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/ VOLUME XXXVI.
MY LOVE IS DEAD.
BY ABA VROOM AN LESLIE.
How coM the night, how chill
The moonlight on the hill!
My love linth had her will,
&iv lieth still!
The luow how silver bright!
Like some strnnge drift of white
Soft, deadly flowers (lint kill.
Site sleeps, lut yet I know
How fairy sell and low
Her spirit footsteps go
Where God's flowers blow.
How warm she now must be.
Though far from earth and me,
She loved God so.
She sleeps, but shall I slcp
By night, wlieu shadows creep.
Or day when rivers leap
To the great Deep ?
No thought she had to ' \
Bet haste to be away.
Nor care that 1 should weep.
Right poor the robes that chiu
Her body, but to glad
i!cr heart, my love she bad.
Like u soft garment sp' tnl,
All times to wrap her round.
If such great love I found,
What thin? could make :ue sad ?
i
What fault, what lack in me
That she so cold should be.
That she should yearn for Thee,
Thou God of Agony 1
1 km?w not?who replies!
I only know she lies
To-night, made cue with Thee.
|
A MYSTERY SOLVED.
UY T. S. AltTIit It.
' Oh J' ar," big It id a Ta?? v fli'i d. as a ;
coffin cJiitiiinUig all that was mortal of a
young mother, ? ut off in the veiv prm c 1
| of Wftiiatihot d, was l-oine .'torn the uoor
of the opposite dwelling; "this dees j
sc in hard, I cannot uinl- rs'oud it. .
| Look at those throe fair young children; i
their faces ptestfc'd against the chamber ;
window. Alt, how little do tIn-v c< m*
pichcnd the arauing uf tin word, 'motherless
!' A shuduw is on their dwel'j
ing; toon, very scon. it will fall coldly
} and gloomily on their heart*. When
just at the ngp roost to need a Dint Iter's
care, why is the mother removed ? It
! is a mystery; a deep, dark mystery. I
j wonder not that the In-ait. crushed and
1 bleeding uiid?r the weight of suth an
ufHieiiou. should (juestion the wisdom
j and beneficence of so fearful a disptnsutiou
!'
"There is no mystery here," we ntiIswrred;
"nothing but a j tst nlatioo,
, bet wren pause ami effi ct."
"1 cull it a s'.r-iD.e providence,";
'said the lady speaking wi ti soun thing
of in patience in her hue. "W hy was i
she not spared to I or rhidien a lew
; vears longer'/ With llo?J ure the issuis
of life. The Ang?-1 of i? ssol'.t ou chills
no lire current with his icy fingers, x- '
Iceptat the bidding ?f the All-Seeing ,
anu ('ninipotent. Without him not u
sparrow falh th to the ground."
"And one human life is < f more value ,
tloin many sparrows," said we, impres- !
: ?ivclv, hoping to suggest t<> her mind a
higher idea < f providi lice than it cater.
1 faint d f r the tiuic bring.
'Tiue, true; and yet the frrows of
death ure thiown with a soit of blind
energy that makisoue tl ink of a malignant
spirit, ruihcr thau a m< roiful (iod."' j
The lady's warm cheek, hall indig
' ninl almost flashing: eves.
evinced tlic hir^nuth of her feelings
' (iciiil)', gently." wo tatd, laying a
i hanJ upon lura. "-here is no mysterious
providence hero. It was the mother's
own net thut rcD.ovcd her i'ri>ni
her c hildren."
"What! Vou do not intimate self-de'
st ruction ?"
"Not |>renirJitated self-destruct ion.
i V< t had she observed lh*J laws of health
her children would not, this day, be
motherless."
1 "She was u fragile flow r, I know,
j and us beautiful as sha was delicate "
^ "Open the window*; 1 t i:i the frosty
air upon one o( your hi t house plants,
! and note the consequence.
"It will droop and die."
"A* Mrs. Melbourne did. Tn either
case the effect depends upon a clearly
{apparent cause. There is nothing ol
; mys'eiy involve 1."
? ! did tint know her intimately. I
-iotily met ht( oiuv" of tw c<; but 1 have
" always admired her?always heard her
l spoken ol with affect toil jy her fiiends.
.'She was beautiful in {el.soil. 1 have
j often looked at In-r us she sat by the
i window* opposite, with a ri?- of lier fairy
* children in her amir, fcfpl thought it the
;i)o*t beautiful si<_*ht my eye* j.'oj ever
rested -jpon. Oh. it is so >'d ? ? think
jiJiat her arms w il n-vet ntuiiti
'?them. nor lie* Lou-to pillow their
j vi*. ihr husband, it is m|J, almost
. ' , 'vi Iter. J'oor man ! what ?
worsh. * * i tf
i ' % he has to hear,
i heart .<-01 ri ? ..
k,.p ? tjai J wo tiller our
' leu year* * . j i i . , ,
, friend's cxcittfim-it. 1 ' V'" ^ ft?1'
"a Joans-. ">1 'i'S1'1'1creature,
dressed in *'u!l /f,J'?
down from In i room ahou' tn. n
in tlit- cvetiiiiL', him a lijrht silk V,J'1
thrown across Iter arm. .-'ho was me
at the parlor door l>y a pila woman,
whose shrunken face, larje, brL'lit eyes,
and husky voitO. told iut too plainly
1 that the days which n m tincU to her
upon earth wrrc very lev,
i "So volt wiil*:o to-liio it. dear A dele?'
she said iu avoice of tender solicitude.
' - Why not mother?, was answered
'1 promised (Irnrtro th:t 1 would aceoiiip.ny
hitn.ami lie hat t illed forme'
" 1 know, but a storm threat* ns. 1
aui Icirful that you may t:iw cold '
' 'Pon t L'ivo yourself a shadow of
trouble, dear mother,' replied Adele.
. Vou aro always over anxious about nic.'
" The serf is to i lit-n, -1 lUjj'iter.?
t (io back ai d tt'.-t your ii^ht ca hai.-r-[
ai?wwl; and bo sutru to wwp jvur?ctf uj,
CAM
well before leaving the warm ball rooii.
to return home.'
"'Oh dear, mother! why will you
be ro f??olish about mc ? No Tear of my
takintr cold.'
' Von cannot go, A dele, dear, unless
with some hotter protect on thin this
cobweb tear!,' said the mother, (irmly, I
' The young girl, with a slight cxpresi
s:on ol impatience tripped back to her
[ ehamher. and in a few tnnuu'nttt returned
I with the shawl, which her mother drew
: earefully aLout I or. Yet, scarcely was
i the though*less young creature in the
carriage that awaited lu r ere the shawl
was pushed back from Ht shoulders,
and the fresh, humid night air stillered
to bailie her v.< < k. When she entered
the ball rcom there was a brighter Hush
on her checks than usual, and slio was
conscious cfan unpleasant sensation be,
'uw t!i- threat j it. This was but .slight,
however.
"It was three o'c'ock when AdeJc left
tin* gay hailreoui to return home. For
at least lour hours of the time since her
entrance. she had duueed in the hot and
crowded apartment.
' I>raw your shawl closer around you.' j
' said her lover, as lie assisted Iter into ;
I t'i? r;ii:incp A slight rain was falling I
I and tiie air was coming from the east. |
; "Oh, how cool and pleasant." murmur- j
ed the !air creature, as she leaned her j
head from the carriage window ai.d let !
the moist atmosphere strike upon her!
neck. ''How r? freshing! I thought I
scveial linos ih\t I should faint in 11ml j
suffocating crowded tooui."
The shawl was thrown from her neck
miiiI shoulders ami for a quarter of an
hour she rode, thus unprotected, until :i
slight shudder crrcp'ug over her frame
warm d her to replace the skawl, and
' vi n to draw it tightly around her;
but it did not, now, impart the warmth
sSie Sought.
Do _\ou wonder tlat on the r.ext j
iii< ruing. Ad? !e had fcv< r, and pains in i
the side and breast, or, that when the'
doctor en tiie, lie discoverd the existence
of considerable infiammati?u of the I
lures ? *
A week of saiuu.s iiltirss, and two
weeks of convalescence. Then, setting
at nought all the gentle renonMraucos
of In r u.other, A dele wmt out lor a;
promeuailc with some young compau- j
ions, wearing very tiiin shots, although
from recent rains tho pavements were ;
damp. It was over three months ere
she was able to appear abroad again;
ana months longer before the roses
bloomed on her ch? eks as of old.
At seventeen Adelo became a wife;
and before bet eighteenth summer a ;
luh? was laid on her bosom.
;'Shc is to young to marry," urged
- ?- - - ? i f .i":. r ;u I
inr in', u.utmi ui nia.i HM^M\
girl. 'AYait a year or two, until both'
miud and body have gained a I'uil maturity."
l>tit the ardent young lover could
not wait; and A dele was quite as impatient
lor the wedding day. To the voices
of reason and prudence, they were
alike deaf.
"A gay round of parties followed the
niairiuge. Night alter night the fair
young bride. too thinly clad lor exposure
to the sharp air of a severe winter,
went lor:h to meet her friends, Lu'e
hours, stimulating food uud drii k. excessive
fatigue, and colds, wrought upon
her their Bad t fleets; aud ere the honeymoon
was fairly over, she was in the :
hau is of the physician.
''When A dele appeared abroad, after
the birth ol her first child, some of her
friends hardly knew her, so sadly was
she changed. NfV r again did the
roses of health come back to her checks
except when flu-hid by the fatal hectic.
Never again did she enjoy an hour's
i freedom from lassitude and pain. Vet,
strango to tell, she took scarcely any
better care of in r health than before
h<-r marii igc. You saw her at balls, at
com cits. at liiiopia, aud all fashionable
assemblies, exposing hot self to cold.-,
and encountering fatigue that invariably
brought on pains or prostration ol
str? ngtli.
"A few years more, and the curtain
j falls upon ihe drama of life. That the
. acts and scenes were so uia^y, was tii ?
! greatest cause of wondi'i; let that the
I curtain fills so soon. A dele .Melbourne
cut the thread of her own existence."
Mi-1Ikiii<iic 1" exclaimed our
! at'cptivu listener;''surely ii is not ol
I her iliat you have loon spoiling?"
I ''Yea, of Mrs. Melbourne, whoso
wa?tcd form has just boon carried 'in lit.
It would have have been a miracle had
life boon further extend-u. '
; \ lout; siiotroo was foil owed by a
deeply drawn -i^h
"Yes, yes, 1 see ii nil the mystery is
solved. 'J here is no dark providence
. here. Ah. how uiany like In rare daily
cut down in the very flower of life ; cut
down ere half their work is done I"
'it is a Melancholy lint, wo replied,
' "thai, the v.h-de average of life in this
country is iliuiinjdicd by a suicidal dis,
.regard ol Mm plainest lav* of health;
: Jl|,d illjs Sid defect ? WO tUI"!lt to SaV
I *
, pi iutinal ?U chargeable more up m your
, ^ {bun our own. jt piver one licait
.jic Itiink if llie daily deailis 11
he!*? '.he sharp stindcriii;: of
vomit: mo . . 1, , ,
t,'i.it can bind heart !<
tll>> It Hue rest 1. , iii>
| lit.nl. iVoj.lc clasp t "
{ rave Tui'l mysterious. :n. s:'.v' * ^'''?l
i ;iii ut1)i< tivi.* jir \ idcjico !' I'.. ' ''l,r('
no providence in the matter?on 'v
pro vision of the tiivino meicy to hssor.,
as I'.ir us in; y he, lli.j evils that uiu*!
ll"W l'rom tin! ili-ruption, by death, t?l
tin1 iii'wt intimate relations :n life. Hero
' is a solution of the whoh mystery that
1 hurt so peiphxei! you, an J huudicdu of
' | others.
'j III! Kortsian* talk Kill rt ill
f I ltXiO uuvi u^uiu in lttY7.
den, s. c\, decembe:
Imngluation and nieeaao.
The iiiflu* nee "f (lie imagination iri
he >tiaiul.-iti<?ii ofciseas" h.,s often Leon
proved. Tt w:n in Fr.ince, wo believe,
Iimi. an exjerinicut was made upon a
soldier, who bciug condemned to die
fur some infraction of military uiscip
line was handed over to the scientists
as a living subject. He was pluc-d in n
ho-pilal, an 1 told that ail around him
were pati'-nts sutiering lVom small pox.
Although this was not true, the man
was soon taken violently sick, and displaced
every symptom of the disease.
Instances tending to establish this rcinarkablc
doniination of tin? moot .I faculties
over the body are not inre, and a
story is going the rounds of the newspapers
which may be cited in this coni
ortion :
A joung man in .Vow York went into
a drug store and asked for forty cents*
worth of strychnin *. The druggist
gave him a harmless powder, which he
swallowed, lie thin explained t!rt his'
? -- - Sft,i 1, Kli.ilif.-wl .mil K/i
CA^l'WIUUUU^ IIUV1 uv? if itiau ? ^
had taken (he poison to kiil liims -U.,
The druggist tol l iiim lliore wag not (if- j
teen minutes life in hi:)), and that he
was beginning to fade about the eyes
already. Tho youth sank lo the floor.'
and the sweat streamed front his bruv ;
lie was becoming very siek, pientjlly;
and bodily, and app-'tmd to be dung. |
The medicine man h 'janjo abiniu-d a< '
the effect of the dose and examined the i
jar from which lie had taken the powder.
It was sugar of milk, s-.re enough,
peifectly harmless, and y- t producing
spasms! As a last resort, the young
uiun was inform? 1 tliat be had tak-m
no poison, but, instead, a v??ry hii'tn!? s
powder, a bu-hcl of which would ii >i |
Kill. The information put a stop to il"- j
dying busim So, and lie walked tutnl'i
the store disgusted. promising however. |
tu stive she coroner an early job It was1
the opinion of ail the bystanders that I
the mere imagination of poison in bis;
system was really kil.ia^ the youth.
Colored vs. Esld-Keadod.
Years ?go the then well-ku >wn firm j
W. & Cm.., II ist >n agents for a popular'
line of Australian picket liip-?. received i
a letter i f inquiry from C/incitiuati
Correspondence follow- 1, and second I
cabin parages Were engaged lor Mr.!
and Mrs. Joseph Hatfield, their sou
Joseph,-Jr. ami Miss blanche. who:
were politely urged to p.it in an appear
a nee in llcston on or before May as |
the good ship Ihniiel Sharp, whereof)
Joseph I). ('usbii.g \< master f.?r the;
present voyage, would sail on the day
following, weather } "rmiiting.
On the morning designated a young;
daikey t xijuisite, spoiling a tall hat and
ivory-headed cane. i-aui.trrod into the
elcgantlv appointed office and tleuiamb'd:
Is (lis yer de office of W. He Co'!''
Ye-, it is.' growled the senior \Y.
from bellied I-is ib.sk, iiowoing over his
gold-bowed spectacles tit the intruder.
' Well. sail, me and my folks is twine
out to Melbourne in )our slop LMuiei
Sharp, and I?'
' Not if 1 know it?you arc not go'
iug to do any Mich thing.'
How so. sail 7 Hidu'r I corrcspoti 1
wid yoti from Cincinnati and engage
pa-sago for u.y ladder and muddcr and
Miss I >1:1111 lie ?'
4 Whnt! Ii your name Hatfield.'*
roared the dismayed agent.
4 Yes. sail, my name's Hatfield, and'?
4 Why in the devil didn't you uotily
me that you were colored/'
4 \\ hy in the uebl.il di !:/i you notify
me dat you were bald-headed/'
The pcrtim-nt rejoiudcr silenced old
\V.f and although two or three passengers
who preferred O have the color
line diawn outside of the ship's second
cabin gave up their berths and tvvie refunded
their passage money, the llatfudds
complacently sailed in the Stiarp.
doldcn Worda.
The habit of looking o? tlie blight
side is invaluable. Men and women
who arc evermore reckoning up what
tliey want rather than what th y have
?counting the difficulties in the way
instead of e< ntiiviiig nuatis to overcome
them? a>e almost e> rtaiu to live on corn
' ' 1 ' ? l- ..! W.|!f Twll <1 r! 11 sil;k
UllMU, 111! |i>nn. IIMU rt%>%
!( miitiarkt ! graves. 'J ho world is sure
to .-uiilf upon a man who m.-ciiih t* ho
buecosliil, but lft liitn jo> about wi ll a
crest fallen air, and the very doy.s in the
strert will M.t upon him. We must ul!
have I ib.-es. laite trust* will nip ti>e.
fruit in the had, ban!;, lii! Lr ak, inv<
btincuts prove Worthies, valuable
horses die, china vases bleak; but all
these calamities do not enno together.
The wi.vj course to pusue, when one
plan laiN, is to form another, when one
prop is k. d from undir us, to till
its place with a subhtitnh', an I evcriii"te
count what is b I'lrather than what
is taken. H hen the litial reekoniiijj is
made, it it appears that, we haw not
lo-t tlie vn.sei tisinss ol inu ntioual rectitud-;
if we l.avc kejit charity towards
al< no n; if, I y the various discip inc ol
life, we have been ii I iVuui follies and
continued in viitue, whatever we have
lost. t!ic e la at balance sheet will he in
I our favor.
I low* many t d;t a wrote; view < I' life,
ami waste their eiieipj,y an a <1 stroy
' heii nervous sy?t in i?i en b avoi in^ to
aeouultllate wealth, Wit!i .lit thinking ol
the present I upl ine** tli.-y are t'nrowit.t:
I iiwuV ! ft Is not wealth of h;^h station
' which makes u Un'ttt happy Many ol
, the moat wretched brio/ on earth have
both; but it i-; the radian', sunny . pint,
which know * how to bear lit tic trials
, and enj >y comforts, a'd thu* extract
htippiuvw froai tYvrj incident iu lite.
'rj|
R 25, 1877.
Weight of tho Brain.
T! < fnlhr.vir.g facts n ir.triliiiir 'ho r. 1- j
, afivc si-/e and weight of the brain arc j
! condensed from an able lecture on tip's'
! general subject, lately delivered before
, the American Institute, by I'rule-.sor
| Hurt (5. Wiider:
The average t of t!tc human
j'.rain is between forty t? fifty ounces;
iai??l i* is larger and heavier than ti nt
of any animal, with two exception*?
(licit of a large whale, which Ins been i
found to wei?ili live pounds, and that of
| an elephant, ranging from eight to ten
pounds. The brain of a full grown
I gorilla Weighs about fifteen ounces. As
a general Mile, the una inici:ig?nt animal*
have larg r brains io i roportioii to
their weight ol l dy; and in ibis the
d"g shows his superiority i> the cow. i
a.iti man to ti c elephant and whale. |1
Tr.is rule has its exceptions, however. j1
Miitc l i many onus tec mam is larger, .
in proportion to the body, than in man; j
arid the body of the little ,'ou:.-.t'ti." or ! I
inaruiuS'; im-nlccy of "unlit Aii'-rbu, i.j , '
only twenty tisu-:s a; heavy as its brain, j '
it was found tliat l' e average weight of 1
two hundred an i set only right malt! 1
European brains wa'? forty-nine and '
i.m I all' ounces, while that of one Inn- 1
lied and iiinotecii lc*ua!o brains was 1
forty-fear. The order, however, re- i
vi rs.'d. if the ratio of brain to body to
be the stan 'aid : for in eighty-ottu '
utale biaiiis the ratio was f und to be *
as 1 t-i .'/d.liit, wltila in eighty-otic fe- I
male bruit s it was as 1 to !J;> Jti. '
Carefully | re pa red t.'.bl s indicate !
(hat in l.oih sexes the bra n increases '
rupi ily to ill- t?'_v nTabout seven ye.ns. | <
and lt-s rapid!) to fourteen years, and '
afietwurd more slowly to the twenti-tlt j;
year, near which date it attains its great- ':i
est weight. After the age of fifty, the i 1
brain seems to lose about an nuneu lbr | '
each d<rad'\ The average weight of j1
the brtiiti. with one thou and int.l i' tit ' '
, , - i
persons, exceeds t>iat ot an o?|*inI mint- j
her of ignorant er.es; but observation
proves that a large brain may often eo- ;
cxi-t with a slight degree of intelli- JI
gcnce, while on the other hattd, a very j t
high degree of iutelb ctual j ?wer and j t
genotal culture may characterize iinii- !
vidua Is whose brain is below (he aver- ' j
age. llcncc it appears tli.-.t neither ab- 1 r
si.Into s:ze or relative size of tlie whole , j
brain is sufficient t< st of mental power, I i
cither in aniniald or human bcintrs. ! t
1
Ho Wanted Live Ones. jf
Weil, that's 'bout (l:c sauio thirj.', I ' 1
reckon. Have you got any f'reih oys '
elivTS Out bvur 2" t
y-s, id miy of 'cm. Hew many 1
lo you want! I
"I low many ? Why, you don't 'sposo f
I want a whole drove on cut, d'ye ? i:
Ketch us one 1"' | 1
'One oyst<r! Why, on* oyster aint j!
no sample, even, L'ye want it in the j'
shell? ' * I1
"Wall, now, I didn't know as they ; 1
had hulls oil 'em, out of o-iurs? you'll
have to take the Lark tih for us." I'
' II?>w many ? a pint? a quart?*'
' Listen at that, ole 'ottun! S-liin'
I ny.?el?c>'* up liere by I Lo quail, jis* like
they're huckleberries!"
I < iot 'eui iti cans?give you a |?mr,
s.r1 <
11 right. Hut I'll take 'em by j inns, i (
ef i dou't have another dauiucd lum:tdiurry
duiin' t'hristuia* week. You're
isure (hem's ail square-toed aud sound
in iitnb I
' Hero's soiuc loose uiwof the same |
j sort, sir.''
' What! Look here! Thcin things !
ain't what yer cull oyschers, is they \ \
lhirn my leatlier Lnoclics ef I didn't !
I think an i-y.-rlu r was a soil of new-fan"
, gied duck or sea sand turtle! I lore,
ole otuan. d'yo want them things?''
pointing to the oysters in the bowl.
' Why, ole man, she whispered half!
: audible, "them's dead; they're mortified ;
already.'
r?in^ my everlasting buttons of that
aint so ! Why. theui uyschers look like
they was carved out'n whit leather and
j died younjr; they're < 7. eld and slimy
i cz pit our. Ver d"n't fool me on Yui,
[ huh, not much. When I boy oyschers
I wants to see 'cm kicking, I d >! Kx..
eosr n e from dead tins, '.specially when
, they're to domed death
j And the old fellow went away with-1
out any of the sea fruit.
Watching a ltiflo rail's Flight.
Three peiitieunn, members of the
I Amateur liitle Hiub, yesterday after-;
i noon were in the t>wnot Dripoton, rifle
hIm otiiip. The distune- w.s 'it v uds; '
all il:r< i! were shootim; ( Vcdmnor lilies. j
l'mni the lirinp point to the t ir.;et the
pmund gradually a-cenilcl, so that a '
small ?cl< scope, but a pood one. firmly
lixed in true bounds on a tree, at a uisI
taiiec of perhaps thirty lVet, made a
'line point I".>r observation One of the
shooters, while looking throripis the plas.s
i. inane a shot of one ef this companions,
c.\e!aiiiicii that he saw the ball as
it sped on its ini-sion. The announce'incut
was ie(ti,cl \tiili intiedulity j !
hut one of the other shooters went to
the p'aws. an 1 he also saw the hill a!, j
most as it !e!t the gun. and through j
(its v. hole hiphf. i. ally the whole line > f
jits trajectory. until ii reached the tar- '
p. I. ~o ml 'resting ami h-au'ilol was
[llie sight "'it every bail was w.itcbcd '
by "lie or the other of ihe pentlcnien;
mi! il is mi aetii.il lift tin:' the point j
at which the lull would st il t; the tarpi
t couiil he seen before tin; ball strut k. I
It was even insisted upon that the rotary
motion of I lie ball could be observed. ;
Ro h iter (.V. F.) Hvrald.
< I ranklin siys. p >or man must
, find ni'-af for hidMouiaci). a rich 0:13 to
j liud atouweU for hi* meat."
NUMBER 24
Young Blocd.
The hur l woifc in tho various pro
Cessions is done by the young men. The
rule i-? not universal, but most great
men did their hardest work in their
younger days. It is therefore of little
use in these days to object to young
men taking the lead in the educational
work of the age. It is not difficult to
show that > ontli is not objectionable for'
vigorous mid efficient work in our eol.
leges,, in the ministry, in the editorial
^.inetuui, and in the great profession yf
iho Jaw. From a reeen' pamphlet treating
upon this subject, we note the lb!-!
lowing aaiMig tiie mote striking exatr.-l
pics of the ttuth of what we have said !
above:
' Thomas Jeflfeisou wrote the Dcela-j
ration o! Independence when he was
thiriy-sev u years old. Alexander Ilatniitoti
made oue of the greatest legal r.r iuments
o!" his life at twenty three. |
!.or 1 I'.ie >n. at thirty-six published I
Lwlv of his best essays. J.)i? kens wrote i
'1'ickwiek'' at twenty-live, and -'Oliver!
I'wi-t" 1 . fore thirty seven. Thackeray !
? rote ' Vanity Fair" at thirty-six, aud !
Tismou i" at forty-one. Kmcrson wrote j
iij best at ihiity-cight. Colt was but
wentv-i ne when he invented bis iui- j
)r?>v. <1 (ire arm, arid Fulton was but,
,wci;iy?eight when lie invented steam, j
(lO-'tlio was an ardent friend of young !
nen, because his powers were on st vig-j
>ruu? in his youth, and said : "Yes,, j
u y goo.J friend, we must be young j
o Jo gn at things." A id in another
place, s[ caking < I" government, he said,
*it-li cinnaasis: "If I were a voung
Premier i would never place in (lie
ligli si o'hcej jiei p!c who '?? ! risen
rutin illy by mere birth and seniority,
in i who, in their own age, moved nu
li.-ureiy in their accustomed tracks:
orin this way but little talent is ever
irought to light. I would have toting j
ueu."
A Delusion.
A young man who thiuks that he can
e ;d a rocki ss life until he become;* a ,
ui'ld'e-agttl man, and then repent and
unl;e a gcod and steady citizen, is tieudtd
by the devil, lie thinks that i
ifiriph* nre all ft oh, destitute of mem-1
>ry. He c includes tint when lis rcjents,
everybody will forget that he
was once a dissipated wretch. This is:
iot the case, people remember your bad
abits and forget your good ones. He- i
ides, it is no easy thing to break up in '
liiddlc age bad liabiis which have been
ortned in wusth. When a horse con-j
racts the bal it oi bilking, iie th-uerally
etalns it tnrougti nro. ne will often :
perform well enough until tno wneei)
,'rts into a deep tiolo, ana men lie stops
iml looks hack. Just so it is with boys|
.vho contract bad liabi s. They will
.oinetinios leave off their bad trices and
!o well enough until they get into a
iglit place, ami then they return to their
Id habit. The only way to break up a
bad habit is never to contract it. The
jnly way to prevent drunkenness is to
lever drink.
General Skoboleff.
General Skobelcff is the idol of bis
soldiers. One afternoon iu November,!
I. i- t i mps wen* massed near their en [-atnpmciil,
with arms in hands, and
with spades to entrench the ground
they v/ero nb^ut to take; f tretcher-bear- i
ers in a group at the rear, a suggestive,
but unpleasant sight; a battery of tuittrailkuscs
bundled up like so many liu-,
mail beings,to k< cp out the damp, and
io front if the troops the little body of J
picked men, each with his shovel, his
rations and plenty of asuunition, who I
were to make the first rush across, use
their bayonet, ami then throw it aside
fur the spade, and endeavor to cover In
time to resist the attack ol the returning
Tin Its. Gen. Skobeletf dismounted
?i .1 ?.a
uinJ (<ilJ the Ui'.'D J use waai nc Cipmiju
of them?thev were not to storm the
works of 1'lovua, but onl) to run forward
aii'l take the piece of ground they
knew perfectly well, in front of" the
road, and to hold it until they had
works thrown up. Ho cautioned them,
as many were young soldiers sent out
from the reserves to till the great gups
in the ranks, not to advance too f ir, hut
to mind exactly v.hat the officers told
iliem. Ho would ho with them hintself,
and would direct the movements
j'or-ouuiiy. As tho uto.i passed, they
all received encouraging words, and
thev went by smiling at tin? good na
lure I chah' from the llencral, who called
to thriii by name, rem irked on their
now bo *ts, which. ho said, were like
(hose of a Sputii>h ?lou. aud told the
uiu.Mcian.s they would play a waltz iu
the new redoubts oil the morrow.
Predfotination.
1you be'iifvo in predestination!'''
iuijuiic i a Mivsi.-.-ippi steamboat captain
i . a clergyman who happened to bo
traveling witli him.
4 Of coiir.-o I do," was the reply.
' Tinn vou bilit?ve that what is to be,
will bo '
"Certainly ?"
' Weil, 1 in glad of it."
' Why;"
' Jh.'c.nise I'm going to pass that boat
ahead in ju-t lil'terti consecutive milltit*
s if there is nuy virtue in pine knot
and >.ifet v valves. :: i don't be alarmed
if the boilers are not going to burst,
thev won't that's all."
( poti this the divine began (o put on
his hat. and looked as if ho was going
to bat k out, when the captain observing,
remarked :
' I thought you bili ved iu predesti*
iiai ion
"So 1 do, but I prefer being n little
uofercr the ?tetu when it takes p-lucv."
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Not to bo Hanged.
An interesiino fitory coined from
j unlucky Arizona. Kellogg and Carter
1 owned a mining claim and fooliehiy
j rjuarrellci about it. Kellogg was a man
! of few words, "light and free was bis
! touch upon his revolver" V."ih little
j ado, he fired at his partner, ai d t-'ippnscd
tint lie bad sent a bullet into
his breast; but behold! Or. ter hoi
a Iiiblo in the rocket of his gray working
shirt The ball struck aeon the
J raercd look, its course was tur.ici and
I Carter was unhurt. Then the g' ??1
I young linn whipped out hi? gleaming
bowie knife, sprang upon Kellogg, and
carved him .<o artistically that it is hod
mi his revolver relaxed and ho was like
to die. The good young uian s'aueln d
his opponent's wound, aad rode away
for a phvsiciau, returning within twenty
four liD'its, having made a tot*.! distance
of over ninety miles. Kellogg is
recovering. Carter, to avoid arrest,
sought to cross the river, and this time
*!. !. II.
mu uiutc uiuu ir euvu nun. ja'j v,,i3
drowned. The moral of (his recital is
very intricate. But it is p'aiu that
Carter wasn't born to be hanged.
Much-married Govornjr.
Claiborne l'\ Jackson, Governor of
Missouri before the war was a much
married man. lie was successively o
husband of five si.-tcrs in one f 1..0
most respectable, wealthy, and distinguished
families in the State. As l-. >n
as one wife would die he Woul.1 go an 1
niirry her sister in reasonable :ime. Of
course some of them were widows when
he married them. In connection with
the marriages there was a .standing juke
tuld at the expense of the <b?vt?ri:nr,
which was that, when he wejt t > ask '
the old gentleman's consent to tu svy the
!a>t ono, the venerable father is r -p? t. d
tu have saiJ, "'Yes, Claib, you .-hi have
iter. You have got them a)!. For rood*
nets' sake dou't ask mo lor the old wo*
man." With this reasonable r.'^u tt ?
Jackson kiudly complied.
A Faithful Dog's Howard.
The Jefferson (Mo.) Tvibunc says:
A gentleman who lives in 'Vernon
county tells a remarkable story of tho
sagacity of a dog which accompanied
him on his travels. While in the Short
Creek timber, on his way to Joplin, the
dog jumped and caught his horse by tho
bridle rein. Mr. Ewing drove the animal
off, but it persisted in catching the
horse by the reins, until the gn;flcmau .
concluded the dog must b* mad. Under
the impulse ot' the moment, ho
nulled tlts-rcvui?w una at.n.,1 '??, ?
which then ran back along tne road ^
over which lie had come. In a low
minutes Mr. Ewing missed his overcoat,
which had been tied ! ' J lit*
saddle. IIo turned back to lind it, and
after riding about a mi'e, not uuiy
found his coat, but his faithful doe,
which was lying on tho garment dead*
Congress.
A. C. Buell in the New Orleans
Democrat*ays; "When I fir'it came to
Washington live years ago 1 could count
from my seat in the press gaiiery of t! o
House n motley rilf-raff of fifty-six
carpet-Imagers, niggers nnd scalawags,
and from the Senate galiery sevente n
of the same Lidney misrepresenting
eleven States, pinned to such viicncss
with the bayonets of the regular army
Now 1 can see left in the House but five
suj erfluous-laggiug momentous of that
comedy of self-government, while in the
Senate the same number hung trembling
in a delicately adjusted balauco between
statesmanship and the State's prison,
with a gratifying tendency of the scales
iu the latter direction."
Quails Comiug boutn.
It is stated that the migratory quails
introduced into Vermont from Europe
last spring, whose flight for the 8?uth
was noted and followed as far t?S Eagle
Bridge, X. V.. have recent y boon heard
from in Cartaret county, N. t'., and between
Cape Hatterps aud the Bermudas,
several having alighted in the rigging
of a vessel.
Ir is an oid reproach against Orientals
that they cannot understand a joke,
and that they are sii'l less sb'e to say
p:etty tlungs to ladies; but a daughter
| of Louis XIV., the Princess do Conti,
) inspired the Moorish ambassador with
j an gracclVIv turned n cou'plitncnt as
can bo imagined. She had railed
! against the Mohammedan custum of
polygamy, and the Moor thus defended
thepraetieo: "Madame, a plurality of
wives is allowc 1 amongst us because in
on country wo must seek in several
women the (harming qualities which
i are here to be found in one.''
I fYveral chiiiiren wore iceaiug a pet
b*?r wish torn at Austin. Texas. An
e:.r ?v.;s dropped out of the rci"1' of the
near, mul a li tie girl handed it to hiui.
The I ar sportively pulled her to Lim,
when a Inatso dug, belicwng the
ehi'd in danger, sprang upon t'e tear.
iJr.iii! tin a carsied the child to the further
part id" the hogshead ia which ho
?li'pt :i!id returned to light the .tog. under
the itnprcssiou that tlic mg w. uld
hurt the ihihl. A party of darbies
ii'd to protect the child irouihcr other
protectors, but the little cu did not
escap'? imil her mother had killed both
hear and dog witli a musket.
The farmers and sheep ral-ers of (Y,
eil county, Maryland, have passed resolution*
declaring all dogs ruu^iug ut ,
i large shall be considered at the meiey
of the community.