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The New Year.

Falling around us grimly , in form of Avratb ancl fear , As Ave move on darkly burdened for the toils of another year ? AVkat will another tAvelve months tell us ? What have they yet in store For you and mefor loving friends , standing

, upon the shore Where meet the surging billoAvs of yon tumultuous seas Ancl Ave yet can hail the balmy odour of each refreshing breeze ? Is sorrow standing in our path ? Or trial

in our way ? As all unknown Ave IIOAV begin another year to-day ? Must sobs and separation bind doAvn our hearts in pain ,

As our little bark is floating on hfes ever treacherous main ? Alust change and chance ancl bitter loss fall on us all alike ? What is the bloAV that God may send ? Or Providence may strike ? Let us ask ourselves all calmly , as on our

life-long Avay AVe greet with smiles or sighs of pain , another year to-day ; Let us ask ourselves the question , in humble truth ancl trust , To help and cheer aud strengthen us poor

mortals of the dust , Who knowing little , seeing less , must leave in loving fear To God Most High , our hearts and cares as of old , iu the Nevr Year . A . F . A . W .

The Widow's Stratagem.

THE WIDOW'S STRATAGEM .

ELDER BOYD , though a very good man in the main l and looked up to Avith respect by all the inhabitants of the little village of Oldville , was rumoured to have , in Yankee parlance , a pretty sharp lookout for the main chance—a-, peculiarity from Avhich

Elders are not ahvays exempt . In Avorldly matters he Avas decidedly Avell-to-do , having inherited a fine firm from his father , which was growing yearly 'bore and more valuable . It might be supposed that under these circumstances the Elder , who Avas fully able to do so , w . ould have found a help-mate to share his

house and name . But the Elder Avas Avary , Matrimony Avas to him , in some measure a matter of money , and it Avas his firm resolve not to marry unless he could thereby enhance his Avorldly prosperity . Unhappily the little village of Oldville

ancl the toAvns in the immediate vicinity contained few AVIIO Avere qualified in the important particular , ancl of these there Avere probably noneAvith whom the Elder ' s suit would have prospered . So it happened that year after year passed aAvay , until

Elder Boyd was in the prime , of life—44 or thereabouts—and still unmarried , and , in all human probability , likely to remain so . But in all human calculation of this kind they reckon ill AVIIO leave AvidoAvs out . Elder Boyd ' s nearest neig hbour Avas

a widow . The AvidoAV Hayes , AVIIO had passed throug h matrimonial experience , was some years younger than Elder Boyd . She -was still a buxom comely Avoman , as AVHIOAVS are apt to be .

Unfortunately the late Mr . Hayes had not been able to leave her sufficient to make her independent of the world . All that she possessed Avas a small , old-fashioned

house in Avhich she lived , and a small amount of money Avhich Avas sufficient to support her ancl a little son of six , like-Avise to be enumerated in the schedule of her property , though hardly to be " productive " of anything but mischief .

The AvidoAV Avas therefore obliged to take care of three boarders to eke out her scanty income , AA'hich , of course , imposed upon her considerable labour and anxiety . Is it surprising that under these circumstances she should IIOAV and then have

bethought herself of a second marriage as a method of bettering her condition ? ' Or again , need Ave esteem it a special Avonder , if in her reflections upon this point , she should have cast her eyes upon her neighbour , Elder Boyd ? The Elder , as Ave'have

already said , -was in flourishing circumstances , He would be able to maintain a wife in great comfort , ancl being one of the personages in the village , could' accord her aprominentsocialposition . HeAvas notespeciallhandsomeorcalculated to make a

proy , found impression upon the female heart ; this was true , but he was of a good disposition , kind-hearted ; and Avould no doubt make a very good sort of a husband . x 2

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Untitled Article 1
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 2
THE HONBLE MRS. ALDWORTH. Article 3
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 4
THE MASONIC SIGN. Article 6
AN INDIAN MASONIC WELCOME TO OUR GRAND MASTER. Article 7
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY. Article 8
BYE-LAWS OF THE YORK LODGE: No. 236. Article 10
EARLY MEETINGS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. Article 14
CURFEW MUST NOT RING TO-NIGHT. Article 16
THE FREEMASONS AND ARCHTECTURE IN ENGLAND. Article 17
WOMAN'S CHOICE —THE STORY OF A HERO. Article 18
UNDER CURRENTS. Article 23
THE LAST WISH. Article 25
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTE BOOKS OF THE BRITISH UNION LODGE, NO. 114, IPSWICH. AD. 1762. Article 25
AN ORIGINAL TOAST, Article 30
SONNET. Article 30
A WORD TO THE WISE. Article 31
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 32
THE NEW YEAR. Article 35
THE WIDOW'S STRATAGEM. Article 36
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 39
ADDRESS OF THE V. H. AND E. SIR KT. COL. W. J. B. MACLEOD MOORE, Article 43
THE SITE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE DISCOVERED. Article 45
Review. Article 48
SONNET. Article 49
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The New Year.

Falling around us grimly , in form of Avratb ancl fear , As Ave move on darkly burdened for the toils of another year ? AVkat will another tAvelve months tell us ? What have they yet in store For you and mefor loving friends , standing

, upon the shore Where meet the surging billoAvs of yon tumultuous seas Ancl Ave yet can hail the balmy odour of each refreshing breeze ? Is sorrow standing in our path ? Or trial

in our way ? As all unknown Ave IIOAV begin another year to-day ? Must sobs and separation bind doAvn our hearts in pain ,

As our little bark is floating on hfes ever treacherous main ? Alust change and chance ancl bitter loss fall on us all alike ? What is the bloAV that God may send ? Or Providence may strike ? Let us ask ourselves all calmly , as on our

life-long Avay AVe greet with smiles or sighs of pain , another year to-day ; Let us ask ourselves the question , in humble truth ancl trust , To help and cheer aud strengthen us poor

mortals of the dust , Who knowing little , seeing less , must leave in loving fear To God Most High , our hearts and cares as of old , iu the Nevr Year . A . F . A . W .

The Widow's Stratagem.

THE WIDOW'S STRATAGEM .

ELDER BOYD , though a very good man in the main l and looked up to Avith respect by all the inhabitants of the little village of Oldville , was rumoured to have , in Yankee parlance , a pretty sharp lookout for the main chance—a-, peculiarity from Avhich

Elders are not ahvays exempt . In Avorldly matters he Avas decidedly Avell-to-do , having inherited a fine firm from his father , which was growing yearly 'bore and more valuable . It might be supposed that under these circumstances the Elder , who Avas fully able to do so , w . ould have found a help-mate to share his

house and name . But the Elder Avas Avary , Matrimony Avas to him , in some measure a matter of money , and it Avas his firm resolve not to marry unless he could thereby enhance his Avorldly prosperity . Unhappily the little village of Oldville

ancl the toAvns in the immediate vicinity contained few AVIIO Avere qualified in the important particular , ancl of these there Avere probably noneAvith whom the Elder ' s suit would have prospered . So it happened that year after year passed aAvay , until

Elder Boyd was in the prime , of life—44 or thereabouts—and still unmarried , and , in all human probability , likely to remain so . But in all human calculation of this kind they reckon ill AVIIO leave AvidoAvs out . Elder Boyd ' s nearest neig hbour Avas

a widow . The AvidoAV Hayes , AVIIO had passed throug h matrimonial experience , was some years younger than Elder Boyd . She -was still a buxom comely Avoman , as AVHIOAVS are apt to be .

Unfortunately the late Mr . Hayes had not been able to leave her sufficient to make her independent of the world . All that she possessed Avas a small , old-fashioned

house in Avhich she lived , and a small amount of money Avhich Avas sufficient to support her ancl a little son of six , like-Avise to be enumerated in the schedule of her property , though hardly to be " productive " of anything but mischief .

The AvidoAV Avas therefore obliged to take care of three boarders to eke out her scanty income , AA'hich , of course , imposed upon her considerable labour and anxiety . Is it surprising that under these circumstances she should IIOAV and then have

bethought herself of a second marriage as a method of bettering her condition ? ' Or again , need Ave esteem it a special Avonder , if in her reflections upon this point , she should have cast her eyes upon her neighbour , Elder Boyd ? The Elder , as Ave'have

already said , -was in flourishing circumstances , He would be able to maintain a wife in great comfort , ancl being one of the personages in the village , could' accord her aprominentsocialposition . HeAvas notespeciallhandsomeorcalculated to make a

proy , found impression upon the female heart ; this was true , but he was of a good disposition , kind-hearted ; and Avould no doubt make a very good sort of a husband . x 2

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