If I would have my name endure,
I'll write it on the hearts of men,

5. "In characters of living light,

From kindly words and actions wrought;
And these, beyond the reach of Time,

Shall live immortal as my thought."

WORD ANALYSIS AND DEFINITIONS.

Horatio Alger.

Im mor'tal (im, not; mort, death; al, subject to), not subject to death; undying.

Ref'lu ent (re, back; flu, to flow; ent, ing), flowing back; ebbing.

LESSON XXIII.

WHAT IS LIFE?

1. "What is Life?" I asked of a wanton child,
As he chased a butterfly;

And his laugh gushed out all joyous and wild,
As the insect flitted by.

"What is Life?" I asked; "O, tell me, I pray!"
His echoes rang merrily, "Life is PLAY!"

2. "What is Life?" I asked of the maiden fair,
And I watched her glowing cheek,

As the blushes deepened and softened there,
And the dimples played "hide and seek."
"What is Life? Can you tell me its fullest measure?"

She smiling answered, "Life is PLEASURE!"

3. "What is Life?" I asked of a soldier brave,
As he grasped the hilt of his sword;

He planted his foot on a foeman's grave,

And looked "creation's lord."

"What is Life?" I queried; "O, tell me its story!" His brow grew bright as he answered, "GLORY!"

4. "What is Life?" I asked a mother proud, As she bent o'er her babe asleep,

With a low, hushed tone, lest a thought aloud

Might waken its slumber deep.

Her smile turned grave, though wondrous in beauty, As she made reply, "Life' ?— Life is DUTY!"

5. I turned to the father, who stood near by,
And gazed on his wife with pride;
Then a tear of joy shone bright in his eye,
For the treasure that lay at her side.

I listened well for the tale that should come:
"My life?" he cried; "my life is HOME!"

6. "What is Life?" I asked of the statesman grand, The idol of the hour;

The fate of a nation was in his hand,

His word was the breath of

power.

He, sickening, turned from the world's caress;
"'T is a bubble!" he cried, "'t is EMPTINESS!"

7. I turned and asked my inner heart What story it could unfold;

It bounded quick in its pulses' start,

As the record it unrolled.

I read on the page, "Love, Hope, Joy, Strife, What the heart would make it, such is LIFE!" Miss S. A. Brock.

LESSON XXIV.

THE CAPTURE OF TICONDEROGA.

1. To hold the city of New York, its harbor, and the river Hudson, and, by means of the fortresses on the lakes, to keep open a free communication with Canada, was the scheme by which it was hoped to insulate and reduce New England. On Saturday, the 29th of April, 1775, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, as they passed through Hartford, had secretly met the Governor and Council of Connecticut, to promote the surprise and capture of Ticonderoga, which had been planned by the Green Mountain Boys.

2. Ethan Allen was encouraged by an express messenger to hold his forces in readiness, and the necessary funds were furnished from the treasury of Connecticut. Sixteen men of that colony, leaving Salisbury, were joined in Massachusetts by John Brown, (who had first proposed the enterprise in a letter from Montreal,) by Colonel James Easton, and by about fifty volunteers from Berkshire.

3. At Bennington they found Ethan Allen, who was certainly "the proper man to head his own people." Repairing to the north, he sent the alarm through the hills of Vermont; and on Sunday, the 7th of May, about one hundred Green Mountain Boys and nearly fifty soldiers from Massachusetts, under the command of Easton, rallied at Castleton. Just then arrived Benedict Arnold, with only one attendant. He brought a commission from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, which was disregarded; and the men unanimously elected Ethan Allen their chief.

4. On the 8th of May the party began the march; late on the 9th they arrived at Orwell. With the utmost difficulty a few boats were collected; and eighty-three men, crossing the lake with Allen, landed near the garrison. The boats.

were sent back for Seth Warner and the rear-guard; but if they were to be waited for, there could be no surprise. The men were, therefore, at once drawn up in three ranks,

and as the first beams of morning broke upon the mountain-peaks, Allen addressed them: "Friends and fellow-soldiers, we must this morning quit our pretensions to valor, or possess ourselves of this fortress; and inasmuch as it is a desperate attempt, I do not urge it on, contrary to your will. You that will undertake voluntarily, poise your firelocks."

5. At the word, every firelock was poised. "Face to the right!" cried Allen; and, placing himself at the head of the centre file, Arnold keeping emulously at his side, he marched to the gate. It was shut, but the wicket was open. The sentry snapped a fusee at him. The Americans rushed into the fort, darted upon the guards, and, raising the Indian war-whoop, such as had not been heard there since the days of Montcalm, formed on the parade in a hollow square.

6. One of the sentries, after wounding an officer, and being slightly wounded himself, cried out for quarter, and showed the way to the apartment of the commanding officer. "Come forth instantly, or I will sacrifice the whole garrison!" cried Ethan Allen, as he reached the door. At this, Delaplace, the commander, came out undressed, with his breeches in his hand. "Deliver to me the fort instantly," said Allen. "By what authority?" asked Delaplace. "In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!" answered Allen.

7. Delaplace began to speak again, but was peremptorily interrupted; and, at sight of Allen's drawn sword near his head, he gave up the garrison, ordering his men to be paraded without arms. Thus was Ticonderoga taken in the gray of the morning of the 10th of May. What cost the British nation eight millions sterling, a succession of campaigns, and many lives, was won in ten minutes by a few undisciplined men, without the loss of life or limb.