Part 34 (2/2)

DESTINY

shi+ps that pass at night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness: So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence

--_Longfellow_

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INSCRIPTION FOR A SUN-DIAL

The shadow by er cast Divides the future from the past: Before it sleeps the unborn hour In darkness, and beyond thy power: Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands-- The Nohich the shadow stands

--_Henry Van dyke_

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RISE ABOVE YOUR DIFFICULTIES

Not till after the death of a istrate, the owner of large estates, and an active, public-spirited man in all local and national matters, was it known by those who had not seen him, that it was but the misshapen block of a man that had lived this active, s nor arms After his death his story was told: how he resolved, when but a boy, to act and live as did other boys, without regard to his horribleevery book, in learning every ga in every amusement possible to him, with his companions How, to the last year of his life, he held himself to be as responsible as other men, and bravely paid every tithe of duty to God and to his fellows

Even in lesser enial, witty guest at social dinner tables Strapped to his horse, he hunted foxes in Yorkshi+re, or tigers in India, and with his brothersjourneys in other parts of the world Everywhere his cheerfulness and gaiety gave new life to duller souls

Is there no lesson for us all in the life of this gallant gentleman?

--_Youth's Companion_

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Dr Roux, the celebrated French physician, said: ”The greater part of preparation for the digestion of food takes place in the nity exists independent of-- ”Studied gestures or well-practiced sreat er, shall likely meet with many more

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_Discontented People_--You have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness

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'Tis not hts, Or carry smiles and sunshi+ne in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart