In the year 1740 there lived in the Latin quarter in Paris, " famous mulser named Jean vere. The wealth concealed in the obscure rookery where he resided was believed to be fabulous, and was no doubt really very great. Aniong his treasures was a celebrated diamond necklace of immense value, This he concealed so carefully that he ultimately forgot its hiiding-place himself. He sought diligently for weeks, and, failing to find it, became elmest insane. This rendered him even less capable of remembrance, and he took to his bed broken in body as in mind. A few weeks later a doctor and an old woman, who had sometimes done odd jobs about his house, were both at his bed-side, seeing that the end was near. As the clock in the neighbouring tower tolled one, he ceased his low muttering and sat. up and shrieked, "I remember where it is now. Tean put my hand on the necklace. For Goul's sake let me go for it before I forget it again!" Here his weakness and' excitement, overcome him, and he sank back among his rags, stone dead. Physicians and students are familiar with these sudden outflashings of memory at the great crisis of human fate.
Let the reader consider this while we relate ay episode in the humble career of who may be found on duty in his box at Culgaith, a little station on the Midland, twenty-three miles south of Carlisle.
must break his fast without leaving his post.
Mr, Agge is on duty nearly every day, and The confinement and mental strain tell on the system. The strongest men cannot. stand it long without feeling its effects, It makes one think of the passionate exclamation in Tom Hood's Song of the Shirt,"
"Oh, God that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood s0 cheap."
Our friend had been at the same work for many years, although he was only thirty-five when these lines were written. In 1884 he began to feel that he was about to break down. "Idon't know what ails me," he would say, "but I can't eat." What he forced down produced no sense of satisfaction or strength. Sometimes he was finding he could scarcely walk on account of giddiness. He said to himself, " What if ould be seized with this at come moment when there is trouble on the line, and I need all my wits about me Other features of this ailment were pains in the chest and sides, costivences, yellow
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