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UT tit 63 H. Z. SZABO
We mourn chit life beromes.dim, •
That lova and hope grow colder,
With the friends growing gray and grim,
With the yearn that err malting us older
We grieve that no more allined
By the joyous sense of bosuty,
Our daily lin is endured
..4.e.thc more routine of duty. •
Is It that nothing:anew
. Con the lore and hopu enkindle?
With our early mistaken ♦lew,o
Must all the reality dwindle
We cannot take to the heart •
That meant nglese ort,told story,
AA If souls were or tram's, a part,
To rejoice In their Autumn glory.
mourn for the freshness of youth,
ISIA; its false but dear delusion;
'The years bring wisdom sod truth;
(A sad and severe intrusion o )
-To ripen the soul for decay, •
Ot the eyes limilmmod with morrow
Sou not in the dying day
Promise of brighter to:norrow:.
Nor drained Is the fountain ofhope,
leer the Infinite love and pity,
That to human in could opo, -
Could weep o'er the desolate city !
In the heart of Clod
Esau-41051km and companion;
thrre pledge of our future give.,
, And this Is the consolation.
This Joy of a life renewed
These etirrlnge of love immortal,
Are our tokens of coining good, ,
While we 'wei t et the' 11.'1 , 04 portal,
a ..... Existence thus fresh and new
To the earnest end self-forgetting,
To the unworldly jbud true,
Bringeth nn weak regretting.
Lofty the Work of the
Nota.mere passing inJOyinont,
Its highest ambitiOn and goal,
• Is noble unselfish employment,. _
Bb,ot with the puma of God,
In a holy fulness of blessing,
Is this power to others good,
Which le highest bliss of poseeesing
Ifsnmennan t Juno 25, 1800.
(rival Harper's Wceklyd
A STORY OF NIAGARA.
"From that rook a man was preciptlatedlnt
his brother. He went over - the falls. mir."'
It Emended terrible, with the thutwAr of the
cataract in our. ears. never heard the sto
ry," I said.
"Very few have, but it's true for all that;
turd I know the particulars perhaps better
than any man living. I had them Iron/ the
murderer himself." •
"He was a lunatic% Asylum, in
New York, of which, an you know, I am head
physician. I'll tell you all about it overa hot
brandy-toddy at the International when yogi
have had enough of this drenching. Shall we
go? •
I agreed; and twenty minutes after, in the
room which we jointly occupied, beside "cheery
wood-fire, rendered doubly acceptable by the
hour and the dampness of theseason, the stor
my, night shut out, the cataract forming an ap
propriate accompaniment to the narrative,
the stimulant alluded to by the Doctor, and
the sedative Of - cigars at hand, he imparted to
me the partiaulars forging the groundwork
of the following story: '
There Were resident in,thacity of New York
two brothers, of wealthy family and Puritan
ancestry;: whom I shall designate by. their
biblical names of Mark and Silas, the hyalite.
elder-born. They had left their native State
of Connecticut, where they had been brought
up ill strictness. and comparative seclusion,
- whew - nearly - arrived -to -ID an It °cid, to arautuo
positions in the rich mercantile house of their
maternal uncle; with the expectation -of ul
timately succeeding him in the control ofit, for
lie was &bachelor and childless, and , avowed
his intention of inaking thetultis heirs Pt i mba l
bIY nothing else would•have induced their pa
rents 'to part with them, ,They were, as I
said, wealthy, and old New England. stock;
and their creed, one of the severest ever adop•
ted by mortals; Made theta averse to exposing
their senate the pretiumed temptationa which
lay outside the. bounds of:parental restraint.
', - This•reason had, kept' the young men from
bniiness snail Mark was twenty, Silas eighteen.
- Tao brothers possessing a general resem•
blance in physilignoroy and in turner traits of
-character, yet so radically , different in its es
sential components, could scarcely be imagin
ed.' Bethink kaleed,'and grey eyed, hand
some in spite of the irregularity of . features
commonly obseriabliin American, robes, the,
elder was, in disposition as in appettrance,the
itomwronation•of easy,' careless,.: affectionate
good nature; 'ilie youttier, of shy, serious,.al-,
'most fentinioe delicaoyand sensitiveness. . This
, constildfletitit'direisity hadbcen:inereasadtiy.
the peddliat'trairling trialliiol theY : luid aubjeo
ted....;., -• ,i , ..
Itlt severely repressive 'and' rigorously
Purity ,pecended from that ancestry, which
is the 'Oki ''of Nei' England '
character;'
I
which!, eito resolutely bent on seeing all its
• endeaV ',lts routine of daily life, even to the
minute particular on thingseternal ; which
could u . .be content to.roly, childlike, °tithe
divine netieence implied in the Ntj3le, '"Ctur
Pother 'hichlart in heaveo,'! but, lab s-. . . 8
'of its II s 6 delineator, must arrogate - the task
"of recanciling the meta tretnendous ' facti of
sin andavil; present eternal, with those
catnapone ofiintinit&power and yenevolence
which. eir own, strong natures enabled - them
,1
so viyi 1 iite realise , ' .theai .detmended,. the
father .galt and, §ilaa, ' l %l worthy • 9f ibis
progebito r e. 'He erleo,iti mould his tionslti
the fashion of his,p4n ; sombre. individuality.
And maternallttfeetlah etiustedbut little ems ,
lioratiori' Oftheir3theltinit i ferittliiii meth.*
did not eee.through lier7lmeband's .eyie, ehe
shared bis,belief, andmohld. have 'considered
any luterferenee.witit his ruling • prerogative '
as intiirioas,,perhape ,
0i140, , . :i .. , : ,.
Marlt,'lthe,efd,44 : sottoiid .loait: • 'itle . .o . eis, a
Dimple, honest nature, whose leek of ' depth.
and Jscalthy tendencies towards the sunny
side of existence were, the best of prerogatives
against inorbitrinfluermes. Thernly affected
him temporarily; they surrounded. him,. but:
never struck inward. He regarded the family
' ftiith merely in-its repressive, prohibitive as
pect, as something-presumably necessary. but
inhe rattly notngouistio to human happiness,.
Without disputing its tenets ho troubled him
selfi.na little about them ne possible. 'He ea-
gerly embradod whatever pleasures lay in-hie
way ; was more fond of than companionable
to his brother, nod' would have domineered '
over him buk,that Silas's sensitiveness made
the hot brutal, -While hisaffeetionatedeferenoe
• made it superfluous. '
Naturally studious and thoughtful, Silas pre
ferred poring over a book to out-door pleas
ures, or such social intercourse as the broth
er's position afforded. Not that he disdained •
the latter, for lie was impressienable, and ap,
probative; but an unconquerable timidity
ho
•lotiging to a highly neryous organization,
made him shyn.nd self-distrustful in company.
Then, ten, lie merciless theology, so carelessly -
ignored by:Ma : o,llnd VirrAlly poisoned the
younger' man's healthy intellectual existence.
Mere temporal pjeasuros could offer little'at
traction to a mind foreyfr% broodiug'on things
eternal..
His taste for reading found no moro whale- „
some aliment than the writings of the Puritan•
divines of the lost generation—a 'literature
justly Characterized as •mhogether unique".
and terrihle. Devouring these in theabsenco •
of i leetter mental food, accepting their 'testi
melti, at first, without question, Silatt's exis
tencalrom his boyish days had been overshad-,
owed by'one great fear=that of eternal pertli•
tion. Too timid to arrogate' to himself that •
miraculoutichangegf heart without experienc
ing which he believed that all were under the ,
just sentence of a wrathful God, he suffered
'horribly, suffered to a degree of intensity only
conceivable to one of his organization. In
time,the inevitable reaction came, producing
at first repulsion and revolt, theil dbubt and
inquisition: Like the evil spirit in the para. 4 ,
blo, he journeyed through dry places without •
finding rest ; •presently embarking on the bit•
ter waters of the Dead- Sea of unbelief with
no better pilots than Paine and Voltaire, he
rend their works in secret and fancied him
self an infidel From , olo extreme of gloomy
superstition to negation is not an uncommon
nor an unnatural transition ; Silos Made it
with fear and ttembling; the hereditary faith.
quittetLitim only after a long struggle, the
miserable particulars of which maybe hung-
Med. Perhaps it never entirely relinqUished
its hold upon bin .
lloth the brothers bailed their eniencipstion
from-the restraints of_home-vrith
the greater-because their, uncle's household
presented the very converse of it. Though a
nominal professor of the family creed, he was
one of tile jolliest, Most; genial of rich old
b.ochelers. lie went to thotheatre,.readnov
els,-and gave dinner parties, delighting on all
occasions to surround himself with - young and
mirthful faces. His secret sympathy for hid
nephews hell made him stipulate for. their
changemf residence ns the price of.his testa
mentary Caper, While his judgment indicated .
the necessity of qualifying them for their fu
ture career. The removal was only
,Aeum
plished after a lengthy negotiation, i%il,"nts
aforesaid, when Mark and Silas had nearly,
attained manhood.,
I- For Me illitALD
In their uncle's house they enjoyed an, a
mount of personal freedom and consideration
at once novel and delightful, and naturally
made themselves. amends for old repression
after their separate fashioni. Mark, always
his uncle's favorite, became a general one ;
his good looks, good nature. and healthy ap
petite for pleasure secured him a welcomeeve
rywhere.' , Silos, too shy to mix in society,
yet commanded and appreciated intellectual
gratifications. Three years.of town residence
converted the elder brother into a dashing,
'free•handed, and universally popular Now.
Yorker; the younger into a pvlished, fastidi
ous, serious and sensitive gentleman. They
loved each other fraternally, Mark alloying
his authority with a 'Spice of big-brotherly,
but respecting his mental pre•eminence ; Silas.
an admiration of his brother's exuberant
which accepted and even enjoyed such
harmless manifestations of it.
Such were the brothers' mutual relations
when their uncle's house received—two new
instates, me the innocent cause of the crime
foreshadowed bathe introduction to thin narra
tive.
An old schoolmate and friend of their uncle
came to Now York with his only daughter, re
turning from two years of European travel.
Ile was the oilier of a Louisiana cotton plan
tation, and returning in the month of June,
willingly 'postponed his departure fort he Soul It
until the summer's heat should have abated,
accepting in t he meantime the hearty old Niche.-
lor's hospitality, and resolving with him on a
tour to the watering places. Thi s project the
daughter's presence rendered doubly agrcon.
ble to the old gentleman; she had been a
childish pet of his, and time had only develop
ed her beauty uttd attractiveness.
Shn.was 'a tall, black haired girl, with great
dark eyeS, which, when her intellect and feel
ings wore in genial flow, sparkled wita a brown
splendor at once dazzling and beautiful, but
could look grave an it kind enough on occasion.
Just eighteen,.possessing one of the sweetest
contralto ioices,• highly educated, t little self
conscious and Imperious, hut not morose than
her beauty and Accomplishments seemed to
'warrant; foseigti-Havel and intercom se' with
European society.-Lad .retined ._away_.tliat too
demonstrative self-assertion which is not un
common in Southern belles; replacing it with
the perfeot ease of high breeding. .Both thO
brothers fell in love with her. -
- That she should lock-.with. favor upon a
young, gallanr; handsome suitor like Mark,
prospectively rich, and very much in earnest,
wail' no wonder. ' lie had the surfacequalities
which attract women and . more.' She never
suspected the passion of the younger brother.
His shyness had always kept: him in the,
back•groundin feittale society, notwithstanding
a strong secret attachment toward it.. He was
now brought into daily communion with a girl
lof rare beauty, refinement and intellect— one
whose high souled Womanlities. npproaclied,
his ideal conception of the sex, whose charac
ter bore the test 'of his-OPeoblative and'analy
tical disposition. He loved. her at once pas
sionately end hopelessly.
lie never told her of it; he never intended,
to do so: Frotn the outset he distrusted bini-
self, and would have nugured only miserable
and ridiculous failure as the Certain ,result of
tiny attempt presumedly, so audacious as that.
of his winning her. Yet.--a curious but tint u
rainnotnnly - his passion revealed to Lini the',
depth and superiority of his own Mauro over
that of his hitherto admired brother.
,'With-
outany idea of competing for.ber favor: 7 ll)i t h
no distinct 'apprehension of 'Mark's success
beyond a vague sense of coming wretchedness
r- hie affeacion,-froin its, commencement was
• • .
embittered by de4i,tir nntl" . ,jetilouit , Theee
!elisions - 000 Millis heart, no one aperient.'
mg. .• The fire .ifiged the fiercer for rapiotteio,ti:
fe he hoped aztingtiish it, a chance No rd,
a geetueo, a look of here made It blazenfreeh.'
flo thought of her ceaselessly: her beaUtY
haunted him: unable, to tear hituvelf away
from ttwindelgeitee of her preeenee, be e0n... ,
tinueilleeklesely,drlnking the.sweet poised' , .
Willoil,ilad:4ll , 4ft4y [Rioted hie life. It le,lit•
the nature , of lualt - ]lnorbid.passione to grow. to ••
mnitstrone , preporlions;.-and.te deceive their.;
entertainers. ; , 'Hatl:Biltte spolten no- tragedy
might have
. oecuered, •, • .1 , • . . •
The:tbriabere and their uncle . made the •
rounds:•of..the 'waterlog+plaoe with their •''
guests. They vrtineto , Newnott . ; to Naiint, to
Saratega; and Really to Niagara. +' hiaries
tatihinent to the Louisianian delighted hisiti.;.':"
ale; he desired nothing .better than the inor.
rine of hie two facet ilea, but as yet the older
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PAYnla . 11%, waltar': :.,OEVALFB
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brother had not declared -hiniself., TWough a
dashing, self-confident fello*, love had taught
him diffidence ; and .until their arrival. at the
little village bordering the grett: cataract: he
had found no. eligible opportunity. She wan
a recognized belle, an .heiress, and, as suelh.
sought by hosts of admirers, At Nirtgara,the
desired,occasion presented itself.', Evil chance
made the younger brother a partial spectator.
Valkinvone August day, at sunset, in the
woods of Goat Jslatid, Silas, beheld, in the
path before figutes conversing ear
nestly. Stung by suspicion arid jealously to
the perpetration of n meanness' for which ho
loathed himself even while acting upOn its
snggestions, : he slunk among the tress watch
ing and rollowing "them. They, went. to the
arbor which overlooks the foot bridge leading
to the TeiraPin Tower and the cataract. Thiii
arbor is not laticed, but constructed of boards,
hence the wretchodlistener, as lie paused be
hind it, remained concealed from, those with-
In: . Indeed they .thought little of him, of the
world, or of any thing but their own happi.
liens. Mark had proposed, had been accept. ,
ed. . _
• How he spent the next throe hones will
never' be known. lie raved iu after:years of
the rush and roar of the rapids, of,the Moon
light on the writer, the thunder of the cata
ract, and always of her and his brother, fre
quently'antedating tbe.crime which then was
unoommitted. It wanted an - hour of midnight,
wh lie found himself at the foot,of the Tee •
ran
Tower, leaning 'on the hand rail of the
b Age, looking down at the Hurse-shoo Fall.
The• night was very beautifol,•and a psie lunar
rainbow; like the ghost of a solar one, flick
ered and quivered and waned, now distinct;
now definable, over. the vortex below.
' Presently he hearth and recognized tip
proachinglootsteps, but did not turn his head
until a hand was laid on his shoulder and
Mark et Ood beside him.
lie had . come to .seek him. Flushed with
happiness, possessed by a delicious unrest .
which made sleep impossible, on his-fair coin
panion's retiring for the night be had inquired
foi his brother, and pot finding hint at tile
hotel, returned to Goat 'lsland. The place
was a favorite haunt . of Silas's nocturnally—
it sulted his disposition.
Mark was exultant, talkative; he admired
the scenic, rallied his brother on his liking
forsolitude, laughed, and plopped him on alto
shotilder, A-sense of tripmph, of eiultation,
had gut:weeded his first glow otpassiOnate de• -
%toilet', and, like all men of sanguine tempera
MOM, he yearned for a friend to whom lie
could confide his secret. Silos kneiv this and
what was coming, but dreaded its disclosure
with a feanindesoribable_ in.ilajntensity —a
fear, perhaps prophetic of the linal result ; As
if to avoid it by a channel' position, he strol
led toward the platform of the towerand pres
ently dropped from it to the rocks below.
M,tm'l followed him. •-
Very soon it came. With all the bigh.struog
enthusiasm of an liedent nature, fired by sue•
cess, Mark spoke °flits happiness and of the
future. of love and prosperity before him,
praising the goodness anti beauty of.his chosen
wife. ilia words were tender enough; but in
place of the delicious humility characterizing
the highest order of affection of man for wo
man—that which makes it akin-to religion in
its infinitesimal estimate of the value of self,
and exultant of the desired object—there was
the mere transparent passion. Silas, listen
ing with a sickened heart, ,contrasted it with
that within Ms own
. bosetn; and felt; with tC
pang of unutterable noise - ry, how . immensuin
bly higher lie had rated her—how much lower
his own pretensions. •
' lie made - nn attempt at congratulating his
brother, the manner of which might have ex•
cited surprise had the latter's high spirits ad
mitted of any thing but the contemplation of
hie own felicity. Then Mark began to speak
of her regard and respect for Silas; adding.
jestingly, that she had professed so.rouch ,that
were kis brother not .811Clil an inevitable old
bachelor, he should have beou inclincd . to con
gratulate himself on speaking first, and thus
toeing a wile in. a sister-io•law.
The words were spoken idly, out of sheer
lightness of hear:, but tired Silas's brain and
made him . , stagger as with "vertigo. Might
that have been? could he 'lilies woo her? was
he a wretched fool who had lost the prize from
lack of courage in avowing himself? It was
all over now, nail hers was Mark erect and
triumphant. .11c had leaped on a great boulder
on the verge of the rapids and was .defying
the cataract, declaring that he had dear . cause
to love life now—that ho had never lovdd it
•
more!
Then a dreadful temptation came into Silas's
heart. ‘ , ..tlinthe restrained It for one moment
—hid he - paused to think, to repel the busy
devil that urged him oa, he might have con
quer Ml. But Ire did not. With.set teeth and
a face in which passion, culminating in tem
porary insanity, had blanched to an awlal
whiteness, he rushed forwUrd and puelled his
brother violently in the back. It was done
iu a second. Mark had no time to cry out
before he found Limeelf 14:ruggljngjn the hor
ribly swift, smooth wafer 'aild'boru irresisti
bly .to ward the edge of the caturnct, but a few
yards distanae..
Ac he -woe over, bis desperate asp detain.
eil him momentarily on the very e of the
Fall, and the Moonlight sir ck fu oh hip
countenance. Silas, i the attitude of
pushing, gazed at Sim. Tat look haunt d.
him till big death•hour. much of yougi;
and hope, and strong life precipitated lute
sudden and horrible death—surprise, and ag•
clay; rind a drealrul blending' of shalted'affee
ton, summierup„all
.the fraternity of their
Vast lives, and doublflippealiog against its
violent cOneluslon—these and a thousand un
utterable things were in that look.: But for
au inptant; in another only the thunderof the
cataract, sounding like the voice of avenging
Gad in the ear of the frantricide. - .
He was never suspected. No eyes. but his
had witnessed the deed, no heart distrusted
him. The surprifie at Mark's disappearancei
the alarm, the inquiry and search, the :difi
covery atairecognition of his body after Lanny
i
days' dmersion, the general conviction that
he had stumbled into therapids and . been'
carried doer the Eon by aecident, all this the
murderer endured and scented to share, with
real . grief, remorse, and apprehension only
those whose souls-have received ttie black
baptism Of similar guilt can' conceire. His
fniser.) , was so great as to excite- general re.
Mark and sympatliv. She, who supposed it
to be' counterpart Of • ltbr affliction—
whose horror at the presumed: cause of - it
need not be told—attempted.to comfort
When her drowned lover's bedywne emanoit•
ted to'the earth Silas lay on sick bed, ill of
a lost nervous fever'. , •
They sent for his mother, from Conneeti:
cut, to nurse him—,a taskehured by. her ex.
:fleeted daughter-mom Had delirium over.
taken the patieuthe might have revealed his
secret.; but it' neier occurred, and if his
words' wondered " I to the' 'sitbject 'Of hilt
'brother's 'death`,, it n'as attributed to grief
and Mental 'prostration. 'lVhen thi summer
ended, in accordance v.vith the,adviee of 'hie .
phseieh(ti'and'ihe 4eitire' of , his'relatiieeiiho .
accompanied herand her father Louisiana:
Change of seenei . it I;ftis'hette,:clin;tght•pt•Oye
n efle.hil* hi in, •
Heeeinnined 'throughout ih'ew,lttei 'Lind
:111r. into the 1136'61,d'
hope, bred Of a few idle:WhrdS;Whichhq;Oe
.cipituted haditeeined
'in die With the not; revived,'atid . bud4d;:and.
hlossomed into realization... • , • ,
Living inithe 'same house freedom
of fa miller In teredurie; tOkeihei• in
her supposition by n common calatnity,whdt'
, wonder at snob a'retAilti ' A sense of dies°.
latenesti and.dull sorrow' sneceeded the keen
anguish attendant on the wreck of.her hopes,
PAIRLI" LE ~ RA,,i.:*.0.A.:1:7::,!„,:,,iii..1,:f:,,,,,Je0.
Ci I "'
and she inclined; at. 04 'ptying y,an'et e
derly,to the•bryther witiVieemod to mourn 4f.nt
so, whose affections faller appeuredin..grow
up out of the' raVe. loved her
with a guilty'morbid'etaving . pos.
,-session of that which teMpted:fiim: .
His uncle's deeendelti : 'npoplaicy, while it
increased - the syMPiiiiik of his' ,lieuisiatia
friends; made hini'd wealthy Map:l:ler, father
favored' his suit,:and'brearly:'inimmer, she
returned to New YOrk`;'biti weddnd.,
If she accepted him- Atifit "ti 'tender regard
rather than tiny wartiter'feelitigi: 'gaits
him'all the affection shel'had . 'to. bestow, : and
in time came to lose hhn ditarlY.'` Gimile in
aspect, exquisitely,kituf' , end' 'con'sideritta to
all aboitt her,
her torture ennobled'and purl.
lied by trial, her sorrow t passed into a.remin
iscence as new duties And , responsibilities
Open upon her. She trite all unconscious of
the terrible tragedy in r if v reAs'ot her :Side.
• Alen thought her itutiband'of
Sombre, unhappy disposition that, dpparently
possessed of all that is
,dosirable in. life, his
countenance atatehaiitoeshpuld indicate so
little appreciation Of it. He was prosperous
in business honored and:'respected by his
fellows, blessed with a fair and good woman
to wife and obedient children, - ho had semis•
i ngly. nothing to cloud .hichappi ness but the
recollection - of a calamitous accident which
the lapse of years might lie supposed to have
eradicated; yet ho one could have looked in
his face antlenvieci him.' 'lt Was . neve . i Cheer.
ful, even when turned to •tliode be loved most.
Fore tremendous retribution , Was gathering
slowly around him like a.great e'Ver-inearatt
ing darknesaa darkness i
n which the light
of reason waned and sunii, - and went out in
utter despair and horror.'' The terrible de•
tails,imporfectly derived from his subsequent
ravings, can here be only faiutly indicated.
It began in ceaseless brooding on hie crime.
The mental excitement and reaction of. feel,
ing succeeding the 'murder had, 'produced
sickness ; : with recovery Crime remorse; ,' of
fording him no rest or remission. He thought
of the deed, in all its particulars of time and'
circumstance, with a monotonous misery
im possible' to •be shaken 'Off or lightened.— •
If the body of his drownedbrother had been
continually beside hitn..- bearinghim company
lin 'his daily walks, interposing its ghastly
!presence at his board, laying its :drenclied
face on his pillow, and staring at him, through_
the dreadful watches of the night With: that
piteous, appealing look -he' retnembered so
well,,he could not have been, more'constantly
haunted by it. Especially,.llo was troubleti
llbythe irrevocableness.of the past. seem.
ed of all things lunxible that there should be
no possibililp of undoing the murder. •
Neither the cares of business nor , the. `to faction of his wife and cbildreo suffered
afford him more than temporary oblivion.--.
At times be distrusted their notice, and made'
wretched attempts' at their appearance of
happiness,, which only deepened his subse.,
anent and habitual gloom. During 'the
first year of their union she :attributed it to
griefs!, his brether's hies and strove 'earnestly
against itsluigi tined influence. But as time
elapsed without' offering any: mitigation
his rnisory,her health and spiritsuffeked.' She
began to fear for his sanity. i•
If he bad have been „of .09Srser organiza
tion heiZtight have rushed into dissipation ;
but his nature revolted from gross indulgences,
and it was rendered additionlly morbid and
sensitive by guilt.,. Then, too, he loved her
always. That was why he hid his secret.—
The fear of losing, her—though her pos.
session never gaCe 'i t t)] a tranquil moment
—Affected him with :nuns terror than • the
thought of the shameful death,to which con•
fession of his crime ,might have consigned
him. This withheld bim also from the al.
ternato of suicide- r this, and the conviction
that death would separate them forever; for
his former skeptici4M had succumbed beneath
the tremendous assaults of conscience,and ho
had' returned to his fear. lie believed him
self damned.
How dreadfully that idea took possession
of him, to the exclusion of what little hope
had lurked later within his soul, the hying.
Nation may conceive but not depict. Hour
after hour, day after day, night after night
he. pondered on it, always starting with the
assurance of its being his inevitable destiny.
His remorse, he thought, was not repentance:
that , involved confession and the acceptance
of punishment, which ho could not bring
himself to undergo. So there' remained for
him, in awful words of Scripture,,nothing but
"a fearful looking forward to judgement."
His brother would confront him at the Great
Dav • she would Icnoiv' all then, arid be caught
up into heaven lie Would go. away into
torment. No lirdic, no forgiveness through
,all eternity
Thus his agony increased and culminated.
He stood by the bedside, of his dying father
with no other thought . than that ha would
shudileringly consign the, fratricide to deserv
ed perdition were he aware of his crime.-,
He.heard of his mother's death without a
tear. In his:home, mn - the mart, at church,
his isolation Was complete and dreadful.-1—
He was tempted to proclaim his guilt aloud
in crowded places; anon to shrinking avoid
anceof his kind,even of hie wifeand children.
One of the latter resembled his mnrdered_
uncle in countenance and manner."• fa
ther was afraid of this'boy, he would watch
him secretly , slinking away when neticed.
He almost 'dreaded that the child's' face or_
words would indicate some preternatural
knowledge Of the, dead.
Presently he began 'to Mistake the fancies
of his guilt-oppreSsed brain for realities.. He.
would start at the door as,,if- he expected
something to enter; would : suppose be heard
his br9ther's.voimealling to itim. ~ Did
at this time,im polled by seine fearful fascina
tion, Make a, journey the dead of winter
to the scene of his: crime ?. His words subse.'
quently implied. as much, and he was said
to have disappeared for a week on a supposed'
business journey. It matters little ; his trap
edy draws towards' its-clese.
One night in midzsummer, when the rain
heat heavily on the roof and the thunder
rolled and crashed over head, in overwhelm
ing apprehension of the inpending end' of
the world, he toldler'all. The next he Was
a helpless lunatic Asyletu. ,There
be survived ten 'years;' ontliving 'her, at once
the cause and violin of a,brime of which his
childrep are Aiithie'honr.ignorent: ' •
. •
An elderly gentlemen, liceuatomed to .tin.
dulge," entered the "room of A certain' inn,
yliere eat frietid by 't he'
pair otgreen'annocanineupnit his forehead,
rphhing Air het
tw.pedy end water,. t friend"
Oat "his. eyes eittii #irtke!' end ieithei;
pad
good."the
Quaker, -4. what'' , Ifthohiynat near
apentableVoirtir': thy &Mali .
fee! ttioethi
thy eyes :Would ' '''"
. .
I Wirli.Not."••=4aatil,a
ticiy t ipaide4;arati, 110' loati . ., af.
is voids stuck i b. • ~
• ( Whaewon't"yoit la?"' 'ana
''Thatt?Ciy, Watit'a
~tne, matte:- i.kieve';
apowithitigtotpx,ro4oi,. 00
aiieweted, ii ¢hp Banie.etyu► ; tone,
'''Tlielittle - hoy . te.:On the right , track,f,That
is" jutit .one of the places to say " 11 , 611 1 e.!'
hope he willl stick to it. He will, I feel
aura.
•
MEE
mom
MO
: The, parlot so great with the grand display,-
'. Is good for,the• fele and ball, , ,
kid fortis helight:ln the itiner ray
• • Aitt'steale id the lengthy hall;
But glee 'me a seat by the kitchen hearth— '•
• , the clock so old and king,
There let me dream, *bile the.tick,•tick, tick
- Beate time kettle's song!
' • '•' :the tick, tick, tick
And.the:altnmering song, ' ' •
ilifeuempany been fqr the hours long.
Thlaworl(lts all a stage
And all' the wan and. women merely , players."
Phaksrare.
• Sllnkakara.with all his glaring inaccur•
acies, understood so much of mankind, that
his works are universally received and relish
ed. In, the wholeroinid of his writings no
sentiment can be found more true than the'
one above quoted. .
• We hear a great many steak of the entity-,
aissm 'of life and its pleasures ; Mit what are
they in reality? Solomon tried them all, -
and then left to mankind as a legacy the
most precions part of his wisdom —"That all
is vanity and vexation of spirit." Life ilea
babble and man the creature of a .nsoment,
filled with desires which he can never hope °
to'satisfy. This sentiment has been beauti
fullY expressed by an anonymous writer,
Let de fora nioment'•take a retrospective
view of life. First cornea the infant
a perfect little cherub. At this time his de
sires are bounded by the plaything of the
moment. As he increases in years, life locks
sunny, without a single cloud to obscure,
or tempest to disturb its tranquility. But
aids t hOw soon may the fairest landscape
be clouded., He is sent to school and. finds
a beginning of care in the constant dread of
the master's birch. Now wishes of all kinds
reign within-his breast. He wishes to be a
man, Ite.wishes to haven beard. For the
purpose of starting it. a little soap and the
back of a knife are put into requisition.—
The urchin becoming a little bolder, flourish
es a razor, and soon becomes a regular sha
tter. Now;teikaps, he sees some pretty little
specimen . of the " last 'best gift to man." with
whom he is, or if he is not in reality, he con
ceives himself 'to be, in love. Then .cares
crowd upon him. If he be a student, it is
particularly troublesome, for to him,
He quite hard study, and becomes pale,
pensive and melancholy. Sometimes his
inamorata gives him what in•vulgar parlance
is termed "the sack,"—which implies that
elle; not having the fear"bf consequences be
fore her eyes, and in spitopf all vows and'
protestations entered • into to contrary not
withstanding, leaves our student and bestows
her smiles iu some other quarter. Then a‘i•
ful rage and despair possess him by turns,
and his mind is filled with visions of •dirks
and - pistols, ropes and water: This at last
gives place to a gentle melancholy, arid
until be sees some slew face, when his former
love is forgotten and he - proceeds to'act the
Same farce over again. • Suppose him •now
to be married and to have entered upon the
active duties of life. Cares multiply upon
. him. After the fatigues of the day, he, re
turns to his home to enjoy a quiet evening.
But alas! no sooner has he set his foot over
the threshhold of the door, than , his tiara are
saluted by, die horrible yells of half a dozen
beats. Squeaking in horrid discord and con .
fuSion dire, "Papa." This is but one source
Of trouble: ' He enters • upon the political
arena. The:eyes of all his friends aro upon
him.. He adopts a certain course of conduct.
The oppoSition papers open their' batteries
upon him. His good name, is slandered.—
Perhaps he loses his friends. • His pretend- .
ed friends may be 'foditd to be his , greatest
enemies, and troubles '
of all kinds await him,
uutil ,he sometimes sinks under Wens:* Hap- •
Py for him,if he did - 1 Suppose him to have
surviied them all. 'His strength and vigor
decline . ind he feels sensibly the certain ap
proach of old age. His children may turn
out badly. His health lost'-confined to 'his
chair, he takes pleasure in doing nothing.--
New, also, ho has his, Wishes but they are
reversed,;- Belongs to be . like ''the happy
ebildren he , sees , 4irOund 'him. He -
falls'into his dotage, dies, and is thrust into
.is-coctipby, his Oeeily heirs, and in a. few
years Mitt verYname is forgotten. Oh I, what ;
a - pleasant prospect of
_likis.beld out to us.
Who would net be .a man? Who ,would not,
have a. beardr Who - WOnki net be. iti love? •
Who' *mild not be tnitiried?' W6O" would ;
notrbe-a'greyheaded,.cubning
'Who would. not be a ,drivelling;. idlOtie 'old
man? theotrejs life, where'
men ind women are merely playere.!!
phalopeare, Al i g ht .wititjustice have pd.
d'ed • •
.
,•
And,p,tlji Pert epleadidtaad invitiOg
libe'ar coosider, L issibroyity,s, t
. „which ba
belo'beautifully e xpressed by a poet:
' We came up like a flower, 'llko a weed pau awar,
And rimy, In surcesdon—taon POO us ars Dn."
TEN =TX AND. CLOCK.
8T,114/511 nUAX COOll4.
. . ,
11. •
..
; On a Sabbath eve ;When our mother eart h
Wittlin a enow shroud lay;
I time my shah. to the kitchen heart
• And then let fancy play, .: : ': '
I'm planning a good for to fellow man,
Ere taking a (care t.f my prime, . .
I'm wondering what will mown my aim,
' r When the *lac, tick telli me--Tline,.. . i .....: . ..
• ,' , :To the tick. tlelf, tick ' : ~
. ,
'!ls the simmerikg song, • —.-
'' That sings of a heart with a purpor strong. ~
' ' • 111. • •
Again 1 am back ck to the kitchen hearth 7.
Lean hack in the same old chair,
etd.l. sigh for a purer -soul—
Which foiling in truth, Is a pmyer. -
What Is it, I query myself,.that gives
The joy and the peace to the rebid?.
The tick, tick sPeaks ors good intent
With the grand result!' of—Time!
To the tick, tick, tick-
Is the Ihnmering song, , •
That chearoth my-heart to the trial long
On . ce more I am hack to the kitchen hearth,
By the kettle and clock I love;_,
I dream of the great and the good who were,
And now are at bonito above;
Yet Irtoe that a band goes ronnd'and round,
Vt knit the•tick, tick gall gees on,
I feel it to reeling away at my life, •
And soon will the thread be gone;
;Big the tick, tick, tick I
And the simmering song, , •
Wlll droamers have 'till the Vi . (pLID Is Ohs. -
LIFE.
" Man is ♦apor full of woes, - ,
Ale outs& eiper, mid down be goes." '
" terultug In his nurse's arson"'
. seems natural
To think of all she says, end shoe a way
Of coming to one's dreams, and then her name
.le always in the loss., like a word,
And half the time, he studies it."
" Ile feels likenue
Viso treads alone, •
Soine banquet hall deserted;
Whose lights are fled, •
And all but he departed;!!
. .
parpi !If!lgnet co i themP• • ;
Ftsgeas or id=
The world Is a Few Which never ran red, ~ •
Where tempMts end stoims,wnd dangers Molest,
Where many poor eallori ire dashed on the Chore,
And multitudes perish to rise never more. • " :
'Thee,Church Is a ship,aistnannid and tossed ,
But guided by Christ can nevir be lost '
The tempest may thriaten and - h:arribli roar,
But Christ haS iMiurad her to Heaven's bleat shots
Ttuf Gospel's aisat, constructed ekp►e,
Ofjustico composed; and mercy end lore;
Thus perfectly; fitted by slorlouOgrate, •
To accomplish his pill In saving our race.
The servants of Christ are fishers of mei:
They lot down the net again and again; ,
fly preaching the Geopee we sinners . Ore . caught,
lend;lod by the Spirit; to Jesua`are brought.
dg The Ainericau Pump. ty
Gissix Wonx.--about a year since, lifter
an examination of . . the abate invention, : we
• gave in onr columns a favorable notice of it,,
since whiets.'ample-time - has - been afforded to
:test its real merits, which.we learn .has , been
successfully One in almost, every .section..of
the Union. 'At the beautiful and handsdmely
-.improved reeideneenrected' immediately 'upon
•' the site ofobi Fort Independence, South ,Yonk
ere, neir_ffitigebridge v haili, owned and ocon-
Tied by-Win•. 0. Giles, Esq., (Of the house et
Andrewe..Giles az Co., .100 Chambers street,)
..0110 of theag pumps has been put in operation.
;It is set in a reservoir,
.eupplied by two mem
etable springs, within - a few yards Of the old
''hduse and headquarters, .(still standing,) of
General Montgomery. By' ieritation_on_SaL,
urday last, in company. with Mr. James M.
• Edney, we visited the abOve location for the
•
purpose of witnessing the operation of thin
pump. While present, Mr. 'Edney and Mr.
Giles measured, the distancefrom .the spring
to the• house, which was found - to he eight hisn
drid and sixty-two feet, and the perpendicular
el9vation was one - hundredandfifty eight feet. -
They then put the, pump. in operation, and
through, a threequarter inch pipe, (which was ,
very'mutivagainst the pump, being too small,)
forced over, five gallons of water a minute the
above : dietnnee and height, by two men or by
one man, and Mr. Edney, worked the pump
alone with one hand, Mr. Edney hie such eon- '
fidente in ihe.pump,. that lie will- gsranteo
that two men will elevate water two hundred
and fifty feet and carry it horizontally., one
thausand or more fejt. Mr. -Giles hits, tried
other - methods of getting the. water frogs the
spring to the house, which•havet proved to .be
slow uncertain and expensive.— Nothing has
- given' bins half the satisfaction. of the Auserl
cansPurop, and with' this ho
,appears much
delighted • 'We hare: no hesitation 'in pro
nouncing it one of the most ingenioas inven
lions in the of ffydraulics 'ever construct
ed. It can In all:ordinary depths be worked
with the greatest 'ease by email boy, and its
simplicity,' durability, cheapness, -and adoption
.for forcing water up toMmost'any height,gives
it a decided, advantage over the majority of
other inventions miule.for this purpose. , ;For
its size and appearance, - its'-power- is most
wonderful: A man an put it on his shoulder
and carry it elfin:oat:any dietetics,: 'The'Pnblio
have only to, zwituess.the operation of this
pump to be eon vinted that too touch caning,
be said in commendation of it. These ' who
have experienced a difficulty in' getting water
up into high .buildings; orto great elevations,
orwlio wish to obtain something of e.sulistan-
Gal nature; at a trifling expense, easily worked
by bend or power, will find in the American
Pump all they need combined, for, it discharges
at any number of given points. and throws
water by host from 30 to 40 feet by - hand,
with great ease and regalairly. Mr. Edney
keeps samples at Isis office, and a well working
pulnp at 70 feet.. at his factory, - 932 Tenth
street. Full drawings and prisms will be sent.
free byaddressingJames M. Edney, 147 Cham-.
hers street N. Y. Express.
Tue. SlMri s
. Secaer.—Twenty clerks in a
store. Twenty hands in a printing office.
Twenty young men in a village. All want
to get along in the world, and all expect to do
so. One of the clerks will rise to be a part:.
nor and make a fortune. -. One of the• cum.
positors will own a newspaper and become.
an influential and prosperous. citizen. , One
of the apprentices will come to be a,master.
builder. One of the villagers will get a bawl.
some farm,and live like a ',,putriarch. But
which is destined to be the lucky individual
Lucky! There is no luck 'about it. The
'thing is almost as certain as' the 'Ruld of
Three. • The young fellow who will distance
histompetitors •is ho who masters bis
nese, who preserves his integrity, whit lives
clearly and purely, who never gets in debt,
who gains friends by deserving them, and
puts his movie) , into a savings bank.' - There
are some Ways to fortune that look altorter
than this' old dusty highway. But the,
staunch ni - ea ts of the eom triunity, the men who
achieve swathing really worth having, good,
fortune, good name, and a serene old age,
all go this road; ,
A few nights.since, a young couple were
married in Rochester. The bride was a very
beautiful girf,.gnd bad quite 'as -beautiful a
•sister, who was also unmarried:-. After. the
two had r beeit Made one,. the reverend uniter
of hearts and souls, kneeling, dOwn and pray
ing feivently, entreated the richest blessings
and-mercies of Providence . ou_the. bride ..and
groom, as well as upon the "surviving sister. 7
A young.woman, wanted Sinclair, lias pnb
ished n volume of. "poenrs." She 'addresses
he foll Owing lines to her
. sweetheart
"I would I were that nice cigar
That rests bet wean pont , lips; :
Yor, oh! !grudge the honey
or the nectar which tt sips." .
We are in doubt as to whether ayotiag
man wouldemake well. but we'd like to'. try
ono in a line Havana wrapper. '
The following dialogue in repoited bet Ween
two boys: "%V hat .do you-think my (ither,
the other day shot nine hundred and ninety.
nine pigeons ivith:One barrel of his gun.' . 77
"Oh I my Gosh 'Why didn't he say a thou.
sand at oncel" (Reply provokingly.) 4 . Do
you suppose my father would , tell .a lie just
for the sake of one pigeon V' •
„, Two young fellows got to bantering each
other one day. Filially, one of them;exclaint
ed "_Well, there's One tbingyou can't - dol ”
Ii• What is it ?" Yon can't put your head
9.n,einpty , barrel." Oh, ',nonsense," ex.
VEffied the other,,"why can't I" "Because,".
dryly rejoined the firal, "it ism' impossibility
to put a hogshead into a-barrel I" ."
Au 'enraged , gentleman: aadreiging = frOin,
hie chamber . *laden , 'youth' who' had i ht;',en .
serenading hie •datighter'he4l; tiwininr r aanli
You. area' , great' .1 !;
glean to keep - tin
`adding' here
Upon, hie heacW '
~, I
An Indian once brought ari
'and finding hint . ' wink' iiiid'hfirailelis never
attempted control .111611 'Eviio,:tla'y' the
lion gainedilit 'strength; nhd' beCame,M:Oty
antiint
rnge, ism fell upon the;, ,n i tio F e
,pleces.,' 'Oft 6?il juttii9l l 4‘ IP/4.,4 44 . 4 5 .
tiiuch resemble tligt ,lit n• ' • • •,, •
• - • , ! 1 ' •
.)
"Warm day, Jones, warts day,"saidSmith,
as they mot lately: "Yes, ii is; said Jones,
It is soma warm it not summer."
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*IARIETIES
ONE HUNDRED MilltDßllB.. 4 —The Rev. 11. M.
Sews, of Cineinhati, ilk recently preached
a sermon On 3itirder, and stated that during
his residence in that city there has been more
tharirine•hundrectinhrtlers or on tin average
. of two a. month, while in no instance had:the
;
perpetikterlmen ere uted. '
REPORTED OFFO4. ' If 'BRIGHAM YOREG TO
SELL OUT.--. The St. Louis • Democrat learns
that,Unpt:fitimpsottpassed through that city on
Saturday, en route, for Weshington, - withdes
patches from Utah, .contititiing propositions.
from Brighnni Young tokell the Mormon prop-.
erty.at.Salt Lake to . the , United Stales, tho
Saints to remove to some point on the Pacific
coast, either in the British possessions or 'the
United States. - ' ...-.,... " .:. . -
WILL, PATENT_ FLUID , EX,PLOIM
peddle'r •pirteht_fluia lamps called at the
liguiruritiiirs. Poer, in Brooklyn, recently, to
sell his lamp. • His lamp, kir said. couldn't ex- .
plodel and Co Conviiida the • family . ; he gore
it a violent, shaking, when rhti lamp exploded,
injuring orie person, a child; fatally, and we
otbera
s niore or lees Oevethly:
AN' AILONDIStIOP DEPOBED . BY rtte Pore.—
The ATChbiabOß.Or.Florqueo. whn,ohnnted s
clime in Ifonoi of the King OT'Sertlinia, on the
occasion fo his recent-visit to the' abnexcd
'provinces of Italy, Las hhen - deprived of his
office by the Pope, and cursed. . • ' •
ItEINSTATIED.—Rov. Itlr. Schindel, a" Penn
sylvania State Senator; from the Lehigh -dis
trict, who lind been suspended from the thin- •
btu for allowing himself to be elected to a
-political.office;L•las—been,- united—with—the--
Lutheran Synod again, having written a let•
ter to the Synod exprissing his intention of
retiring front political life'ht the end of his .
present term.
Two MEN MUEDEREti DT A Cinctni COMPANY'.
—A terrible light ; fook place at Montezuma,-
Ind., between •a cireie_catepany exhibiting
there on Saturday week, and some of the cit., -
, izens of hat place, in which two of the latter
were killed by-being beaten with the pegs used
in fast - cuing down the canvas.- Nomrntsts.
• CAETI6N TO -HUNGRY MILITIA. MEN.—At the
parade of the Gregory Guards, in Jersey
_City;
N. J.,roatintly, a Mr. Hooper, ono of the metn
bera.Oft he Corpa, ate twenty hard boiled eggs,
and Washed them' down with - copious pole
tions'of Inger-beer. lie died from Indigestion
after a short. period of-suffetingt--.
A SAGE RENAME. —Judp Velure, ofPitts
burg, in charging n jury - in a Sunday liquor
case, spoke of whiskey shopa And said, if this°
furnaces were kept in full .blast for six days
in the week, they should be allowed to cool—
off on Sunday, and give, 'th'eir atcmache a
chance to takea little cola water to cool
their timbers for Monday. ' •
In, the year 1848 Mayor Wood—purchased
for.rl,ooo, ihree scree of land 'on which his
present . residenceis located, and, for which
lie has been' offered, within ,the past week, -
$lBO.OOO, and which has been refused.. The
seine lucky or fortunategentleman„Nrchased
many years ago, lots now : fronting on the
Central Park,for which he paid only httnplreds,
and for which he is iow offere94l6;o6ll each.
LIEUT. Geo. P. WeLse, U. S. N.—The fu
nerat of Lieut. Geo. P. Welsh, United States
Navy, took place on.the 18th,inst., at York,.
Pennsylvania. The deceased officer was
buried with military and Masonic honors.—
Purser Sterret Ramsey, LAMA. S. it. Franklin,
U. S. Navy; Lieut. Small, U.S. Army; Mak.
Generals Clete and Hay; acted as pall-bear.
ers. Tha battialon of volunteers were con,.
mended by Capt. Zeigler. Lieut. Welsh died
at Aspinwall, on board the- frigate .Sabine,
on the I Gth. of April. His remains were
brought home. in the United States storeship
Relief. '• •
AWFUL BAD Snoorixo. 7 -People. who Un•
dormice to shoot each other should be careful
not to fire too wide of ilk. mark, as was the;
ease in Kentucky last weeks Wm. Cooper
and B. Letcher had a difficulty in Lexington,
lientucky,(mi.„tho,l,4o, which presented a
fdrirtidable aspect, but rusulted ridiculously.
They drew revolvers and fired nine shots,
without hitting each other, w h en they threw
their pistols at each. other, and continued the
battle with boulders until separated by the
people who witnessed it. A man passing at
the time had mlead pencil shot off just where
it protruded from his - vest pocket. Another
had thelappel of his breeches pocket pierced
by a ball, and another shot struck a. window
in the third story of a house liaid by:-'f
TERRIBLE AND FATAL Akcottkx.r.--YeSter
day (Wednesday) morning a fight toelcplace
between two,uten on the track of the Hudson
River Railroad, near Peeks!tilt. They had
both fallen in 'the struggle between the rails,
when the eleven o'clock express 'train•appear
ed, just coming around' the eUrve within a
few yards of the combatants. •A nether per•
son, a friend of the phrties, seeing the train
approacb, endeavored'to pull the men who'
had clinched,' from the road, but he 'Was
caught and held firitily'by one of them, and
they were,4ll. killed: The engineer, as Soon
ns he'Terceiveithem, gave th7e signal to ap.
ply the breaks; but it was too late, and the
locomotive atid GAM cars passed 'over them
a11.,.Du0 h e men was eo_tellribly_..muti.-._
fate that he Could not - b - o — recognised. The
other two men were instantly killed, haying
rimir clothes Lora .from their bodies. ap•
pears that the engineer was entirely free limn
blame in the mutter, as the moment he saw
tbe men on the triick he did.liis
_utmost :to
avoid the ealamitiy• The Men were till intoxi•
cated at the time. 'Their nameu ate as fol
lows: Henry W. 'Hall, an Affiteri can, aged
thirty • five ;..Thomas Granger, also.an A meri•
camaged tweniy ; oight;•anddeorge.Rawcliffe,
nniglishinati,sgedtwettty•two. 77 N. Erost.
The United States AgrieulturarSociety has
nearly perfected arrangements. for. holding
its eighth 'annual exhibition at,cirminatti in
. September.. The premium lief, it i is said,
will be larger th'an any similar exhibition in
the world.- Should the ' pleuro pneumonia
render. it unsafe to congregate Wile; inereas•
ed premiums will be given for. horses' and
implements. • older to, thoroughly test the
machineii • the exhibition will. remain open.
ftir '
,An Iyis!mien bbing asked on adate trial,
for a certificate Of,his.naarriage, took his het
o turd exhibited a liegib scar, which looked
as though it hadlieetiniade with a - fire ahoy.
el: The evidelicawaesatisfactory:•• ' •
.„. .
;. 4 , 1114r - 6'l'l'4.a' twci'lltigg l which' will
,ntako-ua
hcippy thief life,lirwe attend to Omni. Tho
lust is never vex.onraelvei 'about' what We
halp;i and tho 'mound la. , neveri to 'vek
aniaelvos nhout.whotwo,cooljelp.,:d
1 , - , Lonss2o Dow oWoe Said' of it: lensping
farmer, that if lie•ltad.tthe.. whole-world'in
eicised. n single .tluid, svonld,ont coni.,
tent without a ( patch, e(genupd, Oil, ,P!!! ° P t. ,
aide for‘pdiatUes."
glans, .sphi.es the matter,,?,'„;'Dp....;lorrel
wagon , h 4 runawaygreett'hbrse, and ,
tiro - heti de aide tree `tif'de''brick' house vat
Stand hy'de dornerl littdp 7 past'acrtiss de
graph. ; ' ' - • :
„.
god man, 'who has seen touch ,
Air lho
world, and is not tired of it, says "The
grand essentials to happiness in this life arei
something to . do,' something ;A n 'in ve ,
something .to'hope fors: • • •
II
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