Do your utmost to concentrate your thoughts, energies, and whole being upon it.

Avoid sitting down in the gloom and bemoaning your affliction.

By and by it will soften; and, relying upon the goodness of Him who doeth all things well, you will see the kindly providence which overrules all the affairs of this life.

With the gentle poet you will be able to murmur:-- /P "Sweet the hour of tribulation, When the heart can freely sigh, And the tear of resignation Twinkles in the mournful eye." P/ Jim Travers was laid away to rest in the beautiful country cemetery near the home of Farmer Pitcairn, and between it and the town of Bellemore.

In due time a plain, tasteful shaft was erected to his memory, on which, below his name, date of birth and death, were carved the expressive words:-- "He was a tried and true friend." It took a good deal of the earnings of Tom Gordon to erect this tribute to the departed youth.