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The burden of my day is hard to bear— But Gpd knows best ; And I have prayed, but vain has been my prayer, For rest—sweet rest. 'Tis hard to plant in spring and never reap The autumn yield, 'Tis hard to till—and when 'tis tilled to weep O'er fruitless field. And so I cry a weak and human cry, So heart oppressed ; And so I sigh a weak and human sigh For rest—for rest. My way has wound across the desert years, And cares infest My path; and through the flowing of hot tears I pined for rest. 'Twas always so ; when still a child, I laid On mother's breast My wearied little head ; e'en then I prayed, As now, for rest. And I am restless still. 'Twill soon be o'er ; For, down the west Life's sun is setting, and I see the shore Where 1 shall rest. [From the Weekly Magazine .] TIE HOST OF ISON HILL. One clear, moonlight summer even ing, a horseman, none other than Çap tain Louis Fleurry, a young Frenchman attached to General Washington's staff, galloped swiftly along the road which led from Wilmington, toward what was then called Head of Elk (near Elkton). But though bound on the dangerous duty of scouting the enemy (Washing ton bad received news on the preceding evening, August 25th, 1777, that Lord Howe was landing his army from the fleet in Elk river,) his volatile French spirit asserted itself, and he hummed a tune to himself as he cantered along But ere he could reach Iron Hill, whither he was bound, a small stream, spanned by a rustic bridge, had to be crossed, and hardly had the horse's hoofs clattered upon its timbers, than tho animal came to such an abrupt bait as almost to upset its rider, and, set tling back on bis Launches, stared with dilating eyes, and limbs rigid as if chiseled from black marble, at some object upon the bridge ; his rider, too, seemed panic-stricken ; the words of the song died on his lips, and with one low cry of horror he sat motionless as bis steed, gazing fixedly at a tall, slender figure, olad all in white, and with snowy plumes floating on its head, which had seemed to spring from be neath the timbers of the bridge, and with hand upraised as in warning, stood scarcely ten yards distant ; but even as be gazed, the apparition advanced.— This was too much for the superstitious young Frenchman, and with a yell of dismay, he wheeled his now trembling steed, and dashed back at head-long pace toward Wilmington. Losing, in his terror, all thought of etiquette, he burst into the room where sat Washington himself, surrounded by a few tried friends ; Lafayette, General Debarre, the French veteran then in command of one of the brigades of Sul livan's division, Brigadier Gen Con way, of Lord Stirling's division, Count Pulaski, the Pole so world-renowned for his bravery in defense of the liber ties of his native land, and last but not least, Harry Lee, or "Light-horse Harry," as he was called, who was just then coming into notoriety for his dar ing bravery and who was a great favor ite with Washington, owing, doubtless, to the fact that he was the son of the General's first love. When Captain Fleurry dashed so un ceremoniously into their midst each member of the little group rose hastily to his feet, while their bands sought their sword-hilts ; for so abrupt was the intrusion that they apprehended some momentous tidings. "General! gentlemen, all!" stam mered the youDg officer, making a mighty effort at self-control, "I most humbly beg your pardon for so rndely disturbing you ; but the faet is, I have received my death warrant, and I am not ashamed to own that for a time I have been completely unmanned. Gen tlemen, I have seen a ghost!" "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed dashing Light-horse Harry. "My dear Fleurry, I really thought you were going to say that you bad encountered the whole British army." "My friend," replied the young cap tain solemnly, "I would sooner encoun ter the British army than what I did meet. ' I am in no hurry yet to quit this world, not knowing what my ward is to be in the next, and yet this day have I received my warning fo be prepared to die." "Oh, pshaw ! My dear Fleurry, don't believe it! Never say die! We'll lay the ghost yet, I'll wager, or my is not Light-horse Harry." "Yes, we'll lay our bones beside it," replied Fleurry, gloomily. "No, no, captain, we cannot spare you yet—we have a brave work for you to do," said Washington, smiling quietly. "Yes, captain, the country has in deed great need of such as you ; do not let this untimely apparition unnerve you ; it was, without doubt, some hal lucination of yonr own brain ; have you been feeling well of late?" queried the French general. "General Debarre," replied Fleurry, firmly, yet respectfully, "it was no freak of the imagination ; I saw the ghost as plainly as I see you now ; a tall, white figure, with warning up raised hand, it rose from beneath the bridge, and confronted me, solemnly, silently ; at length it made a movement to approach me, and I turned my horse and fled. General," and he approached Washington, "I have failed to obey your orders— I have not reconnoitered the enemy—I confess myself vanqnish re name ed ; I have but one consolation, I have an earthly not been conquered by power. "Stay, my dear captain, not so fast," replied Washington, raising his hand to detain the young officer, who, with a salute, turned to leave the room ; "take some of your company with you ; re turn to the scene of your discomfiture, and satisfy yourself, beyond a doubt, of the supernatural character of this ap parition." "I'll go with you !" cried Light horse Harry, rising to his feet "We need no escort, general, and will report to you within four hours. Adieu, gen tlemen all," and with a parting salute he drew young Fleurry from the room. A half-hour later saw them in the saddle and hastening towards Iron Hill, the young Frenchman, brave though he was, and, despite the railing of his com panion, silent and thoughtful, and at last, turning to Light-horse Harry, he said, sadly : "My friend, there is some one I love in my own land ; when I am dead, will you see that this is forwarded to her as soon as may be ?" and be held, out a small packet to his friend. "It is only a letter which I have kept about my person, hoping if I were killed it might fall into the hands of some one who would be charitable enough to forward it ; but now I know that my time is at hand, and I ask you as a friend, nay, as a dear brother, rather, to charge yourself with its safety " "My dear Fleurry," cried Light horse Harry, much moved at his com panion's evident sincerity, "I will take the packet and, if harm befalls you, will do with it as you desire; but cheer up, man, you have long years of life yet before you, to be passed, perhaps, by the side of her you love." "Hush !" whispered the captain.— There is the bridge, and— Mon Dieu ! It is there waiting for us !" Ligbt-horse Harry cast an incredu lous glance before him, and with an exolamation of surprise, reigned in his horse ; but not long did he pause ; des titute of the Frenchman's superstition, and well acquainted with danger from his own hazardous harrassing of the enemy's line, he knew not the sensation of mental fear, and drawing his sword, and shouting for his companion to fol low his example, with a touch to his steed's bridle-rein, charged the bridge at full speed. Nearer and nearer they approached but yet the phantom form moved not; nearer and nearer, until Light-horse Harry waved his gleaming blade, and made a pass at the ghastly foe. But 'the sword was shivered by the blow while the phantom glided to the farther end of the bridge and apparently sank into the earth. Then, indeed, did Harry Lee begin to believe in the supernatural character of bis opponent, and, turning to his companion, who bad sueraed as if par alyzed all this time, he exclaimed : "Well, Fleurry, this is singular, I confess, aud I do not wonder that your nerves were somewhat shaken at unex pectedly beholding such a vision. But wait, my friend, 1 fancy we have not yet seen the last of our ghostly adver sary ; let us conceal ourselves and watch." The two young men dismounted, and, leading their horses in amongst the trees,<and themselves crouching behind some bushes, waited with drawn pistols for any new developments. And not long had they waited when they observed that the bushes beyond the bridge were violently agitated, and directly up rose the phantom, and glided away, in the opposite direction, or rather would have glided away but ere it could take a dozen steps, Light horse Harry sprang from the conceal ment, and leveling his pistol, fired full at the retreating shadow, and on the instant it staggered, threw up its arms with a loud cry, and fell to the earth, where it still lay motionless when the young officer stood beside it. And lo ! the apparitiou was explain ed. A suit of armour, painted white as the driven snow, encased a body from which blood, warm, human blood was flowing, while, unmistakably, a man's anguished face looked out from the white helmet whose visor was now raised ; and it was a human voice that grasped :— "Mercy! mercy, good sirs! Forgive me ! The fault is with one mightier than I; and I am badly hurt; sure you would not harm a wounded man !" "Fear not ; you shall not be harmed, but you are our prisoner, aud must go with us to our chief, to whom you shall reveal the strange chance which had brought you here in such a disguise." "Your chief! No, no, young gen tlemen, do not take me to your chief! My life is lost if I reveal my secret !" "But, my man," said Harry Lee, "we have no right, even if we had the will, to let you go ; we are officers un der General Washington, and he would deem it a grave offense if we should allow you to go free ere we know why you have been thus masquerading.— Come, let me bind up this wound in your shoulder, and then we will return to headquarters." Finding it useless to entreat longer, the prisoner, a youth of scarcely twenty, submitted with a groan, to the by no means painless operation of having his shoulder bandaged, and was then placed upon Capt. Fleurry's horse, while the latter shared the saddle of Light-horse Harry, and in this manner they return ed slowly to Wilmington. But so weak was the young prisoner, by loss of blood, that he fainted on being lifted from the saddle, and was quite unable to bear questioning ; on the following day, however, the commander-in-cbief came to his bedside, and the look of piteous entreaty in the youth's face, as his eyes rested on the general's noble form, evidently moved the latter s heart to pity, for in gentle yet decided tones j he put a few questions, which so won upon the sensibilities of the invalid that he freely and openly confessed the secret of his disguise. It seemed that Howe, even the great Lord Howe himself, had imagined that the Americans were so easily duped by anything of a superstitious character, that he had conceived the idea of warn ing off all sooutiog parties sent oat from the American camp, by a phantom war rior, who, stationed by the bridge, and small hollow in the who approached, and concealed by earth, watched rising abrubtly from concealment, had succeeded in turning aside more than one; but, thanks to impetuous, fearless Harry Lee, the ghost was laid, and Washington and his aids were con fronted by no warning phantom, when, on the following morning, they rode Iron Hill to reconnoitre the enemy. And Captain Fleurry did not die, but lived to fight bravely in the battle Brandywine, for which be was pro moted to the rank of major, and, his horse having been killed under him, Congress presented him with another. Later he acquitted , himself with great intelligence and spirit as engineer, and at the storming of Stony Point Colonel Fleurry was the first to enter the fort and strike down the British flag. Light-horse Harry continued to dis tinguish himself by acts of brave dar ing, not the least among which was his surprisal of the British forces at Paulus Hook, which foray took place shortly afterIhe storming of Stony Point, and from which he returned with over one hundred and fifty prisoners, and having lost but two of his own men. While the young man who enacted the part of the phantom at such imminent peril to himself, recovered from his wound, joined the American forces, and, though young, became one of Washington's most trusted friends, and remained such through a long and eventful life, whose noble acts are not recorded in the Si to a re of he at he as a at so many annals of American history, ! I \ player performing the Ghost in j ■■Hamlet" badly, was much hissed ; but, after bearing it some time, he put ^e audienco in good humor by stepping f orwa rd and saying : "Ladies and gen tlemen, I am extremely sorry that my humble endeavors to please you are un successful, but if you are not satisfied I mu8t g | ve up t h e ghost." -_ The Chances of War. We halted and formed square in the middle of the plain. As we were per forming this movement a bugler of the Fifty-first who had been out with skir mishers and had mistaken our square for his own, exclaimed: "Here I am again, safe enough." The words were scarcely out of bis mouth wheo a round shot took off his head and spattered the whole battalion with his brains, the colors and the ensigns in charge of them coming in for an extra share. One of them, Charles Fraser, a fine gentleman in speech and manner, raised a laugh by drawling out : "How extremely dis gusting !" A second shot carried off six of the men's bayonets, a third broke the breast-bone of a lance sergeaut (Robinson), whose piteous cries were anything but encouraging to bis youth ful comrades. The soldier's belief that "every bullet has its billet" was strengthened by another shot striking Ensign Cooper, the shortest man in the regiment, and in the very center of the square. These casualties were the affaii of a second. We were now ordered to lie down. Our square, hardly large enough to hold us when standing up right, was too small for us in a recum bent position. Our men lay packed to gether like herrings in a barrel. Not finding a vacant spot I seated myself on a drum. Behind me was the colonel's charger, which, with his head pressed against mine, was mumbling my epau lette, while I patted his cheek. Sud denly my drum capsized and I was thrown prostrate, with the feeling of a blow on the right cheek., I put my hand to my head, thinking half my face was shot away, but the skin was not even abraded. A piece of shell bad struck the horse on the Dose exactly between my hand and my bead, and killed him instantly. The blow I re ceived was from the embossed crown on the horse's bit —A Soldier's Diary. The War in Turkey. A Times correspondent in Constanti nople gives a graphic picture of the state of affairs in the Turkish Empire, and expresses what is evidently the be lief of the best informed, that the new Sultan will have a short reign, and that the country will be exposed to graver disasters than it has yet encountered.— When the head of a government is so incapable as the present Sultan, and bis Ministers are men of profligate ambi tion, violence, disorder and rapid dis integration of all the vital forces of the country must be the result Thus far the great powers seem to be disposed to allow the insurgents and the Turkish Government free play to fight out their quarrels without any interference on their part. The war in which Turkey is now engaged is a war with its own subjects. It must either suppress it by force of arms or yield to the demands of the insurgents. It is a domestic question entirely, and as such it gives no right to any foreign power to inter fere. Russia, however, is iu a position to encourage the insurrection without taking an open part in its behalf. The Slavs and Russians being of a common stock, a strong sympathy exits between them. Russian officers are allowed te give up their commands at borne and enter tbe rebel service, and money flows freely from tbe Russian exchequer into the camp chests of the Turkish Slavs. ' Russia, unofficially, is thus backing the Slavic revolt and extend ing her influence over the populations intervening between her confines and Constantinople. It is not likely she will allow the movement to fail. If it succeeds, a Slavic kingdom of eight millions population will be formed in European Turkey, a natural ally of Russia, and hostile in spirit to Austria. The latter power, in view of such a contingency, looks with suspicious anx iety on the contest, without venturing, however, to'aid either party. The signs point to the dismemberment of European Turkey, to the creation of a strong Slavic kingdom, to the surround ing of Austria by a hostile line on tbe north, south and cast, and to the event ual conquest of Constantinople by Rus sia— Phila. Times. Colorado went Democratic by 2163 majority in the last election. of he of the to the the by but the on the this was or sive and ing cles a The to by of and TWO DEAD CITIES. Destruction of Herculaneum and Pom* peil, A. D. 79. It was the 23d of August of the year 79. The Gulf of Naples was peaceful ly sleeping under the rays of a midsum mer sun. From Cape Misenum to the Cape of Sorento was seen an uninter rupted succession of villas, palaces, colonnades, temples and public edifices, some half concealed under the shade of a luxuriant verdure, others glittering in sunshine, which lent to them a magical splendor. All was still, peaceful and gladsome in this entrancing spectacle ; not a breath in the air nor a ripple upon the water, and the gilded barks of the patricians remained motionless upon the shore awaiting the breeze which should fill their purple sails At 1 o'clock in the afternoon this tranquility was interrupted in a sudden and unusual manner. An explosion, coming from subterranean depths, was heard in this distance ; the sea became tempestuous, the water receded from the shore, as if driven by an unknown power ; the houses, temples and colon nades began to rock, upheave, and reel like drunken men; finally, from the summit of Vesuvius issued a column of smoke, which presented a white, gray or black appearance, caused by the commingling of steam, ashes, pumice stones and scoria. Sometimes this cloud appeared luminous, like the pillar which served as a guide to the Israelites in the desert; this was produced by the refluent torrents of burning lava which seethed in the bosom of the crater. One moment the cloud remained in the air, awful, menacing: then, sud denly expanding like an immense um brella, vomited all around its torrents of rain, ashes, small stones and cinders, while the lava, making an eruption, flowed from the apex of the cone like a river of fire, whose sinister reflections were seen afar off; and from the depths of the crater hot stones, hurled with an awful detonation, bombarded the sur rounding cities and set them on fire, as a park of artillery would with red-hot shot. This rain of fite, ashes and cal cined stones fell not only upon the cities which surrounded Vesuvius but along the entire gulf. Naples, Stabiæ and Misenum had their streets covered with several feet of ashes ; the inhabitants fled to the country, terrified by-the incessant trembling of the earth; those who re mained to secure their effects did so at the peril of their lives. The wind carried the pumice stones and ashes to Rome, where it was the first to announce the catastrophe. In a subsequent eruption the ashes were car ried to Constantinople, which fact will not-astonish those who every year see the sand of Sahara wafted to the coast of Africa and to the Mediterranean. This phenomenon was an episode of the first eruption of Vesuvius. Scientists do not agree regarding the hypothesis of subterranean convulsion. The gen erally received opinion is that certain gases diffused through the earth chemi cally combine, thus creating this extra ordinary heat which fuses everything upon its passage, and produces an ex pansion of sufficient force to upheave the earth's crust in some of its parts. Pliny, the naturalist, commander of the imperial fleet stationed at Misenum, was extended upon his couch, occupied in reading, when the first indication of the eruption appeared. A slave an nounced to him the rising of the sea and the clouds of smoke in the air. The savant ascended an eminence near at hand, and was not long in divining the trouble. Although unable to per ceive the summit of Vesuvius, he was no less apprehensive of the source of this column of smoke, which had in a previous eruption, sixteen years before, in the year 63, partly destroyed Her culaneum and Pompeii To provide himself with tables and order a light vessel to be in readiness was for him the affair of a moment. When about to embark a messenger arrived from the port of Retina ; the soldiers of the Ro man fleet stationed at that place, and caught between Herculaneum and Pom peii, could escape only by the sea, and entreated Pliny to come to their assist ance. He ordered several galleys with four banks of oarsmen to be got ready, then departed. When opposite the theatre of tbe eruption it appeared in all its sublime horror As be drew near tbe shore be beard cries and groans, he saw the distracted population running wild ly, but, not knowing what course to pursue, the inhabitants of tbe country taking refuge in the city, and those of tbe city fleeing to the country; he saw his soldiers with hands raised to heaven in sign of joy for the succor be brought to them, but suddenly, when four hun dred yards from the shore, the ships touched bottom and could go no farther. Tbe cast where the day before ves sels of tbe largest tonnage could land bad been upheaved, and henceforth the ancient maratime city of Retina was surrounded by land. Pliny could no longer strugglo against these forces; he was a witness of the despair of the un fortunate soldiers when they saw the ships depart. Unwilling to renounce the desire to see a volcanic eruption to minutest detail, in order to give a des cription of it, he embarked for Stabiæ, the Castlemare of to-day. Thinking he bad under his eyes a phenomenon of the nature of that of 63, he encouraged those about him, took a bath, ate supper unconcernedly, and retired to rest, after noting in his tablets all that bad im pressed him during tbe day. This was the evening of the 23d. The eruption commenced at 1 o'clock in tbe afternoon, and was not yet at the height of its violence. Toward morning the slaves who were watching at his door, and who heard him peacefully breath ing, were obliged to awaken him. Not only was tbe house shaken to its foun dation, threatening every moment to fall to pieces, but asbes had fallen in such quantities that the court was filled with them, and would soon entirely ob struct the entrance. It was imperative that he should arise and flee; this tbe inhabitants did to avoid being crushed by their houses. It was 9 o'clock in the morning, but the sky wa9 so ob scured by tho falling ashes that it was now will we they an ten. age. tbe point sible Will try, Will and the shall and bered ing sau, dried for for eggs. lost to be ity a darker than blackest night. The torches could scarcely guide the way in this obscurity, lighted from time to time by the inflammable gas which escaped through the fissures in the soil, and cast sinister gleams upon those scenes of desolation. Pliny directed his steps toward the shore. The sea was rough—the winds contrary, and thousands of asphyxiated fish covered the beach, left there by the retreat of the waves. Forced to retrace his way. a sail was spread for him, and he lay down to contemplate all that was passing; at this instant flames came out of the soil, even where he was ly ing; his affrighted slaves fled; he arose, then suddenly falling back, he expired, suffocated by the poisonous gases aris ing from the earth. Three days after, when this disturbance was ended, he was found lying in the same place, under a thick covering of ashes. Thus Pliny perished, a victim to his love of science. During this time awful scenes were being enacted at Herculaneum and Pompeii; these two cities, situated under the very- shadow of Vesuvius, were deluged by a rain of fire. The inhabitants of Pompeii were as sembled in the amphitheatre at the time of the catastrophe. Inexpressible dis order reigned in the city. Some, re membering the first eruptions, fled to the country or to the surrounding cities; others, delaying too long to secure rings, jewels, coins and costly fabrics, were walled in by the cinders, or crushed by the fall of their houses. A number thought to find a refuge in collars, and to await there the end of the convulsion. The calculation was accurate in part only ; the walls did not give way, the ashes did not reaoh them, but they were buried alive, condemned to die of starv ation in their prison. Among other objects have been found the skeleton of a dog and that of a man; the man died of inanition and the dog devoured bis corpse. Prisoners in the stocks, slaves bound in their niches and forgotten by their masters, have been discovered as death overtook them. Many perished in the streets, crushed by the fall of a column, statue or bouse, but especially were they sqffocated by the gases, to the action of wnich Pliny succumbed. Woe to him who lay down ufion the ground. The poisonous air rising from the soil killed him speedily. Those, on the contrary, who continued on their way, with eyes protected from the dust and a pillow on the head to deaden the effect of falling stones, ar lived safely at their place of refuge. The number of persons who perished at this time is estimated at 1,500, a tenth part of the population. Herculaneum, the oity of Hercules, was the theatre of another kind of de vastation. There it was not hot ashes or stones which fell, piling up succes sive strata, until at last the most sub stantial edifices gave way under the accumulated weight, but a liquid mud which flowed in the streets and houses, filling and hermetically sealing every opening and crevice with a kind of ce ment, taking the form of every object, and securing it from injury by contact with the external air. After several centuries the mass of plaster could be detached with a piokaxe, and the sleep ing city was found intact. It was the mud, not lava, which overwhelmed Herculaneum ; the lava burned every thing it came in contact with. When the storm was passed the in habitants of Pompeii could find their homes, and oarry away articles which were of value ; those of Herculaneum found only a mound in place of their city, which was completely buried. Upon the site are seen to-day the lovely villas of Portici. Excavating was done in these unfor tunate cities in the early part of the seventeenth century. Works of art were taken from them, comprising statues, bronze busts, ornamental arti cles of furniture, manuscripts, and a variety of objects which would give us a precise knowledge of ancient times. The most valuable came from Hercula neum Pompeii was a city of trades people, and the inhabitants were able to remove anything of value,while Her culaneum was a city of luxury, adorned by works of art, and, from the nature of the eruption, nothing was removed, and there the explorer will find an in exhaustable mine of antiquities. Something to think About. —Ninety years hence not a single man or woman, now twenty years of age, will be alive. Ninety years ! Alas ! how many of tbe actors, at present on the stage of life, will make their exit long ere ninety years bave rolled away! And could we be sure of ninety years, what are they ? "A tale that is told ;" a dream; an empty sound, that passeth on the wings of the wind away and is forgot ten. Years shorten as man advances in age. Like the degrees in longitude, man's life declines as he travels towards tbe frozen pole, until it dwindles to a point and vanishes forever. Is it pos sible that life is of so short duration ? Will ninety years erase all tbe golden names over the doors in town and coun try, and substitute others in their stead? Will all the new blooming beauties fade and disappear, all the pride and passion, the love, hope and joy, pass away in ninety years and be forgotten? "Ninety years," says Death, "do you think I shall wait ninety years ? Behold to-day and to-morrow and every day are mine. When ninety years have past, this gen eration will have past and will have mingled with the dust and be remem bered not!" We see it stated that an egg-condens ing factory has been established at Pas sau, Bavaria, wherein the eggs are dried and then reduced to a fine meal, which is packed in air-tight cans, ready for shipment This will be good news for those who raise fowls and handle eggs. Doubtless many eggs are now lost for want of a market, or from ex cessive heat before they can be taken to market. Since, however, they can be dried, converted into meal, and then shipped to any point, there need he no apprehensions in the future of a scarc ity of egg-bread. William Cullen Bryant is worth half a million dollars. Queen Elizabeth. , bloody, fiery When the unha heart-broken Mary died, everybody was glad. Was there ever so sad a thing ? Instead of weeping, the people rang joy-bells and lit bonfires, to show their delight. How glad they were to be rid of her ! and not much wonder. The name of Elibabeth rang joyfully through the London streets and over all Eng land as soon as the breath was gone out of her sister's worn and suffering frame. Elizabeth was twenty-five ; it has been the fashion to speak of her as old and ugly just as it has been the fashion to speak of her cousin Mary, the Queen of Scots, as beautiful ; but in reality these two queens were like each other. I suppose Mary Stuart must have had more natural fascination than Elizabeth possessed ; but, though you may be surprised to hear it, her features, ac cording to her portraits, were very like those of the English queen, who was a handsome and splendid princess, with imperious, delightful maoners, frank and gracious, though easily angered and passionate, and the most popular of all English sovereigns. History is not fond of this great woman, and much ill has been spoken of her ; and she did many cruel and terrible things, and probably shed much more blood in her long reign than Bloody Mary did in her short one ; but the people always loved Elizabeth—loved her at the be ginning, and loved her to the end.— This might be quite unreasonable, but still it was the fact. All that Mary did has been judgod hardly, and almost all that Elizabeth did has been judged favorably. Such injustices are not un usual ; they ocour still every day. Elizabeth was as fond of pageantry as her father. Wherever she went it was in state, making "progresses" everywhere; a slow manner of travel ing, but very amusing for the people, you may be sure, who thus had so many fine shows provided for them, such as we have no chance of nowadays. At Eton (which, as 1 have already told you, is close to Windsor), the boys and the masters all came out and made Latin speeches to her, and presented her with books full of verses, all beau tifully written out in Greek and Latin, for which you may suppose all the sixth form had been cddgeling their brains for weeks before, and in which the praises of the great Elizabeth were sung till words could go no further. Proba bly the fine ladies and the fine gentle men were often tired of those speeches ; bat Elizabeth, who was herself a great scholar, listened to them all, and now and then wonld find ont a false quantity and eritioisethe Latin .-Mrs. Oliphant, St. Nicholas for August. How Niagara Almost Ran Dry. On March 29th, 1848, a remarkable phenomenon occurred. The preceding winter had been intensely cold, and the ice formed on Lake Erie was unusually thick. In the warm days of early spring, this mass of ice was loosened around the shores of the lake and de tached from them. Daring the fore noon of the day named, a stiff easterly wind moved it up the lake. A little before snnset, the wind chopped sud denly round and blew a gale from the west. This brought the vast field of ice back again with such tremendous force that it filled in the neok of the lake and its outlet so as to form a very effective dam, that caused a remarkable diminution in the outflow of the water. Of oonrse it needed bnt little time for the Falls to drain off the water below this dam. The oonsequence was, that on the morning of the following day, the river was nearly half gone. The American channel had dwindled to a deep and narrow ereek. The British channel seemed to have been smitten with a quick consumption, and to be fast passing away. Far up from the head of Goat Island and oat into the Canadian rapids, and from the foot of Goat Island ont beyond the old Tower to the deep channel of the Horseshoe fall, the water was gone. The rocks were bare, black and forbidding. The roar of Niagara had subsided to a moan. This extraordinary syncope of the waters lasted all the day, and night closed over the strange scene. But during the night the dam gave way, and the next morning, the river was restored in all its strength, beauty and majesty.— From an Illustrated Paper on "Niagara," in the "Midsummer Holiday Number " of Scribner. Colorado Springs, a Rendezvous for Sight-Seers. The town of Colorado Springs lies upon a natural level, close to the foot hills and facing the range Between it and the mountains extends the table land, oalled the Mesa, which is both a meadow and a terrace,—sweeping up to tbe rocky ascent with graceful curves, aud cut here and there with tbe rivulets that brawl down from tbe heights. Standing upon the veranda of the hotel which faces the peaks, one cannot, even after a week's familiarity witff the scene, entirely disabuse him self of the illusion that the picturesque and seriated wall lifting itself far above him is but a stone's throw away. The inevitable and irresistible induise of every new-comer, is to walk over to the mountains before breakfast. The in variable result is, if be undertakes it, that he will not be back to dinner. It is five miles to the foot-hills, and ten at least to Pike's Peak proper. But with one leg of an imaginary pair of com passes stuck into the hotel, you maj, with the other, describe a ten-mile cir cle such as ODe sometimes sees upon city maps, which will inclose most of tho natural wonders of this range that have been celebrated the world over.— Pike's Peak, the Ute Pass, tbe Falls of the Fountain, the Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie, Monument Park, Chey enne Canon, Manitou, and the Mineral Springs, are all easily accessible, and are held by the people of this town to be their natural perquisites.— From the "Midsummer Holiday Number " of Scribner a The English War Office reports thir ty-two officers still living who took part in the battle of Waterloo, sixty-one years ago. Talk About Children. Here is the secret of making a child happy, and of finding happiness in child. He or she must be taught to obey; and, in ordinary cases, this diffi cult lesson should be learnt before child is two and a half years old. Jack and I have had one struggle with each of our children, and with us that strug gle has never had to be repeated. The little one was given thoroughly to un derstand that his will must give way to ours; and when that was accomplished, the great work was done. Afterward, the watchfulness necessary was chiefly over our own conduot. We tried never to allow ourselves to give any order that we did not see was obeyed ; never to make any threat that was not carried into effect, nor any promise that was not fulfilled. It is marvelous how a child knows when a parent's word can be relied on. I know, very well (no one better) how difficult it is for a mother to keep herself sufficiently up to the mark to see that her wishes are at tended to. It seems so much easier, for the moment, to let things slide, and it entails so much difficulty afterward. The trouble is really the greatest at the beginning; for if a child forms while young a habit of obedience, and if the younger ones see that the elder ones obey, comfort and happiness seem to follow, almost as a matter of course. There is no doubt that obedient, well conducted children are by Car the hap piest. Once begin trying to give a child everything he wants, and the old story is soon repeated—he asks for the moon, or something equally inaccessi ble. One way of punishing small of fenses was to withdraw the permission to do a little service for Jack and my self; and a very heavy punishment, indeed, was to send the child^o bed be fore papa came home. This always caused terrible grief. Our rewards were books and toys, not impure sweets and vapid buns. It is such a pity to bring up a child to think that something to eat is to be the reward of virtue. Far better give him a pretty book, which will interest and amuse him when the sweets and buns have done their mis chievous work and are gone. Mothers can do so much to instill into their children's minds a reverence and love for books, which will be a blessing to them as long as they live. The Presidents. The following table, prepared for ref erence, shows the political sentiments and the date of the inauguration of each President, the length of time he lived after that event, and his age at the time of his death : 1. George Washington, Independent, inaugurated 1789 ; lived 10 years ; age, 68 . 2. John Adams, Independent, in augurated 1797 ; lived 29 years ; age, 3. Thomas Jefferson, Demoorat, in augurated 1801 ; lived 25 years ; age, 83. 4. James Madison, Democrat, in augurated 1809; lived 27 years; age, 85. 5. James Monroe, Demoorat, inau gurated 1817 ; lived 14 years ; age, 73. 6. John Q. Adams, Whig, inaugur ated 1825; lived 13 years; age, 81. 7. Andrew Jaokson, Demoorat, in augurated 1829 ; lived 26 years ; age, 8. Martin Van Baren, Demoorat, in augurated 1837 ; lived 25 yearB ; age, 80. 9. W. H Harrison, Whig, inaugur ated 1841 ; lived one month ; age, 68. 10. John Tyler, V. P., Indepen dent, inaugurated 1841 ; lived 21 years ; age, 72. 11. James K. Polk, Demoorat, in augurated 1845 ; lived 4 years ; age, 54. 12. Zachary Taylor, Whig, inaugur ated 1849 ; lived 16 months ; age, 66. 13 Millard Fillmore, V. P., Inde pendent, inaugurated 1850 ; lived 24 years; age, 74. 14. Franklin Pierce, Demoorat, in augurated 1853 ; lived 16 years ; age, 15. James Buohanan, Democrat, in augurated 1857 ; lived 11 years ; age, 77. 16. Abraham Lincoln, Republican, inaugurated 1861 ; lived 4 years and 1 and 1-2 months ; age, 56. 17. Andrew Johnson, V. P., Inde pendent, inangurated 1865 ; lived 10 years ; age, 67. 18. General Grant, Republican, in augurated 1869. Re elected in 1872. Tyler and Fillmore were elected Vice Presidents as Whigs, and Johnson as a Republican Their "independence" fol lowed their inauguration as Presidents. 90. 78. 65. A Niagara Incident. • In the summer of 1816 three men liv ing about three miles above the Falls, saw a bear swimming in the river. Thinking he would be a capital prize they started for him in a large, substan tial log canoe or "dug-out " When they overtook him he seemed quite obliged for their attention, and quietly patting his paws on the side of the canoe, drew himself into it, notwithstanding that they vehemently belabored him with their paddles. As he came in on one side two of the men went into the water on tho other side. Tbe third,who may be called Fisher, could not swim, and naturally enough felt somewhat embar rassed. Much to his relief tbe animal deliberately sat down in the bow of tbe canoe facing him. As the noise of the rapids and roar of tbe Falls reminded him that they were ominously near, Fisher resolved to take advantage of the truce and pull vigorously for the shore. But when he began to paddle the bear began to growl bis objections, enforcing them at tbe same time with inous grin. Fisher desisted for a while but feeling their constant and insidious approach to the rapids, he tried again to use his paddle. Bruin then raised his note of disapprobation an octave higher, and made a motion as if he in tended to get down and "go for" him. The man who swam ashore soot, how ever, re-appeared, in another canoe,with loaded musket, shot the hear and end ed Fisher's suspense. Brain weighed over three hundred pounds.— G W. Holley , in the " Midsummer Holiday Number" of Scribner. ao om-