Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 September 1870 — Page 6

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I For the Baturdny veiling Mall.) A SMOKK WltKATH. •j

i*. s»?: it BVSMOKO. ,, Take th? nectar away, I want none to-diiy, *v And set aside the wine,

The (low of thy lip .. Is dutitier to sip, .•(( Thau the red heart's hlooJ of the vine Your ey«-s n* they nmlle into mine Arc Jewels bedecking my enp,

Yotir liplit merry laugh, While wildly I quaff, Is the foam 1 cannot drink up.

Jn tin: bright stars at night Let others delight, Ami frown when clouds appear

The star »if my hkles Are your tender eyes, The mist which 1 dri=»d is tins tear. Lot others pluck flowers to cheer Sad hearts by their lauiuiy and grace, love your two-lips,

An I rose flush that trips .So charmingly over your face.

I ll let others love noUW Of music that floats Soft and clear o'er the sea

Your voice's dear chime O'er the oceau of Time, Is the sweetest or sounds to me. Yol 1 speak of what cannot l.\ 'i'is all a delusive dream,

My hopes are like sand Which slips through the h:uvl,_ And N lost in tiie flowing stream.

As Easy as Lying.

From mv youth upward I always h:ul an extreme reverence for truth, with a corresponding contempt for falsehood. Mollis admiration for truth was not an in.» ito virtue, hut was one carefully incitlo ited hy mv respected father, who, aflsoon as my understanding was ripe enough to grasp his meaning, constantly repeatod this celebrated maxim:— "Toll tlio truth and sli un? the devil." 1 am not sure that the mere reiteration of these words would have had tho detlred effect upon my infantile mind had not any slight divergence on my part from the principles they are supposed t\ teach b.'en invariably followed bv severe flagellation.

I resi led in the country town ot wh.M-e my father, niy grand father, and I leaven knows how many B^-~a*Uons of niy ancestors^ had^e^U UOt from any particular advantages Hold out by the place itself: and I became, at the age of twenty-four, matrimonially contracted to the sister of my cjjjlege chum, Ch tries Darley. To cninto a description of the charms of my intended would be foreign to mv story. He kind enough to t.'.ke it for granted that she was perfection in every particular, Inil one—she told libs and on this point we had .uiny disputes— she, as a general rule, acknowledging Her fault, and promising belter behavior for tho future.

One day, alter some graver peccadillo than usual of this description, I read Annie a long and severe lecture on her oyil propensity. 1 po ntcdout, lirst,its ifh morality, then its meanness, its uselossnoss, us being invariably discovered. Tnero was nothing clever in it IgP" any body, however weak his intelI'Jbtuai powers, could tell a lie with the greatest case. Dean \Swift, said I, WjjLxing oratorical, "has himself made many caustic remarks on the futility of fiflsehood. Jill he not say 1 hat, considering how easy lying was, it was a wonder people did" not do it belter?"'

Yes," said Annie "bu. how can he ilfllge of the ribs (I don't like the word nes—it is too harsh H'een detected

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As I grew older, and thought more, two things about this maxim and its cilunciator occupied mueli of my meditations: Firstly, why telling I lie truth should sh uue the devil (a point upon v^bieli even now I have arrived at no satisfactory conclusion) and secondly, wjiy, when sucli admirable precept aims always on my father's lips, lie did not enforce it by example for he certainly vtyifl tho greatest—well, exaggeratory to nut it respectfully—it was ever my late to encounter. lie this as it may, I grow up the very embodiment ol truth afld never did any, even tho slightest, dnvi ition from its path sully my lips or my thoughts until afier I was engaged to lie married. Circumstances which shall not relate then hurried me into a v£.ry whirlwind of falsehood, the result of which was nearly to destroy m:\ I'dir nam0, and all my hopes of happiness.

which have never

Strange this hadn't struck me before :»Ud was ivuh a poser. \V bile puns iffg to recover (Vomits effects, Miss Annie arose, and thus held forth

Now, just listen to me a few moments. utterly anil totally deny the jdStiee of any of'your strictures upon v?3litc lies. Tho practice is neither Moan nor useless. Mean! llow many friends do we ive from lin, danger, or luortiiication by a harmless fib! UseI'Vjal Whv, what a world to live in llua would It? if our thoughts were alwaj's freely expressed, uncloaked by wji.it you are pleased to ill lying, but v^it i-s generally termed ciiirlc.'v.' AJUI AS to its being easy, just yo try it —just you see whether you can, jit a nfl» nent's notice, forge a fib so probable art to bo accepted as truth, and ho dcv£id of disproval hereafter so naturallyspokeu as to raise no suspicion, and vet of such a nature as to screen you irbm any difficulty into which the outspoken truth would have lei! you and lastly—this is tho most important of all —implicate nobo.ly but vourself. Is.iy j»t|l try it."

Ho saving she left the room. 1 sat speechless. Lying recommended to m.» :is an amiable virtue! It took nte some timo to recover. At last I rose and walked home, revolving what she had saiil in my mind. "Not easy (5. tell a lib thought I. Rubbish! No I nviolvtnl to toll an untruth, just to lirovo the soundness of my principles, what should be the subject of it? Jt iohtx struck in? tint the proper ami tfinrest way to test the itter was to \^it until tho occasion pmsentod itself, iWd invent the story on the spur of the moment. To give color fo my lie, I staid aw.iv from Annie on whole evening, and went, not without irepida(•Jpn, to call on her tho ensuing inorn-

TT2. I was not a little bothered to find Uaarlio with his sister, as well as one or two o'.lnr people of my aequaint•vieo. ^There w.is no mnuniiin tho c-Ue, for Darley and his sister were or|tH»ns.)

Why, where were you last night?" ohaunUxl a general chorus. 1—why, I—I went out for a ridel''

A ride sung out Charley. "Why, I thought you wcra no equostrian. Hut ffjlich way diii you go?"

I h.uin'i birgain^l for this aori of tl^ng. I found myself under the neoeeirtly backing up mv miserable attiiUipt at f.ilsehooil by other tils. I felt tlalf inciiuod to draw luvk but no. I

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wanted to read Annio a lesson so I floundered on. I,.I mo HOC. Where did I go? Why,

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WlTTsiirelv," said Annie, you didn't i-i'de out with vmir ojCHji

wonder if you had. This taunt aroused me. 1 1 rode into Mr. Kord park. \o did vou?" sidd ono of

No, (lia

fr ends present.

walked that wav

that accounts for it," answered i,0i(Hv. "1 rode on and entered b\

Tht-1ileuci\vi)u did!" uiI Charley. -Whv man, it hsss l.een nailed up for the last seven months! lint 1 suppose vou mean the gate near the yus nciuiesecd I, loi feai "Ah! just so, of again getting my loot in it.

Well 1 declare," said Annie, am

astonished.

Whose horae

did

you

Whoso horse? Oh, (Jardiner s. Was it the white mare?" Charley asked, with a strange grin. "Yes," returned 1, rushirtg desperately on my fate, "the white man

Master Charley looked at me lor a few moment in a way I didn't inuch like, and tli.'ii left the room, whistling melodiously. Delighted at his depart ure, I attempted to turn the conversation into other channels, but in vain, had set tho ball rolling, and nothing could now curb tho curiosity ol my friends. "About what- tune d:d you st.ut. asked one. "Just at dusk," answered 1, as 1 thought, with deep diplomacy, tor this would account for no one having seen in the streets and recognized me

At dusk!" exclaimed Annie. What an extraordinary creature you re! Vou have never ridden at nil within the memory of any body here and when you do go, you horse known to be restive, and set out

dusk along a lonesome ro.id. Was the old misanthrope's house looking As dull and gloomy as ever?"

Th( eh? oh, yes certainly very dark—quite doleful but, pray, let us change 1 lie subject. Surely it is noth inr so strange for a man living in country town to take an evening

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Well," said he, "you certainly a most wonderful fellow when you do once get on horseback. .lust listen to

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If the individual on a white horse, who last, night, after issuing from Mr. Konl nark gate, feloniously leaped over the fence of tli«'undersigned, and after prowling ne the house, the alarm having been give made his escape through the flower-garden

doing

damage to a large amount, does not RTF IM.l.ur TltKl.AWNKV.

Frank," exclaimed Annie her hands, "what have you

"Oh,

claspin done Done! why, who says it was I?"

Not you said Charley. "Did you not say you rode out yesterday 0*11 a white horse?"

I did." Did you not say you entered Ford's park bv the gate near the house

I certainly said so." "Well, if you entered by that gale at dusk, you must have also made your exit by it, for all the others are locked after sunset inv iriably."

Yes," added Annie, and you cvi dently did go near Trelawney's house by your confusion when asked about it I believe that there is more in this escapade than appears on the surface-"

Why, you surclv don't doubt me? I said. "I don't go quite so far as that, but the whole alf.iir is an exessively strange one. When asked where you were .yesterday evening, I remember you hesitated, as though trying to do violence to your truthful principles" (this was rather too bid), "and though you did spedk (he truth, you did it verv reluct antly."

At this moment the servant ushered In a Mr. Morton, a lawyer of the.town, with whom I was acquainted. I salu ted him, and wondered what could have brought him away from his business at such an unusual hour. I didn't long remain in ignorancc. "While I congratulate you, Mr. Charlton, upon the reputation'vou have so suddenly acquired as an equestrian, my pleasure in doing so is somewhat lessened by being engaged by Mr. Trelawney to claim on his behalf a considerable sum of money as compensation for the damage you, in your rather eccentric course,* did list night to his llower-girden

Hut interrupted T. I Listen to the end, if you pleasy said the long-winded old lawyer.

While niy client is, on the on? hand, determined to have recourse to the utmost rigor of the law to punish you as a trespasser, should you rcfuso to meet him in his view of compensation, he is not, on the other hand, av°rse to a compromise, provided it b? immediate."

I refuse to do any thing of the kind, l'"* him prove that I wastlie trespasser and the law will give him his rights but I rather fancy he will find it difficult to do that." dl," said Morton: "and it is for this reason that I advise vour acc^ptinff his condition. It appears that the old gen tie mm. whose jealous suardi uislup of his daughter is doubtless know to you, was going his evening: rounds when you leaped bver the fence. Nt Art led at such an apparition, he allowed you to approach the house without giving the alarm. It was too dark to recognize the face of the rider, but he described the nniinni to me Rsall white Knowing of only ono horse of the kind I went with him toOardiner, to whom' it belongs, to seek information."

Ah said I, jubilant, seeing a wav out of all mv trouble for, of course the stable-man would know that I ul not the man. "And what did he hear from Uardiner?"

Unfortuntaelv (Jardiner had been out on the previous evening, and could tell nothing. Tho stable-boy, however who prepared the horea. (1 escribed

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discovered that you had already come here. I then took tho liberty of asking our housekeeper to show 1110 your coat. The old lady did HO, and I found it torn in two places, apparently bv brambles, and the skirts bespattered with mould. After transacting some business of Importance I came here to HOC vou—a liberty which I kn wr, Madam,'vou will narilon" (tills to Annie)— so "as to settle this disagreeable all'alr as soon as possible."

Here was a protty kettlo of fish! Was I dreaming? Mail I been out

Well, I think the evidence is pretty ondusivo in fact, you have attempted no denial. 1 should adviso you to setle this claim at. once, and iii future to avoid excursions, which, believe me, do not reflect too creditably upon your .eputation." This, with a toss of the jicad, mi exit, and a bang of the door. 1 saw only ono wav out of my dilliulties this was to pay tho

was

answered one of my friends

(confound him!) "but when ono goes •it dusk in the direction of a house known to be almost the prison of verv prettv girl—well, if you were not engaged, I should say it was decidedly suspicious."

I saw Annie change color and though I felt that my experiment had plunged mo into unforeseen difficulties, 1 was determined to carry the thing through but I didn't see my way as clearly as I could have wished. While trying to talk indifferently on other subjects, the door burst open, and in rushed Charley, holding a printed no tico in bis band, and apparently in tenselv amused at something or other.

had tried to steal an interview with old Trelawno3'*s uighter Ilorrilied a: this slur on my claracter, I hurri?d o'X to (J irdincr's, to try and obtain some clew to the real culprit. What was my disgust at ein presented with a hill lor the list ot a white mare three and a ill hours could bear this no longer. "My good mm," said I. as eduly I could, "I do assure you that it vasn I who rode your horse." "Sir'" said the stable-man, astounded. "Not vou? Why, tho wholo ".own is ringing with it. ou .are joking Mr Charlti/n. Whv, surely you paid Mi Trelawnev for 'the damage the lorse did and now you be a-going to nl'use nsHiow ou

clicl and now you ou inpayment for the horse,

titi.' KATI IJDAY EVENING MA IIv SEPTEMBER 24,

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hie without, knowing it? Of course it struck me more than onco to deny the whole all'air, and relate how 1 was'only olcing when I said I had been out ridbut I had been alone tho wholo evious evening. I hadn't seen or oken to a soul. Mow to prove an ali,j"_for it was necessary with this evlenee against tne, combined with my own confession. I hadn't much time for meditation for no sooner had Moron finished than Annie roso and had her say.

coni'pensa-

ion required by tho abominable old Trelawnev. Aiid, after allowing tho excitement which had been raised by the atfair to subside,explain all the ciinstances, and show my friends that I had been ammin myself ((Jod save the mark!) at their expense. I (here ore accompanied tho lawyer to his oflico, nid paid into his hands what he considered a.fair amount for the damage I

supposed to have done. I own I was puzzled. I certainly had not been out for a ride but xo»icliod/ had sonicbod/ must have used my coat somebody must have galloped over Trelawney's garden—perhaps made love to his daughter—and 1, miserable victim,paid the "damages. I returned hom, worried to death. Here was tho whole town discussing my misdeeds—misdeeds that I had confessed, tint I had paid a certain sum of money lo hush up and which Twas perfectly certain 1 had had no hand in. How I cursed the moment when I had determined to tell a lie Annie was right about tli« difficulties surrounding a lib however, as far as detection was concerned, I was safe enough from that but the consequences! Friend after friend dropped in to hear the details of the affair, and I soon discovered that the prevailing impression on the public mind

was,

that I

saying

asMio

it warn't you! Oh, Mr. ChaHton,v so truthful, too!" (the deuce takOfi

that or mad. I paid the money—V/tof else could I do?—and then deternincd to walk out to tho scene of my supposed transgressions and study the locality. Hcing already steeped in falsehood aiid having paid tho expenses of the expedition, I thought 1 might as wellcarrv it with a high hand, and so I vent to look around me and be prepared to answer all |ues! ions which for thJ next ten days would doubtless sliowcf upon me.

I arrived about sunset, and cooniencod my observations. Old Trehwney's house was situated exactly opposite the park gate, some way back fiom the road, and almost hidden from aglit bv immensely high fences. Yt gods'! thought I and I am supposedto have jumped over these! I wonder jvlio the fellow was? what a rider he liust be, to be sure! Then I approached the fences, and separating the interlacing branches scanned the" inclostre. I did not look long, or I perceived a young lad*' walking near, in any thing but that mood which Shale spearedescribes

"Maiden meditation, fancy fife." I no sooner caught sight of Her than I cautiously withdrew, fearing that if she were to perceive me she night raise an alarm, and really place me in the predicament which every hotly supposed mo to have been in cin tie previous evening. As I turned round, to mv intense disconcertion and confusion I saw two ladies issuing l'roai the park gate, whom I immediately recognized as Annie and Aunt Julia. Now I had a wholesome dread of Aunt Julia conscious of an uninterrupted rectitude of conduct during her whole life, she had not the slightest leniency for the errors of others, and though my presence there was innocent enough in fact, to their minds it must have been suspicious. I determined now to tell the truth, the whole truth, etc.

Why," said Annie, stopping short', "what are you doing here again?" Studying tho locality."

Upon my word you lake this remarkably coolly you first of all commit a gross outrage upon propriety, leaving out of the question the want of respect shown to me. and then follow it up by deliberately insulting me. Studying the locality,' indeed! Pray, if I may ask, with what object?"

Yes, Sir," said my aunt, in her turn taking up tho cudgels "has not your extremely eccentric and extraordinary broach of all laws, human and divine" (good Lord! how some peoplo will exaggerate!), satisfied you—have you not dragged the name which von boar, stainless until now, sufficiently in the mud? lias not

Really, my dear aunt, I don't think your violent reproaches arc justified by the facts. As to breaking all laws, human and divine, even were I guilty of the slight misdemeanors attributed to me "Which are 'attributed' to you?" broke in Annie. Did you ride out here or not? Did you confess to have

Trcliwncy's hedge, Heaven

jumped knows for what haps" aps-

(mrpose,

a "Stay,

gentleman of your general appearance,' word. rendering the matter more positive bv I pass on .....~ K''UH I-I UIVC describing the gray great-coat w,,ich "i yon iny word that as far as it implicates knew you lo possess. On our return "me there is notone word of truth in it. through tho wo found your rirfo

except, per-

(here she began to sob) per-

To make love to his daughter!" added my aunt, sternly. "I can not doubt it—let us leave liiin, my dear he is beneath your contempt."

I nc\-cr rode out here. I never was on horseback in iny life, I do assure you." Do you mean to say, Mr. Charlton," said Annie, "that you were not speak"IK "-4*-*

ing thei truth, when you spolto of thin excursion only this morning?" I confess to my *h!inio I hat, fbr the first tlmo in my life, I d(» ended to falsehood."

With wluit motive?" "Merely to prove to you thut telling libs was CITHV, and that tho merit you attached to the faculty was fictitious but 1 yield the point now in fact,I am inclined to agree with you."

Hut if this be true—the stable-lroy's description—your coat, too—and then here again, 'studying the locality'— what for? what is the locality to you? No, no I must be on my guard. It you spoke falsely then, you may be dong

now and if

you

evening. Come, aunt." Aunt Julia examined mo through her oye-gl iss, ns though I were some peculiar animal unknown to her /.oology, mil passed on, leaving me, as may bo imagined, in a nice, comfortable, I may say, elysia state of mind. As soon as they were out of sight, I strolled back into the (own, relied ing upon what had taken place.

Now the thing was becoming serious. 1 must take some action in the matter. So thinking as I went, I resolved upon seeking out Charley, making to him a full confession, and enlisting his services to discover the real culprit.

I found Master Charley in my housekeeper's room, indulging in a tete-a-tete with the worthy old dame's granddaughter, learning crochet, seated on a stool.

Halloa, my friend!" said he on perceiving ine, "hero I am installed, you see, the charming Rose teaching me to read love in her eyes!", "Lor, Mr. Charles! How can you say such things? I was teaching liini crochet, Sir," she said. "I must either stay with liini or be Kissed before I weiit, and so

You staid!" said Charley, laughing "anil now that vou are going, here's the kiss."

Hut the young lady was too sharp for him, and all he got for his motion was the door in his face. "Charley," said I, "can you be serious a moment?"

Well, I'll try, if it is to oblige you, old fellow. What's up?" "What's up? Nothing is up! Every thing is clown my hopes arc down my spirits arc down." "Then send for some wine, and when that is down I shall be as grave as a juil "'Ves, but not as sober. So just 'lend me vour ears'a minute."

It'ijj needless to recapitulate all tha^

the

Na-

reader already knows. I told him every thing—how I had determined to try the experiment of lying that I had left the subject until the last moment that some extraordinary coincidence had bv the aid of my falsehood, identilied'iu .\ iih the trespasser in Trelawney's grounds, etc., etc.

Charley's astonishment knew no bounds,' and found vent in such exclamations as, "Lord bless nie!" "\ou don't sav so!" "Extraordinary, deed!" "'Wonderful!" "I never heard

the

like !"iand at last, bursting into a tit of uncontrollablo laughter, he threw himself into an easy chair and rolled with the emotion. I bore itpati. ntly for some time. At last, howevor, lex claimed: "Reallv, Charley, I see nothing lo laugh at your sister is very angry,and as to my aunt, I fear I have _lost^ her Consequence and *T think, instead" oT rolling about there in that idiotic way you might suggest some plan of tracini out the abominable villain who bus taken so much pains to cast a slur upon niy name."

At this ho only laughed the nioi\ Seeing, however, that I was becouiin very angry, he gasped out "One moment—ono moment—I shall recover. Ha! ha!" (Another burst of laughter.)

I turned toleave Mr- room, disgusted, but he caught hold of me, saying: "Stay, mv dear Frank. This rascal, this viilain. this 'abominable villain,' who has so terribly misused you,

Who?"

"1—1—niyflfil! !li! ha!" td libitum, "You?" slid 1, in amazement,

Never a soul else, .his! listen. On the memorable evening I came here to ask the loan of yourco.it, as the weather was chilly, and 1 wanted particularly to see Fanny Trelawnev. I could find you nowhere. I suppose you had hidden yourself to meditate on your lie that" was to be. I therefore took your coat, hired Gardiner's mare, and was the real trespasser on Trelawney's premises. When, on tho ensuing day, you said you had been for a ride, 1 knew you were fibbing, for I was perfectly aware you had a wholesome horror of mounting a horse. I led you on, till I managed to implicate you in the all'air of the evening before, and then stole out and replaced yourcoat. Really, yon behaved most handsomely about those damages. Ha! ha!" "Oh, laugh away, confound you Hut then I hat idiot of a stable-boy—" "idiot? On the contrary, a deuced clever fellow. I knew there would be trouble about my escapade so on my return I tipped liini handsomely to put any questioners on a false scent, and I think he succeeded admirably." "This may be a joke to you, Charley, but it's death to me. A pretty mess you have got me into!" "Got you into! I like that. Got yourself into, you mean. If you hadn't iaken an insane notion into your head that you could tell a fib, the affair never would have happened. Let this be a warning to you never to swerve from the paths of truth."

Vou are a pretty fellow to leeture me about 'the paths of truth,'" answered I "though I certainly shall take your advice but I don't let you out of my sight, my friend, until you have explained matters to Annie."

That this explanation took place, and was satisfactory, I can offer no better proof than that Charley's sister is now Mrs. Charlton. My Aunt Julia, however, would listen to nothing. One way or the other I had, in her opinion, disgraced myself anil the only mention made of me in her will was that she had originally intended to make nie her sole heir, but could not leave tho wealth acquired by honest industrj' (this referred to the savings of many years) to one who did not speak tho truth.

Take warning hy nie, good people." and always Tell th* truth and *hamc thr fUril I' —Harper's Majazine.

HE EOPARD.—^" This 'ere hanimal, mv little dears," olwerA'ed the keeper of

Annie my dear aunt, one a menagerie, "is a leopard. His eomTnis story of the ride—this tres- jplexion is valler agreeably diversified Trelawney's ground—I give with bl tick 'spots. It vos a wulgar her-

spot

ror of the liancients that the critter vos hinenpabie of changin' his spots, vitch vos disproA*od in modern times by observin' that ho werry frequently slept in one spot, and the next night cfianged to another." 'y 1 'S, -i»" -d

^Ur.,V

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spoke tlie truth

then, you umxt now lie deceiving me. I liave'a right to demand clear and ample proof that what you now stato is true and linlil then it is, perhaps, as 11 that we should not meet. Oood

1870.

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YOUTll IN JOVliXALISM AN1 POLITICS. The day ot old fogyimiis h:i#?!pr?tty well gone by. Young blood will tell in every department of business, as it does in every phase of activo real life. There was a time when decrepit rule was considered heavenly, and mind was judged on the same principle as matter. Then, in "those good old days," men were judged on the circurean standard. AM voiiison was not considered good until advanced to tho "gamey" stage, so brains were not thought reliable or strong nntil they were decayed with age. Wrinkled faces and shriveled intellects were then the heraldry of all professions, and young blood, youthful energy and fresh ideas were stilled beneath the weight of dry lames—bound ibout and hedged in by such requirements of old l'ogyism, weighed down such loads of precedents, stifled by the dust of ages until vouth itself beanie mummified and fitted only to •urry out tho policy of such a limping age.

Hut the nineteenth century, fruitful in novelties, and brig in its electric features, could not rest beneath such a weight. The mighty spirit of tho time we live in has thrown otl" the incubus, annihilated the fallacy, and from the crumbled bone heap a feeble wail alone irises to protest against the mummy's overthrow. In all branches of business we find young men leading, claiming and holding with distinguished ability, and even unprecedented brilliancy, places of the highest trust and most olierous duties. In journalism and politics, however, tho barnacles have held on, and their policy has predominated to an astonishing length ot time To become an editor, youth, according to this old regime, wis obliged to itself through the tight-coin squeeze pressing mold of Time, and coming out all wrinkles, decrepitude and stupidity, is adjudged worthy of its amuition. Worthy when ambition was dead—elevated *to authority when expeiionce had crushed out the very spark of geni us that .struggled iu the youthful brain in politics it has long been tho same, and just as

young

journalists have be

gun to struggle wiih old fogy ism, laboring to cast oil* ilio Old Al^n oi the Sea wiio clings to their shoulders and weighs them down, so the young politicians have begun to shake off the bonds that have held them at the feet of generation that is vile in its political md journalistic offenses—a generation so old so decayed, so professedly "gamey" (rotten, if you will,) in all its surroundings, that even the politically chloroformed public begin to detect the smell.

It is the day of young men. Old ones Avent out theoretically and to all practical intents and purpose with the stage coach. The young siers are of this age, en rapport with its grand projects, fresh and hope ful Avith crowding ideas, sprightly tlieo ries and advancing policies as their characteristics. The young men of our country claim their oAvn. They are the bestot the land—its best exponents its stay, its support and defense. Tho best must come forward. Striking hands, the two grand features of glori cms America—the free press and i'reo. government, journalism and polities with radiant youth as their indices am supports, boldly essay the field, confi dent as becomes youth, and determined to sAvecp the barbarous relics of the dark ages Avhich, yet lingering, ding to journalism and politics. Stand asid Old Age, for the astute Youth is in tl arena.

There

is no room for oi me

leaders the yor.n'jr, released ot burthem quite. .........

-•t XKW AST) STMPLE FOR lit:HNS. iiH The folloAving appo tree! in a 1. to number of Apnleton's Journal:

The attention of medical men in 1'aris has recently been directed to a new remedy for burns, discovered accidentally by*a Avorkm.m. A Aarnisher of metals lately got his hand severely burned while at work, and, not knowing Avhat to do to deaden the acute pain, thrust his hand tnto a pot of varnish. The tin ceased as if by enchantment. On the day following, he made a fuvther application of his discoA'crv, and in a few days a HCAV skin Avas formed over the burn, and the and recovered its wonted llexibilit.y. All iii" persons burned in his neighborhood (Mine toget their wounds dressed, received the simple treatment, and went home rejoicing:

After 1 ho terrible gunpowder explosion at Metz, last month, the rni di was summoned to the hospital there to do his best for the victims of hat great calamity whose li\*es were despaired of on account of tho gravity of theirburns. Ho A-arnished and cuied them all in such a short space of lime, that the town of Metz was filled Avith stories of his success. Tlie HCAVS of his Avonderful cures reached Paris, the manager of one of the largest hospitals here sent for liiin, and desirous of testing the accuracy of the reports, entrusted him with two patients who Avere dangerously burned. He covered them ovcrwith liis varnish, leaving a spot upon each untouched, to be treated Avith nitrateof siA*cr (tho usual remedy) by the chief doctor of tho establishment. Tho Avounds so covered Avith varnish healed rapidly, Avliile those treated Avith nitrate of silver, in spite of all the doctor's efforts, did not close up. Tho services of the A-arnisher were again called upon, AVI IO accordingly applied his remedy to the spots which the nitrate of silv'er was poAverless to heal. Tho two patients obtained almost instant relief, md, after a short detention, left tho hospital completely cured, thus once moro establishing the superlative excellence of his remedy for such cases.

EMALEiNTKMFERAJfcK,—It has been stated, and a A*ery remarkable fact it is, that the children of professional thieves are really thicA'es those AVIIO have fathers, never so—and it is difficult to find an Instance of a man Avho has trained up his child to acts of dishonesty, bad as he may have been himself. With ivomen, terrible as the statement may appear, instances of their teaching their own children to thieA'eare not uncoinmon. In these cases, however, the Avomen arc invariably drunkards 110 sober woman, though her character may be bad, ever trains her child to systematic dishonesty.—liwjged School Union M&gazine. ..

ITK W ARS OF N

APOLEON THE IIIST.—

From a rough calculation, taken from the returns of those left dead on the fields of battle in which Napoleon commanded, from Montenotte to Waterloo, we make the amount 1,811.500 and if we add those AVIIO died subsequently of their wounds in tho petty skirmishes, tho losses in which are not'roported, and in the naval fights, ot which, though Napoleon was not present, he was tlie cause, 2,000,000 will be fftr under tho mark. Apictureof the fathers, mothers, Avives, children, and rela ive* of these victims receiving the news of theirdc th, Avould give a lively idea of tho benefits conferred upon the Avorld by Napoleon. —niacktawvi Magazine. ,1 J** X*

ANCK8TRY.

In ordinary cases, a biography begins^ with some gcneological narrative, intended to sliov* that the person presented to the notice of the reader had articular ancestors. In England, it is considered something to boast of that tlia flrst-known ot man's family eamc in with tho Conqueror." In Scotland, it suffices for this founder of tho line to have belonged, in his time, to some Celtic marauder or early Border raider. In Ireland, it is tho fashion to go back to some period—before the 1 island lost her nationality, "when Ma- 1

lachi

wore the collar of gold Avhich he

Avon from tho proud invader." In our own Northern States the New Englandlanders count back some I AVO hundred and fifty years, dating from the Landng of the Pilgrim Fathers, while the chief boast of the South is that their lineage, moro remote, dates from the colonization in the time Elizabeth. As Avith imilics, so Avith individuals. Walter Scott was prouder of his distant cousinship with the house of Buccleugh than of his OAVII great genius which ist a flood of living glory upon his native land. Byron never forgot, and Avoulil have all the Avorld remember, that, long before Henry tho Eighth forcibly wrested NeAVstead Abbey from the monks, and bestoAvad it upon Sir John Byron—he Avith the long beard— sundrA'* members of tho family had fought iu the llolv L:nd, during tho 1 Crusades. Even Washington Irving, 1 who was nothing if not an American and republican, could not resist the I temptation, Allien writing the lil'o of

George Washington, of showing that one of his toiglish progenitors Avas Washingatune," during the reign ot Saxon lodgar, in the tenth century, a time when few could spell, and fewer write. It has been, in fact, an ordinary weakness, this ambition of showing that a distinguished personage was not wholly Avhat, in our ordinary, parlance, is called "sell'-niade." The majority of biographers exhibit it though Thomas Moore, Avho devoted some space, in his Lite of Byron, to the glorification of the family-tree, had tl\e. good sense to reject it for himself. Ou one occasion, when he was the favored gues-t of tho then l'rince of Wales, afterwards George the Fourth, and was brightening the horizon of the board with wit and song, his Royal host observed, By the Avay, Moore, your surname is the samo as that of the* Marquis of Drogheda? I shall ask him hero, one of these days, to meet you. Of course, you belong to liia family?" There was a moment's pause, aiid then tho Poot answered,

Our common descent is the same, I believe—from Adam. But I desiro to inform your Royal Highness, that I am not akin to the Peerage. My father was son of a County Kerry fanner, and to this day keep's' a grocer's shop in Dublin, Aviiero 1 Avas born anil bred." The manliness and independence of this responso certainly did not injuro Moore —who usually Avas somcAvhat of a tufthunter—in the opinion of those AVIIO heard it. Lord Tliurlow was less indcpendent, because less accurate, in his reply to the gentleman from tlie Iloralu's College, who Avaited upon him, in June, 1778, when he Avas created a peer, for particulars of his descent, out of which lo construct a family pedigree, and said, I supposo I may safely set jTou down as of the same blood with another Norfolk celebrity, John Thurloe, AVI IO was Secretary of State to tho

CommouAvealtli, under OliA'or and Richard Cromwell?" Tliurlow, who was impetuous and rough, immediately blustered out, "You are Avrong altogether, John Thurloe AIMS an Essex man, anil I am from Suffolk, lie came of an old stock. There was 0110 Tliurlow, in 1113* part of the county, Avho was a common carrier, and 1 think he Avas an honest man, you had better derive my lineage from hun." McfCcnzic'.s Jsift: o/JUckem.

NK ir DWELGPMEXL'S IN A I ULTK HAT ION. In our last, says the Boston .Journal of Chnnixtrii, we refered to cream of tartar, without any cream oftartarin it, as one of the latest "dodges" of adulteration—if adulteration it could be called. We havo since read of another sample of the same article which contained more than

(J0

per cent ofsulphate

of lime, and not one particle of bitart rate ofpoti.sh. It would have been ilea at live cents a pound, and was sold "cxira line" at fifty-five cents.

There his also been a new development in the adulteration of coll'ee. Peoplo tve flattered themselves that if lh -y bought the coffee beans raw, and roasted and ground thorn at home, they were sure of having tho genuine Mocha or Jru'a but artificial coffeo beans are now made, like bricks, from a greenish clay, and tho eye cannot distinguish them from the natural article. They are made in molds, a hundred at a time and cost about a cent a pound. When roasted they absorb the brown colar from the genuine berries wit.,h Avhich they are mixed, anil tho trui? and false are still indistinguishable. This admixture of clay is not injurious, as it settles to the bottom of tho coffeepot, giving a literal significance to tho term ground* as applied to that familiar sediment. The beverage is

weakc

of course, but otherwiso no worso ii deed, we suppose that some dietetist Avoulil say that it is all the better foP the inert addition to Avhat thoy consider an unwholesomo decoction. The fraud may be detected by breaking opon some oft he raw bcrrios and examining them closely, or by chewing them or as some one has suggested, you can make a microscopic examination of tho interior of each berry.

HE L\SIC OK I NDIA.—It is much be desired that some miisici m, not re polled by the uncouth performances natiA'O bands, should investigate th higher order of Hindoo music, and pociallv the sixty "Itagis" wilh the accompanying f)roopuds and otln modes of songs. Many of these are rious and beautiful, especially tho sic of Rejapoontona and Northern I dia, which has a national character, is general!}' supposed by Europea that the music of India has 110 scien but this a great error. The system' the originial notation, and a scaltf eight notes is tho same as that of rope, but the divisions of tho notes semi arid quarter notes produce tie mournful cadences in tho minor ls which are often strikingly beaut}. The Hindoo scientific Avorks conn many elaborate treatises on e, which are read and taught by pr ssors of singing and instrumental mie, who are usually Brahmins. Ai'Jg these, and Mohammedans also, ry fine voices arc frequently met ih and at all nativo courts, public sii'rs, male and female, are paid serdts, their wages depending upon the accomplishments, and varying froi £0. to .-COO and upwards per year, witb'easion illA* valuable estates and ijras of land.

W HAT is tho difference bot\e" donkey and the only empire i»c1 t.i America? The one brays well, t' ber Brazil, i* -7 1-