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NIGHT WORK.

many of the most brutal murders and
greatest crimes committed in the city of
New York, are perpetrated by persons un-
der twenty-five years Of age This shows
very early corruption of morals, and as an
eminent jurist once said, is easy traceable
to the habit of being from home alter dark.
Lord SALISBURY stated that in nearly all the
cases of great crimes which came before the
courts of evidence showed that the moral
character became vitiated between the ages
of eight an sixteen These terrible facts
put together should make every city parent
especially, tremble and if it should lead to
the adoption of the following suggestions, it
would save many heart from going down
in sorrow to the grave, or from embittered
old age.
Do not allow your children to form the
habit OF "going home to spend the night
with their companions-no, not once in
year.
Keep them off the streets after shutdown
unless you are with them.
Do all that is possible to have loving,
cheerful and happy freside, as means of
weaving them from the street. Much can
be done in this direction by providing
amusements, and having the children occu-
pied in something interesting, profitable or
new.
Keep the birthdays, let them be occasions
of harmless festivities arrange that all hol
idays, too, shallbe observed appropriately.
Let the father and mother remember that
the exhibition before their children of a
loving, afectionate, and quiet department
towards one another in the home circle is a
powerful bond of union in a family !; the
very sight of it wakes affectionate sympa
thies in the hearts of children, and cherish
es the same delightful feelings in themselves
and soon the house becomes the. home of
love and quiet delight Within half mile
of us there are quite a number of families
of this sort, some of them among the veal
thiest in the city, but it is singular to OBJ
serve that in almost every case it is in con-
sequence of the mothers all pervading in
fuence-mothers who are quiet, gentle, la
dy-like, but firm in the right always Ma
ny homes are made distasteful to children
by incessant restrictions and criticisms, by
innumerable rules and regulations. A house
hold is better regulated by an afectionate
pliancy than by an infexible rigidity yield
ing in non-essentials, but firm as rock in
all questions Of right and wrong. The night
work from eight to sixteen determines the
life character of millions. Halls Journal.
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CHILDREN AND WEALTH.

Many are deferred from marriage for the
fear of the expenseof supporting family.
1t is great mistake. A single man spends
more in suppers and cigars that would sup
port wife. Few men lay by much until
they have attainedthe object to lay by for,
and thus it comes 10 pass that family is
now, as anciently, the best of hostages to
fortune: and none are so much to be trusted
as those who have the large families Still
as family increaIes around man, he is
very apt to feel as five or six children were
constant drain ulon his efforts at accumu-
lation, and that children were poverty in
sted of wealth. Bit it is not so, at least in
broadest sort of selle.
Thus for instare, in a national point of
view, our first method of estimating the
greatness of State, is by the number and
rapid increase of its inhabitants Every
child born in the United States makes the
nation so much the a6re respected abroad
and powerful at home. so much the more
wealthy and intelligent, for on the average
each citizen produces more of wealth than
he consumes, and in some department or
other adds to the accamulating stock of wis
dom and experience Now nation is but
a great family, so may we best test our views
of what is best for family by what is good
for nation.
Children are weak, and need support
when the parents are strong to support
them, norder that they may be strong when
parents are weak, and be able to support
them; and thus is made up that bundle OF
strength which large family ever generates:
Each wisely brought up and well educated
child is the best of all investments of a pa
rents wealth of money, of affection, and of
effort. Happy is the man that hath his
culver full of Them They are ''as arrows
in the hands of mighty man.
Children keep man young. He who
mingles only with those older than himself
soon grows old; but he who accustoms him
self to mingle large'y and freely with those
younger than he as surprisingly retains his
youth.
It is a remark of Bulwer, close observer
of human nature, that it is good sign for a
young man to love the society of men who
are older than himself, and for an old man
to love the company of those younger. 1t
is thus that youth acquires the experience
and wisdom of age. and that age retains the
vigor, freshness and elacticity of youth.
Children have in themselves fund of wealth
in the overfowing affections which God has
given them, which they impart to all who
come near or have much to do with them.
Ifthey call out the energy of man, and
make him work hard in the hours of bust
ness, they relax and refresh him with theil
warmth and geniality and absence of care in
the hours of relaxation, and of throwing il
off.
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NEVER GIVE UP.

Many premature death has o.;cured In
consequence of giving up. The sick person
becomes discouraged, thinks he b going to
die, and dies Friends think they have
done all they could, death is inevitable, and
let disease take it's course. There can be no
doubt but that in many such cases hope
still cherished, and the perseyerlng use OF
means, might have saved useful life.
So also in the struggles of active life. The
first speech of Disraeli in the House Of Com
mons, was complete failure, his speech it
is said being stihed in the derisive laughter
of the House. He thus closed: II shall sit
down now. but the time will come when y0ls
will hear me-" Numbers have sunk into
insignifcance under less rebuff Disraeh
was made of sterner stuff. Though II took
him seven years to recover from his dlsas-
ter, he redeemed his promise, and on bec6nl-
ing chancellor of the exchequer, Aclad IN
the same garments he had worn at the tlnlc
of his renowned failure, delivered to aclosc
ly crowded assemblage the most brilliant
and the ablest budget speech that had been
heard there since the days of William Pitt
Every one should feel that he is Immortal
till his work is done. Try. again, isgas
good for the adult as for the child. Hcon-
vinced that our cause is wrong, the sooner
it is renounced the better Cease to do
evil; but when cuntendiUg for tiss,s sisssss.
admit no defeat as final. We learn s0nfeE
| times mUrc from failure than a success,
and turn it to better account. Such should
ever be our aim. Use all honorable neans,'
rely on the ultimate triumph of right, pers
severe in the effort to deserve success and
failure will never be inscribed on yous e
work. The irresolute and half hearted lave
no good to expect, for that would only be .
premium of imbecility.
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miscellaneous.
THE CALEDONIA TROUT POND.

One of the greatest curioSities of Western
New York-we may almost say one of the
greatest in the worlds the trout breeding
establishment of Seth Green, in Caledonia,
in Livingston county, to which we paid
brief visit last week His house and ponds
are on the border of the stream called the
Caledonia Springs, which flow in vast vol
ume of the purest water from small hol-
low in the village of Caledonia, and after a
course of mile unites in the village of
Mumford with Aliens creek, one of the
tributaries of the Genesee. The country
through which it flows is thickly settled
and one of the richest and best farming
towns in the State The surface of the land
is quite level, with banks but little above the
surface of the water. The stream, some
places, is very rapid, and in others has
gentle current of mile or more per hour.
The Springs, as now situated, cover about
six acres, being damned slightly for mining
purpose They afford about eighty barrels
of water per second and make q creek from
three to four rods wide, and from eighteen
inches to six feet deep, according to the cur
rent. The bottom was covered with small
white shells and gravel. The water is clear,
pure and perfectly transparent, so that any
object can be seen for three or four rods
very distinctly. Its temperature at the
Springs is forty degrees the whole
year round, but down the creek, three-quar
ters of mile, it rises in the hottest days in
summer to fifty eight degrees by night, but
it is down in the morning to ffty-two de-
grees. In winter it settles at times to forty
three degrees, but generally keeps up to
torty-tiye or forty-six degrees The temper
ature OF the water to Allen creek is very
even the year round, but very cold in sum-
mer and quite warm in the winter, never
freezing In the coldest weather.
The water through the whole length of
the creek, as well as every stone, stick, weed
and blade of grass, is alive and literally COW
cred with numerous insects and larvae of
flies, summer and winter, so that the trout,
however numerous they are, easily obtain
all the foed they want at all times of the
year. There is but very little surface water
that makes into the creek, hence the volume
of water is very even. The first settlers
of the country found the creek literally fill
ed with trout of great size and beauty, and
it has remained SO to this day, notwithstand-
ing it has been almost constantly ished, night
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TIME PASSING.

Have you ever seen those marble statues
in some public square or garden, which art
has so finished with a perennial fountain,
that through the lips, or through the hands,
the clear water flows in perpetual stream,
on, on on forever; and the marble stands
there-passive, cold, making no effort to ar
rest the gliding water? Ii y So that time
flows through the hands of men, swift, never
pausing till it has run itself out; aud there
is the man, petrifed into nar5ls1 Sleep,
not feeling what it is which is passins away
forever.
1t is so, just so, that the destiny Of nine
men out of ten accomplishesitself, Slipping
away from them, aimless, useless, tillitis2
too late. And we are asked, with all the
solemn thoughts which crowd around an
approaching eternity, what has been our lire
and what DO we intend it shall be? Yestef-
day, last week, last year-they are gone.
Yesterday, for example, was such day as
never was before, and never can be again.
Out of darkness and eternity twas born,
new, fresh day; into darkness and eternity
it sank again forever. 1t had voice calling
to us, of its own. Its own work, its own
duties, what were we doing yesterday? Id
ling, Willing away the time in idleness and
luxurious literature as life q relaxation
but as life's business? thrilling our heart
with the excitement of life? continuing
now to spend the day most pleasantly?
Was that our duty? Sleep, brethren: all
that is but sleep And now let US rerAem-
ber this, there is day coming whenthat
sleep will be rudely broken with a shock;
there is day in our future lives when our
time will be counted, not by years, nor by
months, nor yet by hours, but by minutes,
the day when unmistakable symptoms shall
announce that the messengers of death have
come to us-F W. Robertson
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THE BENEFIT OF BEING KNOCKED
ABOUT IN THE WORLD.

1t is good thing for young man to be
knocked about in the world, " though his
soft hearted parents may not think so. All
youths, or if not all, certainly nineteen-twen-
tiothe of the sum total. enter tte with q sur
plusage of self eonceit. The sooner they
are relieved of it the better. If, in measur-
ing themselves with wiser and older men
than themselves, they discover that it is un-
warranted, and get rid of it gracefully, Of
desirable, for their own sakes, that it be
knocked out of them. A boy who is sent to
large school soon finds his level His will
may have been paramount at home, but
school boys are democratic in their ideas,
and if arrogant, he is sure to be thrashed
into recognition of the golden rule. The
world is great public school, and it soon
teaches new pupil his proper place. If
he has the attributes that belong'to leader
he will be installed in the position of a
leader if not, whatever his own opinion of
his abilities may be, he will be compelled to
fall in with the rank and file. If not des-
tined to greatness, the next best thing TO
which he can aspire is respectability but
no man can either be truly great or truly re-
spectacle who is vain, pompous and over
bearing.
By the time the novice has found his
legitimate social status, be the same high or
low, the probability is that the disagreeable
traits of his character will be softened down
or worn away Most likely the process Of
abrasion will be rough, perhaps regy rough,
but when it is all over, and he begins to see
himself as others see him, and not as refec-
ted in the mirror of selfconceit he will be
thankful that he has run the gauntlet, and
arrived, though by rough road, at self
knowledge. Upon the whole, whatever
loving mothers may think to the contrary,
it is good thing for youths to be knocked
about in the world; it makes men of them.
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| QUAKER'S LETTER TO HIS
WATCHMAKER.

FRIEND WOOSTER Il herewith send
thee my pocket clock which greatly stand
eth in need of thy friendly correction the
last time he was at thy friend school he
was no ways reformed, nor even in the least
benefited thereby for perceive by the in
dex of his mind, that he is liar, and the
truth is not in him that his motions are
wavering and irregular that his pulse is
sometime quick, betokening not an even
temper at times he waxeth sluggish, not
withetandins frequently urgo him ~ a.A
he should be ON his duty, as thou knowerh
his name denoteth, [ find him slumbering
and sleeping, or as the vanity of human rea-
SON phraseth it, catch him mapping. Hence
1 think he is not right, in the inward man:
Examine him therefore, and prove him, l
beseech thee, thoroughly, that thou may st
being well acquainted with his inward frame
and disposition, draw from him the error of
his ways and show him the path wherein
he should go. 1t grieves me to think, and
when ponder thereon, am verify of opin-
ion that his body is foul, and the whole
mass is corrupted Cleanse him, therefore,
with thy charming physic from all pollution,
that he may vibrate and circulate according
to truth. Twill place him few days under
thy care, and pay for his board as thou re-
quirest it. [ entreat thee, friend Henry,
to demean thyself on this occasion with a
right judgment according to the gift which
is in thee, and prove thyself workman
that need not be ashamed And when thou
layest the correcting hand on him, let it be
without passion, lest thou drive him to de-
struction Do thou regulate his motion for
the time to come, by the motion of that
light that ruleth the day, and when thou
fndest him converted from the error of his
ways, and more conformable to the above
mentioned rules, do thou send him home,
with just bill of charges, drawn out by the
spirit of moderation, and the root of evil
shall be sent unto thee.
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ENDURANCE.

How much the heart may bear and yet not
break
How much the flesh may suffer, yetnot die
/ question much if any pain or ache
OF soul or body brings our end more nigh
Death chooses his own time till that's sworn,
All evils may be borne.
We shrink and shudder at the surgeons knife,
Each nerve rccoiling from the cruel steel,
Whose edge seems searching for the quivering
life,
Yet to our sense the bitter pangs reveal,
That till the trembling flesh be piece-meal
torn,
This alone can be borne.
We see a sorrow rising in our way,
And try to fee from the approaching i'll
We seek some small escape, we weep and
pray,
But when the blow falls, then our hearts are
still
Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn,
But th at it can be borne.
We wind our life about another life,
We hold it closer, dearer than our own
Anon it faints and falls in deadly strife,
Leaving us stunned, and stricken. and
alone
But ah i! we do not die with those we mourn
This also can be borne.
Behold we live through all things-famine
thirst,
Bereavement, pain I; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow life inficts its worst
On soul and body, but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint ant
worn,
Lol all things can be borne.
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GET ENOUGH SLEEP.

We have often heard young men remark
that four or five hours, sleep was all they
wanted, and all that the human system re-
quired. The habit of going without sufi-
cient sleep is injurious. Thousands, no
doubt, permanently injure their health in
that way. We live in fast age, when every
body seems to be trying to peryert the order
of Nature. If follsswill persist in turning
night into day, it is not to be wondered at
that few last out the allotted term of life.
No matter what may be mans occupation
physical or mental, or like Othello's,
gone, and living in idleness-the consti-
tuition cannot last, depend upon it, without
a suficiency ofregular and refreshing sleep.
John Hunter, the great surgeon, died sud
denly of spasmodic affection of the heart, a
disease greatly encouraged by the want of
sleep. Ina volume just pubblised by a
medical man there is one great lesson that
hard students ahd literary men may learn,
and that is, that Hunter probably killed
himself by taking too little sleep. -Four
hours rest at night, and one after dinner,
cannot be deemed sufficient to recruit the
exhausted powers of the body and mind.
Certainly not; and the consequence was that
Hunter died early. If men will insist on
cheating sleep, her twin sister, death,
will avenge the insult.
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THE UNCHANGING FRIEND.

Is there more frequent cause of COM
plant than the changes which come over
our earthly affairs? Where is the being
who, in the course of his life has not found
reason to reiterate the words Whom can
we trust?" We know not, when we give our
respect, our friendship, our confidence to a
human being that the compact may last for
an hour. A change of fortune, a rise in
rank, slight fault, or even whim, may
send our affections back into our wounded
hearts
A concurrence of circumstances which
could not have been foreseen by Us is alwgHs
ready to betray our dependence on arraAge
ments which we fancied had been laid
reflection and sagacity, as we walked ee in
the fond beliefof having done well for our
selves So that, though sorely needing
safe anchorage, frail and exposed beings as
we are, we often find ourselves on shifting
sands or nearing fatal rocks.
To whom, then, shall we go, when olfaS
own resources fail to meet our necessftrUSs
and our friends sympathize, but are power
less to avert failure?
To whom, then, shall we go, but to hiHr'
who is touched with the feeling of our mfr
mites, and who alone can offer security of
refuge which meets our helplessness to the
utmost; an unchanging and Interchangeable
friend-"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,
and to day and forever?' ZELL.
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OVER WORKED WOMEN. over work
ed woman is always sad sight-sadder, a
great deal, than an over worked man; be-
cause she is much more fertile in capacities
of suffering than man. She has so many
varieties of eadache-sometimes as if Jael
were driving the nail that killed Sisera into
her temples sometimes letting her work
with half her brain, while the other half
throbs as if it would go to pieces some
times Tightening around the brows as if her
cap band were Luke's iron crown-and then
her neuralgias, and her backaches, and her
fits of depression, in which she thinks she
is nothing, and those paroxysms which men
speak lightly of as hysterica econvulslons, :
that is all, only not commonly fatal ones-so
many trials which belong to her fine and
mobile structure, that she is always entitled
to pity, when she is placed in conditions
which develop her nervous tendencies. s.-Dr.
D. W. Holmes.
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FROZEN KINDNESS. The world is full Of
kindness that never was spoken, and that is
much better than no kindness at all. The
fuel of the stove make the wood warm, but
there are great piles of fallen trees lying
among rocks on the top of the hill, where
nobody can get them these do not MAKE
anybody warm You might freeze to death
in plain sight of these trees, if you had not
means of getting the wood and making a fire.
with it. just so in family love lis what
makes the parents and children, the broth>,
ers and sisters, happy but if they take care
never to say word about it, if they keep it
a profound secret, as if it were a crins, /
they will not be much happier thar if tbs e l
was not any love among them the ho,3a
will seem cold even in summer, and if yog
live there you will envy the dog when any
one calls him "poor fellow he
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Be EcoNoMIcAL.-If the poor house has
any terrors for you never buy what you
don't need. Before you pay seventy-fve
dollars for coat, young man, find out utwheth-
er your lady would not be just as glad to
see you in one that cost half the money. If
she would not let her crack her own hazle-
nuts aud buy her own clothes. When you
see a man spending two or three dollars a
week foolishly, the chances are five to one
that he willlive long enough to know how
many cents there are in dollar, if he don't
he's pretty sure to bequeath that privilege
to his widow. When a man asks you to
buy that for which you have no use, no
matter how cheap it is, don't say yes until
you are sure that some one else wants it in
advance. Money burns in some folks pock
cts, and makes such big hole that every
thing that is put in drops through past find
ing.
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as-An exchange tells the following char

a@-An exchange tells the following char
acteristic story of the poet writer On a
recent occasion he was travelling with
friend over New Hampshire Railroad, and
during the conversation, Whittier friend
who is also a member of the Society of
Friends-told the poet that he was on h:s
way to contract for lot of oak tinbsry-
which he knew would be used in builfing
gunboats at Portsmouth, and asked him
whether he thought it was exactly in con-
sistance with the peace doctrines Of the
Quaker denomination. Without saying any
thing calculated to decide the question. the
two friends arrived at their parting place
when Whittier shaking his friends hand,
said Moses if thee does furnish any Of
that oak timber thee spoke of, be sure thatl
it is all sound
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guetrg.
SPIRIT VISITANTS.
BY HENRY W. LoNGFELLow.

When the hours of day are numbered,
And the voices of the night
Wake the better soul that slumbered,
To holy, calm delight;
Ere the evening lamps are lighted,
And, like phantoms grim and tall,
Shadows from the ftful freight
Dance upon the parlor wall
Then the forms of the departed
Enter at the open door
The beloved, the true hearted
Comes to visit me once more.
He, the young and strong, who cherished
Noble longings for the strife,
By the roadside fell and pc ished,
Weary with the march of life.
They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more
And with them, the being beautious,
Who unto my youth was given,
More than all those else that love me,
And is now saint in heaven.
With slow and noiseless footstep
Comes that messenger divine
Takes the vacant chair beside me,
Lays her gentle hand in mine.
And she sits and gazes at me,
With those deep and tender eyes,
Like the stars so still and saint-ike,
Looking downward from the skies.
Uttered not, yet comprehended,
Is the spirits voiceless prayer;
Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,
Breathing from her lips of air.
0, though oft depressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside;
If | but remember only
Such as these have lived and died.