Litchfield enquirer., 1864-11-17

SOUND MAxIMs.-.In the pocket book of the
 late Stephen Allen, of New York, a prosper
 ous old gentleman who had secured to himself
 chara cter and fortune by their observance was found a slip ofpaper, containing the following 7maxims: .-3ss,F, ,i. |, .i....s, ., ..
 F !" Keep good company, or none.,j Never be
 idle. Ii your hands cannot be usefplly em ployed, attend to the cultivation of your mind
 Always speak the truth. Make but few prom fises. to Lave up to your engagements. ii Keep f your own secrets, if you have any. When you speak to any person, look him in the face.- 1 Good company and good conversation are the very sisews of:virtue. 1Good, ,characterisab is above all things else., Your character cannot be es- sentially injured, except by your own acts, If any one one speaks il of you, let your life be so that none will believe him. Drink no kind of intoxicating aliquors. Ever. live within gour income -msfortunes excepted. When you re- tire to bed. think over what you have been do- | ing throus h the day. Make no haste to bls rich, if you would prosper. Small and sfeady. gains give competency with tranquility of ImiAd. Never play at any kiad O. game of chance. Avoid all temptation. through fear hyou may not withstand it.. Never run into debt. unless you can see a way to get out again
 Earn money before you spend it. Never Dor row, if you can possibly avoid it. haDo not
 marry until you are ,ableato support a4wife- Never speak evil of any one. Be just before
 you are generous. Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy. Save when you are young, to spend when you are old. Read over these maxiMs at least ouce week" at 3a ? ' Let every young man who reads the above
 cut It out and keep it in his pocket book for
 frequent reference. ''' - ''' x
 The following touching paragraph taken
 from an old exchange paper, was written upon
 the sion of the death of little girl-the
 daughter of soldier of the 23d IC. V. He
 died at Belfontaine, Ohio, where he was left
 too i'll to proceed further, when the regiment. passed, on its way home. His child died while
 yet the family hoped to see him again among them. The paragraph was entitled hWaiting for the 23d, writer little thinkng he should be so soon and forcibly reminded
 of it: "' 4"fa @i' ;' 7Fg,a.. .y5 7.t .afaa. .,j ]. ( Death has been unusually bnsy here of late,
 smoothing down the gray hairs of the fnrrowed
 checked veterans in the battle of life, and tucking away the golden curls and tresses from over the brows of the youngest in the
 service of Israels King Among those await
 ing the arrival of .he 23d,' down our street, was little one easily measured by two years.
 She was beautiful and dol-like creature,
 with a face where sunbeams and smiles lov- ingly fingered. She waited and waited for the
 23h, until sick of waiting. the other noon, when not a ripple was stirred by the breeze,
 when the flowers hung their heads and whis- | p rel to- ach other of their companion, and the perfumed gardens where her little feet
 would tread, she fell aseep; and just then there was general rustic amid the leaves of the trees overhead. But still she waits for the
 23d! Up among the evergreens, in the house planned by one whose name will ever be at-
 fhctionately associated with our beautiful City
 of the Dead, she will calmly and quietly wait
 for the 23d,--then, under some tiower-tummed
 mound, she will be cradled again until the
 wars for the 23d are aU over, when she and they will meet where they will never have to
 ,cait again. .s.a.