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From the Louisville Journal.
“0—
••W II % T IN T 1C I TII . ”
Go search yon classic tome.
Where genius finds a home,
For truth that jewel fair,
And as thy lamp grows dim,
‘Neath midnight shadows grim,
Confess it is not there.
Go search the hoary deep,
Where myriad beauties sleep,
15y mortal eye unseen.
See if proud ocean’s caves,
Beneath the dark blue waves,
Furnish that gem serene.
Go search in yonder field,
Where beauteous llewrcts yield
fheir sweet and rich perfumes.
Go ope their petals fair,
Alas! not there, not there,
The brilliant truth-rose blooms.
Go search the radiant mine,
Perchance its depths enshrine
That priceless jewel there.
Alas! though gems they hide
Where sable shadows gfule,
They hide no gem so rare.
Go search the works of art,
Where genius gives the heart
The friends of years gone by;
The marble rears its head
Above the silent dead,
But truth ne’er meets the eye.
Go search the seraph’s home
Beyond the star-lit dome
Where rolls the tide of song.
There Truth above earth’s gloom,
Rich in immortal bloom,
Dwells ’mid the shining throng.
Julius.
Henderson, Ky., August 2G.
filE TIDE OF DEATH,
—o —
ROBERT SI. CHARLTON.
— o —
tide rolls on, —the tide rolls on, —
The never ceasing tide,
That sweeps the pleasures from our hearts
Trie loved ones from our side!
That brings afflictions to our lot,
And anguish and despair,
And bears from youth’s unruffled brow
The charms that linger there.
The tide rolls on! wave after wave,
Its swelling waters flow:
Before it, all is bright and fair;
Behind it all is woe!
The infant from its mother’s breast,
The gay ami blooming bride,
Are swept away, and borne along
By that resistless tide.
The tide rolls on! the soldier’s eye
Grows dim beneath its swell;
The scholar shuns the mystic lore
That he hath loved so well;
Tin monarch puts the crown aside,
The laborer’s weary slave,
Rejoices that his limbs will know
The quiet of the grave.
The tide rolls on! like summer brook,
It glidcth to the sad;
But liki* dark winter’s angry tide,
It rusheth to tiic glad.
From kingly hull and lowlv cot.
From battle field and hearth,
It sweeps into oblivion’s sea.
The dwellers on the earth.
Roll o;, thou dark and turbid wave!
Thou canst not bear away
The records of the good and Brave,
That kuoceth not decay;
Though ti. rce may rush thy billow’s strife
Though deep thy current be,
Stib faitii s lull iift thy beacon high,
And guide us through the sea.
a a i v i; n .
0
So cairn, th waters scarcely seemed to stray,
And yet they slide, like happiness, away.
Bcbotei) to Cempfi ;aut, intelligence, anti the latest Httos.
ii o o i*! it t it >: in!
PREFACE
Things as they are.
Vire la fih'irn.
INTRODUCTION.
Reader, allow me to introduce you to Mis - Bland.
Cerceau.
CHAPTER !.
And I waited in the drawing room, lii ! I t i>ii : lit
my hair would grow grey before she \vi u; ! a| , ar.
The carriage was at the door and it was a bitter cold
night—l could hear the coachman mi ingitig and .- . j
ping his arms to keep his hands w arm. I had wound
up the musical box for excitement, and listened t
itssoulless jingle for occupation : I had mad,’ 1 1 w lit
th-King Charles Spaniel stand on his hind ire tii!
be began to think that was his normal position. I
tried with my right hand to coax “Uncle Ned’’ , it of
the piano—much to the chagrin of lha‘ , iand ins!ru
rnent, whose mission was classics! -e e 1 b* ,i a
retreat from the realm of sweet sounds t<> t it ,1
sweet feelings—my patent leather hoots wci awful
tight. In blissful agony I heard, at last, the oil
ing of a door, a musical laugh the rustle of silk
and there before me, just giving the last ti !,t nh
to her glove-lace—was Blanche Cerceau Fu -h a
seraphic smile, such a conning voice
“And did I keep him waiting? ti , dear little A
thm ! And did he grow fretful ?”
“In the lexicon of Politeness which Fate has oi
dained for a bright man of the world, there is no
such word as Fretful?” I nnswerod. I had been
studying this answer for two hours Bulwer gave
the lesson. As I replied my eyes fi ll on the hall cos
tume of Blanche. The Pyramids of Cgvpt were ev
idently intended to be represented by that tin ss, In l
head the apex and the bottom of her skirt the base.
I had to open my eyes twice to take in the full cir- j
cmnfcrencc, there was no end to that lower hoop ! :
“Can she get out of the front door” -thought i;l
“granted, yet can she get into the carriage? Hadn’t
she better ride outside with t e driver. ’’ 1 mild’
asked her this last thought. She answered.
“Never, dear Arthur—on such anight as this.
Ride inside, only put your leet upon the cushions ;
! then T can stand up.”
“Kind-hearted Blanche,’’ thought I —what. ac.ri
j (ices you make for oi yon I entered the carri
• age first—it was not gallan’, nut then she insisted
|on it! Then, she came in how I ean’t te'l, but she
j did it. And standing up lik- a Hippodrome girl in
her chariot and holding on to the hand strap - off
we started to attend Madame llavencourt’.s grand
Dull.
ciiai*ti:i: it.
1 It was a full hou- i, wild have gladdened
i the heart of a prima dona and, i!:n i head. Through
I the crush of human be 1 ,1 onward with
Blanche, once only 1 thou,.. w . all up with th
whalebones, hut we g< ttl ■■■■. ■ -a litis binl hut
still elastic; occasional . ---i ( epthc
skirts round till I saw i uty <•/. • •<--// tiny
feet, aud her figure liem, u di ciei hell cut in
two —but ‘ he wave sw ■; 1 • - the pyramid was a
[ pyramid.
“Will you waltz?” I said , lit r a- the music
sounded.
“Oh, no! I never waltz now !”
“Confound those hoops,” thought 1. But vw ‘did’
a quadrille—very easily. Only two steps and tin
figure wes complete—an awkward step from the gen
tleman vis-a-vis and rip went tie ladv’ l.irt’
<fec.—then came apologies, retreat to lie. ,'.: b
room—repairs impossible—had to send horn o the
carriage—and instead of having - splen.J, cm
Blanche and I—she sat down on tin scat now, and 1
took her deal little gloved hand in min -and uu i
connotation into her heart rode Jhuiw i>< f<*i
o’clock. Oh, horrors!
CHAPTER 111.
In a few days Blanche and 1 will b .nan and.
Hoop, Hurrah ! The wedding line I wish itu::
sonic other shape, it remind me so much of h
—now lies on my table. And that cart-load of u’ ah
bone I saw- going into her hou one da-, laid week
“Blanche,” said I, “is tlier, an umbrella toauuf tor.
near you?”—reminds me that the brid and dre- --<
la Pyramids of Egypt—are bring Built.
Blanche hasn't been to church for the month.-:
owing to the narrowness of the n> - , and the width
of her hoops.
CHAPTER IV.
And I sit dow non my artn-ciia and wu 1 r jf
such things can he possible, and if—what was, w, s
right. And I’ve form: to th- • clu.-: iP at ■ y
thing is that is.
“My wedding day! Now, b
j quized, “you can only go thiough Hus • •••’!• t
once in your life—three or four times at the outside
Ju>t raise the w indow and .ee it then, are my or.
sual operations going on in the heaven ah, e, or u
the garden below, or over in the m prhborf. ho *
the other side of the street. Nothing! Ih-inatu ■
is'inauspicious, t her, ill- s i„w In-day
where!“
Prophetic words!- -we w • 1 ■■■- i! ‘
church t'n g ramie tew, n’ ten ~ ck ‘• m
ing. Tin- hour came, catri ii r,d- ■ -
with it: we went to the ch i. WT
walked up to the door—sim- door-—v ry aai:
bride couldn’t get through—couldn't gc into chur h.
Hoops too large. door too n.;tiJ. 1 grew as :<-d ri
the face as a boiled lobster. ‘‘Put he t. .rough *
’gasped—confused, agitated aod vulgar
j “Sir-r-r!” said Btanchi “Mich la goaf and ••
a time!”
We re-entered the can .age, ditto the friend.-, then
i returned to the brides house, and then I Arthur
\rnmw i.i, m.
(VBii.ik!, !,■ ue ivefwvcd a foirnul dismissal. 1g u
the sack, M'lle Blau, he Cyiyeau retains the hoops.
Shall 1 not wii|e—
Things as (liey are !
Tiic Ui Bizarre !
r,\sff\i\cELs.
Twilight was deepening into night ; still, beauti
ful, holy night. The wann, rosy lights that had
pkiy-d about the west, tlickei -d and failed, and went
out. The shadows that skiUtaUhe old f.ireiM, length
en,'<l, and blended together, and crept out further
and furthei, till they lay still and hushed over ovorv
thimr; and the night w ind stole out shutting the rose
and swinging it to sleep in its green cradle, making
the shadows dance and quiver and the voting leaves
whisper dreamily, as if the Kays In hi carnival among
them. One by one the sentinel stars came forth and
li’on* the tar oil w ails of sapphire, kept their watch
•ver the dwellers of earth. Into every bosom their
radiant e\,s looked down, and the secrets of all hearts
were open,to them, t’liildhood, with its pas-innate
dreaiuings, ail glory clad; manhood with (lie nicm
u ics of Blossoms crushed, and idols broken, dashing
back the Past that walks like a phantom in the foot
steps, and wildly calling to the Future; and old age,
with palsied heart and hushed pulse, kneeling calm
ly at the graves of his youth and manhood, waiting
the beckoning of the w hile-hi-nw ed angel that mor
tals call deal'll.
In a quiet chamber, where tin curtains waved
gently to and fro in the wind, as it shook out the
“dors from the night-blooming (lowers, and Imre
them into the room, a young girl lay dying passing
lowly through that strange transition b\ which this
germ of immortality within, bursts from its cement
of clay, and expands into the beauty of an niiinr ai
tliilie llow’cr. It was hut ‘comm n lot’ that was up
on her. We have all marked it often, and know how
thcslcop steals over the body, shutting tin eyes that
will never again look through tears, stiffening the
gentle lip that will never again quiver to some si uni
that shakes the heart’s strings, set ting a seal of p.-ac
on the brow where the head of sorrow* u til never
more be laid. We have marked, too, how sonietimei
just w hen the soul is passing, it seems m look hack
IV,mi the Spirit-land, and utti r some thrillin- word,
that will dwell forever in the hearts that catch the
sound.
I have said oursisti r wasslying. H>■ <lo im-,1 ~ i
; already dead, yet we feared to turn our eyes from the
| young sleeper, lest the angels should hear her from
,ur sight. She looked so like a glorified seraph,
seemed so free from the blight of earth, she surely
needed hut white pinions to make her as the slide .
ones. But suddenly, as we eazod, what a change
| came over her! Slowly thu white lids lifted, her
face glowed with such a heavenly radiance ns if the
: freed Spirit, all bathed in the glory oft he upper tem
ple, had come hack to its tenement.’ again. How
■ agvily we listened, twill she not speak to us; and
with hushed In-itHs we watched foi but a sign oi to
< ii. I hall Bo with you when the stars brighten.
Lids was all .41, said, and her lips were silent for
ce r.
A vars have passed since that sister faded from our
sight, and the moonlight that first slept upon he r
grave, now falls upon others that have gathered
around it. Under the green turf by her side, we
nave thrice ‘buried our dead out of our sight.’ Two
! with blight sunny hair, aud untamed laughter in
! their eves, and uric with white lo l,s like a crown of
.•tors about in’s brow. We have-ooften looked info
,yi that death was darkening that w< have censed
,y farewell, and only whisper as we were wont
do mound the hearthstone, ‘goodnight.’ \nd
vi.r as the night conn-- over the lolls, we remember
i. ..,.riis of our early called -"I shall be with you
w !.< ii tin tars In ighlen.” Who shall say she is: not
\ith i: ? Whet: the beautiful arc pa ing from our
homes and heal t-, leaving us only mocking memo
ries of the loved and lust, who shall say that, as un
seen angels, they never hovei round uN?— for many a
| weary form hail long sin<-< found the deep shelter of
I tin. grave, hail no white wine fanned it when it
f. int- and , lilt life’s fever. Many an eye had cloned in
j de-paw. had it not sometime.’ •well, through its night
: of deep desolation, how loving eyes looked down up
on it. Many a so ndet foot had stumbled o’er its
rough pathway, hut for invisible hands that guided
jit gently over the dark places,
j “W< ey dimly through the mists and vapors,
Amid these earthly damps.”
But if we might for a moment, lift the veil from
air tv< , wo should find that heirs of mortality are
j not th” only dweller- here. Oh, heaven is not far
toll', but very, very mar, and the angels are all about
u ■. — .'l mi riaiii Si: n tin el.
-♦ ‘O’ *-
PfiHSI RII'TItA.
I’liy-i'-iati! kev.au how you pu..setibe. Yonder
‘• ■ ‘ a p u degiadcd i •• of lii- Maker, bloated,
’ and n.V'h Dead to-very sense of virtue. Physi
cian! that o’ A. -in.-lie at your door. It was you!
who pt< <ii!i-d the -timuhis. You were aware that
t . -.a a ‘•■elaimed druekaid, and why did ye pre-
M, ; iou were awai that long ago he took to
hi-bosom a delicate female as wife. Fora while
-• 1 v nt Lo try as a rnarriag’ hell,” hut at last the
O'."’ • < a me, and oil that vas Bright w a-blast'd,
I . ■ a-t.eautiful d<-t'oy-d. And then through
■bos’ rl-rk clouds came a heath of sunshine. Th<
good at gel hovered over tin abode of poverty, and
led tie fallen hack once more to the paths of recti
tude. And there was rejoicing n Heaven, and hap
pin- o:i earth. The wife strok-d again in love on
the partner oft her bosom. The little offspring ho
longer shr ink in rat the approach of their parent
.ed protector. But such happim , could not last.
The evil spirit still lingered, and at last gained the
UMSterv Disease v-ucil the ,-\ re- <■ “,
i Death was .•ttheriug in it. vicii Ii great
M umi'liiig car, tin w heels of disease > cut rolling on
i ward, sweeping oil’the !m. don and cherished.
| Physician it was you who prescribed. Oh, why did
you do it? Better for tin ■se delicate ones, hud the
hand of death robbed them of him who now reels a
bloated, drunken sot v cs! for now- the p’ril has
censed to strive, and nothing but a yawning hell
await, him! Oh,Physician ! irhy it hi’j/oii firi st'ribe?
Spirit i t’ tin It/- .
“I*l!:it YESTKRUIV,” i t
Every day is written in this little - ntence: “Died
yesterday ,so ami so “ Kvery day a (lower is pluck
| 0.l Irom some sunny home i luciteh made in some
happy ciich a jeyyn 1 stub n front some treasury of
j love. Each day from the slimmer fields . f life, some
| sentinel fulls from his post, and thrown from the ram
liris of time into the surging u aleis of eternity.
Even as we w rite, the funeral of one who “died yes
terday,” winds like a shadow along the street.
“Died \ e terrify Who died? Pet hups it yvasn
ttentlc babe, inless a- an angel plttc ns the zephyr's
hymn- “tie lres’ laugh was as the gn- !i of snmmor's
rills loiterii": in a hoyvet of rose. whose'little life
was a perpetual litany, a May lim • eiowm and with the
passion flowers that never fade. Or may hap it was
a youth, hopeful and generous- a serpent lurking
niiuet i.e it h one yv hose soul panted alter toni in union
with the “.real ami good, and leached forth with
earnest struggle lor the guerdon in the di: t in c.
But that heart of his is still now, for “lie died yen
terdny.”
“Did y esterday.” Wining girl pure as the or
tU'.ce floyvets that clasped lu-r forehead, yvas stricken
down, as she stood at the altar; and from the dull
aisles of the temple, she was Imru to the “garden of
the slunib’ rurs. A tall, brown man, giil with the
luil * i ol y iet oi y, and the days eh sc under Ins nyyn
viti and tig lice. I*ll in the (lust, ever a tin anthem
j irumbled on his lips; ami In, too, was laid “where
tin null’ Ihrt lathers of the hamlet sleep.”
All ngi and palrian h lmuei| with iigi amliarccv n
|a> he looked ii[on the di-tant hills flu (he coming’ .
• the angel host, sank into a dreamless dumber; at *!
on hi . door po-t :'■■>.t day vy a written, Died y,.
J terdny.”
“Died yesterday. Daily, men, w omen timl child
ren are p'l sin 1 cyy ay, and hourly u* nnu raveyard
the soil is Hung upon the dead. As often a the lll*n n
we flnil some flow er that blushed .-.w cully i . tin sun
■et, lia w itlioied up forever. S* daily, k* uu*■i i. e
from the hivouae to slinul against mil o-t, ,ue mi s
some brother soldier yvh<• <dieu t i ih ,
snd struggles ot the past ha been I, from In .\-
veil upon our hem i .
Each day some pearl drops I? in th .! ~. ~]
of friendship- some lyre to wl.:< h yy<> h- .. * nit
to listen has been hushed forever. ;. | ~ |,
wlio mourns not the p. ail ami mu i* IF| , |,|
w ith him shall pa ayvay a.-: uu eastern miiow It m
the hill , and death he a triumph and , gain.
li"M Mi l!III!IIS.
Thu year, one thoiisind eight huudn <! -1111111111
1 live, has he* 11 remark able lor tin- uu L< t oi > (1
i instigated by the 1* uinii rmu. h. i.l .. ,< m m
honest soul in hi bo-oni li.ok ori the bloody id,
and then defend th- i iiin-lieiul in hi unholy work
with in iiribhiHlling ch k, ifhedar*
What a dark cloud of crime loom, up over a , ;i
----tion tolerating the curse’ Men l,avi h e.u transform
ed into devils and human hand m,me with 111111
tiered blood. The forbearing pcup|, |, |t-ii <J tin*
criminals, [itinighcd them with the;., .din affixed
U> broken laws, and calmly foot and tuc bql ofeo.-ts
and we would k wbnt ptib 1 !* benefit have- amie-d
from this? What i.hm bi n -aiie d?
Ftesh Blood daily ■ nds up an unholy in* . us (: f rOMI
ruin’s dotted and gory alt.-u . ‘I he ga11,,-.-, a and the
prison cel) is fast Becoming a p<miliar institution ol
our Boaitted count!y. Th* , -diidcil ho.pital is not
more e -.milial I 1 the e astern I’l.r -uc than the dun
geon to Bum in gb.riou . t kilumb.a ! Heatheils, who
have never heard of the Nazartno and II (io.pd
might plead an cx,-m f r customs a , infernal as the
law-of rum; but. t'hi’ tian da 1
Worae titan all, Statesmen fGod av, tin mark!;
stand in the dark shadow of gallows anil dungeon
and di course valoroiislv about “loan’ inalienable
rights’’ and the value in gold of rum in commerce!
Thin Wisdom of God teach l u- that man is of tnoe
i value to He, kingdom than all the ■ parrovva ol tin
, for- I and field Dome ‘ogio • argue liistily to prove
j tliM mm ■ from the ame pot that held the wine of!
j ( 'ana. a lid ib-yn by tar to man tin ’ the in ten ts of
tlii world and lie glory of the iu-x’ Horne, hearts,
human lit-, health and happine must all he mown
down to fe-1 the cousii'niiig tires of licens’ and hells
above tie- tm 1 !
But a star ahov the political horizon gives proin
j i •of a better day. 1 iehds in human shape shall riot
ale ayu gorge upon human blood bec.lll c they have
• orn to “moral character.” God speed the dav
when tie aenllcial altar ■ -hall he broken! /-,’
A I'KOVIDE.YT COUPLE.
A p'r , w 1 -‘'.rig from Fan Franc; co to th N< ••
port New gi-e the following incident :
“'1 wo common looking |.ers<m ; entered the bote!
thi mornitig, just from the mines a man arid w if.-.
The male individual looking for tin- world hkc ad y
lahoicr, arid the female Bore aelos.- reseinblarice to
no Irish -< u!lion. Sin wore coarse, vulgar hrogvns,
and to her gird! wa att !.■ t a gold vvatcti aid
chain, valued at least two hundred dollar . 11 -
hu-band left the hotel for half an hour, and return and
with a r"cipt for one hundred and fifteen thousand
VOL XXi.-MIMBER 50.
fhc vnluu ot the ilm-t which hehadju t con
signed for transportation to New York. This sum
has been gained by digging. The husband dug while
the w it e vy as!led, a.-.- rated by her little son, aged abortt
ton years.
S***'*-
IVII \ r IS PLEASISU.
It is phasing t.. sm a yyomaii treading the path w a v
Ot life, discarding neither its sunshine nor its storms
•hut keeping ever on in tire path ofstfwightforw ard
holiness and duty, neither turniii” to the right nor
to the left, find utterly iwgardlers of all but the right,
and for that sacrificing every pleasure and enjovnn nl.
\\ hat i more piaiseuorthy and noble in the anna’ .
ot historical woilhinc than a true h* arted wotnati
A hat is more entitled to the regards ofte-ti, and t *
their love, than a tl’Ui wouraii ? i here ar women,
w ho, from their cradles to their graves, lead livn 1 of
unspotted purity and religious tiolim-s , though the
world may not ho aware of the fact; they live and
die heroines of endurance. Though they receive 110
praises from men no r. ward in this cold and s-Hish
world, their 1 cconipeiise in the world to come shall
be ti thousniul fold, their place beside ‘he brightest
angels. Let this couilorliiig assurance tjo home t,.
the hearts oi'UioM’ who may Icel inclined to pcrniii
a S) .l it of despomleney to creep over their isidated
le al c ‘ ■ 1 11 Gut “hold out faithfltl to the eti.l, 1 ’
an 1 the 1 1 i:-.| ..!i.u', he great. - hl'cfimii/c.
FOl'kltV,
I’rent ice, of tl. I. .lofinsl, thus 1, , i,,
Ropery, w ithout mittens;
1 lonian I ’on tills arc known to be both Kings ami
I’ric.-t . 1 hey unite with the t IGo unjuTtu! dia
dem. They hold the spiritual ord o| Jesus the
temporal sword oi < and loth the keys of St.
I'eter. \\ ith the two .swot they 1 avc cloven down
tie pit itual ami temporal rights of mankind. With
tin two key;, they haul locked up heave y and open
ed heft They have disposed of crowns and king
doms, lorded for twelve centuries over God’s hcrit
age, and gotten drunk on tin blond of the saints.
Their ire ipte ami their practice, have ever been
! destructive to tiie civil nod religious rights of man
kind. The mo ! atnpii title has been afforded the
the tr ial of Popery Alter a reign in Italy for twelve
or fill, en centimes, no good fruit has ever been home.
I’l'i e* loin of thought, of ’ li, and of n ligi.m,., wor
ship, i . crushed in the very s. it of empire. On he
own dunghill and at Ids own home, the head oft!
hierarehy tliocl. at the sacred rights of mankind,
lie rc-tiictN and punishes them systematically, pu
poselv, and avow edly upon the pi imspies of his n i;
nous <■ > 1 point ion. Noprid . Mir of his has ever
and ‘in otherui ,o through ag* , upon ages, H the long
ii* - -.fsovereign despots wen truly commissioned
•> Jc im im th.; hend of Hi ( hurch, (lu-n Popery is
diviim, the Declaration of Independence is a lie, ami
the <'onvtitutimi of America arc usurpations on the
divine 1 ‘hi ‘of tin. king. If the principles of our
i lon -litui ion are cornet, every P.. ( al Pontiff’ h.m
•nam< ro usurper and a tyrant. No trug Ameri
■ .in can love and revere the diameter of a Pontlfleinl
tyrant; nor can the heart make a distinction be
tv en he kingly and his priestly nature. If the
kintdy part of him were beheaded, the priestly part
w uldhardl. he. spared It is irnporsiliJe. to del.s-t
and pay homage to the same person. W annotn
yen in man the prie: f, while w< hate the tyrant
the anetity of the despot.”
\-9T I'Bc follow tig iuel'lenee i rclat and ..f tie Int,
Mi. Webster’s courtship He was then a young
lawyer in Portsmouth, .V 11. \t one of hi- veils to
M: - Grace Eh teher, h had, pi ably with view
of combining utility and enjoyment, hem hojding
skeins of silk thread for her, when suddenly he stop
ped, saying, ‘Gra- e wo have thun been me.-.ged in
tiring knots; let. 11 -ee if we can tie a knot, one
which will not untie for a lifetime.’ lb then took a
piece of tape, and, after beginning a knot ~| pecul
iar kind, gave it to hr to comp! !- Thi ..as tlie
ceremony and rai.ili* alien of their engage lie it. And
now in a little box, trunk* 1 b. him with th words
‘Precious IFnni'i.cot I, ’ :<.uia'ning the l< Mei .of bis
early courtship, thi ■* uniqu loein rial 1 still p, bg
found. The knot has in vet b*-o untied
53ff"f.'olerMgc telh .1 h a'fill table of a rain . iticir
it was announced would de , *ml ft om heaven on a
certain day, a sing e dro.v (.1 which touching a man,
woman or child, should produce madness. Tim day
came, the rain fell, and the people maddened, not
Believing the word , iff the err, n r sheltering thetu
sc!vcs from the predicted ,!,.m 11 Otic ii.au alone
hid him elf in a 1 1 v.- till tl. -form was over hut roni
■ng out and finding all the world capering and danc
ing in their in-.unity, lie msln and t*. :.*une of the water
left standing in ;> 1 - 01, I [dnn.o il in, declaring that
it was a vain aod , t .• -I thing to he t e only w-j ..
man in a world off *l
-
J-#f A * hi: .. ‘.ed *1 ■ : i tai tr* .
crooked, 1 epi; and, ■- ~.i-Bory ud upon it, 1 suppose,
when it. wu - lilt!’ Nci■, hi 1. a child ungently,
because
lie wh check- child with terror,
Slop ; it.-, play tills its song,
Not alone commit an error,
But n grievou moral vrong.
G.vc ii play and nevei fear it,
Votive lift: i- no defect;
Never, never, btcak its spirit,
f’urb it only to direct.
VV ould you stop tiie llovving river,
Tliinkirig it would cease to tlow*
Onward it must flow forever -
Better leach it where to go.
JAMES T. BLAIN,
PiinfEH.