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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE. 5 X for which you ask. Your sincere friend', Eldon. Turn over.') I gave it you" yesterday." , When a member of Lord North's administration, Fox one night took the liberty of walking into one lobby while his chief went into the other. As he sat on the ministerial bench the next evening, one of the door-keepers handed him a note Upon opening it.the rebellious politician read. "Sir: His Majes ty has thought proper to order a new Commission of the Trea sury, in which I do not find the name of Charles James Fox North." Not more agreeable to the recipient was Henry Drummond's asking him to join the advocates of the Maine Liquor Law. "Sir; I think the Maine Liquor Law perfect ly detestable, and will do my best to prevent its being adop ted here. Yours, H. Drummond." As a rule, a man with a grievance is too proud of his wrongs to be laconic, but here is an exception to the rule." "Sir: I was a lieutenant with General Stanhope when he took Minorca in 1708, for which he was made a lord. X was a lieutenant with General Blake ney when he lost Minorca in 1736, for which he was made a lord. I am a lieutenant still!" Surely such an appeal ought to have proved resistless, almost as resistless as that, of the dying dramatist. "Dear Bob: I have not anything to leave thee to perpetuate my memory but two helpless girls. Look upon them sometimes, and think of him that was to the last moments of his life, thine. G. Farquhar." CANDLEMAS. The angels-lights of Christmas morn Which shot across the sky, Away they pass at Candlemas They sparkle and they die. Comfort of earth is brief at best, Although it be divine; Like funeral lights for Christmas gone, Old Simeon's tapers shine.