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EDUCATIONAL. DEPARTMENT* ♦ Organ of the Georgia Teachers Association- Organ of the State School Commissioner, G. J, Orr. yv. IS.jltONXKIjIj, Editor. Official Organ of State School Com missioner. Tht State School Commissioner will make this department of the iSunni/ South the medium ot* his official decisions and communications. All County School Commissioners and all teachers employed by the State, under the common school law will find it important to have the paper for tin's reason. Let the County Scnool Com missioners take note of our special clubbing rates, published elsewhere; let each exert himself to send to the editor of this department a large list of subscribers. Columbus Female College.—We have receiv ed a catalogue which shows this institution to be in a very prosperous condition. It is man aged by Prof. G. II Glenn, Prof. H. W. Key and Prof. J. II. Chappell, and a corps of able assistants. Columbus offers many advantages as an educational point. GENERAL GRIST* rUBLIC SCII'^L ITEMS. Pennsylvania.—Phonetic spelling is to be in troduced into the Philadelphia public schools. Mr. John S. Davidson has been unanimously elected President of the, Augusta Board oi Edu cation. Tbe citizens of Maccn Ga. propose to estab lish a Kindergarten, alter the Froebel system, in that city. Mr. B. Mallon has been reelected as Superin tendent of tbe public schools of Atlanta. There ■was some opposition to him, and his reputation as a teacher and superintendent was unjustly assailed, but tbe people are satisfied that he is the right man in the right place. Professor B. M. Zettler,Macon Superintendent of Public Schools, has just completed the school census of the city, and tbe following are the fig ures: White males of school age, 7215; while fe males, 723; total of white pupils 1,458; colored males, 1104; colored females 077; total colored attendants, 1881, aggregating in the city. 3 330 children who properly belong to tbe class of school children. The report if this year shows a slight falling off over the census tf last year. The re-election of the old board of Trustees of the West Point public schools, indicates that tbe old regime will be undisturbed. Col. Mootv, tbe superintendent, has recently banded in his report for the last scholastic year, by which it appears that tbe erst of the schools, for the past yearhasbeen $1.18 per scholar per month, against $1.42 last year. If this is nota good showing, we'd like to know what is. The peo ple oi West Point have a good thing, and we hope they sufficiently appreciate it. VIRGINIA, Tbe enrollment in the public schools of Rich mond Ya.; lor tbe first two days of tbe sesson, last week, reached the number of G,200—2421 being colored pupils. It is said that about a thousand children caDnot be taught at all this season, chiefly lor want of funds, schoolrooms, and other necessaries. Samuel Miller, of Richmond, who died leav ing nearly $1 500,000 for tbe education of the poor children of Albemarle county, bad only $300 worth of furniture. The Miller Manual Labor school buildings, costing $100,000 were recently dedicated. The school has an en dowment of $850,000. The school population of this country is said to be 14 300,000. The only medical college for negroes is in Nashville. It has an ample endowment. The public schools of Now York city will cost, tbe present school year, $4 448 000. There are four hundred colleges in this coun try, with an aggregate of three thousand seven hundred professors. Newspapers are used in many schools in the West instead of reading books. George Bancroft, tbe historian, has presented to the town of Lancaster the sum of $1,000, for the benefit of Ihe town library, the income to be ixpendeil in the purchase of books in tbe de partment of history. It is to he called the Sam uel Ward fund, in honor of Captain Ward of that town, who assisted Mr. Bancroft in defray ing his college expenses. The trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund, present at tbe meeting last week at the Fifth Avenue Hotel were:—President Hayes, Secretary Evarts, Chief Justice Waite, Mr. Ham ilton Fish, IP. Rev. H. B. Whipple, Bishop of Minnesota; Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachu setts; A. 11. H. Stuart, of Virginia; Samuel Wet- more, of New York; ex-Governor Aiken, of South Carolina; Surgeon General Barnes, of the Bai ted States Army; General Richard Taylor, ol Virginia; Rev. Barnas Sea ,- s, 1). D., of Virginia; Colonel Theodore L"j man, of Massachusetts, and Mr. George W. Riggs, of Washington, D. C. On one of the islauus off the coast of Maine, is a gigantic schoolmistress seven feet high, weighing three hundred pounds, strong in pro portion and very handsome. Once she was sent off to reduce to order a school of savage young men, who thrashed their teachers and turned them out. Her advent was enough to make them meek as lambs, all save one young man of twenty-one, handsome and curly-haired, and who regarded himself as a privileged char acter. He began to cut up one day before the girls, whereupon, in the twinkling of an eye, the handsome giantess bowed him across her knee and spanked him with her ruler. The boys laughed, the girls tittered, and that was the end of that young man’s pranks. A report ju-it made by the inspectors of the eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania, at Phila delphia, shows that the failure to teach young men an honorable trade has quite as direct a tendency to lead them to become criminals as a lack of general education. Of one hundred and eighty prisoners admitted during 1870 under the age of twenty-five years and convicted lor the first time, one hundred and thirty-five could read and write, and one hundred and thirty had attended public schools. Of this number one hundred and thirty-seven had never been taught any trade. Idleness is the mother of vice, and a boy who is allowed to grow up in idleness is pretty sure to be a vicious man. The parents of such boys have a fearful responsibility resting upon them, when they let their sons run about at late hours of the night instead of keeping them at home reading good newspapers and books, and train ing them in morai habits so as to become re spectable men instead ot idlers, rum drinkers, j generally, and of parents particularly. Solo mon’s oft quoted maxim, ‘Train up a child in the way he should go and when be is old he will not depart from it,’has been attacked, criti cized, and condemned as untrue. Instances have been adduced to show that the rule is not universal, that the principle is not corivet, that the result is not inevitable. These objections may be answered by stating: 1st. That the fact of exceptions, even when proved, is by no m n ans a refutation of the rule. 2nd. That the deffieulty lies in a misapprehen sion of word train, both in the minds of the objectors to the rule, and in those whose duty it is to apply it. Telling is not training. The father my be ever so upright and honorable, and he may tell j . . . his son every moment in the. day not to decieve ; Ushers ol the principal journals, nr betray trust; but if no pains are taken to im press the boy’s mind, by all possible means and on every fitting occasion, with a sense of honor, it need be no surprise to any one, if, when gnwn, he should turn out a defaulter, a forger or a thief. The mother may be intelligent and sensible and pious, as every mother should he; and she may be incessant!)’ drumming mora er on deck she hung about him in such a way, that, as I noticed over and over, it brought the blood to bis cheeks and made him ashamed to raise his eves. Depend upon it, that young man, in spite of his infatuation, said within himself To Members of the Ga. Teacher's As sociation. (OFFICIAL ) The Committee on Publication, appointed at ! a hundred times on bis wedding journey, ‘Poor our last annual meeting,and cinsisting of W. B. ! innocent little darling ! she lias no idea of the binnell, W. F. Slaton, J. il. Chappell, B. Mai- attention she attracts to us.’ Ion and G. J. Orr, met on September 2 1, in the ■ Mrs. M. (eagerly.) Y’es, she did know all office ot the State School Commissioner. After j about it. She was so proud of being newly consultation in regard to the matter of the effi- I married that if every one with whom she came cial organ, it was decided to authorize the sec- j j Q contact wonld not allude to her position she retary of the association to issue a circular in- i ma ,] e a point of confiding the fact that she was iting proposals from several of the leading pa- ers of the Slate. In pursuance of this resolu tion, the following ircular letter was prepared and sent to the pub- OFFICE OF SECRETARY. Georgia Teacher s Association. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2 !., 1878. Dear Sirs.—It is the wish of the Georgia Teach er’s Association to procure as the medium for the publication of its annual proceedings, (1 a bride of a week, and actually wore me out with pouring her raptures into my ears. Miss A. Jenny, you should not have told that It will confirm Mr. Beverly in his cyni cism regarding her want of taste. Philip. I remember the morning the youDg fellow and I walked into Chicoutimi together that I said to him, ‘Lately married, I believe?’ and he only nodded stillly and pointed out the falls in the distance. Beverly. Now, it is a deliciously pretty blun- sentiments and religions precepts into the ears j papers ot t ie State essays read at its meetings, and other education- i c ^ er for a bride to proclaim her good luck, but al intelligence, one of the leading weekly news- I i* * s a blunder, nevertheless. For six months a of her children, but if she does not by her own persistent attention, and consistent exam ple, carefully train them in the ways of gentle ness, modesty and grace, she must regard it her own fault, if, when they are grown, their con duct should b» characterized by rudeness, im pudence and immorality. So with the teacher upon whom so much of the child's future depends. The pupils, the class, the school, must all be carefully drilled in habits of neatnese, and order; must be practised in atten- im and obedience, must lie trained to do right and av i l wrong. Mere telling will not accom plish anything. Training everything. Georgia Personals. Gathered From our Exchanges. Prof. G. A. Granberrv has been made an A. M. the edit r, either as salary or a per cent of the by Mercer university. Prof. White, of the University, has returned to Athens after an extended Northern tour. Mr. G. A. Miller, a veteran journalist of this State and North Carolina, is teaching a school near Chalybeate Springs. dential, if you desire. Furnish us, also, with an estimate of the cost T. A. Means has opened a High School in At- ' ®{f? f copies of the Proceedings 4 - i j s TT i alone in pamphlet form. man forgives it; after that he has no fondness for being paraded as a part and parcel ol a wo man’s belongings. By that time he has proba bly found out that she is not all gushing uncon sciousness. Beside this adorable innocence I observed something else in this pretty bride. Despite ber fresh raptures, she was capable of jealousy; if her husband left her for an hour he found her a trifle sullen on his return. Miss A. She had nobody else. Mrs. M. She naturally wanted to feel that he was interested in nothing beside her. Beverly. But she should not have shown it. This is another perverse and suicidal incon sistency on a woman’s part; she should never ixhibit these small meannesses of pique, sullen tempers, jealousy, to her husband, since they place her wholly at a disadvantage, making her less attractive than the objects she wishes to detach h ; m from. Mrs. M. (a little embarrassed and looking toward her husband deprecatiagly. at which he laughs and shakes his head.) Woman is a crea ture of imnulse. She does not study what it The extent of your circulation (this conii- j is m08t politic for her to do; she gives herself ’ ' j utterly.—she simply asks for everything in it is proposed when such an organ is selected, to have this department edited by one elected from and by the Association (at present the Sec retary being editor) and he is to receive for his services such compensation as may be agreed upon. The State School Commissioner is also invited to make the paper his official organ. It is hoped and believed that such a feature would add materially to the interest, value and circulation of the journal selected, while it would prove no less advantageous to the Association and the cause of general education. We therefore solicit from you, the most libe ral offer you can aflbrd. State defluBely. 1st. How much space of each weekly issue you will place under our control for education al matter? What compensation you will agree to give I subscription. If the latter, state what per cent, 3. What per cent of proceeds of advertise- ments obtained by tbe editor will be allowed? lanta tor boys and young men. He proposes to prepare them for admission to college. Miss Forrest Fielder left Cuthbert last Thurs day to enter Wesleyan College, in Macon. Miss Forrest graduated at Andrew College, under Prof. A. H. Fiewellen in 1870 at 14 years old. Mr. Samuel Barnett, Jr., recently elected Ad junct Professor of Mathematics at the Univer sity of Georgia, hf University of Louisian will not locate in We learn from the Athens Chronicle that Mr. David W. Barrow, of that place, has been elected by the Prudential Committee of the State Uni versity adjunct professor of mathematics in that institution. We lea-n from Mr. W. A. Brown, our able and efficient County School Commissioner, that there are in Hall county 4 901 children of school A copy of our last proceedings is herewith mailed to your address, on which you may base the estimate. We hope to receive a favorable reply at an early date, not later than the 20ih inst. Respectfully your obedient servants, . Jiaiueunuics ai me uuiver- > W _- B - Bonnell (Chairman.)) , ias acce P te , d a Position at the ! J ’ i^allon^’G' H. ChappeR. - p abhu J ioQ isiana, aud, we regret to say ] JH - allon < u - ■>. uir. ) Athens. j T° this, all the responses were quite liberal. The different propositions were submitted to tbe committee, and after due deliberation it was tbe decision of those present that the Sun ny South should be selected as our official or gan. In many respects we deem this a wise and most fortunate choice. While there are reasons that operate powerfully in favor of a paper which age, and (hat sixty-six teachers were contracted •’ educational in its cuaracter, stid, . w pp with for 1878 ' I m vlewr °* P ar tially developed condition of The election of Rev. Leonard McManus to the th, f s and our siater stfttea - and in position of principal of the North Macon Gram- * L n clrc « m «tances of the vast mar school by the county Board of Education, ■ n "! J ’ nit ern teacuers, it was exceed- J - - - 3 ' mgly nesirable and important that an organ seems to meet the hearty approval of all. He has had considerable experience as a teacher and has been very successful, lie is a gamblers and loafers, which is sure to be tbe | graduate of Mercer University and a son MASSACHUSETTS. Tbe public schools ot Boston have this vear adopted a new programme in their system of instruction.. In the primary department tbe teaching is to be entirely oral, and tbe scholars are to learn from objects and from the teacher, instead of fiom the hook. Oral lessons will be given on pictures, plants, animals, form, color, measures, vegetables, minerals, etc., and the children ir this way accustomed to the use of words. Attention will be given to fables, sto ries and simple poetry. The entire system will be taught from the metric apparatus. The pri mary speller will be discarded, and easy, com mon words from the reader substituted. Ii tbe grammar grade the grammar, in name at least, is abolished, and also tbe spelling book. In tbe place of grammar is ‘language,’ which means less attention to parsing, etc., and more to composition, the construction of sentences, use of capitals, letter w riting and analysis The amount of writing in copy-books is to be re duced one-half, aDd instead, more writing in blank books. Our Colleges. Tbe Wesleyan Female College received its charter in 1835—thus being the oldest char tered female college in tbe world. It Las grad uated 773 young ladies. Owing to official busi ness Judge James Jackson (during the last com mencement) resigned his position as mem ber of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan Female College, and Col. Isaac Hardeman,' of Macon, was elected to lill the vacancy, and Rev. J. E. Evans, Atlanta, was chosen President of the Board, which position was held by Jndge Jackson. The State University.—We are gratified to learn from the following that the prospects of our principal seat of learning are very good: The lali session of the University opened this morning, and the prospects are very promising. Dr. Mell, Chancellor of the Univefsity, is full of Lope and rejoices over the future e Georgia’s Institution. Over fifty new students ». ,m dif ferent portions of the Srate entered this morning, and two or three times that number will enter this week. Nearly all the old boys and all the under-graduates Lave returned, and in about a month the roll will be over two hundred. Mercer University.—We were in Macon on Tuesday ot last week tbe day before the opening ot the Fall session of the University, and were much gratified to learn from D. A. J. Battle, its worth) President, of its very flattering outlook. A larger number of students than usual for one seesion, were then present; the steward’s Hall was even then full. This week we learn there are over odo hundred regular collegians matric ulated, there being no preparatory school con nected with the University. This is certainly a most gratifying exhibit, and evinces the high appreciation in which the institution is held. case with tbe night runners and flay idlers, then it..- responsibility is increased. Svvo iLe beys plenty to do, and you will pieserve their mor als. Better a tired boy than a vitiated mind. NEW YORK At a meeting of the New York Teacher’s Asso ciation in Albany, on the 10.h of July, Mr. Hen ry Kiddle, Superintendent of the New York City our present Ordinary Judge McManus. -.vh4-£!1 the pc-sv: at*;4iiy. Mr. James F. Park, the principal of Park High School, Tuskegce, Ala., is one of the most successful and eminent teachers of a pri vate scboil, south of Baltimore, and any boy is fortunate who can be under his tuition. Prof. Park lias been making a tour of Europe this schools, made an address on ‘Compulsory Flu- summer and during his absence, the University oafinri * A 1 rrt Vi r? oftov I 1 .1,....... „ „ _ i. 'i 1 lU ~ c t\ . „ cation.’ A lengthy discussion followed, after which a resolution substantially declaring the compulsory law a failure and recommending an amendment of the Vagabond Act, was offered and referred to the Committee on Resolutions. The annual meeting of the trustees of the Pea body Educational Fund took place on Cct. 2, in New Y'ork, and was attended by President Hayes, Secretary Evarts. Robert C. Winthrop, president of tbe Board of Trade, made a short address, congratulating the members upon the presence of President Hayes, who had broken away from his official duties to show' his interest in educational matters. Notwithstanding the serious shrinkage ot income he said the cause of free public schools at the South had made most encouraging progress the past year, and while they could do nothing as a board to aid in reliev ing the physical suffering of their Southern brethren, while the plague was raging, still they conld do, and had done, and were doing, not a little to promote that intellectual and moral im provement which must sustain them in every trial and be the basis of their future prosperity and welfare. The annual report was read. It says: The years just closed has been one of unusual pecu niary embarrassment to all the schools of the South, and while every department of education has been affected, that relating to the employ ment of teachers and public officers has suffered the most. Cheapening the labors of men on whom the vitality of the system depends is a more dangerous experiment than is generally supposed. The scholarships established last year have had an excellent effect. In the Pea body Normal Seminary of Louisiana, one-fourth of all the female teachers of New Orleans, du ring many years, have been educated. The fol lowing figures show the distribution of the in come of the fund during the year. Virginia, $15 350; North Carolina, $4,50(1;South Carolina, $3,000; Georgia, $0,000; Florida, $3,900; Alaba ma, $8 000; Texas, $8,550; Arkansas, $0,000; Tennessee, $14,000; West Virginia, $5,050. The trustees completed their labors on the next day. The following officers were elected: President, Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachu setts; First Vice President,Hamilton Fish;Sec- ond Vice President, Governor Aiken, of South Carolina; Treasurer, Samuel Wetmore, of New York; Secretary, George Peabody Russell; Rev. Dr. Sears, General Agent; Executive Counsel, Governor Aiken, William M. Evarts, A. H. H. Stuart, Surgeon General Barnes and General Taylor. of Alabama conferred on him the degree of Doc tor of Philosophy. Prot. A. F. Trimble has severed his connec tion with Farmers’ High School. We do not know where he intends to locate; but we do know that any community that secures him for a citizen will be fortunate, not alone because of his excellence as a teacher, but also because of bi% moral worth, as a man, and for the conse quent influence that he will exercise. No com munity in which he has lived has ever given him up without great regret. Essay On The Soul. When we speak of spiritual things we mean those objects or bodies which the mortal eye can not .<ee or the mortal mind comprehend. That (here is such an existance can only be proven by Pivine Writings,and such bodies are divinity them selves and can neither be measured by time or space. The soul is a monitor and never dies,hence, we know that the soul being immortal is spiritual aud is that spark of divinity which God likens unto himself; therefore, tie expression ‘‘in the im age of God created lie man.’ If we did hut follow truly aud faithfully the dictates of our consciences, man would be happy and all things, animate and inanimate, would appear truly beautiful. The con- shonld be selected which would prove more geu eratly attractive to the people. The la-ge circulation and extensive patronage of the Sunny South, together with its fine liter ary, domestic and agricultural features, render it the best medium of communication that the Association could obtain. The subscription price is within the reach of almost every farmer and mechanic in this broad land, and these are tbe persons who need to be reached by the in telligence which we desire to disseminate. The teachers, we are sorry to say, have shown them selves either unable or unwilling to encourage and support an educational journal, and as they are presumed—though the presumption is false —to need such information as educational asso ciations and their organs can and will furnish, less than any body else, we purpose to address tbe intelligence of the people directly. The great questions of education touch every man in a vital point, and in order that every man may understand his rights and interest's in tuis best gift ot God to man, we the educators and educationists of the country, should use ali means, this among the rest, to enlighten and instruct him. We therefore call upon all friends of educa tion, whether privste or public, partial or com plete, rudimentary or liberal, to come to our aid. Write, contribute, discuss if you feel so disposed, but be certain to subscribe to this capital paper, and thereby bless yourself, your family and your country. Brides and Wives. How They May Sometimes Lose Their Power Unwittingly. October evenings ar9 delicious. Just cool enough for comfort, with a hint of coming win- science never becomes hlunied by passing events, j ter in the crispy atmosphere that draws us return. Beverly. Does she give herself utterly ? Does she not generally keep an accurate debit and credit account of what is due to her ? Then the moment she feels her rights infringed upon, what is her usual course? She holds it her prerogative to set out upon a course of conduct eminently qualified to displease the very man whom it is her interest and her salvation to please. Mrs. M. But he should try as well to please her. Beverly. That is begging tlie question. Be side, her requirements are unreasonable. She holds too tight a rein; a man is never safe after he feels that strain at the bit. Now, even you, j Jenny—whom I hold up as a model of a wife—- you will not let Philip express his admiration | for a pretty woman without Mrs. M. (eagerly.) I delight in having him | admire any one whom I consider worthy of ad miration. I do not like to see any man run away by an infatuation for mere outside beauty. Beverly. Yet ‘mere outside beauty’is clearly the most important gift nature has bestowed upon women. Mrs. M. ) !- OL ! oh ! oh ! Miss A ) Philip. What is you? recipe, Frank, for put ting an end to disagreements between husbe.nds wiv^s ? Beverly. Wives are to give up studying their own requirements, and try to understand their husbands. Miss A. And what will the result be ? Beverly. Ail men, instead of remaining bache lors like myself, will become infatuated with domestic life. No man could resist the pros pect of being constantly caressed, waited upon, admired, flattered. And once married, a man’s own home would become so fascinating a place to him that he would never, except against his will, exchange it for his club or the drawing room of his neighbor’s wife. Miss A. And in return are husbands prepar- ed to give up a nice sense of their own require ments and study to understand their wives ? Beverly. Not at all; they are far too stupid to understand their wives; there is something too fine and elusive about a woman’s intellect and heart to be attained by one of our sex. Be side. are things ever equal—two souls ever just sufficiently like and unlike exactly to under stand each other? Let women perfect them selves in the art of giving happiness, and the good action will command its own reward. Miss A. Do you comprehend, Jenny, whac the full duty of woman is? For my part, I think it is better to go on in the old way, since j it is said that a mill, a clock, and a woman j always want mending.’ I think womea have their own little requirements. Mrs. M. (who has left her seat and gone round to ner husband, and is cracking his almonds with an air of being anxious to conciliate him.4 The fact is Ethel, you unmarried women know nothing at all about it. but is the same at death as it was at birth; and af ter death is rewarded for the good deeds perform ed in the flesh during life. The soul is a part of divinity and has the same racio of the evil spirit to contend with in the single body as divinity has to contend against in the universe. The soul (or arouud the centre table and the mellow astral lamp with that sociality of feeling which winter always brings. Such an evening it was that found Ethel Arnold a lovely and accom plished young lady—a belle of five seasons—and Beverly Deane—the young Editor of the Cos- GE51S OF THOUGHT. The Triple Test. The Success of Andrew College.—We are glad to note that Andrew Female College is fast regaining its past prestige, under the able man agement of its distinguished ami energetic Pres ident, Dr. A. L. Hamilton. The present term opened with over fifty pupils, and since then they have been coming in every day, and many more expected next week. This school is of a high grade, and its gradu ates are among the brightest female intellects of Georgia. As in days of old, its faculty is all that conld be desired and its charges as low as I any first class school. At the last meeting of the Normal class com posed of the public school teachers of Atlanta, Superintendant Mallon said that there are three tests of a successful teacher. The first is the power of enforcing noncommunication between pupils. The second, the ability to secure the proper position of tbe head and body in holding a pen. The third is the capacity of teaching pupils to mind their own business, whether in study or at play. He maintained that just so far as a teacher was deficient in either of theses qualifications, he or she was wanting in the elements ot true success. The power to do these things implies the possession of every quality necessary to good discipline. Teachers, have yon attained to this standard ? Can you ? Will you ? Another point was impressed upon the teachers j present, that is worth the attention of instructors conscience) dictates only that which is right,while ; Hiopol.tan, visiting at the pretty cottage home ws the reverse side of the pic- ! ^heir mutual friends the Mordants. Ihilip the evil spirit shows tne reverse siue or tne pic ture, and as the evil spirit has the advantage in point of temporal pleasure and amusement, it too often takes possession of the mind and thus man ages to weave a deadly net around its victims, which can only be broken by the most stringent observ ances of the dictates of the conscience, pointing, a3 it does, to Heaven. Some men claim that con science is education, but I think this a most grie vous error. The brain is a part of the organic system and grows with the body in size and strength, and is, as it were, a window through which the soul looks out and makes its presence known. That an infant does not comprehend the difference between good and evil is not to be at tributed to a deficiency of conscience but. (o the brain, which acls as a vent to that conscience. This is on the same principal that an infant can not talk; the tongue, however, is under physical control, hut the brain not being strong enough to be taxed, prec tides the possibility of the tongue expressing a thought which cannot exist until the brain grows in strength and volume. I do not believe in a material hell or place of punishment, but in different heavens or places of eternal recompense. If a man commits theft ret ribution invariably overtakes him in this world, while for the good deeds performed in the flesh he receives a greater or less reward in futurity. The knowledge of a wrong committed is a sufficient, punishment for that wrong, hence, we receive ret ribution on earth, but a most merciful Father does not consider the conscientious knowledge and gratification of having performed a good deed suf ficient reward for that good deed, hence, with in finite forethought and wisdom, God has in store for us a higher, a better and a greater reward as a gratification for obedience to that spark of divini ty which we all possess and call “soul.” Frank J. C. Rome, Ga., Oct. 9th, 1878. and Jenny Mordants—two years married—are seemingly as well matched as a wedded pair can be. Jenny is pretty, wittv, impulsive and warm-hear,ed. It cannot be denied that she is a little exacting and jealous. Fuilip is very handsome, fastidious, poetical in his tastes,—a trifle fond of playing grand seigneur, and of ac cepting rather than giving homage. The talk has turned upon courrship and mar riage. It is the young bachelor E litor who is speaking: ‘I know plenty of men who are absolutely loyal to their wives—faithful to tbe smallest obliga tion of married life—yet who regard their mar riage as tbe great folly of their youth. Now, a woman’s intuitions ought to be, it seems to me, so clear and unerring that she should never per mit ber face and to become unpleasant to ber husband. A-.. ~ - f g. -'Uv comes from the absurdity of her „ni>mpt“ m ; m to her side : they have ended by repelling mm. Now, if your sex would only remember that we are horribly fastidious, and that it is necessary to behave with good taste Mrs. M. Oh ! oh ! Monster ! Miss A. Barbarian ! Beverly. I will give yon an instance. In our trip up and down the Sagnenay last summer yon both remember the bridal couple on board the boat? Philip. I remember the bride, a charm ing creature. The young fellow could not com pare with her in any qualities of cleverness or good looks, Beverly. Perhaps not. At the same time, he was her superior in some nice points. Pretty although the bride was, and enviable as we con sidered his good-luck, one could not help winc ing for him when this delicate, refined little creature ‘showed off’ before the crowd of indif ferent passengers. At the table she put her face so close to his, and when they stood or sat tegeth- Shnn evil company, and evil company will shun you. Think little of yourself, and yon will not be injured when others think little of you. II tbe best man’s faults were written on his forehead he would draw his hat over his eyes. Many a man saves his life by not fearing to lose it, and many a man loses his life by being over anxious to save it. Love is of the nature of a burning-glass which kept still in one place, fireth, but changed often doth nothing. Never purchase love or friendship by gifts; when thus obtained, they are lost as soon as you have stopped payments. We only become moral men when we accus tom our affections and talents to be directed bv reason. “ There is no man, however high, but who is jealous of some one; and therein no man how ever low, but who has some one who is malous of him. Love is the shadow of the morning which in creases as the day advances. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. Fight hard against a hasty temper will come, but resist it strongly. A spark may set a house on fire. A fit of passion may give yon cause to mourn all the days of your life Never revenge an injury. Don t always turn back because there’s dan ger ahead; there may be danger in the rear. If you would have a blessing upon vour rich es, bestow a good portion of them ‘ in chari- ty. All our friends, perhaps, desire our happi ness; but then it must be in their own way what a pity that they do not employ the same zeal in making us happy in ours ! It is observed that the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having noth- ing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No mao envies the merit oi another that has any of his own.