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 a*- .V JIltQF' S -â-  ./^ ^A TRUE ^fef^^ the gale and flie thnndcriBg moment eeased their tumult. 'i.vt Though it is nearly twentf yean ago mrnx the events related below -««*ptr«d,. 7«l the impression left my npon mind hama^yer faded or lost the vlTidaess of its 'ootHnes and though there, if' noi^Hbw really explicable about it^^At^e dash m^ mystery connected vit^ it fiae M^wps marked it in ^y memory :4Muiui;ingidftif%f an unusual order. We were driving on our way northwards from the ^oomy and savage neighborhood of O^p^ "^^9^1 liomewAird bod^- m Her Ma^^l^cQktaie dear old Mdf^vkUer, now, alas, long since consigned to the ship- btmm. T^icl itiolM-, Bfcg; fiiiiewara- li^d^sholilcr ^^ iSiSirairh^ms tight and i^ faces hdebtamoDg^ five hnodAd Ipuls but for all that, there was a general air of gloom in the ship, which was not to be ac- counted for save fay one theory only â€" that of superstition. lor things IumI not gone well with us since we had hoisted our home- ward-bound pennant. True, we had sailed out of Valparaiso Bay with the said pendant streaming away, and with all our " chummy ships" playing " thtvld Avid equaimtnnee be f ergot J " as we passed by thein4 and we had received and returned cheer npon cheer as we m-ide our way to the open sea while from the midshipmen's .berth had rolled up in a rich volume of soun^*, every night for more than a week bef6Ve°, the ol J stnOB'W^ellJ^nown aiuL so lovingly cher- iahadriil Br Majaity/sMrvice And when we arrire at Plymouth Docks, The pretty little girls come round in flocks, And one to the other they do say "Oh, here comes Jack w-ith his three years' pay; For Ijee he's homeward bou-ou-Mind. l^.^ for rajee ii's ^meward bAudd." T j. But still, as t say, things had not gone well with us. We had speedily left the warmth of the tropical weather, and had gradually found it ooldef and colder each morning as we made our way down south to- wards the dreaded Dape of Starins. That was natural and we were prepared for it but no sooner had we got to the latitude of the Cape itself, than the wind had shifted, and we had it day after day, night after night, a .hard gale right in our teeth. Bitter cold it was too, with tearing storms of snow and hailâ€" heavy thundering seas sweeping ns fore and aft, bursting in. on our weather- bow, and covering us with ^pray, that froze ere it fell upon our decks. Up aloft,- every- thing frozen hard â€" running rigging as stiff and unmanageable as a ste^ hawser blocks jammed with ice and snow canvas as un- yielding as a board men up aloft for an hour or more trying to take a reef in the fore- topsail, and then so stiffened with cold them- selves, as to be unble to come down with- out assistance; while below, the close, musty, damp, dark ship was the picture of discom- fort, her decks, main and lower, always wet, often with an inch or two of ice-cold water washing about on them soaking clothes hnng up all over the place, in the wild hope that they mipht evisittually get dry porta, and scuttles tight sluif to keep out the seas that thundered ceaselessly at them as the ship plunged and wallowea in the angry element; no nres allowed anywhere except at the cook's galley, whitA was always fully occupied and no warmth to be obtained anywhere except in your hanimock^ and even this, in most cases, what if^lir faulty stowage and leaky decks, was wiSt troB^i^ Daj after day^ nigbtafteVi|aj^^;his state of things kept on, ^tilt^^gra^plly crept in araibng the men â€" started^^e'dlra^, by the old^ hands, always and de^ly/mbued with iievwfr a ThenfoHowed i ^e graW and ^jrching ^^r^e^^^\ ^^^^^ temUed np irom below at th« h»U. some one else mnrt the spirit of superstition â€" a sort- oftdim su^- piiUng- destruction. picidn that witched, wad .a Jonah aboard the ship Was under a l^an â€" hti: in fact that, as th^.;^d, there and until hti w^t over toag,_we should never weather tifo^readg j ig^^^ mM-e so "by niaUV ' ««bn w Ci]?e;^ut were doomed to thrash fcdirtinujfly ^^ a^^rttet Ifedrof tmffitfSMe-^g, "lever ffaininp An nvch On nur • ^n ' i^ -v ?:. • %b wiiidwaid, never gaining an iiich On our way. ' 9tEaiigis as it may seem,' "'Sere wcris 'a[)atty,veiy many, among oJirbltA- jackets who held ^lisbehef firmly, .and expressed it o^fteiily. We, rf courae, in tiie midi^ipmen's berth, careless and I^nt-'hearted from our ex fauma jqath/ laughed at â-  thetgoldinn tones tft the old qilaftennafctera, \^ho employed their hours of midnight watch on deck in narrating to us similar instances of vessels which had been thus doomed to struggjfe j p^ ^i^iuqwa d^mi^ l ' h«#»S^Sp«!i»4U^o^^ paid the penalty of it. But, as'^fai ^tl^ c41p^W(^ utu(^^|^ fhip seemed unable to advance upon her home- trac^k,^ some of ns,. too, began to ohr' Blinds te--^ ihHuenced to ' rWho Bad«- aBea 4iiar-lMt tilQita? a4iiklM|«*'«^ Ho* ^_„ I m and BaiatJiAiaMi^nnlal at last the whole ship's compiuqr knew mat one of their number had gone overboardâ€", aresmnabbr in the morning watch proband ffwi^t off by a peculiaily heavy sea, well re- membered »â-  that wat But unknown, unheard, unseenâ€" his cry for help, if tuch a cry he gave, utterly drowned andamother- ed in tlu) c^asdesB roardf thejea, tha diriek S:^windj Andsotheril^^!eFe««nlBS- ,â- 'Schtoi^B8pedal dttW;^uid thepay- mSigferwas du^cted to' see that the fatal letters I). D. (Di«charged dead) were plac«l agajnst theuBhappyman'sname in the ship's boo^ â-  And now occurred a ditumstance which. too)ct|ie whole «hip by stqrm, as it were, and which, mere accident and coincidence as it WMT, made all the old. aeado^ nod their heads and eye the younger men meaningly, as who would say, " What did I tell you " while they, on their part, were firmly im- pressed with the lesson in cause and effect thus so pointedly placed before them- It was cloiie dpon noon when thefact of a man being lost was clearly estabUahed and «e the afternoon watoh was over, the sky had cleared, the storm had dropped, the wind had shifted right around, and was now blow- ing; dead fair There was no room for more argument â€" the oldsters had it all their own way the scoffers were silenced. The ship now, in a few hours, rounded the Cape, which before had seemed an impossible obstruction to her, and made her way un- hindered to the north but the feelings en- gendered by the events immediately preced- ing this change had taken too strong a hold upoU'the men to pass lightly away, and in many a long first or middle watch the Sub- ject of the disappearance of the lost ship- mate and its immediate effect upon the ele- ments was discussed with bated breath, and many an ominpps shake of the head was given as the oplMon was moodily caressed that " We'd not done with him yet." And wh^n, a few days afterwards, on a Sunday morning during divine service, the quarter- master of the wateh came creeping and tip- toeing down the ladder to report something to the commander, who at once followed him silently up the after-hatehway, but a few minutes afterwards returned and whispered mysteriously to the captain, who in his turn mounted on deck and did not comedown again, we all felt that something more might be in store for us, and was even now per- chance at hand. How impatiently we sat ,as the sermon dragged out its seemingly in- terminable length, and then, -when at last the blessing had been given and the quick sharp voice of the first-lieutenant had; issued the order, " Boatswaun's mate, pipe down " we literally tumbled up on the deck, to learn what it was that had disturbed the calm of that Sabbath forenoon. It needed but a glance. • "Icebergs " There they were, a long array of cold, filmy, shadowy giants, looming huge in the mist with which each surrounded himselfâ€" ghost- ly, ghastly, clammy spectres from the very land of Death itself. Not that we thought of them then as such no, we were glad, we youngters we liked them we said they were " jolly," though any object less gifted with an aspect of joviality one can hardly imia^ne. Each, as we^ieared it, wrapped us in its clammy shroud of death-cold fog, and chilled us to the very marrow, and, towjnSj ing far abovfe our nlainroyal-mast head, seemed to threaten us with instant and ap- tiiat, aeen â- ' 'So we B|ed on, iceberg after iceberg rs^og above the horizon as we held our course and, jf sources of t^xiety and alarm by day, •^'" " " " '-^ '"^^ *^ "Q^fepiwe en con- expect it. This was a splendid chance for fi^r^alkttti. Many a great solemn head was shaken, and many a jaw wagged with ^oomy forbodings over that unusual and une^piect- ed appearance of ice in the Southern $e^ By-akudbve^e wWl be|||n tafajHttf"' '•^^ o^^tM f4l #S""*»1*^t th hit Winliii Iti^^ down and a bright lookout forward, the old ship began' to shidM" her sides as she hurried way from those inhospitable seas with their ap^tral occupants towards the mPM. occupants towards the inviting J u 4.1. â-  -f*^ *«» » 'NJannth of the tropics' aiid the steady' bhwt certam degree ^by- the mysterious language ,4^^ a,e trade-winds. • aii4 ommM^ hi^sj^jO^ these itBi«U» .so much and our superiors'iri' •« tummg our elders in years, practical enterience. Matters had got to this piteh, ai^d change appeared about to'tiiJfe place ' aspect of the weather or the direction wind; whtn one wild aiid.' wretched forenoon' at seven bells (eleven-thirty) .the men wete piped to muster, on .the main-deck f»r that.. one drop «f comfort which they could look:' forward to in the. day-râ€" tbe aervbag out of tot " ai grog. Eaces t^ch M oompaiur, however large, ^like ft curreiK ]^| electrimy, and so it w»s in thiaca^B out at first the men kept it ' to themselvjes. conld opt long, however, be cenoM^lad presei^y- it spread to the .nii( berths' next, the 'wardfoodi ^^4 soon t^e captain ' hiniself was miitde the stis^ticiDU. ' Well 'I rein^Ser, how, we sat bi the cold, dmp,*] opinjforl^ess, berth, discussing' the matter with bo; eagemi^, tiie sudden. Shrill pipe of boatswaiFi'B niate botst m^h oturearis, follow- ed by the hoarse cry of ' Hands muster by open list r* So, then, the captain thought it important enough to make serious and of- â- fi "[fivj in to my haif^Kidden haaumock, I chum, a few pme morts. It ihm k wHd-^' Very wild Th^« was a" nnaU m(yn but tJie ci •'weiw hurt-ylngoVethc^^fiacein rt^sed, stream- el^, and Ib such coiditant'sbccitemoa, that her light was 'seldom visible ;- and when she did *liMir it for a fleeting moment, it fell upon a were .scions t^at somewhere, in its inmost recesses, lay concealed, as if waiting for its prey, a gigantic berg, but never knowing from mo- .„ „ ^i j i». j Silnt to moment when or where exactly *oi^JT^2tl" "l^ t^e'^^rememWed the chance for !^^ ' the fearful dangers t "BMiTimoW nothii^^boBt %at I can swear to It, What I ^^ b^t light on the "TtorboMd »«=» «u«c«rtae "Srboardwaurt lookout at th« Boient, and " I -w Itr and " I "' »' Soed several voice. but before the offi^ STvatch conld turn round towards the direction indicated, it was gone ««»* the starboard beam prMentedonc uniform sheet of impenetrable. Wadtoeaa. „ " Waist there What was it hke " Somethin' of a flash-light, I should sot, sir," replied the lookout " Very bright and very shortâ€" gone in a moment-like. By this time the cwtain and commwider were both on the bridge, and the whole ship was alive with curiosify. "What can it be!" ladted of the old boatswain against w4iom I brushed in the darkness as 1 walked aft i. " 'Tis a boat," said he " that's what rt must be. The cap'n he allows it's a boat, and he's pretty sure to be right Some poor â- ouls whose vessel has foundered among the iceâ€" whalers, most likelyâ€" took to the boats, they have. I saw that there U§ht mysejlâ€" seemed very close to the water, it did. They seen our lights, and burnt a flash-light U they got another, they'll show that, too, presently." 4 And now the voice of the commander rang out: "Mr. Sights!" " Ay, ay, sir," replied the gunner. " Clear away your two foremost guns on the maindeck, and fire blank charges at short intervals and get some blue lightSj and show them in the fore-rigging at once " " Ay, ay, sir. " And away -went the gun- ner to see his orders carried out instantly. But ere his head had disappeared down the hatehwayâ€" " A bright light on the starboard quarter " roared out the marine sentry at the lifebuoy right aft and once more every- body turned sharp round to find nothing to gaze at but the universal darkness. " Hands, about ship " was now the order; and in quick succession came from the bridge and well-known commands in the sharp, im- perative voice of the Ueutenaut of the wateh " Ease down the helm "â€" " Helm's a lee " â€""Raise tacks and sheets " c. And as the splendid old ship answered her helm like a boat, and began to fill on the other tack, " Maintopsail haul " â€" for our courses were furledâ€"" Head braces " " Off all, haul " and we were on the other tack. The ship was now brilliantly illuminated by half-a-dozen blue lights burnt in her fore and main rigging while, as we began to move ahead once more, our bow guns blazed forth from the maindeck one after the other â€" a roar which we fondly imagined would be more welcome than the most delicious music to the ears of the poor storm-tossed castaways in that frail boat which we now hoped to rescue from the wrath of the raging sea. At intervals there appeared again the bright but transient flash which had first attracted our notice and through the roar of the waves and the shriek of the wind, we at times imagined that we could hear human voices shouting no doubt for help, and all eyes were strained to the uttermost through the blackness to try and discern the first glimpse of the boat itself. The last flash had told us that we were steering directly for it, and on we sped, our blue lights hiss- ing and flaring in our rigging, our guns ceaselessly roaring out our sympathy and bur desire to save. " Keep a sharp lookout forward there " â€" " Lifeboat's crew, fall in aft " and we prepared to lower the pprt quarter-boat, which •was told off as a "lifeboat " â€" that is, for any purposes of rescue, although the state of the sea was anything but favourable for boat-duty but when we thought of that .poOr boat tossing- about oq the storm-vexed sea with its freight of shivering and half- drowned men, ay, and maybe a woman or thaiâ€" Hoir do I earolun them Inruht lights Answer me this Wwe Aras li^te ornery »rtaia Bto Z?^ lights, It amy have been an honest merehantman, outward-boimd, and too intent upon mi^ng to " speak" ns, out never- fttswams opinion was pretty genoaUy accepted as the'oorrect solution of considered to be an qcean mys- which they Ri^resented, no man hesitated, and had volunteers been called for to man the lifeboat, the whole ship's company would have come forward. WeU can I i^meinber the almost' choking fe^8 .0^ th Mikf ul iv MS,,Jnniy, own heart '^[il#^*irtbou" j|^;3ld'j;y of these poor outcasts at the prospect of so speedy a rescue, and anticipated the delight of wel- coming them on the quarter-deck of so staunch and safe a ship. But all in a mo- ment my anticipations and my sentiments of gratitude were scattered to the winds. " Keep her away, sir keep her away " came a r9ar from the forecastle. " You'll be Si^rin to mv'S^£n.:i5{^^ '!S^_?*^*P«? ^^'^..A fi^r^: fAU-rigged ach man's " tot "ol grog. ^-^w. .^_ â€" â€" j 1.1 i.^... -^ other tames wom.a look of gloom, were' Wack, townnff, angry sea, whose waves broke brightening under .the influence of the hpHt J ""c^"'?i'«yf««n *» they feU baffled the ever-present growl was sftSled for a 0° ^hebow of the great Aip, or tried to leap while the joke began .to. paai^ueond as the' JS!!*f^ \°'^l • 9^?V^: " T^ " blood warmed and fleamd more rapidly "^[y^*. «»• ?»°«'«bneTkingm^ tiirou^ the veins, when.a whimperâ€" a sort t 7**?^â„¢f "gging, andthe old ship hersel of mutUred suggestion, made i^b* witUdB St^fSJBSSf^^^^^t^^T ** *1 ^8^^ were aUoweSf to hx^" and no freA kind of apolo^c reluctance, bat with gAlPpPJf*â„¢^â„¢; and ones were lighted " «™ o«. ana no Iresh uxe con^en^^atfd MWstence a. it^ed cr«Jdng, groaning. «"»!. »mphuning ks she j th^ero^STouS^eS^*' .d namTne ship right ahead of us Up went our helm, and the ship's h%ad 'doff^j^ aawe sj^in^ °MSS,^ in the i?S°5PT*^ii^'W inP^^Â¥wly make ^^" %l?]^lp9%'gPnmt UpeakaUe cr, tne-mige, sTi«Rwy, ghostly outline of an unusually large vessel. No signs of life appeared lAont her. The light which had first«mtaa»9 our notice was now no longer to be seen. Her masts, yards, arid sails were only just visible^not as a hltak hard shadow agaMistlh^a%, bu!fc faale, spec- tral, as if mere vapourâ€" barely to be disoem- able, yet leaving no room for doubt There she sailed, a, heritable phantom ship. All hands gaiAd Mi l^x. in siletace. The blue -subject, of you, I f all sci- ence, and at the same time upon the strong hold which these weird bodies have ever had upon the imaginations of men. In ancient times temples were built over the me^rite images .thi^ fell do^n from Jlipiter, and div- ine worship was paid them, and in these lat- ter daryrs a'metleSOTiiAe stone that fell last year in India bepa^n^ the object of daily anoint- ings and other ceremonial worship. In the fearful imagery of tnie Apocalypse the ter- rprs are. deceived by thwe^ fjalling ' from heaven a great star burning as a torch," and bythesttirs of heaveta ^llini^"unto the earth af a %7lree ca^teth her. unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind The " great i%d'di*gon, having aeven heads and ten horps, and upon his head seven dia- dems" is presented in the form of a huge fire-balL " His tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth." Records of these^f eared visitors, under the name of flying dragons, are found all through the pages of the monkish chron- iclers of tbe middle ages. The Chinese ap- pointed officers -to record the passage of me- teors and comets, for they were thought to have somewhat to say to the weal or woe of rulers and people. By gaining in these later days a sure place in science, these bodies have lost their ter- rors, but so much of Our knowledge about them is fragmentary, and there is still so much that is mysterious,, that men have lov- ed to speculate about their origin, their functions, and their relations to other bodies in the solar system., It h^ been easy, and quite common, too, to mftke these bodies the cause of all kinds. of things for which other causes could not be found. They came from the mOon they came from the earth's volcanoes they came from the sun they came from Jupiter and the other planets they came from the comets they^'came from the nebulous mass from which the solar system has grown they came from the fixed st»« they came Jj^m the depths of space. They supply the sun with his radiant energy they give the moon her accelerated motion they break in pieces heavenly bodies they threw up the mountains [on the moon they made large gifts to our geologicf strata they cause the auftras they give regular and irregular changes to our weather. A comparative ge- ology has been built up from the relations of the earth's rocks to the meteorites a large list of new animal forms has been nam- ed from their concretions and the possible introduction of life to our planet has been credited to them. They are satellites of the earth they travel in streams, and in groups, and in isolated orbits about the sun they travel in groups and singly through stellar spaces it is they that reflect the zo- diacal light they constitute the tails of comets the solar corona is- due to them the long cHXnal rays are meteor-streams seen edgewise. On-His Holidajs. " Very interesting scenery, sir," observed a dapper^ loodl^-dresS^Cotf^ey tourist to a hard-fctotured^ grim-Jpoking Scot onboard the Loch Katrine steamer, " Im ple«usedye think sae;" answered SaWney. "fiiepleto with 'istqrica^ hsfesQciatlopa." "Maybe, but I dinna k^ onything aboot tJlert.'" "What "%zcl«iihed the C^yiman, "sure- ly, su^j^y^ 'ave read the wojtks of your great countiyinan. Sir Walter iScott, the ' Wfeard of the Nortii ' yoni knolr." A Never'-eveh beard •' hini, Vha was hp,y'-j" Sir^that is â-  perfectly Kiici^edlblte-; ybii a Scotehman, and'»eyeri*Affd trf the matt- who wrote the WaverlxNevels, Manpion, Jhe Lady of^the Lake, ima ilfthat sA-tof t^g " "Never iniiylifeif! ^Ifac diaf^iuMtf Cockney turned away wijih-, a ;muttei;f^ expression of coh- temptatsubh atriEKsidiis' ignorance, and'an individuaifwhw owfilea** Ae colloquy, blushed for hjip ;uninfprinedcompatriot, and took an o'ppbrttnfilW 6l SsErig whether his confession ftaikciMikftTiiiiii°'Toot, man," was the testY reply. "I,didna want to hikie any o' fiSft S^lHsh idiot's sentimental bletlwrin:, iBWp-d 0^]iB^y gjpott Ifer th^ last twelve months I've had enough of Sir .Wah«»j8abtivftu«ltAi« i^ovelt too. I'm a htkYe been .. -.rkai I'm on my l^oHdavl, tnaa, mti mksm^he batheredi apeakin' abopt.sl^p ' Older hands onoe more aheok their he^m last of that poor feller as fell overboard older hands onoe n which barely Ik^' â„¢5°**»'«"'"*in«moref;rS^to do. iL aaij ^^ -^^^' fWeterious strangii rtS S?*v^^^y ascerJaJn on auch a night, t was to ^®* °" ^^ °° ™« ""1 Wch we%siaj| i«iof,the.SfifiPtSt£ w'"^?Aff*^'*^^^ff^«^' ^JHe,'fea4»..^i)dering ?^!L, ^.^«_^*1,^« =0«W «» he too m^'.i^'tMo^i^r, •â- M: ;-:o /• ;*»;.- We ongfct^ m fusiEice' to^yonth,tdilMklii M"^,, .-~.-^~ tO'»xpiwt^lUWir«ik tiia aiAm pertmanejB ?*.*^^mt?^tj»,,Ai,e d^ht»rsr^- lence, to revel In fUe ei»i;cise$ cliiriBf^, to 'â€" 1 enthusiasm in-oott^i|tttil^ ff^^ i. feel Yoi and but Y^fm J9l«^ Ipiwieitb^ i**«*ge ]^94( Ji)|fr4«PdAM|itw^tingrigidat- hort its perfoi .-.»'.-.. dire neoessif" bt nm 'Ti nl dn^Ota nder. i^ they as much of it le. nalneOtith â€" â€" ypars or ]^orQ cifie. Btttlia v^ose fivefhttodrea. _T .^-â€"s- wW«ieilM*^nMe^«3^ ras «ii0«eilAp»J(fl^ dSd Benc* T,5^o^H^«;|hMS»#?,:r be seas !- Then tliip andfiiaioot-if *heBrt^%4i'artS«*rWtf SSS^S!^; "?***• **'»°^' ^^ ^^ ^^K^Srteiirfer,* second time » tv«Kii â„¢- » -si ^vM*!^^' â-  ht ItaSe^ Waitti " No, BT !^ ri«(^';t^'Jftrdki-' wHi Inad awake 'Don^teUi n ., ^, me," said the boats^win. as ever know what betame ' ell, " t:/. v-r-'i *»jt^ mm •!. 3 I I thenâ€" did we «,« »uuw wnat bei«i»A «* '-* iras dtowBded,lS's what that i^S^J slot, ^Uct â€" " I am so glad to see yqtf fcokihg SJM4MM^PP7' X our wedding toHr was no^oflongdoration, I notice. Verji sen-. nble, very sensible. " ^^' Bndoâ€" ' My husband was perf^J^'-wiU- ug to prolong the tour; but I kbbvi rtiiat b-pewncewa. required at l^iflf^.Ms Callei-« Very few brides are sirteoiisiai e»teasthat" i -a;. .:•. ^â„¢VV^**» I ceased to be a bridfty^ryi :» «»riy 1 In lessthana week I becamfe i?w3e?' ' Oallerâ€"'I do not nndentand." SJ'"" w^fc~"^« ^~1 not been vmnMi »« J^ before he .Aed me to eew l«fe^»,b,fc| ifcnJB vi'•^:^• the end of hU mal valley, bling and «•. me through tWSM"i, go alone " TW^ ^. t**! neither can Ili^^fttrtC' othersaid, "i^^'sioii^, trance of the vaUev^****^ speak well ofSJâ„¢ ^aTJS thou hast ent»^,Htitl thy name abroadTr' ""y W " thendid£tl;2»^,t fneudwhowa8n,C"«fL and said, "Corned »*ld even enter this LK^'^tilrjl the friend said, " T ^„*"WCJ forsake thee." "*«»1((»J Hear now the mt, ble. The three «l"'"°:*"»»i di Wealth, and F^mrfe"' 80Uls0 800nasitcom«.i *«l second continues to JJ!? fort up to the iZZ ' Bb. J buttCghtht'S"'^^^ up at the entrance „fc"'«^ one pemiy has ever bl"**' shadowy vale. ThethSo^i which writes epitaprcT^«»l smgs of departed Xtrl'""' 8ta8ythelWngl„i1??3i ButthefaitHtentr^;- though some therW^f^ sweet name of Live wifH the bosom of God """' love to man. This !.«*.; she will ,ot,orsake\h:X. her, even m eternity • Z 7." pl^ his cause beforetheil!?! and her pie that hath a soul and her plea shall p.°.:ra that hath a soul Moure A. .1 faithful friend ' '"«J FicMen Wherever there is ficklenp«râ„¢ withtruthtohimwhoiscSr Thoushalt not excel" Ib^. continually changing his occupaCj stantlymovmg from one siC other, fails to better himself ni!l and lives only to illustrate thepto^ the_ "roUmg-stone." The i ' saying, ' ' Beware of the man of by which they marked their api the quality of persbtence, and he who has mastered one snbject â„¢ is always a more formidable MtoSI your scholar who so overloads lmbriii| the production of others that it is im for him to exwcise the pvet ol « thinking. Daily we see that lie 1, " fociissed" himself upon someomi is pushed into the front, while tlw| spread themselves over many, orgivt selves now to one tiling andnowtoa. are rarely heard of among men. Heii always changing from object to lik ishes nothing, and his life at last i a heap of detached stones, whickiikil but kept to one plan, might havekealf into a stately and commodions abode. Ignoiance. Probably there is no quality mortd in dispelling ignorance than ftea which dares to confess it The chilil li fast, chiefly because he has no s fear of being thought uninformed. 1(1 all manner of questions without aiyr of misgiving, and exposes his owi r cies without any feeling of shame oti It is by his free and eager inqunies i improves so rapidly. Were he ffl show his ignorance, no one could ml out of it The enforced school-leaoifi^ comprise nearly the whde of his eW and even they could not be «d»pt«l«J individual mental needs. A* it A genial and kind-hearted pe""" he comes in contact is interestw to his stock of knowledge. ,The waiL ilege might be enjoyed by fte M^ a feeling of shame prevent him from " knowledge in the same natm^«"' way. But, as the yean pa" "« " feel that the confession of #« pose him to ridicule, f f"'"^, Sure, and he therefore hides It «ii« ever pretext he can find. justiy the state man can act " j'"â„¢"" «.t hypoo" he will Me""9Tul^rho^. iU,tr«e.,TheyiB4J«;';for». SLnf their speech "ito decepf 4 to bend their actions thui. ,, there is a dispction to^^,tn* actions are not so »ptf '^Bt with his real feehngs «!!«' Home. HomeisBometun«tl^' ^„_ Actions I We should P'lf.'"";J|^'A' rather than by thf^J*^ «J actions are the best, "g^ thoughts and feehng*. y^^^i menlreabletoe^-m^JI wwthestateoftheu-h-Jte^f^ tfi»t«^ source not ""y -,7. jmot «"»"' sacred "nemones, bj^jg^rfai* est and noW««*^"^fSietf** s love, the fidehty, ^J^im^ Jacrifice tbat.are^^S;-!^ among the "ehest po«^ ,Btf»J'J Such life can ne^'^^S*'^;. Smmdn.place.2t^g;*,^- prehenditsmeanuigori?' ony with it. jastasthehm^^U-;^, That or'er •* ??^Sdh««J^j««* ' And yl««r*,ZS«S«**ftr*"' WhosemiUJonJ** -° 1^ love •bWe* ^e;s^^^^ j: i""^. ' pll see about ft. Bless than four, a Ir Davis measi apples and gave ^W and kiss Sy Titus, and gav K him in a baske ^onse. Isky had all at on nd began to blow matter worse, To _i the room in a fit E's all 'cause he k: JB," sobbed Ava, m mamma's lap. J was gaved away by more. And th nd I don't like_'er smiled in fthelp offering fShe said ipaybe ' [home again, the se he would, hers* Ive heard of sue ^en she told Ava avelled forty mi