Colin soon will faithless be, "T was your little bird, you say, Gave that tender kiss just now; He will rue it else, I vow. You wish to take the air, you say: Or, at once, as bride receive you! You must work, my girl, nor heed TO MY COAT. Though hardly worth one paltry groat, But, worn and shabby as thou art, I've not forgot the birthday eve When first I donned thy glossy sleeve, . When jovial friends, in mantling wine, Drank joy and health to me and mine. Our indigence let some despise, We're dear as ever in their eyes; And for their sakes, old as thou art, Thou and the poet shall not part, Poor coat. One evening, I remember yet, And patched thee up as well as ever. For her sweet sake, old as thou art, Thou and the poet shall not part, Poor coat. 66 Never my coat hast thou been found If but for that, old as thou art, Poor though we be, my good old friend, We will be honest to the last; For more I prize thy virtuous rags, From the British Mother's Journal. Pushing On.--A Plea for Little Children. "PUSH him on, Mr. Lee-push him on; that is all you have got to do. I don't mind terms; only you push him on, and keep him well up to the mark. And don't be afraid of giving him plenty of lessons, Mr. Lee; he's a clever, active boy, and that's the only way of keeping him out of mischief. No use sending children to school to idle their time awaythat's my view of the case. Education is a fine thing, Mr. Lee-a very fine thing—and I mean Frank to be a scholar. Hard work and plenty of it-that was the way when I was a boy. I was kept at it morning, noon, and night; and see what it has done for me. Yes, Mr. Lee, push him on, and I shall be proud of him some day." And having thus given his view of the case, Mr. Denton took up his hat, and, wishing the teacher good morning, went to his warehouse. Mr. Denton was a wealthy merchant in the town of H-, a man very much looked up to and respected-a man who paid the best price for everything, and consequently expected the best article; no better material in all the county than that which came into his mill to be manufactured; no better goods to be met with anywhere than those turned out nently into the value and permanence of the ideas they conveyed : of his warehouse at H. He also paid the best price for education, and in consequence expected the best article, and plenty of it too. "The Thuringian states comprise the No advocate he for sending children to schools grand duchy of Sachsen Weimar Eisanach, where they left at four o'clock, and had holi- the three Sachsen duchies of Coburg Gotha, days three times a week. He was quite right | Meiningen, and Altenburg, the two Reus when he said that education had done a great principalities of Greitz and Schleitz, and the deal for him." Hard work, and plenty of it," two Schwarzenburg principalities of Rudolhad laid the foundation of his present stand- stadt and Sondershausen. Their united areas ing; it had placed him at the head of one of are 4,934 square miles, with a population of the most flourishing concerns in H; it 970,000.' There, I'm glad I've done with that. had moulded his rough, firm nature into a Now for the sum." form somewhat more befitting the elegancies of the sphere in which he moved-to use his own word, it had "made a man of him." What it should do for the delicate, excitable, sensitive little Frank, was a question not yet answered. "Now, my dear, where are your books? You must work hard to-night, for we are late with tea, and if you don't mind you will not have your lessons ready for Mr. Lee by tomorrow morning." "Oh, mamma, mayn't I just go into the garden a little first, it does look so fine, and I haven't had time to go in all day. Mayn't I go in, mamma?" "No, my dear; you must wait till the lessons are done. You know you must push on, and have them perfectly done. Lessons first and play afterwards, you know-that is the way to be a scholar." Frank looked with a sigh at the grass-plot, and his hoop, lying so temptingly there, under the elm tree; then, fetching his books out of the hall, and cleaning his slate, he commenced operations. For awhile nothing was heard but the scratching of the pencil, and a gentle rustling sound, as the breeze blew the long flowerstarred jasmine branches across the window. Oh, mamma, my head does ache; can't I finish this sum to-morrow, or ask Mr. Lee to excuse it?" 66 66 No, dear; it must be done. You know papa wishes you to push on, and learn as much as you can." And Mrs. Denton put another leaf into her Berlin work, and went on with "Queechy." The little fingers closed over the pencil once more, and the sleepy eyes bent down on their task. But time conquers most things; and when eight o'clock struck the last lesson was mastered, the last verb learned, the last line construed; and, with a languid "Goodnight, mamma," and a confused conglomeration of Sachsen duchies, verbs, fractions, parts of speech, and Latin numbers, Frank went up stairs to bed. "Lessons all prepared?" said Mr. Denton, as he came in from business, and stretched himself in the great easy chair. "Yes, all of them. Don't you think, my dear, Mr. Lee pushes Frank on a little too fast? You know he is but a child yet-not nine years old-and he does not seem well; besides -" "What lessons have you to-night, dear?" "English history, mamma; and parsing, geography and composition, and Latin grammar, and French verbs, and then this sum in fractions to prove!" and the little fellow sighed again, and looked at his hoop. There "Nonsense, my dear, nonsense. Why, was no play to-night, at any rate. when I was a boy, I did twice as much. I "There, I think I know it now," said he; mean to ask Mr. Lee next quarter about his and laying his tiny hand on the page, so as to learning Greek. He's a clever child, and it's hide the words, he began to recite his geo- a pity he should not be kept up to the mark; graphical lesson. The reader will not be besides, you know, he'll never get on when he surprised to learn that his childish pronuncia- goes to the grammar school without a good tion of the alien words was such as Mr. Lee's knowledge of the classics, and I'm determined German professor would hardly have com- to make a scholar of him—nothing like keepmended; neither will we inquire too imperti-ing children up to the mark." So the subject passed. Mr. Denton was away on business all day, and when he came home Frank was generally gone to bed, so he did not notice the heavy eye and flushed cheek, nor the pale forehead and trembling hand; he only knew that his little boy had begun to construe Cæsar and work sums in fractions, that he had taken the first prize in history, and could match his compositions with those of the biggest boy in the school; he was going to be a scholar, a credit to the family, as Mr. Denton had made up his mind he should be, and that was quite sufficient. "From the centre A, at the distance A B, describe the circle B C D," murmured little Frank, as the tides of sleep drove back life's weeds and pebbles on the bright shores of dreamland. Yes, he was " 'pushing on;" but where? That was another question altogeth er. "They knew what would come of such vagaries." "Talk of educating children in fields and meadows-such nonsense." "Sure to make the boy idle and useless." But Mrs. Dale went quietly on; she had her own views of the case, and acted according to them. So at eight years of age Harry had never seen the inside of a Latin grammar; could not, for the life of him, have got further than the second column of the multiplication table; was ignorant of geography, except from his mamma's conversations and the stray books he had picked up on the parlor table; parsing, dates and dictation were strange words to him; and he knew nothing of French, save from the little songs Mrs. Dale sometimes sang to him, with an accent so pure and true. But Harry had a fresh, bright, intelligent soul within him. He would listen, with quick appreciation, as you told him of the wonders of Mrs. Dale, the lady who lived at the cot- nature and art, of the great men who lived in tage a little beyond Mr. Denton's, was also a distant ages, of the strange inventions of gewoman who had her own views of education, nius, and the noble results worked out by paaud always paid the best price for it. She ex- tience and perseverance. He was learning to pected the best article too, though not so par- enjoy life, that when time came he might use ticular as Mr. D. about having plenty of it. it wisely and well. There was rich promise So, though Harry Dale was more than eight of future energy and vigor in those clear, years old, he never went to school more than honest eyes of his, the firm bounding step, the two hours in a day, and the rest of the time guileless, unsuspecting confidence, the fearwas spent in roving with his mamma and sis-less innocence with which his glance met ter through the glens, and woods, and mea- yours-promise which after years failed not to dows that cluster so closely round the town realize. of H-, gathering wild flowers, ferns, and mosses, and arranging them in vases at home (Mrs. Dale was not so fastidious as some ladies are about having flowers littering the parlor), learning their names the while, or examining their delicate structure, and listening with eager interest, as his mamma told him stories of distant lands, their trees, and birds, and flowers, and then led him on from this to the kind and loving Father who gave the forest its glowing tints, the birds their voices of music, and all nature its loveliness. People laughed at Mrs. Dale for calling this education, and expatiated largely on the folly of parents who sent their children to school only a quarter of the time, and yet paid full terms. Divers were the shrewd predictions as to the harvest which would be reaped from a seed-time so irregular, and many the far-seeing hints which were dropped on the subject. So much for Harry Dale. And the pushing on-whither had that tended? There was another grave in the H- cemetery, and the neighbors, as they read on the marble headstone the touching inscription, "Aged eleven years," said, "Very astonishing, isn't it, how soon these clever children always die!" MELANCTHON was reproached by some one "Do you think, with changing his views. sir," replied he, "that I have been studying assiduously for thirty years without having learned anything?" Never carry a sword in thy tongue to wound the reputation of any man. Never do that in prosperity whereof you may repent in adversity. We do not wish our R. I. Teachers to be disheartened, but to take courage and be faithful. The salaries of the Masters of the Latin, the English High, and the Girls' High and Normal Schools, shall be $2400 for the first year's service, with an incrsase of $100 for each additional year's service till the salary amounts to $2800 per annum; and the Masters now connected with the Latin and English High Schools shall be paid $2800. The salary of the Sub-Masters of the Latin and English High Schools and of the Masters of the Grammar Schools shall be $1600 for the first year with an increase of $100 till it amounts to $2000. The salary of the Ushers of the Latin and English High Schools, and of the Sub-Masters of the Grammar Schools, shall be $1200 for the first year, with an annual increase of $100 till it amounts to $1600. The salary of the Ushers of the Grammar Schools shall be $800 for the first year, with an annual increase of $100 till it amounts to $1000. The salary of the first Head Assistant in the Girls' High and Normal School shall be $600 per annum, and the salary of the other Assistans in this School shall be $500 per annum. The salary of the Head Assistants in the Grammar School shall be $500 per annum; and the salary of the other Assistants in the Grammar Schools and of the Teachers of the Primary Schools shall be $300 for the first year, with an annual increase of $50 till it amouuts to $450 per annum. Right Living. "To love and to labor is the sum of living, and yet how many think they live who nei ther labor nor love." What a gem-thought it is, set in this quaint old Saxon! The first part of the sentence is a beautiful text for one's life, while the other is an equally sad commentary on the " living" of a great portion of humanity! And are not these twain, the loving and the laboring, the one "royal law" of the Bible, and do they not bring with them their "own exceeding great reward?" Ye who seek after happiness, behold, here is the key! This sitting down, folding up one's hands, and moping away one's life in vain yearning after affection, will never do you good. Just step out of yourself, and live for and in others. Go out with a brave spirit into the world, and minister to the wants of humanity. Everywhere hands are reaching out to you for help; everywhere bleeding hearts are needing the balm of sympathy and tenderness. The little children want your smile, the old people want some comforting word; and the strongest and the best have their hours of weekness and of need. So don't sit still, we pray you, for this is not living. But Whatsoever your hand findeth to do, do it with your might," with a true, honest heart and purpose; and no matter how heavy may be the darkness of the night through which you are walking, the morning will rise, the flowers will blossom, and the birds sing about you.-Arthur's Mag azine. BOSTON SCHOOLS.-The Boston public schools have 23,749 pupils, whose average cost of tuition for the last five years was $14,41. For the pre- ADMIRATION AND ASPIRATION.-It is a good ceeding five years, (from 1845 to 1859,) the ave- thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. rage cost was $15,45. The net expenditures of By continually looking upwards, our minds the city during the year, for carrying on the pub-will themselves grow upwards, and as a man, lic schools, including the repairs of the buildings, by indulging in the habits of scorn and consalaries, furniture, fuel, and all incidental expen- tempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of what he despises, so the opposite habits of admiration and enthusiastfc reverence for excellence impart to ourselves a portion of the qualities we admire. Here, as in everything, humility is the surest path to exalta ses of the same, amounted to $291,406.28. The The Educator vs. the Teacher. THE educator draws out latent powers.— The teacher puts in a given task. The educator considers, the worse the marial, the greater skill in working it. The teacher does his task, and charges the mate rial with the result. The educator knows his subject to be infin. ite, and is always learning himself to put old things in a new form.-The teacher thinks he knows his subject, and finds it more irksome every day. The educator thinks nothing done till the food he gives his pupils is digested and craved for. The teacher thinks everything done when he has poured out something before them. The educator encourages.-The teacher furnishes. The educator has faith in great principles. The teacher is the slave of little vexations. The educator is a boy amongst boys in heart; in judgment a man.-The teacher has the hardness of a man, with the want of thought of a boy. The educator in punishing considers what is best, not what is deserved.-The teacher applies a fixed penalty. The educator deals in exhortation and hope. The teacher in truisms and iamentation. The educator is animated by a high and true ideal, towards which he is ever finding some response, even in apparent failures.-The teacher's ideal is a shallow dream of selfish success, the non-realization of which leaves him apathetic and querulous in his work, sceptical of goodness, hardened in his own opinions, and closed against improvement. The educator, as he believes in his principles and rules, earnestly strives to be the best example of them himself. Unpunctuality makes authority grating. cal Journal. Ir is announced in the Continental papers that another new planet has been discovered by Dr. Luther, at the Observatory of Dusseldorf. The date of the discovery is the 15th of this month, but the position of the planet is not given. Imperishability of Great Examples. THE following eloquent passage occurs in Edward Everett's great oration : "To be cold and breathless-to feel and speak not-this is not the end of existence to the men who have breathed their spirit into the iustitutions of their country, who have stamped their characters on the pillars of the age, who have poured their heart's blood into the channels of the public prosperity; tell me, ye, who tread the sods of yon sacred height, is Warren dead? Can you not still see him not pale and prostrate, the blood of his gallant heart, pouring out of his ghastly wound, but moving resplendent over the field of honor, with the rose of heaven upon his cheek and the fire of liberty in his eye e? Tell shades of Vernon is Wasnington indeed shut me ye who make your pious pilgrimage to the which made these men, and men like these, up in that cold and narrow house? That cannot die. The hand that traced the charter of Independence is, indeed motionless; the eloquent lips that sustained it are hushed, but the lofty spirits that conceived, resolved, and maintained it, and which alone, to such men, make it life to live,' these cannot expire: These shall resist the empire of decay, When time is o'er and worlds have passed away; Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie, But that which warmed it once can never die."" COST OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE. The partial failure of the Inter-Oceanic Telegraph will entail great loss on the Company. The cable cost, simply for the manufacture, $1,344.310, at contract prices-2,500 miles of deep sea cable at $469.48 per mile; ten miles of deep sea core, with steel wire covering for mid-ocean, $1.403 per mile; and 25 miles of shore-ends at $1.210 per mile. Besides this great sum for cable only, there has been a vast contingent outlay for apparatus, machinery on board steamers, alterations of the Niagara, and innumerable other expenses which are not yet reckoned. PAST events are as clear as a mirror; the future as abscure as varnish. |