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Year: 1869

When Joseph SutteliR was near his
last hour, he said


l have been thinking of the differ
ence between the death of Paul and
Byron. Paul said, The time Of my
departure is at hand but there is laid
up for me crol0st Byron said


Ny days are in the yellow leaf


The flower, the fruit OF life Is gone;


The worm, the canheri and the grief
Year: 1869

We Americans do not play enough.
We use ourselves up with overWork.
Our holidays are too few. And when
we do slip out Of business We don't
shake the harness off. Care goes with
US into the country. The fact is we
begin business life too young. At the
age when boys in other countries are
at school, many an American lad is be.
hind the counter, OF in the counting,
house, or warehouse, and conversant
with all the mysteries Of bargain and
sale. Young America makes contracts
and effects sales at the time of life
when English youngsters are trafiok-
ing in pigeons aud guinea pigs and
swapping peg tops. He drives through
the country showing samples, perhaps,
or rails it from State to State soliciting
orders, before he is fairly adolescent
This early induction into the guild of
mammon makes us shreWder aud
sharper than other nations, but does
it make US happier? Does it not
blunt our capacity for wholesome re-
creation? By the time that man
thus brought up, reaches the prime Of
life, is he not apt to be so completely
saturated, as it we're, with business,
that he can think of little else2


-.----


The King of Greece is unable to ELL
Year: 1869

Adelaide Proctor is with the angels
now The tumult of this busy world
shall never more disturb her. But she
is a gladder, more blessed angel, we
may be sure, whenever that dear old
woman reads her little song.
Year: 1869

Up this world and down this world,
And over this world and through,
Though drifted about,


And tossed about, e---z-. E
Still paddle your own canoe
What if the breakers rise up ahead,
With dark waves rushing through,


More steadily try,


With steadfast eye
To paddle your own canoe.'' --. Z
If hurricane rise in the midnight sky.
And the stars are lost to view,


Glide safely along, -....
With smile and song,
And paddle your own canoe"
Up this world. and down this world,
Over this world and through,


Though weary and worn,


Bereft, forlorn,
Still, paddle your own canoe"
Never give up when trials come
Never grow sad and blue;


Never sit down


With q tear or frown,
But, paddle your own canoe"
There are daisies springing along the shore
Blooming and sweet for YOU; LII


There are rose-hued dyes


In the Autumn skies
Then paddle your own canoe
Year: 1869

Good bye. Martha. God bless you
| shall be back in three days at the farth-
est.


The hardy White Mountain pioneer,
Mark Wentworth, kissed his young wife,
held his two year old boy to his breast a
moment. and then shouldcred his BAG OF
corn that was to be converted into meal
at the rude mill. forty miles away, and
trudged on through the wilderness.


Martha Warren stood al the door ofthe
cottage. gazing out after the retreaiing
form Of her husband. An angle in the
dense shrubbcry hid him from view. but
still she did not return to the solitary
kitchen. it looked so dark and lonesome
there. she shrank from entering; or per-
haps the grand sublimity Of the scene
spread out before her, held her attention
and thrilled her soul with that namcleSS,
unexpected something that we all see
when standing face TO face with the work
of his fingers.


The finest and most satisfactory view
of the White Mountains Is that which pre-
sents itself from what is now the town OF
Bethlehem, on the road TO Dittleton and
Franconia. Mount Washington, the
King among the princes, is there seen In
its proper place-the center OF the rock
ribbed" range, towering bald, blue and un-
approachablc.


Far up in this wild clearing, close by
the turbid waters of the AmmonOoSe, was
the cottage situated--a place wild andae-
RE enough for the nest of the eagle, but
dear to the heart of Martha Warren as the
home where she had spentth happy days
OF her Young wilehood. When She had
turned from many suitor in the fair town
of Portsmouth, to join her fortunes with
those OF the young settler, it was with the
full and perfect understanding OF the tn
ais that Law before her. She would walk
in no path of roses for years to como ;
much of her life must be spent in the eter-
nal solitudes where silence was broken
only by the wild winds of the forest, the
shrieks of the river over the wild rocks,
or the dismal howl OF the red-mouthed
wolf aiar in the dark wilderness.


The necessary absence of her husband
she dreaded most. 1t was so very gloomy
to close up her lonely iireside with the
consciousness that there was no other hui
man being nearer than the settlement at
Lords Hill, ten miles away through the
painless woods.


There was little to fear from the In
dians, although a few of the scattered
tribes vet roamed over the primeval
hunting grounds. They were mostly dis
posed to be friendly, and Mrs. Warren
kind nature prompted her 10 many acts
oil friendship towards them, and an Indian
never forgets a kindness.


The purple mist cleared away from the
SCARED forehead Of the dominant noun
tain; the yellow sun peeped over the
rocky wall. and Martha turned away to
the performance of her simple domestic
duties. The day was long one, but 1t
was towards evening, and the gloamins
comes much sooner in these solitudes
than in any other place. The sunlight Ia
ded out of the unglazed windows, though
II would illumine the distant mountains
for sometime vet and Martha went out
into the scanty garden to inhale the odor
of the sweet pinks on the meagre roots
Year: 1869

ELEGANCE DoEs Nor MAKE A IloME.-l
never saw garment too fine for man or
maid; there never was chair too good
for cobbler, or cooper or king to sit IN :
never house too fine to shelter the hu-
man head. These elements about u.s.
the gorgeous sky, the imperial sum- are
not too good for the human race Eic-
gance fits man. But do not value these
tools of housekeeping a little more than
they were worth, and sometimes mort
gage home for the mahogany we would
bring into it? l had rather eat my din
ner off the head of barrel, or dress alter
the fashion of John the Baptist in the VIII
derness, or sit on block ali my lie,
than consume all myself before l got TO q
home, and take so much pains with tho
outside that the inside is as hollow as an
empty nut.-Beauty is great thing but
beauty garments, house and furniture Is
a very tawdry ornament compared with
Year: 1869

domestic love. All the elegance in the
world will not tmake home, and would
give more for spoonful OF real hearty
love than for whole ship-loads OF fnrni-
lure, and all the gorgeousness that all
the upholsters in the world could gather
together Theodore Parker.
Year: 1869

europeans.


The Hindoos are adopting The manners and
customs OF their English rulers, says the Lon
don Telegraph, with rapidity which would be
gratifying III they Disseminated between the
good and bad points of our civilization. The
Calcutta native who is lucky enough to be rich
does not spend his money in building '.ghauts,"
as his forelathers SO often did; still less does
he waste large sums annually In offer
educated at the Calcutta University, and
comes forth with no religion TO call his own,
his mind unified for the conceptions offered
by Christianity. He passes his time in copying
English, driving about in a dog cart which he
has specially imported, and In domestic mo-
ments proving himself not insenslble to the
attractions OF brandy -and.water and cheroots
His humber fellow country men cannot follow
him SO far In imitation OF the sahib, but they
have just shown disposition to adopt one
custom known here and elsewhere.


ITO the amusement OF all Calcutta, there has
heard of strikes in England and determined to
see what the contrivance is worth as a means
OF raising wages. On the Bombay side the
Bengalese are slow TO fall in with new inven-
tions. At last, however. the boatmen who
at Calcutta gave up work. They had been for.
bidden TO land goods at certain point where
experimental jetties are in course Of constrqo-
they could not tolerate: They therefore sub
mitted to the notice OF the Anglo-Indians
try. Men who have been "forty years In the
country" Will be more than ever convinced
that we are running India by allowing the ma
tives to DO as they please. In past days the
boatmen might have found their experiment
costly; but now the Chamber of Commeroe acts
as arbitrator In their cause and prevails" upon
them to resume work. After this who will
venture to say that European ideas have not
penetrated beneath the surface of native life in
India? The truth Is that, unless the Indian
Government adapts itself to the progressive
state OF the people, we may very soon find that
even the lethargic BengaIee is going much too
fast for us.
Year: 1869

THE PRISON CONTRACT sYsTEM-DEFEAT OF THE


NEW-YORK CAB BILL--THE PUNISHMENT OF


BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.


ALBANY, March 30-Assembyman Kimballs bill.
drawn in the interest Of the workingmen, and which
aboshes the contract system of labor in the State
Prisons, came up in Committee of the Whole this
morning. but was progressed 1t will probably be
up again on Thursday. Mr.. Bradstreet offered an
important amendment, which is pending, striking
out the clause of the bill which prohibits the convict
from earning something for himself at odd hoursV
The proposed new feature in prison discipline, by
which the good conduct of the prisoner abates some
what the rigors of imprisonment, is attracting no
little attention from humantarlans.


The Assembly passed largo number of bills,
mostly local in their character. The New-York Cab
bill had received sufficient votes for its passage be-
fore "the boys" knew what bill they were voting on
Then came change after change of vote, till it was
killed The influence of the city hack propretors
has proved too strong Below is the vote on the bill
Year: 1869

THE NEW SPANISH CoNsTITUTIoN-AN IMPORTANT


CORRECTION.


LONDON, March 3O.-In the draft of the new Span
sh Constitution the reign of the King is not limited
to 1S years. as reported. On the contrary the pos
session of the crown remains in the King for life
and descends to his heir the period of whose majority
is fixed at the 18th year of his age.
Year: 1869

ALBANY, N. Y, March 3O.-The ten o'clock
train from this city Monday morning on the susquehanna
paroad met with rather serious accident near Espe
rance occasoned by tho spreading and breaking OF
roi The locomotive and two passenger were
thrown from tho track The locomotive was quite badly
Injured and one OF the passenger cars pretty wen


Iecked Two passengers sustained severe but not ser
ona Injuries one Of them Mr. A. Wilber OF tins
cty had his head and hands cut by glass The name OF
the other could not be ascertaned.
Year: 1869

SEED WHEAT INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF
THREsHlNG. An experienced and successful
wheat grower, and very careful observer, in a
nriya.e letter to the Petersburg Index, gives
very stroGS reasons why wheat that has been
threshed by the machines in common use
should not be used for seed. ut is my con
yiction Che says that the vital power OF the
grain is deterorated in no slight degree by
every successive process OF passing through
the machine until it is reduced to the lowest
roint of reproduction. IL is to this circum-
stance mahly, think, rather than to untavor-
able influence OF season, that may be trac-
ed the diminished and diminishing yield OF
our crops compared with what they we're be-
fore the machines were introduced.


We know, moreover, that the prolific varl-
etes of wheat, introduced from time to time,
owe their origin to small parcels of seed rubbed
from the heads and thus propagated until
sulTcicncy is obtained for field culture. Again,
It We will rub the grains from few heads,
and then compare them with those which have
J,cn threshed. We will be struck with the great
difference OF the former 10 size and pumpness
thus showing that We are in the practice OF
using the most inferior portion OF the crop ior
seed. What else then can we expect but di
mn>hed and diminishing crops, when we know
that from good seed only can healthy and
fruitful plants be obtained? My practice is to
tresa out all the wheat use for seed and
have reason to believe there is no circumstance
connected with the culture OF wheat more
worthy OF thorough Investigation
Year: 1869

\ Two CENT Doc. Yesterday afternoon a
two cent dog spraug from an alley; closely iol-
lowed by five cent brick. Rounding corner
at right angles, he came 10 contact with the
feet of Dutch woman, who was carrying
inc of molasses in one hand and basket OF
eggs I'M the other. The sudden COLLISION OF the
dog with her lower extremitles threw her from
her feet, and she sat down on the basket oi
eggs, at the same time breaking the jug OF mo
lasses upon the pavement. a young geHtlo'
man. carpet bag in hand, anxious to catch the
train. was running close behind. and stepping
oo the fragments of the jug and its contents,
.at down on the chest Of the Dutch woman.
who said Mine Got The young man said
something about mad dog, but in the excite
ment said it backward. La the meantime the
dog had run against the feet OF a team OF horses
attached To a load Of potatoes, and they taking
fright, started for home. The end board being
out, they unloaded the potatoes along the
street a. they went. Crossing the railroad
track, the wagon caught in the rails and tore
one Of them from its place. a ear that
was coming along few moments behind was
thrown from the track, smashing dozen cars
The horses, on reaching home, ran through the
barn ward and overturned milk cart aud con-
tents. on which another two legged dog licked
I'D. One OF the horses having broken his leg,
was Killed this morning, and the other Is Grip
pied for hie Ii is now Il mooted question
whether the man who threw the brick at the
two cent dog or the man who owos it is responsl
DIE for the chapter OF accidents which followed.
Richmond J0urlluL
Year: 1869

A certain jagare who was one morning


keeping watch in the forest, saw a fox eau
tiously making his approach towards the
stump of an old tree. When sufficiently
near, he took high and determined jump on
to the top of it, and, after looking round a
while, hoped to the ground again. After
Reynard had repeated this knightly exercise
several times, he went his way, but presently
returned to the spot bearing a pretty large
and heavy piece of dry oak in his mouth, and
thus burdened, and as it would seem for the
purpose of testing his yaulting powers, be re-
newed his leaps on to the stump. Ailer a
time, however, and when ho found that,
weighted rs he was, he could make the as
cent with facility, he desisted from further
efforts, dropped the piece of wood from his
mouth, and coiling himself upon the top Of
the stump, remained motionless as if dead


AT the approach Of evening, an old SOW and
her progeny, Ave or six in number, issued
from neighbOring thicket, and, pursuing
Year: 1869

Time indeed, makes havoc Of great names
aud of illustrious personalities. 1t woul d
not answer for the conscryers Of these to in.
woke thss, with zeal too petulant, aud
nsistence too absolute. The everyday world
no doubt iounds lis thought and calculation
upon the labors Of men whose names have lost
all familiar connection with their works. In
the world of thought most of US know not
our fathers We do not for this pretend to
have superseded them. We only regret that
the lapse Of time makes the figures Of our
benefactors so dim to US Shall we court
such forgetfulness of the one among them all
best known and most present to us2 Shall
we say " Let Us forget thee oh Christ
Thou vert but a steppng-stone, and not the
summit. Take away thy whole gallery of
pictures-the babe born in the manger, the
gracious child ia the tempe-the minister OF
JOY at the feast Of comfort, at the bed Of sick
ness the master with twenty centuries Of
glory budding in his bosom--the host Of the
solemn feast Of farewell, the stateiest sympo-
stun of the church. and the simplest Of the
hoart--the hero OF the cross, the symbolical
condueror Of death and iuheritor Of king
dom without end Take them all away-we
have outgrown thy record aud thee" The
proyerbial ingrattude of republics might 60
as far as this But if Christ could take US
at our word, and taking away himself remove
his gifts also, know not how rapidly our in
stitutions would shrink and darken. To take
Christianity out of New England would be
even more fatal than it would have been to
leave New England out Of the Union.-Julia
/ Ward Holce.
Year: 1869

their usual track, passed near to the stump in
question. Two Of her mcklings followed
somewhat behind The rest and, just as they
hnarcd his ambush, Michel, with the rapidity
Of thought, darted down from his perch upon
one Of theu, and in tho twinkling of an eye,
bore it in triumph on to the fastness he had
80 proyidcntially prepared beforehand. Con-
founded at the shrieks of her offspring, the
old sow returned in fury to the spot, and until
late in the night made repeated desperate at
tcmpts TO storm the murderors stronghold I;
but the fox took the matter cooly, and de-
youred the pig under the very nose Of its
mother.- NaturaiiH IN NorDag.
Year: 1869

Rev. Mr.. spurgeon, of London, said re-
Gently in the introduction of his sermon SIT
has been sometimes debated whether practical
experimental or doctrinal preaching was the
best kind and the most useful. lie should
not enter into the discussion of the question
but might say that in exclusively doctrinal
preachers he had observed tendency to dis
pute and quarrel in experimental preachers
a tendency to disparage and judge others
whilst those who had been practical had de-
generated into legality, and the grace of God
had eyaporated- The very best preaching
was that which had most of Jesus Christ ii
it for it gathered up the excellencies of tho
three classes he had mentioned into one per-
son since for practice Christ was the way
for doctrine Christ was the truth, and ioT
experience Christ was the liie.'
Year: 1869

The custom of making marriage presents,
with their pretentious display before the we'd
ding guests, is generally regarded a. q nui-
sance. though the custom still aourishes, in
the sheep-like disposition of people to follow
the fashion. The Nac Church independent
has these good words on the subject:


Once only those who were related to the
young couple by ties of blood or affection
made gifts now a false ceremonial has re-
placed the old, honest impulse of the heart.
Very often those who are not sensitive about
paying actual debts blush the deepest red at
the bare idei Of entering tho gay bridal-rooms
without silver or plated ware. 1t becomes
the duty Of those who are truly generous and
sincere and strong to abstain from practice
which weak people have not courage to quit
without the example Of noher characters. If
every pair contemplating marriage would re-
solve to issue on the wedding cards, No pres
ents will be received, benefceut reform
would instantly take place it has begun al
ready in some towns selfish couples and
grasping parents would become ashamed to
angle in the pockets Of acquaintance for val
uables. We know that many bride would
feel it a sacrifice not to receive beautiful gifts.
God pity such a one, for she will be poor for
ever unless She learns to value royal spirtu-
alities before material spendors which are
infltrated with social ialsehood and moral
degradation. The childish little bride should
remember that piano laden with shining sil.
yer is not 50 great gain as she magines, foI
she must pay bnck when the time comes, OF
be considered consumedly meau' A wed.
ding may take place in the family of an ac
quaintanee.to whom she is indebted at time
Of pecuniary embarrassment if such a tim'
never comes, the money might still be bette
appropriated in relieving actual want. a
conscientious deviation from custom, when
is injurious to the public good, is genuine be
lcanse il reguires soma selt-eaeriGee To be nii'
Judged, and to 60 steadily onward in the pat
of right, upborne by no enthusiasm.
Year: 1869

Bleeding may give ease, because the blood len has
more rooms hut the docs not last and is followed
by permanent weakness.
BRANDRErHs PILLS relieve the circulation and
give ease surely and almost quickly bleeding
hut Brandreths Pills hurt, and the good they do
Is permanent because they take only what the body and
blood better without Purgaton with these pills
will he found
Year: 1869

The treaty made by General Cushing
with the Government of Columbia,
comedies to the United States the ex-
elusive right to construct interoceanic
canal across the Isthmus of Darien, at
any point which may be selected by
the United States. The Columbian
Government cedes six miles of land on
each side of the canal, one half for its
own benefit and the other for that of
the party undertaking the construction
of the work The Columbian Govern
ment is to receive ten per cent income
for the first ten years, and after the
canal is paid for, . per cent of the net
profits. The treaty is to be ratified by
the United States within ten months /;
the survey is to be made within two
years after the ratification the canal
begun within five years and finished
within Is years after the ratification,
otherwise the charter fails. The
charter runs for 100 years. The canal
is to be under control Of the United
States, and congress can fix the rateof
tolls. The navigation is to be open to
al nations in time of peace but closed
to belligerents- who may seek to avail
themselves of its advantages. It is es-
timated that the canal viii cost $780,
600, 600.
Year: 1869

President Johnson's closing reeep-
ton on the night of the I'd inst, was
the point of chief attraction to the inn
mense crowds Of visitors in the city.
The result is eaisly imagined. Before
the hour for the opening of the White
House, nearly enough tOfill the build
ing were in waiting. Long before the
time much of the usual attendant of
ficial and resident Washington pOpula-
tiOn arrived All the rooms were pack
ed before 8 o'clock. The front porch
was so jammed that few succeeded in
either getting in or cOmming away.


Half an hour later the carriage way
was entirely blacked up with gentle
men and Ladies in evening dress, and
the sidewalks for fifty yards on each
| side Ofthe central porch were crowded
full with those fighting to get in.
| These were obliged to leave their car
riages at a long distance from the front
of the house, and by the time those
who were first inside desired to leave,
the porch, pavement and rOadways
We're packed close with people, and all
| the open part of the pavements was
crowded with carriages.


TERRIBLE SCENES.


| w uSH dJGGLu ptS W COLuGdWdy DGSdu
! the scene became a terrible one for
ladies. There was no intentional dis
order but it was impossible to avoid
much unpleasant confusion. Ladies
got separated from their escorts on all
sides. Men were obliged to come
away without OveTcOates and hats,
and woman without wrappings, fol
when once out was impossible to find
their carriages, and ladies in full party
dress with trail as long as a garrison
| flag were obliged to walk home with
out hoods or shawls.


Men in full dress were seen by the
dozen with their heads tied upin hand
kerchiefs, instead of hats. Woman in
elegant costumes were crushed through
| the crowd on the porch till their plight
was anything but envible. In an
hour not lady got out except such as
were taken from windows. Quite a
number tainted from the fright and suf-
location caused by the swaying of the
crowd. The police on duty seemed
| pOwerless. None tried to create disOr-
der, bnt the crowd was 50 great it was
impossible to controlOr resist it's surg
| ing.


A few of the Cabinet officers and
some of the foreign ministers, with a
small representation of the prominent
visitors succeeded in gaining an en-
trance but the majority of each class
were obliged to abandon the attempt
to get in.