

ic 



MOOSE'S ... BW-YG 



■ 



groped after <■■ 

 stitiou On? fees! 



in mil time we i 



prompted Oi. i 



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for the day.- ol I ipai i from 



other* bj thi d I 



i ■■ insd al I 



...!■,■ i. ■■:,,. ■ to boot . 



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I lie churches 

 i.v ungi la i" 



Dunixai "ii tbepocl that penned those lines, 

 iim) their fellows of the SWBOt poem lhat found a 

 |dmi' in in v memory tunny and many a month ago. 



1 '"' ' ' '■■" ■ ■ ii !"■!'■ ;il"iii' willj my thoughts, 



lo the oeasolass dropping of the water 

 from the low I.i.imh ,:,n'- where (he swallows 



neawd in ■ ammi i, i looking -mi at (he dull 



land ■ . through beavy banks of fog, that trail 



■long the '"!■- "i hills, and settle heavily into 



tt« rolloj [have tried to I g book the picture 



"i the green mi ndow with its Fringe of willows, 

 river, nnd Up lUii i all ablow on it, 



■ f morning 



fflori . a I n wi el ago Tli i igh al] the meadon 

 and upland I brown nud »eer, aud not a leaf flut- 

 ters on thebough,yol aaplainlj as I saw it then 

 do I now sco tbivt vision of the fresh . 

 ■ ummor [have but to shut By eyes and the 



»wi a i .. i. . . . ,i , gbimmeriogof 



(I..- Wfttor, i. ml the whilvii. -, „: On h.u - ... .,:. 



boron Erie Nay, I « .,. fool tbe tremulous touch - ! 

 "■■ wi ■ .m-i.i. U4 it came Mealing over league* ol 

 billowy prnirie, beating the delicate breath of a 



11 rod blossoms with it, and the mnslc born of 



all low, Bjurmnrons - I- Thank Qon, thai 



wl i. ootj . ■ i- ,.„,| V1 ,„|,| r.,.1,., „!„,„ 



Iberia .H- glowing Impress remains "among 



the beautiful picture- thai hang on memory's wall." 

 W ■: Col with a hasty trend like 



phoii i, making 



inn! with the ni>! hems first sung 



wondering anaphora on Judca's 



from lip to I jp should pass the 



■■'..., „ " 



The Mew Veur is ti more solemn day on many 



(counts, and yet il has in it far less of d&sp wli- 



otu meaning, Evei v day of our lives is to us n 



■ ■ I. n- tin-, iiinl .should he us s.-noush 

 itercd upon, but it is well that there should be 

 nes when the burden of lif.' should be laid dow _ . 

 id tbe soul look backward over tin- way ,i hit 

 me, iiml forward over what lies before. 

 As I write the snow is again Galling, great, 

 feathery Elaki i, thai ding like stars i<> « veiiiinug. 



Talk of the delicate Amu.' Was ever so dainty 

 sprite as the spirit of the snow-flake? Robed in 



garments that vanish at a touch, yet flo.il unsullied 

 through leagues of blue air, horn, perchance, from 

 a dew-drop in a rose's bosom, wafted about wilh a 

 fleecy cloud, sent down in (lie rain, caught up again 

 by the sunbeam, tossed hither and thither, till ili>> 

 winter prisoned it, gave it a pearly robe, mid not 

 it sailing down again to wear ft queenly in inr|, tui 

 Tluekcr and faster come the 

 flakes, nnd the meadowsare already whitening. If 

 1 lit sunset, ami piles ii into Imii; 

 drifts ami mounds, and how Is down tin- eh.mnoi , 

 io hemlock lir, on. he--, pii-t On- w i in l.iw 

 then nil night long I shall lie awake 

 and listen, and think of ships di- 

 ning roofs through which 

 the air creeps search in gly, and muting thus I shall 







"Qon pity tin- poor, 



n,gh« 





* lav. 



trncklc".. ■■ .,.,;, tm . iby , uc 



-i u ii new created wonder, with even 

 limb piled high with a downy weight; all it's 

 roughness covered, and all it- stiff boughs strung 

 «">"»■'" 'i ■ .- i>-aiiiifu1 as those that clus- 

 tered Hi. iv last Juno, The clouds of browu snow- 

 blrdj dashed Into the Iu.um hes and out again, half 



frightened 0.1 the showers thej si k fromthem. 



Tl ' r !■'". i and the eodan wore stooping to the 

 ground with the burden thai had full, n ,.n i !„...„, 

 until, ns ihe sun rose higher, thoy treed them- 

 selves, limb In liu.l. !,.|,„ ; . hill,. avalanche, of 



,n *™ ' I od tbeii dark green foliages, 



! ■ ' "•*« itasii ■ ,,i delight, and 



||IM '- K ,M ■ " ,l ' i m- I,, -i „|„m,.> n ,,|, ,|„. 



ll " 1 "- '■■ j Uoy.olappod hex dimpla u, , 



,] "' n "l'l"''' rosj h.with many an cxclama- 



■' l of baby wonder, "It is the first 



AMERICAN WOMEN, 



An exchange paper says it is a matter of common 

 observation, that English women belonging to the 

 higher classes nnile with their mental accomplish- 

 ments] far greater robustness and strength of phy- 

 sical constitution than are usually found in the 

 females of this country, and nil are ready to admit 

 Unit the hitman form, in classic nntii|nily, fur ex- 

 ceeded, in perfection ol symmetry and vigor, the 

 ordinary development of the present day. Look 

 at the women of our higher circles, wilh their thin 

 and willowy forms, their pole nnd sallow faces, 

 t'.cir inability to endurr the slightest exposure or 



fatigue. Observe, in all claaaeg, how early the 



cheek loses its youthful freshness; how common 



are complaints of ■■ delicate health;" how mm ,■, ,■,] 

 the appearance of fragility. If mothers, instead 

 of compelling their infant offspring to live u- pns,,i, 



Col. Moouk— Your kind 

 letter were very well, and I feel all the Same thank 

 ful to yon for them as though they had done me 

 an; good. The Burl ,-. mj (al was all in the Bre 

 nforc you sent them, ond nothing left of my grand 

 brush hci.p ..I honors l,„t ||,e brands and ashes of 

 disappointment, I've had my troubles— I've lost 

 my cuttle, had my horses die and my sheep, and 

 the boys steal my nice melons, luit I never yet, in 

 all these troubles, had anything take me down as 

 something that happened after I wrote yon that 

 letter about being put up for a member of the 

 I.- iguuatura to get a bridge over the Toemuddy. I 

 considered myself the same U nominated, and had 

 speech all by heart, that I was going to 

 make when the people tiilleil me out In n crept it 

 I had made It more ,,,,,■ ft thni - to the oxen when 



I Was wil „■ 1,1 o;,,. ,1 ■ , ,,, ,.. ,.„!,, ,| , 



land, and II,.-, , t „,.,„, ,]„ , . i„ , , 



■>"(• friends dead, l bope 



■ friends dead; 

 y has been hi re I 



ir the Assi mbly.' 



thing!.. to. 1. I 



"Well," says I, "thi pi I 



down at the <\r mi . ' _t,nt | thougl 



"Ah, Jons! it'sn bad -:-r, n bei ■, 



ni anything that he's afraid t.. \<-.<\< i . 



If I am not to share your confidence ns I kvi 



always shared it, iia.'i, i shall be unhappy . idei d 

 "Bnt I did mean to tell you all ab n i 



"And then it would have been too late, for 1 

 should have felt bad to see you deiem.-.t. n„ 

 thought of it would bring me n,,-,-, , » 



Why.doo'lyousee, ll I .jot el.vte.l j , ,,, 1 1 I,,,!,,. 



Hon. Mrs. I'lowdasolb, and we can go to the 



Legislature together, and you can see all the great 

 folks, nnd we shall net invited to dinners and sup- 

 pers, and all sort of places." 



no ambition, my good John, (,, .],,,.,. „, 

 anything beyond the deserving wife of on honest, 

 idependcnt man. We're getting old, John, and 



"Yes, but then there's the bridge over the Toe- 

 mddy." 



"Ii will be a bridge of sighs lo me, nnd groans 

 'you, I fear. No, no, my kind, good Jons, don't 

 let your patriotism deceive you. It's more ambi- 

 tion than any Oiing else, that is taking ^.,, awaj 

 from yourself and from your happy home. Cnn 



"Not this side of Paradise." 

 "Then why not B tayr 



I was getting soft fast "Bnt," says I, "how 

 can I get out of the scrape? I promised to stand it, 



Why," says she, "just as easy; go to Smith 

 I tell him to take your place. lie's niter the 

 widow McsM.v,— she won't have him; bul if he - 

 going to the Legislature she will have him right 

 off - . Ij.il," says she, putting on her glasses, l,„,k- 

 ■ — v " ,v ^"'- f"d taking up her work, • | ,1,,,,'t 

 ant to do northing to make you unhappy, jV.iis, 

 id if you think it best. I'll try to he satisfied." 

 Perhaps, Col., you will think me rather faint- 

 hearted to have a woman rule me so, bnt I eooldn'i 



ielp it. I gave right up. I don't believe von ooutd 

 i&ve got me away from my nulcakes and eider if 

 on would have made me President. Savs I, 

 Floka, I'll never leave the home where there Is 



THE EARLY DEAD. 



SABBATH MUSINGS. 







Wn 







) he t 



livered to a 



eJo. 





v them 



mil plenty 



, there would grow up a generation of 

 ;utally as well as physically mperioi 

 the cadaverous, angular- shaped" walking skelct 

 -li nofl frighten the foreign stranger, and 

 hastening rapidly to early graves. Upon this s 

 New York Express mokes s ■ wise - 





gestic 



"We would advocate, or tallier insist upon, the 



Ltaehment of a gymnasium toevexj 



ivery house, it would prove an 



ring o 



e tint 



- coat, in |,hv i 





,,i, in, , 





'" I 1 "' 1",\ liu-ri . I,„ l,e,| ILcin-el., . ,,>, ■ ,., , 



and ii..- oloor, trustful eyes si an bed uw f..,-,- (bi 



'■''Ii ■! Hi 1 I, | , ,,,,| | |, „,!.;,., | |,, || ,,|| Wa . 



dawn into the bright, upturned face, as I thoug 



In n ".I.", Id aei aft , in,. ,„., „,,„!, i . 



,!l ll..- joy a 



' ■ | "i f In , IfOrW An. I rel snow is r 



.■.■I beroavemen 

 , '" 1 '■' 1 '", of the oomlbrt and consolation 11: 



i . Bjl " i" D the flowers 

 aad the earth i 



:■■.-< bldl . ■ ■ ■ 



II wial., I,. „ 



... I 

 ■ 







erown tad glorj ol ti,. 



thi !.!■■ d Gkrittmai, ' ' 



; wed dowobr 



■ 

 "ryonr k, . o( , I]L . ,, av 0(J 



Were tir»t ,1, 



ol the humblest 



totUirer, besral.kr.oI.li, thei - 



* ^kw story ,.i lb, Bi h „, Bsthlehei ■ 



, medicines, and nurse's wages. A frolic every 

 day with the 'reclining board' or the 'parallel bars/ 

 would put to flight many juvenile nilmeuts, banish 

 tbe physic hollies from the shelf, and shed a glow 

 cheerfulness throughout the household. The 

 iclits that would result to the community and to 

 tire generations from such a system are abso- 

 lutely inealculoble. The erils of a liot-bed educa- 

 tion, where culture of the mind is attempted, with 

 neglect of physical development, ore not so uni- 

 versally recognized ns they should be. The old 

 ndag. ■ tana in eorpoH mho'— shows the 



ancient estimate of ihe parallel culture i,| body 

 nnd brain. The dependence of the integrity of the 

 bruin on the health of the body— the need thai 

 organ has of rest as well as exertion, ought ever 



to be borne in mind. Nature si |,| |„. allowod 



1,11 , "" 1 '" ban lizing the employment of the 



batellcel with physical activity, by alternate exer- 

 0I ""- A '" 1 "" Bchool deservei patr gc where 



this M,l.|,,-| has U „t due COIl-i,l,.|, 1 



u: e,l 



io prints the Spread Eagle, i 

 ?ch in that paper, with somi 

 ul mo and the RtnuL. Suits 

 iggist kind of a charactei 

 rs pretty well. However 



A day or two after I sent you that letter, o 

 evening when I had finished reading the pape 

 and folded up my spectacles, and turned round 

 toasl mj feel at ihe stove, a little before going 

 bed, mother (who had been darning stockings all 

 (he time on the other side of the stand.) says, 

 looking up from her work, "You had a pretty hard 

 «*— to-day getting out the logs from the sv 



it," says I, "mother, 

 Hock of chickens von 



egg of my hop,-, and ' v "' v " 



i Soriptui 



:o.nii.K mat ■' good " deeds, such as will be accepted 

 it ihe lost, if they are not those that mm call good 

 in indeed such » 5 seem to us to synon withth* 

 But how sadly are we mistaken 

 |, - I,T '""■ Nidged io ti,,- perftetstahdardofthat 

 ™ " "■' :i ■■ none righteous, uonol one " There 

 a no "goodness" nor "righteousness" in the 

 ■ ■■' <vh<ttth. S\vH<n/»-o>,.,/,t> con 

 aw tie- world lying ,„ „•,..'.■../„. t— not in good- 

 iess— and brought down a perfect i i-lite, 

 'I Ins own for sinners to bo clothed j 



the "filthy mgs "of//,.,, own, An a. 



" '.^erefore, only as it is done In the fat th of the 



righteousness of QbUst; and "had," that which is 

 done with a view of ..l,ia, ,,,„..- , ,H,|. ,.„,„,,. hy 



ki oping the low 



iugle feat, ue d,, men - the best of men — 

 '■■' 'i 1 "'" law, Fbi .i requires us to love Clan w!tt 



■ ll1 <*>■■ heart, nnd all the soul. Ac, and to love onr 



owghboi aaourull a thing winch ii is absolutely 

 P08Sibl0for/<lIis» nature to do asiugle moment, 





lung.. 



Uut t 



thunders its GondasmattoOi '■cursed 

 D thai continue!!, nol in all things that ai 



"Feel tired, do 



" Hain't been s 

 "Maybe you'd 



s a Qbguy hard job.' 



t you 



tx-noon ExKRCMB9>-Pemole8 wl ■ mueheon- 



i-doors, often sutler ill-health f..r the 

 olsi [i itur .I, i,. .I.. i- It, and bealtb 



"'" ' " Tl "' skippine rope, thi 



aumn-bi lis, 1 ■:, ,., ll -i ij 4 C#1 arc 



all aids to the t.:,,,,,, ,1 i 



■ : Idi ii , it ia 

 ■ men, ns well as /M i , 



! " ! ■ 'I' 1, I'lllilin.i.l ,d ihe Minn- laws, 

 ■ 



m, than between the ... 

 I 



i —who look 

 "l"" 1 " ll " ' ' . table and the 



■ 



■ oimd health— axe leas 

 e, than those 



■! be walks ol (sah- 



ions-Mc life- - & 



The next, day I went over nnd told Smith how 

 mailers stood, ond that he must take my place 

 Says ho, "I can't think of it." 



"But- yon must, though, besides wife says the 

 widow will giro right in the moment you're nomi- 



"Does she say thntf" 



"Yes, and women know about such things." 



"Bul if I'm elected, Jons-, you must go and help 

 lobby the bridge bill,— can't U 'et along without v 



"Weil, I'll s. ■ 



After all, Ci 

 rather bad to I! 

 grass. Still, 1 ... o . 

 know she's happy, and it makes me feel happy to 

 know it— but then to have had one of your corres- 

 pondents so soon after be had come "out in vour 

 paper get to be an Hon.. I feel sorry on your 

 account. 1 don't suppose I shall write any more. 

 now I have gone back lo my native significance— 

 foryour readers wont take the interest in a man 

 that's down as they did in a rising one. Although 

 by those things I am made a "wider and solider 



e about that." 

 , I do, between y 

 ik all my One plai 



re) Col.,1 amove] yours, to com 



• JOHH PlQWHASDl a. 



ranLLcra thus happily describe* the gradual 

 coming on of twilight: 



Slowly, slowly, tip the wall, 



o Wast 



consummated on the cross. It was there "Jtero 

 bled." Hownsa'Tunsomeformaiiy." " He was 

 made a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours 

 only, but for the sins of the whole world."— 

 \','l lb- now ..ills upon us ti) hoi to Jinn— th 

 >>•!,, .', that he feu indeed " l„,ii„. m his own body 

 the sins of the whole world"— that He has u $atfg- 

 fitd the !■§/■■ aud so believing, to And our safety 

 |) Sit0t. There is not a man in 

 itceped in crime and pollution 

 who may not this day for himself say, "He has 

 e of the law " for me. The reception 

 of this truth into his henrl is his conversion ihr 

 he .W* his BATtonl In this he learns of God's 

 -for this, ho enmes to love 





.■ Hi, 



Tln-n Is thai I 



- I, ,,„].. i,| 



l„ lie! in 



', Jan., lew, 



bite before going lo bed?" 



" It wouldn't be bad," says I. not thinking that 



""■ waa any cat uuder the meal, for it's no nn- 



11111 i thing for her to do just so when I've had 



hard day's work. 



Pretty soon she came back with a big plate 

 ht-npi'd up full of nutcakes. nnd set them down on 

 the stand beside me. Now, Col., nutcakes are my 

 hi art's d< light; I like 'em common, very well, but 



great, fat, sweetened nutcake, that's been fried a 

 little crisp on the outside, and only just got almost 

 cold, it's nice pudding, and custard pie, and mince 

 pio all pn l into one. Golly! I wouldn't swap 

 lilacs- wilh Queen Victoria if T couldn't have 

 sweetened iiiilciikostinee in awhile. "Perhaps," 

 says she, "you'd like some of that new cider you 

 QxCd the other day." 



Says I. " that will be the last step into Eden." 

 1 ■ I SO ns il wouldn't 



-'■"^ ""■'■■ ■ ■■ Anvi y may have nice 



eider oil the year if they will only take a little junns. 



So she braughl iii the mug of cider and set it 



dowti on ihe stove-hearth to warm, and put the 



■• ■ • "ii the -luii, I. and >,,( ,|„wn lo her work ii^ain 



1,1 "'"■ l "" 1 - d bo |. !<■,•■, .1 ,nd happy, that I irant- 

 IfolinL-and k,-s her. aliuo-t as Lad as when 1 

 e,l to i;,.) sparking. 



I ate a ltulcakc, and then I poured out son,.. 



Cider and drank it. (i„]]y , llorr y ( Col., you don't 



know what real sug^ed-off-happincss is, till you 



'<"■ " '*'■', ■ v\ .jet, ned nutcakes and 



drink some of mj cider. And then I eat some more 



more cider. 



Says I, "Pliu:, "—that's her girl name, and I 



always call her by tt when I fed uncommonly ten- 



. never made such good 



u ' "■ A ' -■ jlad you like 



lake them," toys I, ■why.'' says I, -I'd go 



.nt a home as 1 



. I up. and says 



ppj ..ne to 



,'' ' '" ""' " Ivia.j.i.t^.og R liKr . II, nn, ,,-I, i„, ,o,l „ oold not enable 



say 1 hoped always to bfl here, when it popped L„, I, ,, 1 ,„| lll „ ,,,„, 



a doing. Vousoothi- ... . . ,!„,^lh,.r s„- ' 

 nu,cak """< : ■ --lung nut ot our,n..r„l miomi en,,,., M ,' „ r „ '," ,"""" "" '"" '"' " "' ( 





allegiance to Gon. This , 



bondage to the law and legal dulie 

 thai glorious liberty, whe 



makes his people free. 



»ni "deeds in life" are "good" only os they 

 done in this faith of the work and righteous- 

 s of CuntST — faith in the completeness and 



absolutely independent character of the marvellous 



redemption which Himself gloriously sought out". 



aud faith in the nil-sufficiency of the mantle of Ujj 



perfect righteoi 



I trough 



Ipward s 



Eveiiy SIan's AvTODionuAPuv. — Every mini is 

 actually engaged, day by day, in writing that 

 aun.biograj.liy which .„-,([,.,■ ,„.... , , , . 

 will efface. It may be written in high places or in 

 low. in public remembrance or in tl„- I, 

 of domestic aflectiou; hut we nie v. , ■:■ 



i"..r etamity, 



Happy is he who. l lu ..,,:. , 



■ ■ m.Ii.oss, I, Lit Ii , 



J wisdom, that when he is r oi„. be will be bold 



grateful remembrance; happier still lo have 

 i*a name written in the Lamb'a Book of lift, 

 i when every memorial and monument of his 



earthly history h.is perished, ae maj ascend with 

 the Son .,!' i;,„l to honor, glory, and immortality 



-The Crusaders of old, we are 

 told, used lo bear a painted cross upon their shool- 

 dl1 -. " '- '" be feared that many among us take 

 "I"''" ■■-'■•wlneh sitjust so lightly'; things of orua- 

 ineiit, passports to respectability, a cheap e.iehunge 



for a struggle we never tuado, and a crown wo never 

 stroToibr. Bul lei us nol deceive ourselves. None 

 '■>ei v.i ,-nier, -il n, t,, ihe Kingdom of Heaven wilh- 



""' tribuli d; not, perhaps, the tribulation of 



Are, or cross, or rebuke, or blasphemy; but the 

 tribulation of u bowed .-pint and of s humble 

 '" ■" I ■ ol tbe ii-', ■ ruoiiled to tbe spirit, and ,,r 

 hard conlliets wni, n„. p 01V er of daxkni ■■■ , .u,.|, 



'beroforo, if our religl -,- of Bucb a pliable nud 



ela tie form, as to baveoost ns uellhei , 



quire, nor self-dcuial to pn lerve, ooi effort to 



" h '""'"■ s'n.ggle to maintain holy nud unde- 



M,,i ' "'■ ma "-""■<' ot ace among the 



ranksOftho risen dead W, II l,ew .„ ,„,„,, 



inltilude wh, 



ibeii i, ii|,,„, 





of 



a hi-h. 



orals 



o-ph, 



1ESSI0.VS— It Ii 



'■!■■■ have gone t, 



neathen, nineteen-twentic 



■ 



Ihe Sunday School. And of the Evang 



rnsteis ot I'inglaud. wl ■ 



"."lore than two-thirds become pious in these 



■ 



I i faithful B 

 'he bell loll for one 

 What hast 

 of that soul before il left 



., .. . 



H i ■■ ess ■ 



i isreom bear 



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