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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3391, 4 November 1879, Page 2

Reiiembeb, son, that the world is older-^ than you arc by several years; that fo£ * thousands of years it has bcawso full of ■ smarter and better young meu than yourself, that their feet stuck out of their dor? mer windows; that when they died Ibo old world wont whiriling on, and not one man out of the ten millions went to thq funeral or even heard of the deah. Know as much as you can without blow? ing the packing out of your cylindejslieads; shed the light of your window iMad iv the world, but don't dazzle people with if. And don't imagine a tiling is so simple because you say it is, Don't be sorry for your father because ho knows «o much less than you do: remember" the reply of Dr Wayland to the student of ' Brown Uuiversity, who said it was an easy enough thing to make prorerbs such as " Solomon wrote : ',* Make a *!•«?»" * tersely replied the old man. Not more than two or three, anyhow 1. The world has great need of young mon, but ho' greater need than the young men h»Te of it. Your clothes fit you ketter than your father's f|t him; they' cost more money, they are njore stylish!: yoac moustache is neater, the cut of yoqr h^ij: is better, and you are prettier, oh, fas pretiier than " pa." Bat young msni the old ?|entleraau gets the- biggest salary, and his homely scrambling signature on the business end of a cheque will drain more money out- '"thtig a ream of paper and a copper plate 'signature iv six months. Young men are useful, son, and they are ornamental and we all lore them,

and we could't enqincor a panic successfully without them, .Hut they arc? no novelties. Oh, no, nothing of ()io kind. They have been here Wore. Don't bo so modest as to shut yourself cl^nr out, but don't be so fresh tii'U you will h;ive to be put anay in the cool to keep from spoiling. Don't be afraid that your merit will not b« discovered. People all over the world arc hunting for you and if you are worth finding they will find you.—Hawkeye.

One sixth of the entire population of California are Chinamen ; they number 180,000 souls, but they pay leas thanoiu:-four-hundre.Hh part of the rorouuc raised for the support of the State Government. The total amount of taxes gathered from them falls 12,000 dollars short of maintaining the Chinese convicts iv the State prison.

I believe the remedy of every bad habit is simpl}' to abandon entirely what produces it. If you have a habit of thinking badly get a good book and pniy over it and bend your mind down to the study of it. if you have acquired llu» habit of using intoxicating liquors as » beverage, then I say, avoid entirely that which is producing that habit. But some may say, " I use intoxicating liquors but have no habit o('it." Let vie say to you, not as a teacher, not in the form of dictation, but in all kindliness of feeling : Try a test. You are your own master. You can take up the bottle as the Indian did and dash it to pieces saying " I am jour Blaster," or it is your master. vVell then, the next time you feel any desirn for stimulants let them alone. ~ec how much you want it. Go about your business. You feel something is wanting. You are nervous. " 1 believe I must just take a little." Let it alone. You fancy you aye not altogether well and must take something; and perhaps the | doctor would encourage you. Let it alone. What follows f why some who say " I have no habit " will have' to work night and day to overcomo the desire for it. That is but the beginning of the appetite which becomes in some the master. —John B. GorcH.

DuiTKKENKKSS in Sweden and Norway is cured in the following manner : —The drunkard is put into prison, and his only nourishment is bread soaked in wine. During the first day the prisoner receives the bread and wine with much pleasure. On the second day the food is not so acceptable. After that he takes his food with great repugnance. In general, eight or ten days of thi* treatment suffices to produce such, a disgust of liquor thnt the unhappy man is compelled to absolute abstinence. After leaving prison, his drunkenness in radically cured, with an occasional exception, and the odour of liquor produces an invincible repulsion.

11 My soul's at the gate," is the title of a new piece of music. He had better be careful, or he may find the old man's solo at the gate, too, some of these fine evenings.