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10 >■> 1> The Children We Keep, The children kept coining, one by one, . .. XilL^tul^B yere hie and the girls. were three, And the big brown house was alive with fun __ From the basement floor to the old roof tree ; Like garden flowers the little ones grew, Nurtured and trained with the tenderr • 4 , _______ .t ... ... Warmfed by love’« sunshine, bathed in its dew, They bloomed into beauty, like roses rare. " . But ope the bpys grew weary one day. And leaning bis head on bis mother’s breast, He said “ I am tired and can not play ; Let me sit awhile on your kneo and frest.” < . ...... .............. She cradled him close in her fond em- -. ...... brace,...____ __ _ _______ ___ She hushed him to sleep with her Bweeteet song, And rapturous love still lightened his face When his spirit had joined the heav- Then the eldest girl, with her thought- ' • fnT Cyes, Who stood “ where the brook and the river meet,” Stole softly away into Paradise Ere “ the yver had reached her Blen der feet. While the father's eyes on the graves are bent, The mother looked upward beyond the skies ; “ Onr treasures,” she whispered, “ were only lent, Our darlings were aDgels in earth’s ' disguise.” ______ . , The years flew by, and the children be gan With longing to think of the world outside ; And v each, in his turn, became a man, The boys proudly went from the father's side. The girl? were women so gentle and fair, That lovers were speedy to woo and win; And, with orange blossoms in braided hair, The old home was left, new homes begin Bo,ope by one, the children have gone— The boys were five and the girls were three ; —1 : And the big brown house is gloomy and lone, With but two old folks for its com pany. They talk to each other about the past, As they sit together at eventide, And say, “ All the children we keep at Are the boy and girl who in childhood died.” —Rural Home. Your prayer must spring .from honest desire, and such desire can only come as the outgrowth of pure love. nwRAtn. Nation as a power. On the farm next to (hat which ‘ Nobody has spoken more .justly his father had owned he saw an old on the subject of dress than Sidney man at work, whom he knew at Smith, who was as wise as he was once. Many a time he had snared witty. He laughed at4he abswrdt- i al •bits in ol<r'"P:-~--Js - woods," or ty which would tell a girl that been driven out of the apple orch beauty is of no value an I dress of ard No doubt the grumpy old no consequence. fellow reckoned his acquaintance “ Beauty,” he said,' “ is of value. with him as a feather in his cap A girl’s whole prospects and happi now. ness in life may often depend upon The Dying Daughter. __ Jle^ a new gown, or a becoming bonnet, Mr. P----- -did not recognize him, Dr. Elliott, who was well ac and Webster inquired about the old and if she has a grain of common sense, she will find this out. The quainted with the celebrated Colo inhabitants of the neighborhood, re great thing is to teach her their just nel Ethan Allen, visited him at the ceiving short and surly replies. value, and that there must be some time w 1i en his da lighter was sick. “ W ho used tn own that farm thing better than a pretty face un-' r and near to Meath. He was intro- twenty years ago ?” der the bonnet, if she would have duced .to the library, when the “ Folks named Webster.” colonel read to him some of his real and lasting happiness.” “ Yes, I remember. Mr. Webster . . There is no surer expression of writings, with much self-compla had a family of boys, I believe f’ character than dress, It gives evi cency, and asked, “ Is not that well “ Yes. There was a considerable 4enca -wh.icJa...jif)ne can dispute, of done ?” While they were thus em- wisdom or fully, of refinement or ployed, a messenger entered and in — “ The oldest boy, now, what be the want of it; and since it is an formed Colonel Aden that his came of him 1” indication of what we aie, its edicts daughter was dying, and desired to “Oh, he settled down farmin’. have their place among the minor speak with him. He immediately Married rich. . Man of property he went to her chamber, accompanied morals Ta^"^ is. Quite respectable.'*’ ' always signs of frivolity, or even of by Dr. Elliott, who was desirous of “ And the second son ?” • an absorbing interest in the fashions. witnessing the interview. The wife " He was the good lookin’ one. We have in mind one girl, fair and of Colonel Allen was a pious wom Beauty Bill, they called him. Well, sweet of nature, and of far more an, and had instructed her daughter he turned put fair enough. Sharp than ordinary intellectual power, in the juinciples of Christianity. business man, they tell me, down in As soon as her father appeared at whose dress is elegant enough for a York State.” ~ her bedside, she said to him, “ I am roya], drawing-room, and yet is so “ Do you know what became of simply worn as to seem to belong about to die; shall I believe in the the others ?” said the good-looking to her, as petal’s belong to a flower, principles you have taught me, or Dan, in a more depressed voice. and to express her character as shall I believe in what mother has “ No, I don’t. Gee, there ! Not taught me ?” He became extreme much good, I guess,” cracking his word« express a thought. One day, she sat with us in her ly agitated, his chin quivered, his whip over the oxen. Mr. Webster soft raiment, her dovc-colored robe whole frame shook, and after wait strolled along beside him. falling around her slight figure, her ing a few moments he replied, “ Be “ There was orie named Daniel /” pale blue feathers framing her hair lieve what your mother has taught he ventured at last. and gentle face. Looking at her, it you.” “ Danell ? Danell ? Oh I I mind ' A death-bed is a fearful tester. seemed as if she must have found Dan was the most worthless of the some special sweetness in life, which Men who while in health and lot! No, I never heerd tell of him, would make it especially hard to strength loudly bjast of their skep- but I should in—fer he went to the I tical principles, and ridicule religion, dogs.” leave it. “ Do you not dread to die ?” we ate generally the first, on approach Mr. Webster always enjoyed this asked' suddenly, giving words to of death J or even sickness, to shud- story as keenly as any of his hear the thought which had possessed ■ , der with feat ' Even of Hobbes, the ers. celebrated infidel, it is recorded that us. It was a smile of strange, half-1 he could not bear to be left alone, Zero. unearthly loveliness that crossed and used to awaken in great terror Few of our readers, it may be, the young face as she answered ; - * I if his candle went out during the “Noy-1 dread more lest I should fiigtit. He never couTd endure any" are familiar with the origin, or live too long, and wear out the body discourse about death I Infidelity hardly with the definition, of the that clothes my sonl. I dread that has no consolation for its unhappy j term “ ze.ro" which is in constant just as I should dislike to wear followers in the testing hour.— use upon the Fahrenheit thermom these clothes till they were shabby,” Frank Leslies Sunday Magazine. eter.. Coming into our speech from the Arabic through the Spanish, it and she touched the dove-colored perpetuates its original force, which draperies that Fell about her. Fame. is “ nothing,” or “ empty.” There “ Then you have no fear of enter Daniel Webster frequently told is a manifest solecism in the use of ing into the new, strange life ?” “ What should I fear ?” she an the storv of his coming home after the word - force as thus applied, swered, “since here or there 1 must twenty years’ absence, to the valley though, in another sense, our read be always in my Father’s world; where he had been born, but ip ers have need only -to appeal to for I love him and 1 believe that he which none of his immediate family their very recent experience to real were left. Webster was then in ize that there is a decided fitness in loves me.” The glory of hope so strong as to ‘ ' Congress, already recognized by the its practical significance. The in-» Why Should I Fear ? Family Circle. __ __ eat cam;_ ____ cmtsTiAy l>e certainty, lit up her serene eyes, and we saw that to her, indeed, was the life more than the raiment; and that a girl might blossom like a llower, and be, as a How’er, Uncon- sciius of her beauty^ an3 ready for whatever wind from heaven might sweep.away the outward adorning from the loving and waiting soul.— 'Youth's Companion. j e ......................