Sketches Worth The While For Children To Read

HEN YOU SEB A ragged urchin .Standing -wistful in in the street, With torn hat and kneeless trousers, Dirty face and bare red feet, Pass not by the child unheeding. önme uyoii mui. Mark me, wnen He's grown he'll not forget it, For remember, boys make men. When the buoyant youthful spirits Overflow in boyish freak, Chide your child in gentle accents, Do not in your anger speak; You must sow in youthful bosoms Seeds of tender mercies; then Plants will grow and bear good fruitage, When the erring boys are men. Have yon never seen a grandsire With his eyes aglow with joy, Bring to mind some act of kindness- Something said to him, a boy, Or relate some slight or coldness, With a brow all clouded, when He said they were too thoughtless To remember boys make men? Let us try to add some pleasures To the life of every boy, For eaeh child needs tender interest [n its sorrows and its joy; Cali your boy home by its brightness, They'll avoid a gloomy den, And seek for comfort elsewhere - A.nd remember, boys make men. I snaii ñever luigci, biu ■ clergyman recently, the first marriage ceremony I ever performed. I was newly ordained and newly married, and was on my wedding journey in the southern states. We had stopped to visit some reiatives of my wife, when Dne of the servants, learning that I was a clergyman, thought it a good opportunity for wedding the man of her choice. The service was to be performed at the residence of the groom, a tiny cabin not far away from the house, and my young wife, with a bevy of girl friends, went along ostensibly to act as witnesses, but really to see the fun. Matters went on smoothly enough til the bridegroom struck the sentence, "And with my worldly goods I thee endow," when it oecurred to him that it would probably be more businesslike to enumérate the items.. Starting in with "Dis yer cabin en de ba'an," he went through with a list of all his possessions, refreshing his memory from time to time with rapid glances around t,he rooom to make sure that nothing had been cmitted. He finally wound up breathless on the "three pieoes er hawg meat and de mewl," leaving me with my place in the prayer-book lost and my mental faculties in a state of chaos. The girls had long before fled from the cabin, prudently distrusting their powers of self-control, so I ished up as best I could and foHowed them. I liave never married a couple since without a slight nervousness as the man neared that place in the service. Suppose some millionaire should take It into his head to emulate my colored friend and enumérate his worldly goods in the middle of the ceremony! iji5er;a, ;a"ALrlcfe, as neillisf ..; nor timepiece of any sort; the reckoning of time is made entirely by the movenent and position oí the sun.which rises at 6 a. m. and sets at 6 p. m. almost to the minute the year round, and at noon it is vertically overhead. The islanders of the South Pacific have no clocks, but make a curious time-marker of their own. They take the kernels from the nuts of the candle-tree and wash and string them onto the rib of a palm leaf. The first or top kernel is then lighted. All oí the kernels are of the same size and substance, and each wlll Durn a certain number of minutes, and then set fire to the one next below. The natives tie pieoes of black cloth at regular intervals along the string to mark the divisions oL time. Among the aatives of Singar, in the Malay archipelago, another peculiar device is used. Two bottles are placed neck and neck, and sand is put in one of them, which pour itself into the other one every half hour, when the bottles are reversed. There is a line near by, also, Dn which are hung twelve rods, marked with notches from one to twelve. A regularly appointed keeper attends to the bottles and rods, and sounds the hour upon a gong. - Tit-bits.