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Show Someone attempted to improve on Cowper's ''.God made tha country and 'man 5&do the town," by saying that '"the devil intuto the email town," Of coarse that is an exaggeration and in the maiu does an injustice to ths small towns and cities. And yet, wisely observes a contributor, it indicates indi-cates a danger that lurks in the f .sinlW plsors of our land that of parents not e.vtrcisiiig sufficient over-sigat over-sigat with the! c'uldreu when they ara out of the house. The tempta-tious tempta-tious of large cities are, so generally recognized that a vigilant watch is kept over the children, but in the i'tnall towna, where nearly everybody is acquainted and whera tamptations hre silppoaed not to exist to any extent, ex-tent, parental watchfulness is too often of-ten relaxed, aad frequently bad re-!ta re-!ta follow . Although temptations niny' diSfOE ta to form they are found iu oue place as la another, and the wi parent will be careful as to the a-he.-tfato'iita of his children when out ut'ah evening, and as to the character ? lis company they keep. |