When his head sank on my bosom,

When the death sleep o'er him fell,
Was there one to say, "A friend is near?"
There was none 1-pale race, farewell!

To the forests, to the cedars,
To the warrior and his bow,

Back, back!-I bore thee laughing thence,
I bear thee slumbering now.

I bear thee unto burial

With the mighty hunters gone;
I shall bear thee in the forest breeze,
Thou wilt speak of joy, my son!

In the silence of the midnight

I journey with the dead;

But my heart is strong, my step is fleet,
My father's path I tread."

Alas for the lone Indian! The cruel power of the white man threatens his destruction from two directions. From the East his Government and might is pushing westward, from the Pacific his rule is pressing eastward. Between the two, the Indians have their possessions. There may be in all, from 300,000 to 400,000 Indians left. Their possessions are rapidly narrowing. It will not be many years, until the last vestige of this noble aboriginal American race will be exterminated.

"Alas for them! their day is o'er,
Their fires are out from shore to shore,
No more for them the wild deer bounds-
The plough is on their hunting grounds,
The pale man's axe rings through their woods,
The pale man's sail skims through their floods;
Their pleasant springs are dry.

Their children-look, by power oppressed,
Beyond the mountains of the West-
Their children go-to die!"

EDMUND BURKE, at the age of nineteen, planned a refutation of the metaphysical theories of Berkley and Hume. At twenty he was in the Temple, the admiration of its inmates for the brilliancy of his genius, and the variety of his acquisitions. At twenty-six he published his celebrated satire, entitled, "A Vindication of Natural Society." The same year he published his essay on the "Sublime and Beautiful," so much admired for its spirit of philosophy and the elegance of its language.

OUR BOOK TABLE:

PERIODICALS.*

"OUR CHURCH PAPER." This is the title of a neat and very readable quarto religious paper, just started under the auspices of the Pittsburg Synod of the Reformed Church. It is to be published every other week, under the editorial care of Rev. G. B. Russell, of Pittsburg, Pa. The first number makes a very favorable impression, both as to its contents and mechanical appearance. The paper aims to meet a certain want in the Reformed Church of Western Pennsylvania, as well as to make itself useful in the Church at large. We are pleased with its character and design, and bespeak for it a cordial reception. The subscription price is $1.00 a year. Address, "Our Church Paper," 367 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa.

"COLLEGE DAYS" is the title of a very spicy monthly paper devoted to the interest of Franklin and Marshall College. Its object is to communicate the current news of the institution to all who have ever been connected with it. To accomplish this, and to afford a medium through which old students may learn the whereabouts and movements of each other, this enterprise has been projected. In this respect the January number is a gem. Columns of paragraphs about the Alumni, living and dead, enrich its pages. The current college gossip is pleasantly given. An article by Dr. J. W. Nevin, on the Philosophy of History, and a variety of information about other colleges, are offered to the reader. We can imagine what a treat the monthly visits of this spicy sheet will be to the old students and alumni of our dear old college. If this first number is an average specimen of the work of its publishers, W. U. Hensel and W. M. Franklin, two of the resident graduates, we feel satisfied, that the readers will not regret the payment of $1.00 a year for "College Days." The paper is published at Lancaster, Pa., where all who desire its monthly entertainments, can address the publishers.

* The notice', which here follow, ere prepared for the Feb uiry number, but were erowded out.

"REFORMED CHURCH HERALD" is the title of a neat religious monthly paper, edited and published by the Rev. I. K. Loos, and Rev. D. F. Brendel, and Rev. N. Z. Snyder, of Bethlehem, Pa. It aims to fill an important mission in the Reformed Church, more particularly in Eastern Pennsylvania. The January number coutains a variety of reading matter calculated to interest and instruct the reader. Price 50 cents a year. Address, Rev. I. K. Loos, Bethlehem, Pa.

"THE WORKING CHURCH" is an eight page religious monthly paper, edited and published by Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., George H. Hepworth and George J. Mingins. Several dozen of the foremost divines in the leading denominations are among the contributors. The January number is sprightly in style and diversified in its contents. Its introductory says: "This paper means work. Its patrons will be the people who have a mind to work." Price $1.00 a year. Address, "The Working Church," 108 Wooster Street, New York.

THE GUARDIAN AS A GUIDE FOR THE YOUNG.

BY THE EDITOR.

The Guardian was a guide and inspiration to us already in our youthful davs, and we can always feel safe in commending its contents to young men and ladies. It is as much above the ordinary trashy literature, in cultivating true Christian character, as good bread and butter is superior to floating island for developing the physical frame.-Reformed Missionary, Vinton, Iowa.

We thank the editor of this sprightly monthly for his kindly notice of the GUARDIAN, and his flattering allusion to the editor. The letter, we prefer not to give here. Many notices like the above the GUARDIAN receives.

To scores of useful ministers it has been a "guide and inspiration in their youthful days," as it was to him. Many grateful blessings like the above has it received.

Its chief aim is to benefit "Young Men and Ladies." It is a pleasure to write for such a class of readers. While in the act of gathering material and weaving it into a suitable story, you get into the habit of thinking of the dewy life of youth, and mentally communing with the fresh, sunny world of youth, in imagination we gather our readers around us."

A lady friend of Cincinnati, reading the GUARDIAN for the first time, without knowing who was the editor, wrote to us a few days ago: "When I read the January number of the GUARDIAN, not knowing that you were the editor, I remarked to my children: 'Why it just seems as if Mr. B. were talking to us.' Not till then did I discover the name of the editor."

To us this seems perfectly natural, as it must to all who write with their readers before their minds and hearts. Thus far the text, and body of the sermon. cation.

Now for the appli

1. The "facile pen" of our Iowa friend formerly enriched many a number of the GUARDIAN. We should like him to resume it in the service of its pages. In his varied, bustling, western, pioneer experience, he could find matter for many an entertaining sketch. A number of articles written for the GUARDIAN have found their way into "the pigeon hole." Not because they were not wellwritten, but on account of their inaptitude. To make our monthly as useful as possible, we desire to insert only the matter which will the most directly meet the peculiar wants of its readers. The kind writers will not think hard of us for doing this.

2. Very pleasant to us are the numerous clerical names in the list of our subscribers. That men of education and fine scholarship should take and read a magazine published in the interest of the young, shows the importance they attach to the education of this class of the community. Will they please to speak a kind word for it in their pulpits and the families of their people.