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There Is a chord In hlemory's lyre,
Whom music thrilled my soul,
And wakes to Me a slumbering firs
That kindled 'dares control.
The spell - that rests upon nay heart
Is yielding to that chord,
And memories of the buried past
Are by_ Its breathings stirred.
Each face that I have mourned In tear?,
In fancy greets my sight,
And voices hushed for long, long year?,
Are eallingtme te-ulght.
Again I chup the clinging hands
. Whose pressure thrilled of yore, .
And feel the lingering touch of lips
That I shall kids no more.
My soul is tossed with wild unrest
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Upon a stormy sea,
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And memory, with its visions blest,
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Is all that's left to me.
Where waves Of sorrow surge and roll,
Without a depth or shore,
Wanders my weary, trultbled sou!
In darkness evermore.
Yet though my barque.ts on the sea,
With naught to guidi its way— •
Tho' billowr. dark rusfi!over me
With unrelenting sway—
The visions of those vanished years
That haunt my heart to-night,
May lift the veil of storm and tears,
• itud.lead me to the light.
aliAcilaitcong.
A TRUE STORY.
My cousin Benjamin Foster and I
sit together in the old-fashioned
perch of an old-fashioned country
house. Through the brightness of
the June twilight lingering round us
the early roses flume redly and 7 smell
sweetly. A full moon, bright and
saucy, mounts on her golden'steed
up the broad highway of Heaven,
while a few stars, twinkling merrily,
cantered behind her like a guard as
she goes.
My cousin Benjamin, wrapped in
hi's. purple silk dressing gown in •the
gray and rosy twilight, quotes pen
sive passages froni Wordsworth as
he lookS out upon the sylvan scene,
and' talks of evenings passed in wan
dering ,by silver Shannon and the
sounding. sea; of summer afternoons
dreamed away in the shadow of the,
cloud-kissing Appennines ; while I,
listening, draw my scarf about my
shoulders aad answer absently, keep
ing up an undertone of—
4 When the young May moon'• is
beaming, love," words redolent of
airs that have blown from the days
that are no more.
Now, after reading the.above para
graph over, I .take it all back. I
wrote it just fur fun. My cousin
Benjamin and 1 are no such senti
mental noodles. Ile wears, as he al
ways does in the evening, a cash
mere dressing gown of a great sprawl.
ing oriental pattern, and . one foot,
.wrapped in flannel, is extended on a
footstool before him, fur he had a
touch of unpoetical gout. As he lei
surely smokes his evening pipe, he
nurses his invalid foot ? anal tells me
that Jenny, the sorrel colt, has a
swelling on the knee which will most
likely unfit her for work through the
summer.
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I, who, am five years younger than
my cousin,. sitt, opposite *him' in the
covered porch with a thick gray
sliawP faled round ply shoulders to
ward otf possible attacks of rheuma
tism.
I am knitting socks of bright
crimson wool, awl while I give one
ear to -the ailments of Jenny, the
colt, with other I listen anxious-
for the footsteps of Alice and
young Benjamin,
who havezone, for
an evening stroll.
• It 'is now many years since my
cousin ; (by-the-by, although w•e
call ourselves cousins, the Foster
blood in my veins has been so diluted
with alien stock' that the original
Raid is hardly 'recognizable) opered
me the shelter of his great warm
heart and brOwn brick house, left va
cant by the death of Alfs.. Benjamin.
I, who was poor and homeless, gladly
accepted the home so kindly proffer
ed, and have never but once lett for a
)rotracted absence.
Three years after that I journeyed
hundreds of miles westward, for the
sole purpose of re - seuing from the
cold charity of the 4.lmshouse Alice
Ford, the infant daughter of John
Ford, o convieted felon, lying in a pri
son cell under the ban of penal serv
itude for life.
I. had been the betrothed Wife of
John Fordin my youth, and we had
ncel very fond of each other in those
days: of romance and roses, in those
everiings of, song and serAiment,
"when the young May moon is beam-
ing, dear," when we hail dreamed of
love in a cottage with nothing a year
to support it; but that .day when he
groveled at my feet, kissing my hands
and dress, and•btessing me for giving
this baby girl the blessing of a Chris-.
tian home, I was not sorry to think
I was an old maid. ;
I had not concealed from My cousin
Benjamin the antecedvits of Alice's
father,. I had even oileredto go out
into the world a'nd begin the battle
Of life over; but,he only opeoed . his
great NV, arm heart, and brown brick
house the wider, bidding us stay and
welcome. -
Ah! you do not, know how many
wanderers a house will. hold ,when
Charity opens the door. The roof
seems to go up and the walls td
widen and lengthen,
_warmth and
light flow thro! the moths, and manna
seems to come in through the win
dows, spreading the table with boun
tiful feasts. If you do' not believe
me, just you try it once.
. So the children ,grew up together
and as I watched them,sitting and
walking side by sitie, should be
perfectly happy but .that ,1 1 in my
turn, have kept a little secret from
,my cousin Llenjamin.
A few weeks after My return home
I read in the newspaper that the
corpse of a m'an, shockingly muti
lated, but. supposed to be that of
John Ford, the escaped convict. had
been taken from the shallows, of a
western riverand given prison burial.
,The words haunted-me. SuppoSed to
be John Ford , What if it were not
him 1 What if . he were, still, living,
and elm day should come back and.
claim Alice!
Thinking of such poSsibilities t I
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TOWANDA,
.BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MORNING, JUNE 2?. 1876
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other ( sweeter times when John Ford
was an innocent lad, "When the moon
was beAmina, love," avid ••he walked
•by the calro b ßencemere. But this is
nonsense, and I take it all baek'again.
While I am explaining these Minns
—or rather, while I am going round
on the crimson wool sack—cousin
Benjainin has finished ; his 'pipe, and
is &Diving tired and hungry. •
"Where can the childrek•bc ? " he
Say . s, peeping out into the dusk. "It
is trine we had our tea."
•I dO not answer, for just then we
hear the click of the garden gate, and
sweet Alice conies up the tvalL Her
pale gold hair shows bright yellow
in the open . air; her white dress
gleams, • and (her little high-heeled
boots iaake a pretty tack-tack, tack.
tack,,o she runs up and seats herself
at play at my feet. .
"Mercy, child, where have you
'been !" exclaimed I, passing my
hands over .her damp curls.. 4' You
will haire a cold,' with' fever to-mor
row, and there is not a stem of pen
nyroyal in the house to male hot tea
for y 04."
" It isn't a case of etennyroYal tea
at all, Caammy," she .answered, rub
bing her little nose against:my knee.
I think it . will require a dozen of
:thoroughwort, at the very least. Isn't
t.horough wort good for blightedhopes,
'mammy—with hot flannels and 'a
'gbod deal of petting ?"
This L i smart, speech trips glibly
li
forth, t under its swaggering brag
oadocia air, Love, whose name
should ' sometimes be Fine Ears, de
tects the sigh of a hidden pain, the
sob of a wounded heart, quivering
and skulking lest it be betrayed by a
quiver Of the fresh, sweet. voice.
- • "Where is Benjamin, my dear ? "
asks ray cousin. " I thought he went,
with yeti."
"lie walked into the village," re
plies my Alice. "I left, him at the
bridge and came back by the river
pat''. 1 . think lie will be here soon."
-There' is a moment's silence and
then. tho gate clicks again. This time
. _
they are man's steps that come up
the walk—quick, eager, heavy steps,
whose music, Fine Ears deqided, is
jangled l and out of tune.
Young* Benjamin's face is pale and
eager as he comes up and seats him--
Self by Alice's side.
" HaVe I kept you waiting?", he
asks. went into the Village and
Was detained a few minutes waiting
for a friend at the depot. Here are
the evening papers," and 'he lays a
package on his father's knee.
"TinMs, Tribune, Telegram," says
my cousin, sorting them over. "No
letters; I no letters," echoes young
Benjamin, loking down at hiii dusty
boots. Ben is six feet high, and
handsonie.
" We shall not have the trouble of
answering any, then," says his father,
cheerfully. " However, I thought
the Rochester company. would have
written about those trees before now.
Remind ine to send them •a line W
morrow.l , ow, let us have tea."
•
And "let us have peace," I supple
inent, inwardly=, for while we were
talking sWeet Alice had risen, and is
standing with her back to us, leaning
over the rail and looking into the
distant night.
When imy cousin Benjamin rises,
groping for his cane, she runs for
ward and slips her hand through his
arm, note waiting to fall behind' and
chat with young Benjamin, as is
ways her pretty habit..
My . consin does not see anything
out of the' way in this action . . de
stumbles on with my own brown=
eyed Alice; but I feel the shadow of
a cloud, and involuntarily turn to
look xa young Benjamin. his face is
serionS and set with a certain firm
!ness tliat draws a deep wrinkle across
his noble forehead.
He and Alice are to be married
this day fortnight, and I do not like
these symptoms of lover's pouts.
What if anything were to happen
at this late day, when everything is
in readineSs for the' edding!
- .Mycousin has made over his farm
young! Benjamin to manage, and
I propose to transfer to them a con
siderable property 'khich has been
Lein(' on interest for .years' in the
Bank of I uiversal Lore.
",Property I—what, have you got
property, mammy?" says my cousin,
when '1 spoke it.
,`.." AV, millions on millions I I tell
you irif confidence, my. dear friends--:-.
and you need not all get up and be
din to , Wl4per saying that I am not
.
sound on the money question—if you
once make friends with the directors
of this hank you can draw on it for
incredible ;sums, and its promises to
pay arc alWays good. Good Will is
the president,' Faith is the cashier,
andsTrtist is paying-UAler ; while of
messengers you can have your ehoiee
between Truth and Charity: One
thing, bewever: unless you approach
Him in the right spirit, your paper
will be accepted only at an immense
discount."
We were rather a silent party at
the supper table. The tea is as good .
as boiling water and pure Oolong
can make the bread is sweet and the
butter: unexcePtionable. But we
da7jlle,• and finally Alice, finishing
her cup, ays, " Good-night." She is
tired, and' goes to her room.
I -make little, uneasy remarks
about my garden, about the straw
berry and asparagus beds; vague
and senseless speeches, that waste
their sweetness ~on the silent air,
eliciting neither attention nor inter
est.
At last Young. Benjamin, drawing
back from!] the table and putting his
hands in his pockets began to whistle
" * ChaMpagne Charlie."
My 'cousin turned to him with . a
look of rebuke in his fine old eyes.
" Nhistling, sir, here ?'?• he says.
i - buie7 Benjamin flushes redly all
over his handsome face. • •
"'I beg lyour pardon,". he repheS,
getting DP out of his chair and com
ing uirclose "The t'net is,
have something disagreeable to say,
and I I haVe been hesitating how to
begin. lint I might as well tell you
now that 1 haie a journey to make.
I am goin g west to-morrow."
I (11.4 my tea-cup, and my cousin
filling bael: in his chair, sits heli#less
lq up into his - son's face.
fhen he recovers his presence of
mind. • I- ,
4 4 ,441110 Ig:it; 4 .IQurnt,r , n - lvf4o tty
REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY' QUARTER.
morrow he says. " I don't under 7
stand you. Perhaps you have for'',
gotten that y ou r were to have been,
married in a feiv ttys.?"
• "No, sir, I 'laic not forgotten it,
I have told Alice and asked her fb.
wait, and she is offended ; perhaps'
just as she ought to be. .She will not
be reasonable, but she must be Tea-, '
sonable. If she is to be my wife she
must trust me fully and unreserved--
"What is the cause of this sudden
journey, and how long are we to be
gone ?" asks my cousin, quietly. ,
"That, sir, I;cannot tell you," an
swered young Benjamin. "I have a
reason for going which I cannot at
present tell you ; only you may he
sure if it were not a serious one I
should not go now. I may he here
in time to be married on. the day ap
pointed. I hope I may; but if I'm
not, our wedding must be postponed.
It will not be but a tew more days at
the farthest."
" Well, Well !"
My'cousin is staggered; he is half
angry, half amused. Ant I can see
that, through it all, lie is proud of
his boy, proud of his firmness and
quiet decision. Once assured . that
nothing is amiss, lie will trust. him
under any. circumstances to do what
is -right and stick to his work.
Young Ben turned to me.
"Dear mammy," lie said, "won't '
you ',talk to. Alice? I must go to
morrow, cruel as it seems, and . she
will not. see me again, she
: will not
bid me good-bye. I suppose it is no
morethan natural that she should be
hurt at my going away now t but all I
have to say is she must trust me, and
believe me. when I say I am acting
under the spur of a great necessity."
So it is all settled. John, the head
man of all work, is told to be ready
to , accompany his young master to
the station at live in the morning; I
go up stairs to help the lad to pack
his port-mauteau.
lie, has rather a 'lonely leave-taking
in• the morning, for Alice did not ap
pear. She comes down late in the,'
forenoon with a sad swhite face. She
does not ask if Benjamin is,gone, but
I doubt not she was standing at her
window in the early morning, strain-*
ing her eyes!out into the dawning.
light, to catch a parting glimpse of
her lover before he was out of sight,
she believes, for the last time. Ikr
pOor. little .heart is torn with vague
fears, and my own heart grows sad
in watching her.
Now • follow some uncomfortable
dap; Kind-hearted people drop in
to talk over the wedding, for which
invitations have already been pro
fusely issued, and I am obliged to
explain• awkwardly that : Ben has
n'orie away, and it is uncertain when
he will be home-again. We are not
:sure whether the wedding will take
place on the day appointed or not.
Miss Prim calls and sits so long
and stares so stonily, looking about
her as if she expected our poor, lids,
erable little secret to jump out of a
corner like a .Jack-in-the-box, that I
feel like sticking pins and needles in
to her.
I begin to wonder, too, if anything
is Wrong in our house. It seems to
me that never so many people went
by before. Women in groups of twos
and threes, men with hands in their
pockets, and they all walk slowly
and look us over from roof to base
ment with lingering, eager eyes.
Once or twice I step Out and take
a surreptitious look at our brown
brick house, half expecting to see
some anathema written in flaming
letters'on the wall, or some strange
banner or beacon waving on the roof.
But no; everything is as usual
Without. It is only within that
things are changed.
The wedding cake which had been
ordered, comes beautifullY decorated,
from the confectioner's in the village,.
but Alice cannot bear to look at it.
'he misty white dress and Veil are
sent home fresh from the city, and
Alice puts them away without trying
them on, or so much as touching
them. ;
Thus the time goes by, and as no .
letter or tidings collie from the ab
sent :Benjamin, sweet Alice's 'face
growi paler, her eyes prouder-and ,
more helpless.
"He gill not come back ;
not mean to come back when he went
away !" she sobs.
And such is the contagion of de
spiring grief that I too begin to wav
er in my faith, though tny natural
good sense should have told me bet
ter.
My cousin Benjamin wears a stern
face, indicative of the displeasure'in
his heaft. • •
" The boy should have written us,"
he 'says; " he should remember not
to try our patience too far."
And he looks with tender eyes at
my Alice.
So the evening preceding the wed
ding day, that was to have: been,
comes rotut(L We are all in the par
lor, pretending that it is nut • quite
time to have our tea. We are not
exactly waiting—but hoping. .
Wheii John came in with the eve
ning papers, Alice looks tip froth her
low seat in the window, with' a half,
expectant face,lnit i mined lately drops
again, seeing there is no letter.
• Then, •as the darkness gathers, I,
rise to light the lamps, but before -I
have 'succeeded the door opens softly,
and without warning our 'wanderer
stands among us. Ben has come
home again.
Ile does not speah,but looks around
him. Then, as a little white figure
starts up out of the gloom, he runs
forward and catches it in his arms.
"Oh, Ben! Beni I am glad you
tbave come back. I thought you were
never coming back again. Oh, Ben I"
'And 'Alice's little head :goes down
on her brother's breast.
• He gave her :a gentle shake.
lint lie kisses her overand over.
He kisses me, too, when my turn
Conies to welcome him. And I am
not sure but he would salute his fa-
Aber, if there were not so many eye
witnesses' present.'"l As it .
,is, they
shake hands with an affectionate
4 How are you, dad ?" " Home again,
eh?" and gaze at each other benign
ly from their differeit'standpointa.
I made haste to get tea ready,
while my hands trembled with very
joy.
•1 1 4,P gis? VP(I r 145113 of 'thrJ POrtl!
Who have no speech of their deep
emotions! Who have to employ the
words of other and more fortunate
ones when they wish to express suit
ably their own overwhelming joys or
sorrows.
Thus 1, moving from the parlor to
the-kitchen, and from the kitchen to
the parlor - back again, and moved to
sing my song in such appropriate
terms as--
" Little : Betty Prindle had a little pig— •
It wasn't re little and It wasn't very big."
intersperse ' with variations of
:"When the young May moon is beam
love !" and " merrily the hours
,go by.", • ;
"While we are still- lingering round
the table, Jcihn comes in, and with a
face - indicative of awful and abject
'lme,. lays • a letter— Benjamin's
missing letter-by my pinte. .
"I)got it on Wednesday, ma'am,"
he sayp solemnly. "But comin' bac
found that cussed red steer broke.
;loose and a runnin' wild in the streets,
:and in a-chasing him I forgot it."
So the last cloud disappeared from
sweet Alice's face.
After we were left alone that night,
young
,- Ben tells his father and me
the object of his sudden journey.
First he hands us a letter to read
-4
letter closely written in fine char-
peters and signed "John Ford.",.
"I got it the -day before,' went
away," said young Benjamin. "I
suppose it:was meant for you father,
and. I opened it by mistake. I sus
pected something like this about
Alice, father, and' after thinking it
all over, I made up inY,, mind that for
her sake I ought to go and see what
sort of a inan and in what condition
he was. I found him lying at the
point of death in a little village in,
the southern part 'of Kansas.' He
seemed to be' very grateful that I
flame ,to him, and -lie asked atreat
Many questions about Alice and
about you, mammy. He died the
night I got there."
"Poor John ! 'come to life and dead
siaie ! Poor John !"
"He gave me this," said young
Benjamin, taking a small leather case
from his pocket. "He declared they
were diamonds, which- he had 'found
in the mountains in Mexico. He wore
them in a belt about his waist, and to
please him I promised to bring them
to Aliw, though I don't believe they
are woctli anything. Crystals, most
likely."
"Poor John ! Was he comfortable?
you get him everything he need
,•
ed ? Aii !he used to be such a bright
fellow—a favorite with all the girls.
Was he changed much ?"
!:"1: got him every thing he needed, -
bin he was too far gone to want much.
lie was changed, I should think, a
good deal. Had he lived I should
have given him money to go to Aus
tralia.- I had three thousand dollars
Mother, left me, You know. But as
it was, I invested in land in Minne-
SOLI. Splendid lots—right •in the
Centre of a thriving village. They
Will double their value every year I
"Well, well; specUlating in land,
hey ?" says my cousin, amazedly.
"Qo to bed, young man. You arc
ahead of my time altogetiler„,7
But I can sec how proud is of
Ben.
"1 thought you and Alice were
contented to stay here with mammy
aiid me in our old age," he continued,
half pathetically. "But going i west
That is too far. I was just making
the farm over to you pa inanacre in
ypur own , way." '
i : "011, I will take the farm too,"
says young Ben, cheeiffully. "Alice
and I shall always
. be with you and
mammy. I only bought ,the land in
Minnesota for a sort of playground,
ip case we got too big for this coun
tr..."
And rising he stretched himslf to
the full height of his splendid six
"Go to bed—go to bed you young
speculator!" is my cousin's • answer.
Then as the boy lights WS candle,
"Mammy," cries out cousin Benja
min, "isn't this the first time you-ever
heard of a bridegroom making his
Wedding journey beforehand all alone
and coming back just in-time to be
married ?"
"The very first time,". I answer,
sweetly. "Coining back by way of
Niagara, too." (lie told us that at
die table.)
I'.Ah! what a fall is there, my coun
trymen!" says young Benjamin, ora
torically, as he disappears up. the
Stairs.
•• , And my cousin and I arc left alone
gniin doubtful if we were most sorry
•
or most glad.
So We have our wedding. after all,
and.there is- happinc3s and dancing,
andteasting, and merrily the' orld
°lies round-. For 'it is true that hive
mores it and makes' it whirl so
Sinbothly.
I'. S.—lt chanced that a few weeks
after the wedd:ng, as I was going to
th'e city, I bethought me to take the
ho of poor John's crystals to ,Jac
guard the great jeweler. Ile told me
that there- were, some pure diamonds
the rough" among them. Young.
Ben went down to see about it, and
daMe home with a check of fifty
thOusand dollars in his pocket. '
denbt if he got . ,
the real value of
them, ludas he and Alice,are satis
-114 I
SIIITOSC I ,bught to be.
Y. p. S.-I have just discovered, at
thiS late hour, that my story has no
10901,' and hardly any 'point. , Must
every story have it moral in order to
.tie !entertaining? There is not .so
much as a shadow of one in mine,
unless, indeed,: there can be perceived
in It a cloudy indication of warning
yeting men tovezereise their own will
before marriage as well- us . after ; in
which case the bride will .not be too
IEOO disappinntcd honey
moonwhen
_Piee
has lost its sweetntiss. How
eVer, my coil* haVe lived happily
fOrCver after, which is a good point
ghined, - ieveii if it is not a'. moral.—
lifOo Ntren.—dAin't forty dollars
rattier high for lodging and break
fast - t" was what a flepartingstninger
by the stage infinite(' of the clerk at
one;of the San Antonio (Cal.) hotels,
on being told that was the amount
Obis hill. "Yes, it is a little high,
might as'ltell have it, as the
stall' robbers," tray the placid an;
.4.4 41 lip roopto. alto
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The lisger'of the Crap-Soaks Opening the Campaign
—A Pew . Words of Admonition to his Party
Prletis—The Rallying Cry of the Democracy,
" Rife - ix:ma Purity InOfticial Positfon."
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Vi, '; ' •
CONE.F.DRIT x R O A DS, ICIT • IS I. l :*f
THE STATE ITV lICE:iTUCKY ' May 17,
.. Another campaign is well nigh on
to.ut, oid I feel the! blood a Win in
my Vanes; Like the war-boss turned
Out tit irass--wich litterall I hey bin
ever since the busti ov the Onlimi-.
Led it and Confidence . Company
—I h i the blare lof the trumpet,.
and I prick up my ears and tale, and
Cry ha! ha! to the carnage. I smell
the smolte of the conflict, and
. 1' smell
likewise', the plunder underneath the
Smoke. - 11 . , I see in the distance, suc
gess, ' PAnt-Oftis I . Post-Offis ! • Post:-
OHIO Deceitful words! Wat. Dem
ocrat . IS ther that woodent get en.:
thodsiastic over._ that prospeck 1 I
shall'gointo:this r catnpanc with my,
sleeves foiled up. 1
. i This ie our lastchtince for a coni
pieta sueeess. I Success' is wat we
Must het, and that we may attain.
that success Ishull
i brow out a few
,horde or ailmOniShun, wich will he
apples uV gold sot in pictures of silj
ver. We hey bin , pal3trin - on barrin
feelds to long, and the fat, bOttoms
uv offislil patrinage kin
_only come
into our hands by acnote.aid skillful
managentent,.', . I .
But there is, difficUlties in the way,
no "natter whet. We turn. Dimocroi
sy tia carious combinashun—a • cu-
rious and singular mixter. In • the
East to lie a Democrat is to be a hard
Money man, uv the lardest possible
stripe—in the West o hp a t Demo
erat is tube a; soft money man . ; uv
the softest pogssible stripe. Tilden,
ny Noo York, who 'would like to
carry the Deniocratie banner to Vic
tory pro Poses to put onto its fold
"hard mOney.” Allen, uv Ohio, who
was resiirected from his twenty
years' sleep, on purpus to embarrass
the party, prOposes to put-on the
banner, ef it is; given to . - him, "soft
money, and no; end on't.". Ef we Put
up Tildert and hard money. 'Allen
and soft Money kills him—ef we put'
up Allen and soft mo v liey Tilden and
his friend liey!the S - eetest kind uv
a knife TOr his i . innoe;:nt throte, and
when we 'Come! to tariff and banks
tiler is aliTiekally onreconcilable dif
.
ferens tivrppinyun.
To reconcile', thest dilferenceS - is
inipossible.' There ai• tno yo6sein
tryin it, and 1 dint, aoin.- to. Dod
gin is now, ez ever, he ' Democrats
t
best holt4 The, man' wich can lift
juSt 200 liounds shows .mitylittle
diecresbuti. We must hey- nuthinto
do' with the questionsi on 'wich any
body dilliirs. Ignorirk is wisdom..
'Thu; aitit only one shoo on with
the Demdprasykin plant itself, with,
any hope; nv ; success—,only one
question On wich theriCan be perfect
yo9naniniltyittid that ishoo is Re
form ! an that we arc a yooriiton
that we kin wiTee e' sweetly -as a
spring mcaining. ,
It is not on nciy ju i dgment al9ne
that I depend onto this matter. ' 1
hey consulticl all the tleeders 1.117 the
party onto it—that is'all the actooal
leeders,them aiactilly l ontrol things.
I *rite td-thattid
'eless patriot, Will
, p ,
ymn Tweed, Esq., who. l is' now a pi
ning on a) - orria shoar in consekenee
lira corrnpt jobry, widh inquired az
tolwliat he lied 'done with ten milluns
uv; the pliblic inunney, i i and, was not
content td -- ::take his wed fur it that
he bed spent it legally.l His answer
wuz so strikiner: in accordance with
„ striking:
my noseuns uv things that I give"the
heart fly it . ; 1
"By all; means go [into the - next
canvass on the 'shoo int reform. The
corrupshelis uvi the present' Admin
istrashen,*nd I may say
. uythe Re
publikan party in general, is such az
to appal the heart uv any Inver uv
his! count*. In my lonely eggsile I
frequently shed teers wen I think uv
the stealia that's goinnin. .
:-.
kLet our watehwori be Reform
and Pullin otlicial Posishun.. •Et
my lawyet kin get them indictments
agin tIIIC squashed in tine, I will kum'
lionie and help jin cam Pane. I kin
git 'control, uv over two hundred sa
loons in the lower wards uv the City,
and ef I klngit back I ikin: organize
my , old fdrse, rind restore Taniany
to its old Imislien, ez he controler
uv the DeinocraSy.. The trick uv re
peatin hez not bin forgbtten,' and L
kin liandlit then ;fellers kii . well ez ev
er I, goo Reform and purity ez my
watehword."
Peter II Sweeny who '
ris, livin rather quiet thi
wuz. still More eippliatic
but I willFgive his own 1
"ileforin is wat We !want. ftani
tired uv [vin abroad, land I. wasn't
to git back to :".;Loo York. I want a
hand in tiie conlin • campane, for f
hey just ez much. powei-lez ever,. ef 1
kin Only, it the cussid repirblikins
out in , the way. The repeeters aunt
dead yit, and ez ship loads :ily patrl
otie.lrishinen, who are willin to -take
oilis i ez soon ez the land, ate a comill,
every day-1 I kenbelp to govern .Ntio
York ez Well es ever t I did, But wat
yoo want to do is to make this fits on
ref Orin and purity. Do - this and ;tit
me and TWeed back, (and ! we. -wilt
make things huni. There is . Noo York
and its U.*. levie4. for the victors,nd
ef the curtency, - tariff, and all them
minor questions; are , squelched, and
the battlelis fought on, ',the simple
question . uv reform and personal pu
rity in oillslielposislien' we kin. win
it. .Reform is our 'watchword, and
that is wat I insist apoit....il . iim ab
sent but riot forgtitten ' i
Connolly, who i
is residin n' Belgi
um, wherd there :, is no .extradition
treaty, and . conSekently Where fthe
United States fortunately , 'cant reech
him wich makes him entirely inde
pendent UV the country, wich he hez
adoptid, Writ me;a letter in wick lie
giyes me his views a's.' to-the situa
shen, wieij ez - as follows: ,
"I hey-Only win interest in the
cnsooin . eleeslinii—only • wi1n....,.. A
lonely eggsile , on a forrin shoar, I
cast My eyes>,longingly . 0 my native
land, and;' yearn I fur it. Sense me
and the rest 'uv. old Tammany left
A meriky I hey observed with more
disgust than.] kin put langnage into
the eoriliPsliens that hey -eaten out
the • hart `uv the country "iv, -my
adopshini; 1 will' take' luild uv .it. in
4.‘arlicht rind rurorm i,L, IVIII4 ,we.
iv - atit hi piii•itx, . i)loi l l t,, p4i)eia.
ii ~N
a Y.il
.
in Pa
lm otherwise,
r 11p
SCVb—
••ords:
$2 per Annum in Advance.
stances—wick the same is indict,
mentl can't back persnellY
to assist iu the Shindy, but I !pledge
to yoo the use uv my old acid stanch
repeaters, , in the lower ward's uy . Noo
York, with, oftlau kan depend onto
hevin their e:Epes paid rand their
whack' in the (Wises ' anti;. in contras ;
after the elecshuns,'kin be 'de fended',
on todo the work fist ez, good ez ev-,,
er they did. :Let, the platfOrm be
heavy and solid fur purity and re-1
I
form."
Oakley Hall, wants reform and apu
rity, and in such a coz he is willin to
give a forth uv the forchOon he made
when he wuz the astoote !rite !bower
of Tweed. .
I her peered, from-them all. The,
Democrasy of the ,Sixth .Ward, fly
Noo York, wher I ivunst kept a lit
tle gtosery, are, to a l man foe reform.
Pendleton wants •reform, andlevery
'Man with was turned otM nf oftis
when Johnson Went,out c amor
in for it.
• - -The Southren Democias ] y liwants
reform. They'say in-their letters to
me,
‘ "Give us a Reform pla4form,
and we'll put away our' shotguns
and keep our hands
.off the;'. niggers
till after the elecshun suFe. Iwon't
insist on Our rites to kilt nigg9s,and
keep them from, :heVin anyphiug •to
do with,matters,' until the . eleeshun
Of-a.fiethocratic President glveil us .a
rite to do as we please." raw-
Stant remark is, "Go in hett*y
form, and make that the
: one',
The douty uv'the party is
Give us a platform` based `;eni
'ipon Reform. i)Ve kin carry
.
pi a great many years sense < w wuz
In
. power, and by thiS time the peo
ple' have forgotten ;us. and ; . they - will
take us easy. If weAo this, i e kin
succeed beyond a question. The
Millineum aint Cum yit, nor he• ther
bin any especial change in, tl ings.
We hey the Doggeries, the .Catholic
Church, anirall the lower eicrilenis.
They are alluz ours, and 114 :ire as
strong ez ever. Until,sint dies, out
Of the world there will be a Demo
cratic party. humanity in the I.7nri
ted States is divided-into two clases
-them ez wear clean shirts and sox,
ml Democrats. . And so long (4 this
vision is observed Ice are soui.id
.J
it is a good time for us. I...very
tiling is in our favor. h L e in
cold spring—the fanners are all he-
hind with„their Work Tiler I ,hez bin
frosts in places, wichl:hcz de'str i oyed
the froot, and ther joyful Pros
peek uv a short crop uv everything.
The people is dissatisfied, about it,
and uv course they . will charge every
thing .to the 4dministrashtnil
failyoortiv the potatq crop iq IN:ortil
tlipusapds of votes tOhe Detnocirasy
any time. It is' only when r th l mgs
iS.just as bad ez they can ibelthat
anybody ever thinks nv to the
licruocrasy for a'change.
Wat we want is a good mbuth-111-
lin platform—a platfOrm wicli lOoks.
well, and the people Will be, 411,4fied
with: Troo, wat is promised !furry'
elecshuns and wat happenS aiter
wards is 2 things, but let to-inorro*
take care, uv itself. Wat we Want
now is success.
• P
ETROLUN, Y. NikSBY.
(\Y id! boi)es to be 'ostarta..terl)
THE following, historical anecdote•
may not prove. uninteresting; at the
present time, When we haVejust re
ceived a visit from the. Emperor of
Brazil, and it may account for the
interest he takes in Jewish affairs':
It is well knoWn that the JewS of
Spain and Portugal were ai highly
intelligent race, and that they rpse
to g reat honors in the PeninsUla;
both under Christian and Mohamne
clan rulers, but after ; the tinid ovier
throw of Calips, the. ,Catholi4 smfer
eigns, no longer requiring • Jevr l isli
assistance,relentlessly persectited the
Hebrews, and eventually eivpeled
them. During these perseeutrons
Many Israelites left ,or pretended] to
leave the religion of their fathers,
and Were known as " New Chriitians."
These New ChriStians married fre i e . ly
with the highest nobility, arfi'to-day
there are but few Spanish or iPoitu
guese families in the highest ciAles but
What have a mixturepfJewislijblod.
A. certain king of - Portugal bei4oming
alarmed at the power wieldediby in
diVOtials of Jewish descent; issued a
decree that every person with Jewish
blOCid in his or her veins should ap-.
per at court distinguished by ri wOe
badge, the King hoping by this edict
to.banish all such persOns from his
court, as he believed no one iwould
be willing to acknowledge his Jewish.
blood. On the 'clay !mined he vas
surprised to see more than Ithree:
fourths of his court wearing- tlhe
white badge, 'and he was astounded
'why . n Abe Prime Minister entered,
himself wearing in a conspictiOus
manner the same emblem: Ile asked
.hiM furiously what his bushresdi was ?
His answer was: I have conic to
carry'. out your . _ Majesty's Orders.
Here arc tiw.`b badges - (itt the
same time producing ; theM); imes is'
fbr her Royal Majes - ty,_ your-: ugnst
sponse." " And for whom the
other ?" thundered the Kin , *.i The
•
reply was: "For your !loyal Majf>ty !"
It is needless 'to say that thci edict
was immediately recalled. If this
anecdote be true—and there lis no
reason to doubt Enipvi-or of
Brazil, who is a lineal descendent
and true representative of the Fings
of - Portugal, must have a large
tiry of Jewish blood In his velo. - I
THE carpenter may biok withipride
upon the technology of his trade, for
it is used everywhere, To say noth
ing of old saws, we have heard of a
ease where a lawyer split' al hair,
shaved a note, got tip a case,(made
an- entry, framed an indietmentithal
lenged the jury panel; pfit twelve of
them, hi a box, bailed a witness; ham
mered the judge -and bored the whole
court. And what ad4e to his offence
he chiseled his client nid,turned
miter him Self.
=CEO=
.I'r.ot•LF. are always talking
.severence, aryl courage, and iUrtitti
but patience is the linest and wor
.est . part of fortitude, :aid the rart
too. I have known twenty perso l •
in girl' to one patient one, but
imly the twenty-tirSt Who can do
work, out : un out..: :W , l enjoy it.
lotience Ito. at the 14ut of alr
wszit Or
I The first) chapter nil Kings shoull 1
carefully read as anl hatrOduction to Jr
i - i
esson. . Wet see there how every obst.tel
ti the accea.4ion of Solomop was takilnl°l?
of the way! David bait grdwn 'old; helix
reached that stage oftlife When the grpi
hipper isa i burden. - ll - is 'vital forceva
f l i.
shout exhausted;' "lr gat no heat." , C
-rnoniShed that hiS end was near,'and .e .
iug the utter unytll4leness of subjer
fidelity, 11eAeterinit0 toci secure the Id(
minion of goleinon beyond reversion,b
the solemn ratiflcatiOn era public ass o
1
bly of the people. It will iin - wellto :.1
in this connection the twoo groups .
6 •
P9alms whieh blently Were comp°.
during this Season of intlrruitY and deeli .
vi 4•9 .Ps; - 38-11 and hi., 09;71.,
Two points are worthy of consideratl i
in this lemon: I. ThCAssnmhl, ul
MIMI
I
NUMBER 1.
_in:. ,
i
David's Address. i , .
. 1. „The Assembly,. Ir. 1.1 Consider
..
diet time. It is certain! that 'the . ass=
' . ;
must have , convened SOrtie - time after i tt
~1 1 •
anointing of Solomon as recorded in l
Kings I eh, ' David had, solfar 'recoverd
froin from the severe indispoSition tit+
spoken of, as', - tck be able' to endure . the fii
,,, I .• t
tigne ora day's sitting i'aud a lengthy ad
dreSs in the Vonventioiii. But we sea `Ti',
11
in vain for any definiteinoto of time. 1. '
• 'Consider (2) the PlaCe ofl Meeting. •It
1
wa,S in.ziertOlemi l iand nol,doubt in tie •
1, • •
opeh air. Xo..hiclosedlrooM, would ha,j..e
been spaciouti 'enough, for the accomm -
dation of so large an assembly. . k •'..
COnsider (3) the Persons . %%enabled.
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They were-men of high Posipon and inil4-
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ence, and, therefore, the a
ropresentativ •
of the people;' It was a national pon
.
es
I :male up of the eminent men of the n*
t
;tion. t They were theprinceslof Israel, i.e.
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of its tribes (eh. 27:102), and 'the call- .
tain,i of the eettirpanies 'ili4t ininistexed t -
the icing by coarse, and the 'e.aiitains ovc
t 1
he thousands, and the , Captains over tit
liundreds (cli.l 27:1-15), I d.lt anhe steward
overiall the substance and possession or.
the king and of his soils ,(dh.....'27:25-31),
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With the ofheers, and i 'llvitili the might
Men; and with alithevqant!men (ch. 11.
10-47). ' ---, / t
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Consider (4) , the' Deefgn of the asseni
hiy. 1 This Was two-fold. First, it w,
, •
ilesigned to he a - farewell 'meeting; it
Which the -aged king; knight. solemnl ,
. ,
charge the representathres in, the peopl'
for the last,ltime (cor4p. Deut. 31 : 28 •
; ~.., ;
Joslii.23: 2, arid z 4. 1). I Se c hud, it was
ilesigned as 4 public recognition and ae•
Ceptinicer=of Solonion asthe ri4Oillted Kio •
Of I4ael. ' Me, COilStitl4ool/ . Or the King
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dour pf Israel required not only that tl
Monarch should be designated by Jehoval
__ 'ft
and anointed by the priest, . but also tha 1
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he should be, publicly' accepted by tin
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ttribe,, or their properly' autherized repre l .
,z, ~.
sent4tives.- This was clue hoth in dal
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case of Saul and .it,' David. •.Solonion hail
already been hailed . 4 Klieg by thelpeopl
••••
of Jerusalem, but talw he islto be recog
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razed in this i eliaractei 4 IV the whole na
tion. .1 ir „l ' . •
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11. i David's'. Address i d vs..:-10. Its
stood upon liis feet to address the people.
Hither h, he liad probably been sitting on
his throne, riot lying up.* his! bed, as the
,JewiS t li interpreters inferlfiom l I Kings, I.
Iris address :is twofold I 1
,(I) An address
! , 1 II ,
to the people ;'I *
vs: 2-8. 1 His tone is hum
the and affectionate. lib calisi'them his
brethren and' his people,! }not his servants.
i 7: I / •
'Humbled by the.past he Louts On no airs or .
authority; his only di , iiity 'iisithat of the
Lords . es. 1 .
anointed. • Personall -, ihe is one of
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themir-no *ter, no gretter.l •"' Blessed
•, , , (••
i t
are the pooe in sptrit, . 1 1 Ito then pro
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et!cds, to •mtfitlil to them the cherished pur
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poso of his heart , to builci l a teinple for the
LOrd,i together with tlfalnesSa . g-e . he had
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received frontiNatliam in regaill to it. "A
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house of resthi after the long l wanderings •
of tint Ark. 11t is here called ;"the ark of
the covenant", because; it contained the
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two table,s_of the law,, , Which were., the
hasis of God'S'epvenant faith Israel. He
, 1 • ,
also ,ills it '`the footstool df ,our God ;"
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Probably because the slick4l4—tho glory ;
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of the Lord—‘rested upo n AS top. His
Preparations Ilk the erection of the temple
1 •
are recorded in this same chapter: vs. 11 , 1t1.
. •
The reason Why David ' l was not -permit
ted tq build the temple is' l aendrally raisin
"'
terpreted. It was not treatise he , was a :
murderer and s . personally unworthy of so ;
holy a service: for DavidLstood in a closer
relatien to the Lord than Solomon did,
and the wars Which lie Waged were the
wars lif the Lord . (i.Sarn/ r 25; 28) for the
maintenance and defencelof •the kingdom
of GO& But ag,these-wars Were necessa
ry and inevitable, they were practical '
proofs that Dafid's kingdom and.govern- • '
Mentiwere not' et established; and there-
fore that the tinie for the; building of the ,
temple had nit yet come, and the rest of
Peace been secured..' The temple, as the •
symbtdical representation of the Kingdom
of God, was also to correspond to the na
ture Of the Kiegdom,
.and shadow forth
the peace of the Kin . gdoirn of God. For
this reason, David,' the man of war, was
not to build the temple ; but .ti.t was to
be reserved for Solomon, the man of peace'
tire tip° of the Prince of Feate (Isa. 9:6): '
But though not permitted 'o build the
temple of the:' Lord, G had 'provided
that Solomon-1-his son land;
ndlsucce4sor—
should achieve thisdesireilconsurnoilitiorr.
As God had chosen hiirr'by - sovereign se
lection out of the tribe ef.Juidah and his
father's 'liaise, 'go had he chosen Solo Mon
from his own, household. This 'di - vine •
ohoice had been made known and wit
nessed to by the . prophet ;;'atban, and ,
the priest •Zatltik. This put Solomon's
right to reign heyond question:; And he-
sides choosing him for Dlivid's Successor,
1,;od hail revealed to 1.111-aged. King that
Solomon should 1 aCCOM plisit the work •he
had so deeply in his heart. He hail adopt
ed hint in a special sense as Ids son, anti .
proinised to be a father to him. And in
these words, the, typical Chameter;of Sol
omon stands forth , . As' the Son of God,
he is a type of God's greater son—the
Messiah: !pence the transithin from Sol
'onion to Christ in verse l i lf ."Moreover - 11
will establish hillkingdo 1 forever." The •
kingdom was • ciattinuctilto Solomon dur
ing
his entire lite, and thos sp.bolized the
etailly:s reign of the 111essiall. But to Si-'
Sol
onion the promise is conditio al : "if lio •
he constant to do my conimandments and
lodgments, as' ;it this
..day."-, But this
~ beilienci..! on th e part or Solomon canna
be complete dna 41erfect without a corms ;
',eliding obedience tin the pal of the peo
ple. Hence hisJ exhortation ;in verse 8.
Without such they could not be
happy and have - the peakeable possession •
of the good land theMselVesand preserve •
the entail of -it in their bliildren.. • ' •
' (2). His address ends !With lati exhorta
tion to Solomon;• vs. 9-101'. Solomon prob
ably ' stood by his side as he sixike.
••,` Know thou the God of thy fathers; 't
i. e., 'acknowledge; and love . Jehovah.
"And servo him with a perfect heart and'
with? a willing . Mind; " If. e.,lshovi your
love 'by eutire . and willing ohedience to
God, not to gai- the good opinions of men
but the divine favor. And he enforces!
;his "exhortation with tWo reasons: first,'
the Lord searcheth all-hearts;" 1. 4, 11
cannot be deceived with esternal services, -
but demands sincerity arid - holiness, Sec-:
end, "if thoti Seek liiimile Will:be fount •
of thee ;" i. e., Cod blessi - a4, those ono
who serve him in love! mull truth. 11
closes with
.a word of i.ttutitm: "Tak
heed' now." Such a;poSithat'and respoo-1
. ,O.ilit,V called lire great cireninspection OW
the hart or so- yetig, a man'. God had
laid upon him the greatlionor of rearing
his temple; hence he shimld be strong ',lll
l ' rectitude of purpoSe and purity of Iteail
1 ;old do it,talthetilly. It is not - improbald, ,
1 that after the assemblY Lad iligpers. ,
David retired, to his chainber and Voi , ii
posed the illtal Psalm, Fivltielti - grow ii ir .
old tit the cikeiltipitail - y - ksijc 104 isttl) ) nwct•pi'
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