Year: 1873




Some fathers seem to think that when
they have given their childrena fine edu-
cation and good start in life, they have
fully done their duty, and nothing more is
required of them. That is mistake fer
tile in sorrowful consequences. There is
no time so anxious and critical as those
Years of unwisdom and inexperience, as
the few which precede the indiscreet time
when we come to years of discretion. To
the young man out in the world you must
make home and holidays as cheerful and
beloved as possible; that such should be
the case, is to young woman the very
life her life | like it not that the young
man should settle all plans in life, and to
his wooing to his future bride before he
says one word to his father; and that the
maiden should yield her assent unknown
to her mother. Yet this will surely be
the case unless you have won your sons
confidence and intimacy and love. And
these feelings will not come unless they
are sought for and ELECTED. There is such
width of years between you, something
SO authoritative and magisterial about the
parental character, that there is often
great shyness between the father and the
son; but still that blessed relation ofTath-
erhood is something infinitely grander
and deeper than all harsher and more form
al associations. Where there ere tried
tenderness and sympathy there ~ill be the
truest, deepest friendship between parent
and child. 1t is this prudent, loving
guidance that will give the son helpin The
most hazardous year of life. and which
will come back on the fathers heart in
flood of love and coufort.


THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
What endca-ing recoileciions gather
around the scenes of early days. THE
orchard, The meadow, the deep tangled
wildw ODD" where as unfettered as the
mountain air our lightsome foot steps
were wont TO rove-the rustic church to
which, with the returning Cay of peace
fal, holy rest, led by the hand of parental
affection, we used to repair-but above all.
ri.e a.-allcst our conlor.ic enjoyments, the
sanctuary of the family circle, where un-
der the guidance of fathers counsel and
Il mothers love, we passed the sunny
hours of life's sweet spring time, all rise
in grateful, fond remembrance, full of pur-
est selight and tenderest associations.


And these "reminiscences lose none of
their interest from the circums' ance that
the same spot which was consecrated to
hope and gladness was in the onward
flight of time, destined to be visited by
disappointment and sorrow. 1t was not
only the abode of the fondly loved, but
there we witnessed the departure of the
early lost. There, too. father blest us
with bis dying breath, and bade US meet
him in the better land. There mother
looked upon us, to look and smile no
more. Sadness and joy, commingled thus,
halow the place where we enjoyed their
fellowship in life, and where they now re
pose in the unbroken silence of their Sc
pulchral rest.


Who would not fain preserve these
cherished domains from vandal hands
who would not prize the privilege of there
ptssing the evening hours of life, and of
there being gathered to his fathers? Or
if this must be denied, at least of being
permitted to return at times to the peace
fdl scenes of youth, with the cheering re-
| flection that they are still identified with
us-and that we can still claim them as
our own?


'sTis vain to ask one hour know
OF childhood's happy days;


To ask one plaintive, sweet refrain
| Of its delicious lays.


But still my heart viii wildly plead,
For one of the bright hours;


When life wa, ike fairy dream;
And earth land of flowers.
CREOLES.


!. The word creoles was first applied to
I fbo ob;1droy, of Cpon;ch and afterwards of