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110. 8.

3 l. The sediment of the fecula mixed with the'powder of charcoal. may be made into little billets or bricks either for building or burn-

ing.

All those uses are independent of the applio cation of the apples or fruit of the potato, the water of which when immature might pro- bably be. used as in 27, 98, and 29, and when ripe like the tomato. Then tender tops may he used as spinage.

Charcoal Dust—A writer in the Gardener‘s Magazine asserts that six years‘ experience has convinced him that charcoal dust is a re- medy for the grub and mouldiness in onions: and he has repeatedly proved, that it effect- tually prevents the clubbing in the roots of cahbages and cauliﬂowers.

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FROM THE IVILKESBARRE CLEANER.

Pray take my advice. ifa fortune you'd get, Pay offwhat you owe and then keep out of debt.

This may be bad poetry, but depend upon it, is excellent sense. It is an old saying that ‘the debtor is a slave to the creditor.’ If so half the world enter into voluntary servitude. The universal rage to buy on credit, is a seri- ous evil to this country. Many avaluahle man is ruined by it.

There was Titus Thornbury, who was an in. dustrious man. He had as good a farm as lay in the north parish of Applebury. But unfortu- nately he gave way to the prevaling fashion of getting in debt. and asad life he led ot'it.— At 30, he owed 02001. His farm yielded about that Sum. He would not live without purchas- ing some things and as all the money he could raise went to pay principle and interest on his debt, he had everything to buy on credit. So at the year’s end, with interest and cost, and loss of time, and extra prices charged for things, because he did not make ready pay, he was just as deeply involved as the year before. Thus harrassed, dunncd and tormented, was poor ’I‘hornbury, for Q0 years.

Not so was it with his cousin. Ned Forest. He vowed he’d owc no man. The produce of his farm was aboutthe same as that of Thornhn- ry’s; but as he was not forced by duns, or ex. ecutions‘ to sell it out of season, he got the highest price: as he paid for things when he bought them, he got his necessaries 2 per cent cheaper. As he paid neitherinterest nor cost, and lost no time in running to borrow money or to see his creditors, he laid up 902. a year, lived quite as well as his cousin, and inﬁnitely happier.

When poor Thornbury saw a man riding up the road, his anxious look told him as plain as look could tell, ‘ plague on that fellow, he is come to dun me.‘ When a sudden rap at the door announced a visitor, no matter how lately he had been. he turned pale, and looked sor- rowfully anxious, until the visitor was known.

Manya man goes into a store for a single article. Looking round, twenty things strike his fancy ; he has nomoney, but buys on credit. Foolish man! Pay day must come and ten chances to one,like death, it ﬁnd you unpre- pared to meet it. Tell me, ye who have ex- perienced it, did the pleasure of possessing ar- ticles, bear any proportion to the pain of being called on to pay for them, when you had it not in your power?

Good people, hark ye : A few rules well kept, will contribute much to your happiness and independence. Never bu what you do not really want. Never pure ass on credit

THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

are sometimes thoughtless, daughters now and then extravagant. Many a time, when nei- ther the wife nor the daughter would willingly give a single pang to a fond father’s bOS'ﬂn, they urge and teaze him to get articles, plea- sant enough to be sure, to possess, but difﬁcult for him to buy; he purchases on credit— is donned—sued; and many an hour made wretched by their folly and imprudence. Old Robert presents his compliments to the ladies, and begs they would have the goodness to read the last ten lines once a. month till they get them by heart, and then act as their own ex- cellent disposition shall direct.

Above all things good peeple, never go in debt to a tavern. To grog—to teddy—to sling —to hitters! Oh horrid! what a bill I Never owe your shoemaker, your tailor, your prin- ter, your black-smith or labourer. Besides the bad policy ofkeeping in debt, it is down- right injustice to those whose labor you have received all the benefit of.

How happy's the farmer who owes not a pound

But lays up hisﬁfly each year that comes round,

He fears neither constable, sheriff nor dun;

To bank or tojustice has never to run,

His celler well ﬁlled, and his pantry well stored,

He lives far more hlest than a prince or 3. lord,

Then take my advice, ifa fortune you'd get;

Pay oj'that you ewe—and then keep out of debt!

EXTRJORDINART UTILITI‘ OF THE NET'I'LE.

In the weekly newspaper of the Baravian Agricultural Saciety, the nettle is said to have the following properties: I. Eaten in salad it cures consumption; 2. It fattens horned cattle whether eaten green or dried; 3. Experience has shown thatit not only fattens calves but improves their breed; 4. Itis an antidote to most maladies; 5. Sheep which eat it brings forth healthy vigorous lambs; 6. It promotes the laying of eggs in hens; 7. It improves the fat ofpigs; 3. The seeds mixed with oats are ex- cellent for horses; 9. It grows all the year round even in the coldest weather; 10. The libres ofthe stem makes an excellent hemp.

It is certain the nettle is much valued in Hol- land, where its young shoots are used as a pot herb; its roots for dying yellow, where the horse dealers gives the seed to horses, to make them brisk and give them a fine skin, and where considerable portions of ﬁelds are planted with it, dand mown ﬁve or six times a year as green foo .

A TRUE SKETCH. -

The depopulating pestilence that walketh at noonday, the carnage of cruel and devastating war. can scarcely exhibit their victims in more terrible array, than exterminating drunken- ness. [have seen a promising family spring from the parent trunk, and stretching abroad its populous limb like a ﬂowering tree, covered with a green and healthy foliage. I have seen the unnatural decay beginning upon the yet tender leaf, and gnawing like a worm in the unopened bud, while they dropped oil, one by one, and the scathed and ruined shaft, stood alone, until the winds and rains of many a sorrow laid that too in the dust. On one of those holy days when the patriarch, rich in vir- tue as in years gathered about him the great and the little ones of his ﬂock—his sons with their sons, and his daughters with their daugh- ters,——l, too, sat at the festive board. I too, pledged them in the social wine cup, and re. Joiced with them round the hospitable hearth; and expatiated with delight upon the eventful

what you can possibly do without. Take pride future ; while the good old man warmed in the in being able to say, I we no man. Wives genial glow of youthfulenthusiasm, wiped the

tear of joy from his glistening eye. He was happy. I met with them again when the roll- ing year brought the festive season round. But they were not all there. The kind old ‘man sighed as his suffused eye dwelt upon the then unoccupied seat. But joy yet came to his re. lief, and he was happy. A parents’ love knows no diminution—time, distance, poverty, shame, but give intensity and strength to that passion before which all others but dissolve and melt away. Another year elapsed. The board was spread. But the guests came not. The old man cried, “Where are my children?” And echo answered, where .? His heart broke—for they were not. Could not heaven have spared his gray hairs this afﬂiction? Alas ! the de- mon of drunkenness had been there. They had fallen victims ot'his spell. And one short month sufﬁced to cast the veil of oblivion over the old man‘s sorrow and the oung ones shame. They are all dead—N. Yiﬂm.

Drunkenneu.—Drnnkenness is the occasion of nine tenths of the grief and guilt that 9,,- gravate the inevitable distresses of the poor. Dry up that harrid thirst, and the hearts of the wretched w0uld sing aloud forjoy. In their sober senses, it seldom happens that men, in a Christian country, are such savages. But all cursed passions latent in the heart, and seem- ingly at least, dead, or non-existent, while that heart beats heartin in sober industry, leap up ﬁerce and full grown. in the power of drum. kenness, making the man at once a mimic, or rather at once converting him into a ﬁend.— Blackwood‘a Jllag.

A Serious Repartee.—The Irish are very hapv py in their conversational tact, and the art of repartee. When an Irishman makes a blunder, be generally makes a good joke, and recom- penses the error by the sly humor it conveys. Their satire, however, is superior to their mirth. French may be the language of love, was once well obscrved, English of business, but Irish is the language ofexpression. There is no other language, German not excepted, ' . that expresses so much meaning in a few words. l The Irish endeavour to translate this capacity into English, and to supply wrth dramatic effect the deficiency of expression. A Galway gentle. man lately entered a coffee house, and called for tea; his brogue attracted the attention of a scented civilian in an opposite box, who, relying upon his superior accent, resolved to have a iest at the expense of the stranger. The civilian called for tea too ; the Irishman called for mufﬁns, so did the civilian; toast, milk. sugar.

5:0. were severally called for by the Irishman.

and as severally echoed by the top, who enjoyed

in his corner the supposed embarrassment to i which he was subjecting the Galway man. At last, with the greatest composure, and if possible

a richer brogue, the Irishman desired the waiter , to ‘ bring up pistolrfor two,’—the jester’s echo : was'silenced.—Engliih Pa.

Artiﬁcial Want: are more numerous and lead to more expense than natural wants, for this cause, the rich are often in greater want of money than those who have but a bare compe- _ tence.

Insults and Injuries— Injuries are much more it easily attoned for and forgiven than insults. The latter degrade the mind in its own esteem, and too frequently induce it to attempt ’ to recover its level by revenge. -

Biblical Lora-At a recent discussion on some points in biblical history, it happened to

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