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THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES
I n»ve had playmates, I have had compan
ions.
In my days of childhood, In my Joyful school
days.
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I have been laughing, I have b^en carousing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my b'eom
cronies;
All, all are gone, the old famlUar faces.
I loved a love once, fairest among women ;
Closed are her doors on me, I must not see
her—
AH, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man;
Likea 1 Ingrate I left my friend abruptly;
Left him to muse on the old familiar faces.
Guost-llke I paced round the haunts of my
childhood.
Earth seemed a desert I was bound to tra
verse,
Seeking to find the old familiar faces.
Friend of my bosom, more than a brother,
Why wert thou not born In my father’s
dwelling?
So might we talk of the old familiar faces.
How soon they have died, and some they
have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are de
parted ;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
CHARLES LAMB.
The Pottery Exhibition.
An Allegory.
The level rays of an afternoon sun
were slanting through the long win
dows of a room in the Pottery where
the finished work was placed. The
morrow would be “ Exhibition Day,”
when this work was to be sent out
into the great busy world.
At first thought it would seem that
the exhibition must have been held
down in the dark basement of the
building, where the fresh clay awaited
he potter’s forming hand, but even
hat was not the clay’s starting-point.
It is not easy to reach back to the be
ginnings of things.
From the darkness up to the light of
this perfect pure day, there had been a
long process of washing and grinding,
while a powerful magnetic influence
had been brought to bear upon the
mass, in order to remove the heavy
nyielding iron, which, if suffered to
emain would certainly jproduce flaws
in the finished work.
The kneading and the shaping had
been laborious and painstaking, else
no perfect result need be expected.
After that the trial period had come,
when each separate vessel must be
subjected to the refining and strength
ening influence of fire; else would
the frail clay never be able to stand
and endure. S mretimes, even with
the utmost care, a flaw will show it
self in a hitherto unsuspected place
whose unsoundness had been proved
by the fire test, and, as in the ancient
time, not every finished vessel could
justly be marked, “ sine cera.”
But here, finally, that work was
gathered in goodly array, with the
sunlight bathing it in its glory,
did not seem at all out of keeping
either the place or its occupants,
m jwaaJbeard from a large,
placed upon a
light, saying : —
rie
Before parern^-w^ve
talk about our several voca-
?or my part, I do not expect
much labor to perform. I
lost likely, adorn a stately
r in the house of a millionaire,
ill place me there because I am
to make his home shine by the
btre of my family name, as well as
ay beauty.”
A tiny Parian vase in herfLadow,
softly said
“ I cam only hold a rosebud, or a
spray of lilies of the valley for a sick
child.”
“ And I,” sighed her neighbor, a
little candlestick, “ can only bear a
taper,”
I “ Well,” spoke up a neat china tea
et L with a satisfied air; “I am not
tious, and think the Nichols vase
find her life somewhat monoto-
us, although it may suit her.—But
prefer aHfbme just large enough for
two—a bright little table, with a lov
ing little lady pouring tea for a most
devoted lord. I would be careful to
keep my sugar bowl always
filled, and strive to confine all
and sharpness to the JVonilv y
crure »nd mu a;
1/ me,
jsthetic
1‘ditative
lid a wil
der could
[hing and
the
dinner set of serviceable thickness,
and yet of genteel form. “I am
happy to do duty in quite another
capacity. I shall work a reform in
domestic life. My powers of endur
ance are great indeed, and, I hope,
will prove sufficient to withstand the
rough usage of servants, without de
triment to my temper. I shall seldom
be out of employment. I shall help
to settle the ever recurring question of
‘What shall we eat?’ while my at
tractive appearance will tend to add
sweetness to the daily bread, and
make me a blessing to large families
and tired housewives.”
An earthen water filter spoke
here:—“ I hope to be a public bene
factor. It shall be my privilege to re
turn the life giving water which I
have received in a purer substance, in
which may be quenched the fever and
thirst of the world.”
His relative, an unpretending
pitcher, followed :—“ In this work I
will be your right hand. While your
position compels you to remain at
home, it shall be my joy to bear that
which I receive from you to those who
reap and glean in the harvest fields.
S > shall we together minister to those
who are bearing the burden and the
heat of the day, and help to bring the
harvest home with shouting.”
“ Alas !” moaned a little flower pot,
“ I cannot even offer a drop o? water
to a thirsty child. I do not mean to
complain, out I think the Master
Workman made a sad mistake in my
case, aud that I alone of all these
waiting ones, can never serve Him
whom I should delight to honer.”
“Not so,” spake the low voice of the
Master Workman himself, who, un
perceived, had entered softly with his
fellow-workmen, and had heard all
the conversation. “ Yours is a mis
sion second to none in this assembly.
You are to nurture a living flower, in
the sunshine of the window of a room
in which lies one sick unto death, and
the seeming defect of which you com
plain, will serve to keep the soil in a
healthy state, and stimulate the root
lets to send their questioning fibers
down through the dark earth, to re
turn in answers of lovely leaf and
blossom. That is a work fit for an an
gel.”
The little Parian vase shrank almost
out of sight. If she were only a
flower pot!
“ Master,” asked one of the work
men, reverently, “ if a flower on its
native stem canuot lift its head in the
sunshine, without speaking of Him,
the Maker, and, much more, when,
severed from its root, it smiles by the
bed of pain, telling still of a Father’s
loving care, shall the vase that holds
it be accounted quite useless ?”
“Nay, verily,” was the answer
“They serve well who help to keep
other lives blooming aud fragrant.”
The Parian vase was satisfied.
Tenderly the gaze of the Master
rested upon the work of his hand
They were the clay, he the potter
His name was upon them all. Once
more he spoke:—
“ Go forth, and whatsoever work ye
find to do, perform it well, for my
sake, whose ye are. So shall ye be
-vessels of honor meet for the Master’s
use.'
He raise A s if in blessing
his fellow-workmen bowed their
heads, the last tender beam of evening
light faded, and the vision vanished
Phrases About Women.
less
The Church Year.
The Celestial year commences with
the nearest Sunday to the feast of St.
Andrew (November 20), and is divided
into the following seasons : Advent,
which opens on the nearest Sunday to
the St. Andrew’s day and closes
Christmas eve. (This season is com
memorative of the first and anticipa
tion of the second coming of the Lord
Christmas, (Christ’s birth); Epiph
any, extending from January 6th to
Septuagesima, (the manifestation of
Christ to 1 Ufc/Gentfii&^tL Septuagesima,
extwndi^y l0 Ash' - * Wednesday,
labors and sorrows);' Dent
Asli Wednesday to Easter ev\e,
s fasting); Passion tide, the last
o weeks of Lent, (His sufferings
and death); Easter tide, extending
from Easter day to Whitsun eve, (His
resurrection); Ascension tide, from
the fifth Sunday after Easter da\ # to
the Saturday week following, (h» as
cension into Heaven;) Whitsuntide,
(tiie coming of the Holy Ghost); and
t.h6 Trinity season, from Trinity Sun-
Sunday to Advent, closes the ywsr,
(“the final glory of the elect in the
fruition of the Beatific Vision”)
jure persons who do not know
" faste their time alone, and
Some the soourg* of busy peo-
Wrinkles disfigure a woman
than ill-nature.—Dupuy.
Woman is an idol that man worships
until he throws it down.
Women love always; when earth
slips from them, they take refuge in
heaven.
The whisper of a beautiful woman
can be heard further ihau the loudest
call of duty.
There is no torture that a would not
suffer to enhance her beauty.
Of all things that man possesses
women alone take pleasure in being
possessed.
Before promising a woman to love
only her, one should have seen them
all, or should see only her.
We meet in society many beautiful
aud attractive women whom we think
would make excellent wives—for our
friends.
We censure the inconstancy of
women when we are the victims ; we
find it charming when we are the ob
jects.
The highest mark of esteem a woman
can give a man is to ask his friendship;
and the most signal proof of her Indif
ference is to offer him hers.
At twenty man is less a lover of
woman than of women ; he is more in
love with the sex than with the in
dividual, however charming she may
be.
Men are so fearful of wounding
a woman’s vanity that they rarely
remember that she may by some pos
sibility possess a grain of common
sense.
Woman among savages is a beast of
burden ; in Asia she is a piece of fur
niture ; in Europe she is a spoiled
child.
It is not easy to be a widow; one
must reassume all the modesty of
girlhood, withuot being allowed to
feign its ignorance.
Women of the world never use
harsh expressions when condemning
their rivals. Like the savage, they
hurl elegant arrows ornamented with
feathers of purple-and azure, but with
poisoned points.
Doctors say that the gout may be
inherited. If any fellow were to
leave us the gout, we should contest
his will on the ground for insanity
A national exhibition of mining,
metallurgy, ceramics, and glass man
ufacture is to be held at Madrid,under
the auspices of the Spanish Govern
ment, in May.
France expends $150,000 annually
in the purchase of native horses in
Algeria for cavalry purposes, besides
awarding prizes to breeders and sup
porting studs.
The Fair Sex.
The Iowa legislature has wisely
passed a bill providing that the state
board of school examiners shall here
after have a woman member.
Conjugal Amenities. — “Do you
know in what month of the year my
wife talks the least?” “Well, £ sup
pose when she catches cold and loses
her voice.” “Not at all. It is in Feb
ruary.” “Why is that?” “Becausa
February has the fewest days.”
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, is
both practical and affectionate. Call
ing his young daughters to him one
morning, he asked them, as a testi
mony of their love for him, to learn to
make their own clothes and to cook a
good dinner. They promised, and not
long after invited pa and ma and a
few friends to dine with them. They
oooked the dainty dinner, and wore
handsome gowns made by themselves.
The senator’s pleasure tlierattook form
in the s hape of a $25,000 check to each.
A very top-Sawyer indeed to those
maidens.
The regular annual meeting of the
Massachusetts society for the promo
tion of the university education of
women was held in Boston recently.
The formal report declares that the
success of the society’s work is grati
fying. B'ate universities aud many
professional schools and colleges offer
openly their advantages to women and
the more cousenalive institutions are
beginning to realize that the world
does not stand still. The Massachu
setts Institute of Technology last sum
mer gave to two young women the de
gree of bachelor of science and it is
known that similar institutions are
willing to receive women.
If young women are not honest and
wholesome clean through, aud if
young women will not train tliem-
sclvesAto the finest and sturdiest
womanhood possible to tlieir nature ;
if they will not eat brown bread, and
work in the garden—if they have one
—with some more grip than a bird
scratching, aud quit readi g novels in
a hot room, and devouring sweat-
meats; if they dare not face the snn
ami wind, and try to outwalk, ay, aud
outrun their brothers, aud let our wise
mother, nature, buckle tlieir belt—
they tad not better say, Amen, when
the stalw rt young husband c;ie-,
‘ Mercifully ordain that we may giow
aged together. ’’—Robert CoUyer.
Women’s Shoes.—Take the latest
fashion of shoes. The heel of the hu
man being projects outward, or rather
backward, and gives steadiness to “the
sure aud certain step of man.” But
fashion has decided that the heel of
the boot or shoe shall get as near the
centre of the instep as possible, in
stead of the weight of the body rest-
upon an arch, in the modern fine lady
it rests upon peg->, with the toes in
front, which have to pr.event the body
from toppling forward. Then the heel
is so high that the foot rests upon the
peg and the toes, and the gait is as
elegant as if the lady were practicing
walking upon stilts. With such mod
ern improvements on sandals—which
allow the feet perfect freedom and
play—the present mademoiselle, when
she attempts to run, is a spectacle at
which the gods—well, not quite that,
but at which her mother might well
weep.—Pram Good Words.
Origin of Genius.
Columbus was the son of a weaver,
and a weaver himself.
Rabelais, son of an apothecary.
Claude Lorraine was bred a pastry
cook.
Richardson was a printer.
Moliere, son of a tapestry maker.
Cervantes served as a common sol
dier.
Homer was a beggar.
Hessiod was the son of a small
farmer.
Demosthenes, of a cutler.
Terence was a slave.
Oliver Cromwell, the son of a
brewer.
Howard, an apprentice to a grocer.
Benjamin Franklin, a journeyman
printer.
Doctor Thomas, Bishop of Worces
ter, son of a linen draper.
Whitfield, son of an inn-keeper at
Gloucester.
Sir Cloudesly Shovel, Rear Admiral
of England, was an apprentice to a
shoemaker, and afterwards a cabin
boy.
Bishop Prideaux worked in the
kitchen at Exter College, Oxford.
Cardinal Wolsey, son of a butcher.
Ferguson was a shepherd.
Neibuhr was a peasant.
Thomas Paine, son of a staymaker
at Tketford.
Dean Tuoker was the son of a small
farmer in Cardignshire, and performed
journeys to Oxford on foot.
Edmund Halley was the son of a
soap boiler at Shoreditch.
Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich,
son ef a farmer at Ashby de la Zoucli.
William Hogarth was put apprem
tice to an engraver of pewter pots.
Doctor Mountain, Bishop of Dur
ham, was the son of a beggar.
Lucian was the sou of a statuary.
Virgil of a potter.
Horace of a shopkeeper.
Plutus, a baker.
Gay was apprenticed to a silk mer
cer.
Doctor Samuel Johnson was the son
of a bookseller at Litchfield.
Akenside, son of a butcher at New
castle.
Collins, son of a hatter.
Samuel Butler, son of a farmer.
Ben Johnson worked for some time
as a bricklayer.
Robert Burns was a ploughman In
Ayrshire.
Thomas^) hatter ton, son of the sex
ton of Redcliffe Church, Bristol.
Thomas Gray was the son of a money
scrivener.
Mathew Prior, sou of a joiner in
London.
Henry Kirk White, son of a butcher
at Nottingham.
Bloomfield aud Giffbr l were shoe
makers.
Shakespeare, the son of woolstapler.
Mullet rose from poverty.
Milton, sou of a money scrivener.
Cowley, son of a hatter.
Pope, son of a merchant.
Golden Grains from the Soul’s
Casket.
A rich knave’s a libel on our laws.
— Young.
No gentlemen will insult a gentle
man aud no other can.— Washington.
To keep your secret is wisdom ; but
to expect others to keep it is folly.—
Holmes.
I could hardly ieel much confidence
in a man who had never been imposed
upon.—Hare.
The World, and How to TJse It.
Live with the world whoso has nerve,
So make the world his purpose serve;
But, ol you leave your lofty level
To do the world’s vile command,
You were as well to let the devil
Keep all your gear In haud.
Prophets.
Who spouts his message to the wilderness
Lightens his soul, and feels one burden less ;
But to the people preach, and you will find
They’ll pay you back with thanks ill to your
miud.
Monuments.
The marble bears his name aud tells his
story,
But you’ll forgive me, If I hint the truth;
You gild the monument in honest sooth,
Not for his honor, but for your own glory.
I have learned by much observation
that nothing will satisfy a patriot but
a place.—Junius.
The higher we rise the more isolated
we become; and all elevations are
cold.—De Bouffers.
Life is a malady in which sleep
soothes us every sixteen hours ; it is a
palliation ; death is the remedy.—
Chamfort.
Envy.
Envy must be; e’en let her feed her grudge !
Truth will shine out, when time shall be Uie
Judge;
Tls an old use that hath been, and will be.
That where the suu his liberal light may
th row
The heat comes with it and the grass will
grow,
Youth.
Who may proud? Theyoang! for why? the
pride
Of life Is theirs, and Time Is on their side.
Divide et Impera.
Divide and rule, the politician cries;
Unite aud lead, Is watchword of the wise.
By looking into physical causes our
minds are opened and enlarged, aud
In this pursuit, whether we lose the
game, the chase is certainly of service,
—Burk*.
The Fortune of the Barings.
The Brothers whom Cardinal RioheHeu
called One of the Six Powers
of Europe.
The Barings have been among the
most famous of English hankers.
They are of German stock. There is a
kind of ecclesiastical flavor about
them. Their English founder was a
Bremen pastor, who settled in this
country. His grandnon married the
niece of an English Archbishop. One
of his descendants became Bishop of
Durham, The money was originally
made in the rich, profitable clothing
business in the west of England.
Ashburton gave a title in the peerage
to the chief of the house of Baring.
It has been a rule in the house that
when any one of them has got a title
he goes out of the business. Sir
Francis Baring, the first great/banker,
who, dying in 1810, left a fortune of
two millions, had three sons—Thomas,
Alexander and Henry. Thomtw suc
ceeding to the baronetcy, gave up the
business. Henry had a rather roman
tic reputation as a lucky gambler, who
was frequently able to break the bank
of a gambling table. He was the
amazement of beholders when he
would sit down at a gambling table at
the Palais Royal—before such tables
were happily abolished—with piles of
gold aud notes before him. The repu
tation of a successlul gambler was
hardly suited to the intense respecta
bility of the firm, and Mr. Henry was
induced to retire fiom the business.
Alexander Baring, often known as
“ Alexander the Great,” sustained
aud extmded the fortunes of the
house. He went ta America, and
there the richest hanker in England
married the daughter of the richest
citizen of the United States. One of
l\is gigautio transactions possesses a
historical importance. After the con
clusion of the great European war he
paid down a sum of $1,000,000, by
which France was freed from the oc
cupation of Russian, Austrian and
German armies. “ There are six great
powers in Europe,” said the Due de
Richelieu—“ England, France, Rus
sia, Austria, Prussia and Baring
Brothers.” In 1835 he was made
Lord Ashburton. Two of his sous
held the title, aud each successfully
retired from the business. The head
of the firm, Thomas Baring, became
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord
Melbourne’s ministry, and another
member, Lord Northbrook, has been.
Governor-General of ludi