Whittier's Boyhood Days

The Oxford (Penn.) Press prints the following interesting letter from Mr. John G. Whittier, written to a young girl in that town in response to an inquiry as to how he spent hi3 boyhood days: Amesbury, Mass., 9th mo. 17, 1881. My Dear Yottng Friend:- I think at the age of which tby note inquires, I found about equal satisfaction in our oíd rural home, with the shif ting panorama of the seasons, in reading the few books within my reach, and dreaming of ssmething wonderful and grand somewhere in the future. Neither change nor loss had then made me realize the uncertainty of all earthly things. I feit secure in my mother's love, and dreamed of losing nothing and gaining much. Looking back now, my chief satisfaction is that I loved and obeyed my parents, and tried to make them happy by seeking to be good. That I did not succeod in all respects, that I feil very far short of my good intentions, was a frequent cause of sorrow. I had at that time a very great thirst for knowledge and little means to gratify it. The beauty of outward nature early impiessed me; and the moral and spiritual beauty of the holy lives I read of in the Bible and other good books also affected me with a sense of my own falling short and longing for a better state. With every good wish for thee, I am thy sincere friend. JOHN G. WHITTIEB. In the stone floor of the Grafton (West Virginia) court house vestibule is the word "Justice" in large letters. An old resident who had jugt lost a suit was walking out of the building, sadly and with eyes cast dotvn. Seeing the letters in the floor, he halted, uncovered his head, and.spoke: "Justice, I knew you were dead, but I didn't know where you were buried until now." God made wine as well as w#ter, but he did not provide for drunkenness