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AT TIIE OFFICE OF THE
Tcf fcrsoniaii Kepnhlieaii.
Prom the Louisville Journal.
The Spring of Life is;tst.
The spring of life is past,
With all its hopes and fears,
And the Autumn time is coming,
With its weight of weary years;
Our joyousness is fading,
Our hearts are dimmed with care,
And youth's fresh dreams of gladness,
All perish darkly there.
While bliss was blooming near us,
In the heart's first burst of-spring,
While many hopes could cheei us,
Life seemed a glorious thing ;
t Like a foam upon the river,
When the breeze goes rippling o'erj
These hopes have fled forever,
To come to us no more.
'Tis sad, yet sweet, to listen ;
To the soft, wind's gentle swell.
And think we hear the music
Our childhood loved so well;
To gaze out on the even,
And the boundless fields of air,
And we feel again our boyhood's wish,
To roam, like angel's there.
There are many dreams of gladness,
The cling around the past,
And from that tomb of feeling,
Old thoughts come thronging fast;-
The forms we loved so dcarlv,
J i
In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely, , .
So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens,
Who seemed so formed for bliss,
Too glorious and too heavenly,
For such a world as this; . ??
Whose soft dark eyes seemed swimming,
In a sea of liquid light,
And whose locks of gold were streaming.
O'er brows so suuny bright.
"Whose smiles were like the sunshine,
In the spring time of the year,
Like the changeful gleams of April,
They followed ever' tear;
They have passed, like hope, away, ,
All their loveliness has fled, :
Oh ! many a heart is mourning, '
That the' are with the dead.
-Like the brightest buds of summer, 1 '
They have fallen from the stem, .
Yet, oh, it is a lovely death, ..v-.
To fade from earth like them.
And vet, the thought is saddening,
To muse on such as they,
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away; ;W
That the fair ones whom we love, "
Like the tendrils of a vine,
Grow closely to each loving heart, ,ui "
Then perish on their shrine. ",t;, ..
And we can but think of these,
In the soft and gentle spring, f .
When the trees are waving o'er us, '
And the flowers are blossoming.
For we know that winter's coming,
With his cold and stormy sky,
And the glorious beauty round us,
Is budding but to DIE ! ' " '
t
j Napoleon single-handed, and was utterly sub
IIorsidle DnEAX.-We once heard a very ducd m a smgl(J bricf campaign commencing
laughable joke which a hen pecked husband ( with tlle doublc rout(J of Jeiina Auerg.
got upon his Mrs. Caudle. He had borne her berffj and closin wiUl the French armies-ic.
railing for many a long year, till one morning torious on her frontien Tlis com.
while she was blustering away about the pleted the virtual conquest of all Germany by
wood, short potatoes, flour, &c. he remarked Napoleon, Austria bavins been fully crushed
very pathetically : j by him in tkc battle of Austerlitz, December
" Jerush, I had a dream last night, a very 2, 1805.
queer one, and it gives me some uneasiness.! -i,, nrrn n TT, ,
! . ifi . r . . . , j Ffty years ago, George IltT was in the
1 dreamed that I was taken sick and died.5 , , P. . . . .
tv i x 1 -i midst ot his reign over the British Emniro
" ell if it was no more than that, said' fe empire,.
Jerush, "I wish it had been more than a with Pitt and I ox, the leaders of the Tory
dream. ; and Whig parties at tiie height of their life-
" But that is not all,1 said the husband. ' l0nr strugo-le. They both died suddenly six
redofTneof afterward. Trafalgar was yet un-
rea oi one ot the imps for the old devil him- , , . T , , , . . , ,
fielf, and was shown into presence. The old 0USbt, but Nelson was already idolized for
V.H.i. .rrrr : 1 . . ... .! . 17!.. L 1 1- .
fien, anu was shown into presence. The old
fellow 'recognized me at once, and said he, '
' have you come here to to stay!' I told him ;
Iliad 'Weill can't have you here,' said 1
come, and then hell will be in an uproar all 1
tlie time !'
Soon after the completion of the narrative
of the dream, there came a shower of culina
ry utensils about the poor fellow's headwhich
obliged him to seek quarters els,wher,c ; till
his Jezabel's wrath had subsided.
A Rctros-
pect.
The following- article, which we copy from
the New York Tribune, is of exceeding in-
; terest at the present time, when we are just
cntcring upon a I1CW
' , . A.
changes, mutations, ail
half century. The
and progress of the last
Halt century mav Serve US to surmise, tOSOlllC
,
vrtwut u nut liio iiu.xi .aua.il u i iuui Li J,
Fifty years ago, George Washington had
j just gone to his grave amid the tears and
industry, was beginning to realize the bles
sings of Independence and Freedom. Tliom-
as Jefferson had just been designated for next
President by a majority of the American peo-
' pie, but had not yet boon actually elected,
j there being an equal number of votes for him
! and his associate (Burr) on the Republican
I ticket, as it was then called, requiring an e-
1 lection by the House, which took place in
February following. The population of our
Jcatntry was over 5,300,000, or considera-
I bly less than one-fourth the present number.
. The Union then consisted of Sixteen States
! Vermont, Tennessee and Kentucky having
1 been added to the original Thirteen. Ohio
i ...
. had begun to be settled at Marietta, Cincin-
j natti, Warren, and perhaps one or two other
points, but had not yet population enough for
a tate. Jiere were small settlements at
' Detroit, and perhaps at one
points west of Ohio : but Louisi
Spanish province, including St
1 as New Orleans, and the Mississippi a Span-
ish river, through which our people then set-
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uiu; in int.: vaiirv ui im wiiiu u:u uuiiit'u
egress for their products. Florida was of
course all Spanish, and what are now Ala
rbama and Mississippi partly Spanish and
I wholly a wilderness. Our own State had
scarcely a -white inhabitant west of the sour
ces of the Mohawk and Susquehanna; Buftlt-
lo and Rochester were forests travesed only
j by savages. The Erie canal had hardly been
'dreamed of by the wildest castle-builder, and
Tltc Half Century
the. western limit of this State (which a few unquestioned possession of the savage tribes
' months more will bring within 24 hours of i who had thinly peopled them from time im
us) was practically farther off than Paris or memorial, and whose barbarous occupations
Galena now is. This city had a population of war and the chase forbid the hope of their
, of 00,000 (less than an eighth its present
1 number) mainly living below Chambers st.,
while Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City,
j and its other suburbs, did not contain a fif
; tieth part as many inhabitants as now. Phil
adelphia was a sixth larger than New York;
now one-fifth smaller, with a far greater dis
parity of suburban population. Boston had
j 25,000 inhabitants, Baltimore 2G,500; Wash
j ington City (wither the Federal Government
1 had just been removed,) had 3,200. A few
daring spirits were just beginning to migrate
from the older portions of New England to
j Western New York (" Holland Purchase")
I and North-Eastern Ohio an enterprise quite
as arduous and perilous as emigration hence
' to California and Oregon now is.
In Europe, Napoleon had just reached the
topmost round of the ladder by overthrowing
i the Directory and causing himself to be pro--t
claimed First Consul, though he was not
crowned Emperor till 180-1. He had return
ed from his abortive invasion of Egypt in
'1799, but the battle of Marengo, which made
' Italy a French province for twelve years
! thereafter, was not fought till June, 1800.
j The Austrian monarch was still known as
"Emperor of Germany." Poland, after a
melancholy, fitful struggle of twenty-five
years against internal anarchy and the con
spiracy of Kings for her destruction, had just
ceased to exist Alexander had not yet as
cended The throne of Rusia, his father Paul I.
! not being assassinated till March, 1801.
Prussia had preserved peace since the defeat
of the Allied invasion of France in 1792, her
councils inclining for or against Revolutiona
ry France as fortune smiled or frowned, and
. so remained until 180G, when she engaged
louIU uul
his victories of Cap
&c. His attack o
inn,fl t ; AnrI, 1ftr
)e oi. inceni, yiuouiur,
on Copenhagen was not
All this Continent, south and west as well
as north of the one million square miles be
longing to the United States, (since increas
ed to 3,280.,000,) was claimed by various Eu
ropean powers as, ttheir respective colonial
possessions all north pf us (as now) except'
a vaguely defined and inhospitable portion of i Since Napoleon's death, Spain, Poland, Ita
thc Northwest Coast, belonging to Great : ly and Germany have by turns been the the
Britian, while all south and west of us was atre of revolutionary commotions looking to
ruled by Spain and Portugal, except a small . republican freedom, but these ebullitions luyre
portion of the eastern coast of South Amcfi- j all been quenched in blood, and monarchy,
ca lying between the mouths of Orinoco and more or less absolute in form, but generally
the Amazon, which was shared by England, despotic in substance, is now the common law
France and Holland, and known as British, J of the most enlightened quarter of the earth
French and Dutch Guiana. This small por- j save in France and Switzerland. France is
tion is still European; with most of the islands , now nominally a Republic, but, practically,
known as West Indies, but no Spanish or ruled the twin aristocrats of musketry and
Portuguese flag now waves over any portion J money, to-day enjoys far less real freedom
of the Continent. Portuguese America, than the smaller kingdoms, Sardinia, Sweden
peaceably separated from the mother coun
try, now constitutes the Empire of Era -
zil, and is governed by a branch of the Por-
tuguese royal house of Braganza; while the
vast region formerly constituting Spanish A -
merica is now divided as follows : Louisiana,
Florida, Texas, New-Mexico and Upper Cal -
ifomia have been acquired by the United . and unlawful robbery from nearly half their
States : while the residue of Mexico, Central number of the right of suffrage ; her aristoc
Amcrica, Venezuela, New-Grenada, Quito, ' ratic predominance is undermined by intestine
Peru, Chili, Buenos Ayrcs and their append-
ages, have become independent, and are striv-
inSi generally with indifferent success, to
maintain Republican institutions, though with
a constant tendency, created by ignorance,
indolence and superstition, to degenerate in-
to military despotisms. Such Buenos Ayres
appears now to be, while Venezuela and Mex-
ico have been frequently distracted by the
arts and arms of military chieftains. Cen-
. tral America has been torn to pieces by the
general causes above recited, and now lies
prostrate anu poweness. iUcxico exhibits
via. The Spanish Presidency of Quito is
now the Republic of Equador. Paragua and
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; vjiuyua jm c ai-jjuiaivii nuiii jjut'iiua jwret,
and each is now independent, the latter
known as " the Oriental Republic," though
its people are more commonly known as
" Monte Videans," from their capital. The
extreme southern portion of the Continent,
known to Europeans as '"Patagonia," with a
! great portion of the interior of South Ameri-
ca, and the north part of North America
re
main as they were in 1S00. in the undisturbed.
bed
self-improvement. The imnronerlv termed
West Indian Isles remain in good part as in
4 W
1S00, save that Hayti, then in revolt against
France has achieved hef independence of both
France and Spain, while slavery has been a
bolishcd throughout the islands ruled by
Great Britian. The continental possessions
of Great Britian have improved considerably
m population and wealth; Upper Canada of
late quite
ranidlv Nortliwar, of i-.tit.wlo
rapidly, in ortn ward ot latitude oO ;
dg. the scv
verity of the climate on this side '
and the remoteness from civilized and pco-'
or two other unequivocal symptoms or uecrcpituue anu ap- nc emancipation m ireianu, anu rariimenta- UL ,l 'y irunopumieni, oi nunc m ' apparent
., I ' l . i t i" ? t i , ,i , . ii Iiiiai.i
ana was a prouumii"-uissouiuou. upper l'eru nas uc- ry nuiurm in aruat uriuan, are two or its " -"u, cumu tun vems u, ;wav ami
i .: i: tt v t i Tf i -ri . . tiio cirr nr sn.'tnn cmim Ml. .
. Loins ns u-pll i cornea senarate Renublic. now known .is Rnli-1 neaeeful tronies. Such nm t ho nrlitirnl nc, the history of whieh will commend itself . mn- nincr a
pled countries on thc other, have prevented ', p' fcucil dISSnicetul proceedings on the frequently to think it is their nature to ' Dear, brave boy 1' exclaimed the be
any considerable settlement. Successive at-1 part ofa man' vcr' "aturally rufllcd thc tern- be. Of sill natural things, a reproach al- reaved father, 'and this was the explana
tempts to discover a Northwest passage a-' per t,lc Drutn but as there was no other most to childish frankness and innocence, 1 tion which I refused to hear !' And hot
round this Continent from Europe to the ' alternative, he was obliged to submit. - save me from a 'boy man !" But to the and bitter tears rolled down his cheeks.
nrtli Rnnifin l,nvn lo,l tn nr nmt;nl M.lf
Great Britian, already bereft of her most;
valuable colonies by the American Revolu-!
tion, has built up twqnew Empires within the'
present century the first by successive con-,
quests and annexations in Ilindoostan, where
her possessions now cover a territory as larn-e
as Europe south of the Rhine and thc Dan-'
ube,and poepled by hardly less than one hun-'
drcd millions of human beings. From the In- j
dus on the west to the Irawadi on the east. !
from the ocean on the south to thc Himalayas
on the north, almost the entire continent is ,
now under British rule
A 1
vaster anu more prosperous.
populous, British Empire
ing, from what were in
erncsses, scantily inhabited by the lowest'
grade of savage beings, and infected along !
the coasts by a few cargoes of expatriated j
rascality. The growth of British Australia
is now proceeding with a rapidity scarcely
paralleled, and apparantly with'entire solidi
ty and health.
The culmination, decline and overthrow of
Napoleon's colossal power belongs to thc first "ustcr
quarter of the present century. In 1800 First, " Why, Charley 7" ,
Consul; in 1804 "Emperor of the French ;" : "Because the grammcr says, positive buss,
in 1811 master of nearly all Continental .'comparative buster; audi dids.e.him gin
rope except Russia, with Italy, Germany, y such a I)0sitivo buss'" Lirzic Stt'00,,ed-
Austria, Spain at his feet, and even Rusia, !
Turkey, and the United States virtually his
allies, and only England stubbornly resisting
his strides to universal dominion. 1814 saw
him defeated and exiled; 1815 a discrowned
prisoner ' for life, and 1821 witnessed his
"death on a lone barren Isle," almost equi
distant from the eastern and western hemis-
pheres. On his complete discomfiture, Eu-'a
rope reverted very nearly into the condition
cij ncaiiv uitu uic LuimiLiun
which it exhibited prior to the outbreak of
A-xunciitevoiution, t rance Demg restored
to monarchy and reduced to her modern lim-1
its; Germany reconstituted a despotic an-
archy; Italy surrendered to Austria and ah
soluteism ; Poland left a wreck and a divided
ruin; Turkey still further crippled and hast
ening to decay; while only jussia manifested
external growth combined with eternal vigor.
' and Denmark. Switzerland still retains her j
' ancient liberties, though convulsed by faction
within, and menaced by banded despotisms
without. So all on the Continent seems fixed
'as Royalty would have it, but it is only seeming,
' France is a volcano ready for eruption : her
' millions will never acquiesce in the arbirtary j
feuds, which will yet divorce the sword, the
, money-chest and the mitre from their present j
j alliance, and restore the rule of the masses ; ;
and the day which sees a democratic asccn-!
dency restored in Paris will arouse there-'
publicans of Germany, Italy, Hungary and
perhaps of Poland, to make vehement strug-'
gle for the liberties of mankind. Despotism
has now the bayonets and the arsenals on its .
sides as of yore ; but in popular intelligence,
in comprehension of the rights of man the
necessary iniquties of kingcraft, the world
has made vast progress since
1800. Catho-
-pects on which opens the latter half of the
Nineteenth Century.
Aucctdete of a Io.
A friend who hasbeen spending the win
tor in Halifax, N. S., tells the following
anecdote of a dog, which. is about the best
story of canine sagacity that we have ever
heard.
Tige is a splendid Newfoundland, and pos-
scsses good sense as well as good looks..
I IIe LS in tlie lmbit ot' oin with a penny in
his mouth, to the same butcher's shop and death occurred under circumstances, which fish line and hook that hung over where
purchasing his own breakfast, like a gen- wcre peculiarly painful to his parents. A ! the water was deep, and the first thing
temanly dog as he is. But it so happened )oullSer brother, a delicate, sickly child . we saw he had slipped off, and wasstrug
upon one cold morning during the past win- J'1'0!11! birth, the next in age to him, i ling in the water ! .Henry threw off his
ter, the shop was closed, and the necessity h been down for nearly a fortnight with . c
' r ' J nil am dOllUC toVOl". Ill nnnconnnnnn nf if tlin -U7?ltrr onrl fiffni o ninnf ,lonl P
1 t i ....
! sccmeu 10 uc lmPosea "t)on AlS cither to
,.tiuiut tuu uuluuui luturu ui iuuk lur nib
breakfast elsewhere. Hunger probably con-
strained him to take the latter alternative,
and oft' he started for another butcher's shop,
near his favorite resort. Arriving there, he
deposited his money upon the blgck, and
smacked his chops for breakfast, as usual ;
bul the butcher instcad of meetiiiff the dc-
'
u""u ;ib a uuoman ougni, m used tne com
mt0 thc lilb and drove the dog out of the
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master furnished him with the coin for the'
Purcbase of breakfast, as usual, the dog, in-
stca(1 ot S0UlS to the shop where he had
bccn accustomed to trade, went immediately
10 llie sll0P lrom whence ne was so unceremo-
lll0Usly ejected thc day before, laid his peny
uPn t,in block, and with a growl, as much
as t0 say "'ou dou,t I),ay any morc tricks
P travellers," placed his paw on the pen-
ny. The butcher, not liking to risk, under
such a demonstration, the perpetration of
another fraud, immediately rendered him the
away with the me.it at one swallow, and sei-
zinff the penny again in his mouth, made off
to the shoP of bis more honest acquaintance,
and by thc purchase of a double breakfast,
made UP tor Jus previous last.
OF" " Lizzie," said a little curly-headed
boy of some five years, 'isn't Sam Slade a
CrJLv An " Tiiflirriijint Southerner.
sneak-
1
; e- !r: , fut nnn.hne nf thn
mi: ui ltiuuii;, ouyo uun. wn- ....... . -
fiirms are so barren, that you might mow
.. . I .1 .!.
them with a razor, and ruKe mem w an a
tooth comb, and yet not get enough to fodder
a grasshopper for a month.
"I wish October virus only here,' remarked
married gentleman of our acquaintance
1 ll5s betterlmlf, a few days since, as he
, ,. . " tin nf-r.
sn;rifinn h-ittaod ;,, kr-re beads upon his
brow,
"Why make such
a ivish, dear your days,
that much shortened,'
yu know W0V1'.1 be
was the moralizing reply of the wife
Yes, that's very true, dear, said tne. iius-
b,:S
wnnld belei
In Australia, a still (Ilud Pro I110' 1,1 thc s,iaPc ot a slice oi meat, JIe wag afrai(j to come herCj lvhcu thc Every tlljng tuat i now sce t,at cvcr
, tiiougli tar less U11U xyua 4UUU1-LU nin'l'11 gin told mm you nad come Home.' neiongeu 10 nun, remiuus me oi niyjost
, is now rapidly form-' nc nad t'"ne tIlc day previous, to Ins own cot-, Tell Jane to tell him to come here . bo', lesterday 1 touml some pencil
1800 immense wild- fers5 but the dog, quicker than he was, made instantly,' was the brief reply to this in-' sketches which it was his delight to make
her sewiivhtf- eyes- of that forgiving mother, even as'-it painVutof '.$mg yef,:grieyGiL. or. out
' a,?toi:or ij'tood in the eyes ofMercy, fin the house ' raged nature.
The wife rcsumetl
W's Beacon.
My Love. .
nY V. II. RUDDIMAX.
I love the gentle, budding Spring,
Oh, dearly well !
When earth and air their tribute bring,
Our joys to swell :
When azure skies" with warblings ring,
And earthward bright reflections fling,
Of hope to tell.
Sweet Summer's bloomingopening, too,
I love to hail;
Its balmy, kissing breath to woo
Each spicy gale ;
And happily life's way pursue :
On flowery waves, all capped with dew,
My bark to sail.
Calm Autumn's peaceful!, sad return,
I love to see ;
Though from each falling leaf, I learn
My destiny,
And for an endless summer yearn,
As to each drooping flower 1 turn,
So anxiously.
And e'n cold Winter's bitter reign,
I almost love ;
For joys oft follow in its train :
And as they move,
They whisper, " Spring will come again,
And banish every chill and pain
From Nature's grove !"
So thus I love them every one ;
They all possess
Some pleasures, specially their own,
Our lives to bless:
For in the many seasons flown,
How very much, lias each one known
Of happiness.
Touching Narrative.
Jjul 1 desire to narrate to
sire to narrate to you a cir -
which happened m the family
cunistance
to the heart of every father and mother ;
who has any sympathy with, or affection .
for, their children. 1 was convinced of,
thi
his when I opened the letter from L. n.
which announced it, and in the
detail of the event which was subsequent
ly furnished me.
A few weeks before he wrote, he had
-- '
buried ins eldest son, a fine, manly little
fellow, of some eight or ten years of age,
v Jltvi uu cam, kiiuwu ;i uay s
illness until that which finally removed
him hence to be here no more. His
- -w . VVUUViVIUUUVVy V
the nature of the disease, every precau
I; w - . vviiuovi uuuv J a.
tlon Jiatl bcen adopted that prudence sug-
gested to guard the other members of the
family against it. But of this one, the fath-
er's eldest, he said he had little fear, so
riled was he, and so generally healthy,
StiI1 bowever, he kept a vigilant eye u-
l)0n !lim' a!ld GSPccbilly forbade his go-
,uf '. t1 T i "
school, which it was his custom some-
tj t visifc f j
was but a boy, and
'boys will be boys,' and Ave outfit more
--'J"
One evening this unhappy father came
home wcarietU with a long day's labor
and vexed, at some little disappointment,
i - , , , d j. n..f,irnlIv k:Iu ri;s.
position, and rendered him peculiarly '
susceptible to thc smallest annoyance.
While he was sitting by the fire in this
' unhappy mood of mind, his wife entered !
the nppartment and said:
h f J come in, and he is a
hhti Iie covered with dock
mud, and he is as wet as a drowned rat.
'Where is he?' asked the father, sternly,
I TT il 1 1 f
' He is shivering over the kitchen fire
formation.
Presently the boy entered, half perish
cd with friirht and cold. His father clan
ced at ins sad pugnc, reproacneu nun
bitterly with his disobedience, spoke of
the punishment which awaited him in the
1 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 -
mornins, as the penalty of his offence,
and in a harsn yoice concluded with
' Now sir, go to your bed !'
' But, father,' said the little fellow,
want to tell you '
?
' I
' Not a word, sir; go to bed !'
'L only wanted to say, father that ' J
With a peremptory stamp, and imper-
ativc wave of his hand towards the door,
and a frown upon his brow, did that fath-
.... .i i i
er. without another speech, again close
, . - ,i. i
tlin nnr OI UXIUalliltlUlI Ui U-VllunulllilLlUll.
When his boy had gone supperlcss and
i x .
beJj tho fatuer sat rcckles8 and
unca?y wllile SUpper WJls being prepared;
and at tea table ate, but little. His wife
saw the real cause or the additional cause
i cause or tne aauiiionai cause now uuuiiuua mai, ucjiuci luiuiisiufi
tion, and interposed the re- ate or cruel word or loot, we unjustly
I srieve their generous feeliitg tu action
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of his emoti
mark:
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to have heard to what Henryhad to say.
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My heart ached fty him when he turned
away, with his eyes full of tears. Hen- '
rv js a o-ood boy after all, if he does some-
times do wron-. ne is a tender hearted,
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of the Interpreter as rcterded by Euu
yan. After tea, the evening paper was taken
up ; hut there was no news and nothing
of interest for that father in the journal
of that evening. ITe sat for some time
in an apparently painful revery, and then
rose and repaired to his bed chamber.
As he passed the bedroom where the
little boy slept, he thought he would look
in upon him before retiring to rest. A
big tear had stolen down the boy's cheek,
and rested upon it ; but he was sleeping
calmly and sweetly. The father deeply
regretted his harshness as he gazed up
on his son ; he left also his 'sense of du
ty;' yet in the night, talking the matter
over with the lad's mother, he resolved
and promised, instead of punishing as he
threatened, to make amends to the boy's
aggrieved spirit in the morning, for the
manner in which he repelled all explana
tion of his offence.
But that morning never came to the
poor child in health. He awoke the next
morning with a raging fever in his brain,
and wild with delirium. In forty- eight
hours he was in his shroud. He knew
neither his father nor his mothor when they
were called to his bedside, nor at any
meinent afterwards. Waiting, watching
for one token of recognition, hour after
hour, in speechless agony did that unhap
py father bend over the couch of his dy
ing son. Once, indeed, he thought he
saw a smile of recognition light up his
dying eye, and he leaned eagerly forward
for he would have given worlds to have
, whispered one kind word in his ear, and
uave been answered: but that gleam of
intelligence passed quickly a-
was succeeded by the old un-
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Yered limbs, which lasted until death
Camc to his relief.
Two davs after the iinrWf.nl-nr nnm,-;n,
the little coffin, and his son, a playmate
of the deceased boy, bringing the low
stools on which it was to stand in the en
try hall.
I was with Henry,' said the lad, when
. Af '
he got into the water. We were playing
down on Long Wharf, Henry, Charles
iuuuuoru, ana . ana inc tiac was very
low : and there was a beam ran out from
' the wharf, and Charles got on it to get a
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hard work, got Charles out : and they
waded up threw the mud to where the
wharf was not so wet and slippery, and
then I helped them to climb up the side.
Charles told Henry not to say anything
about it, for if he did his father would
never let him go near the water again.
Henry was very sorry ; and all the way
going home he kept saying
1 What will father say when he sees
me to-night : I wish we had not iroue
! so near the wharf !
xw, uiul uu uimw nvn icuiiuu, auu
, for the first time, that what he had treat-
I cd with unwonted severity as a fault, was
' but the impulse of a generous nature,
' which fonretful of self, had hazarded life
for another. It was but the quick prompt-
mg ol that manly spirit which he himself
had always endeavored to graft upon his
susceptible mind, and which, young as he
was, had always manifested itself on more
than one occasion.
Let me close this story in the yery
words of the father, and let the lesson
sink deep in thc hearts of every parent
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who snail peruse iuis bh.uu.-u.
for thc amusement of his younger broth
er. To-day, in rumaging an old closet,
I came across his boots, still covered with
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uock. ihuu as wuuu c wu uium.
(You may think it strange, but that which
is usually so unsightly an object is now
'most precious to me.) And every morn
intr and evening I pass the ground where
my son's yoice rang the merriest among
his playmates.
i ' All these things speak to me vividly
of his life ; but I cannot though I have
often tried I cannot recall any other ex-
pression of my dear boy's face than that
mournful one with which he turned from
me on the night I so harshly repulsed
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him. Then my heart bleeds afresh !
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U. Iiuil uaiuiui aiivjuiu n
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our daily conduct towards those little be-
ings sent us by a king Providence, that
we are not laying up for ourselves the
sources of a many future bitter tear !
now cautious that, neither by inconsider-
'i mi nst its motive lest in a moment ol
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excitement, we be led to the venial error
s
of the heart, the punishment due only to
wilful crime !
Alas ! perhaps few parents suspect how
often the fierce rebuke, the sudden blow
is answered in their children bv the tears,
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