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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-06-30
POetical.
WILD ROSES.

On long, serene midsummer days
OF ripening fruit and yellowed grain,
How sweetly, by dim woodland ways,
In tangled hedge or eafy lane,
Fair wild rose thckets, you unfold
Those pale pink stars with hearts Of gold
Your sleek patrlcian sisters dwell
on lawns where CLEANS the shrubs trim Dosk
In terraced gardens, tended well,
Near pebbled walk and quaint kiosk.
In costllest urns their colors rest,
They beam on beauty s fragrant breast
But you in lowly calm abide,
Scarce needed save by breeze or bee
You know what splendor, pomp and pride
Fun oft your brilliant sisters see,
what sorrow, too, and bitter fears
What mad farewells and hopeless tears!
How some are kept in old, dear books,
That once In bridal wreaths were worn;
How some are kissed, with tender looks,
And later tossed aside with scorn;
How some their taintless petals lay
on Icy foreheads pale as they
so, while these truths you vaguely guess,
Abloom In many lonesome spot
shy roadside roses, may you bless
The fate that rules your modest lot,
Like rustic maids that meekly stand
Below the ladies OF their land!
--Edgdr FdwceH
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CRIMINAL CARELESSNESs.-A woman
presented herself at AN establishment in Par
is on the left bank of the Seine to take
vapor bath, She was conducted to the va
por bath room and left there alone. In
quarter Of an hour, when the room was OPEN
ed, she was found stretched inanimate on
the floor. 1t was at first thought she had
had died of congestion of the brain, but the
Commissary of Police, noticing that the body
WAS puiied up and the flesh peeling of, sum
moned physician, who said that death had
been caused by scalding from overheating
of the bath, The proprietor of the estab-
lishment will be tried ioy manslaughter, Oc-
clsioned by negligence.
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Tidings have reached this city from pri
vate sources in England that the well-known
poet and lecturer, Gerald Massey, is suffer-
ing from alteration Of mind, and has been
placed in a private asylum. To those who
have been at all fan iliar with the career of
the gifted and unfortunate poet, this sad
news will not occasion unmixed surprise. In
his marriage, as intelicitous as Byron, he
has been literally chained to woman who
was at once an Amazon, a Medea, and a
Venus. The writer became acquainted with
Mr.. Massey in the winter of lS54-55 in New
castle.on-Tyne, England. Gerald was then
a young man of twentysx, engaged on a
lecturing tour. For three nights he lectured
before the Literary and Philosophical So
ciety of that town, his terms being ten
pounds sterling per night. His success was
immense Lord Ravensworth was the chair
| man of his second lecture, and the poet was,
for couple of days his lordshp's guest at
Ravensworth Castle. At every town he
visited on that tour he was the guest of the
aristocracy, and though this distinction did
| not turn his head or make him arrogant,
there was no Disgusting the fact that he
gradually became in the slightest degree
| snobbish While engaged in lecturing, he
4 also was regular contributor to the columns
Of the Athenmum. Consequently his world
| ly circumstances were easy, and he was q
jolly but temperate companion. He talked
much Of his home, his baby, his Newfound'
land dog, Carlo, and his "beautiful, beanti-
iul Wife" and he used to say that the money
he made by his lectures very inadequately
repaid him for the home happiness he wa,
deprived of during his tour. He abhorred
tobacco, and repeatedly said he could not
understand how man of culture and re.
fnement could introduce the "beastly odol
of tobacco smoke into his home"
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An officer Of the regular army laughed at
a iimid VI man because she was alarmed At
the noise # cannon when salute WAS
fltd. He subsequently, maIri'd Il AT timid
" tnSn, and sik months afluNsld he iHol
"a his ltOis in Me Lan Nltn le come in
late at night.
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| observed one mode of Chinese capital
punishment known as the cage The cage
used was between two and three feet square,
and over six feet high. Near the bottom
was close floor of plank palings. The
planks composing the cover were made to fit
around mans neck close enough TO hang
him, but not close enough to strangle him.
The condemned man was put into this cage,
his head projecting above, the cover Citing
round his neck, and under his feet number
of bricks, one above the other, just enough
to enable him to stand on tip toe. When
this position, from WEAKNESS, became unen-
durable, his only relief was to hang by the
neck. The design is to make man suffer
as much as possible, but not to kill him too
quickly. Usually after clnninal has been
standing thus for day or SO, one of the
bricks is removed, and then another until he
hangs by his neck altogether, 1t is said that
a strong man ordinarily will endure this tor
tnre several days before life becomeseXtnct,
On the present occasion death was FASTENED
more quickly. The man was put into the
cage on Sunday afternoon, believe, about
one o'clock. ! heard of it on Monday morn
ing and went over to Annoy about two o clock
in the afternoon to see him. He had then
been dead some time. The guard said that
he died just before daylight ; that he was
conscious of having committed great crimes,
and FASTENED his own death by kicking the
bricks from under his feet But the people
say privately that the guard wished to got
rid of their charge that they might prepare
to keep New Years Day (the Chinese New
Year was near at hand, and therefore had
taken the bricks from under his feet during
the night. This probably was the fact.
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ence, large, jet-like black eyes, hard mouth
love to model. After luncheon, Gerald and
/ took a walk round Arthur's Seat and he
commented enthusiastically las was his wont,
on the physical and picturesque contours of
the New Haven fisher women returning
home from Edinburgh. As | left him for the
night he said, while clasping my hand with
both of his, "My boy,you must get married;
see how happy am y
Two years elapsed. and I heard little of
Massey. But when the winter came was
surprised to see "poster" in the market
place of South Shields, announcing that
"Gerald Massey, the poet, would deliver
three lectures in the Central Hall, Chapter
Row." / attended the first lecture It's SUBJ
ject was "Hood, and Wit and Humor."
OCCUPIED back seat, yet | could dis
tinctly perceive that the poets face was more
haggard and careworn than when | last saw
him. There was probably majority of
ladies 10 the fashionable audience and the
lecture proceeded with that ripping elo-
quence of which Massey was such master.
His voice--always full, musical and mellow
had lost none of its resonance, and his
hearers were alternately dissolved in tears or
shaking with laughter. Tender glances from
bright eyes were thrown upon him, end be-
| fore he had progressed half an hour it re-
quired no particularly acute observer to dis
cover that half of the young ladies in the
hall adored him. When he began to recte
the Bridge of Sighs," you could have heard
pin drop, and as he with touching pathos
and lingering sadness repeated the lines
"Cross her hand humbly,
! ASH praying dumbly,
| over her breast
Owning her weakness
Her evil behavior,
And leaving with meekness,
Her sins to her Sayiour?"
there was not dry female eye in ,he
assemblage.
| I saw Mrs. Massey gaze round with as
constituent. She saw that the little man
was the idol of the hour-that tears were
| flowing from aristocratc cheeks, that beauti-
full young hearts responded to that touch oil
nature which makes the whole world kin
The sight was too much for her nature
| With wild shrill shrek,
| SHE APPARENTLY TAINTED AWAY.
Poor Gerald advanced to the edge of the
platform pale with anger and half unnerved
| Eour men hoist the woman and bear he
from the place, two matronly women attenc
and apply restoratives, tidings pass rounc
the hail that the fainting woman is thu
lecturers wife and that she is jealous of him
and after while the lecture proceeds un
disturbed.
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YCung miss, fond Of peis-''Oh, I'm so
glad you love birds, Mr.. Snools; what kind
4ls , on sdmireg" Young man, who is quite
poeiical--"Wel, think good turkey ,Wi,h
oysiei sluikng, is AbOAi rs good Ms amy"
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And drinking lager beer, sir.

FUNERALS IN 1776.-Funerals touched
weddings at the point of feasting, and were
often very expensive, snowy and pompous
occasions. In some parts of the country,
especially among the Dutch Of Long Island
and New York, it WAS the custom of young
man to lay by his earnings after becoming
of age until a sufficient sum had accumulat-
ed to provide for him respectable" fun
eral when he should come to die. Often
times the young burgher would reserve half
of the portion of wine which he had liberal
ly laid in for his marriage, to be used at the
funeral of himself or his wife. Special in
vitations were sent out for funerals as for
parties. The clergymen, pail bearers and
physicians attending were provided with
scarfs and gloves, and sometimes each with
a mourning ring; while the feast which fol-
lowed the interment at the house of the rel
| atives of the deceased, elaborate with cold
| roast meats, wines, liquors and pipes, was
not unfrequently an occasion of coarse ex-
| cesses, sometimes descending into hilarous
and noisy demonstrations. A respectable
funeral of this description might cost per-
| haps thousand dollars while the funeral
of the first wife of Hon. Stephen Van Rep'
selaer is said to have cost not less than 800
| 600. O.-EHward AJJofs "RevOlutiOnar!
| Tr,uss
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EVERYTHING WAS LOVELY

with Gerald in those days The writer was
over half dozen years his junior, and
caught some of the poets enthusiarm while
listening to his iervid eloquence. Let me
describe him as he then appeared: A very
little man with shock ofsandy hair, ,combed
straight back, without parting, from the
forehead underneath pale, careworn face;
mOustache lighter than the hair, scramb-
ling goatee large, luminous iron.gray eyes !;
an upper lip too large for the face, aud Il
painful lack of character about the lines of
the mouth. His hands where as white Us
those of an hospital patient, and though
tapering form or delicate tip which we are
accustomed to associate with the artistic or
poetic mind. He had then written few
poems, one of which was published in the
Edinburgh Witness, while the celebrated
geologist, Hugh Miller, was its editor But
that was before poor Gerald was married or
to adhere strictly to facts, in the year lS4S.
Alas the year after, he was married to his
queenly- looking Dulcinea and as she said
herself, "Masseys impassioned poetry won
me-" We have no room TO print the entire
poem of "Unbeloved," which won Gerald
wife, but this notice of the mans life would
be incomplete without the first verse, which
paints his hopeless passion at the time he
was
CoURTlNG TIE BEAUTIFUL MABEL.
like "A tree beside the river
OF her lie, that runs nOm me,
Do lean me, mumuIing ever
Ofmy loves idOlatry
And stretch out arms OF blessing,
And breathe out words Of prayer
| And with passionate caressing,
Waste my life upon the air
| In ny ears the siren river
Sings, and smiles up In my face
| But forever and forever
Runs nom my embrace"
Mr.. Massey was then living in AN elegant,
appointed house in Portobello, couple @
miles from Edinburgh. The writer visite'
him there in the summer of 1855. IL WI
impossible to escFpe the conviction that III
1 poet MAS then "oyeJshadOgtd" and hen
| ptctsd by his wife. She had grand pres
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Miscellaneous.
GERALD MASSEY INSANE.

The Weaver Boy Put in n Lunatic Asylum
Vivid Sketch of his Career by One who
Knew lliul-Ilis Wife and Home Instincts
EX citing Scenes at His Lectures Inner
Life Of Gifted hut Unbalanced Genus.
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A Young lady who bad new hood, and
Nm, as4sa 10 had ii In gueBily, said she was
getting lind Of krtPing a RfighlnEhood
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THE OLD FRIENDS.

THE OLD FRIENDS.
BY SARAH DoUDNEY.
Where are they scattered now
The DID, old friends?
One made her dwelling where the naples glow,
And mighty streams through solemn forests ilow
But never from the pine-crowned land Of snow
A message sends
Some meet me oft amid
LIES common ways;
And then perchasc, a word or smile declares
That warm hearts throb beneath their load Of cares
For love grows on, like wheat among the tares.
TIL harvest days.
"But some are fal'n asleep"
The words are sweet
Oh friends at rest beneath the blessed sod,
Ny feet still tread the weary road ye trod
Ere yet your loving souls went back TO God
When Shall we meet?
Oh, thou dlvinest Friend
When shall II be
That may know them in their garments white?
And see them with new and clearer sight,
Mine old familiar friends-made fair and bright
Like unto Thee!
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SHE APPARENTLY TAINTED AWAY.
ANOTHER SCENE.

At the next lecture | went as privileged
individual with Mr.. and Mrs. Massey, to the
Central Hall. The lecture was upon Burns,
and Love Poetry. The hall was crowded,
but the lecturer looked as if he expected a
Sheriff around. He was tidgety and restless,
and enunciaton was at times indistinct.
sat beside Mrs Massey. Said she to me in
a whisper "Look Gerald is in love with
that lady know it, See how he looks at
her p Almost Immediately came the recita-
tion of the poem. "To Mary in Heaven" j"
and with an amazonan yell, Mrs. Massey
tainted away, and was one of the bearers
who conveyed her from the premises
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His vagaries in spiritualistc business are
notorious to all newspaper readers. In all
of these eccentrctics he has been assisted
by his wife. Together they nave seen visions
of babies and dogs, and discovered that the
bones of the weird visitors were buried be-
meath the Massey hearth stone, These alb
urd visions he minutely described in the
London Spritualst, and then his friends
and wel-wishers began to suspect that his
mental balance was shaken. A few years
since, it will be remembered, he lectured in
Boston and other New England towns on
spiritualism. But the man had lost his
magnetism, and his lectures,a las they deserved
to be, were an absolute failure. In point OF
fact, poor Massey has been approaching in'
sanity for years.
Most of Massey's latest writings have beer
on the subject of spiritualism, and his mos
| intimate friends have regarded every sue
ceeding speech or article as nearer ap
proach to lunacy. Massey will not be re
garded by critics as Il strictly original poet
| Taking Tennyson as his model, he has, IL
some instances almost seryilely initiate
that great master. Still, there are poems o
Massey that can only perish with theEnglisl
language.
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IT WAS THE SANE STORY

wherever he lectured Mrs. Massey syste-
matically tainted away and had to be carried
from the hall, while he looked on with an
expression of poignant anguish. There were
no aristocratic houses offering their hospi-
taiity to the poet and his wife now but
there were humble friends who were not
banished, like bees by the wintery weather,
who now surrounded him, and who offered
their "best apartments" as dwelling for the
poet and his wife. And in one of those
comfortable, unpretending houses-No. 3
Summerhll Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne-l
dined with Massey and his wife in 1888. 1t
was Sunday, and after dinner Mr.. N,
Massey, and myself retired to the Library
10 smoke. There was no sentimental aver
sion to tobacco now in the poets mind but
he h ad a lingering fear-and expressed it
that "she" might burst into the room at any
moment. It was as he expected. She opened
the door, and, with the appearance of a
Medea. cried "Gerald, don't you know
Carlo is diving ?" This was the dog, and
the effect on the sensitive man was most
distressing. Soon after she returned with
the announcement "Gerald, our little
Freddy is sick" ooh, curse YOU" cried
Massey, throwing down and breaking his
long clay pipe, "you will kill me" At every
town in which lie lectured these scenes
were repeated. And she would wake him up
in the night to retail horrible visions, where
some cherished member of his family was
predicted dead By-and-by he began to be
lieve that his wife possessed the power OF
divination, and it was then not difficult
road for him to reach Il
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Thistles in the Heart.

Bad habits are the thistles of the
heart and every indulgent of them is
a seed from which will spring a new
crop of weeds. A few years ago a
little boy told his first falsehood. II
was a little solitary thistle seed, and
no eye but Gods saw him as he
planted it in the mellow soil of the
heart. But it sprung up, oh, how
quickly! and in little time another
seed dropped from it to the ground,
each in its turn bearing more seed and
more thistles. And now his heart
is overgrown with this bad habit. 1t
is as difficult for him to speak the
truth as it is for the gardener to clear
his land of the ugly thistles, after il
has once gained footing in the soil.
Lying lips are an abominatiOn to the
Lord, but they that deal truly are hi:
delight."-The ChiFs World.
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Everything has been quiet before
our City Court for week or so,
which is telling plainly on his Honor,
who is growing daily leaner, and his
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House. Charley was last seen with
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