NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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he might earn, or what useful branches of study he 

 might pursue, in the time now wasted in sleep — in 

 a state of oblivion. Thousands of persons who 

 shudder at the terrible thought suggested by the 

 doctrine of annihilation, practise every day upon 

 that very principle at which the soul recoils with 

 horror. 



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A GuDE Proverb. — The Scotch have this prov- 

 erb: "A gude word is as soon said as an ill one." 

 "Will not every child, when he hears others use profane, 

 indecent, ill words, or is tempted to use them him- 

 self, remember that " a giide word is as soon said as 

 an ill one " ? — Well- Spring. 



Politeness. — -Be polite at all times, and to all 

 persons. Ilemomber that you Avill lose nothing by 

 thus doing ; you will be more respected, and cer- 

 tainly more beloved, than you will be if you are in 

 the habit of answering in an abrupt or unkind man- 

 ner. It will also render you happier to do this ; for 

 if polite yourself, you will generally meet with po- 

 liteness in return ; and if you do not, you will still 

 have the inward consciousness of having yourself 

 acted correctly. — Well-Spring. 



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Good Advice. — Patient. Doctor, I called to sec 

 you about^my health. 



Doctor. Well, what is the trouble ? 



P. I can't say, doctor. I have been unwell a long 

 time. 



D. How long ? 



P. I should think five or six years. 



D. How were you taken ? 



P. I don't now exactly remember, but I should 

 think I felt weak all over. 



D. What did you take ? 



P. Not very much for some. 



D. About how much ? 



P. Several boxes of Brandreth's pills. 



D. What more ? 



P. A number of Indian Vegetable. 



D. What next ? 



P. A few bottles Swaim's Panacea. 



D. Have you followed up this catalogue, and 

 taken all the patent nostrums that can be named ? 



P. Nearly all, I think. 



D. Do you think you have been benefited by any 

 of them ? 



P. No, I fear not. 



D. How long since you left off these medicines ? 



P. A number of weeks, except one kind. 



D. What is your diet ? 



P. I eat almost every thing, and drink freely of 

 tea, coffee, cocoa, ale, cider, and some spirits. 



D. Do vou use tobacco ? 



P. A little. 



D. How much, and in what way : 



P. I smoke cigars and chew — somethnes smoke a 

 dozen a day. 



D. Upon what kind of a bed do you sleep ? 



P. A feather bed in summer and winter. 



D. How often do you bathe, or wash the whole 

 of your body ? 



P. About once a year. 



D. At what time do you retire at night, and rise in 

 the morning ? 



P. I retire at all hours from nine to twelve o'clock, 

 and rise usually late in the morning. 



D. Is your appetite good ? 



P. It is variable — sometimes have none, and then 

 again I am very voracious, eating all before me. 



D. You have now given me some account of your 

 habits and manner of living, and now what do you 

 expect me to do ? 



P. I meant you to give medicine that will cure me. 



D. My dear sir, I will put you on a course of life 

 that will benefit you. 



P. I want some medicine. 



D. The first thing for you to do is to let all medi- 

 cine alone. You have taken quite too much alreadv. 

 It is marvellous that you have not dosed and di-ugged 

 yourself out of the world. Your stomach was never 

 made to be a receptacle of all kinds of filth, like the 

 Valley of Hinnom. This abominable course, which 

 you acknowledge you have pursued for years, is of 

 itself enough to ruin the best constitution. Besides, 

 you are guilty of excess in almost every other respect, 

 according to your own confession. Medicine will 

 never remedy bad habits. It is ixtterly futile to think 

 of living in gluttony, intemperance, and every excess, 

 and keeping the body in health by medicine. In- 

 dulgence of the appetite, and indiscriminate dosing 

 and drugging, have ruined the health and destroyed 

 the life of more persons than famine, sword, and pes- 

 tilence. If you will take my advice, you will become 

 regular in your habits, eat and diink only wholesome 

 things, sleep on a mattress, and retire and rise very 

 regularly. Make a free use of water to purify the 

 skin, and when sick, take counsel of the best physi- 

 cian you knoAV, and follow nature. — Note-Book of a 

 Physician. 



Children. — Every romp with them is death to a 

 score of gray hairs. Their games, moreover, present 

 such a contrast to the rougher contest of bearded 

 children, in the game of life, where money, power, 

 and ambition are the stake, that it is refreshing to 

 look at them and mingle with them, even were it 

 only to realize that human nature yet retains some- 

 thing of its divine original. — Selected. 



illcrljanics' iDcpartnunt, ^rts, ^r. 



Importance of Good Tools. — Those mechanics 

 only who have excellent tools can duly estimate their 

 importance. Many work year after year with poor 

 tools, when a little time or expense would supply 

 them with good tools, enabling them to do far more 

 work and do it better. 



Sometimes a mechanic will use a poor implement, 

 when a good one could be obtained for one or two 

 dollars that would last for years, and would annually 

 make a saving of more than double the cost of the 

 implement. 



A blacksmith who had far better and more tools 

 than was common with others in the same business, 

 hired an Englishman to assist him. The first thing 

 the stranger did was to make tools, and for more than 

 a week he plied himself closely to making tools, 

 before he would do any other Avork. His time was 

 well spent, as was shown by the neatness and de- 

 spatch with which he worked, after being properly 

 prepared. 



A poor saw often requires twenty-five per cent, 

 more strength than a good one. If it be used one 

 sixth of the time, the loss would be about one day 

 a month, which in a year would be equal to a sum 



