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SURGEON, Office—Blackley9a Building, Main St., - 111 ESPECTIRII LY annoutwes to the citizens of IX Waynesburg alla vicicity that he has returned from the Hospital Corps of tit Army and resumed the prac tice of tnedicine tit this place . Waynesburg, June 11, 1:162.-13 . DR. D. W. BRADEN, rhYSician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Bank Wilding. Main street. Sept 11, 1861—Iv. DR. A. G. GROSS W 001.1) very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND 'SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of illllll3ll life and health. and strict attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. EGGY 11ESPEuTFuLLY offers his services to the citizens ft, of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and Surgeon. °thee opposite the Rep iblicau office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of htnuan the and health. so native medication, and strict attention to business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. April (I. 1%412. ----------- DR. T. P. - 11.11.1.2=013. PRAG . TICING PHYSICIAN. Utßcein the old Roberts , Hundotg, Opposite Hoek Store. Waynesburg. - Jan. I. 1961. . DRUGS NI. A. HARVEY, Draizist aftd Apothecary. and dealer in Paints and Mils. the ino,t reli-prated Patent Medicines, anti Vitro Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11. _ MERCHANTS. WM. A. PORTER, Whoissalt and Retail Ilealet itt Foreign and Domes tic Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, gr.c., Main strent. Sept. U. 1661 —ly. ANDREW WILS.)N, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Daraware, Citneensware, Stoneware. Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Boots and Shoes. lilt.: and Caps, Main street. one east of the Old Bank. Sept. I I. R. CLARK, pester in I) , y florts, Groceries, Ilardware, Queens ware and notions, in the !familia,' Muse, opposite. the Court lieuse. Maio street. Sept. 11, IS6I-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foroign anti Domestic Dry Goods. Gro reriev. (Dieensivare, Ilarilware anti Notions, opposite the Green Douse. Mait, stroet. Sept. I I, CLOTHING. N. CLARK, Dealer in Men's a I owes. S.:villas, 11am and Caps, &C., Main str,o, op. pagite dhe_T'n•trt House. Sept. 11, 1861-Ip. A. J. SOWERS, Dealer is Men's mid Iteys' Clothing, Gentlemen's Fur nishing Goods, Monts and Shoes, Hats and Caps. Old dank Ritiidi ug, Malii street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 in BOOT AND - SHOE DEALERS. J.ll. COSGRAY, l im n and Shoe flak. Main street. anarly opposite tite "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style o. Boots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order Sept. 11, ISSI-Iy. S. 11. McClellan Hoot and Shoe outlier, Ellachley• Corner, Main street. (w o r n and stifles or every variety always on hand or made to order on short notice) Sept. 11, IStil—ly. GROCERIES & VARIETIES JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groreries end Confectioneries. Notions, Medic Ical. l'erthineries, Liverpool Ware. kr., Glass of all . 7 S . . 41 Gilt Mout ling and Looking Glass elates. j Cash paid fir good eating A pp!es. Sept. 11, 1,,61-Iy. .101-IN MUNNELL, Deal,-r 14 Grorenes and Confectionaries and Variety OnAbt NVilson•s Ni w Building. Main street. Sept 11. 1861-Iy. BOORS, &c. 4NA& WI" Dealers& Miteell4itecia Strii Stafoo try, I. Nasasioes aad Papers, Orre 4 dder etifirC of Porter's Store, Main Street. ilept:l4 1861 ly. AMERICA AS THE GRANARY OF THE The following extract is from Mr. Trollope's recent travels in the Ur. ited States: • I was at Chicago and at Buffalo in October, 1861. I went down to the granaries and climbed up into the el evators. I saw the wheat running in rivers from one vessel to another, and from the raimroad vans up into the huge bins on the top stories of the warehouses; for the rivers of food run up hill as easily as they do down. I saw the corn measure 'by the forty bushel measure with as much ease as we measure an ounce of cheese, and with greater rapidity. I ascertained that the work went on, week day and Sunday, day and night inces santly; rivers of wheat and rivers of maize ever running. I saw men bath ed in corn as they distributed it in its flow. I saw bins by the score laden with wheat, in each of which bins there was space for a comfortable residence. I breathed the flour, and drank the flour, and felt myself to be enveloped in a world of breadstuff. And then I believed, understood, and brought it home to myself as a fact, that here in the corn lands of Michi gan, and amid the bluffs of NV iseon sin and on time high table plains 'of Minnesota, and the prairies of Illinois, had God prepared the food for the in creasing millions of the Eastern world, as also for the coming millions of the Western. I began then to know what it was for a country to overflow with milk and honey. to burst with its fruits, and be „smother ed by its own riches.• From St. Paul down the Mississippi by the shores of Wisconsin and lowa—by the ports of Lake Pepin—hy La Crosse, from which one railway runs Eastward— by Prairie du Chien, the terimus of a second—by Dunleith, Fulton, and _Rock Island, from whence three oth er lines run Eastward, all through that wonderful State of Illinois—the farmer's glory—along the ports of the great Lakes, through Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and further Pennsylva nia, up to Buffalo, the great gate of the Western Cercs 7 the loud cry was this—"llow shall we rid ourselves of our corn and wheat rThe result has been the passage of 60,000.000 bushels of breadstuff's through that gate in one year! Let those who•are susceptible of statistics ponder that. For them who are not, I only can give this advice: Let them go to Buffalo next October and look for t h emselves. Wm. C. LiNnsEv Some interesting statistic:4 were given at th emeeting of the Academy o f Seie,nees, in Paris. by 1)1.. Bro chard, in relation to a matter whieli is now occupyin(r b a good deal of at tention among the medical fraternity —the result of consanguineous inter marriages. Dr. Brochard states that (luring the last fifteen years in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of No gentle Rotrou, out of fifty-tire chil dren born deaf and dumb who were an in it t ed, fifteen were from first cousins and one of parents issued from first cousins.' At La Fcrt Mes nard, the Department of the Sarthe, he mentions a family of eight chil dren born of first cousins, four of whom were born deaf and dumb ; Ind this family the singular fact oc curs that the birth of each deaf and dumb child was followed regularly by that of one possessing all the fac ulties This last mentioned family is very poor , but out of the other fifteen eases, eleven belonged to wealthy people, and four to-day‘ la borers in ordinary circumstances.— Two of the fifteen are only children. One, a very intelligent girl, is also af flicted with hermeralepia, or blind ness after sunset. The others have brothers and sisters who hear and speak perfectly well, except one.— the sister is deaf, and another whose brother was born deaf and dumb.— In all the eases the parents are well constituted, and nothing hut the cir cumstance of consanguinity can have led to the Imperfect organiza tion of the children. Cornbiniug these results with those previously presented to the- Academy- by Dr. Bondin,li appears that in marriages . within the limits of 'consanguinity the birthsofdeaf and dumb children are in the proportion of 25 to 30 per cent. A frightful warning to young ladies and gentlemen who have any regard for theincosterity not to fall in love with their cousins. The Emperor of the French having found that the students in the colleges of France who smoke are decidedly inferior in their scholastic attainments to the non. smokers, he has prohilited this injurious habit iu the colleges. It is said that the Emperor put out 'thirty, pipes in one day Would it not be a good thing for tits ris ing generation of America, if some power could . put out all the cigars which Ameri can boys are in the habit of puffing ? Boys be emperors overyourselves, and Put out the cigars I, Let us declare war against tobacco! Let. our war-cry from Baffin's Bay to the Gulf of Mexico be, Awa,y,wit,h_ tobacco! Away with tobacco! Ststillautkao. WORLD. MARRYING COUSINS SMOKING WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1862. !ANECDOTE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. Frederick the Great, king of Prus sia, having rung his bell one day, and nobody answering, opened the door where his page was usually in wait ing, and fOund hint asleep on a sofa. 2. He was going to awake him, when he perceived the end of a bil let or letter hanging out of his pock et. ilaving the curiosity to know its contents, he took and read it, and f'ound it was a letter from his moth er, thanking him for having sent her a part of his wages to assist her in her distress, and concluding with be seeching God to . bless him for his fil ial attention to her wants. 3. The king returned softly to his room, took a purse ofdueats, and slid them with the letter into the page's pocket. Returning to his apartment, he rung so violently that the page awoke, opened the door, and entered. I. 'You have slept well," said the king. The page made an apology, and. in his embarrassment, happen ed to put his hand into his pocket, and felt with astonishment the purse. Ife drew it out, turned pale, and looking at the king. burst into tears, without being able to speak a word. 5. *What is the matter asked the king; -what ails you ?" "Ah, sir," said the young man, throwing himself at his feet, somebody has wished to ruin me. l know not how I Caine by this money in my pocket." U. "312,- friend," said Frederick, "God often sends us good in cur sleep. Give the money to your moth er; salute her in my name, and as sure her that I shall take care of h e r and you " 7. This story furnishes an excel lent instance of the gratitude and duty which children owe to their aged, infirm, or unfortunate parents. S. And, if the children of such par ents will follow the example of' Fred erick's servant, though they may not meet with the reward that was con ferred on him, they shall be amply recompensed by the pleasing testi mony of their own minds, and by that God who approves, as he has commanded, every expression of filial love. A Good Resol7e. The following incident, which is one among many of a similar charac ter connected with the present war, is found in a late-Weekly Express" of Lancaster, Pa. "A pleasing and significant iuci dent took place last night in camp which illustrates the character of a majority of the men in the new regi ment, and especially of the emnpany more especially the subject of this no tice. About If) o'clock. Capt. lienues was awaked by sonic of his men. and getting up, found his entire company drawn up in front of his marquee. Upon inquiring what such an units ant movement meant, lie was intOrm eel that each member had formed a solemn resolution not to drink intox icating liquors, nor play a card. du ring their term of service, and they came to request their Captain to join in prayer with them that their re solves might he stronghened. Capt. Denues, who is noted as a humble and sincere Christian, offered up a most fervent prayer, which gained greater solemnity from the peculiar ly impressive circumstances sur roundint him. A gentleman who was present, a man of practical piety assures us that he never witnessed a more impressive and affecting scene, many of the men being melted to tears. May we not hope that that prayer will be blessed of God to the soul of those brave Men. Washing ton was a man of prayer, and in this Capt. Denues follows an illustrious military example. W ith such a spir it, and such a leader, we have little fear that these men will fall victims to the temptations of the camp, which have led so many young men astray. RELAXATION ESSENTIAL TO PHYS ICAL DEVELOPMENT. Sir Benjamin Brodie thus expresses his opinion on the subject:—" It is only a limited extent that the occupation of chil dren can be advantageously combined with bodily labor. Even in the case of grown up persons, some intervals of lei sure and necessary to keep the mind in a healthful are vigorous state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men and women, require the habit of thought and reflection, and of forming their own conclusions, inde pendently of what they are taught and the authority of others. In young per sons, it is not the mind only that suffers from too large a demand being made on it for the purpose of study. Relaxation and cheerful occupation are essential to the proper development of the corporeal structure and faculties; and the want of them operates like an unwholesome at mosphere, or defective nourishment, in producing the lasting. evils of defective health and a stunted growth, with all the secondary evils to which they lead." Writ is better to consider our own fhil ings, before we censure those of others. AN EASTERN FABLE. Abdallah sat at his morning meal, when there alighted on the rim of his goblet a little fly. It sipped an atom of sirup, and was gone. But it came next morning, and the next, and the next again, till at last the scholar noticed it. Not quite a com mon fly, it seemed to know that it was beautiful, and it soon grew very bold. 2. And lo! a great wonder: it be came daily larger and yet larger, till there could he discerned, in the size, as of a locust, the appearance of a man. From a handbreath, it reach ed the stature of a cubit ; and still so winning were its ways, that it fbund more and more favor with this son of infatuation. It frisked like a satyr, and it sang like a peri, and like a moth of the evening it danced on the ceiling, and, like the king's gift, whithersoever it turned, it prospered. • 3. The eyes of the simple one were blinded, so that he could not, in all this, perceive the subtlety of an evil genius. Therefore the lying spirit waxed bolder and yet bolder, and whatsoever his soul desired of dainty meats, he freely took ; and when the scholar waxed wroth. and said, "This is my daily portion from the table of the mufti—there is not enough f.r thee and me." the dog-faced deceiver played some pleasant 'trick, and caused the silly one to smile; until, in process of time, the scholar per ceived that, as his guest grew strong er and stronger, he himself waxed weaker and weaker. 4. Now, also, there arose frequent strife betwixt the demon and his dupe, and at last the youth smote the fiend so sore that he departed for a season. And when he was gone, Alnlallah rejoiced, and said, -I have triumphed over mine enemy, and \Vhat,SOCVer time it pleaseth me, I shall smite him so that he die. Is he not altogether in mine own power?" 5. But after not many days, the tempter came back again ; and this time he was arrayed in goodly gar ments, and he brought a present in his hand, and he spake of the days of their friendship, and he looked so mild and feeble, that his smooth words wrought upon this dove with out a heart, and saying. "Is he not a little one ?'' he received him again into his chamber. 6. On the morrow, when Abilallah came not into the assembly of studi ous youth. the mufti said, "Where fore tarriest the son of Abdul ? Per chance he sleopeth." Therefore they repaired even to his chamber; but to their knocking he made no answer. Wherefore the mufti opened the door. and, lo: there lay on the divan the dead body of his disciple. 7. His visage was black and swol len, and on his throat was the pres sure of a finger broader than the palm of a mighty man. All the stuff. the and the changes of a rai ment belonging to the hapless one , vere golie, and in the soft earth of the garden were seen the footsteps of a giant. The mufti measured one of the prints, awl behold! it was six cubits long. S. Reader, canst thou expound the riddle? Is it the bottle or the bet ting-book ? Is it the billiard-table or the theatre ? Is it smoking? Is it laziness? Is it novel-reading? But know that an evil habit is an elf con stantly expanding. It may come in at the keyhole, but it will soon grow too big for the house. Know, also, that no evil habit can take the life of your soul, unless you yourself 110111'- i:4l it and cherish it. and by feeding it with your own vitality, give it .a strength greater than your own. -- Rome Journal. An Incident.--`The Star-Spangled Banner! On the evening when the band of the Twenty-firth Indiana were serenading Col. Hillyer and lady at Memphis, Tenn., it happened that the wife and daughter of a distinguished Kentucky nietnber of Con gress were on a visit to Mrs. H. The daughter is the wife of a prominent officer in the rebel army, and one of the most beautiful and accomplished ladies of the South. She had just arrived from Missis sippi, and was on her way to her child hood's home in Kentucky, having accom panied her husband hitherto through the war. On the occasion we referred .to, the band first played some operatic piece.— Then there was a pause—then the "Star- Spangled Banner." When the first strain of the gram! old American "Marsellaise" filled the air, the rebel officer's wife invol untarily clasped her hands together and burst into tears, exclaiming,—"Oh, that dear, dear old tune! I have not heard it for so long a time, I feel like a wanderer come home again." The effect on those present can be imagined. . Stopping. Newspapers. A certain man hit his toe against a pebble stone and fell headlong to the ground. lie was vexed ; under the influence of angerand ac ti ve se lf_ saliency, he kicked the old mother earth right saucily. With imTurtur bahle gravity, lie looked to see the globe itself dissolved, and only his poor toe was injured in the .encoun ter. This is the way of man.. An article in thy: newspaper touches him 'in a weak place, atbd straightwny he sends word to stop his paper. With great self-complaeenty he looks on to see a crash, when the object of his spleen shall cease to be. A SAVAGE COMBAT--A FIGHT BE TWEEN A CALIFORNIA BULL AND A GRIZZLY BEAR. A fine young Bull had descended to the bed of the creek in search of a water hole. While pushing his way through the bushes, he was suddenly attacked by a grizzly bear. The strup•gle was terrific. I could see the tops ul the bushes sway violently to and fro, and hear the heavy crash of driftwood as the two powerful ani mals writhed in the fierce embrace. A cloud of dust rose from the spot. It was not distant. over a hundred yards from the tree in which I had taken refuge. Scarcely two minutes elapsed before the bull broke through the bushes. His head was covered with blood, and great flakes of flesh hung from his fore shoulders; but in stead of manifesting signs of defeat, he seemed literally to glow with de fiant rage. Instinct had sought him to seek an open space. A more splendid specimen of an animal I never saw; lithe and wiry, yet won derth Ily massive about the shoulders, combining the rarest qualities of strength and symmetry. Fur a mo ment lie stood glaring at the bushes, his head erect, his eyes flashing, his nostrils distended. and his whole form fixed and rigid. But scarcely had I time to glancc at him when a huge hear, the lar, ,, :est and most for midable I ever saw in their wild state, broke tlit,inh the opening. A trial of brute foree that bullies description now ensued. Badly as I had been treated by the cattle, my sympathies were in favor of the bull, which s. , emed to me to be much the nobler animal of the two. He did not wait to meet Iluo charge, but, low ering his hcad. laddly rushed upon his savage ad versary. The grizzly was active and \vary. No sooner had he got within reach of the bull's horns, than he seized them in his pt)werful grasp, keeping, his head to the ground by main strength and the weight of his body, while he bit at the nose with his teeth, and raked strips of flesh from his shoulders with his paws. The two animals must have been of nearly equal weight.— On the one side there was the ad vantage of superior agility and two sets of weapons—the teeth and claws ; But on the other, greater power of endurance and more inflex ible courage. The position thus as sumed was maintained for some time—t he bull struggling desperately to free his head, while the blood streamed from his nostrils—the bear straining, every muscle to drag him to the ground. No advantage seem ed to be gained on either side. The result of the battle evidently depend ed on the merest accident. As if by mutual consent, each gradually ceased struggling, to re gain his breath, and as much as five minutes must have elapsed, while they were locked in this motionless but terrible embrace. Suddenly the bull. by one desperate effort, wrench ec his head from the grasp of his ad versary, and retreated a few steps.— The hear stood up to receive him.— I now watched with breathless inter est, for irwas evident that each ani mal had staked his life upon the con flict. The cattle upon the surround ing plain had crowded in, and stood moaning and bellowing around the combatants. but, as if withheld by terror, none seemed to interfere.— Rendered furicus by his wounds, the hull now gathered up all his energies : and charged with such im pet ious force and ferocity, that the bear, de spite the most terrific blows with his paws, rolled over in the dust, vainly struggling to defend himself. The •lunges and thrusts of the former were perfectly furious. At length by a sudden and well directed blow of the head, he got one of his horns under the bear's belly, and gave it a rip that brought out a clottled mass of ] entrails. It was apparent that the battle must soon end. Both were grievously wounde I, and neither could hold out much longer. The ground was torn up and covered with blood for some distance around, and the panting of the struggling animals became each moment heavier and quicker. Maimed and gory, they fought with the certainty of death— the bear rolling over and over, vainly striking out to avoid the fatal horns of his adversary—the bull riping, thrusting and tearing with irresista ble ferocity. At last, as if determined to end the conflict, the bull drew back, low ered his head, and . made one tremen dous charge ; but, blinded by the blood that trickled down his forehead, he missed his mark and rolled head long on the ground. In an instant the bear whirled and was upon him. thoroughly invigorated by the pros pect of a speedy victory, he tore the flesh in huge masses from the ribs of his prostrate tbe. The two rolled over and over in the terrible death struggle ; nothing was now to be seen save a heaving, gory mass, dimly perceptible through the dust. A few minutes would certainly have terminated the bloody strife so far as my favorite was concerned, when to my astonishment; I saw the bear relax his efforts, "roll over from the body of his postrate foe, and drag himselffeeblfa fbitr . ` yards troni the ; spot. Ibis entrails burst entirely through the wound in his belly. The next moment the bull was on his legs, erect and fierce as ever. Shaking the blood from his eyes, he looked ' around, and seeing the reeking mass before him, lowered his head for the final and most desperate struggle that ensued, both animals seeming ! animated by supernatural strength. The grizzly struck out wildly, but with such destructive energy, that the bull, upon drawing back his head, presented a horrible and ghast ly spectacle; his tongue a mangled mass - of shreds, banging from Lis mouth, his eyes torn completely from their sockets, and his face strip ped to the bone. On the other hand, the bear was ripped complete ly open, and writhing in his last ag onies. Here it was that indomitable courage prevailed; for blinded and maimed as he was, the bull, after a momentary pause to regain his wind, dashed wildly at his adversary again, determined to be victorious even in death. A terrific oar es,:ap ed from the dying grizzly. With a last frantic effort he sought to make his escape, scrambling over and over in the dust; but his strength was gone. A few more thrusts from the savage victor and he lay stretch ed upon the sand, his muscles quiver ing convulsively, his huge body a re sistless mass. A clutching motion of the, claws, a groan, a gurgle of the throat. and he was dead. The buil now raised his bloody crest, uttered a deep bellowing sound, shook his horns triumphantly, and slowly walking off, not, however, without turning every few steps to renew the battle if necessary. But his last battle was fought. As the blood streamed from his wounds, a death chill came over him. He stood for some time unyielding to the last, bracing himself up, his legs apart, his head gallantly dropping; then dropped on his fore knees and ex pired. THE HORROR OF DEBT. Shake hands, brave young friend; we are agreed. You consent to have a horror of debt. You will abstain, you willl pinch, you will work hard er, and harder, and harder if need ful. You will not slink through the crowd as a debtor. Now comes the next danger. You will not incur debt for yonrself; but you have a friend. Pythias, your friend, your familiar—the man you like best and see most of—says to you, "Damon, be my security—your name to this bill !" Heaven forbid that I should cry out to Damon, "Pythias means to cheat thee—lie ware :" But I address to Damon this observation, "Pythias asks thee to guarantee that three, six, or twelve months hence he will pay to another man—say to Dionysus—so many -pounds sterling." Here your first duty as au honest man is not to Pythias but to Dionysus. Suppose some accident happen—one of those accidents which, however impossi ble it may seem to your Pythias, constantly happen to the Pythiases of other Damons who draw bills on the bank of Futurity; suppose that the smut or rain spoil the crops on which Pythias relies—or the car goes he expects from Marseilles, California, Utopia, go • down to the bottomless seas ; Dionysus must come upon you! Can you pay to Dionysus what you pledge yourself to pay in spite of those accidents? He thinks those accidents not only possible but probable, or he would not require your surety, nor charge 20 per cent fOr his loan ; and, there fore, since he clearly doubts Pythias, his real trust in you. Do you merit the trust ? Can you pay the merit if Pythias cannot ? and, allowing that you can pay the money, are your Obligations in life such as to warrant the sacrifice of Friendship ? if you cannot pay or if you owe it to others more sacred than Pythias himself—owe it to your parents, your plighted bride, or wed ded wife, or the children to whom what, before their birth, was your fortune, has become the trust money for their provision—not hazard for Pythias, that for which, if lost, not you alone., but others suffer—then do not common duty and common honesty forbid you say, "I am sure ty to Pythias for that which it be longs not to Pythias but to Chance to fu fil ?'' lam the last man to say, 'Do not . .keep your friend," if you honestly can, If we have manage money. we manage it ill when wk cannot help a friend at a pinch. But the plain fact is this, Pythias wants money. Ca-4 you give it, at whatev er stint to yourself, in justice to oth ers? U you can. and you value Py thias more than the money, give the money, and there is an end to it; but it you cannot give the money, don't sign the bill. Do 'not become what, in rude truth you do become, —a knave and a liar—if you guar antee to do what you know you can not do should the guarantee acted. lie is 'generous who giveS; ' he who lends May be generous al: so; but only on one ebndition,, viz : that he can afrord to lend; of the two, therefore, it is safer, friendlier, cheaper, in the; long run, to, give . 'than to lend. Give, and you 1114 keep your friend if not your mon- NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. I ey; lend, and the chances are, tL, you lose your fi iend if you ever back your money. But if you do lend, let it be wi the full conviction that the loan it gift, and count it among the rar favors of Providenec if you ever repaid. Lend to Pythias on the u derstamling, "This is a loan if y can ever repay me. I shall, how , er, make this provision against t chance of a quarrel between us, tb if you cannot repay me, it stands a gift." And whenever you lend let it money and not your name. Mow.. you can' get again, and if not, p_ can contrive to do without it; Dar_ once lost you cannot get again, r: if you can contrive to do with( it, you had better never have be:: born poverty is Nob?; without honor, wealth is a Pauper Is iL too : isvt•ry ~wring man no le::.." It VD 6w,to, reic..cil old cynic, no drop warm Hood in his veins, why sa:,L "Llfs• is a Loon without honor." But if a .I,w knock at your do ,r and show you a hill with your name as a promise to pay, and the bill Le dishonored, pray what becomes of your name ? "My name !" falters Damon; I am but a surety—go to Pythias." "Pythias has bolted !" Pay the bill, Damon; or good-bye to your honor. Having settled these essential pre liminaries-Ist, Never to borrow where there is a chance, however remote, that you may not be able to repay; 2d, Never lend when you are not prepared to give; 3d, Never guarantee for another what you can not fulfil if the other should fail ; you start in life with this great ad vantage— whatever you have, be it little or much, it is your own. Rich or poor, you start as a freeman, re solved to preserve, in your freedom ; the noblest condition of your being as a man. On the first rule of art of the man aging money, all preceptors must be agreed. It is told in the three words —"Horror of debt." Nurse, cherish, never cast away, the wholesome horror of DEBT.-- Personal liberty is the paromount es sential to human dignity and human happiness. Man hazardS the condi tion and Loses_ the virt - es.of frep man, in proportion as he ace - astern:es his thoughts to view, without anguiah and shame, his lapse into the bond age of debtor. Debt is to uen what the serpent is to the hird 77 :its eye fliseint.tes, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, itS jaw is the pitiless grave. If you - rnoelc qy illustration, if you sneer at the truth it embodies, give yourself no further trouble to learn how to manage your money. ==l SIR WALTER ' SCOTT. -Never, perhaps, in anyperiod of the "world's history," says It contem porary of Scott, "did literary talent receive a homage souniversalas that of Scott. His reputation was co-ex tensive, not only with the Eaglish language, but with the boundaries of civilization. In one year, too , his literary productions yielded him £15,000. The king conferred on him a baronetcy, and wherever he appeared, at home or abroad, he Wali the lion of the day. All the good things of life were his. His mansion at Abbotsford realized the highest conceptions of a poet's imagination,. and 'seemed like a poem instorte.'— His company, was of the most hon orable of the land, and his domestic enjoyments all that his heart could desire. Yet he was happy. Ambi tious to found a family, he got into debt, and in old age he was a ruined man. When about to leave.A.bbots ford tor the last time, he said : "When I think on what this place now is. with what it was not lotrg ago, I feel as if my heart Woukl break. Lonely, aged, deprived of .all my ;I,mily, I an impoverished. and em barrassed man." At another time he writes:."Death has closed the dark avenue of love and friendship. I look at them as through the grated door Cif a burial place filled with mon uments of those who once were dear to me, and with no other•wish than that it may open fer me at no dietant period." And again : 'Some new eb• jeet of complaint comes every mo ment. Sicknesses come thicker; friends are fewer and fewer. The recollection of youth, health, and powers of activity, neither improved , nor enjoyed, is a poor ground of com fort. The best is, the long halt will arrive at length, and-cloee . alo And the long rLarriie• . 7116tAirg before he died, Sir WalteiSdairgvi.. quested his 4upp,litgrAci - vvimetthili k tp his desk. iben::.put •4 pen4nto his fingers refused to do their (Am lent _tears rolloLdow.n. Wis.-cheeks. 'fake o tn 3 awn- • room," he sai;i; "there is no rest fOrSir Wal ter but ir his grave," A le* dare after this he died, , .realiziug, in refiak, eneo to all his fame, honor and re .gown, the truth of Solomon, "Vanity' ;of vanities, saith the preaeher4o vanity and vexation of spirit."—Rev, J. FL Wilson.
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