MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER'. AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
THE SUMMER VACATIONS. 
Winter Schools, especially in the country, 
have tor the most part, been brought to a con¬ 
clusion. Young -, (vve will not tell his 
name, since the blank can be supplied in most 
schools with half a dozen names at least,) who 
sat in the .Parsing or the Arithmetic class be¬ 
side that bright-eyed, merry, and mischief-lov¬ 
ing girl, and who quite lost his heart in addi¬ 
tion to being teazed, and tortured, and made 
to suffer half a dozen reprimands during the 
winter, because his gallantry and the glory ol 
martyrdom forbade him to declare that it was 
she who made the class laugh while the mas¬ 
ter’s back was turned, must forego at least for 
the summer, his morning greetings and his eve¬ 
ning good nights. 
The budding forest and the teeming field 
must now command his earnest and undivided 
attention. Seed time and harvest, will succeed 
each other during the next six mouths of the 
rolling year; and healthful but wearying labor 
will send him to his bed at night, in fit condi¬ 
tion to sleep soundly. In the midst of his toils, 
too many a young man is neglectful of his in¬ 
tellectual culture. He lays aside his books and 
slate upon the shelf as he lays aside his Sunday 
coat, but with this difference, that the latter is 
donned once a week, while the former are neg¬ 
lected for half a year. The consequence is, 
that at the commencement of the next winter’s 
school he must commence all his studies again, 
at the beginning; and the term is nearly or 
quite ended before he arrives at the point 
where he left off, and is ready to make any 
further progress. Some, for instance,will man¬ 
age during the winter to progress as far in 
arithmetic as vulgar fractions, proportion, the 
solution of installment payments in interest, or 
it may be the roots, and with only a partial un¬ 
derstanding of the subject at that During the 
interval of summer the whole is neglected and 
forgotten, and when school begins again next 
winter, they begin again also; and then pro¬ 
ceed to tread the same unvarying round, like a 
horse in a mill, or the earth in its orbit around 
the sun. 
All this is wrong. A little energy and de¬ 
termination, even during the months of summer 
toil, will serve to keep his studies fresh in the 
recollection of the scholar, and prepare him to 
take up tlni intellectual march the coming win¬ 
ter, at the precise point where he halted the 
winter before. Imperfect recitations can be 
reviewed and perfected; half forgotten lessons 
can be revived and recommitted, and the mind 
kept cleared from the rust, which, like the rust 
on polished steel, is sure to accumulate in con¬ 
sequence of neglect. Gon never assigned to 
the human mind a fixed position. Progression 
or recession is its concomitant, and it depends 
in a great measure upon the possessor, whether 
the one direction or the other is taken. It is 
not the most brilliant intellect that rises high¬ 
est in the end. Slow but sure advancement is 
far preferable to rapid, but inconstant flights. 
yEsor’s fable of the race between the hare and 
the tortoise, is an apt illustration. 
What we would impress upon the minds of 
our readers, and especially the young men who 
at this season of the year leave the school lor 
the labors of the farm, is this; not to lay aside 
their books as they do an implement of hus¬ 
bandry when the season for its use is past, but 
at hours of leisure and recreation—and there are 
many such., even in the busiest times—review 
the studies of the past winter; clear up cloudy 
and uncertain points; solve completely a here¬ 
tofore half solved problem; learn to go thro’ 
a dark passage alone, where before you leaned 
upon the arm of your teacher or a schoolmate; 
trace the chain of mathematical reasoning as 
certainly as the electric fluid traces the isolated 
wire, and do not leap and dart along from 
point to point like the fluid upon a broken or 
imperfect circuit. If you keep your mind fresh 
upon the subject of your studies—even if you 
make no further progress, which you ought 
certainly to do—you will at least be prepared 
to resume them where you laid them down, and 
not be obliged to toil again up the same hill 
you hod previously surmounted. It is a wise 
man, who, after rowing up against a current 
the livelong day, fastens his canoe to a tree, 
when he lies down to rest at night; while a fool 
leaves his afloat and is drifted back during the 
night to the point from whence he started. 
Value of a Sciiool-mastek. —There is no 
office higher than that of a teacher of youth, 
for there is nothing on earth so precious as the 
mind, soul, and character of the child. No of¬ 
fice should be regarded with greater respect. 
The first minds in a community should be en¬ 
couraged to assume it. Parents should do all 
but impoverish themselves, to induce such to 
become the guardians of their children.— 
They should never have the least anxiety 
to accumulate property for their _ children, 
provided they can place them under influences 
which will awaken their faculties, inspire them 
with higher principles, and fit them to bear a 
manly, useful and honorable part in the world. 
No language can express the folly of that econ¬ 
omy, which, to leave a fortune to a child, starves 
his intellect and impoverishes his heart 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 
MADK AT ROCHESTER, STATE OF NEW YORK. 
University of Rochester — Annual Abstract —A. J. Ensign, Observer. 
Latitude 43°, 8', 17' 
University of Rochester — Annual Abstract.—A. J. Ensign, unserver. 
8 ', 17". Longitude 77°, 51'. Height of Station above the Sea, 516 Feet. 
Thermometer.- .Monthly mean. 26 
Highest Degree. 44 
Lowest Degree,.... 1 
Range. 
• - 
Warmest Day,. 9 
Coldest Day,. 26 
Barometer.- • • .Monthly Mean, .. . . 129 .. 
Winds. .North,. l 
Northeast,. 2 
East. 2 
Southeast,. 2 
South,.. 
Southwest,. 7 
Wesi,. 9 
Northwest,. ® 
Weather. .Fair Days,. 
Rain,. 1 
Snow,. 8 
Rain and Snow. 0 
I- 
Rain Gauge,.j 2.- 
Jan. 
Feu. 
tCH. 
April 
May. June. 
July 
Aug. 
Ski'T. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
26.0 
27.5 
2 
4.1 
43.6 
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55.4 71.5 
70.5 
71.4 
62.7 
47.1 
42.3 
30.6 4 
44.1 
46 
5 
7 
71 
83 93 
87 
96 
88.1 
06.5 
65.8 
45.8 
1.7 
12.2 
7.5 
30.5 
40.5 52.5 
57 
50.5 
37 
29.7 
20.2 
8.9 
42.4 
33.S 
9.5 
40.5 
42.5 40.5 
30 
45.5 
51.1 
38.8 
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6 
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29 
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29.546 
29.402 
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1.350 
29.379 
29.403|29.445 
29.47S 
29.427 
29.491 
29.449 
29.616 
29.383 | 
30.086 
29.720 
2! 
1.921 
29.751 
29.880|29.673 
:9.63S 
29.638 
29.745 
29.861 
30.014 
29.S74 
28.406 
28.877 
o 
5.699 
28.397 
29.012|29.139|29.184 
29.H0 
28.917 
28.824 
29.121 
28.074 
1.081 
0.843j 
.222 
1.354 
0.80s| 0.534 
0.454 
0.528 
0.828 
1.037 
0.893 
1.800 ! 
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2.868 
2.297 
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1.000 
2.010 
6.833 
1.702 
2.342 
Annual Results. 
96, highest degree during the year. 
1.7, lowest “ “ “ 
51.1, greatest monthly range. 
94.8, greatest annual range. 
12tli August, warmest day in the year. 
26th January, coldest “ “ 
29.447, annual mean. 
29.616, highest month, November. 
29.850, lowest month, March. 
30.0SC, highest observation. 
2.012, annual range. 
1.809, greatest monthly range. 
0.454, lowest “ “ 
22, North wind during the year. 
33%, Northeast “ 
21%, East “ “ 
26%, Southeast “ “ 
28, South “ “ 
75, Southwest “ “ 
99%, West “ « 
59, Northwest “ “ 
f S. W. and near W. S. W., varying to S. W., 
I predominant course of wiud. 
209% fair days during the year. 
165% cloudy days “ “ 
days on which rain fell. 
9 « “ rain and snow fell. 
[ 32.695 inches, total of water fallen during 
) the year. 
HOW INDIA RUDDER SHOES ARE MADE. 
The JV*. F. Journal of Commerce, in an in¬ 
teresting article on the manufactures of Con¬ 
necticut, gives the following account of Un- 
manner in which India Rubber shoes are made: 
“ Contrary to the general impression, India 
an arm of poli-l.ed steel, backward and for¬ 
ward over a frame equally- polished and glit¬ 
tering; as one in thought'sitting by a table 
passes his fingers to and fro along the smooth 
surface of the mahogany. 
We said it was busy, and so it was; busy 
doing nothing. It went nowhere, it hammered 
nothing, planed nothing, ground nothing, but 
just passed its ponderous arm backward and 
forward. It neither ate nor spoke, but there, 
from “ early morn to dewy eve,” it timed the 
's €mtx. 
ILLUSTRATED REELS, NO. 17. 
Rubber, in the proceS of manufacturing, is not toil going on, everywhere around and above it. 
melted, but is passed through heated iron . ol- . J here inde « d > a few ™“ de ° f 
lers, the heaviest of which weigh 20 tons, and °£ 80 -. 1 l ere audther ®« about the establish¬ 
es worked or kneaded, as dough is at a me^^rmshing ; rather than doing the work, 
bakery. The rubber is nearly all procured ‘ hat thing with the iron arm works the 
from the mouth of the Amazon, in Brazil, to WOIldcr3 ' 14 W1 “ work more.-A. 1. 1 rib. 
which point it is sent from the interior. Its 
form upon arrival, is generally that of a jug or 
pouch, as the natives use clay moulds of that 
shape, which they repeatedly dip into the liquid 
THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINES. 
A ,-■■ 
The discovery of the Australian gold mines 
(jggT* A’nswer in two weeks. 
caoutchouc, until a coating of the desired appears to be a' subject of much controversy. ; 
thickness accumulates, when the clay is broken The honor is disputed by a German Count, an [Written for the Rural New-v orker.] 
and emptied out. English Knight, a California miner, a Botany MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
The rubber, after being washed, chopped fine Bay convict, and an orthodox divine of the - 
and rolled to a putty-like consistency, is mixed Church of England. The first of these in the I am composed of 26 letters, ami seven words, 
with a compound of metallic substances, princi- order of time was the convict, who declared My 1 , 13, 8 ,21, 19, 20 is a kind of weapon. 
shoes are passed under rollers having a dia- , t was gold, but the authorities took it to be a M 2C 5 n is „hat the writer would not sound; therefore it was taken away from the 
rnd figured surface. From these the soles battered guinea; and because he could not or / 
3 cut by hand, and the several pieces required would not point out the locality of his discove- 1,f ® Je ' . good man, lor his salvation, and given to the 
" ' ' 4 ' “ ’ 1 My 2 , 20 ,17,22,25 is an animal. wicked one to his destruction. The unfortunate 
My 11, 3, 7, 22, 24, 8 is an animal. /• . treasure beneath the ashes of 
pally white lead and sulphur, to give it body or that lie discovered a gold placer, and attempt- My 8 , 18, 7, 4 is a person that is scorned. 
firmness. Those sheets designed for the soles e d to sell a piece of what hecalled native gdld. My 14, 7, 18, 9 is a thing indispensable. 
of shoes are passed under rollers having a dia- Jt was gold, but the authorities took it to be a M 2(;> 5 23 l0 ig what the writer wou ] d no t 
mond figured surface. From these the soles battered guinea; and because he could not or ” p k ’ t( 7 bc 
are cut by hand, and the several pieces required would not point out the locality of his discove- ,, ‘ ' 7 , < * >< ' . . , 
to perfect the shoe are put together by females r y, he was punished severely. ‘ M - y 2 ’ 20> 1 '’ 22 ; 2;) 18 an anima1 ' 
on a last. The natural adhesion of the rubber Hi the year 1839, the distinguished German ^7 11. -h 7, 22 , 24, 8 is an animal. 
joins the seams. The shoes are next varnished traveler, Count Strzlecki undoubtedly dis- My 12, 20,15,16 is a useful article. 
and baked in an oven capable of holding about covered gold in the Wellington district, and My 6,13, 26, 21 is a noted city. 
2000 pairs, and heated to about 300 degrees, exhibited specimens of it. He maintained that My 19, 7, 1 , 25 is a kind of fruit 
where they remain seven or eight hours.— an extensive gold field existed in the Bathurst My whole is the truth. m. o. 
This is called the vulcanizing process, by which district, but at the request of the governor he shcridnu, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
the rubber is hardened. kept his discovery secret, as the making it Answer next week. 
A large quantity of cotton cloth and cotton known in the penal condition of the colony in 
flannel is used to line shoes, and is applied to those times might have been attended with se- 
the surface of the rubber while it is yet in r ious consequences. In the year 1841, the 
sheets. Not a particle of any of these materi- Rev. Mr. Clarke, without any knowledge of 
als is lost The scraps of rubber are re-melted, these facts, again made the discovery, but kept 
and the bits of cloth are chopped up with a quiet for the same reason as the German 
small quantity of rubber, and rolled out into a Count. 
substance resembling pasteboard, to form the In 1844, Sir Roderick Murchison discovered 
inner sole. The profits of this business have the existence of the gold mines by an investiga- 
been somewhat curtailed, of late, by the pre- tion into the geological structure of the coun- My vq, l:i> j ( j> - ii> 4> / 18 a county in jn. York, 
vailing high price of rubber, which lias varied try, and he and the Rev. Mr. Clarke continued Mv l8j 26> 9> 20> ^ 5 ^ g i s one of the U. States 
within a year from twenty to sixty cents per their discoveries and writings on the subject 1? ’ ^ ’ ]8 ’ 2( .’ 12 2 2 26 is a county in P.-l 
pound. The demand, however, is very large, during a series of years. Subsequently, a Mr. ’ on-’ . ‘ . \ 
A species of rubber shoe lined with flannel, is Smith placed in the hands of the colonal sec- 1 ~ 's h- co,m r > 1,1 1 nicrica. 
extensively used in some parts of the country retary a three-ounce nugget of gold, and claim- JI 7 1!) > () > ~ 6 ,-A, 24 is a country in Europe, 
as a substitute for the leather shoe.” ed a reward, but as this was refused until he My 17, 5,14, 25, 6 is a cape on the coast of Ire- 
__, ^ , should first prove the commercial value of his land. 
discovery, he declined, and so the matter was My whole is a much talked of project in the 
SlaLWS ur 1RUN. dropped. United States. e. o. k. 
__ , . , . i In all these cases, the discover}' claimed wilson, N. y., March, 1854. 
M E wandered into a machine shop yester- seems ratlier uncer tain, and consisted either in ___ n(1 _ t wppk 
Jlmtki) Jieasing. 
GOD’S WATCHFUL CARE. 
Tub insect, that with puny wing 
Just shoots along one summer ray, 
The flowret which the breath of spring 
Wakes into life for half a day, 
The smallest mote, the tendorest hair, 
All feel a Heavenly Father’s care. 
E’on from the glories of Ilis throne 
He bends to view this earthly ball j 
Sees all as if that all were all, 
Loves one'its if that one were one; 
Roils the swift planets in their spheres, 
And counts the sinner’s lonely tears. 
Cunningham. 
[Translated from the German for the Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. 
One evening before falling asleep, I was re¬ 
flecting on the ways of Providence, and in the 
night I had the following dream: I had gone 
astray in a dark wood, and could find no exit 
1 called for help; whereupon an angel offered 
himself to be my companion, and to show me 
the ways of Providence. 
He led me to an inn where we were kindly 
received by the landlord. He (the landlord) 
said that he was full of joy to-day, because his 
only enemy had just become reconciled to him, 
and as a pledge of his fidelity he had received 
a silver cup. As we left the inn, the angel stole 
the cnp. I was angry with him, but he said: 
Be silent, and venerate the ways of Providence. 
We proceeded on our journey, till we arrived 
at the house of an exceedingly wicked man, 
who did us great wrongs. We soon made 
haste to leave, and before our departure, the 
angel presented the infamous man with the 
silver cup. I disapproved his conduct, hut 
again he said: Be silent, and venerate the ways 
of Providence. We next entered a cottage 
where poverty and want prevailed. The in¬ 
habitants had once been rich, but by some 
misfortune had lost all, except the little cottage. 
They were very poor but honest people, and 
welcomed us. But the angel set fire to the 
cottage, and then hurried away with me. I 
was enraged, and the third time the angel said: 
Be silent, and venerate the ways of Providence. 
Finally we entered a house inhabited by a fam¬ 
ily, consisting of a father and mother, and what 
was their greatest and only joy, a fair and 
blooming son. The angel said that we had 
gone astray, and desired some one to direct his 
path. The generous parents offered their only 
son for a guide, but, before we had proceeded 
far, the angel — drowned the youth in a stream 
that flowed across our path. 1 could bear it 
no longer. No, cried I, not another step with 
you. You may be a devil, not an angel. 
Then heavenly glory shone around the angel, 
and he called aloud: Fools only censure the 
Eternal! Know then, that the cup was poi- 
My whole is the truth. m 
Sheridau, Clmutauque Co., N. Y. 
Answer next week. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 26 letters. 
My 5, 7, 26, 9, It, 26 is a city in England. 
wicked one to his destruction. The unfortunate 
man will find a treasure beneath the ashes of 
his burnt house. The youth was a spoiled son, 
and had he lived longer would have murdered 
both father and mother. His death was indis¬ 
pensable to the safety of his parents, and to the 
cause of humanity. Silent! ye mortals, and 
venerate the ways of Providence. s. t. 
RELIGIOUS CULTURE. 
Our senses are educated by use. The ex¬ 
perienced sailor will not only see a ship in the 
My 10, 4, 15, 15, 14, 23, 3, 26, 22, 24 is a county haze of the distant horizon, where the landa- 
SINEWS OF IRON. 
We wandered into a machine shop yester- 
man recognizes nothing, but he will tell to 
what class of ships it belongs. The intellect is 
educated by use, and the experienced thinker 
will recognize relations and analogies where, 
to the uneducated mind, there is nothing but 
confusion. Our moral perceptions are educat¬ 
ed by use. He whose moral nature is kept 
alive by looking always to moral relations, and 
by fidelity to the moral convictions, recognizes, 
My whole is a much talked of project in the | ns by instinct, a decided right or wrong in ac- 
in Indiana. 
My 22, 26, 12, 16, 2, 4, 7 is a county in N. York. 
My 18, 26, 9, 20, 1 , 26, 8 is one of the U. States. 
My 17, 5, 18, 26, 12, 22, 26 is a county in Pa. 
My 21, 13, 4, 5, 20 is a country in So. America. 
day. Everywhere, up stairs and downstairs, theoretical allegations, or the findingof isolated 
intelligent machines were doing the work spetimens . The real discovery was made by 
once done by thinking and toiling men. In 4 .. Hargraves, a California miner, who found 
United States. 
Wilson, N. Y., March, 1854. 
Answer next week. 
one place a chuckle-headed affair, looking like jj ie <,-old placer, tested the specimens, and prov- 
au elephant’s frontispiece, was quietly biting e(] th(;ir valu(!) calle(1 a 1 )ub i ic meeting, and 
bare of cold iron in two, as if they had been so made known t j ie fact) instead of going to the col- 
many oaten straws. otiial authorities. Then commenced the great 
In another place, a fierce little tiling, with a rus j^ as the proceedings of Mr. JIargraves put 
spindle-shaped weapon—a sort ol mechanical ^ beyond the power of the authorities to sup- 
“ Gevil s Gaming N eedle —was boring square ' the j n f orma tion. He is to be rewarded 
holes through solid wooden wheels, three inch- £, ith a donation 0 f £ 10,000 by the British 
es or more in thickness. . government for his achievement. 
Away there, m a corner, a device, about as 
large and as noisy as a humming-bird, was 
amusing itself in cutting out pieces of steel 
from solid plates, as easily as children puncture 
paper patterns with a pin. 
» MWi 
Intermarriage of Blood Relations.— The 
auiu^llli; 1U3CU 111 UUlllll^ UUl/ UIV^OO Ul DLCJOi . •11 m r .1 . r V VI/' WF r )■ SJT 
from solid plates, as easily as children puncture /' redenckslvrg JYews says:—In the country Jtjjk felf 1 r A'l'ip 1 \V) 
paper patterns with a pin. wh u ich , we w( f. raised - {or f ^era- fv (gSC 1 f t\ 
All by itself in another place, was a machine toons a certai ? talllll 7 °/ wt ‘ alt ‘ 1 und rc * 
that whistled like a boatswain, and rough speetability have intermarried, un 1 eie can- . ,, , . T ,, , - r /, 
ramp fm-lL nKnorl p-roovod finishud not be found ill three ol them, a sound man or Answer to Illustrated Rebus bo. 15 —Lane d. 
‘ ' . ’P ^ ’ ’ woman One lias sore eyes, another scrofula, Paine, Apothecaries,^ Buffalo street, Rochester. 
ready for a place m something, somewhere, for woman, yne nas nuiu ^ca, 1 * „ 
somebody 1 a third is idiotic, a fourth blind, a fifth bandy- Answer to Charade in No. 14.— 6 ross-patth. 
Everywhere these queer machines were busy, ‘ e £ff^ d > a . 8 | xdl w * t ‘ 1 a Lead about the size of a — ♦ ■ ♦ 
doing all sorts of things in all sorts of ways; turnip, with not one out of the number exempt Wild Oats.- We once saw a young man 
boring and planing, and grooving and mortis- from physical_ or mental effects of some kind bravely turning up the glass-he wasafree- 
ing, turning, and sharpening, and sawing. Yet Una family persevere to intermarry with hearted glorious fellow-and was, lie said, 
Down stairs, in a room by itself, as if it each other, with these living monuments con- sowing his wild oafs. Wo afterwards saw a 
would be alone, we found the grand mover of stantly before them. 
all these machines. - * * ♦ * * * ~ 
In a corner, some distance from the genius Though reading and conversation may fur- 
we write of, a fire was burning, perhaps to nish us with many ideas of men and things, yet 
keep it “just comfortable,” and 'perhaps not. it is our own meditations that must form our 
It was very busy—the thing was—moving judgment uuuu. «<uu nuuuui u. 
tions which to others seem wholly indifferent, 
and through this moral intuition he is fitted to 
pass judgment on the final result of such ac¬ 
tions. Bo our religious nature is educated by 
use. Habits of prayer, of devout meditation, 
of referring all things in our devotions to the 
will of God, habits of communion with Christ 
till his words have become spirit and life to us, 
and our thoughts move in unison with his, 
must quicken our spiritual perceptions, deepen 
our religious consciousness, and give to us the 
power of recognizing as realities spiritual ob¬ 
jects and relations of which others are, and from 
their want of religious culture must be, entire¬ 
ly ignorant. Through this Christian culture, 
the education of our highest faculties by inter¬ 
course with the highest subjects which they 
J |ra»a can act upon, are we to enter into our highest 
■' ' 4 r life, and experience the purest joy that the soul 
7 A j «iN can know. We cannot open our hearts in 
prayer with intense yearning for intercourse 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus No. 15 .—Lane J with God without some accession of spiritual 
Paine. Apothecaries, 18 Buffalo street, Rochester. life and peace, and we cannot throughout the 
Answer to Charade in No. 14.—“ Cross-patch.” day carry out the experience of that moment 
_ ( t _without having it in some measure confirmed 
, xr r . ,,, „„„„ and established within us a permanent part of 
Wild Oats. —We once saw a young man ... . . Q . 1 
bravely turning >m lb., ghus-lre was a free- m,r So slioukl we goon, 
hearted, gloriona fellow-and was he said, growing always ni onr Bpmtnal gifts and per- 
sowing hia wild oats. Wo afterwards saw a ccj.lions, 1,11 onr lngbest expenenee on earth ,s 
policeman hauling a miserable drunkard from a foretaste of heaven.-LoAc Repertory. 
the gutter to the watch-house. The wild oats 
were being harvested. A firm faith is the best divinity; a good life 
-♦ 4 - is the best philosophy; a clear conscience the 
Close not a letter without reading it, or best law; honesty the best policy; aud tern- 
drink water without seeing it. perance the best physic. 
