RT na
AT FIrrY-ONE,
Jesting 14 over with me forever ;
Life ig too sober at fifty-one ;
No Jonger 1 worship the witty and clever;
Things that amused me I loathe and shun,
I have come to the summit and now begun
To sink to the vale on the other side ;
There's a damp in the air, there's a gloom on
the sun,
Whose warning the vapors of Orcus hide.
And my fellow-travelers, left and right,
¥all away from the track, as we downward
hile,
To their soveral homes;
sight;
But I hear the bells as they bid good by ;
How lonely I feel as I get more nigh
To my destined inn, a dismal place!
shut from all glimpse of the goodly sky,
And the sunshine of every friendly face.
Yet what is te dread ? there's a Master
there
Full of pity, te welcome the weary guest;
Who wil bind the footsore, and have a
good care
Of every poor soul that seeks his rest,
I tremble to ge to him, unconfessed,
I beg
But I carry a passport within my breast
Of hi vod
vr hima mo letters from priest or pope,
1 deathless
nope,
LAIZ7AE,
MY GIRL
In the year 1861 there resided in the
western part of the State of Illinois:
family by the name of Waldron, whic
consisted only of the mother and two
i
children, the eldest, Tom, aged 20, and
Lizzie, 16. Mrs. Waldron, from an at-
tack of fever, had become blind and
partially helpless, passing her time al-
most entirely in knitting, in which she
was rapid and skilful. Despite her
the old woman was Vv
being of a naturally
he
blindness,
contented
declared,
happy,
disposition, and, s often
blessed in her children.
“My girl Lizzie’ and “my boy Tom"
were perpetnally in her mouth, and in
espects the old woman was en-
tirely “My girl Lizz was an
angel, as far as such beings ever inhabit
the earth; and her el
baby, her pet, and no baby was eve
petted and waited on with the care and
assiduity that Lizzie waited upon he
mother. With Tom it was different,
He was not a bad boy, only what
ule call wild; but this his mother did
not know, for to keep the knowledge
from her was part and parcel of the
the care of Lizzie,
When Tom was supposed by
mother to be working on the farm he
would be carousing at the village tavern,
and when he was under the influence of
liquor he would quarrelsome to
everybody but Lizzie and his mother ;
the former could do anything with
him. and the later was in profound i
norance of his shortcomings, and on
in contact with him when,
himself said, he was
Waldron.”
an entirely
witl
some 1
ht ee’
rigas.,
mother was h
pe »
his
be
Yu
»
Ye
iy
came as
” as OT
om entirely
natural sequ
i all her go wl qualit es
Was
weel heart . and ti
a
oil
8A
at sweetheart
{
iii
and only «
in assertion
must be taken with this
n. that Gastave Ullman was n
301 Of
wa adopted son, who did not know
almost
was
and had
name, which
father
his
Hs ow was,
n
forgotten own
Greorge Stanton.
His history was that he was one of
scores of little waifs sent West by a
New York charitable society for adop-
tion among the farmers, Old Ullman
and his wife, who were childless, had
he boy, liked him, and had taken
him. He was then 10 years old and
lizzie was six, and boy and girl had
been daily together ever since, until
Lizzie did not recognize any difference
between Gustave— the old folks had
dropped his real name and called Lim
by that of the old man—and her broth-
er Tom.
slave had Jittle to complain of
his life. It was poverty, but not want.
The cid couple saw the affection grow
ing up between Gustave and Lizzie and
They looked forward
to an early marriage, and it was not
the death of her father, which
occured when Lizzie was 10 years old,
wen tL
x11 in
approved of it
unt
as nothing had been openly spoken
about it, nothing was said in opposi-
tion ; yet when, a year after his father’s
death, young Tom began to develop his
wildness the careful old Germans began
to look with serious apprehension on
iitimate result of such a marriage,
Gustave and Tom had always been
fast f1iends, and the former had tried
every possible way to win Tom from
his reckless ways, but without success,
Many and many a time had Gustave
taken hold of Tom's neglected work
upon the farm and brought things up
to standard, though it must be con-
fessed that when
a condition
last for weeks at a time, he worked
with a will that would soon catch up
with lost time.
But the strangest thing of all this
strange story, for it is a true one, was
the remarkable resemblance beiween
the two boys in many things, and yet,
when seen together, the absence of all
likeness, In age, size, form, features
and manner they were alike, and
stranger still, in the tone of voice and
manner of speaking, and yet they were
not alike on comparison.
It was npon the voice that Mrs Wal-
the
PL LS YI ON RISC
{ declared that even with all her atten-
{ tion it was only with great difficulty
{ that she could distinguish the talk of
{ the two boys apart. But at last
| a trouble out of Tom's wildness that
| was greater than had ever been dream-
| ed of. There had been a squabble and
| general fight at the village tavern, and
Came
es swearing positively that Tom Wal-
| dron struck the blow, Tom was ar-
rested and fully committed for murder.
| The news, as ill news always does, flew
| fast to the biind widow’s house, and the
found Gustave and Lizzie
| sitting on the front porch, talking, for
the first time they had directly broached
| the subject between them, of thelr love,
and, as a consequence, their mar-
riage, and the newsot thegreat trouble
fell upon them in the birth of their
happiness with terrible force, As soon
Lizzie's first ex
| messenger
of
as she could speak -
clamation was:
“Oh,
know anything about this.”
Gustave! mother must
but
gn
Gustave agreed with her,
It
Or
was it to be managed?
i
i
¥
kept from her for a day two under
the pretense that Tom had gone
sometimes
which he did
imple
county town,
to get ning sments, seeds,
ings as might be wanted
such t
farm, ow th
ear, when he genet
and as it was n
¥s
LA ¥
s0 between Liz
do, and whil stave hurried
n, Li:
her
country town to see Tor
into the house to watch
£ VISILOIS ¢
) y :
see that no indiscreet Iropped
in to tell her mother the bad news.
In
back. he had much
, found T
just awakened from
#
(zustave came
il. He had
havi
its}
FULREI
+3
ui
when
to te
16 evenin
Of
Course om prison,
ber, h
and
he
had been recommended
iis to Bee A
offic; ao
inal lawyer and had
gentleman had prompt
the best he could do
Tom from the gallo:
ught
which wou
1 .
TO in gully
1d be imprizonn
this he would do for a fee of five hn
dollars, a sum Le afterward
i
he heard
three hundred when
and
though, at the same
them that they would
for
the young
blind mother young
time, he
need
dred dollars more conti
penses,
: Where
The entire m
amount t
Wal
i
ed dollars
from?
Five hundr
Was
Te mney of
O HILLY
iron Kept
i
jut the problem was to be solved
Tom himself the day, Lizzie
having charged Gustave's mother on
the matter of secrecy, left her in charge
of her mother and went with Guslave
to see Tom. After they had tal it
over in every way Tom said :
oy
next
ked
“Now, Lizzie, you know that if they
don’t get this money they will hang me.
There's old Pierce, he will lend the
money on a mortgage on the farm.
Whether mother would rather have me
hanged or not I don’t know, but I
leave it te you."
From Tom's cell to John Pierce, Liz-
zie went immediately, and found that
Pierce, an old, crabbed, quarrelsome
man, was perfectly willing to lend the
money on getting a mortgage for the
amount on the Waldron farm. So far,
There was no doubt that the
mother would be perfectly
give the mortgage, but the doing so
| would involve her knowing all about it,
and this Lizzie knew would kill her, or
render her future life miserable,
a0 good,
willing to
Between herself and Gustave
matter was discussed that night, and
end justified the means. The means
were simply this: Gustave must, as
far as he could, personate Tom, and
the rest must be left to chance,
that chance was to be it was impossible
it was not taken until the old lady her-
| self forced it. On the third day she
| kept reiterating :
| “Where's Tom? He's been away
for three days,’ and she began to lag
over her knitting, and so Gustave came
in apd played Tom successfully with
the blind mother.
The war of the rebellion had just
broken out and a ery had gone up
through the length and breadth of the
land, a cry of patriotisin from old and
young, and all were rushing to the
field. Tom had talked of it and his
mother and sister had been silent.
Gustave had talked of it, but Tom had
decided that they could not both go,
and only the day before his arrest he
had said to his mother :
“Mother, I believe timt Gow calls 190
to go to the defence o my country,
and if Gustave will pledge himself to
stay at heene I will go. 1 know he will
soe that everthing goes right, and my
oh
1
and I shall come back a colonel, mother;
| perhaps a general ; who knows 77
The mother only smiled a sickly
smile, but said nothing. Now, on the
ter of Tom Waldron, he took up the sub-
| ject where Tom had left it off, and said :
I “Mother, Gustave has promised to
stay home, and see to our farm
| their own, and his father and mother
have forbidden him going. I shall
therefore enlist to-morrow.”
‘‘Giod knows best, my dear son, and
if he calls for you I must be content,”
said the old woman, resignedly.
And that afternoon
and embraced the old woman, and went
forth, leaving her te believe that Tom
{ had followed his desire become
soldier,
Gustave
and a
And now there was one more
trouble, and that was the mortgage.
It was terrible, but it
evils choose the least,’ Lizzie sald,
“Mother, I should like to
have a comfortable outfit, and
You know
get any
was “of two
Tom
take a
id
Lp
little money with him.
is doubtful whether he will
for three months yet, and
only enough to keep us until
n, 1
n
the
ie
wins to come have
help of a friend who will not let
his name,
hundred doll
ole {or
Mrs Waldon at once con
Three vears was a lor
Ig
iollary
lollars in, and
lend me a
if
mention but will
ars for
To this
sented time
to pay a hundred « POOL
Tom must be wade comfortable, lizzie
had the mortgage rea ly . and her mother
oF 16 win ng
signing
Then
y knew ali abou
Was
1ollara,
, Whe
ndred «
ys b
i
i
I
311
Situation, an
nd mother,
er via vi lod 3s
guarded is
the shox
but the old woman bowed het
1 said, with a gas
ana
“God's will be done, children. Tom
was a good boy and a dutiful one, and
I am glad that if he had to taken
from that he died an honorable
death for his country’s sake.”
And ever after, when she spoke of
Tom it the same strain, and
then lazzie feit sure she had done right,
and that the evil she had had
been really blessed.
But how
Gustave ?
cl
be
ine
Was
in
chosen
about
Tom's death, Gustave had laid before
his adopted parents his wish to make
I Waldron his wife, and was met
| by them with the most determined op-
position. At first they
i ground of their youth and afterwards
on of Tom, threatening that
if he persisted they would appeal to
| Mrs. Waldon aud tell the whole story
about her son. Of course this settled
| it, they held the power; aud when he
told Lizzie, she declared that their mar-
riage must not be spoken of again, but
| finally they both agreed that they would
never marry any one else and that they
| would wait for years, and so the second
year of the war rolled by.
One evening in the early summer
Lizzie had just parted from Gustave.
She had walked down to the garden
gate, and stood there a minute walch-
ing his receding figure up the road
when she heard her name called in a
i low tone, and instantly saw a figure
| advancing toward her out of the shad-
| ow of the wood, Lizzie stood para-
Az20
opposed it on the
account
| the arms of Tom.
| “Come into the woods, darling,’ he
| said, “I may be pursued now, and it
will give me a chance to get away.’
into the woods, within sight of the
house, they went, ard there Tom told
the story of his escape from prison, and,
of course, his knowledge that he must
be pursued, and that his pursuers
would come there first, and yet he
could not help coming there himself.
He wanted to see Lizzie. He wanted
to see his blind mother. He wanted to
see Gustave ; but the sight of a couple
of flitting shadows about the house
goon convinced him that he could not
do the last, and so they crouched in
the darkness for » while, and then
ATER
the ground, got away, and lizzie, from
the same cause, got back into
the house, and was there a short time
| afterward to receive the two detectives
who were looking for Tom,
She managed to get rid of them,
that was certain, no matter what her
story was, and a month after she re-
ceived a letter from New York, Tom
| had enlisted and his name wag Brown,
| The letter was written in such a way
| that even if it had feii into the hands
| of detectives it would not have been
supposed written by the escaped con-
vict, nor could he have been traced by
it.
Then year
another trouble came up.
tinseen
another rolled on, and
The mort-
gage became due, and there was no
the
John Pierce
i money to pay it, though interest
| had been paid punctually.
wanted his money, or he wanted Lizzie
Waldron for his wife, when he pro-
to cancel the lizzie
demurred, Auythin and,
the meanti
Lil
posed mortgage.
g for t
ie
ine,
in me, sl Was recely
letters from Tom with more m
i 4 i
closed than it seemed right
vate to send,
Then, one day,
to make a long
there appeared |
father,
wl
lon him when
, had done what
and left him a couple 0
s 11
month
cr A A ——
Fhe Cirele of Privelege.
HG ALSO,
with noble famiil
r
s of 1
wivie
But exam-
3 regulate the
fortunes of competitors;
and priyilege soon resumes its influence,
If the bestowal of the most envied dis-
tinction is examined, it will
that the minister of the day, however
powerful he may be, is bound to recog-
nize the claims of the great nobles,
though they may have rendered no im-
portant services to the country. The
exalted order of the Garter, the Thistle,
and St, Patrick are exclusively confer-
red upon noblemen. No English peer
| below the rank of an ear] is thus dis.
tinguished by the Garter, and it is said
that the late Lord
be seen
Palmerston waz the
decorated, In
some cases ancient lineage, blue blood,
only viscount ever so
! and eminent services combined to ob-
tain the much-prized ribbons,
were the circumstances of the earl of
| Shaftsbury, for whom no earthly honor
can be too high,
jut an examination of the orders
| proves at once that high rank and other
| personal or political circumstances, and
not great services rendered to the coun
Such
| the most part obtained these honors,
That these greal personages would
| deem themselves neglected and injured
| if the minister overlooked them, and
{ bestowed a vacant ribbon on a man of
| humble position, no matter how great
| his scientific or literary or parhamentary
| They are almost worshipped by the
people who are about them. The pri-
vate tutors at Eaton are too apt to re-
gard a young nobleman as a godsend,
The patrician boy of noble family is
humored and pleased, and so induced to
praise his tutor, If he proceeds to a
University be is toadied and flattered.
He discovers 1n a thousand ways that
it matters little whether he works or
plays, seeing that privilege is a pleasant
substitute for industry. And when he
emerges into the world privilege follows
him everywhere, Some noblemen pass
through the fire of flattery unscathed,
and place before themselves a high
standard of duty and responsibility.
But if the greater number are spoiled
by their surroundings it is the natural
result of obvious canses,
i
Praodenee patifol.
" omen |
The city of Paris has just in
of something lik
francs, left to the town by Prudence
Batifol, Off the Faubourg Montmar-
tre there formerly existed the
des Deux
herited |
a fortune ce 400,000
Passage
Soenrs, and Prudence was a
thoroughfare. The tenants were prin-
cipaully working people, for which her
mother made dresses at a reasonable
rate, and little Prudence was early in-
nal handicraft. She succeeded
mother as dressmaker
the Passage des Deux
to her
in ordinary to
Soeurs, but
ambition was to have a handsome apart-
ment of
her
her own with richly furnished
«1
as
iaw in matters of fashion and style, She
Ww
vorked early and late
walling-rooms, filled with
ladies who would
well-dress
wee pt her opinion
saved up a l pen
’
nies, and atl last the day came when
left the janitor’
first
4
OOK
3 lodge and mos
floor apartment,
home the dres
| fel 1
but han Liem
made,
y
ith a paper ol
hich now can hardly
for the
i
Posse gon
Prudence,
roake them up in
ich were displ
ing
terwards
Girardin, In
wealth Prudence alway rema ned
“ouvnere,'’ pious, ecor
Her
city is accompanied with the condit
portion of the int
simple wonomical
and charitable. bequest to the
On
of her
year in aiding
that a crest
money shall be used each
some meritorious work-g
business for herself.
irl to set up in
The Oia
Frigate Shannon.’
At the foot of West Eleventh street,
New York, lies the old frigate Shannon,
a crack frigate in ber day, commanded
by one of the best single-ship captains
ever trained in the British Navy, and
victor in the only sea duel where the
gridiron flag went down before anequal
adversary. The stout old ship is stately
and distinguished-looking still, in her
England hither, and of Standard oil
from here to Englind. is like a
queen dethroned, and in exile is queenly
to the end. With unusual consideration
She
and the old hull is practically in the
1813 when she put her helm up and ran
off under short canvass to allow the
EE. ———————
King of Sweden,
Kmmg of Sweden. killed in Germany
portion, including the heart, was sent
home and laid in the Church at Ridder-
holm, while the rest was embalmed,
placed in an urn, and depomted in the
Cloister Church of Weissenfels, The
latter edifice being now in a very de-
cayed state, it has been determined to
send the urn with its precious contents
to Sweden, in order that it may be
added to the rest of the heroic King's
remains at Ridderholm,
Contentment gives a crown where for.
tune has denied it,
“You are on the wrong tack,” said
the pilot's wile, when the hardy son of
the lond-sounding sea sat down on it,
und rose with the usual exslamations,
“No,” ho replied, after a oritioal exatni-
nation, “1 am on the night tack, but
shoot me if 1 am’ton the wrong end of
it ”
Co od
Custorns of Cochin-CUhiine.
Leaving the vast and, for all practi-
purposes, unexplored country of
Laos out of the question, since pays
tribute to Biam, that part of the great
peninsula
cal
£4
ik
Cochin
great
he north, lying
adjacent to China; Anam, just beyond
the Makong river; Dangtrong, on the
castern coast, and the French
on the south,
The northern ad
ochin-China is
properly termed
China is now composed fur
provinces: Tonquin, on ¢
colony,
of
£ the
western covered with dense forests, the
.
ith
eastern part
mountainous,
BO ile
generaiy
ern an alluvial plain, The elim
being
in the central
in the south.
with great
wnsidered healthy
offers great extremes,
cool in the north
portion, and
Typhoons swee
No part
PEAns,
very hot
p the coast
force,
JT
Inost
Fes
le those of Slam
na and flora
Cambodia ep of
LOUs
“hold, bad”
LUAU t
untenance
NOON
“3
i ID Lhe
ered.
of
i Of
or a
» Ja
or
~
Ive an A ( h unijue IAnguage,
zation
he generality of Asi-
There i trange commingling
vices a the virtues, Great
ality, for instance, is marred by
he practices of thieving and lying. The
dress consists of a series of colored
chemises, the number being regulated
by the season. Both sexes wear trou-
ses, sometimes silk, sometimes colton,
| White is the mourning color. Men
wear turbans of black crape, women of
blue. Overcoats consist of palm leaves
stitched together, The hat is made
with a sort of brim, which throws off
the rain however heavy the floods may
be. Women either let their tresses fall
down to their slippers,or coil them upa
la chignon. Silk purses, sometimes col-
ored and embroidered, are worn on the
jeft shoulder, and contain betel or to-
bacco, With the rich these purses are
borne by servants. The great staple is
rice, but bacon and eggs are as much
relished there as in England, So are
jellies and roast game. Eggs are neve:
eaten fresh: the worse they are the
higher price they bring—especially if
they contain embryo chickens. Cooks
| employ swallows’ nests in order Lo ‘size’
soup. Upon some occasions the fes!
| of an elephant is handed round. It is
| the test of good teeth and good diges-
tion. Tea and rice beer are common
beverages, bul water-<drinkers abound.
Tiger baiting with elephants is one of
favorite amusements. In this case the
| tiger's mouth is sewed up,and his claws
| are clipped. Cock-fighting and quatl-
| fighting contest the supremacy with
chess, Small boys do not play marbles
as with us, but amuse themselves with
battles between grasshoppers, In fight
| ing the heels are used to kick with,
The traveler finds more civil
here than among
alics, ge
5a
nd
if the
1e ng
5
hospit
:
s
The New Jerusalem,
The Swedenborgians ave vuut in
the University quarter of Paris, beside
the Lycee Henry 1V, a small temple
known as the New Jerusalem. Adjoin.
ing it is a library restricted to the
works of Swedenborg and the commen-
taries thereupon of his disciples, A lady
attired in black receives visitors and
keeps watch over the books, The num-
ber of Swedenborgians in France is
very small, and has shown a diminution
for many years. At one time all the
officers of the 23d Regiment of the line
became converts to Swedenborgianiam,