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THE COOLEST OF FAKIRS. Describing the Simsbury (Ct.) fair, the Hartford Covrant says the fakirs were many and their devices to catch the unwary were varied, but one iellow outdid the rest,and did the crowd hand- somely. His only apparatus was an unblushing cli,,t,k and a nimble tongue. His stn-le was much like this: "Now who will give me a dollar? What! .N,) ojie will give me a dollar? Ah, thank Aou, 1 have one. Now who will give me the next dollar ? and so it went on for a few minutes, the crowd which gathered being anxious to see what new scheme be had up his leeve, After he had gathered in twenty-seven dollars, and the crowd began to look pretty well squeezed he said: now, gentlemen, you deliberated give me ihis money to do what I pleast with ? 1 can a > for my wife or smoke it up? Yes?" and crowd nodded assent or remained silent while the fakir jammed the twenty-seven dollars into his pocket., saving: "Thank you, gentlemen I will be here at nine o'clock in the morning." Perhaps he was. "Don't vou wish you had a million dollars so that you could'put on a'Shakesperean play in accordance with your ideals ? No," answered Mr. Stormington Barnes; "1 wish I had a million dollars so that I -e wouldn't have to put on Shakesptare at all. Washington Star. "Something must be done with those boys of mine at college," exclaimed a staid old citizen. "They're wilder than March hares and in hot water all the time." "Oh, well, they're young yet, and you must make all, wances." "Make allowances, inin ? That's what's keeping me poor." He that looks not before finds himse/f behind. It is better to be sometimes deceived than to be always suspecting. Everyone is as God made him, and oftentimes great deal worse. There is no success so sweet as the success achieved by us against the advice of our friends. There is no slavery like idleness there is no burden like it. Every pound of it weighs twenty ounces. in.,tn tliit, can avoid evil he is a ■>n'i"iir man that can endure it but he is a valiant •nan that can cuuquer it.

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A FOUR YEARS' AGITATION. THE fact that Mr. Chamberlain has returned home after his two months' holiday in the Mediterranean has given a faint stimulation to public interest in the Fiscal movement, which had previously flagged to the point almost of extinction. Some of his followers, and possibly some Unionists anxious for the removal from the political arena of an issue which the whole course of recent events has shewn to be fatal to party unity, have been anxiously inquiring, it appears, whether Mr. Chamberlain's return will be marked by a revival of the Fiscal agitation. The answer, as given by Mr. C. A. Vince, of Birmingham, is precisely what might have been expected. He declares that the arrangements for the campaign, financial and otherwise, have been based on a four years' agitation; consequently the movement is to • be prosecuted with more or less energy so long as the funds admit. The explanation of the whole matter is, of course, that the promoters of the "raging, tearing propaganda" have promised subscribers that the agitation shall not, like previous Protectionist spasms, be characterised by violent activity during a few months only to relapse into quiescence when popular interest displays signs of failing. Assurances have been given that the agitation shall be carried on over a definite period, and it is on this basis that the wealthy Pro- tectionist manufacturers have been induced to part with their cheques. For what it is worth, the canse" is to be energetically preached during the next few years. THIS announcement has probably caused Tfi'ire dismay in the Unionist camp than un- easiness among Free Traders. It is as well, if the country is finally to pronounce judg- ment upon its Fiscal policy, that it should do ';<> after all the aspects of the matter have been rsilly presented. If, therefore, the Pro- tectionists have convinced themselves that they cannot do justice to their case under a four years' campaign, that is their own affair. Certain it is that whenever and wherever they advocate the reversal of our existing policy, they will find the Free Traders ready"to meet them in the gate. But for the Unionist party, which has apparently been captured by the i lotectionists, the question is a far more serious matter. It has one crushing defeat confronting it at the next election as the price of its dalliance with Mr. Chamberlain's proposed taxes on food. Will it be prepared to face a second process of strangulation at the polls merely because the Tariff Reform League has given a guarantee to its subscribers that the Protectionist agitation shall not come to an end after the electors have given its judgment upon it In other words, is the Unionist party to be sacrificed to one impetu- ous politician P YET whatever lines of attack the Tariff Reform League may lay down, the Free Trade party will meet it with perfect composure. What new methods the organisation may have in store we cannot say, but its argumentative resources can hardly be commensurate with its financial reserves. What it is capable of in the direction of misrepresentation both of the broad and subtle variety has been sufficiently demonstrated. We have seen the advantages of Protectionism urged in a variety of ways, yet to all of them the country has remained indifferent. The workmen were assured that duties on food would not affect the cost of living, and they rejected the doctrine. They were torn mat a tax on imported wares would increase the area of employment, yet their attitude was equally hostile. Manufacturers were assured that by the same policy prices would be raised and profits increased, but they remained no less r-ceptical than the wage-earners. Here and there the proprietor of a decaying concern has been attracted by the idea of regaining the home market by the exclusion of the foreigner, but in the main the judgment of the repre- sentatives of British industry has not been perverted. If the Protectionist agitation could not make more impression 011 the intelligence of the country, panoplied in all the glory of novel economic ideas, what prospect is there that it will be more successful when the same -exploded fallacies are spread over a four years' agitation before a public which has become ,i(,) familiarised with the facts ? AVHAT the Protectionists have to contend with as one of the greatest initial obstacles to their success is.the feeling, deeply rooted in the minds of the commercial classes, that the advocates of the proposed changes have only imperfectly studied the question upon which they offer such dogmatic opinions. The best proof of this is the ease with which every definite illustration of the alleged decline of British commercial supremacy has been dis- proved. Silk has gone, iron is threatened, cotton will come—all these represent positive .arguments of Mr. Chamberlain and his supporters calculated to alarm the public into the belief that somehow our Free- Trade system was defective. But it is hardly too much to say that in all these, and other cases in which the Protec- tionists ventured to bolster up their case by facts and figures, they have been discomfited with an ease which has undoubtedly impressed the public. When the adherents of Free Trade succeeded in shewing that industries which were alleged to be smitten with mortal decline were as a matter of fact displaying every symptom of vitality and healthy develop- ment, they not only repelled their opponents- they convinced fair-minded and dispassionate inquirers that our industrial system rested upon a more secure basis than that which the Protectionists were anxious to substitute for it. THESt; considerations it is which lend such force to the appeal of Sir Michael Hicks- Beach to the business community at Bristol the other day, that they should think long and carefully, and examine all sides of the question, before they made any changes in this country's Fiscal system, which had largely benefited the nation during the last fifty years, n y and to which the welfare and wealth of the people was due." The ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer is no incurable optimist: he is a cautious and long-headed man of affairs, whose experience during forty years of public life i"1il,thirty years of responsibility in Ministerial +arL fS convinced him of the solid advan- tj.M+S]vnnii°Ur F-e-Tra^ policy. He believes of tVo n1iv°l0 ^T. Ws could the well-being ■of the individual have been so solidly esta- blished, nor could the national finances have developed so satisfactorily under any other system. So long as the leaders of public opinion refuse to be moved from this con- viction, so long as, like Lord Wimborne, they refuse to lend material or moral support to the Protectionist movement, the aims of the promoters of the agitation will assuredly not be attained. The to only danger that could arise to Free Trade would be popular indifference to the issues involved, and of that there is happily no indication.

YOUTH. l'outli, Rot squandered; and, if waste it in idle, frivolous di""i¡ ati(iIIS, aL:p will come hfcr" ,"pars. to the end of our Jvn-iv \outh j,, every reason- able way wir.Ul l-v'' >;■ ;,lu;.ys !lf.n:ber hat t'Ytrv tin1*' you OWIOIMW on n von air con- yractiiifj *a w hi oil irnsv lie v.-pani with heavv ill the u; ure. Ketam \ouri, as ]()(!- ;is you Can, ii<o]eCtnle i)(,!hi"L,r v.liidi will assist, \ou" in doing so, but sconiini; everything which is falSP 0r deceitlui, Ai,d it 'will, despite all your ifh>ts in the contiaiv— accept the inevitable ^racetully, and attempt neither to disguise ncr to disown it. A si WF.I.L HKGUN, HAI.r-PONV concl^V* "dt vfh ,a few steps Witthi^h-jumper .akes his first when lie reaches if deliU-ration 0! a walk, but Any pood pedestrian ibar 1,0 is a 'T?1 VA close his "constitutions?»'s V' ^lsie' glow around his heart, i,„ 1 "ICI' "IV moderate gait. Experienced'* 1 "in. p1 h seem almost lazy, so calmiy tk> iluT T l front of the other; but they .stand Un breathed on the summit, while their comrades are nanf <■ <• the half-way station. In any lace a man cau^weU afford to miss applause at the 6tarting-ijn<5 jf h* r t«U it at the goal.

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YANKEE HUMOUR TOO LUCKY AT POKER. "No, I'm not going to be married to a Gates- aVenue girl," replied a young society man, when the case was put to him the other day. "I did fall in love with a sweet young thing on that street, and after I had called on her once or twice her father asked me to play two-handed poker. The result was that he scooped me out of half my salary every week for three or four weeks and kept me from making love to his daughter. Thinking he had too soft a thing of it, I went to an old gambler and paid him 5dol. to shew me a trick or two. The next time I played with my prospective father-in- law I walloped him out of 6dol., and three nights later I gathered in 12dcl. of his shekels. Then he rose up and said "Young man, avaunt! I like your looks, and no doubt you would make my daughter happy, but I'll be hanged if I want a son-in-law who holds an ace-ful every time I hold three tens." CURE BY SUGGESTION. "Maria," asked the husband and father, "how did you cure Bertha of her infatuation for young Kadger ? "By suggestion," replied the wife and mother. "Suggestion ? "Yes; I suggested that she look him up in Bradstreet's. "-Chicago J'rihu ne. HE KNEW HER. The dexterous manipulator of a soda fountain and the cashier at a restaurant making a specialty of after-theatre suppers were exchanging con- fidences. "She is unlike other girls, so natural and sincere, explained the cashier. "Looks at you out of the depths of her soulful eyes when she talks to you, doesn't she?" queried the soda artist. Exactly." "Sings, doesn't she?" "Yes." "Favourite song is, I Oli, Promise Me. "That's it." "And when she sings it her soul seems to fly out 011 the wings of song and soar among. the heavens ?" Ye s, yes," said the cashier; "but how do you know ? Are you acquainted with her?" "Well, I can't say exactly, but all last summer I was tied up with a soulful creature of that class who drifted out of my life just as the ice-cream season was waning and the oyster-eating days had come in upon us, and I thought maybe she had drifted into yours." Then it was that the cashier at the restaurant remembered that it was in the first of the series of months containing the letter "r" that his path and that of this fair maid had become entwined, and a treat and heavy thoughtfulness came upon him.- Halt Lake Herald. TROUBLE FOR THE MAID. The two young men reached the door at the same time. "Is Miss Walsingham in?" they asked. The maid looked at them and shook her head disconsolately. "She's in to wan av ve an' out to the other," she said at last; "but tie twoav yecomin' together has got me so tangled I'm blest if 1 know which is which. But come right in, both av ye, and I'll ask her to come down an' pick ye out.Chicago Post. TREATED LIKE A LADY. "Oh, Mrs. McGraw," called a Baltic-street woman to a neighbour who was at her gate, "did you hear about Mrs. Finnegan ? "I did, then, Mrs. O'Shane," was the reply. "Well, she was arrested last night for intoxi- cation." "That's too bad, but I knew it would come some day. Did they take her to the station on a push- cart ? "Indade they didn't. When the officer came in he recognised her as a lady and treated her as such. He gave her a ride on a beautiful waggon, and there was another officer at hand to keep her from falling out. She had the best cell in the house, and when she was brought into court in the morning his Honour was as bland as if she was a duchess. He never swore at her once, and he begged her pardon for sending- her up for fifteen davs." "Och hane Listen to that! "And in order that nobody might see her and hurt her feelings, she was handed into a beautiful carriage called after Black Maria, and with the doors all locked and a man on the steps behind she put on as much style as if she was riding out in her own landoo and was paying her footman 40dol. a month. I am not envious of my neighbours, Mrs. McGraw, and I do like to see others get along, but it's in my mind to bring on a fit of intoxication this very evening and see if the people of Brooklyn won't realise that there is yet another lady in their midst!" POINTS FROM THE POST. In this mechanical age the mechanical man may not reach the highest honours but he is generally able to pay rent. Reports of a projected farmers" trust will naturally and inevitably suggest to all the humorists that there will be no lack of experts to water the stock of the concern. For two hundred thousand dollars, says Lieutenant Peary, the ISorth Pole can be reached. But it is doubtful if the North Pole can touch the country for any such sum. "Let me know what a man eats and I will tell you what he is, said one of our great scientists. But he cannot do it now About all he could do would be to tell how much the man was worth. American school-teachers in the Philippines do not need to teach the joung idea how to shoot. The young idea already knows how and practices on the teacher when there is no American garrison in the immediate neighbourhood. Saturday Evening Post. THE BAKER BOY'S STORY. I caught the baker's boy the other evening as he had delivered his last order and taken a seat on the kerbstone to rest his legs and smoke the stub of a cigar, and after a little coaxing he told me this story: "Well, once upon a time there was a boy named Henry Lavine, but he was no relation to Kid Lavine, the scrapper. He was the only son 01 the Alderman of the Fifth Ward, and he was known to all the neighbours as a good boy. He was kind to cats and dogs, and used no bad words, and was very indignant when some bad boys offered him ten cents to let them hold a dog fight in his father's barn. "One beautiful morning Henry asked his father's permission to go fishing. His father looked upon him kindly and replied: 1 would give my consent quicker than a wink, my son, but for the love I bear you. This warm weather is melting the snow and I'm afraid the ice will go out of the river to-day with a rush. If it does go there will be great danger. Not to-day, Henry, but some other time.' "Henry was satisfied with this. He was sitting on a log in the backyard when Hi Davis came along with a fishpole on his shoulder and called out: Come on, Hank-come with me. The suckers are running to beat all creation.' "'My father won't let me,' replied Henry. 'Then run away I'd like to see my old man stop me from going where I wanted to! But I feel that I must do as my dear father says. Should I disobey him I could never look him in the face again.' Then you are a baby, and I kin lick you with one hand tied behind me "Henry turned away in sorrow, while Hi pro- ceeded on his way to the river. During all that forenoon, as Henry chopped wood or helped his mother make soft soap, the tempter kept whisper- ing in his ear: Don't be a spring chicken Run away and have a good time Your father is mean to order you to stay home! "But Henry resisted the evil advice with all his strength, and when noon came he was made to realise that the good are rewarded, while the bad are sure to meet with misfortune. His mother not only gave him a cent. for being so industrious and cheerful, but the ice went out of the river, just as his father had feared, and Hi Davis went along with it. The last seen of him he was passing Crow Bend on a hen coop, with great cakes of ice grinding and dashing about him, and no one could extend him help. Nothing was ever found of him." —Brooklyn Citizen. UNCOLONIAL DAMES. Mrs. Pingey: "I don't see how you can manage to go to church three times on Sunday." Mrs. Bland: "I do it simply by doing no work of any kind on the Sabbath. I think it positively wicked for women to stay home and cook dinners for their husbands on Sunday." Mrs. Pingey: "I suppose, then, you have a cold lunch at noon ? Mrs. Bland: "Oh dear no! I always take dinner at Mr. Bland's sister's. She's a splendid cook, and she always tries to do her best on Sundays. "Boston Transcrip-t.

This is true of many lives, wrote Miss Braddon— the one happy hour in the long dull life slips by unnoted like water drops running between the fingers; and then, years arter-when, remembering that brief glimpse of paradise, we look back, and would fain return to the green spot beside life's long, dusty, beaten turnpike road—the grass is withered; or where Poetry's fairy palace shone radiant in youth's morning sunlight there is now only the cold iiiiii-ble of a toiiib. THE GROWTH OF MAN. Man after all is not ripened by virtue alone. Were it so this world were a paradise of angels. No Like the growth of the earth, he is the fruit of all the seasons; the accident of a thousand accidents; a living mystery, moving through the seen to the unseen. He is sown in dishonour; he is matured under all die varieties of heat and cold; in mist and wrath, in snow and vapours, in the melancholy of autumn, in the torpor of winter, as well ax the rapture and fragrance of summer, or the balmy affluence of the spring—its breadth, its sunshine, its dews. And at the end he is reaped— the product, not of one climate, but of all; not of good alone, but of evil; not of joy alone, but of ¡ sorrow—perhaps mellowed and ripened, perhaps stricken and witheied and sour.—LOUD ROSEUKKV. 1 TRUTH SHALL TRIUMPH. Yet know that the truth shall triumph, That evil shall find its doom; That the cause of right, though subdued by might, Shall break from the strongest tomb; That wrong, though it. seems to triumph, Lasts ozi]N- for a (ta.N While the cause of truth has eternal youth, And shall rule o'er the world for ay e. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. A CHILD'S MIND. A child's mind is receptive and plastic, and his thoughts may easily be led by those in whom he has confidence. If we do not lead them we may be very sure that others will, and the habits of thought acquired in early life will inevitably gam strength by pi act ice, and to a great extent decide their future. The books they read, the companions they meet, the mental and moral atmosphere of the home, and the school, and the playground are daily deciding the character of their thoughts, and through them the quality of their lives. A\ e cannot too earnestly guard them from the contemplation 01 evil. Evil dwells in the mind long after its con- demnation is forgotten, and the thoughts it excites work secretlv like slow poison in the moral nature. DREAMING OR DOING. Failures in life are due oftener to lack of deter- mination than to lack of illumination. We have new light, but we do not walk bv it. We have an idea, but we do not work at it, restlessly or tire- lessly, till it is a i'acv. The air is full 'of ghosts i wailing for bodies. Our hearts are haunted with good intentions and bright id(a,, i,.(-v(,i- catried out. Our diaries are wanting in periods, Cull of un- j finished sentences. Better one iclt-a carried out, walking on the ground and working in the world, with real hands and Jeet. than a do/en beautiful fancies tiiaii ;L iiiiiicireil beautiful dieams. Challenge the next fine idea or inspiration tliat comes to you. Examine it, take it in hand, give it embodiment, or the strength of your will and the nl"3ft OF V'U1>- ljf.. VI-; 11 .L -IJ,T., tLlH

It fe-fery child would do his or her utmost for good, and every parent follow its example, we I should, in a very short space of time, have a I heaven on earth. A character which combines the love of enjoy- f ment with the love of duty and the ability to per- form it is the one whose unfoldings give the greatest promise of perfection. The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken; the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. Love as many persons and as many creatures as you possibly can. Love is the only power by which you can make yourself rich in a moral world. Love especially all innocent, gnod, and beautiful things. The poor give more than the rich. This proposi- tion holds good, as a general principle, Aloiit-v is by no means the only thing to give in this world; neither do large gilts necessarily contribute more to the happiness of the receiver than small gifts. We may not take op the broken threads of the life that is gone and weave them into a web of jov and hope: but to those who are still left lis, who ¡;a-.e eavs to hear, and hearts to throb with pain and grief, we may be generous and just, forgiving, loving, and kind A good memory kno-vs how to forget, a well- managed tonjrue knows how to keep still, dis- ciplined ears know how to be D■ ■ HF on occasion, and skillul hands can i;e idie if nece-'sarv. One h..ll' of knowledge consists in not knowing, one half of beneficial action in restim;. Don't live for voill"; Ir, and do not be afraid of diminishing your own happiness by promoting that of o. hers. He who labours wholly for the benefit of others and, as it were, lorgets himself, is far happier tl^r. the man who makes himself the sole object of all his afftctions and exertions. Those who work hard seldom yield to fancied or real sorrow. When grief sits down, folds its hands, and mournfully feeds upon its own tears, weaving the dim shadows that a little exertion miuht. sweep away into a funeral pall, tlw strong spirit is shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our master. Every duty is founded on some natural law which iinds a ready response in the human heart. The duty of recompense is based upon the law of justice, and were it not for the inroads that selfishness makes upon our moral nature, it would need neither legal enactments nor personal exhortation to enforce it. Children's mental and moral habits are largely formed by the motives presented to them. and & fearful responsibility rests upon the parent or instructor who offers low and sordid motives for correct conduct, and is content to secure a certain line of action without appealing to the reason to establish it, or to the heart to inspire it.