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? •% w . *1 J. TAX H.IKC, Kill *r * IttHsher W^nENRY. "1 J $ "• f i-i. i. ILLIKO'lS A BIT OF THE OLD LOVfi JCBTA bit of the old love, Elite, ,. JThttt came to us one day f JWhen your hair was dark «w the r»ti And your cheeks as bright as the '(Si, you loved me then with a heartful. And I loved you just as well: Oh. a bit of the old love, Ellie, ' That we hadn't the courage to tell. <. f { jl Ifcow that our years are many. \ That Ions we're been husband and Ob, a bit or the old love, Ellie, That we met at the threshold o: The flowers are crowing round our dooKi And the sunshine lima our wall: OK a bit of the oM love, Jillie, For that in the neat of all. . Aari you're Just the same, my darling, Thoajh the bloom has left your blow: • i Oh, a bit oi' the old love, Ellie, iis all th»t I ask for us*". Yon may cMde me, and raise your fiaoMtl But I'll whisper it in your ear: ^ Oh. a bit of the old love, Ellie, f • Our comfort through trial aai| tfjpur. Perhaps I am old and foolish, •' For my locks are growne so white: ,, But a bit of the old love Ellie, To brighten our hearth-stone to-night. •' <; . --Harper'* W«4htf. THE MAN IS THE PEPPER-BOX. THE pepper-box was a little octag­ onal house about six feet in diameter and eight feet in height, with a conical roof. In one of the eight sides was a little door with a window in the top of it, and in the other six sides there were small windows. The pepper-box was furnished with one comfortable, leath­ er-covered arm-chair, and the curious little building stood in a railroad yard amid a perfect net-work of switches and turn-outs; and was placed there to shelter the man who watched the "kno w nothing," or crossing where two railroads intercept each other at right angles. The crossings of whichjt now write were in the railroad yard -of a large manufacturing city and railroad cen­ ter where nearly every foot of land, with the exception of this little trian- gular spot of ground where the pepper-ox stood, was covered with iron rails. One would naturally take it to be a very confusing place to be in. The man in the pepper-box was obliged to keep a level head on his shoulders, or he would be likely to make a mistake in regard to the time that one of the nu­ merous trains was due; and a miscal­ culation of half a minute meant more or less destruction of life and property. Or, if he was not constantly on the lookout and alert, when he stepped outside he was liable to be run over and cut to pieces by the regular or switch­ ing trains. Paul Serus, the pepper-box man, called". Old Serious11 by the railroad " boys," was an object of interest to every one of the scores of employes on the several roads, who passed and re­ passed his close quarters every day. He had never been seen or heard by any of them until dusty and travel- worn he walked into the. passenger station one day in a half intoxicated condition, and took the cars for New York. He refused to show his ticket or to pay his fare, so the conductor, giving a pull to the bell-rope to have the train slowed up, pitched the poor fol­ low off--rather too unceremoniously, •it was thought--and left him lying on the ground in a half-stunned condi­ tion. Before he regained conscious­ ness and was able to get up, another train came along and ran over and cut off one of his feet that was lying across the rail. There was quite an ado made over the affair. The conductor was blamed for not bringing the train to a stop be­ fore he put the man off, and for leaving he man partly on the track. The for­ mer was suspended indefinitely--there ,had been many complaints entered against him before at the Superintend- deht's office, and the poor victim was tarried to the city hospital where the Superintendent of the road, a very kind- . hearted man, himself went to see that he was well cared for. *" He became interested in the patient, Paul Serus, and called to see him more than once, and promised him a job as soon as he should be well. enough to take it, on the condition^ however, that he should sign the pledge. The wound- ted man promised faithfully to do so, and while his mutilated stump of an ankle was healing, he had time to get .. thoroughly sobered, to profit by the somewhat dismal retrospect of his life, rand to make plans for a useful, honor­ able futtire. " This is the first time I have been completely sober for years,1' he said to the surgeon, who was very attentive and kind to him. " I feel exactly as if I had been away from my true self all this time, and had just got back in­ to my old body again--as 1 used to be when 1 was somebody in the world." - • As soon as poor Paul was able to hobble about on a crutch, the whole- bouled railroad Superintendent came to the hospital and had a long interview with the surgeon in regard to him. There was such a quiet dignity about the man, such native goodness of heart, honesty in action and purpose, that these two gentlemen had made up their minds not to turn the crippled patient out upon the world when he should have recovered, but on the con­ trary to do something for him. "You must give him a situation where there is some responsibility; where he will have something to take up his mind constantly," said the good surgeon. "The ' pepperbox1 down in our yard is the liveliest place I know of for a green hand," said the Superin­ tendent. "I will give him the day watch there." And so he did, telling big Mike, the pld and faithful Switchman on a side track near by, to keep a sharp watch upon him, however. "There's not a man on the road, sir, as needs less watchin' than Old Seri­ ous," reported Mike at the -end of a month; "he jist minds his own busi­ ness, an' reads his Bible atween whoiles." One day as the Superintendent was walking in the yard, Paul said to him, "I can do the day alkd night work bot just as well if you increase my pay and let me build an addition to my housot in the shape of a dry-goods box in which I can stretch myself out between trains at night; there's room for it in the triangle. Downing, the night watch, told me to-day that he must throw up his job, his rheumatism had gat such a hold upon him. Beside, i can easily awake at any given time at night; I was noted in the army for that when on guard and picket duty." "Very well,1 replied the Superin­ tendent, " l am willing yon should try it. Downing spoke to me just now about giving up his job." In this case, little Mike, the night; watchman, was instructed to have an eye out to see that jPaul kept the right signal lights at his window. So Paul made the queer ad ition to the pepper-box. - The railroad boys called it Old Serious Chapel, and made a graat deal of fun of him and his Bible reading. It came to be quite the thing to get up stories about the poor man. Some said he was a murderer hiding from justice, others said he was an escaped burglar, and at last, as the months went by, and Paul remained faithful and alert at his post, they all settled down in the belief that he was a miser, and that, in the estimation of the free-hearted road hands, was the worst character con­ ceivable. Somebody started the report that the pepper-box man buried his wages each month under the floor of his domicile; that he boarded himself on crackers and codfish, and never had a decent meal, nor a smoke, nor a chew. They did not say he never took a drink, for they knew he could not keep his job in that event, and many of them were tee­ totalers themselves. One moonlight night in autumn a company of the hands who had come in on the different trains, thinking to have some fun by frightening Ola Se­ rious, marched in Indian file from the freight depot up the track to the pepper­ box, and encircling the funny little structure, looked in at the windows. The blood-red signal light was burn­ ing brightly, casting a lurid glow about the premises. The poor cripple was fast asleep on the floor, wrapped in a blanket, his head and shoulders in the pepper-box, and his feet stretehed out through the little aperture in the wall into the dry-goods box. His Bible lay open in the arm-chair, and a few pieces of charcoal were faintly glowing in an old iron kettle, over which, in a tin pail, some kind of broth was simmer­ ing. The hands expressed their indignation his miserly habits in low whispers, and presently Bill Edson shouted: " (ret up, old pinch-penny, and hand over enough of your hoard to buy us all a hot supper and cigars for the crowd." " Yes," said another, " shell out or we'll carry you up here apiece and throw you down the cliff into the river, and poke you over the falls. The crippled watchman not showin. the least fright, incensed the who! company into roundly abusing and in suiting " Old Serious." He slowly raised himself up, opene the door of his domicile, and said: "Boys, I would invite you in wer not my quarters so circumscribed Perhaps you will sit down here on thi: dry sand while I tell you a bit of story. "For many years I have been es tranged from home and friends an family, by drink. I shall not weary youi, I will simT'f/ FACTS AND FIQCRES« at by the with the details of my life ply say that at the time my foot cut off, I had not seen my wife and1 children for five years. As soon as I was able to write, I sent my wife a let­ ter telling her that I was trying to be a man again, and asking her would she live with me again. She immediately replied that she would gladly do so, {>rovided I could keep my resolution to et liquor alone. I don't suppose she had much faith in me at first, but I have written to her every week, and I can see by her letters to me that there is a new and growing hope springing up in her heart. Now's there not a man among you will wonder why I look serious, or that 1 do double duty here, although it does wear on me a little. But I get extra pay, and have had no time to fall into temptation. You will now see the reason why 1 live so cheaply is to save money enough to bring my family half across the conti­ nent before the snow falls, that they and I may have a home together once more." There was a pause, broken sonorous voice of Bill Edson: " Hurrah for • Old Serious'--hurrah for Mr. Serus," shouted Bill, correct­ ing himself. fl say, boys, pay-day was yesterday, and we've all got stamps about us; let s take up a collection,11 and pulling off his grimy cap he passed it around, getting generous contribu­ tions from all hands. Then turning his own greasy pockets inside out, and shaking them in a droll way over the cap, he said: " TLjre, comrade, take that; and do you see that little white cottage up there on the cliffP , It's empty. Tom Reynolds moved up to the other end of the road to-day. It's handy to your job; just the thing. I will see about it myself as soon as it's daylight. You just send for them folks o' yourn right off, and if you hain't got money enough yet to pay the bills, us fellers will see that's all right." Paul's family arrived in due time, and every one of those wild but kind- hearted railroad " boys" had a hand in setting them to housekeeping. And as they point to that little pepper-box to this clay, and tell this simple story, they say that Paul Serus was a hero, and that somehow they feel as if they owned a share of him, and in his happy, thrifty family, living in the neat little white cottage on the cliff above the crossing. They also say that Paul Serus fur­ nishes another notable illustration of the difference which the drinking of whisky and the letting it alone makes in a man.--Mrs. Annie A. Preston, in Christian Intelligencer. --Our venerable friend " Mrs. Part­ ington" says some persons can bathe with perfect impurity in water as cold as Greenland's icy mountains .and India's coral strands, .but for her own part she prefers to have the water a little torpid." THE gold yield in N ort.h Carolina last year amounted to $160,000. IN the year 1877 the imports of mer­ chandise into Great Britain were of the value of £894,419,682, of which £304,- 855,674 was from foreign countries, and £89,558,998 from her own posses­ sions. This is equal to £1115s lQd ($59) per head of her population. For the year ended last June the United States aggregated $694,884,200, or about $16 per head of population* MR. PETER HERI>IC, the great lum­ ber dealer of Williamsport, Pa., has filed with his petition in bankruptcy a memorandum, in which he says: 44 At the beginning of the present long-con­ tinued depression I estimated that I owned real estate to the value of over $6,000,000; stocks, bonds and other se­ curities to the value of over $1,200,- 000. It is no exaggeration to estimate Joss on shrinkage in real estate at #5tw0,000 and mv loss on shrinkage in sfwiiritips. including stocks and the like, at $900,000, ana I have lost by the failures s>f others the sum of over $1,200,000." THE Turks lost about 150,000 men killed and wounded during the recent war, and, according to the Invalide Basse, something over 10,000,000 cart­ ridges were fired by the Russians, which would make the proportion of hits ope in every sixty-six snots fired. At Spieheren the Prussians scored one Frenchman for every 279 shots; at Worth, one for 147, and at Colombey- Nouilly one for 114; so that, if the Rus­ sian figures are correct, the Russian soldier is a better shot, or more eco­ nomical of ammunition than his Ger­ man cousin. However, the Russians employed artillery fire more largely than usual, and a London paper hints that they may have used the bayonet after their enemies had surrendered. A BOOKSELLER of Wurzburg, Ba­ varia, has taken the trouble to collect newspaper statistics showing the repre­ sentation of distinct Roman Catholic opinions in the periodical press of the world. There are in Europe, he says, 18,960 periodical publications, of which 1 in 14, or 937 are Catholic in tendency. In Belgium the largest proportion was found, it being 154 in 250. Great Brit­ ain and France, in spite of being the one Protestant and the other Catholic, have precisely the same number. 42, although the proportion in Great Brit­ ain is 42 in 2,500, and in France 42 in 2,000. In the case of Germany and Austria the difference between a Cath­ olic and Protestant country again ap­ pears very small. Germany, with the largest issue of papers in Europe, has 1 in 14 that is Catholic, while Austria, with only one-third the issue of Ger­ many, has 1 in 13. In North America there are jmore publications than in Great Britain, France and Germany together, it having a total of 8,500, of which 113, or 1 in 75, are Catholic. ^ out of 1.000. or I exception of the Races. This pa a regular farce, and we thin 1ocle|y made a great mistake i» particular. We know it is said florae Racing is demoralizing, bt notice that when a Race eon thnfe wlio are the loudest in thei damnation of such performance fore, are always in the foremost jj to see the Race. L And we also that when the Races advertised ar failure li»ey are sure to be the watfc 11 u&niif uiLiauu,1 on ; kAveaefiT 320; Italy,„ 248; Hanover, 218; Wur- temburg, 217; Switzerland, 202; Rus­ sia, 200; Bavaria, 186; Norway, 177, Baden, 174; Bohemia, 173; Denmark, 158; France, 149; Austria, 132; Scot­ land, 122; Saxony, 109; Holland, 101; Hesse Darmstadt, 97; Wales, 79; Al­ sace, 76; Holstein, 33; Hesse Cassel, 29; Schleswig, 26; Mecklenburg, 22; Lorraine, 22; Oldenburg, 16; Luxem­ bourg, 15; Canada, 14; Belgium, 13; Turkey, 9; Brunswick, 8; Isle of Man, 5; Spain, 5; South America, 3; Lip Detmold, 3; Asia, 3; Australia, 2; East Indies, 2; Greece, 1; West Indies, 1. Their destination were: New York City, 3,078; Pennsylvania, 574; Illinois, 546; Ohio, 357; Minnesota, 247; Mas­ sachusetts, 230; California, 226; Ne­ braska, 215; New Jersey, 230; Utah, 130. The remainder were divided up up between Iowa, Texasf ^Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, and a *few went South. that Son, was anrl ken. g!i a the A Night With a Panther--An Adiron­ dack Adventure. So MUCH has been said about Smith's adventure with the moose in June, near Jock's Lake, and so little of which ap­ proximates the truth, that the writer, who was one of the party, deems it best to give the details in as few words as possible. The party consisted of seven men, all experienced in wood life and members of the " Norway Foresters," as follows: Charles Hall, M. D., Hiram Austin, Walter Servis, Zenas Smith and Willis Kellcv, of Norway, and Jay Delevan and George H. Worden, of Prospect. They organized at the house of Ed Wilkinson, at Wilmurt, June 5, and proceeded to the mouth of Indian River, which makes into the west branch of the West Canada creek, about fifteen miles above Ed Wilkinson's on the east side. Here we went into camp and stayed until after dinner, when Smith's adventure began. Zenas Smith is rather below medium height, with sandy complexion, clear gray eyes, and, withal a fine-looking frank, easy appearing young man of twenty-five years. He and myself were to take our rods and baskets and go to the " Four Mile Stillwater," on the West Branch, and it we found the fish­ ing good, were to camp there and tish the next day, a distance of about five miles from where we were. We left camp about twelve m., and kept along the creek trail for over a mile, when we came to the marked birch for the cut-off saving about a mile's tramp from the bena of the creek. Taking, as we supposed, the right direction, we traveled for three hours, and not reach­ ing our destination concluded we had been bearing too much west, so made a sharp turn to the right, expecting to strike the stream in half an hour at most. While we were clambering along in this manner we were suddenly startled by the appearance directly in front of us, and not more than twenty rods distant, of a large moose, probably eighteen hands high, or more, and making directly for us. In the same breath Smith caught me by the shoul­ der and pointed to a tree near the moose, where I beheld the glittering eyes, of a panther. We were without arms or ammunition of any kind, the only offensive or defensive weapons we possessed being our pocket-knives. ' I confess to being more than frightened at the time, but seeing the coolness of Smith I determined not to let him see my knees rattle. By this time the moose was upon us; at a glance we knew that he came for protection, bot the huge panther still loomed upon us, but haa stopped in his headlong course. "Smith," said I, " how is this?" , "I believe we are all right," said Smith. " The moose has come to us for protection, consequently he is not belligerent; the panther is undoubted^ ly cowed by our numbers, or dare not tackle a man. Let us build a fire and I will stay here while you go back to camp ana bring the rifle, and have one of the other boys come back with you. To this I demurred for a long time, but finally concluded to go, leaving all my traps with Smith, to make the more rapid progress. This part of the story can be told very shortly. I got lost, wandered around till after dark, built a fire, slept some, got up next day and traveled till dark again, built a fire, and started next morning and tramped until about ten a. m., when I came to a stream, and, following it down, came to Jock's Lake outlet shanty, and from there went back to the Indian River shanty, where the first man to greet me was Smith, whom I supposed had been converted into panthers meat be­ fore this time. I was nearly starved, but asked, "Smith, how was it P." "After you left,1' said Smith, " I got all the wood together I could and kept up the fire, the moose standing back a little, but keeping me between itself and the panther, which kept his posi­ tion in tnetree. We kept this up all night, the moose one side of me, the panther glaring with his eyeballs of tire upon the other, and you may imag­ ine I acted my part as middle-man without getting very sleepy. About sunrise Thursday morning the panther gave a terrific growl, sprang from the tree and rapidly disappeared in the for­ est. While [ was watching the panther I had not thought anything about the moose, and finally, when I turned my head, he was gone. I immediately came to camp and found you gone. Some went to look for you, some went back with me, but we found no further trace of either the moose or panther." --Letter in Utica (N. F.) Republican. The First California Woman Lawyer* As WILL be renumbered by many, the bill granting women the right to practice law in this State was passed near the close of the last session of the Legislature; and so near did it come to being stowed away in the Governor's capacious pockets, that his official sig­ nature was not attached thereto until within two minutes of midnight of the last day of the session. Although many friends of the measure, in and out of the Legislature, labored earnestly for the bill, its passage, and especially its final approval by the Governor, were no doubt due to the personal efforts of * "rs. Clara S. Foltz, a lady law student this city, at that time well advanced in her readings, and who had deter­ mined upon the profession of law as a means of honorable livelihood. With the passage of the bilhtl}§ lady entered upon her readings with renewed zeal. Possessing a remarkably retentive memory, coupled with intellectual breadth arid a ready comprehension and natural taste for abstruse subject^, her progress, as might have been ex- Eected, has been rapid and thorough, a fact, but few male students have been able to accomplish like proficien­ cy in so short a period. And when the fact is taken into consideration that Mrs. Foltz has a family of five small children to care for, and for most of the time she has done her work unas­ sisted, and occasionally has been obliged to take to the lecture-field as a means of piecing out her meager income, it will be generally conceded that she is justly entitled to the honors just con­ ferred on her by our District Court, in admitting her to the bar of said court as a full-fledged attorney. The com­ mittee appointed to examine her con­ sisted of some of our first lawyers, who subjected her to a thorough test Of her legal knowledge, and who unanimous­ ly certified to her entire fitness for ad­ vancement. Mrs. Foltz is the first woman admitted to the bar of this State.--San Jose (Cal.) Mercury. Youths Department. STORY OF GEORfilE. Estimating Measures. It is often useful to have a few ap­ proximate data to deduce weights and measures from. Here is a correct ta­ ble, which, however, does not aim at great accuracy, but may serve to make a rough estimate when it is necessary to reduce measures: A pint of water weighs nearly 1 pound, and is equal to about 27 cubic inches, or a square box 3 inches long, 3 inches Wide and 3 inches deep. A quart of water weighs nearly 2 pounds, and is equal to a square oox of about 4 by 4 inches and 3$ inches deep. A gallon of water weighs from 8 to 10 pounds, according to the size of the gallon, and is equal to a box 6 by 6 inches square, and 6, 7 or 7 J inches deep. A cubic foot of water weighs nearly 68 pounds (more correctly 62J pounds), and contains from 7 to 8 gallons, ac­ cording to the kind of gallons used. A peck is equal to a box 8 by 8 square /and 8 inches deep. A bushel almost fills a box 12 by 12 inches square and 24 inches deep, or 2 cubic feet. A barrel of water almost fills a box 2 by 2 feet square and 1| feet deep, or 6 cubic feet. Petroleum barrels contain 40 gallons, or nearly 5 cubic feet.--Manufacturer and Builder. --There's a big difference between dinner for nothing and nothing for din­ ner. A WEK little fellow wan Geordie, my boy, a wee hule fellow was he; With eyes like twin stari and a little nxufed head, . , hh cmly IW otuly ooald be. And such a white akin! all dimpled and fiur, from his hrow to his (en little toes; And only one freckle a ftonbeam had left on the tip of his little PUR nose. , Ob* morning my Geordie stivtohed ap like a J!***' ***. declared that he felt so tail ue was sure 1 could trust him to take the tin TV --•EiL'li 1° d^wn hy the.old stone-wall. To mthej the berne*. «w *kmy and black and ripe an a berry could be. 1 u be back in a minute, and bring some to you. Jm be patient, mamma!" cried he. So I kissed the red lips and the forehead so fair >111(1 gave little Geordie, my boy, * AIMS for the henries he sounpend away. •winging his tin pail about. And far down the lane I oouid hear his sweet •oice, with a boy's happy langta ringing oat. Th» momenta sped on till an hoar had gona* and no Geordie bad oorne bark to me; ,r A»d r.nme arew worried and grn,T?>! -sud:" Why, where oaa the little one be?" So we went to tfae lane, to the the hedge, where berries grew thick as bees, A*d we called, and we called, and searched beTe and there, ander bashes and hedges aad trees. Till we parted tha vines that grew under a tree, where a tiny blue shoe lay half hidden. And there--well, no wonder a oertain small hoy t-ouldn t answer his mother when bidden. For sounder asleep than the far-famed " Bo- Pe«U" was the boy who had promised me berries, And black as a spade were the little twin lips which had always been red as twin cherries. And gone was th« white skin of Geordie, my „ , ,?oy, so black Had his berrying turned him. ooch little stained cheeks and such tiny soiled hands! Every aoel but mamma would have spurned him. But what of the pail? And prar how many Quarts of blackberries ripe did it hold ? Oh! dear. I must tell it, though really ashamed of the story that here must be told. You'll hardly believe it; but truly that pail, with its great-open mouth open wide, Held--only my iteordie'a wee curly round head, as it comfortably lay on its side! And never a berry was gathered for «<, nnlsM Geordie was bringing them all Tucked safely away in the little " red lane" that was reached through his mouth so Bmall. I lifted my little black boy from the ground, and kissed the dark stains all away, Till he opened his eyes and sleepily said; " May Geordie do berrying to-day?" Then ri|jht back 'to dreamland be tumbled again, and what he did there 1 don't know; But this IR the story, as true as can be, of how Geordie a-berrying did go>. --Mary 1). Brine, in M. 1". Independent* THE tiOLDBK BOSE. LILLA walked through the garden, saying: *' I should like to be a Prin­ cess.' For she had been Reading a story about a Princess who had only to say " Come," and anything she wished for came at once. It was a hot summer day, and she sat down, on a mossy bank under an elm tree, thinking over what she would wish for if she had the power of the Princess. All at once the garden seemed strange to her, and she heard a voice saying: " If you take a rose from me, You will then a Princess be.", _i Shfe looked up and saw a sunflower growing in a green flower-pot which she had never seen before; and on one of the flowers was perched a tiny fairy. "And you can have everything you wish for except one thing: And if you wish for that you will lose the rose." " And what'is thatP" asked Lilla. " You must never ask for soap bub­ bles." " That I shall not," said Lilla. "You will be a Princess as long as you keep the rose," said the fairy. "Good-bye; now I must go back to Fairyland." So the fairy went to Fairyland, and Lilla went home; but no one knew her, because she was now a Princess, with long hair|and a golden crown. " I will go up to the castle," said Lillai. " Princesses go to stay there." At the castle they were expecting a Princess, so they thought that Lilla must be the one who was coming, and they gave her a grand room to sleep in. Qn a table was a silver box which Lilla thought would do to keep her rose in. She would try what her rose could do, so she thought oi a box of toys, and said: " Rose, rose, bring to me Everything 1 wish to see." And scarcely had she spoken when a maid came to say that a box had come to her. And, when it was opened, Lilla saw so many pretty things that she thought she would like a Christ­ mas tree. And again she said: "Rose, rose, bring tome Everything 1 wish to see." And in a few minutes a Christmas tree arrived, hung all over with gold and silver drops, and colored tapers and bonbons, and gifts of all kinds. The people at the castle had never seen such a beautiful Christmas tree, and they did not mind it being there in summer instead of in winter, when Lilla divided the gifts among them. Day after day Lilla askea her rose for something new, and every day more and more beautiful things came, till not only her own room but the whole castle was full of them. She gave them away to everyone, for she soon got tired of them. Every day she was trying to think of something she had not got, and at last she began to long for soap-bubbles, which were the only things she must not have. But how beautiful thousands and thousands of soap-bubbles wpuld look floating about in the sunshine! with the rainbow colors upon them. She could think of nothing else, and cared for nothing else, and grew quite sad be­ cause she could not ask for soap-bub­ bles. Such a little thing," she said to her­ self. "What nonsense! I don't believe it would do any harm to ask for the soap-bubbles." Then she held up her rose and said to herself: "Shall I, or shall I notP Yes--no--yes--no--yes, soap bubbles!" " Rose, rose, bring to me Everything 1 wish to sea. She was in the garden, and there were some clipped holly-trees not far off. But no soap-bubbles came. Lilla grew impatient; she shook the rose and said: • " Rose, rose, bring to w Everything I wtsb tosse." Then suddeqly the air was filled with soap-bubbles; aud one bubble larger than the others opened, and closed round the golden rose and floated away with it higher, higher, higher, till Lilla I could no longer a«e it. She watched and watched 1311 only two soap-bubbles were to be seen; then she sank on her knees and stretched out her hands after them. But it was too late; her rose had gone, and she was a Princess no longer. Her hair was as short as it had ever been, and her crown had disappeared. It was of no use to return to the cas­ tle, as the people would not know her; so she went back to her own home, where her father and mother were wondering what had become of her. As for the people at the castle, they never heard of the Princess again; and all the beautiful things she had given them Vanished one night, for the fair­ ies came by moonlight and carried them all away. * "What a yfttyP exelaimed Lilla, opening her eyes. "What is a pityP" asked Lilla's mother, who had eome to look for her. "Why, mother," said Lilla, "I have been asleep and hare had socfe a prettv »«y dream, just as good as a story/' Then she told her mother all about it. "Very pretty isdtcd," said her mother; "and you may learn alemm from, it." " • " What is that?" asked Lilla. " Why, that people who are .-wishing for things, and can haye al­ most anything they wish for, are not really happier than others. There ie always something just out of their reach that makes them discontented with What they possess. Mi. Joe White's Tewptatiea. DEACON JOCTBS kept a little fish mar­ ket. "Do you want a boy t» help you P* asked Joe White, one da*. " I miess I can sell fish." "Can you give good weight to my customers, and take cave of my pen­ nies?" " Yes, sir," said Joer and forthwith he took his place in the market* weighed the fisn and kept the room is order. "A whole day for fu%. fireworks and crackers to-morrow," ex«laim«d Joe, as he buttoned his white apron about him. The day before the Fourth of July, a great trout wa» flung down on the counter. " Here's a royal trout, Joe. I eaught it myself. You may have its for tea cents. Just hand ovev the m«aey, for I'm in a hurry to buy my fire-craekert,'* saifl Ned Long, one of Joe's mates. The deacon was out, but Joe haA made purchases for him before, so the dime was spun across to Ned,, whowaa off like a shot. Just then Mrs. Martin appeared. "I want a nice trout for my dinner to­ morrow. This one will do :, how much is itP" "A quarter, ma'am" and the fiah was transferred to the lady1s basket, and the silver piece to the money-drawer. But here Joe paused. " Ten cents was very cheap for that fish. If I tell the deacon it cost fifteen, he'll be satis­ fied, and I shall have five coots to in­ vest in fire-crackers." The deacon was pleased with Joe'a bargain, and when the market was closed each went his way for the night. But the nickel in Joe's pocket burned like a coal; he could eat n& supper, and was cross and unhappy. At last he could stand it no longer, but walking rapidly, tapped at the door of deacon Jones' cottage. A stand was drawn out; and before the open Bible sat the old man. Joe's heart almost failed him, but he told the story, and with tears of sorrow laid the coin in the deacon's hand. Turning over the leaves of the Bible the old man read, " 'He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.* You have my forgiveness, Joe; now go home and confess to the Lord, but re­ member you must forsake as well as confess. And keep this little coin as long as you live, to remind you of this first temptation."--Child's World. For Boys. BOYS, throw aside pride asyou woftjkt a thick coat on a hot day, and lay hold of any string within reach. It may be only a thread at first, but pull away* ana you may find a stronger twine at the end of that, and then a tiny rope* and then a stout cable. That is the way they sometimes bridge a chasm. They first fly a kite across and putt over the kite-string; then a larger audi a larger cord, until they have made a substantial connection between the shores. You wish to bridge this great chasm of want that yawns at your feet* and you will not. find a surer way. Don't wait for "a good |ob"--some­ thing that you may feel proud to ao- cept; but fall in with the very humblo work you may be able to find near at hand. Another point not less important !s» turn every penny to the best account. Even pennies will buy something in these times of low prices, and a dollar may be made to yield a very good ac­ count of itself if its spending Is care­ fully planned beforehand. Just try* some day when you have a dollar to lay out, and see what you can make it bring you in. It is exactly the same thing when the farmer's boy or girl brings a dollar's worth of produe« to: the store to exchange for goods. The great secret of having what one really wants is to spend money wisely and after much forethought. Do not bo wheedled into buying what you do not want just because some one wants to sell.--Aunt Eva, »» Cincinnati Timct. --A ' German at the Police Court rather worried his Honor by Maying that his occupation had been that of a cobbler of liquor. The court stared and asked for an explanation, whieh. with the chuckle that accompanied it, cost the prisoner five dollars more. Ho said, " I haf soled drinks." He was a bar-tender looking for a ptaoe.--Kmimk Constitution. --A. snowy, dimpled cloud tossed in­ to all kinds of fantastic shapes is an enchanting sight. It is delicious; bat, at the same time, it oan't hold a candle to a plate ol fish-balls--Pmk. --Ai| American silver dollar of 18W was taken by Cashier Abbott, of the First National Bank, Syracuse, recent­ ly. It is valued at #500 by coin fan- e"w . - 4 ?