POVERTY.
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IN AS poverty is the lowest, 50 it is the most inn
pudent Of the whole family Of vices.s Pride is a
gentlenlanly failing, and sins sweetly and respec-
tably. 1t smells Of ciyet, and turning its var-
nished cheek TO the sun, walks abroad IN purple
and fine linen. Nay, it rides in a coach and
four; and, in hours Of penitential castgation,
bolts itself in a pew of best upholstery, and IN a
Gt Of humility, lasting at least couple Of hours,
calls itself miserable sinner. Hence, pride at
its worst has it's good graces. At all events, it
never offends that extraordinary abstraction,
public decency for though we hear much about


it, it is, nevertheless. sometimes as difficult to
discover as city policeman. No; pride, being
a vice that is we'll to do in the world, may he
called respectable. Pride keeps q barouche!
according to its education. When we say educa-
tion, we mean the peculiar bottle it studies.
For the drunkenness that ponders over cham
pagne, is very different vice 10 the drunkenness
that takes liballons from pewter quartens. Ar
rogance is also vice that may have its lauda-
ton. II rarely consorts with beggars; but is at
least among that suspicious class, the respecta,
Bile. CovetOusness and avarice are called vices; !;
for our part, we have ever thought them amongs.
The noblest virtues. And SO, indeed, in their
heart Of hearts, do nine men out Of ten think
them. And this is what they do; they give
them hard names, and then, 10 make amends
for their seeming harshness. take them 10 their
bosoms lin the same way that foolish mother,
when she sees her baby doing all sorts Of house,
hold misdemeanors. cries. .1you little wre,ch,"
and then catches the child in her arms and CO
vers it with kisses. There are few other vices
that r,ay all of them be turned into passable
virtues, If found in good company. Lust, cru
elly, sel6shness, each and all Of these, may have
very pretty alias-anolher trillng. musical
name for The long ears Of biped thislle-eaters.
But there is one vice-and that vice is poverty
which all men declare to be infamous, incorri-
giblc, incapable of amendment; leper-a
wrelch--a mons,er--to be confined in cabins
and cellars, or sent like scapegoat into the
bowling wilderness. London Punuh.