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SOTHT SOUTH
nii mi mu hi Dim.
CROSSING THE RIVER STYX.
Charon and Ilis Ferry-Boat.
Slariliim IlixHiwum in llie IniVr
nnl Ki'mom,
CHAPTER IX.
On arriving, wo found that the court had ris
en for the day. Minos and the other two j udges
had rstired to their private room, where, wa
were informed by an official, they wonld be
ready to receive us in a short time. Meanwhile,
we were shown into the ante-room in whioh we
had left the philosopher and the widow. We
found both cf them in precisely the same reflec
tive atitudes in which we had left them; and
each seamod too much occupied with his or her
thoughts to be able to conv*iS < with the other.
The philosopher bad, in fact, been plunged in
orable reflation of the human career which he j lower and lower into the valley, beauty sprang
j had witnessed in the city must have only s^rv- ; up rich and richer at our feet,
ed to confirm him in his choice. Our cotnpan- It would be impossible for me to des ribs,
ion forgot, of course, that his change of plan and I shrink from attemp’.ing the dfsiription of
was already well known to the judges (who, of j this loveliest of valleys. I remember well the
course needed only a glance at him to become i gorgeous colours in which a great art-critic and
aware of it) otherwise, he would have known | master of English has set himself to describe
that their congratulations were ironical, and i many of the wonders of the world I have left—
wonld have hastened to conclude the sortie by | the clouds and her aunsets, the sound and mo-
A WOMAN OUT SHOPPING.
himself confessing bis altfred intentions.
‘At length, howevvr, the judges desisted from
their raillery, and proceeded to rtp*at the for
mal interrogation as to onr plans which they
had put to ns in the morning’ The philoso
pher, tae widow, the poet, and myself, all sig
nified with more or l6*s firmness our adherence
to our then expressed intautiors. Toe M C.
was compelled, of course with much hesitation,
lion of her sleepless seas, the grandeur of her
lifted mountains ; and I remember also how, in
the presence of the objects he described, the
great word-pic are became a blurred and brok
en, and colourless sketch—a rude transcript of
his father s house traced upon bis slate by the
Sagers of a wondering child. Waen, therefore,
X consider that, on the one hand, I have not the
powers of that great art-critic and word-painter,
to confeasthat he had determined to se 1 - ct the | and that, on the other, the valley in which we
career of a legislator in the City of the Earthly j stood nceis a thousand-fold in beauty the most
Life To his great relief, however, Minos and | magnificent of these natural scenes, which even
his brother j idges expressed no contempt, or he failed adequately to reproduce, my readers,
ev»n the slightest surprise, at bis ohaoge of, I hope, will not accuse me of undue diffi lence
plan, an 1 tae former ;r mee led to fill up hi- | if I attempt no detailed description of the Val-
passport in the new form without a word. Esq- j ley of Earthly Beauty—this, the apparitor in-
boldsned by this, be was aboat to enter upon a j formed as was its title - not that anything on
, probabiy somewhat lengthy apology for the I fe : sarth approaches it in loveuness, but because its
to these abstruse speculations upon conscious- ; he had seen fit to adopt, when be was politicly j beauties are the same in kind as those of earth
ness, and ils relation to the external world (if ; on » short by Minos, who informed him that ly scenes. It must suffice to say that in itself
external world there be) which had occupied j they made it a rule never to listen to any ex- ; ov<,rv variety of scenery which the earth has to
Lis mind upon earth. In particular he had pl» n *tions of the grounds of their choice from show, and united attractions which, in my late
bien engaged in attempting to form some con- those spirits who were called upon to select j planet, were divided from each other bv liemis-
ceplion bo 17 ‘things in themseue.; would appear their future abode. So much the larger major- | pheres ; .the soaring peaks of A'pffie ranges ;
to him wbeD he come to know ibern immediate- I( y of spirits,’ said bis lordship, ‘select the life j the *oft curves and mellow tones o»‘ the English
very ideas by which he sought mentally to rep- j bianco aforesaid, and are so full of elaborate
resent to himseif ‘things in themselves, were I trenscenden*»l justifications of their choice
inseparably associated with subjective cocdi- j that, really, were we not to make the ru!» I h«vo
tioes. He first wondered how things in them- i referred to, we should never put through o»r
selves’ would ‘look,’ but he soon, of courge, be- | bud ness.
thought himself of the impropriety of using a
word so deeply tainted with subjective and pos-
L i ely material sssociations. Then be tried to
imagin’* himself as ‘knowing things in them
selves,’ but the word, ‘know’ he found, some
how involved the notion of ‘mind,’ and bnisd'
brought with it a host of associations of the most
offensively sul j active charaeter. Nay, it at last
occurred to him that, after ail, his labor wouid
be in vain, inasmuch es even if the knowledge
of ‘things in themselves' were to be in future,
immediate and freed from subjective limifation
it was impossible to indulge in any antici
pations of such knowledge 'without subjec
tifying it by the very act of anticipation. In
short, be found, to his disgust, that he was in
pricisely the same plight as he had been on
earth,and as vexationsly incapable of leaping t If
bis own shadow, even now, when it was the
shadow of a shade.
The widow,on the other haBd, had beeD whol
ly occupied in reflecting on her approicl ing ie-
union with ‘poor, dear George; and she was
wondering, with a total obliviou.mcfs of all the
the consequences involved in a transition from
the earthly to the spiritual world, whether his
beard would be a*, lorg and silken as it used to
be, and whether ho still smiled with the txpr»s-
sion she admired so rnneh.
It was of course impossible for two persons
whose thoughts ran in two such different, and
indeed oppesing, curren‘8 to carry on a sympa-
thetic conversation, and indeed, we shortly af
terwards witnessed the ody attempt which they
made in that direction, and which proved a sig
nal failure. The widow lagan a conversation
with the philosopher by a series of inquiries i s
to the nature of that problem which he hoped
so soon to obtain the solution; and she listened
with interest, if with no precise apprehension
cf their meaning to the explanations which he
gave her of the mystery involved in the relations
of the Ego with the Non-Ego.
Indeed, as the philosopner proceeded with
his If ciure, and wont on to point out to her that
the human consciousness n.ver perceived any
thing immediately but its own changes, and that
so called ‘external things’ can never be known
to us ‘in themielves' (their very existence in
deed being a mere matter of inference) and
farther, that any satisfactory solution of the
problem must disclose to us the true nature of
these things ‘things in themselves,’ the widow
began to imbibe a portion of her companion’s
enthusiasm. Feminine curiosity, in fact, form
ed a very tffieient substitute for the spirit of
philosophic inquiry, and she was as keenly aDX-
lons to know ‘tilings in themselves’ as she had
been on earth to know ‘things in relation to her
female acquaintances*’
But they soon touched upon a point of repul
sion, which showed them how widely in reality
their sympathies diverged. The philosopher
was in the act of explaining to her that there
was absolutely no evidence for supposing that
‘things in themselves’ would, wi en they coma
to be known, be found to resemble our ideas of
them on earth, when the widow interrupted him
with a question.
•What!’she exclaimed, ‘do you mean to say,
then, that my poor, dear George, when I come
to know him, ‘in himself,’ as you call it—though
what you mean by it, I m sure I don’t know—do
yen mean to tell me tlat he won’t be like my
George ?’
•lie may possibly bear not the slightest re
semblance to what you call ‘your George,’ re
plied the philosopher, with philosophic calm.
‘Then, I don’t believe a word of such non
sense,’ cried the widow, indignantly. ‘Not re
semble my George, indeed! The idea!’
‘Exactly,’ interrupted the philosopher; *it is
merely the ‘idea’ of George whioh is in your
memory, the actual entity may le something
very different.’
•Actual fiddlesticks!' exclaimed the widow.
'What next, I wonder?’
•I have ‘wondered what next' all my life,’ sigh
ed the philosopher, sadly.
T never beard of such a thiDg,’ c mtinued she.
still indignant. ‘Do you mean to tell me that I
have forgotten him, or that I have been mistak
en for fifteen years in believing what my senses
told me t’
•Your senses told you of nothing, said the
philosopher, calmly, ‘but certain material chan
ges taking plr.ee in your bodily organs of sense.
These changes you referred, with or without
ground, to the presence of an external, and that
object yon ni>med ‘your husband’—that s all.
Your ‘George’ is a creation of your mind—a
purely subjective being.
•Very well,’ said the widow, ‘I shall be per
fectly satisfied with a purely subjective George
for the future. George ‘in himself indeed!
What good would it do me to see him ‘in him
self if he is different so from my George ? No,
I prefer to see the poor dear fellow as he appear
edto me, and particularly as he appeared to me
on the dav when we first met at Chiswick.’
The philosopher turned from her with a
smile of pity, as from one still in bondage to the
sn jeotive.
The country gentleman w; s desirous of giv
ing the judges a brief description of the Hia
tus quo in the controversy between himself and
bis i*te vicar on the sul j ct cf Free Will, and a
concise summary ot too arguments by wli di he
jns’ifiedto himself his aoo< ptanoe of a merely
jrovieional solution of the question; when he,
too. was similarly end as polnely cot abort.
‘Excuse me, said Alines, ‘but am I to under
stand that yon desire one cf those allctmen's
through wtriah you p^sied tfaix afternoon in the
neighbourhood of the city ?'
‘Aloet assuredly,’ raid the country gentle
man, eagerly, ‘if it is possible to obtain on*.’
‘Yen must enter your name in the register at
once, thru,’ was the reply, ‘otherwise you may
lose your turn.’
Tbs country gentleman abandoned the Ne
cessitarian position with precipitate haste, an i
Lurried off to secure his title to bis allotment
The barrister had n t yrt seen as much as he
wished of tbo j tdioia) proceedings of the High
Court of Justice ; and the physician’s casa, as I
mentioned above, had been adjourned till tae
following day. The artist v**s the only spirit
■till unprovided with his papers, and there wa*
considerable difficulty in settling fur him, fo
he was unable fo settle for himself what his fu
ture career should be. He wss a pleasant, Pz
eaiy-^oicg shade, well satisfied at times to wan
der carelessly through the p'etaresquo, and g;z ;
idly on the beautiful, without a thought of any
thing beyond ; but be possessed a s tare < i the
spiritual yesr-ings of the poet, end was »t other
times full cf eager desire to penetrate beyond
those things of s-use which in hi* lighter moods
wer# all sufficient for him ; to lift that veil, the
lebendiges Kieid der Gotthtil v*h s * splendid and
suhtib [issues it ins for the most part sufficient
for him only to gtz* upon, and to wonder idly
at the glorious draping* of its folds.
Being in one of hi* serious moods at present,
he wi s not at all easy to satisfy. Although es
snred by Minos that, on the way to the spot
wbitter hi* compasiona were b u id, he would
pass through a valley whose beamy would giv»
to hi3 artistic taste the highest gratification ot
which it was capable, and whose cnarais wvuld
never pall,still tie professed himself dissatisfied.
He was anwilling to cut himself off from the
unveiling of those mysteries whose presence
had ever haunted him, even in bus least-dis
turbed ei joymeut of material beauty. At last
the nattier wa* settled by Minos giving him a
blank passport, with directions to return and
have it filled np after he bad made his decision.
And after bidding adieu to the judges, and re
ceiving their b* si winhi s for our future happi
ness, we set out upon our journey.
At the gates of the palace we were forced to
bid adieu to onr companions, the M. C. and the
country gentleman. Their routes lay, of course,
in the direction of the city, and they were to bo
conducted thilher by another guide. We our
selves were again tak n in charge by our old
friend the apparitor, and afeer watching our
friends set out by the same road as we had be
fore taken that afternoon, we struck across the
plain in quite another direction, and were now
at last fairiy en route for our much wished-for
destination.
Hew it was I know not—probably it was ow
ing to a rooted irreverence natural to me on
earth, and whioh had survived into my spirit
ual life—but no sloner had we got wall under
way, five spirits all bound for the solution of the
problems of existence, than I was seizsd with
an almost unconquerable inoiirabon to burst
oat laughing. Spirits never lose their national
bent and duqoiitioa, and,as a thoroughly Amer
ican spirit, I could not but f*el how absurdly
unpractical was the cour*e of life which we had
adopted. It was completely uncertain, in the
first place, whether the solution of these mys
teries would be at ail satisfactory ; and it was
quite manifest that whatever it might torn out
to be, we should never be able to put it to any
practical use. In fact, we had been warned that
we should never be permitted to reinrn with our
newly-j-cquired knowledge to that part of Hades
with which we were acquainted, and the condi
tions of life which we understood. Yet now,
with a large and decently-well conducted city
opening to receive us, and with every prospect
before us if we made it our abode, of attaining
in it a position of the highest .espeetability,
we w -re maictied off at the tail of a mere phi
losopher in search alter we knew not what
A glance at the appearance presented by our
cortege was in itself calculated to provoke a
smile. The philosopher marched in front, un
able to restrain his impatience bis eyes fixed
immovably on the distant hor z >n
tain—how, it wonld bo impossible to txplaia
to my readers—many of the peculiarities of
outward appearance wtiih ci*tinguished tte.m
on-tarth, and the tall, gaunt figure of the phi
losopher striding eagerly forward, while the
poet (who was hardly lsi s eager to solve the
problems of existence, but was exceedingly
short of stature) strove to ke6p pace with his
companion by a method of progression which,
qsusi.e a harmony, that their union arouse!
neither surprise nor rese itment, and the eye
drank ia the whole feene with unquestioning
rapture.
An exclamation of wonder and delight from
he artist arous id 11s from the contemplation of
toe view before ns, and gszing in the direction
of h ; s glance, we re-tohoed his cry. The grove
we aer-.-ecterihg was peopled with human forms
of mors than antique beauty, moving white
amongst its shaded s*etns. The immortal mar
bles of the Greek sculptor sec-m^d to live and
breathe around ns. The Lord of th6 Unerring
Bow’ had stepped from his pedestal ; the Mel
eager and the An’inous moved about us, more
woudrously beautiful in motion than in repose;
thi Faun leu lged on his tree trunk, reoreiez ly
graceful than even Prazdeles conceived him ;
tb.i Melian V'»tius gazed on us in all the beauty
of her imperisi disdain—but aline, and with mo
tion ia ber queenly limbs.
Tim poi t was the first to break the long si
lence of rapture, in which ws g.ized at this en
chanting valliey and i:s inkacit nhi :
•I an vy yoo,’ he said in a low voice to the art
ist. ‘Y"_in, of course, will remain here
But the other returned no auswe”, and we
ctfnid see that a severe sirnggle was taking place
in hie mit d.
‘It is, indeed,* he said, after a pause, ‘the
home j’self of eternal beauty. One would ask
nothing betn-r than to dwell here eternally,
ware it not for ;* and glancing in the direc
tion of our destination, he sighed deeply, and
was silent -Tel! me,’he resumed abruptly,
and addressing the apparitor, ‘shall I be able
to ;>aiat what L see here?"
•Assuredly,’ replied the other, ‘in colours of
unfading brightness, and with infinitely greater
force sad truth of representation than the great
est of earthly painters' ever attained to.’
‘And—and,’ continued the artist, with some
heasitalion, ‘exhibit my pictures?
‘A salon is held here annua iy in the city,’ re
plied tae apparitor. ‘Ail pictures sent taer8 for
exhibition are accepted by the judges, aad all
are haog in the most favorable position for the
display of their respective merits.’
The artist seemed gratified by the information
as to the annual salon, but he seemed a little
disph as-d at toe idea that ail pictures sent there
were accepted. The apparitor, however, assur
ed him that this by co means implied that all
the pictures sent were of equal merit, and that
there wis therefore room tor emulation be
tween the xrtists. ‘No eff >rt of a spiriinal paint
er,’ he said, ‘was so bad as to be rejected, but
amongst ihe accepted there were infinite grada
tions of fxoel'eo. e ‘ This assurance coasi tsr-
ably relieved our friend.
•But yet,’ he resumed, s ill undecided as to
b's future, ‘but yet, to paint, for ever the outer
v»it ot things, curious and beautiful t s it may
be !—niv?r to prsi behind it to the sanctuary
within 1 Nay, but shall I ever paint this veil ?s
it should be painted, except I pass behind it?
Is it not that hidden life, that unseen Spirit of
things which, brfatbiag through the canvas of
the inis-er, makes b's work a masterpiece, and
such as men call great? Great! and yet, what
is it beside the things it represents? Ah ! the
mis er was but a man, and saw but partially,
and heard but faintly. And shall I, theD, for
ever strain a painful eye to win fleeting glimpses
of this hidden Spiri.% and bend a dull ear to
catch distant murmurs of b's voice, whom I
might see face to face, and talk with as a man
Ulketh with his frieDd? No,’ he continued,
with growing enthusiasm; ‘let me go with you,
and returning with fuller inspiration to my
art ’
‘Stay,’ interrupted the apparitor, ‘did yon say
“returning? ’ Excess me, but you will not be
permitted to return to your art, nor, of course,
to pursue it there. Do as you please, by all
means; but if yonjaccompany your friends, you
will never paint another picture, not to say ix
hibit one. ’
The artist was silent.
•Choise,’ siid the apparitor, curtly.
‘I have chosen,’ he replied, T remain. I ex
ist only for my art, and such knowledge of the
ursaen world es would give me power and dig
nity of expression I would have; but if for the
full knowledge of what i3 now hidden from my
view, I must surrender the gift of interpreta
tion, I will not raise the veil. I remain, con
tent with the faint giimpsps and the distant
voice, so long es I may reveal to others the little
that I see and hear. Adieu 1’
It needed bnt a glance at his features to see
that his determination was unalterable, and we
bade him, at least, the poet and I, an afiketioa-
ate farewell. But as we passed onwards to our
unknown future, we threw back ever and anon
glancrs of curiosity at our late companion, as
he lay drinking in the beauty of that lovely val-
Soiriis re- an< * tron hied no longer by yearnings after
^ 1 the naknown.
And we wondered whether they would ever
trouble him again.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Br VIRGINIA. ROSALIE.
One of the greatest pleas ires in a wiman's
life is to go shopping. A greater one, of cours 1,
when she intends to buy something; but half of
the women, these days, have no int >ntion of
buying anything when they go; only to bother
the clerks and see what new styles there are.
Mrs. A —, rises in the Euroing with the fall
determination of doing a great deal of sewing;
but at tne breakfast table she suddenly remem-
beis that she needs some spools of thread and
some buttons, so instead ot sending one of the
s irvanfs for it, she rts lives to go out shoppiug
and pcs pones her s iwing until tomorro w.
Sae does observe that sohool begirs next
week nn 1 the children need some clo hes, but
j she has her mind on shopping, now, and it is
imprs able to sit down and hear the buzz, buzz
j of the maihiue for a whole day.
I She dresses heis df in her verv besh and sal-
j lies forth to tae most fashionable millinery es
tablishment to look at the new s yles. She is
greeted by a s ailing ladv who congratulates her
self for be'ng theyiKe de suite of this good cus
tomer. Mrs. A -as is to s le some new bonnets
the lates style, of corns 1, though she has no in
tention wiial-ver of b lying one. Wnen she
bought that sea green silk, her husband said he
would cotbe able to buy her an expensive bm-
net, so Mrs. A - thought best to buy the impe
rial she wm-ed, and make it herself. Tn ; s : s
why she wishes to see the bonnets which the
girl smilingly shows delighted with the way
with which Mrs. A -asks for the most stylish,
not minding the price. She tries them on, one
after another and is sorry they wear them so
far back on the head—they dont become her.
Sorry they wear maroon more than sea green
because the Irs s Ik she bought is sea green and
she wishes to get a bonnet to match. Glad
tuongh th?y are wearing feathers more than
fi iwers.
After she t ikes a good look at the bonnets and
knows precisely how they are trimmed, she
ttl's the girl that they charge so awful high for
them, and she did not come prepared to pay
such abig price; but she will look around and
see if she cannot do a iy better; if sbe cannot
she will come back and take one of this*. She
goes out again; ttr's time, ta a dry goods store, j
and rs'-s the clerk who comes forward to show
her some s iks. He do< s, every kind and color
that are in tbs s ore, bu; none of them s lem to
s lit her. The poor clerk lies ihe whole counter
every where uear him literally covered with
silks, yet Mis A— has nothing to s».y about
them. She looks at ona, eyes another, and ex
amines one v 0 ry closely, andia her heart wishrs
she really bad the money to buy oae with; but j
she has not, and will have to content hers ;lf by |
looking at them; a id then she knows that the
clerk will rsoeai on's'da that she ’arsbecn look
ing a' silks, and this will make people think
she be s been buying s uue. At l?s , she decides;
she would ii'ie for Mr. A —to s e them before
she gets them, s 1 she will take some samples.
While she ts making her way to another dry
goods store, she meets ocecf her mrs' particu
lar friends, Mrs. C—, who is out shopping also,
and as it happens, gors iuto the same store.
M-s. A — got’s up to the counter with her sam
ples aud asks the clerk if he has any silks to
match these pieces. He gets every piece of silk
in ihe store upon the counter, and all three try
very hard to rna'ch ihe pieces. Mrs. A— is ia
her glory! Both Mrs — C and the clerk will
think she has ne w silk dresses like these pieces
and is she has not enough, is trying to get more
to fiir's'i them.
The clerk s very sorry they cannot accommo
date Mrs. A—. Here is some, j ust a shade darker
than the brown, will it do ? Here is a piece
just a little bit lighter than the navy blue, and
here is some just exactly iike the cardinal.
No; they wont do! She must have them the
right shade. The cardinal she couldn’t afford
to buy, why it costs a great deal more than it is
worth; but they charge more for their goods
than any other s’ore.
Tne kind and polite clerk will then offer to
ask the proprietor if he couldn‘t sell them 11 her
cheaper, but she interferes, saying, if she
bought them she would pay fall price; but she
would try somewhere else, and if she can’t do
any better she will t ke these.
When fhi is en route for another store, her
friend loaves her. It is to her relief, too, for
she does not care to let her know that she is
not going to buy the silks even if she caa match
them.
Tais is the way a great many ladies go shop
ping; they torment the clerks; have them to
take down every piece of clotn in the store, and
then buy nothing. Sometimes, they get samples
at one store, and ihen go to every other store in
town to see if they can match them. They try
every store, especially if the piaces are silk, and
then end up by buying a spool of thread and a
paper of buttons—or, some of ths ladies will
end their excursion by bayiag a paper of pins 1
frost making firm the unstable water, the thun
der peal, the siu that shines by day, and the
moon that steals into the dark skv by night:
all arouses its infantile wonder aad young cari
osity. Let them have a few years of pleasant
natural education, bef ire they oomtnenc * a Gain
ful artificial one. Let it, as St. P*nl, s»ys when
| it is a child. “Think as a child and act as a
i child.’’ And in due and proper seas m nodonbt
I of it, ‘it will pnt away childish things.’ It makes
| one sad to see a fine little fellow seat to study
1 Euclid at the age he should be realing Ribin-
son Crusoe, and it equally does a maa good to see
| such a one enj lying his voung existeaoi in an
i appropriate manner. Faw there are who oan-
! not enter into the feelings of the child in its
mirth and freedom.
J. L. Hersey,
Tuftonbokough, N. H.
j SERVE IXQUIETUDE A5TD ITS REMEDY.
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not, in a restricted sense, a specific for ner
vousness, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is emi
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tell you of its wonderful effect. Over 910,1/09 bottles sold
last year without a sing e failure known.
Ibis its'ruclive dialogue had bardlv con- by an anthropomorphism I will dtseriba as ‘irot-
c‘ud*d before the appaiutor appet red, and s*ra- ting.’ formed an irresis ibly ludicrous combiua-
nioted us once more into the pttseuce 01 me tion. Tne artist hovered betwsea front and
irdees They received us with all taeir ioraier rear of the party, now urged forward by the
courttsv and asked politely what kind of an transcendental element in his nature, now de-
afte-r.oon we had spent, inquiring in particular i tained by an appeal made to his vivid sense of
as'to the impression made upon us b» our ex- natural beauty t y some portion of the land-
periences of the City cf the Earthly Life. 1 his
was a delicate sutjjot for at least one of us
to handle, and the M. C. exhibited considerable
uneasiness while it was under discussioD. Ths
indues, however—I could not but think, mali-
ciouslv—seemed particularly unwilling to quit r . .
the sui j*ct of the city, or to adire. s their rc- j^ C{ . n t of a s‘.eep hill had r«tnov*d tu from the
marks and animadversions of its life, to any 1 s jgnt of the bleak and cheerless plain which
one bnt the M. C. They congratulated him on | itself at first to those who iasue from
his having adopted the philosophers nobler : tile p ft | aoe 0 f Justice, and, as we descended
ideal ef the future, ana suggested that the mis-
scape around him,
These appeals became more and more frequent
as we advanced. Indeed, imperceptibly to raa,
who had been occupied in observing my com
panions, the sarroandmg country had began to
assume an aapict ot unearthly lovt-line.-s. The
Human Body in a Trunk —Poston. Feb. 27.—
Tais after oon, a workmaa on the Western ave
nue, near the city of L nn, found a trunk from
which a human hand protruded. The trunk
was lied with a large woolen string. On open
ing the trnnk, a horrible sight was presented;
it contained the body cf a young woman about
twenty-four years of age, nude, wi:h the arms
and legs twisted and distoried, and the nos 3 cut
off. The trunk also contained two champagne
bottles and several bricks. An autopsy was
held.
It was the opinion of the doctors that the
woman bad been dead two or three days. Up
to midnight no clus to the mystery had been ob
tained. The body has not been identified.
“Why, Willie,’" said his mother at dinner, “you
can't posaibly eat an-'ther platu of pudding, can
you?” “Oh, yes, X caa ma; one more plate full
will just fill the Bill.
A PLE i FOR CHILDREN.
Oh! thesnriDy, sunny hours of childhood,
How soon, how soon thiy piss away.
Verily—there was a time when we had chil
dren. The time is past or i3 fts’ passing. The
boys are premature mockers of men. The
girls, something between a doll and a stunted
woman. Tls schoolmaster is abroad, also the
schoolmistress, besides tutors and governesses.
Shortly after the children are weaned they com
mence eclncauDg them ; while the brain is yet
in a soft and pulpy slate, they load it with fact*
and hard names to its serious detriment during
the remainder of its mundane ixiatence.
The ancient Grecian commenced with carry
ing a calf upon hia back a few hour* 6vsry day,
so that when the calf gradually grew into an ox
he carried the ox with as much ease as he had
done the calf. This is now the education prin
ciple. Tney lay a few leaves of cyclopedia or
encyclopedia on a child's tender brain and keep
adding thereto day by day, expecting that when
he is a man he will carry the thirty volumes
with perfect ease without considering that in
the attempt they may crush ail sap and fresh
ness out of that brain, smashing it as fiat as a
par-oak* and dry as a biscuit.
Now i3 this wholesome, is it natural, is it fair,
is it humane, that a child should be cheated out
of its childhood, and sent to learn the use of
the globes before he has learned to p'ay at mar
bles, or is it expected that tnis early forcing
and hot bed system can produce healthy plants
as if they had been allowed to grow in the free
air and open sunshine? Oa! in place of send
ing a child to school three or four years, ^ let it
er joy three or four years more of healthy ignor
ance, curb not its young freedom, abridge not
its first holidays, cage not the pretty bird too
soon, change not the free air of henven for the
pent up atmosphere of the school room. The
youth murmurs of the winds for the dnil hum
of the prison house. We were ones children
ourselves. Let us have a fellow feeling for the
voung rogues. Let kind Dame Nature nurse
them a few years longer. Tners will be fewer
rickety limbs and rickety intellects. And does
a 0 ild learn nothing because ithaqnot its pr m-
er in its hands. Certainly it does. Ev*ry
hour of its little life it is learning, it cannot
help it. The flower that blooms, the springing
grsst, the withered leaf, the running water, the
birrs that hop across i s path, and the thousand
sights of fields and woods. The winds that blow,
the falling rain, the fleecy snow, the sharp
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Memphis Tbnn.—On and after February 16tb, 1 879
the following passenger schedule will be operaefid.
GOING WEST.
Leave Chattanooga 8 40 pm.
“ Stennsonn 10 25 pm.
“ Decatur 3 00 am.
“ Cermet 843 am.
“ Middleton 9 ‘6 am.
** Grand Junction i9 58am.
Arrive Memphis 1 88 pin.
Have lately been made on this line.
This road has been newly ballasted, and the track
repaired with steel rails. These improve-;,
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r»ad in the South.
TO THE - EA8T
Close Connection is made for all Eastern and
Southeastern Cities.
Only Line running THROUGH
Palace Sleeping Cars
AND DAY COACHES,
BETWEEN
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WITHOUT CHANGE.
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ROUND Tl^IP Emigrant Tickets
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Now on sale at Chattanooga, to principal Texas
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Day Coaches run between Bristol
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And between Montgomery, Alabama, and
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