Show ass W those these beautiful lines are by james russell lowell though not included in the latest edition of his hia the snow had bad begun in the gloaming and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep aud and white every pine fir ur and hemlock wore ermine too dear for an curl carl and the poorest twig on the elm tree was fringed inch deep with pearl from sheds now roofed with carrabs Carr araa 0 came chanticleers muffled crow the stiff rails were softened to swans down and still fluttered down the snow 1 I stood and watched by the window the noiseless work of the sky and the sudden flurries of snow birds like bro brown wu leaves whirling by 1 I thought of a mound in sweet auburn where a little bead stone stood how the flakes folding it gently As did robins the babes in the woods up poke our own little aabel saying father who m kes ikea it snow I 1 it and I 1 told of the good allfather all father who cares for us all below again I 1 looked at th tho snow fall and thought of the leaden sky that arched oer our first great sorrow when the mound was heaped so high I 1 remember the gradual patience that full fell from that cloudlike cloud like snow flake by flake healing beding 11 and biding the sear scar of that deep stabbed wo and again to the child I 1 whispered I the ithe snow allow that husketh hii all darling the merciful father alone can make it fall then with eyes that saw not I 1 khod her and she hi kissing slog back could not know tatt my kiss was div gian in to her sister folded close un under der deepening snow r our little bobby of four years had been lectured by his aunt on the tit evils of disobedience to parents and the example was shown him of a boy who disobeyed his mother and went to the river and got drowned did he die said bobby who had given tile the story due attention yes was the cieply what did they do with him 7 1 asked bobby after a moments reflection tion carried him home replied th the e mon monitor tor with due solemnity after turning the matter 0 ver over in his hia mind I 1 it was hoped profitably lie he looked up and clos edthe conversation by asking 0 it why dint they chuck him in again 0 11 za JB an elegantly dressed lady entered a chicago store last week and purchasing some silk tendered a hundred dollar canadian bill not being satisfied as to its genuineness a boy was sent off with it to the bank who returned with as good as gold I 1 the lady was highly indignant at thus boin beinar suspected of roguery and taking the bill said she would not purchase the goods site she was finally prevailed on to abec accept pt the articles cut off after she had gone it was discovered that she had changed the genuine bill first tendered to the clerk for another a C counterfeit ae some people place tile the idea af happiness upon one thin thing 0 and some upon another A lady made a call upon a friend who had lately been married when her husband canic came home from dinner she said 1 I have been to see sec mrs 12 61 well replied the husband I 1 suppose she is very happy 11 happy I 1 should think she ought to be she has a cam camel fl hair shawl two thirds border I 1 fact fqy fond lovers lovel 8 ate aio green turtles leis that marriage often changes to snapping lej zd 11 look here printer you have not punctuated my iny poem at all 11 well sir I 1 ara am sot 1 0 l roctor rm illi a better |