Six mils North from Groton
Line which will Bring the on the Line on y'e Brake of Land and Just
Include the Present Setlers: or otherwise As y'e Ho'll. Commitee
Reported and Agreeable to the tenour thereoff as The Hon'rd Court
shall see meet and as Duly bound &c

Tho's: Dinmore, and 20 others.

Dunstable Dece'r; y'e 21'st; 1739

These may sertifie to y'e Hon'rd. Court that there is Nomber of
Eleven more y't has not signed this Nor y'e Petetion of Richard
Worner & others, that is now setled and About to setle

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 277.]

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TUBEROSES.

By LAURA GARLAND CARR.

In misty greenhouse aisles or garden walks,
In crowded halls or in the lonely room,
Where fair tuberoses, from their slender stalks,
Lade all the air with heavy, rich perfume,
My heart grows sick; my spirits sink like lead,--
The scene before me slips and fades away:
A small, still room uprising in its stead,
With softened light, and grief's dread, dark array.
Shrined in its midst, with folded hands, at rest,
Life's work all over ere 'twas well begun,
Lies a fair girl in snowy garments dressed,
And all the place with bud and bloom o'errun;
Pinks, roses, lilies, blend in odorous death,
But over all the tuberose sends its wealth,
Seeming to hold the lost one by its breath
While creeping o'er our living hearts in stealth.
O subtle blossoms, you are death's own flowers!
You have no part with love or festal hours.

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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS.

BY RUSSELL STURGIS, JR.

[Illustration: GEORGE WILLIAMS. Founder of Young Men's Christian
Associations.]

There is an old French proverb which runs: "L'homme propose, et Dieu
dispose," which is but the echo of the Scripture, "A man's heart
deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps." In truth, God alone
sees the end from the beginning.

From the beginning men have been constantly building better than they
knew. No unprejudiced man who looks at history can fail to see from how
small and apparently unimportant an event has sprung the greatest
results to the individual, the nation, and the world. The Christian, at
least, needs no other explanation of this than that his God, without
whose knowledge no sparrow falleth to the ground, guides all the affairs
of the world. Surely God did not mak