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In 1875. the consumption of ardent spirits in Great Britain was 1.31 gallon per head. The present consumption is l 03, which shows a considerable filling-oflofif. The oou- sumption of wine is 2;; bottles per head. It should be remembered that this repnsents what would be the consumption of every man. woman, and child, if all took exactly the same quantity. Tobacco in 1877 was consumed at therate of 1.49 lb' per capita. This too has fallen offto 1 37 lb. The figures also show that while the consumption of ar- dent spirits ard tobacco has fallen 03, there has been a lsige ineresse in the use of tea and cocoa. ; but, strange to say, ooflee has fallen off in consumption from 1853 of fully 4 per cent. This last usult is due it is aid, to the adulterelion of coffee by chicory. Not being able to get a. pure article, people will not buy the fraudulent concoct-ion called cofiee in the grocery stores. Hope. Hope 1 \Vhat would life be without hope? Hope and faith is the well spring of our ex- istence ; we labor, and hope, and have faith that we will obtain some good result of our labor. It is said withont hope hearts would break; end yet what threads hope wi\l sometimes cling to. The mariner in mid- ecean, with his ship sinking beneath the waves, costs himsell in the sea. hoping he may drift to land tomewhere, or be picked up by some unexpected vesell crossing his path; sometimes for days he Will battle with the waves, t'lll rtsoue or mes or death closes the scene. But the grandest hope of all is the hope of a heppy immortality in the world to come. Free from sin and nor row. care and pain ; a rest from all anxie- ties ; where all s peace, where all is love ; where God is. He fills heaven; and He is love. Then let us pray that we may have such a hope, and for faith. patiently. to ahor and to wait till our Creator calls us from our probation here, and ushers us in the realms of peace that know no ending. A rule for living happily with other is to IVOlCl having stock subjects of disputation. It mostly he pens when people live much together, an they come to have certain set topics around which, from frequent dispute, there is such a growth of angry words, mor- tified vanity, and the like, that the original subject of difierence bectmes a Handing subject for quarrel ; and the re is a ten- dency in all minor disputes to drift down to it. When amiabilitv delcenda to weakness, it loses all claims to respect or admiration. To be worthy of regard it must be strong, and to be airong it must stand on a. solld foundation. He who is able and willing to say “No” firmly whenever the cause of right requires it. will say “Yes” with a fuller and a richer meaning at all other times. Nothing in the range of our conceptions can equal the dread silence of commence, the calm desperation of romaine, the corrod- ing of inniinble desire, the entire want of truth, the gt swing worm of envy, the bitter cup of dinppointment, the blighting curse of hatred. These pushed to their extremity may be enough to destrey the soul. The fishermen of Brittany, so the story goes, Ire wont to utter this simple {rayer when they launch their boats upon the deep; “Keep me, my God; my boat is so nmall and Thy ocean in to mde." How touching- ly beautiful the words and the thought I That every day has its pains and sorrows in universally experienced and most univer- sally confessed ; but let us not attend only to mournful truths; if we look impartia 1y about us, we shall find t,th every day has likewise its pleasure! and its joys. The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that hit ar- mour Ihould be somewhat lruiled by rude encounters even, then hanging forever rust- ing on the wall. It in when we come to rrjoice in duty, to take pleasure in saonfice, to fol‘aow justice, mercy, and truth. not on) wnh the firm and steady step, but witha oving and tinder clasp, that we realize the true vitality of righteousness. Let no priute afl‘ention blind thee in an- other man's cause ; for the exrorl thou shalt thereby commit are often without remedy, and at the expeme both of thy reputation and fortune. Virtue con-iats in making delire subordin- ate to duty, passion to principle. The pil- hrs of charactu are modcmtion. tempor- ance, ohmtity, simplicity. "If-control; its method in self denial. Good breeding is the art of Ihowinq menI by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It Miles from good sense, improved by conversing with good com- pan}: . Perhaps your mast" knows what a capital plowman you an ; and be mver mean: to let you become a reaper because you do the plowing so well. Never fear to bring the sutlimeat motive to the smallest duty and tho moat infinite comfort to the smaflest trouble. fiWho is wise? he that learns from every one. Who is powerful! he that govern! hll punioua. Who is rich? he that IE content. There are a great many duties that cannot wait. Unlesl they Ire done the moment they present them-elves, it in not worth while to do them at :11. Life consists in the alttrnate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unleam than to learn. There are always a. few w) o believe in the quadrature of the oirc!e and the pelpatual motion. He surely is most in want of mother's pa- tience who has none of his own. There is a majesty in simplicity which is In above the quaintness of wit. Religion is not a thing of noise and spasm, but of silent aelf-tacrifice and quiet growth. True merit; like a. river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. The secret of happiness is nevtr to allow your energies to stagnate. We ought not to judge of men's merit: by the use they make of them. The truly valiant dare everything but do‘ ing any other body an injury. It is not death that makes the martyr, but the cause. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. There is no power of Esnius that can do the work of to.l. How Much per Head. GRAINS OF GOLD The lamp is inolosed in a. flint-glass cyliu» der 9* inches in diameter. The appearance of the light around the submerged lamp was very remarkable, and the effect marvelotsly beautiful. It is believed in time that the coasts of all the principal countries will be examined, and mapped out by aid of subma- rine electric lampa. This will not only be a help to the fishermen, but will render navi- gation fafer, as well an aid the scientists in their explorations of nature. A submarine electric lamp has lell been constructed at Greenock, Scotland, which promists to help reveal many of the mys. teries heierofore rsaociated with the bottom of the sea. The Tilly is the name of the vessel that carries this lamp. Its machinery will supply an electric current for a 15,000 candle power lamp, which is to be lowered into the see for ten fathoms to help the fislr ermen of Batevia. to mannage their drift- nets. A small boy with an intelllgfnt face went. into a fruit dealer’s store, and depasiting a box of grafes on the counter, stood looking down. “ don’t want the grapes, my little fellow," said the dealer ; "I've got as many now as I can sell. Take them away." "They are yours,” the boy said, looking up “Mine '!" “Yes sir. Yesterday evening I came along here and took this bcx of grapes from the stand at the door. I knew it was stealin’. an’ my mother always told me not to take anything that did not belong to me, but I couldn’t help it. Just before I left home my little sister that was sick said : “Oh, if I had some grapes like them I saw down town, Icould eat ’em.” We didn’t have no money, an‘ nobody knowed us, ’cause we had just moved into the house. Mothtr washed clothes, but when sister got sick she had to quit. WhenI took the clothes home the lady told me to come next day for the money, but when I went there the house was shut up and the people was gone, so we didn’t have any money to get grapes with. Mother said, “Never mind, We will get some money after awhile.” I saw her go into the other room, “an’ when I watched her she had her face buried in a pillow, an‘ was prayin'. I came away dovsn town an' stood aroun' a long time waitin’ to get a chance,’ an’ after awhile, when ,on wasn’t lookin’. I took a box an’ ran away with it ” ‘But why did you bring it back?’ the dealer asked. “Be- cause,” replied the toy, chtkiug down a sob,d “when I got home the lott'e gil was dea. ." makes aclaim that he has discovered the law which shows the variations in the prices of commodities. His name is Semuel Ben- ner. He published a book in 1875, in which he made a forcast of the prices of iron grain, hogs and cotton, up to the year 1891. It must be confessed that he has so far proved remarkably accurate. He said the price of iron would be lowest in 1877â€"thet it would advance and be at its maximum in 1881â€" aud that it would then shrink in value until 1887 or ’88. This forecast has not been proved false up to date. ’ The test of a. science is the ability to pre- dict. We believe the astronomer, because he is able to foretell within the fraction of a second when an eclipse will begin and when it will end. We. put faith in the chemist, also. for we find by experience that, when he puts diverse atoms of matter together, a certain result is sure to follow. Water, for instance, is composed of two gazes, exyfen and hydrogen. Spiritualism is dis cre lted because it pro hats and mediums cannot foretell. Some 0 the sciences are so far imperfect that its professors csnnot pre diet with confidence. We know a great deal about the weather for instance, but the VVashingth Weather Bureau is often mis- taken in its forecasts. Much has been said as to the possibility of founding a science of society ; but it is conceded that, as yet, the sociologists have not dared to claim they could read the future. All this is ap70pos of a person who has appeared in Ohio, who A series of terrific shrieks now rise above the babel of street cries. I elbow my way along to the scene of operations and find that a Hindoo is piercing the nose of one of his daughters, aged perhaps ten years. This is, of course, a part of every Hindoo girl’s education, but it is a medicine thst is not appreciated in the taking. The means adopted for performing the operation are rather primitive. The child’s head is held by one person, while another jams the wire of the jewel through the shrinking oariilage of the nostril. The streets are thronged with men, wo- men and children, ail attired in costumes that are more showy than any I have ever seen elsewhere in the world. Here a great crowd of natives are looking 03 at the sky over the bay. I look alsoI but see nothing. I move on further until I come in sight of the seashore, when I dis- eover thousands and thousands of people sit- ting down and gazing at the black cloudless sky. I ferret out a Panes (the Psi-sees al- most always speak English) and he explains it all to me. This is the first day of the Hindoo New Year. and it is a. great national custom to look for the new moon. After much looking I discover the queen of nightâ€"the smallest crescent I have ever seen. Here is a single, lone Chinnmanâ€"the only one I have seen in all Bombayâ€"who is step- ing along to his shoe shop. Here is agroup of my esteemed countryman, as I immedia- taly gather from the gilt inscription, U. S‘ S. Trenton," around their hat bands, and also from their blue sailor suits. They are slightly moistened with benzine, I can see, and I have grave doubts as to the nature of their mission ashore; but they compare so favorably with the mm from the British shift: in conduct, that I do not rebuke them as pass by. Here are some bootblacks, the first I have seen since leaving San Fran- cisco. Your shoes are always blscked by the hotel porter, or the steamer porter. or the boarding house porter in these parts, so that the business of the street urchin is sadly injured. I do not hear the familiar Amerlcsn cry, “h'hine yer boots?" These Hindoo bootblacks should visit New York and see how it is done. Bombay is exccedinglv interesting to me. I love to soak my handkerchief in camohor, and then staxt OK in the edge of the evk-uing for a long ramble on foot, oblivious of the danger from cholera and other prevalent peifilenoes. Why He Brought Them Back. Light Under the Ocean. Bombay Street Scenes. A Modern Prophet. “40> f: om time to time there is a. short supply of salt-water fish, but experimtnts are now be- ing made with the spawn of cod. haddock. sea bass, Spanish mackerel, and other deni- zens of the ocean. which will undoubtedly be successful. It is said that an acre of water can be made to furnish many times the quaniity of food produced annually by an acre of land. One of the most marvelous and successful achievements of modern enterprise is the in- product on (I new fish food into the streams and lakes of the verioua continents. The salmon of the Pacific coast has been succese- fully intiojuced into the streams of the east (out o! No Lh America. The delicious shad of our waters is now to be found in the at a going rivers (f the Pacific coast. Cali- fornia mlmon were successfully introduced in 1877 into the LAustmlian rivu‘s, where that fine fish had never before been seen. The re-stocking of streams with fish is going on all over the world, and will eventually increase the supply of fish food a. thousand- fold. In England, black Lusani white fish have become naturalized, while the German (exp, a fast-growing and food-producin fish, is already widely known in the nited Ssates. Our experts do not de spair of being able in time to vastiy increaee the swarms oi fish on our sea-coast. It is known that ‘ f: om time to time there is a. short supply of l salt-water fish, but experimtnls are now be- A few men have been wounded or burned in the operation, While some others have lost part of their clothing. I suppose no more dangerous form of fire could bread out, and yet it is handled with perfect ease and does not create a. ripple of excitement. In three minutes it has ceased to be a subject of comment. I confess that my heart is thumping away wildly, but none of the officers or men seem any more concerned than if such a. scene were of daily occurrence on shipboard. Here on the Red Sea. for the first time in my seventy-five days an! nights of sea. voy- aglng. I have a. taste of what a. fire on ship- board implies. 0.18 hot, breathless day the chief oflicer is having a large kettle of a re- sinuous liquid boiled. up forward on a deck stove, for application to certain parts of the ship. It is left alone for a momenP, boils over info the fire. and in a moment more the whole nnss is ablaze. The liquid flaws over dtck, and almost before We can take the fact in great sheets of flame are leaping half way up to the square sails. Tee alarm is sound- ed, the sailors rush to the sand-barrels, and by the time each man has thrown a padlful of sand upon the deck there is nothing left burning but the kettlle. Over thi- u. cour- ageous fellow throws a. pile: of sdl-cloth, and two other men lift it to the deck. In the meantime the captain has ordered the donkey engines to work. and there is an im- mense stream ready to play upon the deck, were smh a measure necessary. The sunsets are glcrious and the moon rises even more 50. Indeed, the evenings are pleasant and we are tempted to sleep out on the deck instead of in our stuffy cabins. This, however. the ca. mm forbids, on ac- count of the peculiar inl’iuences of the moon in this clirr. nte. The rays of a tropical moon poisons meat, and our supplies are tested with a. piece of silver in the boiling waters Auy discoloration of the silver in- dicates that the meat has been exposed to the moonshine. Ode indiscreet BMlDl‘ sleeps on deck, and in the morning his face is wrenched out or shape. After this we are careful, and sit under the awning while we spin our sea yarns. The dews at night are very heavy and leave a. thick sa‘ine deposit on the ship’s rigging. Occasionally a mirage furnishes us with diversion. The phosphorescent displays of the Arabian and Red Seas are not what I had expected alter reading andiheoring eomuch of them ; but per- haps this is owing to the supernotunl brilli- ance of the moon. The phosphorescence is however, sui generis so far as I have seen. It floats about in apparent “chunks,” which attach themselves to the sides of the vessel and are impelled forward for a. time. only to become detached at length, and quickly dis- appear estern. It is indeed hot but one becomes in a measure inured to it after a day or two, and freqeut salt water bathe serves to make life more tolerable. In the hot monthl there are always a number of passengers and leborers. especially at )kers, who perish from exceeelve h( at. Even our hens and ducks are unable to endure the warmth, and several of the panting creature: ex ire, delplte the fre- quent drenchings wit fresh water which the steward gives them by means ofa sprink- ling pot. And yei they tell me this is literally cool in comparison with the conditiun of things that will prevail a. mmth or two hence. Every one on the sh’p says so. I wonder how high the tempenture would raise a thermometer in the sun! I feel warranted in saying that the days are hot. There is only one portable ther- mometer abraod, and I experiment s( me with that. First, I find the coolest place in the ship a passage-way leading out of the main saloon, where aregister brings up a. (relatively) coal draught from the lower region of the ship. The midday register for the passage Varies from 88 degrees Fahren- heit to 88 degrees. In the cabins the tem- perature is very much higher. The garments of those who sweat profusadly ere wringing wet with perspiration, whilst the hands and faces of those who do not are so clammy that you would think they had been smeared with grease. Unfortunately, the thermo- mometer in question only registers as high as 150 degrees. I put it out on the hatchwsy in the sun one day. The mercury trots right up to 150 degrees in no time, md I hasten to bring the instrument in. lest it should explode. The Thermometer at 150 Degreesâ€"Glori- ous Sunset-«A Ship on Fire. An eight days' voyage across the Arabian Sea brought the st‘eamer to Aden, near the southern extremity of the great Arabian peninsula. For two days before we had sighted in the dim distance the rocky, sterile coast line ; and Aden proved to be no more invxtingâ€"in fact, one of the dreariest. most desclete places conceivable. \Voe be to the ship that is east ashore on the Arabian coast. Though the natives may not make a barbcue of you, and dance in real savage style around your bleaching bones, they are apt to take every stitch of cluthng you lave on, tore ture you, and ultimately starve you. Sad, indeed, was the rectnt fate of some men on board the steamers A‘e) and Knight of thé Bath, which went; ashore some ways out o’ Aden. VOYAGING ON THE RED SEA. The Distribution of Fish. doings. In this line the Hartford Courant ssya pithily : ‘ "Over certification" and “re- hvpotheoation’” are pretty long words. One means lying, and the other means stenl~ ing. When we are told that the recent troubles in business in New York are nth-L bumble to these long-sounding causes, we are reslly told that lying and stealing are at the bottom of the difiiculty.’ There is often a gain to the cause of truth by speed:- ing of a man plainly as a. "thief," instead of calling him by the smoother title of "de- faultet.” Wrong-deem are always glad to desig- nate their evil counu by some other worn than the simple and direct. one! which make their vil'ainy nppnnnt. Right-doors ought, however, to insist on right name! for wrong And because the lecturer wofxldn't ex- plain the solemn put] sailed majektically out of the hall, thumping his cane angrily all the way. At this junoyure a very solemn looking party twith a large Adam’s apple, rose vp from the back seat and can: "Yen, but how sue you going to pile them up 7" "Mm does not conceive the magnitude of a ballion,” remarked the lecturer; “why, a billion sheets of paper placed one on top of anothnr would muke a 9116 naarly 50,000 miles high.” Canals. Some out~of-the-wav data respecting the great canals of the world are pu‘ollshhd. The Imperial Canal of China is over 1,000 miles lang. In the year 1681 was comp‘eted the greatlst undertaking of the kind on the European C ntinent, the Cmal of IAngue~ doc, or the Canal du Mlddi, to connect the Atlantic with the Mediterranean; its length is 1-18 miles, it has more than 100 lccka and about fifty aqueducts, and its highest parties navi able for vessels of upward of 100 tons. The auzest ship canal in Europe is the great N01 th Holland Canal, completed in 1825â€" 125 feet wide at the water surface. thirty- one feet wide at the bottom, and which has had a depth of twenty feet; it extends from Amsterdam to the Helder, fifty-one miles. The Caledonia Canal, in Scotland. has a to« tal length of sixty miles, including t'n‘ee lakes. The Suez Canal is eighty-eight miles long, of which sixty-six miles are Ictual canal. The Erie Canal is 3501} miles long; the Ohio Canal, Cleveland to Poxtamouth. 332; the Miami & Erie, Cincinnati to Toledo, 291; the Wabash 65 Erie, Evansville to the Ohio line, 374 Benefits of draining.â€"Among the other benefits which draining secures to land, the [revention of excessive evaporation, by means of whlth wet land is continually kept at a low temperature, is not the smallest. ‘ And this evap ration is most active in hot weather so that the land is deprived of the warmth which is indespensible to vegetation at the very time when that warmth would be of the greatest service and when it is most available. The only way by which stagnant water can escape from land is by evaporation, or, in other words, by exhala- tion into vapour, and, though perhaps not equally well known, it is equslly true that heat is dispersed (r becomes latent by the c;nversion of water into vapour. It is in obediencs to this law that human beinfis catch cold when their clothes are wet through and they expose themselves to the air; evaporation immediately commences, the system is chilled, and a cold is the result; and precisely the same evils play on a wet soil which is exposed to sun and wind. The ‘ coolin effect is well illustrated by swathing ‘ a bott e of water in wet flannel and placing it out it the sun; if the flannel is kept moist, the more will be the evaporation, and the colq‘er will be the water inside the totsle. To reduce the eflect of eve oration to tangi- ble figures, it may be state that in the pro- cess of carrying off a gallon of water by evaporation the soil is de; rived of as much heat~heat, remember, that is indispensible to vegenetionâ€"as would raise 51‘» gallons of water fr;m freezing to boiling point; it is not surprising, thereicre. that everywhere wet land is known to be cold land. Heat, again, will pass only a wry short distance downwards in water, because wateris a bed heat~conductor, and ifa soil is natured with water the warmth (f the atmosphere cannot penetrate it. Some poulterers affirm that fowle cannot be fed too much‘ that liberal feeding is es- aential to large egg production. It depends somewhat on the way fowll are fed, and the lyre-ed. Thd Asiatic verieties used to be excited to exercile. and unless they get it in securing their food they will become too lazy and fat to lay eggs. The non~eitting verietiee can hardly be fed too much for profit, especially if wheat may go in the market, it in always worth a dollar or more p! r bushel to feed to laying hens. An expkrt in sfnwben-y culture assuta that in trans lamina the strawberry the runners shoul be left on to the length of six inches. The end of the runners are then to be bent down and buried with the roots, and act as suckers to draw nourishment to the plsnt until new roots are formed. Every garden should have a small bed of sage, thyme, savory, parsley and marjoram. In fact no garden is complete without them. They can be grown from seed, and once ob tained remain for a long time. In Northern Dakota, lately, a traction engine drew eight ploughs, turning a nod four inches thick an evenly and well as could be done by horse power, and at a rate of over twenty-five acres a day. Farmtrs should enjoy, above all othvrs. the lux';ries of the garden, and yet, strange to say, but few farms have comp‘ete gar- dem, and many firmer: buy vegetables. A firmer cm well aflord to rxise cabbage for three cen's a head. And the crop has this fire \t advsntazeâ€"if it cinnot be sold it may be fed out on the farm to cows, sheep (1‘ pigs Dry earth mzkaa gwd bedding for ca‘tle in midsummer. thirSy yé'ars before!” timber, maple twenty fifteen years. The Shire horse of I has better feet, bath 1‘ and more constitution 1 Machines for p‘anfsing potatoes have lecn invented in Smiland, and were exhibited in 1nvermss last year. The machine plants two drilla at otce. _Hickory ani cherry r Call a Spade n. Spade. Wantcd Information. FARM AND GARDEN. horse of Eagland, it is claimed, at, bettzrtoae. better balance, stitution thauany other draught years, growth of aluable for 111 beeches came with a. vengeance. As a result these mammoth tanks are filled with many tons of mud, and the process of olensing the liquid has proved too laborious. But the govern- ment manages to turn these washings from the hills to some account for fertilizlng ur- poses. It is found that they are tie in manurial propensities, and the so called agriculturists pay well for a. few loads esoh. Last year, I am told, $4,000 you euned in this way. Ths famous Aden tanks for catching rain- water I found to be abandoned entirely a! a louroe of water supw, in favor of the con- densed sea-brine. hen the rains do come down after a drought of seyeral years ~they It is an indispensible condition of succest in the family education thst the paren- should become the first and truest friend of the child. This possibility and duty is a great privilege, too oiten unknown, and yet it embraces the whole future of the child. It is through the love and confidence that exists between them that durable influences are exerted. It the child naturally confides it! Jittla j)ys and sorrows to the ever ready sympathy of the mother if it grows up in the habit of turning to this warm and healthful influence, the youth will come as naturally with his experiences and plane to the parent as did the little child. The evils of life, which must be gradually known. will then be encountered with the aid of experi- ence. The form of the relation between puent an] child changes not its essence. The essence of the relationship is trustâ€"the fact that the parent's presence will lie wel- comed by the child, that in work or in play in infancy or in youth, the parent shall be the first natural friend. It is only thul that wise, permanent influence con be ex- erted. It is not dogmatism, not rigid laws, not formal instruction that is needed, but the formative power of loving insight and sympethy. pmhble that with exertion and right means, a mother may have more control over the destiny of her boys than any other influence whatever. i Women who have sons to rear, and dread the demoralizing influences of bad as- sociates, ought to understand the nature of young manhood. It is excessively rest- less. It is disturbs! by vain ambitions, by thirst for action, ny longing: for excitement, by irrepressible desires to touch life in mani- fold ways. If you. mothers, rear your sons so that their homes are associated with the repreis’on of natural instincts, you will be sure to throw them in the society that in any measure can supply the needs of their hearts. They will not go to the public- houses, at first, for love of liquor ; they go for the animated and hilarious companion- ship they find there, which they find does so much to repress the disturbing restless- ness in their breasts. See to it, then, that their homes compete with public places in their attractiveness. Open your blinds by day, and light bright fires at night. Illum -" nste your roams. Hang pictures upon the walls. Put b‘oks anl newspapers upon your tables. Have music and entertaining games. Banish demons of dullness and apithy that have so lng ruled in your household, and bring in mirth and good cheer. Invent cccupations for your sons. Stimulate their ambitions in worthy direc- tions. While you make home their de- light, fill them with higher purposes than mere pleasure. Whether they shall pass happy boyhcol, and enter upon manhood with refined tastes and noble ambition, de- pends on you. Do not blame miserable bar- keepars if your sons miscarryh Believe it “Society is the isolation of a prison, though the captives are sun ounded by num. bers of people. Toe philosophers residing in the E.st are fococd to meditate bitterly on the waste of humanity around him. Only one anchorite whose religicus duty consists in counting beads could be charmed with such monotony and silence. The man of energy end thought would think it a cruel punishment to be forced to undergo the or- deal of intellectual stzgnation amid a peo- ple whose ignorance and indolence fill their minds with egotism, cbstinacy and self-im- portance. It is a common thing for Egypt- ians who have been educated by order of the government in the best colleges in El- rope to come back to Eastern life and im- mediately throw away their books, abandon intercourse with intelligent foreigners, shut themselves in a. harem tamong ignorant wo- men und there end their existence. This is probably what they mean when they say that 'in their education of mind they do not neglect the heart.’ An Eastern man will sit for hours inhaling the perfume ofn sweet flower and enjoying tht music of a fountain (murmuring at the time a. chapter in the Kenn, without stopping to understand its meaning) ezd the beautiful objects of nstnre that Allah has spread before him. He sn- joys today, but never thinks of preserving objects which please him in sclupture or painting, however dear to him, for the sake of the pleasure they might give in the future. tions. ” (Here in Its Isolation no attraction to 5 refi n- cd nature. This life makes people pgrm ;. tuze‘y old ; 9. mm of 50 is wrinkled and superann mted, ani a. womzn of 30 has pall- ed her meridian. No one works unless oom- pelled to it, u tranquility of mind and per- son best please: the Oriental taste. They ignore the pusnge of time, wh'ch never dis- turbs them with the cry of bukrah (to-mor- row) ; yet people write of the fascin “ions of E'stern life. It mwy be the olimntefiwith its sunny Ek)’ and the quickening air of the desert, or Iossihly the; stagnation of exist- ence which deludss them. It can not be the efl'urt of tl'inking or of feeling that awakens planning impxs 110115. for there is nothing here that does not clash with every senti- ment, habit and custom of intellectual llfe. musxc with which tho sum reaiploially en - trraain each othor among VVeatem people, hornble screaminqa, the monohnous noise of drums, and the chug of tamborims are here the soface o? thm in her boxra of ease. Tho beastvd luxuries of the palaces (flour: in its isolation no attraction to a refi 11. cd nature. This life makes man'n nu". L TO-DAY WITHOUT A TO-RfflRROW. The Great Water-Tanks of Aden ‘ Socizty among t'm rana shnply a noting i the mast trivial : the sparkling cnnv: lsic mth which the main each other an The L busy 0: Info in main“. gheir writeré csfi Ifie rich in unsa- Parent and Child. Women’s Sons. g the inmates of the harem (mg aquatic and ppm, 31 amusements. Inatzzad mvereation and pleasan t