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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[July 



will find yourself surpassed by all the poor 

 boys around you before you know it. 



No, my boy, if you are poor, thank God 

 and take courage ; for He intends to give 

 you a chance to make something of yourself. 

 If you had plenty of money, ten chances to 

 one it would spoil you for all useful pur- 

 poses. Do you lack education ? Have you 

 been cut short in the text book ? Remem- 

 ber that education, like some other thing, 

 does not consist in the multitude of things 

 a man possesses. What can you do ? That 

 is the question that settles the business for 

 you. Do you know your business ? Do you 

 know men and how to deal with them ? Has 

 your mind, by any means whatsoever, re- 

 ceived that discipline which gives to its 

 action, power and faculty? If so, then 

 you are inore of a man and a thousand times 

 better educated than the fellow who gradu- 

 ates from college with his brains full of stuff 

 that he cannot apply to the practical busi- 

 ness of life — stuff, the acquisition of which 

 has been in no sense a disciplinary process 

 as far as he is concerned. There are very 

 few men in this world less than thirty years 

 of age, unmarried, who can afford to be rich. 

 One of the greatest benefits to be reaped 

 from great financial disasters, is the saving 

 a large crop of young men. — Timothy 



TiTCOMB. 



Light. 



Light is essential to physical health and 

 spiritual development. Many physicians and 

 nurses fail (partially at least) in their min- 

 istrations to the sick. All persons should 

 breathe pure air freely and be exposed to 

 natural light, during the day, and this is 

 especially true of feeble, unhealthy or sick 

 persons ; and yet the rooms of these latter 

 are too often darkened, and consequently 

 the patient languishes for want of light. 

 This may be illustrated by placing a plant 

 in the cellar, or other dark place. How 

 eagerly it will chase the struggling rays of 

 the sun, that may chance to find access to 

 the place, and it will soon become pale and 

 sickly for want of light and heat from his 

 genial rays. We may have another evi- 

 dence of the efficacy of the air and light 

 upon our own systems, by going out in the 

 morning before the sun has reached his 

 meridian. We return with buoyant spirits 

 and a healthy glow upon our cheeks; but 

 otherwise, if we go forth into the evening 

 air after sunset, there will be a heaviness 



about the brain and a loss of vitality. Our 



physical systems draw refined electricity from 

 the air. filled with the sun's rays, giving us 

 health and vigor of body and buoyancy of 

 spirits; hence the necessity of having those 

 rays emitted into the apartments of the 

 sick. 



Picked up Proverbs. 



I send you a few proverbs, which I have 

 picked up. I fancy they are all of the coin- 

 age of this century. Some I have seen in 

 print, others I have heard. 



" Fierce foes make firm friends." 



" Half the glory crowns we see, are only 

 gilded crowns of thorns." 



Trust not always to the brightest : 



" Know the winter-moon's the lightest." 



" Grod sometimes cut his flowers with a 

 very rough knife." 



" A first class youth brings a third class 

 age." 



" The wild oats of youth, change into the 

 briers of manhood." 



Life is company, Death is solitude." 

 Popularity is not love." 

 " The heart is often better than the 

 head." 



" Admiration without love, is sunshine 

 without rain." 



" Grey hairs are the frostwork of age." 



" The skies won't go into mourning for 

 our sorrows." 



" The sad colored cloak of silence often 

 covers the spotted clothes of ignorance." 



" Pleasant lies, once sown, come up 

 prickles." — RocJcmgham Register. 



Comforts for Cattle. — Reverend Syd- 

 ney Smith, of England, was something of 

 a farmer, and used to visit his cattle daily, 

 and feed and pat them, until they knew his 

 voice and welcomed his coming. He used 

 to do all in his power to make them com- 

 fortable. He has been heard to say ; " I 

 am for all cheap luxuries, even for animals; 

 now all animals have a passion for scratching 

 their back-bones, they break down your 

 gates and paling to effect this. Look ! this 

 is my universal scratch er, a sharp edged 

 pole, resting on a high and low post, adapted 

 to every height, from a horse to a lamb. 

 Even the Edinburgh Reviewer can take his 

 turn ; you have no idea how popular it is. 

 I have not had a gate broken since I put it 

 up. I have it in all my fields." 



