\iVus §0rt-Jf0li<x, 
DOES MY LOVED ONE DREAM OF ME 1 
BT GRACE GLENN. 
Twilight breezes, toying idly 
Where the willow branches sway. 
Where the blushing roses listen 
To the tender words ye say ; 
Hasten hence on wings of gladness. 
Where ray love her hope doth stag; 
When ye leurn its preolona burden. 
Back to roe the echoes bring. 
Higher still, I ween, and clearer 
Will the notes ot angels be. 
If the songs they sing <>f mortals 
Mingle with my love’s of me. 
While the slimmer day is sleeping 
In the cradle of the sky. 
And the starry host are keeping 
All untiring watch on high, 
Go, ye moonbeams, where this even 
Bows my love on bended knee; 
Come and tell me, then, if ever 
Move her lips In prayer for me- 
Brighter, dearer, purer, nearer, 
Must the prayers of angels be. 
If they bear to heaven’s portals 
Mine for tier and hers for me. 
When the heavy wing of slumber 
Hovers o’er the weary world. 
And the gates that ope to dreamland, 
On their hinges back are hurled; 
When the image that is nearest 
To the heart is first to see, 
While of her I'm fondly dreaming, 
Does roy loved one dream of mo? 
Close above her. In that dreamland, 
Wonld some watchful one might be. 
Who would tell me If her holy 
Purest dreams are aye of me. 
-- 
A COUNTRY LADY. 
Francis Tiffany, in Old and Now, gives 
But I cannot enlarge farther. Does not she, 
however, illustrate gloriously the creative 
power of a large heart—creative power to 
make a small house big, narrow means 
abundant, work play, a contracted sphere 
roomy, broad and airy. 
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MENTAL LIFE OF WOMEN. 
“ Few men,” says a gentleman of intelli¬ 
gence and observation, “ have any idea of the 
mental life of women, or how much thinking 
is done by them. It. is a fashion to say that 
women don’t think, but it is a mistake. My 
father died when I was twelve years old, 
and I was brought up with my mother and 
sisters, I know that they, and the ladies 
with whom they associated, were thinkers, 
and yet I remember that, even as a child, I 
was struck with the difference when a gen¬ 
tleman called. There is a difference between 
your sex and ours. A man stands by his 
thought; carries it openly, like a banner, 
which he is bound to defend, while you, ap¬ 
parently more impulsive, and with a reputa¬ 
tion for greater spontaniety, arc in reality 
much more reticent, and in a certain sense, 
do your thinking on the sly. Among your¬ 
selves you think deeply, and express your¬ 
selves with vigor. In the presence of a man 
you conceal your thoughts and reflect his. 
Whether it is a fault of your education, or of 
your approbativeness, I cannot tell, but such 
seems to be the fact.” 
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FEMININE FEUILLETON. 
How to Bring it I,over Buck. 
Before war laid closed thegal.es, and life 
octal (topics. 
INHARMONY. 
BY CHARLOTTE CORDNER. 
Is your harp out of tune ? So Is mine; 
And oven the lightest of Angers 
Waken strains which lire echoes of thine 
In sadness, where unly pain lingers. 
Perhaps, in some quick -Sowing measure, 
A string has been broken in twain. 
Which saddens the whole of life’s pleasures, 
And turns all our music to pain. 
Friends speak, and the softest vibrations, 
Like monotones seem to my oar; 
And vain are thoir sweet ministrations 
To rouse any chords that can cheer. 
Oh, Master! exalt us, I pray theo. 
Once more where sweet hurtnony reigns, 
To Thy great heart full of mystery, 
Where are none but the sweetest of strains. 
Then mend the lost strings and ring changes 
Which never shall sadden again, 
As out of their mystical ranges 
Flow harmonies born of our pain. 
LIFE. 
been a partial success with one feature, and 
that is the nose. Perhaps they have also a 
hint of the moustache, but the expression is 
utterly wanting. Bismarck’s face is more 
expansive now than when any photographs 
or other pretended likenesses that I have 
seen were taken. The eye tells ot the man. 
It is very large, and I do not know that a 
better word could be picked to describe it— 
violent. It is “ an eye like Mars, to threaten 
or command,” — too busy to be long fixed 
upon one object, greedy, alert, piercing— 
with a mocking devil in its humor that gives 
ton smile that is grim but kindly, a touch of 
fine scorn. 1 saw the great, Chancellor half 
a dozen times, but never without his big 
white cap, and I could not judge, therefore, 
whether the photographers had caught the 
shape of his head, and I suppose they might 
do that, or make an examination that would 
settle the question ns to his reported loss of 
one or more of the celebrated four hairs that 
once were the peculiarly recognized orna¬ 
ments of the dome over his brains.” 
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STUDY vs. DISSIPATION. 
DELAY NOT. 
BY MARTHA EWING. 
Delay not, delay not; the voice may be mute 
Whose cadence enchuntoil thy car; 
Speak, speak to the heart; tliu rudely-swopt lute 
Can wail but lbe plaint, of a tear. 
Oh. speak ere the shallow# realutlessly lie. 
Where glowed the bright rainbow of joy; 
Alas t that life's enrol were clningod to a sigh, 
That a word or a look could destroy ! 
Delay not, delay not: for sorrow and care 
That only thy bias of oilnd 
Can weigh and determine, mid fully can share, 
May wreck with thoir burden# combined. 
Delay not—return t.liee; a pearl on thy path 
Was trampled In negligent, haste; 
And a flower by the wayside—more beauty none 
hath — 
Was left, its sweet fragrance to waste. 
Delay not, delay not; lest follies of youth 
Shull ripen to vices and crime; 
A word of thy Counsel might check, with its truth, 
If proffered in opportune time. 
Delay not to utter the Gomgiven thought, 
Though a welcome It seem not 10 win; 
Thou never mayeat. know with what power It was 
fraught. 
To deter the swift progress of sin. 
BY MAHYWfLEY. TuE Scientific. American very truly says: Then nevo^mayeat know with what power it was 
- “It is the commonly received notion that To deter the swift progroas of sin. 
a TASTE Of joy, a feast of sorrow; , a ia the unhealthy element of a col- .... 
A brief to-day, a long to-morrow; J .. ., .. , Delay not; as on the short Journey of life 
A few bright smiles, then bitter tears ; lege llle. But from the tallies ol HiUiaiU Thou shall, travel In sunshine or gloom; 
A few glad days, then burdened years. University, Collected by Prof. PlBRCK from To do in the present, come pence or come strife, 
A throbbing heart, a head low bowed; the last triennial Catalogue, It IS c.U.n 1\ tit n _ +++. _. 
A long farewell, the grave and shroud; Otistrated that the OXCCHS of death for the mTTATTnTTmc , dv mrmTVVPa 
The same in these as years Of yore. firs, ton wars after graduation, is found in THOUGHTS BY THINKERS. 
The sum of life, and nothing more. nisi ten jc.w » . 
-♦♦♦-- that’portion of each class of interior scholar- How to BeK j„ a Work of Benevolence. 
CITY COUSINS. ship. Every one who has seen the eurrieu- p R Muhlenberg says:—“Think over 
- * him, knows that where /Esuliylus and politi- ymn , p ] aa W ell. Mature it in your own mind. 
Another “Country House Nuisance,” cal economy injure one, late hours and rum jy IH( . 11Ha a with oue or two whose judgment 
Delay not; as on the short Journey of life 
Thou shalt travel in sunshine or gloom; 
To do in the present, coma peace or come strife, 
For to-morrow may settle, thy doom. 
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THOUGHTS BY THINKERS. 
How to Begin n Work of Benevolence. 
Du. Muhlenberg saysThink over 
this glimpse of u woman and a lady. We was slill g 0 j U g on j n Paris, a young and and one that wc consider inconceivably punches use up a dozen, and that their two j a w01 t,|i having'. Give it form and shape 
amend it to the “ Troubled Marthas” preUy •woman presented herself at the gal- greater than the so termed “Feather Bed little fingers are heavier than the loins ol beP)|re you call in others to your aid. Then 
our day and generation. It is a picture i ery of a celebrated Paris photographer, and Nuisance,” is City Cousins. They come Euclid. Dissipation is a sure destroyer, and preBent it for general support, as it is. Don’t 
irtlt preserving; expressed a wish to have her picture taken, upon us in the heat of summer, lumbering every young man who follows it is as the begin with proclaiming your object, and <5*11- 
Dne summer I was boarding with my As the artist was adjusting the camera, the our houses, from garret to cellar, with hag- early flower exposed to uniimdy host. j n g a meeting of .all who are friendly to it. 
us this glimpse ot a woman auu a uiuy. >v e 
commend it to the “ Troubled Marthas 
of our day and generation. It is a picture 
worth preserving: 
One summer I was boarding with my 
family in a farm-house by the sea shore. 
Our host was a pitiful miser, starving him¬ 
self, starving his family; and, <i fortiori , 
starving his boarders. Sick of human na¬ 
ture, sick of petty, miserable contention; a 
party of us started out one day, in a wagon, 
for a fine beach some miles away, to try to 
expressed a wish to have her picture taken. 
As the artist was adjusting the camera, the 
lady proceeded to pose herself by drawing a 
pistol and placing it to her temple. “ What 
are you doing, madam?” cried the astonished 
photographer. " I really cannot permit you 
to blow your brains out here; it would ruin 
my business; besides, it is a shame to spoil 
ao pretty a lace.” “ I don’t intend to do 
111 MIG lliuiuiug, »UI Uivuiuiw. .....SM, oumouw, ..* ■■ j pt’OpOSC mCUlOClS Ol pVOCCUUl'C, VVIUIOIH R 
wait until, say nine o’clock, and everything of the body. The brain, the heart, the lungs, of what you d( , sigJ1( lim i the mcet- 
else is disarranged accordingly. This we the liver, the spiue, the limbs, the hones, the : nC ”will adioum UDOn the anDQintmout of a 
party of us started out one day, in a wagon, my business ; besides, it is a shame to spoil else is disarranged accordingly. This we the liver, the spine, the limbs, m "’ n< ^ " i U g will adjourn upon the appointment of a 
for a fine beach some miles away, to try to 90 pretty a face.” “I don’t intend to do endure for weeks—perhaps months. Then, flesh, every part and faculty ovett.id.c< am committee, which may never meet. No; 
forget our woes in the kind lap of Mother any thing of the sort,” answered the tody, when they return to the city, and are de- weakened by the terrific energy Ol pAWon beg | a iaa q^t, natural way. Lot the thing 
Nanire. As we approached the beach, we “ My lover has left me, and I wish to send prived the luxury of a feather bed, and enjoy loosened from restraint, untd, like a 1 1 upi- dcvc ] () p j tS( .|f under the fostering sympathies 
stopped at a farm-house to ask permission my photograph taken in this position, with the soft side of a plank, they show the de- dated mansion, the ‘earthly house ot 1 ns of con o' (? mal few. It may he small and 
to put our horse in the barn. Knocking at W ord that if lie does not soon return to my ceitful side of their nature, by ridiculing our tabernacle ’ falls into ruinous decay. weak for a while, but if it be a germ of true 
the door, it was opened by a motherly- f ee t this will he the result.” The photo- hospitality, and feather beds. * * * __ life it will vegetate, it will strike root and 
looking woman of fifty, in spectacles, the grppher bowed, and executed the portrait, 
glasses of which, however, far from hiding, 
scented only to serve, like varnish on a pic¬ 
ture, to bring out the light and warmth of a 
pair of loving blue eyes underneath. She 
gave us the heartiest reception. " Put your 
horses in the barn ? Certainly 1 Y ou 11 find 
plenty of hay there. Come out to spend a 
day by the beach have you ? That’s right 1 
I do like to see young people enjoy them¬ 
selves! Won’t you eat your luncheon in 
our apple orchard, it’s so nice and cool and 
shady there? And wouldn’t you like a pan 
of sweet milk to have with it?” 
which it may he hoped duly reached its 
destination. 
Dio Lewis 10 Younar Women who Want 
Husbands. 
Among the young men in the matrimonial 
market, only a small number are rich, and in 
America, such rarely make good husbands. 
But the number of those who are just begin¬ 
ning in life, who are filled with ambition, 
who have a future, is very large. Those are 
worth having. But such will not, dare not, 
ask you to join them, while they see you so 
idle, silly, and gorgeously attired. Let them 
Now this we country people got. BISMARCK'S BABY. grow. When it has acquired a body of its 
for our pains; ji^d /, for one, don’t enjoy it! ~ ~ own, then throw it open to all who will, to 
Next summer they will come again, notwith- At the I russtan headquarters m 1 -• - , the requisite nutriment for its growth 
standing their aversion to our feather beds! the King occupied the front and Count Bis- ^ mi but not t „ trim and fashion 
We wonder at Uieir impudence in coming marck the back rooms °t the Archbishop? n()lion3 of their own. If they help 
again, but. considering their ignorance, we palace. The apartments ot t ic oim.wue in the right way, tl untie God and lake 
do as before—fuss and fry, bake and stew, on the ground floor, and looked out on ie cou If not, no matter. It will flourish, 
over a hot stove, until we heartily wish there extensive gardens to the rear ol the pa ace. ^ . f . ( bfl (i ;| phmt w ] licbovir Heavenly 
were no “City Cousins” to torture us. The 16th of September had been a very >usy hftlh plauU , (1 » If iL bc 1K ,t, they 
But, look now on the other side. We go day to many of the 1 rttsstans, am no t. , couId not keep ifc a )i ve . and the sooner it 
to the city, and call on our cousins. Arethey of all to the Count, lie was ruling < *>> - wiU)ers aud (1iea lll( , bettei . » 
as delighted to see us as when they were dy- and in the evening lie had a long contoicnee - 
big of heat and starvation, and came to the with the King. Tired with these difficult Folweli Buxion’# Motto, 
country for supplies, free of cost? By no labors, he hastened, when he 1 cachet us “ The longer I live the more I am certain 
means. They scarcely know us, have no room, to prepare for bed. He had seatee >, lliat tbe gr0!lt nifference between men, be- 
room for us; their house is full; they don’t however, begun to undress hint Hell w ion m twee|1 t]ie f ee |q c am i the powerful, the great 
see how they can accommodate us, and it is beard a rustling among the bed clothes, urn a|l(1 lbe insignificant j s energy, invincible, de- 
a lucky thing for us they can’t; for we would on searching found there, to lus nstonw 1 - a purpose once fixed and then 
find no feather bed to rest upon—only an mout, an infant notmim e than tour weeks <> < . (leath ol . victory. The quality will do any 
abominable apology for a bed, with more B. On looking closer be found n 1 HU . ' 0 thing that can he done in this world; and 
B.’s to feed upon us than we have flesh and this enfant trnitve the following note.— . V nQ ta | ent9) uo circumstances, no opportuni- 
blood to supply; and in the morning we husband fell at Sedan; 1 have not ting o t j e g t w j d rna ke a two-legged creature a man 
have not strength enough to rise up in de- eat. Despair forces me to part, with my on y w j lbout j t » There, write that upon your 
fense of anything short of a feather bed— child. It has been baptized V 1 n< ent. jV» b0u ] 8) young men! Let it be a text on which 
Louise. does this curious story end here. l<> mam yon U)tt y p reacb to yourselves, and tal«! care 
At the Prussian headquarters in Meux 
life it will vegetate, it will strike root and 
grow. When it. has acquired a body of its 
own, then throw it open to all who will, to 
“ Bless your dear, loving heart!” I cried, in- gee t | ia | y0U are industrious, economical, 
ternally. “ Then the stern necessities of farm 
life do not shrivel and wizen and dry-rot all 
souls after tlie manner of old Grimes we are 
hoarding with ! But perhaps this old lady 
has trodden a more silken path.” 
I looked round the room. There were 
milk pans enough to make life one eternal 
scour. Her dress, too, was trussed up; her 
arms were hare, and with that battered and 
callous look about the elbows which betokens 
hard usage. “ No children, probably 1 that 
accounts for it.” Presently a rustling of 
bed clothes, and an incipient wail from a 
neighboring room. “ Ah ! that s your 
grandchild, I suppose?” “No, that’s my 
baby.” 
I was about as incredulous as Sarah of 
old ; but she went right on. “ I’ve bad six¬ 
teen children!” Sixteen children! all these 
milk pans, the ordinary work of the farm¬ 
house ! and room still in the heart for such 
a reception as we had had, for such generous 
“ I do like to see young people enjoy 
themselves,” for such hearty proffers of the 
hospitality of the apple orchard, and of a 
full .ration of sweet milk! Ah! I see it. 
with habits that secure health and strength; j 
that your life is earnest and real; that you 
would he willing to begin at the beginning 
in life, with the man you would consent to 
marry. 
Girls for Hcliools, but not for Housework. 
A correspondent of the Rural New- 
Yorker at Harlland, Niagara Co., N. Y, 
writes ;—“ Girls to do housework are very 
scarce; people are riding in every direction 
to find them. And girls are riding every 
way to get schools to teach; but when you 
say ‘ housework’ to them they are deaf, and 
cannot see the point. Girls with a fair 
amount of experience get $2.50 to $3 per 
week, and seldom have to milk cows.” 
And yet, here in New York city there are 
on the ground floor, and looked out on the 
extensive gardens to the rear ot the palace. 
The 10th of September had been a very busy 
day to many of the Prussians, and not least 
uf all to the Count. He was riding all clay, 
and in the evening he had a long conference 
with the King. Tired with these cliflieiilt 
labors, he hastened, when he reached his 
room, to prepare for bed. lie had scarcely, 
however, begun to undress himselt when he 
heard a rustling among the bed clothes, ami 
on searching found there, to his astonish¬ 
ment, an infant notrmore than four weeks old. 
On looking closer he found by the side of 
this enfant Worm the following note:—“ My 
courage. If not, no matter. It will flourish, 
that is, if it be “ a plant which our Heavenly 
Father hath planted.” If it be not, they 
could not keep it. alive; and the sootier it 
withers and dies the better.” 
Folwell Buxton’s Motto. 
“ The longer I live the more I am certain 
that the great difference between men, be¬ 
tween the feeble and the powerful, the great 
and the insignificant is eneryy, invincible, de- 
tevmimition, a purpose once fixed and then 
death or victory. The quality will do any 
thing that can he done in this world; and 
no talents, no circumstances, no opportuni- 
AN ENTHUSIASTIC ADMIRER. 
The New Orleans Picayune says: —A 
countryman at the theatre, the other night, 
as the escort of some ladies, retired at an 
intermission and returned with a pound or 
two of peanuts wrapped in a paper, and Lwo 
hundreds of girls thronging the intelligence huge bananas sticking from his pocket. Just 
child. It has been baptized Vincent.” Nor 
does this curious story end here. To make 
it dramatically complete and symmetrical, 
the unfortunate mother committed suicide. 
The matter is said to have reached the ears 
of the King, and orders were given that the 
desolate infant should he sent to Berlin. Was 
ever a life so curiously begun ? 
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AMERICANS ABROAD. 
offices and Labor Bureaus daily, seeking 
employment without success. 
Solomon’# Soim lor Now York Belles. 
One of the New York shoddy aristocrats, 
a member of a fashionable church, electri- 
The full, rich voice, exquisite in intonation 
and breathing strains almost divine, com 
souls, young men! Let it he a text on which 
you may preach to yourselves, and take care 
to pay the preacher the best compliment 
that preachers can receive—let your con¬ 
duct, by embodying the test, do credit to the 
sermon. _ 
How ro Avoid Unhappiness. 
Du. Payson once wrote: — “Christians 
might avoid much unhappiness if they 
would but believe that God is able to make 
them happy without anything else. God 
fled a music seller some time since by in- p ] ete fi the conquest of the countryman’s 
qtiiring for “ Solomon’s Song,” saying his j iearfc ana enable to restrain his delight, he 
full gallon ot sweet milk . Ah. I see it. if . for a Solomon’s Song” saying his 
“ Where there is room in the heart, there is nlinisler ha ,j spo | ce ri of it as a production of 
always room in the house, room for all genius an fl be&Uty, and that he wanted 
these children, and then room to spare for a hfe d htera t0 si u , 
bevy of pleasure-seeking, do-nothing stran-_ 
gOl'S, who would seem sent only to suggest XVImt Mr#. Atkinson Couldn’t Stand, 
the complaint, “ W by must my life he a Mrs. Atkinson of Providence thus sums 
ceaseless moil of nursing, scrubbing, ripping, up j ier three years’ experience of married 
sewing, while these people can lie on the p f e ._« The first year my husband called 
rocks all day long, counting the breakers, me t my dear .* the second year, ‘ Mrs. A.;’ 
cooled by the spray, dosing of the music of and t he third year, ‘old sorrel-top.’ This 
then, however, and before he had time to The word American is fast becoming a them happy without anything else. God 
take his seat one of the actresses who had passport in ail quarters ot the globe, and to j ias depriving me of one blessiug after 
especially won bis admiration, came to the be an American is to be Identified, with another; but as every one was removed, bo 
footlights and warbled a beautiful melody, whatever marks progress. The railway baB come in and filled up Hs place, and now 
The full' rich voice, exquisite in intonation trains in British India, especially the lines vvhen i am crippled, and not able to move, 
•md breathing strains almost divine, com connecting Bombay and Calcutta, are now i am happier than ever 1 was in all my life 
' Wo ,i |1,» rammlest of the countryman’s said to run with wonderful dispatch and before, or ever expect to be, and if I had be- 
What Mr#. Atkinson Couldn’t Stand. 
Mrs. Atkinson of Providence thus sums 
bus come in and filled Up its place, and now 
when I am crippled, and not able to move, 
I am happier than ever 1 was In all my life 
before, or ever expect to be, and if I bad be¬ 
lieved this twenty years ago, I might have 
been spared much anxiety.” 
fair enchantress. There was a momentary will he placed on the line, when the journey What Each Man Cau and Shonifl n«. 
astonishment visible upon the faces on the will be almost luxurious.” We have to go Dr. Samuel T. Break says:- No one 
sl . lire a single interval s hesitation, which abroad for testimony to American skill and man can hold all the good things m bis head 
was Removed by the countryman’s voice full improvement. At home, no snu 1 portion or do allthe good things m his life that are 
arid clear “Take ’em gabby jingo, you’re of the people still give the presence to to he held and done. There is a. division of 
and clear lake em, gai, oy jmg ,y fordtm L h [ ons . labor in Christianity as well as m secular 
the pulsing ocean.” 
I went, after a preliminary embarrassment 
in the stable over the horse’s collar, and said, 
hlushingly, “ Madam, 1 am ashamed to say I 
do not know how to harness that horse!” 
“ Of course not; every body can’t do every¬ 
thing!” and this in a tone as though she 
last I could not stand.” 
Niue Year# too Old. 
A marriage in high life was broken off 
in Terre Haute the other day, simply be¬ 
cause the prospective bridegroom, in exam¬ 
ining the family Bible, found the would be 
were already overwhelmed with amazement bride nine years older than the indorsement 
at the number of things I could do. Her re¬ 
plying thus, I say, and then running to the 
back door and calling to two of her sons in 
the field, “ Here you Henry Clay ! Daniel 
Webster! (room still in that heart, we see, 
for a streak of hero worship.) Come here 
and help this gentleman harness bis horse!” 
of her mother called for. 
A Conjugal Prescription. 
A loving wife at Long Branch said: 
“ That horrid surf makes me keep my mouth 
shut.” Sarcastic husband—“ Take some of 
i it home with you.” 
welcome.” forei g a fashions. 
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r r\r\TTC3 Tht ’ Ijaw of Bettllty 
HOW BISM ARC K LOOKS. requires that the mouth should be small and 
Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincin- expressive; the teeth small, slightly rounded 
nati Commercial, says, in a recent letter: and white; the chin of moderate size white, 
“ Referring to Bismarck again, I will answer soft and gracefully lounded , the 1 V ’’"B. 
as to the man the question that everyone high opening between the eyelids, and mi¬ 
aow asks about a celebrity:-* Does he look maculate clearness of both the white and 
like bis photographs?’ In this ease deeid- iris. *lhey should be large, especially m 
edlv no You look at the photographs of woman; the cheeks moderately plump and 
Bismarck that are to he seen, and all the en- delicately tinted; the hair tno, soil, ivuvy 
rJv-Zz'Z nrintTand then you would not and curling; the neck white, smooth, straight we ™ 
.. 
^ a— g ,„ u , 
ness of bun, and the photographs have only [ skin.— Prof. II etch. P 
affairs; and, as in the latter, so in the former 
this division results in an increase of aggre¬ 
gate power and usefulness. Let each laborer 
he earnestly and thoroughly himself, and 
work out his own problem; and God will he 
pleased.” _ 
Comfort ami Coanaol. 
Surely were we permitted to be a rivu¬ 
let of consolation to any afflicted child of 
God, and one drop in the ocean of His glory, 
we should not have lived in vain. 
We are living epistles, lent to the world 
from God’s library, to teach a particular sub- 
