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In civilized countries to-day govern
the mails and bear stamps showing t li
to them. On each of these stamps app
"where it is issued, the number of the d
the initial of the French word "Iteconi u
the document is franked, or, in other \\
•charges. The stamps are issued in the
Finland, Japan. Roumanla, Mexico, Sp
Sweden, Ecuador, Germany, Austria, I
Holland, Hungary, Persia, Great Brit a
Rica, France and Uruguay. As graph
of every human being Is revealed in h
it hat national character is In each case i
daily In the manner in which the cap it
of this letter is not the same on all the!■
some it is strictly regular, while on ot li
graceful curve of its tail shows.—New 1
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In a pamphlet by Alfred F. Sims,
prepared for and circulated by the
General Electric Company, there is
given some interesting data about the
history of a thunderstorm, from which
the folowing is taken:
The attendant phenomena of a thun
derstorm vary considerably, but are
usually as follows: First, cirrus haze
appears in the morning. Then dark
clouds are seen lying low in the west
ern sky, usually in the afternoon; the
aiir is warm and sultry. Later on the
vie .is mount to near the zenith, and
the air near the ground "a solemn
stillness holds." The cloud on the
front of the thunderstorm are grayish
white or reddish and hang over and in
tf'ront of the main rain cloud. Above
these dense dark gray and violet cu
mulo-stratus clouds are seen, also the
towering cumulus clouds which are
separated from the i umulo-stratus.
Often these are interspersed with one
or more thick cumulo-stratus cloud
layers and above all is the widely dis- .
tributed cirro-stratus.
The herald of the storm is heard He
fore the cloud reaches the zenith, and
the first rain commences after it. The
interval between the first thunder and
the beginning of the rain varies from
n few minutes to half an hour or more.
About five minutes before the rain be
gins there comes from the west or
northwest a brisk wind which sud
denly increases in violence and be
comes a squall.
The time of heaviest rainfall varies;
sometimes it occurs at the beginning
iind sometimes in tiie latter part of the
time the rain cloud draws over it local
ity. The lightning strokes and loudest
thunder occur some minutes after the
rain begins. Gradually the western
horizon loses its dark aspect, lightens
tip a little, and finally opening clouds
appear. The storm clouds pass by
overhead and the rain ceases shortly
before their western ?dge reaches the
zenith. The last thunder Is usually
heard after the rear edge of the cloud
has passed to the zenith. The usual
direction of translation of thunder
storms in this latitude is easterly,
and they revolve around a horizontal
six is, whereas tornadoes revolve
nround a vertical axis.
Before the thunderstorm the meteo
rological conditions undergo the fol
lowing changes: The air pressure and
the relative humidity decrease, and
itlie temperature rises: the wind is
li'dit. At the moment of bursting of
1 tie storm the air pressure and relative
liuniidlty increase very rapidly and the
temperature falls: the wind suddenly
subsides almost Immediately after
ward, while at times it increases un
til near the close of the thunderstorm.
Toward the end of the thunderstorm
♦lie air pressure and the relative hu
midity reach their maximum and the
temperature its minimum.
The Forth I'ridce is contanlly being
repainted. So vast is the structure
that it takes fifty tons of paint to Rive
It one coat, and the area dealt with is
to.'ai;thing like 1-0 acres.
ii iii out documents arc sent fi-ee through
liiit such a privilege lias been accorded
pears the name of Ihe country or city
document and the letter It, which is
uiiindee," and which indicates that
words, is exempt from the usual postal
:> following countries: Russia. Italy,
pain, Portugal, Belgium. ({recce, Chile,
1 11 ited States of America, Colombia,
nin. Switzerland, Montenegro, Costa
hologists maintain that the character
his or her handwriting, so it is claimed
revealed in these stamps, and cspo
Ital R is formed. That tin- formation
stamps can lie seen at a glance. On
hers it is more or less artistic, as the
York Herald.
For Western I'armerx.
The up-to-date farmer with a large
acreage linus it slow work to plow
his tields with the old 11uprlt? plows
of the past, and so lie utilizes the
electric current and multiplies the
number of plow shares to suit him
self. In the West this is practically
a necessity, on account of the large
size of the tields and the cost of labor
and teams. Our illustration shows a
convenient form of motor plow which
lias been designed by Conrad Meiss
ner, of Fricdriclisburg, Germany. It
consists of two electric motors oper
ating winding drums on separate car
riages, which may be placed at any
required distance apart, only one mo
tor being connected with the main
feed wire. To supply power to the
second motor a feed cable lying paral
lel with the traction cable is readjust
ed at every trip of the plow to follow
the latter down the field. The meeh
ELECTRICALLY-OPEISATED PLOW.
anism is so adjusted that when once
set in motion the apparatus practically
operates itself, moving the carriages
forward at the beginning of each trip
to bring the plow-shares In position
for the next row of furrows. The
plows are attached to a two-wheeled
truck, which is pulled back and forth
across the field, moving forward at
the cud of each set of furrows as long
as the power is turned on.
KiiKliinil's .Scottish fJardeuem.
To a Scotsman a Scotsman succeeds
as head gardener to the king at San
uringham. Mr. Archibald McKellar.
who has held the position for many
years, has been promoted to Windsor
Castle, and his place at His Majesty's
Norfolk establishment has been tilled
by a fellow countryman, Mr. T. II
Cooke. Mr. McKellar belongs to Llch
gllphead, in Argyllshire, and before
coming to Sandrlnghaiu he had charge
of tlie beautiful gardens of Floors
Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rox
burgh. The gardens at Sandriughan
are not very extensive, but they are
charmingly laid out. The garden a I
Windsor is historically more interest-
in£. for it was there in ii "gardyt
faire" that .lames I.of Scotland,"aT
though a prisoner, wooed and won his
liride. Lady Jane Beaufort.—Londot
Chronicle.
The unsuccessful man realizes tha:
there is plenty of room at the bottoiu
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The division of soils of the United
States Department of Agriculture has
just described a new instrument now
in use for investigating the properties
of soils. Tliis is a great time and
labor saving apparatus, giving accur
ate and reliable results, which other
wise-would require n» .nths to obtain.
The physical properties of soils are
recognized by plant physiologists to
lie of the greatest importance in plant
economy. Even in the consideration
of climatic conditions it is now gen
erally considered that for most plants
the conditions of the soil hold equal
rank with atmospheric conditions. A
high temperature in the soil under fa
vorable conditions promotes extensive
root development: a high atmospheric
temperature under equally favorable
conditions favors a heavy growth of
foliage. A deficiency in water of
either air or soil is attended with dis
tress.
The new apparatus as devised by the
division of soil is an electric affair.
It registers a half dozen or more va
rious soil properties. This method de
pends upon the principle that the re
sistance offered to the passage of an
electric current from one carbon plate
to another buried in the soil depends
upon the amount of moisture present
between the carbon plates or elec
trodes. This resistance is measured.
The illustration shows the instru
ment as used in the field, with the car
bon electrodes and temperature cells
in place. The carbon electrodes and
temperature cells may be buried in
the soil at the beginning of tlie season
and remain undisturbed throughout
the year. The moisture record ob
tained consequently deals with the
variation In moisture contents in the
: ime portion of soil. This Is one of
the advantages of the method, since it
has been shown that the moisture con
tents of a seemingly uniform soil may
vary as much as four per cent, within
an area of one square rod. Conse
quently, in order to obtain a consist
ent record of the change in water it
I Is necessary to deal with the same
sample of soil, which can only be
| done by this electrical method.
The scale of the instrument is ar
ranged on a decimal plan, so that the
various soil properties can be deter
mined directly from the scale of the
instrument.
It was observed by Professor W
that soil areas of the Connecticut Val
ley were practically identical as re
gards texture and water content with
certain areas in Florida upon which
the finest of cigar wrappers are being
raised from Sumatra seed. Experi
ments were accordingly made on one
of the Connecticut areas, using the
same seed and methods of cultivation
and curing employed in Florida, with
the most satisfactory results.
Should the more extensive experi
ments now in progress support the
earlier work, as there is every reason
to expect, the result will be to incrense
greatly the area adapted to the growth
of the finest quality of cigar wrap
pers known, and there will be raised
in this country tobacco now imported
to the amount of $(>,000,000 apnuallv.
—New York Herald.
The Gate-I.eR Table.
The gate-leg table Is an old-fash
ioni d institution just returning to
favor, it has manifold uses. It does
I
service at a tea or a card party and
is convenient to hold a bottle or glass
of lemonade, besides a reading chair.
When not In use it folds up out of the
way and takes a place against the
wall.
The interest on the national debt for
last year cost each person forty-four
cents.
A white disc a foot across can be
seen with the naked eye at a distance
o! 17,250 feet.
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I THE ROUND TABLE |
OF KIM ARTHUR. |
The famous Hound Table of King
Arthur is still preserved in the great
hall that was attached to the ancient
castle built by William the Conqueror
at Winchester in r_':r>, and it is one of
the most interesting relics in all Eng
land. The castle of Winchester was
destroyed by lire several years ago,
lint the lmll in which Parliament sat
for 400 years is still preserved in its
original condition, and a secret
"trough," as they call it, which was
bored through the wall and enabled
the king to hear what was going on
in Parliament as he sat in his cham
ber, is still pointed out to visitors. |
The castle was the residence of all the
early Norman kings. Richard Coeur
de Lion was received there by his no
bles when lie returned from captivity.
A.l thu Edwards resided there, there
Henry VIII. entertained the great em
peror, Charles V.of Spain; there Queen
Mary entertained Philip 11. of Spain
until they were married in the an
cient cathedral near by. and there Sir
Walter Italeigh was tried and con
demned to death after his return from
his fruitless explorations in South j
America.
Winchester is one of the most an- ;
cient cities of England, and was set I
tied in the year 000 B. C. Julius
Caesar lived there while he was in
England, and the Roman emperor Yes
paslan made it his capital. Five bun ;
dred years after the birth of Christ
the city was captured by Cerdic, wlic
made it tin; capital of the Saxon dyn
asty, and in 527, in tlic cathedral, Eg
bert was crowned as the first king ol
all England.
The round table Is in an excellent
state of preservation and Is fastened
against the wall at one end of the
great room where John Harding, the
chronicler, who lived from lU7S to
TOP OF KINO ARTHUR'S ROUND TABLE,
14(55, described It. Henry VIII. re
paired it, and placed an iron baud
around the outside like the tire of a
wheel, to keep it together. It.was a
great curiosity In Ills day, when ii
must have been at least 000 years old.
The under part of the table is a net
work of braces; the upper part is laid
off into twenty-four sections, each
bearing the name of the knight who
cccupled It, and you can see the nanuv
of Galahad, Launcelot and others men
-1 t ioned in Tennyson's poem. The chron
iclers say that the table lias been
hanging In its present place since the
year l£8:?, but lias been taken down on
several occasions. The last time was
when the castle burned. The citizens
of Winchester were determined to
save it, and a hundred men were en
gaged In removing it from the wall,
but when they got It to the lloor they
found that It was too large to be taken
out through the doors and the fire was
extinguished before they could take it
to pieces.
A Juvenile Bunko Man.
Tommy had been quiet for fully five
minutes. He seemed to be engaged
with some deep problem.
"Papa." he said.
"Well?"
"'Do unto others as you would have
others do unto you'—that's the goldeD
rule, isn't It. papa?"
"Yes, my sou."
"And It's puttickly right to follow tli«
golden rule. Isn't it, papa?"
"Yes, Indeed."
Tommy rose, went to the cupboard
and returned with a knife and a large
apple pie. The latter he placed before
his astonished sire with great solem
nity.
"Eat it, papa," he said.—San Fran
cisco Bulletin.
DE. TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAY' 3 DISCOl ,r " E EY THE NOTED
aulijcrt: Tim Sin of FSorrowinsr Trouble— A
Bad Habit That Unfits Many to Proper
ly I>lßclnircro Iho IMItIPH of Life—(iod
Will nioct Our Indigencies us riiey Arise
ICopyrlirht 1901.1
WASHINGTON, 1). C. —In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows the folly of allowing
forebodings to influence us and how ex
pectation of evii weakens and destroys;
text. Matthew vi, 31. "Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof."
The life of every man. woman and child
is as closely under the divine care as
though such person were the only man,
woman or child. There are no accidents.
As there is a law of storms in the natural
world, so there : , a law of trouble, a law
of disaster, a law of misfortune, but. the
majority of the troubles of life are imag
inary, and the most of those anticipated
| never come. At any rate, there is no
cause of complaint against God. See how
much He has dor.e to make you happy—
His sunshine filling the earth with g'ory,
making rainbow for the storm and halo
for the mountain, greenness for the moss,
saffron for the cloud and crystal for the
billow and procession of bannered flame
through the opening gates of the morning,
chaffinches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas
to chant and springs to blossom and over
powering all other sounds with its song
and over-reaching all other splendor with
its triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands and outflashing all other
thrones with its dominion —deliverance
i for a lost world through the Great Re
deemer.
I discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First, such a habit of mind and heart
is wrong because it puts one into a de
spondency that ill fits him for duty. 1
planted two rose bushes in mv garden.
The one thrived beautifully; the other
perished. I found the dead one on the
shady side of the house. Our dispositions,
like our plants, need sunshine. Expec
tancy of repulse is the cause of many sec
ular and religious failures. Fear of bank
ruptcy has uptorn many a fine business
and sent the man dodging among the note
shavers. Fear of slander and abuse has
often invited the long-beaked vultures of
scorn and backbiting. Many of the mis
fortunes of life, like hyenas, flee if you
courageously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is a man who sits down under the gloom
; of expected misfortune! If he prays, he
j says,"l do not think I shall lie ati
j swered." If he gives, he says,"l expect
| they will steal the money." Helen Chalm
ers told me that her father, Thomas
i Chalmers, in the darkest hour of the
Free Church of Scotland and when the
woes of the land seemed to weigh upon
, his heart, said to his children, "Come, let
| us go out and play ball or fly kite," and
j the only difficulty in the play was that
■ the children could not keep up with their
| father. The McChevnes and the Summer
-1 fields of the church who did the most
good toiled in the sunlight. Away with
the horrors! Thev distil poison. They
dig graves, and if they could climb so high
I they would drown the rejoicings of heaven
j with sobs and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfortune
in the future if you sedulously watch for
it. How shall a man catch the right kind
of fish if he arranges line and hook and
bait to catch lizards and water serpents?
Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats and
; hawks you will find. Hunt for robin red
breasts, and you will find robin red
breasts. One night an eagle and an owl
got into fierce battle. The eagle, unused
to the night, was no match for the owl,
which is most at home in the darkness,
and the king of the air fell helpless, but
the morning rose, and with it rose the
| eagle, and the owls and the nighthawks
| and the bats came a second time to the
i combat. Now. the eagle in Ihe sunlight,
j with a stroke of his talons and a great cry
| cleared the air, and his enemies, with
, torn feathers and splashed with blood,
! tumbled into the thickets. Ye are the
children of light. In the night of despond
! ency you will have no chance against
I your enemies that flock up from beneath,
j but trusting in God and standing in the
! sunshine of the promises vou shall "renew
t your youth like the eagle."
I Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wronjj, because it has a tendency to
make us overlook present blessing. To
slake man's thirst the rock is cleft, and
cool water leap into his brimming cup.
To feed his hunger the fields bow down
with bending wheat, and the cattle come
down from the clover pastures to give
him milk, and the orchards yellow and
ripen, casting their juicy fruits into his
lap. Alas, that amid such exuberance ol
blessing man should growl as though he
i were a soldier on half rations or a sailor
! on short allowance; that a man should
j stand neck deep in harvests looking for
ward to famine; that one should feel the
stronct pulses of health marching with reg
ular tread all the avenues of life and vet
: tremble at the expected assault of sick
ness; that a man should sit in his pleasant
i home, fearful that ruthless want will some
1 day rattle the broken window sash with
tempest and sweep the coals from the
I hearth and pour hunger into the bread
! trav; that a man fed by Him who owns
I all the harvests should expect to ftarve;
that one whom God loves and surrounds
with benediction and attends with angelic
escort and hovers over with more than
motherly fondness should be looking for
a heritage of tears! Has God been hard
, with thee that thou shouldst be forebod
ing? Has He stinted thv board? Has He
j covered thee with rags? Has He spread
traps for thy feet and galled thy cup and
rasped thy soul and wrecked the» with
storm and thundered upon tlice with a
life full of calamity?
I If your father or brother come into your
j bank, where gold and silver are lying
! about, you do not watch them, for you
know they are honest, but if an entire
' stranger come by the safe you keen your
{ eye on him, for you do not know his de
! signs. So some men treat God not as a
| father, but a stranger, and act suspi
i ciously toward Him. It is high time you
I began to thank God for present blessing;
thank Him for sour children, happy buoy
ant and bounding; praise Him for your
home, with its fountain of song and
laughter; adore Him for morning light
and evening shadow; praise Him for fresh,
cool water bubbling from the rock, lean
ing in the cascade, soaring in the mist,
falling in the shower, dashing against the
rocks and clapping its hands in the tem
pest; love Him for the grass that cushions
the earth anil the clouds that curtain the
sky and the foliage that waves in the for
est: thank Him for a Bible to read and a
Saviour to deliver.
I Many Christians think it a bad sign to
be jubilant, and their work of self-exam
ination is a hewing down of their brighter
experiences. Like a boy with a new jack
knife hacking everything he comes across,
so their self-examination is a relia'ous
cutting to pieces of the greenest things
they can lay their hands on. They im
agine they arc doing God's service when
thev are going about borrowing trouble,
and borrowing it at thirty per cent.,
which is always a sure precursor of bank
ruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present is sufficiently
taxed with (rial. God sees that we nil
need a certain amount ot trouble, and so
He apportions it for all the days and years
of our life. Alas for the policy of gather
ing it all up for one day or veer! Cruel
thing to put upon the back of one camel
all the cargo intended for the entire cara
van. I never look at my memorandum
book to see what engagements and Jutie*
are far ahead. Let every week bear its
own burdens. The shadows of to-day are
thick enough. Why implore the presence
of other shadows? The cup is already dis
tasteful. Why halloo to disasters far dis
tant to come and wring out more gall in
the bitterness? Are we such champions
that, having won tile belt in former en
counters, we can j ;o forth to challenge all
the future?
Here are bus inc.'a men just able to man
age a flairs as they now are. They can
pay their reat and meet their notes and
manage nfia:rs as they now are, but how
if a panic should come and my investments
should fail? Go to-morrow and write on
your daybook or on your ledger or on your
money safe. ''Suflieient unto the day is the
evil thereof." J)o not worry about notes
that are far from due. Do not pile up on
your counting desk the financial anxieties
of the next twenty years. The God who
has taken care of your worldly occupa
tion, guarding your store from the torch
of the incendiary and the key oft.'is bur
glar, will be as faithful in 1910 as in l!K)l.
God's hand is mightier than them a china
ations of ~tock gamblers or the plots- of
political demagogues or the red right arm
of revolution, and the darkness will tly
and the storm fall dead at His feet.
So there ifrc persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the future.
They mal;e out very well now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies and rheumatisms and neural
gias and fevers. Their eyesight is- feeble,
and they are worried lest they entirely lose
it. Their hearing is indistinct, and they
are alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They felt chilly to-day and are ex
pecting an attack of typhoid. They have
been troubled for weeks with some per
plexing malady and dread becoming life
long invalids. Take- care of your health
now and trust God for the future, lie
not guilty of the blasphemy of asking
Him to take care of you while you sleep
with your windows tight down or eat
chicken salad at 11 o'clock at night or sit
down on a cake of ice to- cool off. Be pru
dent and then be confident. Some of the
f-ickest people have been the most useful,
it was so with Payson, who died deaths
daily, and Robert Hal!, who used to stop
in the midst of his sermon and lie down
011 the pulpit sofa to- rest and then goon
again. Theodore Frelinghuysen had a
great horror of dying till the time came,
and then went peacefully. Take care of
the present and let the future look out for
itself. "Suirieient unto- the day is the evil
thereof."
Again, the habit of borrowing misfor
tune is wrong because it unfits us for it
when it actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. Life's path
will sometimes tumble among declivities
and mount a steep and be thorn pierced.
• ludas will kiss our check and then sell us
for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn
will try to crucify us between two thieves.
We will hear the iron gate of the sepul
cher creak and grind as it shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forebodings. They who
tight imaginary woes will come out of
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters of the future. Their ammunition
will have been wasted long before they
come under the guns of real misfortune.
Boys in attempting to jump a wall some
times go so far back in order to get impe
tus tiiat when the}" come up they are ex
hausted, and these long races in order to
get spring enough to vault trouble bring
us up at las', to the dreadful reality with
our strength gone.
Finally, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because it is unbelief. Hod has
promised to take care of us. The Bible
blooms with assurances. Your hunger
will lie fed, your sickness will be alle
viated, your sorrows will be healed. God
will sandal your feet and smooth your
path, and along by frowning crag and
opening grave sound the voices of victory
and good cheer. The summer clouds (hat
seem thunder charged really carry in (heir
bosom harvests of wheat and shocks of
corn and vineyards purpling for the wine
press. The wrathful wave will kiss the
feet of the great storm walker. Our great
•Toshua will command and above your soul
the sun of prosperity will stand still.
Bleak and wave struck Palmos shall have
apocal.vpti • vision, and you shall hear the
cry of elders and the sweet) of wings and
trunnels of salvation and the voice of hal
leluiah unto God forever.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bridle paths and amid wolf's howl and
the scream of the vulture, but the way
still winds upward till angels guard it and
trees of life overarch it, and thrones line
it, and crystalline fountains leap on it,
and the pathway ends at gates that are
pearl, and streets that are gold, and tem
ples that are always open, and hills that
quake with perpetual song and a city
mingling forever Sabbath and jubilee and
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
'Tis not the song for nie.
To weeping it will turn ere long.
For this is heaven's decree.
But there's a song the ransomed sins
To .Tesus, their exalted King.
With joyful heart and tongue.
Oil. that's the song for me!
Courage, my brother! the father does
not give to his son at school enough money
to last him several years, but as the bills
for tuition and board and clothing and
books come in pays them. So God will not
give you grace all at once for the future,
but will meet all your exigencies as they
come. Through earnest prayer trust Him.
People ascribe the success of a certain
line of steamers to business skill, and
know not the fact that when that line of
steamers started the wife of the proprie
tor passed the whole of each day when a
steamer sailed in prayer to God for it#
safety and the success of the line. Put
everything in God's hands and leave it
there. Large interest money to pay will
soon eat up a farm, a store, an estate and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. "Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof."
The Mountain Creation.
Mopes was to build the tabernacle after
ie pattern he had received in the mount.
God was the architect, Moses only the
builder. That method saved much discus
sion and trouble with the workers about
the tabernacle. There are some things
the world eaniitft change; God's plan for
a human life is never out of date: the
mountain architecture is perfect, ft w
neither Grecian nor Roman; it does not
follow any human school; it is after the
heavenly design. See that you make your
architecture after the holj pattern, per
fected from foundation to capstone.
Strange to say that while there is wide
difference of opinion as to what is artistie
and beautiful in human workmanship,
men are of one mind when they stand be
fore the mountain-creation. The sermon
on the mount is the pattern of the mount,
the architecture of a right life. When
men cry: "Back to Christ," urging us tn
<'<r.iforni io the principles and rules of the
Master, they are simply repeating to all
men the command that was given to
Moses: "See that tlnyj make all things ae
cor ling to the pattern shewed thee in the
mount.'' What perfect harmony there
wou'd be among the life-buildings in the
world if we followed the heavenly de
signs!— Baptist Union.
Tlie Setting of a Hope.
The setting of a great hope is like the
s'-tting of the sun. The brightness of our
life is gone. Shadows of evening fall
around us and the world seems but a dim
reflection —itself a broader shadow; we
look forward into the coming lonely night.
The soul withdraws into itself. Then
stars arise and the iul.'.i is holv.—ll. W.
Longfellow.