DON'T BE DISCOURAGED.
AIO" . Vc UsSCOtTUSeU, u ID tn0 outset OI life things do not go on smoothly. 1t sel- dom happens that the hopes we cherish of the future are realized. The path of life, in the prospect, appears smooth and level enough, but when we come to travel it, we find it all up hill & generally rough enough. The journey is laboriouS one,-and whether poor or wealthy, high or low, we shall find it to be our disappointment, if we have built on any other calculation. To- endure cheerfully what must be, to elbow { our way as easily as we can, hoping for lit- tie, yet striving for much, is perhaps the true plan. But

 Don't be discouraged if occasionally you slip by the way, and your neighbors tread l over you little or in other words, don't let failure or two dishearten you--acci- dents happen; miscalcula,ions will some- times be made things will often turn differently from our expectation, and we may be sufferers. It is worth while to re- member that fortune is like the skies in April, sometimes clear aud favourable and as it would be folly to despair of again seeing the sun, because the day is stormy, so it is equally unwise to sink into desponden- cy when fortune frow ms, since in the coti1-

 mon course of things, she may be surely ex- pected to smile again. And again,

 Don't De discouraged if you are deceived in the people of the world; it often hap pens that men wear borrowed characters, as well as borrowed clothes, and sometimes those who have long stood fair before the world are very rotten at the core. From sources such as these, you may be unex- pectedly deceived and you will naturally feel sore under such deceptions but to those you must become used ifyou fare as most people do, they will lose their novel; ty before you grow gray, and you will learn to trust men cautiously, and examine their characters closely, before you allow thom great opportunities to injnre you.

 Don't be discouraged under any circum- stances. Go steadily forward. Rather consult your own conscience than the opin- ions of men, though the last are not to be disregarded. Be ndustrious--be frugal be honest--deal in perfect kindness with all that come in your way, exercising neigh borly and obliging spirit in your whole in- tercourse-and if you do not prosper as rapidly as many of your neighbors. depend upon it you will he as happy 1ren. Em.

 The Dead Alive--In the winter of 1923, :. Mr. Asa Jordan and family, of Coventry, (Con.) were brought before Court of the Justices of that town, for examination on the charge of having been necessary to the murder of a young man named James Smith, ofthe town of Sterling, in the same State. They were all Iionorably acquitted; but the fact of being arrested upon such a foul charge, must have left the most painful impressions. It now appears that the supposed murdered man is alive, and be- longs to the army. He was seen at Pitts burg, by an old friend, lately, on his march to protect the fur traders, near the Rocky Mountains. He states that the news of the arrest of Mr. Jordan produced a seri- ous effect on his mind, and he solemnly a. verred that no difficulty had ever occurred between them. ... ... r...

 Slander.--He who can choak the swee- test flowers of social love, and taint them with disease--or in the paradise of earthly bliss where the plants of virtue flourish, spread the bright mildew of desolation, ha- tired and distrust who can crush his neigh bour's fame to dust and build on its ruins who can write infamy upon the brow of others to prove his own purily--is neither man nor beast-but a heartlcss fend. Those who have seen their dearest interests tam- pered witI,-who have known what it is to have the princeless gem of good name sullicd by tllc poisonous breath of cold, un- pitying slander; these best can say that HE has no heart. If the lightning's flash ever darts from heaven to strike the guilty down, it will blast the hopes of murdercrs such as these. John Binns.

 Awkward Wist0ke.--A curious circum- stance occurred in Complexion on Tuesday week. A respectable and happy pair were united that evening, at seven o'clock, in Hymen's bonds, having previously arran- ged that they and their respective parties should proceed the same night to Glasgow, by the Londonderry steamer, to spend the honeymoon. At II o'clock the fair bride and her friends went on board the bride- groom was true to tho appointment, but, ,un- fortunately, went on board the FoyIe, just starting for Derry. He did not perceive his mistake till they were two miles on, when putting back was out of the question. The feelings of the poor gentleman may be easily enceived.-LondORp paper.