The editor of a religious paper relates how a brother saved the price of a year's subscription: First—he refused to subscribe for the paper. He could not spare the money. But his wife and boys must read, and as he took no paper, they patronized the first agent of a “story paper,” who came that way, and paid $2.25 for it and a dog chromo. This chromo required, to please the boys, a frame costing $1.75. The story paper was exceedingly “light literature,” and it required much midnight oil and broken rest to see all the stories through, and the next day after such late readings, business did not go so well for it. Besides, the story paper advertised certain books of instruction in necromancy, parlor games, sleight-of-hand tricks with cards, and various other things which were said to be “bewitching.” Of course the young folks were indulged—the books and cards purchased, and the young people of the neighborhood were assembled quite frequently to participate in the entertainments which these games enlivened. On one occasion, returning from one of these gatherings after midnight, a young team ran away and sprained the driver's ankle, which laid its owner up for two weeks, and broke ten dollars out of a new carriage. When the year closed up, it was discovered that the $1.70 for the religious paper, and the good morals it taught, were saved; but that the story paper had cost $2.25, the picture frame $1.75, the books and cards $1.25. Time lost $10, broken carriage $10; total $25.25. Damaged morals, infinite! We presume that some of our economical friends who cannot afford to pay for their papers may have an equally pleasant and profitable experience. Families are quite likely to read something, and if you fence religion out of the house, the devil will be sure to creep in.