Wt <^XTtho best that ho can, and knows ■ things he must look through 'mVhget*- Tho I>opO SO"S him into "'■' ■ off *° root u8 a make an tO IJff U g He came, and by the grace of IB Ntohas left «s whoro wo arc. ]lo is not jJH W\T He lias true imperial gentleness I Q%odness; and fortune comes to him H■ftgriaep. He must have Bomo good jjM iCfljjn the Emperor was once in France ■ ,i eO f peace, he was entertained by the "■■M 'iZti certain castle. One night after ■ Wl j young lady of noble birth was, by ■ ffhie'S order, introduced into his room. H Smperor asked her who she was and •4 'vshe came there. She burst into tears 188- ThJrl him. He sent her to her parents I *^nidred, with an escort and handsome ■ SitS. In *'10 war '"'h'o' l followed he ill Qedthat castle to the ground. I *i?rhe Antwerp manufacturers presented ,|H jkr^nth a tapestry once, on which was '"■ r^nehfc f°r a (^es 'Sn the battlo of Pa via H IMb captlire °* ie French king- Charles X Sid not take it. He had no pleasure, lie |1 yj n the miseries of others." H Luther been a prophet ho could have ;51 jL jnother story still more to Charles's 1 '-I tonour. Years after, when Luther was in m lfeera^'e> an Charles, after the battle of Mlberg, entered Wittenberg as a con :'|B ft^ gome bishop pressed him to tear the !•■ Lyo'ttt of the ground and consign it to I'! Spun6B- He reP lied> "■! war not with '!■ fivch as Luther admired Charles, how :|jl his own sovereigns had his especial >9 f^'The Elector, Frederick," he said, "was ijM 2 jije, good man, who hated all display H «|J lies, and falsity. He was nevor |U .Juried. His life was pure and modest, 5» rgdhismotto, ' Tantum quantum possim,' I '(lisasign of his sense. Such a prince is a H ij]jjgibg from God. He was a fine manager I jjjjconomist. He collected his own taxes, [?■ : jjil kept his accounts strictly. If he visited |B- l( jjj of his castles, he was lodged as an §■ -culinary guest and paid his own bills, that l'|' iis stewards might not be able to add ■J'jjjufgesfor his entertainment. He gathered H iiiwitn shovels and gave out with spoons. r'l Ife listened patiently in his council, shut PJ-|is eyes, and took notes of each opinion. I jjuj he formed his own conclusion; this m and that advice will not answer, for this I p that will come of it. 'm "Elector John consulted me how far he I Should agreo to the Peasants' Articles at the il 'ftneoftno rebellion. He said : 'God has I slide we » prince, and given mo many I I'loises. If there is to be a change I can be flippy'with eight horses or with four. I m ctn be another man.' He had six young I \ pages to wait on him. They read the Bible I tohim for six hours every day. He often ■ tent to sleep, but when ho woke he had I , jlirays some good text in his mouth. At 1 jstnion he took notes in a pocket-book. ■ Church government and worldly govern -1 -inent were well administered. Tho Em- I iperor had only good to say of him. If his I frbther and he could have been cast into a I \ti&se man, they would have made a wonder I between them. The Elector John had a I itrong frame and a hard death. He roared I like a lion. I '~ "John Frederick (reignint; elector in tho I latter part of Luther's life), though ho hates I ointrutli and looso living, is too indulgent. I He fearaGod, and has his five wits about I Mm. God long preserve him. You never [ 'iear an unchaste or dishonourable word I : come out of his lips. One fault he has :he ■ eats and. drinks too much. Perhaps so big "'■'% body requires more than a small one. ' Otherwiso lie works Hko a donkey ; and, \drink what he will, he always reads the /Bible before he sleeps." ..Luther hated lies as heartily as the Elec jffe "Lies,"he said, "are always crooked ilike a suake, which is never straight whether still or moving—never till it is dead—then Tilt bangs out straight enough." But he '/was against violence, eren to destroy false ■": hood. " Popery," he said, " can neither bo 'destroyed by the sword nor sustained by ■HM sword ; it is built on lies, it stands on ■ifies, and can only be overthrown by truth. *Z?L like not those who go hotly to work. It Siia written, Preach and I will givo thee ispower. We forget the preaching, and ..,' would fly to force alone." j"§J) He much -admired soldiers, especially if Slbesides winning battles they knew how to ■Sutole afterward, like Augustus and Julius ;XCseßar. jijfcs" When a country has a good prince over 3git, all goes well. Without a good prince Sthings go backward like a crab, and coun :|j;cillors, however many, will not mond thorn. lijyA great soldier is the man ; he has not many ii-gwords ; he knows what men are, and holds l^bis tongue ; but when ho does speak, he |» acts also. A real hero does not go about his J; work with vain imaginations. He is moved |iby God Almighty, and does what he under- Ktakes to do. So Alexander conquored tffePersia, and Julius Csesar established the' fvßoman Empire. The Book of Judges fftshows what God can do by a single man, I and what happens when God does not pro >'.vido a man. Certain ages seem more fruit- Pi ful in great men than others. When I was Kg boy there were many. Tho Emperor I Maximilian in Germany, Sitrismund in "] (Poland, Ladislaus in Hungary, Ferdinand, 1-, Emperor Charles's grandfather, in Spain— « pious, wise, noble princes. There were f,;good bishops too, who would have been I with us had they been alive now. There H was a Bishop of Wurzburg who used to say, ;>when ke saw a rogue, 'To the cloister I with you. Thou art useless to God or man.' :!? He meant that in the cloister were only : :, hogs and gluttons, who did nothing but eat, and drink, and sleep, and were of no • more profit than as many rate." Luther knew that his life would bo a r short one. In his later days he compared himself to a knife from'which the steel has 'been ground away, and only the soft iron I left. The Princess Elector said one evening I to him: " I trust you have many days before I you. You may live forty years yet, if God ; wills." "God forbid," Luther answered. "If God offered me Paradise in this world I for forty years, I would not have it. I would I rather my head was struck off. I never send for doctors. I will not have my life I .made miserable, that doctors may lengthen it by a twelve month." The world itself, too, he conceived to be near its end. The last day he thought would be in some approaching Lent, on a ruddy morning when day and night were equal. "The thread is ravelled out, and we are now visibly at the fringe. The present age is like the last withered apple hanging on •. tie tree. Daniel's four Empires—Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome—are gone. The /Roman Reich lingers; but it is tho 'St. John's drink' (the stirrup cup) and is fast 'departing. Signs in heaven foretell the • end. On earth there is buildintr and plant ing and gathering of money. Tho arts are I growing as if there was to be a now start, and the world was to be young again. I nope God will finish with it. We have oome already to the White Horse. Another hundred years and all will be over. The Gospel is despised. God's Word will dis- I appear for want of any to preach it, Man kind will turn into Epicureans and care for I nothing. They will not believe that God exists. Then the voice will be heard,' Be- I Idld the Bridegroom cometh.'" ■ Some one observed that "when Christ came there would be no faith at all on the earth, and the Gospel was still believed in ' that part of Germany."

_ lush ! he said, "it is but a corner. Asia and Africa have no Gospel. In Europe, Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Hun garians, French, English, Poles, have no Uospel. The small Electorate of Saxony will not hinder the end."

I can but gather specimens here and there out of the four closely-printed volumes of these conversations. There is no such table-talk in literature, and it ought to be completely translated. I must tako room tor a few more illustrations. Luther was passionately fond of music. He said of it •— 'Music is one of the fairest of God's gifts to man ; Satan hates music because it drives away temptation and evil thoughts Ihe notes make the words alive. It is the best refreshment to a troubled soul ■ the heart as you listen recovers its peace. It is a discipline too ; for it softens ÜBand makes us temperate and rea sonable. I would allow no man to be a schoolmaster who cannot sing, nor would I let him preach either." And again : "I have no pleasure in any man who, like the fanatics, despises mnsic. It is no invention of ours. It is a gift from God to drive away the devil and make us forget our anger and impurity and pride and evil tempers. I place music next to theo logy. I can see why David and all the saints put their divinest thoughts into song."

Luther's own hymns are not many ; but the few which he composed are jewels of purest water. One of them, tho well known—

Em fcsto Burg Ist unser Gott, remains even in those days of Rationalism the National Psalm of Germany. In the last greats war the Prussian regiments went into battle chanting it. Though no one ever believed more in tensely in the inspiration of the Bible, he was no worshipper of the mere letter—for he knew that orei a large part of Scripture the original text was uncertain. In trans lating he trustod more to instinctive per ception than to minute scholarship. He said :—

" I am no Hebraist according to grammar and rules. Ido not let myself be tied, but go freely through. Translation is a special gift and grace. A man may know many languages, yet bo unable to render one into another. The authors of tho Septuagint were not good Hebrew scholars ; St. Jerome was better; but indeed after the Baby lonish captivity tho language itself was corrupted. If Moses and'the prophets rose again they would not understand the words which aro given as theirs. When we were translating I gave my assistants tliese rules:—

"1. Attend to the grammar, but re member

"2. Holy Scripture speaks of the words and acts of God.

" 3. Prefer always in translating tho Old Testament a meaning consistent with the New."

He could be critical too, in his way. His objections to the Epistle of St. James are well-known. Ho says of another book : —-" The story of Jonah is more incrediblo than any poet's fable. If it wero not in the Bible I should laugh at it. He ■ivaa three days in the bolly of a great fish ; why, the fish would have digested him in three houre, and converted him into its own flesh and blood. Tho miracle of the Red Sea was nothing to this. The sequel, too, is ho foolish—when he ia released he begins to rave and expostulate, and make himself miserable about a gourd. It is a groat mystery." He snared in many of the popular supor stitions. He believed in tho reality of witchcraft, for instance. Tho devil, ho was convinced,was personally present—perhaps omnipresent, doing every kind of mischief, and had many times assaulted himself. Many things might thus happen of a strange kind through the devil's agency. Nor was he quick to recognise new scientific dis coveries.

"Modern astronomers," he said, "pre tend that the earth moves, and not tho sun and the firmament—as in a carriage or a boat wo seem to be motionlosa ourselves, while the trees and bankn sweep past us. These clover follows will belioto nothing old, and must have their own ideas. The Holy Scripture says, Joshua bade the sun stand still, not the earth."

But his powerful sense and detestation of falsehood gave -him nn instinctivo insight into tho tricks of charlatans. He regarded magic as unmixed imposture. He told a story of a Duke Albert of Saxony, to whom a Jew onco offered a wonderful gem en graved with strnngo characters, alleging that it would make tho wearer proof against cold steel and gunshot. " I will try it first on thee," tho Duke said. Ho took the Jew out of doors with tho gem on his nock, and ran his sword through him. "So it would have been with me," ho said, "if I had trusted thee."

Astrology, the calculation of a man's fortunes from the place of the planets among tho stars, was an accepted .science. Erasmus might doubt, but Erasmus wns almost alono in a world of believers Ono other doubtor was Luther, much to the scandal of his friend Melanctlion, with whom it was an article of faith. Melanctlion showed him the nativity of Cicero.

"I have no patience with such stuff," he said. '' Let any man answer this argumont. Esau and Jacob were born of the some .father and mother, at the same time, and under tho same planets, but their nature was wholly different. You wonld persuade me that astrology is a true science. I shall not change my^opinion. I am bachelor, master, and have been a monk. But the stars did not make mo either one or the other. It was my own shame that I was a monk, and griered and angered my fnther. I caught the Pope by his hair, and he caught me by mine. I married a runaway nun, and begat children with her. Who saw that In the stars? Who foretold that? It is like dice-throwing. You say you have a pair of dice that always throw tlirica six—you throw two, three, four, fire, six, and yon take no notice. When twice six turns up you think it proves your case. The astrologer is right once or twice, and boasts of his art. He overlooks his mistakes. Astronomy is very well—astrology is naught. The example of Esau and Jacob proves it. " They prophesied a flood—another deluge Sn 1524. No delugo came, though Burgermaster Hohndorf brought a quarter cask of beer into his house to prepare for it. In 1525 was the peasant's insurrection ; but no astrologer prophesied this. In the time ofGod's anger there wns a conjunc tion of sin and wrath, which had more in it than conjunctions of the planets."

I must leave these recorded sayings, pregnant as thoy are, and full of character as they are.

I will add but one more. Luther said: " If I die in my bed, it will be a grevious shame to the Pope. Popes, devils, kings, and princes have done their worst to hurt me ; yet here I am. The world for these two hundred years has hated no one as it hates me. lin turn have no love for the world. I know*not that in all my life I have ever felt real enjoyment. I am well tired of it. God come soon and take me away." I return to what remains to be told of Luther's earthly life. The storm which threatened Germany hung off till he wan gone. The House of Saxony was divided , into the Ducal or Albertice line and the

Electoral or Ernestine lne. Duke Henry dying, was succeeded by tie young Maurice, so famous afterward. Miurico was a Pro testant like the Elector, but he was in triguing, ambitious, anl unscrupulous. Quarrels broke out betw<en them, which a few years later brought tie Elector to ruin. But Luther, as long as >c lived, was able to keep the peace. The Council of Trent <rew near. After the peace with France, ii 1544, the Pope began again to urge the Jmperor to make an end of toleration. The free Council once promised, at whici the Evangelical Doctors were to be reprisented, had been changed into a Council of Bishops, to be called and controlled bj the Pope, before which the Evangelicals ciiuld be admitted only to plead as criminals. How such a Council would decide wis not doubtful. Tho Protestant princes ard theologiaus de clined the position which vas to be assigned to them, and refused to ajpear. It wag but too likely that, if the peace continued, the combined force of the Empire and of France would be directed ; ngnimt the League of Schmalkald, and that the League would be crushed after all in the unequal struggle. Luther saw what was coining, and poured out his indignation ia the fiercest of his pamphlets. The "aller heiligst," "most holy" Pope, became "aller hollisch," most hellish. The pretended "free council" meant death and hell, and Germany was to be lathed in blood. '' That devilish Popery," hesaid, "is the last worst curse of the earth, the very worst that all the devils, with all cheir might, can gene rate. God help us all. Amen." Very dreadful and unlecoming language the modern reader thinks, who has only known the wolf disguised in an innocent sheepskin. The wolf is the same that he was; and if ever he recoverj his power he will show himself unchanged in his old nature. In Luther's time there was no sheepskin; there was not the smsller affectation of sheep skin. Tho one passionate desire of the See of Rome and the army of the faithful prelates and priests was to carry tiro and sword through every country which had dared to be spiritually free. In the midst of these prospects Luther reached his last birthday. He was tired ' and sick at heart, and sick in body. In ths summer of 1545 he had wished to retire to his farm but Wittenberg could not spare him, and he continued regularly to preach. His eight began to fail. In January, 1546, ho began a letter to a friend, calling himself. " old, spent, worn, weary, cold, and with but one eye to sea with." On the 28th of that month, he undertook a journey to Eislebon, where he had been born, to com pose a difference between the Counts Mans feldt. He caught a chill on the road, but ho seemed to .shuke it off, and was able to tend to business. He had fallen into the .hands of lawyers, and tho affair went on but slowly. On the 14th of February he preached, and, as it turned out, for the lost time, in Eislcbcn Church. An issuo in the leg, artificially kept open to relievo his system, had been allowed to heal for want of proper attendance. He was weak and ox hausted after the sermon. Ho felt the end near, and wished to be with his family again. " I will got home," ho said, " and get into my coflin, and give the worms a tat .doctor."

But wife and home ho was never to sco again, and ho was to pass from oil' the earth at the same spot where his eyes wore first opened to the light. On tho 17th ho had a sharp pain in his chest. It want off, how over ; ho was at supper in the public room, and talked with his usual eneiKy. Ho ru tirod, went to bed, slept, woke, prayed, slept again ; then at midnight called his servant. " I feel strangely," ho said ;" I shall stay hero ; I shall never lcavo Eislo bon." Ho grow restless, rose, moved into an adjoining room, and lay upon a sofa. His two sons were with him, with his friend Jonas. "It is death," ho raid j "I am going : 'Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.'"

Jonas asked him if he would still stand by Christ and the doctrino which lie had preached. Ho said, " Yes." Hcsloptonco more, breathing quickly, but his feet grow cold. Between 2 and 'A in the morning ho died.

Tho body lay in state for a day ; a like ness was tnkon of him before tho features changed. A cast from the face was taken afterward ; the athlete expression gono, tho essential naturo of him—crave, tender, majestic—taking tho place of it, as his own disturbed lifo appears now 'vhon it is calmed down into a memory. Tlio Elector, John Frederick, hurried to sea him : tho Counts Mauefeldt ended beside his body tho con troversies which he had come to compose. On tho 20th he was set on a car to be carried back to Wittenberg, with nn armed escort of cavalry. The people of Eisloben attended him to tho gates. Tho church* bells tolled in the villages along the road. Two days later he reached his last resting place at Witteaburg. Molancthon cried after him as they laid him in tho grave : ".My.Father, my Father. The chariot of Israel lind the horseman thereof."

His will, which is extremely character istic, had heen drawn by himself four years before. He left his wile well provided for, and because legal proceedings! might bo raided upon his marriage, he committed her to the special protection of the Elector. Children, friends, servants, were all remem bered.

"Finally," hesaid, "peeing 1 do not use legal forms, I desire all men to take these words as mine. lam known openly in Heaven, on Earth, and in Hell also; and I may bo believed and trusted better than ,any notary. To me a poor, unworthy, miserable sinner, Gcd, the Father of mercy, has intrusted the Gospel of Hie dear Son, and has made me therein true and faithful. Through my menns many in this world have received the Gospel, and hold me as a true teacher, despite of popes, emperors, kings, princes, priests, and all the devil's wrath. Let them believe me alto in the small matter of my last ml) and testimony, this being written in my own hand, which otherwise is not unknown. Let it be under stood that here is the earnest, deliberate meaning of Doctor Martin Luther, God's notary and witness in his Gospel, confirmed by his own hand and seal.—January li, 1542."

Nothing remains to be said. Philosophic historians tell us that Luther succeeded because he came in the fullness of time, because the age was ripe for him, because forces were at work which would have brought about the same changes if he had never been bom. Some changes there might have been, but not the same. The forces computable by philosophy can destroy, but they cannot create. Tho false spiritual despotism which dominated Europe would have fallen from its own hollowness. But a lie may perish, and no living belief may rise again out of the ruin 3. A living belief can rife only out of a believing human soul, and that any faith, any piety, is alive now in Europe, even in the Roman Cburcli itself, whose in solent hypocrisy ho humbled into shame, is due in large measure to the poor miner's son who was born in a Saxon village 400 years ago.

How could the Maid of Orleans be con sidered fair, when everyone knows that Jpan was d'Arc,

A FELON IN THE PULPIT.

Ejctraordlnary Career of Imposture.—

Shocking Scandals.

[From Ouk London Cohbespondent.]

One of the most extraordinary stories of daring and deliberate imposturelever heard has been going the rounds of the English papers this last fortnight. The narrative has been delicately embroidered by many able pens, but the best version to hand so far is undoubtedly that which appeared in " Truth " of September 27th, and which I now append. " 1 have been accustomed all my life," says the writer, "to mixed char acters. I used to hear sermons about them in my youth. Some of the characters in Scripture were considered rather mixed, but the preacher usually contrived to white* wash many of the most questionable of them ; and I must say that I was occa sionally struck by the very different measure dealt out to the mixed characters which cropped up in the nineteenth-century police-courts and elsewhere. There is not only, it seems, one rule- for the rich and another for the poor, but apparently one kind of moral reasoning for in church and another out of church. At the same time, lenient as I would be with poor human nature in and out of the Bible, and ready as I am to confess that many criminals who have been found out are less guilty than others who have evaded discovery and pass for saints, yet the line must be drawn somewhere, and I should say it might be drawn with advantage at the Rev. Thomas Morris Hughes. The career of that gentleman is altogether phenomenal; the only wonder is that so marked and active a character should so long have been able to elude identification and exposure. Mr Hughes, who it appears in addition to various minor flirtatious, in dulged : himself in a plurality of wives, has at last fallen a victim to the lnonogamic severity of the English law. But that is not wonderful. The wonder is how the rev. gentleman has lived from IS7. r> to ISS3 in comfort and repute, if not affluence, close to the scene of some of his most astounding exploits. The answer is, By a display of bility, effrontery, and genuinely valuable qualities, which would have enabled any other person to live respectably without fear and without reproach. Tlioro aro some people who take to crimoand of whom wo are tempted with n half-sigh of regret to say, "they could have afforded to be decent and honest."

Ml1 Hughes seems for the last ten year? to have been unfavourably known to (lio police of Birmingham us on interesting and not very sober porson. He has lived at Beau maris, too, where, in 1575, Lord Coleridge sentenced him to five years' penal servitude for ii false; burial certilicuto. His exemplary conduct in prison procured for him a pre mature liberation, when ho returned to his wife, reporting himself periodically to tho police n» required. Notwithstanding his little irregularities, he got a chaplaincy near Broinsgrovo, and afterwards became curate of WolTosbourne,|whoro, apparently forget ting the existence of his wife, whom huTmcl left for tlio present, ho wooed and won an unsophisticated young woman, rather beneath nim in station, and married, her in February, 1881.

In 188- ho was trusted by tho Vicar of Bickonhill with the solo charge of his parish in his absence. Nowcamo Hushoa'a opportunity. His manners were sociable, he wiik an excellent companion—not a Bluu Ribbonito, but nlVablo, and moro than affable Ifis eloquence in tho pulpit was undoubted; ho drew largo congregations, lie devoted himself in the most exemplary way to his parochial duties, and became universally popular in tho place. Ido not know whether tho local polico attonded his ministrations, but I should think it not at all unlikely, as they wore instructed to keep their eye upon him, and Bickonhill is not far from Birmingham, where he was in con fidential relations with the Birmingham Constabulary. How any man could play such a gamo, and play it so well and so successfully, passes my comprehension; but I have long made up my mind that truth Is stranger than fiction. It is, however, the fate of those clever fellows to presume upon their good fortune, and Hughes succumbed to two, or I may say three, treacherous sirens—Success, Drink—and, 1 blush to add —tho Cook !

It appeal's that on the Vicar's return ho found everything in such a Nourishing con dition— church full, pastor beloved, organisations well at work, universal satis faction —that tho good man thought ho could hardly do better than secure the services of this valuable, energetic, and eloquent Mr Hughes. Just a fow more questions had to bouskod. Un fortunately, those happened to bo tho very few to which Hughes could gi\*o no satis factory reply. Oncu blown upon, tho game WflSf of course, up. The local police may have supplied a few private IMIHS — from a distance unpleasant things camo Moating, and tho next day it turned out that Hughes was missing, and so was the Vicar's cook.

Hughea's tastes wore certainly lencath him. Whother, had tho course of truo lovo run smooth, he would hive married tho cook, and decamped to Salt. Lake with his thrco wives', I cannot say. But tho wholodeplor ablo story had to come out: tho second wife nearly lost her reason on hearing that she had married a married man, and what has become of his first wifo report does not say. From the unscrupulous behaviour of Hughes to her grown-up daughters by a forinor marriage, I should imagine that who was, on tho whole, well rid of so versatile a husband.

As for Mr Hughes, lio is rather a strong; specimen of a not very uncommon type of adventurer. I don't deny that ho may be iv real clergyman, if ore's the pity. But ho belongs to that class of persons who, constitutionally woak in principle, with, perhaps, an hereditary tendency to drink, strong in emotional energy, gifted with a lively temperament, some imagination, and considerable enterprise, find it impossible to continuo long in uny settled course of life without "breaking out." Under tempt ation, Mr Hughes invariably gave way; under drink, he was always Banguine ; under prosperity, active and hilarious; under prison discipline, penitent; never at a loss, and never scrupulous. I should think he wan a man who always expected something would turn up, and certainly his experience has hitherto justified his " great expectations." A man who, on emerging from penal servitnde, am occupy with credit and profit the position of a respect able and beneficed clergyman, and settle down in the very neighbourhood of his escapades under the surveillance of the police, is one of those persons whose past wo may deplore, but whose future it ia im possible for us to predict. The peculiar light-heartednesg with which Mr Hughes, already involved in complicated difficulties, contracted his marriage with the poor girl whoso heart ho has broken would seem topointto a mental screw loose, did not experience prove that a systematic trifling with the rules of morality deprives the conscience of all delicacy in such matters, and makes a man practically indifferent to everything but his own plea sure or profit. Mr Hughes has not become what he is all of a sudden. Ho began, no doubt, by tampering with tho, usual wigs.

ordained for the order and peace of society : ho fell a victim to drink ;uid licence, bi.t his ability and a certain expansiveness of temperament still remained, and with these ho traded unblushingly until stopped by the unsympathetic arm of the law. The lessons of such a life, "as far as it has got," are sufficiently obvious and instructive:—(l) Crimo lias a tendency to come to the surface. (2.) The cleverest rogues make the mc^t fatal blunders. (3) Recovery of 'position is not the same as reform. And last, but not least, you cannot count upon always being sure to get on with half-a-dozen ladies, to whom you have tendered your heart and hand.

HUMOUROUS CLIPPINGS.

A siiokt time ago a woman went into a grocer's shop in Sundcrland and asked for a pound of tea. The shopman asked what kind she wanted—whether she wanted black or mixed, and she answered, " Aa'd bettor hey it black, becaas it's for a funeral I"

The professor of painting has justentcred the "class-room, whore smoking is strictly prohibited. Here he finds an art-student holding in his hand a newly-filled cherry wood pipe. Professor (ironically) : "What a queer paint-brush you have got there ; What are you going to. do with it ?" Student: " Oh, iam going to make the clouds with it."

During the examination of a witness as to the locality of the stairs in a house, the counsel asked him, " Which way did the stairs run ?" The witness, a learned wag, replied, " One way they ran up stairs, but the other way they ran clown stairs." The learned counsel winked his eyes, and then took a look at the ceiling.

Tho craze on electrical study is beginning to bear fruit. "Are you the conductor?" aaked a lad of an omnibus guard. " I am," replied tho courteous official. " What is your name ?" "My name is Wood." " Oh, that can't bo," said the boy, "forwoodis a non-conductor."

A farce was performed in Bannister's timo under the title of "Fire and Water." "1 predict its fate," said lie. " What fate?" whispered the anxious author at his side. "What fato!" said Bannister; " why what can lire and water produce but a hiss ?"

A French investigator lias discovered that the character of n person's dream de ponds in a great measure on which Bide the sloepor lios. Tho dreams of a lawyer, then, who habitually lies on both sides must be very much, mixed.

Hooky Mountain Costumes. —"Don't you think it's warm ':" inquired a Colorado man. " Not especially." "Well, I s'poso it's because I've got my winter flannels on. I always buy six red flannel undershirts in September, and put one on. Jn October 1 put on another, in November another." "What! not over the rent?" "Yes over (he rest. 11l December another, an' so on until tho Ist of March, when I tnko off the top one ; in April 1 take another off, and ho on till I take off the lout ono." " Then what do you do?" "I take a bath." —

" Kansas City Times," Air O'Kall'erty has a boy named Mike, who for laziness cannot bo beaten. This assertion is not absolutely correct, however, for ho ia beutou for laziness every day by his father. After ono of these Bad scenes between paront and child, .Miko remarked dismally, " I poi'savo that thore ie no plazin' of yez. It ia wishin' I was dead ] lira." "It is loiko yerself," retorted tho father, to be wiohin' yo was stretched in an oxpinsivo and oonvayniont coffin,-takin' it asy for tho rest of yer life !"

A youngster who had had several teeth extracted was comforted by the dentist with ,tho assurance that they would come again. With an cyo to the immediate future, little Johnny inquired : " Will they come again boforo dinner!" In oho of the law courts it lawyer threw an inkstand at another's head. The court re quired him to apologise, lie did so, and added: "While I .1111 about it, I may .is well apologise beforehand for tkrowing an other inkstand nb him the fir.rt chance 1 get." .lust so ! —We all of us are acquainted with tho popular flavin;,', " It is enough to make a eat laugh j" but it is not generally known that the thing which makes the cat laugh must necessarily be 11-mow-tfing.

Many years ago a countryman called o:i a physician in York. Ho was in tho depth of dyspeptic despair, as often happens with tho eliawbacons. Tho doctor gave him fiomo plain ndvieo as to hi.s food, making a thorough change, and ended by writing a prescription for boiiio tonic, saying, " Take that, and coino back in a fortnight,'' In ten days (Jilets came in, blooming and happy, quite well. Tho doctor was ile liglited, and not a little proud of his skiß. He asked to see what ho had given him. (riles said ho hadn't got it. " Whore \ty»s it?" "1 took it, «r." "Took it! AVhflt havo you dono with it!'1 "I ute it, sir; you told me to lake it." Some fifty years ago, wlion a certain Western State was about sparsely settled, it was a work of no small difficulty to get a jury together, especially as the inhabitants were notoriously disinclined to the pleasure of litigation, Tho court had been forced to adjourn many times from day to day be cause the sheriff as often came in ami re» ported an incomplete panel. Finally things came to a crisis. The jn Jge fixed a day beyond which no further forbearance could be exercised. When that day arrived, the enthusiastic sheriff niched into the court room and exclaimed, "Its all right, your honor; we'll havo tho jury by twelve o'clock. I've got eleven of 'em locked up in a barn, ana we ure runn'ng the twelfth with dogs!"

Poor human nature, which views the universe from thostandpoint of its own in terests, is illustrated in this anecdote : A Scotch farmer was greatly exorcised regard ing the safety of his hay-crop. Tho weather, though often threatening, favoured his efforts till ho succeeded in getting it safoly gathered in, being in this roflpoct more for tunate than several of his neighbours. After seeing the last wisp of straw tied round nis stacks, lie exclaimed with a self satisfied air: " Noo, sin' I hoe gotten my hay a' safely in, I think tho warJd would be greatly tho better o' a quid shower." Nine times out of ten the stupid boy is one who knows not how to use his eyes and ears. He sees as the stupid boy of *kis funny anecdote saw. Said a tutor to a boy : " What is ft cow ?" "Dunno." "Havel not just told you that all animals with four logs are termed quadrupeds !" " Yes, sir." "Well, now, how many icffSl has a cow? Count them up." After a prolonged pause : "Eight." (His hair slowly rising.) "HW do you make that out, sir?" " Why, sir, it has two behind, and two in front, and two on each sido, and that makes eight." Copy of ft notice on the beach at i\fashion able French watering-place : —"ln the case of ladies in danger of drowning, they should be seized by the clothing, and not by the hair, which generally comes off.'l A minister was called in to sco a man who was very ill. After finishing his visit, a3 he was leaving the house, ho said to the man's wife: "My good woman, do you go to church at all?" "Oh ! yes, sir, we gang to the Barony Kirk." " Then why did you send for mo ? Why didn't you send for Dr, Maclcod?" "No, na, sif,'deed no: wo wadna risk him. Do you no ken? It's a dangerous ca.se v' typhus."

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT. NOVEMBER 17, 1883.

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