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In your night time of pain I shall stand By your couch, as you stand by me now, And in dreams, when you feel the soft touch of my hand, You will think the cool breezes of heaven have fanned Your aching and feverish brow. And oft in your loneliest hours I shall come in low whispers of love, To turn your sad thoughts to the evergreen bowers, The roses and lilies, and sweet-scented flowers That bloom in the Eden above. Where friends and companions of old • With angels are walking in white, In the land afar off, rich with glories unteld, Where the ransomed the "King in His beauty" be hold— Immortality shrouded in light ! How strange that we mortals so cling To earth life, and dread so to die! The monster is vanquished and robbed of his sting, And death is a solemnly glorious thing, A gateway to mansions on high. Then ark me no longer to stay In a country of sorrow 1 ke this; I am ready to cross the deep Jordan to day ; The immortal is longing to break from its clay, And mount to the dwellings of bliss. *tort-'(tlltr. CUNNING SCHEMES ; - OR, - .A. CRITSOM FOR I,o'Sr. BY CAPT. CHARLES HOWARD --4-+ The clocks of a great American city were striking the hour of six one cold No vember night, when two men alighted from a carriage and entered a cosy office room, on the second floor of a pretentious building. One might have been dubbed a sailor, by his tell-tale gait, the other, richly clad, looked like "a man of the world." He was his companion's junior by ten years. The gas was burning faintly in the office which they invaded, and a hand, incased in an elegant glove, turned the full blaze on. Take a seat, captain," he said to he man of the sea, and the party addressed dropped awkwardly into an arm-chair, near a green baize table. "Did I understand you to say you sail at daybreak ?" the young man asked anx iously. "You know, captain, that this is an affair that must be carried on with much secrecy and dispatch." "Certainly; I have taken the proper bearings. Only insure my cargo. That is all I ask, Mr. Hollam." James Hollam, the wealthy young law yer, smiled, and looked pleased at the speaker. "The cargo can be on board the Prince ton by twelve to night," he said. "That will do. Have you any amend ments to the instructions which you gave yesterday ?" "None; I still consider them perfect. The success of the scheme devolves upon yourself, captain." "Then rest easy concerning it. I ask but a good voyage, and I will make a Robinson Crusoe of him." The Island ? Where is it, captain ? Or have you decided upon a sketch of main land ?" The captain of the Princeton did not reply, but drew a dingy-looking roll from his pocket and spread it out upon the ta ble. Tf was a chart drawn by some clumsy band, but forcible and distinct. "There !" said the captain, almost cov ering a crochety island with his finger, "there is his prison. A man could live there for forty years without seeing a hu man face." . James Hollam's face lit up with exulta tion. , "What do you call it ?" he asked,glanc ing up at the weather-beaten man. "It has a name, I believe. The natives on the mainland have dubbed it Qugueech, which means, as well as I can translate their gibberish, "The Land of the Bad Spirits." They never visit it, and a pris oner within its confines cannot escape by swimming." "What does it produce ?" Fruits of many kinds. Wild goats in- habit the hills,serpents whose bite is death, crawl through its little jungles, and a fierce species of the puma roam from shore to shore." "A terrible place 1" said James Hollarn, with a shudder. "But it seems to suit my purpose." "The very place for him," said the sail or with a smile. "lie may be a Crusoe until he dies, and no man will ever find his bones." "Are you sure that no ships touch the island ?" "I am quite sure ! for very many years it has had the reputation of being haunted. If you are fearful, I will drop him on the mainland." "No, no ! The island by all means !" said Hollam quickly. "I am quite willing to risk him there." The captain folded the chart and return ed it to his pocket, after which he helped himself to some choice wine which the law yer had placed on the table. "I have been wondering about this af fair of ours," said the sailor, settling back into the luxurious chair, and looking at the young scion of a wealthy house. "So you know that I am going to sail at day break with the strange passengers, and I trust you will overlook my inquisitiveness. Shiver my timbers if I can penetrate the fog which lies dead before me. May I ask you something about this man, this Mr.-" tt G pi a pi co ... •I'll hand you his name in a sealed en velope, which you are not to open until you are at sea," said the lawyer. "I am not bound to tell you anything about him ; but since we have got along so well together, I might venture upon the grounds of my se cret." Mainsail, the ship's captain, bowed ob sequiously,and crossing his brown hands on the green baize. "This man is my enemy," James foil am said lowering his voice. "He stands between me and position, wealth, and, what is more valuable, captain, the heart and hand of the faiaest woman in this great city." "A love affair after all," grinned the old HUNTING-DON, PA , FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1877. salt. "I could have wagered my anchor that a pair of bright eyes were at the bot tom of the matter. He stands between you and the eyes, Mr. Hollam ?" "Between me and her heart. I do not care that for eyes !" and the speaker snap ped his fingers. "I cannot rise without possessing her, and I swear to you that, laying all my ambition aside, I still love her passionately. I would do anything to gain her heart. No ! I would not commit murder." "But you would send your rival to Qu. gueech island !" laughed the sailor. 'Just so—no more than that," was the reply. "I do not think that he knows that I love that one woman—therefore, he will not know from whence the blow comes. With him beyond my path, victory is as sured." "Then you can rejoice, for I will see that be never returns." "Mark you, captain," said Hollam, touching the sailor's arm. "No violence sir. Ido not want a drop of his blood shed." "I understand. From this night his name with us must be linked with that of Qugueech." James Hollam did not reply. He seemed to sound the depths of the sea captain's sentence, and for a moment they paled his cheek. But wine brought the color back again ; and when the pair went down the steps, and out into the cold wind, each had an unsteady gait, and the city clocks were striking nine. They walked together until they reached a street which extended to the dock. Then Hollam held out his hand. "I won't see you till you return," he said as Mainsail swallowed the hand in his 'Mad palm. "Good-bye, captain. Do your duty. 'Tis all I ask." "I never do less ; I cannot do more," was the reply, and the next minute they turned their backs upon each other. Buttoning the uppermost button of his chinchilla coat so as to keep the cold wind from his throat, James Hollam walked rap idly down the almost deserted street. He had drawn his heavy hat over his face un til little of it was visible, and his actions seemed to indicate that he did not court recognition. He was well-known throughout the city as a young man of means, one of the favor ite beaux of society, and a lawyer of bril liant promise. Few among his intimate acquaintances were aware that he had fal len blindly in love with Agatha Gorham, the belle of the wealthy and fashionable Circles of society. The young lawyer kept his passion to himself, until he discovered that a rival stood boldly in the path that led to the beauty's heart. He had learned at the club rooms that Ford Wiugfold was a frequent visitor at Ore Gorham house; but he did not open his eyes to the importance of the calls. He lived on, worshiping the radiant. wo-. man, and believing that his little atten tions were drawing her gradually to his side. She was wealthy, and commanded, position. Through her he could step into fame without long study at the bar. Thus . he thought, and thus from day to day he. reared his fairy chateaux en Espagne. But the discovery came at last, as it was doomed to come. He awakened, as, it were, from the rapturous bliss of his dreams, and found Ford Wingfuld, the pro-, fessional tourist, about to snatch the prize away. At first the anger of a moment got the best of his manhood, and he resolved that his rival should not live to win the battle ; but he listened to calmer, but cun ning reason. He could meet the world—his own dy, fashionable world—with calm exterior ; for to it he had never confessed his adora• tion of the voluptuous beauty. He would . strike Ford Wingfold secretly, but none the less surely, and then he would go on and win the prize. In the person of Captain Mainsail, as . the reader has just seen, he found an apt tool. He would not spill a drop of his blood; but he would consign him to an island which was never touched by a white man's foot. And there the hapless tourist might end his days, Crusoe-like, among the goats, dreaming dreams that maddened him in the night, and thinking till he raved through the day. We left James Hollam walking rapidly down the 'street, while Captain Mainsail was hurrying towards the dock where his gig rocked on the waves. All at once the lawyer baited and gazed at the vehicle that was approaching. Its wheels were revolving with great rapidity, for the horses were galloping fast. The curtains were closely drawn, and twilight of the inmates could be obtained. But it was the man on the seat that attracted the lawyer's attention. His face was muffled; but a flash of recognition lit up Hollainl eyes, and whm he saw the coachnian's hand lifted as if to deliver a preconcerted signal, an exclamation of triumph unheard by any cars awe his own, parti-d his lips. The carriage turned into the street that ended at the foot of the dock, and James Hollam watched it until it receded - from his sight. "So far, good !" he said, as he started on again. "Good-bye, Ford Wingfold.. I will think of you in your distant home:— Bon voyage, tuy dear friend." He knew th a t his rival was in that close curtained carriage, for the coachman had signaled him to that effect. Flushed with anticipated success, the plotting attorney pursued his way, planning for the future, and at last he reached the elegant apartments which he inhabited. lie toasted his feet before the ruddy fire, quaffed a glass of his favorite night wine and retired to dream of the victim of his wires, who was being conveyed on board the brig Princeton in a state of stupefac tion. * * * * * Captain Nainsal fulfilled his contract to the letter. One day a ship came to anchor_ near a little island which lay like a tropical gem not far from the coast of Madagascar. The vessel bore the American colors from the mizzen peak, and was a stately and beauti ful craft. After awhile a boat put off from her side and pulled for the island. With the exception of a single individual the occupants of the boat were sailors. The exception was a handsome but care worn man who sat in the stern of the craft with eyes fastened upon the ship. He was dressed like and carried the manners of a gentleman, but did not speak except in re ply to the boatswain, who occasionally ad dressed him. The boat at last touched the shore, and the strange man rose. He stood erect with folded arms, while the man unloaded several small chests, a gun, some ammunition and a good-sized tent. He watched these pro ceedings without a word, and stepped ashore at a sign from the boatswain. "Good-bye, Mr. Victor," said that worthy extending his hand. "Victor ?" said the other, with a smile "Mr. Victor is dead now. That is not my name." The sailors exchanged looks of wonder ment which made the boatswain very anxious to part with their late passenger. "Good-bye, then," the last speaker con tinued. "This is to be my borne forever, I suppose. lam to 'oe this island's Sel kirk. Well, if God wills it so, good. I shall not murmur; but I would that I could stretch my hand across the waste of water that lies between this place and my home. Mr. Arthur, do you know whose pork this is ?" "I don't know anything," was the reply, and the boatswain stepped into the boat. "I am simply doing my duty, as I learn it from the captain." "I do not blame you, Mr. Arthur," the exile said. "But I want you to know that I know who sends me to this tropical prison. James Hollam !" Mr. Arthur, the boatswain, did not answer, but gave commands for the boat to return to the ship, and waved the exile— Ford Wingfold—good-bye. The little craft gradually receded from the lone watcher's sight, and at last reached the vessel. Night speedily came down upon the island, and the victim of man's wiles, longed, with biting eagerness, for the dawn. When it came he cast his eyes heaven ward, but no ship met his vision. The Princeton was gone ! Days and weeks passed wearily to Ford Wingfold, the Cruso for love. By degrees he became reconciled to his fate, and at the end of a year wore garments fashioned from the skins of the wild goats which he had brought down with his gun. But a strange adventure occurred to him ooe day. It gave a new shape to his destiny. Whilst cooing his morning meal, he was suddenly thrown to the ground by some one from behind, and almost before he could recover from his confusion was lashed to a tree. Then he discovered that he had fallen into the company of a number of dark-skinned and hideous looking men, who carried war clubs, shields and spears, and were almost naked. They uttered words entirely unintelligi ble to the exile, would approach him in a threatening man ner,and laugh demoniacally at his white face. Ford Wingfold did not stop to wonder where the dreadful fellows had come thin. Ile felt that his life was in jeopardy, and e i xpeeted to be brained by the knotty war-clubs, or transfixed by the long spars But he was suddenly torn from the tree, dragged to a boat and carried from the island amid the exultant shouts of his captors. The captivity of Ququeech land had ended at last; but the exile did not know that he was nut to die at the hands of the super stitious tenants of the coast of Madagascar. *•* * * * "Aqd, after all, you have rejected him, Agatha?" "I have,: father, I could not love him. You know where my heart is." "Your heart ? Ido not think that you possess one." . The -proud and beautiful Agatha Gor ham did not answer her father, but turned, wounded, from his pitiless sneer. "I thought you would marry Mr. flol lam, and blot out your unfortunate affair with Wingfold," the old man said making his words keen by emphasis. "What is going to become of you ?" "If he comes back I am going to marry him I"A.gatha answered firmly. "If he comes back ?" echoed Mark Gor ham. ,"Suppose he never comes back ?" "Then I'll never wed. There !" "You're a stubborn daughter, Agatha !" .the father.s . aid; rising in his anger and scratching his scrawny hands as he gazed into his child's face. "For a dollar I would cut you off and throw you into the street. But no ! lam your father. Listen to reason, and-" "And marry-James Hollam ?" "That is not asking too much." "1 have told him that I would not. I never will." • For a moment longer Mark Gorham I continued to regard his daughter, then he Attrned"suddenly.on his heel, and, mutter ing incoherent words, strode madly from the room. . Many months had passed since Ford Wingfold's forcible abduction, and his .whereabouts .had not been discovered. His absence was unaccou - table to the belles and beaux of the circles in which he moved, and not a few thought that be had left of his own accord, to get rid of Agatha. ~ .co ' This was a cruel suspicion, harbored by some to whom Agatha's belledom had be ma-distiateful. But the beauty herself Cliiii tor.th:e lOVe-she bad borne him, and, hoping - forlds return, saw' the tong days roll_ drearily away. James liollam entered his office one nrning.in.no good humor. _Rumors of . rejection by Agatha had already reached • Lae ears of his friends, and he found him self placed in an unenviable light. "Curie the busy bodies ! They'll have it all over the city before they stop !" he exclaimed, as he• picked up the Herald, and flung himself into an arm chair. Thgri - lis - eyes ran over the page before him until-he suddenly sprang to his feet with the whitest face ever seen in the room. "Coming home ! coming back to send me to the penitentiary I" he cried. "What in the'tiame of fate can this mean ? -A cable dispatch ! It must be correct !" Calming himself, which was no easy task, the schemer Yead the following brief dispatch. from Liverpool: "The steamer Rutland sailed for New York to day, carrying as passenger Mr. Ford Wingfold, the well-known American tourist,_- whose mysterious disappearance from American society created much com ment at the time. It turns out that he had been abducted by act enemy. Ilia ad ventures have bean strange and thrilling." James Hallam crushed the paper iu his hand when he finished the paragraph. "Well, I've lost! It was a pretty game, but somebody has spoiled it. Agatha Gor ham, you were a prize worth contending for, and I was a fool to think that I could win you from Ford Wingfold. I wonder if be has any evidence against me. Captain Mainsail threatened to expose me because I refuse to listen to his exorbitant demands for money. Taking everything into con sideration I think my safety , lies beyond the limits of this city. The plotter saved himself by flight, and put an ocean between himself and the man he had so deeply wronged. But he did not remain unscathed. Cap tain Mainsail,"his tool, met him in Paris, and administered a castigation with his brawny hands which the villain remembers to this day. Ford Wingfold returned to New York, the lion of the day, and wedded the beauti ful belle whose love had not deserted him a single moment during his terrible exile. (stlect PisteJiang. Rise and Fall of the Land. Occasionally the fluctuations of land may be exemplified to an extent which could hardly be expected, a fact well illustrated by the case of the Temple of Jupiter Ser apis at Puzzuoli, on the Bay of Naples. This temple,now in ruins, dates from a very ancient period,three marble pillars remain• in to mark the extent of what was once a ,„,gnificient pile of buildings. Half way up these pillars the marks of boring shell fish are seen ; some burrcws formed by these mollusks still containing the shells by means of which they were excavated. At the present time the sea level is at the very base of the pillars, or exists even be low that site. Hence arises the natural question—" How did the shell fish gain access to the pillars, to burrow into them in the manner described ?" Dismissing as an irrelevant and impossible idea that of the mollusks being able to ascend the dry pillars' two suppositions remain. Either the pillars and temple must have gone down to the sea through the subsidence of the land, or the sea must have come up to the pillars. If the latter theory be enter tained, the sea level must be regarded as having of necessity altered its level all along the Bay of Naples and along the Mediterranean coasts. And as this inun dation would have occurred within the historic period, we would expect not only to have had some record preserved to us of the calamity, but we should also have been able to point to distinct and ineffaceable traces of sea-action on the adjoining coasts. There is however, no basis whatever for this supposition. No evidence is forth coming that any such rise of the sea ever took place ; and hence we are fbrced to conclude that the subsidence or sinking of the land contains the only rational expla nation of the phenomena. We had thus a local sinking of land taking place at Puzzuoli. The old temple was gradually submerged ; its pillars were buried beneath the waters of the sea, and the boring mol lusks of the adjacent seabed fixed on the pillars as a habitation, and bored their way into the stone. Then a second geological change supervened. The action of subsi dence was exchanged for one of elevation ; and the temple and its pillars gradually rose from the sea, and attained their pres ent level, while the stone boring fish were left to die in their homes. The sur rounding neighborhood—that of Vesuvius —is the scene of constant change and al teration in land level ; and the incident is worth recording, if only to show how the observation of the apparently trifline la bors of shell fish serves to substantiate a grave and important chapter in the history of the earth.— Chamber' s Journal. A Daring Scout. The hero of the following article is a native of Middletown, Dauphin county, this State. He kept a hotel in Chambers burg many years ago, and was then noted for his jovial disposition. From there he went to Montana and soon evinced the boldness and daring which have since dis tinguished him as one of the chief agents and workers of the Vigilance Committee. He soon became a terror of evil-doers, and many of his thrilling exploits have a large space in Col. McClure's book of travels in that region, published a few years ago, and of whom he was a guest when he visited Philadelphia in 1575. Amon.' t' the wounded in Gibbon's fight with the Nez Perces was the General's fa• mous scout, Beidler, known far and wide as the most daring scout in the mountains. It was he who piloted Conners in the freez• ing cold of a Utah winter up the Bear riv er valley to the encampment of the Snakes, and enabled him to gain his remarkable victory over the savages. It was he who tracked the Piegans into the Teton moun tains and marked out the route which Ba ker's column pursued when he surprised Long horse's band in the gray dawn of a winter's morning and literally swept them from the face of the earth. He followed Gibbon last year to the Yellowstone, and trackel for him a pathway across the Big Horn mountains up to the scene of the Custer massacre, and when no one would volunteer to carry dispatches back to Fort Ellis, through a country swarming with Sioux, and Gibbon was about to order his nephew upon the hopeless errand, Beidler offered his services, and succeeded in his task. He is a man of forty, stout and grizzled, but with a tender mouth, a voice as sweet as a woman's, a delicate hand and other romantic accessories to heroes of western adventure. When not on duty as a scout he can generally be frund around Helena; at night invariably in newspaper offices reading the exchanges and listening eagerly to the news of the great outside world, which he has not seen fbr twenty years. _ - Mothers. "I shall never forget," said Kant, in his old age, "that it was my mother who caus ed to fructify the good which is in my soul." Cavier, it is said, attributes to his mother all the pleasure of his studies and the glory of his discoveries. "I used to draw under her superintendence, and read aloud books of history and general litera ture. It is thus that she developed in me that love of reading and that curiosity fur all things which were the spring of my life " Byron's mother, a woman "full of caprice and pride, whose narrow mind was only expanded by vanity, hatred and re, venge, who pitilessly made a jest of the natural infirmity of her child," engrafted in his heart her corrosive passions, and made his life a curse to himself and to others, despite his genius. Lamartine, over whose cradle was shed the light of a tender m, theta's love, under her tuition developed that genius (a spark of which is said to be implanted in every soul) until it resembles incense, the perfumes of which are diffused over the earth ; but which burns only fur heaven." It has been said "Good teachers make good scholars, but it is only mothers that form men." Rather should it be said—lt is only mothers (or women with mother hearts) who possess the power of inspirine that love of virtue and knowledge which, when once establish ed in the soul, enables a man to "mould his own material, quarry his own nature, and make his own character" what it should; for this is a work that no one can do for him.—Home Journal. A CONTEMPORARY tells of a young man who woke up the other night and saw a ghost in his room. Seizing his six-shooter, he appaoached it and found it was his col lar which was standing on the floor. He calls it a case of collar in phantom. RATHER ligneous weather—sticky, you know. Wonder Who t'he're For? My ma's been working very bard ; And also very sly, And keeps her sewing out of sight Whenever I am nigh. I asked her once what made her stop Her work when I came in ; She said she only stopped to get A needle, thread or pin. The bureau drawer next to mine 13 locked both eight and day, And when ma wants to open it She send me off to play. 1 stole a peep one afternoon, Although it was not right ; But, oh I the little things I saw Were such a pretty sight I The cutest, nicest little clothes— Just big enough for doll ; But then I know they're not for her— She needs them not at all. I know they're not for ma nor pa, Nor n e nor brother "Her," For we can't wear such little clothes ; I wonder who they're for Dart's [or the Baciielors. Don't think you are p-.:rforming your full duty in this world when you pull your self into your shell and waddle around like a mad turtle. Don't think that out of the millions of women who perambulate this globe there isn't one gJod enough to be , 6zir wife. Don't think if you resolve to lead your turtle life that any of these millions will hanker after you so badiy that she will go gouging: down in the mu' for you. Don't think you escape the greatest ills of life by "going it alone." J-st think of having to talk to yourself wh,a you want an appreciative audience, and sewing on your own buttons and darning your own socks. Don't think Adam wouldn't have gone into the apple business if' he had lived an old bachelor. Ile engaged in that during his courting days and never amounted to much until he married, settled down and went to work. Don't think because he had a little trouble in his family and raised a bad boy that you run the saute risk. They didn't have any houses of reformation to put boys into then,or penitentiaries. They have no . DOn't think you will live in the memory of posterity much if you pass through life like aO. When you are gone there will be no one 'co sigh for you. The best way to keep your name an I nieuiory afloat leave halt' a dozen rattling boys who will make "Route howl" in the neighborhood, give the police something to du, and keep your name prominently before the public. Don't think you are happy because you don't have to listen to infantile nocturnal solos and orchestras. You have ueverthe less, to listen to that cat concert on the back shed and contribute your bo-es to it. in spite of yourself'. Don't think you would'ut enjoy having a winiature:edition of yourself gouging your eyes, pulling your whiskers, and daubing candy, etc., all. over your hair It's just next to going to the circus Don't think you can't "afford" to marry and assume the responsibilities incident thereto. You will find your present ex penses quite sufficient therefq, provided you marry a woman who has 'more sense than you have, Don't think you will necessarily .. h i ve to "take care" of the wife you marry. — ln eight cases out of ten if' wives didn't, by their better sense, "take cure" of their husbands they would go to the d—uce. Don't be prowling around like a bear escaped from a menagerie, expecting that some enterprising woman will turn up and take you in. As a general rule they don't do it in that way. Don't waddle around until you turn gray and then expect some gushing girl to open a hospital and take you in as her special ward for the sake of wearing your name and what li little property you may have. • Don't fool. Come down to business. Take you full part in life. Take some sis ter in out of the cold. Wash your face, brush your teeth, pare your finger nails, dust up your wardrobe, set your eye on some girl with a level head and go straight for her. It' you mean business, and are a clever fellow,she'll meet you about halfway. Prophecy Respecting the End of the World. A London letter says : Prophets are going about casting the horoscope of the empires. At Manchester this week Rev. M Baxter expounded and interpreted the prophecies in the books of Daniel and Zach ariab. The fourteenth chapter of Zacha riah, refers, he said, to the coming of Christ, who will shortly appear bodily ou the Mount of Olivet and confluence his thousand years' reign upon earth. Anti christ would be a man like Jerome Nal»• leon, who on promises of peace will rise up from a nobody into a great king, the mon arch referred to in Daniel 36. The abomination of this rule will only last three years and a half. In that time he will conquer the world and make a seven years covenant with the Jews. When half that period is at an end, the great Antichrist is to surround Jerusalem and then will ensue the battle or Armageddon, and it will take seven months to clear away the mountains of dead bodies that will be heaped up in the conflict. Armageddon will be the Se dan of Antichrist. It is quite possible that Prince Jerome Napoleon will be Antichrist The yeur Prince at Chiselhurst . is to come to the r French throne under Uhra montane influences and he will restore the Napoleonic dynasty. Out of the present war and a coming war between France and Germany will arise the ten kingdoms which formed Caesar Augustus's Roman Empire. It is then that the great Anti christ will appear—the little horn—the sovereign of some little State either in Turkey or Syria. If Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte becomes the next Pope, (which Rev. Mr. Baxter believes is settled,) that event will hasten and bring to pass the im mediate development of these prophecies. They will certainly be realized within the next few years, as Christ is almost due, when 144,000 christmns will be translated, and there will be more conversions to the truth in one generation than have been made in 6,000 years. It is curious that these prophets, (who by the way are be lieved by vast bodies of English religion ists,) generally leave America out of their calculations, but no doubt there are proph ets in the United States who get even by omitting Europe from their predictions. Whatever we may think of this preaching and prophesying, it is quite phenominal taken in connection with the wars and ru mors of wars, the wonders in the heavens, the marvelous inventions of men, the strange discoveries, and all the extraordin ary awakenin g s,wonders and horrors of the days in which we live. ALL sects are different, because they come from men ; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. For the JOURNAL.] Marriage, HOW TO CHOOSE A PARTNER FOR LIFE-- BACHELORS OLD AND ROUE. We wonder what would have become of the world had it taken the advice of Hamlet to Ophelia, "We will have no more marriages," and also that other command of the• Danish Prince to his forlorn and forsaken affianced, "Get thee to a nunnery." Well it is not say ing too much to assert, without fear of con tradiction, that had both these injunctions been strictly adhered to, the world would have ceased to exist, or rather the people in it, and this majestic globe of our would only be in habited, humanely speaking, by the apes and Lionkeys, of which, according to Darwin's theory, we are only a more elevated species. This theory, to be sure, may shock the nerves of our "swells" and "belles," and they would no doubt feel anything but cotnplimsnied by Mr. Darwin's apeish ideas ; but our purpose to-day is not to discuss the origin of the hu man family, but rather to dilate, for a short time, on the all important topic of MARRIAGE, There can be no doubt of the enormous im portance of this subject to society in general, and candidates for matrimony in particular. "Who shalt I marry ?" is the vital question to those, who in the bright lexicon of youth eats find no s .ch word as fail ; and yet, alas 1 how many sad failures do we see every day of those. who Lre married, but not mated. The failure to find happiness among some of our married peopl., is largely to be attributed to the want o' Nisdorn anu foresight in the selectiou of a lire nartner. We cat. no more expect the most discordant elements in nature to amalgamate, as to ex pect that two human beings, not only of oppo site sexes—but totally opposite tastes and ideas, can, by miracle ()fate marriage ceremony, be fused into one, and made to forget those habits and ideas that were formed and deep rooted in the days of "single blessedness." It is our opinion to these "misfit marriages" a great deal of the world's misery is to be at tributed, and many noble souls have had their lives and fortunes shipwrecked, by being launched on the sea of life with a companion who only pulls against the tide, and lands them both on the shores of mutual misery, or that "bete noir' for all unhappy husbands and wives—the divorce court. OCR BACHELORS are a varied an: numerous class in society and we behove these of them that possess the vaiities requisite to make good busba.nds ,-- ou!rl be much better married than single ; bu• what are these qualifications ? They do nut consist in low vulgarity, fast living r passion for gaming, slang talk, saloon frequenting, and other Pbominable habits is filch totally unfit them Iscompauions for pure, refined girls. They shou'd rather possess noble qualit;es of head, d „cart, a loving disposition, good business habits, a love of culture and refinement, energy, perseverance, industry and all other virtues, which ever distinguish rani mark the true gen tleman. BLASE BACHELORS. We would warn our young lady friends against mating themselves to the "Blase Bachelors" of society, who spend their days and nights in ronnds of dissipation and de bauching, and who look on women as an in ferior race, as compared to the "Lords of Creation," but who, as "years creep on apace," being weary of the world, and its so-calied friendships, and hollow pleasures, take a new departure and seek some loving, innocent (very young) lady, not so much to be their wife as their "nursing companion"—wh• will soothe their declining /ears, bear with their unreasonable crotchets, and smooth their weary and groanit as the amble creatures are eyttiajng the . leaf." THE JOLLY BACHELOR. There is another gent of this species, who should not be forgotten, and that is the "Jolty Bachelor," he tvho sets the table in a roar, ie 'hail fellow well met" with everybody, has a laugh and a joke for every one, and rather fond of practical joking too. Still, he is a distinct species from our cross-grained bacb and though seldom a candidate for matri mony, is an important adjunct to society, but "cal Bono" (what good) does he achieve, he does not give good hostages to society, "but rather frets his hour on the stage"of life, something like the clown in the pantomime, and gets well laughed at. THE BORE BACHELOR. "An unmitigated bore" is your bachelor who is eternally boring you with the latest news of his conquests at the last ball or party among the ladies—of course they are all "dying" about him—and there was so many grand, rich and beautiful girls who danced with him, laughed with him, and to hear him talk of himself is one of the greatest inflictions one can be Fubjected to. Then he knows every thing, and everybody—and has been every where. Talk of Paris, and he quotes Rome I of Venice, and he boasts ofhis intimate knowl edge of Milan,and the Milanese I of the White Mountains, and he bursts forth about the ma jestic grandeur of the Alps ! or if you veutttre to speak of some distinguished acquainiame he leads off by claiming close friendship with everybody from Gen. Grant to Garibaldi ; from Cardinal Manning to Henry Ward Beecher.— In short, his wbole idea is self glorification, and he only lives to excel every body' nd bore them, also. THE FASHIONABLE BACHELOR. This is the "Dandy swell," who believes not only that the "dress oft proclaims the man," but also that the "tailor makes the man."— For is he not got up to kill—a regular lady killer? Bless his heart, who has the latest styles in coats, hats, vests, is very particular about his collars and neckties, and creates a sensation in our principle promenades by his "distingne" appearance as modeled by his tailor. But how is he "dans Crntorinie," how is his mind cultivated beneath this splendid exterior? Has he a respectful deference and gentlemanly deport toward ladies on all occa sions, or does he not, on the contrary, like so many of our fashionable gents, only look upon them when they gaze on him in fondest admire• tion (of his dress) and considers he confers a great favor if he condescends to be the escurt of some lovely girl, who, for genuine good sense—we may add good looks, as well as in refinement and culture—is his superior in every respect? Welt, we fear alit neither the old bachelor, nor the jolly bachelor, nor the bore bachelor, nor still less the fashionable bachelor is the one iu our opinion tc make a good husband. Girls, bewaro of4hem ail, and 'look well" before you make the "fatal leap" into matrimony. LALLA Roosn. Corporations Without a. Heart. It would not be a pleasant task to review the list of influences which led to the great strike. Some of them—more important than has been popularly imagined—have had little notice; and they lie so far back, or so deep down, that they are not likely to be talked about. That the railroad force of the country has been very badly demoralized, is evident enough; but if we should say that its demora lization had come mainly through its rulers and employers, we should be met with pretty universal incredulity, if not with indignant protest. The example which directors ancinaanagers have set to those in their employ has not,. a good one. The men who 'hare done hard work of the railroad have looked'-an seen others get rich by illegitimal4 They have seen whole boards of directors drop off gorged from ,schemes .that lic.ra, le ft the stock interests without a drOinfhl44 is their veins. They have sen sedateWiftehd, tam pered with, robbed. They haws aelhatrailrOads which bad absorbed the li . vings ,of trustful widows and orphans managed Solely for the private interests of their presidents and di rectors. They have seen ioads' built with bonds that were lies, and were knonin to he lies. They have seen roads in ruinous cotn petition with each other, while' hey are tinm pelted to do their work at small wages. ?Bey have been made to work upon the Sabbath, and have been practically shut away from all religious instruction by those who, with sanc timonious faces and conveniently obtuse ton sciences, have "taken sweet counsel together, and walked to the House of Galin complatl." The railroad corporations are very few that have manifested the slightest interest in their employes beyond getting out of theta what it was possible to get for the consideration agreed upon.—Scribner, NO. 47.
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