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THE AMERICAN POET IN ENGLAND —A TRIBUTE IN
VERSE.
The London 7Y*te, of July S, publisher the
*uhjoißcti:
LONGFELLOW IN ENGLAND.
Welcome to England ! thou who*e strains pro
long
The glorious bcde-rol) of our Saxon song:
j Ambassador and Pilgrim-Bard in one,
Freeh from thy home—the home of WASHINGTON,
I On hearths as sacred as thine own, here stands
| The loving welcome that thy name commands;
; Hearths swept for thee and garnished as a shrine
By trailing garments of thy Muse divine.
Poet of Nature and Nations, know
Thy fair lame spans the ocean like a bow,
Bom from the rain that falls into each life,
Kindled by dreums with lovliest fancies rife;
A radiant arch that with prismatic dyes
Liuks the two worlds, its keystone in the skies.
The n< blest creatures of these dreams of thine,
From Hiawatha to Evangeline,
ilere thou wilt find, where'er thy footsteps roam,
Loved as the cherished Lares of each h*>uic.
What prouder refrain heartens to the core
Than thou hast sung in brave Excelsior?
! Where sounds mre gladdening 'mid this earthly
strife,
| Than the sweet clarions of thy Psalm of Life?
None but the rarest raconteur may grace
! The mimic contest where most yield the place.
I .Say which, for either, fairer wreaths produce,
| Irving's Astoria or thy Flower do Luce?
Which haunted hostel lures more gnests within,
j Hawthorne's Seven Gables or thy Wayside Inn?
j Turning thy pictured page, what varying dyes
Shine through oach latticed margin's new sur
prise!
Here the swarth Blacksmith, smirched with grime i
and tan,
Tears in his eyes, yet every inch a man*
Hero, 'mid the rico-field, heaving his last breath. !
The poor Slave-monarch, dreams himself to death.
Here, while without loud raves the tempest's din, :
Here, while around the revelers brawl within,
The dying Baron through tho grave's dark goal.
Scek's Christ's redeeming passport for his soul,
IVbo hears not now, stormed down among thy !
leaves,
The rain that poured like cataracts from the eaves, \
Roared through the kennels, lashed the stream- 1
ing panes,
Flooded the squares, tho sticets, the courts, the ;
lanes,
Raging like seas that over some foundering
wreck
Swill thro' the scuppers from the swimming deck!
Cool, teeming, plenteous, soul-refreshing showers,
Quaffed by parched earth and by the thirsting
flowers,
Nor less by those who listened to thy song
As, like Lodoro's, thy deluge dashed along,
Where subtler solace than thy gentle voice
From riven hearts can draw till griefs rejoice?
Answer, what oft-repining woe o'erpowers
That lay serene, the Reaper and the Flowers?
So large thv sympathies, thy hand can trade
Charms in each clime and glories in each race.
So penetrant thy love, its gaze can find
God in the flower, Ilis breathings in the wind;
Mesh with mere hempen coil in liope-work spun
All human joys and ills beneath the sun;
V ake with grand echoes of lesponsive rhymes
Long siknt notes of medieval chimes;
"The diapason of the cannonade."
'Mid purgatorial fires, in heaven, in hell.
Thy dauntless soul hath lately dared to dwell,
Passim? o'er burn inn- mart where Dant trrul
With Virgil's ghost, to Beatrice and God.
Yet, rarely gifted nature to translate,
Reflect not others, thus: thyself create,
Ring out once more in thy own golden lines
Life's inner meaning, not the Florentine's—
Thou who hast given thy drcamings to our sight
And syllabled the Voices of the Night;
Th<u who has sung, as none but thou could sing,
The tengcr legend of the Angel-King:
Thoa who around with affluent hand hast thrown
The heavenly largess of thy benison,
Regarding none as alien to thy breast—
Columbia's Poet, hail as England's Guest!
C. K.
ToUticnl
(iiM Hii, iacob a. cabpbell.
Republican Candidate tor Snrveryor
General.
General Campbell was born in Allegheny j
township, Somerset county, Pa., on the 2( tk
day of November, 1821; consequently, he
will be forty-seven years old next Novum
bcr. At an early age he was apprenticed ,
to the printing business, in Somerset, Pa.
After mastering the "art preservative of
arts," he emigrated to Pittsburg, when he
' worked at ease" for some time. He next
; found his way to New Orleans and into
1 another printing office. Tired of the "com
posing .-tick and rule." he tried his hand at
stcamhoating, first as a deck hand, and
subsequently as clerk, mate and part
owner of a vessel. In 1847, we find him in
I the iron business, at Brady's Bend. In
I*s], he followed the tide of emigration to
: California, remaining there but a short
time. In 1853, we find hint in .Johnstown,
Pa., assisting in the construction of the
mammoth Cambria Iron Works, with which
establishment he was connected up to the
brcuking out of the war. In 1861, lie was
among the first to enroll himself as a volun
teer, to defend the flag of his country, and
Monyztl to the first Company that entered
Camp Cur tin, Upon the arrival of the
company in Harrisburg, and the orgauiza
| tion of the Third liegiment of Pa. Vols, to
which his company was attached, Lieut.
Campbell was appointed Quartermaster of
the liegiment, which position he filled with
credit to himself and to the satisfaction of
the officers and men of his regiment, as all
those who remain will testify. lie was
mustered out of service ou the 28th of July
1861, and on the 30th of the same month,
was commissioned by Gov. Curtiu to raise a
regiment. The regiment was recruited
mainly through Col. Campbell's individual
exertions, and upon being organized, was
designated the 54th. His regiment was the
escort of honor through the city of Wash
ington, to the remains of the lamented Col.
Cameron, who fell at the first Bull Bun
j battle. On the 29th of March, 1862, Col.
Campbell was ordered to occupy the line of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from North
Mountain Station, fifty-six miles westward
to the South Branch of the Potomac. In
that po-ition, the executive as well as the
military abilities of the Colonel were con
stantly called into requisition. How well
he performed his arduous and multitudinous
duties in this trying position, the officers of
the B. & (). 11. R. as well as his superiors
in the military service, do not hesitate to
declare that but for his energy and sleepless
watchfulness, many miles of the road would
have been destroyed. On the 25th of De
comber, 1862, he was relieved from duty
along the railroad, and an the 6th of March,
1863, was assigned to the command of the
4th Brigade, Ist Division, Bth Army Corps.
In 1864, Gen. Sigel took command of tlio
Department ofWest Virginia, and in a re
organization of the troops, Col. Campbell
HEDFOItD, PA., FRIDAY, JUDY 31, IK6B.
at his own request, was returned to the coiu
j mand of hi regiment, and took an active
part in the battle of New Market, oceupy
! ing the left of the line. His regiment suf
fered severely and was the last to leave the
field. Hut for the determined stand made
! hy Col. Campbell, Sigel's army would have
| been routed and demoralized. In his offi
cial report of the battle, he acknowledged
the valuable services of Col. Campbell in a
very handsome aud flattering manner. A
j deserved compliment to a deserving officer, i
' Gen. Sigle abo took occasion to thank Col.
| Campbell in person. "My God! Col.
Campbell, I wish I had known you better!
Gen. Sigel exclaimed, rushing to Col. Camp
bell and grasping his hand with both of his
own, after the tumult of battle had subsid
ed. The Colonel and his regiment took a
prominent part in the battle of Piedmont,
uuder Gen. Hunter. He was breveted a ;
Brigadier General in this battle, and again
assigned to the command of a brigade. He
also took an active part in Hunter's oelebra
, ted "Lynchburg Raid," his command suf- j
! fering heavily in the attack upon Lynch
burg. When Col. Mulligan fell at Winches
ter, Gen. Campbell took command of the
division, and continued in cotnuiatid until,
by sever ! ,sses in killed and wounded, it
was consolidated into a brigade, which he |
afterwards commanded. He also participa- j
ted in the engagements in the .Shenandoah,
under the gallant Phil. Sheridan, winning
■ other and new laureis while with that nitre- :
, pid chieftain.
Gen. Campbell was musteied out of the ;
service in the i'all of 1804, having been in
the army almost three years and a half. He
was never absent from his command, except
three weeks, sitting as a member of a Court
of Inquiry at Wheeling, Va., and had but j
two "leaves of absence," during his whole
period of service, one for ten aud the other
for twenty days.
The political record of Gen. Campbell will ,
also bear examination. Brought up a Jack
son Democrat, he voted for Polk and Dallas -
in '44, but in '4B, seeiu* the encroachments
of the slavery propagandists, he voted for .
Van Burcn and Adams, and in 185-', again
voted for the free soil nominees, Hale and
Julian; and in 1858, was the delegate from i
Cambria county to the Fremont Convention.
In 1859, the Republicans ofCatnbria county
presented him to their district conference as
their choice for the Senatorial nomination,
and three years ago he was tmanimt/u*h/
selected again as the choice of the Union
party of Cambria, for State Senator, but j
failed to receive the nomination from the
district conference upon either occasion,
not however from want of appreciation of
his worth and services as a citizen and as a
brave and meritorious soldier.
On the 17th of August 1805, Gen. Camp
bell was nominated for Surveyor General by j
the Republican party, and in October of the i
same year, was elected over Col. Linton, his i
competitor, by a large majority. For over
two years be has administered the duties of;
his office with recognized ability and to the 1
satisfaction of all parties; and has brought
ut> a large amount lof unfinished and intri
cate business. Ik Mu.vl. i —, a
imoush / re-nominated by the Republican
State Convention, i'or the office he now so
ably and satisfactorily fills. A unanimous
re-nomination from a State Convention of
either party, is no small compliment to any
man, and no one within our recollection ex- ;
ccpt Gen. Campbell and his colleague on
the State ticket ever before received such a
marked endorsement.
Such in brief, Ls a hurried sketch of the
life and services of one of Pennsylvania's
noblest sons. He is first found a "printer's
devil," a "jour," a "deck hand on a
steamboat, a "clerk," "mate" and "part
owner of a vessel." lie is next found in
the iron business, then in California, and fi- j
tially in the gigantic enterprise of the eele- 1
bratcd Cambria Iron Mills, where his great
experience added largely to the success of
that stupenduous undertaking. At the
breaking out of the war, he was Lieutenant
of a militia company, entered the army and
was appointed a Quartermaster, then a Col
onel, and after a brilliant campaign of three \
long, weary years, he was honored with a
Brevet Brigadier General's Commission, a j
position long aud doubly earned in com- j
maud of a brigade and division, and by gal
lantry iu the field. Thus, it will be seen,
that Gcti Campbell came from the working
class, and is emphatically a working man.
llis social characteristics never fail to cre
ate the warmest friendships and a lasting
impression, lie is a shrewd business man
j and a useful citizen—a man endowed with
> .-trong common sense, and rarely fails in his
; judgment of men and measures—is well
j read, aud familiarly acquainted with all the
internal workings of the great machinery of
our government. Among the ablest articles
on the subject of our National finances, was
one from his pen, written during the early
part of last winter! He is a genial compan
ion, a clever, whole-souled, honest man,
strictly tcnijH-rato in his habits; and that he
will be re-elected by an increased majority, I
Ls already beyond a peradveuture.
NASBV.
! Mr. Noxby hag a Most Curitnig Dream— ;
The Relative Position of the Tico I'or tics.
and 'he tcoy Gentlemen Get from One to '
the Other,
; POST OFFIH, CONFEDERIT X ROODS, J
(Wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky,)
June 27, 1.868. )
Last nite, after I had addressed a Chase
mcetin in Garrettstown in the afternoon
\ and one at the Corners in the evenin, I re
} tired to my virchus couch full uv my sub
j ject, and whisky. Its rnther tryin for a
! man at my time uv life to do these things. I
j To say nothin uv lif'tin up my voice-like one
cryin in the wilderness for an old line Abo
! lishinist, the terrible oncertainty as to j
whether I ought to holler "Kkel Rites —
| Suffrage for all!" or "Ameriky for white
! men," troubles me. Likewise the doubt ez
to whether I ought to make sjiecches in fa- :
vor uv payin the debt in Greenbax, a l
j Pendleton, or in Gold a la Seymour, or a
; repudiatin the debt altogether, like Puuie
roy, is a incubus which weighs onto me, and
1 paralyzes my best efforts. For instants, at
both nieetins I wuz compelled to talk uv
; tariffs and sich, of which our people know
jest about ez much es the gentle hog does
uv Hebrew. Wood! oh wood the nomina
: shens wuz made and the platform adopted,
I that I might go instructin our people from
i a proper stand pint. Tired out and disgust
ed, I retired early and slept a troubled sleep,
j O sich a nite ! I dreemcd most horrible,
dreoms, the follcrin being a feeble statement
. uv the lightest uv om.
In my dream I was in a country the like
uv wich I never seed afore. There woz a
low, level place, a sort uv a pit indeed, and j
not a pit either, so much ez it wuz a swamp
or bog, with only here and there a dry spot,
it wuz not ez cheerful a lookin place ez yoo
eood think uv. It wuz full uv skulls and
dead men s bones. The highways leadin
into it were slushy and nasty, and an odor
ez uv seven hundred thousand million dead
cats constantly assended to vex the pure air
above. It wuz inhabited, it wuz. Roilin
about in the currupsbun, I saw the face nv !
every Deuiokrat I had ever seen, and they
wuz all about their yoosual avocashe-ns, too.
Ben. \) ood wuz a scllin lotterv tickets. Fer
nandy bed Lis baud into a city treasury. A.
Johnson wuz a siguin a pardon for a coun
terfeiter (another counterfeiter, who wanted
the skill of the iukarscratcd one, wuz a
waitin to carry it to him,) a iiumcnse con
course uv Joha Morrissey'a cnostitooents
were organizin a raid onto nigger orfan asy
lums, and another immense mass wuz a
burnishin weapons cz if for another cdnflick
with sutbiu. Rite back uv this place wuz a
precipice risin up almost perpendicular
many feet, on the top uv which stretched
a most beautiful prospeck, I asked one who
was erawlin out uv the place what it all
meant, and he replied that it wuz the rcstin
place uv the Dimocrisy.
"Look !" said he, "about yoo. Secstyoo
that elevated breezy plain ? That's the cbo
sou home uv Republikenism up there, and
I'm goiu for it."
But stay! sed I, "I fain would know
more. Vho s that i ' I asked, cz a body
come shootin down the abyss, boundiu plum
into a most friteful mass uv corrupshcn be
low.
"Ihats Ross, uv Kansas," sed he.
Lookout, here comes Henderson, too, and
l'owler. Ha! ha! laffed this etcapin one,
ez he saw Ross aud Henderson scramble
out uv the dirt, with it stickin to cm and
try to crawl up the side uv the precipice.
Fowler seemed to like it, and settled down
as though he intended to stay. There were
others who got so close to the verge of the
precipice that I reely trembled for em, but
they had strong hands holden of em back.
"ioo notis that there is one way uv com
municashen between the two places," sed
he, "wich is legitiinit. Y'oo observe that
ladder?"
"I hedn't, but Ido now. My eyes is
dim," sed I, "watis them inscripshens on
the rounds ?"
"They are inscribed as follows:
No. I—(The1 —(The highest.) "Consct vatism."
No. 2 —"Constitooslincl DouLts."
No. 3—", Southern Rites."
No. 4—"Greenbax."
No. s—"Repoodiashen."s—"Repoodiashen."
No. 6—"Ameriky for white men."
No. 7 —"Afrikin slavery."
"Yoo will observe the last one is partly
under the slush which kivers the bottom uv
the plain. It's a trifle lower than the orig
inal level. But look ! tber's suthin a goin
on up there! See!"
Trooly, there wuz suthin a goin on.
Cheel Justice Chase appeared at the head
uv the stairs on the very brink uv the prec-
T. I, ■ „
stay, wuz Theodore Tilton, Horace Greeley,
and moren a million of others, white and
black, who wuz a holdin up their hands in
horror at the way his face wuz turned. The
Chief Ju.-tice wuz a assurin uv CUI it was all
rite, that he shood probably go down to the
first round, wich wuz "Conservatism," as
he considered if safer ground. Theodore
grabbed him by the sholder. to restrane him,
but Salmon shoved biui off roodly, and put
his foot on the first round.
I looked closer and saw it all at a glance.
August Belmont hed climbed up so cz to be
in site uv any one standing on that round,
and wuz wavin a flag at him onto wich wuz
inscribed "nomiuashen." 8. I'. hed his
venerable eyes fixed onto that, and didn't
see nothin else, a kind uv parshel blindness
wich hcz rooiocd quite a many public men.
"Don'T go to em," cried Theodore and mor
ris. "I won't," returned the cheerful old
innocent. "I'll bring em up to me." ln
fooriated with the site uv that flag wich Bel
mont kept artfully movin afore him, he
quickly dropt onto the second step, and the
next, each step being longer than the one
prceedin it. By this time the attenshen uv
the Democrisy below wuzattractad toward
the spectacle, and they cheered lustily, not so
much at the prospeck uv gcttin the eminent
Judge, ez at the sorror and chagrin depict
ed onto the faces uv Greely, Tilton, et al.>
at the top.
Down he went, amid the plaudits uv the
Democrisy, who, by this time, was all hur
rahin for him, step by step, till he come lo
the last one. "Come!" said Boregard,
Forrest, Furnandy Wood and Vallandygum,
"come! One step more—one little tiny
step, and it's over. Come, love, come!"
'No!" he, tremblin like a man with the
ager "I can't go that step. I can't, in
deed I can't. Come up to me—yoo must!"
"Well," sed Belmont, "its better for us
to stand on that last step. Get hold, Mar
ble, and the strongest uv yoo, and lift the
concern out uv the mire, and up to the
C'hoefJustis. Take hold close! Now ! all
together! with a will!"
They tugged and tugged, but to no pur
pose, Pendleton, Hendricks, and a score uv
others, who didn't like this Chase biznis,
hed slipped down to the bottom, and waz a
pullin back. Once or twict they got em out
so cz yoo cood see the heads uv the multi
tood above the liquid they wuz under, and a
few late recroota climed up onto the step,
but the weight wus too heavy, and they sag
ged back,
"Onct more !" shreekt the Cheef Justis.
"One more trial. Oh git them on this step.
Oh git them up, foi 1 can't go no lower, in
deed I can't, and we must come together.
I hev gone down six steps and long ones,
an 1 you can, and you must come up ibis
oue. Git em up—"
At this pint I awoke. The screeching uv
the wretched men arouud me. It's a pity
the dreeui did not continyoo. Ez it is, I
don't know whether he's agoin to take the
last step or not. I don't know whether he's
i agoin to plunge into the mire with us, or
whether he's agoin to cliuib back agin and
wash hisself.clcan uv the filth that's stuck
to him, in the clear waters uv repentance,
or whether another effort is to be made to
lift us up to him. I left em when i returned
from the laud uv drecms, a settling back into
i the mire, aud Chase staDdin onto tho next
but last round, with an expression uv despair
onto his countenance, jist in the wayuv the
missels both parties wuz a throwin Conse
kently, I'm no better off bccoz uv this dream
than I wuz before. lam still tost on the wa
ters uv uncertainty. I shall still be forced to
; talk uv tariffs aud aieh, not kuowiu wat is oi
is not safe ground. The drcem wuz] about a
minit too short for my purpose. But it's
offen thus.
PETROLEUM V. NASP.Y, P. M.
(Wich is Postmaster.)
DANIEL S. DICKINSON ON ilOK\.
TIO SEYMOUR.
The following jsan extract from the speech
of Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered at the
great ratification meeting held at the Coo
per Institute in the city of New York, Oc
tober 8, 1862. As Mr. Dickinson was a life
long Democrat, and in a positiou to be per
fectly posted on Mr. Seymour's record, the
picture he draws may be especially refresh
ing just now to those "Conservative soldiers"
who at their late Convention in New York,
committed themselves so unreservedly to
the support of the Democratic nominee for
the Presidency:
V hen the most atrocious conspiracy
which ever desecrated earth found develop
ment in an assault upon our National flag
at Sumter, and in efforts to massacre a half
starved garrison placed there in a time of
profound peace, according to uniform usage
for no other offence than asserting the su
premacy of their country's Constitution, and
giving to the breeze, as emblematical thereof
the glorious Btars aud Stripes of their fath
ers—when the brave volunteers who were
hurrying to the defence of our natiou's
Capital, to save it from mob rule and rebel
lion, and conflagration, were bleediDg by
traitorous hands—when strong men trem
bled; when women wept, and childicn
instinctively clung closer to the maternal
bosom—when all communication between
the loyal States and the Capital was cut off
by rebellious forces —when the President
elect of the United States had then recently
reached the seat of Government, where duty
called him by a circuitous and an unusual
route, and in disguise, to escape the dagger
of the assassin, and when our land was filled
with excitement, consternation and alarm
—when "shrieked the timid and stood still
the brave," and the confiding musses looked
about to see who were the men torthe crisis,
amung the citizens of the Empire State,
who had borne a part in public affairs, aud
were naturally looked up to as exemplars in
such a crisis, he (Horatio Seymour) hied
himself away upon the double quick in the
opposite direction [laughter], and for nearly
half a year hid himself among the lakes and
rivers and romantic woodlands and inland
towns of Wisconsin; and his tongue was as
silent on the subject of denouncing the re
bellion as those of the murdered volunteers,
whose "ghosts walked unrevenged amongst
us." [Sensation.] There we may suppos
ed he basked and balanced, and watched
and waited, and turned and twisted [laugh
tori, until autumn, when a small knot of de
funct, defeated, desperate and despicable
politicians, who had for years hung upon
the subsistence department of the Demo
cratic party in this State, came to his relief
by entering the fit-Id. [Laughter.] They
borrowed without leave the honored name
of Democracy, under which to perpetrate
their covert treason, as the hypocrite.
"Stole.the livery of the Court of Ueaveu
Their disgraceful and disloyal record stands
out as the doings of men too stolid in politi
cal depravity to be gifted with ordinary in
stincts, and too regardless of the popular (
will to be mindful of shame; and the defeat
they experienced at the hands of the people I
should serve as a warning to trimmers and
traitors and parricides and ingrates, through
all future time.
This movement drew the secluded one
from his hiding place, and he came forth,
with all the courage of him who, in a
conflict with his wife, being driven under
the bed, while remaining thus ensconced,
declared, that whether she consented or not
he would look out through a knot-hole in
the clapboards, so long as he had the spirit
of a man! [Great and repeated laughter
and applause.] lie entered the political
canvass, aud on the 28th October, 1861, a
few days before the election, made a speech,
the burden of which was an apology for the
rebellion, and a condemnation of the Ad
ministration for having meted out the rigor
of martial law to those in arms against the
Government, Though abounding with
flimsy disguises and sophistical generalities,
it contained one point worthy of not only no
tice, but of the severest reprehension, and
here it is:
* 'lf it is true that slavery mustbe abolish
ed to save this Union, then the people of
the South should be allowed to withdraw
themselves from that Government which
cannot give them the protection guaranteed
by its terms.''
What ! Place this glorious Union —this
heritage of human hope—this asylum for
the world's weary pilgrim—this refuge for
the oppressed of the earth, in the scale of
being beneath the black and bloated and
bloody—the corrupt and corrupting—the
stultified and stultifying institution of
slavery! No! Sooner than see this Union
severed, let not only the institution perish
whenever and wherever it can be found, but
let the habitations that have known it perish
with it and be known no more forever.
[Tremendous and long continued applause.
"That's so," "That's the talk." Three
cheers.] And yet this returning fugitive
from patriotism proclaims as his creed, in
effect if not in terms, that if either slavery
or the Union mu.-t be destroyed, it should
be the Union! And the name of this man
is Iloratio Seymour. |Sensation.]
[From th© London Saturday Review.]
LITTLE WOMEN.
The conventional idea of a brave, and en
ergetic, or a supremely criminal woman is
a tall, dark haired, large armed virago,
who might pass as the younger brother of
her husband, and about whom nature
seemed to have hesitated before determin
ing whether to make her a man or a
woman, a kind of debatable kind of,
land, in fact, between the two sexes, j
acd almost as much one as the other. .
Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Catharine
do Medici, Mrs. Manning, and the old
fashioned murderesses in uovels, are all of
the muscular, black brigand type, with more
or less of regal grace superadded, according
to circumstances; and it would be thought
nothing but a puerile fancy to suppose the
contrary of those whose personal description
is not already known. Crime, indeed es
pecially in ait aud fiction, has generally
been painted in very nice proportion to the
number of oubie inches embodied and the
depth of color employed; though wc aro
VOL.. IT: NO. _>*.
bound to add that the public favor runs
towards muscular heroines almost as much
as towards muscular murderesses, which to
a certain extent redresses the over
weighted balance. Our later novelists,
however, have altered the whole set
ting ol the palette. Instead of five foot ten
of black and brown, they have gone in for
four foot nothing of pink and yellow; instead
of tumbled masses of raven hair, they have
shining coils of purest gold; instead of In f
low caverns whence flash unfathomable eyes
eloquent of every damnable passion, tlie-y
bave liujpid lakes of heavenly blue: an 1
their worst sinners are in all respects fash
ioned as much after the outward scuiblsin
of the ideal saint as can well be managed.
The original notion was a very good one,
and the revolution did not come before it
was wanted; but it has been a little over
done of late, and we are threatened with as
great a surfeit of small limbed, yellow
headed criminals as we have had of the
man-like black. One gets weary of the
most perfect model in time, if too constantly
repeated; as now, when we have all begun
to feci that the resources of the angel's face
and demon's soul have been more heavily
drawn on than is quite fair, and that, given
' heavy braids of golden hair," "bewilder
ing blue eyes," "a small, lithe frame," and
special delicacy of feet and hands, wc ai
booked for the companionship, through three
volumes, of a young person to whom Me.--
salina or Lucretia Borgia was a mere nov
ice.
And yet there is a physiological truth in
this association of energy with smallness;
perhaps, also, with a certain tint of yellow
hair, which, with a dash of red through it,
is decidedly suggestive of nervous force.
Suggestivenes3, indeed, does not go very fa
in an argument; but the frequent connection
of energy and smallness in woman is a
thing which all may verify in their own
circles. In daily life, who is the really
formidable woman to encounter? —the
black-browed, broad-shouldered giantess,
with arms ai most as big in the girth as a
man's ? or the pert, smart, trim little female,
with no more biceps than a ladybird, and
of just about equal strength with a sparrow?
Nine times out of ten, the giantess with the
heavy shoulders and broad black eyebrows
is a timid, feeble minded, good-tempered
person, incapable of anything harsher than
a mild remonstrance with her maid, or a
gentle chastisement of her children. Nine
times out of ten her husband has her in
hand in the most perfect working order, so
that she would swear the moon shone at
midday if it were his pleasure that
she should make a fool of herself in that di
rection. One of the most obedient and in
dolent of earth's daughters, she gives no
trouble to any one save the trouble of rou -
ing, exciting, and setting her going; while,
as for the conception or execution of any
naughty piece of self assertion, she is as
utterly incapable as if she were a child un
born, and demands nothing better than to
feel the pressure of the leading-strings, and
to kn >w exactly by their strain where she
I is desired to go and what to do.
Tint the little woman io irrepressible, 100
[ tiagilc to come into tne uguiiug sauvu in
humanity, a puny creature whom one blow
from a mau's huge fist could annihilate,
absolutely fearless, and insolent with the
insolence which only those dare show who
know the retribution cannot follow, —what
can be done with her? She is alraid of
nothing, and to be controlled by no one.
Sheltered behind her weakness as behind
a triple shield of brass, the angriest man dare
not touch her, while she provokes him to
a combat in which his hands are tied. She
gets her own way in everything, aud every
where. At home and abroad she is
equally dominant and irrepressible, equally
free from obedience and from fear. Who
breaks all the public orders in sights and
shows, and, in spite of King, Kaiser, or
I'oliceman X, goes where it is expressly for
bidden that she shall not go? Xot the large
boned, muscular woman, whatever, her tem
perament; unless, indeed, of the exception
ally haughty type in distinctly inferior
surroundings, and then she can queen
it royally enough, and set everything
at most lordly defiance. But in general
the large-boned woman obeys the or
ders given, because, while near enough to
man to be somewhat on a par with him, she
is still undeniably his inferior. She is too
stroDg to shelter herself behind her weak
ness, yet too weak to assert her strength
and defy her master on equal grounds. She
is like a flying-fish, not one thing wholly;
and, while, capable of the inconveniences
| uf two lives, is incapable of the privileges
lof either. It is not she, for all her well-de
| voloped frame and formidable looks, but the
little woman, who breaks the whole bode of
laws and defies all their defenders, —the
pert, smart, pretty little woman, wholaoghs
in your face, and goes straight ahead, if you
try to turn her to the right hand or to
the left, receiving your remonstrances with
the most sublime indifference, as if you
were talking a foreign language she could
not understand. She carries everything
before her, wherever she is. You may see
her stepping over barriers, slipping under
ropes, penetrating to the green benches
with a red ticket, taking the best places 011
the platform over the heads of their right
ful owners, settling herself among the re
served seats without an icch of pasteboard
to float her. You cannot turn her out by
j main force.
British chivalry objects to the public lay
ing on of hands in the case of a woman,
even when most recalcitrant and dis
obedient; more particularly if a small and
fragile-looking woman. So that, if it is
only a usurpation of places specially maseu
line, she is allowed to retain what she has
got amid the grave looks oi the elders not
really displeased, though, at the flutter of
her ribbons among them and the titters
and nudges of the young fellows. If the
battle is between her and another woman,
they are left to fight it out as they best can,
with the odds laid heavily on the little one.
All this timethere is nothing of the tumult of
contest about her. Fiery and combative as
she generally is, when breaking the law in
public places she is the very soul of serene
daring. She shows no heat, no passion, no
turbulence; she leaves these as extra
weapons of defence to women who are as
sailable. For herself she requires no such
aids. She knows her capabilities, and the
line of attack that best suits her, and
~he knows, too, that the fewer points of
contest she exposes, the more likely she
is to slip into victory; the more she assumes,
and the less she argues, the slighter the hold
she gives her opponents. She is either per
i fcotly good-humored or blankly innocent;
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-he either smiles'you into indulgence, or
wearies you into compliance by the sheer
hopelessness, of making any impression on
her. She may, indeed, if of the very vocifer
ous and shrill-tongucd kiud, burst out into
such a noisy demonstration that you are glad
to escape from her, no matter what spoils
you leave on her hands; jufat aa a mastiff
will slink away from a bantam hen all
heckled feathers and screeching cackle, and
tremendous assumption of doing something
terrible if be docs not look out. Any way
tiie little woman is unconquerable; and a
tiny fragment of humanity at a public show
setting all rules and regulations at defiance,
is only carrying cut in the matter of benches
the manner of life to which nature has dedi
cated her from the beginning.
As a rule, tho little woman is brave.
When the lymphatic giantess falls into a
faint, or goes off into hysterics, she storms,
or lu.-tles about, or holds on like a game ter
rier, according to the work on band. She
1 will fly at any loan who annoys licr, aud
! bears herself a? equal to the biggest and
-tronge.-t fellow of her acquaintance. Ia
general she does it all by sheer pluck, and is
not notorious for subtlety or eraft. Had
Delilah been a little woman, she would
r.i-vcr have taken the trouble to sheaf Sani
-on's locks. She would have defied him
with ail his strength untouched on his
bead, and she would have overcome him
too. Judith and Jact were both probably
large women. The work they went about
demanded a certain strength of musclo and
toughness of sinew; but who can say that
Jezebel was not a small, freckled, auburn
haired Ladv Audley of her time, full of the
consecrated fire, the electric force, the
p.i-..-iunate recklessness of her type? Began
an! Goncril might have been beautiful
demous of the same pattern: we have the
example of the MeiVihiopess de Brinvillieis
as to what amount of spiritual deviltry can
exist with the face and manner of an angel
direct from heaven; and perhaps Cordelia
was a tall dark-haired girl, with a pair of
brown eyes, and a long nose sloping down
wards.
Look at modern Jewesses, with their
flashing Oriental orbs, their night black
tresses, and the dusky shadows of their
olive-colored complexions; as catalogued
properties according to the ide;d, they
would be placed in the list of the natural
criminals and law-breakers, while in reali
ty they are about as meek and docile a set
of women as are to be found within the four
seas. Pit a fiery little Welsh woman or a
petulant Parisienne against the most regal
and Juuonic amongst them, and let them
try conclusions in courage, in energy, or in
audacity; the Loaelitish Juno will go down
bolbre cither of the small Philistines, and the
ikllacy of weight and color in the generation
i of power will be shown without the possibility
of denial. Even in those old days of long
ago, when human characteristics were em
bodied and deified, we do not find that the
white armed large-limbed Here, jhojmh
iierlaster goddesses by any superior energy
vi lulu- ui iiaiuic. cm On; nmtnry, she was
rather a heavy-going person, and unless
moved to auger by ber husband's numerous
infidelities, took her Olympian life placidly
euough, and onoe or twice got cheated in a
way that did no great credit to her sagacity.
A little French woman would have sailed
round her easily; and as it was, shrewish
though she was in her speech when provoked,
i her husband not only deceived but chastised
her, and reduced her to penitence and
obedience as no little woman would have
suffered herself to be reduced.
There is one celebrated nice of women
who were probably the powerfully built,
large-limbed creatures they are assumed lo
have been, and as brave and energetic as
they were strong and big,—the Norse wo
men of the sages, who, for good or evil, seem
to have been a very influential element in
the old Northern life. Prophetesses, physi
cians, dreamers, of dreams, and the ac
credited interpreters as well. endowed with
magic powers, admitted to a share in tho
councils of men, brave in war, active in
peace, these fair-haired Scandinavian women
were the fit comrades of their men, the lit
wives and mothers of the Berserkers and
the Vikings. They had no tame or easy
life of it, if all we hear of them is true. To
defend the farm and the homestead during
their husband's absence, and to keep them
selves intact against all bold rovers to whom
the Tenth Commandment was unknown
law; to dazzle and bewilder by magic arts
when they could not conquer by open
strength; to unite craft and courage, de
ception and daring, loyalty and independence
—demanded no small amount of opposing
qualities. But the Steingerdas audGudrunas
were equal to any emergency of fate or
fortune, and slashed their way through tho
history ol their tune more after the manner
of men than of women; supplementing their
downright blows by ride thrusts of craftier
cleverness when they had to meet power
with skill, and were fain to overthrow
brutality by t'raifd. The Norse women were
certainly as largely framed as they were
mentally energetic, and as crafty as either;
but we know of no other women who unite
the same characteristics, and are at once
cunning, strong, brave and true.
On the whole, then, the little women
have the best ofit. More petted than tln ir
bigger sisters, and infinitely more powerful,
they have their own way in part because it
really does not seem worth while to contest
a point with such little creatures. There is
nothing that wounds a man's self-respect
in any victory they may get or claim. Where
there is absolute inequality of strength,
there can be no humiliation in the self-im
posed defeat of the stronger; aud as it is al
ways more pleasant to have peace than war,
and as big men for the most part rather like
than not to put their necks under the tread
of tiny feet, the little woman goes on her
way triumphant to the end, breaking all
the laws she does not like, aud throwing
down all the barriers that impede her pro
gress, perfectly irresistible and irrepressible
in all circumstances and under any condi
tions.
THE rose-fields of Adrianoplc extend
over from twelve to fourteen thousand acres
supplying the most important sourco of
wealth in that district.
i A Young Mas sent his lather in the coun
-1 try his photograph, stating that he was poor
l aud required money. The father refused,
stating that ho could not be very poor to be
I living surrounded by marble vases, rosewood
. furniture and choice flowers, as his photo
graph represented hiai-