7 Ad # Ae gull 7 eit ved Pid TRI EET a 30 HH TRY. A804 ww iil CLD Aen, A COMMONS CASE. Pray thee tell me, Mr. phipter, What's an honest man do? All my neighbors, gil the winter, Wish to hear the wes flow you. But among us, (nearly twenty) & I alone your paper take, So anty Sure to fullow iv my wake. on « Tell me neighbor what the news 18,” that news day Tse p Every one desires to Know i Thinks I if a man refuses He perhaps might make ‘a foe. 3 So 1am compelld to Joan'it, Till it goes the usu: 1 round, Then when I, who really owh it, Wish to read it can’t be found, Tell me Mr. Printer, tell me; I'm compeli’d to ask of you, If you've any pity tell me, % What's an honest mun to do? CY. AON. {destroyed has always succeeded. Some Farmers here have made it a practice to begin guuing their potatoes, in this manner ear) y in Jan uary 3 and they put their sced-ends i sels or boxes, mingling a little loa 0 them to keep them from getting dy. In 1tids manner mare then two- thirds of the seed potatoes thus planted may be saved for family use, or for feeding out to the cattle, {&ec. and they wall continue more palatable aud profitable to the consumer. “The ciop to the farmer is more abun dan’, because ia cutting off the seclicuds; mn this manner, scarcely any of the fibres, or roots of the sced arc destroyed. It has been the common practice to cut the large 5 pieces, pay- ing no regard to which is the root, or secd- end, of Lhe potatoe ; and in this way many of the seeds, sprouts, or chits have been The wiiter of this tried the ex periment last year ; and he knew nothing of it himself before the end of April last, and has related its effects to. many farmers, ho laf. never heard it. before. : If any Lumers should be fearful of losing potatoes for planting in 4 or err em ———— © CRO nee The child trained up to the gallows, i Is any father so unanatural as to Aish have his son hanged, let him bring. him. Pp] jn idleness, without putting him ‘to any | am Let him particulayly insure him to snend the Lo d’s day i play and diversion instexd ol attending | to public worship ; and instead of instructing himon that day in the principles of the christian religion, let him rob a neighboring hen-roost , while the pro. prictor is gone to divine sorvice, Astonish- trade. Ire it is to see so many of our young people growing up wi ithout baie apprenticed to any business tor pro curing their futare live- tihood ! The Jews had a proverb. ¢ That whoever was not bred to a trade was bred Every Mussulman 1s ‘N for the gallows.” commanded by the the koran to learn some baudieralt or other; and to this precept even the the family of the grand Scigniox corfrm, so as to learn as much about th® mechanism of a watch, as to be able to take it in pieces,and to put it together again.a= Are christians the only people in the world who ave to live in idleness, when one of the decalogue is, to labor six days in’ the week ! and an spied apostle has com- manded us to work under ihe express pen- eating in defaults ¢ This we said he, « that if any one a 3 should not work neither should he ecat.”’— alty of not command you,” Train up a child,” says kine Solomon, « in should go, and when he is old Bat if you the way he he will not intend him for the gallaws train him up in depart from it.” the way Lie shold po, and before he is old y ) 3 he will probablybe hanged. ln the age of vanity, restrain him not from the follies and all aremen's of if, leo In the age properifor raing and instruction give him neither. nt Dram id POTATOES. fact not sufficiently known, that a ~ “a It is great proportion of the Potatoesseed is de- posited at one end, or side, and hardly any at that part which ‘while growing attaches it Ly the root to tie vines It is very easy to distinguish the root end, for we generally find a withered piece of the sced wil be found at the opposite end, of th gl rapt at that end. The sprout for the oo e long potatoes, or side of these more lobular, Ift degree, if we cut from the tire potatoe is of an oblong form intany seed =nd about 1-4