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ear and Over Again.
Over and over again,
No naster which way.! turn,
I always And in 'the iook of Life
.Sogp &esK@ I have bo'learn. -
I mupg o cemy, turn as the mi},
I hgupd out the golden graio,
I must R.* .a my task with a resolute will,
- Over and over again.
We ca nfeasure the need
Oi te fie tiniest flower,
Nor t gffow of the golden sands
through a single. hour,
But aort;ing 'duesinust fall:
A ~aand,t:e su amer rain
us t eir par apd perform it all
Over and over again.
Over an verbaii
The book through the meaiow flows,
The wbeel goes,'
One1iNgbha net 8riC,
T Toaxdn4 lnot in van;
Andr " iIng usonce-or.twirce,
Maditff we try again.
The pa.ti.Us 'oice been trod
Is never so rough to the feet;
And e n wt once have._learned
lsne abrotepet.
Though Wl eaTn-i.y ftrl,
And ith,e1eart o its-dtpth be d:iven
WitW ifd finietf, we need thern all
To render us meet for Iraveu.
fo #I1Ie=Org nitI
A LI OF TH-B -RH1-NeF
C --
"Kind hear are more than coronPtsI
A pie 4ih than Norman blood."
Xears ago, at a grand old cathe
dral, overlooking the Rhine, there
appeared a mysterious organist.
The great composer' who had
dayed the' orgati o long had sud
.dengdjed, and everybody, from
the king to the peasant, was won
dering who could be found: to fill
his place7*ben3 ane -bright Sab
- bath iE5r n1s the sexton en
*ter 4 . eArch, he saw a stran
ger sg~ at the crape-shrouded
orjgi~ ,ewyas a -tall, gaeu
* man, with a pale !it strikingly
.handsome face, great, black, melsn'
e boereyes,an*4hair 'like the re
vegj;wing for gloss and -color
sweiptgin dark waves over his'
ihqj1ig He did not seem to4
noairhe "'sexton, but .went on
plagg ad. such music as he
dro afram the. instrument no
* og"iiiie can describe. The
asdaihd ner declareid that
thedgr seemed.to have grow n
*human-that it-wailed and clam
ore'as-if a tortured bhuian heart
wah1isobbing through it.s pipe5.,
Wherr the music at length ceased,
tbnE, hastened to the stran
ger ana4~aid, 'Pray, who are you
Sir?7
~q task my, name,' he re
pl h.~ave heard that you are.
innes an orgarrist, and I1 have
eoiW'ibere on trial.'
of tibe suiro to get the place,'
e4l ed t1/e sexton. 'Why, you
- 8 .shim that's dead and gone,
a,.no ; you overrate me,' rc
anNWithe stranger1 with * sad
-smile;Atken,. a if disinclined to
con',s~ifon, he turned from old
Hansg-began to play again.
ARd no~w the music changed from
a sorowful strain -to a grand old
p andfhl,mys.terious organist,
* -" ~npward full of grace,
Y~4e,tilt-fromt a happy place
'i$;lry smote himi in his face."
and his co'nntenance seemed not
-nulike that of St. Michael, as por
trayed byA Giido.
1BosV in the harmonies which
swelled around- him, he sat with
ehis%r-seeing' eye fixed on the
didiaesky, a glimpse of which he
catigh t through the open window,
wher, there was a stir about the
came sweeping in. Among them
might be seen a young girl with
a wealth of golden hair, eyes lik<
the violet's hue, and lips like wild
cherries. This was the -PrincesE
Elizabeth, and ell eyes were turned
to her, as sh'e seated herself in the
velvet-cushioned pew appropriate<
to the court. The mysterious or
ganist fixed his eyes upon her and
went on playing. No sooner had
the music readhed * her ears that
she started , as if a ghost had
crossed he'r path. The blood faded
from her cheek, her lips quivered
and her whole frame grew tremu
lous. At last her eyes met those
of the'organist, in a long, yearn.
ing look, and the melody lost its
joyous notes and once more wailed
and sighed, and clamored. -
'By my fiith,'- whispered the
king to. his daughter, 'this organ
ist has a master hand. Hark ye
he shall play at your wedding!'
The pale lips of the princess
parted, bit she could not speak
she was dumb with grief. Like
one in a painful dream, she saw
the pale man at the organ, and
heard the meidy whieh filled th<
vast edifice. Aye, full well she
knew who, he was and why the in.
trumen t seemed breathing ou1
the agony, bf a tortured heart.
When the service was over, and
the royal party had left the cathe.
dral, he stole away as mysterious
ly as he came. He was not .seen
again by th-.sexton till the ves
per hour, and then appeared in
the.organ-loft and commenced his
task. While he played, a veiled
figure glided in and keelt near a
side shi4ne. -There she remained
tii the worshippers dispersed
when the sexton touched .her on
the shoulder and said :
'Madam,0 everybody has gone
but you and me, and,I wish tc
close the doors.'
'I am not ready to go yet,
was the 'reply ; -'leave me-leave
me!'
The sexto.n- drew back into a
shadv riche and watciied and lis
tened. The mysterious organist
still kept his post, but his head
wa.Wowed upon this instrument
idbhe could see the lone devotee.
At length she rose from the aisle,
anid 'moving to t he, organ loft.
paused beside t.he musician.
'Bertram,' she murmured.
Quick ^as thought the organisi
raised hi head. There, with tbc
light of a himp, suspended to th<
arch above, tElling full upon her
stood the princess who badgrac
the royal p'ew that-day. The~courl
dress of velvet, wiah its soft ermim
trimmings, the tiara, the neck
lace.; the bracelets, hed been ex
changed fpr a gray serge robe an<
a long thiek veil, which. was nov
pushed back from the fair girlisl
face.
'Oh !'Elizabeth, Elizabeth!' ex
claimed the organist, and he sun!i
at hei:ifeet 'and gazed wistfull:
into her troubled eyes.
'Why are you here, Bertram
asked the princess. . . -
'I came to bid you farewell ; an
as I-dared not 'venture into th
place, I gained access to the ea
thedral by bribing the beli-ringei
and having taken the vacant sea
-f the dead organist, to let m;
music breathe out the adieu
could not trust my lips to utter
A low moan was the only an
swer, and he continued:
'You are to be married on th
morrow ?'
'Yes,' sobbed she, 'Oh ! Bertrait
what a trial it will be to stand a
yonder altar, and take upon m
the vows which will doom me t
a living death!'
'Think of me rejoined the oi
ganist. 'Your royal father ha
requested me to play at the wed
ding, and I have promised to b
there. If I were your equal,
could be the bridegroom instea
of the organist; bu t apoor mus
cian must give you up.'
'It is like rending soul and hod,
asunder to part with you,'- sai
th girl -Tn.n ight I may tel! ro
!this-tell you how I love you, but
in d few hours it' will be a sin !
KGo, go, and God bless you l'
She waved him from her as if
she would banish him while yet
she had the power to do so, and
be, how was it with him ? He
rose to leave her, then came back,
held her to his heart in a long em
brace, and then, with a half-smoth
ered farewell, left her.
The next morning dawned in
cloudless splendor, and at an early
hour the cathedral was thrown
open and the sexton began to pre
pare for the wedding. Flame
colored flowers nodded by the
wayside - flame-colored le a y e s
came rushing down from the trees,
and lay in light heaps upon the
ground ; and the:ripe wheat waved
like a golden sea, and berries
dropped in red and purple clusters
over the rocks along the Rhine.
At length the palace gates were
opened, and the royal party ap
peared, escorting the Princess
Elizabeth to the cathedral, where
the marriage was to be solemn.
ized. It was a brave pageant ; far
brighter than the untwined foliage
and blossoms were the tu's of
plumes which floated from stately
heads, and the festal robes that
streamed down over the housing
of the superb steeds. But the
princess, mounted on a snow
white palfrey, and clad in snow
white velvet, looked pale and sad ;
and when, on nearing the church,
she heard a gush of organ-nusie,
which, though jubilant in sound,
struck on her ear like a funeral
knell, she trembled and would
have fadlen to the earth hattfnot a
page supported her. A few nin
utes afterwards she entered the
cathedral. There, with his reti
i nue, stood the royail bride-groom,
whom she had never before seen.
But bei 0iance roved from him to
the organ loft, where she had ex
pected to see the mysterious or
ganist. He was gone, ard she
was &'get to return the grace
ful bow to the king, to whom she
had been Ktrothed from moti-ves
of policy. Mechanically -she knelt
at his side on the altar stone; me
chaniiir listened to the' service
and made the responses. Then
her- husband drew her to him in
convulsive embrace, and whis
'Eizbeh,my queen, my wife,
Trembling in every limb, she
obeyed. Why did that smile
bring a glow on her cheek? Ah!
though thme king wore the royal
purple,.and many a jeweled order
Sglittered on his breast, he seemed
the humble person who had been
i employed -to teach organ music,
rand had taught her lore of love.
* 'Elizabeth.' murmured the mon
- arch, 'Bertram Hoffman,,the mys
- terious organist, and King .Oscar
are one. Forgive my stratagem.
rI wisLed to marry you, but I
would not drag you to the altar
'an unwilling bride. Your father
.was in tfie secret.'
I'While tears of joy rained from
a her blue eyes, the new-made queen
- returned her husband's fond kiss,
and for once two hearts were
t made happy by a royal marriage.
A very excitable gentleman sat
near a very phlegmatic one at one
'of the concerts of the famous Clara
Schumann, in Leipsick. Excita
ble gentleman almost beside him
self in his rapture, and is "fidget
ted" to the extremity of endurance
tby the phlegmatic individual, who
Ihears piece after piece cold as an
icicle.
Excitable Gent, (who after a
splendid performance of a piece by
-Chopin, can endure it no longer)
"I say, sir, do you not like her
Phlegmatic Gent-"Why, yes, I
-like it very well."
Excitable Gent---"Why t h e
rdeuce, then,sir,don'tyouapplaud?'
rPhlegmatic Gent-"I-? A p
a plnind?9 Oh. T am her husband."
The Gorilla.
HIs PHYSIQUE AS COMPARED WITH
THAT OF MAN--INTERESTING FACTS.
A lecture recently delivered in
New York by Dr. Lemercier on
"The Gorilla,"- contained an ela
borate and interesting comparison
of the gorilla with man.
Though not quite so tall as the
average man, the gorilla is far
more powerful than Heenan, hav
ing, according to Du Chaillu, the
strength of eight able-bodied men.
Only two of these creatures have
been dissected in Europe, one by
Professor Duvernoy, and the other
by Dr. Auzon. No live gorilla
has been brou'ht to Europe or
America.. The differences between
man and the g rilla are very strik
irg. The latte cannot stand up
right. owing tb the structure of
his spinal column ; his arms are
longer, and his legs are shorter
than those of the human -species
in waiking he 6ommonly uses- the
backs of his hatrds, placing them
flat upon the ground ; he has tlir
teen pairs of ribs and the female
fourteen whe-re+s man has but ten
he has several inuscles w hieh are
not found in man ; he has bagpipes
under his arms, connecting - with
his windpipe and glottis, and by
compressing these with 'his arms
he can make alnoise more terrible
than the uproar of a thousand
ragmen, and which can bo heard.
according to the .testimony of M..
Dii Chailin, at .a-distance of three
miles and m4Fe His hand is
greatly infarior to- the human
hand, and, besides, therd exists a
multitude of minor differences in
other organs. But what places
man far above the gorilla is the
va-t superiority of the' human
.brain and head. The gorilla has
a better dev;:ioped heal than the
lion, and when you,;; his cranium
has a great resemblance to that of
a child. But afterward. though
there is an immense growt. lof
the bone, thcre is no expansion of
the cavity of the skull, and conse
quently none of the brain. The
lecturer en'ressed hi mselif at con
siderable length on this point,
and in such a manner as to make
it evidlent that he was no believer
in the hypothesis of Darwin. All
animals have been made to meet
the wants of t.heir material life,
and are wonderfully contrived for
those purposes. The goilia has
been made a savage inhabitant of
theC forest, andl is adapted for rap.
idly ascending trees. His chest
and muscles'are marvellous, and
if the animal had had the wisdom
and cunning of man, the African
race would long since have been
swept away from their native soil.
Inl connection with the gorilla's
chest, Dr. Lemercier said that
the strength .of any animal- what
ever is according to the develop
ment of the chest, and took occa
sion once more to impress upon the
audience the benefit which result
ed to children from strenghtening
their lungs by gymnastic exerci
Ses.
PEW WH4,sPERING.-Accordi ng
to the Kansas City Jouirnal, the
ladies of that town converse in the
following style during church
service:
Mary Ellen (anxiously)-Betsy
Jane, isn't my chignon coming
off?
Betsy Jane (pettishly)-No ?
Can't you move a little further ?
You arc creasing my lace flounces.
Mary Ellen (moving a little)
Don't you think Susan Brown
looks dreadful homely. What big
feet she waddles into her pews ?
Betsy Jane-Was there cv--,
Oh ! there's Charlie! Isn't he a
perfect Adlonis ? IHow I do wish
he would look our way.
Mary Ellen (smiling sweetly)
Ah ! I see him. HIe's looking to
wards us.
Betsy Jane (angrily)-IIe isn't
looking at you, so you needn't act
like a fool. The nminister's going
. Helen Western.
This actress. who died in W:tsh
ington a few days ago, will have
many tears'shed for her by those'
whom she has helped in their
troubles, as she went on her queer
career in life. She had natural
gifts, some cultivation and an im
posing appearance. She made a
mark in a certain line of the sen
'sational drama. Poor womanr!
She was literally dying as it now
seems, where she played here a
week or so ago. A more pitiful
sight than was that of her then
struggles with evident decay sure
ly never have been witnessed by
the public eye. She should have
been in her bed, with physicians'
care (which she had) and a nurse
by her side, when she preferred
to brave danger and criticism and
nisapprehension by remaining at
work till the end came ! Her
life and death are a sad story.
We hiive no busin'ss with the
private lives of actors. It is their
art alone which we have the right
to consider. But now and then
comes a fate to point a moral and
to warn the.younger members of
that profession against indulging
too far the wild tug of the very
best emotions and sentiments of
which our natures are possessed.
Lola Montes and the Menket,. for
example, were not by any means
bad women. Like all the rest of
the world, good and bad were
mingled in them. But they were
''out of joint"-unweeded gardens,
undis-iplincd, rudderless, tost here
and there by impulse, never an
chored for a moment after their
voyage began oh the stormy sea
of wretched human life. Men and
women whose 'lots are cast in
pleasant places and whose souls
are strangers to the fierce pas
sions that fairly rage in the
breasts of such unfortunates, can
never comprehend the tempest
driven lives of such people. Well.
indeed, did poor Burns say that
few know what's resisted. All of
folly or sin that is committed livcs
in letters of brass. Poor Helen
Western! If we cannot praise, we
will not blame her. She has her
credit side with the awful Judg?
of all. Our debts may not be her
debts, but which of us does not
(read the great account, when
the Book shall be opened ?
[Kational Ini cllgencer'.
WAS-rE oF VALoR.-TheC R'ich
mfond Whig tells the story of two
young gentlemen, one of P. iladlel
phia and the other of Prinet''n,
who being sm~itten with the same
belle, worth half a million, took
it into their heads, that each was
the barrier to the other. The first
cause of war still exerting its
potency, they determiied to kill
each other out of the way ; and. for
that p)urpese, by agreemen t, met
with six-shoot ers. The second's
having placed them and Riven the
word, t hey~ fired so inuch at random
that the seconds wvere in much great
er danger than they were. Ilaving
discharged their six barrels, and
the seonds being unwilling to
re-loaid and take the risk:szagain,
the combatants fell irto each
other's arms. and then agre ed to
go stringht together to see I heir
fair. Thie young lady re:2eived
them: with a char minig smn Ie. con
gratulattinrg them on the l:appy
issue of their duel, which, she
added with a tone of soft reproach,
was a folly the more incomprehen
sible, as she had never had the
least idiea of taking either for a
husba nd.
A t the same time she introduced
another young gentleman, all
smies,towhom she said she was
engage<l-and she begged the two
sons of Mars to attend t he nuptials
an Xmas day.- Wilmington Star.
From statistics published in the
New York papers it appears that
there are nearly 13,000 opium eat
ers in that metropolis, many of
whom ae 1n<dies r<si<ling in "up
Important to Cotton Planters T
-The Cotton Worm.
EDITors MACON TELEGRAPI:-- ti
I notice in your daily of the 19th u
of December, an article taken from B
the Selma (Ala.) Times and' Mes- ft
$enger, upon this all important o
subject to farmers, and you invite
discussion upon it. o
The writer states that he saw o:
the egg and worm of the cotton- p
Ply found in the cotton stalk, &c. -
From the history of insects, I can tl
find no facts confirming his state- B
ments, and I dare say the writer ci
is totally in error as to their mode o
of propagation. t<
The fly lays the egg in summer, g
)n the tender parts of the cotton e<
plant, the worm is speedily o
hatched out. growing rapidly and B
to forming the cocoon, in which e:
state the larv exist all winter. ti
It, however, may go through the o
process several times during the h
summer. In the spring it cuts %s
;ut of its self-made prison, and of
oes forth as before. Insects that oi
:eposit their egg in the pith of fi
talks have a caudal appendage o'
with which they pierce the stalk w
and lay:their eggs. The various al
species of locust, the Hessian fly, d
are examples.
The miller that does the mis- d
chief in our cotton fields have no p
such appendage, nor do they ever is
vary in their natural course, we a
suppose: first, the fly which de- v
posits .the egg; then the worm; h
next the cocoon ; an.d, lastly, the n
fly again. If the writer in ques-- S
tion only reflects that a coconn fi
cannot be contained within the s
small compass of a cotton stalk, ii
he will see the fallacy of his as- ti
se tions. h
There are hundreds of other in- ii
sects .that prey upon the cotton ej
plant, some of which, no doubt, tl
deposit their eggs in the stalk a
and make that their winter quar- a
ters. If the writer will ad- t<
vocate cleanliness generally on a I
farm. in my humble - judgment, o
he will contribute somewhat S
to abate the trouble; for in old d
fences, hedges, under old 'logs, I
brusih piles, are to be found count- s
less numbers of.those oblong pods
in question, air-tight, and perfeet
ly proteecd from winter blasts.
Some species of larvo are propa- ni
gated in the soil oi- in the roots of a
decayed trees-the eommon .sting b
worm. for instance-but the cot- a
to worm never', save by accident, t;
I suppose.0
I am anxious, Messrs. Editors, n
that the worm question shall l-e 0
solved, and hope some- close ob- n
server will illuminate the subject ; a
fr in finding out the habits anid S
various changes of our greatest p
post (always save one--United h
States Congress,) we may find] a r
correct remedy jn) getting~ rid of s
them. FA RMER ' o
Putnain County, Ga., Dec. 23. u:
A lady was readIing to her five
years old boy the story of a little
boy whose Iathier was taken ill '
ard died, after which the youing-c
ster set himself dilligently to work0
to assist in supp)orting him self' andS
his mother. When she had fin
ished the story, she said.-Now.
Tommy, if' pa were to die, wouldn't
you wor'k to help mamma !'
'Why, ma,' said the little fellow, ~
not relishing the idea of work
'what for? Ain't we got a good
C
house to live in, and everything ~
so nice ?'e
:Oh, yes, my child,' said the mo
ther'; 'but we can't eat the houset
you know.'t
'Well, ain't we got plenty oft
things in the pantry !' said the a
young hopeful.'
'Certainly, my dlear,'rieplied the
mother; 'but they will not last A
lon-and what t hen ?'
'Nll ma,' saidl the little incor- I
rigible, 'ain't there enough to last I
till you can get another husband?' "
Ma gave it upl.
Wisconsin, or as it is more prop- d
erly and more beautifully spelled, e
Ooisonsin, means "Gathering of n
thn Waters." 11
he Demise of the Mercur7 -
The Columbia correspondent of1
ie New York Times-who -4.6.
n(derstood to be Mr. James W.gp4 t
avidson-writes to-that paperiLb
llows, in regard to the sispei,hil
the Charleston Mercury:'x~ 'P
One of the most significA g
the times, and in the;m:aoqp,
the most hopeful, is in the oii.g
msion of the Charleston MeieU"
-for many years the esponetW4fA
e extremistsin South Caro" ,
y extremists I mean those.polit,..
ans who persist in applying--th..
)solete standards of a'dead pdaF"
> the questions of a new and-pt'
ressive present ; those who , 7
)nservatism to its viciousextrem .
stagnant* dogmatism t
ourbons whom no experieteei
Ln teach. For many yeajWwT
venty or more, I believe-th "
'gan of a now past reim; .; .
ald sway in this State, an
ielded a large influence throag
it the South. Durit wAS*1
ill survived, was still stain
6,hting though it al*ya iyAy .
'er some past issue. Sinee tie
ar it raised the'same strd;d
id waved it pereistently, but lwit.
minishing power, for its ae
as dying out gradually, and- '
iy was dying out. -New thownhSt
)ssessed our people,- and e#**
sues arose ; but this Nestor
rite-penult geseratioa still kt -
ith enthusiasm of traditions th&"
ad well-nigh passed fno tf'
emories of to-day-ts 4yiq&
ir John stiil "babbled of g""en
elds." The signideanee of tisv
lspension ot the Merery. i rht
s cause lies in the t'oriben",
on in which.itsparty newis. ,
opefulness of the occarrewe-m* r
the assurance that this diiet
Fete conservatism means Ha to,,
e incoming party of pregfie
nd action. Our Sonthen -pe$"
ee going to work-are throwlt
the dogs the theories of them
ourbons who have ruled tbH:
pinion for so many yearw *itk
ich an iron hand.' Theiernmj bp,.
anger in this new tendeney but 3
am recording facts, not d -
tratin g truths.
A WonderfulYVolcaffd -
The Lon~don News saysi "!I is
ot merely that Mount Etna kok
gain broken forth into erupiian,t
ut that the new out-burst -is obst' '
eterized by a violence and.intenffC
7 indicative of the wideesteat {
f' the region of disWftbance b0r
eath the crater. For ri'ne hours'
n the night of'Decemb'r -9;'te
iountain was voruiting Asns
nd lara to a prodigious height.
:.ones ain I burning iatter were
r'ojected from the erftter, and. as
igh did some of these projectle
3aeb that the sand- and smwtHey
tones fell over Acei Reale and'ev'en
ver Messino, or to a distanee of -
p wards -of forty miles from'~
one The lava is now flowing in
v'ery direct ion from the crates
nd dev41st.ating the surrounding.
runtry. Aftei' the second get
utburst, the eruption: beet
mewhat less active; but tt.'
be mountain is far frombin.
kely so)d1 to sink to- rest, is evi. -
enced by the fact that deafening"
etona~tions still continue to b4
eatrd. If any further evidenee
-ere wanting of the magnifeecea
fthe seale on which Etna is noiw
r~upting, it would be found in the
Lot that the news we hav oe
eived conmes from Valetta, which
upwards of one hnndred and
wventy from Etna. WeAr. taid
lat croi"ds assembled at V'alet,
> fitness the grand sjeetel'.
fi'orded by the burning mountain?~"
THE TRIAL OF JEFERSON DAVIs.
.ceording to the New York Post,
is p)robable that soon after* the
inited States Supreme Court.
ieets aganin in Januar3. a motioni
'ill be made to advance the case
f JEFFERsoN DAVIS on -the docket
order that it may be heard
uring the present term of the
rurt. Unless such a motion is
ade. the case will not be reached
Sit regnilr ordernnder twa ye6mt