... * . . . - ?? . -1 ?? ?? ?? ?? . . .. 1- l .. - - . - I TiE WORLD IS WHAT WE MAKE IT. I'vo eiseen soni people in this life, Who always are repiningl Who novcr, niever yet could see Tho stormncloud's silver lining. There always somothing is amiss, Frenm sunriso to its sotting; That God's hnuid mledo tbeir nmp of life, They seem the while forgetting. And I havo seen st blessed sight To sin ...

... . I ONLY. Only a baby ?? iad cared, Gently hold to mother's breast. Only a child, Toddling alone, Brightening now its happy home. Only a boy, Trudging to school, Governed now by sterner rule. Only a youth, Living in dreams, Full or promise life now seems. Only a man, Battling with life, Shared ID now by loving wife. Only a father, Burdened withecar Silver threads in dark brown hair. Only ...

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. Prosperity is a blessing to the good, but a curse to the I evil. CHARACTER.-They who respect themselves will be honoured; but they who do not care about their character will be despised. BE NOT DISCONTENTED.-A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world-at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty. ENEMIES ...

... I ?? ?? .. .. . ?? . . . - ?? . . ?? . GRANDMOTEER'S GRUMBLE. Ahl deary me !how times arO changed ! The world's turn'd upside down, Since sixty years ago I went To school with Betty Brown. We work'd our samplers aide by side, We learnt to spin and scw, And knitted stockings strong and well At twelve years old or so. Poor Lindley Murray, too, weeonn'd, (Now voted quite a bore l) And cipher'd ...

... ?? ?? . ?? . .. ._ .. ?? ?? GEMS OF THOUGHT. The best way for a man to get out of a lowly position is to be conspicuously eff,~ctve in it. The best thing to resort to, when evil comes upon uts, is not lpimentation, but action ;we should not tilt and suffer, btit rise and seek the remedy. A good book and a good womtan are excellent things for those who know how to appreciate their value. There ...

... -I-- 141-1 ~ ~ __ ?? __ __ ?? __ __ _ DROOP ROT. tweeter Is the wardore furl gh After long laborious fight; 1nnbeims bunting through the ?? 8een more gloriously bright: Wu from cave or mitue emerging Lcurns to doubly vaine light. So the way worn, unfering pilgrim, Uuffete I by troubles's igae. ?? roi ...

... FILLING FLOWER SHOW. | The annual exhibition of the Pilling Floral and Horticul- tural Society, took place on Tuesday, and, like mnany of its predecessors, was a decided success. The weather was brilliantly fine, though the saa was not so intensely hot as during tha few previous days, ann the number of visitors to the show was largor than has ever been known before. This may be auconuted for ...

... POETRY-. ?? - . ~ ~ ?? WONDERS AND 31URMURS. BY s. C. HALL. Strange, that the wind should be left so free To play with a flower, or toar a tree;. To rage or ramnblo wtere'or it will, Aud, as it lists, to be fierce or still- Above and around, to breathe of life, Or to mingle on earth and the sky in strife; Getuly to whisper, with morning light, Yet to growl like a fettered fien , ere night; Or ...

... AIUTOBIOGKRAPHY OF A CHARTIST. all N1:MBRuesa 9. ity, He who the sword of heaven will bear, t Omn Sbhould be ns bolv as zevere; of Pattern in bimself to know of Grace to stand, virtue to go, of ?? or lose to others paying, tha Than by Self offerices weighing. . ,ur. These words Ironm Shakespeare were applied to the too Chartist trials of 1843. of Fergas O'Connor, and 08 others, ery at ...

... ?? THE TEAR. When infant innocence is grieved, And hath not power to say In words, the import of its wrong, What giveth utterance way? When tides of unexpected joy, Like mountain billows come, What tells the rapture of the heart, Though speech itself be dumb? When pent within its secret cell The agony of grief, Upheaving, threats exhausted life, What lends the soul relief? When Folly in ...

... ! _ ?? l - | THE BROOK; AN IDYL. BY ALFRED TMNNYSON. I come from baunts of coot and herni I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty bills I hurry down, Or ?? between the ridges, By twenty thorps a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ...

... THE TRUTH AND PLAIN DEALLNG.-If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circum- stances, out of which you are at a loss to extricate your- self, do what is right, end be assured that that will extri- ente you the best out of the worst situations. Though you cnnnot see when you take one step what wil be the nest, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never ...