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tie child is to its mothers heart like the dew
on plant from which bud has just pearish.
ed. The plant lifts UP its head in freshened
greenDess to the morning light; SO the moth
er's soul gathers, from the dark sorrow
which she has passed, Frightening Of her
heavenly hopes.
As she bends over the empty cradle, and
fancy brings her sweet infant before her, a
ray of Divine light is on the cherub face
1t is hef son still, but with the seal of i'm
mortality on his brow. She feels that hea-
ven is the only atmosphere where her pre-
cious flower could unfold without spot or
blemish, and she would not recall the lost
But the anniversary Of his departure seems
to bring his spiritual presence near. She
INDUCES in that tender grief which sooths,
like an opiate in pain, all hard passages and
cares in life.
The world to her is no longer filled with
her human love and hope in the future, so
glorious with heavenly love and joy; she
has treasures Of happiness which the world
~, unchastened heart never conceived
The bright fresh flower with which she has
decorated his room, the apartment where
her infant died; are nementoes of the far
brighter hopes now dawning on her dreams
She thinks of the glory and beauty of the
New Jerusalem, where the little foot will
never find thorn among the flowers to rem
der shoe necessary. Nor will pillow be
wanted, for the dear head is reposing on the
breast Of the Savior, and she knows her in
FAINT is there in that world of eternal bliss.
She has marked one passage in that book
TOW emphatlcally to her the Word of Life;
now lying closed on the toilet table; which
she daily reads: "Suffer little children to
come unto me, for such is the kingdom of
heaven
The EMPERoR's FARM.-A Paris paper
says! Louis Napoleon farms very extern
sively. In addition to the farm on the
Crown lands and on estates which have been
acquired for him in Sologne and Landes, he
occupies as tehaht IF the State. vast tract
in Champagne At the present time the
extent of the land fartncd by the Emperor
is about $4,000 acres. The extent may be
increased considerably at any time by re-
claiming lands in his possession, but not in
cultivation The number Of farms is tweh.
ty -si1, and nine additional farms are to be
formed in the course Of the year and incom-
ing spring, thus making thirty FIVE farms.
The number Of new steadings and those in
course of erection is twenty. Besides the
land farmed, there are Cravings in the do
mains Of parks Of st. Cloud; Versailles, Ma
don, St. Germaine, Champagne; Fontain-
blean, Biarritz, Senart, Vincennes, &C.,
Portions Of these arein grass and portions in
forest In addition to the estates at So
logne; tie Emperor has purchased proper
ty in the south of France, near to Bayonne,
consisting of $500 acres, which is being
drained and put under cultivation. The
lands were originally morass; part is still
to reclaim. 1t is understood that after the
estate has been thoroughly improved, it will
be presented by the Emperor to the present
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Waler-
ski. In the centre of the barren lands of
Bretagne. the cousin of the Emperor Prin-
cess Baciocchi, is retaining an extensive
estate out of heath. The whole lands farm
ed by the Emperor are being reclaimed and
cultivated upon the systems the best suited
for the character of the soils, climate and
situations. These farms are in different
parts of France, and chiefly in the leas i'm
proved districts.