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AllA SUMMON B1 OF GO0D ORIER, Though tangled hard life's knot may be, And wearily we rue it, The silent touch of Sather Time Some day will sure undb it. Then, darling, wait; Nothifg is latis In the light that sinues forever. We faint at heart, a friend is gone; We Obafe at the world's harsh drilling I We tremble at sorrows on every side, I At the asyrlkd ways of killing, Yet 8ay we all, If a sparrow fall, The Lord keepeth count forever. He keepeth count. We come, we go. We speculato. toll and falter; But the measure to each of weal and woe God only can give or alter. He sendeth light, He seideth night, And change goes on forever. Why not take life with oheerful trust, With faith in the strength of weakness P The slenderest daisy rears its ht ad With courage, yet with meekness. A sunny face Hatti holy g ace, To woo.%ie sun fotover. Forever and ever, my darling, yes Goodness and love are undying ; Only the troubles and cares of earth Are winged from the first for flying. Our way we plough In the furrow "now " But after the tilling and growing she sheaf; Soli for the root, but the sun for tae leaf And God keep.eth watch forever. In A Mud Puddle. "Uncle, may I ride Milo ?' I said, one bright June morning, as Ie sat at the break fast-table. "[tide Milol" said he. "'Yes,"said I. "It's such 4 flro day." "But he'll thow you " said ray uncle. "rhrow meI" and I laughed merrily anti incredulously. "Say yes,-dear uncle." I continued, coaxingly; "There's no fear, and I am dying for a canter." "You'll die on a canter, then," lie re- I torted, with his grim wit, "for he'll break t your neck. The horse has only been rid- c den three tines-twice by myself, and once by Joe." "But you've often said I was a better rider than Joe." Joe was the stable-bqy. "That's a good uncle, now do." And P threw my armi about his ncdk and kissed I him. 1 I knew by experience that when I did 1 this I general carried the day. My uncle tried -to look stern, but I saw lie was re lenting. Ile made a last effort to deny me. "Why not take Dobbin ?" said lie. "Dobbin I" I cried ; "old snail-paced Dobbin, on such a morning as this I One I might as well ride a rocking-horse at c once." "Well, well," said Ire, "if I must, I must. You'll tease the life out of me If I don't let you have your own way. 1 wish you'd get - a husband, you minxi You're gro*ing beyond my control." "Hluimph l-a husband I Well, since you . say so, I'll begin tQ look out for one to- I day." "He'll soon repent of his bargain," said I my uncle ; but his smile belied his words. * . "You're as short as plc-crust if you can't have your own way. There," seeing I was I about to speak, "go and get reasdy, while I tell Joe to saddle Milo. You'll set the I house afire if [ dion't send you off."r Mio was soon at the door-a gay nmet ilesome colt, that laid hits ears back as I mounted, and gave me a vicious look that 1 did not quite like. "'Take care," said my uncmle. "It's not too late yet to g,g t up." I was puptIed,. y "I petVUr gave up an ything," I said. "Not even ihe finding of a husband, eli?" "No," said I. "I'll ride downu to the 1 poorhouse aaid ask .aid T1ony, the octoge- I narlan pauper, to have .me ; and you'll be I forced to hire Polly Wilkes to cook your I dinners." And as I sid this my eyes twinkled mischIevously ; for uncle was'an old bach elor, who detested all strange women, and I I ad ain especial aversion to Polly WIlkes, a * sour old maid of forty..seven, b,ecause yecars ago she had plotted to entrap him Into ma- I trimnony. Before ho could reply I gave Mlb his head.. John Gilpin, we are told, went faat, but I went faster. It was not long before the1 colt had it all his own way. At Airst 1I tried to check lis speed, but lie got the bit in his mouth, and all I could do was to hold ' on, and trust to tiring himt out. Trees, fences end houses went by like wild pigeons on the wing. As long as the road was clearwo did well enough, but suddenly coming to an old oak tree that started out spectre-like fromi the edge of a wood, Milo shied, twisted half round, and planted his foroeot stubbornly in the ground. I did not know I was falling till I feat myself in a mud-lHole, which lay at ono side of the roadr Helre was a fine end to my boastedI horsemanshiip I But as the mud was' soft I was not hurt, and the ludicrous spectacle I presented soon got the upper hand of my vexation. "A fine chance I have of finding a hus band in thth condition," I said to myself, recallink my jes) with my uncle. ".If I t o4ld tind somie mud dry now, and pass myself off for a mud nymph, 1 ight have4 a chance," ahd I began to pick myself up. "Shall I help you, miss?" suddenly sai - ~~ rich, manly voie; 1 looked tip and aM a 'young mian, the suppressed merrineitt of whose bright eyes irought the blood to my cheeks and niade ne for an instant. ashamed and angry. But in glancing again at my dress I could not ielp laughing In spite of myself. I stood a the mud at least six inches above the ops of my shoes. My riding skirt was lastered all over, so that it was aiiost npossible to tell of what it was made. My iauds -and aris were mud to the elbows, or I had instiuctively extended them as I ell in order to break the fall. The young mian as lie spoke, turned to le neighboring fence, and taking the top ,all, he placed it across the puddle; thon, iutting his arm around~my waist, he liUed i out, thought not without leaving my hoes behind. While lie was fishing these ut, which lie began immediately to (o, I tole behind the ernornous oak to hide ny olushing face and scrap'i the mud from my iding skirt. "Pray let ine see you honie," he said. 'If you will mount again I'll lead the colt, aid there will be io chatice of his repeat. ug his trick. I could not answer for sine, but when n the saddle murmured something about 'not troublina hin." "It's no trouble not the least," he re_ led, standing hat in hand like a knight nvaher, and still retaining lils hold on the )ridle; "and I can't really let you go Lone, for the colt is as vicious as he can ie to-day. Look at his ears, and his red yes I I saw you coming down the road, nd expected you to be thrown every min 'e till I saw how well you rode. Nor vould it have happened It he had not vheeled and stopped, like a trick horse in a ir i " I cannot tell how soothing was this grace ul way of excusing my mishap. I stole a lance under my eyelids at the speaker, ad saw that lie was very handsome and entlemanly, and apparently about six-and wenty, or several years older than my elf. I had hoped that uncle wduld be out in lie fields overlooking the men: but as we ntered the gate I saw him sitting, pr,vok-. agly, at the open window; and by the ine I had sprung to the ground he came it, his eyes brimful of mischief. I did tot dare to stop, but turning to my escort, aid, "My uncle, sir; won't you walk in?" ,nd then rushed up stairs. In about half an hour, just I had dressed, here was a knock at my door-mny uncle's :nock; I could not but open. le was aughing a low, silent laugh, his portly ody shaking all over with suppressed nerl sent. "Ah I ready at last," he said. "I began o deapair--of you, you were so long, and aie to histen you. He's waiting in the arlor still," lie said, in a nialicious w,hhs lcr. "You have my consent, for I like Aim very well; only who'd have thought 'f ilnding a husband in a mud puddle?" I slipped past my tormentor, preferring i race even my escort than to run the ;auntlet of niy uncle's wit, and was' saon tannering ny thanks to Mr. Templeton -for as such my uncle, who followed me own, intrnduced him. To make short of what else would be a >ng story, what was said in jest turned it, to be in earnest; for in less than six ionths I became Mrs. Templeton. How all came about I hardly know, hit I cer ainly did( find a husband on thai day. larry, for that Is the name by which I all Mr. T'empleton, says that I enitered the he parlor so tranormedh, by my light blue mulln floating about mie so like a cloud= rreath, my curls playing such hide-and cok about mny face, I,hat, not expecting uchi aii applarition, lie lost lis heart at ace. He adds-for lie knows how to onmpliment as well as ever-that my gay, iitelligent talk, sq dlifferent from the do. mrrre miss lie had expected, completed the uisiness. Harry was the son of an old1 neIghbor, 'ho h1ad beeni abroad for three years, andI efore that had been at college, so that I ad( inevcr seen hinm; but uncle remembilered imi at onice, and inis!ated on lis staying un III camnedown, though harry, fio.n dleli sey, would have left after he iuiquired bou, my health. My uncle was one of lose who will not be. put off, and so Harry enained-Zs"the luckiest thing," he says, 'he ever did." Milo ha now my favorlte steed, for Harry roke him for me, and we are happy as the ay is long, uncle Included ; for uncle In isted on our living wIth mim,' and I told im at last I would consent, "If only to eep Polly Wilkes, from cooking his din er." 'To which he answered, looking at larry, "You see what a-spitfire it is; and ~ou may blets your stars If' you don't rue le clay she went out to finad a husband.' Olid Tim,or. 'rdbably the oldest timber in the world vhiich hia0 been subjected to thie'ine of inn is that found in the ancient temples f Egypat in connection with the stonework 'chsknwn to be at least four thous Lad years old. This, the only Wvood usec. n the consti uction of the temple, Is in the arm of t,ies, holding the end of one stone , another at its proper surface. When .wo blocks were laid in place0. an excava ion about an inch deep was made in e'.ci aloc2k, into which a tie shaped like an hour claas.was driven. It Is therefore very dif icult to force any stone from its position. 'hie ties appear to have been of the tamar ak or shittemn wood, of which the ark was Onstructed, a sacred tree in ancient Fgypt nad now very rarely found in the valley of lie Nile. -The dove-tailed ties are just as mund now, as oni the day of their insertion. Ulthough fuel is~extremely scarce ,in. the aountry, these bits of wood are not. large nough to make it an object with the h-rabs to heave off layer after layer to ob sin them. Had .they lbeen of bronze, half he old temples *dui hve been destroyed lears ago, so precious woWtd titey havd ecen for varIous purposes. Simavinig Cil-uig' toi The other day a tall young man, dressed e in a tight fltting, long-tailed hooad-cloth Cal coat, with pants to match, slood up in Judge Venison's court, at St. Louls. and If argued a case for a client In a logical kind of way. The law3 era who sat around were n inciind to smile at the efforts of the young bu man to swing the jury, but he pail atten- an tionto'no one. His rather long legs and tII armus lie kept moving as he made a clear po analytical statement of the facts In thecase, tal while to give color and effect to his re- mil iai'ks, he hold the right finger of the right Bil hand extended at times pointing it at his AV client and then at parties on the other side. in There was something about the young man so that attracted the attention of an old court it, attendant who ventmed to ask who he s wis. - at A lawyer old in the business and, like o too many eager to run down the effort of a 1in new aspirant for legal honors, said: "That M_ fellow? Why he's a barber. iIe works WC In a shop down on the cormer of Sixth and wl Wath street." w A man who happened to hear this state- jw inent, upon the firat opportunity asked the dit youug attorney described above if lie really oi was a barber. Ills answer was as direct as ti his speech to the jury. It was in the li1 words of Burns, and was something about 1. a nuna for all that. "You're a barber and yet practicing law, tt how comes that?" "I'll tell you," the young man said. pit "I have studied law for three years. But of when I began I was very poor and had a gr young wife to care for and had to work no and study too. I learned to shave people when I was 9 Ioy, and the la't three years I have done work in a barber shop on Sat urdAy nights and Sundays." st "What did you do during the week?" H( interrupted the man. u "I got a lot of bills to collect for several par-ties, and I used what spare time I had th tll in trying to collect them. I made a little ha money in that way, but it was hard work, I tell you." "If you worked like this, what time did you get to study" 46I studkd at night, reading sometimes uptil way in the morning. "il this your first case ?" "Oh, .no. Since I have been reading law I have appeared in thirty-five cases and ar won all of them but one. Of course, none an of them'were important cases, and nearly rf all of them were in justice of the peace or ro police courts." qu "I suppose your brother lawyers often 1o1 laugh at, you for practicing the law and the tonsoril profession at the sane Litne?" as] "They do. They laugh at me all the time. Didn't you notice them laughing this moining?" I did; I notice everything that's going on. But their laughing doesn't, st bother in in the least. I work at the su barber's tra'de still and its an honest calling I aim not ashamed to acknowledge it. beveral young frionds of mife have advised me to give up the barber business but I as can't afford it just yet. I did quit collect lug sonie time ago, and in a little while I'll quit shaving people's faces and do noth Ing but shave clients." _ s The young man hails from San Antonio, a Texas. ar Tie Gunngrr's Dattiiter. That the custom of flogging 'midship- wE men once prevailed In the British navy is no0 an indubitable fact. The offending "reefer" 1A was taken to the forward gun, tied over iot the breech, spread eagle fashion, and the an, flagellation adminilstered. This practice loi never existed in the United States navy, an although we copied, in Its earlier day, we nuch that was objectionable from tie sJ English service; such as rudeness to infer iors mast-heading and even striking the WE younger officers; but, I an rlad to say, ed few instances of the latter outrage are mn eV recordl. The "yarn" which I am abo,iL to spin is of rather an amusing nat,ure, and relates to thme personal experience of one of miy oki fellow "mniddies," wich was not very dif ferent fronm the pleasant p)ractice alluded to. A number of years ago-never milnd G how many, as at least, one of the part,ies is ro still alive-whiile several 'mlidshipmiein were b enjoying themselves socially at a tavern at t Norfolk, Va., one of them, Pat M--, h took offense at sonme-remark by a little ho lame fellow who was captain's, or purser'sw clerk, I forget which, ndi threatenedi to throw him down stairs.a "0, noe: you wo.n't (10 that, Pat," said fr< Jack N,-.. r "'Yes I will, too," replied the irate reefer making a hostile demionstration. . to "Stop, Pat," exclahned Jack, wvho was i a noble creature, as brave as lhe was gener- ta ouik, "let ine talk to you ; the act would (1oI you lie credit, lie is smanll and lame. Letr us take a dIrink and pass it over.",r "No, sir; I will not. What business < f yours is it anyhow ? Perhaps you wish to t take lisa place?" vocIferated Pat. "I only wIsh to prevent you from domngtl a veiny ft o'ishi and utngentlemanly act whic leh you wou.d be sorry for afterwai-ds," anidi Jack, calmly.cl "No, sir," exclainied Pat, growing hot- al ter every mmulitie. ''I will throw him ti down stairs, unless you wish to take his bu place." There was a perceptible sneer In the f latter part of this remark whick arousedhi the slumborilag lion In Jack N-. ti "Very well, sir," lie said sternly, draw b ing himself uip to his full height before tihe other, "let the lmei~ boy alone and consider me in his place; now, heave ahead." Pat was bravo; lie p)roved it in tihe late C1onfederate service (luring one of the hardest fought battles of the war ; buit the (10 sItuation was char1ged ; there was a great old - difference between Tommy J-- and Jack N--. Still lhe was defied and it behooved ai him to act promptly. "No, sir," lie replied; "I shall send you. Ii< a message." cst "All right, old boy," was the cheerful . response. 110 Of course every one knew what this toi meant. lSeconds were quietly choseni and, no not to mar, the festivities, further arrange ments were deferred until the next^day. str Blakely C .-, onte of the most gentlemanly to, oficers of his day, was Jack's seconid and ti promptly at, the hour next morning ho was an with his principal, in a privAte parlor of set the hotel to await Pat s representative. After a considerable slelay the latter ar- ok rived and sent up his card. I have forgot. of ten his name, but ho was a man of good wI sense and proper feeling. Blake received wI him ebii%eously, and instead of delivering a chiallenge, lie commenced by expressing "( his own regret that so foolish a quarrel tri shiould have ocogrred. li. overtures were co genidrtsly niet half-way) an'd as mgether ga 'a muomut doubted the other's courage. matter was amicably settled. Pat was it for, the boys shook hands and pledged 1i other in French's celebrated juleps. But this Is not the end of my "yarn;" it waR, it would scarcely have been irth "reeling off." Pat's. after experl De, not with the "uuner's daughter," t with tihe '"captain s widow" was the lusing sequel. There lived in Norfolk at ) time an old lady usually calldd "Aunt 'lly," whose husband had been a sea-cap n, and who kept a boarding-house for dshipman. Officersof a higher grade 3 never entertained, but the "inIddies" re her special pets; she scolded and lulged them to their heart's content. metines she Inflicted severer discipline, 'is said, by a sharp cut or two with her mrsuader" when they tried her too far; which the youngsters only laughed, of Lirse. This Instruwient. was a red cow Il, kept for the colored servants. Jack - was a great favorite with the oli >man, wl o somehow or other, had got nd of the proposed duel and was i an usual state of uneasiness about it. Now k and Blake, knowing "Aunt Polly's" 'position, determined to have some fun L of Pat; so, before going home, for ty all boarded with her, the former tied i arm in a sling, as If he had been shot. i received the good dame's scolding and npathy very quietly, and then retired to up-stairs sitting-roonim. The more Lunt Polly" thought of It, the more she led ',her boy," as she was in the habit calling hain, and the more angry she )w with his supposed enemy, who did stand very high in her good graces. Aix ut half an hour after Jack's return, t entered the front door and started up ,Irs with a rollicking song on his lips. i was dressed in the usual short, blue Iform jacket and a pair of tight-ftting Ite trousers. He had scarcely reached ) first step when a red stick whizzed ough the air, and he thought lightning I struck him in the rear-whack I "I'll teach you to fight duels and shoot y boy,' you great blacksuard." "Stop that I will you?" shouted Pat, vhat the d- I do you inean ?" Whack I Whack I "I'll teach you-" But Pat did not stop to wait for the ,unent; he darted tip-stairs like at fly -sh with a whole school of dolphins or him. As he burst into the sitting nn where the other two'' "middlies" were, letly awaiting the denouement, rubbing seat of honor, his face red as a boiled ster, and spluttering oaths, they both ted hihn in a breath: "Why, what on earth Is the matter, t?" "Matter I That old catamaran down irs has been welting- me with her 'per tder'-ooh I how it hurts I Curse her, I have her arrested as sure as my name ['at M ---. " "What In the world did she do it for?" ted Blake. "Why, she says," continued Pat, still Jbing his wounds and d\necing around, hat I fought a duel with you, Jack, and t you." "Well, didn't you ?" replied Ja1cK, with quizzical smile. "Don't you see my 11 In a sling?" Pat's realization of the enormity of the ell" which had been perpetrated on him is so sudden and stunning that he was L only speechless, but almost forgot his in, and when lie found his volce' uproar is shouts of laIghter ftirly dtowned his gry remonstrances. He was a good fel v at heart, however, and the affair was aicably settlel after an outward and in rd application of "old rye" with promi of secrecy. As for "Aunt Polly," when the joke .s explained to her, being a little ashai of her own violence, she only lifted her es and hands with the ejaculation : "0 1 these amidslpmen--" LPnzrther utterance failed her. A Ch Hld in a snake's C.sia. When Mr. Sarpain, of Yatesville, on the tskirts of Pittston, Pa., enteredl the >m In which his child, one year old, had .left a few minutes previously one af rnoon, lie was horrinied to find a big mck snake coiled around the little one's dy. The glittering eyes of thme serpent are g)aring upon those of the child, who peared transfixed by the terrible glance, dI the head of time monster swayed to and as if charming thme little one,,* who ap aredl to be unable to move' or make an tery. The terrified father, on beholding is frightful spectacle, gave an involun ry cry of pain, which barought thme other imnbers of thme family rumning to the room. had also the; effect of frightening the itie, which speedily uncoiled itself,anid, the confusion and fright of time moment, cceedling in escaping. As soonl as the 'ror subsidled to some extent the snake .5 followed, but it had1( secreted itself in a neighboring shrubbery, making icovery if ltmpossible, although a dilIgent rrch ensued. After its departure tIme lId cried piteously for more than an hour d appeared terribly distressed. Tnme lit one has been in great agony ever smnce, t is expecteid to recover. Although uii r the influence of the reptile when the her came, there is no evidence of its ving sustainedi any physical injury, but 3 shock to the nervous system must have in terrible. "Goodl,yo, inr.'" It 'is with deep regret we annpunce the p)arture fronm our midst of good, honest, I-fashioned "Mr." ie's nearly all gone now. Oncee in a vhile you may see him; but ver,y seldom. lie doesn't amount to uanuchi any more. 's got to be too common ; also too hmon As the old-fa shtioned and comparatively nest rat was sup)ersededi by the high. ted and mischievous Norway, o is "Mr." w sui,erceded by "C'ol." We meet "Mr." very seldom on the cets now; and only In tolerable high. ledi assemblages eani see him at all. Bunt are you will find "Col" all the time; d. lie's prouder than a peacok that hasn't mn his feet for five minutes, "Col." is. The vaini gentleman, hiwng beaten outi I Mr. "Mr." is now engatted in a conflict the blopdless savage kind with "lion.," to id'egreat society personage, also. aether heg honorable or dishonorable. lint we thinR In the later getle1man the Jol." has lis match; for he's up to all the oks of the profeson, and can probably asumo moze whisky and play a better me of poker tIhan "Col." .cn. Our Literary Men. The mtost celebrated of our historians, essayists, poets, have, as a rule, been dis. tinguished in college for excellent scholar ship. George Bancroft was a high scholar in Harvard's class of 1817, and was par ticularly distinguished for his attainments In philosophy. lie was also honored with the class-day poetship of his class, which does not, however indicate in itself high scholarship. Among the high scholars of the olass of 1814 was William Ilickling Prescott, who delivered, as his commence ment ,part, a Latin poem, "Ad Spen:" and of the next class of 1815, the historian of New England, Doctor Palfrey, was a distinguished member. Though John Lothrop Motley's college rank was not so high as Doctor Palfrey's yet its excellence indicated, to a certain dbgree, his future eminence; and his literary tastes are inant fested in the subject of his conmencement part, "The Influence of Multiplication of Books upon Literature." The cultured scholarship of Edward Everett, excelleit in every departnient of college study gave him the ilrst place in tMe class of 1811; and his commencement oration, "on Liter ary Evils," and his oration for the second degree, "On the Restoration of Greece," forecast the literary and classical character of the work of his entire life. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson was not aiong the highest scholars of his class, yet his rank was most honorable. Ilis coiamencenent part was a "conference" with two class mates, "On the Character of John Knox, Will ai Penn, and John Wesley." Mr. Emerson was also the classday poet of his class of 1821. Our great novelist did -not succeed in obtaining a first-class rank at Bowdoin,as did his class-mate, Longfellow. l[awthorn wrote, in his college day,-as Prolessor Packard, who was one of his in structors, inforis me,---"fine Latin and English," but no commencement part was assigned him, "porliaps, because lie re quested not to have one," Mr. George Iip ley was distingulshed at Harvard for his scholarship in the class of 1823, and deliv ered an oration for his second degree oii "The Claims of the Age on the Young incu of Amer ca"-(lai nas which lie has for the last liUy years done so much to fulill. Alr. Longfellow was a high scholar in Bow doin's most celebrated class of 1825-the class of John S. C Abbott and Geo. B. Cheevor, as well as of Hawthorne; and some of the most graceful of his gradua tion. That long list of pqens, dedicated to Harvard's class of 1829, with which, at their annual meetings, Oliver Wendell Hol.nes has delighted his class-mates, be gan on his class and commnencenient (lay. Doctor Ilohnies served as a poet on both these occasions, and was an excellent scholar of the famous class. Though (ie coutse of William Cullen Bryant at Wil liam's College was limited to two years, yet in them lie gained distinction for his attainments in the languages and in litera tire. A Faihionable Womau's Prayer. Strengthen my husband and may his faith ani his money hold out to the last. )raw the lanab's wool of unsuspicious twilight over his eyes, that flirtation may look to himt like victories, and that my bills may strengthen his pride in me. Bless, oh, fortune, my crimps, rats and frizzles, and let thy glory shine on iimy paint and powder. Enable the poor to shift for themselves and save me fron) all missionary beggars. Shed the light of thy countenance on ily caniel's hair siawl, iy lavender silk, my point lace and my necklace of diamonds, and keep the noth out ot my sables, I be secch tlie, oh, fortunel When I walk out before the gaze of vul gar mcn, regulate iimy wriggle and add new grace to gait. . When I bow myself to wvorshlp, g:ant that I may (10 it with ravishing elegance and( preser-ve unto the last the lily white of imy tleshi and the taper of my fingers. Destroy my enemies with the gall of jealousy and eat lip with the teeth of enivy all those who gaze at my style. Save me fromi wi-inkles and foster my plumpers. Fill both my eyes, oh fortune I with time p)laintive poison of lifatuation, that I many lay (oit my victims--the men as umiinb as in ages graiven. Let the liy and the rose strive tojrethier on my-cheek, and( may my neck swin like a goose on~ thme bosom of cr-ystai water. Enable me, oh, fortune I to wvear shoes still a little smaler, and1( save me from co'rns and( humtions.anlai oa Bless Fanny, mny lap-dlog,anrindw hailstones of dlestructioni on those who shall hurt a hair of Iliector, mny kitten. Smile, oh, for-tune i most sweetly upon Dick, my capariiy, and( watch with the fond ness of a spirit over amy two lily white mice with redl eyes. Proverbs, New andi~ Old. Never sacrifice safetytoarexpcd returns. - tolreeeccl Never make a loan on importunity. Never lend a borrowing friend more than you are willing to lose if lie can't pay. Never speculate deeper than you are able to lose, if you lose at all. Never borrow money to speculate with, Owe no man anything. Be satisfied with a moderate irent to a goodl teinanit. KCeep well inisuredl, andl watch your policy. Never consult a mani on businiess who does not manage well his own. Avoid a second mortgage for a fresh loan. HIe that maketh haste to 1)e rIch Is not wvise. Poverty is no b)ar to marriage If both par ties will work and save. The gods help those who help themselves -men01 and womien. God promises nothing to idleness, A' man nuist ask his wife if lie may be rIch. Little coins, like little dirops of water, will till a bucket. As we sow In tem)pora.l affairs we shall reap. Short settlements make long friendlships. Fortunes are made by-earnings atu sav ings. Money easily gotten sa soon spent. Money earned Is money valued. 1t is easier to loosen up good property than to re-establish it. Ini discussinig businessdisagreemeontskeep cool. Less wisdom Is required to make money than to keep It securely wha mftne, "Success With Small Fruits." "1 ist rolled out here from the grocery store, ' said the little green apple as it paused on the sidewalk for a moment'a chat'with the banua peel; "I am waiting here for a boy. NOt a sma1, weak deli cate boy," added the little green apple, proudly, "but a great big boy, a great bulky, strong, leather-lunged, noisy fifteen year older, and little as I am you will set me double up that boy to night and make hIm wall and howl and yell. Oh, I'm small, but I'm good for a ten acre field of boys and don't you forget It.' All the boys !i Burlington," the little green apple went on with just a shade of pitying 'conten)t in its voice, "couldn't foo.I around me ae any one of then foo s around a banana." "Boys seem to be your game," drawled the banana peel, lazily ; "Well, I suppose they are just about strong enough to afford you a little amusement. For my own part, 1 (1o like to take somebody of my size. Now here comes the kind of a man I usually do business with. " He Is large and strong, it is true, but---'' And just then a South 11111 merchant, who weighs about 281 pounds when he feels right good, came along, and the ba nan1a peel just caught him by the foot, lifting himI as high as the awning post, turned him over, banged hum down on a potato basket, flattening it out until it looked like a splint doormat, and the shock jarred everything loose in the show-win. dow. And then while the fallen merchant from various quarters of the globe, ilshed his silk hat fron the gutter, his spectacles frem the cellar, his handkerchief from the tree-box, his cane from the show-window and one of his shoes from the caves trough, and a little boy ran. for the doctor, the lit tle green apple blushed red and shrank a little back out of sight covered with awe and mortiflcation. "(Ah," it- thought, "I wonder If I can ever do that? Alas, how vain I was, and yet how poor and weak and useless I anm in this world." But the banana peel comforted it aind bade it look ip and take heart, and (to well what it had to do, and labor for tihe good of the cause In its own useful uphere. "Trie," said the banana Peel, "you can not lift up a 200 pound min and break a celfar door with him, but you can give him the cholera morbus, and if you (o your part the world will feel your power, and the medical colleges will call you blessed. " Anid then the little green apple smiled and looked up with grateful blushes on its face and thanked the banana peel for its encouraging counsel. And that very night an old father, who writes thirteen hours at day, and a patient mother who was alnost ready to sink from weariness, and a nurse and a doctor sat up until nearly morning with a thirteen year old boy, who was all twisted up into the shape Df a figure three while all the neighbors on that block sat up and listened and pounded their pillows and tried to sleep and wished that the boy would either die or get well. And the little green apple was pleased, and its last words were, "At least I havc been of some little use in this great, wIdt world." The Leaves and tho Wind. Once on a tine a little leaf was hleard tc sigh and cry as leaves often do when a gentle wind is about.. And the twig said '"What's the imatter little leaf ?" "The wind," said the leaf, "just told nc that one day it would pull Ine off, and throw me to the ground to (lie." Time twie told it to the branch, and the braich told it to the tree, And when the tree heard it, it rustled all over, and cient back word to tle leaf. "Do not be afrald, hol( on figltly, and you shall not go of till youi wtayt to.'' And so the leaf stopped sighing, and wenit on singing amnd rustling. And so it grew aill suimmeri long till October. And when the bright (lays of autunn caine, the leaf saw all the leaves around become very beautiful. Somie were yellow, andl some were scarlet, Iind( some were strIiped with, colors. Tfhen It asked the tree what it meant. Auad the tree said: "All these leaves are getting readly te fly away, and they have put, oii these colors because or their- joy,'' Thlen the little lear began to wanit to go, and grew very lbeauatifuil in thinking of It. And when It, was very gay in colors, It saw that the branches of the tree land nao color in theom, and so the leaf said: '"0 branch, why are you so lead colored, and we golden ?" "'We must, keep on our work clothes, saidl the Liee, ''for our work( is not yet (lone, b)ut your clothes arc for a holIday, becaust your task Is over." Just then a lit,tle puff or wind( camne, an< the leaf let go without thinking of it, aun thme wind took It, up and turned it over, an< then let it fall gently dlown under the edg< of a fence among hlund(reds of leaves, am It never waked up to tell what It, dreamue abount. An intellhgent infant und(er-. the joini sulperintendience of a clairveyant and( thmi sirit of tihe late Indian Chief Wampa, haii seen with the mlaid's eye the North Polo, and1( has written out a dlescrlIption of thu landscape. The P'ole is situated on am Island, having a gradual rise from tin water's edlge to about the mIddle of it. Or seome parts of it appear only bare rocks, .on other p)arts it has an abundant vegeta tion. About half ok it, the .cast side, covei-cd with fruIt trees. In somne parts they grow Into denise thickets; In some they grow not so close together, and have gram thickly lnterpersedi among thenm. Thcn fruit consists of oranges, lemons, bana nas1, cocoanuts and( other tropical fruits. This part of the po(le Is inhabited b)y beet leu, white and( black ants, grasshoppers, anti many other kInds of insects, all uanuisually large; also by many dlifferent species of the monkey tilbe. On the west sIde of the island the vegetation is not so dense. I has many tropical fruits, but the trees are small. Among tihe natural proddets arc the gooseborry, blackberry, grape, currant, raspberry and mandlrake'. But It differs from the cast side In havmng no monkeys, and in having vast nuimbeis of birds of every s1ize and plumage, Among them are the ostrich, swan, goose, duck, quaIl, robIn amid hummng bird. On both sIdes are mrany smalistreamis. Theowater of theso is pure andl clear as crystal, The-temnpbrature of both sides ls w,irm. It does not vary. Hero the crust of tae earth is much thinner than at tihe equator, and the temperature le caused not so much- by the' sumn a.a by ( hA heat coming et of the 'earthu. Taking It Cooly. How to take things coolly, Is' according to Colonel i. P. Anderson, the special virtue of- the British man-of-war, who, having the utmost reliance on himself and his cominanders, Is neither easily overex cited nor readily alarmed.. In supp->rt of his assertion the Colonel relates how two tars, strolling up from the Dil Kusha Park, where Lord Clyde's army was stationed, towards the Residency position at Luck now, directed their steps by the pickets of SIorse and foot. Suddenly a twenty-four und shot struck the road just in front-of them. "I'm blessed, Bill," said one of the tars, "if this here channel is properly buoyed I" and on the happy-go-lucky pair went towards the Residency, as calnly as If they had been on Portsmouth Hard. During the same siege.a very young.prl vate of the 102d was on sentry, when an cignt-inch shell, fired from a gun 100 yards off, burst close to him, makingf a deal of noise, and throwing up an immense quan tity of earth. Colonel Anderson rushed to the spot. The youth soldier was standing quietly at his post, close to where the shell had just exploded. Being aslied what had happened, he replied unconsciously: "I think a shell has busted, sir." Towards the close of the fight of Inker mann, Lord Raglan, returning front taking leave of General Strangways, met a Ser geant carrying water for the wounded. The Sergeant drew hiniself up to salute, when a round shot caine bounding over the hill, and knocked his forage cap out of his hand. The mnan picked it up, dusted it on his knee, placed it carefully on his head, and imade the salute, n(t a muscle of his coun tenance moving the while. "A neat thing that, my man I" said Lord Raglan. "Yes, my lord," returned the Sergeant with an other salute, "but a miss Is as good as a mile." The coiuniander was probably not surprised by such an exhibition of sang froid, being himself good that way. Ile was badly hurt at Waterloo, and, says the Prince of Orange, who was in the hospital, "1 was inot conscious of the presence of Lord Fitzroy Somerset until I heard him call out in his ordinary tone, 'Hallo I Don't carry that arm away till I have taken off my ring I' Neither wound nor operation had extorted a groan from his lips." The Indian prides hiniself upon taking good or ill in the quietest of ways, and fron a tale told in Mr. Marshall's Cana dian Dom. nion, his civilized half-brother would seen to be equally unemotional. Thanks mainly to a certain Metis or. half breed in the service of the Hudson 'Bay. Company, a Sioux warrior -was found guilty of stealing a hor-e, and condemned to paly the animal's value by instalments at one of the company's forts. On paying the last, instalment he received his quit tanen from the man who had brought him to justice and left the oilice. A few imo ments later the Sioux returned, advanced on his noiseless moccasins within a pace of the writing table, and leveled his musket full at the half-breed's head. Just as the trigger was pulled the Aletis raised the hand with which he was writing and touched lightly the muzzle of the gun ; the shot passed over his head, but his hair was singed off in a broad mass. The smoke clearing away, the Indian was ainazed to see that his*enemy still lived. The other looked him full In the eyes for an instant and quietly resumed Iis writing. 'lhe Indian silently departed. It Is not given to evcry one to play the philosopher, and accept fortune's buffets and favors with equal placidity. Horatios are scarce. But there are plenty of People canable if behaving like Spartans where the trouble does not touch their individual ity. Ilow can I get out of this ?" asked an Englishnian up to his armpitA ii a Scotch bog, of a passer-by. "I dinna think ye can get oot of it,"' was the response of the Ilighlander as lie went on his way. Milstress of herself was the spouse of the old geiitleman wvho contrived to tumnble ofl the ferryboat into the Mississippi, andi was enicouraged to struggle for dear life by lis better-half shoutmng :- "'There, Saanmael, didn't I t,ell you so? Now then, work your legs, 1lap your arms, hold( your breath, and repeat the Lord's Prayer, for it's mnighty onsartain, Samuel, whet,her you land.'' T wo imy,ng sol,iierm. Tlhae lieverend( hia( beenm an army chap lain dlurinig the war, anti while we were hunting for a roadi that would lead to i[amnilton lie toldi a story about two (lying soldiere which interested m in i sp)ite of my feet. lie said that in the Potomac hosp1).. tals rough p)ine coilius were furnished by GJovernment, but that it was not always p hossib)le to keep up with the deanud ; so, when a man died, If there was no colln at hand lie was buried without one. One night late, two soldiers lay (dying in a wardi. A man caine in wit,h a coffin ont his shoulder, andt stood trying to make up lis inad whIch ofh these two poor fellows would be likely to iieed it first. Bloth of these begged for.lt with their fading eyes. -t,hey were past talking. Then cne of them protruded a wastedi hapd from hise blankets andi made a feeble beckoning sign - with the lingers, to signify, "lBe a good fellow ; p)ut it under mny becd please." The lucky soldier painfully turned himself in lis bed unitil lie faced the other warrior, raisedi himself partly cin his elbow, antibe.. gain to work uip a mysterious expression of somne kindi in hise face. Grat.aily, irk somnehy, but. surely andsteadllyit.deyeloped, and at last it took defInite form as a pretty successful wink. The .sufferer fell back exhausted with his labor, but, bathed mn glory. Nowv entered a personal friend. of No. 2, the despoiled soldier. No. 2 pleaded with him with eloquenm eyes, till presenatly' lie uanderstood, andi removed the collin from undler No. i's bed and put it uinder No. 2's. No. 2 indicated Is joy, anti made sonmc more signs; the friend tunderstoodl again, and ptit his armse under No. 2's shoulders and lifted hint partly tip,. Then time dying hero turned the dim exultation of his eye on No. 1, anid began a slp anid labored work with his hands; gad ~ly ho e lifted one hand ump towafd his face ;i grew . weak and dropped baels again jonce: 19ero.;j5 ho made the eiljort, but failed againa took a rest ; he geirod all the o his streDgthi, and hitiwho' slid "~' surely carried his thi 4oJu sie lt nose, spread the gaurW ~ ii umph, and dropped b~ 4 ratp~~ ture sticks by inie yet nu~"5 unique. ~. STRONG brimie -.uy be ae t~ adv n~~ tageoin wAshing beetm(s de paU~' is also good for:tis Xros&' & HAY sprikldwt 1,.ojloS of limi, and lef~ tt duti' roonm, ill r4ov6 l8