countenance, especially if there be strangers, for good humor makes one dish of meat a feast.

54. Set not yourself at the upper end of the table; but, if it be your due, or that the master of the house will have it so, contend not, lest you should trouble the company.

55. When you speak of God or his attributes, let it be seriously and in reverence. Honor and obey your natural parents, although they be poor.

56. Let your recreations be manful not sinful.

57.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The historian Sparks, in speaking of these rules, says that "they are fitted to soften and polish the manners, to keep alive the best affections of the heart, to impress the obligation of the moral virtues, to teach what is due to others in the social relations, and above all to inculcate the practice of a perfect self-control."

"In studying the character of Washington," the historian adds, "it is obvious that this code of rules had an influence upon his whole life. His temperament was ardent, his passions strong, and, amidst the multiplied scenes of temptation and excitement through which he passed, it was his constant effort and ultimate triumph to check the one and subdue the other. His intercourse with men, private and public, in every walk and station, was marked with a consistency, a fitness to occasion, a dignity, decorum, condescension, and mildness, and respect for the claims of others, and a delicate perception of the nicer shades of civility which were not more the dictates of his natural good sense and incomparable judgment than the fruits of a long and unwearied discipline."

ARTICLE IX.

RESOLUTIONS FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT.

BY JONATHAN EDWARDS.

Perhaps neither Washington, nor Jefferson, nor Franklin, was so thorough a representative of American institutions, as was Jonathan Edwards. He was born in Connecticut eighty-three years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and died as President of Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1758. From the seventy resolutions framed by him for the special regulation of his own conduct, and which, through his teachings, left an abiding impression upon the character of the early fathers of the republic, we extract the following:

To be endeavoring to find out fit objects of charity and liberality.

Never to do anything out of revenge.

Never to suffer the least motions of anger towards irrational beings.

Never to speak evil of any one, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon any account, except for some real good.

That I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

To maintain the strictest temperance in eating and drinking.

In narrations never to speak any thing but pure and simple verity.

Never to give over, nor in the least to slacken, my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be.

Not only to refrain from an air of dislike, fretfulness, and anger in conversation, but to exhibit an air of love, cheerfulness and benignity.

Let there be something of benevolence in all that I speak.

If we plant hate, then hate will spring;
For love from hate can never grow;
What we sow to-day, to-morrow may bring
The proof, by its bloom, what sort of a thing
Is the seed-the seed that we sow.

ARTICLE X.

JEFFERSON'S TEN RULES.

Take things always by the smooth handle. 2. Never spend your money before you have it.

3.

We seldom repent of having eaten too little. 4. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 5. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

6.

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 7. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 8. Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap. 9. How much pain those evils have cost us that never have happened!

10. When angry count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.

APPENDIX.

Hints for the Building of School Houses.

Yard. To contain thirty two square feet, at least, for each pupil ; fenced in from outer view towards thoroughfares and alleys.

The site.-Elevated and free from dampness; free access to the sun on three sides of the house; not over-much shaded with trees, nor near factories, railroads, etc.

The cellar. To be dry and extend under the entire building; or a dry air space of at least two feet.

Basement.—The ceiling to be six feet above the ground, and ten feet high; the rooms to be thoroughly lighted, and to serve for gymnasiums, clothes closets, etc.; never to be used for school work.

Entries. Warmed and ventilated, and lighted chiefly from the outside.

Stairs. Fire-proof; straight; height of steps four and a half to five inches and breadth ample.

Fire escape. Every school house of three stories or upwards should be provided with fire-escapes.

Hall. The floor spaces of halls should contain six or seven square feet for every person which they are ever designed to hold, and have a height of fourteen feet. The ventilating arrangements should admit an outflow of a thousand cubic feet of foul air an hour for every person assembled therein.

Rooms.-Should contain a floor space of from fifteen to twenty square feet for every pupil, and a height of fourteen feet; to open into the entries, with windows eighteen inches high over the doors; never papered; blackboard never placed on the sides where the windows are; the columns, if any are required, to be of iron.

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Windows.-Never to be in front of the pupils; to contain at least thirty square inches of glass for every square foot of floor surface in the room; The lower sill to be three and a half or four feet above the floor, and the upper within a foot, or less, of the ceiling.

Ventilation. Such as to renew the air of every study room, recitation room, gymnasium, etc., at the rate of five hundred cubic feet per hour, for each one of the average number of inmates. For water closets, the air should always set into them, not out from them.

Water Closets. Separate for the two sexes; divided by screens when out of doors. Those indoors to be lighted, warmed, and ventilated by an outward draught of air. Those for girls, in large buildings, to be placed in the upper stories, never under school

rooms.

Drains. To be protected from rats; and precautions taken against the fouling of drinking water.

These rules are to apply to the school houses of the rural districts as far as practicable; and especially with reference to the size of rooms, height of ceiling, supply of fresh air, and agreeableness of

situation.

THE END.