It is not only a wise and happy thing to make the best of life, and always look on the bright side, for one's own sake, but it is a blessing to others. Fancy a man forever telling his family how much they cost him! A little sermon on this subject was unconsciously preached by a child one day. A man met a little fellow on the road carrying a basket of blackberries, and said to him, "Sammy, where did you get such nice berries?" "Over there, sir, in the briers." "Won't your mother be glad to see you come home with a basket of such nice, ripe fruit?" "Yes, sir," said Sammy, "she always seems glad when I hold up the berries, and I don't tell her anything about the briers in my feet." The man rode on. Sammie's remark had given him a lesson, and he resolved that henceforth he would try to hold up the berries and say nothing about the briers.—Domestic Journal.