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 304 WORKMEN AND HEROES " I am glad to hear that you go to the academy. I hope you are learning fast. Don't speak Scotch. It is not so pretty as English. Is the Tau learning to read with mamma? I hope you are all kind to mamma. I saw a poor woman in a chain with many others, up at the Barotse. She had a little child, and both she and her child were very thin. See how kind Jesus was to you. No one can put you in chains unless you become bad. If, however, you learn bad ways, beginning only by .saying bad words or doing little bad things, Satan will have you in chains for sin, and you will be hurried on in his bad ways till you are put into the dreadful place which God hath prepared for him and all who are like him. Pray to Jesus to deliver you from sin, give you new hearts, and make you His children. Kiss Zouga, mamma, and each other for me. " Your ever affectionate father." CYRUS W. FIELD* By Murat Halstead (1819-1892) We, the people of the United States, h have been celebrating with memor- able pomp the discovery of our hemi- sphere by Christopher Columbus, and the elder nations and far-off islands have joined us in an immense festivity, honor- ing beyond all example of approbation an adventure that was a marvel, and an achievement that is immortal. All the world remembers the voyage of Columbus, that, persevered in through trials and perils, ended in triumph how he studied the stars and the charts, and out of the dreams of ages wove the fabric of fancy that grew to theory, and proph- ecy, and history, that there was land be- yond the Atlantic ; and there is no mo- ment in human life supreme above, or of more fascinating interest than, that when, from the deck of his caravel he saw the light on the shore of the new world. An incident worthy to be associated for ever with this, is that of Cyrus West Field, in his library, turning over a globe, after a conversation relative to ex-
 * Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.