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Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
HINTS TO TEACHERS. — No, III. 
Children have feelings, which are susceptible of 
injury. The smallest scholar recognizes kindness 
or harshness as readily as one of maturer years. It 
is, then, your duty to be kind. Kindness! — there 
is a power even in the word, bat a greater*power in 
the person who possesses the virtue and exercises it. 
If it can create a stream of warm, genial sympathy in 
the breast of the profligate, what maynotbe its action 
upon the plastic mind of youth ? If it can fathom 
the depths of the lowest degradation and’secure the 
victims of crime, licentiousness and dissipation, who 
can measure its power In moulding the future des¬ 
tiny and character of the young ? 
Herein lies very much of the^successjof the moral 
teacher. The instances where kindness cannot 
reach some cord of love are very rare, It may lie 
deep,— covered by the hard and almost impenetra¬ 
ble coatings of ill-usage,— possibly never strength¬ 
ened by moral action or example,— yet it is there. 
If you can reach it, you are a conqueror, and your 
pupil is vanquished. In seeking for it, yon need the 
skill of a physician, as he searches for the minutest 
nerve. Apply the instrument with care, observing 
that one false movement may sever the cord; and 
once severed, it is never to he joined. 
As we peruse the biography of the famous author 
of Childb Harold, and trace out the causes of his 
dissipation and vice,—of the employment of his pen 
in assaults upon the virtue of woman,— we are 
obliged to attribute it to unkindness, The disfigured 
form of Byron could have been seen reeling under 
a blow dealt by an infariated mother. Egyptian 
bondage was done away long years ago. The nine¬ 
teenth century chronicles the abolition of American 
slavery, and a break in Russian serfdom ; but what 
century will record the abrogation of these modem 
task-masters in the guise of school teachers, who, 
disregarding the saying of the wise king—“ A harsh 
word stirreth up anger"—expel their scholars from 
their presence with harshness and stern severity? 
This is nothing more nor less than tyrannical school¬ 
room dignity. 
That there Is a power in kindness has been fully 
tested in the management of animals. Rap.ey, who 
has astonished the people of two worlds with his 
skill in training the horse, subdues the most vicious 
animal by a combination of these qualities — firm¬ 
ness and kindness. Since Karby, nearly all of the 
numerous trainers have adopted his system. If it is 
so effectual with animals governed by instinct only, 
why will it not prove much more effectual with 
beings possessing reason? o. k. 
Houeoye, N. Y., 1368. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
A TEACHEE'S OPINIONS. - No. I. 
There is no calling among men that demands 
more moral courage and self-discipline than that of 
the teacher. Every day the ever - varying, ever- 
scheming minds of the juveniles bring forward 
new trials, and old trials in new forms; and wise 
are they who can coolly, calmly meet them with¬ 
out moroseness or trepidation. Children make it 
their first labor to test the metal of their teacher; 
and very many are the failures on the part of teach¬ 
ers who permit things to move cosily for a time, 
and then become extremely stringent. Seem to be 
what you would be at the start, and be what you 
seem to be continuously. This should be a part of 
every teacher’s education — to learn to govern. 
Very many, otherwise excellent instructors, are 
non compos in the line of government; and where 
government is wanting, talent and skill in impart¬ 
ing knowledge are of very minor importance. All 
trouble rises from ignorance, and this peculiar 
trouble rises more from an ignorance of ourselves 
than any otner. The teacher who has learned to 
govern has a presence that is respected, even more 
than the teacher who ferules and harangues loudly. 
Tue kka is obtained by comparison. One teacher 
enters the school-room, where noise and bustle are 
triumphant; and triumphant they remain, regard¬ 
less of bell-ringing, or the slapping of the ruler on 
the desk,—regardless of the stentorian voice of him 
who would have silence, even at the expense of 
drowning all other noise by his own; and here he 
fails, for as he shouts, they scream. But here 
comes No. 2. Bedlam may be fairly imitated; but 
just as soon as he enters the room, “hush, hush,” 
goes the rounds, and they feel superiority present, 
though no word is spoken. Let No. 2 enter the 
room where No. I is trying to officiate, and though 
an entire stranger, something demands respect 
while our visitor remains. 
Phrenologists place this want and supply iu the 
“crown of the hat;” and there is no doubt but it 
Is there indicated. But I have no doubt that all 
have a halo radiating from their very souls, some in 
a greater, others in a lesser degree. Where this is 
weak and wanting in extension, a No. 1 teacher is 
the consequence; and vice versa. However severe 
it may seem, I candidly declare that no person 
should assume the responsibilities of a teacher 
who finds himself or hereelf rton compos in the line 
of discipline. No more disagreeable condition can 
be imagined, than that a person finds in teaching 
where control is called for bat comes not. I pity, 
from the depths of my heart, those necessitated to 
obtain a living by this species of martyrdom; for it 
i6 a crucifixion which causes exhilaration in the 
pupils, who, when they observe themselves the 
masters, know little mercy, and show less. To feel 
temper rise at a failure, to command is very prob¬ 
able ; but to show it is a most palpable blunder. 
Where government is not, good success is never 
found iu the school-room. It is useless to mourn 
over what cannot be helped; but this difficulty can 
be overcome, and the halo increased and extended, 
by earnest self-discipline, with honesty of purpose 
in whatever is undertaken. Let this fact be well 
pondered. Whoever fails of self-control is unfit to 
be the guardian or instructor of another. Sajhol. 
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EDUCATING THE CONSCIENCE, 
The Camden Democrat, in an article on the sub¬ 
ject of education, makes some practical suggestions 
looking to an improvement in the present system 
of education, and recommends the suspension, for a 
while at least, of some of the “higher branches,” 
and the substitution of a new department — one that 
shall engross at least a fall third part of the time 
usually devoted to college studies, recitations, <fcc. 
Let it be a eourse of daily Instruction which shall 
especially aim to educate the heart and the con¬ 
science, instead of permitting the pride of intellect 
to usurp all right and control. Add a department 
with competent, honest and sincere professors to 
aim at one especial object, namely, to make sure 
of a course of sound moral instruction, that shall 
regulate and control the passions, prejudices and 
evil propensities—to elevate and ennoble. Instead 
of the intellectual monopolizing all, as is now uni¬ 
formly done, let one professorship be devoted ex¬ 
clusively to “moral improvement.” and see what 
will come of it. Call the new department by a 
name that will clearly express its meaning. Some¬ 
thing, for instance, like this: — “The department of 
right teaching to do right.” Let there be professors 
of right, who will teach right precepts so thoroughly 
that no student shall ever leave the institution with¬ 
out having his whole heart and conscience imbued 
and saturated with the daily repetitionjof right, so 
that right principles shall become in that student a 
permanent habit. 
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Public education in the State of New York last 
year cost $7,683,301, of which $1,8213,471 went to 
pay teachers’ salaries. There are 11.556 school 
houses in the State, having 26 480 teachers, and 
<H6,208 pupils. The value of the school property is 
$16,180,596, and of the libraries, $628,702. 
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Thb Monthly Religious Magazine calls attention 
to the great number of American students now in 
attendance at European colleges and schools. There 
are forty-three in Berlin, and as many more in pro¬ 
portion in other cities 
f admits f opus. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
THE RUSH FOR CLERKSHIPS. 
BY A SCRIBBLER. 
The sacrifices that 60 many of onr young men are 
willing to make, to secure a position in a store, are 
really amusing. In almost all parts of the country 
let any store - keeper proclaim that he has, or is 
likely to have, a vacancy, and he is forthwith over¬ 
run with applications. I know of young men work¬ 
ing for from one hundred and fifty dollars to three 
hundred dollars per annum, and boarding them¬ 
selves, who can command, as mechanics, twice or 
three times that sum. Why is it that good mechan¬ 
ics of almost every kind are so scarce, and are com¬ 
manding their own prices, while so many young 
men are turning their backs upon their fathers’ call¬ 
ing, and lying in wait for opportunities to measure 
calico between dingy walls, fourteen hours a day, 
for a mere pittance? 
Do not flatter yourself, young man, that your 
fortune is made,—that you are a gentleman,—when 
once you have secured a place behind Messrs. Yard¬ 
sticks & Co.’s counter. Yon have an exceedingly 
hard road to travel to achieve anything like success. 
You may as well understand It first as last. Unless 
you have a large amount of energy, and are willing 
to work hard and long, and wait patiently, and have 
some natural adaptation to the business, the chances 
are that you will fail, Don’t take on any airs the 
first year. The most detestable sight imaginable is 
a youtb with hair an intellect, half developed, puffed 
up with an exalted idea of his own importance be¬ 
cause of his good clothes and 6lx month’s experi¬ 
ence in a second rate retail shop. Over in Japan 
the tanners are the lowest class of people, because 
they work the offal; and the Japanese rank the 
trader next, because he is a non-producer. 
Only one in a great many of our merchants suc¬ 
ceeds in making a fortune. Very many of them fail; 
and most of those who do not, only succeed by a 
lifetime of weary labor, in sustaining themselves in 
a comfortable and respectable position. No busi¬ 
ness is more confining. The writer of this knows 
whereof he speaks, and he knows right well the 
value of a little respite, and a little snuff of pure air, 
and the pleasure of an occasional touch of bright, 
warm sunshine on the pallid cheek. But, boys, if 
you think there is no other road to happiness, 
wealth and renown but to sell dry goods, try it 
Let me assure you, however, that so long as there 
are so few learning to make boots and shoes and 
harnesses and hoes and pitchforks and brick walls, 
and people continue to need them so much, the 
chances in that direction are better for building a 
fortune, and establishing yourselves as useful, hon¬ 
ored and influential members of society. If you are 
established in any business, I counsel you not to 
leave it. It is a question which requires considera¬ 
tion, and may, or may not, be advisable. But if you 
are about to enter some field of life labor, be aot 
influenced by any false considerations of ease or 
respectability. You will succeed in nothing with 
out continued effort; and if yon have ability and are 
willing to work to that end, you will be successful, 
and success will command respect. 
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MANAGEMENT OF GOLD FISH. 
Gold fish may be kept ten or twelve years in ves¬ 
sels (their average period of existence,) by the 
following precautions: 
1. Allow not more than one fish to a quart of 
water. 
2. Use the same kind of water, whether spring or 
river water, and change it daily in summer; every 
other day in winter. 
3. Use deep rather than Bhallow vessels with small 
pebbles at the bottom (to be kept clean,) and keep 
them in the shade and in a cool part of the room. 
4. Use a small net rather than the hand, while 
changing the water. 
5. Feed them with cracker, yolk of egg, lettuce, 
flies, &c,, rather than with bread, and then only 
every third or fourth day, aDd but little at a time. 
6 . Do not feed them at all from November to the 
end of February, and but little during the three fol¬ 
lowing months. 
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Eating Pork.— Brigham Young, in a late address 
to the faithful, made pork the theme of remark. 
He dissuaded the brethren from the use of swine’s 
flesh, saying that he fully agreed with the Jewish 
lawgiver on thiB subject and would be pleased to see 
the hog banished from Utah. Beef, mutton, wild 
game, fish, fruits and vegetables, supplied an ample 
variety of food for the human family, without the 
aid of the dirty hog. This animal was banned, cen¬ 
turies ago, still it bolds its way in most countries. 
The family in the United 8tates at the present 
scarcely numbers less than forty millions. 
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Treatment for Sun-stroke. —A Philadelphia 
physician writes to the Ledger of that city to let 
the public know the following manner of success¬ 
fully treating cases of sun-stroke;—“Let the per¬ 
son thus affected be removed to a cool and private 
place, Mb clothing taken off, and the body rubbed 
from bead to foot with large pieces of ice, at the 
same time that pieces of ice are kept in the arm- 
pits. This simple treatment, if steadily persevered 
in, will save eases which seem almost desperate, 
and, there is reason to believe under any other 
treatment, would certainly prove fatal.” 
I 
THE OLD FARMER SALUTING HIS BEAST. 
Readers familiar with the poems of Burns, will 
doubtless remember the one entitled, “The Auld 
Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld 
Mare Maggie.” In the above engraving the artist 
has illustrated that very homely effort of the bard, 
quite effectively. It mSy be considered a common¬ 
place topic, but the feelings of all who properly 
appreciate the faithful beasts that long do good ser¬ 
vice for them will be in sympathy with it, and with 
AN ANCIENT BATTLE. 
Free from the smoke of .a modern engagement, a 
Hellenic battle must have been a gallant sight. In 
purple tunics and burnished amor, the men stood 
ten, fifteen and twenty deep, beneath a glittering 
forest of spear heads. Those who were well to do 
had no lack of gold about their greaves and breast¬ 
plates, and were dandified in plumes and sword- 
belts ; while even the poorest citizen wore a helmet 
fashioned by the exquisite taste of a Greek artificer. 
It must have been a trial of the nerves of the bravest 
to stand biting his moustache; humming a bar of 
the paean which he was to sing within the next quar¬ 
ter of an hour; wondering whether his widow would 
marry again; hoping that the cobbler on his right 
might not turn tall, or the teacher of gymnastics on 
his left shove him out of line; dimly conscious mean¬ 
while that his Colonel was exhorting him in a series of 
well - turned periods to bethink himsei: of the tomb 
which covered those who died in Thenuopyl®, and 
the trophy which stood on the beach at Artemisinin. 
And then the signal trumpet sounded, and the 
music struck up, and the whole army moved for¬ 
ward, steadily at first, but breaking into a ran when 
only a few hundred yards separated the approaching 
lines. And as the distance between grew shorter, 
and the tramp of the enemy mingled with their own, 
the front rank men had just time to try and'imagine 
that the countenance of the people opposite looked 
like flinching, and that the notes of their war chant 
had begun to falter, and the next second there 
would he a crash of pikes, and a grating of bucklers, 
and a clutching of beards; and those who would 
fain be home again were pushed on by the mass be¬ 
hind, excited at hearing others fighting, and with no 
steel at his own throat; and after five minutes of 
thrusting, and shouting, and fierce straining of foot 
and knee and shoulder, the less determined or the 
worse disciplined of the two hosts would learn, by 
more cruel experience, the old lesson that life as 
well as honor is for those who retain their self- 
respect and shields. 
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INTERESTING FACTS. 
A legal stone Is 14 lbs. in England, and 16 lbs. in 
Holland. A fathom, 6 feet, derived from the height 
of a fall-grown man. A hand, in horse measure, is 
I 4 inches. An Irish mile is 2,240 yds.; a Scotch mile 
ia 1,984; a German, 1,806; a Turkish, 1,626. An 
acre is 1,840 square yards. 1 foot and 3^ inches each 
way. A square mile, 1,760 yards each way, contains 
640 acres. The human body consists of 340 bones, 
9 kinds of articulation or joinings, 100 cartilages or 
ligaments, 400 muscles or tendons, and 100 nerves, 
besides blood, arteries, veins, Ac. Potatoes planted 
below three feet do not vegetate; at one foot they 
grow thickest, and at two feet they fire retarded 
two or three months. There are no Bolid rocks in 
the Arctic regions, owing to the severe frost6. The 
surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square 
miles, taking the whole surface of the globe at 
190,000,000 square miles. Its greatest depth is sup¬ 
posed to be equal to the height of the highest 
mountain, or four miles. 
TOBACCO AND MADNESS. 
If anything can refrain our young men from the 
pernicious habit of tobacco-smoking and chewiDg, 
it may be such warnings as are contained in the re¬ 
ports of their terrible results in France. From 
181k to 1832 the tobacco tux in France produced 
28,000,000 francs, and lunatic asylums contained 
8,000 patients. The tobacco revenue has now 
reached 180,000,000, while there are 44,000 paralytic 
and lunatic patients in the hospitals; showing that 
the increaae of lunacy has kept pace with the in¬ 
crease of the revenue of tobacco. These statistics, 
presented by M. Jolly to the Academy of Science, 
in connection with the closing words of his speech, 
contain a frightful warning to those forming the 
pernicious habit of smoking, now increasing so 
rapidly:—“The immoderate use of tobacco, and 
more especially of the pipe, produces a weakness of 
the brain and in the spinal marrow, wuich causes 
madness.” 
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Gold is used more extensively in the arts than is 
generally imagined, it is stated that nearly $50,000 
worth of this metal is consumed every year in the 
decoration of china-ware, in England, principally at 
the Staffordshire potteries. The total amount used 
in gilding generally in England and France, is esti¬ 
mated at $800,000 per annum. 
the spirit in which the old farmer sings, as he gives 
the animal a mouthful of hay,— 
“ We've worn to crazy years thegither; 
We’ll toyte abour wi’ ane anither; 
We tentie care I'll flit thy tether 
To some bain'd rig. 
Whare ye may nobly rax your leather, 
Wi sma’ fatigue.” 
The drawing was made by an English artist, to 
illustrate a new and superb edition of Burns’ works. 
THE CLOVE IN HISTORY. 
In the multitude of islands which make up the 
Eastern Archipelago there were but five in that 
period where grew the clove — Ternate, Tyder, Mo- 
tiel, Makian and Bacia. Pepper and ginger, even 
nutmegs, cassia and mace, were hut vulgar drugs, 
precious as they were to the world’s commerce, com¬ 
pared with this most maguifleeut spice. 
It is wonderful to reflect upon the strong compo¬ 
sition of man. The world had lived in former ages 
very comfortably without cloves. But by the be¬ 
ginning of the seventeenth century that odoriferous 
pistil had been the cause of so many pitched battles 
and obstinate woes, of so much vituperation, nego¬ 
tiation and intrigue, that the world’s destiny seemed 
to have almost become dependent upon the growth 
of a particular gilly flower. Out of its sweetness 
gUadtui} fo? the 
Written for Moore’a Rural New-Yorker. 
BE TRUE. 
Ye youthful aspirants to honor and fame, 
Naught is so great as an unsullied name; 
And whatever course you may choose to pursue, 
Remember ’tls wise, to be honest and true. 
Your friend's brightest hopes, then, O never dispel; 
Your soul’s pure aspiring strive never to quell; 
And whatever station you may have in view, 
Remember the great are the honest and true. 
Be true to yourselves, to your country and God, 
Be your toil at the desk or in turning the sod; 
No matter what others may counsel, or do, 
Remember 'fie right to lie honest and true. 
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Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
GRANDFATHER’S STORY. 
BY BBEN B. REXFORD. 
“Please, grandpa, tell us another story about 
the adventures you used to have in the woods.” 
Thu children gathered about the old man’s chair, 
eager for another of his 6tories, so much more in¬ 
teresting to them because they knew they were 
true ones. * 
“I believe l never have told you about the cubs I 
found one time, that we kept and tamed; have I ?" 
“No, not Please tell ns all about them.” The 
voices were very eager onus that made reply to the 
old man’s question. 
“ One day I took my gun and started off in search 
of the cows. In those days we had no pastures 
cleared, and the cattle had to get their living in the 
woods. As I was going along in the direction of 
the sound of the cow-bcll, I heard the step of 6ome 
heavy animal behind me. I turned, and saw a large 
bear. She was coming toward me, l raised my 
gun and was about to shoot, when she turned and 
ran around through the thick undergrowth of 
hushes, till she reached a point directly ahead of 
me in the direction I had been going. There she 
stopped and sat down on her hind feet and watched 
me. I thought there was something singular j-in 
her actions, and did not tire at once as I had in¬ 
tended to; but took a few steps toward her, and 
she stepped toward me, growling in much the same 
way a dog does. 
“I stepped back, and the bear kept her position. 
I was sure from her actions that she had cubs some¬ 
where around, and made up my mind to find them. 
I took careful aim and fired, and the animal fell, 
with a sharp snarl, and after a moment or two lay 
perfectly still and motionless. I went up to her 
and saw that she was dead. Then I began to search 
around for signs of a trail that would lead me to 
the place where the cubs were concealed. I had 
noticed the actions of the bear well enough to 
know that they were not far off. 
“At last I found a little path among the bushes, 
and on following it came to an old root; under this 
there was quite a cave, formed by the earth that 
had been turned np when the tree fell. In the 
cave, as I suspected, were two cubs, —sleek, fat 
things, looking like puppies. They were afraid of 
me, and curled themselves np in the furthest corner 
of their neBt; when I touched them they growled 
had grown such bitterness atnoDg great nations aa I ^ a puppy will when he wants to be let alone. 
no torrents of blood could wash away. A common¬ 
place condition enough seems to us now easily to be 
dispensed with, and not worth purchasing at a thou¬ 
sand human lives or so the cargo, but it was once 
| the great prize to be straggled for by civilized na¬ 
tions. From that fervid earth, warmed from within 
by volcanic heat, and baskiugever beneath the equa¬ 
torial sun, arose vapors as deadly to human life as 
the fruits were exciting and delicious to human 
senses. Yet the atmosphere of pestiferous fragrance 
had attracted rather t han repelled. The poisonous 
delights of the climate, added to the perpetual and 
various warfare for its productions, spread a strange 
fascination around those fatal isles.— Motley's United 
Netherlands. 
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RICHES AND CONTENTMENT. 
We heard a queer opinion, the other day of one of 
our distinguished citizens. An acquaintance of ours, 
a close observer and a student of human nature, lives 
at the upper part of Broadway, and, going up and 
down town, he frequently met, in a carriage or on 
foot, an elderly person that attracted his attention. 
He speculated on the face and figure a great deal, 
and came to the conclusion that the “peculiar look¬ 
ing old fellow,” as he styled him, must have some 
sad history. “He is the most melancholy person I 
see on Broadway,” he added, “and I have a curi¬ 
osity to know who he is ” 
One day when we were walking up to dinner, my 
companion said:—“There’s the old fellow now. 
Don’t yon think he’s had some painful experience? 
Who is he, I wonder? Did yon ever see him?" 
“ A thousand timeB. Don’tyouknow wbohe is?” 
“ No; I’ve been trying to find outjfor three weeks. 
What is his name?” 
“ William B. Astor.” 
“ What! the richest man in New York ? ” 
“The same.” 
“ Well, I’ll never believe hereafter that wealth 
brings contentment. I wouldn’t seem as unhappy 
as Astor does for ten times his fortune.”— Exchange. 
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USE OF LEMONS. 
When persons are feverish and thirsty beyond 
what is natural, Indicated in some cases by a 
metallic lante iu the mouth, especially after drlnk- 
! ing water, or by a whitish appearance of the greater 
part of the surface of the tongue, one of the best 
“coolers,” internal or external, la to take a lemon, 
cut off the top, sprinkle over it some loaf sugar, 
working it downward into the lemon with the Bpoon, 
and then suck it slowly, squeezing the lemon and 
adding more sugar as the acidity increases from be¬ 
ing brought up from a lower point. Invalids with 
feverishness may take two or three lemons a day in 
this manner with the most marked benefit, manifest¬ 
ed by a sense of coolness, comfort and invigoration. 
A lemon or two thus taken at “ tea-time,” as an 
entire substitute for the ordinary “ supper” of sum¬ 
mer, would give many a man a comfortable night’s 
sleep and an awaking of rest and invigoration, with 
an appetite for breakfast, to which they are strangers 
who will have their cup of tea or sapper of “ relish” 
and “cake,” and berrries or peaches and cream.— 
Haiti's Journal of Health. 
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Pennsylvania makes two-thirds of all the glass 
manufactured in the United States. In Pittsburg 
there are 68 glass-works, devoted in about equal 
proportions to bottle, window glass and flint-glass 
work. Their annual products comprise 70,900,000 
bottles, 600,000 boxes of window-glass, and 3,800 
tons of glass-ware—total worth nearly $7,000,000. 
“I marked the place by breaking down some 
bushes, and then went on after the cows. I found 
them only a little distance away, and as I came back 
with them I stopped and got the cubs. They did 
not like the idea of being carried away very well, 
but I managed to get them home. We shut them 
up in a little box, and gave them some milk to 
drink. At first they would not eat in that way, but 
as they got hungry they were glad to. 
“ In a few days they got to be as tame as puppies. 
We let them ran about the yard and house, and 
they followed us everywhere we went, seeming to 
consider us in the same light that a dog does his 
master. They acted like dogs in a great many 
ways. They would whine when they were hungry 
and beg for something to eat as welL a& a puppy 
could. If they got into mischief land they were 
very mischievous animals,) your grandmother would 
cuff their ears. Then they would set up and put 
their paws over their ears, whining very piteously. 
They used to make me think of children when they 
were punished. 
“ They found out where the sugar-tub was kept, 
and if they could manage to get into the pantry un¬ 
seen, off' would come the cover, and Jim and Joe 
(that was what we called them) feasted themselves 
grandly on sugar. They liked anything sweet. I 
think they would have liked candy as much as little 
May, here, if they could have got any. 
“They would accompany me into the field where 
I went to work, and would play around for a long 
time; then, getting tired, lay down and take a nap. 
If I was out of sight when they woke, they would 
climb a stump and stand up on their hind feet and 
look all around lor me. if they could not see me 
then they would climb a tree. When they did spy 
me they would act as pleased as a dog that had been 
lost, and come running up to me, and leap up 
against me and lick my hands. 
“When fall came they used to go off to the 
woods and eat nuts. After they had eaten all they 
wanted they would come back to the house, and 
nothing was secure from their mischievous paws. 
They were like children, out of one thing into an¬ 
other ; your grandmother used to wish they would 
go away and not come back, for though they were 
canning things, they were a great deal of trouble 
to have about the house. And she got her wish, 
for when winter was coming on they went off. I 
suppose they found a den somewhere in the woods, 
and, like all other bears, shut themselves up in it 
for the winter." 
“ Did they come back again when spring came ?” 
asked little May. 
“No, they never came back again,” answered 
grandpa. “ We never saw them after that.” 
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A Lie Sticks. — A little newsboy, to sell his 
paper, told a lie. The matter came up in Sabbath- 
school. “Would you tell a lie for three cents?” 
asked a teacher of one of her boys ? “ No, ma’am,” 
answered Dick very decidedly. “For ten cents?” 
“No, ma’am.” “For a doUar?" “No, ma’am.” 
“For a thousand dollars?" Dick was staggered. 
A thousand dollars looked big. Oh. would It not 
buy lots of things ? While he was thinking, another 
boy roared out, “ No, ma'am," behind him. “ Why 
not?” asked the teacher. 
“Because, when the thousand dollars is all gone, 
and all the things they’ve got with them are gone 
too, the lie is there all thesamc,” answered the boy. 
It is so. A lie sticks. Every thing else may be gone, 
but that is left, and yon will have to carry St round 
with you, whether you will or not:—a hard, heavy 
load it ia.— Child's Paper. 
