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ALMOST OVER, 
It is almost over now; 
My life-work is nearly done. 
A few more stitches yet I trow; 
Look It sqouis since t begun. 
And the thread of many years 
Has been sometimes soiled by tears, 
Knotted, too, by cares and tears! 
O, it is not that 1 shirk 
Toiling on from day to day; 
1 have learned to take tin; work 
As a comfort on my way. 
Yet I rest It on my knee 
.Inst a little while to see 
livening creep on lovingly. 
Silence and a purple sky 
Over-arching vale and hill, 
And silver stars that seem to lie 
In Lho gold-illr, mute and still; 
Willie tlie rich and radiant West 
As for festival Is dri'st 
Amber studs upon her breast. 
Now a mint most softly red, 
Put t ing out the purple light, 
Tint ing all my twirling thread, 
t'recpeth up into the night. 
I can longer work, you see, 
With the beam thus sent to me. 
Ere the dark fall heavily . 
hook, my children ! everywhere 
O er my work and heart is spread 
This bright gleaming from the air, 
Blotting out my trembling dread. 
From the light Hu eh joy I take 
That ye must not murmur make, 
H, thus sitting, life's thread break. 
Only put my chair aside, 
And in gentlest accents say. 
Mother worked hero till she died, 
Wiili Hod’s lovcj-liglit on her way. 
fly this token, dears. I know 
Of the hoaven-llglil in a How— 
It is almost over now! 
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THE TONGUE 
We suppose all our young readers would 
consider it a great punishment to he de¬ 
prived of their tongue. If they never could 
talk any more, hut were compelled to go 
through life always mute, they would feel 
very had about it. Yes, to lose one’s tongue 
would he sad, indeed, lor it is a very useful 
member, and may he made to serve us to 
most excellent purpose. 
Bui the tongue is also a dangerous mem¬ 
ber, and lias done great harm. It has told 
so many untruths, and stirred up so much 
strife among people everywhere, that it has 
much to answer for. It has spread so many 
false beliefs abroad, and so worked injury to 
every good and holy thing, that the world 
has suffered untold harm. If the tongue he 
not carefully used, it may prove even a curse. 
Rightly used, it is a blessing. 
Think how often it talks when it should 
he silent, and how impolite and forward it 
renders many boys and girls in consequence; 
think how many bitter and cutting things 
it says when there is no occasion for such, 
and when they create enmity and ill-will. 
Then think how many foolish and idle 
questions it asks which benefit no one,— 
which are only annoying and signify no real 
desire lor knowledge,—when it might ask 
so many that would win valuable informa¬ 
tion and thus enrich the mind, and which 
would prove the tongue to he very wise, in 
its way. 
Sweet and loving words bless every one. 
Trufhtul words carry goodness and benefits 
upon them. Generous words are richer 
gifts Ilian silver or gold, and keep bright 
forever. Pitying words hear smiles and joy, 
and drive away tears. Prayerful words 
touch Gob’s heart, and bring 1.o us whatever 
we most need. All these the tongue can 
speak. And so, when it can speak both 
these and the many untrue and evil words 
we have alluded to, it is at once the best and 
the worst thing we know of. A story of 
two men who lived in Greece many, many 
years ago, will illustrate this, and may help 
you to remember if. 
Xanthus, a heathen philosopher, was 
expecting some friends to dine with him, 
and ordered Ids servant vEsop to provide 
the best things to he had. A2sop procured 
nothing but tongues,—not human tongues, 
hut tongues o( animals, which are very good 
eating, and ordered the cook to serve t hem 
up in different ways. Thus course after 
course was supplied, each consisting of 
tongue. 
X.vNTinrs was very angry, and said to 
yEsop: —“ Did I not order you to buy the 
best victuals to he had in the market ?” 
“True,” answered the servant, “and have 
I not obeyed your orders? Is there anything 
better than tongue? Ts not the tongue the 
bond of society, the organ of truth and rea¬ 
son, and the instrument of our praise and 
adoration of the gods V ’’ 
But Xanthus was greatly .dissatisfied, and 
ordered Alsor to go again to the market and 
buy the worst thin.,., lie could find. You 
see he. wanted a change. vEsor went, and 
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The picture given above very spiritedly 
illustrates the fact that curiosity does not 
walk upon two feet alone. With bright, 
sharp eyes the dog is looking intently at the 
tiny insect before him,—not lazily winking at 
if, nor about to spring upon it, but with ears 
alert with intelligence, and every dog-sense 
at its keen out, soberly wondering what the 
strange thing is, how it works its wings,and 
how it manages to crawl up the sleep edge 
of the shovel in a way that he couldn’t if he 
should try. For does not four-footed curi¬ 
osity wonder and reason and question, as 
well as any other ? 
Curiosity is a very human thing, and 
when brutes are most curious they are least 
brutish, is there any more marked charac¬ 
teristic in mankind than curiosity V How 
curious everybody is about everything and 
everybody else! Curiosity is at the bottom 
of half 1 lie manifest interest in the world, in 
regard to matters in general,—mere curiosity. 
There is nothing like it. It pries into every 
private corner, opens closed doors, makes a 
study of one’s person and possessions, hunts 
up out-of-the-way oddities, invents,-conjures, 
gossips. Great is curiosity! 
Curiosity varies as to kind. One species 
makes a man simply an impertinent seeker 
after what does not concern him, and finds 
its rebuke in “mind your own business.” 
Another incites him to learning the cause of 
things, and thereby knowledge is the gainer. 
Still another kind cares less fur actual causes 
than lor present fact s and I heir tendencies, 
with perhaps a silent wonder over both, and 
litis makes man a philosopher. And as this 
silent, yet asking wonderment is what our 
canine friend evinces above, we may reason¬ 
ably conclude him to be a philosopher, and 
mayhap he is as wise an one as the world 
has ever seen. If his philosophizings could 
only be put into print we might all lie edified! 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. No. 27 
I am composed of twenty-eight letters. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.-No. 12 
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My fourth Is In tongue but not In mouth; 
My fifth is in mils but not iu hay, 
My six III is In white but not in gray; 
My seventh’s in Moli.hu but. not in Mate, 
My whole is a village ill New York State. 
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In my first, the camels lay 
Waiting fur lho heavy hardens 
Borne by them day tti ter day. 
In the olden times of Salem, 
’Neath the light of midnight moon, 
Rode my second on their broomsticks, 
Or were hung up high at noon. 
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Being asked how much of it had already expired 
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others tor the correction or improvement of 
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Which we never should have observed had 
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the exertion of our powers. By means of 
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ANAGRAM. No. 15 
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