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THE MEANEST MAN.

1t turns out, after all, that the
meanest man is not the man we refer
red to the other day, who split up his
first wife's tombstone. Burrows is
even meaner then he. Burrows was
an inveterate tobacco -chewer, but as his
wife detested the practice and made
home tempestuous and stormy for him
when he INDUCED in the habit there,
he always chewed when away durin ;
the day, and declared to his wife that
he had stopped permanently. But one
evening, upon entering the front door
and drawing out his handkerchief, he
accidentally pulled out his paper OF TO-
bacco, and without noticing it, lett it Iy-
ing on the floor. When Burrows sat
down to his tea, his wife walked in with
the tobacco in her hand, aud looking
Burrows firmly in the eye, said: "Do
you know who that belongs to?" With
great presence Of mind Burrows turned
scowling to his oldest boy and said,
with q severe voice Immortal Mars
Is it possible that you have begun to
chew tobacco, you young reprobate =?
Where'd you get the nasty stuff !?
What d'you mean by such conduct, you
young william? Haven't I told you
often enough to let tobacco alone ?
Commere to me, or I'll tear the jacket
on Of you. And As he spoke the stern
father made ! grab. at The boy and
dragged him out in the entry, where
e $ ena't'sed .! him with o.ne. Then
burrows threw the tobacco over the
ten'e, where be vent.out and got it in
sae morning and enjoyed it during the
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HOME TRAINING.

In an old number of Harpers we find
the following, which is certainly worthy
a place in our home circle
The training of any man, even the
wisest, cannot fail to be powerfully in
auenced by the moral surroundings of
his early years. He comes into the
world helpless, and absolutely depend
ent upon those about him for nurture
and culture. From the very first
breath that he draws his education be-
gins. When mother once asked a
clergyman when she should begin the
education Of her child, then four wears
old, he replied: Madam, if Won have
not begun already, you have lost those
four years. From the first smile that
CLEANS upon an infants cheek your op-
portunity begins"
The child is, as it were, laid At tho
gate Of new world, and opens his ewes
upon things all Of which are full of
novelty and wonderment. At first it il
enough tor him to gaze but by-aud.
oy he begins to see, to observe, TO com
pare, to learn, to store up Impressions
and ideas; and under wise guidance
the progress which he makes Is really
wonderful. Lord Brough.m Ia. Oh.
served that between the ages Of eight.
teen and thirty months . child. learns
more ofthe material world, of # lis own
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OUR YOUNG PATRONS.
CRADLE SONG.

Soft the twilight shadows fall,
The birds to the sunbeams teuderly call.
Sleep, baby, sleep!
In the purple lustre rich and rare.
In the hush of the evening, dreamy and fair
Lovingly folded in mothers care,
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Now the busy day is past,
MY little darling is weary at last,
Sleep, precious. one, sleep!
Quiet the restless, dimpled feet;
flushed the prattle so dainty and sweet;
But mothers ears hear the little heart beat
Sleep, dearie, sleep!
Had ever baby eyes so blue,
And cheeks like rose-buds washed in dew?
., Sleep, darling, sleep!
While twilight wanes in slumber he'll lie.
But soon will awake with tender cry,
And smile with delight to find mother nigh
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Bending low in languor of joy
l drink to the breath Of my angel.boy-
Sleep, precious one, sleep!
Deep where the heart-throbs come and 60,
l fold him tenderly, tenderly so,
Murmuring blessings soft and low
Sleep, baby, sleep!
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positive harm Is the State. Railwssy,1siI a.
need regulating, but it is to no ones inter.
est, now that they have been built at q
great cost, that they should be reguiated
out Of existence. .s#.5 s !.
%a DIFFIcULTY OF LEG1sLATUR1.
Lav making is the highest snda most diff
fcult business in which men can engage it
requires minds Of the brosdest and most
powerful grasp, as we'll astof the widest
information and Of the closest research. It
would be we'll that our Legislators would
learn not to meddle with. or tleast not to
undertake to regulate that which they do
not understand, with laws of the legal and
practical effects of which they are equally
lgnorant 1t is sometimes wiser to bear
the ills we have than to rush to those we
know not of.
PATRONS TO PRIZE SENSE AND HONEST WORTH.
Above all things to be permanent or USE
full the Oranges must constantly nourish
and contribute to the growth of that senti-
ment, which, wherever it exists, will ban
lsh all class, sectional or partizaa feelings,
with all their direful results, which is the
enemy Of sham, hypocrisy and cant-the
sentiment which breathes out in the
beautiful lines Of the Scotch bard:
What tho on namely fare we dine,
Wear holden gray and a. that,
Gle fools their silks and knaves their wine,
"A man is a man for a. that.
Their tinsel show and a. that
An honest man, tho ere poor
Is king O. men for a. that.
Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a. that
That sense and worth DER the a earth
Shall bear the gle and a. that.
For a. that and a that
That man to man, the warld Ger,
Shall brothers be for a that
The beautiful sentiment contained in that
sweet, loving command of the Savior, as he
looked down upon his little family of disci-
Piles: "Little children, love one another" !" /
The sentiment that leads men, everywhere,
to prize sense and honest worth and to re-
oognize in every man a brother
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AN ELEPHANTS SAGACITY.

An elephant was sent to Nasercoli
for the purpose Of piling timber by the
Dewan (saysa Madras papers, who re-
quested the wife of a missionary resid-
ing there to he good enough to see the
animal fed, and thus prevent the keeper
from abstracting its food. It was there
fore brought to the house for this pur-
pose, and at first all went on correctly :
but after time it was suspected that
the amount of rice was getting smaller
and smaller; 50 one day the keeper was
demonstrated with, and of course pro-
tested against the imputation of having
taken it, adding, in true native phra-
seology, Madam, do you think could
rob my child!" The elephant looked
on most sagaciously, and at this stage
of the proceedings quietly. threw his
trunk around his keeper, and united
his bulky waist-cloth, when the missing
rice tell to the ground
A VERMONT landlord, famous for be-
ing deaf just when he wanted to be-
when rallied upon his in6rmity, one
day, told his amused guests the follow
ing story: When young man, he
worked on farm for a stingy old farm.
er in au adjoining town. On leaving
him a balance of two dollars was due
tor wages. Having called repeatedly
for bis money, the old man had some
excuse for not paying. A SOW Of the
old mans had a litter Of pigs, consisting
Of four. one Of them, which is eene.rlly
the case, being small runt, as they
call them. George told the old man he
would take pig for his money !; the
Did man said he might have the small
one. George jumped into the pen and
seized the Z largest pig. The old man
shouted Take tie asmall one . .,
Let q him in sque.l, Z said George ]. :. can
hold him. The old man. excited ],
,
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FAMILY CIRCLE.
FARM-YARD SONG.


BYJ. T. TRowBa1DGE.
Over the hill the farm-boy goes.
His shadow lengthens along the land.
giant staff in giant hand;
In the poplar-tree, above the spring,
The katydid begins to sing;
The early dews are falling
Into the stOne-heap darts the mink:
The swallows skim the rivers brink,
And home to the woodland fly the crows.
When over the hill the farm-boy goes,
Cherrily Calling
Go, boss CO, boss CO.! CO.! co'!'
Farther, farther over the hill,
Family calling, calling STILL
Co. boss co. boss CO.! co'!'
Into the yard the farmer goes,
With greatful heart at the close of day.;
Harness and chain are hung away;
In the wagon-shed stand yoke and plow:
The straw's in the stack, the hay in the NOW,
The cooling dews are falling
The friendly sheep his welcome bleat,
The pigs came grunting to his feet,
The whinnying mare her master knows,
When into the yard the farmer goes
His cattle Calling
Co, boss CO.. boss CO.! CO.! co'!'
While still the cowboy, far away,
Goes seeking those that have gone astray.-
Co. boss CO, boss CO. %
Now to her task the milkmaid goes.
The cattle come crowding through the gate
Lowing. pushing, little and great
About the trough by the farm yard pump,
The frolicsome yeariings frisk and jump
While the pleasant dews are falling:
The new-milch heifer is quick and shy,
But the old cow waits with tranquil eve:
And the white stream into the bright pail flows
When to her task the milkmaid goes.
Soothingly Calling
&c. boss SO. boss! SO 50! SOL"
The cheerful milkmaid takes her stool,
And sits and milks in the twilight cool,
Saying, I" So! so, boss /! 50 so!'
To supper at last the farmer goes
The apples are pared, the paper read,
The stories are told, then all to bed,
Without, the crickets' ceaseless song
Makes shrill the silence all night long;
The heavy dews are falling
The housewives hand has turned tho lock:
Drowsily ticks the kitchen clock;
The household sinks to deep rspose;
But still in sleep the farm-boy goes
Singing, Calling
Co. boss CO. boss! CO.! CO.! cor
And oft the milkmaid, In her dreams,
Drums in the pail with the flashing streams.
Murmuring, $50, boss! so!''
Atlantic Monthly for 1870
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!" Take the small one ?'' e IN riisE the
biting, replied George Old man,
desperate, and as loud as he could bel
low: g Take the small one! y .sLet
him squeal, I can hold him. answered
George. I" Take him along you deaf
cuss; 1 can't make you hear anything"
George carried off his pig in triumph,
and has been deaf ever since.
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powers, Of the nature of other bodies
Ind even of his own mind aud othe,
minds, than he acquires in all the rest
OF his life. The knowledge which a
child accumulates, and the ideas gen
Grated in his mind, during this period
are SO important that if we could i'm
agine them to be afterward obliterated,
all the learning ofa senior wrangler at
Cambridge or first. .classman at OK
ford, would be as nothing to it, and
would literally not enable its object to
prolong his existence for a week.
Homes, the nurseries OF children who
grow up into men and women, will be
good or bad according to the power
that governs them. Where the spirit
of love and duty pervades the home.
where head and heart bear rule wisely
there, where the daily life is honest
and virtuous, where che government is
sensible, kind, and loving-theu may
we expect from such home an issue
OF healthy useful, and happy beings,
capable, as they gain the requisite
strength, of following the footsteps of
their parents, of walking uprightly,
governing themselves wisely. and con-
trlbutlng to the welfare of those about
them.
One good mother, said George Her.
bert, is worth hundred school-masters.
In the home she is :'loadstone to all
hearts, and loadstar to all eyes,"
Imitation Of her is constant-imitation.
which Bacon likens to ~ globe of pre-
'epts." But example is far more than
precept. 1t is an instruction in action.
1t is teaching without words, often ex.
simplifying more than tongue can teach.
In the face of bad example the best of
orecepts are Of but little avail. The
example is followed, not the preccpts. |
Indeed, precept at variance with prac-
ice is worse than useless, inasmuch az
t only serves to teach the most coward
y OF vices-hypocrisy. Even chill
dren are judges Of consistency. and the
essons of the parent who says one
hing and does the op osite are quickly |
seen through. The teaching of the
Frlar was not worth much who preached |
The virtue of honesty with a stolen
goose in his sleeve.
Woman, above all other educators
'ducates humanity. Man is the brain,
'ut woman is the heart of humanity
'e its judgment, she its feeling; he its
strength, she its grace, ornament, and |
olace. Even the understanding Of the
'est woman seems to work mainly |
through her affections. And thus.
hough maa may direct the intellect, |
woman cultivates the feelings, which
mainly determine the character. |
While he fills the memory, she occu-
>ies the heart. She makes US love
What he can only make US believe, and |
t is chiefly through her that We are en-
lbled to arrive at virtue,
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AS testaRentary gem we have seen
nothing better than the following, from
the will Of a defunct Virginian:
II will to my nephew, JAMES MAD.
1soN NJ, every thing 1 may have
after my just debts are paid, with con-
dition that after I am buried he is to
have a marble head and foot stone put
to my grave, to be seven feet long and
four inches thick. l want the follow
ing inscription cut upon both ends of
each slab: "HENRY NJ, born De-
cember 16, 1906; died. He was a
great turkey hunter, and tolerable
good fiddler. He desired the above to
be placed on his slab. Peace be to his
ashes.'"
Now to think Of all this ! MISS LU-
cY NOVEL; was born in Alfred. Maine,
on the Fourth of July, 1916. the very
day and near the very hour of the pas
sage ofthe Declaration Of Independence.
When eight years of age she united
with the Alfred Shakers, and has since
lived with them. When eighty-four
years Of age she wove thirty-four yards
Of cloth, and at ninety-six knit ten
pairs of mittens. She has never been
IN railroad car, and is in excellent
health. Ifshe lives until 1876 PULL
MAN palace car will be dispatched to
her native town to transport her to Bos-
ton. From thence she will be carried
direct to the Quaker City, where her
presence will be one of features Of the
grand Centennial.
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day Merciful Msoes he exclaim-
ed when he told Us about it, awhat
would [ have don. if my children had
all been girls? It makes an old faith
er's heart glad when he feels that he
has a boy he can depend on in such
emergencies. ."-Mar Add2er.
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Our sympathies are with the second
boy in the following, most decidedly ::
Ata juvenile party one little fellow,
rejoicing in the splendor Of his new
clothes, went up to an another with the
triumphant remark. ss You ain't dress.
ed as we'll IS I am" g Well retorted
the other, II can lick you anyhow"
HERE Is the latest description of a
kiss Twas night. a real warm
couple stood in the pale, cold moon
beams. Their lips touched, and there
Was ,Is sound ike : COW hauling her hoof
ont Of the mud . sss
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A Boy eight years old, in one Of our
public schools having been told that a
reptile sis an animal that creeps," on
being asked to name one, on examina.
ton day, promptly and triumphantly
replied, "A baby"
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Now, to pay the dividends which were declared
six months afterwards the net profit on the next
half year must have been nearly $1,6700O0. No
such profit was made, nor was the real profit SO
large as in the previous four months, as shown in
the above table-to wit, $3l0,76s &c. The directors
ordered freight on the supplies OF the road to be
charged in the accounts, although Il is OF course
a fictitious receipt, and fraudulently swells the
apparent profit. The passenger receipts largely
decreasedsin the latter hall Of last year. Where,
then, did the money come fromY l believe the
committee will find that 1t came ont of the last
$40 00O 900 loan negotiated by Bischoffsheim Cold
schmid, and that 1t was An English stockjobbing
operation.
BEEN PAIDp
think this will be SUFFICIENT for the committee TO
work upon for the next few days. will, therefore,
reserve for Q future occasion an examination OF
the several accounts paid bv the present Board Of
Directors for services in Overthrowing the corrupt
and reckless Gould management. 1t may appear
that this excellent and commendable work has
been paid FOR three or four times over. At all
events 1t is certain that 1t was all paid out OF the
treasury Of the company by the Board OF Directors
without reference to the stockholders, and that the
prctence Of the Attorney General OF the exSpeaker
OF the Assembly and Of Mr.. Hall, that all their fees
and all the money placed in their hands came
directly from the English stockholders, Is mere
mOonshine.
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THE CRISPINS.
Mass Meeting OF German shoemakers-
Active Preparations for a strike-The
Irish Crfanina Moving.

Mass Meeting Of German Sh0emakers-
Active Preparations for a Strike-The
Irish Crispins Moving.
The German jOurneymen shOemakers employed
in the custom department of the trade held an
other mass meeting at the Tenth Ward Hotel, in
Broome street, yesterday afternoon, for the pur-
pose Of enrolling themselves as members OF the
German Crispins' Lodge, No. 100, under the au-
spices of which the meeting was held. The object
oil these mass meetings Of shOemakers--several OF
which have been held previously, as noticed In the
HERALD at the time-ls to effect thorough Organi-
cation by furnishing an inducement to every men,
Der OF thestrade to Join the Crspin Order which, 1t
force It's new scale of prices at the opening OF
THE SPRING TRADE
At the meeting yesterday, at which Alexander
Limburg, the President OF the German lodge, pre-
sided. some sixty new members enrolled their
names, who will be initiated as members OF the
member. The suspension Of the initiation fee is
held out as the main inducement for all hands to
Join the Order, with view OF creating powerful
organization, which IN due time will have strength
enough to carry into effect its resolution to en-
force a higher rate OF wages That such q meas
the remarks OF several speakers who addressed
the meeting. As all the work in this branch of
the trade Is performed by the piece It Is probable
that an increase OF twenty or twenty five per cent
will be demanded.
ACTIVE PREPARATIONS FOR STRIKE,
It is stated, are being made by the Irish lodge,
which is the largest OF the Crispin lodges in this
city. As stated on previous occasion, the aver
age wages earned by this class OF wOrkmen are
not exceeding $12 per week. There are seven
partment employees, numbering about twelve
hundred members.
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PORT OF NEW YORK, MARCH %, 1873.
ARRIVALS.
REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS AND
HERALD wHITEsTONE TELEGRAPH LINE

REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS AND
HERALD wHITEsrONE TELEGRAPH LINZ
Steamship Celtic (Br), Thompson, Liverpool March Is,
via Queenstown 4th with mdse and passengers 10 j VI
sparks March 49, lat A. 90, Ion AZ passed steamship
Adriate. hence for LIVERPOOL
steamship Magnolia. Palmer. Savannah March 20 with
mdse and passe myers tc W Garrison.
Steamship Georgia. Crowell Charleston March 20, with
Steamship John GiDson, Winters Georgetown, DC, with
mdse and passengers to q Merrlck
steamship Benefscto' Jones, Philadelphia, with mdsc
ship sarah Nicholson (Annan) seikirk shanghae Dec
H. with teas to Arke Tufts Passed Aner Jan 8, Cape
Good Hope Feb crossed the equator Feb IS in ion 70
80 had hne weather 10 Bermuda; thence 9days
with strong NV winds; March 6 lat 81 49, Ion 81, passed
Der: March lat So N lon 81 33 W, spoke bark John
Warster, hence Tor Madagascar
ship Galatea (of Boston, Gardner, Manila Nov ~ with
sugar, hemp. &c,: TO VIM Weld Co. Passed Aner
49, Cape Good Hope Jan &c and crossed Equa
Feb "a In Ion 81 30; had light NE monsoons in the
China Sea TO Pao sapata, thence 70 lat Is SW winds
sgually weather; was within 10 miles Of the light
eascrly gale and thick. rainy weather Jan Gustav
Leudke, seaman, OF Brunswick Germany fell overheard
and was drowned: Dec ~, In Straits OF Sunda. spoke
80 Ion 20 30 W, ship carous Magnns san Fran
ship Plymouth Rock Butman, London Feb O. and Isle
OF wight lth with ndse 70 Grinneil Minun Co. Made
thence heavy gales and squally weather was days
Ship Lille souliard (of Yarmouth ST. Webster New
port "a days, with railway iron Boyd Hincken Took
rom thence. 40 days with heavy NV gales Feb ~ lat
"a - Ion 10 SO W. spoke ship Antoinette er) Liver
pool for BALTIMORE, SO days out
and Flushing 7th with mdse master Took the north
passage and had fine weather up 10 Ion 80; from
thence ~ days. with peayy " and NV gaes Feb = An
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CENTRAL AND HARLEM.
Lease OF 900 Years-What a New York
Central Railroad Director Says OF the

A Lease OF 900 Years-What n New York
Central Railroad Director Says OF the
Transfer.
magnates and leading directors of the New York
Central Railroad Company last evening at late
hour to discover II there was any truth in the
NOR that the Harlem road had been leased in
perpetuity, or, as they phrase it in the
documents, for the brief period Of 1899 years." by
the Central Company. The director received the
reporter in . most gracious manner but stated
that he did not desire to be quoted for the state
mcnts he would make, as 1t was hardly proper to
disclose negotiations before they were consum-
mated.
at is true" said the gentleman, shat negota.
tons are now In progress for the transfer but
they have not yet been completed"
''Then no absolute lease has been drawn ?"
road will be leased and that the stockholders viii
be guaranteed eight per cent per annum on the
capital stock, while retaining the city roads to
themselves
with what objects Not to prevent the East
ern roads from draining the freight OF the Central ~
NO The design Is simple-to benent Harlem;
that's ALL"
Then it Is not possible to obtain the lease any
synopsis OF 1t ~
decided
'The opinion seems to be that the transfer will
throw Harlem stock on the marketY"
'Oh. think not"
After apologizng tor intruding on Sunday even.
This important transfer has already excited
much comment among those who own collateral
and the question has been propounded as TO what
enect the lease NAV have on the Hudson River
road and ITS patronage. The frequent accidents
and long delays which have occurred during this
winters administration arc the common talk OF all
some harassing impeachment having stopped the
trains and disappointed the passengers.
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NEwARK'S NEW BISHOP.
Preparations for the Conservation OF
Father Corrigan ON the Ath OF Nav.

Father Corrigan on the Attn OF May.
Now that the bulls confirming the appointment
OF the Rev. DR.. M. A. Corrigan as Bishop OF New
ark have arrived the uppermost anxiety in the
Catholic mind OF the diocese IL the coming conse.
Grafton OF the young successor 70 the episcopal
chair, lately vacated BY the Right Rev. Dr. Bayley
Yesterday forenoon, In ST. Patrick's Cathedral,
Newark, at the ten O'Clock mass, the Rev.
Father George II. Doane announced the lact
frem the altar that the conservation would
take place in the cathedral on sunday May T. he
also took occasion TO say that o very large number
OF distinguished clergy from various parts OF the
country were expected 10 be present, and that
members OF the congregation having the means
would doubtless be afforded the opportunity to ex-
tend their hospitality TO many clcrgymen who
would be obliged 10 arrive Ia Newark the night be-
fore and remain till Monday by reason OF there being
no trains on Sunday. The preparations for the
great event will go on. and 1t Is safe TO say that
New Jersey Will witness on the day named the
grandest and most imposing ecclesiastical
pageant in the history OF the diocese. Bishop
Bayley was eonsecrated In st. Patrck's Cathedral
New York. The honor this time has been con-
coded to 81. Patrck's In NeFark D Large. spacious
aud handsome edillec,