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Sept. 11. _
MERCHANTS.
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pagite dhe_T'n•trt House. Sept. 11, 1861-Ip.
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BOOT AND - SHOE DEALERS.
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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
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(w o r n and stifles or every variety always on hand or
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GROCERIES & VARIETIES
JOSEPH YATER,
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j Cash paid fir good eating A pp!es.
Sept. 11, 1,,61-Iy.
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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.