The corn is yielding to the sickle, the husbandmen, "By whose tough labours, and rough hands," our barns are stored with grain, are at their toils, and when nature is despoiled of her riches and beauty, will, with glad and joyous heart, celebrate the annual festival of THE HARVEST HOME.

It sounds, indeed, like a 'plant,'fine old Southern family, impoverished by warfaithful body-servantold Colonial mansion despoiled of its heirloomsrare opportunities for the collector.

A prisoner at Windsor, he recalls his childhood there "The large green courts where we were wont to hove, The palme-play, where, despoiled for the game.

Then was Queen Guinever led forth without Carlisle, and despoiled unto her smock, and her ghostly father was brought to her to shrive her of her misdeeds; and there was weeping and wailing and wringing of hands.

He sets forth in his own memoirs, with that clearness which adds something almost superhuman to the mysterious vileness of his character, how he calculated on her youth, her inexperience and her lack of friends as proof that she could be despoiled with safety.

Becket's shrine was despoiled at the Reformation, but the number of pilgrims who visited it may be imagined from the fact that the broad stone steps are worn hollow, and this only by the knees of his worshippers.

Thus the polar reservoirs are despoiled in the act of being opened.

Greece was despoiled to ornament Italy.

He had sworn to have no regrets, no matter what innocent flesh was despoiled in order that he might strike the guilty; yet the sight of that bowed, lovely head went home to him very deeply indeed.

Why is it that though none of us has any money,and how or whence should we get it?,we are stripped and despoiled like a murderer's victims?