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had strength to do SO. Then, deathly
pale and painting heavily, she took from
her bosom packet of letters, written to
her by Brother Earnest. Ifthey had been
the price Of innocent blood, Minerva could
not have cast them down with more vehe-
mence before the ministry.
With solemn emphasis the senior eld-
ress spoke. "Let repentance have its
perfect work. Read the letters aloud.
Who arc they from ~
Minerva had spoken so hurriedly and
incoherently that her lovers name was
not yet known. With quivering lips she
was forced to repeat it. A bcseeohing look
at Eldress Orangia told her that the poor
young sister prayed to be spared this Or
deal of reading the letters but not an
iota ofthe cress could the eldress remove.
She could only sadly whisper, "Nay, you
must comply"
And the whole correspondence was
read, and the answers confessed, word by
word, as we'll as the SHINING sister could
remember. One letter written in Ger
man, she begged to have burned without
reading. The eldresses Of course were
ignorant of the language, and looked un.
decided.
al will burn it here right before your
eyes" entreated Minerva; and she took
from work basket belonging to Eldresi
Philomel an old tender box and flint, O
pr cious relic once belonging to Mother
Ann. With feverish haste Tshe struck
fire and the next moment Brother Err.
nests words Of love were converted into
the white ashes of her sacrifice. Think
what sacrifice, when there were pages
of rhapsody such as this:
MY heart goes out to thee, my sou
cries out to thee in yearning, passionat,
might Life has become a dream How
can think it reality? l was once sur
rounded, in my fatherland, with beautiful
high-born women who had no power owe
my heart, and here [ have yielded i
wholly to thee, my enchantress, nay, IN,
pure saint
"Oh. how vainly | strive against my
passion. Love at its widest was never g.
uatamed as the love Of my undiscipline'
heart and yet it is pure, Tor l woul,
not touch the hem of thy garment, 20
raise my eyes to meet the heavenly-pur
brightness Of thine, unbid1en by thee
Pages and pages like this, written by
Shaker brother to Shaker sister, i
Wisdom's valley Truly the "natura
affections" were hydra.headed monste
iu that afflicted vale about those times
Fifteen Years ShakereSS," in tn
GaIaxu for March.
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MORE ABOUT THE INDIAN TERRITORIES.
The projected territorial bills still excite
considerable interest in Washington and
Western circles, and seem likely to win
favorable place in the minds Of Congress
men. They are quite numerous, and it
is evident that from some one of the
many the model one may be evolved. The
present Indian Territory, very properly
called an chronological and geographical
jumble," was the result of series Of
Government land concessions, from 1879
to lS40, from the time that certain tribes
were bribed to move across the Mississippi
and get out Of civilizations way up to
the time that the Creeks and Cherokees
sold out and betook themselves to remote
wilds. The Government paid the Indi-
ans SS5, 900 900 for the land when some
GROWERS are accustomed to say the white
man took from his dusky brother. The
Greeks received twenty-five millions OF
dollars for 25,000,000 of acres the
Choctaws twenty-three million for 90
100000 acres, the Cherokees fifteen mil
I llOuS lJI ,OOO,OOO dClCc, duu tuC NuiNh
asaws three millions for 6,750,000 acres.
1t was believed that the Indians, massed
upon one reservation, and accustomed to
certain regulations, would succumb to
civilization when it arrived whore they
WERE But the combination, forced as it
was, of so many heterogeneous elements
proved unfortunate ia the extreme. The
intelligent indians became shareholders
aud educated their children in the East
and the internal diss ,nsions became SC
numerous that there was imminent dan
ger of very serious outbreaks every year
1t is evident that there must be a very
bold and general reform in the matter O.
caring Cor our Indians. The boasted
Cherokee civilization, for instance, ha'
been shown, under the present system, te
be gigantic fraud. Boudinot The most
intelligent and energetic man among the
Cherokees, condemns the present "Chero
kee nation" as an unsuccessful expert
ment He says that very large pro
portion of their money is used up by the
one-horse pleaders and attorneys whom
they sustain at Washington, and that
their seminaries and other institutions o
learning are oltener visited by tho ow
and the bat than by the rising generation
of Cherokees He and the more advanc
ed and reasonable of the Cherokees ar,
in favor OF a remodcling of the Indiar
Territory. The principal tribes to be
i'm nediately effee' d by the construction
of the proposed new Territory of Okla
homa are tho Choctaws and Ohickasaws
numbering about II 900 the Cherokees
$4,000 strong the Greeks, 10000; tn,
, Seminoles, 300; the Kiowas and Com
anches, 1850; the Pottawatomies, 1900
the Sacs and Foxes, each small tribes
the Seminoles and the Neosho tribes
The Creeks are an industrious and fruga
people; the Cherokees are shrewd, prac
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TuE DENIL IN ScHooLs.-The Bible in
ou, common schools has excited consider
able attention of late. This is all right ;
but | cannot help regretting that the
Devil in our public schools has not receiv-
ed little of their attention before this.
That he is in the public schools, and rag
ing and rampant there, no one can doubt
for moment, who reads, occasionally
the accounts of brutal and barbarous
punishments to which little children are
subjected in some cases. Or that he is
among the pupils, as well as among the
teachers, no one can well doubt who has
sent little child into them, q guiltless
of evil or uuclean thoughts as a newly
fallen snowflake, and had him come home
in short time, contaminated almost be.
yond belief by the vileness and filth
which he has seen and heard and learned
there. Ministers should be the jealous
guardians of the public purity and they
should lead the public, in all matters Of
education and culture. not only in gen.
eral way, but down into the details Of
life.
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SEALS OF ALAskA.-The islands of
Alaska are the summer resort Of seals in
immense numbers, but where they spend
their winters is an unsolved mystery.
Sufficient search has been made for their
winter abodes, with view to taking their
skins, to show that they do not land in
any considerable numbers on any known
ground. They begin to leave the islands
early in October, and by the middle OF
December have all left, and none are seen
again until April or May. a few hundred
mostly young pups, are taken by the
Indians around Sitka, 1900 miles east o f
the islands, during the month Of Deoem-
Der, again in March, on their return TO
the islands, and in February off the coast
of British Columbia; but in such small
numbers as to make no appreciable diff
erence in the immense number that visit
the islands annually. 1t is claimed by
the natives that the seals return invaria-
bly, the second year to their places Of
birth, and, when not too often disturbed
by driving, continue to do SO, In order
to test the truth of this story Mr.. Bryant,
Special Agent of the Treasury Depart
ment at st. Pauls Island, has instituted
an experiment of an eminently practical
character, although it might not com
mand the entire approval of Mr., Bergh,
whose jurisdiction, however, does not ex-
tend to Alaska. He had one hundred
male pups selected before leaving, on
rookery one mile north of the village
and marked by cutting off their right ear
and like number by cutting off the lelt
ear, on rookery to the south of the
village. This has been done for two
years, and next year the first will be old
enough to be taken, when the result will
be ascertained.
1t is evident that sharks or other vorac-
Gus fish prey on the young pups while in
the water, from the fact that of more
than million pups annually leaving the
islands, not one third return to them in
the spring.
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Love Among the shakers.

The day of confession came at last and
with it most unlocked for and terrible
disclosures. To the Mortified amazement
Of the assembled elderesses, and amid our
choking tears, Sister Minerva went down
"into the valley Of humiliation" With
q bitter struggle for composure, her dark
eyes dilating, her beautiful face white
aud set, she confessed that the ''baneful
passion Of natural love" had crept with
insilicus but giant strides into her heart.
What must have hcen her conviction OF
sin when, with the courage of despair, she
admitted that Brother Earnest had ab.
sorbed all her thoughts for many months.
She had borrowed his books, learned his
language, talked to him until, suddenly
awakened and alarmed at the sympathy,
congeniality, and admiration which she
felt with and for him, she would have fed
from the pleadings of her own heart ifshe
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~ REAT BARGAIN !

The subscriber offers for sale the House and five
acres Of choice land belonging 10 the Chandler
Tilotson estate. The house and barn are new,
convenient and painted. They were built by n
first class workman. There is good we'll OF wat
er close by the door; thrifty young orchard up
on the lot; and evory foot Of the land can be
plowed. This place is situated in the thriving
village of East Mddlebury, and has the most de-
sirable location in it. Any one wanting such n
place cannot fail Of being suited with II.
4e;4w ALLEN F0oTE, Admr
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NEW ADVERTISER ENTS

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JAMES FISK.

Containing a full account of all his schemes,
enterprises and assassination Biographies OF
Vanderbilt, Drew, and other great X. II. Finan-
ciaI magnates Great frauds of the Tammany
Ring. Brilliant pen pictures in the Lights and
Shadows of New York. Life of Josie Mansfield
the siren. How beautiful woman captivated and
ruined her-yictims. Life of EDWARD ;. STOKES,
illustrated octave of over 500 pages Send Sl.OO
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lars free UNION PUBLISHING CO., Phila-
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Mrs. DORIS Poems.

We clip the following review of Mrs.
DORIS Poems from the New York Eren.
ing Post, edited, as our readers know, by
William Cullen Byrant.
In the poem in this volume the author
has forestalled criticism in very grace
ful plea for the minor poets, since the
little birds and flowers and stars have
their part in making up the melody and
fragrance and brilliance of the universe.
The plea, we think, will not be disallow-
ed by any reader of catholic taste, for
there is much beauty in Mrs. DORIS
verses which need not be sought for un.
der vague verbiage or in hidden mean.
ings, but blooms openly to the eye like
the daisies in the meadow. This simple
uninvolved and perfectly ineligible
style in rhymed measures is highly to b,
commended in this day Of Brownin:
worship. when poets land We fear W,
must say, especially the women) imagin,
that if they can only become as obscur,
as the great Anglo. o.Florentine-we meal
Elizabeth, now, and not Robert the,
will attain unto all her mighty power
If they can but get verb hopelessly in
to difficulties, and render it well nigh in
possible for the reader to connect sub
ject with its predicate, they are happy
Mrs. Dorr deserves the greater praise 70
having avoided this mistake, inasmuch a
it is quite evident Mrs. Browning is hel,
by her in great esteem. Indeed, in IN
Friend y (page 62 of this volume) sh
tells US, after running over the list of tn
great singers whom she loves, that ther
is another,
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The New York Tribnne thinks that
Disraelis acrimonious attack on the
Queens speech caused Gladstone to lose
his temper, and hence his talk about pre-.
posterous demands. The Times says "it
suits some hare.braiped writers to get up
a war cry, but the bulk Of the people in
the United States and England know
that war between two such nations would
be a disgrace to civilization, and they are
not likely 10 be bounded into it by pas
sionate journalists"
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An invulnerable Louisville lad f,'l
through hatchway from the top to the
bottom of seven story warehouse one
day last week, and received no serious
injury.
f. E. Daring a recent cold snap d county
Court u nTesesfaa't9 adjoprn until tic
county could tofrSy i've dollars of'the
dsRusy sheriff ft to h sSS q y beating Me
'ssSf ssrfI .inOm1sY 10 v,se sssa
oh cd g ts'ovsb yiissHIss vIsa dos !,
u assesAs ~. sspss a sss. .v'sss ssirtsS
Ss4sS .SasaSS 10 ss.sssls-ss saS On
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seer

-priestess, seer,
Bay-wreathed poet, three in one
Star crowned angel, singing clear,
Who're there is need of sun
Thou whose Florence mourns thee still,
Less as woman then as saint
Whose Aurora's voice can thrill
With new life hearts long a-fant.
The first poem in this collection, "The
Dead Century" is review of what was
done for progress and humanity in the
one hundred years from ITO to 1870,
and the great deeds of the nations are re.
cited with an elevation of language and
of thought beiitting the dignity of the
theme. The other subjects of the volume
are various-phases of nature, incidents
of the war, moods of consciousness in the
writer, passing suggestions of the pathet-
ic or the beautiful in the outer world, de-
votional feeling, ard the like; but it is
remarkable that tho very sweet and ten
der "Dedicatory" is the only poem in the
collection referable strictly to the inspira.
tion of that passion which mostly causes
poets to sing. As poem illustrating at
once Mrs. DORIS tenderness of sentiment
and music of versifcaton, we transfer to
our columns the one entitled without and
Within"
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COLDS & COUGH

Remember that neglected colds bring early cof-
fins. If you have n cough whether with sens-
BILE cold or without it, take instant pains to get
rid of it. OF all remedies for this purpose,
DODD'S NERVlNE is the most popular. For
sale by all druggists d9;wi
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ERUIT TREES.
TOR SALE.

A valuable farm in ShorehaIn. Addison County,
Vermont, of 10 acres. Situated within three
quarters of a mile of Churches, Academy and
Post Office, and half mile of District School
house and Cheese Factory. Three miles of De-
pot and Steamboat landing Said farm is well
divided into meadow, pasture and wood. Well
watered with running water ut house and barns.
young orchard in bearing. Dwelling house
and outbuildings in good repair Suitable foi
sheep raising or dairying purposes
4s;llw q. Z. RCli.
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TJOMES FOR SALE,

III IN SHOKEHAM NILLAUEI VI
Two or three houses and lots in good locality,
at prices from $500 to $1,000 each ! iron axle
wagon, 10 use single or double, with pole and
thiils, and hayrack, &c; and other things too
numerous TO mention. For information and
terms, call on the subscriber in shoreham village.
Z. s. ATWOOD.
sborebam. Vt, Nov. q, 1871, 36;n
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HOWE'S IMPROVED SCALES.
THE BEST IN USE.

Earl 4 Clay have the entire agency for those
Celebrated 6rocers and other kinds of lIowe's
Scales. Having used them ourselves, in our es-
tablshment for a number of yeara, we can speak
confidently of their superiority over other scales
use. We can supply all kinds from the mons.
ter car and hay scale, to the small grocer-all
perfect-all right 5liu
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s6,iGs farms in all.
A Northern gentleman, who was late
ly prospecting in Virginia, declared
that there were three notable wants Of
the State Roads" Roads" Roads -
While Virginia boasts of having nearly
completed within her limits fifteen hun
dred miles Of railroad, At cost exceed
ing sixty millions of dollars, her wretch
ed country roads which lie about the
rail, and afford the inter-communications
of neighborhoods, are the same disgrace
to the State that they were generation
ago and it is not unusual for the trav-
eler to find Just at the depot where he
dismounts from swift, luxurious cars,
naught of road but the red CALLED strip
through old fields or the primitive woods
that served thirty or even fifty years ago
the limited means of the pioneer and the
6eld-hand. This is an especial nuisance
and obstruction to the farmer. 1t is cal
culated, for instance, that the Nirginian
spends about four times as much power
to cart the same amount of produce as Il
New England or Pennsylvania farmer
does.-E. A. Pollard, in OH AND New
for March.
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Our SUN. Professor Young of Dart
mouth College-whosc position as a
scientific authority has been acknow ledg-
ed in England as well as at home-has
recently been delivering lecture on the
sun, which puts that subject in power
full light, if we may use the term. He
records an explosion occurring not long
since on the surface Of the sun, which
sent portions of matter to hight Of at
least 100000 miles. With regard to
the distance of the sun from the earth, it
is now fixed at between 81 100000 and
100000 of miles, with 4 margin of
uncertainty consisting Of about 800 900
miles, which will be settled propably by
future observations. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that the astronomers have cut
off between three and four millions Of the
distance which most of us used to accept
in our schoolboy days. However, they
probably think they have left sufficient
now, for Professor Young says that il
our Puritan Fathers had set out from the
sun at the same time they did from Eng.
laud, and had travelled uninterruptedly
by rail or otherwise at the rate Of forty
miles an hour, they would be due here il
1888 Again, if sound throughout the
solar system should have the same velo
city that it has in our atmosphere, tht
noise of an explosion on the suns surface
would be fourteen years in reaching the
earth's surface.
Gravity becomes so increased at the
sun that bodies would weigh twenty.eight
times as much there as here, so that ar
earthly lady Of one hundred pounds
wei light would become as unwieldy there
as an elephant. The substance of thu
sun Prof. Young regards as probably
gaseous, though there is difference o
opinions on that point. The temperature
is enormous, something like 10000, ,O0C
Fahrenheit. Herschel estimated that i
rod of ice 4o miles in diameter wer,
darted into the sun with the velocity o
light, it would never reach it. Wha
keeps up this temperature is yet unsolv
ed mystery. There is nothing to show
any diminution in the suns heat sine
human observations began to be recorded
Following the analogy that pail of wa
ter freezing does not sink below th
freezing point until all the water is fro
zen, the sun may be undergoing change
which ar sensible only at remote periods
which may explain the difieren e between
the temperature of the earth now aud il
the geologic eras of the past.
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the celebrated X. kid jewelry, &c, &c., which we
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Vergennes o'iu
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formed, WIN proper care, real lnulaii
nation.
TuE OPIUM TRADE WITH CHINA. A
recently published report by a journal of
political economy shows that the opium
trade with China is of very great extent
and Importance. Nearly all the opium
introduced into China comes from the In
dies. Persia furnishes only an insignifi-
cant quantity. Opium is divided into
three classes-that which comes from
Maliva, from Patna, and from Benares.
The best is from Maliva, and is sold for
nearly one thousand dollars per chest of
124 pounds whereas the Patna opium
sells for about one third less. During
the first three months of 1871 the duties
levied on opium entering China amount
ed to more than 100000, and the num-
Der of chests was 12,233,050. This un-
holy commerce is almost entirely given
up to the English and Germans. Neither
the Americans nor the French occupy
with it, except on rare occasions, when
the speculative fever quite overcomes
them. In the beginning, this commerce
was fined exclusively to the Parsee houses
and some few Jewish firms established in
China. The price of the market to-day
depends upon the will Of the existing
commercial firms. No one can fight
against them. Last year, in order tc
disgust certain foreign speculators, ono
of the principal opium firms risked severa
ships and thousands of chests of opium
in dangerous navigation, for the purpose
of stocking the market. The opium habit
grows constantly in China. The import
ations were larger this year than last ; il
eight ports the augmentation was very
noticeable. In spite of the imperia
edicts, indigenous culture of the noxiou
article makes rapid progress in all th'
provinces of Manchooria. Mongolia anC
Shansi also produce opiums nearly ana
lagous to those of India. The Chimes
authorities pretend that by allowing thi
indigenous culture tosupplant importation
they can one day destroy the whole com
merce that when foreigners are no long
er interested in its culture it will be easy
oy imperial edicts, to root out the usag
oft. But the authorities will find tina
this specious reasoning harmed thei
country when they attempt to put thei
theories into practice. An increase i
the customs tax has been suggested, bu
that would be worse than useless, for i
a country like China, the moment tha
duties assume prohibitory character
is as if premium were paid on SNUG
Cling, England, by Withdrawing fror
the ignominious trade, and balancing u
the Indian budget in some more honor
able manner, can do China immense gooC
Opium is absolutely eating out the lif
of China and Cinnamon. A man VIII
gives himself up to the drugs use is n
longer good for any kind Of work. Th
best authorities say that there is but or
more degraded race on the earth tina
the opium eating Chinese, and that
the Senegal coast natives, whe give then
selves up to the passion of absinthc.