"How do you manage," I said, "to attend to your business, your family, and your philanthropic pursuits, and paint all these fine pictures?" "Oh!" said he, "I do them in my spare time!"

It is needless to remark that my host does not drink wine. can be brilliant without such aid.

Here is a contrast!

His genius

“Look at that man coming across the market-place,” said a friend to

me. I did so. He was a pale, worn, tottering young man. Dressed in dirty linen, an old pilot coat, greasy trousers, and shabby shoes, he shumbled along leaning upon a stick.

"That young man," said my friend, “is the son of one of our richest merchants. He was in the firm, but having become a drunkard, and wasted his money, he is now what you see—a ruined man!"

Ah! thought I, as he crawled past, what a difference there is between spending spare time in painting pictures, and spending it in drinking wine. Who does not know that wine is the bane of artist-life?

Standing in the Court-house of a large town, I saw a man who was charged with having indulged in the twin luxuries of the British brute, namely, drunkenness and wife-beating.

"I have been his wife for twenty years, gentlemen," said his wife to the magistrates, "and during that time he has given himself to drinking. When he is drunk he calls me infamous names, beats me, and threatens my life."

"What do you say to the charge?" asked a venerable magistrate. "I was in liquor," replied the British brute.

"Gentlemen!" said the wife, "something should be done to debar him from getting liquor."

Aye! said I to myself, that woman has hit upon the Maine Law. She never heard of moral suasion, legislative enactments, and the liberty of the subject. Poor thing! twenty years of sorrow have kept her in darkness, but she has felt enough to know that it is wrong that men should be allowed to grow rich and great by selling drinks which make her husband a British brute. And is she not right?

"How much a week do you make?" said the presiding magistrate. "Twenty-six shillings."

"How much of that do you allow your wife as a separate maintenance?" "Three!" said the British brute.

"You are a selfish fellow!

You must pay her six shillings weekly, and promise not to molest her. And besides this, you must pay eleven shillings and costs."

"Aint got no money."

“Then you must go to prison," and to prison the British brute went. In the same town and on the evening of the same day a working man reverently entered the house of God. A friend of his-that person sitting beside him—told me his history :

"That man," said he, "can make thirty shillings per week. He has Deen a great drunkard. His life was of such a shocking character that his wife could not live with him, and went to reside at G- when she

got work at a mill. Soon after she left him, her daughter—a mere girl— forsook her father's house and became an abandoned prostitute. She actually decoyed her sister-a child and no more-away from home, took her to N, and offered her to a woman who keeps a brothel. Happily the woman would not have the child, and she was sent back to her father. Well, he grew so wicked that he got a knife, sharpened it, and said he would go to G-, find his wife, and do a deed the world would hear of. I," said the speaker, "heard of this, went to him, got him to sign the pledge, and persuaded him to attend a place of worship. Well, in two weeks' time, he spent twenty shillings in the purchase of a Bible, and feeling anxious to have his wife home again she has been written to, and there," said he, placing a document in my hand, "is her answer. is coming!"

She

"Well," thought I," if total abstinence were only judged by its fruits" instead of by the caricatures of its foes, what would be the verdict?"

The final contrast which came before me was a sad one. I got amongst some wild hills, and in a plain building saw some colliers listening to a temperance lecturer-he was a minister. Near him were another minister and a poor drunkard. Many were signing the pledge. Young and oldrough colliers and pleasant maidens-did so.

"Come, sir," said the poor drunkard to the minister who sat beside him, "Come! If you will sign the pledge, I will."

The minister rose, took his hat, and-walked out!

"Never mind that, my good fellow," said the minister who was enrolling the names in the pledge book, "take care of your own soul. Come and sign."

Kind words have power. Example has force. The drunkard walked up to the table and signed the pledge. Which of those ministers acted

most worthily?

Poets sing of a good time coming.' Ancient seers have predicted the reign of righteousness. I believe in their visions. We shall have a sober, wise, and holy world. The sins that are shall pass away. Blessed con

trast-come!

A JUDGE'S TESTIMONY.

Lord Chief Justice Hale once remarked, "The places of judication, which I have long held in this kingdom, have given me an opportunity to observe the original cause of most of the enormities that have been committed for the space of nearly twenty years; and by a due observation, I have found that, if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, the adulteries and other great enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking, or of tavern and ale-house meetings.' The proportion is little less at the pre

sent time.

ILLUSTRATIONS FOR SPEAKERS.

THE DRUNKARD AND THE MONKEYS.-A rich drunkard kept two monkeys for his sport. One day he looked into his dining-room, where he and his guests had left some wine, and the two had mounted the table, and were helping themselves generously to the wine-jabbering and gesturing, as they had seen their master and his guests. In a little time they exhibited all the appearance of drunken men. First they were merry, and jumped about, but soon they got to fighting on the floor, and tearing out one another's hair. The drunkard stood in amazement. "What!" said he, "is this a picture of myself? Do the brutes rebuke me?" It so affected his mind, that he resolved he would never drink another drop. And from that day he was never known to be any other than a sober and a happy man.

GOOD REASON FOR SOBRIETY.-A gentleman on entering a stage coach, rubbing his head, with a yawn said, "My head aches dreadfully; I was very drunk last night." A person affecting surprise, replied, "Drunk, sir! what! do you get drunk?" "Yes," said he, "and so does every one at times, I believe. I have no doubt but you do." "No, sir!" he "I do not." replied, "What! never?" 66 "No, never; and amongst other reasons I have for it, one is, I never find, being sober, that I have too much sense; and I am loath to lose what little I have." This remark put an end to the conversation.

LAW OF PITTACUS.-By one of the laws of Pittacus, one of the seven wise men of Greece, every fault committed by a person when intoxicated, was deemed worthy of a double punishment.

"THERE GOES A TEETOTALER!”—A Drunkard assailed a Washingtonian, but could only say, "There goes a teetotaler!" The gentleman waited until the crowd had collected, and then turning upon the drunkard said, "There stands a drunkard !--Three years ago he had a sum of 800 dollars, now he cannot produce a penny. I know he cannot. I challenge him to do it, for if he had a penny he would be at a public-house. There stands a drunkard, and here stands a teetotaler, with a purse full of money, honestly earned and carefully kept. There stands a drunkard! --Three years ago he had a watch, a coat, shoes, and decent clothes; now he has nothing but rags upon him, his watch is gone, and his shoes afford free passage to the water. There stands a drunkard, and here stands a teetotaler, with a good hat, good shoes, good clothes, and a good watch, all paid for. Yes, here stands a teetotaler! And now, my friends, which has the best of it?" The bystanders testified their approval of the teetotaler by loud shouts, while the crest-fallen drunkard slunk away, happy to escape further castigation.

THE LITTLE BOY THAT DIED.

I am all alone in my chamber now,

And the midnight hour is near;

And the faggot's crack and the clock's dull tick
Are the only sounds I hear.

And over my soul, in its solitude,
Sweet feelings of sadness glide;

For my heart and my eyes are full when I think
Of the little boy that died.

I went one night to my father's house-
Went home to the dear ones all-

And softly I opened the garden gate,
And softly the door of the hall.
My mother came out to meet her son;
She kissed me, and then she sighed,
And her head fell on my neck, and she wept
For the little boy that died.

I shall miss him when the flowers come
In the garden where he played;

I shall miss him more by the fireside,

When the flowers have all decayed.
I shall see his toys, and his empty chair,
And the horse he used to ride;

And they will speak, with a silent speech,
Of the little boy that died.

I shall see his little sister again,

With her playmates about the door;
And I'll watch the children in their sports,
As I never did before;

And if, in the group, I see a child
That's dimpled and laughing-eyed,

I'll look to see if it may not be

The little boy that died.

We shall all go home to our father's house-
To our father's house in the skies,

Where the hope of our souls shall have no blight,
Our love no broken ties;

We shall roam on the banks of the river of peace,

And bathe in its blissful tide;

And one of the joys of our heaven shall be—

The little boy that died.

GLEANINGS.

A NOVEL CURE.-A rich man sent to call a physician for a slight disorder. The physican felt his pulse, and said, “Do you eat well?”

"Yes," said the patient. "Do you sleep well?" "I do." "Then." said the physician, "I shall give you something to take away all that!”

OLD AGE. Few people really die through gradual failure of the functions of life. Even the oldest, like young people, die mostly of special diseases. Nine-tenths die of bronchitis, diseased heart, diseased liver, diseased bladder, diarhoea, and a wearing senile fever, which is apt in old people to be the issue of an attack of almost any acute disease. An observant physician seldom sees his patient truly die of the decay of old age. I can safely say that I have hitherto seen only one man die in that way.-Professor Christison.

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A JOKE FROM PUNCH.-Since the introduction of Mr. Lawson's bill, our facetious contemporary has given several proofs of our progress. His attentions we always welcome as evidence of the importance the question is assuming. In his last issue he gives the following:LAWSON AND LIQUORS.-Admired Punch, this world affords me no enjoyment much greater than that of a glass of strong beer, imbibed in the course of a good long walk, at the bar of a decent, well-conducted public-house. In an establishment of this description, the other day, on such an occasion, whilst I was recruiting my frame with that refreshment, a member of the working classes excited my curiosity by asking the landlord officiating at the tap for a go of Lawson,' whereupon mine host served him with a quantity of some kind of spirit. "Lawson!" I exclaimed; "dear me, what is Lawson?" The working man grinned, and the landlord replied: "Gin, sir. They calls gin 'Lawson' now, sir, 'cept o' Sundays, and then they calls it 'Somes.' Brandy they calls 'Trevelyan,' and rum Harvey,' and whiskey they calls 'Pope'-Irish whiskey; and Scotch, Forbes Mackenzie.' Then there's different kinds o' beer sir; Burton they calls Band of Hope,' and Kennet, United Kingdom Alliance." "Well, to be sure!" said I, "and I shouldn't wonder if they were, by-and-by, to call sherry-cobbler, Harrington,' and mint-julep, Heyworth,' and brandy-smash, ‘Jabez Burns,' and timberdoodle, Canon Jenkins,' after the names of the Alliance's leading members." Yes sir," said the landlord, " and werry likely they'll give the name of Dean Close' to punch." "Indeed," I replied, "I think that extremely probable; or perhaps they'll make the dean a bishop; and it appears to me a subject of regret that the industrious orders should be provoked, by injudicious agitation, to associate, out of bravado, respectable and reverend names with liquors, which however salubrious in moderate quantities, are, when partaken of in excess, intoxicating." ""Tis werry lamentable, sir," said the landlord, "isn't it?"-Yours affectionately, AMBULATOR.

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DISCIPLINE. One of the first things a soldier has to do, is to harden himself against heat and cold. He must inure himself to bear violent changes. In like manner, they who enter into public life begin by drilling their sensitiveness to praise and blame. He who cannot turn his back on the one, and face the other, will probably be beguiled by his favourite, in letting his enemy come behind him, and wound him when off his guard. Let him keep a firm footing, and beware of being lifted up, emembering that this is the commonest trick by which wrestlers throw heir antagonists. Never put much confidence in such as put no confi