reply was succeeded by an unequivocal proof of sincerity on the part of the person who made it, when he picked up Saunders' bonnet and, whirled it out into the streets. The cool Scotchman stalked deliberately and gravely in quest of his Stewarton "head gear. poles of his tent against the shattered columns of Palmyra; Babylon has also fallen beneath the stroke of an avenging destiny, and that city which reigned supreme over oppressed Asia, has scarcely left behind it a trace that can show where the ramparts of Semiramis were raised. "I have seen." says After giving it two or three hearty slaps a traveller, the accomplishment of that proupon the wall without the door, he re-enter-phecy, Tyne, the queen of the nations shall ed, very composedly wringing the moisture be made like the top of a rock, where the out of it, looked over to the person who had fishermen shall spread their nets."--Malta served him so, and said, with a genuine Scot- Brun. tish smile. "You was but an ill faured man; ye'll surely tak a look o' the gudes noo." The master draper himself, who was standing all the while in the shop, admiring the patience and perseverance of the old man, and feeling a little compunction for the unceramonious manner in which he had been treated, examined the contents of the pack, found them to be articles he stood in need of, purchased them, ordered an additional regular supply, and thus laid the foundation of an opulent mercantile house, that has now flourished for some generations.-Chamber's Pocket Miscellany. CHANGES OF TIME. ORIGIN OF THE ROTHSCHILDS. The late Baron Rothschild was the son of a Jew at Frankfort, of the name of Joseph.He was in humble circumstances, but very highly thought of for honesty and integrity. At the time the French crossed the Rhine, and entered Germany, the Prince of Hesse Cassel came to Frankfort, and asked Joseph to take care of his money. Joseph did not much like the undertaking, but the prince pressed it so much that at last he consented, and the treasures were given him. When the French entered Frankfort, Joseph buried the Prince's money and jewels in a chest, but did not hide his own, thinking that if they found no money they would be suspicious, and search more earnestly. The cousequence was he lost all his own money.When affairs became more tranquil, and he could again enter into business, he took some of the Prince's money and transacted business with it, as he formerly used to do with his own, thinking it a pity it should lie quite useless. The Prince of Cassel had heard of In Asia Minor we tread upon a soil rich in interesting and splendid recollections, with an existing population completely debased by ignorance, and slavery. The glory of twenty different nations that once flourished here, has been extinguished; flocks wander over the tomb of Achilles and of Hector; and the thrones of Mithridates and the Antiochuses have disappeared as well as the palaces of Priam, and Croesus. The merchants of Smyrna do not inquire whether Homer was born within their walls; the fine sky of Ionia no longer inspires either painters or poets; the same obscurity covers with its shades the banks of the Jordan and the Euphrates. The republic of Moses is not "Not a farthing," said the honest man, "I to be found. The harps of David and Isai- | have it all. I have used a little in business. ah are silent forever; the wandering Arabian I will return it all to you, with interest on comes, indifferent and unmoved, to rest the what I have used." the French cruelty in plundering poor Jcseph Rothschild, and concluded all his money and jewels were gone. When he went to Frankfort. he called on him, and said "Well, Joseph, all my money has been taken by the French." "No," said the yrince, "keep it. I will poet was a soldier, and a brave one though not take the interest, and I will not take my a poet. He composed others of his most money from you for 20 years. Make use of beautiful verses at the time when his Indian it for that time, and I will only take 2 per slave was begging a subsistence for him in een tinterest on it." the streets. Tasso wrote his finest pieces in the lucid intervals of madness. The prince told the story to his friends. Joseph was in consequence employed by most of the German princes. He made an immense fortune, his sons became barons of the German Empire, and one of them settled in England. CURIOSITIES OF GREAT MEN. AMONG the curious facts which we find in perusing the biographies of great men, are the circumstances connected with the composition of the works which have made them immortal. For instance-Bossuet composed his grand sermons on his knees; Bulwer wrote his first novels in full dress, scented; Milton before commencing his great work, invoked the influences of the Holy Spirit, and prayed that his lips might be touched with a live coal from off the altar; Chrysostom meditated and studied while contemplating a painting of St. Paul. Rosseau wrote his works early in the morning Le Sage, at mid day; Byron, at midnight. Hardouin rose at four in the morning, and wrote till late at night. Aristotle was a tremendous worker; he took little sleep, and was constantly retrenching it. He had a contrivance by which he awoke early, and to awake was with him to months in a cavern by the sea-side, in lacommence work. Demosthenes passed three boring to overcome the defects of his voice. There he read, studied and declaimed. Rabelais composed his "Life of Gargantua” at Bellay, in the company of Roman cardinals, and under the eyes of the Bishop of Paris. La Fontaine wrote his fables chiefly under the shade of a tree, and sometimes by the side of Racine and Boileau.— Pascal wrote most of his "Thoughts" on little scraps of paper, at his by-momentsFenelon wrote his Telemachus" in the Palace of Versailles, at the Court of the Grand Monarque, when discharging the duBacon knelt down before composing his ties of tutor to the Darphin. That a book great work, and prayed for light from heaven, so thoroughly democratic should have issued Pope never could compose well without first from such a source, and been written by a declaiming for some time at the top of his priest, may seem surprising. De Quensay voice, and thus rousing his nervous system first promulgated his notion of universal to its fullest activity. freedom of person and trade, and of throwBentham composed after playing a pre-ing all taxes on the land-the germ, perlude on the organ, or whilst taking his haps, of the French Revolution-in the "anteentacular" and "post-prandial" walks boudoir of Madame de Pompadou ! in his garden-the same, by the way, that Milton occupied. Saint Bernard composed his "Meditations" amidst the woods; he delighted in nothing so much as the solitude of the dense forest, finding there, he said, something more profound and suggestive than anything he could find in books. The storm would sometimes fall upon him there, without for a moment interrupting his meditations. Camoens composed his verses with the roar of battle in his ears; for the Portuguese Luther, when studying, always had his dog lying at his feet- -a dog he had brought from Wartburg, and of which he was very fond. An ivory crucifix stood on the table before him, and the walls of his study were stuck round with caricatures of the pope. He worked at his desk for days together without going out; but when fatigued, and the ideas began to stagnate in his brain, he would take his flute or his guitar with him into the porch, and there execute some musical fantasy (for he was a skilful musician) when the ideas would flow upon him as fresh as flowers after summer's rain. Music was his invariable solace at such times. Indeed, Luther did not hesitate to say, that after theology music was the first of arts."Music," said he, "is the art of the prophets; it is the only other art, which, like theology, can calm the agitation of the soul, and put the devil to flight." Next to music, if not before it, Luther loved children and flowers. That great, gnarled man had a heart as tender as a woman's. Calvin studied in his bed. Every morning, at five or six o'clock, he had books manuscripts and pipers carried to him there, and he worked on for hours together. If he had occasion to go out, on his return he undressed and went to bed again to continue his studies. In his later years he dictated his writings to the secretaries. He rarely corrected anything. The sentences issued complete from his mouth. If he felt his facility of composition leaving him, he forthwith quitted his bed, gave up writing and composing, and went about his out-door duties for days, weeks, and months together. But so soon as he felt the inspiration fall upon him again, he went back to his bed, and his secretary set to work forthwith. How different the fastidious temperance of Milton! He drank water and lived on the humblest fare. In his youth, he studied during the greatest part of the night; but in the more advanced years he went early to bed-by nine o'clock-rising to his studies at four in summer and five in winter. He studied till mid-day; then he took an hour's exercise, and, after dinner, he sang and played the organ, or listened to others' music.— He studied again till six, and from that hour till eight he engaged in conversation with friends who came to see him. Then he supped, smoked a pipe of tobacco, drank a glass of water, and went to bed. Glorious visions came to him in the night, for it was then, while lying on his couch that he composed in thought the greater part of his sublime poem. Sometimes, when the fit of composition came strong upon him, he would call his daughter to his side, to commit to paper that which he had composed. Milton was of opinion that the verses composed by him between the autumnal and spring equinoxes were always the best, and he was never satisfied with the verses he had written at any other season. A.fieri, on the contrary, said the equinoctial winds produced a state of almost "complete stupidity" in him. Like the nightingale, he could only sing in summer. It was his favorite season. Pierre Corneille, in his loftiest flights of imagination, was often brought to a stand still for words and rhyme. Thoughts were Cujas, another learned man used to study when laid all his length upon the carpet, his face towards the floor, and there he revelled amidst piles of books which accumulated about him. The learned Amyot never studied without the harpsichord beside him; and he only quitted the pen to play it. Benth-seething on in his brain, which vainly he tried am also was extremely fond of the pianoforte, and had one nearly in every room in his house. Richelieu amused himself in the intervals of his labor with a squadron of cats, of whom he was very fond. He used to go to bed at eleven at night, and, after sleeping three hours, rise and write, dictate, or work, till from six to eight o'clock in the morning, when his daily levee was held. This worthy student displayed an extravagance equalling that of Wolsey. His annual expenditure was some four millions of francs, or about £170,00 sterling. to re luce to order and he would often run to his Thomas "for a word." Thomas rarely failed him. Sometimes, in his fits of inspiration, he would bandage his eyes, throw himself upon the sofa, and dictate to his wife, who almost worshipped his genius. Thus he would pass whole days, dictating to her his great tragedies; his wife scarcely ventured to speak, almost afraid to breathe.— Afterwards, when a tragedy was finished, he would call in his sister Martha, and submit it to her judgment; as Molier used to consult his old housekeeper about the comedies be had newly written. Racine composed his verses while walking about, reciting them in a loud voice. One day, when thus working at his play of "Mithridates," in the Tuileries' Gardens, a crowd of workmen gathered around taking him to be a madman about to throw himself into the basin. On his return home from such walks, he would write down a scene at first in prose, and when he had thus written it out, he would exclaim-"My tragedy is done," considering the dressing of the acts up in verse as a very small affair. Magliabecchi, the learned librarian to the Duke of Tuscany, on the contrary never stirred abroad, but lived amidst books, and lived upon books. They were his bed, board, and washing. He passed eight and forty years in their midst, only twice in the course of his life venturing beyond the walls of Florence; once to go two leagues off, and the other three and a half leagues, by order of the Grand Duke. He was an extremely frugal man, living upon eggs, bread and water, in great moderation. The life of Liebnitz was one of reading and meditation. That was the secret. of his pro ligious knowledge. After an attack of gout, he confined himself to a diet of bread and milk. Often he slept in a chair and rarely went to bed till after midnight.-Sometimes he was months without quitting his seat, where he slept by night and wrote by day. He had an ulcer in his right leg which prevented his walking about, even hat, is still the son of liberty, free as the singing lark above him; but the debtor, tho' clothed in the utmost bravery, what is he but a serf upon a holiday--a slave to be reclaimed at any instant by his owner, the creditor? My son, if poor, see wine in the running spring; let thy mouth water at the last week's roll; think none the less of a coat because it is threadbare; and acknowledge a white-washed garret the fittest housing place for a gentleman. Do this, and shun debt.— So shall thy heart be at peace, and the sheriff be confounded. CHAT ABOUT THE SEASON AND "CHILD of the Sun, refulgent summer"has gone; it has made another annual pass at of time. The season of flowers has past.— our medium zone and fled away on the wing That which germinated in spring expanded and grew in summer, has now matured and Autumn is here with all its golden richness. It's first bright blushes have, however, given place to the drapery of gloom that shrouds of November are singing the requiem of our the closing month, and the moaning winds once bright-eyed summer. But the country, even at this season, presents a variety of scenes of surpassing beauty. The rains of the autumnal equinox have so freshened the previously parched meadows, that their verdant appearance contrasts beautifully with the yellow orchards. The apple trees bend their richly freighted boughs to the earth in imitation of the angel of mercy who is ever inclining earth-ward, tendering heaven's bounty to man. The rude north winds are POVERTY, says Douglass Jerrold, is a bitter beginning to shake the tops of the tall forest draught, but may, even sometimes with ad- trees, and orion is chilling with his deathvantage, be gulped down. Though the drink-like power the thick foliage that covers er makes wry faces, there may, after all, be wholesome goodness in the cup. But debt, however courteously it be offered, is the cup of a siren, and the wine, spiced and delicious though it be, a subtle poison. The man out of debt, though with a flaw in his jerkin, a crack in his shoe leather, and a hole in his Vol. 7.-No, 5—14. had he wished to do so.-Eliza Cooks Journal. POVERTY AND DEBT. them. Now is the time for serious meditation.All Nature makes a pause, a solemn pause prophetic of her end-vegetable growth ceases, and venerable oaks seem to drop their lofty heads in thoughtful mood. Earth clothes herself in habiliments of mourning for the loss of her virgin beauty. The atmosphere increases its tension to arouse man from the lethargy into which its tepid state had thrown him, and material substances assume a rigidity convincing to visionary man of the reality of life. Awakened by these ever changing phenomena, and conscious of its essential superiority the soul lon.s to rise to its native immortality beyond the region of change and pain. "The soul uneasy and confined from home, Rests, and expatia, in a life to come." As the fresh beauties of the world fade, and all objects of sense grow less pleasing, heaven and God become more real to the mind. This of all other seasons is the most favorable to profound thought and deep emotion, the inclement weather shuts the busy multitude within doors, and the long evenings afford leisure for reading and study. One item of advice and a single suggestion may not be deemed amiss. 1. We advise to search the sacred Scriptures diligently for they testify of Jesus, and in them are all the revealed treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and by them alone sinful men are made wise unto salvation. 2. Inasmuch as the reading of some literary magazine becomes necessary to relieve the rugged toil of intellectual labor we suggest whether the Miscellany would not be-guile the tedious hours away and prove a valuable ingredient in your literary dish If so. please read carefully, and recommend your neighbors to subscribe. At this season also, the great engine of American power, the primary school system is beginning to act with accelerated force, calling into requisition talents well adapted to bless of course our age and nation. And one or the other they will do "to stand blank neuter they disdain," which, the character and qualifications of the teachers employed, alone can determine. But are these the only requisite qualifications for instructing the youth of a civilized and christian nation? Some seem to think so, but we think not. For of what real value is a knowledge of nature's laws without the love of nature's God. Truth is a unit and has its origin with the Deity, and they that teach truth of whatever kind should themselves be taught of God. The common district school teacher exerts (perhaps unconsciously) a wonderful influence over the " young immortals" committed to his or her care: nor is that influence wholy intellectual, but necessarily in part moral. How necessary then that such should possess the meekness and gentleness of Christ. in Besides there are advantages government; the spirit of Christ is the spirit of obedience and nothing tends more to secure a ready and cheerful compliance with law than a conciliating and sympathising disposition on the part of the administrator. We humbly submit whether it would not be well for those who have it to do, to pay more attention to the moral as well as scientific qualifications, of those who act so important a part in the formation of our national character and in determining our national weal. GOOD RESOLUTIONS. R. RESOLVED, in narrations never to speak anything but the pure and simple truth. Resolved, never to allow the least measure of any fretting or uneasiness to my father or mother. Resolved, to suffer no effects of it, so much as in the least alteration of speech, or motion of my eye, and to be especially careful of it with respect to any of our family. Resolved, never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can. Resolved, to live with all my might while do live. Without scientific attainments superior to I those who are to be his pupils, together with! Resolved, to do whatever I think to be my an aptness to teach, the applicant will of DUTY, and most for the good and advantage course be rejected by the proper authorities. of mankind in general. |