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every pleasure our sterile life can yield to make it enjoyable. But
you will not see Lester: he is gone. His pardon, full and entire in
view of his courage and fidelity, and the manly stand he took against
the murderous plotters, came on Monday last, and at nightfall he left
the prison to go by the stage to meet the midnight train. 'To Mexico!'
were his last words to us. Heaven bless him, and grant him wisdom and
courage to retrieve the past and open a fair bright future!"

MARGARET HOSMER.

FAREWELL.

[From Friederich Bodenstedt's _Aus dem Nachlasse
Mirza-Schaffys._]

Aloft the moon in heaven's dome.
Sultry the night, tempests foretelling:
For the last time before I roam
I see the surf in splendor swelling.

A ship glides by, a shadowy form,
Faint roseate lights around me sparkle,
A gathering mist precedes the storm,
And far-off forest tree-tops darkle.

The silver-crested waves are lashing
The pebbly shore tumultuously:
Absorbed I watch their ceaseless dashing,
Myself as still as bush or tree.

Within arise fond memories
Of moonlight evenings long since vanished,
Once full of life as waves and breeze,
From this familiar shore now banished.

Hushed in the grove is the birds' song,
Spring's blossoms tempests caused to perish;
Yet what through eye and ear did throng
The heart for evermore will cherish.

AUBER FORESTIER.

THE INSTRUCTION OF DEAF MUTES.

While I was a teacher in the Illinois Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb the following letters were written by some of the pupils. The
first was written the day after Thanksgiving, and ran thus:

"DEAR MOTHER: We had Thanks be unto God, no school yesterday,
Turkey mince-pies, and many other kinds of fruits."

The day after Christmas a boy wrote: "We had Glory to God in the
highest, no school yesterday, and a fine time." What he really meant
to say was, that they had a motto in evergreens of "Glory to God in
the Highest," and they had also a holiday.

This motto, by the way, got up by the pupils themselves, was striking.
It was placed over one of the dining-room doors, and the ceiling
being very low it was necessarily put just under it. A single glance
sufficed to show the utter impossibility of getting the "Glory" any
higher.

The younger pupils write in almost every letter, "There are ----
pupils in this institution, ---- boys and ---- girls. All of the