up in every thing that becomes a gentleman: wearing off, by little and little, all the vicious habits and practices that he had been used to, in the course of his wanderings. Nay, it is said, that he has since been employed in foreign courts upon national business, with great reputation to himself, and honour to those who sent him; and, that he has visited several countries, as a public minister, in which he formerly wandered as a gipsy. Addison.

10.-The Beggar Man.

AROUND the fire, one wintry night,
The farmer's rosy children sat;

The faggot lent its cheering light,

And jokes went round and careless chat.
When hark! a gentle hand they hear
Low tapping at the bolted door;
And thus, to gain their willing ear,
A feeble voice was heard to implore:

"Cold blows the blast across the moor,
The sleet drives hissing in the wind;
Yon toilsome mountain lies before,
A dreary, treeless waste behind.

So faint I am-these tottering feet
No more my palsied frame can bear;
My freezing heart forgets to beat,
And drifting snows my tomb prepare.

Open your hospitable door,

And shield me from the biting blast;
Cold, cold it blows across the moor,
The weary moor that I have passed!"
With hasty steps the farmer ran,

And close beside the fire they place
The poor half-frozen beggar man,

With shaking limbs and blue-pale face.

The little children flocking came,

And chafed his frozen hands in theirs,
And busily the good old dame

A comfortable mess prepares.

Their kindness cheered his drooping soul,
And slowly down his wrinkled cheek
The big round tears were seen to roll,
And told the thanks he could not speak.

The children, too, began to sigh,
And all their merry chat was o'er;
And yet they felt, they knew not why,
More glad than they had done before.

Ex-trem'i-ties, ends; com-mu'ni-ca-ted, imparted; research'es, inquiries; oc-ca'sion-al-ly, sometimes; dis-cov'er

ing, finding out.

Or all minerals, the magnet or loadstone is the most singular in its properties. It is an iron ore of a dark grey colour, and has the property of attracting iron. This virtue, however, is not equally diffused through the whole stone, but resides chiefly in its two extremities, which are termed its poles. If a magnet be suspended by a string, and put in motion, it will, when left to itself, point one of its poles to the north, and the other to the south. This regular direction, which varies only a little in some particular parts of the earth, has given the name of the north pole to that extremity of the magnet which points to the north, and the south pole, to that which points to the south. The properties of attracting iron and pointing to the north, may be communicated to iron itself, by rubbing it against the loadstone. This discovery introduced the magnetic needle, or mariner's compass, by which the navigator is enabled to steer across the ocean, the traveller to direct his course with safety in the pathless desert, and the miner to guide his researches after treasures in the bowels of the earth.

Though naturalists have not been able to discover why loadstone attracts iron, and why it points to the north; yet they have been successful in discovering some of its properties. They have found that it does not at all times, nor in all places, point exactly to the north, but that it occasionally inclines a little to the east, sometimes to the west, and that these variations are sometimes more and sometimes less. They have also observed that its attractive power was as strong when they placed any other substance between it and iron. Glass, fire, water, men, animals, and every metal, except iron itself, give free passage to the magnetic fluid, and do not prevent its acting upon iron. They have also discovered that the north pole of one magnet attracts the south pole of an

other, and that the north pole of one repels the north pole of another, and that the south poles, when applied together, also repel each other. It is supposed that the power of attracting resides in the iron as well as in the magnet. To prove this, we have only to suspend a magnet at one end of the beam of a balance, and attach to its other extremity a weight equal to that of the magnet, and, when the balance is thus made perfectly equal, place a piece of iron beneath it, and the magnet attracted by the iron will descend.

Ex-tra-or'di-nar-y, remarkable; tar'nished, dimmed; disar-ranged', disordered; or'i-gin, descent; en-ven'om-ing, poisoning; ul'ti-mate-ly, lastly; di-ver'si-ties, varieties; event'u-al-ly, at last; cher'u-bim, angels; ec-stat'ic, transporting,

THE two most extraordinary women that ever appeared in the world, were unquestionably Eve, "the mother of all living,' and Mary, "the mother of Jesus Christ."-They occupied, respectively, the highest stations, and the most important points of time, that ever fell to the lot of mortals; and they exhibit an instructive contrast. Eve lived at the beginning, and Mary at "the fulness of time." Eve saw the glories of the new-made world soon after creative wisdom had pro

nounced it all "very good ;" and before sin had tarnished its beauty, and disarranged its harmonies. Mary beheld it rising from the ruins of the fall, at the moment of its renovation, and at the dawn of its happiest day. Eve was placed in the most glorious and conspicuous situation, and fell into a state of meanness and degradation. Mary was of obscure origin and lowly station, but was raised by a signal appointment of Providence, to the highest eminence. Eve was accessory to the ruin of man: Mary, instrumental in the birth of Him, who came as the Restorer and Saviour of mankind. Eve beheld the fatal curse first take effect, in overcasting the heavens with clouds; in withering the blossoms of Paradise, envenoming the spirit of the animal creation, disordering the human frame; and ultimately destroying it, and introducing all the nameless diversities of woe, which fill up the history of human life. Mary witnessed the beginning of that long series of blessings, which Divine love has for ages dispensed to man, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus," and, which, will eventually replenish the cup of existence, with unmingled sweetness and perfect joy. Eve witnessed, with a trembling consciousness of guilt, the awful descent of those mighty cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life," and which were placed "at the east end of the garden of Eden." Mary, with feelings of ecstatic rapture, beheld the angel Gabriel standing before her, with the smiles of heaven upon his countenance, heard his benediction, and held "communion sweet," with the holy

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