If any family be chiefly known for display, for estrava gance in home, table, equipage, for enor -minis' BUtna ostentatiously spent in any form upon itselfMf these be its chief distinctions, we have no difficulty !n estimating its nature or culture. So likewise in rezard to the use or abase oi its surplus wealth, or to generous, free handed cooperation in goodlpcblio uses, 0r.,t0 unabated efforts to accumulate and hoard to Che last, whether they adminietcn or bequeath. ' The verdict rests with the best, and .most enlightened publicsentl ment; The comnfiunlty will surely judge, arid itfrjadgirients will not of ten be wrong, i "most 6e thb spekt in .." cßA&fnf V ..JBADit BFBWT. ,. v IJbe beefc>uses to which surplus wealtt «in"b<rjbuf have already been Indicated Those who would administer wisely must indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to-the Improvement of our raei is Indiscriminate charity. It were bettei fdr mankind that the millions o£ the ricl were thrown. Into the sea/ than b< spent as to encourage the slothful, tin drunken, the unworthy. Of ever; thousand dollars spent in so-called charit to-day, in is probable that 950d01s is un •wisely spent; so spent, indeed, as to pro due* the very evils which It proposes,t< m Itfgite or care. A well-known writer o philosophic books admitted the other da] that he had given a quarter of a dollar t< a man who approached him as he wa coming to visit the house of his friend He knew nothing of the habits of thi beggar: knew not the use that would b< m&deof this money, although he hai every reason to suspect that ft would b spent improperly. This man professed t< be a disciple of Herbert Spencer ; yet th quarter-dollar given that night wUI pro bably work more injury than all th money which its thoughtless donor wil ever be able .to give in true charity will d< good. He only gratified his own feelings saved himself from annoyance—and thi was probably one of the most selfish am very .worst actions of his life, for in all re specie' he is most worthy. HJELP THOSE ONLY WHO WHO, HELP T^tEM ■vi'".'•*.• ~'';;! ':..- fiBXVBS. '■■*-:' In bestowing charity, the main eon sfderation should be to help those wh< will help themselves; to provide part o the. 