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FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER.
PHILADELPHIA, FOURTH MONTH 13, 1867.

steadfast faith in the power of truth to over come error, would much more abundantly strengthen those who may be standing as at the point where two ways meet.

The injunction of Jesus to his disciples may ever be remembered to profit: "Thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head and wash thy that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret." Thus the discerning spirits of the young will be spared the discouragement of receiving what may be appropriately compared to a false report of the good land.

SOCIETY BONDS.-In the social religious ele-face, ment consequent upon the peculiar organization of the Society of Friends, there arises an interest akin to a family relation, which extends to the remotest sections, where members of the Society are to be found. We have believed this feeling of interest might be stimulated and increased, if the columns of the Intelligencer were more often used as the medium of information interesting to all. We mean not to be busy bodies, meddling with other mens' affairs, but allude to subjects of general interest which are claiming the attention of Friends in different neighborhoods, a knowledge of which might have a tendency to unite the So-monary consumption, WALTER L. BARIGHT, in the 35th

ciety more firmly in the bonds of sympathy and Christian fellowship.

The Apostles, in their day, wrote to their brethren for the purpose of stirring up the pure mind and encouraging them to hold fast their confidence in the faith which works by love to the purifying of the heart, and they gave also a statement of the condition of the church in which they were then laboring.

We feel assured that an advantage would arise from a more intimate personal knowledge of the state of the Society of Friends as it exists, not only in one yearly meeting, but in all. The seasons of discouragement which are experienced at times by concerned Friends, do not prove that the body is declining, nor that its strength is expended. It is doubtless in divine wisdom, that at times we experience a spiritual fast, and are left as in a desolate place, but in these scasons of discouragement, if we retire from outside influences, and wait for the still small voice, we would, like Elijah, hear the encouraging language, there are yet seven thousand in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal nor kissed his image.

MARRIED, by the approbation of Solebury Monthly Meeting, on the 28th of Third month, 1867, at the residence of the bride's father, John Simpson, DAVIS PALMER, jun., to AGNES SIMPSON, all of Bucks Co., Pa.

DIED, near Waynesville, Ohio, on the 20th of Third mouth, of typhoid pneumonia, FREDDIE W., son of David and Jane S. Furnas, aged 11 months.

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at San Jose, Cal., Second month 3d, of pulyear of his age. bound for New York, Third month 4th, of the same disease, SAMUEL FRANKLIN BARIGHT, in the 31st year of his age; sons of Augustin and Mary P. Baright, late of Elba, and members of Rochester Monthly Meeting, N. Y.

On board a California steamer

-, on First-day evening, 3d month 31st, at the residence of his son, Canby S. Smith, Chester, Pa., DAVIS SMITH, Sr., late of Philadelphia, aged 75 years. Third month 18th, SARAH B., widow of Wm. Middleton, in her 65th year. (Buried from her sonin-laws', Josiah Haines, Haddonfield.)

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on 3d day, Third month 26th, at Philadel

plia, BENJAMIN A. SHOEMAKER, of Long Branch, aged

57 years.
Third month 27th, OLIVER HOWARD, only
child of Oliver and Alice S. Wilson, aged 2 years
and 26 days.
Third month 28th, MARY H., daughter of
Joseph and Sallie G. Chapman, in her 13th year.

Third month 29th, JOHN MISKEY, youngest

child of John I. and Elizabeth Hance, aged 9 months.

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on the 21st of Third mouth, 1867, CHARLES PALMER, Eon of David Palmer, in the thirty-third year of his age; a member of Falls Monthly Meeting, Bucks Co., Pa.

His close was peaceful, with a well grounded hope of an entrance into the mansions of the blessed. To know him was to LOVE HIM.

Friends' Association for the Aid and Elevation of

the Freedmen will meet on Fourth-day evening, Fourth month 17th, at 8 o'clock, at Green St. Meeting House.

J. M. ELLIS,

ANNE COOPER, Clerks.

We have some times been sensible of the depressing influence arising from the presentation of a gloomy picture of the state of things Association will meet on Sixth-day afternoon, 4th

among us, and we believe a manifestation of a

The Executive Committee of Friends' Publication mo. 19th, at 3 o'clock.

LYDIA H. HALL, Clerk.

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For Friends' Intelligencer.

CAUTION.

Friends in their different neighborhoods are cautioned against giving either pecuniary aid or encouragement to a colored man who is collecting money under the pretense of establishing a colored school in Maryland.

He is a small man, quite light-colored, and when in the vicinity of New York, he gave his name as Jacob Chavop. He has made improper use of letters that were given to him, has altered the figures opposite to the names of those who gave him money, and behaved in a very unbecoming manner at several Friends' houses.

SAMUEL WILLETS,
THOMAS FOULKE.

New York, 4th mo. 1st, 1867.

Have the courage to acknowledge your ignorance, rather than to seek credit for knowledge under false pretences.

MEETINGS FOR READING AND CONVERSATION

At Race Street Meeting-House, Philadelphia.
At the meeting held on 27th ult. letters
were read from similar associations of Friends
in Baltimore, Newtown, and Yardley ville.
These were in reply to those addressed to then
by our Committee of Correspondence, and gave
encouraging evidence that their meetings had
been valuable in strengthening each other.

this hurtful weed, and the language of Cowper
in reference to it was aptly quoted, as follows:
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys,

Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
Thou art, indeed, the drug a gard'ner wants
To poison vermin that infest his plants-
But are we so to wit and beauty blind
As to despise the glory of our kind,
And show the softest minds, and fairest forms,
As little mercy as the grubs and worms?

In view of the importance of language as a means of conveying our thoughts and feelings, we were reminded of our duty to keep it pure and simple, free from those corruptions and exaggerations which often pass current among the thoughtless and unscrupulous. Attention to the monitions of truth will preserve from forms of language which have originated in gay and artificial society and will lead to accurate and truthful speech. This is the ground of the testimony to plainness of speech, a testimony. which has lost none of its importance in modern times, and which we are still called upon to maintain faithfully and conscientiously. The wide range which the discussion embraced brought into view the proper moral training of the young, who should be taught not only to avoid positive vice, but to cultivate generous and benevolent feelings. The impressible mind of young children should be brought in contact with some of the forms of human suffering, and they should be early taught the luxury of doing good.

The subject of plainness and moderation, continued from our last meeting, was resumed. A friend called attention to the fact that even in cases where mothers felt themselves restrain- Habits of giving food to the hungry and ed, in relation to their own apparel, from fol- clothing to the destitute should be acquired in lowing absurd and changing fashions, the same early life under stimulus of parental influence, care was not observed in relation to their little so that those tender sympathies, the gerns of children, whose appearance so much resembled which are planted in every soul, may grow into that of other children, as to give occasion to expansive benevolence and Christian charity. the humerous remark of some writer that he Thus the root of selfishness is choked by a had never seen "a Quaker baby." The speak-growth which tends to fit men and women for er had no desire to see the dress appropriate to age placed upon childhood, but that simplicity, utility and a regard to health should be the governing motive with mothers in regard to the dress of their children, rather than a desire to conform to unhealthful and ridiculous fashion.

enlarged usefulness in this world and enjoyment in that which is to come. Education in its moral aspect must begin in the domestic circle; all the learning of schools can never substitute that of home, nor can intellectual acquirements take the place of the training of the moral nature.

A friend who acknowledged himself to be. The elevating influence of nature, a commuin the moderate use of tobacco, called atten- nion large and wide with the works of the tion to the fact that unless it was kept within Divine Architect, was adverted to as a means proper bounds, it was deleterious to the hu- of moral as well as intellectual culture, and in man constitution. He and some others thought the absence of travel, which puts us under its it might sometimes be used as a medicinal immediate influence, we have pictures which agent, while others believed it was always dele- represent its grandest scenes so as almost to terious, and that the same probibition which equal the original in their effects The influapplied to the use of ardent spirits should ences of good society were also held up as of also be applied to tobacco-"Touch not, taste great importance in moulding the character; note, handle not." The hope was expressed young men may often be in great measure that the female portion of our community would preserved from the grosser forms of immorality exert their influence in discouraging the use of 1 by the influence of refined female society. It

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is better to promote the growth of the good in our children than to be too much occupied with observing and reproving what to our more mature judgments may appear as faults. These and many other considerations occupied the meeting, which was large and interesting.

From the N, Y. Tribune.

THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

food be left to the appetite, but let the ap-
petite have a large choice of food. There is
little reason to think that women would betake
themselves, as a general or usual thing, to ag-
riculture, commerce, finance, manufactures, or
engineering; but if they should, this action
would merely prove that a feminine element
was in those pursuits which she was to supply.
Are men afraid lest women might do their work
better than they themselves do? That fear is
confession that their work must be meant for
women; and who would hinder women from do-
ing what they were meant to do? Mr. Froth-
ingham contended that nearly all occupations
had their feminine side. Religion had, as the
Catholic Church has proved; and Protestant
Christendom would be greatly benefited by in-
troducing women into its organization. Medi-
eine has a large place for women; so has social
science; so has public education. But women
can do nothing of all this by instinct; they need
teaching at every step as men do. Education
holds the key to every kind of employment.
Washing and ironing do not come by nature.
Plain sewing must be taught. It is an Ameri-
can superstition that cooking comes by nature
to all Irish girls; and we are a nation of dys-
peptics. Every profession requires training;
even the bumblest do. Of course, the more
lucrative and delicate must. Literature is the
easiest; but nimble wits alone carry few to fame
or fortune. Art in all degrees requires instruc-
tion, severe and long. Come to the occupations
which women are supposed to take to naturally;
how far will a kind heart go toward making a
good nurse? Do the sciences come by instinct?
Does logic? Will sympathetic feeling in a femi-
niue teacher dispense with a knowledge of his-
tory, philosophy, or language? Another popu-
lar superstition would have us believe that wo-
men are endowed with genius for housekeeping.
Where is the evidence? The good housekeeper
needs as much education as an overseer.
should be a chemist, a sociologist, a physician,
and a metaphysician. Nothing less than an or-
dinary common-school education is required to
qualify women to be good housemaids, to de-
liver messages, take correct change from the
shopman, keep themselves and their mistresses
out of trouble. Now, with the immensity of
this need for intellectual preparation, contrast
the miserable scantiness of the supply. The
common school education taxes the brain too
severely, and is not practical enough. The
private school education, with its unconscion-
able amount of French, its dash of Italian, its
snatch of music, its patch of arithmetic, its
muddle of geography and physical science, its
confusion of many things undigested and indi-
gestible, prepares the girl for nothing useful,
and ends just as her mind is maturing. The
special schools are almost all for boys and men.

This was the subject of the second lecture in the Rev. O. B. Frothingham's course on the So-a cial Condition of Women, now delivering in his church on Sunday evenings. Mr. Frothingham began by saying that the question of work was intimately connected with the question of education. The uneducated classes in the community will always be the drudges. Before women can do all the work they are capable of doing, they must receive all the education they are capable of receiving. We are not ready yet to decide what education best befits women, and what best befits men; for until both are educat ed equally well it will be impossible to say what place either may be competent to fill. Men and women are no doubt very different beings in many respects; but how different they are, and to what degree, and in what respects different, can be determined only when both have had the same intellectual advantage. The female intelligence is no more unlike the masculine than the female organization is; and if masculine and feminine bodies are submitted to the same general regulations, why should not the masculine and feminine intellects be? Both breathe the same air physically; why not intellectually? Both bask in the same sunshine bodily; why not mentally? Boys and girls suck the same milk and eat the same article of porridge; why should they not both feed on the same knowledge? It is absurd to sy that men and women should not travel over the same fields of literature, as that they should not travel over the same islands and continents; that they must not devour the same sort of books, as that they must not eat the same kind of vegetable. Just as the beef and mutton, the bread and the hominy, go to make girlhood in the girl, and boyhood in the boy, why should not the arts and sciences assimilate according to the same organic law? The very thing we need to know is what can women assimilate, and what can men assimilate? And this we shall never know till we have tried the most liberal nutriment We are continnally talking about man's career, and woman's career; but the career is determined by the capacity, and the capacity is not ascertained, nor can it be at present. By all means, let education be adapted to career; but a general education can alone decide what the career shall be; whether it shall be in doors or out, scientific or artistical, mechanical or literary. Let the choice of

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Women are not instructed in book-keeping, in technology, in practical science. They have no divinity schools. The conveniences for the study of medicine are for the male sex. The old countries have, in many respects, the advantage over us. The University of Bologna conferred degrees on women, and was proud to send out Professoresses of Jurisprudence, of Anatomy and Natural Philosophy, of Greek and the Mathematics. More than a centuary ago courses of medical lectures were delivered to women in Leyden and Paris. The Universities of Got ingen and Giessen gave doctorates to women in the last century; so did the College at Marburg; so did the famous hospital at Berlia. In Paris the Maternité educates young women as midwives. The Sorbonne has instituted concurrent courses of instruction for women, with examinations, degrees and diplomas, and sends out 140 or 150 women, married and single, as duly qualified teachers. Paris has upward of 80 free schools, employing more than 200 mistresses, and educating annually some 15,000 poor girls. All this makes America look small. Thorough education, either for men or women, is not to be had here by any but the very rich. Business with us has in hand the task of developing the material resources of an immense continent. For this, male vigor is demanded, and male vigor in its rude state. Men are educated for their immediate purposes, and as women are not supposed to be concerned in these purposes, their education is omitted. But better times are coming. Mr. Frothingham here spoke of the Western Colleges-Antioch, Oberlin, and the Normal School associated with the Michigan University. He also gave a glowing description of Vassar College, as striking the key note of education for women in America. Special schools, too, are beginning to grow up and to flourish; schools of Art and practical Science; Medical schools, and schools of Design. What women will become when thoroughly educated time alone can show. At all events, they will simply beconte more finely developed. women. They will not become men. Education will not produce an immediate crop of Maria Theresas or Elizabeths; of Eloises or Hypatias; of Miss Blackwells or Miss Zakrzewskas; of Maria Mitebells, Rosa Bonheurs or Harriet Hosmers; but it will enable those who must work to find work, and to do it well; it will give those who are not compelled to work a refuge from idleness and ennui. It will make all women better talkers, more interesting companions, more intelligent associates, more capable housekeepers, more competent mothers, more influential wives, more significant mem bers of society. It may be the fault of men that women are not better educated, but it is at least as much the fault of women. When "ladies," so called, shall feel that intelligence is a glory

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I sang and worked with joy in my heart,
For I hold that a wife should do her part
To clean and brighten the house within,

Praying the Lord to keep her from sin.
I had finished, and just sat down to rest,
When I saw a cloud rise up in the West,
And the moan of the sea grew loud on the rocks,
And the gulls flew landward in shrieking flocks.
Soon the wind blew loud from the hollow skies,
And I watched the waves with frightened eyes,
As they struggled and sprang at the cloud's black
And clutching their broad wings, swept them down.
Then I hurried out to the old pier-head,
Through the yard of the church, where slept the
dead;

frown,

And were quietly sleeping there, side by side.

And I wished that my man and I bad died,

But one heart is weak where there should be two,
And one voice alone grows weak in prayer,
When it misses another so often there.
Well, I watched for hours in that beat and blow,
Till all the light from the sky did go.
Then I turned heart-sick from the fling of the foam,
And wrestled my way to my vacant home.
There the breath of the storm blew under the door,
And I felt it whisper along the floor;
And the clothes of my man as they hung on the stand,
Swung as if touched by a spirit hand.
The lights I put in the window small,
Were blown into darkness one and all;
And I heard, as the whirling storm went by,
Shrieks as of souls about to die.

'Twas an evil wish-I rebuked it too;

I dropt to the ground with my hands on my face,
For I feared to see some sight in the place;
Aud I prayed the Lord my soul to keep,
And He heard my prayer, and gave me sleep.
I ran to the door-the storm was gone;
I leapt up at last; 'twas early dawn:
The morning star shone bright o'er the sea;
And my man came home to his house and me.
-Chambers' Journal.

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"JUDGE NOT THAT YE BE NOT JUDGED."

I'll count not up another's faults,

And thus forget my own;
Nor criticise another's words,

But mine, e'en to their tone-
It surely is not meet for me

To try the work of Deity.
For I shall have enough to do
To guide myself aright;
And so to act, that all my deeds
Be pleasing in His sight-
I am not ready to begin

To reckon up my brother's sin.
A tender caution oft is good,
With kindly feeling given;
But criticism never will

Advance one step towards Heaven-
The heart is to our Father known,

'Tis He must judge, and He alone.

The following account was published in the late "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia."

ON THE AGRICULTURAL ANT OF TEXAS.

(MYRMICA MOLEFACIENS.)

BY GIDE ON LINCECUM.

This ant is inodorous, having no smell of formic acid. It is a large reddish brown ant, dwells in the ground, is a farmer, lives in communities, which are often very populous, and controlled by a perfect government; there are no idlers amongst them. They build paved cities, construct roads, and sustain a large military force.

The workers increase the concealment, which had been kept up by the mother ant during the period of her personal labors, of the passage or gate-way to their city, by dragging up and covering it with bits of stick, straw and the hard black pellets of earth, which are thrown up by the earth worms, until there is no way visible for them to enter; and the little litter is so ingeniously placed, that it has more the appearance of having been drifted together by the wind than to have been the work of design.

In about a year and a half, when the numbers of the community have greatly increased, and they feel able to sustain themselves among the surrounding nations, they throw off their concealment, clear away the grass, herbage and other litter to the distance of 3 or 4 feet around the entrance to their city, construct a pavement, organize an efficient police, and, thus established, proclaim themselves an independent city. The pavement, which is always kept very clean, consists of a pretty hard crust about half an inch thick, and is formed by selecting and laying such grits and particles of sand as will fit closely over the entire surface. This is the case in sandy soil, where they can procure coarse sand and grit for the purpose, but in the black prairie soil, where there is no sand, they construct the pavement by levelling and smoothing the surface and suffering it to bake in the sunshine, when it becomes very hard and firm. That both forms of these pavements are the work of a well planned design, there can be no When one of the young queens, or mother doubt with the careful investigator. All the ants, comes to maturity, and has received the communities of this species select their homes embraces of the male ant, who immediately dies, in the open sunshine, and construct pavements. she goes out alone, selects a location and goes Their pavements are always circular and conrapidly to work excavating a hole in the structed pretty much on the same plan. During ground, digging and carrying out the dirt with the ten years drought that prevailed here, and her mouth. As soon as she has progressed far which seemed very favorable to the increase of enough for her wings to strike against the sides this species of ant, they suffered their paveof the hole, she deliberately cuts them off. She ments to remain flat, sometimes even basinnow, without further obstruction, continues to form. But the drought could not continue deepen the hole to the depth of 6 or 7 inches, always. The rain, which would be certain to when she widens the bottom of it into a suita- drown the ants should it come upon their flat ble cell for depositing her eggs and nurturing and basin-form pavements, would return again the young. She continues to labor out-doors some day, and they seemed to know when this and in, until she has raised to maturity 20 to 30 much dreaded eveut would occur. At least six workers, when her labor ceases, and she re- months previous to the coming of the rain, mains in the cells, supplying the eggs for com- they commenced, universally, building up ing millions, and her kingdom has commenced. mounds in the centre of the pavements. To But very few of the thousands of mother these mounds in the prairie they brought the ants that swarm out from the different king- little pallets of earth, thrown to the surface by doms two or three times a year succeed in es- the earth worms, and piled them up into a cirtablishing a city. However, when one does cular mound a foot or more in height. In succeed in rearing a sufficient number of workers to carry on the business, she entrusts the management of the national works to them, and is seen no more outside.

The workers all seem to understand the duties assigned to them, and wili perform them or die in the effort.

sandy soil it is constructed of coarse sand, and in rocky situations they build it of gravel, and the pieces are so large, and the mound so high (18 inches to 2 feet, with a four feet base) that the beholder is overwhelmed with wonder. I know of one of these stone pyramids nearly 3 feet high and 5 to 6 feet base, in which there

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