Buy Homes

■ Tbe love of the soil is one of the most common passions of humanity. To owd even thirty foet ia the ambition of the poorest and the rioh are never satisüed except they can sleep in a grand mansión Except among the class of young sports, whose wild oats require a deal of sowing, there are scarcely nny of our citizens who don:t gratify their desire for holding real estáte by buying a little plot with a cottage upon it as soon as poesible, and then and thero anchor, settle down, and spond their leisure moments in beautifying and improving it. Everybody knows there's no plaoe like home, and so everybody with any sense trios to ostablish a home as eoon as money can be earned to buy it ; and we count araong tho actual and by no meaos light benefactors of the race, the capitalists, who sell on easy terms and hold the burdens of homes until the purchasers can pny for them. The bíivings banks are also doing a great deal in this direction, and maDy a poor man can tliank them not only for the privilege of having a roof above his head, but for tho happiness which oom s from the pure enjoyment of a homo. A nation of happy homes is sure of its foundat'on, and necd not fear that domestio broils will break it asunder. At least half of the disgracefuily long ealenders of Chicago, Indiana, and Connecticut divorco courts como from the people who, like the McFarlands, drift around the world from boarding house to hotel, and find their conjugal felicity vory thin wheu spread over so much sur face. It is, then, the best thing a young couplo can do to stop their billing and cooing at ann's leDglh and settlo down in a cozy little house, paid for if possible, but bought any way, cvon if thero I has to be a mortgage. It is one of the best preservativos of love known, for conjugal affection fritters away as easily v.-iicu ezposod to public crilicism as a love-letter excites la'ighter n a courtrooiu.