For e'en that stream, ill-guided, can poison goodly ground-- For health, sow fever broadcast, for blessing, blight, around: 'Tis not enough its waters to loose with lib'ral mind; If Reason lends not eyes to Love, Love strays--for he is blind. This _she_ has known, our ANGELA, for whom men ask, e'en now, "Fit tribute of our gratitude where shall we pay, and how?" If blessings clothed in substance, prayers made palpable, could be, When had Kaiser, King, or Conqueror, such monument as she? But what can gold, or silver, or bronze, or marble, pay Of the unsummed debt of gratitude owed her this many a day? What record, parchment-blazoned, closed in golden casket rare, Can with her love, in England's heart, for preciousness compare? If we needs must find her symbol, then carve and set on high A heavy-laden camel going through the needle's eye; Gold-burdened, by a gentle yet firm hand wisely driven,-- Our ANGELA'S, that on it rides, riches and all, to Heaven! Or if a painted record be by the occasion claimed, Paint up Bethesda's Pool, and round, the sick, the halt, and maimed, Waiting until our ANGELA through Earth's afflicted go To stir wealth's healing waters, that await her hand to flow. * * * * * PIG-AND-BARGAIN-DRIVING. THE _Eastern Morning News_--what a pretty name--why not the _Dawn_?--hath a prosaic item: this:-- WANTED, a GROOM and Coachman, and to assist the Gardener. Wages, 18s. per week to commence with, to be advanced 1s. per year for every year he remains. Must understand horses and pigs, and be able to drive one, or a pair. We do not think the wages too high. A celebrated Oxford Don, who could make Greek verses as fast as mill-wheels strike, yet who was not so ready with ordinary English, beheld, from the top of a coach, a drover striving to guide some pigs along the road. Wishing to be conversational, the Don observed to his neighbour, "A difficult Animal to drive is a Pig--one man--a good many--very." Here, observe, were the materials for a pleasing remark, but they needed arrangement. He was right, however. Pigs are difficult to drive, and the Yorkshire advertiser who wants a man able to drive one pig, or a pair, is right in offering him the above noble rise in wage. Correspondents will abstain from vulgar suggestions about a pig and a "hog"--we don't understand them. * * * * * [Illustration: "HERE BE TRUTHS." _Mistress._ "BRING SOME MORE BREAD, MARTHA?" _Maid._ "THERE'S NANE, MEM!" _Mistress._ "O, NONSENSE! I SAW A LOAF IN THE PANTRY." _Maid._ "DID YE, MEM? I'M THINKING IT'S TIME YE WERE GETTING SPECS, THEN, FOR IT'S A CHEESE!"] * * * * * "YOUR BONNET TO ITS RIGHT USE." "LET me use my _biretta_," Says CARDINAL CULLEN, "To fan Ireland's school-lamp, That burns smoky and sullen."