The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-06-14

nor either, hardly 1t is forever and over and CIV
err, and five or SIX everlastings top of tLat. You
might place row of figures from here to sunset
and cypher them all up, and II wouldn't begin TO
tell how many ages long eternity is. Why, my
friends, and after millions, billions, and trilhons
Of years had rolled away in eternity il would then
be hundred thousand years to breakfast time o,
can give you idea of it father than TO say, that
you can be happy all that time VI you have only
mind 10 try for it-hpppier than spring can make
you here. All you loaiers that lie, cheat swear,
play cards, chew tobacco, drink rum, and love
money better than you do one another, live in
perpetual winter Of discomfort and misery, and no
eternal spring will dawn upon your heads for
there no virtuous seeds in your hearts that
quire vernal sun to sprout them and as for your
vices, they will all soon become ice bound in the
frosty regions of death. Heed what l say, and
turn We from your evil ways that when Spring
shall visit the Wondering urn, something more
than the sordd dust OF sin be gathered there
from. So mote it be Dow, Jr.
NEWSPAPERS. The following article the
subject of'' Newspapers and their advantages, was
published originally in the Long Island Star, some
fifteen or twenty years ago. 1t is so full of good
sense, that we beg subscribers, if they have a
neghbor able TO take paper, and does not, to lend
him this number of our paper to read. If the Pc
rusa of it, by such men, should add some fifty or
hundred to our list, will endeavor 10 bear such
an aflction with becoming fortiiude
IA newspaper is school in family ofchildren
worth ten dollars a gear. Even the most barren
paper brings something new. Children read or
hear the contents become intelligent of the affairs of
the world, and acquire store Of useful knowledge
of more i'm portance TO them in life than n present
of fifty acres of land. Parents of the
cast--we say with confidence the east importance
Of newspaper in family Ct children. We have
mado the remark before. and repeat it, that
take two families of children equally smart, and
both going to the same SCHOOL, let one of them have
the free use of the Newspaper, and let the other be
deprived of the Of il, and il would excite aston
ishment TO mark the difference between them
Full one half, and important half Of education
ms IT respects the business OF the world, and the
ability to rise and make ones self respectable in il
lis derived from newspapers What parent would
not wish his children respectable Who would
be willing to have his neighbor children more in
telligent than his own and yet how trihng is the
sum the paper costs 1t is in these hard
times absolutely contemplate in amount, and no
man ever felt IT, except In its beneficial
ces, who paid the subscription regularly once a
year.
! Truly should suppose that if young man
goes a counting, and his sweetheart finds out that
he reads no newspaper, she would,'lf she thought
much OF herself, send him away, as unnform.
ed of his political rights Ignorant of thousand
things which every young American ought to
know, and ihefefore un6l TO DO the husband Of an
intelligent girl"