l&X&t'bnv. 
Xantl)tum StlMUCH tttlll. Natural Order: Compositce — Aster Family. 
some of the human family, certain plants have but very 
|fjp^ ^tle biography, and what they have is not very favorable. 
|f ; They necessarily have had progenitors or ancestors, but not 
A the illustrious, the noted, the famous ; neither have they 
gry beauty or attractions sufficient to redeem them from ob- 
^ scurity. The Clotbur resembles the burdock, the Spanish 
needles, ana some others of those provoking plants that scatter their 
see< ^ s ky adhering to whatever comes in contact, which they do readily 
^ ^ by the hooked spines with which they are provided. They are mostly 
) coarse plants, found in byways, fields, woods and barnyards. 
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TAETR ACTION is a bold monster, and fears not 
To wound the fame of princes, if it find 
But any blemish in their lives to work on. — Massinger. 
'T'IS not the wholesome, sharp morality, 
Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, 
Of the malicious, ignorant and base 
Interpreter; who will distort, and strain 
The gen’ral scope and purpose of an author 
To his particular and private spleen. —Jons 
That hurts or wounds the body of a State; 
But the sinister application 
yiRTUE itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes; 
The canker galls the infants of the spring, 
For oft before their blossoms be disclos’d, 
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, 
Contagious blastments are most imminent. 
— Shakespeare. 
N° skm in swordmanship, however just, 
Can be secure against a madman’s thrust; 
I 
T’M one whose whip of steel can with a lash 
Imprint the characters of shame so deep, 
And even virtue so unfairly match’d, 
Ev’n in the brazen forehead of proud sin, 
Although immoital, may be prick’d or scratch’d. That not eternity shall wear it out. 
Cozuper. 
— Randolph. 
J|APPY are they that hear their detractions, 
And can put them to mending. 
— Shakespeare. 
