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"Well, the man said it was just the hat for me and ah I didn't wish to argue, that's all. Besides, I thought perhaps he knew best; selling hats was his ah profession, you see." "Yes, SELLIN' 'em was. Do you always let folks like that pick out what they want to sell you?" "No-o, not always. Often I do. It saves ah conversation, don't you think?"

Economy must be driven from your country. Careful provision will have no existence. Who will labor without knowing the amount of his pay? Who will study to increase what none can estimate? Who will accumulate, when he does not know the value of what he saves?

And a profound silence, during which the cardinal resumed his senses and recovered his strength, succeeded to the agitation of this scene. "There is another thing," murmured Mazarin; "there are empirics and charlatans. In my country, those whom physicians abandon run the chance of a quack, who kills them ten times but saves them a hundred times."

It saves them from the vagrant destitution which must largely attend immediate emancipation in localities where their numbers are very great, and it gives the inspiring assurance that their posterity shall be free forever.

The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious, where is his claim to call Jesus his master? where his claim to Christianity? What saves his claim from being merest mockery? The outshining of any human light must be obedience to truth recognized as such; our first show of light as the Lord's disciples must be in doing the things he tells us.

But we are in a position to state that, far from being distressed at being taken into custody, the young man, whom all must lament, only laughed at it, and told those who escorted him from Fontainebleau to Paris that as soon as he was brought before a magistrate his innocence would be acknowledged." "That saves it, I think?" said Massol. "You are perfectly right."

The Bey's company is highly acceptable, since it saves me from the annoyance of being surrounded by the usual ragged, unwashed crowd during the evening, and secures me a refreshing sleep, undisturbed by visions of purloined straps or moccasins.

Had I been sober the fall would have put an end then and there to my miserable and worthless existence; but lest any one should argue from this that after all whisky sometimes saves life, I would have them bear in mind that if I had been sober the chances are I would not have fallen.

A fellow saves up what he has got to tell till it is too late to tell it, and down he goes to Davy Jones's locker with all his secrets aboard." "Not always," said Dr. Chillingworth, suddenly sitting bolt upright "not always."

It is educational our teachers should come to know that the book is only one, and not the chief one, of the many sources of knowledge open to the child; it is physiological we should all know the eye better than we do, its normal use and its limitations; the reform is architectural our architects and boards of education should realize that the seating and the lighting of school houses should receive most careful consideration; the reform is economic we should come to appreciate the unwisdom of being "penny wise and pound foolish," and recall the old saw, "a stitch in time saves nine"; the reform is medical we should get our people to see that thoro and regular medical inspection of all our school children is the only sensible method of procedure.