it.

If, as the Church and church-goers would suggest, it is Sunday, these children have permitted their sense of even-handed justice to lord it over Christian charity, and seem to think, with the old adage, "the better the day, the better the deed.”

little soldiers are administering wholesome | face, neither moving his eyes nor his body. punishment. In default of firearms and I urging him to give some answer, he took the death-penalty, they bethink them of up a book, sat down again and said nothing. the town-pump and the horse-trough, and Melissa, his maid, told me it was his manner, they are bringing him, in spite of his cries and that oftentimes she was fain to thrust. and unavailing resistance, to purge his guilty meat into his mouth, for that he would rather head in the flowing water, and then to tell starve "then" cease study. cease study. Well, thought him, with jeers and shouts, "See if you'll I, seeing bookish men are so blockish and desert any more!" Boys and girls are ar- great clerks such simple courtiers, I will rayed under the mimic banner, and seem to neither be partaker of their commons nor enjoy the work as much as he is tortured by their commendations. From thence I came to Plato and to Aristotle, and to divers other, none refusing to come saving an old, obscure fellow who, sitting in a tub turned toward the sun, read Greek to a young boy. Him when I willed to appear before Alexander, he answered, "If Alexander would fain see me, let him come to me; whatsoever it be, let him come to me."-" Why," said I, "he is a king." He answered, "Why, I am a philosopher.”- "Why, but he is Alexander."-"I, but I am Diogenes." I was half angry to see one so crooked in his shape to be so crabbed in his sayings. So, going my way, I said, "Thou wilt repent it if thou comest not to Alexander."-" Nay," smiling answered he, "Alexander may repent it if he come not to Diogenes virtue must be sought, not offered." And so, turning himself to his cell, he grunted I know not what, like a pig under a tub. But I must be gone; the philosophers are coming.

As probably the worst that can happen to the young deserter is a good washing and a wholesome lesson, the spectator is not much concerned as to the moral aspect of the affair, and is even disposed to think that present justice may be the truest charity for the future. Perhaps, should war again comewhich God forbid !—the recollection of that ducking may save the afflicted youth from a deserter's grave, and thus he should continually bless his tormentors.

HABITS OF THE GREEK PHILOSO-
PHERS.

FROM "A TRAGICAL COMEDY OF ALEXANDER AND
CAMPASPE," PUBLISHED IN 1584.

MELIPPUS. I had never such ado to

warn scholars to come before a king. First I came to Chrysippus, a tall, lean, old madman, willing him presently to appear before Alexander. He stood staring in my

ALEXANDER, HEPHÆSTION, DIOGENES.
ALEXANDER. Diogenes!

DIOGENES. Who calleth?

ALEX. Alexander. How happened it that you would not come out of your tub to my palace?

HEAVEN'S SUNRISE TO EARTH'S BLINDNESS.

"And second, sapphire; third, chalcedony;

That bodies, leavened by the The rest in order; last, an amethyst."

Toward which new hearts in COME! Ye have lighted your festal

And music is sounding its joyous call,
Must quicken and increase to And the guests are gathering the young,

In new dynasties of the race With the flower-wreathed brow and the

Excluding falsehood. He shall make all Not a thought shall rise in a careless, breast

They died when the first spring blossom was As I kiss from his bright young lips the

They faded away when the groves were Oh, the good and the pure have naught to fear

When the suns of autumn were faint and When my voice in the gathering gloom they