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“Our existence is too sacred a thing —our 
life of too much moment, to seal one’s destiny 
hastily,” she said musingly. 
I fully realized the weight of her gentle rebuke. 
“You know the glory, the freedom, the pas¬ 
sion of a letter, Miss Gray —let these blessings 
be mine.” 
No matter for the answer, Zexoiwa,— enough 
that I have beeu the man most blessed, that ever 
lead letters, or Ik Marvel's enthusiasm over 
them. I think Carlton has been the fortunate 
recipient of a few—at least I believe so. I have 
daily thanked God for possessing his friendship, 
as it has been mystepping- 3 tone to 1 royal favor.’ 
June shook off her roses into the lap of July, 
when at the earnest solicitation of Carlton and 
his wife, Josephine came to spend a few davs 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
ABOUT MISSOUEI. 
A MERCHANT'S STORY 
The traveler from Missouri will at once tell 
you of her advantages of soil and climate, of 
prairie and forest, of her river navigation overall 
the States ; also of her mineral wealth—coal-beds 
are numerous and extensive, and the superiority 
ot tho irou made of her ore is admitted to exceed 
that of even Norway f Much other information, 
general, local or minute, would prove her, con¬ 
clusively, "the fairest of the border States, 
Virginia excepted," and “ the prospective Em¬ 
pire State of the Great West," her big sister 
Illinois continuing to exist and thrive notwith¬ 
standing. 
The Grand River country, affording so many 
facilities to its occupants, justly claims attention. 
Its bottoms are extremely fertile, its timbered 
lands valuable and furnishing for the herds of 
swine and cattle that range, them abundant mast 
—thehazelnut, hickory, butternut, black walnut, 
persimmon, acorn, etc. The frequent thickets 
A member of a large mercantile firm recently 
gave me a hit of his early experience. Said he : 
—“I was seventeen, years old when I left the 
country store where I had tended for three years, 
and came to Boston in search of a place. Anx¬ 
ious, of course, to appear to the best advant¬ 
age, I spent an unusual amount of time and 
solicitude upon my toilet, and when it was com¬ 
pleted I surveyed my reflection in the glass with 
no little satisfaction, glancing lastly and most 
approvingly upon a seal-ring which embellished, 
my little finger, and my cane, a very pretty affair, 
which I had purchased with direct reference to 
this occasion. My first day’s experience was not 
encouraging. I traversed street after street, up 
one side and down the other, without success. 
I fancied toward the last, that the clerks all knew 
my business the moment I opened the door, and 
they winked ill-naturedly at my discomfiture as 
I passed out. But nature endowed me with a 
good degree of persistency, and the next day I 
started again. Toward noon I entered a store 
where an elderly gentleman stood talking with a 
lady by the door. 
“I waited until the visiter had left, and then 
stated my errand. ‘No, sir;’ was the answer 
given in a peculiarly crisp and decided man¬ 
ner. Possibly I looked the discouragement I 
was beginning to feel, for he added, in a kindlier 
tone, ‘ Are you good at taking a hint ? ” * I don’t 
know,’ I answered, while my face flushed pain¬ 
fully. ‘What I wish to say is this,' smiling at 
my embarrassment:— 1 If I were in want of a 
clerk, I would not engage a young man who 
came seeking employment ’with a flashy ring 
upon his finger, and swinging a fancy cane;’ 
For a moment, mortified vanity struggled against 
common sense, but sense got the victory, and I 
replied, with rather a shaky voice, I am afraid, 
‘I'm very much obliged to you,’ and then beat 
a hasty retreat. As soon as I got out of sight, 
I slipped the ring into my pocket, and walked 
rapidly to the Worcester depot. I left the cane 
in charge of the baggage master 1 until called for.’ 
It is there now, for aught I know. At any rate 
I never called for it. That afternoon I obtained 
a situation with the firm of which I amnow part¬ 
ner. How much my unfortunate finery had in¬ 
jured my prospects on the previous day I shall 
never know, but I never think of the old gentle¬ 
man and his plain dealing, without feeling as I 
told him at the time, ‘ very much obliged to 
him.” 
sufficient for home consumption. Cotton is 
grown to a limited extent, and is usually worked 
up for home wear during the winter days and 
gin or other 
Many families manufacture their 
—jeans of blue and butternut for 
the winter wear of the masculines, and plaids for 
the indoor species. 
There is much true womanhood in the West 
—a good deal of it an Eastern export, by the 
way. There are many who have left homes of 
culture and refinement, and the many privileges 
that follow well organized society in the East, 
and enter upon a life outwardly less attractive 
and satisfying, with a heroic grace. Home com- 
'HE LATE PROFESSOR BENJAMIN SILLIMAN 
up for home wear durin: 
evenings, independent of the 
machinery, 
own clothin; 
zens, and with excellent effect in promoting a 
taste for science and a desire for its advancement. 
In May, 1S34, he was invited to Hartford to de¬ 
liver a popikar course on scientific subjects, and 
in September following to Lowell. In 1835 and 
1350 he gave more extended courses in Boston 
and New York. In 1889 he opened the Lowell 
Institute of Boston bv a course on geology, and 
in the three succeeding years followed with 
courses on experimental and theoretical chem¬ 
istry in the same institution. He has also 
delivered repeated courses of popular lectures in 
Boston, Lowell, Salem, New York, Philadelphia, 
Baltimore, Buffalo, St. Louis, Mobile and New 
Orleans, many of them illustrated by brilliant 
and interesting experiments. In 1880 Professor 
Silliman published a text-book on “ Chemistry" 
in two volumes, for tho use of bis students, and 
in the previous year he had published an edition 
of Bakewell’s “ Geology,” with notes and ap¬ 
pendices, which in the course of ten years passed 
through three editions. 
In 1853 he resigned his professorship, and was 
made Professor Emeritus, but at the request of 
his colleagues he continued to lecture on geology 
till June, 1855, when he gave his closing aea- 
»<>a, oc. The simplicity and moderation of 
Professor Selliman’s physical habits, and his 
constant activity, contributed to give him a Ann 
and vigorous old acre, free from mental or bodily 
infirmity; and to the last he took a great interest 
in the progress of science, humanity, and free¬ 
dom, at home and abroad. He was a member of 
numerous American and European scientific so¬ 
cieties. 
The Phrenological Journal for January thus 
sums up the leading traits of Prof. Selliman’s 
character: — “In person, Prof. Silliman was 
large, tall and every way well proportioned. The 
framework was perfect, and had he engaged in 
muscular instead of almost exclusive mental 
labor, he would have become a very strong and 
a very athletic man. His brain was large, the 
quality good; the mind comprehensive; and he 
was eminently intellectual, highly moral and 
religious, and of a warm social nature. He was 
very sensitive in matters of honor, fond of praise, 
and became a very popular man. He was mirth¬ 
ful. hopeful, and joyous. His mouth turned np 
at the corners. Conciliatory, and very kindly 
disposed. He was much more intellectual and . 
scholarly than executive—a man of peace, piety, 
and popularity, rather than a destructive or a 
radical reformer. He was by organization as 
well adapted to theology as to science, and had 
he entered the ministry would have become a 
bright and shilling light.” 
PROFESSOR BENJAMN SILLIMAN 
Benjamin Silliman, IL. D., one of the 
brightest luminaries in he scientific firma¬ 
ment, departed this life m the 34th day of 
November, 1864, in the eighty-sixth year of 
his age. 
Professor Silliman was born in North 
Stratford, Conn., on the 8th of August, 1779. 
His father, Gen. Gold Selleck Silliman, was 
a lawyer of distinction, and rendered important 
- :r --- _j a Brigadier-Geieral in the war of 
Mr. Silliman graduated at 
service as 
the Revolution 
Yale College in 1796, and in 1?99 was appointed 
tutor. He studied law and was admitted to the 
bar of New Haven in 1803. Chemistry as a 
science xvas then almost uiiknown in America, 
being taught, even in its rudiments, onlv at 
Philadelphia and Cambridge; bat the brilliant 
discoveries of Lavoisier, Sir Hcxipitev Davy. 
• xud had attracted :).*nch attention. Dr. 
Dwioirr, then President of l[ai e College, became 
interested in its introduction into the cou« 5 o 
Course as a regular department of instruction, 
and with that view offered to Mr. Silliman in 
1S02 the new chair of Chemistry. He consented 
to abandon his profession and accept it, if be 
could be allowed time and opportunity for prep¬ 
aration for iUs duties. He accordingly passed a 
part of the next two years lu Philadelphia, as a 
student witli Dr. Woodhovse, and on his return 
to New Haven in 1804, delivered a partial course 
of lectures on Chemistry to the students of the 
College. 
In the winter of 1S05 he gave his first full 
course of lectures, and in tho spring sailed for 
Europe to prosecute still further his studies in 
physical science, and to procure books and 
apparatus for the college for the illustration of 
chemistry and physics. He visited the mining dis- 
OLD DOGS AND YOUNG DOGS, 
“What have they brought in?” asked the 
old cat of Tip, the worn-out terrier, who had 
just been in the yard to see the game bags emp¬ 
tied. 
Tip, not observing Forrest and Bluff, two set¬ 
ters, following him, took his favorite place be¬ 
fore the kitchen fire, and, stretching out his fore 
legs, laid his nose on his paws and said contempt¬ 
uously :—“ Miserable sport: hardlv worth going 
out for,” 
“Such bags as iee used to bring in,” he contin¬ 
ued; “ that was something like sport. Thought 
nothing of a dozen hares and rabbits—scores of 
’em—and pheasants till we were fairly fired of 
picking ’em up.” 
“ Ah! ” said the cat who was nearly blind, and 
almost asleep, “our days were different from 
these. I was telling the gray kitten’s mother 
yesterday, that before I was her age I had caught 
as many rats as she had mice.” 
But Tip was not interested in the degeneracy 
of breed in cats. He went on still more orator- 
ieally ou the lamentable change that had taken 
place among dogs and describing his own power 
in hix day. Forrest and Bluff listened quletl v 
“ Do not hear him,” -at last Bluff said; “ now 
couldn’t you believe he thinks there Is not a dog 
worth following a gun! ” 
“Perhaps, Mr. Tip," said Forrest, "you car¬ 
ried off so much game in vour time that you 
thinned the country and left none for us." 
Tip looked disconcerted at this discovery of 
having more auditors of his than he had reck¬ 
oned on, and, dropping his eyelids, pretended to 
be asleep. 
“Never mind him," said Bluff, with a sly 
glance, for he knew he was shamming; “it’s 
a way old dogs have got of fancying there must 
be an end of good sport now they are past it. 
They see double all the success they ever had 
and quite forget that they missed at any time. 
Pbor old dog! we must not make the same 
mistake, Forrest, wheu we are in Tip's con¬ 
dition.” 
Whether it was tho tire that was too hot, or 
the reflections of his two reprovers, somehow 
Tip found it more pleasant to change his place; 
and it was observed that after that time he 
looked modest when the bags were emptied, and 
was silent about the doings of his day. 
And with a prayer did every osier weave." 
Society hereabouts has met with material 
changes for the past two or throe years; many 
have left and many more arc leaving. They be- 
loug to the class who refused to be comforted 
only under the Palmetto flag, or withhold their 
support from the bushwhacker, or to sing John 
Brown, and as Unionism prevails, their narrow 
limits and " the same opinions still ” tail to har¬ 
monize. Some find congenial homes in Illinois, 
many lit up emigrant wagons and cross the plains 
lor one of the Pacific States, and some go to the 
mining countries for awhile. The majority of 
people coming in are from Ohio—oftcu men of 
considerable wealth, who turn their attention to 
stock raising nud the improvement of their 
homes. Prairie farina arc ant to he ,i 
1805-6 (3 vols. 8VO*; enlarged edition, 8 vols. 
lJmo., 1-830,) and, being one of the earliest 
accounts of Great Britain by an educated Ameri¬ 
can, attracted much attention on both sides of 
the Atlantic. 
Immediately ou the receipt of the account of 
Sir Humphrey Davy's discovery of the metallic 
bases of tho alkalies, Prof. Silliman repeated his 
experiments, and obtained, probably for the first 
time in the United States, the metals potassium 
and sodium, by the furnace process of Gav 
Lussae, In 1833, while engaged in a scries of 
observations ou the action of a powerful voltaic 
deflagrator on the model of Dr. Hare, he first 
established the fact of the transfer of particles of 
carbon from the positive to the negative electrode 
of tlie \ oltuie apparatus, with the corresponding 
growth of the negative electrode, and the re¬ 
transfer when the charcoal poiuts are shifted. 
This fact, with the tusiou of the carbon in the 
voltaic arch, was one long disputed iu Europe, 
but is now generally recognized. 
In 1818 Prof. Silliman founded the American 
Journal of Science and Arts, better known both in 
Europe aud America as SUlunari s Journal, with 
which his name is still connected, and of which 
for twenty years ho was sole, and for eight years 
more, senior editor. This journal, at first a 
quarterly, but now a bi-monthlv periodical, has 
A silence ensued. It xvas she who broke it. 
“You said you needed me —and with that need 
gratified, yon could do anythinc." 
” Yes, yes, I could.” 
mi nop' you ^° iu with mc iu tbis labor of 
had‘tw’ , ! n l ^ l fl ashed across me! How stupid I 
had been! “ Join with you? be with you ? eo 
n * */iV 11 ’ * * ^ had no ^ thought of that i 
low blind I am ! Yes this, a grand thought i 
f,ur pUghting, Zenobia— to work 
thf mannl nf l0j 5n u '. r ’ l° vc together, and with 
siTw't u i '.’1 t'-c-li-domg around us, to become 
sancUfiedwi t h something of Christ’s bles*ed- 
riauc for pM 11 £ lU * {“mediately after our mar- 
advance i 1 Roy ? 1 ( ,1,nc a <lay or two in 
worn in . ?tn anxious lor you to see this one 
Uon haT l ov ~ wUo * in m - v catlnu- 
tlu; entire sisterhood to a 
p ne of the noblest sweetest and purest in 
haziness 11 oi U ; And ^ou P sfn?whh 
mffio S '‘ “ my »“ * «*“l 
ANECDOTES OF DR. FRANKLIN 
To Mr. Jefferson we owe two or three of the 
most amusing anecdotes of Franklin's life in 
France that have been preserved. One of these 
brings the learned Abbe Rayuai and the naughty 
Polly Baker Into unexpected conjunction. “ The. 
Doctor,” says Mr. Jefferson, “and Silas Deane 
were in conversation one day at Passy, on the 
numerous errors in the Abbe’s Hritauv dts deux 
fittfas," when the author happened to step in. 
After the usual salutations, Silas Deane said to 
him : — “ The Doctor and myself, Abbe, were 
Just speaking of the errors of fact into which 
you have been led in vour history.” "Oh no, 
sir," said the Abbe, ** that is impossible. I took 
the greatest care not to insert a single fact for 
which I had not the most unquestionable author¬ 
ity " “Why,” says Dean, “there is the story 
of Polly Baker, and the eloquent apology you 
have put into her mouth when brought before a 
court in Massachusetts to suffer punishment i 
under a law which you cite, for having had a 
bastard. I know there was never such a law in 
Massachusetts." " Be assured," said the Abbe, 
“ you are mistaken, and that it is a true story. 
I do not immediately recollect indeed the par¬ 
ticular information ou which 1 quote it; but I 
am certain that I had for it unquestionable 
authority." 
John Adams records iu his Diary, that, on his 
saying one day to Dr. Franklin that he thought 
he did not take as much exercise as formerly, 
Franklin replied :— •* Yes ; I walk a league every 
day in my chamber, I walk quick, and for an 
hour, so that I go a league; I make a point of 
No man aud no woman is safe who has ouce 
formed the habit of looking to drink for solace, 
or cheerfulness, or oomfovt. 
While tho world 
goes well they will iifcely be temperate; but the 
habit is built, the railroad to destruction is cut 
ready tor use, the rails are laid down, the sta¬ 
tion houses erected, and the train is on the line 
waiting only for the locomotive; it comes 
to us; it grapples us, aud away we go in a 
moment, down the line we have been years 
constructing, like a flash of lightning, to de¬ 
struction.— Charles Eeatte. 
musical nstuuments,—T ho Rochester Don- 
oe»a< in speaking ot the reed organs that have of 
late become so deservedly popular, says:-" We 
cannot refrain from noticing one in particular 
f “ ch we deci « superior to all others. We refer 
the celebrated Cabinet Organ of Mason & 
amlin. Our most distinguished organists and 
musicians concur Iu giving ft the preference for 
power, purity of tone, quickness of action, vari¬ 
ety of expression and ease and simplicity of ono- 
ra ion. In fact, it is said to resemble more nearly 
me large pipe organ than anv ntw .. 
Boys and Girls— Should remember that they 
do not study books simply to absorb and adopt 
other people’s ideas, but that they may develop 
ideas in their own minds. The knowledge you 
get from books should be fruitful, otherwise it 
will be of little value to you. 
