Year: 1859

hands, having a knack at that sort of thing.
and then start off to market with basket on
his arm, to purchase himself the daily provis-
ions, gaining afterwards, no doubt many an
hours march on most Of his associates.


In New York there has been formed
Young Mems Early Rising Association, all
the members of which are pledged TO be up at
certain hour. Il originated with about
half dozen young men, who having kept up
this habit fcs some years we're surprised at
its beneficial effects, at the success in life Of
their associates.


little watchful experience will rem
der this not surprising to any thoughtful
man. He who rose at FIVE instead Of seven.
daily adds perhaps ten years Of the brightest
hours to his life Of active thought and exer-
ton Life will b ,rolouged. health and hap
piness will be preserved. All other animals
but men sleep through the dark hours and
wake with the light. The time Of all the oe-
cupations of the day will be moved forward or
backward by the time Of rising. The early
man takes time by the forelock. and is always
beforehand with his competitor and his enc
my, anticipates their designs. and has all his
affairs arranged so that they cannot be dis
turbed or molested Not the breakfast alone
but all the meals and the hours of retiring
will be governed by this habit. Such a man
will drop to sleep in his chair at nine o'clock.
SO much the better. Consider the effect on
the young man. 1t is at the late hour that
bad company becomes most dangerous By
ron abuses the moon as the light beneath
which thousand times more wickedness is
done than the sun, and he who at twenty is
never out at ten, will find il has saved him a
fortune, and earned for him character before
he is forty, of which he may well be proud.
Many young man in college has been saved
from dissipated habits by the ringing college
bell for morning prayer at five o'clock. Af-
ter getting up thus early and working hard
at study ali day, he was glad to get to bed
between niue and ten, fairly worn out with
honest, hopeful toll, instead of making a night
of it in idle dissipation.


In married life. this habit of being early to
bed is worth years of life and happiness
The children are never wakeful till they have
got through their first sleep. But after that,
II man has got all his repose to get, it will
be so often broken as soon to break him down.
He will become nervous simply for want Of
sleep-seep that he would have got from
nine till midnight, unbroken, but which he
cannot secure after. intellectually a man can
do twice the work while his mind is calm and
clear, as it is early in the day, and as it is not
and cannot be later 1t was before ten o clock
/ generally that Sir Walter Scott wrote his six
teen pages per day of those novels which are
/ the delight of the civilized world, and it has
been before nine o clock that in our own city,
! DIR. Barnes has written those commentaries on
! the Scriptures of which four hundred thous-
! and volumes have been sold in this country
add as many more in Europe. The very self
denial and sef-command indicated and en-
couraged by this habit is not its least value.
He who learns to govern himself in one mat
ter will in Others. Philadelphia Ledger.