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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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COLLEGE Foil FEMALES. 
A Female Collegiate Seminary is about to 
be established at Elmira, in this State. The 
domestic arrangements of the institution will 
be similar to those of the famous Holyoke 
school, at South Hadley, Mass., and the pecu¬ 
niary charges will be as moderate as can be 
afforded in view of the liberal course of study 
pursued. A perpetual free scholarship is se¬ 
cured on the payment by any individual or 
church of one thousand dollars. The institu¬ 
tion is founded under the auspices of all the 
religious denominations, its aims being, not 
sectarian instruction, but the inculcation of a 
sound religious and moral, added to the highest 
scientific education. 
Such institutions as the above are the direct 
results of a better appreciation in the commu¬ 
nity of the intellectual wants and requirements 
of the female sex. The time has gone by, at 
least in this country, when woman was regard¬ 
ed as a mere nonentity; when even a femme 
sole was scarcely regarded as having any soul, 
and a femme covert was required, by the in¬ 
herited dogmas of the common law, to surren¬ 
der her property as well as her person to the 
tender mercies of her husband, and to merge 
her opinions, her tastes, her conscience, and 
indeed almost her existence, in that of her so- 
called protector. Protector, indeed, to a de¬ 
serving wife, is a kind and tender and prudent 
husband; but an unkind, an intemperate, or 
an improvident one, is anything but that.— 
The hardships of the common law, in giving 
to the husband an absolute property in all the 
wife’s personal, and a control of the rents and 
profits of all her real estate, with a free tenan¬ 
cy in courtesy during his whole life if he sur¬ 
vive her and a child happens to be born alive, 
have been so far modified in this and some 
other States, as to give the wife the free and 
uncontrolled management of her own property 
subject only to the moral influence of her hus¬ 
band. That moral influence can, however, be 
exerted so powerfully in most cases, that by a 
little management any man desirous of it gets 
possession of the wife’s property as readily as 
under the old iron rule. If he be prudent and 
thrifty on his own behalf, the wife’s estate also 
thrives under his hand ; but if, on the other 
hand, as is too often the case, he be improvi¬ 
dent, unsuccessful or incompetent, the proper¬ 
ty, both joint and several, is speedily squan¬ 
dered. 
It is important in a prudential as well as a 
social and moral point of view, that woman 
be permitted to tread the higher walks of lit¬ 
erature and science; that she be allowed, if 
she chooses it, to struggle with the other sex 
shoulder to shoulder in all the ennobling and 
lofty pursuits of life. It is in this way only 
she can be taught that self-reliance and self- 
sustaining power which will keep her up when 
the prop on which she leans is removed by 
misfortune or by death. The writer is not 
prepared to say that woman can pursue a 
course of the loftiest and most abstruse scien¬ 
tific investigation with a success equal to that 
of man ; but in most cases she is, or can be, 
at least his equal, and in some even his supe¬ 
rior. There are at this moment an infinite 
number of pursuits and stations occupied and 
followed by men, from which women are shut 
out by reason of a deficient education. To 
say they are not naturally competent, when 
you have never educated them for the place, 
is like tying a human being hand and foot, 
and confining him in a dungeon for years, un¬ 
til you have paralyzed all his physical ener¬ 
gies, and then say “ God never designed him to 
scale the mountain top and swim the stream 1” 
He is no real friend to woman, or the human 
race, who would cramp her energies, shut in 
instead of lead out her inherent power, and 
teach both others and herself to believe that 
woman was intended by the Creator to be 
softness, all softness—and nothing else ! to be 
a mere hanger on and shadow of mankind ; to 
be the slave and drudge of vicious, ignorant 
and depraved, and the mere doll and plaything 
of generous and honorable men. The early 
physical and mental training of the race re¬ 
ceive their first impulses from a woman’s 
hand, and many, if not most, men of eminent 
attainments can trace the early bent of their 
genius in the the .right direction to the gentle 
guidance of a woman’s hand. Educated and 
intelligent mothers usually precede a wise gen¬ 
eration of men, while the opposite class can 
trace a lineal descent from maternal ignorance 
and frivolity. 
I jet institutions then, for the education of 
women, be founded, encouraged and liberally 
supported, and let our sisters and daughters 
have the opportunity at least of developing to 
its full capacity their intellectual and moral 
nature. 
EMERSON’S MAXIMS OF EDUCATION. 
Let it be your grand object to prepare your 
pupils for the greatest usefulness and enjoy¬ 
ment. 
Teach for eternity! 
Teach nothing, but what appears conducive 
to the usefulness of your pupils, if improved 
according to its natural tendency and influ- 
cncc» 
Let every branch receive attention, in pro¬ 
portion to its probable utility. 
As far as possible, make your pupils per¬ 
ceive and feel the importance of every branch 
they pursue. 
Proceed systematically ; and, as far as pos¬ 
sible, teach those things first, which are first 
in the order of nature, and which may be un¬ 
derstood without an acquaintance with other 
things to be subsequently acquired. 
As far as possible teach those things first 
which are easiest in themselves. 
In giving instruction, proceed very gradual¬ 
ly and by the shorte-t steps, from the more 
easy to the more difficult. 
As far as may be, see that your pupils un¬ 
derstand each step before proceeding to the 
next. 
Never teach them directly what they can 
conveniently learn without such assistance. 
Never do for your pupils what they can do 
for themselves, except so far as may be neces¬ 
sary to set an example. 
Never indulge your pupils in saying “can’t,” 
or expressing inability to perform any exercise 
required. 
Freely indulge and encourage your pupils 
in asking questions; and, if possible, lead them 
to the answer by questioning them. 
Teach your pupils to teach themselves. 
Teach as much as possible by example; and 
let your example in everything be such as may 
be safely imitated. 
Endeavor to render your instructions inter¬ 
esting. 
As far as possible instruct by exhibiting 
the real objects, or the most perfect natural 
signs of the objects, to which your instruc¬ 
tions relate. 
Endeavor to discover and correct the bad 
habits of your pupils. 
As far as possible excite your pupils to vig¬ 
orous and laudable efforts by inculcating upon 
them their obligations to God, to themselves, 
to their parents, to their associates, to their 
country, to their ancestors, to future genera¬ 
tions and to the world. 
In exciting in your pupils a sense of honor, 
shame and emulation, endeavor to guard their 
minds against criminal ambition, to which 
these feelings, or the causes of these feelings, 
are in danger of leading. 
By no means suffer your faithfulness to be 
overcome by a fear of wounding the feelings 
of your pupils. 
Fervently supplicate the divine blessing up¬ 
on your pupils and upon your efforts for their 
improvement, from day to day.— N. 1. Teach. 
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WHAT CAUSES THE GULF STREAM. 
EDUCATING CHILDREN. 
Tue education of our children is now more 
than ever a puzzling problem, if by education 
we mean the development of the whole human¬ 
ity, not merely of some arbitrarily chosen part 
of it. How to ieed the imagination with 
wholesome food, and teach it to despise French 
novels, and that sugared slough of sentimental 
poetry, in comparison with which the old fairy 
tales and ballads were manful and rational; 
how to counteract the tendency to shallow and 
conceited socialism, engendered by hearing 
popular lectures on all manner of subjects, 
which can only be really learnt by stern meth¬ 
odic study; how to give habits of enterprise, 
patience, accurate observation, which the 
counting-house or the library will never bestow; 
above all, how to develop the physical powers, 
without engendering brutality and coarseness, 
are questions becoming daily more and more 
puzzling, while they need daily more and more 
to be solved, in an age of enterprise, travel and 
emigration, like the present. For the truth 
must be told, that the great majority of men 
who are now distinguished by commercial sue 
cess, have had a training the directly opposite 
to that which they are giving their sons. 
They are for the most part men who have 
migrated from the country to the town, and 
had in their youth all the advantages of a stur¬ 
dy and manful hill-side or sea-side training, 
whose bodies were developed, and their lungs 
fed on pure breezes, long before they brought 
to work in the city the bodily and mental 
strength which they had gained by loch and 
moor. But it is not so with their sons. Their 
business habits are learnt in the counting-house 
a good school, doubtless, as far as it goes ; but 
one which will expand none but the lowest in¬ 
tellectual faculties ; which will make them ac¬ 
curate accountants, shrewd computers, but 
never the originators of daring schemes, men 
able and willing to go forth to replenish the 
earth and subdue it. And in the hours of re¬ 
laxation, how much of their time is thrown 
away for anything better, on frivolity, not to 
say secret profligacy, parents know to well; 
and often shut their eyes in very despair to 
evils which they know not how to cure. A 
frightful majority of our middle class young 
men are growing up effeminate, empty of all 
knowledge but what tends directly to the ma¬ 
king of a fortune; or rather, to speak correctly, 
to the fortunes their fathers made for them. 
The London Daily News says that the 
Americans are found to be the best customers 
now for old English books. Large libraries, 
both public and private, are now forming in 
the United States, of old editions of English 
authors. 
Harsh words are like hailstones in sum¬ 
mer, which, if melted, would fertilize the ten¬ 
der plants they batter down. 
Sum for Smokers. —Estimating the cost of 
good cigars at one dollar a week, and com¬ 
puting compound interest at seven per cent 
from the age of fourteen, the cost at twenty 
years of age would be $397 12; at thirty 
$1,537 88 ; at forty, $3,807 89 : at fifty, $ 
3o4 70; at sixty, $17,201 32; at seventy 
$34,995 51 ; at eighty, $70,341 05. The cost 
to health and morals cannot be computed. 
Why not let the chimneys, and furnaces, and 
locomotives do the smoking? 
I would rather convince a man that he has 
a soul to save, and induce him to live up to 
that belief, than to bring him over to my opin¬ 
ion in whatever else beside.— Leighton. 
Mr. Stanton Shoales, an experienced nav¬ 
igator, gives it as his opinion that the waters 
of the Gulf Stream are nothing more nor less 
than the waters of the river Amazon. This 
great father of waters is bedded more than 
1,000 miles immediately under the equator, 
and all its tributary streams for many thousand 
miles are constantly pouring their hot water 
into this mighty reservoir of waters. As these 
waters are gathered in under the burning of 
the equator, they are extremely warm ; far 
more so than the Atlantic Ocean waters under 
the equator. This great body of heated water 
shoots out into the Atlantic more than a hun¬ 
dred miles, in the face of the eternal trade 
winds. 
The Amazon is sixty miles wide ; after being 
bolted in its irresistible course, it curves to the 
left, and scuds oft' before the strong trade winds 
out of their reach. Driven along with great 
force, it takes its course round the great bay 
formed between the two continents of North 
and South America. Dashing along the nor¬ 
thern coast of South America, and to the lee¬ 
ward of the West India Islands it leaves the 
shore of Cuba, and proceeds along the shores 
of Florida, the capes of Virginia, and the 
south coast of North America, and passing 
the shores of Newfoundland, ends its mission 
among the icebergs which float out of the 
Northern Ocean. Cut off' the Gulf Stream 
and it would not be many years before the 
North Atlantic would be filled with icebergs 
that would be very destructive to navigation. 
But nature has provided an eternal reservoir 
of hot water constantly rushing around over 
back of the cold Atlantic to its destination, 
where, after spreading its vital warmth among 
the icebergs, it is hurried away by a new sup¬ 
ply of native warm water from the great Am¬ 
azon. Seaman can always tell when in or out 
of the Gulf Stream by dipping the hand in the 
water alongside. 
Undoubtedly this view will be new to some 
eaders, but what 1 have written is from expe¬ 
rience, and was seen while I was roving upon 
the mighty deep. The Gulf Stream, 1 repeat, 
is nothing more nor less than the waters of the 
great Amazon of South America. I have 
crossed it in many places, and for many years 
have glided through its warm water, always 
pleased to have it astern. The most violent 
storms, from whatever quarter they may come, 
never change its course or its current, but it 
continues to move on in irresistible power. 
TELESCOPE GLASSES. 
The manufacture of telescope glasses is one 
of the most intricate and nice undertakings in 
mechanism. The risk of securing good glasses 
even after months of labor, is very great, and 
consequently gives great value to a perfect one. 
The manufacturers first take about 300 lbs. 
of flint glass and fuse it by a very hot fire.— 
While in a liquid state in the furnace, the ves¬ 
sel containing it is walled completely up, and 
suffered to cool very slowly, sometimes occupy¬ 
ing two months in the process. When perfect¬ 
ly cool the mass is fractured by a process 
which is retained a secret among manufactu- 
s. The fragments being of various sizes are 
of different power of reflection, and are worked 
into glasses proportioned to their powers. In 
working them into form, the edges are first 
ground so that they can be looked through in 
every direction, in order that it may be ascer¬ 
tained if they contain any imperfections, such 
as cracks, specks of dirt, or bubbles of air. In 
case anything of this kind is discovered, they 
are put into smaller size, but if perfect, then 
they are ground into size and form to suit the 
design of the manufacturer. When this labor 
is completed, they are annealed or heated al¬ 
most to fusing, in order to give them a perfect 
polish and shape, and also to free them from 
brittleness. The process is slow and tedious, 
and requires great skill to make them perfect. 
An object glass which was found in the streets 
of Munich, when cleaned up and annealed, was 
sold for $3,000, and was only six inches in di¬ 
ameter. 
The glass which is being manufactured for 
the observatory at Ann Arbor, is to be seven 
inches in diameter, and the whole telescope will 
cost only about twice that sum, so that it will 
be seen that nearly as much value Is placed 
upon the small object glass, as upon the whole 
complicated machinery of the telescope.— De¬ 
troit Advertiser. 
A Good Joke of tiie Quincies. —Some 
years ago the venerable Josiah Quincy, then 
President of Harvard University, and his son, 
who lectured here recently so humorously, 
instructively and happily on “ Joe Smith and 
the Mormons,” then President of the Common 
Council of the city of Boston, were toasted or 
alluded to as two President Quincies. After 
the usual noisy demonstration, the younger 
Quincy very gravely arose and repudiated the 
idea of such grouping of Presidents. He told 
the audience that he intended to be courteous 
toothers, and yet submit to or allow nothing to 
be said derogatory to his own dignity. “I beg 
leave to request the audience to remember that 
the old gentleman over there presides over a 
parcel of boys, while I preside over a body of 
men.” It is superfluous to mention that the 
uproar among people who had known both 
gentlemen long and well was tumultuous.— 
Toledo ( Ohio ) Blade. 
Intemperance and Gaming. —I have ever 
maintained that intemperance is inseparably 
connected with gaming. It demands the spark¬ 
ling cup to lead the way to a reckless impulse 
to risk all in a chance throw. Few sober men 
will roll a ball, or shuffle painted pasteboard, 
as a mere matter of chance. But unchain the 
baser qualities of our nature—hold up the full 
exhilatory cup to view—flood the atmosphere 
with the melody of the viol, and the stimula¬ 
tion is sufficient to cause one to rush headlong 
to ruin.— West. Lit. Messenger. 
CURIOUS FACTS IN THE CENSUS. 
On looking over the “ Compendium of the 
Census,” we discover some interesting facts, 
which we lay before our readers. 
The remarkable equality in the number of 
males and females, which is said to exist in the 
world, is strikingly illustrated in a table of 
the number of each sex, of which the particu¬ 
lar States of their nativities have been ascer¬ 
tained. The male total is 6,546,753 ; the 
female, 6,558,136, which gives the latter about 
11,000 majority in an aggregate of 13,000,000. 
But in the total population of the United 
States, the number of females is about one- 
twenty-fifth less than that of the males. _ 
These figures apply only to the whites.— 
Among the free colored population a greater 
difference is observable. Of 400,000 of the 
latter, the States of whose nativities have been 
ascertained, there are nearly 20,000 more fe¬ 
males than males. 
With regard to the slave population, the 
numbers of each sex are even more closely 
equal than those of the whites. The total of 
males is 1,602,525 ; and of females 1,601,778 
—showing a difference of only 700 in an ag¬ 
gregate of 3,000,000. 
This remarkable equality of numbers in a 
measure necessitates a similar equality in re¬ 
gard to ages, and conclusively settles the ques¬ 
tion that women, as a general thing, are not 
■younger than men. 
The State of New York contains about 
one-eighth of the population of the Union, and 
Pennsylvania one-tenth. 
The three smallest places in the United 
States are Harris, Essex County, Vermont, 
having a population of eight; Averill, in the 
same county, with a population of seven ; and 
Liberty, in Keokuk County, Illinois, with a 
population of five. 
There are nearly 4,000,000 dwelling houses 
in the United States. 
The number of clergymen in the country is 
nearly 27,000 ; that of the lawyers 24,000.— 
The largest exclusive class of persons is that 
of the farmers, numbering nearly 2,500,000.— 
The editors number 1,300 ; the artists 2,000; 
the butchers nearly 18,000; and the black¬ 
smiths nearly 100,000. 
In the census report there is a total of about 
35,000 churches. 
There are 6,000,000 of milch cows in the 
country. This number will afford an average 
of one cow to every four persons. 
The number of scholars who attend public 
schools is 3,354,000 ; and of those who attend 
private schools 263,000. The number of 
teachers in the former is 92,000; and in the 
latter 12,260. 
The total number of persons in the United 
States, over twenty years of age, who cannot 
read and write, is nearly a million. Of these 
200,000 are foreigners. 
The number of daily newspapers in the 
country is 254; of weekly, nearly, 2,000. A 
singular fact with regard to these presents it¬ 
self. The census reports only 1,300 editors! 
This is the more painful, when it is known 
that it takes several editors to make one good 
paper! The fact, however, that large numbers 
of editors are also proprietors of their jour¬ 
nals, and are put down in the census as the 
latter and not as the former, explains the ap¬ 
parent incongruity. 
The volume of the census is a storehouse of 
curious and interesting facts to any one who 
will take the trouble to peruse its various 
tables of statistics.— N. Y. Observer. 
ONE DROP AT A TIME. 
“ Life,” says the late John Foster, “ is ex¬ 
penditure ; we have it, but are as continually 
losing it; we have the use of it, but are as con¬ 
tinually wanting it. Suppose a man confined 
in some fortress, under the doom to stay there 
till death ; and suppose there is there for his 
use a dark reservoir of water, to which it is 
certain none can ever be added. He may sup¬ 
pose the quantity is very great; he cannot 
penetrate to ascertain how much, but it may 
be very little. He has drawn from it, a 
good while already, and draws from it ev¬ 
ery day. But how would he feel each time 
of drawing, and each time of thinking of it ? 
Not as if he had a perennial spring to go to. 
Not, ‘I have a reservoir, I may be at ease.’ 
No! but ‘ I had water yesterday—I have wa¬ 
ter to-day ; but having had it, and my having 
it to-day, is the very cause that I shall not 
have it on some day that is approaching.— 
And at the same time I am compelled to this 
fatal expenditure!’ So of our mortal, tran¬ 
sient life. And yet men are very indisposed to 
admit the plain truth, that life is a thing which 
they are in no other way possessing than as 
necessarily consuming ; anil that even in this 
imperfect sense of possession it becomes every 
day a less possession.” 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
HARVEST OF HUMAN LIFE. 
BY J. W. BARKER. 
Gather them in, with the quiet dead, 
To the wide and yearning grave ; 
Not a foot of earth on which we tread, 
Nor the dash of the briny wave, 
But covers the wreck of som8 faded form, 
From the varied haunts of this sad world gone. 
As th9 withered leaf falls silently, 
From Autumn’s faded brow, 
And like death’s mournful embassy, 
Goes sailing far below ; 
As, one by one, from the bright green wood, 
The fair spots disappear, 
And the wreck, thro’ Nature’s vast domain, 
Proclaims the dying year ; 
Thus o’er the vast expanse of earth, 
’Mid the scenes of woe, or the haunts of mirth, 
In the lonely night, or the sultry day, 
Men drop from th8ir earthly homes away. 
A mournful dirge comes o’er the sea, 
Death reigns beyond the wave, 
Like a mighty army, pressing on,— 
No human power can save ; 
And falling, like drops of the morning rain, 
To roturn no more on earth again. 
In the sea-girt isle, where the soft wind strays, 
Thro’ the green and spicy bowers, 
And the morning gale, throughout the year, 
Is kissing the bright-eyed flowers, 
And the groves flash bright, with golden wings, 
Of the fair and joyous bird, 
And the brisk and gleeful song it sings, 
No winter blast hath stirred ; 
There, thick in the climes of fadeless bloom, 
Lie many a wide and new-made tomb. 
In tho depths of earth, where the eye of man, 
Hath never the tomb surveyed, 
There many a mouldering wreck of life, 
In its quiet rest is laid ; 
In the dark abodes of the rocky glon, 
In the homes of the mountain cave, ay, ■ 
Far removed from the haunts of living mod, 
Is the rude unlettered grave. 
And still, like an “endless tide” they fall, 
And the boundless sea ingulphs them all. 
And not alone in some distant clime, 
Are the leaves of Autumn falling, 
But, one by one, they quiver down, 
Around my humble dwelling ; 
And who can tell if the next rude gale, 
May not my peaceful home assail! 
BrocUport, N. Y., Jan., 1865. 
INCIDENT IN A STAGE COACH. 
Russian Serfdom. —Among the limitations 
of Russian serfdom in which it is different from 
the chattel slavery of the United States are 
these: 
1. The master cannot sell the serf without 
the land on whi cli the serf lives. 
2. Families cannot be separated; and the 
unmarried children, after the death ot parents, 
constitute a family. 
3. The master’s power over the body of the 
serf extends not to maiming or periling life. 
4. The master cannot require the serf to 
marry contrary to his own choice and affec¬ 
tions. 
5. He is entitled to the labor of only three 
days in the week, and cannot require labor on 
the Sabbath, or on high festivals. 
6. Serfs cannot be held except by the nobil¬ 
ity and certain privileged classes and persons. 
7. They cannot be held except in propor¬ 
tion to the master’s property in land, there be¬ 
ing required for each serf the possession by the 
master of twenty acres. 
These provisions of the Russian law render 
serfdom, bad and oppressive as it is, a condi¬ 
tion entirely different from that of chattel 
slavery. 
Precipitation ruins the best laid designs ; 
whereas patience ripens the most difficult, and 
renders the execution of them easy. 
I recollect, in another journey, three per¬ 
sons entering the stage where we stopped to 
change the horses. One was an old man, 
nearly eighty years, with white locks and 
stooped shoulders; the second a middle-aged 
woman, with a discontented countenance and 
querulous voice; the third, a fair, delicate 
youth, about sixteen, very fragile in his ap¬ 
pearance. 
They were strangers to each other, and not 
of the same party. The aged man had not 
been seated five minutes, when he commenced 
a conversation with a gentleman next him, in¬ 
terlarding every few sentences with an oath, 
frequently calling on the name of the Deity in 
the most profane manner, and in a short time 
showed himself a scoffing infidel. That gray¬ 
headed old man, on the verge of the grave, 
w'hose actions in time would decide his state in 
eternity, was pouring out such horrid blasphe¬ 
mies, that our very blood was chilled ! There 
were twelve passengers, all remaining silent, 
until that delicate boy, who had waited for 
those older than himself to speak, laid his thin 
hand upon the arm of the old man, and in a 
mild, sweet voice said— 
“ My aged friend, have you any one that is 
dear to you—any one you love and reverence ?” 
“ A strange question, my boy ; do you think 
that I am without ties in the world?” 
“ Would you permit me then to ask, would 
you like to hear them spoken of unkindly ?” 
“ That I should not,” he answered, “ nor 
would I permit it.” 
“ 1 know,” replied the youth, “ that I am 
but a boy, but do not be offended when I say 
you have spoken in such a manner of one I 
love, the best friend I have, that my heart has 
been deeply pained!” 
“That cannot be, for I know no one you 
love ; you are an entire stranger to me.” 
“ Ah, sir, it is the great God, whom I have 
been taught from my infancy to love and rev¬ 
erence ; that holy, sacred name you have used 
in the most unhallowed manner. It may ap¬ 
pear presumptuous in me to speak to the hoary 
headed one, but permit me to say, there is a 
God, not only of mercy, but of justice, and 
who will not spare the guilty. The sands of 
your life are nearly run out; what will become 
of your immortal soul? It is appointed unto 
man once to die, and after death the judgment; 
from that trial there is no escape—are you 
ready for it ? Examine the Bible for yourself.” 
Then drawing from his pocket the inspired 
volume, and placing it in the hand of the old 
man, he continued, while tears of feeling stood 
in his eyes—“ May God, in his infinite mercy, 
enable you to see and believe the important 
truths revealed on its pages.” 
The old man gazed intently into the young 
speaker’s face. His color rose, I know not 
whether from shame or anger, until he said 
with a quivering voice and deep emphasis, “ I 
thank you, boy; you have given me a good les¬ 
son, which i hope I may never forget. I will 
read the book. I had a religious mother, but 
alas 1 I heeded not her instructions!” 
The rest of the journey he remained perfectly 
silent, deep in thought. Indeed, a solemn 
stillness was upon all, for that young disciple 
of Christ had made an impression for good 
upon more hearts than one, and, in after years, 
fruit sprang up from that short, but faithful 
sermon in the stage coach. 
Only a few months, and that pious youth 
was gone from earth! His spirit reposing 
with the blest; and no doubt one of the 
brightest gems in his glorious crown, is the 
turning of that old man from sin to holiness. 
A faithful servant can do much for his Mas¬ 
ter ; and the son of the pious can be brought 
in, even at the eleventh hour. 
