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Bo UNCROWNED KINGS.
Jfr-'-' 111' TlltttKKI.r.T AIKES.
0tt;ya uncrowned, but kingly kings,
'(jillftda roynl by tho brain und heart,
0f nit IVvrtli' wealth tho noblest part,
"Yet reckoned nothing In tlio mart
Wlioro tnon know not but sordid thlnw i
All hull to thee, most Ictngly hints I
tDliTyojfncrowncd, Imt kingly ldnsrn (
yiiosobrenlli mid words of llvliin, llnmo
Itcivo yattonoil slavo nations from Iholr sbnmo,
Aridjitd them rise In manhood's numu;
hwlft as tlio curved bow backward urr h'BJ
W tdllWyo, "iot kingly kings!
Oil; tfo Uncrowned, but kingly kings)
Wh8sd strung light arms hath oft been bnrod;
"Wlior fires nf fijjhtcous battle glared;
to think on yu tho llMtt epsprlhgs,
Oh", uncrowned, but klnuly ttlhgu t.
iOhYyo Uncrown but Idngly kHif I
"Whoso burning songs', hko livii poured,
..Havosmltton llko ti twu-''d 'word
Bout forth by Heaven's avenging VjtiX
V4 puriio tho earth, wlioro seldom ellugtf
To Ml but yc, oh, kindly kings I
'Oh ft uncrowned, but kingly kings I
To whose estiitlc gale nlono
Tho beautlrul Ifcaviu Ii nhown,
And Mini have miulo it nil your om;
lYour lavish hand urovtnd us Ulngs
Earth's richest wreath, oh, noble kings J
.."Oh, ye uncrowned, hut kindly kings I
..Tho honrt loaps wildly lit your thought,
'''And tho bruin fires 111 If It caught
"'sshrcds of ymir tnautlu; yo havo fought
Not vainly, If your glory brings
A'lttigorlug llsbl U earth, oh, klugsl
Oh, yo uneixnwA U kindly kings t
Whofig uiuIs on Maruh's fruit did sup,
Avd.Vovt lu tlnry charlotu ui
Wliero'cKrlh hud ilrlui',l his hemlock cup
'YfxUuds of Ood, hut tymnts' stings,
UucroVuod, but still the kliijjllcHt klnpil
... fi.e
TilB PERIL OF THE MINE.
AN OLD LADY'S STOUT.
No ono knew wliy the tiny woman
who lived near Iho Krcat coal inlnu was
called Aunt Mndge, although every ono
know tlio instant sho caino in view why
flho was callod little, for very pinull she
was, not much larger than a child.
This little Aunt Jluilgc had a heart go
. largo that it could not live in her, but
came put through kind words from her
lips, and lovlug tide in iter eyes, until
It fcll.abuut her, enveloping her little
person so completely that she was nil
heart, and when you looked at her Jou
could, not see anything else; and you
thought sho was as large as any ono until
unothcr jieis n chanced to conio nnd
jilaco flvo or six feet of human growth
bcsldo her mito of being, and then you-l
could not help exclaiming, " 'What a lit
tlo.womau 1"
.. Wlicn you were on your way to visit
"Aunt kludge, and saw tho brownest Ut
ile, ,'nut-shcll of a house in tho world
eta'hding closo to tho mouth of tho great
coal mine, you thought, " Oh, that is a
nut which ripened years ago, on ono of
the 'giant trees that grew to mako tho
coal beds, and it has been gotting brown
er o.very century since tho trees forgot
how: to grow, and I know it must bo
ivory hard to crack." And so yon would
goup to it, and put out your hand in all
,..its;strcngth, and glvo a knock on tho
place whero tho shell looked tho tliiu
jicsi; and Just when you wore expect
ing, to hear a great cracking noise, the
cloor of tho shell would open so gently
that boforo you wero awuro tho kernel
would bo boforo you, and you would bo
drawn into tho nut by a friendly hand ;
'.ndvwlien tho door was closed the nut
. twould seem to bo singing about all the
riuns that had shone upon, and tho winds
ihat had blown over tho great tree on
Which it grew.
;Onco upon a time somebody whisper
d,that litllo Aunt ATudgo had mailca
great ..discovery which sho was keeping
profoundly secret that sho had certain
ly found tlio fountain of perpetual youth,
orthoro grew not a wrinkle more on
.her. loving face this year than tho last,
iind tho Winters passed and "left no
jsign."
Tlio miners who weut below always
stopped to say good-by, and for their
coining up Aunt JIudge always watch
x .'ed tAvith a strango, wistful look that
jiovor seemed to tiro. It was this that
kept her young the miners coming up
rom tho mine. Her wistful look could
aiot. bo diverted at tho magical hour,
und no Inducement could tempt hor to
tay from homo oven for ono day.
During tho months of ono Summoran
owner of tho great mino removed with
Jits family to a small hotiso midway be
tween .tho village and tho house of lit
tlo,Aunt Sludge. His namo was Owen
Yall?ilIo had two sons, Paul and Ar
tburboys juit emerging from cliild
lioodlnto that restless transition state
9HE!
that furnishes so much material for
hip-owncrs.
, Day after day tho two boys wandered
. .ftout over tho mountains, lingering
long at tho entrance of tho mino, and
. scarcely restrained from going down,
jiotwlthbtandlng prohibition and warn-
3ng.
., There wero strango gases nnd myeto
rlous gusts of dampuess far down, Join
drcils of feet below the surfaco signs
t which made (he miners give tho lips at
liouiu farewells with htrong impulses
clinging to them born of tho fear that
thoy might bo forever parted signs
which caused Aunt Sludge to watch tho
blackened feature, tw they came up.
,wlth Bomothing very much liko tears in
lier oyes.
Ono morning it was hours after the
last, man had disappeared within tho
nhaft for tho day Aunt Mmlgo, open
.inrf tho door of hur llttlo hut, wiw Paul
and Arthur manipulating In a suspicious
manner tho apparatus at tho mine.
" AVJiHo sho watched, Paul sprang into
tho bucket, and boforo tho little woman
could reach the spot, ho hud eommencod
tho fearful descent, Arthur acting as his
conductor.
VOL. f.-NO. 2G.
" Hold, hold fasti" cried Aunt Sludge,
cro her hand went out to arrest tho un
winding of tho ropo; but Arthur, who
had been watching long for Just that op
portunity, when thero should bo no men
to oppo?o at the mouth of tho mine, had
no thought of bulnir stopped byawomaii,
nnd ho unwound faiter nnd faster, until
a 11 rm grasp was fixed upon Ids hand
a-nd tlio speed arrested.
"Clently, gently I" gnipod tho llttlo
woman, "If you will save your broth
cr's life."
At the words Arthur turned white
with fear, and lot go, leaving all that
fearfttl strain upon tho small hands that
could but Juit hold In their grasp the
crank of the windlass, and tho ropo was
so old that it must glvo way soon, and
Might at any second; it had not been
used for months.
Aunt Sludge poized tho crank with
both hands, and cried, "Help! help!
quick!"
Arthur caught it just in time; It was
slipping from her grasp, nnd the two
gently lessened tho motlou until tho
bucket stood still.
Paul had Jumped in very bravely, an
ticipating a fine time, nnd atcrrlblo sur
prise to tho miners bolow, when ho
.should suddenly drop Into their midst ;
but oven as the blue sky was shut from
his sight, he gasped with nn emotion
very like fear. When the rays of light
disappeared ono by one, he began to
tremble nnd cling fast to tho sides of tho
tub, that was only largo enough to hold
him. It win perfect blackness in the
rihatt, and tho air that rushed up as ho
felt himself to be rushing down wa not
liko the sweet air that he had breathed
under the blue of the sky ; it made him
think of suffocation, and tho darkness
wiw so dense that lie thought it was bu
rying him alive; he felt its weight driv
ing down upon his head.
In that moment Paul Vail would
havo given everything ho possessed to
be safely out of the coal region.
.Suddenly ho felt himself to be no long
er going downward; the motion had
changed to a swift circling course, that
would have made his brain dizzy but for
the fearful darkness. The ropo was un
twisting, but he knew it not; one strand
had parted.
Ho shouted aloud, and from the
depths his own voice thundered back to
him, " Slay be Arthur cannot hold the
crank any longer," and tho fearful se
quence came, " What if ho lets goV"
Paul Vail had never beforo been in n
position of utter helplessness. He had
always had his own strong arms and feet
to aid him in. his movements, his eyes
to tell him whero ho might move; and
now he found all these gifts of no man
ner of service there was nothing for
dm to do but to pray. God shuts every
soul in thus at some point of life, with
himself, that the soul may feel after
Clod, If, happily, He may bo found.
It is not always in mines, or on tho
ocean and billows, and nature's wrath,
or in tho earthquake's tremor, that the
soul of man meets this point of utter
despondence on its Creator. It comes
in still, small ways the friend in whom
wo trusted fails us, or all our plans are
crossed by counter plans, or wo watch
the feeble, Muttering breath, and 4cnov
that it Is going out, unless tho giver of
life breathe anew upon our loved one.
Paul Vail's time for prayer eamtuid
tho cry went forth for help.
JS'ow, my boy, hold fast, wind gen
tly, and Ood willing, wo will havo bin
Ntfely up," said Aunt Srudgo; but her
voice trembled, and only her hands
nerved themselves to the tnk. It was
quite a different affair, Arthur drawing
up tho bucket. Their united strength
could but just compass it, and thou tho
awful danger of tho ropo parting, and
necessity for uniform tension. Onco or
twice tho llttlo woman's eyes wandered
down tho mountain; but no help came.
Steadily, steadily around tho windlass
wound the ropo until thero enme Into
view tlio parted strand it was giving
away fast. i
"Havo mercy!" ejaculated llttlo
Aunt Sludge, and bidding Arthur hold
fa'it, she sprang down, cloo to tho open
shaft, and with arms stretched over tho
edge, sho caught tho ropo below the
parted strand. Her hold was just sulll
ciont to balance tho break.
No mortal can tell how long the boy's
muscles could havedune s-ervicoin hold
ing tho crank, or how long tho bravo
little arms could have dono duty over
the shaft, and there. Is no need to tell,
for God sent a strong hand that reached
down beside tho weak arms, and unoth-
and another came, and Paul Vail was
drawn upward, and onco moro ho saw
tho blue of the sky, that seemed so pro
tons to him whon shut out from it.
Arthur und Paul lmd,in theircarelcss
zeal to explore tho mine, availed them
selves of an old, worn-out apparatus that
no miner would havo thought of rlskiog
his life by, and tho miners from tho other
sldoof tho mountain had arrived Just in
timo to save Paul. Thoro had been heard
strango noises in tho earth that day, a
great groaning of gases, that gave warn
ing of danger to be, and tho men wero
going down to clear the depths In time,
Llttlo Aunt Sludge watched tho do-
scent, nnd then Invited Paul and Arthur
Into her little hut.
Sho did not scold them, nor tell them
what bad, naughty boys they had been,
but sho told them a story. And this is
tho story sho told them :
"Twenty years ago last Slay I camo
to this bit of a house by tho great coal
mine, to bo near my husband and two
boys. lot that I felt that they wero lu
niiygreatdangerwheullostslghlofthem
going down Into tho abaft lu tlio uaorn
BLOOMSBURG,
lug, but then you see I could havo them
by mo a bit longer in tho morning, nnd
then it was so pleasant to watch for them
coming up at night, nnd more than all,
llttlocrumbsof nowscnnioup from tlmo
totlinonllday. Bomebody would becom
ing up every llttlewhlle.iind I li.nl many
aclianco to drop Into tho buckets little
tin paite, with a tasto of something
warm, right off tho firo, or a bottlo of
hot eoiree, when 1 saw my husband, or
Httfus, or Charley wero a llttlo weak;
and then to watch for tlio "thank
you, wife," or "thank you, mother,"
that was always certain to como back
tho next chance. Oh, I Hko living hero.
1 would not havo gone away to live in
the finest house in tho land, and left my
husband nnd boys behind. We had a
bit of garden at tho door. I soo you
laugh as you look at tho ground now ;
but they havo covered up tho spot, and
I am glad. I could not bear to look at
It after tlio time I am going to tell
you of.
" Tt was seventeen years ago last Stay;
when the overseer of the mine came
ono night to talk to my husband. Ho
took him out of tho house, nnd beyond
tho little garden paling, where I could
not hear what ho said; but when he
had gone, John that was my husband
looked soberer than I'd ever seen Jiim
in my life, and ho was always the
brightest soul, full of good thoughts to
all men, and the thankfulcstman to our
Father that I ever saw. Ho couldn't
help laughing out his gladness. Ho
said there was so much of it coming up
in his soul that he couldn't help letting
it out, and made mo feel as if 1 wasall
done up in a rainbow somehow ; and
then tho two boys"
For a moment Aunt Sludgo" slopped,
and Paul ventured to nsk :
" What did the overseer want?"
"He wanted my husband to go down
in the mine at midnight, and examine
it, just as the miners have gone below
now. There were noises, strango growl
ings and groaning, and tho damps had
filled all tho mine. You see they open
ed tho mino then on both sided of the
mountain, east and west, and wero
working toward each other, hoping to
gain an opening through tho mountain,
and some thought that it was the air
rushing through that mado tho noises.
Well, my husband went down. Ho
never told mo till 'twas just midnight.
You see it was Sunday night, and noth
ing could coax him to go down on Sun
day ; so ho let mo go to sleep, and when
I woke up, tho moon was flooding into
tho room like a great high tide, and
there, right on tlio river of it, was John,
kneeling on tho floor and saying ids
prayern; and I heard tho little clock on
tho kitchen shelf strike, and 1 counted
twelve. Just then camo a knock, and
John said 'Amen' quite loud, and got
up. Then ho camo and looked over
me nnd saw that I was wideawake, aud
to kissed me anil said :
"Good-by, my llttlo Sludge. lain
going down to tho mino to look atsonio
things they've found there. I'll be back,
please God, to eat breakfast with you."
"The moonlight, and the prayer, and
the knock, and tho good-by, all seemed
f-o strango that they dazzled me, and 1
let him go; but a dream 1 had Jut alter
frightened my sleep away, and I went
out nnd sat by the lonely shaft and
watched all night. I listened with my
ears close to the opening ; but it was all
so still, anil tho great full moon walked
down the blue Held, and tho dark moun
tain camo ui between, and tho day be
gun to break at last, and then rot up.
Sfy two boys were out, early as it was,
digging in Vho garden to surprise mo ; so
I stole in at tho front door, and let them
think I was fast asleep.
"Tho little round table you sco it
there was soon ready, four plates and
forks and knives on it it was just large
nough fur four. Well, when tlio break
fast wis waiting for John, tho boys
Ksamo to inquire for their father, and
when I had told them whero ho had
gone they never stopped to speak, but
went straight out, ami I followed thcurt
to tho place wlioro I had watched alii
night. Just then tho miners were come,
and they said Itufus and Charley must
not go dowu; but my two boys could
not, bo ,kept back, and tlioy bade nxi
rood-bjj, and as their bright heads went
out of Sight, Itufus culled back, ' Keep
the breakfast warm, mother; and wo
will fi)toi faser up to eat it soon.'
" The placoVhoro tho coal was taken
outof tho inlno was about half a mllo
away, and tho men who stood at tho
wnima-vs wero gouu in ii, ami i count
not bear to leave tlio place, tho signal
might coma at any Instant, and thero
would bo no ono thero to mind It; so I
staid, but no sign camo until tho sun
was high in tho sky ; and then, boys, I
heard a soft stop behind mo as I sat
watching tho rope, dot daring to, take
my eyes from it to seo who euinoTiVarer
and nearer. ,
hero?" said John's voico. " I've come
for my breakfast," aud my husband
iktnnd loaniiiL' over me. "Tho bovs.
John!" wasair'thatlcould utte.r,nev9r
stopping to ask or wonder how ho could
has'o como to me.
" God pity us, wife, If tho lys nro
down below," was all ho said ; In an in
stant ho was gono for aid. Ho iuS two
men returning from tho eoal shaft Just
beyond tho gardon railing, and dazed
as I was by everything that day, 1 know
enough to run to tho hotiso for a bit of
food, that might uovor meet tho lips it
was prepared for, and to lend a hand at
tho crank, as my John and another
bravo soul went down out of sight.
Tho silgnnl cjune to draw back beforo
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 18GG.
many seconds, nnd tho two men could
not lift themselves out of tho bucket
when into tho air, but held on with
whlto gasping faces, although wo wound
up as fast as we could ; nnd when I saw
them I knew my two boys would never
como back to mo as they had gono from
me. Hut I had my husband safe, nnd I
tried to tako that Into my soul, and to
make it grow thero nnd cover up tho
grent wounds I had got."
" ion didn't tell us how your litis
Kind got out," gapod Paul, thinking of
his own just escaped danger.
"Ino, I forgot that, thinking of tho
boys. Thero wero terrible eruptions
nnd explosions down thero in tho deep
blackness, and tho lamps scorned of no
uo at nil, the air was so thick; nnd God
alono knows how, but tho way between
tho east and west shafts was opened by
pomo angel, and tho poor fellows es
caped death by it. At that dreadful
timo the mluo was so filled up that
tho old places nro not cleared nway yet,
aud that is what I was waiting for. It
will come soon now. John never got
well, Ho went away from mo day by
day, until at last I could find him
no longer; but in sonio way ho left all
his cheerfulness and his 'thankfulness
behind for mo to ltvo by. The last
words ho said were: ' I'm going to tho
west shaft to watch for tho boys, you
stay and watch litre.' That night ho
died, nnd 1 saw tho samo full moon
walk down thegreat blue field up above,
and the shadow of tho niountan came
up anil It wii3 nil darkness; but tho sun
was shining when 1 lifted up my face;
it had been shining full on my face
and John's, but it was not tlio sunshine
that made his shine soj; it was some
thing that he saw in Heaven, and they
put him away with tho light still on
it."
That night tho miners' brought up
from the depth below something that
they touched tenderly and carried with
uncovered heads to tho little brown
house.
hittlo Aunt Sludgo need not wntch
with wistful look to tho miners coming
up any longer; her boys have been
found.
The llttlo brown nut of a houso has
gono from tho mountain ; tho little wo
man who had found tho fountain of
perpetual youth is gono from earth to
where life springs aro immortal, aud
she sees tho something that John saw
in Heaven ; and as to us who watched
and aro left, thoro aro dark mines, aud
miners ever coming up and going down
waiting for us to give them a helping
hand, and to pour Into tho shafts of life
of tho sunshine God gives llchly to
those that dwell on His mountain.
THE ANGEL DREAM.
11V (I. o.
CitisnTi In hnnd stood n sculptor tmy,
Willi bis murhlf block boforo him,
And bis eye lit up wllh u gleam of Joy
As an ungcl du'iutl p:ws'd u'er hiin.
Ho curved that droam on u Khapch'ss fatone,
With many n i.li.irp liu-lslim;
That migul dmim ho had liimlo his own
Ho had caught Hint angel vision,
rVuIplors of life nro wo us wo stand,
Willi our souls uncarved befuro us
Watting an hour, when at ibnl'i command,
Our Ufo-drcam p iises beforo us.
If we enrvo II then on n shapeless stone,
WlHi iiriny a sharp Incision,
That angel diuim MmU bo our own,
Our own that angel vUloii.
.Yew l'orl: x-cr.
A. WAHD AT SIIA.KESPEAEE'3
TOME.
Sir.. Pu.vcir : My J)atrSir,Va been
liilgcrin afJUioI tomb of tho lamei-lcd
Shakespeare.
It is a succei'S. 9
ltflonot lies'tatotopronouncoitJtasiieh.
You may make any u-e of this opjfi-
ion you seo lit. If you think its publi
cation will subswerve tho causoof litter
iitoor, you may publicato it.
1 told my wife Hetsy when I lefrrmine
that I should go to-tho birthplaco of
' Olheller" and other Plays. Sho said
tus lounjas I kept out of Newgato sho
did'ut aire where I went. " But," I
said, "don't you know he was tho great-"
est Poit that ever lived? Not ono of
those common polts, liko tho young
idyll who wrfft's vJrscs to our daughter,
about tho Roses as growses, and the
breezes as Ulowses, but a Uoss Poet
ab.ua philosopher; iiNoamaii whoknew
tigroid deal abotft everything."
She was packing my things at tho
time, and tho only answer sho made was
to ask mo if I was going to carry both
my red flannel flight caps. "A
Yes. I've been to Stratford onto the
Avon; tho birthplaco of Shakespeare.
Sir. U. is now no more. He's been dead
vcr tnreo Hundred (uuii) years. Tlio
pooplOjjjf ills native town aro justly
iirotid ofhtm? Thoy cherish his mem'ry,
aud them asi sel.1 plcturs of his blrlh-
plaeo,'etc., mako it profUbltr herishln
It. Almost ovcrybodyibTiyaujdctur to.
put into their Alblom.
jAjjI stood gazing at tho sjlot whero
Sjiakespearo Is s'pvsed to havo fell down
on tho ico and hurt himself when j boy
(.this spotennnot bo bought Jho town
authorities say It shall uover,,bo taken
from Stratford), I wonderod if three
hundred yxrSnenco plcturs qf my birth
plaeo would bo intlymand? Will tho
people of my imFivo toAvn bojud of
mo in three humirou yearsvr l gucms
thoy won't short of that time, beatuso
they say tho fat man welghlnono thous
and .pounds which 1 exhibited thero
was st aired out with plllora and cush
Ions, which Ito said ono very hot day in
July, "Oh, bother, I cant stnnd this
and commenced pulllti tho pillers out
from uuderhls wwkit, and commenced
hoavln 'em at the audlnce. I nover saw
a man loso flesh so fast in my llfo. The
ntidlcnco said I was a pretty man to
como ehlsleln my own townsmen lu
that way. I said, " Don't bo nugry. fel-
lcr-cltlzcn. I oxhibited him simply as
a work ofart. I simply wished to show
that a man could grow fat without tho
nltt of cod-liver nil." But thoy wouldn't
listen to mo. They aro a low and trrov-
clln set of people, who excito a feelin of
Ioathin In every breast where emotions
and original Idecs havo a biding place.
I stopped at Icanilnglon a few min
utes on my way to Stratford onto the
Avon, and a very beautiful town it Is.
I wont Into a shoo shop to mako a nur-
chls.and us I entered 1 sawovertlmdoor
theso dear familiar words, "By Ap
pointment: II. II. It. ;" and I said to
tlio man, "Squire, excuso mo, but this
Is too much. I havo seen in London
four hundred boot and shoo shops bv
Apppointincnt: H. It. H. ; and now
you're at it. It is simply onposslble
that tho Prince can wear four hundred
pairs of boots." "Don't toll mo," I
said In a voice choked with emotion
" Oh, do not tell mo that you also mako
boots for him. Say slippers say that
you mend a boot now and then for him ;
but do not tell mo that you mako 'em
rcg'lar for him."
Tho man smllt, and said I didn't un
derstand these things. He said I per
haps had not noticed in London that
dealers In all sorts of articles was by ap
poiutmont. 1 said, "Oh, hadn't I y"
Then asuddeu thought flashed over mo.
" I have it I" I said. " When tho Prince
walks through the street, ho no doubt
looks at tho shop windows."
The man said, ". No doubt."
"And tho enterprisin tradosman," I
continued, "tho moment tho Prince
gets out of sight, rushes frantically and
gets a tin sign painted, ' By Appoint
ment: H. U. H.l' It is a beautiful, a
rx.ito idee!"
I then bought a pair of shoe-strings,
and wringin the shoemaker's honest
hand, I started fir tho tomb of Shakes
peare in a hired fly. It lookt, however,
moro liko a "spider."
"And this," I said, as I stood in tho
old churchyard at Stratford, bcsldo a
tomb-stone, " this marks tho spot where
lies William V. Shakespeare. Alars!
and this is the spot where "
" You've got the wrong grave," said a
man a worthy villager ; " Shakcspearo
Is buried inside tho church."
"Oli," I said, "a boy told mo this was
It," (ho boy IitrA'd and put.lho shilling
I'd given hiin into his lefteyo in a Inglo
rious manner, and eoihmencod niovlii
backword toward tho street.
1 pursood and eaptered him, and after
talkin to him n spell lu askarcactie stile,
I let him went.
Tlio old church was damp nnd chill.
It was rainln. Tho only person there
when 1 entered was a fine, bluff old gen
tleman, who was talkin in an excited
manner to a fashnlbly dressed young
man. "No, Kamost Srontrosser," tho
old gentleman said, "it is idle to pursoo
this subjeck no further. You can never
marry my daughter. You were seen
lust Sronday in Piccadilly without a
unibreller! I said then, as Ivay now,
any young mnn as venturs orjt in a un
certain climit liko this without n uni
breller, lacks foresight, caution, strength
of mind, and stability, and lie is,ntlio
proper penpn to intrust a daugjitr's
happiness to."
i-slapt the old gentleman on thoslipnl.-
tler, and said, " Yqu'ro right. YoiiTris
one of thoso kind of miffTSvou-Hee '
He wheeled suiITIonljwroTt
indignant
voico'itoiilf, "iGo
Is is iimjvlt inffrvo
way I nils is a urivit lntfrvoo
I didn't stop to enrich'tlTo oh
man's mind williJUjA'oiiversal
infuu-ed that, he WRTPt iilined t'
en (0,1110, and so I wont ..on. BlTt :lw
wasright about tlui'ffJii'briiUeT. -iWh
really dolightedwltjr this grand M
country, Sir. Pimch.Jju.t vou must niS-4'ij
mit that it doesVaiWrut hortyoomt;
otisjy hem-' Whether this is dwingtojj
inonerWu fonrnXof gov'mentAir ntfor,
Jhjayo all candid aud unprejudiced pur-'
linns to say,
' .,,, r, i .
Yiinain-fn
Jcesirfco wasl born in
Stratford in 1
tors. Shakesnoivan sehaJars. etsctrv. aro
1 11.1 . . . I . f . 1 . - 1 A lilllD.'S , -
agreed on mis, wincn is auou.tmvuiuy
thing they nregreed
mm
regreedeau' ilr regard toLlUw, ttjiUiipecteil, at tio botloju oflovo,
inn, except
that his mlmtleflwti'raillWTOorhiMa tliis Is a speolaj quality of
ut or dramatist ik)i. rAWUUiior, wuh"lts sadness and tendon
onto auv noet or dramatist much. "SrtWUi
fUero Is nowouul if these commentators
..... . If
and parsons Jcoutlmier luvesligatin
Shakospoare's'earrs; wo shall-jTot, Jny crocus on a child's gravSfnovor ap
doo timo, kmfw ifiytin."rabouWit all preaching closer to a perfection than in
When n:norolad,tlittWiyilluiu1atteno sonio passages of Sir. Hawthorne's
cd n Grammar School, Jiicauso, as hgJ
auifttjioiirammar KciiooiAwouiuiri n
Ujejju mm. this remar
citfrnt uoiii inn.' BiJ jmia
Ik! I
uieuiarKiw
id liffixneitSr
onced', setopldS thinklfi thoro inlglTKif this youth thoy comprehend It, seo
ijosomothliilnthfcilnd. Ho subsequent
ly wrote "Hamlet" nniL." GoariroBarn-
bgyi'-Wnou hJjSJklnd teache went to
iioiiuon to accept a position in mo uni
ces t thoJUotropoliton Hallway, llttlo
William wasejiftijon by his fellow pupils
toJelivfiPa f.iroj.YelliuJIlress. "Go on,
dr," ho0nld, " In a gjorus career. Bo
ji.io ii eagio, irrnt soa, aim urn sourer
ilto Ji eag
you gwSio nnifb weWlall all bo grati
fied! 'Hint's so;V jl
nSly .y$ung readers, who wjslrfo know
apoui. onaKivmjjiuu, jK llk&, nv "-
vallyijbWenmjl
I retarnedMo
ksfrSmed.'
young married couple, thoy asked me
If I cuuld direct them to thohotel which
Washington Irving used to keep?
" I'vo understood that ho was onsuc
ccssful as a lau'lord," said tho lady.
"Wo'viUdi.rstoud,"suId tho young
mau, " iljaf ho busted up."
PRICE FIVE GENTS.
1 told Ihem I wai it stranger, nnd hur
Hod away. They wero from my coun
try, nnd ondoubtodlv ronrescnted n
thrifty lie well somewhere in Pennsyl-
vany. it s a common thing, by tho
way, for an old farmer In Ponnsvlvnnv
towako up some morning and find lie
squirting all round his back-yard. Ho
soils out for 'normous price, and Ills
children put on gorgeous harness and
start on a tower to nsloniih people.
They succeed lu doln It. Sleatlnm tho
iio squirts and squirts, and Timo rolls
on. Let It roll.
A very nice old town is Stratford, and
a capital inn is tho Bed Horse. Kvery
admirer of tho great Shakcspearo must
go thero onco, certainly; and to say
ono Isn't a admirer, is ciiuiv'lcnt to
saying one has Just brains enough to
oeoome a etllclent tinker.-
Some kind ptirson has sent mo Chaw-
cer's Poems. Sir. Chaweer had talent
mt ho couldn't spol. No man hits a
right to bo a llt'rary man on loss lift
knows how to spel. It is a pity that
Chaweer, who had geneyus, was so tm-
edleated. Ile'ij tho wuss speller 1 know
of.
I gttess I'm through, and m I lay
down the pen, which is more mightier
than sword, but which I'm afraid would
stand raylhera slim chanco besido tho
needle-gun. Adoo! Adoo!
AltTEMUS Wahd. i
YOUTH AND MATURITY.
TitnitK is a certain even-handed Jus
tice; anil for what ho takes away, he
gives us something in return. Ho robs
us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and
in its place ho brings tranquility and
repose the mild autumnal weather of
tho soul. He takes away hope, but ho
gives us memory. And tho settled un
fluctuating atmosphere of middle ago
is no bad change for tho stormful emo
tions, tho passionate cries and suspenses
of tho earlier day. Tho constitutional
melancholy of tho mlddlo-aged man is
a dim back-ground on which tho pale
flowers of life aro brought out in tlio
tende rest relief.
Youth Is the timo for action, middle
ago for thought. In youth we hurried
ly crop the herbage; in middle age, in
a sheltered place, wo chew tho rumina
tive cud. In youth, red-handed, red
ankled, with songs and shouting, wo
gather in tlio grapes; in middle ago,
under our own fig-tree, or In quiet gos
sip with a friend, wo drink the wine
free of all turbid lees. Youth Is a lyri
cal poet ; middle ago Is a quiet essayist,
fond of recounting experiences and of
appending a moral to every Incident.
In youth tho world is strange and unfa
miliar, novel and exciting, everything
wears the face and garb of a stranger;
In middle ago tho world is covered
with reminiscence as with a garment
it is made homely with usage, and It
i3 made sacred with graves.
The middle-aged man can go nowhere
without treading the mark of his own
footsteps. And in middle age, too
provided the man has been a good and
ordinarijy happy one along with his
mental tranquility thero comes a corre
sponding hwCetyoss of tho moral atmos
phore. lie haTseen tho good nnd evil
there is in tho world, tho tips and downs:
tho almost general desire of tho men
and women therein to do tho right
thing if they could but seo how and ho
has learned to bo unconsorious, humane ;
trudtrlbute the best motives to every
action, and (o bo chary of imputing a
sweeping and cruel blame. Ho has a
quiet smile for vainglorious boasts; a
toiidd'fiijftH,Ii)fn,spix;t for tbesliabby-genleel
virfucVE
ilty for threadbare tfarmonls
pWdiyW)
llyowi, and for tho napless hat
1 intTiioro than pristine brilllan-
glazed iutw
cvjroin lroiiucjii nrusiung niter ram.
e.
IfL&Wmld lTfyiiJf allrical for tho world.
Ho htm no liujffnLbf scorn to point at
anything uiidxjir,iho sun. Ho has a
'hearty "Ymon" for every good wish,
juuiu uiiworanrtiscs nu n-uiia iu u vut-
of not, p'roven
and along with thlpleasant blnnd
ireuiud charity, a oortal'n grave, scri-
usuiumor, "asmllo p,u tho Up, and a
riii tho eye," Is nnticablo frequently
ii3TnTTlillo aged personsa'a phase of hu-
inctf pscullnr to uiatW-ripiiuf life, as
thoVjantlieuiunf.tgK'ee.uflier. Pity
lies at ttho bottom of it, Just as pity
hit
tenderness,
its mirth with the heart-ache, its travetv
SgTown out of deepest seriousness, llko a
writings, who was a mlddlo-aged man
from earliest boyhood. And although
mlddlo-aged persons havo lost tho ae-
kual possession of youth, yet In vlrtuo
all around it, enter imaginatively into
every sweet 4tnd bitter of It. They
wear tho key of memory at their gir
dles, and thoy can open every door In
tho chamber of youth.
At an examination In ono of our
youug ladies seminaries, the other day,
the question was put to a class of little
oues, " Who mado tho laws of our Gov
ernment'.'" " Congress," was tho reply.
"How is Congress divided?" was tho
next question; but tho llttlo girl to
whom It was put failed to answer It.
Another llttlo girl In tho class raided up
her hand, Indicating that sho could an
swer It, " Well," said tho oxamluer,
" Sllss Sallle, what do you say thodl
vision Is?" Instantly, with an nlr'of
confidence as well as triumph, tho nn
usver came, " Civilized, half-clvlllzed,
and savitfjo."
cn!i of gji!uci'iijiiit0.
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Other rulvcrtlscnicutu lnscrtod noocrdlin: to sr
clnl cuntrnct.
A CONTINENT COVEItED WITH
ICE.
Pitor. ArtARstss comes to tho eoncltt'
slon that thocontlnentof North Ameri
ca was onco covered with Ico a inllo In
thickness, thereby ngrcclng with Pre
fessor Illtclirock nnd other eminent
geological writers concerning tho gla
cial period. In proof of thlscoiicluslon,
ho says that tho slopes of tho Alleghany
range of mountains are glacial worn to
tlio very top except n few points which
weronbovolho level of tho ley mass.
Mount Washington, for Instance, lti
over six thousand feel high, and tho
rough, unpolished surfaco of Us sum
mit, covered with loose fragments, Just
below the level on which tho glacier
marks como to an end, tells that It lifted
its head alono above t ho desolate waste of
ico and snow. In this, then, the thickness
of the ico cannot have loon much losd
than six thouvand feet, nntl this Is in
keeping with thosamo kind of evidence
In other parts of tho country, for whoa
thomotiidains nro much belowslx thous
and feet, tho ico seems to havo parsed
directly over them, whilo thofuwpcaktt
rising to that height nro left untouched.
Tho glacier, he argues, was God't)
plough, nnd, when tho Ico vanished
from tho face of the land, It left it pro
pared for tho hand of the husbandman.
Tho hard surfaces of tho rocks wero
ground to powder, tho elements of tho
soil were mingled in fair'proportions,
granite wasearrledintotholiino regions,
lime was mingled with tho more arid
and unproductive granlto districts, nnd
soil was prepared for tho agricultural
uses of man. There are evidences all
over tho polar regions to show that at
ono period tho heart of tho tropics ex
tended all over tho globe. The i''o po-
riod is supposed to bo long subsequent
to this and noxt to the last beforo tho
advent of man.
CAUSE OP FEVER AND AGUE.
ExiT.niMr.KTS to ascertain this wero
commenced by nu examination of tho
mucous secretions of patients who had
been most subjected to tho malaria, and
in these was detected a largo amount of
low form of life, such as algln), fungii,
diatomaccea, aud dismidea. Some of
these wero found to bo invariably asso
ciated with aguo. Other bodies, which
wero constantly present in such cases,
arc described as being "minuto," ob
long cells, either single or aggregated,
consisting of a distinct nucleus, sur
rounded with a smooth cell wall, with
a highly clear, apparantly empty spaco
between tho outer cell wall and nucleus.
From theso characters it is concluded
that tho bodies nro not fungi, but be
long properly to tho algie. Theso bod
ies were not found above tho level at
which the aguo was observed. In or
der to ascertain oxactly their source, ho
suspended plates of glass over the water
In a certain marsh regarded unhealthy.
In tho water which condensed upon tlio
under surfaco of theso plates, ho found
an abundanco of these structures. From
repeated researches it is, therefore, con
cludedFirst, theso spores aro carried
aloft above the surfaco at night, in tho
damp exhalation which appoars after
sunset; second, theso bodies rise from
thirty to sixty feet, lienor above tho
summit of tho dampniglit-oxhalUilion,
aud aguo Issimilarly limited; third, tho
day air of aguo districts is free from
llicso bodies.
TOLITENESS IN BUSINESS.
Por.rrr.XEss in business is a largo ad-
tuuon to your capuat already invested.
I (keeps your customers In n good humor,
and gains new ones for you every day.
H ia tho charm that smoothes and soft
ens tho rough paths of business. It is
tho " philosopher's stono" which turns
everything you touch into gold. It in
vests commercial life with most of tlio
poetry which ever adorns it. It makes
mefi liko you, and lovo to deal with you.
It gatna you tliq kind words aud good
ofilces of thoso with whom you dally
como in contact. It has been humor
ously and truly said by ono that ho pre
ferred making his dealings with a po
lito merchant, who would cheat him t
Mile, than with a rudo, rough, and ha
bitually Impolite one, who would honest
him a great deal. Honesty and honor
are commendable and shining qualltr,
It Is trtii; but thoy nover look hotter
than whon they aro found in a setting
of gcuuino politeness and good breed
ing. QUAKItELLINQ.
Ir anything in tho world will mako
a limn feel badly, except pinching his
lingers iu tho crack of a door, it is, un
questionably, a quarrel. No man ever
falls to think lias of himsolf after it
than beforo. It degrades him In tho
eyes of othors, and, what is worse,
blunts his sensibilities on tho ouohand,
and Increases tho power of passlonnto
Irrltabllity.on tho other. Tho truth is,
tho moro poacofully and quietly wo get
on, tho better for our nulghbora. In
nlno eases out of ton tho better course
Is, if a man cheats you, quit dealing
with him; if ho Is abusive, quit his
company; and If hu slanders you,iako
earo so to Hvo that nobody will bellcvo
him. No matter who ho Is, or how ho
misuses you, tho wisest way is to
let him alono; for thero is nothing bet
ter than this cool, calm, aud qulot way
of dealing with tho wrongs wo moot
with.
A an and boy havo been arrested lu
Philadelphia for robbing forty stores.
Kxm.ixn cannot man her navy or
mercantile marine.