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and tlie tax-ridden public get a partial recompense, such as it is ! 

 provided they pay an admission fee. Thus, on the 7th of 

 February, ulto., the evening was imi>roved in Pilgrim Yestry, by 

 its " Social Union," in cultivating the memory of that eminent 

 expounder of Orthodoxy and consistent follower of John Knox, 

 — some paces to the rear, — Robert Burns ! One of the worship- 

 pers had left her " Heart in the Highlands," a fact which would 

 augur badly for future palpitations. Another sang " My Heart 

 is sare for somebody !" betraying a fleshly and miscellaneous 

 hankering on her part, or else that the doctor might expect a 

 speedy job. Finally, they paired (this was just a week before 

 St. Valentine's Day, take notice !) and the couples chirruped 

 forth, in a common gush, 



" My Love is like a Red, Red Rose ! " 

 which comparison, to say the least, usurps some license with Gen. 

 Jacqueminot. 



A few months later, in the same untaxed House of God ! its 

 "United Societies" offered "Selections from the poems of 

 Longfellow, with Dissolving Views ; " happily combined in the 

 felicitous description of the Poet : — 



" She has a bosom as white as snow, 



Take care I 

 She knows how much it is best to show, 



Beware ! Beware I 

 Trust her not. 



She is fooling thee ! " 



Cheap enough that for Twenty-five cents, and only half-price 

 for Sunday-Schools ! Can they beat it among the ascetics of 

 Utah ! 



Sucli is exemption in its actual workings ! What Taxation is, 

 you do not need to be informed by me. 



The First Official Record of this Society is attested by the 

 signature of Samuel F. Haven. Other gentlemen had held the 

 post of Secretary for weeks, or months, as a matter of accommo- 

 dation ; but, from 1841 to 1847, its increasing duties were 

 performed by Mr. Haven with that diligence and fidelity which 

 never failed to characterize him in whatever he undertook. The 

 volumes of your Transactions, in the earlier years, are enriched 

 by Reports from his pen, which was always ready, at call, to 

 describe flower or fruit. Editor of the National JEgis, in which 



