OVER AND OVER AGAIN 
stored health, though with impaired power 
of respiration and consequent endurance of 
great hardships, which latter, of course, 
must be entirely avoided by those thus situ¬ 
ated, There is, too, even greater liability to 
a fresh attack than with persons who have 
never been afflicted, but the vigilance neces¬ 
sary to maintain health fortifies against its 
repetition 
One of the essentials in effecting a cure is 
fresh air; and if this can he had in such 
form ns to give more of oxygen—tlm vital 
element—than is usually found, the healing 
processes must be accelerated, beyond doubt. 
The family physician will tell you this. 
Now, under what circumstances is a larger 
amount of oxygen found? What climate 
those who may be inclined to admit this. 
1st. Is it. so clear that a fungus which agrees 
with one person may not be very injurious 
to another? Oue man has, to use a vulgar 
expression, the stomach of a horse. Can 1, 
an average mortal, calculate on possessing 
such a treasure? 1 saw with my own eyes 
mv scientific friend eat and swallow an en¬ 
tire Boletus -flatus, raw, without any appa¬ 
rent. bad effects, cither that evening or the. 
following day, whereas a small portion of 
the same kind, conked, too, (l cannot, how- 
cver, say secundum urtem), produced violent 
sickness on another individual, who, more¬ 
over, hud never before experienced sickness; 
indeed, this fact would seem to suggest that 
the stomach may be “ educated ” by long 
habit to hear this noxious food, and, there¬ 
fore., that its evil effects (harmless upon or¬ 
gans well trained) happen when the svperi- 
tn-entum in corpora ciU is tried. My friend 
assures me that he has eaten the highly poi¬ 
sonous Boletus satanas with no worse effect 
than a little indigestion the next morning. 
Can, I would ask. the experience of such a 
seasoned digestive apparatus as his be any 
guide to those who have not gone through 
the course of training which he has? 
Again, may it. not be possible that the 
same kind of fungus which in some instances 
is wholesome, tuny, if grown under different 
circumstances, and supplied with different nu¬ 
triment, assume very different properties? 
And again, are we competent to judge of the 
wliolcsomenessof a particular article of food 
unless it is tried by a very large number of 
persons—unless it be “ exhibited,” to use a 
medical term, on a great variety of constitu¬ 
tions? Indeed,is there not some ground for 
thinking that such ail exhibition would be in 
many instances far from satisfactory? 
On the whole, it would appear that the 
advice of an eminent, physician, an ardent 
admirer of t he fungus, was good and sound. 
When hi- heard of the escape my family had 
on this occasion, In: said that l his art icle ofdiet 
should he partaken of with 
dered tor forty years; it is men with sun¬ 
burnt features and nerves of steel that to¬ 
day whiten the world's wide waters with 
the sails of commerce, navigate all livers, 
explore all lands, subdue the earth as God 
at first commanded. An idle man, however 
white, and soft, and smart, is not God’s man ! 
BV KMMA BITIIT. 
Ovkk and over again, 
No matter which way I turn, 
I always And In the Book of Life 
Some lessons 1 have to learn. 
1 must lake my turn at the mill; 
I must grind out, the golden grain; 
l must work at my task with n resolute will 
Over and over again. 
GLEANINGS FROM NEW BOOKS. 
The Perfect IIiialtnml. 
[This poem is from “ Versatilities," by U. H. 
Neavkll (“Orpheus C. Kerr,") just published by 
Lee, Shepard Sc Dillingham, Now York:] 
-As Light, unto the Morn, 
So Time to him unfolds her; 
As holds the day the light. 
So unto him he holds her. 
A fairer than himself, 
To crown los manhood given, 
A something less of earth— 
A something more of heaven. 
Why wo Should Not Kill I'umii. 
[Wk, make the following extract from an Eng¬ 
lish work on "Mushroom Culture,” by W. Rob¬ 
inson, published in this country by Sr hi uni: it, 
Wei.FORD&Oo., New York. The ox tract is from 
a paper read by Rev. J. D. L v Touche at a meet¬ 
ing of the Wool hope Naturalists’ Field Cluh.] 
It is often said that he was a brave man 
who first ate an oyster, and truly a more un¬ 
inviting mouthful than it was could scarcely 
he imagined ; and yet the fact it is good and 
wholesome soon disposed of any prejudice 
against, it. And is it not likely that such 
would be the case, were the fungus tribe fit 
Wo cannot measure the need 
Of even the tiniest flower. 
Nor check the flow of the go) im sands 
Thai run through a sing'. 
Rut the morning dew mti-l ill ; 
And I lie hum and the si no roiin 
Must do their part, uml > • 11 ill II all 
Over und over again. 
Over and over again 
'flip brook through ihc meadow flows, 
And over and over again 
Tho ponderous mlll-wbeul goes. 
Once doing will not suffice, 
Though doing be not In vain ; 
And u blessing failing us oiu-c or twice, 
May come, If we try again. 
He deems her not n saint— 
In loving she is human— 
And as he is a Man, 
The dearer she ns Woman, 
Not down on her he looks. 
Nor up to an Ideal, 
But straight Into her eyes. 
And all hiB love Is real. 
The path that has once been I rod 
Is never so rough to feet; 
And lhe lesson we once have learned 
Is never so hard to repeat. 
Though sorrowful tears may lull, 
And the heart to Us depth be driven 
With storm and tempest, wo need them all 
To render us meet lor Heaven. 
As bends the sturdy tree 
To shade a pool of water. 
But standeth like a rock 
When wind and torrent slaughter 
So bonds ho unto her 
When gentlest her controlling. 
So stands lie ns a wall 
When dangers round are rolling. 
’Tis not. by given Right, 
Or Privilege he rules her ; 
For ’(.is his grace to yield. 
That in obeying schools her: 
And if the less himself 
From troublous cause, or other, 
A sharing Sister she. 
And he a patient Brother. 
THE IDYL IN THE WOODS 
As she may have a fault, 
So lie tnay have a greater, 
And sorrow for his own 
For both isexpiator; 
And if upon her sleeve 
She snares a passing folly, 
Me frights IL with a smile, 
And not with melancholy. 
Frau Vander Deck sal peaceably before 
her bouse in Ibe woods. Trees overhead, 
trees tin each side, trees in front,, made a 
comfortable rustling. She sal like Cleopa¬ 
tra, with ten thousand Cupids fanning her. 
It was an afternoon on which Cupids for 
that purpose would be very “available.” 
Frau Vander Deck was a woman of mid¬ 
dle age, a fair, strong, tender woman. She 
perhaps resembled one of her countryman, 
Duiieu’s, Madonnas. Wlnit brought, her 
from Fatherland to strike the roots of her 
lonely home into a little farm half a mile 
from a dull country town in these United 
Slates, not one of the town’s inliabilnnlsover 
picked from her. She lived there many 
years, a dense anti narrow belt of woods sep¬ 
arating her like a tabernacle curtain from 
the prying senses outside; and while her 
presence grew older among them, its odor 
spread sweetly about. She carried the gen¬ 
tle grace of u woman who lias stepped ill 
high places. Never once did any cluck- 
longncd woman try to Westernize her mask 
of “ Frau ” into t he contractive " Mis." Her 
dignity was let alone. 
Her land was tilled by an oblong being 
called Dan, who abode in the village at 
night, and went every morning at five o’clock 
to worship and serve before t ■ <■ e<mrlsof this 
superior mystery. Dan tin v continually 
at the birds. When his mist ;< .opened her 
j door to the sun, behold Dan . is doubling 
l down his length for a stone < ! twig; and 
I when she shut, it upon the !"• u, lie was 
| sauntering down the wood pal b ike a meas¬ 
uring worm, to the sorrow ol whippoor¬ 
wills. 
Ttiis woman had suffered. drew many 
toher. It was restful to hit look into her 
calm blue eyes. In time sin became such a 
soother as Hawthorne makes of his Hes¬ 
ter PitYNNK.or us every Scotch parish seeks 
in “ the parson.” Women with broken teeth 
I und hair balled up in the nape of the neck, 
A ROMANCE-Chapteii I.-The Letteil 
for human food ? Can we suppose any preju¬ 
dice arising from their leathery looks would 
not evaporate like mists before the morning 
sun, were they really the nutritions and de¬ 
licious dainties they are described to he by 
their enthusiastic advocates ? There may be 
a loo sweeping condemnation of all kinds of 
them,—nay, it may bo even probable that 
Ayaruyjs rmupcslris is not the best that grows, 
and yet, after all, the prevalent distrust, of 
the tribe is well founded. 
When, c. g., some family in a parish is 
known to have been poisoned by eating a 
wrong sort, it is not surprising, nor can it be 
called stupid prejudice, if their neighbors are 
ever after rather shy of Hie article of food 
which produced that result. Until, will he 
said that the mischief arose from ignorance - 
bad that family kuown the marks that dis¬ 
tinguish between the wholesome mid the 
poisonous kinds this woo'd never have taken 
place. If ever there was a case in which ig¬ 
norance was bliss, surely this is it, A short 
lime ago, 1 accompanied a scientific friend 
in a foray among the funguses, which wo 
made with a special view to the improve¬ 
ment of Olir intended repast, and was on llutl 
Chapter IT. -Thf, One who Wrote it. 
affords most, all other things being equal? 
It certainly is uot. a hot climate, nor a variable 
moist one such as prevails all over the con¬ 
sumptive district which wo have indicated 
at i lie, beginning of this chapter. 11 is found 
in a cool, dry climate, and this condition is 
had in Minnesota with greater correlative 
advantages Hutu in any other .section of the 
Union known up to this time. The atmos¬ 
phere is composed of two gases, oxygen and 
nitrogen, and in every one hundred parts of 
common air there arc about seventy-five 
purls of nitrogen and twenty-live of oxygen, 
subject to expansion from heat, and of con¬ 
traction from cold. This accounts, in part, 
for the general lassitude fell in a warm at¬ 
mosphere, while a corresponding degree of 
vigor obtains in a cold one. The condensa¬ 
tion, the result of a cool temperature, gives 
to the lungs a much larger amount of oxy¬ 
gen at, a single Inspiration, and of course, 
for the day t he difference is t ruly wonderful. 
The blood is borne by each pulsation of the 
heart to the air cells of the lungs for vitali- 
Ile slaves her truth to him 
By no confining portal. 
But In himself reflects 
Its counterpart immortal. 
The freedom that he gives 
Is taken from the donor: 
A Husband's faith may rest 
Upon a Husband’s honor. 
great caution,” 
And hy the way, Is not this itself a very sus¬ 
picious expression ? “ Great caution!” JLfl 
am introduced to a gentleman, ami told id 
tlie same, time that l must conduct myself 
towards him with " great caution” or ho will 
probably do me some deadly mischief, it 
would hardly be thought a very hearty and 
promising introduction ; yet here we are told 
that this excellent, family to which we are so 
warmly introduced, has some members be¬ 
longing to it so villainously disposed, that 
possibly vve may pay for our acquaintance 
with our lives. -This is not very er/cotirag¬ 
ing, and so the course adopted by a young 
lady who indulges in these experiment*, to 
whom I was speaking the oilier day, would 
seem to he a very prudent one. She says 
she never partakes of these dainties till she 
has seen the effect they have had upon some¬ 
body else! Hut even so, only picture the 
ghastly scene which a banquet, of this kind 
would present; each guest looking anxious¬ 
ly into his neighbor’s face, awaiting in terror 
the contortions which are to show that lie 
has partaken of the fatal dish. 
And ever ns a child, 
AVIieu childish she. he chicles her. 
And ever as a man. 
When she i* strong, he guides her; 
Through sunshine and through shade. 
Through blessing and disaster. 
In mure than name, her Friend. 
In less limn law, her Master. 
The Carpenter. 
[The following extract is from " Workday 
Christianity, or The Gospel in tliu Trades," by 
Alexander Clark, published hy Oi.axton, 
Reuben & Hapfelftnoer, Philadelphia.] 
Mart, tho mother of Jesus, was neither a 
ruler nor a ruler’s daughter, She avhs of 
David’s line, a royal ancestry, to he sure; 
but her immediate relatives ivere bumble 
and retired. Her husband tv as a mechanic. 
As a family, their circumstances wore lim¬ 
ited, for os the birth-offering of their first¬ 
born, a lamb could not he afforded, and a 
pair of turtle doves, the pledge that poverty 
presents, were the consecrating sacrifice 
when the child Jesus was given to the Lord 
in the solemn temple service. He was 
brought up to habits of industry, economy 
and self-denial, in Nazareth. His bands 
were hardened by daily toil. He put bis 
shoulder to heavy timbers, drove the saw 
and plane, and swung the lmmmer in honest 
work. It. avhs not considered a disgrace in 
those days to ply a trade. Ea’cu the Rab¬ 
bins were accustomed to gome handicraft. 
There is a tradition that Jesus constructed 
plows and farming utensils, as Well as the 
articles of common carpentry. Paul avhs a 
tent-maker, and nearly all the apostles Avere 
tradesmen, None of them were above work. 
Some of them were used to drudging toil. 
It Avould seem that employment, from the 
morning of creation, Avlieu God himself 
Avorked and rested, and when Adam was 
commanded to till the soil and subdue the 
animals, implies peculiar dignity and honor. 
The Maker of worlds blesses labor. It. is 
apostolic, it is Christ like, it is God-like to 
work. No system of education is complete 
that does not harden the band and toughen 
the muscle, while it develops the intellect 
and enlarges the heart. The religion that 
shows nothing but pale cheeks and lily-white 
fingers is not the religion of the Bible. High¬ 
ways and hedges are better sanctuaries for 
acceptable service, than studies, and clois¬ 
ters, and cells. Scars and knots on the 
hands are more honorable tlian rings and 
gloves. Bronze out of the sunbeams is more 
beautiful on tho face than rouge out of the 
shops. Only a worker attains the true sym¬ 
metry, strength and glory of manhood or 
womanhood. Genius itself falters in a con¬ 
flict with labor. Industry has the long end 
of the lever that moves public opinions, par¬ 
ties, congresses and thrones. 
It was men with brown faces and sineAvy 
arms that built the pyramids on Egypt’s 
plains, reared the temple on Mount Moriah, 
and Availed the Holy City with adamant, 
circled an Asiatic Empire with impenetrable 
granite, put arm in arm the old and the neAV 
worlds as Avhispering mother and daughter, 
spanned the American continent with a 
thoroughfare of iron from sea to sea, cut a 
canal for steamers in forty months across 
the desert sands where the Israelites wan- 
t 'onsumption Cu riililc. 
[Tam following is an extract from a work en¬ 
titled “ Minnesota ; Us C'liaraetor autl Climate." 
by Led yard Bell ; published by Wood St Hol- 
mtoOK. It is taken from a chapter upon the 
benefit a derived by consumptives from life in 
Minnesota air ft 
The curability of consumption is now a 
settled question. Every medical student lias 
either seen for himself or been assured by 
his professor that post, mortem examinations 
have disclosed this truth beyond all cavil. 
Numerous cases might he cited where, at an 
early period in life, tubercles bad formed, 
and by-and-hy, probably in consequence of 
a change in the habits of life, these disap¬ 
peared, leaving naught but old cicatrices us 
evidence of their previous diseased condi¬ 
tion. These tubercular deposits must have 
disposed of themselves In one of three ways; 
Firs/, they might soften down and he expec¬ 
torated ; second, they might, soften and he 
absorbed; or. thirdly , they might, become 
calcified und remain ns inert foreign mate¬ 
rial. In many cases all these processes 
might unite in the removal, and a long life 
follow, as is well known in some instances 
to he true. 
An eminent instance in point occurs tons 
as we write, and ivhich is ivorthy of citation 
in these pages. The lamented Rev. Jere¬ 
miah Day, once President, of Yale College, 
when a young man, had “consumption,” 
and was expected to die, hut by a rigid ob¬ 
servance of the laws of health, and self-im¬ 
position of staled exercise of a vigorous 
nature in the open air, lie, hy these means 
and without much of travel, restored bis de¬ 
bilitated frame and healed the diseased 
lungs, and died at the rare ago of ninety- 
live, having lived a life of uncommon use¬ 
fulness and activity. lie could not liaA r e 
accomplished Ids restoration Avitbout many 
and daily sacrifices compared Avith Lhe lot of 
his fellow men. A post mortem showed 
plainly that both apices of the lungs bad 
been diseased. 
There are many cases, of which no knowl¬ 
edge exists outside of a small circle, of rc- 
Cn after 111. The One aviio Received it. 
occasion struck with the elaborate precau¬ 
tions which seemed to be necessary t<> ob¬ 
serve in discriminating the good from the 
bad. It would almost seem that. Nature had 
purposely contrived a labyrinth of ingenious 
stumbling blocks to guard this mysterious 
product from the insatiable appetites of man¬ 
kind ; and so it came to pass after all, my 
good friend—who really seemed well up in 
the subject., and avIio found at every turn 
some Avell known test of wbolesomeness or 
otherwise to guide him in the specimens Aye 
collected—wound up the day by nearly poi¬ 
soning a member of my family; for he bad, 
it appears, mistaken Boletus flams, a violent 
poison, for the very similar but Avliolcsonio 
and excellent Boletus luteus —the only differ¬ 
ence being that the pores of the one are 
somewhat smaller and less angular than 
those of the other. Surely, in this instance, 
knowledge (and it Avas not in bis case a little 
knowledge either) was a dangerous thing. 
But still it may be said that there are spe¬ 
cies the characters of which are sufficiently 
well deliued, and that from these, at least, 
the stigma ought to be removed. But even 
so, I would submit one or two questions to 
l'haitkr IV. The Natural UoNrtEyinsxcE. 
zalion hy means of the oxygen Inhaled— 
the only portion of the air used by the lungs 
-giving it a constantly renewing power to 
energize the whole man. If a cold climate 
is attended with great, humidity, or raw, 
chilling winds, the object is defeated and tho 
diseased member aggravated, as would also 
he the case even if the climate avhs not a 
cold, raw one, hut was a variable cold one ; 
as then the sudden changes Avould induce 
colds, pneumonia, and all the train of ills 
Avliich terminate in this dire calamity Ave are 
so anxious to avoid. 
Equability and dryness are the essentials 
of a climate in Avliich consumptives are to 
receive new or lengthened leases of life. 
Suaikp, in his “ Culture and Religion," 
says :—“ Those who build their chief hope 
for humanity on Culture rather than on 
Religion, would raise men hy bringing them 
into contact and sympathy with whatever 
of the best and greatest lhe past has pro¬ 
duced. But is not a large portion of what 
is best in the literature and lives of past 
generations based on faith in God, and on 
the reality of communion with Him as the 
first and chief good?” 
