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A Wieh.
aa. s "Hera lie Ides where ire whetted to lite"-
etevearepon.
What Dearth hath come from eta the deeli
To fill iny heart With erudite -a rat.
Auel clue, my weary e pet in eleep,
Aard teed my haute. itereeirzuy breaSt-
When (Sleet* fake,
/for ovvensore be thee erly praYeri
That 1 may Ile not fee' awtiY,
But neer Ulan beether 111.4tuda14$ 'where
iiihredow 'sad siunileiht rlit eel clay -
The eurlew
The spirit of the Mouneelue lereatbed
Ita
is their myritle perceive spell,
Aerd woke the love eny elves bequeathed
01 mountala 'Weight and weeded 4011,
Bo not cue Eower
That grew in fragrauee on the lea,
A4d rot one song that from lite reel'
Woke in tight wavee of uteledY
And sot one retert-wrolth trailing by
But, woke Power -
A. power Meat ;rem unto the One
The e1+to sea in glee, and hill,
-And moorlead e,rey, •Ind dappled eklee,
Alia Wreak). lake, and flashing rill,
Prom dale to height,
A roaselen beattlY, till Otero leapt
Within any heart a ramie love on
rEtat long kept silents+, .for it sleet,
But broke the bonds that held it icing
To oboe kr light.
Arid la.v nee net heeilde'lecteli-Ne2as,
Wester all ley Iteulred lake their ec
In silent raptured lonelinrees,
Where watere Mash and ereezee reereep,
Lull them to ret.
But lay roe by the ehurch that :deeds
upon you alma, and looker aerobe
Tire briget and green elow-merkling lend -
Thu rugged hills and 'moorland rows
Unto the west.
So 'when the sun strikes ort .the
And my levee one will tura her gaze
onto the east, and esonte bird calla
In in"rilfili cadence, thew* bright daye
With all the glow
Of love reid light wtFl dim her eYee
With 'teem teat mourn the lov.e she gave,
And from the soft and western skies
A breeze v111 'blow above tny grave
And I shall know.
-John Dunce%
Prayer.
Holy ant Meet Merciful Farther, we Ac-
knowledge the .gracious providence by witieh
our lives have been graded oven nete this
time. In days of youthful folly when we too
easily forget Thee arid Tby righteous laws,
Thou *Met Slot cast us off but didet restore
•"- -e---eeeere rioule and save us from ollreelves. By
the shame and sorrow which sin has, broeght,
Tlieu hest taugnt us to Moose the better
Part. The future is unknown ter us, but in
the doe'k we tram TII,e and 'commit ourselves
to Thy guidanee. Make all things 'work to-
gether tor our good. Mould us by life's
d (Lee:eine mere and more into coatormIty to
Thy 'will, and wealever Pilule of erervieetol
dificulte, of responsibility, of danger, Thee
hest preparea for us ,fit. es 0 God re f 11 It
well. Make us humble, yet brave; dest ust-
1111 of ourselves, but full of eonflden e in
Thee. Amen.
An Invisible° Leader. /
.r'S aS.908
er of Can-
-ougat in -
Isaiah, and
he disciples
Son of God.
Jme secular in -
He itas a bless -
t rattle() awaiting
Tarsus dream when
ous whet would hap -
le return. Little did
he bitched his oxen to the
they were unyoked in the
.antle of God's prophet would
n his own shoulders. Little
know when he went out to thresh
he whrepreas of the Ablezrite that
ee would there meet with the angel of Je-
hovah and be appointed a judge over Israel.
How often in the oommonplaces of life 'we
meet with God. It le on the road to Em-
maus; it Is by some bush in the desert, or
on some quiet evening 10 rbhe sheepfold, or
when we are pruning our trees. Often it
Is that elle everyday vooatIons ot life have
the arichest spiritual blessings. Ile who
honestly and faithfully pertorins his work
will Inearlebly find a treasure hid in the
field; when lie comes to the well he will
find a Saviour sitting on the curb. -United
Presbreerian.
Saul started out to raele his fath
and found a kingdom.. The treasu
dace, queen of the Ethiopians,
formation in the Proleheey ef
found eensonal salvation,
went out to fish and found e
How often God leads us by e
ceellve to the place where
lag ot an entirely differs=
us Little did Sate of
he' etarted for Dames
pen to him before
7e1le1a know wire
Plow that bef
evenin,g the
plaried
Gideon
Friendship.
Friendship is one of the very beet thiegs
in this old world, and we have not half en-
ough et It. Let's try and be friendly; let's
try 004. get down to the real things mid give
and take In frank, simple fashion. If we
happen to have gorgeous, stately hous.as and
expensiv olothes, t "-env Me tO-stanti
y 1 o not make 'too much of
them, other people -4111 not, either. Jr, on
the other band, we have little houses and
plain gartmente and do our own work, let
us ignore these minor 'deteils and be friend-
ly and homitable just the same. It isn't
what we give, but the way we give it, that
counts. "Not grudgingly, not of necessity";
nor ostentatiously, nor ehoddily, but gladly,
openly, without pretence of any kind -Car-
oline Benedict Burrell, In Congregationalist.
Resignation of the Divine Will.
1, Resiguation to the will of' God frees the
mind frem a•grlevous bondage, the kondage
of early 'pursuits and expeetations. What-
ever God wins, ;pleasing to the resigned
eupplicatiem. made known. his requests to God,
derebanding, keeps his heart and mindt
Out: whet a Christian. bath, by prayer and
then the pewee of God., which pueseth all un -
through Jesus Christ. Then only is life truly
enjoyed. When we relish ite comforts., rut the
same title that we Ar0 prepared to part (with
there. He who ehth reeigned his will to
the will of God, "eats his bread with joy,
and drinks his wine with a merry heart."
Even the thought et hiri dying hour throwa
to damp on the joys of his mind. From
the contemplation of Geder goodness to htm
In life, he can pass Without terror or amaze-
ment to the thought of his protection in the
dark 'valley and shadow of death. hien in
that ;downy eaetrage he feare no evil; but
ccentnitee Minton to the Lord, his ,ehepherel,
who will make goodeoes and mercy to eel
-
bow hire all the -day e of his life, and at last
bring hint to evrell in We house above for-
ever ---Bobert Walker (1716-1781)
Nature's Vernal Beauties.
(By A Banker).
Of all eh% many and varied beauties and at-
tractions of this fair meth of ours, the most
) brilliant and by tar the ma8t ornate is with-
out question a well dealgned lesulecope flow-
er garden la midespringtime. Guarding the
enteanoe are two etately and superb horse-
cheetuut trees decorated with a clustered
Profusion of bendeorae -candelabrum enaped
Mikes at oink, primrose and white. Earther
along the broad walk la a loky pair or Si-
berian erabovirplee, the leafage entirely hid-
den beneath a .galaxy of alinost pure white.
flowers, as though transformed into two
mighty enowballe. Seatteeed about the 1aW110
0
(sting Woes and elnubs;
early viza--4Hoderna,. a gr 5450541
kat globe of plok-refe•Iletehger Mee ePlen-
did meanditas, every branch a serried en -
01 large vase -shaped, Wax -like
• ernature; eome 'double peaelms, a brilliant
fdlapkty Of plumed oorymbe of rich pink; or'
a Canedian mespilus garlanded 10 Wallin
fag019 and egra.ys of milk -white inflores-
ecnce; with many another fair end lovely
beauty of the spring.
And then the divereely shaped flower beds,
a bewiludering display of vivid coloring; tu-
ner; in old, andcalirmine, and pink, and
vermilion; grape hyrreinthe, with their spIkee
of 'azure, silver edged bells; narcissus of
varied forms In all shades of primrose, and
eafiton, and lemon; with roee-colored kal-
mhet, some early heath% and numerous
other vernal genre; the two or three Mute
pinkovinged flamingoee stalking about in ap-
Parent admiration of the ecene adding to its
homer arid, laterbet.
•.0'e:A as 'background, aro the trees, In all
the betray of their spring leafage; the g1'800 -
lightest green; whiteheame Orel 1
011 with her pendent sprays of
r enowy fir I -
are now bureting forth; the beautiful A(Wru
sehteediereett has no English nante-a era -
lee or eYeemore with 4111000t scarlet leaves r
tis serieg, dull dark green in trimmer end I
11 Intense eearlet In autumn; or eliapely I
CHAPTER VIII,
The governor and Ida family were set-
tled in the executive palace. Daniel
nunter had inetructed hie wife to Write
her sister-in-law to take up her abode
in the palatean- the period of their own
reaidenee thm. 11 had been a very de-
lightful tasls for the merry girls to range
from room to room, through the apace
OUB suites of elegantly furnished cham-
bers, and chose their owne apartments -
and much chattering, changing, and. dis-
puting ensued before they could be ex-
actly suited.
Every One admired Mrs. Hunter, but
it was with a deep, hushed. enthusiasm of
admiration, as of some being far remov-
ed above their sphere of thought and
sympathy. And, indeed, Augusta was
too much absorbed in the deep joy of
her domestic life to be familiar with her
Social -circle. Her life was a worship of
unolouded joy. But the centre of all the
interest in that mansion was the infant,
Maud. She seemed absolutely to. he the
first and last, the prevailing thought of
parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and
servants. She was the heiress of her fa,
ther and mother, of course, but she was
also declared to be the heiress of a
wealthy relative in England, who had re-
cently sent out to the infant costly
christening presents, and as gold or gold-
en presents have a sort of cohesive at.
traction about them, no sooner was little
Maud's future English inheritance heard
of than her fathei s • two elder bachelor
brothers, John and Joseph luntce the
wealthy hardware merchants of Balti-
more, had made their will, leaving their
immense property solely to Maud Perci-
val,. only daughter of Daniel and Augus-
ta Hurler. And so the little lady was
destined to be probably the richest heir-
ess in America. And what was strange,
no jealousy was felt by her young un-
married aunts and uncles -they seemed
to think no offering too rich to be laid
on the shrine of the little goddess, and
only felt themselves the want of fortune
in having none to bequeath to her.
And the devotion shown to this child
was not only worship, but superstitious
idolatry. Even Daniel Hunter was not
free from it. Inordinate affection for
his only daughter 1ValS theone sole weak-
ness 'of his mighty nature. His first
visit in the morning andhis last at night
was to her erib. No matter hew urgent
and 'harassing the State business, or how
pleasant and long -protracted the festive
scene, he was never too weary with busi-
ness or with pleasure to go and stand
and gaze upon his sleeping ohild, until
anxiety and weariness and time itself
were forgotten in the fascinating spell.
The fashionable season in town was
over at last. The balls and concerts an
forgotten, the theatres and ptiblie halls
and "palatial" residences all closed, and
the gay world dispersed to the mount-
ains ansi the seaside and to fashionable
watering places. Official business kept
the governor late in the summer at the
texcutive mansion, and Daniel Hunter
kept his family there with him. An ex-
cursion was, however, planned to allevi-
ate the heat ansi tedium of the July
days. This was a steamboat trip down
the bay as far as Witch Island, and, a
picnic natty there. The members of the
governor's council, with their families,
remained in town, and these formed a
very pleasant select party of the right
etamp for the occasion.
The day appointed for the excursion
was the 15th of July, and the stetetner
chartered for the use of the party was
the beautiful little Sea Mew.-, Every
member of Daniel Hunter's numerous
family connection, from grand -uncles to
the infant, were to be of the party.
There was but one child on board -little
Maud Hunter --and dxcitedas all the
wearied city party were with the pros-
pect of the wild sea trip, the greatest in-
terest was shown in her. She was tak-
en from the arms of Stella, her pretty
nurse, and passed from one to another of
both _ladies and gentlemen'and: admired
to excess. And, in truth, little Maud
leaked very beautiful; and it seeesed no
exaggeration at all to call he .0 Hale
seraph. She seemed one without the
Wings.
While they were caressing the beauti-
ful child, the steamboat cast loose from
the wharf, turned, and took its course
down the bay. The city gradually re-
ceded, and the bay, or, rather, that arm
of the bay,' miscalled 5 n River,
widened before them, But few could
leave the lovely child,to look upon the
lovely scene.
The boat was well out to eea in three
hours' run -that is to say, by 9 o'clock
-and by 10 ,o'clock they reached Witch
Island, a wild, desolate, sandy iele of
about a hundred acres, covered with
coarse, reedy gra-es, end a grove of gi-
gantic pine trees -hence sometimes call-
ed Pine Island -it lay some thirty miles
south of the mouth of S—n River,
and withina roile.of the shore. The
shore for many leagues up and down was
sandy and desolate, ansi covered with a
growth of pine trees, hence this section
of the State was called the Pine Bar-
rens. The shore and the isle *ere both
uncultivated, uninhabited, and unfre-
quented. They had never been the resort
or .picnir kdt• excursion parties, And it
was upon these accounts that the isle
had been seiceted by our party, and it
Was this set of circumstandes that lent
to the excursion :something of the novel-
ty and adventurous aspect of an explor-
ing expedition.
Everybody enjoyed the outing, and it
Wee with regret that the trippers got
aboard the gay little steamer and put
off from the isle.
Augusta remained in the cabin, engag-
ed in a much more interesting occupation
than that of gazing upon the fairest
scene than ever nature spread out be-
fore theeeye of man. She was seated in
a low roeking eltair, nursing her child to,
sleep, pressing the babe to her bosom',
glass., tying on her bonnet, and Stella,
who stood near lief, with a large lace
shawl and an infant's cloak heeging over
her arm.
"We hese not taken Maud up yet,"
said Letty, "we did not wish to disturb
the darling till the last moment,"
"It is time now, however; the steam-
boat is at the wharf," said Augusta, and
she opened the state -room door and, went
in.
But the window was open and the
babe was genet
Paralyzed by the sight, the mother
stood -yet she did not believe the worst!
She thought grasithnother, or one of the
young aunties, had taken her up and
thrown the window open for more light
-only that open window above the wa-
ter -it grave her such a shock: She hast-
ened out, still trembling, and asked, in
a faltering voice:.
"Letty, why did you take the baby
up without telling me? It has given me
such a--" and tumost fainting, she
leaned against the door.
"Il I haven't taken the ohild up!
Didn't I tell you just now I thought I
wouldn't disturb her till the last mo-
ment?" replied Letty, in surprise.
"Somebody else has, then. Ohl I wish
they would not do things withoui, let-
ting me know, I am so nervous where
my baby ie concerned. Mother! Harriet!
Elizabeth! Where are you, girls? Bring
Maud here directly, please!" exelaimed
Augusta, hurrssing from the cabin to
the deck.
"What is the matter, Augusta? Good
Heaven, Augusta! what has happened?
You look so deadly pale and faint!" said
Daniel Hunter, meeting her.
"Nothings -nothing at all has happen-
ed, only my excessive foolishness again.
I want my child! Lucy! Lucy,'"
Daniel Hunter frovrned.
"You are realy getting to be a very
absurd woman, Mrs. Hunter!"
"Oh! I know it! I know itl but I
want my baby!! Elizabeth! Lucy!" ex-
claimed Augusta, hurrying past him.
Old Mrs. Hunter and her daughters
were standing on the forward deck, ready
to go onshore, when Augusta rushed
among them -and afraid to give verbal
utterance to the f ears that her reasorti
told her were absurd. while her every
act and looke betrayed thesn, elle asked,
In feinting tones:
"Where is my child? Is she wrapped
up well? Give her to me!"
"What do you mean, Augusta? We
have not go her! We left Letty end Sten
la to take her up and dress her. They
have got her. Why, what's the matter?"
"Ohl my God!". cried Augusta, sink-
ing down upon the deck.
"Why, Augusta! Good Heavens, Aug-
usta—"
"Drowned! drowned! My child has fal-
len out of the window into the water,
and is drovrned!" cried Augusta, and
fell upon her face with a shriek which
those who loved her might well hope to
be her last.
CHAPTER IX.
Loathing the sunight, cursing earth,
and blaspheming Heaven, the wretched
Norah had fled from the ,gallows, one aw-
ful sight still glaring on her eyes, one
awful sound still ringing in her eane
-the vision of her son as he stood. upon
the fatal drop -a living man enveloped
in a shroud -and the instantaneous click
of the spring, the fall of the trap and
the rushing whirr of the falling body.
fe was glaring on her sight, it was ring-
ing in her ears, it was maddening her
brain as she fled away. A pall of sin
and misery and death seemed to lovver
dark and stifing over the city.
With her hand pressed upon her ears
and eyes, as if th shut out eight and
soutul, she fled through the city, and be-
yond it into the -green field, and past
them into the darkestsdepths of the for-
est.
On the fourteenth of July she heard of
the governor's projected trip down the
river and bay, and a keen desire for re-
venge surged in the woman's breast.
With the surpassing subtlety of in-
sanity, Norah managed on the fifteenth
of July to conceal herself on board the
boat. She accompanied the party down
the bay.
To make away with "sweet Maud" was
her purpose, but there seemed no oppor-
tunity of carriny out her fell design
till the little party were on the return
journey.
Ever on the alert, she had beard two
persona the mother and the nurse, en-
ter the deserted 'cabin. She heard the
gentle voice of the another directing the
nurse th _put out the lights. She heard
her also dismiss the nurse. And then fol-
lowed darkness and silence, softly brok-
en at hest by the mother's low, melodi-
ous voice as she sang and rocked the
babe to sleep. Next she heard the en-
trance of another-Letty-and she lis-
tened to the conversation that ensued.
Lastly she, beard the mother and the
young anut open the stateroom door
adjoining her own and lay the babe to
rest. She laughed at the careful, (tying
colloquy between them as they took one
precaution after the other against any
chance harm or inconvenienee to their
darling. She laughed when she heard
them talk about the window, and each
ask and assure each other that the win-
dow was perfectly safe. And she laughed
more When she heard them go out and
leave the babe alone. But soon she
beard the voice of the mune as she came
and drew a chair near the baby's state-
room door. And then Norah looked out
from her window and saw that they were
appronehing the city. When she turned
away again she listened and found that
the cabin was still, She looked through
the keyhole and eaw that it wee deserted.
And then the heavy breathing of the
nunse, stationed at the baby's 'stateroom
door, assured her that, she slept.
Now 02' never then, for vengeance, It
was a great risk, but it should be run.
Stealthily unlocking the door, she glid-
and aniging in a low, sweet voice, as she ed into the cabin. It was vacant of com-
gently rocked to end fro. pany, except Stella, who, with her head
At last the deep sleep of the baby war- thrown baelt over her chair, was sleepieg
anted its being laid down, and the mo- the profound. deathlike sleep only en -
her softly arose and went on deck, fol- Joyoti by the ehild of Africa. Norah open -
Jested by Letty, ed the baby's stateroom door, and reveal.
They were approaching very near the ed a vision beautiful as that of a sleep-
eity now. and very soon the steamboat ing angel-tIm gold silk eurls and deli-
touehed the wharf. Carriages were swot eate, blooming faee of the slumbering
waiting there. :wording to. order, to ear- child ea she lay enveloped in her white
ry the company home, In a moment ell goissamer drapery. There was Itot a mom -
On the steamboat was in a, gay bristle; 0211 to be lost.
ladies looking for their boitnets, searfa Vint, remembering the mother's talk
and parasols, ete.; gentlemen hunting up about the window, with fiendish intake
ate, gloves and umbrellas, or assisting she unhoeneg the ailed end eseung 11
heir ladies with their light shawls and wide open, arid trailed a portion of the
%males. counterpane out, as if it had been drag -
Augusta left her husband's ttrta, and ed there by a falling body,
ent clown below to attend to little Then aim eoftly raised the thild in
Mend. There was no one in the eal»n, her arms and gathered it eleae to her
xeept Lefty, who ram 'standing before A bOSOM. I J.
arrayed In their feathery ern -
leafage: while eontrattlag with
*II are the oak oil the ash, Estill in
winter nakedness: with epee and there
A dark, swerthy Scotch fir or other coni-
fer.
had yet in a -very flort thug ail tbis gay
belortY will have faded away; tee flower -
beds will bilve lost all their radiant bloom;
the tree* will have aestenee darker hues;
sue the flowering *rube will bay() been de-
nuded of ell their gorgteus emblazonment.
litit loot so thole who have 11,
/relived 00 inheritimee In the Laud of Oleryt
by owning to the gavieur a the world for '
to IMO. ter their sine, will be arrayed la
mete* life, and by belleVing that He died
eselleat miendour, end will &hint as I W
the stars fOr ever and eon' rose whet '
„too gr neglect to secret the (love! of
cbsiss masa shilt ottt from it all.
Little Matal, neetestoustal only to love
and rare, and knowing when anise anti
dreamieg when italeep of uothing else,
half smiled ttaalte wee lifted up, and mur-
muring "Minnie," put her arm% around
the neck of her terrible foe and, with
sigb of tired infancy, resigned herself
to rest again.
Norall wore a. large alum]. Layieg the
babe flatly as possible against her
breast, and folding the shawl closely
over her, Norah stole from the cabin,
and creeping along miler the Shadows,
reached the lower forward deck, which
was also in deep gloom.
The boat had now reached the -wharf.
A erowd of men were forward -some se -
airing her to the pier, some throwing out
the plank,some briuging forward bas-
kets, enakti and hampers that were to go
on shore. And everybody was too much en-
gaged to notice a new -comer, who, be.
sides, kept out of.the range of observa-
tion.
Then Norah heard a sudden running to
and fro epin the cabin and she knew
they had Missed the child. Seizing a ham-
per as au excuse she mingled with tile
crowds Creeping along under the eliadows
she gained the city streets, and swiftly
and stealthily passing through them, she
at last reaehed the opposite .suburb, ran
steross the green f ields and gained the
forest the seene of her agony after be-
reavement. Here she sat down in the
trepidation, in the breathless delight of
an accomplished vengeance. She knew the
hearts of those she had left behind were
was very sweet, She laughed aloud. Her
wrung with agony as hers WWI once, It
laughter rang through the silent forest,
The ehild moved restlessly in ber amrs.
She did not notice it. She was palpitat-
ing with joy at the fruition of her yen.
geanee. She needed not to see the anguish
of her adversary. She felt it! But the
strong little ehild moved vigorously un-
d-er her shawl and heaved itself over, and
threw out one of Ite fat, pearly arms.
Then she opened its Shawl and fanned
its robe to give it air. And then little
Maud, wearied to other:titian by the play-
ing and tossing and eareesing she had
undergone during the day, fell asleep
again.
CTIAPTER X.
When that awful day -that day of the
darkest doom -was over, sthert the last
sorrowful offices of love and the last
solemn rites of religion had been per-
formed for the dead, and when all efforts
to recover the living and the lost had
failed and been abandoned, and when
the youthful widow could remain no
longer absent from her ill and orphaned
boy -then Father Goodrich placed his
parish for a week under the sole charge
of his colleague, and harnessed up the
little donkey -cart to take Ellen and her
child home. To the poor young widow
this was a very sorrowful journey, full
of harrowing recollections and associa-
tions. In passing every familiar scene
ho had loved so well, her heart bled
afresh -and on reaching the chosen apot
of which he had spoken so hopefully on
the last dark day of his life, her grief
-burst forth with passionate violence.
And nothing could have sustained her
through this last trial but the presence,
the prayers and the religious consola-
tions offered by the good priest..
It' was late in the evening when they
reached Deep Dingle, the forest home
of Ellen., It was a gray rock cottage,
overgrown with moss and creeping vines,
and overshadowed by high, wooded hills.
There was UP caltivated ground near it,
except a small garden, with a few fruit
trees inclosed by a low stone wall, moss
grown and covered with creepers, like
the cottage. As the little old donkey -
cart wound .slowly and carefully down
the rocky hill, old Abishag, the nurse,
stood watching at the cottage gate. And
when it drew up and stopped, and Ellen
got out, the old servant came forward
to ',meet her, a,nd the young widow
burst into a flood of tears, and threw
herself, weeping, into the arms of the
faithful and affectionate creature.
That told the tale!
Ellen almost instantly disengaged
herself, and, asking how the sick boy
was, without waiting for the answer,
rushed into the house to ascertain for
herself.
"And where is the old mistress?" ask -
sed Abishag, as she received the young
baby from the arms of Father Good-
rich.
"We do not know -she has been miss-
ing since the day of the execution.
When I return to the city, I shall prose-
cute the search for her. And now, Abis-
hag. you must not infliet your young
mistress with any questions or com-
ments upon anything that has occurred
in the city. You must not even give
her the least encouragement to talk
about those things, even if she is dispos-
ed to do so, but try to draw her mind
off, and interest her in the affairs of the
housekeeping and the children. How is
the sick child?"
"A good deal worse, sir," said old
Abishag, heaving a deep sigh at these
accumulated troubles.
The priest hastened into the house,
where he found Ellen in the extremity
of anxiety by the bedside of her boy,
who was rolling about in the delirium
of fever, and piteously calling for the
mothet, who, unrecognized, bent over
him.
The imminent danger of this child was
of the greatest benefit to Elken. It
aroused her from the deep despair that
might else have been fatal. It taught
her, by the fear of losing them, how
great the blessings -were that yet re-
mained to bind her to life -to excite
her to action. The extreme illness of
her boy lasted several clays, and when
the crisis of life and death was safely
passed, and the child lived, Ellen exper-
ienced what she never thought to feel
again --joy, gratitude to God, hope for
the future! She was enabled to listen
to the practical adviceof rather Good-
rich, who had remained with her during
this danger. The priest advised her to
write to her wealthy relatives -who had,
indeed, disowned Ellen ever since her
love marriage with poor Williant 0'.
Leary, but who, if they had hearts of
flesh, must pity and suceor her in her
heavy misfortunes. Ellen was not com-
posed enough to write, but she permit-
ted Father Goodrich to 'write for her.
And the priest still deferred his depar-
ture until an Ammer should be re-
ceived.
It eame-a hard, unchristian letter,
the pith of which was a coarse and vul-
gar proverb: "As Ellen hall made her
bed she must lie upon it," and this last
disgrace of her husband's death on the
gallows forever precluded the possibility
of a recognition of her by her family.
It was a letter to which there could be
no possible aitswer.'
(To .be continued.)
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(4011eral 1404011i because of the tragedy
at the 13ay street crossing, Toronto, on
May 24 lest.
ACCIDENT TO A
TORONTO BUILDER.
John Felstead, a builder, of 312 Wit.
ton avenue, Toronto, was working on
a temporary acaffold, the plank broke
and he fell through. 14 received, Bev-
eral severe euta on the leg, is bruised
knee, and a thorough shaking. Zann
Bilk, the hethal balm, was applied. to
the cute and gave him great relief. He
says:
"Zam-Buk was so effective that al-
though my leg was badly cut, I was
able to go on without a tlay'e break
from work. Zem-Buk takes the sore -
nese out of a wound at once and: then
it commences to heal. It it without
doubt a wonderful balm for skin in-
juries, and I tun glad to make thia virtue
known."
Zem-Buk ia a sure and quietly eure for
euts, bruises, and: till akin diseases. At
all stores and druggises, 50c .a box, or
The Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, 3 boxes for
$1.25.
' Discovery of Steam Power.
A little boy one day in the village of
Greenock, in Scotland, sat with his head
between his heads watching a kettle boil-
ing on the fire, while his mother was
kneading the dough for griddle cakes.
The lid of the kettle began to move up
and down under the pressure of the
steam beneath. At each rise and fall
of the lid the boy would say to himself,
"Jamie, mon, there's power there." Sud-
denly his mother turned around, and,
giving him a stinging box on the ear,
exclaimed, "And, Jamie, mon, there's
power there! To think of sic an idle
ne'er-do-weel Bitting by the fire while
hia puir, auld mither 15 a'most deid frae
work." Little did the honest woeeam
dream that the "idle ne'er-do-sveel,' af-
terwards the illustrious James Wett,
wa.s at that moment perfecting his ideal
and inventing the steani engine.
Another Scotch laddie, Thomas Car-
lyle, was born in the obecure village of
Foolefeehan' in Roxburgh, where.. only
himself andthe minister could read the
Bible; but he had an ideal -he saw a
chair waiting for him in the temple of
fame'and day and night and night and
day he bent all his energies to secure
that seat, and never stopped until he
occupied it as the greatest master of
English literature.
These sturdy Scotch youngsters had
ambition, they had ideals, but, just like
you, they did not know of what they
were capable until they tried.
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next block. In order to equeeze in the
twenty-three dramshops, one building
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A few are two storey buildinge, with
rooms for lodgers above the saloons.
From the Kansas City Times.
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THB LENGTH OF' ETERNITY.
eirs, C. W. McCulloch, of Chicago, on
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Peace, told a Chicago reporter that In her
Performance of marriage ceremonies she
eroposed to omit the word "obey,"
"Iu these enlightened days," said Mr.
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meaning in the marriage 'contract. So I
think we should drop this meaningless
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"The husband had been ;particularly nasty
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" 'Eight years ago,' she sobbed, 'you
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Christianity aims at the totality of our be-
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world from whieh its 'lines of intelligent
sympathy reach out everywbere. The home
-ne more than the indlvidual-does not ex -
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Strength of Ccocodile's Jaws.
Sir Samuel Baker in his book on wild
beasts says that the power of the jaws
of the crocodile is terrific.
Once he had the metal of a large
hook the thickness of ordinary tele-
graph wire completely bent together, the
barbed point being pressed tightly
against the shank and rendered useless.
This compression was mused by the
snap of the crocodile's jaws when seizing
a live duck which he had- used as bait,
the hook being fastened -beneath the
wing. On another occasion he found a
fish weighing seventy pounds bitten
clean through as it divided -by a knife.
This again was the work of the snap-
ping jaws of a crocodile.
A Frenchman, Paul Bert, once made
experiments on the strength of a croco-
dile's jaws by means of a dynamometer.
He found that a crocodile weighing 120
pounds exerted a force of 308 pounds in
closing his jaws. The lion has an enor-
4:101151 jaw power. An African traveller
once pushed the butt end of his gun in-
to a lion's mouth and the pressure of the
jaws cracked, it aa though it had been
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Herd of Cattle Sunstruck,
Hicks Myers, living about thirteen
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headof fat steers Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Myers had changed the steers from
a shady pasture to another about ten
eighth of a mile away, in which there
were no trees.
His boy discovered one dead about
noon and Mr. Myers, on arrival at the
pasture, found the whole herd closely
bunched, trying to get shelter from the
burning sun in the she& thrown by
their own bodies. He cut out all the
yearlings and drove them to another part
of the field, but too late to get the
herd to shelter before eleven had fallen
dead. The steers were worth about $65
a, total loss. -From the Trenton Repub-
lican -Tribune.
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Minatd's Liniment Cures Burns, etc.
A Socialist Debate.
A somewhat sensational incident oc-
curred at a Socialist meeting in Mahon
market place on Saturday, whieh ended
In the discomfiture of one of the organ-
izers of the Independent Labor party
o Searboro fishwoman. The meeting, it
appears, was one -of a series organized
for the propagation of the Independent
Labor movement in the York nistriet.
Mr. Rick, of Ruskin House, was the
principal speaker. After a strong
speech in support of Socialism from this
gentleman, an old Searboro fisliwomart,
who keeps a stall in Malton Market. ins
terpoged. Her. speech, delivered with
much force aud vomitiiity alat punctual,
ed with loud cheers, is thus reported by
the Yorkshire Evening Post:
"Their Socialism could not hold water.
What was their Socialism? It was pan-
dering to the idle and thriftless, and
urging them to pester the workiegman.
You are introducing atheism into our
midst. Socialism is another name for
atheism. I say, and I eau prove it, it is
the foundling of atheism. There is no
man -who ever stood on a platform -I
am speaking publicly and sensibly -who
tan introduce that aystem iitto our
midst without appealing to our common
ewnse and reason. It is an attempt to
etrike at our God, ettr King, and oine
country." -
This downright utterance seems to
have nonplussed the geritleitran frOin Ox.
ford, svho could find nothieg better to
report than the veinal* that here Wag a
Woman "canting about her eountry
when the only part she had itt it eves it
plant pot in her window." Time the lion.
ore .of the encounter remained. with the
fishwomen, who, content with the inn
prosmion she hed made, excused herself
front eontimaing the discussion by the
necessity s'Ite was under of attending to
her bur:items: "t have a bit of stuff to
-or 1 ant the lass that eould talk te
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Class commencing last Tuesday of each
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SOME OPINIONS.
There is nothing in the Bible, says a
minister of accommodating nature,
against marrying people while roller
skating. No, nor against doing so while
atauding on the head.-Chioage Record -
Herald.
Falstaff's forty knights in buckram
never created as much discussion as Veit-
ba.nks' forty cocktailat luncheon. -
Louisville Courier -Journal.
"Sleeves will be worn longer next
year," says a fashion item. If that will
add to the cod of dreases, the Average
husband may have to wear his trousers
longer, 100. -Washington Post.
It is not immoral to be rich, It is im-
moral only to bo rich unjustli. It ia not
a crime to make money, no matter how
much. It is a crime only to make money
unlawfully, no matter how little. -Min-
neapolis Tribune.
There are many discue.sions about
keeping young men on the farm -10 -
cent milk and dearer pies ought th help
8ome.-13oston Record.
In New York and other Eastern cities
milk is so high that the cream must have
hard work to rise to the top of it. -Kan-
sas City Journal,
A Kansas woman is suing a hotel be-
eallee there was salt in her ice water.
Possibly she regarded that as an insinua-
tion that she was too fresh. -Washington Post.
There are increasing evidences that
the supply of immunity baths is going to
fall far short of the demand,-Indian.s.polis News.
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The uninitiated are prone to look up-
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attraction, whose principal interest 'Ties
in the risk the aeronaut takes. This is
a mistake.
Like the automobile, the balloon re-
quires an experienced pilot, and when
such a one is in charge, serious or fatal
accidents are never recorded. Most bal-
loon clubs require all ascensions to be
made under a regularly licensed pilot
who receives his certificate from the club
only after having demonstrated hit fit-
ness. The pilot, who is willing to go up
only in favorable weather and to come
down at the proper time, need never
throw out a handful of sand and he can
prevent his balloon from coming dow,n
or can send it up. When he is ready to
land, he picks out a favorable epot
ahead of him, lets his balloon come
gradually down near the ground, Mita
loose the anchor which stops his pro-
gress, then opens the valve.agalp, if ne-
cessary. When the ear touches the
ground, he tears out the ripping strip,
and the balloon stretches on the ground
O flat and empty bag. -From. "Balloon-
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' Charlie and Dugald.
. (St. Themes Journal.)
Dugald Ross didn't have the staying
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(Toronto News.)
Chauffers should recollect that there
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"She's a very bright girl, isn't she?"
"Frequently, But It isn't sustalaed. There
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ISSUE NO. 42, .1907.
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A marvellous story of spontaneous
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Manner, near Dinapore, there lived a
saintly widow of the, Icoeri castle, and
if the tale is to be believed, it happened
that, one day, les she was lying on her
charpoy, fire began to issue from her
toes, and, spreading, soon enveloped her.
At length, when the mystic fire went
outs a police officer conveyed the salmi-
dering body to the District Magistrate,
who reproved him for the thoughtless
act that he had done in interfering with
what appeared to the villagera a divine
manifestation.
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Mrs. Wilson's husband was often oblig-
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"I don't know whether you are my
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am," replied the polite conductor. "It's
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west -bound car an exchange front an
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junction formed by a north -bound oar
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going south if the south -bound oar was
going north at the time it Was south of
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Kinard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia.
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