friend;
And well is, wheresoe'r he roams,
Who meets thee at his journey's end.

--_Ebenezer Elliott._

1791

A RESTFUL PREACHER.

Dean Ramsey relates that the Earl of Lauderdale was alarmingly ill, one
distressing symptom being a total absence of sleep, without which the
medical men declared he could not recover. His son, who was somewhat
simple, was seated under the table, and cried out, "Sen' for that
preaching man frae Livingstone, for fayther aye sleeps in the kirk." One
of the doctors thought the hint worth attending to, and the experiment
of "getting a minister till him" succeeded, for sleep came on and the
earl recovered.

1792

Come sleep, O sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
The indifferent judge between the high and low!

--_Sir P. Sidney._

1793

Sleep.
Do not omit the heavy offer of it;
It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a comforter.

--_Shakespeare._

1794

Sleep, thou patron of mankind,
Great physician of the mind,
Who dost nor pain nor sorrow know,
Sweetest balm of every woe.

--_Sophocles, born 496 B. C._

1795

Sleep has often been mentioned as the image of death, so like it, that
we should not trust it without prayer.

1796

MYSTERY OF SLEEP.

What mortal knows
Whence came the tint and odor of the rose?
What probing deep
Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

--_T. B. Aldrich._

1797

SMILES ALWAYS ATTRACTIVE.

Whether seen playing upon the face of young innocence, or upon the
furrowed visage of venerable age, smiles are always attractive and
blissful. He who wears a smiling face is a practical philanthropist. He
dispels the clouds of gloom that overshadow the brows of care, and the
hearts of sorrow he meets in his life-paths, as the sun dispels the
misty clouds of morning from the face of nature.

1798

A smile is ever more bright and beautiful with a tear upon it.

1799

Put a smile on your face when you go out for a walk, and it will be
surprising how many pleasant people you will meet.

1800

Who can tell the value of a smile? It costs the giver nothing, but is
beyond