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THE BLIND BOY.
BY REV. DR. HAWKS.
It was a blessed summer day,
The floweret bloomed, the air was mild,
The little birds poured forth their lay,
Andeverthing in nature smiled.
In pleasant thought I wandered on
Beneath the deep wood’s ample shade.
Till suddenly I came upon
i Two children that had hither stray'd.
Just at an aged birch-tree’s foot
A little girl and boy reclined,
j His hand in hers she kindly put
And then I saw the boy was blind !
I "Dear Mary,’’ said the poor blind boy,
“That little bird sings very long,
I Say, do you see him in his joy ?
And is he pretty as his song ?”
I " Yes, Edward, yes,” replied the maid,
" I see the bird on yonder tree
The poor boy sighed and gently said—
“ Sister, I wish that I could see.”
M "The flowers, you say, are very fair,
• And bright green leaves are on the trees
I And pretty birds are singing there—
How beautiful for one who sees!
■ "Vet I the fragrant flower can smell,
And I can feel the green leaf’s shade,
I And I can hear the notes that swell
From these dear birds that God has made.
Sister, God is kind to me,
Though sight, alas ! ho has not given ;
But tell me, are there any blind
! Among the children up in heaven ?’’
“ No, dearest Edward, these all sec !
But wherefore ask a thing so odd ?”
"Oh ! Mary, lie's so good to me,
I thought I’d like to look at God.”
Ere long disease his hand had laid
On that dear boy so meek and mild ;
His widowed mother wept, and prayed
That God would spare her sightless child.
He felt the warm tears on his face,
1 And said, “ Oh, never weep for me,
|i 1 m going to a bright, bright place,
" here, Mary says, I God shall sec.
Nud you'll come there, dear Mary, too,
■' _ ‘ nd “""her, when you get up there,
Edward, mother, that 'tis you
°u know l never saw you hero.’’
sad * B P°ke no more, but sweetly smiled,
4 \vi nt ' na ' blow was given,
m .°" to °k u p that poor blind child,
11 opened first his eyes in Heaven.
Advice to Young Ladles.
.]) ®Y MOORE.
v s ' r ' s you'd have quiet hearts,
9 •pi, y hngers must be nimble,
I of*^ 68 - 8l " cl11 !l ß ainst the darts
1 W'd. is Minerva’, thimble!
iPPIJIKSS.
jlp By YOUNG.
C\ll iov» ( J' at earl h calls happiness; beware
Bvhe bui’ldHln?' th u t n6Ver CSn C3tpirC ;
H] olllj ,f!SS th,n an immortal base,
Csccm, < condemns his joy to death.
THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM.
VOLUME I.
THE CHARITY OF WAGES.
BY LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY.
Among the forms of benevolence, which
in our age of the world, are both multipli
ed and various, perhaps, few of us, suffici
ently keep in mind, the Charity of Wages.
To assist the poor through their own in
dustry, ennobles them. It keeps alive that
love of independence which is so priceless
in a free country. To grudge or stint the
wages of female labor is false economy.
It is to swell the ranks of degradation and
vice. In our sex it is unpardonable cruel
ty ; for the avenues in which they can gain
an honest subsistence, are neither so nu
merous nor so flowery, that we may close
them, at pleasure, and be innocent. We
ought not to consider ourselves as doing
the duty of Christians—though we sub
scribe liberally to the foreign and popular
charities—while we withhold the helping
hand, or the word of sympathy, from the
female labor within our own gates.
I know not that I narrate an uncommon,
or peculiar circumstance, when I mention
a young girl, brought up in comparative
affluence, who after the sudden death of
her father, was left without resources.
The mother’s health failed, through grief
and misfortune, and she nobly resolved to
earn a subsistence for both. She turned
to the needle, with which she was dexte
rous for amusement, or the decoration of
her own apparel. A little instruction en
abled her to pursue, from house to house,
the occupation of a dress-maker.
At first, some of the delicate feelings of
early culture, clung around her. She dar
ed scarcely to raise her eyes at the table
of s rangers, and when at night money
was given her, she felt half ashamed to
take. But want soon extinguished those
lingerings of timidity and refinement.—
Before her pittance was earned, it was
mentally devoted to the purchase of some
comfort for her enfeebled mother. It soon
became evident that her common earnings
were insufficient. She took home extra
work, and abridged her intervals of rest.
Her candle went not out by night, and
sometimes when her mother had retired,
she almost extinguished the fire, continu
ing to work with chilled hands and feet,
lest the stock of fuel should not suffice
until her slender earnings would enable
her to purchase more.
Her nervous sys'em became over-wrought
and diseased. Those for whom she work
ed, were often querulous, and hard to
please. She felt an insuperable longing
for a kind word, an encouraging look, —
for some form of sympathy, to sus’ain the
sensitive spirit. Those who ltired her,
had not put these in the contract. Work,
on her part, and money on theirs, was all
the stipulation. They did not perceive
that her step grew feeble, as day by day
she passed through the crowded streets to
her task, or night after night returned to
nurse her infirm mother. A sudden flush
came upon her cheek, and she sank into
ihe grave before the parent for whom she
had toiled.
The wife of a sailor, during his periods
of absence, did all in her power to aid him
in diminishing their expenses. He was
not of that class, who spend their wages
on their arrival in port, and forget their
family. But as that family increased, his
earnings, without rigid economy on her
part, would have been insufficient for their
support.
At length the bitter news came that her
husband was lost at sea. When the first
shock of grief had subsided, she summon
ed her resolution, and determined to do
that for her children, which their father
had so often expressed his wish to have
done, that they should be kept together,
and not he dependent on charity. She
meditated what mode of livelihood would
best enable her to comply with a wish
she held so sacred. She had great per
sonal strength, and a good constitution.
She made choice of the hardest work xvliich
is performed by females, because it prom
ised the most immediate reward. Often,
after her task of wasking, did she forget
her weariness, while in the dusky twilight,
she hastened toward her lonely home, as
the mother bird nerves her wing when she
draws nearer to her nest.
But she found her sickly babe a sufferer
from these absences, and sometimes acci
dents befell the other little ones, from her
having no person with whom to leave them.
The sum which she earned, would not al
ways pay for injury they had sustained by
the want of her sheltering care. It oc
casionally happened, that the lady for
whom she worked was out, or engaged
with company, she returned without her
payment, for which, either to wait, or go
again, were inconveniences, which those
who dwell in abodes of plenty cannot es
timate.
Was there not some labor which she
could perform at home, and thus protect
the nurslings for whose subsistence she
toiled? The spinning wheel and loom,
first presented themselves to her thought,
for she had been skilful in their use, in the
far-off agricultural village, where her
youth was spent. But domestic manufac
tures had become unfashionable, and she
could obtain no such employment. Coarse
needle-work seemed her only resource.
At this, she wrought incessantly, scarcely
allowing herself time to get, or partake of
a scanty meal. But after all was done, the
remuneration was inadequate to their ne
cessities. She could scarcely supply a
sufficiency of tho coarsest food. Her chil
dren shivered as the winter drew on.
MACON, (GA.) SATURDAY ItIORXIXG, MAY 5, 184».
Their garments, though constantly mend
ed, were thin, and their poor little feet bare
and blue. She drew back from the mis
erable fire that they might be warmed,
and shuddered as she saw the means of
sustaining this comfort wasting away.
Still, the injunction of her departed hus
band lay deep and warm at her heart. She
asked no charity. She remitted no exer
tion, and her whole life was one prayer to'
God.
At this crisis, a society was formed on
the true principle of benevolence, to aid
poverty through its own efforts, arose to
save her from destruction. Its express
object was to improve the condition of the
tempest-tost mariner and his suffering
household. It comprised an establishment,
where garments were made for seamen ;
and here she obtained a constant supply
of needlework, with liberal and prompt
, payment. One of its most beautiful fea
tures, was a school, were the elementary
branches of a good education were gratui
tously taught. Here, instruction in the
use of the needle, was thoroughly impar
ted, and as soon as the pupils were able to
finish a garment for the clothing store, they
were encouraged by receiving a just pay
ment.
Now, the small, lowly room ofthe wid
ow was brightened with comfort, and her
heart was too full for words. When her
little girls came running from school, with
a shout of joy, the eldest one exclaiming,
“ See, mother, see, here are twenty
cents. Take them and buy a frock for the
baby. They gave them to me for making
a sailor's gingham shirt, strong and good.
My teacher says, I shall soon sew well
enough to make one of a nicer kind, for
which I am to receive 6eventy-five cents.
Then I will help pay your house rent. Oh,
I never was so happy in my life, and yet I
could not help crying when I worked, for
I remembered that you used to make ex
actly such shirts for dear father, and I did
not know but the man for whom I made
this, might he lost at sea, and never come
back to his home anymore.”
“ Here is a book,” said the little sister
“ which my teacher let me take from the
school library, to bring home, and read to
you, while you sit at work. And she is
so good, and so kind to me, mother, she
takes as much pains to have me learn as if
we were ever so rich, and I love her
dearly.”
“ Blessings on her,” said the widow,
through her grateful tears. “ Heaven’s
blessings on the society, and on ex'ery la
dy, into whose heart God has put it to help
the desolate through their own industry.”
And night and morning she taught her
kneeling babes the prayer of gratitude for
their benefactresses.
Let us encourage every variety of ef
fort, by which our sex can win a subsis
tence, and foster in the young that spirit
which prefers the happy consciousness of
being useful, to any form of indolent and
helpless dependence. In our bounty to
the poor, let us keep in mind the principle
of aiding them as far as possible, through
their own exertions, for she who thus stu
dies their moral benefit, elevates them in
the scale of being, and performs an accep
table service to her country, and to her
God.
Mothers, speak often to your daughters
on these subjects, instruct them in the
economy of charity. Your responsibility
comprises both earth and Heaven.
There are many vvoiks from writers of
the present day, which afford valuable hints
for conversation on the subject of being
respectable and happy without the pos
session of wealth. Pre-eminent among
them, is Miss Sedgwick’s “ Rich Poor
Man, and Poor Rich Man.” From your
own observation, you can illustrate the
truth of such sentiments. You can con
vince them from the page of history, that
virtue, and talent, and the heart’s true fe
licity, may exist without the tinsel ofgold.
You can impress on them from a Book
Divine, that to “gain the whole world”
would not balance one sigh of a lost
soul.
False Charity. —A negro preacher,
speaking from “ What is a man profited if
he gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul ?" mentioned among other things, that
many lost their souls by being too char
itable ! Seeing the congregation astonished
beyond measure at his saying, he very em
phatically repeated it, and then proceeded
to explain his meaning. “ Many people,”
said he, “ attend meeting, hear the sermon
and, when it is over, they proceed to di
vide it among the congregation—this part
was for that man, and that part for that
woman ; such denunciations for such per
sons, these threats for you sinners—and
so,” continued ihc shrewd African, “ they
give away the whole sermon, and keep
none for themselves.” ‘
The Bank.— “ Did you recieve my re
mittance, Nathan my son V’
“ Yes, father,”
“ Then why did thee not buy a nexv
coat I —thy present one is rather fragile.”
“ Why—the fact is—l left all my money
in tho bank at New Orleans.”
“ Ah ! thy economy is certainly com
mendable—in what bank 1”
*• I don’t exactly remember what bank,
father—l know it xvas a very good one,
as it had a Scriptural name. It was—um !
let me see—it was the Tharaoh bank, I
think.”
Source* of (he Nile—Dlteoveriee.
The last number of Littcll’s Living Age
has a remarkable interesting article on
Weme’s expedition to the sources of the
Nile. This wonderful steram, our readers
know, has never been traced to its source,
which is somewhere in the interior of Afri
ca. The Nile has two branches, called
the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The
source of the former of these was discov
ered by Bruce, in the interior of Abysinia,
but such was the popular belief that the
sources of the Nile could not be discover
ed, that Bruce was not believed !—One of
the best modern travellers, who told a very
accurate story, was not believed, because
it was not credible that the springs of
the Nile should be known, or that such a
peculiar race of blacks should exist as
were found in these regions of ancient
Ethiopia!
Believed or not, however, Bruce’s ac
count was true. He did discover the
Springs of the Blue Nile, but the blue
Nile was much the shortest branch. It
bore the same relation to the White Nile
(which is the real river,) as the Upper
Mississippi does to the Missouri. It is the
inferior branch. The real source of the
Nile remained to be discovered, and is
not yet known.
The White Stream, ( Nile, ) which is
the Western branch, is the largest. Prior
the expidition fitted out by Mehemed Ali
in 1830, and in which Mr. Werne was a
passenger, the farthest point reached up
the Nile was in lattitude about 10 degiees.
But, although the source is not yet exact
ly known, we do know that itis very near,
if not just exactly on the equator.
Mr. Werne, in this expedition, reached
latitude 4 degrees, or nearly 400 miles be
yond the previously ascertained limit.—
There was an obstruction or fall in the
stream, and it grew narrower as Mr.
Werne thought; but it was quite certain
its sources were yet several hundreds of
miles further. The sources of the Nile
and Niger will probably be found not far
apart. There are said to be in the “ Moun
tains of the Moonbut who knows any
thing of the Mountains of the Moon ? No
one. There are unknown lands which
may yet reward some future adventurers
with the fame of discovery.
It is most curious, that lat. 4° (to which
Mr. Weinc penetrated ) in several degrees
beyond the poiut at which the heads of the
Nile are placed, on our common maps,
while it is certain that real springs were
yet hundreds of miles beyond lat. 4°. All
our ideas of Central Africa, ( generally re
piesented as a desert, ) are deranged by
the fact, that Mr. Werne, found these re
mote regions luxuriant in foilage, and in
habited by dense swarms of people ! These
people were, some of them, gigantic in
statute,while they were most savage in life.
The voyage of this Egyptian expedition
was one of peculiar interest. It has but
recently been given to the English public,
Mr. Werne being a german. Blackwood’s
Magazine thus speaks of it:
We can conceive few things more exci
ting than such a voyage as Mr. Werne has
accomplished and recorded. Starting from
the outpost of civilization, he sailed into
the very heart of Africa, up a stream
whose upper waters were then for the first
time furrowed by vessels larger than a
savage’s canoe—a stream of such gigantic
proportions, that its width, at a thousand
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lake rather than of a river The brute
creation were in proportion with the mag
nitude of the water course. The hippo
potamus reared his huge snout about the
surface, and wallowed in the gullies that
on either hand run down to the stream ;
enormous crocodiles gaped along the shore;
elephants played in herds upon the pas
tures ; the tall giraffe stalked among the
lofty palms; snakes thick as trees lay
coiled in the slimy swamps; and ant hills,
ten feet high, towered above the rushes.
Along thickly peopled banks hordes of
savages showed themselves, gazing in
wonder at the strange ships, and making
ambiguous gestures, variously construed
by the adventurers as signs of friendship
or hostility. Alternately sailing or towing,
as the wind served or not; constantly in
sight of natives, but rarely communicating
with them; often cut off for days from
land by interminable fields of tangled
weeds—the expedition pursued its course
through innumerable perils, guaranteed
from most of them by the liquid rampart
on which it floated. Lions looked hungry
and savages shook their spears,but neither
showed a disposition to swim off and board
the flotilla.— Cin. Adv.
Beating Him Down. —Not long since,
in Winthrop, one of the Irish laborers on
the railroad went into Mr. Chandler's store
and asked the price of a shawl.
“ Four and sixpence,” said Mr. Chan
dler.
“ Four and saxpence !” said Hibernia ;
"be dad an’ its too much, —I'll give you
three dollars.”
“ Won’t you give me three and a half ?”
said Mr. Chandler.
“ An’ sure it’s too much—l’ll give thra.”
“ Well, now, my friend, I didn’t ask you
but seventy-five cents, and I’ll take that.”
said Mr. Chandler.
“ Sivinty-five cents ! indade an’ I’ll give
you but fifty, and pay the money, fornenst
Michal hero.”
Mr. Chandler declined the bargain, and
Paddy then went off without it, because
he couldn't bate him down, at all.
NimßEli 23.
From the Motional Intelligencer.
Reproduction of Animal and Vegetable
Form*.
When the Apostle Paul assures us that
there will be a resurrectiou of the human
body after death, be takes care to explain
that there will be a very essential difference
between the body to be raised aud the
body that perishes. “It is sown a natural
body, it is raised a spit iturl body.” there is
a natutal body, and there is a spiritual
body.” Whether science may ever throw
any light upon this sublime doctrine of
revelation or not, it might be almost irrev
erence to offer a conjecture. The Chris
tian philosopher, however, has the high
satisfaction of knowing that, as far as the
developments of science have yet gone in
that direction, their known truths are nev
er found in conflict with the undoubted
records and interpretations of the Sacred
Scriptures. That there is some mysteri
ous essence about bodies, both animal aud
vegetable, by which their forms, separate
from the 11 natural bodies,” are sometimes
presented to the senses, by reflection or
some other means, there reems to be much
reason to believe. By the help of some
chemical preparations the light of the sun
transfers to a metallic plate the apparent
form of any object with the greatest mi
nuteness and perfection, and leaves it there
permanently fixed. Vessels hundreds of
miles at sea, in certain states ofthe atmos
phere, have sometimes been seen floating
in the air near the shore with perfect dis
tinctness. The appearance of human
forms about burying grounds, though in
most cases perhaps having no existence ex
cept in the excited imaginations or super
stitious fears of the beholders, may some
times be a reality, the result of a natural
cause, which may perhaps hereafter come
to be regarded a natural process as much
as the growth of a plant from the seed.
My thoughts were turned to this subject
at this time by some singular paragraphs
in a late number of the London “ Me
chanics’ Magazine,” one of which is said
to be an extract from a work of Getingei,
entitled “ Thoughts on the two faculties
of Feeling and Knowing,” and which is
as follows:
" I chopped up some balm, put it into a
large glass retort, poured rain water upon
it, connected the retort with a good-sized
receiver, and let it heat at a cuppel gently
at first, then more strongly. Upon this
there went into the water a yellow-green
ish oil; it took up the whole space of the
receiver, and swam on the surface of the
water the thickness of the back of a table
knife. This oil had the form of innumer
able balm leaves, which did not lap over
or run into one another, but lay side by
side, each perfectly diawn, and with the
distinctness of all the lines of a balm leaf.
I let it stand a long time, that all about me
might observe it. At last I shook the re
ceiver, because I had to pour it out; the
leaves ran together, but in less than a min
ute restored themselves to their former po
sition most distinctly.”
The writer in the Magazine follows this
quotation by saying:
“ After reading the above I came quite
unexpectedly upon a similar account in a
place where one would certainly not ima
gine any thing of the sort likely to be
found, viz ; in Pitaval’s ‘ Causes Celebres,’
a collection of the celebrated crimi
nal trials in the French courts, (the source
whence Dumas has drawn the greater part
of his popular work, ‘Celebrated Crimes.’)
In the 12th volume ihere is one entitled
‘ Le Spectre,’ at the end of which Pitaval
enters into some reasoning on the subject
of spectral allusions, and brings forward
the following experiments to show that
the farms of things may exist without their
subject matter.”
The subjoined quotations from Pitaval
are given in the Magazine in French,
which are here translated into English for
the readers of the Intelligencer:
“ Besides, it is possible that the appear
ance of spectres may have a natural cause
for another reason. Chemists show that
the palingencsie ( being born again ) or the
resurrection of plants is very possible.
Able chemists in great numbers have made
experiments by which, placing the ashes
of a plant in a vial, these ashes exhale and
arrange themselves as nearly as they can
in the very figure which the Author of
Nature first impressed on them.
“ The Abbe Vallemont, in his treatise
on the curiosities in nature and art, teach
es the secret of making this palingenesie.
He says that father Scott, a Jesuit, assur
ed him that when he was in Rome he had
the satisfaction to see the rose made to
arise from its ashes whenever it was de
sired, by simply employing a little heat.
The same author also taught the art of
using some mineral water which caused a
plant, dead down to the roots, to become
green as in life. From this palingencsie of
plants wo come to the palingenesie of ani
mals.
“ Gafferel, a very able chemist, states
that M. Duchene, one of the best chemists
of the age, reported that he had seen a
very able Polish physician in Cracow who
kept in vials ashes of almost all plants, so
that when any curious person desired to
see, for example, a rose in a phial, he took
one containing the ashes of the rose well
preserved, and warming it over a lighted
candle, after becoming warm the ashes
were seen to be in motion. A little cloud
arose, and after some motion of the vial,
soon assumed the form and color of the
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rose, so fresh, and so perfect and beauti
ful that one would believe he could smell
its sweet odor.
•* That learned man said that he had of
ten tried to do the same thing; but chance
at last enabled him to come pretty near
producing the same prodigy, and he had
amused himself at Mr. de Luynes de For
mentieres, counseller in Parliament, in
seeing many curious experiments with the
salts of nettles burnt. Putting the ley
made from out of doors in a clear cold
night, and finding it in the morning frozen,
with this marvellous result, that the dif
ferent kinds of the nettles, their shapes
and figures, were so neatly and perfectly
represented on the ice that the living plafifs
were no better delineated.”
Yankee Exterprite and Honor. —
The Providcnoe Journal tells the foUow
ing excellent story, Vvhich needs ho com
ment :
«• Literally one of the coolest operations
that we ever knew in the annals of trade,
recently came to our notice from a sourcfe
worthy of entire credit.
New England is said to have but two
native products, granite and ice. .We
have an ice story to tell that is worth hear
ing. A gentleman long identified with
the ice trade, having entered into it as early
as 1805, after some twenty-five years of
successful enterprise, thought to enlarge
his sphere of knowledge and action by en
tering into other mercantile business.
He soon became entangled by hisrelatioh
to some unfortunate mercantile houses,
and found himself a debtor to the amount
0f5210,000. This must have given him
more ofa chill than his ice-houses ever did.
But he knew that faint heart never won
either fair lady or noble prize. He told
< his creditors that if they would give him
time, and not hamper him at all, he would
pay the whole, principal and interest.
For thirteen years he labored for it, and
last year made the closing payment on
$210,000 principal, and about $70,000
interest. He did it in his old businesss,
as the ice king of the globe. He sold his
cargoes in the great southern ports of the
two hemispheres, at low prices, kept rigid
faith, bought largely the needed storehous
es in the various centres ofthe trade secu
red the lands around his pouds, made
friends everywhere, aud now comes out
with an independent fortune and free of
debt. Such was his generous policy (hat
the English residents of Calcutta presen
ted him with a fire-proof stone storehouse,
as a token of respect, and to retain him in
that market. He takes a very cheerful
view of his past misfortunes, and thinks
himself, on the whole, better off for em
barking in the disastrous business which
caused his embarrassmen's, and yet enlar
ged his facilities for his old traffic more
than enough to make up his loss.
Honor to the man who labors to pay his
debts, instead of creeping out of bis res
ponsibilities through any small hole in the
crevices of the Jaw, and allowing his cre
ditors to suffer whilst he pampers himself
over ill-gotten gains.
The above incidents show the power of
a cheerful purpose, and the worth of vera
city on the one hand and confidence on the
other. But we will not spoil a good story
by a long moral.”
A Tall Mhsketo.— “ So you are going
out to the East Hingies, my darlint, Mrs.
Marooney ?” said an old Irish crone to the
young wife of a soldier, about to embark
for Madras. “ I’ve been in them parts me
self, and well do I remember the torments
I went through, night and day, with the
muskatoes. They have long suckers hang
ingdown from their heads,and they’ll draw
the life’s blood out of ye before ye can say
pays.” This terrifying account lived in the
memory of the young woman ; the vessel
made Madras roads, the decks were soon
crowded ; all hands delighted at the sight
of land, Mrs. Marooney among the rest;
but her joy was of short duration ; fur, on
the shore she perceived an elephant. Hor
ror-stricken at the sight, and in breathless
agitation, she approached the mate, a\r
claiming, with uplifted hands, " Holy mo
ther, is that a muskato 1”
Expansion of Water its a Freezing
State. —An experiment on expansion of
water in a freezing state, attended with
singular results, was tried by a correspon
dent of the Montreal Gazette, during the
last winter. He filled a24 lb. shell, (a
bout 3-4 of an inch in thickness,) with wa
ter, and plugging up the hole securely,
exposed it to the action of the frost, during
one of the keenest nights last winter. In
the morning he found the mighty power
had divided the iron mass into four sec
tions, one of which, weighing four and a
half lbs., must have passed upward, over a
wheel, behind which it had beeir plhced:
The ice remaining in the section left be
hind, looked as if it had been poun
ded.
Truth. —A parent may leave an estate
to his son, but how soon it may be mortga
ged ! He may leave him money, but how
soon it may be squandered ! Better leave
him a sound constitution, habits of indus
try, an unblemished reputation, a good
education, and an inward abhorrence of
vice, in any shape or form ; these cannot
be wrested from him, and are better tliau
thousands of gold and silver.