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/jKf /Af v, i they never have access to such occular presen- 
IT •C Qjy 0 II C H 4 01^4- tation of the truths and facts of Astronomy as 
„ „ „ y „ ,. v „ „ „ ,. w ., „ ,, w , v „ ,, those instruments, derided by Herschei.l, are 
capable of giving. Many a scholar in Greek 
CLOSE OE THE WINTER SCHOOLS- ^ Latill , ° nd £ Bnglis J lore , does not com- 
The winter schools are most of them closed, P reh f d the ^ cts of Astronomy occurring in 
or are about to close. The time is at hand the heavens because he never had an hours 
when our farmer boys must lay down the text ex 1 dl . on 0 an oner Y- 
book and the slate, aud take up the “shovel Consistency should have led IIerschell to 
and the hoe and it ought to be a matter of condemn all apparatus for exhibiting Nature s 
serious reflection whether or not they have ^ aws by experiment, where there is the least 
made the most of their time and done what failure of philosophical accuracy ; and in what 
they could in the way of mental improvement a PP ara tus is not this failure of philosophical 
during the few past months of comparative accuracy to be seen ! c. d. 
leisure. People may say what they will about ~ ~ „ , 
laboring men improving their minds and pur- THE 0 1D SCHOOL-HOUSE- 
suing a course of study, while at the same _ 
time they are engaged in severe manual toil; The reraemb rance of pleasant associations, 
but the facts will stand out in stern contra- ao 
TWO PATHS 
LIFE 
ttsmp. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE. 
Lime Lney are engugeu m seveie manual tun; TirE remembrance of pleasant associations, 
but the facts will stand out in stern contra- of enjoyment connected with the antiquated 
diction to the theory that instances of success gc i 100 l-room, can never be obliterated but with 
in such undertakings are exceptions to a the complete overthrow of the powers of mem- 
general mle. ory. And often in later years, when corro- 
Moderate exercise, such as is afforded by a fnrpnwa f y, P n nlkL«l hmw ® 
gLiimai iuib. ory. And often in later years, when corro- 
Moderate exercise, such as is afforded by a ding care furrows the polished brow, and we 
few hours a day devoted to labor, while it gicken at the wor](Ps cold-heartedness and in- 
conduces to bodily vigor, is beneficial also to humanity) we turn within for refl e C ti 0 n, and 
the student in every way; but exhausting toil rekindle the fireg of youth by the recollection 
unnerves the mind as well as the body, and of our enjoymentg iu c]li i dhood . The mind 
unfits it for prolonged exertion after the labors naturally reverts to the time and place , when> 
of the day are done. Who among oui iea^ - surrounded j jy companions as gleeful and un- 
ers feels, after a day’s labor at the plow or in mindful of the future as ourselves, we existed 
the harvest, like straining the mind tor a in the joyousness of youth, and strove to emu- 
couple of hours over a difficult mathematical Iate the acquirements 0 f those by whom we 
problem? At best some pleasant story or were encompassed. 
other reading requiring no mental exertion is „ , , „ 
,, , , . , , , On no scene do we dwell with more pleas- 
generally resorted to, or else quietness andut- „ , , , , 1 
ter inanition ure > ° r ee a S reater re g Tet that we are past 
The mind does not gain strength by tread- its e “iPT nt .- tl ““ ‘ ha ‘ " ,ldc , h ri , ses “P before 
ing a flowery pathway in literature any more ”P V1 10 1 ,lla o c 0 ' '' school-room, 
than the body does by the movements of a lta old .f Lool-room! Who does not love to 
rail car. The one may carry us hundreds of J™ w lts scenes! Eveu °ow its form 
miles in a day across the country, and the oth- 
flits across my mind’s vision as a cloud athwart 
, a ,, , , e n . , , , the heavens. The great fire-place in one end, 
er lead us through volumes of fine print; but 1 ., ., 7.1 
i well filled with logs, seems to crackle as it did 
neither is effective to expand and strengthen. . „ ° ’ 
,. in days of yore, the clock that ticked away 
The use of a man s own powers of locomotion v, J .. , , f 
, ,, ,. , ^ v .I . e upon the opposite wall, still seems to mark the 
alone enables bun to run, and the exercise of 1 . . 1 _ 
his own arms and body, to grapple and over- P assm S ° U1S * 
come physical obstacles. In like manner the _ ^ ke raked benches stretching along the 
ability of his mind to sieze and comprehend s * de3 ^ ke room with the open space in their 
great truths must be acquired by severe exer- m LUt, where the master paced to and fro, or 
cise in the departments of abstruse science. watched with eagle eye the scholars as he 
Men must have leisure to study in order to bear ‘* ‘heir recitations; the old-fashioned flesh ; 
become distinguished in any science 
the dunce-block with its burly looking occu- 
I from the laboring ranks rises to eminence, he P ant ’ and teacher dispensing punishment 
% does it in spite of his manual toils not by rea- t ] ° some unluck ? urchin-all are seen again id 
son of them ; and as he advances, the mental the recollections which crowd upon me of years 
is usually found to supersede the manual labor. a °? ne ‘ . ^ nd <ke master ' kut * et tfi e P^t d°- 
The great majority of our laboring population scnb8 lim ’ 
are intelligent men, because they have the leis- " A man severe he was > auI stern 10 view - 
ure and the opportunity to study. That of We n had the boding tremblers learned to trace 
the agriculturist comes in the winter, when The day’s disasters in his warning face ; 
the wide domain of vegetable nature over Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee 
, . , , -. , .... j At all his jokes, for many a joke had ho : 
which he is called upon to preside is in a dor- FuU wellthe bu ; y whUp ; r3) circling roundi 
mant state and does not need his attention.-— Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned : 
Then it is the farmer’s boys betake themselves Yet he was kind, or, if severe in ought, 
to the district school, too often, it must be l 0 y, e he ' 7 , 6 le TT ing was ‘ n v fauIt; 
The village all declared how much lie knew, 
Confessed, to while away rather than to profit -Twas certain he could write and cypher too ; 
by the opportunity. If such has been the Land he could measure, terms and tides presage, 
case with any our of young readers during the And even the story rims that he could s all £ e ; 
past winter, let it be the last of misspent leis- For e , eil though vanqui3hed hecou i d argue still; 
ure; and let no moment of the future be ad- While words of learned length, and thundering sound, 
ded to the amount of lost opportunity, for Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, 
which the best of us have a too fearful ac- And 8 tiU they gazed, and stil! the wonder grew, 
That one small head should carry all he knew.” 
count to render hereafter. Aud ^ gchoIars wko crowded into ^ 
written for M^ore^Rurai Now-Yorker. school-room, where are they ? Scattered up 
“ PROPORTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.” and down on the earth, pursuing various avo- 
i the leis- 1 A man severe Re was > stern to view. 
, pi knew him well, and every truant knew ; 
a 8 Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace 
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; 
Full wellthe busy whispers, circling round, 
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned 
CHILDHOOD. 
TWO PATHS IN LIFE. 
These contrasted pictures fur¬ 
nish texts for a whole volume 
of sermons upon human life and 
destiny. The Child stands at the 
parting of the ways, and he may 
run through in succession all the 
phases depicted in either series of 
portraits. The essential elements 
of either course of development 
lie alike in those smooth features. 
Which shall be actually realized, 
depends mostly upon the influ¬ 
ences brought to bear upon him 
from without. A few years of 
training in our schools upon the 
one hand, or in the streets upon 
the other, will make all the differ¬ 
ence, in the Youth, between the 
characters that stand opposed to 
each other in these opposite pic¬ 
tures. A youth of study and train¬ 
ing in a few years moulds the 
lineaments of the face into the 
resemblance of the first picture of 
Manhood ; while, by a law equally 
inevitable, idleness and dissipation 
bring out all the lower animal 
faculties, which reveal themselves 
in the depressed forehead, the 
hard eyebrow, the coarse mouth, 
and the thickened neck of the op¬ 
posite picture. The short-boy, and 
rowdy, and blackleg, if he escapes 
the State prison and the gallows, 
passes, as ho reaches the confines 
of Middle Age, into the drunken 
loafer, sneaking around the grog¬ 
shop in the chance of securing a 
treat from some one who knew 
him in his flush days ; while he 
who has chosen the other path, as 
he passes the “ mid journey of 
life,” and slowly descends the 
slope towards Age, grows daily 
richer in the love and esteem of 
tshose around him ; and in the bo¬ 
som of the family that gathers 
about his hearth, lives over again 
his happy youth and earnest man¬ 
hood. W hat a different picture is 
presented in the fate of him who 
lias chosen the returnless down¬ 
ward path, another and almost 
the last stage of which is portray¬ 
ed in the companion sketch of 
Age. The shadows deepen as 
he descends the hill of life. He 
has been successively useless, a 
pest, and a burden to society, and 
when he dies there is not a soul 
to wish that his life had been pro¬ 
longed. Two lives like these lie 
in possibility enfolded within every 
infant born into the world. 
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>tIDI)LE LIFE. 
WHERE CORK COMES FROM. 
Written for the Eura] New-Yorker. 
HISTORICAL ENIGMA. 
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, . . _ 
That one small head should carry all he knew.” Cork is nothing more or less^ than the bark j[ AM composed of twenty-two lett 'rs 
Aud the scholars who crowded into that tEfflSS M r 4 . , 10 . L 14 ' 16 . 4 a powerfh Stoto of 
I am composed of twenty-two letters. 
school-room, where are they ? Scattered up nean ; in English gardens it is° only a curiosity' 
and down on the earth, pursuing various avo- When the cork tree is about fifteen years old, 
cations, and filling different stations in society, the bark has attained a thickness and quality 
Ancient Greece. 
My 2, 3, 22, 3, 13 was the cause of a war in 
which the Greeks were one of the parties. 
A sun two feet in diameter, would corres- But they are not all here. Some slumber in suitable 
pond with Mercury as a mustard seed, with an early grave, and flowers planted by af- ter ® tn PP in g’ a 
the Earth and Venus as a pea, Mars as a pin’s f fiat ; on . shed their fragrance over their tombs P roduces a sec , ond 
le for manufacturing purposes; and af- m yU 3, 5,6,3 was a celebrated valley in Greece. y OU seek to be with the profane? 
ipping, a further growth of eight years U G 14, 22 , 17, 13 was one of the seven heart you are like them. Are i< 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
THE NIGHT-STORM. 
BY REV. E. C. BEACH. 
Howl on, howl on, ye winds of night ! 
All nature owns your sway : 
The Storm King on his car of might 
Rides wrathful on his way ; 
And hoarsely as he surge.s past 
Rings his wild war-cry on the blast,_ 
The tempests’ mad affray. 
Howl on, howl on 1 we heed you not; 
An arm unseen surrounds 
The precincts of our humble cot, 
And gives the storm its bounds ;— 
An arm in whose benign embrace 
Sweet hope reveals her radiant face 
And love serene abounds. 
Abroad the storm raves wild and wide, 
But smiling peace is here ; 
The friend long tried is by my side 
And sweet ones slumber near : 
And He who feeds the ravens, brings 
Unnumbered mercies on his wings, 
And bids us cease to fear. 
Kind Father, be thy fostering hand 
Our guard and covert still; 
A helpless band exposed we stand 
To ev8ry fatal ill; 
But thou canst every fear allay, 
The surging tempests own thy sway, 
The storm obeys thy will. 
And when the terrors of thy might 
Upon thy foes descend, 
0 thou who rules the storm this night, 
Be thou our shelter then. 
Into thine arms resigned we fall. 
Our hope, our life, our all in all, 
Our Father and our Friend. 
Lysander, N. Y., March 1855. 
THE WORK AND THE WORKMEN. 
But what is the object at which we ought 
to aim ? It is manifest that we ought to set 
for ourselves no less a task than completely 
evangelizing this whole nation. While for¬ 
eign missions, far from being abandoned or di¬ 
minished, ought to be more and more extended 
every year ; at the same time every hand ought 
to be lifted, every heart to beat, and every 
pulpit to resound, in behalf of domestic mis¬ 
sions. For carrying on this cause with ar¬ 
dent and increasing zeal, every minister ought 
to consider all his powers as put in requisi¬ 
tion ; every theological student ought to regard 
himself as a consecrated agent, preparing to 
act with all his energy ; every Christian ought 
to hold himself and all he has as pledged ; and 
our children, from the earliest dawn of moral 
feeling, ought to be taught to lisp the impor¬ 
tance and the duty of urging forward this hal¬ 
lowed and glorious cause. Thus ought we to 
proceed—never ceasing to strive, aud plead, 
and pray;—every year, if possible, doubling 
our exertions; until we shall see a Bible in ev¬ 
ery house; a Sabbath school in every little dis¬ 
trict; and a pious minister of the Gospel 
in every neighborhood in which a sufficient 
number of souls are found to form a decent 
congregation.— Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. 
WHO ARE YOUR COMPANIONS ? 
“ He that walketh with wise men shall be 
wise ; but a companion of fools shall be de¬ 
stroyed.” 
It is said to be a property of the treefrog that 
it acquires the color of whatever it adheres to 
for a short time. Thus when found on grow¬ 
ing corn, it is commonly a very dark green. If 
found on white oak, it has the color peculiar 
to that tree. Just so it is with men. Tell me 
whom you choose and prefer as companions, 
and I certainly can tell you who you are. Do 
you love the society of the vulgar. Then you 
are already debased in your sentiments. Do 
you seek to be with the profane ? In your 
heart you are like them. Are jesters and 
the Earth and Venus as a pea, Mars as a pin’s footion shed their fraorance over their tnmhs produces a second crop, and so on at intervals wise men. of Greece. buffoons your choicest friends ? He who 
head, the Asteroids as a grain of sand, Jupiter q A i a + , n f f , ’ j. or ten or twe } ve crops. The bark is stripped My 15, 21, 5, 17, 13 was a leader of the Greeks loves to laugh at folly is himself a fool, and 
--a-j-— — ii — some nc Deneam me cioas or ioreign lands.— from the tree in pieces two inches in thickness, in a war with Persia. t .-i — 
as an orange, Saturn as a small one, and Her- 
probablya very stupid one, too. Do you love 
schel as a plum ; their orbits varying 164 to ® orae s ^ ee P f ar down in the deep sea whose of considerable length, and ot such width as My 20, 4, 19, 18, 10, 3 was a Danish kina- of an d seek the society of the wise and good ? Is 
8,000 feet.” 
solemn moanings forever sing their requiem ; retain the curved form of the trunk when England 
this your habit ? Would you rather take the 
This paragraph, which is taken from one of and in a little while all, like the old school- U has been stripped. 1 he bark peeler or cut- My 12, 22, 11, 5, 6 , 8 , 4 was a Diace celebrated lowest set among others? Then you have 
the papers, into which it was essentially ex- house, will have disappeared from the face of pe^dTcukrly froii^the^op^olAlie trunk 1 to^the for its games. ' ^ 0U 
already learned to be wise and good. You 
. . may not have made much progress, but even a 
of Mercury’s orbit would be 164 feet, that of 
Earth about 420 feet, that of Jupiter about 
2,170 feet, aud that of Ilerschel about 8 , 000 . 
Such a comparison expands our thought of the 
JOURNALIZING IN SCHOOL. 
The habit of journalizing in a school during 
tom. I or stripping off - the piece thus isola¬ 
ted, he uses a kind of knife with two handles 
and a curved blade. Sometimes after the 
cuts have been made he leaves the tree to 
throw off the bark by the spontaneous action 
yourself and wise for eternity. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ALGEBRAIC PROBLEM. What is not Charity. —It is not charity 
- to give a penny to a street mendicant of whom 
A tree one hundred feet in height, which nothing is known, while we haggle with a poor 
stood on a declivity, has been broken over by man out of employment for a miserable dime, 
the wind, so that one end of the broken part I 1 * 3 n C t to beat down a seamstress to 
remains upon the stump and the other rests s t arva Uon prices ; to let her sit chilled in wet 
upon the ground, at a distance of fifty feet cI °* h( f sewin ° aU da 7„5 + J° deduct from her 
J mtirn I rommiovonAn if thn otnnm deK tt 
greatness of the distances at which the planets Y^uth, produces the following results in later of the vegetation within the trunk. The de- 
are placed from the Sun, and from each other. 1 e ( ‘ * „<■ i • tached pieces are soaked iu water, and are plac- 
This view is made more expansible bv the v 6 l P enraan ? h . 1 P- ed over a fire when nearly dry; they are, in fact, 
l us view is made more expansible by the . 2. Promptness of composition and rapidity scorched a little on both sides and acquire a 
relative magnitudes; as compared with a in recording thought. _ somewhat more compact texture by this 
globe of two feet iu diameter, for the Sun, 3. Greater accuracy in thought. scorching. In order to get rid of the curva- 
2. 1 1 omptness ol composition and rapidity scorched a little on both sides and acquire a 
our Earth would possess the diminutive size ,- taC111 
of a pea. Take then the true magnitude of CCI J :ai ^y^ 
the Earth as nearly 8,000 miles, how vast, in- 0 f thought 
somewhat more compact texture by this u P on tae ground, at a dista 
scorching. In order to get rid of the curva- fr° m the foot of the stump. 
size 4. Facility in acquiring knowledge, and ture, and bring them fiat they are pressed 
0 f certainty of retaining it. down with weights while yet hot. 
from the foot of the stump. The shortest P** 1 remuneration if the storm delay her 
A . . f , , , A 7 , prompt arrival. It is not charity to take a 
distance from the foot of the stump to the £ 00r Nation into the family, make her a slave 
other pait, is thirty feet. What is the length to all your whims, and taunt her continually 
of the part broken over ? l. d. with her dependent situation. It, is not. bhnri- 
5. Greater influence in imparting the riches 
Hats. —Rev. Orville Dewey recently pro¬ 
nounced the following judgment on hats, in a 
7. Makes a person more reliable, and less lecture before the Mercantile Library Associa- 
conceivably great, bursts forth the Sun before 6. Renders our life more important in our Hats.— Rev. Orville Dewey recently pro- J^ 7 ,mors ’ , 
our minds. own eye?. nounced the following judgment on hats, in a - ns wm nex \ \ 
Taking the imperfection of the representa- . , Mak ^ a . P erson , m0 » reliable, and less lecture before the Mercantile Library Associa- Writton for J 
tion of the Sole,- svstem bv n Planetarium an thought and manner. tion. Many a man will say, Amen ! ARITHMETIC 
/ .. ’ 8 . Facility in recalling the facts and events “ As to the common hat now worn, the art — 
orrery, or of our Earth b) a thirteen or six of past life, for use, of which John Quincy Ad- of shaping it seems to consist in making the Given a square stici 
inch globe, does it follow that they have no ams is an eminent example. “ most expensive, and at the same time the most ness from end to end, 
utility in conveying to most minds a better 9. An extensive record of one’s own life, uncomfortable, and withal the most unsightly ceeds the diameter 3 f 
apd juster conception of the system and its l ™ 111 wk ich the next generation may know thing imaginable, which no sculptor can ever area 0 f one s j de 266 
motions, orbits, conjunctions, &c., and that what we have been and done.— Mass.- Teacher, put on a statue ; which no painter can put on the solidity in inches ? 
impulsive in his thought aud manner. Hon. Many a man will say, Amen ! ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM 
8 . Facility in recalling the facts and events “ As to the common hat now worn, the art -• 
of past life, for use, of which J ohn Quincy Ad- of shaping it seems to consist in making the Given a square stick of timber of equal big¬ 
ams is an eminent example. most expensive, and at the same time the most ness from end to end, the length of which ex- 
tne part broken over . l. d. with her dependent situation. It is not chari- 
Wost Somerset, n. y. t y turn a man who is out of work into the 
glp Answer next week. streets with his family, because he cannot pay 
AUK , T, ’ A ‘ ~ his rent. It is not charity to extract the ut- 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM termost tcirthiBg from the widow and orphan. 
" ‘ It is not charity to give with a supercilious 
Given a square stick of timber of equal big- * nd P atr0 ™S?> as ^ od kad made {? u - 
xl .7.1 x. , x, , ,, „ * , ° the rich man, ot different blood from the shiv- 
Written for tlio Rural New-Yorker. 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
ams is an eminent example. most expensive, and at the same time the most ness from end to end, the length of which ex- ^ V ian ’ ot 'j'fihrent blood from the shiv- 
9. An extensive record of one’s own life, uncomfortable, and withal the most unsightly ceeds the diameter 35 64-100 inches and the erm " r 8 cipient, whose only crime is that he is 
w -o sc . ui i ,tor can ever arca of one ^ 
they are to be considered mere playthings?— ‘ ^... _ __ 
And yet, this was what Hebscheli. designed bu 5-™“ wide awtk ewSd^ov e^bt 'f?' and "' hich “ obod f 'UuveTwcar but'the'jJS 
to present before the mind of bis readers. Still ^ ^ of man £ nd , f Lt for yoSf- {*> <>f nineteeutb century I think it will 
in his Astronomy, which contains the above j )o not be j dle> (q od ’ s i aw ; 3 b tke be prescribed by the law to the State prison 
proportion, he resorts continually to diagrams sweat of our brow we shall earn our bread. aml the P enitentiai 7-” 
for adequate representations, which diagrams That law is a good one; and the bread we 
his portrait—imagine a Rembrandt with a hat 
on!—which nobody can make but a hatter, 
are as splendid caricatures of the facts in the we earn is sweet. Do not be idle. Minutes Globes. —James Wilson, now residing in On Italy’s fair shore I had my birth. wilderness. I? 
heavens, and not less ridiculous playthings of are to ° P rec ^ ous to be squandered thoughtless- St. Johnsbury, at the advanced age of ninety- Though iu it I never could bo. --- | 
philosophers. The truth is, that not one-half ,,E 01A , man and ev8r / w °man, however two, is said to have been the maker of the first giT Answer next week. Every man deem 3 that he has precisely the i 
of tolerably educated minds have any correct E ? r r ?°^ ever . ha P b e > 8an do good in of celestial and terrestrial globes in -—- trials and temptations which are the hardest C 
aud adequate views of Astronomy, because be d e * , “ 0 '"’ ed - therefore *><*•» J}** 8 *•«"“ of hls *» IIU ' strated ia N »- «»- <* ,»®r: but they are so be- } 
1 J puumuujQ m Moonshine. cause they are the very ones he needs. i 
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pTf 3 Answer next week. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
RIDDLE. 
1 am found in Heaven and also on Earth, 
And dwell in the midst of the sea. 
On Italy's fair shore I had my birth, 
Though in it I never could be. 
fflP Answer next week. 
—no ! though you bestow alms by thousands. 
Divine Guidance. —Those that steadily 
adhere to God’s word as their rule, and are 
guided by his grace as their principle, and 
take hints from his providence to assist them 
in their application of general directions to 
particular cases, may in faith see him guiding 
their motions in their march through the 
wilderness. 
Pj Answer next week. Every man deem 3 that he has precisely the ; 
-» — »•— - trials and temptations which are the hardest 3 
Answer to Illustrated Enigma in No. 273— of all for him to bear; but they are so be- } 
Moonshine. cause they are the very ones he needs. I 
