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 "♦* -**4^KV»VS«^|(^|.; FOLKS. yOUNG Love One Another. I .^ht and two chUJren smaU I .rfsPi'ySrj lighted h.11. rwffl •"'"^V r ' I don't see who '^»«"'°'?tter'--now- May. do yon T V «ii««d her head, '^^"""'fa.d you are another, l^onb °°„i„-, don't J on aee 1â€" "*ff^^^^ you must Jove me." Sunshiny Tilda, ij winter's wind blew fiercely, ud 'n Jcrl" old ^onse In the mkerable ::f« where the city' poor were orowd- wiOf* lone since condenmed m nniafe. VK^Tm I" said Tilda Ryman, a. brherW bed of straw .hakfag » W " the firelesa and carpetlew room. twid through the orevlcee fa the waU ^7e weak little body ard^ there wa i^ ^.nverlnff npen Tilda 8 bed. feSgry' though Wafter- Ue bad not tasted food, and her rop- rilVvMine before had b«en cold boiled [i Shout «.lt or pepper. BatTUda ••^ nothing it was no new experience Jjl 10-yearold to be alene, cold and |!|f I wonder if mother's drinkin' again. r„jfeired she 11 freeze to death, aaoh Iviasthis! If I could only ^atch £ "bit. Pears as if I shouldn't to be in this world without mammy " (^ stole down the thin cheeks of halt- ed Tilda. -von awake, Tilda? and don't you totoke care of Polly I'lpkfai while I'm to the school?' Anda larger girl pushed the door and seated herself in the one fshirin theroom. iij Martha Jane, please hand me Polly very minute ' and Tilda sat up in bed, ly reaching out for a battered, soiled ,10 ugly that few 1 ttle girls would 'tinted to look at it. i sculdn't move her lower limbs. A en papa had struck her cruel, heavy when a wee girlie, and ever after ithiiig was the trouble with Tilda's her rosy cheeks grew thin, and mam- ubbed all the time. Ma didn't mind much then that she f sit still and could never run or play, liv.i-ni was so lovirg and tender with ciifple i girlie but she had not learn- diink then. tie hugged Polly Pipkin close to her The tumbled flaxen hair had not combed for several days, and the thin 1 dress was tattered and dirty no lov- Dother had looked after. Tilda's com- hach cold, Tilda " asked Martha Jjuie. f'TcB bat then the sun'U melt the snow, II lam afraid you haven't had any dinner, Ida, Well, mine wasn't enough for one I tried to get you a corn cake. My y ii drinkin pears like every time he kpiid for work, he jest driiiks it up. Idi, do you suppose we shall ever like the if!-whiBky, beer and brandy, I mean." uMutha Jane's black eyts snapped and Vkled. ilda opened wide her blue ones. She I a loyal soul to mammy, but she hated hill her young might the cnrsa which i necked their home and made a drnnk- t of her mother, I'lkiow yon hate it note, Tilda so do I, poBceyonr mammy did. Old Granny kii lays your mammy was once the tRieit and sweetest woman she ever and now look at her â€" all purple bloatedâ€" Hnih I didn't mean to e yon cry. Here, Tilda, let me warm 'up a bit;" and Martha Jane held the ple b her arms until she had warmed a • the benumbed body of lilda. 1 mast be goin' to the school. We learn Inesd and sew thirgs there. I'm goin' " jyou.Btmetbing it'll be company Ijyoato try to guets what it will be." I'Mtftha, if you â€" should â€" see â€" mammy «'-lnâ€" theâ€" streets, will you â€" will It-jeit^â€"" T'l U try to bring her home, Tilda. The piiliill not throw snowballs at her while wound, and I'll try to sober her up ia» cap of hot soup." r ith a bang Martha Jane closed the door. Vdt Haggled up into a heap and cuddled Fj close to her, and then went to slot p. I m aik the ladies to help her, I'm strong 5«awoik, but Tilda never can. Why "Wtbn'told Mag, dmnk, and almost »« over I'll have to miss sohool, but I [5»«ed Tilda tol.ok after her mother, 1 think she'd rather I'd brlBg her «tty' than anything, though I wanted [IKher lome bread and meat and a bit of Jlf.opon her knees Martha Jane knelt, » »tUi her fingers began to dig out the ""Mtnpld with drink, not minding the «h of a beautifnlly-dressed lady. drnnken woman muttered in her Ptt Martha tried to aronae her, when " A r "*^*« '»y*"g. **L:t me Mriit II, t"",oetore Martha oould think, the r Wd called help and her carriage, and ««y were all driven to Tilda's. Jwi. ^8'" *«"« blinded her eyes m IWltt. w ^P°° '•'"da and Polly Pipkin. I,â„¢ M«tha'« help she soon had TUda l,r*™°*d, wearing a flannel wrap{er, friST.' 'P*='ally for weak, poor ohUdren. Vo*o\^^ ®' was cared for by iMUei tuv ./.^""e'tly to help men and women NrL; "' " intemperance and be- U iv!.^**'?d. Pnre, good souls again and r^PrtysdaUyfor.^niammy." |;^°a t look at Poilv Pipkin nSw I" said tni,."'?* '""ted Tilda in her warm ;;;;Jl" after she had eaten a breakfast :ked ,1 ^*'?®*^ "»d milk, and a pink- I "^O'ly to a pink drees lay in Tilda's *fiun.M -^®"'a ^ord of that, yoa 'hott^'^J lUda You'll always fctiok friends, and I'm glad you Nytoo, °«w dolly. Good news l"Daddy's -gSi and maybe I'll have anew l^owyon're glad, TDda dear." ' w«eeoâ€" Colored ladies. oouVEsarATioi BY THB BKV..B. A. STFVOKD A. B. Isoonversa^on doomed to become a lost ?v J^. "i* "^*c»tions seem to point in that direction. It is certain that "many a dear hostess ta at thU hour in mnofa perplex- i^.*."*?!'^* nuumer in which she wlU en- tertain l^r gaerts, so m to make them feel at home with herself and eaoh other, and yet not offend either the varied tastM or the no less varied consoiencee of any. [It is probable that no one feels tliat anyrmLeniz ed method is absolutely pjrfeot. fSe mn- â- leal eveidng, the endure party, or thk balL ooes not touch everywhere with eqnaf ease. What a pity that some leader in social life could not open a vein from whloh exhaust lees wealth might b« drawn to relieve the â- tress in this line. Is not the art of conversation,. devUoped in a liigh degree, the relief whloh Is iMeded t The answer would nndcnbtedly Im in th^- firmative, were it not that it Is the exora- tion for any lady to bring hergoests toMiier and expect them to entertain theinielvee by their own conversation. The tl^onght of such a tiling brings to her mind the vi- sion of a dreary circle of people, an^ged around her walls In helpless silenok, the whole company weighed down in abject fear, like some anniversary meeting, nther- ed together of uncongenial elementot^ In a too solemn chnroh, when no choir or speaker can rise above the snff(.cjkting oppressive ness. The memory of one sucb company, and the fruitless efforts of the kind, but ex- hausted hostess, to make a break in the for- bidding, well guarded lines, will live on un- til the very mention of company haunts one like a nightmare. Now this oncht not so to be, and the less as it is easily within reach of a through remedy. I have spoken of conversation as a lost art I had done better if I had said an art never yet cultivated, for this is the fact. When a baby has learned to talk, and, to this accomplishment, a few years later, some lessons in the elements of English gram- mar are added, we have all that is ever done to draw oat the faculties of any one along the line of ccnversation. Yet it is likely that, except those who have absolutely no musical faculty, people come by nature, as near to perfection in musical art as they do to perfection in the art cf conversation. Certainly the former is capable of being car- ried to greater heights, and developed along more widely diverging lines, but without special cultivation conversation will fall as helpless and powerless, except in a few cases rarely favored by nature, as music would if wholly neglected. No one thinks of leaving music just to grow up of itself. Why ex- pect the art of conversation to do so But the question will start up, where and how should it be taught The schools are already overburdened with subjects There is no room to bring in a new department of high culture. Well now it is just possible that even the greatly crowded curriculum cf the schools might allow them to do some- thing more than they do, though every re- citation is in some sense a discipline in clear expression. But beyond a doubt social Ufa is the na- tural and great scliool of conversation. It is to blame, and open to a grave indictment tor encouraging conversation to run down into mere exchange of a commonplace words, about the most commonplace things, instead of rising into the white heat of healthfal ex- citement over subjects of deep and universal interest, Society has practically abandoned this field, which, of aU fields. Is peculiarly its own. Now, everybody admires the person who has the power to hold a company under the charm of his words in ooUcqnial discourse. Instead of such persons being the exception they might be the rule. These did not leap at a bound to their distinguished pre-emi- nence in this particular. Their grace is the last finishing touch put upon a high art. The elemento which enter into this art ad- mit of easy analysis. Mentioned in the or- der of their influence in thrusting one for- waKdinlha â- tand wiMtlibg like ti»« fel The person wlU be a good IUUh^' ti^ â- peot for what others say k aboot tiia beift introduction which a stnngaroMi hnvefor what he is going to say hinusU, Sdf- poBsesdon will enable one who speaks to grow upon tiie attention of |iis BiiteMia. Without It, in a reasonable measure, when one finds his own voice the only distinct sound in a company, the tiion^ita ^hfcdi before were clear to his mind will become confused and after straggling along In growing mistiness for a time, ha will harry under cover of silenoe. Bat, of conrpe, in all discourse the operator's trntnp card muft be aomuhmg to say. Thongh tUi might seem the Bwetdi£Bcidt part of the qualification it is actuaUy about the most ea^. A bashful boy, for til* fint time away from his. fathers house, a tsaoher of a small sohool among strangwrs, boarded in a house where were tturae young Isdiea, and Buffered unspeakable agtrnks for want of something to «». He spent his first earned mcofsy in pa^ng foe Harpers Week- 2y, a papw at that tioM jest beginning tta career. In ttila the diffident youth found â- tories and anecdotes, and iaoti and politioa,and hf ooold always draw nson any of these when In the throes of Ui effort to do his part in the talk at tabla or' else- where. He was surprised at tna ease with which he ooold remember and repeat any- thing whMi be wished to present. The experience d id moire than anything "elM^-ik hisltfato give him command of himself, and a revdy supply of IHustrative annec- dote, while at the same time it taught him the habit of noticing and remembering what he read. If people had conversation in view, the life of each day would be found to be fall of inddent, and even of novelties well worth repeating. These things always seem larger in the telling than they do when looking upon them,. To find- something to say is easy inde.d ffone cares to make himself interesting to his friends. Certainly the more versatUitjf one has the more interesting he will become. Brief, pithy anecdotes will hold sway any- where if well told. It is fashionableto ridi- cule anecdote as not consistent with the highest dignity, but all the same a good laugh serves a nobUr purfoae in nature than dignity when standing alone. In the line of tills high snd. refined ait it is open for any bold reformer to invite a part; of friends together with the understanding that each member of the company will be expected to relate one or more good stories and such a par'y would serve th^ double purpose of general entertainment, and of cultivatirg the art of telling a good thing well. Why would not such a party be as acceptable and refined as one where any other art is mentioned- as the stated means of entertainment I have read of one highly accomplished lady who gave recep- tions to her friends, and marked the card of invitation with the word " conversation." She was a mistress of the art, and her re- ceptions were exceedingly popnlv, as man y found them a ttimulant to excellence, and many useful hints in attaining it. Toronto, Ont. The widow Larkin says that the midn rea- son why so many men have family troubles is that they marry a miss. Tidal observations on the eastern coast of America have acquired a new importance since the Coast Survey has confiimed bf recent observations the older suggestion that there are tidal fluxes in the) Golf Stream, and variations of its velooiiy due to half- monthly changes in the relative sea levels of the Atlantic and Gulf of Meodco. Couutesa Elise Hensler, wife of the ex- KiBg Regent of Portugal, who died on tbe 15th Inst is of American birth, but of Ger- man parents. The P -ince himself was of the Saxe-Cobourg family. Miss fienslM was bom in Boston, but ednOated for the lyric stage in Europe. She was married sixteen years since, and made her husband very happy. Hi There I Attention I !^J Alwat the only time a man wishes he were a woman is when he Is In a crowded street oar. A new oomedy ir^salled "The Girl With aTInHewk." Nearly aU the girls have a tin heart, when a young man comes round witfra soft solder. The aaying, "fall as a gooe^H does ^e goeee great Injustioe. A geoeo Jievar gets so fall that It has to hold on to a lamp post, as did some iollu the other sight. "Hals Utterly nusorapidoas," w iit es an Iiis^L^e^tor of » pqlitioiJ opppnant, "Mid his memory fs so poor that lie frequehtiy forgets one ndnate .what ha safs tha next. " A wootan will face a frowning world and ollng to tha man she loVas throuchtiia most bitter adversity, bat die woolcui't wear a hat that was out of style to save the govern- ments Dont you Uka this room " adcad tha prinoipal n tha new teadiar. " Oh, yes, I like the room well enough," replied the miss who had a large*olaas of boys, ' but I find it very sonny." " Nana 1" (her version of grandma) " Is your papa dead " " Yes,^' aoswered grand- ma. A long pause, and then came from tbe little lipa •* Then theanly papa you got is just a oom-popper 1" ' A selentific journal claims tnat nothing will improve a woman's oompiexion like early rising. This may be true, but every woman knows that for imme^te results a powder rag is not to be sneezed at. Examiner in soology (to small aspirant) â€" " Can you tell me any thing peraliar about the cuckoo, in regard to neelangT' Student â€""Yes, .sir. Please dr he don't lay his own eggs hisself, sir 1" Superintendent (to little girl)â€" "Now, my dear, how can you best show your appre- ciation to your parents for the liberal edu- cation they have giv«ai you 7" Little girl â€" "By marrying rich, sir." " Did you say or did you not say what I said you said 7 Because Walt said you said you never said what I said you said. Now, If you did say that yon did not say what I said yon said then wliat did yon say t" ** Good morning Mrs Gilligan howls Patrick, this morning T" " Sure, he's no better, sir." " Why don't you send him to the hospital to be treated " " To be treat- ed, is it I Faith, an' it's the delirium trim- mbis he has already." " Is it the DothnesB of the Dj, or the Doneness of the Did " proposed a Hub tutor to a littie Yankee kid. The Boating urchin's answer free at onoely took the bun "'The pwopah tawm to use would be, the Dtdness of the Done." A little boy was asked how he liked his new baby aUter. " WeU," he replied, " I don't think she agrees with me.' "And why not t" was asked. " I don t know," said he, " but I always want to cry when I see mother kiss her." •' On, mamma," said a little girl who had stopped in front of a glass case containing dentists' samples, " here is just what you want." " I have all the teetb I require," replied the mother. " But you haven't a thing fit to crimp pies with, have you " "Who was Moses?" asked a Snaday- school teacher. "He was an ox-drirer," said a little boy. " An ox-driver ' repeat- ed the teacher in astonishment. " What put that idea into your head " " 'Cause," replied the boy, " wnan't he foaad among the bull-rushers ' We learn from a reliable exchange that a (rood, healthy hippopotamus is valued at $20,000. Here Is an ideaf or the fashionable girls who lead a $1,000 dog along. Get a ippopotamus and kill the other girls with envy. Tuis suggestion is thrown out with- out any charge. At a party one evening. Sully, the paint- er, was speaking of a belle who was a great favorite. " Ah," said Sully, " she has a mouth Uke an elephant." " Oh, Mr. Sally, how can yon be so rude ' " Rude, ladies, rode 1 What do yon mean I say she has got a month like an elephant, because it is lull of ivory." " Now be a good littie boy, Willie," said his mother to him one day, wishing to im- press upon him the reward in store for the jost, " and whan you die you will have a gold harp to play on." "I don't know how to play on a gold harp," he grumbled, " and I don't want nuthin' anyway that I've got to die to git l.et Johnny be good and git the hsrp, and giuime a drum." At a London dinner party the other even- ing the ladies entered one roam and the gentlemen another. In each room there was a basket of flowers, and the ladies were a»ked to make choice of a fl)wer from the bMkat, the fl iwers bsio'g all diffarent. The gentiemen went through a similar proceed- ig in another room, and on the ladies en- tering the drawing room the gentiemen and ladies saw how chance had assorted them. If Sioh The following lines, which ara a para- phrase of Hwaoa's wall-known saying "Those wights wiio though the â-¼â€¢ntofoas ooaaa fange, Hot their own paassoos. bat the oUmate, ohaoge," Tha alaotiaas lor a naw Honsof Oommona took place in Great Britain and Ireland dor- in the f ortalght beginning Novsmbar 24, and ending Deoember 8 Aa result fof these alaotiona was in savaral raapcots surprising and interesting In tha last Haosa'of Commons, there were three hundred and fifty-four LibaraJa, two hundred and tiiirty-aavan Canservativaa or Tories, and aixtaKone Irish Heme Rulers. Thus the Uberab had a majodty over tiia Tories of one hnndred and savantaen, and over tha Tories and Home Rulers oimbbed, of fifty-six. Bat iynuit ba added that of the sixty-one Home Rnlars, only thbrty-fiva followed the lead of Mr. Pamell, the Irish Nationalist leader. The other twaatv-six were practically supportsrs of tha Libanl The Uberahi were thus, in the last House, very strong, and the Liberal ministry of Mr. Gladstone was able, for five lyean, to have its o vn way in policy and legislatfon. The situation i« greatiy ohanged by the re- cent elections. The new House of Com- monsi wlU contidn three hundred and tiiirty- fonr Liberals, two hundred and fifty Toiiee, and eighty- six Home Balers. Thus the Liberals have lost twenty seats, the, Tories have gained thirteen seats, and the Home Bnlers have gained twenty-five seata. The new Home Rulers, moreover, are pledged and devoted adherents of Mr. Pamell, to a man so that the real gain to the Irish Na- tionalists is fifty-one, and the real loss of the Liberals ii fifty-six. In short, the Libsrala in the nsw House, will only have a majority of eighty-four over tfaeir Tory rivals, and the Tories, and Home ^ttlen combined will have a majority of^wo over the Liberals. Mr. Pamell and hi party, therefore, has achieved his avowed purpose of securing' enough Home Rulera in the new Ho lee to hold the balance between the Libarala and Toriea, and to be able to m.ke terms with one or other from a connmanding poaition. The greatest, perhaps, of the questions which will come liefore the new Houae, is that of the Iriah ^demand for Home Rule. Tiiat demand means simply that Ireland shall have a local Parliament, which shall sit in Dublin, and mr.ke laws for the local government of the isl md. The connection' Ireland and Great tBritain would st'll, in that case, be maintiined by the executive power, in the person of the L trd- Lieutenant, appointed by the Queen. Since Mr. Pctrnell can convert, at will, either the Liberals or the Tories into a ma- jority of the House, it is not improvable that some scheme of Irish Home Ra!e will, at no distant day, be adopted and put into operation. ladeed, both the Liberals and the Toriea are considering how large a mea- sure of Home Rule they can safely and sue-. oessfuUy (crant to the sister country. Some of the features' of the recent elec- tions are interesting la former times, the greatdRt strength of the Liberals has always been in tbe boroughs,â€" that is in the cities, towns,'and villages; while that of the Tories has been in the counties. Thia time, the position of the parties ta exactly reversed. The Toriea made their guna in large towns like London, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. The Liberal gains on tbn other hand, came almoat wholly from tbe old Tory strongholds in the counties. 'Fhe reason of the latt r fact is, that the recent reform bill gave the suffrage to two millions of men of the laboring and the agri- cultural classes, who for the moat part live in the countries a zd these new electors seem to havoiirery generally voted for Lib- eral candidates. The elections were also notable for the defeat of some prominent men No less tiian twelve members of Mr. Gladstone's lata ministry were left out of the House, while four membijra ot the preaent Tory ministry suffered the same fata. The most eminent defeated Liberal was Mr. Chllders, who was Mr. Gladatone's Cnanoellor of the Ex- chequer. Tne Marquis of of Lome, son in-law of the Queen, and lately Governor- General of Canada, was defeated and ao waa Jacob ight, the brother of John Bright. The curious position in which the elections have placed the three parties in the new Houae, will undoub*:edly give rise to excit- ing scenes and critical events when that House meeta The general prediction in England, however, is that the life of a House se constituted will be a brief one, and that fresh elections are likely to take place at a not distaut day. AT, AT, Sir 1 Impart a lesson to all who think that they would be batter and do iietter If their oiroamstanj aaa WWr ^HH^SfMi^ A writer in the C7M*'** StandardlMagi odtti(« futili- ty oflila axpeotation doe avaobf, paetini; tioag a orowded strMfe. L heard one Itoy.safinc .to anathar, " If I^ma tieh, I wottldn'f-r--«ad tben thaxM^of tha aantaacs was loet and I hwri- ad an wifeh tiM throng. Bit I^ve wondered of ^nlinoi^ how that sonteno* wan ftids^d; Did the ooy say, â€" " If I ware rich, I wouldn't sanb my poor relations " or, " If I were rich, I wouldn't spend all my money on myself f er, " If I were rich, I wouldn't work any more," or what? We oanuot know, but there is one thiag quite cartun. Whatever the bo|v,doea ncrw tnat he is poor, he would do if he were rich. If he is geuer JUS now^ he would be generous thw. If he is mem now, he would be maan then. U he works faithfully now, he would work with fidelity then. Fpr " he that is faithCuI In, that Vhloh is least, is fidthful alio bs muidi' and ha that Is unjust lathe least, is no j ast also in much," Fishing Tackle. On the principal of preparing for war in time of peace no V Is the time to overhaul tha fishing tackle and put it in readiness for the spring campaign. The rods should re- ceive careful attention and the ferrules tast- ed to see If they have loosened by any change of temperature or by tha strain of last sea- son's work. Tae whippings should be re- ]^aoed if frayed, and, if necessary the rod should be varnished. If the angler is not azpart at this work he should send it to his rod maker whom he knowa ti be the most azpart of all, at least ha baliavaa him to be, whloh Is jost as welL Rials should be oleaned and oiled, lines an I leaders should ba ta s ted and If there is any frayed gut In tha laadar or amoiw tha fly snoods out it out and tie it anew, fty snoods should be free from alloracks where ttie gat jlns the fly, tiie most usual place for them to break, and the fly should ba la-tied or tlie rut out and iriiipped an tight, with silk. Tnia is pleas- Int work for winter evenings and brings its reward to finding all things in readiaesa for the first trip to the streams. â-  â- â- â-  â- â€" â€" â€" ^â€" Looking Beyond. We seldom remember to leak above. While woiahippliig aver at haaMS day, ml the preaion« treamiraa of earthly love Are hid io the shadows o( Death away. than a aambra veU ia Hflad aaida. To admit onr love, aa they paaa aloo?. Bat what they may And at the other lide ' b hid from the eyea of the gazing throng. Ihaaa praoioua traasuraa that bri«iiteB our Uvea Qrow bilshtar atl!l aa they vanish for aye. For Daath'a deap ahadowa tha aplrit surHvaa, WhUa wa ahad onrgrlef oa tha mould of clay. We toU at anr waartaome taak eidi day Till the lipi grow cold and th8 voice groirs ducnb And we drift fr m the preset life away To tha unknown ahorea of the Uf i to come. And tbe myati i tonch ot tha apirlt haada ^That falls on the heart ia tha maglo fink That gnldea our feel throng ttia buming aanda Tia they reat in paaoe at the nvet'a brink And whan we are bona by the mighty tide Away from the graq of tha haada wa lore,. Wa humbly t-nat toat tha waters mur ^ide lb the hoped-for ahorea In the reuma aiova. â€" Selected by MisiXary A. Richards. *• c. ' m ill ![i I J' â-  i I â-  i ^.y-it