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J. YA|t SLfKE, Ktftnr * PpMI ILLINOIS. MCHENRY. In the captaiws drum.. M \ f ."CONN., APRIL, 1715. Pilgrim land, one Sabbath-day, The winter lay like sheen about i f. V V |The nigged PASTURES mullein gray; tl'J'- The April sun shone in and out, ' The showers swept by in fitful flocks, 4nd e^»#iticked fast like mantel clocks; MjfSmvfitheyanwatthy cloud ; f H ^ Wimlmr a iltrtxm brood and V>*ifirt, -~M. WWWNE uunmo is sight. II» 1# M fto rainbows bend and bluebirds fly • 'T^T And violets show their bits of sky. , j f o Enfield Ohuroh throng all theto^HH, In quilted hood and bombazine. - beaver hat with flaring crown, *"*' :_i A.*ictorinei..f ^ i a B a n d a n a s w a v e t h e i r f e e b l e f i r e , ' • , „ I© fi And foot«toves tinkle up the liab^l^jj gray-haired elder leads the choir, . . V, VF* And ffirls in linsev-W'X"!??'"/ >V^(p back *° the beings slide v i Whose very staves have ebbed and died. ,' ;', ̂ )ne hundred years have wanedt and yet • ' ' i ' ^ W e c a l l t h e r o l l , a n d n o t i n v a m , • one whose flint-lock innaketset -JjL The echoes wild round Fort Uuquene, ' • '*'v'-:ft»11d smelled the battle's powder smoke ' ' #re He volution s thunders woke. t m: •m> }• V t Wr K ' f# • C*> i ilk Thomas Abbe answers, " Here!" Within the dull, long-meter place. : "That day, upon the parson's ear, And t campling down hia words of gl . Jl horoeman a gallop rudely beat | JMong the splashed and empty street. rider drew his dripping rein, *_ And then a letter, wasp-nest gray, That ran: " The Concord minute-mea And red-coats had a fight to-day! o Captain Abbe this with speed." welve little worcta to tell the deed. ?o Captain Abbe this with speed! » The Captain read, struck out for home * The old quickstep of battle born, t f Slung on once more a battered drum, '» "jThat )>ore a painted unicorn, i f Tlien right-about. as whirls a torch, , lie stood before the sacred porch. -t >l-n i,, * .And then a murmuring of bees \ ** Broke in upon the house of prayer 3. A"d then a wind-sonn swept the tret*. T**" And then a snarl from wolfish lair; r And then h charge of grenadiers, , "And then a flight of drum-beat cheeM ' Bo drum and doctrine rudely blent., "!> " * ' The casements rattled strange accdcjlt i <#V W° nortal knew what either meant '^ .* 1 'Twas double-drag and Holy Wor. •?1'm Thus saith the drum, and thus the The Captain raised so wild a rout f i e d r u m m e d t h e c o n g r e g a t i o n o u t . f ; , r • #r • f jjg people gathered round amazed; The soldier bared his head and spoke. And every sentence burned and b I As trenchant as a saber stroke; JB time to pick the flint to-day, •%.. _ ' o s l i n g t h e k n a p s a c k , a n d & t f v ! s J h J ' " SChe green of Lexington is red. . 4 With British red-coats, brothers' bloocn • Jfr rightful cause the earliest dead - - - Are always best beloved of God. Hark time! Now let the inarch begin! Ml bound for Boston fall right in!" then rub-a-dub the drum jarred oil, J The throbbing roll of battle beat: fall in, niv men!" and one by one . i They rhymed the tune with heart nqd feet, ^*nd ro they nrnde a Rahhath maretCi To glory 'neath the elm -tree arch. The Continental line unwound Along the church-yard's breathless sod. And holier grew the hallowed ground Where Virtue slept and Valor trod. Two hundred st rong that April day They rallied out and marched away. XCJ Jgkigaded there at Bunker Hill. Ttieir names are writ on Glory's /V The* brave old Captain's Sunday dr drummed ite way across the 1 'w 'i +Jt/k«jtunin F. Taylor, in Atlantic for Man. »a«e. gixii A POSTAL C. ^Lcusf.i:m • \ 1 Ml .Y " GOOD-MOKNING, Miss Latira," said Mrs. Bender, stopping at the gate. "How are the folks to-aayP*' " All well, thank you, Mrs. Bender." 4* I didn't see any light in the best #fplor last night, Miss Laura; HOW'S tttat? Any unpleasantness?15 44 None ' in the weather, surely," laughed Laura. 44 Ah! > I'm going down to the Post-­ office; shall I look in your box? I sup­ pose you want your letters early, and one likes to be .neighborly." 44 Yes, thank you, Mrs. Bender. I shall be in school till noon, and I love to find a letter under my dinner plate, and there'll be no one to go to the office, as Miss Frill is here, cutting and blustia^. Yes, I would be glad to have , y¥m look in our box, not that I expect much of anything." „ 44 Anything in Box 297P" She asked, haying reached the office AND secured her own mail. 44 A postal card! well, 1 never!"--as the clerk surrendered it. "•MISS Ls^ura Vaughnr'she read,as she S trudgfed homeward. 44 Gracious! who'» ; WRFTMG lo her' on a postal card? I "wofeldn't thank my folks to write in that public way. Everybody reads them, of course; just as much common property as a poster. Ahem! You can hardly help reading one; he who runs may read--you see every word before you KNOW it. 4 Don't fail to be at the Studio Building by eleven a. m. on Wednesday. Mum's the word. Jack.' Jack! Who's Jack, 1 should like to know? Pretty work, Miss Laura, for a deacon's daughter! What next? An elopement, mavbe. And there'S poor Devens, too! He ought to be told of these goings on, and put on his guard. It's a duty not to allow the young man to remain in the dark. I shall have to manage it somehow." MRS. Bender left the postal card with the servant at Laura's door, and pro­ ceeded homeward. Mr. Devens, as fate had ordered it. boarded with Mrs. Bender, and had been making himself too agreeable to her young neighbor, when she had other views for him-- when there was Prudence Bender sit­ ting at home at the piano, in her black silk, waiting for something to happen. Mrs. Bender had somewhere read that the fate of future generations had been decided by the toss of a curl or the waving of a ribbon, and she was de­ termined that neither curl nor ribbon jhould be spared to favor her case. J* Have you seen any thing of oUr neighbors latelyP" she asked Mr. Devens at dinner. 441 met Miss Nell Newcomb this morning and walked to the mail with fc*r," he answered, evasively. > "Oh, I mean those on the other sicfe of the house." Miss Nell was engaged, and a man might safely walk to Jericho with her. 44Miss Vaughn and you don't see so much of each other as you did, eh?" 44Oh, don't we? May I trouble you for the pepper, Miss PrueP" ••Law, no trouble, Mr. Devens. If you're going into the city to-morrow, Wiguld you mind some fringe " Isfjs' meW" , f wouldn't mind matchingaoything for you. Miss Prue; but I've no more idea of going into the city to-morrow tiian of going to the moom." "Oh, 1 understood that < Miss Laura Was going, and I *suppo#ed--I didn't? know but--" "Miss Vaughn hasn't mentioned the excursion to me. AredTt you mis­ taken ?'1--oft HI^ GUARD., f * ? , t ^ ' 44Would' she be likely M *n%ntldn it if she were going to meet somebody in particular?" put in Mrs. Bender. - 44Law, ma, don't worry Mr. Devens." *'I only said 'supposing.' It is well TF be prepared for the worst, isn't it, Mr. Devens?" I am not in the leait anxious, I as­ sure you," aVerrad that getitleDftal); ljut it struck him a little oddly that he should have heard nothing of the pro* jected journey, since a trip to Boston was a holiday affair to Laura, which she openly discussed for weeks before and after." To be sure there had been a little coolness between them, dating from the time when he brought her a letter from the mail, dhectea in a fine mas­ culine hand, and she had refused to gratify his curiosity about it. He had spent the next evening playing euchre with Miss King, and Laura had se£n him go in for that purpose. One trifle after another had helped to widen the little rift within the lute, and he had not been near Laura's door for three whole days. Hadn't he better step over this evening and see how she Was enduring it? he asked himself. And about this trip to Boston! How could she leave her district school? It was only some nonsense of Mrs. Bender's, no doubt. But delaying in the hall on Wednesday evening to orush his hat, he overheard Miss Prue saying to her mother: "Ellen Dow taught school for Laura Vaughn to-day. I wonder the committee don't complain. It it> very odd about her going up to Boston. She asked Ellen Dow not to mention it, too. And Ellen told me not to say a word about it, either, so don't you let it out to Mr. Devens, ma, just to tease him. I wonder if she met Jack? Her father doesn't approve of him, and so she meets him on the'sly," pursued Prue, weaving her romance from the meager material in hand. *4I wish you would forbid somebody coming to see me ; and then--" But then Mr. Devens entered. His Laura suspected of meeting an­ other man on tne sly! It gave nim a cold chill. He had fondly believed that she only waited his beck and call; it HID never occurred to him as possible that she could console herself with another lover. And who was this Jack about whom Miss Prue discoursed so volubly? Should he go to Laura and beg for a reconciliation--he had fully made up his mind to this step before entering the house--or should he give her a lesson? * •'Did Miss Laura Jaatch youfr fringe to-day?" he asked noncimlantlt. 4'I didn't like to ask her," said Prue. •4I reckon she had other fish to fry." 4'When a young lady goes to the city to meet a sweetheart, sne can't attend to matches of any other kind," Jiaid Mrs. Bender, facetiously. 4'Did Miss Laura go to meet a Sweet­ heart, eh?" he! asked, with an air as if it didn't signify in the least. 4'She went DV appointment, Mr. Dev­ ens, to meet a young man, too. I don't see why it should be keptfrofli you." "Indeed! did Miss Vaughn tell you so?" ; . " ' HOT, db*. L h .&M#ECI|T0UT IT leaked out." *• "So it seems." •'Laura's something O|JT flirt, like the rest of us. There was young Sam­ ple, the clergyman--in fact, it's her nature to be on with the new LU.ve be­ fore she's off with the old." 4 4Mrs. Bender, Miss Vaugha' is a friend of mine," said Devens^ reprov­ ingly, while he thought bitter things of her himself, and made desperate re­ solves. ""And I'm sure Laura and I've al­ ways got on well together. But it strikes me that we must be tolerably familiar with a.young fellow when he signs himself 'Jack' and nothing more. Shouldn't you say so, Mr. Devens? 1 shouldn't like Prue to be 011 such terms with any but a declared lover myself." "Does Miss Vaughn show you her love-letters?" lie asked, already caught in the snare. "Not muchly, Mr. Devens. Btit mur­ der will out, yot? kfeb#, ' I feelffefe my­ self that it is A dangerous innovation to teach servants reading and writing, as the Vaughns do. No good comas'of it." Mr. Devens experienced a strange distrust straightway. Not being versed in the wiles of women of the Bender type, he mistook her airy insinuations for law and gospel. Laura had played false, had taken advantage of their lit­ tle quarrel to encourage a rival. Should he not return the compliment by bestowing his attentions upon some other damsel? Naturally Miss Prue became the recipient of his temporary favor. It was Prue who drove witn him through the lanes that led to Lau­ ra's school-house, where they ~ were pretty sure to meet her going or com­ ing. and see the quick color deepen in her cheek and forsake her lip; It was Prue who played backgammon with him in the lighted parlor, with the curtain of the window looking out upon the Vaughns' premises raised and the interior visible; and it was poor Laura, in the darkness of her own room, who watched the. pr«tty game, with a tightness at her heart ana tears in her eyes. 44 What a blessing postal-cards are, to be sure!" reflected Mrs. Bender, as she looked at the pair. 44 Now, if that one hadn't been thrown in my teelh, so to speak, he would have been spooning over at the Vaughns' this very minute. Mr. Devens, blinded by his feelings, failed to perceive that the situation looked peculiar; he never guessed what a topic he afforded at the sewing so­ ciety and the Bethel meetings, nor hofr much occupation he provided for the neighbors' eyes and ears. He never once staid to question how his behavior affected any one but Laura. Prue was used to flirting with Tom, Dick and Harry, and shenad never received a wound. 44 It's kinder natural and handy, liv­ ing under the same roof," said old Mrs. Goodhue, looking over her speo,- taclea at the spectacle. 441 s'pose Pru­ dence and HER jpa cosset him within an inch of his life; the way to min'S heart is through his stomach; yo« auwt pttm- p^r hi»aj>p|titeor fl*tt#r hit vanity, and the BenderS £RE equkl to the occaaioit. I reckon." 4'It's propinquity," remarked Miss Blue, Who fead mental philosophy and novels, and represented feminine cul­ ture in Chester. When Laura left hdr ^CHDOLY again • and sgaih, TO the tender mercies of Ellen Dbw, and repeated her excursion to Bdston, Mr. Devens never failed of being made aware of it. On the third octtasijjhi, indeed, he con­ descended to follow in the smoking-car, persuading himself that he really ought to hunt up a college«iium. He was re­ warded by seeing Laura meet- a- hand­ some young man upon Tremont street, who turned about and disappeared with her inside the Studio Building. Mr. Devens did not hunt up his chum that day. Through Mrs. Bender's applica­ tion to her neighbors' affairs it came to his ears whenever Miss Laura received a bouquet by express, and he once dis­ covered a bunch of violets blooming in a wine-gtass in her window, 'which he well knew never bloomed in a Chester green-house. One evening he VW congratulated on his engagement to Miss Bender. " 1 am ENGAGED TB no one," he said, with a sudden giddiness about the head, as if the ground shook under him. 44 NoP Well, folks do say vou ought* er be, if you ain't," returned the disap­ pointed gossip. 44 Indeed? 4 Folk!? seem to under­ stand my duty better than their own." He walked homeward, half benumbed, revolving the subject drearily. Had he indeed gone beyond his depth una­ wares? he asked himself. Was Miss Prue mistaken, like the rest, with re- fard to his feelings? Had he misled er, in his blind selfishness? Ought he to marry, without LQ^E, because "folks" talked? As he drew near the Vaughns', in the failing light, he perceived two figures faintly outlined: a woman had just closed the garden gate and stood within; a man departed, yet lingered with the other's hand shut in his own; the tall hedge had hidden Mr. Devens; in a minute more he would be in sight. He wished neither to listen nor to en­ counter his rival, nor to surprise them love-making. He took* a step backward, still behind the hedge. " To-morrow, then," said the mas­ culine voice, with tender intonation, 441 shall be the proudest, happiest--" Devens found himself actually bending all his faculties to hear, but the end of the sentence escapod him. "I should be glad to invite a handful of friends to witness my success," pursued the same voice, 44 if you do not object." 441 object!" saidLaura's silver treble --441, who owe you so much and can return so little!" ,4 Good-by." M. little silence follwed; then--could Mf. Devens believe his own ears? The jackanapes had kissed Laura, and she had not rebuked him! He turned hot and cold alternately; his heart seemed throbbing in his throat; he glanced toward the gate where she still leaned; belonged to take her in his arms and claim her love, in spite of that strange man's audacious kisses. Then he remembered Prue, and what 4F folks" had said. Had he not put his own happiness beyond his reaen? In teaching Laura a lesson, had he not learned more than he cared to know himself? He was like a child crying for the moon. He had better go home and marry Prue. Then he moved for­ ward swiftly as a leopard; had reached the gate and placed a compelling hand upon Laura's before she was aware of his neighborhood. ' *? 44 That man--who left you Just now --who kissed you--you--who IS heP Vou are GOING to marry him?" he gasped, as if he challenged her to deny it. •• And you are going to marry Pru­ dence Bender/' returned Laura's tense tones. "Let me wish you joy." The hand that held hers dropped LTJTAE lead; he hung his head like one convicted, and walked away without a word. Looking drearily out of the car win-, dow on tne following morning on her way to Boston, Laura's eyes fell upon Mr. Devens making his way toward the refreshment-room, having just left the cars. She fancied that there was something strange in his APPEARANCE : was he ill? Could he have been watch­ ing? HE had a haggard, ill-dressed air, as if he had been up overnight,, and had not found time to adjust himself to ,the hour, and he walked unsteadily. Presently the train gave an admonitory lurch. Mr. Devens would lose it, she thought; no, he was coming, quickly but not surely. His foot may iiave been upon the step when it panted and roll­ ed forward, and broke up suddenly with a noise like the crack of doom, it seemed to Laura as if the heavens had rolled together as a scroll at that in­ stant; she knew what had happened without hearing a word; she was on her feet, groping her way out amidst the excited throng, which seemed to part instinctively to let her pass. She did not know that she had called his name tenderly, wildly, with the terrible solicitude in her voice which only love lends. She knew nothing until she found him LYING like death, broken be­ side the track, white and speechless and mutilated. She crouched beside him there, whispering tender words, AG if he could understand, as if they two were alone, and not the spectacle of A curious crowd. » *4I WAS desperate, Lattra, at losing you," were his first faint words. 44I;.be» lieve--I took something to drink--at the inn--JJI Chester--just to forget ^HEJAIFOAJI# the last." There is to this day an unfinished portrait, turned face to the wall, in the studio of Mr. Raphael Smith. 44 The lady never arrived for her last sitting," he explains. Her husband would have purchased it, BUI the artist declined to sell an unfinished painting., . 441 meant the portrait fof a Christ­ mas present, dear, to you," said Mrs. Devens; " that was why I went to town so privately for my sittings--why I .made such a secret of it." •' And the wretched fellow prolonged the sittings in order to make love to you."' 4 4 1 r e m e m b e r the very day when I received the postal card from Cousin Jack--her NAGX ̂JS Jacqueline, you know.lrat for brevity -telling me what day to go up for my first sitting. Mrs. BendeF brought it, and I thought you would be in that evening; I supposed you would drop in at «Y moment and make up; and then --afterward--I had engaged the por­ trait, AND ̂what excuse could I give for withdrawing--and Jack at #11 the bother of securing Mr. Smith's services." " And presently it grew interesting, with a Raphael at your feet. I will swear that I heard him kiss you at the gate, and vow he should be the hap­ piest--" 44 No, sir; he only kissed ray hand, and SAID he should be the happiest art­ ist alive when the picture was finished, AND H^GG^D PERMISSION TO SHOW it to his friends and 4fellow-students.' " 44 But pardon, Mrs. Devens, what was it vou owed Mr. Smith, for which you could retarn so little?" 44 Why, I thought you knew. I owed him a heart, but found myself insolvent. Somebody had stolen all I had." 44 Indeed,". said Mr. Devens, taking up his crutch. 441 wonder you preferred a cripple; but I'm glad you did." 44 Well, now, postal-cards don't seem to give much information after all," considered Mrs. Bender, when she hap­ pened to learn the solution of her rid­ dle. 44 How was I to know that Jack was only a girl, and Laura was just go­ ing to town to have her picture taken? It beats all how misleading they are. All I've got to say is, they might as well never have been invented." But it was owing to a postal-card that Mr. Devens married a gray-haired bride, and that Laura Vaughn wedded A crippled lorer.--Harpers Bagar. TACTS AND FIGURES. * TENNESSEE has 29,000,000 aores lof land, with 6,000,000 brought into culti­ vation. THE photograph building <M the Cen­ tennial Grounds, Philadelphia, which cost $15,000, was sold lately for $410. IT is estimated that over one hundred thousand persons in New England have signed the total abstinence pledge since Dec. 1. ACCORDING to Turkish official re­ turns, there AC# at present 1,780,000 Mussulmans in Bulgaria, and 1,860,000 Bulgarians. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND men are now engaged in the express business in this country, 3,500 horses are employed, and there are 8,000 officers. The capital invested is estimated at thirty millions. AMONG wheat growing States Iowa stands first, Minnesota second, Illinois third and Wisconsin fourth. Ohio raises the most winter wheat and Illi­ nois the most corn and oats. Pennsyl­ vania raises the most rye--one-fifth of the whole crop, and California the most barley, ? TIII; Georgia Orange says that it the planters of the South would make their plantations strictly self-sustaining, and L»uv nothing which they could them­ selves produce, cotton would never be below thirty cents a pound, and they would become the Wealthiest people under the sun. FROM a report recently printed in the London Times, it Appears that the postal saving* banks, under the direc­ tion of the BRITISH Government, pro­ duced a profit last year of £145,849, or about $728,000, over the interest allowed and the Expenses of Carrying on the oflice. As SHOWING the cofet of labor in Europe, the rate of wages paia on cer­ tain railioad works of the same class, w s : In Portugal, $1.45 a week; in Ireland, $2.20; in France, $2.90, and in England, $5.30. Nevertheless, it was found that over the whole works the same amount of earth had been moved for the same amount of money. Gov. JOE BKOWN, of Georgia, has made a contract with that State by which he has hired the Penitentiary Convicts for twenty years at $25,000 per annum. The Nasiiville American claims that Tennessee does much belter. She receives for her Penitentiary lease over #82,000 per year-- $70,000 for rental aud about $12,000 FOR EXPENSE of transportation of convicts from place of conviction to the prison. THE locomotive engine might 'airly be our National emblem; for of 181,864 miles of rail track on the globe at the close of 1876, no fewer than 73,508 were in the United States, while all Europe contained but 89,129. These, be it noted, are figures, not of American, but of French statisticians. Next after our country came Germany, with a to­ tal of 17,333 miles; then Great Britain, with 16,659; France, 13,390; Russia, 12,121; Austria, 10,768; India, 6,475; Italy 4,764; Canada, 4,097; Sweden and Norway, 2,769; Belgium, 2,169; Aus­ tralasia, 1,748; Switzerland, 1,290; Turkey, 1,201, and Holland, 1,174. Among Old World countries having fewer than a thousand miles of railroad were: lloumania, 764; Portugal, 591; Denmark, 781; Greece, 7; Java, 162; Japan, 88; Ceylon, 82; Algeria, 333; Egypt, 947;Tunis, 37; Mauritius, 66; and Natal. 2. In the Gulf of Mexico we note Costa Rica, 29 miles of railroad; Cuba, 397; Honduras, 60; Jamaica, 27. South America shows an aggregate of 3,753 miles, well distributed along both seaboards. The enterprising Argen­ tine Republic leads, with 982 miles; Peru follows, with 960; Brazil has 830, but will, no doubt, surpass all when existing contracts and plans are finish­ ed; Chili has 614; Colombia, 66; Para- quay, 45; Uruguay, 189; Venezuela, 8. Taking the mileage to each 100,000 in­ habitants--a fairer test of railway en­ terprise--we find the United States still ahead, with 163 to the 100,000; but readers might not easily guess the country next highest on the list, which is Canada, with 139; still less the third and fourth, which are Uruguay, 100, and Costa Rica, 70. The Argentine Republic comes fifth, with 64, so that decidedly we begin to reckon the rail­ way a western world favorite. Then follow in succession Great Britain with 60; Chili, 49; Belgium, 41; Switzer­ land, 83; Germany, 82; Peru, 32; France, 81; Cuba, 28; Sweden and Norway, 24; Denmark, 24, and so downward to Colombia» 2, and Vene- zttehk, }.--Exchange. « • • • • ^ *.* i' --"He lies like % bell-punch" Is * ter- ribteVirgim# simOe, . ' Religions. ... '*• AH! Jesus had not where to lay his hffwf, 4nd stoped for man a prayer for daily bw*d. HttMrens Great King heie suffered, with no thought Or care for earthly riches; and He taoght. In symbols like the lilies of the field. 1 hat man sbonld trust to what God's oai«doth yield. He chose unsordid hearts, the low and meek, ! divinely speak; And, though he made and owned the UnireiM, forth with neither scrip nor pone. HEAVEN He proclaimed the poor's who strive to ' WUI. And showed how hardly rich men enter in. Ue snared ana blessed an equal state for man, if J .̂̂ hrottgh all Nature's plan. flocks and swarms ahe daily feeds. And y»Wstt® summer's frtut for winter s needs! raiuio swells fmro And common weal her eren law pervades. Bat pride of man imjpartial order spurns; He stnuns from service, and the ruler turns. Tnonith God gives ample bounties without slack. The peed of one man makesa hundred lack! Who a wiser, God or man ? The truth is clear. That man holds but a fitful tenure here. Whole cities crumble in the earthquake's shock ; His fleetsare tempest-tossed on strand and rock; O er all the world his ruined temples stand; His helpless bones Jie heaped in sea andlaad; OaMse, defeat and blightall crowd his way. And m all earthly things he reads decav. Amid sub tragic scenes at life ai.d death. How Tain to gntep, and, next hour, gasp for breath! How ask God's mercy, while one's selfish greed Kef uses succor to a brother's need! What to ding thoir gold to the gwra's Then feel thoir souls, gain-burdened, downward sink! Ah! in nil itwues of poor human strife. Naught bringn pure joy like a kind, Win'stfriai- life. Man s mission lies in goodnns. mercy, lovs-- These. nurtured here, immortal bloom above. Then, O be patient--hope! No golden key Unlocks the heavens, as doth Adversity. Seek not the mountain-heights, where verdure fails. But walk 'mid fruits and flowers of level vales, lis not proud, idle pomp that God doth bless; But toil and service bring most happiness. He keeps dependent ohilaren of Hm grace. Lest trust m wealth should trust in God displace. Sorrovjs train Heavenward; ills the faithfulbeu Are left behind them here-- exchanged for glory LTTKKE, --Henry FauntUroy, IN Chicago Tribune, IWWIBF Our Friends LA Hearea, THERE is not enough in the Bible about Heaven to satisfy our curiosity; but there is quite enough to satisfy a reasonable faith. It is certainly more than a happy condition of glorified spirits. It is a holy place. Such ex­ pressions as 44 city with foundations," a "building" or structure of God and a 44 habitation" point to a definite locality. Certain characteristics of the abode of the ble^t are clearly indicated. IT is a rest that remaineth for the peo­ ple of God. No sin can penetrate it, or anything whatever that detileth. Neither shall any of its inhabitants suffer from sickness or pain. Knowl­ edge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified aoul. We shall know even as we are known. Companionship with the spirits of the just made perfect will furnish endless variety and unbroken harmony of social intercourse. Above all, we shall see God, and not die. These are among the most distant truths which the Scriptures reveal con­ cerning that Jerusalem the Golden, whose walls are like unto precious stones and whose gates to orient pearls. For whom is this celestial habitation prepared? For beings of other worlds, or for those occupants of this globe whom Jesus hath redeemed unto Him­ self? Certainly the latter. Christ says to His disciples: 441 go to prepare a place for yo«." Where He is, He de­ sires that His own shall be also. The occupants of Heaven shall be those who were once .occupants of this sinful earth. The transfer from earth to Heaven does not (according to the only Book which reveals Heaven) destroy personal identity. On the contrary, God's Word assumes continually that this identity will be preserved. The same living organism, the same char­ acteristics which made the Patriarch Abraham a different man from everybody else in Clialdea will make Abraham a different person from anyone else in Heaven. These physi­ cal and mental traits enabled his neighbors in 44 Ur" to recognize him. He nas carried with him to the Eternal World also such personal character­ istics that he is recognizable there. According to Christ's statement, the rich man 44 saw Lazarus in Abraham's bosom." He also declared that the righteous will yet sit down with Abra­ ham, Isacc and Jacob in that Celestial Kingdom. It is preposterous to imag­ ine that these three persons are some other perso ns than those who passed by those names on earth. No matter WHAT change death and the resurrection may produce on the forms or organisms known as Abraham, Isaac ana Jacob. The body here changes by chemical processes, so that there are entirely new particles in my physical form from what were there six or se^en years ago. Yet I am the same person. My individuality is not changed in the slightest degree. Lincoln, the nursing infant, ana Lincoln, the President, were the same individual. In like manner, Paul before the throne is and inevitably must be the identical PAID who preached at Athens and was martyred at Rome. When he longed to 44 depart and to be with Christ" he expected to be not somebody else but the same individual. Moses died fifteen centuries before the advent of Jesus Christ. Yet there was a per­ sonality still existing, who appeared at the time of Christ's transfiguration on the mount, and who was addressed by Him as Moses. The Prophet Elijah, who had died 700 years before, was there' also. When the great apostle speaks of his Thessalonian converts as his "glory and joy in the appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ" he assuredly expected to meet the same persons in Heaven that he had labored with in Thessalonica. If they were not the same people and if he could not meet them there, how could they be to Him a " crown" or a " joy ?" This point is clearly#'in accordance with Scripture and witn common sense. Whatever change may be produced by death, personal identity will not be altered by one jot or tittle. Without this preservation of perfect identity the whole idea of future rewards and pun­ ishments would be an absurd impossi­ b i l i t y . . . . IFV identity is preserved in eternity, will the faculty of memory also survive the grave? Undoubtedly it will. The obliteration of memory would amount to a partial destruction of the indi­ vidual. It would, remove some of Heaven's richest enjoyments. HL can­ not remember what my Redeemer has done and Buffered for me, how can IF join in the ever "new song" of grateful praise before His throne? C Put now together these two feats: (1), personal identity is not lost in eternity, and (2) memory remains also unim- : paired- It follows inevitably that we „ shall know each other in Heaven. When David cried out, over the deadp^' boy, "I shall go to him; but he shall|H' not return to me!" that bereaved fatherrUN­ expected to meet again the child whose "" spirit had flown home to God. Cer­ tainly, we shall not be more stupid INF Heaven than we are on earth. If I ^ could recognize such a person as Chalmers inliis pulpit, I cannot fail to' i . RPCOFFNIM aarno RYF GOD his celestial appareling. Martin Luther, ^ in his "Table Talks," makes much OFF ------ this intercourse with father and mother. and kindred in the heavenlv home.' S|J Sharp, unpoetic old Doctor FENNIFIOIISF % ^ used to say: "I hope to have some talks* * with the Apostle Paul in Heaven.' F. And who of us would not experience A£; , fearful shock, even amid the NALLDOJABI raptures OF Paradise, if the sw«et ftf-' fections of kinship were to be OBLITER^HP 7 ated forever? Surely, God would noil ] so punish those whom He loves to bless. ; ' - That infants will be doomed to the J ~ everlasting weakness and helplessness . , of infancy feems, to my mind, impossi­ ble. No mother would ever want to see her darling babe stunted to an un­ changed babyhood even here. It would^ become a pitiable monstrosity. HALFH , \ the charm of childhood is its constant* * growth; its delightful openings, like the rosebud, to new thought and de­ velopment. The idea of an unde­ veloped infancv in Heaven would be almost a libel on the Creator! My : darling boy will be none the less my own child in the "Father's House" be­ cause (like another child at Nazareth) . he has increased in stature and knowl- - # edge, and in favor with God and man. That I shall know him there--if God'SI, rich grace doth bring me there--I have? no more doubt of than I have of the. " existence of a heavenly rest . Goodi ' -~ Dean Alford struck a chord in every? Christian heart, when he sang: T^'Oh! then what raptured greetings, W C * On Heaven's happy shore; = » _ -- _ W h a t k n i t t i n g s e v e r e d f r i e n d s h i p a i t t ^ - Where partings are no moqei" --Theo. L. Cuyler, in K. T. Inde­ pendent. % k Mighty Hunte% >5 ;*# CAPT. GILMOKE relates, in his late record of travel in South Africa, a re­ markable story of the prowess of a hunter, who, less known than Gordon Cumming, rivaled him in courage and skill. Mr. Finnety, the hero of the tale, was one day traveling over the uncul­ tivated plains near Bamauwath, riding one horse and leading another. He bad watered his animals at a pool, or sley as it is there called, and, passing on a little way beyond, "Two lions sprang from the bush on either side of the road, each seizing a horse. The mount that he was on fell in a mo­ ment and shot him over its head, but the hunter was on his feet in a trivet. With the right barrel he killed the as­ sailant of tHe horse he was riding, with the left the brute that attacked the led horse. So quickly was the whole done that neither of the nags was injured." Another exploit, tola of the same hunter, is less brilliant, yet attests his singular coolness and accuracy of aim. As night closed in, lie shot ^ large white rhinoceros, and left the game to be attended to in the morning: 44 At break of day he started alone to find his quarry, and, after going a mile or so, found it dead, with three lions around it. Mr. Finnety strolled up within a short distance of them and killed the trio--each requiring onty a single bullet. Soon afterward, having .discovered an elephant-spoor, he fol­ lowed it up, and after noon overtook the herd and bowled over a couple of * tuskers. Retracing his steps to regain his wagon, he had to pass by the dead rhinoceros, and, when doing so, found two more lions beside the carcass. These he also killed. In the morning, Mr. Finnety went out with his people to secure the ivory of the elephants slain the day before. On their route they passed a pool in a dry river-bed, aud by it were two lions, lie left his people, and, unsupported, walked up to them and killed them right and left. Thus seven lious fell before his gun in little over twenty-=four hour#." -;v Fight With & Panther* LAST week a hunter named Jacob Farquarson, while passing through the forest between Wnite-Fish Lake and Black-Trout Lake, near the head wa­ ters of the Madawaska River, encount­ ered a puma, or American panther. He came across the carcass of a deer, which he stopped to examine, and found it to be the remains of a large upland cariboo. While looking at it, he heard a noise at some distance off, among the tree-tops. Shortly after, the sounds were repeated, and, on A looking up, he saw a large animal leap- ing from tree to tree toward the spot where he stood. He was armed witu a Ballard ritie, and, as soon as the beast came near enough he fired at it, when, to his surprise and alarm, the brute ; sprang from the tree directly at him. / In the meantime the hunter had rapid- R lv reloaded, and, having jumped aside and behind a large pine before the in- ? / furiated animal could recover for A * second spring, he gave it another bul­ let. Both shots had taken effect, as was afterwards discovered, but neither» R in a vital part. After the second shot •-=' ^ the puma turned and darted with a roar : at the hunter, who drew a long, keen- edged hunting-knife, and, with his back against a tree, awaited his enemy. The ' % enraged animal sprang at him and F fastened its long curved claws into his . shoulder, when ne drove the knife re­ peatedly to the hilt into its breast. Both came to the ground together, but the struggle did not last long, for the huge animal, weakened by the loss of blood from the bullet and knife of Farquar­ son, soon turned over dead. The ANI--:^-. mal, which is quite rare in Cauada now, was one of the largest size, meas- A ^ uring nine feet from the nose to the ex- B- tremity of the tail.--Ottawa (Kan.) • Free Press. _ -One-armed men always stake witiNO t h e l e f t h u m : > • ' ~ " " •• -MS? PF / V liif