the follies and vices of other men, and harbor not the same in your own bosoms. Be ever mindful of Him who rules in providence, without whose notice not a sparrow falls, and break not his wise laws. In your sin and sorrow, go to Him with whom is forgiveness, the world's blest Redeemer. And as you would fain be adjudged by Him to blessing and honor in the great day of assize, live ye so that He cannot but say, "Well done: enter into my joy."

"So live, that when thy summons comes to join

The innumerable caravan which moves

To that mysterious realm where each shall take

His chamber in the silent halls of death.

Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,

Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed

By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave

Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."

Nay, more: Live so that ye may rise toward the rapturous triumph of Him who said, in full view of his exit from the world: "The time of my departure is at hand: I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day."

EDWARD J. C. KEWEN.

BY JG. HOWARD,

Author or the "BLOVE PAPERS.''

THIS gentleman's father, Captain Kewen, a native of

short time previous to our last war with England, and acquired much military distinction at the battle of New Orleans. Locating a trading post upon the Tombigbee in 1820, in a region almost uninhabited save by savages, he succeeded in a very few years in accumulating a large fortune. By his marriage with a Miss Weaver, an accomplished lady from Tennessee, he had issue three sons, the eldest of whom, and the sole survivor, is our present subject.

Captain Kewen forfeited his life in a duel, leaving behind him a brilliant reputation as a soldier, and an unspotted name for integrity.

Edward J. C. Kewen was born at Columbus, Mississippi, Nov. 2d, 1825. At thirteen years of age he became a student in the Wesleyan University, located at Middletown, Conn. He had been there some three years, when the untoward speculations of his guardian hurried him to his Mississippi home; and he arrived there to learn that his once princely inheritance had dwindled down to a mere pittance. Thus reduced from affluence to comparative poverty, with his two younger brothers dependent upon his exertions for subsistence, he resolved upon the profession of the law. He betook himself to solitary study, with a