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' ' Happy spirit, fam would I By thy fireside warm me : Thou dost keep such genial cheer, Age nor death can harm thee. Nay, his fireside each must build, I Lonely vigils keeping ; -p Then with joy he may be filled When the frosts come creeDinir. MARY R. WESTTLESEY. —From the April number of Lippincott's Magazine. THE RUNAWAY. - "Halloa ! that j-ou, Dick?" wnere - - . Whe aoe you going. t A rather pale, slightly built youth of fifteen years, with a carpet bag in sis hand, looked up nervously and walked on. It was in tliie vicinity of the derot, and there Wits much trundliug of trucks-tind apitting of engines, and consequently Sana Jones E resumed that his salutation had een unfleard; About noon en the same day, Amos Huylmnd, Esq., sauntered forth from his office to attend to a little business in another part of the town. The boys were just coming from school, and stared at him and whispered among themselves. Finally, Eby Darby stepped up and exclaimed : "Mr. Jlr. can't fcink of your name, sis but Diok has runaway." WMtr "He. has gone to New York, every stitch of him, and is neves? coming back. He said I might tell you after twelve o'clock ; for he would be too far off for you to catch him then. The father stood still with his eyes riveted on the speaker, for a moment, and then turned on his heel, and in an BBjtsuii ajp in sahi Mferwry of his own. house. , , Amy" be called tons wife, '' do you know anythine about Dick?" "(x nas not rexurnsa from school yet. Why?" Did be go to echoed this morn ing?" 1 "Of course at least so far as I know. I did not see him at all after he ate hie breakfast-'' 'Will yon go to his roam and see if hiabooks are there?" Mrs. txuyiana threw down her sewing and hastened up-stairs. In a few moments she returned, fcjoking frightened and curious. - "His books are there: but his car pet-bag and his clothes are gone. Wttavt doee itall mean?" zf That our son has actually run away started for New York." mere were rea eyes ana saa Hearts in the Huyland mansion that after noon and Dick's elder brother. Alfred, a line boy-vf seventeen, who was in the post-office on a salary of eight hundred a year, was anxious to nur- suq and capture the young deserter. Ho : JPieK must have tune and op portunity given him to acquire use ful InformatjrBar," said hia father, .al- Ifiougn it was a nuceahie tact that he had to clear htrntl half-a-dozen times before he could artionlate according to Quackenboss. At "supper-time, Philo, a lad of thir teen, declined bread-and-butter, ar.d sweatmeats, and hat biscuit, and jelly-cake, and tdasts arw tS, and when. asKed it he was sick, replied: "I don't knovr as I have got the croup ; but I am awful like baby was when he had it last spring.'' , "Mamma," said little 4ve year ohi Mary, "Is gorag to New Vi;rk lust the same as being dead?" - And whan .iha-niioAidn K.nnivkV ower ortjn instead of an answer e continued. r kR "loS""N"aever -Wll takeme there when I die." Meanwflne tne traveller had pass- I c liug, iiii.'V.1uiuvi V, J aU 44 1 n 4, 4443 congratulated himself "upon his suc cessful escapade, tie aad marched boldly "down the' frorrt street, and not a sou except hia cousin Bam Jones had taken the slightest notice of him. He was glad to get off so easy, but a little chagrined, after all, at his own insignificance. Fairly outside the pale of parental jurisdic tion and whizzing on to his destiny, Iiis heart grew TenoMHaTMnse not only stood up to give 4-41ttle girl his seat, but SflStowefi tanfcaatple he had' crammed in his pocket fbr lunch on a big baby who was crying lustily. As the hours waned, his spirits sank, and, according - to nature, he commenced a recapitulation of thei wrongs and injustices of which he had been the victim. He did not see why Alfred and Philo need be so much better-looking than himself. very body called them handsome, while he had been often told that he was as homely as a hedge fence. They were genteel and elegant, and objects of admiration to his parents and friends. It wasn't fair. To be sure be was the genius in the family ; but what of that? It only compelled him to go to school, while Alfred was making money, and getting a good start in the world. He did not like his father's cynical manner when he complained of his teacher, found breakers in his algebra, anathematized chemistry, and de clared .Latin a bore. And then when he asked him if lie might go in to business be said. "What '. Before you get your bibs off? I den't think that is your forte. Xou are not careful enough about your dollars and cents. We shall rave to make yon up into a profess ional man. it take Alfred to do the financiering." Dick felt as if he had been swallow ing lire-brands, and opened the car window. A cat was running on the fence down beside the track, and he I I wihed he was out where he could step on her tail. How his mother laughed when he told her once that h meant to be as rich as A. T. Stew art and live in New York when he got to be a mail. Bttt it was his dear old grandmoth er who had committed the unpardon able sin. She had been for weeks all the time asking why Dick had grown rso moody and taciturn. And that had put It into biio's neaa to can him Stupid and ill-natured. Dick pitlledorrhis soft hat and threw it down upon the seat violently, then placed it upon his head. He did not like these pricking memories. He would show the folks at home and 'everywhere else, that he was able to take care of himself ; and when he had earned five hundred dollars. no, when he had five thonsand dollar and a horse and carnage five mil lion, would be better, or five hun dred millions, and a house on Fifth avenue, with a French roof, and a train of railroad cars stopping at the front door every time its master feels inclined to take a short walk. Of course the kind-hearted conduc tor was oblivious to all these extra ordinary air-castles ; and when the conductor oame along in the regular discharge of his duty, saw on iy a very common-place boy, stretched ont on a seat all alone, and fast asleep. Having noticed him in the earlier part of the. morning, and remember ing his destination , he did not Waken him. And so, many thanks to him, Dick got a tolerable night's res t. As ate neared the end of his journey, his mind was crowded with plans. He 'knew but one person in the metropo lis, a partner in the baking powder business, whose address he had se emed, and to him he resolved to ap ply for work. He would let himself n witn, so as to He would take a montUfSuless n him. Hut the ust have an in- wages or leave, and he sMkdd sons b Jit tfif top of .the lad der. He had studied New York from a map ot the city, and tado difficulty in engineering his way through the crowded streets. He found Mr. Boniface, who received himwarmly, bat had no situation to give him. Indeed, he had more boys about him jjjfow than he knew how to manage A, keep busy. He would keep a sharp look out for Dick though, and he must come in every day and re port progress. Dick found a cheap lodging-house in the lower part of the city where ha atals) aim aiiMait Thai navf niTr'i in? he visited all the eatinerbouses and compared prices. Then hecount ed hie money to see just how long it would last, for he had by no means a heavy purse. Mr. Borriface offered him a cot in the upper part of bis store when he made his second call upon that gentleman, and it was gladly accepted. But no situation had been seen going round looking for a boy, and Dick determined to start out and find one. Verv few business houses on the principal streets south of City Hall that were not visited by a modest, well-dressed, intelligent looking boy, during the next live days. Some times he was treated civilly, bat was ofteuer abruptly aad sharp lyjdismiss ed. What time bad busy men to give to such young fortune hunters ? His heart was very heavy, but his courage was luce the widow's on. The only thing that gave him posi tive anxiety was the state ot nis n nances. He never knew befcre how much It "cost a feller"to get enough to eat. He must take some decided stand in that regard or he should be bankrapt sure. So he limited him self to twesty-nvo cents a meal, and firmly resisted all farther tempta- t ions. to his bovish appetite But the wisest and most sensible thing he did w as to buy a return-ticket home, before he should by - any chance spend all his money. Not that he intented to use it, though he felt as if he would give his right hand for one of his mother's good breafc- rastS;, ana ne uau many a ureu long ine: for his own comfortable room with the spring-bed and rocking chair in-it. .' He had promised to write to Ely Darby, who was going to run away as soon as ne got tueieuur, iu a bookstore in Nassua street he got a pen and ink and fulfilled the' task. But be very confidentially informed his friend that it "didn't pay" and adVised him to say Where he was. The second week passed very mueh like the first. He was indus trious in his efforts to get something to do. He drew someneavy sighs but nobody beard tnem. ie won dered why his father had taken no nains to find out his whereabouts. and finally settled down into the be lief that he had hartily been missed He had made himself so disagreable of late, perhaps they were all glad to get rid of him. His money would hold out but a few days longer and what was he to do 7 He should feel pretty cheap at goln r back without an invitation. He wished his father would come and "blow him up" and "thrash him" as some men would ana then take him home, and "wouldn't he stay there though !" He did not know thatMr.Boniface had received several private com munications, and been instructed to watch over the runaway and see that no harm came to him. While at.the same time.it was thought best to al lewtMmm&fttlMWiRvt owniBcfaastious even at ue risk of a pretty aslgb tlan. a. One mornirig he stood in the store door cogitating. JbLe baa came to the last twenty-five cents, and it was before breakfast, although it was ten o'clock. He was hungry. What boy of fifteen ever saw the time he wan not ? But he did not like to be abso lutely penniless. Neither did he quite like to make use of the tickets that were scorching his pockets un til he could almost detect a blue smoke arising. He saw a gentleman coming to wards him and recognized an uncle, his father's brother, who lived in the city. "Ah, Dick! that you? How are you. Living here, eh ? Do you like New York?" "Yea, sir, pretty well." "Arfl you busy to-day ? Suppose you come up and take dinner with vciv vneap n uriti nme more surely. latwo halndred dollars second month he n crease of me and we will talk over business matters a little. Dick's eyes filled with tears and his heart leaped for joy. He should get one good straight meal sure without losing his self-respect. That was what his stomach said. Perhaps his finer feelings were touched by the unexpected meeting. If not they were aroused to an exciting degree by some remarks which followed. "By the way, Dick, I have had a letter from your father lately, and he has entrusted me with a little roll of money for you, which be says you may use as you see fit. He thinks perhaps your expenses here may have exceeded your calculations, and he wants that you should have a good time. Dick sobbed outright. "I don't deserve any such kind ness, uncle Dick," he said after a moment's pause. "1 wisb be bad asked me to come home. I wonder if ." "They want to see you there ? Of course they do. Cheer up my boy . If you have had enough of this little town ail you have to do now is to take the back track and commence where you left off." Dick felt exceedingly comfortable when he went to bed that night, and slept more sweetly than in months before. He was in the guest-chamber of his ancle and it looked so much like home that he left the gas burning to enjoy it. He waked be fore daylight and finding some pone and paper on the table, jumped up ana wrote tne roiiowing letter. "My dear Father : I shall never be able to tell you how ashamed I am of myself, or bow muoh I thank you for your unmistakable token of confidence. I would rather come home and go to school than stay anywhere else if I could get forty f ituations. DncleDick thinks I bad better wait until Wednesday, and then take the train West. My best love to mother and Mary and the boys. Your affectionate son, Diok." When he called to bid IMr. Boni face good-bye he learned that one of the gentleman to whom he had ap plied a few days before, had left word that he had a place for him now and would give him ten dollars a week for his services. "If I was a little older and my ed ucation complete, I wouldn't mind accepting," replied Dick with a very manly air ; ""but I shall do noth ing without the advice of my fath er hereafter, he is so mueh better able to judge for me than I am for myseiT." - "Oh !" said hia little cousin Dick (it was a family name) as a nice lunch was being put up for his journey, "won't you catch it when yoa get home? Your father will .look dag gers at you and say, 'My dear sir are you going to run away any more ?' and then he will take you up-stairs and pad-da-whack you. But Dick only smiled and remark ed, that he expected all the boys would be after him and he probably should never hear the last of his trip to New York. It was near mid-day when he ar rived in Tontogany. His father met him at the depot and greeted him warmly. "Hadn't we better take a carriage up ?" whispered Dick. "No, I think we had better walk." They passed along through the crowd out into the street when Dick's courage again faltered. "Hadn't we better go up to the house the back way ?" "No, my son, it is just as well to face the music. The boys will have their fun anyway, and if you are in the right it won't strike very deep." "Halloa, Baking-Powdex !" "There's Dick sneaking home ! Didn't make much trying to get ahead of the old man !" and similar expressions greeting him at every step, but he walked with a firm step and only bowed to such of his friends as chose to accost htm in a respect able maaner. He wondered how it was that everyone in the home-household was so glad to see him. His pretty moth er looked as if she had spent her whole life in weeping, and when she strained him to her heart aad mutter ed words of thankfulness that he had been restored to her onoe more, her tears ran down his neck and nearly dissolved his new paper collar. Mary clung to him whenever she could get a good hold, and pulled him from one place to another in the wildest con fusion. Philo rolled up the easy chair for him to sit in and carriedliis hat into the hall and hung it on the rack. Alfred seized him by the coat collar with his two hands and shook him till he was half blind. "How well vou are lookinsr. Ma jor ! I guess I'll go to New York if it brightens one up so." Dick was in a whirl of happiness. Had everybody changed ; or, was it the film that had fallen from his own eyes ? He did not make up his mind just then, but as weeks rolled oa he come to the conclusion that he had he?n woefullv mistaken at that period in brs history when he be lieved himself counted out of the hearts of all those he best loved, and narted with the ereen-eyed monster. who bad nearly drifted him into ruin, with a great sense of relief. TTia narents also indulged in re miniscences regarding themselvesand their daily walk previous to this lit tle esipode, which were notaltogeth- er nattering, it is pua a ww uaye since I heard Mrs. Huyland say. "We are constantly reminded of our great lack of perception in never having had a correct insight into the - - f All At heart or our secona sou uuiu screw was applied byHeaven itself." Christian Union. Aftkr the 15th of April, Ameri can silver will be receivable in Cana da , under a recent law, at a discount of twenty per cent. If it can be pur chased in quantities at this rate, a dealer on this side can buy $100 in gold with say, 112 in currency, send to Canada and there exchange it for $125-in silver coin, making $13 by the operation, less the expense of transportation. The position of conductor on a street car in Wilmington, N. C, af fords amnle opportunity for the dis play of gallantry. A correspondent, who was recently in that city, saw the conductors carrying the ladies from the cars to the sidewalk, and vice versa, on a day when 'the rain had made the sand in the roadway of the streets disagreeable to tread on. The Brighter Side. From the N. Y . Mercantile Journal . It sometimes occurs that an entire nation falls so completely under the control of gloomy Impressions that their mental gaze can no longer see a gleam of light in the clouds that environ them. With bodies of men, this is usOally the result Of those crises in their organization and pro gress, from which nothing human is exempt. As our nature is a strange compound of weakness and of strength, so must oar destiny on earth be a varied succession of tri umphs and of failures. History is but the narrative of national strug gles for existence and supremacy a fluctuating record of glory and of gloom, marked by the painful pro gress upward, the temporary tri umph, and, then, the decadence, ei ther swift or gradual, of nation after nation, which each, in turn, dazzled and overawed the world. The Isreal ites ; the Babylonians ; the Medes and Persians ; the Egyptians ; the Greeks, and, then the Romans, race after race, and state after state, con trolled mankind, and then sank from the pinnacle of their greatness to give place to new developments of social and political organization. But, during the period of their pro gress, the most difficult and perplex ed passages of their career, until the last, were but the forerunners of their grandest triumphs. The very errors they had committed became the sources of better self-examination, closer discipline, and, subse quently, wiser effort. . i,. When we apply tne same pnuoso pby to the career of individuals, the lesson imparted to us there, is still plainer and more instructive. The greatest ana the best of men, in the higher Christian point of view, and in a practical light, as well, is not he who nas never fallen, buthe who has raised himself and girding his loins, again, with manly courage for the battle of life, has gone forth with hope and faith in his heart, and God above him, to raise and conquer at last. We are led to these reflections by the gloomy and despondent tone that we too often hear among our business classes, and from the editor ial desk. Vexed by the many trials to which peculiar management has subjected the prosperity of our coun try, we, too, nave oeen more man once tempted to repine and earnest ly complain. But, when shaking off the mo mentary influence of some mistake that ve observe in legislation ; some deficiency in the guiding hands that control this or that branch of public development, we take in, at one broad view, the vast extent of oar positive progress ; the grandeur of our national domain ; the magnifi cence of the conquests already achieved over the wilderness and over the barbarism of past ages, and survey the limitless variety and op ulence of our natural resources, the summer sun is not brighter at his riainar than the future that dawns before our mental vision. "The more too that we look and ponder the promises that Frovidence baa appar ently strewn broadcast in the path of this nation, the more sustained we feel in believiua that we shall quick ly emerge from all the dUBoultwei that have recently surrounded us, and ascend by swift graduations to the most commanding position ever yet held by any people, not even ex cepting those colossal states of the ancient world, which once grasped at universal empire. The public mind is ripening upon all great questions of national policy, and is settling to sound views of fi nance, revenue, taxation, public works, international law, and home control, In accordance with the spir it of this peculiar people, end the de mands of our situation, and of the age in whioh we live. The mistakes of the past have been an admirable schooling, and the future, we be lieve.wili be the safer and the bright er for them. A very few years ago we were seriously exposed to a sod den overthrow of our Bystem, thro' the heedlessness and indnfference of our business classes to what was go ing on in legislative ard political circles. All that seif-eatitfled dream ing has been broken up by the hard pinching of the past twelvemonth, and the two preceding seasons. The mind of trade has been thoroughly aroused and stirred tn nervous vigi lance, and we now observe symptoms all around us that the voice of com merce, backed by the requirements of labor, is going to be most poten tial In the great governing centres of the nation, hereafter. Than that there could not be a healthier sign of coming good. At the same time, the outward el ements of material strength and op ulence grow with accelerated speed. Oar area of agriculture broadens by hundreds of miles from year to year; steam navigation and railroad tran sit strike out new filaments of life while we gaze ; the steam and tele-a-rank man of 1869 is already grow ing antiquated in the first quarter of 1870 ; our immigration increases by from 25 to SO per cent., in different nationalities, no longer comes to us sickly and penniless, but hearty, in telligent, and with something to artend : those sections of the country that contain our richest staples, the cotton-bearing Sonth and the grain- growing West, never had received such an upward Impulse as 1870 is bringing to them, and the voice of fault-finding and evil predictions is smothered amid heaped up granaries and well crammed storehouses. We cannot help thinking, then, at we get farther on in the year, that after all the rouch work of the lasl three or four seasons, the bright side of the picture is beginning to turn toward us. and we have only to look closely in order to see the light breaking through to us on all sides I know somebody who always ap pears to be miserable, and this Is the way she contrives to be so, thinking always about nerseu, constantly wishing for that she has not got. idline away her time, fretting and grumbling. I know somebody who is much happier, and this is the way she contrives to be bo, thinking of others, satisnea witn.wnat ner heav enly Father has judged best for her, working, caring tor somebody f beside herself, and thlnkln" 1 can make others h" I Worked, and Earned it. A few weeks ago, a gentleman liv ing in an eastern town was called out of his bed one morning by sever al vigorous raps upon his front door. Hastily dressing himself, he respon ded to the call, and found standing upon the step an uncouth, roughly clad boy, with an axe on his shoul der, who, hastily thrusting his hand into his pantaloons pocket, drew oat a small roll, and handing it to Judge H , said : "There's seventy-five dollars, which I want you to put in the sav ings bank," and hastily turned on his heel and started away. The Judge, slightly disconcerted at the curious proceeding, scarce knew what to say, till at length re covering his wits, he cried out after the boy ; "Stop ! come back here. How did yoa come by this money ?" "I worked, and earned it, sir. My time was out last night, and I got my money. I've got a job of chop ping, which I began on this morning, and 1 thought I'd leave the money with you, as I went to my work, and then it wouldn't take up my time this evening when I want to study.", , uj ii "What is your name, my boy?" asked the Judge. "I wrote it on the paper that I wrapped the money up in," snouted the little wood chopper as he passed on to his work. That boy's note for a thousand dol lars due ten years hence would be as gsodasgold. If he has his health, e will be worth double that then. He is beginning in the right way. The very day his time was out for summer, he entered upon another job, and immediately placed the mou- ney be bad worked lor, wnere mat would work for him ; aad with an economy of time which is more to be praised than his fore-thought with regard to money, he could not en dure to have a moment devoted to anything but his books when the long evenings oame. Five years from to-day with a good education, with good habits, with a few hundred dollars, which he has earned by work, hfs chances for plane in the business and. I politics world will be far greater than those of the spendthrift boy, who, born with a fortune, begins wiUiout know ing the worth of money, and instead of going up, goes down. New England. We have just read an article from the Palmer Journal Massachusetts, under the head of "The Decadence of New England." Itopens by stating that "the decrease of the population among country towns of New Eng land is startling," and affirm that the same is true of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. Farms can be bought for less than what the buildings are worth. Some of the towns ar almost depopulated ; white neighborhoods, are abandoned, and once elegant mansions are going to wreck. On the authority of Rot. Dr. Gale, of Lee, the Journal gives the following statement respecting the Church in one county: S a. There are thirty-three Congrega tional churches In the county, and only fourteen settled pastors. Five Qf these churches have no regular service, and fourteen hire clergymen for a stated tisHSt . JqMgft therearsr twenty-six Congregational churches and twenty-three pastors. The membership in these churches has Increased only thirty-four in the last forty years, being 4,544 in 189, aai 4,578 in l&fiS. In tea of the churches the membership is less saan nny , and ha these churohaa the num ber of male members averages only ten. In most of these snonswaln towns ware oaoe large churches, and the sanctuaries on the saDbatn were filled With devout, worshipers. Now in some Ave places, the people nave forsaken assembling themselves to gether on Sabbath, aad ia many towns the minister preacnes to a lean congregation. 0 The Journal indorses this state ment, and says It applies to many towns of western maanwontaawew. Extravagance and fashion are a siirned as the cause of this desolation, and one development of those evils of an appalling character is named, viz: "It has become."" says the Journal, "the fashion to have fewer children," and appeals to the statis tics of Dr. Allen, of Ijowell, who has ilr BBSastratr I by figures the fact, that the Yankee race of New Eng land is running oat." The melan choly picture is closed by the asser tion that, unless a reiorm is com menced, "the hill: and smuntain towns of the ritate will soon become a wilderness." The same cause pro duces like effects in every age. A t am usic hall InEna land abalMght has been introduced for the diversion of the public. The evening's enter tainment began witn some uauger- ous acrobatic experimenta, srswa- whlch the balls brought over i rom Spain wore introduced into the ring. They had been sea-sick, poor crea tures, and looked very tame in con sequence. The proverbial red rag was flung in their faces, without pro ducing the proverbial effect. Itls ex pected, however, that when tna 1 Spanish burrs have be me a little more accustomed to the horrors of the English climate, they wW gore the Matadores co the oom mists sat isfaction of the audience. That gallant sailor, the British Admiral Ramsey, says that on the -coats kj( Africa he once saw a Sgi m,ent of rifle women and, black as tbey wars, ha must say ha never saw a finer regiment. All the officers were women, and there was nota sin gle man in the whole regiment. Tbey were most courageous, "and fought bravely ; In tact, a frisnd told lum that when they went into, action they fought like so many tl- An aspirant after the vacant po sitloa of executioner In London rests his claims upon the ciroumsta-' that he "has bad mush -in killing pigs." oe --'perlenoe