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mother, but expressed a doubt about using any portion of the money. His mother confirmed the doubt, and they resolved not to use it. The pocket-book was advertised, and the owner found. Being a man of wealth, upon learning the history of the family, he presented the fifty dollars to the sick mother, and took the boy into his service, and he became one of the most successful merchants in Ohio. Honesty always brings its reward to the mind, if not to the pocket.

Poetry.

WHAT THEN?

AN old man, crowned with honours nobly earned,

Once asked a youth what end in life he sought.

The hopeful boy said, "I would first be learned

I would know all that all the schools ere taught."

The old man gravely shook his head, "And when you've learned all this, what then ?" he said.

"Then," said the boy, with all the warmth of youth,

"I'd be a lawyer, learned and eloquent: Appearing always on the side of truth, My mind would grow as thus 'twas early bent."

The old man sadly shook his head, "And when you've done all this, what then ?" he said.

"I will be famous," said the hopeful

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Bemarkable Persons.

WILLIAM PENN.

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WILLIAM PENN was the son of Sir William Penn, and born in London in the year 1644. In 1660 he became a student at Oxford, but having previously received an impression from the preaching of one Thomas Loe, a Quaker, he withdrew, with some other students, from the National Church, and held private meetings, where they prayed and preached among themselves. having given great offence to the heads of the college, Mr. Penn, although only sixteen years of age, was fined for non-conformity; and continuing his religious exercises, he was at length expelled the college. Upon his return home, he was, on the same account, treated with great severity by his father, who at length turned him out of doors; but his resentment afterwards abating, Penn was sent, in company with some persons of quality, to France, where he continued for a considerable time, and returned not only well skilled in the French language, but a polite and accomplished gentleman.

About the year 1666, his father committed to his care a considerable estate in Ireland. Being found in one of the Quakers' meetings in Cork, he, with many others, was thrown into prison; but having written to the Earl of Orrery, he was soon after discharged. However, his father, being informed that he still adhered to his opinions, sent for him to England, and finding him unmoved by all his arguments, turned him out of doors a second time.

About the year 1668 he became a public preacher amongst the Quakers. Returning to England, he was, in 1670, committed to Newgate for preaching in Gracechurch Street Meeting-house, London; but, being tried at the Sessions-house of the Old Bailey, he was acquitted. In September the same year his father died, and having become perfectly reconciled to his son, left him both his paternal blessing and a good estate. But his persecutions were not yet at an end, for in the year 1671 he was committed to Newgate for preaching at a meeting in Wheeler Street, London, and during his imprisonment, which continued six months, he wrote several treatises. After his discharge, he went into Holland and Germany; and in the beginning of the year 1672 married and settled with his family at Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire. The same year he published several pieces, and particularly one against Reeve and Muggleton.

In 1677 he again travelled into Holland and Germany, in order to propagate his opinions, and had frequent conversations

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with the Princess Elizabeth, daughter to the Queen of Bohemia, and sister to the Princess Sophia, mother of George I.

In the year 1681, Charles II., in consideration of the services of Mr. Penn's father, and several debts due to him by the Crown at the time of his decease, granted Mr. Penn and his heirs the province lying on the western side of the river Delaware, in North America, from whence it obtained the name of Pennsylvania. Upon this, Mr. Penn published a brief account of the province, together with the king's patent; and proposing an easy purchase of lands and good terms of settlement for such as were inclined to remove thither, he induced many persons to proceed to the new settlement. These having made and improved their plantations to good advantage, the governor, in order to secure the planters from the native Indians, appointed commissioners to purchase from the Indians the land which he had received from the king; and he concluded a peace with them. The city of Philadelphia was planned and built, and he himself drew up the laws of the state of Pennsylvania, in twenty-four articles.

In 1681 he was elected a member of the Royal Society, and the next year he embarked for Pennsylvania, where he continued about two years, and returned to England in August, 1684. Upon the accession of James II. to the throne he was taken into a great degree of favour with His Majesty, which exposed him to the imputation of being a Papist, but from this he fully vindicated himself. However, upon the Revolution, he was examined before the Council in 1688, and obliged to give security for his appearance upon the first day of the next term, which was afterwards continued. He was several times examined and discharged, and at length, warrants being issued out against him, he was obliged to conceal himself during two or three years; but being at last permitted to appear before the king and Council, he represented his innocence so effectually that he was acquitted.

In August, 1699, he, with his wife and family, embarked for Pennsylvania, whence he returned in 1701, in order to vindicate his proprietary right, which had been attacked during his absence. On Queen Anne's accession to the crown he was in great favour with Her Majesty, and often at court; but in 1707 he was involved in a law-suit with the executors of a person who had formerly been his steward, and though many thought him aggrieved, the Court of Chancery did not deem it proper to afford him any relief.

Our picture represents Penn treating with the Indians for their territory; and his friendship towards them so effectually won their good-will that they revered him as a father, and were so attached to the English in that part that their property was sacred, their persons safe from all injury, and for generations had lived near them in amity and peace. Yet, in selling their land, they thought Penn in one instance was rather too much for them. He was to give them so much cloth for so much space of country as he could

walk across in a given time; but Penn walked so fast that the land he claimed for his cloth was much more than they expected, and they told him he knew how to make the best of a bargain.

It is a remarkable proof of the power of sin and self-interest to blind the understanding and warp the judgment, that a man so benevolent and just as Penn could be a slave-holder. Yet he was a slave-holder, and though he laboured to ameliorate the condition of the slave, he continued to hold the negro in bondage as his property. There are spots on the sun, and the brightest characters have some feculent marks. There is but one perfect character, and that one is Christ. Let us study his holy life, and daily make him our example.

ROBERT STOREY:

A SCOTCH WORTHY.

LATE on Saturday night a noise of wrangling and fighting was heard near the manse gate. It was a clear, moonlight night, and the ground was covered with snow. Mr. Storey, who was sitting by the fire in his dressing-gown and slippers, started up and went to the window. A crowd, and two men fighting, were distinctly visible in the bright moonlight. Out he rushed, the dressing-gown flying behind like John Gilpin's cloak, and in a moment he was in the thick of the fray, and attempting to seize a combatant with each hand. One he did succeed in collaring. Him he handed over to a bystander, to be kept quiet while he gave chase to the other, who had made off. It was a fruitless pursuit, however; he had effected his escape, and the whole company of assembled visitors, two minutes before spectators of the heady fight, had vanished as quickly and utterly as did Homer's interposing deities upon the plains of Troy.

When the minister returned to the scene of the battle no one was on the ground except the big man he had caught and the little man who held him. The former, who was what Dr. Carlyle calls "somewhat disguised," begged, with many elaborate bows, permission to put on his coat and depart in peace, which, accordingly, he was allowed to.

Next day, before pronouncing the benediction, Mr. Storey said that a very disgraceful scene had occurred last night at his gate, and that he desired those who had taken part in it should come to the manse after service. "Do you really imagine they will come?" asked one of his hearers very incredulously. "I am sure they will," said he; "but not till all the rest are out of sight." When the coast was quite clear, accordingly, the captive of the previous evening and his unknown antagonist duly made their appearance. The result of this interview with them was that they promised not to touch

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