When It Is All Ended. 
BY MRS. M. J. SMITH. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
"When the fret and the fever is over, 
The gloom and the darkness gone; 
When we look on the path we have traveled 
In the light of eternity dawn, 
Do you think we will sorrow that ever 
We entered the heavenly road? 
And oft through briars and brambles, 
Climbed upward to that abode? 
Regretting the mountain travel, 
Regretting the patient toil, 
’The trouble, the tears, the sorrow, 
The groping mid life’s turmoil? 
When we enter the land whose garden 
Is never the garden of graves, 
And stand by the beautiful river, 
Beholding it rippks and waves; 
Do you think we will pause to murmer 
That yesterday’s skies were dim? 
And the heart was so full of anguish 
That we warbled no morning hymn? 
Will we fret that our feet were weary, 
And the pathway so very long? 
The thicket ahead such tangle, 
We battled our way along? 
If in the joy of that moment, 
We think of the past at all; 
Its darkness, its doubts, its dangers, 
Its error, temptation and thrall. 
We will praise Him who led us so gently, 
When w e would have fainted or tied, 
O’ercome by the toiling and moiling, 
Or frightened by dangers ahead. 
Aye, praise Him who washed all our garments 
From the dust and the soiling of sin; 
Then came in the last trying hour 
To save us and welcome us in. 
Then, brother, with patient spirit, 
Walk onward and upward alway; 
Tho’ thy pathway lies deep in the shade, 
And brambles stand guard o'er the way. 
The narrow path, friend is the safest, 
The easy and broad is not sure. 
The prize and the crown is not offered 
To soldiers who cannot endure. 
And the life that has most of pleasure 
Gathers harvest of sorrows too, 
And.the eyes that are full of laughter, 
Grow dim with death’s gathering dew. 
Then up, for the morn is going, 
The hours are waning fast; 
The noontide is quickly over, 
And the harvest-time be past. 
There is toil for thee, and duties 
Lie thick in the path ahead, 
But trust as you go and labor. 
Verily thou shalt be led. 
^Strength will be thine when needed, 
In darkness, the light of love 
;Shall shine, and a glorious welcome 
Be thine in the home above. 
The remains of old keys found at Hercu- 
lanaeum abundantly prove that a kind of 
warded lock must have been in use among 
the ancient Romans; and further proof on 
this point is yielded by the ancient keys 
now and then dug up in parts of England, 
and belonging to the period of Roman occu¬ 
pation. While the Romans made the keys 
of bronze, the locks wire formed of iron, 
which accounts for the decay of the latter, 
and for the fact that our ideas of the locks 
are derived from the keys, some of which 
were not only finely formed but fitted for 
ornaments. The Roman key has a handle 
in the form of a ring, occasionally of a loop, 
and its general const) uction is remarkable 
for neatness and strength. In many speci¬ 
mens the stem was so short and entwined 
in such a way that the ring could be worn 
on the finger. 
I am sitting, Mary, sitting 
In our cabin in the lane; 
And I’m looking, Mary looking 
At the cattle in the rain; 
And I see the water running 
Off their skins that shine like silk; 
And I wonder muchly, Mary. 
If it’s that which spoils the milk. 
— Puck. 
The first complete work on English gar¬ 
dening was published by Thomas Tasser, 
who in 1758 enumerated one hundred and 
fifty species of garden plants, introducing 
them as follows : '‘Seedes and Herbs foi 
the Kychen, Herbs and Rootes for saletts 
and sawce, Herbes and Roots tuboile or 
tubutter, Stewing Herbs of all sortes, 
Herbes, branches and flours for windowes 
and pots, Herbs to still in summer, Neces- 
sarie Herbs to grow in the garden for 
Physic not reherst before. ’ 
A machine has been invented which 
wraps up oranges in tissue paper more 
neatly and rapidly than it can be done by 
hand. 
Michigan allows each farmer who uses 
wide tires on his wagon a rebate on his 
taxes. Michigan has set seveal good exam¬ 
ples to the rest of the country. 
