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°Oh 1 dreary doth the wintry lobed)
Come o'er you snow-capped hill;
Close shut the windows—bar the docr--
Keep out the blighting chill ;
-And let the song resound the hall,
And Christmea mirth begin s
The more of clouds there are without,
The less of clouds within.
Now let the feetive board be spread,
Leve mauler's langnid face,
And join the dance• with airy tread,
With merry winter's pace ,
Or throng around the blazing hearth,
As done in olden time,
When hypocrites were scarcely known,
And laughing was go crime.
I'll have Po neighbors' deeds called o'er,
No scaadal ferny guest ;
And let us thinl, Whate'er they've• done
They did it for the bests
And let the merry loud round game,
Fill up that want and deartb,
And all be youth and happiness,
And innocence and mirth.
And lotus know the really good—
As light comes with the day,
By all that's cheering, gay, and glad,
Rejoicing in his way;
And, by examples pure and true,
Shine as in olden time,
When hypocrites were scarcely known,
And laughing was no crime.
And let us ne'er, amidst our joy,
Forget the poor must share,
For God has placed them all around,
To be within our care;
Not only to direct them straight
Along the path of life,
But feed and clothe and. warm them too
Amid cold winter's strife.
For ubahl the man who reaps our corn,
When eumreer's sun is high,
Be all neglected by us Bow,
To see his earnings die ?
Or shall we tell himfuturs things,
To hope for better thee e,
Wnile hungry offspring round him clings;
And drives to wild despair t
No! they shall share while bread remains,
Their children clad shall be,
And fuel to defy the snow,
And bright their cot of glee.
Oppression shall not enter there—
That man no sorrow bear—
And all his benefactors' names
Shall sound at evening prayer.
Then let the festive board be spread,
Far, far, and wide around,
And let those most in need of all
Amidst our feasts be found;
Or throng around. the blazing hearth,
As done in olden time,
When hypocrites were scarcely known,
And laughing was no crime.
ONE CHRIMIA.S EVE.
Ex CATHIE JEWETT.
"Charley," said Mrs. Winship coaxingly;
" Charley, dear."
"What is it. Molly ?" said Charley, dear,
stirring his well -creamed coffee, with a toler-
ant but unappreciative smile.
"1 suppose that means a dress or a bon-
net, or mine eighteen -button gloves, at
least."
" It means, a good deal more in this case,"
was the rather formidable answer; "but
really, Charley, if you are going to be un-
kind and sarcastic, I won't say another
word."
"It's rather hard, though, seeing I am
dependent upon you for all the comforts and
necessities of life."
"Go on, Molly," said her husband, "you
are nearing my weakest point; but please
remember chat comforts and. necessities are
about all that I am able to eupply ; the lux- would please me much more."
:tries `must go.'" "Presents of that sort show the good-
" I do not see why," with an effective will of the giver quite as much as recklessly
ittle pout. extravagant ones.
"I'm sure we have, both of us, been just "Very well," said Molly, "I will try to
as prudent and economical as possible; ever please you."
since we were married." "We will have a useful and inexpensive.
"1 do think you might gratify me once in dinner to match; loan pick ap anything."
a while." It was not a cheering prospect; and Mr.
" You bave not itemized your desires as Winship, although he did not care over.
yet, m3 dear, what will you have? A bet of
diamonds, or a box of bon bons?"
"I will have—now, don't look indignant
—I will have a seal -skin cloak, if you love
me well enough to get it for me."
"That ouget to fetch mo, I know," said
her husband, getting up, and going over to
her side of the table; "but just now I can-
not do it."
"I have some heavy bills to meet before
the first of January, and it is impossible for
me to spare the money."
" In a few weeks, perhape, if you still
hold to such a toolish mind, I may be able
to gratify you."
Molly Winship was pouting in earnest
now.
I wanted it for Christmas," she half
sobbed.
"1 wanted to go home for once in my life
decently dressed."
"Decently dressed I" cried her hnsband
in astonishment; "Why, Molly darling. 1
you dress perfectly. Who ever saw you in
a shabley gown or a dowdy bonnet? You
know that I am not the domestic tyrant
that your words imply; but really, sealskin
would not become y ou ; it is too ostenta-
dour."
"That is just what I want," said the
libtle woman noneatly. "1 am married ;
I am old enough, and pretty enough to wear
„it. Sara Hammond. has written that she is
lgaged to my old lover, Erasmus Gray;
I want to go home in seelekin and annihilate
her."
bharley Winship took the coaxing face
between the palms of his hands.
"1 cannot get you a sealskin, dear," he
paid; "and ,you must let Sara comfort
Erasmus in peace for the present, because I
cannot possibly spare you at Christime;
I want you here with me." •
Molly turned her head impatiently.
"Two years ago, you studied my comfort
and my wishes," said she; "now yott study
your pooket-ook. I suppose that is only
nateral when a wife gets to be an old
Story."
"That is not kind, Melly ; neither is it
like you to say It," and, somewhat offended,
Mr. Winship proceeded to button himself
inside his overcoat.
He had fallen into a fond habit of relways
kissing his wife good-bye 'when he left the
house ; but thia morning her reproachful
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Re knew tbat his circumstances forbad
any such unnecessery outlay; that in time
Molly herself weuld see how impoeSible it
was for hiin to grant her extravagant re-
quest; and yet the martyr•like resignation
perceptible na every glanoe, cut him—it cut
himAslikfeora kMnoifleli, she was too womanly to
fret, tease, or render herself in any way
obnoxious.
She accepted the inevitable calmly; gave
up her visit, and her hopes of anni-
hilating Erasmus' betrothed, with a
few secret tears, and great outward oorapo-
811Sreb.o could not go out of doors with any
comfort; for the very shop windows glared
atlher derisively, and mocked the unsatis-
fied longuige of her soul.
She never stepped ipto the street, but
some fortunate woman buttoned inside of a
garment of rich brown fur, trailed by, and
destroyed her peace of mind.
Once Charley caught her looking at an
overdressed dummy, that stood seductively
in a doorway ; wrapped in a. particularly
costly and beautiful fur cloak.
When she perceived her husband, she
turned upon him eyes full of enraptured en-
treaty—and tears, •
The tears were a sudden inspiration : but
they were large of their age, and she felt
that they must be in a measure effective.
Much to ner surprise, however, he did not
appear in the least touched; on the contrary
he spoke quite impatiently.
"Why, Molly Winship 1" said he, "how
childish you are growing I do you think that
a seven hundred dollar oloak would harmon-
ize with my last year's overcoat ?"
41 If you really need an outside garment,
why net get one of those pretty plush
wraps ?"
Piush 1" cried Molly, a fine scorn flash-
ing across her sweet, indignant face.
" Plush, indeed 1 I wouldn't wear it;
that is asking for bread and getting a stone
with vengeance."
Without another word, she turned and
walked rapidly away, leaving him half
amused, and wholly bewildered.
When she reached home she folded up
hours.
vary carefully a certain article that had been
for some time the companion of all her spare
It was a gentleman's gown of dark blue
flannel, faced with cardinal satin and adorn-
ed with very splendid cord and tassels.
There had been a good many stitches,
a good deal of time, and not a little self
dental put into that dainty garment; but
Molly folded it unrelentingly, and hid it
in an unused drawer, along with some
tender memories of paet sweet surprises.
She was very sure that all pleasure was
simply a memory.
Her husband had ceased to care for her;
the future stretohed before her, a furless
waste, loveless and desolate.
The day before Chtistmas when Charley
asked for her orders, she told him soberly
that she needed nothing.
" Yon have ignored Christmas this year/'
said she ; "the only gift that I oared for
ou have refused me ; and so little has the
well lately; so I have been able to get you a
blessed epirit of the day affected you, that
Christmas presenb that I hope you will like
as well as a sealskin oloak.'•
"A house 1" cried Molly, "this dear,
darling little house, our own, our very own;
with a piano in it 1"
"0, Charley Winship 1 and I burned the
toast this very night, on purpose ; I did,
and I boiled the tea."
"What a horrid woman 1" said. Prue re-
flectively. "Who would ever take her to
little sermon where other women would be 927V sider ?”
"Did you know, you 'extravagant crea.
have scolded.
In times past her hunband had been ture, that there were three new chamber -
rather proud of her well turned sentences, sets in this house, and. a cemented cellar ?"
Molly did not answer. She did not care
just now they lacerated his tenderest feel -
at all for Prue, or for Prue's young Mall.
ings.
Mother and Alice believed in doing right,
"Good heavens, Molly 1" cried he, " I
and so did she.
never intended to ignore Christmas.
"I forgot the green stuff, to be euro; but She went up to Charley very humbly: "1
of course I shall make you a present, and I have been cross, and ugly, and hateful,"
said she. " I am aorry, will you—"
expect one from you • not a sealskin over-
coat ; something useful and inexpensive Before she could get any further, Charley
had her in his arms, and was kissing her.
She was glad of the chance to hide her
face, and cry a little.
Doubtless the tears did her good; but
when she put her hand into her pocket
after a necessary handkerchief, out hopped
those dreadful and inexpensive suspenders.
They fell to the floor, and lay there,
spread over the lovely . new carpet ; one
small wheel whirling deraively, the other
modestly hiding under a broad purple
The thought of home, of mother and
Alice, and of pretty Piste, the little Bider
that MS not yet married to any great, un-
feeling brute of a man.
It had always been a family custom to
make much of Christmas.
At home they were laughing and singing,
as they exchanged good wishee,. and pretty
gifts ; while she, alas 1 was out in the cold.
To se.ve her life she oould not help one
little choking sob.
Charley hearing it, stopped abruptly.
They were just m front of a eniall, but ag-
greesively brilliant house.
Every window was ablaze, every blind
thrown back, every curtain drawn. Inside,
the rooms were like green bowers, while
holly leaves and berries threw their merry
Christmas greetings, in long fantastic shad-
ows, athwart the glistening snow.
"11 is like home," sighed Molly
"Mother would never have a blind shut.
or a curtain drawn, and the house was dike
a garden always; they know how to keep
Christmas here."
As she spoke, the door opened ,and a form
that was strangely. familiar stood in the
broad flood of outstreaming light.
"They have come 1 they have come? here
Is Molly 1" ecreamed a well remembered
voice; and the next moment, little Prue,
pretty Prue, tore crown the eteps.
"Come in !come in 1" she cried; "we are
all here, mother and Alice, every one ot us
ready and waiting to wish you the merriest
Christmas thab ever was known."
They dragged her MN) the house helpless
and bewildered.
They took her hat and wrap, and carried
them away, qaite at home in this lovely
"Now, is not this a perfect surprise?" de-.
demended Prue ;" " and don't you think
that Charley is the very best husband in the
world ?"
"11 I get one half as good I shall be more
than satisfied," turning sharply toward a
well-behaved young man standing alone and
unrioticedin a corner.
"By the way, Molly dear, let me make
you acquainted with Mc. Stevens; he thinks
he is engaged to me." .
All introduction was something ehe could
understand, and it brought Molly partially In the low cradle where he lies?
to herself. Nay 1 what do we with song or gem?
"I am sure," said she graciously, "I am Since that immortal night went by
glad to meet you, and I have a great deal of The whole earth is our Bethlehem,
eympathy for you, if what Prue tells me is Hosannas ring from every sky 1
truth." In West glade on billowy main,
"How very, very rude 1" said Prue, "to Judea's height, on North-West plain,
try and frighten him. I would not have be- By any shore or mount or sea
lieved ib of you; you haven't any manners; Where faith and hope and love abide
you never had; you haven't even thanked And self is lost in sacrifice,
Charley yet." There the celestial gates swing wide
" You have not given her any time," And heaven desbends ro human eyes
said Charley, coming loyally to her moue; There Christ the Lerd is born again;
"besides, she has only seen one room." There is his new Nativity !
"This is your howle, Molly; mother and Who sorrows for a vanished dawn
the girls have furnished it after a fashion; When east and west proclaim the sun?
but you can put on the finishing touches." Welcome be 13ethlehem's silent lawn,
"I have been working out a little haven- It's stanglese sales and shadows dun,
tion the past year; I did not tell you about The Christ -thorn rustling in the hedge,
it, because I was afraid that it would never The chill wind's sigh by Kedron's edge --
amount to anythirig; but it has paid pretty The snow.wind blown from Lebanon!
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR.
ObriatMaii t At Bethlehem.
The Christ -thorn rus
The chill wind eighs
The snow wind blaW
And though o'er MP
R` s in- tne hedge,
t
i Kedron's edge—
from Lebanon;
'emountain wall,
Whose ahaelows now the Dead Sea fell,
The stars in orient splendor climb
As on that rarest night of time
When Jesus for the world was won,
Yet never Bethlehem's 1 eight or vale,
Though shepherds watch till Stars grow pale,
Will see an angel's rayant flight
Burn through the splendor of the night,
Or hear that seraph song again,
"On earth be peace, good will toward men!"
Only the Christ -thorn in the hedge
The ohill wind's sigh by Kedron's edge—
The snow -wind blown from Lebanon.
White through the gloom the convent tow-
ers
Where tearful pilgrims Count the hours
With AVCS until midnight's chime.
Shall usher in the day sublime,
Thronging the nave of Helena •
Or seek the crypt, their holiestiquest,
To read upou its stonesimprest,
His Jeaus Christ nettle est,
And kneel to kiss the pavement star 1
The silver lamps swing to and fro;
The monks in long procession go,
Slow winding round the altar stair;
But crypt and shrine are mute and bare;
The Owlet is gone, the glory fled
That shone above his manger bed,
And the pale monks but Mourn him there.
Without, beside the guarded gate—
The gate that fronts the rising M111---,
No lordly emirs reverent wide
With Om to ball the new-born King;
No shepherds from their pastures run
To see the babe the angels sing,
But all is hushed and desolate;
Only the Christ -thorn in the hedge,
The chill wind's sigh by Kedron's edge;
The snow -wind blown from Lebanon.
And are we then forgot, here%
Because no host the sky hal; cleft?
No glory shone above the plain
Where burst the high, seraphic strain?
No wise men journeyed o'er the weld
With myrrh and frankinaense and gold
To greet the babe of Paradise
not even a tree in our parlor, or wreath in
our window, or so much as a sprig of holly
over our door, tells of the happy Christroas-
thne."
"The day ought to mean more than eating
and drinking ; I do not care to celebrate it
only on my table, when its benediction does
not rest upon our home, or in our hearts."
Mr. Winship listened blankly.
It was an old trick of Molly's to preach a
much for the good things of the table,
sighed in spite of himeef, realizing all the stripe.
"I am not a jealous man," said Mr.
harrowing possibilities of a picked up
dinner. Winship, looking at them with grave
The day was a most tormenting one to surprise.
'There! that is too bad 1" as Molly flung
MoClalyris full of 'the Most enticing provisions them inside the glowing grate : "1 always
did want a pair of little wheeled gallous-
rattled by the house continually.
The memory of Christmas dinners long ea.
since eaten haunted her, while a weak,
wifely lot:ging to surpriseher husband with
an appropriate and appetizing meal, strove
for the mastery over her determination to
punish him as he deserved.
Just at dusk she went out and purchased
a useful and inexpensive present.
She found the very thing in a gentlemen's
furniehing store.
A lively -looking and atrociously ugly pair
of green and purple suspenders.
They were very unique of their kind,
highly ornamented with glittering tin
buckles, and terminating in small wooden
wheels. .
"A man must feel like a derrick with
the dreadful things on him," said Molly to
herself, with wicked satisfaction.
" The horrid little wheels will twist
around and punch him every time he moves.
I only hope they will make him black and
blue."
dreaming of such unwifely desiree,
Charley Winship came home to dinner.
It consisted of a sumptuous display of
tablecloth, toast and tea at vague and unsub-
stantial reminder of Molly's usual cosy din-
neWrs.hen the dishes were cleared away be
proposed a walk.
"I have got to go uptown ,on husi,
ness," he said r" I wish you would go with
"Tho shop windows and the crowded
streets are worth seeing."
"Certainly, il you wish it," she an-
swered.
I have not been accustomed to !Tend
Christmas Eve on the street ; but I sup-
pose it Is an inexpensive way to celeb-
rallW"
Well, yea," he assented, shamelessly,
"it does not wet a cent if you walk, and
I am sure it is a heirmless and lively way
of amusing 0110'0 Self."
It was lively enough out of doors, if that
brown eyes were resolutely turned away, was
straelrliwhere people were crowding and
and she looked eta thoroughly unkiseable, j ostling each other,
that, after fidgeting about for a moment or Shop tviadessoa were blazing, shop doors
two, he 1 astily opened the door, and went oVerflowing. •
Cariettnas cheer in every place; Christ-
mas greeting on every tongue.
By and by, they left the businees part of
the town; the streets grew darker, and they
met fewer people; but suill in the windows
hung Christmas garlarida, and shrill sweet
out without one baeltvvard glance.
A fallieg out with Molly Was a sufficient
ly uncommon occurrence to rend er him un
comfortable for the day; and he went hothe
at night Willing to purchase peace at almost
y, price.
His wife met him With it gentle dignity laughter,' and faint merry :nude, told of
teat hinted of sealakin,but much to his die, happy hemp gatherings, of jollity and mirth.
light she did not Mention it. Poor Molly's heart sank like lead.
Mother and Alice could not help smil-
ing; but as for Prue. after winking shame-
fully at the young man, she hid her face in
het latest gift, a splendid. feather fan, and
giggled unrestrainedly.
"Leugh away. 1- said Molly, "I deserve
All the same, she thought with a thrill of
oomforb of that blue dressing gown with its
facings of quilted satin, and its beautifu
great tassels.
Bread a Luxury.
Lady—Bread? No I can't give you any
bread, 'because the price of flour is too high
—but you are weloome to a leg of a nice
spring chicken and a cup of chocolate.
Tramp—Thanks Madam, I have had too
much chicken lately, and I am dying for a
piece of bread.
- Wanted an Injunction.
"Did 1. understand you to say you wanted
a warrant, Remus ?"
" Dat's what I wants, jedge,"
" Againet Dr. Weldon, did you say? Why,
he is one of the most reputable men in cur
town."
"Kyant help dat jedge • he's bolished
my fam'ly. Dey wuz all siok withimmerta,
tion er de lungs'an' nary one on 'em died
wid it 'long az he lef' 'em erlone, but, de
minit he come in, jedge, an' 'gan to bed 'em
down wid ntruzyums and de like o' dat dey
done keel ober an' shovel off deir mo'tal kile.
jedge, ef yer won't gimme a wrient, gimme
a 'junction, perhibiti'n dat doctor Vein bom-
bardire me wid any medethines an' de like
er dat."— (Yonkers Gazette.
Quite Too Tidy. •
Visitor (to widow de Hobson)—Your new
girl seems to be a very neat and tidy person,
Mrs. de Hobson.
Mr. de Hobson—Ah, yea, I am afraid
she is rather too much to. Phis morning
she dusted everything out of the little urn
that stood on the mantel, and it contained
all that remained of poor John.
Mme, Le Bay, the intrepid French traveler,
contemplathe another voyage of disobvery.
Persia is her objective point,
Diminutive husbands will be voted of
"Inc preeence,°' if their presents are fine
enough Christmas morning.
Living Victoriously.
Life is conflict. Every good thing lies
beyond a battle -field, and we must fight
our way to it ; and there must be struggle
to get ib. This is true in physioal life; from
infaay to old age, existence is a fight with
infirmity and disease. 'In mental life the
same is true. Education is a long conflict.
The powers of the mind have to fight their
way to strength and development. So it is
in spiritual life. Enemies throng the path
and °outset every step of progress. No one
ever attains to beauty and nobleness of
character save through long and sore
struggle. e
Many of earth's great historic batele-fields
are now sp.ots of quiet peace. Once men
met there In deadly strife, arms clashed,
cannon thundered, the air was filled with
the shouts cf conflicting annies and the
groans of the wounded and dying, and the
ground was covered with the deact. 13ut
now, in summer days, the grass waves on
the once bloody field, sweet flowers bloom,
harvests yellow to ripeness, children play,
and the air is still full of bird -songs and the
voices of peace. But he who walks over the
spot is continually reminded of the terrible
struggle which occurred there in the bygone
days.
We look upon men and women who have
attained high culture of mind and spirits.
They are Intelligent and educated. They
are well.balanced in their faculties and sym-
metrical in their development. Their char-
acter is strong and nob'e, showing all the
features which belong to true manhood or
true womanhood. They are dignified in
their deportment, calm and equable m their
bearing. They are not hasty in speech nor
impetuous in temper. Their judgments are
never rash. They possess the qualities of
patience, contentment, and gent/enema com-
bined with courage, righteousness, and
strength. When we look upon such people,
we cannot but admire them, and be fascinat-
ed by the culture, the majesty, and the
serenity of their lives. We are apt to think
of them as highlyfavored in their original
endowmenti
and n the circumstances and
experiences of their lives.
Bat if we knew the story of these lives,
we should see that where now we behold
such ripe and beautiful character was once
a battlefield. These men and women began
just as all of us must begin, with their fac-
ulties undeveloped, the powers undisoiplined,
and , their lived wholly unoultzired. They
had their 'hard battles with evil in them
eelves and evil about them. They grew into
intelligence: through long and severe mental
training, and through yeers of diligent
study. They attained their splendid self-
control through painful experiences of con-
flict with this tongues,, their tempers, their
original impetuosity, their innate propensi-
ties to evil, Their beauty. of Christian char-
acter they reached through the submission of
their own wills to the will of Christ, and of
their selfishness, natural resentment, and
other evil affections and passions, to the
sway of the spirit of the divine love. They
were not always what now they are. This
noble beauty which we so admire is the
fruit of long years of sore struggle, the her.
vest which has been 'brought to ripeness
by the froets of autumn, the 'snows and
storms of winter, and the rains and sunshine
of spring. Back of the calmness, the refine-
ment, the strength, end the charming
oulttire which we wee, is a story of conflict,
with many a defeat and with many a wound,
and a stern self.discipline, with pain, toil,
and tears.
So we learn the story of all noble, cultured
character. le is reached only through
struggle. It is not natural, but is the frnit
of toil and conquest. It bears tbe mark!)
and Imre of many a conflict. We often hear
people so.y they would give large sums to
have such a person's contentment, or Self-
control, cr sweetness of disposition, or
submissiveness to God's will or ,power of
sympathy, Theee are things that caneot be
hotight and that cannot be learned in any
school, Such .qualities can be fgatton only
through victoricue struggle during years of
experience.
3, B. Maztn, D. D.
The First Spehoni
Of all Lung diseases are much the same t
feverishness, loss of appetite, sore
throat, IMIns in the chest and bade,
headache, etc. In a few days you may
be well, or, on the other hand, you raw
be down with Pneumonia or "galloping
Consumption." Bun no risks, but begin
immediately to take Ayer's Chert
Pectoral.
Several years ago, James Birohard, of
Darien, Conn., was severely ill. The
doctors , said he was in Consumption,
and that, they could do 'nothing for him,
but advised him, as a last resort, to key
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. After taking
tide medicine, two or threeamonths, he
was pronounced a well naan.,‘ His health
remains good to the present day.
J, S. Bradley, Malden, Mass., writes:
"Three winters ago I took a severe cold,
which rapidly developed into Bronchitis
and Consumption. I was so weak that
I could not sit up; was much ensaciated,
and conghed incessantly. I consulted
several doctors, but they were power-
less, and all agreed that I was in 00110
sutnption. At last, a friend brought me
a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
From the first dose, I found relief.
Two bottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect."
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GOLDEN GRAINS.
Knowledge of our duties is the most use-
ful part oi philosophy.—(Whately.
We are Eure to get the better of fortune
if we do but grapple with her.---ESeneca.
In expectation of a better, I can with pas
tience embrace this life.— [Sir Thome
Browne.
A orowd is not ooznpany, and faces are
but a gallery of pictures where there is no
love.— [Lord Bacon.
Webster truly concluded that it is what a
man does for others, not what -ikby do for
him, that gives him immortality,: -
Be that would live deer of envy must lay
his finger on Ms mouth, and keep his hand
eat of the ink pot.— [L'Estrange.
You may depend epon it that he is a good
man, whose intimate friends are all good,
and whose enemies are decidedly bad.—
[Lavater.
If tam asked who is the greatesf man, I
anawer, the best, and if I am to sakewho is
best, I reply, he that has deserved most of
his fellow. creatures.—[Sir William Jones. ./
Daniel Webster once said: "The long
1 live the more convinced I am that it
employmentthat makes people...app
Employment' alone may not..ffin person
chuck hill of happiness, hAemie thing sure
--constant empier - :ellh keep hens out
of miechief.
A delicate and refined taste is of inestim-
able value to its posseasor. A man with his
mouth saturated with tobacco juice, or
throat parched with spirituous liquors does
not know anything of the delicacies oetaste.
He loses very much of the enjoyment of eat-
ing and drinking.
Josh Billings said, in his quaint way,
many people spend their time trying to find
the hole where sin gob into the world. If
two men break through the ioe in a mill.
pond, they had better hunt for some good
hole tew get out, rather than get into a long
argument about the hole they cum to fall
in.
There is an old story of a Scotch dominie,
who after relating to his scholars the story
of Annanias and Sapphire, asked them :
" ‘Vhy God did not strike everybody dead
who told a Iie." After a long silence, one
little fellow got to Ms feet and exclaimed :
"Because, sir, there wadna, be onybody
left"
The ariff Controversy.
It is the ol 3 battle of the cunning against
the simple, c) the strong against the weak.
The groundwork of all argument for protec-
tive tariffs he assumption that some por-
tion of the community ought to get larger
profits than they could obtain under natu-
ral conditions. This means necessarily that
others should obtain less. As the whole of
the national production is just equal th all
its parts, it follows that it ono masa gains
more than its share, the excess comes out of
the pockets of others. In other words, this
oontest is nothing else than a battle for the
righb of every man to enjoy the fruit of his.
own labour—a battle that has engaged man:
kind in one way and another horn the birth
of the raoe to the present time. Civilization
consists in the slow conquering of this right
by the many from the few. A tariff price -
lege is a class privilege' opposed to every
pranoiple of justice buteepecially opposed
to the Amerman idea of equal rights. It is
destined to be shattered at no distant day,
and when it falls the people will wonder
how it could 'ever have found lodgment in
this country, just as they wonder how slav-
ery could ever have been tolerated in a land
dedicated to freedom.
essease-e,
Practical Religion.
A praotical way to live out our eligion
is to cultivate a concern for the s iritual
welfare of thosh whom we meet fr rri day
to day. There is something above and more
powerful than love for our fellow -men in
general, It is, indeed, a specific and per -
Bonet love, but it differs from the love with
which we cherish kindred and well -tried
friends, and it depends not on the merits of
the object, or on favors bestowed or yet to
be beetowed on us by him. It is exoited in
our breasts, perhaps, by the olajeot's appar- N.4
ent demerit and his sinful state ; just be
cattle: he is in sin and needs regeneration
our hearts go out to him with a tender ae-
aire for his salvation, We are not impelled,
neceseatily, to tell him this; and if we did
sti tell him it might terve no purpose save
to make him angry at what he would con -
our meddiesoinenees, Bub we at least
want to tell God about it and may do that
Without danger of being acoused df imper-
tinence or cant. A brief prayer, an un-
spoken Mental invocation, will show tire
Charitableness of our di:ilia:mitten Mid met,' ,
bring a blueing from on high to the soul cif
the man, whom it Would not be prudent in
us to addreas direetly. Thete are opportuni-
fief! end ocoesione to offer Fatah prayera
every day We liveo
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