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tioiTjs af fataKhabit; it is riot 1 itsrill^ but it leads to vice, CLjpon it! Victims with a fatal fa-penalty o f which many a tine “paid at the scaffold. The idler, dthr'ft, the epicure^ and the l are among the victim^. Per-iirtlie latter its effects appear in the .t hideous form. He knows that/ he l et he is about to drain .is poison, yet walpws*it. He kno\vs—for the ex-/ of thousands has painted it in lolors—-that it will deaden all his V g k e the strength from his ITEe happiness from his heart, lim with aisease -and hurry his tq a dishonored^ grave, yet he .. How beautiful, on the con-the power of resolution, enabling who posses^pait to pass through #nd dangers,'- trials an d5 tern pta-' . Avoid the contraction of the habit resolution.* Strive against it to the H e that buys what he does not want, soon want what he cannot buy^ Suipuij jo 9doq srq shay huoajs^ s e 90TAYJ P 0 U I 0 9 S JI U'BTXI Sfrm OiC J U 9 l+ oqi oa qBnoua iiutieeu, when ta«ktitnttgi v.a \w raaol kn. ?e morning—when all nature seems kening from the sleej^of the night, l^the air, so sweet, so fresh, so pleas-jms to make everything rejoice— TNjiat^adorns every green leaf, y->lade of grass, with its beauti­f y drops, and hangs like a living 6nd Jrom every flower that opens lovely Leaves, as if to invite the danc-i sunbeams to play upon it. You may we seen and admired these beautiful w -d rops; but do you know by what pnderful manifestation of divine power Aey are made to quiver o ^ te n on nture’s carpet of green ? I fn o t, I will ry to tell you as simply as I can. I have no doubt you have often felt the' pat that a red-hot piece of iron throws [It: afoep jt-J^ taken from the fire. This radiation, or throwing out heat; all bodies do so, more or -T his is one of the causes, as I will intly show. Second cause is evaporation—that changing water into steam by heat. >w, when the sun shines very hot on 3 earth, a great deal of water from the ers is changed into vapor or steam. Ms ascencp, andx when high enough, 'his great deal of it'Te- ^ jp 5 5 ^ fim d s ib ly in the air. pWltie sun shines, the heat is veiy yadiated; but as soon as the sun heat is thrown off rapidly, so jk crust of the earth, becoming Vadqaliy cools the air; and this m uns'v >as the moisture—that sepa-shes /t from the air, and causes it to de-in exceedingly small drops, and is the dew. By a simple, yet won-ul contrivance of the Almighty, not bp of dew is lost; for the grass, trees ^ .w ers radiate the heat quicker, v^equently get cool sooner, than ^ v ^ n d attract all the moisture. seo every patch of green . . f ith its pretty, sparkling drops, x there is none "to be seen on the away'or the road. ~lio could have planned such a simple advance, so in accordance with na-but He who clothes the lilies of the and causes the grass to* spring up ? H . M . R . —Character is the diamond that will -Scratch every other stone. S T A R T IN G IN LIFE, w ym og man that works for his board, o matter what honest work he has, has h Reason for shame. A young man o eafs tjre bread of idleness, no matter r,.mueh he has, is disgraced* A ll ig men in starting in life ought to first of all, to find a place where *an earn their bread and butter, ,ioe-,-aye, spade, wheelbarrow, cur-b, blacking-brush—no matter how. ideri.ee first. /The bread-and-but-stion settled, let the young man hi& duty so faithfully as to at-d lot him constantly keep his vn* for a chance' to do better. V* ° f vfbc poor, proud young 1 twfpAwds of the poor, dis-rn ! qn are always out of