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unfulfHed.

Our little table is spread for two,
With quaint old china, gold and blue
Weird things are wrought on the homely walls
As the conjuring freight climbs and falls.
In the corner my reedy sea-chest stands,
FILLED to the brim by the busiest hands.
Wife mirrors her face in the silver tongs;
think of the morrow's rude sea songs.
have pictures, love- she says, g that
gleam
From a troubled easel-last nights dream.
A ship ashore on a cruel reef,
And a woman ringing her hands in grief
..she kneels in prayer; whirlwind wheel
uroWs out Of the dead ships plank and keel
-" She stands in the spinner's toiling place,
I'LL the rose in her cheek hath lost its grace.
s Her lessenins form is changed to wool,
Yet the hungry spindle ne'er Is full
" A weed-grown raft keeps company
With vacant boat on a saillees sea
How apt is womau's thought to build.
Where a varying dream may darken or gill
Life flies; my last sea voyage is done;
Or wind, or calm, to me It's one.
Tea things are set for a golden few
Again cur china, quaint and blue
The coniuring home-light climbs and crawl-
Der dainty lace and India shawls.
Wife mirrors her face in the silver tong;
| think Of yesterdays glad sea songs.
. Tel, love, pray, Of the ship on the reef,
And the woman ringing her hands in griei;
"Of the spinner whose white arms changed to
wool
And the hungering spindle that ne'er grew
full
There are tears imprisoned in her eyes,
Which arc looseueI soon. as her voice replies
Women will dream aui men VIII build,
And each VIII have prophecies unfulfIlei-'
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bands, their children, and for the influence
which the household brings to bear upon her
society. As home, filled with the gentle
amenities and kindly customs of refined
domestic life, its value can not be told; for
its gracious sunshine peuetrates far beyond
It's immediate circle, and acts as an educator
not only upon family but upon the community
As an unhappy, discontented' useless
fragment of a boarding-hOuse, however, the
family can hardly be said to have an exis-
tence. 1t can never crystalize or consolidate
into beauty, or order, or excellence for It
is in a constant state of disintegration, and
finds in its surrounding elements only
sources of moral deterioration and decay.
To the home Of the future will be conhded
a great work bur it is not the feeble hands
of the modern wife and mother that can ae-
complish it. Women are beginning to feel
their necessities they .are waking up fully
to the new claims, the new de-
mands made for them: but they must
prove themselves equal to the occasion. For
equal rights in the household, they must
take their share in its duties; for equal
pay they must give equal work-equal in
quality as in quantity; for equal education
they must show equal energy and aptitude
and for equal political rights, an intelligence
beyond the eternal discussion Of the trimm-
ing Of a dress or a bonnet, and an appreciation
of them as power for the general good
rather than as Il means of personal dis
tinction.
The highest and best influence Of woman
must, however. always, it seems to me, be
exerted at home. 1t is better to be the pow
er behind than the power upon the throne.
1t Is greater to make a man than to cast
vote. OF course there it no reason why w0-
man, while training men, should not cast
votes too but the last Office is inferior to
the first, or gamblers and prize-ighters
would not take their seats in our legislative
halls.
1t is the privilege Of women to do their
work, and exert their influence for the gene
raj welfare, rather than their own personal
aggrandizemeut; and if they obtain equal
possessions and equal power, they should
hold them in trust instead of appropriating
them to personal uses.
The modern wife, who demands every
thing but gives nothing in return. Is libel
upon womanhood, and has a claim upon
nDthiutr but liberation or c1uteuut
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The Garden.

What wondrous life is this lead
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters Of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarIne and curious peach
Into my hand themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as pass,
lncased with flowers, fall on grass.
Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less
Withdraws into its happiness
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, trauscendinC these,
Far other worlds and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made,
To a green thought in a green shade.
Here at the fountain's sliding foot,
Or at some fruit trees mossy root,
Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide;
There like a bird, it sits and sings,
Then whets and claps its silver Wings.
And, till prepared for longer fight,
Waves in its plumes the various light.
Such was the happy garden state,
While man there walked without mate;
After a place so pure and sweet,
What other help could yet be meet
But twas beyond "a mortal share
To wander solitary there;
Two paradises are in one,
To live in paradise alone.
How well the skillfnl gardener drew
OF flowers and herbs this dial new
Where from above the miller sun
Does through fragrant zoliac run;
And As it works, tn industrious bee
Computes its time as well rs We;
How could such sweet and Wholesome hours
BE reck0nei, but with herbs and flowers
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some fond song of his lover days, or some
childhood's ditty that falter in forgetfulness,
and drop his head upon his bosom g to muse
and brood and live again in memory with
those old faces eff his infancy, heaped over
with mound Of grass" \ fayorIte bird is
the bobolink; and from the st. Lawrence to
Terra del tuego he is a welcome visitor. Not
a child but halls his coming with delight, and
with some queer jargon or Babylonish dialect
mimies his metallic melody.-PumGu's Nd
Od-luc
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UNUSUAL RELIGIOUS SERVICES DR.. Moers Of
Piattsburgh. n. Y, gentleman Of great repute
as a medical practitioner and philanthropist,
died at his residence in Plattsburgh recently.
Dr. Moers was a staunch Presbyterian, but be
was a man Of such kindly and generous impul-
ses, attending the destitute free Of charge, and
always ministering to the needy, that he was re-
garied with feelings Of sincere respect by all
classes and creels, and in this connection we
would state a strange fact in regard to his funer-
al services While the usual Presbyterian SER
vices were being held at the residence
OF the deceased, Mass was being recited
in both the Catholic churches Of the village
for the repose Of the soul Of the deceased,
who was held in such estimation that
the Catholics, both French and Irish, desired the
funeral services of the Catholic church TO be
held. A character 50 pure and blameless as to
reconcile all differences in religious creeds is in
deed something unusual.-St .fibGns Messenger.
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on entering her teens-the French girl
would shrink from as immodest and shame
less. ''The French girl is taken early into
society, but always under her mother
wing and strict supervision and her shrink
ing modesty and timidity of manner surprise
the American or Englishman, accustomed
to the frank fearlessness of his fair young
cOmpatriots, who agree with the poet Burns
that
mans man for a that,
and by no means an alarming creature.
The Girl of the Period, as dissected in the
Saturday Rcr7ac-who doubtless exists on
that side OF the Channel, and whose imita-
tors, with the aid Of strong glasses, we can
detect on the Fifth Avenue and Broadway
even here-is unknown in France, who may
export her native follies, but never imports
even one from abroad, not being an imita-
tive country in such matters.-APpleton's 5
Journal.
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from his nostrils; but she took them be-
cause they were prettier than wild flowers.
The slip Of paper she tore into a thousand
pieces and scattered it over the spot where
the flowers had been laid But this did not
vex NJ. Hautmartin in the least, for his love
was as inmcasunbly great after its kind.
Annoyance the third.
At last. however. in the course of c0nver-
sation with the Judge, she discovered that be
was not the donor Of the flowers. Who
could it be? Marriette was ast0nished when
she made this unhoped-ior discovery, and
from that time forward she took the flowers
with much more pleasure from the rock, but
who had left them there? Marriette be-
came "a most unusual thing for a young
girD very curious. She guessed trst one,
and then another. Young man in In Napoulc.
but it was not to be guessed. She watched
and listened until late az night; she rose
earlier In the morning but she watched and
listened in vain And yet twice a weeE, the
miraculous flowers lay up1n the rock, and on
the slip of paper that was Eound round
them She read the silent sigh addressed to
her. Dear Morr1ftet' This was suiici-
ent to have excited the curiosity OF the most
Indifferent person. Unsatistod curiosity how
ever, becomes at last positive torture. An
novauce the fourth.
On Sunday Father jerome again preach
ed uuon the text Wonderful are the dis
rensati9ns Of heaven" and MarIicttc hoped
thar. Boy some wonderful di,pensation, She
would he enabled To discover the donor of
the flowers. Father jerome, thought she, is
always right.
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NUMBER 81.
GENERAL NEWS.

fltty-iour farms, embracing $500 acres, were
settled IN Florida last year, under the provisions
Of the Homestead law
An ivory tusk, six feet three inches long, and
- II inches in circumference. was recently ex-
humed in Montana. 1t was found buried in the
sand, - feet below the surface.
The Union Pacific Railway has two mines Of
excellent quality Of bituminous coal on its route,
one near Laramie and the other at Bitter Creek.
The New York people are to vote at the No
vember election, upon the new constitution
| framed blythe convention of 1867 They will vote
upon it in four parcels.
Sentence to be shot July %, was passed. on
three men at Salt Lake City, few days since,
for the murder Of Alvin Russell a; Wasltch, two
months ago.
There are only twenty-five persons in Oregon
who pay income tax on sums exceeding ten
thousand dollars. The largest income was $3.50
333, returned by the agent Of an estate, and the
largest personal income was =iS,0l4
One Of the benefits Of Chinese immigration,
hitherto overlooked, is just coming into notice.
Ii utilities rats heretofore one Of the most useless
as well as destructive Of the animal creation.
The Chinese viii eat them and render the whole
race extinct
indianapolis papers say that iron can be made
cheaper there than in Pennsylvania and Brazil.
Coal smets with Lake Superior or Missouri ore
without col,ing
The Germans having successfully shown Gen.
sherman to be one Of themselves, have now dis
covered that Abraham Lincoln was Of Teutonc
descent. His grindiather's name thev assert
was Liugen, and lie lived at Stollwerder, near
Migieburg
The fruit cror, er tb. e. iIar, S.,t bs. .bsa, CON,
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Apropos oil "en- bntier s arrival IN Washing
ton, the correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com
,..ref,l in that CITY. zoe. into an ANALYSIS If bi.
.t........ .-.I - .t.. -...i. g. -.-.,.
from "Aich we make 'ne Io.o"'ns extracts
Leaving ont Of eonsiier,-isu all divine sim. -
ards of measurement. | have for Ben Blt--~ In
evb,u.rihIe admiration The mistake ~ the
public and press in estimating Bl.-er is their
sttemut 10 measure him bv the doctrine. af the
New Testament. He Is not o. De admired ;,. tbi,
wav Butler Is worldly. the uorI,Ilis.+ ,,.-. in
Ameri,a. and +, TO be c5mDured wholly hv tle
laws If uhv.ical dvuauic-- You can not NUT
him down Win sriars or sermons He NH i've
in srire of. and. if Won choose. fr9n ,fg..., and
flourish yi-5rau.lv. ami make 4 f.-1rs in The
country for twenty wear. vet plrfop Mira
lean. Commoius. ana the devil leave rr- some
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singular accident happened at Astley's
Theatre in London a few days since In the
play of the Battle Of Waterloo Napoleon
with his staff rides upon the stage on horseback
On this occasion an aide-de-camps's horse sud-
denly became restiye and unmanageable. II
prance1 about the stage, then backed on to the
tOOtlights, which he smashed, and finally fell
backwards into the orchestra, throwing his rider,
and creating considerable alarm among the Oc-
cupants of the stalls The musicians tried to
escape from the dangerous proximity Of their
unwelcome visitant; but one had his collar bone
broken, and had to be conveyed to the hospital.
The damage done 10 the instruments was con-
siderable. The horse was with some difficulty
extricated after delay Of about twenty minutes.
The London Court Journal thus notices the
new printing presses of the London Times,
which seem to be something like the new Ameri-
can Bullock press judging from tie des-
criptiOn 1.-The Times is now printed by new
machinery, so perfect and so simple that it takes
but one engineer and three laborers to print off
the whole edition of the Times. The principle
Of the machine is that the paper is not cut into
sheets before it is printed, but is brought to the
machine in a long roll. 1t passes through the
machine, is printed on both sides, and is dvid-
ed as it passes out, the whole process being auto
matte. The idea has long been worked at by
engineers, but has only lately been practically
carried out, under the superintendent of Mr.
Macdonald, the engineer who has Icharge of the
whole Times machinery The new machine is
called the Walter press, in honor Of the chief
proprietor Of the Times 1t will quite super
cede the Hoe Machine, and is an improvement
upon the admirable French Marinoni machine
upon which the Echo is printed
New York state now has twenty cities, two
Cohoes and Watertown, having been incorpor-
ated by the last Legislature. Rome will be the
next
Ice is artiicially manufactured at New Orleans
abundantly that it is retailed to consumers at
one cent per pound and in large quantities much
lower
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tRENcH MOTHERS AND DAuCHTEBs.-The de-
yotion Of the French mother to her children
is very great, and her household duties ab-
sJr5 much of her time while nowhere can
be seen greater displays of devoted affection
and dcm0nstmtive fondness than in a well or
dered French household. frequently, even
atterthc marriage Ofthe younger members, the
united families continue to live together un-
der the same roof: and the pleasing spec
tacle it often exhibited of three generations
sitting daily at the same board, and dwell
ing together under the patriarchal control
Of the aged grandparents. The separation
Of families, almost universal with US, where
the new scions are usually transplantcd to
the West, and the parents are left solitary
in old age, while their offspring are peopling
new regions far from the old homestead, Is
not so common in France, and the tendency
is 10 cluster together, not to scatter. Thus
the parental influence is felt and exerted
throughout life, the experience and wisdom
Of age ever tempering the headlong ardor Of
youth and the maturer plans Of manhood;
for the foundation Of all society is in the fam
ily, and the stronger that tie, the healthier
and the happier will be the society built
upon it.
In all societies, woman gives it the tone,
whether as mother, as wife, or head OF
a household and the training she receives
determines the measure Of her Influence,
and the good or evil effects it produces.
The training of the French girl is exception
ally good for this purpose, and her purity
of mind and freshness of feeling preserved
by the system, which is sneered at by those
who do not comprehend it. Tho parental
SUPERVISION of the boys is very strict but
that over the glrls is stricter still, and they
are treated as children up to the period Of
assuming the obligations of the heads of
households themselves, and guarded as care
fully from all contact with the other sex as,
under different system, in the East. The
mind and heart Of young French girl, ten
derly murtured, are like virgin page of a
paper on which no impressions have yet
been made-innOcent of evil thoughts or
deeds, and unhackneyed by premature ex-
perienees. The will of the parents has ever
been the child's law; and the pernicious
make-belieye love-making styled % Irritation"
in which young America indulges freely
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Tue LAST MASSACRE IL NEW ZEALAND The
English papers give the particulars of the mas
sacre Of eight settlers at Taranaki, New Zealand,
by the natives The account says
On Friday night, the 18th Of February, or
early on Saturday morning. party Of natives
must have called at Lieut.. Gasgoyne's house and
tomahawked first him and then his wife and
three children. All their bodies were found to-
gether; his fully dressed, the children in their
night-clothes. and Mrs. Gasgoyne's partially so,
as If she hal been disturbed by noise, and had
attempted to dress herself in consequence. The
bodies Of two men. Edward Richards and John
Milne, were also found similarly tomahawked; I;
and, close to where the redoubt had stood before
the party burnt it, that of the Rev. John White
ly was found lying, shot with five bullets, beside
bis dead horse He was the eldest Of the Wesley
an missionaries still in harness, having arrived
n New Zealand in 1888 During the iereeness
Of the late wars his life seemed safe every, where
and the present determination the rebels could not
be more thorougly exempifed than in murder
ing and stripping him Of his coat and waistcoat.
The generally supposed head Of the small party
who committed these murders was a native, for
whom he stood godfather when he baptized
him.
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A MoCNrIS or FLE-H.-The largest elephant
Ia the world arrived at New York by Il ,,eam-
ship Halsa;ia. She is called the " Empress, -
is about - years old aul stanls twelve lee, and
a half high At an early hour the Hamburg
steamer docka NJ Hoboken was crowded w.,a an
eager throng. who waited patiently for the cuor-
nous animal TO come forth At last caue the
Empress slowly and Deliberately turuiugslarp
at the caug-plank she suddenly gave asnor and
a roar that sounded like distant thunder. and
seemed disposed to make trouble The seessr
sprang ahead. and ia the most endearing MAJ
ner persuaded Her Highness to descend Tie
ship almost careencl as she advanced Lite
more to the side, and one huge foot, Ike pilla,
Of the Custom House, rested On the gang plank.
There was something absolutely touching in the
way the gigantic beast would reach forth her
trunk and put it around the keeper, who would
nat it and again invite the Empress to come on
and not be afraid The huge animal slowly de
sccnded. the crowd parting silently as she al
yanced. When she reached the dock the people
cheered loudly, and the keeper put his arms
around her trunk and kissed it with delight As
for her Ilighue s. She trumpeted out her pleas
urc IN a series Of whistle. and screams. Then
advancing stately up the wharf, and reaching
terra frmd once again, she expressed her salts
faction by taking dirt in her trunk, and tossing
it up on her back. Her Hghness will be exhib-
tied in Central Park.