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vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information. F. W. Robertson.

; declared and open hostilities. Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. F. W. Robertson.

pain. Milton. Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. Robertson.

to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. His purple robes waved careless to the winds. Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. Hawthorne.

I can weather the roughest gale. Longfellow. You will weather the difficulties yet. F. W. Robertson.

to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree. At Winchester he lies, so himself willed. Robert of Brunne. He that shall turn his thoughts inward upon what passes in his own mind when he wills. Locke. I contend for liberty as it signifies a power in man to do as he wills or pleases. Collins.

Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.] His clerk was woe to do that deed. Robert of Brunne. Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. Chaucer. And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. Spenser.

young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which were combined in the year 1884 as a national association. Now nearly all the civilized countries, and esp. the United States, have local, national, and international organiza…