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Physical Training of Children. 
Is it not an astonishing fact, that though on the 
treatment of offspring depend their lives or deaths, 
and their moral welfare or ruin; yet not one word of 
instruction on the treatment of offspring is ever given 
to those who will hereafter be parents? Is it not 
monstrous that the fate of ft new generation should 
be left to the chances of unreasoning custom, 
impulse, fancy—joined with the suggestions of 
ignorant nurses and the prejudiced counsel of grand¬ 
mothers? If a merchant commenced business with¬ 
out any knowledge of arithmetic and book-keeping, 
we should exclaim at his folly, and look for disastrous 
consequences. Or if, before studying anatomy, a 
man set up as a surgical operator, we should wonder 
at his audacity and pity his patients. But that 
parents should begin tho difficult task of rearing 
children without ever having given a thought to the 
principles — physical, moral, or intellectual which 
ought to guide them, excites neither surprise at the 
actors nor pity for their victims. 
To tens of thosands that arc killed, add hundreds 
of thousands that survive with feeble constitutions, 
und millions that grow up with constitutions not so 
strong as they should be; and you will have some 
idea of the curse inflicted on their offspring by 
parents ignorunt of the laws of life. Do but consider 
for a moment that the regimen to which children are 
subject Is hourly telling upon them to their life-long 
injury or benefit; and that there are twenty ways of 
going wrong to one way of going right; and you will 
get some idea of the enormous mischief that is 
almost everywhere inflicted by the thoughtless, hap 
hazard system in common use. Is it decided that a 
tmv shall lie clothed ill some flimsy short dress, and 
be allowed to go playing about with limbs reddened 
by cold? The decision will toll on his whole future 
existence—cither in illness; or in stunted growth; 
or in deficient energy; or in a maturity loss vigor¬ 
ous than it ought to have been, and consequent 
hinderances to success and happiness. Arc childrou 
doomed to a monotonous dietary, or a dietary that is 
deficient in nutritivencss? Their ultimate physical 
power and their efficiency as men and women will 
inevitably be more or less diminished by it. Are 
they forbidden vociferous play, or (being too ill- 
clothed to bear exposure,) are they kept in-tloors in 
cold weather? They nro certain to fall bchav that 
measure of health and strength to which they would 
else have attained. When sons und daughters grow 
up sickly ami feeble, parents commonly regard the 
event as a misfortune — as a visitation of Providence; 
Thinking after the prevalent chaotic fashion, they as¬ 
sume that these evils come without causes; or that the 
enusesare supernatural. Nothing of the kind. In some 
cases the causes are doubtless inherited; hut in most 
cases foolish regulations are the causes. Very gene 
rally parents themselves aro responsible for all this 
pain, lids debility, this depression, this misery. 
They have undertaken to control the lives of their 
offspring from hour to hour; with cruel carelessness 
they havo uegleeted to learn anything about these 
vital processes which they aro unceasingly affecting 
by their commands and prohibitions; in utter igno 
ranee of the simplest physiologic laws, they have 
been year by year undermining the constitutions of 
their children; and have so inflicted disease and 
premature death, not only on them but on their 
descendants. “ Education ; intellectual, Moral and 
Physicalby Hkbbuiit Sprnokh. 
fluted; of rocks piled upon rocks; of mountain tow¬ 
ering above mountain; of battlement frowning against 
battlement! It seems as if a sea of molten rocks had 
been suddenly solidified, while rolling in lofty and 
elevated waves, sinking in awful gulfs, boiling iu 
caves or domes, or spouting in fiery pillars against 
the sky.” 
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LETTER TO FARMER BOYS.-NO. IV. 
MAJOR RORKRT’ yYTSTDKItSOjV 
Pear Brothers: — Paul Morphy is a noted chess 
player. You have all, I dare say, heard of him, and 
read of him. He has become very renowned merely 
because lie excels all others in playing chess, llo 
has spent many years —utterly wasted the precious 
time that God gave hitn to benefit his fellows to 
ennoble his own soul — and which he should regard as 
the most precious boon of Heaven—recklessly 
squandered it in m®ving hits of ivory over a checkered 
board! And yet l’AUL Morphy is not the only one 
who plays away his time. Wo hear men say, Oh, but 
chess playing is discipline for the mind—it rouses and 
quickens the intellect — it causes one to think, Ac.” 
If mathematics, philosophy, or metaphysics will not 
dovelope your intellect —if they will not discipline 
your minds — if the wonderful creations all around 
you — if the scene that (ion painted but yesterday, 
where tho sun first gilds tho orient clouds if these 
will not cause you to think, then if there lie any 
virtue iu chess or checker playing, resort to it. If 
after you have exhausted the great store house of 
knowledge, aud have no more to learn—have no 
more good to accomplish no more deeds of kind¬ 
ness to perform — when there are aronml you no 
more ignorant ones to be taught — no more sorrow; 
ing ones to ho cheered and helped — then if any time 
remains to you, sit down and learn to play chess. 
But, young brothers, you may say, “Why, many 
posed Santa Anna would renew on the 24th. Ho groat and learned men play chess and oven cards! 1 ’ 
was one of the Commissioners sent by Mr. Fillmore a great many do, and they have a wonderful weak 
to investigate the Gardiner fraud. In 1855 be was spot somewhere, they’re not half as smart as they 
promoted to a Captaincy, and in 1H5G ordered to might ho. It'you wish to imitate others, take for 
Florida, where he remained till 1858, when he was your example a character in which no weakness has 
sent, to Fort Moultrie, ever been displayed. It is not well to imitate tho 
Brevet-Captain Truman Seymour is a native of follies or the vices of those who are called great. 
Verm out. He entered West Point in 1848. He was Monsieur Blokhin made the discovery that lie 
in Mexico, as tin officer of light artillery, and behaved eould walk upon a rope. Hugging to his bosom the 
with such gallantry at Chevubuseo, as to receive the idea that the “ Fools were not all dead yet,” he 
brevet of captain, lie is at tho head of tho list of mmie to our glorious Umpire State, aud proved the 
first lieutenants of hia regiment. truth of it, for hundreds of people — who thought 
First Lieutenant, Theodore Talbot, of D. C., was themselves possessed of considerable intellect and 
appointed in 1S47, from Kentucky, to a second lieu- common sense — flocked to see a man do that which 
tenantry. A Southern man by birth and feeling, he is the most diminutive squirrel that runs the length of 
loyal to the Union. your father’s fence can do! What au amount of 
First Lieutenant Jefferson C. Davis is an Indi- self-respect, what a hulk of manhood a man must 
aniim by birth, and was a lieutenant in the third possess, to pride himself on a thing which a crea- 
Indiana Volunteers, under the command of Colonel tore wholly destitute of Intelligence can perform bet- 
Heniiy S. Lank, Governor elect of Indiana, and did ter than ho! And 1 can but, see a great similarity 
good service at Buena Vista, and for good conduct Between the performers and the lookers-on. 
received a commission in his regiment during the , trust y))U| . ^ 00( j your elevated manhood, 
year 1848. W1 || y 0U t ,f (l letter way of spent]Ing your time 
and money, than iu running to see a lllondin-liko 
the dignity of the Mandarin when promoted, and a before. No disturbance of the normal course of the performance, even if visiting the rural districts, iu 
disgraceful official or ruined merchant, who formerly functions con pass away and leave tilings exactly as that essence of all nuisances, the most vulgar of all 
had lived in luxury, appears little to regret the change they were, in all cases a permanent damage is done vulgarities, the circus. Seek to make far better 
he has undergone. There is no fear of death among —not immediately appreciable, it may lie, but still men of yourselves —to be of infinitely more use 
I,hem. though they have the rclios iti this dead con- there; aud, ah.fig* with other such items, which to the world — to have your bodies hold greater and 
stuntl.y before tlieir eyes. Tho country is covered Nature, in her strict account-keeping, never drops, nobler souls than those of a Morphy, a Blondin, or 
with graves, and in many places about Shanghai' the will tell against us to the inevitable shortening of our some silly low bred clown, 
coffins aro opeuly exposed in the fields. They are days. Through the accumulation of small injuries it 
oven kept in tho houses till a propitious day arrives is that constitutions are commonly undermined, and 
IV.r the burial, months passing by sometimes before break down long before their time. And if wo call 
to mind how far the average duration of life falls 
In the last issue of the Rural we gave an interest¬ 
ing sketch of the life and services of Major Robert 
Anderson, the gallant soldier now in charge of Fort 
Sumter, and we aro very much gratified at being 
enabled to present bis portrait to our readers. The 
engraving was made from a painting iu possession of 
his wife, and is by her pronounced a perfect likeness. 
Wc have already given a biography of Major A., 
and as wo doubt not that a mention of those who are 
in Fort Sumter with him, and are nobly assisting in 
the performance of his entire duty to the country, 
will be received with feelings of pleasure, wo give 
the following brief sketches of his second officer, 
Oapt. Abnkr Doublem an, Brevet-Capt. Truman Sey¬ 
mour, and Lieutenants Taylor and Davis. 
Capt. Doubi.Eman entered West Point in 1838, and 
graduated In 1842. lie was at Corpus Christ!, with 
Gen. Taylor, and with him at the Rio Grande. Ho 
bore himself bravely at Monterey, and, as an officer 
of Prentiss’ heavy battery, made a forced march of 
thirty-five miles on the night of February 23d, 1847, 
from the Rlnconada Pass to the battle field of Buena 
Vista, to take part in the action which it was stip- 
Minnie Mintwood. 
Alfred University, N. Y'., 1800. 
TO MAKE A ROSE FROM SHAVINGS. 
the body is removed. 
When the coffin is decayed, the hones are carefully below the possible duration, we see how immense is 
gathered; and in a country walk one very often the loss. When, to the numerous partial deductions 
Wk have received from a lady correspondent in 
Michigan, Mrs. B. C. Pauli., the following method 
comes upon jars containing “potted ancestors.” which Imd health entails, wc add this great final do- of making a rose from wood shavings;—Cut out 14 
Money is saved IV.r the purpose of a ooffln, and is put duction, it results that ordinarily more than one-half petals same as No. 3, and 18 of No. 2; tlieu 20 of the 
by till ready for use. The first time 1 saw this was in 
of life is THROWN AW AY.— Westminster Review. 
Morbid Nervousness. 
The morbid nervousness of the present day 
appears in several ways. It brings a man sometimes 
to that startled state that the sudden opening of a 
door, the clash of a falling fire-iron, or any little 
accident, puts him in a flutter. How nervous the 
late Sir Robert Peel must have been when, a few 
weeks before his death, he went to the Zoological 
Gardens, and when a monkey suddenly sprang upon 
ills arm, the great and worthy man fainted! Another 
phase of nervousness is when a man is brought to a 
state that the least noise or cross occurrence seems 
to jar through the entire nervous system,—to upset 
him, as we say; when lie cannot command his 
mental powers except in perfect stillness, or in the 
chamber, and at his writing tabic, to which lie is 
accustomed; when, in short, he gets fidgety, easily 
worried, full of whims and fancies, which must bo 
indulged and considered, or he is quite out of sorts. 
Another phase of the same morbid condition is 
when a human being is oppressed with a vague, 
undefined fear that things are going wrong, that his 
income will not meet the demands upon it, that his 
child’s lungs are affected, that his mental powers are 
leaving him,— a state of mind which shades rapidly 
off into positive insanity. Indeed, when matters 
remain long in any of •the fashions which have been 
described, I suppose the natural termination must be 
disease of the heart, or a shock of paralysis, or 
insanity in the form either of mania or idiocy. 
Numbers of common-place people, who could feel 
very acutely, but who could not tell what they felt, 
have been worried into fatal heart disease by 
prolonged anxiety and misery. Every one knows 
how paralysis laid its hand upon Sir Walter .Scott, 
always great, lastly heroic. Protracted anxiety, how 
to make the ends meet, with a large family and an 
uncertain income, drove Southey’s first wife into 
The Odyssey op Homer —with the Hyms and Battle of the 
Frogs and Mice. Literally translated, Avith Explanatory 
Notes. New York: Harper & Brothers. 
Tuts is a continuation of the series of translations of the 
Greek and Latin claries which tho Harpers have been for 1 , . ,, , „ 
. .. ...... , . , 1 nervousness year after year. Not less sad the end ot 
sometime engaged in repnutiUg. It is letter adapted to merely | ^ 
English readers than any of the poetic translations. They 
lunatic asylum; and there is hardly a more touching 
story than that of her fears and forebodings through 
DIPHTHERIA. 
a little cottage near Shanghai?. There was an old 
cob-webbed coffin in the corner; I asked a young lad 
why it was there; ho quietly pointed with his thumb 
over Iris shoulder to his grandmother, standing close 
by, and said it was for her; she was very old, and was 
nearly wearing out the coffin before she was put into 
it. At funerals females are hired to do the “ Inconso¬ 
lable grief” parts of tho performance, it seems very 
ridiculous that such a custom should be kept up when 
it is known by everybody that the mourners howl for , . . 
" . , , , symptoms; the sensation of a bone or haul substance 
hire. They Certainly work hard lor tlieir money, and ”"1"' ’ , , .. 
. ’ 11 1 1 . i- -r >l in the throat, rendering swa owing difficult and pain 
piteous moaiiB would he heart-rending li they m ,u * 
their 
were real. — Twelve Years in China 
I 
MISFORTUNES OF IGNORANCE. 
ful, and a marked fmtor, or unpleasant smell of the 
breath, the result of its pntrefftcfive tendency. On 
the appearance of these symptoms, if the patient is 
old enough to do so, give a piece of gum camphor, of 
the size of a marrowfat pea, and let it be retained in 
the mouth, swallowing slowly the saliva charged 
with it until it is all gone. In an hour or so give 
another, and at the end of another hour a third; a 
If any one doubts the importance of an acquaint- f™rth will not unusually he required; but if the pain 
ance with tint fundamental principles of physiology and unpleasant breath aro not relieve , it may be used 
as a means to complete living, let him look around two or throe times more, at a little longer intervals, 
and see how many men and women he can find in 
middle or later life who are thoroughly well. Occa- , , . it 
sionally only do we moot with an example of vigorous or two of spirits of alcohol to it, and mix it with an 
health continued to old ago; hourly do we meet with «qu»| quantity of powdered loaf sugar, or bettor,pow- 
examples of acute disorder, chronic ailment, general 
say two hours. If the child is young, powder the 
camphor, which can easily be done lay adding ft drop 
larger size. Cut them on tho length of the shaving, 
and curl them slightly at the edge with the scissors, 
then form a loop of wire as shown by No. 0 in the 
diagram, and having twisted a strip of shaving round 
Ah the newspapers are full of remedies for this dan- it> c(UU uionce to tic on the petals with some strong 
geroiis affection, of the throat, some of them very good thread. Tie on the 14 small ones; then tho next 
and some of them very silly, we will give one which 
we know to be used by some eminent physicians, and 
which we have never known to fail, if applied early. 
Diphtheria in its early stage may bo recognized by 
any person of ordinary capacity, by two marked 
dered rock candy, and blow it through a quill or tube 
into its throat, depressing the tongue with the haft, of 
a spoon. Two or throe applications will relieve. 
Some recommend powdered aloes or pcllitory with 
the camphor, but observation and experience have 
satisfied us that the camphor is sufficient alone, it 
acts probably by its virtue as a diffusa!)!© stimulant, 
and antiseptic qualities.— N. Y. Examiner. 
‘ 
A WONDERFUL ISLAND. 
A Missionary describes, iu a late Pacific newspa¬ 
per, a visit which lie paid to a little-known island of 
tho Marquesas group, whose formation is volcanic. 
His observations were made during the month of May 
last. “A Iter two hours,” he say*, “ of great heat and 
extreme toil, we stood on the dividing ridge of the 
island, some 3,500 feet above the ocean. Our path 
while on all sides wo see the perpetual minor ailments I had led up steep and narrow ridges, down which we 
looked into awful depths of 500, 1000, and 1,500 feet 
below. In one place 1 measured the width of the 
ledge on which we wore walking, and found it to bo 
two feet and four indies. Sometimes the sides of the 
debility, premature decrepitude. Scarcely is then 
one to whom you put the question, who lias not in 
the course of his life brought upon himself illness 
which a little knowledge would have saved him from 
Here is a ease of heart disease consequent on a rheu¬ 
matic fever that followed reckless exposure. There 
is a case of eyes spoiled for life by over-study. 5 es- 
terday the account wits of one whose long-enduring 
lameness was brought on by continuing, in spite oi 
the pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly in¬ 
jured. And to-day we are told of another who has 
had to lie by for years, because he did not know that 
the palpitation he suffered resulted from an over¬ 
taxed brain. Now wc hear of an irremediable injury 
that followed some silly feat of strength; and, again, 
of a constitution that has never recovered from the 
effects of excessive work needlessly undertaken; 
can get from this a better i<lea ol' tho poet and the |mem than 
from Cotvi-Eit or 1’oi'K. The explanatory notes aro valuable 
for learned as well as English reader-. For s ilo by Steele, 
Avery St GO. 
Famous Boys: and How They BecameGreatMen, Dedicated 
to Youths and Young Men, as a Stimulus to Earnest Living, 
[pp. 300.] Now York: W. A. Townsend A Co. 
Trl-e Stories of the Days of Washi.votoh. Rostrated, 
[pp. 312.] New York: Phinney, Blake man x Mason. 
The above entitled are capital books for this young* Tlie 
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her overwrought husband, in blank vacuity; nor the 
like end of Thomas Moore. Aud perhaps the saddest 
instance of the result of an overdriven nervous 
system, in recent days, was the end of that rugged, 
honest, wonderful genius, Hugh Miller .—Recreation 
of a Country Parson. 
Chinese Views of Death. 
There is nothing in the Chinese character more 
striking than the apathy with which they undergo 
afflictions, or the resignation with which they bear 
them. There is so much elasticity in their disposi¬ 
tion that tho most opposite changes in their condition 
produce but little effect. A Coolie can admirably ape 
which accompany feebleness. 
Not to dwell on tiie actual pain, the weariness, the 
gloom, the waste of time and money thus entailed, 
only consider how greatly ill health hinders the dis¬ 
charge of all duties—makes business often impossible, 
and always more difficult; produces an irritability 
fatal to the right management of children; puts the 
functions of citizenship out of tlm question; and 
makes amusement a bore. Is it not clear that the phy¬ 
sical sins—partly our forefathers' and partly our own 
—which produce this ill health, deduct more from 
complete living than anything else, aud to a great, ex¬ 
tent make life a failure and a burden instead of a bene¬ 
faction and a pleasure? 
To all which add the fact that life, besides being 
tli 11 s immensely deteriorated, is also cut short. It is 
not true, as we commonly suppose, that a disorder or 
disease from which we have recovered leaves us as 
precipice below us were at an angle oi GO to 70 de¬ 
grees, and sometimes they Were perpendicular. Wo 
walked along on the crest of spurs, climbed over 
cones, and threaded our way along the steep sides Ol 
hills, holding on to grass and shrubs, and scarcely 
holding on at that. 
“From the central summit of the island the view 
was magnificent. Such a wild assemblage of hills 
size, and so on till the flower is complete. Cut the 
rose leaves also on the length, and vein them with 
the scissors, holding the points a little apart, so as to 
give the vciu a raised look. Gum them on the wire 
stalk, which you will form same as design No. 7. Be 
careful to bind the spray neatly to the main branch 
with a slight strip of the shaving, and fasten off by 
a little guru at the end. 
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Cutting-Ant of Texas and its Dwelling. — The 
Cutting-Ant of Texas builds subterranean habita¬ 
tions, consisting of cells, sometimes tilling an area of 
ground twenty-live feet square, to the depth of six¬ 
teen feet. Tlieir cells are Irom six to twelve inches 
in height, and are connected by passages from one to 
three or four inches in diameter. From these cav¬ 
erns, where they dwell in myriads, they have been 
known to dig a passage under a stream in order to 
get at a garden on the opposite side. Their food is 
both animal and vegetable, consisting of insects, 
berries, grain and the leaves of trees. They will 
sometimes entirely strip a tree in a single night. In 
Western and Central Texas, they are regarded as a 
terrible scourge, and many efforts have been made to 
exterminate them, but tlieir immense number has 
made it impossible. They appear to be divided 
into classes, some building and repairing the cells, 
some procuring food, some tending the sick and all 
having peculiar duties to perform. 
It is the love of truth that clothes the martyr with ^ ■. 
a name which outshines the blaze that kills hitn. It t J 
and valleys; of spurs and ridges; of profound gulfs binds the soul to all true spirits on earth, in lb'.i,en, 
and yawning chasms; of needles, more wonderful than I and to God. Compare emulations oi argument, '*H 
Cleopatra’s; of leaning towers, outvieing the famed pungencies of sarcasm, dealings ol fancy, pride o 
one of Fisa; of cones, rounded, rent, rugged, upright, logic, and pomp of declamation, with the simple .Jjt 
inclined, truncated, inverted; of precipices at every ; thoughts which the love of truth suggests, and they aro Mg' 
angle, bold, green carpeted, festooned, grooved, I but asthe sound of an automaton to the voice of mail. 
