The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-06-07

would say it is in EassfoTd, Conn, about Is
miles from here; not In Massachusetts,. Pre-
Patria-- Geo. E. King, Killingly, Conn.
THE KIND OF YOUNG MEN WANTED.
c. FRIENDS: AS was sitting in the wait
ing-room of DR.. P, at H, young man
walked in, who seemed to be an applicant. DIR.
p said: 81 want an honest sober, industrious
young man. I am away from home great
deal, and must have one can trust"
| are hard to find"
YES" said the Doctor, but we can find
| them"
Friends, that alone is the kind of young men
| needed everywhere. The Master speaks to us
again, Work while it is day, for the night
| comes when no man can work" Let us do the
| BEST that we can for ourselves and others
One of the most important functions of the
| c. c. Guards ought to be to prompt and cultivate
/ in its members an enlightened literary taste.
| The boys and girls of to-day who learn what
| good books are, and how to use them, who cui-
| tivste love for the most wholesome kinds of
| literature, are by virtue of their fondness for
good reading matter arming themselves against
Thousand foes.
taste for the best literature will stand them
in good stead in great emergencies.
Luella Monks, Chaplain, New Jersey Divls-
ion, n. T. G. c G.
NEAR TO NATURES HEART.
FRIENDS OF THE c. c.: When Longfellow,
that king amongst poets, assured us that life
was not an empty dream, but a beautiful real
ity, and to live for the present, for to-day, and
to contemplate the glory of privileged exist
enee, Qife is a blessed privilege,l he was no
doubt but giving vent to the emotions inspired
by the beauty and fragrance OF Natures gem
erous offerings aud wonderful demonstrations
| can imagine the great poet I" far from the
madding croud's ignoble strife" in some ro-
mantle. sequestered mock lost in profound
meditation and admiration. intoxicated by the
Incompatible beauty OF Summer day.
Early Summer! What delightful anticipa-
tions are realized and fresh wonders revealed.
The delicious fragrance of palm and apple
blossoms, tossed and swayed by the spertive
south winds; the dense, subtle eioT of the staid
old lilac, aud the thousand and one delights
and surprises of rejuvenate6 Nature, III all her
prolific abundance and purity, appeal to the
finer senses for graceful recognition of the
nobility Of their mission-a mission destined
to wean our inclinations and tendencies from
artificial creations TO the subimity and beauty
of natural creations Of forms aud colorings
Just conception of the unsurpassed beauty
OF the fair Summer season fills us with vain
longing TO keep it with us-to stay lis heetIns
course; but tits best that it should fade like
beautiful dream, for then, and then only, can
we DO brought to a full sense Of the gifts and
the spiendor of this God favored season.
This is changing world. An earnest study
Of that creation that requires but the suns
warm influence, the soft winds coaxing
whisper and the refreshing rains gentle splash
to urge it into marvellous existence, will lift
US out of ourselves and impress with the
majesty and the magnitude of God's handi-
work, and broaden our view of life so that we
perceive not only the achievements and foihes
OF man, but those awful mysterious forces that
regard not mans doings or await his approval.
Lizzie {. Eckert.