Rain

Tho first water - how muoh it means ! Seven-tenths of man himself is water. Seven-tenths of the human race rained down but yesterday I Ifc is much more probable tliat Ca;3ar will flow out of a hole thanthat nny part of his remains will ever stop one. Onr life i indeed a vapor, a breath, a little mois ure coadensed upon the pane. We car ry ourselves as in a, vial. Cleave th flesh, and how quiekly we spill out JIau begins as a flsh, and he swims in sea of vital fluida as long as hia life lusts His first food is milk; so is his last anc all between. He can taste and assimi late and absorb nothing but liquids The same is true throughout all organi nature. 'Tis water-power that make every wheel move. Without this grea sol vent there is no life. I admiro im mensely this lino of Walt Whitman: The slumberinK and liquid trecs. The tree and its fruit aro like a spong whioh the rains have filled. Through them and through all living hodiesther goes on the commerce of vital growth tiny vessels, fleets and succession o fleets, laden witli material bound fordis tant shores, to build up, and repair, anc ref toro the waste of the physical frame Then the rain means relaxation ; th tensión in nature and in all her creat ures is lessened. The trees drop thei leaves, or let go their ripened fruil The tree itself will fall in a still, dam; day, when but yesterday it withstood gale of wind. A moist south wind pen etrates even the mind and makes its grasp less tenacious. It ought to taka less to kill a man on a rainy day than on a clear. Tho direct support of the sun iswithdrawn; life is under a cloud; a masculino mood gives place to something like a feminine. In this sense rain is the grief, the weeping of Nature, the relief of a burdened or agonized heart. But tears from Nature's eyelids are always ï'emcdial, and prepare the