32. A good man is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth.

33. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for their is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.

34. By much slothfulness the building decayeth, and through idleness of hands the house droppeth through. 35. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

SOLOMON.

1. A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

2. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

3. Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

4. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

5. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

6. The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there is sleeping enough in the grave.

7. Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough proves little enough.

8. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

9. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarcely overtake his business at night.

10. Drive thy business, and let not thy business drive thee.

11. He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

12. There games without pains, then help hands I have no hands.

13. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

14. At the industrious man's house hunger looks in, but durst not enter.

15. Industry pays debts, but despair increases them. 16. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

17. Plow deep, while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep.

18. Let not the sun look down and say, inglorious here he lies to-day.

19. Handle your tools without mittens, the cat in gloves can catch no mice.

20. Continued droppings wear a large stone.

21. By diligence and patience the mouse ate through the cable.

22. Small strokes fell great oaks.

23. Fly pleasures and they will follow you. 24. The diligent spinner has a large shift.

25. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. 26. Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. 27. If you would have your business done, go, if not,

send.

28. He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive.

29. The eye of the master does more work than his hands.

30. Want of care does more damage than the want of knowledge.

31. Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and heaven to the virtuous.

32. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you would like, serve yourself.

33. A fat kitchen makes a lean will.

34. What maintains one vice would rear two children. 35. Women, and game, and deceit, makes the wealth small and the want great.

35. Beware of little expense, a small leak sinks a large ship.

37. Waste not, want not.

38. Many a little makes a mickle.

39. Who dainties love, shall beggars prove.

40. Fools make feasts, and wise men eats them.

41. Silks, satins, scarlets, and velvets, put out the kitchen fire.

42. A plowman on his knees is higher than a gentleman on his legs.

43. If you would know the value of money, try and borrow some.

44. Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

45. Many without labor would live by their wits only, but they break for want of stock.

46. Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your open purse.

47. A man, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keeps his nose all his life to the grind-stone, and dies not worth a groat.

48. When women gad the house runs mad.

49. If you would be rich, think of saving as well as getting.

50. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because the outgoings are greater than her income.

51. Buy what thou hast no need of, and before long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.

52. At a great penny-worth pause a while.

53. Wise men learn by others' harms, a fool scarcely by his own.

DR. B. FRANKLIN.

In speaking of the discipline or course to be pursued by a teacher in conducting and governing a school, I trust I shall not be so understood as actuated by a spirit of dictation, but rather that of humble suggestion, and taking it for granted that the hour 9 o'clock, A. M., Monday, has arrived, the teacher is to call his school to order, and so preserved throughout the morning session of three hours as to prevent anarchy or confusion, which desirable object may in no inconsiderable degree be secured by not only having a place for everything, but everything in its place; and also by the cordial co-operation of parents or guardians in instructing their children at home, not only to respect but promptly to obey, all reasonable and lawful commands of those under whose auspices they may respectively be placed as subjects for improvement; and as all sound knowledge and wisdom alone flows from our Heavenly Father, let the morning exercises of the school commence by reading a portion, at least one chapter, of the Bible, out of which blessed book we are assured springs or flows the healthful issue of life, and so far as the reading of the chapter may involve historical facts, let the teacher enlarge; but, in every instance, where the passage leads directly or indirectly to doctrinal or sectarian views, let it pass without note or comment, as

this is a reserved right or province of the parent or guardian. However desirable to have all our schools, seeking mental improvement, opened by prayer, and notwithstanding teachers may possess a certificate for moral character, still, not so far advanced in divine favor as in public to give courage or confidence to seek or ask a blessing direct from the throne of grace, or if he has the heavenly and divine implantation so fixed in his heart as to give full confidence in public prayer; still it is reasonable to suppose that in his early religious education he had been taught and conformed to favor some peculiar views of his own church, and thus, in his zeal, ask or admit those things which by many of his employers, equally honest with himself, were contrarily held, viewed, or understood, and thus innocently create such a schism or discord as to ultimately lead to the downfall or overthrow of his school. But by bringing before him in one class every scholar, from the understanding reader, down to the mechanical, or one just seeking the formation of words into sentences, and cause each scholar of the class. alternately so to read a verse that the whole will pass twice around in a chapter, as already prescribed. As to note or comment no objection can reasonably be raised by any denomination professing the warmest and most scrupulous attachment for our holy religion, or even intimate a seed of injury while much good may be anticipated. The sacredness of the Bible, in connexion with many ungrammatical passages, render it an unsuitable standard as a common reading-book for any school farther than already herein named, when it should be laid aside for the remainder of the day, after a review by the whole class for such other books as shall or may have become the adopted or standard works for the use of our common schools, never forgetting that a spelling-book and a dictionary constitute no inconsiderable auxiliaries in extending the great chain of early progressive learning, a copy of which should be furnished each scholar, and the latter always to be consulted when occasion may require, whether in school or at home; next, the teacher should proceed to hear the tasks of such scholars as had not favored him with their attendance before 9 o'clock, commencing with one just entering his monosyllables, many words of which, although they are spelled differently and

have different significations, still are sounded alike, as site, situation, cite, to summon, and sight, to see; and so up in recitation as to embrace English grammar, arithmetic, or other branches, as the pupil may be seeking information. And I would here remark, that the parent or guardian failing at home to assist the child in thoroughly committing to memory its morning task, offers a direct insult to the teacher, whose time during school hours should unavoidably be engrossed with other duties than those which can be performed by the pupil at home. The morning recitation closed, the teacher is to select one of his best scholars as an usher or assistant teacher for the day being, and immediately proceed in the presence of the usher to exercise a child yet in its alphabet or confined to the spelling-book.

No book to be employed iù teaching a child its alphabet, the letters of which are to be made first by the teacher in sand, and the name of each given, and then followed or imitated by the child, commencing with the O. 1, straight mark, b, d, p, q, and not until all the small letters are perfectly known is the child to have exhibited to its view the capitals or larger letters, which in similarity bears but little, if any, resemblance to the smaller letters; and this reminds me of a boy aged twelve years, who denied, through the parsimony of his parents, all participation in the science of letters, was, through the instrumentality of free schools, permitted to seek improvement as to scholastic matters, aad the teacher showing him the large letter A, was commanded so to pronounce it, but did not comply until he had first remarked, "that's A, is it? it looks to me like our old dad's drag ;" and the large letter B, he considered an ox yoke. The usher thus directed as to the plan or mode in teaching the young pupil, he is without the assistance of the teacher, to cause the child, in a low voice, to repeat the same lesson, until otherwise ordered, commencing with the first and ending on the last heard; and those who may have recited their morning tasks, and during the time occupied in exercising the young beginner, can employ the time in making themselves master or mistress of a column in the dictionary, which by all the readers, is to constitute a spelling lesson, at the close of the morning session. At, or about ten o'clock, the teacher is to deliver to each scholar, seek