1t is the. nanie wea only name
With conscious, halting breath,
That burns the heart with quenchiess flame,
And lingers like undying fame
Beyond the gates of death,
We may drown life's little sorrows,
Change its little joys to songs,
Make its yesterdays to-morrows,
Sell its hates for lust that borrows
Death more deathless than our Wrong;
Still, amid time's jarring noises
Love asserts its native claim,
Aud through all life's Babel voice
Its voice, as the voloe of God is
Silent, and its namaless name.
Hidden as the breath of roses,
Or the spirit of the morn
In which all the world reposes-
Ever rises and compases
Human lives with light unborn.
—__ ———
ANTOINETTE.
Qur party numbered seven or eight,
and, as all of us had had the honor of
having been more or less robbed,
, ruined and broken up by the
Prussians, to amuse ourselves after
dinner, we enumerated our pianos
which had disappeared and our clocks
which had taken unto themselves wings.
“And I, also,” said our friend, Paul
Rivet, “have lost pianos and clocks, but
1 can buy more clocks, while my camel-
lins, my poor camellias! Twenty years
of toil, patiezce, care and adoration—
all that lost, destroyed, annihilated!
And do you know what 1 found in the
middle of my greenhouse, in the place
of that delicious little marble figure
which I brought from Naples? Do you
know what 1 found? Oil do not fry
to guess—you will never succeed!
“My wife, after Sedan, had shown a
great deal of character, ‘My love,’
said she to me, ‘we must stay here; we
must defend our house.” added: ‘And
our camellias!’
“On the 17th of September, at 8
o'clock in the morning, one of my farm-
ers arrived, out of breath and wild with
fear. ‘The Uhlans, Monsieur,’ he cried;
‘they are at Corbeil and will be bere in
an hour!’ My wife was seized with
terror. Bhe cried: ‘Let us go away, my
dear! 1 don’t want to see those Uhlans!
let us go away at once, Take me,
take me, no matter whete!’ The horses
weze immediately harnessed to the
caleche and we departed. -
“We left at the chatean seven or
eight servants, one of whom, a little
femme de chambre, Antoinette, a
Parisienne, very pretiy,very intelligent,
very shrewd and very bold, said to me
as we started: “Have no fear, Monsieur,
I will receive the Prussians, I know
how to talk to them, and they shall not
carry off even a match.’
“I'he next day we reached Trouville;
my wife fell seriously ill, and for a
couple of weeks I was very uneasy,
“J constantly received leitere from
Antoinette, ‘Monsieur need not be dis-
turbed,” she wrote. ‘Everything is
going on Jpundidly here, We have
had the g luck to fall into the hands
of an excellent Prussian colonel and
exceedingly amiable officers, Through
the kindness of these gentlemen I am
able to rend my letters to Monsieur,’
“And the gardener wrote to me:
‘Monsieur ought to be very grateful to
Antoinette, By a happy idea she saved
everything. 1 dare not say more fo
Monsieur, because the Prussians might
read my letter; buf, nevertheless, the
Prussians, thanks to Antoinette, do not
treat us badly.’
“About the 20th of October, my wile
being eompletely restored to health, 1
packed my carpet bag and started off,
I wanted to see my camellias, ana above
all, I wanted to know what was Antoi
nette’s happy idea which had saved
everything. I will spare you the details
of my journey. It was original, how-
ever, it took me a week to go from
Trouville to Corbeil; 1 was arrested
three times us a Prussian spy by the
French; and four times as a French spy
by the Prussians, At last 1 reached
my home, greatly agitated, I saw my
broad avenue of chestnut trees and at
the end of the avenue my iron gate, I
crossed my courtyard, which was full
of horses, army wagons, cannon, Prus.
sian dragoons and artitlerists, I mouni-
ed my front ste 1 was at home—in
my vestibule, © furniture, the pic-
tures, the hangings, all were in their
places. Delighted, perplexed, I stood
motionless like a donkey, my carpet.
bag in my hand, in the midst of five or
six Prussian dragoons, who were curi-
ously sxasising me, One of theso
dragoons, = officer—he had gold
lace on thie collar of his tonie—came up
to me and said:
* “What do you want? What are you
d
here?’
a was I doing in my own bouse?
I veplied that I desired to speak with
the colonel.
+ ‘He is busy. He is at breakfast,
Who are you?
“ ‘Mon Dieu! I am the proprietor of
this mansion,’
‘: ‘Ahl the proprietor—you sare the
proprietor, Wait a bit, 1 will notify
the colonel.’
“a few seconds afterward a door—
one of my doors—opened and I saw
advancing toward me - ll Prussian,
booted, s wi ng, grayish
side YS red, with both hands
extended, exclaimed in excellent
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answering me, the eoclonel grasped me
DY arm, and, pushing me before
bim, made me cross my salon, then,
0] the door of my dining room,
he oried: :
¢ ‘Madame la baronne, here 1s your
uncle; here is Monsieur Rivet!’
“And then I saw. seated at my table,
eight or ten Prussian officers, and in the
midst of these officers Antoinette—An-
toinette, who had on one of my wife's
velvet dresses, My wife's diamond
earrings were in her ears, all my wife's
rings on her fingers, My wife's neok-
lace of black pearls was about her neck,
and all my wite’s bracelets were clas
around her wrists. Rubies sparkled in
her hair, and sapphires shove upon her
corsage, Antoinette was no longer An-
toinette—she was the show window of a
jewelry store.
“Antoinette, on seeing me enter,
arose quickly, turned very red, and let
this ory esca her: ‘Monsieur; it is
Monsieur!” Then, quitting tbe table
immediately, ran to me, threw herself
violently upon my neck, and began to
kiss me furiously, exclaiming: ‘Ah! how
happy I am to see you! Then she re-
pewed her kisses, whispering in my
ear: ‘Kiss me, kiss me very tenderly!’
Of course 1 complied with ber request,
and she showered another flood of
kisses upon me, the while continuing
to whisper to me: ‘ Seem more affec-
tionate than that! I am your niece; speak
to me lovingly—sah! that's better—it is
to save Madame’s dinmonds,” We went
on Kissing before all the Prussians. The
operation, however, was not in the least
disagreeable, Antoinette being a charm-
ing little person. All the officers stared
at me, and had the air of saying to
themselves;
“t ‘How delightful it is to be able to
kiss that pretty girl as much as you
want to!’
“And, paturally this excites me!
“*But after two or three minutes con-
gecrated to this kissing business,
mingled with reyelations and explana-
tions, Antoinette took me by the hand,
led me around the table, and obliged
me to seat myself behind her; then,
with much graces and self-possession,
she presented me in turn to all my
Prussian guests,
‘+ ‘Monsieur the Colonel Bo-and-So,of
the Second Dragoons; Monsieur the
So-and-So, of the Third Hussars,’ ete,
As for me, I was hike one intoxicated,
and I assure you that I must be par
doned for having remained thus seated
for an hour at the table, amid all those
dragoons and all those hussars, I no
longer knew where 1 was, or what was
taking place around me; but, neverthe-
less, I have preserved a very clear recol-
tion which ensued, and in which,
despite myself, I was compelled to par-
ticipate,
“ ‘Well, Monsieur Rivet,” said the
colonel, ‘I hope you will bring back
Madame Rivet immediately, We lead
a charming life here, a3 your niece will
tell you. We are pot at all the savages
your beastly journals call us,’
“And then the colonel gave vent to a
burst of the same heavy laughter which
a littie while before had shaken my
nerves; instantly all the officers in con-
cert, as if obeying a command, aband-
oned themselves to violent hilarity.
There is a lively and light gayety, which
is French gayety, and there is another
gayety, Inmbering and brutal, which is
Prussian gayety.
** No, we are not savages,’ continued
the colonel, ‘and you cannot condemn
Madame Rivet to pass the whole winter
in a heyel at the seaside—for we shall
remain here the whole winter, Not on
acecunt of the siege of Paris—ob, nol
Paris will be taken in five or six days—
the 1st of November at the latest, But
there will be, perhaps, certain diffieul-
emperor,’
* "The re-establishment of the em-
peror?’
*¢ ‘Certainly; you canreadily see that,
for your own good, we shall be obliged
to disembarrass you of your absurd re-
public, Besides, the emporcr «has re
ceived a good lesson; he has become
reasonable; he will no longer disturb
the peaco of Europe; while, with your
republic, no one could be sure of any.
thing. Yes, we will restore you your
emperor, despite all the brawling of
your beastly journals,’
“At the conclusion of this speech
came another Lurst of laughter from
the colonel, followed by another general
explosion, Jt must be admitted that
admirable discipline reigned in the
German army, All these men leughed
in a military fashion, in the Prussian
way as if on dril’!, As loug as the colo-
nel shook his sides, so long the officers
with remarkable unanimity, twisted
with merriment; but all the bursts of
laughter stopped short with the lust
burst of laughter from the colonel, as
stops the roll of the drums when the
drum-major lowers his staff. There
were eight or ten of these rough fits of
hter while the colonel, speakin
with German enthusiasm, recongtruo
the map of Europe, took provinces
from Austris, invaded Eogland, etc;
but the hilarity grew absolutely furious
when he began a wenes of jokes about
the Bavarians, evidently tual with
fortuate,’ said he to
me, ‘in having to deal with Prussians
real Prussiang—tor we are real Pros.
have shot him, tor we are a eiyilized
people, but I should not have hesitated
to ordet him tied to a trae for twenty-
four hours, without anything to eat or
drink. "That, however has not been
necessary, Your camellias are in per-
fect health, Come and see them,’
“We went out, all throe—the colonel,
Antoinette and myself. The Prussian
did me the honors of my park. I was
choking with rage. Ten times I was on
the point of bursting out, but Antol-
neite had put Ler arm in mice, and she
made me such droll little supplicating
grimaces, and was, besides, so pretty
beneath the trees, in the noon sunlight,
with her assortment of diamonds snd
jewels, that I restrained mysell and
bridled my tongue,
“We entered the greenhouse, It was
balmy, gay and blooming, My camel-
lias had been petted, pampered and
much made of, They were wrapped up
in cotton,
‘Well,’ said the colonel to me, tri-
umphantly, ‘you see that we are not
vandals! Now, sa revoir; I will leave
you to talk over your family matters,
Of coarse you will dine with us,’
“He invited moe to dine at my own
bouse! 1 oould not find a single word
with which to reply to him, He took
his departure; that was all I desired. I
was left alone with Antoinette, and she,
without waiting for my questions,
cried ont, as soon as the colonel had
gone:
“ «Oh, Monsieur, did you notice how
he looked at meas he went away? It is
horrible, Monsieur, it is horrible! That
Prussian is in love with ae! You must
rot scold me, Monsieur, You must
pity and thank me. I devoted myself
to save your house, and that's the whole
of it. When the colonel arrived, on
the 16th, he flew into a horrible rage
on learning that the proprietors had de-
parted, ‘Ah! they take us for bar-
arians! Well, I'll see what I can do
with this barracks! I will stable my
horses in the salon!” Then, Mousieur,
as 1 had crouched away in a corner and
as the colonel had not seen me, I shot
up the stairs four stops at a time, slip-
ped on one of Madame's dresses, hast.
ened down again and said I was Mon-
sisur's niece, Madame la Baronne de
Barneville, a high-sounding name which
I thonght wouid have due effect. You
must acknowledge that I have not been
backward, as for more than a month I
haye led the colonel by the tip of the
nose, and that, too, without it costing
me anything, I assure you, I was {eo
good a Frenchwoman to allow myself to
be touched with the end of a finger of
such a creature, Besides there are a
thousand dragoons and huossars here
whom I rule like a despot. I have
saved your silverware, your horses, your
carriages and your camellias, As to
Madame's diamonds, f I wear them at
all, it is not for the pleasure of looking
like a jewel-cage, but because they are
safer on my person thao io the drawers,
I know no. what the Bavarians amount
t 3», but the real Praossians do not amount
{to much, I can tell youn! And now,
Monsieur, if you wish to do me a fa
vor, you will leave this pince tmmedi-
ately, for, iu such a little game us I am
| playing, men are absolutely good for
nothing. During breakfast I was
{ obliged to tread on your toes two or
| three times to prevent you from burst.
| ing out, and a femme de chambre ought
pot to tread on ber master’s toes uader
the table! 1 will get you a good Pras-
sian pass, and you can fake with you
all Madame's diamonds. I will put
them in a little box, and Pierre will
drive you away in the break. As for
me, I will remain on gused After all,
it amuses me greatly fo decelve these
Prussians aod make them believe I am
a wemau of ‘rank.’
“Antoinette spoke her little specoh
with 80 much energy aud conviction
that 1 could not help admiring her,
“You are s brave girl, Antoineta,’
I said; ‘a brave girl and a girl of
spirit. I want you to give me some-
thing, and then I will depart, as yon
desire.’
“ “What is it, Mousieur?'
“ ‘Permission to kiss you,’
“ ‘As niece, or as femme de cham-
bre?’
‘As femme de chambre,
nage,
wks Vel "
head,’ Be
“I gave her a rousing smack, and
then said:
“ ‘Now, get ready the little box, An-
toinette, but do not piace that bracelet
in it, Have the kindness to keep that
for yourself,”
‘With ploasure, Monsieur, Wait
for me bere; I will be back in fifteen
minutes; but do not commit any im-
prudence; do not quarrel with the Prus-
siause,
“She ran lightly away. No sooner
was she ought of sight than 1 recollect
ed that my daughter bad requested me
to bring her two photographs which
were upon the mantiepiece on little
easels, I returned to the chatean, |
mounted the stairway, and near the door
stopped in great surprise, Some one
was playiing the piano in wy daughter's
chamber, knocked very modestly.
‘Come.’ 1wentin, Oae of theofficers
of dragoons, a tall, blonde Juang wan,
with Insses in his eyes, was playing
one of Chopin's waltzes upon my daugh-
ter's piano!
“ ‘Ah, itis you,” sa'd Le, ‘Monsieur,
0 yoursell at home,
at home, I beg of youl’
look for something in
Antoi-
go ahead, Mousiour,
-.
’
The officer arose. He was very pale,
He approached me. The question was
now who should receive the first blow,
and I am quite sure I would not have
been the person, At this critical
moment Antoinette rushed into the
chamber,
* ‘Well, what isthe matter?” demand-
od she,
“ “This gentiernan has taken the
liberty of removing from these frames
Jwo photographs which I came to look
or.’
“So you did that, did you, Mon-
sieur?’ said she, a’aressing the Prus-
sian, ‘And, pray, where are those pho-
graphs?’
‘‘ “In tho drawer,’ he replied,
** t(live them to me.’
‘*‘ ‘Here they are,’
‘‘And the Prussian officer submissivel
brought the two photographs to Antol.
nette, who handed them to me, saying
as she did so:
* 3 those the portraits you want?’
i» 08,’
‘* ‘Come away, then,’
“She led me out of the room, The
Prussian had cooled down immediately
on Antoinette’s appearance, 1 was
utterly amazed. Antoinette had played
the whole of this little scene with the
coolness and self-possession of a great
actress,
“ ‘You seem astonished?’ said she
to me, as we were going down the
stairs, ~
“* ‘1 am astonished!’
‘* “There is, however, no reason to be,
Ah! the colonel is not the only one in
love with me here!’
“I returned to Trouville. A whole
month passed and not a single letter
came from Antoinette, I began to be
very uneasy, and, despite all the difli
culties of the undertaking, I was pre-
paring to risk another journey, when
one morning—it was toward the close
the door of
me;
‘* "Antoinette, my love; Antoinette is
here, but what a state the poor child is
ful’
“I saw her enter, a pale, thin and
haggard girl, who seemed to have been
devoured by fever, to haye been worn
out by fatigue and sickness,
“¢ It is I, Monsieur,’ said Antoinette,
‘and I bring you bad pews, You re-
member all the colonel’s jokes about the
Bavarians, do you not? Well, to be
just, the Prussian was not a bad man,
and ho was not wrong in regard to the
Bavarians, There were movements of
the troops, They took our Prussians
from us, they sent us a detachment of
Bavarian infantry, which had suffered
greatly in the vicinity of the Loire and
which came to us for a little recupera-
tion, Pillage commenced at once, It
must be admitted that it was very well
organized for that matter, There was
a strong oolumn of camp followers in
the train of this Bavarian regiment;
they threw themselves upon the chatean
like a flock of crows, and began to
make a kind of inventory. went
resolutely to find the msjor—it was a
major who commanded this dotachment
a fat little red-faced man, who spoke
a frightful jargon, half French, half
German, He commenced to utter
something like cries of joy as soon as
he put eyes cu me, and without giving
me a chance to speak a word, cried out:
“Ah! ah! here is that paronse who is a
servant, that servant is paronne! The
Prussians are not pad, but the Parvari-
ans are the devil,
Parvarians as you caught the Prussians,
I have spies, I have good spies! Au
refoir, servant, au refoir!” Hoe said I
know not what in German to an officer;
two soldiers roughly seized me, and I
was taken on foot, Monsieur, on foot to
Rbeims, being passed by Prussiun gend-
armes to other Prussian gendarmes, At
Rheims I was thrown into prison, 1
remained there for a week, upon the
straw, subsisting on bread aud water,
At the end of the week I was taken be-
fore an officer of the Saxon cavalry, a
tail, blonde young man, who had not a
too wicked air, ‘I am about to set you
at liberty,’ said ne, “but do not attempt
to return home, There is at the chatenu
a stupid report made by a Bavarian
major. Those Bavarians are Lrules!
All this would not have happeued to
you if you had to deal with Baxons!’
I was free, and I have succeeded in
dragging myself here. Bal, Monsieur,
your poor chateau is in bad hauds, 1
fear you will not find much there when
you return,’
“1 found nothing at all there when I
returned, on the 10th of February, dur-
ing the armistice! No, 1 was wrong in
saying I found nothing stall, In my
greenhouse—in my poor greenhouse, on
the spot formerly oceupied by my de-
licious little marble figure from Naples
snd my adored camellias, were five Ba-
varian tombs, ornamented with poetic
inscriptions like the following:
at 8 re
The Philippine islands,
The islands were discovered in 1521
by Magellan, who was killed by the
natives, He was succeeded by Del
Cano, who led back to Spain only eigh-
teen men out of more than 300 who left
with Magellan. Del Cano was thus the
first commander who circumnavigated
the globe,
Manila is “a tropical compound of
Naples and Venice, modified by Chinese
gh Lite in Havana,
Cuba is the Lotus land fo strangers
and pilgrims, and even to the natives
of the charmed isle, Here, unless you
pineh yoursel! now and then and shake
yourrelf with a shaggy no:thern shuke,
the sleepy air creeps over you, lulls the
senses and energies, and steals the life
out of you, By night they wake, by
day they sleep; and how the people
manage to conduct active business is a
marvel, As for anything in the shape
of an insurrection it would take an
army to load and fire a cannon, the
inertia that seems indigenous to the
climate comes so strongly upon one,
The hotel-keopers here are looking
anxiously for tne arrival of the annusl
American contingent, Od Americans,
they tell me they rely chiefly for the busi-
ness of the season—the season being what
to Americans are the three fierce winter
months from Christmas on. To 8
of winter here 18 absurb, where a
years are an eternal summer,
And yet with all our languor and en-
forced ease we contrive to enjoy lively
times occasionally, The other night,
says a correspondent, I was at a re
ception at the Marquis de San Carlos’,
one of the houses where the ‘‘great
world” of Havana meets, The marquis
and marchioness of Ban Carlos are by
no means strangers in the United
States, and have left but pleasant
memories bebind them, Tbe marquis
is senator from the province of Matan-
zas to the Spanish cortes, He was
chamberlain to Queen Isabella, as was
his father before him, His wife is still
n beauty, and, 1t need not be told in
the
is only natural, as the pure Irish and
Spanish strains meet in her, There is
coming down for generations, One of
the principal business streets here is
the Calle O'Reilly, and you find such
names as O'Rryan and O'Donnell on
this street or pieza. Bo that it was
pot at all extraordinazy for the marquis
of San Carlos in looking out for a hand-
some sud accomplished wife to hisupon
& Miss Madden, that rarest of beauties
here—a pure blond. . At the reception
there was another Madden, who was
anything but a blonde, He was Col
| Madden, the chief of police in Havana, a
tall, stalwart, dark-complexioned, dark-
eyed man, [I insisted that he was an
Irishwan, He smilingly answered that
be ought to have been, but that it was
his misfortune to have been: born a
Spaniard. He does not speak a word
of English, The chief of police is a
very important functionary here, and
has his hapas full of business, His
office is no sinecure,
large cities, is not wholly a city of
pleasure and of pleasant people,
Just now we are at a reception, and
a notable reception it was in numbers,
in men of place and power, in men of
wealth and position, in literary and pro-
and lassies of Havana. There was
Admiral Motcjo, the commander of the
station, or of the fleet here, a quiet,
keev-eyed, gray-bearded man of middie
age, With him were his aids, in gay
trappings. Count Ibanez, the senator
from Havana, was there with his hand-
some wife, And bere, gray and intel-
| lectual-looking, was Farnaris, the Caban
| poet and naturalist, whose name is a
bousebold word in Cuba; there Ferras,
the professor of Arabic in the Universi-
| tv of Havana, We had quite an sm-
| mated chat. Whole centuries of the
east flowed through the ample beard ot
the professor. FProl, Yerras was ac-
qaainted with more languages than I
was aware existed, He knew English,
and bad traveled in the Unpifed States,
He was deeply interested in our edu-
cational system.
It was a brilliant gathering, as brii-
liaut as one might meet in Havana, and
one that wonld pe brilliant anywhere,
There is a sudden break 1n a well-bred
hush, A yeung man of about 26,
modest and retiring in manner and de-
meanor moved up to the head of the
salon where the piano stood. He held a
violin; he grasped it as a soldier grasps
his blade in battle, It was his truest
friend. He began to stroke it and oar-
ess it, aud in a moment the brilliant
assembiage to him was lost, and after
a few notes the assemblage was lost to
itself, He played and played, and the
genus of music made itself felt there,
sileucing all the conversation. He was
as young Biscayan, just arrived i=
Havana, snd this was his social debut,
His name is Thargurred, and you will
soon have an opportumty of hearing
him in New York. He is a pupil of
the best teachers in Madrid and Paris,
Toe young man's playing charmed the
cultivated company at several inter.
vals during the evening. Doubtless he
has still certain things to learn in his
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manhood,
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masterpiece,
If woman lost. us kden, suchas s2
alone restores it,
Envy is a sickness growing from other
men’s happiness,
The deeper you hide anything the
sooner you find it,
Never take a crooked path while you
see a straight one,
No thoroughly occupied man was
ever yet miserable.
There is a woman at the beginning
of all great things.
A room hung with pictures is a room
hung with thoughts.
Old age is a hospital which receives
all kinds of sickness,
He who will not open his eyes must
open his pogket book.
How often is ignorance as irritating
as superior knowledge,
Diseasé comes in by hundred-weights
and goes out by ounces,
Infancy is a preface which is always
worth more than the book.
If thon desirest to be born with, thou
must bear also with others,
Fear not the threats of the great, but
rather the tears of the poor,
make woman its
5 own side of
¥
He who knows only hi
s of that
1 i
the case, knows little
People who sanction the sins of their
rulers share their punisi
Too great refinement is {2
and {rue delicacy is s0i
He who waits to do
good at once will
a great deal of
never do anything.
Sorrow is as often the result of bodily
punishment as it is of true repentance.
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but
honesty is firm and upright and yields
not.
The man who th
candle, he consumes
light.
The more we do
the more busy we
we have.
Always keep good «
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yourself,
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{ children resources that will endure a
long as life endures,
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A firm faith is the best divinity; a
gooqa life the best philosophy; a clem
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The great friend of truth is time; hex
greatest enemy 18 prejudice, and hu-
mility her constant companion,
There is no trait more valaable than
a determination to persevere when the
right thing is to be accomplished.
Seek through proper and honesteffort
to gain a good reputation, a possession
every man could strive to secure.
Silence never shows itself to so great
an advantage as when it is made the
reply to calumny and defamation.
The best of us are hampered in every
effort at improvement, not alone by our
faults, but by those of our neighbors,
The true way to advance another's
virtue 1s to follow il; and the best way
to cry down another’s vice is to decline
it.
For a man to think that he is going
to do the work of a lifetime without
obstacles, is to dream in the lap of
folly.
Do not philosophize over the ¢mtra-
dictions which beset you: do not dwell
upon them, but strive to see God in all
things.
Happy is he who appropriates the
acquisitions of others, whether their
virtues for example, or their follies for
avoidance.
There are houses where people are
bright without mistrusting it; there
are others where people are stupid in
spite of themselves,
The next thing to excellence is to
love excellence; and to love its opposite
is to be its opposite. To hate excel-
lence is to be at its opposite pole.
Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible,
A man might as weil bave a smoky
house and a scolding wife, which are
said to be the two worst evils of his
life.
If all men were to bring their mis-
fortuucs together in one place most
would be giad to take their own home
again, mm than take a portion out
the common stock.
There are many trials in life which
do not seem to come from unwisdom or
folly. They are silver arrows shot from
the bow of God and fixed inextricably
in the quivering heart.
The bright side of life is that which
catches the reflected light of heaven,
and echoes back its thus
the trou-
a sweet antidote to
and influences of earth.
What yeu attempt to do, do with al