Re firmly than ever. "Don't be a fool!

T as they came along, on the small end of which he had fastene

Eart smote him. Very still, and slender, and lonely she looked out

Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt.

we found Dr. Ruthven. It

Rs. Wiggin's pictures, and Mr. Stiggin's pictures

get enough to eat." "I don't see,"

d shame. "I don't know why I shouldn

"_All, all is lost_!" in smoke and flame. Now bold and strong and stern

Ince, no doubt,--but not many, I fancy,

that have been sweetened by a more devout sense of reliance upon Providence. "Williams was a companionable person, who had a place in the Treasury
Department, and talked freely about the kind of work he had

to do, and the salary. "Eight
hundred a year!" thought Salmon, deeming that man enviable who had constant employment, an assured position, and eight hundred a year. _His_ ambition was to get a
living simply,--to place his foot upon some certainty, however humble, with freedom from this present gnawing anxiety, and
with a prospect of rising, he cared not how slowly, to the place which he felt belonged to him in the future. Little did he dream what that place was, when he questioned Williams so curiously as to what sort of thing the Treasury De partment might be. "If I could be sure of half
that salary,--or even of three, or two hundred, j

heard from their alms-bowls and o

--such, that the former did not take occasion to magnify that virtue in himself, and that the latter, in his positive practice of philanthropy, did not, at times, allow in his presence something savoring of misanthropy. "Say you, is there
any one who is able for one whole day to apply the energy of his mind to this virtue? Well, I have not seen any one whose energy was not equal to it. It may be there are such, but I have never met with them. "The faults of individuals are peculiar to their particular class and surroundings; and it is
by observing
thei r faults that one comes to understand the condition of their good feelings towards their fellows.

"One may hear the right way in the morning, and at evening die. "The scholar who is intent upon learning
the right way, and who is yet ashamed of poor attire and poor food, is not worthy of being discoursed with. "The masterly man's attitude
to the world is not exclusively this or that: whatsoever is right,
to that he will be a party. "The masterly man has an eye to virtue,

the common man, to earthly things; the former has an eye
to penalties for error--the latter, to favor. "Where there is habitual going after gain, there is much ill-will. "When there is ability

in a ruler to govern a country
by adhering to the Rules of Propriety, and by
kindly condescension, what is wanted more? Where the ability to govern thus
is wanting, what has such a ruler to do with the Rules of Propriety? "One should not be greatly concerned at not being in office; but rather about the requirements in one's self for such a standing. Neither should one be so much concerned at being