is libe without love? Dothig. Darlig, do you, cad you love be edough to be by-ah-ah-ooh-chew!" "You'll be bide, all bide?" he gasped. "I will, Hedry, I will," she hoarsely whispered. He drew her to him, slipped the ring upon her finger, and there they stood together, their reddened and half closed eyes blinking in sweet, holy ecstasy upon each other. My poor darlig has god sudge a bad code," he sympathizingly murmured. "So id my Hedry," she softly whispered back. "You must take sub bedicid for that code, to dide," she said. "So bust you," he added. "Yes, ad you'll soak your feet in hod wader?" "I will; ad you'll soak yours?" he eagerly asked. "I will," she replied. "Heaved bless you, by darlig, by precious darlig," clasping her again to his breast. And then he stole out into the darkness; and she lingered a moment at the door, and heard his dear voice ring out on the night air as he passed away"Ker chew, ker chew." WET AND DRY.-CLARK JILLSON. One Sunday morn good parson Jones, While going from his home to church, The lightning crinkled overhead, "I cannot preach," said parson Jones, Of being wet from crown to heel- "You must go on," says deacon Smith "Though as a man you may be wet, THERE'S BUSINESS FOR ALL.-P. S. PENNELL. There's business for all in this world, my boy, Though some folks find nothing to do; Who waiteth for fortune is waiting for grapes Who boreth for water must not expect oil, If sleepeth the husbandman, sleepeth the soil, Wake up boy! there's business for you. In industry's calls from the asking lands, Life's valleys are gleaming with rivers of sin,- Deception walks with him, the charmer before, Turn not for her lure, from business my boy, Life's moments will brighten in steady employ, Be true to your manhood, work up to the line, With axe, plow, and harrow, for hillside and plain; This brief of existence is business, my boy, Life can't be a shadow that struts, frets, and dies, Then work while 'tis day, ere cometh the night TEMPERANCE PEARLS FROM MANY AUTHORS. Wine turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. Addison. O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! Shakspeare. While you are in the habit of intemperance, you often drink up the value of an acre of land in a night. Father Mathew. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind ic to cure melancholy by madness. Charron. In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, Intemperance? Horace Mann. Drinking water neither makes a man sick ror in debt nơ his wife a widow. John Neal. Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than the habi of drinking. Walter Scott. Temperance, indeed, is a bridle of gold, and he who ser it rightly is more like a god than a man. Burton Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could. John B. Gough. Schiller. Wine invents nothing, it only tattles. The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood; which are great benefits in temper and busiWilliam Penn. ness. If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue the use of wine-do it for the sake of others; if it is a great sacrifice-do it for your own. Samuel J. May. Wine has drowned more than the sea. Publius Syrus. There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it,-is learned and temperate. Socrates. That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. Bovee. The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has oc casioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me than all other causes. And were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask, respecting a candidate for office would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?" Jefferson. Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, and then an enemy. Fielding. Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. Jeremy Taylor. If I could be heard to-day by the people of the land, by the patriotic young men of this country, full of life, vigor, and hope, I would say that it is among the first, the highest, and the greatest duties, which the country, God, and the love of humanity impose, to work for the cause of total abstinence. Henry Wilson. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright; at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. The Bible. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN.-ROBERT BROWNING. Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, The river Weser deep and wide Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in their cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking: 'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy: To think we buy gowns lined with ermine An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence: It's easy to bid one rack one's brain- |