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Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
SCHOOLS OF AGRICULTURE,-No. I. 
WIIAT ARE THE OBJECTS OP SCHOOLS OP 
AGRICULTURE ? 
Among the important acts of the XXX Vllth 
Congress ia that of granting to the several 
States 30,000 acres of lantl for each Senator anti 
Representative in Congress for “the endowment, 
principles from the results of such investiga¬ 
tions, and to apply these principles on the farm, 
in the garden, the orchard, the stable, and the 
dairy; and also by extensive correspondence 
with agriculturists in all parts of the country, 
and with similar institutions at home and 
abroad, to collect, compare, and publish the re¬ 
sults of valuable investigations and experiments. 
Though scientific agriculturists were to 
abound in a State, yet its school of agriculture 
should set an example of’energy and enterprise 
by the patience, perseverance aud skill of its 
own researches, and the success with which it 
Useful, Scientific, &t. 
BRAIN SPECTRES. 
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support, and maintenance of at least ono college made those results of practical value. It would 
where t he leading object shall be, without ex¬ 
cluding other scientific and classical studies, and 
including military tactics, to teach such branches 
of learning as are related to agriculture and the 
mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legisla¬ 
tures of the several .States may respectively pre¬ 
scribe, iu order to promote the liberal and prac¬ 
tical education of the industrial classes in the 
Beveral pursuits aud professions in life.’’ 
This grant will probably be the means of es¬ 
tablishing, in every State, schools differing 
widely in their aims from nearly all existing 
educational institutions, for the act does not 
contemplate Chairs of Agriculture aud the 
Mechanic Arts in schools already existing, but 
the founding of at lead one school in each state, 
where the “leading object" shall he instruction 
in the various branches related to these sciences. 
Such schools, if properly established and sup¬ 
ported, will exert a great intlueuce on the pro¬ 
gress of agriculture and tbe mechanic arts, 
hence it becomes a subject of national im¬ 
portance that they be so organized as not to 
waste the munificent grant in visionary schemes, 
or bestow it in a direction foreign from the in¬ 
tention of the act. 
The organization of such schools is til most a 
new work, there being hut two or three institu¬ 
tions in the United States whose plan at all ap¬ 
proaches that which the act of Congress seems 
to indicate; and the experience of these abun¬ 
dantly shows that the difiieulties in the way are 
neither few nor unimportant. In pursuing a 
work so new and difficult it will at the best be 
impossible to avoid serious errors,—errors which 
can only be corrected as experience shall enable; 
but by inquiring what should be the objects of 
such institutions, considering what means would 
he necessary for the accomplishment of those 
objects, and carefully studying the results 
achieved by those already in operation, certain 
landmark? may be established which will aid in 
hastening the success and usefulness of the 
schools. In pursuing these inquiries it is pro¬ 
posed in these articles to consider ouly schools 
of agriculture. The usefulness of schools of the 
mechanic arts is admitted without question, but 
having neither experience iu their practical 
workings, nor theoretical knowledge of their 
requirements, I do not propose to discuss them. 
Agriculture includes “ farming,” that is the 
cultivation of ordinary farm crops, gardening, 
fruit culture, the breeding and care of domestic 
animals, and the management of the dairy. 
That either of these live departments of the 
science of agriculture is perfectly understood is 
not claimed by any one; that much may jet be 
learned in each of them by patient investigation 
and experiment is admitted by all intelligent 
agriculturists; that what might thus be 
learned would lead to profitable results, the im¬ 
provement in modes of culture, in domestic 
animals, in fertilizers, and in agricultural ma¬ 
chines which the Iasi few years have witnessed, 
sufficiently proves; that such results would be 
of incalculable benefit to our country and the 
world cannot be doubted. Here there is an ex¬ 
tensive, remunerative, honorable field for re¬ 
search—research which demands the clearest 
powers of thought, and the closest habits of ob¬ 
servation sonic departments of it. indeed, de¬ 
manding such patient and long continued inves¬ 
tigations aud delicacy of manipulations as are 
not surpassed in any science. 
Such investigations can be conducted only by 
scholars of thorough mental discipline and ex¬ 
tensive scientific attainments, There are already 
many such scholars, but their whole course of 
education has led the most of them into occupa¬ 
tions other than that of agriculture. Our 
schools have educated acute lawyers, excellent 
diplomatists, careful physicians, and eminent 
divines, but very few scientific farmers. Rut 
however desirable it may be to lead all the 
students of agricultural schools to such lofty at¬ 
tainments as to enable them to become inde¬ 
pendent investigators, it will probably be found 
impossible to do so. The proportion of those in 
any profession who are sufficiently skilled to 
conduct original investigations is not large. 
The majority are followers in paths where 
others, more fortunate, more able, or more in¬ 
dustrious, are leaders. To be an intelligent fol¬ 
lower, however, implies sufficient ability and 
education to understand theories and principles, 
to form correct judgments concerning desirable 
ends, and to adopt the necessary means for 
their accomplishment. I f schools of agriculture 
shall succeed in leading but a small minority of 
their studeuU* to the attainments necessary for 
independent investigations, and in giving to the 
remainder such education as will enable them 
to make practical application of the principles 
discovered by science, they will accomplish all 
ia this direction that can be reasonably de¬ 
manded. 
To train up students who will have the ability 
and inclination to investigate the abstruse ques- 
, bons involved in agriculture, aud to make the 
principles discovered of practical value, should 
be llio first object of schools of agriculture. 
There is another direction in which such 
schools may legitimately work, which, though 
j less important perhaps than the one given 
a bove, is by no means unimportant. It is to 
make original investigations iu the various 
1 , lienees related to agriculture, aud in the several 
• departments of agriculture, to deduce general 
thus act to rouse the enthusiasm, stimulate the 
activity, and in some degree direct the efforts of 
all who were interested in the cause. To make 
investigations and experiments iu agriculture 
aud its relative sciences, and to utilize the re¬ 
sults that might be attained seems, therefore, to 
be the second object of schools of agriculture. 
These two objects appear to include all that 
such schools could legitimately undertake. A. 
WEST POINT. 
Will you inform me how far a student must 
be advanced to be admitted (aWest Point? Do 
they have to understand Rhetoric, Philosophy, 
Bourdon, Astronomy ami Chemistry? Do they 
enter in tbe spring or fall ? Who entered this 
year from this district (’28th?) Can they enter 
an advanced class? Have they got to stay four 
years? How much pay do they draw? Are 
they furnished with clothes, exclusive of their 
pay?—-A Young Subscriber. 
It does not require much preparatory educa¬ 
tion to enter West Point—and none in any 
of the branches named by our correspondent 
The times of admission arc July 1st and Sep¬ 
tember 1st. Each student is required to begin 
and complete the entire course. We are not 
informed who are now in the institution from 
the district named. The amount of pay is uow 
under consideration by Congress. Hitherto it 
just about supported the students in the institu¬ 
tion, including board and dress. It has been 
$30 to $35 per month. It is proposed to increase 
it to $40 or $45. 
FIRMNESS OF PURPOSE. 
A great mind can only judge of great things, 
and we are sure to get the better of fortune if 
we do not contend with her; if wc flee, we are 
undone. That man only is happy who draws 
good out of evil, who stands fa?t in his judg¬ 
ment, unmoved by any external violence; the 
keenest arrow of fortune cannot penetrate 
him; but, like the falling upon the roof of the 
house, crackles and- skips off - again, without 
damage to the inhabitant. A wise man will 
ever sustain his courage, and stand upright under 
any pressure of misfortune. 
Hints to Riflemen. By H. W- Clkvkla.nd. New 
York: D. Appleton & Co. 
Tuts is not a scientific work upon projectiles, which 
If a man reads, he- will be more completely bewildered 
than If ho had never read it. On the other hand, it is 
plain, practical talk concerning rifles and their use, by 
an old sportsman, who has had opportunity to test and 
has tested the different rifles in the market. The gen 
era! principles of rifle practicoare discussed, the merits 
and efficiency of different arms compared, the author’s 
preferences and the reasons therefor are given. The 
book appears to he written in the right spirit in its 
reference to the rifles of different manufacture 
The author thinks every boy should be taught to 
shoot and handle fire-arms. And this instruction 
should take place when he is young, ir a boy is 
clumsy and awkward in his ordinary manipulations 
of tools and tojs, or II U> is habitually foolhardy, care 
lr-s or forgetful, he would not trust him without severe 
training and constant watchfulness, till he had acquired 
a different habit. But if he is reasonabiy careful and 
sagacious, and naturally handy, he would put a gun 
Into his hand and allow him to use it after careful in¬ 
struction in its principles, and aftor being satisfied that 
he not only understood, but habitually attended to 
them. He has known parents whoeould not overcome 
their dread of fire-arms, to make a compromise be¬ 
tween their own fears aud their boy’s entreaties, and 
suffer him to take a pistol with which the chances of 
his injuring himself or another are Uti times greater 
than with a gun of his own length- Not one boy in 
fifty that one meets in the field with guns in their 
hands, has ever been taught that the hammer should 
never rest on the cap iu carrying, and they maybe con 
atnntly seen with their guns at a trail, or on the shout 
der, with the muzzle pointed directly at a companion, 
who seems equally heedless or Ignorant of the poasi 
bility of an accidental discharge. The meu and boys 
who know most about fire arms are the most careful 
with them. There is one rule which every parent 
should impress on his boy when he puts a gun in his 
hands, which is to observe at all times, whether his 
gun is loaded or empty, that it is never for a siugle 
instant pointed at himself nor any one else. For sale 
by Sthklr & Avkiiy. Price, $ 1.50. 
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Ten Acres Enoucui a Practical Experience, showing 
how a very small farm may bo made to keep a very 
large family. Now York: James Miller. 
Tms book is written by a Philadelphian, who was 
reared and did business In that city until his capital 
had been diminished by financial storms lie resolved 
to pay bis debts and invest what he could save in a 
homo-farm, aud enter upon the business of raising fruit 
for market. Ho did so, purchased ten acres, aud tells, 
In detail, the story of his success. U is an interesting 
and instructive little work It contains much that 
might have been- omitted, and doubtless would have 
been had the writer not determined to remain incognito. 
But the unaffected, frank way iu which the writer gives 
his experiences will entertain as well as instruct the 
general reader. 
The Fkhry Hot and tub Financier.—R v a contrib¬ 
utor to the “Atlantic.” Boston: Walker, Wise 
& Co. 
Tins is a story of the early life of Salmon P. Oh ask. 
written iu a sprightly and entertaining style, and cal¬ 
culated to interest and instruct youth. For sale by 
Stbklk & Avert. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MAN, HUMAN; GORILLA, MERELY ANIMAL. 
The description In the Rural of the Gorilla, 
which is placed by most writers at the head of 
the warlike apes, was required by the circum¬ 
stances of the times. Your reader? need to know 
what sortofasLibjectthataiiinial is, now so prom¬ 
inent, and to learn ita history from its friends. 
The statements of Prof. Huxley were conse¬ 
quently adverted to and given. Still, men gen¬ 
erally arc entirely opposed to his results. Of 
this fact he was fully convinced, and stated “ the 
repugnance with which the majority," a vast 
majority, of his "readers are likely to meet the 
conclusions ” from his examinations. For this 
rejwjmnce there is the greatest reason. That 
man and the higher animal-, especially, resem¬ 
ble each other in the structure and operations of 
their systems in a multitude of particulars no 
one can doubt; for man has an animal constitu¬ 
tion aud must have the powers and properties 
which are suited to his animal nature and rela¬ 
tions. But man has a higher characteristic, 
which separates him from the animals—a moral 
nature, a sense of right and wrong, of which no 
trace is fonnd in them. In man this spiritual 
constitution is manifest, and the sense of obliga¬ 
tion springs forth spontaneously, without teach¬ 
ing or experience. But what philosopher, or 
man of common sense, over taught morality to 
a brute and found in the animal the proofs of the 
actings of conscience? Besides, as Prof. Hux¬ 
ley' declares, man is “the ouly consciously in¬ 
telligent denizen of this world,” and is distin¬ 
guished by the “ possession of articulate speech ” 
from all other creatures of earth. Such are tbe 
reasons which men everywhere see and feel 
must separate, as a distinct race or class, man 
from the animals. This is a distinction, old as 
the wisdom of the Greeks, and clearly taught 
still earlier by Moses in Genesis 
This is the ground of the repugnance, in view 
of which Prof. Huxley' says, “On all tides 1 
shall hear tbe cry—‘We are men and women,”’ 
and “the power of knowledge — the conscience 
of good and evil — the pitiful tenderness of hu¬ 
man affections, raise us out of all real fellowship 
with the brutes.” Though Prof. Huxley con¬ 
siders all this mere “ vanity,” it ia provided in 
nature, and is an honor to our race. While men 
in general see in others the exercise of powers 
intellectual and moral, and are conscious in 
themselves of Ike possession oj the same, they 
have never known the least indication of 
these powers in the higher animals or in 
any brute. This makes the immense chasm be¬ 
tween the two divisions, palpable, and fixed in 
the very constitution of things Like chasms 
exist in nature; as betweenl inorganic and 
organic matter; also between vegetable life and 
animal life; and still greater between mere ani¬ 
mal life and the soul of man. The kind of 
powers is different; and to moral powers mere 
animal characters have no resemblance. The 
. repugnance must exist, for it is sustained by the 
reason and the conscience. Tbe whole is em¬ 
braced in the short sentence, “He are men and 
, women," Give to man and brute, to each its 
1 own proper place. This is the demand, because 
s it is the voice of God in the consciousness of 
TnE brain makes ghosts both sleeping and __ _ » 
waking. A man was lying in troubled sleep " 
when a phantom, with the cold hand of a corpse, PLAYING TRICKS. 
seized his right arm. Awaking in horror, he 
foundupon his arm still the impression of thecold Bgys are given to playing tricks oh each 
baud of the corpse, and it was only after reflee- ot ^ er an ‘^ sometimes on some people whom they 
ting that he found the terrible appurition to be P a * n greatly more than their enjoyment is corn- 
due to the deadening of his own left hand of a 
frosty night, which had subsequently grasped 
bi? right arm. This was a real ghost of the 
brain, which the awaking of the sense and the 
understanding explained. 
3L Gratiolet narrates a dream of his own 
which is singularly illustrative of how the brain 
makes ghosts in sleep. Many years ago, when 
occupied in studying the organization of the 
brain, he prepared a great number both of hu¬ 
man and animal brains. Ho carefully stripped 
off the membranes, and placed the brains in 
alcohol. Such were his daily occupations, when 
one night he thought that he had taken out his 
own brain from his own skull. He stripped it 
of its membranes, ne put it into alcohol, and 
then he fancied he took his brain out of the 
alcohol and replaced it in his skull. But, con¬ 
tracted by the action of the spirit, it was much 
reduced in size, and did not at all fill up the 
sknl). He felt it shuffling about in his head. 
This feeling threw him into such a great per¬ 
plexity that he awoke with a start, as if from 
nightmare. 
M. Gratiolet every time he prepared the 
brain of a man must have felt that his own 
brain resembled it. This impression awaken¬ 
ing in a brain imperfectly asleep, whilst 
neither the senses nor the judgment were active, 
the physiologist carried on an operation in his 
sleep which probably had often oecured to his 
fancy when at his work, and which had then 
been summarily dismissed very frequently. A 
pursuit which had at last become one of routine, 
and the association of himself with his study, 
explain the bizarre and ghastly dream of M. 
Gratiolet, A sensation from the gripe of a cold 
hand, misinterpreted by the imagination acting 
without the aid of the discerning faculties, 
accounts tor the ghastly vision of the other 
sleeper.— All the Tear Round. 
A CITY IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 
Tiik resident population of Virginia, Nevada 
Territory, on the 1st of July, was estimated at 
fifteen thousand, the daily average number of 
transient visitors being as many more. Main- 
street, which is the Broadway and AYall-street 
of that city, to some three quarters of a mile in 
length, is crowded with people of every grade 
and description, a large proportion being ele¬ 
gantly dressed males and females. 
The buildings on Main-street are mostly 
brick; the first story iron, open iu front. This 
gives a light, cheerful appearance to the street, 
especially in the night time, when brilliantly 
lighted with gas. Many of the buildings in 
this city are provided with vaults and sala¬ 
manders; all the four and five story brick and 
iron-front fire-proof buildings now going up 
have oue or both of these indespensable feat¬ 
ures, Some of the streets are so blocked up 
with lumber, brick, and mortar that teams are 
at times unable to get along; common laborers 
pensation for. If tricks give pain to auy one 
they are to be condemned. Did it ever occur to 
you, boys, how much more pleasure you might 
gain, if your tricks were calculated to surprise 
and give the parties on whom they are played 
pleasure instead of pain? Here is a story which 
illustrates what we mean. Let every boy who 
reads it look out for opportunities to promote 
hia own enjoyment by tricks of a similar 
character; 
A young man was studying at a college. One 
afternoon he walked out with an instructor; and 
they chanced to see an old pair of shoes, which 
appeared to belong to a poor old man at work 
close by. 
“ Let us have a little amusement at his ex¬ 
pense,” said the student. “ Suppose W'e should 
hide those shoes and conceal ourselves in the 
bushes to watch his perplexity when he cannot 
find them.” 
“I can think of a better trick than that,” 
said the instructor. “ You are rich. Suppose 
you put a silver dollar in the toe of each of his 
shoes; and then we will hide.” 
The young man did so. The poor man finished 
his work soon, and went to put on his shoes. 
You can imagine his surprise, when he stooped 
down to pick out a pebble a3 he supposed from 
the toe, and found a bright silver dollar; and 
when he found still another in the other shoe, 
his feelings overcame him; he fell upon his 
knees, looked up to heaven, and uttered a long, 
fervent thanksgiving, in which he thanked a 
kind Providenee for sending some unknown 
hand to save from perishing Ms sick and help- 
I less wife, and his children without bread. Do 
you wonder that the young man stood in his 
hiding-place deeply affected? Young friends, 
when you wish to enjoy real pleasure in wit¬ 
nessing the perplexity of others, see if you can 
not, some war, imitate this student. Such 
trick3 are well worth being performed. 
COMPLIMENT TO COUNTRY BOYS. 
One of the leading business men of our city 
who has accumulated over a million of dollars 
and is building a residence costing a quarter of a 
million paid one of tbe neatest ofi-band compli¬ 
ments to country boys that could be bestowed. 
He was talking of business matters generally, sand 
among other things spoke of clerks and the 
scarcity of good, solid young men occasioned by 
the war. He said that there were plenty of 
young men in line cloth calling for situations, 
but they did not suit him. He preferred a very 
different kind of stock that come from the coun¬ 
try in rough clothes for something could be 
made out of them. But such young men had 
generally gone into the army, while the more 
pretending class that have more clothes than 
brains have remained behind. He spoke of 
i country boys that soon made clerksworth fifteen 
hundred or two thousand a year, and yet who 
had volunteered out of a sense of duty, but 
get from $4 to $5 a day without board. The whose eoimHUtation he would gladlv have paid 
THE TIME FOR SLEEP AND STUDY. 
By all means, sleep enough, and give all in 
your care sleep enough, by requiring them to go 
to bed at some regular hour, and to get up at the 
moment Of spontaneous waking in the morning. 
Never waken up any one, especially children, 
from a sound sleep, unless there is urgent neces¬ 
sity ; It Is cruel to do so. To prove this, we have 
only to notice how fretful and unhappy a child 
is when waked up before the nap is out. If the 
brain is nourished during sleep, ic must have 
most vigor in the morning; hence the morning 
is the best time for study — for then the brain 
has most strength, most activity, and must work 
more clearly. It is “the midnight lamp “ which 
Hoods the world with sickly sentimentalities, 
with false morals, with rickety theology, and 
with all those harum-scarum dreams of human 
elevation which abnegate Bible teachings.— 
Hall's Journal of Health. 
The Rapid-ann. — According to the London 
Times we h&venotthe right spelling fora riverin 
Virginia, much talked of during the present time. 
A correspondent thus writes to the Thunderer: 
“ Pray assist mo to protect from Yankee 
corruption the geographical nomenclature of 
my State and‘the place where I was born,’ fori 
sec the whole English press has been misled by 
the Yankee mis-spelling of the fine dashing 
stream which Meade has judged it prudent to 
place between himself and Lee. It is not the 
‘ Rapidan,’ as all the papers have it, but the 
Rapid Ann, and formerly, but now rarely, Anne, 
your Queen of that name, after whom it was 
called. This river and the North Fork joins 
at the lower edge of Culpeper Couuty, from the 
Rappahannock.” 
Keep them Warm.—A distinguished medi¬ 
cal gentlemen says that diseases of the chest 
are early contracted by exposure to the cold 
without sufficient clothing. The greater poi- 
tiou of children from one to fifteen months old, 
who die in winter, are killed by the cold, or 
diseases resulting from cold. Woolen flannel is 
recommended as the best clothing to be worn 
next the skin in our variable climate, at least 
for nine months in the year. If parents would 
preserve the health and lives of their little cue.-, 
they should keep them warmly clad, especially 
about the chest and feet. AVooleu socks should 
be adopted, for cold feet are almost always the 
cause of catching cold. 
city supports four daily newspapers, a theater, 
opera-house, several churches, aud any number 
of Melodeons and negro minstrels, to say noth¬ 
ing of the institutions already enumerated 
above. 
No oue who has not been here can form an 
idea of the amount of treasure to be seen in pas¬ 
sing through Main-street. At Well? ifc Fargo’s 
banking-house and express office it is not uncom¬ 
mon to sec tuns of “silver bricks” wheeled iu 
and out iu the course of au hour. These 
“ bricks” in shape resemble the ordinary fire¬ 
brick, but are much larger, and from nine hun¬ 
dred aud eighty-live to nine hundred and ninety 
percent, fineness, which is ten to fifteen percent, 
less than pure silver—averaging some eighteen 
hundred dollars each. The sight drafts sold, fre¬ 
quently amount to a hundred thousand dollars a 
day. sums of twenty dollars and upward are 
usually paid in twenty dollar pieces. No paper 
currency there or iu any of the mining towns 
west of the Rocky Mountains, salt Lake City 
being tbe only place where paper circulates 
for money. So much for a city less than six 
years old.— Scientific American, 
CHILDREN'S ARMS AND LEGS. 
A distinguished physician, who died some 
years' since in Paris, declared:—” I believe that 
during the twenty years that I have practiced 
my profession in this city, 20.000 children have 
been carried to the cemeteries, a sacrifice to the 
absurd custom of exposing their arms naked." 
On this the editor of the Philadelphia Medical 
and Surgical Reporter remarks:—“ Put the bulb 
of a thermometer in a baby’s mouth, tbe mer¬ 
cury rises to 00 degrees. Now carry the same 
to its little hand; if the arm be bare and the 
evening cool, the mercury will sink to 50 de¬ 
grees. Of course all the blood that flows 
through these arms must tall from 10 to 40 de¬ 
grees below the temperature of the heart. Need 
I say, when these currents of blood flow back 
into the chest, the child’s vitality must be more 
or less compromised? And need I add that we 
ought not to be surprised at its frequent recur¬ 
ring affections of the longue, throat or stomach ? 
I have seen more than one child with habitual 
cough and hoarseness, choking with mucus, en¬ 
tirely and permanently relieved by simply keep¬ 
ing the hands and arms warm. Every observ¬ 
ing and progressive physician has daily oppor¬ 
tunities of witnessing the same cure." 
Perfection is attained bv slow degrees; 
she requires the hand of time.— Voltaire. 
to retain them had he nor felt it wrong to influ¬ 
ence them against the service of their country. 
The best he could do was to say to them that if 
they would come back to bis employ without 
any bad habits, he would re- five them at ad¬ 
vanced salaries. 
Let not our country boys, therefore, think 
that it is necessary to imitate the young bloods 
of the town in fires? and frivolous habits to in¬ 
sure respect and good situations. It is plain, in¬ 
dustrious young persou*, of good sense, sober 
habits, and scrupulous honesty that are iu de¬ 
mand with all solid business men. No matter 
how poor, or how mean your clothes, if you 
have the personal qualities above indicated the 
true business man will soon perceive them and 
give you the preference.— Cincinnati Gazette. 
A BOY’S CHARACTER. 
Do you, my boy, who sit reading these 
lines, know that you have a character. If 
so, what kind of a character. Good or bad? 
For, boy as you are. and never thinking 
that auy one notices your way from day to 
day, rest assured your character is known 
wherever you are known. The man that 
keeps the store opposite knows you. The 
blacksmith knows you. The farmer whose 
house you daily pass knows you. The lame 
soldier who stops every day to rest on the bench 
at the grocery, has a pretty good guess at your 
character; for he sees you with the boys, and 
marks your style of play, your talk and your 
temper. 
Aud all these boys, too, know whether you 
are a good-tetupered, honest i Uow, or one who 
is always quarreling, domineering over others, 
cheating at play, aud trying to secure the best 
of everything for yourself, not caring who is 
the loser If you arc gratified. 
Now, is it not worth while to begin early to 
establish a good character? A good boy is 
known to be good as readily as a bad boy is 
known to be bad. Yet children seldom think 
how delightful it is to grow up with the love 
and confidence of their family, and the neigh¬ 
bor? whom they daily meet. Most boys think 
only of having as much fun and pleasure as pos¬ 
sible, not caring how they get it, ov how much 
they grieve their mothers. 
Man is the guest of wisdom; he will drop, for 
shame, his arrogance, and seek never again to 
entertain or patronize this architect and master 
of the house. 
