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V“- “â€"__ o ning promptly attended to and satisfaccion guarantee d. stock at I’(")I.\"i‘S (ml 9. full .erxal repairs cov- .{cpr on hand her: u D9231 roceries always ”in at the Lowest Prices. The Harnessmaker. $2,000.000 1.000.000 850,000 '1 “.Iow‘n's‘. nakcn 11 Viv-v: â€" DURHAM! OXT' gave wondered What 3301"“? H ONTAR IO. H LH .'\ )1 ).\ i‘ O \\' d' X‘f‘l’fl IYXOOI 'U “I 4 l l : We open our eyes in this living world laround us, in a wonder land, peepled ‘, with dreams, and haunted with wonder- ? fail shapes; and every day dawns upon 7, us in a medley of new marvels. We are 1 aWakened from those. dreams by contact with hard, stubborn facts, not rudely ' nd harshly, but gradually and tenderly. 1 “1 much that is bright and beautiful l a .vay with the earlier years of life, that l by the time we are able to earn our first ‘- Salary we hold in our hands only the i. cuimpled, withered leaves of Childhood’s : simple creeds and loving superstitions. ' Year after year, the inconoclastic hand of earnest, real life. tears from the lofty l pedestals upon which our loving; fancyl had enshrined them, the gods of gold \ that crumble into worthless clay at our ‘ . feet. We live to lose faith at last, in . "Puss in Boots"; we cease to weep over‘ i the sad tragedy of “Cock Robin”; there ‘ comes a time when we can read “Ara- bian Nights” and then go to bed without ‘= a tremor; with one heart-breaking pang ' . at last we give up darling “.lm-k the Giant Killer.” and acknowledge him to T he the fraud he stands confessed; it is not long after that we learn tolook upon \Vi liar: ’i’cll as a national myth. and then we. come to know. in spite of all 3 . that orthodox theology has taught us to .. T the (-ontrary, that Adam was not the. " e’hm- min-f» :-. mustache. Adam and Y ROBERT J. 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Did is ever occur to you m: was probably the moss trou‘ worried man that. over livou? always pictured Adam as a. ( looking man; a. puzzled looking who would sigh fifty times a sit flown on a log: and run his fingers through his hair while gave it up. 'i'hey 2.111s: have been a. source 3 of constant trouble and niystifieation to ‘1 him. For you we they were the first boys thnt humanity ever had any experi- ! ' enco with. And there was no one else in 1. f the neighborhood who had any boy. with when; Adam, in his nn'mients of perplex- it-y, could consult. There wasn’t a boy in the country with whom Adam’s boys E Were on speaking terms. and with whom they could play and fight. Adam. you ‘ see, labored under the most distressing ' disadvantages that ever opposed a mar- ‘ ried man and the father of a family. He had never been a boy himself. and what could he know about boy nature or boy troubles and pleasures? His perplex- ity began at an early date. Imagine, if you can, the celei-ity with which he ‘l kicked off the leaves, and paced up and ' down in the moonlight the first time '1 little Cain made the. welkin ring when l he had the colic. How should Adam I know what ailed him? He couldn’t tell . Eve that she had been sticking the baby 3 full of pins. He didn’t even know enough 3 to turn the vociferous infant over on his ii face and jolt him into serenity. If the fence corners on his farm had been over: i grown with catnip, never an idea would T Adam have had :svhat to do with it. - It 1 is probable that after he got down on his 3 knees and felt for thorns and snakes or I' 3 rats in the bed. and thoroughly examined 1 Cain for bites or scratches. he passed !-__ f- 17.... “an. H“. “anal mnuu'ki ; him over to Eve with the usual remark,‘ 3 “There, take him and hush him up, for ‘ heaven’s sake,” and then went oil? and i ‘, sat down under a distant tree with his 1 1 fingers in his ears, and perplexitv in his i 1 brain. And young Cain just split the _ night with the most hideous howls the little world had ever listened to. It must . have stirred the animals up to a degree that no menagerie has ever since at- , tained. There was no sleep in the vicinity of Eden that night for anybody, baby, beast or Adam. It is more than probable that the weeds got a lone start of Adam - the next day, while he lay around in . - shady places, and slept in troubled dozes, disturbed, perhaps, by awful visions of possible twins and more colic. 1. n_ -A--‘A “11"." 0111‘ Jain for bites or scratches. he passed IIIOHUPLULLLU ”mam"..- -_ , -. lim over to Eve with the usual remark,‘ Just think of it, Christian man With 5 ‘There. take him and hush him up, for a. family to support, with last year’s I leaven’s sake,” and then went off and '| stock on your shelves, and a draft as 1 long as a clothes-line to pay to-morrow! 7 at down under a distant tree with his 1 Think of it, woman, with all a woman’s I. ingers in his ears. and perplexity in his i. rain. And young Cain just split the i love and constancy, and a mother’s sym- = night with the most hideous howls the ' pathetic nature, with three meals a day j Little world had ever listened to. It must : 365 times a year to think of,and the flies ; have stirred the animals up to a degree ‘ to chase out of the sitting-room; think 1 that no menagerie has ever since at- i if your cherub boy was the only boy in tained. There was no sleep in the vicinity l the wide, wide world, and all his ques- of Eden that night for anybody, baby, ‘, tions which now radiate in a thousand able 5 directions among other boys, who tell beast or Adam. It is more than prob that the weeds got a long start of Adam ‘ him lies and help him to cut his eye Adam while he lay around in 2 teeth, were focused. upon you! shady places. and slept in troubled dozes, had only one consolation that has been disturbed, perhaps, by awful visions of . denied his more remote descendants. possible twins and more colic. '1 His boy never belonged to a baseball When the other boy came along, and ‘ club, and never teased his father from the, boys got old enough to sleep in a the first of November till the last of ' March for a pair of skates. bed by themselves, they had no pillows . ’ Well, you have no time to pity Adam. to fight with, and it is a moral impossiâ€" : . You have your own boy to look after. bility for two brothers to go to bed with- . your neighbor has a. boy, whom you out a fracas. What comfort could two _ Or. ’, can look after much more closely than boys get out of pelting each othe with ,his mother does, and much more to fragments of moss or bundles of brush. _ . ,. r. ...... A lawman... .vmn- own satisfaction than to the the next day, ll‘aéluCuU-J v- ”- 'v_- What disnml views Adam must have limpses of Original of future humanity received from the sin which began to evelop itself in his boys. How he must ‘4 â€"--~ 3-4». Hum- 02‘. '5. How he must. put. into their heads the thousand and one questiom with which they pii ~11 their pannta a.. ;c after day. We wonder what he tho 2;" when they first began to String buC.‘.-Q:~'13- on the cat’s tail. And when nigh: cum-f there was no hirel girl to keep the My quiet by telling them ghost StOrix-S. :2.- d Adam didn’t know even so much u:- m : anecdote. ‘ O O .--_-A‘ _t\.q..,- Cain. when he nade his :ppegfranz' w;.s the first and onlv 10:: in the mi Q youns: "Mm All his czhw uiion dop-s; ‘ Do ‘1..‘~‘. on hi: im Ospsjenced yarcnts. w'nv m-x vu' in this Two- swan a. boy u: the? saw Odin. And there wusnt .. Ii a kite. He had a much DD'LICI' iuca u.- angel‘s wings than he had of a kit-e. If little Cain had own asked for such a simple hit of moahunism as :1. shinny club. Adam would have gone out. ’11an the. depths of the prime '31 forestt and wept in Shk‘i‘l‘ morticiiutinn um: i‘li‘lilfl-‘SS, ('(ml'esscd ignomn :3. I don’t wonder that. Cain turns-Li out bad. I always said he would. Fm- his entire education depend- ugi upon a most ignorant: man, 1'. mum in the wry pulmiusr. days of his ignorance, .4- I,\.-.« :P hm ‘n-H] L\;‘l‘ ll.l “' \‘ {IKLU ”I..\I' 1111' his entire (11111011111111 111111111111- 11011111 1111111, :1. 1111111 in -11 11111111 11. most 1;;11111'111‘113 the 1111'5' {1111111111311 days of his 11111111' 11 11', \1'1111 1-11111111’ t h 11. 111111111 le: S if 1111 111111 1.11111 1111 his life 1111 :1 high 14:11:11.? 111111 1111111 :1 1111111 to 11111;) 111111. A1111 the hwy-s 11.1111.1+1nn 11:11] 1.1) 131‘ 00111111101011 1-111111'111y tried all his life on 111111 :1 mam to help hi: 111111(-,:1.10n 111111 to be 111nm the .1t1~r‘11m1(,11 1 .- A upon the catechmiczil sysrem; this instance, the boy pupil asked the : questions and parent teacher's, hen-wen ' ilt‘h) them, tried tn answer 12mm. {Huey bud to answer than. For they with! lint mkv i'vfugn frrmi .‘z‘iu steady stimuli of questinns that; pmu‘gd in upon thmn day utter day, by inter; Mating: :L fairy story. as you do \Vth your 003' asks QUO-‘iifniS about summit-hing of ‘C'hich you never heard. 1901' hm? could. Adv?!) lit-gin, "Once upon an time,” who i with one quivk, incisive qimszimi, Cain Would pin him righn back against. the dvzu‘: Wall Of ‘crmition, and make him either specify ! exactly what time, or acknowledge the \f‘raud. How could. Eve tell him about u ““1. un.‘ Hm 1mm stalk.” “hen (Jain, Dilly, In I quit-k. incisive queszion, Liam would pm him right back against. the (lead Wall of either specify ._ ‘ creation, and make him exactly what time, or acknowledsxe the fraud. How could Eye tell him about “Jack and the bean stalk,” “he: Cain, fairly crazy for some one to play with, ‘ knew perfectly well there was not. and ‘ never had been, another hey m the ' plantation: As day my day (Jain hrought ‘ home things in his hands about which to ask questions that no mortal could answer. how gratz'iul his luwvildered parents must have been that he haa no pockets in which to transmn't his collee- rzenerat-ions came into tions. lr'or Izany‘ l. the fair young world. got into no end of e a boy’s '= trouble, and died out of it, hei’or pocket solved the problem how to make the thing contained seven times greater than the container. The only thing: that saved AdamZand Eye from interrogational insanity was the paucity of language. If little Cain had possessed the verbal abundance of the language in which men are to-day talked to death, his father’s bald head would have gone down in shining flight to the ends of the earth to escape him. leaving Eye to look l after the stock, save the crop. and raise ‘ her boy as best she could. Which would have been 6,000 years ago, as to-day. just like a man. 5 l. l l I ‘ i m ‘ ,, -‘ .-‘.-n“+ 11kt? «a JILL-AA. Because, it was no off hand, absent» ; minded work answwing questions about ‘ things in those spacious old days, when ' there wac crowds of room, and everything ' grow by the acre. When a placid, but": exceedingly unanimous looking animal? Went by. producing the general ofl‘ect. of an eclipse, and Cain would shout, “Oh, lookce, pa Whan’s that?” the pati- ent Adam. tvying to saw onough kitchen Wood to lass over Sunday, Wirh a piece. of flint, would have to pause and gather up words enough to say:â€" ‘ ~ --»---n‘n “'fl1z1t,111y son? That, is 011lj' :1 masto- don gigm1te11s;hv”hm1.~= :1. had 1001:. but; :1 C 11115112111 temner.’ And 111911.111'099111311': “Oh, pop! pop! \\ 11:1t’_th:s 1t mar yon?” “0h, bother,” \dzun would re 111'; “it’s only :1. 111110111110r111111. 11131113111113 pushydernmtu.” - L‘..-‘:.\A.\u‘\l\ol‘r*n"‘c nhA {lilting \LCL Jlltuukuao "Oh, yes, thvliocmneaft-crus. Oh2 lookee, luokee at this ’un!” “Where. Cainny? 0h, thus in the mud? That’s only zm acephalu. lamelli branch- iutu. it: won't bite you, but you mustn’t cut it. It’s poison as politics.” "Wheel See them! 509, sec. see! What’s llilll -Well, you have no time to pity Adam. You have your own boy to look after. Or. your neighbor has a. boy, whom you can look after much more closely than his mother does, and much more to your own satisfaction than to the boy’s comfort. Your boy is, as Adams boy was an animal that asks questiohs. If there is any truth in the old theory of the transmigration of souls. 9H ? Looks like a. plesiosuurus; his way; he has a jaw like L Q .. \ .3 , \ Us the oldest boy I c seven years old and I w 4liimâ€"â€"-cou1.l and ; hardest, 3 fellow. who used 7.1 , - all I ‘1 his questions were not unswm E him. it was his customâ€"n. (211831.11 I.. ‘ {‘or a. pair of skates and u lznii ‘ corkscrew in it, could an». ~ . when a boy died he would pass into an . ; interrogation point and he’d stay there. QHe’d never get out of t; for he never 6 i gels through asking questions. The older . .3 “.12e grows the more he asks, and the r gmore perplexing the questions 2 the more unreasonable he is about want- :_:: ‘ ing t‘ncm answered it suit himself. Why, 1 e, and ver knewuhe was fifty- Went to school to did ask the longest, crookedest questions. that no to trade off all his bonus 0 with :\ "Her. .e‘. mi mien '.’\.L {U 513i?» ~-- - u an? fn KZLKILIE' Lunc. vv..--__ _,,V dictionary. and smite with in the. boy whose nutumlly derived Adumic ignor- ance was made manifest. Ah me. ii the boy could only do as he. s done, by. and ‘: fvrule the man or woman. who £35.14 to reply to his' inquiries, as he is him-vii f unrrected for similar shortcomings, win [a z, a vwie of tears, What. it literally howling: wilderness he could and would make of i this world. E Your boy, asking: to-day pretty much ‘99\n\vc bi. v--- the same questions, with hm. 110W 1111111) addinionul ones th boy did is 10.111.91'01‘1 time he -â€"_. +1.: “-w--‘ humored in the breechvs, mink, than in the ubscrv; 'm a long slender bu; exce llllld? llil‘S it lul'liiluw, u_, u ._ V finch- , has lawn lost may be found He 1stn’t ' ahove all things. a natural infallible 1n- “Jillt‘ll for the woods, and can no more he Fhat’s ‘ lost l'l them than a squirrel. 1f the .cow does not come homeâ€"and if she is u‘ .urus- . town vow. like a town man, she does not ‘ v . . ' home, three riirrhts 1n the weekâ€" ; if like i com:- you lose half uniting for her. to of valuable ' V :1 dz.‘ vhat’s ! 1’ itliz'm‘ dollars Don’t 3 longer, or so lens: as Isition ; holds out. Finally, a quartet sends a t; '. boy to the woods; he came back at nulk- 1 What’s 1 ino: time, whistling the tune that no i 1 man ever imitated, 3100111. 1 contentedly along before . him. He has 5 now, i one particular marble Wthh. he regards - antha- { with about the same superstitious re‘Ver- ‘1 .ickcd? ‘1 once that a pagan does hIS idol, and his -. ghoma 3 Sunday school teacherean’t drive it out : did we ‘ of him, either. Carnelian, crystal, bulls- lymph- :1 eye, chine, pottery, boly, blood .alley or him at ! commie, Whatever he may call it. there is down I is “luck in it.” When he loses this mar- â€" m2--- . hie. he sees p . '. seni'oliz ;; his love so time i Then you pav a man . look for her two days 3 the appropriation ! troubles that some and the cow ambles 3 train has fallen on 3 d::â€"una. of his active little life. a '1 hit“, him late for school. .\:1’:j‘tli‘;-iil§', no luiu‘ua ‘ to love refined society but in a. conserva- non-cmnmittal sort of a. Way, dis- effeetually that even its existence tive, his parents never dream of until it is gone. Poor ‘l‘om. his life is not all comedy at this period. Go up to your boy’s room some night, and his sleeping face will preach you a sermon on the griefs and times weigh his little almost to breaking, more eloquently that the lips of a Spurgeon or a 'i‘almage could picture them. The cur- .me day's act in the The rest- less feet that all day: long have pattered so farâ€"down dusty Streets, over scorch- ing pavements, through long stretches of quiet wooded lanes, along the winding cattle paths in the that have ‘I where it wrangles and 3 shining pebbles, that heart down Scolds over the nu- _A.:‘1 deep silent woods;, dabbled in the cool brook, have filled your anic and bankruptcy ahead '1 house with noise and dusk and racket, 'l‘kn erginpd hand outside the Ill-V \lslvuvgvuu 3.11.11. in was his c11;~t<;111â€";1 1:115:11. 1 11mre haunted in the breech 1112-, we used to think, than in the “‘05 rva'nmâ€"to 1111;;- 11p a long; slem‘. 1‘ but exceading. fly 1911a- oious r051 whkn 1213’ ever 11 11- 1- 1‘ 1-? his; dict-101111.13. 11111 smite with in 1111-. buy . . *»- - ~.-1'.,I"‘1‘- ULlL kl\r‘v, \--4--â€"â€"â€"r_7 V the same quest-ions, with how many additional ones, that Adam’s boy did. is told, every time he asks one that. you don’t; know any thing almut, jusu as Adam told Cain fifty times a. day, that; he will know all about in when ho is a man. So from the. days of Cain .- ........ 0-;n“ h "taven knows which never comes '0! 3'01 Would nvvvr come to him t'mms :md Fm. rs; mm. ‘,mm1 hood, ever looks 111nm an. 51.1111 111111;, "111111 i; 15', 110:- 11.111 111111 I11 :1. SR 1111sti11 1:,§_1:1;:ir15 11111111, until you 11111111 31111171 1111111111111 11.1111 depth of his 1; 1111. 114-24 questions and gets . 1111;11:- '1 11.1: 111::t \‘011 111111 the 511‘. 11.11.:1 111111111". Day by day, 11.11111; 1.1111111'1‘8. upon the 1:11111111 page 12.11 11111.11 11f 111.1111111. .1111; Hamâ€"111 :;1:1.‘1‘ 0:11. a. buy 1:11.11 1111.29.11. are : 31.1f:1.rn him. He knows 1101" xii. =1msr.:;l:fiinn (lt‘Vf‘lUEL‘ itwlf. lie has a l'nx'mnlu. l'PIM’utlllg which nine. tinws a: day, while painting his finger fixvtlly t0- avg-.121 tlw sun. will muse warm to (limp- mm' from the hand. or, to use 11113 own laxzpi'ut-‘rdtm, will "knock warm.” If. t 1:) : fight: (my Cluck at home tvlls him it is two n’nlnck. :‘lld the flying: l‘nves of the (lilllilt‘llflll (lL‘ClZ-H‘CS it is lml‘l'pust; five. he will stand 01' fall with thedzmdvlion. He has a fm'muln, by which anything; that has been 109:1 may be found. He has, above all things. a. natural infallible in- kuim't; 1’0;- th'e woods, and can no more be lust, i'x them than a squirrel. 1f the. cow dms nos mine, homeâ€"and if she is a town mw. like a town man, She does not, (301119 11:31:29, three nights in the Weekâ€"- â€"- mm MH‘ :1. (lav of valuable Lime DB‘ U\' to -- expresses any preference, be a. 'pirate, an occup there are more - chan' money, and fewer oppm .1 Ann for years uf failing ; :3: human ,- sublimity r in), gran: w. the corner; wnerex ice big enough for .Vv v on, or a. pond of matter deep enous: drown in, the voice of your boy is he He whispers in a shout, and can? in ordinary, confidential moments: shriek He exchangrcs bits of 1m: . gossip about; his fans: ’8 Llozgu'-stl\° ters with the boy 341m; in the :13: township, to which interesting 1-. tions of home 1‘40 I'm: inn-21:3»: u “7 --..._. - neighborhood lisw faction. and me helpless dummy able. hatred {or 30: helpless dummy 3;») has an u‘izc;23‘.<1!‘.ti-‘.'- " :1\':".'- able hatred for company, and ..n sion for walking down stairs. For a 3‘04? or two his feet never touch the bidirx‘cj: in his descent, am". his 1mm of 1:03;: 1- ing: the Stair rail 1‘ .’ using it. as n 3111980;- gtvr tramway, s‘ 1,2! hymns a.-. 1 nulzit of seating no hall 1...-'p~: '? the} v: Her pitcher on 13.3. hamster post. nt- V.'o.r;‘.i'S Lhu same S: Lt‘ biv'vr- 1:9. ga’n‘ father 2-,:111 on the dryess. dusticsc days in th; y.:'.;rul\\‘:1)'s man .gcs L0 mun-3' 5mm n:"d on the varp: He czzrei‘miy step I. 11111:} (m t. .0 (‘ 11")1‘ ox :r we aim: 22‘ m. S(+\'(‘31::.‘e E] )CZIX‘S \- kanw tin-1°: “as pt)? 2:1. A‘onua this: :it of sqtting 1.111 111111 lL'L.:-p-: 01' L116): flier pitcher on 1. a 11111131131 post. . "was T1110. 5: 11119 saw. hunt as: ;_1'1< father, .1111 011 the dryer-Lt. dustiest (133.4 ’11) the ' ‘ .L 11' MW 113's man .gcs be on. Lx'rv SOHIL . 111111 011 1. L1) rar'y r:. He (21511411 13' Lari"); )1 :1' ti)" Linear 2n H.211”; until 1:19 is 111x211; .29. 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There urn three luuws :11 um pm- : 101‘. You have Wailmi, us lo: :4: as you mm 1‘ for 11313111 to go. They have (loya‘logmli alarming-r symptoms of staying to tvz‘..é You know there aren’t, half enough" strmvlierrios to go :u‘ouud. It) i. only three minutes walk to tho unwary, lioyyrvsor, maid.{[cnii sets LAT liigc ;; rocflaor. and you are so nlousod with his cclerity and ready good nature than; you woos to, run after him and kiss him. lie is gone i a. long time, hmw-‘wr. Ten minutes be come. fifteen, fifteou grow into twonty;‘ tho twenty swells info the half hour," and your guests oxohzmgzo wry signifi- zmt glaâ€"moos as the half hour lx'cs‘nm‘s‘, three-quarters. Your hoy returns at; last, ' :mprehonsion is his downcost eyes. humilo ivy in his luggurd step, penitence. in the appealing slouch of his hottm‘wl hat. anal :1 pound and a hull‘ of shinglo mils in his hands. “Mother,” he says. "what else was it: you told me to got- hvsulus the nails?” And while you :m-r C(')lllltlil§.‘£ your scanty store of berries to make them go round wi'tlmun a fraction, you . hear Tom out in the back yard whistling i and humming away. building a. dog ' houso with the nails you never told him ; to get. J - Q . _L L“:~ GINO "Y‘ifn 110 get. Poor Tom, he loves at this age quito| as ardentiy as he makes mistakes and! He is repulsed quite as ardent- ly as he makes love. If he hugs his sis- ter, he mussos her rufile, and gets cuffed1 for it. Two hours later another boy. not1 more than twenty-1170 or twenty-three neighbor’s years older than Tom, some Tomnvill come in,:md wiil just make the most hopeless, terrible chaotic wreck of the ruflle that lace or rushing: can be dis- torted into. The only repruuf he gets is the reproachful murmur, “Must he go __A ,4. -\‘ II 1.11 0 mnvn mischief. 1;“! cl\¢’\ ”1:1.uu - . .â€" building themorningz fires, and loudly xxnnu‘t‘xirg if 301mg Mr. Bostwick is going to stay to breakfast. ‘ ‘ " ' «~A4- :n Raul“? on- wherever there is a patch of 15;!) for him to break his neck 3 1d of matter deep enough to: he voice of your boy is heard 1 s in a snout), and ca rec-arse: 1 . confidential mnnmnts‘. in a l : exchzmgrcs bits of in; .m‘. n; his fa:.:s:’s Llozgu'-stl\° ‘:..‘.:‘- he he"? 3".'1!'151' in (2'10 ;:.~,:' Maxi 1:; mm hon: IVVD IUC B L‘. x; ‘2 ‘u -§ Cl?419; 111 1~:‘-131~_~.‘:e that. P11111108 1111‘110211et91‘. 3611,1180, dusty strces, you (3:111 31111 (1161211101, driving a C1 1-“ 111- 11111111, “’11)“ the 1", 'I" rmcdiu so. 0 \ ‘ “g 80:1 rn'elzz T I U € in tin" ' 501110 me] 13' Sr.‘")_:z the ab “fixiufi bac r w ‘ jori m: I". Utv Cit} innrtis- to? tm'imls- ‘ : 11mg, ' 2"” (".1131â€" an 0.x we‘l‘ ag; {01"4 .«34‘ th! A A . .-' ‘ .‘ mum .492; 15 . and km“ W( '1 SIM pull an.” 1'hn. l 01": never dragged a sleepy boy 08 the (a; ‘; lounge at 9 o’clock, and hauled him 08 to: upstairs to bed, can know with what a rd l herculean grip a square sleep takes hold so: i of a boy’s senses, nor how Iearfully and I a l‘ wonderfully limp and nerveless it makes ‘ ...! him; nor how. in direct antagonism to all established laws or anatom's'. it de- velops joints that work both ways. all the way up and down that boy. What i pen can portray the wonderful enchant- ;;~.- 'g ments of a boy’s dreamland! Xc marvel- i 1 1 ous Visions wrought by the weird. strange 1 power of hasheesh, no dreams that come I l I a I -l . Lultl e ‘ii'fi‘. 0"! ) 0"..k ‘. to the sleep of jaded woman or tired \'.".'- my man, no ghastly specters that dance at- w. tendance upon cold mince pic. but 1;, ,. shrink into tiresome. stale and trifling $9,,“ commonplace compared with the mar- rem-t velous, the grotesque, the wonderful. "the terrible, the. bountiful and the en- ;ml chanting scenes and people. of a boy's u |‘dreamland. This mzw he owing: in a l \ .‘. . . . .5. -a\‘ ‘ J ll) 1191.. great measure to mo fact that tlw buy 1 my. never rclzltes his drmm until .Cil tho nthvr :omoi members of the family have rvlutod ‘thoirs: and then he comm in. likva SEWH» Quit? back township. with that lie("vss:xr}‘ ma- ,;..‘-,.-_.'1 jority; like. the dirocnory of a wescvrn [z'crti city, following the census of a rival “rim . town. I ‘- UV Vv ”- Tom is a miniature Ishmaelite at this period of his career. His hand is a gainst every man. and about every man’s hand and nearly every woman’s hand. is against him, oil and on. Often. and then the iron enters his soul, the hand that is against him iolds the slipper. He wears his mother‘s slipper on his jacket quite as often as she wears it on her foot. This is all wrong: and impolitic. It spreads the slipper and discourages the boy. Then he reads in his Sunday school lesson that the wicked stand in slippery places, he takes it as a direct personal reference, and he is aiironted. and maybe 5 the seeds of atheism are implanted in his 1 breast. Moreover, this repeated applica- i, tion of the slipper not only soars his iI temper, and gives a bias to his moral“ '. ideas. but it sharpens his wits. liow i many a Christian mother. her eyes swim- I mine; in tears of real pain that plashed E up from the depths of a loving: heart. as 2 she bent over her wayward hoy until his ‘: heartrending walls and piteous shrieks { drowned her (-hoking, sympathetic. sobs. I has been wasting her strong? 21. and ,3 wearing out a good slipper. and pouring I . p 1 . ‘ out all that priceless flood of mother love l and duty and pity and tender sympathy ‘. upon a concealed atlas-hack or a good l shingle. ' It is a historical fact that no boy is 3? ever whipped twice for precisely the same. it t Y I g offence. He varies and impru‘ws a little. on every repetition of the prank. until at last he reaches a point where (ll'iN'TlUn is almost impossible. lie is a hi; lioy then, and glides alnmst imperueptilily ‘ A1» -- \‘i'.1“|' 1 then, and glides alnmst ll‘iijlt‘l'.“‘f:’.lhl.\' under from the discipline of his father. the Siil‘VHllltnlth‘ of the police. By easy st"'-'es he passes into the un- (L... cmni'ortahle period of boyhood. l'lis‘ jac- ket developes into a. coat-tail. 'l“m- boy of to-day, who is sliiilh-(i iutw a 'ziwllriw. ' villi. W'C‘K‘J‘n abbreviated lil(')(‘.l~2‘.‘l'_‘~' of :1 en... he is taken out, of lung: (in ,_,:..,.:. has no ideaâ€"not the faintist eni‘A-m‘fim‘. of the, grandeur the Jnonwutous ixapzn'zanz-n of the epoch in a boy's life that Was marked by the transition from the oldâ€"fashi-mel cadet roundabout to the coat-tail. it is an experience that heaven, ever (-liary of its choicest blessings. and mindful of the devadence of the race of boys. has not vouchsafed to the untmvard, forsaken boys of this wicked generation. When the roundabout went out of fashion, the heroic race of boys passed away from i earth, and weeping nature sobbed and i broke the moulds. The fashion that i started a boy of six years on his pilgrim- i age of life in a miniature edition of his ' father’s coat, marked a period of retro- gression in the affairs of men, and stamped a decaying and degenerate race. There are no boys now, or very few at ' least, such as peopled the grand old earth when the men of our age were boys. And that it is so, society is to be con- gratulated. The step from the round- about to the tail-coat was a leap in life. It was the boy J ulus, dotting the prae- texta and flinging upon his shoulders the toga virilis of Julius; l’atroelus. donning the armor of Achillis, in which to go i forth and be lIectored to death. l Tom is slow to realize the grandeur ‘ of that tailocoat, however, on its trial trip. How diflerent it feels from his good, snug-fitting, comfortable old jav- ket. It fits him too much in every direc- 3‘ tion, he knows. Every now and then he 0; stops, with a gasp of terror. feeling posi- tive. from the awful sensation of noth- I I I a I l I 3 {1. ingness about the neck, that the entire ~ collar has fallen off in the street. The tails are prairies, the pockets are cav- s erns, and the back is one vast. illimit- s able, stretching waste. How Tom slides L- along as close to the fence as he can 3- scrape, and what a wary eye he keeps in 11 every direction, for other boys. When he forgets the school, he is half tempted :e to feel proud of his toga; but when he ly thinks of the boys, and the reception m that awaits him his heart sinks, and he .11 is tempted to go back home, sneak up- ,d stairs, and rescue his old worn-out jacket 1e from the rag-bag. He glances in terror re at his distorted shadow on the fence. or and, confident that it is a faithful outline of his figure, he knows that he has worn he his father’s coat off by mistake. He tries st- various methods of buttoning his coat, ed to make it conform more harmoniously , _ to his figure and his. idea of the eternal of fitness of things. He buttons just the ng lower button and immediately it flies 15;. all abroad at the shoulders, and he be- ok. holds himself an exaggerated mannikin he of “Capt. Cattle.” Then he fastens just )ur the upper button, and the frantic tails £3, flap and flutter like a clothes line. in a the cyclone. Then he buttons it all up, a la militiare, and tries to look soldierly. but ,r- cut . . . Iv’s this is so theological-studently that it 7 frightens him until his heart stops beat- :3- ing. As he reaches the last friendly the corner that shields him from the pitiless rks gaze of the boys he. can hear howling the and shrieking not fifty yards away, he na; pauses to give the final adjustment to the manly and unmanageable raiment. it: It 'is bigger and looser, flappier and too wrinklier than ever. New and startling itly folds. and uneXpected wrinkles, and the uncontemplated bulges develop them- for selves. like masked batteries, just where cas- i and when their effect will be most de- aim { moralizing. A new horror discloses itself 1 in i at this trying and awful juncture. He 3 to 3 wants to lie down on the sidewalk and i try to die. For the first time he notices hv A - - TYRJAA-cn' an kn- UL: IvU “Av. the color of his coat. Hideous! He 1: been duped, ' swindled, betrayedâ€"made monstrous idiot by that silver-tongu salesman, who has palmed off upon hi a. coat 2,000 years old; a. coat that t most sweetly enthusiastic and territ misinformed women’s missionary soci: would hesitate to offer a. wild Hottenta I. A.. V‘ ULAL“ luv-luv"-â€" and which the hiost. benighted old-z ioned Hottentot that ever disd: clothes, would certai_n_ly blush to we ULU “110-3, 'V Uu‘u vva. "-â€"â€" the dark, and wouldd fifobably with thanks. Oh, madness! The he same :1. little until at m (PCT ion M). hwy cvptibly under