seen with oine3 produce temporary relief, but the heaves in 
proper element, no more to return to the guardian- ^e <j ar k ones.” horses, like the asthma in man, is difficult to cure 
ship of Madam Hen. -- —perhaps impossible. 
Finally, when the old goose came off, very proud THE EEDOUINS. -*- 
of her offspring, and in her maternal pride flying - DESPISING RIDICULE, 
at every dog and stranger that made their appear- J T j s a curious fact, observes the London Quar- - 
ance, she was doomed to be constantly haunted terly, that while the Christiau Missionary has I know of no principle which is of more im- 
by the presence of the wild one, who would not made his way to every part of the g'obe, and has portance to fix in the mind of young people, than 
be driven away. Resistance, in the way of fight- taught with more or less success, he has never l bat of the mo3t determined resistance to the 
ing, and angry looks, did not seem to intimidate succeeded in mixing with the Bedouins. They encroachments of ridicule. Give up to the world, 
her, who only tried the harder to steal away her wander over a region which, from physical causes, and the ridicule with which the world enforces 
children; and when the tame goose, finding they can be inhabited by none others but men following *ts dominion, every trifling question of manner 
were disposed to abandon her bed and board, she their mode of life. From earliest times every 
like a true martyr, concluded to make the best of effort has been made to reduce them to subjection, 
a bad matter, and accompanied them. and to render their haunts by human skill fitted 
and appearance; it is to toss courage and firmness 
to the winds, to combat upon such subjects as 
a bad matter, and accompanied them. and to render their haunts by human skill fitted these. But learn from the earliest days to insure 
All summer loDg this regiment, beaded by tbe to receive a settled population. Canals and water your principles against the perils of ridicule; you 
wild one, with the old tame one bringing up tbe courses were carried as far as human ignenuity can 110 more exercise your reason if you lire in 
rear, could be seen upon my pond, adding to its could devise, and where water could reach, there tbe constant dread of laughter, than you can 
beauty and greatly to my happiness. - Very seldom the land was conquered. But there remained be- er) j°I jour life if you are in the constant dread of 
in the daytime would they leave the water, while yond a large region which the Bedouin could call death. If you think it right to differ from the 
the night was spent feeding upon barley sprouts, his own. There he is to be found still, as we see t liries > and to take a stand tor any valuable point 
and as it neared maturity, the heads. Not once him represented on the walls of Assyrian palaces, of morals, do it, however rustic, however autiqua- 
did they make their appearance in my door-yard, riding his swift dromedary; we read him in sacred ted, however pedantic it may appear; do it, not 
and finding they were doing well, I gave up feed- history, suddenly appearing as a robber in the f° r insolence, but seriously and grandly, as the 
ing them. In the fall I had a better flock of geese midst of tbe quiet cultivation of the soil, and as man wbo wore the soul of bis own bosom, and 
than ever before. In previous years I had fed my suddenly returning unharmed before their well did not wait until it was breathed into him by the 
goslings twice a day, and but for the ugly-looking trained legions during the height of their power; breath of fashion. Let men call you mean if you 
wild goose, they would have cat up half as many he remains to this hour unchanged in his manners, know you are just; hypocritical, if you are hon- 
dollars as there was heads. his language, his arms, and his dress. It is this estly religious; pusillanimous, it you feel you are 
One of the Rural’s occasional contributors rela- unchangeableness which renders a Bedouin so in- firm; resistance soon converts unprincipled wit 
ted an anecdote sometime since, which appeared teresting a study. He is the only link between the i a ^° sincere respect; no aftertime can tear you 
in the Saturday Evening Gazette, with which I earliest ages of mankind and the present time— from those feelings which every man carries with 
will conclude this article: like a single, strange animal, connecting the actual him who has made a noble and successful exertion 
“The Loves of Geese. — Though Rome was world with some geological period. in a virtuous cause. Sidney Smith. 
-Though Rome was I world with some geological period. 
in a virtuous cause .—Sidney Smith. 
