Daybreak.

As lighted floods from Eastern skies,
In glowing silence come;
The glories of the dying night
Are hid behind the sun.

Lost shadows of a frozen light
Are only left us of the night.

And, as the day breaks o'er the steep,
And through the laurel band;
The newborn leaf puts on the tint
As dropped from nature's hand.

Liberty.

WE have been asked to define liberty. Well, it should be freedom to do right, and as much of it as we desire; and nothing else.

Anger versus Reason.

ANGER is the senses in combustion; while reason is crystallized thought.

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Culture.

WE think it was Miss Frances E. Willard who said, "A child's education should begin a hundred years before it is born." Nothing more truthful. And, that culture should continue so long as we live is equally true.

Hope.

HOPE has been likened to an anchor; on the contrary, it would seem to be a whispering star; and to us a star of some magnitude, and always in the field of our vision.

Basis of Opinion.

THE average man's disinterested, honest opinion on questions of local finance, is usually located in his stomach or pocket.

Failures.

THE greatest failures of all known characters are they who have merited the fewest disinterested personal friends of real worth.

Equipoise.

A DOMINANT equipoise in the human brain is a condition seldom found in earnest life beyond middle age; and this is the penalty paid for an excess of concentrated thought. This fact is well worth the student's consideration.