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OEI! THERE’S MUSIC.—HEALTH TO THE FARMER. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorlter. 
AMONG THE CASCADES.— NO, 2. 
BY 6BORGB M. El,WOOD. 
We commenced the ascent of the Watkins 
Glen about 9 o’clock on the morning after our 
arrival. Passing from the road through a nar¬ 
row defile in which are situated the ruins of an 
old mill that add much to the scene, we found 
ourselves in a vast amphitheatre with perpen¬ 
dicular and overhanging walls of rock several 
hundred feet in height. At the upper end of 
this amphitheatre is a narrow, angular chasm, 
as f hough the walls had been forced apart by 
some subterranean power. Through this dark 
portal may be heard the ceaseless roar of thecata- 
raets above. The chasm seems to terminate a 
sh rl distance above the entrance by an abrupt 
wall, but it takes a sudden turn to the left form¬ 
ing the grand gateway to the glen. This is 
reached by a slender staircase clinging to the 
fac.e of (he clifT on the north bank, and spanning 
the lower part of the chasm witha rustic bridge. 
From this bridge we obtained a Hue view of the 
first cascade, which was at first bidden from 
sight, by the turn in the walls. It is a single 
thread of water falling from an angle of the 
rocks into a dark pool thirty or forty feet below. 
We then passed through a narrow passage, 
creeping along a pathway cut in the solid 
stone, the limpid stream dashing over the rocks 
in its narrow channel twenty feet below us. 
The wonderful clearness and purity of the water 
hern strikes one very forcibly, as in fact it does 
everywhere in these glens. Its magnifying and 
refracting power is bo great as to be most de¬ 
ceptive. We were frequently astonished on 
measuring the water where it. appeared to be 
four or five feet deep to find it ten or fifteen. 
This defile terminates in another cascade formed 
by a series of falls, making in all about thirty 
feel. This cascade &hoota out of a dark and 
gloomy looking notch, the walls of which tower 
to iv great, height and seem almost to meet over¬ 
head. Into this and several similar dark gorges 
the sunshine never penetrates, and even in the 
warmest weather in summer the temperature of 
these Gothic corridors is so cool that warm 
woolen clothing is not uncomfortable. 
Another fact that strikes the visitor is the al¬ 
most total absence of all animal life. The water 
i8 60 rapid that fish cannot “stand the pres¬ 
sure,” or aquatic plants germinate. No birds, 1 
no insect life is heard ; all is hashed as if awed ' 
into silence by the sublimity of the scene, tin- 1 
broken save by the rippling and dashing of the 
waters and the echo of the visitor’s footsteps 
upon the rock. 
Wending our way up over thus cascade, aud 1 
entering the notch by a pathway where the 1 
rocks hang far out over our heads, we came to a 1 
pretty little fall that tumbles into a basin having ’ 
apparently no bottom. These little natural 1 
basins, or pot-holes, as they are called, arc very 1 
peculiar and interesting In their formation. 1 
They are always situated directly at the. foot of 
the cascades, the sheet of water falling into ' 
them. They arc formed by fragments of rock, * 
gravel and boulders, whirled round aud round * 
by the force of the water, and gradually wearing f 
and grinding these cup-like pools out of the 1 
softer rock below. They vary from two to 1 
twenty feet across and some of them are twenty e 
and twenty-five feet deep. In some places ' 
huee boulders can be seen at the bottom, at rest * 
now, but in tlmo of a freshet kept in lively mo- 6 
tion by the Increased force of the water. Cross- 1 
ing the stream upon a narrow plank, wo 11 
ascended and re-crossed by a steep stairway to a 8 
dizzy height where, clambering along a pathway c 
which juts out far above the stream, we saw * 
near at hand a small cascade above which the * 
narrow passage is choked by a mass of trunks of 1 
trees, roots and debris, left thoro by many sue- 1 
cessive floods. From this point, looking up the 1 
glen, what a view met our eyes! A slender 1 
thread of water seems to fall from the very 1 
clouds, from between dark walks of rock on c 
either side. The next ascent is made by a nar- 8 
row staircase running up directly over the verge 1 
of the cataract. The staircase is of immense 1 
height and almost perpendicular, aud fora novice 
iu scaling such heights some little nerve is re- ^ 
quired to ascend, and still more to look down ' 
into the boiling cauldron below. At the head 1 
of this stairway la a little rustic Beat; and we 1 
found a short rest very grateful after a hard ' 
.climb of over an hour. From this point is pre- I 
tented one of the finest views in the glen. Both 1 
ip and down It Is surpassingly beautiful. A 1 
^ort distance above this place are the remains ' 
e\an old dam that was once built across the 4 
8tVam. It is some twenty feet high, and the 
H'Vuranoe it now preseuts, partially ruined and 1 
cowed with moss, with a small sheet of water 1 
ruu^ng over it, adds greatly to the picture. s 
Lek’ing our seat under the trees, a scramble of 3 
a few minutes through a wild path in the woods *■ 
bruudxt us to the Gleu Mountain House. This 1 
isattlu head of the first glen, It is a gome- 1 
what primitive structure, but furnishes all the 
comforts aud luxuries that arc so well appreci¬ 
ated alt. r such a tramp. This house launder j 
the dUvtlou of Mr. M. Ells, formerly editor £ 
of apap'Mn Watkins. It. is to the enterprise t 
and pemvomuee of this gentleman that the i 
thanks of all visitors to the gleu arc due, lie t 
has caused the bridges and stairways to be t 
erected, and the paths cut and kept in order. ^ 
OH! THERE’S MUSIC. 
Oh! there’s mu-sic in 
There is mu - sic in 
the waters, playing 
To be sung in as quick time as a distinct articulation will permit. 
playing on their iiver flutes,With the autumn’s night-wind sighing,softly 
break-ing on the isles a - far, Mu - sic in the sol-etna for-e'st, m’u-sie 
ry lutes: ) 
in the watching star! ( We have listened 
We have heard the household 
mu-,ic, where the moon-lit patera roll, And ti. „ur,«chlo M to eoU . j„ the chnmWn, of the .onl, And -.Uonr, Wn, to enjoin the nhnmben, of Uw »o„l. 
t h 
nm- aic, un * ni-lojed by tin • eeUrt How n-e love, wc love to ech - o, ton™!ik,tho.ennto the benrt,How ™ love,weWtoeeho,toneelih-ethose „„t« the heart. 
HEALTH TO THE PARMER. 
^Maento^ i_1 _ * N ^ . IS , pm 
T , u U I r W* STuE \ rj ( ? 
1 Health to tha faem-er! may he flourish. Success ut-tend him eve - 
- Strength to the plowman! when lie go-eth To turn the fur-rows in 
3 Speed to the mow-kk! when he steppeth, And stoutly eweepeth down 
4 Health to the farmer ! aud good weather,Who patient tills the for - 
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TpnFftrrswr 
iy-wlitjre ; YY ell may the rain and sunshine nourish 
the field; Peace to the sow -er when he sow-eth, 
the grass; Joy to the reap-er when ho reap-eth; 
tile soil ; Plea -1 y at-tend him; may he path - er 
J* J i-J f > I I I I 1 I 
*> * r“-r r 
All he plants and tends with care. 
Hop - ing soon a - bundant yield. 
m__ _» • i • i i . 
Cloudless skies his 
Rich re-ward for 
la - bora bless, 
no * ble toil. 
[From Asaph, a collection of Sacred and Secular Music, by Lowell and William Mason.] 
we again entered a winding path through the 
wood, and descending a flight of stairs found 
ourselves in the Cathedral. ThiB grand amphi¬ 
theatre is truly a master-piece of Nature’s handi¬ 
work. It is a vast ehamber, with walls of 
singular regularity aud of immense height, 
draped with elaborate tapestries of ivy, ferns 
and moss. The floor is as level and smooth in 
many places as the finest mosaic pavement The 
vaulted canopy of sky forms the dome; in the 
lower end is Pulpit Rock, aud in the upper end 
the Central Cascade forms the Choir, where the 
stream, dashing from rock to rock, sings con¬ 
tinual praise to Him whose infinite power 
carved this mighty temple, beside which the 
most magnificent and elaborately wrought edi¬ 
fices, the work of human hands, sink into Lilli¬ 
putian insignificance. j 
Clambering around this cascade and ascend¬ 
ing another long stairway, we found ourselves 
in the third glen. Here is presented a series of 
cascades, each one seeming to rival in beauty 
tifir, tk. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
THE UTILITY OF GYMNASTIC EXERCISES, 
The great fault of modern education, more 
particularly in the United States, is the unnatu¬ 
ral and absurd attempt to cultivate the mind at 
the expense of the body. The palpable fact that 
a sound mind and an infirm body are naturally 
incompatible, has been quite forgotten, or if not 
forgotten, at leastculpa.A*disregarded. Hence, 
the feebleness and deKjmlty of many of onr 
scholars and professlotlil men, and in a less 
degree of our manual lajfr rs. 
I propose to show ’Wt for the purpose of 
manly development, Gymnastic exercises can¬ 
not be surpassed. 
By manly development I mean development 
ami distiuct individuality all its predecessors, of ^oth physical and mental; for it is physiologl- 
which space does not permit a detailed descrip¬ 
tion. Finally, climbing along the cliff, on the 
south side of the gorge under shelving rocks, 
we came to a spot where there Is a large over¬ 
hanging rock projecting beyond the others, 
some fifteen feet above the path and thirty from 
the stream. It is finely rounded and curved, 
and from the edge trickles a tnyraid of little 
streams of water, forming a veil of sparkling 
crystal, in which can be seen a fine rainbow, 
when the afternoon sun strikes it. Passing be¬ 
hind this glittering curtain of water, wo reach¬ 
ed another splendid cascade which terminates 
the third gleu. This is as far as the glens have 
been opened for visitors, although there are 
three more above this. We clambered around 
this cataract and ascended some distanee furth¬ 
er. The scenery is truly magnificent, hut the 
ascent is exceedingly difficult and somewhat 
dangerous, as there are no paths or bridges and 
the rocks are wet and mossy. 
Mr. Ells proposes to open this succession of 
glens some distance further this season, but it 
is slow work and requires perseverance and 
patience. All this striking scenery is not con¬ 
fined to the Watkins Glen alone. The Gleu 
eally true that the tuind is indirectly affected for 
good or ill in exactly the same ratio as the body. 
Hence the double motive for keeping the body 
perfectly sound, and for developing the muscles. 
The chief utility of Gymnastic exercises con¬ 
sists in their developing all the muscles of the 
body, many of which cannot be developed at all, 
nor any of them in ftvice the time. In any other 
way. It is plain that a system of physical train¬ 
ing which accomplishes this cannot possibly be 
superseded, because it leaves nothing more to 
he done. In most of the ordinary avocations of 
life, one set of muse es 1 a used from day to day, 
and only one; and this, as might naturally be 
expected, is the cause of those physical deformi¬ 
ties that mark rnauy a professional man and 
artisan. Many individuals, well meaning but 
groosly ignorant ot the above fact, contemn 
Gymnastics as a superfluity, and recommend in 
their stead some degrading, irksome toil, in 
which the mind takes to dqjight and the body 
receives no benefit, but, on the coutrarv, posi¬ 
tive injury. Wood-sawing, for example, is 
recommended by some imbecile old fogies as a 
very healthful exercise, when it is really injuri¬ 
ous; for not only must the operator assume an 
McClure, at Havana, possesses some remarkably ungaiuly uttitude, hut even the exercise itself, 
grand views — two of its cataracts rival!ug the 
Watkins. The Decker Glen and Gleu Montour 
both possess a multitude ol attractions, though 
they arc not so great in extent as the Wutkins 
Glen. When their present inaccessibility is 
overcome, they will open a grand field to the 
lover of the sublime and the beautiful. Over 
15,two persons visited the Watkins Glen last sea¬ 
son, and the number will be nearly doubled this 
year. It Is fast rising in popularity as it is be¬ 
coming known; and before many yk airs have past 
we venture to predict, it will become one of the 
most popular of onr s umm er resorts. 
Economy.— When a Spaniard eats a peach or 
pear by the roadside, wherever he is, he digs 
a hole in the ground with his foot, and covers 
the seed. Consequently, all over Spain, by the 
roadsides and elsewhere, trait iu great abundance 
tempts the taste, and is ever tree. Let this prac¬ 
tice be imitated in onr country, and the weary 
wanderer will be blest, and bless the hand that 
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e we deourves the liberal patronage ho up- miuistered to his comfort and joy. We ore bound 
pears to have secured. 
to leave the world as good, or better, than we 
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from the path in front of the house, lookiug found it, and ho Is a selfish churl who basks 
down toward the cataract, can be seen an Indian 
profile in stone, rivalling in the clearness of Us 
outline, the celebrated “Old Man of the Moun¬ 
tain," on the White Mountains. It is on the 
edge of a dark mass of rock and stauds out iu 
tine relief agaiust the cascade. 
After spending a pleasant hour with Mr. Ells 
under the shadow, and eats the fruit of trees 
which other hands have planted, if he wiU not 
also plant trees which shall yield fruit to coming 
generations. 
Your oldest story becomes new when you 
have a new auditor. 
as every man of sense knows, tends rather to 
contract than expan d, t> ' chest. Most wood- 
sawyers are either hum ^backed or shamefully 
round-shouldered. Again, few minds arc so 
nicely adjusted as to be able to preserve their 
equanimity during a protracted struggle with a 
kuotty stick. 
Iu short, physical benefit cannot be derived 
from any single exercise. It is essential to per¬ 
fect health, that all the muscles of the body be 
exercised every day; ami this can only be done 
in a Gymnasium. There it can be done in just 
one hour, conjointly with good habits. Gymnas¬ 
tic exercises will prevent that mental stupidity 
that frequently attacks students, lawyers, and 
others engaged in sedentary occupations—the 
mind aud body will preserve a mutual and con¬ 
stant equilibrium of health—the spirits will be 
cheerful, aud old age will come upon us with a 
smile. 
The above observations are the result of jHst 
one week's experience in a Gymnasium. 
Power op toe Magnet,— The smallest na¬ 
tural magnet generally possesses the greatest 
proportion of attractive power. The magnet 
worn by Sir Isaac Newton in his ring weighed 
only three grains, yet it was able to take up 74(3 
graiuB, or nearly '250 times its own weight; 
whereas magnets weighing above two pounds 
seldom lift more than five or six times their 
own weight 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
TAKE CARE OF YOUR EYES. 
Our young people, in good health, and with 
unimpaired vision, take far less heed to pre¬ 
serve the sight of the eye than they should, 
while many persons of advanced years are 
scarcely more provident. There are many 
things done prejudicial to the eye, by all class¬ 
es, which might easily be avoided. Reading by 
firelight is prejudicial, because it painfully ex¬ 
pands the pupil of iho eye in order to gather 
rays enough upon the retina to make the letters 
legible. A brilliant gas light is also deleterious 
to the eye, because it compels an unnatural and 
hence painful contraction of the pupil for the 
purpose of shutting off a portion of the rays 
projected from the gas burned. Students while 
engaged in reading or writing, or mechanics 
working in the night time, should be very par¬ 
ticular in so shading or graduating their light as 
to prevent a painful expansion or contraction of 
any portion of the complicated mechanism of 
the eye. Without the exercise of care, in this 
respect, vision becomes prematurely Impaired 
and not infreqeuutly wholly destroyed. ’ 
Another consideration. To retain the tight 
long, without the intervention of glasses, a 
youth and middle age of temperate living are 
almost indispensable. The water which envel¬ 
opes the eye, by and through which vision is 
obtained, is rendered pure or impure as the 
bodily system is healthful or diseased ; hence to 
retain aud enjoy good eye-sight to the greatest 
possible limit, a strict and unrelax ing censor¬ 
ship in early life must be exercised over the ap¬ 
petites and passions whose natural tendencies 
are to excessive indulgence. h. b. 
gifafling i’,« iitc Umiug. 
_ 
CALLING NICKNAMES. 
One of the worst of the bad habits which bad 
boys indulge in, is calling their companions or 
other people nicknames. This, is very often 
wrong aud often very cruel, for they mostly in- i 
dulge their wicked wit on those who have some | 
bodily infirmity which they cannot help. 
I wish to caution the boys who read this against 
such conduct; for many boys who do not wish 
to be unkind or cruel may be tempted to dtf so 
before they are aware, just because there is some 
fuu iu it. 
“Such a fine boy was surely worth saving.” 
How the words cut me to the heart! My 
father had often told me of a friend who had. 
plunged Into the river to save me as I was drown¬ 
ing when a child, and who, in consequence of a 
cold then taken, had been made a cripple by 
rheumatism; and this was the man I had made a 
laughing-stock of for my companions! 
I tell you, boys and girls, I would give a great 
deal to have the memory of that event taken 
away. If ever you are tempted, as I was, re¬ 
member, that while no good can come from sport, 
whereby the feelings of others are wounded, 
you may be laying up for yourselves painfal 
recollections tbat will not leave you for a life¬ 
time. 
CAST A LINE FOR YOURSELF. 
A young man stood listlessly watching some 
anglers on a bridge. He was poor and dejected. 
At last approaching a basket filled with whole 
some looking fish he sighed; 
“If now I had these, I would be happy. I 
could sell them at a fair price, and buy me food 
and lodgings.” 
“I will give you just as many aHd just as 
good fish," said the owner, who chanced to 
overhear his words, if you will do me a trifling 
favor.” 
“ And what is that! ” asked the other eagerly. 
“ Only to tend this line till I come back, I 
wish to go on a short errand.” 
The proposal was gladly accepted. The old. 
fisherman was gone so long that the young man 
began to be impatient. Meanwhile the hungry 
fish snapped greedily at the baited hook, and the 
young man lost all his depression in the excite¬ 
ment of pulling them in, and when the owner 
i of the line returned, he had caught a large num¬ 
ber. Counting out from them as many as were 
iu the basket and presenting them to the young 
man, the old fisherman said, “ I fulfill my prom- 
| ise from the fish you have caught to teach you, 
1 whenever you see others earning what yon need, 
to waste no time in fruitless wishing, but to cast 
a Hue for yourself.— Home Monthly, 
i A Boy's Lawsuit. —Under a great tree close 
to the village, two boys found a walnut. “ It 
belongs tome,” said Ignatius, “for I was the 
first to see it.” “ No, it belongs to me,” cried 
Bernard, “ for I was the first to pick it up," and 
so they began to quarrel in earnest. “I will 
iun in n. settle the dispute,” said the older boy, who had 
"1 shall never forget,” says one, “ an incident of just then come up. He placed himself between, 
my boyhood, by which I was taught to be careful the two boys, broke the nut in two, and said: 
not to wound the feelings of the unfortunate. A “The one piece of shell belongs to him who 
number of us school boys were playing by the first saw the nut; the other piece of shell belongs 
roadside one Saturday afternoon when the stage to him who first picked it up; but the kernel I 
coach drove up to a neighboring inn, and the pas- J keep for judging the ease. And this,’’ he said, 
sengers alighted. As usual we gathered around to as he sat down and laughed, “is the common 
observe them. Among the number was an el- j end of most lawsuits.” 
dorly man, who got out with great difficulty, and -- 
when on the ground he walked with his Jeet A Polite Boy. — The other day we were ride- 
turned one way and his knees another, in a very ing in a crowded car. At one of the stations an 
awkward mauuer. I thoughtlessly shouted: old gentleman entered, and was looking about 
u Loot old rattlebones ! ” The poor man him for a seat, when a hid ten or twelve years of 
turned his head with an expression of pain which age rose up and said, “ Take my seat, sir." The 
I can never forget offer was accepted, and the infirm old man sat 
Just then, to my surprise and horror, my down. “ Why did you give me your seat ? ” he 
father came round the corner, and immediately inquired of the boy. “Because you are old, 
stepping up to the stranger, shook hamis sir, and I am a hoy,” was the quick reply. The 
warmly, and assisted him to walk to our house, passengers were very much pleased and gratified, 
which was but a little way off I could enjoy no For my part I wanted to seize hold of the Uttle 
more play that afternoon, and when’ tea time fellow aud press him to my bosom. It was a 
came I would gladly have hid myself, but I knew respect for age which is always praisworthy. 
it would be iu vain, aud so tremblingly went ---_ 
into the sitting room. To my great joy and re- The form of the benediction, before eating, has 
lief, the stranger did not seem to know me again, its beauty at a poor man's table or at the simple 
but remarked pleasantly to my father as he in- and unprovoeative repast of children. It is here 
trodueed me that the grace becomes exceedingly graceful. 
