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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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THE CRESCENT SEEDLING, 
The following notices of the above new 
strawberry, I cut from the Now Orleans 
Bulletin and N. O. Picayune of the 5th 
inst., and cncloso them to you thinking, they 
may interest a portion of your readers.— 
The Bulletin says,— “These Strawberries 
are of a peculiar species; in size, shapo and 
tint, they represent the cultivated or garden 
fruit, as they are, but they possess all the 
high flavor of the wild Strawberry, in which 
the garden Strawberry is so particularly 
deficient. This variety is as rare as it is 
superior — it was first cultivated by Mr. 
Lawrence, and raised from seedlings—he 
has denominated it tho “ Crescent Seedling,” 
and as such this particular Strawberry is 
recognized tho country over, and is in great 
demand.” 
Tho Picayune notices it as follows: “We 
are indebted to Mr. Lawrence, at 21 Com¬ 
mercial Place, whose garden and orchard in 
the Third District, have gained him much 
reputation as a first-rate horticulturist, for 
a present of grapes and strawberries. The 
strawberries are of the same rare abd supe¬ 
rior variety which Mr. Lawrence so kindly 
sent us a liberal specimen of, last January. 
They bear every day, and are in much re¬ 
quest all over tho country, Mr. Lawrence 
having obtained them himself by a happy 
system of grafting and crossing. Strawber¬ 
ries on the Fourth of July, with ripe, rare, 
delicious European grapes to contrast with 
and set them oft', certainly form a most ac¬ 
ceptable present, tho more acceptable for 
the peculiar date of their reception.” 
This strawberry originated with Mr. Law¬ 
rence, as stated, and is a seedling—a cross 
between the British Queen and Keen Seed¬ 
ling as ho w r rites me, and has this peculiar¬ 
ity in the South wherever tried—it produces 
a constant and abundant supply of large, 
high flavored, conical, dark red strawberries 
during a period of six to seven months from 
January to August inclusive,—at tho end 
of which time tho old plants die out and a 
few runners strike with -which to renew the 
beds. This has been their constant habit, 
every year since it was originated some five 
years ago. The fruit is often of tho large 
size of five and a half inches in circumference 
and has tho very large average of three 
inches in New Orleans. In May a friend 
counted 33 to 40 largo ripe berries on a 
plant, on examining four or five plants in 
succession. 
Mr. Lawrence writes mo, this constant 
bearing of the plant without interruption 
is its natural habit, for ho never cuts off'the 
blossoms, or retards or hastens tho bearing 
of tho plant in any way. But the same 
plant has blossoms, green fruit, and ripe 
fruit at the same time. Mr. Lawrence’s 
address is as above, where ho disposes of tho 
plants at $8 per 100 and the only difficulty 
in getting them is the great distanco and 
expense. 
Tho plant is a very handsomo ono and 
tho most vigorous and thrifty plant in my 
garden, but as they are my pets now, per¬ 
haps it is becauso I give them better care. 
I did hope to test them this season, but ev¬ 
ery plant of several successive importations 
died, notwithstanding the greatest care, and 
I havo only a lot of plants received here the 
last of May, and I must therefore get them 
well rooted, and await another year to see 
whether or not they will prolong tho Straw¬ 
berry season north, during tho hot months 
of July and August. If they do this, they 
will be truly a groat acquisition to the 
north. II. G. Pardee. 
Palmyra, July 16, 1852. 
BEDDING PLANTS IN TURF. 
In establishments of ordinary magnitude, 
thousands of plants are generally required 
for embellishing the flower garden during 
the summer months, and tho manipulator 
is not unfrequently at a loss to know what 
scheme to contrive to get pots equal tho de¬ 
mand. Such has been my experience, and 
it has led mo to employ turf as a substitute, 
which (when it can bo obtainod) is an excel¬ 
lent material for the purpose; in fact, in 
point of economy it is very far preferable 
to pots. I do not pretend t<3 infor that 
pots can bo entirely dispensed with, my ob¬ 
ject is to show to a certain extent what may 
bo done without thoir aid. Pots for the 
purpose of which I treat, are only required 
for about two months out of twelve, and if 
we can lessen tho number required, and that 
too advantagoously as 'rogards cultivation, 
so much tho better. 
I find that plants in turf do not involve 
so much labor as thoy do in pots, for if in 
the latter, in very dry weather they require 
watering every day, and sometimes twice, 
whoreas, if they aro in turf, thoy only need 
it once a week, the roots have moro food at 
command, tho temporaturo and humidity 
of tho bod being moro uniform, and evapo¬ 
ration not so excessive as whon tho roots 
aro confined in the narrow limits of small 
pots ; besides, when plants that aro in turf 
do require water, the watering can bo offoct- 
od oxpeditiously with tho roso of tho water¬ 
ing-pot, but in tho other caso it cannot, for 
some may and some may not require water 
at the same time. 
I havo stated on a previous occasion that 
I propagate tho greater portion of my bed¬ 
ding stuff on my vinery border, covering 
the cuttings with the portablo tops of hand 
glasses ; they are thoroughly watered when 
put in, and the glasses are never moved 
(except to dry up superfluous inoisturo.) 
until the cuttings aro well rooted ; directly 
tho plants begin to grow, their tops are 
pinched off to ensure a sturdy growth ; 
when in a movable condition, 1 prepare pits 
and frames for thoir reception. In these I 
disponso with artificial heat, by merely 
keeping the lights on and fully exposing 
- tho surface to the warming influence of tho 
sun’s rays. Shallow turf-pits are excellent 
for this purpose ; but if not naturally shal¬ 
low, they aro filled to within 8 or 10 inches 
of the top with half decayed leaves used for 
winter-forcing; those are made as solid as 
possible, and on them is laid an inch ^r 
moro of coal-ashes. These are indispensa¬ 
ble, as they prevent the turf from adhering 
to the subsoil, and render it capable of being- 
taken out as entire and cleanly as when 
first put in. The turf is cut into slips from 
2£ to 3 inches in width, and laid on an even 
surface, with the grassy side downwards. 
The whole surface being thus closely cover¬ 
ed, small holes are cut about 1 inch deep, 
and 1 £ inch in diameter 1 , with an instrument 
1 had made for the purpose, and with which 
a thousand holes can bo mado in a very 
sliort time. 
The turf being thus perforated, the plants 
are carefully liftod and placed in the holes, 
using loaf mould and light loam, equal parts 
(sifted,) with a portion of sharp sand ; this 
compost is firmly pressed about the roots 
as tho process of planting proceeds ; when 
completed, a copious watering is -given 
through a fino rose with tepid water. The 
lights are then put on and kept quite close, 
and shading is applied during the hottest 
part of the day. When the plants have 
emitted fresh roots and commenced growing, 
the shoots aro constantly stopped, and 
plenty of air is given to koep them dwarf 
and bushy. To encourage rapid growth 
the lights are closed early in tho afternoon, 
with a slight sprinkling over head in warm 
weather; but as the season for turning out 
approaches protection is dispensed with al¬ 
together. When that period arrives the 
sods are cut through between each plant 
and planted entire, giving a liberal watering 
and choosing, if possible dull cloudy woath- 
er for the operation. 
Plants may bo successfully and advan¬ 
tageously treated in this way by growing 
them in boxes 2 or 3 inches deep. In these, 
variety and color can be arranged in each 
box respectively, and being portablo they 
can be shifted from one place to another 
with every facility. In labelling ono only 
is required for two or three score of plants, 
or 200 or 300 when bedded in pits, preclu¬ 
ding tho necessity of individual labelling, 
which is generally essential when pots are 
employed, to prevent confusion.— Garden¬ 
ers Chronicle. 
Jompstic (Eronotnt]. 
Pumpkin Pie. —Take good ripo pump¬ 
kins, slice, pare and boil them till thorough¬ 
ly cooked, stirring often to prevent burn¬ 
ing ; then steam until quito dry, and tho 
sauce will not need rubbing through a sieve. 
For each pie, baked on common tins, add 
ono egg, and rich milk to bring it to tho 
propor consistence. Sugar and spice to 
your taste. r. s. 
Kay, Macomb Co., Mich. 
A Good Cement. —I have found gum 
shellac, dissolved in alcohol, very excellent 
for joining broken vessols; it makes them 
nearly as durable as if they ivero cemented 
by heat. I have been using for years, a 
mortar which was brokon and mended in 
this manner. It was brokon in pieces, and 
could not bo then replacod. I appliod the 
gum, and bound tho parts firmly togethor 
until tho cement was perfectly dry. I then 
put it in use and have contintued to use it 
ever since.— Scientific American. 
An Excellent Tea Biscuit. —Rub one 
ounce of butter into ono and a quarter 
pounds of sifted flour, add one toa-spoonful 
of salt and two of cream of tartar, and mix 
all well togethor; then beat together two 
eggs with two table-spoonfuls of fino white 
sugar; put the eggs and sugar into a pint 
of milk, and pour tho milk into tho othor 
ingredients; mix well, add ono tea-spoon¬ 
ful of super-carbonate of soda, knead, mould, 
and bako immediately.— Mrs. Bliss's Prac¬ 
tical Cook Book. 
Hard Cement.— A cement which gradu¬ 
ally indurates to a stony consistence may 
be mado by mixing 20 parts of clean river 
sand, two of litharge, and one of quick limo, 
into a thin putty with linseed oil. Tho 
quicklime may bo replaced with litharge.— 
When this cement is applied to mond bro¬ 
ken pieces of stone, as steps of stairs, it ac¬ 
quires, after some time, a stony hardnoss.— 
A similar composition has boon applied to 
coat brick walls, under the name of mastic. 
—Scientific American. 
Wormwood. —Tho common garden worm¬ 
wood has in past years been usod by many 
families in this city as a preventive of 
summer sickness, and as thoy bolievo, with 
decided benefit. Bruiso a few loaves and 
drink tho cold infusion, before breakfast.— 
JYew York Mirror. 
A new respirator has been invented in 
England for tho benefit of coal miners. It 
consists of a cylindrical vessol for purifying 
tho air. It contains a caustic lye composed 
of limo and soda water. 
Hecjjatiic Ms & Itiratt. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending July 20, 1852. 
Orville G. Atkins, of Oswego, NT. Y., for im¬ 
provement in fire engines. 
Wm. L. Bass, of Cambridge, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in car seats. 
Neri Blatchly, of Windsor, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in plows. 
Abel Bradway, of Monson, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for shaving shingles. 
Alfred Carson, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in method of converting reciprocating 
rotary into reciprocating rectilinear motion. 
Robert Eastman, of Concord, N. H., assignor 
to Capt. Seth Eastman, of Washington, D. C., for 
improvement in machines for dressing stones. 
John J. Flack, of Joliet, MIL, for improvement 
in cruppers for harness. 
Eiiakim B. Forbush, of Buffalo, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in grain and grass harvesters. 
Wra. Hall, of North Adams, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in railroad car brakes. 
Clark Jacobs, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in rice hullers. 
Jesse S. and David Lake, of Smith’s Landing, 
N. J., for improvement in grass harvesters. 
Wm. Manning, of South Trenton, N. J., for im¬ 
provement in grass harvesters. 
Charles Miller, of St. Louis, Mo., for improve¬ 
ment in sewing machines. 
Cyrus Roberts, of Belleville, Ill., for improve¬ 
ment in grain separators. 
John Houston and Ebenezer Ross, of Manches¬ 
ter, N. II., for improvement in railroad car brakes. 
Pleasant E. Royse, of New Albany, Ind., for 
improvement in machines for rubbing stone. 
Peter Sweeny, of Buffalo, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in the water pipes of tuyeres. 
James Turner, of East Nassau, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in railroad car coupling. 
DESIGN. 
Amos Paul, of South Newmarket, N. H., for 
design for parlor-stove plates. 
ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENT. 
Jacob Senneff, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in metallic heddlea. Patented Jan. 
13, 1852. Additional improvement dated July 
20, 1852. 
LITHOGRAPHY. 
TnE process of lithographing is based up¬ 
on the fact that ’printing ink, being largely 
composed of oil, will not adhere to any sur¬ 
face which is wet with water. Every one 
knows liow utterly impossible it is to mix 
oil and water. To lithograph, then, all that 
is necessary, is to draw on the surface of a 
dry slab or stono, with a greasy crayon, what¬ 
ever is destined to be printed. A weak so¬ 
lution of nitric acid is then rubbed over the 
stone, which fastens the drawing so that it 
cannot be rubbod off - . After this, a solution 
of gum arabic is passed over tho surface, 
and then tho stone is ready for printing.— 
By means of a sponge, water is now rubbed 
on the stone, and while yet wet tho inking 
roller is applied. The" ink of course ad¬ 
heres to the lines of tho drawing, because 
thoy are oily, but to the wet stone it does 
not. The paper is now laid on, and with 
the stone passed through the press ; tho re¬ 
sult being a beautiful and exact copy of 
whatever is drawn. 
Tho stone employed for lithography is of 
a peculiar kind of lime and clay nature, re¬ 
sembling in appeax-ance a smooth yellow 
hono, yet possessing the quality of absorb¬ 
ing water. It is found chiefly in Bavaria, 
though there are quarries in England. Tho 
Bavarian stones, however, aro those most 
universally employed, and their importation 
is a considerable object in commerce.— 
They aro worth in Now York, from 5 to 10 
cents per pound. 
PROGRESS OF RAILWAY SPEED. 
When Georgo Stephenson constructed 
the first locomotive engine, men who called 
themselves “ practical” contended that the 
smooth wheels would run round, or slip, on 
tho equally smooth iron rails, without mo¬ 
ving tho carriage. But tho wheels actually 
did bite, and Mr. Stephenson then said to 
his friends that there was no limit to the 
speed of such an engine, provided tho works 
could be made to stand. This was in 1812. 
A few years later, a writer who declared 
himself friendly to tho use of locomotive 
engines, strongly protested against “ extrav¬ 
agant expectations, or rather professions of 
the enthusiastic speculatist,” that “ engines 
would bo seen traveling at the rato of 12, 
1G, 18 and 20 milos an hour,” and added 
that “ nothing could do more harm towards 
thoir general adoption and improvement 
than tho promulgation of such nonsense. 
This was in 1825. 
WJjen tho Liverpool and Manchester rail¬ 
way bill was introduced, Mr. Stephenson 
was examined on its merits before a com¬ 
mittee of tho IIouso of Commons, and the 
promoters of that railway project gravely 
warned him that if ho talked of locomotives 
going at a greater rato than 10 milos an 
hour, ho would “ put a cross on tho con¬ 
cern.” Even that speed was considered so 
out of tho way, that ono person askod if 
Mr. Stephenson was a foreigner, and anoth¬ 
er hinted doubts of his sanity. This was in 
1828. 
Tho Liverpool and Manchester railway 
was openod, and a speed of 30 milos an hour 
was obtained, which rather settled the ques¬ 
tion of Mr. Stophonsou’s sanity. This was 
in 1830. 
The other day, on tho London and Bir¬ 
mingham, as well as on the Great Western 
railway, a rato of traveling at the speed of 
65 miles an hour was accomplished. Tho 
express trains on thoso lines run at the rate 
of nearly 50 miles an hour, stoppages inclu¬ 
ded. Mr. Brunei expects that without any 
risk, tho progress of traveling on tho Great 
Western lino will arrive at a speed of a mile 
per minute. Wo say nothing of the yet 
greater speed which is promised by tho at¬ 
mospheric mode of locomotion. 
Thus, then, about thirty years ago, it was 
doubted whether locomotives could run at 
all upon iron railways; twenty years ago, 
the idea of their moving at a greater speed 
than 10 miles in the hour was scoffed at as 
chimerical; fifteen years ago, tho unexpect¬ 
ed rate of 30 miles an hour was considered 
a wonder which no effort of practical sci¬ 
ence could surpass; and now a speed of 
nearly 50 miles an hour is in daily use, while 
the rate of a mile per minute is promised, 
and in some special instances, has actually 
been exceeded. 
It is singular that tho three great feats 
accomplished by practical science in our 
time, viz :—lighting by gas, crossing the 
Atlantic by steam in ten days, and rapid 
traveling by tho same motive power on rail¬ 
ways, have, one and all, been denounced as 
utterly impracticable by “ philosophers,” 
who actually knew nothing of the subject 
upon which they theorized. 
As a comment upon this article, I notice 
a statement in the periodical press, that a 
few days since, a train of cars, Avithout pas¬ 
sengers, made the run from Poughkeepsie 
to Peekskill, N. Y., distance 32 miles, in 30 
minutes. This is tho greatest speed, for 
that entire distance, ever reached in tho 
United States.— Cist’s Adv. 
CURIOUS, BUT NOT AGREEABLE. 
I have no sympathy for machinery; tho 
action of machinos of great power terrifies 
mo by its impassability. There are some, 
above all. employed for beating out metals 
which do so to an alarming extent. What¬ 
ever these may happen to seize between 
their iron teeth, once seized, the thing must 
pass through a hole moro or less groat, to¬ 
wards which all fabricable substances are 
conducted. Of what<?Ver size the thing 
may bo when it goes in, let it be a beam of 
the greatest thickness, it will come out 
streched into a knitting needle of the great¬ 
est fineness. As for the machine, it merely 
turns, that is its business and its duty, and 
it matters not to it what the substance may 
bo which it has to crush and draw out.— 
You offer it an iron—the monster draws it 
to itself and devours it. You don’t take 
your hand back quickly enough, the ma¬ 
chine pinches the end of your finger, and 
all is over. You may cry out, but if there 
bo no workman present with a hatchet to 
cut off your wrist, after the finger comes 
tho hand, after the hand tho arm, after the 
arm the head, after tho head the body.— 
Shrieks, oaths, prayers, nothing will avail 
you ; tho shortest plan for your friends or 
family is to look out for you on the other 
side of the machine. You went in a man, 
you come out a wire; in five minutes you 
have grown two hundred feet; it is curious, 
but not agreeable.— Pictures of Travel in 
the South af France. 
IMPROVED SEED PLANTER. 
Charles W. Billings, of South Deerfield, 
Franklin Co., Mass., has taken measures to 
secure a patent for an improvement in Seod 
Planters. He employs a rotating hopper 
or hoppers attached to a seed planter, and 
constructed and arranged in such a manner 
that another kiud of seed may be dropped 
from tho rotating hopper or hoppers, at 
greater intervals, while the corn is being- 
planted in hills in the usual way. Corn is 
ordinarily planted in hills about three feet 
distant, and pumpkin seed is deposited at 
about every fourth hill. This machine de¬ 
posits tho corn in tho usual manner, and at 
the same time it deposits the pumpkin seeds 
in the hills at tho required distances by 
means of tho revolving hoppers. There is 
an adjustable share attached to tho ma- 
chino, the point of which may bo elevated 
or depressed, and consequently it can open 
a deep or shallow furrow, as may be re¬ 
quired for different kinds of seed. 
Stereoscopic Daguerreotype. —This is 
an English invention, now a few months old, 
which, if not very practical, is at least curi¬ 
ous. Two photographs are taken simulta¬ 
neously from the same object, in two adja¬ 
cent cameras, so placed as to correspond to 
the slight difference which exists in the im¬ 
ages of an object seen with the left or right 
eye. These two images are placed in a 
stereoscope, that is, in a case so disposed 
as to admit the view of one picture to tho 
right eye, and of tho other to the left eye. 
The two become entirely blended together, 
and produce this optical illusion, that in¬ 
stead of a flat picture, you see solid objects 
and faces with tho appearance of life, in 
which motion alone is wanting. 
Formidable Weapon. —An invention has 
been added to the Prussian Zundnadel mus¬ 
ket, that, if adopted, will render it a still 
moro formidable weapon. Some experi- j 
ments have been lately mado with an “ ex- ' 
plosive ball” or Brandkugel, that may be 
fired from the gun as easily as its peculiar 
cartridge, and that explodes tho moment it 
strikes tho object; if combustible, sotting it 
on fire. Some experiments mado lately, 
before the officers of the Alexander Regi¬ 
ment aro reported as having been successful. 
Cases filled with powder or inflammable 
matter were set on fire, or blown up with 
certainty, at several hundred paces distanco 
or nearly full range of the weapon, which 
it is well known is a very long one. The 
object of the invention is the capability of 
blowing up an enemy’s powder wagons by 
a weapon that can bo moro rapidly and 
easily handled than a rifle if they come with¬ 
in roach. Wo may yet seo a whole battery 
of cannon silenced by a few pricks of a 
needle. 
SI Column of Harirtij. 
“IT WILL DO.” 
This is tho cry of the lazy, tho careless, 
and the indifferent. It was a favorite re¬ 
mark of Mrs. MacClarty’s,— tho woman 
who “ cauld na be fashed.” It is tho excuso 
of mediocrity, tho barrier of progress, and 
the obstacle to all true excellence. 
When you hear a servant saying “ It will 
do,” you may bo sure she is ono who is given 
to “ slobber over” her work, on any pretence 
to get it out of hand. 
In the household, “ It will do,” makes a 
candle-stick of a bottle-neck, and a soup- 
stick of the broom-handle. It uses the cop¬ 
per pot alike for holding soup or vinegar, 
and at an emergency uses the milk-dish as 
a wash-hand basin. It sticks a chair-leg in 
the window-frame to hold tho window up, 
and papers up a broken pane with a piece 
of old newspaper, or at a pinch, stuffs a pair 
of stockings or an old shirt through tho 
hole. 
“ It will do,” stirs the fire with the tongs 
or the bollo.ws nozzlo; extinguishes the can¬ 
dle by inversion,—drowning it in its own 
grease ; and snuffs it between tho finger and 
thumb, or against the table with tho knife. 
It uses a tea-cup for an ink-stand, and a 
preservo-jar for a drinking horn. If paper 
is wanted for a taper, it is torn from the fly 
loaves of the book next at hand. 
If a cork cannot bo readily got out of a 
bottle, “ It will do” shoves it in with the 
finger. If the knives want cleaning, there 
is the foul linen store at hand, and napkins 
and table cloths enough for the purpose.— 
If a fork is wanted for cooking, there is a 
silver one at hand ready for use. If “ mis¬ 
tress” should find out any of these faux pas, 
there is “ tho eat,” or “ nobody,” to serve as 
a scape goat. 
“ It will do” kindles firo most ingenious¬ 
ly. There is the child’s toys that “ will do” 
for kindling, or the box of tapers, which an¬ 
swers as well,—or corks in great store,— 
perhaps the cover of a book, or “ master’s 
daily newspapers.” If grease is wanted, 
there is the box of lip-salvo, or the drip¬ 
pings of the castor oil bottle, or tho furni¬ 
ture paste ; but for “ kindling” nothing can 
equal the saltpetre, that was brought in yes¬ 
terday for curing beef and bacon. 
“ It will do” is the motto of tho slattern. 
Docs her hair hang loose over tho bread 
which she is kneading ? “ It will do” is jus¬ 
tification enough. Are her hands guiltless 
of clean water ? “ It will do” is her excuse. 
Docs she use unmentionable napkins and 
towels to wipe her pans and dishes, still 
“ It will do” must satisfy you. 
BS COMPREHENSIVE. 
Talk 'to the point and stop when you 
have reached it. Tho faculty some possess 1 
of making one idea cover a quire of paper, 
is not good for much. Be comprehensive 
in all you say or write. To fill a volume 
upon nothing is no credit to anybody; 
though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very 
clever poem upon nothing. 
There are men who get one idea into 
their heads, and but one, and they make 
tho most of it. You can see it and almost feel 
it when in their presence. On all occasions 
it is produced till it is worn as thin as chari¬ 
ty. They remind one of a twenty-four 
pounder discharged at a humming-bird.— 
You hear a tremendous noise, see a volume 
of smoke, but you look in vain for the ef¬ 
fects. The bird is scattered to atoms. Just so 
with the idea. It is enveloped in a cloud 
and lost amid tho rumblings of words and 
flourishes. Short letters, sermons, speech¬ 
es, and paragraphs, are favorites with us.— 
Commend us to tho young man who wrote 
to his father—“ Dear Sir, I am going to bo 
married; ” and also to the good old gentle¬ 
man who replied—“ Dear Son, go ahead.” 
Such are the men for action. They do 
more than they say. Tho half is not told 
in their cases. They are worth their weight 
in gold for every purpose in life. Reader, 
bo short; and we will be short with the ad¬ 
vice.— John JYeal. 
A SERENADE. 
How sweetly in the depths of night, come 
the voices of the serenade ! As the first 
note breaks upon the stillnoss, the soul 
goes off in pleasant dreams to the fairy land, 
and hours of bliss, wrought by angel melo¬ 
dies, as tho disembodied spirit ranges the 
beautiful fields and groves of elvsium, aro 
crowded into a single moment; for, though 
hours of spiritual existence have elapsed, it 
is but a momont of time, when the spirit re¬ 
turns and awakens the body to partake of 
the delight—awakens, not the gross sensa- 
sations of worldliness, but the deep feelings 
of heaven within ; and we seem transported 
bodily to a world of harmony and love. 
Such were our sensations, as, when the 
week of anxiety and toil was passing into 
tho quiet Sabbath, the swelling music of 
the seronado stole over our slumber, like 
voices of mercy from spirits of love, telling 
us of a better life and happier home. Go 
not then to the abode of the proud, tho 
haughty, the aristocratic; but go to tho 
homo of the poor, the care-worn tho dis¬ 
tressed ; ann thy messages of lovo shall 
calm the troubled spirit and infuse new life 
and hope into the despairing soul.— Wyo¬ 
ming Mirror. 
To know a man, observe how ho wins his 
object rather than how he loses it; for when 
wo fail, our pride supports, when wq suc¬ 
ceed, it betrays us. 
The face of truth is not the less fair for all 
tho counterfeit vizards that havo been put 
upon her. 
Surely sonio. people must know thom- 
aevk# '> tetany think about nothing else. 
