mpress upon them the
importance of doing one thing at a time, and doing it well. Start right at
first, and life will be one continued picnic buggy ride, but if your mind
is divided in youth you will always be looking for hot boxes and
annoyance.

[Illustration: THE OLD BACK NUMBER GIRL.]

CAMP MEETINGS IN THE DARK OF THE MOON.

A Dartford man, who has been attending a camp meeting at that place,
inquires of the Brandon _Times_ why it is that camp meetings are always
held when the moon does not shine. The _Times_ man gives it up and refers
the question to the _Sun_. We give it up.

It does not seem as though managers of camp meetings deliberately consult
the almanac in order to pick out a week for camp meeting in the dark of
the moon, though such meetings are always held when the moon is of no
account. If they do, then there is a reason for it. It is well known that
pickerel bite best in the dark of the moon, and it is barely possible that
sinners "catch on" better at that time.

There may be something in the atmosphere, in the dark of the moon, that
makes a camp meeting more enjoyable. Certainly brethren and sisterin' can
mingle as well if not better when there is no glaring moon to molest and
make them afraid, and they can relate their experience as well as though
it was too light.

The prayers of the righteous avail as much in the darkness of the closet
as they do in an exposition building, with an electric light, and as long
as sinners will do many things which they ought not to do, and undo many
things that they never ought to have done, the dark of the moon is
probably the most healthy.

PALACE CATTLE CARS.

The papers are publishing accounts of the arrival east of a train of
palace cattle cars, and illustrating how much better the cattle feel after
a trip in one of these cars, than cattle did when they made the journey in
the ordinary cattle cars.

As we understand it the cars are fitted up in the most gorgeous manner, in
mahogany and rosewood, and the upholstering is something perfectly grand,
and never before undertaken except in the palaces of the old world.

As you enter the car there is a reception room, with a few chairs, a
lounge and an ottoman, and a Texas steer gently waves you to a seat with
his horns, while he switches off your hat with his tail. If there is any
particular cow, or steer, or ox, that you wish to see, you give your card
to the attendant steer, and he excuses himself and tr