WHOLE NUMBER 1484.
The Trailing Arbutus.
Oh ! lovely bud of earliest spring,
Thou precious, fragrant, tiny thing,
Of rare and modest worth !
Hidden beneath the dark brown leaves,
Their dusty mantle now receives
The flower of humble birth.
\Vhere winter snows had lingered long,
And days were cold and winds were strong,
To hillsides turned my feet,
Where spruce and laurellove to grow'
Wearied but hopeful, for I know
My favoritc's safe retreat.
Gem of the forest ! How can I
Set forth thy charms to passcrs-by
Who idly wander on,
Unmindful that in deep repose,
A blossom sweeter than the rose,
Its perfume sheds alone.
Oh ! seek not ’mid the giddy throng,
That dazzles as it moves along,
For her whose virtues clni'm
The sweet reward of charming most,
The chosen few, whoue hearts can trust
The child unknown to fame.
The—Knight’s Secret.
A NEW STORY BY CHARLES READE.
Thomas Erpingham was knighted by Hen-
ry the Fourth for good and valiant service.
This Sir Thomas Erpingham, Knight of the
Garter, afterwards fought by the side of Henry
the Fifth in his French wars, and was made
Warden of the Cinque Ports, but retired to
Norwich,ihis native place. He married a
beautiful, pious lady, and, after a turbulent
career, and the horrors of war, desired to
end his days in charity. Being wealthy and
of one mind, he and Lady Erpingham built
a goodly church in the city, and also erected
and endowed a religious house for twelve
monks and a prior, close to the Knight's
house, and parted only by a high wall.
But though the retired soldier wished to be
at peace with all men. two of his friars were
of another mind. Friar John and Friar
Richard hated each other, and could by no
means be reconciled; neither had ever a
good word for t'other; and at last Friar John
gave Friar Richard a fair excuse for his in-
vectives. Lady Erpingham came over
to matins in the convent, and Friar John
would always await her coming and attend
her through the cloistcr with ducks and crin-
ges and open adulations, whereat she smiled,
being, in truth a most innocent lady, affable
to all and slow to think ill of any man.
But Richard denounced John as alicentious
monk, and some watched and whispered;
others rebuked Richard, for it was against the
monastic rule to put an ill construction where
the matter might be innocent.
But Richard stood his ground, and unfor-
tunately, Richard was right; misunderstand-
ing the lady’s courtesy and charity, brother
John thought his fawning advances were en
couraged, and this bred in him suchimpu-
deuce that one day he_ sent her afulsome love
letter and had the hardilibod to beg for a pri-
vate interview. ,
The lady,when she opened this letter, could
hardly believe her senses; and, at last, as'gen-
tlewomen will be both unsuspicious and sus.
picious in the wrong place, she made up her
mind that the poor, good, ridiculous friar
could never have been so wicked as to write
this; nay, but it was her husband’s doings,
and a trial of her virtue. He was older than
herself; and great love is often tainted with
jealousy. -
This brought tears into“ her eyes, to think
she should be doubted; but soon anger dried
them, and she took occasion to put the letter
suddenly into Sir Richard’s hand, and fixed
her eyes on him so keenly, that, if there had
been a flaw in his conjugal armor, no doubt
those eyes had pierced it. ,
The Knight read the letter and turned black
and white with rage; his eyes sparkled with
fury, and he looked so fearful that the lady
was very sorry she had shown him the letter,
and begged him not to take a madman’s folly
to heart. ' :
“Not take it to heart l" said he. “ What!
these beggarly shavclings that I have housed
and fed, and so lessened my estate and thine-
they shall corrupt thee and rob me of my one
earthly treasure! Sit thou down'and write."
“ Write—_Riehard—what ?—to whom P"
“ and no more words.”
Those were days whenhusbands commandy
ed and wives obeyed; so she sat down, tremrj
bling, and took the pen.
Then he made her write a letter back to
the friar and say she compassionatedhis love,
and her husband was to ridctoward London
that night, and her servant, on whom she'-
could depend, should admit'him to her by a
side door of the house.
Friar John, at the appointed time,took care
to be in town—for he knew the lay brother,
who kept the gate of the priory, would not
let him out so late. He came to the side door, *
and was admitted by a servant of the Knight, -
a reckless old , soldier who cared for neither
man nor devil, as the saying is, but only for
his master. This man took him into a room
and left him; . then went for the Knight—The
wasvnot ’far off. . ’Now, the unlucky monk,
being come to ,the conquest 'of a. beautiful
lady, as he certainly thought, had fine linen,
on and perfumed like a clvet. The Knight
smelt these perfumris and rushedin upon him
with his man, like dogs upon the odoriferous
fox, and, in’a fury, without giving him time
to call for help, orto say one prayer, strangled
him and left him dead. ,
But death, breeds calm; the Knight’s rag;
abated that moment, and he saw he had done
a foul and remorseless deed. ,He would have
sirenhalt his estate to bring the ' offender :
back tovlife. ,Half'his estate? 'his whole “I fmadder and bolder.
holding on by one another, to the porch, and
him; they wereforfeited to the law. '80 did Emgmfifi “‘2‘,” “d 1°°k°d 8‘ the def” m"
hepassfrom rage t0 remorse, and from re- an s u ere '
tate, 'ayefand his life, were now gone from
morse. to fear. The rough soldier, seeing him
so stricken, made light of all, except the dau-
ger _of discovery. ‘tCome, noble sir," said
he, “let ,us .bestir ourselves, and there bestow
him; so shalljwe’ ne’er be known in it."
Thus urged, the, Knight aroused himself,
and he and his man brought the body out,
and got asjfaras'the wall that did part the
bonse from the monastery. Here they were
puzzled awhile; but the man ,remembered a
short ladder in the back yard, that was high
enough for this job. So "they set the ladder,
and, with much ado, got the body up it,-
and then drew the ladder up, and set it again-
on the other side; and so, with infinite trou-
ble, the soldier got him into the priory.
The next thing was to make it appear Friar
John had died a natural death. Accordingly
he set him upon a rickety chair he found in
the yard, balanced him, and left him, mount.
ed the wall again, let himself down, and then
dropped into the knight’s premises.
He found the Knight Walking in great per-
turbation, and they went into the house.
“ Now,goodmaster,". said this stout soldier,
“ go you to‘bed', and think no more on’t.”
“ To bed I” .groaned the Knight, in agony.
“ Why should 'I go' there? I ' cannot sleep.
Methinks I shall never sleep again." ‘
“Then give me the cellar key, geod sir. I’ll
draw a stoup of Canary.”
“Ay. wine!” cried the Knight; “for my
blood runs cold in my veins."
The servant lighted a rousing fire in the
dining hall,and warmed and spiced some gen-
crous wine, after the fashion of the day; and
there sat these two over the fire awaiting day-
break and its revelations.
But meantime the night was fruitful in
events. The prior, informed of Friar Rich-
ard’s uncharitable interpretations, had eon-
demncd him to vigil and prayer on the bare
pebbles of the yard from midnight until three
of the clock. But the sly Richard at dusk
had conveyed a chair into the yard to keep
his knees off the cold hard stones.
At midnight When he came to his enforced
devotions, lo !” there sat a figure in the chair.
He started and took it for the prior, seated‘
there to lecture him for luxury.
He walked round and round him, talking
at him. “Is it brother John or brother Rich-
ard, who is to keep vigil to-nigbt? I know
but one Friar in all this house who would sit
star-gazing in his brother's chair, when that
brother wants it to pray in,” etc. \
Brother John vouehsafed no reply; and
this stung his brother Richard,aud he burned
for revenge. “ So be it then," said; “ since
my place is taken, I will tell the prior, and
keep vigil some other night.” With this he
retired, and slammed a door. But having
thus disarmed, as he conceived, brother J ohn’s
suspicion, he took up an enormous pebble,
and slipped back on tip-toe, and, getting near'
the angle of the wall, he flung his great peb-
ble at brother J ohn,and slipped hastily behind
the wall; nevertheless, as he hid, he hadthc
satisfaction of seing his pebble, which weigh.
ed about a pound, strike blither John on the
nape of the neck, and then there was a lump-
ing noise and a great clatter, and Friar Rich-
' ard chuckled with pride and delight at the
success of his throw. However, he waited
some minutes before he emerged, and then
walked briskly out, like a new comer. There
lay John flat, and the chair upset. Brother
Richard ran to him, charged with hypocriti-
cal sympathy, and found his enemy’s face
very white. He got alarmed, and felt his
heart; he was stone dead. .
The poor monk,whose hatred was of a mere
feminine sort and had never been deadly, was
seized with remorse, and he beat his breast,
and prayed in earnest, instead of repeating
Pater nosters, “ preces sine mente dictes," as
the great Erasmus calls them.
But other feelings soon succedcd; his en-
mity to the deceased was well known, and
this would be called murder if the body was
found in that yard, and his own life would
pay the forfeit.
Casting his eyes round fora place where he
might hide the body,he saw aladder'standingi
against the wall. This surprised him, 'but' he
was in no condition to puzzle over small rid-
dles. Terror gave him force; be lifted the
body, crawled up the ladder-1nd placed the
body on the wall4it was wider, than theybuild
now—then he drew up the; ladder, set, it on
the other side, and took his'ghastly load down
safely. Then, being . naturally cunning and
having his neck to save, he went and hid the
ladder, took up the body, staggered with it
as far as the porch of the Knight’s house,and
set it there bolt upright against one of the
pillars.
As he carried it out of the yard he heard a
window in' the Knight’s house open. He could
not say where the window was, nor whether
ed the worst, and, such was his terror, he re-
solved to fly the place and bury himself in
But how ? He was "lame, and could not go
ten miles in a day, whereas a hundred miles
was little enough to make him secure.
After homicide, theft is no great crime; hc
resolved to borrow the maltstens mare,'and
turn her adrift when she had carried him be-
yond the hue and cry. So he went and knock-
ed up the maltster and told him the convent
wanted flour, and he was to go betimes to the
miller for a sack thereof. Now the convent
was a good customer, to the maltster, so he
lent Friar Richard the more, at a word, and
told him where to find the saddle and bridle,
Richard fed the mare for a journey and sad-
pace past the convent, meaning to go quietly
through the town, making no stir, then away
like the wind. .
But, as he paced by the Knight’s house, he
casta look askant to see if that ghastly object
still sat in the porch.
No; the porch was empty.
What might that mean ? Had he come to
life? Had the murder been discovered? He
began to wonder and tremble.
While he was in this mood there was a great
clatter behind him of horse'sfeet and clashing"
armor, and he felt he was pursued. - '
The Knight and his man sat together drink 2
, ing hot spiced wine and awaiting daylight“
“DoasIbid thee, dame," said he, stern]y,i The ngl“ ““1“ “0‘ g0 ‘0 1’8de“ he'
wanted a change.
come i” said, he. .
“ ’Twill be here anon,” said the soldier—
“in half an hour.” .
The Knight said no, it would never come.
The soldier said he would go and look at
the sky and tell him for certain.
“ Be not long away," said the Knight, with
a shiver, “ or the dead Friar will be taking
thy place here, and pledging rue.”
“ Stuff 1" said the soldier , “ he’ll never
trouble you more.” .
With this he marched out to consult the
night, and almost ran against the dead friar
seated in the porch, white and glaring; this
was too much even for the iron soldier; he
uttered a sharp yell, staggered back,and burst
into the room, gasping -'for breath. He got
close to his master and‘stammered out, “The
dead man! sitting in the porch l" and cross-
ing himself energetically, the first time these
thirty years.
_ The Knight stared and trembled; and so
they drew close together, with their eyes
over their shoulders. '
“Wine i” cried the Knight.
“Ay,” said the soldier; “ but I go not
alone. He’ll be squatting on the cask else.”
So they went together to the cellar, often
looking round and fetched two bottles. .
They drank them out, and the good wine,
falling upon more of the sort, made them
They rolled along,
“ Will daylight never
But the soldier swore a great oath and vow-
}ed he should not stay there to get them hang-
ed. Thereuponafurious fit of recklessness
Lsucccedcd to their terror : they got a suit of
Zrusty armor and fastened it on the body ;
then they saddled an old war—horse that was
kept in the stable only as a reminiscence, and
tied the friar’s body on him with many cords:
they opened the stable door and pricked the
old war-horse with their daggers, and he clat-
tered out into the road with a bound and a
great rattling of rusty armor.
Now, as ill-luck would have it, Friar Rich.
ard and his borrowed mare were pacing de-
ahead. The old horse nosed the mare, and,
ally after her; but when he get near her on the
monk looked round and saw the ghastly rider.
He gave a yell so piercing it wakcd the whole
street, and, for lackof spurs, drove his bare
heels into the mare’s aide ; she cantercd down
ant cantercd after : the friar kept turning and
yelling, and the windows kept opening and
heads popped out to see, and by and by the
thepursuit, wondering and curious.
1 The cavalcade never cleared the town of
Norwich; the friar, in the blindness of de-
spair turned his mare up what seemed to be
on open lane; but there was no exit; his
dead pursuer came up with him, and he
threw himself off and cried “Mercy! mercy!
mea culpal—I confess it l—I confess it!
only take that horrible face .from me l" and
in his despair he owned that he had slain
brother John. ~
Then some led the horse and his ghastly
load away, and wondered sore; but others
hauled Friar John to justice ; and he believ-
he was-watched and recognized; but he fear-4
some distant monastery under .another name, ‘
died her; then he mounted and rode at a foot-.
murely through the town scarce fifty yards .
being left to choose his road took very natur- '
the street at an easy pace ; the fearful page--
doors opened and a few early .risers joined in
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT,TUESDAY, JUNE 20,1876.
ing it was a miracle, and Heaven's hand upon
him, persisted in'his confession, and was cast
into prison to abide his trial.
He had not to waitilong. In those days the
law did not tarry for judges of assize to come
round the country now and then. Each
town had its mayor and alderman, any one of
whom could try and hang a man if need was.
So Friar Richard was tried next week.
By this time he had somewhat recovered
his spirits and his love of life. He defended
himself, and said that indeed he had slain his
brother, but it was by misadventage. He
had thrown a stone at him in some anger,but
not to do him deadly harm. This he said
with many tears. But, on the other hand, it
was preved that he had long hated his brother
John ; that he had got ' out of the priory
without passing the door, and had borrowed
the malstcr’s mare on a false pretence ; and
finally marks of strangulation had been found
on the dead man's throat. All this amazed
and overpowered the poor friar, and although
his terror at the apparition was not easily to be
reconciled with.his having been the person
who tied the body on the horse, and though
one alderman, shrewder than the rest, said he
thought that a great deal lay behind that, yet
upon the whole it was thought the safest and
most usual ecurse to hang him. So 'he was
condemned to die—in three dilys' time.
The friar, seeing his end so near, struggled
no more against his fate. He sent for the
prior to confess him, and told-the truth with
deep sorrow and humility : “Mea‘ _ culpa I
mea culpa !" he cried. “If I had not hated
my brother and broken our rule,‘thcn ‘ this
had not come upon me." '
Then the prior 'gave him full' absolution,
and went away exceeding sorrowful and
doubting the wisdom and justice of laymen,
and in particular of those who were about to
hang brother Richard for wilful murder.
This _preyed upon his mind, and he went to
Sir Richard‘Erpingham to utter his ,misgiv
ings and pray the good man knight to work
upon the sherifi, who was his. friend, for a
respite until the matter could be looked into
- more closely. .
- _ The knight was not at home, but my lad
saw the prior and learned his errand. “Alas,
good father I" said she, “Sir Richard is not
here ; he has gone to London this two
I days."
. The prior went home sick at heart.‘
_ Even so long ago as this they hang from
Norwich Castle. So the rude gallows was
put up at seven o’clock, and at eight brother
Richard must hang and turn in the wind like
a weathercock. ,
But before that fatal hour a king’s messen-
ger galloped into the city and spurred into the
courtyard of, the castle. Very soon the sher-
ifi was reading a parchment signed by the
king’s own hand; the gallows were taken
down, and the people dispeer by degrees.
Some felt ill-used. They thought appoint-
ments should .be kept or else not made.
At'nigllt'Ih'iar Richard, not reprieved, but,
'to the, amazement of smaller functionaries,
freely pardoned by hissovereign in a hand.
writing, a housemaid of his day' would blush
for, but with a glorious seal the size of an
apple-fritter, crept forth. into the night and,
gliding along the streets with his head down,
slipped into tlie'priory, and 'was lost to the
world for many a long day. Indeed he was
confined to his cell for a month by order of
the prior, and ordered to pray thrice a day
for the seal Of his brother John. .
When brother Richard emerged from his
cell he was a changed man. He had gather-
ed among the thorns of tribulation the whole-
some fruit of humility and the immortal
flower of charity. Henceforth no bitter
bitter word ever fell from his lips, though,
for a time he had many provocations, and
“Honi soit qui mal y pense,” was the rule of
his heart. He made himself of little account
and outlived all enmities. He lived much in
his cell, and prayed so often for the soul of
brother John that at last he got to love him
dead whom he had hated living.
Time rolled on. The Knight’s hair turned
gray and the good prior died. ,
Then there was a great commotion in the
little priory, and three or four of the leading
friars eachhoped to be prior.
That appointment lay with Sir Richard
Erpingham. He attended the funeral of the
prior, and then-desired the sub-prior to con-
vene the monks. “Good brothers," said he,
“your prior is brother Richard. I pray you
to invest him forthwith, and yield him due
love and obedience.”
The knight retired find the monks stared
at each other awhile, and then obeyed, since
there was no help for it ; they investedbroth-
or Richard in due form, and such is the mag-
ic of station that in one moment they began
to look on him with different eyes.
The new prior bore his dignity so meekly
that he disarmed all hostility. His great rule
of life was still “Honi soit quimal y pense,"
and there is no course more apt to conciliate
respect and good will. The knight showed
him favor' and . esteem ;, the monks learned
to respect,__aud by and by to revere him ; but
11.9mm ceased torspraach himself and say
masses for the soul of brother John.
The years rolled on. The knight’s gray
hair turned white ; and one day he sent for
the prior and said to him, “Good Father, I
have grave matterato entertain you withal."
“Speak, worshipful sir," said the prior.
The knight looked at him awhile, but
seemed ill at ease, and as one has resolved to
speak, but is loathto begin. At last he said,
“Sir, there men that waste their goods in sin,
or meanly hord them till their last hour, yet
leave them freely to Mother Church after
their death when they could no longer enjoy
them. _ Others there be whose breasts are
ladcd with a secret crime they ought to con-
fess and clear _some worthy man suspected
fasely, yet they will not tell till they come to
die. Methinks this is to be charitable too
late, and just when justice can neither cost a
man ought or profit his neigthr. Therefore,
not to be one-of these, I will reveal to you
now a deed that sits heavy on my con-
science.” .
“You would confess to me, my son i"
“As man to man, sir, but "not as penitent
to his coufessor ; for that were no merit in
me ; it would be no more than to bury my
secret in a fleshy grave. Nay, what I tell to
you, you shall tell to all the world, if good
may come of it."
Here the knight sighed and seemed much
Idistempered, like one who wrestleth with
himself. . Then hecast about how he should
begin, and to conclude he opened the matter
thus : “Sir, please you read that letter, it
was writ by brother John unto my wife."
The prior read it but said never a word.
“Sir,” said the knight, “do you remember
a sad time when you lay in Norwich jail, ac-
cused of murder and cast for death 1’"
i “I do remember it well,sir,and the unchari-
table heart that brought me to that pass.”
, “Whilst you lay there, sir, something be-
fell elsewhere which I will hide no longer
from you. The King being at his palace in
London, a knight who had fought by his side
in France, sought an audience in private. It
was granted him at once. Then the Knight
fell on his knees to the king and begged that
his life and his lands might-be spared though
he had slain a man inheat of blood. The king
was grave but gentle, and then I showed
him that letter and owned the truth—that I
and my servant, in' our fury, had strangled
that hapless mo ."
'. “Alas l sir,‘ did you take my guilt upon
yourself to save my life, so fully forfeit?
‘Twas I who hated him—‘twas I who flung
the stone." _
. “At a dead body, I tell thee, man, we
strangled him and set his body up where you
saw it ; hand in~ his death you had none."
silent. The Knight continued in a ' low
voice :
“ We sat him in the yard, and when we
found him in the porch, being half mad with
terror and drink together, we bound him on
the horse and launched him. All this I told
the King, and he, considering the provoca-
tion and pitying too much his old companion
inarms, gave me my life and lands, and gave
me thine, which indeed, was but bare justice.
80 now, sir, you know that you are innocent
of bloodshed, and ‘tis I am guilty.”
The Knight looked at the churchman and
' thought to see him break forth into thanks-
givings. But it was not so. The prior was
deeply moved, but not cxultant. “Sir,” said
he, like a man that is near choking, “let me
go to my cell and think over this strange
tidings." _
“And pray for me, I do implore you," said
the Knight.
“ Ay, sir, and with all my heart.”
Some days passed and the Knight looked
to hear his own tale come round again. But
no ; the prior was silent as the grave. Then
after a while the Knight sent for him again
and said. “Good father, what Itold you Was
not under seal of confession. ”
“ I know it sir,” said the prior. “Yet
will it go no further, unless I should outlive
you by God's will. Alas! sir, you have
taken from me that which was the health of
my soul, my belief that I had slain him I
hated so unchristianlike, This belief made
humility easy to fine, and even charity not
difficult. What engine of wholesale mortifi-
catiou would be left me now were I to go a-
prating that I slew not the brother I hated ?
Nay, I will never tell the truth, but carry my
precious burden of humility all my days."
“ Oh, saint upon the earth !" cried the
Knight. “Outlive me and then tell the
truth."
The monk replied not, but pondered these
words.
And it fell out so that the Knight died
three years after, and the prior closed his eyes
and said masses for his soul ; and a good
while afterwards he did, for the honor of the
convent, reveal this true story to two young
monks, but bound them by solemn vow not
to "spread it during his life. After his death
the truth got abroad, and amongst churchmen
the prior was much revered, for that he had
cured himself of an uncharitable heart and
enforced on himself the penalty of unjust
shame for many years. '
A Dangerous Precedent.
Investigations of .fraud are entirely proper
when pursued in a,proper spirit. The public
service must be made pure and kept so, and
to this end wherever there is reason to believe
that fraud exists it should be pursued and
exposed. But it is evident the investigation
business now going on at Washington is being
conducted for political motives, and in avery
reckless manner so far as the public interests
are concerned. Some of the committees are
adopting very arbitrary measures and estab-
lishing dangerous precedents. It is the era
of informers and secret inquisitions. The
case of Ballet Kilbourn has been already
noticed by the Journal. He may be a cor-
rupt man or he may not. We have no infor-
mation and express no opinion on that point.
But we seriously question the right of an
investigating committee to compel him to ex-
pose all his private business transactions and
produce his books and papers for the purpose
of ascertainig whether he has been guilty of
wrong-doing, and if so who has been associa-
ted with him. In doing this without having
or making any specific charge against Kil-
bourn, the committee is exercising a very
arbitrary power and establishing a dangerous
precedent. If they can do this with Kile
bourn we are unable to see why they may
not do the same with any business man in'
Washington. ——Indlanapolls Journal.
”
Miss Clara Morris, in a letter to a friend in.
Washington, gives this lively reminiscence of,
two well-known actors : “They were boys
then ; one tall, blonde, and lazy, the other,
short, dark and active. It was Sunday night;
every one had gone to the Quaker meeting-,
house a few doors above. They were alone, ‘
without cards, or checkers, or books, but 1
Satan came to the rescue. A certain proposal
was drawled by the long chap, and eagerly
accepted by the short one. They then put
on their hats and coats, armed themselves
with a broom, a pail of water, and a dipper,
and went forth into the still, bitter cold cf
the night, and worked diligently. They
swept a broad path over the sloping sidewalk,
quite free from snow ; over this they poured
a dipper of water, then waited. In a few
minutes it had frdzen ; then another dipper
of water, and another wait, until the path
was glass-like in its icy smoothness. A
whisk of the broom sent a light covering of
snow over it; the work was done, and the
godless laborers, gathering up their tools,
scrougcd themselves down on the doorstep
and conversed pleasantly. Presently the
doors of the meeting-house opened, and two
lines of friends—one made up of males, the
other females—came out. These lines, coming
down the steps separately, met and mingled
in a crowd on the pavement for a few mo.
meats, then broke into twos and threes, and
came gravely down the sidewalk. Suddenly
the stillness of the night was broken 'by i
whack ! whack! and two snorts that were as
one. A female friend flew to the rescue—
whack! The whole congregation, filled with,
wonder, came ambling down to the scene of
disaster—whack! Whack! whack! groans
and snorts f ‘thees’ and ‘thous’ filled the air,
and, with cheeks stained with tears . of
laughter, they sat on the step and ‘took it in,’
those sons of Belial, since so well-known to i
the world as Joseph Jefferson and John,
Ellsler.”
- _-—_-_—_-—-__=
Rsxsoxs roa Housman—A couple from ,
the country came to the city yesterday, says
The Providence Journal, procured a license,
and were married in due form. They attract-
ed, the attention of every passenger by their
lavish display of affection. .Thc young man
kept his arm tight around the bride's waist,
as if he was afraid she would vanish before
he knew it, and she didn’t seem to care if he
hugged her right along for half a day. She
was so terribly homely that everybody won-
dered how he could love her, and by the by
seemed to think that an. explanation would
be in order. He borrowed a chew of tobac.
co of a man near the door, and remarked :
“ I’m going to bug that girl all the way
home, though I know she isn’t purty.”
“ I wouldn‘t,”brieflv replied the man.
“ And that’s where you’d fool yourself,”
continued the young man. “When I’m hug-
ging a hundred acres of clean, nice land,
with forty acres of stock on it, I can make.
the homeliest girl in the world look like an
angel to rue."
#
A Maine man, being refused by a widow-
ed lady for whom he worked, and to whom
he had made an offer of marriage, went into
the kitchen, emptied a pail of water on the
floor, spread out a red bandanna handker-
chief on it, tied another around his neck, laid
down in the puddle and uttered a sound half
way between the notes of a dying man and a
calf with the colic. The lady of the house
went to the spot as soon as she could, but
when she stepped in the water, and the dim'
light of the morning saw Tattle stretched
out among the red stuff, she was so'terrified‘
with his sanguinary» appearance that she
went into a swoon from which she was not
restored until three hours had elapsed. Tut-
tie was arrested and put under bonds to keep
the peace—so ended his dream of love.
The prior uttered a strange cry and was
, the recent constitutional amendnients
’I‘IIE PLATFORM.
RESOLUTIONS,
Adopted by the Republican Na-
tional Convention at Cincinnati,
Julie 15th,_1876.
When, in the economy of Providence, this
land was to be purged of human slavery, and
when the strength of the government of the
people, by the ople, for the people was to
be dcmonstrat , the republican party came
into power. Its deeds have passed into
history, and we look back to them with
pride incited by their memories and high
aims for the ood of our country and man-
kindnand loo ing to the future with un-
falteriug courage, hope, and purpose, we, the
representatives of the party In national con-
vention assembled make the following decla-
ration of rinci les:
First— he nited States of America is a
nation, not a league. By the combined
workings of the national and state govern-
ments under their respective constitutions
the rights of every citizen are secured at home
and protected abroad, and the common wel-
fare promoted.
Second—The republican party has pre-
served those governments to the hundredth
anniversary of the nation’s birth, and they
are now embodiments of the great truths
spoken at its cradle; that all men are created
equal; that they areéndowed by their Crea-
tor with certain. inalienable rights, among
which are life,-libe'rty and the pursuit o
happiness; that foams attainment of these
ends governmentshavebeen instituted among
men eriving their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed. . ntil these truths are
cherfully obeyed, and, if needed to be, vigor:
;ously enforced, the work of the republican
pa tfi'is unfinished. , .
T ird—The permanent pacification of the
southern section of the Union, the complete
protection of alllits citizens in the free enjoy-
ment ‘of all their rights are duties to which
the republican party are sacredly pledged.
[Applause] The power to provide for the
enforcement of the principles embodied in
is
vgstfid b those amendments in the congress
o t e
the solemn obligation of the legislative and
executive departments of the government to
put into immediate and vigorous exercise all
their constitutional ‘powers for removing any
just causes of discontent on the part of any
class and securing every American citizen
complete liberty and exact squall in the
exercise of all civil, litieal on ublic
rights. [Applause], 0 this end Io: pe-
ratively demand a congress and chi! gagis-
trate' whose co , and fidelity h these
duties shall not f ter until these rmlts are
placed beyond dispute or recall. - [Applause]
- Fourth—In the first act of congress signed
by President Grant, the national government
assumed to remove cuydoubtsof its purpose
to discharge all just obli tioua to public
creditors and so emnly p edge its faith to
make provision at --the earliest practicable
period for the redemptionof the United States
notes in coin. [Cheers] Commercial pros-
perity, public mo and the national credit
demand that this prbmise be fulfilled by a
continuous and stehdkprogress to specie pay-
ments. [Loud and long continued applause]
Fifth—’—Under the constitution the presi-
dent and heads of departments are to make
nominations for office, the senate is to advise
and consent to appointments, and the house
of representatives isto accuse and prosecute
faithless officers.- The best interests of the
public Service demand that these distinctions
be respected; that senators ‘and representa-
tives who may be judges and accusers should
not dictate appointments to office. The in-
variable rule for appointments should have
reference to the honesty, fidelity, and
capacity of appointees, giving to the party in
power those places where harmony and Vlgor
of administration’require its policy to be
represented, but permitting all others to be
filled by persons selectedwrth sole reference
to the efilciency of the public service and the
right of citizens. to share in the honor of
rendering faithfulservice to their country.
Sixth—We rejoice in the quickened con-
science of the people concerning political
affairs, will hold all public officers to a rigid
responsibility, and on are that the prosecu-
tion and punishment 0 aIl who betray official
trusts shall be speedy, thorough and unspar-
ing. [Cheers]
Seventh—The public school system of the
several states is the bulwark of the American
rapubiic,.and with a view to its security and
permanence we recommend an amendment to
the constitution of the United States forbid-
ding the application of any public funds or
property for the benefit of any schools or in-
stitutions under sectarian control. Great
cheering, continued several minutes. a re-
sponse to repeated calls General Hawley
read the plank a second time and the dele-
gates and audience repeated their cheers]
Eighth—The revenue necessar for cur-
rent expenditures and the obligations of the
public debt must be large! derived from
duties upon importations which so faras pos-
sible should be adjusted to promote the in-
terest of American labor and advance the
prosperity of the whole country. [Cheers]
Ninth—We re-afilrm our opposition to fur-
ther grants of the public lands to corpora-
tions and monopolies, and demand that the
national domain be devoted to free homes
for the peo le.
Tenth— tie the imperative duty of the
government to so modify existing treaties
with the European governments that the
same protection shall be afforded to adopted
American citizens that is given to native
born, and all necesssry laws be passed to
protect emigrants in the absence of power in
the state for that purpose.
Eleventh—It is the immediate duty of Con-
gress to fully investigate the effect of the em-
igration and importations of Mongolians on
the moral and material interests of the coun.
try. [Applause]
Twelfth—The republican party recognizes
with a proval the substantial advance recent-
lym e toward the establishment of equal
ghts for women, by the many lumen
amendments effected by the republi‘ logis-
latures in the laws which concern tho son-
al and property relations of wives, , ers
and widows, and by the appoiritm“ and
election of women to the superinteum of
education, charities and other public trusts.
The honest demands of this class of citizens
for additienal rights and privileges and im-
munities should be treated with respectful
consideration. 1[Applause.]
; ‘ ~Thirteenth—- he constitution Confers upon
; Congress sovereign power over the territories
‘of the United States for their government,
€aud in the exercise of this power it is the
:right and duty of Congress to prohibit and
:extirpate in the territories that relic of bar-
lbarism, polygamy. and we demand such leg-
lislation as shall secure this end, and the su-
apremacy of all American institutions in all
éterritories. [A lause.]
Fourteenth— he ledge which the nation
;has given to our sol ‘ers and sailors must be
#fulfilled. The grateful 1e will always re-
, lgard those who perilled their lives for their
;country’s preservation in the kindest remem—
ibrance.
Fifteenth—We sincerely deprecate all see-
;tional feeling and tendencies, and we there-
ifore note with deep, solicitude that the dem-
Eocratic party counts as its chief hope of suc-
rcess upon the electoral vote of a united south
lsecured through the efforts of those recently
{arrayed against the nation, and we invoke
!the earnest attention of the country to the
grave truth that a success thus achieved
Iwould reopen sectional strife, and imperil
ithe national honor and human rights. ,
Sixteenth~We charge the democratic par-
fly with being the same in character and spir-
it as when it sympathized with treason, and
with making its control of the House of Rep-
resentatives the triumph and opportunity of
the nation’s recent foes; with re-asserting
and applauding in the national capitol the
sentiments of unrepentant rebellion; with
bending Union soldiers to the rear; with de-
liberately proposing to repudiate the plighted
faith of the government ; with being equally
false and imbecile upon the overshadowing
financial question; with thwarting the ends
‘ f justice by its partisan mismanagement and
gbstruction of investigation; with proving it-
self through the period of its ascendency in
the lower house of Congress utterly imcom-
patent to administer the government. We
warn the country against trusting a party
thus alike unworthy, recrcaut, and incapable.
[Cheers] .
f Seventeenth—The national administration
merits commendation for its honorable work
in the mana ement of domestic and foreign
Affairs, and resident Grant deserves the con-
tinned and hearty gratitude of the American
people for his patriotism, and his immense
service in war and in peace. [Cheers]
I fl ‘
3 He sat in a railway car. His head was
thickly covered with a mass of red hair. Be-
hind him in a seat sat a man With hardly any
hair on his head. He said to him, “I guess
’ou wasn’t around where the dealt out
hair.” “Oh, yes, I was," replie bald head,
V “but they offered me a lot of red hair, and I
told them to throw it into the ash bin.’
4Poughkeopai'e Eagle.
: Boston is having to do its sewer-building
over in. The cost of thflproposed change
tailliou dollars.
it only about three and a h
nited States and we declare it to be :_
NORWALK 'GAZETTE,
POILIOIIED EVEIYIIIESDAY IOIIIII.
The Second Oldest Paper in the Stale.
OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING.
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REAL ESTATE.
uvann/WVVW
RESIDENCE on West Avenue is offered
to Rent: Part of the rent will be taken outin
board, if desired. Apply by letterto “A. B.,” earc
N orwalk Gazer”).
MV\
Desirable Property for sale.
Very desirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a. few chorec Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue, for sale cheap.
Also, a nicely located House and Lot on M er-
wm Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain. Enquire of‘
. S, E. OSBORN. East Avenue,
fill or to I). W. FITCH, West Avenue.
To Rent.
ART of a House, (four rooms) right in the vi!-
lalzc. Rent 81‘). per-month. I’Osscssion given
immediately. Enquire at this ofllcc.
FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale his
Dwelling House and Lot,
pleasantly situated on the lower end of Fair-Street
’Ihc house is new and well finished; the lot is
60x305 feet. Will be sold low, and a large part of'
the purchase money can remain on bond and
mortgage. Enquire at' the Straw Factory.
1 . D. S. VAIL.
FOR SALE OR TO RENT.
THE House and Mill Property occupied by Eb-
enezer I’attenden in Silver Mine. Enquire of
RAYMOND a l'ARDEE.
New Canaan, Feb. 10th, 1876. (7)
A BARGAIN.
Avenue,) containing nine rooms; will be let.
it not so“. Also BUILDING LOTS for sale.
Apply to D. II. FITCH.
Nor-walk, Nov. 27th, 1875. 48tf
FOR SALE .
TWO very desirable BuildingLots on West Main
Street. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
FOB S ALE CIIEAP.
A GOOD FARM ofabout 40 acres of‘high land.
situate (1 three miles north of New Canaan.
Apply to A. B. BENEDICT, Smith’s Ridge.
ALEX, S. .GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church.
Teacher of the
Plano-Forte, Organ and Muoleal
Composition. .
Box 319 P. 0.. NORWALK, CONN.
GEO. W. (DRAM.
Contractor (f: Builder
0t Railroads, Water Works, Sewers, Grading and '
Rock ,Work of all kinds; Stone and Buck Ma-
sonry. Will furnish men and teams by the day.
Tools to let. Office in Hubbell’s Block.
14 Address Norwalk P. 0., “Box 45-2.”
Illt. CHARLES E. MOROAN,
Physician & Surgeon,
Oflicc over C. J. Gruman’s,
Nor-walk, Conn.
Office floursz—7 A. .u., 1 P. in, 7 P. M.
J. Belden Hurlbutt, "
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Room No. 4, [up stall-8,]
9 GAZETTE BUI LDING.
CIIARLES W. MANY,
Surgeon Dentist,
N OIEWALK, CONS.
Ofllce corner of Main and Wall Streets. N itrous-
Oxidc Gas administered.
C. B. COOLIDGE,
DENT‘IST.
Successor to
Dr. Ann. Hm,
WALL STREET, NORWALK,
Office over
0. J. Gruman’l Dry Goods Store.
fi' Gas administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain.
OONNEOTIOUT HOTEL,
Corner Main and Wall Sts., NOBWALK, CT.
THE subscriber having taken the above well-
known centrally located Hotel, is prepared to
entertain permanent and transient guests. Good
rooms; good table: reasonable prices. A .first-
class Livery connected with the Hotel. Carriages
to all‘trains. Every effort made to lease.
38ti‘ D. B. MOREIIOUS . , Proprietor.
S '& W. MITCHELL,
. .
At the ever popular
UNION MARKET
has always the best of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, and Pork,
at fairlivin prices. Union (formerly Model) Mar-
ket. on the ridge. 18
ORWALK INSURANCE C0.,
NORWALK, CONN.
Charter Capital - - - $500,000
Pull up Capital - - - 100,000
Wu. 0.Suass'r, Pres., Gso R. Gownss, Scc’y.
can obtain TYPE
MAHGINISTS mum. at n.
G AZ ETTE OFFICE.
Hand Press for Sale.
AN old Washington Hand Press, size 20x30, in
01‘ F1of‘llgered for sale cheap. Apply at GAZETI‘E
. C .. .
“CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS.”
G. A. FRAN KE’S
Stalin and Hall Uutliuu Saloon!
FOR A
Plea-out Shave:
Artistic Hair Cut.
or Thorough Shampoo,
CALL AT
Mr. Franke’s Hair Cutting Rooms,
No. l GAZETT'I‘E BUILDING.
Wl’articular attention given to Ladies and
Children’s Hair Cutting and Shampooing..e|
AT HOME TO EVERYBODY.
Hot and Cold Water Baths
rim NITURE!
In our Warerooms at
sourn NORWALK,
we have a large assortment of
tullauuflluubursuus
some new patterns and desirable styles of
WALNUT culuuuu suns.
Also. just received a new lot of
Camp Chairs.
ALL AT
Reduced Prices.
N. B.-~We Sell Strictly for
C A S H. 2 2
Buckingham & 00.,
MAIN STREET,
Opposite R. R. Depot.
bout]: Norwal'k.
PA
FOR SALE.
NEAT RESIDENCE on one of the best,pleas-
antcst and most accessible streets in town.
Has eight rooms. with gas in each, and heater ca-
pable of heating the whole house. Large barn
with stabling for several horses. Apple, Pear and
Cherry Trees, just commencing to our fruit. Is
within five minutes’ walk of the Post Office, die.
Price 81,500. Or will rent it to a good tenant f'or
I600 per year. Enquire at this office.
BARN TO RENT.—A new Barn with good Sta-
bhng for several horses, near the bridge.
Price 88 per month. Enquire at this Oflice.
FRANCIS J. McKEON.
Draper and Tailor.
A choice selection of' new and fashionablegoods
constantly on hand
Room No. l, Gazette‘nulldlng.
HARLES 8. L00 KWOOD,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor,
AND
G ENTS’ FUIENISIIING EillI’ORIUJI.
Main Street, Norwalk, Conn.
Incorporated 181-2.. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $5,052,880.19
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adopted to the hazard and consistent with the laws
of compensation. COWLES It MERRILL,
Sole Agents for N orwalk and vicinity.
nwann’p. WEED,
1) EU G- G I S '1‘
Wall Street, opposite Norwalk Opera House,
A large and well selected stock of
DRUGS AN D MEDICINES,
Perl'nmer , Patent Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters. ‘oilet and Medicated Soaps. Flavoring
and Hand kerchict’Extracss, Hair Brushes.Combs,
Sponges, Chamois Skins, Stationery, Ci are, (ten
and is constantl adding to his stock al the new
and popular Inc icrnes of the day.
FOR A GOOD COOK STOVE
GO TO BELDEN’S
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
THE undersigned would announce to the citi-
zens in this vicinity, that at his Drug Store,
COR. OI" IVASHING’TON d: DEPOT HTS"
can always be found
PURE DRUGS,
Choice Wines & Liquors,
FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, ’
HI“ I. ltlllil’ ABIIGLES, PAIEI‘I' MEDIOIIES.
Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compounded
da and night. Can be found nights in same
bur ding; entrance on Washington Street.
lyia s. F. DECK, South Nor-walk.
B. S. BLASCER,
Ath isstorei n MALLORY‘S BLOCK,hasconstant
ly on hands generalassortmento f
GROCERIES,
CBOCKERY, GLASS,
TIN AND WOODEN WARE, £10., ETC
By devotinghls constantpersonal attentionto the
businesrhe hopes to merlt publicpatronage. 9
GO TO BELDEN’S
and see the new
Hot Closet Range.
FRANCIS MeKEON, Jr., _
Practical Plumber.
PLUMBING in all its BRANCHES.
Green Houses Fitted up.
Orders left at Shop on School Street, or on slate
at Belden’s 'I‘in Shop. Jobbing promptlyattcnded
I Edward Banks,
Civil Engineer &Boluugh Surveyor,
Office Main St., near Center Ave.,
Norwalk, Conn.-
Particular attention paid to the mapping nnd
measurement of farms, and to the divrsion of ca-
tates. Also to drainage and sewerage matters.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
C. W. Burritt
Has Removed
TUNo. .4 Phoenix Block, Wall St.,
Foot of Mill Hill, where with increased facilities
he is prepared to do
P 1:. U M B I N G- ,
in all its branches. Also special attention ivcn
to Tin Roofing, Tin and Sheet Iron Work an Job-
bing. Gas Fixtures of all kinds kept on hand.
Norwalk, April, 1876.
John A. Honneeker,
B A K E R,
FOOT 0F MILL IIILL.
Bread, Rolls, Pies, Cakes, Crullers, &c., baked
fresh every day. Everything made out of good
materials. and by careful and competent workmen.
Try our Baking.
A
Quintard’s Furniture Rooms
will bc'l‘ouml a complete assortment of
FURNITURE, &C.,
includingeverything usually found in a first-class
establishment, at Prices to suit the Times. Also.
a large assortment of
CHROMOS, PICTURE FRAMES,
Looxrivo. cnassns, sic.
Glass Plates cut to any size. Repairing done in the
best manner, at short notice. Also. old llnrr Mat-
trasses madcovcr as good as new.
E. OIIINTARD’S SON.
. NESBITT’S
ZCOUGH SYRUP!
Try it, all of you who have colds.
II. 8: O. S. PROWITT
SELL IT.
Billllciuls
allslzes andstyles can be h‘adat the
Gazette Job Printing Glace.
u.
OR SALE.-—A first-rate built House, (on East
'I‘NA INSURANCE Co. of HARTFORD. ’
Are you going to Paint?
USE
‘AVEBILL’S
CHEMICAL PAINT!
THE BEST III THE MARKET.
. It is more beautiful, moredurable, lowerin price,
is all ready for. use, does not wash b rain. best
wood preserver, is water and fire proo , and is the
best forqgcncral uses, either for wood. iron or
brick bur dings. Many of the finest residences in
town are painted With .
'AVERILL’S CHEMICAL PAINT
Put up ready for use in pails of l, 2 or 3 allons‘
kegs of 5, 10 or 15 gallons, half‘ barrels or arrels,
_All orders romptl y filled and anyinf'ormatlon
given by app yiug to
D. H. WEBB, Sole Ag’t for N orwalk
Ofllcc west end of Bridge, SOUTH NORWALK
IIANFOIEII WILCOX
DEALER IN
OOAL & WOOD
WHOLESALE ANDRETAIL.
Yard at the West end of the Bridge,
s’OUTH NORWALK,
Families and Factories supplied with the best at
lowest mnrket prices. Delivered within any rea-
sonable distance. Prompt attention given to all
orders, large or small.
D. II. WEBB, Agent.
Call andsec us and leave your orders.
CARRIAGE MAKERS.
MULL‘INGS &TILLY,
Successors to S. 1'. TUTTLE,
29
MARSHA L STREET, SO UTII IVOR IVALK,
Would respectfully inform the citizens of Nor-
walk and vicinity that they are prepared to
Build Carriages and Wagons
OF EVER Y DESCRIPTION
Particular attention paid to REPAIRING in all
branches of‘ the trade.
One SECOND-HAND nocxdw hr and one
NO 'ror BUGGY, for sale. ‘ -’ ly2
REAL ESTATE
Bought, Sold or Exchangod,
Office 4 Gazette Building, B. J. STURGES,
Norwalk, Conn. Broker.
INSURANCE.
Capital Represented. $23.000,000.00.
B. J. STURGES, Agent.
N orwalk Fish Market.
The subscriber respectfully 'announces that at
the Old Ilrldge Fish Market a constant supply of
FRESH lj‘ISH,
orsrnns, CLAMS, &c.,
and all varieties of choice
,FIIIIIS All VEGETABLES ll ‘I’IIEIII SEASOI.
CIIA RLES W. LOCKWOOD.
33' Spring Chickens Dressed to order.
JOHNSON’S
Boston Boy. .
HIS FOUR YEAR OLD STALLION willstand
at the Stable of LcGrand J ohnson, West
Ncrwalk. for the Season of 1876.. This Stallion is a
bright bay, fifteen hands high, free and easy gait,
good style and action.
.
Terms for the Season $10.00
, : EDWIN JOHNSON.
West Norwalk, April, 1876. 3mm
. I
Undertaking!
0 THE PUBLIC! Anyone wishing my services
in the Undertaking business will find me at
the late residence of my father, 55 Main Street, or
at Demmon a Newcomb’s Store.
If GEORGE If. RAYMOND, Agent
Union Marble
~AND-
GRANITE WORKS,
Nos. 3 and 5 Mcchanic St., S 9 and 11 Water St.,
NORWA LK, CONN.
Manufacturers of
Monuments, Tombs, Vaults, and
Grave Stones, '
of Italian and American Marble, Granite, Drab
or Brown Stone. Plumbers’ Slabs, Tablets, Sinks,
die. as well as Mantles.
All kinds of Cemetery and Building work on
hand and made to order. Flagging, Curb and Gut-
ter, Sills and Lintcl Pier Caps, Coping, Steps, &c,.
or Blue Stone. Havrng secured the services of a
first-class worker of CastSteel. we are prepared
to do all kinds ot'jobbingin that line. Also, hav-
ing opened a. quarry,are prepared to furnish Build-
in g Stone ofa superior quality, as cheap as common
stone can be_l‘urnished otherwise, Importers of
Scotch Granite.
Price,'Bates & Co.
CHAS T. LEONARD & SON
DEALER IN
C O A L ,
WOOD AND BRICK,
N’th River Blue SEgneLime, Cement
cEMEIT PIPE Fl!!! SEWER. WELLS All)
animus,
. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Water St.__Norwalk, Conn
O. H, OOOGLASS,
Manufacturing Confections,
Keeps constantly on hand a large variety of
Pure Confectionery
Always Fresh and of the Best Quality, at
\Vlrofisalc and Retail .
Also a superior article of
ICE CREAM,
SODA W ATE l, with fruit syrups, and OTTAWA
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for Ladies andGentlemcn.
C. H. DOUGLASS, Proprietor.
GEORGE WARD SELLECK ,
Hasconstantly in stock at his new stand ,
No. 9 Main Street,
Achoice and fiueussortmentof
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Provisions,
Flour,
Fruit, &c.,‘
To which he wouldinvitethc attentiouofallwho
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Life Dreams.
The world goes surging to and fro,
The wheels of life are turning;
We meet to part and meet no more,
And leave our hearts still yearning.
Life’s transient day is but a. dream,
A quickly flying vapor—-
And soon the spark of life is done,
As melts the twilight taper.
The sun shines bright, its lurid light
Upon Life’s river sifting,
Whilst swiftly on, and ever on,
Our oarless boats are drifting.
And as we float adown life’s stream;
We pause, but may not tarry,
To bid adieu to scenes beloved
And Islands bright and fairy.
But one, “ the isle of long ago,"
Must on the memory linger,
For toward its sad and lonely coast,
Life points with nerveless finger.
For on its hallowed banks of yore
, Our treasures deep we buried,
Then from its “ lotus” blooming shore
Our silent footsteps hurried.
There he our young love’s early dreams,
With broken jewels hidden,
And diamond’s rare are buried there,
And tear-drops all unbiddeu.
And as our boat glides on and on,
Adown life’s mystic river,
Our minds brood still on memories past,
And scenes now gone forever.
0
But still the world goes to and fro,
The wheels of life are turning;
We meet to part, and meet no more,
And leave our hearts still’burning.
THE SWALLOW’S FAITH.
\
A swallow in the Spring
Came to our granary, and ’neath the caves
Essayed to make a nest, and there did bring
Wet earth, and straw, and leaves.
Day after day she toiled,
With patient heart ; but ere her work was
crowned,
Some sad mishap the tiny fabric spoiled,
And dashed it to the ground.
She found the ruin wrought,
But not cast down, forth from the place she
flew, Q
And, with her mate, fresh earth and grasses
. brought, '
And built her nest anew.
But scarcely had she placed
The last soft feather on itsamplc floor,
When wicked hand, or chance, again laid
waste
And wrought the ruino’er.
But still her heart sllc kept,
And toiled again; and last night, hearing
calls,
Looked, and lo! three little swallows slept
Within the earth-made walls.
What truth is there, 0 man! «
Hath hope been smitten in its early dawn
Have clouds o’ercast thy purpose, trust or
plan ?
Have Farm, and Struggle on !
BITUMEN.
A COSTLY JOKE.
In the-flush times when oil-wells were the
theme -
Whereon all enterprising minds were dwel-
ling, ~
And every speculator’s fondest dream
Saw great Petroleum’s aromatic stream—i
The fat of nature’s broth, plutonic cream—
Spontaneously from his own well upwel- '
_ ling, _
Twelve gentlemen on money-making bent
Assembled in an upper chamber spacious,
.To listen to an “enterprising gent”
While he should to them make ‘it evident
Much money might be made 'for little spent
By one sufficiently sagacious ,
To furnish funds, by him to be invested
In a location he himself'had tested.
“ The territory where that well and derrick
are '
Is the best oil country in America.
The drill will very shortly reach bed-rock,
Being already promisingly started.”
We paid our money and we tookour stock,
.Whereat our disinterested friend departed. '
And when I marked, asI have marked before,
’Twas not possessing riches great or small,
That fixed the due proportion each one bore.
Those who have little always give the more,
And these give least who have the greatest
store. .
On them all burdens do most lightly fall,
While some are like the cobbler in his stall
When into one small hole he puts his little
awL
Why need I here repeat the, old, old story ?
We never saw again our cherished pelf ;
The reader will have guessed so, dpfiofi, ‘
And very likely knows how ’tis, himself.
When the whole enterprise had gone to pot
Once more we stoch'holde‘rs- cenvened a
meeting : ,
In the same sadly well-remembered spot
We came ,to see where all our wealth was not;
And to rest one then, there, thus gave
greeting : ‘
“ We poor outsiders do not feel so sore
(Although we’re neither more nor lesstllan
human) '
At having sacrificed our little store,
For you rich folk, who know so vastly more,
’IIavc been dcceivcdjnj spite ‘of ' your acu-
men. , ,
And this deep hole that’srproved so great a
bore, '
Although it has no oil, it has bit-you-men."
—Joseph Kirkland : Scribner for June.
The Boy Superintendent.
A Scandinaian missionary of the American
Sunday-school Union in- Minnesota 'writes :
“The work on my field progresses very fav-
orably. God’s blessing is evidently'on many
parts of it. ‘4 '
“Early last spring ~I organized a little
Sunday-school in a very wicked neighbor-
hood among cxtrcmely poor people. For
want of a better superintendent, a boy,
fourteen years of age, has taken charge of it,
opening the meeting with prayer. Recently
three men, who had been given to drinking
and other bad habits, have turned to Christ ;
and now the little boy has all the help he
needs in doing his work for the Master and
for the children whom the Master loves.”
How many boys of fourteen years have
the courage, gifts, and grace to trim charge
of a Sunday-school ‘3
A Dis-Unionist Destroyeth m ucll
. Good.
Is not he a sinner who, causes division,
strife, and ruin of good interests? Three
year ago a missionary of the American Sun-
day School Union in Michigan started a most
promising Sunday-school on Union princi-
ples; but soon a preacher came 'who induced
them to change its character. The superin-
tendent was forced to resigu’, and: _s member
of the preacher’s church was“ put inhis place.
Soon, however, his overbearing spirit and
course caused division, hostility; 5 and the .
disorganization of the church»; and the Sun-
day-school was broken upthut after a time
he, and some of the contestants left," and the
remaining Christians were reconciled; and
lately the missionary had the pleasure of
seeing the school reorganized on Union prin-
ciples combining all denominations, and all
I NORWALK.
I things auspicious.— 0km]; Union.
Norwalk Chronicler