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Year: 1874

Out of place? Ahl dear me, yes, and
for the last three months. If don't gel
better ] may never get into place again
and then God only knows what will be
come of me. Shop-keepers don't like
giving work to ladies; and ladies dom
like the workhouse. There are home,
for decayed gentlewomen? Oh, yes; but
every one knows how difficult they are
to get into; and / don't blame the peo
pie who have the direction of them
When the demand far exceeds the sup.
ply, / don't see how it could be other.
wise.


What is the matter with me? Asthma
and chronic rheumatism, brought on by
exposure to the weather; and you know
one can't teach when ones voice is gone,
and ones nerves all a-quiver with pain.
1t would be folly in any one to take me
in my present state; only you see
couldn't help getting into it; / wasn't
used to roughing it at the beginning,
that's all.


Yes, had been trained to be a gov
erness. My father was clergyman, with
no private property--a man who had
married penniless girl, and who enter
tanned somewhat peculiar views, which
cut him off from those who might have
been his friends; 30 / was early sent to
a good school and given the best masters,
that / might be able to help myself when
the need came. We lived in Devonshire,
and when he died, leaving my mother
and me without penny, she wrote to an
uncle of hers, rich merchant in Bristol,
not exactly asking him for aid, but tell
ing him of our great need. In little
more than ten days we got his answer.
In little more than ten words he told
my mother that twenty pounds annually
would be paid to her in halfyearly in
stalnents, by the solicitor in the city.
For the rest, 1 had been sent to much
more expensive school than his daugh-
ters, and therefore ought to be sufficient
ly accomplished to support both my
mother and myself


Well, he was right. / think was, If
i had been older, or could have taken a
situation of eighty or hundred pounds
a year, and every thing found, as finish
ing governes; but they don't give those
sort of things to girls Of three-and-twen-
tv; and, besides, my mother could not
have spared me altogether. She was
great invalid, and my fathers death had
80 broken her down that I made up nv
mind from the first to try for place az
daily governess only.


Why did we come to London? Well.
partly because lodgings and food were
very dear In our old home, fashionable
waterng-place; partly because fancied
] could get reader and greater choice
Year: 1874

To drowsy country village


Came certain Pars0n Lee;
And man so quantity different


From all other men was he,
That the Squire himself, the skeptic,
Came TO church TO hear him pray,
And 10 note the strange things uttered
BY this marvel Of the day.
The eccentric said the planetl


Was a true and goodly place,
And the only thing IL wanted


Was the more Of heavens grace;
And he sought to show the people


How TO think and work and live,..
So that each should help the other


And unto the needy give.
How the door that leads to heaven


Was most ample, broad and wide,,
How each could turn the handle


And go easily inside;
That the very gentlest natures


In the world may yet be strong;
And how truth Is always wisdom,
And all wickedHess Is wrong.
He explained how true religion


Was day working nothing more;
That this world was not an ocean,
Nor the pebbles on the shore;
But that thinking men and women
Should find better things TO do
Than in twisting Gods commandments
Or quite breaking them in two.
"As for acting like our neighbors,
why, we none Of us are foolsl
You can not be made q Christian
Under every bOdy's rules.
III your neighbor's not as good as
He or you would have him be,
Just you go ahead and beat him I"
Said the candid ParsOn Lee.
Next he told them how complaining
Was choking noxious weed
That the flowers scarcely blossomed
Ere they changed to homely seed
How that seed again sprang upward
And bore many fiowerets more;
And that life was ever fading
And renewing, DER and DER.
So this man, by honest talking,
Worked his wonders In the town;
But he never cared for praises,
And he laughed at high renown,
Yet the people loved him dearly,
And they blessed God for the sight.
Till at last the master left them,
On cold, dark winters night.
Thus he went, they knew not whittier
Have you ever met him, pray?
You would know him by his smiling,
And the sunshine on his way.
We have hunted DER creation,
Over land and over sea,
But no traces can discover


of our missing Parson Lee.
Year: 1874

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PENN.-The
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana is
prominently before the public as leader
Of the recent revolt against the politi-
cal corruption and usurpation that have
been so long prevalent in Louisiana and
it may be interesting to the reader to
know who he is. Lieutenant Governor
Davidson B. Penn is q native of New
Orleans, son of one of the Oldest and
wealthiest residents of that city. He is
a merchant and planter in the former
pursuit member of the influential firm
Of Penn Il DeNegre. During the late
war he was colonel Of Louisiana regi-
ment that served under General Lee,
and was made brigadier general for dis :
tinguished gallantry in the field He
is about forty years old, and Of remark
ably handsome phisique. His standing
in social as well as commercial sense
is of the highest order. And we are
informed that his recent official action
meets the entire approval of the solid
men Of New Orleans as the only means
for salvation Of the trade and commerce
Of the city.-BaH. iSuu.
Year: 1874

a New York paper tells Of the
whipping to death of a tiye-year-
old boy In one of the benevolent
Institutions Of that city. We don't
think that, rs a general thing, be-
nevOlent institutions ought TO make
q regular practice Of whipping chill
dren TO death, Is it involves the
wasting Of too much money on fu-
nerals that might be postponed
And, aside from this, if one Of their
five year olds must be whipped 10
death, they ought to farm out the
Job 10 some Institution that Is not
so benevolent -Courier-Journal.
Year: 1874

No deduction will be made for absence the first or
last week of the term nor for absence during the
term n any excepting that OF protracted sick
ness.


Students will furnish their own quilts sheets, pill
low-cases, towels and toilet soap All articles need
ed to be washed should be plainly marked with the
Year: 1874

The green cross town cars are the most disa
greeable for cleanly people of any in New York.
To take passage in one of them requires some
courage, and necessity only will oonstrain any
one to expose himself to the odors and sights
that will assail his senses. But it ia a very use
full line, and the people who ride in it are just
as good, in the sense of being virtuous, as those
who do not work in the places from which these
passengers mostly come.


The car was quite full when stepped in 10 it,
laying hold of strap with some hesitation
toO) steadied myself, or rather swung, as we
are required to by the parsimony ofour masters,
the car companies, and the fears of our author
tiles to offend them by requiring them to fur
nish seats for all the passengers.


As swung loosely above the heads of those
sitting, found that my ear came just over a
couple of youngish people, woman of perhaps
twenty and man of thirty or more. And in
spite of the noise of the car, had to hear what
they were saying. For they spoke louder than
they would have done had they been able to
see how near to them was obliged to stand
But they soere both blind. This perceived by
the way in which they sat while conversing,
then by noticing their eyes, and finally by the
remarks they made. Their talk was general
and cheerful, and did not arrest my attention
until heard the young woman ask her COM
panion this striking question:


'If you could have your wish, what would
you choose"


He did not wait to think, but Immediately
answered:


"If could have my wish, would give you
your sight"


She was silent moment and then said:


40 no, not me"


eyes, you" he repeated, and then they were
both still, and neither of them spoke word
while remained in the car.


My own eyes were moist, and presume the
blind eyes of both of them were full of tears,
for something had been said that was revela-
tion of affection and self-sacrifce such as is al
most without parallel in human love. Who
these people were knew not, never shall know
Of them again, whether they are brother and
sister, or lovers, or why they should be so bound
to each other that one of them could be willing
to prefer to have the other restored to sight
rather than he himself to have that priceless
boon. They were plainly dressed people, and
as the car passed the door of the blind asylum,
thought perhaps one of them was an inmate,
perhaps both, and they we're making IN excur-
sion. left them thinking, and stepped out
into the thronged street of a great cty,-its
rush, and push, and crush, enough to Danish
all sentiment from the soul, and compel one to
forget that unselfsh hearts could be beating
under homey clothes in the green cross town
cars.-N. ?. Observer.
Year: 1874

If we would but check the speaker
When he spoils his neighbor's fame,
II We would but help the erring


Ere we utter words of blame;
five would, how many might we
Turn from paths of sin and shame.
All, the wrong that might be righted
If we would but see the way;
All, the way that might be lighteped
Every hour and every day,
If we would but hear the pleadings
Ofthe hearts that 60 astray.
Let US step outside the stronghold
Cfour selfihsness and pride;
Let us lift our 1ainting brothers,


Let US strengthen ere We chide;
Let us, ere we blame the fallen,


Hold the light to cheer and guide.
All, how blessed-ah, how blessed


Earth would be if all would try
Thus to aid and right the weaker,
Thus to check each brothers. sigh,
Thus to talk of duty pathway


To our better life on high.
In each life, however lowly,


There are seeds of mig hty good;
Still, we shrink from souls appealing
With timid "if we could;"
But God who judges all things


Knows the truth is ''if we would"
Year: 1874

The Commissioners Of the South Parks have
before them for decision this week the question
whether they will admit or exclude the railroads
from the right OF way through such parks. The
decision OF that question is OF considerable in
terest. The South Park on the lake shore is
nearly eight miles from tie Courthouse. I'm
less these PARKS werc intended as local pleas
uro-cround for those who in time may live in
their immediate vicinity, there must be some
means adopted for easy and expeditions access
to them, or they might as well be located in Joliet
or at Michigan City. It will be many years before
horsc-cars will run there, and, when they do,
they will be Of little use to the public. The time


taken in the journey to and from the park will
consume the better part Of the day. TO render


it possible to visit the parks and spend some
time in them, there should be ample and rapid
means Of communication to and from them, and
this can only be done on cars moved By steam.
train Of cara containing 500 persons can be
moved TO the park in twenty minutes, picking
up passengers at convenient points all along
the route through the city. These trains, in the
season Of fair weather, could be run at all
hours OF the day. To nineteen-twentieths Of
the people who would visit these parks
and enjoy them, this means Of reaching
them ia the only one possible. II tho Park
Commissioners shall decide to exclude
the railways and oonfne the parks to those who
can get there by private carriages or on foot,
they will practically close them to the great
bulk Of the community. Such result was not
bargained for when the people voted to tax
themselves $4,000, 900 for the various parks and
boulevards Of this city. The argument which
most commended them to the public favor WIS
that they would be forever FREQ to the public,
and an unfailing pleasure and enjoyment, So
far "a the public nre concerned, tue Commission
ers may as well erect toll-gatos at all the en-
frances as to forbid the establishment Of railroad
transit to and from them. The theory that the
owning the adjoining lots is simply frivolous.
They were intended for the whole people Of
Chicago, and every facility should be granted to
make them accessible. It is not pretended that
the admission Of the railroads will in the least
interfere with the internal arrangements OF tho
parks. It is conceded that they will add to the
general appearance Of tho landscape, and that
the handsomely viaducts will re-
move All possibility Of danger. It would be d
great convenience to the public if trains for
these parks could be furnished by all the rail-
roads leading out Of tho city. This will possibly
he done hereafter but for the present the ques-
tion is whether railroads be admitted Of e1-
cluded, or whether the parks be Kept for the
exclusive pleasure Of the few who have private
conveyances. This is the real question to be
decided by the Commissioners and ne have no
doubt they will take the broad view OF accommo-
dating the public rather than the contracted one
Of cutting OF the multitude from ali means Of
ever visiting the parks.
Year: 1874

The report that Secretary Fish will decline to
send to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
the correspondence about the Vienna Exposi-
ton scandal is scarcely credible. The Ameri-
can name has never been SO disgraced abroad as
it was by the unseemly squabble between Jay
and Van Buren,. The State Department sustain
ed Jay at tho time. Van Buren WAS publicly,
contemptuously dismissed. He Was not even
suffered to resign. Tho g1avest charges we're
made against him. The German press recounted
how Minister Jay had found out that the Ameri-
can Commissioner had sold himself for q few
hundred tbalera. Il he was guilty, his uomius-
ton as Consul to Kanagwa WAS an insult to the
country; it he il innocent, let the State Depart
ment say 80 and provo so,-not damn him with
the faint praise of minor Office. Why does not
Van Buren himself speak7 Seven months ago he
was savage as Cerberup. Is this pitiful sop to
console him for ruined 1eputation7
Year: 1874

CHURCH FAIR AT No. 1909 MAIN STREET
The ladies of the First Presbyterian church
are holding q fair and feast in the store No
1909 Main street, opposite the post. office
The proceeds are to be for the benefit OF the
church. The enterprise deserves, as it will
doubtless receive, the patronage of the
nuhlic
Year: 1874

SALE OF DELINQUENT LANDs.-Ail iahds IN
Henrieo county on which the taxes nave not
been paid will be sold at the county COURT
house on Monday next, that being the Time
fixed bY law for the sale.
Year: 1874

JOB WORK.
Done at the RECORD office in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for on de.
livery. unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the office. No de
Walton from this rule.
Year: 1874

SECTION SO. Every person who, by force,
threats, menaces, bribery, or any corrupt
means, either directly or Indirectly, attempts
to influence any elector in giving his vote, or
to deter him from giving the same, or attempts
by any means whatever to awe, restrain. him
der, or disturb any elector in the free exercise
of the right of suffrage, or furnishes any elect
or wishing to vote, who cannot read, with
ticket, informing or giving such elector to
understand that 1t contains ,,I, name written
which is written or printed thereon, or de-
frauds any electOr at any such election, by
deeeiying and causing such eector to vote for
tended or desired to.vote for, or who, being
Inspector, Judge or Clerk of any election,
induce, any elector, either by menace or re-
ward, or promise thereof, to vote differently
from what such elector intended or desired to
vote, is guilty of q misdemeanor.


SEC. 81. Every person who wilfully violates
any of the provisions of the laws of this State
relating to elections is, unless a different pun
ishment for such violation is prescribed by
this Code, punishable by fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in
the State Prison not exceeding five years, or
by both.


The friends and supporters of the foregoing
ticket are determined to see that fair express
sion of public preference shall be had at the
coming city election, and in view of the fact
that bribery and other corrupt practices have
heretofore prevailed in our municipal elec-
tions, have, by voluntary subscription,
cured an ample fund and adopted the neces-
sary measures to prosecute every offender.


The committee having this matter in charge
have employed detectives to aid in the en-
forcement Of the law. A reward of one hun
drod dollars will be paid to any person who
may give information which will lead to the
conviction of any person guilty Of a violation
of the code above quoted or any other pro-
vision of the Penal Code relating TO elections.
Such information may be reported to the
District Attorney who will give all necessary
information on the subject.
Year: 1874

Would Ltkc To BE a Conductor


Before Judge Murray.


Jacob Williams OF the corner OF Fifty-four.h
street and Eighth avenue, was arraigned on .
charge OF violating the act to prevent persons
obtaining positions Of trust forged or false cre-
dentlals or statements made in writing. The &C
cused about a week ago applied for position as
conductor on the "Belt'' Railroad, and to the
that he had never been employed as q conductor
before. The fact was, however, that he had but q
short time previously been discharged from the
trial at the Special Sessions, the Court denying
motion to discharge on the ground tnat 1t had not
the power to do otherwise when violation OF the
law was even admitted by the defence.
Year: 1874

For nearly two years John II. Elliott has
been battling with the Cotton Exchange TO obtain
pos Of seat that board just before the be-
ginning Of the litigation he bought the seat OF Mr. Val
snne but neglected to record the transfer until after
inatoy steps had been taken by the Exchange to for
felt it. Under these circumstances he obtained an IN
Junction against such forfeiture, but the forfeiture was
completed and he expelled for improper conauot
His next step was to apply for mandamus 10 compei
the restoration OF his seat, alleging that MS only I'M
proper conduct was seeking loyal protection Juuge
Donohue granted en- alternative mandamus. to when
the Cotton Exchange made return, setting 1ortn
the cause OF his expulsion. To this MI Eli
OFT interposed formal demurrer. In THIS
vay MAKING 1t . calendar case for the dsscuson
Of the law upon the admitted facts before single Judge
at the Special Term, which will not be helu un
next November on Monday an application was maze 20
Jndge WesbrOok for "A hearing OF the case at once IN
Suecia Term at Chambers, though the demurrer hau
been inerpOsed verbally upon the coming In OF the re-
turn IN omen court THIS motion was based on the am
dayit Of Mr. Elliott that he was entirely dependent lot
the support OF himself and family upon his business as
broker which would be seriously embarrassed, III not
ruined by exclusion from the EXCHANGE a this busy
season also he believed the object OF this delay on


the part OF the Exchange TO force him TO compro
mise The motion denied, the Court h0lding that
the gravity OF the question aud the orderly administra
tion justice required that the case should DO argued
at a regular term.
Year: 1874

THE RATE OF INTEREST FOR MONEY is always an
important subject to both borrower and lender. An
able and suggestive essay on this topic by Prol. f.
B. Elliott of the Treasury Department read at the
Portland Scientific Meeting, Is reported fully IN
TRIBUNE LECTURE EXTRA No 10. Price 10 cents


Address The TRIBUNE. Now York.
Year: 1874

We old fellows have all been there, and we
can remember all about it. We loved her
guess we did and We knew that she loved in
return. But one day she gave Sam Thomp
klns smile, or she let Tom Watkins walk
home with her under an umbrella, or she did
some other simple thing and we got huffy
We loved her all the time, but we sit down
and wrote her letter, dating it at midnight,
saying that we wanted all those letters and
that ring and that photograph back We
hoped she wouldn't return 'em but we felt a
malicious pleasure in furnishing her. The lot.
ter was sent, or handed to her personally, and
we met her with a cold good morning." as
she came to school, but we bestowed our best
smile on Lavina Wedge, the homslest girl in
the school.


Our heart ached when we looked across the
desks and saw hOr slyly reading the letter and
trying to keep back the tears; but we went
over to the third girl behind to borrow a geog-
raphy, and to the second girl in front to bor.
row grammer, and we were entirely uncon-
sclous OF the presence of the girl we loved.
We stood beside her in the class as straight as
pole, never letting on that we saw her, and
the mutual agreement that if the one missed
the other should do the same, in order to keep
together, was broken. We tried to feel mali.
clOusly glad when we went to the head and
iSit hSt luC lOOks UuJ We COuluIl


1t went on in this way for three or four DAYS.
Once in a while we caught her looking at us
with sad, sweet smile, as if she were some
poor orphan with no friends in the world; and
her note said that she couldn't part with the
letters and the keepsakes. We held out
bravely until it began to hurt US to the heart
most, and then We got ready to "make up. -
Ii couldn't be done suddenly; that would be
acknowledging our wrong.


We waited until nOontme, and then as she
ate her dinner 10 her seat we began looking fol
lost book. We thought it was under the
seat next to hers, and while we were looking
for it she spoke. We heard, but pretended
not to, and she spoke again. Then we codly
replied, but sat down near by and asked if she
had those letters with her. She said no and
we moved nearer. She said it WASH her faul
and we said it wasn't ours, aud somehow oul
fingers touched.


No one knew what burden of anxiety wa.
rolled away in five minutes, and how much
clearer the afternoon sun shOne for it. She
seemed dearer than ever before, and when the
brown eyes cleared the tears away and the
merry dimplss came back, we wondered how
we could have been such on unfeeling wretch
and yet it was the same thing over in los.
than six weeks.


Ah me Those lovers who have had {
smooth path and married without having quar-
rels and makes up and iealouses will neve
know what true love is.-M Quad.
Year: 1874

MAhlhI
The wind blew over tha scented hay.
The sun lay low in the West;
In mute farewell to the fading day
soothed my love to rest.
held her close to my throbblng heart,
pressed her tace to mine,
In alast good night to eyes of brown
And iOwands by the Rhine.
As they lowered the flag in the dark ming camp
To the sound of drum and 6le,
cursed the night that was closing round
The one sweet day of life.
In the early mern we marched away
Through the dawn to fields OF blood,
Where many a soldiers crown of fame
Hung Der the crimson flood
The fame that crowned and cursed my life
with barren. lOveless years.
And heart wherein the long ago
Is lost in msts OF tears.
Tonight from the shade Of the curtains gay,
In my mansion lone and grand.
watch the lodgings o'er the way
And the ait ota busy hand.
Each day in the dusk Of the twilight tide
wsmans form 10 there;
And pressed to the window low and vide,
lace that's strangely fair.
And. by and by when the lamps are lit,
Her children climb her knee
And peer through the dusk on the silent street
Their coming sire to see.
Then the shades are drawn between the night
Aud the hreside's warmth and glow
And naught is left to my watching sight
But the shadows to and fro.
And the one sweet thought of her within.
or her with the soft brown eyes,
Is a tender dream of a camps hushed din
In the dusk OF evening skies.
The darkness falls from the clouds above
Between her life and mine.
As say good night to buried love
In lowlands By the Rhine