Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-10-19

ence teaches US that the sword, the fag
got, exile and prescription, are better
calculatedtto irritate than to heal tht
disease, which having its source in The
mind, cannot be relieved by remedies
that Only act on the body. The mos
cificacious means are sound doctrine,
and repeated Instruction, which make
a ready impression, when inculcateC
with mildness. Every thing else bows
to the sovereign authority Of the law, bu
religion alone is not to be commanded
Politeness.-There is nothing more
dissimilar than natural and acquired
politenesS. The first consists in viii
ling abnegation of self; the second in a
compelled recollection of others.
ASSOCIATION.
There's not heart however rude,
But hath some little flower,
10 brighten up its solitude,
And scent the evening hour.
There's not a heart, however cast
BY grief and sorrow down,
But hath some memory Of the past
To love and call its own
Style.-To praise the style of an au-
thor more than his thoughts, is like
commencing a woman for her dress,
more than her person. Style, like dress,
should be appropriate, and not detract
attention from what it was meant to a.
dorn.
Society.--Those can most easily dis
pense with society who are the most
calculated to adorn it; they only arc
dependent on it who possess no men
tai resources; for, though they bring
nothing to the general mart, like beg
gars they are to poor to stay at home.
McCurran, the Irish historian, says,
"the sea is the largest burying ground
in the universe"
insufficient remedies only aggravate
the disease; this our currency doctors
have abundantly demonstrated, as any
one can see whose eyes are not cover.
ed with paper promises, or who has not
reasons for being blind in his own
pocket.
VERSES FROM AN OLD SONG.
A bachelor leads merry life
Few who are welded live better;
a man will live well with very good wife,
But the puzzle s--now TO GET HER
There are very GOOD wives and very BAD wives,
There are wives this, that and the other;
And as for those wives that will scold all their
lives,
I'd sooner we'd Adams grandmother.
The secret of Dante's struggle
life was in the reckless sarcasm
of his answer to the Prince of Verona,
who asked him how he could account
for the fact, that in the household of
princes, the court fool was in greater
favor than the philosopher. "Similar-
ty of minds" said the fierce genius, sis
over the world the source of friend
Ship"
Fondness for children denotes, notI
only kind heart, but a guileless one.
A knave always detests children
their innocent looks and open brow,
speak daggers to him-he sees his own
villainy reflected from their counte-
nances, as from mirror. Always
mark the man or woman who avoids |
children.
Money 1reH laid oui.-"No money is
better SPENT" says DIR. Johnson .sthan
what is laid out for domestic satisfac-
lion. A man is pleased, that his wife is
dressed as well as other people, and
he wife is pleased that she is well
dressed. This must have been said
when Mrs. Johnson had just worried
he Doctor out of new gown.
Modern Dsjfnation Of Lady.--A fe-
male in the shape of a pair of saddle
Tags, small in the middle, and large at
10Th ends"
What is harder than earning moncylI
Collecting it.
A young girl will not hesitate to !
ell you her age. But you don't catch
n ''old 'un'' doing that thing.
"Plcase exchange" as the printer {
hid when he offered his heart TO a 9
eautifhl girl. /
idtendss, says great writer, Is the /
est in which miseh,cflays and hatch. h
, its eggs. ;