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AN ATTEENIAN STORY BY LORD MACAULAY.
The following stanzas, says the Guelph
Advertiser, were recited by Mr. Siddons in
the course of his lecture recently. They
are the composition of Macaulay, accord
ing to Mr. Siddons, having been copied
by him, while residing in Calcutta, from
an album in which they had been written
by their distinguished author. They have
never been published; in fact, never
known to exist, until Professor Siddons
brought them to light, and as a proof of
his gratitude to the citizens of Guelph, ho
left them a oopy.
In Athens, ere the sun of fame had set,
Midst pomp and show the gazing crowds
were met,
Intent forever upon something new,
The mimic wonders of the stage to view.
So where the wide extended circus spreads
In gathered ranks its seas of living beads,
Ranged in close order, rising row on row,
The void atena claims the space below.
The seats were filled, but ere the show
began
A stranger entered—'twas an aged man,
Awhile he sought a place with aspect
mild;
The polished young Athenians sat and
smiled.
Eyed hie confusion with a side-long glance,
But kept their seats, nor rose on his ad
vance.
Oh, for a burning blush of deeper hue,
To mark the shame of that self-glorious
crew 1
How poor the produce of fair learning's
tree
That bears no fruit of sweet humility ;
The growth of sciences and arts how vain
In hearts that feel not for another's pain.
Not so the Spartan youth, whose simple
school
Instilled the plain. but salutary rule
Of kindness, and whose honest souls pre-
ferred
Truth to display—performance to a word
These Spartan youths had their appointed
thane,
Apart from Atticue, distinguished race,
And rose with one accord, intent to prove
To honored age their duty and their love;
Nor did a Spartan youth his seat resume
Till the old man found due and fitting
room.
Then came the sentence of reproof and
• praise,
Stamped ntith the sternnessof the ancient
days,
For, standing full amid the arisemilled
crowd,
The venerable stranger cried aloud :
"The Athenians %ern their•duty well, but
lo 1
The Spartans practice what the Athenians
know."
The words were good and in a virtuous
cause, •
They justly earned a nation's glad ap
plause ;
But we have surer words of precept given
In God's own book, the words that came
from heaven
"Be kind, be courteous, bp all honor
shown,"
"See other's welfare rather than thine
MARRIAGES OF OONSANGUINITY,
M. Boudin, so well known for his
researches in medical statistical
questions, thus concludes an interest
ing paper concerning the effects of
marriages of consanguinity: 1. The
opinions hitherto delivered, whether
for or against the hurtfulneus of
these marriages, have for the most
part not been based upon conclusive
proofs. 2. 1t is the statistical meth
od that alone can supply a scientific
solution of the problem. 3. It re
sults from my own researches that
consanguineous marriages are con
tracted in France at the rate of two
per cent.; and that deaf-mutes are
the issue of consanguineous mar
riages in the proportion of 28 per
cent. at the Paris Imperial Institu
tion, 25 per cent. at Lyons, and 30
per cent. at Bordeaux, 4. Marriages
between nephews and aunts are con
tracted in France in the proportion
of 0.014 per cent. (fourteen thous
andths per cent.,) while deaf-mutes
are the results of such marriages in
the proportion of 2.04 per cent. In
other words, deaf-mutes resulting
front such marriages are 145 times
more numerous than they should be.
1 5. Marriages between uncles and
nieces are contracted in the propor
tion of 004 per cent. (four hun
dredths,) and the deaf-mutes result
ing from such marriages reach 1.61
per cent., i. e. the danger of engen
dering deaf-mutes is 5 0 tines great
er in this kind of, an alli,ance than
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per cent., and deaf-mutes are pro
duced in the proportion of 18,47 per
cent., i. e., 25 times more frequent
than they should be. 7. The pro
portion of deaf-mutes proceeding
from consanguineous origin would
be still greater if we could take into
account those which proceed indi
rectly from consanguineous mar
riages. 8. While at Berlin the pro
portion is but 0 in 10,000 among the
Christians, it is 27 in 10,000 among
the Jews. 9. In nearly the whole
of the cases the deaf-mutes issuing
from consanguineous marriages have
parents who are perfectly healthy
and exempt from hereditary affec
tions. 10. When male and female
deaf-mutes intermarry, not being
consanguineous, the children they
produce, with rare exceptions, are
exempt from dumbness and deafness.
11. In thh face of such facts as these,
the hypothesis of a morbid heredi
tariness employed for the explana
tion of the frequency of dumb-deaf ,
ness among infants the results of
consanguineous marriages is radi
cally false. 12. The hypothesis of
the pretended harmlessness of con
sanguineous marriages is contra
dicted by the most evident and well
verified facts and• can only be excused
by the difficulty, or rather the im
possibility, of giving a physiological
explanation of the production of in
firm children by parents who are
physically irreproachable. Mr. Bou
din, in proof of the practical impor
tance of this kind of inquiries, states
that in 1831 more than 15,000 men
have been exempted in France from
military service on account of deaf
dumbness, dumbness, or deafness.—
Recuil de Mein. de Med. Militaire and
Medical Times.
BLUE LAWS OF CONNECTICUT.
A few of the famous "Blue Laws,"
once enforced in the land of pump
kin pies, were not so bad after all.—
We give some of them, and will let
the few wise ones speak for them
selves, while the others will serve to
remind us that the world has been
pretty thoroughly ventilated since
the days when the pilgrim fathers
endured hardships innumerable, and
the pilgrim mothers evinced an
equal heroism, by enduring the pil
grim fathers.
Whosoever publishes a lie to the
prejudice of his neighbor shall sit
in the stocks and be whipped fifteen
stripes.
To pick an ear of corn in a neigh
bor's garden shall be deemed theft.
Men-stealers shall suffer death.
Whosoever wears clothes trimmed
with gold, or bone lace above two
shillivs by the yard, shal± be pres
ented by the grand jurors, and the
select men shall tax the offenders at
.t3C,i, estate.
A debtor iu prison, swearing he
has no estate, shall be lot out and
sold to make satisfaction.
A drunkard shall have a master ap
pointed by the selectmen, who are to
debar him the liberty of buying or
selling.
Whoever sets fire to the woods
and burns a house, shall suffer death;
and persons suspected of this. crime
shall be imprisoned without benefit
of bail.
Whoever brings cards or dice in
to the dominion shall pay a fine of
£5.
No food or lodging shall be afford
ed to a Quaker, Adatnite or Heretic.
No priest shall abide in the domin
ion; be shall be banished, and suffer
death on his return. Priests may be
seized by any one without a war
rant.
The selectrfien, on finding children
ignorant may take them away from
their parents and put them in better
hands, at the expense of their par
ents.
No man to cross a river but with
an authorized ferrymar.
No man shall run on the Sabbath
day, or walk in his garden or else
where, except to and from meeting.
No one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds, sweep houses, cut hair or
shave on the Sabbath day.
No woman shall kiss her child on
the Sabbath or feasting day.
When parents refuse their children
convenient marriages, the magistrate
shall determine the point.
No minister shall keep a school.
A m(tn that strikes his wife shall
be punished by the courts.
A. wife shall be deemed good evi
dence against her husband.
Married persons must live togeth
er, or be imprisoned.
Every male shall have his hair cut
according to cap.
No one shall read Common Prayer,
keep Christmas or saints days, make
pies, play cards, or play upon any
instrument of music except the drum,
trumpet and jewsharp.
No gospel minister shall join peo
ple in marriage : the magistrate only
shall join in marriage, as they only
may do it with much less scandal to
Christ's church.
oar I do not love to see an infancy
over hopeful : in these pregnant be
giuniuge. one Imlay starved anoti
eri and, at Inet;leaves the, aliat4l l 4l) -
lees and barren. As, tberefore l we
are wont to pnli,pir goitre 9e.t00
fretiginttoAbosorii,s MCI:20104
thrive;
so it is wfttilood wisdodk t.
moderate the early excess of the
parts or progress of over-forward
childhood.—Bishop Hall.
PBEOAUTIONS.
1. Never sleep in a room where
there is any green paper on the walls,
as this color is made of arsenic or
lead; the former is by far the most
dangerous, being scheeles green and
is known positively by a drop of mu
riatic on the green leaving it white.
2. White glazed visiting cards con
tain sugar of lead, and will poison a
child who is tempted to chew them
from the slight sweetish taste.
3. Green glazed cards used for con
cert tickets, are still more poisonous;
a single one of them contains a grain
and a half of arsenic, enough to kill
a child.
4. Never put a pin in the mouth
or between the teeth ; for a single in
stant because a sudden effort to laugh
or speak, may convey it into the
throat, or lung, or stomach, causing
death in a few minutes, or requiring
the windpipe to be cut open to get it
out; if it has passed into the stomach,
it may, as it has done, cause years
of suffering, ceasing only when it has
made its way out of the body through
the walls of the abdomen or other
portions of the system.
5. It is best to have no button or
string about any garment worn dur
ing the night. A long, loose night
gown is the best thing to sleep in.—
Many a man has facilitated an at
tack of appoplexy, by buttoning his
shirt collar.
6. If you wake up of a cold night
and find yourself' very restless, get
out of bed and standing on a piece of
carpet or cloth of any kind, spend
five or ten minutes in rubbling the
whole body vigorously and rapidly
with the hands, having previously
thrown the bed clothing towards the
foot of the bed so as to air both bed
and body.
7. If you find that you have inad
vertently eaten too much, instead of
taking something to settle the stom
ach, thus adding to the load under
which it already labors, take a con
tinuous walk with just enough activ
ity to keep up a very slight moisture
or perspiration of the skin, and do
not stop until entirely relieved, but
end your exercises in a warm room,
so as to cool off very slowly.
8. Never put on a pair of new boots
or shoes on a journey, especially on
a visit to the city; rather wear your
easiest, oldest pair, otherwise you
will soon 1)e painfully disabled.
9. A loosely fitting boot or shoe,
while travelling in winter, will keep
the feet - warmer without any stock
ings.at all, than a light pair, over the
thickest, warmest hose.
10. Riding against a cold wind,
immediately after singing or speak
ing in public, is suicide.
11. Many public speakers have
been disabled for life by speaking un
der a hoarseness of voice.
12. If you happen to get wet in
cold weather, keep moving on foot
with a rapidity sufficient to keep off
a feeling of chilliness until you get
into the house, and not waiting to
undress, drink instantly and plenti
fully of not tea of some sort; then un
dress; wipe dry quickly, and put on
warm dry clothing.
13. Never go to bed with cold feet,
if you want to sleep soundly.
14. If a person faints, place him
instantly flat on a bed, or floor or
earth, on his back, and quietly let
him alone at least for ten minutes; if
it is a simple fainting-fit, the blood
flowing on a level will more speedily
equalize itself through the system;
cold water dashed in the face, or a
sitting position, are unnecessary and
pernicious.
15. Never blow your nose, nor spit
the product of a cough, nor throw a
fruit peel on the side-walk.--liall's
Journal of Health.
A MILLION AND A BILLION.
A correspondent sends the follow
ing to a New York paper :
We are perpetually hearing of mil
lions, and bow many millions it will
take to do this or that. We have a
good idea of what a million of dol
lars will do, but I very much doubt
whether one person in a thousand
has a correct idea of the quantity or
number contained in a million. For
instance, if you would ask a person
how long it would occupy him to put
down a million dots with a pen upon
a sheet of paper, he will generally
tell you something so far from the
fact as to be laughable.
Permit me, therefore, to say—for
I have tried the experiment more
than once—it would occupy an expert
penman about fourteen days, sup
posing him to work bank• hours,
(that is six,) incessantly doing noth
ing but putting dots on a paper or
dipping his pen into the ink. This
will give your readers some idea of
the quantity or number contained
in a million. Let any one try it, by
laying his watch on the table, close
to the paper, and work for ten or
twenty minutes, then add and multi
ply. But what is a million compared
to a billion ? I,t is a mere nothing.
What then is a billion ?
A very short answer will mace
for a v . erylOtrg story. It le Panßon
tiMetra million. Bat who can mint
It ? ; k1 . 4) wan t A quick bifili - tetler
tan &inert ont 360 or 170 a minute,
but let us suppose he could go as far f pital Steward, 820. The Seraegnt
as 200. Then one hour will produce t Major and Quartermaster - Sergeant,
112,000, a day 268,000, and a year, or I $2l.
350 days, 105,150,000. Let us sup-1 You see that there is a great differ
s
I . pose now, that Adam, at the begin- ! ence between the pay of commission
ning of his existence, had began to 1 ed and non-commissioned officers.—
count ; and had continued to do so 1 But the non-commissioned officers
and was. counting still ; he. would not I are supplied by the Government
now, aceordin ,, to the usually sup- , with food, called "rations in the
posed age of our globe, have count- army, and with $42,00 worth of
ed near enough. For to count a bil- clothing every year. The commis
lion, he would require 9,520 years, sioned officers have to feed and clothe
60 days, 5 hours and 20 minutes.— themselves. This makes the differ-
Now, supposing we were to allows ence less than what it seems to be
poor Adam 12 hours daily for rest, !at first; and yet is too great. The
eating and sleeping, he would need duties of many non-commissioned a
-1 19,024 years, 60 days, 10 hours and' ficers are very laborious: and respen
-40 minutes. i Bible.
TALKS ABOUT WAR,
SANK, AND INSIGNIA OF RANK
In an army every man's power
and his pay depends on his rank—
that is, upon the office that he holds.
If he is a private soldier, he has no
power or authority. lie has only to
obey orders. Above the private sol
dier there are more than a dozen
ranks or grades of officers going up
from the Corporal to the Lieutenant-
General.
Every officer is required to wear
things while on duty, that shows
just what his rank is. These are
called the badges or insignia of rank.
When you meet a man in the streets
at home, you can't tell by his dress
whether he is a lawyer, or a doctor,
or a farmer; whether he is a rich
man or a poor man. But the mo
ment you meet a soldier, you can
tell whether be is a private or an offi
cer, and if an officer, just what his
rank and his pay are—that is, if
you understand all about these
badges or insignia of rank. Let me,
then, explain, them to you:
Officers are either commissioned
or non-commissioned. The commis
sioned officers are appointed by the
Governors of the States in the vol
unteer army, and by the President in
the regular army. There are nine
grades of commissioned officers
whose pay ranges from $lOO.OO a
month up to nearly $BOO.OO.
The commissioned officers all wear
shoulder-straps. These are pieces of
cloth one and three-eights of an
inch wide and four inches long, bor
dered with an embroidery of gold a
quarter of an inch wide. The color
of the cloth in the shoulder-strap
tells to which arm of the service the
officer belongs. In the artillery the
cloth is scarlet—in the infantry it is
light blue, and in the cavalry it is
yellow. General officers, that is,
those above a Colonel in rank, and
the staff officers of Generals, wear
dark blue shoulder straps.:
A Second Lieutenant who is the
lowest commissioned officer, has noth
ing inside of the gold bordering of
his shoulder-straps. A First Lieu
tenant has a little gold embroidered
bar just inside of each end of the
border of his straps, and parallel
with the end. A Captain has two
such bars in each end; that is four
in each strap. A Major has, instead
of the bars of gold, a gold embroid
ered leaf in each end of each strap.
A Lieutenant-Colonel has a silver
embroidered leaf in each end of each
strap. A Colonel has a silver em
broidered eagle in the middle of each
strap. A Brigadier-General has a
silver embroidered star with five
rays in the place of the eagle. A
Major-General has two such stars in
each strap. A Lieutenant-General
has three stars, the centre one being
larger than the other two.
When you see a man with shoul
der-straps on, you know that he is a
commissioned officer; and you can
tell what arm of the service ho be
longs to by the color of the cloth in
his straps, and what his rank is by
what is worked or embroidered in
side cf the border of his straps.
Non-commissioned officers all wear
chevrons upon both sleeves of their
coats, between .the elbow and the
shoulder. These chevrons are made
of silk or worsted binding half an
inch wide. In the artillery the bind
ing is scarlet; in the infantry light
blue, and in the cavalry yellow.—
The chevron is in the form of a let
ter A turned upside down. The
point or angle being towards the el
bow.
A Corporal has two bars of worst
ed binding on each sleeve. A Ser
geant has three bars. An Orderly
Sergeant, three bars and a lozong or
diamond above them, in the open an
gle which they make. An Ordinance
Sergeant, who has charge of the am
munition, has three bars and a star
in silk binding. A Quartermaster's
Sergeant has three bars and a tie in
silk. A Sergeant Major has three
bars and an are over them in silk.—
A Hospital Steward has a half chev
ron of green cloth on each arm, and
a "Caduceus," or snake twisted
around a rod, embroidered yellow
silk. •
The non-commissioned officer, are
appointed' by the Colonel of the reg
iment, and may be reduced to the
ranks, that is, made private soldiers
again, whenever he thinks that they
neglect their duty, or are guilty of
airy crime. 'l`hn Corporals het tie
niore, pay than
MOO a Tooth. The SerseantkEet
3t7 s niontli: The Orderly and Hoe-
The principal Surgeon of a regi
ment ranks as a Major; the Second
Surgeon as a Captain, and the Third
as a Lieutenant. The Adjutant and
Quartermaster rank as First Lieu
tenants. UNCLE JESSE.
SIR WALTER SCOTT,
"Never, perhaps, in any period of
the world's history," says a cotew -
porary of Scott, "did literary talent
receive a homage so universal as that
of Scott. Hig reputation was co-ex
tensive, not only with the English
language, but with the boundaries of
civilization. In one year, too, his lit
erary productions yielded him £15,-
000. The king conferred on him a
baronetcy, and wherever he appear
ed, at home or abroad, he was the li
on of the day. Alr the good things
of life were his. His mansion at Ab
botsford realized the highest concep
tion of a poet's imagination; and
seemed like a poem in stone. His
company was of the most honorable
of the land, and his domestic enjoy
ments all that his heart could desire.
Yet
. he was not happy. Ambitious
to found a family, he got into debt,
and in old age he was a ruined man.
When about to leave Abbotsford for
the last time, he said: 'When I think
on what this place now is, with whit
it was not long ago, I feel as if my
heart would break. Lonely, aged,
deprived of all my family, I am an
impoverished and embarrassed man.'
At another time he writes: 'Death
has closed the avenue of love and
friendship. I look at them as through
the grated door of a burial-place
filled with monuments of those who
were once dear to me, and with no
other wish than that it may open for
me at no distant period.' And again:
'Some new object of complaint comes
every moment. Sicknesses comethick
er and thicker; friends are fewer and
fewer. The recollection of youth,
health, and powers of activity,'
neither improved or enjoyed, is a
poor ground of comfort. The best
is, the long halt will arrive at length,
and close all.' And the long halt
did arrive. Not long before he died,
Sir Walter Scott requested his
daughter to wheel him to his desk.—
She then put a pen into his hand, but
his fingers refused to do their office.
Silent tears rolled down his cheeks.
'Take me back to my own room,' he
aid, 'there is ne rest for Sir Walter
but in his grave.' A few days after
this he died, realizing, in reference
to all his fame, honer, and renown, the
truth of Solomon, 'Vanity of vani
ties, saith the preacher, all is vanity
and vexation of spirit.' "
A CONTRAST.
Sydney Smith, in remarking upon
the folly of a scheme for creating
livings of £l5O a year, with the ex
pectation of their being filled with
good and well educated preachers,
draws with his ready wit the follow,
ing pictures of a member of the "col
lection of sacred beggars." "Then a
picture is drawn of a clergyman
with a £l3O per an um, who combines
all moral, physical, and intellectual
advantages, a learned man, dedicat
ing himself intensely to the care of
his parish, of charming manners and
dignified deportment, six feet two
inches high, beautifully proportion
ed, with a magnificent countenance,
expressive of all the cardinal virtues
and. the Ten Commandments—and it
is asked with an air of timi]. ) if
such a man as this will fall into con
tempt on account of his poverty ?
But substitute for an average,
ordinary, uninteresting minister;
obese, dumpy, neither ill-natured nor
good-natured, neither learned nor ig
norant. striding over the stiles to
church with a second-rate wife—dus
ty and deliquescent—and tour paro
chial children, full of catechism and
bread and butter; or let him be seen
in ono of those Shein-Ham-und-Ja
pilot buggies—made on nonnt Ara
rat soon after the subsidence of the
waters—driving iaa the high street
of Edmonton; among all his pecun
iary, saponaceous, oleaginous parish
oners. Can any man of common
sense say that all thestt outward cir
cumstances of ministers of religion
have no bearing on religion itself!"
Virtue the Security of Society.
As "no loan liveth to himself," so no
man sinneth to himself; and every vagrant
habit uprooted from the young and ignor
ant—every principle of duty strengthened
--every encouragement to refotin offered
and rightly persevered in--is casting a
shield of safety over the property, life,
peace, and every true interest of the com
munity; so that it may lee said of this,
as of every duty of man, "Knowing these
things, happy are ye if ye do thenr."
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 24.
WIPE BALES.
It is a prevalent notion among the
rude and ignorant in England. that
a man, by setting his wife np at
puftlic auction, and separting with
her, legally dissolves the marriage.
tie, and escapes from all its obliga
tions. Of course, an affair of this
kind is simply an outrage upon de.
coney, and has no legal effect what
ever. It can only be considered as
a proof of the besotted ignorance and
brutal feelings of a portion of our ru
ral population. Rather unfortunate
ly, the occasional instances of wife
sale, while remarked by ourselves
with little beyond a passing ensile,
have made a deep nnpressiottl:ltl
our continental neighbors, who" se
rionsly believe that it is a habitat&
classes of our people, and constantly
cite it as an evidence of oar low cm,.
ilization. It would never occur ttn
us as a proof of any such tbing,,for
we recognize it as only an eccen
tricity ; yet it may be well for is to
know that it really does takeplace
now - and then—more fregnently, in
deed, than almost any are aware of
—and is a social feature by no means
unworthy of the grave consideration
of educationalists.
In 1815, a man held a regular•auo•
tion iu the Market-place at Ponta,
fract, offering, his wife at a minimum
biddinspf one shilling, and "knock
ing her down" for eleven shillings.—
In 1820, a man named Brouchet led
his wife, a decent looking-woman, in
to the cattle market at Canterbury,
from the neighboring village of
Broughton ; he asked a salesman to
sell her for him ; the salesman re
plied that his dealings were with ad o ,
tle, not with women, and he refused.
The man thereupon hired a pen or a
stall, for which he paid the usual foli
age of sixpence, and led his wife into
it by a halter ; and soon afterwards
he sold to a young man at Canterbu
ry for five shillings. In 1834, a man
led his wife by a halter, in precisely
a similar way, into the cattle market
at Birmingham ; but the local jour
nals did not report the sum at which
the unfortunate "lot" was knocked
down. A case occurred in 1835, in
which a woman was sold by her hus
band for fifteen pounds : she at once
went home with her buyer she atm
vived both buyer and seller, and they
married again. Sae property came
to her in the coarse years from
her first husband ; for, notwithstand
ing claims put forth by other rola" ,
tions, she was able to maintain in a
court of law that the sale did act, and
could nct, vitiate her rights, se his
widow.
i.v-A good deal of suprise was felt in
many villages of ignorant peasantry,
in 1837, at the result of a trial at the
West Riding Session in "Yorkshire,
where a man was committed to a.
month's imprisonment and hard la
bor for selling, or attempting to sell,
his wife.; the right to do. this being
believed more extensively than we
are apt to imagine. In 1858, in
beer shop at little Horton, near Brad
ford, a man named Hartley Tbomsnp,.
put up his wife, described by tb," la,
cal journals as a pretty young wo
man, for sale; he even announced
the sale befbre-hand, by mead, pia
cryer at bellman ; he brought her. in
with a ribbon rouudl her neck, by
way of a halter. These two,persons
had lived unhappily together,.
both entertained a belief thatbyst..
a process as this, they might.
separate for life. It is diffienit,tin
deed, to credit how such things
be, unless the wife be more 000,
consenting party ; this opposition
once made, however, so cheap a sub-.
stitate for the Divorce Court becomes :
intelligible. Doubtless, in some ca
ses, the husband acts wholly forhim
self in the matter; as happened in
1859, at Dudley. where a man sold
his wife for a sixpence, under the
full belief by so doing she would have
no further legal claim on him for
support.—The Book of Days.
INTROVERT YOUR VISION.
There is a class of persons whose
only desire seems to he to search out
the faults of others,, and herald theca
to the world. Such people, if Alley
would stop but for-a moment, and
study their own .characters and pro
clivities, would.be, surprised; perkier,
to find in themselves-the sanwfaults
and weakness. Shame on them.—
Of all the pests that infest the city
and country, these are the most to
be despised, dreaded. They, not on
ly injure in seine degree, the persona
whom they thus backbite, but their
despicable practice has a contamina , .
tint; influence on the youthful taind
which, if sot constantly guarded and
guided by Religion, is susceptible of
the worst influence that mankind
can impart.
Reader, if you have hitherto been
guilty of this practice, abstain from
it in future. Go into• seine more lu
crative business, introvert your vi
sion"—"Know Thy - self" and instead
of being "pests" to the' society in
which you move, you' will bo honored
and respected citizens. Yonngmeni
young women, heed this before you
form a habit that will destroy your
peace.
Mit `lt has leaked out that 15,000 per,
4,
who received bounties troy ;goer Ko
~
city have deserted. Hence the, a4l"
for a draft.