rnm’TnTfinrimrfi 
rwAUENZFncen. 
life. Pius IX is smiling and happy. At R o’clock 
Ills Holiness takes bis coffee and some trifling 
refreshment; Mgrs Stella alone is present at that 
meal, as he opens the letters which have arrived, 
general or a president, or if you are a girl, you 
may he the wife of one of these officials, and I 
cannot tell which position will give you the 
greatest power, lint if you aru likely to com¬ 
ing step to merry laughter. Repeat the same on 
the way home at night, with an occasional vari¬ 
ation in winter by “ tripping the toe’’ and having 
a “ break down” in the snow bank. A “ root’’ 
Writteu for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
SCHOOL TEACHING AND TEACHERS. 
Tjie occupation of the teacher is a noble, a 
beneficent one. This results from the character 
of the material upon which he works — immortal 
m inds, upon which he is to make impressions 
that are to tell for good or evil on the actions of 
his pupils through time—yea, for eternity! How 
important, then, that (he teacher should possess 
such qualifications of head and heart as will 
enable him to set such an example, and lo incul¬ 
cate such principles, a? will conduce to the 
future moral well-being of his pupils. In this 
lies the beneficence of his vocat ion. 
The teacher must not only possess persever¬ 
ance, skill, tact, energy, and knowledge of the 
subjects to be taught, but also a certain enthusi¬ 
asm for his work. His heart must be in it. A 
sculptor, whose heart is in his work, who finds it 
his chief source of enjoyment, and derives from 
it his purest pleasure, can make the “dull, cold 
marble speak:' but, if he finds the workirksome, 
utterly repugnant to his tastes, inclinations and 
feelings, he cannot succeed; his statue will be 
full of imperfections and deformities. So, if the 
teacher is enthusiastic and throws his whole 
heart into the work, he will succeed; and can 
hardly fail to make right impressions. But if, on 
the contrary, like the sculptor, the work is repug¬ 
nant to his tastes, he will surely fail. 
Now, there is a large class of teachers who 
have no just conception of their vocation, its 
ROCHESTER COLLldGIATi: IIsrSTI r X’TJ r rid. 
teacher is enthusiastic and throws his whole q ur c py p as man y excellent Educational 
heart into tho work, he will succeed; and can institutions, from the primary school to the 
hardly fail to make right impressions. But if on University and Theological Seminary; but prob- 
tho contrary, like the sculptor, the work is repug- ably uo one amon g them is doing hotter service 
nant to his tastes, he will surely fail. j n [ be m cntal and moral training of the young, 
Now. there is a large class of teachers who fj ian the Rochester Collegiate Institute. 
have no just conception of their vocation, its From its first establishment, some eight, years 
responsibilities and duties, whose tastes are at ago, it has enjoyed a high reputation and large 
variance with it, and whose hearts are not en¬ 
listed in the work before them. A portion of 
these are urged into the business by the ill- 
advised kindness and unwise solicitations; nay, 
even commands, of parents! Ho not urge your 
children to accept an occupation into which they 
cannot enter with all their hearts, and which is 
repugnant to their tastes, inclinations, aspira¬ 
tions and feelings; for if they do not completely 
fail, they will fall very, very short of success. 
Besides, is it more than just that they should 
have the liberty of choosing their own occupa¬ 
tion? Certainly not. 
Tho other portion are more numerous and far 
more reprehensible. They take upon themselves 
the responsibility and duty of teachers because 
they think it. the easfost way of gaining a liveli¬ 
hood. To such I woidd say, keep out of tho 
school-room, as teachers. It is not your place. 
You are sculptors engaged to work upon tho 
most, lasting of all material; your hearts are not 
in the work, and you will make wrong impres¬ 
sions, bring out horrid deformities instead of 
radiant beauties, degrading and defacing rather 
than improving and beautifying the fair mate¬ 
rial God never designed you to be a worker 
upon! x. 
Antwerp, N. Y., 1863. 
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Written fnr Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
LAST SCHOOL DAY OF THE TERM. 
How anxiously we all await it, with tho ex¬ 
pectancy of having a pleasant terminus to many 
arduous labors! Time goes hastily on; tho sun 
shine- warmly down, sending fertility into the 
co! lamp earth; birds begin to sing sweetly in 
the trees, and the last day of tho long winter 
term arrives. Joy to tho truant and the careless 
urchin! for that “abominably particular” per¬ 
sonage, the teacher, “mil not trouble them any 
longer.” 
There are some faces which are not pleased, 
and some are even sad. A few of the scholars 
conclude that they are “not much glad that the 
school is out,” while most of them declare that 
they would rather not have vacation than to miss 
all the pleasures of the school for so long a time. 
But tho patting time has come, and it is now 
realized that the associations formed cannot be 
broken without 
Reader, life is a school, in which, if wc are not 
tardy or indolent in the performance of our duty, 
though at its closing day we may look back 
patronage; yet lie condition and arrangements, 
as well as its prospects of permanence and emi¬ 
nent usefulness, were never better than since it 
CALIFORNIA SOCIAL LIFE. 
In no place is society more free and cordial, 
and ready to give a friendly reception to a stran¬ 
ger, than in California. The new-comer is look¬ 
ed upon with favor; nobody cares whether ho 
belongs to a distinguished family, has moved in 
fashionable circle, or possesses wealthy or influ¬ 
ential friends or relatives. The great question is, 
“is ho or she well educated, polished and enter¬ 
taining?” Of course, Californians aro notentirely 
above such considerations as govern society else¬ 
where. but they are influenced by them far less 
than people In other States. The course of busi¬ 
ness is such that no profession has all the weal th. 
There are rich uion of all occupations, and some 
of the mechanical trades are now ns profitable, 
on the average, to those? engaged in them, as are 
the learned professions. Those who were rich iu 
the older States, and received a thorough educa¬ 
tion and a polished training, may here be poor, 
while those who came hither poor and ignorant 
may now be riel). Besides, the changes are so 
rapid that our neighbor who is poor to day may 
be rich tu-morrow, and the neighbor who is rich 
to-day may be poor to-morrow. Again, Califor¬ 
nia is pre-eminently a country of business. 
People came here to make money, and everybody 
tries to make it; and in a State where wages are 
high and profits large, a man’s business depends 
to a considerable extent on the midtiUide of his 
friends, so everybody wishes to make a friend of 
everybody else. The millionaire in Europe may 
treat his tenant as an inferior; in California the 
wealthiest land-owner is expected to treat his 
tenant as an equal. All these things have their 
Influence in preventing the separation of our 
society into those classes which prevail elsewhere. 
In no part of the world is the individual more 
free from restraint Men, women and children 
are permitted to do nearly us they please. High 
wages, migratory habits and bachelor life are 
not favorable to the maintenance of stiff social 
rules among men, and the tone of society among 
women must partake, to a considerable extent, of 
came under the sole direction of its present com¬ 
petent and gentlemanly Proprietor and Princi¬ 
pal — Prof. L. R. SaTteiu.ee. 
The Institute provides instruction, under able 
touchers, for pupils of both sexes, and the course 
of study, as we have occasion to know, is thor¬ 
ough and comprehensive. For young men the 
course embraces all the branches essential to a 
good English and Commercial education, and 
thorough preparation for College. The Female 
Department, limited lo fifty pupils, shares all tho 
ed branches. The man was tall, but hisstatf was 
high above him; ho walked an unseemly gait, 
and wo soon recognized him as an African maniac, 
of whom some of the Europeans of Haifa had 
complained to the governor because- he walked 
in the streeets quite naked; in consequence of 
this he had been turned out of the town. We 
passed him, and then be followed close behind us, 
muttering and making strange noises. It was 
not very pleasant to have such an attendant 
We turned sharply round and faced him, and 
then walked toward the town: ho turned also, 
and preceded us. We were still among the 
tombs; and, in the rapidly increasing darkness, 
it appeared the darkest place imaginable—rocky 
and desolate, with tombs o! all periods, some in 
the last stages of decay, falling and crumbling 
into strange shapes and heaps, others partially 
concealed by small dark evergreen oaks, and 
here and there was a newly whitened sepulchre, 
which seemed to shine with a light of its own. 
Tho black man did not accompany us beyond 
this domain of death; ni .i when I looked back 
and saw him stauding there among the tombs, 
swaying himself and kis sceptre to and fro, I 
could not help thinking of the description, in the 
Gospel narrative, of that, man who metChrlst on 
the shores of tho Sea of Galilee, and “ which had 
devils along lime and wore no clothes, neither abode 
in any house , but in the tombs. 1 ' 1 did not suppose 
the poor African maniac was possessed of devils, 
hut 1 thought he mightvery likely be seized with 
best advantages of the most approved Female 
Seminaries. The Boarding Department is ex¬ 
clusively for young ladles, who, in addition to 
the higher facilities for literary discipline, here 
enjoy tho comforts and kindness of a well-ordered 
and pleasant home — a feature too often lacking 
in schools of great pretensions. 
Our engraving represents tho Institute Build¬ 
ing, a commodious and well-arranged edifice, 
pleasantly situated on the corner of Atwater and 
Oregon streets. 
less than others. At five o’clock His Holiness 
takes a drive in his carriage, escorted by guards, 
cutnerieri, anti monsignori. At seven the Pope 
sups, anti afterwards plays a game at billiards. 
At ten all the lights at the Vatican are extin¬ 
guished. 
; tli fating. 
A CHILD’S PRAYER. 
Father ! now the day is past, 
On thy child thy blessing cast; 
Near my pillow, hand to band, 
Keep thy gtinrdiun angel band, 
And throughout the darkling night 
Bless us with a cheerful light. 
Let me rise at mom again, 
Free from every thought of pain; 
Thus, my Father, day by day, 
Keep me through life's thorny way. 
WORDS FOR THE BRIGHT ONES. 
Dull boys and girls are not expected to read 
these words. They would not understand them, 
perhaps, butyou can do so; you who are at the head 
of your class iu school, you who take the lead on 
the play ground, you who read better and speak 
more correctly than many fathers and mothers. 
You are very quick to catch an idea, and Borne 
the spirit of revenge; so I was glad lo bo out of persons think that yon know a great deal already, 
his reach, aud safe within tho gates of the town. Well, let us talk about that. There are a number 
— Domestic Life in Palestine. of things that every young person ought to know. 
—♦- Are you sure that, you know them all? You can 
THE POPE AT HOME, speak very fluently, and you are proud of it, 
- You know that true words and kind words have 
Hrs Holiness rises about six. At seven he a great deal of power in line world, but do you 
says mass in a room adjoining his bed-room, know how much power there Is in silence? It is 
Almost all the Cardinals and the Roman Bishops 11 great thing to know when to he silent, to know 
follow tho same, custom. When a prelate at when to stop. Did you ever think that there are 
Rome hires a furnished apartment, he brings kind ears, as well as a kind tongue? V'ou can 
with him a small portable altar and says mass at make people very happy by just simply listening 
home; and it does not unfrequently happen that 
a foreigner who hires an apartment which has 
been previously occupied by a prelate, finds 
some, of the remnants of these altars. The Pope 
is served by a camerieri, and by a prolate, priest 
though at its closing day we may look back that among men, especially in a country where or deacon. There aro at the Vatican ten secret and keen, and they ought to be as full as your 
longingly upon its well-spent moments, after va- the women are ft small minority, and therefore camerieri, more or less, closely attached to the pockets. A time will perhaps come when your 
cation we shall meet again in that great High are much courted. Public opinion, which, as a | p 0 p 6) according to their age. At. the head of ears will be dull and satisfied with hearing; now, 
white they talk. It is a proper and graceful 
thing for you to do. I do not know a more beau¬ 
tiful sight than that of a young, bright face 
listening quietly and respectfully to older speak¬ 
ers. You have two ears and they are very quick 
School which never shall come to a close. 
West Milton, Ohio, March, 1863. A Teaches. 
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VISITING SCHOOLS. 
We know a man who last summer hired four 
colts pastured on a farm some five miles distant. 
At least once in two weeks he got into a wagon, 
and drove over to see how his juvenile horses 
fared, ne made minute inquiries of the keeper 
as to their health, their daily watering, etc.; he 
himself examined the condition of the pasture; 
and when the dry season came on ho made 
special arrangements to have a daily allowance 
of meal, and ho was careful to know that this 
was regularly supplied. 
This man had four children attending a district 
school kept in a small building erected at the 
cross-roads. Around this building on three sides 
is a space of land six feet wide; the fourth side 
is on a line with the street. There is not an out¬ 
house or shade-tree in sight of the building. Of 
th * interior of the school-house we need not 
speak. The single room is like too many others, 
with all its apparatus arranged upon the most 
approved planter producing curved spines, com¬ 
pressed lungs, ill health, etc. 
We wish to state one fact only. This owner of 
those colts, and the father of those children, ha? 
never been into that school-house to inquire after 
the comfort, health or mental food dally dealt 
out to his offspring. The latter part of the sum¬ 
mer we chanced to ask “Who teaches your 
schoolHis reply was that “he did not know; 
he believed her name was Parker, but he had no 
time to look after school matters! — American 
Agriculturist. 
guardian of public morals, is more powerful than 
the terms of law, loses much of its power in a 
community where the inhabitants are not perma¬ 
nent residents. A large portion of tho men in 
California live alone, either in cabins or in hotels, 
remote from women relatives, and therefore un¬ 
influenced by tho powers of a “ home." It, is not 
uncommon for manned women to gu to parties 
and balls in company with young bachelor friends. 
The girls commence going into “society” about 
fifteen, and then receive company alone, and go 
out alone with young men to dances and other 
places of amusement, in this there is u great 
error; too much liberty is allowed {to the girls in 
the States on the Atlantic slope, and still greater 
liberty is given here, where, as they ripen earlier, 
they should be more guarded. — Life on the 
Pacific. 
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AN INCIDENT OF TRAVEL IN PALESTINE. 
Bv starlight we wandered to the high ground 
behind Talibeyeh; we could see watchfircs on 
many of the hills around and on the Bethlehem 
plain, and heard in the still night air echoes of 
the clear shrill voices of far oil’ shepherds who 
them are Mgrs Stella. De Murode, Talbot and “ he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” 
Ricci, who are always near His Holiness. They There is another thing. You are very prompt 
keep him company, amuse him, and make him and active, and have talents for command. I’or- 
laugh. which is not very difficult; for in private haps you may become a judge or a professor, a 
nies, one good and pretty, the other ugly in every 
sense of the word. Jennie’s are not tho only 
pair of eyes I know out of which two different | 
peoplo look. If you could see your own face 
when you aro vexed, you would bo surprised, 
perhaps frightened. Jennie saw hers once. I 
will tell you how it happened. 
She had been up very late at night, reading a 
story that was written by oue foolish person, and 
read by a great many others. She had not learn¬ 
ed yet that we are likely to become like the peo¬ 
ple whose books we road. She caino down late 
in tho morning, with a severe headache; how 
could a head help aching that was tilled with ab¬ 
surd thoughts, so full, indeed, that there was not 
room enough left fur errands or lessons? Her 
mother charged her to mail an important letter 
at tho post-office, on her way to school, aud sho 
remembered it, when the last hell k was [ringing 
I and she was almost there. Her home was half a 
mile behind her, aud a recitation just before her 
for which she was not half prepared. Must she 
go back? She certainly hud not time to go, and it 
was very perverse in her to stop a full minute to 
be angry and pout in the street. Then sho went 
back for the letter, was late at school, had (more 
than one imperfect lesson, and cried from tho pain 
in her bead. 
The next morning she came down the [street 
fresh and happy, with the good Jennie looking 
out of her eyes. She passed a picture gallery at 
the very place where she hod stopped in vexation 
the day before, and there was the bad {Jennie 
looking down upon her from the top of the show¬ 
case, a hateful face under a neat little hat, a face 
that looked as if it ached. “Is it possible!” 
thought Jennie, in surprise. “ 1 will never look 
like that again.” And sho ran up! stairs to the 
artist, who was her cousin. “'Will you take 
down the picture?” she asked eagerly. “ Yes, 
on two conditions;—that you will redeem your 
standing at school, and that you will rub out tho 
bad marks ill-temper is making on your charac¬ 
ter.” “ I will do both,” replied Jennie, and she 
kept her word. At tho end of tho,term not one 
of her schoolmates could show a fairer record 
than hers; as for the picture, she keeps it in a 
private drawer which she opens when she is dis¬ 
posed to be idle or impatient, and her friends all 
say she resembles it less and less as the days go 
by .—Springfield Republican. 
SECOND-HAND CLOTHING. 
“ It is strange, isn’t it,” said aunt Alice, “ that 
whatever we may dress ourselves in, it is only 
second-hand clothing, after all?” 
“Why, aunt Alice,” said Minnie, with much 
earnestness, “ I never wove second-hand clothing 
in my life. Wo give away all rny old clothes to 
tho poor. 1 would notgo to a party in old clothes, 
above all things.” 
“And yet, my dear, everything you have on 
comes to you second-hand. Indeed you would 
not permit the creatures who first wore, them to 
enteryour parlor. You would quite likely shrink 
away if they came near you. Yet you do not 
BCruplo to take their old garments, and even take 
much pride in wearing them.” 
“ I cannot understand yon at all, aunty.” 
“ Well,dear Minnie, you know the silk of which 
that bright I issue L? made was spun by a crawling 
worm. He made it for his shroud, and when bo 
was quite done wearing it, the silk makers re-spun 
and nnute it over into this fabric. Those white 
gloves were once the clothing of a poor little aui- 
mal, whoso life had to betaken before his skin 
could bo made over for you. Then another ani¬ 
mal must bo sacrificed to make even the soles of 
your satin slippers. Even the pearl ornament 
yon wear was once the property of an oyster. The 
patient sheep must give his fleece to make a man¬ 
tle to throw about you. So you see, dear, that it 
is a hard matter to lay first claim to anything wo 
wear, and this reflection may bo very useful to 
us when wo are tempted to pride ourselves on 
our flue raiment. God looks at the heart, M innie, 
and is more pleased with the ornament of a rneek 
and quiet spirit than all the gems in the world.— 
N. V. Chronicle. 
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“Shall I learn to Dance?” —Asks a young 
reader. Certainly, by all means. Commence 
with the “ Quickstep” out, of bed iu the morning, 
’ keep it up till the “ chores’ are finished. The 
! boys will of course have a “cow drill” at the 
barn, while the girls are engaged in a “country 
dance” in the kitchen. After tills, all hands 
“change,” and promenade to school, keep- 
aud roads them to the Pope. At nine, when the 
repast is over and the letters read, Cardinal An* 
touelli makes his appearance from the floor 
above. He is always gentle anti mild — “ Holy 
Father” here; “ Happy Father ” there; he praises 
the genius of the Pope, his knowledge of affairs, 
&c. That is the way in which the Cardinal 
always addresses Pius IX. Cardinal Antonelli 
consults him on everything, and is his most hum¬ 
ble servant. The political conversation and 
business of the Sovereign Pontiff'with the Minis¬ 
ter lasts for ail hour or two. About half past ten 
or eleven the audiences commence. The Pope, 
dressed in white, is seated in a large arm-chair 
with a table before hinL lie says two or three 
words to all the persons who are presented to 
him in the language which they speak—French, 
Italian, or Spanish; but if English or German be 
mand others you ought to know how to obey. 
Do you know this perfectly? When your parents 
or teachers point out your duty, do you just go 
Straight on and do it? Do you know all about a 
prompt and cheerful obedience, just how it feels, 
as well as how it looks? Prompt and cheerful 
obedience! It is very beautiful. Do you know 
that it is pleasant, too, that it will make you hap¬ 
py as well as admirable? If you can govern 
yourself now, 1 have no doubt you will be able 
now and then will be quite iu place ter the girls 
who have learned to spin, but the boys should 
never think of it. If those and kindred dances 
are thoroughly practiced they will leave, little 
time and no necessity for the polkas, scbottisches, 
and other immodest fooleries of the ball room.— 
American Agriculturist. 
A Touching Gu t.— In a bale of promiscuous 
to govern other people by-and-by ; but if yon clotbin £ laM y W«ved in Manchester for distri- 
cannot be strictly responsible for one pair of arms butlon umon 8 lho di « lr<,s8ed operatives, from 
and legs, how can you ever manage a thousand? 80me P lac P» thc mxmc of which 1101 g IveQ > there 
—Springfield Republican. 
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A LESSON IN A PICTURE. 
Do you know Jennie Lee? I think you would 
some place, thc name of which is not given, there 
was found a boy's Scotch cap. In the cap was a 
letter addressed, “ For an orphan or motherless 
boy.” On opening tho tetter a shilling was found 
inclosed, and the following touching epistle:— 
“ May the youthful wearer ol' this cap meet its 
were “ watching their flocks by night," and giving spoken an interpreter becomes necessary. Some- like to know her. She is a bright young girl, owner iu Heaven. He was beautiful and 
signals, perhaps, to their tellow watchers. * * times during the audieuces he signs applications with a very expressive face. I used to think it £Ood, atl( l was removed by an accident from this 
We wore walking toward the sands, through the 
the burying ground; the sun had set. We had 
left behind us at some distance all the evening 
loungers about the town gate, aud all the smok¬ 
ers by the well-aide and the garden, when we 
saw advancing toward us in the twilight, a pow¬ 
erful-looking black man girdled with sackcloth, 
carrying a staff, or rather the trunk of a slender 
tree, which still retained two or three of its fork- 
for indulgences which have been made to him 
in writing. The Pope willingly signs those 
applications, writing at the bottom of them, 
“Fiat Pio Nono.” At two o’clock the Pontifical 
dinner takes place. From three to four thc 
Pope takes his siesta, as every one does at Rome. 
If you call at the house of a Cardinal at that 
was just like a window, with her soul looking 
through. Perhaps you will ask if it was a good- 
looking soul. Sometimes it was beautiful, but 
not always; It changed as often as the sky. 
Sometimes it smiled like the sun when it makes 
rosebuds open and strawberries turn red ; some- 
world to a better. A weeping mother’s blessing 
be on the future wearer of her bright boy’s cap.” 
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As daylight can be seen through very small 
holes, so little things will illustrate a person’s 
character. Indeed, character consists in little 
acts, habitually and honorably performed; daily 
If you call at the house of a Cardinal at that times it frowned like the black clouds that come acts, habitually and honorably performed; daily 
hour, the answer invariably is, “His Eminence up so fast in summer, when the wind gets angry life being the quarry from which we build it up, 
is reposing.” The Pope does neither more nor ' and breaks things. In short, there were two Jen- and rough-hew the habits from it. 
