ploded basis of 1864-5, is no more touching 
grouud than Baron Munchausen’s horse wheu 
he was tied to the top of a steeple. 
A knowledge of human nature is more impor¬ 
tant to a speculator than a knowledge of the 
thing speculated in. Instead of analyzing gold 
and silver ores, he should analyze the condition 
of public sentiment. If he finds no appreciable 
percentage of faith there, it matters not how 
much of the precious metals exist in a ton of 
bis ore, or how certainly a fortune could be, 
made by the manufacture of some patented ar¬ 
ticle In universal demand. To state this is to 
state an axiom. But there are men whose mis¬ 
fortune it is never to see things as they are, but 
as they wish them to be, and of such is the class 
composed who arc now trying to make a living 
by expedients which ceased to be successful 
soon after the close of the war. It ia the ability 
to discover, and the good sense to follow indica¬ 
tions of a change of feeling on the part of the 
public, which makes all the difference between 
the few speculators who achieve and retain suc¬ 
cess and the thousands whose lives are a perfect 
failure. From their fate, and not from that of 
the lucky few, may the true lesson of specula¬ 
tion be learned without the painful necessity of 
■A', Y. Journal qf Commerce. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
HOME SCENERY. 
LOVE ONE ANOTHER 
Children, do you love each other? 
Are you always kind and true? 
Do you always do to others 
As you'd have them do to you ? 
Aro yon gentle to each other ? 
Are you careful, day by day, 
Not to give offence by actions 
In your work or in your play ? 
Little children, love each other; 
Never give another pain: 
If your brother speaks in anger. 
Answer not in wrath again. 
Be not selfish to each other. 
Never mar another's rest, 
Strive to make each other happy. 
And you'll find yourselves are blest 
BY L. HXt.SEV 
On one of those pleasant'days, so unu sual in 
November, but the more agreeable to the tr aveler 
because unexpected, I embarked at^Geneva 
on Capt. Det’3 handsome and staunch ^little 
steamer, the “ D. 8. Magee,” for a trip over the 
almost classic waters of the beautiful Seneca. 
It would be well worth the labor, for one who 
is skilled in the investigation of legendary lore, 
to collect, before It is too late, the many inter¬ 
esting legends which arc connected with onr 
charming inland lakes, and which invest them 
with an unwonted, aud (as we leam more of 
their history,) deepening interest. There is, 
perhaps, no other lake, among the many in 
Central New York, more beautiful than that of 
which Percival 6ang: 
“On thy fair bosom, silver lake. 
The white swan spreads her snowy sail.” 
And there is none around whose history cluster 
more of those mysterious legends which have 
been handed down to ns by that race whose 
scattered remnants have been driven far away 
towards the setting sun. It is strange that more 
attention has not been bestowed upon the col¬ 
lection and preservation of these curious legends. 
Soon they will be forgotten; and the Informa¬ 
tion they contain, concerning the early history 
of our country and its aboriginal inhabitants, 
will bo lost forever. 
The lands about- the lakes, Cayuga and Seneca, 
seem to have been favored hannts of the red men, 
as is shown by many remains of ancient fortifica¬ 
tions and Indian villages. Some of the “ turn¬ 
pike roads ” of the present day follow the course 
of the Indian war trails which formed the only 
means of communication for the early settlers. 
Trails led from the headwaters of the Delaware 
River, and from the forks of the Susquehanna, 
and formed a junction at Catherine’s Town, 
(now Havana,) and thence running north through 
Peach Orchard, (an Indian plantation,) passed 
along the eastern shore of 8cncca Lake, until, at 
the outlet, it reached Canadesaga, (now Geneva.) 
Onr first “port," after leaving Geneva, La 
Dey’s Lauding, 60 named, I believe, in honor 
of Capt. D. P. Dey, the genial commander of the 
“ Magee,” who, more than almost any other jjer- 
6on, Is interested in all that concerns the history 
of the beautiful Seneca. He is familiar with its 
legends, aud with the half-hidden beauties of its 
picturesque shores. Near Dey’s Landing is a 
small hut deeply-cut ravine, and a little way 
“inland” is the hamlet of Uomnlusville. 
Crossing to Dresden, and re-crossing to Ovid 
Landing, we come in sight of the State Agricul¬ 
tural College building, once under the control of 
Major (now General) Patrick,— one of those 
unfortunate public institutions which seem 
doomed by fate to a masterly Inactivity. The 
College farm of several hundred acres has been 
purchased by the State, and now other large 
buildings are going up on the lake shore, not far 
from the steamboat landing, designed for a State 
Lunatic Asylum. The village of Ovid is cele¬ 
brated for its seminary building, a handsome 
brick edifice, four stories high and one hundred 
and fifty feet in length. 
A short distance up the lake is Lodi Landing, 
which is not far from the beautiful Lodi Falls. 
At some seasons of the year this is a spot of sur¬ 
passing beauty. The falls are nearly two hun¬ 
dred feet in height, but not perpendicular. They 
will compare favorably with the far-famed Tren¬ 
ton Falls. 
Our next stopping place is North Hector, a 
pretty little village, perched on the steep ascend¬ 
ing lake bank, and a favorite resort for pleasure 
excursionists. At this part the lake is of great 
depth, and at Starkey Point, about half way be¬ 
tween Lodi and Ovid, the depth is 030 feet. 
Crossing to the other shore, we see, at Big 
Stream, a beautiful little fall of considerable 
height, and in full view from the steamer. The 
wholesiountry here is intersected by ravines worn 
in the soft shales, some of which are just becom¬ 
ing known to the tourist. Cascades and water¬ 
falls are frequent; and when the streams are 
swelled by the spring or autumnal rains, some 
CHILDREN’S PRATTLE, 
SCENE ON SENECA LAKE. 
BY HANS ANDERSEN 
the extreme, aud Mr. Ells, the proprietor of the 
Glen, and also member of the editorial fraternity, 
is yearly making it easier of access, and opening 
hitherto concealed beauties to the admiration of 
the visitor. During the past season, Capt. Dey 
has carried thousands of visitors to tills romantic 
spot. The excursion, as I made it, requires but 
little time, and the exploration of this wonderful 
glen, added to the pleasures of the trip up the 
lake, renders the journey a most delightful one. 
experience 
man. lie hml taken, in his youth, a college ex¬ 
amination. lie Uud been kept to liis studios by 
his worthy father, who had not gone, very deep 
into learning himself, but was honest and active. 
He had made money, and the merchant hud in¬ 
creased the fortune left to him. Hu had intel¬ 
lect, aud heart too; but loss was said of these 
good qualities than of his money. 
There visited at his house several distinguished 
persons, both people of birth, as It is called, and 
people of talents, as it is called — people who 
came under both of these head*, and people who 
came under neither of these heads. The meet¬ 
ing now in question was a children’s party, 
where there was childish talk ; aud cbildron 
generally speak like parrots. 
There was one little girl so excessively proud. 
She had been flattered iuto her foolish pride by 
the servants, not by her parents—they were too 
sensible to have done that. Her father was 
Kammcrjunker* aud she thought tills was mon¬ 
strously grand. 
“ I am a c»urt child,” she said. 
She might as well have been a cellar child, as 
far as she was herself concerned; and she in¬ 
formed the other children that she was “ born” 
(mil bom, she meant); that when people were 
not “born,” they could never bo anybody; 
and that, however much they might read, how¬ 
ever clever and industrious they might be, if 
they were not “ born ” they could never become 
great. 
“ And those whose names end in * son,' " she 
continued, “ arc all low people, and can never 
be of any consequence In the world. Ladies 
and gentlemen would put their hands on their 
aides, and keep them ut a distance, theae 
* sen—sens ’! ” And she threw herself into the 
attitude she had described, and stuck her pretty 
little anus akimbo, to show how people of her 
grade would carry themselves In the presence of 
such common creatures, She really looked very 
pretty. 
But the merchant’s little daughter became ex¬ 
tremely angry. Her father wus culled “ Mad¬ 
sen,” and that name, she knew, ended in 
“sen;” so she said, us proudly as she could,— 
“ But my father can buy hundreds of rix dol¬ 
lars’ worth of sugar-plums, and think nothing 
of it. Can your lather do that?” 
“That’s all very well,” said the little daugh¬ 
ter of a popular journalist; “ but my father can 
put both of your fathers and all ‘fathers’ into 
the newspaper. Every one Is afraid of him, my 
mother says; for it is my father who rales every¬ 
thing through the newspaper.” And the little 
girl tossed her head ami strutted about us if she 
thought herself a princess. 
But on the outside of the half-open door stood 
a poor little boy peeping in. It was, of course, 
out of the question that so poor a child should 
enter the drawing-room ; but he laid been turn¬ 
ing the Bpit for the cook, and lie had obtained 
permission to look lu behind the door at the 
.splendidly dressed children who were amusing 
themselves, and that was a treat to him. 
He would have liked to be one of them, he 
thought; but at that moment he heard what 
had been said, aud it was enough to make him 
very 6ad. Not one shilling had his parents at 
home to spare. They were not able to sot up a 
newspaper, to say nothing of writing for one. 
And the worst was yet to come; for his father’s 
name, and of course also his own name, certainly 
ended In “sen.” He, therefore, could never be¬ 
come anybody in this world. This was very dis¬ 
heartening. Though he felt assured that lie was 
born, it was impossible to think otherwise. 
This was what passed that evening. 
Several years hud elapsed, and during their 
course the children had grown up to be men 
and women. 
There stood in the town a handsome house, 
which was filled with magnificent objects of 
art. Every one went to see it. Even people 
who lived at a distance came to town to see it. 
VVhieh prodigy, among the children we have 
spoken of, could call that edifice his or hers ? 
It is easy to tell that. No; it is not so easy, 
after all. That house belonged to the poor lit¬ 
tle boy, who became somebody, although his 
name did end in “ sen.”— Tuouwaldsen ! 
And the three other children — the children 
of high birth, money, and literary arrogance ? 
Yes; there is nothing to be said about them. 
They arc all ulike. They grew up to be all 
very respectable, comfortable, and common¬ 
place. They were well-meaning people. What 
they had formerly said and thought was only — 
children’s prattle. 
* A title at court. 
AN UNFORTUNATE PRIZE-HOLDER 
SUBSIDENCE 0E SPECULATION. 
A MAN who lives in one of the rural counties 
of Ohio drew tlic prize of “20,000 acres of laud 
in Pike county, Keutucky,” in a recent gift 
enterprise scheme in that vicinity, no called 
upon the managers of the enterprise and told 
them he didn’t want the land, and they might 
keep it by giving him $20,000. They declined 
the offer, generous as it was, and then he drop¬ 
ped to $15,000, and finally to $10,000, declaring 
that lie “hoped never to see his wife aud chil¬ 
dren if ho would take a cent less,” The gift 
men didn't want the land. LI was worth double 
the price he offered to take for it, of course, but 
they had other uses for the money and coutdn’t 
invest. He took the deed for the land —would 
gladly have taken the will lor the deed, that is, 
if they had willed to give him the money —and 
went to Pike county to view his possessions. 
He found twenty thousand acres of barren rock 
and mountain, that would hardly afford subsist¬ 
ence for a rattlesnake. He couldn’t find a level 
spot of ground that afforded sufficient space for 
the most economical garden patch, but he could 
instead 
-“See rudely swoll 
Crag o’er crag, and fell o’er fell.” 
And uothing else. He wended his way hack 
again — “all the way from Pike”—and offered 
Not long ago a gentleman of this city, who 
has had some experience iu speculative, enter¬ 
prises, received a letter from a cool-headed, in¬ 
telligent friend in Virginia, asking him what was 
the chance of selling a gold mine here. It had 
just been discovered; it adjoined one of the 
most famous mines iu the State; it had five well 
defined lodes; not to put too fine a point upon 
it, it was a hill lull of gold, mixed with just 
enough baser earth to impart to the working of 
it a tantalizing but delicious speculative interest. 
The title was perfect and the most thorough ex¬ 
amination desired. Of course the owners of the 
property placed an enormous value on it. They 
aflvays do. But it could be had cheap for cash, 
say $50,000. This, too, is generally the case. 
What could the New York party do with a 
“solid, demonstrable thing like that” among 
the. wealthy capitalists, of whom he was sup¬ 
posed to have the private ear ? He put tbo letter 
in his pocket and started out. Entirely skepti¬ 
cal himself as to the possibility of raising 
another hundred dollars in this city for a new 
mine, he determined to try for his friend. Ho 
called upon five or six well-to-do people, whom 
he regarded as most likely, all things considered, 
to interest themselves in the explorations of a 
gold mine so near home as Virginia, and these 
were about the results of bis inquiries: 
One gentleman—a shrewd, successful old mer¬ 
chant, after hcaritig a statement of the fact 
crammed into the space of throe minutes, said 
with a grin, “ One half of the purchase money 
goes to you * as promoter,’ 1’spose, ha! ha!” 
ills visitor took the hit good-naturedly, but as¬ 
serted most emphatically—which was true—that 
he had not a dollar’s iutorest present or prospec¬ 
tive, in the concern. On the contrary, such was 
his confidence in the judgment of his Virginia 
friend, that he would be willing to subscribe, 
according to his means, on the same basis as all 
the other gentlemen. “I was only jokiug," 
said the veteran merchant, “ about your inter¬ 
est in the sale. But I got stuck once for $15,000 
by a man that talked just as you do, aud l guess 
I 'won't put, a dollar in the. mine on any terms." 
This closed the case, aud our friend left. 
Another individual, a man commonly sup¬ 
posed not to have dabbled in speculation, was 
called upon. Here, if anywhere, confidence 
could be found. After a patient audience, which 
promised well, this unsophisticated person said, 
“You can keep a secret., Mr.-?” “As sa¬ 
credly as the grave.” wus the response. “Then 
EXTRACT OF HEMLOCK BARK. 
Thomas W. Johnson, Boston, through the 
columns of the Maine Farmer, assumes that the 
State of Maine has within its borders a source of 
great wealth which has hitherto attracted but 
little attention. This neglected mine is found 
in the hemlock forests which cover a large sec¬ 
tion of the State, comprising about five millions 
of acres. It is assumed, and no doubt correctly, 
that this land will produce twenty cords of bark 
to tlic acre, or one hundred millions in all. Were 
this to be removed to market in bulk, the pro¬ 
cess would be very expensive, diminishing very 
materially the net product of cash from this 
source. But, by a well-known process for ex¬ 
tracting the. strength of the bark and preserving 
it in a liquid form, the value of this forest pro¬ 
duct has been appreciated many fold. A fair 
test of the cost of procuring aud getting it to 
market showed it to be a very profitable busi- 
A cord of bark will produce about 27 
ness, 
gallons of extract,, coating, delivered at some 
point of shipment, from five to six dollars. A 
gallon weighs ten pounds, or 270 pounds to a 
cord of bark. This sells readily for six cents 
per pound, giving $16.20 per cord of bark, or 
about $11 clear profit. 
Owing to the excellent tanning properties of 
this extract. It will always find a ready market, 
both domestic and foreign, and, on the supposi¬ 
tion that the. yield will equal, per cord, the esti¬ 
mate of Mr. JonNSON, which we have no reason 
to question, we have an aggregate of money 
value in the hemlock bark of the wilds of Maine 
of eleven hundred millions of dollars ! This leaves 
out of account the lumber value of the trees 
felled for the bark, which must be considerable 
as the country becomes cleared up and the means 
of access to it improved. With this reserve 
fund to draw upon, the people of Maine and 
other States producing hemlock timber, exer- 
ereising proper industry, may grow rich as cer¬ 
tainly and as rapidly as those States lying in 
more genial latitudes and blessed with a more 
prolific soil. 
KNIFE AND PITCHFORK 
Saxhausbn is one of the suburbs of Frank¬ 
fort, and is partly occupied by gardeners, who 
are considered, rightly or wrongly, to be a clown¬ 
ish lot. When the Prussian troops entered the 
city, ever}' house was obliged to billet one or two 
soldiors. The inhabitants of Bnxbausou acquit¬ 
ted themselves of this duty with a very bad 
grace, and one of them showed such manifest 
sigus of ill-will towards his guCBt that the lat¬ 
ter, wheu ho sat down to dinner, placed his 
sword on the table by his side, with a very sig¬ 
nificant gesture. The countryman said uothlug, 
but loft the room and returned in a moment with 
an cuormous pitchfork, which he laid down be¬ 
side the sword. The soldier flushed up with 
anger, but the other quietly observed, “1 tho’t 
that for so big a knife a big fork was required. 
If you like, we cau each make use of our own 
implement.” This was all tlic satisfaction the 
sou of Mars could obtain, so he thought fit to put 
his Bword away in a corner of the kitchen, whilst 
the other withdrew the pitchfork. 
NEW TEXTILE IN NEVADA 
The last discovery which comes to us from 
Nevada Is agricultural rather than mineral, but 
very important. It is of a new textile, such as 
was eagerly but unsuccessfully sought when the 
late rebellion broke out. The plant now dis¬ 
covered has its home in the Humboldt Valley, 
where it grows in large quantities, and can of 
course be made to grow more thriftily by culti¬ 
vation, while, if it has the values that are ascribed 
to it, it will soon be removed to other fields and 
propagated among regular crops. This plant is 
said by the discoverers to be superior to any 
textile now iu use. Though styled “ hemp,” it 
iB so called on account of its closer similarity to 
that than to any other growth. It has a stronger 
aud a finer fibre than the proper hemp, and a 
much longer staple. In proportion to the wood, 
too, the fibre is much more abundant. It can be 
more easily separated than flax or hemp, and can 
be stripped clean from the stalk without prepa¬ 
ration. 
Nevada lies between 37 deg. and 42 deg. north. 
This corresponds with the latitude of Northern 
California, of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, 
Indianapolis, Columbus and Philadelphia. The 
Humboldt river, along which the new hemp 
grows, runs from the mountains of that name 
westward through a mountainous country. If, 
therefore, experimentproves what is now claimed 
for this textile, it cau be prolonged in its cultiva¬ 
tion from its original habitat to our own doors, 
and will enhance the value of the hemp harvest 
in those States where it is now an important 
feature. 
How to Take Cold.—As the thaw has come, 
the doctors are looking for an increase of busi¬ 
ness, and, as every trade must live, wc offer a 
few Mats upon the readiest methods of gratify¬ 
ing the fraternity. Persons who are partial to 
rheumatism should wear thin boots and be care¬ 
ful to keep them well soaked in snow water. 
A quick fever can be secured by leaving off 
overcoats. Neuralgia complaints are open to all 
who walk till they become beated, and then 
stop at the corner of a street und cool off by a 
genial chat with some good fellow. Coughs are 
free to all who will iusist upon throwing open 
their coats in order to catch the gentle south 
breeze which prevails. The ladies are such 
thorough experts in this art that we need not 
offer them any suggestion, but by abandoning 
their cloaks and rubbers and resorting to their 
boots and shawls, they will reach a gruel diet by 
a short cut. 
Cordial. — The following, from the Mobile 
Times, is evidently to be understood not sarcas¬ 
tically, but heartily, and is one of the most 
cheering messages that has yet reached us from 
the South; —“We ask Yankees, particularly, 
to come, and we repeat it, we want no better 
men, once their iutercst shall become wedded to 
us and our soil. We tell the^hardy lumberman 
of Maine to quit hia frozen region, and with his 
muscles of steel to come and till a grateful soil, 
which returns a thousand fold the seed entrusted 
to it. Their prejudices will soon wear out, and 
so Bhall ours, by constant daily friction.” 
Amber-— of a milky color—is taking the place 
of jet for ladies’s ornaments in Paris. 
