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held bee, laugblug, In arms,
A blue-eyed child; with curls of gO'd
, Ste - stroked my bdlish cheek and said:
"VII marry you whUtill am old."
We met again. • Those pretty locks . .
Were embed and tioAnti about her head,
A little schoolgirl, staid and shy;
She tuust.pot romplUt s me. she said.
A towlnore years, and then I found'
A bloaning maiden, sweet seventies ;
Few were her words and. eoy,herlooks ;
And yet.she loved me well, I 1165013.
TowANDA, PA.
Long incl 1 woo 'mid hope and fear
My lady Wit+ net lightly won
She hid her lore,.and 'thought it amine
At last my welcome task was done.
31atCh 1,1681
I held her, blushing, In my arins ;
And then my bashful prize 1 told
how she bad.promised long ago
She'd marry me when she was old
The blissful dais sped quickly on,
Audi pledged her with a ring '
But ah,! so much too largest proved , !
.3fy lute was such allny -
But yet Site woido not have It changed.
Though fr9niher haud It ott would slip
An evil on u •u, t 1), ould sap;
While she but laughed with joyous lip.
1 lett illy darling for a epace_ •.
Aroiearer drew the wedding day,
"Owe little week," 1 said, `• and then
I never snore need_gei away."
I left het healthy, blooming, brlgfii,
. The rosy color fir her cheek—
1 came tp find her crati`and whtto
Alas t 'that fatal t• little week."
Oh, felt Distiase, now stay thy hand,
And lea - ye Inc all I love In Ilte, •
In vain I cried ; the touch of Death
Was nu her, oh t my promised wile
I held her, dying, In my tinny
Tho ring fell troth her finger,. eold :
Al'epltig, I took lt, and the bre'athed
111 marry youlchen I am old
e 'As_p.2s,'7 9
She knew not what She said, poor child ;
(;enelrum her Aral brlg?t,lteason's ray—
nut still lkeep that ring, and trait
F,2r an eternal it eddlng day.
Ju 'mica
PECK
THE. VILLAGE BELLE.
She was very beautiful. -No . one
could eonscicntiously dispute-it. •Of
course, there were many who did dis
pute it, th - oug - li,Tinore especially those
of her own sex. Unsuccessful 4ppli
cants,. also,, to her hand and- heart
.pronounced het "nothing out of the
common" after, not before, you may
be 'sure, they had., met witb a -firm
rejection at her haMbi. '
Yes, Clara Moore was . a very beau
tifal, Such a flood of golden
hair,- such e gular and exqnisitely
chiseled - feilures, and suth-a-beauti
ful complexion.) • ,
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She held only n humble position
in life. • -
May 1, '79.
Her mother kept - the first shop in
"fife village,..a kind of, general store:
where 'you could purcnase anything
and everything, from ball,of string
to a box of pas.
The _village in which she dwelt was
vety r. hut very
,pretty. Every
one seemed to take a pride in his
particular cottage, and endeavored
to 'vie with his .neighbors in main
taining picturesqueness and
cleanli
ness.
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Through this charming little home
stead ran-a trout stream, and hither
occasionally in the summer ;months
would resort some lover,of the rod
and line— r an importation : from sorne
growded scene of tumult and money
making. ' '
In the 'village inn there i was not
accommodations for more . thn thlee
or Tour visitors—thst is to say, if
they purposed staying all night=---but
at several. cottne4 a - mrtments could
be obtained. • •
Mrs. Moore was among those who
could furnish comfortable rooms for
a gentleman, and few summers went
by without her apartments being let
It was on a bright'mornin!r in the .
merry. month of --- May when "yrancis
,Cox knocked at the private icoOr of
Mrs. Moore's . residence.
• : He was a very good looking fellow
at first ; just the sort of face
that woulirtake womax - . But I
when you came. to look into it, it
betrayed a great amount of weakness;
and the eyes,, though nor-prepossess,
ing altogether in - their expression,.
were set too closely together.
Mrs, Moore Was busy in the, ShOp '
Clara .:htid•.been looking -after. the
household work, and she it was who
ofierell the door to Mr. Cox..
" gaw 1" he exclainaed,in an affect
' ed •and . somewhat donaineering tone
of voice; " l'see you.have rooms - to
let; I wish to look at.them."
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" Will:you step inside ?". respond
ed Clara, who was rather nettled at
his .manner :of address, and -conse
-4 quently did not say " sir,"--whieh she
otherwie would have done. . • -
" Doocid small, Rita" they?"' said-
Mr. Cox, putting up his eyeglass and
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I.survpying Clara with a half-astonish
ed, half-indignant air.'
" They are :naturally small," an
swered Clarbatitcot
tage.t?
!NW ; of course;- one cannot-ex
41.ey, a palace in:::au out-of-the-way'''pliteedilie-thia,"he_responded.
1 The remark as to its being an out- '
of-the-Vray place was intended either
t to annoy Clara, Ot i to impress her
t with the idea that she was addressing
one was accustomed. Cto the
grandeur and importanee of cities..lli
failed, however, in hoth instances:.',,
" There is another thing," observed
t Claris, " which wilt • probably render
them 'unsuitable to you—they are
connected with the shop." •
"Connected with - the shop?" ek.
'claimed. Mr.'Cot, in an evident state
of perplexity..
"Yes," said 'Clara, "the door you
I knocked at is the private entrance t&
the same building as that:with which
the shopis•connected,"
They were now ;Standing in the
small sitting-room. Clarit poitkted tof
the door - at the Other:side of the ptiig
sage. -
" That doore-L she. exclaimed,
" leads Into the shop Which mother
keeps. NOw do you understand ?"
Oh!. haw ! Yes, I understand."
A• slight pause - followed, during
which Mr. Coax siirve - Yid — the room
through his eyeglais. He then said:
That wouldn't matter at all if-the
rooms suited. What is the figure?"
- ." Two dollars per week, including
attendance." •
" Haw look at the bed
room?" . •
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" Certainly."
• Ile followed Clara upstairs.
" It's considerably larger than the
sitting-room," observed Mr. Cox.
" Yes ; it is over tb.e, passage as
well."
" Exactly ; and only four dollars a
week, including attendance ?"
" Two dollars," said Clara, looking
at him.
" Two dollars I Two dollara only !
Surely you must be mistaken." "
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" . .No, I am not mistaken."
" Excuse me ;' but how on earth
can
. it I•ay you . ?"
" Oh, - -people eau'lire. on• so little
-in-anAaut•of 7 the-way place like this,"
answered - Clara. -
" Haw!" exclaithed Mr.. Cox, who
could.not repress al smile ; " very
good. I always thought a rustic life
blunted the understanding ; I •see I
am mistaken.. .I hope you did not
think 111Q h intentionally rude "
He made this apology in such a
nice manner that Clara's animosity
began to take rapid flight. • ,
- " Oh, - dear, no," she said, auc i l then
she coducted' him downstairs.
"Well, if you'll have me," observed
Mr.. Cox, whOse different manner
seemed- to convert, him into quite
another person, 4 I shall be-happy to
take the rooms. •The fact of the Mat
ter is, I am reading hard for my final
examination, and I want a,quiet spot
where there will be no companionship
td take me from my books; and where
Lean have a-little solitary' recreation
in the shape _of trout-fishing. A
harmless amusement that, : is it not . '"
"The fish do not think so," replied
Clara, smiling.." If you wilUsit down
a moment I will fetch mother, and
you can arrange matters with her."
So saying, having handed a
chair, Clara departed to call Mis.
Moore. That worthy lady was soon
in attendance, and before Mr . : Cox
had quitted her roof he had arilapged
to take the roinns - Abt least.a con
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plc of months from the following
Thursd , ty.
It is,' perhaps,, almost Su - paling:mg
•to state that Clara Moore; being . such
a beautiful girl, had nuinerous ad,
- wirers. , Although the village—by'
name. Munford—was in itself small,
there *ere plenty of outlying farms;
and not more than three ,miksaWay
a market town; From these stn.-
rounding quarters came manfiand
many a• one to see the-village
and many and many a one at' first
sight•fell over head and ears in love
with her. ' -
Added to her charms—of_faceaud
figure, she -had a' remarkably sweet
voice; and although it was not high
ly cultivated; it
. was • not altogether
untrained. The consequence was she
was in great request at;: readings,
which, dUring. - the_ winter months,-
she attended with commendable-reg
ularity:
At one of these entertainnients-she
hnd met one. Arno Carelc a V-.
to-do - farmer's son, who lived some
two miles away. from MunfOrd. : She.
had' beeu introduced to - him: there,
and - he, - like many another, fell in
love with her. .
Of all the men she had met she
liked him the best, and, not a :week
prior to the adVent
.of Mr. Cox as a
lodger at hnother's house, she had
as - good as cofisented to be engaged
to him.
it is unpleasant to pick holes in
anybody's 'eharaliter, and doubly uri-.1
pleasant to wrto pieces •the'dispo
sition of : one ._.:Who is• in all external
things perfection. But the truth
mist be told—Clara Moore wail a
rtrible flirt; 'and, likeniostilirtS,
she seemed to have a total-disregard
fot the feelingi of: her , ,Vidtiins, She
-lead aj man;_pn to believe - at
least in the pOsibility, of hi's one day
Securing her oTections (indeed, the
very. fact of a woman tarrying
man's society to listen io his love
passages, is in itself an earnest of her
appreciation- of his • society), and
then, when it suited her caprice,
would throw him'over and laugh athim.
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Clara Moore had tried'_y_oung • Ar- -
nold. Carew's- patience to the utmost
more -than once. Ay, scores :and
• scores of times- she had destroyed his
peace of mind by her pernicious fond
ness for what she called a " harmless'
flirtation." •
And we must give her credi for
the fact that her flirtations w 're in
one sense harmless.; thee was no
Vice, about her. She never forgot
that self-respect which renders a Wo
man precibus in the eyes of men.
When Arnold Carew Won her' con
sent to be engaged to him—for she
•as good as promised him to becon.e
his wife " . some ; day," though . she ex 7
-pressed herself -in sufilcientlfifidea?
nits terms to admit of her escaping
from her promise if she phased to
change lnr mind, without his . being
able to affirm she had OerStrietly
bound herself to' him—he was _well
satistiiid. Ile felthe could trust . her;
and even bear' her flirting propensi
ties—With—greater-equanimity than lie
had hitherto been able to do.
There were few evenings on which
Arnold - Carew_ failed to wall% over
from his. father's farm . and enjoy a
pleasant stroll with " the hay of his
love.'! •
Happy evenings were they for 'him.
Through the day.he looked forward
to them; they lightened his.toil and
existence much •
wade_ its
than it had ever been.' .
.11e. had a double incentive to mirk..
It- was . not, self that he toiled for
only, now;. he knew that he was.
working for her!
Mr. Cox had not been located in
Mrs. Moore's small though comforta
ble apartments' more than a fortnight
-before Clara's evening rambles with
Arnold Carew became. less frequent
Clara bad all along been very si
lent as to the icidger ; and at first it
never entered -into Arnold Carew's
mind that that accounted in any way
for her less' frequent appearance at
:their, usual rendezvous. .
One evening, however, he ventured
to complain, and rimmed in his item
poraty—annoyance to say : ".Oh, I
suppose there is some attraction
about this heavy swell who is staying
at your mother's."
Clara flushed up in a moment s and
answered, hotly : " You arc quite
welcome to think what_ you please in
this respect, He is a perfect gentli.
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man, which is saying more for him
than one can say for everybody."
" I don't; pretend to be a gentle
man," was Arnold's coot answer;
" nor do I profess to be an educated
fellow. 1 know 'you cad beat me
liollow‘ as far as learning, goes ; but
learning is not everything in this
world; and people can feel and think
with only a little of it."
Now Clara was very fairly edu
cated, indeed ; and, certainly, was
what is, vulgarly called more of a
i 4 scholar " than her sweetheart.; but
he was not an ignoramus by any
means. - I,
word*-made her feel a little
ashamed of hvself; so she said :
"1 didnVmean to insinuate that
I'm better educated than you, or that:
you are not.;:a gentleman at heart ;
but I do consider it . most_unteasonaz
file and unjusMlable that you should
throw out hint 4 against .Mr. CO.s,
"simply because he's, a' gentleman of
superior education." _
." It's very certain I've seen much
less of. you,. Clara, singe he
,came
here," answered Arnold Carew,.with
melancholy reproach manifest in his
tone of voice.'
Well, if you must know .the
truth," answered Olaf!tt ; " btft• you're
so hot-Headed and:unreasonable I've
never liked to name if, to you before";
he's kindly Undertaken to 4;ach me
k'rencl;
,and. that aCcOunts 'for my
evenings being More occupied
.than
they were."
" It Was your duty to bare told
me before," answered Arnold, sup
pressing his jealous indignation,
" Where does he teach you V.
"In the sitting-room, of course."
" His prisate sitting room ?."
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, And so you are alone
,together
for hours ?"
" Of course ' • why shouldn't we he?"
- " wonder how you'd .like me to
teach-some pretty, gixl 'French, all
atone with her in her cozy parlor?"
" Why, should I mind ?" answered.
Clara. "If 1 couldn't trust you that
far, I should have nothing, to do with
you."
~ .This retort disarmed Arnold' C"a
rcw in a moment. Ile began to think
what a Villain he Was for ever doubt
ing Clara's loyalty, and for suggest
ing inipropriety, by 'his jealous suspi
cions.
• He asked her pardon, and when
they parted he was much. -happier.
than he had been. for days.
Another six weeks flew by and in
that time what changes had - tome,
about. The French lessons .were so
freqUent, that if Arnold Carew saw
C}ara Moore for half an hour in the
whole week, he was a lucky.fellow.
- And what were Clare( real ,feel
ings at this time? Alas rd .she had:
grown infiltuated with Mr. Cox. She
believed that he had grown really
fond of her. Perhaps .he was in: a
kind of 'way.' • The French lessons
had led / to something so very like
love=making, that it would have tak
en a-very clever analyst to have ttild
the difTerenee7;- And; naturally, as
her feelings strengthened'• for her
French master, theyideclined for Ar
nold„Carew.
Francis Cox was a better teacher,
of love than of French. •
Heaven help her! Infatuated crea
ture -that she was, she believed it'
possible that this wealthy young sei,
On of a good Sainily might make her
-his wife. Over and .over aij,ain lfc
seemed on the point of asking her to
be his wife. Sweet honeyed wordS
!were they that lie - whispered in her
Willing ear; beautiful, picture's of
what married life should •be he - drew
in flowing speech. • -
lie had few •letters ; but 'iwyee .a
week be received an epistle directed
in a hidy,'s handwriting. This had
excitecl Clara'sjealousy, I es, it had
come to that, she Was jealous of him:
".Surely," he said, " a fellow can
correspond with . his sister."
That bad hem' stifliient to satisfy
hien
One evening, tiOWever, matters ar
rived at a climax.
She hail received a note
.from Ar
nold, sayik that he Must iite her
that night. without ,fail. She met
him in the . usual - place `of- meeting
He looked very white and angry.
":Clara," 'lie said; " 7 will'. stand
this no longer. You either- give up
the,:society of this• lodger, or you
(rive up me." • _
"'What do you. mean ?" said Clara:
"I mean :what - I say,". answered
Arnold. - "tNo one, can serve two
„masters, neither ean'a vornan,be true
to-two lovers.” • ,
"I am nqt,going to be domineered
over by any man,!" said Clara.
" You-wilt hale--to do one thin°. or
thei4her tljis ease," answered°Ar
nold Carew. I .
14 ''Don ' t,:try and bully me i r—eried
Clara, flushing up.
" I'm not bullying 3.611. It is use
h•ss to try and evade my determina-
Clara. Which are you going
to do? Give up these so-called
Prencli lessons, or give me up?"
"1 certainly shall not give up my
Vrefich,".she ifigtrered..
"'rhea. good-bye,"
_answered Ar.
hob!, and without waiting for an an
swer—imieed, without affording her
time to answer—he strode away into
the darkness.
When she had started to meet him
the wish had been in her _heart. that
she might find an excuse to cast her
lover off; but nOw that belied taken
the initiative and had sternly and ab
ruptly quitted her, leaving her "in
maiden Meditation fancy — free," she
perieneed' very different sensations
to what,she had anticipated.
'The teats rushed to her eyes, but
she suppressed them, and hurried
homeward.
:- 46 Lyrist' with all my heart," she
said, "_that Francis 'Cox would • ask
me this very night to be his wife."
When she. reached home she found
that Francis Cod- was absent' .
On the table of his sitting-room
lay an open letter, in what Clara be
lieved to be, from what-he had -told
her previously, his sisthr's handwrit-
Most young ladies arc inquisitive,
and:Clara Moore was no exception
to the rule. She. picked. the letter
up and read it. ! *
She had not perused three senten
ces before she felt convinced it was
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from as sweetheart. A full .perusal
corairMed her suspicions beyond all
doubt.
" 4nd so," shb exclaimed, mental
ly, her cheeks burning with indigna- -
tion and shame, " and so he has de.
cefveii me." -
The room seemed to swim round
withher. She felt sick arid faint.
She beard the street door open, and
she composed herself with a great ef
fort.
Francis Cox entered the room.
"Ah 1" he exclaimed, . "yon have
got back early."
"Rather," she replied, coldly.
"You seem out of sorts, my wild
flower "—a name he had given her.
" What is the matter?"
41 . You shouldn't leave sister's
letLers about," answered Clara, bit- .
terly;
Francis - Cox colored up to the.
roots of his hair. _
"1 hOpe," he said, with compos
ure, "you are not so dishonorable'rui
-to read my letters without, my sane•
tion."
44 (juite;dishonorable enough," an•
swered Clara. "Yon are a nice per
son to speak of 'thy; dishonor ;•. you
.have deceived me foully."
Then with . many tears Clara pour,
ed !brill her wrongs. - • •
You told me your only Corre
spondent was your -sister," she sob,.
bed ;- and all the while it .%ss ;your
sweetheart, who is dying for thelwm
terito come, when you are to beiniar
ried.. And yet you, could. lead me
on,i'and pretend to :4)e fond of me,
and teach me to grow fond of I you,
and—oh, you are worse than Cruel,
worse than
here Claia Moore broke - down in
an agony of tears. Mr... Cox looked
at)her with-an-expression:of-mingled
'annoyance and compasioe , ; .
Ilaw !" he said at last, assuming
Oat air of affeetation which he had
ceased to adopt - wherimaking love to
the unhappy village belle," Haw ! you '
Ate too_ severe.: I'M sure I never : u
tMided to lead you to imagine I was
seriously loYe. If you've made_
0:4 inistake.l'm awfully sorry, I'm
Ore ; but; of course, you know; you
never could have imagined Iliad any
idea of marrying yon?".
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4 "If you -.didn't mean ..that what
right hid yon to pretend to cantor
me?." cried Clara. " i You Aid every
thing but ask me to be your wife "
"And," knowing our relatiYe posi
tions," answered Francis Cox, "you
could not in your _Senses have sup
posed I should ever go as far as that.
It was merely, a harmless flirtation
to widle away - the dull hours, nothing
more."
. " You 'coward !" exclaimed Clara
Moore; and .casting a look of con
tempt at_ Mr. 'Cox, she quitted the
'room. Shame and indignation filled
her heart. To think she had allow
ed:. this man -to make a mere play
thing of her;
to think she had cruel
' ly neglected the noble-minded Ar
nold Carew 'for the-sake ()tan empty
handed, heartless fop: For the time
being poor Clara Moore was insane.
She rushed from the house into the
darkness of the night and Made- her
wa • to the - river. --W-h • should
not end it there? She had lest :Ar
nold jshe had been jilted and sneer
ed at by the • firie:crentlenian lodger;
shewould, be the laugh of the village.
Had she .committed an act of dishon
or sue as stamps'4 woman as bad in
the Aorld's eyes, she could not have .
thought Worse of herself.
She stood on .the towing-TKO; and
prepared to take a fatal plunge.
" Heaven forgive me l" she , soblieil
forth. " Arnold, Arnold, forgive my
cruelty; think kindly of we when
am gone." ! • - , •
As these wards escaped her lips
she sprang'forWard, but, in that same
moment a strong arm held her iback
from What would have added a crime
to her, 'comparatively speaking, tri
ial.folly. .
• " Clara ! 'what, in Heaven's . name,
would you do ?" exclaimed her res
cuer! and in the sound tof his voice
she learned . that Arnold Carew was
with her in the hour of her despair.
A Ar;mk later Mr. Cox left, the vil
lage. During that Week, "however,
Clara Moore never set eyes upon ',his
face again.
His 'Conduct deserved vflidt he did
not get,-a good horse-whipping ;but
at the same time it
.taught our helm
ine 11 - 16 - Ssein that.pretty and
,humble
-village maidens may take_to_litait,.
viz :Ala to aspire - to the, dignity of
becoming grand mauled city leaders
of fashion because a young swell hap-'
pens to smile upon them: -As a rule,
those gentlepien'are too' selfish F-and
too great slaves of conventionality,
to marry out of their own set, unless
it be fort heaps of. money."
A year later Arnold Carew was
married to Clara Moore, and a bet
ter wife never 'lived than she ,who
is as known as " The Village: Belle."
.
THE Size . CIF TUE . Eiontra.—The
Kansas Freedmen's relief association
has recently published a statementH
in regard to the preseat and .future
outlook of the exodus of colored
people from - the - south. The exodns
beian about . ' the first of February,
18741, and up - ,to - date About 6'0,000
ref ogees have gone to Kansas to live.
Nearly 40,000 oftliem were in a des
titute condition and haye been help
• ea by the association, $68,000 having
been expended for that purpose.
There are now' 55,000 colored refu
gees permanently settled' in Kansas;'
some 5,000 having gone into, other
states. There are about 50,000 in the
Country, some_ lands of their own
or. rented'places, while the others are
hired out to the • farmers, leaving
about 25,000 m and around the difler
ent towns and cities.
"BET FREDDY, bow could you think of
calling auntie stupid ? Go to her and tell
her immediately that you are sorry."
Freddy goes to auntie and says, " . Auntie
I am sorry you are stupid."
11AT 1.10 you suppose Lot thought
when he beheld his poor wife turned to a
pillar . of salt?" "I suppose,".replied our
wit, with admirable gravity, "he thought
how ho could get himself—a• fresh one."
MORE cellege wit : Thank are twelve
thousand new words ready for the revised
edition of Worcester's Dictionary. With
such facilitieii.writers of foreign editorisli
and othrs will bail: little difficulty In mak
ing themselves misunderstood.
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The First Prayer in Congress.
In natelieoo 11fi14tarr,J Journal,
under date of Deceuiber,ll777, is
found a note n • ng the identical
"first p i ongress," made by
the Rev. Jabot/ Niche, a gentleman
of great eloquence. Here it is—a
historical curiosity
" 0 Lord, our heavenly Father,
high. and mighty Kings of 'Kings,
and Lord of Lords, who dost from
thy throne behold all the dwellers of
the earth, and reignest with power
supreme and uncontrolled over all
the' kingdtims, empires, and govern
ments, look down in mercy, we be.
seech Thee, on the American States,
wha have tied , to Thee from the ,
of the oppressor, and thrown them
selves on thy gracious protection;
desiring to be henceforth dependent
only on Thee. To Thee they . have
appealed . for the righteousness Of
their causes; to Thee do they' now
look up for that countenance and
support which Thou alone cansi give.
Take them, therefore, Heavenly Fa
ther, unto Thy nurturing care. GiOe,
iem wisdom' in council and %mini. in
the field. Defeat the, maliciousneis
of - our adversaries; -cOnvince them of
the tthrighteonsness of their course ;
and if they still persist in sanguinary
purposes, oh! let the voice of llkine
own 'unerring justice, :soundingiin
their heats, constrain them to drop
the weapons of war from their un
nerved bands in 'tile day of battle.
Be Thou present, o,God of wisdom,
and direct the councils of this honor
able assembly. Enable them to set
tle Wits on the best and ,surest
foundations, that the scenes of blood
may be speedily closed - , - and order,
harmony and peace may be effectu
ally restored, and truth and justice,
religion and .piety, prevail and` flour
ish among - Thy - people*Preserve the
health of their .bodies and the vigor
of their, minds.; shower down upon
them' and the millions. they here rep
resent- such temporal . blessings as
Thou west expedient for them in
this world and crown them with
evefraifirig' 'glory in the world to
come. All this we ask in th?..naMe
and through the merits of Jesus
Christ, thy Son, our Savior. Anien."
, A -Walking_ Barometer.
After. the discussion of bumf
electrical batteries, it may be Well to
add that there is in this city a young
man, a resident of the Ninth Ward,
who is known as the.. " Walking Ba
rometer." He' predicts storms 'and
changes of atmosphere dUring the
warm months with wonderful accu
racy. He will foretell a steady rain
sometimes three, days before it comes
and will predict a thunder-storm the
same day of its occurrence, although
there he not a cloud in the sky, at the
time. He attributes his power to
foretell these storms to *calomel *in
his system. He says that several
years agoT while suffering from, a
bilious attack, "his physicians gave
bin a dose of,calomel. At the same
time he was using one of . Kidder's,
galvanic.machines - , which contained
a Smee'a battery for a nervous com
plaint; the solution of 'this battery
contained several ounces of quick
silver with which , to keep the zinc
plates of the batteryi-coated. His
physiCians told him to give up his
battery until after the effect of 'the
"calomel bad passed Off, as.there was
la possibility that the' electric quick
silver. solution might, through the,
'electric.ecurreat, form a' sympathy
with the calomel he had taken, return
'it to its.natural state of mercury .and
set it pernianently in his system.
1 After some ten days the. yc ung
Man. commenced to use his lattery
again, and almost immediately,. he
:says, - he detected a dull pain along
the bones:of hie legs from the 'ankles
i to, the knees, /and this Pain came
.whenever . be 'used the galvanic bat •
i tery, and could not be removed. Af
ter giving up the use • OrtlreAtittery*
he noticed' that the pains seemed. 'to
, come at regular interi'als,..and!tinally
he noticedthere would be-: a 'storm,
but as soon as rain fell or there was
stn enloSion of 'electricity in the
shape of thimder f. these pains instant
ly ceasect ' In cold weather he !Cries
hiSlaeulty of when there is
going - to be a. Storm, as the mercury
in his shiabonea is in a painful' state
of activity all the while. It
- does not
aeem --to Bother him, - however, and
few peOpie s , as they see his form mov
ing with swift and - sure step along'
the streets, know the pain
He - nye that if quicksitVer would
-onlygive him' a rest once in a-while
'during cold weather, he could beat
Vermor all' to pieces on: predicting
storms - . His storm, predictions during
the::: spring ; summer and early fall
months - are rarely known to 'fail.—
Kin - gSion '(N. Y.)
,Frceptaia. • - • •
`t r .' •The New Czar.
Alexander Alexandrovitch, who
from czarewitch now so suddenly be
comes czar of all the Russians, was
born . February 2 2,6, (March 10, new
style) 1845, and was Married on Nci
vember 9, 1866, to lAtarie Dagmer,
then 19 Years old, daughter of Chris
tian IX, king of Denmark. The czar
'is:therefore brother - in- aw o tie
Ptince of irales, ih 9 married the
Princess Maria's elder sister Alexan
ana also of George 1. King
Christian's second son, who was elect
e.4o king of _. the Bellenes in_lB63 lt
is very plain how these relationships
are now most important. As to
Alexander lll's policy and , ability,
very little can be said, for. he has yet
to show his quality. In 1877 he did,
indeed, command the army of Biela,
but in that capacity be did, or was
permitted to do nothing , of note, and
was finally superseded. It is certain,
however, that neither his nor his for
eign policy wilt be molded 'after his
-father s. His dislike of the Germans
has been outspoken, especially•since
his marriage, and he leas not hesitated
to say that favoritism to them, to the
prejudice of the native element, has
been a just cause of dissatisfaction.
Toward the end of 1879 he came to
in, open rupture with:. Ins fathyr on'
the question of their common inherit
ance of rule over 85,000,000 people.
The erszthen inforuked the czarewitch,
it, was reported, that citning his reign
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not a single constitutional experi
ment ought to'be made,and the son's
reply was that , his father had no
.right to compromise the future of the
dynasty by denying reforms which
were demanded - by many ministers
and generals, the administrative Sen
ate and most of the army. From
this it would appear that the conflict
between constitutional and autocratic
principles is at last settled and that
the immediate initiation of govern
ment reforms will be the new czar's
first act.
The personal characteristics of the
czar4mve been recently well'ilescrib•
ed by an apparently well informed
writer. Like his father,' Alexander
111, is some six t feet in height, deep
chested, broad-shouldered, and seem
ingly of great strength. Ills eyes
are light gray, and his head is large
and Of a shape which phrenologists
say indicates a strong will. His
mouth is small, with good teeth ; his
air is auburn and his complexion
very fair. In St. Petersburg he usual
ly wears a uniform, but when visiting
his wife's relations he wears a_shep
herd's plaid and neither gloves nor
jewelry. Ile is an excellent family
man, and in Copenhagen, where-he
and-the--Princess Dagmar are both
great favorites, they walk about in
the most unceremonipus mani*r.
Their children are Nicholas, born in
1868'; George, born in 1871 ;_ Xenia,:
born in 187 x; Michael. born in 1878,
and, it is believed one younger child.
As a 'child, AlesanOer's education
,was such as might he expected for a
_man in his position, that is, as thor
ough as was possiole inllnisia, or
indec4, in the worlds Ile was an apt
pupil and his knowledge of both
sliid military atfairs lic-iinsider
.able. His study in the Anitchkoy
palace is fitted up with Maps and
globei ? and among the books, histori
cal woks in many languages predomi
nate. lie is a great readr of news
papers, especially wheiLtraveling, and
he has taken personal Thterest,m the
, publication _of the , state .papers
Russia. • - •
-The Cumberland Clock.
John H. Hendley ' is- exhibiting a
piece of wonderful mediariism at Lan
caster,- called the CtiMberland clock,
which was invented rand constructel
by himself. The clock is nearly 12
feet high, weighs 2,500 pounds, and
the number of mechanical effects is
surprising.. In the -first place the
number of dial indications is 16, as
follows : Time of day, day of mouth,
the heavenly bodies - and changes of
the moon; the , phases of the moon,
the day of the monp corresponding
to each phase of the moon; the hours
of the lunar day, the hours of the
lunar night, the average rising of the
moon, the average setting of the
moon, the hours of the nights that
are Moonlight, the actual position of
the moon' at any time, the relative
positions of the sun and moon, the
time of the'tide, the kind of tide,
time the tide flows, time the tide
ebbs.i.•
. Among the mechanical effects are
a boy and girl. see-sawing, a lady,
playing ro,miniature piano on the
right, and on the left a mill and ship,
and a sentinel walking around the
ramparts; -- Alf--otd bell-ringer gives,
the stroke announcing. the passsge.of
the declaration of independence,
President Lincoln• signs the emanci
pation 'proclamatinnt—all—the—Presi
dents of the united States,' from
Washington to Garfield, walk across
a stage and
.after them come two
locomtitives,_onesof whin!' is a model
of the first one ever built and the
second a model in gold and silver of
a locomotive of the, present time.
- Between the statues of - Robert Em
inent and Bismarck is a faithful rep
,resentation of the Strausburg clock
in miniature,with all the mechanism
of that, celerated structure.
In no department of human effort
is more progress being made than in
journalism—especially in the mechan
ical part of it. Thirty years ago
2,000 impressions an hour was-about
the limit of the •capacity of a news
paper press; now presses that will
print 20,000 . and ,30,000,, and even
40,000 pipers-an-hour-arc-getting to
be quite common. The Boston-Jour=
vial recently put in - a Hoe web-per-
feeting press which cuts the paper;
prints it and folds it; and the Phila
delphia Press lately set up a Bullock
machine that does the same things,
and, in addition 7 pastes the leaves.
These presses, however, are not ex
ceptional; several of the larger news
paper offices have them or are con
tracting for them: The Times' four
cylinder Hoe, which can be_ run at
the rate of 10,000 an hour. is getting
a little too slow for us, nnd will have
to make way for a faster press. It
would seem that the limit of speed
has been reached in newspaper print
ing ; but it is just possible some in
ventive genius may now be at work
upon a machine that wilkin
to folding the 'paper, direct it, carry
it to the post-office, distribute it to
the subscriber,
.opens and spread its
well-filled pages upon a table before
hi and, finally, adjust his spectacles
upon his nose and place him in a
comfortable position to= enjoy their
varied contents. The Chicago Times
announces, in a double-leaded article,
that it haS ordered several type-set
ting machines, and ' that the composi
tion of the paper will shortly be done
by them at a rate of speed never be
fore attained in this country. The
machine, which, is known as the Kot
terbein type-setter, was invented in
Brussels, where the Times implements
will be constructed. A company, has
been formed to manufacture the.type
setter in Chicago, andAt may be that
a dozen years hence..t very. few type
will . be set - by hand.---4'roy Times►.
"Nor ded but gon abed " is the- in
-eription on a Deadwood tombstone.
Tau boarder who passed - Ids plate • the
second, time for cutlet, re-veal-ed a strong
appetite.
• Asr girl has a right - to look at .a milli
ner's window and wish she had a rich
husband.
Tuosz beings are tit only for solitude
who like 'nobody, are like nobody, and
are liked by no body. • •
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611.00 per Annum In'Advance.
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NUMBER 45
FOOTSTEPS AT THE DOOR.
As we know familiar voices, ,
Every near and dear one!, call, •
Coming through the slient'ehambers, •
Wak~ngechoeslnthehall; ' .
tlo with Instinct all Unerring,
Ever strengtheilitig;',more and more,
We can read the varied language •
Or the 'footsteps at the door. '
Ortirdp&'s faltering triad; noir heavy
With the weight of fruitful years,
Nearing yonder golden city—
Almost:through this vale ,of tears.
theadfaeqeei that never loitered
Bravely going on before.'
By-and•by we'll miss their music—
Precious footsteps at the door:
Then, the patter of the children,
Happy darlings I out and in, •
Like the butterflies-awl sunbeams,
With no thought of care or yin : -
Little feet that need'sure guiding
Pastille pitfalls on the Shore,, . •
test they turn aside to mischief ;
Blessed footsteps at the door :
Then the matron, glad and cheery,
Hears her good man drawing nigh
And the children hear the mother
As her busy footsteps fly ;
Household music ! We all bear It
While we tore it more and more,
And we hope to welcome with it
Angel footsteps at the door '
If all the ivotid should thee forget,
And leave thee noltialone;
Thy faithful holy Jesus yet
- Takes idly on Ills Imo.
lie knowswell how to etrengthen thee
lie calls thee to Ills trea=t.
A It, 'no one knows =a weft 33 Pe,'
Or glves.the heart such rest. ,"
Oh poor one come, thy Lord doth her
The'surrrings thou clod bear,•
With loving wurda comfort the - e,,
And take away thy care.,
yektliough the world should thee forget,
Aud leave twee quite alone,
Thy true and loving Jesus yet
Takes pity - on ills own.
W. 'Newton Meat
How WOMEN ' TRA VEL BY ,RA I L_L.
RUSSIA.—A lady smoker on a rail
way train in the United States ' •
can thankfully say, is a Curiosity; al
ways looked up s on with disgust—But
in Russia, feminine smokers seem to
rule the day on railroads, as the fol
lowing story will show : "The other
day," says a correspondent tea Ger
man newspaper, " I accompanied a
lady relative to the Nicholas Rail
way Depot, St. Petersburg, Russia,
from which place she want ed-to take
the evening Express for Moscow, and
on - showing her first-class ticket, she
applied to the conductor for a seat in
a ladies' coupe or compartment, which
seats from eight to ten persons. To
our great surpise, we,found this coup
the only compartment ' For Ladies,'
on the train, was occupied by lady
smokers, and the apartment was so
filled 4 with smoke that even ft tobacco
using man would' have felt miserable
in it, When I asked whether smolt ,
ing was • permitted the conductor
gave me an answer in the affirmative ;
thereupon I went to the chief agent
at the depot and politely asked-him
whether he could not furnish me with
a seat in a ladies coach where smok,
ing was prohibited but I received this
answer : 'There Are gentlemen's
coaches for tboae -. svho smoke,
in which women pi ay sit, but apart
ments expressly for ladies here
4x i
smoking is prohibited, - do not e ist
011 our trains." Why how is a dy
traveling alone to'do when she an
not stand ; such smoke?' 'Wh let
her go in the car for gentleme ark
ed 'No Smoking, '
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THE Springfield . Republican has
this description of the government
printing-office : " Few - persons have
any-eonteption of the magnitude of
work done by_ this, office. This is
said to be the largest single printing
establishment in the world. In order
to give I.n idea of what can be done
by this admirably organized bureau,
a single instance will be cited, that of
the proceedings of the Halifax-fish
eries commission together with, the
voluminous testimony .Aaken by it.
This mass ,of manuscript 'material '
was sent to, the gove.mment_printing=
office from Congress, the type all set
galley -sheets 'printed, the proof
read and ' corrected, the galleys
broken up into pages-,.page-proof
taken and read, and then printed,
folded, pressed, tied into.bundles, the
'signatures_' collected into volumes
of serial pages, stitched; bound, and
delivered to Congress in`forty-eight
hours from the time it was placed in
the hands of the public printer,This
work contained 4,800 printed.octavo
pages. No other printing-office in
the world could have
_completed a
work of such 'magnitude in the brief
space of forty-eight. hours. It was
equivalent to_one hundred printed
pages per hour from the manuscript
to the bound volume.
A NEW SIFRSTITUTE FOR COEFEE.....
.A project for - making coffee out of
dates attracting much attention in
England, and a company has been
formed in London called the Date
• • is pang , which' proposes to
revolutionize the trade. The patent
consists in drying the date fruit by a
process which' separates the' ends
from ; the pulp. The ends are -then
placed in a revolving vessel, and sub
jected to heat, under the influence of
which they become in color like
roasted.coffee. They are thencrushed
and mixedwith real coffee and, a lit
tle-chickory-, aq ole_inclaimed
to' produce a mixture superior to
Mocha coffee— The English' govern
ment will not allow this adulterated
coffee to be manufactured in England,
but-allows it tole imported at a duty
of four cents
,a pound. The works
are at Kuriachee, India, where date
are plentiful. A French company
has been organized, and now there is
a plan on foot to organize all Ameri
can company, but it will hang) , suc
ceed here as abroad,_ because the
price of coffee has been tending
downward for years, and in a year
over $7,009,000 have been lost in cof
fees in this country. The supply now
is much larger than'the demand.
TERRORS OP THE SlMooll.—The
" simoom," or poison wind. of Arabia
is a serious affair to the travelers
caught in it. The centre of the col
umn of wind is composed of a poison
ous gas, to breathe which is death:
A HYMN
Round this centre there eddy violent
gusts of heated and farpaeapastedairi
like, that of s fbriaee. approaches
slowly, amid the whirl of air evrents
that pemdes It for some distance. .
During its presence the only chance
of preserving life is found in cover
ing the face with a cicith t and Wag
prone on the sand, inhaling . what
little pure air,.may be found next the -
earth. Meanwhile, the feeling of the
chest is that of suffocation, and that
in the limbs as if molten iron - was
being poured, over , them. Camels in
stinctively bury their nozzles in, the
sand ;. but horses 'do ' not possess the
same preservatory instincts, and'
often perish in - consequence. •
The new ocean ..steamship Servia,
buikfor the Cunard line, is said to
be larger than any vessel afloat, ex-'
ceLit the Great Eastern. Her length'
is3o feet ; - breadth,-52 feet ; depth,
44 feet 9 inches; gross tonnage, 8,-
300 tons. Her cargo capacity is 6,-
500 tone. The machinery consists
ofthree cylinder .compound surface
condensing engines, with a stroke of •
piston of 6 feet 6 inches. The engines
arc capable of 10,500. horse-power.
The ship is divided into nine water
tight bulkheads, and is provided with
twelve, life-boats. Practically the
Servia is a live decker, as She is built
with four decks and a promenade
reserved for passengers. Everything
within reach of a heavy sea is of iron
and steel and riveted to the . steel
decks. There are 168 stateroorbs and
the vessel has accommodations -for
450 first-class and 600 stedrage passen
gers, besides a crew of. 200 olliceis
and men.
=MCI
EIUSBANDfi, ov .COMMISSION.
Chicago merchant accompanied a
Milwaukee gentleman—an old friend
--to his home,'where he had been many
times a 'guest before. In a converea-___.
tion with the chanting daughter of
his host, he rallied her on her con
tinuance in a state of single blesied
ness. She - replied that none of the.
Milwaukee beaux were to her taste,
anti in an indifferent way inquired if
Chicago had any nice young men dis
engaged. Receiving an affirmative
reply, she remained a minute or two
in a blown study. and then brighten
ing up, said in a bantering tone :
" Well, you are a commission mer
chant; send me down a nice young -
man and I will allow yoil a commis-. _
sion of 19 Cents a pound."
The Milwaukee girl got her nice
young man in due time. The cont. 2
mission charges were just $19.30.
GREENWOOD CEMETERY.—The re
port of the Trustees pf Greenwood
Cemetery, Long Island, for the past
some interesting fea
tures. The -interments numbered •
5,278, making the total interments in ,
the cemetery 205,025. The 2:0 lots
sold make 'the total 23,3.35. : The re
ceipts were $177,005.32,. and=the dis
bursements $23,091.37. The indivith
ual funds held In trust for '.the im
-provemerit-and care of the cemetery
has been increased to $592,574 35 by
-the addition of $2 - 7,373.04. - Among
the improvements made was the lay -
ing of 2,854 linear feet of walk. The
water supply has- been extended by
lAying 5,00 U feet of pipe. The num
ber pf monuments-and headstones is
45,283. There are 592 -vaults.- Thou._
sands of chipmunks and ground mice
were destroyed last year,' besides
• dogs, cats, snakes, rats and moles.
• REMARKABLE DISTLAX OF NATURE.
—One of the most remarkable .dis
plays of nature may be secii-' on the
Atlantic coast__ eightt.en miles south
of St. •Augtystine.. On Matanzas inlet
and • three miles fritim shore a male- .
moth fresh water spring Orgies np
from the depth of the ocean with such
force and volume as to attract the
attention of all who come in its im
mediate vicinity. When . the waters
of the ocean in its vicinityare other
wise calm and tranquil the upheaving
and troubled appearance of the wa
ter shows . unmistakable eyidenees of
internal commotions. An area of
about half an acre has this appear
ance.- Six or eight years' ago Com
modore Hitchcock, of. the 'United
StAtes coast survey, found six fathoms
of water`; everywhere in the vicinity,
while the -spring itself was almcAt
fatliomlesS.
- IN the first six weeks of ls , (1 the
tiailroads have killed 102 persons'a-n
-iaimed 120 otheri. By marine dis
asters. 170. persons have lost their
lives. By explosions and other cas
ualties 205 persons_ have been killed
in this country, as; reported by tele- -
graph ; which only takes cognizance -
of larger 'casualties; Not content
with the losss of life by natural and
unavoidable causes, eighty wretched
persons in this-- country have taken
their own lives; and Hs others have
been murdered . --in six weeks l time,
and these names only include those
whose hitlies.hav,e been mentioned in -
the telegraphic - news, which,of course, •
only includes a part of the whole •
'number.—Chicap Tribune.,
WORDS OE WISDO3I.-110W boor
are they who have not patience!
It is not only arrogant but it is
profligate for a man to disregard the
world's_opinion of himielf.
We are hanging, up pictures every
day abdut the chamber walls of, our
hearts that we shall have to look at
when we sit in the shadows
Socrates said 'that there are two
Sciences which every man ought' to
learn—first, the science of speech,
and.second the more difficult one of
silence.
- A - desire for knowledge-is the nat•
ural feeling of mankind`; and every
human being whose mind' is not de
bauched 'will be willing to give all
that he has to get knowledge.
AUED. ONE HUNDRED AND Tutu-
TEEN.—Colonel Wilßarri G. Gordon,
of Chesterville, - Oido, is said to be
113 years old, and still a compara
tively strong and active_man.--11e-is—,
wealthy and manages all his own
business affairs. In his youth he
served in the British army, and says
that he knew Napoleon L He has
but one p.vuliar habit-that ofd per
sistently eating crackers. He always
has a large basket of crackers hang
ing on biS bedpost, and besides three
hearty meals a- day, he eats upon an
average, twelve pounds of crackers a
week-from-this basket, taking ECV
eral whenever he- awakens in- the
night.
WOMAN I I3 Woake- 44 Won3an's work
is never done," says the old saw.
Tradition has marked out the routine
of her 'daily duties somewhat after
this fashion:
. Motulay's met wash, apnea • :
Tuesday's work Is to Iron, with grace
Wednesday"; work Is to bake and sew ;
Thursday's work Is to ekan—tor show ;
work Is to sweep,. dust and brush
Oaturdayhtwork.bi to - cook—with a rash :
The next then comes Is the Sabbath day,
And then she's too Wad 10 iitat of to pray
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