GATHERING EDIBLE BIRDS’ NESTS, 
In a small island in the province of Baglen, 
is Mount Karang - Bollong, the highest point of 
which is not more than 500 feet, projecting, in 
the form of heavy gray and black rocks, info the 
sea. It can be ascended without much difficul¬ 
ty ; and if the traveler, catching hold of a rope, 
looks over the rock, he observes that it is not 
only 200 feet high, hut that it bends inwards, so 
that, on the top it beetles over the sea, which 
rushes in with great force below, and Ihat, in*the 
side of the rock facing the sea innumerable fis¬ 
sures, caverns, and delta, reach down even un¬ 
der the surface of the water. Millions of tiuy 
grayish birds, a species ot swallow, nestle in 
these interstices of the rocks. They construct 
their nests, composed of some gluey or jelly- 
like substance, on the granite walls of those 
dark—to man almost impenetrable—caverns and 
fissures. There, sentineled by the ocean, the 
little creatures may imagine they are safe from 
the coveting eye and greedy grasp of man. Bnt 
they greatly deceive themselves, for these nests 
lorn a dainty dish, especially in the estimation 
of Chinese epicures, and are almost worth their 
weight in gold. 
Three times a year the nest-gathering takes 
place in these coves and hollows. In stormy 
weather it would of course be impossible to 
enter them, and even when the &ea is very calm 
it is still a very daugerous undertaking. Down 
a rattan ladder the Javanese birdnest- gatherer 
descends to a distance of two hundred feet per¬ 
pendicularly from the projecting cliffs along the 
granite wall. When he approaches the entrance 
to the cavern which lie has selected as the local¬ 
ity for his researches, he waits till the wave has 
rushed inward, and then desirously swings him¬ 
self after it. In the interior a bamboo scaffold¬ 
ing has been erected, fastened by ropes to the 
walls of the vault. Standing on this scaffold¬ 
ing, he takes the nests from the walls to which 
they are attached, or when beyond his reach, 
pulls them down with a hook made for the pur¬ 
pose. In the meautime the waves arc continu¬ 
ally rushing in and out just below him, and 
should the sea become suddenly stormy, or a 
squall arise so that the nest - gatherer cannot 
escape in time, the unfortunate creature is wash¬ 
ed away to a certain death. The trade in these 
birds’ nests is not only a source of great gain to 
the merchants settled in Java, but it is also a 
source of wealth to the exchequer of the Neth¬ 
erlands, yielding, in the form of duty, about a 
quarter of a million sterling. 
ENGLAND IN QUEEN ELIZABETH’S DAY. 
“ Come, Lily, he my little girl, 
And love me every day. 
And I will give you pretty birds. 
And toys with which to play.” 
She glanced tip with her sweet grey eyes, 
And looked into my face, 
A look of innocent snrprise. 
Then said with modest grace— 
“ I am papa's, and even in play 
I cannot give myself away.” 
“Bat think,” I urged, “how many things 
I’ll give you if you will; 
A garden full of rarest flowers. 
Where you may pick your ffll.” 
A smile played on her dimpled face. 
But yet she answered low— 
“ Though dearly I do love sweet flowers. 
I’m sure I cannot go, 
I am papa’s, and even in play 
I cannot give myeeLf away.” 
“A little pony you shall have. 
With saddle of the brightest red; 
And every day with grass and oats 
He shall by yonr own hand be fed.” 
Her bright eyes sparkled—“ I should like 
To ride that pony very much. 
To feed him all myself, and And 
He was obedient to my touch; 
Bnt I’m papa’s, and even in play 
I cannot give myself away." 
“Dear child," I cried, and clasped her tight, 
“I’m glad you love your father so, 
But there is one whom twould he right 
To love even dearer still, you know 
He gives you all your daily food, 
Your many pleasures, too, He gives; 
He gave that lowing father good, 
’Tis due to God that he still lives. 
Dear child, oh I may you ever say, 
I am God's child, and Him obey.” 
So rapidly were the English growing in the 
luxuries and vices of other lands, while they 
retained their native vigor and coarse habits, 
that the playwrights constantly alluded to the 
incongruity of the fashions displayed in the 
drees ot the dandies, to their language mixed of 
all the dialects in Europe, to their aptitude of 
all kinds of dissipation, to their skill In the 
sports of all nations, and to tue display of an¬ 
tique severity. 
“ We have robbed Greece of gluttony,” says 
Stephen Gasson, “Spain of pride, France ot 
deceit, and Dutchland of quaffing.” But these 
affectations were only a kind of varnish on the 
surface of society. The incidents of court gos¬ 
sip show bow savage was the lile beneath. 
Queen Elizabeth spat one day in the midst, of 
her nobles, at a gentleman who displeased her. 
She struck Lord Essex on the cheek. Burleigh 
often cried at her ill-treatment. The lords 
wrangled and even drew swords in her presence. 
Once Leicester took her handkerchief from her 
lap to wipe his face at tennis. Lady -Taue Grey 
was starved and beaten by her parents, and ex¬ 
posed to such indignities that she wearied of 
life; yet they made her one of the best Greek 
scholars of the day. Heretics were burned in 
every town. Sir Henry Sidney, as we learn 
from a paper recently published by Mr. Fronde, 
when sent to quell the Irish rebels, first pro¬ 
claimed the Queen’s sovereignty and then al¬ 
lowed no mercy to the recusants. lie “put 
man, woman and child to the sword,” while his 
sergeant-majors balanced the advantages of pil¬ 
laging, or “ having 6ome killing,” with a prefer¬ 
ence for the latter when they felt themselves in 
humor for the chase. 
The belief in witches everywhere prevailed, 
nor was it an uncommon village sport to drown 
old women in the ponds, and to rack suspected 
wizards till for very anguish they confessed 
fictitious crimes. Countryfolks conducted their 
revels with a license that would shoot; our 
modern cars. The Lord of Misrule led out his 
motley t rain, and ladies went amayingwith their 
lovers to the woods. The Feasts of Assc3 and 
of Fools profaned the. santuaries; nor were the 
sports of Christmas so weli suited t® celebrate 
a Christian festival as to recall the rights oi 
Woden and of Freya. Men and women who 
read Plato and discussed the beauties of Pe¬ 
trarch’s poetry, allowed the coarsest practical 
jokes and used the grossest language. They 
sold farms and forests, aud wore their acres in 
the forms of gems aud gold lace on their hacks. 
But their splendid clothes and jewels did not 
prevent them from indulging in the most untidy 
habits. They would lie upon the rushes which 
concealed the fragments of ©id fcA-?te ; &ua they 
burned perfumes to sweeten chambers musty 
with bad air. The church itself was not re¬ 
spected. The nave of St. Paul’s became a 
rendezvous for thieves and prostitutes. Fine 
gentlemen paid sums of money lor the privi- 
1 .-go of clanking up and down its aisles in service 
time; dancers and masquers, crowding from 
'.he square outside in all their finery, often took 
the sacrament and then ran out to recommence 
thrir sports. Men were Papists and Protestants 
according to the time of day; hearing mass in 
the morning and sermon in the afternoon. 
There was no end to the extravagance and in¬ 
congruity of elements which then prevailed in 
England. Yet In tbe midst of this confusion 
rose cavaliers like Sydney, philosophers liko 
Bacon, poets like Spenser ; in whom all that is 
pure, elevated, subtle, tender, wise, delicate, 
aud learned in our modem civilization displays 
itself.— Selected. 
and the distance is about 2 miles. The ravine, 
through w'hich the creek passes, is often 100 feet 
deep, with banks of stone almost perpendicular, 
and presents scenery wildly picturesque and 
beautiful and, when the water is high, of great 
grandeur. 
Willis says Trenton Falls “ is the most enjoy- 
ably beautiful spot among the resorts of romantic 
scenery iu our country. The remembrance of 
its loveliness becomes a bright point to which 
dream, and re very oftenest return. It seems to 
he curiously adapted to enjoy, being, somehow, 
not only the kind , but the »ia> of a place which 
the (after ail) measurable arms of a mortal heart 
can hold In its embrace. Niagara is too much, 
as a roasted ox is a thing to go and look at, 
though one retires to dine on something smaller.” 
Trenton Falls, one of the most picturesque 
of the many celebrated waterfalls in this country, 
are upon West Canada Creek, a branch of the 
Mohawk, twenty-two miles above its junction 
with that river. The term “creek” does not 
indicate the character of this stream, for it is 
really a tremendous torrent, broken by rapids 
and cascades. There are six separate falls. The 
first, called the "Upper, Is twenty-six feet high; 
the second, the Cascades, eighteen feet; the 
third, the Mill Dam, fourteen feet; the fourth, the 
High Falls, which have three separate cascades, 
ot forty-eight, eleven and thirty-seven feet; the 
fifth, Sherman’s, thirty-five feet; the sixth, Con¬ 
rad’s, the height of which we do not recall. The 
whole descent of the stream, from the top of the 
Upper fall to the foot of Conrad's fall, is 312 feet, 
ice plant dower at noon, of the pink of Spain at 
one, of the red fringe tree at two, of the cin¬ 
chona at three, of the beam tree at four, of the 
marvel of Peru at five, of the black and bine 
geranium at six, of the yellow day lily at seven, 
of the nocturn marigold at eight, of the Mexican 
pystachc at nine. The rainy marigold can be 
used for a barometer. If it is going to be fine 
weather its flowers open at about seven in the 
morning and close between three and four in 
the afternoon; if it will rain during the day, 
they don’t open at all. 
A cocntktman brought from the city five 
peaches, the finest that ever were seen. But 
his children saw this fruit, for the first time. 
Therefore, they wondered, and rejoiced in the 
pretty peaches with their reddish cheeks and 
delicate down. The father then divided them 
among his four hoys, and gave one to their 
mother. 
In the evening when the children went into 
their sleeping chamber, their father asked: 
“ Well, and how did the pretty peaehes taste? ” 
“Finely, dear father,” said the oldest. “ It is 
a beautiful fruit, so tartlsh and so delicate in 
taste. I have carefully kept the stone, and will 
raise me a tree from it 
“ Bravo 1 ” said the father; “ that is providing 
economically for the future, as becomes a lands- 
I man.” 
“ I ate mine at once,” the youngest cried, 
“and threw away the stone, and mother gave 
me half of her’s. O, it tasted so sweet, and 
melted ha my mouth.” 
“Well,” said the lather, “ you have not acted 
very wisely, hut naturally, and in a child’s man¬ 
ner. For wisdom, there is yet room in the 
course of your life.” 
Then the second son began:—“I hunted up 
the stone which my little brother threw away, 
and cracked it. There was a seed in it that 
tasted as a nut. But my peach I sold for enough, 
when I go to the city, that I can probably buy 
twelve.” 
The father shook his head and said:—“That 
is wise enough, but childlike and natural it was 
not. Heaven guard you, that you do uot be¬ 
come a merchant.” 
“ And you, Edmund ? ” asked the father. 
Self-possessed and frank, Edmund replied: 
"I carried my peach to our neighbor George, 
who is sick of a fever. He would not take it. 
Then I laid it upon his bed and came away.” 
“ Well,” said the father, “who has made the 
best use of his peach ? ” 
All three exclaimed:—“Brother Edmund!” 
But Edmund was silent, and his mother em¬ 
braced him with tears in her eyes. 
Can Yon Forgive Her! By Antiiont Trollope. 
With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Octavo— pp. 
334. New York: Harper A Brothers. 
Mr. Trollope asks his readers if they can forgive 
a lady whose only fault was that she did not know her 
own rr.in rt ; who jtlted one man twice and another 
man once, and Anally, having found out what she did 
want, married the latter. We presume the reader’s 
forgiveness depends altogether upon the strength with 
which the author makes oat his case, since it is an 
indubitable fact that oven some of the worst villains 
have come out of tho hands of skillful novelists, 
respectable and popular characters. But Mr. Trol¬ 
lope has not made out a good case. Ills warmest ad¬ 
mirers will not be willing to admit that there was suf¬ 
ficient excuse for “ such conduct as those ” ou the part 
of his heroine, Alice. And the story, as a whole, is 
not well told. It is unnafiiral and inconsistent. The 
characters areunderdrawn.rhe conversations vapid and 
uninteresting, and the several parts of the story do 
not fit well into each other. Lady Glsncora is the 
only strong and novel character of the u’e. A t edious 
hunting scene is introduced, the object of which puz¬ 
zles tho reader considerably, until he learns at the 
close of the chapter containing It that it was inserted 
to prove that men frequently undersell a good horse 
owing to a vague suspicion that he is uot sound. In 
short, Mr. Trollope writes too much. We suggest 
to him that he ask forgiveness for himself rather than 
his heroine, and scop the practice of writing a new 
novel every three, months. Steele A Avert. 
DR. BEECHER’S MANUSCRIPT 
His habits of composition were peculiar. His 
social nature was so active that as soon as he 
had written a sentence that pleased him he had 
an irrepressible desire to read it to somebody. 
Many a time has he rushed into the dining¬ 
room where Aunt Esther was washing dishes— 
“ Here, EolUej, hear tKio." Auut Eattlei, wltll 
martyr-like patience, would stand, towel in one 
hand and unwiped pdate in tho other (for he 
must have her undivided attention), till he had 
read his paragraph, and trotted hack to his 
study again. It sometimes seemed as if he 
would never got a sentence done. He would 
write and re-write, erase and interline, tear up 
aud begin anew, scratch out and scribble in al¬ 
most endlessly. Iu the latter part of his life 
this habit became morbid, and actually shut 
him out from the possibility of publishing his 
own writings. He was tho torment of printers, 
both by the delay of his manuscript and by the 
condition in which they found it when they got 
it. One of his daughters said there were three 
negative rules by which she could always read 
her father’s writing, to wit: 1. If there is a 
letter crossed, it isn’t a L 2. If there is a letter 
dotted, it isn’t an i. 3. H there is a capital let¬ 
ter, it isn’t at tlie beginning of a word. 
At Lane Seminary he lived, more than two 
miles from the city. One time, after the printers 
had been on tenter-hooks lorty-elglit hours for 
their copy, he hastily finished his manuscript in 
his study, crushed it into the crown of the hat 
that lay nearest to him, clapped another hat on 
his head, drove down to the city, rushed up to 
the printing-office, and snatched oft' his hat. 
“Here’s your copy—h’m, h’m—well, if it isn’t 
here, it is somewhere else.” The copy was still 
in the hat that had been left at home. But who 
could be angry with so much good-nature, even 
if it were a plague?— Prof. Shnre. 
The labrum is a fish mentioned by Pliny, and 
rather vaguely described as a kind of ravenous 
fish, seeing that every ilsh is by nature utterly 
and entirely ravenous. IThc elegant trout, who 
files in the wildcat terror if yon show the tip of 
of your nose, will eat neaiiy his own weight of 
bleak and duee on a hot, still June evening. A 
pike has been known to rush at a fish well nigh 
the size of himself, and even to dash at a mule’s 
nose. We have known a fishing frog lose its life 
iu an insane attempt toswMlow a wooden scoop, 
the proprietor of which objected to the proceed¬ 
ing. It is but a short time since we read an 
account of a fish which had swallowed, among 
other matters, two broken bottles, a quart pot, 
a sheep’s head, a triangular piece of earthen 
ware, and a lobster, while in its liver the spine 
of a skate was comfortably embedded ! 
Toe Oil Regions of Pennsylvania: Showing where 
Petroleum is found: how it is obtained, and at what 
cost. With hints for whom it may concern. By 
W ilham Wright, 13mo.—pp. STS. New York: 
Harper A Brothers. 
This little work, descriptive of the “idiosyncracies 
of Petrolia,” will undoubtedly be largely bought and 
read by those who aro interested in oil. The writer 
visited "the regions’’ as a correspondent of the New 
York Times, intending to "do” the subject in a few 
days; but on looking around he found so much that 
was interesting that he prolonged his stay, and sub¬ 
sequently published the results of his extensive obser¬ 
vations in this volume. Introducing the subject with a 
few remarks on the physical features and geology of 
the region, he proceeds to describe the appearance of 
the conntxy, life and society among the people, the 
operations connected with oil producing and refining, 
with statistics of production, &c. Explaining how 
strangers are “takenin," he gives afew hints to those 
who propose to invest in petroleum, and closes with 
some “practical considerations." It will be found a 
very entertaining book. For sale by Steele Jfc Avery, 
Tun Cause and Treatment of Cholera.— 
In summarising a communication to the Medical 
Times on this importan subject, Dr. John Chap¬ 
man, among other conclusions, holds that the 
“ primary cause of chol ra, is, as a general rule, 
the excessive heat of he. climates, and of tem¬ 
perate climates in summer when cholera pre¬ 
vails;” that tho “prordmate cause of cholera 
is of precisely the sstne nature as that of 
summer, or choleraic diarrhoea, but that it is far 
more developed, and c mfequently that its ac¬ 
tion is proportionately more powerful and in¬ 
tense;” that “cholera i> neither eontagiousnor 
infectious in auy case whatsoever, except thro’ 
the depressing intluencd of fear;” and “that 
cholera maybe eomple Jy averted, and, when 
developed, cured by tin persistent application 
of the spinal ice-bag a < ng the whole spine so 
long as any symptom ot i le disease continues.” 
A WORD ON CLOCKS, 
Ingenious meu of all ages, from Archimedes, 
200 years B. C., to Wallingford, at the com¬ 
mencement of the fourteenth century, have 
been cited as inventors of tho clock. The fact 
is, that the cloek, like almost every other useful 
implemeut, gradually tjrcio to perfection; oue 
man suggested the wheel work; another the 
weight for maintaining or driving power; 
another tho balance for regulating the expendi¬ 
ture of that power; auotlier the dial and hands; 
another the striking parts, and so on; and at 
last one man combined all together in one ma¬ 
chine, and gained the credit of making the first 
dock. This man appears to be one Henry de 
Wick, or do Vick, who placed a clock in tho 
tower of the palace of Charles the Fifth, abont 
the year 1304, which clock is the most ancient of 
which there exists any particular description. 
The principles upon which it was construetwl 
were essentially the same as those of the clocks 
of the present day; that is, there was a moving 
power and a regulating power. The moving 
power was a weight hung to a cord, wound 
round a barrel; the unwinding of w lib 11, by the 
fall of the weight, gave motion to a train of 
wheels that moved tho hands around the dial. 
The regulating power was a oalanee wheel, 
springing backwards aud forwards after the 
manner of the watch balance, so familiar to us 
all.— The Shilling Maga-xu. 
A BEAUTIFUL DEED 
A young officer was connected with Sheri¬ 
dan’s brigade. It was in one of those forced 
marches when they had driven back the enemy 
aud had been in the saddle lor several consecu¬ 
tive days and nights, that this trooper availed 
himself of a temporary halt, to slip from his 
saddle and stretch himselt upon the turf—his 
horse, meanwhile, browsing in the immediate 
vicinity. He had slept for some little time, 
when he was suddenly awakened by the frantic 
pawing of his horse at his side. Fatigued by 
his long ride, he did not rouse at once, but lay 
in that partially conscious state which so fre¬ 
quently attends great physical prostration. 
Soon, however, the faithful animal ^perceiving 
that its efforts luid failed to accomplish their 
object, licked his face, and placing its mouth 
close to his car uttered a loud snort. Now 
thoroughly awake, he sprang up, and as the 
home turned for him to mount, he saw for the 
first time that his comrades had all disappeared, 
and that the enemy were coming down upon 
him at full gallop. Once mounted, the faithful 
beast bore him with the speed of the wind safely 
from the danger and soon placed him among his 
companions. “Thus,” he added withVmotion, 
“tho noble fellow saved me from captivity, and 
perhaps from death,” — Journal of Commerce. 
HtSTORTOF THE UNITED STATES CaTALRT, from tllO 
Formation of the Federal Government to the First 
of June, 1363. To which is added a list of all the 
cavalry Regiments, with the names of their Com¬ 
manders, which have been in the United States ser¬ 
vlet) since tho breaking out of the Rebellion. By 
Albert G. Brackett, Major First United States 
Cavalry; Color.el Ninth lliiaots Volunteer Cavalry; 
Late Chief of Cavalry of the Department of Mis¬ 
souri ; Special Inspector of Cavalry. Department of 
the Cumberland. lSrno.—pp.S87. "New York: Ear 
per A Brothers. 
Tats is s sneeinc: history of the Cat-airy arm of the 
United States service, from 1193 to June, 1863, embra¬ 
cing operations in tho war of 1813, Florida aud Mexi¬ 
can wars, and the Indian campaigns at the West. The 
book was written while tho writer was serving in the 
field, and ho complains that owing to that circum¬ 
stance he was unable to consult tho t-uoks and docu¬ 
ments necessary to make a comprehensive history. 
Ho has however dono weil with the materials at hand, 
and has written a valuable and interesting work. The 
volume is very handsomely brought out by the pub¬ 
lishers. It can be obtained of 8yeele a avert. 
THE NATIONAL DEBT 
The Atmosphere.— 1 II e atmosphere may be 
called a sea of air cov tag the earth to the 
depth of about forty-tiv ; miles. This depth is 
ascertained by the leugt; jf time the sun’s light 
lingers upon the air aft .i the sun himself hits 
sunk below the horizon, itd also by the pressure 
of the air at different lights as measured by 
the barometer. The atiflispborc is made up of 
tho same ingredients th iteutor largely into the 
other substances, whethtr solid or liquid, ot 
which tho globe is composed. It consists of 
oxygen and nitrogen g^Bes, in proportion of 
about 21 parts of the foiier to 70 parts of the 
latter, together with a v iring amount of water 
vapor, carbonic acid gas knd hydrogen. Parti¬ 
cles of dust and smoke tirtalso constantly float¬ 
ing in it, like impurities it water. 
The Washington correspondent of the Cin¬ 
cinnati Gazette, iu a special dispatch, says: — 
The increase of the net debt for the months of 
Jnno and July, as shown in the last statement, 
was, in round uumbers, oue huudred aud twenty- 
two millions, or an average of two millions per 
clay, but for tho month of August the whole 
increase or our indebtedness has been only four 
hundred and thirty-six thousaud dollars, or an 
average of fourteen thousand dollars per day. 
In other words, a month ago we were running 
in debt at the rate ot two millions a day, aud 
now at the rate of only one-sixth of a million per 
day. It la likewise noteworthy that while the 
debt bas been Increased during the last month 
a little lees than a half million, tho interest on 
the debt now outstanding has been diminished 
a million and a quarter. This result has been 
accomplished by the redemption in legal ten¬ 
ders of over twenty-one and a half millions 
of six percent, certificates of indebtedness. 
The Late Alpine Ai l 
the recent accident on tj 
Flaneur” of the Loudon 
unfortunate gentlemen vl 
feet, just ten times the h - 
it been a sheer descent, J 
that distance in sixteen sec 
the ground at the speefi 
falling bodies, they would lave fallen at the rate 
of 340 miles an hour, or > ixteeu times the speed 
of our swiftest express trails, striking tho earth 
with a momentum of 84,000 pounds,"or 40 tuns. 
No wonder that the remains were in that awful 
condition described iu the 15- tile de ( A<uw/w/f.” 
We do uot understand, however, that it was a 
sheer fall of 4,000 feet. 
dent. — Referring to 
is Matterhorn, “the 
Star, writes: — “ The 
p perished, fell 4,000 
tit of St Paul’s. Had 
ey would have fallen 
ads. If they reached 
usually attributed to 
Books Announced.— We have received from Messrs. 
Hurd & Houghton tho advance sheets of a new 
edition of .User's Fables, which in beauty of illus¬ 
tration and general elegance of design will no donh c 
prove very attractive to young readers. The autnnm 
publications of this firm will include thirty-seven new 
works, among which are Barrt G rat’s new volume, 
“Matrimonial Infelicities,” "Mozart’s Letters,” “A 
Brief Biographical Dictionary,’’ au "Essay on Art,” 
Miss E. D. Proctor's “Poems,” the "OrayOu Miscel¬ 
lany," “The Dutch Pilgrim Fathers,” by Rev. Dr. 
Hotter, the “Life aud character of J. U. Van Dcr 
Palm," “Robert South’s Sermons,” "Tho Book of 
Hours,” “Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs," &c. The 
list also Includes a large number of illustrated and 
Juvenile books. 
Army Statistics show that every individual 
consumes about <wo and a quarter pounds of 
dry food dal’/, about three - fourths vegeta¬ 
ble and oiv-lourth animal, making an nnuttal 
consumption of about 800 pounds. Of fluids, 
itiehuliog every variety of beverage, be swallows 
about 1,500 pounds, aud taking tlic amount of 
air which he consumes at 800 pounds, the result 
will show that the food, water and air which a 
man receives amounts in the aggregate to more 
than three thousaud pounds a year; that is, a 
tun and a half, or more tlmu twenty times his 
own weight. 
FLORAL CLOCK 
God means that every soul which waits on 
him should soar. Not creep—nor burrow in the 
muck and mire of worldliness; not crouch in 
abject submission as the slave of men andSatan 
—but soar. When a soul binds itself to God, 
and lives a life of holy consecration, it is able 
to take wings and dwell in the atmosphere of 
heaven. 
Flowers could be used to mark the time of 
the day and the night nearly as faithfully as the 
hands of u clock, thus:—Lettuce dowers open at 
six iu tho morning, those of tbo water lily at 
seven, of the pimpernel at eight, of tho field 
marigold at nine, of the Neapolitan fig marigold 
at ten, of the star of Bethlehem at eleven, of the 
