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Neither Michaud.

~ was -arly morn when Mother Miehaut
Passed By the guard at the city gate,
Drowsisy measuring, to and fro,
The narrow length of the iron CRATE.
Still, far aud faint in the twilight swoon
where dark and dawning at struggl,
Like her own pale shadow, the waning
Hung lonely over the lonely street.
BY winding stairway and gallle quaint
tarved over again In shade below
,by arch and turret and pillared saint,
with Hghtsome step walked Mother
Mieha1d.
Pleasant 1t was i'm the smoky town
The rosy old country face to sect
The high white cap and the peasant gown
brought up a vision of Normandie-
fermandie, with it's fair green swells,
The sweep Gifts orchards fiowery flood
ways that wind into woody dells,
Corn-fields red with the poppy's blood.
Ihere I'm the corner, the wheel stood still
That used to whir like the bees OH the
thatch;
.rhe cherries might tap on the'window sill,
~ And the vine, unloosened. lift the latch;
But Mother Michaud had left behind
The sun and ecent of her native plain,
Ear over The darkling hills to find
The face of her youngest son again,
Nine long years had come and gone,
Nine long years, since the April day
When into the mists of the early dawn
lie me lted, a kindred mist, away.
And year after year the bright boy-face,
Tis<t never came back from that cloud
~ land dim,
Beckoned her ont of the empty space,
Till IL drew her at last to follow INN.
lonely and dark i'm the dawning spread
The city's tangle of court and street.;
But the stones that answered her hurry
Had echoed before to his passing feet.
Lonely and dark?-But n sound, glare,
Strike on the SENSE like a sudden blow
Press closer up to the slladowy stair,
Out of the tumult, Mother Michaud.
ciattcrs the street to the soldiers tramp,
File Gu file, with a stately sheen,
Endcr the flare of the fitful lamp
= Held high Ia the cart that rolls between,
The heads carved over the doorway there
Grin into view fora niorncnt plain,
hooking the mute, bewiIdered stare
OF the mother who iInds lier son again
Find him, to lose hiu,at last-likc this!
Chaiued like wolf, with those wolfish
eyes.
Dead, with never mothers kiss,
Ere yon low moon drop cut of the skicsl
Forward she sprang, in the torch light
blaze --a.s,
--Fsssl overhead as the cart went by
All her soul In that straining gaze,
All her strength in that n;ttldeneI cry.
He turned, as it smote through his dulling
ears
Their wild eyes met--and the cart drove
OH.
Sc Mother MIchaud, after nine long years
Looked into the face of her youngest
Eoft..
---Hvptr's Magazine for September,
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->The Scieacecf Advertising.

~
Judicious advertising always pays.
IF you have good thing, advertise it.
If you haven't, don't.
Large type. isn't necessary in adyertis-
ing Blind folks don't read newspapers.
= Don't bo afraid to invest in printers
ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run
out.
Nexer run down your opponents goods
in public. Let him do his own. advertis-
ing.
Let your advertisements have some
thing of the dash in them, without exag-
gcration.
You can't eat enough in one week to
last you whole year, and you can't sd :
Yertise on that plan either
People who advertise only once in three
months forget that most folks can't re-
member any thing longer than about seyee
days.
If you can arouse ouriosityby an, adrer-
tisemcnt it is a great point gained.
The fur sex don't held all. the curiosity
in the world.
4 constant dropping will wear any rock
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public and they will soon melt under
it like rock salt.
Quitting advertising in dull times is
like tearing out dam because the water
is low. Either plan will prevent good
times from ever coming.
''Dull times,' it is said, .sare the best
for advertisers. Because when money is
tight. and the people are forced to econo-
mizc, they always read the advertisements
to ascertain who sells the cheapest, and
where they trade to the best advantage.
According to the character or extent of
your business. set aside liberal percen :
tage for advertising. Keep yourself un-
ceasingly before the public, and it matters
not what business of utility you may be
engaged in, for, if intelligently and in>
dustriously pursued, fortune will be
the result 80 ~ kxS
The man who advertises shows not only
business talent above his neighbors, but
he may be at once reckoned among the
Independent. generous and public-spirited
Of the community. He who hides his
light under bushel, when such advanta-
ges as those at present afforded are SO
freely offered him, does not deserve to
to succeed. -
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BE Your own Right Hand MAN.

lf# Il sH aa.f =
People who have been bolstered up all
their lives are seldom good for anything
in crisis When misfortune comes,
they look around for somebody to cling
to or lean upon. If the prop is not there
down they go. Once down they are ap
helpless as a capsized turtle, and they
cannot find their feet again without as
sistance. Such persons no more rcscm-
BILE men who have. fought their way to
position, making difficulties their step
ping stones and deriving determination
from their defeat, than vines resemble
caks. or spluttering rush lights the stars
of heaven. Efforts persisted, into achieve
ments, train man to self>reliance and
when he has proven to the world that he
can trust him. One of the best lessons
father can give his son is this Work;
strengthen your moral and mental facul-
ties as you would strengthen your muscles
by vigorous exercise. Learn to conquer
circumstances you are then independent
of fortune. The men of athletic minds,
who left their mark on the years in which
they lived, were all trained in rough
school. They did not mount to their
high position by the help of leverage;
they leaped the chasm, grappfed with
the opposing rocks, avoided avalanches,
and when tie goal was reached felt that,
but for the toll that had strengthened
them as they stroge. it could noyer have
been obtained.
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W 10 Mothers

Some one hassaid young mother is the
most beautiful thing in nature. Why
qualify it7 Why youngl Are not all
mothers beautiful? The sentimental
outside beholder may prefer youth in the
pretty picture, but am inclined to think
that sons and daughters, who are most
intimately concerned in the matter, love
and admire their mothers most when they
are old. How suggestive of something
holy and venerable it is when person
talks of his s:dear mother?" Away with
your mincing 'mammas'' and. ''mammas'
suggestive only Of a fine lady, who de-
putes her duty to nurse, a drawing-room
maternal parent who is afraid to handle
her offspring for fear of soiling her fine
new gown. Give me the homely mother
the arms Of whose love are all. embracing,
who is beautiful always, whether old Oh
young, whether arrayed in satin or mod
estly habitated in bombazines n q
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f4Ht3 as1sra t1t - lttar ttf Y p r.e
Young man, be brave :! Many people
imagine that courage is confined to the
field of battle. There could be no great
er mistake. Even contention with men,
unavoidable contentious, are not by any
means limited to the public battlc-6elds.
And there are other struggles in private
struggles With adverse circumstances
struggles, it may be, With habits or ap-
petites or passions-an of which requires
as much of courage, and more of prcse-
verance, than tho brief, exciting en>
counter of battle. r........t -.
Enough to struggle against. enough to
contend with, enough toloSefcome, lies in
the way of a young man. Hmay be one
kind of difficulty, or it may be another !;
butpleanty of diflioalty of some ind ,cyery
young man just starting ip life may be
sure that he will find. And the essential
thing about tito him is, whether he will
be a coward, and succumb, Or what the
Indians so significantly term 'sa brave"
He who never falters, no matter how adj
verso the. circumstances, always enjoys
within himself the Consciousness of a por-
petual, spiritual triumph, of which moth
ing can deprive him. ao1HaTo ilai
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The Stream and the Birds.

Let'us sit beside the rippling stream as
It takes its lonely way through the briery
wood. and mark what delicious harmony
it makes with the helpof pebbles, rushess
and Ely,leaves, gentle and swect'ever like
an old-fashioned madrigal, or one Of the
old quaint love strains. What an indy
ing radence it keeps now singing rather
boldly as it stumbles headlopg over the
rugged fragments of stone scattered here
and there; then murlnuring with apersua7
sive gurgle assit creeps along under the
blackbcrry's trailing limbs; and whisper
ing still more softly as it glides beslee the
lips of the conyolyulus. Now. it breaks
out with a sort of plashingt chorus over'a
fallen alder-trunk, as if the broken bub-
bles. were each uttering lady-like and
tuneful scream at the sudden. shock re-
ceivcd by their crystal, system Then OFT
it hurries round that-sedgy willow shaded
corner, as marry and melodious as a laugh
ing child. Sing on, sweet brooklet there
is precious music in thy soul stoothe the
sorrowful and charm the glad. Now listen
to the melodious society of feathered
warblers in the orchards and valleys. g
There is not tuning fork among them
every note is in a different ''piteh," every
measurejis unequal; and yet the harmony
is unbroken.g The rock keeps t'cawing''
in most brazen and most Billingsgate-hke
style the robin whistles with sort of
conceited, melancholy air; the wood
pigeon is quietly trying one little tune
over and over again the cuckoo is doing
the same; the family of finches are all
Cabling at once, like ladies over tea-ta-
BILE, or gentlemen after dinner the lark is
playing his pipe as hard and fast as he can;
the black-cap and the swift are doing
their utmost to swell the Delodlous up
roar and myriads of self-taught singers
are each practicing," nobody knows how
many rhours days" yet the concord is
perfect no out tune jar is heard, no
confusion distu.bs the dreamy listener. !
Flat, sharp and natural. are all in the
ascendant at once but the swell of music
falls around US without false acceutua-
tion or a grating tone.-Selccted.
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WITHOUT AN ENEMY.-Heaven help
Che man who imagines he can dodge
enemies by trying to please everybody |!
If such an individual ever succeeded, we
should be glad of it--not that one should
be going through the world trying to find
the beams to knock and tLump against,
disputing every mans opinion, fighting
and elbowing and crowdiag all who differ
from him. That, again, is another ex-
treme. Our people have their opinion,
50 havo you don't fall into the error of
supposing that they viii respect you more
for turning your coat every day to match
the color of theirs. Wear your own
colors in spite of wind and weather,
storm and sunshine. 1t costs the irreso-
Lutte and yascillating ten times the trouble
to wind and twist and shuttle than honest,
manly independence to- stand its ground
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Bc;suty OF Old People.

La q
Men and women make their own beauty
or their own ugliness Lord Lytton
speaks in one of his novels, of man
''who was uglier than he had any business
to be-" and ifhe could but read it, every
human being carries in his face. aud is
good-looking or the reverse as that life
has been good or evil. On our features
the fine cbisel of thought and emotion arc
etcrnally at work. Beauty is not the
monopoly of blooming young men and of
white and pink maidens. There is a
slow growing beauty which only comes to
perfection in old age. Grace belongs to
no period Of life, and goodness improves
the longer it exists. 1 have seen, swceter
smiles from lip Of seventy than upon a
lip Of seventeen.
There is the beauty of young aud the
beauty OF holiness beauty much more
seldom met, and more frequently found
in the armchair by the the fire, with the
grandchildren around It's knee, than in
the ballroom or promenade. Husband
and wife, who have fought the world side
By side, who have made eommen stock
Il JOY or sorrow, and aged together, are
frequently found curi0usly alike in per-
sonal appearance, and in pitch and tone
OF vice-just as twin pebbles on the beach,
exposed to the same tidal iraseAecs, re
each others Tecsnd self. He bs gained
feminine something, which brings his
manhood into full relief. She has gained
masculine something, which acts as a roil
to ber womanhood.
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The Fat Contributor, encouraged by
Dir, Greeley's success. in writing about
farming. says: "A correspondent asks
US what we think abount late plowing.
Plowing should not be continued later
thaR ten or eleven o'clock at night. 1t
gets the horses into bad habit Of staying
out late and unduly exposes the plow."
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No Hsne..

No. .homel What misfortune How
sad the thoughtl There are thousands
who know nothing of the blessed influence
of comfortable home merely because
of a want Of thrift, or dissipated habits.
Youth spent in a frivolous amusements,
and demoralizng. associations, leaving
them at middle age, when the physical
and intellectual man should be In sis
greatest sigor, enervstod and without one
laudable ambition. Friends long since
lost, confidence gone. and nothing to look
toin old age. but "a nero toleration in
the, community where they should be or
naments No home to fly to when weari-
ed with the struggles incident to life !; no
wifeto cheer them in their despondency
no virtuous household to give zest to the
joys of life. All is blank, and there is
no hope or succor except that which is
given out by the hands of private OF pu-
bile characters. When the family of the
industrious and sober citizen gathers
around the cheerful fire of wintry day,
the homeless man is seeking shelter in
the cells. of station house, or begging
for nights rest in the out-bnildings of
one who started in life at the same time,
with no greater advantages; honesty and
industry built up that home, while dissipar
ton destroyed the other. 81 ilfll fss1g
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THE SECRET OF HEALTH.-First,
keep warm. Second, eat regularly and
slowly. Third, maintain regular bodily
habits. Fourth, take early and very
light suppers. OF, better still, none at ALL
Fifth, keep clean skin. Sixth, get plen>
ty of sleep at night. Seventh, keep cheer
full and respectable company. Eighth,
keep ought of debt. Ninth, don't need.
Tenth. mind your own business: Ele-
venth, don't set up to be sharp of any
kind. Twelfth. subdue curiosity.
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Looking forward o'cr life's pathway,
Saw he broader fields of green,
Skierwith snowy clouds so iieecy.
Here aud there blue shreds between
Add with swiftly flying footsteps,
started he for fields more bright;
But IN vain Inc hurried onward,
They were always just in sight.
Warmcr. brighter, grew the sunshine,
Broader. rougher, grew the. way
Bat with green fields just before him,
Nothing could his footsteps stay.
So he wandered on till manhood,
Took the place of childhood fair,
Then he throw aside his flowers.
Wiped the dewdrops from his hair
onward. onward, toiling striving, =
J !, Helping others with his might.
Desired he that the blooming fields
That are always just in sight
Law within the cold dark river,
3 Here we9nly wish wait,
I 4flf the Hazter calls US over,
q, ~ unbars the pearly gate.
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pYH. W. LoxorELLow.


Burn. o evening hearth, and swaken
Pleasant visions, as of old -
Tllouxh the house by wind be shaken,
Safe keep the room or gold!
,th. no longer wizard Fancy
Rtlilds iis castles in the air,
me by necromancy
never winding stairs
'rnigrants. ,nilds nae bridges
Many Of our ourfrk rayiI,e.
fors.s Sy's,an s5 aud roar unsceiis
" cffcs'-,<.eliii, little needing
Blasts OF winds or torrent roar,
| follow the receding
Footsteps that have gone before.
; 'iueht avaiIs the imploring gesture,
/ aught avails the cry Of pain !@-.s
en- Itoitch the hying vcsture,
ifsffc gray robe of SlsS sxin-
DFsnch, W. md leaning
Rev r.s9arapets OF faelond,
- 1he mist that Intervening
.<f,ips tho valley in its sliroud.
And the sounds of life ascending,
: Family. vaguely meets the car,
N,rrsnur of bells and voices blending,
With herush of water near.
We'll / know what there lies hidden,
Erery tower and TOWN and farm,
And again the land forbidden
Rcassumes its vanquished charm.
Well 1 know the secret places.
And the nests in hedge and tree
At What doors are frequent faces,
lnwhaf hearts a thought of me.
Through the mist and darkness sinking
Blown by wind and beat by shower,
Down fling the thought I'm Thinking
81 n ,wn toss this Alpine flower.
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SOMETIMES love may fab upon ur-
worthy objects, but how much better this
than to have no love. Suppose the rain
should say, will not sall, there are so
many desert places where the sand only
soaks me up and gives forth no verdue."
No, Gods rain and sunshine fall upon the
just and unjust. the waste places as we'll
as the fruitful. SO our love should reach
all. ~,
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PATIENCE, is virtue that one often
has great occasion to use, and be who ex-
poets to get along comfortably through
the world would do we'll to lay in early
large stock.
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PEOPLE always fancy that we caanot
become wise, without becoming old also /;
in truth, as years accumulate, ii is hard
to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
man becomes, in the different stages OF his
life indeed different being; but he can
not say that he viii surely be better as
he grows onward, and, in certain matters,
be is as likely to be right in his twentieth,
as in his sixtieth ycar.--Goetl.e.
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Example.

Whene'er q noble deed is wrought,
y w hene'erls spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts. in glad stsrprise,
70 higher levels rise.
The tidal waves Of deeser ssuls
Iuto our lnmost being rolls,
-slif zAird lifts tie uiiawares
~ Out of all meaner cares. SFel3 -
!; .baaiI viSnf q SIS --LVnaf feIlots.
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A Cheerful Home.

A single bitter word may disquict an
entire family for whole day. One sarly
glance casts gloom over the household /;
while smile, like CLEAN of su: shine,
may light up the darkest and weariest
hours. Like unexpected flowers which
spring up along our path, full of freshness,
fragrance, and beauty, so do kind words,
and gentle acts, and sweet dispositions,
make glad the home where peace and
blessings dwell. No matter how humble
the abode, if it be thus garnished With
grace and sweetened with gladness and
smiles, the heart will turn longinsly to.
ward it from all the tumults of the world,
and home, if it be ever so homely, will be
the dearest spot beneath the circuit of the
sun. @ y -
And the Influences of home perpctuate
themselves. The gentle grace of the
mother lives in her daughters long after
her head is pillowed. in the dust of death; /;
and fatherly kindness finds its echo in the
nobility and courtesy of sons who come to
wear his mantle and to ell his place !;
while, ON the other hand, from an unhappy,
misgoverned, and disordered home go
forth persons who shall make other houses
miserable, and. pcrpetuate- the sourness
and sadness, the contentious and strife, and
ratings which have made their own early
lives so wretched and distorted. ia
Toward the cheerful home the children
gather ...as clouds and as doves to their
Windows while from the home which is
the abode of discomfort, and strife, and
trouble. they 60 forth as yultures to rcnd
their prey.
The class of men that disturb, and dis
order, and dirtrcss the world are not
those born and Eurtured amid the hallow-
ed Influences of Christian homes; but
rather those whose early life has been a
scene Of trouble and vexation-who have
started wrong in their pilgrimage, and
whose course is one Of disaster to them
selves and trouble to those around them.
ORIGIN OF THE PeNNY PosTAGE.-
A kindhcarted stranger once stopped at a
little wayside inn, just as the postman
was delivering letter to young miad-
servant. The girl turned it slowly from
side to side, and asked The charge. 1t
was one shilling. and she handed the let
ter back. saying it was from her brother
but that she was too poor to take it in.
The traveller quickly paid the postage,
though she strongly objected. much to
his surprise. When the postnan had
gone she confessed that the letter was a
blank, and that certain signs on the out
side had told her all she wishes to know,
Both she and the brother were too poor
to pay the postage, SO they had adopted
this method of communicating with one
another. As Rowland Hill pursued biz
| journey. he reflected over the system
which drove the poor to such deceptions
and the result of these meditations wal
the present system Of penny postage il
England.
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When the Dark Comes.


a little girl sat, at-twilight, in her sick
mothers room, busily thinking. All day
she had been full of fun and noise, and
mad many smany, times worried her poor
tired mother. go T.sss>.
Ma" said the little girl, ''what do
you suppose makes me get over my mis-
chief, and begin to act good, just about
this time every night
Il do not know, my dear. Can you
not telly'
s.Well, guess it's because this is schen
the dark comes. You know am little
afraid of that. And then, ma, 1 begin to
think of all the naughty things I've done
to grieve you. and perhaps you might die
before morning and so / begin to act
good. s.---.---~s--- -- -
sOhl" thought I, show many Nof MS
wait till the dark conaes.' in the form of
Sickness, or sorrow, or trouble of some
kind, before We begin to act good = How
much better to be good while we, arc en-
joying life's bright sunshinel and then.
when the darks comes'-as it will. in a
measure, to ALIVE shall be ready to
meet it without fear IFellsprt,,g - =
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!. Heeen. Fields Just In Sight.

, hotci ertais of the morning.
49, child with dainty feet,
person--n golden suns hine.
nc will have II d blossom sweet
1f,s Of MAY r., dimpled fingers,
n Is ha .x... lwers fresh and fair,
: e e&Pects. ,eine branches
<pe Souther " drops IN his hair.
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No.


Rest not . Life is sweeping by:
g o and dare before youldiegsB s<sN
Something mighty and sublime ats
Leave behind TO conquer time
Glorious stisf:o iiveaOr ayes1EoE
When these forms have passed away.
-Goethe.
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| . = ffW A. - ILL tt4Nt 4#A<
USsnKp tears are meyer wiped away.
| = Wn2. kpeoNs himself has tseqHi9p for
humility.
.TuE fearef iH exceeds often The ~ 'Fe
lear.
ALWAYS sreak the truth. if you speak
ataii. I QOM = gy.5ES
TO Know how 10 wait is the secret OF
success. iefMEL1I f0
NONE think of the great unhappy, but
the great fsiwss lff MaF
HABIT, if not resisted, soon becomes
a necessity.
LIVE up to your ongagaDpts' ifyOa
make them.
VINO lives for himself alone, lives for
moan1fcllewUa Z * .W0E
a LIFE without j'y is worsc, than one
of great grief.
THERE is foolish ch4mbersyen in the
brain of the sage Aq " "a Ny
OFTEN forgive,otherss but psyer thy
self-PabIius S,rus.
WnosoMvER is unchaste canhot rsvcr-
encc himself. f.-Bacon.r p.
WE CAN do more good by being good
than in gpy other Ysy.v-