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she forced the osken scuttle back;
A whisper reached her ear;
slide down the roof TO me- Ii said.
so softly none may hear
She slid along the sloping roof
Till from its caves she hung,
And felt the loosened shingles yield
70 which her fingers clung.
Below her lover stretched his hands
And touched her feet so small;
Drop down TO me. dear heart. he SAID,
My arms shall break the fall
He set her on his pillion soa,
Her arms about him twined;
And, notsless a II yevet-shod,
They left the house behind
But when they reached the open way
Full free the rein he cast;
oh, never through the mirk midnight
Rode man and maid more fast.
Along the wild wood paths they sped,
The bridgeless streams they swan;
AT set OF moon they passed the Bass, -
At sunrise Agawam. :"
Al high noon on the Merrimac
The ancient fcrryman :.
Forgot, at times. his idle oars,
So fair freight to scan.
Aud when from of his grounded boat
He saw them mount and ride.
God keep her from the evil eye,
And harm Of witch be cried.
The maiden laughed. q. youth will laugh
At all its fears gone by.
lie does not know she whispered low,
A little witch am L.
All day he urged his weary horse.
And Ia the red sundown
Drew rein before a friendly door
In distant Berwick town.
\ frlowfeeling for the wronged
The Quaker peopl" felt;
And -air beside their kindly hearths
The hunted maiden dwet-
Until from Of its breast the land
The haunting horror threw,
A hatred born OF ghas,ly dreams.
To shame and pity grew.
Sad were the wears spring morns, and sad
It, golden summer day.
BIt hhthc and glad iis withercd fields.
And skies OF a,hen gray.
For spell and charm had power no more,
The spcctTcs ceased to roam.
And scattered households Anclt again
Around the hcarth- Of home.
And when once more by Beaver Dam
The meadpw-liTk out.ang.
And once again on all the hills
The early Nlo,cts >prAng.
Asi all the " n1y pasture slopes
Lay green within the arms
Oi creeks tina; bore the >altcd sea
To pleasant inland farms.
Tho smith filed of the chains De forged.
The jail-b1lts backward fell:
And youth AMI hOaTy age came tsrth
Like soulscscapcd from he's,
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The nl'st original moderf authors are
net SO because they advahcSanything that
is new, but simply because fhey know how
to put what they have to say as If It had
never been said before-Goethe.
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Beware of him that is slow in gHker.-
Anger when it is long In cominYis the
stronger when 1t comes, and W longer
kept. Abused patience turns fury
Quarles.
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An Gilman VA. .dfNingx stout sled
up street in Detroit, having twe:or three
kegs OF seef y the box, when Boy called
out to him -
Say, there, Wheels coming OFF,
The old man pgned up, looked round,
'You'd better look out--hfd wheel COM
ing off
The driver got down, looked his sled all
over. felt of the braces, and inspected clear
to the dashboard, and then asked:
What you say? What proke?
4 said that hind wheel was coming off,
replied the boy.
The old man made another inspection,
gave the sleigh a. shake. aud all at once
called out: $500. =
why, dere isb no hind wheel on here
He heard the boys cheering as he climb
ed into thes sled, but he wouldn't look
back. r..
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Has that jary agreedY asked the Judge
Of a sheriff whom he met on the stairs witt
bucket in his hand. Yes replied P%
rick: they have agreedto send out for III
xgaloa' y
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Patience doth, Conquer BY out-sufier-
ing an.-Rei.
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THE SCIENCE OF LIFE;
Or. sELF-PREsEnvA
MORE IHAs ONE MILLION coPlts SOLD.
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seIeet storn.
The Landladys Story.

MRS. McREADY's INSPIRATION.
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]oOetrp.
The Witch of Wenham.
BY JOHN C. WHITTIER.

Along Crane Rivers sunny slopes
Blew warm the winds Of May,
And over Naumkeag's ancient oaks
The green outgrew the gray.
The grass was green on Roys-stde,
The cariy birds at will
Walked up the violet in ifs dell.
The wind-lower on iis hin.
Where go YOU, in your Sunday-coat,
Son Andrew. tell me pray
For striped perch in Wenham Lake
go to ti>h to-day
'Unharmed II thee in Wcnbsm Lake
The notified perch shall be:
\ biu--cyvd vii sits on the bank
And wcAy's her net for thee.
'snc wcavcs her golden hair; she sings
Her >pcil-,ong low ard FAINT,
The wickcde~t witch in salem iail
l. % that girl saint
Nay. mother. hold thy cruel tongue;
God kurw-. the Young man cried,
III, never sadr whiicr soul
Than herr ry Wcnham side.
She tend, her mother sicK and blind,
And every want supplies
TO her above the blessed Book
~he lend, her >oft blue eyes.
Her voice j. glad with holy songs.
Her lIp> are sweet with PRAYER.
60 where YOU viii. IN ten miles round
l. non, more good ani fair
son Andrew, for the love Of God
And oithy mother, ,tsS
Shs c.a-pcd her hands. she wcp; aloud,
But Andrew rode away.
- reverend II. my Andrews soul
The NeuhAm witch ha- caught;
She hods him with t;.e curled gold
Whereof h,r snare ], wrought.
she charms him with her great blue eyes,
She bind. him " iih her hsir;
Oh. break The -p,l. with holy words.
Uub.ul HIM with prayer
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The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

THE territory now possessed by the Rus
slams in central Asia amounts to 100000
square miles, an area as large as Germany,
the Austrian Empire, and Belgium together.
But the population of this vast territory does
not exceed 2,500,000, or less than that of
Switzerland. The whole amount of exports
and imports amounts barely to three million
and half sterling year. Such country
can never repay Russia what its acquisition
has already cost, still less for the rapidly in
creasing cost of its administration. Had Rus
sa known, fifteen years ago, as much about
the countries of central Asia as she now does,
Mr.. Schuyler says therecan hardly be doubt
that she would have made no movement in
that direction, but it seems now to be her in
evitable destiny to advance until Kashgar
Bokhara and the Turkoman country are
either annexed or reduced to a condition of
real and not merely nominal vassalage. Tash-
kend, the Russian seat of government, is the
centre from which will probably radiate the
future civilization of central Asia. This city
with its 100000 inhabitants, including the
Russian garrison and civilians, is situated on
the upper Jaxartes, and was taken in 1865,
after very obstinate resistance. It placed
in the hands of Russia the most important
lines of communication, as well as the whole
commerce of Khiva and Bokhara, and it will
probably ultimately become the emporium of
central Asia.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
Current Comment.

The latest report about the speakership
oil the next House is that the flIibustering
Democrats are going to revenge themselves
Kentucky, and pressing him for the Demo-
cratic nomination.
The Coarier-Journal belives that judicious
poem from Mr.. Tupper, addressed to Wendell
Phillips, might calm the raging orator.
The small boy never tried more vigorously
to squeeze juice out of a sucked orange than
the Democrats try to squeeze little comfort
out of the Rhode Island election.
President Hayes has so far advanced in the
goodopinion ofthe Richmond Va. Whig Dem
ocratic, that it now regards him as the man
s'to whom the conservative sentiment of the
country turns for the opening of new epoch
of the true unionism of the olden time in
this land"
The Democratic press all over the country
manifest prodgous amount of disappoint-
ment and bitterness because President Hayes
won't run the government according to their
directions. They appear to labor under the
erroneous impression that HAYES was elected
on the Democratic ticket. Tilting, or some
thing of that kind, was the name OF their can
didate. Hayes is Republican.-Norr. Her.
aid.
"The result of the municipal elections held
10 various parts of the North the last few
days." says the Louisville Courier-Journal
iDem.) J, "does not substantiate such Demo
cratic hopes as built themselves upon the
notion of great popular reaction against the
Electoral Commission. There has been no
reaction at ALL" The inference, In the
opinion of the Courier-Jourraal, is that the
people have become tired of political discord
and are inclined to give President Hayes's
conciliatory policy fair trial. The Courier
Journal is right,
The Baltimore Gazette (Dem. } calls for the
final silencing of the quo warranto rumors.
With all the facility of the Democratic lead
ers to blunder, it does not believe them guilty
of such stupendous folly as these stories hint
at. ''Mr. Hayes is President" says the Ca
zette, "and if he lives will continue to dis.
charge his duties for four years. The people
do not want any further discussion of this
question, and any attempt to revive 1t will
only unsettle still more the business interests
of the country. Prosperity can only come
with speedy return to the old channels, and
the present is gloomy enough without in
creasing our troubles by throwing the Presl-
dency into litigation"
A NewlOrleans correspondent of the New
York Times shows pretty conclusively that
the Nichols Legislature and administration
isn't proving much of an improvement on the
Kellogg regime. Corruption has taken pretty
strong hold Of all elements in Louisiana poll
tics.
There have some names describing sections
of parties in France which we could adopt
with advantage. For instance there Is no
man in Paris who is such an "Irreconcilable
RadicaP' as Wendell Phillips, and Banks is as
lican" as could be asked for.-Boston Herald.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
The Wide World.

Chu and wife lived with nephew and wife
in house in Tung-hwuy. The uncle was .
dyer and the nephew a tailor; their wives were
congenial, land they all were happy. Last
spring the nephew died and his wife vowed that
che would ibe true to his memory and never
marry again. In November Mrs. Chu's mother
died and the dyer and his wife were compelled
to 60 to Shaou-peh to attend the funeral and
settle up the estate. AS they did nos wish to
leave the beautiful yonng widow unprotected
in the house, they asked an old neigbbor to
stay with her during their absence. Now there
lived in the town ssoldier named Chao Teha
shep, a bad man, who had been casting sleeps
eyes at the widow. He armed himself with =
dagger and about midnight jumped over the
wall of the house, and entering the widows
room threatened to kill her. she replied by
offering her throat to the dagger Suddenly
the door was kicked open and in burst o tall
fellow who wrested the dagger from the ruff
han's hand and threw him on the floor. The
widow rushed out to arouse the superannuated
neighbor, and the bad man was secured With .
coil of rope. Then the neighbours flocked in,
and recognizing the soldier set to and ham,
mered him. Then they turned to the widows
gallant defender and asked him who he was
and how he had happeued to be in the house.
'My name is Ts'ao," said the tall stronger;
"and am robber by trade / was passing
through the town and having no money came
into this house to steal something; but finding
this fellow here on worse errand than mine I
made him fast" The defender of innocence
was robber. But the neghbors thought 90
we'll of him that they raised q subscription and
collected enough money to set him up In an
honest trade The bad man went to prison;
the virtuous robber hasn't married the widow
yet.
There are four stages of culture, and they are
all represented in Boston to-day, and in every
highly civilized quarter Of the globe. There ID
the first stage, in which wo usually think we
know everything Then comes the second
stage, in which, as our knowledge grows. we
are confronted with so many questions which
We can ask and cannot answer, that we say In
our sophomorical, despairng mood, that we
can know nothiag A little above that we say
we can know something, but only what ID just
before our senses Then, lastly, we come to
the stage in which we say, not that We know
everything; not that we can know much, in
deed; but in which we are sure we can know
enough for practical PURPOSES. EUerythinq,
nothing, something, epough There are the IN
fantine, adolesent juvenile and mature stages
of culture. Joseph Cook.
Miss Connor, bridesmaid, summoned DR..
Lynch, a wedding guest, before a Dubln
police court on March "a on charge of having
damaged her silk gown. At the wedding he
had attempted to kiss her. and in their struggles
her dress was torn. He also accidentally
spilled some Tea on 1t. The dress was worth
"a, and Q promised to replace 1t, but did not
She said she complained of his conduct 70 nsr
aunt, who only laughed and SAID, sne Wooia
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
The GOyernOrship.

A good deal of nonsense has been put forth
in the newspapers, chiefly outside the state,
about some opposition to Gov. Connor's re-
nomination at the Republican State Conven-
tion OF this year. The presidential count
having been finished, the versatile Journalist
who has been occupying himself through the
winter with depicting scenes of bloodshed
and strife, fratricidal war and CORY conflict,
now seeks for new material to adorn with
bis facile pencil, and is reveling in pic
lures OF combinations, plots and counterplots
in the politics of Maine. He disported him
self largely over the collectorship question
making vastly mysterious and vague affair
out OF what was one of the simplest things in
the world-a transaction so proper and fitting
in all its aspects that everybody readily as
sented to it and Mr.. Reeds recommendation
encountered no opposition.
But now he has found a new roorbach in
Maine-a combination of soreheads TO defeat
Gov. Connor's denomination, which embraces
some of our prominent men who seem half
amused, half disguised at finding their names
quoted IN connection with so absurd an ar
rangement. For the benefit of any who
might be misled by this sort of thing, which
means nothing and is not intended to mean
anything, we will say distinctly that nothing
in the world will prevent Gov. Connor's re-
nomination with general acquiescence and
approval except his own positive refusal to be
candidate. He has been an admirable gov.
ernor, has filed the Office with ability and
dignity, and the usage of the party, as well
as his own high qualities, will give him his
third term, There are several gentlemen,
and very respectable gentlemen too, who
want to be governor. One of them will prob
ably have his laudable ambition satisfied next
year; but not a man Of them is silly enough
to bump his head against stone wall this
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
Gov. Chamberlain's Address.

Gov. Chamberlain has again by his wise
and moderate action in South Carolina pro-
voked the admiration of the country and won
new title to its esteem. Foreseeing that
further struggle, whatever its issue, would
imperil the safety and lives of his devoted fol.
lowers, and desiring the restoration of tran.
guilty to the state for which he has already
done so much, he withdraws from the con-
test, sacrificing without scruple the ad-
vancement of his political fortunes to the re-
pose Of his people.
In his letter of withdrawal Gov. Chamber
lain gives the reasons which have determined
his course, and comments with not un-
natural severity upon the policy of the
national administration. While many of his
admirers will regret the bitterness of his
structures they will not wonder at it. Much
will be excused to man who sincerely be-
lieves that he is defrauded of his rights, that
he is deprived by intrigue of that support up
on which he ought to be able with certainty
to count 1t may be easy for us here to take
calm and philosophical view of the conflict
in South Carolina; l. is impossible for those
in the heat of the fight, who are yet smarting
from blows received, yet exulting over blows
given. 1t is certain that all the sacrifices
rendered necessary by the adjustment have
fallen to the lot of Governor Chamberlain.
That appears to have been necessity of the
situation.
But while Republicans admire the heroic
South Carolina governor for the galan /
struggle he has made and regret his defeat
the majority Of them are sincerely desirous
that the Southern policy of the President
shall have fair trial, and believe it a patrI-
otic duty to advance by active sympathy and
support its success. 1t is now about to be
tested in South Carolina. Wade Hampton is
on trial, and his conduct will be closely
watched and severely criticised. The people
will insist that his pledges shall be carried out
to the very letter; and any failure on his
part to do so, any neglect Of the rights of the
colored people of his state will meet with
swift and heavy condemnation.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
ENTERTAINMENTS.
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The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

The rebellion in Japan has come to an end.
The city of Kagoshima, the last stronghold of
the insurgents, having been captured by the
imperial troops, the government ascendency
was speedily restored throughout the disaf-
fected districts. The revolt was headed by
Shimadzu, chief of the province Of Satsuma,
province long noted for its opposition to
progress. The struggle, which is now happily
terminated, was test of the strength Of the
government 1t was the spirit of progress
and economy against the old order of things
and there is prospect that the work of reform
will now 60 on with success.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couptersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US BY demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
in11rnal
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

IHE vigorous, muscular and characteristic
note OF Mr.. Blaine to the Boston Herald will
strike sympathetic chord in the hearts OF
Maine Republicans. There is a universal
nope that President Hayes experiment with
tne soutderners may prove successful, but
the hope is so clouded with distrust and fear
as to make the situation very painful. Its
impossible for any one capable of appreciate
ing heroic devotion and selfsacrfice to with
hold sympathy and admiration from Cover
nor Chamberlain.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

PHAIB, the Vermont man under convic-
tion of murder who had so narrow an escape
from hanging last week, entertains poor
opinion of biennial sessions of the legislature.
The Vermont statutes provide that new
trial shall not be granted, upon the ground
of new evidence unless asked within two
years after the. original judgment. This, lin
Phair's case, was rendered TWO years and two
months ago. So no new trial can be had
without express provision by the legislature
and that body does not meet until October
1878. Meanwhile Pha:r must stay in pris-
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

THE few weeks of quiet in Mexico are fol-
lowed by an impending crisis which promises
TO make 1t lively for Diaz, who is now sick
in bed and beset with troubles on all hands.
His troops have become re,tye and are DRIFT
ing back to the side of Lerdo. In his
straits Diaz has ordered the release of the
bandit Cortina and summoned him to the
capital. A new revolution and fresh troubles
along the Rio Grande border may now be
expected
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

EMPRESS EUGENE and her son are not, as
is commonly supposed, under sentence of
Punishment from France, in virtue OF any
law, decree or judicial sentence. They have
as good right to take up their residence In
Paris as Prince Jerome Napoleon. Their
"exile" is as much fiction as the 'captivi-
ty" of the pope.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

AMONG the political papers left by the late
Cardinal Antonelli-the examination OF which
has just been concluded-a number of great
Importance have been found relating to the
personal efforts ne made to arrive at solu-
tion by which he could have preserved the
temporal power of the Pope. Among the
letters is one from the Emperor Napoleon
III.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12

A SAFETY envelope to prevent tampering
has been devised. On the Hap the words
"Attempt to open" are printed with double
set OF chemicals. the first impression contain.
ing nutgalls and the second green vitrol. If
the flap be steamed or moistened in any way
the magic printing will appear.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 1a.

we do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-12
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