“I have had to delay the correspondence on account of the inclemency of my health.” “Will you rest your hat?” “I have the misery in my head.” “I return you a board of thanks.” “She is the mattress.” [Matron]. “I went to the exception.” [Reception]. “I don’t lean against [toward] the Episcopalians.” “He had twenty compulsions.” [Convulsions]. “He is deceasted.” FOR THE CHILDREN. I am quite confident that some of our Northern little folks will be glad to know how some of our little ones down here stand on the temperance question. We commenced having Band of Hope meetings over four years ago, but did not ask the children to sign the pledge for many months, for these little ones don’t have temperance papas and mammas to help them keep their pledges, so we did not wish them to sign till they knew well what was expected of them. Over fifty signed the first opportunity, and I came home with a very heavy heart lest many signed because others did, and did not realize the sacredness of their pledge. I felt especially worried about Johnny, a little six-year-old, whose father kept a hotel and had many men around him who drank. It wasn’t long before one of these men urged Johnny to take a drink from his bottle. He took some in his mouth, and then he thought of his pledge, and ran and spit it out; then took some water and washed and washed his mouth. Little bright-eyed Willie loved the taste of whisky, and his father always gave him a sip of his drink. After he signed the pledge, he so stoutly refused his father when he urged him to drink, that it affected him so that he, too, has signed the pledge for one year. Some little ones in another family, who had always had their “toddies,” as they call it in this country, have been so true to their pledges, refusing their grandfather, who urged them to drink with him, that it has influenced their mother to think she can do without whisky as a medicine, and to become an enthusiastic member of our N. C. T. U. And so we see “a little child shall lead them.” MRS. A. A. MYERS. * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR MAY. 1887. MAINE, $380.20.