A Good Word For Good Humor

Every mau should be sober sometimes. I oucc kiifcw one so unf.iriunate as to be sober all the time, and vet an houest man. We havo known men ihat ncver smilrd, or seldí.m, whoae laces wcre rigid as au irou maak, and yet tbey wore kind, timple and really reliablo. But puel) are exceptional enses. Uniform sobriety is prcsumptively " cry niucli against a nian. He who gives 110 pluy to the geutier feelinga bne sonielhing tho matter with him that ehould be looked Into btfore ono trusts turn. Mirth itself 3 not ahvays bonect. But it lends to opennees. Mirth has better stuff in it to make a man of tfaan gobrietj has. It, too, is uscd Bometimen as a mask for hypoorisy ; but not half 80 often as sobriety i. Only consider how many meo, quiieempty and wortlilesa, iiiwardly neither rich nor foroeful, are kept a going by the rcero trick of gravity. When somo men come to you it is liko punrise. Kverythjng seems to take ncw life, and shines. Other men bring night witb theni. The chili shadow of theif sobriety f :lls upon every innoceut gayoty, ind your feelingf, like birds at eveuiug, stop -inging and go to thcir roost. Away ith these feilows who go owling thiüUL'h lifo - all the while passing for birds of paradise. lie that cannot laugh and be gay ehould look well to himself. He should fast nd pray un'il ti is face breaks forth into light. - Jle cher. i - 11 Evory base occupaiion makes one sha p iu its practioe and riull ia overy pther.-