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Y- • - ■I. PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1880. rx—r.^x Joseph Cook On Reading. Personally, I have learned to rely on the margins of the books that I read as being themselves the best note books. Of course I am speaking now only of the volumes which are my own properly. These I am perhaps scan dalously free in marking, and so every ordinary volume that I have in my library becomes a note-book. If one indicates the important and more im portant and most important passages in a book, even if it be by one or two or three lines in the margin, and if one then makes it an inflexible rule to commit to memory from every one of the volumes thus marked all the three line passages, he will very soon find that his annotated volumes are in his head. In committing to memory the three line passages, I should ad vise evrey one, as I do myself, to oblige himself to review and pretty nearly commit to memory the two line and the one line passages. These may net be numerous in some volumes, and yet in works that are only to be read with the fingers are worth memorizing. * ii 4 It is said that Carlyle reads on the average, a dozen books a day. Of course he examines them chiefly with his fingers, and after long practice, is able to find at once the jugular vein and carotid artery of any author. John Quincy Adams was said to have “ a carniverous instinct for the jugu larvein ” of an argument. In discus sing the secret of memory, we first have interist inducing attention, and then the skill given by experience in ' finding the jugular vein. My habit is to mark on the inner margin all the passages with which I disagree, and thus many volumes which I am_„ob- liged to read, are transformed into thorn-bushes full of spurs to debate. The shelf of my library on which I have collected the chief infidel writer’ works of thé last hundred years, hold« volumes plentifully marked in this way. The three line passages I have committed to memory as being enor mous and most mischievous errors. This plan of marking volumes can be made very elaborate, and every reader must invent his marks for himself. My enthusiasm led me to have alto gether too elaborate a system of mark ing. But at present I am convinced that for myself I need only six marks —those for important, wore impor tant, and most important passages, which I mark on the outside margin ; and those for error, and more and most important errors, which I mark on the inside. I turn down the leaf at the top of the page for the first-class passages that are to be memorized, and at the bottom for the second-rate passages. Standard books I like to buy in portable and compact and yet cheap editions, on which I can use a pencil without sacrilege. I always go through the book, fastening in mind the places marked, when I have finished the first journey, A word now as to note books, and volumes that you do not own. Of course a borrowed book cannot be marked, and probably in that -case Channing’s method is the best one to read with «lips of paper between the leaves. In his pigeon holes these slips of paper, on which he made notes as he read, were arranged according to the subjects, and as they accumulated from year to year ; and when ho was engaged upon any particular topic, they accumulated with great rapidity. I am obliged to read extensively in li branes not my own, and my plan is to make notes on common paper with a margin turned down at the left hand side. I never put more than one sub ject on one piece of paper ; and every week or fortnight the slips thus eb- tained are filed or pinned together ac cording to the subjects, thus my note book thickens ; but if convenience re quires, can be unstitched and rear ranged. It appears to me to be fool ishness to keep ordinary note-books in thick, bound manuscript volumes which cannot be taken before a pub lie assembly, er used in separate parts. I am obliged to carry note-book«, with me on the railways, and am il- ways provided with the simplest kind of note paper. Of course these leaves can be easly put into the form of note-books, which can be rearranged if necessary ; and I find it best never to bind them, I wish often to unbind them. A passage which I think I -shall quote in print from any book, I am accustomed to write lengthwise of the paper—that is, from the bottom te the top ; a passage I think I shall not quote, I writs the other way. All slips written from the bottom to top are first-class matter ; and I can easi ly take them out of my note-books, and put them into manuscripts intend ed forth# press. I am obliged to do this sometimes in great haste, and find it important to have my' note-books unbound. If I had to keep notes, in bound volumes, the infelicity of tearing out leaves would be unavoida ble, as there would be no time for copying.— Christian Unian. Rose Management. A very successful rose grower sends to a friend the folloing account of his style of managing the rose. The friend say? his plants are one mass of bloom from November till late Bpring. - His method is as follows : • “ Yeu ask me how I manage my roses to have bloom in early spring. I prefer two year old plants, but use good, strong one year old ones, if com pelled to do so. I plant my roses out in the garden in the spuing and don’t allow them to bloom during the sum- mer. About the last week in August or the first of September, take them up with all the soil that will hang to them, pot and place in a very shady place for about two weeks out of doors, watering and sprinkling all the time. I now expose them to the sun, until the foliage falls off. All this time they will be making new roots and the tops will be at rest. When the leaves have fallen, prune them. Cut back the young growth a little and then cut out the center. Place them in the greenhouse. I would place the plants in the middle of house, but if they are on benches over the pipes, put two inches or more of sand under the pets, Do not attempt to force them too much, but give all the air possible in the daytime. Great care should be taken not to sour the Boil; syringe often. Soil is Very important. If it be possible, get a lot of sods from the cow pasture, three or four inches thick, put them in a heap and add to them as one to four of cow and horse ma- nure; turn this compgst over three or times during the summer breaking up the sod each time. I never screen my soil for roses, nor do I use drainage in the bottom of my pots, but simply the old fibrous roots that I find in the soil at the time of potting. Turn out all of your roM as early in the spring as possible, prune off the long roots and follow directions as above given, and I will ensure you abundance of flow ers from November until March. I prefer to have my roses too dry rather than too wet.”— Gardener's Monthly. P opulation of G reece .—If increase of population, always and under all circum stances, can be taken as a proof of increas ing prosperity, the Kingdom oi Greece Las, since its liberation from the Turkish yoke, entered with prodigious speed on its career of development. According to a report recently published by the Statistic al Bureau io Athens, the population of the country numbered 650,000 in 1833 ; 1,457,- 896 in 1869; and 1,900.000 in 1879 ; that is, it has Been treblod in less than fifty ye«T». In 1868, th« Ionian Islands, with 240,000 inhabitant«, were incorporated with the Kingdom, but with th« exception of thia on« mechanical addition to the population the inereaee i« de« to »he vitality of the nation. Other figure« from the aame re port also ahow the vigor of the devtlop- ment. Athena had ¡only 12,000 inhabitanta in 1883 ; it has now 80,000. Patras, t»>e principal city of the Peloponneeus, had only 8000; it has now 34,200 ; and Piraeus, which has now 21,600 inhabitant«, did not exist at all iu l°3d. My Rosary. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS ■■11» only fTricti who owns the day.“— Emerson. So I am rioh, for my days go by Like the beads of a royal rosary— This one amber, and that one gold, Slipping away as the prayer is told. Here a carving of somber jet, Making its comrades fairer yet; There an opal, flashing dim, Set in a tarnished silver rim. Flame of topaz and gleam of pearl— How they shimmer, and burn, and, whirl f Sliding adown the aiJken thread, Till, all the Avee at last are said. The summer come« and the spring-tide goes . - With perfect bloom and the summer’« rose; The season« shift, with rain and shine— But, dark or bright, the days are mine. And when my fingers have loosed their hold On these glanoing knots, of amber and gold, I gather them up like a pious nun Whose ended duty is'just began. 4 And I read th >ir story over again— The daily trifles of joy and pain, Furnishing np each treasure-trove— This one Vanity, that one Love. How do I know that the days are mipe ? How do I know that the rain and shine Mean what they ought ? that I truly hold The very heat of the amber and gold ? It is so easy to laugh and say "The day« are mine,” as they slip away ; But out of their»fullneas, I know too well, I have lost—ah ! what, I scarce oan tell. They held so much, and I let it go ; They were so bright, and I lost the glow— Always something slips away With each precious bead of my rosary. —K atb M. B ishop , in The Californian. Beyond. Never a word is said* Bat it tremble« in the airl* And the truant voice has b To vibrate everywhere,' And perhaps far off in eternal years Thqecho may ring upon onr ears. Never are kind acts done To “wipe the weeping eyes, . But like flashes of the Sun, They signal to the skies; And up above the angels read How we have helped the sorer need. Never a day is given, But it tones the after years, And it carries up to ■ heaven Its sunshine or its tears: While the to-morrows stand and wait, The silent mutes by the outer gate. There is no end to the sky, And stars are everywhere. And time is eternity. And the here is over there; For the common deeps of the common day, Are ringing bells in the far-away, —H enry B urton , in Sunday Magazine. . There is no valid excuse for juvenile smoking. A man pleads habit, the sooth ing eff. eta of tobacco, and so on. But a boy smokes beoaase he sees others do so, and because be looks upon smoking as a manly practice. He knows that it doee him no good; indeed, in the majority of. cases boys know that their first attempts at smoking made them very ill, and the tolerance of the effects of tobacco was ob tained only after long practice and many disagreeable sensations. The mental power of many a boy is certainly weakened by tobacco smoking. The brain under its influence can do less work, and the dreamy feelings which is produced tends directly to idleness. For all reasons it is desirable that onr rising generation should be ab stainers from tobacco.— Doubt in University Magazine. King of the Blood Cares all Serofulous affections and disorders result ing from Impurity of the blood. It is need leas to specify aM, as the sufferer san usually perceive their cause, but Sail /¿A fwm , Pimpla, ubtrt, Tunhcrt, GoUrt, N unitingt, Ao., are the moat common, as well as many affections of the Z/eoH, Z/«ad, ¿t«cr and JtomocA. SCROFULA. Wonderful Cur« of Bllndneu. D. 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