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Year: 1869

sumed Tor the evening.


eyes," l replied, "Mr. Il,
1 desired to compliment you on
the skillful way you have of ap-
propriating other peoples jew
elfy."


He stood under the blaze OF
the chandelier as l spoke, and the
light shone fair and full in his
face. At the words a livid hue
crept into his cheeks and a ghast
ly pallor succeeded it. His teeth
chartered as he tried to speak
and his knees smote under him


"It is useless to attempt to de.
ny it," l said. 81 am detective
officer, and have watched your
proceedings all the evening"
Look here!" and before he had
time to prevent me, l had drawn
from his pocket the jeweIry which
a short time before had been worn
by the guests of my host.


"What do you say to this ?"
asked, turning to Nj. K.


"My God, is it true!" And the
strong man shook as the truth of
the accusation burst upon him.
"But my daughter, my child, what
am l to do?"


The villain saw at once the ad-
vantage this relation gave him,
and grew insolent on the instant.
| told him, however, that this
would stand him in no service.
If he restored the property he
had taken, | would let him CO.
If not, | should lock him up
He was cunning and shrewd, and
accepted the proposition. The
next day the jewels were returned
to their owners, with polite apoL
ogy from Mr.. H., and the evening
steamer saw him on his way to
more congenial climes.


But the romance did not end
here. 1t was not a great while
before the family of the merchant
were plunged into great affliction
by the strange evasion of their
daughter.


The exposure of her lover had
overwhelmed her with grief. 1t
was supposed, however, this would
be transient. A young and vir-
tuous girl, educated and refined,
could not cling to one whose base
ness was so obvious. She would
soon laugh at her infatuation, and
be glad of her escape, her friends
thought, ,and left her in peace. In
deed, many supposed that she was
influenced now more by mortified
vanity and sense of her humilia-
ting affection than aught else.
What was their surprise, then, at
her evasion!


For several days nothing was
said about it, and her family
thought her still in the city
But her protracted absence finally
excited alarm. | was at length
appealed to. Iconcluded at once
she had gone to join her lover.
This opinion was still further con-
firmed when it was learned that
she had carried with her a large
sum of money.


"You had better let her co." /
said to her father.


"Icannot; she is my only child
she must be traced and brought
back!"


"But this cannot be done unless
you consent to make an affidavit
against her for the larceny Of the
money. No one can compel her to
come back unless you do"


He consented to take this step





with a good deal of reluctance
and with the necessary papers for
her arrest started in pursuit. II
is unnecessary to trace all my wan
derings. Suffice it to say, l found
them at last-married.


Only few months had passed
Gace this spoiled and petted child
had reigned a belle in the city
When / saw her, the innocence
and freshness of her young girl
hood were yet around her; no care
Year: 1869

Have you forgotten still believe
You think of that pleasant past;
And your heart turns back to the quiet scenes
Unchanged since you saw them last
God grant that the close of your restless


life


Grow calm ere its wanderings cease;
And the better feelings of earlier years
Return like the voice of peace.
Year: 1869

Have you forgotten the breezy downs.
Where the lights and shadows play
And the purple haze of the distant hills
Lying westward far away?
How the tinkling chime Of the sheep-bells


came


Ger the slopes of the thymy turf
And the wind Of the forest trees below
Made sound like ocean surf?
Have you forgotten the winding road,
All bathed in the creamy light,
That on an autumn afternoon,


When the days are calm and bright?
When the hOrid richness of summers glow
Had faded from earth and sky;
And the year grew old with gracious smile,
Life saint prepared to die ?
Have you forgotten the vine-wreathed porch
Of the little cottage door ?
And the palmy days of your happy youth
The days that return no more
When the rustling leaves of the garden


flowers


Were hushsd by the moonbeam's spell {:
And you fingered to whisper those parting


words


That remembered well
Year: 1869

It is matter for congratulatlon thaI
Mississippi and Texas are so lar removed
from the Office of the New York IRIB-
UNE and the mansion of Judge Chase.
In spite of the prodigious efforts that
have been put forth by the rebels, In
spite of the ruse Of stealing the Republic
an name, played so successfully IN Flr-
pinia and Tennessee, in spite of their I'M
Dorting relative of President Grant to
serve as their candidate for Governor,
the Republicans have stood hrm, ana the
freedmen have not been deceived.


The result-some 10000 Republican
maiority-is better than could have been
anticipated. There is no denying, that
the rebels employed to the best OF their
ability the art Of deception, In which they
are so proficient They feigned friend
ship for the negroes and admiration Tor
the President, and even swallowed with
out a murmur the name of the party to
which they are indebted for the sound
drubbing so lately administered to them,
bur all to no purpose. The examples OF
Tennessee and Virginia proved in ad-
vance the hollowness of their pretenslons,
and have met an ignominlous and de-
served defeat


In Texas the result is still in doubt
but it is safe to say that when reports
from the South come in favorable at first
they will constantly improve to the enc.
1t is probable that VIC have carried the
state by two or three thousand majority.
No wonder the rebels are surprised.
They may find it profitable one OF these
davs to come ever in fact as well as IN
pretense ta Republicanism.- .-,Scntiac!.
Year: 1869

The Worchester (Mass.) Spy relates
that a short time since a young man ar
rived IN W orchester, who Ia converslng
with parties at the railroad depot, said he
had come long distance for the sole
purpose Of hunting up his father rela-
tives. He said that bis father run away
Fl fsom his home when but twelve years of
age; went on board ship for California,
which was wrecked before reaching that
place; but his father, with part of the
MIA, grew to manhood, w&s married, had
two children, a boy and a girl-the form
er the narrator. His father had never
communicated with his relatives in Wor-
cester, but having acquired a large prop
erty, and retiring from active life, had
more leisure and an increased desire to
find his Eastern friends. The names be


ing given. the youth was told that his
fathers sister, the only survivor of the
family. and poor widow, lived within
fften minutes walk He proceeded to
the house indicated, asked for Hattie


-, and asked her if she had any idea
who he could be- His aunt, after look
ing in his face moment, said he chad
his father. S eyes" She had believed her
brother to be lost by shipwreck. The
Joy over the double discovery was mutual,
and the nephew urged his aunt's return
with him to the home and independence
which would be so freely given by his
father But the young man returned
without her. as other ties were formed
here and home provided He told her
that home and q share of his father 5
property awaited her acceptance.
Year: 1869

AN INTERVIEWER SNUBBED.-Not
long ago morning paper sent a reporter
to Hartford, Conn, to interview Mrs
Stowe on the subject Of the Byron scan
dal The gentleman saw onlysthe young
girl who opens the door of Mrs. Stowe s
residence when the bell was rung. He
returned to New York. A few days ago
the same reporter heard that Mrs. Stowe
was in the city and went in search of her
again, but was so unfortunate as to see
only relative of hers who did rot know
when she would be open to an interview
on behalf of the press The reporter
was disgusted, and staightway undertook
to interview James Fisk, Jr., in relation
to his views about Ida Lewis. DIr. Fisk
declined the honor. Imagine the dis
gust of Interviewer
Year: 1869

On the 1st of January next several important cher
qes and Improvements will be made in the publication
Of THE WEEKLY CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Increased atteli.
ton vii! be given to its literary and agricultural d.
Day4ments The neecs Of the aceek both local and
general, will be carefully rewritten and condensed
down to the hour of going to press and each nuJue-
will contain original editorial and literary matter
which will appear in other edition of THE TRIB
wv It is the determination of the publishers tc
make it second journal in the United States as


rfly apeY and in order place il within the reach
of every Farmer, Mechanic, Business Man and Family
in the West we have made the following extraerdn
ary low schedule prices for clubs which, consider
in the size of the sheet and the amount of reading
matter that it contains makes The TRIBUNE tho
cheapest paper in the United States.
Year: 1869

rightful heir draws the prize. Do | render
an equivalent for it? There's is no deception,
all parties act honestly according to agree
ment; but that does not render it right. l
render nothing for it, Except the list install
ment,) any more than the gambler does,
who stakes his $1,000 and wins like sum
from his companion. The day Of ones death,
and the result of game of cards are alike con-
tingencies to man. "The lot is cast into the
lap, but the whole disposing of the thing is OF
the Lord" And God as much determines
who shall win, as he does who and when a
man shall die.


For these, and other reasons which may
be given in another number, l do not think
it right to form or encourage these associa-
tons of human life. 1t is not desirable,
when We come to die, to have our thoughts
groveliDg around some life insurance office.
Let US commit ourselves to him who has said,
"Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt
thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt
be fed" MoNTANUs.
Year: 1869

We have somewhere read of traveller,
who stood one day beside the cages of some
birds that, exposed for sale, ruffled their
sunny plumage on the wires, and struggled
to be free. A way-worn and Drowned man,
like one returned from foreign lands, looked
wistfully and sadly on these captives till
tears started in his eyes, and turning round
on their owner, he asked the price of one,
paid it in strange gold, and opened the door
and set the prisoner free; and thus he did
with captive after captive, till every bird
was away, soaring to the skies and singing
on the wings of liberty. The crowd stared
and stood amazed; they thought him mad,
till, to the question of their curiosity, he
answered: 81 was once myself a captive; (;
I know the sweets of liberty" And so
they who have the experience of guilt, have
felt the serpents bite, the burning poison in
their veins, who, on the one hand, have the
sting of conscience, and, on the other, the
peace of faith, the joys of hope, the love,
the light, the liberty, the life, that are found
in Jcsus-they, not excepting heavens high
est angels, are the fttest to preach Sa-
viour, to plead with man for God, or plead
with God for man. Each Sabbath morning
the gates of heaven might have been opened;
and sent by God on mission worthy Of
seraphic fire, an angel might have lighted
down upon this sanctuary, and, flying into
the pulpit when he had folded his wings and
used them to veil his glory, he might have
taken up the wondrous theme of salvation
and the cross. No angel would leave heaven
to be king and fill throne; but we be.
lieve, were it Gods will, there is no angel
there but would hold>himself honored to be
a preacher and fill pulpit. Another and
very different messenger appears frail
dying, sinful man-one who is bone of your
bone, and flesh of your flesh; and if his
humanity made Jesus the better Saviour, il
makes bis servants the better ambassadors
that they also are touched with their peo
Piles infrmities, and are made in all points
like as they are, especially in this point
that we cannot add, "yet without sin. .


Exchange.
Year: 1869

the result would be that what might be lost
in the excellency of artistic performance IN
church music, would be far more than COM
pensated for by the full, hearty chorus OF
the congregation, and the true devotion In
spired by joining in this delightful service.
And let it ever be borne in mind that the
object of singing in worship is to excite de-
votional feelings in the heart.


3. Singing at family prayers is as a gen
eral rule practicable. The fact that it has
been common, almost universal, in commu-
mites not remarkable for their musical at
tainments, should establish this point
Many suppose the difficulty great without
even trying to remove or overcome it. Fami-
lies can be trained to sing. Why not edu-
cate your household in this, as we'll as in
other parts of their training, and that too
with view to their singing at home and at
church? In many families where the parlor
is graced with piano, and visitors charmed
with delightful strains of music, both vocal
and instrumental, there is no one to lead in
singing hymn in worship, There has been
musical training, but it is all confined to
secular music. And sometimes much money
and time and great pains are expended in
teaching the girls of the family this style of
music, whilst their training and that of other
members of the family in sacred music is en-
tirely neglected. Is this the part of a
Christian family? But let it not be sup
posed that much training is necessary for
this part of family worship. If the parents
know enough of music to lead the singing,
all that is necessary is that they keep up
the habit of singing with their children. If
the custom be adhered to it is readily per-
petuated from generation to generation
Try it in your worship, if it is not now your
habit. If you can sing but two or three
tunes, train your family to sing these with
you, till you or they can learn more.


May the time soon come when hymns of
praise shall be heard, morning and evening,
from every mansion and cottage in the land.


W. A. c.
Year: 1869

come to thee tonight,
In my lone closet where no eyes can see,
And dare to crave an interview with thee,


Father of love and light.


If this day have striven
With thy blest Spirit, or have bowed the knee
To aught of earth, in weak idolatry,


1 pray to be forgiven.


If in my heart has been
An unforgiven thought, or word, or look,
Though deep the malice which scarce could brook


Wash me from the dark sin.


fl have turned away
From grief or suffering which might relieve,
Careless the cup of water EN- to give,


Forgive me, Lord, pray.


And teach me how to feel
My sinful wanderings with deeper smart,
And more of mercy and of grace impart,


Ny sinfulness to heal.


Father! my soul would be
Pure as the drops of eye's unsullied dew;
And as the stars whose nightly course is true,


So would be to thee.


Not for myself alone,
Would the blessings of thy love implOrei
But for each penitent the wide world Ger


Whom thou hast called thine own.


And for my hearts best friends,
Whose steadfast kindness o er my painful years
Has watched to soothe Affections, gries, and tears,


Ny warmest prayer ascends.


Should o'er their path decline
The light of gladness, or OF hope, or health;
Be thou their solace, and their JOY, and wealth,


As they have long been mine.


And now, o Father, take
The heart cast with humble faith on thee,
And cleanse its depths from each iniquity,


For my Redeemer's sake.
Year: 1869

There is reason to fear that the custom,
once somewhat general in our Church, of
singing at family prayers, is departed from
to a great extent in the present generation.
This custom, as it existed among the piOus
peasantry of the Scotch Church, is touch
ingly described by Burns in his "COtter's
Saturday Night


''They chant their artless notes in simple guise;


They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim ;
Perhaps Dundees wild warbling measures rise,


Or plaiutive Martyrs, worthy O. the name:


Or noble Elgin beets the heavenward flame,


The sweetest far o. Scotias holy lays:


Compared with thee, Italian trills are tame;


The tiekled ears no heartfelt raptures raise;


Nae unison hae they with our Creators praise"


There was time too in the history of the
Church in our own land, when the voice Of
praise might be heard from almost every
family circle of the pious, as they presented
their morning and evening offerings at the
altar; and this is still true in some places,
less exposed than others, to the great mala-
dy, progress. This part of family wOr'
ship, where neglected, should be restored,
and become a general, if not a universal
custom, in pious households. We wish to
present few considerations urging this duty
upon heads of families especially.


1r Singing is pleasant and profitable
part of family worship. Those who have
long enjoyed this privilege, if debarred from
its exercise, feel cut off from one of the
most delightful of the ordinances of social
worship. If singing be pleasant and
profitable part of the worship of the sane
tuary, why not of that of the family altar !?
1t is the part in which all join; that which
first enlsts the interest of the children. If
anywhere, the singing of the praises of God
be for the edifcation of the piOus, where
more than when father, and mother, and
children, and other inmates of the house,
are met as band of the children of God,
united by love, and animated by the same
hopes and desires?


2. The prevalence of this custom in the
family would do more than any thing else,
to break down the monopoly in this part of
divine worship, that is making such fearful
inroads upon the services of the sanctuary.
Let Christians sing together at home, and
they will sing with their brethren in the
house of God. Train your children to sing
our delightful hymns in the family circle,
and then they will join in singing them,
when they hear them in public worship,
whether encouraged or not by the musical
artists in the gallery, If every family in a
congregation would regularly join, morning
and evening, in singing together at home,
then when they come together on Sabbath,
there would ascend volume of music in
praise to God. No longer would there be
reason or excuse for confning this part Of
the worship to a select FIVE. Not only SO,
but congregation thus trained would de
mand the right of having the singing so con-
Quoted that they could all join in it; and
Year: 1869

On my way back I looked into one or two
of the Catholic churches. They were all
aglow with candles and gliding, and they
were crowded by reverential thousands
Law and custom permit the "beggars" to
ply their trade (for it is quite ''trade,
and one of the best going trades in SPAIN
in the porches of the churches. In entering
and departing from them you have to run
the gauntlet of these filthy and importunate
creatures. 1 counted as many as fourteen
in the entrance of one of the churches.
Year: 1869

Notwithstanding the drawbacks incidental
to advancing years, says CasseHs Magazine,
such period may be made the most enjoy
able of ones life. There is no slight advan-
tage in having the hcy-day of the blood
checked in its course, in having gained ex-
perience Of the world, and in having passed
unscathed through the numerous perils and
dangers which beset the stages of childhood
and youth. Of course, the manner in which
man has spent the larger portion of his
life will have potent effect upon his mind
and character when the frost Of age makes
its appearance. But whether that life be
well or i'll passed, there are grounds for self
congratulation and consolation. AS Steele
aptly remarks: "The memory of we'll
spent youth gives peaceable, unmixed, and
elegant pleasure to the mind; and to such
as are so unfortunate as not to be able to
look back on youth, with satisfaction, they
may give themselves no little consolation
that they are under no temptation to repeat
their follies, and that they atpresent despise
them" Still, the pleasures of old age be-
come greatly enhanced, according to the
moral training and education one receives in
youth. We tolerate in the young what we
condemn in the aged, and very properly so;
for those blemishes and vices which dis6gure
and disgrace the former, render the latter
contemplate and odious. 1t has been re-
marked by one, that che who would be long
an old man, must begin early to be one."
In other words, the vanities and frivolties of
youth must be timely set aside, and the
whole character made to correspond with
the wisdom, decorum, and virtue which ap-
pertain to, and form the choicest charms of
mature age. To see an aged person weakly
painting with the remnants of those turbu.
lent desires which ruffle the breasts Of youth,
ashamed of the burrows that relentless time
has narrowed on his brow, is perfectly incon-
gruous and contemplate. Such one is out
of harmony with nature, which moves in ac-
cordance with the laws and will of the Gre
ator. To set the aim and end of our being
fully and frequently before the mind, during
the spring and summer of our existence, is
an exercise, the moral advantage of which
cannot be too highly extolled. Otherwise,
in life's autumn we are likely ''to stand
reaped and bare indeed. Equally replete
with philosophy and religion is the ejacula-
ton of the King of Israel: "Lord, teach
me to number my days, that may incline
my heart unto wisdom"
Year: 1869

Franklin computed, by allowing two feet
to each person, that Whitefeld could be
heard in the open air by we forgethow many
thousands; this he did by having made q
study of the art Of using the voice, just ss-
Demosthenes and many others less known to
fame have done. Many preachers nova.
days have the power in them, but do not
know how to put that power forth. The eff.
feet of q single masters lessons on vocalist,
in bringing out the tones and compass of the
voice, show what may be done by the preach
er in the cultivation of the same art. 1t
must be natural voice which is used, for no
bawling will be half so audible as mans
own keynote. He must address himself to
some one at the farthest end of the space he
breaches in, and throw his voice out from
him into the circumference of the building.
The chief effort used, and the chief watch
fulness required, is to sustain the ends Of
the sentences, where it would be natural liz
in conversation to drop the voice slightly
Otherwise man cannot be too natural, or
speak too nearly as he would in conversation.
The voice must be rested by speaking in
different notes within the compass of the
preachers natural scale. By changing the
keys, he will rest one while using another,
and SO avoid fatigue.


As nothing is so wearisome to the audi
ence, so nothing is so fatiguing to tho
preacher, as that monotony which SLOWS
muddy along" A medical man gives his
account of the cause of clerical sore throats.
He says they proceed from the men STOPPING
in reading, so that the throat does the work
of the chest and lungs, which cannot act as
they would if the posture was upright, with
the shoulders we'll open.


Then, again, in the composition Of a ser.
mon, how much may be done to help delivery
and save the voice, the economy of which in
the nave of a cathedral would be with most
men the essential of success. If any one
doubt this, let him take sermon of long:
involved sentences, where there is no stop
for ten lines, and another of short ones, and
try the difference. Pauses there must be-;
and some preachers have great art in so
making the stopping-places on the road as
to call attention to the finest views. While
they must pause Somewhere, they select such
opportunities for resting as leave the result
of section of the discourse to linger on the
minds of the hearers. This should always
be done where there is a break in the argu-
ment, and if possible driven home with some
terse aphorism or proverb, containing the
sense of what has gone before, so as to leave
the substance of each section of the sermon
in some tangible and portable shape on the
memory of the audience. After some nail
has been driven home and clenched, let the
hammer pause awhile and listen for the
responsive echo in the soul of the hearer.