DEATH IN A VILLAGE.
It is not the busy haunts of the metrop- oils, and. among the countless multitude oc- cupied by the absorbing cares of business, or the ceaseless and expressing al'uremen's of pleasure, that Death-the remorseIesss ,vrar, Inf onr race. impresses the lesson of mortality on mankind: yet his arm strikes no. with less vigor. nor with an aim less sure in the crowded mart than in the ee- scure and solitary cottage. The se mssO.e walls of the palace are no better defence tia,cI,ed hut of the peasant and the young and the lovely, as well as the m'oo'e ageJ =, and inlirm, he will claim as h's P'sy a"" spoil. ;,,nslled constantly by exciting interest. Every day. and every hour Ofthe day, brings witl it some new prospect of gsin-oaers some new object of ambition. sr holds out soms

 