OUR DEAD 
Nothing in our own; we hold our pleasures 
Juht a little while ere they are fled; 
One by one earth robs tis or our treasures; 
Nothing la our own, except our dead. 
They are oars, and hold in faithful keeping, 
Safe forever, ail they took away; 
Cruel life can never stir that Bleeping, 
Cruel time can never sc he that prey, 
Justice pales; truth fades; stars fall from Heaven; 
Homan are the great whom we revere; 
No true crown of honor can be given; 
Till the wreath lies on a l'uuerai bier. 
H<>w the children leave us; and no traces 
Linger of that smiling angel band; 
Gone, forever gone; and in their places 
Weary men and anxious women stand. 
Yet we have some little ones, still onrs; 
They have kept the haby smile we know, 
Which we kissed one day, and hid with flowers, 
On their dead, white face, long ago. 
When our joy Is lost—and life will take it— 
Then no memory of the past remains; 
Sava with some strange, cruel sting, that makes it 
Bitterness beyond all present pains. 
Death, more tender-hearted, leaves to sorrow 
Still the radiant shadow—long regret; 
We shall Cud, In some far bright to-morrow, 
JoyH that he has taken, living yet. 
Is love ours, and do we dream we know it, 
Bound with all our heart-strings, all our OWE? 
Any cold and cruel dawn may show it, 
Shattered, desecrated, overthrown. 
Only the dead hearts forsake us never; 
Love, that to death's loyal care has fled, 
Is thus consecrated onrs forever, 
And no change can rob os of our dead. 
So, when fate comes to besiege our city, 
Dim our gold, or make our flowers fall, 
Death, the angel, comes in love and pity, 
To save our treasures, claims them all. 
All the Year Round. 
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linding the key; but to him who will set himself 
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[Concluded from page 148, last number ] 
That evening it chanced that Mr. Streeter 
and Nat were alone together. 
“ You must. be nearly seventeen, Nat,” said Mr. 
Streeter, looking at his son. 
" I shall be seventeen in February, sir.” 
“Yes, I remember. Well, I have been thinking 
this afternoon that it would bu well for you to 
settle definitely in your mind just what eourse you 
mean to follow, and then give your whole attcu 
tion to it,” 
“ 1 have thought a good deal about it, sir, and 
made up my mind some time ago,” said Nat, in a 
firm, quiet tone, 
“ Indeed, and what conclusion did you come 
to,” asked Mr. Streeter in a nervous manner! 
“That I should like above all things to be a 
farmer.” 
“That's right, Nat, that's a sensible boy,” Bait! 
his father, In a tone of relief and gratification, 
“There *8 nothing like old mother earth for a 
dependence. Slow and sure is the best way. 
And then a man can be a farmer without spend¬ 
ing his best days in poring over books, before be 
is ready to begin to do anything. It makes no dif¬ 
ference with the corn whether the man that holds 
the plow ever went to College or not” 
“But, father, ,J said Nat, 1 “want a more thor¬ 
ough education. 1 don’t want to go to Collage, 
or study Greek and Latin, but I do want to under¬ 
stand Botany, and Chemistry, and Geology, and 
such sciences as those.” 
“Humph! said Mr. Stkkkteu, with a strong 
inclination to dismiss the matter summarily; lint 
the subject was fairly broached, so he asked in a 
contemptuous tone, 
“And pray, how do you expect to apply all 
these things to raising wheat and potatoes!” 
“Chemistry would teach me to analyze foils, 
and, by the help of Botany, to know what crops 
were best suited to my land, and what was want¬ 
ing to make it just right for any particular 
purpose ” — 
“ Humph ! well I reckon the Lord knew how 
to make soil about as well as you do, and if he 
hasn’t fixed it right, it isn’t of much use for you 
to try your hand. But go on,—let's have the 
whole list now.” 
“If I had any knowledge of Physiology I could 
manage stock to better advantage; at any rate I 
should want to know enough of the anatomy of a 
horse to tell the difference between a tumor and a 
dislocation.” 
Mr. Streeter winced a little at this reminder 
of one of his surgical blunders, and Nat went on: 
“ If either of us had understood the principles of 
Natural Philosophy, we should have known in a 
moment that Ihe pump fixtures that peddler sold 
you last summer would not work, and what was 
the trouble with them. And we could construct 
a great many things for ourselves that we have to 
pay money for, or else go without” 
“Well, Is that all?” 
"No, sir. Beside the real profit in dollars and 
cents, there is the solid satisfaction of being 
informed on all these interesting subjects,— ol 
feeling like a reasoning being, and not a mere 
working animal,'' Nat was well posted on all 
Answer to Biographical Enigma:— Heaven, from all 
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Answer to Charade:—Cot-ton. 
Answer to Geometrical Problem:—A saws 13.238inches 
from the top of the log; B saws 9 424 inches in the miil- 
dln section of the log; C saws 13.238 inches in the lower 
section of the log. 
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to bring himself to this decision; for it was 
equivalent in his mind to paying three hundred 
dollars for the privilege of having his son ruined, 
and, before Nat could find words to express his 
thunks, he interrupted him — 
“Now, Nat. I make one condition about this. 
You Bhull pledge yourself to come back upon the 
farm at the end of the year. 1 will give you an 
equal share in the profits, and, maybe, in the 
course of half a dozen years, 1 can manage to get 
the nonsense out of you that those men at L- 
will put in.” 
The promise was given, and Nat went to L-. 
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Fifteen years have passed, and left their traces 
everywhere. They have scattered some white 
hairs upon Joseph Stkeetek’s head, and bowed 
his stalwart form a little; yet he smiles as his 
quiet wife reminds him that this is his sixty-first 
birthday, and answers, 
“So it is, wife. Well, I’m getting toward the 
end of my three-score-years-and-ten, hut I aint 
quite used up yet.” Then turning to Georoe, 
who stood leaning against the door, he added, " 1 
have got strength enough left to tire that young¬ 
ster down with the scythe orltoe, and feel as good 
as new after it. 
“ If you call me a youngster, 1 should like to 
know where you will find your men,” said George, 
laughing. “I should not like to try strength 
with 3011 or Nat, hut people have a diversity of 
gift. I never was smart enough for a farmer, hut 
1 think I do passably well for a business man. 
There comes Nat; now, lie’s a man worth looking 
at; you've got one hoy to be proud of, mother.” 
“I’m proud of both my boys,” Baid Mrs. 
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“Well, Nat, how about that mowing machine? ^ 
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