Year: 1876

the sleighing party last night or Bob


the proceedings of the Phi Beta Club


or Tom scrawled Tried my new gun.


Bully. Shot into the fence and John


sons old cat. On towards the middle


of the book there was an entry of Jenny's


marriage, and one of the young girls


had added description of the b-ides-


maids dresses. and long afterward there


was written, This day father died, :"


in Bob's trembling hand. There was a


blank of many months after that. But


nothing could have served better to bind


that family Of headstrong boys and girls


together than the aeei ing of this book


They come back TO the old homestead


now. men au women with grizzIed hair,
| to see their mother. who is still living,


and turn over It's pages reverently, with


many hearty laugh or the tears coming


into their eyes. 1t is their childhood


come back again III visible shape


Scribner'S Monthly.


READING 1t is not necessary to null


tiply extracts from the wise and good


to show the perElcious effects of bad


books, or the lasting benefits resulting


from an early acquaintance with the


great and good. A man who should be


known to willfully administer poison in


the food given to his child would stand


forth as murderer to be abhorred bnt


of how much less an offense is parent


guilty who poisons the well spring of


learning by iacilitating. in that he does
not prevent, the poisoning of his child's
soul by means of a llcentious literature?


70 every parent who values the eternal
interest of his children the question
comes home with awful significance,


Ycu must not only keep them from the
evil, but in no way can you do so as
effectually as providing them with what
is wholesome. Give them the pure. the
good, the ennobling, and they will have
no appetite for the sensational, the vul-
gar. the prurient, the cheap tinsel lean
ness Of wicked books. or the maudlin,
mindless illusions to be met with III the
tlashy newspapers which do the devils
work while sailing under the christian
flag. 1almage.


THE Coop SIDE oE AvARICE.--A
London physician has undertaken
to defend in avairce what might be
callel its good side He holds that
ayarice tends rather to the preser-
walton than the deterioration of the
body. The avaricious man seems to
others to be denying 6 himself all the
pleasures o the world. where he is
by his abstinance putting himself
in condition to enjoy a long and
healthy existance' The physician
talks in this style of the miser By |
his economy he is saved from all the |
worry incident to penury; by his
caution he is secured from all the
risks incident to speculation by
his regularity of hours and perfect
of the sunlight, in
preference to artificial illumination,
he rests and works in periods pre-
cisely according with the periodicity !
of nature : by his absteniousness
he takes just enough to live, which |
is precisely the right thing to do ac-
cording to the natural rigid law.


Too THIN.-"Your Honor" said
prisoner when brought into Court
for trial yesterday, Il want to know
what kind of grub the city furnishes
to poor fellers like me who gets ar
rested for nothing. I've been down
in the cellar below for three days.
and every day I've had soup in the
morning with a bone in it, and in
he evening bone with little soup
over it. Can't you get the steward
20 change the bill of fare? Tell you
what. soups good, but feller can't
get fat on it." The prisoner was
lirected to lay his complaint before
he proper of1icers.-.S. +. Call.


"A man is seen daily on Broad
way, New York, carrying a square
oasteboard box on top of a pole, on
;wo sides of which is printed,
Shame on you;' on the third, BE
ware of the Devil and his wife
Rum and Tobacco and on the
.ourth, Shame on you, men to en-
courage poor women to sweep our
lirty streets with their dresses, while
nultitudes of deserving poor are



AN awkward thing happened to
he Turkish ambassador at Vienna,
IN his visit to the principal lunatic
hospital in that city. On his in
Iuiring the cause of the insanity
If the first patient he met he was
old that the man had lost his sense.
through being ruin ed by the fall
n Turkish stocks. The ambas-
'ador did not wait to make more en-
luiries, but left the hospital at once.


-GRAY hair is not only honorable,
out when it clusters in snowy lux
lriance on the head of married
nan, it is an indication of perfect fe-
icity. When one considers how
lew married men there are who
nave any hair left to turn gray
when it comes time, what wonder
hat men regard a gray-haired man
with feelings of exaggerated envy
md veneration.


"A fellow walked into music
store the other day, called for piece
II music entitled Act on the
square," and while the clerk was
ooking for it walked off with a Sc so
banjo.


"A young lady who was rebuked
" her m0thor for L;s,;,o lo.:,