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s&s .Lit'&Qtt I ';-y "& i ! JE, t c" PERSONAL A5D LITERARY. Matthew Arnold reports that he cleared $6,000 by his lecturing tour in America. Emily Faithful opens her lecture on Shams" with the sta cment that it is equally applicable on both sides of the Atlantic. An Augusta (Ga.) editor says that five men in the Southern States now read the newspapers where one man read them ten years ago. Ewing Isbell, of Warren county, Ky, was born on Washington's birth day, his wifo was bo rn on tho Fourth of "July, their only child was born on "Christmas. Dickens' Sketches of Young Gen tlemen," published in 18'J8, and his 'Sketches of Young Couples," printed in 1840, have been reproduced in fac simile, and will be brought out in Lon don. Miss Elizabeth Peabody, of Boston, now nearing her eightieth year, was the first to introduce the kindergarten sys tem in this country, and for more than a half century has been prominent in wors of philanthropy and sympathetic with American progress in art and lit erature. Boston I'osl. General Graham, whose recent victories in the Soudan have made him famous was a resident in Montreal about eighteen years ago, and was then JOistrict-Cominnuding Engineer under Colonel Ford. The General at that time was one of the youngest Lieutenant-Colonels in the 'British service. N. Y. Times. There are only two American books which have a market value ap proximating Sl.OOO; they are the "Bay x-aalni Book," which has been sold as high as $1,200, and Eliot's Indian Bible "Up-Biblum God," in the aboriginal tongue, a copy of which was recently bought at the sale of the library of the late Judge Henry C. Murphy, in New York, for the sum of $1)50. Chi caqo Inter Ocean. Benjamin Gratz, who died in Phila delphia the other day, was the oldest graduate gf the University of Pennsyl vania, and the oldest member of the Philadelphia bar. His sister Bcbecca was a special friend of Washington Irving, who regarded her as one of the mostlovely women and perfect types of the ideal Jewess possible to find. On one of his visits to Sir Walter Scott he interested the great novelist in her char acter to such an extent that he took her for his model of Rebecca in "Ivanhoe." Philadelphia I'rcss. II. B. Claflin, the famous New York dry-goods merchant is a very small man, with iluiVy hair and a small, smooth, doll-like face. Every afternoon cit half-past three o'clock, wet or dry, lie jumps into a light wagon behind a fleet horse and goes spinning down to wards Coney Isl.iud from his winter residence in Brooklyn. There is nothing showy or stylish about his turnout, and few who see the little man mutlled in a fur-lined coat with a cloth cap drawn over his Towing hair would take him for an important millionaire. A', i". Bun. -: HUMOROUS. "Second-story thieves have again appeared in Brooklyn." A sccuiid .fory thief, like a second-story house, is seldom without abasement. Brooklyn JZayle. "What nonsense," exclaimed Ber tha. "The id-a of telling Mrs. Brown liiat you were only twenty-three!" "But didn't I do riglit, dear?" replied Edith. "You know mamma has always taught, us to exaggcra e. It is belter "to tinder rather tliau overstate, you know." Hoston 'Transcript. "I'd like to stay here." remarked the ollice-boy, as he approached the ed itor's desk, "but do .,ob s too heavv for me." "How too heavy?" "Well, I tako do copv into do reposing-rooni tind dem dopi,;iitors hit me on tic sido of mc head. Derc's too much brain work for mc. S'long. Hebrew Stand- The oblighig visitor, to show that lie is really lord of children, and that the dear little u.ie is not annoying him in the least, treats the kid to a r-dcupon his knee. "Trot! trot! trot How do you like that, my boy? Is that nice?" "Yes, Mr," replies the child, "but not fco nice as on trie- real donkey tb.2 ono with four legs!" A'. Y. Ledger. Some soldiers were digging a well in a fort, and when they came to the water, the tommanding officer went to inspect progress. "Well, Cowan," said bo to the Irishman at the bottom of the well, "you have found the water at last." "Ah, Kernel," replied the oth-t-r, "it all depinds upon knowing how the thing ought to be done. Any other man but meself would have gone forty Cut deeper without coming to it." The New York Critic invites per sons to send in the narcs of forty liv ing American men-of-lcttcrs whom they consider most worthy of membership in an American acadenvy of "Forty Im mortals." Well, there's Eli Perkins, and the Sweet Singer of Michigan, Buffalo Dill, and Private Dalzell. and Peck's Bad Boy, and and we're "stuck." We don t believe there are forty of 'em unless "Veritas," "Pro Bono Publico," "Constant Reader." "Many Citizens," and such men-of-lcttcrs arc counted. yNorristo'tn Herald. A New Degree: Little Nell What does those letters B. A. af teryour namo mean?" Young Pilkins "They meaa Bachelor of Arts. 1 got them at col lege." Little Nell "That's what I thought. Wasn't it mean of them not to give you the other letters? Pa said he wondered yon didn't get them." Yc 1'ilkins (delighted) "You mean 'oung thu degree of M. A." Little Nell No. those were not the letters pa said." Young Pilkins "Not? Why, what was it he said?" Little Nell" He said fie wondered you didn't get the G. B." I'hildclpltia Call. There were nine men in the cat and six women. The vehicle was roll ing ajong with the windows all rattiin bo loud that those who were talking had to shout. Suddenly the driver checked up so quickly that all in the vehicle heard the voice of a tall, angular wom an away tip in the corner exclaiming: "Now," I propose " Immediately six unmarried men shot for the door, while the three married onos simultane ously remarked: "It is useless to vro Jiose" to us, madam: we're married' "ktiaddphi. Ouvniclc Plowing and Re-Scedim: Pastures. That our pastures generally are im poverished and need renovating is ad mitted by all. As to what is the best method of attaining the desired im provement is not so evident. Plowing and re-seeding is the method often recommended nud is frequently prac ticed. The rcsiut, however, is not al ways satis'actory. It is found that the sod of re-seeded pastures does not bear the tramping of cattie nor hold out to produce a good growth of grass so well as an old sod kept in good condition. If a pasture is covered with a good sod. it would not he wiso to plow it A good pasture sod usually contains a great variety of nutritious gras es. Usually the more kinds of grasses there are the more plants there will be to the sqnare foot and the more feed will be produced. Some interesting investigations have been made in this direction. A square foot of sod, taken from a rich natural pasture which was capable of fatten ng one large ox and three sheep to the acre, was found to contain 1,0U) plants, consisting of 040 natural grasses and 60 clover and other plants.'embracing 20 dist net species. An old pasture of a dam), moist and mosy surface, con tained in a square foot of sod Co4 plants of 8 distinct species. A good pasture laid down two years to rye-grass and white clover contained, to the square loot, -170 plants consist.ng of two spe cies. It will bo seen that where only two kinds of seed were used in seeding there were only 470 plants to the square foot, while the rich old pasture land on which were found 20 distinct species contained 1,030 plants. The fact that the more kinds of grass there are grow ing in the soil the more plants there wiil be to the square foot, and conse quently the more and better feed, en force the importance of us ng a large variety of seed in seeding land for pasture. In seeding for a pasture it is import ant to have such a mixture of grasses as will afford a suece sion ot good grasses maturing at different periods, i Some grasses start early in the spring, and are of little value later on. Others are at their beat late in the season. By combining the different kinds good pasturage can be secured throughout the season. For this purpose Mr. Charles L. Flint, in his "Grasses and Forage Plants," recommends the fol lowing combination for seeding perma- nent pasture: v,wFvt,.ii fwri,,o.tn,nrt T,.n u Orotianl (Jr.t?, i,uuu a w a, xs,,.aaaan ""J . ax.aava'-' tilba Sweet-secnicd Vcrnol, Meadow Fescue, Kedtop. Kentucky Blue Gras?, Italian Kyo dnis-, Peronnial Hye Grass. Timothy. Kouxb-stalkt-d Mcad'w Perennial C'!o;pr, Whito Clover. April an 1 May, 1 lb May and June, - lbs June ami July, - lbs Mny and June. 4 lbs June, 4 11)1 lu-ie. 6 lbs June and July. :t lbs June ami July, 2 Ib3 June anil July. 3 lbs Mm to Sept. 3 lbs This mixture, making a total of forty pounds to the acre, would atlord about 1,100 seeds to the square foot, or enough to seed the soil as well as the rich old pasture land referred to above. A pasture, after it has been plowed and re-seeded, must be treated more carefully than an old pasture. The cattle should not be turned upon it iu the spring until the ground has become well dried off. so th;t the seed will not be injured by tramping, nor until the lia-- "Oi a "ot a iroou start. It must not b fed closelv Juriug the dryT wonH. rnfiiniinr l.t.t tho orfi rnniS be killed by the hot rays of the sun. and it must not be fed late in the autumn, lest the roits be left too much exposed to the fronts of winter. A soon as the grass begins to fail, top-dressing should be applied to keep up its productiveness. It is found, also, that whin newly cleared land is seeded to glass without plowing, the . -w...... -. -. -...... .v .ww . w.- grass-roots aeem to cling tenaciously to the scurf, and live for many years. Top-dressing newly-seeded pastures will assist in forming a natural scurf, aud promote the lorTnation of a desir able .-od. Plowing pastures should not be prac ticed unless it is imperatively called for. If the grass had died out, or the so.l is infected with brakes and weeds to such an etent that plowing is necessary to exterminate them, then it is advisable. But it should be regarded as a necessary evil, or the host of two evils. Land which has never been plowed, provided it is well (overed with a good sod, makes the best and richest pasturage. Many pastures which afford only a limited quanity of feed, by better treat ment might be greatly improved. By 1 ceding them hss during the dry. hot wcatiier. the roots would be protected so that in a few years the growth would be greatly increased. By to-Mlrossing with barnyard manure. Lone fertilizers, ashes or other substances, many of the pasture lands migiit be improved so as to produce two or three times as much feed as at present. A pasture restored by top-dressing and by avoiding grac ing too closely will be in much better condition than if it had been plowed and re-seedeiL Old pastures in good condition produce a better quality of mi'k than those that have " been re seeded, and animals will fatten on them better. Some American farmers seem to entertain the idea that grass lands, in order to pro duce grass to the best advantage, re quire to be plowed and re-seedeii e cry few 3ears. This is a great mistake. There are excellent pasture lands in Scotla-d and Wales which are known to have been pastured without plowing for mare than a thousand years. The best pastures in England are those which have not been plowed for cen turies, and their owners will not allow their tenants to plow them. Dr. Jiey nolds, in A. Y. Examiner. The cyclone pits which the WVst orn farmers are building arc de-cribed is b.!ing in size propoport onate to the number of persons in the lamily. A nit ten feet square, and sunk to the depth of twenty feet, is the average size. About four feet below the surface heavy limbers arc plared over the hole, earth is throwu on and made even with the .surface around, and at tlu south west corner an opening three feet square is lelt- In these places of refuge the farmers expect to nd safety in any gale that doesif't blow the walb out of the ground. Boston Post. Tnc garden should be thoroughly prepared before putting iu seed, i iue ness of condition is more essential than any other obje t. Garden seed- will not germinate uniformly unless the sol' . in proper form for their reception. Lepers and Leprosy. From time to time through several rears, the Chronicle has warned tho health authorities of this city that there is a constant increase of leprosy here, and we now more earnestly than ever repeat the warn ng. Every physi cian of considerable experience in the city win coniirm mc statement, x no pesthouse a few years ago contained nut two or tnree cases, it now nas ten. These are not dangerous to the healthv, but they are. in all -- prohabil- itv, onlv a small part of the whole number of the infected among us. There are two sources of supply Chinatown and the Hawaiian islands. It is impossible to penetrate the hideous secrets of the Chinese quarter, most of which are underground and as difficult to get at as the end of a rat hole. Even tli" police, from a motive of self-preservation, avoid these dens of rotten infection and living death. But once in a while there escapes into the streets a leper from his close con- uneiuenv in spue oi tnu vigilance oi the agents of the Six Companies, to be seized by the police and hustled off to the leper quarter. There does not ap pear to be any legal provision for get ting rid of thesi conlincd lepers, and the ciy is taxed for the.r care and sub sistence. In tho absence of any treaty stipulation on the sub,eet. Congress should pass a law to have them re turned to China at the cxp nse of tnc Federal Government, sinco it is no fault of the State or the city that they are here, but the fault of an oversight on the part of the United States in making and confirming treat'es. The least danger, however, to the healthy people of San Francisco on ac count of leprosy is th it from the Chi nese, which race keeps itself secluded from such closo contact with the whites as is suppo-cd to be most favorable to the transmission of the disease. Many families use Chinese servants in their houses, but they sleep at the Chinese quarters and eat by themselves. They do not frequent the hotels, or churches, or theaters. The greatest peril is from Hawaii, where the climate and habits ot the people are most favorable to tho propagation of the plague. In January, 18jil. the Honolulu (tuzette made the startling statement that "on a moderate e-timate" there were then "1.J00 to '2,000 ' lepers in the islands. Twenty- -ve 'car' before then, a-eording to the same paper, "mere were not one nun- dred lepers in the country." This state- - ment of iu Tease is not exanrjrera'ed. but by other testimony from Hawaii, rahe"r under the mark. And though there is a leper colony at Molokai, where many in the last stages are eon- liccd for life, there arc hundreds of others in the first and second stages left running at large in Honolulu and all other towns, where contact with whites is daily, hourly, close and unavoidable. It is indisputable that the disease is eoutag'ous as much so, under certain conditions, as the small-pox. The fact ' that the infested are in all countries segregalcd from the health is an ad mission of its infections. Every year our commerc al relations with Hawaii are growing elo'ser and closer They ate now almost as intimate as those be tween here anil Oregon. Every steamer from Honolulu b:ings its liv ng 'wight of pass ngers, and it is hardly . extravagant to say that every one .. ! 1 1 t t brings or is liable to bring the fresh seeds of lepro-y; not natives; but whites; not in the last or most abhor rent stages, but in the lirst, when the disease is only detectable by an exper ienced physician. These find their ways into soe'ety here: iuto the churches, the theaters, the hotels, where the seats, the beds, the atmos- rdinrj ti rrwiniQ finil t!w rorr firt nil drink used bv the healthv are infected. r haw lias it ror I i.e. and need not A short time ago a case "of well-devel- btI fl"i,ul of an-v interference or rivalry, oped leprosv was discovered in a photo- ' for l.s :U1 nwntten law among the graph gallery on Third street The ' crossing sweepers that one shall novel v ctira was a clerk, who had taken the encroach upon another s held oi enter plague at Honolulu, but did not sutler . I-"-'- 1,I,ui bu from ?nd sell to earl. jiaiS from it till after he arrived hero. oth'r' --."J1 l ,e vorporatioii nas nothing Another caso was recorded in to do with the matter, this paper of a voting woman -riwowneroi a crowing cannot lie from Honolulu, who took the disease Kcath it to hs heir. His right to it a year after her arrival he-e. Some- dies with him, :md the first peison who times the leper in the islands is given touches h.s broom at er his death has choice of Molokai or emigration. Thcy the riShi. to t:lke h,s I,,:r,c an, l,rot,ts always emigrate, and ahvavs to this 1 As crosinff sweepers, like other men, city. A vearago the Chronicle noted "sa"y "C in their own beds, the fbrTt . .enrol ,,. nrn nmi- ma.ilinir brOOIllS are apt to be llFSt touched by I..,-., .vw...,. !,. ,...... ii;..., " A,.Vi And ..v.. v.. ..... w.i,.u , wu.v ,,..7. in the sanicmper it wasmentioned that .. ,:,Mi.uni - f i.nn t,. Massachusetts, wucre the nature of his diease was soon suspected." and llu was iso'ated from socie v. Cases like these are becoming more and more fre quent. It is bel eved that there are now more white persons in'ected with lep rosy at large in his c.ty than Chinese and all others in the pest-house. They move about in soe'ely; they cat and sleep at the hotels; ride in the street cars, and, of course, are planting the germs of the infection broadcast among the healthy. It is the reverse of pleasant to pub lish these things; but it is better to do that now, when it is still possible to stamp out the evil before it gives us tho reputation of a leprous city, than to be silent about it. The increase irom 100 to "-000 on the islands in the cours of twenty-live years ad nonishes us of what we are to expect if the health au thorities do not take the matter more vigorously in hand now, in the inspec tion of Honolulu vessels and passen gers arriving here. Sun Francisco Chronicle. Confidence Games. Hardly a day passes but from one to half a dozen cases of swindling by means of "confidence games chronicled bv the da ly press. are The victims come irom all classes of society; scarcely any one jut is. liable to be marked as a victim by the k'een sharp ers who infest nearly every city, town and hamlet in t he count ry. The r meth ods are so numerous and plausible that the most knowing are puzzled to keep trae c of them. Aud yet, some are so old and threadbare that it seems strange that any one of ordinary intelligence s ould be taken in by them. Even Os car Wilde, who. it must be admitted, hoodwinked the American people with his fool's cap aud beils, was. in turn swindled b that king of Amercan sharners. "Hun-rrv Joe." The artifices of "bunco' nrovctl too much for tho i knight of tfie sun ower. And many j H.nswinillptl from the blindness of their i own conceit. The man who is contin- I uallv having "you om't.fool me, I've traveled," invites the skill of the listen ing knave, who smiles at the vainglori ous boast, and marks him for a victim. The methods ot" traveling swindlers have been so often ventilated that it seems as if tho hist man mut have heard of them and be prepared to cir cumvent them in case of necessity. But this in realitv is not so. The time-worn too-us check, or bond -a Suo7.e victims to-dav than gamp, is finding when it was jjrst con.-cived. It is played under the VPrv VM nt ,nmi ...i. .,,, ., ,.,.. sense enough to detect the cheat: o i the street, in the hotels and on the rail roads it finds uncounted "suckers." It must oe that these men don't read tnc papers. Tne old farmer, or the young man from the interior, who is going West to buy land is an object of solicH tade to the nicely dressed young man who makes his "acquaintance. He is going to the same place, was there ever such luik? The verdant country man is glad to find a companion in h.s unaccustomed iourncv: he unbosoms i i,;s heart, tells his secrets, shows his "roll," never suspecting that such a fine fellow can be a swindler. When the second sharper comes around withal.t tle bill, the countrymen is only too giad to accommodate his friend with a loan. But he is go.ng to make sure that he is not bring swindled; so ho takes the check or bond for a hundred or a thousand dolla.-s as the case may be, just as a matter oi business: not that he suspects his elegant 'riend who is so sorry to be obligetHo trouble him. Be sides, it feels nice to carry thousand dollars iu your pocket. Then the stranger disappears, the check proves bogus, and the swindled one consoles himself as best he nay. This perhaps is the swindle most commonly perpe trated in th s section of the country. It behooves every one who travels to be ware of strangers: some judgment mu-t of course be used, but it is better to err on the side of rudeness than to lay on" self open to the wiles of a conlidence man. Of the numerous swindles whi h are in vogue, observation and experi ence may tca'.'h of their methods, but it does seem as if the bogus check swin dle would never want lor victims. It might be said that such an exper en-e is good enough for those who do uot take the trouble to read that blessing to mankind, the newspaper, and there arc certainly jut grounds for that view. Man is never too old to learn. Bur- limjton JJawfccyc. Crossing Sweepers. An Englishman, carefully picking his steps o er a very muddy crossing on Cortlandt street, was surpr.sed to see a boy hastily tap the stones before him with a short broom and then petition for a reward for his labor. A lew step further on he was amazed to find the performance repeated bv a second bo v. ond ust as he was about to step upon the opposite s dewalk he was astonistied to w.tness the same j;tfc)rn)ance again. "Now, this," said t7 Englishman tc a friend, "is not the riiht sort of thing at all, you know. Not only are thret boys trying to make a living ou. of onj short crossing, but they hardly make evena pretense of doing their work. Now, they manage .things better thar th s in Lon ion. There, a good crossing yields a handsome income to it; sweeper. He works steadily on all day, kc-ps his c ossing very clean, and never asks anybody forapenny. 01 cour.-o. for one who gives him anything, two hundred cross the street wlthoui putting their hands into their pockets, but he has his regular everyday patrons, who give him a halfpenny, and at night he has made more than the axcrage clergyman cams in the same time. "A gooil crossing could hardlv be bought for one hundred pounds, hut. a their sons, or other near relatives: but I il h:ls morc tl,,:n oncc J'-ll"'n'd that a si ran jot, ii civiiur up mu uruum laiiun from tec hand of a sweeper who was , killed or droiipcil dead at his grossing. was surprised to find himself in posses sion of a handsome propeity. A". Y Sun. Sea Voyaging, We arc so accustomed to recommend a sea vwyage to a patient whom we are not ableotherwisa to benelit, that it has become a therapeutic routine, aud we rarely hesitate to consider the appro pr ateness of our recommendation. In the Lanret, Dr. Karquhar publishes a paper on "Sea Change, the Effects of Voyaging," with eases. He remarks on the i aucity of information on this sub ect, J)r. Faber being the only oo servcr who had gone to work system atically. Dr. Far pillar's observations on a voyage last w'nter up the Meditcr ranean'led him to the lelief that many unsuitable cases arc sent a-voyi'jing by medical men, and in the event of such a rigoious winter as that of last year, even in Italy and Greece, the dis appointment to invalids in search ot health must be great. He then gives details of the various cases that came under his care and observation. The most pronounced benefit was obtained by most of the phthisical cas"s. but some fe't the steamer before the tonic and stimulating action of the sea air had made itself felt; unnerved by the hardships fcndured n a storm ex perienced on lea, ing the Mersey. Voy agers sutl'cring from the effects of over work and mental strain did well: but "specific' cases showed the most mar velous results, complete recovery being the rule. Dyspeptics did not do well, nor subjects of skin di-case of a nervous or gin. To sum up, his experience in this voyage led him to believe that no diseased condi: ion where the nenotti. irritable element, was present had much ehanec of benefit: the sea-air stimulus was in the end tro powerful through its con-tancv. Such cases should laud after the first benefic al 3timulat.ou, which gcnenilly occu red within thu first three or four weeks of the voyage. Medical (uulJSuryical Reporter ov HORRIBLE RUM. A PAItOUV OX "nEAUTlTUI. SNOW." Oh! the rum. the horrible rum. Filling- tuitions and every slum. In citv and town and huuiMer place. With tutleriutr aud woe ami deep d:s?race; GuiKhn. Kippllnjr. Flmvinjr alonsr. Inciting tho ruaodlapcliunali.ui .on;r, A it wends thro" Its dci ions, wind-ntr course, Killlnjr Its victims with pain and remorse. Whose virulent poisons must sun-'y flow Fiom the demon-ot darkness dwelling below. Oh! the rum! the terrible rum. What u b.ibel ot woe its horn, s become! Now stirring t.s thonhtle-sdriiiKer-iup Uo notice the snakes that lie iu the cup. Hissing-, Twisting. Writhln-r about. And wriKlln? around, as it to j-ct out, WlUi wild, ch rin-r eyes, aud terrible fan;?. Ad withering in j.-reat internal Kans-s, And snapping witii venom r.f-'ht and left. From every ere i.e. rock and clett. Once rum's dupe- were pure, but they felt Fell like l.ueifyr. from Ilcav'n to htid Fell to be likened to 111 h in the street Fell t i be scoll'tl at, spit oa and teat: Quaking. Shu Id'rlnir. Dieadinjr to die: Hut thirstinjr still for a littie more rjc: TrudKiitf? about like weary tramps. Knowing the people look "on them as scamps: Itut liudmir no lest tor their shriv'led cuL', shriv led by cmptvuiK t lomany bowls. Once they rival d the beautiful snow. With eves like its crystal, aud hearts like ita jrhnv One- they were loved, before the rude traeo Uf rum was behold m their red, swollen face. Fathers, Mot Jcrs, Sister, all. God and themselves have they lost by tho:r tall: Theeue-t wretch th it jroes shiveriiiK by Will take a wide sweep lest they come too ni'h Lest the rum-tainted breath shoald on them blow Ot those who were once like the vestal snow. Stranire that a character o like miow Should become taini-hcd and lose all its plow; lint not so strati.o that a s ne of such -t.uu bhould ail 1 desperation to heart and to brain. Undine In sending To early j-rnv The wretched, blotched, rum burned slaves. Who faded to nuVe a heart-telt praver. That t'od would tree them trom rum's snare. And not let them live and die and jro Co the rcKion.s or dread despair and w oe. J. ilcGowijIe. in Tutflo Hade. TIIE BROKE."" PROMISE. My son if sinner- entice thee consent thou not. 'mr. 1:10. "Time enough for that. Hurt, come on. Just take a little wine for your stomach ssake. ion can not ucnvt.-at 1 am right now, for that s according to ...-. i:.. - ... Scripture," and Carl Cilheit took his companion's arm and drew him away from the door ot tho little church be fore which he had paused as if to i-nter "What do ou want of a "pledge?' are vou not man enough to lcae liquor alone when you wish to? t'oaie!" "No, Carl: I'm not. I'm ashamed to say it, too, but if 1 go where liquor is I :-e io "rinjv it. ami it s ruining n b.e-ule b. eakmg the heart oi my 'e; nave lo driUK it, and it s ruining mo. ir. sick mother. And I promised her faith fully that I would sign the pledge to night and riev.r enter the dub-room again."' '1 here was the earnestness of despair in the tones of the young man as he answered. "Oh well, if you've made a promise of course you'll have to keep it. but I wouldn't be sneaky ajout it if I vou." answered "the wily Carl, were wuo knew too well the weakness of his friend. ""sneak'. What do you mean. Carl P lbertr"' demanded Hurt, the color surging into his tace. Mean? Oh. nothing much. only, if I had oiued a hocictv and then wanted lo leave it, 1 would go to the members j and tell them like a man, that s all. I wouldn't run away." "hut. ( ail, I ilou't wish to go there again. I cau not trust myself, you know I cau not," he answered, ""bitterly-. "Therf, there, Kurt, never mind," Carl repl.ed, and his tones were smooth and sympathetic, although there was a malicious sparkle iu his eyes. "Come :u and tell the boys a out it. I'll stand by you. and you needn't drink if you don't wUh to. You know I introduced you there, and I wouldn't want you to go oil" in this way. ' ' Hut my ptomise, Carl," protested Burt. "Why, you needn't stay here ten minut'S. just long enough to acquit voumeli iikc an Honorable leliow. vou know, then stop at tjie Temperance niccMig on your way home. Never you fear but there will be red nbbon enough left for hait-a-doen fellows Iiko you. They had reached the club room now and were stauding where the light, shin ing througa the beautifully stained win dows, bathed them in its rosy warmth and fell about them in many soft shades of color upon the pavement How cosy it was. Carl opeued the door and drew his now uuies sting companion iu. They were not related, these tvo: natlier did they oc-upy the same social posit'on, yet they had become friends, and in th:s way: Carl Gilbert, the elder by some three yeats, was the son of a weilthy banker, and in this bank Hurt "totiugs. the only dependence of an invalid and widowed mother, held the position of book keeper. (. art was absent at college when tiurt had secun d this place and all had gone well. It had been a happy day in the little cottage in Pearl street when Hurt returned with the news of his appoint ment, and many were the comforts that had been added" to the life of the invalid mother -since then. But a shallow was coming. t arl Gilbert was a good specimen of a spoiled child, williul. cunning and dissolute, ami on his return he immedi ately tool: it upon himself to give that "piilc-aed youngster," as he took pleasure in naming Hurt, "a.asteof the world," and Hurt not a little llat tere' by the young man s attention, proved an ea-y prey. Ti,e process'had been slow. First, it was "a ride" with Carl alter his "pet trotter." Next a peep at the boys in the club-room of "Our Jolly Fellows, ' a few minutes' chat and a look a: the evening paper. "No harm in that, surely?' Again, "one of ti.o new cigar ettes," not a bit strong," "a ip of Ca tawba, perfectly sweet, my boy, wouldn't In rt a baby." All this, and m 'ch more, until poor tins snecting lhirt had so far lost himself in the treacherous net that he made no resist ance, and every night found him with his companTons. With t. iscanvi the petty fictions in giving cscit-cs for evenings spent away aw av from home, until the wan face Temperance Eeadiii and blood-shot eyes told their owa story. Then it was that his almost heart broken mother entrea'cd him as only a tender mother can, and to-night ho had promised. m A lew no rs j:uci. uiu mu came out ruiion the street, Carl walk ng erect. whde Burt leaned heavih upon his arm and steppe I in a da.ed tmeer ain wav. "Seems to me, Hurt, it takes precious li'tle to make you top-heavv," was Can's heartless remark. "I drank three times what you did. and I'm all right. You're lresh. though; s'poso t at s therea-on; didn't begin imbibing at o:ir father's sideboard when vou were knee-high to nothing b..t look a' here, sonny," he continued, as Ihirt pitched heavih- forward, "straighten up. or you'll disgrace that red nbbon vJi were going after. Now, go easy while I take you home to our mother. "Lemme lone, I'm not goin' i.onie." stammered Hurt, making an effort to free himself, "I'll never go home till-" " Until your sober, do you mean? Then come down to the water and cool oil."' interrupted Carl. They made their way to the dock and entering a small boat ptisued oil" into the lake. "Hotter be careful, young men." called the old boat man as he drew up the chain that had faslene I the skill'; "takes a clear head to weather a sea like this." "Nevermind us.L'ncle! we need a little rough work belore we go home to night."' There is little more to tell. Mr story is a short one and full of sadness. Out from the shore the waves wen rough, and even the boasted strength of Carl gave away. The moon shone serenely above them, but clouds were scudding across the sky, and the wind was rising. In the morning the old boat-man found them lying on the whito sands of the iieaih. whither the wash'iig of the waves had brought them drowtn-d. The mansion was d-aped. fur cottage clo-ed. for in a darkened room of each lay the hope and pride of the parent's heart. A week later, and from the cottage, door another funeral train had passed, ami the broken-hearted mother is laid besided her misguided boy in the village church-vard; while the grandeur of the 1 ivil-it ! home cannot shut out th hadow that has fallen across its thres hold. Hut from the club the light still shines through the stained windows and bath-s other young men in its rosy warmth as it falls about thorn in soft and glowing colors upon the ptuement. Fathers, mothers, where are your boys to-night? Union Signul. "A Little Wine for Thy Sake." Stomach's a snoirr skumox r.v a lay tkeachek. "Is'.a little wine tor thy stomach's .tke and thine otten intirmities." . "m.. 5 Ti. Many vocy worthy Christians apply all the promises and in unctions of the Hible. ' enesis to Hevelvations. to all Christians living now or her aft--r. with out discrinriiation; win n, in fact, very many were just as personal as Dr. Xut- I irjill vi iireicriiitioij tor Inmtiiv s whoon- - g I - - -- I- ing cough, ami can only be appropriat ed by those possessing the same quali fications, needs and surrounding?. :w tfie persons or people addressed. Haul's advi e to Timothy hits excused many a dram tor which there was no palliative infirmity: and many persons give a broad significance to tae word wine." making it include all the fiery and poison-vis decoctions representing the outgrowth of the pure juice of the grape. Dr. Nutgall would have been sur prised to find his rather se ere remedy lor Tommy in a peculiar case of whooping-cough had been p:iss:d round to all the children in town alllicted with measles, worms, canker-rash, fever, teething and mumps; and no less as tonished, 1 fancy, would Paul 1 e, could he see to what tlire dilemm:is his pre scription to Timothy has brought many a weak ( hrtst'an, and many a man wm makes Hible teaching an excuse for his depraved appetite. That pure wine . good for the t-tom-ach. in certain cases, no physician will deny, but ail piivsicians will tell vou that the constant use of any medieino lessens it ellicaev, and over-doses often produce the rao-t pernicious results. The manufactured wines of tho present day. said to be imported from grape-growing countries, lear no corn par son to the pure wine of past cent uries or our own times, and are at est very questionable medic nes: but when the wives and f-hildren must do without suitable food in order that men may bo sttjplied with irhwky, then the excuse for such medicine becomes a shameful absurdity, for which no condemnation can be too severe. Then, too. Paul advised the use of a littie wine: that item in the prescrip tion is quite forgotten when ouecopiotw draught follows another, and in'irmities become of da ly occurrence boeanse of such indulgence. 1 he very form of the sentence "Use a little wine" suggests benefit and nut abuse. It was to be taken in small quantities like any medicine, and for a special condition of the stomach. The so-called "good fellowship of wine drinking" has ruined many a man to whom drunkenness was abhorrent, and who would never have -stooped to ita vices only for the small beginning of a g ass o " wine wil h a friend. Fa id's ad monition to Timothy had no shadow ol this good fellowship. He did not say take a little wine with a friend, or show vour kindness bv offering wine; not a bit of it! T inothy's wine was just for the ne cessity of the time, a tonic suited to his ,real need; and no doubt if Paul had foreseen how many in alter days would trip over his advice to liniothv, he w u'd have specified the part'cular in firm ty for which he tie med wine a panacea. Woman at Work. m m A KESOLt'Tfov proposing the enact-mt-ot of prohibition in the Dominion Government was recently so amended as to declare tluit when public senti ment was in favor of the execution o! Prohibit on laws they wr nld be enacted, anil as so amended was adopted. If it is out a small sacrifice for you to give up sparkling wine, do it tor the sake of others: if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own. Rev. ,. May ! a -"-" &-t&Z-Xi SS5lt3SC?SK Fsrn