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READING FOR TIIE SABBATH. Chastening. Unto my life there came a call. When tuey bauds could scarcely spar© A moment's pause, when anxious oara Was deepest, and the present hour Held me with an unwonted power, Then came the call. No “nay" for answer to that cell, But swift obedience! QuieVly fades The world that so engrossed a* and shades Cf twijight front an unknown sky Fall th*ickly o'er me where I lie, Led by that call. Familiar faces e’en grow strange! The world— how far away! How vain Alike its pleasure and its j>ain! While the unseen, which seemed to be In those past hours so shadowy, Alone is rest. Waitine upon the border land— Passive and weak—too weak for choice, <Yet leaning unto rest) the voice Comes once again. ’ ’Not yet for thee The long-desired rest shall be. But higher work, ''Learn thou how frail a thing thy lifel And as tie moments swiftly speed Upon thy nobler self take heed; And though thy hands must labor still. Give me thy thoughts, thy work, thy will, ’Till thee I call.” —Louise s. Mixsell, in Churchman, Religions Notes. Dwight L. Moody has been seriously ill at Newport, and is by no means well yet. The Southern Methodist Church is responsible for Rev Sam Jones and his utterances. Rev. Thomas Harrison will begin revival meetings at kipon, AY is., about the first of September. A canvass made under the auspices of Allegheny churches shows that 75 per cent. of the residents of Allegheny, Pa., attend church. The Tenth Congress of the Protestant Episco pal Church in the United States w ill be held in New Haven, Conn., commenciug on Tuesday, Oct. 20. AY. M. C. A. has recently been established in Madrid, Spain, where the temptations to young men are numerous and powerful, and where there Is no Sabbath. It is very probable that the Protestant bishop ric of Jerusalem, which was established conjointly by Prussia and England in 1841, will be discontinued entirely.) Mr. I). L. Moody announces that the third annual conference for Bible study will be held at Northfield, from Aug. sto 15. Mr. Sankey will conduct the musical services. Two daughters of King Mtesa of Africa have recently been baptized and received into the Mission Church at Uganda, and are busy giving religious instruction to others. St. David's Hall, Scranton, Pa., the headquarters of the Salvation Army, was burned July 15. It was built about fivo years ago by the Oddfellows, and was worth $40,000. During the last twenty five years sixty-five new Methodist chapels have been brilt, in London at a cost of $”.,000,000, and the number of ministers has increased from fifty to 115. The native pastor at Lagos, West Africa, reports. as a result of a recent spiritual revival in bis ’argo Yoruba congregation, that not less than 436 persons have confessed conversion. God does not make haste. He is patient, and aometimes seems to us to be oblivious to the wrongs and woes of the world. Taking the ages together, however, God smites the wrong and erowns the right. Let us live in hone. Tholuck: The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts. It belongs to the nature of this book that it was written for all men of every time, and for all ihe experiences of each single human heart. Asa result of the recent revival in Nashville, Tenn , several liquor dealers closed their shops and joined the church. An owner of a steamboat line on Cumberland rtver has closed the bars on ft!) his boats, and beaded a subscription to erect A building for the Young Men’s Christian Association with SI,OOO. Maj. John Smith, an eminent English local preacher, is to represent the English Wesleyan Methodist Mutual Aid Local Preachers’ Association at the next session of the National Association of Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which meets in Brooklyn, E. D., ft. Y., on the last Saturday of September, 1885. Ruskin; How often it is difficutto be wisely .charitable; to do good without multiplying the sources of evil. To give alms is nothing lest you |ive thought also. It is written,not “blessed is the that feedeth the poor,” but “blessed is he that eonsidereth the poor.” A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. A Buddhist temple, burnt twenty years ago, is being rebuilt in Kioto, Japan. It is of most expensive wood, and will cost over $3,000,000. M ore than a ton of large ropes, made of their own hair, contributed by the women of Japan, will be used to haul the timbers of the temple to their places. This temple is to be a Mecca for the faithful all over the empire. “Holiness” Among Southern Methodists. Atlanta Constitution. A prominent Methodist layman said yesterday: "You are going to see serious trouble come from the 'holiness' movement. Ido not refer so much to its evil effects on individuals, which liavo already been great and will be worse, but to the disorganizing influence it will have on the ehureh. The present spirited discussion among prominent ministers on the subject only foreshadows a severer contest that is bound to come in the councils of the e'nurch. I think those who profess the ’holiness’ theory will be carried farther and further in their peculiar notions vntil some declaration of the doctrine of the Methodist Church on the question of sanctification will be made by the General Conference. There is hardly a possibility that any declara tion by the sober sense of the church on this question will meet the views of the organized holiness’ people. Many of them are so enthused With their dogma that they will never surrender It, and a schism in the church will be the result.” An Advocate of Stanley. Cbrlatlan Advocate. Grave charges have been brought against Mr. Stanley’s government by Americans, who, in the search of fortune, have followed their adventurous countryman to the Congo valley. He and his subordinates are represented as being tyrannical to the last degree. That the heroic explorer may neve made some blunders in statecraft is not unlikely; that he is either weak or wicked, the civilized world will be slow to be lieve. But whatever of truth there may be in the accusations, one fact is certain—the morning of Africa's redemption has already dawned. Neither the malarial coasts nor interior juneles, neither native despotisms nor foreign jealousies, ran much longer defer the glorious day when a Christian civilization shall spread from Beuguela to Zanzibar. A Crucial Period. Central t hrlstiaa Advocate. That we are passing throueh a critical period of Christian thought, a re examination of our doctrinal statements in the light of larger knowledge and with methods more severely critical than ever before will hardly be doubted by anyone. The only real difficulty which besets vs is the heedless or indifferent teaching of the past. We have nut distinguished as we ought to have done between the faith that lays hold on Christ, and the assent that does not touch the spiritual uature; between religion and theology; that which w© verify in the soul’s experience ami that which satisfies mental inquiry. One who has felt the transforming influence of the holy spirit in his soul is not easily moved by theological or scientific speculation. A Gettysburg Church. The Episcopalians have decided to build a memorial church at Gettysburg. It is to contain memorial windows, and contributors to the building fund are to liavo special privileges for themselves and friends. The church, to be national, mnst take a broader basis. Americans are not all Episcopalians. Character-Build log. He*. T. DeWitt I’enke. In character building, as in building.a house, it is important to have a plan to build by. if you would build well, study the best models—men and women of the best type—but remem her the most famous aro not always the best.

Study the pictures drawn by the pens of inspired men, but study most the character of the man Jesus. His character was perfect. It is imjwirtant, also, to build on a good foundation. When a man determines to put up a costly structure he is careful that no defect is found in the foundation. Be sure to start right. “Other foundation can no man lay, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” Then make Jesus both your model and your foundation. A Liberal Duke. It is not necessary that wealth should render its possessor obnoxious. On the contrary, it puts an immense power into the hands of man or woman to do good, to diffuse happiness, to benefit society, and so to win esteem and regard. There is nothing more beautiful than to see wealth so employed; and it is pleasant to chronicle such examples as the following: The Duke of "Westminster has arranged to build a handsome new church, vicarage and schools for St. Mary’s parish, Chester, and to provide suitable sites for these several erections on his own property within the parish. The cl urch and rectory will cost s]QAofiO. The Duchess is to lay the foundation stone of the rectory; the Duke that of the church. Dr. Fraser—The Sunday Question. Two Sundays ago, Dr. Fraser, bishop of Manchester, preached in the parish church of Kensington. He made special reference to Sunday observance. He spoke of the duties which the more wealthy classes owed to their domestic employes. Theie was, generally, he said, a want of considerateness to servants. On the previous Sunday he had seen a large number of fashionable people driving to one of tho art galleries. He freely recognized the valuable treasures of art and science, and admitted their influence, within given limits; but ho did not see that they had claims to be regarded as in any sense tho moral regenerators of the world. Sectarianism in Switzerland. Switzerland,in itself alone, presents a fair sample of the divisions of Christendom The sects are almost countless. Still, however, they grow in numbers. These divisions are most numerous in Geneva. It appears that the Adventists and the Healers are about to establish themselves in that city. The distinctive features of the creel of the latter are that t ise se i9 the work of the devil, and that it can oo cured by prayer and anointing. The Healers have of late been exceedingly active, and their numbers are on the increase. Presbyterian Giving. From some tables just published it is gathered that the total income of the Presbyterians of Scotland is above £1.000,000 —$5,000,000. The most liberal are the United Presbyterians, who give at the rate of over £3 10s. per member. The Free Church gives at the rate of £2 per member. The Established Church gives at the rate of only 13s. per member. The United Presbyterians are also largely ahead in the number of missionaries which they support in the foreign field. The Huguenots. The descendants of the Huguenots throughout tlie world are making extensive preparations for the celebration of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in October. The occasion is to be marked by the publication of a volume, entitled “Synods of the Desert,” being the “Acts of the National and Provincial Synods, held in the Deserts of France, from the death of Louis XIV to the lievoiution.” Universities Mission. One of the most important ot ail the African missions is that which is supported in central Africa by the universities of Oxford and Cam bridge. It was founded at the suggestion and by way of compliment to the late Dr. Livingstone. The income this year h:is been only slightly over $70,000. Tho expenditure has been about $90,000. _ LICENSE OR PROHIBITION. A Plea for Laws that Are Practical in Their Operation. Rev. I). M. Ilatfirdd, D. D., in Chicago Advance. There is substantial agreement among the friends of temperance on the question of the legal prohibition of the liquor traffic. They regard every grog shop as a nuisance that should be abated by law. If tho people have not the right to protect themselves and their property from the poverty, vice and crime caused by the liquor business, then civil government is a failure. Persons who regard high license or local option as a finality, deceive themselves and do not understand the conscientious purposes of the workers in the cause of temperance. Let me, in this connection, bring to the attention of your readers two or three incontrovertible facts that some of us may have overlooked: 1. License to seil intoxicating drinks did not originate in a desire to encourage the business, or to make it respectable. There was a time when the right to sell these drinks was conceded to all. Whoever chose to do so sold rum or brandy as freely as he dealt in flour or molasses, and no one questioned his legal right to do so. In time the evils of the business became so apparent that good men cast about for means to remove or mitigate these evils. It was in this way that the license system originated. As early as 1651 the people of East Hampton, N. Y., passed a law to license and regulate this business. (It is to be recretted that the word “license” was ever used in this connection. ) The colony of New Haven passed a similar law a few years later, and ever since the' people of this country have been legislating to counteract the evils that resulted from the sale and use of intoxicating drinks. lam not saying that this legislation has always been right in principle, or that its results have been what we could desire. But it is flying in the face of the facts of history, and is a slander of the living and the dead to affirm that it was designed to encourage the drink traffic. These laws, one and all, treat that business as an evil that is to be put under law and hampered by restrictions. The friends of temperance make a mistake, and extend aid and comfort to tho enemy, when they assert that licensing a grog-shop makes it respectable. The business is infamous; no legislation can ehauge its character. It is not by license or taxation that any business is promoted. The production of beet sugar has been stimulated in some of the countries of Europe by bounties, not by tniation. When the Legislature imposes a tax on dogs, or requires their owners to pay a license for keeping them, it is done for the protection of sheep, and not to encourage the rearing of dogs. 2. License laws are prohibitory, and prohibitory laws license the sale of intoxicants under certain circumstances. A law that licenses one man in a thousand to keep a saloon, prohibits nine hundred and ninety nine others from engaging in the same business. Objections to prohibitory laws on the ground that they interfere wit h personal rights lie with equal force against license. An enactment that is unjust to a thousand persons is not changed in character when one man in a thous sand is exempt from its operation. On the other hand, the most stringent prohibitory laws or which I have knowledge license or authorize the sale of alcohol for medical and mechanical purposes. 3. A preference under certain circumstances of high license, rather than low, is not necessarily an indorsement of a license system. This seems to me so nearly a self evident truth that I feel like apologizing to your readers for calling your attention to it for a moment. \\ e are uot to forget, in this connection, that the settlement of this question is not left en tirely in the hands of temperance men. We are citizens of a country in which there is the largest liberty in speaking and voting. The naturalized citizen of foreign birth who believes in tfie use of stimulants has the same rights on the platform and at the ballot box as ourselves. Let us suppose a stanch friend of temperance to be living in a community in which the question of prohibition is hardly up for consideration. Nine tenths of the citizens are in favor of, and will vote for, license: but they are divided as to the terms in which licenses shall tie granted. One party favors granting 1.000 licenses at $lO each; the other would limit the licenses to ten, and charge SI,OOO for each of thorn. The intelligent friend of prohibition stands by and advocates his principles; but believes that ten grog shops are less an evil than 1,000, and acts according to his convictions. It may be said that his course is a choice of evils, and for this he may be criticised. I should say that he accepts of the smaller evil, and in doing so acts like a man of sense Submitting to the amputation of an arm to save my lit♦* does not prove me in love with capital surgical operations. One may greatly prefer ripe peaches to raw potatoes, yet

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be so situated that it is best for him to make a meal of the uncooked tubers. Once more, and in conclusion: 4. It is important that we make a wise use of the laws we have for tho suppression of intemperance until we can replace them by better ones. Just at this point, as it seems to me, some of our friends act with singular unwisdom. In the zeal to secure the abstract and ideal, they lose sight of tho practical. They will have prohibition or nothing. Local option laws and laws forbidding the sale of liquor to minors and on the Sabbath do not interest them. They render little or no assistance to thoso who are enforcing our present laws to save the children and youth from becoming drunkards. Some of them go so far as to demand the repeal of all license laws and the removal of the tax on the manufacture of whisky. If these wild schemes could be carried into operation, it requires no prophetic vision to anticipate some of the results. Whisky would be so cheap that a toper could drink himself into a state of more than beastly drunkenness for two or three cents. Grog shops would be ten times as numerous as they now are. Towns and counties would lose the protection now secured them by local option. The land would be deluged by drunkeness and debauchery to an extent of which we could hardly forma conception. Decent men would be driven to combine for a system of license and regulation, and we should probably hear little more of prohibition for a generation to come. He that is wise will consider these things. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Wo AII Like Sheep. "We all like sheep," the tenors shrill Begin, and then the church is still, While back and forth across the aisto Is seen to pass the “catching” smile. “We all like sheep,” the altos moan In low, and rich, and ineliow tone, While broader grows the merry grin, And nose gets further off from chin. “We all like sheep,” sopranos sing Till all the echoes wake and ring; The young folks titter, and the rest Suppress the laugh in bursting chest. “Wo all like sheep,” the bassos growl— The titter grows into a howl, And e'en the deacon's face is graced With wonder at the singers’ taste. “We all like sheep,” runs the refrain, And then, to make their meaning plain, '1 he singers altogether say, “"We all, like sheep, have gone astray.” —Columbus (.0.) Dispatch. Tlie Wrong Man. New York Sun. First Gentleman —I beg your pardon, sir, but is not your name Srnvthe? Second Gentleman—No, sir, my name is Smith. You have evidently mistaken me for my sou. lie Was Ahead. Boston Herald. The disposition of children not to allow other children to get ahead of them is once uu.ry illustrated in two Record families, as follows“l've got a silver dollar.” *Tve got two.” ‘‘You haven’t got a baby in your house.” ‘‘Yes, we have; wev’e got twins.” “Well, you haven’t got a crazy grandfather; I have. ” Her Mother’s Fault. New York Sun. Old man (to daughter)—Young Mr. S. paid you a very fine compliment last evening, my dear. Daughter (delighted)—What was it, papa? Old Man —lie said you were a very intelligent young lady. Daughter (disappointed)—Oh, pshaw! 1 told mamma I would look like a fright in tlie brown dress, but she insisted upon my wearing it. Appropriate to the Occasion. Nev- York Sun. “Featherly is something of a musician, and was attending an evening party, giveu in honor of the eldst daughter of the family. “I would be giad if you would sing something, Mr. Featherly,” said the hostess. “Certainly, my dear madam. Will you suggest a song?” “O, anything that is appropriate to the occasion. 1 will leave the selection with you.” So Featherly, with that rare tact and discrimination for which he is so justly popular in society, sat down at the piano and sang, “Backward, Turn Backward, O. Time, iu Thy Flight.” Business Is Business. Pittsburg: Chronicle. In a broker’s office. Enter friend, also broker. “Hello, old humpy, how are you?” “I’m pretty well, but my baby died ’smorning.” “No. Poor little kid. Devilish sorry old boy—how did Jersey open up?” “Opened weak, and I’m looking for a break. Mother’s all used up.” “It is hard luck. Central’s looking stronger?'’ “You bet, I’m in for a fly on it and—say Cholly—want you to run my deals to-morrow. Keep me long on Central —funeral's at eleven — and—say Cholly, dump Jersey if she looks sick.” Failure of the Installment Plan. Texas Siftings. Little Mamie Snickers, tlie only child of Judge Snickers, of Austin, wanted somebody to play with her. She said: “Mamma. I want a little brother. Tho little girl next door has got a nice new one. Why can’t I have one?” Mrs. Snickers shook her head doubtfully. “Why don’t you buy one,.mamma?” “I haven't got any money right now.” “But, mamma, you didn't have to pay any money when you got the piano and the sewing machine. You pay a little every month by installment. Can’t you get a baby now, and pay for him by installments?” On reflection Mrs. Snickers decided that the installment plan would not work. He Counted the Children. Arhannaw Traveler. “I ain’t gwine ter stay in dis heah country no longer den I ken h’ep,” said an old negro whose general good humor aad satisfied condition rendered his observation significant. “What’s the matter, Eli?” someone asked. “Never mine whut's de matter; I kain’t stay in dis country.” “Anybody been abusing you?” “Yas, sah, da is.” “Infringe on your rights?” “Sah?” “Trample upon your rights?” “Yas, sah, da did. Tramped on me wif bof feet.” “Tell me about it” “Wall, yer knows, sah; dat Fee er mighty han' fur chillun. l’se got some twelbe ur fifteen at my house, yer know. Dis mawnin’ while da wuz all out in de yard it struck me dat dar wuz er powerful chance o’ them, so I ’gunter count. Wall, sah. I counted twenty-three. ’Look heah. wife,’ s’l, ‘how come all dese chillun in heah?’ She sorter ’vaded de subjeck, but at las’ she ’knowlenged dat de extra chillun ’longed to her sister whut wuz dun run away. Now, boss, how long dose yer reckon I had been er totin’ dat extra load?” “I have no idea.” “No, sah, I doan’ ’spose yer has. I’d been feedin’ dem chillun fur two munts, sah. 1 thought dat it tuck a powerful chance ter eat, but I didn’ think, sah, dat my wife wus er stffin’ de ballock box dater way. No, sah, I aiu’t gwine ter stay heah.” An American l’autheon Wanted. lioiton Herald. It is on an occasion like the present that one realizes how much we need in this country some recognized resting place for our illustrious dead. If wo had an edifice corresponding to Westminster Abbey in England, or the Pantheon in France, the question of where General Grant should be buried would not be raised. Clearly, if we are to fitly honor those who during their lives have done the state ureat service, a place must he set apart as the common grave of great Americans. If such a place could be found, it could be made the receptacle of all that is mortal of scores of American statesmeu. generals, philanthropists, scholars, poets arid orators, whose ashes now rest neglected and often forgotten in unknown graveyards in all parts of our country. To collect into a national mausoleum the remains of those who have in the last century been typical representativesof the genius, the wisdom, the eloquence and the virtue of the American people would he a work well calculated to arouse the highest feeiiuga of patriotism.

TIIE rUZZLE DEPARTMENT. [Everything relating to this department must be addressed to W, H. Graffam, West Scarborough. Cumberland county, Maine. Original contributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all. ] Answers to Puzzles. No. 1633 There is no death! the stars go down To shine upon some fairer shore; And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for evermore. No. 1034—M0 at. No. 1635—1. “Adam and Eve’s Morning Hynin,” by Milton. 2. “The Aged Stranger,” by Bret llarte. 3. “Alexander Selkirk,” by Cowper. 4. “The Bells of Poe.” 5. “Coming and Going,” bv Beecher. No. 1030. L—O L I U—M O—C TRO-I U—R CHI -N I—M PUG-N 8-0 L E R—E I—N G L E-S A—P P O L—O N—U T A N—T A—F R I C— A No. 1637 M A P SALAD MATAPAN ALABAMA PAPA V E R DAMES N A R No, 1633—1. S haver. 2. S-malt. 3L S late. 4. P rivet. 5. P refer. 6. P lead. 7. G rind. No. 1633 R CON CED A R HODOMEL NAMED RED L Original Puzzles. NO. 1653— CHARADE. [To “Somebody.”] We do not know the moment of its birth, AV e cannot tell the instant of its death. It steals upon ns while we watch for it, And as stealthily gives up its parting breath. Our lives are but its repetitions— Sometimes gay and cheerful, sometimes sad. But each one come restful hours. When Morpheus woos us from the cares they’ve had. My second—we see it in the morning; And when tis gone we can see things but dimly; Sometimes tis silvery, sometimes a golden flood; When silvery, the. owls are hooting grimly. 5Y hen my first breaks, my total we may see; When my first ends, my total ceases too; They are alike, yet they are not the same, The time when all should strive to be and do. Indianapolis, Ind. Eve Linwood. NO. 1654— OCTAGON PUZZLE. 1. The fruit of the dog-rose. 2. The names of four princes in Bible history. 3. Having the color of the liver. 4. A place of orisous or prayer. 5. A river of the United States. 6. A town of France. 7. An abbreviation. West Scarborough, Me. Xoa. NO. 1655— DIAMOND. 1. A letter in Apache. 2. Equality of condition. 3. Destined. 4. A small umbrella used by ladies. 5. A country of South America. 6. To reverberate. 7. A lady. 8. Tho eyelid. 9. A letter in America. Xoa. NO. 1656— CHARADE. At evening by my whole you’ll think Os days gone by, and never reckon That by my next my first is made, And by my first my second. Rockville, Ind. S. and M. No. 1657 — square. 1. An animal. 2. Soil. 3. A retreat under shrubs and vines. 4. A supply of merchandise. 5. Cast with force. Dennis. Marshall, Ind. NO. 1658— BURIED CITIES. 1. Just my luck; now is it not right? 2. He stood with one arm akimbo, stoning the apple tree. 3. Mamma said, “Quit. Oilie, or you will break the flower.” S. and M. NO. 1659. —CHARADE. Os a charming little kitten, It has never been written. How it 101 l into the waters of the channel; But it showed no sign* of fear, My first did no cue hear, Because the puss was made of canton flannel. W hen intruders call the attention Os our cur, the mere mention Os my second sends him flying in pursuit; My whole is sweetest sounds, .Dullest care it drowns, And charms the savage spirit of the brute. Eve Linwood. no. 1660— SQUARE. 1. To hammer. 2. A lake. 3. Helps. 4. Critical examination. Dennis. {Answers in three weeks.] A Set of Dominoes. We offer a set of dominoes to the boy or girl sending us tho best list of answers this week. Foot Notes. Eve Linwood dedicates a charade to “Somebody.” We hope somebody will solve it. S. and M.—Your work is very acceptable, hut next, time you come —and we hope it may be soon —will you please write only on one side of your paper? Dennis —Word Square No. 1 contains a blemish. The others are worthy of space. We trust you wiil visit us often. All —We hope you will givo the puzzle department your heart\ T support. We are in need of good puzzle contributions. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Kanglelaml—The Hedids ami the SliedUlnts, and How They Lost Their Country. Brooklyn Union. It was a beautiful island, that is to say, lone, very long ago. Roses, pinks, lilies, tulips, buttercups, grew there, and the vines bent under the weight of the grapes, the orchards broke down with the fruit, and the birds Banc, and the btterflies flitted. Notv the name of this beautiful island was Rangleland. and the roses, vines and fruit trees there never were apparently cultivated, but grew of their own accord. Bad weeds and tares, by some wonderful process of nature, were net to be found in Rangleland, so the fruits ripened, the flowers bloomed, renewing themselves every year, and the country was like an earthly paradise. The only thing the island wanted for many ages was inhabitants, but in time people came to Rangleland. One family, the very celebrated one of the Hedids, settled on one part of the island, and to another part came tho equally well-known family of the Shedidnts. The island was not a very large one, barely more than fifty miles across, so for some years the Hedids and the Shedidnts had no acquaintance with one another. These two families did not differ in any great respect from other families, for there were members in them of many dispositions. Some were mild and pleasant spoken, while others were bad tempered and never could talk without saying harsh things. The good and well behaved members of each family naturally tried to keep the disagreeable anil quarrelsome ones from getting into trouble, but it may be mentioned with regret that the former did not always suceceed in their excellent intentions. Now it was a beneficent fairy who had converted this land into such a beautiful garden, and she was pleased to think that the people who had come to live there would be contented and happy. They had very little to do save to pick the fruit off the trees or to gather the crops of grain which ripened on the land. How the trouble between the two families arose is iatber difficult to determine. It could not have been for want of room, for there was ample space for them all. As near as the cause of the difficulty can be ascertained, it arote from a baby’s bib Mrs. Hedid had washed the bib and hung it on her own clothes line, and the wind had blown it into Mrs. Shedidnts field. It was a great misfortune that both Mrs. Hedid and Mrs. Shedidnt were the representative scolds of the two fa mil ies. Mrs. Hedid at once lost her temper when she found her bib was gone, and was exceedingly angry when che learned that Mr. Shedidnt had said “that she was surprised that tho Hedids’ baby should have a bib • made out of common musiiD, while the best linen was none too good for her.” Whether this was the original eanse of all the misfortunes which afterward happened to

Rangleland can nover be stated as an absolute fact, for historians and geographers insist that the real foundation of the trouble was pigeons. One of the Shedidnt boys bad pigeons, three of them, a blue, a black and a white fantail, and Billy Shedidnt set his heart on pigeons. It appeared that a yellow cat belonging to the Hedids prowled around in the Shediduts’ back yard, and when last seen was known to have been gazing at the Shedidnt boy’s pigeon coop. Whether the Hedids’ cat really did eat the Shedidnts pigeons never could be actually ascertained, the only positive proof about the slaughter of the birds was that some tail feathers were found, and that the Hedids’ cat looked for several days afterward remarkably round and slick. Certainly Billy Shedidnt felt aggrieved, and told his big brother, Tom, about it, when Tom declared, “that he would get a shotgun and lay out the Hedids’ yellow cat.” Whether he did or did not execute this threat is not known, only it remains as a positive fact that., although the Hedids’ cat was carefully hunted up for weeks, ; he never was heard again on the back fences, i With all the natural ill temper which belonged to the two families, events of the startling character just narrated could not long remain unnoticed, and an explosion was threatening. But when, on top of this, something else happened, then came the crisis. This time one of the Shedidnt children, three years old, slipped on a piece of peach skin while playing on the pavement before one of the Hedid houses. At once, though the child was not at all hurt, having only rolled % the gutter, Mrs. Shedidnt instantly taxed Mrs. Hedid with having strewn the pavement purposely with peachskins so as to endanger the lives of her (Mrs. Shedldnt’s) babies. Os course Mrs. Hedid denied the charge. She said that they had eaten no perches, because Tom Shedidnt had stolen all their peaches and they never had a chance to eat any of their own fruit. Then tne two women went at it, and the air resounded with their crips of “Hedid” and “Shedidnt.” Every little difference and quarrel about the most absurd things was brought up, aud now all tho hot-headed people in both families came to the front and carried things with a high hand. Little by little the men grew excited and commenced threatening one another. It was the hoys on both sides who really first began in it. They called one another names, and then threw stones, then the girls took it up and made faces at one another, and Julia Hedid asserted that Mary Shedidnt was a “na3ty old thing.” while Mary replied to Julia by stating that “that was all your mother learned you.” Now, somebody sawed half through one of the peach trees, while somebody else trampled down somebody else’s flower beds. It was now indeed that war was declared. It is sad to think how from little, insignificant causes, portentous events follow. Some learned men declared that from the cutting down of the peach tree commenced the first drought in Rangleland. The fruitful rain no longer was tempered in its fall on tho ground, but came down in torreiits, there being no tree to stop it, and so the soil was all washed away. Little by little tho flower beds were ruined. From a temperate region, Rangleland became a dreadfully hot country, and all grass and verdure died out. The more wretched the country became the more the Hedids and the Shedidnts quarreled. At last it came to such a pitch that the beneficent fairy lost all patience. Certainly, notwithstanding tho bad behavior of the two families, she was most forgiving. One day she appeared before them. When fairies are in a good humor they always are very pleasant personages to see, having beautiful faces, clad in gowns of gauze, all sparkling with jewels, wearing shining crowns on their heads aud with two pretty wings sprouting out of tlieir shoulders. Sometimes they have wands, and sometimes not. Now this fairy appeared in the guise of an old and wrinkled woman, anu she was shivering as with the cold. All at once the two families were conscious that their thermometers were fast sinking, and that it was getting to be dreadfully chilly. Scarcely had the fairy lifted up her old crooked stick and waved it, before the snow began to fail, and all the ponds were frozen up. The few remaining trees died and split at once with the intense cold. “Go awav from here, all of you, you cross, troublesome and ill grained people, while there is yet tune,” said the fairy. “You have not killed one another yet, but I have just come in time to stop that. Now scatter. You will find some ships ready far vou. Now clear out!” Sorrowfully the Hedids and the Shedidnts left their once beautiful country, and it was only just in time, for icebergs were forming on the coast and great glaciers on the land. It was with difficulty that an escape was made from a desolate land of snow and ice. It is not known where the two families went to, but it is said that some of the members of the Hedids and the Shediunt’s found a refuge in the United States, and certain of them came to Brooklyn, where they are still conspicuous for the same traits that helped to ruiu Rangleland ages ago. As for Rangleland, which remained after the expulsion of the two families, uninhabited for many thousands of years, except by an occasional polar bear, not so long ago it was rediscovered by some arctic explorers, and it is now known as Wrangle Land. Day Dreams. While the slighted grammar unopened lay, The little maid dreamed of a fairy clew. A magic thread that led far and away The deep, tangled maze of the forest through;— “Oh! I wish there were things to do to day. Queer riddles to solve, great prizes to gam, Enchantments to break, magicians to slay, Aud that 1, a queen, on a throne might reign! “But the puzzles are lost, the queens are dead. And there’s nothing to do,” she sighed and said. A little lad leaned on his hoe that morn, And longed tor a horse and a burnished shield, To ride away from the pumpkins and coin, To the tourney’s lists on tne tented field:— “Oh! I wish there were things to do to day. Great dragons to kill and battles to fight; I would break a lance in the fiercest fray; I would fling a glove at the proudest knight, "Bat honor is lost, and glory has fled, And there’s nothing to do,” he sighed and said. And the poor little maiden neveT knew That knowledge was ready to crown her queen, And the clew that led his labyrinth through Lay hidden ihe leaves of her book between. And the little lad never even guessed That the dragon Sloth conquered him that day, While he lightly dreamed of some idle quest, Ana bis unused hoe in the young com lay. Bat honor and fame passed the dreamers by, And crowned brave Toil, who found no time to sigh. —Annie M. Libby, in Sunday-school Times. Why Amateur Theatrical!* “Draw” in London. London correspondence N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The upper ten thousand, whose leaders lead society, are enjoying the last few weeks of the London season in the hottest of hot, weather. Yet a little while—a month at the very most — the big city, with its tour aud a half millions of inhabitants, will be empty. Everywhere and every day and night grand parties and receptions, concerts, amateur ami professional, with mixtures of both; ladies of title on amateur stages, tripping about in short dresses and in man's attire for the amusement of gay “mashers” who do not scruple, in the loudest of whispers, to descant on the beauties of the “leg” as displayed by the aristocracy. One young lady, nearly allied to Queen Victoria, is very fond of showing herself from the knees downward. She is married, of course. Her entertainments are generally given in the open air. The elite of society throng to see her—sometimes dressed up as a young man, sometimes dressed or partially undressed aa a refined ballet girl. She is always attractive. She appears in a plnv. People say they are going to see this play (and they pay a guinea each for admission —no change given), but they do not really go to see the [day. They go to see this married relative of Que*-n Victoria, dressed in a short frock, or gaiiy apparreled as a young man, or a "chappie.” And a very nice “chappie” she looks and draws immensely. Noon© wants to know what becomes of the guineas. Correcting an Error. Milwaukee Sentinel. A paragraph is going the rounds of the press stating that Bavard Taylor’s father, who died recently, never saw a locomotive,a canal-boat or a street ear. The Hartford Courant says it is incorrect, since the old gentleman visited the Philadelphia exposition. Th** writer of this can testify further to have met him in Europe prior to tho Philadelphia exposition, lie was thou

about seventy five years of age, and his wife, who was with him, was two or three years younger. They were both remarkably well preserved and active, and had just walked down the Rigi, in Switzerland, a feat that would lama the muscles of many younger people, but did not seem to mind it FASHIONS FREAKS. Twine color and green continue to be a favor* ite combination. Red satteen petticoats are worn at the bcasuld and mountains. Rhino stone pins for the hair are the order of the day at present. The Scottish token of good luck is a spray of white heather now put into the bouquets of fash* ionable brides. Girls under fifteen wear their gowns buttoned in the back: above that age they prefer tbeua opened in the front The pretty jackets and broad sashes, now sap much worn, w ill do much toward beautifying a costume that is passe. White and black are very popular now. White wool gowns trimmed with black velvet, and black; costumes having white waistcoats, and witH white braid or laces on them, are shown. Alderney cream is the latest name for tha shade of white with a tint of pale yellow in it* so popular in summer woolen fabrics this season} Small pins or brooches, no earrings, few finger rings, and very slender bracelets, make op tho catalogue of the summer jewelry of tha woman of taste. Irish poplin is worn in England as skirt under draperies of soft woolen goods. Visiting cob-* tumes of it are occasionally seen here, combined with moire silk. India silks and the satteens imitating them puzzle the beholder, for w hen made up in the* same fashion, and similarly trimmed, it is difficult matter to distinguish between the Imx, Pure white surah, simply hemmed, is used for sashes over handsome dresses of French tuuslro, embroidered batiste, veiling, or white silk canvas. White velvet sashes, with knots of ribbon velvet to match, are effectively used upon tks most delicate of diaphanous dancing toilets, and prove very becoming. A pretty fancy for children is to have one os two slips, or princess dresses, in any dcsiredl colors, dark or light, and to wear them uodatf dresses of lawn, muslin, mull or lace, the overdresses being trimmed with ribbons in the eh&da of ora little lighter than the underdress, and by* changing ribbons and under slips a miss can ha made to appear in anew dress whenever sh| may so desire. Very large shoulder kerchiefs of palo cream ©a? pale pink crape silk, bordered with fine edelweiss lace, and painted in the corners with trafila of delicate flowers and foliage iu water eoion% are worn over pretty summer gowns of Pomp*dour muslin, printed cballle, or flowered Preacl* organdie, made in Gretchen fashion. Thcsa cross over tlie chest in front in soft folds, and arc held at the belt by tiny silver pins. This is assuredly a sash season, and nobody m considered either too young or too old to bo *hy* draped, hashes are made of every sort of fabric, from velvet to Roman striped zephyr, and arw worn wound around the waist, aud knotted ate Turk; also draped over one shoulder and held with a jeweled clasp ala Giecque, or float ua bows and ends from the back ala bebe. Sashes, both wide and narrow are equally in fashion. Large Leghorn hats have come back again ta favor, and these are twisted and bent into many odd and fautastic shapes which quite alter theixr original appearance. They are wreathed wi&fa garlands of roses, maiden hair fern, scarlet poppies, or hollyhocks, mingled with black or white lace, and to make them light and comfortable the brims are unlined. The crowns to mart of the new I- ms are absurdly high or larger aud this in a „ degree mars the effeet of ait otherwise be .ng and picturesque bead covaring for general wear the summer through. For children, the Gretchen design still load* in popularity. The skirt of this dainty iittia dress is from two yards and a half to thrmi yards in width, has a deep hem, and is sewed to the waist without a belt. Sashes of the good* about eight inches wide and nearly a yard lonjg are sewed under the arms and tied in the back. The plain, round waist buttons in the back, ia cut half low, with the arm holes and the neck edged with a falling ruffle of embroidery. Tha guimpo and sleeves are made of white muslin, tucked, or of piece embroidery; clusters of tuck* alternating with insertion is a still prettier stylo. Anew waterproof apron for the use of equestriennes has been brought over from London, invoiced the “Norpa.” It rolls up into a sma& compass, and buttons on to the front of the sad-* die, where it is held in place by small strap*. When wanted it is easily unbuckled, and, opeiiio£ out wide, covers the knees and the off side of thn saddle far enough to conduct the raindroqa downward, instead of allowing them to soak into the leather. It is fastened over the knees by three wide hooks, one of which attaches to * button of the habit, while the other two area fastened to buttons placed for them on each eute of the jacket, thus forming an effectual protection to the knees in a rain. Ladies who found it becoming to wear a good deal of white at the throat will be glad to hoar that the broad white India muslin ties, laceedged, carried around the neck and disposed ia a wide butter fly bow, ala Berdhardt, are onco more correctly worn, though tied in less voluminous fashion than the scarf arrangement worm about the throat of that celebrated actress wbent here. These ties make a dainty and dreuzy finish to a summer toilet, and silky India nmarlin is the most used for that purpose. The laaa which edges the ends should be wide and very fme, Valenciennes being first choice. Dep coffee-colored lace is fashionably worn as at garniture to these white ties, and, though ofuo* becoming, the combination is not good. Wigs or Natural Hair? New York Evening Post, That loveliness “is when unadorned, adorn**! the most,” is an aphorism which may pass for truth and wisdom —with restrictions. It te man's privilege to look as well as he can. Ckrtainlv it is every woman's duty. It is said to to a French woman’s religion to do so. Clear, graceful lines, good looks and dress which adorns and adds grace and beauty to the persoi* may bo accounted among the good things, if not among the virtues, of society. If a woman with a graceful form and a beautiful face is crowned with a head of flaming, intractable red hair, no one coaldL possibly blame her if she took all the harmless means within her power to deepen and darken her fiery tresses and thus chance the ugly color to one of handsome auburn. But what shall wa say of a prevailing fashion which allows a ladjr to chance the color of her hair from blonde to brunette; from powdered wig to golden ringlet with each change of her toilet, and upon eaca special occasion—a blonde in trailing white gown and pearls one evening, a stately brunette in black satin and diamonds the next afternooaf Yet this is a fancy which abroad is said to to followed by many ladies of fashion, and we arw in recent receipt of a circular sent out by tha leading hair dressers of this city and Brooklyn, who. while denouncing the very latest prevailing styles in hair arrangement, also cravely add that they are in possession of numberless wigs, coiffures, etc., in which a lady may appear as blondeor brunette at will. Absurd and detest able fashion! There are thousands of women who would as soon think of changing the natural color of their hair as they would of changing their religion or their pi ieciplos at the beck and nod of priest or parson. She Wanted Some Change. Americas (Ga.) Recorder. The conductor on a Southwest Georgia railroad was rolling along at a good rate about half way between stations. Suddenly the engineer blowod “down brakes,” and as the train slowet up, the conductor saw’ an old lady, who lived ia the vicinity, waving her handkerchief to stop the train As soon as it stopped she walked up to the car. and the conductor advanced to meet and tnank her for her heroic presence of mind in saving his train, when, after fumbling about in her pocket a little, she drew out a dilapidated greenback, and said. “I wanted $2 in ehanga, have ye any dimes and nickels?” Tho changa that came over that conductor’s countenance would have broken up a s7,ooogovernment bou<L Takes tlie Cuticle. There's a akin without and a akin within, A covering skin and a lining skin; But the skin the railroad skioner skins Is the nearest the bone of all the akiite. —Philadelphia Record.