with the benefits of their organization. Many 
of the classes were making excellent progress, 
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it suggested itself to him that if this inter¬ 
mingling could be prevented, it would afford 
self everywhere, and particularly among pub- 
ways, sometimes by reflection as in a vast 
How much of encouragement, of comfort, 
you practice ? That is, what kind of medi¬ 
cine do you give?” 
“ Oh, that’s what you want, is it ? "Why 
I give the Brutanic medicines always, and ev- 
“ Lavergro,” says : “ Perseverance and a de¬ 
termination to conquer all difficulties, will in¬ 
variably make a man of the veriest dolt.” 
a visible outline of indented shore. It was a 
glorious spectacle, and impressed us with a 
EVENING SCHOOLS. 
That the Common School is absolutely 
necessary to enable the mass of our citizens to 
obtain an education, is so obvious a proposi¬ 
tion, that no labored argument is required to 
gain the universal assent. The children of 
fortune would be educated without its aid; 
private tutors, expensive academies, and all 
the aids of books and masters are at the com¬ 
mand of these ; but the children of penury are 
shut out from such advantages, and without 
the free school, or at least the school support¬ 
ed by a moderate rate bill, they must grow 
up an ignorant, and consequently a dangerous 
element in a free, self-governing community. 
But the free, public day-school is not the 
ultimatum in providing the means of educa¬ 
tion for the children of toil, and of limited 
opportunity. There has been established, 
within a few years, in most cities, ours in¬ 
cluded, an auxiliary to the day-school, which 
is doing an incalculable amount of good, and 
whose benefits reach a class to whom the 
public day-school even, is a sealed book. We 
refer to the evening-school. 
In all large places there are many classes of 
young people who are unable to spend the 
time daring the day, but who can and will 
devote a portion of the evening to mental 
acquirements, if they have the opportunity; 
young mechanics, who are learning a trade, or 
aiding by their labors in the support of their 
father’s families ; foreigners, who either have, 
or have not acquired the rudiments of educa- 
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GENESEE FALLS, ROCHESTER. 
JMktf Wimmp 
PRAYER. 
W HEN J AMES declared that the effectual, fer¬ 
vent prayer of the righteous man availeth 
much; he bore testimony, not only to the in¬ 
finite goodness of God, but also to the power 
and dignity of him who puts up the prayer. 
Man moves the universe by prayer. As his 
wants press upon him; as darkness surrounds, 
or gloom overshadows him, he quietly steps 
aside from the bustling world, and enters the 
audience chamber of Jehovah. There, be¬ 
fore the mercy seat, he bows down, and while 
he unburthens his soul of all its desires; the 
“arm that moves the world,” stretches to¬ 
ward him the scepter of forgiveness, and cau¬ 
ses to descend upon, and around him, the rich 
blessings of peace, and joy, and hope. 
Prayer is the soul's high prerogative. It 
lifts man up from the degredation and woe 
consequent upon sin, and places him within 
the light of God. It scatters the midnight 
darkness that surrounds him, and leads him 
forth to walk in the glorious sunlight of God’s 
face. It arches the broad chasm that yawns 
between God and the unreconciled ; and man, 
reconciled, passes over, to breathe the fresh 
air of heaven, and walk the golden streets of 
the New Jerusalem forever. 
It is saying much for man, that God has 
given him any encouragement to pray, to say 
young mechanics, who are learning a trade, or --- nothing of that blessed promise which Christ 
aiding by their labors in the support of their Tmj aboye view of tke xj pper Falls of the perpendicularly 96 feet. The “ city improve- many years ago, creating what was called the gave J 0 hl ® dlscl Pj e5 > acd frael 7 S 1Tes to every 
father’s families ; foreigners, who either have, Q and a ortion of Rochester, though ments” of the last few years, however, have “Third Water Power.” The first fall or ° ne of ais true followers. If ye shall ask any- 
or have not acquired the rudiments of educa- g b recog- detracted from the natural beauty of the cat- rapid i 3 just above the Erie canal acqueduct, m ° m na ™ e ’J u ' ! { ( 0 tts ^ Jt h wbat 
tionin their own vernacular, bn who are h ’ re Tieited the S p„t.- aract and scenery. and is about ! 6 feet in height. conadencedoesthePealm.st^elaim -0 rtoa 
ignorant of our language and literature ; ^ bave nQt seeQj may ]ike to look The differenc3 of the level of the Genesee The Genesee Eiver passes through the cen- that P m ^' The Lord heareth the 
young boys and girls engaged in shops and .[ as one 0 f the “ features” of our city. River where it enters Rochester and where it tre of the city of Rochester—and affords by P r HJ^ 7 °J ine ri S lteov ff 
manufactories, whose labors end with the are [ n the Northern part of leaves it, is 260 feet. Commencing at 5)£ its descent, power for the propulsion of ma- , e^e i, necessary, there are abundant evi- 
dose of the day, or at least in the early stages . t bglow the railroad bridge, (th e miles from the Lake, the first step is about 84 chinery, equal at least to twenty-five millions de2Ce3 to pr0ve tha “ God 18 a hearing 
of the evening. Great numbers of these, and reDre sented in the engraving has been re- feet, and the second 25 feet; and at both ele- of dollars per annum. Though all this is not an a pra f er aDS * e U°g U°d- rae Blbl8 tel!s 
similar classes, are gathered into the evening ° J & QnQ thg . summei . } and yationS) ar3 dam3 for throwing wa ter into in use at present, yet new mills and manufac- US that th e Prophet Elijah stretching himself 
school, which otherwise would be left out of gjo-hty rods below the Erie canal aque- races for the mills which line the banks. Be- tories are continually being erected, and we Up ° 2 'f 8SS bcdy ^ ldows f 0Q ’ 
the pale. . . . duct> of the three falls in this vicinity, the tween these and the Main Fall, shown above, may hardly sit a limit to the business which Cne ° e . taat the child’s soul might 
There are two evening schools in this city, ig tbe mogt pr 0 minent, the water falling is a rapid, across which a dam was thrown may here be so profitably established. 00218 m 0 , . agam ’ . . soul °f t,ie cfllld 
with a full compliment of teachers, both male 
and female; and in which all the branches of 
an elementary education are taught, reading 
and spelling, writing and arithmetic, of course 
PERSEVERANCE—nS VALUE. 
Reading in Railroad Cars.— The state 
come into him again, and the soul of the child 
came into him again, and he revived. Again, 
standing among the prophets of Baal, he 
and spelling, writing and arithmetic, or course About ten years ago there was a little j 
receiving the chief attention. All persons able news boy very little for his age, which was j 
to attend during the day are very properly fourteen years—who sold papers at the corner ; MIRAGE, 
forbidden the privileges of the evening schools, now occupied by the tribune building and its - 
as the latter are designed exclusively for those ^j£ an p %V e °rbiaf integrity!hiTin- A ? UR \°. U3 . 0ptical illu3i ° a .' 
whose circumstances or employments prevent dustry _j n brief, his good qualities generally, occasionally takes place, which is dependent 
their attending any other. We have visited / and (rood qualities are rarely found upon the difference of density of the atmo- 
_ - -11 1 1 • 1 .1 •_i. n A nrl VTOnATS tuVllAL Q TO 
me^c^^e inj^X^^S ,5 prayed tkat ^ ^ descend and consume 
the prevalent American habit of reading in tbe 3acriuCe u P on t Qe altar, and the fire came 
railroad cars while in motion, have excited a down > and n °t only consumed the burnt sac- 
very general interest. AmoDg the suggestions rifice, but even licked up the water in the 
ot methods to obviate the evil, while retaining trenches. Elijah's God is the God of to-dav 
f r , in Hta ttere i3 
“ A friend who spends some time in railroad tU ™l S lA HL ’ '“‘‘fT now 
traveling, observed that the motion had a ten- g0 . iiin ’ Wltd tbe same confidence in His 
both of these schools, and were much impressed am on<r the peripatetic venders of the dailies sphoric strata, and the vapors which are dency to intermingle the lines, whilst reading, willingness to hear and ability to answer, as 
both performing a missionary work 
telligenee. Let the example of ours, and other the phrase ot “ 1 
pioneer cities in this beneficent enterprise, be vautage ot me. 
extended to every city and large village in the 
-, the little news 
hnv he Natural Philosophy teaches us, that when ^ P °J’^ aop8 :he expenmeut wlU 1)6 people of your charge should be one in heart, 
EDUCATION NEEDED. 
The following actual dialogue occurred in 
extended to every city and large village in the agtonished . ’ ' a ray of light passes obliquely from a medium ..... 
Union. Truly, it teas our little newsboy. He had of one density to that ot another, it is re- . jf t 
--- taken our early advice, and apprenticed him- fracted or bent out of its original course ; if J j jviv+jv ^ 
EDUCATION NEEDED, self to a machinist. _ it passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it TIJ U UAIJ P xJ^.U V Uvl ♦ 
“ Where are you working ?” we inquired. ia refracted towards a perpendicular to the . . ~ 
Tiie following actual dialogue occurred in “ Oh, I don’t work now, was his proud an- , f mpdium and vice versa — 
a Court, in a State not two thousand miles swer ; “I own a saw-mill on Long Island, and w ‘ . f ^ N * w 'J“ rker ‘ r 
from New England. A quack doctor of the am doing business for myself. I have been Now, with this ldea^ fixed he mind, sup- MEDICINAL LNIGAIA. 
Thompsonian order was called to the stand as my own boss a year now. I bought the con- pose we stand behind a rise of ground which ^ “ ' 
a witness, and after he had testified to having cern with the savings of eight years ; I have conceals from our view a lake ; and that the am composed of -0 letters, 
made “ a night visit,” the prosecuting attor- a wife and two children, and my own cottage- ray3 0 f bgbt reflected'from its surface, which 1 ' 9 ’ 20 ’ 15 ' 6 is a common herb - 
ney began the cross-examination thus: house and garden for them to live and delve „ ovgr tbg gummit and of course ^y 10, 19, 4, 20, 8 , 16 is useful in colic. 
Po^ Moore’s Raral New-Yorker. 
MEDICINAL ENIGMA. 
ney oegan me cross-examination mus: nouse ana garaen mr mem m nve »uu WQuld oyer the summit, and of course 7/ 7 v 7 ’ UbUUU m 
Mr. Doctor to what school of practice in, and am as happy j f the tong. „I oyer om iead stoola in tieir cours3 meet a MM. W. 3. 9, 5, 20 is an antidote to 
do you belong V 9 can read and write, too, ne continued, smii . . . poibon. 
“I don’t belong to any school. I never ingly, but with an air of triumph. denser stratum o atmosphere. It is plain My n> 18> 13> 14> 9> 12( 17 is w b er e many 
went to any school in my life, I thank you.” That man will be son>ebodij besides a boss that the rays would be beat downward so as herbs grow. 
“But that is not quite what I want to yet. If we dared to tell his name, hundreds to meet the eye, and the water would of course My 6 , 8 , 6 , 6,19,18 is the Thomsouian cure-all. 
know. I mean to what school of medicine do would at once hail with rapture the news app ear lifted np and become visible beyond My whole is a useful medicine. 
and we were surprised to see so generally “S* but his position did not suit him, as concave mirror, causing tne images 01 snips the desired relief. This he remedied by using and ot hope, is here in these sweet words of 
intelligent, orderly and earnest a class of k e one day confidentially informed us, and he at S8a to appear inverted, and sailing m tne a blank card laid on the column he was read- tbe ® aY ^ or - Ask and it shall be given you. 
students assembled. Some of them exhibited was determined to abandon it. clouds. At other times it proceeds from re- ing, and gradually passing it down as he read, Kind reader, are you a parent, and have 
specimens of excellent penmanship. The male « That you can easily do,” said we; “go fraction, and brings objects above the horizon not permitting more than one line to appear ever wept over a disobedient and wayward 
principal in one of these schools, was exercis- into a store.” . which are at great distances from the observer, cai>d a . u .Jf 88 * fi Gp8 ^ making the c hi’d? Are you a husband, and have ever 
ing a class in Compound Proportion, and the “ I can neither read nor write,” responded and) when the atmosphere is in a normal state, pareat> ’ A bla P k c^d of a-reen color would mourced that the partaer of 7 0ur j°y s and 
intelligent manner in which the students 4 vonrself to some trade, then,” of course hidden from view by the earth’s be more agreeable to the eye, and would an- sorrows was unreconciled to God? Are you 
selected the ratios, and wrote the complicated was our advice. ~ sphericity. This is a different phenomenon swer the purpose admirably. The paper must a wife, and have ever shed bitter, burning 
formulas, would have done no discredit to any «i think I will,” he exclaimed, with a from the former, and is more properly called be folded the width of one column, which will tears over the thought, that he whom you 
day-school in the city. His lady assistants brightening eye and a flushed cheek; “I think “Looming.” It is also more common, and P !5“ S 1113 card b y the thumb > have chosen for your companion in life, was 
were at the same time engaged in hearing 1 wMost^ht cf him^l'ort time after this i3 ’ iQ 3 °^ locihti ^ of v8 7 °ecar- tke n be moved ?r stea-dkdTith th^lefThand!” 7 et in tbe broad road, estranged from holiness ? 
classes in reading and spelling, and were A e lost s g finally foreot that rence * It sometimes tantalizes the weary and - T _Are you a brother or sister, and have grieved 
zealous in their labors. The other school, gac^aJbeing existed.’ ' ° thirsty traveler in the desert, with views of Artificial Fish Breeding.— The Ameri- tbat tbe dear associate of your childhod’s 
subsequently visited, seemed equally well About a^veek ago, an athletic, well dressed green groves, cool waters, and populous cities, can Association for the advancement of Sci- hours refused to seek an interest in Christ, 
managed, and equally efficient: and they are young man, with a°ferocious—a regular brig- and urges him on with zeal to reach the ence, which recently closed their annuai ses- and walk, with you, the narrow way-? Are 
both "performing a missionary work in the andish pair of whiskers, and a brace of mer- wished for place of rest and refreshment ; sion at Providence, R. I have appointed a you a f r i end) and have ever felt a burden cf 
cause of popular educate. They are aidicg ** If wora 7 “ d “ t'Z s0rr0W ^ " e<!au3e «“ 
in the illumination of dark places in the field I the'street and, Sending his’handi called us awakened to a sense of the fact, that he has breeding of fish. Fish-breedmgT carried on oae whom your affections had centered 
of humanity, and lifting a mass of uneducated b y name. ' beeH caeri . ng an airy P aantom > and that ah ver y profitably and to a great extent in many themselves, was yet without the fold of the 
mind into the glorious light of a higher in- Not recognizing him, we had recourse to around him is but a waste ot desert and parts ot Europe. In the waters of America good Shepherd ? Are you a pastor, and have 
telligenee. Let the example of ours, and other the phrase of “ Really, sir, you have the ad- desolation. there are many excellent situations for the felt it to be your supreme desire, that the dear 
you belong ?” 
of the good fortune of their persevering j lhg 
“ I tell you, sir, I never went to any school little friend who once supplied them with the 
medicine, or practice, or anything else. I Sun and Herald every morning. 
believe nature makes a doctor. I am a sev- Perseverance —it is the grand lever by witnessing » mue 
enth son, sir, and didn’t need t® go to school.” which the most astounding results may be ac. waters of lake Ontario, which are seven miles 
“ Well, well, what system of medicine do complished. George Borrow, the author o from the city, and concealed by a swell of 
a ray of light passes obliquely from a medium .. . one in mind, and one in effort, that the walls 
of one density to that of another, it is re- ~ of Zion should be guarded from every sinful 
fr acted or bent out of its original course ; if J j j\jvr|y £ /j| intruder, and that many precious souls might 
it passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it L'-U-IUU vJ/U V III v 4- be gathered into the church, of such as God 
is refracted towards a perpendicular to the would save in the resurrection ? Have you, 
surface of the new medium, and vice versa. — Moore’s R«rai New-Yorker. while others slept, spent the weary hours in 
Now, with this idea fixed in the mind, sup- MEDICINAL ENIGMA. weeping over the desolation which sin has 
pose we stand behind a rise of ground which - wrought in the fair earth ? With fair acd 
conceals from our view a lake ; and that the 1 co^^sed of 2° ktters. unwavering confidence in the promises of Him 
rays of light reflected from its surface, which y ’ ' ’ ' ’ lo ’ 6 1S a commo ? beid) ' who cannot lie, “ lift the heart and bend the 
would pass over the summit, and of course . ’ ’ ./ " ’ ’ b . ls “® e . n 111 C01C ' knee.” Come! every burdened heart! Come! 
over our head 3 , should in their course meet a poison n i o lo every soul, “ Earth hath no sorrow that 
denser stratum of atmosphere. It is plain ^ 9 jo, 17 is where many Leaven cannot cure.” Leaning on the arm of 
that the rays would be beat downward so as herbs grow. Jesus Christ, hiding behind Calvary’s rugged 
to meet the eye, and the water would of course My 6 , 8 , 6 , 6,19, IS is the Thomsonian cure-all. cross ; and however feeble the voice, however 
appear lifted np and become visible beyond My whole is a useful medicine. stammering the tongue, if faith he strong, as 
the hill. Cazenovia, X. t. a. n. p. certain as there is a God in heaven, so certain 
Such a phenomenon wo had the pleasure of filT 3 Answer next week. -will your prayer be answered in His goed time, 
witnessing a few mornings since. The blue ^' ' '' God has spoken it, and He will perform. 11 Let 
waters of lake Ontario, which are seven miles C HARAD E. God be true and every man a liar.”— s. a. e. 
Such a phenomenon we had the pleasure of 
witnessing a few mornings since. The blue 
My whole is a useful medit 
Cazenovia, N. Y. 
glT 3 Answer next week. 
CHARADE. 
erywhere.’ 
Do you hear that, boys? No matter how 
poor or how ignorant you may be, persever- 
_ • • _.:n 
My first doth affliction denote, 
Which my second was born to endure ; Preaching —There are two methods of pre- 
My whole is a sure antidote seating the Gospel; the one unfolds it as a 
That affliction to soften and cure. system of doctrine ; the other, as a provision 
- „ , _. _ for souls. In the former case, every part is 
ARITHMETICAL QUESTION made to * nto 3°me theological scheme ; and, 
- * ' in the other, every part is made to suit the 
Sold a .piece of cloth for 24 pounds, and nature and mest the wants of mind. The 
fined as much per cent, as I paid for it_ former method has been tried for ages, and 
Hat was the price of it ? ' | be / vor!d is . tired 0 lt ? tbe + importance of the 
*- 3 = . , , latter is beginning to be felt more deeply than 
Answuf next week ' ever, and the most thinking teachers of every 
—church are employing it with energy and suc- 
“ 'The Brutanic ? You mean the Botanic ancC( conjoined with virtue, will gain you 
system, don’t you ?” both wealth and education .—Religious Herald. 
“ No, sir, the Brutanic, I say.” __,, . t __ • 
due sense of the greatness and majesty of our 
inland seas. 
ARITHMETICAL QUESTION. 
“ Now will you tell me how much you 
charge for a nocturnal visit ?” 
__ , , . , „_ • Hf. who is passionate and hasty is general- 
A quiet exposition of truth has a better ly honest It’s your cool dissembling hypo- 
ect than a violent attack on error. Truth ente, of whom you should beware. “ There’s 
cnarge ior a uociurnai visa t eiTect thau a yioleat attack oa error . Trut h cme, oi wnom ycu suuuiu intres 
“Sir,” (very indignantly,) “I don’t give extirpates weeds, by working its way into D0 deception in a bull-dog. Its only the 
any such medicine. I practice as 1 told you, their place, and leaving for them no room to cur that sneaks up and bites you when your 
to the Brutanic system, and I’ll have you and gr ow. back 1S t urDe d* 
this Court to understand, I don’t give any ° ---- -- 
such medicine as that horrid stuff” “ He whose first emotion, on the view of an When we record our angry feelirgs.Jet it 
No more questions were asked. — R. I. excellent work, is to undervalue it, will never be on the suow, that the first beam ol sun- 
Schoolmaster. have one of his own to show. shine may obliterate them forever. 
gained as much per C8nt. as I paid for it.— 
What was the price of it ? 
gif’ Answer next week. 
Answer to Grammatical Enigma in No. 304: 
Every sentence contains a finite verb. 
Answer to Charade in No. 304 :—Sight-less. 
D ifficulty ennobles duty. 
cess. This was the method Jesus adopted.— 
He spoke not to systems, but souls. His 
words were spirit and life. This seems to me 
to be the only method of presenting the Gos¬ 
pel, so as to realize its graad design. 
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