The Song in Your Life

MISSIONARIES AT ROTTERDAM. 483 architects to be the most magnificent building erected in the nineteenth century, but which has a close rival in the Congressional Library, at Washington, D. C, excited much admiration, as did also the splendid art gallery near it, which contains many priceless masterpieces of painter's and sculptor's art. The battlefield of Waterloo is easily accessible from Brussels, and no one lost the opportunity to visit the famous spot where the glory of France was trailed in the dust, and the soldiers of Britain won for her imperishable fame. In the center of the field stands a colossal mound, capped by a huge lion, erected by the British to commemorate the great victorv. From the top of the mound a beautiful view is obtained, and several monuments are to be seen which mark the points where the most gallant deeds of the conflict took place. Particularly interesting is one reared to the memory of Napoleon's ''Old Guard," — a stricken eagle, its wings riddled by bullets, toppling from its perch. It stands on the spot where the last struggling remnant of the "crack" regiment of the French, — the pride of the Emperor and the most loved of all his "little children," — went down to a heroic death. On the whole, the trip was a thorough success from a business as well as a social standpoint, and doubtless the work in Britain will receive an impetus from the interchange of ideas, and the ' 'working spirit" which each visitor obtained. Liverpool, England. THE SONG IN YOUR LIFE. Don't let the song go out of your life, Though it chance sometimes to flow In a minor strain, it will blend again With the major tone, you know. There is never a pain that hides not some gain, And never a cup of rue So bitter to sup but what in the cup Lurks a measure of sweetness too. Then do not despond, and say that the fond Sweet songs of your life have flown, For if ever you knew a song that was true, Its music is still your own. — K. B. Stiles..