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VOLUME 39.
PARIS, MAINE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1872.
NUMBER 31
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> iiu'i* nantt<l. we fe-ti ou t'ia fartu;
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haad— 1
Υοα'ν· told uajK· man* lituua o'er;
•a Hoi k·, d»**u llvne·, jmt Ukv· la your bed,
A uil lu.tk· ·,.· laug *i>U« ao mere.
lit» boic J ' Golioui·)
t Hi, ltorac·, J«ir Horace, *·· hern»·.
Ι>·4Γ lloracu wr mar *»u'r· givan ta ahauie,
v\ hoaa nttum \ <>u caucot well hide;
You aaid yvit wore going oa juat lor «oui· Haut»
W«'i« afraid that «ou went at high tide.
\. w , Itlw·!· I«land c!.nui will do you η<· g-κκΐ,
W e m «.-II tuuD îj4 ■ -ie "( tbe«a»a;
\ υ it J ûvU«r hat a «lay ad «t your houm rhi>|»|>iu|
wood.
Πι..» t. rwu un a poor wild gooaij cbaae
lu Luyiti ' lio boni· ' «le.
And lh«u toil uiuat rOUI* to your "«Id native alala '
Γ υ »i-!t your "|>lavuiutea and rwnitla,"
Οι «.«art· all tuual know tnat you Lt»ld In youi i>*ta
fc ar othw and diff«i «ul «uda.
fw; atia.ghtway jua a ug a political tira»,
lu AfaUctlu «οίου you l»egln:
Itwl lho?« who vr heard Oa·» un III·* >«tt > ui k
Tribunr.
<a< you:- teuor Wan really "too t'nii "
Go boiutj Go buiua ! etc.
N··, llouc<, dear IK rate, \ou r*ally don't play
I'll· mil of philanthropy well;
Jut. suck i> lb· atyla t.'tal you r· umO to, aud »ay
Λ bat y«u « i>b iu a way ma; will toil.
Dwn't git· ug lha; twad il· about "grw*iug old "
l>ro|« in· "lifv thai a sow nearing ita cloaa "
l>vu ι aay you r«gr«l y»u were cuce lnv and !»wld, {
Uul tell u· at oace "what «ou kuov\a."
*
Go boiue.' Go boiue '
l'erhapa il ta well for you ait to repeal,
IVbat you kuow about "raiaiiig a bou·»#,"
TUat "Iboae wbo help raise it cau look for a treat |
If tbev will not make any row·*'
Tber· waa uo one so dull but lie kucu uh«l it
meant,
Wlieu you tir-t brought lb*t t.lory to \lv,
Anti ol ctiurM it Hill lake, lor w« bat· a keen
«κ.· ni
For appoiutuit*aia a ad oOicen loo.
Go home' Go hoiue! etc.
It ι» ·» airelv vtorih while Tor you longer lo dnali '
t'a your klud and benevolent carta.
For η at in that a been kuowu here ao long and ·ο I
well,
Cau't conceal whence lb· aenliiuaut «tart*.
To "aofteu a»periliea" lak· no uiote paiua,
We really don't think it will pay.
Autl now, ii' you love u·, and htpe 1er "greut
gam?,"'
Ub, quickly go home and there atay.
tie h iuc ! Go houie
Ob. lloracc, dear Horace, go bouia
— Hitétou A<lcrrti*er j
èflect
llrwm U'wo Γ. lloeeeitoltt Mnf;u:ne
THE STUSï SHE TÛLD ME.
"You're looking ut that pretty thing, 1
>«·«·," nuid the girlish créature, as she
eaiue toward me with a beautiful baby iu
her arms.
I h»ul been attracted by the charming
«|ι|η·λ»mu e of the little cottage, *l the
ι.j which I a<ked for some water !
«••mg 'hldon to enter, I **t now nt the f
tasteful. liny bay-window, covered with!
floweiiug vines, and drank U)r glusi «>(
cool, s λ uc t uiilk.
ibis home-interior was * picture in it· '
self. The lurniture, though made hi
sk<>.!ul fii.gei «, hud lelt n<» touch «>1 the
U.-hionablu upholsterer. Th· homely :
wall· a era lieoorated wi-h «iuiple pie·
lure*, dried giasse. and lei as. The flooi
* a* painted and vnrni»h«d and made
beautiful with pretty rug> and mats. Not
the !ea-.t attiactive of its ornament· was
that little motl;e;·, Lucie girl tel, it
see mod, with her wonderful wealth of
golden hair coiled round a perfect!*
formed head, Lei soft eyes, and gentle,
womanly ways I he baby on her ki^e»· ί
was a study | uo honvdtul wealth of ni t lp 1
ι elasslu marble con Id surpass tho beauty;
of ι his lowly boru child, ' '
We were frit»·!; ttvm the lint. ,|,i,
j liule ïiri-woœan imj 1. ,ao
seemed willing to pour Into my elderiy
car uttlu ooulideuees that might hare :
justified a maturer Iriendehip. So as I
moved aitout the dear little uest, and
happened to sp) a choice piece of work·
uiuii>iiip, she *a:d ι
"You'ie lookiug at that pietty thing.·'
"\e», said I, "it j* even tuoru than
pietty, it is exquiaito."
• So It is, aud everything that's He·»'» j
taste is justly so," she replied with a!
glow ol pride. "Hen weut to the iaii ; j
, 1 could η ι go well, lor baby was uiiing, 1
but ι hat wa* no reason he should stav at
home; 1 couldn't be as unreasonable as
•ome women. I didn't expect he'd bring
iue more than a cushion ol pins, or dime
nwai llitie fancy—but no, lie must bu\
thai or nothing. I'm sure it's onlv a
ladv should have such thiuge, not a poor
miil iiaud » « ijv ; but you .see Bon thinks
differently.'*
Ilow il v\as this dear little woman
caiue to leii lue her story, 1 won't lepeat,
only give it to you in her own direct,
pietty, artleis la>hion. So no more «>1
me This was tLo way she began it:
"You're looking at me, 1 see, and say
ing to yourself, which is true, there's
nothing at all taking about this plain
littie woman. lien sa\» there is; he
laughs at me and declares thai 1 under
rate myself foolishly; but bless your
he*» t, can't I see ? My eyes. >ou take
notice, are light and gtay, *ometlaies
quite colorless, and a» 1 look at theiu
when I comb my hair, i thiuk to myself
:i:*t Britson, our tortoise shell cat, has a
deal more beautiful cfe·, but there again
Ben declares that lay eyes ure my great
est beauty— and— <e dear, how can the
mati talk so.
"My ierehead is low, aud in summer
the Ireckle* nil! come, though i.ow deep
in September, of cours· it is whit·
jenough ; and mj hair would be that
i<l roiui, red, only sometimes there's
» iin-*ol brown in it that is pretty, I'll
ai>«. Stiîi, altogether, nobody would
'think «il calling nio handsome, e\en
j though Ben doca sa») my piolile is t|iiile
! perI«il.
"If you care to hear it, I have fretted
badly, ever since I wu# .λ child, because
people failed me plain. Whj 1 .should
have minded, 1 hardly know myself;
there were but few of tKe elements of
beauty in the home ·ιιι rounding» where
1 grew out ol childhood- I mean
'aesthetic beauty,* hs Hcii call» it.
"My mother was pom, im lather al
wau weakly from u huu he »«·ι when
quite voung; m> brother» aud suivre
·*ι·Γΐ! more nuutuiou» limn 1 thought the\
nuedtd lo be
"One of the littlw on·*, her name xv;u
M hUv—ι lu· dearest I i il le human blo*»om
ιU.il f\«r made liie world brighter and
*w eeter—this boy iavort hei—kad glo
» iot»» eye·. Everybody who saw her,
un lied to look ugaiu to *ee her eyes,the)
said, in which one could look down into
hei jhjuI, and read it like an open book.
l>rar little angel ! That made me laks
Uioic notice when people called me η
plain ItUie thing. 1 do believe 1 wor
shipped beauty for beauty's sake. it
nerer entered into uiy little heathen
head to trace G oil's baud in it or love
liiui loi it. We learned iitlla ol lliiu
iniough bmnau means on that *»ild "va·
•lune «vtu'ie thu whv*» sometimes crept
(puts· eio»e up ίο (he clumsy hut we call- j
»■ é iidUlt .
••.Now tous·· how irull) plain 1 ntn.
mid what i truly think ol uiy»ell·· home
J », ktiuri, ungraceful; and lieu, the
loolhdi Jellow, Mauds lo it that 1 aui
handsome.
"Ben, the great.glorious, noble lellow,
I hope you'll pardon me. madam, lie's
my husband, but 1 can't help praising
him. He has made me ail 1 am for good.
I w»»h you could see him; you would
Midi* at the contrast between us. for Hen
i s as handsome as I am homely. 1 don't
care where he goe>. Hen would be nolle
«•«I, even in his rough clothes, above
main and many κ man of laeiiion, and 1
am proud lo say so. Hid hair is the real,
rub auburn, and curls enough to turn
and wave and shine against his temples,
and his ijc» arc the real ha/cT so largo
and Holland tender. The finest gentle
man might envy him his silken menu
tache and Ibe beard I hat lippue ovei his
nli i η
"lteu is au orphau. When lather
moved into Hilbro' he had an easy ρ lac·
otfeiedhim in the largest cotton mill.
Hen teeing him there, took a fancy to his
quiet wnys, because h· thought ho win
like his owe father, who was kitted bj a
(rightful accident. Whoever lien liked,
liked hgm; lie was the mo>t coveted
piece «.·! Immunity in the Hilbro' tuille;
the gnls were always talking of him and
long before I saw hiw, I wondered about
him. and tried to think how he looked.
•♦Father was determined to keep hi»
girls out ot the mills as long uspoeaible ;
hr thought them * bad place for young
.jfnjjli·, to mother and 1 did plain sewing.
"K>»ui »»l the children died—little Mai
lt i.i"» tli·* ln»i. It seemed hard to shut
•l«>wn th«- ciiiTin-lid over those glorious
e\c>, but we diil, and I otien th'Uk how
Ix-aulilul she mqV, ha in hoavon. Tlior·
*vr,« w bni>y ; John, my oldest brother,
wntked in the mill, and little Annie, who
had ιii lamed by κ tail had to bo help»
ed nbout more or le»a »»r mothe.· and me,
for, poor child, she would never walk
like ρ»« rost ot us, the doctor *aid.
"1 shall never forgei ^ , met
IjOvUti 11"' liujttfu. It was
utiftUge I should have itwn ihent nearly
at ihe same time, and îeeognized them
both wiihout knowing either.
"It ever you »ee Initie Hill, you'll see
a l»ei leot beauty ; she'* not Lottie Hill,
imw, but I'm coming to tliat. I was
«bagging little Annie in a queer box on
wheel», when this girl, this -bitol marble
Until) tlushed' (lv'e seen thai somewhere
being a great reador.) stopped close to
my poor sister, who was leaning buck
and smiling up to the blue sky.
••Dear little thing! she's sick, isn't
<>he !" alio said in such a tender voice
that my heart wanned to her.
"She is lame," I answered, saying to
myself, 'you are Lottie Hill.'
"A tiny creature *ho was. dressed in a
pretty spotted maslin thst m aile her look
pure und sweet. One or two little rings
dI pale gold hair trembled on her lore
head under her hat Her eyes wero
laige and sunny, though there was a
sadness in her smile, but that only made
it more bewitching.
« 'Poor little birdie! what a pity !' she
said ngaiu, *ud jjave the child a rose.
You can't think how it made mo love her.
"I had juit turned the corner after she
had gone, when somebody came hurrying
by with a quick, light step, and jostled
the carriage as ho passed.
- -And you are Ben Munscn,' I thought
*- he turned back to apologize
"There stood I, staring with all my
might; and 1 shouldn't wonder il lie had
read my thought in iuy ia.e—'you are
Ben Munseu, and you love Lottie Hill.'
"Ile has often said since that I fell in
love with him just on that spot. Maybe
I did. If feeling strange and lonesome
alter one is gone is au indication, why
tl.en I fell in love; but you sec I was no
busy putting it this way—that a girl as
beautiful as Lottie Hill, and a young
m au as uoble and handsome aa lien,even
in his dust> mill-cloth*», must of neces.ii
ty l»e in lov« with each other, tItut. il 1
«1 ill (all in love, il w*t after i> queei
fashion. I vt*j Iront that time always
putting myself m lier pinot·. I believe I
ιιβver thought of him at first, but I itn
agiued / whs I^ottio Hill; I, plain gra)
goose thai I Arm.
••Would you belie?·—that very even
ing lather brought Ben to the house.
*· *Now ytm sir» the on· I need,' he
««id, smiliug, showing such splendid
teeth. 'You had a child with yon in «
toi l of ci ndle.'
·· 'It wasn't a cradle,' «poke up poor
little Annie, eager to defend her father's
taste, 'it's a wagon, ind daddy made it
ι liiMclf ; didn't you, daddy ?"
"I'apa «toiled hi» tired «tuile, ΙΙκιι fold·
; ««I hit arm?, tilted back hi» chair and
made himself quite at home, while f
hurried iv iielp mother with the supper
Pupa never «eeiued to think it wm any
| uiallar thai we weie poor, when he iu
| vitud folks, bui mother worried. I ww
always tendet ol mother. Someway,
there waa a feeling caiue to iuo that idle
wouldn't stay with us very l<mg, and she
Had worked hard all her lift —pool
mother! S.» I made her sit don η and
take the baby, though she didn't want to,
lor I had been al it «II day, washing, and
ill} hands were red and lender.
••Well, I put on the companr-cloth—I
was alwsi) s proud of that—we had two
h«ud»oine linen covers that my grand*
mother iefl u*. Twaan't much we Imd
else to l»e sut·, bu I even a bit of cohi
corned heel tastes good io iiard working
people. I look-my lew hoarded peonies ι
ami bought a Heal of cakes, and l couldM
not help being ashamed of ihe children,
who allowed plain enotigh, poor things,
ihul the) seldoei had anythiug of lh«
kind.
"When supper was roady I took the
baby, and wailed upon table, too; moth
er seidoiu had any rest except at her
meals, and thai l wa* always determined
t>h· should have, and she knew il.
·· '.Ussv, dear, you're tired,' mother
?aid, pulling her arms out lo tnko the (
child, !>ul l wouldn't let her.
·· 'Je*») '» iur darling girl, and ihe
mainstay of ihe lamily,' said fallier,look
ing »it me a.* l never saw him look be
fore, That was enough for me. I d >u'i
know when he had spoken a word of
praise like that before, and il *as »wret·
er to me than meat aed diiuk.
"Let mo see, i wa* littlo over sixteen
then, though luch a tiny thing. Hen is
five years older, but I never should have
taken him tlieu for twenty-one.
"1 had never had m lover—that is, λ I
real one. To be eurre I had had my fan·
ci**, as all girls have, and so it made in·
leel strange to hcc Ben's eyes on me
whenever I looked up, tor, though 1 didn't
know it. to bo sure till afterward, lie was
more to me even then than my lilt·,
"I never saw such a sensitive, passion
al* cruaturv a· i alwnjs w*e. I think
Liui« and trouble have somewhat silted
in·, hut if 1 loved any one or any thing,
it wlia as il 1 wore swallowed up by it.
Κven the thought that father or mother
might die sent me almost into spasms ot
trembling terror, Ho now the love got
hold ol m· with a strong clutch, though
1 didn't realize it till altorwanta All
tlml evening, and dj\)* bestd·, I fell the
hnunlj'.ig »»f hi* look·, und «till was Mire
thai he loreil Loitic Hill, and she loved
him.
"Many of the mill girls were rude ;
others were a* true ladies a* the world
hold# One of those was M»»" '|,a»v
r„i.c, wlm ifl,.. .amo (o ouJr ho'UM
She told »**ie ()flen a|)0Uj, I^otti·—o! her
charms and her lovers, and how old
Va*sar, t!ie proprietor of the mill, had
sent hirt non to Europe for fear he would
mniry lier. 'Hut it's my opinion that
how bhc likes Ι!·η, and Ben her,' she
added. •They're often together; I've
ee»'ti them down by the lever's Walk my·
self, many a time ; won't they make a
splendid couple?'
' Then I knew what ailed me, and
what the dull pain meant at my heart.
Why did he come to our house so often ?
What right had ho to speak to me ro
tender ? 1 began to feel strangely
towards Lottie Hill, and cried angry
tears whenever 1 thought of her and Ben.
It would have made me happy any time
i te hear that she was dead. This feeling
grew stronger till it seemed as if Lottie
and lien were in my thoughts from morn
ing till night.
"At last the trouble affected my health.
Mother mw how changed I was, and I
think she suspected· She always sent
me away when lien came, and 1 was too
proud to let lier «eo 1 knew why. Hut
Ben was sure to wait till 1 cauie back, if
it was only to say good night; and that
in such a tender sort of way that it sent j
the blood to my tace as if it would burst
through.
"So I went on suffering till father got
tick, and I was given his place at the
mill. There I saw Lottie Hill every day,
and she tried to be friendly, bat, 1 am
avhauied to say, the sight ot her beautiful
1 ι
face mado me wicked and spitelnl. I
tried not to feel so. I often laid my
head on my hand when I was working,
and begged and prayed tho dear Lord to
give me a belter temper, and somotiuies
I couquered and sometimes I didn't. But
there had sprung up in ray heart a bitter
i feeling—Hate!
•'It is an ugly word, but I was sure
that hate had crept into my bosom, and,
: like a venomous serpent, had stung me
till I was lull ef poison. But oh, thank
' God that Ho saved me from knowing that
I awlul ending that might liavo been.
"One day, when I had worked in the
; mill a month, and lien had been very
I kind in showing tut* my duties,and 1 had
{ been u »illy lilt le fool while ho did il,
ulanding there awkward und red, my
heart boating so that he must have heard
ι il—I hud a tefct that I shall never forget,
no, not to my dying day.
"Lottie Mill stood at the w indow near
her Iranie. How beautiful a pictuio the
girl made ! She had trained a bit of
Doweling vine in one· corner of the sash,
which she wa» dueling now, taking eft'
the dead leaves. The mill·work· kad
flopped for some re.taon. I stood watch
ing Lottie nut of my eye when, without
looking thai way, 1 *aw Hen come in,
λjiw her turn round, saw him make u
*ig:i h» liai, ail which her face grew ra
dimil ULi, how kick 1 foil! my teeth
raine together haul. Tlun Hen went up
to her loom and leaned over, and admir
ing the vine, said something, his oyes
fixed on liera. If there wasn't love, al
most worship in her luce tliun, there'·» no
hucIi thing ne love. Her eye* shone like
diamond*. Than he looked round und
slipped something in her hand—a love
note, of course, und left her, smiling to
hiniaeit.
••Thinks I. and that's the way you play
with hearts, Mr. Bon! and when a mo
ment aftei he came round to me, I never
looked up.
'· 'Something's the matter,1 lie eaid.
"In my silly anger 1 thought he was
bantering me.
" 'You are mistaken, Ben Munseu,1 1
said hotly, 'nothing the matter with me.'
" 'Hut I meant the mill,* he answered
laughing, 'the machinery hue stopped.'
"Oh;1 my lace was uflame, but I
wouldn't look at him.
"It isn't often 1 get a chance to ckat
with you lately,1 he said, suiiling light in
my eye» in a way that made me augrv.
"'Why didn't you stay with l^ttie
Hill?' I asked, and my voicc Hounded
uanaiural to myself.
" 'Well, I reckon liillo Lottie has got
feoiueihing better to do than to talk to an
idle lellow.' ho made answer.
" 'So linve I,' I said shortly, for at that
moment I hated him. Why did he come
there to show his power over me? for I
knew ho read tuc like η book, my poor
blind worship and all, my helplessness,
my cruel suffering.
"IIn looked astonished for a moment,
but suddenly cried out, aoh, what splen
did color !'
"Il ,u- ι
tinuet iuy hand* over it wildly. My
te m l>le 4 throbbed, the tears wore hot be
neath my eyelid* ; I wanted to scream,to
rave id inysell f<»r being mch a fool that
I never could hide my feeling·».
"At thai moment the overseer called
him, and 1 looked over to Lottie. An
eril spirit had taken possession of me
«nd wiiH raging for some outlet. Lottie
stood with her back towards mo,her light
dr**s touching the trame, her cheek just
shewing the deepening dimples as she
road. It made me lurious to see her at
titude of peilect grace--let lier be doing
what *he would, the spirit of grace and
beauty |>erraded all her motions, I
thought bitterly.
••Suddenly, sloicly, go slowly one
could hardly sec them more, and going
by jerk*, the great bolting began to elide
round—. ju«i u little, then at aataud still,
all I he I Waller bands and wheels and
'gleaming ahalts keeping it company. I
saw now. Ah,that wicked, uneeon devil
ai iuy elbow, I saw that hor dress was
touchimj one of the wheels fastened to
the great central shaft. Horror curdled
my veina, but I was silent. Again the
wheel revolred—stopped—the never
knew it—nobody knew it but—that lli·
terrible it on linger* had griped her by
hall a breadth ot calico. Any moment,
I knew not, breathless as I stood and
watched, any moment, I knew, all might
be going Mvifter than I could thiuk.
Il I kept still, J Je η icon id never mart'}/
Lottie Hill, would never torture mo by
careless courtesies. That waa tlio top of
my hate. Just then, in my heart, I was
a murderer. .
"God mercifully kept the works low
till I saw a vision—that lair, sweet face
and lorm crushed beyond all possibility of
récognition—thon tnv sin·paralyzed en
ergies asserted themeelves. I dashed
across the intervening space, reckless of
my own lite, creeping under the gearing
until I reached her— I waa very strong—
threw my arm* around her and pinned
her, as it weie, to the window-sill.
ι
"Dou'tmove. I cried—took the sharp
knilu which I used in iuy work, and with
one or two rapid thrusts severed lier
dress from the belting just in time. A
minute—hall a minute more—
"She turned deadly white as sho saw
the piece of her dies* rapidly lifted and
rolled up, up, till it readied tho murder
ous iron teeth,and then gave a great cry,
turning as whilo aa a ghost.
"An for me I had fainted, and wlicu I
crime to myself I found one pair of eyes
gazing down upon me, whose thrilling
passiou made uio tremble again.
·· 'You brave, beautiful little gill ?' he
murmured—'my own, brave, brave dar
ling Γ
"How strange that was! too sweet to
hear. I turned my head away as I half
sobbed.
" 4I saved her for yon : don't talk that
way to me.'
" 'But 1 will talk that way to you,' he
cried, and bending down he kissed me.—
'You don't thiuk I cared for little Lottie?
Bless your true, loving heart, 1/ottio bat
been married theso six months to Ned
Vassar, and the young «camp lent all
his letters to me, and I've had to go
crawling about to meet her in by-places
so that nobody should suspect. And yes
terday I gave her the last letter, thank
God! telling her that ho is on hie way
home—and ho's struck a vein of good
luck, some way, so that he need not fear
to own her—and everything is coming out
right.'
"Do you sec what I cam· near doing
but lor God's morciful intervention? I
lay there, while and shiveriug, and thon
I told Ben the whole, from beginning to
end, not sparing mysell, and then I tried
to tell him to leave me, lor I was too
wicked for any good man,but he wouldn't.
" 'Why, didn't you save her lifo nt the
risk ol your own, you precious darling?'
! he cried, and held me close in his aims.
"Well, I nevor ean think or epcak ol it
without crying a little, but yon see it
made another girl of uie. Come what
may, 1 daren't bo angry or jealous now;
and an for dear Lottie, I conteMied every·
thing to her, too. It seemed as it 1
wanted somebody to punish me, but Lot
tie said she loved mo the more lor cou
riering my great temptation, and though
she is Mr. Vassal'· lady, and lives in
j iplendid style, we aro two close, good
friends, aud many'· the lime she brings
hor baby over here, or i take mine there
, to visit and Ittlk about the old mill times, ι
"And madame, though the Iriul left
it* scar, it left h bleasing too."
That Has the story she told m·.
Char le a .Sumner's Temptation,
Mingled with some extravagauce of
•ulogy, ltishop Gilbert Haven makes, iu
i:tst week'* Independent, no equivocal de
liverancc of his opinion :
Every mau has au hour when he i·
tempted up to what he is able to bear.
He may think it is above thai peint; but
it is not so, tor God has promised that no
such burden shall bn laid upon him.
Only short of that does the tempter stop.
That exceeding high mountain must !>·
ascended. The pinnacle ol the tempi·
must bedazzle ils occupant, lie must
be completely tried beioro he completely
triumphs. Mr. Sumner's hour has come.
It not when, a young man, he caet
aside the longings of a cultivated nature
for the cloisters ol a professorship. That
t«mpUliou was great; but it wss honor
able. Nor svas it when he broke with
the Whig party o( Massachusetts, and
turned away Irom his honored associai··,
to cast in his fortunes with a small and
despised company, who preferred prin
ciple to powor, Christian duty to choice
•ociety. That wee no temptation. It
wju u call ot God, not u snare of the
Devd. Nor whs it when the lovere of
the *lu?c in Massachusetts centred upon
' their eloquent young louder as the sue
e«s.Hor of Wobster, thy champion ot the
I cause ol man in the highest parliament
! υ! earth, though all partie* united in that
! eleration, through combinations of Dem·
locrataand unti-Democrate of all shades
were essential to its succès·. Yet this
combination was to adrauce the ouusu of
freedom, wae to put her beet political
representative where he could best work
her work, lie suffered no temptation in
that grand hour of his history. It was :
"God's ul! -animating voice
That milnl him from on high;
Tin lir whose hand n«*t forth the priae
To hie Mapirhig eye."
Tho temptation comes to-day. A chief,
•sleeted bccause his arm had achieved
Sumner's idoas; because he had abolish
ed the barbarism and made freedom na
tional, and slavery not oven sectional—
this chief and he fail to agree on a mat
ter ot minor importance. One desires
the nui cxation of an island; and the
other opposes it. Grant soon after re
moves a friend of Sumner's from an im
portant seat. It neemed unjust, retalia
tory, unstatesinanlik·. His own re
moval from an important chairmanship
soon follows. It is attributed to the
baine source. These are the pointa ot
i hie offending. To theno may be added
one severe charge—that cf using improp
er means to effoct lite annexation of St.
Domingo. This category. His appoint
ing a tew relatives to minor offices, hit
receiving a few presents for his unmeas
ured services, would never have been
mentioned had not the other grievances
arisen.
And yet for these petty considerations
Mr. Sumner is being urged to cast away
all hie lifework, to undo all he has so
grandly done, to throw his emancipated
lriends into the clutches ot their angry
masters, to trample his fame, his deeds,
his huiuble allies into dishonored dust.
How will the country exelaim, if he
takes this fatal step :
What private griefs he han, alas ! we know not,
That makes him do it.
Thoy must bo prirato, for no public rea
sons could compel such a conclusien.
Tho time has come when tho party
that has done this work asks a continu
ance of power. Us ambitious enemies
have beguiled certain of its former sup
portcrs from their steadfastness, and
are now seeking his co-operation. Thoy
go to him with plausible word·. They
promise equality and fraternity with tkc
negro, open cotit ta, opeu schools, open
churches, open inns, and equality in all
piaeca of public resort. They mean no
sut'h purpose. They carefully exclude
their promises from tho reports of their
convocation. Thoy hato the party that
has conquered—its ideas and it· tianag·
ere. They will drivo out thoee idea·,
with their managers, ao surely ai they
elect their candidate for the Presidency.
That body of unrepentant men cast
nearly three million oi votei in 1868.
The friend* of the slavo, of liberty, and
of Union cast only a little over three
millions; hardly a quarter of a million·
difference. If that quarter of a million
ie taken away from Gratt, and given to
Greeley, it will be the two and three
quarters million· that elect the Utter,
and that will control hie policy. Sam
eon could as properly ha?e expected to
have been elected king of the Philistince
aller they bad llattered him into their
power, m Sumner to control these Phili··
tine· if they succeed ia his eapture.
They will mock at hie pleas. They will
hang and slay. The negro of the South
will have to hide himself from his mur
derous foe, or crouoh at hie feet in retir
ed servility and a more bideou· slavery.
Their white brothers will bare to aban
don their poets or refrain from putting
forth their juet powers for their improve
ment. The Church will feel the blow,
and her broad and busy work lor the
elevation of that country will all be stay
ed. And this to avenge private griefs,
or because the chief ot the party he ie
not inclined to favor. Retter endure
these ills than fly to those too well known
and too fearful to contemplate.
Love the Beautiful.
Place a young girl under the care of a
kind-hearted woman, and she, itucon*
peiously to horself, grows up in to a
graceful lady. A boy in the ••tabli*k
ment of a thorough man of busine·· be
come· a practical buaines* man. Child
ren are quite susceptible creaiure^, nod
iircumetaucee, scenes and acte alwa)·
impies·. A· you influence them, uot
by arbitrary rule·, nor bj «tern example
alone, but a thousand other way· that
speak through beautiful forms, pretty
pictures, ctc., so they will grow. Teach
your childron to love the beautiful. Give
them a corner iu the garden tor dowers ;
encourage them to put in hanging baa·
keLs ; show them where they can best
view the kunset; arouse them in the
morning, uot with tho stern "Time to
work," but with the enthusiastic "See
the beautiful sunrise." Buy for them
bcautilul pictures, and enwourage them
to decorate their rooms in their childish
way. Giro them an inch, and they will
go a mile. Allow theui tho privilege,
and they will mako your home beautiful.
—We have lately seen it stated that
in one town, four girls were married at
the lame hour about eighteen months
ago. Tiro of ihem separated horn their
husbands, and the other two are trying
for divorces. Such things ought to
wake up the girls to a senso o( their
danger. Gills talk and laugh about
marriage us though it was a jubilee, a
jolly, gladsome thing, a rose without tt
thorn. Àud so it is, if it is all right, it
they go about it like rational beings, in
h tend ol merry· making children. It is a
serious thing to mairy. It is a life busi
η ess, and that of the hoart and happi·
■ess. Therefore nerer do it in haste;
nerer ruu away to get married ; never
Rteal α marriage ; noter marry lor
wealth, or stsiding, or tine person, or
mauners; but only for character, for
the qualities oi mind and heart which
make an honorable man. Take time,
think long and well before you accept
auv proposition. Consult your parents,
then some judioious friend, theu your
own judgment. Learn all it is possible
for you to learn of your propoeed; wheu
your doubts are removed, aid not tilh
then, accept him.
An Erect Pottur··
A writer on health very justly con
demns the habit of lounging, in vhich
large numbers of persons indulge, as in
jurious to tho health. lia says: "Au
erect bodily attitude is oi vastly more im
portance to health than is generally im
agined. Crooked bodily position·, main·
twined (or any length ot time, are al
ways injurious whether in the sitting,
standing or lying posture, whether sleep
iug or waking. To sit with the body
leaning loi ward on the stomach, or to
one hide, with tho heels elevated to a
love! with the head, is lot only in bad
taste but exceedingly detrimental to
hoalth. It cramps the stomach, praaiei
the vital organs, interrupts the free mo·
tione of the chest,and enfeebles the fane·
tions of the abdominal and ^thoracic or·
gans, and, in fact, unbalances the whole
muscular system. Many children be
come slightly hump-back, or severely
round'Shoulderod, by sleeping with the
head raised on a high pillow. When
any person finds it easier to sit, or stand
or sleep in a crooked position than in a
strait oue, such person may be sure his
muscular system is deranged, and the
more careful he is lo preserve a straight
or an upright position, and get back to
nature again, the better/ '
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CORNER.
63
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My 3d i9 iu pronoun, but not in verb;
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II j 5th it in oyster, but not in cluni;
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My Sib ir< iii turnip, but not in beet;
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answers.
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