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Year: 1874

One of the rarest qualities to be
found in poetry is the originality which
springs from the poet being overcome
and mastered by his subject. Most
poets necessarily choose their subjects,
and having chosen them, do their best
to identify themselves with what they
describe, and te use the materials thus
provided as q vehicle by which they
may teach or charm mankind. Some
event in personal history, love or a
loss, may indeed for a moment carry
the poet away on the tide Of spontane-
GUS emotion; but this cannot happen
often in any life, not even in tie life OF
q poet. That an interest SO profound,
an absorption SO complete. should be
produced by any set of events, that
waiter should feel as if his life were
only given him to utter what Is swell
ing in his breast, is. and must be some
thing accidental and extraordinary.
But when it is present it always COM


mands and arrests the attention of
readers. The strength and sincerity
of emotion give an irresistible power
to what is written. No strength Of
emotion or absorption in q subject will
necessarily make a writer a great poet,
for to be great poet is the summing
up of vast variety of great gifts; but
it will make the poem in which it is
embodied remarkable poem, provided
that the expression of feeling is not
wholly inadequate, and that the sub
ject is in itself one the elevation of
which others can realize by sympathy,
even though they may not see how
they themselves could possibly be car
ried away by it.-Saturddy Reuie,c.
Year: 1874

they are listening constantly to music
and in Heaven everything is peaceful
and happy. o, would I were there"
She leaned her cheek on her hand and
sighed deeply, looking up she beheld
him gazing earnestly upon her, she
blushed, and was about to retire when
he said:


''Miss Lester will you walk around
the porch with me a few minutes; 1
have something to ask you" She
suffered him to lead her away, and when
at some distance from the crowd, he
said, Miss Amy, 1 have noticed how
cruelty You are treated by your rela-
tions. do you think you could love me
well enough to leave them and be my
little wife ?" "Mr. Evans 1 can not
listen to you, for in speaking thus you
are prompted by pity and not by love-"
the first day did pity you, but since
then l have seen your goodness and
patience, and 1 love you now, my darling,
deeply passionately, do you love me, will
you be my wife. Othink, darling Amy
before you render me miserable for
life." Well Carl, she said, 1 love you,
but this is so sudden that 1 can not
give you my final answer until to-mor-
row, so au revoir till then," and before
he could utter one word of fremonstrance
she was gone.


"Ah, well, 1 will try to kill time till
tomorrow by going to bed," and light
ing cigar he went, if not to bed, to
his own chamber where he will leave
him for the present.


The next morning Mr.. Meredith
came into the private parlor. where the
family together with Mr.. Evans were
seated, ,glancing hastily around he espied
Amy, and going up to her he said,
Amy, good news, good news your
late uncle left another will in which you
are the sole heiress of his wealth, it was
discovered only yesterday in bundle
of old papers. Esther, Maude, why do
you not congratulate little Amy on her
good fortune, for my part l am glad,
not only on Amy's account but also on
my own, for this reason, that 1 may
give up playing the gentleman. Well
Amy what have you to say about 1t.
"Well uncle, in the first place l have to
thank you for this both great and good
news, and your kindness since L have
been in your house, secondly, l forgive
aunt Esther and beg her to accept half
of my fortune, to Mr.. Evans will an.
swer yes to that question he asked me
last night, and want Msude if she will
to be my brides maid.
Year: 1874

They who are led by their feelings
are like paper kites driven by the wind
quite as likely to be cast down one
moments as to be elevated the next.


Praise from the wise man is like bread
to the starving-it encourages life.


Hope to the downcast is ike raft to
The shipwrecked-it bears hira over tbs
gulf of despair and often rewards him
with pleasant shore.


Suspicion is like a magnifylng glass
through it most trifng atoms are
made to appear of false magnitude;


Assistance from the selfish is like
pin neither can mend difficulties with
out stab.


To need q coat is q better condition
of circumstance that to need q princl-
PIE.
Year: 1874

BLIND BILLT.-We have canary-bird
in our house that we are all very fond
of. We call him Billy. He is a very
sweet singer but he cannot see.


A long time ago he was in cage with
other birds /; and, in a quarrel, poor
Billy got his eyes pecked so badly, that
he became entirely blind. The children
have to take great care of him for, if
MS perch is not put in the same place
every time, he cannot find his food.


But 1 believe Billy sings more than
birds that are not blind. When he
hears the twitter of sparroWs in the
garden, or the singing OF the tea-kettle
on the stove, be seems TO think it his
duty to sing. And, when his cage
hangs in a window on a sunny day in
winter, he sings as though he thought
summer had come.


Whenever hear Billy sing, it makes
me think of the two great poets, Homer
and Milton. They were blind but,
like our Billy, they sang sweet songs.
II is said that Homer had to beg for a
living. Our Billy sings for a living
but he does not beg. Two kind little
girls, Lena and La, are careful to keep
his seed-cup full.
Year: 1874

You've MECHANICS. is no class
of the community upon whom the fu-
ture welfare of the country more essen
TALLY depends than upon the rising
generation of young mechanics. Ii they
are intelligent, sober, industrious and
consequently independent, able and
accustomed to judge for themselves,
and governed In their conduct by an
enlightened view of their own best in
terests /; if they are men of this sort,
the mechanics, and especially the young
mechanics, will form, in conjunction
with the young farmers of the country,
bulwark against monopoiies and cor
Tupt politicians, and save the republic.
If, on the other hand they are ignorant,
idle, dissOlute, and consequently poor,
and dependent upon those who are
willing to trust them-if our mechanics
should unhappily become such class
they would soon be converted into the
mere tools of a few rich and artful men,
who, having first stripped them of every
sense of self respect, and every feeling
proper to vIrtuOus citizens, would use
them as passive instruments for pro-
noting their own ambitious objects,
and for the enactment of laws which
are beneficial to nobody but the artful
few and base demagogues with whom
they originate.


1t is as true of the mechanical arts as
OF any other profession that "knowl-
edge Is power.
Year: 1874

THE HUNGRY Docs OF SIBERIA


Poor fellows Hungry from morning


until night hungry all the time except


during the short summer, when they


go a-fshing and help themselves L


wonder how their drivers would like to


wait all day long for the first sign of
/ breakfast /; but that is Just what the


Siberian dogs who live at home are re-
/ quired to do even when they travel all
/ day.


| Dismal fate to be kept at starvation
| point so long, and then to get only a
small piece of dried salmon to sleep


upon. Ii some wise dog would travel


to that region and howl little about
emigration / think there would soon be


too many dogs about this. Mr.. Bush,


who travelled through a portion of
Siberia few years ago, tells us that


when journey over the frozen rivers


of Siberia is about to be made the


natives are astir at daybreak, and having
called and vhistled their dogs they
harness them up in pairs to long seal
thongs, fastened between two trees,
preparatory to attaching them to the
sleds. With the exception of a few


''slumber-loving, lazily-inclined old
beasts, who have learned to look upon
journey as a task" the dogs respond
as promptly as could be desired, and
are wild with excitement and delight at
seeing the light sleds dragged from
their shelter. They sometimes set up
barking, yelping and bowling that may
be heard for miles on the still air, and
are SO eager for the start that there is
danger OF The seal-thong being broken
and the whole band rushing of pell-
nell without the sleds. Mr.. Bush tells
OF one poor little dog who excited all his
sympathy: ''In making up the teams
only thirty dogs were selected out of
the large number in the village to draw
out three sleds. OF those left behind
one poor little fellow had manifested
the greatest delight at the prospect of
journey. None jumped higher or barked
louder than he, and from the commence
ment of the preparations he stood up
ready to be harnessed.


When he saw that tine others were
attached to the thong, and that no
attention had been paid to him, he
walked up to the team aud with an air
OF quiet patience, took his place in the
line with the expectation of being har-
messed. To prevent him from accom-
panying the teams, strap was put
abOut his neck and he was tied fast to
post.


The poor fellow dropped his tail and
his Intelligent countenance expressed I.
the most intense disappointment. He
evidently felt the denial as acutely as
could any human being = = Fifteen,
twenty, and sometimes thirty dogs are
to one sled. 'sThe characters /.
of these dogs are as diversified as those
of human beings. They are possessed .
of great intelligence and acuteness. /
outwitting their masters. /
Some are reserved and dignifed, seem .
ing to fully realize the obligations /
which devolve upon them, and enter
into their duties with conscientious
zeal


These dogs are placed at the head of
the train to set good example to the .
young rattle-brains who follow them.
Year: 1874

The STAR GLASS CO., Of New
Albany, have, within the last year,
very much enlarged their works,
and, by the Investment Of nearly
three Quarters Of q million Of dol
lars. have now one Of the most per-
feet PLATE GLASS FACTORIES
in the world, with machinery and
capacity for producing any required
size and quantity promptly. The
Glass now being turned out by these
works is excellent in all particulars,
and we have recently placed con-
siderable quantities Of it in several
conspicuous and costly buildings in
this city, to the entire satisfaction
of the architects and owners.


We invite all persons interested in
this material to compare it with
Plate Glass Of any foreign manufac-
ture, being confident that the Glass
will sufficiently recommend itself.


We guarantee satisfaction to all
purchasers, and we further guaran-
tee that the Glass will not discolor
by use. e..


We propose to compete in price
with any Plate Glass Dealers in this
or any market Of the United States.
Year: 1874

King held his pistol aimed at one
of them, and rode by without aNak-
ing them. Leaving Kaweah to fol.
low the trail he turned in the saddle.
keeping his eyes fixed upon them
until they were lost in the distance.
Then he felt safe, and after galloping
oyer many miles Of trail, at last reach
ed NIa1ipo.a, where he deposited his
gold and made up for his lost sleep.
Year: 1874

Fashionable French Society is ap.
palled at tragedy which occurred
quite recently. NJ. Valontin, who had
been the fashionable tailor of Paris and
has made a fortune, retired with his
wife to Mandres to live. Their son had
won unusual honors at the Cavalry
School at Saumur, and the day of the
tragedy had returned home with a
friend to receive the parental congratu-
lations. The domestic life of the VAL
entins was rend cred miserable by the
continual jealousy Of the lady, which,
IS it was without cause, was less en-.
durable. On the occasion Of the return
Of young Valentin,this father was wit
Messing game of billiards between the
lads, when his wife called him up
stairs. With joke about prompt obe-
diencc to superior officers, NJ. Valentin
left the room. A few minutes after
wards six pistol shots were heard, and
on examination the young dragon found
both his parents dead. 1t was evident
that another attack Of jealousy had
seized Mad. Valentin, that her husband
had become enraged at the annoyance
on such a joyous occasion, and had shot
his wife and himself to end it forever.
The ashes of a letter were found in the
room, having probably been burned by
one of the parties before the quarrel
commenced, as the shots were fired in
too rapid succession to ojustify the belief
that the husband had destroyed it after
killing his wife. A mania for sympathy
never wrought more dismal tragedy
than this constitutional jealousy.
Year: 1874

The inquest in the case of Jacob Hagar, the
infant abducted from Greenpoint aud found aerward
in lumber pile in West Nfneteenthst in this city, suf
fering wounds which resulted in its death,
sumed by Coroner Croker yesterday and concluded.
Captain Rhodes, of the Seventh Precinct Police Of
Brooklyn under protest made the following statement


On Friday last the prisoner being then in my station
house informed me that previous TO placing the child
under the lumber pile she had struck II on the head
with stone. The child did not move, and she thought
dead. She carried the stone away wrapped In
handkerchief and afterward threw IL away. She also
said that she put tho child under the lumber the
morning of Wednesday, the 9th inst, because she
angry with its father for dscbargng her subsequently
the Captain asked her what relation existed between
her and Mr. Hagar. she said sue was ashamed to say
but afterward declared that 1t was that OF man
and wife.


The Jury returned the following verdict:


We find that Jacob Hagar came to his death from
wound upon the head, Inflicted by some instrument
TO the Jury in the hands OF LIZZIE Munker.


The prisoner then recommitted to the Tombs to
await the action Of the Grand Jury.
Year: 1874




Despite the heavy rain last evening the
Iecture-roOm Of Plymouth Church about half filed
with those who had to attend the regular Friday
night prayer meeting The publication Of Theodore TIL
toms last statement IL had been read by the members
present did not appear TO have had any appreeiabie
effect upon them. Hymns were heartily sung and
prayers, containing many references to the absent
pastor were ferventy offered. Remarks were made by
several, urging the members to live with more COM
plete devotion d life OF love and Christian piety.
stranger who had never been in the church before
asked permission to say few words. lie said: " In
speaking pastor, who is so full OF love and
sympathy TO all who come TO him. said Mr. Beeoher,
Ihave a question tO ask you. Are you ever afraid OF
death Has death any terror to your No, no, not at
ALL he said. We conversed the subject, and Mr..
Beecher said that. although ne was surrounded by
friends and many OF them yet he looked forward
with auticiPatons and pleasure 10 the time when
should join the great host of friends who had gone
before That thought gave strength and 10y to his
soul" The speaker then urged those present to have
the same spirit their hearts, and TO shUn with all their
might the emissaries Of the devil, who went forth 10
strike everywhere, the throne OF God Itself.
But their abos vaiD for Christ strong
for them. The speaker closed by hoping that there
would be such revival and outpouring OF the spirit
In the Church this Fall aud the coming Winter as
never happened before
Year: 1874

At meeting of the Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund yesterday. the monthly statement was
made showing $3O536i6 80 to the credit OF the city.


Mayor Hunter has approved tho repairing of
certain streets declared to be dangerous by Board
CITY Works at a much reduced expenditure


Coroner WOltmann will hold inquests to-day
in the cases OF Roderick Entwiste and William McGm-
MIS- whose deaths resulted, a supposed from hy-
drophobia


James Keene, age 81, committed suicide yes
terday by shooting himself in the head with shotgun
When he returned to his home at No 245 sxeenth-st
after his discharge from the army he found that his
wife had died in his absence and all his children had
been married His home was desolate and he made the
acquaintance OF a woman who afterward lived with
him. He had accumulated considerable money and
was engaged in no regular business. BY degrees his
companions expenses exhausted his savings and when
he had become penness she left him He then tried 10
obtain employment, but failed and compelled TO
nawn his household goods until article except an
pid mattr ess had sold. When he esterday
morning he found himself destitute OF everything by
the sale OF which he could obtain money. and loading
his gun with sugs while he sat upon his mattress he
placed the muzze 10 his head aud with his pulled
the trigger
Year: 1874

rY The Louisville CoWrier Journal threatens
the people of the North with the dire threat, that
if they uphold and assist such usurpations and
outrages as the Louisiana affair, they will give
them a third. term of Grant. As Grant is the
man who has taken the responsibility in the mat
ter, he is the one upon whom the punishment
will fall. For cool, devilish maliciousness, those
Southern fire -eaters beat TIE world,
Year: 1874

blossoms, but as the ofbcers OF the customs In
sisted on examination and exposure the ST. LOUIS
belle washed her hands OF the whole anair and
relegated the responsibility where 1t belonged.
Such was the first lesson.


Piled up In the rooms OF the seizure department


in The granite building In all street are bales and
boxes, strongly strapped cases, and dainty parcels
which could a tale unfold that would harrow up
the soul OF many belle and beau who, desiring 10
shine In the magic circle OF the tettnesse doree do
not hesitate TO defraud the revenue In comprising
their ambition.
Year: 1874

The great event of the week has been the camp meeting. Hundreds if not thou sands have been in attendance from this town; some of whom have stayed through the entire week, and it is to hoped that much good has been accomplished.

 Summer boarders are beginning to leave. Several musical artists have been stopping with Mir. and Mrs. T. l.. Hart for a few days. Among them is young lady of eighteen years who is seldom surpassed in the use of the violin. Invitations were extended to them by the lovers of good music to which they responded very much to the pleasure of those who heard them. Dr. Powers, who has been taking lessons upon the violin, is absent on fishing ex- cNrsion to Maine, from which place he writes us that he caught trout which weighed two and half pounds.
Year: 1874

A SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY-the Nash
vile Commercial RepOrter-in a recent article,
sheds considerable light upon one of the causes
of the want of prosperity in the Southern
States. 1t says there are too many drones
there and too few workers in the hive, and that
" it is really alarming to see the number of idle
hands in the country" Every city and town in
that region is described as being crowded with
young and healthy able bodied men, many of
whom have no avOcatiOns, yet who " manage
to keep alive, tut by what means is wholly un-
known" They absorb the energy of the
country and give it no aid, yet many of the
farms in the State are becoming wildernesses
for the want of their labor. They apply by
hundreds to be clerks in stores lawyers Offices,
&C., yet they have evidently no capacity for
such situations, and do not get them. Summing
up the case in a single sentence, our contem-
DOrary decribes their chief aspiration to be q" to
get place TO avoid manual labor. This
condition of affairs, we are sorry to say, is not
confined to the locality more Immediately re-
ferred to, but it may be said to exist, more OF
less, everywhere
Year: 1874

A man who had just lost three of his toes by
a railway carriage running over his foot, and
who was bowling with pain, was checked by a
bystander, who exclaimed Stop your infer
nal din, there You make more noise over the
loss of your toes than that stranger did yester-
day over the loss of his head
Year: 1874

They tell of hen which foated down the
raging tide at Mill river for some distance in
the barrel where she was laboriously cover
ing nineteen eggs. She attended strictly to
business during the food finally brought up in
a friendly harbor, and has since left her barrel
with nineteen chickens at her heels.
Year: 1874

A traveller stopping over night with Texan
farmer whose estate was miles upon miles in
extent, said to him


You must have begun life early to accumu
late such an estate as this


Yes! replied the farmer, " began life
when | was mere baby
Year: 1874

The Gazette has opened FIRE from
its trenches before the position Of
the Telegraph, and we, may expect
stirring things from the front at any
minute. Impersonally independent
journalism is only another name Tor
irresponsible newspaper advocacy Of
schemes that pay-to the exclusion
of principle.
Year: 1874

News political morality will do the
business for our brave little frontier
friend. The News is hardened to it,
but il IL new thing for the Vidette,
and we are satisfied it will not like
il,
Year: 1874

The Sulphur Springs Gazette looks at
the late printing muddle, and the con-
nection Of the News Herewith, in the fol,
lowing sensible way. Its article is very
brief, but very sharply pointed, and we
will give our readers the benefit of perus
ing it:


The public. printing muddle seems to
grow and gather force as. it grows. 1t
Is discussed by persons who either know
but little OF the merits of the case or who
purposely misrepresent the facts. The
majority of the 14th Legislature thought
it good policy to change the manner Of
having the printing done by contract, so
as to secure the work for the State at the
lowest possible rates: and to carry out
the object sought to be attained, consti-
tuted the Governor, Attorney General
and Secretary Of State q board to control
it. Accordingly, the printing board gave
notice that scaled proposals to do the pubs
lie printing would be received up to q
certain date. Those who were unsucess.
full in securing the public printing be.
came dissatisfied, and now distert the
facts and seek to heap cllumny upon the
printing board, without any just cause
for % doing. VA -
Year: 1874

The late Charles Dickens, it was gen
orally known, was separated from his
wife. In the third volume of Forster's
ssLifc of Dickcns,' just issued in Lon
don, the great novelist himself eN-
plains his mysterious troubles: "POor
Catherine and / are not made for each
other, and there is no help for it. 1t is
not only that she makes me uneasy and
unhappy, but that I make her so too
and much more so. She is exactly
what you know in the way of being
amiablc and complying; but we are
strangely ill-assortcd for the bond there
is between us. God knows she would
have been thousand times happier if
she had married another kind of man
and her avoidance of this destiny
would have been at least equally good
for us both. ] am often cut to the
heart thinking what Il pity it is for her
own sake, that / ever fell in her way !;
and if ] were sick or disabled to-mor-
row, l know how sorry she would be,
and how deeply gricvcd myself, to
think how we had lost each other.
But exactly the same incompatibility
would arise the moment ! was well
again, and nothing on earth could
make her understand me, or suit us to
each other. Her temperament Will not
go with mine. 1t mattered not SO
much when we had ourselves to con-
slider, but reasons have been growing
since which make it all but hopeless
that we should even try to struggle on.


What is now Detailing me have seen
steadily coming. ever since the days


you remember when Mary was born


and I know too we'll that you cannot,


and no one can, help me. Why !


have written / hardly know, but it Is


a miserable sort of comfort that you


should be clearly aware how matters
| Stand.'