The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-10-24
Coming back Soon.


quiet of his native village TO make his way
in the great busting world beyond
"Oh yes-as soon as | have made MY
forlune," is the laughing reply, and the
good byes are exchanged. and the yelling
stage coach rolls off, bearing more hope
and happiness upon its back seat than
with the same occupant it will ever bring
back again.
" Come back soon !" The boy little
knows he never can come back Some.
thing may come that will be taller, and
more graceful, and more attractive, and
call his parents father and mother-some
thing that will look half sadly and half con-
temptuously on the old familiar places
where his youth was, but the boy-haPpy,
eager, hopeful and innocent-has gone for
ever
Coming back soon ~ Is this young la
dy ringleted and founced and gloveG who
plays the piano to a charm and looks ask
ance at The kitchen towel and broom the
sun Drowned, good natured little Maggie
wore her brown hair in curls, flying in the
summer wind-but this young lady's looks
are prematumed, scented, carefully "done
up" according 10 the latest fashion. Mag
gle wore a blue gingham frock, which had
always danced before his vision as the
most charming thing in existence, but Miss
Marguerite arrays her dainty limbs in the
most expensive silks, and ,wears hoops of
.,ob uost faro thaf no only
look on and admire !at a respectable dis
tance Sometimes, as they sit side by side,
he remembers the old times, and half
wishes they could come back again but
his first glance al the composed face beside
him annihilales the idea, and he heaves a
kind of ruefuI sigh, and lets it pass away.
The fast young man and the woman OF
fashion meet often in their gay city life
but the boy and girl who walked hand in
hand to school, have gone straying away
together over the strawberry fields and dai-
sed pastures long ago, and no ond thinks
of saving 10 them "You are coming back
soon ~
"Coming back - Who ever yet came
back and found all things unchanged =
Drive up the long remembered roads, ard
YOU miss here a tree, here Patch OF dali
sizes aud butter cups, and there an old gray
farm house, which you fondly hoped would
ou: last your day and generation. Enter
the town which was once "a happy valley
to you, and what do you see? Only a
puny little village, with the pleasant walks
you used to love turned into ambitious
sidewalks, and paved with roughest of
stones, with old familiar houses and fences
remodeled and newly painted, till you lose
all the landmarks-with everything chang
ed, and you, it may be, most OF all Sit
down, if you will, in your lonely room, call
ND the forms of those you loved, who are
now scattered away, and Try TO people the
dusty streets with more beloved faces
Can Won succeed Is it not poor, pale
phantom, that Won strive to press 10 your
aching heart? Was i, wise in you, after
all this "coming back % Oh, the past is
beautiful 10 look at, buf when afar Oft, we
stretch out our hands to bring it nearer, it
vanishes, and leaves nothing in our grasp
but thin and unsubstantial air.
"Strange ~ | sit in my lonely room to-
day, and miss something familiar-some.
thing sweet-something dear-very dear
II will never linger here again. The sun
light falling through the easement will new
er shine on me any more. One page OF
hfes romance has been read shut the
book and put it away. Much that might
have blessed me much | might have low.
ed. and much that ! can never hope 10
meet again, has conscerate this little room,
has passed away like dream of beauty,
and will beam, brighten here no more; it is
a not cannot be coming back soon.
Bur there is 1and-thank God-there is
land where all the lost light and lowell
ness of life shall cluster around as with ten
fold the glory it has won for US here !
There is land where there shall be nc
more partings, and more tears, where the
young and the old, the happy and the
wretched, the bond the free, shall alike
know the loving kindness and tender mercy
of God whose divinest attribute is love.
PATRICK - was baggage master or
the Georgia Railroad, ard attentive to hi;
business A few evenings since, while a
his post, he was accosted by an excited
passenger, who, in a rude and boisteroui
manner, demanded repeatedly 10 know The
Whereabouts of his trunk. Pat, after severa