Finger Marks

A gentleman employed a masón to do soit; work for him, aitá other Ainjís to " thin whiten" thc walls oí' oTio oí Ins chaber. This thin whitoning is almost colorido until flried. The gentleman w.-is mucfi surprised on the moniing iftcr tho chanibcr was finished to find on thn drawers of his bureau, standing in th room, white fingere. Opening the drawer, he found the same on thc article in it, and ilso on a pocketbook. Au (xtininatiou revealod tho same marks on tho eontents of a bug. This proved clearly that the masón, with his wet hands, had opened the drawer and searobod the Uig, which contained no nionoy, and lmd then olosed the drawer without once thinking that any one would ever know it. Tho " tliin whitening" wbich happened to be on his banda dia not show at first, im2')íi probably had no idea that twelve hours' drying would reveal lii wickedness. Children, beware of evil thoughts and deeds; they all leave their Jingermnrka, which will one day be re vea'led . If yon disobey your párente, or teil a íalsehood, or take what is not your own, you make sad stains on jour character. And so it is with M si. It defiles tho soul. It betrays those ivho engage in it, by the marks it makes en theio. These marks may be almost if not quite invisible at iirst. But oven if they should not bo lOOB during auy of your days on ith (which is not at all likely), yet there is a dny coming in which every sin will be manifest. -