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THERE are different ways of getting on in the world. It does not always mean making a deal of money, or being a great man for people to look up to with wonder. Leaving off a bad habit for a good one is getting on in the world; to be clean and tidy, instead of dirty and disorderly, is getting on; to be careful and saving, instead of thoughtless and wasteful, is getting on; to be active and industrious, instead of idle and lazy, is getting on; to be kind and forbearing, instead of ill-natured and quarrelsome, is getting on; to work as diligently in the master's absence as in his presence, is getting on; in short, when we see any one properly attentive to his duties, persevering through difficulties to gain such knowledge as shall be of use to himself and to others, offering a good example to his relatives and acquaintances, we may be sure that he is getting on in the world. Money is a very useful article in its way, but it is possible to get on with but small means; for it is a mistake to suppose that we must wait for a good deal of money before we can do anything. Perseverance is often better than a full purse. Many people lag behind, or miss the way altogether, because they do not see the simple and abundant means which surround them on all sides; and it so happens that these means are aids which cannot be bought with money. Those who wish to get on in the world must have a stock of patience and perseverance, of hopeful confidencea willingness to learn, and a disposition not easily cast down by difficulties and disappointments.

DR. FRANKLIN'S RULES OF LIFE.

Temperance-Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation.

Silence.-Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. “

Order-Let all your things have their place; let each of your duties have its time.

Resolution.-Resolve to perform what you ought; and do it. Frugality-Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself. Industry.-Lose no time: be always doing something useful. Sincerity.-Use no deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.

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Justice.-Wrong none by doing injury, or by omitting to bestow benefits that are your duty.

Moderation.-Avoid extremes, forbear resenting injury.

Cleanliness.-Suffer no uncleanliness in the body, clothes, or

habitation.

Tranquility.—Be not disturbed about trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Humility.-Imitate JESUS CHRIST.

THE PENNY POST BOX.

The Penny Post Box.

WHAT IT IS TO BE A SOLDIER.-As war is now declared, and many young men are likely to be tempted to engage in it for the sake of what some call its glories, will you make room for an extract from Corporal Ryder's "Four years' service in India." They will then know a little more of what it is to be a soldier-or as Southey said, "A mere machine of murder."- "As our fire was poured down the streets into the enemy, and they were falling in numbers, intermingled with the men might be seen women and children. Their wild, terrified screams, were awful. The cries of the affrighted children, as they clung round their mothers, were equally dreadful. Grey-headed old men, with their venerable beards, white with age, and their flesh deeply furrowed with the wrinkles of seventy or eighty years, whose tottering limbs stood trembling, overwhelmed by grief and age, unable to follow their families, were weeping for the ruin of their country, and lay down to die near the houses where they were born. The streets, the public squares, and especially the mosques, were crowded with these unhappy persons, who mourned as they lay on the remains of their property, with every sign of despair. The victors and the vanquished were now become equally brutish; the former by excess of fortune, the latter by excess of misery. Every one was plundered whom our men could lay hands upon, regardless of their pitiful cries; and in some instances women and children were shot down amongst the men. Our men now appeared to be brutish beyond everything, having but little mercy for one another-still less for an enemy. Hundreds lay dead in every direction, and numbers of prisoners were taken. We marched over heaps of dead bodies. The inhabitants had entirely built the windows and doors of their houses up with brick and stone for the purpose of keeping out the pieces of shell which were continually flying about. of this work was attended with horrible brutality by our men, which I am almost ashamed to mention. No one with christian feeling ought to be guilty of such cowardly, unsoldierlike actions, as some of them committed. Englishmen! blush at your cruelty, and be ashamed of the unmanly actions perpetrated on old men, entirely harmless; and still worse, upon the poor, helpless women. In several instances, on breaking into the retreats of these unfortunate creatures, a volley of shots was fired amongst them, as they were huddled together in a corner, regardless of old men, women, and children. All shared the same fate. One of my fellowcorporals, who never was worthy of the jacket he wore, was guilty of cold-blooded murder. He shot a poor grey-headed old man, while he was begging that he would spare, and not hurt, his wife and daughters, nor take away the little property they possessed, consisting of a few paltry silver rings upon their fingers and ears."

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FACTS, HINTS, AND GEMS.

Facts, Hints, and Gems.

Facts.

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THE BANK OF ENGLAND fills up sixty folio ledgers, and issues £28,000 in bank notes, every day.

A PRISONER IN NEWGATE costs the State nearly forty pounds a year. TURKEY.-One sign of improve ment is, that there are now thirteen newspapers published in Constantinople alone.

Hints

A COAT OR A CONSCIENCE.-Better for you to lose a good coat than a good conscience.

A CHEAP BARGAIN will often turn out to be a very dear purchase.

THE HEART OF MAN has no avenue more open than that which is made into it by flattery.

PRIDE AND BEGGARY.-If pride leads the van, beggary is sure to bring up the rear.

CHARACTER, and not mere ability, is the lever by which a man raises his position in the world, and becomes useful and influential.

PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE.Patience is very good, but perseverWhilst the former ance is better. sits down before obstacles, the latter drives them out of the way.

IS POVERTY A CRIME?-One would think it is when a poor honest man is made nothing of, and a rich rascal is courted and flattered.

DONT SLEEP TOO MUCH.--Unwilling to wake up to the duties of life, you may wish to forget them in the unis foolish and unmanly. We must consciousness of sleep. But this all rouse ourselves to work, or sink into poverty or death. Whilst we live we must wake and work. Keep your eyes open one minute, and you will wake and get up. "Open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."

WILLIAM PENN said, "Be reserved, A NEW TELEGRAPH COMPANY | but not sour; grave, but not formal; proposes to send messages of twenty bold, but not rash; humble, but not words for sixpence, with one half-servile; patient, but not insensible; penny for every additional word.

SNOW IN EUROPE.-The whole of Europe is visited with falls of snow, but they seldom reach to the south of Spain or to Naples, and scarcely ever to Malta.

constant, but not obstinate; cheerful, but not light; rather be sweet tempered than familiar; familiar rather than intimate; and intimate with very few, and upon good grounds.

Gems.

FACTS, HINTS, AND GEMS.

OUR HEAVENLY FATHER never forgets one of his old servants, or neglects one of his feeble children.

THE HEART AND HAND OF GOD.— If the heart of God loves me, the hand of God will keep me - his heart dictates the promises, and his hand fulfills them.

HEAVEN OR HELL.-The precious blood of Jesus only, sprinkled upon guilty consciences, can save us from hell, or fit us for heaven.

PURPOSES AND PROMISES.-God hides his purposes from us that we may learn to live on his promises.

VALUE OF HUMILITY.-The man who thinks highly of himself will never think highly of Christ; and if he never thinks highly of Christ he will never be saved by him.

A WISE MAN will not leave a day's work to be done at the last hour. Neither is he wise who leaves the great work of life to be done in a dying hour.

JESUS IS IN HEAVEN, where he listens to our feeble prayers and presents them to the Father, saying, "For my sake bless this poor penitent, and grant his request;" and him the Father heareth always. What an infinite mercy!

NEVER FANCY, FOR ONE MOMENT, that you can make yourself more fit, by anything you can do, to come to Christ. Come as you are just now, however sinful you feel your self. He receiveth sinners. He is the great Saviour of great sinners.

JESUS IS A REAL SAVIOUR.-His hand is open to grasp us, and his arm is strong to save us: neither can any pluck us out of his hands. We are safe there.

EVERY SIN OF OURS grieves the heart of God; but no sin that we commit grieves him so much as when we neglect or reject the salvation he has provided for us by the death of his own Son for our sins.

Poetic Selections.

TO SLEEPY WORSHIPPERS.
THE King of saints to-day,

Gives audience in this place;
His servants now proclaim

His purposes of grace;
Dost thou receive the message with a nod?
Awake, oh sleeper, call upon thy God.

FORGIVE THE OFFENDER.

ART thou offended? Then forgive
As thou dost hope to be forgiven;
Forgiveness cherished now on earth,
Will bloom a perfect plant in heaven.

A HINT TO GIRLS.

THE girl who at thirteen is found
Pert, idle, vain, and dirty,
Will like be poor and wretched too,
When she arrives at thirty.

A HINT TO A GOSSIP.
SHE who stands lounging at the door,
Perhaps is laying up a store
And gossips time away,

Of sorrow for another day.
For every vain and wicked thought

To foolish talk at length proceeds;
And who has not ere this found out,
That evil thoughts breed wicked deeds.
And though no greater wickedness
The fruit of these lost moments be,
Yet gossip leads to idleness,

And idleness to poverty.

MEMORY.

THERE's not a heath, however rude,
But hath some little flower,
To brighten up the solitude,
And scent the evening hour.
There's not a heart, however cast
By grief and sorrow down,
But hath some memory of the past,
To love and call its own.

CHANGE.

CHANGE is written, ever written,
On this world of ours;
On the twinkling stars of night,
And on the summer flowers.
Friendship changes; hearts will change,
That once with love beat high:
Yes; these may change and pass away,
As a cloud from off the sky.

But the love of God knows no such change
To such as fear his name;

For his love, like the words of the holy page, Is evermore the same.

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THE CHILDREN'S CORNER.

The Children's Corner.

ON READING BOOKS.

By reading we know what has been done in the world, and what is doing. A man without books is only half a man. boy without books will never make a great man. Some of the wisest and best men in the world began to read while they were boys. Of JOHN MILTON, the famous poet, it is said, that he did not spend so much time in play as other boys, but he spent more time at his books. When SIR WILLIAM JONES WAS a child, he was one day, as other little folks do sometimes,

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asking his mother a number of questions, when she turned round, and said, Read, William, and you will know." He did read, and he did know; for he became one of the most learned men of his day; and he became great and rich, and what is better than all, he became a good man. DR. WATTS, who wrote all those nice hymns and catechisms, and good books, when he was a boy was very fond of reading, so fond that they could hardly get him to his meals. And he not only read books, It is said, that when he had

but when he was young he began to write.

a little party of friends one day to see him, and they were all sat round the table, his mother offered a farthing to the boy who would write the best two lines of poetry. They tried, but Isaac won the reward, by producing the following couplet:

"I write not for your farthing, but to try
How I your farthing writers can outvie."

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Read good books, or your time will be worse than wasted. Dont read books which are untrue or foolish they will only fill your heads with nonsense. And when you are reading a useful book, you will find it a very good plan to have a little book, ruled with straight lines across, and copy into it anything that is worth remembering. You can hardly think what a good plan this is, and how it will help you to remember what you have read. If you want to remember anything write it down!

"In works of labour, or of skill,

I would be busy too;

For satan finds some mischief still

For idle hands to do.

In books, or work, or healthful play,

Let my first hours be past,
That I may give, for every day,

Some good account at last."

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