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z OUT Ine L- LI 1 A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL AND DOMESTIC INTERESTS OF LAMOILLE COUNTY. I TERMS: 81.50. IIYDE PARK, VT., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1877. VOL. 1 .-XO. 10. 1 !L2UvIOXXiXE ITZ7LVS. I'l HUKHF.l) LVKI1Y WKDNtSllAY, AT HYDE PARK, VT. TEimk. ? Per Tear, if paid in advance, $1.50 " ' if nut paid ill advance, . . 2.00 f single conies, .OS JtiUr. r Adverti-lar. On column one vcar, . . HOMO 11 ii aiv niunilm. . . M 00 . ' three monUia, . . . 8i.(l " n one month, . . P.o0 Oee half column one year, . . fiO.oo " ' Hix month. . . UMIO " " three months, . . 'io.oO one month, . . 10.00 0e-forth column One year, . . S.'i.ikp six months, 2o.ui m H three months, lt.m one munUi, fl-isl Om-eighth column one year, . . 1.r. m 11 six month, lo.nn three nmiiUis, . b.w i one month, H.IJO notice of Migrations and fcstiaya, 1 ..V) eaeh. Prnhate Notices, . . . each. Tlnniness Cards, . . S.OOeiieh. Ooe inch one week, ... $1.00 " eiu'h subsequent woek, : Two inches one week, . . 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I HAVE Stoves, afull line of Tin, Copper, Sheet Iron and Hollow Ware. ; W If you want to make good BUTTER, get .n. of If. C. Baldwin's Patent Cream Coolers, which, together with Cream Strainer, I keep con wolly on baud. ' Call and learn our prices, which are much re. auotid, especially on Milk Pans. No trouble to show you what we have oa hand. Eepalring done to order, and all work warrant- d' HENRY LEOXA11D. Cambridge Boro, Vt. Beau in Mind that we are prepared to do all kinds of JOB PRINTING just as cheap as it can be done anywhere, from large 24 x 30 Posters, down to the neatest, nobbiest Visiting Lards. We keep a large amount of stock on band, bought for cash, and we do not believe that we can be under-bid by any one who make fair watres at their work. For card stock we have Snow Flake, Pictorial, Comic, Bristol, Floral, Double Kept, assorted, &c. AVe Lave also a large stock of Bill- Ileads, Letter-Heads, Statements, &c, &C1, together with Cap and De my stock for Fancy Circulars, Receipts, &c., &c. k - If you have a job you want done give us a chance at it and we guaran tee satisfaction in quality of work. Learn Our Prices. CAWS AND EFFECT. Nine ni'tnliyh-lans, jtcrdied aloft On tin top of a dry pine-trco, Ilavi' talked all day in a marvelous way Of divine philosophy. Xo wild OoI'tIiIjjpsih ramlilrrs they All over the realm of lawn They lit irk to their text, however per plexed. The doctrine (and practice) of caws. The biffiiost crow, On the nearest limb, Gave first, with never a pause, A clear, profound, deliberate, sound Discourse of proximate caws. A theolopue in a cassock clad, With a choker under his jaws. And a cold iu his head, either sung or paid A treatise of second caws. A fish-hawk lit on the. topmost limb With a pickerel in his claws, When small and great began to debate Concerning elllcient caws. And when, at the close, the congress rose. I saw two old crows pause, And what they said, as they Hew o'er head, Had the sound of final caws. Xo longer In me, O Philosophy, Thy devotee expect; In spite of thy laws, here's a chain of caws, And not one single effect. IFtwhinyton GUuMeu in HarperU ifagteine. THE PIONEERS. A few minutes resolved whatever doubts our travellers entertained, as to the description of those who were approaching them with such exhilcrat ing sounds. A large lumber-sleigh, drawn by four horses, was soon seen dashing through the leafless bushes. The leaders were of gray, and the pole-horses of jet black. Bells, in numerable, were suspended from ev ery part of the harness ; while the rapid movement of the equipage, in defiance of the steep ascent, announc ed the desire of the driver to ring them to the utmost. The first glance at this singular arrangement satisfied in the sleigh. It contained four male figures. On ouc of those stools that arc used at writing-desks, was the charioteer, and he guided the mettled animals that lie drove along the preci pice, with a fearless eye, and a steady hand. Immediately behind him, was a tall figure, to whose appearance not even the duplicate over-coats which he wore, aided by the corner of a horse blanket, could give the appearance of strength. J I is face was protruding from beneath a woolen night-cap ; and when he turned to the vehicle of Mar- maduke as the sleighs approached each other, it seemed formed by nature to cut the atmosphere with the least pos sible resistance. Opposite to this personage, sat a square figure of large proportions. No part of his form was to be discovered through his over-dress, but a full face with an agreeable expression, that was illum inated by a pair of animated black eyes of a lurking look, that gave the lie to every demure feautre in his countenance. The fourth was a meek looking, long-visaged man, without any other protection from the cold than that which wa.s furnished by a black surtout, made with some little formality, but which was rather thread bare, and rusty, lie wore a hat of ex tremely decent proportions, though frequent brushing had quite destroy ed its nap. His face was pale with a little melancholy. No sooner had the two sleighs approached within speak ing distance, than the driver of this fantastic equipage shouted aloud "Draw up in the quarry draw up, thou king of the Greeks ; Agamem non, or 1 shall never be able to pass you. Welcome home, cousin 'duke welcome, my black-eyed Bess. Thou seest, Marmaduke, that I have taken the field with an assorted cargo, to do thee honor. Monsieur Le Cuoi has come out with only one cap ; Old Fritz would not stay to finish the bottle ; and Mr. Grant has got to put the "lastly" to his sermon, yet. "Ah! Fritz, my old friend, this is a kind compliment, indeed, said the Judge, for seventy to pay to five and for ty. Monsieur Le Quoi, I am your servant. Mr. Grant," lifting his cap, "I feel indebted to your attention. Gentlemen, I make you acquainted with my child. Yours are names with which she isvery familiar." "Velcome, velcome, Tchooge," said the elder of the party, with a strong German accent. "Miss Petsy vilt owe me a kiss." "And cheerfully will I pay it, my good sir,' cried the soft voice of Eliz abeth ; which sounded, in the clear air of the lulls, like tones of silver, amid the loud cries of Richard, and the manly greetings of the gentleman. "I have always a kiss for my old friend, Major Ilarttnann." By this time the gentleman on the front seat, who had been addressed as Monsieur Le Quoi, rose with some difficulty, owing to the impediment of his over coats, and steadying himself by placing one hand on the stool of the charioteer, witn the otner no re moved his cap, and bowing politely to the judge, and profoundly to Eliza beth, he said with a smile that opened a mouth of no common dimensions "Yer velcome home, Monsieur Tem pi'. Ah ! Mam'selie Liz'bct, you ver humble sain-ant." "Cover thy poll, Gaul, cover thy poll," cried the driver, who was Mr. Richard Jones ; "cover thy poll, or the frost will pluck out the remnant of thy locks. Had the hairs on the head of Absalom boon as scarce as on this crown of thine, he might have been living to this day." The clergyman, for such was the office of Mr. Grant, modestly, though quite affectionately, exchanged his greetings with the trav ellers also, when Richard prepared to turn the heads of his horses home ward. It was in the quarry alone that he could affect this object, without as cending to the summit of the moun tain. A very considerable excavation had been made into the side of the hill, at the point where Richard had succeeded in stopping the 6loighs, from which the stones used for building in the village were ordinarily quarried, and in which lie now attempted to turn his team. Passing itself was a ta.sk of difficulty, and frequently of danger, iu that nar row road ; but Richard had to meet the additional risk of turning his four-in-hand. The black very civilly vol unteered his services to take oil' the leaders, and the Judge very earnestly seconded thp measure with his advice. Richard treated the proposals with great disdain. "Why, and wherefore, cousin Make," he exclaimed a little angrily ; the hor ses are as gentle as lambs. You know that 1 broke the leaders myself, and the pole-horses nretoo near my whip to be restive. Here is Mr. Le ljuoi, now, who must know something about driving, because he has rode out so often with me ; 1 will leave it to Mr. Le Quoi whether there is any danger." Richard, by a sudden application of! Ins whip, succeeded in forcing his leaders into the snowbank that cover ed the quarry ; but the instant that the impatient animals suffered b the crust, through which tliey broke at each step, they positively refused to move an inch further in that direction. and blows of their driver were re doubled at this juncture, the leaders backed upon the pole-horses, who, in their. turn, backed the sleigli.. Only a single log lay above the pile which up held the road, on the side toward the valley, which was now buried in the snow. The sleigh was easily forced across this slight impediment ; and before Richard became conscious of his danger, one-half of the vehicle was projected over a precipice,-which fell, nearly perpendicularly, more than a hundred feet. The Frenchman, who, hy his position, had a full view of their threatened flight, instinctive ly threw his body as fur forward as possible in the sleigh, and cried, "Ah ! Mon cher monsieur Deeck ! mon dicu ! prenez gardez vous !" "Donner and blitzen, Richart," ex claimed the veteran German, looking over the side of the sleigli with unusual emotion, "put you will preak ter sleigh and kilt ter horses." . "Good Mr. Jones," said the clergy man, losing the slight Hush that cold had given to his cheeks, "bo prudent, good sir be careful." "Get up, you obstinate devils?" cried Richard, catching a bird's eye view, of his situation, applying his w hip, with new vigor, and unconscious ly kicking the 6tool on which he sat, as if inclined to urge the inanimate wood forward; "Get up, 1 say Cousin 'duke, I shall have to sell the grays too ; they are. the worst broken horses Mr. Le Quaw !" Richard was too much agitated to regard his pro nunciation, of which he was common ly a little vain ; "Monsieur Le Quaw, pray get off my leg, you hold my. leg so tight, that it's no wouder I can't guide the horses. "Merciful Providence!" exclaimed the Judge, "they will be all killed !" Elizabeth gave a piercing 6hriek, and the black of Agamemnon's face changed to a muddy white. At this critical moment, the young hunter, who, during the salutations of the parties, had sat m ratner sullen silence, sprang from the sleigh of Mar maduke to the heads of the refractory leaders. The horses, who were yet suffering under the injudicious and somewhat random blows from Rich ard, were dancing up and down with that ominous movement, that threat ens a sudden and uncontrollable start, and pressing backward instead of go ing into the quarry. The youth gave the leaders a powerful jerk, and they pluged aside, by the path they had themselves troden, and re-entered the road in the position in which they were first halted. The sleigh was whirled from its dangerous position, and tipset with its runners outwards. The Ger man and the divine were thrown rath er unceremoniously into the highway, but without danger to their bones. Richard appeared in the air, for a mo ment, describing the segment of a circle, of which the reins were the ra dii, and was landed at the distance of some fifteeu feet, in that snow-bank which the horses bad dreaded, right end uppermost. Here, as he instinc tively grasped the reins, as drowning men seize at straws, he admirably served the purpose of an anchor, to check the further career of his 6teeds. The Frenchman, who was on his legs in the act of spr iging from the sleigli, took an ivnal lliht also, much in that attitude which b ys assume when the plav lean-frog, a.'nl living off in a tan gent to the curvature of his course, came into the s.iow-hank head-foremost where he remained, exhibiting two lathy legs m high, like scare crows waving in a corn field. Major llartmnnn, whoe self-possession had been admirablyproscrvetl during the whole evolution, was the first of the party that gained his feet and his voice. "Tcrdeyvel, Richart!" he exclaim ed, in a voice half serious, half comi cal, "put you unloat yonr sleigh very hantily." It may be doubtful whether the at titude in which Mr. Grant continued for an instant after his over throw, was the one in which he had been thrown, or was assumed, in humbling himself before the power that he rev erenced, in thanksgiving at his escape. "Another moment would have been too late," cried Richards; "but 1 know just the spot where to touch the olf leader ; that blow under his ritrht Hunk, and the sudden jerk I gave with the reins, brought them round quite handsome ly, I must own myself." "Thou jerk I thou recover thyself, Dickon !" cried the Judge, whose fears were all vanished in mirth at the dis comfiture of the party ; "but for that brave lad yonder, thou and thy hor ses, or rather mine, would have as suredly been dashed to pieces But where is Monsieur Le Quoi '(" "Oh ! mon cher Juge ! Mon ami !" cried a smothered voice, "praise be God I live; vill-a you, Mister Aga memnon, be pleased come down ici, and help-a me on my foot!'" The divine and the negro seized the incarcerated Gaul by his legs, and ex tricated him from a snow-bank of tlu-ee feet iu depth, whence his voice had sounded as from the tombs. The thoughts of Mr. Le Quoi, immediately on his liberation, were not extremely collected; and when he reached the light, he threw his eyes upwards, in order to examine the distance he had 11 V;, "'-od humor returned , however, with a n-nv.,... ns safety, though it was some little time before he clearly comprehended the case. "What, monsieur," said Richard, who was busily assisting the black in taking off the leaders ; "are you there ? 1 thought I saw you flying up towards the top of the mountain but just now." "Praise be God, I no fly down into de lake," returned the . Frenchman ; "ah! mon cher Mister Deeck, vat you do next? dere be noting you no try." "The next thing, I trust, will be to learn to drive," said the Judge, who had busied himself in throwing the buck, together with several articles of his baggage, from his own sleigh into the snow ; "here are seats for you all, gentle-men ; the evening grows pierc ingly cold, and the hour approaches for the service of Mr. Gant : we will leave friend Jones to repair the dam ages, with the assistance of Agamem non, and hasten to a warm fire. Here, Dickon, are a few articles of Bess's trumpery, that you can throw into your sleigh when ready, and there is also a doer of my taking, that I will thank you to bring Aggy? remember there will be a visit from Santa Claus to your stocking to-night, if you are smart and careful about the buck, and get in in season." The black grinned with the con sciousness of the bribe that was thus offered bim for his silenco on the sub ject of the deer, while Richard, with out in the least waiting for the termin ation of his cousin's speech, at once abandoned the horses, and ran to the spot where Marmaduke had thrown the deer: "It is a buck indeed! I am amazed ! Yes, here are two holes in him-; he has fired both barrels, and hit him each time. Ecod ! how Mar maduke will brag I How far olf was the Judge when this buck was shot ?" "Eh? Massa Richard, may bo a ten rod," ciied the black, bending under one of the horses, with the pretence of fastening a buckle, but in reality to conceal the broad grin that opened a mouth from ear to ear. "Ten rod!" echoed the other; "why, Aggy, the deer I killed last winter was at twenty yes 1 if any thing it was nearer thirty than twenty. I wouldn't shoot at a deer at ten rod : besides, you may remember, Aggy, I only fired once." "Yes, Massa Richard, I 'member 'em I Natty Bumppo fire t'oder guii. You know, sir, the folk say, Natty kill 'em." "The folks lie, you black devil!" exclaimed Richard in great heat. "I have not shot even a gray squirrel these four years, to which that old rascal has not laid claim, or some one for him. This is a daum'd envious world that wo live in people are al ways for dividing the credit of a thing, iu order to bring down merit to their own level." OwinK to the religious scruples of the Judge, Aggy was the servant of Richard, who had his services lor a time, and who of course, commanded a legal claim to the respect of the ne gro, But when any dispute between his lawful master and his real bene factor occurred, the black felt too much deference for both to express any opinion. In the mean while, Richard continued watching the negro as he fastened buckle after buckle, un til, stealing a look of consciousness toward the other, lie continued, "Now, if that young man, who was - in your sleigli, is a real Connecticut settler, he will be telling everybody how he saved my horses, when, if he had just let them alone for one half a minute long er, I would have brought them iu intirb better, without upsetting, with the whip and rein it spoils a horse to give him his head. I should not won der if I had to sell the whole team, just for that one jerk that he gave thein." Richard again paused, and again hemmed ; for Ids conscience smote him a little, for censuring a man who had just saved his life "Who is the lad, Aggy I don't re member to have seen liirn before?" The black recollected the hint about Santa Claus ; and while he briefly ex plained how they had taken him on the U) of the mountain, be forbore to add p.iiv thing concerning the accident C? the wound, only saying, that he be lieved the youth was a stranger. It was so usual for men of the first rank to take into their sleighs any one whom they found toiling through the snow, that Richard was perfectly sat isfied with this explanation. He heard Aggy, with gjeat attention, and then remarked, "Well, if the lad has not been spoiled by the people in Tem- pleton, he may be a modest young man, ami as he certainly meant well, I shall take some notice of him per haps he is laud-hunting I say, Aggy may be he is out hunting '(" "Eh ! yes, massa Richard," said the black, a little confused ; lor as Rich ard did all the Hogging, he stood in great terror of his master, in the main "yes, sir, 1 b'lieve he be." "Had ho a pack and an axe?" "No, sir, only he rille." "Rifle!" exclaimed Richard, observ ing the confusion of the negro, which now amounted to terror. "By Jove ! he killed the deer. I knew that Mar maduke couldn't kill a buck on the jump llow was it, Aggy? tell ine all about it, and I'll roast 'duke -quicker and the Judge bought it, hi1 and is taking him down to get the pay?" The pleasure of this discovery had put Richard in such a good humor, that the negro's fears iu some measure vanished, and lie remembered the stocking. After a gulp or two, he made out to reply "You forgit a two shot, sir?" "Don't lie, you black rascal !" cried Richard, stepping on the snow-bank to measure the distance from his long lash to the negro's back ; "speak the truth, or I'll trounce you. While speaking, the stock wa.s slowly rising in Richard's rignt hand and the lash drawing through his left, in the - scien tific manner with which drummers ap ply the cat, and Againemneon, after turning each side of himself towards his master, forgetful of his great name, fairly gave in. In a very few words he made his master acquainted with the truth, at the same time earnestly conjuring Richard to protect him from the displeasure of the Judge. "I'll do it, boy, I'll do it," cried the other, rubbing his hands with delight ; "say nothing, but leave me to manage 'duke 1 have a great mind to leave the deer on the hill, and to make the fellow send for his own carcass : but no, I will let Marmaduke test a few bouncers about it before I come out upon him. Come, hurry in, Aggy, 1 must help to dress the lad's wound ; this Yankee doctor knows nothing of surgery. I must help that quack to take out the buck shot for the poor fellow. Richard descended the monn tain ; the bells ringing, and his tongue going, until they entered the village ( Continual-) Flowers. Amongst all the pleas ant things of life and the all-bounti ful hand of Providence has scattered the path of our days with innumerable pleasant things, if man would but en joy them amongst all the pleasant things of life, there are few more pleasant than a walk in the flower garden before breakfast on a sun shiny morning. To see those mute and still, though not motionless, crea tures we mean Iho blossoms open ing their painted bosoms to the bemh cent rays which give them their color and their loveliness, welcoming the calm blessings of the light, as if with gratitt.de, and seeking, in their tran quil state of being, for nothing but the o-ood gifts of (od, might well afford a monitory lesson ; for everything in na ture has its homily , to us, uie eager hunters after fictitious enjoyment, How calm do they stand in the'ir love liness, how placid in their limited fruition of the elements that nourish them how, in their splendid raiment, do they sparkle in the sun, how do they drink up the cup of dew, and gratefully give back honey and per fume in return ! Eliza Cook's Joum al. W. II. Holley, a prominent citizen of Bristol, and well known in Addison conntv. died suddenly Sunday morn ing, aged seventy-eight. lie was a prominent member of Libanus Lodge F.aud A. M., and V lce-lTCSitient oi the First National Bank of Vergciines. RELIGIOUS. A glad and triumphant scene will it lie when you come up into heaven Irom the conflicts and incarcerations of this world, steaming with the wounds of battle and wan with the hungers; and while the hosts of God arc cheer ing their great hosanna, you will strike hands of congratulation and eternal deliverance iu the presence of the throne. On that night there will-be lMnfiK!3 on every hill of heaven, and there will be illumination in everj palace, and there will lie a candle in every window ah, no; I forgot. I forgot they have no need of the candle or of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign forever and ever. Hail! hail! sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty. You will say : "Is it possible that I am here? Is this heaven? Am I so pure now I will never do anything wrong? Am I bo well that 1 will nev er be sick? Arc these companion ships so firm that they will never again be broken ? Is that Mary ? Is that John ? Is that my loved one that 1 put away into darkness? Can it be that these are the faces of those who lay so wan and emaciated iu the back room that awful night, dying? O, how radiant they are ! Look at them ! How radiant they are ! Why, how unlike this place is from what 1 thought when I left the world below. Ministers drew pictures of this land, but how tamo compared with the reality. They told me ou earth that death was sun set. No, no. It is sunrise! Glori ous sunrise ! I see the light now pur pling the hills, and the clouds flame with the coming day." Then the gates of heaven will be opened, and the en tranced soul, with the acuteness and power of celestial vision, will look ten thousand of miles down upon the ban nered procession a river of shimmer ing splendor and will cry out : "Who are they?' And the angel of God, standing close by, will say : "Don't you know who they arc ?" "No," says the entranced soul, "I cannot guess who they are. 1 fie angel will say : ,tT .,n 1,.,,, .t, llieso are tuej- who came out oi great tribulation or threshing, and had their robes washed and made white in the blood in the Lamb." Tahwujo. Happiness. The idea has been transmitted from generation to gener ation, that happiness is one large and beautiful precious stone, a singlo gem so rare, that all search after it is vain, all effort for it hopeless. It is not so Happiness is a Mosaic, composed of many smaller stones. Each taken apart and viewed singly, may be of little value, but when all are grotqied together, and judiciously combined and set, they form a pleasing and graceful whole a costly jewel. Trample not under loot, then, the little pleasures which a gracious providence scatters in the daily path, and which, in eager search after some great and exciting joy, wc are so apt to overlook. Why should we always keep our eyes fixed on the bright, distant horizon, while there arc so many lovely roses in the garden in which we are permitted to walk? The very ardor of our chase after happiness, may be the reason that she so often eludes our grasp We pautingly strain after her when she has been graciously brought nigh unto us. Ill Thmphu. It is undoubtedly true, that more misery is produced among us by the irregularities of our tempers, than by real misfortunes. And it happens, unfortunately, that these irregularities of the temper are most apt to display themselves at our firesides, where everything ought to be tranquil and serene. But the truth is, wo are awed by the presence of stran gers, and are afraid of appearing weak or ill-natured when we get out into the world, and so very heroically re serve all our ill-humor for our wives, children aud servants. We are meek when we might meet with opposition, but feel ourselves undauntedly bold whero we are sure of no effectual re sistance. "We may not live to see it, but the day will surely come, when, in public opinion, and before the law, the man who by the enticement of gain puts the bottle to his neighbor's lips, shall stand side by side with him who puts his neighbor into bondage to the chain and the lash. In the light of that moral discernment, which men shall have somewhere in the future, discern ing between the evil and the good, and tue gradations of the same, the keeper and the dram-shop shall have no other brotherhood than that which his na ture and his practice secure for him, with the keeper of the slave-pen. Never harbor animosity toward a friend for a mere hasty expression. Forgiveness is a God-like quality, and a true friend is so scarce that he should not be repudiated on slight grounds ; but those who injure you from "malice prepense" should be shunned as you would avoid a tiger.v livery violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the heart of human society. N SEARCH OF A SCHOOL-TEACH ER. Mr. Thomfhtle. Mr. Sensible, d'ye kno'v any liody't I can Lire ter" teach our school this summer? Mr. Sensible. So, I do not. What kind of a teacher do you wish for?- T. W hv, a ihos tami bodu ll an. Our school's small, an dall the seliol- -ars small. S. Do you know any person whom-' i cau lure to work on my farm thi i summer ? 2'. No, I don't. "What kin dur a man du von want? S. AVhy, almost any body will do to take care of my calves they arc all ' small. And I have a small farm al-- most any bod; will do to plough and 1 plant the land. And I siipiose - most any body will do to hoe my corn. It will probably be small when it conies up, aud small when it wants hoeing. It is no particular matter how it is hoed when it is small, you know. When it becomes laruc, later in th season, I shall want somebody to hoe ' it well. Any body will do to hoc it when it is so veni small. Do you know of any body that' I cau get to take care of a sick child? ' the child is very small, utmost any ' body will do, you know. Some one that I can hire cheap. The child ia. -very small. OUR USEFUL MEN. Who nro our rich men, our distin-- guished men, our most useful men ? ihose who have been cast down but not destroyed who, when the - storm of adversity swept away their props, sought new standards, pushed on, look- cd up, and became what you behold them now. A glorious sentence, and a worthy motto for every young man's life Never give up 1 Men arc not made ; . they make themselves. A steady perseverance, a determination . never to sink, though millstones wero hanged about thy neck, is a true doc trine. It is this that has made the wilderness to blossom, that has given wings to the ocean, filled valleys, level ed .mountains, and built up the great-, ling and coward before a cloud? Ii it you, young man, stout, strong, and i healthy as you are? ' Shame I shame on you ! You are big enough to pos sess an iron heart, and to break dowu., mountains at a blow. ' lTp, and let this. . be a day ofyourredemption. Resolve to be a coward no longer, even if you are obliged to stand with a rod hot iron upon your brow. Be-brave. . Never give up. AN UNSEEN SAVIOUR Absence, we have often beeiv told,! . Can not conquer love. The victory .of ' love over absence, when that love was, . once grounded iu presence, is: no , strange thing. It is part of every . fam ily history, and consecrates all our griefs. But to love one we have never seen, known to us only by his biography and a spiritual power we can not ex . plain, is one of the mysteries of the grace of God. And yet it is a factv. Christianity is not the adoption of a: principle, but the love of a person. ( Children who know nothing of prinei- . pies, philosophers weary of theories . which .yielded only chaff under the- , flail of logic, have found in the love of a personal Lord the answer to ev ery longing of their hearts. Here is . one of the greatest facts of human history : there once lived and died awl ascended from earth a Man who,., though never seen on earth again, has. commanded the hearts of millions of men with an attachment whose bonds, like those of gravitation, aro at once invisible and almighty. - Christians sometimes say, "If I ' could only see my Saviour and hear his voice, it would help me to a sense- . of lus love and friendship. Ho would be to me less an idea and more dis- . tinctly a person." Nor is the re mark entirely without foundation in experience. There is danger lest the : personal Jesus may become obscured , behind his doctrine, and we may think we are loving our invisible Lord when we are loving the truths for which ho stands, his humility, grace and mor- . ey. That was a sharp reply of the old Scotch woman who had a standing quarrel with her minister, but was nb- '. ways in her place at church. Tho minister expressed surprise that she should come to bear him preach, when , she exclaimed; "My quarrel's wi. you, mon, it's not wi' the gospel." If in conversation you think a par son wrong, rather hint a difference of opinion than offer a contradiction. There are some mortals whose bod ies are but as the ornamented sep ulchres of their dead hearts. All is hollow where the heart lieVa-; not a part, and all is peril where priui.. ciple is not the guide. By degrading the female charaeter,-., men niost effectually degrade their., own. The defects of great men are the con- solution of the dunces..