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♦ a that estates, degrees and offices. not deriv'd corruptly 1 and that clear |SLel by tho 1 T A «e February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that winter s woo was past, , So fair the sky was, and so soft tno a! ^ ■, The happy birds were hurrying here and A* something soon would happen. Rod- denod now , . The hedges, and in gardens many a bough w- overbold of bufi._S*e.td.yO»d«l. I know that sunshine, through whatever rift, How shaped it matters not, upon my halls Paints disks as perfect-rounded as its source. And, like its antitype, the ray divine. However finding entrance, perfect still, Repeats the image unimpaired ot Ood. How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines Sow can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secreUt^botray^w A mighty pain to love it is And tis a pain that pain to miss ; But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love and love in vain. —Cowley. "Who can all sense of others’ ill escape I« but a brute at best in human shape. -Tate. This,above all, to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the riis'nt, the clay, Thou oanst not then bo false to any man. —Shakespeare. What exhibitions various hath the world Witness'd of mutability in all That we account most duarble below t ■ Change is the diet on which all subsist, Created changeable, and change at last Destroys'tnom. — Cowper. But why, alas 1 do mortal men complain ? Gk>d gives us what he knows our wants require, , . . , And better things than those which we desire. —Dryden. ’Tis thus that on the choice of friends Our good or evil name depends. —Gay. Far in ihe sunny South she lingers, SiYetylowly comes along, thTairy garlands in her fingers, vith snatches of sweet song. .ar eyes with promises are beaming, Her smiles will rapture bring; ’he sunlight from her hair is streaming Thrice welcome, lovely spring. $heVbrings us gifts, the royal maiden. > Fair flowers to deck the hills ; With primroses her arms are laden, Bluebells and daffodils; Palo crocuses Have come before her, \ Wild birds her welcome sing , Ten thousand longing hearts adore her— The gray world's darling, Spring. * —J. M. Elton. %nd father and the big, strong brother, who had been a tower of strength to them all. There had been nothing left to her but the homestead where she had been born and always lived, and wheji people advised her to sell it and put the money in the bank for a rainy day she : indignantly scorned such counsel. “No, indeed 1 A farmer’s daughter ought to manage a bit of ground as well as a farmer’s son. I’ll keep the place, and in summer I’ll take lodgers, and Larry O’Toole shall do my heavy work for me.” She had prospered fairly until the last year, so that now, when Mr. Hartley came, it was a godsend to her, and she went about her pretty, cosy little house as happy as the day was long. An ugly little old maid—that was what bonny, bright Laura had called her, and George Hartley caught himself one day watching her, as she went flirt ing from]place to place, in her big white apron and tucked-up sleeves and satiny brown hair braided beneath a brown silk net, both his children trotting after her. Yes, she was plain, undeniably—and of all things, Mr. Hartley least admired plain little women j but she was good and she succeeded in making thoroughly comfortable. “Mr. Hartley is delighted with his quarters,” Laura Hesketh said, one bright morning, when she dropped in a moment \ such a radiant vision, in her pale blue lawn and pale pink ribbons her lovely face aflash, and here eyes shining like stars. Helen was mixing puff paste for lemon pie; lemon and rice pudding was Mr. Hartley’s favorite desert. ‘Is that so ?” Helen laughed,’ hold ing out one short dimpled arm inside the oven to test its heat. “That’s pleasant to know, especially from you, Miss Hesketh, for I feel most truly grateful to you for recommending my little nest to him. He’s a great friend of yours, isn’t he ?” Laura laughed and.-a little crimson flush warmed her cheek. “Oh—I don’t know ! Yes, he is a friend, of course. I’ve‘known him for over a year now. He’s handsome, isn’t he?” “I think he is the tlnest looking gen tleman I ever saw,” Helen answered quietly, then bent a little puzzled look upon Laura. “How did you come to send him him Helen pointed to a chair. “Sit down, Mr. Hartley,” she said, and then went on -with her pastry, while he and Laura chatted and laugh ed, and ended by taking Helen’s con sent to go with them bathing. She never knew quite how it all hap pened—none of them knew—hut little Ethel managed to separate herself from the others, aud the first thing that any one knew was that the child was screaming aud being home out by the breakers, and Helen had plunged in after her, entirely oblivious of the fact that she was not much more able to fight the heavy seas than the child. There was a little consternation, a shriek or so from Laura, an exclama tion of something not perfectly intelli gible from Mr. Hartley, a prompt (Com mand to Laura’s big brother, Archie, and then, shortly after, little Ethel .and Helen were carried. out unconscious, and the next Helen knew she was on her own sofa in her little sitting room, with the sound of Laura’s and her mother’s voices in the next room, and Mr. Hartley’s handsome, anxious eyes looking down into her face as he sat besiile her. “Helen,” he said, in a low, breath less sort of way, as she looked wonder- i ingly at him, “Helen, my brave little darling—thank God I saved you for myself, didn’t I ?” She suddenly began to cry—what did h© mean ? Was it a dream—a tantaliz ing dream ? “Helen,” the low, passionate voice went on, “if you had,-{lied I think I should have died, too. I meant to have told you this very day liow I have learned to love you—that I want you to be my blessed little wife if you can care enough for me to <come to me. Can you, Helen ? Do you, dear ?” And even Laura Hesketh Could not begrudge happy Helen her great happi ness when she saw what perfect bliss had come to the little woman from her summer lodger. The Imitative Chinee., j the juices of the fruits which they eat... A correspondent of the Philadelphia \ pl^^t thinks, like tea, or coffee, Press says: I was* once teaching Unprofiiable Mining. We will tell you what kind of mining is unprofitable. Some novice will spend a couple of montlis in a mining camp and manage to get hold of two or three prospect holes that ate worth just about as much as so many ten-foot holes on the plains of Kansas. This selfsame here ? I should think you would prefer individual will pojft himself how com- to have him with you at the Hall. ” I names are organized and will proceed to Helen’s Lodger. It was a pleasant little place, only a knd a-half high, hut spread out treat deal of ground. There was |[vet lawn iu frc it, with a dozen Bps that had stood there for a nagiijficent old trees as *dows on a summer’s -jyj old-fashioned flowers Cloned rope swing, a well Unable mossy oaken bucket; fere plenty of vegetables in kitchen garden, eggs fresh and all the milk that was very place for you,” Laura nth a happy, eager look irtley smiled back at her, ok a man gives a pretty girl imires. .11 decide upon it, then. The |is good, the terms reasonable, ldlady is—?” "laugfied, showing her pretty ugly old maid, but just as '-[can be.” Uey affected a horrible scowl Vs* Miss Hesketh into the car- / p^turesque place, indeed. I i spoke to me of it. J sill rftin when Miss Cartwright, and make the necessary V arrangements ” were that in .ot four guineas a week tas to have Miss (5art- joms for hetself and feiKU |d a room “You little goose, can’t you under stand that ? Indeed, Ldon’t want him at home among sO many visitors as we have already. Helen, I’m so glad he came here, where there’s no chance for him to be mado a dead set at. A hand some, rich widower is a great catch. Here—lie’s safe, you see.” She certainly did not mean anything cruel, but it touched little plain Helen as nothing had ever hurt her. And, proud little woman as she was, she had to rush to the pantry for more sugar— to hide the tears she felt coming to her eyes. Mr. Hartley was safe at her house. Yes, she was too old, too plain, too decidedly an old maid to he dangerous to any man’s peace of mind. It was all true, and she had known it all her life, but somehow it occurred to her as never before. Little and plain and old, but with a woman’s heart that beat warm and strengthful in her bosom; and, some how, Laura Hesketh’s rare beauty seemed the most desirable possession in all the world, because with it such love and devotion and admiration could be won. She thrust the foolish thought away froYn her and came back, her sugar crock in hand. “Do you bathe every day, Laura?” she said—they had known each other from childhood, and in spite of social ineqaulity, were on very familiar terms. “ I heard the children say that the water was delightfully warm to-day “ We go down every day—why don’t you go, Helen ? Can’t you go with us at four o clock to-day ? Mr. Hartley’s going, and mamma and Archie,” “I rather think not,” she said. “I want to make pastry for tea—the chil- n arc so fond of it.” it the children can be disappoint- ce. You must go, Miss Cart- George Hartley stepped italhL'l panies are organized and will proceed get up a company, with nothing less than a million dollars capital at tendol lars per share. He will at the same time bethink himself of an * uncle or some relation or friend “ba^c home” that hds a few scads laid away, and he will proceed to tap the relations or friends, who think it all right. But they no' sooner buy a few thousand dollars worth of stock than they begin to look for dividends to roll in every month. They imagine that the ore is just rolling out in bars of bullion, and that all they have got to do is to chop it up and each man take his share. In the meantime at the prospects or ba|p of operations, nothing is being done hut the bare annual assessment worked in order to hold the prospects, and even if they had a promising prospect it would take a thousand [years almost to make a mine out of it, at the rate of $100 per year expenditure. Time rolls around, say two or three years, and the stock is not quite up to par, in fact the stock holders get worried about the first divi dend that has not been paid. Then they begin to investigate. If they do not feel too much discouraged’ they will employ a man who wears eye-glasses and has an M. E. behind his name, pay him a hundred or two dollars; but if the said stockholders are a little penurious they will get some old practical miner to make the examination and pay him with the promise “that we will make it all right after awhile. ’ ’ The result is the proper ty is pronounced whorthless, or nearly so, and the stockholders go home sick and disgusted. • They announce to the world what a fraud mining is, and it gets over the country about the swindling opera tions carried on in mining.—J)cnvb-Re- publican. was> once teaching a Chinaman in my employ to make biscuit and, after cutting them in form, there was a small bit of paste left, which I placed carlessly in the corner of the pan. —“John,” during a service of two years, never missed the hit in the cor ner. ■ The same boy was particularly anx ious to learn stocking-darning, and l at length consented to instruct him in that delicate art. The stocking se lected for the first lesson chanced to be brown in color. I gave him a needle threaded with blue, and he ever after believed that brown hose was to be mended with blue. The Chinese will also often imitate the voice and manner of the people With whom they live, and that, I am satisfied, without any intention of impertinence or humor. The Chinaman in my em ploy gave a curious illustration, of this. One member of the family was a musi cal young lady who was near-sighted and somewhat given to vanity and affectation. I had often seen “John” watching her with considerable quiet interest, but was not then aware how closely he had copied her young-lady airs. One morning “John” was sent, to dust a room in which were several musical instruments. As I passed the door; which was slightly ajar, I heard a discordant twanging of guitar-strings. Peeping in, 1 discovered him in ap proved troubadour attitude, with a sheet of music before him and attempting to sing Schubert’s ‘ ‘Serenade. ’ ’ He could remember no more thaq “Tldough the Tlees,” then he would begin again. He looked and acted so much like one who was accustomed to sing it that*! stole away to call some of the others to participate in my enjoyment. When we reached our post of obser vation, “John” had given up the guitar and was seated at the piano, with’ stiff back and elevated wrists, pretending to play an accompaniment, ’’ke. would stop playing and settle his imaginary skirts, then pretend to readjust his eye glasses, then turn over the leaves of the music, and peer at them with his nose almost buried in the gages. I After striking a few more discords, he daintily stroked his maginary “bangs,” toyed coquettishly with the, ‘ Wangles” which were not on his wrists, then raising his face towards the gentleman supposed to be standing beside him, and putting on what was intended for a captivating smile, struck up “Take Back the Heart that Thou Gavest.” We could endure no more, but burst into heartylaughter. i etc., may he taken lukewarm for a long time with little apparent damage. The least injurious is cocoa, made with plenty of milk, and allowed to stand until nearly cool. A good test is to apply the little finger to the drink, and if it be not hot to it, then it may l e safely taken.—Hall's Journal of Health.. The Kitchen of the Human Sys tem. — Whoever lives on the fare of the majority of tlie American people, such as pork, superfine flour bread, soda, and lard biscuits, fried potatoes, with coffee and tea to wash down the indigestible stuff, need not wonder that they are weak and dyspeptic. To holt the wheat flour, retaining the poorest because the nicest looking, afkVfeeding the best part to the cattle and hogs, is like throwing the meat: to the dogs and knawing the bones one’s self. It is the abuse of the poor liver to Use so much grease in cookery. The grains andVege tables contain enough' starch, that is converted into carbon in the system, for the maintenance of the animal heat,. without ^ filling and saturating them .with somuch grease. Stimulating con diments, coffee and tea that do pot con tain any substantial nourishment what ever, must be used to goad on the poor stomach, unable and unwilling .to grind up the soggy mass introduced.. The stomach is the kitchen of the human system. Give it the right kind of food, prepared in a simple m^nnef, without mixing in any deleterious Substances that cannot be used by the' system, but have to be expelled as unwelcome in truders, and it will manufacture rich, pure blood—the tirde and only source of strength and beauty. t What is Cardinal ?. Sanitary. I>1 Arrasene now figures conspicuously in art needlework. It is particularly ef fective in the working of such flow as the golden rod, mignonette, etc; in representing heraldic devie are to be worked in relief Hot and Cold Diunks.—A corres pondent of Knowledge calls attention to some of the disadvantages of hot drinks. Cold drinks, he says, are natural to man, though most people now-a-days are so used to hot drinks that they do not feel satisfaction—really stimulation— unless they have them. Hot drinks are injurious to the tongue, for they deaden its sensation, and, after taking hot soup or drink, the tongue becomes quite numb, and unable to taste the finer /favors of a dish. The teeth are greatly injured by them, and many dentists say caries (decay) is due to them alone. They crack*the enamel, and thus allow caries to set in. When caries have once set in, hot drinks are a common cause of neuralgia. Hot drinks are specially hurtful to the stomach. They c«ause irritation of the nerves of the stomach and conse quent mild inflammation of t)iat organ, so that after a hot drink the stomach is red and congested ; in time a debili tated condition is set up. A tempera ture of 100 degrees Fahrenheit also dastroys the active ferment? of the gas tric juice—pepsin—and so leads to in digestion. If the stomach is at all disordered, hot drinks give rifee to much griping pain, and in many eases to vomiting. In case of diarrhoea, hot drinks only increase it, while cold ones lessen it. Thirst is not common in winter, unless sugary, salty or liot-piced foods have been taken. In cold weather the air contains move moisture than in hot, ather there is less per- drinks increase the in the hotly, and if that js quickly got rid of is the best thirst food be taken small. Many to the district received aid t' Over each hospital was placed The parish priests and deacons, of the hospitals, besides atti th©ir respective duties as sU also immediate advisers of. 1 in the government of the whei They were called Cardinalsj that time applied to all ecclesis| manently in charge of churches Originally, therefore, the Cai\ t)ie Roman Church were i deacons; but in the course Bishops of the DioceSes in the \ ty of Rome, seven in number .were accustomed to assist at the vices in the Cathedral of Rome church of St. John Lateran wi also numbered with the priests deacons as the Rope’s immediate coi sellors or advisers, There are, conjl quently,^firee orders of Cardinals : Cj dinal bishops, Cardinal priests, Cardinal deacons. The duties of the priests and dea<j as counsellors soon became too ini( tant to allow of their continuing in 1 tive charge in any other capacity, t soon, too, the name of Cardinal was 1 plied to them as it is to-day, in no sense than that of Papal adviser, still, however, retain jurisdiction their fchurces in Rome. Ca/ 1 McCloskey, for instance, who is . dinal priest, became, as such, a tf parish priest of Rome. He is sopri called a Cardinal Archbishop because this expression repress j title, as Cardinal Bishop dooj because he happens to be a Card 111 an Archbishop. A person becomes a CardiiJ I op oy being appointed’ to oi lot Sees mentioned above ip of Rome, at present six in um We are told in Scripture xi. 10) that God gave Mos^ assistants and bestowed ij special graces to enable thei) in the .government of the Jeij and in lSfid Pope Sixtus V. * the Cardinals should be in seventy, six Cardinrtl BlsKoj dinaL^iittits. and fom Vety vague is the Idea which many have of the Roman institution called the Propaganda. With others the words i stftnds for something definite enough,! but that something is merely a College' where missionary priests are educated. What, then, is the Propaganda ? We shall devote a series of short articles to answering this question, but we cannot < do so without first ansWerihg • another question: What is a Cardinal ? When the Christian religion gained a firm footing in Rome,'the city was divided into parishes, each of which was presided over by a priest. The whole city was also divided into districts, in each of which was an institution wl~ we shall call a hospital, but which' not very like a hospital of our day.uj the poor as well as the infirm b n f • •