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seelusion, if they would indulge their morbid, sanctimonious ways. The average life of the times says, "These are not times for such deli cate moralities;" and indeed some tender souls have been foolish enough to talk of Protestant Dunneries and monasteries as the only hope of modern piety.

and only atheists and infidels are prepared to build up civilization on the ruins of generations whose follics, vices, and sins are counted on to prepare the soil, filling with their refuse the deep quagmires which are thus to become the foundations of future stableness.

"For to be spiritually minded is life and The constant contemplation of the peace." glory of Christ will give rest, satisfaction and complacency unto the souls of them who are Our minds are apt to be exercised therein. filled with a multitude of perplexed thoughts, fears, cares, distresses, passions and lusts, which make various impressions on the mind; but where the soul is fixed in its thoughts and contemplations, it will be brought into, and kept, in a holy, serene, spiritual frame.— Owen.

NOTES OF FOREIGN TRAVEL, FROM PRIVATE
CORRESPONDENCE.
No. 2.

But this is a cowardly retreat before a powerful, yet after all a very vulnerable, and by no means unconquerable, enemy. The social emulation of our people-now coarse, now refined; now avowed, now secret-is a spirit not to be exorcised, but to be instructed; not to be done away, but to be purified and restrained. It is to be defecated of its taint by the sturdy criticism of those who still believe in the might of truth, the sanctity of goodness, and power of prayer and holiness, and in the possibilities of a Christian life. Courage, moral courage, is It is the great want of American society. cowardice among men and women who know better; cowardice in the pulpit and the press, cowardice in society and on the platform, in the AMBLESIDE, 7th mo., 1866. home-circle and in the world, that leaves folly, That we are really here enjoying all the deextravagance, and wickedness their unchallenged lights of this superb lake and mountain scenery, arena. Would that we had a few moral lead- seems so strange, that I shall have to put myself ers, not men aiming at a cheap capital of re-into communication with some of you good folks ligious repute by becoming extravagant and pro- at home to be able to think of it as a fact; and fessional censors of what they do not under-perhaps in briefly recapitulating our movements stand, but men of conviction, intelligence, and for the past few days, and remembering how we moral standing; who instead of going apart came to this charming region, I may gradually and disdainfully leaving the great tide of hu realize that it is not merely a dream. Since my manity to its own course, saving only their feet last, we have been to Stoke upon Trent. On and skirts, would boldly go into the stream, and entering this black and dismal town, devoted preserve, by wisdom, justice, and piety, the almost entirely to potteries, we observed everycostly freight it bears! The country has too where the royal standard floating overhead. much education and too much aspiration, not This was explained by the information that the to value, not to heed, not to follow, better coun- Prince and Princess of Wales were at that mosels than it receives. A great heart of courage ment inspecting the show rooms of the different is a real power in the world. A few genuine establishments. We started off for a glimpse of leaders of public sentiment might greatly change their Royal Highnesses, and succeeded in obthe aspect of American society. Our people taining it, and united in the verdict that the are as apt for what is good as for what is bad. Princess was a very lovely-looking lady, but Their external circumstances, especially in the that a crowd of English workingmen, with West, are favorable to large, strong, generous their wives and daughters, contained about as views. This tendency is now abused to encour- many ill-favored specimens of humanity as we age latitudinarianism of morals, rudeness of had ever before seen collected. The occasion of manners, and laxity of opinion. But, after all, their presence at this time was the laying of the the largest and most generous views are really corner-stone of an Infirmary by his Royal Highthe divinest, noblest, purest. The great region ness. In the afternoon we had a delightful ride of the West, gigantic in its features, is breeding among the shady manors, lanes and blossoming a physical race, worthy to be the shrine of a hedges, where we saw more beautiful wild flownobler spirit and a grander faith. We believe ers than we had met with anywhere since leavthe impurities will settle, the perilous fires ing Cornwall. There we had only the early slacken, the folly abate, under principles vital spring flowers, though in a profusion and va and ever active at the heart of our society.riety we never had seen before, while here in But, meanwhile, can a single generation afford to wait the gravitation of events? Are we willing personally to be only tools spoiled in making a civilization which is to be worth something a hundred years hence? Individual character is the immortal end of our existence;

Staffordshire, wild roses and honeysuckles, and all sorts of lovely things besides, made the hedges one sheet of bloom, and filled the air with a fragrance that was perfectly delicious. I wish you could enjoy some of these charming drives. They are so delightful. The wild flow

ers alone are a perfect feast, and the road sides, | them, in the most luxuriant state of perfection. and even between the railroad tracks in some Next morning, we set off in an open carriage for sections, are like a perpetual garden. Wild a circuitous drive to Ambleside, during which pansies are constantly peeping up in clusters, we stopped at Grassmere, and visited the tomb and the most luxuriant spikes of foxglove here of Wordsworth, and the little church he used spring up between the rocks and flaunt their to attend, said to be nine hundred years old; gay blossoms in the most extravagant manner and surely it is the most quaint and curious of possible. We have seen patches of twenty or all the old buildings we have seen. Here, too, thirty feet in length covered thickly with it, is a tablet to the memory of the Poet, immedi while the ivy seems perfectly irrepressible- ately over the family pew. We had also a running over the ground, twisting itself into view of Dove's Nest, the cottage where Mrs. the hedges and climbing up the trees, and hang Hemans once passed a summer, and it looked ing over low stone walls, and creeping up high indeed as though it might be a fitting home ones, and mantling over everything that would for such a spirit. On our return, we alightbe, without it, ugly or unsightly, until one might ed from the carriage and walked a short disalmost think that it " enjoys the very air it tance to Rydal Mount, once the home of Wordsbreathes," and could not in any way be pre- worth; but unfortunately the public are now vented from doing so. One of the varieties has excluded from the grounds, in consequence a tiny leaf, not much larger than that of the of some recent abuse; and the house was Kenilworth Ivy. I remember seeing at Kew very imperfectly seen from without, though Gardens a collection of the different kinds, com from the slight glimpses we could obtain, we prising a great number of every size and kind, were quite able to imagine it all it is described― all of which I suppose grow freely and luxuri- "a perfect bower of roses and ivy." We were antly throughout England. Our delightful back again at Ambleside by five o'clock, and drive was lengthened out till after we had after a short rest, set off for a walk to Stock watched the sun go down at half past eight Gylt Force, a picturesque little waterfall, not o'clock, and the next afternoon we drove to far from the hotel, and then through the vil Trentham Park, which we were allowed to en- lage, beautiful, like everything else, and to bed, ter, and passing slowly through it, we had a literally before the twilight was gone, at half full opportunity of enjoying its many and varied past ten o'clock. Next morning, we were ready beauties. It is indeed a lordly and magnificent for another day equally delightful, driving to domain, comprising altogether more than a Paterdale, seventeen miles and back, over the thousand acres "of hill and dale, and wood and Kirkstone Pass, on the top of which stands the lawn and stream," while the river Trent, wind- highest inhabited house in England, fourteen ing through the midst, forms a lake of upwards hundred and eighty feet above the ocean, where of eighty acres in extent. This is only one of we enjoyed the most magnificent views of real the Duke of Sutherland's princely abodes. We mountain scenery we have yet had. To dehear he has three or four others, besides his scribe such prospects, is, for me, utterly out of London house. I do not know that the others the question, when I feel, as I now do, how far are in the same style of grandeur, but it seems the very best descriptions fall short of the realito me it must take a vast amount of poverty and ty. We were prepared to find a great deal to wretchedness to counterbalance the luxury and admire and enjoy "among the Lakes," but what splendor of the life of this one noble Duke. we expected seems as nothing in comparison Next morning we left for the lakes; arrived with what we have found, and every excursion about four, P. M., at Windermere, after passing shows us something more charming than the through a great deal of delightful scenery; last. I think some of us had felt just a little during the last two hours it was grand and pic- afraid that our "Ideal" had been too high, and turesque, but the mist hung so heavy over the that the ground rendered classic by having been distant mountains, as almost to obscure them. the home of Wordsworth, and Coleridge, and Our hotel here was beautifully situated near the Southey, and De Quincy, and Mrs. Hemans and Lake, and after dining we had a splendid drive Harriet Martineau, would be found, after all, to to Troutbeck, a very romantic mountain stream. be very much like the ground everywhere else The road was a continued series of exquisite on the surface of this sublunary earth, but I views, in every variety of the picturesque and must honestly confess it is not so. There cerlovely, but the mist still circumscribed the more tainly dwells a charm about these glorious hills distant prospect. Returning, we passed through and "tarns" quite distinct from that of their a part of the valley, composed entirely of taste-poetical associations, or, perhaps, it is the po ful villas, surrounded in some instances by ex- etry itself, that so pervades the very atmosphere tensive grounds and flowers-flowers every as to make all things appear, even to the most where. The roses are now in their full beauty, prosaic eye, bright and lovely, and different and wherever we go we see cottages and even from the ordinary seeming of "this dull spot the most humble cabins literally covered with that men call earth." Still we cannot always

escape even here the sober certainties of real upright and noble yesterday, may prove false life, as we were forced to admit on our return and unworthy to morrow. Cling to truth and from the Paterdale drive; for before we had justice, though all the world should desert and reached the summit of the mountain, we were decry them. Give your conscience eyes, and overtaken by a storm of wind and rain which never fear that it will mislead you. Others effectually put a stop to all further prospects may be richer in knowledge and wisdom than for the present. Next day we again took our you; but a pure and lofty soul has no earthly carriage, and drove through the same lovely superior, and should recognize none. Hold scenes to this place-about eighteen miles. The fast to whatsoever is righteous; and whatever town is close to the shores of Derwent Water, clouds may for the moment in wrap you and inone of the smallest but most lovely of all the tercept the smile of heaven, never be so infidel lakes, and the view of the entire valley, as it as to doubt that the path of virtue is the only bursts upon you in descending the hill, is won-way of safety-the only way that leads to perfect derfully beautiful. We have not yet seen much and enduring peace.—Greeley. of the place, or its surroundings, but expect to drive to the Falls of Lodore, and some other

points of interest, and will then leave for Edin burg and the Scottish lakes, which we are told are finer even than. these. That is hard to believe; for it seems to me there never could be anything more charming than the scenery we have been feasting on for the past week. We have, to be sure, made one terrible discovery about the pretty picturesque little cottages. The windows are frequently large, and almost universally filled with flowering plants, and we often wondered to see them closely shut, even in the hottest weather; but we found that one Title pane of gla-s upon hinges was all the opening of which they were capable, and that this poor loop-hole afforded the only ventilation, not only for the poor imprisoned flowers, but for the more miserable human inmates, condemned to breathe such an atmosphere. It is a mystery to me, how the poorer classes can have health; but if they are as robust as they seem, it must be attributed to their active habits, and being much in the open air.

(To be continued.)

THE PATH OF SAFETY.

The darkest day in any man's earthly career

is that wherein he first fancies that there is
some easier way of gaining a dollar than by
squarely earning it. No matter whether he
acquire it by beggary, by theft, or any fashion
of gambling, that man is fearfully demoralized
who, looking at the dollar in his palm, says,
"That came easier than if I had earned it by
honest labor." He has lost the clew to his way
through this moral labyrinth and must henceforth
wander as chance may dictate. To his distort-
ed apprehension, the universe has become a
gaming-table, and life a succession of ventures
on the red or on the black.
His prospects of
winning thereat, in the long run, are miserable
enough.

I am pained to hear any one say of the wisest and best man living, "I pin my faith to bim. I am sure he can never go wrong." My friend! you have right to repose implicit faith in God aloue! Man is frail, at best, and he who was

FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER.

PHILADELPHIA, EIGHTH MONTH 31, 1867.

FAMILY RECORDS.-It was an object of solicitude with the early settlers of this country, especially Friends, to preserve accurate records of births, marriages, and deaths, and fitting memoirs of worthy lives, not only for the obvious utility of these records in establishing the titles to real estate and the due succession of property, but because of the important bearing of family histories upon the character of the young. In this way the examples of the worthy and excellent are prolonged and enshrined among the valued mementoes of the family for generations.

We have no sympathy with an assumed superiority founded on birth or ancestry, though it may be doubted if this is not far more worthy of respect than the false assumptions based upon wealth, which are apt to pass current with the vain and thoughtless.

It is a matter of experience with many that to have descended from the wise and good is no mean incentive to a high standard of wisdom and goodness, and it is always cause of regret when, through neglect of parents to keep the subject before their children, these grow up in ignorance of their ancestry. These remarks are suggested by the perusal of two pamphlets, printed in Delaware Co., Pa., for private circu"Thomas and Margaret Minlation, entitled, chell, who came from England to Pennsylvania in 1682, and their early descendants, to which are added some accounts of Griffith Owen and descendants for a like period, by one of the sixth generation;" and "The Salkeld family of Pennsylvania, from John, who emigrated in

1705, to the fourth generation as far as known, by a descendant."

It is feared that many private family records, and even some belonging to Monthly Meetings, are lost and destroyed from being retained in manuscripts, while large numbers of descendants would be glad to contribute toward their pres ervation in a more permanent form. These histories when preserved become starting points for more extended family records in the future, and may ultimately become so general as greatly to aid the labors of the biographer and historian, while, in some cases, they add to the strength of the family tie.

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The circulars inform that the school is provided with a good collection of philosophical and chemical apparatus, a cabinet of mineralogiten, anatomical plates, and other modern aids to cal and geological specimens, a mounted skelethe acquirement of knowledge.

Lectures will also be delivered weekly on Natural Science, History and General Literature, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.-The recent ir- by William Henry Farquhar and Henry C. Halregularities in the reception of our paper have lowell. The locality is healthy, and its surbeen owing to an unusual freshet in the Schuyl-roundings are favorable to the best social influ

kill River which occasioned an overflow of the water-wheels at Fairmount, and rendered it important to observe economy in the use of water, until the obstruction shall be removed.

This restriction has prevented the printing press with which we are connected, in common with others, from performing its usual amount of business.

DIED, at his residence in Ledyard, Cayuga Co., N. Y., on the 28th of Sixth month, 1867, DANIEL SISSON, aged 64 years and 10 months. He was a member of Scipio Monthly Meeting, and much beloved and esteemed. His disease, which was a very lingering and painful one, he bore with much equanimity and cheerfulness, evincing the truth of the Scripture declaration, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he

trusteth in thee."

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on the 5th of Eighth month, 1867, at the residence of Wm. Cocks, MARY BILLS, widow of the late Thos. Bills, and daughter of Wm. and Susanna Webster, aged 77 years and 5 months; a member of Rochester Monthly Meeting, N. Y.

at Sandy Spring, Montgomery Co., Md., on the 6th inst., after a short illness, REBECCA N., wife

of Pennell Palmer, in the 64th year of her age. at his residence in Willistown, Chester Co., Pa., on the 15th of Eighth month, 1867, RICHARD MARIS, in the 78th year of his age; an exemplary member of Goshen Monthly Meeting.

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AN OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM.

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We find in a London paper an account of an odd custom which has prevailed for more than a hundred years in the extensive range of moors in Derbyshire, Cheshire and Yorkshire-the annual summer meeting of the shepherds, bringing with them the sheep that have strayed into their flocks, and restoring them to their rightful owners. Every 20th of July the meetings are held, and as they are entirely different from any other gatherings, and have not hitherto been described, a notice of the last may not be out of place. The appointed place for assembling was the Salters-brook turnpike-road, distant rather more than two miles from the Dunford Bridge station on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, and at a point from the station across the moor the turnpikenear where the three counties meet. On walking road was reached, and then, after a long march up hill, a sharp angle of the road brought the visitor into the midst of a colony of dogs, numbering from eighty to one hundred, nearly all fine specimens of the sheep-dog breed. They were playing, 'quarreling, and a few were haveing "a quiet round" to themselves. Not far from them were their owners, each with a long stick, by which the shepherd indicates to his dog in many instances what he is required to

at Brookfield, Bucks Co., Pa., on the 19th of Eighth month, 1867, SARAH, widow of Jobn Paxson, in her 86th year; a member of Middletown do. After partaking of a good dinner, the men, Monthly Meeting.

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with their dogs, proceeded to a large yard, in which there were about one hundred sheep which had strayed away. Each animal was examined and claimed by certain marks and indications, the dogs occasionally appearing to recognize some of the truants. In the course of half an hour, with the exception of two or three, all the animals had found their way back to their lawful owners, and shortly after the shep

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herds, with their dogs and found sheep, departe! for their respective stations, miles distant and far apart, most of them not to meet again for months, or until they once more assembled, bringing with them the lost ones and claiming their own truants.

From the Boston Transcript.

THE GARDEN AND THE FARM.
A PLEA FOR THE KITCHEN-GARDEN.

The unvitiated appetite clamors for fruit and vegetables during the warm season; and it is only by the force of habit that so many are content to live without them. The acid fruits and vegetables serve to counteract the bilious tendency of the summer; and, were the habit once formed of eating more vegetables and less meat, better health and longer life would be the consequence. We have made a breakfast of bread and stewed tomato, and uniformly felt a hum-clearer head and lither muscle than when we had breakfasted on beefsteak with its bile-producing gravy.

consequence, potatoes, corn, hay and oats abound for the sustenance of the barn-stock, but the minor wants of the family are unsupplied. So far as our observation goes, not half of the farmers have an asparagus bed, and have little idea that, from a square rod of land, a daily dish of this most delicious vegetable may be furnished to an ordinary family from the 1st of May to the 1st of July. The impression prevails with them that some little spot must be fenced in as a permanent garden. This is a mistake. The fence is an eyesore in the landscape, an unnecescal cultivation of the garden. Abolish the fence, sary expense, and greatly hinders the economiand horse-power can be employed in the garden as well as in the field. The currant bushes, the asparagus, sage and other perennials need a permanent location; but most of the vegetables thrive best on newly inverted soil; and, with no fence to move, the main garden may be changed by the farmer at pleasure, and beets,

We desire to call attention to this most ble, and at the same time most useful department of horticulture. We are satisfied that our rural districts are suffering from not appre We commend the vegetable garden especially ciating the value of a good vegetable garden. to our farming community, by whom we fear it We should suppose that in the country, where is less valued than by our village mechanics. land is cheap, vegetables and fruits would The farmers, accustomed to their broad acres abound; but the truth is, the citizen is far more and cultivators and corn hoes, think it a putterhighly favored in this respect than the coun-ing business to attend to a garden; and as a tryman. In the neighborhood of cities and large villages, market gardeners give their attention to these things: the garden is managed with skill, and a great variety and abundance of vegetables are raised, which are furnished to the citizens, much to their comfort and health. But, with the great mass of our farm ers, the garden is considered as a nuisance, an interruption to the great business of the farm; and consequently their families are treated with meat and potato one day, and potato and meat the next, and so on through the year, with an occasional interruption of two or three messes of peas, corn and beans in the summer, and some cabbages, turnips, and possibly onions, in winter. Economy, health aud comfort demand that our farming population should give more attention to the raising of culinary vegetables. A good garden will contribute largely to the support of a family. Man was not made to live by meat and potatoes alone. Every production of the garden is good, and should be re-parsnips and strawberries cultivated in long ceived with thanksgiving. Americans have a strangely carniverous tendency. An English laborer is satisfied with his daily ration of bread and cheese, washed down with a mug of ale; and is grateful for a joint of meat for his Suncan Journal of Horticulture. day dinner. The French and German laborers also live largely on their vegetable soups; and are delighted if they can obtain a hock bone to give a flavor to their soup, and furnish the oily matter in which the vegetables are deficient. But we in America must have our meat at least twice a day, and very generally three times; and the meat is by no means a mere relish, but forms a principle constituent of the meal. The habit was doubtless introduced when meat was abundant and comparatively cheap; and, once introduced, it continued, though the price has doubled and trebled.

Such a mode of culture takes away the petit rows by horse power, the same as in the field. look of the fenced garden, and greatly diminishes the expense.-Alexander Hyde, in Ameri

SIX JAPANESE YOUTHS, who are studying at Monson, Mass., have been offered facilities for travelling during the summer vacation, and have declined to accept them for the following reasons: First--Diligent and unremitting study of the language is our first and most important business in order to qualify us to travel to the best advantage. We are not yet sufficiently able to ask intelligible questions and to receive the proper explanations. Secondly-It is more agreeable to spend the summer in the shade and quiet of these secluded hills than to enIn the summer, especially, the juicy, cooling counter the heat, noise, dust and cinders of vegetable, rather than the inflammatory meat, travel. Thirdly-We have had travel enough should constitute the main bulk of our food. I for one year in coming all the way from Japan.

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