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Volume i o >; A' ft V. TBS ELM AtfD SHX rift*. •Uphold my feeble branches .. With thy atroDK arm*, 1 pray Thu to the Kim, l • neighbor— m The Vine—wa heard to say ) ••Elh, lying Tow and helpless, A weary lot is mine ; ■‘Crawled o’er by every reptile, And browsed by hungry kine.” The Elm was moved to pity ; Then spoke the generous tree : “My hapless friend, come hither. And find support in me.” The kindly Elm, receiving The grseefnl Vine’s embrace, Became, with that adornment. The garden’s pride and grace; Became the chosen.covert In which the wil'd birds sing ; Became the love of shepherds, And the glory of Bprh.g. , O beautiful example For youthful minds to shed 1 The good we do to others Shall never miss its meed ; The love of those whose sorrows We lighten shall be ours, And o’er the path we walk in That love shall scatter flowers. —William C. Brynnt, Miscellany. TBS EXCLAIMED. Sweeter than the son gw o t thrushes, When the winds are low. Brighter that the tulip’s blushes, - Reddening out of snow, Were the form and face o fair. Of the little child at prayer. —Alia Cary. The only one in the houee, a little child, knelt by her bedside praying alone. SVrhnps the experiences of ten years had aid their weight upon her young heart fehe certainly was not dldet I *—and were it not for lhe imorfeAfckfeft which sorrow always leaves upon ilk victims she would YinVe passed foY a yong'er child. It was hot a large house, for there were but three rooifis in it, and, besideS her Self, It had but one occupant. He was away ; fcbe Knew nowhere, only that her fears told her he was where he ought not to be. Bl>e had prepared their frugal supptr hours ago, and had waited anxiously and hopefully for her fath< r’s returning foot steps, but night crept on apace, ami he came not to cheer the solitude or relieve the anxiety of his waiting child. Tears had been falling f" om the bright bine eyes, dimming their lustre, and sobs *iad burst front the roseate lips, telling her licart’sagony ; and now near the inid of the night, the little one knelt, as her sainted mother had taught her to do tthd prayed for the absent one. ‘•Dear God, bless my poor, dear fa ther, Make hint'good ami holy *s my I 'dear, dead mother was. Keep him from drinking the wicked brandy any more, hud make him love his little Mary as ho tired to.” . j This was the burden of her prayer. But bow caii we tell the expression of her weeping eyes and little b inds raised imploringly to heaven in the earnestness of her petition ? Her golden hair fell loosely down upon her shoulders, and it was a picture which made glad the hngels who beheld it. They had seen the picture before, and the Lonu bad seen it, and heard the earnest petition of the L'latneloss one. Chailes Hansom had been prosperous and well to-do. lie had began life with bright) prospects) and with a loving wife and interesting children) his home was otse bt the bright Spots af earth. But sickness and death came and robbed him of his heart’s jewwls—of all but one—and left himdrsolate and disconsolate. Truly, lie loved Mary, the one left him by a tt'iie Provideuce i but his devotion to his tkitb liHtl beeh sd entire and dd absorbing she had become so tt uly a part of his own existence—that when she was taken from hiih life Seethed a dismal dungeon) aud he colild See bb “Veiling” to the fclohdS Which mantled life's skyi Deßpbndency took possession Of him and; to drown the poigna&y ot hi* grief; hte resorted to tiie wine-cUp; a* many an Unfortunate one has done before him, deludeii with false hopes. Having once began in this way, he soon went to ex bees. At first ihe piteous appeals ot the bhild, and the advice and warning of iricuds who loved him, seemed to have some restraining effect; but at length; these gradually lost power, and one by bne liis •‘friends" gave up his case as hopeless, and ceased striving with him, wrapping themselves in the mantle of their own fancied perfection and invinci ble power* to resist temptation, Add re signed hint to hisolate. There was btft one who remained fast and firm, staunch atid trtle to the woi'ft Of his retuination ; and that was his heaven-eyed, sunny-crowned Mary. She never faltered in her prayers or her en treaties. She heeded no repulse, aud Was discouraged by no delay ; but with the simple face of clnluho hJ she kept her eye fixed steadily on #lie boon so tondiy deairded—the retomation ot one she held mos. dear on earth. . Cn this particular night Charles Han som had lingered as usual at a dram shop, aud becoming intoxicated; Was ob livious to his home, his waiting child, and everything but his thirst for liquor. This thirst it seemed impossible to quench. Uis money was all gone; and, alas! he had reached, too, that other her tain stage in the drunkard’s life wiled his credit at the bar was gone, yet he implored the landlord for more drink. With iiis tongue thick and his eyes loll ing in an idiotic stare, he begged in vain for one more glass to salisly his craving thirst. His pleadings at last made the virtuous landlord angry, and with a ter ttble oath he answered the poor fnrbri * * ** . 1 t l,| > 0 1 t . t| . ■ . h - ' ate that if he could not be still he would j kick him out into the street, This wan the first time in bin msd c*- reel- tMt Hilaries Hansom had ever re ceived shhh a threat, and, bewildered And stiuvficd as he was, his native pride And selv-reipeot began to , lie aroused. The br-roon\ was almost mil of men, many of thetii Ills acquaintances, and Jo bo rebuffed ltt this niaodar, and .before them, made tne defthuTaticn doulily poignant. lie staggered to Ins feet and taught a chair, but ere his faltering arms ooula raise it high enough lor the object at which he aimed, the infuriated dramsel ser hurled a decanter, with such uner ring precision that it felled the besotted man on the floor with his head gashed, and the blood oozing from it frightfully? “Get out of my house, you vagabond," cried the landlord, as, not content with seeing his victim helpless on ■nlw-imj he npplied kick after kick to Ms postrate body. Get out with yottr villainous carcass, I tell ye, and gel off to your pauper hovel and your crying brat, Arid never put foot inside this door agaiil, or, by—, I’ll kill ye.” This brutal speech sobered the drunk en man almost as by magic, and, with a bound surprised the lookers on and made them stand hack, lie rushed upon his assailant and strangled him till he cried, “Help, men, for the love of Goi> f fiend is murdering me!” Tho infuriated man loosened hia-griUp and broke forth : “Oh, yes, Bill Jackson, yo t thought I was killing you, because you knew you richly deset ved it, not only from nte, but hundreds of others. You sold me drink, and encouraged me to drink ; yOii said it would not hurt me, that it would do me good, that it would drive Borrow far from me and make me forget my griefs. You were the one who, when I said my tcmjierament was one that could not stand much drink, told me there was no danger ; tlut I should get Used to it as he had done; and you luted me oh and on, from one stage to another, until you got all my money ard nearly all 1 could turn into money ; and uow when I have noth'. ;g, and am poor, and degraded, and low and sdnkieti into the gut er where you have dragged me, you spurn me from your house, you kick and beat me, and, worse than all, you call my child, whom, w ill all my degra dation and sin, I love better lh£n>my life—you call nty child a btawliug brat! Curse you, Bill Jacksrtn, for the ruin you have wrought. Hit I will go from your house; I will go home to my poor child, and ntay the God whom I have so grievously offended give me the strength to resist the temptation ever to enter your house or any other liquor shop again as long as I have breath." The penitent man was assisted to his [ home by some of his ctmpanions, and, i upon entering the house, there they aw ' t hat frail, fair child still kneeling on the bare floor by her lit tle bid. She had fallen asleep in that position after pray.. I ing long and earnestly for her absent fa ther. Hut she awoke at their couiiug, and with dPstartled cry she ran to her lather, and asked what was the matter. With her own hands she dressed Itis wound, and, pressing her to his heart, he told her he would try not to drink any more. , “O, dear papa!” she cried; “I tlibdght God would answer my prayef. 1 have prayed so much for you, aud. itlaiilinii used to teacli me that nty prayers vvotild be heard aud answered when Goo thought it was best. Oh, won't mamma be hap py, up iu heaven, to know that you won't drink auy more f and little brother Jamie? And I know God will bless yon dear father, aud make you strong." “May he bless you, sweet cl ild, aud make rne worthy of such a precious treasure.' Oh, what a sinner I have beeu! May Gob be merciful, unto me!” There was little sleep in that house that night. Charles Ransom was thor oughly aroused from tlie torpor ditto which he had plunged so long, and he mafVeled that he had ever fallen so low. Hfe had been snatched as a brand from the burning, but not by his own aflforts ; the grace of God, so unweariediy invoked iu his betfell by his praying child, 1 had at last come to his Fescue. He saw how bear the gate of destruction he had ap proached, and in his hour of penitence he resolved no longer to rely on his own strength, but to seek the aid of divine grace to help him battle with gorrow and adversity, for be had seen that “vain was the help of man,” an<l that human na tllhbj unsustained and unrenewed by gfabbj liras the veriest weakness. The happy days pasSed into months, the months into years, and vre behold the rechiiised one a respected and hon ored member of society. The beautiful little house which he used to own, aud which he had sacrificed iu his insane Suasion for drink; he re-pilrclmded j and fary, the same devoted drtfgliter to whose prayers he owed his saltaiidd, tlow dh'velbped into a beautihfl and gifted ydilng lady of seventeen, tfiilns of fldvr ei'B and vines around their happy dwel ling; and with her love and cdte dbd goodness makes it a home \Mitb the do ■ gels seem to watch over with p'ecrflidr guardianship, and in her prayefd dhe never fdrgets to say : “My Gtfb, I thank Thee that he Who Was nigh ilnto everlasting destruction is, by Tar iriefCy, restored, and he whet Wfte lost is found.” Ste asked him >i her new dfts'sf wasn't as sweet as a Spring rose, dnd the brute said it was, even to the minor attraction of still haring a little due on K; CONYERS, GEORGIA; THURSDAY, MARCH3O, 18W. NBUrsPAPl fs. “I'm too poor to take a pajief." If you arc too poor to take a Jpaper, you should ho indicted by the grand jftry tor obtaining a family under false Southerners are not as reliable newspa* per supporters as they should' oi£ co ild jie, for, iii fact, few country tako Jliq .newspapers. Travel throiigh the country from Kongo to ltjphniomk (Uid in nineteen of tweutjr of the irnpaiflesH ill-located and.unaonfM'ta6lii dikpUkiga on the roadside, you will nnd neither newspapers nor any * traces of oiie ever having been there. The luwhand knows nothing about hiftrbfets slflbptiij josV items that he picks tip tit the country, stoni flie wite ( is ignorant, atid bsijfiiise slim is denied tile general itiforiffnlidri derivable from newspapers, she descends in the scale, and becomes a newsmon- ger, filled with superstitious ideas aad scandal. The children grow up ignorant, with no ambition to push ahead in life. '1 hey know nothing about the world they live in, and care less, istop at any neatly painted house, situated in a grove cf trees with vines on the porch and a paling feuce in front, and on the tables, in the corners, and in the halls, you will find the local papers of the Nearest large city. The proprie tor is as well j*ostod about the prices of cotton, grain, .or stock as any traveling speculator. He does not depend upon the local politician for his political ideas nor upon luck for a good .crop.- His wife has a wider seope fot her minds employment than neighborhood scandal, and the childreu grow up ambitious to suooeed in life, and (warned of the tricks, evils, and quicksand of the world) gener ally press onward an i upward iuto the front ranks. If the country preachers would labor to circulate the nearest local newspaper, the usual Sunday mortfing’s gossip, slan der, and general conversation upon the ohuich green and steps tVduhl CeaAA, and the community beooiito inelligeiit. The local newspaper iit a family is read ; Baxter's Saints’ Best, and books of like diameter, would do perhaps more good, but where there is no nuwspayer, it is not likely that any one of the family will read books, particularly religious nooks. ‘Whitewash on the walls, honeysuckle over the porch, and a newspaper iu the hall;” ami tltd Character and standing of I the family is evident td the passing strait ger.— Ex. POOR LITTLE TOM ; OK, ONLT A FfidfTEll One day a poor littlb deformed fellow, named Torn; tfho tiddid not walk, was seated on his little chair outside the cot tage door. Tom bad great pain to endure often ; he could not jump and play like tiis brothers, Willie and George ; he knew that lie would be helpless, and misshapen, and full of pain as loug as he lived ; that he would bit nothing at home but “poor Tom,'' caus ing his mother’s heart to ache, and te *rs to suffuse Iter eyes when she looked at his pal?, pain worn face; and his father to heave heavy sighs, and sometimes even to turn aw ly and draw his coat Sleeve hastily across his ayes, as lie thought of his afflicted boy. As he was seated at the door some children came by, and vthert they saw how deformed ho Wits, and that He could not walk; they begad to nfake some very mikifid remarks about him, even to taunt liini because of his misfortune, staring at him} and laughing rudely the while. Now; Toid had had much of this ndiigfi ty conduct toward him to bear before, and he had been very braVe j but tins morning he felt more poorly and lull of pain lha.i usual, and the cruel words slung him more keenly; and putting his thin hands to his face, he burst iuto tears. lie thought it unkind of God to make him such a cripple, and he ffelt so miserable, altogether be wished Unit he might die. - The naughty children soon ran away ; ah 1 but they couldn’t take With them the aiTOWS with which they had pierced the little boy’s heart. Hut while he was looking sad; a little girl came along, and Tom’s heart ;< great bound, lor fear lest site, also, tVo'dld t ase him. She had a pretty flower in one hand, and was admiring its beauty very intently, and so she did not raise her sott gray eyes until she was very near Tom ; but when she saw him, fffte looked so kindly at hitn, he was delight ed and thought he might venture to smile. Then the little girl smiled too,' and walked to his side, aud said, giving him the flower : “Little boy, wiil yotf have it? It's only a flower, but I’m very sorry for you!” O, how pleased Tom was! And, tell me, was it only with the flower, think you? No, not with that only, but also with kind words and sympathizing looks he so rarely saw in a child’s face. Little children, it is in your power tci comfort and bless a sad heart, even though it only be a simple fliwer yOii give, a kind look, or a word ; and Jesus, who watches the actions of little chil dren, said: “Forasmuch as ye did it uuto the least of these, my little ones ye did it unto me.” O, how sweet to do Something for Jesus! Bishop Pierce, in his recent travels in Texas, gives the following as a peculiar ity ot the new settlers : “Among those whe feel settled, it is amusing to see how vitally they have identified themselves with the btfuntry and its interests. They wfl! fes'ert and criticism upon the soil, cli mate,' Water, - population, politics, religion or any TeXSn peculiarity, as quickly as though you had found fault with them or thfefr families. I like the spirit. Thefe is' a power in it.” Subscribe for The Kockualk Recis tek. It costs only $2 00 per annum; QUKKN VICTORIA'S CHO WN, A saw JIWK, CONSTRUCT*!* OUT OS TUB rHAO ttKNTS or uruoss INBIONIA OF it SO \LITV. One gem U lesitiri Jhc crown which was iiorn before Jqpr Majesty on Tues day is of groi\t antiquity -and of high historic interest, Tup .large sapphire, the partial drilling of whie)i suggests that it may have formerly hgureu in the turban of some eastern saltan, was pur chased, it jB jbpicVby George lv,; hut in the front of the diadem and in the centre of a Jialieac cross uf diauiomjs is the fatuous ruhhy given to EJwari!, tho black prirtoe, by Pedro, King o 1 Castile, after the battle of Najeva, A'. D. 1307. This same ruby \Vas Mrdrn by Henry V. in his helmet at Aginoourt. The gem is pierced right through. Otherwise, albeit each particular diamond, emerald, and pearl in the dazzling galaxy may have| its own pedigree and legend, no autheii-. lie record ot the crown jewels has been ■ preserved, find Queen victoria’s crown, structurally speaking, is a very modern affair indued. The famous Tory crown of Sir liohert Yvner, which tiie crazy woman mutilated in 1815, hail served at the coronation of William IV.; hat, ns it weighed more than seven |R>unds troy; it was decided that tire ponderous gow grtiy slivijld bo broken uj> ami that anew and permanent crown imperial should be fashioned. The new crown after having been examined and aonroved by I her majesty, was exhibited during the J hist week in June. 1838, to a large parly jof friends by Messrs Mundell k Bridge ;at their premises in Ludgate Hill. Ong ! inally the cap w.v of purple or rather [dark b lie velvet: but at the last moment (tUi| \vmty changed to one of crimson. ! Purple is indeed, the proper imperial hue ; biii it should not be forgotten that such a purple ctp of maintenance is still extant in the crown of’ St. Edward, •vhioh in its actual form, only dales from the teign of Charles 11., when it was made to replaoe tlte coronal worn by the (Jontessor of the altar. St. Edward’s | crown Ims arches and fillets covered with large muti colored jewels of no very ex. ceptional value; and this is the one which Colonel Wood stole. IJer majes ty crown is court rooted out of the frag ments of a half a dozen bygone insignia of regality which were broken up in i 1338, and "Which included the diadem j worn by Mary and Modena, by Queen Oaroliilu and Queen Cliurlotte as queen's ! Iron sort, and that ilsstUdeti by Mary 11., and Anne as queen’s regnant. The j British crown may, as a comparatively ; new thing made up of very ancient nta i icrials, be held to present a sufficiently striking likeness to the British coiwtitu lion, which has itself been broken into very small pieces, which has been patch ed and mended, enlarged and renovated QV?r un i aver again.— Jjotulon Albion. ACTlrift is SOT AL WA V3 EXE HOY. There are some tflen whoso f.pltlre to succeed in life is a problem to "others; as well as to themselves. They are indus trious, prudeiit and economical; yet after a long life ot striving, old age finds them poor. They comp'nin of ill-luok. They say fete is always against Ihein But tlie ldct is they miscarry because they have mistaken iHeie activity flil' energy. .Coufounding two things essen tial'y different, they have supposed that if they were always busy, they would be certain to be advancing their fortunes. They have forgotten that misdirected labor is but a waste of activity. The person who would succeed in life iS like a marksman firing at a target; if his shots miss the mark they are a waste of powder. So in the great game of life, what a man does must be made to count, or it might almost as well have heeu left undone. Everybody knows some oue in his circle ot friends who, though always active, has this want of energy.. The distemper, it we may call it such, exhib its itself in many ways. In some oases the. man has merely au executive faculty when he should have a directive one; in other language, he should make a capital clerk tor himself when he ought to do the thinking tor the business. In other cuseß, what is done is not done either in the right time or in the right way. Energy, correctly un derstood, is activity proportioned to the end. DYING WORD S. ‘lt i well.’—Washington^ ‘I must sleep now.’—lJyrorf. ‘Kiss me llrdy.’—Nelson. •IT ad of the army.’—Napoleon. •Don't give up the ship.'—Lawrence. ‘Let the light enter.’—Goethe. ‘lr to thy hands, O Lord.’—-^J’asso. ‘lndependence forever.’— Adams. ‘The artery ceases to beat.’—llalier. ‘ls this .your fidelity.’—Nero. ‘God preserves the Emperor.'—Hay den. ‘lt is tho last ot earth.’—J. Q. Adams. ‘Give Dayrales a chair.’—Lord (Jhes teffield. ‘A dying man does Nothing well.’— Franklin. ‘Let uot poor Nelly starve.’—Charles ‘What! is there no brib?:ig death !’— Cardinal Beaufort. ‘Ail my possessions for a' rnoin’ent of lime.’—Qdetn Elitabeth; ‘ft matters not how the head lfeth.’— Sir Walter Raleigh. •Clasp my bauds, my dear friend, 1 die.’—Alfieri. ‘1 ftll as it I were to be myself again,’ —Siir Waltrr Scott. ‘Let rife die to the sound of delicious music.’—Mirabeau. What letter in the alphabet, if lod would make you sick Of Music ? The letter M. CENTENNIALS AND MILLENN7AMS. 100 years ago—American independ ence. 200 yearf ago—.ljing Philip (the Indian) defeated and slain 5 ; habeas cor pus in England. 800 years agoi—Massacre of St. l)ar tholoinew i Spanish armada preparing. 400 years ago—Printing invented; Isabella the eomini' Qieen. 500 ye.ihs ago—The <Jjys of Tamer lane, the Turk, and Cllauoer, tho "English poet. "7 ($0 years ago—lialiol and Hrucc t 1 Richard llacon ; Thomas Aquinas: house of Hapsburg founded. 700 years ago— Richard (hear do Lion and Saladin, sultan of Egypt, measuring swords in Palestine. Bdo years ago—Williitrti the Conquer. or - ' •'*■■■ 000 years ago—Hugh Capet the French man. 1,000 years ago—Allred |ho Great.’ 1,100 years ago—Charlemagne aud Ilaromi Al Rascliid. 1,200 years ago—Moiiainmcdatiism making lively work iu Constantinople and other places, 1,300 years ago—Old,[Ch >sroes, the Persian, lives by murder, and the pope is made a secular judge among kings’. 1,400 years ago—The Saxons lively in Brita : n. Clovts establishes the French monarchy, And the Visigoths conquer Spain. 1 ,t>T) 4 ml "NgU— I 'ftw Romifn empire, having feg'slated mnnV yearn in favor Nil capital against labor, begins to fall to pieces. , 1,60 ) years ago—Tlie world has noth ing l etter to do than tojiroaoh and de nounce heresies ana get tip religious persecutions. 1,700 years ago—Marcus Aurolnts, Tacitus, and Plutarch. 1 8302 years ago—Jerusalem destroyed an l Her culaneu i) and l’oinpei buried. 1,876 years a^o— Ail tile world at peace anti Christ born; O.ood years ago—Adam rose to the dignity of a large real estate owner, but by poor management was diiven into iic voluntary baukrupey. THE MOOS AND THE iV&A Tti £ ft. Ttie notion that the moon exerts an influence on the weather is ho deeply rooted that, notwit'ktnnding aH the at tacks which have been made against it since meteorology has been seriously studied, it coniinues to retain its hold upon us: And yet there never was a popular superstition more'utterly with out a basis than this one. If the moon really did possess any power over the weather, tllat power could only bo exer cised in one of llnve way* —by reflection of the sun's rays, by attraction, or by fctfldfta!ion. No other form of aeiion is conceivable. Now, as the brightest light of a full moon is never equal iu intensity or qumlity to that which is re flected loyvanls us by a while cloud on a Summer day, it can scarcely he pretend id that weather is affected by such a cause. That the moon does not exert litti'.-Ktyiuti pn us is nianilest—we see its working in tlie tiihjs; but though it. can move water, itis most unlikely that it can do the same t<? nirj tor the specific gravity ot the atmosphere is so small that there is nothing to be attracted Laplace calculated, indeed, that the joipt attraction of the sun and nioo’n to gether cb'u'd not stit tlie atmosphere at a quicker i ale than five miles a day. As for lutia emanations, not a sign of them lias ever been discovered. The idea of an influence pfoaueea by the phases of of the moon is therefore based on no recognizable cause whatever. Fib ther more, it is ;iow distinctly shown that no variations at all really occur in weather at the moment of the changes of quar tet-, any more tlntti at other ordinary times. Since the establishment of lifet eorologic.d stations all over the earth, it has been proved by millions of observa tions that there is no siinulluneousiiess whatever between the supposed cause and the supposed effect. The whole story is a fancy and a iUpefstifitfrt has been handed down to us uncontrolled, and w. icti we have accepted as true be cause our forefathers believed it. Tlie moon exercises no more influence on the weather than herrings do on the Ctov'" eminent of Switzerland.— Blackwood. I lISTO 111 C A I.Tlt AI UTIOX OK TIIB or tub Ai*ost/.bh.— Matthew is supposed to have suffered martyrdom, was s ain with a sword in a city of Ethiopia. Mark was dragged through the Btreets ot Alexandria, Egypt, till lie expired. Luke was hung on au olive tree in Greece, John was put into a cauldron of boiling oil and escaped death ; he ■itterwards died a natural death at Kohe sus. JtCmc s tlie Great was beheaded at (JCrffsalem. James the Lss was thrown from a wing of the temple, and then beaten to death with a fuller’s club. Philip was hanged up against a pillar at tfieropolis. harlftblom w was flayed alive by the command of a barbunius king. Andrew was bound to a* 6ross, whence he preached to the people until he expired. Thomas was run through the body with a lance al Coromandel, in the East Indie*', hide was shot to death with arf'.iws'. Salmon Zbioted Was cruci fied in Persia. Mathias was first stoned and then .beheaded. Peter, who was crucified, - asked that he might die with bis head downward. A candid old bachelor says : ‘After all, a women's heart is the sweetest thing in the world ; it's a perfect honeycomb _ I iff! of sell*-* Number* 86; MAKE TWAIN ONBT. PATtOOX'. The following letter was. road at the supper ot the Knights of St Patrick in Hartford, Cotin.. the other night: Hartford, March 16. liinhud JitaClvud, Ksq, ~~. , IJjKAti.SiH : I Am-vci‘y, sorry that I cannot be with the Knights of St. Pat rick id-(nor row evening. In the tennial ye-.tr we ought liar pleasure in doing honor to -toe memory of a luun whose good name has endured through fourteen centuries. We ought to find a pleasure in it for (he reason that at this time we naturally have a fellow-feeling for Smrh a limn, Mtj wrought a great work in his day. list found Ireland a prosperous republic, and looked about him to see if he might find some ttt'Tul thing to turn his hand to. He observed Hint the President of* that republic was in the habit of sheltering Ills great officials from lie served punish* Uient, bo ho lifted up his staff ami tjpiqU} him, and he died. lib tbvfid that tl;o Secretary' of \Var had been so nnboeom riugly economical as to ll lve laid np #12,- j 00(1 a year out of a salary at (8,000, mid be killed h>m. He found that llie Sfcry tary of the luterior always prayed over every separate and dtstim|J ( sfjt beef that was intended for the imeori— verted savage, ami Orbit kept the beef himsell, so lie ki|led hiili alio, lie found that the Secretary qj' the ijfuvy knew more about hpnalillg suspicious, claims j thaii he did nbortt liumlling a ship, and he (It Unco made ah end of him. He jfonnd that a very foul I’rivatq Sgcrjftiirjr bad been <ti gjiieeictl through a ahum trial, so ho destroyed him. lie discover ed that tlie Congress wliioll pretended to prodigious vir’.toe Was very anxious to investigate an embassador who had dishonored hi* country abroad, hut was equally anxious to prevent the appoint ment ot any spotless man in a .similar poM ; that tills Congress Hadjiri Cod but parly,‘no system of morals but pm ty .policy, no vision but u b t's vision and no reason or excuse for existing anyhow. Therefore he massacred 111 tt Gollgr, h’3 fo I the last man , • r j When be llnii finished his great -\v,ork I’he said, ill bis figurative way, “Lo, I have destroyed all the reptiles of Ire— lan 1." dt. Patrick had no polities; his svm withioe lay with the.right,—that was p<il iiioa enough, When he came across a reptile lie forgot to inquired wliethe? , he ; was a Democrat or a Republican, trut 1 simply ex halted Itis staff aud “let him have it,” Honored be his name— I wirh we bad hiui here to trim up for the (Jenlemiml. But that cannot be. His j staff' which was ttie simbol of real, not j sham, reform, is idle. However, wo 1 still have witii us the symbol of truth ! heorge Washington's little hatchet—for I know tly?y’ve buried it, Yours truly, S. L. Ci.k.xkns. MARK TWAINS REphxNCSS. Hlfl OUBTSHII* AND HOW HR COITIfyIHD WITH HJS KATHKR-IM-UW’b UiCQIIKHT. And Mark "Twain made up hi min J that he must mary, and no one but that particular girl could be M'.,Twain. 110 set about that courtship' in his usual slow, deliberate, drawling filshiorii be - Mark Twain, in the conception and execution of every piece of biisinessn, rates far above ihe mere literary adven turer! lie Iff a rtinri of inscrutable depth, tie goes for bis game in tlie most extra ordinary fashion. He drops on it, makes Ins points as he does bis stories,., i>), a maimer and from a direction least ex pected by the looker on Well, Inure was a father-in-law to bo wot; as well as the girl, and the father in-law had to lie carried, first, lilfA the outer parallel in p line of defence., Tljp talher-in-'ttW was immersed in business. He hadn't much time lo think t) f math vs, but at lasi it occur fed td limy that Mark had become very frequent at the house aud that his objective point seemed to he the daughter. So he called Mark aside one day aud said: “Mr. Twain you seem to be pay ing a:tendon to tnv (Iqi/jMiW.', Noi we dll like you preuy well,' ydii Rtiowl And we are of oourge nil acquainted wifn ybuY refutation as a literary man Still, in oilier respects you are a stranger >to us, ami some references as to your char acter and standing are desirable.” “That's very reasonable," said Mark. “That’s very natural and paternal. It’s just what I should do were I in your pc’ silion. I guess I can give y<;\‘/soirjp mimes that will satisfy yor?„ now, there's Mr. Goodman ot tfio Territorial Enteipriet. And there's Mr. Fro lerick McCrellisli of ttie Alta California. You write to them. I guess they'll y-ivw me a good character. I guess they lie h r me. I've done the same for them whenever a requisition has been made upon me.” But Mark married the girl notwith standing, 1 The Swuiai/ School WdrM&Ui l ‘\ teacher should never forget that in liis ' teachings he is to bo ooii'ilWab M well as pointed, ami <the most courteous when be is the most pointed, Any person who cannot | n't truth with precision and point, and' wifliout becoming uncivil or offensive in his manner, has yet nmch to learn as a teacher. - Ho must keep his eye upon'.'not merely what the scholar is doing, and the kind of truth lie wishes to teach him, but also upon the nnAiier and spirit in which ho teaches and tho. neho'ar receives the truth. A sharp and* offensive manner is oertaiU to irritat • and repel the scholar.' Nor will it bo easy to win his confidence or gain Ins Respect, alter exhibiting such a spirit iff f-VibAAiAt bin*.