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Christmas Politics.
Chsuncey F. Black In Lauruler Intelllgoncar.
Tho gospel of Christ was iudecd tho
first proclamation of pure democracy
on the earth. It was good will to men
—to all men of every grade ami con
dition. Translated into politics tliut
means that all men should be equal
before the law as they are equal be
fore God ; equal not merely in their
rights to life and limb, but in their
right to labor as they seo fit, and to
enjoy the fruits of their own endeavors.
The Sermon on the Mount, and the
Declaration of American I ndependence
contain the same self-evident truths.
But they have had a hard and a long
struggle to get themselves placed on
the human statute book, and to be
kept there after they were enacted.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty." We make a little advance, and
then, if wo relax our efforts in the
least, we straightway lose more than
we had gained. Ambition, greed, the
love of dominion, and tho lust of
money unearned, never sleep. It is
not within the scope of an urticlc like
this to sketch this struggle, or even to
allude to any of its incidents beyond
the limits of our own fortunate coun
try. But what have we seen here ?
Thomas JefTerson was the great
apostle of human liberty on this con
tinent. He proposed to start all men
in tho race of life upon a footing of
perfect equality ; and to give no man
any illegal advantage over another.
In Virgiuia he broke down the estab
lished church; repealed the law of
primogeniture and of entails; reduced
the government to a pure democracy ; !
and would, if he could, have abolished
negro slavery, concerning the conse
quences of which to his own raw he
trembled, when he thought of the jus
tice of God. lie was also the projector
of a system df popular education,
which was far in advance of the times
in which he lived, and wo beg the
young reader to remember the fact
when he hears some brawling dema
gogue claiming the credit of the com
mon school system for a party which
was born yesterday, and was born then
only to take up the cause of the few
against the many where Thomas Jeffer
son's ancient enemies were forced to
drop it.
But Mr. Jefferson's great work of
"good will to men," did not stop there.
Virginia was free —free of the hoary
abuses of monarchy ami aristocracy—
and his declaration of independence
having been sustained by arms, the
colonies were independent states. But
now arose an enemy more dangerous
than the British crown beyond seas
had ever been. It was new and press
ing, subtle and insidious. It came in
the guise of patriotism and lured the
people by promises of national power
nnd glorv. The party of which Alex
ander Hamilton was then the head
would have extinguished the States
and set up for a general government
a practical monarch "on the British
models." Failing in that, they have
ever since beeu endeavoring to con
strue away the constitution which our
wise forefathers gave us, and to estab
lish what they call "a strong govern
ment," with no limitations but'the
pleasure or necessities of the adminis
tration. They wanted debts, mono
polies, standing armies, class distinc- j
tions, splendor and confusion. They
assaulted the constitution with their
impudent doctrine of "implied pow
ers;" they undermind it by corrup
tion, and would have overthrown it by
fraud and force had been aide.
But Mr. Jefferson founded a great
party to protect and defend the con
stitution, and he led it with singular
prudence and devotion until the feder
alists were turned out of power, neck
and heels, in 1800. His memorable
and glorious administration, and the
administrations of his democratic suc
cessors, constituted the golden age of
the republic. The party which Mr.
Jefferson founded and inspired, and
which he trusted would stand through
all the ages like a wall of fire around
the free institutions of America, re
mains to-day what it was then. Its
principles are unaltered. It says the
federal government must lie adminis
tered according to the plain letter of
the written charter. Huch a govern
ment as the administrations of Jeffer
son and his disciples demonstrated, is
pure, simple and inexpensive. It pro
tects all while it harms none. Its
blessings encompass us like sunshine,
its burdens are unfelt. It creates no
monopoly. The power of taxation is
used only to support the government,
and to provide for the "few objects"
of federal care, prescribed in the writ
ten constitution. It cannot be em
ployed to transfer the proceeds of one
man's labor to another; or to exact
tribute from one class of citizens in
order to enrich another. These are
the beneficent doctrines of democracy.
The political philosophy of Jefferson
is but the morality of the New Testa
ment applied to the Htate—the golden
rule in public affairs —under its blessed
•way tne people eat the bread they
bavb earned ; it cannot be snatched
from the weary hands of labor to fill
the overflowing storehouses of wealth
and monopoly. Kiches and poverty
stand upon the same plane. No man {
has a special license to sell dearer or j
to charge more for the same service
than another. The man rules nnd the
man is protected in nil his natural
rights aud dignity, nnd not the acci
dent of birth or povorty. When de
mocracy professes to be aught hut this,
which it was at the beginning, ami
must bo forever, it is spurious—an im
pudent fraud aud hypocritical sham,
devised, in nine cases out of ten, by
the devil and the federalist in some
dark conjunction of their wicked
powers.
JAY GOULD.
SOMETIIINQ ABOUT THE RAII.WAY II AO NATE
AS lIK AI'i'RAKEO IN BOSTON.
Imagine a mite of a man, says a
Boston writer, listless and shaken in
appearance, weighing but little over
oue hundred pounds, with uo parti
cularly intelligent expression, and ih
fact with hardly a manifestation of
any kind of power or force in his
whole showing. Physically, indeed,
he is weak, ami it is said of himself
and another distinguished New York
capitalist that they have hut one lung
between them. Air. Gould came into
the New York and New England
meeting and took his seat upon a trout
settee, near the platform. He slouch
ed down upon the bench so that his
head rested upon the rail of the settee
hack, and he entered into the proceed
ings very much, a* a stunted farmer's
boy is wont to do in a country church,
so far as position and apparent interest
in the exercises are concerned. Dur
ing the routine he was thus partially
hidden from many would-be inspectors
who were peering anxiously in his di
rection, his neighbors on either hand
overtopping and outbulking him.
When the formal business was over
and speeches were ill order, cries of
"Gould ! Gould !" filled the hall, and
the little great man worked himself
into a standing position. If he hnd
been a country bumpkin, essaying a
first speech in tho villiago lyceum, he
must nave been laughed at as lie stood
there. His face was wreathed in sini
pers, ami his whole manner was an
exaggerated simper. When lie, at
last, did *|>eak, bis utterance was la
bored and hesitating ami still simper
ing, his voice light and with no taking
quality, and there was not a sympa
thetic or winning feature about him.
Involuntarily his critics —viewing him
for the fir.-t time—suid to themselves:
"That is not the migbtv Gould of the
stock exchange; the dictator, almost
absolute, of railroads worth 8 H 9,000,-
000!"
Yet this was, indeed, the very man,
this slight built apparent body ot weak
ness, of forty-five years continuance.
His reply to ihe calls of the assemblage
was, so far as his words were concerned:
"I will make you a speech, gentlemen,
after our fir.-t dividend is declared."
He will never keep his word, what
ever turns ; for he can no more make 1
a speech, than he can weigh a ton.
The meeting over, tho company snun-;
tered and loitered about exchanging
words before getting upon the street
again. This was the golden opportu
nity improved upon by ninny to get a
good look at Gould. He apj>eared
nervous ami watchful regarding the
close approach to himself of a stranger,
as though not entirely free from ap
prehension that, even in such a place
and surrounded by friends, some enemy
might attack him. It is said thatl
since the attack was made upon him ,
some time ago he had never appeared
abroad without the company of a
"striker," who would protect him if
danger threatened, and lie would cer
tainly need some such helper if at
tacked, cA-en though, as is probably
the cae, lie is no degree of a coward
physically.
8o much for the personal appear
ance of a man who made his first en
try into New York city during the
crystal palace exhibition, ami who,
until the year 1889, had ucver been
reckoned other than |x>or. True, he
was a mere hoy at that first visit, and
ail his hopes and expectations for the
fnture were centered in a contrivance
which he carried in a mahogany box
under his arm, ami prised inordinately
—a wo nderful mousetrap, that was all.
His mousetrap brought him nothing
but trouble, and it turned, as it has
turned one thousand times even in
New York, that a mousetrap, even
though it be a wonderful affair, is of
no account unless it be in the right
hands. These were not the traps which
Gould was best fitted to manipulate.
Mr. Gould is now forty-five years
old, and his friends apparently admire
the statement when they say he has
made for himself $1,000,000 for every
year he has lived in the world. They
probably underrate him in this direc
tion, and his solid individual wealth
is, without doubt, greater thsn these
figures would represent. But on earth
there is probably no harder worker,
no greater slave to a fortune, no more
persistent follower of distiny, than this
same Jay Gould. In business affaire
he is an abnormal development of
humanity, and all his manipulations
are strokes of genius. However, it
does not now appear that this sort of
thing is to die with him, for he has a
son reported to be a greater genius
than his father, in the same directions.
The lav and the Mormons.
The stringent bills of Mr. Willeta
to reorganize the territory of Utah,
and to secure honest trials for bigamy
indicate a nenewal of the attempt to
suppress Mormon polygamy whicn has
been so often foiled. The late Presi
dent Garfield consulted with Mr.
Wiliets upon these bills,and approved
them, and thero i* an evident rcvivul
of interest in the Huhject, which given
peculiar timeliness to the views of
Senator Edmunds in tho January
number of Harper's magazine. in
the Senator's opinion there in an irre
pressible conflict between this aspect
of Mormouism und the social and po
litical systems of the rest of the coun
try. The object of the Mormons is to
maintain their political supremacy in
Utah und the neighboring territories,
and to favor polygamy. The present
population of Utah is 143,963, more
than 73,(KM) of which number arc |er
sons under age. The actual number
of plural marriages it is impossible to
ascertain, but in 1 Mtj it was estimated
to he a third of the married malm.
1 Mural marriage is a crime under
the United States law, and in the eve
of that law the Mormons, who hold
higafuy to he a divine institution, are
a baud of criminals associated to defy
the authority of the United States.
The government has endeavored to
assert its authority. Hut to impannel
a jury in Utah without a Mormon is
almost impossible, and it is equally im
possible to prove both marriages, as
the "sealing" to "saints" is done with
the utmost secrecy. Hut Mr. Ed
mund* is of opinion that, with suita
ble legislation and a vigorous execu
tion of the laws, the practice of poly
gamy might he broken up within a
few years, and evcu with existing laws
and a persistent determination the evil
would succumb. If the people of the
Uuited States sinccrelv wish to extir
pate it, the task would be easily ac
complished by legal and |>eaccful
means. All aid by appropriation of
land should he refused to the Mormon
body, aud, if necessary, the territory
might be annexed to udjoining terri
tories, to merge and destroy the Mor
mon political ascendency.
This is a different view from that of
those who suppose that a vigorous at
tempt to suppress polygamy would be
followed by a long and desperate war,
requiring upon the side of the govern
ment un army of not less than 150,-
000 men, and ending doubtfully and
in the desolation of the interior of the
continent. If there were any reason*
to supjtose this to l>e true, nothing '
would l>e more evident than that the
United State* should repeal the statute
ngnin-t bigamy, or deal at any cost
with criminals who defy its authority.
The hills introduced by Mr. Willeu
open the whole question, ali the dis
cus-ion should close only with the
adoption of some positive policy to In*
rigorously enforced. The supreme
court has held that the plea of religi
on* institution in the eaeo| bigamy is
not valid, and it could hardly have
bold diffidently. Tbn qontion ia not
one of those which decide themselves
by delay. A* it stands, it is rfiinply a
question of the power of the govern- j
merit to enforce olx-diencw to the Inw.
From F' t>s!*r Nofelhljf.
Marvel* of the Hitman Hotlr,
While the gastric jucc ha* a mild,
bland, sweetish taste, it poasemei the
power of dissolving the hardent food
that can he swallowed. It ha* no in
llucnee whatever on the soft and deli
cate fibre* of the living stomach, nor
upon the living hand, hut at the mo
ment of death it begin* to eat them
away with the power of the strongest
acid*.
There i* dut on sea, on land, in the
valley and on the mountain top; there
is dust always and everywhere; the
atmosphere is full of it; it penetrates
the noisome dungeon, and visit* the
deepest, darkest caves of the earth ; no
palace door can shut it out, no drawer
so secret a* to escape it* presence;
every breath of wind dashes it upon
the open eye, yet that eye is not blind
ed, liecause tinder the eye-lid there is
incessantly emptying itself n fountain
of the blandest fluid in nature, which
spreads itself over the surface of the
eye at every winking and washes
every atom away. —Hut this liquid, so
mild and so well adapted to the eye,
itself ha* some acridity, which, under
certain circumstances, tiecomes so de
cided as to be scalding to the skin,and
would rot away the eye lids, were it
not that along the edges of them are
little oil manufactories, which spread
over their surface a coating as imper
vious to the liquids necessary for keep
ing the eye-lids clean as the best var
nish is impervious to water.
The breath which leaves the lungs
has been so perfectly divested of its
life-giving properties, that to re
breathe it unmixed with other air the
moment it escapes from the mouth,
would cause immediate death by suffo
cation while if it hovered above us,
more or less destructive influence over
health and life would be occasioned.
Hut it is made of a nature so much
lighter than the common air, that the
instant it escapes the lips and nostrils
it ascends to the higher regions above
the breathing point, there to be recti
fied, renovated and sent back again,
replete with purity and life. How
rapidly it ascends is fully exhibited
every frosty morning.
Hut, foul and deadly as the expired
air is, Nature, wisely economical in
all her works and ways, turns it to
good account, its outward passage
through the organs of the voice mak
ing of it the whispers of love, the soft
words of affection, the tender tones of
human sympathy, the sweetest strains
of ravishing music, the persuasive elo
quence of the finished orator.
If a well-made man be extended on
the ground, his arms at right angle*
with the body, a circle making the
navel the centre will just take in tbo
head, the finger ends and the feet.
The distance from top to toe is pre
cisely the same a* that between the
tips of the fingers when the arms are
extended. The length of the body is
just six times that of the foot, while
the distance from the edge of the hair
on the forehead to the edge of the
chin is juc tenth the length of the
whole s® ire.
Of the sixty-two primary elements
known in nature, only eighteen are
known in the human body, and of
these seven are metallic. Iron is
found in the blood, phosphorus in the
brain, limestone in the bile, liinc in
bones and dust und ashes in all. Not
only these eighteen human elements,
but the whole sixty-two of which the
universe is made, have their essential
basis in the four substances of oxygen,
nitrogen and carbon, representing the
more familiar uuincs of fire, water,
saltpetre and charcoal. Aud such is
man, tho lord of earth !—a spark of
fire, a drop of water, a grain of pow
der, un atom of charcoal.
FI'TCRE OF TIIE I'AtTFIC STATES.
The San Francisco Jiulletin says:
There is one railroad from the Fast to
' this coast now in operation—the Cen
tral and Union Pacific. There will
he a second in operation this year,
known as the Atchison, Topeka ami
Santa Fee, also the Southern Pacific.
A syndicate has taken hold of the
Northern Pacific, and it is confidently
predicted that that line will be com
pleted in the near future. The gov
ernment of (Jaunda has another road
on hand running on a line farther
north than the Northern Pacific. It
i* in a large sense hound politically to
carry out the project. The road
across Mexico, known as the Tehuan
tepee route, is being rapidly pushed
forward. I)c LessefM, by the aid of
foreign capital principally, i* aliout to
commence work on the Punama canal.
There is a strong movement among our
jeop]c. headed by General Grant, to
construct nnother ship canal further
north byway of Nicaragua. There
i*. finally, the old route round tape
Horn used by the clipper.
We have here four miles of railroad
in addition to the one we have now in
operation, in various stages of comple
tion, running west, and one canal,
with a chance of two. The outlook
nt this moment is that most, if not ail
of three projects w ill be completed
within the next ten years. One, the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe con-,
neclion, will go into operation iu a
week or two. It is not |s>s-ihle at this
moment to form anything but a very
loose estimate a* to what all these
lines of communication will cost. In
a rough way it may he said that Pl,- •
000,(M)Q,lM)ii will not cover the <>ul!uv
on uil of tbctn. This vast sum of muii- j
ey i- to lie invested to enable pa--en- !
g'T* and freight from the Atlantic to
reach the Pacific. One of the-c lines
—the Southern Pacific, extending to j
the Gulf of Mexico—will give us a;
short route to Europe. All the rail
road ami steamboat projections of the
epoch are east and west. Them is no
development, of this kind north and
south —that is probably finished for
the present. Fast and west i< the
true world movement.
Put what is going to be the result of ,
all these railroads, canals and water
ways heading this wny? The great
development of the next ten years will
be in what may lie called the north
west. The march of immigration is
now obliquely in that direction, found
ing States as it advances. California,
Oregon, Washington Territory ami
Alaska are about to receive immense
accessions to their population. There
is not, as a matter of fact, anywhere
else to go. Texas is filling up too
rapidly for emigrants who have little
mom capital than brawnv arms. New
Mexico will never be able to support
a large population. To the great
northwest they must come. There is
to lie the limit of the movement to the
west. The railroads that arc in ope
ration and projected, the canals and
waterways that are to be constructed
are intended to transact the business
of the coming millions. There are
now much more than one million peo
ple on the shores of the Pacific. There
are men in the prime of life who will
live to see ten millions in the same
regions.
The Itoad to Fartnne.
The elder Vanderbilt, shrewd old
Commodore that he was, once put the
questions, "llow can the world know a
man has a good article unless he adver
tises possession of it," There is a world
of meaning in those words, which a live
business man will not fail to appreci
ate. That veteran showman nnti man
ager, P. T. Barnum, has asserted that
"the road to fortune is through prin
ter's ink." Certain it is that when A.
T. Btewart, the great dry goods king,
said : "Frequent and constant adver
tising brought me all I own," that the
truth and nothing but the truth was
told. Thete aro several now well
known firms in Chicago that have
come to the front in remarkably short
order through jersistagfr and judicious
advertising. Thev mOßtained a stea
dy hammering within sound of the
public ear through the medium of the
press until attention was directed to
them, aud an increase of business
csme. Although conservative man
that he was, the millionaire Astor, of
New York, was forced to admit that
"success depends upon a liberal pat
ronage of printing office."
AS ARCTIC HTORV.
In the spring of 1840 a whaling ves
sel sailed from the port of Loudon,
upon a voyage to the Polar Boas.
Nothing material occurred until their
arrival in those solitary regions, when
it became the duty of the crew to keep
a perpetual look-out u(ton the horizou
in search of fish. Whilst thus occupied
it was fancied |>y one of the seamen
that a sail wits discernible, as far to
the northward as the eye could reach.
As the course of the whaler was tow
ard the supposed vessel, a mast gradu
ally bccume distinguishable amidst the
mountains of ice, which appeared to
abound in the sea. It was now mid
summer, and in the afternoon unusual
ly calm, whilst the whaler gradually
oeared the object in view, the supposi
tion being that it was a vessel engag
ed in operating upon the blubber in a
hay, which would opeu to the view
upon approaching nearer to the ice.
Upon arriving however it became
dear that the vessel wo* a wreck cm
bedded in the ice, and could only be
approached by a !x>at. This having
been lowered, the cuptain and several
of the seamen landed upon the ice and
proceeded to the vessel, which proved
to Ik? a brig. The sails were furled,
very little appeared upon deck, and
all the arrangements were those of a
vessel laid up for a long time. De
scending to the cabin, the first object
that was seen was a large Newfound
land dog coiled upon a mat, apparent
!ly asleep. Upon touching the animal
it was found to be dead and the body
frozen to the hardness of a stone. En
tering the cabin was next seen a young
lady seated at a table; her eyes were
open, ami gazing with a mild ami
steadfast expression upon the new
corners to that solitary spot. She wa*
dead ami in that apparently resigned
and religious attitude had frozen to
death. Beside her was a young man,
who it np|x-arcd was the brother of the
lady ami commander of the brig. He,
too, was dead, but was sitting at the
tabl", and before him lay a sheet of
paper, upou which was written the fol
lowing words: "Our cook has endea
vor- d, since yesterday morning, to
to light a fire but in vain; ail is now
over."
At the other side of the cabin stood
Cfxik, with a flint and steel iu his hand,
frozen to a statue, in the vain endeav
or to procure that fire which alone
••ould save hirn and hi* companions
; from the cold arrus of death. Jfhe
-uperstitious-terrors of the seidnan
! now hurried the captain away from
the wreck, the log-book alone being
brought away; and from this it ap
[w arid that the ill-fated vessel belong
ed to the port of London, and had
sailed fur the Arctic regions more than
fourteen years before.
A Sad (*o.
ikih- a ntuTirct. WAStitaorox cm msr
HSR CHRISTMAS.
In Washington on Monday evening
a rather unusual arrest for drunken
ness was made by the officers of tho
Fifth precinct. A young and attrac
tive girl, about eighteen years of age,
dresses I in neat hut elegant style, was
found in the early hours of the evening
in the Smithsonian grounds,surround
ed by a gang of roughs. They bail
found her in the street* under the in
fluence of liquor, and had decoyed her
to a lonely s|ot to rob her ot the jew
elry which she wore in profusion, and
perhap* with other designs. They
were interrupted by the arrival of the
officers, and took to their becls. The
young lady was taken in charge aud
conveyed to the station. It was found
that she was no common character,
and her face, of more than ordinary
beauty, showed no traces of a fast life.
The handsome furlined circular which
she wore was stained with the mud of
the streets, where she bad fallen in
her staggering progress. A costly hat j
of the latest design was crushed and
battered almost beyond recognition.
Her dress, which was of a lovely
shade of empress cloth, and her well
selccted jewelry and the other details
of her toilet, evinced a refined and
well-bred taste. From what could be
gathered from her incoherent and dis
jointed talk it was evident that she
was a person of education and accus
tomed to good society. When she re
alizes! her situation bu6 began to cry J
bitterly and call for her mother. It
was ascertained that she had left her
home in the upper part of the city
(tho West End) early in the day to
make a call at the house of a friend.
While there she lunched and partook
rather freely of Christmas egg-nogg.
The liquor did not begin to have its
full effect until shestarted for her home
early in the evening. She staggered
along the streets, anil while in this
condition and almost unconscious she
fell into the hands of the rough*, with
the results above mentioned. HPS pa
rents in their elegant home were iguo
rant of the terrible fate which had be
fallen their loved daughter. This in
cident is a striking illustration of some
phases of social lite in the city.
Two LoTera Who Laagh.
*r OrlmaM la th IxmhralD* OMrtor Joaoutj'
The talk of the town is an elopement
that proved to be a "Comody of Er
rors.' A rich old Creole opposed the
marriage of his only daughter to a
poor artist. One evening there was a
carriage drawn cautiously up to the
corner of tho grand boulevard Es
planade. There was an air of mys
tery in its movements. The driver
looked around and then apparently,
from Borne signal, fixed hi* eye* at the
window of a mansion very Jittle di
taut from bin baiting place. A female
form cloaked and veiled, threw open
the casement, at the same bidding the
driver to advance, He did ao, and
when the carriage HUMK 1 immediately
at tbe door, beneath the lighted win
dow, a tall and handsome man jump
ed out ofthe vehicle and entered the
bouse. bhortlv after thin two cloaked
figure* passed hurriedly down the
steps of the principal entrant and has
tily entered the carriage, cloaed the
door, and requested the driver to
•peed like lightning." An old gen
tleman, the proprietor ofthe mansion
and the father of the artist's inamorata
wan a spectator of the whole affair
and gliding aoftly from a private door,
mounted the rumble of the carriage
and found himself whirled 011 the road
to Milnburg, the lake port ofthe Mo
bile packet.
The old fellow had caught them.
The lover* were in the carriage, hut
he was on the box. On rattled the
carriage to the steam bort landing.
Down jurnjK-d the father and opened
the door. What did he see? Could
it be! es, it was his own hostler and
his daughter's maid ! The affrighted
servants deaeended from tbe carriage,
and in an agony which was so exouis
itly comic that the disappointed pater
fainilias could not refrain from unit
ing, fell on their knees ami begged
forgiveuess. The prevailing mania
for elopement had seized them. Seeing
a carriage before the door, and being
utider orders from the millionaire to
watch tbe artist s movements, tbev
thought to thwart the elopement of their
mistress by using the artist's carriage
for their own. Meanwhile the artist
and the lady were being married ut
the house of a friend.
"HOME, SWEET HOME."— In the
spring of 1863 two great armies weio
encamped on either side of the llap
pahaoock river, one dressed in hJue
and the other in gray. As the twilight
fell, the bandson the Union side began
to play "The Ktar Spangled Manner"
and "Kally Bound the Flag," and that
challenge of music was taken up on
the other side, and they responded
with "The Bonnie Blue" Flag" and
"Away Down in Dixie," It was borne
in upon the soul of a single soldier in
one of these hands of music to begin
a sweeter and more tender air, and
slowly as he played it they joined in a
sort ol chorus of all the instruments
upon the Union side until finally a
great and mighty chorus swelled up
and down the army—"Home, Street
Home." When they had finished the re
was no challenge yonder, for every
hand upon thai further shore had taken
up the lovely air so attuned to all that
is holiest and dearest, and one great
chorus of the two great hosts weut up
to God ; ami when they had finished,
from the boys in gray came a chal
lenge, "Three cbeen for home!" and
as they went resounding through the
skies from both sides of the river,
"something upon the soldiers' cheeks
washed oft the stains of powder."—A*.
)*. Met hod i*l.
< M.l> IVERS.—Several YEAR* In-fore
the war a young man came to little
Ilock and fell desperately in love with
a young lady. The girl's parents were
rich. The young man wa poor. A
union wi impossible. The girl proved
and the young man implored, hut the
ruthless parents remained firm. The
young man went away. The war
came on. The parents of the girl died.
Her unele squandered the estate. The
other day the lover came hack nnd
inquired for the young lady. Age
and poverty had visited her." but she
hail remained true. They met nod
embraced. "You were away so verv
long." she said, leaning her tired head
on his shoulder. "But you won't
leave me again. Those who kept us
apart are sleeping now.'' "I will
never leave my brave darling. I have
been trying for years to see you." But
they didn't marry. The mau got her
to wash six shirts for him. ami ran
away without paying the bill.— Lilt!
Rock (iairiit.
WHY THE WIJ*TER WILL BEOPEX.
—The following from the Alleutown
fJirontWe settles the question as to tho
character of the approaching winter :
"John B. Oeehr, the veteran hank boss
of the !>>high Canal in this section,
feels satisfied that wc are to have an
open winter. The reason which the
Captain gircs for this assertion is that
the muskrats are building their winter
quarters abore water. In passing
along at Chain Dam and Hope's Lock,
the other day, the Captain observed a
dosen or more muskral huts built on
stumps lying in the Lehigh river, the
huts being above the water level. last
year not a muskrat hut was observed
in the Lehigh river and the winter
was a very severe one.
A beautiful thought in connection
with growing old was called out by a
discussion as to which is the happiest
season in human life. The derision
was left to an old man of 80. Point
ing to a neighboring grove be said:
\\ ben vernal aire call forth the first
birds and yonder trees are covered
with blossoms, I say bow beautiful
spring is; when summer clothes them
with rich foliage and the birds sing in
the branches, I sav how beautiful
summer is; when they are loaded with
fruit or bright with hues fo early frost
1 think how beautiful autum is; bat*
in serene winter, when there is neither
verdure nor fruit, I look through the
leafless boughs as I could never before,
and 1 see the stars shine."