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 stories of the Confessional Every one who has lived long in the south of Europe knows how ancnsing and innocent anecdotes of the confessional abcuDd there, anecdotes which reflect neither upon priest nor penitent, yet which have the pecnliwly piquant flavor â€" inherent in a joke whicn touches thoughnever so lightly â€" upon forbidden subjects. One of these was told to the writer by an earnest, active pnest, unsjariog of himself aid of others. Padre is from the north of Italy, and quite unused to the unspeak- able and uncor querable haziness of the Roman peasant. It happened therefore, ttat on the o3C£i8ion of the first confession it lell to his lot to hear after his appoint- ment to the church of San in Rome, he was astonished to find that it behooved him to do the penitent's work as well as his own, and that he had to question and sug- gest and question again until fa'rly wearied out. Sj, being a conscientious man, he Ccilled the peasait back aftpr he had givtn him absolution, and said, ' Yau must come better prepered next time. You must see that to day it was I who made the confes- â- iDD, and not you. You had evidently made no examination of conscience and so I warn you tlie next time you come I si all ask you nothing until you yourself have begun your confession. It is your duty to th'nk o^er all you 1 are done and left undone, and t make your own examination of consci- ence then I can aid you with questions but it is not right or fcr your good that I should do it all." The pea ant sulked and shufHed, but made no reply ro this har- ant^ue. However, it was not very longs be- fore he came again, and Padre who is nothing if not thorough, plased his watch before him, and allowed himself twenty minntes to wait for the confession to begin. The miLute-hand crept round to five min- utes, â€" ten, â€" fiften, â€" seventeen, â€" when the penitent said, in an injured and irritated tone, "Ebbene tu non mi dice nitnte?" "Well, have you got nothing at all to say i3 me?" Quite diflferent was good and gentle Father (•'B 's method of prcceiure. He was never in Rome, and lived and died in the great repablio. His penitents used to say of him that if they confessed any sin he was went to say hastily, in a dislrassed tone of voice, "There, mee chyeld, there 1 I know ye didn't mane to do it. Pass on to the next p'nt." 'Oh, yes, but I did intend to doit. I did it knowingly. Father OB " "Oh, mee chyeld, I hope not. I hope ye didn't, â€" for that would be decaytful, ye know, and unkind. I think ye didn't mane to do it. Pass en to the next p'nt mee chyeld." Even a better story is told of Father Mc B a Dominicin mcnk, and a good, energetic, but absent-minded man. It fell to his lot to return to Ireland after an ab sence of many years, and to hear ccn Ses- sions on saint's day in the chapel of a small village in the neighborhood of Cork. Sev- eral of the villagers had already confessed and were kneeling quietly in church, wait- ine fi r mass to begin, when the door of the adjoining chapel (where Father McB heard confessions) burst in, and the good father rushed in, his habit flying behind him, exclaiming in a loud voice, 'â- p]very one who has confessed to me this morning and that 'flayed the shingle over the roof last night must come back to me directly " When the morning services were over, some one ventured to inquire, "What was the matter with Father McB now?" "Faix," faid Barney Brie n, the village ne'er-do-well, with a twinkling eye. "faix, I'm just thinkin' it's meself then, I'd made me confession like the rest of yez and as to what I said, that's neither here or there, but I'm willin' to tell yez all that I wound it up wid say in' that I'd flayed the shingle over the roof. â€" 'Wnat's that? says Father McB â€" with a start that had like to make him fly out of the confessional. â€" 'Well, thin, yer riverence,' says I, 'it just manes that I got rcarin' drunk night before last.' And thin, 'Wait a bit,' says he, and flies into the church as if .the divel himself was behind. It's a nna'sy pfnicce he's put on ma," continued Biinsy, with a rueful counte- n;nce "and I c n only hope the rist of yez has got the like, â€" for yez know we flayed the shingle together, boys." Spanish literature abounds with droll ccn fessional stories. The best, probably, is that of a gypsy, who, coming to confess, and finding the priest's gold watch and chain lying Ln a room adjoining the confessional, coolly pocketed it, and began his confession with. "Father, I once stole a watch and i »in." â- Very well, ipy son," replied the priest "thenyou must restore it to its owner." "Do you want it " answered the gypsy. "I? No, certainly not," said the pnest, "But, father," continued the gypsy, "I offered the watch and chain to their owneir, and he refused to accept them." "And you confessed the theft to the owner " persisted the priest. "Oh, jes, father." "And still he refused to accept the watch and chain " "Y'es, father, he refased sbsolutely," "Then, my son, you may keep them with a clear consciense. Go in peace." The Provingal storits are rather more ir- reverent. The most amusing and famous is called "The Turtle-Dove's Nest," and is ai follows "Pocr Alari de Gigonnda?, who is some- thing of a simpleton, went to confession. When he had finished, the priest said as usual, "Sow, my son, collect your thoughts and reflect whether you have confesssd everj thing.' " ' Momieur le cure, 1 don't remem- ber ' •' ' Come, my son, courage; tell everything you know do not fear â€" ' " ' Well, Momieur le cure if I must tell you everything, I have found a turtle- dove's nest, tuU of young doves it is mine ' " • I hope ycu didn't steal it internpted the prist. " ' Steal it oh, no, Monsieur le cure but I found it it is in the olive orchard of Fer- rut fih, on the fifth tree of the second row and I shall have a fine set of doves to en. "The next day it happened that some chileiren who were playing in the olive^ or- chard caught sight of the nest, stole some doves and killed others, and tore %he nest to pieces so that when poor AUri came to see his i raasure, as he did daily, doves and nest were gone. •• iint who has taken my nest? Oh, my poor nest 1 Who has spoiled my nest ' cried the simpleton. 'Oh, sacred name of heaven! it can cn'y have been Monsieur le cure ' "When Christmas came round, however, Alari went again to confession, and again the priest 8«id, 'Now, my son, collect jonr thoughts tnd tell all you have done.' " Mon pere, I have teen making love ' " 'With a view to getting married?' inter- rupted the priest. " 'Eh, yes, Mon pere what else should I make love for jghe is a good girl, and a pretty, and ' " 'And of this village?' "But here Alari's patience failed. 'Ah. coquin of a cure, do you think that I will tell you whoandwhera she is?' he cried. 'Last Easter 1 cotifessed to vou that I knew where a turtle dove's nest was, and you rob- bed my nest and killed my doves. If you should kill my Anois ' " Of a different color is the following story, a^so Provengil 'Every one in Circassonne and the airon- dissement loved the good Abbe Radoni, and rejoiced at the sight of his tall figure, wera toutane, and big hat, as he came walking a'ong with great strides, having a friendly word and amile for every one, bonbons for the children, and ready sympathy in joy or sor- row for a'l whoolaimed it. Atthefireside he V ai gay and simple as a child before the al- tar, solemn and serious as sn archangel. He was a true priest duBonDieu, such asereonly made by suffering and conquest of earthly affectioos and appetites and by fasting and prayer. â-  Good and patient a3 he was. however, thera was a fault for which the Abbe found no pardon. He hated gossip a^ he hated the devil, and when in the course of a confes- sion a penitent happened to reveal the faults of another, the grated window of the confes- sional box would slam sharply, and the Abbe would say sternly, 'Y'ou have discharg- ed your own load. Laave your neighbors to discharge theirs.' "Now, it happened that one day when he I ad confessed a great many penitents, a cer- tain Mise Tres-Estello, a rich hourgeoise of Ca-^cissorne, presented herself find began a confession which was endless, and which dealt â€" a? was the good Irdy's wont â€" with the peceaiilloes of all the arrondissement. Bang went the grating of the confessional, with the customary exordium. Mise Tres- Estello, very angry and humiliated, resolv- ed to leave ihe Abbe Ridoni from that time forth, and th^refcre presented herself at the cunfetsioFals of several other churches in Carcassonne with a tale of her wrongs. Everywhere, however, the grating of the conf«Bsional was shitt in her face, so that after a time she returned to her own pariih. The good Abbe heard her confession and gave her absolution in a quiet matter-of- course way, as if nothing had happened. This mortified her pride extremely, and, meeting him the next day in front of the cathedral, she said graciously, 'I hope. Father Radoni, you were not offended that I wen*; to another confessor?' " 'Not at all, my child not at all.' " 'But why, Mon pere V " 'Eh, my child, if you had a neighbor who was in the habit of strewing ashes in front of your door, aid it pleased her sud- denly to change and straw them in front of your neighbor's door, would you be offt nd- ed Neither am I offended that you chose another confessor.' " Once a simpleton, who had been in the idiot-asylum near Aries, was engaged as a servant by a charitable lady. It pleased her one day to go to confession, and the priest, to whom she was a s! ranger, began with the inquiry, "Are you maid, wife, or widow? ' " Nenni, answered poor Catharine. " Are you mairied? ' "Nenni." " Unmarried, then " ' Nenni." "A widow?" '•Nenni." "Then what in heaven's name are you ' said the priest, losing patience. "An idiot and an orphan, please your rav ere nee." A SCRAP OF PAPER. Selling a Wife. Some time ago a sensation was caused in the coal-mining district of Ruabon, North Wales, by the elopement of a miner with the wife of his comrade. It was ultimately discovered that after some wandering the p:ui had settled in the colliery district of Tyldesley, Luicashire. From this place the following letter has been received by the de- serted husband "Are you willing to give Sarah up into my hands, to take her as my own wife, and to marry her for I have asked her many times to go back, and she answers every time, 'I would rather suffer death.' So you now understand she will not come back. Therefore, if you are willing, kindly wire a note signed by your own hand stating you are willing for me to make her a comfortable home and the children, and I will forward you ten shillings in cash for New Year's gift after you do me that kind- ness." The husband has replied, stating that matters having reached such a clisiax, his coi respondent is welcome to his wife at the price named. â€" St. James' a Gazette., For tunes in Germany. W'hat does Vanity Fair mean by stating that "large fortunes are rare in Germany?" On the contrary, there is no country where there are so many large fortunes among "the territorial aristocracy." In Germany pro- per there are twenty-six estates which are larger than any in Great Britain, with the exception of the duke of Sutherland's do- main but an enormous number of acres of his Scotch estate are a trackless waste. The landed possessions of Prince Schwartz =-n- berg (in Austria and Hungary covered 420 German square miles. Prince Liohtensteim's extend over 104 square miles, P,ince Ester- jhazy's 80, and Count Schonborn's 60. There are numerous estates of 50 square miles. Vanity Fair is quite mistaken, too, in stat- ing that Count Redesen "mad^is fortune in the service of the court," sffi the said fortune, instead of being £1 500^000, con- siderably exceeds £3,000 000.â€" London World. One of the surest ways to lose yoor heilth 13 to keep drinking other people's. How It CoBTloted a man of Harderâ€" A RemarkKDto Tme Story. "Speaking of circnmatantial evidcnoe," a gentleman from Gont r i Coata county yester- day, to a reporter of the Independent, with whom he had been talkin? about the Mark- ey murder trial, calls to my mind the con- viction of Robert Lyle in my county, last January, of the murder of Patrick Sullivan, and I consider it the sttangest case, anel one on which there was the best detective work done that it was ever my fortune to meet with. It is a famous case, and has oc- cupied the courts since the year 1881, and gave the officers more trouble to secure a conviction than a dozsn ordinery murder cases. They had bordly anything to work on *at first, but stuck to it with the persis- tence ot bloodhounds on the track of a vic- tim, finally securing a conviction almost whollji on the finding of a small piece of newspaper." The reporter became interested and sug- gested that the gentleman give an account of the affair, which he did in the following language. THE CRIME, ' Sullivan was a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser, living on W Idcat Creek, in the southern part of Contra Costa county, and Lyle was a near neighbor. The latter was always getting into trouble with his neigh- bors and going to law, particularly with Sul- livan, In these suits he was generally on the wrong side of the question, and, of course, got worsted, which enraged him to such a degree that he was injudicious enough to make threats against Sullivan's life, at one time telling the latter's son that his father would fail to come home some night, Oa the morning of the day of the murder Sullivan left his home with his team and went to town, where he had a trifling lawsuit with Lyle before a justice of the peace, in which he was beateq. The pro- phecy was fulfilled, for Sullivan never ra- turned home alive. The next day he was found dead with his team in a field not far from his home, his arm hanging over the whiffletree and his body lying upon the ground. The first conclu^on was that the team had run away with him, thrown him out, dragged him and broken his neck. This theory was strengthened by the fact that there was a plainly-marked trail for two hundred and fifty yards, evidently made by his body. No marks of blood were on his clothes, and no evidence that a crime had been committed. At the inquest when the clothes of the dead man were removed, it was found that he had been murdered by some one who had 8H0T HIM IN THE BACK. Several of the shots had entered his body, one of them penetrating the heart and two of them imbedding themeelves in the back of the waggon seat. I attended the trial and took a great interest in it. He was heard to pass the house of a man named Davis about nine o'clock on the night of the murder. The road passed the house of Lyle, so that if the latter so desired he could lie in ambush and kill him. " When the officers examined the spot where the murder was committed they found the footprints of a man leadmg to and from Lyle's house over the ploughed ground to the place where Sullivan had fallen out of the waggon. They at once suspicioned that Lyle had something to do with the crime, and went to his house, where he was found eating his dinner. They told him that he was suspected of murder, and that they were there to make an investigation. 'I have expected this.' said Lyle, 'because I have had so much diffianlty with Sullivan.' He then told the officers to go ahead and make their search and that they would not find anything criminating about his place. On two pegs on the wall the officers found a double-barreled shot gon, one of the bar- rels of which was moist on the inside, and had evidently been recently discharged. Some buckshot was found, although Lyle denied having any, and on a shelf by the buckshot was found a crumplsd piece of the San Francisco Call, a part of which was torn off. Lyle was arrested and lodged in jail at Martinez, after which one of the officers took the prisoner's boots and went to the scene of the supposed ambush, where he found in the brush alongside the road the imprints of a man's knees. The boots were found TO FIT THE TRACKS in the soft grotmd perfectly, and at this stage of the investigation the Alameda c di- cers offered to hand over the sase to the Contr,i Costa officers, but were de- tailed by the District Attorney to work it up. " The officer continued the weaving of the chain of circumstantial evidence, and again returned to the scene of the murder. He went to the place where the tracks of the man's knees had been found, and about thirty feet from that spot found a, small piece of paper that had evidently been used as wadding for a gun. It was a bit of news- paper, crumpled and powder-burned, but not be plainly read. At the trial the busi- ness manager of the Call identified the piece of taper as a part of an advertisement that had been printed in the paper on the same day and date as the paper found in Lyle's house. This little innocent-looking piece of p»per was what completed the chain of circumstantial evidence, and consigned Lj le to San Quentin. It was further shown that on the night of the murder, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a woman's screams and entreaties " heard issuing from Lyln's house, posed that it was Mrs. Lyle. that her husband was starting Sullivan, and tried to prevent „.„ Notwithstanding the plain evidence" in" the case, it took three trials to convict the cold, blooded murderer, and the last jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, a verdict that caused great dissatisfaction. ' I don't generally believe in hanging a man on circumstantial evidence, but that chain was so strong that no doubt could be entertain- ed of his guilt. As a strange case it beats anything m California's circumustantial hia- toiy." It 18 not the necessities of life that cost much, but the lujmries and it is with the major part of mankind as it was with the irtnchman who said that if he had the lux- uries of life, he could dispense with the necessities. Mere living is cheap, but aa the hymnologist says, " It is not all of life had been It is sup- who knew out to kill his going, HOWIBAKER WAS DEFEATED. Cowardloeof the Xgyptlansâ€" Oiaptalc Se orlptlon of the Battle. Foil details are given by the London pa- pers of the defeat of Baker FMha, briefly reported by cable. It appears that on Sun- day eyening,Fdb. 3rd, Baker's force, thirty- iix handred strong, encamped two miles from Trinkitat. The night passed off quietly, and before daybreak on Monday morning, at half-past 7, three hundred bag- gage camels were laden and ready to move forward. The guns moved in advance of the column, the infantry following them, and the greater part of the cavalry were pcat- tered round in a circle of skirmishers, a halt mile or so from the colamn, thus effectively protecting it from any sudden attack. The Turkish cavalry were in reserve. "Shortly after 8 o'clock," says the special correspond- ent of the London Standard, "parties of the enemy were sighted. These retired slowly upon the approach of cavalry skirmishers, but showed more and more thickly as we advanced. At half-past S the column halted. A Krupp gun was brought forward and un- limbereci, and a few rounds of shell were fired. It was hardly to be expected that any execution would be done upon the scat- tered parties of the enemy, but the effecb was to cause them again to fall back. About 9 o'clock the enemy again approached, this time in considerable numbers. The guns of the attacking party opened fire, and the force was ordered to advance. When the cavalry skirmishera came up with the ene- my they were soon hotly engaged. Pres- ently about a doz^n Arabs riding bareback- ed on wiry little horses, appeared from be- hind a hillock and coolly calloped around our right flank within three hundred yards of our cavalry on that side, running the gauntlet of the latter's fire. They passed scatheless, and as they still kept along par- allel, to our column with the evident inten- tion of gauging its strength and disposition, the general ordered the Turkish cavalry to CHABQE THEM AND CUT THEM OFF. After a hot chase the enemy escaped, but as the Turks rode bock again toward the column they asrain appeared, and this time time galloped across our front and around to our left. While our attention was distract- ed from the front by this incident, a sudden commotion arose in the midst of our cavalry skirmishers on our left flank. The enemy must for some time have been lying conceal- ' ed close to them, and they now sprang to their feet, and with wild cries charged the Egyptian horsemen. These at once turned rein and came galloping in in a wild and disorderly fashion. The order was then given for the infantry to form Equare--a man- teure in which they had been daily drilled for weeks. At this crisis, however, the but half-disciplined mass failed to accom- plish it. Three sides were formed after a fashion, but on the fourth side twi com- panies of the Alexamdria regiment, seeing the enemy coming on leaping and brandish- ing their spears, stood like a panic-stricken flock of sheep, and nothing could get them to move into their place. Into the gap thus left in the square the enemy hotly poured, and at once all became jauic and confusion. The troops fired, indeed, but for the most part straight into the air. The miserable Egyptian soldiers refused even to defend themselves, but, throwing away their rifles, flung themselves c n the ground and grovel- ed there, SCREAMING FOR MERCV, No mercy was given, the Arab spearmen pouncing upon them and driving their spears through their necks and bodies. No- thlbg could well surpass the wild confusion which the mass presented â€" camels and guns mixed up together, soldiers firing in the air, with wild Arabs, their long hair streaming behind them, darting among them hacking and thrusting with their spears. The right side of the square was not at first assailed, but kept up a continuous fire toward their front, which killed many of our cav- alry. " When the charge had been made by the enemy on the left flank Gen. Baker, with hia staff, were out with the cavalry in front. Upon riding back they found that the ene- my had already got between them and the column. They at once charged them and cut their way through, but not without sev- eral being killed, among them Abdul Rusac, the chief Egyptian staff officer. His horse was hamstrung, and as it ftll he was in- stantly speared by the Arabs. On nearing the square the general had to run the gaunt- let of the fire of the Egyptians in his front, who, regvrdless of what was going on around them, were blazing away in their front. When the general reached the square the enemy had already broken it up, and it was clear that all was lost. Gen. Sartorius, with his staff, had been in the inside of the square when the enemy burst into it. They in vain tried to rally the panic-stricken Egyptians, and were so cooped in by the huddled mass of soldiers that, for a time they were unable to extricate themselves! When, at last, the Arab throng of spearsmen had thinned the throng of Egyptians, they succeeded m breaking out and in cutting their way through the enemy. IT NOW BECAME A TOTAL ROUT, the shattered column streaming across the plain toward Trinkitat, preceded by the fly- mg cavalry, the enemy pressiug hotly on the rear of the infantry and slaughtering at will, All mounted men unable to ride well were dismounted by the rush of the flying horsemen an* killed. When last seen Dr Leslie, Morice Bey, and Cipt. Walker! with drawn swords and pistols, were stand, ing in a group surrounded by the enemy close to the guns in the front face of the "*^\'k: ^-^®' *1?° *^« Turkish battaUon and thirty-six Italian policemen were an- nihilated, scarcely one escaping. So for five miles the flight and pursuit were kept up. The Mwsowah black battalion behaved 7a 1" Jf P""""" °* t^« dUtance re- tired steadily, firing volleys into the enemy. Zobehar 8 blacks were undrilled and hardly W 'Vl^'J "^*" °°* having arrived long enough before the advance te enable the officers to get them into any ni^â„¢;ti ^^" .ttierefore bolted \v^^}? «" did the Egyptians. W ben the earthwork was reached, where wo had encamped the night before, the general made great efforts to protect the rear of the' flying fugitives by a charge of the Turkish whose flight had bejn stopped by tho cffi â€" but nothing could induce them to Half a regiment of Indian cavalry ^nf f.kA v.1b;« A.I.. *^ enemy with the greatest ease, a although the general could notind*^! Turks to charge, he got them to forn,- at the earthwork at 4 to halt facinirt!f**l emy. The pursuit then ceased, tho- *â-  doubtless, being afraid of the but, in fact, no gunboat was in the h"' the admiral having orde r ^H away the B ' on the previous diy. When the n '"'i ceased the weary fugitives, horse and f'"" with many riderless horses her » anj i""^! ledClopi the M among the m, made their way across intervening miles of deep mud to TrinV '" Oa r^rohing the shore they wquiSt" crowded into the few boats there swamped them had not the t j^liah (ffi " revolver in hand, kept them back, tvJ they stood huddled together on the h^ like a flock of sheep, and had the en come on the whole would have been butcr ' ed as easily and with as little resistenc ' so many sheep might have been. -raduaf*' as it Was found that the enemy i\ really ceaapd in their pursuit, the pani,. .^^'l sided." ""•' WITTKISMS. DID!; i? A good fitâ€" A fit of laughter. The man who lives too fast is bound • i die too quick. The most appropriate j ajtry for a ire, lunch counter â€" sponge cake. "I'm locked in slumber," murmurs tii prison bird in his sleep. The first man who says that March v come in like a lion must be lambed. The oleomargarine manufacturers cDostJ. tute an oloegarchy. The man who "wouldn't wonder" be the hziest man in the world. The didn't-knowit-was-loaded man wi: always live, and frequently die. Artificial cork has been invented, andvi shall soon hear of adulter.ited lifeprestn. ers. The American hog is expected tobi^; disturbance between this country and Gei many. Every fresh trick the professional rolls skater adds to his or her reperto r.' is callei a neT rinkle. Every cloud has a silver lining; bat it; " not so with solid silver water pitchers They are nickle plated. "This is my coat of alms," said a traip tapping the ragged garment the deacon of i church had just given him. He â€" "You made a fool of me when I ma-. ried you, madam.,' She â€" "Lor! You a. ways told me you were a self-made man ' When a bachelor says he is sinele fron choice it maks him mad to ask him why ihf girls made choice of some other fellow. It ain' alius de silent man dat's desmartes De sheep doan make ez much fuss -ez de dog, but he ain' got as much sense. A Connecticut newspaper has put the enterprise of its contemporaries to shaue by a long article on "The Next Worics Fair." The only thing that equals the spontac eousnesa with which the country proposes; monument is the unanimous cordiality wi:; which it isn't built. A New York Alderman, being told re- cently that he was ambiguous, declarer that the charge was false, as he had no: drank anything for a year. Under the head of "Injustice to Irelani, the Detroit Free Press announces the mar 'â-  riage of Oicar Wilde to a Dublin girl. "Why don't yon favor Mr. Archer, m; child " ' Oh, for the best of reasons, mi One can't expect to make much if a hit it society with an old-fashioned cross-beau!' The critics are poking fun at a magazine article for saying, "man is our brother. I OF course he is. i ou woulden't call bii I your sister, would you If the article said: ' "Man in our sister," the critics would have leison t)T kicking. A young Hungarian woman, recently ar rived at New York, has been trying to marry three men. Some wicked American has evi- dently been (riving tliat poor girl some e.xig- gerated pointers on the leap year of her adopted country, A writer in a scientific monthly aski "What is a meter?" In reply a jocular ed iter said "An opinion has long prevailed that a meter is a cDntrivance that works twenty-seven hours a day, eight days a week the year around and when you resolve to economise in the use of gas, it throws in a couple of extra hours daily without charge." " Oranges should never be eaten in era- pany," says an authority. We have noticed the disadvantage of eating cringes, too, and have come to the conclusion that the only way to really er j jy an orange is to retire to some sheltered spot in the grove, strip, seiz: the orange and go in swimming in it. icr cera, charge. #onld have sweptThe pi"a'in oFthT^att^IS Need of Economy. Oae of the hardest lessons in life young people to learn is to practice econo- my. It is a harder duty for a young man to accumulate and save his first SICO' than his next f 10.000. A man can be ecoa- omical without being mean, and it is one o' his most solemn duties to lay up sutii-ient in his days of strength and prosperity t^ provide for hiirstjlf and those whj a:e(r may be dependent upon him iu Jayso: sickness or misfortune. Extravatrmcs 'â-  one of the greatest evils of the pres'ent age, It is underming and overturning the lofties: and best principles that should be retaineii and held sacrea in society. It is aunuilO sending thousands of young men au ycung women to ruin and misfortune. Caltivate, then, sober and ind.!^t^ioBâ- " habits acquire the art of puttioE; a !itt« aside every day and for your future ueceis;- ties avoid ah unnecessary and tj-i.^"'^^ pendituris. Spend your time ia sucii a r.i' ner as sha'd bring you profit aud enj ryn--^^' and your money for such things as y -J ^â- ' ually need for your comfort and h ij.piaf^*' and you will prosper in your live.s yo»' i business, and will win and retain th. rer- and honor of all worthy and substantial i'^^' I pie. The family man resembles an oyeter o" the half shell. The shell is known at bo«' the soft side abroad. Sjme men carry t^' I resemblance in their faces. A great vaVi' men have countenances like oysters. BY IK TWO Sorrow broodJ l«nw aaa^ °?* ' Se»*-?L*"hs fey had been ha t\Jbam.butno J°; HU chau SdandpigBtr ^â- * resolution 1 on being rejecte- resienhistassio. yo bloody boWe was picke poDd, and no ne Kg sadly on Its I gaSntered four al or made a smokr and no police de delicate attenta, bouse bypokini closets and cros her chin betwe otbing of the k d in the hou6eh( ure hope and m d estates, was â-  •My poor boy: hope he won't e dreadful city. 1 fnl bad place for td young womai tions, as parson: 'em himself, rc One time pooi Sunday mom in/ chamber en the boarding house, i terest the "want find some openin had determined I time. There we i among them he i the most prcniisi i "Wantedâ€" A -I S°°^ address and B orders in this cil M twenty dollars a ^A. ' S., box 17,! I "Just the thin, self, as he procee( turnip I have bee two years on that of coming to Nev greenbacks and i gelicaâ€" if I only Hill and money nappy we both a He hadn't quit ty nearly. Ken face and those eyes and cherry 1 him like a wsr.t prospect, £0 close money and beinj even of throwing shade, and mayh i heart of pretty bore all other co to feel as if he h fortune already ii Two days after cird invitation tc prietor of box 1 Eow, and straigh A lank, sallow-f cacles on his nc red hair on his h( ered with pamph greeted our bucol stare, beginning t I ing at his boots, i 1 his nose where h was, what his fa many besides bin De smoked ciga poker, and prop linent interrogat( •i tions as a young ' to all of which N twers. 'See here then lectiDg a pamphl( and handing it tc of mygreatworko vity.andtheScitn ustrating the Eve " -Adipose Tddpoh frog together wi dropathic aad sp cp^iogical and E you've got to do,^ iBg breath, "is t iieart and â€" and t •^an. Price ten si commissions ten i Wday night." Ned remarked i left. The greenb Wight as it had Ic an air castle as fa I concerned, and ' â-  down several poi back to his rocm I t'Oh. He read th and cime to the ci 'he winning card Jhought struck hi â- *ii8 capital inpii patronage of fon c^ population. °-d contained the sel: "C'Out in the f nently cured in warded to any ad ?!i Canada on Address Dr. Ed, In the course c bnehelsof letters 5?i«d rtmittenc Z- ^^oPPw's fee **cts anddepar ?t"eiinthe prit ^UU a dozer "^groaned ui \^ envelopes ^»ont Core. i^'^.^etheankU I do It," ""»"• j2^k «nthe iZ '**» •»«« stout