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LETTER 
AND A LESSON 
ENGLAND. 
FROM NEW 
Florence, Maes,, May 2-3, 1865. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: —Thousands of 
your readers would like a glimpse of New Eng¬ 
land— the land to which .they can trace back 
their ancestry. I ara Just on the western verge 
of the lovely valley of the Connecticut. The 
11 Licking Water”—a swift, clear stream- 
passes through the narrow valley, turning the 
great factory wheels as it goes foaming on. East¬ 
ward are the broad and rich meadows, through 
which thu Connecticut winds its quiet way. 
South, the mountain ranges of Tom and Holyoke 
stretch east and west, their summits standing 
grandly against the sky. This U a factory vil¬ 
lage, one of the best lu the land in character, as 
well as thrift. Along the stream are a cotton 
mill, a daguerreotype case factory, and a mill 
for making sewing-silk, which turns out daily 
over two thousand dollars worth. Just beyond 
the hill top, northward, is a great shop, filled 
with beautiful machinery, where arc made each 
month, a thousand of the 41 Florence Sewing- 
Machines.” 
Here arc pleasant streets, yards of rarest 
green, fine hedges, ucat and tasteful homes — 
intelligence as well as iudustry among these 
sixteen hundred people. In a grove of pines, 
looking down ou the mills, is a neat church, and 
a noble school-house, toward the building of 
which, a wisely geuerous man, Samuel Hill, 
paid t ldrty thousand dollars. The school is free, 
the library and reading-room is free to all, and a 
tine hall, In a wing, is open for lectures and 
meetings. Toward the river, west, Is Northamp¬ 
ton, a beautiful old town, with broud streets, 
ample yards, quaint old homes, with massive 
frames, low ceilings, small windows, steep, 
moss-grown roofs, and great central chimneys. 
Often a noble old elm of a centurys growth, 
spreads its sweeping branches over the roof. 
There are flue houses, too, of modern style, and 
old and new are In good order, for there is cul¬ 
ture, wealth and taste. 
This valley to Hartford, forty miles south, is 
very beautiful. Springfield, half-way down, is 
the site of the United States Armory, where a 
thou6uud rifled muskets a day have been made 
by three thousand men, aided by mechanism of 
wondrous beauty and perfection. Now comes 
the dawn of peace, and two thousand men are 
sent aw ay to peaceful labors. 1 went through 
those vast work-shops last week, and stood at 
the western window of the great Arsenal to look 
down on the city, half buried in abundant trees, 
and feast eye and soul with a sight of the glori¬ 
ous valley, the blue river, and the great hills, iu 
the dim distance. 
What a railroad ride of five hours from Albany 
to Springfield! Winding along roaring streams, 
rushing over bridges, sweeping through the 
rocky hilts, looking up steep mountain sides, 
rolling across the lovely Houaatonic Valley: 
stopping at stations where a little level spot 
gave room for a factory and a neat village, and, 
at length, coming out into the level plains, and 
crossing thu Connecticut. 
PEAT-ITS ORIGIN AND USES. 
Several Rural correspondents, of late, have 
made inquiries concerning peat, desiring to 
learn its value and avalllbility as an article of 
fuel. For the benefit of such persons, and all 
others interested, we have collated and con 
doused the following facts; borrowing largely, 
for this purpose, from a pamphlet entitled, 
44 Facts about Peat as au Article of Fuel," com¬ 
piled by T. IT. Leavitt. 
Peat is found iu all regions where a temper¬ 
ate or a cold climate prevails, hut. has never 
yet been discovered In tropical countries. In 
its natural, unimproved state, it is a soft, spongy 
substance, filling up slight cavities or depres¬ 
sions of the earth’d surface, and is commonly 
called bog. Its ultimate elements are essentially 
those of coal and wood; viz.,— carbon, hydro¬ 
gen, oxygen, and nitrogen. 
A great many theories have been entertained 
to account for the origin of peat. The latest 
and most enlightened is,— that when water falls 
upon tin retentive soils and forms ponds, a luxu¬ 
riant vegetation of mosses and aquatic plants 
springs up; which, gradually decomposing, and 
being submitted to great pressure, for long 
periods, is finally converted into what we call 
peat. Its origin, like that of coal, is vegetal; but, 
geologically, it is of much later date; and its 
formation must, in some respects, have been 
different. This orgauie growth and accumula¬ 
tion gradually spreads over adjoining land, 
which, in time, becomes a morass. The evidence 
of tills latter fact exists in the large number of 
trees and logs — in some eases constituting 
whole forests — which are found in all possible 
positions at tliu bottom of peat bogs. In many 
eases the antiseptic properties of the peat has 
entirely prevented the decay of this wood, which 
remains as solid and sound as though it had just 
been felled. 
The depth of the peat-bog varies, in different 
localities, from one to thirty feet. The morasses 
of Holland and Germany are about six feet deep, 
while several in Iroluud are known to extend 
forty feet below the surface. Certain varieties 
of peat are Very porous and elastic, uud are of a 
light brown color; hut the denser kinds are of 
a pitchy, shining hue, and are almost os flue in 
grain as cannol coaJ. 
When freshly cut, peat is found to bo saturated 
with water to the extent of from 30 to 90 per 
cent. It does not readily yield its moisture 
upon exposure to sun and wind, but several 
processes have been invented which greatly 
facilitate its convertlon into fuel. 
The importance of pent as an article of fuel 
has long been known in Europe, where in some 
places it is exclusively employed for that pur¬ 
pose. But, although it is fouud in large quan¬ 
tities in most of our Northern and Western 
States, it has never been used here, except in 
New England, to any considerable extent; and 
it is only of late that the public attention has 
been called to its utility as fuel. It has re¬ 
cently, however, been subjected to many tests, 
and the advantages claimed for its use are—that 
it is superior to wood, and scarcely inferior to 
coal for household purposes, and that it can be 
anthracite coals arc used, it is undoubtedly 
destined, at. no late day, to come Into general 
use. Its presence, in large quantities, in our 
land ha3 long been known to scientific men, but 
owing to the superabundance of fuel furnished 
by our forests and coal mines, Its resources have 
never been developed. Its popularity, like that 
of coal, in tills count ry has been a thing of slow 
growth. When coal was first discovered in 
Pennsylvania, and an attempt was being made In regard to health, the old saying, “an ounce 
by those who had been familiar with its use on of preventive is worth a pound of cure,” is 
the other side of the water, to bring it into gen- specially true and important. The cost of dis- 
cral favor us an article of fuel, so great was the order or breakage In the human machine is 
incredulity of people in regard to its utility that lurge—not only waste time, but pain, weakness, 
persons actually had to be hired, for a time, in and doctor's bills without end. 
Philadelphia, to burn it. So certain New Eng- 1 ouce asked a physician of forty years prac- 
land farmers had, lor their own use, cut peat from tice how large a share of sickness might be 
their swamps for twenty years, and had never saved by such knowledge of physical laws as 
thought of carrying it to market. Wood and could easily be gained by all. 44 More than 
coal are now, however, very dear, and there is a half,” was his prompt reply. Startling but true, 
strong demand for cheap fuel. We th’mk peat I've seen many a farmer who knew better what 
is destined, at no distant day, to supply this food and shelter to give cattle and pig*, than 
demand. wife and babies. Who knew far better how 
nnwMvvPAT much work his horse would bear than himself, 
_‘ and who would be particular that the horse, 
The purest and best gum copal in the world after a hard pull, should breathe and get cool 
is found on the mainland of Africa, near Zanzi- before water or food were given it, but thought 
bar. It is, without doubt, a fossil gum. It is nothing of how, what, or wheu, he ate himself, 
dug from the earth by negroes, and by them car- alter a heavy job in the hay-field or at the plow, 
ried to the Banian traders, in small quantities, Cattle should be wisely cared for, the noble 
for sale. When it reaches Zanzibar, it Is in a horse deserves good treatment, but the humans 
very dirty state, and requires much sifting and are of more consequence still, 
garbling before it is merchantable; it is then A word, just now, about diet for hot weather, 
cleansed with solution! of soda-ash and lime, put We have the climate of Greenland a few days in 
up carefully in boxes, when it is ready for the winter. The Greenlander eats whale blubber 
home market. That it is a gum may be proved and tallow—full of carbon, to unite with oxygen 
from the fact of its rough or 44 goose-skin” sur- and keep the fire up—the animal heat, 
face, which no doubt is an impression of the In summer we have, for weeks, well nigh 
sand or eartli when it ran down from the tree tropical tieats. The Hindoo eats rice and cool 
in a soft state. Pieces, too, are found with sticks, fruits, such as the Great Designer has placed in 
leaves, and insects preserved in them in the that climate as fittest food there. We have, too, 
most perfect state. Large and uueouth-looking a wide range of varied productions. Is there 
pieces will often have many imparities, such as no lesson in all this? Certainly; to varyiour 
dirt, sand, and hundreds of little black ants in food with the sections. In winter use more meats, 
Canons Hi#jri c %. fst tfe*fjsimg. 
Written tor Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER. 
GARDENS and orchards better than 
CALOMEL AND JALAP. 
4 an ounce 
them, giving the copal a dirty, dingy appearance. 
At. the diggings no copal trees are found, or even 
any signs of them; ami to this time it is mere 
conjecture in what ages these deposits of copal 
were made, probably many thousands of years 
ago. I have tried to get specimens of anything 
the negroes might dig up with the copal; but 
they, in every case, say that thoy get nothing 
whatever. There are copal trees on the coast 
and on the island; but the gum from them is not 
a merchantable article at all, and when mixed 
with the fossil gum, is always rejected. Without 
doubt the quality of tint dug is made as pure as 
it is, by the chemical action of the peculiar kiud 
of earth iu which it Is buried. Some copal is 
found on this island, but it is so poor that it is 
not much sought.—/W/fc Monthly. 
NEW TELEGRAPHIC FEATS. 
An autographic telegraph is about to be estab 
lislied at Paris. By means of this machine in a 
few seconds, the joe smile of a portrait, hand¬ 
writing, or signature < u be reproduced at a dis¬ 
tance of several hundreds of miles. Thus, you 
wish to send your portrait from Paris to Vienna. 
Every stroke of the a-xlst’s pencil executed by 
means of the pan-telegraph machine In Paris Is 
simultaneously reproduced at Vienna. Twodis- 
- - - wo ( 4 ” “““ 4,,4 ‘ 4 “ tlngulshcd artists, M. M. Bcrstall and Bauginct, 
In Boston, a few days since, I saw much, of f tbe place of coal < cobc or i oUar ' drew likenesses which were instantly transmit- 
■ • « > . i • ... o/xiil fi-»w nil ni li/tr tut rriivaoo nf n coat 1 ..a j * 
which pages might bo written; but a word of 
its great Free Library—justly its pride- must 
suffice. A noble building, standing at the foot 
of Boston Common, erected by the elt> at a cost 
of *200,000, with *IO.j, 000 more for its site. 
Reading rooms and librarians’ clerkson its first 
floor, where men and women sit qiuotly busy. 
Go up a broad stairway and you laud in the cen¬ 
ter of a hull, a hundred feet loug and forty feet 
wide, its floor of black and white marble, Its 
carved and fretted celling sixty feet above your 
head, Around you arc twenty Corinthian 
column#, rising from pedestals of marble to 
the roof, and alcoves, twenty feet deep and 
three stories high, filled with books on three 
sides, between them. In trout a railiug to keep 
profane hands from these treasures. A hundred 
thousand books are in the building and great 
store of valued pamphlets. Strangers can give 
name and residence, and sit and read all day. 
Boston people can carry books home. A thou¬ 
sand persons use tills library daily - without cost. 
Joshua Bates of London, a Massachusetts boy, 
a banker of the great firm of Baking Brothers, 
gave *100,000. Other men of wealth and soul 
gave largely, and this is the grand result. The 
world has uo other such free library. I saw the 
12,000 volumes Theodore Parker left ‘‘for the 
«bo of the people." 
How richly varied is the Industry of Now Eng 
laud. Mills and little shops where a few work 
together. Fabrics, and tools, and machinery, 
aud an endless variety of articles arc made. The 
farm <v near the work .shop, and I see that, not 
only iu the rich meadows, but on the thin soil 
of the hills, there is au increase of productive¬ 
ness uml a high skill and success. Here is uo 
sending far oil lLie enriching qualities from the 
soil. All is kept hero; guano is imported too. 
Produce is high, aud goods, made close by, are 
cheap. Here Is work for all powers of baud uud 
brain, scope for inventive genius, growth In cul¬ 
ture and intelligence, as well us in wealth for 
the many, in the tine result of this luiugling of 
varied industry. 
The lesson is plain enough. Encourage the 
growth of the same state of things elsewhere. 
Let us have work shops and farms side by side 
lu the West. Let us keep our soil rich, our 
farmers prosperous ami skillful, give scope to 
our varied powers, foster uurowu manufactures, 
*ml Ik- a truly free, sell reliant people, burtheued 
by no foreign debt, dependent on no 1'orelgu 
work shops, but opening our doors for artizans 
from crowded Europe to come here that our 
great farms may feed them, and all gaiu surely 
aud permanently. a. 
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coal, for all other purposes, at a cost much less 
than that for which either of these latter kinds 
of fuel can be obtained. It contains from sixty 
to ninety-nine pur cent, of combustible matter, 
bums freely, with considerable flame, consumes 
almost its entire bulk, aud leaves no residuum 
but a very tine ash. In its several prepared 
forms, it has been successfully used for genera¬ 
ting steam; for the working of malleable iron; 
for melting uumalleable or east iron; for smelt¬ 
ing and general manufacture of iron from the 
ore; and for all descriptions of brass and copper 
work. It is alleged that irou made with peat 
charcoal will not splinter. 
The chemical products obtained from the dls 
filiation of peat are sulphate of ammonia, acetate 
of lime, pyroxylic spirit, naphtha, paratllno, heavy 
and light oils, gas of value, and ashes. Its 
chemical properties mako it available for many 
purposes. Its fibrous portions have been mixed 
w ith rag-pulp aud made into paper. It has been 
used In the production of gunpowder, ami for 
building and ornamental work. The solid bitu¬ 
men obtained from its distillation may he used, 
like asphalt, in the preparation of mastie tor 
paving. Its well known antiseptic qualities ren¬ 
der it valuable as a disinfecting and deodorizing 
agent. It is also said to bo of service as a fer¬ 
tilizer— its ashes being used to great advantage 
on some soils and highly estoomed. 
l’eat-bogs of considerable extent are found all 
over our State ; but they art) more common in 
Eastern, and Middle, than iu Western New York. 
It is estimated that New York, Westchester and 
Putnam counties uloue contain 2,000,000 cards. 
Peat has boon sold In New York city for fuel, 
for $4.50 per cord; the whole cost of preparing 
and getting it to market being only about #2.00. 
Let It be borue iu mind that peat can be pro¬ 
duced only in places ol a marshy character, and 
that the substance itself may be tested by first dry¬ 
ing and then igniting it. If it burns, it is jieat. 
Several of the European and New England 
varieties ol peat require hut little preparation 
before they are tit for fuel. It was at one time 
thought that tho American peat was not old 
enough, hud uot been submitted to pressure 
long enough, to make it available for this pur¬ 
pose; but it has boon discovered that the process 
of drying it, or even of pressing it, wheu neces¬ 
sary, is not a costly one. The denser the article, 
of course the more valuable It Is. It eon be 
used In common coal stoves and grates, burns 
well and leaves the grate bars free and clear. 
As It is a cheap and pleasant fuel, easy of trans¬ 
portation, makes a constant amt intense heat, 
andean be made suitable for almost all purposes 
for which wood, coke, charcoal, bituminous aud 
ted a distance of 400 miles. The great Rossini 
did the inventor the honor of composing a few 
bars of music, which was written and performed 
at the same moment at Marseilles aud in Paris. 
M. Coaselli has even accomplished printing In 
colors at a fabulous distance. For instance, at 
the otliee a rose appeared on a blank sheet of 
paper In a most brilliant coloring, telegraphed 
from the Imperial observatory, both the flower 
and leaves beiug painted iu natural colors. Tbe 
process used is similar to that employed for 
painting leaves on stuff. Tbe autographic tele¬ 
graph transmits per hour thirty dispatches, con¬ 
taining twenty words In each. It is equally pos¬ 
sible to stenograph by the pan-telegraphic ma¬ 
chine with marvelous rapidity, and from its 
peculiar construction it will work under atmos¬ 
pheric circumstances which impede the action 
of ordinary telegraph#. 
THE INFLUENCE OF THE EYE. 
Lichtenstein says the African hunters avail 
themselves of tbe ekamstanee that the lion 
does uot attempt to ap ing upon his prey till ho 
lias measured the ground, and has reached the 
distance of ten or twelve puces, when he lies 
crouching ou tho ground, gathering himself up 
for the effort. The banters, he says, make a rule 
never to tire upon the Hon till he lies down at 
this short distance, so that they can aim directly 
at his head with the most perfect certaiuty. If 
one meets a Hon, his only safety is to standstill, 
though the animal cro tches to make his spring; 
that spring will not be hazarded if tho man re¬ 
main motionless, and look him steadily iu the 
eyes. The animal hesitates, rises, slowly retreats 
some steps, looking earnestly about him—lies 
down—again retreats, till, getting by degrees 
quite out of t he magic circle of man’s influence, 
he takes to tlight in til ■ utmost haste. 
ELECTRIC BELLS. 
These arc used in large Parisian hotels. Some 
of them are so constri cted, thut after the but- 
tou is touched, they continue sounding uutil 
stopped by the servant, by which means It is 
known when the bell i.- answered; for though it 
may be situuted.it such a distance from the apart¬ 
ment, that the sound is not audible, there, a small 
needle, or Index baud, is attached to the button, 
uud continues moving .is long as the bell sounds. 
The construction of this bull is simple enough, 
being merely a copper wire connected with a 
battery lived in the kitchen or other convenient 
place. These bells are very suitable for hotels, 
palaces, or large mansions 
corn-meal, Ac.,—heat producing food. In sum- : 
mer less meat, especially fat and salted, little ' 
or no coffee, plenty of vegetables and fruits, and 
keep the system open and cool. 
The Englishman goes to Calcutta, and wita 
John Bull tenacity o! custom, eats, as at home, 
his beef with stimulating sauce, drinks his 
heavy ale, and gets yellow with billious fever. 
It is like shutting the doors amid tropic heat 
aud keeping up a hot fire. 
The farmer gets heated iu the field, hurries 
home to his meals, and stuffs himself with fat 
pork, sops his waxy potatoes iu burnt gravy, 
washes down the meal in the black coffee, or 
strong tea, and rushes out again, fancying he 
has had “hearty food" to "stand by ” through 
the day. He don’t keep up a hot fire in his 
sitting-room stove in July, but he does keep up 
the tiro inside; he keeps himself clogged, fever¬ 
ish, bilious. In October or before, comes on 
fever, or, if iu the new West, he is burning and 
shaking with the horrid fever-and-ague. 
Years ago, in a western region not very 
healthy, I met a farmer and carpenter, an emi¬ 
grant from the East. Asking about his family, 
he said, 44 We’re h id little sickness, our neigh¬ 
bors a good deal. I thiuk we are as much dis¬ 
posed toward bilious troubles as most people, 
more than many, but in summer we eat little 
fat meat, less of any kiud than in winter, no 
coffee, aud will have vegetables and fruit in 
wholesome variety. We are not fussy, but use 
rational care. We stop to get cool before we 
eat, and take care not to work to the puint of 
exhaustiou. Then we’ve done more than most 
our neighbors, besides helping to care for them 
in sickness,” Wise mini that. There’s the 
“ ounce of preventive ” for you. Take the dose, 
(It’s not bad to take,) and wash your bodies as 
well as your faces, often enough to be sweet and 
pure, aud I 44 guess ” it won’t hurt you. s. 
HEART DISEASE AND TOBACCO. 
8< ientivic men in France have little friend¬ 
ship for the odious weed, and the following ex¬ 
tract from the Medical Times and Gazette shows 
that they have good cause for antipathy. We wish 
it might convey u warning to young men in this 
country: 
M. Deeaisne, in a communication to the Acad¬ 
emic des Sciences, exhibits another clause in 
the heavy bill of indictment against the abuse of 
tobacco. He states that in the course of three 
years he has met, among eightv-three inveterate 
smokers, twenty-one instances of marked inter- 
mittancc of the pulse, occurring in men of 37 to 
47 years of ago,, aud not to be explained by or 
gauio lesion of the heart. Tho absence of such 
lesion or other conditions of health capable of 
Inducing intermission of tho action of the heart, 
■ aud the fact that, in uiuu of these instances, in 
which tho use of tobacco was abandoned, the 
normal action of the system was restored, M. 
Deeaisne believer will justify him in concluding 
that iu certain subjects tho abuse of tobacco may 
give rise to a condition which may be termed 
“ narcotism of the heart," characterized by inter¬ 
mission in the movements of that organ and in 
tho pulsations of the radical artery ; and that, 
iu some cases, a suspension or dimiuutiou iu 
tho practice of smoking Is sufficient to cause an 
entire disappearance of tiffs Irregularity. 1 ’ 
THE TWO APPRENTICES. 
Two boys were apprentices in a carpenter’s 
shop. One determined to make himself a thor¬ 
ough workman, the other didn’t care. One of 
them read and studied, and got books that would 
help him to understand the principles of his 
trade. He spent his evenings at home reading. 
The other liked fun best. Ho often went with 
other hoys to have 44 a good time.” “Como,” 
he often said to hia shop mate, 44 leave your old 
books; go with us. What’s the use of all this 
reading ? ” “ If I waste these golden moments,” 
was the boy’s answer, 44 1 shall lose what I can 
never make up.” While the boys were still 
apprentices, au offer of two thousand dollars ap¬ 
peared in the newspapers for the best plan for a 
State House, to be built iu one of the Eastern 
Slates. 
The studious boy saw the advertisement and 
determined to try for it. Alter careful study he 
drew out his plans, and scut them to the com¬ 
mittee, We suppose he did not really expect to 
gaiu the prize; but be thought “ there is nothing 
like trying.” In about a week afterwards, a gen¬ 
tleman arrived at the carpenter’s shop and asked 
If an architect by tho name of Washington Wil- 
beforce lived there. 44 No,” said the carpenter, 
“no architect, but I’ve got an apprentice by 
that name.” 41 Let’s see him.” The young man 
was summoned, aud informed that his plan was 
accepted, and that the two thousand dollars were 
his. The gentleman then said that the boy must 
put the building up; and his employer was so 
proud of his success, that he willingly gave him 
his time and let him go. This studious young 
carpenter became one of the first architects of 
oar country. He made a fortune, and now 
stands high in the esteem of everybody; while his 
fellow apprentice can hardly earn food for him¬ 
self and family by his daily labor .—American 
Artisan. 
A singular, but useful, book has been pub¬ 
lished in Loudon, under the title of the 4 ‘ Mar¬ 
riage Service." It contains no more aud uo less 
than the words of that solemn oorapact which 
hinds man and woman tighter together than all 
the deeds which all the solicitors of London 
could draw up. It is beautifully illustrated, aud, 
we ure told, may be got up iu auy style of ele¬ 
gance for a gift book. 
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An able physiologist Inis written that one-fifth 
of the human body Is composed of phosphorus. 
Punch remarks that this most likely accounts 
for the number of matches made. 
AN EARLY LESSON. 
“I well remember,” said a gentleman, “[my 
first lesson in human sympathy and kindness [to 
a stranger. I was then six or eight years old. 
My mother said to me one morning:— 4 1 hear 
there is a sick sailor boy down at the ferry wharf, 
in one of the vessels. Do yon want to go and 
carry him something good to eat and drink?’ 
I thought how it would seem for me to go down 
on such an errand among rough sailors. I was 
afraid of being laughed at, and I said I did not 
want to go. 
44 4 My child,’ said my mother, 4 suppose you 
were far away from home, sick, in pain, weak 
and sorrowful, would you not be glad to have 
some one come and see you, and bring you some¬ 
thing you would like ? He is sick aud sad, with 
uo mother or sister to comfort him.’ 
“ 4 1 should like to go, dear mother,’ I said. 
I went, and found the poor fellow sick in his 
berth, and uot another soul ou board. I remem¬ 
ber he was much touched by my coming and 
waiting on him. This little seed of mercy, 
sown in my young heart, has been growing ever 
since.” 
This gentleman is rich, with everything the 
world can give him to enjoy, and yet he ^tiuds 
the highest enjoyment in visiting the poor, 
sympathizing with them in their misfortunes, 
aud helping them. He has a Sabbath School 
for children who have hardly clothes to come 
in, and a corps of teachers who sow and make 
the poor children garments to make them com¬ 
fortable. He makes it his business, like his 
Divine Master, to go about doing good.— Child's 
Paper. 
ADVICE TO YOUNG ARTISANS. 
Tue best plan and the one surest of success, I 
thiuk, Is to have every young man, when he 
starts in business, select that trade which best 
suits uatural genius. Now phrenologists tell us, 
and iudeed we know it ourselves, that there is 
as great a difference in the formation of tho 
brain as in that of the face. We are each created 
lor some wise aud different purpose. Some boys 
are natural mechanic^ while others have not the 
slightest idea of machinery, aud have no taste 
for it. For my part I never had the slightest 
curiosity to know anything about mechanic?. I 
could uot state, to-day, the principles ou which 
tho steam engine works fov a hundred dollars. 
You may take such a boy as I was, and set him 
to watch-making, uud after seven years he might 
be able to take apart and put together a watch, 
but it would be contrary to his inclination, aud 
up-hill work all his Ufc, But if he selects the 
vocation he Is fitted tor, it Is a pleasure, aud 
there is nothing to prevent him from succeed¬ 
ing In business and making money. It is diffi¬ 
cult to go across tho grain. You will find from 
the pulpit to tho anvil many people who have 
mistaken their avocation. Get them on the 
right track and they will succeed. Sometimes 
persons will get on the right track, and yet not 
succeed, because, they are placed iu too circum¬ 
scribed a position in some village or town where 
they cannot get full play for their faculties. A 
man iu this ca?e should get aw ay out where he 
will not bo so circumscribed.— P. T. Bamum. 
Tue religion of Jesus Christ is a vast reme¬ 
dial system, made up of many mighty forces, and 
containing within itself capacities of adaptation 
and adjustment to every phase of the world’s 
progress and to every nocessity of individual life. 
These mighty forces are to some extent dormant, 
and they must be awakened into action; and 
the outlying field around the Church must be 
filled by all the agencies w hich God has placed 
in our power. To develop© these inner forces, 
and to cultivate this outer field Is the bouudeu 
duty of this age and this Church. 
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