1. The face is the in-dex to the heart of man. As you look on the face of a clock, and tell the time of day; so you may look on the hu-man face and read the heart.

2. If you no-tice the faces of small ba bies they look near ly a-like. Some eyes are black, some blue, and some ha-zel; while the no-ses of some are larg-er than oth-ers.

3. But when chil-dren be-gin to grow, and some to have bad tem-pers, you per-ceive a great dif-fer-ence.

4. The child who has a bad tem-per, and cries, and pouts, and quar-rels, is al-most sure to have red eyes, thick ug-ly lips and of-ten a red nose.

5. Oth-er chil-dren are too proud to cry, and sulk; but they smile a bit-ter smile, and ut-ter a few bi-ting words; while their eyes look like those of an an-gry snake.

1. Do you see the cane mill? It is made of i ron. It looks ver y strong.

2. Now Mr. Hicks is go ing to make sy-rup. See him poke the long canes be tween the roll ers and; see how the rich juice runs down!

3. This is put in the large ket tles on the furn ace, and boil ed until it is fit for use.—The scum is fed to the hogs, and makes them grow fast. See! it takes one hand all the time to skim it well.

4. The sy rup is good food for girls and boys. It is cheap er than ba con, or but ter and is much more whole some. Then most chil dren are very fond of it.

5. Chil dren who live most ly on sy rup, are not so sub ject to croup; and it is said that per sons us ing much of it are not apt to have fe vers.

6. Then three cheers for the cane mill! It is a fine time for boys and girls, and the ser vants too enjoy it finely.

7. See them with their pots boil ing over the last skim ming. Some of them will have four or five gal lons by the time the sea son closes. Well done for the dar kies. Ma ny poor white peo ple would be glad of what they leave for the hogs.

1. This is God's day; in it, he has said, “Ye shall do no work, nor think your own thoughts.”

2. Now if it is wrong to work, and e ven to think of com mon things, on the Sab bath; it is wrong to play.

3. But some chil dren think it is a ga la day, when Sunday comes; so they got on their clean clothes, and run off for fun.

4. All day long they play and whoop; and nev er once think of what God has said.

5. If their fath er had sev en fine mel ons, and were to give them six, and save one for him self; do you think they would touch it? I think not.

6. Well God has giv en us six days, and kept one for himself. In the six days we may do what we choose, if we do not break God's com mands.

7. But sad to say, some children, and grown people too, are so wick ed, as to take God's day a way from him. But I do not think they take time to think how bad it is.

8. I hope, dear readers, you will re mem-ber to keep the Sab bath ho ly. At tend church if you can; and if you have no Church nor Sunday school to go to, read your Bible and pray God to make you hap py.

1. Lu la was a good lit tle girl, and loved her pa pa and mam ma dear ly.

2. She of ten thought her pa rents might die, and this made her ver y sad. But she soon learn-ed to pray, and she thought God would not be an gry, if she ask ed Him to let her pa rents live to raise all their chil dren.

3. So Lu la grew up still pray ing that God would grant her de sire.

4. At length Lu la's moth er was ta ken sick, and ma ny thought she would die. But Lu la nursed her du ring her ill ness, and nev er gave her up.

5. She was quite ill for ma ny weeks, but still Lu Is pray ed on, and toil ed on. At length she be gan to im prove, and to Lu la's great joy, she got well. Lu la was now in her teens, and took all the cares of the fam i ly on her self.

1. See that sad mother! Her lit tle babe is dead. It is not strange she looks sad.

2. It died of croup. It was well two days a go, and could play as you do; but now see its pale white face.

3. Take its lit tle white hand in yours and feel how cold it is. You ask what made the ba by die. I will tell you.

4. God saw it would be best to take it to heav-en now. Per haps he looked away in the fu-ture, and saw that the child would not be good if it grew to be a man.

5. O may be the fath er and moth er for got to love God, and he took their ba by to make them want to go to heaven too.

6. Now a man takes the lit tle cof fin, and all the peo ple march si lent ly to the grave yard.

7. There in a deep hole, call ed a grave, they put down the dead bod y, and cov er it up. Now the pa rents can see it no more.

8. Its lit tle bod y must turn to dust, but its soul has gone to meet its Sa vior.

9. When Je sus was on the earth, he took lit-tle chil dren in his arms and bless ed them and said “Suffer lit tle chil dren to come un to me' and for bid them not.”

1. Fred Har per went to our school, and was known by the name of sel fish Fred.

2. When at school he al ways wanted the seat next the fire, if the day was cold, or next the window if the heat was op press ive.

3. No mat ter who else suff ered, Fred would have his place; and in play he was the same way. When he was at home, and the chil dren had fr uit or an y nice thing, he would grab.

4. So you see Fred soon got the name of “sel fish Fred.” Well, when he be came a man he still took care of self.

5. When at tea table, he would help him self large ly of the best dish, and leave man y bits up-on his plate.

6. Peo ple soon found out that lie was not fair deal er, and they would have noth ing to do with him.

7. He mar ried a good wife, but he was so mean and sel fish that she was not hap py. He must have his wants sup plied, no mat ter how tired his wife was. She soon died of neglect; but Fred yet lives.