The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, January 02, 1866, Image 3
Castle*.
BX THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.
There is a picture in my brain,
That only fades to come again.
The sunlight, through a vail of rain
To leeward, gliding.
A narrow stretch of brown sea-sand,
A light-house half a league ahead,
And?two young lovers, hand in hand,
A castle-bufldfiig.
Upon the budded apple trees
The robins sing by twos and throes,
And ever at the fain test breeze
Drops down a blossom.
And ever woala that lover be
The wind that robs the bourgeoned tree,
And lifts tho soft trees daintily
On beauty's bosom.
Ah, graybeard, what a happy thing
It was, when life was in ita spring,
To poop through love's betrothal ring
At fields elysian.
To move and breathe in magic air,
To think that all that seems is fair
Ah, ripe young mouth and golden hair,
Thou pretty vision.
W.cll, well, I think net on theso two,
B?t the old wound breaks out anew,
And the old dream, as it were true,
In my heart nettles;
Then tears d?me welling-to'my eyes
For wonder, all in saintly guise,
As 'twere, a sweet dead woman lies
Upon the trestles.
Do mot lillee to Hear Him Pray.
I do not like to hear bim pray,
Who loans at twenty-five por cent.;
For then I think the borrower may
Be pressed to pay for food and rent.
And in that book wc aU should heed,
Which savs the lender shall be blest,
As sure as ? have eves to read,
lt doss not say "lake interest."
I do not like to hear him pray,
On bended knees about an hour.
For grace aright to spend the day,
Who knows his neighbor has no flour;
I'd rather see him go to mill
And buy the luckless brother broad.
And see his children eat their fill
And laugh beneath then- humble shed.
I do not like to hear him pray,
"Let blessings on the widow be!"
Who never seeks her home to say,
"If want o'ertakes you, como to me."
I hate the prayer, so loud and long,
' That's offered for the orphan's weal,
/Sj him who sees him crashed by wrong,
ti-And only with the lips doth feel.
J do not like to hear her pray,
With jewelled ear and silken dress,
Whose washerwoman toils all day.
And then is asked to "work for less."
Such pious shavers I despise;
With folded hands and face demure,
They lift to Heaven their "angel eyes,"
Then steal the earnings of the poorl
I do not Lke such soulless prayers;
. If wrong, I hope to be forgiven;
No angel's wing them upward bears
They're lost a million milesfrom Heaven,
I cannot like long prayers to hear,
And studied from the hps depart;
Our Father bends a ready ear,
Let words be few-io hears the heart.
Romane? In Rhyme.
Nellie Phling was aged twenty, and
she longed to be a wife ;rfor she was
sprang ont into tho garden saying,
"What I -will, I wilL"
There she met her darling Man?
fred, who had heard of her sad plight,
and right bravely caine to make her
his own bridge tnat very night. With
his noble arm around her, and some
trembling of the knees, he escorted
her to where a carriage stood ce*
coaled by trees.
When they were about to .enter,
two strange figures rose between
them and Madfred Kahn's hired car?
riage, and one said : "Look here,
Tom Gr?en, you are just the man
we're after, so you'd better stop this
game, and come with us, for we
know you, though you try another
name."
"Hold, sir, you must be mistaken, "
quickly said Miss Nellie Phling,
"this is Manfred Kahn the noble;"
said the stranger, "No such thing.
He is just the greatest rascal out of
jail ; and as for you, tramp right
quick and stop this nonsense, or we
may arrest you too."
Nellie glanced at the policemen and
then sadly turned away, thinking it
was very cruel that they would not
let her stay. But next morning she
discovered that young Manfred of
the Rhine was no other than a person
in the counterfeiting line.
A gentleman in Alabama, in exert?
ing himself one day, felt a sudden
pain, and fearing his internal ma?
chinery had been thrown out of gear,
sent fora negro on his plantation,
who made some pretensions to medi?
cal skill, to prescribe for him. The
negro having investigated the cause,
Erepared and administered a dose to
is patient with the utmost confidence
of a speedy cure. No relief being
experienced, however, the gentleman
sent for a physician, who, on arriving,
inquired of the negro what medicine
he had given his master. Bob prompt?
ly responded, "Rosin and alum, sir. "
"What did you give them for ?" con?
tinued the doctor. "Why," replied
Bob, "de alum to draw the parts to
gedder, and de rosin to sodder um."
The patient eventually recovered.
All the prisoners in the jail at
Cynihiana, Kentucky, consisting of
four white men and two negroes, re?
cently made their escape from that
institution, leaving behind them a
written request to "clean up the
prison by the time they returned
from their holiday excursion."
"Sire, one word," said a soldier
one da vjto Fredorick the Groat, when
presenting to him a request for the
brevet of lieutenant. "Ii you say
two," answered the king. "I will
have you hanged," "Sign," replied
the soldier. The king stared, whistled
and signed.
CALNAN & KREUDER,
GERVAIS(OR BRIDGE) STREET, OPPOSITE THE STATE HOUSE,
Are continually receiving and keep constantly en hand a full snpplv of
GROCERIES, WINES ANO LIQUORS,
^ ?a -, OF THE FINEST QUALITY:
/^T^^Al^fiL (A SUGARS, TEA, COFFEE, MOLASSES, CRACKERS,
/ fl ' : ?fijfl I lyHt^HA Cheese, Butter, Lard, Hani.*., Bacon, Dried Beef,
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/!>; i'?/)Jt9-&^MH?ll8fe:.-'.'.- Canned Fruits, Mustard, Pepper, Spier-, iiinjor,
l#-i'"r^eWlftJM Maccaroni. Raisins, Brozil Nut:?, Har ! >,'*?.?,
K. .."? .?-M?USa?^.li:r Salt. Sweet Potato? s,
V- JMMMfcW' NORTHERN IRISH POTATOES.
U^S&^-Pal? ES V Gibson's FINE WHISKIES, SCOTCH Vf HICKEY.
fe3f**.?2- GIN. RUM, FRENCH BRANDY,
*3?> -?""^ *** Madeira, Port and Sherry Wine.
St. Marccaux & Co.'s Champagne, Curacoa, Absynth* Maraschino, A?.
Dee 3
HENRY N. McCrOWAN, Salesman.
Phoenix Iron Works.
Situated Foot of Bichland St., near Greenville Railroad, Columbia.
GOLDSMITH Sr KINE,
?BT0RS.
THE above works arc now completed,
and the undersigned hog to inform the
public that they are now prepared ta exe?
cute all kinds of IRON CASTINGS, such as
are needed fer agriculturist* ?nd ma?
chinists, RAILROAD IRON. MILL IRON, IRON EENC1NO,
etc. They are also prepared to furnish BRASS CASTINGS
of every description.
Orders ar? solicited and will be promptly attended to.
M. GOLDSMITH,
Nov 9 P. KIND.
Fire and Marine
BEING appointed agent for several
FIRST-CLASS INSURANCE COMPA?
NIES, I ant prepared to insure to any
amount against fire. Amongst tho offices
for which I am agent are tho well-known
Metropolitan, of New York; Continental, of
New \ork; and National, of Now Orleans.
These offices alone have a eapital of over
$2,000,000.
Policies made pavablo in either gold or
currencv. JAMES G. GIBBES, Agent.
Dec 20
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[ESTABLISH Eli 1849.]
CAPITAL.$242,000
Hon. W. F. DKSAUSSURE.President.
Dr. JOHN FISHER .Treasurer.
F. W. Mc M A ST EU.Actuary.
THLS Company li?.? paid far losses to t he
widows and orphans <>f the South near
$400,000. T.ls rates are low and profits
regularly returned to the insurers. For
further information and policies of insur?
ance, applv to the Actuary, No. 5 Law
Ranero. Columbia. S. C. Dec 9 Imo*
H. E. NICHOLS,
GENERAL
INSURANCE AGENT,
Cbmer of Assembly and Washington Sis.,
Oolum'toia, JS. O
REFRESENTS a number of tho best
both Northern and Southern-compa?
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over
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