he Democratic Watchman.
Q
111
E LEFONT PA
or the 1 atehttmo.
THE DYING YEAR
BY W. J. TUOMPSON.,
A round 010 wood's confides,
Noventher (gouda oareer
The tot rent's I Ito gruelling puree
Bewail the dying year,.
WSII mat mg nud Inlpolimug Rit rop
From ',Nlllllll , 'O frOZOII rlimr
Tho frtirirititg torrent. roll their course
So Life-010 Son of Time!
Te torrents I Lyre Oita 'hall Ye own
No tarrying spot below •
Still flowing where 111... f'a•t ',mil t o wn_
kittli Hewing—nod to flow I
11v fat Prni patt , ` tie oxinring your
(nail) folentiv unrlled
-114 joya i IVOrrID , V. I ui and feat
l'n..cd like n tali, long told
And lerm, It no rev 14N - Iw. the while,
No Irv,. of Sot rove. churn
Olt bet 1 . 01 4 Hope—her worth und Awnlo--
What NI 11,1 i had hypo there !
Though bee ' M upon a •tunny 4rut,
Though slrud.•r Lr lily
My faith in !leaven, and Jayr to be,
Are stronger than tt.e gale
, , ( rare. am Gillen, now.
The field. wiry no their flowery
Pro long nil] romp thew hnling Nnovi
And Wtntei'4 iglnonly hum
But in ink Kill v. rt,t, t• emir leaf,
wer4 1,14,nnl
And rnrth grief
'Mld Summer'. genii,' I eig.
(Fnr the WATelimAys.
WAYSIDE SKETCHES.
➢Y n J TIDIMPSON
Let IVA AtTll,lllon ',lock their ti.efttl toil.
Their homely Join and deo Inv obor.m.:
trinnth ur hew itli hn.11% , 1•1111(111 , 1 1 1 1 . ,
Tile chart 1111 , 11•Imple nn nits or the poor '
littw ttlettttailt it ti to railer around
lio told gter itrelmi of imam go
litireh and mum upon all tint tin. been
ndiii ilna^tvtvithtnit.wallTM...•
nereil relics or a by-Giros !Igo hnvr n
!lima which 14 imagist in vain amid the
roweled stroetv of cities and capitols
The Wage ehorch I What n world
weanlng do tho4o words c•ontarn
ven 1.1/11,1 In 0 1 / 1 honiono Th.v
re the •vnoriv m of ',olive, and lore, xnd
of whthoin
ml ninnnnt ., Th tiin hililllllll
'ltch idle ill) tho tho
-,or 01w py%, in,1,01 and pleastire4 of
Aber days
Y.' OW • .111 rr , v etioroh 11,v I
, so t' lititzer wtlhin It 4 wiLll4, and
vatch tho , ton strott ing through it.•
lninrd window , t—witiolt.r lonia it+ nrch
,, and think on tho 1111111 y, 111,1)W in the
ilont griive.tirotincl it, whnvr vnirr. have
, chood thn tl o Chlirl•tf tn. ! To
ho thooghtful curl ( .4,11t1'1111,11111% 1»111,1
is is nstudv frniiif,ht with much that
horsing and salutary. Horo, within
ity-e.,%ffied walk, ba,o been tilt
firrl;l*, "r 41, •1,•,.1.
••1.1i.01 111 t 11V4.{ 14r11 I% It limit
ere, on eiteh r , turnints, !-lithlnith, they
not tb.• liwir tin
11111111'11 I , i tiwir l ld Hg , Hard liv,
, enerntion niter 2:eneratin, they lived,
ovod find died, 11111/ were laid i h their
la•t. 111.4- IA 11 11 , 11 , 0111 `Jill,/ 41W
..1.1
What a 117 , ha•N ‘111,t.4,. chareh
mid Liar, %veto 114 wall% , p4.Nk I
w , oii I o It+ roditalQ
han the finest rotnanco ever w ntt, n
Inn up ..1.1 n:111, %wool.] ;elate the
iri etntlt , nni4t. nrl.l death..
ice ....lettruted How
1 , 1 WOlll4l 4. C4l/11111t ' 011 till` j , ,V of th,•
when, Ihn lull in the
tower mot etnee.l the nuintn't
rilhtic.. Gtrl - the rtire‘t in the riir
nut ti ut luttle 1:'`IT11111111.1y
wool.l dept. t h , .n 411.• look,' with
e tun pie orange- blosAurn in her Illlburn
airs—urnolorned vne hot In' her own
reline+ , how the day e el, bra
d beneath the xprett.ltng tree ,on the
Hag.. green, how her 1. cents
in her nn I .taw their
.uth rettored ntoin in here ; bon? d,.
ved her Albert, and htttte he loved her
II tin* the nut t•ltty. it eoutl.ltell,b.ut
nn' unite Ow an al. nf
r. , c0n14 Ow I ,wli,
tin " Th.•u. Ii 11 , •11:11 . 1I1 I n on tem
atina ull OEI4, pool ui I (i f , t.. th,
utginntom Ihi• of rii-
I liff.; in roomilitin • 111 , fl 'lt /
I..}'um•lN ..r t •gm 1,1..
01, 4 11111. 3 1104 i. 11114 un•ul:ll.Nt
t "knew, and knew no (Wore, their
I 11. tril
JI•I the toll Am id. I
"f Irntn—
m„ neon
ll' aI • 1 , 1110,1131 In my Item t
e t..auru eLatol then all LI. Klo.n of ort "
ph•nvrn~ in Ow ',cord of their
of tlio
mono congenol to the feel-
4 , T., thew
churet. was 'brine—tiro
is holwr, in which, on each return
g SPlblAth, they wit shipped 160 Most
igh, —not with the knee-worship and
illow mockery of pride and potnp—Nt
putt and in truth. Iti buttresse+,
ven by the hand of Time, were lovely
their sight. Its turrets were tho de
,ht of their anrly days,—for from these
;y werewont to g 117,1 f UpOn tllO land
-ICI WI
rend around Yuen the num
of its old arches were stored in their
inories o Arid well 'night they love
Old church. Within it, were they
i4toned and made of the Christian
ir!i Within it ivoro they taught
w truths of revealed religion—and
ado to think, when gazing upon its
ambling wall, that, "there ii a house
it made with hands, eternal in the
ut let nut the old church-yard be
forgotten. Let us leave Gm church for
evasion, end wi.nder amid this little
community of death licre, there is it
study `Worthy of the longest life, end
fraught with the deepest instruction.
Let us sojourn hole awhile.
\Vlrtio walkingamong the bond-atone;
and gazing upon the grocii'mounds which
rise beneath the yew and the willow, we
lire made to realize the variety of earth
ly greatness and glory. Beneath our
feet rests the generations of the lowly
the just villagers wish worshipped in the
churoh lay beside the denizens of yester
day For looking on this scene., how
forcibly are we reminded of the words
of Grey :
' Beneath tho,e rugged elm•, that yew-tree.
Bhthle,
IVhere heave,. the turf In many a mould'i ing
In toe narrow yell !,,rover
Tho rude for efathera of the hamlet aleep4
The breery call of ineemte breathing morn,
The swallow, twilVrlng from her ntrawdtinit
abed
Tho Cottle., 9hrtb clarion, or the relining norm
• No none ahad romm them from their ldnly
bed
F 4 them, no more, the hlnzing heptrth shill
hum
Or 1.11.1, how.. mirn ply her I, rims( rare—
Het ehildien run to lisp their kilo'. reiiiru,
=
Yoi 1 what n stiply here l
this pal is it world which hnn 7/ not of
the fileaures of grentrimisom the prom lit
inn;i4 of ambition Their lot runs in "the
cool, +rguestrn•ml Lades lof Irfe " Tim
troubleil dream a glory was lit II font
of their 'l9u•y know not of phi
mortiflcatiiim uu iilent In the path-wnt
Farm• The of gold. of Inxurt•
of crime, or of eimmoist will not lie roe.,
ded 1W,1610 , 1 them ;It tho tnitdny it,
The nntive feelings strong the gnlleles...
MEM
And reason whisper,. were they not
mote happy Yim,happier ut thought,
in dead, and in iv , ird For, ui ,eith,
what are the mane...era 1111), ‘% Inch
wreathe the brow of the warrior or t h e
lett.idn'or, or of any id the chi 1.1 rPii
or greatne.s., compared with the i.,n,i
ou,ness of a life well,pont II we woo Id
realize the !loth of that null..
Winch has for try foutitdat.toii.
(1-iloo ul wealth or h mot, lot iii look ou
the marl& conotaph. wln ii vrol,lli-h
the nanodiii, dead yonder
101111110 A
k ttlan.o,rl cAll 11, , •11,1 hi •••k
Cllll Vl•mar'„ r.ove plovol, the .dent dukt
(Jr Flall'ry mouth.. the d,i11, , •u1 , 1 ear of
Thet lived their little hour and then
the oramous grave, which open. Mile
for all, elairimd them or it, forfeit pre)
Here we are made to fool that the , l , r)
tri,Litktnati L 16. 1, tip bwil, for ;01 lbw
its 1..8,1111'44 iliert the ill
than the lowly That, though, in the
inevitable workings of thel'r,•ator, Mtn
Or arid power, 14 1114)1e 4,1t 1 •11 111 , • 101 1/1
Vll,lO than of v ) et,
Huniii,d tip, the truth 10t.C.111.. ,
parent that ati All AN rm Ortior•ce re •
has "an shoal portion 11...111 t , / 1111 111.111
kind " T 111.4 11111 , 1 I,V , •r he th- ir ull rrt
all our reierening -and the M . Ollllllll ,
the truth it 14/11 V 1 , ), ,, t, the 11114'11•-1 and
best act of Faith We are irresr-dild:
brought to Ili 11111,11 • 1.10 • 1 01.11 111.11/1
solves alone 1,.s the power to be halm%
of iirdiappv -thatthe jrr ,• of the -mil
1.1 in no way dependant mern the e , 111111
geodes of NVealth, Power, worldlx
Fan', ar ItrlV other \ 1ran...11. , elf, 11111
St.lllll, Th, .start of our life
. 14 of (tor
own woltrung•—sad, to a greatextent, rt
is 1,41 t, to w
• h..ti. •
Will &Pik of the cup of misery or I Lip
plornis
/14 we wander timid tlo• mould
ring graves, take notice of OW monito
rial- which they present There is mu .1a
to be learned from their io•rti•tal Tit
are the .c.inty r '•corti• orl oi with i t
groat deed+ had no place Hilt, ILi ill
this, they can teach the 1e , ,0n of Human
E listener, and tvinioni,h 114 wti of it
"strange, eventful" b•ung this is wh.t.ll
the Creator has breathed into tt.ti
trite 11:Zpect 110 el.oeue perm ---11
well-turned sentences upon tloo, v lll ll4''
head.wtonev —for they w .re not in ,
The lives they record 11141111 . 111 , I, id ii,
Pimple and Cowly Vet, retid,n•
with them, and in Viet.rbreu,t,, the d •
sire of immortality had an e‘t-itelic •
That yearning after the immortal 1, an
attribute of our nature- sn itidito it%
longing of the cool, alike, u n til th‘e
and the lowly Nteight, of
of any description of F.truJ, b tlong,s t..
the dust at our feet —yet do w.• 44. •,
til 4 r . Pe head-stoto••, the wish to he
•
remembered
''VOL e'en 1.11,10 loinem, (rem mnill 1., 1.14.4
607111, frgll memorial “till erected nigh
With uncouth rhyme?s and nhapoleve n. II pluii
docked
(mi./lores the paiggitiß Ii Iblito or a nigh
For who, to &Intl, forgettni n prey
'rim, pleasing, Koslow, being e'er 1 0.1, 00 ,1
I.aft , t wartnipt °elect.. of Ore fol flay
Nor east ono longing, llng . rlng look Ipell 101 l 7
On Paine fond breast l he part log Root re Pee
Horne plane drew/ the eltoling eye requirer
E'en (ruin the erotic the VOW.. or Nato, erie,
E'en In our 41u, live their wanted tiree "
But for this unquenchable inAinot,
life would be bereft of nearly all its
charm.. This feeling—vouchsafed NI
to the learned and unletter .d, to the
prince and the peasant—is earne4
of that immortality which we till long
after—to which Nature testifies—anti to
the existence of which every (leper that
blooms, every leafy that treinbko in the
summer breeze, bears a mute, yet elo
quent testimony. • 'Resurgam," is writ
ten on the soul's tablets—and actuates
its aspirations much more than we are
willing to believe. And it is this in
fidget ,Which hid us to look toward
"that inheritance, inoon iptible undefil
ed, and which fie:loth not flWay
Here It n grave, whoqt sunken mound
tells that it is of it- recent date. 13ut
let Ili read its well-nigh obliterate In
scription- It recordt the departure of
one to whom more than the allotted
term wet vetiohutted. Ninety winters
had pas-ed o'er his head ere the inevita
ble, ineommutable debt was - plod'
Simple iv this record —it states when the
patriarch was born, and when he died
—and then the lino "I know that my
Redeemer liVet h." Few words—hot
enough I Fotir acgro years and ten, and
his earthly rave MIN , —P11,10,1 in
the ~, u iranee that he would rvo. again—
that 110 knew of the Prono , o, awl t f
that which rs non oil for Ihow
who believe n thorn No life Of
Ile had heard of
renown was hIR
the fame of actuates Anil eongillafOrti a ,
things afar or. IHi lot lorhbule
Rnrhn Jr in NIVIO Ihr ,, .laligliter ton throw:
01 .1111 t Om gal, of mere) , on in,t1.1111,1,
or to write him name on tlye 181,108 of
learning or lii=t i ory. Yet, in that hail!
slam /if lite what nurvt Lotto beet'
e‘perieneem of hope, joy, tear and lute.
Lite 10r hllll 11/111 104 jots 111141 111 4 sue
1114 1.1111 , 101 V /11111 Its till 11S 11 1110.
14.1 he his melon!
doiilo4 1 1 1.1 10.1 f.? Ilia
traiitipli= , Yea, a 11 it 11 eyqry one born
to earth, he fell all 1.1111
liwilteithlie , ;I. the I tie uI
11l ill glitl rulers. Ile tell the
.01 11 1/.11.1.411 1 1., 111 gratitude, tit
11/le--allll Ile ottivied the the
usher. Ile, hle, ;fleeted the
Tondos;; 1.1111 ; 1111,111 , d earls rettit mug
day , mazltel the g e.teli nr
eeediag: I the approach ill the
111.41 die htt llt winged Itrrmk
( 1 Item away ollh the
lw) , 111.1
/111.4111/I'y 1411111', I here 11.1 all./
1 Ile! 11111 later 'I I , (l.•ltilitic. In
11+0/.1 (if pal 11 11 114 lerljmirtiel oi to
the gnlye. hi. record etmlaite , the p•lflr%
of 1111111 ri runnnuu rut
%1011/11 11' 11,11 1'1 I‘ll/' 101 I 0,1
11411 11140 11 1 111'111141 111111.
lire thegr.ive childhomf The
1,1•34 , 14111 V 1•III.1111•111 IP:11.
(II it V. en.. it 1,14),-“mk.,l
um) 11)4111r11% "111 mi lia4( ill e4e2t.4111.4
frr (1111 i om , r), O 1),., 1 0) I" 1111 % , 1)1 1 (
rti.lt.ll
111 , )11.0. Flo•. - from the ~.t"rrily Imo
Lit,, ai ihr entrance of ith
Experient, x%,,,•• Or 111;11
)..11..!. 10111 eh of joryti
;11111-rfri,k, 11“pe• Itlin learm The light
lirllirpe ,%/t. nrrt nreled 011 11.1 hilOrt
Mr., Faith lul.l 11l 11111 V to re
cel‘e 11,1111.1 liad but Lel•nu in
ell le The Ideals wt. 14., p;vea•d
-1 he iho.ver adie•d. •' Whom
Iln g", 1,1 lone di..,wing Sm.!, Wll- ,
the Eckel ul Ilie aritUelllN
1. molt. 111 Ilia-t•
II) I <uoa lint (11111 kitows
Atil Ott-. tti,loll Ile 1 ni•l l r n.
‘llllll. 1,01 I.lllrlV .11, the .11.1 ttptilirem
Iha nt. I•l.ii F tth,. h.e.t. et, la. , - e,e:tteed
Thiq !zreeil 111 , 111114. Wllll 111 1 1i1111ii!
en,r,den), and %%11h the Itioxsttiot
!fig thtt, .Ite.httei_• th e ir perhme at
the halve of the 1,,,arint. , ,,r !hi+ green
grave t+ the inot ,rea tag 01 Nllll , ll
RII , I 141%( . 1111t . q. SII , II u. ti,, te-ilittiotoy
ra , 1 , 1 un Ille 41.0111 . , by the It and ul
sorrowo,..! hoe Yowl' tool Itt,tpli
Hess! flow pleaknot It sowols, Ila t%t ,
1W. , 1111. thin lIP/LIIIIIIIIOUhI, I.lpd
abate th.• breast or her who die , 1 so
t!,14 Oiint? ( % 111 01 1 1WIIV in
the miirin_ lite • how trite I , t the
leLretnl .entptrired lietie:ith her intim.
"
knout wit !" Ye.. an tliv light or
j 4,% 1,.•v:411 iu mlie.l rap.' of,
luili %AV, 111.0. hull Wag eho laid
Sh.,rl w
hor -11111 it Ara+ ❑ lir•• and
IVa• 10-tr,011,1 ' 'l • ht• ,t,ofit•
, 111111 TI,Pt
411 ti,r 0r.,(101,4, a , ll i.kst
pv•ri hiun•r wn, 1119111
brie of ono who 'troy.• to Ito worthy of
W , 0111111 . . , purr love -tho trio .t tool
•;trtlt \I sty Ithp .110 i•rt• 111
plout•:opz, liter tor Ito', their
111 11,1 Ilr.•210.. ur perhapi Idol
.11,1 10IIV, 41101101 t , i mourn them 11 , tio
hi-ive hope. (ll* this a'47 410n0L know
—of lira tai reeenl remain, ton Th,,
}mood, memorial above her head tells
only or the flight or it s t ele it ben lur r, for
the griome•A 'of earth Goil
faahumisoeh -and send them to earth
--the pinvolion of human ela_y They
serve to remind us of *slat the race
'night lie, if Sin and Sorrow had no em
pire over the goal Wis van tinagme,
as we 41,1111 d beside her grave, the
vil
lage train following her to her rooting
' place We can son her coffin plaimil rn
the centre aide of the I ittle church,
wails. the %Wage preacher recounts to
the Nettie assemblage the virtues and the
story of her life Then we dmr her
borne to the open grave in the church
yard. The young. and the aged stand
around in mute reverence, and as the
words cente from the lips of the aged
pastor, "From henceforth blessed are
the dead which dim in' the Lord," the '
tears pf affection and sorrow fall upon
the dead dust benvath. With a hollow
sound the clods fall upon her breast--
and sod 4 are heaped upon her narrow
bed. Forgotten, sho bonenth the
green turf—f:wwd ten by luxury and
prole, hnt • ronu•iubvrril by the humble
villager; and the .conlionlions of her
youth. Nothinq . of lon4-drown
pomp i.• hen. No ormoriol benringi
telVtif alleostrol. time and power. No
Irnpping4 of NV , .:,1111
The children of 1,11%111y 1
lIN. nut I titiing Ibo.o who titittlil nbma
hwlvo SII 1111 10 WM hot•
1114, 14 111 lowly nod 1101 I I bin taut thr niir
rounding4 if line tel utl As wit Stand
here, wo can almo.t calt/..3 the Vel'Ar Of
the poet
Hort. 4outif•l4,ll tho on, I test Of tho von,.
By I en, ine 1010%01 4 t 1 4 ee Ls
(ml,l ,
Ti; rr•d Li.• t.t Iou•+ ll) huttl 1111.1 ‘varldo
And pt
g 1,1111.1
)"en I ltlor , plewittro tho4o , t ril.-
f holt tile hail of ntroctlio) than Ow
h 011,9140 (mid to Intl] elliperorc
intito tokt•ti. of lo%'l . /Ift! 01101 t
IIV the fear if ovor or the prnitii•e or
gold -111,.1t. 11114 , ft:114 .or lhr 4 onoilio
WM111111:1111: llf tut ate
tribute+ .r lot e 14/1'1;110 whore lli roust
nn , itnlolown to is, !HS rlllll O , Litt ‘vrit
ten in the How trw:
h do we Ile: ut %vainloring
walks ul uunalttt ' 111.•,11 earth,
but I
like 11114 (.1%4.1.• Ih 11-_nl ., olorr ,01. , •.•
brow, ton t0,nr,11,e10v.,‘0,1:- a colonel
4111 high i•Itt•11 lir.• 1110 1111.11/4 . 1114 11/111 0 •1,
WOO% trl. rr. 11t• 111111 11.11
the I 4 ..r
1 , •%%1 It 111.1(
heart 11.1. i 11/II I , lame J '
A 1,1.1 ,A lilt I. it, If tho de-Ite 1, 1
it IS pr.mir hr iiruv..t thy ill 01
"Only the /1011 , 11 4 0, 1 1111.
141111.111 , 11 , We1, tlll4l 111,, ,, ,11111 in 011.101111,1
Such w a portion of the unwritten
hedory who h the
walls of the old t 111.h40 t botch Such
ore a few of tho lotion, who'll
(ding to it led t. , wort and
od bolt re-oes 11.11" Ill . (l . pial , l u tit tho
:1110.t high /11:0 010 -11111/1P :11144111 , 14 the
'nage chow!' than the 1,•lopou4 teeonds
of the ni.•ir.1.111,111
‘Vltere 1110,1 011.p1,1, 1.. r0nt0ec.,1, ,, ,.
Dev"ll(.li f„ t_ gill rz „ • pt tlu• hems '
AM we retrace our steps flout wan
Bering amid the ;rates of [lee , lowly,
how pleasing, Is that liensi%e tiielan
choly which irrest-ably p.e. , es , e4 the
mail 1 We prate liVelli lop/1141a to
realize the truth illu ir. k i,,,1:11 the , 11111
Ilion lot or the human race. We (eel
now, Inure than vier, the otter (uid'
!lens and needlessness of tlim,e'cotrem
and anxities with whit li u e are wont
to ernes otirftelt v.. We nee, as with
other eke.; the lull exte.it of that Inuit
which covets and nc- to the fake
pleasures 01 lite that - , ediicti‘e hue
which cause, hatnanity pritt them
above (ho ate,t ot real liappitie-s.
It. was the ~, , r eight thin eoliNtetion
and the leeling4 win, II Ibmt.,l nom it,
which the " Elt•g" of Gray 'ln
inimitable limbo.. ari d I I ~,gt.ry In
the solitude of the eotintr% elnin li sand
of S:)tolte ntlowg ihr I wtihs of
the unrecorded dead, he laid thecot tier
gtoite of his poetical I.llllc affild
the 111011.111VIIiill of the 1,1)( . e
great and lom% erllll Anil , ' the
there dery south, ,toriiiind
ing which could at%,il,eri the nobler
and native leeling,ll the pOlll Altionig
the latter, the gilded ti.ipping-. of
glory , and pomp serve hilt 1,1 call tip
thoughtA 11l the enipt liven of
human pride a n d 66,rt F'ur truly
"The greoa grave Or It I'.VVIV.
Wl , hol uibl 11..• o• ittid I, tiNt
la far more loved mei hu•loured
Than I. d 11.4
l'he heart. thee I , nrd and i 11,1•1111 41
Strew 11..4 1. the,
Arid 110 ttsi.tr 11.1,t1 111/I ride
Power of the Press Illustrated in the
Illness of an Emperor.
A corre.sporideni lii N 7', ib,oir
describes the male with Ii the
Preach Ellll/"liir afflicted, ii- well
the expedient .rted 1,. I.‘ Emper
or, LO COlll . Olll the is 11./ 11 , 14 • 111 IL I von
11 - 11111 his tlll4ll4`til /111. 11.1.1111/+ iris) //Vi
vant. in-us culler sl, oh
0.011,68 WlllOl //11/./..4 0 .4./ 1110 1.11111/0. , 1L1/51
01011/1 . that 010 WI 1101 1111. 11114 1
111111 011 the 01 111-. 615,1111 11/1 . 11,11-
101.%, Or, what I. fat mole prothsble, 15/11,
111111i/0 W 1 , 11 /1/0 11 0 /111110 , 1 1,1011-
iirch Ii 1,, oh-hi% 11111VZ.110.1, pri
vately doctorow, then
good deal of the Ilitt f“reigh
tellsgeriee stio 1. 11114 11111+,
WlOllll LIIII 1;1,1, I 111, Ill+, 111 1 Val
1•111,1V11, and I/111 Iy 1111“1111,iti,,n or the
near outbreak of one gi lit, war between
RIIPSI/1 arid which it itioured us
would end in a general European con
flagration; and alto atilt more private,
more exclusive, and excruciatingly ear
ly intelligence of n " tripbi alliance "
against the United States on the part of
France and England and Spain It now
informs us iiiithoratively " that the
Emperor is afflicted with 11. painful dis
ease of the bladder, and (1014(160,es with
great power the effect of such disease en
the nervous system. Tim, however,
lIaR been for some Una , ao iecret ; what
was a secret, however, but which the
Tribune 11111 i ro% , •nly(1, w that in the
earlier stages of the intilail) the Emper
or burned his back 111011 g Ito/ line, of the
spine with a lighted candle, by the way
of counter irritation. As this, as we
Lave said, was done Air the express pi.r.
pose of concealing his symptoms even
from trusted friends, itsehows the power
of the press in these sdays that even a
mighty monarch cannot cauterize• his
own back without tho reporters knowing
it.
Anecdote of Webster and Douglas
The anecdote, as related by Mr. Doug
-1114, WII4 to Ibis efreet Ho had always
been opposed, politically, to Mr. Web
ster, although their personal relations
worn frjendly and nothing had passed
between them which was calculated to
interrupt such relations. After ninny
*years of service, in the Lower House of
Congress, Mr. Douglas wan elected to
the Senate, and there brought, into inure
immediate Intercourse with the groat
men who held gents there, first and fore
most, en he said, with emphasis, the
great NVehater, then Clay, Calhoun,
Crittenden, Benton, and Anthers. nay
hug a good i.hare of ambition, by nature,
he wits net unwilling to measure swords
with the greatest leaders of the Whig
pee ty, 'end felt that any senatorial hon
or; won in debate with such 111011 would
he worth contending tor. Not ninny
weeki after taking 1113 seat such nn op
pouluniti, he thought, I resented itself
In the Om NO of some likellt%jen hutning
party telationn to the !immures of the
g overnment, M i Webster spoke with
feeling and deliberation. Douglas SIIV s,
"now is my limo"—nad tub Once re- ,
plied to the grunt statesman with conti-
Leave, and with smell ability its hr C.O dil
nOt doubting that what he
and would elicit an immediate reply
from Mr. IVebster.
In hon'rei•r, hr witq (loomed Io it
ilompponttilwnt, Mr Web-
,tor 11-wlesii.(l With tin 11104 t ro , rectliil
nl
lrnli)11 h.) 1114 81/1.1.1•11, but,
intikttig tiny nply, bir.relv r(.4111110,1 614
, we op t himi it hi. Brnulnrinl (le-k, A% II
an ,•1111f -,1..11 or (WWI., 1(1t1,Ille ,,,,
tvw da)s alit!' this ocroi trni e, its they
(ton , Ow chaiiik•i• to th,
midi, tlioy ettint• into eontitet Air
\Vobster, thin to the iLost
Ini ndls inanto•r, drew hi+ NI In %%101111
hn own, wtlkwl to it rvroote putt nl lii
rotunda, un.l 4 4111, 1 ". to 111111 on
the Fllilra of the d, Late of a 1.. w day.
pro% tons n1)0 t r.1.,,," %Ili , ' he, ..1 have
watt 1111 lour career with 1111. , re.t„ for
,ou•tul Mars You tutee earned and
iiu nro yuunn; nn I linen, I hope, ninny
yi•ar,i i.l public lets• 1 . 1 1 0
I'l'lllll t' (t :if N
111 . 1.1.111 y til
I lie It will nun 1(.•111 With 41101
109111111(11M uwl ullluottoo , Its
I.
YttAl /11 , ' u.gr at I %%Oh sour
iind pill 111 UV 11-1,1 r.. to the 111.411. , t
honor.' witt.•ll lhr lioptihlir hoe tli •10r1.
forll,l{' of hor Lot,
Not;, 113%111'4 , /1111 111 - , 1 ) o111,',1,1•,1 11/I , e
0104 I'm (her tO .3‘ ,I 1 a ll .ul
-
t 4,11 limnmeho-t for
yoar oo• 4 , 1411 , 1 1 .11,t11t.nturclegit.,
you a• niol It I , pp• - t
tin :14
I ‘v.I11 , 1) ne t., tindor tho
ir - voitt•tarwo: I nit. dolattO 010
day,l4l which you wad, ratter a .inart
sport 11, 1 11111kim; to trot Ir•on nio r.1.1t ,
and at tho •tllll , q. 111.. 111 • VI . ..o of
honor from rtllitle e.otitr. , 4 4 . 44 y with 1111
Opponent who I. 1 ..2711fileil, pi (hap., It• a
leading SenatOl I fnllt 11 , 1, • h 0 1 .1
v..tir if 1 lind
ii 1,1111.1 hair Iliad.. %oil appear
light that pat would not c , tot I had
0118 idea in tat 111111.1, hot n . 11111;1.41 out
of sincere hiridrio , 4 I.pr ‘,ll N“‘‘.• this
Is What I Ni-11 1.) tnrl s in 1411
Lou mu. h WWI to eII:0 t , 111 11 a part
111 'milli, It ,
( I„ Ire
tea hut nil trir lit it fri . ..ale•
s o natoi nil loolot. ar• • 11 %.1 ann
dirt np. • .11,,4., hot..
11114 Wll , ll 10 , 1 l a% - • , 111e . 11111 , 4 ',IN 101
the , lihjeet na t r Ili I , 01 , 11 1114 -
IV and fof t 1 144 - at %1 11 . 1 t t au 1111%1 • to
I , ny, and, wha t ot Of the tittty
ran 111,er he 111 st
Sant Mr IMolf:1, I f.-It Inn ot.
eelhonl. lill,l I' all,
110 W rll/1111. %VHS 1.11 ,• heart tloit diotaiod it
From th:a 6.1411 tothe 1,...,1 I/ tlle I
W(.l.oerl nutg ,:IICPI I Ile%
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AN IDEAL
A nnidt nit.tn thy lip 'dot. kit.
A war II 4411 1111111114 ‘d•
Thy h. .. ill. al lv. 11; . 111.•
liy low p 0 ,.. 1111.1 0114 111101
A nohlri 6,11110 r
Thi• ea! th ha , 114,1•1 nod,
And ( . 111111111. , 11 mortal.. go?, d they
Ar ungela Kam. I 1a.,t1
N 4, I,riglth•bl
No lotig opoo
Ilan half Ow gram r,r half lht• po.or
'I 1119 n r,ull
W , 11,11 .1 010 Pyl• g1 , ,11..t, 11011
'I hmt
Why 1. shot In 11 h ho ally hr ti.cht
(1), gift. 41 of Ow lurid '
A ti,l7;:: Nllll n lii Itl
Altd 1110
1 h.. I, Itlr...lll..mght
A Louisville Romance
Year. and l ear• le 4•• It e, old Id% V,ruloz,
RIM} of liltlll an 11 oed
nerglilarrim; tlt it \
01 .1111/1.,t tol li4lll 4.1111111t1,1
11LisaW4ii tis n Mir keeper In
Llo 1.111 uou 'l'll t i,,, 1.1 itllll% t t ulna
bright and early 0. f•I 1 11141114.11i q 11 1111:4.
girl wrill tom! for • l•me %ea. al
way:, tire•••••il IMO% , null .11tVil . 1•
•••111 loarlsoci,r
100 k 1111 u1t..r..,4 in tlo• rtu tu, unit upon
Ingittr) learned that •1i•• di V hod curry
her Wlllt 11 , I mint unly, but
11191/ sit 11 , 11111',111111 1/1 Jr loirrible•d em
11rlo)ment4 Molting atoll t u port•oli ut
11411/Wll 1111511111 gr, 110 w whit 1 . 11•1' 1111 1 , 1111110,
111111 81111 1.0(111 surlull-,01 1110. t of hol
Matt% • ilit employed nj•e•lr teat
for her, rind slur smut boo:11110 i t I 1.41-
Years rolled on, and foi tone f.,‘
the young barkeeper ll,' the
owner of an C 9 t 11 1 1 11•111111111 1,1 I 1.1 In/en
The wealthiest iron of 1,1/111 , l Wo•1e
his friends The poor huh. ,•11. r
had now grown to Wijlitl,.• 11, 11.11• 111111
was as tiecomplhhe I and s I.r bow. , lie
was beautiful blie, in tone, became
the wife of the roan who 1 1 / 1 11 I. lllly be
friended her That man is 1111 W reek..
oriel one of the wealthy men of Louis
ille, it large owner of real t•litte, re.
pected by all who knew him for his
noble qualities, of which kind:nes. of
heart is the chief. We road et such
events as these in the story bouks, but
they seldom occur in real firs 'l'H.,
however, is truo to the letter —New Al
bany Ledger.
The Story of a 11
One of the large lino
is the subject of the vie
sip, and attiring°, weir.
to have been acc*inith
time ago,
.11 committee
men, much more tat
yielfling qualities of
with the conventional
society, were detailed
anti ()reapv the imitate
ghost should appear. '
one night, when II F.to
through the city, at
gloom and darkness e
lamp seemed a grinnin
a leering jack o' hinter)
Arriving at the hoc
light and made their
said to he the resort or
itor. 'More lights wer
Ihe room Iwo!' to look
The Mile company he
and until nearly mid
good stories and mule t I
with apphnn•e and au•
at once, the eon vvrisati
every one had said al
and could not think fl
to tnlh< about. Il was
for the ghost to hi pp o
ivilm howling louder thn
Lefure that night, any
thine for lite bell , : to to,
- They .lil perfeeth
minutes, 'lieu rine 01
elricidated, '''fliei e Ph
he spoke Ilie 14:14
14,111141 like Hint 01 can,
It ‘,.a4 alraneely Ile
111.11 e Ihr 11111.4' of ille
inqlant,
loan, and It light 111141
111,11 t ”Livet it
[Welly Peel), liotvever
svere not fondly ext 111
vaior itself did not tel
room The
and t4onle of then] .31 I
Am the vapor appear
carriage ‘‘lteelA Ilevant
11/01111.111, In the
millee, n earrialze it ,
henroe, t•atne ndling ni
the rcuitit nud NiUppeAl.
%1 , 411,0 e, hut 000 n
Irheels had f•t'iiHe,l, IL 111
that or it , clad i n
Appeared Mill tta•t Meet!
Strange t1'111,•11. 'Fhei
wheeled oil and u%a.
•Phe rattle ol the %%heel
eeh•nt•r, And the light o
ap again, the vapor .It
the Appatitin.
SWIII• lir the Ilr • el% ea.
nif 111:1.11 Nr'eral e
the tom'', hot the fl
1 11N:Ippearaiire sceitif.,l
MAC(' ii till 111.0;114,
rettiti 1101 to •ee tlnt
N% 1.1• I then` harp
r ottut teeH,
n Of% hiln ry
Oil, I rill C:1 11 Ile
HOIIIP %cry ~trnn~e awl
!infant, !mew, horny
Ora+ hone, alai that
till.lery 1,34 hot I,;•ea r,
1:011-1 i oritcy
tvnant hat I vt keen 1 , 0:
remaln in It. No,t Itaig
tlvrt ,
npmi t.Olll gr.our:.l tsll,l
fonsterly 100,td, and ttltl
Imenttlled 111 remain
. 111111( LI It at uule (.01111(
appear:l:lclll Ili app:
Het% tta.. 1141'1 /1 017,11 11%
(.111111 1111(111 lit( 1111 . 111 in
111111.111 I,llr:cd
I:l,.•Npla
till H 1...,
An Irishman's Letter
Mines
be,
h•ol In, I,
t. I
t , // 1i li, nit /1 , 11 Vl/ , 141. :Ili
:111 Itl.( v. Hillitt al I, t , Ti
In ate 1111 Inrkfi , i, the
niel inionlch
ti hie Omni, nog lip rt ttn!
t‘,lkenlng lor the II
%%In. a rhrlrrir
he inn! hlrt gii.tle‘ hare
enstoniel4. 111 (..Qt‘hl
in.ine gri"tle
ihrtrin Incur l ht. nnoitila
lirnine extended, nm II II
hid ,i• 11eikit , hat the n
1 "r""t "'• theY IZ" b "
1-.pur7e the hrr 111 11'
The 1/11%4 'hill t
tuts• , lulu „1.1 111 e 11111IiII
hill I hr,li,li nH 1101(11
1,1.1,11 . I 1 151.1.1%. Ii
111-4 irmibble The 1,1;11`
1111., ihii lin, tor lilt in ye,
erriken, 114 ,
411111111 V where I Ile
caller of a eoppvi
uu 1 / 1 1/I_ , ZAHr,II qn
Ha%in %oar preHem e,
tind,her Eve haul, hero,-
niant maker mid intr".l
,egouble aprittirt
lion, the nnneH a rsHinit
iinf ,, rtiiit go it 1111$
leer alit there. !fere
Franbinky, himekin'
rail. What's to heessi oe
Mal otzrrieeri, the KOWA
()lily to think that I sill(
effinforialde berth I hail
~ .tratem Yolk, (0
(myth n knllthrv, Ivlie
elaning is done he lairolF,
gambling, Hi seek lat inn,
IH (110 rosl:,' lirvhulnWu
ill ree it stated in the
,Iv, that the .lig.oerh are I
111 (pito (.5. liiibly ,
miehri , tian lie !
lump gooht`N it that_
'nett sit re I 'mll4lll'l. rat
shun, libldv,ainong the pt
to pay Hie fnlm'lllr.re back ?
lidelc to New Yorl,, (lead
Idler lave it a hile graps g
(her rani. Front your Irm
1111 (1011.
MED
TEIMENtE 111
Thei'nearnesqof freezi
hurrying tip the bunt hien.
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