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DoN'T FRET.-This is a world of ups and downs, of crosses and contradictions. Eve " day turns up something to disturb the equanimity of one's temper. But it is worse than useless to fret. Fretting is like caustic applied to a soar It inilames, but never cures. A fretful spirit is never happy, and it drives happiness from all other spirits with which it comes in contact. We say, then, if the world goes wrong, and 1t does that pret- ty often, don't fret.-If man cheats you, and then laughs at you for verdant one, make the best of it and keep cool. Fretting will make bad thing worse. If you break your leg, or find your favorite seat at the Ly- ceum occupied, if the stage upsets, or the cars leave you behind, if the cook spells your dinner, or the thick-headed servant misdeliv- CTS an important message, if ''the dear little image of it's beautiful mother" repays your caresses by thrusting it's tiny fingers into his plate and wiping them on your snow-white shirt bosom; if banks fail and States repudi- ate, keep your temper. Repeat the alpha bet, read the hundred and nineteenth psalm, do and say any thing ''lovely and of good report" but as you value quietness of mind and the good temper of others; don't fret It is marvellous how much good nature and patience will do towards curing the ills to which flesh and spirit are Salem O. ep7-7,e,.