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Does a boy love to be avvay froui honie, out evenings, and thclike? Make it inore pleasant toremain at horno than to be away, whicb may he done by pleááant reading in the íamily cirole, or by Ihe -amusement and instruetion afforded by many of the games now m the market. These attractions will be of far more service ihau mere reslrainl; and unreasonable control, bruto forcé. And here it msy be remarkcd tliat, whüe parents havo the right to inllict physical pain by tiie use of the rod, etc., t is oí but little importauce as a nifans of restraint wheu it is wholly depended upon, tbouffh its true use is a "means to an .end." Tho rnqther's greatest power and iuthienco is in her mental and moral auperiority over her c hik'. superiority physical, if used judiciously, may Ilústrate and cntoree her highur superiority. It is as true tlial the wrong use of the rod, whcn in anger, may as certainly "spoil the child" as its disuse. Hut. in short, remember that any power sither of the body or of the mifld, i -itrencth'sned b proper use, by judioious éxsre, and that indoleuce and disuse will as certainly diminish power. The rrm of the b'acksmitn, for example, by steady use in swinging the heavy hammer, as contrasted with that of the jeweler. becomes strong, its muscles wonderfully developed and lirni, whiie the same arm vouid waste away, the muscles diminish in size and firmne-is, if that man should become a jeweler, or should fail to use thosa muscles. On the same principie, any power oL the niind or soul itay be increased or dimiuished by the adoption of the rcquisite means. And sinco selfishness is the opposito of benevolence, to remove the one or modify it is to develop the opposite by the exerciss of thatiaculty. Indulgenoe naturally ineiv.ases power, while restraint, self-re straint, (fiminishes such power, lt is possible, it is believed, to modify and improve any unamiable, disposition simply by developing what may be desired by the pleasent exercise of the opposite faculty, andby proper restraints. If tho horse for example, can be improvedin body, color, and in disposition, it would seem as reasonable to attempt the same im-provement in the highest orders of intelligence, remeruberiug that hoth aro "under law,'1 the lattcr having the most flexible naturu. - ' ' m James Nutt. who is to be tried soon at Uuintnvvn, I'enn.. for killing N. L Durkes, bas been much redueed in flesh by prisou lift:, and now looUs palo and haggard.He isvisitedb his mother every dav.