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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE 351 'a & still in heavenl We are poverty-stricken and encmbuered with misery, and you, you wear majestuously briliant robes, vhitcned in the blood of the Lamb; but turn away not your regard of compassion from your brethren herSbelow!" When the lofty archs of cathedrals, alike with the humble roofs of the modest village churches, resound to tne echoes of these poetic words, the days have already begun to grow shorter and the night to fall earliernv-ith its shades. All Saints is the last feast of the year -celebrated in the i r ' ,J1 ' J ... rural cottages; after its .solemnisation their temporary guests return 6ric"e more' to ttieir city homes. Henceforth the verdure, the flowers, ancT the cloudless skies disappear; and the with ered leaves fall silently, like the illusions of life which vanish at the approach of st-eru reality. ' lMighty tempests break forth suddenly in the mournful darkness of night, and A' disturb th dreams of the slunihering with their sadVvision of rurn and death. Yet in thjs sorrowful mourning of agoniz ing"hature, those who ,havfe"grown aged "under the weight ., of yeafrs and of sufferings, discover a seciet, solemn charm. The verdant "feasts ,pf spring seem well adapted to giddy, light-hearted ? heedless yoitfht but our feast, for us who are bent uhderrfurtoils of life, is more appropriately placed near the great day of jHe dead. - ' i fc '! 7. .i " ' - "4"" "What makes yoii late?" asked Tim's' father, whom-the "' boy's absence had ,o see to the Evening chores himself. " Teacher kept me in." - ' . . , What for?" 44 'Cause I couldn't find Moscow on the map." , "Couldn't find Mocpw? And I'd like to know who could then! Why, T remember hearing tell of Moscow being burned when T was, a boy! Its an outrage to put such nonsensica question to children what's there to learn something useful I'll look into that and let yer teacher know 1 ain't been elec. ted on the school board for nothing!"