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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
THE FIRST VlOLETS.
BY SIR Il. BULwER LYrToS.

Who that has loved knows not tender tale,
Which flowers reveal when lips are coy to tell?
Whose youth has paused not dreaming in the vale
We're tie wrath violets dwell?
Io where they shrink along the lonely brake,
Under the lifeless, melancholy tree
Not Yet the cuckoo sings, nor glides the snake,
Nor Wild thyme lures the bee.
Yet all their sight and scent entranced and thrill
ed,
All June seems golden in the April skies
How sweet the days We yearn for TN inih'ieu
distant Paradise!
Dear land to which Desires forever fees,
Time doth no Present to the grasp allow;
Say in the fixed eternal shall we sieLe
At last the neetinS Now'
Dream not OF days to come of that unknown
Whittier hupO wanders (mazc without c!ue0
Give their true wtchery to the howers-thine own
Youth in their youth renew.
Avarice! remember when the cowslip's gold
Iured and yet lost its glitter i'll the grasp:
Do thy boards glad thee more than those OF old ?
Those withcred in thy clasp.
From ESQ the hands falls palsied-it Was THEs
That thou vert rich thy Golfers are lie
Alas, poor fool Joy IL the wealth OF men,
q And care the poverty.
Come foiled Ambition what hast thou desired
Ennire and power? 10 wanderer tempeSt-tossrd .
These once we're thine, when hfes gay spring ILL.,
spired ~
Thy soul with glories lost.
Let the flower charm thee to the jocnnd prime,
When DER the stars rapt fancy traced the Quart :
Thou hadst an angels powers in that blest tlht--
Thy realm a human heart
Hark! hark again the tread of bashiul feet!
Hark the boughs ruftliug round the try5tlng
place!
Let air again with one dear breath be rweet,
Earth fair with one dear face!
Bref-liyed first flower, hrst love! the hours Htea'
on,
To prank the world in summers pomp OF nue.;
But what shall hannt beneath hercer sun
Worth what We lose in you?
Oft Inv A flower, leaf in come loved book
We mark the lines which charm us most. Rotracc
Thy life, recall its loyclieSt passage; look.
Ucud roiicts marks the pldcc
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
Selected Miscellany.
AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION.

Do you ever wish In your lonely hour
That you were u man with mans great pow
era,
That you could hew with brawny arm,
That you speak with a drattan's charm,
That you could be In the Nations realm
A Cesar ruling his fellow-men
Do you never long to be strong aud great3
Or are you content with your woman's fate?
In my darkest moments of deep distress
have never wished myself more nor less;
l have never pined for d mans strong power,
Or implored my God for richer dover
Than the tender heart of woman true,
The impulse to wish and the will to do
Sweet deeds Of mercy and lovely grace
That make Sunshine in u shady place.
have home. where my charities have full play,
To expand, like u rose, In the light OF day;
I've the world, where the poor and the SAL
abound,
I can pour my balm in the aching wound;
What more have you? from my platform high
Nv woman's weak hands can touch the SKY,
Can yours do more? though you plan ana pot
My friend, what are you that am not
Two inches there are in the worlds great wall,
We can I'LL them, and that is all;
Mans statue stands with taller height,
; Bnt womans CLEANS with pnrer white'
What If her size IL somewhat low,
What if she make lesser show,
She ILLS her niche, man hllB his, ireudi
Now, what is the difference III the emp?
thand God that in gracious mood
He gave me the crown Of my wonanhoou;
That he fenced me in with womans state
Tnat he gave me all of Il wolnal's tate
Her tears to shed and her woes 80 feel,
Her heart Gs true az the truest steel;
And II to my feet narro paths are given,
know that III easier reach yon heaven.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
Glazed Promenades.

The almost inexhaustable possibili-
ties of glass in the amelloration of the
winter climate of high latitudes are, as
yet, scarcely dreamed of. How easily
and inexpensively the cold, bleak, wind
swept streets of our nothern cities, III
winter, could be converted into delight
ful promenades by enclosing the side
walks of the principle streets with glass
supported in light iron frame work
These frames would not rise from the
curbstone to the height of the lower
stories of the buildings, with an in-
clined roof the width of the sidewalks.
The iron side framework would be SO
constructed that the glass, formed, in
large, thick panes, could be easily taken
out in summer and replaced at the ap,
proach of winter. The glass in the
roof would remain permanently, and IL
warm weather would be covered witt
awnings. The glass roof OF the arcades
would be continued over the cross
streets, although the sides would ne
cestarily be opon for the passage OF We
hicles. Where the enclosed open upon
cross streets, there would be severa
light doors, 50 hung as to swing either
way, thus permitting the tide of prom
enaders to flow through without hin
drance. There doors could remain
open, except on very cold or stormy
days. 1t would be the duty of the po'
lice to regulate the temperature OF the
arcadet by opening or closing the ven
tilators as occasion required. The
readers can imagine in some degree the
change that would attend promenade
we will say on fremont street, II the
sidewalks of that thoroughfare were en-
closed as has been described. Ladies,
even invalids, could do their shopping
or visiting, or take their needful exercis
during the most inclent weather.
admits of no question that any bushes
street or block that first has glass arcade
along its sidewalks will attract to itse
trade enough to pay the cost OF Il
glass and iron enclosures many tim
over. II nees no very ardent imagin
ton to conceive the paradise nothe
city would become in wieter if the sid
walks Of all its principal streets we
thus enclosed in crystal. The gre
4 annoyances of dust and cold, Of wi
and rain, would be reduced almost tt
u nullity. Our civilization is hard
/. worthy Of the name till such oonsumu
1t tion il brought about.---Aaa"fic.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
THE RUINED TEMPLE.
An Ancsory by the Author of the sch"n-
berg Gotta Family.

DtfS tOatu
The temple was in ruins, and the |
priestess sat, u captive in chains, among |
its broken and scattered fragments. 1t
had been temple Of the most ancient
form, open to the sky, beautiful beyond
any temple upon earth, beautiful and
sacred and some remnants OF its beauty |
hung about it still-fragments OF ex-
auisite carvings and broken shafts OF
graceful columns. But everything was
shattered and out OF place, the window
tracery shivered in athousand fragments
and strewn on the ground, columns pros
trate, sacred vessels lying rusted among
the weeds, the pure spring which had
eushed from beneath the altar choked
up and dry, and Instruments of sacred
music mute and broken on the ground.
On the walls in some places were the
traces of violence, but it was remarka-
BILE that they seemed to have been AS
saulted only from within. Indeed, the
temple had been fortress, so impreg-
nably situated and built that except
from within not one stone could ever
have been displaced.
This was, in fact, the saddest part of
its history. The temple had been
desecrated before it had been ruined,
and in its ruin it was temple still, hut,
alas no longer sacred to Him in whose
honor it had been reared. Many sense
less or loathsome idol images were
carved on the walls, strangely contrast
ing, in their shapelessness or deformlty,
with the symmetry Of every fragment OF
the original structure. On the broken
altar in the center stood an image OF
the priestess herself. This was the
earliest idol which had entered there,
and with the entrance of this the ruin
had begun. The enemy who had, with
subtle batteries, introduced this idol
had ever since had access to the temple,
and step by step the priestess had sunk
beneath his power. He had led into
wild orgies, in which she herself had
defaced the delicate tracery and torn
down the walls and when she awoke
from the frenzy and wept, as sometimes
she would, he silenced her tears with
blows or with mocking threats OF the
vengeance of Him to whom the temple
had been consecrated. Sometimes
however, she woke to moments full
consciousness of the desolation aroun'
her, and then she would wall and la
ment until he seemed to fear some un
seen friend would hear; and at sucl
seasons he grew more gentle, and re
newed the old persuasions and fiatterie
> by which he had misled her at first
? He would even encourage her ut times
' when all other methods failed, to tr.
and collect the scattered stones, am
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
Influence of Fishing on Character.

Fishing teaches perseverance,. The
man in Punch who on Friday did not
know whether he had had good sport,
because he only began on Wednesday
morning, is Il caricature but, like all
caricatures, has an element of truth in
il. To succeed as fisher, whether OF
the kingly salmon or the diminutive
gudgeon, an ardor is necessary which ls
not damped by repeated want of success;
and he who is hopeless because he has
no sport ut first will never full y appreci-
ate fishing SO, too, the tyro, who
catches the line in rock, or twists it in
an apparently inexplicable manner in
tree, soon finds that steady patience
will set him free far sooner than impetu-
GUS yigor or ruthless strength. The
skilled angler does notabuse the weather
or the water in important despair, but
! makes the most of the resources which
he has, and patiently hopes an improve
ment therein. Dellcacy and gentleness
IRE also taught by fishing. Look at the
thin link of gut and slight rod with
which the huge trout or "neven-endins
monster of II salmon" is to be caught.
No brute force will do there every
struggle of the prey must be met by
iudicious yielding on the part OF the
captor, who watches carefully every
motion, and treats its weight by giving
line, knowing at the same time-none
better-when the full force Of the butt
s to be unhinchingly applied. Does
not this sort of training have an effect
on character? Will not man educated
in fiy-fishing find developed in him the
tendency to be patient, to be persever-
ing, and to know how to adapt himself
to circumstances Whatever be the
fish he is playing, whatever be his line,
will he not know when to yield and
when to hold fast? But fishing, like
hunting, is solitary. The zealot among
fisherman will generally prefer his own
company to the society of lookers-on,
whose advice may worry him, and whose
presence may spoil his sport. The sal
mon-fsher does not make much OF
companion of the gillie who goes with
him. and the trouter does best when
absolutely alone and nothing is 80 apt
:, to prove u tyrant, and an evil oneoas the
love of solitude. On the other hand,
>. the fisher is always under the influence,
and able to admire the beauties ofnature.
Whether he be upon the crag- bound
= loch or by the sides of the Laughing
burn of highland countries, or prefer
the green banks of southern rivers, he
can enjoy to the full the many pleasures
which existence alone presents to those
who admire nature. All this exercises
a softening influence on his character
Read the works Of those who wrote Oh
fshing-Scrope, Walton, Davy, as IN
stance. Is there not very gentle spir
breathing through them9 What is thei
> rude. or coarse, or harsh in the trr
fisher? Is he not light and delicat
:, and do not his words and actions fall I
: softly rs his flies ?-London Society.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
The Province of Criticism.

OF mans merit only his own age
has the right to Judge. Bnt an age
has the right to judge of another age.
If Voltaire has judged the man Cor
nellie, he is absurdly enyious If he has
judged the age of Corneille and the po-
sition of the dramatic art of that time,
he can do so, and our age has the right
to examine the taste of proceedings ages.
have never read Voltaire's notes on
Corneille, nor wished to read them,
Notwithstanding that they stared at me
from all the mantel-shelves Of Paris
when they appeared but / have hap
pened to open the book two or three
times for detraction, and each time !
have thrown in aside with Indignation
becauss I have stumbled upon gram
matical notes which told me that word
or phrase of Corneille's was not good
French. This has appeared to me as
absurd as though / was told that Cicero
or Virgil, though Italians did not write
in us good Italian rs Boccaccio or Arios-
to. What impertinence Every age
and every country has living language
and all are equally good. Each writes
its own. We do not know what will
happen to the French language when
it shall have become dead but it may
be that prosperity will write French in
the style of MOntaigne and Corneille,
and not in that of Voltairc. There
would be nothing strange in that. We
write Latin in the style of Plautus, Ter
ence, Lucretius, and not in that OF Pru-
dentius, Sidonius, Apollinaris, though,
without question, the Romans were in
iinitely better informed in the fourth
century concerning the sciences, astron-
omy, gerometry, medicine, literature,
etc, than they were in the times of Ter
ence and Lucretius. It is matter OF
taste, and we can foresee nothing about
the tastes of posterity, If indeed We
have posterity and universal delugc
does not interfere in the matter. --1bbt
Gaiidni.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
Low a Rattlesnake Bites.

A writer in Chambers Journal con-
tradicts q popular belief as to the man
ner in which snakes bite and inject their
poison. He says {: ~ can only speak
for the rattlesnake, it is true with
every other venomous reptile the ortho-
dox accounts may be correct, but the
rattlesnake does not send its poison
through its fangs. 1t is always said
that the two fangs, which answer some-
what to the human "eye-tseth," are
hollow and perforated at the bottom,
and that the poison flows from the re-
servoir through this canal to the point
of the fang, and thence into the wound.
The rattlesnake's fang is certainly hol-
low, but the point is solid, and the pois-
on-bag, to use a very homely simile,
may be compared in its position to a
gum-boil when the animal strikes the
pressure instantly causes drop of ven
ON to run down outside the tooth into
the puncture.
az dare say this will be controverted,
and therefore at once give an authori-
ty to be referred to. Mr.. W. r. Nor
ley, chief surveyor Of the North and
South and United States Central rail
ways, running through Colorado and
New Mexico, is skilled naturalist, who
has killed several hundred of these rep
tiles, has carefully examined them, and
has made them bite when in a position
to watch them, and he can speak from
more experience than almost any Living
man, that the poison is injected in tn
manner described. This accounts TO
the fact that rattlesnake bites are some
times harmless when the sufferer is Bit
ten through cloth; the poison is Absorb
ed by the cloth, and never finds its wa
into the flesh at ALL" ~"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
Tho Mexican government has made an

Tho Mexican government has made an
official answer to the British note making de-
mand for damages in consequence Of raids
by Mexicans on British Honduras. In answer
the government says is will do everything in
it's power to prevent a repetition of these de-
predatons but refuses to entertain the pro-
position for damages. The government also
hopes England will not carry out the threat
contained in its note to invade the territory of
Mexico, should its demand not be conceded,
and declares that the Republic has always OBJ
served it's lawful obligations.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
KING BABY.

His sccptor Ia rattle,
His throne ia his mothers arms;
He reigns tiny tyrant,
Iu all his dimpled charms
Yet round his royal presence
Our loving hearts entwine;
Dictator of the cradle,
And king by right divine.
Whatever be his mandates,
No Courtiers dare rebel;
His mothers chief of the household,
Rime minister az well
III yon perambulator,
His downy car of state;
Exuct'ng, rosy monarch,
What trlumphs on him wait
In purple, ease and srlendor,.
Long. long he seeks to reign;
All hints of nose disiointed
He smiles nt with disdain
Alas that royal greatness
Should ever be disowned;
Here comes tiny stranger
King Baby is dethrowned.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
THE LITTLE FROCK.

Faded and worn In places,
Faded and worn and old,
Ny tears on II leave their traces,
As 1 smooth it out fold upon fold,
For It beareth magic power,
The fount Of my tears to unlock,
When think Of the happy hour
! fashioned that little frock.
My darling sat beside me,
With his beautiful eyes agleam,
And that was crst 1nied me
Seemed into nv heart to beam,
Az ] thought Of the wondrous mercy,
or the goodness and the love,
That prompted ''Our Father" to send me
Such an angel down from above.
MY needle few fast and faster.
My thoughts took wing, as 1t few,
To the courts Of the besSed Mast r,
From whose gates my baby came through,
And l wondered II all Gods angels
looked as pure and frail as be
II among the shining archangels
There was any more fair to sec.
But there came pale, sad stranger
Unto my house one day;
My heart stood still, as II danger
And darkness about me lay
I besought him that he would leave me,
For his touch was chill and strange,
And he laid his hand upon my baby,
Who straghtway seemed to change.
His pale little cheeks grew whittier,
His bright blue eyes grew dim,
His clasp on my tinger grew lighter,
The victory was to him
To that pale and icy monarch,
Who rulcs with relentless sway,
Who came to my home In triumph
And bore my treasure away.
But q greater than Hc remaineth
Who has broken the ban 's OF the tomb
Who hath robbed King Death of his terrors,
And lighted the pathway Of gloom;
Who promised us sweet consolation,
II we patiently bow 'neath his rod
And know he hath taken my darling
To bloom In the garden Of God.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27
News of the Week.
OFT WEST,

Tho whole matter Of treating with the
Modocs is IL he hands Of Gen. Candy. The
peace commission is failure. Everything
indicates war It il thought that Jack had
mannvered 10 get into the country east Of the
seat of war, whore for hundred Of miles no
cavalry could follow, and If he escapes to the
Pitt river country he will find plenty Of cattle
The latest ad'ces from Yerka report that
Giem has ordered an advance 20 attack the
Indians. The soldiers are already in the lava
beds following Captain Jack.
"A. j. Reynolds, sheriff Of Athens county,
Ohio is reported a defaulter in dve or seven
thousand dollars. The money il supposed to
have been a5ed in paying his election OK
penses.
The Iliu0is House Of Representatives
has adopted, by vote Of 1O3 to A. resolu-
ton severely censuring those Illinois Con-
gressmen who voted to increase their salaries
at the end of the late term Of Congress.
In New Albany, Indiana, Lon James, an
engineer on the Louisville. New Albany and
Chicago railroad while his brother Matt was
unuer arrest III HiaSlslIaVo o oinCo ioi ohoo'-
ing at Lon started out, telling Matt to follow
him. The city marshall, John Sunderland,
laid his hand on Matts arm and told him not
to go as he was under arrest, when Lon struck
Boutherland in the face aud followed up the
blow with ten or fifteen others, Switzerland
warding OF the best he could and telling
James to stop or he would shoot. souther-
land at length drew revolver and shot James
in the left breast, but the wounded man con-
tinued to strike him, knocking him into alarge
wood box in the corner Switzerland then
placed his revolver to James head and warned
lin again to qnt, but the warning was un-
needed and Southerland fred killing him
instantly. Switzerland then gave himself up,
hut no one would make all affidavit against
him, and he was released.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27

Az Englishman, it is said, having
heard about the Yankee propensity OF
"bragging," thought he would make an
experiment in the art himself. He
walked up to market-woman's stand,
and pointing to some large watermei-
ons said ..What don't you raise any
bigger apples than those in AmerscaF
"Apples r said the vomas disdainlH
"snybody might Pc yoa SRS' !.
,,.hm.n ThemSff~ susk -
-.s>--------.->f.,, JOHN AIN
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-27

r FRouDg, Max Muller and Charles
Kingsley are brothers-in-law, having
married tlreS daughters Of wealthy
London merchant.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-07-18
Change of Time. Accommodations for
Summer Travel.

On Thursday, July Eth. there will
he several changes in the running time
of Portland and Ogdensburgh railroad
trains, among which are the following ::
The mail train going east will leave
Hyde Park at G:25 a. NJ. arriving here
at 500, making close connection with
Passumpsic road for Concord. Manches-
ter. Nashua. Lowell and Boston via the
Northern On. H. railroad and for Bel
lows Falls. Kcene, Fitchhurg, Brattlc-
boro, Springfield and New York, via
Central Vermont railroad. Returning,
leave here for Hyde Park and way
stations at 4:l5 +. NJ, upon arrival of
PasslImpsic mail train from lower roads.
An extra passenger train will also
run as follows during the season of
pleasure travel Leaving st. Johnsbury
at 9:IO \. NJ. upon arrival of Passumpsic
mail train from Newport, arriving mt
Morrisville ut 30 and Hyde Park at
Il:4O. At MOrrisville this train CON
meets with Bruce and Ladd's line OF
coaches for Stowe. Mt. Mansfield and
Waterbury, so that tourists leaving the
Mcmphremagog House in the morning
can dine at the Mt. Mansfield House.
Stowe: and passengers leaving here at
$40, reach Waterbury at 4:l5, Burling-
ton 600 and st. Adams 6:3O, same after
nominating thc shortest and cheap
est route. Returning. leave Hyde Park
at 1925. Mt. Mansfield House. Stowe.
1920. and Morrisville ut 12:35-arriving
at st. Johnshury at 2:55, Newport 6:35,
Wells River :}:47, Littleton AIS. Profile
House 600, Twin Mountain House 5:42
Crawford House 7::}O, White River
Junction 5:22, Concord SOY, Manches-
ter $40. Nashua 9:25, Lowell 9:55 and
Boston 1880. same evening. Making
very desirable connections with quick
time for pleasure travellers and others.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-07-18
Death of Judge Steele.

Hon. Benz. II. Steele died at Fair
hamlt. Minnesota, last Saturday. whittier
he had gone for his health. Since a
severe cold taken last February, Judge
Stecle's friends had been very solicitous
for his health. and early in the season
he consulted eminent medical men in
New York and elsewhere. and we I'M
derstand they thought him then to he
in a precarious condition. Several
weeks since he went to Minnesota, and
for time he seemed to improve; but
hemorrhage set in and he passed away
quite suddenly. as above stated. His
wife and brother learned of his critical
condition and started to go to him on
Monday, before a telegram was received
announcing his death. The funeral was
held at Hartland on Wednesday of this
week. where his remains were inferred.
He was about 81 years old.
The history of Judge Steele's life Is
pretty well known to our readers. a
graduate of Dartmouth. he read law
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-07-18

Tg- Kate Stoddard's case is one to
arouse the most distracting svmpathies,
or rather antipathies. If her connec-
ton with Goodrich had been merely
that of the common woman, we should
not be at all disposed i'll her behalf.
Frailty, even i'll the person of Il needy
seamstress. must know that the wages
of sin is death, death to her as well is
death to Goodrich. Profoundly as we
loathe the character of the gildcd bawd,
who infested and destroyed the souls of
these women. we see no ground therein
for mercy or clemency to his murieress.
But if he deceived this one by Il mock
marriage, we must, at least, confess that
she had fair occasion for dire hatred of
him, and her equally dire vengeance
seems less wanton, though not less
wicked. lfany business .iustiiies shoot
ing. it is the deliberate deception of Il
woman by mock marriage followed by
Il heartless desertion of her. Spring.
feId Republican.