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had no bed . I called Euphemia ' s attention , to the fact . She Avas thunderstruck . '' I neA'er thought of that , " she said . " We shall have to give up the stove . " "Not at all , " said T , " we can't , do that . AA e must give up the easy-chair . "

" Oh , that would be too bad , " said she . " The house would seem like nothing to me Avithout the chair ! " " But Ave must do Avithout it , my dear , " said I , " at least for aAvhile . I can sit out on deck and smoke of an eveningj'ou

, know . " " Yes , " said Euphemia-. " You can sit on the bulwarks aud I can sit by you . That will do very well . I ' m sure I ' m glad the boat has bulwarks . "

So we resigned the easy-chair and bought a bedstead and some plain bedding . The bedstead was Avhat is sometimes called a " scissors-bed . " You could shut it up when you didn't want to sleep in it , and stand it against the wall . AVhen Ave packed up our trunks and left

the boarding-houseEnphemiafairly skipped Avith joy . We went down to Ginx ' s in the first boat , having arranged that our furniture should be sent to us in the afternoon . We Avanted

to be there to receive it . The trip Avas just Avildly delicious . The air Avas charm - ing . The sun Avas bri ght , and 1 had a Avhole holiday . When we reached Ginx ' s Ave found that the best Avay to get our trunks and ourselves to our house was to take a carriage , and so we took one . I told

the driver to just drive along the river road and I Avould tell him Avhere to stop . When Ave reached our boat , and had alighted , I said to the driver : " You can just put our trunks inside , any Avhere . " The man looked at the trunks and then looked at the boat . Afterwards he looked

at me . " That boat ain't goin' anywhere , " said he . "I should think not , " said Euphemia . " AVe shouldn ' t want to live in it , if it were . " " You are going to live in it ? " said the

man . " Yes , " said Euphemia . " Oh ! " said the man , and he took our trunks on board , without another word . It was not very easy for him to get the trunks into our now home , in fact it was

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not eas 3 ' for us to get there ourselves . There was a gang-plank , Avith a rail on one side of it , which inclined from the shore to the deck of the boat at an angle of about fortyfive degrees , and when the man had staggered up this p lank with the trunks ( Euphemia said I ought to have helped him

, but I really thought it Avould be better for one person to fall off the plank than for two to go over together ) , and Ave had paid him , and he had driven aAvay in a speechless condition , Ave scrambled up and stood upon the threshold , or , rather , the after-deck of

our home . —Scribner ' s American Monthly Magazine . I To be concluded in ou / r need . )

What Good ?

WHAT GOOD ?

" He is a Mason . What good does it do him ? " This is a question frequently asked . Generally it is intended to elicit an enumeration of the material benefits that accrue to the person spoken of in consequence of his connection Avith the Masonic Order . "Does it pa 3 ' ? " And

pay , in the mind of the catechist , is dollars and cents , or influence that leads to the acquisition of office or power . Does it bring him trade , patients , clients , employment , constituents ? NOAV , while Ave hold that the Scri pture maxim " in honour

preferring one another , " in other Avords , that the principle , " all things being equal , to patronize those nearest to you , " are just and equitable principles of action , at the same time Ave maintain that Masonry is not

designed to build up the material fortunes of men , and that the Mason AVIIO becomes a merehuiiker and traffics Avith hisprofession is recreant to eA'ery true conception of the dignity of his VOAVS and associations . Masonry may put no money in a man ' s purseit may yield him no A'otes—but if

, it serves to ennoble character , to enlarge human sympathies , to mitigate the wants and Avoes of suffering humanity , to break down the barriers of caste , to extend the brotherhood feeling among men of diverse vieAvs , pursuits and races—then it pays .

The good it does may not be expressed in statistical tables and find a fair expon ent in Federal money ; but it introduces a man into a wider society than his native selfishness would-prompt him to enter , and makes him feel that he is not an independent