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Baby Bun.

There was just one bunch of white
grapes left on the vines, and at the
tea-table the children asked who
should have it. Lily thought grand
ma should. Ned wished to carry it to
his teacher.
1t was Baby bun who decided it.
She said, in q sober voice, II would
give it to sick little girl somewhere.
She said "dirl" instead of girl, and
"div" instead of give, but they knew
what she meant.
always q sick little drip some.
where,n she said, with a sorrowful
shake of curly little head.
Lily picked the bunch of white
grapes, and Jack went to ask the doc
tor where they could find sick lit
tie "dirl;" and all the children, and
Baby Bun too, went next morning tc
"div" the sweet, fragrant white fruit
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LOyey DOyey.

A woman weighing something like
two hundred pounds came into the
Grand Central Station the other day
clinging to the bony arm of a little
man who probably tipped the beam at
ninety in his winter clothing.
He led the way to the ladies' wait,
ing-room, deposited the lady In two
chairs, and started out.
"You wont be gone long, will you,
dearie?" she gasped out. II feel SO
timid."
"No, darling; I'll be right back.
Don't worry about me-"
ooh, I shall, dearie, can't help it,
and I dread being left alone"
"Well, I'll be back in ten minutes" J."
"Oh, do; I feel so nervous"
He was gone fifteen minutes, and
when he reached her side again she
tried to tumble into his arms, snd said
sweetly and childishly:
ooh, Harry! You were gone an
age. I was so frightened !! Ah, Har'
ry, I fear that you will find that you
have married a very, very silly little
girl.n
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Polite Profanity.

"Oh, mamma, we have two weeks
vacation! HurrahW and Johnnie
rushed past in wild joy, flinging up
his hat, and comes with a thlmp on
mammals slippered foot. "Great god
ness! You rough boy, how you have
hurt mel ~
Little Bessie, in trying to reach her
doll on the table, knocks over auntie's
work basket and spills its contents
upon the floor. "Heavens and earth
Bessie, how careless you are ''
Exclamations like these we hear
every day from the lips of sweet-faced
women and pretty young girls. Lady
like manners and Christian gentle
ness hold away, till in moment of
impatience or sudden pain both are
forgotten. Women who are shocked
to hear strong expression from hus-
band or brother, will utter words
themselves that will not bear search
vulgar, as rule, in any case; even
such innocent ones as ''deary me-"
''sakes," "law,n are summed by cul-
tivated people; and all women who
really try to lead Christian lives
should be careful in this respect.
Take any one of the common express
sions of polite profanity-examine it
and the result in each case will be a
direct appeal tg heaven or an apost-
rophe to the Eternal God. 20, Lord W
is q most familiar one. Listen to any
group of women who are we'll enough
acquainted to drop company" man.
ners, and at each hitch in sewing or
ffauc y work, each little accident, each
exciting piece of news or account OF
dire illness, chorus goes up Of "oh
LordW Goodness gracious" etc.
It may be that there is no Intentional
wrong, no desire to break the COM
mandment; but the continued repeti-
ton of such expressions must blunt
the delicacy of woman's perceptions
and coarsen her religious fervor.
Should we lightly call upon our d.
vine Lord to bear witness to our aston
ishment, or invoke the heavens If we
hurt a foot or run pin into the skin ?
Confine yourselves, my dear sisters,
if you must exclaim, to comparatively
harmless "ohs't and "mys;" at any
rate shun as moral infection all calls
upon the Deity or His attributes. Re.
member, as ladies, they verge upon
the vulgar, and as Christians, that
they are certainly profane.
"Swear not at all neither by heaven
for it is Gods throne; nor by the
earth, for it is his footstool. Neither
shalt thou swear by thy head for
thou canst not make one hair black or
white. But let your communication
be yea, yea nay, nay: forwhatsoever
is more than these cOmeth of evil."-
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Ts II Too Late2

1t may be too late, quite too late, to
set right mischief once done, to avert
consequences, to stop the working of
evil that we have set in motion. But
it is not too late. it is never too late, to
come back to God. If you can't be
what you might have been, yet you
can still be something that Christ Will
love and value-a humble, penitent
soul. If you cannot serve God as you
might have done-nay, if you have
done harm that you can never undo
yet you can still give Him what He
values more than all service-a will
surrendered to His will. If it is too
late for everything else, it is never too
late to join the service Of Christ
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How TO Endorse q Check.

Very few otherwise intelligent and
educated people understand how to
properly indorse band check pay
able to their order, and few realize the
inconvenience they cause by placing
their Endorsement in an awkward pos
ition. An observance of the follow
ing rules will enable any body to
place the signature in the proper
place:
l. Write across the back-not
lengthwise.
2. The top of the back is the left
end of the face.
3. To deposit a check, write "For
deposit" and below this your name.
A cleck aot having the power of at
tOrney to sign or indorse check can
deposit his firms check by writing Oh
the top the of back, "For deposit only
to credit Of" and below this write
his own name.
4. Simply writing your name on
the back of a check signifies that it
has passed through your hands, and
is payable to bearer. =,
5. Always indorse check just as it
appears on the face. For instance, ii
the check is payable to "G. Read in
dorse &c. Read ~ if 10 Geo. Read, "
indorse "Geo. Read )" if to George
+. Read" indorse "George F. Read" "
If the spelling of the name on the
face of the check is wrong, indorse
first just as the face appears, and be-
low, the proper way. :,
6. If you wish to make the check
payable to some particular person
write "Pay to o-or order-."
In England all check are payable to
bearer, but in this country all strangers
presenting checks for pay ment must
be identified by some one known to
the banks.
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Always Finding Fault.

Let US take care to include in oul
petitions an urgent entreaty that the
good Lord in his mercy will keep us
from finding fault with each other
This habit, allowed to grow and grow,
becomes a very upas tree in many
household, killing all peace and break,
ing down the unity and comlorC o. o.
home. 1t Is so easy to point OUT Wna'
is wrong and forget that the action
criticised was perhaps done with the
best ability of the doer. Even if we
are really sure of being able to do il
better, there is no excuse for discour
aging the attempt made by another.
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"T Rest Upon Him. y

A young man once waited upon me
and said "My mother is a Christian,
sir, and I would like to be one, too,
but somehow 1 cannot get at it. I
cannot get faith although l have read
all the book in the house upon the sub
iect. I teach Sabbath-school class,
too, and find myself in rather an aWk-
wark position. Can you help me,
sir?"
IT think, under God. I can. 1t is
not faith you want, but truth. You
want an object for your mind rest
upon. It is not so much how to be-
lieve as what to believe. Do you be-
lieve that book in your hand to be the
word of God?"
"Why do you ask me, sir? Of
course do"
"Does it teach that Jesus Christ was
Gods Son, and that he died, was buri-
ed, and rose again ?"
."rhe Bible is full of those doc
trines, and I most certainly believe
it,"
"What was it all for?"
"For Sinners" Here he said good
deal about the government of God,
and similar matters.
Ibid he die for you ?"
"Ah ! sir, that is precisely what 1
would like to know"
II thought so. Let US turn to Ro-
mans V: 6-8. Are you a sinner"
II have been we'll wrought up; but
in the Bible sense am sinner, no
doubt"
"You do not find your name here
and it is well, for there are many per-
sons of the same name, and then there
might have been some mistake about
that, but there can be no mistake
about your character as here describ-
ed-'without strength, 'ungodly,' sin
ner', enemy Does it suit you?"
II confess it does, sir"
"Don't you see that the Saviour
died for you, then, as such? You will
never get more. No sinner will. If
you were at the point of death from
want of food, and had nothing in your
pocket, and saw over door: ANY
starving man may have food in here
for nothing would you not be war
ranted to step in and have your wants
supplied? Young man, remember, If
you perish, you shall have that text,
and others like it to face. Christ Of
fers Himself Saviour to you, lost
sinner, and you will not have Him.
This is the sin of sins the condemning
sin. How shall you face the word
'wHosoEvER' in the place of woe"
In a few minutes, after staring alter
nately at me and the passage before
him, he began to sob as if his heart
would burst, and, laying his hand
upon my shoulder, said, II have it !;
I am shut up to it; I now believe !;
I have Christ L rest upon Him."
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A SliDDer.Hint

No person should run about sleep
ing rooms orinto halls from bed in bare
feet. Air currents are constantly in
motion near the floor, and circulation
is more easily retarded in feet and legs
than the heart. 1t is therefore good
plan to have warm pair of slippers
always close to the bed, that may be
slipped on quickly before ones feet
touch the floor made loose enough tc
be kicked offwhen climbing into bed
again. For one who is liable to be
called up frequently, as in cases o1
illness, this sIipper-hint will prove
valuable if followed.-American Mag
Qziae.
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1t seems the height of folly to waste
vast sums of money to building navles
and heavily armed and armored war
ships, when a single dynamite bomb
will send the largest and best equipped
man-of-war to the bottom instantly.
IF those who make war had to do the
fighting we might reasonably hope
that these very destructive implements
of death would act as q deterrent
against nations declaring war, but in
most cases those who are most to blame
in kindling the war flame are careful
to keen at a safe distance from the scene
of conflict, and send innocent and,
possible, peace-loving men to the front
to kill and be killed. There is, we be-
lieve, a growing sentiment among the
masses against war-a sentime ut which
sooner or later rulers will have to re-
spect. Dynamite bombs and tor
pedoes are likely to quicken that senti-
ment.
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To Mothers.

If you say "No," mean "No."
Unless you have good reason for
changing a given command, hold to
it.
Take an interest in your children's
amusements; mothers share in what
pleases them is great delight.
Remember that trifles to you are
mountains to them; respect their
feelings.
Keep up a standard of principles
your children are judges.
Be honest with them in small
things, as well as in great. If you
cannot tell them what they wish to
know, say so, rather than deceive
them.
AS long as it is possible, kiss the
children goodnight after they are in
bed; they like it, and it keeps them
very close.
Bear in mind you are largely re-
sponsible for your children's inherit
ed characters, and be patient with
them.
If you have lost child, remember
that for the one who is gone there is
no more to do, but for those left every
thing.
Make your boys and girl study
physiology when there are i'll, try to
make them comprehend why, how
the complaint arose, and the remedy,
so far as you know it.
Impress upon them from early in
fancy that they actions have results,
and that they cannot escape conse-
quences, even by being sorry when
they have done wrong.
Respect their little secrets if they
have concealments, fretting them
will never make them tell, end time
and patience will.
Allow them, as they grow older, to
have opinions of their own; make
them indiviuals, and not mere
echoes.
Find out all their special tastes, and
develop them, instead of spending
time, money and patience in forcing
them into studies that are entirely
repugnant to them.
Mothers, whatever else you may
teach you girls, do not neglect to in-
struot them in the mysteries of house
keeping. So shall you put them in
the way of making home happy.
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Male Irreligi0n.

Fewer men than women attend
Church. Why is this? ....-- -
While there are fewer men than wo-
men in church, there are more
men than women in prison. Shorter.
sighted and more dull of perception,
man fails to discern the degradation
and folly of evil doing, and so is more
easily led into crime. The perpetfa-
ton of felony and the neglect of relig-
ion are but different manifestations Of
the same trait Of charater, q failure to
appreciate the dignity of spiritual eie-'
walton, an inability to see anything
worth seeking except the coarse grati-
fcations of the present moment. The
creed of worldliness and crime Is that
the present is to be preferred to the fu-
ture, the immediate to the more re-:
mote, the material to the spiritual,
personal interests to the welfare Of hu-
manity; while the underlying princi-
pie in religious striving is that the true
way to live is to live for humanity,
not self alone-for the moral, aud
spiritual, not sensual and material.
It is the man that inclines to the for
mer view, the woman who is more
easily won to the latter. sr-7.a
Is it not, then, because men are
stronger-minded that they are less at.;
tentive to religious things; 1t Is be-
cause they are actually weak of vision,
unable to perceive that the spiritual
is nobler than the sensual, that the
cultivation of moral interests is wiser
than absorption in material things.
The lofty contempt With which
worldly men regard religious eaynest
ness is of the same nature % thu with
which the ignorant man regards his
neighbor who spends his time over
books, or the theft, regards the one
who is too tenderly conscientious to
steal. 1t is not because Of greater ga
gacity, but because of inferior discern
ment that fewer men than women at.
tend Standardization Inquirer. -,
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The Kaiser and the Little Maid.
A TRUE INCIDENT.

A hush in the school-room prevailed,
Each heart with expectancy burned,
For the Kaiser was coming that day,
And all eyes TO the portals were turned
And now he has entered the room,
Lo, that Kaiser, so stately and proud,
He has gazed on each sunny head there
That before him in reverence Is bowed.
And now every heart gives throb,
AS before him Is stationed u class,
And the Kaiser, so great and so tall,
Thus questions bright little lass:
"To which kingdom belongeth this rose
Taking one from the vase by his side;
Her blue eyes were lifted to his,
ITO the vegetable" quick she replied;
"Right, right. little maiden; and this7"
And forth from his pocket he drew
A fair jeweled watch, with its chain,
And then held 1t up to her view.
Not doubt to here blue eyes arose,
AS she stood meath the Kaisers proud
gaze,
But clear came he answer again,
ITO the mineral, sir, If you please"
With smile at her answer, so quaint,
Said the Kaiser, SO mighty and high,
And now little maid, can you tell
Ofwhich kingdom member am II
All! poor little maid, twas indeed,
A specimen strange 10 QeT eyer,
She gazed at the Kaiser, so tall,
But mute were her lips with surprise.
A specimen rare-that wise little maid
That question had never heard before.
or the kingdoms three, to which he be-
longed
That Kaiser-it puzzled her sore.
The elephant great she had seen,
And the spotted tigers as well,
Aud the lions, too, with bristling name,
And their kingdom she quickly could tell
But Kaiser! all, never before
Had she seen one 80 stately and grand
Sure, not with the rose or the watch,
Or the elephant huge. could he stand.
A sweet puzzled look filled her eyes,
And she stood in q wondering maze.
On the stately form and the kingly brow
OF the Kaiser she fixed her gaze.
But now springs light to her eyes,
AS, placing his hand on her head,
ITO which kingdom 2" he question again
ITO the kingdom of heaven" she said.
All! wise little maid, may thy words
A prophecy true yet unfold,
And when thou shalt enter the kingdom
above,
Thou may y'st then the Kaiser behold.
M. Annie IrdpneH, IN Good Times.
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MANY church members live restless

Many church members live restlessly
under the requirements Of church
rules and church discipline, as If these
restraints were arbitrary and human.
They act as if they could indulge in
all their unsanctif1ed desires, # only
the church would permit them to do
so.
They forgot that the obligation to do
good and to live apart from contact
with evil is imposed by Gods will.
The Bible is more rigid in its demands
for pure life than are the rules Of any
church. To live in such q way as to
keep on good terms with the brethren
merely is dishonoring to God.
God loves the msanest old sinner on
the earth as much as he loves the best
Christian.
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Culinary Item.

Matilda Snowfall is cook for the
family of Col. Percy Yerger. Mrs
Yerger had Unexpectedly received
company, but was unprepared to enter
tain them.
Matilda, we will have poor dinner
I expect we will have to make an apol-
:" Make apology! How kin we make
a pology! We amt got no eggs NO
butter, no nuffin."
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Every person is, in one way or an
other, changed by his accidental or his
purported contact with external forms
of evil. If he resists or rebuke them,
he is purified, strengthened, and en-
nobled. If he countenances or yields
himself to them, he is weakened and
degraded. It is not the stone in our
pathway that throws us down but It
is our own blindness to it, or our dis
regard of it, that causes us to stumble /;
for the stumbling is only a part OF our
own motion. We would do well to
consider that external evils do not
harm us, but that we harm ourselves
by out attitude toward, and our con-
duct with relation to, them.
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IINAPPRECIATED

UNAPPREcIATED LovE.-''My
mother gets me up, builds the fire, gets
my breakfast, and sends me off," said
a bright youth. "What then ?" said the
listener. "Then she gets my father up
and gets his breakfast and sends him
off; She then gets the other children
their breakfast aud sends them to
school, and then she and the baby
have their breakfast" "How old Is
the baby" ooh, she is most two, but
she can walk and talk as well as any OF
u.s." "Are you well paid ?" IT get 2
dolls week; father gets 2 dolls day"
"How much does your mother get p"
With bewildered look the boy said,
''Mother why she don't work for any
body" II thonghtyo said shework-
ed for all of you?" 20, yes, she does,
but there amt no money in it." ~
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Familiar Sayings and Authors to
Who Many are Traced.

Many of our common sayings, sc
true and pithy, are used without the
least idea from whose pen or mouth
they first originated. Probably the
works of Shakespeare furnish us with
more of these familiar maXims than
any other writer, for to him we owe,
"All is not gold that glitters," MAKE
a virtue of necessity" "Screw youl
courage to the sticking place" mot
point, "They laugh that win," "This
IS the short and long of it," "Com.
pal isons are odius," ''As merry as the
day is long," "A Daniel come to judg,
ment," "Frailty, the name is woman"
and host of others.
Washington Irving gives 1.-The al
mighty dollar"
Thomas Murgan queried long ago.
"What will Mrs. Grundy say"'
while Goldsmith answers, ASK no
questions and I'll tell you no fibs:"
Charles Pickney gives Millions
for defense, but not cent for trlo-
ute." ,
First in war, first in peace and first
i'm the hearts of his fellow-citizens'
mot countrymen,) appeared in the re-
solutions presented to the House Rep'
resentatives in December, 1880, by
Gen. Henry Lee.
Thomas Tasser, writer of the six
teenth cetury, gives us "Better late
than never" "Look ere yvu leap,"
and "The stone that is rolling can
gather no moss
"All cry and no WOOL" is found in
Buffers "Hudibras.
Dryden says: "None but the brave
deserve the fair" "Men are but chill
dren ofa larger growth" and Through
thick and thin"
"When Greek Joined Greek then
was the tug of war;" came from Ma
thaniel Lee.
"Of two evils have chosen the
least,n and "The end must justify the
r1eans," are from Matthew Prior.
We are indebted to Colley Cibber for
the agreeable intelligence that erich
ard is himself again" =.
Johnson tells US of "a good hater,"
and Macintosh, in 179l, the phrase Of
ten attributed to John Randolph,
"Wise and mastery inactivity"
"Variety is the very spice OF life,",
and Not much the worse for veal" "
Cowper. "Man proposes, but God
disposes," Thomas a Kempis.
Christopher Marlowe gave forth the
invitation so often repeated by his
brethren in a less public way, "Love
me little, love me long,
Edward Coke was of the opinion
that "A mans house is his castle"
To Milton we owe 1.-THE paradise OF
FOOLS" "a wilderness of sweets" and
"Moping melancholy and moonstruck
Madness
Edward Young tells us death loves
a shining mark" and ga fool at forty
is O fool indeed"
From Bacon comes acknowledge is
power" and Thomas Southern re-
minds us that "Pity's akin to love."-
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A PLEA FOR HONESTY.-How, dim-
cult to be strictly honest in all things I
How few tell story with exact truth
fulness! How often does imagination
supply a missing link of memory!
How often are sober facts painted and
trimmed to make them more adndira-
BILE! How frequently do lawyers 'so-
phisticate for their clients from q sup
posed sense of fidelity! How often do
physiciads deceive their patients from
sense of humanity! How often do
religious teachers, bound to honesty
by every law of decency and c6nSfst-
ency, vary in the heat of debate; this
way or that way, from strict cand0r
and fairness Truth is universally
good; falsehood universally evil.
Every lie is grating discord in the
music Of the spheres. 1t Is shapes
less block that fits nowhere. If you
lift the truth out of its environments,
you can put it back at any time, and
it will fit in its place exactly Moth
ing else will fit there. 1t requITes-ao
study to tell the truth, buta lie is q
work Of art, demanding great pains.
taking and ingenuity;.yet no amount
of care will make a lie answer In the
place of the truth. In conversation
how careful! the Christian should be-
must be-to magnify or minify nothing
How careful not to color or distort |!
Even in writing, cool and slow as is
the process, there is danger that pas
sion and prejudice shall lead us to at
tempt to make the worse appear the
better reason. Merits are claimed for
our cause that do not belong to it, and
our antagonist is made to smart under
the lash of misrepresentation. A de-
liberate sophism is an intentional lie.
o for deep, genuine, powerful revival
fof common honesty on the globe