He told me I was ill; That He this time had chosen for his call And yet I suffered sore; My eyes were dim with weeping all the night; And sadder, with the knowledge of my loss staple of food, and although they raise an immense quantity of this article, it is not nearly sufficient to satisfy the demand, and consequently a large quantity is imported from China and India. In traveling through the country of Japan the traveler will very often see what to him appears a waste piece of land-uncultivated and unemployed-but in truth there is very little. land that is not under cultivation. The Japanese seem to have an idea that to raise one article on one piece of land for any length of time tends to exhaust its fruitive powers; consequently, after cultivating a piece of land for some time with edible crops, the farmer will often plant it with trees, in the meantime cul Of counsels whose sweet comfort would not cease, tivating another tract, and by the time he Ob, if alone with Him, I had but turned, For still, at intervals, I hear His voice; THY KINGDOM COME. BY JEAN INGELOW. Thy kingdom come, I heard a Seer cry: "The wilderness, The solitary place, Shall yet be glad for Him, and He shall bless, Comforted waters waxen calm shall glisten Shall take, and her awful joy repeat, Raining their lovely loyalty along the dewy plain And all the well-contented land, made sweet With flowers she opened at His feet, Lift up, O Earth, for He shall come again, wishes to cultivate his first piece again he has got a good piece of timber land. This system certainly enables the farmer to get the most out of his land. Indeed, he is obliged to do so, not only for his support, but for all his rents and tithes, which are paid not in money, but in kind -mostly rice; and the rent of a farm is estimated, not at so many itziboos (a Japanese coin worth about a third of a dollar), but at so many piculs (133 pounds) of rice. Besides rice, there are considerable quantities of peas, beans and wheat grown, besides corton and tobacco. Large quantities of vegetables are also grown, but as a rule they have not the slightest flavor to them, except the potato, which is tolerable; but this latter is only grown in small quantities. Almost every kind of fruit is also grown in Japan, but I never could discover the slightest taste to any of them, with the exception of a small orange, which is procurable only in winTheir apples are large, and the sight of them would make one's mouth water with desire; but one might as well endeavor to eat soaked pine shavings, for they are hard, gritty and tasteless. The people also are great gardeners, and are extremely fond of flowers, of which almost every variety is grown in the country; but although fine to look upon, they are almost totally devoid of smell. Some of the gardens in the vicinity of Yokohama are very fine and tastefully laid out. The implements used by the Japanese, both in their agricultural and mechanical pursuits, are very similar to those used in China. ter. In mechanical arts I do not think they are superior to the Chinese, except in their bronze Tby Lord; and He shall reign, and He SBALL reign-castings. In this latter and the manufacture Thy kingdom come." [Correspondence of the San Francisco Alta California.] How they Till the Land-Streets and Street Traveling Chinese. Of course rice is the principal of lacquerware they are not to be excelled by The streets of a Japanese town present an appearance as novel as it is interesting. The shops being all open, one can see right through. useful trades are neglected by young men choosing callings in life-Ledger. A RECENT hydrographic survey of Maine discloses the fact that the head waters of the Androscoggin, Kennebeck and Penobscot are higher than those of the Mississippi at Lake Itaska, although the distance from the source of the former river to the sea is less than 200 miles in a straight line; that Moosehead 107, and that the water power of the Umbagog lake is 1256 feet above tide water, and State is practically unlimited. MACHINE BELTING is now being manufactured of paper by a firm in Dalton, Massachusetts. This belting is reported to be in use in several New England mills, and the Dalton manufacturer has made wide. The paper belting is said to have all the a paper belt seventy-five feet long and eight inches merits of leather and some advantages. The French Government contemplate a new and vast project, which, if carried out, will be of incalculable importance to that nation. This is to enlarge the Canal Deux Mers, so that large vessels may pass directly from the Atlantic ocean to the Mediterranean, without passing under the guns of the Fort of Gibraltar. At present the canal connects with the Garonne River, at Toulouse, and falls into the Mediterranean near Agde; the river reaching the ocean tion. In order to fill the canal when it is enlarged, near Bordeaux completing the chain of communicait is proposed to intercept the innumerable mountain streams, from the Pyrenees and mountains of Auvergene, and imprison them in huge reservoirs, whence the water can be drawn as needed.-Scientific American. You generally find the shopkeepers resting by sitting on their heels-a position which seems perfectly comfortable to them, but one which I was glad to quit after giving it a trial of about two seconds. They will cordially invite you in, and are not at all set back if, after inspecting every article in their shop, you leave without purchasing anything. The streets have not that crowded appearance which they have in China, from the fact that they are much wider. But there is a horrible din kept up all the time, which is anything but pleasant, by the coolies transporting merchandise. In China this is done by suspending the article to be carried either on the middle of the pole, when it is carried by two coolies, or dividing it and placing a portion on either end, when one man can carry it by balancing it on his shoulders. But in Japan it is transported on handcarts. These are large trucks, with two massive wooden wheels, that look as cumbersome and clumsy as you please. Four coolies generally attend one -two in front and two behind-and they keep up this meaningless, monotonous chant to keep time. Now and again you see an itinerant hawker with a small gong in his hand, which he strikes at regular intervals, in order to attract attention to his wares. But what is this that is being carried through the streets at rather rapid rate, on the shoulders of four half-dressed coolies, two in front and two in the rear? It doubtless employed by the Romans to raise water in looks like a small sized dry goods box. But it the operation of draining the mine. It is well isn't. It is a norimon-a Japanese carriage-known that the hydraulic works of the Romans surand there is actually a human being cooped up therein. Upon inspecting it I could scarcely imagine that a man or woman could rest therein more than five minutes. They are about four feet in length and three in height, and are more fit for cages to transport wild animals than for the means of human locomotion. When Sir Rutherford Alcock, H. B. M. Minister, once went from Yeddo to Yokohama in one of these norimons, he says that when he got out it took him some time to find out that he had not been baked; and nothing could induce him ever to travel again in a similar vehicle. ITEMS. a THE REVENUE COMMISSIONER'S REPORT last year stated that the men employed in the glass works and steel factories, in Pittsburg, have averaged eight dollars a day wages. This statement startles a Boston paper, which asks: Are not tariffs too high when they give to the day laborer wages as large as the salaries the Governors and members of Congress, and more than the graduates of our colleges can obtain for years in any profession? If pay depends on useful work, we think that the man who earns his money by bard labor deserves quite as much as either Governors, Congressmen or graduates. A great trouble in this country is that too many people try to live without work; and that whilst professions and stores are overstocked, and there are about twenty times as many politicians as there is any necessity for, the the mines of Portugal, of an old wheel which was The Paris Presse relates the discovery, in one of passed in extent any of those of modern times. As that great people had not the use of either steel or gunpowder, they were sometimes obliged to raise water over a ledge, where modern engineers would carry it right through. In some of the mines were dug draining galleries nearly three miles in length, but in some places the water was raised by wheels to carry it over the rocks that crossed the drift. by the miners, who are now working the same old Eight of these wheels have recently been discovered mines. It is supposed that these wheels cannot be less than one thousand and four hundred years old, and the wood is in a perfect state of preservation, owing to the immersion in water charged with the salts of copper and iron. The water was raised by one wheel into a basin, from which it was elevated another stage by the second wheel, and so on for eight stages. THE GERMAN RAILWAYS have adopted a new system for heating cars on railways. At a conference of the railway managers of the North German Bund, some time ago, it was agreed to warm the passenger cars on all the lines, beginning as soon as the cold weather sets in this winter; and for this purpose a special car, containing the heating apparatus, will be placed immediately next to the locomotive of every train, from which pipes will convey a continual circulation of hot water through the whole train. Inside the cars these pipes are made of copper, which will communicate with the other cars by short lengths of India-rubber pipes, fitting in by means of screw metal heads. Ventilators in the interior of the compartments enable the passengers to regulate the temperature so as to sui: their convenience. FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. "TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE." EMMOR COMLY, AGENT, CONTENTS. The Penns and Pening tons. At Publication Office, No. 144 North Seventh Street, EDITORIAL TERMS:-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE The Paper is issued every Seventh-day, at Three Dollars per annum. $2.50 for Clubs; or, four copies for $10. Agents for Clubs will be expected to pay for the entire Club. The Postage on this paper, paid in advance at the office where It is received, in any part of the United States, is 20 cents a year. AGENTS-Joseph S. Cohu, New York. Henry Haydock, Brooklyn, N. Y. Benj Stratton, Richmond, Ind. William H. Churchman, Indianapolis, Ind. THE PENNS AND PENINGTONS. OBITUARY....... 673 675 Meditations... 675 Social Readings. No Living Member Exempt from Service... 676 679 680 680 681, 682 683 684 685 687 688 The Society of Friends... POETRY······· Advantages of Temperance..... neighboring streets they refused to come with "Not long after he had returned to Kent his own native county, Sussex, was in danger from the Cavalier party, which had taken Arundel, and fortified the town and castle. Sir William Walker was commander-in-chief against them, his assistance having been sought by the associated counties. My husband looked upon this engagement as a particular service to his own county, and with great freedom went to Arundel, where they had a long siege before the town. After they had taken it, they besieged the castle; it was very difficult service, but, being taken, he and Colonel Morley had the government of the castle committed to them. A few weeks after this, the calenture, a disease that was then amongst the soldiers of the town and castle, seized upon him in his quarters near Arundel; from whence, in the depth of frost and snow, he sent for me to London to come to him. This was very difficult for me to accomplish, it being a short time before the birth of our second child. The waters being up at Newington and several other places, we were forced to row in a boat on the highway, and take the things out of the coach into the To which I replied that I was to pay for boat with us. Springs were fastened to the bridles of the horses, and they swam over and all the horses if they suffered, and that I was brought the coach with them. The coachmen resolved not to go out of the coach unless it So, seeing my were so sensible of all the difficulties and the broke down, until it came so near the house badness of the way between London and Arun- that I could compass it on foot. del, at that time of the year, that in all the resolution, he pushed on. "When we came to Arundel we saw a most "Discerning my lips to be cool, he would dismal sight-the town depopulated-the win-hardly suffer me to withdraw them from his dows all broken from the firing of the great burning face so as to take breath, crying out, guns the soldiers making use of the shops and Oh, don't go from me!' at which the doctor lower rooms for stables, and no light in the and my maid were very much troubled, looking town but what came from the stables. We upon the infection to be so high that it endanpassed through the town on to his quarters. gered my life and the child's. Two hours at a Within a quarter of a mile of the house the time I sat by him thus, and after a little pause horses came to a stand still. As we could not see he called upon me again to lay my mouth to the reason of it, we sent the guide forward for his, and that he would be very quiet. At a light and assistance. Upon which the report length, while I was in that posture, he fell reached my husband that I was come; but he asleep; which they that were by observing, conassured them they were mistaken, that he knew strained me to go to bed. Considering my I could not come, in the situation I was in. condition, and that I might leave my maid with Still they affirmed that I had certainly come. him, who could bring me an account, I was Then,' said he, 'raise me up in the bed, that prevailed with, and went to bed. When he I may be able to see her when she enters.' awoke he seemed much refreshed, took great But the wheel of the coach having pitched notice of the servant, and said, 'You are my close into the root of a tree, it was some time wife's maid. Where is your mistress? How before it could be loosened. It was twelve does my boy? Go to my wife, and tell her I o'clock at night when I arrived; and as soon as am ready to embrace her, I am so refreshed I put my foot into the hall, from which the with my sleep.' She came and gave me this stairs ascended to his chamber, I heard his voice account, and I would have arisen and gone saying, Why will you lie to me? If she be down, but she persuaded me not, saying he come, let me hear her voice.' This struck me would go to sleep again, and my going would so, that I had not power to get up stairs, but only hinder it. So I sent her with a message had to be helped up by two. On seeing me, to him, and went to rest. Thinking from the the fever having taken to his head, he in a man-description she gave he was recovering, I lay ner sprang up as if he would come out of the late in the morning. When I went down I bed, saying, Let me embrace thee, my dear, saw a great change, and sadness upon every before I die. I am going to thy God and my face about him, which stunned me. He spoke God.' I found most of his officers about the affectionately to me, with several serious and bed attending on him, with signification of great weighty expressions. At last he said, 'Come, sorrow for the condition he was in, they greatly my dear, let me kiss thee before I die,' which loving him. The purple spots had come out on he did with that heartiness as if he would have him the day before, and now were struck in, left his breath in me. 'Come once more,' and the fever had got to his head, which caused said he, 'let me kiss thee, and take my leave,' him to be in bed, they not having before been which he did as before, saying, 'No more now. able to persuade him to go to bed, though his No more ever.' He then fell into a great illness had been for five days before the spots | agony, and that was a dreadful sight to me. came out. Seeing the danger of his condition, "The doctor and my husband's chaplain, and and that so many Kentish men, both command- some of the chief officers who were by, observing ers and others, had died of it in a week's time his condition, they concluded that they must near his quarters, they entreated him to keep either persuade me, or take me by force from his chamber. But such was the activeness of the bed; his great love for me, they said, and his spirit, and the stoutness of his heart, that his beholding me there, being the occasion of it. they could not get him to yield to the illness so Upon which they came and asked me to go as to stay within, till they covenanted with him from the bedside to the fire; that while I staid that he might shoot birds with his crossbow out where I was he could not die. This word die of the window; and he did do it till the spots was so great with horror, that I, like an astonwent in, and the fever got to his head. He then ished, amazed creature, stamped with my foot, became so violent, being young and strong, and cried, Die! die! must he die? I cannot that they were forced to sit round the bed to go from him.' Upon this two of them gently keep him in. To my doctor, whom I brought lifted me in their arms, and carrying me to the down with me, he spoke seriously about dying, fire, which was at a distance from the bed, and to me most affectionately. To the officers they prevented me from going to him again. who were around the bed striving to keep him At that time I wept not, but stood silent and in, he spoke no evil words; but wittily re-struck. After I was brought from the bed he marked to the marshal and others about keeping lay for a time very still; at length they said up a strict watch, or their prisoner would es- his sight was gone, and then they let me go to cape, and how they were to repair the breach him. And standing there by his bedside I when he thrust his limbs from under the clothes. I saw on him the most amiable, pleasant coun 6 tenance I ever beheld-just like that of a person ravished with something he was looking at. He lay about an hour in this condition. Towards sunset he turned quietly about, and called upon a kinsman of his, Anthony, come quickly,' at which very instant Anthony came riding into the yard, having come many miles to see him. Soon after this he died, and then I could weep; but, fearing injurious consequences, they immediately took me up into an other chamber, and suffered me no more to look at him." Sir William Springett's remains were next morning taken privately by his officers and soldiers to Ringmer, and there deposited in the family vault where several of his ancestors lay, intending that a public funeral should follow as soon as arrangements could be made for it in London. But those who had the management of his pecuniary affairs, discovering that he had expended so much of his own private property that was not likely to be refunded, in equip ping, maintaining and paying the soldiers, declared against it. In Ringmer church a handsome mural monument was erected to his memory, which is still in perfect preservation. (To be continued.) From "The Silent Pastor." Lift up thyself, O mourning soul; lift up thyself; raise thine eyes that are wet with tears! Why are thine eyes wet with tears? Why are they bent continually upon the earth? And why dost thou go continually as one forsaken of thy God? Oh thou that toilest ever and restest not; thou that wishest ever, and art not satisfied; thou that carest ever, and art not stablished; why dost thou toil and wish? Why is thine heart withered with care, and why are thine eyes sunk with watching? Rest quietly on thy couch, steep thine eyelids in sleep, wrap thyself in sleep as in a garment, for He carest for thee; He is with thee, He is about thee, He compasseth thee on every side. The voice of thy Shepherd among the rocks. He calleth thee; He beareth thee tenderly in His arms; He suffereth thee not to stray. Thy soul is precious in His sight, O child of many hopes! For He carest for thee in the things which perish; and He hath provided yet better things than those. Raise thyself, O beloved soul! Turn thine eyes from pain and care and sin; turn them to the brightness of the heavens, and contemplate thine inheritance, for thy birthright is in the skies, and thy inheritance amongst the stars of light. The herds of the pasture sicken and die; they lie down among the clods of the valley; the foot passeth over them; they are no more, But it is not so with thee, for the Almighty is the Father of thy spirit, and he Hath given thee a portion of His own immortality. Look around thee, and behold the earth, for it is the gift of the Father to thee, and to thy sons, that they should possess it. Out of the ground cometh forth food; the hills are covered with fresh shade; and the animals, thy subjects, sport among the trees. Delight thyself in them, for they are good; and all that thou seest is thine. But nothing that thou seest is like unto thyself; thou art not of them, nor shalt thou return to them. Thou hast a mighty void which they cannot fill; thou hast an immortal hunger which they cannot satisfy; they are not worthy that they should occupy thee. As the fire, which, while it resteth on the hearth, yet sendeth forth sparks continually toward heaven, so do thou from amid the world send up fervent thoughts to God. As the lark, though her nest is on the ground, as soon as she becometh fledged, poiseth her wings, and finding them strong enough to bear her through the light air, springeth up aloft, singing as she soars, so let thy desires mount swiftly upwards, and thou shalt see the world beneath thy feet. Be not overwhelmed with many thoughts. Heaven is thine and God is thine, and thou shalt be blessed with everlasting salvation and peace upon thy head for evermore. SOCIAL READINGS. To the Editors.--The "Friends' Social Reading Circle of Poughkeepsic," is again holding its regular semi-monthly meetings, which were omitted during the summer. These pleasant gatherings were inaugurated last winter at the suggestion of G. T., when on a visit to Poughkeepsie, and for this kindness we feel greatly indebted to him, deriving, as we have, so much of profit, as well as entertainment and pleasure from them. The few meetings already held during the present season, have been very well attended; and, in addition to the regular reading exercises, several original communications have been read; these articles have added greatly to the interest of the meetings, and, as we trus', manifest an earnest desire that they shall become indeed a source of real improvement, moral, intellectual and social. I enclose one of these communications, which was read at the regular meeting on the 13th, feeling that you might perhaps deem it worthy of a place in your columns. From our experience here at Poughkeepsie, I have felt impelled to suggest the propriety of your calling the attention of Friends throughout |