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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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(Siumitiomil Dtpartnirnt. 
BY L. WETflESELL. 
FEMALE EDUCATION. 
Is there any good reason why girls should 
not be a; well educated as boys ? If so, we 
should like to see it presented, or hear it 
stated. It is well known to ail, that gills 
do not enjoy as good ad mtages for mental 
culture and discipline a- boys. They have 
not, as a general thing, access to as good 
schools as boys, nor have they as good in¬ 
structors. 
But says some one, are not our daugh¬ 
ters educated? Have they not opportu¬ 
nities to learn languages, and sciences ? In 
the language of another wo say “ not ex 
actly.” “ They aro taught some half-dozen 
or it may be a dozen, sciences. But how 
are they taught them ? Their parents are 
made to purchase as many little books as 
the girl is to learn sciences. Of these books 
she is required to commit to memory a por¬ 
tion, so as to bo ablo to repeat it in the 
hearing of the teacher; and to forget it 
immediately. Nothing is exercised but the 
memory; and that to very little purpose. 
Of the sciences learned, the girl after she 
has loft school, knows nothing; because she 
has not really learned them. But she learns 
ali languages, or at least, she pretends that 
she lias studied French, Latin and Greek. 
So she has, and has learned them as sin; did 
the sciences. She does not make the pro 
gross toward the acquaintance with the lan 
guagos that her brothers do—for she is not 
under the amount of compulsion, that yet 
remains in institutions for the education of 
males. Boys know that school learning will 
not bring them money; the girls know that 
it will not necessarily bring them admirers 
Girls are not really taught either lan 
guages or sciences; they only play at learn 
ing both. Wlnvt they aro really taught are 
arts. They are taught something of some 
of the arts of design; but nothing solidly or 
usofully in any sense. But the strength ot 
their education lies in these arts:—The art 
of dress, the art of dancing, and the art 
music. Of those, the first is not an ac¬ 
knowledged part of their education. But 
it is taught constantly, although indirect¬ 
ly, not perhaps on any sound principles 
even of the frivolous art itself; but it is re 
ally taught somehow, while the sienees and 
languages aro not really taught at all.— 
Dancing, an art far more frivolous than 
oven the art of dress is an acknowledged 
part of female education : it is bard to see 
what this has to do with intellectual cul¬ 
ture. 
Music is another art which the girls are 
all taught. It is one that is certainly capa 
bie of being so taught as to contribute, in no 
small degree, to the improvement of the 
mind. But it is not so taught. A young- 
lady is usually taught just so much of the 
science oi' music, as consists, according to 
Butler’s witty account of rhetoric, in nam¬ 
ing the tools. She is then taught practi¬ 
cally to extract a certain number oi tunes 
from an instrument, and to sing a a certain 
number of songs. 
We recollect that, a good many years ago, 
a humorous tale was once introduced into a 
celebrated Scottish magazine, in which a 
young lady was spoken of as highly accom¬ 
plished, because she could ‘play six tunes 
and a march upon a spinnet.’ The pian 
attainments of our fashionable young ladies 
from boarding-schools, are on a somewhat 
more varied and extensive scale. But the 
principle upon which they rest is the same. 
One of tiie worst influences, and perhaps 
the worst, of this musical education, is, that 
it compels the young to bo familiar with, 
and to commit to memory a mass of the 
most contemptible doggerel, called poetry 
—so that it cannot be said that fashionable 
songs are ‘immortal verse married to mu¬ 
sic,’ but rather that mortal nonsonso, sonti- 
mental vice, varnished over with pollution, 
are fixed in the memory by the charm of 
music.” 
RELIGION, MORALS AND 
SCHOOL. 
MANNERS IN 
JMiruI Bistort]. 
Many seem to suppose, if their opinions j 
may be fairly inferred from their actions I 
that the whole duty of the teacher is to in- 1 
struct his pupils in • the common branches, j 
so called, and to maintain so much discipline I 
as is necessary to that end. But every man ; 
of reflection will perceive that this platform 
is altogether too narrow; that neither the 
individual nor the community can realize 
the benefits of a true education, if the Pub¬ 
lic Schools aro conducted simply on this 
plan. In order to answer its purpose, any 
system of popular education must embrace, 
in addition to those branches, the cultivation 
ot tl jo manners, of the private and social 
virtues and of the religious sentiment. The 
THE CAMEL OF TARTARY. 
This want of good pastures arid fresh 
; streams is very unfavorable to cattle, but 
! the camel makes amends to the Tartars of 
; the Ortous, for the absence of the rest. It 
rr. . . , . r- , . J is the real treasure of the desert; it can re- 
r,"S curious annual ,s found m the West! miU „ mtMU or evcl , „ m011 ' th 
Written for the Rural 
THS CASS AD A 
New-Yorker. 
WORM. 
HOME HAPPINESS. 
.me life.*’ 
“Let not happy children he disturbed and grieved.” 
[Frederick William 111, of I’russia. 
Indies and fhr> silk worm ic 7" -~7 J - .. “ The influence of home happiness on (lie young is a 
inuits, anu, iikc tnc suk-woi m, is pfouuceu I eating or drinking, and however miserable protection against sin ii 
from eggs widely scattered by its mother ; the country, it always rinds something to 
after she lias been metamorphosed into a ; satisfy it, especially it the soil is iinpregnat- 
wliite butterfly. At the end of July the 
Cassada worm begins to live, arrayed in a 
brilliant robe of variegated colors. This it 
throws off in August, when about to under¬ 
go its metamorphosis and appears in one of 
a sea-green hue. This change indicates the 
YOUTHFUL ASSOCIATIONS AND PLANS. 
Associations aro formed in youth, and 
plans adopted, as at no after period of life. 
Wo shall be richly repaid for stopping to 
mark the time at which many of tne men, 
distinguished in their generation, began their 
allotted work. Tlio names Joseph, and 
Daniel, and Nehemiah, will at once recur to 
us as examples in Sacred story of Providen¬ 
tial shapings and indications, with a view to 
the lofty eminence which they eventually 
reached. Luther was only twenty-nine when 
ho struck his first heavy blow at the Papal 
hierarchy; Calvin hut twenty-five, when he 
wrote the immortal Institutes. Bonaparte 
had but just arrived at a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury when he accomplished his glorious 
campaign in Italy; and the dow of youth 
was still on tlio brow of the beloved Wash¬ 
ington. when ho acted so nobly on the sad 
day of Braddock’s defeat. These men had 
a high career, and the plan of it, and the 
preparation for it, were made, with more or 
less distinctness, in early life.— Mother’s 
Magazine. 
most perfect development of tlio mind, no i P er ‘°^ "hen the Cassada is doomed to en- 
less than the order of the school and the dure great tortures. Swarms of ichneumon 
stability of society, demands a religious edu- j flies immediately assail it, each one of which 
inserts itself into a pore of its body, till not 
an opening is loft unoccupied. In vain the 
Cassada strips to free itself from its tor¬ 
mentors. The tiny parasites.—so small that 
they can only be observed with a micro¬ 
scope —cover completely the back and sides 
of their victim, plunging their delicate 
stints into its skin, and all at the same mo- 
mem depositing their eggs in the wounds 
they have inflicted. This accomplished, 
they disappear, and the worm lies for an 
hour motionless, but awakens to feed as vo¬ 
raciously as ever. 
Its size increases daily; its green mantle 
assumes a deeper hue, and the tints pro¬ 
duced by the reflection of light, are more 
strongly marked. About a fortnight after 
this factitious pregnancy, by the aid of a 
microscope, the eggs may be seen hatching, 
and at the same instant, multitudes of young- 
flies issue from every pore of the Cassada 
the top of the head alone remaining bare. 
The gi •ecu color then changes to a dirty 
white, the little worms assuming a black 
appearance to the eye, although their truo 
shade is a deep brown. This operation lasts 
about an hour. Immediately on being 
hatched, the ichneumon worms, without 
quitting the spot, yield a liquid gum, which 
becomes solid on being exposed to the air. 
Simultaneously, they elevate themselves on 
their lower extremities, shake their heads 
and one-half their bodies, swinging them¬ 
selves in every direction. Each animalcule 
then fashions for himself an almost imper¬ 
ceptible egg-shaped cocoon, in which lie is 
wrapped up, and myriads of them being 
crowded closely together, the Cassada is en¬ 
veloped in an elegant white covering, com¬ 
posed of the finest cotton. This occupies 
about two hours, during which time the 
Cassada is in a state of insect paralysis.— 
When the little artists have finished their 
work and retired to their cells, he endeav¬ 
ors to rid himself of his unwelcome guests, 
and the robe which contains them, but suc¬ 
ceeds only by the greatest efforts. He 
comes forth no longer fat and shining, but 
exhibiting the decrepitude of extreme old 
age. Symptoms of approaching dissolution 
soon become manifest, and he shortly after¬ 
wards passes into the state of a chrysalis, 
relinquishing his own life in conferring it 
upon thousands of others. 
The cotton produced in this remarkable 
manner is of dazzling whiteness and of the 
greatest purity. It may be used without 
any preparatory process, as soon as the flies 
have quitted the cocoons, generally eight or 
ten days after their seclusion. The pre¬ 
cautions required by the silk-worm are un¬ 
necessary here, for so perfectly is the cover¬ 
ing- of the Cassada worked, and so abundant 
is the supply, that one hundred pints of co¬ 
coons have been collected in less than tsvo 
hours. This animal cotton is used for l;ut 
in the hospitals of the negroes, in cases 
cation. Massachusetts may be regarded as 
having settled, at least for herself, this emit 
question of the connexion of religion with 
the public schools. She holds that religion 
is the highest and noblest possession of tlio 
mind, and is conducive to all the true in¬ 
terests of man and of society, and therefore 
she cannot do otherwise, than to seek to 
pla -e her schools under its beneficence. The 
constitution and laws of the Common vealth 
enjoin it upon teachers to inculcate piety 
and Christian morals, love to God and love 
to man. Tiie State employs religion only 
as a means of its own security and prosperi¬ 
ty. and even then only so far as it can do 
so without violating- the rights of conscience. 
What it needs for its own safety and well 
being is the spirit of the decalogue, as ex¬ 
pounded by the Great Teacher of mankind, 
while varying creeds, which are so much in 
controversy, are not indispensable as a 
means of public education, especially in a 
country, where such ample opportunities 
exist for peculiar doctrinal instruction in 
other ways. 
The formation of a virtuous character is 
the natural result of a right religious train¬ 
ing. Still as the principles of religious and 
moral truth may he taught without produc¬ 
ing a corresponding- character, it is more 
important for the teacher to lead his pupils 
to the practice of virtue, than it is to instruct 
them in the theory of it. The school fur¬ 
nishes peculiar facilities for cultivating all 
the social virtues; and the teacher who while 
governing the school, aims at training his 
pupils to an intelligent view and voluntary 
discharge of all their duties, will find that 
his office invests him with an almost unlimit¬ 
ed power for expanding and ennobling the 
character of the young. It is not enough 
to teach the rudiments of knowledge and to 
govern the school for the time being. 
J lie mind is to be educated for freedom 
by a gradual growth in both knowledge and 
virtue, which shall render liberty safe by 
causing a voluntary self-control, and sub¬ 
mission to rightful authority. 
Manners are to he regarded as a neces¬ 
sary accompaniment to morals. Indeed, 
there is no natural line of division between 
the two. They are related to each other, 
as thought and expression are. and should 
b> cultivated toco her. * * Such are 
now our means of intellectual culture and 
improvements in all that adorns human 
tature and society, that it is inexcusable 
longer to allow obvious d< fects in manners 
to adhere to us as a people. It is in the. 
power ot the Public S< hools to change the 
whole aspect of society in this respect — 
They can he made to act simultaneously 
upon every fam 1. in the Commonwealth. 
While refined manners woul l otherwise long 
continue to he limited mostly to certain fa¬ 
vored circles, they might easily, by means 
fan improvement in our system of eduea- 
t on, be made a blessing and an ornament 
roall classes in the community. Why should 
not the same hand, that deals out knowl¬ 
edge indiscriminately to all the children of 
the Commonwealth, aim to engraft as uni¬ 
versally upon the manners of all these chi 1- 
lren tiie amenities and courtesies of life? 
Let but school committees select their 
teachers and inspect their schools with refer¬ 
ence to this object, and a change would 
come over the manners of the young, which 
would add a new charm to society. * * 
In a free republic like ours, where cliil- 
Iren have, of late, been becoming more re¬ 
publican than their s niors. parents would 
do well to second the efforts of teachers in 
training the young to that deferential de¬ 
portment, and to those common civilities 
the absence of winch can never be noticed 
hut with grief.— .Mass. Report of Public 
Schools. 
THE DIFFERENCE. 
As a gentleman was walking in the street, 
ho saw, at some distance ahead, half a doz¬ 
en men proceeding at a slow and measured 
step to their day’s work. In a minute or two 
he overtook them, and soon looked back up¬ 
on them far in the distance. “What makes 
the difference ?” said he to himself; “ 1 was 
tho son of a poor laboring man. YVhy am 1 
not like those men, now plodding on in the 
same condition of poverty and toil ? Evi¬ 
dently for the same reason that 1 have left 
them far behind mo. From my earliest 
childhood, whenever I have had any thing 
to do, I have done it with my might, whether 
working ‘ by tho day or by the job.’ Those 
men are working for others—I suppose by 
the day. They take a ‘slow and easy ’ mo¬ 
tion. They will plod on so through life, and 
never rise any higher. If wo would win the 
prize, wo must run for it.” 
Punctuality. —Ah ! that’s tho word— 
punctuality ! did you ever see a man who was 
punctual, who did not prosper in tho long 
run? Wo don’t care who or what ho was— 
high or low, black or white, ignorant or learn¬ 
ed, savage or civilized—wo know that if he 
did as ho agrood, and was punctual in all his 
engagements, ho prospered. 
where silk and vegetable cotton serve only 
to inflame wounds, by the harshness of their 
filaments. It is believed no experiments 
have been made to weave this silky sub¬ 
stance into a wearable tissue, although there 
seems to be no obstaclo to prevent its be¬ 
ing done. 
The Cassada worm is a deadly enemy to 
the indigo and cassada plantations, some¬ 
times destroying whole fields in a night—a 
circumstance that gave rise to the saying, 
that tho planters of indigo go to bed rich, 
and rise in the morning beggars. Hitherto 
more attention has been given to tho de¬ 
struction of this animal than to turning it 
to some useful purpose, hut it would seem 
capable of yielding valuable raw material, 
if proper efforts were made to secure it. 
Lockport, N. Y., May, 1852. J. W. 
Ciiamphor is procured from a tree of the 
bay tribe, which grows largely in China and 
India. The largest quantities of tho gum 
are found in the knots and roots. The 
method of extracting it consists in distilling 
it with water in largo iron pots, which servo 
as the body of tho still, with earthern heads 
fitted to them, stuffed with straw, and pro¬ 
vided with receivers. 
In tho Southern portion of Arkansas 
noar a mountain of iron, a mountain of em¬ 
ery or corondum has beon discovered equal 
if not superior to tho Russian emery. In 
Russian emery, rubies aro found; and that 
in Arkansas is of tho samo components. 
ed with salt or nitre; plants that other ani¬ 
mals will not touch, brambles or even dry ! 
wood serve it for food. Yet, little as it costs j 
to keep, the camel is more useful than can 
be imagined out of the countries where Prov¬ 
idence lias placed it. Its ordinary burden 
is seven or eight hundred weight, and thus 
laden, it can go forty miles a day. In many 
Tartar countries they are used to draw the 
coaches of the kings or princes, but this can 
only bo on flat ground, for their fleshy feet 
would not permit them to ascend hills and 
draw a carriage after them. 
Notwithstanding this softness of its foot, 
however, the camel can walk over the rough¬ 
est roads, stones, sharp thorns, rdots of 
trees, &o., without being Hurt. But if oblig¬ 
ed to walk too far, the real solo of its foot 
wears out, and trio flesh is laid bare. Trio 
Tartars, under such circumstances, make it 
shoes with slxeop-skin; hut if, after this, the 
journey is stdl much prolonged, tho crea¬ 
ture lies down, and must be abandoned. 
There is nothing the camel dreads so much 
as a wet and marshy soil. When it places 
its foot on mud, and rinds it slip, it tiepins 
to stagger like a drunken man, and oiten 
falls heavily on its side. Every year, to¬ 
ward tlio spring, the camel loses its Hair, and 
it all goes to tne last fragment before tiie 
new comes on. For about twenty days, it 
is as naked as if it had been clean shaven, 
from head to tail; and thou it is extremely 
sensitive to cold and rain. You may see it 
shiver all over, like a man exposed to cold 
without clothes. But, by degrees, tiie hair 
grows again ; at first it is extremely fine and 
beautiful, and wlionit is once more long and 
thick, the camel can brave the severest irosr. 
It delights then in marching against the 
north wind, or standing on tiie top of a hill 
to be beaten by the tempest, and breathe 
the freezing air. Naturalists have some¬ 
times said, that camels cannot live in cold 
countries; but they could hardly have meant 
to speak of Tartar camels, whom the least 
heat exhausts, and who certainly could not 
bear the climate of Arabia. 
The fur of an ordinal-) camel weighs about 
ten pounds; it is sometimes as line as silk. 
I hat which the entire camel has under its 
neck and along its legs is rough, tufted and 
black ; but the hair in general is reddish or 
grey. I tie Tartars do not take any care of 
it, but sutler it, when it falls off. to be lost. 
In the places where the camels teed, you seo 
great bunches ot it, like old rags, blowing 
about; and sometimes, in tiie hollows and 
corners ot the lulls, large quantities will be 
drifted by the wind. Bui it is never picked 
up, or only a small portion of it, to make a 
coarse sort of sacks and carpets. 
The milk ot tiie camel is excellent both 
for butter and cheese; tho flesh is tough, 
ill-tasted and little esteemed by the Tartars. 
’They make use, however of the hump, which 
they cut in slices and take with their tea. 
It is said that Heliogabalus had camel’s 
flesh served at his banquets, and that lie was 
especially partial to the food. Of this lat¬ 
ter dainty, which the Emperor had the glory 
of discovering, we cannot speak ; but we can 
affirm, from our own experience, that the 
flesh of the camel is detestable.— Hues 
Thibet. 
Make bright the oar h where children throng 
In innocence and giec, 
With smiles of love ire carroling song— 
The spirit's harmony. 
The healthful sports, the cheeks that flush, 
The mother's fond caress — 
Nor let tho sta.oliest fa her blush 
His merry boy to bless. 
For, faradovrn tlio hill of life, 
When lie bis loi shall bear, 
That hallowed gleam shall cheer the strife, 
And gild the clouds of care. 
If midnight storms and breakers roar, 
I s treasured spell shall be 
A lighthouse 'mid the wrecking shore : 
The star of memory— 
Shall warn him, when (he siren wiles 
1 Da faltori 11 g feet cm ice; 
Make bright the hearth where childhood smites. 
To keep the man from vice. 
NUTMEG AND CLOVE PLANTATIONS. 
I went frequently to the nutmeg and 
clove plantations, to enjoy their baisamic 
fragrance. Tne nutmeg trees are enveloped 
from top to bottom in foliage, and attain the 
size of tiie line apricot trees : they begin to 
spread from tlio lower part of the trunk; 
the leaves are bright and glittering as if 
varnished, and the fruit resembles perfectly 
a yellowish, brown-speckled apricot. When 
ripe, it bursts of itself, and displays a round 
Kernel, about the size of a nut, covered with 
a kind of net-work, of a beautiful, deep red; 
this net-work is tho so-called nutmeg-bloom, 
or mace. It is carefully detached Jrom the 
nut, and dried in the shade ; during the pro¬ 
cess, it is frequently sprinkled with sea-wa¬ 
ter, as otherwise, the lino crimson color 
changes to yellow or black ; in addition to 
this web, the nutmeg is surrounded by a 
slight, delicate shell. The nut itself is like¬ 
wise diied, smoked, and then steeped in sea¬ 
water, mingled with a slight solution of limo, 
to prevent its becoming rancid. Wild nut¬ 
meg-trees are found in Singapore. 
The clove tree .is somewhat smaller, and 
the foliage by no means so beautiful as that 
of the nutmeg tree. The clove is the unde¬ 
veloped flower hud; when gathered, they 
are first dried in smoke, and then for a short 
time laid in the sun. 
The areka nut grows in clustors of from 
ten to twenty, under the leafy crown of the 
palm of tho same name. The fruit is some¬ 
what larger than the nutmeg, and the out¬ 
ward shell of so bright a golden hue, that 
they look liko the gilded nuts suspended to 
a Christmas tree. Tho kernel resembles the 
nutmeg, but without the net-liko external 
covering; it is dried in the shade. 
This nut, wrapped in hotel leaf, slightly 
smeared with limo obtained from burnt 
shells, is chewed both by natives and Chi¬ 
nese ; when a little tobacco is added it pro¬ 
duces a blood-red juice, and gives tho mouth 
of the chewer a truly diabolical appearance; 
especially when, as is frequently the case 
with the Chinese, tho teeth aro filed down 
and stainod black. The first time I saw such 
a spoctaclo I was quite frightened; I tho’t 
the man had injured himself in somo way, 
and had his mouth full of blood, 
fers Travels. 
EXCELLENCE NOT LIMITED BY STATION. 
There is not a more common error of 
self-deception than a habit of considering 
our stations in life so ill-suited to our pow¬ 
ers, as to bo unworthy of calling out. a full 
and proper exercise of our virtues and tal¬ 
ents. 
As society is constituted, (here cannot bo 
many employments which demand very bril¬ 
liant talents, or great delicacy of taste tor 
their proper discharge, i’lie great bulk of 
society is composed oi plain plodding men, 
who move “‘right onwards ” to the s ;ber du¬ 
ties ot their calling. At the same time, the 
universal good demands that those whom 
nature Las greatly endowed should be call¬ 
ed lroin the ordinary truck to take up high¬ 
er and more ennobling duties. America, 
happily tor us. is lull ot bright examples of 
the greatest men raised front the meanest 
situations; and tlio education which Amer¬ 
ica is now bestowing upon her children wul 
multiply these examples. But a partial and 
incomplete diffusion of knowledge will also 
multiply the victims ot that evil principle 
which postpones tho discharge ot present 
aiul immediate duties, tor the anticipations 
ot sonic destiny above tho labors of a han¬ 
dicraftsman or the calculations of a sin p- 
keepur. Years and experience, which a- 
tord us the opportunity of comparing our 
own powers w.th those of others, wul, it is 
true, correct the inconsistent expectations 
wh.cli ar se from a want ol capacity to set 
the right value on ourselves. But the wis¬ 
dom thus gained may come too late. Thu 
object ot desire may be found decidedly un¬ 
attainable and existence is then wasted in a 
sluggish contempt of present duties; tho 
spirit is broken; tne temper is soured ; hab¬ 
its of misanthropy and perst n J ligelcct creep 
<-n ; and liiO eventually becomes a misera¬ 
ble pilgrimage of never-satisfied desires. 
Youth however, is happily not without 
its guide if it wiii take a warning from ex¬ 
ample. Of the highly gifted men whose 
abandonm nl of their humble ending lias 
been the apparent beginning of a distin¬ 
guished career, we do not recollect an in¬ 
stance of one who d d not pursue that hum¬ 
ble calling wi;n credit and success, until tho 
occasion press nted ii soil for exhibiting those 
superior powers \vh eh nature occasionally 
bestows. Be; jam n Franklin was as valua¬ 
ble to his master as a printers apprentice, 
as ho was to his country as a statesman and 
a negotiator or to the world as a ph'.oso- 
pher. Had he not been so ind o l it m iy 
bo doubted whether lie e\er w< uid have ta¬ 
ken his rank hi ong tiie ins stat Amen and 
phi!< s >j hers of h s time. One of the great 
secrets f ad' .pacing in life is t » he ready 10 
take ad van ago or tho opportunities which, 
if a in in re d > posses es sup Tier abilities, 
aro sure to present thorns elves some time < r 
other. 
PURITY. 
I would have you attend to the full signif¬ 
icance and extent of the word holy. It is 
not abstinence from outward deeds of prof- 
ligacy alone—it is not a mere recoil from 
impurity in action. It is a recoil from im¬ 
purity in thought; it is that quick and sen¬ 
sitive delicacy to which even the very con¬ 
ception of evil is offensive; it is a virtue 
which has its residence within, which takes 
guardianship of the heart, as of a citadel or 
inviolated sanctuary, in which no wrong or 
worthless ini igination is permitted to dwell. 
It is not a purity of action that is all we < o;i- 
tend for. it is exalted purity of heart—tho 
ethereal purity oi the third heaven : and if 
it is at once settled in the heart, it brings 
tho peace, and the triumph, and the untroub¬ 
led serenity of heaven along with it. In 
the maintenance ol this, tin re is a constant 
elevation; there is tho complacency, 1 had 
almost said tho pride, of a great moral vic¬ 
tory over the infirmities of an earthly and 
accursed nature; there is a health and a har¬ 
mony in the soul a bo.iuty of holiue-s which, 
though it effloresces in the countenance and 
the outward path, is itself so thoroughly in¬ 
ternal as to make purity of hear! the most 
distinctive guidance of character that is ri¬ 
pening and expanding for the glories of 
eternity.— Thomas Chalmers, D. D. 
Beautiful Figure.— An Indian eliieftan 
during the early settlement of New England 
invited a minister to settlo as a missionary 
among the tribe, and to induce him to do so 
tho Sagamore said—“You shall be to ns, 
as one who stands by a running water, fill¬ 
ing many vessels.” 
Difficulty is a harsh instructor, but a 
thorough one. Nearly all the eminent per- 
Ida Pfeif- j sonages in tho world’s history have attended 
I her school. 
