The Trevor Family;*

" And your mother , Rose . Will she be satisfied to have her daughter marry a member of the Mystic Tie ? " " She has said , " answered Rose , "that an Order that could win the respect and command the services of my father cannot be the school of pernicious doctrines or dark designs . She will make no objection , Frank , and already she is rejoicing that you are to be here to-night . She guessed

your errand , as I did . She is longing , even now to thank 3 * 011 in person for the kind interest you took in her affairs . " We leave the lovers together and hasten to conclude our stoiy . The Merry Christmas has come , aud society in Stanhope is elated with the prospect of a wedding in high life , and Ralph Trevor is at home for

the holidays , and is relating , with pardonable pride , how he has induced Mr . Thornbnrg to start a library aud reading-room for the employes , and he , the youngest of them all , has been selected to make the opening address at the dedication . Aud the widow gazes on her boy with all a mother ' s pride . And Ella is progressing favourably in her studies , and is full of promise of a sweet girlhood . And Robert , to console himself for the

prospective loss of the society of his elder sister , is admiring the sweet face , blue eyes , and lithe form of Miss Louise Upton , wdio in vain tries to appear as if she was not conscious of his gaze . And the father and mother and friends of Frank Gtyndon are present at Mrs . Trevor ' s , and after the ceremony that binds two fond hearts for life is over , the wedding gifts are exhibitedand they are numerous and costlyone being in the shape of a Cheque

, , for twent y thousand dollars from the elder Glyndon , and a deed for an elegant house and lot from Mrs . GIpidon . And as the widow gazed upon the happy scene , and reflected upon all her pleasant surroundings , she realised how much she owed to the considerate acts and kindly offers of the brethren of the Mystic Tie . Six months afterRose wrote to her mother : — " I am about to make

ap-, plication for membership in the Eastern Star . Shall I mother ? " " Just as you choose , my darling , " was the mother ' s answer . "An Order that has given you so excellent a husband has a right to my highest regards . My prejudices are buried in the grave with your father ! "

Bronze Work In Solomon's Temple.

BRONZE WORK IN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE .

IN I . Kings vn . we read that among other articles manufactured by Hiram , of Tyre , for Solomon ' s Temple , was a molten sea , the dimensions of which are thus given : " Ten cubits from the one brim to the other ; it was round all about , and his height was five cubits : and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about . . . And it was an hand breadth thick . . . it contained 2 , 000 baths . " Mr . James Napier , in his " Manufacturing Arts of Ancient Times , " after giving his reasons for concluding that bronze and not

brass was the material employed , remarks , "This immense hemispheric vessel would therefore measure twenty-one feet eight inches in diameter , and be ten feet five inches deep in the centre . This large casting could not weigh less than thirty tons , and would be capable of holding twenty thousand gallons of water . " The brim of it is said to have been " wrought like the brim of a cup , with flowers of lilies , " by which Mr . Napier understands that the forms of lilies " were probably cast and fixed upon the brim as if growing . " In the Authorised Version the record says , Under the brim of it , round about ; there