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TIt;: fir_ tlanies L•apcd about the logs,
as la the day. , of old;
the siietit rtiolll they play,,^cl,
bi elespier work of Rhein' anil
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The portraits front the scalliiloobisf
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The tale the taught them told.
'l"be ;Iry 11.unes leapt about the hearth;
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.t,ay salting Cro her wakentog touch; ".
lier o t n or ~;ster flowers drooped
IV.bere the great el ini,rkne.tl rarUdua looped;
Ano, I,c folr r.nnir tier favorite book
1i- 1:13Ce., r...a.ling for tier, took
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p;tt rncs t: a=d about .0w hearth ;
!.en-e.d eranethltlg g , 410 .
Stang heavy 013 th , bSlll.lllll;: . enr,
1 at .I ,, ed her loyous voice to hear ;
Th • e,•;:0....50f the silent boast.,
.14ai.1 tut her Vying foot to rouse,
lt eett nt glidsts her brightnesA
It; the dolt s , illa.—siv , .ke and strayed.
Aad vialqrd won.
TLa ltro tuul paled and died;
A.i la :1,. , ttotl , git.ona
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ot.lit 1• art < of pul , iio enterprise.
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ingio: !he Weather god's malevolent,
intention 4. Loud and prolonged•ac
einimltiont; tel the king and I
the different members
of the fainiiv,” the brilliant
, :avale:ide appeared and took pus
;--essit,o of the heautifid pavilion pre
pled for them. A hush of expect-,
:icy ensiles: 'N a he
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with ft tics that •wn
ejJ iii.: ncit inivt) Colt limleast aims prige
hort , .o-and rider Flirting cPC.Ilti their
petiet : and a voice like Len-
Ore's knight had been heard to say,
"'hie dead ride quick, the dead ride
quick."
Fortunately for the crowd this d'd
not occur ; theworst that followed
being the. fore-mentioned drenching.,
The prilKirations which procede these
Vc•:ks , fe,-tS ;ire tnoi4, laborious and
Vast, triumphal arches
wonderful and c oriiius specimens of
vegetable architecture, are erected
with a skill worthy of' a Christopher
Wren. Upon a sentfolding, of Wood
a around-work of 6 - er. - r.,reeteis fasten
ed by the aid of hemmer, tacks and
cord, which looks AS smooth as a
shaven lawn. I nin . uihe the labor . of
cori-in :in 'arch over twenty feet
high in this way, and then dee !rating
with scrolls : columns and figures of
every imagionbla device formed of
miniature I ri - rnip-:, carrots, squashes,
apples, onions, etc„ eaeli held to its
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sparate place as firmly as 'B,isera's
head and by the sameprocess. Where
else would the products of an humble
kitchen garden be put to such artiscie
use? And who but these patient
Germans wound do it? No sooner is
the Fest over than this labor of weeks
is ruthlessly demolished.
The amusements of the Volksfest
:A unrivalled, in variety. A live
American circus graced this one;
perhaps I should' say. disgraced it.
For competition between .it and the,
entertainments "to the manner
burn,'? rose to such a pitch that, the
law interfered to crose ft until, by an
appeal to the American Conant, this
unwelcome restriction was -removed.
Punch and .ludY are to be seen' here
by the score; jugglers out juggliiig
Senor Blitz; great whirli g igs filled
with delighted children, booths, and
stalls where anything can be bOught
from-a tooth-pick to-a dressing gown:
And above all, and through all and
in all, mud, allele , deep, and noises
suggesting pandemonium let loose.
The:distinctive dress, worn by the'
genuine "German peasant, quite cap
tivated us. The accumulated isaVingi
of years are often represented in the
solid-silver buttons with which coat
and vest arc ornamented. The fash
ion of these garments, together with
the buckskin pants and- broad-brim
med hat that complete the costume,
never varieth:' They often 'descend
as a precious heir-loom from father
to, son.
The prize animals exhibited on the
first day, anil whicilf are a sort of
prelude to the races, are, perhaps,
the most lively objects of interest In .
the eonAolidated whole that goes 'to
make up a Volkfcst. Unless we ex
cept the jockeys in their scarlet yel
low and blue silk blouses.'
• How suggestive to the diselpleS of
Pythagoras would such a jrocession
of prize animals have been ; present
tO than such choice specimens
(the best of their .kind). froin the
Soul's future occupancy! . But I should
real!}` protest against having mine
gOvel fdr any length Of time in the
carcass of yonder huge swine! Be
-11,,h1 with what conscious' procine
-pride -he invites the public gaze to
Hs first floral wreaths, on ornament,
methinks; as ill bestowed -as the
pearls disapproved of in holy Writ.
The stately bullock which follovi.s,
tossing its horns so proudly, as
though to say," look aymy wreaths,"
iS a far. More sightl_s ti object.- Its
cousin, the cow,. appears in - no wise
elated by her promotion. 'Slowly
and separately she paces along, all un ,
conseions of her hollyhocked and
dahliacil necklace, chewing as ever
the cod of solemn reflection. What
more decordus receptacle, 0 Pytha
goras, can you suggest than this?
Among the members of- the royal
family wkom we that day so enrious
ly scanned, one face especially inter
ested us, that of the Herzog Eugen
of Wirttetnber7, after Prinz Willi - elm
heir "presumptive to the throne: • Ile
hail marrgid the*Princess Vera, niece
and adopted daughterof Queen'Olgo.
y o un g popular, and beloved-,' life, }}we
thought, must have especial chafma
fir him. Not long since, he was call
ed away from Stuttgart to take
charge . of a Dusseldorf
. regiment.
But in the midst of the festivities
which greeted his arrival, appeared a
Mightier than he, and without warn
ing or time for leave-taking, he was
snatched from his loving wife and
from the people who idolized him.
A sudden -cold, a congestive chill,
and all was over. -The telegram
,hich bore the sad tiding.; tia Stutt
gart, brought 4 , ricf and mourning to
many hearts, from r whom' the strang
ers who " intertneddled not" felt at
least - unfeigned sympathy.
"": A fter the appropriate honors had
been paid at. Dusseldorf,. the lifeless
remains were brought back to Stint
gart;aml conveyed by night, attend
ed with all the pomp and circum
stances befitting so high a- railk to
the A ite Schloss, to -rest beside ilia
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AFRICA• '.
To know that a vast continent ex
isted. stretaing from the Mediterra
nean to thetSouthern ocean; or even
that it contained some 180,000.000
of a lilael: race seattered over its sur
face, divided by great deserts, rivers,
lakes 'Anil primeval forests, would
not be an adequate motive for stren
(tits exertions . and great sacrifices.
But if this country. with its teeming
population of minions, were known
to be' the scenes or wrongs which
were an outrage to humanity,and for
which, in part at leasL,christian na
tions and the whole civilized wor 1
were inure or less directly respon i
lae. adesire to remedy the evil would
:I:aut.:lly arise. If, i,t addition, it
were known that the greatest propor
tion of these millions of the human
race were steeped in barbarism, and
given over Lo the most hideous idola•-
try, cannibalism and devil worship,
in furtherance of which human vie-
I thus were annualy and daily saerific
led by thousands—are there any
Christians who would not at some
time of-their lives • feel that a, duty
was laid' upon - them, by the, simple
knowledge of the fact:to take some
_steps. for the redemtion of a. whole
race from such heathenish and revolt
ing cruelty by the influences 0 . ,f civil
ization anti religion ? The missionary
1 feels this, and so devotes life and en,
I er# to that ern], Tile inimanitnrian
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1 i , hvoplat vtiq 6of the Moat hike.
him -
warm tetripet ment 4 . contributes his
mtmerto euch an object; and tie
supression of slave dealing and of hu
man sacrifices to idols, ,by the incitt.
cation of a pnrer.religion, becomes
the common object of both mission
ary and . philanthropist, gut. other
and .more mundane interests come
into play.
. Governments and states which
formed colonies and settlements to
promote the slave trade, found. colon
iestil
and traders.remained er • the
slave traffic bad been ab dotted,
whom they were bound t notect.
Colonial • and political in sts die.
t a te exploratory expeditioi . and de-.
viand gedgraphical knowledge of r
ritories beyond their limits. Co
gradualy increases; while geom.
cal- discovery opens up new
for enterprise and legitimate tra
to step in and, take the place of the
suppressed slave tratlie, thus prompt-
REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
ly utilizing the work otgeogrphical •
and scientific explorers. Without the
knowledge which it Is the special
business.of theselo collect, the mer
chair t is helpless and grioraut,and no
exchange -of goods. or trade on a
large scale can be established.
The merchant and themanufactur
er soon join their interests in appeals
to the gi;iverinnent for extension and
more information, and that Which be
gan with purely scientific exploration
and'geography, ends in largely 'pro
moting religion and philanthropy. as
well as meeting political require
ments and the demands of commerce.
Who is there that is wholly without
interest in any of these objects, and
what state can afford to despise or
neglect them ? To all of these, Afri
can explorers have rendered incalcu
lable service this last twenty-five
years, and neither the extent nor the
importance of this service can be re
duced to a money-value. For putting
aside all considerations of justice and
humanity, comerce has not had, - since
the discovery of the. new world, so
vast a field for, profitable enterprise
opened to it as Africa wilt soon pre
sent. —Muouillan's Magazine. •
THE PANAMA WHARF.
Charlie and Lucy were . sittint,* one
evening on , their Uncle George's
knee..
Unele,"-said- Lug, who was a
dear child, " what did the minister
Inean this Ittternoon at.ehurch when
he said that 'the Win who despises
small thingsshall tall by little and
"*ell, Lucy, my dear," replied
Uncle George, " I think that you will
understand me better if I tell you a
story.
" Many Years ago I was visiting
at Panama. This is a place: which
you will find on your map, south of
,United States and Mexico. ; '
"I remained here for many months.
'Near my hotel was a very large
wharf. Year after year the ships
had Come up to it, and had unloaded
their cargoes. It was built at very
great expense, and every person
thoughtit entirely safe. Merchants
often perinittol thousands of dollars'
worth. of goods to remain on it over
night. It was the eusti,m of the
wharf •sumaintL,ntlent tO examine it
every month. Now, - while I was
there, the report was spread that
some little inzeets,were eating away
the wood. Ile - looked at the place,
•but said it was of no consequence—
that there were onlyt a few insects
that could AG no harm. Month after
month passed, anti still these little
creatures .ate away at the wharf.
They did not seem to be. numerous,
and but little) attention was paid to
them.
"One day,• as I was looking ont
,of my window, I heard a dreadful
crash, and behold, the wholb immense
Avharf had sunk into the sea..., Sixty
Or seventy persons were killed, and
an immense amount of property way:
destroyed—all by the work of -these
insects. 'Afterward it was found that
they had been .taking fOr years ht the
wood. Had they imen stopped at
once no harm could have sumo ; but
-the superintendent thought them-too
sinail to notice : he despised them be
cause they were "So small.
'Children." paid Urele George "he
careful of little things. :%Vhettever
you discover a had habit kill it at
at once . If you don't it Army kill
you. Ad; GA, for Jesus' sake, to
help you, and lie e ill ; for he he has
promised. to hear those 'who :►sk
him."—S. S. I'r.. fur. •
ANEenoLE ot , LoN.—All thing's
are fair, so it is - Zenerally thought, in
War, in a horse trado, or in a law
case. It is probably on that bad
rule that the late President Li?ieton
acted when he defeated an antago
nist before a jury. The anecdote is
thus told by Dr. Bateman:
lie was oftt:n pitted against emi
nent lawyers during trials -in the
Sangamim County •Cireut Court. 'On
one occasion he. ini - ns opposed to a.
verY able 'advocate, who (made
powerful, eloquent and Convincing
speech to the inky. The gentleman,
moreover, was a man who was very
precise in his dress, as well as Man
ner and orator v.
But Mr. Lioclon had been observ
ing him,sand saw a flaw in his_tisual
ly faultless attire.
" Gentlemen of the jury," said 'Old
Abe ':when he muse to - sptl.ak, " the
gentleman Who lets just spoken has,
made a strong argument. lie has
quoted the law and olden-et, and it.
is not for Inc to say that he is wrong.
Ile may be correct in all,he has said.
But, r want .you to take a good look,
at him. Look especially at the-Upper
half, and then, gentleman, tell me if
any
.man. who (('lnes before you with
his standing cellar buttoned ' wrong
end to,' with the points sticking away
out behind his cars -- may not he alto
gether mistaken in his arguments."
• - .The
,plan was successful. Mr. Lin
clop had broken the spell which the
oloquepce of his opponent had thrown
~tlyej• the jury. * •
LOOK most to your spending. No
matter what comes in, if more goes
out you will always be poor, The
art is not in making money but in
keeping it; little expenses, like mice
in a large barn;, when they arp many,
Make great waste, flair by hair heads
gets bald I straw by strew the thatch
.goes - 01 the .cottege, drop by
drop the rain eomee into the elem.
ber.. A barrel is soon empty if the
top leaks but a, drop a minute; when
you 'mean to. save begin with your
mouthy many things pass down the
red lane. In all other things keep
within compass. NeVer stretch your
legs farther than the blankets Will
stretch, or you will soon be cold. In
clothes, choose suitible and lasting
stuff, and nut tawdry finery. To be
warm, is the main thing, never - mind
the Icioka. , A fobl may make money,
but it needs a wise man to spend it.
Remember it is easier to build two
chimneys than to keep. one going. If
you give all to back and'board, there
is nothing left for the snii.hgs bank.
Fare hard and Work while you are
youpg; and you will have a chalice
to rest when you are Old.
Woman tempted man to eato but be
took to drink hiroselfi
=I
=I
THE BOUL
Sweet morn—to cool, so calm, 4fr bright;
Tho bridal of Ito earth and sty/ '
The dew shall weep thy fall at night,
For thon,mnst die.
Sweet rose—whosefragranei now I crave,"
To glad toy sense and joy nrso eye, •
,'
Thy root Is ever In Its grave,
And thou must d i e. "
, .
Sweet Spring—so full of.shlt and showeM,
' It makes ther iveary spirit
,Igh,
To think, with all thy herbs • nil flowers,
' That thou most., to.. -
Sweet tnusle—den the lipvel song
- W !Itch from thy harp, till/n(lw WEN
Is tioallug.on - the breese along,
Veit thou must 'ile..
And all the bright snd glUtprlng train
cir stars that stud thedet.P Vase shy,
Must thry all perish—htme remain
To glad the eye!'
A ted rate*. and fields, and raffling streams,
And mountains that Inyade the nip,
Are they as baset4s as our dream? _
Audlutist they dlo? .
And all that's beauttfnl and (Mr •
On Nature's face—lure's tactful:, ..
That makes Meet; thtiAic of the air,
.. i i i
• All—all that In t dte.
And man, frail form of son. totes clay, •
Tho' now Ms &nee Is tu d and high,
Perchance upon lila passlngitay
lie, too, may Mil :* ...
. . I
. . .
But the bright soul?—that, shrlned within
gbe queurliteso light in MOrtal. 'Nun—
Thu' tlinintl!d by ntloery and sin,
Defies the eotiu.
%Olen CI the 'tau fade way.
Arid subs In their Inuit hla eior6,
And trackleb3 ccduotB elfaS,3 to stray
Within vmlia'ripg fire
The soul shall ever lire, nnf knew
The 1.3,31 e of time, hot Await oh high;
And share—lo entileys joy or woe.—
Lien:liy.
ADDRESS DELIVERED ON DECORATION DAY
AT ULSTER, -MAY 30th, 1878--BY
• REV. N. N. BEERS.
Soldiers and Felbiw-Ciliz:ene
To-day 'forty millions of people, either
personally or by representative assem
blies, will do honor to the memory of
their brave defenders who fell in rile late
eryil - war. This is just as it Should be.
All civilized nations, especially Chr i stian
u Ohms, have ever held in gratefurmem
ory their fallen braves, and have delight
ed to do them tronor. Not to regard our
soldiers thus ; Loth Being and dead; and
not to ,honar tire foilea by appropriate
ceremonies, would be in contravention of
the suggestions of- Christian.
Not that whe is an element of Christian
civilisation ;it ceriahily is not. A resort
to beligerent force to settle dillitulties be
tween nations or individuals is repugnant
to the Principles of Messiah's kingdom.
The inauguration of th.,t kingdom on
earth .was accompanied on earth by a
proclathation by angelic heralds of
"Pea - ee on earth. and good will toward
men." In time good time coming,. which
the phropimets in vision saw, -whew
"Christ shall reign from sea to sea, and
from the river to the ends of the earth ;"
when the benign and peaceful principle's
of His kingdoM filia4 be universally
ceived, and all hearts shall be swayed by
them, the nations shall " Learn ear her
more ;" "They shall beat their swords
into ploughshares and their; spears into
pruniirg hooks," and "There shall be
tutting, to hurt or dotroy in all God's'
holy mountain." But as the world now
is, beligerent forces are often arrayed
against,non-beligerent, against those who
would be glad to be at peace. Tn that
case it would he in harmony With the
Principles of Christ's kingdom, as our lase
and only resort, to defend our life-and lib
erty by opposing force with force. [t i the
assassin should cuter-my dWelling and at
tempt to murder myself and ramify, it
would riot only be,rifkr.t 'but myilety to
resort to phYsieal force, even to the taking
bf iffe, if necessary, in order to prevent'
the execution of his murderous designs..
This was precisely the attituee of oar wi
thin in the late civil war. ;We marshaled
our forces, not forcomprest, not for mill-.
tary glory, . but to defend time life of the
nation, which was threatened, and to pre
serve. our imperiled liberti . es.' We come,
tbcrefOrs. to-day, not to do homage to
military heroes as such, to men who have
W - on our admiration by deeds of chivalry
and prowess in arms, merely ;' we come
to honer the LI ril re ; and the memory of
time men who saved the life of (my nation
by.lhe sacrifice of themselves. Our
sol
diers were indeed military li r broes,—many
I of them entitled to first rani' as'sneb, for
their hold and daring deeds. But they
wore more ; they were patriots, who left
their lrin and fought and strife - red and
died in defence of their. country.
There are three considerations that roe.
'der the memory of our fallen heroes pre
cious to Os First, the spim it and motives
that actuated them nm going into the field
of conflict ; .second, the sacredness of the
cause fen which they suffered ; and third,
iu very many eases the severity of their
ISuflerings.
1 As we have said, they were patriots:
They were athlete(' by love of country to
imperil the r lives for its defence ; a mo
tive immeasurahly Tu leer tt,ap mere am
bition for Militarya,lory. in the course
of 'emir remarks we shall refer to the suf
ferings, of our soldiers; but we now ask
your attention to the eanee for which they
suffered. No holier cause ever marshaled
a military force for its defence than the
cause of our country in the late war.
I '
Many of the wars that have devastated
the world have originated in an unbal
lowed ambition-for fame, and have been'
prosecuted for Conquest and military glo
ry. Such were the wars of : Alexander of
Maperlon i Whose towering ambition was
such that, after• eouqueriog all the nations
1 Or the (ilviiifed woad, ho wopt, it Is said,
bites la 6 there Wtmlam PO Meet to confiner,
Anti history recoil - 1s that thlg aama ambi ,
-Uinta Alexander died froni UK! Whets of
drunken debauch at the age of 82 yeti*
It 'would buve been a grand thing for him
if be had turned his thoughts towards the
kingdoni of his own heart and conquered
that. Of the same character were.the'
wars of Napoleon, the haughty military
chieftan of France. But God does not
smile upon such anibition. Napoleon the
Conqueror, was defeated by Wellington
in the battle of Waterloo, and died at-last
a lonely , e:aile•ou the- barren, rocky irland.
of St. Helena. •
DefenSive.wars on the part of beleagrir
ed nations are conceded to be, and doubt
less are, pairiotir and right: All the bet.
: .ter feelings of our reiture . lreconme enlisted
fur such a people struggling At r th e i r own
defence. Who can help admiring the he
roic Spartans in the narrow' pass of Thor
mopylte, resisting with wonderful slaugh
ter the overwhelming forces of the invad-,
hag ; Persian army under the command -of
Xerxes?. The invading army consisted
of 1,700,000 foOt and 80,000 horses, while
the little hand of Spartans tinder com
mend of Leonidas numbered less than 6;-
000; jßeforethe battle Xerxes sent mes
sengers requesting them to lay down their
armss .their heroic answer was, "Let
Xerxes come and take them." Though
but a mere handful. in comparison, and
overpowered at last by superior, numbers,
Yet 'they fought with 'Buell wonderful
bravery. that - 20,000 of : the, enemy were
fotind deld - on the field. They fought in
defence of their country, and their cause
was just, but it was not equal to ours.
Theirs was a heathen country, OW insti :
hitters weto heethers their, civilization
ahcl their liberties were not equal to ours,
butebilly - such as are foetid in heathen
-lands; i Our.: (alien heroes fought for the
defence of a - Christian nation with its
Christian institutions. They fought and
suffered and suffered awl died in defence
'of' Christian - - altars, - Christian, schools,
•Christian - homes; and Christian liberties.
'The cause of the - QS - modem in-their - wars
to tecover the ! SepUleher of the Sevier
fro the hands.Of the Mohamedan Turks
Leant no comparison with the sacredness
of. ours. It matters but little who may
..
possess the spot of earth 'where the body
•
of the Savior rested only for the shoet
space of a port' of three days, provided
any one knew or
. could determine where
Ithat spot whe. But our Christian iustitu
', tione, so pure, -so good, arc valuable Le
yond all price, embracing everything that
is dear to us on earth ; :Ind furthermore,
as We believe, 1 hey are destined to. become
o 'beacon light to other nations, lighting
them up the pathway of Christian mill
zstiou te higher and sena . r national and
' , individual life than they have ever known.
'We :teed:only to look aro u nd us to see
the fruits of our influence on the nations.
In every land where the light of-our Chris
tianity has penetrated the darkues, the
people are reaching up and longing for
the higher manhood Which it .reveals for
them.. • . .
I.
A Vast amount of. Ibex has been spent
on " (he Pirene rigde of kings,' and Many
a tyrant bite used the plea to cover his
most diabolical acts : but their oppressed
Subjects are to-day confronting thent with
the Disine right of the people to befeee,
'—th'eir right to eieil and miji,,ug tibeste,
japan in the dark past has been proud of
he: barbarous iMtitutions, and intolerant
toward the introductionsif anything new
ft'Ont other nation ° ; but during the last
ten years, she has been Waking out of her
,Pagan sleep to ii d thnt•she is 300 years
nation";
behind iii' the race 'ti civilization and-en
light:Commit, and she is not: making her
culeett efforts to catch up. She is teaelt
ing out' her hands 'towards our country
fot - our :Christian:' civilization. She has
already introduced at home a system of
Common Schools modeled after our own.
I will present another fact of the same
character.-It may not be generally known
that the goveanment of China has sent to
this country more than a hundred picked
young men ,to be educated at the cost. of
the empire. fOr the public service. The
rpre,seut umbel:of students is 112., Thes t ,i
I - • comparison.- ~ ._ .; .
are being`Sdiscated. in Hartford, Connectl- 1 But go deeper: even than this
t cut, where the Chinese Governneente has i to understand the Cost of our - defensive
erected for their use, a large house atsa I war. We must go down into the depths
cost of $55,000. The history of this Chi- (s.ff the hind and take -gauge and . dimen
nese mlncatinnal movement, as given in a ' sloes of the Kreat heart agonies in the sol
reeent-leeture by Rev. Joseph 11. Twiteliel diets longings for the hired ones at home,
before the Yale Law School, is _stranger and in the equally pailful' longings of
than fiction. "Its projector, Vtieg Wing, ; those loved ones for their soldier friend--;
was a pupil in a Christian Mission School ! son, brother. husband or father, whose
in China, and was brought to the United lift wasimperilled on Southern battle-.
1 States in 1847 by the Rev. S. - 11. BroWns fields er in Southern prisons. As we said
a missionary of the American Borns': In) of the disparity between sacrifices of tne
.l:•zlo he entered Yale College, where he 1 ney and physical sufferings, so it is equal
distinguisbed himself in English compoel ly' true that physical sufferings bear no
sition, and sraduhted in 1814. While at I comparison with: soul sufferings. When
:college lie 'finmed the.purpose of return-
M
li • the - an of Cavalry was hanging ant he
I tug home - B ind inducing the goverment Cross, be endured a depth of soul agony
iniMitely greater titan the' enart ofthe to - :-' 1 1( 1 young men to America to he edto
1 eitteil. He was without friends or patroiol wounds made by= the smart of the nails
age in China. It cost hint le years of un- 1 and the soldier's spear. It was these sin
sparing exertion to reach a position wheel
i Lutterable soul agonies - that caused Him to
he could in fl uence the - Emperor's advisrsh ! cry : "My God: my God.: sylty halt thou
At length, in 1:37i his se:lento was ap- I eeeeeken me ee -
I proved, and the sum of i,i'4,:,00,000 eppro- I Look at the spectacle of a great nation,
misted for its execution. Two commis- i
1 at the same time paesing through such a
I eimiers direct the csinear,rrof the young I baptism cif sefferines. While as million of
men., The projector, - , ) 11 '. Yung Wing , !soldiers iioSouthern camps and heispitals,
I has long been 'a Christian." • I and prisons. weist enduring these; painful
Evidently, there is afar-reaching value 1 I.:e el -Aims of - heart, four or lets milions
' to Sur free institutions, beyond eveawhat : at, how. yctre passing thrOT4ll the same
thei partiality of our mo.,t ardent lova of 1 ,sorrilWS, while often the sorrows of be
country would place upon th e m. In the! re:teens:a were addekl to those of separa
defence of these institutions ourrellen h e-! t sos fled only can fathom this] tidal
roes sacrificed their lives. :- -- wave (tf human
. grief. - 'lt began in the
Nationalities are not of mush f orlrti se-ac , of parting when the soldier left his
growth. They do not_ sprang up to W . a.! ]tome ; when lie looked upon the faces of
turity, like - Jonah's sw eet. i n 3 Sight. loved ones forthe last time, amid when they'
AU good governMSits especially reqiiirel looked for thee last time. on him ; when
many :years of go owth through, storms th e heit•good_bye Was tilkill; not !it otiieg
and sunshine, involving a gi'eat amount' whedier 'there would • ever . be 'another
of labor and weteliful care to shape and . m ee tin g; on earth . .•r not. As one has sung
,
bring their instiiiitious to maturity, Anti in another case,
it costs 'immense saerilless of treasure and
of blood to defend them against b o th I'M
ei;en and home invasion. The Grecian
States were involved in meny and severe
wars, civil and foreign, in the-defence of'
their liberties, including the terrible 'sac
rifice . at the ,renowned ' Thermopylaie.
Rome had her baptisms.of blood in the
shape of repeated • foreign wars ami two
civil war.s• of serious extent, besides the
assassination of her Julius Caesar to her
own ;Senate Chamber. All the modern
nations or Europe have struggled into ex
istence, and attained whatever of conse
quence they possess in the same way. Wa
have had our wars, end we may have oth,.
ers in the time- to come, for we arecom
. . .
paratively young as a nation. It is only
HQ years since the declaration of (ter iti•
dependence, Wo had onr first ,scat
On. ini - ar:cy 14iirrck ,
nits, We had flantlidr sykr
or less loai i Muth, lii 14ty, We had a sob
lions war_ with Mexico, i iaiding gaol, two
years, from IE4O to 1.64 e;•; We Inive Lad
our Indian* wars ; and we have but recent- .
ly passed through tho most gigantic civil
war ever . known, 'the army of the insur
gents numbering nearly a million of Men
and The National army that confronted
them numbering nearly a million
quarter:. And a part of our baptism of
Ward in the terrible strife was the ass a:
sinatiun of our greater than Julius Ca!sar,
'our own immortal Lincoln.
If we would knoW the cost of our bles 7
t;cd eoantry, the ;fairest, sweetest land
en earth; if we' would know the cost of
our institutions, the best. that the sun in
the heaveits ever shinvn upon; if we would
know yvkitt our libertiei; and free, institu'
Lions Lave coat, we must malize something
of the unutlirabla WiFrings involved in
the poseention of these wars. The sac-.
rifles of inero money treasure does not
express it. We can easily take our pencil
and figure up the millions of money that
our last war cost; We have it already fig
ured - cut and recorded on the archives of
the nation,—three hundred 'mfflions of dot.
tare!:.A. vast sum; indeed, but this is
WI an insignificant item in the account.
Who shall figure of the value of Iheim
mense Sacrifice of human suffering. and
human life? No 'man can do it ; there a
no :iritlinietic known to man 'that can ex
press it. If we .would realize something
of it, we must go - and witness the.carnage
on a 'thousand 'battle-fields: and number
the drat and dying'; we must go,into the
hospitals and watch the surgeon as he re
moves the mangled limbs and dresses-the
ghastly - wounds ; we must take account
cif the malaria of the camps and the pre
valence of fevers that come-of exposures
and hardships, and the mortality resnlir
• ing, Then we must -go into Rebel pri
sons, those inexcusable,, heufhenish hells of
torture, vib'erii so many of our'noble boys
died with, all the horrors incident to star
vation and insufficient clothing. The
1 acts in regard to their terrible treatment
and Sufferings have eome to us from dif
ferent reliable sources, and they have
been detailed 'to ns bythoseWho experi
‘enced-thent; so we cannot doubt if we
would.
During the last, - year of the Rebellion,
while traveling in the cars at one time, I
foll in company with a nriori soldier by'
tire name of T. T. Whitcomb, a sergeant
in the Gth 3lichir,,Pan Cavalry. He had
'been a prisoner at Andersonvilie, but was
one of the fortunate ones who had been
exchanged- and - was borne on a furlough
recruiting his health. Sergeant Whitcomb
gave me,a detailed account of the treat-,
meet and sufferings of the Union soldiers.
The seizreity and .the clotrecter of -their
food was dreadful. What little they were
allowed to have some of the timeeonsiSt
ed of corn ground with the cots ; at other ,
times it - consisted, of spoiled, and magoty
meat. They were almost entirely without
clothing,- and were entirelywithout beds;
they were obliged to lie down at night on
the damp ground without even a blanket
under them, and with, nothing to cover
thetn, 7 —and
,the nights 'n that Southern
clime are often very dale and chilly, es
pecially near the sea coast,. as my own ex
perience has veritic,d. Some years before.
the breaking out of the war I spent some
fiVe:rnotiths on- St. Ijellena Island,, near
Beaufort and .Port Royat I found the
nights exceedingly damp and chilly, Mid
death-dealing to Northeness not accus , -
tomed to:that climate. Think of the-half
naked soldiers lying night after night. fin
months on the damp ground, with nothing
Under or over them, in such a climate as
that. To protect the,ne-vlves as well as
they could, several hundrets woI
down in a van close .together,
faArion ; in Ibis way they could otter
preserve the.warmth in their bodies; and
whin they became Weary of. one position,
or chill s ed on one side,'they woukl all.turn
over and face the other way. Fellow -
citizens, the sacrifice of. `money treasures
'cannot be-puiinto the scale: opposite such
sufferings—it cannot lie mentioned 'in
4,aw him 1 ,,, k behind and wt,rp,
!:tst farewell 1 lit.•2nll,llr) say,
As tiii• hro.ul , iilp th& ',wt.:llllg ‘1,14.1.,
kt-rtl hoiro. away
mw him uhvn the germ arrts.
AvA c•cvar.'s itiountTl hygls,
S . 11; far heart
Int other :CNIC.4 ha tixell.tals eye."
imitual . and painful longings eon
tinned through all the weary months and
years of the war,; in the hardships and
privations of the camp, and in the sadness
and I,:neliness of the home circle ; , filling
their dreams by night and theietbaughts
1j.10:y. 0 how , Often in these bight
dreams have come to. the sufferers sweet
v.iions*of 1 return home, anti a joyful
ntecting•-iff loved ones. But they awoke
all the udder to Mid that visionswero nut
;Ne;:oplive rnirai:e of !hp Llhs ;
arc, • Wh4t t precVno . roemonto to the
ktildioNte ti; :t e wail OW philtiVrilpkitiiinii
116 elvritil ..011 . 1iira own' In nil Ilikinwir•
es, aott in all the-mil:as of battle, And
when a quiet hour permitted' bop to
VT 61110 take ft; out and fiddly pee aO4
weep, and try to solace • his2aohing heart
with..what waspnly a shadow of the loled
face Ali•. away.
That song of unsurpassed sweetness
and teuticl•ncss, "3finnle MinNn e "
,writ
ten by . James G. Clarke, originated in
just such a case. The photograph orMiu
ton vas found on the dead body of a sop %
tlier Who -fell in the battle of Gettysburg.
No doubt litany thousands of similar eases
e!:kted. • Some one...has put into poetic
verse the dying ,words' of a soldier, a
young titan 'Who had. borne . our .colors
through the . tight.
,Ile said to his_ Chap
lain; t ant to die then, how long
first?' The Clicaplain teplied,," You have
made your peace with God, let death
come as soon as it will, Ile, will carry you
safely:ovar river. 7 " Yesi" • said the,
dying youth; {{but this ja so awfully -Bud-
el2 . per.Annum•ln Advance. ,
NITMI3ER 3.
den-awfully saddeb,"—and witit'quiver
lug lips he added, "And 1 shall not 800
my teacher." :
"Tell my mother, when you see her,
That I till amid the write ;
and for freedom and my eoUntry
I hare glven up my ate;
Tell her that I sent this message
Ere My tongue retuned to speak, .
And you tell her, Comrade, won't you
Tell my mother not to weep.
Till her that t'e truths atm tanght, me
Dewed my arm anti led my tent,
And I trusted ,n the pranhat
311 d the battle's fiercest hest.'
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That I kissed her face, so evre.rt,-,
Hissed the picture that she gave me,—.
And you tell her not to weep.", r
One bereaved -mother ith" liek-bleediug
heart, wrote to thosewhohad mused her
dying son, "0, can it be that my Willie
will return - to me no more? -Shall I never
see my darling boy again, until I see hi*
-clothed in the brightness of Christi?
Thaiik God I shall see him then—l shall
see him then." These are some of the
indications of a sorrow greater than phy-*
sisalsuffering from mangled bodies."
• Have I not said truly, that Qt d only can
fathom the depth of this greattidat wave
of humag,tcoe, that swept over this land
of the Pilgrims during the great rebellion?
One has touchingly said : -
flu the elty, In the village,
In the hamlet far away,
Sit the mothers watching, waiting,
For their soldier boys to-day.
They are coinittg, dal** . coming,.
One by one, and - score by score,
In their leaden casings folded •
Underneath the flay they bore."
Fellow citizens, sreh and so precious -
were•the sacri fi ces laid upon the altar of
liberty, for the defence of our country and
-Our homes. We observe these oeremo
*nieS to-day in honored' our fallen
_heroes.
Some of their graves are with -us, and we
have come to decorate them with flowers.
Why do we decorate with flowers? What
is the significance, of this ceremony ? -As
far back as history throws any light on
the question, we find that civilized nations
have regarded floivers as speaking a va
ried language,. and 'have used them as
symbols of Various import, in their re
ligbi.us and other ceremonies. In oriental
countries the heads of _animals intended.
:fdr sacrifice, were often decoratsd 'with•
floWers---perhaps to signify their fitness
- for the offering.- The old Greeks and Ro
manS. twined garlands of flowers as em
blems of honor and esteem to coronatel
the brows of conquerors, and of those
who won in the Olympic races. We- env
ploy flowers in this service with the-same
signification. Flowers are, moreover, em=
blems of lore. Wd often present them to
our friends as tokens of ourlove forthein, -
They are emblems of ;mortality; so used
in the Bible. "As a flower of the field;
man. tiourisheth. The wind par:.
th over it and it is gone." Flowers aro
also emblems of the resisrrection and 'of -
immortality. When the dreary reign of
winter is over, and the .„beatitiftil• spring
time visits our world,-the flowers, under
the vivifying rays of the sun, have a res
urrection from graves, into new life and.
beauty. So, ander. the genial rays of the
-Sun of Righteousness, the myriads of hu--
man sleepers shall rife from their dusty
beds into new and beizytiful forms' of im
mortal and blissful life..
With these sentiment and animated
with these hopes," - we d corate. With fra
grant dowers to-day. the graves of those
whom we delight to honor. - , '
FUN, PACT AND FACIETIL
The Westerner an apt draughtsman.
He can draw a revolver in half !a. second.
•" Do editors , ever do wrong ?" " so."
" What do they. do ?" "They do write."
When a Ilriie-flglifer's mill is stopped
only four bands are. thrown out of employ.
went. • • ' „ ••••
Kate. Sanborn asks "Will tho coming
man chew?" He probably mill if. ho
Ichi el,- s , si s
Fireworks that please all sweet tooth
people._ A pie-row -technic display in a
bakerls window.
• Birds of a single feather do not flock so
mach together as.birds that are covered
all over with feathers.
FI e who goes through life continually
asking questions, generally becomes a
Why sir man" in the end. .
Why is the fly one of the tallest of in
sects? _ Because he stauds , over six
without shoes or stockings.
The fool seeketh to pineka fly from a
mule's bind leg ; the wise man letteth the
job out to the lowest bidder.
There is lino cons6lation . every - bald.
tailed—man ? may take to himself. lie,
Will dye ea*ily. We have the barber's
word for thiS.
A question up far debate before, a lyee- .
nin of a ncighholing town is : bob
tail . kas aZ handsome. az the egat on the
new dollar : .
A man in Maine applied for !Ivo gallons'
#if rum-for "mechanical purposis.!' :" For
ghat meebanical . purposes ?" "For rais
ing a barn," R2S the reply. .
S Pray, publiihers and 4,00 k:
hinders. A specialty made•of religious
publications," is the sign Over the door Of
a Williamsburg (L. L) firm. , •
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An Irishman on being told to.grease tlio
wagon, returned in an hour artekirard,
and said " l'Ne.greased 6 , ety . part of ti)
wagon lint them Etieks. the wheels 1t44
on."
Y 1 rum, that,oprinq molt. may not
ha Y 1
et met', eteninert nnWorealld 1 it
way be otigiont frith .187 t 1 bill wig if
there n peach stain on the notthenil Got,
ber of the vest? "
When yon hear a canary church choir
singing, "There will be no more Bonow
there," you conclude at once that eithiir
the aforesaid choii will not le there, or
they will not be permitted to sing.
A Ilartisburg paper, in ansiverihg the
question of a , correspondent, sa a ,ys :
When - a lady and gentleman are walking
together upon the street, the lady should
walk inside of the gentleman." Good gra,
e , ods, what an idea!
a general thing, audiences albs pa.
tie.nt and oinfidisig. - But when ;a. man
with a nicerschauni nose, and wearing his
coat buttoned up tight to the collar, comes
out to-speak as an Apotit)e orremper=
fume, you can't- blame the boys up in the
gallery if they. sing out, "Take in your
sign:" •
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