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A Tamily Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, & Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1875. No. 32. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED rYBN .WEXSkDAY MORNINGS ".,wberr . . - .--,Y THM-9 ft. G~IOKER, Editor and Proprietor. hws, $2.50 per A*uRIK, Invariably in AdvanCe. - Thie pa r is stopped at the expiration of time for whcit is paid. U7 The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub scription. [From the American Newspaper Report4r. "ONLY A PRINTER." 4r fAvONr 26WARD. "Only a prr!" a fair maid said she haghtily tossed her golden head. "Onbya printer! and poor.as a mouse -qbAo lved forgears in a meeting house!" * and when he sought ihes might have bougfit &cold quick "No!" washer scornfal reply, With an added smile as she marked the sigh -Wih wih1amenting he turae&ay. &l do fo iirt with'; bat- fe'in pCiy, IfyotiaknIdmayry a working man! If I'lant to marry a Count I can.", "Ongg prinlter" Butafter days S'e imen walking in devious ways 6 they -have traveled iu days 9f And holding posts that they had not held. Outb* printer!" The years sped past, Alkd honors came to the typo fast, "O4)Ya iin*r"at last had come Into the heirship of quite a sum; A6ibltowieng the beit of a printer's nii& Yor tue It is they are all inclined, 'keodd W happy they be at home, To leave it, In foreign lands to roam Eflowinig his bent as I've said before, 5s traveled the land from share to sbore, indfhl iosehe-rgingesea, An& wandered around in the old "countree." On mon as he smoked- a contumplative -pipe, Panasing, the tears from his eyes to wipe, Jarljggt ef.be glen bead that was Bthe m~Idan thathe in his youth had lost He suddenly thought he would take a shave For shorn men always appear most grave. Upoir the baber./horbot lode'by.. Aha? and why that startled gaze? Why ahonts the printer in wild amnaze?. Seaied upon that chary_the oor Waonewbookadshaved inhim years before. Ys: shaved him-but not his bearded face -Shaved him=-Dtmot*nabber's psces! Shaved himer stamps in a little loan, When "only a printer," had "Count Ty And-the gMidboeast git the tyg man Wh~If1'mrykd ountI ean,"' Wid marnid.he Comtnud become the-life Of aParis barber! Oh! such is life! And the fanyernh sheha learned at Was all the stoek~of the little fool Who had wddia batber rather than one Who was now at the bead of thehighest ton. ,1Lis was only a printer!" Ah7yes, my i1 Your scornful "Onlies" at printers hurl. "Only a printer" is much the same thing - As nyael or only aking. - "ThR EhMPT IN T}ll ROfK." Rorne in the snug, warm kiteb en, the busy h6iisrmot~her at 'her daylight tasks is aroused by the gatheribg darkness so early in the day. Already V h e- snow falls thickly, and she goes to the door and b1ows she conch shell which *will bring the farmer in. "Husband, it is beginning to storm. Won't you hitch up and go for the children ?" Thbe farmer looks ait his watch. "Too early yet. Besides one of the cows is very sick, my best one, and I want to stay with her. I'll send Isaae by two o'clock." "All right. P a V t y promised me they'd sta y until you came for them if it snowed," and back she goes singing to her tasks. Sing. ing that sweethymnn:. "My. Faith looks up to Thee." Ah! little does she think how that faith will be tried in the next twenty-four hours I About one o'clock the storm rages so fiercely that he resolves to go for the children whether the cow dies or not. So putting plenty of buffalo robes in the sleigh he drives away after the two, who even now are fighting the driving storm. - Two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, and they' do not come! Mrs. Meagher has anxiously look ed from the door at least twenty times within the last hour. At. "Are the children at home?" "John! What.c4n can you mean? No! Tell me I Aze they -niwith you ?" gasps she in broken sen tences 'With a groan her husband sinks into a chair and buries his face in his hands. "They are lost.. They were gone over an hour f hen I got 16o the school-house, and there is no trace of them on the'road'." With a sharp cry of agony the mother falls on her knees beside Ae_jge,P1dgfjw Ab , minutes there.is .silence, broken only by the loud ticking clock, and the sf6'n-- iVmockingly beats against the window pane. Then John Meagher rises and buttons his coat tightiy aroudd him "I must get all the farm hands and search the plains," he. says, althbugh no man better knows the uselessness of su,ch a task. From the window,his wife watch es them go, aidthen falls on her knees, praying God to protect her darlings. Even then they are calmly sleeping under the shelter of the hayqtack in one of their father's fields. Hut the anxious parents do not know it, and when at night the little band return half frozen and exhaustedl after a fruitless search, the children, are given up for deai. -. * *. *. * .* *. * '"Patty, I'm so hungry." "Where's your pail, Mose? I lost mine in the snow when we knelt down." AWhy, here it is! And I didn't a my turnover, because mother put in two. -Won't you have half, Patty ?" - "No, Mose..- Eat it all yourself. [t's none too big." And go.Werous ingry. Patty turns aay from he tempting morsel offere her. The cold, sharp air now begins to penetrate their hiding - ptace through the hole which had ad mitted them. The snow.has nearly yovered it up, and Mose begins to ,ry after he has eaten his pie, be kause he has no more, and it is so lark, and he wants mother. *Bravo Patty, although she feels ike crying herself, -draws him ~Iose to her and tells fairy tales ntil he drops off to sleep again. But Patty cannot sleep. She re eats to herself all the many exts she has learned at Sun day Bhcol and then says Our Father -oh, if morning would only 3me !" At last Mosewakes half bena,mb ad with coldl: To quiet him and to rally her own flaggng spirits, Patty begins to sing one of their wn Sunday School hymns. While sey are singing something very lack and shaggy pokes its head .nto the hole. Mose.ocries out with 'ear, but Patty knows- it is a dog, md that assistance must be near. The feebly calls for help, and then she hears the dog barking as it runs away.:. S$oon her cry is an swered, for an arm reaches down hrough the snow and draws first Kose, then Patty, out of their re Euge. "Bless me sowl! By all the saints and holy powers, how came yez here ?" he exclaims. "Yer Eamyther thinks yez be froze, and we're huntin' all the blessed night fther yez." Patty's teeth chatter too much to speak and Mose only cries, so ifting the little boy in his arms they start for borne, which can be plainly seen in the early dawn. "It's me dog that's the foine baste !" continues the Irishman. S'e knowed what we was lookin' rur, and he it is that found yez. Wasn't it yerself~, Rover me boy ?" rhe black shaggy dog leaps about ttering sharp barks of joy as if Le knew all aout it. Never did royal guest receive more cordial welcome than the plain uncouth rishman, who brings back the sun shine which faded yesterday for ever as they thought, from their home. Who can describe that scene where Mose clasped in his moth er's arms, and Patty on her father's knee, relate their story. Pat tands wonderingly by, waiting for his share of the warm break. fast which was being prepared. "And who told yez to get into that yez would be froze stiff and stark" "We asked-& Ad take care of us," says Patty, "and then he sent us right up against the hay stack, and I remember father tell ing about aman,who.got in- one once and kept from freezing." 'Ilet us tfat db"JAWdohi-s-atch ful care says," the father, and all the family kiie while in earnest lroken words he thanks the Heav enly Father, who has preserved tchildre from-death. Let this bepogesson from the story ofa ttyi an11ose, to , love md trust our Heavenly Father more, atd to ask elieving in fWith, that we shallreceie. NR. COLLINS' C0O(UET SET. Croquet, thatemiientily fascina. g game, *a r_t so9 fe premisesof the Collitp',Friday. In the afternoonPodge6soy brought up the set, and just biefore tea Mrs Collins arranged the wickets. Collins had learned to play when visiting in Glovershire, last sum me', and Mrs. Collins acquired an indifferent knowledge of the game from two elderly maiden .sisters on Paxton street, and so on- that delicious Friday afternoon, they took out the mallets and balls and commenced the game. 'INow 'Emeline," .playfully ob served -Mr. Collins, "don't you be gin cheating at the start. If you do the gamwwilbbe - prostituted to mere gambling, an we'll injure ur moral natures in trying. to build up our physical." "People who are so ready to %harge against others need close MAhe'iathesame spirit, ''and I mean to keep. -a sharp eye on Tou." Thenthey' both laughed. "But it will be a good th:dg for you, Emeline," he said, with a binge of tenderness in his voice. "Yuid > in he hlteA Nso, tilatfua rdly et i bretti of fresb 11r this wil give you exercise, and keep rouT out doors, too." "You are always thinking of e,"-sadshe, a eeyea grew 'tist. "Yu ueelltie ouit dobr mir as much asI do, but you are too. unselfish to think of your self." And thus exchanging senti ients which. did credit to both heir hearts the game progress After passing through the center wicket, Mr. Collins used her ball bo help himself through the other wickets to the upper stake. Thea e left her near the fist wicket, and struck for the stake, which bnj blt abontj e i4ighg dis aitmdhigover anoifdgt lieiall risseJlblbutnegt >f an inch. "I declare," he exclaimedin vex ition. aThen she, ihaving watched his rapid progress with a clouded ace, now struck for him and hit im, and a minute later his ball was spinning through the grass o the other end of the ground. She raq now in position for her wicket, and passed through t'and the others to the stake, but issed it. Then he came up by a well-directed blow to within .two nches of the stake. But she went ~orhi ginagdgWhen she got through, she las three wickets 4yond the stake, and his ball was at the other end of the round again, and his brow was nely corrugated. He stepped nervously toward it. It was quite vident that he was not unruffled. When his turn came again he rove back to the stake but struck . wicket, and rebounded so close to hir that she easily hit him ,and gain introduced him through wickets he was not for, and then snt him flying again. Her. sue ess caused her to laugh, and he bieard it. "You think you are pretty smart, but I'll get even with you," he said, withou.t smiling. "You'il have to play better than you have done," she 'pertinently suggested. "1 think I knnw as much about croquet as you do," he said, still j1 with a straight face. "You don't play as if you did'' t she retorted. "If you'd any -fairness about 9 you you'd let me had that stroke over, when .I was up to the stake. You knew I slipped, as well as I c did," he said growing red in tke T face. - . "No, I didn't know anything ' about it," she replied taking on a little color. "I say you did." "And I say I didn't. But if Y you are going to play this game, d -why don't you go ahead." "I'll play when I get ready," b.e . answered, turning white about th C mouth. "If you ain't going to play,. Y you'd better g6 into the house 13 and shut up," she suggested, rais ing her voice. "Don't you talk to me tiai way," he crie'd, "or P'1 Make ~ y sorry for it, you braizen-fWed- hus "Hussy, hussy 1" she screame4. t "Ain't you ashamed of yourself,' John Jacob Colis, to call y wife a hussy? Hussy ani I, you M old villain? Hussy is it, you Mie erable brute. I'm to be called a hussy, am I, after working my h knucklesoff.fbr-you, and -slaving 10 for thii-ty years after your croi&.t d ed carciss. There," she 'crd; in a paroxysm, throwing the mal- fi let on the ground, "take your olf croquet and shove it down. yor P lying throat and choke youra it to death with it, if you want to4 you miserable old wretg 1- And 'a don't you never ask r'eto play t with you again, or I'll tell y6 something you'll r&futember de S longest day youjgp,you old div d il." *.-.d And then shea bounced into 'he -b housq, leay g him standing out P there and-pirbbing big head, in a benumbelor of. way. ' But Wl. Y most im edaley,Afker she thrdst e her hwd out of the window ind fi snapped out- b "You needn't think you are go ing to-get any hot biscuit for your a teain:p4osehis&night,-yosag e man, and youseaa pyt that irr your 0 pipe and smoke it just as soon as 0 you are a mind to." (Danbuiy .News. s WasrN N' dM ROfOff.-Ma- I jor Popham, an offcer of the Rev- ti olution, wrote'sT lter, iif which a he says: . ~p to wasy gregat good forthAe to av atened t.Pau'schurch .a: indthiscity, with the General,. dui- it rfig tl?le whole yeriod of his resi- et deuce in New York, as Pres.ideht ni of the United States. The pew d o(.9hieflJusti.ce Morris was situ- n Nddnexi~tiihateof the*PI4isident, n close to where hdonaatly sat in Judge Morris' pew ; and I am as confident as a memory now labor- b ing under the pressure of four-score al years and seven caa mak2e rhe, that v the President had more than once--t 1 believe I may say often-attend- I ed at the sacramental table, at P wbhich I had the privilege and hap- E piness to kneel with him. 'And I ri am aided in my recollections by ri my eld,rest daughter, who distinct- V ly recollects her .grandmamma V (Mrs. Morris,) often -mentioning I that fact with great pleasure. In- it deed, I am further confirmed in my b assurances by the perfect recol. t< lection of the President's uniform d' deportment during Divine service tl in church. The steady seriousness sl of his manner, the solemn audi. b; ble, but subdued tone of voice in ti which he read and repeated the V Lesponses, the Christian humility a which overspread and adorned the e native dignity of the savour of V is country, at once exhibited him s a pattern to all who had the hon- ' or of access to him. It was my e good fortune, dear madam, to a have had frequent intercourse " with -him. It is my pride and boast to have seen him in various situation,-in the flush of vict.o ry, in the field and in the tent, in church and at the altar,-always himself; ever the same." The fire-fly only shines when on b3 the wing; so it is with the mind; when once wo rest we darken. Love is the spark that burns up ul th mnouna of iniquity. G ME LIGHTNING ROD MAN. He drove his team close up to he fence, got down, and rapped ,t the door. The widow Gilkins pened it, when- he said: Mrs. rilkins I am cognizaut of the cir. umstances by which you are at resent surrounded, left as you re to trudge down the journey filif through a coldand heartless varld-no longer sustained and neote 7d . by the noble one to vhom you gave the treasures of our heart's.affection, and bowed own by the manifold cares and esponsibilities ineidental to the iring of eight small child:'eh n forty acres-of sub.carboniferous mnestone land, yet, Mrs. Gilkius, ou are aware-that the season is ow approaching-When. dark, 'dis ial, dangeros' clouds at frequent itervals, span the canopy of eaven; and when zigzag streaks f electricity dart promiscuously ithe and Yhfnei-, rendering this abitation. unsafe for yourself and bose dear little ones, hence- thqre )re, let me,sellyuap;eOpper wire, ilver tipped; and-agnetic light ing rod." The Votifih sisggeTback a w paced-and yelled: "Narcis un Isteur' Rd Cronch ". 'in another -sta-n4 a savage.. ball-dog came s-tl.around the corner of the 6w with bristles up,, th.irsting W.ore' "the Jo.1dresdy mngled atmachine ,agent and a atent.soap zpan, aud was held i great esteem. by the better Lass of citizens fbr his' courage d- service;- but fhea his eye met e hard,penetratiqg g4ze of Mr. larsons,. his choos fell and he linked off-and hid in the currant tisles. Then the man said-: "I a( gag seer to be exi . [w,if you- il Allow me to ex lin the probabij inestimable-" "Dern-ye, 1 know what will start e," said Mrs. Gilkins,as she reach d under bedclothing,and brought )rth a eme tps;.btWawing a the shattbred conditon of her erye,e 4er aim -was unsteady, nd the charge of badkshat miss d save where a few scattered nes struck his cheek and glanced if. A metallic smile spread over is countenance as he leaned his boulder against the, door frame, n;dagain, commenced: "My dear [adarr, such spasmodic manifesta onsof yourdiginclination to make judicious investment of a few altry dollars-" "Hi-eo !" shrieked the widow, ad collapsed into a kind of jerk ig swoon, a~nd before she had re :vere.d, a highly.mnagnetic light ing rod decorated her humble omicile,andParsons bad the blank ote filled out already for her sig atre.-.Madison (Ind.) Courier. A BmnE BIBE.-There is a bi le in Lucas county, Ohio, whichi one .time contained some very rarm scriptural texts. I!; beloinged ya Mr. Scheboldt, a native of iohemia. It was formerly the roperty of his grandmother, who ras a very devout Protestant. Du ing one of those unfortunate pe ods when religions persecutions rere common in Austria, a law ras passed at the'instance of the oman Catholies that every Bible i the hands of the people should a surrendered to the priests, > be burned. Mrs. Scheboldt. etermined to save hers, and when ie party came to search her house a had just prepared a huge atch of dough for the oven, and, king her preciou's Bible, she !rapped the yielding d o u g h round it and quickly deposit it in the oven. H er e it ras thoroughly baked, but was ved uninjured from the fiery fur ace of the priests. It has pass 1 through several generations~ a memorial of the days whenj ien were not allowed to worship1 odin accordance with tb' dic tes of their own- oossoiences. (Loui #t 'ourier-Journal. Politics resemble religion; at ~mpting to divest either of cere tony is the most certain mode of ringing either into contempt. The great lever by which to use and save the world, is the boune love and mercy of T H E DETROIT POLICE COURT. "My husband i s sick, you know," said Mary Shaw as she came out. "He is, eh?" "Yes, on his, dying bed. Last night after the doctor.went away he took me by the hand and says he: 'Mary, I havn't over one day inore to .ivt.' He may be dead by this time I" "laryf said his honor, lifting up his spectacles, "this is the sea son of the year fbr greens isn't it ?" "Yes, your honor." "Well, look at me, Mary, and see if there is anything, cowslippy or horse-radishy about me." "iN6, your hondr!' "And yet you expect .me to be lieve that story, Mdry I've sent you to. the house of correction three times duriDg the last year, know thatyon area single woman, a6d it grieves me to hear .you go on with such a.yarn. Don't you kng,Mary,.tha#t truth is mighty andmst prevail?" hting her head. it. is woman. Falsehood is darkness, but truth shines through it, like a silver ten cent piece stick iaotof a sandbank. The charge is drunkenness, and I really wish you would c6me right out and tell me the truth .'wfglliirpI isasn't drunk' I'Great alligators! but here's four witnes'e86! "I didn't bring 'em here i "No; the officer did, and all of them saw you diunk." "Judge witlyou believe them afore yo-i: tie "I ! ill." ."An you'll end%eap? "Can it bepossible, judge I" "It can' and it is. I make it three months. This will take in the circus.season, Fourth of July and the seam -boat excursions, andll th6'Strawberrieb and erearn you get this year won't affect your health." "Judge, you deserve to be mur dered for this !" "Can't help that. Go in and sit dowi." AN INSANE PHYsIcIAN.-Ellen Case, a -young woman employ ed as a domestic servant at Oak and, Cal., was attacked by a trivial malady, and Dri. Pentack was called in. This Dr. Pentack had ong been known as an odd man ull of freaks in 'professional and social conduct, yet he had a reputa tion for skill in the practice of medicine, and ~enjoyed a large practice. Really; he was a ma niac, and insanely in love with the girl whom he was summoned to treat. He had made some ad-. vances which she had repulsed. The sight of her ill put the idea into his erazyhead that if he could got two quarts of' her blood he could construct from .it an ex act counterpart o f her. This counterfeit creation, he supposed, would be endowed with life, and be in all respects like the original. He announced that it would be necessary to bleed the girl, and ho actually let out -from her arm the two quarts that he wanted, taking it away in a pail. The operation was injurious to the patient, and nearly killed her. An other physician was sent for, and, upon hearing what Dr. Pentack had done, he communicated to the police his belief of that prac titioner's insanity. A visit to Pentack's residence was made at once. He was found boiling&/thO blood in a kettle, and mising va rious chemicals with it/ne begged to be let alone in his experiment, declaring tha}rhis process was cer tain to ev-olve a living woman witi-ai-jninutes if he was dt disturbed. The officers arrest ad him, and he is now in'an asylum, where he talks about nothing but dis process of making fac-similes >f human beings from their blood. The worthless and offensive embers of society, whose exist mece is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over aeir astonishment at the ingrati tude and selfishness of their con- ] hmprries. HOW TO CALCULATE INTER EST AND WHAT IT WILL DO. '_Tlie~following rules are so sin ple and so true,. according to all business usage, that every banker, broker, merchant or clerk should post them up for reference. There being no such thing. as fraction indt; there is scarcely any liability to error or mnistake. By no other arithmetical process can the do sired information}e obtained .by so few figures: Six per cent.-Multiply any given.number of dollars by the number of days of interest de sired; separate the right hand fig ure and divide by six; the result is I f the true interest on such a-sum for such : number of days at six per cent. Eight per cent.-Multiply any given amount for the number of days,upon which it is desired to ascertain the.interest, and the re sat will be the interestof such a sum for the time required at eight.per cent. Ten per cent--Muliply the same as abose, and, divide by thir ty-six, and, the result will be. the amount of interest at ten pe cent. What it will do. Jf a mechan ic or clerk saves-pnly.2 cents a day,.frpm_ the.time beais twenty one, until .he. is three-core-and ten, the aggregate with interest, will amount to $2,900; and a daiLy saving!gf 27cents reaches the- importan. qp of .859,000. A sixpenee saved daily will pro- t vide .a f u nd. f,- $7,000-.-suf cient -to purchs.a .good farm. There are few Aflqyees who can. not saveaily, }bytiniag from the use of cigars, tobaeco1,liquor etc., twice or ten times the amount of the six cent piece. Every per son should pr6vide for -old' age, and the man in business -who. :c= save.a dollar. i day, wileventually find himself possessed of $100,00. THE EFFECT OF CHINEsz.-Some man has been telling, a female correspondent of the .Phrenologi- ~ cal Journa4 how his head got out e of shape, She says: "He spoke ~ of the asto'nishing effect the study ~ of the Chinese language had ona the shape of liis forehead. Over the eyes and all along the region ~ of the perceptive faculties theret seemed to 1 a built on e layer ofa bone a quarter of an inch in I thickness and about half or three- L quarters of an inch in width. 'You see,' said he, 'the. study of Chinese language calls into exer cise QnJy the perception ind mem ory. Instead of on.e or two nasal, sounds, as we have in our !an guage, they haie thirteen, and it is the most diffcult matter at first far an American to dis-e tinguish between them.' Then he gave examples of these dif ferent nasal sounds, but to my uneducated ear t h e y seemed r quite alike. 'Foreighteen months's he said, -'we did little but study the language, and during that time my forehead -changed won derfully in shape. It used to be smooth like yours, and uniformly developed, but this great ridge here spoils the shape of it, and the hats I used to wear will onlIy rest on the top of my head now." flow To LooK YouN.-How is it that some-men tb6ught to be soa old, still s.ifo young, whilst othersA e so young, must still Iooy'old ? The cause lies very fr'quently within themselves. M. Rant once on being asked the rea Son said : "I never eat but one dish at dinner; and never get drunk. M:y walking keeps my blood in airculation ; my simple diet pre ents indigestion; and nevyer g ouching ardent spirits, my liver t ever fears being eaten up alive." bl But he forgot to add one of the s< greatest causes of all of lasting a youth, "a kind, unenvious heart." t, Envy can dig as deeply in a human ace as time itself. A little girl at school read thus: ci 'The widow lived on a limbacy b; eft her by a relative." "What did tE you call that word ?" asked the s< eacher, "the word is legacy-not u imbacy."- "But my sister says I mnusn't say leg." ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of 1 .00 >er square-one inch-for first insertion, -rnd f5. for each subsequent insertion. DoIe ,olumn advertisements ten per cent on abx ve Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribL re f respect, same rates per square as ordin ary tdvertisements. Special notices in local column 20 c(nt s >er line. Advertisements not marked with the num er of insertions will be kept in til forbid md'charged accordingly. Special contracts made wif large adver. isers, withliberal deductions on above rates. Jos Paawas Done with Neatness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. DRESS PLAINLY. I noticed on last Lord's day in hurch a lady of wealth and fashion Iressed in a simple (to my mind it ras very b6autiful) calico dress eat, well made, clean, and the vhble toilet of this lady was in :eeping with her dress. There ras nothing costly--nothinggaudy -but all her apparel was neat and ppropriate for the' day and the eivice. A train of reflections rereawakened in my mind. I houghs how many benefits would esult if peoplo would dress plain y when they attend :church. low-much it. wouldUlessen the urdens: of the poor, .Who now nd it hard. to keep uptheir ward obe and maintain their.placesin .so iety. How many debts,which now ag like lead on.the -hearts- of usbands, coild be paid by, this ost of fine driss. How inany bo peiple lio now n'eve ittend hqrh 'w Old.6e glad to atteid if hey could feel relieved on the core of dress. I have been told by lersons, time and again, that they rould beglad to attend church, nd all their families, -"If we had lothes fit to i wear.. .Will we ave a garment."fit to wear" into ternity ? is a question that con erns all Christians. Again I thought, if' people r'o[d~ dress. more plainly they ould worship much better. Their houghts would be more on the nbject and the service, and less n their own and their neighbor's ress. Pfsin dress 'would save ie; it would remove one cause rhy many fail to get to Sunday ichool and preaching in good Lie; and last, though not least, biei to -mysel,-it would in rease largely the~ Contributions a the cause ofLreligion and the anversig oft sin4~ners-:st home nd abroad, which should be the ieat object in -life; d~ALYING" WrE .dffTIBKN.-A iinister ha been taing with a oung mother on the. importance f prayer for the children, and eked her whether she evei- pray d with, as well as for, her little nes. She said she had not, as she sared they would be restless and be embarrassed ; but nevertheless be promised to try. As evening ame she noticed that her daugh ar seemed unusually peevish, and , she thought it best to take her ttle son first. Willie was a bright id of only five. years, but. when .is mother whispered her wish to r-ay with him, he gladly put his and in hers and knelt by her side. Ls he heard his own name men ioned before the Lord, a tender usly seemed to fall upon his oung spirit,-and he clasped his iothers fingers go.re tightly as ach petition for his special need ras breathed into the ear- of the 'reat Father. When they rose -om their knees Willie's face was adiant. "Mamma, mamma," he aid, "I'm glad yon told Jesus my ame; now He'll know me,.when get to heaven."~ A Gow Dorman -Benton used a say: A man with a gold dollar i hiss pocket has thit much positive alue1 representing so much labor, 6 much food, so much clothing or ther property. He may fall down steep place and be killed, and years Eter, if his bones are found the re. sins will be worth the gold dol r that fell with him. But the man ho has a paper promise to pay has it which depends for value on ie action of a board of directors a government over which he has ycontrol, and may be worth fifty 'uts, forty cents or worthless. No man's life is free from strug les-and mortification, not even te happiest ; but every one may sild up his own happiness by sking mental pleasure, and thus ake himself independent of for toe. - - . - . .- - Contempt is not a thing to be' aspised. It may be borne with a LIm and eqnal mind, but no man,