A Good Word For Good Humor

Every man should be sober sometimes. I oboe knew one to be so unfortuuate as to be sober all tbo time, and jet au bemest man. We have knowu men that never smiled, whose faces were rigid ae an iron maek, and jet tbey were kind, simple and really reliable But hucIi are exceptiuual cates. Uniform sobriety is presuinptively verymuch against a man. He who gives do plaj to tbe gentier feelings has something the matter with kim that should be luoked iuto before we trust liiin. Mirtb itseli ia not always honest. - But it teada to openness. Mirtb bas better stuff in it te make a man of tban sobriety haa. It, too, is used sometimes as a maak fur b) pocrisy ; but not half bo often as fobriety is. Only consider how many men, quite empty and worthless inwardly, neitber rich nor fearful are kept agoing by tbe mere trick of gravity. Wben some men come to you it is like sunriee. Everjthing seems to taka new life and shines. Otlier men bring night ■with them. The chili Bhadow of their sobriety falls upon every innocent gayety, and your feeliugs, like birds at evening, stop sioging and go to their roest. Away with these fellows who are owling througb life, all tbe w lulu passing for birds of paradise. He that cannot laugh and be gay ■hould look well to himself. He should fast and pray until bis face breaks lort h iuto light.