What Hope Did

nnions of snow to the Dea ot uisease, md the sulïerer's frown became a smile- emblem of peace and endurance. Itwent to the house of mourningandirom the lips of sorrow there carne sweet and cheerf ui songs. It laidits i,„.,.i t, +1,0 mm of the poor, whicli wasstretched fortta at the command of unlioly impulses, nfl rred : L from disgrace and rum. ltdwelt like a living thing in the bosom of the mother, whose sou tarried long alter the prornised time of his coming, and saved lier desolation and the "care that killeth." It hoveml about the liead of the youth who had beoome the Ishmaelof society, and led him onward to works which even his enemies praised. It snatched a rna.den from the jaws of death; and weat with an (.ld man to HWA. Hope, ray good brother Have it, Reckon it on your side. Wrestle with it that itnuivnot depart; it may repay your pains Life is hard enough at best, but hope shall lead youover its mountains; sustain yon amid its bilkros. l'art with all beside, but keep to hope. It is an interosting question how rout-h of the bliglit wN model? fTÍing encounters is due to natural conditions of culture. Not content with moderate crops we force w ith riïücial methods and manures, ind have unhealthy plontsas a direct result of impatient desire. A foreign corresïndeLt, alluding to tne scourge of "red rust" now devastating the ïhea fields in some parts of Australia su-pststhis view by the remark tl at h ïrfnveBtigations lead to the conclusión that "the predisposing cause of the sad hayoc is over-luxunance of