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MORAL AM) REUmOtIS.
Who would not bo a Christian ?
I would not be a butterfly,
Dying when fair tilings h .ve faded -’way. {
No, 1 would be n ehtistian, dyingl
when God wills in full confidence of :
brighter and happier world; where ilv i
souls of the just meet to spend . bliss j
ful eternity. O! the hope of tho chris-j
tian ! who would barter it for world* i
like this ? What can move the roui !
that can hold converse witij the great 1
Author of all things, aid feci that
prayer, however simple, is Ik*by
Him? As has been sni , prey or is n
staff to the limbs that totter, an anchor
to the shipwrecked mariner, a treasure
undiminished, a mine that never is ex
hausted. By it the soul anticip; tes the
rapturous meeting with ?ho*-n who have
passed on before, when the shout of re
ongnit'on shall ringthioueh Heaven’s
dome; and makes long to be set
from tho shackles of clay. What gives j
cheerfulness to poverty’s den? what I
softens the bed of pain? what calms
the troubled breast ? what is a balm for j
every wound ? what creates the joys ol
life, and gilds the dark sea ot death with j
rtftys ot triumphant light? ’Tis that j
glorious hope. What drives all gloom j
from the countenance and spreads that!
calm smile lovely even in death ?
’Tis the faith that beholds some much
loved spirit beckoning on to the shores
of bliss. Whoso hardy as to take up
on them tho responsibility of denying
this glorious hope ? who will tell the
Christian, as he with glory beaming in {
the eyes, and heaven breaking on the !
views, that it is all a delusion, all a fab
rio fix, and gotten up by man ? Who
would not rather point to those joys
bought on Calvary? Who but must
acknowledge the benign influence of
Christianity ? But who are Christians ?
not every one that sayelh unto me,
“Lord, Lord, shall enter into the King
dom of Heaven, but he that doetiitiie
will of my Father who is in Heaven.”
“Let us hear tho conclusion of the
whole matter, love God atni keep his
commandments, for this is the whole
duty of man.”
Seclusion, Aug. 30th, 1832.
CHARLOTTE.
Hope vs- Slarder.
Cast down soul, hold up thy head and
look through the mi-ts of trouble to a
happier sphere! Wby is thy once bold
nnd undaunted countenance abashed
and dejected? Why dost thy once
beautiful and sparkling eye, ap| *'ar to
rfliail before the bold. audaei ns
of the wicked? Why is tliy loud’
.light laugh heaved no more ? V. hy
doth not thy merry jest Given tho.,:-
about thee as in farmer days ? Why
canst not thou take rest on thy ied ol
repose, as once thou couldyt ! .-Min
der, vile, degrading -lander has marked
thee for its unhappy victim. Ihe
tongue of the base has been busy to
thy°hurt. Thy once apotl ss co u ac
4;or has been stained, deeply >t “mG, by
those who would build up them av.
at the pain and disgrace, and h grain
tion, and ruin of the iunoc ynt. Tny
soul, though spotless as belorm feels.
deeply feels, the force of the ‘poison tin- ;
dor tiis tatler’s infamous tongue. A \
rapacious wolf, clad in the habiliment j
of tha lamb, has made fearful inroads
on thy popularity,- thv charaster;!
but not on liiy Christianity. Perhaps!
through tho mysterious dispensilions of j
|an all-wise Providence, the slanderer!
is of great advantage frequently to the
[slandered 1 Though the slandered may
j be, for a time, cast down and almost
! broken-hearted, it he be innocent it will
appear, and the prospects before him <
will appear more serene and beautiful
than ever before, and his soul will be
enlarge 1. his min •: b eniight led ;
former friends will return, the dark va-’
por that once enshrouded his moral!
sky will dissipate and he ill seem to’
1 be in another sphere.
I Hope on, try on, and thy apparent j
trials, though hard they may seem, will j
add force and t Lor, and siren nh to thv :
immortality, and you will smile after |
awhile on tho very trials that now seem
[so burdensome. When the slanderer’s !
venom has been dispo.v lof in a man-1
nor as he thought to injure the guiltless,!
it will fill on iiis own ImaJ and pierce i
him through with much shame and ma-,
ny sorrows, while tile slandered wiil
rise triumphant above his antagonist
arid soar aloft in a region where the
, slanderer cannot even see. When tri
rals and troubles assail, bear them as j
well as you can, and reply notin a|
| sprit of bitterness ; but treat enemies j
; as kindly as possible, and ore long thou I
I wilt discover the sum of peace and se-
I renitv through the stroke and misty
j hurricanes of the slanderous storm. —
I There is a being who says he v “ X
| right, will avenge tfie pure of their ad
versaries, and build up the cast down
i and dejected, and set his feel on a firm
; rock. That being chastises us rnyste
j riously and severely to bring us, or to
’ keep us to our duty. We should thank !
him as much,’ or perhaps more, foi tri
j ais than for blessings ; for apparent tri-
I als are often rc/blessing3,and apparent
blessings are sometimes grievous cur-
I sea. Our best friends are our vioist
j enemies, an J our bilterest enemies ore
I cur very nr*’ est friends if wo could sco
it. MARTHA ANN.
Elbert county. Craitsville.
Time and Eternity. We. step the
fault —we look abroad over it, and
it seems immense—so does tho sea.
j What ages h ve men live i —and know
but a small portion. They circumnavi
gate it now with a speed under which
its vast bulk shrinks. But let the as
tronomer lift up his glass and he learns
to believe in a mass of matter, compar
ed with which this great globe itself
becomes an impondder&ble grain oi’
dust. And so to to *eh us walking
along the road of life a year, a day or
an hour shall serin long. As wc grow
older the time shortens: but when we
lift up our eyes to look beyond tlm
j earth, our seventy years and the lo
i thousands of years which have rob.
j over the human rc , vanis into a point;
| for then we are mam trim; Time against
j Eternity.
j Alone, yet Not alone. —How ma
jny conflicts and butdens, with all our
; instinctive yearning for aid, must we
(encounter alone. The friend who was
| nearest to you laint®, falls, is gone ;
| and you are alone. The expected sup.
j port of your age, the pride of your pa
! te-rnal heart leaves you, and you are
i alone ; your day declines, the shadows
] lengthening and darkening around you,
j and you are alone. The guide of
[ your youth, perhaps, just as you begin
! to feel how much yon need his counsels
! and his aid, is gone and you are alone--;
! alone amid the growing fascination. 0 )
’ and thickening dangers of life. Oh, to
; have a better friend, a friend who will
! never leave you nor forsake you. Oh,
j the comfort of resting on God in be
j reavement, and conversing with him as!
‘Friend and Father—us all in all to
’ you forever. How is the loneliness of)
| bereavement brightened when you can
say, “And yet 1 am not alone, because
• the Father is with me.”
Now.—“ Now,” is the constant syl
lable ticking from the clock of time. —
“Now” is the watch ward of the wise.
“Now” is on the banner of the prudent.
1 Let us keep this little word always in
our mind ; and whenever anything pro
j serns itself to us in the shape of work,
whether mental or physical, we should
do it with all our might, remembering
i that “Now” is the only time for us. ll
‘is indeed a sorry way to get through
! the world by putting off till to morrow,
1 saying, “Then” 1 will do it. No! thi
vviil never answer. “Now” is ours,
“Then” may never be.
Beautiful Metaphor. —The com
parison of the journey of life to a transit
across the desert, is very felicitously
expressed in the following lines by Chas.
WTsley:
Here in this body pent,
Absent from Heaven I ror.rn,
Vet nightly piten my moving tent
A day’s march nearer home.
PENFIELD, GA. SEPTEMBER 11, 1552.
Tho Uaianca3 oi Life.
From the Pennsylvania Inquirer!
we take the following suggestive arti- j
cle:
\v e have often thought, in examining 1
n 1 ~ j
calmly and carefully into the various)
phases of human existence, in analysing j
the bills of mortality, and comparing!
tho changes and the chances that occur |
in the fortunes of the rich and the poor, i
tho proud and tho humble, that despite
tho broad contrasts that appear on the!
surface ot things, —despite the fact that I
the many seem miserable, and the fowl
happy, comparatively speaking, the en.
joy ments of this world are more nicely j
balanced, more wisely and equitably,
.. .i, il.an til. sup .fi-i .la.o apt to.
imagine. W'o now speak in general 1
3011*6, and not with reference to individ-1
uul cases. The position, too, as it!
seems to us, is rational. Why should )
the low be favored at the expense of the ’
many ? Why should a handful of hu- j
man beings be selected oYit as the reefp- 1
ients of the high favors of fortune, oft
hsulth and of happiness, to the neglect !
of tho millions ? Why should the ricli I
by inheritance, or by some sudden turn !
oi’ prosperity, be eminently contented !
in mind, and exempt from the ordinary j
cares to which llssh is heir, and the |
multitude, equally upright, intelligent!
and virtuous, he subjected to every spe-j
t ins of anxiety and anguish ? It is not
so. Such a law would conflict with j
the beneficent principles of the Author!
of our being, and the Ruler of the
World, it would chili the heart of
philanthropy, and deaden the incentives
to virtue. It would discourage the lov
er of this, and retard the onwrad march
of humanity. But. we repeat, it is not j
so. The enjoyments of life are nicely i
distributed and wisely balanced, flow-!
ever desirable wealth may be, however
power and place may be coveted—it by
j no means follows that cither is inevita
i bly associated with happiness. And
(assuredly not, when ihe means of at
j taiument have been tortuous, unfair,
i unmanly or dishonest.
, j We are among those who believe
that while virtue has its own reward.
\ ico it sure to be accompanied or fol
lowed by an adequate punishment.—
And thus, wo hole the doctrine that,
, j however dizzy tho elevation, ot howev
, cr Ocd us-like the wealth, there cannot
* j be ease of mind, calm of spirit and re
| pose of conscience, if fraud and lroach
iety and crime have formed “the rungs
.| of the ladder,” through which liie ele
; •ration has been attained. Nay, in the
; very supposed hour of enjoyment and
of triumph; some unseen, some unex
pected calamity will be sure to track
■ the footsteps of tho ambitions and the
avaricious. Sickness will come with
itsnrbititatingand paralyzing influence,
the loved ones of the soul will be borne
jawny in tho arms of death, a sudden
: expose will darken and overshadow
j reputation, and thus life, although ap
parently golden and glittering, will be
Gr'G w, e mpty and vain. On the other
hand, the moderate in circumstances,
but the pure iri heart, the individual
who is of a cheerful and contented .spir
i’, who is in the full enjoyment of heal th, :
au ! of a.I ids facultf-s, who is regular
j:n his habits, and correct in his social
| disciplines, who has no gnawing adder
lof remorse eating away at his con-
J science, whose sleep is deep and Iran
j qnil, and whose waking moments nre
| free from self-reproach— surely such a
‘ person, and there are thousands and
| tens oi thousands of such in all the !
walks ot humble life, is, comparatively
j speaking, a happy and art envied being.
1 lie appreciates bis position, is grateful,
j for the blessings he enjoys, and while
i prompted hy a laudable desire to attain
jan independent position, he does not
j fret his sonl away in bitter jealousy at
j the success of others, jnd would not,
! for tho mines o( Golconda, wrong a
j friend, malign a neighbor, defraud a j
iuilow creature, or darken his memory
j •>* a ‘l time to come, by the perpetration :
i of any base or unworthy act.
j True, he may live for years, and on-!
|ly live. He may find it difficult to
save anything for a rainy day; and at;
times, for such is the human lot, he!
may havo his trials, his temptations, his
‘ ies arid bis pangs. But, with a!
due reliance upon sell and upon i’rovi- ■
■ dence, with a consciousness that all is ;
! fight within—With the proud satisfac- j
tion that if the grave should claim him j
to morrow, he would passs away with-!
out a dark spot upon his character, a!
perpetual sunshine may lie said to play
around his heart, to etherialize his mind
and spirit, and to rob even care of its !
frown. It is thus, we contqnd, that
the hopes arid the pleasures of life are
i nicely awl wisely balanced. On the
j other hand, how many temptations is
wealth subjected to, from which povi r
ity is exempt —temptations in a thous
i arid forms, and which the affluent them- :
selves do not realize until too late.—
There is no greater curse in this world
I than idleness—there is no more misera
ble man than an idler. U cither is
! often the victim of bad habits, or the
prey of morbid fancies. His imugina-!
lion is qu'ok and active, ho becomes
miserable, and he scarcely knows why!
The subject is a fruitful one, and capa- ,
bio of many illustrations. The true
philosophy is to appreciate w en joy the
comforts ive possess, the blessings tlm!
are vouched to us, and not to wander
after forbidden fruits, covet our neigh
bors’ property, or aspire beyond reus
onable bnund's. If we leak around us, •
we will foul that there are others far less .
favorable circumstanced than ourselves, i
and who el are cheerful, cont- tiled and [
grateful. .There arc certain laws
which govern human society, eithor of,
wliicli. il v-roleted oonslau'ly and habit-1
nail- wri ;>■.> attended with hitter con-!
,ti This, all.'hould reifteinberl
when examiai.’g their own ca.-ns, anu ,
complaining of their own misfortunes. I
Thus, ho who is habitually treacherous |
or false, cannot look for confidence mid j
respect on the part of Ins friends and j
associates. And thus a; tin, he who hi
idle and dissolute, will bo sure, s •■*•: -r j
or later, to p.y the adequate penalties. ;
And so too tie who is careless ami neg. ;
Ircifiil, may look for carelessness and j
neglect, with regard to Ins finely, his;
friends, his business and his fortune. — ,
Each should net according to Ids posi- j
lion, his means and his responsibilities,
and with reference, not only to self and
!to time, but to society, and a higher,
! holier and happier condition in the life
to come.
i
“ \e. well your part,
There all the honor lies.”
Swimming and Drowning.
The late steamboat disast r.s, which
have involved a great sacrifice of hu
man life in consequence of the inability
j loswim, illusi rate in a forcible manner
the importance of acquiring this art.
And we hope it will not lie long before
a bathing and swimming establishment,
under good management, and available
for private practice, will constitute one
of the educational institutions of every
city possessing the prerequisites of wa
ter facilities. Wo think that such an
I establishment ought to pay well; but it
j would require some capital, much dis- !
! cretion and a fair ‘share of perseverance, j
j A variety of newspaper paragraphs,
are flitting about which profess to film-j
j ish such information as will enable j
t those who cannot swim to save thorn, i
• selves in tho water. Those who roly,
I tyioii s:tij.d) as we have met with, will j
! surely pay the penalty of death under j
such a delusion. “Drowning men |
catcli at straws,” is an old saying, and
tho penalty of catching ut the straw is, j
to drown. Some of the statements we j
have seen come pretty near the truth,!
hut coming as such things diould do, j
I from experienced swimmers only, they j
! ought to ho exactly true. It is sur- [
prising to find errors in such matters,:
and wc can only account for them on :
the supposition that thc-y miginate in j
general experience, ratln-r than panic-1
uiar experiments.
For instance, one writer says, that!
if a man overboard would not attempt I
to do morn than let his face remain out !
of the water, he would never sink “ll;
[ is his great heavy head,” says thowri-
I ter jocosely, ‘-that carries him dotvn.”j
i Another says, that “the head, ha-ing so j
much cavity or air space in it, will keep
above the water, and thus prevent the
body from sinking, if the hands are
not raised out of the water.” The!
first of those statements i near the:
truth, but the last is profoundly ri-1
diculous. Others again give di
rections to do this and that, und the)
strangling, frightened mortal, with > ter
nity staring him in tho face, will he
perfectly safe. We propose a word ;
or two, and if what we say, should ever
save one human life in such an extrem
ity as that un tor consideration, it will
be an ample requital.
The first injunction is, learn to mvim,
and in haloing, never go into deep wn
n r, till yon know how to g- t out ol it.
tint tfijerc arc many who rako to llie.l
water/in travel, before they can swim;!
and thus driven into an element in which
they are perfectly helpless, they, are.
hopeless, un i death is inevitable. IV
a good swimmer, tho idea oi a man
standing and talking of death and eter
nity, within three hundred feet ot the
shore, would he ludicrous were it not
for the appalling fact. As it is, it is
pitiable. No man ought to be in such
u condition. We do not hesitate to say,’
that, by tins two recent oalamnities, i
on the Hudson and Lake Erie, not one
life would have been lost, had they all
known how to swim. And this is no
llibnricisni. We mean to say, that
the circumstances attending ‘uch pa
were such, that an ordinary swimmer
would have been saved. Ihe season .
was favorable; was prompt, and every t 1
soul might have been saved 1 iet m
this age of the world, lives are lost’by
hundreds and thousands, because peo-j
pie fail to acquire the simple art of;
swimming. It seems to be utter wr n
tonness in view of the easy relneiy|:
that God has lodged within ttm muscles i
of a man’s legs and arm-
Nov/, a* to the fact of buoyancy and
soforth. There is no article of apparel
, that u man wears which assists him to j
float in the water. On tho contrary, \
i the more nude the more safe. Female
apparel can only sustain the body fora j
short time; and that depends, of Course, j
upon’lie manner in which the persons!
‘centers the water. But a swimmer
: would overcome for a considerable time ;
J the inconveniences of dress, or throw
! them off into tho water. A stout per
! son floats lighter than a lean one, und
l swims easier, tho specific gravity of fat |
I being considerably less than that of
j bone. And the proportion of flesh and
! hone, is most favorable in the water to I
j the man in whom the former is greatest.!
And now. the main question arises—,
will a man float or sink in the water if
!ho remain motionless ? We answer
; yes and no. A statement before us
I says: “If a person falls by accident in
-1 to deep water he will float and not sink,
|if he lies still and does not lift up his
) hands.” We say, according to our ex- j
i peril nee, and from particular experi- i
| merit, that this is not true. A man
! may suffer himself to fall gently into j
|au erect position in the water, having
i his face at the surface, and there he
will remain so long as his lungs ure in
dited, but I-t him exhale tho air from
) his lungs and the water will close over
his face, and he will soon find himself
sinking gently into the embrace of the
! cooler deep. Lei him now strike to
! the surface, inflate his lungs again and
; dive some six or eight feet, then roll
himself like a ball, rounding his back,
and he will gradually mte until the
round of his hack will appear at the
suface, with a circle clear out of water,
varying in size according to the pro
portion of flesh and bone of his body.—
Now let him breathe out the air into
the water, keeping himself perfectly
motionless as before, and down he will
go again. In either of these cases, if a
hand, or elbow, or foot be thrust out of
the water the body will go under. And
as the face is the only portion of the
body that it is necessary to keep out of
water for the preservation of life, that
must be upturned. Now, if'it were pos
sible fora person who could not swim
1 at all to,exert such presence of mind on
| entering the water as would enable him
! to keep his breath until his luce was at
the sui face, and then breathe it out
quickly, and ns quickly inhale* again,
! lie would bo safe. But such presence
!of mind never was and never will be
! practised. Vet this, with a movement
‘of the hands gently and flatly down
! wards, and edgewise upwards, would
keep a man comfortably afloat for a
! reasonable time.
Thus it appears, then, that the buoy- j
I anoy of tho body consists in the infla- [
i lion of the lungs, a primary fact we do
i not see any where spoken of.
Tho natural effect of going into the
Water is to product? the “catching of
! tho breadth,” as it is called. ‘1 ir-ul is!
!to say, nature prompts tho lungs to
catch ut the air, and hold it; but in j
! falling info the water the spasmodic in
! spiration occurs generally 100 fate, and
| water enters the lungs instead of air.
! Then the dibi t to eject the foreign sub
‘ stance results „only in expelling more
| air, following by the inhalation of more
i water.
Wo have said enough to indicate
j our conviction that no man unable to
-evim can sustain himself in water with
out assistance. ifa will certainly
! drown. But we have stated facts which
wo know to be true, and which any
swimmer may prove to he true by ex-
I periment. Toese facts prove to every
. man that be bos only to keep his face
out of water, arid that whatever ho may
| have to cling to, slightly buoyant, in j
[ i.i emergency wiil nfiord him safety,
so lon ’ as lie does not endeavor loud
O c 5
more tnuii his face out of water. A
stick of wood from the fire room of u j
sle .nirr, if nothing better can he had,
;js enough for safoty under ordinary
: circumstances, if a limn would simply
; icst his chiii upon it, keeping tho head
well hack into tho water, and holding
the stick steadily without protuding his
hands. After all, however, the best
land most natural resource of every
nan, aftd every woman, too, is to 1 curti
|to swim. Nobody knows the luxury of
a bath who lias not taken it as nature
lias prepared if. A leap from a boat
down into the transparent depths, with
the water entwining the body within its
j cooler and cooler embrace as deeper!
and de-pe 1- mi plunges below, is a fnx
; ury which cannot be described. The;
remembrance <d it isequal to “five tick
ets fora dollar,” with the privileges of j
ti:e imagination.— Baltimore Sun.
Parental Tkachi.no.—lf parents
would not trust a child upon tho back
of a wild horse without a bit or bridle,
let them not permit I rn to go forth un-,
skilbd in self-government. Ifactiiblj
is passionate, teach hiyi by gentle mean -;
to curb his temper. If ho is i reedy, |
cultivate liberality in him. If he is I
selfish, promote generosity. If hois’
sulky, charm him out ot it by frankness 1
and good humor, ff he is indolent, nc-1
custom him to exertion, und train him
so ns to perform even onerous duties
with alacrity. If pride comes in to
make his obedience reluctant, subdue
him by council or discipline, in short,
give your children the habit of over
coming their besetting sins. Let them
acquire from experience, that it is con
tide lice in themselves which gives se
curity to the practised horseman, even
on the heck of a high strung steed, and
they will triumph over the difficulties
and dangers which beset them in the
path of life.
r ~?g a ?*gg 9 !sßgw>i"” ■■l'.'—J.ggM
J U VISNILK DEPARTMENT.
i
A Good Hulk. —A man who is very
! rich now, was very poor when lie was a
hoy.
When asked how he got his riches,
he replied: My father taught me never
to play till my work was finished, and
never to spend my money untill l had
earned it. 11l had but an hour’s work
|in a day, [ must do that the first thing,
| and in a half an hour. And alter this
| I was all"wed to play; and 1 then could
j play with much more pleasure than if
1 1 had t lie thought of an unfinished task
before my mind. 1 early formed the
habit of doing every tiling in time, and
it soon became perfectly easy to do so.
It is to I Lis I one my prosperity. Let
t very nny who reads this go and do
likewise.
A Correct Taste in Children
in many ways llio mother can contrib
ute to the formation of a correct taste.
The first hymns sho teaches to the lis
per, and even the earliest notes which
she sings for its lullaby, should be cho
sen with care. The pictures with
which Ihe walls of tho nursery arc a
dorned, should he selected with a stu
dious anil cultivated regard for real
beauty. Likenesses of'exoellent men’
and women—whose names you would
choose to have yourchildren love—are
a very desirable ornament. A few ele.
gant historical pictures which might
he used as introductions to general hie
tory, or which are calculated to inspire
noble sentiments, would be found of
great utility in every family able to
have them. A few well finished land!
scape pieces would also tend tofostera
love of nature in its cheerful and sub
lime aspects. Tliero is a refining and
elfectunl influence arising from a daily
famdiiirity with the scene of nature,
whether it glows before us in its origi
nal loveliness, or in the representation
i of tlie genuine artist.
Nkveh sav Dm.—lf you can’t suc
ceed atone business, try another. If
you I. il B as a cobbler, et ter yourself as
a member of Congress. In short, do
anything lut take to despair. When
Monsieur Jollie presented his picture
•of “Moses crossing the Red Sea,” the
| ourato of the Lome threatened to kick
jit out of doors. Did this dishearten
; him? Not at all. Ife went home, ad
ded a little chrome yellow to it, gave it
anew name, “Caisar crossing the Ru
! bicon,” and sold ii to the same curate
j for ten thousand francs. I lore we see
! the advantage of “never giving up.”
What is a For?—A Mr. Stark, in a
I lecture before tlm Young Men’s Asso
ciation of Troy, N. Y., gave a defini
tion of (lie above. “The top is u com
i plete specimen of an outside philoso
: plier. lie is one-third collar, c.ic-sixth
: patent leather, one Court l ’ walking stick,
| and the rest gloves and hair As to
i bis remote ancestry there is some doubt,
j but it is now pretty well settled that ho
jin the son of a tailor’s goose, lie be
| comes ecstatic at the smell of new cloth.
. lie is somewhat nervous ami to dream 1
l ot a tailor’s bill gives him tho night,
mare. Dy lii air one would judge he
bad been dipped like Achilles; but it is
evident that the goddess field him hy
the bead in Read of the heels. Never
theless such men are useful. If there
were no tadpoles there would be no
frogs. They are not so entirely to
blame lor being devoted to externals.—-
Baste diamonds must have a splendid
setting to make them sell. Only it does
seem a waste of material to put. fivo
dollars worth of beaver on five cents
worth of brains.”
A golden rule fir a young person is, to
converse with your female friends
|usif a gentleman were of the party;
and with young men, as if your female
companions were present.
A handsome young girl stepped into
a store where a sjiruce young man, who
had long been enamored, but dared not
1 speak, stood behind the counter selling
goods. In order to remain as long as
possible, she cheapened everything,
and at last she said :
“l believe you think I’m cheuling
you.”
“Oh, no,” said the youngster, “to
me you are always fait*.”
“Weil,” whispered the young lady,
blushing as she laid a slight emphasis”
on the word, “1 would not stay so long
bargaining ifvou were not so dm <r,”
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