July 24 But wounds cannot be cured without searching, and he that cannot look into his own estate at all, had need both choose well those whom he employeth, and change them often; to pay as he goeth, and turn all his receipts into certainties, that he may order his economy without the danger of disappointment.

* * * My son ! riches have wings, and some times they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set a-flying to bring in more, but do thou guard adventures with certainties, that may uphold lofses.

Now certainly nothing can so guard you against the evils of poverty, as a strict economy in the management of your affairs, and a fhunning of those expensive enjoyments which do not only waste the purse, but enfeeble both the soul and the body.

Another grand maxim therefore in the art of life, touching expence, is to consider well what be absolutely necefsary unto comfort and well doing, and not to mar contentment, by giving vain desires any strong holds in your imagination. If a man goeth into a brafs founder's fhop, or into a market of divers wares, he will bethink himself of many wants, whereof most are needlefs, and spring from the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, and few, very few indeed, of indispensible utility.

So it is also in the general experience of life, throughout all its departments. When you go out into the world, every day will present new objects that will draw forth your concupiscence, and you will not be able to marfhall them in their due

estimation but by abstaining from all those that are not absolutely necessary to your subsistance, and far within the limits of your fortune and estate.

I recommend unto you the carrying tablets always about with you, whereupon to write and make due entries of the smallest expenditure; and that you do most religiously write out the same, fair and correctly, (however inconsiderable it may be,) before you sleep.

Four times in the year at least, during the great festivals, it will be of high import that you do strictly examine all the entries of your expenditure, and maturely consider how far you have swelled some, and diminished others, beyond a reasonable proportion, so that you may be able thereafter to proportion them more to your comfort.

As if you be plentiful in diet, to be saving in apparel; and so in the rest. The upshot also of these considerations I would that you commit unto writing, that these tablets may be unto you as રી manuel for the right ordering of economy in expence. Take care that you be not penny wise, and pound foolish. Beware of beginning charges which once begun, will continue; but be frank, especially in the giving of rewards for services that will

not often return.

Cast not away your doublet if it will serve for your other apparel; and be chiefly careful in those things, which return daily, and hourly, and are not in the sight and ken of your fellows.

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Finally, my son, be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven.

Hang early plummets upon the heels of pride, which engendereth foolish expence; and let any ambition, save that of virtue, have but a narrow circuit in thee. Measure not thyself by thy morning fhadow, but by the extent of thy grave. Spread not into the boundless expansions either of designs or desires.

Think not that mankind liveth but for the sport and grandeur of a few; and that the rest are born but to serve those ambitious which in courtly wars make but flies of men, and wildernefses of whole nations, to serve the turn of a few sceptered fami lies.

If thou must needs rule, be one of Zeno's kings, and enjoy the empire of thyself. He who is thus his own auto-crator contentedly sways the scepter of himself, and enjoyeth not the glory of crowned heads, and the dignitaries of the earth!

Thus ended the exhortation of mine excellent father.

Oh, how my heart burneth within me, when I think of these things; and remember when, and from whence they came! ***

ON HE GOOSEBERRY CATERPILLAR:

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To the Editor of the Bee.

IN your Bee of the 12th of June, I read the observations of your correspondent C. on the gooseberry caterpillar with great pleasure; and as he wishes every information on that subject, I wish to send some of my own observations through the channel of your useful paper. I must own, (being fond of the pleasures of a garden,) I am an inveterate enemyjto the gooseberry caterpillar, and the slug snail. I have tried many experiments for some years back, which are as follow, by which I mean to prevent others giving themselves the same unnecefsary trouble.

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That had no effect. I next tried a mixture of kyen pepper, glauber's salt, tobacco dust, and salt, all mixed together, and soaked for some days in urine ; I then took a brush and strewed it all over the bush :—this did not destroy them: I only observed them stop feeding for some hours, and then went on as formerly, as scon as the bufh dried. I next tried a small quantity of brimstone, and covered the bush over with a cloth, and set fire to the brimstone at the bottom of the bush: this destroyed the caterpillar, but at the same time it also destroyed the whole leaves of the bush for that season. I next tried a method of driving them off the bushes as follows. I took a small hand hoe, and with that lif

ted up a handful or two of earth, and taking of the earth in my hand, threw it with force against the bush : this drives most of them off; and I think, if they were properly collected and destroyed after, this would be a very good method; but it will require often practising. I found another very succefsful way of destroying them, (but this would be too tedious in large plantations,) it is looking over the bushes, and whenever you see them on the leaves, take them betwixt the thumb and fingers on the leaf, and squeeze them, leaving them on the bush, as this prevents the others coming to the same leaf; at the same time, you should be careful to pick off all the leaves you see full of small holes; for they contain all the young tribe in great numbers. But the most effectual method I have as yet found out, is this: take a brush in form of a common bottle brush, but much larger, with a stronger handle than common; take two small cloths, which will spread rather more than the circumference of your bufh; place one on each side under the bush, overlapping each other; then take the brush and rub over all the branches, and at bottom : you will be surprised what vast quantities fall off into the cloths; then put a stone in the center of each cloth, taking them carefully up by each corner, and shake them up and down, which drives the whole of them down to the stone: you may then spread your cloths under another bush, till you have sufficient to take away and burn or otherwise destroy. You will find on brufhing thick bushes, a great number of that fly, which your correspondent C. mentions, fall down into the cloths, and attempt to