A Ruined Character

Not long since iu a oer tai n neighborhood, a man was wandering in search of omploymont. He ealled at a repectablo farmer's houso, and told his errnnd. " What is your name?" askod the man. "Jonathan Gilman," waa the reply. " Jothan Gilman, the name that livod boív hïo wiien a boy ?" "Tho samersir." " I will notemploy you, then " Poor Jonathan, surprüed at sucb a reply, passod on to tho nost farmer's ; but tho samo reply vvns givon. Ho toon carne in sight of an old school boute. " Ah !" said ho, "I nndersland it ov, I was as a eehool-boy la.y and disahcdient. Although I am now, in a mca-sure, rcf(jnned, they uil tliiiik nm %ï,e anmo kiiul of a man in I was a boy. O! that I had done; iny duiy whon ut Bchoo] - then egain ooulii I dweil plcasantly in tha land of my birth." School boys autl sphool girls, please remernber that your school mates will be ükoly to look back upon you in manhood or woinuuiiood as they did in yanth. TboPi in your school days, prepare tot noblu men andnoblo (romen. Lr The Qem. JJS Brigadier General Phillip St, George Cook coiamitted suicide at his own rcsidence on Thursday last,