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Written for Moore's Kural New-Yorker. 
A TEACHER’S OPINIONS.—No. II. 
CORPOREAL PUNISHMENT. 
Pkobablt no question has created so great a vari¬ 
ance of opiuion between teachers and scholars, as 
that which the title of this number expresses. And 
none surely harrows up a disunion so quickly and 
irrevocably. There is nothing, likewise, that so en¬ 
genders bitterness between the parents and teacher. 
Teachers who possess large authoritative power 
use the rod but little, and in this respect are un- 
qnaliliedly the best tutors. Yet we never saw a 
teacher with so much mental power that he never 
had occasion for the rod. We are aware that some 
teachers pride themselves on the non use of the rod, 
and It is to those teachers that Solomon's advice 
is very applicable,—“Spare the rod and spoil the 
child,”—because when a thing is necessary, noth¬ 
ing should stand in the way of its application. 
But one teacher says, '* It is not necessary." 
Very well, ray friend, how do you get along with 
the disagreeable subject? "Why, I bang a raw- 
hide up in the room, and when I fear an outbreak I 
point up to it.” Very numerous are the teachers 
who have tried this force of fear to quell an antici¬ 
pated riot. But. cannot any one perceive that this 
is teaching under false pretenses ? 
Again, I have heard teachers, iu making their sal¬ 
utations, remark:—“1 do not intend to nse the 
whip." The children go home and tell their pa¬ 
rents of this, oud they respond that the teacher is 
a “ sweet-hearted creature.” But, so surely as any 
teacher makes this remark, so certainly will he break 
his promise. Let. any teacher attempt to govern by 
moral suasion only, and make his attempt known to 
his pupils, and you may rest assured he will fail 
Better let him keep his plans wholly to himself, 
and break them there alone, if ueed be. 
Again, other teachers consider corporeal punish¬ 
ment one or the line arts,— the desideratum in a 
competent instructor. Let trustees shun such, and 
prosecute the commissioner who so unworthily dis¬ 
penses his services as to recommend him. 1 believe 
I speak the opinion of a majority of Instructors, 
when I assert that an infliction of physical censure 
is the most disagreeable part of the profession. 
Nearly all teachers would rather be the whipped, 
than the wbipper ! Parents act a very unwise part 
when they condemn the teacher before their chil¬ 
dren, because of an application of birch for some 
departure from school rule. Observation teaches 
that these very parents will enter upon a chastise¬ 
ment for a less offense, — a chastisement doubly 
severe! But we will admit it is easier to inflict a 
censure, when we are the party wronged, than to wit¬ 
ness the infliction from a disinterested standpoint. 
I appeal from the opinion that I am encouraging 
corporeal punishment;—I would appeal to the good 
sense of all, in behalf of afflicted teachers. No one 
will rejoiee more than myself when that children’s 
milleuium shall arrive,—when It will not be necessary 
to use the rod, But the considerate teacher finds 
he has an animal, with unwaked human sensibili¬ 
ties ; and in dealing with this animal, as an animal 
should be dealt with, often arouses the human from 
its Morpheus state. 
Some have stated that being whipped in school 
brought upon them an irrecoverable disgrace. If 
they should let their sensibilities rest, more on their 
offense, and upon its just retribution less, they 
would sooner recover, i aui of opinion that those 
school authorities who appear so humane as to abol¬ 
ish all corporeal punishment from their circuits, are 
really doing a great injustice to the teachers under 
their supervision, and a very great wrong to many 
of the pupils who are led, in consequence, to grow 
up in unrestraint, and fit subjects for penitentiaries 
and State prisons! When suffleiant moral suasion 
is possessed by American teachers to abolish physi¬ 
cal severity, by ail means let it be done; but In the 
absence of this force, rather than let the child be¬ 
come the master, and be governed only by self, by 
all means let teachcre have a considerate and merci¬ 
ful recourse to our American forests. 
None know better than the teacher the proper 
length of charity’s arm,— none wish to know it 
more,—and when “forbearance ceases to be a vir¬ 
tue,” the teacher is the very one to assert authority 
in the school-room. While teachers submit, with 
very good grace, to general Instructions from trus¬ 
tees, the children should understand, for their ben¬ 
efit, that there is no appeal from the decision of a 
teacher, whom the good judgment of the traBtees 
have chosen to mould their minds and manners. 
And none should be elected trustees excepting they 
possess good judgment. Samol. 
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Written for Moore’s Kural New-Yorker. 
EXCITING AN INTEREST. 
The first thing to be done in teaching is to get up 
interest. Without interest there will be little atten¬ 
tion ; and without attention there can be but slow 
progress. To make a machine of a child will not 
do, though there is much of the mechanical in learn¬ 
ing the rudiments. But all the more is it necessary 
to awaken interest. To interest a child, is to en¬ 
lighten his miud, to make it active, in other words, 
impressible. Then truths will be more easily re¬ 
tained, and may be made indelible. Otherwise they 
are fleeting, Boon forgotten. 
A child is interested at play; learns therefore to 
do it well, and readily; and needB not much teach¬ 
ing : it teaches itself, because there is interest. 
But books and confinement in school-rooms are 
distasteful. There is therefore no effort expended 
save an unwilling and nerveless one. All is dark¬ 
ness, as the miud has light from another source,— 
and will make its sallies thence at the expense of 
the work in hand. 
But what are the means to be emxdoyed—what 
will interest a child? This is not so easy to de¬ 
termine. Different means are required by different 
children according to their natures, their inclina¬ 
tions and temperaments. In the first place, our 
school books are defective. There is not that 
charm which, in newspaper or story, wins their 
attention. The ancients used to teach by fable and 
parable. If these are objectionable (which we can¬ 
not admit,) the simple recital, as in “Robinson 
Crusoe,” may replace it. But this must have fer¬ 
vor and sprightliuess; the author must compre¬ 
hend the wants of the child, understand its ca¬ 
pacity. Petek Parley was a successful maker of 
school bookB. His style was interesting; he enter¬ 
ed into the midst of the work, and put hims elf on 
the plane of the youthful understanding,—became 
a child with the children, an elder brother knowing 
more than they. He took the children in his con¬ 
fidence and told them what they wanted to know; 
he told it like a true 6tory-teIler as he was. 
School books should be live books, not only for 
children but for adults. So with history; so with 
science especially,—which, however, is difficult to 
attain. But history lias no excuse. The difficulty 
usually is with mathematics, grammar and the lan 
guages. How to get up interest here is not so easy. 
Yet. it is done, Success may be made a meaus here. 
Get the child to see Into the matter, to comprehend 
the “ trick” of the thing, and if there is any ambi¬ 
tion, it will tell—there will be encouragement; he 
will bo stimulated to excel. This once secured, a 
great advantage is gained. Success will produce 
success. This ambition is excellent. 
Another thing is, emulation. It is closely allied 
to ambition. It Is a desire to be as good as your 
fellow—to excel him. This Is laudable, and we 
find it to some extent in school. We are not of 
those who approve of remunerating merit, offering 
rewards, using flattery and reproaches. There may 
be use for these meaus, but they should be sparingly 
indulged. 
Get up an honorable ambition, if possible. This 
is worth all the rest, which at, most are but expe¬ 
dients. Begin on a good foundation, and build as 
the material requires. Here the discernment, of the 
teacher comes in: he must know bis child. He 
must measure Its capacity ; remark its weak points, 
and its salient,—and get on the right side of the 
child. A teacher beloved la half the battle won, 
hated or feared, there is little progress. A soft 
word turneth away wrath, but grevious words stir 
up anger, even in a child, and fear, which is worse 
thau auger. Love doe* wonders with a child. It 
is what the mother has; and the teacher but takes 
the place of the mother. His moral quality there¬ 
fore is of account as well as his intellectual attain¬ 
ments. If he has no government over himself, how 
can he be expected to govern others. We therefore 
expect to see a man of good morals; well disci¬ 
plined; having a good knowledge of child-nature, 
and of the necessities of youth; to possess patience, 
tact, a ready delivery; impressive and winning in 
his speech if possible; willing to sacrifice; in love 
with his calling, interested himself in it; and in 
love with children ; patient, happy and hopeful. 
Utc 
Written lor Moore’s Kural New-Yorker. 
AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. —No. I. 
at noun AM. 
On the eastern edge of “ the old Granite State," 
in the narrow valley of the Androscoggin River and 
hemmed in on nearly all sides by lofty mountain 
ranges, is the dreamy little village of Gorham. You 
go there to reach the White Mountains,— because 
you have been tarrying in Montreal, and the Grand 
Trunk Railway affords a direct route therefrom, and 
because you want to ascend Mount Washington in 
the easiest and most satisfactory manner, via the 
celebrated Carriage Road. 
Gorham is a delightful place to lose summer days 
in. You will surely desire to go back next year and 
hunt them up. Beautiful scenery can be found all 
about the place. At Berlin Falls six miles up the 
Valley, the noisy Androscoggin trips laughingly 
over the roeks, forming a charming cascade, which 
is a continual temptation to such as enjoy a fine 
drive. Back of the village, directly to the north, 
rises Mount Hayes, a rough, jagged peak, from 
which you can have a splendid view of all the White 
Hills, If so be you feel sufficient faith iu the rude 
suspension bridge that spans the river to cross over 
upon it, and thereafter your locomotive powers fail 
not in two or three hours of climbing. On the 
south, standing out in bold relief agaiust the sky, 
is Mount Carter, a uoble elevation of almost 5,000 
feet, and the most prominent in the range reaching 
away southward. Moriah, to the left of this, shoots 
upward a good 4,000 feet, and is the main spur of a 
lesser range bounding the Androscoggin Valley on 
the south, and creeping off Into Maine. 
And as one of the many attractions,—pardon me, 
good Rural, for thus particularizing,— I must men¬ 
tion the Alpine House, where the traveler looks out 
of high, airy rooms, on scenery truly Alpine, feasts 
on all good things, and is waited upon by a corps of 
pleasant-faced girls, who, under the direction of the 
good matron, get up the best meals that ever satis¬ 
fied hungry ramblers, and then grace the dining¬ 
room with their presence when the meals are 
served. Give us woman’s fingers, after all, for pre¬ 
paring food! They are more at home in the domes¬ 
tics, than man’s. 
All the peaks and ranges surrounding Gorham 
are offshoots of the White Mountains. The latter, 
properly speaking, however, extend in a continuous 
range about thirty miles from southwest to north¬ 
east, with Gorham at the northeasters termination, 
only about four miles from Mount Madison, the last 
of the range. The peak of Madison is visible from 
the Alpine House; the remainder of the great cen¬ 
tral group can be seen by going back of the village 
as far as the river, the top of the proudest aud most 
distant—Washington—being sixteen miles away. 
ON THE OI.EN ROAD. 
In a strong carriage, drawn by four or six horses, 
you leave the Alpine, cross the railroad, wind around 
a projecting spur of the mountains, aud find your¬ 
self in the Peabody Valley, between the Carter range 
and the White Hills. It is still narrower than the 
Valley you have just left, from which it strikes off 
at a right angle, and bears the name of the little 
river that meanders through it, and that is just a 
babbling brook, singing to itself and you through¬ 
out the eight miles that you keep beside it. Dense 
woodland shuts you in, much of the way, and mel¬ 
lows the summer noon to a soft twilight, yet fre¬ 
quent openings occur where the grandeur of the 
mountains lowering on either side bursts upon you 
with surprising effect. 
In one of these open intervals you photograph 
“ the patriot group,* 1 as they loom up just on yonr 
right. They are the "crowned heads” of the 
mountain family royal. In the bright sunlight the 
crown of each glistens like a diadem; the green 
robes that clothe their lower portions are of royal 
richness; they sit there, regal as kings, with memo¬ 
ries running back to Creation. They are New Eng¬ 
land’s pride, aye, and the whole country's. 
Madison, whose tip you saw before leaving the 
Alpine, you now see in its completeness. It is the 
flrat in the group, in position, and as yet seems the 
first in height, on account of your nearness. Rich 
verdure covers its sides half way upward; then it 
grows dreary in appearance until you see only bald, 
gray masses of rock. 
Adams, a little beyond and higher by four hund¬ 
red feet, is second only to Washington. Its peak is 
sharp-pointed ; it looks the sky-piercer. In con¬ 
trast with it is the rounded summit of Jefferson, 
the peer of Adams; and next comes Clay, a spur of 
Jefferson, and hidden by it, fora time. Beyond is 
the grandest of all — Washington. 
A fiuer base view of the mountains cannot be 
found, than this of the Glen Road. In the occa¬ 
sional glimpses you obtain, their sublimity grows 
CART OF A HUSBANDMAN, KHOSROVAH, IN PERSIA. 
Khosrovah is a town of twelve hundred inhabi¬ 
tants, situated iu the center of a beautiful plain near 
the lake of Ommyah, within three days’journey of 
Tabriz, the Capital of Axbuldjaq, one of the ten 
provinces of Pevsia. Agriculture thereabouts, as, 
iu fact, throughout the entire country, has not 
greatly advanced these many hundred years. The 
system of husbandry pursued is old and stereotyped ; 
but “ Progress and Improvement ” is not the motto 
upon you. As you pass along by Madison, Adams 
and Jefferson, Washington looms np in increased 
majesty. Far np its rocky side yon see, dimly, as 
though it were a syfider’s thread, a winding line, 
with something, looking no larger than the spider, 
creepiug up it; and you wonder at last, as yon dash 
up to the Glen House, at the foot of the adamantine 
pile, if you will ever reach its top. Who would not 
wonder? Before you lira eight miles of steady 
climbing, which is probably as much as 
" A youth who bore mid snow and ice 
A banner with the strange device 
‘ Excelsior”' 
ever indulged iu; and up hill business so extensive 
is of some moment. 
These mountain houses have grown, of late. The 
Glen House has come to be au immense affair, aud 
can accommodate only the clerks know how many. 
In your eagerness to go higher, you will not care to 
test its hospitality, but will turn up the Mount 
Washington carriage road, pass over the little river 
before mentioned, and be hidden in the dense, foli¬ 
age as you slowly mount skyward. A. Drift. 
Hatiflusi iflptcsL 
ANECDOTE OF CHARLES XII. 
“A soft answer turneth away wrath.” How 
strikingly was this scripture exemplified in au inci¬ 
dent that just now occurs to our uind, related in 
the life of Charles XII. o f Sweden. Every reader 
is aware of the straits to whkJ ; Swedish armies 
were reduced during some of i ' asperate enter¬ 
prises which that monarct j v . k for the con¬ 
quest of his enemies. On i .v. Ira the commis¬ 
sariat was so low that the soldiers were for several 
weeks compelled to subsist on bread made of straw 
mixed with a small portion of damaged barley. The 
poor fellows became so reduced that they were 
scarcely able to crawl, and a mutinous feeling was 
becoming quite general. One morning, when the 
order was given to advance, there was a pause ob¬ 
served along the whole line. After a few moments 
a corporal stepped forth from the ranks and ap¬ 
proached the Bpot where Charles was mounted on 
his charger, impatient to lead on his hosts to the 
proposed conflict. 
“ What does the man want?” hastily inquired the 
king. 
“He craves to speak a word to your majesty,” 
was the reply. 
“ Let him come forward,” returned the monarch. 
The poor soldier, after making his accustomed 
obeisance, held up the piece of bread with which 
he had been endeavoring to appease his hunger, and 
presenting it to Charles asked him whether that was 
food fitting for a human being. 
The officers expected no other than that the man’s 
fate was sealed, and that he would be immediately 
ordered for execution. But Charles was master of 
himaelf and the occasion. Taking the black and 
repulsive morsel from the hand of the corporal, he 
deliberately proceeded to eat it in the presence of 
the whole army. Having made a finish of the “ nau¬ 
seous dole,” he wiped his mouth with the heel of 
his hand, rustic fashion, and looking somewhat com¬ 
placently at the soldier, “ It is not good," said he, 
“ but you see, my friend, It can be eateu.” A mur¬ 
mur of applause ran through the ranks, and the 
order to advance was obeyed with the utmost alac¬ 
rity.— Zion's Serald. 
ORIGIN OF NAMES. 
A book of curiouB learning has been prepared by 
Dr. Charnock, devoted to tracing the changes which 
have taken place In names through bad spelling and 
pronunciation. Bean, he says, is short Scotch for 
Benjamin ; Dark is only D’Arques, or from Arques; 
Hell is German; hell meaning britjhl , clear, not 
“Outer darkness;" Diamond, or Dymond, is Du 
Mont, “of the mountain;” Gumboil is yund-bold, 
8axon for “bold in war;” BugginisbacOn; Simper 
is St. Pierre; Monkey is Mauikeu; Vulgar is ulf-ger, 
“very helping;” Ugly is from Ugley, a parish in 
Kent, England; Snooks is from Sevenoaks; and 
Smith has been corrupted, not only into Smyth, 
Smythe, Srnithe, etc., but into Smoot, Smoutand 
Smut. 
At the Liverpool police court, in April, there ap¬ 
peared on one day three men named Death, Debt, 
and Daggers. But Death la O' Ath, from Ath, a town 
in Belgium. So Shirt is a corruption from Sherard; 
Sheet, of Sheeth; Onion, of Unwyn; Grumble, of 
Grinbald; Gaby, of Gabriel; Pill, of Peel; while 
Physic comes from Lefisick in Cornwall; Pert, from 
Pert in Forfar; Inkpcn, from Inkpen In Berks; and 
Hog, Goose, and Bimilar names, from quite inoffen¬ 
sive foreign adjectives .—Borne Journal. 
Fifteen and a quarter millions of dollars, given 
by individuals alone, in the last five years, to Prot¬ 
estant colleges and universities and theological sem¬ 
inaries in the United States, indicates a love of edu¬ 
cation which no other nation under heaven haa be¬ 
gun to emulate. 
of Persia, The people cling to “ the good old ways ” 
of generations long gone by, and will not easily give 
them up. In the labors of the field bullocks or buf¬ 
faloes are employed, and the conveyances are very 
rude and primitive iu Btyle. Our engraving spirit¬ 
edly illustrates a peasant’s cart, drawn by buffaloes, 
us sketched at Khosrovah by a traveler. Strength 
rather than beauty, is the chief characteristic, as will 
be readily Been. 
A SINGING MOUSE. 
I nava now been observing for the last week a 
singing mouse in a cage in my room. It is merely 
au ordinary house mouse. Its singing has nothing 
in common with a mouse’s ordinary voice, but it is 
to be compared partly to the high shakes of the 
lark, partly to the sustained flute like notes of the 
nightingale, and partly to the deep shake (water 
shake) of the canary bird, being distinguished by 
its beautiful cadence and by a compass of two oc¬ 
taves. Its vocal capability arises solely from the 
fact, that its windpipe is partly closed by a band or 
membrane, so that the little animal whistles both 
when drawing in and when emitting breath. 
It sings, therefore, the more beautifully, and its 
song is the more varied, the more excited it is; in 
au agony of fear (when a cat, for instance, is behind 
it,) it sings more loudly than at any other time. 
It sings when it feeds, when it cleans itself, etc. 
When it is at rest, only a snuffling breathing is 
heard. After observing it for some days, however, 
I came to the conclusion that its singing, especially 
the more twittering notes, are not purely involun¬ 
tary, but voluntarily modulated and modified. The 
mouse mast sing, but when it feels at iLs ease, it 
can slightly modify its song according to its tastes. 
When the little creature dies I will investigate the 
phenomenon with the knife. At present, however, 
there is exceedingly small prospect of its coming to 
a speedy end, for it is healthy aud lively, though it 
has been in captivity three months.— Prof. K. iVt. 
Licbe, in “ Zootoyische Garten .” 
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POISONOUS CANDIES. 
In no class of articles intended for consumption 
is the use of poisons so free as in candies and con¬ 
fections. Arsenlate of copper, copperas, white lead 
and litharge (or red lead,) and the aniline colors, 
red, green or blue, and other poisons, mineral and 
vegetable, are frequently employed in the manu¬ 
facture of candles. There are confectioners who do 
not use such dangevous drugs, or who use them so 
sparingly that they work no immediate appreciable 
barm to the consumers; but others are neither so 
scrupulous nor so well informed about the real 
nature of the poisons which impart the desired 
vividness of color or fineness of flavor to their 
products. Bright, highly colored, handsome can¬ 
dies always sell better than dull, plain varieties. 
The beautiful tints can be had most cheaply and 
satisfactorily by the use of the virulent mineral poi¬ 
sons—chiefly arseniates and preparations of copper 
and lead. Ice creams may be colored as freely as 
any other confections. The brilliant red tint of 
strawberry cream may be attained by litharge or 
rosaniliue; the splendid green tint of pistachio 
cream (so called) may be derived from arseniate of 
copper more economically than from the pistachio 
nut. It does not, follow that the confectioners who 
make these colored creams know that they are using 
poisonous ingredients for producing tints or flavors. 
They may obtain the articles from other persons 
who manufacture and sell them.— Journal Commerce. 
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Smoking in New York. —The number of cigars 
sold per day on Broadway, New York, is estimated 
at 20,000. or these one-tweutieth coBt 30 cents 
apiece, one-tcoth 35 cents, one-fifth 30 cents, two- 
fifths 15 cents, and one-fourth 10 cents. Thus 
Broadway spends upon its cigars $3,300 per day, or 
$3,050,850 per year. It is estimated that iu the city 
of New York 75,000,000 cigars are consumed yearly, 
the total coat of which is $9,750,000. Add to this 
the amount annually expended for pipes and to¬ 
bacco, and we have au aggregate of ten and a half 
millions as New York’B yearly account with retail¬ 
ers of the weed. The 75,000,000 cigars, if laid end 
to end, would extend one and a half times across 
the Atlantic, or if laid side by side would build a 
wall two cigars high from New York to Albany. 
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Area of Paris. —Paris covers a superficial surface 
of 19,315 acres, of which Paris proper contains 8,447 
acres, and the suburbs 10,368. The network of 
public streets measures lineally 538 nl*!«5, Spread¬ 
ing over a surface of 3,038 acres. The thorough¬ 
fares opened within the last fifteen years extend to 
a length of 684 miles. A great number of streets 
are still without footpaths, because the total length 
of the sidewalks in Paris is only 676 miles. If all 
were provided with them, there would be an extent 
of 1,056 miles of walking-paths, taking in both sides 
of the street. A length of Si miles is planted and 
shaded by 95,577 trees, forming the alignment. 
--— 
Don’t Eat at Nioht.— A touch of the dyspepsia, 
growing out of a pig’s foot swallowed at midnight, 
has changed a man’s whole life, and an irregularity 
of the bile has made many an aDgel almost a fiend. 
If the gastric juice is all right, and the blood In 
swimming order, the world Is a nice, bright, pleas¬ 
ant place, and from which nobody is in a hurry to 
move; but if In that queer, mysterious fluid there is 
any alloy, the Bky of life is ail cloud, the winds howl, 
and everything is dark and dismal. If you want to 
feci happy, look after your digestive and circulating 
systems. 
taittnf) for the fjowttj). 
ANECDOTES OF DOGS. 
A sagacious dog at Holyoke went every momiDg 
to market for his master. On his way home a crowd 
of hungry dogs would come snnfliog about him, in¬ 
tent upon getting a taste of his delicious steaks and 
marrowy Joints, and snarl and bite at him because 
he would not yield to their demands. He could 
not fight them all, thus encumbered, and would 
not put down his meat lest it should be stolen. 
After being thus harraased for many days, he 
made up his mind to put a stop to such annoy¬ 
ances, for, to the great amusement of a crowd of 
men and boys, he Bat down his basket in a safe 
place, and punished his tormentors so effectually 
that not. a dog iu town darod to molest, him again. 
Another dog in the same town seems to have had 
less regard for his master’s rights. He used to ride 
out with him, sitting bolt upright upon the seat by 
his side, aud when deBired would hold the horse as 
well os his master. 
One day Mr. Lucas dropped his whip by accident, 
and upon discovering his loss, put the reins, as 
usual, Into Ponto’s teeth, and rau back to recover 
it. Just as he stooped to pick it up, Ponto, in a 
spirit of mischief, started the horse Into a run. Mr. 
Lucas called out “ whoa! whoa !" and ran with all 
speed to overtake them; but Ponto cheered on his 
steed by barking “go ahead,” and soon; left his 
master far behind to walk home at his leisure. It 
amused Mr. Lucas, iu the bight of his vexation, to 
see how perfectly delighted t,hc dog was with the 
success of the trick he was playing upon him. 
“Our Watch,” said Miss Seldcn, “was so shrewd, 
that when my brother or the hired man got up early 
of a cold winter’s morning, he would crawl into 
their warm bed, and after smoothing tin*, clothes up 
nicely around his ears, enjoy a good nap. More 
than once I found him there, stretched out aud 
covered up in a way to look as mnch like the right 
occupant as possible, and had not the heart to dis¬ 
turb his repose, in order to air the beds. 
“One morning it struck me that his Bnoring did 
not sound quite genuine, so I went out, shut the 
door as usual, and then peeped in again ; there I 
saw the deceitful Watch, head up, peeping back at 
me, as much delighted at the success of his ruse as 
any dog could be.” 
THE BOY WITH A STRAW HAT. 
A crippled beggar was striving to pick up some 
old clothes that had been thrown from a window, 
when a crowd of rude boys gathered about him, 
mimicking his awkward movements, and hooting at 
his helplessness and rags. Presently a noble little 
fellow came up, and pushing through the crowd, 
helped the poor crippled man to pick up his gifts, 
and placed them iu a bnudle. Then, slipping a 
piece of Bilver into his hands, he was running away, 
when a voice far above him said, “ Little boy with 
a straw hat, look up! ” 
A lady, leaning from an upper window, said, earn¬ 
estly, “God bless you, my little fellow! God will 
bless you for that I” As he walked along, he 
thought how glad he had made his own heart by 
doing good. He thought of the poor beggar’s grate¬ 
ful look; of the old lady’s Bmlle, and her approval; 
and last, and bettor than all, be could almost hear 
his Heavenly Father whispering “Blessed are the 
merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” Little 
reader, when you have an opportunity of doing 
good, and feel tempted to neglect, it, remember the 
little “ boy with a straw hat .”— Echo. 
DEVOTION OF CHILDREN. 
The love of children for each other is sometimes 
very forcibly shown. A sad story is told in an 
English paper of a little girl who lost her Ufa be¬ 
cause of her devotion to others, and who now 
sleeps under the green sward in a country church¬ 
yard near Newcastle. 
Several children were playing on the track of the 
Great Northern Railway, when an engine and ten¬ 
der came rapidly up the road, and the elder ones 
started to run out of the way. One of these, a 
small girl, had two smaller children in charge. 
These she left, in her first spasm of self-preserva¬ 
tion, but when she had gone a step or two was im¬ 
pressed with a sense of her duty, went back for 
them, and had just time to bring them to a space 
between the track and platform, and to save their 
lives; but she herself was—well, she never know she 
was hurt, I suppose, but when she came to herself 
It was not the black country aud the railroad she 
saw, and the inky Tyne, hut sweet fields beyond 
the swelling flood, and the rivers of the water of 
life, and the angels. 
--— 
SAYING “NO” EASY. 
“ How is is that you never go with any bad»boy, 
or get into bad scrapes ?” asked one little fellow of 
his playmate. 
“ Oh,” said the other, “ that’s ’cause I don’t say 
* do ’ easy.” 
We thank that boy for his secret. It is worth a 
great deal more than a hag of money. We have no 
doubt saying “no" easy has ruined many a child 
and man, and woman too —saying “no” as if you 
did uot quite mean it. 
When a bad boy or girl tries to coax you to do 
doubtful things, say “no” as if you meant “no” 
and nothing but “no.” 
When sin whispers an excuse for doing wrong say 
“no,” and no mistake. When Satan asks you to 
serve him, and makes as great promises as he did 
to the Lord Jesus in the wilderness, do not say 
“no” easy, but answer him as Jesus did:—“Get 
thee behind me, Satan.” That is a “no” he can 
understand- 
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KEEP To TUB RIGHT. 
Love should be your motto, 
Duty be your aim; 
Ever overcoming, 
Till a crown you claim; 
For a fame undying, 
Strive with all your might; 
Keep to the right, boys. 
Keep to the right! 
--»-»-» «->-».- 
Never be Haughty. —A humming-bird met a 
butterfly, and being pleased with the beauty of its 
person and glory of its wings, made an offer of per¬ 
petual friendship. “ 1 cannot think of It,” was the 
reply; "as you once spumed me, called me a drawl 
ing dolt." “ Impossible!" exclaimed the humming 
bird. “I always entertain the highest respect for 
such beautiful creatures as you.” “ Perhaps yon do 
now," said the other; “ but when yon insulted me 
I was a caterpillar. So let me give you a piece of 
advice: never insult the humble, as they may some 
day become your superiors.” 
