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The Brook.
BY ALFRED TENNYSON.
I come from Imunts of coot and liern,
f make a sudden sailj',
And sparkle out among the fern,
'J'o bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridge.s,
By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred ridges.
Till last l)v Phillip’s barn I flow,
To join the brimming river.
For men may come and men may go.
But 1 go on forever.
I cliatter over stony ways,
In liPle sharps and trebles,
i bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.
■With many a curve my banks I fret,
By many a field and fallow.
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.
I chatter, chatter as I flow,
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men go,
But I go on forever.
1 wind about, and in and out,
"With here a blossom sailing,
And heie and there a lusty trout.
And here and there a giayling.
And here and there a foamy flake
Fpon me, as I travel.
With many a sib ery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,
And draw them all along; and flow
To join the brimming river,
For man may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
1 slide by liazel covers,
I im>vc the sweet foi’get-me-nots,
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, I slide, 1 gloom, Iglance,
Among iny skimming swallows:
1 make the netted smibeara dance
Against my santly shallows.
1 mnrni'.ir under moon and stars,
In brambly wildernesses;
1 linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter I'ound my cresses;
And out again I curve and flow
To join the bi imming river,
Fi>r men may come and men nui}' go,
But I go oil forever.
Curtis Rose, aged 85, who was buiied
with Masonic honors at West buffield,
Sunda}'', was one of the oldest Masons
in New England, and the last of the
founders of Appollo .Lodge, of Suffield,
which was organized in 1819. The fu
neral was Mrgely attended, there being
over 100 carriages in the procession, be
sides 200 of the Fraternity, representing
irjX 10dges.—Philci. Chronicle.
The treasures of wisdom are not to
be seized with a violent grasp of the
Land, but to be earned by persevering
labor..
From tlio Shelby Banner.
Educate Your Children.
Education is a preventive of crime.
The statistics of all countries show that
the large majority of criminals are uned
ucated. Go to your own State peniten-
tiary. Walk within those enclosed
walls—behold four or five hundred crim
inals. Who are they f Nearly the
whole of them are ignoramuses. They
are coarse, i literate, uneducated men.
There is not one educf^ted man among
the whole group of them. Goto the
Penitentiaries of other States, to the jails,
the houses of correction, and you find the
same truth that ignorance is the mother
of crimes. If we go to the barbarous
tribes of Africa—or the South Sea Island,
we find that such crimes as stealing,
murder, and gross licentiousness are the
rule of action—not the exception. Sins
and crimes there are as thick as the trees
and as luxuriant as these tropical growths
In that country roam the lion, tiger, the
panther—there luik huge and deadly
vipers ; but the people are more danger
ous than these wild beasts of the jungle.
Because of their rudeness, malignity,
savageness, all the outgrowth of their
long ages of profound ignorance. We
appeal to statistics for further demom
stration.
In France, 95 of every hundred crimi
nals are illiterates—persons unable to
read. This is not guess woik, the facts
drawn from official records. And is one
of the most startling and convincing
proofs that can be given. In Ireland,
74 of every hundred criminals are igno
rant persons. In Switzerland, 93 in ev
ery hundred are unab.e to read and write
In our countiy 85 in every hundred are
uneducated persons. Here is proof strong
as Holy Writ of the .relation between
crime and ignorance. Education then
is a powerful restraining force—restrain
ing men from tlie outbreaking crimes of
illiteracy. The reasons are obvious. Ig
norant men commit crime with the belief
that they can escape detection They
have not mental power enough to see
horv almost impossible it is for criminals
to escape the thousand ways of detection.
Nedher have they culture enough to
make conscience any restraining power
Nor mind enough to foresee the terrible
result of crime.
Education confers power upon persons
to supply their wants, to make a living,
to take care of themselves. Every per
son has numerous wants—necessary
wants. He must have food or die, he
must be clothed or go naked, he must
have shelter or be turned out of doors to
the pelting storm. These wants are daily
and life long. Now how is he to get
them'? Well there are three ways. He
may inherit them from rich ancestors, or
he may attempt to steal them, or beg
them, or do the honorable way of making
his money. Now a man may make mon
ey, by the practice of law, medicine,
teaching, but in these professions educa
tion is a necessity. He may make money
1 by trading, by farmirg, by mechanical
I work, in these thlng.s, the more intelli-
I gence, the better. The rising generation
is to be educated to secure the regular
j progress of society. The mental attain-
I ments of preceding generations must be
i ti'ansmitted to the rising ones in order to
keep the world on the high plain of
Christ an civilization. Education then
has reference to the general good of soci
ety, as it cjualifies by an intellectual ap
prenticeship the youth to take the place,
ill order of organized commonities, of
those who are removed by death The
superiority of educated mind is clearly
seen in its ability to trace out the obscure
hints in the laws of nature and turn
these discovered laws into useful ends to
society. To illustrate take a few cases,
Gallileo, sitting in an old cathedral, ob
served that the chandelier suspended to
the ceiling when touched swung to and
fro. Its vibrating motion suggested the
idea of clocks moved bji the swing of a
pendulum. That was the beginning of
the million,? of clocks so useful in giving
the time of the day all over the civilized
world. The fall of an apple suggested to
the educated mind of Sir Isaac Newton
the grand discovery of the great law of
gravitation.
The uplifting of a tea kettle lid by
steam gener.ited in boiling water sug
gested the idea of steam engines. And
what a far reaching blessing is this dis
covery of steam power to the world!
Steam power, unknown to the ancient
world, is made to grind our grain, saw
our lumber, spin our cotton, rush our
ships across the sea and send the ponder
ous locomotive thundering on its iron
track. To day the aggregate steam pow
er of England alone is equal to the labor
of four hundred millions of men. Whence
comes the lightning rod, that turns the
fiery bolt of the storm cloud from our
homes? From the educated mind of
Franklin. Whence the Telegraph flash
ing intelligence around the world in the
twinkling of an eye ?^ The printing pcess
whose rays of knowledge beam upon So
ciety like an orb of light ? Look at the
valuable implements in agriculture, arch-
ifecture, in navigation—all made by ed
ucated minds. Mental forces now rule
the world. We close with a word of ex
hortation to parents. Have you sons and
daughters? Strive to educate them. It
costs money, yon say, yes it does. But
as Franklin says: “If a parent empties
his purse into the head of his son, no
man can fake it away from him. An in
vestment in knowledge always pays the
best interest.” Addison remarks, “x\n
industrious and virtuous education of
cliiidren is a better inheritance for them
than a great estate.”
: The3Iasonic Orphan’s House of Ken-
' tucky has now one hundred and thirty-
I one orphans and eight widows as in-
I mates.
.... Quinine is in demand.
.... A Plolioken girl is six feet tW'o.
Tliei e’s a big i-ednctioii in the price of
clothing.
.... The foe to Sod was never a true friend
to man.
.... Massachusetts corn is reported very
smutty this year.
Vandals have chipped Bunyan’s tomb
stone to pieces.
The English bathing dress for ladies is
very light and reaches the knee.
.... A San Franeiscoan expects to go 100
miles an hour in his flying machine,
.... B. E. Wolfe, the author, gets $20 for
each performance of the “Mighty Dollar.”
.... A Maine girl has soft, fine hair, very
thick and beautiful, seven feet and a half long,
.... They are to have such a corn crop
in Illinois this year .as was never known be
fore.
.... Geo. Ii. Fox, the pautomimist, is now
in Brooklyn, and is very much belter in
healtli.
.... Over 5,000,000 pounds of b.ieon were
shipped to Europe last week. Whole hog or
none.
Paris has one free drinking fountain
of water for every 40,000 inhabitants, and one
drinking shop to every 80.
.... -Jamies Whitlock, of Kickapoo Town-
sliip, Kansas, has on apple-bearing pear tree,
wliieli last year bore nothing but pears.
.... A Taunton (Mass.) dog reeciitly found
Ids way back borne oi, foot from New' Hamp
shire, a distance of 200 miles.
.... Nothing pleases a conscientious bache
lor so nuich as to dme with a married friend
and see the baby put his foot into the gravy.
A poet has been struggling with the
question: “What is success?” Some think
it is a plenty of money and a handsome mus
tache.
.... It is pride tliat fills the world with so
much harshness and .severity. We are as
rigorous to ofl'enders as if we liad never of
fended.
.... William S. Mercer, a prisoner in the
Nebraska penitentiary, has succeeded in ob
taining for that institution tire best library in
the. State.
Two registered letters lost by a mail
agent in fiercer connly, over a year ago were
found in an old woi-n out mail bag' last week
The letters contained $80.
.... A post-mortem examination of tlie
body ol a Gcrinau named Snow, at Plainfield,
N. iX., recently shen'ed that his heart was an
the right side and tlie liver on the left.
.... Here the man who carries revolvers
and dirk knives around him is called a reck
less fellow. But it is difl'erent in Nevada;
there the man that doesn’t do it is called reck
less,
.... Nobody can tell what the fasliion is in
tliese hard times, for no two persons, male or
female, are dressed alike, and all classes of
people seem to be engaged in wearing out
their old clothes
.... The apple buyers and 'sliippers of
Quincy have formed a ring to control the price
paid for fruit, and the growers are iudign-ant,
threatening to sliip direct to tlie leading mar
ket.
C. M. Kellogg, of Mar.-halltown,Iowa,
was burned to deatn by the explosion of a ker-
os:'iie lamp last week. He w as playing si-von
up, and tippetl up the table in tt fit of anger.
.... Bootblacks, too, complain ofbard times
Tliey say boots, as a rule, are so miieli worn
that they require twice the lengtli of time to
polish them that a good square boot does.
.... A western girl visited a music store
.and asked for “The Heart Boiled Dotvn witli
Grease and Care.” ami “When I Swallowed
Home inaile Pies.” The clerk at once recog
nized what she desired.
....The Oldtown Indians, near Bangor,
Jfe., have a cuiions law requiring everybody
to be at liorae at 9 o’clock. One of iheir unm-
l)er was caught out at 10 the other night, and
goes to jail ibr thirty days.
.... One ]ierson of oveiy 256 in Cinchlnati
cliesbj’ suicide. Sixty-two per cent ol'llie self
murdcrei*s are German. The proporf ion of tlie
sexes is five men to one womaiij and the most
popular method is hanging.
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