OHtniSTiAK MËRAÎ.1) showed that he stood ninth in a class of fifteen for scholarship, but -ftrot for etftiduel.—He w i w mortified at his rank as a scholar^» On see ing the card, his mother expressed gratification. Why do you like it ?” he asked. “ Because,” she replied, “ I see that you are first for conduct.” And she went on to say ; “It is proba ble that the other boys are brighter than you are, and were so made by God. That is a thing you cannot help. But you can be a good boy, and that is all I expect of you,” , lie was, however, a bright boy. In time, he came to stand ainons the first scholars of a class of Har vard College. He has written many books which have been read over the world. But he says; " I never cared a straw for any other honor compared with taking a high grade for conduct.” ‘ Family Circle. Don't stop my paper, printer, Don’t strike my name off yet; Yon know the times are stringent’ And dollars hard to get ; But tag a little harder Is what I mean to do, And scrape the dimes together, Enough for me and yon. I can’t afford to drop it ; I find it doesn’t pay . • To do without a paper, However others may. I hate to ask my neighbors To give me theirs on loan ; HThey don’t just say—but mean it— “ Why don’t you have your own?” You can’t tell how we miss it, If it, by any fate, Should happen not to reach us, Or come a little late. Then all is in a hubbub, And things go all awry, And, printer if you’re married, .■-You know the reason why. ___------- wr The children want their stories, And wife i^mxious too, At first to glance it over, And then to read it through ; And I to read the leaders, And can the book reviews, And scan the correspondence, And every scrap of news. riyglnfHfPul lint' every one aim at high attainments in learning. But conduct and char acter are of greater importance; find in gaining them one may be excited to noble endeavors for scho larship.— Golden days. I cannot do without it ; It is no use to try ; The other people take it And, printer so must I. I, too, must keep me posted And know what’s going on, Or fees and be accounted A fogy simpleton A Sunshiny Woman. Then take it kindly, printer If pay is somewhat slow For cash is not so plenty, And wants not few, you know ; But I must have the paper, — Cost what it may to me ; I’d rather dock my sugar, And do without my tea. So, printer, don’t you stop it, Unless you want my frown, For here’s the year’s subscription. And credit it right down, And send the paper promptly And regularly on, And let it bring ns weekly —Interior. --------------- » e ».................. .. Conduct More than Scholar ship. L What a blessing ,to a household is a merry, cheerful woman—one whose spirits are not affected by w^t days, or little dissappointments, or whose ceaseless kindness does not sour in the sunshine of prosper ity. Such a woman in the darkest hours brightens the house like a piece of sunshiny weather. The magnetism of her. smiles and the electrical brightness of her looks and movements infect every one. The children go to school with a sense of something great to be achieved; her husband goes into the world in a conqueror’s ’spirit. No matter how people annoy and worry him all day, far off her pre- s en e e -ehifiee; -and-ho " wh i s por s --to- bimself, " At home I shall find rest.” So day by day she literally renews his strength and energy ; and if you know a man with a beaming face, a kind heart and a prosperous busi ness, in nine cases ont of ten you will find he has a wife of this kind. —Paecagoicl Star. ~------ --- — Two of them were born in the sev strong man waits a moment to clasp enth story of an immense iron build his treasure and is gone; and all prwt-^nder the roof, 4 day the wonders at the peace in his tnem to my certain knowledge has heart; at the nerve with which he never been down in the street at all. meets business losses, or bears bu That’s a fact. It will l>e down some siness crosses. The wife’s kiss did day. It was born only las( week, it, the baby’s kiss did it; and he Where do you think the children’s’ realizes that it is not wealth or po play7 ground is ? It is the roof, and sition or luck that makes our happi a rare, good yard it is, too, with ness, but the influence we bear with flowers growing on it, and every us from the presence of those we thing just like a goOd paced yard.-— love.— Ex. : - There is a large ledge around the Waiter Girls in Germany. four sides so there is no danger of the youngsters falling off’. And Nasby writes thus of Germany: there are clothes-lines there, and It is astonishing how alike- every tubs standing about, and clothes thing is the world over. In these pins lying on the ground—every beer halls the waiter girls who have thing so natural you might easily plump, shapely arms wear short imagine yourself in somebody’s sleeves, while those whose arms are backyard. Those children seldom see. very thin and not at all shapely anything of the world down below; wear long sleeves, holding that short and their mother hardly ever does sleeves are immodest. for she has her hands full taking This conversation probably oc- O f tllB There in a ■ww betwe en the giila of-the t wo- ~ nice secluded life for you, with no types, the plump and the reraggy. “ You are entirely right, Bertha danger of annoyance from prying neighbors. There is something at darling : short sleeves may be im tractive about it, too. Just think modest. On such arms as yours, of the janitor, at dark, shutting up my love, they would positively be the big iron doors with himself in indecent.” side. There he is with his family And then they wouldn’t kiss about him, and all the world secure each other, and move off as on a ly locked but? TtlS as good as liv campaign against coming - thirst. ing in a castle with the bridge But, Pauline, the plump, would drawn up and the mote full of wa laugh a saucy laugh, and Bertha, ter. But even when the outer doors the skinny, would assume a very are locked the janitor’s are not al saucy look. Likewise those who ways shut in from the outer world. are too plain to attract the atten -—There is a block of buildings in tion of customers are very severe one of the principal business centers upon flirting, It makes but little of the city all about the same difference in what country people height. Each building has its jan are born they are the sons and itor, and each janitor has his fami daughters of Adam and Eve, and ly. When the outer doors are shut Adam and Eve-runs through them and locked no outsider can by any all. Ex. possibility make his way in the The Dear Aged Mother. janitors’ families begin to visit. The roofs form their avenues and Honor-the dear, aged Another. boulevards, their grand promenade, Time has scattered the snowy flakes there is something slightly curious on her brow, plowed deep furrows about the way of living, isn’t there; in bei chq^ks, but is she not sweet having your neighbor dropping in and beautiful now? Tie lips are through the roof instead of coming thin and shrunken, but those are' through the door ? It is something the lips which have kissed many a like the way of the old cave-dwell hot tear from the childish cheek, ers in the southwest N. Y. Times. and they are the sweetest lips in the world. The eye is dim, yet it Ki sa Me Good-bye, Dear. glows with the Soft radiance of holy That is the phrase heard in the Icve which can never fade. Ah, hall-way of many’a Lome as the yes, she is a dear, old mother 1 The — mah of the. house is hurrying away sands, sai of her life have nearly run to exchange daily labor for daily out; but feeble as she is, she will bread in the mart of commerce. go further and reach down lower Sometimes it is the wife who says for you than any other upon earth. it, sometimes infantjlips prattle the You cannot walk into a midi carressing word, holding a sweet where she can not see you ; ycK flower face for the kiss that is its not enter a prison whose btrs ■ t That every boy and girl should aim at high rank in scholarship is important; but it is more impor tant for them to wish to stand high in character and in conduct. If the choice must be made between the right and the learning, it is better to do right than -to be learned. A distinguished author was late ly asked what had first aroused his desire to live a pure and noble life. He replied that the first monthly What do you think of the queer lives led by janitor’s families ? I know a janitor who has charge of a huge building down Broadway who has four little tots of children, and they don’t get down into the report Tie ewiied home from schoo street more than once a week or so. warm sunshine of life, and the keep her out ; you cannoV*mount w . * ■ ' - Highlife in New York