them as reapers into these fields of promise, looking forward to that blessed time when they shall “return with joy bringing their sheaves with them.” Mrs. Lester afterward looked upon the portrait of the Christian woman to whose liberality this institution owes its existence. That portrait ought to hang on its walls. There is a queenly look about the fine figure, and the way the head is set on the shoulders, and blended goodness and intelligence in the countenance. In the evening of the same day Mrs. Lester was in the room where Mrs. Garrett died, and she thought of the blissful visions that may have floated about that dying pillow glimpses of refreshing and perennial streams to make the wilderness rejoice and blossom as the rose. Her life was not spent in vain on the earth. Regular and consistent in her daily walks of duty and piety, she has, by the judicious bestowment of ample means, prolonged her usefulness on the earth, linked herself to holy activities through coming time, and set in motion trains of influence, the mighty results of which may only be known in the morning of the resurrection. She made to herself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when she failed they might receive her into everlasting habitations. CHAPTER IV. THE QUEEN CITY OF THE LAKE. “I saw the domes before me rise, The lake behind me swell; I thought upon the bygone days, When nature wore a different phase, And man a different skin; And stretching far, through plain and swamp, I saw the Indian’s fiery camp, And heard the buffalo’s marching tramp, And felt the mammoth’s earthquake stamp, And all that once had been. “A sudden change came o’er my dream; I must have waked and dropp’d my theme. For ships and cars, in fire and steam, Begirt the horizon round; Tall houses rose, with shops in front, And bricks piled up, as bricks are wont, In cloud-capp’d turrets frown’d; And through the living, boiling throng Thunder’d a thousand carts along, And railroads howl’d their shrieking song, Across the groaning ground.” Norman had many little friends to say good-by to as he left for the cars on Thursday morning, and very many pleasant memories to take with him.