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LONG AGO.
It Is not 1104111 N It Man been of yore."
0 the days of lung y; t'
The Summer days of long ago!
Still the June promise breaks out In a glow,
Of Int eon, blue sky; and sweet roses Mush.
And woodlands are green wllha golden II ush
And along the meadows the mower. go;
Hut Wererossing It all a shadow
Is it from the sou or over our eyes!
No shadows rested there long ago!
U the flowers of long ago!
The primrose hunks of long ago!
The woodbine clusters in every hedgerow;
The cowslip ileitis with their hurvted-111,
gleam,
The forgot-me-Jetts growing Medd(' each
stream,
Tire ponds with guy 1115--laids all aglow,
The daisies—no dandy:, nowseem booty nt!iitl
Like the pink-edged daisies we used to Mel
lit the May-busitod melanin , long ago!
I I the friend, of long ago!
The parted friends of long ago
Alas, that we ever coold het them go!
We have alOll to its other friends hunt , I heti
Strolig-heart , l women, true anal steadfast
men;
We've tried them. !Lad proveil them, and foam!
thems , ;
But N.:1111,18-1r Ile• truth vve dare eon fe3s—
'Me trust and the loving a teed lislitiess
of the dear old friends of long ago!
II Lho love of long ago!
The fond, young I ,s ••of 11/W411(4'0 . .
11. was not r tit I . OOIISIIIIeSH, IIOW we know;
It made for tin 1.11011 a pure paradise
iiropeffing Ilowers and Innocent eyes,
'l'lll the thorns :mil thistles hail 111110 to grow
\‘'ILII longer and tuner I 1),• 111/“ . Ive thrill;
Vet. lin guarslelli Iha 1111 . 111 . ry shill
1)(0111' blush young hive-time, long lop)!
11 Ihe hope 1.1 long ago!
The hrave, vain hopes of tom; ago!
NVe vowed to diminish 1111. 11,111 101 l W/10
Tlllll 11141'14,1 this oart 11 .110.1 ouule no hrigh t ;
We rueauf 1.101111111 over firlll 1.1 11l I' right,
That till! Nvorlll I hrough 110 should 111.. !sal 1•1 -
gtsov.
We felt st rong ;o. palm; Ukull ., 11l .Illr
11111 who of us all has fought. out t Ito light,
Ailli itePt 111 illt• 1..'1111 or loo;; ago!!
1)1111,111ln): leeg age!
The careless, happy long nee!
Berne forw:0 . 414)11 eever Hon.
We had:ward the guthu ring
11.17,
Ofdreary night , . nllllStull ilrearler days,
TO the 11 . 11•11 , 114, the 11011,1, glow;
And we nilt•r t•ry ut lunging vnlu
VOI. the liii• Mail NV , 1,11 110,:r live ogelii,
filed le ter sprite.C.line, let:', ago!
l'partllng for ;it; 14Ing, Igo,
\V; L il;;; 1 4 so fur long uga,
A hape arisen that arglenu the wan—
Of 11 1;11141 %VIII', w.•Ahall ronew ,ir youth,
And wear the whlh. rola, of nnsvay'ring
I rui ;
And walk I he ilelthi where Ihe anCrant.hh grow,
And meet p. friend who has lit,ll rin•,
And I.Mit upon It Ann wiaan no shadows
1/11,11110,
: 1 / 4 1111110V., wish for thine long ago!
Alisrctlancolus.
The Artist's Stratagem
In 1110 midst of the flat, uninteresting
c•uuntry in the neighborhood of :\ tech
lin :Id:Antwerp lies the little village
of l'erek. IL consisted, in the year
11;31, or a colieetion uI \Odle houses,
'grouped together upon its gray nu•a
tows, and a castle (vith three Lowers.
NO ono dwelt in the statelyedillee ; the
\VIM formerly oectipied it had
long vines passed away, leaving neither
wife, child, nor relation 111 inherit it;
and it. would, therefore, have been sold,
had purchaser appeared. It stood
there as if longing, for sIl one to tale
possession of it, the sad, silent waters
of the I:11:e about iL guarding it with
weeping eyes. night( :LTILI
NA , Ito would have imagined that in the
last and smallest tome of the little
hamlet dwelt one \dm would gladly
have beconm lord of the castle? ()tic
thing alone was wanting, anti that the
most essential, the wherewithal to tiny.
Ile was a dist ingukhed• looking, young
man, :Ls he Sal haughtily looking out ol•
the windotv one N,,Velliber day, watch
i the stio \v-Ilal:csas they floated down.
1 I is inoulli was firmly closed, his hand,
elinelied, :Intl his hreath value find went
uneasily. Ile (vol'e a 111)111,1,A of gray
cloth and a pair of loose I:nee-breeches,
* which displayed to :id vantage his well
\formed limbs. this shoes were stout,
loud his shirt hung iu louse folds over
his broad chest..
relt Lal, Nvith a red feather iti it,
lay upon the floor, and by its side a pa
lette anti liI*II,IIL . S. AII stood ill
till' rtli/111, :1111 1114 PidsA Wimil 3114 i Call
\ Seal and l !lore upon
a clumsy table. Every thing, seemed to
indicate that he who sat there in hitter
-11000 of spirit, was an artist. A pile of
flat Wards, with canvas, already stretch
ed, lay heaped up in hilt corner of the
roust 'war I liestic ildering lire, as though
they hail liven swept up with a I)rootit •,
card players, dancing la.:is:tuts, and
maid-servants, with their serubliing
pails, were lying abnut in strange Cull
rll,4oll. •
. .
The (111111' 01,011111, :t \VIIIIIII.II With
heavy step walked into llii room. Site
carried all infant in her arms, and two
dirty little children were clinging to
her apron.
" Are you here, I lavid she said, pet
tishly. " I :lid not hear you come in.
ILid you sell any of your pictures in
Antwerp': Oh, um! I see the whole
bundle there yet. It is of no use for
you i ll g o to town. \\'hy do you not
give your sketches to a picture dealer,
and let him lake them front house to
house: In that way you might hope to
make a little money; but you never
will take or advice upon the subject.
Freulein van der Muellen Las been
here agdin. the wishes one of your
pictures for her cousin's 161111 7 1111 y, and
agrees to pay for it in butter. You had
better take up with her oll'er, for we
need butter, and I know well enough
you have no money to buy it with.
The person addressad merely pointed
with his linger toward the corner of the
room, stuttering, " Lt the devil's name,
let her choose what she wants; there
they all tire!"
"(10011 mortdng, Master Teniers !"
wrenched all old inaidish kind of avoice
and, the long red nose of the rich farm
er's daughter outs seen coming in at the
door, followed by its resiwctable owner.
"1 see the wind is east with you, as it
is always when you come home fro:
Antwerp. Were you not so ceessfu
Well, the townspeople never will buy
anything that comes from the country ;
but nothing will convince you of that.
I have always told you that you:ought to
paints difilTellt style of picture, b u t
you will not listen to me; the common
subjects you choose are a constant dis
advantage to you. your lather paint
ed far noire beautiful things than you
and your brother Abraham, in Ant
werp, also understands his :Lit much
better. Why in the world do you not
paint slender, beautiful maidens, in.
stead of fluntsy servant-girls, or noble
ladies spinning in their castles, and
handsome cavaliers in gayly-embroid
ered suits? Anil why did you build
your nest in a little village like this,
Master 'Fortier.: leeause you married
at nineteen, :mil, as one child came
after:mother, you could nu longer :third
to live in the expensive city with your
wire and little ones! What did you or
your poor wire, Anna Katharina Bren
ghell gain by' it Your profession brings
you in scanty pay, and your wife has
become an old woman from eare and
hard work, while your children are per
petually quarrelling, and eat ne hind
more every .day of their lives. NV hat is
to become or you all, Master Teniers t'
David Temers.,during this long ha
rangue, clinched Ins hands more tightly,
hut neither moved nor spoke. Frwulein
van der Muellen now rustled by hiln, iu
her flowered green and white brocade,
and, going toward the corner where the
pictures stood, stooped down to make
her choice or on, of them.
" N'ou have nothing striking here,"
she said, in the disparaging tone of a
critic, taking up ' as slie spoke, one Of
the sketches, aint holding it to the light.
"The same everlast lug i nterior of an ale
house with its ten peasants. Certainly
it suits you better to paint a tavern than
any thing else, for every evening
finds you in one! Itut why did you
make all the ten inch sit around
the table, instead of five of them in
the chimney' corner ? Anil do you think
that little tankard would hold enough
for such a set as they are? You could
empty it yourself, Master Teniers, at a
single draught. The men's faces, more
over, are too red, and the whole picture
too black. Did you mean to paint to
bacco smoke and all In this other pic
ture there is nothing to be seen but a
barn yard, with a fat woman standing
at the half-open gate, and an old man
with a white heard rolling vegetables
in with a wheelbarrow. Of what use is
all that? Why did you not make the
man young and handsome ? And see
in what disorder everything is ! For in
stance, how could any one set a milk
pail on the top of a barrel where a cat
might throw it down ? Theducks are too
thin, and the sheep, goats and dog look
aS though they had never been washed.
The dirty cattle are running' all about;
the painter is responsible for them, for
he might, at least, have made them
look clean. There, that sketch of mon
keys eating pleases me better, only there
are too many in the picture, and the
kitchen does not look very nice. But
what is this? Fie! you have painted a
wicked old witch, brewing all sorts of
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things, and a filthy beast looking at her!
And what a frightful looking woman
that is in the back-ground, crouching by
the fire with a book in her hand! But
Master Teniers, what do I see now? A
naked woman driving a black pig up
the chimney ! Oh, oh! What wicked
thoughts you must have! A naked
woman, indeed! Why, every respect
able young girl would run as far away
from you as her feet would carry her !"
"I will spare you that trouble, witch,"
interrupted the painter, in a rage; and
jumping up, he seized Frieulcin van der
Mueller around the waist, lifted her up,
carried her, screeching, through the
house, and flung her with a jerk out in
,to the deep snow. "Well, I feel better
I now," he exclaimed, as he carne back,
breathing heavily.
But there stood his wife, weeping and
wringing her hands.
"Oh,
what have you done, you hot
headed man " she cried. " You have
provoked the rich lady, and made her
angry with us forever, her cousins,
and the whole Mechlin connection, into
the bargain. They will (aline here, take
you prisoner, and carry you mill to Aut
werp ; and what shall I do then, a poor
woman, with all these children See,
she is running away in a perfect fury,
shaking her list at you."
'folders stood for a while in deep
meditation, then, drawing near his
wife, he said, smiling
" Make yourself pi:fleetly easy, Anna
li ; we shall both be taken care
of. I have long had a plan in my head;
now is the time to carry it into execu
tion. This state of things can go on no
longer. I can not endure it. My heart
is as heavy as lead, and my purse light
as air. I must, I will die! Ito quiet,
wife, I say ; do not interrupt me; I shall
not die in reality, but only appear to be
dead. 'Pell every hotly that I came to
lily death in consequence of my anger
with the old FraniWin ; they will all be
lieve it. I will paint my face white,
and lie perfectly still on a bed in the
dark room. Let no one touch we, and,
above all things, don't let the Doctor
come near my body. Take especial
care that none shall speak an unkind
word of the dead. Then it will be said,
' Oh, what a pity it is that lie should
have died, the good Nlaster Teniers, the
talented Master Teniers, the industrious
i‘laster Teniers! llow beautiful his pie-
lures are! IN'e must have swat of them.'
And they will buy them all, I tell you,
and will pay for them, as they never
would have done during my lifetime,
and will sualoh [he'll OM Of other's
It will happen as I say, mark
my words Anna Katharine. \V hen
they are an disposed of, I will come to
life again, and find myself a rich man ;
then I will bus the castle with 1111.1;e
tOWel'S, 101(1 WC will suffer no more
Iron: poverty, and you—you shall have
:Ls imich butter as you wish. So now
get the shroud ready as quickly :is you
)it the next (lay the villagers stood,
great trouble, in front or David
nier's little house. In the back-room
lay the merry painter, with whom they
had so often laughed atint drunk, pith.
and still upon the bed, in a long white
shroud. lie looked as peacful its it' he
lord just fallen asleep. A heavy curtain
fell over the only window in the room,
and a mournful little taper burned at
the feet tit' the dead unto. The children
cowered in the corner, frightened at the
strange sights they saw. All o t Katha
rina sat, dressed in deep mourning, at
Ilse door of the roil where her husband
lay and buried her face in her handker
chief ;LH any one entered. Crowds of per
vnne in to take a last look at Master
'runlet's, for there was scarcely any one
who had not loved the handsome, light
hearted 1111111.• lie seemed to have mule
a deeper impression upon the women
even than upon the 111011, for he was
merry and friendly with them all. Ile
always had more to say, certainly, to the
pretty women than to the ugly one=., hut
no one could Miens hint for that. Anna
I . .atharinit dill not permit any of the
visitors to enter the room, but allowed
them to look at her hushand from the
threshold of the apartment. Friculein
can der Mitellen had fled hastily to
Mechlin ; the peasants stoned her as
they met her on the road ; for was she
not the cause of his sudden death ?
The NOWA Or till' sad event spread
quickly to Antwerp, INfeehlin and lirus
sels,and seen many handsome equipages
drove up to the deer, and richly dressed
ladies and gentlemen alighted to in
quire fur Teniers' pictures. They paid
the highest prices for them, each one
giving noire than the last, till Auna
liatharine had to bring to light every
sketch of his that she could find, the
distinguished buyers ahnost snitching
tllOlll from her hands.
Toward evening of the second day
after Teniers' decease, the little sitting
room became so crowded that the doctor,
in spite of his huge spectacles and white
wig, could nut make Ids way through
the crowd, but promised to come the
next morning and examine the corpse:
On the same day, a young, noble-look
ing girl, who hail come from Antwerp,
accompanied by a dignified gentleman,
stood leaning thoughtfully against, the
half-open door of the death-chamber ;
softly pushing IL open, she shyly drew
nearer and nether, till she stood, at last
by the side of the hotly. She was like a
beautiful pint UrC herself. A blue-satin
dress fell in heavy folds around her little
feet, andacrimson-velveteloak,trimmed
with fur, was thrown over her. The long
black hood, which she wore aS a protec
tion tram the cold, had fallen back from
her head, displaying fully her blooming
countenance, and the beautiful brown
curls which fell about her childlike face.
Iler eyes, at once soft and sparkling,
were like brown velvet, upon which
diamonds had been laid. She bent over
the departed, gazing long and steadfast
ly on his face till two burning tears
rolled down on her cheeks, and fell upon
the painter's lofty brow. The black
curtain hail been pushed aside a little
from the window, and a ray of setting
eu n fell across the young girl's face; her
warm, perfumed breath lightly touched
the face of the sleeper, so that the mas
ter could not resist glancing up for a
moment. lie could almost have be•
lieved that he was really dead, and that
thu angel of the resurrection was bend
ing over him, so wonderfully beautiful
was the girl. lint he perceived by the
expression of sorrow around her mouth
that it was indeed an earth-born maiden
weeping over him; his whole !wing
kindled with a holy love for lier, aml the
noble young face silently impressed it
self upon his true, warm, artist heart,
there to remain throughout eternity.
And now all went. as smoothly as in a
fairy tale. 'file pictures were sold, but
Master Teneirs was not, buried, the wise
doctor would not permit that; he
took a vast amount of trouble upon him-
self, turned the body over and over,
rubbed it first on one side then on the
other, sprinkled it with water, and
tinnily after three days, thanks to the
skill of the learned physician ! the
painter rose front the dead.
I :real as had been the demand for his
picture when he lay silent :ind motion
less upon his bier, it was even greater
after his ressurrection ; innumerable or
ders were sent, not only front the Neth
erlands, but front Germany, and far-dis
tant Spain, and even from Italy, the
very birthplace of art. David Teniers,
certainly had to be very diligent to sat
isfy all his worshippers, and he was, for
since the time of his death. feint he had
become a changed man. Ile was always
cheerful and friendly, but no longer so
wild and foolish as when he tried to for
get the sorrow of his oppressed life in
dissipation. Ile became daily more
patient toward wife and children. This
gentleness, this earnestness, this change
of character, had been wrought by that
angel whose tears had fallen upon his
brow. From the beginning of his sec
ond new life, he sought to depict the
shining vision, and made many inqui
ries for the young girl. Anna Katha
rina seemed to know nothing of her,
but answered very shortly that, during
those days, there had been so many dis
tinguished persons in and out of the
house, that she had noticed no one par
ticularly. So the painter had to content
himself, and drown the secret longing
of his heart in work, tile universal bal
sam for many a sorrow.
Upon his larger pictures he bestowed
a great deal of time and pains, while for
his more impatient admirers he dashed
off, in an afternoon, the prettiest and
most spirited sketches iniaginable,
which soon became known under the
comprehensive title of "Apres diners.'
The collectors and patrons of art of that
period thought they possessed a great
treasure in these little sketches, and paid
a high price for them. All these early
works of Terriers are treated after Itu
bens' school, in a warm, fresh, and vig
orous style. Not till later, in the hap
piest part of his life, of which we shall
speak hereafter, did his pictures mani
fest that belliancy of tone, that warmth,
which betray the joyousness and repose
of a contented spirit.
In less than a year David Teniers be
came master of the lonely castle with the
three towers; his pet vision was fulfilled.
Joyfully did he take possession of it,
and the long-desired, beautiful studio,
the cool, spacious room, remained until
the day of his-death his favorite abiding
place. The master was rarely seen in
Antwerp or Brussels, although both
cities used every ellort to enchain him
permanently. :The inhabitants of Perck
clung with redoubled loved to their cas
tle's new lord, and were very proud of
the preference which
_he gave to their
modest little village.
Seven years after this singular death
experiment, so important in its results,
Teniers' wife (lied. He felt her loss
chiefly on the children's account; the
two youngest, especially, needed a mo
ther's care, for they were wild boys, and
gave their father a great deal of anxiety.
Therefore, two months: after Anna
katharina's death, lie announeed by
the crier, through the streets and mar
ket places of Antwerp andpirtissels, at
that time the (oily means of advertising,
that he, Master David Teniers, living at
l'erek, in the castle with the three tow
ers, was desirous of finding a respectable,
honest widow, or elderly maiden lady,
to take charge of his house, and watch
over his children.
One morning, not long:titer, sonic one
knocked at his door, and the stately
figure or a woman entered the room,
attired in the homely dress of a Dutch
girl of burgher rank, with a little bun
dle under her arm. Blushing deeply,
she modestly said :
"Let me take charge of your ehildren,
Master Teniers—l will love them, :mod
serve you faithfully, if you will have
patience with me."
Teniers fixed his clear artist eyes
earnestly upon the woman's beautful
countenance, and, as she turned her
glowing face modestly away from his
searching glance, his heart cried out
for joy ; he recognized the " angel of the
resurrection"--the angel whose tears
had purified his life.
"All you—it is you who awaked the
dead," he cried, with a voice full of love
and joy.
"Maiden, what is your name?"
"I lave you ever seen me Cher?" she
asked.
" Yes ; oh, blessed vision you became
my own that every Lour, my sacred
possession to all eternity." And he re
lated to her sorrow, his struggles, his
death, and his awaking.
Then the beautiful woman fell into
his arms, and wept blessed tears, and
in less than live weeks they became
man and wife, and lived as happily as
the angels in heaven.
But what was the name of the beauti
ful creature? Isabella de Frene, the
only daughter of a rich councilor of
Antwerp.
Thanks be to tlod, there have been
in all ages, women who for love have
been willing to forget all, to stdrer all,
to saerilice all—whose highest aims
have been fuliilled in devoting - them
selves to the blessed voeation of wife,
and in serving the beloved one. Isabella
was one of these. Early left mother
less, and endowed with the most enthu
si astie love for art, her inmost soul was
tilled with an everlasting admiration
for the life of a painter, which seemed
to her to include every earthly blessing.
She innocently vowed, if I lod should
grant her the happiness of beroming
the wife of such a unto, that she would
nut only lay her heart down at his feet,
that he might walk the more smoothly,
but would keep hands busy and eyes
open for hint, that his life 'night flow
gently on, darkened by no shadow, op
pressed by no toil, but joyfully conse
crated to his creative art.
Site was scarcely sixteen when she
entered the miserable dwelling of a mas
ter whose name Was never mentioned
by her father but in reverence. As she
saw the rude and coarse surroundings;
the poverty which held his genius cap
tive, as with prisoner's drains; the fa
ded wife, looking to her imagination
like a jailer, aunt finally the be
pale face of the dead man himself, a
feeling arose in her breast to which she
scarcely ventured to give a name—a feel
ing which wrung from her burning
tears. She loved and lost, at the same
moment, ldm who lay so still upon the
bed of death, fur she doubted not she
was gazing upon the departed. She
would henceforth remain faithful to this
love, that she might be permitted to
meet his blessed spirlt in heaven.
When the wonderful tidings of Teni
ers' resurrection spread through Ant
werp, joy combined with a secret grief
threw the beautiful Isabella upon a bed
of sickness, from which she only arose
to fulfil her silent vow. Iler great
beauty, her riches, together with the
position of her father, drew around her
countless admirers, among them men of
high rank and fame; the strange girl
turned away from all, remained by the
bedside of her invalid father, cheered
the last days of his life, watched over
him faithfully, clay and night, and at
last tenderly closed his eyes. After his
his death, she decided to take the wail
and become a pious Mill. A few days
before her departure for the " Convent
of the Sisters of Mercy," at liruges,
where she desired to enter upon her
novitiate, she heard of David Tenders'
proclamation. A joyous thought thrill
ed through her, and:annibilated with
one blow all her carefully-laid flans.
She would become the maid-servant of
the beloved one, take charge of his chil
dren, and endeavor by her devotion to
smooth away all care and sorrow from
his house. Without revealing her pur
pose to a human being, she vanished
from Antwerp, and appended, as already
related, in the castle with the three
towers, to bear therein new life and
happiness.
From the hour that David Teniers
called Isabella his wife, his talent took
a new and wonderful upward flight. All
his best pictures date from that cloud
less period of pure spiritual and bodily
content. A multitude of superb works
of art arose from his masterly hand, in
spired by the ever-watchful eyes of the
beautiful Isabella, among them the
celebrated one entitled " Morning Pre
parations for a Rural Festival." In the
foreground of the picture stand heavy
kettles, barrels, and provisions ; and
various picturesque groups of men are
scattered about taking breakfast. All
enchanting brightness and freshness
!pervade the whole scene. Connoisseurs
are charmed with the delicate and har
monious silvery effect of the picture,
notwithstanding the variety of figures
and the warmth of the coloring; it is
also very remarkable for the fineness of
the perspective and for the delicacy and
spirit of the touch.
A charming representation of a coun
ty fair, With Teniers Castle and its three
towers rising in the background, is also
noted for its lively and varied expres
sions of meriment, the admirable ar
rangement of the figures, its delicate
touch, and charming, airy lightness of
tone. Among his celebrated paintings
:wean Italian fair, an Antwerp target
procession, a group of gipsies, the well
known guard-room with its drummer,
and numerous little village scenes.—
Many noble works, taken from the
"Lives of the Saints," date from this
period, such as the great altar piece in
the village church of Meerbeek, near
Mechlin, the "Temptation of St. An
thony," and the "Nine Martyrs oftiur
cunt," in the Church 0? the Barefooted
Friars, at Mechlin.
David Tenders painted, also, the well
known "Seven Works of Mercy," which
he gave to his own little town—that peas
ant world which had become so dear to
him. We must not forget to mention,
among his masterpieces,. "Peter's Denial
of his Master to the Maubservant," cel
ebrated for its skillful treatment and for
its admirable coloring ; and the "Christ
' C'rowned with thorns," in which paint
ing the drawing, the expression, the
coloring, the disposition of light and
the touch, are alike masterly, and show
careful study in minutest details.
Teniers' fame drew many pupils of all
ages around him, as well as distinguish
ed men of rank, among whom was
Prince John of Austria. It .was whis
pered about that the master might
chiefly thank a wonderfully beautiful
picture for the great crowd which
thronged his studio—a picture which
for several hours a day was visible to
spectators behind its framework of glass.
In the left corner of the atelier was a
large, round window, which opened
into the master's little sitting room.
Behind its panes of stained glass sat,
clay in and day out, Tenders' wife, Isa
bella de Frene, once the loveliest maiden
In Antwerp. She sewed or instructed
the children, glancing, as she did so,
joyflffly and tenderly toward her hus
band's easel, so that Teniers had a dim
yet glowing vision of this beautiful head
ever before him, inspiring him to work
alithe more earnestly.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 24. 1870
So the years went on, the children
grew up, and the little picture behind
the glass gradually lost its bright color
ing. Delicate lines became visible in
the countenance, the well-formed nose
sharpened, little wrinkles might be seen
around the eyes, and silver threads in
the rich brown hair, which after awhile
was tucked away under a pointed cap ;
and at last a lovely, peaceful old lady
sat behind the window, looking at an
aged man whose eyes and hand alone
revealed that he had ever been young
and full of life. The elegant cavaliers
had certainly vanished ; but the young
pupils, among whom were au Alshoven,
Tillburg, Van Harp, De Hort, and
others, looked with tender reverence
upon the serene face which had a ma
ternal smile for each, and Master Ten
iers still called this head his best pic-
One day a black curtain hung before
the round window, where it remained
ever, and for a long, long time, the mas
ter worked not in his studio. After the
sudden and peaceful death of his faith
ful wife he painted very little, and the
beautiful tone of his pictures vanished
—the coloring became dark and gray.
Irreparable as the great loss was to him,
his mind remained as clear as ever, and
his racy humor, the very ground-work
of his being, which shines forth repeat
edly in his best pictures, never forsook
him. He occupied himself more in por
trait painting than he had ever done
before, and his success was very credit
able.
One day a rich attorney sat for his
picture to the celebrated Teniers. The
master was always particular to mix his
black paint with ivory black, mind, his
supply being nearly exhausted, he pull
ed out with the greatest coolness his last
tooth, and burned it to a coal : " I can
do nothing more for art," he said, jest
ingly. "David Terriers may now per
mit his pencil to rest with honor—and
himself also."
On the next morning, his favorite
scholar, Alshoven, found him dead in
Ids bed, still smiling peacefully- At
this time the master glanced not up
again, though burning tears of sorrow
fell from the eyes of his devoted pupils
upon his brow.
David Terriers was buried in the
Church of the Holy Virgin, in Perck,
in the year 1000.
Selling Strawberries
"I tell you it's all nonsense," said
Uncle Peleg. "Charity—benevolence
—pity'—it's played out! Your big
Fairs may be all very nice, but people
don't come here because they pity
the poor; they come because it's fash
ionable!"
lloratia Mere shook her pretty head.
" You see, child," said Uncle Peleg,
taking snuff, "you're on the wrong
platform ever to get a peep behind the
curtain. You're an heiress, and you're
tolerably good looking, and have a way
that people like, and therefore the world
nits its best foot forward, so far as you
are concerned. I r you were Mrs. Sikes,
the washerwoman, or Betty, the orange
woman, you'd see quite a different as
pect of things."
" Nonsense, uncle," said Floral.la, still
unconvinced. "Be a good, darling old
Uncle Peleg, and let me have the Tri
omphe eh: (impel ,. strawberries In yuur
south garden border for my refreshment
table. Remember I ant to sell straw
berries and cream, and I want my table
to look the best in the room."
"Who do you suppose will buy your
strawberries, at the .outlandish price
you'll put upon 1.110111."' he demanded
" Everybody" Iforatia answered, sau
cily. " Come, 1. - ncle Peleg, be generous
and graceful, and say I shall have
them."
Uncle Peleg took snuff'.
" On one collation you can have
them."
I loratia clapped her white rosy hands.
" And 0114 —"
"Just wait until you heta•," said the
old man, dryly. ' You can't have my
fifty quarts of 7S-iomphr de, ("rand(
strawberries, each one as big as a pi
g,ieon's egg, until you have first sold ti
dozen quarts from door to door."
lloratio opened her brown, wondering
eyes like twin wells of hazel light
" I, Uncle l'eleg',"'
"You, niece Loratin ! And I ant to
specify the houses where you are to go."
" It will be fun," cried Horatio, with
a gay laugh, " I'd Just acs soon do it as
not."
"Perhaps it will be fun, perhaps it
won't," said Uncle l'eleg. "At all
events, I want you to get one glimpse
at least, of. life thrlaigh a strawberry
woman's ey e s."
" And I ant to be dleguised, Uncle
Peleg?"
"'l'o be sure you are. Miss Horati:
Mere would have no difficulty iii dis
carving of her wares; a friendless straw
errs girl is diikrent."
"All the more delightful—a regula
tblcr vim 07 1' cried Hurrah:l., merrily
" Well, uncle, where ant I to go '2
" I'll write (lowa a list of names for
you, that shall b culled out of your
dearest friends—Mrs. Montague, Mrs.
IVsart, Miss ' , errors, and the like."
"They will all buy!" cried Horatio.
"We'll see," Uncle Peleg said. "Are
you willing to buy the Trump& dc
Grundc at such a price as this, Hora
tio?"
" At any price," the girl answered,
gleefully.
You don't know how disagreeable
you may find it."
" It will be a perfect adventure," said
Horatia, recklessly.
" But mind, you're to keep it a se
cret."
"As the grave,'' hismlschlevous lactic
answered, with mock solemnity.
Miss Horatio Mere would scarcely
have been recognized by her nearest
friends, when she was dressed for the
curious part she was to play " for one
day only," as she declared. A calico
dress, thick boots in which her tiny feet
felt unwontedly clumsy, a much-worn
water-proof cloak, borrowed from Mary
Ann, the cook, and a worsted hood en
veloped in a faded black veil, and a
basket hanging over her arm—these
were the details of her costume.
" Strawber-rics! " she cried, raising
her sweet voice to " C above. "Oh,
Uncle Peleg, it will be such a joke !"
Anil slit tripped away delighted at
the prospect of playing at the realities
of life.
Uncle Peleg looked after her rather
doubtfully, as he resorted mechanically
to his unfailing panacea for all human
ills or perplexities, the snutr-box.
" I'ni almost sorry, I sent her on such
an unpalatable errand," he said to him
self; " but it's just as well she should
learn to see the world as it really is.—
Her life has been all couleur de rose,
and no wonder. The strawberries µ•ill
be a dear bargain after all!"
While these eccentric reflections were
etssing through the old man's brain,
Jonah*. Mere had already reached the
first house on her list, inhabited by
Mrs. Montague, a lady who had always
professed the sweetest and most saint
like character, whose voice was soft and
low, and who spoke in six-syllabled
words of Websterian elegance.
Mrs. Montague herself was in the hall
as Horatio rang the door-bell.
" If ye plase, ma'am," said Bridget,
" It's a girrel sellin' strawberries—will
we buy a quart?"
" Strawberries indeed! and at the up
per door! shrilly cried Mrs. Montague,
in a voice that for an instant almost
compelled Horatia to doubt the lady's
idendity. "Don't you know better girl
than to bring your trumpery wares to
the front door? What do you s'pose
basement bells were made for? Clear
out, this minute ! What arc you stand
ing there fur? Don't you hear what I
?"
sny
Anil she took hold of Horatia's arm
assisted her progress with a vigorous
push.
Mrs. Dysart come next—au elegant
widow with an ivory pure complexion;
curls !like the tendrils of grape vine,
whose obstinate rings she was always
lamenting. This time our heroine
knew better than to go to the front
steps, and made her way meekly to the
area bell.
Strawberries, Is It?" said the little
girl who came to the door. "I'll ask
the missis!"
Mrs. Dysart herself presently came to
the door, and Horatio started to see the
marvelous dissimilarity between Mrs.
Dysart of society and Mrs. Dysart at
home. Her skin was sallow, wrinkled
and blotched, here and there, from the
too frequent use of powerful cosmetics,
her hair was screwed up into little pu
pillotcs secured by pins, making in per
fect chevaux de frise of her head; her
beautiful figure was lathy and straight
like a pump draped in calico!
" Strawberries ! of course not at this
season of the year," said Mrs. Dysart,
snappishly. "I'm not made of money!"
And she slammed the door on Horn
io's face.
. .
Miss Ferrars will buy them, at all
events," said Horatio to herself. " Lu
cille Ferrars was always noble-hearted
and generous."
" How much are they ?" said the fair
Lucille, coming to the head of the base
ment stairs, in a disitabille, of greasy
cashmere and a soiled white apron.
"Eighteen cents a basket."
" Pshaw 1" said Lucille, supercilious
ly. "As if I was going to pay such a
price as that! I'll give you ten !"
" They are unusually fine," said 11,
ratio, timidly.
I shan't give a cent over eleven !"
Horatio turned away.
" I wonder you fruit girls have the face
to ask such a price !" said Miss Lucy
Ferrars lingering her purse strings.
" Twelve, there—and that's more than
they're worth !"
"I cannot sell them under the price I
have named," persisted Horatia, shrink
ing from the sharp, glittering eyes.
" do about your business then !" said
Lucille. " see the whole tribe of
you starve, before I'll be imposed upon
so!"
lloratio felt herself disenchanted.
Could it he possible that this shrewish
miser was her soft-voiced friend, Lu
cille Ferrars?
" Perhaps rnele l'eleg's views uf hu
man nature may not be so very much
amiss, after all," she said, with a half
sigh, after she had madu some half dozen
or more pilgrimages, and more than half
of her berries remained unsold.
Miss Parker's house was the last on
her list. I loratia had had let it remain
until all the other places had been visit
ed, she herself could hardly have told
why—perhaps because Justus Parker
had been her partner in the "Berman"
the night before. She liked Justus
Parker—yet sheSollloilOW distrusted his
gentle, nice and smooth manner.
"I am afraid it is all "put on," she
said to herself. "But tTnele Peleg was
determined 1 should go there, and I will
not shrink, now that the ordeal is so
nearly over."
The servant requested her to go up
and see the young lady herself—"she's
in her own room mostly."
Horatia had heard of Laura Parker's
lingering spine disease although she
-never had seen her. And her heart beat
slightly as she ascended the softly car
peted flight of stairs, carrying her basket
of berries.
J ustus was sitting on a low chair be
side his sister's sofa, at the further end
of the room; he rose and came forward
as the stranger entered. "This basket
is too heavy for you to carry," he said,
taking it from her arm and moving for
ward a seat, with a sort of unconscious
chivalry.
"It is not so heavy as It seems," said
she, somewhat bitterly, "and if it were,
I am nothing but a strawberry woman."
"But I suppose a strawberry WOlllall
has feelings and sensations like other
people," said Justus Parker, smiling.
"Sit down a moment, while my sister
looks at your fruit."
" You Must be very warm," said
Laura Parker, gently. " Lay back your
veil. Justus, please ring for a glass of
water." }tomtia accepted the water,
but refused to unfold her veil. It was
altogether too good a medium for her
to observe the quiet tenderness with
which Justus Parker treated his invalid
sister—the open Bible on the table, the
fresh flowers by the sofa, all mute tokens
of thoughtful love and care.
Miss Parker bought half rt dozen bas
kets of berries, without a wont of ex
coption to the price.
"They are the finest I have seen th is
year:" she said. " You lutist come
again when you have more."
I foratia Mere's cheeks were burning
when she made her escape at last, both
basket and heart considerably lighten
ed.
" \Veil, uncle!" she cried, gleefully
when she at length reached home, "
have earned the Triomp/o dr Uromic
" Have you been to the places'."'
" Yes, all !"
And she told him her adventures
with playful hunter.
" Not a had day's work," said Uncle
Peleg, laughingly.
Miss lloratia. Mere had the handsom
est refreshment tattle and the best sales
of ally young holy at the fair, and Jus
tus Parker was her favorite customer.
The result of the fair, not an uncom
mon one, if all reports are true, was one
wedding, if not more. lloratto Mere
was married to Mr. Parker; but not
until after the honey moon did he know
the story of how his aristocratic little
bride had sold strawberries!
" Was it wrong of me she asked,
wistfully.
" Under the eiretun-danc,,,, 11.," Mr.
Palter answered gravely.
A Peueption or Purity
Robertson forcibly states a great and
precious truth in the following para
graphs :
Marvellous is it how innoeence per
ceives the approach of evil, which it
cannot know by experience, just as the
dove, which has never seen the falcon,
trembles by instinct at its approach,
just as the blind man detects by liner
sensitiveness the passing of the cloud
which lie cannot see overshadowing the
sun. It is wonderous how the truer we
become the more unerringly we know
the ring of truth, can discern whether a
man be true or not, and can fasten at
once upon the rising lie in word and
look and disembling act ; wondrous
how the charity of Christ in the
heart perceives every aberration of
charity in others, in ungentle, though
slanderous tone. 1 - low shall we re
cognize truth I What is the test by
which we shall know whether it comes,
from (dud or not': Christ says, "My
sheep know me." Wisdom is justified
of her children. Not by some lengthened
investigation, whether the shepherd's
dress be the identical dress, and the stall'
he carries genuine, do the sheep recog
nize the sherperd. They know him,
they hear his voice, they know him as
a man knows his friends ; they know
him, in short, instinctively. Just so
does the soul recognize what is of (.nod
and true. There is a something in our
souls of God, which corresponds with
what is of (dod outside of us, and recog
nizes it by direct intuition ; something
in the true soul that corresponds with
truth and knows it to be truth, In all
matters of eternal truth the soul is before
the intellect; the things of I lod are
spiritually discerned; you know the
truth by being true; you recognize l iii
by being like him.
Cheerfulness
Our great American humorist, josh
Billings, manages to season his frivol
ties with a great deal of poetry and good
sound sense "in the rough," which we
do not always get from inure preten
tious writers. One of his recent sayings
is, " Wize men go thru this world as
boys go to bed in the dark, whistling to
shorten the distance." There arc em
braced in this, less than a score of words,
good sense, poetry, religion, and that
dim outcropping of humor which shows
that it is entirely unalloyed from other
metals. There would lie much more
sunshine in this world if we ourselves did
not obstruct the rays that would enliven
our hearts and homes. We are constituted
too much as our houses are—with a dark
green blind on every window ; which is
kept closed far too much of the time.—
Keep the blind open. :quell consists in
being ready to receive the sun. It will
conic from behind the cloud much quick
er. And that cold east wind ? Suppose
it does blow raw and chilling, giving al
most every bone a premonitory twang
of rheumatism? So much the more
need of cheerfulness. If the mind blows
the sea-fog around and above us, hiding
the sun's rays from us, we can -have a
sun of our own by simply concentrating
the rays of cheerfulness around us, and
building a fire of its warmth in oor
hearts. If we are always showing a dis
position to borrow trouble and are ever
anticipting even worse luck than comes
along occasionally, we shall find plenty
of it to come at the bidding ; but the ex
orcism of cheerfulness converts even the
foggiest east wind into a refreshing
breeze from Eurus, and even paints rain
bows on its outposts, and speaks, in
whispers of faith, of the glory reflected
on the sunny side of the darkest cloud.
READINO, August 10.—The Democratic
County meeting was held yesterday. The
resolutions adopted express devotion to
the Constitution and Union, denounce the
Fifteenth Amendment, favor a reduction
of taxation, charge the administration with
extravagance, oppose coolie labor,denounce
the income tax as iniquitous and odious,
and indorse Representative lion. J. L.
Getz, State Senator Davis and Representa
tives Brobst, Keifer and Schwartz. The
CouutyConvention will be held on the 30th
inst.
WORKINGMEN ON THE WAR
Address of the International Working
men's Association
A remarkable paper on the war in
Europe has been issued by the commit
tee of an extensive and powerful orga
nization of the workingmen in Europe
known as "The International," the
lending spirits of which, it is said, are
to be found in the ranks of actual labor
in every country in Europe. The tone
of the paper is strikingly terse and vig
orous; it admits facts while denouncing
them ; it denies that the possession of
the Rhine is the " last word" of the
people of either France or Germany,
and protests against the ambition of Na
poleon and Bismarck—in tine, it is a
striking argument in favor of content
in France and unity in Germany, and
they are right in thinking that political
liberty and social justice are better in
struments to either end than mitrail
leursand bayonets. The paper is ;Ls fol
lows :
In the inaugural address of the Inter
national Workingmen's Association, in
November, 18111, we said : If the eman
cipation of the laboring classes requires
their fraternal concurrence, how are
they to fulfill that great mission with a
foreign policy in pursuit of criminal
designs, playing upon national preju
dices and squandering in piratical wars
the people's blood and treasure '."' We
denned the foreign policy aimed at by
the international in these words:--
" Vindicate the simple laws of morals
and justice, which ought to govern the
relations of private individuals as the
laws paramounqof the intercourse of na
tions." wonder that Louis Bona
parte, who usurped his power by ex
ploiting the war of classes in France,
and perpetuated it by periodical wars
abroad, should from the first have treat
ed the International as
On the eve of the plebescite he order
ed a raid on the members of the admin
istrative committees of the International
Workingmen's Association throughout
France, at Paris, Lyons, Rouen, Mar
seilles, Brest, &c., on the pretext
that the International was a secret
society dabbling iu a complot for his as
sassination, a pretext soon after exposed
in its full absurdity by his own judges.
- What was the real crime of the French
branches of the International? They
told the French people publicly and em
phatically that voting the plebescite was
voting
DESPoTISM AT IIoNIE AND WAR AltitoAD.
It has been, in fact, their work that
in all the great towns, in all the indus
trial centres of France, the working
class rose like one man to reject the
plebescite. Unfortunately the balance
was turned by the heavy ignorance of
the rural districts. The stock exchanges,
cabinets, the ruling classes and the press
of Europe celebrated the plebescite as
a signal victory of the French Em
peror over the French working class;
and it was the signal for the assassina
tion, not of an individual, but of nations.
The war plot of July, 1870, is but an
amended addition of the coup (Petal of
December, 1,531. At first view the thing
seemed so absurd that France would not
believe in its real good earnest. It rath
er believed the deputy denouncing the
ministerial war as
A MERE STOCK JoniuNo Turcic
When, on July 15, war was at last of
ficially announced to the Corps Leg's
latilf, the whole opposition refused to
vote the preliminary subsidies ; even
Tillers branded it as " detestable ;" all
the independent journals of Paris con
demned it, and, wonderful to relate, the
provincial press joined in almost unan
imously. Meanwhile the Paris mem
bers of the International had again set
to work. In the Revell of July 1:!, they
published their manifesto " to the work
men of all nations," from which we ex
tract the following few passages :
lEEE=
" Once more," they say, "on the pre
text of the European equillihriums, of
national honor, the peace of the world
is menaced by political ambitions.—
French, Germans, Spanish workmen!
let our voices unite in one cry of repro
bation against war! *
War for a question of preponderance or
a dynasty can, in the eyes of work men,
be nothing but a criminal absurdity.—
In answer to the warlike proclamations
of those who exempt themselves from
the impost of blood, and find in public
misfortunes a source of fresh specula
tions, we protest, we who want peace,
labor and liberty'
Brothers of Germany: our division
would only result in the complete tri
umph of despotism on both sides of the
* * Workmen of all
countries! whatever may for the pre
sent become of our common enrts, we,
the members of the Imternational Work
ingmen's Association, who know of no
frontiers, we send you as a pledge of in
dissoluble solidarity the good wishes
and the salutations of the workmen of
France."
=lll
of our Paris section was followed by nu
merous similar French addresses, a
which we can here only quote the de
claration of Neuilly-sur-Seine, publish
ed in the Marseillaise of July 22: " 'cite
war, is it just ? No! The war, is it na
tional'? No! It is merely dynastic. In
the name of humanity, of democracy,
and the true interests of France, we ad
here completely and energetically to the
protestation of the International against
the war." These protestations express
ed the true sentiments of the French
working people, as was shown by
MB=
The Band of the 10th of December,
first organized under the presidency of
Louis Bonaparte, having been masquer
aded into blouses and let loose on the
streets of Paris, there to perform the
contortions of war fever, the real work
men of the faubourgs came forward with
public peace demonstrations so over
whelming that Pietri, the prefect of
Paris, thought it prudent to at once stop
all further street politics, on the plea
that the real Paris people had given suf
ficient vent to their pent up patriotism
and exuberant war enthusiasm. What
ever may be the incidents of Louis fo
naparte s war with Prussia,
THE DEATH KNELL ol , rif E sEc,rNi)
Las already sounded at Paris. It will
end as it began, by a parody. But let
us not forget that it is the governments
and the ruling classes of Europe who
enabled Louis Bonaparte to play during
eighteen years the ferocious farce of the
.11,,tor(d Empire. Gn the ( lerman side,
the war is a war of defense, but who puts
Germany to the necessity of defending
herself? Who enabled Louis Bonaparte
to wage war upon her Prumnz! It
was Bismarck who conspired with that
very same Louis Bonaparte for the pur
pose of crushing popular opposition at
Home, and annexing Germany to the
Ifohenzollern dynasty. If
TII E BA . rTLE OF CA IMW A
Lad 'wen lust instead of being won,
French battalions would have overrun
(termanv as the-allies of Prussia. After
her victory did Prussia dream one mo
ment of opposing a free ( termany to an
enslaved France? Just the contrary.
While carefully preserving all the na
tive beauties of her old system, she
superadded all the tricks of the second
empire, its real despotism and its mock
democratism, its political shams and its
financial jobs, its high-flown talk and
its low legerdemains. The Bonapartist
regime, which till then only flourished
on one side of the Rhine, hail now got
its counterfeit on the other. Front a
such a state of things what else could
result but war? If the (;erinan work
ing class allow the present war to lose
its strictly defensive character and to
degenerate into
A WAR AGAINST THE FRENCH PEoPLE,
Victory or defeat will prove alike disas
trous. All the miseries that befell Ger
many afterher war of independence will
revive with accumulated intensity. The
principles of the International are,how
ever, too widely spread and too firmly
rooted among the German working-class
to apprehend much a sad consummation.
The voices of the French workmen have
re-echoed from Germany. A mass meet
ing of workmen, held at Brunswick on
July 16, expressed its full concurrence
with the Paris manifesto, spurned the
idea of national antagonism with these
words : "We are enemies of all wars,
but above all of dynastic wars. ' " '
With deep sorrow and grief we are
forced to undergo a defensive war as an
unavoidable evil; but we call, at the
same time, upon the whole German
working-class to render the recurrence
of such an immense social misfortune
impossible by vindicating for the peo
ples themselves the power to decide on
peace and war, and making them.
At Chemnitz a meeting of delegates,
representing 50,000 Saxon workmen,
adopted unanimously a resolution to this
effect : " In the name of the German
democracy, and especially of the work
men lorming the democratic socialist
party, we declare the present war to be
exclusively dynastic. * * * * We
are happy to grasp the fraternal hand
stretched out to us by the workmen of
France. * * ' * Mindful of the
watchword of the International Work
ingmen's Association : Proletarians of
of all countries unite, we shall never
forget that the workmen of all countries
are our friends, and
T ALT, COUNTRIES ol' lt
EN EMI ai."
The Berlin branch of the Internation
al has also replied to the Paris mani
festo: "We," they say, "join with heart
and hatfd your protestation. -`• . '
Solemnly we promise that neither the
sound of the trumpet nor the roar of the
e2lllllOll, neither victory nor defeat shall
divert us from our cornmon work for the
union of the children of toil of all •oun
tries." Be it so! In the background of
this suicidal strife looms the dark figure
of Russia. It is an omnious sign that
the signal for the present war should
have teen given at the moment when
the Moscovite government had just fin
ished its strategical lines of railways,
and was already massing troops in the
direction of the Truth. Whatever sym
pathy the t;ermans may justly claim in
a war of defense against Bonapartist
aggression, they would forfeit at once
by allowing the Prussian government to
call for or accept the help of the Cos
sack. Let them remember that, after
their war of independence against the
first Napoleon, I ;emu:my lay for
,gener
:abuts prostrated.
•
A'1"1111.:1 , Erl'
Thu English working class stretch
the hand of fellowship to the French
and German working people. They
feel deeply convinced that whatever
turn the impending horrid wa• may
take, alliance of the working classes of
all countries will ultimately kill war.
The very fact that white official France
and Germany are rushing into a frati
eidal feud, the workmen of France and
Germany send each other messages of
peace and good will; this great fact, un
parrelled in the history of the past,
opens the vista of a brighter future. It
proves that in contrast to old society,
with its economical miseries and its
political delirium, a new society spring
ing up whose international rule Will be
/,or, because the national ruler will
be everywhere the same—Gabor! The
pioneer of that new society is the Inter
national Workingmen's Association.
The lloosae Tunnel
The following interesting deseription
of this great, work is given hp a corres
pondent of the Providence k It. 1.) Jour
nal. He writes :
" The approach to the I loosac tunnel
is by the valley of the Deerfield river,
which joins the Connecticut near the
village of Ureenfield. The valley,
especially from the thriving town of
Shelburne Falls to the tunnel, is very
narrow and tortuous, being confined by
very precipitous ridges flanking the
main 1 I oosac range. The railroad track
necessarily follows the winding of the
river, between which and hillsides
there Is seldom room for the track
without excavations. Occasionally a
widening, in the valley presents a level
extent of excellent soil which is im
proved by thriving farmers.
" The sides of the hill are covered
with a line forest growth, recently
scarred in 'daces by the woodman's axe,
the logs being,slial down to level ground
In artificial troughs. The tantalizing
glimpses which, from the car windows,
one gets of tie bold, wild scenery on
either side, with the tumbling river bed
below, tempts one to leave tile hurrying
steam train and take a journey on foot,
with plenty of time to feast the eyes.—
After coming to several points where it
would seem that the road must end, so
tortuous is its course, we finally arrive
at the place where nature indicated, so
it would seem, that the course of the
steam car to the west would certainly be
stayed, for the river valley, turning by
a sharp angle to the north, extending
into the State of Vermont, leaves the
road with a mountain barrier on both
sides, with the Hoosae ridge in front,
2,000 feet high.
''Hut Young America says : \\e don't
stop here; this hill is h," high to get
over, so we'll go through it. Straight
way schemes fin• boring this slight ob
struction are set forth, millions of dollars
are spent in experiment, various con
tractors fail in carrying through the
work, slow progress being made, Boston
gets interested in the job, the Legislature
of the State gets 'taken in,' a young
Fitchburg - mechanic, who reads the
papers, sees what is wanted, invents a
drill that will work, the law makers
take a few excursions to see its opera-
ions, and make a little $.5,000,aa1i con
ract with the Messrs. Shanly to finish
the 'bore.' After many delays the work
is now steady progressing with a rea
sonable certainty of its being completed
within less than the nearly four years'
time which the terms of the contract
now give the contractors to finish it.
The progress at the eastern heading
f the tunnel for some months past has
:tried from SO feet to 120 per month,
nd the present distance penetrated is
ut a few feet from one mile and a half.
in height and of a width for two tracks.
'there is a gang of men, usually eighteen
at work on the 'heading,' which is made
of sufficient height for the mule train to
travel, and two other gangs, at different
points, at work on the 'enlargement,'
besides drivers, etc., making about SO
men in :ill at work in the tunnel. As
there is no cessation of work except for
blasting operations, there must be two
sets of men, which take their `nooning'
rest inside the tunnel, in the shade. To
keep these men at work requires a large
number outside, including a dozen drill
sharpeners, machinists, engine men,
teamsters, etc. The power which drives
the 'Burleigh drill' is furnished by the
Deerfield river, assisted, when water is
short, by steam, both being now a mile
and a half from the farthest point where
it is applied. This power is used in
forcing air into pipes, about the size of
street gas pipes, by means of which it is
conducted into the tunnel, one pipe sup
plying the men with air when the drills
are not at work, the other conducting
the air for working the drills.
"The drill machine looks much like
a six-pound cannon tiring ramrods in
stead of bullets. They are fixed to a
carriage, live to each which rolls along
the track as they progress. From this
carriage they arc easily detached for re
pairs, and by a simple arrangement they
can be set at any angle, so when all are
at work some are strking forward, some
sidewise, others up or down. As the
heading is worked for tracks there are
two of these carriages side by side, and
with the ten machines all shooting their
steel charges at once, each at the rate of
wore than a hundred a minute, the lire
flying from the contact of the steel
with the rock, the indescribable clatter
ing and banging of the drills, the sharp
hissing puffs from the escape of COlll
- air which drives them, the sick
ly glare of the tallow candles (the only
light there) the grim visages of the
workmen and sulphury smell from the
rock and smoke of the blasting, all with
in a space a little higher than a man's
head and wide enough for two car tracks,
makes up a scene and impression which
reminds one of a combination of all the
Pandetnoniums and engineery of the
lower worlds he has ever dreamed of.
"The visitor into the tunnel can ride
in about half way by the train of dump
cars which take out the rock as it is
blasted ofil This train IS drawn by a
small steam locomotive. Cooling then
to the unfinished part, a mule team is
used for the remainder of the distance.
"The shaft is about a mile from the
North Adams stage road, and in a valley
through which runs a stream of water
which carries a saw mill located on ly one
fourth of a mile from the shaft. This de
pression in the mountain saves several
hundred feet in reaching the grade of the
tunnel in making the shaft. We found
the shaft covered by a mostsubstantial
building, surrounded by the small
houses of the workmen. A letter of in
troduction from the chief engineer to
the superintendent of the works secured
' us the privilege of a " special train" to
visit the bottom of the shaft. We don
ned an India rubber suit, and, with
miner's lamps, jumped into the bucket,
this being attached toa wire rope which
passes from a pulley . overhead to a large
drum, the whole worked by a powerful
steam engine—and down we go, 1,024
feet, in V) seconds!
"The miners, twelve in number, are
under a constant drip of water, and their
work seems of the most disagreeable
kind. Yet they were jolly, and they
worked with great alacrity. There are
three daily gangs, on duty eight hours
each. When they blast, which usually
occurs only as the gangs of men change,
the shaft is vacated for a half hour, for
NUMBER 31
the smoke to clear away. The shaft at
this date is at the level of the tunnel
grade, and two more faces for progress
are now presented, which will materi
ally facilitate the work. This shaft not
only facilitates the work on the tunnel,
but will be very useful if not essential
as a ventilator, when the work is com
pleted. The rock at this place is a com
pact mica slate, in which arc found fre
quent veins of quartz. No minerals of
value have been found, although tine
specimens of iron and copper pyrites
and carbonate of iron frequently occur."
A white jury drawn recontly at Ilast
ings, Minn. , had a negro foreman.
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, wasarrested
in New York, vesterday, for grand lar
ceny.
At Carbondale, Pa., a Jurglar Ica= fa
tally 81101. by the police while trying to
enter the First N:ttional
Sergeant 1\ feCann
at Atlanta, beeau , e \va, ,, under
arrest for keeping late lffillrS.
The Georgia Democratic State Con-
VentiOn Will 1111 . 0.
William J. Haggerty, aged
drmviied, by falling through a railroad
bridge at Itoston, on :\lotiday.
It i,,tated that the Nathan mii-jon,
in 'Fwenty-third street, New York, ha- ,
been sold for 0,000.
Supervisor Fulton repirts the seizure,
its itn illicit distillery, of a sugar and
vinegar establishment in Italtiniiire.
In Illinois the I)etimerals the Ninth
District, ‘itt nominated Mr.
\V. McNeely, for ( .c)f.grc,s.
A region of salt ten miles square,
Nvlierti it cover , the grotHill likr gavel,
bCt'll thtllld ill NOW A[eXiOn.
The I)Eitnocratie State Convention 111 .
Maine met at Itangor, \•esteltlay, :mil
nominated fleneral Charles \V. Itolierts
for I loyernor.
n Nev York city awl Itrooltlyn,
tnterfeit $2O note, on the Shoe and
tither Ilan are eirettlatinLt . plenti-
Hun. James L. Orr, or South Carolina,
has published a letter announcing his
adhesion to the Republican lily in that
State.
The New York State Temperance
Convention met at Syracuse, yesterday,
and nominated a State ticket, headed
by Myron 11. ('lark, for Governor.
Eight men were seriously injured yes
terday by the explosion of a lire-damp
in a shaft of the Roaring Brook Coal
Company, at Dunmore, l'a.
The Republican Conaessional Con
vention of the Sixteenth Ohio District
yesterday re-nominated I lon. John A.
Bingham, on the third ballot.
The hark Eagle, on her voyage from
New York to I lalveston, NV:IS struck by
lightning on July 21, on the Bahamas.
The vessel and cargo are a total
the crew are safe.
The first female compositor employed
in the Government printing oilier at
Washington wag admitted yesterday on
piece work. She is from Ohio, and her
name is Green.
Shop girls who are employed In
grouping and arranging flowers are said
to sufrer from headache and feverish
ness, caused by odor of !lowers, which
they are obliged to inhale all the time.
The census will show a decrease of
from six to ten thousand in the popula
tion ot New Hampshire. This is the
first instance of the hiss of population
by a State since the formation tit' tin' ,
Constitution.
Among the droll stories toll by the
western papers is one that a farmer cut
his throat on account the severe a u nt
protraeted drought, :old that they buried
him in IL pelting min storm which last
ed hours.
Wiu VA LI, the 'texas Senator who re
ceived the flag of Sumpter at its surren
der to the rebel authorities, has been
spending some days with his relatives
near 'Westminster, Md. Ile is -aid to be
looking well.
The Massachusetts State Prohibitory
Convention, at Boston; yesterday, re—
solved to organize an independent po
litical party, :mil nominated a Slate
ticket, NVith Wendell for 1;4.V
-erner.
The Chicago l'wd says that Air. Fre
inghuysen has concluded to decline the
nission to England, :Ind that the Ilresi
lent has oflided it to Scluttor'llrunilaill.
'lie latter, however, is understood to
(refer remaining in the Senate.
The contract for furnishing the Post-
Ince department with stamped en eel
,pes :old wrappers for flour years, has
Well 11W:ink(' 1.4:11111,y & I (''''(:((le, ..r
Vashington, at the rate of per
nnum.
Any inrifi-nnainn rclativc hr the pres
ent whereabouts of Ferdinand IL l'orch,
aged IS years, will be Ili:nil:fully re
ceived by the :\ layor of Ilarrisburg.
Was in I larrisburg Friday la 4, sick with
chills and fever.
The Caledonian Club of Philadelphia,
formed to keep alive the traditions and
customs of Old Scotland, yesterday gave
their twelfth annual exhibition of Scot
tish games at Oakdale Park. It is esti
mated that there were present on the
ground eight thousand persons.
An Englishman recently brought
suit against a newspaper for damages,
because his advertisement had been
printed incorrectly; but the ease Was
decided against kiln, on account of the
illegibility of his handwriting. An
awful warning to 11. G.
thmeral Ryan, of the Cuban army, ar
rived at Key West on the lath, :old re
ceived an ovation from the Cubans
there. lie made an address, giving a
favorable account of the Cuban struggle,
and stating that he was on :to important.
mtssion. At a second demonstration on
Monday, he said that more :w e ts and
men were !meth:lL lie goes to New
A young holy, some 17 years of age,
handsome in features and rich in splen
did attire, gold watch, etc., appeared on
one of the streets of Altoona, on Thurs
day evening last, in a lousily state of
intoxication, and indulged in the most
plaintive appeals for more liquor. She
is said to be a lady of more than ordi
nary intelligence, and in all other re
spects is pure as a sunbeam.
In the Normal School Association, at
Cleveland, yesterday, President t irant
appeared by invitation, and held an im
promptu reception. Officers were elect
ed for the ensuing year, as follows:
President, S. 11. White, of Peoria; Vice
Presidents, C. C. Rounds, of Maine;
Mrs. Stone, of Akron, and S. TllOlllll
- of West Va. Miss Jakson, of
Philadelphia, read a paper on "The
Treatment of Dunces.
The present daily production of the
oil regions of Pennsylvania and West
Virginia, is said to average 14,000 bar
rels, and the shipments thence to the
various markets of the world are abont
the same. The total export in IsOI front
all the ports in the I "Mon, ivies only
1,500,00)) gallons, or less than three days'
production of the wells at present;
while since the Ist of January last the
aggregate shipments reached “n,ouo,tion
gallons.
The suspected murderer of Lewis
Hartman, in Erie minify, Charles I Mt
leib K rancher, was arrested at Erie on
Tuesday. lle acknowledges that be
threw arid into the fiices of flimsier and
Racine, but refused to say anything
about the murder of I lartman. From
Ilia appearance it is represented he
would not he capable of committing the
terrible crime with which he is charged,
or of the crime of which he has already
plead guilty.
A new spring has been discovered in
Bradford •zounty similar to the already
celebrated Minnequa spring, near Can
ton, but is stronger in odor and in taste,
and more chalybeate. large bubbles
are constantly rising to its surface and
then exploding, and at intervals there
is an upheaval of the whole body or
water in it—never less Ulan 11 feet
deep—with an explosive sound, caused
front accumulated gaseous forces from
below.
A young man who lost an arm futile
Erie City (Pa.) Iron Works, a couple of
weeks ago, still insists that he feels pain
throughout the entire arm and fingers.
Some twenty-four hours after the acci
dent, whea the mutilated limb lay in
the cellar, nearly beneath the bed where
he lay, he would tell when any one
was handling it, by the painful sensa
tion he felt. At one time a block was
placed on the fingers to keep them
straightened out, and, although ho knew
nothing of the transaction, he at once
contended that something was pressing
down his hand, and insisted that it
should be removed at once. After the
block was removed lie said he felt easier,
and was contented:
RATE OF ADVERTISING
BUSINFY,S ADVERTISEMENTS, $l2 a year per
squre of ten 11000; $8 per year for ouch addi
tional square.
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GENERAL ADVERTISING, 7 Mini a lino for tl 0
tlrut, ale] oenLs fur each subucqUent 111)01-
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15 centx par line,
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death++, ).1:1 cants per lino for Ilrat limed intl.
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LEGAL AND °TITER NOSIGIGi—
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Other "Notiees," ten lines, or less, I
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ottill the liar
It has been said—and there are ninny
people Who believed it—that the presem
tsar is instigated by a desire on the part of
France to star' the spread of Prol,tantisitt.
In other work, that it is a religious crussde
of Catholic Franco against Protestant Prus
sia. This is n very absurd supposition.
The large untimlie element thst exists in
Prussia and throughout tlernutn . , and thy•
in iluenee, it not the numbers, of the Pr.it
estants in France, ought to conviiice any
one that in the present religious aspect
Europe such a war is impossible. In
France, though a great majority of the peo
ple belong to the Church of Rome, it is well
known that many of the leading statesmen
and prominent personae:, of the Empire
are of the Protestant faith. The State, in
its endowments, knows no iiillerenee
tweet, the two creeds. . .
•
In Prussia, though the royal family of
l'russia belong to the Iteformed or Calvin
istic Church, all Christian denominations
enjoy the S:1110 privileges, and
eligible to plans of trust and emolument.
The Protestants aro divided into tilt
br:uu•hes, Lutherans and Calvinists, awl
comprise, according to the census or 1,:7,
more than ti. - 1 per cent. or tile entin , popula
tion, while the amount to nearly
per cont., the rest, about two per cent..
being made up of Israelites and other sects.
I lotvever, in some portions of the Prussian
dominion , : the Catholics :tetually predmi
nate, 111,1 among these may be named
Posen, NVestplialia and the Rhenish pro
vince". doss, :ore to be found in all the
provinces at Prussia, but principally in
Posen, while members of the t reel: Clitirch
:111.1“ther sects aro scattered throughout
the monarchy. The Protestants Lunt oho
eater part or the population of thin pro
noes annoxo.l in 1 , 66; I [anon, alto.
added 1,r,t2,777 l'rotestants tuul only 2'..tot,outt
Itomatt Catholics In the population.
PrOteStatiti,dll is gradUally Spreading
11.111011 g the population, and Itoniati Catho
licism decreasing. When Silesia was tte
quitted by Itrussia, ill 171;3, its population
was mainly t'atholle ; but now, out of its
three itroeinces, in the 100 most important,
Ow majority of the population is Protestant.
In !the religions statistics of Iste2 it was
slmwit that the l'rotost,mt element in the
army at that time ainotifited to Is 1,7tt7
while the Calllidie COnlpriSell 512,:i13, to
syllich were added I,32:3:Jews and 77 of
other creeds. The great mass of the popii -
tallow; of the other Stales which aro in
cluded in the North I; aroma Confederation
is Protest:lnt.—tmxt. to Prussia, I thlenhurg
teeing the only State in Irldell there is ally
, 0 11,ider:11,10 proportionof l'atholics. \
cording to the enumerations it Isittt and
1,0;7, the inhabit: TILS ut North and South
I term any Ivor° divided as MIlolvs:
PnaeNt,mts.
:t,31;11,999
Countries.
North Germany
South Germane
9•1,G73,33:t 1:1,258,4W
In ether 1,11 - 11 s, in the North trernran
arterleration the Protestants stern more
an 71 per cent. and Catholics :2.7 per rssit.
the South (termite States t Itavaria,
Viirtettilitirg i Bailee and Ilesse,) the
'atholirs are GO per rent. anti l'retestititts
PJ per relit. silly State in which the
'rolestaittsi iirtsliotitinate is !lease. Bavaria
inanely throe-fourths Cathillic, lout that
Ictacheil Isirtiiet or the Isinttdom which
tes loot,reoit I , r:titres:la the Hittite, lutowu
ILS the Pa1:161110.0, iS 110 t quite halt' Cattail
iLy comprising '27:1,952 Catholics,
Protestants, Israolnes, and
of tither sects. If we take the total itt
North and South tiernuuly, which its Ili,
war at any rate aro one, win lind that
two-thirds of Cho peoplo are Protestant-.
and one-third Catholics.
In France, by the I . OIISIIS of is;;, there
wore 36020,1;6i Catholics and 1,591,..450 Pro
testants. This tOlicial statement, hotvever,
is, in regard to the Protestants, greatly at
variance with the numbers of tvorshipping
members :LS given by the synodsand con
sistories, the heads tit whicit estimate the
members of the Reformed Church at nail,-
nee, and those of the Lutheran l'hurelt at
305,0th1, ilnking the total less than a million
of l'rotestatil.s. 'Phil larger amount slated
above is, therefore, evidently niado up by
these who are nominally or the I'mte , ta.l
faith, but not. in clitirilt felhovsliiii. The
State recognizes all religions, but it only
endows the Itonian Catholics, the l'rotest -
ants and the .li - ors. 'rim hhhh..wahl h.e mad. h.
the ltonian t'atholic clergy in the last bud
get amounted to •It,sIU,IJG francs, and that
of the Protestant churches to 1,.193,13G
fro cs. These Illllollllh4, ‘vhen eignparisl
with the population returns, show that. Mt
allowance per capita is about the Sallie in
the tWe dellelltillatlelet. 'Titus, With 1:4,-
111:my, wore than ono-third Catholic., and
with a large propiirtion nt l'atholies in her
armies, and \vith Franco endowing; tine
Protestant Church in relation proportion to
the Cathnlic, iL is not easy to son either
side Vail claim our sympathies on the sem.
roligion. It is a quarrel in which reli
gion has no ',art.—Neu: York 7'rililne.
The Slamese Tnlnn,-Chang . and Elva Re
turn In America-1r • Paralyzed.
The New York iXtandari/ has the ft illow
ing atteount or an interview between its
reporter :tint the Siamese Twins who have
just arrived in this country:
On arriving at Chang and Env's room,
the Doctor entered softly, and quietly intro
ilueed the reporter. Itoth were requested
to take seats near the couch on which lava
the suffering Chang, and the unavoidably
self-sattrilleing Eng. Chang's area was
swathed to his wrist, fuel his sine Mel olio
of his legs were paralyzed so that hu ceultl
hardly move the affected side without pre
senting an appearance of the most intense
and exerUciating pain. Thu brother Eng
never left his sell, and he says that he will
clingto him till death. Eng wereadark sui
and was dressed more tastily than his:tinkl
ed brother, Nvlai Wm necessarily ell
They reclined nil t h e couch , bill the
robust Eng had to restive appearance 111111
04101110 d to long for a little fresh air, of which
he would doubtless avail himself if it were
vonvenierff. When the reporter [of the
.9,ndrrol cordially welcomed them 'tack
to Americo, they expressed many thanks
and said their (wine was ill this country
and they loved it better than any on earth.
Eng communicated freely about their
traveling through normally, ;Holland,
Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Rus
sia. They Were Well recta red at the Con rt
of St. Petersburg, and inane many exhibi
tions in the principal halls of the city. tin
their return from Itmo.la they Were shout
co go through France, when the announce
ment Of war deterred them from so doing.
Their stay in England was confined to a
few days, thiring which they gave no ex
hibition. Their accent has no foreign pe
culiarity in it, and can hardly be distin
guished from the wanner of speaking
adopted by cultivated Americans. Their
features bear a Mongolian aspect, Chang 's
face being the more European of the
two in its appearance. aro over
fifty years of age, but their worn faces
and haggard aspect would suggest id least
that sixty SUMMON had seen the twain
one flesh. They spoke of the surgical
operation which a certain Freneh physi
cian proposed to perform, and did not ap
pears to relish the fact of being cut Milli
ner. In their movements ono naturally nod
without the least constraint complies with
the other. The action, thought and prin
ciples of each are perfectly distinct, and al
together independent one from the, other.
Eng is inore lively and open in his
manner than Chang, who appears many
years older than his ilillinnto ennillipOril
ry. As Chang was extremely ill, and
not wishing, to intrude on taw doctor's
special favor our reporter retired alter
the alm,vo interview, which was necessarily
brief, though a privilegelof which few suc
ceeded, yesterday, ill availing themselves.
The physician's opinion of the probable
condition of Eng. in the event of Ins broth
er's death, is decidedly in favor of Eng.
Ile believes that the death of one will nit
necessarily include the other's, any more
than the amputation of a limb should have
that effect on the Ruminant body.
lie assorts that no vital part exists in the
largo mass of flesh and gristle connecting
the !italics of Chang and Lug. Ile believes
that the only cause of their not being sep
arated by those surgeons who proposed to
operate on them, Was either their natural
unwillingness to hve apart, or fear of death
iu cave the operation did not succeed.
Pennnyl can In Post Offices.
The paltry of a post office under- present
regulations is based on the amount
of stamps cancelled, amount of news
paper postage and amount or box
rents. Taking the aggregate value of
stamps cancelled, sixty per cent. is allow
ed as cummissinu on the first one hundred
dollars, tiny per mint, on the next thrust
hundred dollars, and in a proportionate
rate of decrease of percentage for all above
the amounts stated. Fifty percent., is also
allowed as COIIIIII6{SiOIIS 011 all newspaper
portages, and the entire amount of box
rents is allowed up to the aunt of two thou
sand dollars. Itis provided, however, tied
the salary of the postmaster shall in Ile
19.40 exceed four thousand dollars—two
thousand dollars from COIIIIIINSIOIIB and
an equal amount from box rents.
The salaries of post offices have just been
reuuljusted, and Pennsylvania has thirteen
first class and thirty-ono second class offi
ces, a list of which, with the new salaries,
is given below:
First Flass—Allegheny, $3,100; Easton,
$3,200; Erie, $.1,100 ; Harrisburg, $3,000;
Meadville, $3,000 ; Philadelphia, $4,000 ;
Pittsburg, $1,1110; Pottsville, $3,000 ; Read
ing, $3,500 ; Scranton, $3,300 ; Tidionto
$3,250 ; $:3,400; Williamsport,
$3,000.
Second Cil*lli—Allentown, $2,600; Alloo
na, $2,800; Ashland, $2,100; Bethlehem,
$2,200; Carlisle, $2,500; Chantborsburg, $2,-
400; Chester, $2,400; Columbia, $2,300;
Corry, $2,800 ; Danville, $2,400; Franklin,
$2,8110 ; Honesdale, $2,200; Huntingdon,
$2,100; Johnstown, s'-, 500 ; Lancaster, $2,-
800 ; Lewisburg, $2,100 ; Lock Haven, $2,-
000; Mauch Chunk, $2,200; New Castle,
$2,700 ; Norristown, $2,400 ; Oil City, $2,-
000 ; Petroleum Centre, $2,600.. Pittston,
$'2,000; Pleasantville, $2,800 ; Pottstown,
$2,100; Sharon, $2,400 ; Towanda, $2,400;
Warren, $2,100; West Chester, $2,500;
Wilkesbarre, $2,000; York, $2,600.
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