are the men who do most for the general good? 4. Why is it that the man who does much is likely to do more? 5. Compare a busy and an idle man. 6. What is the most desirable kind of genius? 7. What does leisure prove in nine cases out of ten? To what should the thought of the impossibility of finding leisure stimulate you? 8. Describe the floor of the gold-working room in the Mint. What is the object of this? 9. What lesson may be learned from this? 10, 11. Mention instances of great men who made good use of their spare moments. 12. What are almost as essential to the firm wall as the great stones? How is this applied to time? 13. Give quotations from Franklin and Horace Mann showing the value of time.

Notes and Meanings.

1 E-state', property; possessions.
Squan-dered, spent; wasted.
Seed-time, youth; autumn, old

age.

Tem-per-ance, carefulness in eating and drinking.

2 Self-de-lu-sion, deceiving of oneself.

Lei-sure, spare time.

De-sir-a-ble, good; to be wished for. Dic-tates, commands; points out. 3 Jan-u-a-ry to De-cem-ber, the beginning to the end of the year.

5 Post-pone', put off.

Mo-ment-um, moving force; the tendency of a moving body to go on by its own weight.

6 Un-re-mit-ting, constant. 7 A-chieve', do; finish.

Stim-u-late, spur on.

8 Mint, place where money is coined. 9 Rasp-ings and pār-ings, scraps; odd moments.

10 Bi-og-ra-pher, writer of the life of.
George Ste-phen-son (1781-1848),

inventor of the locomotive steam-
engine. He was son of a colliery

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fireman, and began life by herding

COWS.

Ben-ja-min Franklin (1706-1790),
an American patriot and philoso-
pher. He proved lightning and
the electric fluid to be the same.
One of his earliest publications was
Poor Richard's Almanac, contain-
ing the maxims entitled "The Way
to Wealth."

In-flex-i-ble, unyielding; firm.
Hen-ry Kirke White (1785-1806), an
English poet.

Liv-ing-stone (1813-1873), the great

est of African travellers. He went
to South Africa as a missionary in
1840, and did not return to England
till 1856. He went out again in
1858, and remained till 1864.
went out once more in 1865, and
died there.

He

Hugh Mill-er (1802-1856), an eminent geologist; began life as a stonemason. Author of "The Old Red Sandstone."

12 Ment-al culture, education of the mind.

Summary:-The value of time cannot be estimated. Time once lost is lost for ever. We often say what we would do if we only had time. This is often but an excuse for laziness and selfishness. The busiest men have always the most time at their disposal, for they know how to make the best use of it. We must learn to gather up the minutes, for we find that by making good use of them men have done great things.

Exercises: 1. Parse and analyze: The busiest men have always the most time. 2. Change to Nouns-Italian, prized, lazy, selfish, wealthy, leisurely, mental.

3. Make Sentences containing-idle, idol; impostor, imposture; indite, indict.

4. Write all you can about making a right use of our Time. Show how a few minutes a day may produce great results.

BARBARA FRIETCHIE.

1. Up from the meadows, rich with corn,
Clear from the cool September morn,

The clustered spires of Frederick stand,
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.

2. Round about them orchards sweep, Apple and peach tree fruited deep; Fair as a garden of the Lord

To the eyes of the famished rebel horde.

3. On that pleasant morn of the early fall,

When Lee marched over the mountain wall,
Over the mountains winding down,

Horse and foot, into Frederick town,

4. Forty flags with their silver stars,
Forty flags with their silver bars,
Flapped in the morning wind: the sun
Of noon looked down and saw not one!

5. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town,

She took up the flag the men hauled down.

6. In her attic window the staff she set,
To show that one heart was loyal yet.
Up the street came the rebel tread,
Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.

7. Under his slouch-hat left and right
He glanced; the old flag met his sight.

"Halt!"-the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Fire !"-out blazed the rifle blast.

8. It shivered the window, pane and sash;
It rent the banner with seam and gash.
Quick as it fell from the broken staff
Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf.

9. She leaned far out on the window-sill,
And shook it forth with a royal will.
"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,

But spare your country's flag," she said.

10. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came;

The noble nature within him stirred

To life at that woman's deed and word.

11. "Who touches a hair of yon gray head,
Dies like a dog. March on!" he said.
All day long through Frederick street
Sounded the tread of marching feet.

12. All day long the free flag tossed
Over the heads of the rebel host;
Ever its torn folds rose and fell
On the loyal winds that loved it well;

13. And through the hill-gaps sunset light Shone over it with a warm good-night. Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er,

And the rebel rides on his raid no more.

14. Honour to her! and let a tear
Fall, for her sake, on Stonewall's bier!
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Over Barbara Frietchie's grave,
Flag of Freedom and Union, wave!

15. Peace and order and beauty, draw
Round thy symbol of light and law;
And ever the stars above look down
On thy stars below, in Frederick town!

Frederick, a town in Maryland, 40
miles west of Baltimore. It is not
far from the Blue Ridge, a branch
of the Alleghany Mountains, and
is therefore said to be green-
walled by the hills,"-surrounded
by the hills as by a natural wall.
Ma-ry-land, one of the United States
of North America.

2 Garden of the Lord, Paradise.
Reb-el horde, the Southern or Con-
federate army; so called because
they rebelled against the United
States Government.

3 Early fall, beginning of autumn.
Lee's first invasion of Maryland
took place early in September 1862.
Lee, General Robert, commander-in-
chief of the Confederate army.

the staff, and red and white bars in the body of the flag.

6 Stone-wall Jack-son. Thomas Jack

son, one of the bravest of Lee's generals, born 1826. He was called "Stonewall" from the saying at the battle of Bull's Run that his brigade "would stand like a stone wall." After the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, he was fired on by his own men by mistake, and died a week afterwards.

7 Slouch-hat, hat with a broad brim.
8 Silk-en scarf, flag made of silk.
13 Hill-gaps, hollows between the hills.
Rides on his raid, rides about to do
mischief.

14 Bier, carriage that bears a coffin.
15 Sym-bol of light and law, the flag
of the Union.

4 For-ty flags, etc. The flag of the 16 John Green-leaf Whit-ti-er, an

Union has white stars on a blue ground in the upper corner next

American poet; an earnest opponent of slavery.

Summary:-During the American Civil War (see Note, page 217), in which the Southern States made war upon the Northern States with the object of breaking up the Union, an old woman shows the flag of the Union at her attic window, in defiance of the Confederates (Southern soldiers) under Stonewall Jackson. Jackson respects her courage and her loyalty.

Exercises: 1. Parse and analyze: Jackson respects her courage and her loyalty. 2. Use as Nouns and Adjectives-September, round, rebel, mountain, rifle. 3. Make Sentences containing-jam, jamb; jester, gesture; jury, Jewry; kernel, colonel; kill, kiln.

4. Tell the story of Barbara Frietchie in your own words.

SCENES FROM "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN."-Part II.

1. The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosy parlour as Senator Bird, on his return from Washington, sat talking with his wife.

"Well," said she, after the business of the teatable was over, "and what have they been doing in the Senate?"

Now, it was a very unusual thing for gentle little Mrs. Bird ever to trouble her head with what was going on in the House of the State, wisely considering that she had quite enough to do to mind her own. Mr. Bird therefore opened his eyes in surprise, and said, "Not very much of importance."

2. "Well; but is it true that they have been passing a law forbidding people to give meat and drink to those poor coloured folks that come along? I heard they were talking of some such law, but I didn't think any Christian legislature would pass it."

"Why, Mary, you are getting to be a politician all at once."

"No, no; nonsense! I wouldn't give a fig for all your politics generally; but I think this is something downright cruel and unchristian.

my dear, no such law has been passed?"

I hope,

3. "There has been a law passed forbidding people to help off the slaves that come over from Kentucky, my dear."

"And what is the law? It does not forbid us to