A Bad Spell In Maine

"Horatius," sak! the schoolmaster to a nlne-ypar-old boy with two linpnatng freckles on liis nose and two eqia ly 'mI osinjr fivckles on the knees of lus pants. "Hor.itius, please form a seiitenee with the word toward in it, and write the senteiice on the Imind " Horatius went lo the blackhoard and ufter miich se.i alchiiifí nf liead and friction of braln prlnted with tbecrayouln letteis Ihat 1 o ;el like a lot of halffeatbered Shanghai cliicUens running ftarapiece of dugli, the foUowing tentence: "I toward my tronsers." - Lewiston Journal. ______ Kothinft makes a man o in love with puiüy m pnrlty. Many a in m hal heen iifted out of debasin -ins iqpiinit wluch he bas vainly stnigtrlcil, ty cominji to kiuiw m ml loveapnre, iweet woman. It Is iiir sifiiii ofembodlecl groodmeM ttml makM us want to bejtood. Manya mot her by tbe quiet usefulneM of her Ufe, filis lier cliihlrcn wit h a dcsire to he like lier that makel thcni in tlicir lurn unsi'ltish. There :irc obscure men and romen who haidly In tlieir lives utter a word of oonooloug teaching, who, by their examiile do more to malte ))eoplo aroand thein entleaml truthl'ul and Christianlike, than any preacher can do. It i not those who tnlk uboui goodne8, buttbose who aregooc that are the li'ht of the worlil. ]t i Impossible not to be struck by the orlginalily and cleverness of the Spani.-I (iipsies. even in their vices. Agipsiv mal wms recentty at a coufession one day, and whilst he wiis oonfeMtnff, he spied in the pocket "f the monk'l babit a silver snullIki, and itole it. " Father," he lald Irnmcliatily, " I acense myself of having sto len a sllver innff i)nx " " Then. mv son yon must eertainlv tcstore it." " Will mi h;ive it yourselt, in y fatTier ï" " 1 1 Cer tainly not, my son ! " "The fact is " prooeeded tbe pipsev, " ttiat I have offered i t" its owner, and he lias refused it.' " Tben you can keep it with a ;ood con science," answered the father. Man perspireü, aspires, conspires and expiies.