for development under its colder skies and on its more rugged soil; while the southern portion, with its rich tropical products and treasures of mineral wealth, held out the most attractive bait to invite the enterprise of the Spaniard. How different might have been the result, if the bark of Columbus had taken a more northerly direction, as he at one time meditated, and landed its band of adventurers on the shores of what is now Free America!-PRESCOTT.

An Indestructible Union of Indestructible

States.

It may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States and the maintenance of their governments are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union or the maintenance of the National Government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union of indestructible States. -CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.

Another Name.

America is only another name for opportunity.EMERSON.

"A PEACE-MAKER."-From the Painting by Stone.

ANGER.

Capacity for Anger Desirable.

The child should be taught to restrain his anger; but he can not restrain it if he has not got it. Anger is like fire-a good servant and a terrible master. Without capacity for anger Luther could not have fought the battle of the Reformation; nor our fathers the war of the Revolution; nor our reformers the war of Emancipation. -LYMAN Abbott.

Righteous Anger.

The spirit which flushes with resentment at an oath is infinitely better than the spirit which listens with indifference, or which laughs with pleasure.

"Abhor that which is evil," says the Divine command; no man is safe unless he does.--LYMAN ABBOTT.

Anger at Sin a Duty.

Every great sin ought to arouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.-LYMAN ABBOTT.

"Be Angry and Sin Not."

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry and sin not.—LYMAN Abbott.

Anger and Rage.

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure! People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit, and time has been when men have actually choked themselves with passion, and died on the spot. Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it; for passion shortens life and poison: peace.--SPURGEON.

ART.

The Rose of Art.

Following the sun, westward the march of power!
The Rose of Might blooms in our new-world mart;
But see, just bursting forth from bud to flower,
A late, slow growth-the fairer Rose of Art.
R. W. GILDER.

Ideals in Art.

Our age is moved deeply by the study of ideals in art. Each generation is amazed at its own progress. In the great Field Columbian Museum one can see the history of many an idea: The boat idea, beginning at three logs bound together with a piece of bark and passing on toward the ocean palace; the transportation idea, beginning