CLASSIFICATION OF ALL SCIENCES. sional reference:

HOME'S BRIGHT STAR.

Though hopeless and dependent, a little child has enough brightness in his eyes and gavety in his prattle to fill a household with joy. When he awakes first at the peep of day, and imprints kisses on his parents' lips, their fragrance is sweeter than that of the morn. The music of his voice is like the song of birds at the approach of light; his smile more sunny than the first entrance of sunbeams into the room. His little arm chair

SONG--COME WITH ME.

BY THOMAS HAGUE.

Come, journey with me, for I love to roam
Through the woodlands free in my forest home,
When the timid fawn is hastening away
In the early dawn of a cloudless day.
Come, wander with me, through starlit glades,
'Neath the hemlock tree, in the forest shades;
There gorgeous flowers their tits unfold,
To beautiful birds with wings of gold.

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on high stilts, is scrupulously placed when the
fast is broken, and he is no unimportant mem-
ber at the family board. During the day, how I'll pluck the grapes from spreading vine,
pleasant the pattering of his feet on the stair- And the choicest clusters shall be thine;
case, his voice in the court yard, his frequent And my constant care through life shall be,
bursting into the room with some new tale!-To reveal the love I feel for thee."
At night he kneels down whitely clad, as be-
fore some holy altar, on his mother's knees,
and his little prayer goes straight to heaven
from a child's heart. "Out of the mouths of
babes and sucklings Thou hast ordained prais.'
Not unfrequent, when he sleeps, are the moth-
er's pilgrimages to his couch, while under his
long lashes and sealed lips the spirit of a che-
rub seems to dwell. But O! if God in his
wise Providence should change that repose
into the sleep of death, and the white flowers
are placed upon his breast, and his little
clasped hands, the tears which sparkle on his
brow are bright, but the bitterest that were
ever shed.

Come, fly from the fashion bound, slavish train,
And live with me on my wide domain,
Where the eagle rears her clamorous brood,
And everything free on field and flood.

Dear little C. is dead! I remember the last time I saw him was on a beautiful evening in autumn. We all sat in the summer house. The moon arose and the stars twinkled, and were reflected in the waves which beat below the cliffs. The child looked up to the brightest star of all, and said:

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky."
His seemed like a prophetic voice. But a
few months have waned, and little C. is now a
star in Heaven. Before he died, he sang the
very strains which had delighted him,and he
now sleeps in peace near the river's brink, where
in spring time, the flowers shall bloom above
him, which he has so much loved, and where
they will not cease to be watered by a parent's
tears. How many a bereaved heart will be
touched by this!-Knickerbocker Maga-
zine.

A woman is a good deal like a piece of ivy; the more you are ruined the more she clings to you. A wife's love never begins to show itself until a sheriff is after you.

Come, fly from a sickly bed of down,
And the etiquette of a "life in town,"
To stand with me by the greenwood side,
And pledge my hand as the hunter's bride.
I'll toil through the day till my work is done,
And the hills are tinged with the setting sun,
Then back to my home like a bird I'll flee
For thou shalt be all in all to me.

I wish not my name to become enrolled
In the book of fame when my heart is cold
Nor would I repose in a marble tomb,
With the nobles of earth 'till the day of doom.
But dig me a grave in a grassy dell,
By the greenwood side on the upland swell;
If I may but know my bones will rest
Where the cedars grow in the glorious West.

SAFE REASONING.-If you are not afraid of God, I am afraid of you, said a stranger as he passed a counting-room on the Lord's day, and saw it open. The next day he refused to sell his produce to the Sabbath breaker on any credit whatever. He acted wisely. In three months the Sabbath breaker was a bankrupt.

The more roomy the house the less quarrelling there will be in it. One half of the spats between females are caused by running against one an other in our too narrow hall-ways. If you would reduce litigation, enlarge your edi

fices.

A CHAT WITH THE READER.

TO OUR BRETHREN OF THE QUILL-We Well, reader, it affords us great happiness to Literary Miscellany, and have been very have struggled long to sustain the Western be able to greet you again, and now we want much encouraged by your gratuitous and to chat a little about the Miscellany. For more than two years we have had our monthly steadily looked forward to the time when we very generous notices in the past. We have interchange of thought and to one, it has been might enlarge our work, and make it more quite agreeable; we hope it has not been un-worthy of your countenance and the generous profitable to any. We are now inclined to patronage of the people of the West. We make an advance-as progress is the order of think that time has come,-and as we have inthe day. We are advised that if the Miscel- directly received intimations from some of our lany were twice its present size, that our read- editorial brethren, that if we enlarged, we ers would cheerfully double their subscription. should still have their cordial, and if possible }, We shall publish at least eighty pages of mat- more earnest support; we have concluded to i ter monthly, at the low price of $200 per address all such through the Miscellany, and annum. We intend to employ an editor who tender them our most cordial thanks for their will be able to devote his time more fully to sympathy and words of kindly encouragement the work, than we have been able to do; hav- in the past, and to solicit their aid in the faing the business of the Miscellany and Tem- ture, to make the name and object of our Mar perance Advocate on our hands, leaving of azine more extensively known. We shall course but very little time to attend to our ed- succeed in our efforts to give to the West a ', itorial duties. We shall, after the first of Ju- Magazine worthy of it. Brethren, help. ly, be relieved of these in a great measure,and we hope it may be to the advantage of all concerned. We should enlarge in July, if we had time to learn more fully the wishes of our patrons, and to what extent they would be willing to sustain us. Many have paid us for a dollar magazine, and whether they would be willing to make an advance commensurate with the increased expenditure consequent upon the enlargement of the work, we have not the means of knowing. We will say however, thus early, that we will give you | a work in 1854, worthy of the West, and the name of the Western Magazine. Will our friends respond now, generally? If you say it, we will enlarge in July, but if we do so, we must receive a part, at least, of what is due us on old subscription, and some encouragement in the way of subscription for the Western Magazine. Send in your subscriptions, with

FIXED AT LAST.-We have several times re

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moved our office thinking each time to better
our condition, which we have done.
have moved but a step this time, which we
expect is the last for years. We are now di-
rectly opposite Brown's Gothic Store; en-
trance the same as Temperance Hall, and im-
mediately over Concert Hall. Our location
is now easily described and found.
And our
friends may be assured our migrations have
ceased. Call on us, one and all.

THE SENATOR'S SON: or the Maine Law a last

Refuge; a story dedicated to law-makers.
By Metta Victoria Fuller. Tooker &
Gatchell, Publishers, Cleveland.

We have had but little time to look at this

money in advance, or payable on the receipt work, but from what we have seen, we believe of the first number, and if the encouragement it to be a work for the times; and that it will is sufficient, you shall have it in July, otherwise we pledge you the Magazine in January. We shall employ the best talent of the country, in the new work; and our friends may rest assured that it shall never shame them. Now, let every reader of the Miscellany help us in this matter. Many hands will make light work; and what perhaps is equally necessary in this matter-quick work.

be most happy in its influence. Such works cannot be too generally diffused in community. Miss Fuller has our cordial thanks for this effort, as well as our best wishes for her future success. And if her future productions shall be like this, she will secure not only the respect of all whose respect is worthy of a thought, but the blessing of many ready to perish. Success to her in this enterprise. Let none fail to obtain a copy of the work.

HARPERS' MAGAZINE.-Royce is still on hand with this interesting Monthly. It is hard to beat yet. The present number is not inferior to its predecessors. We have not time to particularize.

After listening to many arguments on the circumstances, now attracted my attention. A subject of disinterested benevolence, as com- student was poring over his books with praisebatted by two talented opponents, and while worthy enthusiasm. His aim, he avowed was conning over in my mind, the various reasons to go through college, to become wise and advanced by each, I was suddenly transported great, in order that he might do good. He by a sort of magic to a singular sort of palace. toiled on, night and day, taking no rest either Strange glasses of various descriptions cover- for mind or body. His companions called him ed the walls on all sides, mirrored in which the self-sacrificing scholar. At last his object could be seen the thoughts and intents of the was attained. Among all those whose star heart. Various groups of individuals occu-shone resplendent in the world of knowledge, pied different positions here and there, while none beamed with more dazzling brilliancy occasionally one was seen standing apart from than did his. I looked for the after practice the rest, seemingly occupied with something of those things by which he professed to govern different from his companions. One individu- his life; but I saw in the place of the humble al was contributing largely to the support of individual of my expectation, a self-consequent the needy and destitute of his native city; when person; and on the mirror of the heart was called upon in the public assembly to subscribe written "self-deception-thy aims, instead of he put down hundreds of dollars opposite his being to benefit the world, have been merely to name, and was known far and wide, as a very obtain a name. Ah, thought I, where shall I benevolent and philanthropic man. I looked find a person of truly disinterested benevolence. into the mirror of the heart which stood oppo- A crowd of persons of various grades, occupasite him, and saw inscribed there, the "outside tions and conditions in life, now attracted my show of benevolence." Many weeping widows notice. On certain days they all assembled toand suffering orphans stood near soliciting his gether, wearing a sort of regalia, as insignia of aid, all of which he passed coldly by, to give their rank. Upon asking them what all this many dollars when publicly called on;-and it meant, I was told that their object was to rewas written in this mirror, "selfishness-all this lieve the destitute, clothe the naked, feed the dost thou for a name." The next person who hungry-in short, they aimed to relieve disattracted my attention was a blustering politi- tressed humanity in every form. Soon an opcian. Who so benevolent! In the saloon of portunity occurred to test their generosity. An fashionable pleasure, who so lavish of wine, alarming fire broke out in the neighborhood, cigars, &c., as he? Yet in the heart's mirror spreading destruction in its track. Whole which stood opposite, I read again in flaming families were made homeless, houseless, sheltercapitals, the word "selfishness-all this dost less. I looked around for my brethren, the thou for the sake of party, merely for a few "Odd Fellows," expecting, of course, to see votes." Another individual in still different them bestow on this occasion of their abun