18 BE TRUE.

for a millmer’s show-case, was a mys-
tery, which, though often discussed,
was as yet unraveled. |

CHAPTER II.

LIFE’S CHANGES——DEATH-——LITTLE MOURNER
—THE LOVING FRIEND—THE BALM—MINIS-
TERING ANGELS.

Tunes were not always thus in the
Middle of the town of F . Did
you ever hear of a town where they
were? But we have all heard of
life’s changes; we have seen and
felt them too.

Year after year the seasons roll,

Change after change comes o’er the soul ;
Life’s brilliant dream

Becomes a shadow of the past,

And death unfolds his shroud at last,
To close the scene.

~ Time was when the house of Mr.
Wingate was an antique-looking do-