Year: 1862




y writer, whom [ cannot but think
speaks wisely, says:


| " The seasonabe time for the exercise
OF prudence is not SO much in choosing .
a wife or husband, as in choosing with
whom you will so associate as to risk the
en.endering of passion"


And here | shall come to an issue at
once with the younger portion of my
readers, if not with their parents. The
younger will ask, Why should you seek
"a iclrrptp suS,scsttnS tne' possibility that
out Of it may grow some serious, perhaps
not wise, affection? | reply, Because
serious and not wise affections have again
aud again sprung out Of the unguarded,
unsupported Intercourse of the young,-
The parents will say, Why suggest the
idea of love at all to those too young to
be thinking Of it? Why put an awkward
constraint upon intimacies and compan
ionships SO pleasant and SO Innocent l
reply, that the idea is in the heads, if
not the hearts, of the young already, and
we all know it. Every young person Of
seventeen or eighteen years Of age shows
! by the accidents Of conversation, if no
other way, that this thing floats more or
less distinctly before them. At this age,
the young are constantly having their
partialities, if not their loves-many af-
lections which shape and control the
lives Of the parties and Of generations do
grow up at that time-and knowing that,
and how uncomfortable aud unaccounta-
bic are the leaps and leadings Of the
young hearts, wise, religious, even a
worldly prudence, would demand care in
the choice Of associates. / do not think
it prudish or unnecessary to say to those
Of that age, in the presence Of the fact
of such exposure, 'Let your society be
with those among whom YOU are not
afraid to run the risk of serious attach
ment. Anl must 60 step further
back than this, and say that this is not
IA matter to be left wholly with the mex
perience of the young, but should be one
of the things thought of by father and
mother.-Rer. H. F. ". Ware.


THE CURSE OF GoLD.- Many years
since, sea-faring man called at village
inn on the coast of Normandy, and ask
ed for supper and bed; the landlord
and landlady were elderly people, and
apparently poor. He entered into con-
versation with them, invited them to
partake of his cheer-asked them many
questions about themselves and their
family, and particularly Of son who had
gone to sea when boy, and whom they
had long given over as dead. The land
lady showed him to his room, and when
she quilted him, he put purse Of gold
into her hand, and desired her to take
care Of it till the morning-pressed her
affectionately by the hand, and babe her
GOOD night. She returned to her hus-
band. and showed him the accurscd gold;
for its sake they agreed to murder the
the traveller in his slscp, which they ac.
complished, and buried the body. In
the morning early came two or three re-
lations, and asked in a joyful tone for the
traveller who had arrived there the night
before. The old people seemed greatly
confused, but said that he had risen very
early and gone away. "Impossible,' .
said the relations "it is your own son


who is lately returned to France, and ii
come to make happy the evening of you
days, and he resolved to lodge with 20,
one night as a stranger, that he nigh
sec YOU unknown, and judge Of your con
duet towards wayfaring mariners" Ian
) ruare would be incompetent to describ
the horror of the murderers, when the.
found that they had dyed their hands il
r the blood of their long lost child; the.
confessed their crime, the body wa
! found. and the wretched murderers ex'
plated their offence by being broken al'v
upon the wheel.