The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-21

scornfully. '"He scolded Will SO yester
day about nothing, that Will almost had
a mind to run away"
+" Poor papa" said Sarah, feelingly.
!" You need not call him poor, Sarah,
said Jane, "when everybody calls us
rich and / think we ought TO have what
rich girls do !" and with that Jane walked
out OF the room, to meet mother in the
entry, who asked her to go on an errand
down street.
Cant Inez go 7" asked Jane in any
thing but pleasant tone. "I should
think Inez might CO."
"You are always unwilling" said her
mother 81 wonder should ever ask
you to do anything"
cit is Inez' work to do errands," said
Jane. All, but ought it not to have been
n daughters pleasure and privilege to
do, and to do cheerfully what her mother
wished of herr
Father came home an hour before
dinner, went into the small library, and
threw himself on the sofa, looking quite
miserable. Sarah entered soon after to
write her journal.
"Be quiet, child" he said.
CT did not know you were here" she
answered, gently, and going toward
him.
And so they all waited and waited.
But it was almost 7 o'clock before John
came and unlocked the barn-door. What
had been the natter will tell you
but let me whisper it in your ear, for
John feels a little mortified about it.
You must know then that John, instead
OF jumping out of bed at once when he
woke, turned over and went to sleep
again and when he awoke the second
time the sun was high, and he saw that
he had been very remiss. He will not
do so again. The best way is to Jump
out of bed at nce.-The Nursery.
How We Look to the Man in the Moon.
Burns wished that we could "See our
sells as others see us" and q writer in
the British Quarterly undertakes to
realize that-by lawful license of fancy.
He transports himself to the moon and
supposes it to be night there. His de-
scription is beautiful one:
Night sets in. Gratefully it comes
after the sun has gathered up his smiling
beams and gone to his rest. All at once
we are plunged into comparative OBJ
security, for again there is no twilight to
stay the steps of departing day. At one
side comes the dark. But, looking up to
the sky, we behold vast orb which
pours down a milder and more benefi-
cent splendor than the great lord of the
system. 1t is such a moon as we terres-
trials cannot boast, for it is not less than
thirteen times as large and luminous as
our own.
"There it hangs in the armament,
without apparent change of place, as if
fixed in its everlasting seat. But not
without change of surface. For this
great globe is a painted panorama, and,
turning around majestically on it's axis,
presents its oceans and continents in
grand succession. AS Europe and AT
RIGA, locking the Mediterranean in it's
embrace, roll away to the right, the
stormy Atlantic offers its waters to view,
and then the two Americas, with their
huge forests and vast prairies, pass under
inspection.
"Then the grand basin Of the Pacific,
lit up with island fires, meets the gazer's
eye, and, as this ice glides over the
scene, the eastern rim of Asia and the
upper portion of Australia sail into sight.
The Indian Ocean, and afterward the
Arabian Sea, spread themselves out in
their subdued splendor, and thus, in
four and twenty hours, the great rotun-
dity we tread turns its pictured counte-
nance to the moon, and 'grandly repays
the listening lunarians by repeating, to
the best of its ability, the story of it's
birth"
The fact that the moon is not habit
BILE by human beings such as dwell on
this earth does not forbid one to give it
eyes for the sake of drawing COMPARE
tive picture like the above. An imagina-
ton stimulated by the study of astrono
my becomes familiar with the finest and
noblest poetic figures. Youths Com
paniOn.