Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1872 — Page 2

TJTX ART OF THISSINU, Is thinking an art to be acquired? Are not all men endowed with the pow- ». er of thought? In there anythfng more necessary than for one to elose his eyes and let hla mind have free course in or* der to think? To answer theee questions, it is necessary to define what is meant by thought. If day-dream ing, that act of nnnd in which thought roves at random, purposely and without effort, is thought, then even the idiot thinks in his poor fashion. Then are no rules applicable to this sort of thinking. But much indulgence in this kind of dreamy thinking weakens the mind and begets a mental laziness that is fatal to progress. It benumbs all but the purely animal faculties and instincts. It is, therefore, to be deprecated in the strongest terms. It has proved and will yet prove the ruin ol many a promising youth.

The kind of thought worthy the name which strengthens instead of weakening the mind, is what we mean when we speak ot thinking as an art. This kinaef thought is the pleasaut labor rather than tne luxurious ease ot the mind. It is only perfect when under complete subjection to will.

The first great thing in learning to think is to bring thought under subjection to will. There has been a great deal said about the Importance ol gaining mastery over our animal passions, propensities, and emotions. Many an earnest prayer for help to couquer these fleshly lusts ha* been breathed. The fact is, however, that with minds trained to perfect subservience, the passions can have but little sway. It is unrestraiued imagination that kindles the fires of passion. Cool blood generally goes with cool heads.

Too much stress cannot be laid upon the fundamental importance of periect command over thought. How many a student finds a lack of this power the chief hindrance to progress! How many a page must be re-read, how many a lesson conned over and over to compensate (or lapses ot thought! In the possession or absence ol this power

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mind, lies the chief difference between mental strength and mental weakness. Some men think as a child plays with a hammer, striking little Slows here, there, anywhere, at any object within reacn. The action of a strong mind may he compared to the stonebreaker's sledge hammer, dealing stubborn blows successively upon one spot till the hard rock cracks and yields.

When this command over thought has been acquired through the long exercise of resolute will, the power to arrange ideas and to think systematically will come with it, and no thinking amounts to much unless it is systematic. This, then, may be considered as the second important acquirement in the art of thinking.

The power to classify and arrange ideas In proper order is one that comes more or less slowly to even the best of minds. In proportion as this laculty is strengthened, desultory and wasted efforts diminish. When the mind acts,it acts to some pumose, and can begin IT here it leaves off without going over the whole ground again to take up the threads of its ratiocinations.

Concentration and system are thus seen to be chief elements in the art of thinking. To cultivate the first constant watchtulness to detect the least wandering and the immediate exertion of the will to call back and hold the mind upon the subject under consideration should be vigilantly exercised. To secure the latter, the practice of analyzing and considering the ditler nt parts of a subject, first separately and then in their relations to each other, is a discipline to which every young mind should be subjected, and wtiich, wo are sorry to say, is very much neglected in tne methods of instruction practiced In this oountry. [Scientific Ameri-

KING JO .4 OHIM MURA T. The four months we passed at Naples—the closing period of his reign— were colored in every way by the personal charaoter of the man, It was a time of continuous fetes and revelry— of balls, masquerades, and operas—ot levees, proceosslons, and military reviews—of boar hunts and flshlnp-par-ties, and numerous other festivities by land and sea. In all these Murat himself was the oonspicuons figure, and well pleased to be so. Tall ahd'iiiasculine in appearance his features well formed, out expressing little beyond good nature and a rude energy and consciousness of physical power his black hair flowing in curls over his shoulders his hat gorgeous with plumes his wbolo dress oarrylng an air of masquerade—this was the general aspeot of tho man, well pioturing the anient ohioftaln of cavalry in Napoleon's great campaigns. Amid the luxurious lite of Naples, Indeed, his feelings and conversation often reverted to the time when he was hotly engaged with Cossack bands on the plains of Poland and Russia. I have seen him dreeeed as a Cossack chief at a court masquerade: and parading the Strada di Toledo, with a long suite of his old oompanions In war,In similar oostuine. He was endowed with a large amount of pure animal vitality, which pleasurably expended itself In the active deeds of war, but found not sufficient vent in peace, even when called upon to act the king. I think he was personally popular with his Neapolitan subjects, Including the laswuroni. who had their peoullar way of describing with the fingers hla gait on horseback, and the waving of uia plumes. With all his fantasies of drees, there waa a jovial kindness of temperament, which made bis presence agreeable to the public eye.—[Sir Henry Holland

LORP BnowoHAM'sautibiographycloses with these words ••If have imperfectly performed my work—If I have appeared to dwell too diffusely on somo sutyects whilst others of equal importance have been passed over—if many statements have been frebly and some inadequately rendered—let it be recollected that I began this attempt after I was eightythree vears of age, with enfeebled Intellect' failing memory, and but slight materials by me to assist it. Above all that there was not left one single friend or associate of my early days, whose recollections might have aided mine. All were dead. I alone survived of those who had acted in the soesOs I have faintly endeavored to retrace."— [Ibid.

Miss 8MI1.IK, the Quaker preacher, whose appearance In Brother (Javier's pulpit lea to his trial before the Presbyter}

IUOOMR 1U UIW UI MIW ••SQV^W churches in the city. But then the Methodists are more tor converts than or covenants, and neve, aak who savts sinners so long as sinners are saved. A little more Christianity and Uttle less Preebyterianiam would have saved o*v Brooklyn Mends from a stigma they will be verv anxious to get rid ot —(Golden Age.

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THE NOBLK FISHER-BOY. The 9tb of October, 1807, will long be jpsmembered among the Labrador fishermen. On that day anfMrfol hurricane raged along the coast. .One of -the fish* ing vessels, with a large number of men, women, and ehilaren on board, was caught in the storm, and tried bard to ride out of the hurricane. Alter a few hours of tearful suspense, she dragged her anchors, and was driven on shore. With great diAculty, all on board were safely landed. Drenched with rain, blinded by the snow drifts, shivering in the cutting blasts, they found themselves on an uninhabited part of the coast, the nearest huts being five miles distant.

The gloomy night closed in as the last of them were draged ashore from the wreck. Their only hope lay in endeavoring to reach the distant huts, and in the darkness and storm, they staggered on. Who can P'0*0*® "ie horrors of that night of suffering to this forlorn band.

When the morning sun shone out, nineteen of them lay dead along the shore. A group of three women and two children, clasped in one another arms and half buried in mud, was found all stiff and stark in the lev embrace of death. During the darkness and confusion of landing, a family of four youn£ children were separated from their parents, who sought for them In vain, and at length gave them up for lost.

A boy of fourteen, bearing the cries of these poor little ones, and finding they had no guide or protection, resolved to do what he could to save their lives. To reach the huts with them being impossible, he made the shivering children lie down, locked in each other's arms then he set to work resolutely collecting moss, of which, fortunately,there was a large quantity about, and piled this about them in layers, he at length succeeded in excluding partially the piercing cold. Fortunately, too, he found on the beach the fragment of an old sail, which he covered over all and collecting more moss, he increased the covering until the poor little sufferers ceased to cry with the bitter cold, and declared themselves more comfortable.

Through all the weary hours of that night, the heroic boy stood alone by these children, replacing their covering when the wind scattered it, and cheering them with words of hope. He might have tried to escape with the others, but he would not leave his helpless charge.

At length day dawned and then he turned his tottering steps toward the settlement to seek aid. When about half'way he met the parents of the lost children, wild with grief, coining to search for the dead bodies, as they had no expectation of finding them alive. The young hero quietly told themwhat he had done to save them and by his directions they soon found the spot where thev lay. On removing the covering of "moss they found the little creatures snug and warm, and in a refreshing slumber.

What words could picture the wild joy ot the father and mother at that sight? But, alas! on their way back, near the spot where they had parted with him, they found the noble boy, who had saved their children's lives at the expense of his own, lying dead. Nature was exhausted, after the fatigue and exposure of the night and, unable to reach the friendly shelter, he sank down and died.

REMARKABLE RESCUE. In the year 1628 Landamman Kospar, of Brandenberg, the newly chosen Governoi of Bellenz, was riding over the St. Gothard from Zug, accompanied by his servant and a iaitbful dog. At the top of the path he and his servant were buried by an avftlanche,which descended from the 1ucendro. The dog alone

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himself free. His first care was

to extricate his master. But when he saw that ho could not succeed in doing this he hastened back to the hospice, and there, by pititul howling and whining, announced that the accident had happened. The landlord and his servants set out immediately with shovels and pickaxes, and followed the dog, which ran quickly before them. They soon reached the place where the avalanche had fallen. Here the taithlul dog had stopped suddenly, plunged his face into the snow,and began to scratch it up, barking and whining. The inen set to work at once, and after a long and difficult labr. succeeded in extricating the Landamman, and soon afterward his servant. They were both alive, after spending thirty-six fearlul hours beneath the snow, oppressed by the most painful thoughts. Thej' had heard the howling and barking of the dog quite plainly, and had noticed his sudden departure, and the arrival of their deliverers they had heard them talking and working, without being able to move or utter a sound. The Landamman's will ordained that an Image of the faithful dog should be sculptured At bis feet on his tomb. This monument was seen till lately in St. Oswald's church, at Zug.

SOME rowdies interrupted a liletKbdist meeting in New Jersey. The New York Sun says: "Brother Cooper singled out his man, and jerked bim to the floor, when the two fell out across the stoop Into the door-yard In a close embrace, with Methodism ou top. Without awaiting to see the result of the exit, Brother Fisher followed with another son of Belial, who also went under. Then oarne Brother Hinchman with his man, and soon the door-yard was filled hill of sin and iniquity .topped off with belligerent Methodism, in lull vigor. Darkness reigned in that door* yard, and fists rained also, the darknass and the flgbt fbrthe once being t#tb the same to the good disciples of Anting Christianity who knew what they had hold of. But the darkness waa soon dispelled by the glare of kerosene lamps held by the sisters on the doorstep, when theone-sidednessof the contest was seen and the brethren let op. Strange to say, not one of the good men scratched, though their clothes were sadly toru and sopped with mud. But those wicked young men presented a sad sight. Their countenances were torn and bleeding, and among tbem all scarcely a complete suit of clothes remained.

M. D. CONWAY has a very bad Idea of Pal mors ton, to whom he attributes the greater part o* our present difficulty. Hesavs Palmeiton WHaamoreacpompllsheil liar than his old friend Talleyrand. He has heard Lord Palmerston speak a score of times and wwrhwnl him utter one sentence which he did nol feel had a lie at its heart. As every limb, muscle, hair on a lox means cunning, so everything about Palmerston —his shape, head, nose, month, hair, his eyelashes all meant treachery. There were certain expressions about him whenever he alluded to the Americana which need to recall to Mr. Conway's mind the Enemy sowing tares in Milhais great picture of that parable. He did not know how soon the oountry which honored Palmerston as a political Solon would be reaping the dreary crop,—[Oolden Age.

[From the Baltimore American.) ARCHBISHOP WALING ON OOlA, OB ED PREJUDICES.

II is I- well known lhct that Arch* bishop Spalding waa one of the moot active and earnest men In the State In the effort to break down and sweep away the prejudicea against color. His speech in November, 1870, at the laying of the corner stone ol St. Francis School and Asylum for Colored Cnlldren, on Chase street, will be remembered by our citizens. It was through his exertions and urgent solicitations that all the white Catholic Beneficial Societies joined with their colored brethren in the trade and ceremonies o.' laying the corner-stone, and be expressed bis gratification at their compliance in the following brief address, as reported in the American at the time:

My Dear Beloved Children .'—My heart bounds with ioy on this happy occasion, and my heart but re-echoes the voice of the holy Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is of all nations, of all colors, ot all people there is no distinction of color with God, and there is none with the Catholic Church. Forty years ago, when I was a student at Rome, there were two colored studentsintlie same college, and one of them waa my particular friend. The Catholic Church makes no distinction among its children, and I rejoice to see Germans and Irish and Americans here to day carrying out the true spirit of the Church. The Sisterhood that is to take possession of this building have been warned to leave the houses in which their schools are now held, to make way for the opening of the street (but not without ample compensation), and this beautiful spot has been selected for the chapel, asylum and school, where pure air is abundant, and where they will be near the "Home of the Little Sisters." "It is a mooted question whether our colored children of the Catholic faith should have separate churches or whether they should remain as now, in the churches in which they enjoy common privileges wi all other Catholics. Hertofore they have met together at the same communion table and have participated in the same sacraments and ordinances on terms of perfect equality. Perhaps hereafter, by reason of their increasing numbers fn some localities, it may become desirable to gather them into churches of their own, where they may receive better supervsion.

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TFRRF-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. MARCH 2, 187/.

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"I thank you all for having couce out to-day to testify the interest you feel in this undertaking. You have come up to my own feelings, and I thank you for it. Let us hope that this work may go on, that this building may be erected, and that, in the language of our ritual,'this church may never be deserted.' And let us pray that St. Michael may come down and defend this spot, and the colored people that may dwell here. There are no parties In Heaven. I want all my childrenIrish, German, American and African— I want them all to go to Heaven and all those who are not yet on the road to that happy place, I trust that they will get on the road. There are many good people outside of our Church, and we want all to go to Heaven." -,*4

FAMINE.

The accounts of the famine in Persia which continue to arrive in great detail bid fair to treat the world to the spectacle of a calamity the like of which has not been writ'en in historical times at least_the sudden extinction of a nation forswant of food. This has really been the fate of the great States which once filled the Valley of the Euphrates, and it is a fate which has for centuries been threatening some modern States Spain, for instance. Man has stripped the soil of trees has brought droughts droughts have slowly diminished the productive powers of the ground, and finallv destroyed them—the population in the meantimedwindlingin numbers and vitality. Spain had forty millions of people in the time of the Romans, and flowed with milk and honey it is now an arid region, only halt of It under cultivation, with only sixteen millions of Inhabitants, and it modern scl ences had come to Its

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probably go to the way of Babylon. Persia was one of the most powerful nations of antiquity, and ®v®n in the fourteenth century was able to support the army of Tamerlane, who marched without commissariat or baggage, during a bloody contest. It is now almost a wllderness.witb a population of two millions—about half of them nomads, which is rapidly perishing from famine brought on by three years' drought. The worst of it is,that owing to the absence of either common roads or railroads,it seems to be impossible for the charity of the rest of the world to reach the sufferers, so that there is really strong reason to fear the total depopulation of the country. The moral of this story is look alter your trees.

EVIL SPEAKING.

The lollowiug anecdote is related of the late excellent Joseph John Gurney, of Earlham, by one of his family circle:

One night I member it well, I received a lesson on the sin of evil speaking. Severe I thought it then, and my heart rose in childish anger against him who gave it but I did not know how much mischief a child's thonghtIds talk may do, and how often it happens that talkers run off the straight ins of truth, did not stand very high in my esteem, and I was about to speak farther of her fallings of temper, ft a few momenta my eye caught a lobk of snch a steady diapleasure that I stopped abort. There was ns mistaking the meaning of that dark, speaking eve. It brought the color to my face, and confusion and shame to my heart. I was silent for a few moments when Joseph John Gurney asked with great

Dost thon know anything good to tsll us of her?" I did not answer and tbe question waa more seriously asked:

Think, Is there nothing good thou oanat tell ua of her?" Ob, yes, I know some good things but—"

Would It not have been hetter then to relate these good things, than to have told ns that which would lower her in our esteem Since there is good to relate, woqhl it not be kinder to be silent on the evil? for charity rejolceth not In Iniquity

WHITHKH WS TSJ«D.—Eternifrf has no gray hairs. The flowers ftide.the heart withers, man grows old and dies bat time writes no wrinkles on «ternltvl Oh, stupendous thought! *n»e eVer-present, the anborn, unoecsyisg and undying—the endless chain composing the lire o* the universe. Earth his its beauties. bat time shrouds them

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In the dwelling of the Almighty out come no foosteps of decay.

Pan ton's Life of Washington.]

WASHINGTON AND HIS DOG. True Histor* o/the Itocitimg Adventure of The Father o/Hia Comity.

Washington, it 4s Stated, was out hnntiug in the Virginia forests, accompanied by his favorite honnd. Governor. A heavy storm ot rain and mist coming up ho lost his way, his powder was rendered useless and to add to the perils and inconveniences of his situation he found that he bad not bis pocket compass with bitn. In this sorry plight ne wandered in ci.cles, as people do when lost In the bush, wetted, weary, hungry, for he had no food save wild berries. He was almost exhausted when a happy thought occured to bim. Tying bis pocket flask to the dog's tail, he fastened his long sash around the animal's neck, holding one end in his hand. Th he planted a tremendous kick in the dogs lumbar regionr. The animal was so completely surprised at this treatment that he stood for a moment paralyzed, then when wheeling about he struck a beeline for home. It is a curious but undoubted fact that any sudden alarm or attack will quicken a dog's perceptive faculties, render more subtle his scent and powerful his memory, and induce him like Marco Bossaris, to strike for his hoii.e. So the dog fled, and Washington followed desperately, over stumps, through bogs, into briars, until finally the sash gave way. With one treinei.dous yell Washington scared still further the frantic animal, the terrible banging and clattering of the flask at bis heels added to his speed, and in a moment he was out ot sight. After a hearty laugh at the incident, Washington leisurely inarched In the direction the dog had taken. It was easy to do so by observiug the mossy side ot the trees, the direction of the longer branches, and the other signs with which an experienced hunter is acquainted. It was not long, there fore, before he reached a clearing, and was once more in safety. But, he adds, the dog, once faithfully attached to him, could not, to the day of his death, endure bis presence or even hear his voice without relapsing into an agony of terror. [From the Table Talk of the Chicago Post.]

We cf the press are given to kleptoinauia, wholesale pastry, the practice of the scissorean operation, whatever the reader may be pleased to call it. That is to say to err is human in the matter of clipping columns of matter from our exchanges and forgetting to give credit therefor. The Table Talker himself does not propose to heave bricks at his brother editors "to any great extent,*' feeling conscious that in the days of his local career, when items were scarce and the pavements sloppy, he himself has cut whole columns of local news out of the New York papers and, changing the streets and names, palmed off the result ou an unsuspecting public as city news. But honesty is the best policy, even for a uews editor. A few days ago, the table talker, being instigated by the "devil," (who wanted more copy) evolved from his internal consciousness ciroumstantial anecdote of G. Washington and his dog crediting the same to "Parton's Life ot Washington," a book which might have been written, but has not. The anecdote, though the Table Talker says it himselt, was a good one, the ingenuity of the F. of his C. was display ed In a convincing manner, and a lifelike touch was added, declaring that the dog could never hear its master's voice, after the incident mentioned, without falling into an agony of terror. The Table Talker constructed this anecdote for the benefit ot his exchanges, who have never been able to find italic enough in their offices for the words "Chicago Post, 17th," Ac. The Cincinnati Commercial was the first to gorge the hook. It was there "Washington and his Dog—From Parson's Life of Washington." Then the pittsburg papers followed. Then the Philadelphia North American gobbled it, inserting Parton and ignoring the Post. Washington's dog is now having a good time in the Eastern Papers, and the Table Talker has hopes ot yet seeing tht anecdote In some life of Washington, cheek bv jowl with the little hatchet with wbieh the F. of his C. was unable to tell a lie. The moral of all thfe Is that it is better to credit any good thing you see in the papers to the Post than to copy it without any credit.

Small Talker of Louisville CourierJournal please copy. Ir" As

A SNOW PALACE.

Nowhere could the charms of a Winter garden—saysa writer in "The Garden" journal—be more fully appreciated than in tho midst of the snows which enwrap the landscapes of Russia during several months ot the year, especially in the neighborhood of St. Petersburg. An attempt was made in the winter of 1840 to create, with a rough kind of imperial magulflcence. a winter-garden on the banks of the frozen Neva. It was determined that the chief feature of the garden should be a palace of Ice and the plan was carried into effect, as such matters were in Russia, by sheer contempt for the word "impossible." The ice-palace was built with huge blocks of ice sawn square, and trimmed Just after the fashion of free-stone. Or these huge quadrates ot ice the walls of the palace were entirely constructed. The building contained several spacious corridors artificially warmed, which were filled with flowering plants, constantly renewed, and also many apartments richly tarnished with chairs and tables, and even fire-places, the bed-rooms being very lnxnronsly fitted op but whether tor show or use it is not recorded. Neither is it told whether the Empress Ann, in accordance with whose august whim the icy halls were constructed, ever honored one of those sleeping apartments by passing a night within it. It is stated, however, that she was moch delighted with the appearance of the hardy northern pines, and other frost-defying evergreens which for a time were made to afford the strong contrast of their rich darkgreen to uie lawns of snow out of which they seemed to grow. The promenade became, as a matter of course, the rage, especially by night, when the p»laoe was illuminated, which is said to have produced a most charming and fairylike effect a report which may be well believed, as the semi-transparent walls must have emitted from the lights within a soft, moon-like brightness, which blending with tbe light of the external festoons and line and stars of colored lamps, necessarily produced a soft, dassling effect, which among tbe tbe winter snows of Rnssta, mast have gratified the devisers of the display.

WHKW one sits uncermoniously jkn pool of slush in the middle of the street, what happiness it is to observe the pleasure yonr action gives to all who witness It!

Boston man has preserved all tbs parodies upon tbs poem of "The Heathen Chinee/' that be found In the papers, and has forty-three of the Ah Sin* ine production*.

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A v^ry common mistake, even with good writers aind speakers, is tbs sobitute of bad for would, before the adrbs, rather, sooner, better, lief, and uie others. "-I hsd rather stay than

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o," Instead ot I would rather."

as lief take one as the other,*' instead of I would as lief." The origin of the error is evident enough. The two words had and would have the same contracted form when combined with a pronoun. I'd rather," maybe a contraction of either I would rather," or I had rather." This contracted is that which we almost always use iu common speech. Even when we are inclined to lengthen it, we rarely give the lull pronunciation. We say "l'ud rather." leaviug tbe verb doubtful to tbe listerner's ear. and perhaps to ourselves. When driven to write it we feel naturally inclined to take tbe shortest wora, without much regard to the strict grammatical meaning of the phrase. That the expression "I had rather" and *'I had as lief" are incorrect will be made evident by simply converting rather into its synonym more willingly, and lief into the orresponding, more gladly. Yet it must be admitted that these incorrect forms are warranted by such high authorities as Shakespeare to some of the beet writers of our aay, that they ar* entitled to be regarded, if not established idioms at least as tolerated solecisms.

Tbe confusion of lay witb lie, and of set with tit, are among the most common errors of speech, though well educated people are usually able to avoid it in writiug. Every one wbo is familiar with the idiom of our language knows, or ought to know, that lay and set are what are called transitive verbs, aud that lie or sit are intransitive. In other words, the two former oan take a noun after them iu the objective case, and the two latter cannot. We say: "Lay the book down," "Set the post up." To say, "Lie tbe book," or "Sit the post," would be ridiculous. The error usually committed is in the op-

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site direction, ,the transitive verbs used in an intransitive'sense. Many persons, not deficient in education, would say, "Some of tbe children are laying on the grass, and others are setting in the parlor." That the error prevails in the very highest circles of society and scholarship cannot be doubted, when we find it allowed to mar tbe effect of one of the finest verses in Byron's well known apostrophe to tbe ocean "Man's steps are not upon thy paths thy fields

Are not a spoil for hlra thou dost arise And shake him from thee the vile strength he wields

For earth's destruction thou dost all aesplse, Spurning him from thy bosom to tse And send'st bim shivering in thy playful spray,

And howling to his gods, where happy lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dasued aim again the earth—there let him lay."

Now let us note the persistency with which many well educated as well as the most uneducated persons use the objective pronoun me, her, them, after the various tenses of the substantive verb to be, in spile of the injunctions of grammarians. Tbe habit of saying "It is me." "It was him," instead ot "It is I," "It is he," is so universal and so fixed, that some modern writers on English philology have been disposed to regard it as allowable. Possibly to tbe same cause we may ascribe the general disuse, in ordinary speech, of whom as the objective of who. Instead of "the man whom I met," almost every one would say, "the man that I met, or, more briefly, "the man I met.' Both of these modes of expression are in accordance with grammatical rules. Not so in the equally common form ol interrogation, "Who did you meet?" "Who were you speaking to?" Here whom would be correot, and yet would seem so stiff that many who know the right would yet pursue the wrong way deliberately. A little alteration of the phrase in such a case will often make more satisfactory in every way as tor example, "Who was the person you were speaking to?"

THE GRA VK OF LINCOLN'S MOTHER. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes: On a beautiful hill top in the northern part of Spencer county, Indiana, is the grave of the mother of Abraham Lincoln. This grave is unmarked even by a "gravestone." It is now proposed that this grave shall no longer remain neglected. A purpose on tbe part ot Mr. Lincoln to remove her remains to Springfield, Illinois, Is giveu as the reason lor this oversight on his part of his mother's grave.

The citizens of Spencer county, Indiana. have frequeni ly talked of a mon uinent, but no definite action has been taken until lately. Some citizens of Indiana have organized under the statute provided in such cases a legal organization or association for the purpose of providing means to erect a suitable monument to mark the last resting place of the mother of Lincoln. ft is expected that they will devise some plan by wnkjh the friends of bis country's martyr shall be generally permitted to contribute something to this noble purpose. Tbe officers of 'his association are: Gen. J, C. Veatch, President Hon. R. 8. Kercbeval, Treasurer: Curran A. DeBrulsr, Secretary.

Executive Committee of Board of Directors—Hon. D. C. Branham.Col. J. S. Wrlgbt. Dr. E. H. Sfbin.

The plan of securing the ninds will be pnblicly presented soon. 1^ will suggest the following as an appropriate Inscription: "TH* KOTHKB OF UKOOLR."

In Virginia graveyard is a white monument bearing this Inscription: Mary, the mother of Washington. Is there not a parallel? Will not the names of Washington and Linooln be sssociated in history

If there is honor In being tbe mother of tbe Father of Country, is there not an honor in being the mother of him wbo was the instrument in saving that oountry iu the hour ofperil

Will the papers friendly to this movement please copy and notice tnis article?

BO ROB GRAY got a good bit of advice that is worth remembering. George was a boy when he became a preacher: "Within a few days of the time that be was fifteen years and a half old bis name was on the records of an Annual Conference as a traveling preacher—tbe youngost cmndId«te ever received in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was sent to the Barre Circuit. in Vermont. As he mounted his horse to set out lor his field of labor—a .Journey of some two hundred miles— his uncle, wbo waa a Methodist, and withal a mas of common shrewdness, addressed him some words of advice which be never forgot. 'Never,' said he, 'pretend that you know much

George for if yoa do so pretend, tbe people will soon find oat that you are sadly mistaken neither tell them how little you know, for this tbey will find out soon enough."

Burmese vounnaif. The Burmese are. Buddhists, sndl Baddhism hai nothliytodb with atari riage. In other words, BiarriaM contrary to the Orinslplenw the ttwldhist religion. Tbe true Baddhist is» supposed to endeavor to esespe boar the universe Of being froto a soseession of tranamigration of tbe soul which would otherwise continue forever. The Buddhist priest not only leads a lite of celibacy, but will not aanetify the marriage tie by his presence at a wedding. He has too much pity for those wbo uiarry or are given in marriage, and who are thss unable to escape from unending transmigrations. Tho result Is that tho younic people have it all iheirown way, aud he parents as little as the priests prevent their thoroughly enjoying themselves after their own ideas ot admiring and being admired, loving and being loved. Consequently, Burmese courtships are about tbe pteasituieat things in their way whioh are to be found in all the semi-civilised world* from Mandalay to May Fair. They have nothing to do with capture, purchase, or dowry with Welsh bundling or Scotch whistling. They ure always nice, generally strictly pr per, although not uufrequently accompanied by very» serious quarrels, when different gentlemen aspire to the same hiir hand.

A Burmese damsel is demure, langh-v ter-loving, and self-reliant. Hermanner is graceful and pleasing. She wea.-s a bright silk petticoat, a white jacket, a gold necklace, and bus glossy black hair decked witn flowers. Sue often smokes a green cheroot. Of course she has admirers, and she gives them all a fair chance. Every evening she receives a visit from all these youug gentlemen and sucu is the waywardness of human nature that the same swain will often pay similar visits on tbe same eveniug to other young ladies of the same village or township. Thus courtship is always going on, and courting time has been an acknowledged institution from time immemorial.

Here some explanation is necessary. The Burmese evening is divided into three watches—namely, cbildreu's bedtime, old folk bed-time, and young folk bed-time. Children's bed-time is sunset, or shortly afterward. Courting time begins soon after ohildren's bed* time, and continues long after old folk bed-tiuie, which is about nine o'clock. Young folk bed-time depends a great deal upon the will and pleasure of the young people in question say about eleven o'clock.

When the hour of courting approaches, the young lady trims herlittle lamp, so that it gleams through the window, and takes her seat upon the floor. Meantime the young gentlemen have been putting on their best bright silk putzoes, a nondescript garment something between a pair oi trousers and a petticoat, have donned their clean white jackets, have tied colored silk handkerchiefs on their heads in the most approved style, and have turned out altogether in the height of Burmese fashion. They enter, they seat themselves on the mat round the fair one, and then the "chaffing" begins. If a gallant has been unsuccessful in a boatrace, or has tumbled into the water, or has paid too much attention to another damsel, or has been deseted by another damsel, or has madehimsell ridiculous in any other way, the cbsnces are that his feelings will be hurt before tho evening is over, flow the lady receives each lover, especially in the presence of other lovers, is more than we can describe. She herself requires considerable attention, and the old people never interfere. Indeed, why should the old folk interfere? The young folk can take care of themselves, and are only doing what they themselves did in the davs when they wore young.

These evening gatherings are generally very innocent, and the marriages which follow them are generally very happy, although sanctified by no priest, and only held together by the ties of mutual affection or obligations of civil law. Jealousy, however, is a master passion in Burmab, and if a damsel is too kind to one of her admirers, the chances are that the offending lover is stabbed, speared or shot. Indeed a jealous rival, who suspects that the object of his affections is alone with another rival, will not untrequently astonish the happy pair by running a spear through the floor of matting on which they uiav be reposing, and then there is a regular Burmese row, terminating very seriously sometimes.

This courting time in Burmah is nothing more than a relic of the old Hindoo institution known as the swayamvara, or choice of a husband by a maiden. This swayamvara was once practiced by the old military caste in Hindustan, but has

long

since passed

away from the shores of India, INO doubt it was one of tbe Ksbatrya customs, which the Buddhists carried with them to Burmah when they were expelled from India by tbe wars and persecutions of the Brabmans some ten or twelve centuries ago. Thus the world moves on, and doubtless it willbe discovered in due time that other olI Kshatriya customs may still be found in Burmah. Gambling away a wife, which is often mentioned in Sanskrit tradition, and would be impossible in the India of the present day. has not uufrequently occurred in Burmab,

THB excessively religious persons who are afraid to live under a Constitution which has no God or Christ in it, ni#naged somehow to secure he of Gov. Wasbburns of Massachusetts and Gov. Jewell of Connwticut without the consent or knowledge of either of these gentlemen, who bsve tbs fraud with astonishment. Feoplo who commit forgery mav God in the National Constitution, but itllaevident enough that they have no God to spesk in their own.—[Golden Age.

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