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It was a quiet valley, Set tar from human Ills, a sunny, sioplnn ■ftlieir, . > Begin with-grMn, v gTCen hills; The white clouds softly knitted Gray shadows In the grass; The seaiblrds poised and flitted As they were loath to pass. A clear stream thrld the bridges, ; Blue, lazy smoke apenned; Beyond Its parple ridges Lay tne unquiet world. Under the IrUfl rafters, ^ ' A~ Low orooued the sun-drowsed dove While youthful, breezy laughter Koved o^tte dopes IlioVe. ‘ /" Where aM Mr flowar-pled spaces We children made bright quest Sure as we ran quick -races The far-seen flower was best. Thus while the sun typUfeid, ' ’*■ And flashed adowfl the stream, The white clouds drifted, drifted, In deep, uptroubled dream. Fair shines that sunny valley, Set far from human Ula; ’ Our childhood’s simple valley Begin with green, green mils. J /V /• * * , ’ ' » t. Nor all the world’s mad riot - Which we have known since thee Bath touched tturvailey’s quiet Deep in our hearts own ken. MINNIK’M MAtCtt-MAKINa. Tt'J tv i ' « I if "Oh, I'm not &t all timid,” laughed' proposed to go and ask Mrs, Oates to f. .X A dainty parlor, at glowing fife, a pretty little woman listening for the footsteps ot h«r lord and master. ' This charming picture of domeetio bliss John Ackerman fully appreciated as he stepped into the room a few min utes later. : ; ; * * Tea ended, the following conversa tion began: "You know my sifter Amy is coming home with hie for a Ibng visit, John.” "Don't yon think it would be a capi tal thing if she and your brother Tom would fall in love with each other?” "They could get married and set up housekeeping , in that i^onse across the street; and, oh, JoTin, it would make me perfectly happy!” v -. ■ , ( ^ John Ackerman langhed long and very heartily, "Match-making, by Jove!" he said, at last. * * "Miserable yooruelf, and want every body else to be; is that it, Minnie?” "Don’t laugh, John, for I’m in earn est.” Amy. "There’s a gang of burglars about the^neighborhood,” urged Mrs. dates. "They’ve been in three houses in this street, and duly last Bandar night there was % dreadful robbery in the next strret, and a man nearly killed.” "You are welcome to oome in and sleep on our sofa if you are afraid,” ',‘No, thank you,” Amy said. "I will risk it for one night, and you say Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman will re turn to morrow.” '$he let herself into the deserted house, not without some thrills of fear, it must be confessed. How quiet everything was! Oh, if Minnie were onlv there! She took a survey of Life od the Mountain Frontier. the looms, the "I know they will like each other, and I have set my heart on the match; just think how 11106 it would be to have Amy here always; and Tom is snob a darling?” "Amy should furnish her sitting- room jiibt like ours, only where this is bine hers should be cardinal, for she is dark, yon know.” John was laughing again by this time. { • "However, he fell ih with the. j^lan readily enough. "I tell you what it is, Minnie.’' "Don’t yon say a word of this to Tom or Amy, or they will take a dislike to e&oh other immediately.’* "I know it,” wisely rejoined Minnie, "When 1 told Tom 1 was going to visit Aunt Margaret, I did not mention Amy’s name, and I don’i think., he kqqws of her existence. ” J'As for Amy, I have been with her so little since I was married, that I am sure I nevef'spoke to her of Tom.” Minnie departed the next morning. The day before she Was to return, Aunt Margaret fell ill, and Amy felt obliged to postpone her visit for a few days at leapt. , i 5 4 * / i. f Minnie could go on as she had in tended, and sh’e would follow m soon as Aunt Margaret ooold sparp her.. T^ius it happened that Minnie re turned home alone. One morning John said; , ' "We had better take that long run to Cambridge to-day.” f ~ We must go some time this month, and of course you won’t want tb go after yoursister comes.” "John, yon know we cannot stay away all night; I gave Jennie leave of absence until Friday, and it won’t do to leave tne house alone.*’ "I’ll get Tom to come uid sleep here.” Minnie had no otieF reaiiouaMe ob jection to make after this, so the pre pared to go. "There are three keys,” said she, as j flry. they left. "Yon can give one to' Tom, and 1 will leave one with Mrs. Oates, next door,” The house might take fire, and then it wotUd be better to have a key, so that they could get in the boose and bring ont the things.” "Yes,” said John, sarcastically, "or I might hire a lot of policemen to watch the house a ay and night.” About ten o'clock that eyening Miss [Amy Arden alighted ixom an express I train, and looked about the station as if acting some one. "They could not have received my end note,” she concluded, after wait ing nearly half an hour in the ladies’ neat kitchen last of all, where she eon- eluded to look for something to eat Hark! what was that? Only the silver-toned clock striking eleven. ! "That’ woman’s talk about burglars has made me nervous,” she thought continuing her search for eatables,” Hark, again! , Barely that was a key turning in a lock; tnen a door opened and shat quietly, and there were footsteps in the hall. Amy's small stock of courage went down to zero. What would happen next? Instinctively sue grasped a poker ly ing on the fender. The next instant the door opened, and a great broad-shouldered man with blackened face and hands stepped into the room. » c £ Amy felt herself growing white with fear, but she raised her poker threaten ingly. For a moment they stared at each other m silence, and then the man spdke. ■’ i "Who the deuoe are you?” Amy tried to shriek for help, bnt the sound died away in her throat; she is too thoroughly frightened to speak or move. Presently the man came towards her. "Will yon please lower the poker, or eke move away from the sink?” "I would like to oome there and wash my hands,” he said, looking very mueb mcUnexi"to lar-ix. Was ever such effrontery known be fore? ' Still speechless, Amy moved slowly round towards what seemed to bd an outside door. "Don’t glare at me in that frightful way,” he went on, with a glance into her terror-stricken eyes. "1 will look more presentable when I get my face washed.” Then came a hearty laugh, which re assured Amy a very little. Oertaiuly this was a most extraordi nary burglar, or eke there was some ridiculous mistake, she thought, drop ping her weapon, and tugging away at oome over for the rest of the night; but Amy protested against this, saying she was not afraid if he would remain in the house. Minnie was quite beside herself when she came home and found how affairs had gone in her absence; crying one minute over Amy’s fright, laughing the next over Tom’s graphic description of the same, it was some time before they settled down to anything like quiet ness As the days and weeks went by, Min nie ooold not determine whether oer - tain plans of hers were to prosper or not. Tom spent all Ms evening with them, bnt he and Amj were always ou con trary sides of every question, and they tantalized each other so unmercifully that poor Minnie sometimes despaired of their being friends, not to mention a nearer relation. She was, however, delighted one evening before the month was ont at having her attention called to a diamond ring sparkling on the Anger of her blnshing sister; and a marriage between Tom and Amy three weeks afterwards proved beyond a doubt how successful she had been in her little game Of "Match-making.” Dal on Farms. a huge bolt with trembling Angers. ydtihg i ‘Well, I can very easily And thflr louse.” kB 'Arrived, Amy ran across the small plot, and rang Ike bell. - - ^ Mrs. dates from next door spqn ex- kined matters. ; "She probably did not receive my note, which 1 pewted yesterday rWeH, I’ll give you the key; hut are: Du not afraid to stay alone in the •ef’ By *.Mn time the ybtihg man had An- ished his ablations, ar d presented quite a different appearance. "I.aft Mr./ Ackerman's brother,” he said, politely. "He asked me to remain in hu house to-day, as a maapa of protection in his absence.” "Mr. Ackerman has no brother,” contradicted Amy, stoutly. . "Are yon sure of that?” - "(je^tainly I am,"”" "Mm. Ackerman has just paid me a visit, and she^ would have mentioned him if such a person efUted.” “Can it be possible you are Aunt Margaret?” "Aunt Margaret, indeed!” Amy wus .Anding courage enough. "I beg your pardon,” said Tom; "but Minnie told me she was going to visit her Aunt Margaret, and you said she had been visiting you, hence my mistake;,” < "I am Mrs. Aekennan’t sister.” "Strange that I never heard her speak of you!” "fipwevqr, I am aqrry I frightened you, Miss—Miss Arden, and if ^ou will allow me I will explain matters.” "I am book-keepe* at Bolton’s foun- "You looked more like Captain Moonlight,” said Amy, ready to cry with vexation and nervonsnees. "Or a burglar," added-Two, "Well, as 1 was saying, 1 am book keeper there, But as there was a press of work at the foundry to-night, and as they happened to be abort of hands, I offered to stay and assist; this accounts for my blackened face and hands.” "Hate you examined the photograph- album?” he asked suddenly. "If you will kindly do so, I think you will And a very good representation of me there, which will convince you that I sm at least Oh terms of intimacy here,” He looked very mnoh like indulging in another hearty laugh, but restrained himself at the sight of Amy’s white distressed face. "I was afraid I wss rude,” she said; "but it was suoh a shook to me.” ,S I am very tired and ” Tpm sprang ner side, or she would have fallen from sheer exhaustion. He hpiped her into the little drawing room, brought wine and refreohm«*nts from Minnie’s well-stocked cupboard, and they were toon talking matters over quite calmly. It waa after two o'clock when Tom No: very far frem the palace, we were shown over what we particularly wished to see, a model Dutch farm. Anything so pretty and so exquisitely neat we never saw; red and blue, here and there white and yellow, were the prevailing colors. On entering, we were directly in the kitchen. One large corner was raised and made a platform. On this platform, the family had their meals and spent their leisure hours, which, judgi ig from the ac tivity we saw, most be few and far between; for it was a farm where all the sons and daughters worked, and few hired hands were employed. The stove was a perfect picture, bright as steel; and the china plaques facing it (blue and white) looked so tempting and pretty. All the pails, etc., were painted bine; and the iron hoops were polished till they looked like silver, The dairy was beautifully kept, but totally different from oar ideas of dairy. The farm is famous for the skim-milk cheeses, not those round, red cheeses we call Dutoh ohooeoo, or the Gouda chesses, which arecohsideret in Holland as inferior to others, bnt large, rather Aat cheeses. The milk pans are extremely deep and narrow at the base, and the milk stands one day and night. It is then skimmed, the cream makes batter, and the whole o: the milking of the day before makes one cheese. They make about 250 cheeses in the year, all of which go direct to England. The pans are all set on the ground, which, like ajl the rest of the building, is tiled and painted red. The cow-byres were also all painted red, walls and floors, except the stone coping which divided the mangers from the cows, and tdis was painted in red, blue and white stripes. There was no division between the cows, who are fastened by a elumsy- iooking bat simple contrivance when they inhabit this beautiful home. Just now they are out all day and night, and are milked in die Aelds, One thing all through Holland gives a well Amshea and pleasant look to all country life, and was partionlarly noticeable in the outbuilding of this farm—the wood work, it is so beautifully finished. The railings of the outdoor staircase to the hay-loft might adorn many a gentle man’s honse in England; the bars are round and polished, the commonest ladders are not rough, the gates are ornamental and almost always painted, and the palings are beantafnlly neat. The good vrouw was pleased by our keen appreciation, and led the way to a very small sitting-room (which is never used), to show us a glass bookcase. Each shelf was full of silver ornaments which had been presented to her and her husband the year before, on their sliver wedding day. All round the place the greatest tidings prevailed. The cows are almost all black and white, and you seldom soe any other color; when yon do, it is generally don color. They are sometimes a great size, bnt the^moet prevailing kind are not very large. Here the cows were very fine. We counted twenty in one field near the farm, and there may have been more. I wanted to know how many they kept, and was told the number varied. When they had a good cow they kept her; when they saw a good cow they bought her; and when they had a bad cow they sold her. The picturesque features of life in a Western Montana town like Missoula are best seen as evening approaches. Orowds of roughly clad men gather around the doors of the drinking-saloons. group of Indians, who have been squatting on the sidewalk for two hours playing soma mysterious game of cards of their own invention, breaks up. One of the squaws throws the cards into the street, which is already decorated from end to end with similar relics ot other games. Another ings a baby upon ler back, ties a Fhawl aronnd it ancj, herself, secures the child with a strap buckled across her chest, and strides off, her mocoasined feet toeing Inward, in the traditional Indian fashiou. She wears a gown made of a scarlet calico bed-qnilt, with leggings of some bine staff; bnt she has-somehow managed to get a civilized dress for the child. They all go off to their camp on the nil near by. Some blue-coated soldiers from the neighboring military post, remembering the roll-call at sunset, swing themselves upon their horses and go galloping off, a little the worst for the had whisky they have been drinking :in the saloons. A miner in blue woolen shirt and brown canvas trousers, with a hat of astonishing dimensions and a beard of a year's growth, trots up the street on a mule, and, with droll oaths and shuffling talk, offers the animal for sale to the crowd of loungers on the hotel piazza. No one wants to buy, and, after provoking a deal of laughter, the miner gives his ultimatum: "I’ll hitch the critter to one of them piazza posts, and if he don’t pull it down yon may have him,” This generous offer is declined by the landlord; and the miner rides off, declaring that he has not a solitary fonr-Ut piece to pay for his sapper, and is Mund to sell the mole to somebody. Toward nightfall the whole male pop ulation seems to be in the street, save the busy Chinamen in the laundries, who keep on sprinkling clothes by blowing water out of their mouths. Early or late, you will find these indnst- rious little yellow men at work. One shuffles back and forth from the hydrant, o«urryi.npj xwotnr for nunniag wawdi 111 coal-oil cans hang to a stick balanced across his shoulders. More Indians now—a "buck" and two squaws, lead ing ponies heavily laden with tent, clothes, and buffalo robes. A rope tied around a pony’s lower jaw is the ordi nary halter and bridle of the Indians. These people want to bay some article at the saddler’s shop, They do not go in, bnt stare through the windows for five minutes. The saddler, knowing the Indian way of dealing, pays no attention to them. After a while they all ait down on the ground in front of the shop. Perhaps a quarter of an hour passes before the saddler asks what they want If he had noticed them at first, they would have gone away with out buyiug. •air With Genttomaa. The Isolated 5 itv. The "isolated city of the great North west” is up the Missouri river, 1,200 miles beyond Bismarck, away from any railroad, hemmed in by mountains, and at this season shut out from all the world. It bears the name of Benton, in honor of "Old Bullion,” and it is the magazine of the Bristish Northwest. It is a substantial town, because lumber is ao costly there that it is economy to build with brick. Daring navigation twenty-two steamboats carry freight to this remote city, and the volume of business there justifies a Chamber of Commerce and mammoth brick blocks. The 8000 souls in this mountain fast ness must enjoy a peace that passeth nadaiatsmiing In the busy life ot New York. A f ew evenings ago, while half a dozen gentlemen were standing at the bar of one of the most fashionable up-town saloons in 'W ashmgton, a well-dressed good-looking stranger entered the room and walked straight up to the bar, and addressed the bar-keeper in language like the following: "Btranger, 1 am in a very, very bad condition. I want a drink; 1 must have a drink, but I am compelled to make the humiliating statement that I am unable at present to pay for it If you will be kind enough to tavor ms in my extremity you shall be paid, sir.” "We don’t keep whiskey to give away here,” was the blunt reply of the bar keeper. The stranger begged, but the bar-keeper was inexorable and even rude. The mild-manaered stranger turned to the gentlemen who had been witnesses to the conversation and said: "Gentlemen, you are all strangers to me, but would one of you be kind enough to loan me the price of a drink? I will pay it back.” One of the party addressed handed the stranger 15 cents. * He stepped up to tbs bar and said, "Now can I have a drink?” "Yes,” said tbs bar-keeper, "anybody can get a drink for the money here?” "I thought so,” said the stranger. The bottle of "red licker” was placed on the bar, the strauger filled his glass liberally "A little bitters m there. If you please,’’ said the stranger. Then, when the bitters was furnished, he asked for a large glass of water, which was also set up. The stranger drank his beverage and then turned to the man who bad loaned hint the money and said: "Btranger, 1 make it a point of honor to pay borrowed money before 1 pay whiskey bills; here is your 15 cents; 1 am greatly obliged for the loan,” and so saying he walked out. The dazed barkeeper, seeing that be was sold, and that the laugh was on bun, ran to the door and called to the man to come back. The stranger promptly returned and in quired, "What do you want?” The bar keeper replied, "That was a cute tnck you played, and I own up that you caugut me. The drinks are on me. What will you take?*’ "Excuse me, sir,” replied the stranger, "I drink only with gentle men; I cannot drink with you,” and the mysterious Btranger walked away, leaving the bar-tender to wonder whether It would not have been better to give a stranger one drink than to be caught by « trick and have to 'vet ’em up” to a whole crowd. Quick Transit to Londoo. The announcement has just been made of the abandonment of the plan for organizing a fast steamship line of American-built vessels to ply between this country and Great Britain, which exoiteo so much attention when first made public about a year ago. The intention was to have vessels start from Fort Pond Bay, at the easterly end of Long Island, and go to Milford Haven. Passengers were to be conveyed in swift express trains to Fort Pond Hay and from Milford Haven ;to London, and the suture trip between New York and London was to oocupylsss than six days, ^(icnial featuresrif the plan were that no steerage passengers or freight should be carried; and that the steamships, which were to be of steel, should be built and equipped in this country. The line was to begin with three vessels, whose cost was to be : (5,000,000. Higher rates than those now in vogne were to be charged pas sengers, bnt there was also to be an Increase in the luxuries and comforts on the new vessels. After the first an nouncement the project was poshed for a while wiih vigor, and even until very recently it was supposed to be still under way. To find ont the causes of the abandonment a reporter called yes terday on Mr. Jacob Lonllard, who was its originator. Mr. Lorillard was quite communicative. He said:— "When the American Express Line was first projected we thought the dis position of OoDgr?"s was to aid Ameri can shipping, and that the best plau of assistance would be to help establish the finest steamship line in the world, and we had reason to believe that we shoold be able to effect a mail contract with the Government. We calculated to issue $5,000,000 worth of bonds to build our ships. Then to secure bond holders we expected to assign the whole mail contract, which would amount to $600,000 per year, and was to run ten years. We expected thus to be able, at the end of ten years, to pay off the bonds, principal and interest. The contract we proposed to make was that the Government should pay us a cer tain price if the mails were delivered on the other side within five days, a less price if they were not delivered within six days, and nothing at all if they were not delivered within seven days. We also offered to carry Ameri can Consols and American Government officers on Government business free of charge. Our application for a mail contra was made and reported favora bly upon, bnt we failed to receive it. Then the Shipping bill before Conan** was knocked endways, and we feared that with the additional .cost of con struction of vessels on this side we should be unable to make the American Express Line pay, as the English Lines would put their passage rates down so low that we would be unable to com pete with them. Then, American ves sels are obliged to pay higher wages to sailors and officers, our wages account being nearly double that on foreign vessels. Incidental expenses are also greater. Why, American sailors will not eat the same food that English ships provide, and where the latter are at an average expense of $8 per month for each man’s food an American sai lor’s food will cost from $12 to $14 per month. In fact, without Government help a line of American vessels is im practicable. Mr. Lorillard went on to say that the only money lost in the soneme was about $10,0U0, which he personally paid out lor the construction of models and designs. The route whion the American Ex press Line was to have used, from Fort Eond Bay to Milford Haven, is to be utilized, however, by the recently organized British and American Express Steamship Company (limited), whose vessels are at present building on the Clyde. The British and American Steamship Company is composed of American and English capitalists. Its capital stock is £2,000,000. The l/OSlng One’s Dtamonas. People who own diamonds are very careful of their property, though we know of one person who owned a $4,- 000 diamond, lost it twice, and paid the full value of tho diamond, in rewards for its recovery, Bnt another dealer wonders, considering people's csroless- ness, that he doesn’t find diamonds on the streets and side-walks. It is sur prising that the setting holds the stones. It is so far gone, sometimes, that tap it ontg^pounter gently, and the stonfi? ill roll dfit. One can put his finger FOOD FOB THOUGHT. Company proposes to carry passengers between New York and London in six days by vessel and rail. The principal diflereuoe between the British and American Line and the abandoned Amenoau Express Line is that the for mer will sail English ships, and will carry steerage passengers and freight as other lines are now doing. The gain in sailing distance by the new route is about 170 miles at the other end, avoid ing the inclosed waters and currents of St. George’s Channel; and 118 miles at tbia end, avoiding the dangerous coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, A survey is now in progress by tne Long Island Railroad for the purpose of laying steel rails from the present eastern terminus of the road to Fort Pond Bay, to connect with the incoming vessels of the new company. A Marvelous Memory. Home Is not a name, nor a form nor a routine, it is a spirit, a presence, a principle. Material and method will not and cannot make it It must get it* light and sweetness from those who inhabit it, from flowers and sunshine. Frank Bangs, the well-known actor, is the possessor of a very remarkable visual memory. It is said that he mem orizes his parts entirely by the eye, and remembers distinctly the exact position of every word on the page. Of this peculiar characteristic a friend says: I have often beard that it was a com mon thing in the clubs to test Mr- Bangs’ memory when he was more of a rounder. He wonld stand with his back turned while a number of gentlemen emptied their pockets of all sorts o things and laid them In a confused heep on the table. There would be cards, cigars, cigarettes, keys, money, knives, buttons, toothpicks, eyeglasses, pencils, and indeed odds and ends of all sorts. Bangs would wheel about and glance at the mass, turn away again, and not only tell how many of each kind of article there was on the table, but would also narna the dates of many of the coins and the denominations of the bills. Another test was to pat a long row of ooins on a table. The actor would run hit eye •long them, and after turning sway tell their value just as they !sy, and then give them in reverse order. Ho (newhat remarkable. wt nail to it and flip the diamond right out. Very often people don’t know how many diamonds they have. It is very common for a gentleman or lady to oome and ask “Why haven’t you sent that home?” meaning a diamond ring or ear-rinar. "It was sent," is the answer, and the reply will be. "Oh, well, I suppose my butler has it.” A lady sent a box of jewelry to be looked over, aud it was sent home. Presently her foot man came and asked, "Why oidn’t you send the diamond bracelet?” The jew eler said, "There wasn’t any diamond bracelet in the box,” Presently the footman came again and said the dia • mond bracelet was in the box aud wanted it sent home. The jeweler sent round to the lady’s safe deposit company, and found the bracelet there. She had probably taken out the box and sent it to the store without even looking into it After it was found the servant said: "I have lived with Mrs. for seven teen years, bnt I haven’t the slightest doubt that if that bracelet hadn’t been found she would have thought that I took it” A lady was looking at some diamond rings and one fell. The sales man saw it fall, but the nng could not be found. Eight years afterward her dressmaker was ripping up the dress and the ring was found in one of the pleats. The dress had been worn a good deal during the time. A lady one evening pulled ofi her gloves in her par lor, went up stairs, and found that the stone m her ring was missing. She had the rooms she had been in after taking off her gloves swept thoroughly. There was no diamond to be found. The next spring it was found under a very heavy wardrobe in a front hall VwmLkmia. DUc hob pool live mat she did not go into that room that evening, and the wardrobe was so heavy that it was never moved except in house clean ing- Outcome of A soel los School. A graduate from the High School in this city had a call from a country school about 200 miles nor‘h ot Detroit, and be vent his way provided with several writ ten recommends and a whole cart-load of enthusiasm. He found the school house to be a one-story affair made ot logs and large enough to hold thirty scholars in case the teacher stood in the door. Wtieu school commenced the score of scholars could only muster a geography printed In 1848, an arithmetic a few days younger, a dozen leaves of a speller and the half of a broken slate. The teacher, however, went to work to hammer knowledge into their craniums, and be had convinced most of them that the world was round and that the sun neither rose nor set In that country when it came time to have a spelling schooL For convenience sake it was held in a big barn, and the turn-out included everybody from the boy who 'spelled "corn” the same as “horse,” for convenience sake, to the old man who al ways put "in haist” on his letters to his brother in Vermont It wasn't much of a contest until the last half dozen towered aloft. "Catarrh” and "photograph" laid 'em out by the dozens, and when only the champions were left, "Constantinople” floored all but two like a bolt of lightning. Then came the word "parasite.” One rendered it "parysight,” and the other gave it "perrysyle,and when the teacher ahook his head one cried out: "I’ve writ that word ov«r a hundred times, and l guess 1 kno wl ” "And I’ve seen ’em every •lay of my life for forty years, and I don’t sit down for anybody,” added the other. "It Is parasite,’' replied the teacher. "I dispute it!” "So do I." "That’s the way Webster gives it.” "Who’s Web ster?” "Yes, trot him out.” Then the friends of either rose np. In the shindy the teacher came In for two black eyes, a cracked rib, kicks In the shin and bites on the ears, and the minute he could get clear and over the fence he leaded for Detroit, and reached home iu want of so many repairs that it took two months to make him presentable. He had a few dollars due him, and he loft a change of clolhes up there, but he doesn’t want to heoi from the directors. They may con sider that he has resigned, and any para site desiring the situation can have the va cancy withoutj)ay lag bonds. Tbe Boaidluz Hou»e AM. Haste very often tripe np its own heels. Preserve your temper under all oir- enmstanoee. No natter what you were; look to what you are. Pride is a flower that grows in the devil’s gardens. Make omch of to-day, for to-morrow may deceive you. More are drowned in the wine cup ’than in the ocean, A truth that one does not understand becomes an error. Hope is the brightest star in tbe firmament of youth. Men often biash to hear of what they were not ashamed to act. The reward of doing one duty is the power to perform another. The pleasure of doing good is the orly one that never wears out. It is upon the smooth ice we slip, the roughest path is the safest. Next to love, sympathy is the divin- est passion of the human heart. The greatest tempest of demoralisa tion is the respect paid to wealth. Imaginary evils soon become real by indulging our reflections on them. A noble part of every true life is to learn to undo what is wrongly done. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in the mind, that nothing can draw ont. There are people who feed thumselves with their grief until they get fat on it. Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study. The whole of oui life depends upon the persons with whom we live faini liarly. Purchase not friends by gifts; for when you cease to give, they will oeniD to love. Conversation enriches the under standing, but solitude is the school of genius. There are more fools than sages; and among the sages there is more folly than wisdom. He permits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a passion. It is enough for a man to undent**-* is own oniunesa, and not to interfere The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania re cently rendered a decision of great impor tance to boarding house keepers, lawyers, justices and the general public. The case iu which tbe opinion was delivered origin ated in Allegheny county and was entitled Smith va McOinty. The action was for a debt, the defendant having failed to pay a bill for boarding due tbe plaintiff, and suit was instituted under what is gener ally known as the "boarding house act,” passed by the Lagislature in 1876. The justice before whom tbe case was origi nally heard rendered judgment for the full amount of the bill. The matter was appealed to the District Court, where the justice’s decision was reversed. It was then taken by the plaintiff to the Supreme Court, and that tribunal sustained the opinion of the District Court, the judges bolding that the act of 1876 is unconstitu tional and in conflict with other laws on on the statute book, and that a debtor has the same right to the benefit of tbe "three hundred dollar law” in an action to re cover a board bill that Lb has in a suit for any other kind of claim. This decision, of course, "knocks the bottom out of the law,” and keepers of Public Houses will have to resort to some other means to pro tect themselves. vj own Dullness, with other people’a Every promise in God’s book which refers to spiritual things is yonra, if you are Christ’s. A man in love, however well bred, is often morose; and however good-tem pered, sullen at times. We swallow at one mouthfal the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter. Education is the only interest worthy of the deep, controlling authority of the thoughtful man. A woman’s dress is like the envelope of a letter; the cover is frequently an index to "the contents. The trouble and worry and wear and tear that comes from hating people makes hating unprofitable. To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude when it is not in our power to repay it. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is oar helper. Pity the man who censures what he has not the ability to perform, or even the courage to attempt. The very nature of love is to find its joy in serving others, not for one’s own benefit but for theirs. Every condition of life has its own dignity and importance, whether we really peroeive it or not. Some men in the world advance like erabs, by their eccentricities—walking contrary to every one else. Graceful manners are the outward form of refinement in the mind and good affections of the heart. Fear of punishment and hope of re ward moves cowards and sycophants. Virtue is independent of either. Pity is a sworn servant unto lore, and this be sure, wherever it begins to make the way, it lets the master in. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, and the security of the State. It is impossible to find out how much religion a man has in his heart by measuring the length of his tongue. The Soriptores teach ns the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way ai dying. Canting bigotry and caressing criti cism are nsnaliy the product ot obtuse sensibilities and a pusillanimous wilt. Home is sometimes thought flat and doll, and too often made so, just for want of understanding what it stands for. There is nothing so easy as to be wise for others, a species of prodigality, by the way, for suoh wisdom is wholly wasted. The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest arf in life i* to have as many of them as possible. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and oommon sufferings are far stronger Iteka than oommon joys. Behind the snowy leaf is the mill wheel, behind the mill the wheat field, on the wheat field falls the sunlight, above the aun is God, A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lov ingly as tune converts the ancunt edi fice into a ruin. Temptation is a fearful word. It In dicates the beginning of a possible senes of Infinite evils. It is the ring ing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eter nity. C! 1 ► •