the mind light and heat. And away you go in the chase of what the soul within is creating on the instant, and you wonder at the fecundity of what seemed so crude. Examination in Rhetoric. THE following beauties of thought and expression, which were spontaneously elicited by The glow of toil awakes you to the conscious- questions proposed to the pupils of the " High ness of your real capacities; you feel sure that Class," in the New York State Institution for they have taken a new step toward final devel- the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, will opment. In such a mood it is that one feels show the happy effect of patient, well-directed The examination was in Rhegrateful to the musty tomes, which, at other mental culture. hours, stand like curiosity-making mummies, toric, and the answers were promptly written with no warmth and no vitality. Now they as the questions were asked : grow into the affections like new found friends; and gain a hold upon the heart, and light a fire in the brain, that the years and the mould cannot cover nor quench.-IKE MARVEL. COMPARISON. "Gratitude is like a fountain that rises in beautiful and sparkling jets, to repay those who supply it with water." "Virtue is like a Roman conqueror marching over a path of flowers to receive a crown of victory." "Death is like the morning zephyr, which wafts away the perfume of Summer flowers." Humility is like the sweet little daisy which droops the moment a shower comes on." "Childhood is like the sweet Summer flowers which soon lose their beauty and fade away." May her days be as bright as the sunbeams and as lovely as the evening stars." Departing blessings are like the birds which take fiight and soar away beyond the limits of the pleasant groves which they once filled with their melodious notes." "Love is like the opening rosebud." "A bright star is like a diamond sparkling in the bosom of the sky." the Jews to learn their sons some trade a custom not confined to the poor classes, but was also practiced by the wealthy; and it was a "Like the beautiful bow which spans the sky common proverb among them that if a father did not teach his son a mechanical occupation when the sun shines upon the rain drops, hope he taught him to steal. The custom was a wise appears in beautiful proportions when, through one; and if the fathers of the present day would tears, the sad soul looks upon the cheering rays imitate the example, their wrinkled cheeks would of the Sun of Righteousness." not so often blush for the helplessness and not unfrequently criminal conduct of their offspring. Even if a father intended his son for one of the professions, it would be an incalculable benefit to that son to instruct him in some branch of mechanism. His education would not only be more complete and healthy, but he might at some future time, in case of failure in his profession, find his trade very convenient as a means of earning his bread; and he must necessarily be more competent in mechanism from his Beauty often attracts admirers, whom the professional education. An educated mechanic want of intelligence in its possessor soon repels." was a model machine, while an uneducated me- "The prince shares with the peasant the chanic was merely a mechanic working under loathsomeness and horrors of the grave, and the superintendence of another's brain. Let the peasant shares with the prince the glories the rich and the proud no longer look upon me- and happiness of heaven." chanism as degrading to him who adopts a branch of it as his calling. It is a noble callingas noble as the indolence and inactivity of wealth is ignoble.-Extract from a Lecture by Rev. Dr. Adams. "Gratitude is like the charming fragrance of flowers." 66 ANTITHESIS. PERSONIFICATION. "The morning kisses the dewdrops from the flowers." "Autumn with his trembling hand sows golden leaves over the Summer flowers." "Imagination, bright Goddess of the mind! Thy presence is ever hailed with delight; for when thou comest, thou takest me with thee to scenes of joy and bliss thou unbindest from Dedication Poem of Old Warwick School BY B. W. MATTESON. my mind the fetters of care, so that it rejoices SEE where yon building stands with age declining, in thy presence." 66 Night, with lingering hand, draws its sable curtain around the earth, as if to hide the charming scenes of nature from our view." With roof in low obeisance to the ground, Where trees ne'er kept the summer sun from shining On desert sands that spread its base around. From that day, through each passing generation, go, With "Noah's Book" and bread-and-cheese collation, Good manners and their a-b-abs to know. To those, now men, to whom in past endearance A liberal institution it became. RULES FOR GOOD HABITS. 1. Have a plan laid beforehand for every day. 2. Acquire the habit of untiring industry. 3. Cultivate perseverance. 4. Cultivate the habit of punctuality. 5. Be an early riser. 6. Be in the habit of learning something from every one with whom 7. Form fixed principles on which For, in that rustic classic hall of learning, you meet. to think and act. 8. Be simple and neat in your personal habits. 9. Acquire the habit of doing everything well, 10. Make constant efforts to be master of your temper. 11. Cultivate soundness of judgment. 12. Observe a Along the backless seats for small and great, While logs were in the antique fireplace burning, Sat embryo lords to guide the future State. Nor needed they to stoop from high positions proper treatment of friends and companions. The same plank bore the farmers, mechanicians, To mingle in the class of common sort, TODD. THE saying often quoted, "The schoolmaster is abroad," is from a speech of Lord Brougham. "Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad -a person less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant - the schoolmaster is abroad and I trust to him, around with his primer, against the soldier in full military array." WHEN a friend once told Plato what scandalous stories his enemies had propagated concerning him, "I will live so,” replied the philosopher, "that nobody will believe them." I always judge of a man's understanding by his truthfulness, for I have always found the greatest fools to be the greatest liars. LORD CHESTERFIELD. THE degree of estimation in which any profession is held, becomes the standard of estimation in which the professors hold themselves. As well as politicians tall and short. And there, perhaps, were clergy-germs and deacons, Through wintry storms and summer sunshine From child to lad or full-grown, modest lass, ered, If now in one, would make a famous class. But there, in lonely superanuation, Presenting long a moss-grown furrowed brow, America demands for her's to-day, A mind by education yet unsounded, In some rude urchin's skull may be concealed, Which, once by adventitious scenes surrounded, In works like Fulton's soon may be revealed. Some half-tuned heart immured in youthful dwell- Becomes the source of ceaseless life-repining, ed, May yet burst forth from deepest fountain swelling May now assume the station more exalting, A Franklin-thought may seek balloon ascension This age of progress boasts of sons and daughters ters, Replete with power, will glow as mid-day sun. Rhode Island, though minute in land-extension, But this promotion long shall be retarded By sure declension in her brightening cause, If only mental culture is regarded As constituting nature's sacred laws. The Great Constructor in his ordination Established physical, then mental soul! Then each, alike in need of cultivation, Is subject to the same divine control. But those in whom these elements, united, And marred the hopes of rising nations, too. Incurred by willing self infatuation Against the force of higher moral sense, By artless confidence in his frail being, Nor can our opulence command preemption, Not last among the agents in promoting The ills for which our nation's matrons weep, Are those who make, in district meetings voting, Apartments small where public schools must keep. That vote, their own and neighbors' youth confining, Again to breathe their lifeless, stagnant breath, More like the honor of her time-borne name. And may oblivion in kindness sever Our thoughts from evils that her youth endured, To stay them on the worthy, high endeavor, Which has to them a school house new secured. The better judgment now appears victorious, Long tolled the tocsin to arouse from slumber, Imperial thrones of nations oriental, Plebian as the dust of serfs may lie, But good, if moral, physical or mental, Received by youth, can never useless die. But there must live, from vicious caste ascending. Not all unfounded is the voice declaring That government, the people's sacred trust, This age in part decides, and part that hour. To this belongs their right of education; Nor should it, then, be judged of import small, To mould the stamen of a future nation, Enhance its progress, or prevent its fall. Of patriots were never found the greater Than those who early from oppression fled, And their descendants who, in conflicts later, Their heart's warm life for our enjoyment shed. And later still, averse to tendencies despotic, Arose the brave to battle for the right; Nor should we deem those less than patriotic, Who save their race from superstition's night. The founders of the favored institutions, But who of braves or yet inert privadoes In justice's cause this present day will stand, Of ignorance and bigotry combined? Rise not in person now to bless the hour, When right to might and vilest persecution On Northern hills and Southern plains must cower. Submit to base intrigues of politicians On soil where freedom's life was first begun, As menial servants cringe to stern patricians, Expectant thus the tyrant's frowns to shun! Alas, for Liberty's brief reign of reason! The happy homes her genial spirit made, Now victimized to perfidy and treason By sons of those who ne'er her trust betrayed! The sainted fathers of our Constitution, The martyrs just before in conflict slain, Prayed not this fair republic's dissolution, And counted not their sanguine struggles vain. Shall now their sufferings be meanly rated, And victory by toil and bloodshed crowned, The era whence our country's glory dated, Among the wrecks of idle themes be found? Though boasted as those fathers' true descendants, Exalted in the benefice they gave, If wrong's direct or indirect defendants In quiet reign, and find an honored grave, Extinction, then, supplants that brightest glory That human freedom ever shed on man; That ever graced the record-page in story Of all the governments since time began. But the resource, of all the few remaining, Sufficient to redress a people's wrong, So long the virtue of its life distaining, To States or statesmen does not all belong. The basis of a nation's safe protection Against the desecration of its truth, Cemented in one common-law connection, Is laid in educating right its youth. When men stand forth unselfishly apprizing The good the children of our nation need, Ere long shall Freedom's sun unclouded, rising, Make glad the land from servile error freed. The Fall of Table Rock. BY THE LAST MAN THAT STOOD ON IT. GEORGE WILKES writes: "I said I had something to do with the falling of Table-rock, that broad shell on the Canada side, which in 1850 looked over the very cauldron of the seething waters, but which tumbled into it on a certain day in the month of June of that, by me, well-remembered year. About noon on that day, I accompanied a lady from the Clifton House to the Falls. Arriving at Table-rock, we left our carriage, and as we approached the projecting platform, I pointed out to my companion, a vast crack or fissure which traversed the entire base of the rock, remarking that it had never appeared to me before. The lady almost shuddered as she looked at it, and shrinking back, declared that she did not care about going to the edge. Ah,' said I, taking her hand, you might as well come on, now that you are here. I hardly think the rock will take a notion to fall merely because we are on it.' The platform jutted from the main land some 60 feet, but, to give the visitor a still more fearful projection over the raging waters, a wooden bridge, or staging, had been thrust beyond the extreme edge for some ten feet. This terminated in a small box for visitors to stand in, and was kept in its position and enabled to bear its weight by a ponderous load of stones heaped upon its inner ends. The day was very bright and hot, and it being almost lunch time at the hotels, but few visitors were out, so we occupied the dizzy perch alone. We gazed fearfully out upon the awful waters, we stretched our heads timidly over the frightful depths below, and we felt our natures quail in every fibre by the deafening roar that seemed to saturate us, as it were, with an indefinable dread. This is a terrible place!' said I. • Look under there and see on what a mere shell we stand. For years and years the teeth of the torrent, in that jetting, angry stream, have been gnawing at that hollow, and some day this plane must fall.' My companion shuddered, and drew herself together in alarm. Our eyes swept the roaring circle of the waters once again, we gazed about in fearful fascination, when suddenly, turning our looks upon each other, each recognized a corresponding fear. I do not like this place!' exclaimed I, quickly. The whole base of this rock is probably disintegrated, and perhaps sits poised in a succession of steps or notches, ready to fall out and topple down at any unusual per- worse than idle, things, in places where we shall turbation. That fissure there seems to me un- be mortified to hear them fall from our own lips. usually wide to-day! I think we had better There is but one way to have a pure and chaste leave, for I do not fancy such a finish; and, speech; that is, to cultivate at home the combesides, my paper must be published next week.' mon use of those words which are at once apWith these very words the latter uttered propriate and graceful. To be successful in jocosely, though not without alarm - I seized this, we must first cultivate pure and refined my companion's hand, and, in absolute panic, thoughts and feelings, and then give the most we fled, as fast as our feet could carry us, to- agreeable expression to them that our knowledge wards what might be called the shore. We first of words will permit. Strive always for the burst into a laugh when we gained the land, most pleasing and musical forms of expressionand jumping into our carriage, felt actually as if those which are clear, simple, having no double we had made a fortunate escape. We rolled meaning, and at the same time so appropriate back toward the Clifton, but before we had pro- and chaste that they would sound equally well ceeded two minutes on our way, a thundering anywhere. report like the explosion of an earthquake, In doing this, we need not seek pompous burst upon us, and with a loud roar the ground words great, swelling phrases. These, as a trembled beneath our wheels. We turned to general rule, are gross vulgarisms, as offensive find that Table-rock had fallen. We were the to a refined taste as many of a coarser, yet simlast upon it, and it was, doubtless, the unusual pler nature. What is required is, a childlike perturbation caused by our flying footsteps that simplicity of speech, united with a purity of disturbed the exactitude of its equilibrium and word and diction which cannot offend the ears threw it from its final poise. In a minute more of the most ardent lovers of literary refinement. the road was filled with hurrying people, and We would not recommend any stiffness of during the following half hour we were told a speech, or a long round set of phrases which hundred times in advance of the next morning come and go like the tide; or that soft, silly, journals, that a lady and gentleman who were simpering affectedness which is so strangely preon the Table-rock had gone down the falls. We cise that each word must be pinched out, by are told that the trot of a dog would shake old rule, between the tongue and the lips. These London Bridge from end to end, when it would not be disturbed by the rolling wheels of heaviy loaded trains. Table-rock had not been run upon in the way I have described for years perhaps never, and therefore, whenever I hear it spoken of, I always shudder and feel as if I had something to do with its fall." Home Sermon.--Pure Conversation. Ar home, we should accustom ourselves to use pure and appropriate language, Home is not only the proper place for pure and refined language, but it is the place to learn that language which we wish to use abroad. are forms of vulgarity as truly detestable as as any other. We would have language come from the tongue as easily and as purely as a song from the throat of a bird; and have such language always chosen as shall dress in the most becoming manner the idea to be delivered. To secure this most desirable end language must be our study — our practical, every-day study. We should learn, by perpetual practice, to clothe our common ideas in a simple, easy dress, a purely chaste expression, and invest them with a gracefulness of manner and an elegance of action which is proper for all places. Some people fall into one kind of an error, Home is the place where we form many, if and other people into other sorts of error, when not most, of our habits, both of action and they begin talking. Among these we may nospeech. These habits we carry into the world, tice the introduction of inappropriate topics. The vulgarities which we use at home we shall Forgetting that words cut sharper than knives, use abroad. The coarse sayings, the low jests, they, in the utmost simplicity, utter sentiments the vulgar phrases, the grammatical blunders, and express opinions which lacerate the feelings all the verbal impróprieties which go to form a of those who hear them. There may be circumpart of our home conversation, will enter into stances connected with the occupation, the apour conversation at all times and in all places. pearance, the personal or family history, of an, If we permit cant sayings and clownish vulgar- other which, recklessly to touch, is to open up There is isms to stain our tongues at home, we shall be a source of pain and disquietude. sure to have them blistered with these same idle, nothing more intolerable in ordinary conversa |