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THE WORLD IS PULL OF BEAUTY.
Tlicro is boauty In the forest,
Where iho trees are green ami fair j
There is beauty iu tho meadow.
Where the flowers scent the airs
There ir. beauty In tho sunlight,
And the soft blue beam ahovo;
Oh ! the world is f ull of beauty,
Whuu tho heart is full of love 1
There I.i beauty In the fountain,
Singing gayly at its play,
While rainbow hues are glittering
On lis silvery, shiny spray,
There Is beauty In 'he Btrearalet,
Murmuring soflly through thegrovo j
Oh! the world is full of beauty,
When the h eart Is full of love I
There isbeanly In tho moonlight,
When it sleeps upon the sea,
While the blue, foam-crcslcd billows
Dunce and frolic joyously ;
There Is beauty in Iho lightning gleams
That o'er tho dark waves rove ; .
Oh ! the world is full ot beauty,
When tho heart is full of love I
There is boauty In the brightness
Beaming from a loving cyo,
In the warm blush of iifteclioa,
In tho tear of sympathy ;
In tho sweet, low voice whoso accents
Tho spirit's gladness prove :
Oh I the world is full of beauty
When the heart Is full or love 1
A DOCTOR'S STORY.
And now we'll have a cozy, comfor
table evening together,' said my wife
'And but what's that, Irving V
My wifo started nervously, as a sharp
peal from the bell interrupted our brief
interval ot domestic quiet.
'Only the surgery bell, my dear.
Somebody wanting mo, I anpposo.'
And I went down stairs, secretly
wondering to myself i(, al'tor all, thero
was such a very wide differenco between
a galley slave and a country doctor.
Tho surgery door stood wide open,
but nobody was there, and through tho
blind darkness without I could discern
the dark outline of a close carriage, and
a man 6tanding at the horse's head.
Who's tlicro? what's wanting?' I
asked, coining to the threshold and in
stiuetively buttoning up the overcoat I
had hurriedly thrown on.
'You'ie wanted.dootor,' said the man,
spanking indistinctly bcbuid the muill-
iug thai surrounded his face
'Yen. but whit for ? Who wants me?'
'I am not at liberty to tell.'
1 had already entered the carriage,
but this suspicious answer inspired me
with distrust. I made a step to doceod
but I was too lato. Tho vehicle was
already in motion.
'It is quilo unnecessary to alarm your
self, doctor,' said a quiet measured
voico at my side, 'Believe mo, you ore
quite safe ; and I trust you will feel no
uneasiness when I tell you must be
blindfolded.'
And at tho same instant a told band
age was doftly slipped over my eyes.
'Hold 1' I ejaculated. 'It strikes me
that this is rather superfluous. The
night is dark as Erebus, and you have
no lamp !'
Possibly,' returned the dry voice ;
'but it is host to run uo risks '
And thou ensued a silonce of some
ten or fifteen minutes, while the car.
riago rolled swiftly along, and tho low,
measured breathing of my unknown
companion kept time to my own un
comfortable thoughts.
At length my companion spoko again
in the same soft, modulated tones.
Doctor, one more littlo precaution is
neoessary your promise nover to di
vulge to human soul a word ot this
night's visit.'
I hesitated.
I cannot bind myself by any such
ooyenant. The relation botweon physi
cian and patient are of course nonfidon
tial i but '
The carriage paused abruptly here,
and tho door was swung open. At the
same instant something cold touched
my temple. Ireooilod in hoiror.
'You surely would not murdor mo ?'
You promise, doctor ?'
'I promise 1' I gasped, recoiling from
the chilling touoh of the eold steel on my
tomplos.
Very well, oome !
I was led up narrow walk, through
doorway, into a room, where the
bandage was romoved suddenly from
my eyes.
The spot was very familiar to me a
ruinous cottage, long since abandoned
to decay, in the very heart of dense,
iwampy woods. How the carriage bad
ever reached it I was at a loss to know.
Upon a pile of straw, hurriedly thrown
into the corner of themoldoring floor,
lay a prostrate, figuro, moaning at every
breath. His face was concealed by a
handkerchief, aud the blood was slowly
dripping from a gunshot wound just
above tho ankle a wound which had
been clumsily bandaged by some unskil
ful hand. Moreover, there was a dark
red stain on the straw where his head
lay, and his light brown hair was mat
ted with coagulated drops. Two or
three men stood around, with rnde
masks of bluck cloth drawn ovor their
faces, in which three slits wore cut for
the eyes and mouth; and a female figure
knelt behind the heap of straw, veiled
olosely.
The men silently mado way for me as
I advanced into tho apartment, and held
their lanterns so that tho lurid ligh
should fall full upon my strange patient
as silently I stooped and examined
both wound.
'Well ?' asked ray carriago compan
ion. 'I can do nothing. He must die.'
'Nonsense ! A more bullet through
the log what does that amount to ?'
hurriedly gaspod tho man.
'In itself, not much j but that blow
upon tho skull must provo fatal.'
'A low, half-Eiipprcssod cry broke
from tho woman opposite. She tore the
veil from her face, as if she could not
breath through its heavy folds, reveal
ing features as whito and beautiful in
their marblo agony as so much sctilptur
dsone. She did not seem more than
thirty, but I afterwards know that she
w.18 indeed more than ten years older.
t, . . .. r. , ;Ji, t,.
But in spite of her presont anguish, now
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grandly beautiful she was 1 Largo dark
eyes hair like coiled gold, catching
stranm) gleams from the shitting lanterns
and a broad, smooth brow it was
a faee you see but once in a lifntime.
And yet, in the midst of her distress
sho ncvor epokc.
'At least you can do scmolhing for
him, doctor?' said my interlocutor, im
patiently. 'Don't lot us waste time
hero-'
As I proceeded in my ministrations,
the moaning grew fainter and fainter,
the convulsive movements became
scarcely perceptible. A faint gleam ot
hope lighted up the face of the w oman
opposite ; sho looked appealingly at mo.
He is better he is surely better I'
'He will be soon,' I answerod, moved
to pity iu spite ot myself. 'Ho oiunot
live halt an hour longer.'
Tho horror of that sepulchral silence
that fell upou us as my accents died
away shall I over forget it ? And five
minutes afterward the breathing, spas
raodio and painful to hear, died into
eternal stillness.
The woman liftod tlis corner of the
handkerchief, and gazed into tho ghastly
face. It was that ot a young man of
abouttwenty.two, and who had evident,
ly boeu marvellously good looking.
Oh, heavens, he is dead I'
Her clear agouized voice was ringing
in my ears, as they led me back into the
darkness of the night, I felt a bank
noto in my hand as I entored the car.
riago onco more.
'Doctor, you have done your best ;
it is not your fault that your efforts have
not been more successful. Hcinembor,
you are pledged to seorooy.'
The noxt moment I was whirling
swiftly through the November midnight,
with the strange, unquiet feeling of
one awakened suddenly from a startling
dream. Yet it was no dream alas I it
was a startling reality.
The carriage stopped at a cross road
near the village.
'Pluaso to alight here, sir,' said the
driver. 'You aro not far from homo.'
I obeyed, and stood listening in the
middle of the road, whilo the noise of
carriage wheels died away, losing its
distinctness in tho shriek of the restless
winds. And the clock iu the village
church tolled out the hour of one.
Late os it was, howevor, my surgery
was still open and lighted up i tho ser
vant from Haddenloigh Hail had just
ridden up to the door.
'If you pleaso, dootor, you are wanted
immediately at the Hall, The Colonel
said you wero to ride my horse, it
yours was not already saddled, and 1
can walk, so there will be no timo
ost.
I moohanioally mountod tho noble
animal that stood waiting tor mo, and
rode off, rather glad of an opportunity
to revolve in my mind tho singular ad
venture that had befullon me during the
evening.
Haddeuleigh stood a little back from
tho road, on a . magnificent knoll
orowned with centnry.old chestnuts
and beeches, and I reached tho broad
steps in about h ilt au hour, by dint of
rapid strides.
As I entered the vestibulo, Oulone
Hadden, who Imd bouu pacing up and
down tho Hall in a perfect agony of pa'
tianco, came to meet me.
'Is that you, Dr. MelUir I I thought
you never would come. We're in a
pretty stale of confusion hero. J'urg-
iars in the house my wifes set of
diamonds gone nobody knows what
else but old Hopkins left his sign man
ual upon one ot the fellows. They
must be caught. They om't escape.
For you soo
'Yes, but Colonel -Hadden '
'Oh, aye I understand you you
want to sec your patient? It's Hop.
kins, tho Butler i he got an ugly blow
on the left arm and afterward my
wifo wont herself tor Dr. Maynard no
olio iioo, Meller,.but he lives nearer than
you , out no was out. &he Das only just
returned, and I couldn't very woll leave
Hopkins ; aud Mrs. Haddun is suuli a
kind good soul, sho insisted on eoina
herself to fetch Dr. Maynard'
'Cut, my dear sir '
'Ah, true! Come along to Hopkins'
room.'
Hopkins' the butler, was as voluble as
his muster, and ton tim s as cirouinstan.
tial ; and by the time I had set his brok
en forearm, I vas pretty well in posses
sion of all the particulars ot tiie attempt,
ed burglary at Haddeuleigh. And
thinking of my midnight patient, whose
lifo had ebbed out upon tho pile ot
I f 11 strange guiltiness as I hs.
1 leueu iu vuionei uuuuuu s eager con
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ijeotnresas to the whereabouts of the
deBpt.ra(ioes who had fled,
And now, dootor, you'll tako a glas
i of wine,' said tho hospitable old gentle-
man, ushering me into his library
It was brilliantly lighted, and warm
with the crimson glow ot a gonial tiro,
before which, wrapped in tho gorgoous
folds of Indian shawl.
'.My w.ft! doctor. Isabel, my love,
this is Dr. Moller.
We stood before ono another silent.
I could not speak, for I knew that I
wis looking into tho startled, agonized
eyes oi me woman wno n vi Knelt s-a'ce.
ty mi tiour ago by the uvnig couch in
tli a desolate cottage Cnl'wicl lladden's
new wife, of whose beauty I had heard
so much.
Thu Colonel talked on, but I heard
not a word that ho said. I could not
but marvel at the wonderful self posses
sion of tho woman, Bmilcd and looked
grave and sad 'Yea' aud 'No' iu the
right places.
To be sure,' tho Colonel was savincf,
as 1 woke into a sort of consciousness of
voice, 'the loss of Isabel's diamonds is
something serious, but of courso we
shall recover them again. Only, my
love, it was rather careless ot you to
leave them on the drawing room table.'
'It was careless,' replied Mrs. Hidden,
calmly. 'Doctor, you are not going ?
Colonel you have not forgotten that
curious old book you were wanting to
show Dr. Mellcr.'
As the door closed behind tho honest
old gentleman, Mrs. Hadden glided Hp
to me and placed her cold hand on minei
it was like tho touch of nn icicle.
'Doctor, you have my secret you
surely will not betray it?'
'I am pledged to silence, madam,' I
returned, coldly; 'but this deccit '
'It is not my fault, doctor,' wailed tho
woman, 'it is my fate. How I endure
it I can scaicely toll; were I to pause and
think, I should go mad. The man who
died to-night was my son! Colonel Had.
den knows nothing of my first marriage,
nor of this dreadful secret of my son's
criminal lite, that lias weighed mo down
for years. Ovor and over again I have
thought to escapo it, but it has followed
my footsteps like a doom. To-nirht
closes that chapter of my life oh,
heaven I how- dreadfully 1 But my
secret is safe the diamonds provided
for that!'
'But your husband, Mrs. Hadden !'
She covered her pallid, boauliful face
with her bauds.
'I know what you would say, Dr.
Moller. I love and honor hira beyond
all men; but what can I do? Behove
me, I have nover willingly wronged or
deceived him I never dreamed ot '
She paused abruptly. Colonel Had
don was entering the room, and tho
smiling, casual remark she addressed to
him filled my heart with amazement
almost admiration.
I rode home to my blue-eyed little
T7I 1 . K t .
-luuuur, luuiinz as i entered tna anno
sitting.room as if I woro roturning ton
the homely, happy atmosphere ot evory
day life. But I novor forgot tho torn
Die excitement, the fearful susnonsa of
that Novembor night.
I lie desperadoes who had attemntod
to rifle Haddonleigh Hall were never
deteoted or taken all trace of them
seemed to have utterly vanished out of
the earth. And wore it not for tho bank
note which most liborolly recompensed
my services, and tho everlasting witness
borne by Mrs. Hodden's lovely face, I
should almost hovo boon tempted to
fancy that all the events of that marvel
lous November midnight wero the frag,
ments of a dream
This was my adventure tho first and
last that evory crossed tho pathway of
my life.
IF A LADDIE MEETS A LASSIE.
If a laddio meets a lassie
Walking in thoctreot,
If tho lasle wears a 'tiller'
Shows an ankle neat ;
If tho wind is rudely blowing,
Lilts her skirts too high,
And the laddio sees UiutauMe,
Need a lasslu try ?
Evory lasslo wears a 'tilter'
Aud a 'hinderpest,'
And a metal 'palpitator'
Ou her snowy breast.
If, when married to the laddie,
These falso charms he spy ;
If he says, 'I'm sold, by jingo !'
Need a lassie cry 1
From the New York TrUimu.
ASPIRATIONS TO BE RICH.
A youth writes us as follows and his
case is like that of so many others that wo
treat it thus publicly, suppressing his
name :
'Dear Sir : I am a poor hoy. I
would like to cot rich. Now what shall
i do ? I would like to quit this section
I don't want to remain on my father's
farm. Pleaso give ino the best advice
you can, and oblige, Yours, o. a. s."
Answer. The aspiration to be noli
though by no means tho highest that
can impel a career is. in our view.
wholesome and laudable. Tho youth
who snys, 'Let mo bo rich any how, and
before all othor considerations,' is very
ikely to bring up in some State Prison;
but ho who consistently say, 'Let me
first bo just, houest, moral, diligent, use
ful ; then rich,' is on tho right road.
Every boy ought to aspire to be rich,
provided ho oan bo without unfaithful
neas to social obligation or to moral
principle
But how shall he set about gettiug
rich ? Wo would concisely say :
I. Firmly rew've never to owe a de'4.
It is the fundamental mistako of most
boys to supposo that they can get rich
taster on money earned by others than
on that earned respectively by them,
selves. Il'evcry vouth of 18 to 25 years
wero to-day offered SIO.OOO for ten
years at seven per cent, interest, two.
thirds of them would eagerly accept it ;
when tho probablo consequence is that
three fourths ot them would die bank,
rupts nnd paupers. Boys do not need
money half so miioh as tho need to know
how to earn and save it. Tho boy who,
at tho closo ot his first year of indepen
dence, has earned and saved $100, and
invoslod or loanod it where it will pay
him six or seven percent, will almost
surely beoomo rioh if ha lives ; while he
who closes his first year of responsibility
in debt, will probably live and die in
debt, Thero is no greater mistake
mado by our Amorican youth than that
of ohoosing to pay interest rather than
redcivo it. Interest devouers us while
we sloop ; it absorbs our profits and ag
gravates our losses. Let a young man
at twonty.Qvo have SI, 000 loaned on
bond and mortgage or invested in pub.
lio securities and ho will rarely want
money thoreatters in fact, that $1,000,
invested at soven per cent., will of itself
make him rich before he is Bixty. There
is no rule more important or wholesome
for our boys than that which touches
thorn to go through life receiving inter"
est rather than paying it. Of tho tor.
monts which afflict this mortal sphere,
tho first rank is held by Crimo i the sec
ond by Debt.
.II. Acquire promptly and thoroughly
some useful calling. Some pursuits are
more lucrative, some moro repectablo,
some more agreeable, than others ; but
a chimney-sweep's is far better than
none at all. No matter how rich his
parents may bo, n boy should learn a
trade ; no matter how poor he may bo,
a boy may learn tome trade if ho will.
This City is full to.day ot young (and
old) men who have boon clerks aud
bookkeepers, portors, to., iLo., yot
can find nothing to do, and are starving
because thoir foolish paroutsdid not givo
them trades. A trade is an estate, and
almost always a productive ono. A
good, elllciont farm. laborer oan general
ly find paying work if he does not insist
in looking tor it in a city whore it can
not wetl be ; while many a oollego grad
uate famishes because nobody wants the
only work he knows how to do. Lot
nothing provent your acquiring skill in
aonio branch ot productive industry,
III Resolve not to be a rover. 'A rol.
ling stone gathers no moss,' but is con
stantly thumped and knookod, and ofton
shivered to pieces. If you are honest
and industrious, you must be constantly
making reputation, which, if you remain
in ono place, helps you along the road
to fortuuo. Even a hodcarrior or street
sweeper who has proved that his prom
lse to appear on a given day and hour
and go to work may bo trusted, has a
a property in tho oonlidence thus oreat
ed. If you cannot find your work where
you now are, migrato; but do it ouce for
all. When you have stuck your stake,
stand by it I
IV. Comprehend that there is icork all
most everywhere for him who can do it.
n nauan named liianconi settled in
Ireland some sixty years ago, and got
very rich thorn by gradually establishing
lines of passenger conveyances all over
that island. Almost any man would
have said that he who wont to Ireland
to muko his fortune must be mad He
who knows how, at d will work, can get
rich growing potatoes in New-England,
though Iip hasn't a live cent stamp lo
begin with. There is work that will
pay for a million more penplt. ou the
soil of Connecticut alone There nro
millions ot unproductive acres within
a day's rido of this City that might bo
bought and rendered largely fruitful at
a clear profit of $100 or moro por aore.
A man in Nilus, Mich., declined to go
gol l.lmnting in the Kooky Mountains
because thero was moro gold in Niles,
than he could got hold ot. The reason
was a good ono, and it applies almost
everywhere. If you can find nothing to
do where you aro, it is generally because
you can do nothing.
V. Realize that he who earn six-pence
per day vio e than he spends must get rich,
while hs who spends sixpence more than
he earns must become poor. This is a
vory hacknoyed truth; but we shall
nover be dono noeding its repetition.
Hundreds of thousands are not only
poor but wretched to day, simply be.
cause they fail to oomprohend or will
not heed it. We Atnerioans are not
only an extravagant but an ostentatious
people We habitually spend too much
on our own stomachs and our neigh
bors' eyes. Wo aro constantly in hot.
water, not becauso we cannot live in
comfort on our means, but because we
persist in spending more than we need
or can afford. Our youth squander in
extra food and drinks, in frolio and dis
sipation, which does them harm instead
of good, tho means which should be tho
nest-egg ot their future competence.
When cares and children cluster about
them, they grumble at thCiVhardfortuno;
forgetful that they wasted the yoars and
the means which might and should have
saved them from present and future
poverty.
All these are very trito, homely,
truths. All our boys have heard them
agiin and again i but how many have
laid them to heart? We assure Q. Q.
S and every othor youth, that each
may become rioh if ho will that 'to
bo or not to bo' rests entirely with him
self t and that his vory first lesson is to
distrust and shun by-paths and shot outs
and koop straight along the broad, ob
vious, beaten highway.
AUTOCRATIC VS. DEMOCRATIC RULE.
Tho Philadelphia Nortlf Amorican
says that nothing can be more absurd
than tho talk about our government now
undergoing a violent change-ini mical to
tho spirit of the Constitution, becauso
Congress has determined to assumo and
use thoso dormant powers expressly
oonfided to it by tho Constitution, but
hitherto not used. Undoubtedly tho
purposo of this outcry is to sustain tho
Prosidout iu his gross offences against
Congress and popular sovereignty. It
is natural onough for an Exuuutive who
denies to Congress all power of legisla
tion, not onlv in regard to the recon
struction ot tho conquorod States, but to
almost all othor political matters whore
his own views differ from the people's
roprosantativos, to troat' as a revolution
the overruling of his numorous vetoes
and the annulment of his arbitrary aots.
The mystory is as to tho proooss by
which ho has boon able to luduco two
Republican Justbos of the Supreme
Court to assist him in this movement.
Whilo tho pooplo and their representa
tives are firm and olear in their views
and polloy on this question, there seems
to bo some ovil Influonoe at work to
dostroy the faith of our Senators and
Suprome Judges.
We have shown so fully and at such
length tho exaot authority under which
CongreB. is acting, that it ii not uooei.
sary to repeal it here. It is sufficient to
call attention to the genoral principles
involved in the case, which fortunately
pre of so much importance as to com
mend themselves to the attention of all.
When those are properly studied.no one
can mistake the course to be pursued;tor
ou the one hand we have the principles
of government by outocraoy, or the one
man power, and on the other, of demo
cracy, or by the representatives ot the
people. As the purpose of tho Consti
tution could not possibly have been to
moke an autocracy, but a free democra
tic republio, it must be obvious that most
ot the assumptions on which the policy
of the present Congress are hold to be
unconstitutional, violent and revolu
tionary, are diamotrioally opposed to tho
spirit iu which the Constitution was
framed.
Ot late years it has beon universally
conoedod, both in Europe and America,
that the President of tho United States
wields more actual power than any con.
stitutional monarch in Europe. This
was under the most ordinary and limited
interpretation ot tho prerogatives of the
office But Mr. Johnson has stretched
his assumptions of power far beyond all
precedent, and seems inclined to imitate
surprise that Congress will not submit
quietly to thoso usurpations. Great and
perilous as were previously the attributes
of tho Frosidency, be bos mado thero.
more so; and in fact, in bis hands, they
have become most dangerous to the
liberties of the republio. To oontend
that what ho has dono and is doing every
day is constitutional, and that Congress
is grossly in error in opposing and fet
tering him, is virtually to oontend that
the framers of the Constitution had no
faith in representative institutions, and
that undor pretext of organizing a re
publio they set up a sort of elective mon
archy.
It is absolutely essential that the poo
plo should now prove by course of Con
gress that they always hold in their pos
session tho means of rectifying Executive
errors. We must provo that this is not
a government of Exeoutive caprice and
arbitrary power, but of law and order,
oi domocratio.republican institutions, oi
representative legislation and popular
basis. If Mr. Johnson's assumptions
should bo tolerated, our government
would in a' great measure lose its char
acter ot republican and become autocra
tic It is proper that we should look
this' matter storuly in the fase, font
nearly and dearly conoorns all our liber
ties, and must be held to be tho most
important issue of the day. President
Johnson found himself opposed by an
adverse majority in Congress. Instead
ot treating it respectfully and deferen
tially, as became the occasion, he, in
the most insolent and defiant language
he could utter, insulted, slandered nnd
denounced that majority, and appealed
to the constituents of tho membors.
Elections have since been held, at which
he appeared as an advocate in his own
behalf, backed by all tho influence
of his Cabinet and the counlenanoe of
of the great heroes of the war, as well as
ot the wbolo strength of the Demooratio
party, and Congress has been sustained
and vindicated in the most triumphant
raannor. Instead ot bowioor to this vers
diet of a tribunal to which ,hqhad,jb,in
self appealed, he goes on in his headlong
course, repeats his insults, ' ano yet,oes
right and left all the important abts'ol
Congress. cliis
It is by his inspiration that the chaftzo
of revolution is made against Congress,
It is tho act ot ono who is himself cruiltv
of tho most outrageous usurpations, and
!. ! 1 - HV . . I
ir ib mauo as an onset to ins own acts.
Let the people look at this matter fairly
and squarely. Tho powers Congress is
now exercising are those oonfided to it
by tho Constitution. They aro the con
servative powers requisite, nay indispen
sable, to tho maintenance of popular
liberties, and aro now wielded because
the eraorgenoy domands that they should
be.
TIIE TAX BILL PASSED.
The House finally passed the amenda
tory Tax bill. The liconse tax on distil
leries was fixed at five hundred dollars
instead ot one hundred as at present.
The gas tax was passed to as to compel
the companies and not the consumers to
pay the tax after April noxt The im
portant tax on cigars, ohoroots and '
oigaretta was fixed at a spcoifio tax ot '
five dollars por thousand on all kinds, 3 '
The ad valorem rato is abolished, and
is simply to be a speoifio tax of the rate '
named in future, The House refused to !
sustain tho Committee in abolishing the
cotton tax, by a vote of OS to 03, and .
retained it as In the present law now In ''
foroo. The inoome tax was agreed ubon
at I ki A nnSfAtm vnta f ft a
ono lhouiirj(1 doUr( cxept 0 en,' w,tn