A Story With A Moral

"Don't cross ;i bridge nutil yon come to it." Thora was once a man and a woraan who ulnnned to spend a day at a tïioiul's house, wliicii was Bouie miles distant trom their owii. tío one plensiint nioniiii!i they startod out Lo niake tlio visit, but they liad not gonc lar boloro thu woimui romciuberod a bridge tliey Uad to cross whicli was very ola, au i was said to be unBufe, au.t shü boyan to wony about it. "Wliat shali we do about tüat bridge?" slie said to her liusband. ''I shali uever daré to o over it, and we can't cross the river any other way." '0i," said the mun; "I forgot Uiat bridge; it isa bad pltice. Suputóse it should break tliroiiiili? We should be drowiied. 1" "Or suppose you fehould step on n rotten pistnu, ana break your leg, what vvouKl becoine of lueanü the babyï" "1 uou't know," said the man, "what would beconie of any of us, tbr 1 couldii't vrork, and we Bhould all starve to death." tía they went on, worrying and worrying, Uil they got to the b lid go, wlien, lo au l behold 1 they siw that siiice tlioy liad been tliere liist a ncv bridge had been built, aud they crossedover it in üaietv, auJ found they niightasweil have saved themselyes all their anxiety. - Now, tliat is just what tliu pi-overb nieuns; m;ver waste your won-yitiy on what you tliink nuiy be possibiy goiir.;' to happen; dou'i tliink, "iáuppuse itsliould. rain tu-morrow so tiiat I eaii't go out I" or, "What shoald I do it' 1 shoulil have :i heaiiache the day ot' the party?" Half the unie the troubles we ook tbr do not come, aml, as we have saiil, it is never worth wüile to worry about what aiay not llapoen. William Tappain Thompson solrt tlic copyright of his fii-st book, "Major Jouos' Conrtship," for I2Ö0. lio is now 68 years of agc, aiul tor tliiity yeai-8 has been editor of ilic Savaimah JS'ews. In a paragrapli on prinmry schools, Le Livro staies that in August, 1879, Franco had 60,266 public schools and 12,84ü l'rco schools- a total of 7o,UÜ