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I ncluding many a talc or ditty or lay,
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G entlemen too will you not give us a call,
I n ours you will always find news for you all
Something for old and young, grave and gay,
T o help wile life's weary hours away,
E ver all the variety here you will find
1' cquircd by the most fastidious mind.
TUB EDITOR'S ADVISERS.
Says one, your subjects are too grave,
Too much morality you have—
Too much about religion ;
Give Inc some witch or wizard islet:,
With slipshod ghosts, with fins and scales,
Or feathers like a pigeon.
Another cries, T want more fun,
A witty anecdote or pun,
A rebus or a riddle :
Some long for missionary news,
And some, of worldly carnal views,
Would like to hear a fiddle.
Another cries, I want to see
A jumbled up variety—
Variety in all things :
A miscellaneous hodgepodge print
Composeit=l only give that hint—
Of multifarious small things.
I want some marriage news, says miss,
It constitutes my highest bliss
To hear of weddings Plenty :
For in a lime of general rain,
None suffers from a drought, 'tis plain—
At least not one in twenty.
I want to hear ordenths, says ono,
Of people totally uindone
-IL.._luc~nL fire or fever IfiC,
Anot„or answer s. Lu
l'd rather have the NI and rise
Of raccoon skins or beaver.
Some signify a sceret wish
Fur now and then a savory dish
Of polities to suit them :
But here we resS at perfect case,
For should they swear the moon was cheese,
We never would dispute them.
Or grave or humorous, wild or tame,
Lofty or low, 'tis all the same,
Too haughty or too humble ;
And every editorial wight
Has nought to do but what is right,
And let the grumblers grumble !
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13 - SOMRTIRNG FOR DAIRYHEN.-IT twenty
seven inches of snow give three inches of water,
how much milk will a cow giro when fed on
ruta-baga turnips ? Multiply the flakes ( f
snow by the hairs on the cow's tail ; then
divide the product by a turnip ; add a pound
of chalk, and the sum will be the answer.
R ; o3f All ought to be permitted upon
the duties of connubiality without being able
to make a shirt, mend a coat, seat a pair of
nnwhispembles, bake a loaf of bread, roast a
sirloin, broil a steak, make a pudding, and
manufacture frocks for little responsibilities.
(IJ'A weak-minded lady says if anything
Will make a woman swear, it is striking her
foot against the rocker of a reciting chair, while
hunting her night cap Lifter the candle has been
blown out. .
il:7 : Aluestion for the Spike Society, ." would
the devil heat his wife, if he had one ?" Guess,
not—for the womcmgcnerally beat the devil.
1:1:7 - Witzt: children are little they make their
parents' head ache—when grown up they make
their hearts ache. •
Ent one-half the girls knew what the others
said ,about them, friendship would be entirely
unknown among them.
V‘A young man who has recently taken a
says he did!not find it half so hard to get
married as to get the flmniture.
37. The man Who never says nothing to no
body, was married last week to the lady who
never speaks ilkof no one.
("The road ambition travels is narrow f'or
friendship, too crooked for love, too ragged for
-libnesty, too dark for-silence.
[l:7"kman has been arrested in New York'
l'Or stealing a newspaper. Ho was locked up
for trinl. Let all newspaper thieves beware.
DO - Govern your thoughts when alone, and
your tongue When in' company.
11:7 - Slanders are llkiiiies, they leap over all
s'man's good parts; to light upon his sores.
13:71.1e that is without any character, is not
wniitn, ho is a thing-.
13:7 - A sour•mindedlachelor is like the small
pox -will pick holes-in the prettiest face.
07 - In a woman, an ounce of heart is worth
pound of' brains.
, I:l7'ne fallow who scraped an • acquaintance'
got kiokcd:for. it is return.-
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VOLUME IX.
3-Capitnt btortj.
DARLING LOTTY,
OR,
The Weir.* of Hohsekeeping
Miss Charlotte Jones was the daughter of a
worthy and enterprising carpenter, who, setting
in a thriving village, became, in due time a
builder. a contractor ; and a fore-handed man.
His wife was as industrious as hithself, and
more ambitious ; and among other blessings.
they had one fair daughter, Miss Charlotte,
who was as pretty, as charming, indeed, as
was necessary to make the smartest young man
in the place fall in love with her—which he
did.
Certainly lie did. fie was a medical stu
dent. in the doctor's office right opposite. As
he sat there stinlying.anatomy or making pills,
he could see Charlotte in the parlor or the
garden. He could hear her play on the piano
torte, and sing : he could see her di in; all
sorts of wonderful worsted and crotchet work
and he came to think that parlor one of the
most delightful places in the world.
Wellit was a loVe atliuir, all mutual and
pleasant : calls and moonshine, music, billets,
blushes, boquets, long Sunday evenings, and
finally " Ask Pa !"—and then a wedding—but
of course a diploma came first, and the petted
child of the snecesful earpentei-, became Mrs.
Dr. Simmons.
And Dr. Simmons, who had received the
honors of a medical college rather ydung, and
who thought it needful to raise all the whiskers
lie could by industrious shaving, and a course
of Macassar, and to mount a pair of spectacles
beside, to make him look old enough, had de
cided to commence business in a small but
growing village in a neighboring county, where
as it happened, Mr. Jones owned a neat cot
tage, of which, with its acre garden lot,- he
made his daughter a marriage present; and,
there, on the termination of the wedding tour,
they took up their residence. The good Mrs.
Jones had put everything " to, rights." Tt was
in the most exquisite "apple pie order;" and
no young couple just beginning housekeeping,
was ever any better fixed.
.Mrs. Jones, good soul, hat always done her
own work. Help was a dreadful bother.—
Charlotte had been carefully educated. She
could do everything: that is, everything that
i ever taught to young ladies. She knew all
sciences and nearly all languages: that is, a
little. She could do all kinds of fancy work.--
Her worsted cats and wax flowerg . were wonder
ful : so were her water color drawings, and her
monochromatic sketches were " high art."
Everybody said so.
But, somehow, Mrs. Jones from a habit of
doing everything herself, had not given MiSs
Charlotte a fair chance in kitchen and laundry
and in other housekeeping accomplishments:
while Charlotte had a vague idea that all those
common things were perfectly easy, and as they
were not taught at school, she concluded that
they came by nature. So she commenced her
housekeeping in a dream of , blissfull anticipa
tions.
They took possession of theirfine little house
one fine summer's evening. Mrs. Jones saw
them all properly fixed, and had gone home.
They wakened with the early birds. 'l? , r:
Simmons dreamed that somebody was thunder
ing on the iloor, to call him up .to see a patient..
It was his horse pawing to be fed . • „ .
"volt, Lotty dear," o said• the grave doctor,
who was in the twenty-third. year, to his wife
of seventeen, " shall we Make a beginning now,.
Vise early, and attend to business ?" •
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" Oh, by all means. I'll jump up. and ict
breakfast."
And I'll feed Pomp, and weed the garden."
.So the Doctor watered and fed his horie, and
hoed his potatoes a little, and then took a peep
into the neat little.kitchen to see how the " Dar
ling Lotty" was getting on with: breakfast.—
Her face was very red, and • her hands very
black, her hair was powdered with ashes. It
was plain that she had trouble ; but she spoke
pleasantly for all that, when she said—
" Do go away, Charles, that's a dear, till you
hear the bell ring. Breakfast will soon be
ready."
Well, he waited: He read, then he whistled,
then he fidgeted, then he wound up the Clock,
then he looked at his new case of instruments,
and wondered how soon he should cut off his
first leg ; then.he got very hungry, and nt last
the bell did ring, and ho went to breakfast.
The Darling Lotty was looking a little better,
but still rather'an.iious.
. " Have, you had a hard time, darling ?" in
quired the Doctor, cautiously.
" Oh, not very: • The fire did net kindle very
well at first, and the stove smoked."
" Did you open the damper 1"
"Damper ! why no. Has it got a damper ?
Well, I'll remember nest time. Now have
some coffee."
The Doctor took his cup, stirred it sliout,
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ALLENTOWN, PA., MARCH 7, 1855:
looked rather hard at it ; and then at darling
Lotty.
" Well, what is it! I'm sure I don't know
what makes it full of those specks, I boiled and
boiled it."
" Yet it don't seem to be settled. Did you
put in any fish skin 3" •
" No I forgot."
"No matter. It will da very well. Now
darling Lotty, 11l take an egg. Why ! It's
hard as a brickbat !"
* " Hard! Now how can they be hard, when
they were boiling all the time 1 was making
the coffee and the toast !"
" Ali toast ; let us try that ? A little burnt
but very good ; there, don't cry, darling ; it'l
be all right next time."
After showers came sunshine, and this one
cleared off. The Doctor laid aside his dignity
and helped wash the dishes ; and then put his
horse in his sulkey, took the new saddle hags,
amfdrove oil furiously, to see some imaginary
patients, till dinner time, while darling Lotty
blockbd out a worsted parroquet, that bid fair
to be the wonder of her next winter's parties.
But this, like all pleasures, came to an end, for
there was dinner to get, and that dinner was to
make up for breakfast. The Doctor liked a
nice dish of boiled victuals—so she made a fire,
and peeled the potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips.
parsnips, and put them, with a nice sparerib of
fresh pork into the kettle, and set them to boil
ing. There was a rousing fire ; the water
boiled furiously and s' re went up stairs to put a
few stitches into the parroquet. Pretty rocn
she became conscious of an unpleasant odor ;
she snufl".‘d and wondered, and then put in the
eye of the parroquet. But the unpleasant odor
became stronger, and at last she thought proper
to go in the direction it seemed to come from ;
and that happened to be the kitchen. The
stove was red hot ; so was the kettle of boiled
victuals ; and a nice smother was rising from
it. The Darling Lolly dashed a dipper of water
into the kettle—bang ! --and such a cloud rf
t cracked, but' the Doc
tor hind just corns home hungry. the table was set
and the d.nner was soon dished.
The Darling Lotty took her place at the hejtd
of the table. She was flushed and nervous, and
ready for a fit of hysterics ; but the Do•.tor
was so cheerful and tender, that she began to
foci quite happy. But the poor dinner. It did
not smell exactly right ; it seemed to ha•e
caught on the bottom of the kettle, the Doctor•
said ; then the potatoes were boiled into a pulp,
while the beets and turnips were quite hard.
The fresh pork rather wanted salting.
" Charles, dear !" said Lotty very sadly. •
" Well, Lotty, darling, what is it ?"
" I'm afraid the dinner is not very nice."
" Well, it is a little scorched , and not ex
actly managed all regular, and all that sort o
thing, you know ; but what signifies ? We'll
try the desert."
''.Oh !" •
" Well, darling, \vital's the trouble ?"
Lotty ran into the kitchen, and there was
her poor, forgotten plumb-pudding in the stove
oven just burnt to a cinder. It was black as
a coal—a fine carbonaceous specimen, as the
Doctor learnedly remarked, as he finished, or
rather made his dinner, on some bread and
butter.
The darling Lotty mourned over her disas
ters, but took comfort in the brilliant plumage
Of her parroquet, which. Dr. Simmons could not
sufficiently admire. She Was also comforted
with the thought that the next meal was tea,
she felt sure that she could accomplish.
And when tier hour drew nigh she made up a
fire, and by 1.1.!: - 3 time. she had learned how to
Manage 'Um! : E.ho tool: some flour and
anti butter, with plenty: of s'aleratim , to
make them light, and mixed tip some nice his-
Cuits, and put them in the oven, Mid then she
Made tea ; and when all was ready She rang the
bell with great emphasis. And, truth to say;
the table was very richly arranged; and the . tea
service of gold' and china was beautiful.
Dr. Simmons smacked his lips with' great
gusto ; he took a cake and tried to break it,
but it did not seem to.brcak readily ; then he
took his knife—it cut like cheese ; also, it Was
very yellow, and smelt and tasted rather
strongly the Doctor said, of free alkali. So it
did, in fact, for there bad been no acid to neu
tralize the saleratus and set freo its carbonic
acid, and of course nothing to make the cake
rise. The Doctor explained it all very learned
ly, and then, as ho felt thirsty, he took a sip
of his tea of which he was Very fond. But he
made a wry face. 8,
Lotty was in consternation. "Is not the
tea right ? It must be ! I put in a great deal
and boiled it ever so long. I'm sure it hasn't
got the strength it soon will have." .
" My darling Lotty, tea is a delicate and
odoriferous plant, and should be prepared as
an hifusion, and not as a decoction. Bring me
a little tea, darling, and some hot water, and I
will soon make stood cup of tea,'! and he did.
The poor darling Lotty. It took all the en.
dearments of a tender .husband in the honey
moon, too keep her from downright despair.
But the day's lesson had not been lost, and she
determined to have such a nice breakfast as
should make up for all.
Morning came, and our young doctor gallant;
ly offered to assist in getting the morning re
past ; but no, Lotty was determined to her
own work. She mixed her cakes according to
the learned suggestions of the evening previous.
She bpiled the eggs three minutes by thC clock.
The coffee was clear—greatest comfort of all.
The Doctor broke a biscuit, it was capital.—
The egg was just right. Then he tasted the
coffee, and it came out of his mouth as soon as
it was in ; and such a face ! Doctors are not
squeamish, young Doctors particularly. They
know what bad tastes and bad smells arc ; but
this—
" Why Charley !" cried the darlinz Lotty,
" what is the matter with the coffee ?"
" That is what I would like to know, Lotty,
darling% I know you do your best, and the bis
cuits and eggs arc beautiful ; but what did you
put in the coffee ?
" Why, Charley, you said it must have sonic
fish skin to settle it, and the only fish in the
house, is some herrings, so I 'skinned Iwo of
them and put the skin in the coffee!" and poor
Lofty burst into a paroxysm of tears.
But there came sunshine soon, that made it
all pleasant weather. Lotty bad invited an
old school friend to visit her. She came soon
after breakfast, and, it happened, her house
keeping education had not been neglected. She
absolutely knew every thing ; Mrs. Hale, Miss
Leslie, even Mrs. Glass or Mrs. Rundell could
not excel her. She was a walking cook book,
and a lively little treat* on domestic economy.
Never was a visitor more welcome, and now
the darling Lotty learned every possible thing
to wash, and Mend, and bake, and cook every
thing, and became the nicest little housekeeper
extant, while the Doctor, by the aid of his ven
erable appearance and rapid driving in the
sulky, rode into an extensive practice ; and was
never tired of boasting of the excellent cooking
o f hi s wing Lotty.
BILL HARRIS ,
Or, Ike Pioneer's Revenge.
Within four miles of the head of Lake George
lies a fertile valley denominated " Harris Hol
low." Here at the close ot" the eventful strug
gle for independence, resided the hardy back
woodsman, from whom this delightful se
took its name. Ile had been a severe s
by the war, both in person and prosperit
had brought out of it a settled hatred fl
authors of his calamities. Though I
signaliz,ed himself for daring in every
the protracted contest, and Mil shed
blood, his revenge was not yet co4le
had vowed denial hate towards his foe
nothing - but their utter extermination coul
Aolve him from the oath. The circumsf
which laid the foundation for this perm
bitterness had occurred in the early part
strife, and arc briefly these:
A scouting party, of which Harr is era
was surpriSed in the night by a party of '
and Indians, and cut to a man. Struck
ground in the fray, Harris rose upon his
on discovering a tory neighbor among 1.,
sailants, and implored him by their ft
friendship to spare his life. Cdisinglihn
ncorrigiblo rebel, the other raised his
larris had scarcely time to ejaculate,
God's sake, Parks, don't kill me ;" the
of the weapon descended on his head with
vino violence : the Indians tore the scalp
its fractured skull, and lie was left for
among his Companions. Mangled as he
he revived soon after the departure of th
my, and having crawled as far as he wa
from the scene of the conflict, lie concealed
himself in the thick top of a fallen evergreen.—
At day break the party returned to 'the spot to
secure :the remaining booty, and to despatch
survivors. Harris was missed from among the
slain, and was so fortunate as to escape the dil
igent but hasty search made for him by the
murderous Parks, who more than once recon.
oitred the very place of his concealment. For
the four days following, the wounded man
crept upon his hands and knees before ho
reached a settlemeht. It was hot weather, and
his wounds were in a horrible state; but by
speedy dressing and constant attention his life
was preserved; and ho slowly-recovered, to be.
come a dreaded- scourge to the wily foes that
infested the frontiers, and those more bitter in
ternal enemies of the state, the Tories of the
Revolution. • •
• The declaration of peace brought but partial
cessation of frontier hostilities, and many a
dark deed was 'perpetrated even after the'con
tending nation had ceased to shed each other's
blood. • Harris held it as lawful to shoot an In
dian or tory as to kill' a wild cat, rind there
were not wanting opportunities to put his the
ory in practice. Tho first of these was as fol
lows : An Indian doctor, in his periodical pero
grinations, was passing •Harris' Houso, on his
route to'a neighboring swamp to gather herbs
and roots for his sititae materia medics. Har-
ris' children, who inherited al their sire's an
tipathy for the aborigines, insulted the mecE
eine•man with blackguard and missives, until
he lost all patience and threatened to toma
hawk them. This menace, though intended
only to frighten the troublesome urchins, was
sufficient for Harris ; seizing his rifle he fellow ,
ed the unsuspecting and unoffending disciple of
2Eseulapins to the woods, and, if tradition may
be credited, shot him through the head and
sunk the body in the deep sluggish brook'Which
found its way through the middle of themo
rass. Although no one at that time knew cer•
tainly what had become of the Indian doctor,
the report darkly hinted that " Harris had
done his business for him," amply confirmed
by his well known antipathy to the race, reach
ed the tribe, and according to their invariable
custom, a powerful warrior was deputed to re
taliate the injury by the death of the murderer.
Ere this avenger of blood arrived, Harris had
sacrificed another victim to his unquenched
thirst for revenge. This was no other than
the savage Parks' himself. He had returned
from Canada, the refuge of the tories at the
close of the war, on a visit to his brother still
residing in that immediate neighborhood.—
Knowing the vengeful spirit of Harris, Parks
despatched a pacific message desiring him to
consent to a settlement of their personal and
political differences. " Old Brayton shall set
tle muttered Harris, casting ti fierce
glance at his long rifle suspended to the naked
walls of his rude cabin by a coul le deer's
horns. The ominous reply was reported to
Parks, and he fled from the vindictiveness of
his ancient foe. The vigilance of the other
was more than a match fur Parks' speed, and
before he reached the line he paid the prise of
his former fiendish conduct—a victim to the
unerring aim cf " Old Brayton."
The brave sent to avenge the death cf the
medicine man lurked about the precincts cf
Harris Hollow for some days without discover
ing himself, lest he should excite suspicion. At
length observing a single man in a geld adja
cent to his retreat, he made up to him and civ
illy requested to be directed to Harris' Cabin.—
The savage had never seen the foe of his race,
and knew not that he was addressing redoubt
able Leatherstocking himself, or his mission
might have found a speedy termination in the
death of one or the other of the implacable foes.
Harris at once penetrated h . de
when the sharp crack of a rifle and the heuvy
lunge of one of their number into the Lake,
brought the remaining five instantly to their
feet, and elicited the guttural ejaculation
'tis he !" No enemy , was visible, but
the smoke curled sluggishly upward from
bet!iind a huge rock near the place of . their
embarkation. The anchors were raised al
mostinstantly, but ere this could be effected, one
canoe was unmanned and calmly drifting towads
the shore. . The remaining warriors pulled with
dispatch in the direction of the reports. Vigo
rously as the paddles were plied, a second bark
Was soon floating, without occupants. Nothing
daunted by the, fate of their companions, and
bent upon avenging their death and vindicating
the honor of their tribe, the surviving braves
shot their shallop forward with the speed of
lightning—it touched the shore- , -they dropped
their paddles, and seized their woollens, and
strand. Ono of them. fell across the canoe,.
literally riddled with a shower of slugs and
buckshot from an old " queen's-arm," which
the wily hunter had been careful to provide in
case of need, and at the same instant the re
maining savage stood confronted face to fac e
with Bill Harris, who coolly emerged from his
ambush to give his foe fair play. • Each deliber
ately loaded his piece., It was a critical mo
ment: Both triggers were pulled, and the St.
Regis whizzed over the head of the old pioneer
NUMBER 22.
Teach your child to ob2y. It is the first
lesson. You can hardly begin too soon. Ono of
the most successful parents that I have known,
says that this point was usuully settled be
tween him and his children before they were
three months old. But it requires constant
care to keep up the habit of obedience, and es
pecially to do it in such a way as not to break
down the strength of a child's character.
Teach your child to be diligent. This habit
of being always employed is a safeguard
through life, as well as essential to the culture
of almost every virtue. Nothing can be moro
foolish than the' idea which some parents have,
that it is not respectable to set their children to
work. Play is a good thing. Innocent recrca
i Con is an employment, and a child may learn
to be diligent in that as well as in other things.
But let him early learn to be useful.
As to truth, it is ene essential thing. . Let
everything else be sacrificed rather than that.
Without it, what dependence can you place on
your child ? And be'sure you do nothing your
'self which may countenance any species of pre
varication and falsehood. Yet how many pa
rents do . ,teach their children the firet lessons of
deception.
It is impossible for us to say what occupa
tion would be most lucrative to a young
man, particularly as we know nothing of his •
talents or acquirements. Ilre, would, how
ever, say, ns a general mile to all, " do not
make haste to be rich.",, Adopt some safo.
.
and regular business, in which you may re
n comfortable living, and be content.—
ff a person is .prudent and. economical there
i:; generally no danger /Int he will succeed.--.
The idea of " getting rich" is a' wan , and
foolish one, and men generally spend hilf
their lives in finding out that to, accomplish
this object it is a useless undertaking. There
are thousands of persons at the present time,
suffering from the pangs of poverty, who if
they had been content with a sufficiency; would
now have been comfortable, and happy. Tho
education that we get in the world is more dearly
bought then our youthful instruction, and it
would be well if young men would more gen-.,
crally profit by the example which every day
life affords them.
I leave to society a ruined character, a wretch
ed example, and a memory that will soon rot.
I leave to my parents, during the rest of
their lives, as much sorrow as humanity in a
decrepid and feeble state, can sustain.. .
I to my brothers and sisters as much
mortification and injury as T could:conveniently
bring upon them: •
I leave to my wife a broken heart, a life of
wretchedness and shame, to weep over me and'
my premature death.
I giro and bequeath to each of my children
poverty, ignorance, a low character, and the
remembrance that their father was a monster::
at the same instant that his - Own pierced the
heart of his foe, who fell baukstard into the
George, dying its clear waters with the last
blood spilt in the eventful war of the Revolu
tion.,
Harris confined his foes in their own
barks, sunk them deep in the Lake, and pre-,
szved ' his moody taciturnity. The Indians
gained the superstition that Bill Harris had a
charmed life, and resolved to . exposc no more
of thii warning number to certain destruction.'
Harris Hollow was thenceforth unmolested;
and its original proprietor lived to rehearse, in.
garrulous old age, to its prosperous and rapidly
increasing populittion, the oft repeated tale of
TUE PIONkII 4 B REVENGE. •
Sol7mti Warnings as to Women.
I have told tiled, my son, and I bid thee never
.to forget it—many men have perished turough
the beauty of a woman. Through Eve, the first
man ; through Delilah, the strongest man
thro' the wife of Uriah, the most man.
—by reason of' many strangr woman, the
wisest men—all miserably fell. Who art thou,
then, that thou darest to behave thyself toward
them without prudent caution ? omy son, 0
my disciple! Art thou above thy master?—
And if I, that am unchangeable holiness, was
always most cautious as regards women, can
it be right for thee a reed shaken witli i the wind,
to be incautious ? To me indeed, there could
be no danger in their conversation : but I wish
to give thee an example, that thou shouldst do
likewise. Learn therefore, from me, to have
but seldom a short conversation with them.—
Learn not to address foolish woman of Samaria.,
except for their conversion, and to suggest re
pentance. Learn not to have words with sinful
women, Unit arc ashamed and humbled, except
to give them peace, and teach them a new way.
Learn not to talk with pious Cannanitish%
women, except it be with a grave and austere
goodness. Learn to repel even with authority,
them that come unto thee by reason of the odor
of tliy sanctity, if they show a merely human
affection, Learn not to visit the holy woman
—the Marys and the Marthas—except for the
sake e f thy friend Lazarus, their brother, or for
the sake of religion, or of charity. Learn not
to talk unto them of worldly trifles, but_ of the
one thing needful, and of Letter heart cf those
things which arc above. Learn not to visit
women that arc proud, or idle, or LusYbodies,
or given to dress, or to the vanities of the
world ; but to go to and comfort them that, are
sad at the death of Lazarus, or that are weep
ing at the death of an only son. Learn to
scold all suspicions ; and whatever may be in
vented with any a.ppearance of probability,
have a care to avoid its being invented.
lei Eicrt Scram for Pak !:t9.
It is said thnt when the mother of Washing
ton was,aslced how she formed the character of
her son, she•repiicd that she had endeavored
early to teach him three things, obedience, dili
gence and truth. No better advice can be
given by a parent.
Advice for Young Men.
The Drunkard's Wills