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READING.-Go into the houses of some of
our farmers, and you will find no newspaper,
no periodical Of any kind and hardly book.
Ask such men to subscribe for paper, and they
will tell you that they have not time to read one!
But who is SO constantly employed as to find
no leisure for the improvement of his mind
Not the farmer, certainly, for the long winter
evenings afford him several hours every day
which he might devote to reading-not the
mechanic, for instances are frequent where
the most industrious artizans have attained to
|eminence in the sciences, merely by giving their
leisure to study.


One of the most eminent oriental scholars 0
the age, is Prof Lee, of one of the EngFst
Universities; and yet all his education wa
acquired during the moments of leisure which
he found while employed as journeymau
carpenter.


The fact is every man has leisure to read at
least newspaper, and those who plead the want
Of time as an excuse for not taking one, are al
most always the least industrious.


Nothing oughtto induce the father ofa family
TO do without newspaper aud rear his children
in ignorance. They will be less intelligent and
respectable, and far less likely to succeed in life
than those who enjoy the advantages Of good
periodical.-N. Z. Erdn