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Jan 13, 1883.
A NEW WORK SHOP.
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door above Geo. Lathem’s store. H*
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’ nything that can be done with wood.
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SEE ME.
I HAVE just opened a Complete Stock
direct from the manufactory ot Fancy
Candies, Mixed CandieB, Plain Candies,
Crackers ot all sor's Also Fresh Raisins,
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feb3’83tfj
AN UNFINISHED POEM 11Y BRY
ANT.
The rowtor of Mr. Bryant's poems wilt re nil-
ly remember toe many verses iiilitre-scd to Ills
wife, such ns “ Uli Fairest of the It oral
Maids," written about the f'tno o' flier mar
riage; “The Future Life," 'peculating »s to
the union of their spirits in the worln tow me;
the "Mek-Ucd, ’ deserlblmr an illness; “ The
Life Th it Is." reji doing In recovery. “The
Twenty-seventh of March," the birthday ol
Mrs. Iliynut; “October, lwii," descriptive of
her dCHth nnd burial; and “May Fvonlnjf," n
gentle rofcreiu o to her loss, lint In addition
to these, as we learn from Mr. Godwin's I'orth-
com iik biography of the poet, a fragment was
found nmonK nis papers, which reedls hei
memory in a very lender way, scion years
after her death. The lines wo-e unfinished
and unonrrootod; but wo cannot refrain from
giving thorn as they wore written—datc l “Ibn
!yn, 1873:"
Tho morn hath not the Klory that It wore,
Nor doth the day so beautifully die,
Since I can call thee to my side no more,
TokiUu upon the sky.
For thy dear hand, with each return of spring.
1 soiiKht 111 sunny nooks the llowers she
Kave;
I seek them still, nnd sorrowfully bring
Tho choicest to thy grave.
Here, where 1 sit alone, Is sometimes heard,
From the great world, a whisper of my
name,
Joined, haply, to somo k nil, commending
word,
Ily thoso whoso piniso Is lame.
And then, ns If 1 thought thou still wt| nigh,
I turn me, half forgetting thou art dead,
To read the gentle gladness in tliinu ej o
That once 1 might have read.
I turn, but sen f hoe not; before my eyes
Tlie Image of a hlll-shto mound appear*
Where all of llieo that passed not to the sklos
Was laid with hitter lipus.
And I, whose thoughts go back to Impp'or
days
That lied with llieo, would gladly now r-'s n
All thnt the world can give of laniu and praise
For one sweet look of tillin'.
Thus, ever, when I read of generous deeds,
Such words us thou didst onoo delight to.
hear, \
My heart Is wrong with anguish as It bleeds
To think thou art not nrnr.
And now that 1 can talk no moro wllh then
Of ancient friends and d ys loo a r to last,
A bitterness blonds wtih the memory
Of all that happy post.
Oh, when I——
—Century Magatlno.
THE ENGINEER’S STORY.
Business had brought inn to tho iittlo
town of 1) , among the Now Hamp
shire hills, and hero, much ngnust my
will, I was detained for several (lavs,
wh le waiting for instructions front my
employers. Tho nearest periodical
store was twelve miles away, and, with
out hooks or papers, time hung heavy
on my hands.
’Itui) only breltk in mv 'monotonous
lifo was the arrival of tho trains twice a
day, and lit the d a 1 calm of ray exist
ence this litt'o ripple of oxo foment ho-
came as much ip mo as tho opera under
moro fa orablo circumstances. It was
while lounging upon tho platform that
1 became acquainted with George boa-
forth, engineer on tho 11. ('. H M. Rail
road. lie was a man about thirty-five
years of ago. Not what would bo called
an cdiicfitcd man. hat sensible and
clear-headed. II s homo was in Con
cord, whore ho had a wife and two chil
dren. Ho ran from* on ord to 1)— ,
and for two hours, while waiting for
tho “down train,” ho was in l> .
Tho acquaint an -o at first begun to
while away an id'e hour, on my pa t,
at least, grow to a strong liking, anil to
day there is no one among my acquaint
ances for whom 1 feel a greater respect
and esteem tlmti for George Senior!h.
He had hoi n on tho cars since he was
sixteen, lirsi as train-! oy, then as brake-
man, fireman, and for tho last ton years
as onginoer.
“You must have had somo strnngo
adventures in that time,” I said ono
dav, as we sat upon the platform of tho
little sintion, waiting for tho train.
•“ trange adventures!” he repeated,
taking his pipe from his mouth, and
looking meditatively across the g oen
fields. “Strange adventures! You may
well say that, sir. Wo train men are
always having adventures.”
“Supj.o oyou tell mo some of them,”
I suggested.
“Weil,” looking at his watch, “as
there's plenty of time, 1 don't mind tell
ing you of one queer one 1 had six years
ago, come 'all, though I don’t often
speak o it; for you see when a mail's
been face to face with death, lie can't
talk of it very well.”
I settled myself on the rough bench
that did duty as a chair, as comfortably
os I could, took a fresh cigar, and ho
be .ran:
“It happened in tins way. 1 was run
ning the old Lion from Lee to Fairtown.
If you know anything about New En
gland, you know that September’s a
gre t month for fairs, and # this particu
lar September was no exception to tho
general rule. We ltad lots of extra
work to do, but. ns we had extra pay,
there was no grumbVng. It wa» toward
the last of the month that ihe fair at
M—— came off. Two or three extras
were put on, timed so astorun between
the regular trains. Jim Turner lire I lor
n e then. Jim was us good a fellow as
ever lived, with but one fault he
would go off on ‘a lime’ oneo in a
while. He didn’t do it very oficn. and
as he’d do moro work than any other
man on tho road, the company kept
him. But Jint had been pretty sober
lately. I believe he hadn't drunk any
thing for as much as s'x months; so I
k nd of got out of the habit of watching
h m, and he wentyiud came pretty much
as he chose.
“Well, we got along all right this
time, till a’most night wo stopped at
D for wood and water. Wnilo wo
were waiting, March, the depot-master,
came along, and says he: ‘Seaforth, I
want you to do me a favor.”
“ ‘What is it?’ ” says I, for March
and I were pretty good friends.
“‘Well,’ says he, ‘there’s a young
woman here who wants to go to Fair-
town, and she hasn’t a cent ot money.
She came here to get work, and she's
tost her pocket-book, aud hasn’t any
way to got back home. I don’t fcol at
liberty to pass her over tho road,
(they’d been making a row about freo
passefV, and she aVt tho kind that
you d fori like offering money to. So
I thought may bo you’d let hor rido on
the engino.’
“Well, 1 didn't like to refuso March,
for. as I said before, lie and 1 wore
good friends, nnd ho had done mo
many p good turn; but 1 must say the
idea of* having a woman in thecal) all
the way to Fairtown wa’n’t very
pleasant, and I said so to Muicli, l ut
no was bound to have her go, and said
•o in inn that I finally told him to br ng
h‘i' along. Sim canto out upon the
pint lot At, a little, pale faced thing, who
looke'Yut me with groat, friglt ened
eyes, as though she thought I wag a
bear, and would eat her tin as soon as
W6 left tne station. March iutrodu cd
her as Miss Lord, nnd seemed to ex
pect me to snv something to make her
feel at homo, but 1 was nil out of sorts,
nnd I only nodded in a surly sort of
way. I saw Ilto tears come into hor
eyes, and you bettor believe 1 felt kind
of moan, but 1 didn't say nti \th ug,
anti March helped heron the engine. 0
I saw her put out a Iittlo white hand,
not much lfiguor' n a child's, and lay it
on his arm. ns she sa i1:
“ ‘God bless von, Mr. March.’
“And then 1 ivont off to look for Jim,
who wai Into.
“ I found hint the other side of tho
depot, with atwo gallon can of korosono
in his hand.
• ‘ You see,’ ho said, as 1 asked rath
er sharply whore lin'd been, • I o’n git
this a good deal cheaper hero than at
Fairtmvu. an’ my wife tltinks It’s a sight
bet lor, too.’
‘“Well, oomo along,’ I said, 'for
wo’re two minutos behind time now.’
“When we got hack to the engine
March ltad gone, and Miss Lord sat there
alone.
Jim stared, but I said:
“ ‘This young woman's going to rido
on the engine to I airiown. Sim is a
friend of .> r. March.’ .So ho pul down
his kcro.eno, ami look his place on tho
cab
“Iboard the conductor's* All aboard,’
and then we were off.
“I was busy with levers and vulvos,
for a man who drives a train holds tho
livoa of hundreds in IPs hand, ami one
careless motion may send them all into
eternity'. So you see I hadn’t much
time to ihink of anything but my ma
chine, but I noticed that Jim was
pretty talkative. At tint I thought
•ft Vtts because we tia.» a Wontoq
aboard, but by and by I began
to sm-poct it was something worse
than that. Ilis voice grow thick
aud liis movements tin orta h, nnd at
last 1 could no iongor hide from myself
the fact that ho had I oen drinking.
Still 1 anticipated no trouble. Wo
were already moro than ha f way to
Fairtown, aud I thought ho would keep
up Lill we got there.
“At A — tho station master handed
the conductor a telegram. Ho road it,
anil then handed it to n o. It ordered
us to go on to N to moot the special.
1 had expected to stop at the next sta
tion, and N was ten miles beyond,
but orders are orders and mist
1 o oboyo I. So 1 told Jim to pile
on the wood, and I put on all the steam
1 dared, and wo wont spinning over the
road at a rate that must have astonished
the passengers.
“Wo liad gone a little more than half
way, and I was beginning to think we
mi.:lit raa'ii) the distnnee without much
trouble, when Jim sat right down on
tho I'oor of the cab, and began to
whimper.
“ ‘ CJot up, you fool, and go to work,’
I cried.
“‘I can’t,’ ho whimpered. ‘I’m
tired, an’ mus’ go er sleep.’
“‘Got up. you rascal!’ 1 shouted.
‘Don’t you know we’ve got to got to
N in ten minutes, or meet tho
special tram?
“‘1 can’t help it, let ther ol' train
come. I tell ye I’nt tired. Now, look
here, Seaforth,’ nodding his head with
drunken gravity. ‘You're workin’
too hard. Why, man. you won’t
live out half your days, if you don’t
take some rest. 1 tell ye what t is you'd
better take things e;isy. Irngoin’ to,
anyway.’
“And lie laid down on the floor of the
cab, and shut his eyes, mutter ng:
“’J ake it easy, easy. .Jim'll take it easy.’
“1 suppose 1 must have acted like a
wild man, for I knew that before I could
let tho conductor know the fix that w \
w re in, and get help, it would bo too
late to save the train, and I’m afraid I
used some pretty strong words, as a
man is aiit to when lie gels in a tight
place. Not that the words help him out
o: it. I suppose they o ly lct.o f some
of the extra steam, and make him th nk
quicker. So 1 stormed away there, all
tho time trying to do my work . ml
Jim’s, and knowing ever moment that
we were losing ground. The steam was
going down, and ihe engine slowing up,
spite of all I could do.
“1 tell you,” and he passed his ham.
o er his forehead, “ it makes the sweat
start on me now, when I think of that
run. It seems to mo that I lived a life
time in those few minutes. It’s an
awful thing to have so many lives de
pending on you. In the earsbehin J mo
were hundreds of human be ngs, and
tho other train had hundreds more, and
only a step between them and eternity.
All this time, the girl March had put on
the engino had been sitting perfectly
still, watching everything that went on,
and now, when everything seemed lost-,
she threw off her Shawl, and stepped in
to Jim’s place, saying quietly:
“ ‘I’ll take that man’s place, Mr.
Seaforth.’
“ ‘You?’ and I looked at the slight,
almost girlish, figure in astonishment. 1
“‘Yes,’ she said. T am stronger
than I look, and I’ve been watching the
.«ian„ so l know I can do Jais work.’
‘‘It Was a forlorn hope, but our only
ono. and. after one bnof moment of
hesitation, I said:
“ ‘Very well, you can but try, nnd If
you fail’ —
“I did not finish tho sentenre, for, at
the thought of failuro, the torrlblo pict
ure of mangled, blooding bodies,
crushed out of all semblance of human
ity. rose be ore me, and 1 turned awav
with a groan. A slight shudder parsed
over the girl, and alio seemed to grow
jialor. but, without a word, she took
Iter place, throwing on tho wood ns I
directed, atnl doing so well, Hint, spite
of my anxiety, I could not but notion
the dexterity with which she handled
heavy sliekfi. Tho strength of a half-a-
dozen men seemed concent rut oil In her
■lender arms. hut. spite of hor efforts,
wo hardly seemed to gain ground.
“I looked at my watch, and fairly
groaned aloud as 1 saw that it wanted
ton minutes ol six, and at six vie were
expected to pass the extra at N .
There was un lime to put back, and no
chance to slop till wo reached N .
There was nothing for us to do but
to go straight on, though I felt thnt wo
were going to destruction. As the hands
of tho watch crept round, telling off the
minutos, 1 watched them with a sort of
fwainalinn. fceliiur as tlmuvh I worn
turning to stone. Well, if you’ll helievo
tne, that girl, instead of making a row,
as most women w ould have dono, never
said a single word, though she seemed
to know just how llidigs were going,
but, aft) r one look at my faeo and I
•Upposo 1 must have looked pretty bad
—almost bv insniration it seemed to n o.
she did one of those tilings a man would
never have thought of. IGght belt ml
her was tho oil-enn Jim had got at
D — . With a steady Imml site lifted
tho heavy can, and poured halt its con
tents on the wood, thou sho threw tho
Wood upon the tire, and It blazed up
with a quick, fierce boat, that sc.it th t
engine (lying over the rails nt a rato
that fairly made ono dizzy. Still site
piled on th ■ oiled wood, nnd .‘ till we w nt
on faster, and foster. Tho train forked
front side to side, and the engine
soemod hardly to touch 'ho rail*. I
looked nt mv watch, and then nn iouslv
in tho direction of N . It wanted
three minutes of six. Oh, if thoro
might he some delay,something to make
the other train o on one minute Into.
But in), away in the distanto Icouldsco
afa’nt line (if smoko coming nearer and
nearer. Tito girl saw it too, and
reached for the oil can.
“ ‘It’■ of no use,’ 1 said. ‘Wo can’t
get these, and wq’vo ull the steam we
can safely carry now.’
“‘Are you sure it won’t bear an»
in >re I” she asked, anxiously.
“I shook my head
‘“I’m afraid not,’ I said.
“ *15ut it is possiblo that it ntny!” she
asked again.
“ 'Yoh, possible, but not prubabio,’ I
an iwcred.
“She asked the questions in a calm,
even voice, and 1 think I answered in
much the same tone, for, now that tho
danger I had feared was really upon us,
I seemed to havo lost all tear, and I
Watched the lino of smoko nearing us
so fast with a tort ol vngiio wonder as
to what tho engineer of the oilier train
would do when ho saw us coining, too
la!e to save his train. I was roused
from this sort of stupor into which I
seemed in danger of falling, by seeing
the g rl again reach tor the oil-can. I
shooK my head.
“•It won’t do,’ 1 said. ‘It may be
death.’
“ ‘But,’ she said, ‘it is death if 1
don't.’
“I nodded, nnd, without a
word, sho poured the remainder
of the oil upon tiie wood, and threw
it into tho fire. We wore
close to the station now. and I could see
people running acroa' tho p'atfonn, and
hear the women scream as they saw our
danger; for right in front of us was ihe
extra, so near tliut it ooemed as if noth
ing but a miracle could save us. I
looked at Miss Lord. With that last ef
fort hor strength seemed to leave her,
and sho sank upon the seat, covering
hor face with her hands, waiting for tho
death that seemed ho near.
“There was a moment of avvfu’ mis-
pense, and then wo wore safo upon tho
side track, just as the e tra train went
thundering by, so near that si arccly nit
in h separated the engine from the
hindmost car. The brakes wore put
on, and the long linn of ears came to a
stand-still just beyond tho station, and
then slowly ran hack to where tho”
crowd of alarmed and curious men
stood watching us. At the shrill sound
of the escaping steam. Miss Lord raised
her head, aud looked anxiously around,
then, seeming to realize that we wi re
safe, she tried to say something, but
the words died away in a murmur, and
the next moment she fell on tho l oor
of tho cab like a dead woman. But be
fore I cou’d call any one to help her, tor
1 was pretty well shaken myself, ono
of the directors, who was on the train,
came along in a fearful passion. Ho
wanted to i now what I meant by run
ning the risk that 1 had done.
“ • Haven’t you any brains? and don’t
yon care any more for human life than
a donkey?’ he blustered.
“I handed him the telegram I had
received at A , and which, fortu
nately for myseir, i naa put into my
pocket, and then I pointed to the tlo r
ot tho cab, where Jim lay in a drunken
sleep, and Miss Lord in a dead fain',
and I told the story as woll as I could.
I tell you there was pretty lively timea
there for a lew minutes. Tho passen
gers found out that something was the
matter, and they came pouring out of
the cars, and crowded round the en
gine, and 1 bad to tell my story over
and over to them. Well, some of tho
men carried Jim off to the station, and
dumped him down on the fioor, and
Miss Lord was taken into one of the
.drawing-room cars, aud fussed over as
though she was oue of the greatest
Indi s in the land: and, before site canto
to herself enough to sit up, th re was a
pm e made up for her. of moro dollars
Hi n 'ho’ ever had in her life, and that
wa’n’t all, for Mr. Rituals—tho director
that was aboard tho tram—found that
she knew something of lelegraphv. and
put her in Hie ofileo at C for awhile,
nnd in a lew months g.tvo her a steady
job. So you see it wa’n’t a bad rido for
her, a tor all.”
•• But what became of her?” I asked.
“ Is sh ■ still in the oll'coP”
“Oh, blossyou, no, sir. f-lio did what
most all the women do, sooner or later
—get married.”
“Well," a : d I, “such a de
served a good husband; 1 hypo DKegot
one.”
•Well, Idon’tknow; pretty middling,
I guest,” and thou lie noddod, with a
laugh: “She seems tube satisfied, so I
suppose (here's no occasion for any ono
else to find I'nult.”
ti t then there was a whistle, nnd
the down train entno into view, and,
putt ng fils pipe in ins pocket, the on-
glnoer ma lo ready for his homeward
trip, saying, with a siy smile, as ho
8 ( rang on tho engine and said good-by:
“If ever you como to Concord I shall
lie glad to seo you, and you can ask my
wi e what sho ihinks of tho husband
Miss Ford got.” — li.ilton'* Monllilu.
Watches a II it mired Years Too 8low«
Neither literally nor figuratively can
the watches of the world be persuaded
to keep tho name time, The watches of
France, in a good many innUtiom just
now, fail to go with perfect nimtiltane-
ouhuokh, and even in tho ciisn of the
grand National Fetes there is some
slight divergence in the pulsation of
public opinion, For example, it is stat
ed in tlie Paris Fie/aro tliut tho Countess
l'Yrnnnd do la Ferroiinnvs, on HWiving
from tlie Mayor of her urrondinacincnt a
printed invitation to hang out (lags from
tier outward walls by day and illuminate
them by night—addressed to tho aiitni-
oipnl functionary a haughty, icy reply,
in which she declines in any way to co
operate in tho “so-called National Fete"
of what she sarcastically reminds the
Mayor is “the. Third Republic.” Tlie
Countess refuses to participate in a
manifestation which " pretends to do
honor to all the crimes of thnt revolu
tion w hich broke out in 1789, and the
duration of which is not yet terminat
ed. The names of our murdered
parents would riso before us to eurso
ns," concludes the enthusiastic dame.
The Flf/aro styles this lovely protest
against Republican institutions a “belles
response." With more propriety it
might ho headed, “Curious case ol a
lady’s watch being ninoty-omff years
slow.” The Americans have « stout
gentleman who, on the morning of a
certain Fourth of July a few years since,
lmppened to he nn inmate of u hotel in
tho ijeiiutifnl Cntskill mountains. When
breakfast w as over the landlord politely
asked him, as being apparently the
senior among the company, to address
a few appropriate words to tlie assem
bled guests “on the present auspicious
occasion.’’ “What occasion?” asked
the stout gentleman, with a stare of as
tonishment. “Why," explained the
landlord, “this august anniversary.”
“Wlmt anniversary?” asked tho stout
gentleman. “ Blame my eats I” cried
the landlord, “ain’t this Independence
day?" Tlie face of the stout gentleman
grew dark, and, in a voice trembling
with passion, ho vociferated : " Do you
mean, sir, tho unnatural relielliou
against my lab) and reverend sovereign,
King George III., of blessed memory ?”
The stout gentleman t imed out to bo
un Englishman whom the landlord ltad
mistaken for an American, acd it was
only a ease of a watch tliut nad been go
ing slower und slower ever since the
year 177(5.—London Teltffraph,
Reserved Heats.
In (raveling, ono moots with many
selfish people ; among them countless
women who insist on monopolizing two
seats in a railway car under the pre
tense that ono of them is engaged by an
attendant gentleman, supposedly in the
smoking-car for a brief interval. We
saw two women of this sort rightly
served during a summer trip. For fifty
miles they 'succeeded in warding off
travelers who sought the shady side of
the car, and the seat in front of them
was tho convenient receptacle of their
baggage. Finally, however, an unconth-
looking individual quickly removed tho
baggage anil turned the seat. Tho
astonished ladies paused in their con
versation to each other and raised their
hands an if in remonstrance, but it was
too late; the thing was quietly and
quickly accomplished, and the two for
eigners who were seated there seemed
to understand no words or gestures.
Public opinion, in that car, at least,
sided with them. On another occasion,
when our party entered a car, not a seat
was nvailal de. One person was guard
ing four, others ono and two; the aiule
was uncomfortably crowded. “ Tliia
way,” raid the conductor, “room in the
palace car for those who are standing."
The engaged Beats were at a discount
(plenty of room now), but the conductor
insisted that they should be retained by
their occupants, and all were made com
fortable. “Do as you would be dene
by,” is a good role when traveling on
elsewhere.
—Tito ice crop of the Hudson River
this year will bo nearly three million
tons,which is one of the largest harvests,
if not the largest, ever taken from that
river. The ice gathered ranges in thick
ness from eight to twenty inches, and,
owing to tho low condition of tho river
when it froze over, is as clear as crystal.
The housing this year cost from four to
seven cents less per ton than last year
r-N. Y. Ti mau