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WHOLE NUMBER 1561.
The Angel of Patience.
A TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN BY WHIT-
TIER.
To weary hearts, to mourning homes,
God’s meekest angel gentle comes;
No power hath he to banish pain
Or give us back our lost again,
And yet, in tendercst love, our dear
And Heavenly Father sends him here.
Angel of patience! sent to calm
Our fevcred brows with cooling balm;
To lay with hope the storms of fear
And reconcile life’s smile and tear.
The throbs of wounded pride to still
And make our own our Father’s will!
Oh, thou, who mournest by the way.
\Vith longings for the close of day—
lfe walks with thee, that angel kind,
And gently whispers “Be resigned 1”
Bear up! bear on! the end shall tell,
The dear Lord ordereth all things well.
——_
BEDDING RIDGE.
Thanksgiving was celebrated right royalty
in our humble town. There was a general
home coming of absent friends; there was
feasting and merry-making to a wonderful
degree. This morning I heard our afore-
mentioned Cuban friend, Senor Costales,
saying softly to himself, “Turkey turkey,
(toork'ay he pronounced it.) I have learned
well that word!” Doubtless he. writes in
his note book, along with his other observa-
tions on the customs and character of ‘Amer-
loans, and New Englanders in particular.—
“Thc United States is one country grand, but
more Grand is the appetites of this Ameri-
cans for toorkay.
The cheery time is Web now only a mem-
ory, the last of the turkey has bt‘ul made
into hash and our expectant faces are turned
towards Christmas. After our little excite-
ment we settle down quiter than ever resum-
ing our interrupted household duties, finding
our places in our books, and the country
world wags slowly on. The sad survivors
of the flocks of turkics walk mournfully
From Sc: z'bncr’s Monthly for December,
American Oyster Culture.
( Concluded from last week.)
Yonder is an oyster-sloop; nearly loaded
w1th marketable oysters; let us run alongside
and look at them. How bright and clean
they rise from this gravelly bottom, swept
almost constantly by a tide that runs like a
mill-race. There can be no better fattening.
ground. Observe this handsome four-year-
old, a typical Saddle Rock, nearly asbroad
as long, and half as thick as it is broad, It
was well formed when transplanted a year
ago, but thin. You can see the lines of the
old shell, and how great the increase in thick-
ness has been. With scarcely any change in
area, the bulk of its meat has nearly doubled.
This six-year-old is aonther beauty, so regular
in form, so healthy in appearance; and the
rest are not unlike it. It is now at its best.
It might live a dozen years longer without
much enlargement save in the thickness of
its shell. Notice the changes that have
wrought in these regular forms, in the effort
to attain the typical oval form. When trans-
planted they were thin and crooked; during
the past year they . have added nothing to
their length, but very much to their breadth
and thickness. Ilcre is one that had been
left too long on a muddy bottom and had de-
veloped into a regular “Shanghai" In trans-
planting, fully an inch of one valve was
broken off at the end, and a new beginning
was made at the broken edge,
Very curious are the alterations often made
in ill-formed shells in consequence of remov-
al to a. different bottom, all showing the sus-
ceptibility of the oyster to changes in the ex-
ternal conditions of its life. A mast remark-
able illustration of the oyster’s ability to with-
stand rough usage was shown in a specimen,
set aside for representation here but lost
(probably stolen) before it reached the
artist’s hands. The shell had been caught
somehow by an oysterman’s tongs or dredge,
unhinged, and the valves turned at right an-
gles to their normal position. In spite of
this terrible wrench, the animal not only sur-
about, and stand on one leg in dejected atti. i vived but constructed a new hinge, walled in
tude, meditating upon the uncertainty of life. i the etiposcd angles, and rearranged its in-
Their air of sorrowful bewilderment is worthy : t-emal economy to conform to its new con-
a poem. To-day, however, the inhabitants l dition. “r119“ taken, it wasalive and hearty,
of the pig pen are their companionsin misery
for many of their number are falling beneath
the cruel knife. The most unpleasant fea-
ture of farm life is the slaughtering of the
patient animals. Especially pitiful is the
squealing of the poor pigs, which penetrates
the house and falls dolefully upon our ears.
I am sorry to say, however, that very often
the men of the farm and hard-hearted boys,
regard the dying agonies of these wretched
creatures as an enlivening pastime. It has
even been my misfortune to observe elegant
young men, with the dragging time of the
country in v. i..ter, hanging upon their hands,
go out to watch, and to laugh at the suffer-
ings of these poor animals. This is not only
pitiful, it is disgusting, and were I inclined
to be malicious I should add, truly all men
are more or less savages at heart.
I was reading in Scribner’s (Topics of the
Time) this morning an article in “Women’s
winter amusement’s.” It spoke of “Shaks-
peare clubs formed for the study of historical
cities, 819. You will allow me to quote a
little. “What a cure for gossip and neigh-
borhood twaddle is contained in such a club.
—threver there may be women 'who find
life something of a bore, when followed in
the ordinary way, wherever there may be
women who have leisure that hangs heavily
upon their hands, or a round of tasteless
courtesics to go through with, wherever there
may be women whose minds are starving
while they execute the routine of houskeep-
ing duties, there will be found the materials
for such a club as this. They would be bet-
ter daughters, wives and mothers, for the
culture that would be won by such' a club,
and be saved the everlasting yearning for an
impossible career that seems to be moving so
many women’s souls at the present time,
Life is good and duty is good if we only give
them flavor. The great want of the clever
women we are rearing in such numbers, is
not so much a public career as a palatable.
private one. There are many women II.
the world who wish they were men. ‘
There is not one man who wishes he were a
woman. The simple reason is that woman
has not yet learned to give flavor to her life.
We do believe that God has made the lot of
the sexes unequal. When woman shall make
the most and best of her life, she will spend
no time in wishing for a coarser and rougher
lot than the owner. What better can she do
for profit or for pleasure than to reason her
life with society in the pursuit of knowledge;
It is not easy to continue literary clubs in a
country place where the people live at long
distances from each other and the roads are
rough and sometime even dangerous. In the
winter there is time for all to read and study
however, and one can easily enjoy the
pleasure of asmall literary society in one's
family, or even all by oneself. One hesitates
some-times to know what to read and where to
begin. It is slow work studying and reading
alone without pleasant sympathy and compan-
ionship. I am going to tell you my humble,
but delightful way of studying history. This
is the rule, First, get very much interested
in some great writer, artist, statesman,
or any prominent character of a certain age
and read an account of his life, find out,thcn,
something about his contemporaries, then the
imes in which he lived, in not only his own
but other countries, study the characters of
the rulers—one thing will lead to another and
you will find it the most fascinating study in
all the world. Why, it- is beautiful, and
easy, especially if you can reach a good en-
cyclopedia. Besides this you will need to
keep your history and geography always at
hand for reference.
The lives of some farmers’ wives are very
dreary and monotonous, though they are gen-
erally lived patiently and cheerfully. How
many women there are dwelling in the lonely
places of the country without the solace of
conjugal companionship, or of books. These
lives are often full of silent suffering. This
daily brave endurance is greater and nobler,
is harder to do, than some grand sacrifice,
which comes once in a life-time, perhaps, and
is then over with. The world is full of un~
known and unappreeiated heroes and martyrs.
It takes a great heart to bear cheerfully and
silently the petty wearying trials of some of
these daily lives.
There are those that; are capable of one
mighty effort, one grand sacrifice,—it is more
wearing to have the sacrifice spread thinly
over a whole life, to meet a little of it every
day than to get it all over at once and have
done with it.
Oh, patient ones, take heart, take heart, in
the Hereafter ye shall learn the fa], deep,
beautiful meaning of the word “rest.” But
so many of these weary lives might be made
brighter, study is a great healer of broken
hearts, Books, in these days, are within
the reach of all who really long for them.
Here I am interrupted by—“Mees Cynthy,
what is your matter, you are very keep still
all day?” and if I do not conclude, and make
a noise, he will, and of all talkative people
there are none so indefatigable as a talkative
Cuban. CYNTHY.
:
Autumn leaves—Just before the first of
December.
A good many theatrical ventures now-a-days
begin with bill board and end with board
bill.
There isn’t much difference between a grass-
hopper and a grass widow, after all. Either
will jump at the first chance.
Now that Cleopatra’s needle is coming to
London, the difficult thing is to secure a
good sight for it. Alas! it has no eye!
its eccentric shape alone drawing attention
to its strange experience.
The changes wrought by cultivation in the
oyster’s outside appearance are not more re-
markable than the improvement of its meat.
The body grows deep and large and solid:
the mantle, naturally thin and skinny, thick
ens to the very edge with firm white flesh;
and the quality of the meat surpasses that of
uncultivated oysters as signally as high-bred,
stall-fed beef docs produce of Texan pastures.
As they come from fattening-ground, the
oysters are naturally charged with bitter sea
water, more or less muddy, and the large
stomach is filled with undigested food. To
fit them for the table, they must be "floated”
—that is exposed for a tide to sweeter water.
The oyster grower’s land station is usually
at the mouth of a river, and when the oysters
are brought in they are allowed to rest a day
or so in large shallow floats open to the cur-
rent. Here the oysters are washed by the
upper layer of fresh water, which purges
them of all impurities and leaves them white
and sweet. In this condition they will live
and retain their flavor out of water for three
months if closely packed‘and kept cool.
When the-inquiries were made for this at-
ticle, oyster grounds were valued at from
fifty to five hundred dollars and more an
acre. It is to be presumed, however, that
there had been a shrinkage in these values
as in the case of all other property. Under
favorable circumstances, an average yield
of five hundred bushels of oysters to the acre
can be reasonably counted on, very much
larger crops being common. From four to
six years are required for the maturing of a
crop of spat, in which time an acre of seed
will have increased to two or three thousand
bushels if properly handled and cared for.
This, it is to be feared, but rarely happens,
most oyster growers trusting too much to
nature for the development of their stock.
3 Led to themselves, the :vsters crowd each
1 other and become pinched and ill developed.
Many die; more are killed by stars and other
vermin; and those that are left are in the end
sadly inferior in size and quality to what
they , ought to be. In sea—farming, as in
every other occupation, it is only the intelli-
gent, diligent and watchful that command
high success.
Shortly before the war of the rebellion
the oyster-beds of Virginia were represented
by Governor Wise as having an area of nearly
2,000,000 acres, averaging four hundred
bushels to the acre. The Virginia oysters
are enormously prolific, and there were none
but human enemies to limit their increase;
yet so unsparing and persistent had the pur-
suit of them become that they were in immi-
nent danger of extermination. The war gave
the oysters of the Chesapeake a respite, and
the work of depletion was stayed: but it was
speedily taken up again, and already the
oystermen of those parts are deploring the
exhaustion of their most valuable beds and
the necessity of going further and further
out for their supplies. The natural advanta-
ges of the Chesapeake and its tributary
waters for the rapid growthJof oysters are
unsurpassed. Nevertheless, those seemingly
cxhaustless fields are faring precisely as oys~
ter-beds have the world over when left to the
mercy of men who have but one object in
connection with them, and that is to gather
each day the largest. amount possible, regard-
less of the future. There never was a useful
natural growth, however vigorous and pro-
lific , that could hold its own against human
greed, untempered by personal ownership.
“No fisher ',” observed a prominent mem-
ber of the British Oyster Fisheries’ Commis-
sion lately, “No fishery can fail to be destroy-
ed if left to the interested ingenuity of man,
the oyster fishery least of all.” The opinion
is a plausible one—but it is utterly mistaken.
The British government has acted on it
for years, vainly striving to foster the multi-
plication of oysters and oyster-beds by re-
strictive measures, close times, and the like,
and all the while the oyster crop has fallen
off and the prices of oysters has risen; they
were ten dollars a bushel in 1862, and more
than seven times as much in 1875. In like
manner it has been attempted in this country
to thwart, by various enactments, the “in-
terested ingenuity” of oystermen, and always
with an effect contrary to what was expected.
The cure lies in the very opposite direction.
If the depletion of our oyster-beds is to he
stayed, if a constant supply sufficient to meet
the steadily increasing demand is to be main-
tained, it will be by increasing the interests
——personal, pecuniary interest—of oystermen
in the oyster-beds, not by trying to thwart or
restrain it. Oystermeu must be allowed to
be something more than oyster catchers.
The ownerless buffaloes are doomed to cer-
tain extermination; they are nohoriy’s pref--
erty and everybodv’s prey. So Tikewise are
the ownerless oysters. ‘
The oyster commissioners. of the Chesa-
peake predict that if the smaly exhaustion
of the oyster-beds of Maryland and Virginia
continues, the entire stock will be used up
within half a century, and we may be sure
thatno diminutionin the demand for oysters
will cut short the work of destruction. That
the predicted extermination of the oysters of
our Atlantic coast,will really happen, how on mr
we have not the slightest fear. The nation
cannot afford it, and will prevent it by giving
to oyster growers the best of all encourage-
ment—freedom and protection.
The country is well stocked with domestic
cattle, and there is little danger of the sup-
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 1, 1877.
ply running out. Suppose they were sud-
denly declared to be common property, as
the oysters are, and no one allowed to hold
a permanent personal interest in any he suf-
fered to remain alivc,—how long would the
supply be kept up. In the case of cattle the
interested ingenuity of man is wisely con-
servative; their numbers are increased and
their quality improved by careful cultivation.
Why should the rule be reversed under
water? Suppose the government were to
authorize the survey and sale of shallows—
in other words, land suitable for oyster farm-
ing- and make the oyster grower’s title to
the groundhc stocks and the crop he raises as
secure as the upland farmer’s is,—would the
quanity or the quality of the oyster crop be
endangered ?
The effect produced by a partial and un-
certain title, such has been granted along the
Connecticut shore, certainly does not point
that way. While the perpetuity of oyster-
beds on common ground has everywhere been
seriously threatened, a shadowy title to culti«
vated ground has sufficed to cover miles and
miles of once unproductive Sound-bed with
the finest oysters in the world. Were the
title made good enough to borrow money on,
there would be no lack of capital to stock
the rest of. the Sound, or of men to cultivate
its inviting acres now untilled.
Our excellent and serviceable National
Fish Commission might do well to move in
this matter. An act of Congress authoriz-
ing the sale of soundings along the coast ex-
clusively for oyster farming would help the
work enormously. The coastwise states, by
supplementary enactments, could easily place
the oyster farmer on an equal footing with
the ordinary agriculturist with great advan-
tage to them and to the country at large.
There would be some delicate questions of
local jurisdiction to settle, and some common
rights to ordinary fisheries to be protected,
but these need not lead to any serious difll-
culties. Nor would navigation be interfered
with or impeded in the least.
The productive area which might be added
to the public domain by thus taking in the
cultiatable coast is simply encrmous. It lies
at our very doors, and the cost of reclaiming
it would be small compared with the wealth
it would return. Once assured that their
growing crops would be as secure against
trespass as the upland farmer's, the oystermen
of Long Island Sound would go on extending
their operations until every acre of the
Sound-bed would be brought under cultiva-
tion. The depth of the waters would offer no
obstacle either to the growth of oysters or
their propagation, since the finest natural
oysters the Sound has produced were found
in the deepest depression of that submerged
valley, and the American method of cultiva-
tion answers as well in deep water as in shal-
low. By the gradual extension of cultiva-
ved ground, the star-fish and other pestsof the
oyster-bed would be brought more and more
under subjection, and with the lessening of
the risks and losses the cost of raising oysters
would be reduced and the price would fall
accordingly. The employment of steam power
for propulsion and for hauling dredges
would more than make up for the extra labor
of dredging in deep water; and with the im-,
provement in modes and means of working
likely to come from the cultivation of large
areas, the productivcness of the grounds—
already worth more, acre for acre, than the
best farm land—might be greatly increased.
The demand for American oysters at home
and abroad advances more rapidly than the
supply. And if every acre of available coast-
water, from Cape Cod to the mouth of the
Chesapeake, where brought under cultivation,
it is doubtful whether the supply of oysters
could ever outrun the demand. Vast as the
present commercial and alimentary impor-
tance of the oyster trade has become, it is
capable of almost indefinate extension; and
when the supply is drawn, not merely or
chiefly from unprotected natural beds, chance-
sown and accidently developed, but from
larger areas systematically stocked, cultivated
and defended against vermin and the unreg-
ulated greed of man, the oyster crop will
rank among the first of American resources
in point of value as it now does in point of
excellence. It is nourished by the exhausti-
ble sea; it steadily enriches instead of im-
poverishing the land, and the average yield
is several times more abundant and remuner-
ative than any grain crop. It is little less than
national folly, therefore, to pride ourselves
on practical thrift, while slighting a field of
productive industry so promising as this is;
'still worse to discourage honest enterprise in
it, as has been done hitherto, by legal re-
straints. What has already been accomplish-
ed in the face of popular opposition, financial
difficulty and needless risk, is a guarantee
that the field is well worth working, and also
that there would be no lack of workmen
were they offered proper encouragement.
The toilet of a Japanese Damsel.
The Japanese have been called the French
of the East. Pleasure is to them almost eve-
rything, and holidays are numerous. The
Ladies are out on these occasions in great
numbers. The toilet of a Japanese damsel is
a matter of no light consideration, and to be
in good time for the fair she must be up and
dressing long before the sun rises from be-
hind the great sacred mountain, Fuji. The
long, coarse tresses of raven-black hair must
be washed, combed, and greased till the hair
shines like a knob of polished black marble;
the cheeks must be rouged to the proper
tint; the throat, neck, and bosom powdered
—carefully leaving, however, on the nape of
the neck three lines of the original brown skin
of the owner, in accordance with the rules of
Japanese Cosmetic art; the eyes must be
carefully rounded and touched with black;
the lips reddened with cherry paste, with a
patch of gilding in the centre. When all
this has been done, and the layers of clothes
properly adjusted, the “obi,” or huge sash of
many colors, tied in the knot of prevailing
fashion, the cleanest of white socks, and the
newest of black lacquered clogs put on the
feet, the belle is ready, and with the proper
allowance of pocket-handerchief paper, her
tobacco-pouch, pipe, and fan, she sails forth,
turning her toes well in, and playing in
well-affected demureness with her fan. Her
mother is likewise painted, combed, and
adorned; but not avestige of eyebrow graces
her forehead, and her teeth are as black as
jet, according to the rules of married women.
Her father is clean shaved, his “queue” or
top not smoothly pasted on his head, and his
raiment new, stiff,and shining—with the fam-
ily crest embroidered on back and sleeves. In
the streets there are hundreds of neighbors,
similarly decked and arrayed, bowing, scrap-
ing, paying compliments, chattering,laughing
and pattering along on their high wooden
clogs towarc the pleasaunce. Critical eyes
examine head dresses and “obis,” coquettish
eyes laugh and convey tender messages from
. behind fans, thereby bringing down reproofs
‘ from stem parental eyes, which, however,
‘ soon twinkle at some jest or well-turned
1 compliment. Everythingis good humor,hap-
5‘ News and enjoyment, and the cloudless blue
I sky above, the occasional twrttcr of birds—
I " of Japan lS but 7000er Off for feathered war.
! blcrs—and the gliifer cf the sunshine, all go
i to make up a hut: in)! picture scarcely to be
I equaled out of Jim-7..
l
: Dean Swift sat-1 that the reason a certain
uutvegsity was a learned place was that most
persons tool: tune learning there, and but
few brought any away with them, and so it
accumulated.
A young lady, in conversation with a gen-
tleman, spoke of having resided in St. Louis.
“Was St. Louis your native place?” asked
the gentleman. “Well yes, part of the time.”
responded the lady.
A Tall Letter from 11. Tall Mis-
sionary.
The writer of the following letter, which
is “as good as a story”—and better than most
stories, for its incidents are facts,——is well
known to many readers of the annm in
South Norwalk, having been sustained, in
part, by the contributions of the efllcient and
generous Sunday School of the Second Con-
gregational Church. He has repeatedly visit-
ed and addressed them, and has been their
correspondent. He is nearly or quite as tall
as “longJohn” Wentworth, of congressional
fame.
From the New York Observer.
Missroxauv Joumvnvmcs nun Exrnmsxons
in run woons.
Rev. II. Densmore, missionary of the
American Sunday School Union in Michigan,
writes to a New York lady who contributes
$200 a year to that Society—$800 in four
years—as follows:
As you have been glancing at Paul’s mis-
sionary journeys in our Sunday school les-
sons, you may bc interested in some of a
Sunday school missionary’s journeyings in
the woods of Michigan. I cannot say, as
Paul did, that I have been beaten with rods,
stoned, shipwrecked or in prison; yet I can
say with him that I have been in journeyings
often, in perils of waters, in the wilderness,
in wearness and fastings, in watches often, in
hunger and thirst. And though I have never
been a night and a day in. the deep, I have
been in. the woods. But even the night was
light about me, and the grace of God suffi—
cient for me.
On my last journey homeward, as night
was approaching, I called at the house of a
well-to-do farmer and asked him if I could
stay over night. He said, “No, I don’t keep
a hotel.” “Where can I find one ?” “Twen-
ty-two miles ahead.” Knowing it: was ten
miles to the next house, I said, “If you will
let me stay, I will sleep in the barn, and can
get along without any supper or breakfast”.
“Well, we don’t want to be troubled with
strangers; they don’t pay.” “I will pay in
advance, if you like." But he shook his
head. Then I said, “Very well, it will not
be the first time I have slept in the woods ;"
and I started off. Then he called me back
and said, “If you’ve got to sleep in the
woods, I guess we'll manage in some way to
keep you, for the bears are fearful this fall;
but I’ve no time to wait upon you.” “All
right, sir, I can wait upon myself; and, being
a Yankee, I can help you about everything
you have to do.” But when I led my horse
into the stable, he said, “After all, 1 don’t see
how I can keep your horse, for I’ve got a
nice team, and don’t like to have them out
after an old horse.” “My pony is sound, sir ;
but if you have any fears, I will hitch him to
the fence ;—now, sir, if you have anything
for me to do, I am ready.” “Well, I’ve got
cows to milk, horses to feed and water, hogs
to feed,” &c. “Very well, sir, I can milk all
the cows on the farm in half an hour.” But
he preferred to milk, so I watered the five
horses, and finding the old pump out of or-
der, I soon fixed it up as good as new. Then
he said, "I guess you are a Yankee, for I
never could fix that old pump.”
Then, after feeding the hogs, and finding
nothing else to do, I went to the barn to
make my bed, and being an old farmer I took
the liberty of criticizing his stock a little, and
said, “Your hogs remind me of a missionary
of the American Sunday School Union,
whom I once knew,who was so long and loan
that he had to sleep on the barn floor.” He
replied: “I, too, once knew a missionary of
the Sunday School Union; he was a short
man; his name was Wright.” “Ah!” said I,
“Rev. Thomas W‘right ?” “ch; do you
know him 1’” “Indeed I do; he is our State
Sunday School Superintendent,—the very
man who sends me into the woods to look for
lost children.” “Well, you needn’t make
your bed there; we’ve a spare bed in the
house, and you can occupy it just as well as
not.” “No, thank you; I‘ve been wander-
ing a long time in the woods, lodging in all
sorts of beds, and I might give you the epi-
zootic, or some other disease. This nice
shawl, given me by {an :Eastern lady, has
often been my bed.” ‘
Just then I heard some one singing my fa-
vorite song—“Sweet Home of the Soul ’-—as
though some angel was contrasting it with a
home in the barn, and I asked the man,
“Whose voice is that?” “It's my wife’s; she
is homesick, and, I doubt not, would be glad
to see you.” So, after making my bed, I
went into the house and found the heart-bro-
ken wife, with two lovely children, about
four and six years old. I took them both on
my knee, giving them nice picture books,and
asked the mother to repeat the beautiful song,
and we all joined in it; and after singing
several others, and kissing the children good
night, I started for my humble bed, not for-
getting to pay in advance.” But the poor
man didn’t sleep much that night, for they
were singing those Sunday school songs till I
went to sleep; and long before daylight the
next morning he came to see if I was there,
and finding all safe, urged me to stop for
breakfast, saying, “My wife enjoyed your
visit and singing so much last night; and
when the children went to bed they said,
‘Won’t we see that good man any more ?’ ”
But, expecting to reach home before sleeping
again, I started as soon as it was light, drove
eight miles, and finding a spot of grass by
the wayside, baited my pony and took a
lunch from my satchel, which made me a
good supper and breakfast, though I had car-
ried it over two hundred miles.
Do you doubt whether a missionary appre-
ciates his home, or wonder that he was em-
barrassed in your fine house? I often think
of your generous table in these experiences.
So writes the missionary. In parting with
him, we may well ask, Do the churches ap-
preciate their missionaries and the toils and
trials they bear, saying with Paul, “I endure
all things for the elect’s sake."
g===
The rapidity with which Texas has come
forward as a grain growing state is justly a
matter of favorable comment. Wheat and
oats take precedence of corn, and in their
production, climate and soil are equally fa-
vorable. Prior to 1875 the wheat crop was
too small to command attention, but in that
year the production began to be felt on the
market, and from that time forward very few
if any of our northwestern states have been
watched with more interest. The wheat
crop in 1875 was 2,500,000 bushels, valued at
$3,180,000,the yield having been about eigh-
teen bushels per acre—San Francisco 00m-
menial News.
——————O-<Or-O——————
Never swap horses when you are crossing
the stream that separates the high table-land
of single blessedness from the low levels of
married life. The wedding guests had gath-
ered at a stately mansion in Rupert, Vt , and
the bride had descended from her chamber
to the parlor, when up rose the constable
of Windham County and arrested the bride-
groom on a warrant charging him with trad-
ing horses under false pretences. The bride-
groom‘s father had quarrelled with a neigh-
bor, and malice had prompted the prosecu-
tion. “There is no bad tool for a workman
possessed of the devil,” says the proverb, and
the constable was a blunt but useful instru-
ment. He had arrived in the town on the
night before the wedding, but did not serve
the warrant, preferring to wait until the
guests had assembled, and he could drag the
bridegroom from the altar in their presence.
The bride’s father and other friends offered
to go before a judge and give $100,000 bail,
if necessary, and the bridegroom begged the
constable to wait a few moments until the
ceremony could be performed; but the ofll-
cer was inexorable and carried off his man.
The guests went home, and the bride took off
her wedding garments. On the next morn-
ing the bridegroom gave bail in $200, and
there was a. private wedding.
._————-o«o-o———-
Behavior is a mirror in which every one
shows his image—Goethe.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a
reproach to old age—Aristotle.
" blacken
. true.
Twilight.
_——-
AFTER THE FRENCH 0F VICTOR HUGO.
Child,, go and pray—for see! the night is
here!
Through cloudy rifts the golden lights ap-
pear;
The hills’ faint outline tremblcs in the mist;
Searcely is heard a distant chariot—list!
The world’s at rest; the tree beside the way
Gives to the evening wind the dust of day.
Twilight unlocks the hiding-place of stars;
They gleam and glow behind night’s shadowy
bars.
The fringe of carmine narrows in the west,
The moonlit water lies in shining rest;
Farrow and foot-path melt and disappear;
The anxious traveler doubts the far and near.
It is the hour when angels stoop to earth
To bless our babes amid our careless mirth.
The little ones with eyes upraised in prayer,
With tiny, folded hands and white feet bare,
Ask at this twilight hour a blessing dear
Of Him who loves his little ones to hear,
Then, while they sleep, a cloud of golden
dreams,
Born in the calm of day’s declining beams,
Waiting in shadow till the hour of night;
Fly to each couch and scatter visions bright :
As joyous bees seek honey-laden flowers,
Dreams hover near in slumber’s peaceful
hours. '
O cradled sleep! 0 prayers of childhood
blestl
0 baby-voice, speaking a loving breast!
Thy happy prayer the darknesss maketh light,
Turneth to song the solemn sounds of night,
As ’neath his wing the birdie hides his head,
Thou shelterst by thy {prayer thy cradle-bed.
~Appleton’s Journal for December.
Education.
Every day we feel more and more impress-
ed withthe absolute" necessity of providing
by stringent legislation for the better and
more general mental and moral education of
the children who are one day to wield poli
cal power in this country. Wise legislation
of some kind seems to be i'mperatively de-
manded in order that the precious and respon-
sible gift of the ballot may not descend to
ignorant and dangerous classes of citizens
Compulsory education is the demand of the
hour. The public schools of the country re-
quire the constant care and attention of the
best legislators as well as the best educators.
They are the hope of the republic, and re-
quire a large portion of that eternal vigilance
which is so truly said to be the price of liber-
ty—of liberty regulated by law. In this con-
nection attention may be directed to a pro-
posed law in relation to public instruction in
France, consisting of twentydwo articles, a
draft of which was submitted a few years
ago to the National Assembly by Jules Si-
mon, the Minister of Public Instruction, and
which proposed compulsory instruction from
the seventh to the thirteenth year, but per-
mitted each family to choose between the
State schools, free schools, and private in-
struction at home. After finishing the course
of instruction, the pupils were to pass an ex-
amination before a committee and receive a
certificate, which, on reaching their twenty-
first year, they were to present before their
names could be enrolled in the list of elec-
tors. Fines were to be imposed upon all pa-
rents, guardians, and employers who failed
to send children to school. Such legal pro-
visions as these might be of great benefit in
this country—Washington Union.
A Contrast.
If we were to be asked to say in one word
the quality that more than anything else
marks English towns and all public places as
compared with our own, we should have to
say mattress. English streets are well paved
and clean; English roads are well kept; En-
glish railway stations are in perfect order;
English fields are trim and neat; English
gardens, hedges, fences, lawns, all exhibit
care and oversight. English smoke and fog
and stain all the buildings,
but English care more than compensates for
this unavoidable evil. We are not so partic-
uar here. We have a clear atmosphere and
brilliant skies, but. we are all, so far as public
places are concerned, sons and daughters of
Shabbyville. This is the more strange, be-
cause in our households no such reproach is
There are no neater or better-kept
homes anywhere than American homes, nor
are any people cleaner or neuter in- their
habits. It is wholly in public matters that
this shabbiness we complain of exists; and
this arises, of course, first, from the neglect
of the official personslwe endow with hand-
some salaries for leaving undone the things
they should do; and next, from a strange in-
,difierence on everybody’s part to everything
of a public nature, to everything that is not
within his own private administration—Ap-
pleton’s Journal for December.
The prevalence of the dancing mania in
this community is sadly evident even to the
causal observer. A'sk of the gentlemanly
clerk for a pound of sugar and he waltzes to
the sugar barrel, whirl solemnly round to the
scales; all in perfect time to the imaginary
tune that is running in his head. His leisure
moments are spent in prancing up and down
the space between the two counters, and we
hear it whispered that the usher at St.
Michael’s turned three times in his progress
up the aisle last Sunday morning to show a
lady to a front seat. Even the compositor
setting “ads” in our office takes the Redowa
step to the cabinet for Long Primer Extend
ed, and then practices the Schottische with an
abstracted air on his way back. The young-
sters whistle Bub White’s fascinating melo-
dies to the exclusion of “Hold the Fort”
and the other Moody & Sanky airs hitherto
predominant: and Litchfield fairly whirls
withthe new excitement.—L2‘tchfield Enquir-
61'.
; HINT r01: Povnn'rv—Cunsun BELLES.—The
other day a grocery-man at Vallejo gave a
large party, at which the daughter of the car-
riage pamter who lived next door, created a
decided sensation. It was not that she was
more handscmely attired than the other ladies
present, but that when she gymted in the
“dance of death” she was observed to display
the only pair of pink silk stockings in the
room. She left the house for a. few moments
at the expiration of the dance, and in the
next waltz exhibited a pair of light blue dit-
toes. An hour later her crushed andcxasper-
ated female friends beheld the sesupplemcnted
by further hose of a delicate chocolate shade.
And so it. went on until her miserable rivals
determined to follow her the next time she
disappeared. They traced her to her father's
paint shop in the back yard, where she was
discovered, brush in hand, and about orna-
menting her nether extremities with a final
artistic coat of light salmon. The exulting
spies rushed back with the damaging news,
but it was too late. The men were all too
tight to understand, the music had gone home
and the lights were being put out. Thus it
is that fraud and duplicity triumph, while
honest simplicity walks around with a dam
on its calf and a hole in its heck—San Fran.
cfsco Post. .
“4......"—
An unusual feature at a swell wcddiug in
New York, was the signing by the guests of
their names to the marriage contract, which
was of vellum or parchment beautifully on.
grossed.
' Georgia's colored Sankey sings:
Come, brcdren, git in de golden car,
Dar’s room for you and me up dar;
Come, sit down in de anxious seat,
Kase sin am sour an’ ’ligion sweet.
An Iowa justice refused to fine a man
charged with the offense of kissing a pretty
girl without her consent. “Nothing,” he
said."but the dignity of its office prevents the
Court from committing the same offense.
The temptation to an ordinary person would
be irresistible.” -
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ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church .
Teacher of
Plano-Forte, Organ and Mullen]
, Composition.
Box 879 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
J. Belden Hurlbutt,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Boom No. 4, [up stair-,J
GAZETTE BUILDING.
EMILY VJ). PARDEEJIJ).
(Graduate of N. Y. Medical College for Women,
Cor. MAIN J: MARSHALL STREETS,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN .
Office Hours, until9 a. m., andfrom 3 p. m. At-
tention to all classes of diseaseslncident to a genT
eral practice of medicine and surgery. Fam-
ilies supplied with Homeopathic remedies.
References by permrsslon :——S.I.denthal, M. D.,
Prof. of Theoryaud .Practice,N. Y.c1t ; Clemence
Lozler, M. D. Dean of College,N. .: Alfred K.
Hills, M. D. ,Prof‘. Materia Medica. 3m23
CEIARLES W. MANY,
Surgeon Dentist,
NORWALK, CONN.
Office corner of Main and Wall streets. Nitrous-
Oxide Gas administered .
C. B. COOLIDGE,
DENTIST.
Successor to
Dr. Asa. Hill,
WALL STREET, NORWALK,
Office over
C. J. Grumun’s Dry Goods Store.
'8’ Gas administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain.
DENTISTRY
AT HARD TIMES PRICES,
For Cash— No Credit 3
All work excutcd in the Best Manner, at my office
carrier of Main and Washington Streets,
SOUTH N ORWALK, CON N.
'1‘. E. SWIFT, D. D. s.
a w. MITCHELL,
O
At the ever popular
UNION MARKET
has always the best of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, and Pork,
at fairlivingprices. Union (formerly Model) Mar
ket, on the Bridge. 18
HA “LES S. LOCKWOOD,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor
AND
GEN T S’ FURNISHING EMPOR I UM .
Main Street, Norwalk, Conn.
ED‘VARD P. \VEED,
D R U G- G- I 5 '1‘
Wall Street,oppositc Norwalk Opera House,
A large and well selected stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Perfumery, Patent Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters, l‘oilet and Medicated Soaps, Flavoring
and Handkerchief Extracss, [fair Brushes,Combs,
Sponges, Chamois Skins, Stanpncrv, Cigars, &c.,
and is constantly adding to his stock :11 the new-
aud popular medicines of the day.
S
NORWA LK INSURANCE 00.,
NOR WALK, CONN.
Charter Capital $500,000
Paid up Capital - - 100,000
Wu. C.Snnnn'r, Pres.. Gno R. Cowr.ns,Sec’y.
'I‘NA INSURANCE Co. “HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $5,052,880.19
Insuresagainst loss and damage by Fire,on terms
adopted to thchazard andconslstcnt with the laws
of compensation. COWLES & MERRILL,_
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
C. W. LOCKWOOD’S SONS
Have taken the Store, No. 4 Skiddy’s Block, Main
Street, where they will open a first~class
Fish,
Fruit,
Vegetable
and Poultry Market.
They intend to keep it well stocked with
Fresh,Sa.1t, Smoked (it Canned Fish
of all the choice varities, and Fruits and Vegeta-
bles of'all kinds, in their season. The furnishing
of‘ POULTRY, either alive or dressed, a specialty:
Also EGGS. '
Norwalk, Conn., February 20th, 1877. -
GEORGE 1|. RAYMOND,
Furnishing Undertaker,
No. 53 MAIN STREET, (Up Stairs.)
IWrm,
E. K. LOGKWOOD’S.
—A ood Famil ' llorsc kind and
For sale. gogtle, and'sz’tl’c for 'ladies to
drive. Apply to II. M. a C. S. PROWITT.
WM. B. SWAN?
Manufacturer of
FINE AND (JOMDION
HARNESS,
And Dealer in
Horse & Stable Equipments.
Particular attention paid to
REPAIaING.
Thankful for the liberal patronage of the past,
the subscriber hopes to merit a continued share of
the busmcss favors of'his friends and the public.
‘VIVI. B. SWAN.
Shop in rear of Residence, Main Street, Norwalk
EMBOSSLR EHRUMUS
Putterynetoratius 0 Scrap Banks.
We have a large and beautiful assortment of pie-
turcs which we offer at low figures.
H/M. Gt 0. ’8. PROWITT,
VWWREAL ESTATE.
For Sale.
A BRICK HOUSE,12 rooms, with all modern
improvements, free and clear, on West 33d
Street, New York. In part payment I will accept
of well locutcd propert in Norwalk. For partic-
ulars enquire of J. L. l ARLEM. 48
To Rent.
THE whole or part of a House on Main Street.
right in the Village, suitable for 1 or) families;
7Epoms. l’ossessron immediately. Apply at this
0 cc. I
To Rent.
7 “IE elegant residence known as the “Dimon
Blacc,”pleasa_ntly located on West Avenue
one of the_most desirable places in the Borough of
Norwalk, is offered to rent on moderate terms.
Also,alarge Carpenter Shop, located on Arch
Street, on the Bouton property. Will be rented
very low. For full particulars enqure of
01.! JAMES F NNEY,Rcal Estate Agent.
To Rent.
THREE rooms in Cottage opposite residence of
Charles Sherry, Esq., Main Street; 88 per
month. Possession immediately.
For Sale or Exchange.
THE Large, Elegant and Pleasantly Located
Dwelling of the subscriber, on East Avenue;
House has 15 rooms, with all modern improve-
ments; about two acres ground attached. Will
be soldat reasonable price or exchanged for New
York City property. Apply to or address
2 GEO. W. CRAM, Box 452, Norwalk, Ct.
Also one of the handsomest Building Sites on
East Avenue, cosisting of four acres, being the
north portion of the old Van Zanut Homestead;
lies a flue Orchard of choice Fruit and line Shade
recs.
For Sale Cheap,
01' Exchange for other property,
One ofthc neatest, and cosicst little Cottages in
the Borough. W111 sell to _u good tenant. forlittle
(£131 311‘; money down. Enquireat GAZETTE 0F-
For Sale.
_. A [louse and Lot. in a. healthy location on
g Fan Street, above Catharine. The House is
. nearly now, well built, conveniently arrang-
ed, and W111 make a comfortable and leasant
home forttfamily of average size. The at runs
back to the river. There isa well of‘ excellent
water on the place, and Borough water in the
Street. Price low, and part of the money can re-
main on mortgage. A fine chance to securea
home. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE. 3“
I
Des1rable Property for sale.
A Vervdesirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a few chowe Burl 1mg Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue, for sale cheap.
Also, a nicely located House and Lot: on Net-
wm Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain. Enquire of
S. E. OSBORN. East Avenue,
“'11 or to D. W.FITCH, West Avenue.
FOR SALE .
7 W0 verydesirableBuilding-Lotsou WestMain
Street. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
FAIRFIELD
FIRE
runner comm,
South Norwalk Conn .
tashtapitat, $200,000.00
AnettJnJ, 1876, $336,112.78
W .8. nANFORD,Presldenl ,
11.1: .Tnnivnn, Sec’y and Tron.
e. N. ' NICHOLS.
LI. kinds 01‘ Ladies and Gents’ IOIITS AID
A SHOE; made to order. REPAIRING neatly
done, and according to promise.
ROOM N0. 5,
G azettc Building.
1 8 '7 '7
BUY YOUR
Provisions, .
Groceries,
Poultry,
CRUCKERY AND GLASS WARE»
Fruits, Nuts, etc.
1-" I S 1-1 ,
(Fresh, Salted and Canned.)
OYSTERS,
(Opened or in the Shell.)
CLAMS,dcc.
ALSO
Vegetables of all Kinds,
(Fresh and Canned.)
Canned Fruits,
BREAD, PIES, CAKES, 01.0., 81.0.
AT
DEMMON & NEWCOMB’S,
53 & 55 Main St., N orwalk.
NEW
L111 1 hr .
Lumber,
Timber,
Shingles,
Lath,&c.
001111 T0 HARD PAN PRICES.
SHIN—GLES,
BOTH
Planed, Sawed and River],
Superior to any ofered in this Market.
Office and Yard opp. the Store of William C
Street & 00.,
Water Street, Norwalk.
Horace L. Hubbell-
COWLES 8t MERRILL,
{gents atNorwalk, Conn., issue Policies for th
followinglnsurance Com uanics
Etna, of Hartford ,Ct., 84.04733 07
Hartford, “ ' 1,537,519 00
Phren ix, " 1,031,15t1s4
243,871 so
2,723,206 52
1,515,557 10
People’s,ofltfnl lletown ,CL,
tlome of‘Ncw York,
Phoenix,Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Continental of New York, 1,427,490 21
International, 829,470 00
Westchester, of New. Rochelle, N. Y ., 4.73.9:10 32
Springfield, of‘Springfleld, Mass., 579.760 00
People’s, Worcester, Mass. 600,000 00
b‘ranklin.l’hila., l’a.. 3,268,81639
Commerce, Albany, N.Y. , 264,424 00
Narragansett. of ProvidenceJl. 1., 754,94700
Andes, Cincinnati, 0., 1,250,000 00
Home, of Columbus, 0.. 438.44734
Alemania, Cleveland, 0., 205,000 00
I.ivcrpool,and London,and Globc,scpa-
rate tlrc assets, . 5,055,105 00
North British and Mercantile, do do 2,104,508 00
Queen of“ Liverpool 85 London, do do 1.355,.560 '30
Imperial, of London , do do 5,313,665 00
And otherCompanics,Stock and Mutual,fn Con-
necticut and New York.
GEORGE R. COWLES, HOMER MERRILL-
BARGAINS IN
SHINA, CRUCKERH; GLASS
A'l‘
E. K. LO0KWOOD’S.
DRU GGISTS.
Centaur
inimtnts.
—o—
They relieve pain.
They subdue swellings.
They cure burns, without a scar.
The White Centaur Linimentis now the stand-
ard remedy for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatir a,
Lumbago, Frost Bites, Caked Breasts, Itch, Cutar
neous eruptions, etc. These Linimcnts have
stood the test of time. They have performed
more wonderful cures of obstinate bed—ridden
cripples, and have alleviated more pains in a
shorter space of time, than have all other Lini
ments, Embrocations, Extracts, Ointments. and
Salvcsin existence. 'l'hcir sale is increasing rap-
idly and regularly. Their best endorsers are phy-
sicians, surgeons and vctcrnaries. There is liter-
ally no casc of flesh, bone, or muscle ailmentupm
man or beast which the Centaur Liniments will
not alleviate and generally cure. But it must be
understood that there are two kinds of Liniment;
the White is for family use and the Yellow for
horses and animals. For horses and mules liable
to Spavin, Ring-bone, Sweeney, Calls, Strains.
String-halt, ctc.,the Yello‘v Centaur Lini-
ment is worth its weight in gold. We have
thousands of certificates relating how valuable
horses have been speedily restored by a dollar
bottle of this wonderful all-healing remedy. The
same is constantly told of‘ the effects upon the
human frame. Persons hobbling upon crutches
for years from Stiff Joints, Tumors and 01d Sores,
have, by the use of a few bottles of the \Vhlte
Centaur qulment, been restored to the use
of all theirlimbs. The effects are next to mar-
vels. We will give the Liniments to any person
who ever heard of a failure. Such a. case has
never been reported to us. These Linimcnts are
now sold throughout the habitable globe.
J. B. ROSE Sr 00., 46 DEY Six, New Yonx. 3m43
,Hnney
To the taste but death to Gripes and Stomach
Complaints. Pllclner’s Castor-la 15 a complete
substitute for Castor Oil, and is as pleasant to
take as Honey. It is- particularly adapted to
Teething and irritable children. It destroy
worms, assimilates the food, regulates the Stom-
ach, and cures Wind Colic. No remedy is as cm-
cacious for Feverishness, Group, Worms and
Whooping Cough. Cantor-la is a purely vege-
table preparation, more effective than Castor Oil,
and neither gags nor gripes.
Common, Conn., May 3,1876.
Messrs. J.B. Rose a 00., N. Y.:
I have a family of eight children, and have used
your CAsTonu. I have never found anything
equal to'it. My children have been saved from
severe sickness by the use of UASTCRIA. I recom-
mend it in preference to any medicine I know. I
feel it a pleasure to give this certificate on account
of the benefits I have derived by the use of your
adrrgiralglc preparation.
. m .
' Very lrul yours,
NORMAN .LITTLE.
Furniture -Fetrniturc
If you wish
Parlorltibrary, Dining and Sitting
Room Sets,
Walnut or Cottage Chamber Sets,
or anything in the Furniture Line, of the Latest
Style, Best Finish and Make and for the
Least Money, go to
WM. LOCKWOOD’S,
No. 36 Main Street, NORWALK, cons.
Also,
General Furnishing Undertaker.
Orders attended to promptly day or night. Resig
deuce with Mr. C. T. Cornwall, France St.
C. W. Burritt—
Has Removed
To No. 4: Phoenix Block, Wall St.,
Foot of Mill Hill,whcrc with increased facilities
he is prepared to do -
PLUMBING,
in all its branches. Also special attention given
to Tin Roofing, Tin and Sheet Iron Work and J ob-
ing. Gas Fixtures of all kinds kept on hand.
Norwalk, April, 1876.
Good Chance to Buy
0 E: E .A. P r
The subscrlber will offer his entire stock of
Groceries.
Hardware,
&c., for the next
15 DAYS AT COST.
GEO. C. SCOFIELD,
Main Street, South Norwalk.
Dr. C. II. Kendall & Son,
DENTISTS.
Are nowprcpar-
cd to r e c e 1 v e
their patrons at
either Norwalk
C7
Bridge or South
_ Norwalk. The
enior partner
- has taken rooms
0 v e r Selleck's
Bookstore, Nor-
walk. while the
""‘ ‘ junior retains
the old office. Lauder’s Block, South Norwalk.
Teeth extractor! without pain, and all dental ope-
rations performcd at either othcc.
C. H. KENDALL, M. D.,
. G. S. KENDALL, D. D. S.
P. S. Dr. C. 11. Kendall will devote Mondays to
Ritlgctiekl.
P. W. BATES,
Successor to PRICE & BATES.
.WA TER STREET, rear of Opera House,
Manufacturer of
Monumental, Building & Cemetery
Walk.
of every description from all the diflcrent kinds of
GRANITE, IVIA RBLE. BROWN,
OHIO, 01' NOVA SCOTIA STONE.
Orders solicited. Prices to suit the times.
HAVE been connected in business with Mr.
Batestora number of years. and cheerfully
recommend him to m ' old. friends and patrons as
a man well worthy of their patronave.
1‘ B. PRICE.
ERS,
:3 KAPRAL BROTH
8 Having bought
out Samuel l‘ukul-
ski, will continue
the business as
heretofore at. the
old stand, lily's
Block ,Main Street.
So. Nor-walk. man-
ufacturer of all
kindsof
HUMAN HAIR
§ W . . ‘ ' ‘ .
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VOL. LX.--NUMBER 50,
Written for the Gazette.
The World Beyond the Crimson
Shadows.
BY FRANK W. GODFREY.
Just beyond the crimson shadows,
0f the sunset in the west,
There’s a land of grace and grandeur,
There’s a land of peaceful rest.
And the pathways over yonder,
Sparkle in the golden ray, 2
And the flowers bloom in beauty
All along the shining way.
There’s a city over yonder,
On the hillside, bright and fair;
All the streets are paved with diamonds,
And they sparkle, over there.
All the mansions. over yonder,
Sparkle in the golden ray;
’Tis the land of light and beauty,
’Tis the world of endless day.
There is music, soft and gentle,
In that world of beauty rare,
And we almost seem to hear it,
As it floats upon the air.
We are passing, ever onward,
Hope goes dancing on before;
We shall reach that golden city,
When our journey here is o’er.
Brsuor Hanna’s Ancunuv Sosa—In an
old volume of Notes and Qum‘z‘es we find the
following spirited song, by Bishop Heber, for
a Bow Meeting, near St. Asaph, seventy
years ago. . Besides the interest attaching to
this rollicking lyric in connection with the
rev1val of archery in this country, it is also,
by way of contrast, very notable as the pro-
ductlcn of the author of “From Greenland’s
Icy mountains,” the well-known missionary
hymn.
The Soldier loves the laurel bright,
The Bard the myrtle bough,
And smooth shillalahs yield delight
To many an Irish brow.
The Fisher trims the hazel wand,
The Crab may tame a shrew,
The Birch becomes the pedant‘s hand,
But Bows are made of yew. 3
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cnoncs.
The yew, the yew, the hardy yew 1
Still greenly may it grow,
And health and fun
Have every one
That loves the British Bow.
’Tis sweet to sit by Beauty’s side
Beneath the hawthorn shade;
But Beauty is more beautiful
In green and buff array’d.
More radiant are her laughing eyes.
Her checks of ruddier glow,
As, hoping for the envied prize,
She twangs the Cambrian how.
The yew, the yew, etc;
The Fop may curl his Brutus wig,
And sandy whiskers stain,
And fold his cravat broad and big;
But all his arts are vain.
IIis nPnkeen trousers we despise,
Unfit for rain or dew,
And, pinch’d in stays, he vainly tries
His strength against the yew.
The yew, the yew, etc.
The heiress, once, of Bowdale Hall,
A lovely lass, I knew—
A Dandy paid his morning call,
All dizcnfd out to woo.
I heard his suit the Coxcomb ply;
I heard her answer, “No ;”
A true-love knot he ne’er could tic,
Who could not bend a how.
The yew, the yew, etc.
—IIarper’s Magazine for December.
T11}? Pastors Revel-1c.
The pastor sits in his easy-chair,
With the Bible on his knee,
From gold to purple the clouds in the west.
Are changing momently;
The shadows lie in the valleys below,
And hide in the curtam’s fold ;
And the page grows dim whereon he reads,
“I remember the days of old.”
“Not clear nor dark,” as the Scripture saith,
The pastor’s memories are;
No day that is gone was shadowless,
No night was without its star ;
But mingled bitter and sweet hath been
The portion of his cup;
“The hand that in love both smitten,” he
saith,
“In love hath bound us up.”
Fleet flies his thought over many a ficl
0f stubble and snow and bloom,
And now it trips through a festivale,
And now it halts at a tomb;
Young faces smile in his reverie
Of those that are young no more,
And voices are heard that only come
With the winds from a far-off shore.
He thinks of the day when first, with fear,
And faltering lips, he stood
To speak in the sacred place the Word
To the waiting multitude; ‘
He walks again to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
W'ith many whose feet long time have pressed
Heaven’s safe and blessed ways.
He enters again the homes of toil,
And joins in the homely chat;
He stands in the shop of the artisan ;
He sits, where the Master sat,
At the poor man’s fire and the rich man’s
feast. '
But who to-day are the poor,
And who are the rich 1’ Ask him who keeps
The treasures that ever endure.
Once more the green and the grove resound
With the merry children’s din ;
He hears their shout at Christmas tide,
When Santa Claus stalks in.
Once more he lists while the camp-fire roars
On the distant mountain—side.
0r, proving apostleship. plies the hook
Where the fierce young troutlings hide.
And now he beholds the wedding train
To the altar slowly move,
And the solemn words are said that seal
The sacraments of love.
Anon at the font he meets once more
The tremulous youthful pair,
With a white-robed cherub crowing response
To the consecrating prayer. '
By the couch of pain he kneels, again ;
gain, the thin hand lies
Cold in his palm, while the last fur look
Steals into the steadfast eyes:
And now the burden of hearts that break
Lies heavy upon his own——
The widow’s woe and the orphau’s cry,
And the desolate mother’s moan.
So blithe and glad, so heavy and sad,
Are the days that are no more;
So mourufully sweet are the sounds that
float -
lVith the winds from franc-ff shore.
For the pastor has learned what meaneth
the word
That is given him to keep—
“choice with them that do rejoice,
And “Top with them that weep.”
It is not in vain that he has trod
His lonely and toilsomc way,
It is not in vain that he has wrought
In the vineyard all the day ;
For the soul that gives, is the soul that lives
And bears {mother’s load
Doth lighten your own, and shorten the way
And brighten the homcward road.
——The Her. Vaskz'ngton Gladden, in. Hill'
per’s Alrigazz'ne for S’rptemtcr. W
Turkey has received the ultimatum from
the Frovidencc Tool Company—“no money,
no guns.”
Norwalk Chronicler