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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-04-18

interests so identical as ours, and feeling
of more than friendship for those, our
teachers, whose labors have been so earn
estly devoted to our temporal and eternal
welfare, We past with sadness. Some
who were of our number sleep the sleep
which knows no earthly waking, and ere
long, our FATHER's voice may call US
home. But whatever may be our fate
wherever our lot is cast, let us bear pa
tient and courageous spirit, knowing that
"a brave souls thing which all things serve"
Our future, like our past, lies with Gop.
Let us cherish as we part, tho hope which
whispers peace to the soul, and points to
our ETERNAL REST.
A. L. U.
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p0etrp
FIom All The Year Round.
FACES IN THE FIRE.

watch the drewsy night expire,
And fancy paints at my desire
Her magic pictn-es in The fire.
An island-faSm mid seas ofcorn,
Svayed by the wandering breath of uIorn,
The happy spot where L WIS born.
The pictu faded in lis place,
Amid Che glow 1 seem 10 tlace
The shifting scmblance of a fee.
IT'S now a little childish form,
Red ps for kisses routed warm,
And elf-locks tangled in the storm.
'Tis now grave and gentle maid,
At her own beauty halfafraid
Shrinking. yet willing to be stayed,
It's now a matron with her boys,
Dear centre of domestic joys:
seems 10 hear the meIiy voice.
Oh, time was young. and life WIS warm,
When first [ snw th's GARY form.
Her dark hair tossing in tho storm
And fast and: rec those pulses nlaved,
When last / met that gentle maid
When last her hand in mine was laid.
Those locks ofjet are turned to grey,
And she is strange and far away,
That might have been II y own to-day
That might have been mine own, my dear,
Through many and many happy year,
That might have ST beside me here.
Ay. changeless. thorsh The changing scenes,
The ghostly whisperinss between
The dark refrain of"might have been"
The race is DER / might have run,
The deeds are past might have done.
And sere the wreath might have won.
Sunk is the last faint Pickering blaze
The vision of departed days
Is vanished even as | gaze.
The pictures with their rudy light
Are changed to dust and ashes white,
And am left alone with night.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-04-18
Three Pictures.

The PAsT.-AsI sit in meditation,
GA ing on the Western sky, where the
day is dying out in gorgeous colors, paint
ed by the MASTERS hand, three pictures
rise before my mental vision.
The Past, with its strange destinations,
claims my present attention, and as dis
TANGO will round the rough lines of n
statue into seeming faul;less symmetry
and grace, SO time softens tho sorrows
Of the past and kindly wells all that
would mar or disfgure the picture be-
fore me. There is in it however, n
strange mingling of light and shade
dark shadows fitting across the sky, vet
the darkest and most forboding grad
ualIy melt away into lighS and beauty.
| look with pleasure on the dim back
ground, VITA its sladowy outlines, faint
ly traced upon the pi,tlr rs half for
gotten dreams are fee blv felt and recog-
ME | in waking II oments, and til, SO
fragments almost seem to be the work
of Fancy, and gazo at them with the
same feeling with which | read ro-
mance = half unmindful of my own
identity with the picture. Oh, the
dreamy, mysterious past 1t holds in its
sure grasp some things we would change
if we could-many that we would not.
The PREsENT.-Another picture is
drawn upon the canvas, dark, ana oh,
bow solemn and mysterious, for It's n
dreadful thing to lire,-"ro BE,"-to
give impressions which shall continue
throughout eternity.
Experience has taught mo many use
full lessons, and now resolve to give the
picture better coIors than of old, yet
sometimes by forgetfalness, sometimes by
impotence, sometimes by accident, its
beauty is married. and when we look
with regret upon this imperishable paint
ing, the burden of life presses heavily
upon us, and our prayer is that we
might sleep and wake no more.
Bat shall we shrink from duty and
falter in the way q kindly Providence
would bid US 90! No. Let us be as
sured that within us lies the power to
ill our life with truth and beauty, and
if darkness closes around us, we will
look through the gathering gloom for the
dawning light which will surely come.
THE FUTcRE.-The unknown and
dreaded future! We shrink from it
with foreboding fears, yet our searching
gaze, dwells on the picture fancy paints,
with the DEEPEST interest. 1t is shroud-
ed in mystery that no human mind can
fathom, yet is closely folded to the heart
for our fondest hopes are centered there
How we long to lift the veil which shrouds
its mysteries and read the secret of our
future being.
Will the picture we are to paint be
perfects Will no misguided stroke of
an unskilled hand dIsfgure and mar its
beauty? All! an underlined fear takes
possession of our hearts, and We shrink
back trembling from the foreshadowing
of coming evil. What our future may
be, we know not, but we look and hope
for much.
AS schoolmntes, we have spent many
happy hours together, but as We part to,
day, something whispers we may not all
meet again. A feeling of mutual friend
ship must exist between those whose re-
lations have bcco so intimate and whose
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Reveries.

The day has closed. The sun sank to
rest behind the Western hills, and its
fading light is bathing the earth in gold
and crimson. The bright hours, the last
of which GO softly out in tho red West,
have done their office well. The heat of
the sun has warmed the earth, and the
green blades of grass will soon be start
ing, the young twigs will spread their
plated tresses to the sun, and the seed
this day placed in the earth awaits its
resurrection.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-04-18

WHAT is WORSE THAN CRIME An
exchange says truly that sit is not crimes
such as murder and robbery which dcs@
troy the peace Of society, SO much rs the
,ntemptible gossip, the family quarrels,
Jealous es and chickering's among neigh
bors, meddlesomencss and tat ling,
which are the canker that eats into all so~
cial happiness" How forcibly this re-
mark must come to the minds of many
who have witne. sed the misery produced
by tattling in neigl bollood of thieves
than one of liars; and all tattlers and
liars, and what is worse than that, both
thieves and murderers; they steal the
good name of the innocent, and by blast
inc the fair fame of the yirtuous, send to
premature grave many tender beings
who cannot rise beyond the reach of their
demoniac shafts. Oh that every virtd
GUS female and honorable man could aud
would heed the advice Of one who talked
sense in plain way when be said,
"Don't make yourself miserable and
chase LES and SANDERS round tie worl -
Give them down. The worst lies and
morst wicked SANDERS can't stand lorg
against good life. They are generally
the toots of the wicked ono which are
not worth picking up. A part Of the
world has nothing else TO do but SANDER
the other part. They serve their master
do their work, and will have their mef-
tied reward"
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Orlloilnal,

[ Selections from Compositions read at
tic Close Of the U5nter Term Of the
Rtpsr Falls Acddemy.
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the
stimulants in which | sometimes so in
dulge. 1t has not been in tho pursuit
of pleasure thatI have periled life and
reputation aud reason. 1t has been the
desperate attempt to escape from tortur-
ING memories-memories of wrong and
injustice and imputed dishonor-form
sense of insupportable lonelinc IS and
dread of some strange impending doom"
We believe these statement to have been
sincerely uttered, aad we would record
here, the testimony of a gentleman who
having for years known him intimately
and having been near him in his states
of utter mental desolation and INSANITY
assured US that he had never heard from
his lips word that wouldh ave disgraced
bis heart Or reproach upon bis honor.
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PoE's REMoRsE.-It has been assert
ed that no recognitions Of conscience or
remorse are ever to be met with ia the
pages of Poe's writings, and that he felt
no pan IS for his worst errors. MS is
disproyel by the authoress of ed gar
Poe and his Critics"
Poe's private letters 70 his friends offer
abundant evidence that we was not insen-
sible to the keenost pangs of romorse. -
A gain and again did he say to the De-
mon, that tracked his path, "Anathema
Marantha," but again and again did it
return to torture and s1bdue. He saw
the handwriting on the wall, but had no
power to avert the impending doom. In
relation to this, the fatal temptation of
bis life, he says in a letter written within
a year of his death: ''The agonies
which I have lately endured have pass
ed my soul through fire. Heaceforth l
am strong. This those who love me
shall know as we'll as those who have SO
relentlessly sought to ruin me.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-06-13

MERCY TO DUMB BRUTEs.-Dr. E. H
Chaplin, in the following passage in his
discourse, entitled the "Blessing of the
Merciful," teaches needed lesson:
"Mercy, moreover, is something that
goes forth, not merely to humanity, but
also to the poor animal which tolls for us.
Men have transformed into a universal
maxim the saying that the merciful man
is merciful to his BEAST So he is. He
is merciful to the poor, dumb creature
that can not complain. How much un-
mercifulness is there, even in your sports,
in that which you call nero pleasure; in
the delight in exercising TO the utmost
tension tho speed of your horsel The
cruelty may be unconscious on your part,
but how much cruelty is there!
"And while would have no morbid
sentiment in this NATTER still let us be-
ware, even here, how we wantonly abuse
or sacrifice animal life in any respect
Life is sacred everywhere. 1t is mystic
ry, whether throbbing in the insect, boat
ing in tho pulse of the sparrow, or even
crawling in that uncouth shape at your
feet. dare not wantonly take such n
life which / can not give, and / can not
give anything of that kind to the creature
that is to-day living in the spring sun
shine and rejoicing in its beams. 1t is
wrong. If my safety is not compromised,
and if my need does not demand il, l
have no right to take away even the
coarsest animals life; and / say that the
pleasure which comes from that kind of
cruelty is tho lowest and basest of pleas
IRE which comes from that kind of cruel
iy is tho lowest and basest Of pleasures;
it is fiendish pleasure"
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Rev. DIR. CARTwRIeHT AND "HoNEs1
ADE.-The following incident occurred
on the train of cars which left Buffalo
for the east, at three o'clock Monday:
The venerable Peter Cartwright had
taken seat for Rochester, and during
some fifteen minutes previous to the time
the cars left the depot, the Doctor was
giving in his honest manner, his opinion
Of both Stephen A. Douglas, and Abra-
ham Lincoln. He had finished the /" Lit
tie GIANT" and was saying of Honest
Abe," that he is good citizen, upright,
and, ain point of talent, is second-rate
lawyer" Just that moment, in came a
bouncing hot republican, with his platform
in his hand, and took seat near the
Doctor. He came in just in time to hear
tho remark in regard TO Mr.. Lincoln's tai
ent, and it reused him wonderfully. He in
terrupted the Doctor, (not knowing him.
and proceeded under rather high pres
sure of steam 10 inform him that he was
mistaken on that point. After he had
blown off somewhat, the Doctor said:
"Well, my friend, don't know but
you are moro familiar with the character
and history of both Mr.. Douglas and Mr..
Lincoln than am. For myself l can
only say that l have lived in the same
county with both of them for twenty-five
years, that gave to Mr.. Douglas the
first office he was ever favored with; that
| have run twice in opposition to Mr..
Lincoln for a seat in the Legislature of
Illinois, and beat him both times, and
can do it again, if will"
BY this time you might well suppose
that the laughter drowned whatever else
the Doctor might have said.
Buffalo Courier.
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style Of the most playful fondncss imag
Unable, but Immediately on her arrival al
Kirby Mullory---the seat Of her family
her father wrote informing him (Byron)
that she would not again return. They
never afterwards met.
The particular causes Of this event still
remain in obscurity; and in all that can
be gathered from the epistles and poems
Of the great poet although somewhat
contradictory in themselves, he takes the
onus Of blame Of the separation from bis
wife on himself
Hon. Augusta Ada, only child of Lord
and Lady Byron Ada, sole daughter
of my house and heart'-Decomber, 10,
1915.
Byron's daughter was married July s,
1885, to William King, Earl of Lovelace.
She died November Z, 1852. Ada in
herited the restless disposition of her faith
er, and although of good natural abilities,
of mathematical turn of mind, she
delighted in speculating in railway shares
and on the turf.
In 1880 Lady Byron wrote letter,
and caused it to be published, exonora-
ting her father and mother from charges
connected withher separationfrom herhus-
band-of which they had been accused
but throwing no further light upon the
subject.
Lady Byron succeeded, November IL,
1856, to the Barony of Wentworth
She was noted for her mental attain
ments and for her liberal disposition. In
1856 she sent the sum of $3.50 to the
New England Kansas Emigration Socie-
ty, and she figured frequently as con-
tributor to philanthropical enterprises.
Her immediate fortune at the time Of
her marriage was about ten thousand
pounds sterling, but on the death of her
father and mother she became possessed
of estates TO very large amount.
Now York Herald, May 81.
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THE OLD STORY.

ia.
Come sitby me, Katy, and tel mo
or what he was talking last night,
When you stood at the gate till the moonbeams
Had quenched all the stars with their light9
You camc back with checks growing crimson,
And cyclashes glittering with tears,
And n SIN lie which, half sad, half triumphant,
Still over your sweet meath appears.
Did he talk of tho beauty Of summora
Or praise the wild roses perfume?
Or speak Of our arbors so rustic,
Where woedbine and jassamine bloomf
"He told you a storyp Oil did hef
Well, Katy, dear, tell it to me.
"You'vo almost forgot p Alrcady'
How very much aattered he'd bel
You say you "think may guess itw
Yes, Katy, the story / know;
'Tis an old tale, yet always sweet ono;
lam certain you found II SO.
Twas new in the first days Of Adam,
When, wandering through Eden's fair bowers
In EYES little ear il was whispered
While she, blushing, played with the flowers
You're blushing too; what is the matter?
Why, what are you crying about2
Your grandfather told your grandmother
The very same story, no doubt.
just three little words tell this story
What thousands of hearts they have thrilled
How many with joy they have gladenedl
How many with sorrow have filed
These three little words are: GLOVE You!"
You see tits the very Same tale
That you heard there lastnight by the woodbinos,
Beneath the bright moons silvery veil.
Don't say know nothing aboutit
You know very we'll it is true;
But, Katy, my dear, did you tell him
The same story that ho told your
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RULES FOR THE JOURNEY OF LIFE
Tho following rules, from the papers Of
DR.. West, were thrown together as gene
ral way-warks on his journey of life:
Never ridicule sacred things; or what
others esteem as such; however absurd
they appear to be.
Mover show levity when people are pro-
fessedly engaged in worship.
Never 10 resent n supposed injury till ]
know the views and motives of the au-
thor of it.
Never on any occasion to retaliate.
Always take the part of an absent per-
son who is censured in company, so far
as truth and propriety will allow.
Never to think worse Of another on ac-
count of his differing with you in political
and religious opinions.
Not to dispute with woman, nor an
enthusiast.
Not to affect to be witty, or to jest, so
as to wound the feelings of another.
To say as little rs possible of myself
and those who are near me.
To aim at cheerfulness without levity.
Not to intrude your advice unasked.
Never to court the favor Of the rich by
flattering either vanity or vice.
To speak with calmness and delibera-
ton in all assertions; especially in circum-
stances which tend to irritate.
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Death of Lord Byron,s Widow.

We received the intelligence yesterday
from Europe of the death of Anne Isa-
bella, Baroness Noel Byron, relict of the
late Lord Byron, which event occurred on
the 10th inst, at No. IL st. Georges
Terrace, Regents Park, London. She
was sixty-eight years of age at the period
of her decease.
Dowager Lady Byron, Baroness Went
worth, was born May II, 1902. She
was the only daughter of Sir Ralph Mil
banke, afterwards Noel of Seaham, in
the county of Durham. She was nearly
connected by blood with the families Of
Lord Wentworth, Lord Melbourne, and
others of the English nobility.
On the I'd of January, 1916, she was
married TO Lord Noel Byron.
Lord Byron addressed her about year
previous, and, although his suit was not
at that time accepted, yet her refusal was
accompanied with every assurance of es-
teem and regard, and friendly correspon-
dence was kept up between them. A
second application, in September, proved
successful.
Speaking of Lady B. during the term
of his engagement, Lord Byron said:
"What an odd situation and friendship
is ours! without one spark Of love on
either side, and produced by circumstan-
ces which, in general, lead to coldness on
one side and aversion on the other. She
is a very superior woman, and very little
spoiled, which is strange in an heiress-a
girl of twenty-a peeress that is to be in
her own right-an only child, and sa-
Vante who has always had her own way.
She is poetess, mathematician, and,
withal, very kind, generous and gentle,
and with very little pretension. Any
other head would be turned with halt her
and tenth of her advanta-
ages"
The disastrous result Of the marriage
appears TO have been anticipated by By
ron even at the bridal altar The "com-
ing events cast their shadows before.
Lord Byron's prose account of the we'd
ding, in his suppressed memoirs, is said
by Mr.. Moore to have agreed closely, in
all its circumstances with his poetical des
cription of it in "The Dream" 1t is to
be inferred from Byron's published cores
pondencc, that, even at his wedding, the
thoughts of his first love of Mary Cha
worth, of Annesley Hall, whom he so po-
etically termed his I" Bright Morning
Star. of Annesley," were present to his
Annesley Hall and all its
fond associations hoated like vision be-
fore his thought when on the point of pro-
nouncing his nuptial VOWS. A marriage
contract under such circumstances could
not but be unhappy.
After tho marriage, or towards the
month of March following that event,
Lord Byron and lady took up their resi-
dence in London, where they lived in
splendor aud expense far beyond Byron's
omc,and he soon became deeply involv-
ed in the most distressing pecuniary en-
barrassments.
About the lst of February, 1916, n
separation between Lady Byron and her
husband took place. She had left Lon
don few davs before on visit to her
father, Leiccstershirc, and Lord Byron
was TO follow her rs soon as ho could
make some arrangements Of his financial
affairs. The two parted in kindness
She wrote him on the road letter in
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If the following account is true, Lon
don is no longer the metropolis Of our
planet. That distinction belongs to the
Japanese city OF Jeddo, which a cores
pondent of the Boston Traveller thus
describes: ~
"But what shall | say Of this greatest
and most singular of all cities9 A vol
ume Is needed to describe il, without at
tempting to give its history. l have heard
OF old Nineyeh and Babylon Jelow the
ground, and seen and handled the works
Of art which have been disinterred. and
created so much admiration on both sides
of the Atlantic; but ono living Jeddo
above the ground is worth hundred old
fogy cities below it. l can not give YOU
an idea of it, it is so unique, so unlike
everything except itself, and so impossi-
bic as you will think. have seen sever
al places of interest," and maintained q
cool head; but was bewildered and con-
founded when i saw this. II is situated
on the western shore of this charming
gulf, twenty miles wide, by twenty-four
long, to which the Lake Tiberias is moth
ing, except in the sacred feet which once
trod its shores. 1t stretches for twenty
miles and more along beach of a semi
circular form, with its horns turned out
ward, and along which a street extends,
crowded with blocks Of stores and houses,
and teeming with moving crowds, while
shopkeepers. artizans, women and children
seem equally numerous within doors. In
deed, dozen or fifteen miles might be
added to the length of the city in this di-
rection, since there is nothing but an un-
broken succession Of towns and villages
for this distance which are as populous
and we'll built as the city itself.
" In crossing the city from the shore TO
the western outskirts, have walked two
miles and half, and then proceeded on
horseback for ten miles more, making
twelve and half in the whole, while in
other places it may be wider still. Ac-
eording to the lowest estimate the city
covers an area equal 10 seven of the New
England farming towns, which were six
miles square. and all is traversed by
streets, wide, well constructed, perfectly neat
and crossing each other at right angles,
streets lined with houses and stores rs
compactly rs they can be built, and
crowded with moving or stationary mass
es as thick MS in our Washington street or
New York Broadway; at least for consid-
cradle distances. The population is esti-
mated generally at three millions, which
Mr.. Harris, our Minister, thinks is no ex-
aggeration. For my part, judging from
what have seen when | have gone into
the heart of the city, and crossed the city
from side to side, / should be willing to
add rs many millions more; for the living,
moving masses seen from sunrise 10 sunset,
and everywhere the same, seemed beyond