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NKW SERIES. VOL. I!), NO. 33. PARIS, MAINE, FRIDAY, JUNE
*26, 1868.
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POETRY.
Ob! Be Nol the First.
Oh. b* not h« (1 r»t In di Mover
A blot on tli« nam·· of · frWnd ,
A It* in tH*· faith of t finrr
tt'hrtM In ert nu> pr j»* true Id tU« au I.
ΜΓ» »n»r of III know oo· *l»ol tier,
A:> 1 oft lato «rrnr w» it il.
Thru wr «Ιι >11M »p*ak kin ! ni a brother,
or «p«ak aot of him at all.
A «mil* or a «Ifth may awaken
fuj· Ifl«>n m«>«t faite au«l untrue;
Ad.J tkiu oar Iflirf may b» «haken
la Karart· that arm luur.t anil lia».
How often th·' ll(hl «mile of |l«lnr··
I· wore by th· friend that «· mr*l
To w»rr a * »u! full of iiitaru,
l uo pr»u J to acànovînljp· defeat.
How often ihr il|h ol drjrctlon
la h «-«/J fr tn the htpocrlt»'* brrait,
To parody truth and aiTV-tion,
Or lull a latplrtun to ml.
Ilow often the frlvnd* w* bol·! >|r*rrit
Th* Bobkil rmutloai conceal,
flate hrart· the p«mt, «toa-rrr.t,
Αη·Ι MCTvt* O.ry eanuot rcreal
I'll If*»·· la··· mlotl· lo harbor «u«(>lclon.
Au I «mail ou··! to tra<·»- my ilflwti.
Mi»· «hall ht a η >Μ τ a i*>»tt m
lor l«w i* il» uuuj that iiii(wcti.
Wr r.ow of u· know nnr another.
And oft Into «rror we fall ;
Th· u wr ·!».·«! I ..M-ak klal of a broth· r.
Or «jwak « it of lilm a: all.
M I s Γ Κ I, li Α Ν Y.
BREAD UPON TUE WATERS.
Λ lad was toiling up a ateep bill near the
ily. under the weight of a h«*avy basket,
»'» lb·· afternoon of a sultry tlav in August. 1
ίΐα Ια I l>e< ii sent home with some good» to
I IMlBBIf, w!ii liv■ 1 t shirt llilUMt in
b<> country. The boy >i< lightly built,
ml his burden *ji almost br>»ni| hit
ilrength. · Minj timet h<· u( il mn to n.-it
limself on bu w ly tip the bill. Hut it
teemed a* il be woub! nev.-r rvacli the aum·
u:t. Κ a "h time he lifte I lb > I» »skot, it fe It ·
icavier than before.
The boy «ai about half way up the bill
■ ilh the basket. when be steppe·!.«ml turn·
•J round, abn >st una'·!·* to proceed, when
ι gentleman overtook him, and sai l kin 1
J—
•'That's a heavy load you have ray hoy ;
mi', let me help you."
And the gentleman took tho basket, ai.-l
rarried it to the lop of the bill.
• There. Do you think you ran get along
tow/" said be wii h a siuile, as be sat the
casket down, "or shad I carry il a little
farther?"
"Oh, no, tl-aik you sir," returned the
>oy, with a glow o( gratitude upon his tine
roung lace. "1 ca-i carry it now, very
well —and I am ν ry much obliged to jou."
"You are right welcome my littt'u man,"
iaid the gentleman, and passed on.
Twenty years Irom that time, a can-worn
nan, well advanced in life, sat motionless
u an obi arm chair, with his eyes fixed in·
lently up m the glowing gralc lie was
klone, and appeared to be in a stale of deep
abstraction. In a little while, however, the
loor of the room opened.and the light form
A a young and lovely girl glided in.
* Pj|said a low, sweet var.···, and a
band was laid gently on the old man's arm.
"Is it you, dear?" he returned wi'.h a
I jw «igh.
"Yea papa," and tin· young girl h ancil
igainst bin), an I parted with Ικτ deli ate
finger·, the thin gray loi ks that lay in dis
order aSout his (unheal.
"I w**ul*i like to be alone lor the evening
Florence, 'said the old man. "I have α
good deal to think about, and eapn t a ρ·τ
ιοη on b isiness "
An 1 he kis»r 1 b« r tenderly; yet aigh·»·!
t< he pr. s*«d bis 1ψ« to her».
Ί l> ■ gîrl pa·»···! Ιγ·»ιιι lli»* r · »tn .1* n"iic··
lead) a* »be lui entered. The oil man
iia<) been «alin before· lift coming in, buf
the m tD«f| »he r»tir· I. lie t>«*caino agitai
•1, ami ar<>«e ami walkr-d the Moor unnnilr,
il·· c l'mut l. to and fro, I >r nrirlr half «η
hour, wh^n b" »;opp«d •uddenly. an 1 Hi*
tcm-d. Tbe afreet door bell bad run,—in
% li'tl·· while a man entered the room.
••Mr Μ ι •on," be »aid with a alight per
repti! le embarraannent.
• Mr. I'aj*e," replied ibe ol 1 mtn, with λ
f.« le, * 1 m klr fading «mile. "ΟοοΊ even
ing." I off.—· I hi* hand.
The »i«ilor 2ra«p'· 1 hi· band, snd »bo"k
11 warmly li-at tbere wit nopretaure in re
turn.
•'Sit down, Mr Ι'^ί."
The man to Λ a < !i .ir an I Mr. Minn «at
down near bin.
"You promised an an«wtr fo my propos
al, to·night,n *aid the former, after a aLort
pa ii»c.
"1 did," relumed tbe obi mar; but am
a« I.til- pi parrd to give it at I wi« je»*
terday. In fa· t I ba*e not bad lime,or op
portunity to «ay any thing to Florence c>n
tbe aubject."
I lie countenance of (be viaitor fell, and
aonietbmg like a frown darken· ! upon the
brow.
There wa· an embartasaing ailence ol
«ome minute·, after whuh 1'age taid—
'•Mr Μιιοη. 1 hivf πι><1<· an honorable
proposition (or joir daughter'· hand. For
week· you bare evaded, an<) «till evade an
answer. Tbi· s«em» so much like trilling,
(hit I begin to tbiak that just cause (or ol
Ivme existe·!.*'
"None i* intended. I assure you," replied
Mr. Mason, with something like deprecia
tion in hi» tone. "But you must remem
ber, Mr Page, that you have never «ought
to win the young girl'· atfeetions, and that
a* a r«.n»equeiirejthe offer of marriage which
you with ute to nuke her, will be received
with surprix·, aid it may b« disapproval.
1 wish t > approach her on this subject with
proper discretion. To be precipitate may
startle her with instant repugnance to your
wishes."
"She loves you, does she not?" impiitcd
l'Age, with a marked significance ol man·
ner.
"A child never loved a parent more ten
derly," ri plied Mr. Mason.
••(iive her, then, an undi«£tii«ed history
H jour embarrassment. Show her bow
your fortunes are trembling on (he brink of
ruin, an·! that you have but on·· hope of re·
lief anil safolv I··ft. The day »he becomes
inv wife, you are removed from all danger.
Will you do this !"
The old man did not reply. II·· was in
a deep reverie. It is doubtful whether he
had heard al! that the young man had said.
"Will you do this?" repeated Page, and
with some impatience in his tone.
Mason aroused hiin>ell as froui a dream
and answered with great firmness and dig·
mi ν —
• Mr. V age. the struggle in iny min·! is
over, i bave no idea that Florence will
la\or your suit, ami I will not use a single
ar<* iiuent to i nil lie η co bcr. In that mat
tor she in .«t remain perfectly free. Ap
proa> !» bcr as a man, a·· 1 win her if you
have il»e power to do »o. Il is jour only
hope."
\s if stung by a serpent, Page started
iront lus ch.)ίτ —
"You will repent this, sir," he angrily
retorted—"end repent it bitterly. I cam·)
lo \ou with honorable proposal* lor your
daughter's band; you listened to them,
ga»e inu encourageaient, and promised mo
an answer to-night. Now, you meet me
with insult! you will repent ol all this.-'
Mr Mason ventured no reply, but mere
ly bowed hi* head in token of his willing
ne»« to bear all conscipcnces that might
come.
For a I >ng time nf'er this angry visitor
liai retired, «lid Mr. Mnun cross and re
rro«s the lloor with measured tread At
last lie rung the bell, and directed the ser
vant who rame, to say to Florence that he
wished to sec her.
When Florence came, she was surprised
to sec that her lather was strongly agitai
ed.
"Sit down, dear," he said in a trembling
ν lie··. ' I have something to say lo you
that mult no longer be conccalcd."
Florence looked wonderingly into her
father's face, while her h«*art began lo sink
J iSl then η servant opened the door and
ushered in a stranger, lie was stall, fine
looking man just in the prime of life. Flor
ence «juiekly retired, but not before the vis
itor had fixed his eyes upon her face, and
marked its sweet expression.
•'Pardon tliij intrusion, sir," h«» said, as
soon as ths young girl had left th·· room —
'but fiels that I have learneJ this evening
have prompted me lo call upon you without
a moment's delay. My name is(Jr.>cr, of
the firm of («reer. Mil er. A*
• I know yotir house very well; and now
remember to have met you more than once
in liusiness tran»a<tions "
"Ye«, ion have bought one or two bills
of go■>·!« if us." replie 1 the visitor.—Then
aft' r a moment's pause, he said in a chang·
>d Told ι
"Mr. Maaon, I b>arn to-nijjht Iron» a
•ο ir ·· which leavei me no room to doubt
the tru:li of the atatement. that your all*ι ra
bite i>>· >im: ierio>i<lv em'urrtni'd. Tint
yo'i are in fact on ll»«· f*« of bankrupt*'ν.
ΓΥΠ nie frankly whether thi« ia in leed »·».
I a«k from no idle curioaity ; r. <r from a
concwldl «imiter motive, b.»t to the rnd
lli «t ! m »v prévint the threatened Jiaaatcr,
if it i« in my power to ϋο ao."
Mr. Maaon w,i« ·| imb with «tirpriae at * >
unexpected a declaration. 11 ο made two
or three lUorti to *|>cak, but hia lipa utter
ed no ioun>l.
"ConfiJo in me, air," urgi-d tbe atranper
"Truat ι»·β a· )ou «nul 1 jour own brother,
an·! lean upon me. if your atrcn^tli be in·
•Ice i failing. Toll «we, linn, ia it a* I have
»aid? "
"It ι·,*1 w»i all tbe merrbant could ut
ter.
"II >w mm li will aave you? M» ntion the
» .rn, *ιιΊ il witbin tbe com pa ft* of iny ability
to raue, you shall have it in haul lo mor
row. Will iw. nty thousand dollars relieve
you from prcaent cuibarr.vani'int?''
' · Κ j liy. "
"Then let your anxiety aubaidc, Mr.
Μιιοη. That avin y ou ahill have. To-mor*
rcw morning I mil aee jou. Good even·
in·». And the visitor arose, and w*s gone
buforo the bewildered au«lilor bad suffi
ciently recovered lui ΐι·ηκ· > to know what
• to tbink or ear.
In the morning, true to bis promise, Mr.
|(*r«er I'tllrJ upon Mr. .M«<nn, and tender
ed a cheek for ten thousand dollars, with
bis note o! hand at thirty day» for the ten
thousand m ore, which w*s almost the same
account us the money.
While the check and note lay before him
upon the desk, and eru he had offered to
toucli tliem, Mr. Mason looked earnestly
at the inan wbo had so suddenly taken the
character of a self sacnfciiig friend, aud
, said—
"My dear sir. I cannot understand this.
Are yoti not laboring under some error?"
"Oh no. You once did me a servie
ibat 1 a:u now seeking to repay. It is my
fitst opportunity, and 1 embrace it eager
ly."
••Did yon a service? When."
"Twenty years ago." replied the man.
"I was a poor boy.and you a man of wealth.
One hot day. I was lei.t a long distance
with a heavy basket. While toiling up a bill,
with the hot sun upon me, and almost over·
come with heat and fatigue,\ou came along,
and not only spoke to ma kindly, but took
my basket, and carried it to the tup of the
bill. Ah, sir, you did not know how deep
ly that act of kindners sank into my heurt,
and 1 longed for tbe opportunity to sbow
\on by some act bow grateful I fell. Hut
none lime. Often afterwaids, dul I meet
you in tho street, ami look into jour face
with plvtfurt. Ilut you di· 1 not remember
in··. Ever since, I tiavu regarded you with
different feelings from thoso I entertained
for others, and there has bien no time that
I would not have put myself out to savts
you. I.ast night I heard ot your embar
rassments,and immediately called upon you
The rest you now know.
Mr. Mason wtt astonished at so strange
a declaration.
"Do you remember the fact to which I
allude?'* asked Mr. (ireer.
'•It had faded from my external mctnorv
entirely ; but your words hara brought hack
a dim recollection of the fart, lint it was
a little matter, sir, α very little matter, and
not entitled to the importance that you
hav«· given it."
"To me it was not a little matter, sir,"
returned Mr. (îiecr. "I was a weak boy
just linking under a burden that was loo
heavy, when you put forth your hand and
carried it lor inc. And now let nic return
the favor, at the first opportunity, by carry
ing your burden for yon, which has become
too heavy, until the hill is ascended, and
you are able to bear it onward again in your
own strength."
Mr: Mason was deeply moved. Words
failed hiiu in his effort* to express his true
feelings. The bread ea»t upon the waters
had returned to hint after many days, and
he gathered it with wondei and thankful
ness.
1 lie merchant was saved fromiuin. Nor
was (Ins all. The glimpses which Mr. Greer
had received ot the lovely iiughter of Mr
Mason, revealed a chara t< r ol lieauly that
impressed him deeply, an J h·: embraced the
fir-t opportunity to make her acquaintance.
A year afterwards he led her to the altar.
A kind act is never lost, though done to
a child.
My Wife Is the Cause of It.
It is not more than forty y -art ago that
M. Is called at thi liruse of !>r.
-, one very cold morr.;ng, on his wav
t„ H . 'Sir,' said th>· Doctor, "the
weather is verv frosty—will you take ionic·
thing to drink before you start?'1
In that day, aident spirit* wire deemed
in Impensable to warmth lor the winter,
when commencing a journey ; anil at every
stopping place along the road, the traveler
used intoxicating drink* to Lccp himself
wtim.
"No,** -*ai l Mr. ], ,"I never touch
«njthing of tlit· kind, and I'll tc 11 you the
rι ason— my wife is the ciuii· o< iî. 1 had
been in the hahit ol meeting some of my
nrijlibon every evening for the purpose of
pliy ing ear.ls.
We Β<κ»·ιι»^1ι ·1 at each mli r's shops, and
l;>l<ior· were introduced altera while. We
met not so much lor drinking, hut I
used to return homo lato in the evening,
more or leu* intoxicated. My wife always
met me at ihe door afffi'tionately.and when
I «hided her for sitting up «ο late for inc.
she kindly replied :
"1 perler doing so, for I cannot sleep
when you are oui."
I'his always annoyed inc. I wished in
my heart the would begin lo (cold m··, for
then I could have retorted, and thus reliev
ed my ccnieicnc·. Hut she always met
me with the same gentle an I loving spirit.
Things pasted i n thus for «orne time.wht η
I at ont·.· resolved that I would bv remain
ing late and returning much int>xica<ed,
provoke her so much as to cause her to lec
ture me. when I meant ta answer her with
severity, and thus creating another issue
between us,unburden my bopom ol its pres
ent trouble.
"I returned in such a plight about four
! o'clock in the morning. She met roc at
the door with her usual tenderness, and
«aid. "Come in. huaband, I have just been
making a warm fire for you. because I
thought you would be cold. Take off your
, boots and warm your feet ; here ia a cup
of coffee for you.
"Doctor, that was too much. I could
endure it no longer, and I resolved from
tli it moment that I would never touch
another drop as long as I lived,and I never
will. It was a heavy trial for my wife'·
patience, hut she fairly conquered me that
time.
Ho held to his resolution, and lived and
died practising total abstinence from all in
toxicating drinks, in a village where intern*
peranco has rat aged as much as in any otb·
er town in the State.
Character of Gen. Grant.
Some still see in him only the dailing of
fortune—energetic medierity which has
blundered into success. I think au» h are
misled by two of his peculiar q alities :
1. "His unimaginalivencts. When be
hu nothing to say, ho says nothing. In
privata he fills no interstice· of conversation
by remarks on the weather, or inquire· af
ter the bodies of hi· visitor. In public he
can make no speechea simply of form or
compliment ; and since the world cared to
hear his opinions on affairs, bis official pos
ition hi* never allowed him to speak freely.
Hut in public or private, when he has any·
teing to utter by tongue or pen. he says it
with extreme rapidity and clearness,in ter?e
marrowy.idiomatic Kngli*h. Even then he
clothes his thoughts in no (lowers of rhetor
ic, but present· them in the plainest, home
liest word*. Xapoleot:'· memorable sav·
ings art; all of tbis order r- "From theae
summits forty centurira look down upon
you." We will cmrrv our victorious ongle·
beyond the pillar· of Hercule·, tirar.t'a
are tho exact antipode·: ·Ι have no ternxi
but unconditional surrender:' Ί propose
to move immediately upon your work·.'
*1 shall light it nut on thi· line if it take·
all summer.' *1 found the army like a
balky horse,1 said the dramatic Corsica η
alter Austerlitz : 'Soldiers, I am satisfied
with)ou. Vou bave decorated your ea
gles with immortal glory,' raid the mat
ter-of faet American to bis shout ng men
after Port tiibaon : 'Soldiers, I thank you.
That is all 1 can say. You have done a
good Jay's work to-day, but you must do a
better one to morrow.' No ahining rhetor
ic; no poetic gushes; only the simple, un
adorned fact.
"11. lie is the inost undramatic of men.
Scott was nicknamed by hie enemies 'Fuss
and Feather·,' (»rant has less fuss and few
er feathers than any public man oT his day.
He believe· with the Chinese proverb,
' That which i* is.1 He accepts things just
as lie finds them, not troubling himself
about tho 'Kteinal Veriiie»,' but doing
promptly .thoroughly and subordinated the
duly which lies before him,however prosaic
and d'»agreeable. He acts bis convictions
instead of talking them.
* * · "He is utterly gr nuire and
guileless, lie still preserves in his high es
tate the sweetness arid simplicity of hia
country boyhood. Altogether free from
cant, bis lip* obeying the teachings of bis
mother, have uttered no oath, been «oiled
by no coarseness.
I "He is a miracle of serenity and self
poise." During the terrors of Belmont,when
an nide wi'b pallid check·, cried, "Why
tieneral, we arc· surrounded !" there was no
perceptible change iit his plca*ant face or
calm voi<*e as be answered. Then we will
cjt our w<*y out.1 'Three years later, as
he read l«ee'· dispatch proposing the stir·
render of the Army of Northern Virginia,
ho was equally unmoved ; no elation shone
in his face, or sounded in the ordinary tone
in which be asked, *W«ll, tien, llawlma
hot* do you tbink that will do?1 'Tried by
both extreme· of fortune, and never dis
turb· d by either,' lie remain· at simple and
unaffected to day as in bis years of poverty
and obscurity."
W M kino and Srjit.toiir I>r. DlO
Lewis of It >*lon, who ha· done ·ο much in
devising gymnastic apparatus for training
the muscular system, and who i« one of tl»c
.tr ini'i «I men ti lh· ennntrr. rer«-nllv m.
marked in a l«»rturc that walking ant] itin
Itjjlit were hrttrr e*orci»e for the lualth of
an individual lhan anything he ha« ever
di'tiMil. If ho had added work of aome
km·! he would have improved on hii new
tyitt-m I<et a man affected with dyapepua
fr m want of exerciae. j»«t take a wood taw
and shake it an hour before brcakfatt and
then walk an boar aller break faut, and it
will *bakc the dyftpoptia out of hiin, if any·
thing will do it. Walking in good, but the
body a* well a* the limba need the eaereiae
to render it mn«t beneficent. Many men of
•vilentary habit· kill the<n*elvef by a ilow
• leatb, Itecauae it make· tb« m tired to e*·
erci*« their bodi<·#. Thi* i* ju«t what they
want. (»et tired nnd then reit. Try it.
Λ bit of glue diaaolved in akita-milk and
water will reatore crape.
■aioe Men Ont West.
The following passage from the Chicago
correspondence of I he Saco Courier, pre
sent· a glowing picture of the prosperity of
some Maiuo men who have goo· West.
Tho writer adds, however, lhat theffr*1»·
another side to the picture, and the grow
ing enterprise of our own Slate certainly
promises employment and success in the
not di tant future for those who have coat·
age to compete for the prices offered at
home :
Kaeh State bad a parlor at either the
Sherman, Brigg·, Tremnnt, or Metropo
litan Houses as their headquarters, and of
course Maine was not an exception. To
those rooms flocked the men there present
cither as visitors or natives, and our room
was filled the most of the time by those who
had a thousand questions to ask of (beir
former homes and distant friend·. It i*
worth going far to feel and »eo the hearty
grasp of tlie hand and the look of welcome
in hi· eye, as the Western man greets you
because you are from M.tine. As I ex
changed salutations with an lllinoian whom
I had never seen before,· be- said to me, I
have been twelve years in this Western
country and am identified with ita growth
and its forests, but Clod bless my native
State ; when I have day or night dreams of
home, it is always of the pleasant valley of
the Kennebec !" Perhaps the most finan
cially pleasant account given ns was by Mr.
S , who fifteen years ago, left a town
not a thoucand miles from Gardiner, and
camc to Chicago. He had which be
invested in huving house lots about a mile
from the center of the then city. To-day
the saine property would sellât auction for
$200,000. The spare change he got from
practising law, he put into house lot·, and
then into a hanking house, and now pava a
tax upon £.1,000,000 of safe investment·,
.u;i. s *..·«· «
w,.v vi ιιιν icauiuy; ivt |iuuiuan
manager* in (he whole northwest. After
this was known, "Nox" of fl«<> Portland
Star bad th« Western lever badly. IIa it
a young man, Nox it. and very volatile,and
be don't w.,nt to coinohoine where, he nays
η man must live to be «even hundred yearn
old Itifnre I In· old logies will let him be
aomrbody, and the boy has some method in
hi· madness, lie forgets, however, that
the Dcdlock family lia.I a ρ host because
they had done nothing to distinguish them
selves lor seven hundred years.
Honor y oar Basinets.
It is a go- d sign when a man is proud of
Ins work or calling. Yet nothing is morn
common than to hear men finding lault con
stantly with their paiticular business, and
deeming themselves unfortunate because
fastened to it by the necessity of gaining a
livelihood. In this spirit men fret, labori
ously destroy ihcir comior* in the work, or
they change their bu»iness. and go on mis
erably, shitting from one thing to another,
till the grave or the poor houje gives them
a fast grip. Hut, while occasionally a man
fails in life because he is not in the place
filled lor his peculiar tah-n', it happens
ten times oftener that lailure results from
neglect and even contempt of an honest
business. A man should put his heart into
everything that lie does. There is not a
profession that has not its peculiar cares
and vexation. No man will esespe annoy
ance by changing business. No mechanical
business is altogether agreeable. Com
merce in its endless varieties, is affected,
like all other human pursuits, with tria's,
unwelcome duties, ae.d spirit til ing necessi
ties. It is the very wantonness of folly lor
a man to search out the frets and burdens
of his calling, and give his mind evpry day
η rikntuli'palm»* ·'··»— I--1
to human life. They are inevitable. Brood
ing, then, only givej them strength. On
the other hand, a man ha< power given him
to ahad beauty ami pleasure upon the borne·
lient toil, if he i> wine, Let a man adopt
hi* businet·. and identify it with hi· life,
and cover it with pleasant association·;
for (rod ha« given un imagination, notalono
to make some port*, but to enable ail men
to beautify homely thing·. Heart varnish
will ;over up innumerable evil· and defect·.
Look at the good thing*. Accept jour lot
a* a man does a piece of rugged ground,
and begin to get nut the rock· and root*,
to deepen and mellow the «oil, to enrich ami
plant it. There it something in the mult
forbidding avocation around which many a
man may twine pleasant fenoe·, out of
which bo may develop# an honest pride.—
[Irish Kvar.gr list
Live to Ire useful. Live to give light.
Live to accomplish the end for which yoo
were made, and «piietly and »teadily thine
on, trying to do jour duty. For those who
ire enabled through grace to «bine a· light#
here, shall shine a· auna and tiara for ever
end ever.
Mr·. Harriet Heoeber .Slow· live* at Man
daria, Kla. They bave a pleasant house
with four acre* of land, half a mile of river
front, and an orange grove of one hundred
bearing tree*.