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SEGUIN, GUADALUPE COUNTY, DECEMBER 10, 18-53.'
VOLUME ONE—XUMBER XII.
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SYSTEM. resulted, from purely theoretical considerations,
given you a brief one of the most important discoveries of modern
which I endeavored to show times, and one which, from the manner in which
^.hundred millions of fixed stars, it has been made, ought to convince us of the
has revealed to us, is the knowledge and skill of Astronomers, and of the
Of worlds, in' all probability truth of the principles of Astronomy,
'txrtheonrf of which the sun is the centre jj ]¿as been discovered, by means of the spots
in the j^mt communication, to give on their surface, that the planets, like the Earth,
lecture on the solar turn upon their axes, and that these axes, like
For if ted star is the centre of a: that of the Earth, are inclined to the planes of
mht to tfte solar system, irf making their orbits, and consequently, like the Earth,
ourselves acquainted with it we make ourselves, they have change of seasons, and the vicissitudes
to some extent, acquainted with all the other 0f ,jay an(j night.
systems in the universe. As the gpneral details Having given a brief description of the plane-1
planetary system are pretty generally gyStem, and of the recent discoveries which j
known, I will pass over them briefly, and dwell have jjeen made, I now come to the laws by
more £p?a certain recent discoveries which have 1 which the system is governed, called the three
I laws of Kepler,, because discovered by him.
by far the largest body in the sya-1
a a milium times larger
and is the great centre of attraction,
source of heat and light to the surround-
Around it revolve the earth and the
circular orbits, and nearly in
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The first of these is, that the earth and planets I
revolve in elliptical orbits, and that the sun is |
in one of the foci of these ellipses. These ellip-
ses, however, differ very little from circles. His
second law is that their motions in their orbits j
is so regulated that their radii vectores sweep over
HAPPINESS.
"T is not in beauty, this will fade,
Anil pass like morning dews away;
:T is not in all the charms of fame,
Which like the summer flowers decay.
;T is not in gold or glittering gems,
Which dazzle like the sun's bright beams;
*T is not in pleasure; this will pass
Like joys of early, happy dreams.
But't is in virtue, bright and fair.
Which joys unfading can impart;
It is in kindness — melting power,
That softens down the stubborn heart.
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It is in hope, which, like the sun,
Makes earth with fairest flowerets bloom;
It is in friendship, warm and true,
Which lives the same beyond the tomb.
It is in love, heavenly love,
The richest boon to mortals given;
That love which time can never change,
But constitutes this earth a heaven.
I Might have been*."—The New Yorker says:
—A couple were walking slowly up Broadway,
vening, engaged in grave and earnest con-
verse.
One of them was in' the prime of man-
and revolves around it at the distance of j ftsorbit nearest the sun, it mores faster than it
37,000,000 miles, and in a period of about when near its aphelion, or the opposite part
eighty-eight days.
of its orbit. The earth, for instance, about the first
Next is theptanet Venns, which is about one-1 of January, is about 3,000,000 of miles nearer
the Earth, and revolves around the sun than on the first of Jnly, and consequently I .> ' +1 , ' ,'
AíatuiM nf Á9 AIM AAO'milei. and I u !>.<> +«
as one could discover at a glance, an unbroken
spirit. „
The other was somewhat older in years, and
a great deal older in heart—any one could tell
that, too. Ah, an old heart is a wearier weight
im bore, in the immortal
dream of the " Tinker."
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the Su at the distance of 69,000,000 miles, and it has to move faster in its orbit at the former
in a period of'about two hundred and twenty- j time than at the latter, in order that the areas
four da** , ;x: described by the radii may be equal. The third Just as we Passed' we caQ"ht the words'
Next is the Earth, which is 7,912 miles in haw 0f Kepler is, that the squares of the peri- \might have been " The J'ar
diameter, and revolves around the Sun in one betimes of different planets are to each other as Idrowned the rest; but it was enough for a song
year at the distance of 95,000,000 miles. It is the cubes of their distance. Hence, as we have or a sermon-that> "1 raigbt have been." The
attended by a moon, or a satellite, which revolves seen, the further a planet is from the sun the plamtlve utterance haunted us5 we heard it;
•temad it at the distance of 237,000 miles as the greater is the periodic time of revolution; as for the midst of merry vo|ces and blasts of music*>
planets do around the Sun. instance, the placet Uranus, which is about nine- we heard 'lt through tlie sighing wind and the
Ñex* comes Mars, which is much smaller than teen times further from the sun than the earth rattlin° rain; itwas s-vllabled in the sUent
the Earth, and revolves around the Sun in a fe, requires eightv-four years for one revolution, and we are writmg 11 thls mornin='
than two years, at a dis- and the newly discovered planet Xeptnne, which j The schoolmen have evented six tenses in
mfles. y about thirty times as far, requires about one ^ammar; bnt rea11? there ■ three: the
of importance is Jupiter. It hundred and ¿ixty years. These Were important sParkUn& Present> the hoPefal Future and the
the planets, being more than laws but Newton afterward discovered the still I melancholy Pluperfect.
in the Earth, and performs important law of universal gravitafion, which is, I sha11 be" and might have 1)6611!"
.the Sun in a somewhat less that every body in the universe attracts every The former the mnsic of y°uth' sweet as the
' o®- years, and at the distance other body directly as its mas, and inversely as ISOQnd of bells' fresh as
"""> of miles. It is attended by the squares of their distance; and showed that ' "Tbe hv<xz? cal1 of incense-breathing morn."
revolving around it at different that the laws óf Kepler resulted as a necessary the Iatter.tbe Plaint of age, the dirge of hope
¿¡alances, asá in Afferent periodic times óf revor consequence from the more general law. In tbe inscription for a tomb. The one trembles
It is tfotinguished from other planets I acordance with this law, the earth and. planots are j uPon thin, pale lips, parched with " life's fitful
" " by belts. attracted by the sun, and while their* centrifugal fever;" the other swells from strong young hearts
in order is Saturn, which is nearly force has a tendency to carry them off from to lips rounded and dewy, with the sweetness o1
larger than the Earth, and the sun, its attraction is continually exerted to hoP® and the Mlness of strength. The one is
the Sun at the,distance of about keep in their orbits. The same laws gov- timed by a heart that flutters, intermits, flntters
miles, iund in a period of neariy jern the revolution of the satellites around their and wears out; while that of the other beats
thirty .yean. It has seven moons, and is sur- primaries, and they form a miniature system ri£ht on, in the bold, stern march of life
rounded by.two rings. exactly similar to that óf primaries revolving "I shall be," and "I might have been!"
The next is the system Uranus, which is about around the sun. What toil and trouble, time and. tears, are
eighty times largar than the Earth, and per- Since the pUnetg M we haye geen> are gome recorded in those little words- the very sttko-
r ™ 0f —y times larger the Earth, .***■ of ^ow 1¡ke ab«gl^aU is tha^
000 of miles, and in a period jn other Tespects¡ bodieg to the " I shall be," from a young soul, strong in proph-
of nearly eighty-four years. ¡ Earth, being similarly situated with regard to the Iecy! "I shall be-great, honored, affluent, good."
there are, between the whits ami ^nd having a change of seasons, and the " I shall be," whispers the glad girl to herself,
_ ter, a number of comparatively succession ef day and night, and are, some of Ias with one foot upon the threshhold of woman
eaQed asteroids, vimble| <mly by them, attended by «several moons, we have rea- bood she catches the breath from the summer-
" ~J. revolving «round the son to think that, like jthe earth, they arej inhab- fields of life—" I shall be-lloved by and by!
distance, and in nearly ¡ted. For it would be unreasonable to suppose That is ^er aspiration; for to be loved is to be
Until recently there that the earth alone, which is an inferior body happy
were only /our of these bodies known, but within
the last six years, the diligence and perseverance
.of AstwHwnpsw haw been rewarded with, the
than nineteen others, so
i now twenty4hree. As
in the system, is inhabited, while other bodies, I "1 shall be," says the struggling boy, " I shal
many times • larger,, serve no useful purpose, or be possessed of a little home of my own, and a
have been added merely to give a few rays of I bttle wife, some day, and the home shall be
light to the earth. Again, if every portion of and the wife shall be mine, and then—
matter on the earth,—the land, the ocean, the and then " ?who can fill out those " thens?"
and revolve nearly at atmosphere,—teems with animal life, we can not wbo but the painter that has dipped his peiKin
eaB* distance from the Sun, it has been reasonably < think that other larger worlds are sunset—who but the poet whose lips have been
thought hy some Astronomers, that they once I suffered to remain a desert waste. We have, I touched with a coal fregh from the altar
belonged to the same body, and that, having fctawever, no reason to think that they are inhab- inspiration!
been, at some time, rent asunder by means of ited by human beings, for we are informed by "I shall be—victorious yet," murmcrs the
convulsion, the fragments now (}eology that the earth has changed all its man in the middle watch, who had been battling
orbits, and are but the inhabitants several times since it was first inhab- with foes till night fell, and is' praying, like the
world. An additional |i^^ aad that man is of very .recent origin; Greek, for dawn again, that "he might s^e to
therefore if man, like other orders of animals, is fight."
only destined to occupy the earth for a while, " I shall be," faintly breathes the languishing
and then give way to others, we have no reason upon her couch of pain — "I shall be better
to think that he is likewise an inhabitent of the to-morrow, or to-morrow;" and she lives on
planets.—[Saturday Evening Post. j because she hopes on, and she grows strong with
which tends to corroborate this
idea is, that the orbits cross each other at nearly
thi same point in the heavens, which would be
a necessary consequence, if, at the former time,
they proceeded from the same point, encept that,
altor a long period of time, they* would vary a
fitfle, in consequence of the perturbations of the
the discovery of nineteen asteroids,
aho been, a new planet recently dis-
covered, which, from the manner in which it
the " shall be" she has uttered.
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, , And the strong man armed, who has " fought
Although we sit around the same hearth the good fight," and has " kept the faith," when
-How seldom do we think of the
The Dead.
dead!
where they sat, and read from the same volume | they that sustained his extended hands throug
they so loved to peruse, yet we do not often | tbe battle, are departing, and no Joshua to bit
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discovered, must be considered the most think of them. Oh, how the heart throbs with
important astronomical discovery of modern wild and uncontrollable emotions, as we stand
The existence of the planet was pre- beside the dying friend we dearly love! We
its path in the heavens assigned, and its wildly strive, but all in vain, to prolong the
mass calculated, from the effects whieh it pro- precious life; we follow in deepest anguish down I
4iiPed by its attraction upon the motions of to the dark flowing river; the spirit of the loved
UfMHML • Astronomers had always been per- passes onward alone—and we are left to linger
plSzad to reconcile, with any degree of precision, common life you will find frailties and meannesses
the observed motions of Uranus to the known on the shores of time. We think, as we behold
laws of gravitation, and for several years it had the inanimate form consigned to the cold grave,
been evident that its motions must be disturbed and hear the damp earth rattle over it, that we
by the attraction of some unknown body. Mr. will never forget the life-scenes of the departed
of Cambridge University, England, and —that their memory will always remain fresh
JÍ. Le Terrier, of Paris, both sbont the same in our hearts, and wonder that the busy multi-
undertook too difficult problem of determ- tude can move on so briskly around us. But the
from its perturbative effects upon Uranus, sun shines brightly as ever on the new-made
Á position of the disturbing body; and both grave. Nature looks as gay and smiling, and
arrived at nearly the same results, independ- the birds sings as merrily as before. Again we
enfly ft eaeh other. When Le Verrier had mingle with the busy jostling throug. Weeks
his computations, he communicated the and months roll on—we visit the grave frequently
result to the Academy of Sciences, and, at the —and gradually cease to think of the lost ones,
samite* wrote to Doctor Galle, of Berlin, save when some sweet voice or incident of by
reqnestb£ M* to look for it with his large gone days recalls them them to our memory,
tdaacope, ar"* directing him wtyere to find it. The feeling of bitter anguish and bereavement
KIM*. Doctor Galle directed his are soon worn off by the accumulating cares
te the place designated,, and immedi- and pleasnre of life. Thus we, in turn, must, ere
planet Neptune within long, pass away, and be forgotten. Such is
ooe'degéee of tMTpbce designated. Thus has' hnman lif«\
the declining snn " stand still," as he looks beyonc
the rugged Jiills of the world, and sees a win-
dow opened in heaven, and a wounded hand put
forth in welcome, lays aside the armor he has
worn so long and well, and going down into the
river, he utters, with a hope glorified to
faith, "I shall be over th<? Jordan to-morrow!"
Before the memory has a tomb in it—before
it becomes the cemetery, tbe " Greenwood" o
the soul—"I shall be" is beautiful as _an olt
ballad. When graves are digged therein, and
willows are planted, and hopes are buried, ant
no light breaks out of the cloud, then " I sha
be" is as grand as an old pa-an. When
" The battle is done, the harp unstrung,
Its music trembling, dying,"
then " I shall be" is as sublime as an oh
prophecy!
But there is another tense in this Grammar
of Life, it were well to remember; the sparklin
moment that dances out from the ripening hour
like golden grain, beneath the flails of Time, as
we write, and even as we write, is gathered into
the great garner of the Past
There is an injunction it were well to remember
*• Trust no Future, how'er pleasant;
Let the dead Past bury its dead:
Act, act, in the living Present;
He:irt within, an<l Co<! oYrhcad."
Youxo Ladies axd Yocxg GÉxtlemex. — A
oung lady over the signature of " Kate." sends
íe following spirited article to the Xcv Orleans
rue Delta. We think she gives fashionable
oung men a well merited rebuke, ller remark,
It will never do to commence the work of rc-
onn all on one side," h worthy of considera-
tion. She entitles her piece, " How to educate
Young America."
I read in a paper, she says, the other day,
that some new branches in young ladies' educa-
tion were coming out soSn: " Cook-ology, Spin-
ology, and II carc-ology." All honor to the
projector of so happy an improvement; but
allow me to ask, when our young Misses become
such pattern housewives, in what "circles," they
will look for suitable companions? Xot in the
upper tendoni could they be found. Jnst fancy
one of these be-whiskered, be-sceuted, mous-
ta-ched exquisites, in companionship with Solo-
mon's maidens, who layetli her hand to the spin-
dle, or plying the flying shuttle, or cómpoundeth
rare cookery. ?What affinity would t.here be
between them? The same there would be be-
ween a butterfly and a honey bee; one all glare
and glitter, and frisking movements, this other
all patient industry and sobriety.
I can not think of a more useless article, or
one more out of place, in a room where work is
jrogressing than a fashionable young man. He
mows so little about matters aud things, I feel
in pain until he is safely lodged in the parlor,
among -other things " more for ornament than
use," annuals and bijouterie.
It will never do to commence the work of
reform all'on one side. I propose three branches
more be addcfcl to the list of studies for finishing
young men fashionable; iSair-ology, Chop-ology
and Split-ology, and that. s in addition to the
requisite number of " sheets, towels, spoons and
napkin-rings," each promising pupil be furnished
with a new wood-saw and ax, well sharpened,
and daily exercise with them be practiced. It
will supercede the necessity of gynasiums.
In our onward march to perfection, and in
taking up the accomplishments of our grand-
mothers, we earnestly beg that some provision
be made against being cut off from the " best
society," and such has been the result, unles the
lords of creation are willing to keep pace with
us. Their lily hands would scarcely, with pres-
ent views, be willingly united with those of labor;
and what a dreadful state of affairs would occur
in upper s?i«6-dom, if one of the first families
were to marry beneath his dignity.
Hasten, then, the glorious era, when walking-
sticks shall .be converted into hoe-handles,
crotchet-hooks into knitting-needles, and quiz-
zing glasses and flirtations be known no more.
Beautiful Extract.—I saw the temple reared
by the hands of men, standing with its high
pinnacles in the distant plain: the streams beat
upon it—the God of nature hurled his thunder
bolts against it—and yet it stood as firm as ada-
mant. Revelry was in its hall—Jthe gay, the
happy, the young and beautiful were there. I
returned—and the temple was no more! Its high
walls lay scattered in the ruins, moss and wild
grass grew wildly there, and at the midnight hour
the owl's cry added to the deep solitude—the
young and gay who reveled there liad passed
away.
I- saw a child rejoicing in his youth—the idol
of his mother and the pride of his father: I
returned, and the child became old. Trembling
with the weight of years, he stood the last of his
generation—a stranger amidst the desolation
around him.
I saw an old oak stand in all its pride on the
mountain; the birds were carroling on its Doughs.
I returned and the oak was leafless and sapless,
the winds were playing at their pastime through
its branches.
" ?Who is the destroyer?" said I to my guar-
dian angel. ' *
" It is Time," said he. " When the morning
stars sang together in joy, over the new made
world, he commenced his course, and when he
shall have destroyed all that is beautiful of the
earth—plucked the sun from his sphere—'Veiled
the moon in blood, yea, when he shall have rolled
heaven and earth away as a scroll, then shall
an angel from the throne of God come forth
and with one foot on the sea and one on the
land, lift up his hands toward heaven, and swear
by Heaven's Eternal—" Time is, time wa;i, but
time shall be no longer."—[Paulding.
The Dishonest Coxvert.—Upon a certain ! The Firemex.—The Tribune, in its notice of
occasion, a man called on him with a due-bill | the annual parade of the Xew York firemen,
for twenty dollars against an estate he hailpays the following and well-deserved tribute to-
peen employed to settle. Friend Hopper put it
away, saying he would examine it and attend to
it as soon as ue had leisure. The man called
again a short time afrcr, and stated that he had
need of six dollars, and was willing to give a
receipt for the whole if that sum were advanced.
This proposition excited suspicion, and
administrator decided in his own mind that he
would pay nothing till he had examined the
japers of the deceased. Searching carefully
among these, he found a receipt for the money,
metioning the identical items, date, and circum-
stances of the transaction; stating that a due-bill
had been given and lost, and was to be restored
by the creditor when found. When the man
called again for payment, Isaac said to him, in
a quiet way,
"Friend 'Jones, I understand ?hou hast
become pious lately."
He replied in a solemn tone,
" Yes, thanks to the Lord Jesus, I have found i
out the way of salvation."
" And thou hast been dipped, I hear," contin-
ued the Quaker. ?"Dost thou know James
Hunter?"
Mr. Jones answered in the affirmative.
"Well, he also was dipped some .time ago,"
rejoined friend Hopper; "but his neighbors say
they didn't get the crown of his head under
water. The devil crept into the unbaptized
part, and has been busy within him every since.
I am afraid they didn't get thee quite under water.
I think thou hadst better be dipped again."
As he spoke he held up the receipt for twenty
dollars. The countenance of the professedly
pious man became scarlet, and1 he disappeared
instantly.—[Mrs. Childs' Life of Isaac Hopper.
the firemen: \
The extinction of fires may be compared to a
battle. The city bell sounds the charge. On •
dash the brave to the scene of action. The
contest seems deplorable. 'Bhc flames lick up in*
roaring wrath the wealth of whole lusters
of years—the piles of architecture that cost the*
sweat and skill of a thousand hands. Endless
seems the promise of the work of ruin. ? Wh
shall stay the hand of red and belching anni-
hilation? ?Who mount aloft and open a means
for its antidote? What greater courage could .
Marathon or Waterloo show than that of those
who at the signal from the commanding engineer,
rush up with their ladders to the parapets, where
fire, like writhing furies, ruus fiercely along? But
up they mout. M&rk each tall figure as it stands
like a defiant spirit over a burning galf. Now
| commence the trecchmént throes of the engine.
; Xow is hureld up the watery colainn. , On ye
A Gentleman.—Mr. Justice Talfourd wrote
"Ion," edited the life of witty and pathetic
Charles Lamb, and has done other good tilings,
but hardly can have ever said truer words than
these, with which'he summed up a "case:"
" Gentleman is a term which does not iipply
to any station, but to the mind and the feelings
in every station. The man of rank who deports
himself with dignity and candor, the tradesman
who discharges the duties of life with honor and
integrity, are alike entitled t« it; nay, the hum
Idlest artisan, who fulfills the obligations cast
upon him with virtue and with honor, is more
entitled to the name of a gentleman, than the
man who can indulge in offensive and ribald re-
marks, however high his station."
A darkey set to work to cut down a very
tough tree, but his axe flew back for some time,
with but little effect. A storm occurred, mean
time, aud a crashing shaft of lightning shattered
a huge oak to splinters near him.
" lJrcss de Lord!" exclaimed Sambo, "dat
well «lone. 'Spose you try dis one nex—gue
voy cret vutur match, ma??a!''
Mooesty.—Behold the daughter of innocence!
How beautiful is the mildness- of her counten-
ance! How lovely is the diffidence of her looks!
Her cheek is dyed with the deep crimson of
the rose; her eye is placid and serene,-and the
gentleness of her speech is as the melting soft-
ness of the flute.
Her smiles are as the enlivening rays of the
inn; the beauty of her presence, as the silver
light of the moon.
Her attire is simple; her feet tread with cau-
tion, and she feareth to give offence.
The young and the old are enamored with her
sweetness; she carrieth her own commendation.
She speakteth not 4he first in conversation of
woman, neither is her tongue heard- above com-
panions.
She jturneth riot her head to gaze after the
Steps of meil; she iuquireth not of them whither
they are going.
She giveth not her opinion nnasked, nor stop-
peth her ears to that of another.
She freqUenteth not the haunts of men; she
inqnireth not after the knowledge improper for
her condition.
So becoming is the behavior of modesty, so
lovely among the daughters of women!
?Is there one who hath forgotten to blush;
who playeth with the wanton glances of her
sister?
Shame will overtake her in the prime of her
days, and the years of her widowhood shall be
infamous as they are many.
John Bull and Brother Jonathan.—How-
ever poetic an Englishman may get, he never
allows himself to soar above comfort. If he
goes to Nineveh, it is in company with a hamper
of bottled ale. Meet him on the Great Pyramid,
and it will be behind a mug of black tea, and a
side-dish of sandwiches. John never allows his
reverence of the ancients to do injury to himself.
Should he ever explore the internal arrangements
of -¿Etna, it would be with three pockets filled with
bread and cheese, and one with London porter.
John differs radically from Jonathan. Let the
former meet a native in the Great Desert, and the
first thing he would inquire for would be " the
nearest hotel." The first tbfng Jonathan would
ask for, would be " the latest news from York,"
and ?" What is going on in Bosting?" A friend
of ours once met an Englishman and an Ameri-
can, on a cliff near the Falls of St. Anthony.
The former was imbibing a little " 'alf and 'alf,"
while the latter was going it blfnd on the
" Morning Herald." John can do nothing till
he eats, while Jonathan is non compos till he has
imbibed " the latest news."—[N. Y. Dutchman.
The Youth of Great Men.—I think of the
works of young Pope as I do of the actions of
young Bonaparte or young Nelson. In their
as great as the vices and follies of the meauest
meu. But in the presence of the great occasion,
the great soul flashes out, and conquers transcen-
dent. In thinking of the splendor of Pope's
young victories, of his merit unequalled as his
renown, I hail and salute the achieving genius,
and do homage to the pen of a hero.—[Thack-
eray.
Rust.—Speaking of tiie rust on wire fences,
the Scientific American says:—"It will be no
easy matter to galvanize a rusty wire fence;
but it certainly would be a good plan to pre-
pare wire for fences by galvanizing it before it
is offeree? for sale. If rusty wire is rubbed with
boiled oil,*in which some red lead bas been
mixed, on a warm day, the rusting process will
be arrested."
brave! The big axs wings aloft. The water is
poured'through the breach. A wild %ht of the
element ensues. The trumpet of the fireman
sounds the decisive charge. Tuba!
sonum. The roaring element begins to
signs of febleness. His pandemonium armstoffe
faintly iu the gloom. He sinks and sinks, and
sinks; and a shroud of smoke tells of his fate.
? But where are the aqnals which sing of the
Yictor?. In what history is1 his " Don't give up
more the ship," recorded? What national pasan
are breathed for htm?
Be of good c^heer. The day is cooing when
philosophy shall discriminate; when the work of
preservation shall be preferred to the work «T
destruction, and courage as great as that which
the world's bully literature has emblazoned, be
recognized aud glorified under toe red dirt of
the fireman. \ \. ^ -
Gold, said Lucien Bonaparte, in its analysis
| is the sweat of the poor and the blood of the
brave.
The Yeoman.—The man who.
own soil, who feels, that, by the laws <
in which he lives he is rightfnt and
owner of the land which he tills, is,1 by tW
constitution of our nature, under a Wholesome
influence not easily imbibed from any other
Source. He feels—other things being eqneh-
more strongly than another, the character of mtM
as the lord of the inanimate world. On' this
great and wonderful sphere, which!
the hand of God, and upheld by his
rolling through the heavens a portion ef 1
from the centre of the sky. It is the <
wh^ch moved generations before him
round of duties, and l}e feels himself ^
by a visible link, with those
as he is also, to those who will '
to whom he is to transmit.a home.
farm has come cfowj to him from)
They have gone to their last home;
trace their footsteps over the daily, so
labor. The roof that shelters hip, was ;
by those to whom he owes hi beil£.,
interesting domestic tradition is «
every enclosure.. The favorite fruit w.w
planted by his father's He i
boyhood, by the side of the brook,
winds through the meadow.
lies the path of the
est days. He still hears,from*his
voice of the Sabbath bell, which
ers and forefathers to the house of God;
at hand is the spot where he laid Ms ;
down to rest, and where he trusts, when!
is come, he shall be dutifully laid «by his <
These are the feelings of the owner of
Words can not paint them; gold x
them; they flow from the deepest
the heart; they are the life-spring of a
healthy, generous, national character.-*—[Everett.
Influence or the Moon on Plants —L'
if pruned when the moon is increasing in
will shoot out, spread and grow fast, particularly
if it be done in the second qaarter, because^, aa
the ligj)t of the moon increases, so does die sap
in-the tree.
2. Vines, if pruned while the moon is decreas-
ing in light, will not spread nor grow fast; par-
ticularly if it be done during the last quarter
because the sap decreases with the light. "
3. Timber cut down when * the moon is in-
creasing will soon become rotten, particularly if
she be in the second quarter.
4. Timber cut down when the moon is de-
creasing will last for years, and the more dura-
ble it will be if cut down during the last quarter^
5. Peas sown during th^ moon's increase will
bloom to the last, and will be full and rich in
flavor; still more certain 4f sown during the
second quarter.
6. Peas soWn when the moon is decreasing hi
light, will be just in the opposite condition.
1. The age to which a pomegranate wi$ Ire
depends on the moon's age at the time of
ing; it will live just as many years as the
was days old.
8. Plants and shiubs shoot up and take little
root if planted when the mooq is incseMsng in
light, aud in the zodiacal signs of Gemini, Li~
bra, or Aquarius.
9. If planted when in the signs of Taurus,
Virgo, or Capricornns, they toke deep root, and
do not grow tall.—[Glennay's Garden Almanac.
The Maine Law.—Apropos of this rapidly
extending codc, the London Diogenes asks:
" If water is established all over
will ' that tight little island' be found?"
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