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VOL. XVIII. THE TEMPERA.HC3 3AKKER , IS THE Organ of the Sons of Temperance AND OF TIIE State Convention of Georgia; | PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY BElfJA'Tffirfl iaKAIfTLY. XT Terms—On* Dollar a year,in advance. | Letters must be Post, paid, to receive at- , tention. CTKg---gg ■•vi.- | Banner Almanack, for 1852. > s? ’"as a-'-i-i's sf* n * sisi's 1 m . . W i \ II 1A 1! 111 IV Ii >7 11 1 A IS l'jL’n 21 32.21 71 lSj i11.211131 22:23.2 r, j? Fob.— |1 2 1 .’I. 4| :>: 1,1 7 Vng— l| 21 l'|., & S 9I HUll! 12117!: 71 S| 41:10 11!.,7 1.l ‘< V ■3 r> i.ili7,ivi;>.- , ',2i I.’ in.” i <3 22 23 24 25 *i 27 29 22.2:1 2L2..1 0% 29 I 29i.H1,:;!! ~ 1 } 1 2 3! 4 s |Sop— 1 ;; 7t si {> turn 12* ml si “1 71 -s I . ri , ‘'iiu -jp -Ml‘’■ : ‘ 1; :M| i'2 MU l. \< , I>j flt April.) ll 2 S Oct.-- - - : - -J 2j | 4 i : i J! a! la j a -ij :” . 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When hnia alone. / 2H. Onacy o-c \ym. s. N Every friend to Temperance should take the Temperance Banner: J- Temperance men will not support x t!i Tomperance Pri Ss, who will ?” 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,” NO. 31-