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��the end ; for, during the season of a rag- ing disease among children, the circle was broken, and the youngest of her eight was laid beneath its winding-sheet of snow.

I called upon her to offer my warmest sympathy, for I truly loved my friend, when I found her heart-broken and crush- ed by the loss of her baby.

" Oh," said she, '• my mother-life has

��been one of great care and anxiety, but love helped bear the burdens; and al- though weary and worn, I find I had none to spare!"

I felt rebuked. I could give her no answer; so I kissed her pale lips, and turned homeward, I trust a better mother to my own, and more tender and loving to the little ones who crowd another's door. Maud Mullen.

��EDITOBIAL MEMOBANDA.

��Subscriptions for the Granite Month- ly can commence with any number which the subscriber may choose, the edition of each issue having been large enough to supply a considerable pros- pective demand.

��The many admirers of the poetical productions of Rev. Leander S. Coan of Alton, (some of which have appeared in our pages), will be pleased to learn that Mr. Coan contemplates the publication of an edition of his poems at an early day.

��The portrait of Hon. Joshua G. Hall, which appears in this issue, is from a photograph by F. H. Foss of Dover, as was that of Rev. Geo. B. Spalding, in No. 7. Mr. Foss is an artist of unusual merit, having few, if any, superiors in his line in New England.

��The unavoidable delay in the appear- ance of this number of the Granite Monthly (a circumstance certainly as much regretted by us as any of our pa- trons), will not prevent the publication of No. 12, which completes the first vol- ume, before the first of June. Among the interesting articles which will ap- pear in the next number will be one by Prof. Sanborn entitled " The Pulpit in New Hampshire during the Present Cen- tury," and one by Asa McFarland, Esq., of Concord, entitled " Several Sundays in Europe/' written from his personal

��observations during a visit to Europe some years since.

��From arecently published account of a reunion of the natives of New Hamp- shire in Vineland, N. J., we are led to the conclusion that a considerable portion of the thrift and enterprise of that flour- ishing settlement is due to the New Hampshire element in its population. And in this respect Vineland is no excep- tion to the general rule. Visit almost any city in the Union and you are sure to find, upon investigation, New Hamp- shire men at the head of some of its most important business enterprises, and you also find them conspicuous in public and professional life.

��While we have failed to accomplish as much as we had hoped in the work upon which we entered nearly a year ago, we have the satisfaction of knowing that what we have done is appreciated, not only by our patrons, but also by disin- terested parties whose attention has been casually directed thereto. In a recent private communication the editor of the Historical Magazine says : "I congratu- late you on making a work which is a credit to you and your State ; but I fear it is too good to be profitable in a pecu- niary sense. Readers, now-a-days, pre- fer trash, and you pander very little to the tastes of such readers."

We would add, that while it is true

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