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THE PAY OF TEACHERS. 
That teachers are too generally poorly paid for 
their labors will be frankly admitted. Teaching is 
easy work, many deluded people imagine, and is 
not properly entitled to more than moderate com¬ 
pensation. And this is why the vocation is crowded 
with men and women of indifferent ability. A thor¬ 
oughly live man can do better, pecuniarily, in almost 
any other business. A preacher may feel it his duty 
to preacti on even a paltry salary, but a teacher is 
not often moved by a sense of duty. Re takes up 
the work because he is tiRed for it, and has a taste 
for it. Because of his fitness and taste be ought to 
continue in it. As an inducement so to do, he should 
be given remuneration approximating, if uot equal, 
to what ho could command in some other calling. 
in tfiu public schools of the cities teachers’ sala¬ 
ries are comiug up to a fair standard. In 6ome 
towns t.liey are abundantly high euough. Cincin¬ 
nati, as an example, pays its educators liberally. 
Its S ipermteudeut, receives $3,500 a year; the Prin¬ 
cipals of two High Schools each receive $2,500, their 
first mile Assistants $2,LOO each, and their first 
female Assistants each $1,100. Principals of Com¬ 
mon Schools arc paid $1,000 a year ; first male 
A-sistants in the same, $1,800; female Assistants 
generally, $700, except in cases of limited experi¬ 
ence, when $050, $500 and $150 an paid. The low¬ 
est. paid any teacher is $45 a calendar month. In 
Rochester, teachers’ wages have been increased 
something like twenty per cent., of late; and we 
are informed that a similar increase is conceded in 
a few other localities. 
But not rainy cities are so generous, or rather so 
just, in their dealings with teachers. And we hardly 
need state how teachers fare in the country. The 
poor schools which are there far too common are 
mainly the result of the poor prices paid for teach¬ 
ing. Pay liberal wages, secure good instructive 
talent thereby, and your schools will be the pride 
of Commissioners, and your children, as scholars, 
the pride of yourselves. The best country school 
we ever saw grew out of this wise liberality. A 
man of fine culture and genuine talent was secured 
as its teacher, at more than double the cost that the 
trustees of other schools were willing to incur. Re 
taught the school for several consecutive winters, 
and it was a model of its kiud. Lt won a reputation 
a? being the best in the county, aud called into it 
scholars from many of the surrounding districts. 
The new impulse which such a school gives to the 
cause of education iu its vicinity is ample reward 
for the extra expense entailed by it. The enthusi- 
jpstn which it awakens in the young who comprise 
it bears fcttlt Jongcr than can be told. 
On the other hand ft poony paid teacher puts lit¬ 
tle energy into his work, In the school-room Uc 
is listless aud careless. Ris school partakes of his 
spirit; there is no emulation, no healthy compe¬ 
tition, really no gratifying progress Friends of the 
Common Schools, this state of things doesn’t pay! 
Your children need something better. Do not rob 
your educational system through any false notions 
of economy. The truest economy la in good teach¬ 
ing, and good teaching comes from good teachers, 
liberally compensated. Deal generously with the 
instructors of the young, is the Rural's advice. 
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VERY SENSIBLE. 
In his Address before the late Editorial Convention 
at Watkins, Rev. Tho3. K. Beecher, speaking of the 
newspaper in connection with schools, said:—“I 
would be glad to see the County newspaper run all 
the reading books out of the schools and furnish to 
the little fellows fresh reading once a week, aud save 
them from the idiotic dullness with which theynow 
pore over their thrice read readers.” 
We have before alluded to the value of the news¬ 
paper as an edueationftt agent. By an active teacher 
it can be made to answer all the purposes of a reading 
book. A paper with a great variety of matter in its 
pages,—like the Rural, for instance,—can be used 
iu a reading class of any grade, aud will prove highly 
entertaining as well as instructive. The teacher can¬ 
not fail to find amid its contents something adapted 
to every pupil; und if he is judicious in his selec¬ 
tions the reading lessons will receive a new zest. 
Arbitrary arrangements of matter for classes are 
rather growing into disfavor. Within a few years, 
doubtless, reading books will be wclluigh discarded. 
Some brief, pointed, practical treatise on Elocution 
is all that any school needs, in this line. Given that; 
then let the School Commissioner place a dozen or 
twenty copies of some excellent newspaper iu each 
school; and the multitudinous series of “ Readers” 
will be acknowledged of no value. 
Computing Interest. —Here is a new method of 
computing interest on any number of dollars at six 
per cent, whieh appears simple: Multiply any given 
number of dollars by the number of days of interest 
desired, separate the right hand figure, and divide by 
six, the result is the true interest of such sum for 
such number of days at six per cent. This rule is so 
simple and so true, according to all^business usages, 
that every banker, broker, merchant or clerk should 
post it up for reference. There being no such thing 
as a fraction in it, there is scarcely any liability to 
error or mistake. By no other arithmetical process 
can the desired information bo obtained by so few 
figures. 
Mathematics in Ohio. — The people of Ohio 
seem to be deeply impressed by a love of figures. 
The children daily attending the schools of that 
State pursue brauclies in the following proportion: 
Arithmetic, GL per cent.; geography, 31 per cent.; 
grammar, 18 per cent.; twenty-one other studies, 5 
per cent. Thus only one-twelfth as much attention 
is paid to twenty-one branches, which include his¬ 
tory, algebra, physiology, natural and mental phi¬ 
losophy, geometry, chemistry, geology, astronomy, 
Latin, Greek, French and book-keeping, as to arith¬ 
metic; and it is stated that many pupils never 
study anything except the last named science. 
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The use of the rod has been abolished in the public 
schools at Syracuse, and the experiment is thus far 
pronounced satisfactory. In a report regarding it 
Rev. 8. J. May makes this significant statement: “1 
do believe that ati schools can be governed without 
any kind of corporeal punishment; but I do not 
believe that all teachers are able so to govern every 
school.” 
A project is on foot to establish a “National 
Publishing House for the Blind.” The last New 
York Legislature passed an act creating a body cor¬ 
porate for the promotion of this object. Among 
the Trustees of this corporation are Rev. Dr. Ferris, 
A. V. Stout, Nathan Bishop, Etkelbert S. Mills and 
others. 
CURIOSITIES OF' SOUND. 
Among the things not generally known, Dr. Tyn¬ 
dall informs us that sound resembles light, in beiog 
susceptible of refraction. The refraction of a lu¬ 
minous beam by a lens is a consequence of the re¬ 
tardation suffered by the light in passing through 
the glass. Sound may be similarly refracted by 
causing it to pass through a lens which retards its 
motion. Such a lens is formed when we fill a bal¬ 
loon with some gas heavier than air. As an exam¬ 
ple, the professor takes a collodion balloon filled 
with carbonic acid gas, the envelop beiug so thin as 
to yield readily to the pulses which strike against 
it, transmitting them to the gas inside. He then 
hangs up nis watch close to the lens, and then, at a 
distance of four or live feet on the other side of the 
lens, he listens, assisting his ear with a glass funnel, 
which acts as an ear trumpet. By moving his head 
about he soon discovers a position in which the 
ticking of a watch is particularly loud. This, iu 
fact, is the focus of the lens. If he moves his ear 
away from this focus, the intensity of the sound de¬ 
creases. If, when his ear is at the focus, the balloon 
be removed, the ticks are enfeebled; on replacing 
the balloon their force is restored. The lens en¬ 
ables him to hoar the ticks distinctly when they are 
perfectly inaudible to the nnaided ear. The sonud 
lens magnifies small sounds, as the glass lens mag¬ 
nifies minute objects. Thin India rubber balloons 
form excellent sound lenses. 
The moderate speed of sound in air is the cause 
of a number of curious facts which ignorant people 
might take for contradictions. For instance, if a 
row of soldiers form a circle and discharge their 
pieces all at the same time, the sound will be heard 
as a single discharge by a person occupying the cen¬ 
ter of the circle. But if the men form a straight 
row, aud if the observer stand at one end of the 
row, the simultaneous discharge of the men’s pieces 
will be prolonged to a kiud of roar. A company of 
soldiers marching to music along a road, cannot 
march to time together, for the notes clo not reach 
those in front and those behind simultaneously. 
The velocity of sound iu water is more than four 
times its velocity in air. The velocity of sound iu 
iron is seventeen times its velocity in air. The dif¬ 
ference of velocity iu iron and in air may be illus¬ 
trated by the following instructive experiment: 
Choose- ft long bar of iron aud let an assistant strike 
the bar at one end, while the ear of the observer is 
held close to the bar at a considerable distance. 
Two ;soands will reach the ear iu succession; the 
first being transmitted through the iron, and the 
second through the air. This effect was observed 
by M. Biot, in his experiments on the iron water 
pipes of Faris.— ti'kntific American. 
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WONDERS OF MAN, 
Wonders at home by familiarity cease to excite 
astonishment; but thence it happens that many 
know but little about the “ house we live in”—the 
human body. We look upon a mau as we look up¬ 
on a house from the outside, just as a whole or 
unit, never thinking of the many rooms, the curious 
passages, and the ingenious internal arrangement of 
the house, or of the wonderful structure of the 
man; the harmony aud adaptation of all parts. 
In the human skeleton, about the time of ma- 
tnrity, are 105 bones. The muscles are about 500 iu 
number. The length of the alimentary canal is 
about <53 feet. The amount of blood iu aa adult is 
near Ml/ pounds, or full one-fifth of the entire weight. 
The heart is six inches in length and four inches 
in diameter, and beats 70 times per minute, 4,200 
times jier hour, 100,300 times per day, 3G,772,000 
times per year, 3,505,4-10,000 iu threescore aud ten, 
and at each beat two and a half ounces of blood are 
thrown out of it, 175 ounces per minute, G50 pounds 
per hour, seven and three-fourths tons per day. All 
the blood in the body passes through the heart 
every three minutes. The little organ, by its cease¬ 
less iudustry, 
In the allotted span 
The PsalmiBt gave to man, 
lifts the enormous weight of 500,700,200 tons. 
The lungs will contain about one gallon of air, at 
their usual degree of inflation. We breathe on an 
average 1,200 times per hour, inhaling GOO gallons 
of air, or 14,400 gallons per day. The aggregate 
surface of the air cells of the lungs exceed 20,000 
square inches, an area very nearly equal to the floor 
of a room 12 feet square. 
The average weight of the brain of the adult male 
is three pouuds aud eight ounces; of a female, two 
pounds and four ounces. The nerves are all con¬ 
nected with it, directly or through the spinal mar¬ 
row. These nerves, together with their branches 
and minute ramifications, probably exceed 10,000,000 
in number, forming a “body-guard” outnumbering 
by far the mightiest army ever marshaled! 
The skin is composed of three layers, and varies 
from one-fourth to one-eighth of au inch in thick¬ 
ness. Its average area in an adult is estimated to 
be 2,000 square inches. The atmospheric pressure 
being about 14 pounds to the square inch, a person 
of medium size is subjected to a pressure of 40,000. 
pounds. 
Each square inch of skin contains 3,500 sweating 
tubes, or perspiratory pores, each of which may be 
likened to a little drain tile one-fourth of au inch 
long, ruuking au aggregate length over the entire 
surface of the body of 201,100 feet, or a tile ditch 
for draining the body almost forty miles long. 
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THE SPECTROSCOPE. 
One of the most notable things about the devel¬ 
opment of modern science is the manner iu which 
discoveries or inventions iu one branch of inquiry 
are of immediate and signal service in elucidating 
other and apparently unconnected matters. Of 
such inventions the spectroscope is one likely to be 
of incalculable advantage, as by means of its re¬ 
fracting prisms it is enabled to separate and exhibit 
the spectra or rays of light which different sub¬ 
stances retlect, each in its own characteristic system 
of bands aud lines of color. By this means several 
new metals have been discovered, the atmospheres 
of the sun aud other heavenly bodies analyzed, and 
discoveries are opening up to its powers on every 
hand. It has been put to practical use in analyzing 
the llumo of u furnace during the process of making 
Bessemer steel, so that the exact moment when the 
procoss is complete is instantly shown by the 
change in the spectrum—a most delicate point of 
metallurgy not otherwise determinable. The latest 
use to which it has been put will give it a fame in 
the annals of medicine and of law, as it furnishes a 
means of analyzing and recognizing human blood, 
whether in abnormal secretions of disease or in 
dried sta ins upon other material. The haematine, or 
coloring matter of the blood, shows a spectrum en- 
i tirely different from other substances with all its 
THE RIVULET. 
Run, little rivulet, run I 
Summer is fairly begun. 
Bear to tlie meadow the hymn of the pines, 
And the echo that rings where the waterfall shines; 
Run, little rivulet, ran! 
Run, little rivulet, run I 
Sing to the fields of the sun 
That wavers iu emerald, shimmers in gold, 
Where you glide from your rocky ravine crystal-cold; 
Run, little rivulet, run 1 
Run, little rivulet, ran! 
Sing of the flowers, every one,— 
Of the delicate harebell and violet blue; 
Of the red mountain rose-bud, all dripping with dew; 
Run, httlo rivulet, run! 
Run. little rivulet, run 1 
Carry the perfume you won 
From the lily, that woke when the morning was gray. 
To the white watting moonbeam adrift on the bay; 
Run, little rivulet, run 1 
Run, little rivulet, run! 
Stay not till summer is done! 
Carry the city the mountain-birds’ glee; 
Carry the joy of the hills to the sea; 
Run, llule rivulet, run 1 
[Our Young Folks. 
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THE OLD SEAT. 
“ Dear Lady Clara Verb pe Veee.”—See Poem on page 224, Tms number. 
general appearance and color; so that where even 
the microscope fails, the spectroscope will instantly 
detect so small a matter as the one thousandth nf a 
grain of dried human blood. Thus all sciences 
gain from each one's progress. 
faiifliis! ©diiifsi. 
THE SPANISH 
GjYPSIES. 
ha, in Ger- 
hardly a country 
Gtpsie» are seen In Eiig’su ?,“■ » Alv :ua, in Ger¬ 
many, in Italy, indeed there V hardly a country 
unvexed by Gypsies, Wandering over the world, 
having no continuing city or abiding place, like the 
frogs of the land from which they get their name, 
they find their way into king's houses and every¬ 
body’s house,—lying, cheating, stealing, peddling 
and meddling, a nuisance and a curse. Bat the 
Gypsies of Spain are a race by themselves, and not 
the ancestors nor the children of the Gypsies of the 
other lands I have named. They have indeed a lan¬ 
guage with many words In common, and their habits 
arc similar all the world over, but those Gypsies of 
Spain arc a race by themselves. Where they came 
from, and who they are, it is hard to say. They are 
usually spoken of as from Egypt, and being once 
called Egyptians, then Gyptians,—the name easily 
runs into Gypsies in the English tongue. But they 
arc called Oitanos in Spanish, and the race has no 
relations with the wandering tribes or families that 
roam throughout Europe and the Western world. 
They are as a people,—at least they seemed to me, 
— larger and stouter than the Spanish; and by no 
means so well-favored. Dark complexions, black 
eyes, long straight black hair, high cheek bones, and 
short noses, they resemble North American Iudians 
more than any European race. They are not cleanly 
in their persons, nor their dwellings; their roaming 
habits lead them to eat and sleep anywhere, with 
their dogs and donkeys; they dwell in caves if no 
better houses are at their command, and the hill be¬ 
hind the city which we see. from the towers of the 
Alhambra, is pierced with holes that lead into the 
chambers where they make their homes. They 
have also one-quarter of the town where they have 
dwellings, hut the walls of a city are not agreeable 
to the freedom of their wills, aud they prefer the 
hills and the country. 
They have no moral principle. There i3 but one 
virtue known amoug them, and that is so rare in 
Spain, and so remarkable among such a people, that 
it must he set down to their credit at the very start. 
The women arc chaste, and that to a degree that 
perhaps no other people in the world can claim. It 
is the one feature of their character that redeems 
them from the curse of utter and hopeless vaga¬ 
bondism, and standing out as it does like an ivory 
tower in the midst of a waste of moral ruin, its 
beauty is the more lovely and its existence the more 
wonderful. 1 cannot say what I would of the care 
with whieh mothers guard their daughters from con¬ 
tamination with their own race aud the outside 
world; and 1 cannot add another word in their 
praise. They live by fraud. Known to the world 
as swindlers and liars and thieves, they are never¬ 
theless tolerated, and perhaps because feared; their 
ill-will being dreaded, and their friendship supposed 
to be conciliated by complying with their demands. 
— Ineneus, in New York Observer. 
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A Hint to Tourists.— Hall’s Journal of Health 
has the following concerning the advantage of young 
blooming beauty to a traveling party: — “Take a 
pretty girl along; if you have not a daughter or sis¬ 
ter, look around among your couutry cousins, and 
wherever you find her, pay her expenses, and in the 
long ruu you will find it largely remunerative in the 
direction we have named. We have tried it and 
speak from experience. We once took a really beau¬ 
tiful girl with our family as nurse for our youngest 
child, and we shall never forget the partialities 
shown us everywhere; the fact is, it made such an 
impression on our mind that we resolved that if we 
ever made an important journey again, we would 
arrange in some way to have some young, beautiful 
face along.” 
THE KING Oj? THE CORAL ISLANDS. 
His Corallne majesty was a well-made man of about 
fifty years of age. His raiment was as simple as that 
worn by his ambassadors of the morning. As a mark 
of royalty, however, he wore a strip of a cocoanut 
leaf, two or three inches wide, split along the middle, 
which, being puL on over his head, rested upon his 
shoulder. The upper part of his body, especially his 
breast, Wfl3 profusely tattooed. He was very dignifi¬ 
ed in manner, not talking much, nor manifesting the 
great curiosity which took possession of most of his 
followers. Withal he v.up a very fine specimen of 
royally iu the crude state. He sat down at once 
upon an offered deck chair, and, stretching oat his 
legs, surveyed the assembly with a coolness whieh 
quite took me by surprise. 
The king's house only didered from the more com¬ 
mon in being larger. The lloor was made of evenly 
spread gravel or coral pebbles, covered with mats, 
for which the liber of the cocoannt. husk probably 
furnished the material. About the house were dis' 
posed many and various articles of use or ornament. 
Fish hooks of shell and wood, nets, mats and 
calabashes, grass, ropes, Ash lines, twine and cordage 
generally, were abundaut. On his majesty’s “ what¬ 
not” was an empty sardine box and a glass bottle 
marked “Batty aud Company’s Best Pickles." But 
we saw no clubs, bows, nor arrows, nor weapons of 
any kind, excepting two or three old hatchets and 
sheath knives, evidently obtained from some visitors 
like ourselves. On one of the posts I saw a rude 
figure carved, which had the appearance of being an 
object of worship. Presently some lads came in, 
bringing some young cocoanuts and a string of small 
fish. The latter, by active wriggling and squirming, 
gave sufficient evidence of having been freshly 
caught. These were spread before the company, and 
we were invited to the repast. A draft of the coeoat 
j nut water was a luxury not to be despised, but the 
feast of raw fish was politely declined. Our back¬ 
wardness, however, was not shared by our hosts; 
and the sight of the party as they sat upon the 
ground, each with a piece of cocoanut in one hand, 
and a nice little fish, held by the tail, in the opposite 
hand, taking first a mouthful of one and then of the 
other, was something long to be remembered.— At¬ 
lantic Month],g ) for July. 
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A FURIOUS FIGHT BETWEEN HORSES. 
Southey, in his “ History of the Peninsular War,” 
relates the following: — “ Two of the Spanish regi¬ 
ments which had been quartered in Funen were cav¬ 
alry, mounted on flue, black, long-tailed Andalusian 
horses. It was impossible to bring off these homes 
—1,100 in number—and Romano was uot u man who 
could order them to be destroyed; he was fond of 
horses himself, and knew that every man was at¬ 
tached to his beast, which had carried him so far and 
so faithfully. Their bridles were therefore taken off 
and they were turned loose upon the beach. 
“ A scene ensued such as was never before witness¬ 
ed. They became aware that they were no longer 
under the restraint of any human power. A general 
conflict ensued, In whieh, retaining the discipline 
they had learned, they charged each other In squad¬ 
rons of ten or twelve together, then closely engaged, 
striking with their fore-feet, and biting and tearing 
each other with the most ferocious rage, and tramp, 
ling over those who were beaten down, till the shore, 
in the course of an hour, was strewn with the dead 
and disabled. Part of them had been set free on 
llring ground at a distance. They no sooner heard 
the roai of battle, than they came thundering down 
over the intermediate hedges, and catching the cou- 
tagious madness, plunged into the fight with equal 
fury. Sublime as the scene was, it was too horrible 
to be long contemplated, aud Romano, in mercy, 
gave orders to destroy them. But it was found too 
dangerous to attempt this, and after the last boat 
had quitted the beach, the few horses that remained 
were still engaged in the dreadful work of mutual 
destruction." 
A new method has been discovered of keeping 
petroleum without danger. The barrels are simply 
submerged iu water. No injury results from this to 
the oil. 
THE BLACKCAP WARBLER. 
Are not many young readers of the Rural inter¬ 
ested in Ornithology? You all know what that 
means, do you not? To any who are in doubt we 
will say that Ornithology is that branch of natural 
science whioh treats of the form, structure and hab¬ 
its of birds, It is a very entertaining 6tudy, indeed. 
Birds arc in many respects the most curious, as well 
as the most beautiful, specie In the animal creation. 
Some of them seem to know almost as much as 
folks do,— some folks, at any rate,— and manifest 
a great deal of shrewdness in building their nests 
and protecting themselves. 
For the benefit of our young friends who like to 
read something about birds, we give a good picture 
of a very merry little songster, which is thus spoken 
of in Wood’s Illustrated Natural History :—“ The 
Blackcap, almost a rival to the nightingale, is at 
ouce recognized by the black color of the head. Only 
the males, however, are thus decorated, the crown 
of the head of the female being dark brown. Its 
-west notes are poured forth from the concealment 
of some thicket or tuft of trees, where it trusts to 
the density of the foliage to elude discovery. Like 
the mocking-bird of America, it can imitate the 
BODgs of other birds with such perfect inflection 
that it is almost impossible to detect the Imposture. 
Among bushes and brambles it builds its nest, whieh 
is made of dried grass, moss, and hairs. The eggs 
are five in number,— reddish brown, marked with 
dark spots. The length of the bird is nearly six 
inches.” 
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THE GREAT EGYPTIAN PYRAMID. 
“ Cahleton," the foreign correspondent of the 
Boston Journal, thinks that there is scarcely another 
place in the world where the boys and girls of the 
United States would throw up their hands in such 
wonder as upon the top of the great Pyramid of 
Egypt- Iu giving an account of a visit there he 
remarks: 
“ We ascend a steep sand-bunk, one hundred feet 
high, and dismount from our donkeys beneath the 
Bhadow of the great Pyramid of Cheops. I almost 
despair of giving you an idea of its size, and height, 
or how it looks. It stands on solid rock. It is only 
wheu you walk around it, and when you climb to 
the top, that you can get an idea of its magnitude 
and height. A great many of the outer stones have 
been taken away by the Culiphs of Egypt to build 
their palaces, so that the pyramid is not so large as 
it was at the first. Formerly it was 704 feet square 
and 480 feet high; now it is 746 feet on each side 
aud 450 in height. Its area now is a little more than 
one-fourth the size of Boston Common, or almost 
twelve acres. 
“Just imagine a pile of masonry—great stones 
nine or ten feet long, three or four high, and four 
or five wide, filling up a good-sized field, piled up 
three or four times higher than the tallest trees you 
know of, 450 feet—as high as the steeple of Park- 
street Church would be if it stood atop of Bunker 
Hill Monument; or as high as three of the tallest 
pine trees to be found in the woods of Maine or 
New Hampshire. With two Arabs—to pull us up 
— to keep ua from failing in case we should become 
light headed, we go up, walking along the stones, 
picking out the easiest places, stopping once in a 
while for breath, reaching the top iu about twenty 
minutes." 
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ROOT UP THE WEEDS. 
Two boys, John and Willie, were employed by the 
Squire to keep his paths weeded. John contented 
himself with taking off' the top of the weeds, 60 that 
soon his path was cleared, and having swept away 
the leaves, he went off to play. 
Willie was much longer at work, for he stopped to 
take all weeds up by the roots, and he waswelitired 
when lie went home. 
But the rain came down in the night, and when 
the boys' master went to look at the two paths, 
John's wanted weeding as much as ever, while 
Willie’s was clear, aud only needed a few turns of 
the roller to make it perfectly neat. So John was 
sent hack to do his work properly, and very tired he 
would have been had uot Williegood-naturcdlj help¬ 
ed him to finish his task. 
Only thorough work is worth doing. Faults only 
half uprooted will appear again and again, and we 
shall almost despair of curing them. 
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A HOME VERSE. 
Though frosts the flowers kill, 
Thongh birds depart, and squirrels sleep; 
Though snows may gather cold and deep, 
Little folk their sunshine keep. 
And mother-love makes summer stilt. < 
Ba5iS B»Sa>& 
