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v ^ ;w. / •. *, v • < r*- mm turn.™ in I$riy; the '1®8&£- le by the daughter of M-ies concerned, and JL as nearly as poasttiih fit to me. scarcely wonder," s^e ly horror of being buried I teH you that a peculiar to pursue our family, or at wrsue it in the last genera- lather r/as an only son, and been born several years after its' marriage, was an object of r >ial devotion. His mother was lb!e to nurse him herself, and a ltry woman was procured from a at some distance from the eha- i where his parents resided, who only well calculated to replace as a nurse, but was of so late a disposition that she to throw her whole soul into for the well-being of the child ished as much affection on him real mother. When the age for weaning him, it was found Ihle to accomplish it while the unained with, him; and so, aft- jry terrible scenes and the most making mtraw on her part, she [go. The boy throve very well le was about three years oJd, le was attacked by some cbild!sh ly and to all appearances died. unnecessary to dwell ea the ited grief of the parents. The ier could scarcely be induced to the body, and even - though all ' was extinct, grudged every* mo- it as it flew toward the time when in what was left of her darling ild have to be removed forever. Phe time that was allowed by the wernment for bodies to remain un­ tried was three days.) The father lad gievn strict orders that the child's _ terse should not be informed of the fdeath of her foster-son until after the Jtmeral, as he felt convinced she would at once come to see him, and he dreaded the effect the sight of her grief might have on his already broken-hearted "wife. However, the order was ill kept, and on the moaning of the funeral, after all the guests had arrived, and were grouped around the coffin taking their last farewell of the lovely boy, in rushed the nurse, her hair down, her dress all torn and travel-stained, her , boots nearly worn off her feet. On hearing the news, she had started off without waiting for extra clothing, without word or look to any one, and bad rail the whole night, in* order to be in time to see her Doy. As she en­ tered the room she pushed past serv­ ants and guests, and on reaching the Qpftu seized the child, and before any OB® WiS &wST6 ©f h«r iutSwtmu, or had presence of mind to prevent her, she bi vanished with him in her arms. It SJotmd she had carried him off to grimier, or garret, and had locked barricaded the door. She paid no attention • to threats or entreaties, and •It |$ttempts at forcing the door were fruitless. The guests waited 4y» hoping thai she would before retuin to her senses and bring back child's body for burial. *' At* the end of an hour-or more they heard the heavy furniture rolled away and the door opened. The nurse appeared, but with no dead child in her •tew--the little thing's arms were Clasped lovingly round her neck as she 1 him to her bosom. The niourn- lblage was turned into one of congratulation. Ihe woman never speak of the means she store the boy to life; indeed, she became from that hour snt in the family and a trusted loed friend, she steadily forbore to the incident in whteh%she played so important a part. 81w lived to see the rescued child mar­ ried and with a fam ily of his own around him. "The heroine of the second anecdote was a first cousin of the above 'rescued child'---a young lady of thirteen or fourteen years old. After a somewhat protracted illness, she, to all appear­ ance. died. The mother literally re- fuaedto believe it, although the doc­ tors aflttd the other inmates of the house stiw no reason to doubt the fact. The funeral was arranged, the grave made,' and the specified three days nad come to an end. The mother had never left her daughter's body; she had tried evfj^avajlable means to restore her, but tJp no avail. As the hour' ap- proft2hed for the ceremony to take she became more and more des- in her efforts to Convince herself jtttUl lingered. As a last re- she went for some strong elixir, (htf out of her pocket a fruit- 5 "Wita two blades--one blade of » the other of silver--proceeded by lal*working to force the gold i between the teeth." When insert­ ed,' she poured a drop of elixir on the blade, then ahother and another, and .tried to make it enter the mouth, but ^IS seemed only to trickle back again and down the chin. Still she perse­ vered, becoming more desperate as the !*0ments flew on to the hour, now so AllNir* when her child was to be taken ;4tateher.' At the very last, when she * wis beginning to dread the very worst, : . 4feethought she detected a slight spasm ih the throat; and on closer examina- ttkH£ s'he tewinift aware that the liquid id logger returning, as it did at She continued the application, moment feeling more excited and Joyfully hopefui. Presently the ;,of swallowing became more de- SiShe felt a feeble flutter at the before long the eyes gradu- d, and closed again; but the ^became quietly regular, and Lwas satisfied that now no 3>lite the fact; so she ahold around her, and the joyful fact that her sd to her, and that no m would leave the fefore long the child he fruit-kuife with to .this day the most strloom in the family pos- youftg perso when, death mm •'/,.: -J. •<*£ ' » " s VIFPPP IP,PW| * altho a res recovered one lived to form a lent to her cousin (the res- /of ttai first story), possibly the fact of the strange similarity in their early history; but his affections were already engaged by the vouug lady whose story we are now going to relate, the facts of which resemble .somewhat those already told. This 4§ < j . ^ • ..r , on was n^nnger a child when, death seemed fa# claim her, but had reached the jure of eighteen or. nineiAn. She hadnteen suffering from an infectious ajwnlangerous fever, and when the crisis arrived, instead of ral­ lying. she^ie(all uppearanee, died. It was the custom of the district in which she lived to dress marriageable girls as brides after death, and to bury them in their bridal costume. The young lady in question was therefore laid out as a bride, in a whits dress, orange-flower wreath and veil. The day before the funeral, the most intimate friend of the deceased, who had been on a visit at a distance, came home, and insisted with floods of tears that she should be al­ lowed to see her. The mother most decidedly refused, explaining that her daughter had been the victim of an in­ fectious fever, and that she could not allow the daughter of a friend to run the risk of catching it. The young lady persisted, and would not leave the house; but the mother, much as it mined her, was firm in her refusal. However, in the evening the young friend being on the watch, saw the paid watcher leave the room to go down to supper, leaving the door un­ locked. She immediately entered, and having reverently kissed her Mend's pale face, knelt down by the side of the bed to pray. There were candles at each side of the bed at its head, and two placed on a table at its foot. " The poor girl was deep in her pray­ ers, when suddenly, without any move­ ment or warning, the dead girl sat up and said in a sharp tone of voice: ' Que faistu laV (What are you doing there?) Startled and horrified to the last de­ gree, her friend sprang to her knees, and in trying to rush out of the room upset the table on which the candles were placed and became wedged be­ tween it and the bed, her head down- most! Inextricably entangled, she shrieked loudly for help. The sup­ posed dead girl had a keen sense of the ridiculous, and being weakened from illness, she went off into a hysterical fit of laughter; and the more her poor friend Kicked and screamed, the more she kept up the duet by peals of laughter. The mother and household hearing the noise, rushed up as quick­ ly as possible. The mother was the first to enter the room, and being a quick-witted woman, at once compre­ hended the situation; she flew to her daughter, and angrily ordering her to be quiet and not laugh at her friend's misfortune, she pressed her to her bosom, and hastily tearing off wreath and veil, dropped them on the floor and kicked them tinder the bed; then calling assistance, she carried the girl into another room and put her to bed. The doctor, who had been at once sent for, ordered her to be taken home with­ out delay, and they started as soon as was possible. She perfectly recovered; but, strangely enough, could never call to mind the startling events of her re­ turn to life. She afterward married the gentleman who was the hero of the first story. Her poor friend, when ex­ tricated from her mipleusani position, was quite delirious; she had a nervous fever, of which she nearly died, and she never entirely recovered from the shock her friend's sudden return to life had given her." On writing to the lady who related these anecdotes for permission to pub­ lish, she says: "You are at liberty to make what use you like of our family story, on condition you do not mention names of family or places; but you may add, that all three who were so nearly buried alive lived to be very old--my father to eighty-four, my mother and aunt to seventy-six--retaining their health, rare intelligence and, to a won­ derful extent, their personal beauty to the last."--Chambers' Journal. , Fishing Extraordinary. 1 MUST tell you about white fishing at Sault Sainte Marie. While ourboat stopped I went down to the beach where a dozen Indians live, who are the most wonderful fishermen that I know of. For twenty-five cents I was given a special show. Seating myself m a canoe, one Indian took his posi­ tion seated in the stern, and another stood in the bow. The one in the stern used a paddle to keep the boat's head up stream, while the other used a pole to steady the boat. He had a dip net about tour feet in diameter, with a /handle twelve or fifteen feet long. This was hung over the projec­ tion of the cut-water, while the handler trailed back in the water. Thus equip­ ped, we sailed out into the rapids, which are half a mile in length ana one mile wide. At the foot of the rapids the fishing is done. The water boils and tumbles like the swiftest rift on the Delaware, and is generally half white with breaking foam. With his pole, the Indian in the bow holds the canoe, or lets it float steadily sideways, now up a little, then down, but always un­ der perfect control and always dancing with the rush of water. lie watches the water constantly, which varies in depth from eight to nine feet. Sud denly with a quick motion he shoves the end of the pole under the bow piece, grasping the net at the same time with the other hand, and, never taking his eye from the water, 'plunges it it*, pet- haps ten feet away, and forces it to the bottom, or, as the cauuts stwet back with the current, lets it drop a few feet, and then with a peculiar twist he raises it to the surface, and with a toss Jike turning a flapjack, drops a five-pound whitensh into the panoe. This was re­ peated time and again, right in the swiftest water, ana seldom only one fish was caught, but once six that would weigh eighteen pounds. Often I could not see the bottom, and oqe was caught in eight or ten feet of wa­ ter. I could see no fish until they were brought to the surface. It was the only kind of fishing tnat I ever saw that I did not think I could learn to do. It is said no white man ever did learn. The Indian I was with took three hundred in one day. We were out an hour and took about thirty.-- Letter to the Deposit (N. Y.) Courier. FACTS AND FIGURES. * XT-' --" I'll take another yard of that binding, If you please/* said a wottiah to a counter-jumper. "Beg pardon said the clerk, 44 but I understood you five yards." " That's right," replied the customer, " but another yard will make it more binding;'^ ' " " * r:: v ^LOITADO will ship 50p,G00 IJIEFES to the East this season. ' i S THERE are 100,000 Israelites in' San Fran cisco, and 10,000 more in the rest 6t Califoriiik OVKK two hundred Jhillion paper col­ lars are annually consumea in the United States. RUTLAND COUNTT, Vt., averages about thirty divorces a ycfcr, in a pop­ ulation of 40,000. SINCE its foundation, in 1795, the present Paris Mint has coined l,70b,- 000,000 gold pieces. OVER132,000 persons are employed on the East India railroads* The great­ er number are natives. MORE than one-half of the total pop­ ulation of France depends on agricult­ ure as a means of living. THE New Orleans Picayune esti­ mates the pecuniary loss by the epi­ demic there at over $1,000,000 in actual outlay. OF cotton cloth the United States exported last year 126,000,000 yards, while the amount in 1871 was but 18,- 000,000. THE full return! of the Assessors make the total valuation of Massachu­ setts $1,550,428,525, against $1,668,- 226,792 a year ago. THE fertile soil aad genial climate of the u Sited luu^CCd 80,610 v&Utt- dians to emigrate during: the year end­ ing June 30,1878. COLONIES are being formed in the Pennsylvania oil regions to emigrate to Texas, with 9 view to develop the pettpleum resources of the Lone Star State. i THE value of goods carried over the Pennsylvania Railroad during the year 1876 amounted to the sum of $590,942,- 158, not including the value of goods carried by express. AFGHANISTAN has a population vari­ ously estimated at from 4,000,000 to 7,500,000, and can easily furnish 100,- 000 fighting men, while the border hill tribes hostile to the English can easily furnish as many more. SOME idea may be formed of the progress of China within recent years from the fact that of the 9,268,000 tons of foreign-built vessels engaged in the local carrying trade between the treaty ports, the Chinese themselves own 8,955,000 tons. ^ : THE whole number of Postoffices in the United States on the 30th of June, the last day of the last fiscal year, was 30,258, showing a net increase of 1,918 during the year. Most of the new Postoffices were established in the Southern States. THE consumption of cotton by Amer­ ican manufacturers was greater by 110,000 bales in 1878 than in 1877. The yield of the staple in the United States exceeds that of any year on record, be­ ing 4,811,265 bales, of 1,480 pounds gross each, up to Sept. 1. THE San Francisco Call states that up to the close of September an even hundred cargoes ot this year's wheat had passed out of the Golden Gate. The aggregate is 178,156 tons, worth $6,087,497. This is the largest export movement of the great staple during the first quarter of any harvest year in the history of San Francisco. A REPORT of the Bureau of Statistics shows that in the year ending June 80, 1878, the export of mowers and reap­ ers amounted to 10,496, valued at $1,- 018,916. Of plows and cultivators there were exported 20,710, valued at $ 154s- 977. Of all other agricultural imple­ ments and tools there was exported $1,379,467 worth. Taking aU the ex­ ports grouped under the head of agri­ cultural implements, the gain was nearly 50 per cent, as compared with the same for 1877. THE Cinoinnati Enquirer of a recent date publishes statistics and approxi­ mate estimates of the corn crop for 1878s as follows: In fifty-one counties in Ohio the number of acres planted is 1,935,000. The yield in bushels is 63,- 865,000, being an increase over last year of about 1,500,000 bushels. In forty-eight counties of Indiana the number of acres planted is 2,028,000. The yield in bushels is 48,920,000, be­ ing about 2,000,000 decrease. In ten counties in Kentucky the number of acres planted is 129,000, the yield in bushels is 3,003,000, being 300,000 de­ crease. . > A torment Mnrder. ; THE case of John P. Phair, tried and convicted for the murder of Ann E. Frieze at Rutland, Vt., on June 9,1874, sentenced to be hanged for the crime, and reprieved an hour before the time fixed for the execution, illustrates how an apparently perfect chain of circum­ stantial evidence may convict an inno­ cent man with a crime. The house in which the murdered woman lived was burned on the night of June 8, or early on the morning of June 9, 1874, and her body, bearing fatal wounds, was found in the ruins. It was known that Phair had been keeping company with her, and he was arrested for the mur­ der. The prosecution proved that a man, Supposed to be Phtfir, visited Bos*' ton, and registered, at the Adauis House as 44 E. F. Smith, St Albans, Vt.," on the loth pi Juue, the ua.y tuler the murder; that a man visited two pawn­ shops in Boston, the same day, and pawned a shawl, an opera-glass and a ring, all belonging to the murdered woman, and signed the name of 44 E. F. Smith, St. Albans, Vt.," on the pawn-tickets. The experts testified that the writing on the tickets was that of Phair, and the two Boston pawn­ brokers swore te-his identity. The case against him was, considered perfect, and the jury found him guilty. He was sentenced to be hauged April 6, 1377. About ten days before that day Mr. Oarrigan, Agent of the Associated Press, visited Phair in-his cell, and had an interview with him. He found him resigned to his fate. He persistently and passionately asserted bis innocence, but as the universal conviction seemed strong against him, he had made up hit minato die, and prepared a minute statement of where he had been and what he had done during the several days before, after and including the 9th of June, the day of the murder, intending, to leave it behind him for Ml* U.1 " 1'1 /VM la « ft /Ia.iIL * i L . 1_ Q - that it might in some way lead to" the vindication of his memory. Mr. Car- ngan asked him for this statement that it might be given to the public befo*e the day of execution, but the prison­ er refused, jMt. Carrigan, whose mmd seemed to be impressed with a sense of the prisoner^ inno* cence, entreated and pleaded with him* and at last induced him to consent thafc the document might be printed in the; Boston papers on the morning of the day of execution. The day came, and the statement was published. In it Phair related how he nad slept at his hotel in Rutland, on the night of the 8th; left Rutland at four o'clock on the morning of the 9th of June; that he ar­ rived at Boston in the afternoon of the same day. He detailed all tne inci­ dents of his stay in Boston and nis trip to Providence the same day in search of work; how, having failed to .get work in Providence, he returned, to Boston, sitting in the same seat with ^a man who said he was engaged in m ing novelties, and wanted Phair travel and sell his fabrics on commis­ sion. Phair declined to engage in a business he did not understand, and told the stranger he would go back to Rutland. The two rode together till the tiain reached Boston, when they separated. Phair remained in Boston tifi. five o'clock in the afternoon, and then took the train to Rutland. Before he reached there he was arrested on the train, on the morning of the 10th of June, for the murder--his trip,, as nafrated by himself, embracing the time when the murder must have been committed. Mr. M, D. Downing, Manager of the American Novelty Works, Boston, read this statement on the morning of the publication, and on coming to that part where the prisoner, related his meeting with a stranger on the Providence and Boston train, in­ stantly recognized himself as the stranger, anCspringing from his chair, exclaimed: 44 My God, tney have got the wrong man; this man is innocent!" This was nine o'clock on the day ap­ pointed for the execution, and it is 200 miles from Boston to Windsor, Vt.fi where the execution was to take place. Burdened with the thought that a probably innocent man was to be exe­ cuted within two hours he went from one Boston newspaper office to another to ask what was the best course to pur­ sue, and finally sent off the following dispatches indorsed by Charles H. Tav- lor, managing editor of the Boston Globe: . , Bo8To», April, 1077. Gk>v. Fairbanks, Montpelier, Vt.: . I think I saw and conversed with the man who IB to he executed to-day, on the train coming from Providence to Boflton, June 10,1874. I send by advice of Chief of Police. fctSignedj M. D. DOWNING. 50 BobOOl at. To the Sheriff at Prison, Windsor, Vt.; A reliable man here states, after reading Phair's statement, that he is certain that he met Phair on train jrora Providence and Boston, June 10,1874, and thinks lie can identify him. The man he met was a large man; said he wa» from ikitland, and had applied to Screw Com­ pany, Providence, for work. Had you not better communicate with the Governor before hanging? [Signed] CHARLES H. TAYIXJR, Manager of Olobe, \ It was ten o'clock when these dis­ patches were sent off, and half an hour Iater jie^s was received that the Gov­ ernor had granted a reprieve. The rest of the story is thus told: ** The scene in the Prison when the news of the reprieve was received beg­ gars description. At an early hour the scaffold was made ready, and at one o'clock, Phair, dressed in plain black, was ready for execution. He was calm and collected, and fully rec­ onciled to the ordeal. He spoke freely of the execution, expressed the hope that death would be instantaneous, .said he was determined to die bravely and to affirm his innocence while on the drop. While he was waiting to be con­ ducted to the scaffold, it was announced to him that a respite had been granted. On receiving the joyous tidings, so wholly unexpected, he exclaimedT4 God be praised!1 and, apparently bewil­ dered, he was overcome with emotion and fainted. With few exceptions all present expressed great relief and joy at the announcement of the Governor's respite, as Phair had made a good im­ pression during his term of confine­ ment in the Prison at Windsor.1' --Mis­ souri Republican. Religious; Fleet Carriages In EnglatA, v 44 A MtiLTIDUDE of clergymen," Mr. ijflCKy iiuu3j • uaually prisoners for debt, and almost always men of notori­ ously infamous lives, made it their busi­ ness to celebrate clandestine marriages in or near the Fleet. They performed the ceremony without license or ques­ tion, sometimes without even knowing the names of the persons they unitea, and in the most disreputable places. Almost every tavern oi' brandy shop in the neighborhood," we are told, 44 nad a Fleet parson in its pay. Notices were placed in the ^windows, and agents went out in every direction to solicit the passers-by." "One clergyman, who officiated in a chapel in May Fair, is said to have married on an average 6,000 couples every year; and, accord­ ing to his own admission, he married many thousands, most of whom were strangers to each other the week be­ fore, and many had been acquainted only a day or half a day. 44 Young ana inexperienced heirs," to quote Mr. Lecky's significant words, "fresb from collcgc cr even from school, were thus continually entrapped. A passing frolic, the excitement of drink, an al­ most momentary passion, the decep­ tion or intimidation of a few unprinci­ pled confederates, were often sufficient to drive or inveigle them into sudden marriages which blasted all the pros­ pects of their lives. In some«cases, when men slept off a drunken fit, they heard, to their astonishment, that dur­ ing its continuance they had gone through the ceremony." * Finally, " it was proved before Parliament," says Mr. Lecky, 44 that on one occasion there had been 2,954 Fleet marriages in four months; and it appeared from the memorandum-books of Fleet parsons that one of them made £57 in marriage fees in a single month; that another had married 178 couples in a single day." Such were the abuses possible under the Marriage law at the begin­ ning of the century, the history of which Mr. Lecky has undertaken to %rite. They no longer exist; and it is impossible to overestimate the moral or the political importance of their ex- j^p^tion.-- Unitarian Meview. TBE bEfiARTIN f BELIEV##. ' Book f< ̂another „ Plaoefuc aaotber «we Where angel bands tieir anthems sine Ami xamoteSlsDi^ rejbioe. < * Boom for one more inhabitant! *' _Wher<imansion*stand ' • Waiting for dwellers ipwly come * • • 'w the eeiestial taut ' ' *¥• *r*m Welcome another pilgrim " Earth's weary ioorno' o'er, To1 holy peace and en Asa rest: .. I . ; Another guest for thearomised * Another robe of whfitr; Onearth the wail of fie bereaved. _Wrun* from the snpAen heart*,. The mortal grief thaf tends the a&l When cherished frtlnds depart; . ; • laHeaven, peace for -he troubled new. Balm for the bruisfd and sore, Joy of the parted, nater again ' To part fore vt-rmop, Oh! contrast wondeiJtal i>s«tthivqfh4« ttPHith Hind . .7* Theirs, an eternity of life And trcr new delight! . ; ; Qsre, mingling with its native dutt, A clod ot molderiiiK clay , Iwlove'B retactant hand consigned" To darkness and decay: , t There,.springing unto perfect 1 A spmi newly bom . Hailing the kght that glorifuM • ' The resurrection ;norn! . . ... God speed the spirits taking wingfi _Q*ood angels guide their flight ftffln darkness and the shades of #mth tip to the land of light! ,• " , And God lie praised for Him who died, The Lamb for sinners slain. Who broke the power of death that we lq Him might live again. , .: jf i r-~H, D. aolt, in Vfirlttian WnkHi.' 1 ' Ssunday-School Le&onp. ; ' rOUBTS QUABTBR. Nov. W--Whom 'the Lord Beceives.Lcke IB; 9-17 Nov. 17--Zaccheos, the Publican •. Luke 19: 1-10 Nov. 24--Judaism Overthrown....Luke21: 8-2l Dec. 1 --The Lord's Supper........ Luke 22:10-20 Dec. 8--The Cross Luke 23:38-46 Dec. 15--The Walk to Emmaus--Luke 24:19-3?. Dec. 22-The Savior's Last Words.Luke 24:44-68 Bee= 23--Beview, Temperance or Missionary Ooa- ' oart* ' • THE LOYE OF HONEY. more desperate meowfis, as tries, perjury and tlie like.: TBfer Tie only gets more and more entangled* . ontit he finds himself beatiog his generous breast against, the sides of an ir<jm oage. , --.When fairly caught in the snare And striving to extricate himself, hrfrtP"* J-bleto fall "into manv foolish «ftti hurtful lusts." t Whilst he has poss^dt • 4ion of money he often indulges in ex­ travagance--in a costly dwelling, ex*, penstve furniture, sumptnoms Haefcs, elegant equipages, munificent presents and princely displays. He easily glides from these foolish to hurtful lusts. As his condition grows dangerous and dea- p^tate, he resorts to the intoxicating qjpp to strengthen his nerves and brace ' Aim for the struggle^ He is led, by fm J 'awful secret he durst not divulge to his wife, to the company Of the dissipation and rockless, and with them goes dovfh r to the gates of Hell. All this becloud* the intellect, creates suspicions as to his habits and precipitates his terrlWe ruin. • : . .<» , . • i O man of Godi flee these thing*,** Make money your servant, hot yottr master. Never put yourself in his power. He is a good and faithful serf- ant, but a severe and uncompromising master. Keep him ever as a help to (carry on the higher interests of the soul and to hasten the Kingdom of Christ. Give God the full share of all you haye,. and your fellow-men. that which they can rightly claim. ' ; Be just to God and man--just* cleat down to the very depths of your SQPI. . In the market, in the workshop, in the counting-room, on the exchange, every­ where and at all times, do justly, love1 mercy and walk humbly with GQCL Remember that the fashion of the world passeth away. Everything you have of earth must perish/but God, religion, virtue and Heaven shall continue utt- - ohangeably the same.--ficix Wm. CL Roberta, in N. T. Observer: ! ! ! THE love of. money is not a simple disposition to acquire wealth. That arises from man's power to project his thoughts into the future and to provide for disability and old age. It is rather commendable than blameworthy. The Bible nowhere condemns it. Indeed, in the Old Testament we read that riches, consisting of cornfields, vine­ yards and olive yards were promised those who walked in the ways of truth and probity. The New Testament also, though very emphatic on the dangers of wealth, says not a word against its acquisition by proper means, or its possession, if rightly used. The love of money is pronounced "the root of all evil," or, perhaps more strictly rendered, the root of all kinds of evil. This is a sordid thirst of gain as a possession merely, and not as * power to be used for the glory of God and the good of men. It increases with the increase of wealth, crying "More, more," like the horse-leech and the grave. " This disposition," says another, " becomes first a kind of intemperance, and then, like intem­ perance, it becomes a disease, and finally a species of insanity." Its first manifestation is a tenacity to hold money ; its second is to use it for no Other purpose than to increase it; its last is to regard it only as capital to be invested for the sake of its Interest, and to regard the interest as intended only to be turned a^ain into capital. This disposition grows insensibly upon a person. For years, if not for a lifetime, he has not the slightest sus­ picion that he comes under the tre­ mendous malediction of Paul in the sixth chapter of his First Epistle to Timothy. When he discovers that some of his uncharitable neighbors are classifying him with the lovers of money, he deludes himself by saying: "They are ignorant of my plans. When I have amassed a large fortune, I mean to endow colleges, erect orphan asylums, support hospitals and pour streams of gold into the treasury of the Church." Under such a delusion, even good men rob God for years and injure their own souls. This disposition not only grows in­ sensibly, but eats uj> all the vitality of the SOUL* -It COOLS its worm />nrrant.<j and kills its noblest sensibilities. It renders it suspicious of the value or success of any measure or undertaking that has not for its end the coining of money. It casts around it an encrust­ ation of earth that keeps it aloof from all the benign and softening influences of society. It clips its w^ngs and keeps it tied down to the dust of earth. It leaves nothing for it to enjoy with its wealth when it has acquired it. It has consumed everything else. The Jove of money plunges a man into moral evils of the most destructive kind. According to the teaching of the Apostle, it exposes him to tempi a- tion. It tends to make him untruthful. The love of money exposes ft man also to dishonesty. If he is a mer­ chant, he is tempted to give snort weights and measures, to adulterate his goods, pr to make false entries, when he gives credit, justifying it on the ground of small profits in conse­ quence of competition. If he is a banker or broker, he is tempted to take advantage of the crippled condi­ tion of the borrower, or to press too hard the man. whom he knows to be in his power. If he is a real estate owner, he is tempted to extort the last cent from the poor tenant and to op­ press even the widow and the or­ phan, If he is the manager of other men's estates, he is tempted to run up a long list of expenses that are purely imaginary, for &e sake of filling his Cullers. The . man who expose? himself to temptation is almost, sure, to fall into, a snare. Before he knows it, he finds his foot fast in its snare. It is an easy step from exposure to temptation into a snare, An opportunijby of realizing a large sum of money opens before him. There is the temptation. Having no money of his Own to secure the coveted prize, he uses the means of others lying idle in his hands, or in the vault to which he has access, without their knowledge or consent, in < the hope oi replacing-it after securing a hand- for himself. Here is the* snare. He soon finds that tion8 were faulty and tb£t mmf him in the face. Though he is nots-re sure of success the second time, yet necessity it laid upon him to thh/w foe 4he saving prose: He Felling Trees by Electricity. THE electric fluid, in the form of lightning, oftentimes proves itself a Very efficient wood-cutter, *nd it has occurred to some ingenious gentlemen, in India, that artificial electricity may be so applied and controlled as to cut down trees a good deal faster than the clumsy ax or that American notion, the chain-saw. The two ends of the copper wires of a galvanic battery are connected Mfith platinum wire, which of course instantly becomes red- hot, and while in that state it is gently see-sawed across the trunk of the trfee to be felled. When arrangements were made for the experiment, it turned out that the thickness of the thickest plati­ num* wire that could be got was only that of crochet-cotton. It was at once seen that such a wire would be con­ sumed before the tree was half severed from its trunk. However, the attempt was made. The burning wire perform­ ed its task very well so long as it lasted, but, as anticipated, the wire continual­ ly broke, and at length there was no wire left. There can be little doubt that, with a stronger battery and thick­ er wire, the experiment would have been entirely successful. As it was, the tree was sawn one-fifth through., It is calculated that, under proper condi­ tions, a tree, which at present takes two hours to fell, will come to the ground by this process in fifteen min­ utes. It is almost needless to add that there is no waste of wood, no sawdust. --English Journal. - „ Bad for Boys. sis OMUTime Conversions* SOME things have changed. Convert sion in the time of Jesus, the author of our religion, was not a mental exer­ cise or an intellectual process. It Was changing one's way of living, dropping a style of conduct and taking up an­ other style, in imitation of another man who lived that other style. Con­ version, to-day, is a series of mental exercises which are supposed to ulti­ mate in a better mode of acting. In the olden time the mode of acting preceded the , mental ex­ ercise. The man to-day feels so and so, or thinks he does, and there­ fore does so and 30; the man in the day of Christ began to do certain deeds, and, as the result, felt rightly. The right acting preceded the nappy fe^lr iDg. We have got the cart ahead of the horse, and look for happy feelings' before we have done that righteousness which alone can bring happiness of mind. The joy of the Lord is only known to those Wlio live the life of the Lord in its goodness,--Mt. Murray, in. Golden Rule. . A SAT of a hoy who had in vam searched the Postoffice oorridors for the nickel which a careless hand occa­ sionally drops at the stamp-clerk's window, yesterday took his position before a chestnut stand on Griswpld street and eyed the frOsh nuts a long time before drawing a deep sigh and groaning: - . > .. sw_ r •_». • tn y4| Jb WI9U 4 VV09 HUUi - The chestnut-roaster made no repjv, and the odor of the roasting nut^ finally induced the boy to inquire: . / " Are chesthuts healthyf" , ! ' "No, bub--they are prolific of Indi­ gestion," was the reply. t After awhile the boy thought it was time to remark: "Did you ever hear the story of the man who gave a poor boy a handful of chestnuts, and wneri the boy grew an and got rich he rewarded the old man with a diamond pin and a four-hortle teamP" «' I "No, never did, but I heard of the man who bronght a. poor hoy to ^he edge of the grave by giving him. adoae$ chestnuts."" The lad took a turn iip and. dovifn, secured another strong; sniff of tW pleasant odor, and then leaned over and whispered: " If I'll take the chances of the edgo- of-tke-grave business will you tfi&e |w. chances on the chestnuts? • • The vender finally thought fcfc'WOuldf' §0. .ntrrf<