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For the Rural New-Yorker. 
PADDLE THINE OWN CANOE. 
BY KATE WOODLAND. 
Shocld’st thou within a little bark launch forth upon the 
sea, 
An inexperienced hand might guide while floating light 
and free; 
I?ut when the storm-bird hovers nigh, and spreads his 
wings to view, 
With steady hand then grasp the oar and paddle thine own 
canoe. 
And thus upon the sea of life, if thou would'st shun the 
shock 
Of stranding on the shores of sin, or breaking on its 
rocks, 
Trust not the arms that are not strong, or hearts that are 
not true, 
Do thou be helmsman, captain, guide, and paddle thine 
own canoe. 
Should wealth extend her glittcrning. hand to win thee to 
her side, 
And thou would’st cross the billowy wave, and brave the 
swelling tide, 
If other hands than thine should guide thy boat the dark 
night through, 
Then other hands would grasp thy gold, so paddle thine 
own cauoe. 
If thou would'st moor thy little bark at foot of Science’s 
mount, 
Would'st taste the ever gushing rills that flow from wis¬ 
dom's fount, 
If thou would'st tread its blooming height far mid the 
ether blue, 
Thyself must toil, and strive, and sweat, and paddle thine 
own canoe. 
Truth hath a garland to bestow on him who nobly strives, 
And Love a precious guerdon, a priceless treasure gives; 
Ambition, Honor, Wealth and Fame, what e’er they can, 
will do 
To bless thy life, if thou wilt work and paddle thine own 
cauoe. 
And when at last thou passetli all the land-marks by the 
way, 
And then would'st seek that better laud where blooms 
etornal day, 
As thou shalt tread the golden shore, a prize shall meet 
thy view. 
A crown of life, the bright reward for paddling thine own 
canoe. 
Carlton, N. Y., Nov., 1852. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
PERSEVERANCE: 
Illustrated in the Life of Bernard Palissy. 
One of the most interesting instances of 
triumph and perseverance, is found in the 
life of Bernard Palissy, a French potter 
and naturalist, born in the early part of the 
sixteenth century. Ilis memoirs, written 
by Henry Morley, have recently been re¬ 
published by Ticknor & Co., of Boston, and 
aro highly entertaining and profitable read¬ 
ing. 
When a young man, Bernard Palissy 
saw an enameled earthen cup, turned and 
polished with great beauty, and was so smit¬ 
ten with its charms, that he resolved, at 
once, that ho would manufacture similar 
ware, although the method was wholly un¬ 
known in France. Though gifted with the 
knowledge of drawing, ho was ignorant of 
the nature of clays, hut no barrier seemed 
insurmountable to him. With nothing but 
the intuitions of genius and common senso 
to guide him in the selection of materials, 
he pounded and ground such substances as 
he thought might be the proper ones; placed 
them on fragments of earthen pots which 
ho had broken, carefully marked them, mak¬ 
ing a record of the drugs ho had used in 
each mixture, and put the whole into a fur¬ 
nace to bake. The result of the first trial 
was a failure; the result of all trials, for 
months and years, was a failure. He knew 
not how long to bake the batch ; he knew 
not how to mix the chemicals; he knew not 
how to arrange his trial-pieces in the fur- 
naco. No man ever worked to greater dis¬ 
advantage ; yet nothing could wholly quench 
the fires of his enthusiasm. 
Having spent years of time and nearly 
exhausted his funds in the line of pottery, 
ho at length, in order to save expense, sent 
his preparations to the kiln of a potter four 
or five miles distant. But the fire was not 
hot enough, and his trial-pieces camo out 
unbaked. Thinking something was wrong- 
in the materials, ho repeated the experi¬ 
ment several times, and always with a fail¬ 
ure. 
Finding it necessai-y to replenish his purse, 
and having an opportunity to survey and 
map the islands and country surrounding 
the salt-marshes of Saintes, where he was 
thou residing, he sought relaxation for sev¬ 
eral months from his usual and exhausting 
pursuit. Immediately, on being paid for 
his services as Surveyor, ho resumed the 
hunt for enamels. 
Having broken three dozen pots into 
nearly as many hundred pieces, and blank¬ 
eted them with variously mixed compounds, 
he sent them all to a glass-house, the fur¬ 
naces of which were hotter than those of 
the pottery. The result was that some of 
the compunds melted, which circumstance 
so encouraged him that ho pursued the 
search day and night for two years. “ God 
willed,” he tells us, “ that when I had be¬ 
gun to loso my courage, and was gone for 
the last timo to a glass-furnace, having a 
man with mo carrying more than three hun¬ 
dred kinds of trial-pieces, there was one 
among thoso pieces which was melted within 
four hours after it had been placed in the 
furnace, which trial turned out white and 
polished in a way that caused me such joy 
as made me think I was become a new crea¬ 
ture; and I thought that from that time I 
had the full perfection of the white enamel, 
but I was far from having what I thought.”— 
Vol. 2 d,p. 213. 
He now built him a furnace like theglass- 
workers’, doing it all with his own hands, 
because he had not the means to pay hired 
help. Then, after several perplexities, in¬ 
cluding the rebuilding of his furnace, we 
find him standing for two months almost in¬ 
cessantly, feeding the furnace regularly, and 
a part of the time — when his experiments 
had failed — pounding and grinding fresh 
materials. Not suffering the furnace to 
cool, and being his own stoker and grinder, 
he performed the work of two men. 
Money and wood being now exhausted, 
he burned the palings of his garden, and 
even tho tables and flooring of his house.— 
“ I suffered an anguish,” he says, “ that I 
cannot speak, for I was quite exhausted and 
di’ied up by the heat of tho furnace,—it was 
more than a month since my shirt had been 
dry upon mo. Further to console me, I 
was the object of mockery ; and even those 
from whom solace was due, ran crying 
through tho town that I was burning my 
floor! And in this way my credit was ta¬ 
ken from me, and I was regarded as a mad¬ 
man. Others said I was laboring to make 
false money, which was a scandal under 
which I pined away, and slipped with bowed 
head through tho streets, like a man put to 
shame. I was in debt in several places, and 
had two childron at nurse, unablo to pay 
the nurses; no one gave me consolation, 
but, on the contrary, men jested at me, say 
iug it was right for him to die of hunger, 
seeing that he had left off following his 
trade.”*— Vol. 2, pp. 213—10. 
Under such trying circumstances, instead 
of giving up in despair, ho hired a common 
potter, whom he boarded at a tavern on 
credit, and paid in clothes which belonged 
to his own back. Borrowing wood and 
chemicals, and building a furnace which 
cost him twenty-six “gold dollars,” wo soon 
sco him drawing out a batch with each piece 
filled with bits of protruding flint, as sharp 
as razors, and the whole spoiled. Previous 
to this, ho had had his fingers so bruised 
and cut, that ho ate his pottage with them 
wrapped in rags. With additional gashes, 
he still plied his hands. Befusing to sell im¬ 
perfect specimens of ware — the best he 
could yet make—though offered small sums 
of many for them; he at length made “ sev¬ 
eral vessels of different enamels intermixed 
in tho manner of jasper,” which supplied 
him with provisions for several years. 
Without dwelling too long on details, it is 
enough, perhaps, to state that ho spent 
eight years in discovering tho method of 
manufacturing enameled pottery, and eight 
more in perfecting himself in the art. The 
account which he gives of his toils, and tri¬ 
als, and suftorings during these sixteen 
years, is one of the most interesting speci¬ 
mens of autobiography extant. The “ mad¬ 
man” at length placed himself in affluent 
circumstances; and not only immortalized 
himself by inventing enameled ware, but 
wrote works on natural history and cognato 
branches of science, which were of incalcu¬ 
lable value. But ho lived in troublesome 
and bloody times, when learning was little 
thought of or cared for, and neither his ge¬ 
nius was comprehended nor his labors ap¬ 
preciated. He was an unswerving yet peac- 
able Huguenot, and at length fell a victim 
to intolerance, dying in tho Bastilo, in 1389. 
Thus ended the days of the perseversing 
and pious potter, whose life is replete with 
lessons of industry, persevcrence, integrity 
and Christian faith, worthy of being studied 
by the young and copied by all. j. c. 
Buffalo, Nov. 15th, 1852. 
* The trade to which reference is here made, was that of 
a glass-paiuter, which I’at.issy learned of his father, and at 
which he labored several of his earlier years. 
Unwritten Poetry. —God has granted 
to but few the power of expression, but to 
many has he vouchsafed the noble gift of 
exquisite feeling. The “thoughts that 
breathe” are theirs, but not the “words 
that burn.” There is a vast deal of sublime 
poetry written only in the soul, and over 
that soul has swept tho same tide of emo¬ 
tion, to which another, whose lips have been 
touched by firo from the altar, has given 
noble utterance. 
A cheerful mans hopes and fruitions are 
put in different buckets of the same well. 
When his actual enjoyments are so far cast 
down that starlight is evident overhead, his 
hopes are up in tho hot sunshine ; when his 
wishes aro gratified, and ho is as high as he 
formerly hoped to bo, fear keeps his spirits 
low—down oven to the water’s level. 
Misfortunes aro moral bitters, which fre¬ 
quently restore the healthy tone of the 
mind, aftor it has been sickened by the 
sweets of prosperity. 
Whatever may be the reputation of a 
man while alive, when dead he is generally 
allowed to be a finished, gentleman. 
SKETCH OF THE ISLAND OF MACKINAC. 
The rising sun of tho next morning beheld 
us gazing at the abrupt, rugged, defiant 
heights of Mackinac. On a narrow strip of 
land between the water and the base of 
the mountain, the village has been built, and 
a strangely grotesque one it is. There all 
kinds of buildings are huddled together? 
and all kinds of men mixed up. Whether 
or not civilization has done its perfect work, 
amalgamation has been going on for gen¬ 
erations, and may now bo pronounced com¬ 
plete. Old bark-thatched wigwams stand 
close by elegantly framed houses. Frail 
birch canoes aro drawn upon the beach, 
wliilo in the harbor majestically float mag¬ 
nificent stoamers. In the short contracted 
streets the gaily dressed woman of fashion 
will meet the young squaw, with tho head 
of the dirty-faced papoose she is carrying 
on her back, peering over her shoulder.— 
French, English, and Indian blood has been 
freely mingled, and now courses in the same 
veins. There is no degree in which either 
kind may not be found blended with the 
rest. 
On this island yet lives—speaking the 
language, wearing the apparel, and adhering 
to the usages of her ancestors—tho aged 
and respected Indian grandmother of one 
of the most intelligent and accomplished 
ladies in the west. Bike the Randolph of 
Roanoke, as this descendant of an aborigi¬ 
nal race thinks through whom “her life¬ 
blood tracks its parent lake,” she glories in 
the true nobility of her origin, and at no 
time does the keen fire of her eye beam 
more brightly than when she proudly assorts 
her superior claims to bo regarded as a gen¬ 
uine native. 
No pebbled shores were ever washed by 
purer waves than thoso that perpetually 
dash against this island. Shining objects 
can he plainly seen 
“ Fathoms below the surface that sparkles above,” 
lying on a smooth sandy bottom. An anec¬ 
dote is told of a traveler, who, wishing to 
sec the Indians perform some of their boast¬ 
ed swimming feats, throw a half eagle into 
the water, and promised it to any of them 
who could get it. The prize attracted a 
large number of eager competitors. They 
plunged in and dove down timo and again, 
hut tho most skillful failed. When they 
had given it up as a bad job, a tall shrewd 
Yankee, who had been quietly watching the 
progress of the fun, stepped up and inquir¬ 
ed if that money belonged to any one who 
could find it. . Being told that it did bv tho 
owner, whose curiosity was now highly ex¬ 
cited to see what was next coming, the 
cunning Yankee walked away, but soon 
returned with a long pole on one end of 
which was fastened a cloth dipped in tar. 
Dropping the pole into the water directly 
over the spot where the gold lay and press¬ 
ing it down, ho drew it up, pocketed the five 
dollars amidst the envy of the shivering 
savages, and coolly went about his business 
as if nothing extraordinary had happened. 
The best description of the climate in this 
latitude was given by a resident of Mackinac 
in reply to some questions about it. Ho 
said they had there nine months of winter 
and three months of cold weather, and for 
a little variety, they now and then exchang¬ 
ed a northern blast for a southern gale, but 
always got the worst of tho bargain.—1). W. 
Ballou’s “Notes of a Westward Trip. 
ONE THING AT A TIME. 
One thing at a time, my dear fellow, ono 
thing at a time. If you attempt to lift both 
the twins and your wife over the the stream 
at once, you will probably drop tho doll of 
one of the little ones, and the bonnet of 
the other, and set your wife down ankle 
deep into the stream. Some men of extra¬ 
ordinary gifts can rock the cradle and read 
the paper at the same time; but few can 
stir the hominy and calculate an eclipse at 
once, without burning the ono, and post¬ 
poning tho other a year or two. You may 
put as many irons in tho firo as tho furnace 
will hold, if you timo them rightly about 
their coming out. But don’t try to hammer 
out all at once, nor attempt to shape an eel- 
spear and a horse-shoe nail at the same 
blow. A wise builder will have the masons 
busy here, and the carpenters there, and 
much work proceeding with equal pace; but 
ho does not draw up a specification for a 
new house while he is draughting the plan 
of another. We may set out a tree that 
will bo growing while we sleep, wind up a 
clock that will run its round while we run 
up town on an errand; but wo don’t set out 
trees, nor wind clocks, while running of er¬ 
rands or while asleep. 
It is wise to have things so situated that 
there bo no chinks between our jobs, no 
time wasted in taking up another when one 
is ended, and that, when really tired of one 
we can refresh ourselves by laboring at an¬ 
other. But it is wasteful to turn from one 
undertaking to another, wliilo yet fresh 
enough to push the first on to a conclusion. 
Ono thing at a timo, and that thoroughly, 
is the secret of suecoss in all great attain¬ 
ments. Crowd the inspiration in between 
narrow banks, too narrow to allow of two 
jobs to ride abreast, and you can float down 
it any task that you have attempted, though 
as large among your common labors as a 
seventy-four is among ships. But widen 
the stream to accommodate a score of tri¬ 
fling tasks, and half of them will stick at 
sand-bars, and be left for another tide.—.Y. 
Y. Times. 
We celebrate nobler obsequies to thoso 
we love by drying the tears of others, than 
by shedding our own ; and the fairest funeral 
wreath we can hang on thoir tomb is a fruit 
offering of good deeds. 
Longfellow, in his prose tale of “ Ka- 
vanagh,” calls Sunday the “ golden clasp 
which binds together tho volume of the 
week.” 
SMALL MYSTERIES. 
In tho homo eircle nothing is more pro¬ 
ductive of mischief than small mysteries, 
the concealment of littlo things, and the 
furtive accomplishment of what might bet¬ 
ter be done openly. Dr. Johnson, in his 
forciblo language, once said, “ Nothing ends 
more fatally than mysteriousness in trifles ; 
indeed, it commonly ends in guilt, for thoso 
who begin by concealment of innocent things 
will soon have something to hide which they 
dare not bring to light.” 
The faculty for concealment—or, as the 
phrenologists term it, “ secretiveness ”—is a 
dangerous gift. Openness and candor aro 
delightful in a household; giving all the 
members a pleasant participation in each 
other’s happiness. When we discover that 
a friend has deceived or only half trusted 
us, we regard him over after with suspicion, 
and it requires a voryjong timo for him to 
rocover the ground ho has lost in our confi¬ 
dence and esteem. Especially is this true 
in the family, for when we percoive that 
those abroad know more of the motives of a 
member of tho same house than we do, it 
soems as if wrong were dono which cannot 
be forgotten. 
Husbands and wives ensuro domestic dis¬ 
comfort by having out-door confidents.— 
Coolness and even separations have had 
their rise in some trifling matters of this 
sort, when the parties might, by a wiser 
course, have remained affoctionato and in¬ 
separable. Children who prefor other frionds 
over their parents are almost sure to be led 
into error and unhappiness. While under 
the homo roof, the heart should be kept 
thero; the preliminaries to a future homo 
causing tho only exception. And even in 
such a case, he or she is usually best mar¬ 
ried whose parents wore earliest apprised of 
the engagement.— Exchange. 
FLIGHT OF THE WILD GOOSE. 
Coming u’p on tho oxpress train the other 
day, it so happened that on leaving Fonda, 
a flock of some thirty wild geese swept over 
into tho valley of tho Mohawk just as the 
cars wore under way. The geese being 
manifestly bewildered, kept on steadily up 
the river, but well over on tho opposite side 
of the valloy, hence a good time to compare 
their speed with tho “lightning train” was 
afforded. At first it seemed to be about an 
“ even thing,” but after a few moments it 
was readily perceivable that the geese 
were drawing ahead of tho locomotive. Af¬ 
ter a few minutes, tho flock seemed half in¬ 
clined to drop down into tho Mohawk, and 
abated much of their speed—the engine re¬ 
covering tho lost ground, but the geese 
thought bettor of it—changed front, sought 
a greater elevation, and pushed ahead again 
in the same direction as the train. By this 
time the race became quite exciting, and 
one could hardly refrain from exclaiming, 
“go, engine, pair in geese,” but thero was no 
need of exhortation, as both seemed lotting 
out about all they knew—tho geese gradu¬ 
ally drawing ahead till within a short dis¬ 
tance of Little Falls, when the bevy hauled 
up in the wind’s eye, shivered a moment 
and stood down the river again, having gain¬ 
ed in the race about two miles. The geese 
must have been going, when last seen at the 
rate of sixty or seventy miles tho hour.— 
This is tho first race we have seen between 
a locomotivo and the feathered race, and 
though the latter had tho best of it, the for¬ 
mer did well considering that it was com¬ 
pelled to carry weight.— Roch. Daily Jldv. 
^Dutlj's M usram. 
For tho New-Yorker. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 49. 
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Lockport, N. Y. E. G. 
Answer next week. 
For the New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 31 letters. 
My 1, 2, 3, 4 is a number. 
My 2, 25, 9 is a bird. 
My 3, 28, 23 is a vessel. 
My 4,19, 15, 16 is a lady’s name. 
My 6, 12, 23, 18 16 is a gentleman’s name. 
My 7, 10, 22, 15, 19, 20, 30 is a bird of prey. 
My 8. 7, 24, 23 is indispensable in a kilclien. 
My 9, 26, 23, 23 is a town in Massachusetts. 
My 11, 27, 23,29, 12, 26 is a quadruped. 
My 5, 2, 11, 21, 6, 21, 25, 29 is an implement of 
war. 
My 12, 21, 15 is what we all do. 
My 21, 23, 5 is an insect. 
My 23, 24, 25,21,28,29 is a village in Wayne Co. 
My 25, 21, 5, 30, 31 is a wholesome beverage. 
My 26,17,22, 9, 2, 25 one of the primary colors. 
My 29,30, 30, 9, is part of a boat or ship. 
You may expect to receive a call from me after 
hollidays are over. And with your permission I 
will make a weekly visit ’till another year is num¬ 
bered with the past. 
West Maeedon. Albert. 
Answer next week. 
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