Life’s Chase: A Poem

THE WONDERS OF LIQUEFIED AIR. 503

now-a-days having to carry great stores of explosive ammunition, ships fitted up with this new invention, the explosive material could be manufactured when needed out of the exhaustless supply of air abounding wherever the vessels may go, and the other materials added in a short time, thus greatly facilitating the fighting capacity of our ships. While this is no small thing to be considered, still the greater benefits that would be derived from this new discovery will be its application as a power producer to machinery, for the manufacture of the countless articles used by mankind at a minimum cost, and also in transporting freight and passengers at 7ery reduced rates compared with those which prevail at present. The good resulting in this wise is beyond computation. Who can help but acknowledge the hand of the Lord in the bringing forth of these great inventions and discoveries? Certainly no one who believes in the existence of an all-wise and overruling Providence.

LIFE'S CHASE.

FROM THE GERMAN OP SCHULTZE.

The chief of the huntsman is Death, whose aim Soon levels the brave and the craven; He crimsons the field with the blood of his game, But the booty he leaves to the raven. Like the stormy tempest that files so fast, Man shakes And quakes At this bugle blast.

But what boots it, my friend, from the hunter to flee; Who shoots with the shafts of the grave? Far better to meet him thus manfully. The brave by the side of the brave! And when against us he shall turn his brand, With his face to his foe let each hero stand, And wait His fate From a hero's hand.