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An Unexpected Vlelt. , It wee with tbe elr of e men profoundGerard 8tr!cklaad, twitching tali cuffs ..A stretching his arms, before letting hit hende fell Into hie lap, sank back 1 Into the luxurious arm-chair by hie library Are, after throwing on the table the letter that announced hie promotion an enviable poet in tbe Civil Service. ' At he thought of the poet, hi* advancement teemed to him no subject for congratnlattona, but only one of tboee grim ' JeaU with which fortune delights to growlnc rare, entered tbe room with an evening paper. He laid It et the maif tide, end stood et a respectful dls- ' taooe, wailing, half hesitating, with tome anxiety legible in hi* countenance, ' "Well, Thomas r asked Stickiand. 1 "1 beg your pardon, elr, but do you 1 remember what day It I* to-day t" "Your wedding day, elr!" Btrlokland-a face clouded. ' "I did not know, elr, whether you would with Tor dinner tbe seme wine 1 en— at you used to have." I "No, Thomas ; Lata all probably dine at tbe olub." ' "1 ordered dinner, as usual, air, and a banquet. In case " 1 "Quite right, Tbomes, quite right." 1 For an instant the heart of tbe promoled official sank. Tbe fidelity of bis old domestic was humilatlng. How be t would once have resented tbe suggestion that Thomas would, remember this anni- I veraary belter than hlmsef I And that I It should fall to the old M>rrant to order i from the florist the bouquet Gerard himself had been formerly to proud to bring I home on this evening, to hit wife i But i the alight sense of annoyance passed I quickly. It WAS with absolute Indlffcrencc that, seeing " servant .'III I waiting, be asked— I ' Anything else, Thomas T" i "This morning, when you bad but Just gone, s young lady called. Hearing you were not at borne, she said she ; would call again this evening, about all. She wished to tee you on tome impor- i "Bbe left none." "Did you see her r ' "No, sir." "Did John say what she was like ?" "Rather tall, sir : a youtg iady, dark, ' and fashionably dressed." "If she calls I will see her. You may 1 go,* Thomas." The servant left, anil 1 young, dark, well-dteaed, business with ' me. Who can the bef" < "The lady la hern, sir, j in the drawing I room, tald Tbomes, returning to tbe 11- 1 brary, after about ten minutes. Strickland went U tbe drawing room. ' At the door he paused a moment to steal I a look at bit visitor. She stood by out 1 of the labia. Idly turning the lava of 1 photograph album. Her back wax to- ' ward bim, and be could distinguish on- ' >y the tall and graceful figure of a wo- 1 welbdreaaed, and wearing expert- ; -'Madam ! " he said advancing. The lady turned. Strickland alerted . as If he had received an electric shock. To conceal, to the bat of hie ability, his surprise and tbe saddest pallor on his I lie made.ber a profound bow. "I hope I in M Inconveniencing 1 you," she said, at the same lime return- 1 log his aalute. Then, with a quiet case, ' "Not In the least. I am at yoor; service," said Strickland. "As I shall avail myself et ;your condescension, I hope that was not merely compliment." "May I ask you how I oaa oblige your Tbe lady stroked tbe soft fur of her . mu ff, and once or twice lifted her searcheyes to his face. Apparently she ' was hesitating to name the purpose of ylsit. Meanwhile, Strickland gratl- 1 fled his eya with a good look at her, lovely, fascinating Bill, as the first day he had seen her. Only her pure profile gained more decision, and her eya 1 had a profoundev meaning that when he < last looked Into them, u those of a woman who had lived and Buffered. At length the said: At length ane aatu:

"Do you stm correspond with my father r "Tea It Is, however, a fortnight ' since 1 last wrote to him." "I received ■ latter from him Jyester. This time Strickland made no attempt to conceal his surprise. ""Tomorrow 1 Tour father wbo never lava home ! " •Tbe medical men order him to the South coast, end he |wffi. on his; way, •^Ptatowe, to spend the night with "Hbdsughter," mid Strickland. "He rays his son. And to we find c She leaned back, and with a small band began drubbing a waits on the table at ber side. "I did not orena here to diaooaa words "Isaaoae." "And you are a politician, a man ol genius ! If those aubde arts, that have been to KKXcsrfuUy employed fat your own advancement, could be, without "Well, I have a plan. First, I do not wish, cost what It stay, to la my father

"Tbe unhappy truth I " She made a little grimace, end. pro , I coded > j "My father would" be cruelly hurt, and . ' tbe sins of the children ought not be . i visited upon tbeir parents. My remorse j —I beg your pardon, that it of little con- j warn bim lo expostulate, and continued: i , "Hitherto, thanks to our precautions, • the distance of my father's residence, - and the aeclasion In which he prefers to ! live, has been Spared this sorrow. To- i morrow our clever ediflewiof dutiful falsehood falle-to Use ground, and I am i unable to conjecture the consequences. " i "AndL" . i "Mr. Strickland, it la absolutely nee- i csaary lo prevent this scandal. 1 trust i , you will aaalst me. My 'atber must : , find us toother; and we muel avoid ; everything that would ;aarre to awaken

"Your promised ' courtesy costs too | much ?" she demanded. "No. 1 am ready. But I toe many 1 , difflcultio. Tbe servants f" , "Give. the new man-servant 1 found j here tlda~mornlng a holiday. I will t tpetk to Thomas." "If s friend ahouhircallr , "You will seek.no one." , "U we meet your father, peoplo will "We will go in a closed carriage." "I will send my work, my music, and , "Have yon aay furiher;ohJectlonal" • "None. It remains to be seen whether aball be able to deceive Mr.Oregory." I "By playing the affectionate couple. you remember your grimaces and fooleries of two^yeara ago f" the asked, , sarcastically. "No, I have forgotten them," be, replied. "When;wlU you come beret" asked ' , "This evening. I hope I shall not in- . convenience you. You are not expect- 1 i "No one. I was going out. But my ' engagement Is unimportant." | "Fray go. We should have to talk. "Nothing. Will you dine here f" i "No, thanks; I'UJgo home now ami ! i returabyandby." ■ When he returned homo the house . returned an aspect long strange to L IL Lights were burning in the drawing r bouquets of flowers filled tbe . - vases, And a faint sweetness of violets > Boated about the hall. Toe piano waa l open, and some music stood on the 1 By the hearth hie visitor . wss sitting In a low chair, her little feet I buried In the bear -skin rug, and bead reposed on hot band, wbUst she gated wistfully Into tho Are. t "Was it a dream? Bertha's music. . Bertha herself In bis borne again ! Two > years' misery cancelled In an evening ! . In a moment rushed across hit memory . golden wooing, proud wedding, and the UUnr day of separation. He passed lo bit room saying, "Good night i " "Good night 1 " replied his wife, without moving. The stance event that bad taken . strange had

place In Gerard Strickland's house, pre. 1 , vented none of its lnmata enjoying a wholesome night's rat. Bertha, perr suaded that to-morrow's comedy could I effect no real change In her,; relation to i i her husband, went to Iter room with , the feelings of one wbo spends a night a hotel. Strickland, regardlug tho . past as irremediable, read In bed for half ' . an hour, and then fell asleep. To get married they had both commit . ted a thouund^follles. After meeting 1 at a table-d'holc, Strickland bad pur- , sued her half over Europe, vanquished I the dlfficulUa of an approach lo her ta- . tber In bit secluded country bouse, and . ultimately, aaaUted by the lady's prsy- . ere and tears, gained tbe obi man's rc- . octant oouaant lo surrender hla ldolixcd daughter. Tho young married people, passionately attached lo each other, en- | joyed fifteen months of remarkable bap. . plnat, and then cunts to tie end. , Bertha became Jealous. Devoted to i her husband, proud, hasty, immoderate la all ber thoughts and emotions, the re. E seated, with all the Intensity of ber na- . lure, a meeting between Strickland and hour's conversation. The hatband tin . fortunately met ber passionate expostulations with the disdainful Indifference . of an easy temperament. The lnevlta r ble consequence ensued, a biller misunderstanding. An impudent servant, a . malicious acquaintance, half - a - doten r Jealousy into madness. An explanation , demanded from her husband, was refus- . ed with a sneer. He had .Wfttn to f think her a proud, unloving woman. , and, under the circumstances, Judged , self-Justification redlculoat. Tbe folf lowing meriting tbe entered hit Ubruy, 9 and with marvellous calmness, without i quavering over a tingle word announc oed to him their Immediate, separation, . —for ever. Taken by surprise, Strickland tried to temporise, acknowledged lie bad been thoughtless, did all Iu a r maa*a power lo avoid the rupture. Bertha only replied so proudly, and with so t much severity, that self-respect forbade him further self-defence. They separated. Strickland sxternai- • ly bore his misfortune with quietness, t and. In coundl with bis own conscience, concluded his life broken and ruined by r his own want of tact. Tbe husband and wife met two or three^times, as peot pie who barely knew each other. He , devoted blmaelf to professional duties, i resumed tome of bis bachelor habit* and amused himself at ho could. Bbe led a quiet, almost solitary life, restricting her pleasures to such simple enjoyments as 1 the could provide herself at home, and ' seldom appearing hi public. On one 1 point both agreed, to write regularly lo . Bertha's father, repating such stereotyped phrases as "Bertha It yreU, and ) sends her lore. I believe the wrote to I jou a few days ago." "GerTard It well, i and at pxcsaat very busy. He will not i this year be able to accompany me to t f the seaside." , R will be easily believed that to go to ' r tbe husband's bouse and ask a favor of i him had caused Bertha's pride t strug- , gie. "FW papa's sake-, for papa'saaka!" the repeated to herself, to steel her . nerves to the humiliation, which, bowa ever, Strickland's cold oottnay had considerably listened- If he would be t equally considerate on the morrow, a litr tie spirit, t little seRootamaad, sad i tome clever pretending might enable ,

them safely to conduct her father | ! through the tew hours to be tpect In ■ j town, to aee him off from Victoria, and, j I with t pottle bow, to sepafateand return I I ! their several existences. t Dinner was ended, Mr. Gregory sailed i . contentment and happiness, and the two 1 :1 actors at tbe oppoettc ends of tto table , of necessity smiled too. ■ Their parts had* proven .difficult, i the momeal of the old gentlemen's ( . arrival they had had to call each other I by their Christian names, and lo use lltI tie endearments of tiro married people 1 still In love. More than oocc, a word, 1 an Intonation, that sounded Ilka an echo 1 . of the dead past, made Strickland pale, ' t and Bertha tremble. Their embarrass- I L ment momentarily Increased. Tbe more I I perfect their dlsaumulatlon, tbe bitterer 1 hearts of both of them, whilst they ex- < , changed for manlnglea things, words, ' looks and smiles, once the most i acred ■ , signs of affection. With the far of be- 1 t raying themselves by an indiscretion i was intermixed another, a misgiving 1 I lot, while they acted affection, they ' should be guilty of real feelings warmer i than the courteous Indifference with ' which they desired to regard each other. I I On tbe stairs, when Mr. Gregory, pre- ' ceding them, wss fos an instant out of ' sight. Bertha turned back and batowed I I upon ber husband a grim look of fa- I " Tia only till to-morrow, Bertha," be 1 replied in an undertone, wishing to help her. But tbe Christian name (which, < . because be bad in tbe last two hours 1 . used it so frequently, unwittingly slip- 1 ped from his lips), caused ber to turn 1 I ber lace away with an angry frown. 1 By the fire In tbe back drawing-room 1 Mr. Gregory appeared actuated by a de- 1 lions, and to broach all the topics of 1 . conversation most difficult for bis boil 1 and hostess. I " Utters are welcome. Bertha," be ' your wife grows handsomer. Strick. ' ; land ? " I letters are all about you. You have a j " I have, papa." I | Strickland hung his head and regard- ' | tha," aid Mr. Gregory, alter a moment. r them into the breakfast room, tbe father i | slopped hla daughter, and uld : '■ The Iratue had got shabby and wa ' bavo sent it to be re gilt," replied the • daughter, promptly. " Where doa it generally bang ? " [ •' Tbcre." I She assigned to tbe picture, which she J had taken away with ber, the flistcmply , . space on tho wall that mot her eye. " I don't think that a very good , place i" said the old man. " Ah, what ' , woman I You should have known her, . Strickland. You owe her your wile, t When she was leaving me, poor dear! • i she made me promise never to hesitate ' i to make any sacrifice that thould be for 1 1 Bertha's happiness ; and so, when my , . little glr! came to me and aid, • Papa, I [ can never be happy without Garrard,' 1 thought of my dear wife and let her go. . 1 feared, when I sent her abroad, I E should lose her. Well, you were made . for each other. Do you remember your I first meeting In Paris ? " | The tour of the bouie waa completed . and they returned to the drawing-room, . Gerard and his wife congratulating , good papa waa not very observant, for . many a token of something abnormal - had been plain enough. , With a common sigh of relief, the two actofi lank into their respective corners , of tbeir carriage, titer seeing Mr. Gre- . gory off tbe next morning from Victoria. I Not a word was spoken. Berths watched the drope of rain that trickled down the windows Qerrard studied tbe back . of the coachman. They bad again bePrrsently. movt ig accidentally, Slrlck- - land touched his wife's arm. s "I beg your pardon," he said. s Perfect strangers: Yel both In the 1 silence were anxiously meditating every ■ event of tbe last few hours, rcmcmber- > Irg the most trifling Impressions, and , studying all they signified. As tbey 1 came near a cross street her husband - asked: " Shall 1 drive to your own house ? " l " 1 am coming lo yours, to supcrln- ■ tend the packing. My maid cannot .do On arriving, the wife went at once to 1 ber chamber. Strickland conscious of t utter purpoeelaeaas, returned to the - back drawing-room and took up the po- ) per. Bertha passed backward "and for- ! ward. Once or twice he aught a glimpse of ber moving around the room. - At laat be looked up. '■ You will tire yourself," he raid j , " cannot I assist you ? " r " No, thank you. I hare nearly I done." A few minutes later she coma around : and sated herself on the opposite side , of the fire. She appeared tired. As she I sat, the looked around to tee If anything > bad been forgotten. r "1 think It rains leas," old Strickland, ■ wbo hid laid down the paper. I " No. It rains Just the same as be. > " la the carriage ready ? " " 1 have aent to know." 1 Tha carriage would ijp~reedy fa ten > minutes Those ten minula seemed in , eternity. When the servant entered to t that the carriage waited, Berths ' > and stood "for a little while before ' the minor, arranging her laca and rib. ' i with difficulty, for. ber fingers I trembled. Then the slowly drew on 1 . her glova, sad lurnedToward her hus. ' ' band. He had risen and was standing : ' waiting. i " Good morning," she uld. bowing : ■ slightly. 1 Ho bowtd, but made no reply. She 1 - turned, and quietly, with calm, even I steps, walked away from the loom. She i oould baar that he followed her.

They were in the hall. Suddenly he i stepped to her.tldc. i ,1 •' Bertha I You are not going without i first forgiving me ? " he exclaimed is a voice in which grief mingled twllk pas- f She turned round and In an instant f > hail thrown herself Into hie anna. . •• Darling, you will neve* leavo me ( again?" . "No, no, love. Never." — Henry l Cress well, In Merra^t Jfoponas. ^ , -■-« —

Effects of Banna on Girls. r Bangs on a girl give her an unruly I like a cow wtlh a board over ber 1 You take the gentlest cow In the ' world and put a bard over be face, ' . and turn ber out In the pasture, and the , gets tbe reputation ol being unruly, and ' . you would swear she would Jump fences ' • and raise merry hades, and you would . not give as much for ber by ten dollars, t only for beef. It la so with girls. If ' I tho wears her hair high on hcrforehad, f . or brushed beck, end has a good look, , will go your laat dollar on ber and E fed that she la good as gold, and that ' r when she tells ber beet young insn that r she loves bim, there Is no dlacounl un it, i and no giggling back; but take tbe same . girl, Vflih he front hair banged, and ' . when she looko at you, you|fed just a. [ though tho would hook, and can't trust ( . makes a young man /eel as though he ( . was not safe unless she was tied, hand and foot, so she could not get out of the , A girl with bangs may try lo be good ' and true, but It Is hard work. IVbvn , she looks at bcrwlf in the glass, and . sees the quarter of ho forehead, she ays , lo heradf, "1 am dangerous, they ought , all right, but she la constantly doing | . brushed back would not thing of. The ( r girl may belong to church and may ; try to put on a pious look while llic 1 Is being rekd; but she will look . out, from behind tkosedonga, sideways. ' I at some meek and lowly young Chrisi tisu who is trying lo get his mind flxod 1 . on the hymn, soil she his mind fixed on ' or '"Slit's a Daisy." Tbe bang ' girl may place ber bangs down on the ( , back ot tho scat in front of her, during but her cprset will bo loo tight, and u ' she bitches around to case the pain, one . eye will rise like the morning sun over 1 the back of the pew, end that eye will ' . atch the eye of a young man two seals . to tbe right, who is trying to cover lilt 1 > face with one band, while he tries lo ' f keep the tiles off the pomade on his hair 1 with the other, and ula Interest lq the 1 r prayer is knocked into a cocked hat. ' tbe lunging of a girl's hair changes the . whole nature of tbe little fcrctch, and | j Take a picture of Evangeline and bang ' e ber hair and she would look aa though she would run at people^ How would 1 Mrs. VanCott, the female preacher, look with ber'ltair banged. It la Just tbe tame wljb boys. Take a nice, pious Sunday-school boy, who ran repeat ' throe hundred versa of the New Tesla- ' and he looka like a prtxo fighter.

' Our prison system ought to be both i punitive and deterrent It ought to be j such that It will not multiply the evil it J seeks to control. Society is lu danger of ! reforms have been wrought in externallIlea. The construction of prison bnild- . ings has been Improved ; there baa been r of pruoners under sentence. Bo people in general have come to think that there is very little more that needs to be done. . There are several things that are essential In this matter If crimes Is to be con- ' trolled and the number of tbe criminal class reduced. In the first place, we r must have regard to cutting off tbe j sources ot the supply of criminals in other words, we must endurate tbe children apecially those who by the circumstances of their birth are predisposed to crime, so that they shall shun * crime. It will be found far cheaper in tbe end to educate the children— in " morals as well as In intellect— than to deal with criminals. It Is far easier to extirpate nascent crime, than to deal witji full-blown crime. Again, work " must be provided for tbe prisoners In our penal Institution. The demand of the so-called labor reformers that prisoners should not be employed In remunerative labor ought never to have been yielded to. Having been granted, conc sent ought now to bo revoked. The \ third essential thing. In our Judgment, is the subjection of actual criminals tc such discipline— labor and instruction— ' In the prison u is fitted to change their habits, ^nd tbe detention of them till they are pronounced by competent authority fit to be dismissed, — Illustrated - Christian Weekly. Tho Why Of It. 0 There ware four or five men In a knot and they were iHscnalng a candidate " who had been elected. •Ta sorry be got there." old one. "So am I," added a second. He's a 1 dangerous man " "He ought to be tarred and fathered, Instead of boldiog an office!" exclaimed i a third. "Yea, and I'd like to put on the UK" r shouted the fourth. At that moment the man came around 1 tho corner, smiling with delight and both - hands ready for shaking, and as Be halt- - ed he said: 1 "Well, boys, I got there." "You bet you dldl" shouted the four "And I want you to drink with me." "You bet we will I Hurrah for you!" And they drank his beer and old they had rather seen all the tea of tbe ticket defeated than to have him get left. , For Flrat Place. > A great amount of political englneer- , Ing will be done by friends of candidates . secure for their man the first place on . Ute ticket, and the bat man will proha- , bly secure the ooveted [dace. Then If i Indorsed by the majority of the people, . the election It assured- Htctric Bitten . been put to the Trout, IU merits pested upon, has been endorsed, and unan. J tmoualy given the first place, among remtdla peculiarly adapted lu the relief • and cure of an Diseases of Kidneys, , Liver and Stoma: b. Electric Bitters, Kaerey-a Drug Store. t

rtUsDora Dupaici. A Pittsburgcr sends the Dispatch tbe account) of a rabbit drive al { CaL. in wkteh l«,00p rabbitt were killed. Fresno wu almost deserted the other day, the majority ot her dU. tens, regardless of age, sex or ooMr gone early In the morning to Uk rabbit drive. As early as 7.110 o'clock people In vehlda of.'crery oonoelvahli . descrip ion began; [o assemble on tbl , scene of the proposed sport. At elsTci o'clock the completed line, composed o! , fully 2,800 men and women, boys ant! , girls, extending In t semi-circle otci , three miles long, embracing an asea oi , between seven and eight miles squan began to move. From every dump ol - bush and hollow the longearet Jumped and ran, generally to wards the corral ; but every once In I I while a Irabblt, "contused by tbe nolai j and the long line of haters, would dul ; frantically towards the line and, tf for tunale enough to dodge blows from thi ( hundred clubs aimed at him, would a E to a place of safety. Some twi , hundred or three hundred got away it this manner, and fully 1,000 more wen t killed lu the attempt. The marshal , closed up tho line very rapidly, untl I the cuds or the lino of beaters closet with the ends of the wings of the car rol, thus fonntng a complete circle j Slowly the great drclo dosed in, ant ( tbe multitude of rabbltsTncreaaed unti I nothing could be cam in Ute center but t , whirling, twisftDlfinnax of brown bodle E leaping, running and crowding ono an , other In their frantic attempts to a , rape. At ten o'clock the line bad cloeet ( In until the center of the line sraa no i 800 or «® l"td» "I"" "tent r Tbe line of beaters had at this time u . rived at the btow ot a hill, at the too . of the corral. Involuntarily every on ' was cbmplelo lUenco ai the inuHltub I gated upon the scene, uttcrably lnde , sellable la words, and probably auch a I as though 1 ,000.000 rabbits were huddlt* , the compact mass in and around Ux | corral. Along 'the rabbit-tight fence " which compassed the wings and side , of the corral, tbe rabbita were standing J on top of each-other, three or four doep . while in the open, both sides and insld r the corral, the rabbita were so thick tha I when one al tempted to escape had I , run qvpr the backs of bis fellows al , around him. Before the signal wa g given for the killing to commence ore r ono thousand live rabbit- were caugh s and put In tacks and sent to Merced CaL, for use at the coursing matel | which .was held there recently. Thei j the killing commenced. Tho men am boys scented lo bo drunk with tb " slaughter. The air waa full of flyln, fur and black wltb • distantly uplift ei I clubO; that sect rabbits to tbeir drat) t every Umo they fell. The more the. s killed tho more they wanted to kill, an ( hoarse that he could not speak above whisper. It took over an hour lo kl the rabblla correled. and then an al but was given up after 8 000 bodies ba been counted, while fully 2,000 bodlr ^ were strewn over a acre of ground out ' made from tbe Southwest. There mtu hare been between flye and six tbousan ' rabbits rounded up In the la! drive, bi the round np wa so small in compar son with the first one that tho numbe wu underestimated. Three tbousan 1 rabbits were counted In tbe corral, mat ' log a total of 11,000 bodies counted an. c about 6.000 not counted. Tbe day ws windy and disagreeable and especial! when the killing commenced, as th wind carried tho fuxz back inlo tb " vehlda occupied by the spectators.

e The Intensity of modern life and tl 0 deepening of consciousness through u c tclllgoncc breed sadness. We think tc e much and work loo hard to hare tip: " for enjoyment, and If we suddenly dl " cover that we have need of It, we take 0 In Inordinate qunntitlra rather than 1 " simple and natural waya; we go out an 0 buy pleasure at so much tbe hour b 0 stead of somehow contriving to live J mirthful life. Close observers of mot 11 crn society, like Walter Bcaant, bat D discovered that a mato lack lu the livi lf ot tbe poor is that ot cheer, and I " urges that philanthropic pirns aboul '■ embrace ineratirre for dally brighlenbi ° tbe lira of tbe people>y some simp experience of a phalureabie sort. c woujd be a sombre fact If the number i '■ those who lire through a day without c laugh or oven a smile could be asco - talned,— a strange miscarriage ot N ' ture, since man la the only being srlthl U her dominion who Is capable of that a 4 this good service, and now for mat oonturira it has railed men to symp thetlc checrfulcesa. It coma lnder but once a year, but for some days tl ll chind on tbe brow of humanity lifts e little and the wail dla out of Its voio Al times it has been too obstreperous I lu mirth and called for I'uritsnlc checl * but for the most It has been true to 1 origin and stirred the human hart I ' sympathetic gladness and hope. M 1 shall soon hear the growls of the pe •bnlstlc critic over the wastefulness ■ Christmas gifts a:d the irrationality < Christmas mirth. Heed lilm not: I 1 doa not know that the key-note of tl 1 universe is Joy, and that Christmi * laughter la only a stray echo of a eternal hymn, and nearly the only oc that ha reached us, and that It Is we ' worthy of being caught if we wool ever bear the whole. Therefore, father give gifts to j our children, even lf yo have to lessen tbe daily portion, rtmen < be ring the wisdom of Mahomet, wh t said, that lf "be had two loaves of bra ho would sell one and buy hyacinth for they would feed his soul" And, j children, stir up your fathers to mlrtl a Christmas comes but once a year, an the years left to them may not be maoj -The Csntwy for December. '■ Sawdust Is being used by some built * era for mortar Instead ofjaand. It is sal * to answer wall, u it.ls one half lights - than sand and has tome adrtnuga whe - used on ceilings. Mortar made of qulc ( lime and sawdust, mixed with cemen: f doa well for brick or stone work. ' It wu a wise tradesman who tal ' ' ' that ha didn't mlml bow much his cui t torn era kicked against lis bills a ton t as they footed them. 4 ; I