Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 April 1871 — Page 7

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OIVS ZM F\S' COMMAND. The plumed staff officer gallops

3ood-feIIowship

Along the swaying lino. That slinken RR, lx*aien by hailstones, Hhakes the loaded autumn vine And the earth beneath is reddened,

But not with the Ktain of wine.

The regular Hhock of a battery Tin.' rattling tumult stuns Anil its steady thrill through the hill-side

Like puibu leiieatl» it runs, The many are dead around it, But the few still work the guns.

iiO Ly.lttia.i J., Ij.i'iU.j AMI Crosby liLs clear, youn^ eyes From the sliding gun-sights lifting,

As the well-aimed death-bolt flies, "I command it to-day, sir!" With steady voice replies.

Answer as heroes answer, With modest words und few, Whose hearts and liand- to du'y

Even in death are true, Though its awful light is breaking 'S-jFall on the blenchleiss view.

The olHcer passes onwani With a less troubled eye, The words and the look unshaken

Bids everj' wild doubt lly He knows that young commander Is there to do or die. To do and die for the battle

And day of command are done. While stands unmoved on the hlll-slde l£ucii ..il.ilie.b'ackcli^d And Crosby in deatli beside them

A deathless name has won.

EYES.

Tran*laicd {through the Herman) from the Persian of ilirtsu fit hnffy. itr J0K1, HENTON.

A gray eye Is still and sly A roguish, Is the brown The eye of blue Is ever true: But, In the black eye's Sparkling spol!, ,Mst ry And mischief dwell!

From the Dark Blue

Tom

Poulton's oke.

JIV \V. H. fill.KKRT.

A sociable club of seventy or eighty -'Choice spirits, calling itself The Serious Family, and having for its President or chairman .Mr. Tom Poulton, barrister-at-law in theory and noth-in^r-iit-u 11, in l:tct, hold its monthly meetings for some years in three or (bur large rooms in a dull gaunt house in Soho-squarc. The primary object of this uHsociHt ion wits the promotion of

by the conciliatorymo-

ium of wholesale spirits and good tobacco. It possessed a secondary, or rather incidental feature in tho shape oi a I'rovid'-ni. Loin Fund, nil according to the by-laws of this fund, all members ol the club who had proved their general solvency by twelve regular monthly payments of one sovereign, were entitled to one loan of twentyfour pounds, to bo repaid within six months after the date of borrowing. This fund was projected by Mr. Tom I'oulton, who proved by statistics that, taking the general population of (Jrent Britain and Ireland, including women and children, and excluding all members of the ilouse of Peers and all registered paupers, only ono person in four lived beyond his annual income or, in other words, only one person in four had occasion to borrow money to meet his yearly expenditure. Assuming that These statistics were applicable to HO manv niembois of the Serious Family as elected to become subscribers to the I'rojeeted I'rovid.'iit Loan Fund, it followed that for every four annual subscriptions of twelve pounds, only one annual loan of twenty-four pounds would be applied for, leaving a clear iiiinunl balance of twenty-four other pounds in the fund's favor. Ilut Mr. Tom l'ouhon did not close his eyes to the possibility that statistics which held good when applied to thirty-live million people, including women and children might stand in need of some ..•modification before they became applicable to an exceptional gathering of seventy or eighty young and middlcwged persons, among whom there were no women and no children. He very lairly admitted tho exceptional character of thochib, in the course of the speech on the motion that the ltiuvl .Viiould bu instituted, but he contended that if as many as one in throe, instead of one in four, worn to ly at -the year's end foriho loan of tw.ityfour pounds, the result would show a clour l»il»nn» of fifty percent, in favor of the projected ltimi. He went on to show that if an application from ono in three resultod in a profitof fifty per cent, an application from one in one and li tM result in :i profit of twentytlve per cent. or carrying the principle still further, on application from one in thrH'-quurtcrs would rosult in a profit of twelve and a half per cent. tr«..u which an e.»sy calculation would show that, if everv member of the I*oan

I'll ml who h.ul subscribed twelve pounds were to insist on borrowing th. iu v-i'.Mir, ilit* clear annual profit ufavor d' the club would be fifteen and five-eighths percent., and Mr. Tom Puuiloii would undertake, in writing, to be responsible for the accuracy of hi euliuhitinn. It wax immediately proposed that the fund be forthwith instituted and the proposition was carried by acclamation. Mr. Tom I'oulton was immediately elected Chairman, JVf .t.u»ei. Sti iewiry, «nu TiUsieO of jfthe fund end tho whole club became subscriler to it.

Now this was one of Tom Poulton's practical jokes. Mr. Tom Poulton had auiQfigAolher valuable gifts, a keen sej&c -humor, so keen, indeed, that i(Ava^^Ti»o degree blunted if the joke Ai:*inst himself. Most of Mr, ilton's practical jokes turned l.- .( „.t

FLJ^STROV^V# MI long M*i,es. m•— **&*!<"•'*h"«oMerib«rs to .tHp tundfc^ /*VvS tli^year toward its close, *s /f* nu ::rw !!lho tvkiy-p^iul subscribers »»t*T»Mon fiif Jont^of twenty-four

So ^/7 a dear annual y, five-eighths rent, in f»vtfr of the/fund, ac-

III J^uUoi.'s nj-. r. showabout

II volutin. y." ot ofl began *A*"istal—1

to Ton

aston

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choae»£^^0lr. Poul-

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arranged another sell for tho Family, and I want our help."

"It is yours," said Hams. ue-

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You are aware that all the Family will be down on me in six weeks time, for their twenty-four pound loansr Well, before they fall due I'm going to die."

Don't do that," said Harris. Yes, my mind's made up. Listen. I've found an old man of my nameTom Pulton I advertised for him. He

wr-*Phecllv

himself in Clump Cottages, Haverstoek Hill." "•Well?"

Well, he can't live three weeks,and I've taken lodgings in his house." "Still I don't see

You're very dull. He can live three weeks—that is to say, in three weeks he'll die and he'll be buried. The Family must hear of it through you, they will all come to the funeral, and l'll turn up among them."

But if vou die, and don't repay them their 'money they have subscribed to the fund, I don't think they will come to the funeral."

Yes, I've arranged about that. 111 make my will, leaving everything I have to be equally divided among them. The will must be opened bv vou immediately after my demise. 111 appoint you executor, and I'll leave £ou a hundred pounds four j*our trou-

"Thank you—thank you heartily." "Spend it judiciously, Richard— whonyouget U." ,a

"On the 17th of November, at No. 3 Clump Cottages, Haverstoek Hill Thomas Poulton, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law."

the Serious Family were very angry at Tom Poulton's death. He had pocketed nearly a thousand pounds of their money, and out of this sum they had counted on borrowing two thousand at Christmas. But by their Chairman and. Treasurer's demise, not only was there no prospect of afTecting the contemplated loan, but it became a very serious question whether they would ever see any of the paid-up capital again. It was voted abominable on Tom Poulton's part to die at such a crisis, and nobody expressed any intention of going to his funeral. However, Mr. Dick Harris completely justified Tom Poulton's dying by producing his will at the next meeting the will left everything that Tom Poulton possessed to the society, to be divided equally among its members, and as Tom Poulton had three or four hundred a year from house property, every ono expressed HII intention of going to his funeral.

Tho funeral was plain, not to say sue igre, in its appointments but no doubt Dick Harris, as oxecutor did not feel lustified in putting the Serious family to any unnecessary expense. It was voted thoughtful in Dick Harris, and nover did any body of men feel more thoroughly convinced of the vanity of funeral pomp than did the members of the Serious Family as they stood round poor Tom Poulton's grave.

But between the demise and burial of the Tom Poulton who actually did die, Mr. Dick Harris had inado an important. discovery.

Tho Tom Poulton who did die turned out to be an extraordinarily wealthy old miser. His mattress was stuffed with bank notes, Slid so was his easy chair, and under the boards of his room was gold to tho amount of eight or nine thousand pounds. Moreover lie appeared to have died intestate at all events, the only will that was found was the will m::de in favor of the Seri ons Family by tho Tom Poulton who did not die. In tho absence ot any other testamentary document applying to tho property of the Tom Poulton who did die, Mr. Dick Harris had no alternative but to apply to it tho testamentary document drawn up and signed by the Tom Poulton who did not dio. I will not attempt to describe how the grief of tho Serious Family was tempered by the rapture with which they learnt that his estate was worth altogether somo thirty or forty thousand pounds.

Tho day of Tom Poulton's funeral was a bitterly cold one. A drizzling Novomber mist shrouded ono half of tho funeral party from the other half, and all wore dronched to tho skin. Thoro had boon inucli moralizing among tho mourners on the good qualities of Poor Tom Poulton, on tho eccentric taste that induced him to hoard away so much good money, and on tho irreparable almost irreparable—lo^s that his death would cause to tho Family. As thoy stood round poor Tom Poulton's grave, discoursing in saddened whispers to this effect, they wer naturally rather surprised to find poor Tom Poulton standing among them, his eyes red with weeping and his general appearanco carefully contrived to convcv tho idea that his grief at his own death was unbounded. It was natural enough that he should bcsorry for his own death the only unaccountable feature in the m«ttor w..s his being present as alive mournor at his own funeral. This consideration appealed powerfully to Mr. Peter Hodgson, the member of the Serious Fatnilv who first bccamo conscious of Mr. torn Poulton's presence among them.

At first Mr. Peter Hodgson was not at ail surprised. Mr. Tom Poulton was so thoroughly identified with «11 gatherings of the Serious Family, particularly with all funerals of deceased members, (for it was a point of honor with tho family to muster in full strength on such occasions), that Mr. Potcr Hodgson accepted his presence almost as a niatter ot course. His attention, however, was directed to tho anomaly by Tom Poulton's first remark

Whose funeral is this?" said Tom. Peter turned dead white. Why it's—it's yours, Tom," said Peter. "Mine?" ,,

Y"s. T""i—yonr»." This is scarcely a place or time for a joke. Sir," said 'fom sternly. "JOKC!" said Peter, "it's no joke! OM't'' vn'l xvr»»k ., "I? 'Nonsenco?"

Well, nnywny, we're burying you, Tom Poulton!" "Whv do vou call me Tom Poulton

Aren't vou Tom Poulton Certainly not—don't even know the

eMhat shojfci ipTvc the name— 1 happened to bo passingthrough He address«?d letter after letter to every hr of its the ormetrv, and win«r larga crowd member of the club, and enclosed behind joke, and of mourners, I joined "them iroui uio- stamped euvelopes lor reply, but they i'i -s.w-1 --i mrr: curio?i:T." np Ann applied the '"Then, Sir," said Peter Hodgson, "I' [vcr saw such a wonderfi: likeness of ie very man we are burying, in the hole course of my life!" 'om glided mysteriously away from

Hodgson and made his way into the throng"of mourners. another "why we are

is not TVm. end I buried in mv life!" "Tom Poulton alive and present!" outh to mouth, as the "amily gaxed in horliar but* by no means

tflfndoi

£fee*t of ter oul

Gentl&men," said Tom Poulton, I must again assure you that you are deceived DV an accidental resemblance I am not Tom Poulton, and I never heard of him."

And with a slight bow he walked away. .. #. •rr

The principal topic of conversation that night, at tho meeting of the Serir ous Family, was the miraculous ap-

5'oulton

earance

poor, ind he lives all DV

of somebody very Uke Tom at Tom Poulton's funeral. It

was held that it couldn't possibly have been Tom Poulton, because Tom Poulton was dead and buried, and Tom Poulton's will had been opend, by which he left thirty or forty thousand pounds in ready money to the Serious family. This was held by implication onlv, as it never entered anybody's heacl to suggest that the mysterious stranger could possibly have been Tom Poulton.

The club had resolved itself into a committee to consider the best means of investing, or otherwise disposing of, the handsome legacy which Tom Poulton had left them.

It was decided, as a first step, that, as a mark of respect to poor lom Poulton's fund scheme, every member should be Dermitted to borrow twentvfour pouncts from Tom's estate.

The question then arose whether it would be better to apply the balance to allowing every member a reasonable quantity of spirits and tobacco for life, without any payment whatever, or to divide it equally among the surviving members—a course of procedure that would give every member after allowing for probate and executorial expenses nearly £100 each.

As this interesting question was being put to the meeting by Mr. Richard Harris, Mr. Tom Poulton walked in.

Everybody looked very uncomfortable. Mr. Peter Hodgson, however, quickly recovered himself. "Sir," said he, "this is a private club room, and strangers are not admitted unless they are introduced by members.'' "Ha! ha!" said Tom "bravo Peter!" "Sir," said another, "we don't know who you are, but we must request you to withdraw."

Allow mo to introduce myself," said Tom, with mock gravity.

A distant resemblance!" A very distant and shadowy resembl'»nrp. Sir. NoMiinc more, I assure you." "Don't bo a fool, Peter," said Tom "we've had enough of this, havn't we Dick?" "We have, Sir," said Dick I must insist on your withdrawing immediately." "Come, come," said Tom, rather chapfallen "it was only mv joke. I personated a poor old chap who happened to bear my name, in order to sell 3*ou rJ.l. Dick Hodgson and I °.r ranged this together didn't we, Dick?"

Sir," said Dick, "I havn't the pleasure of your acquaintance. "You will be goocl enough to withdraw, or we shall be under the necessity of expelling you by force."

And as the members of the club rose in a body, with the evident intention of carrying Dick Harris' threat into effect, Mr. Tom IValtcn withdrew with a very blank expression of counntenance.

In order to test the feeling of tho club on the subjecf, it was immediately proposed by Mi*. Dick Harris, and seconded by Mr. Peter Hodgson, that Mr. Tom Poulton wns dead ana burind. The motion was carrried by acclamation.

It was then proposed by Mr. Pctc» Hodgson, and seconded by Mr. Dick Harris, that if by any miracle, Mr Tom Poulton came to lifo again, the whole of the legr-.cy should lie refunded to him, if possiblo, without driving him into Chancery for its recovery. This motion also was carried by acclamation.

Finally, it was proposed by Mr. Dick Harris, und necond^d by Mr. Peter Hodgson, that tho person who had just represented himself to be Tom Poulton restored to lifo was not in tho least like Tom Poulton, and that he had 110 claim, and never by any possibility could havo any claim to Uio legacy in question. This motion, also, was carried by acclamation.

Tho question was considred settled by all but Tom Poulton himself. Torn Poulton besieged the club doors day after day, but to no effect. The hall porter—they had started a hall porter and many other conveniences since Tom Poulton's death—had received strict injunctions not to admit any person calling himself Tom Poulton. Ho treated Tom kindly enough, believing him to be a harmless monomaniac, but no consideration could induce him to admit. Tom within tho club threshold.

Tom next tried the parish surgeon who gave the certificate of the dead Tom Poulton's death. But all the sur-

f'oulton

eon could prove was that tho Tom who died was not at all like tho Tom Poulton who stood before him. On tho whole, this mnterhllv strengthened the club's case, particularly as tho description given by the surgeon of the dead Tom Poulton's personal appearance corresponded exactly with every member's recollection of tne unfortunate Chairman of tho Serious Family. It was finally voted that, on the surgeon's evidence, poor Tom Poulton was more dead than ever.

Do wh*t he mi^ht, To»n Poulton could not prove himself to be alive. Nobody would hoar it for a moment. He appealed (at some pecuniary loss) to his tradesmen for identification. Thev identified him without hesitation as the Tom Poulton who owed them money, uui they furnished him no elua that would serve to identity him with the Tom Poulton who had been Chairman of the Serious Family.

He never rested, lie prepared petitions, but no ono would present tnem. He commenced actions, but he broke down at the declaration for want of money. He railed day after day at the club, but the hall porter was adamant.

ATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, APRIL

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Mr. Tom Poulton, whose funeral you attended this morning." And he took cL»i*ir "iid lillcd liio pipe.

If you imagine, Sir that because you bear a certain distant resemblance to our poor friend Tom Poulton, you are justified in horrifying his friends witli a highly-indecent practical joke—" began Peter Hodgson.

stamps to other uses. At first these appeals amused the club immensely, but after six or eight months' persecution, the Family beran to get tired of it. The *oi~di*lanl Tom Poulton was voted a bore, and at length it was solemnly proposed that negotiations should lie opened with him with the view of arriving at somo oompro-

Mr. Tom Poulton was formally

invited into tho club-room, but he was informed that fbr the purposes of that meeting his namo was Major-Gen. Arthur Fitzpatrick. Tom was reduced to that condition of self abnegation that

It WHfl then and there arranged with M»jor-Oen. Arthur Fitzpatriek that so long as Tom Poulton continued to be dead an unnual salary ot one hundred pounds should be paid, quarterly, to the Major-General by the Committee of tho Serious Family. The Majcr-Gener-al accepted this proposition with alacrity, and he was forthwith elected an honorary life member of the Serious Family, vice Tom Poulton. deceased.

And Major-Gen. Fitzpatrick accepted his election, and eventually became Chairman of the club. And poor Tom Poulton lies dead and buried at a salary of a hundred a year, payable quarterly in advance. On one occasion, indeed, when the Major-General's quarterly instalment was somo three weeks in arrears, poor Tom Poulton showed strong symptoms of revivification, but his disturbed spirit WJS eventually appeased by an additional five pounds on account *of the Major-General's next quarter's salary.

FATE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT CAPTAINS. The four conquerors who occupy the most conspicuous places in the history of the world are Alexander, Hannibal, Cajsar, and Bonaparte. Alexander, after having climbed the dizzy height of his ambition, with his temples bound with chaplets dipped in the blood of millions, looked down ucon a conquered world, and wept that there was no other world lor him to conquer, set a city on fire, and died in a scene of debauch. Hannibal, after having, to the astonishment and consternation of Rome, passed the Alps, and having put to flight the armies of the mistress of the world and stripped "three bushels of gold from the fingers of her slaughtered knights." and made her foundations quake, fled from his country, being hated by those who exultingly united his name to that of their God, and called him Ilainii Baal and diod at last by poison administered by his own hand, uulaiiicirod and unwept, in a foreign land. Cajsar, after having conquered eight hundred cities, and dyeing his garments in the blood of one million of his foes, after having pursued to death the only rival ho had on earth, was miserably assassinated by those he considerep his nearest friends, and in the very place, the attainment ot which had been his great ambition. Bonaparte, whose mandate kings and popes obeyed, after having filled the earth with tiie terror oi ills name, alter having deluged Europe with tears and blood, and having clothed the world in sackcloth, closed his days in lonely banishment, almost literally exiled from the world, yet where he could sometimes see his country's banner waving over the despot, but which did not and could not bring him aid.

WHERE TIIE SUN NKVER SETS.—The following graphic passage is from the description of a scene witnessed by Mr. Campbell and his party in the North of Norway, from a cliff one thousand feet above the sea "Tho ocean stretch away in silent vastness at our feet the sound of the WKVPS scarcely reached our airy lookout ir.vny in the north tho h" sun swung low along (lie horizon like the slow beat of the pendulum in the tall clock of our grandfather's parlor corner. We all stood silent, looking at our watches. When both hands came together at 12, midnight, the lull round orb hung triumphantly abovo tho wave —a bridge of gold ran due north spanned* the water between us and iiim. There ho shone in ::iient m::jeety '.vhi'.'h knew no setting. Wo involuntarily took off our hats, and no word was said. Combine, if you can, the most brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever saw, and its beauties will pale before the gorgeous coloring which now lit up the oeenn, heaven and mountain. In half an hour tho sun had swung up perceptibly on his beat, the colors changcd to thoso of morning, afresh breeze rippled over tho flood, ono songster after another piped up in tho grove behind us,—we had slid into another day."

THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH!—^Wo suppose that Professor David Forbes, of England, knows as much about the interior of the earth as aiij ni-n living. In a lato lecture ho insisted that all the objections brought by geology, mathematics, or astronomy, against the old theory thai the earth is a molten mass surrounded by a crust about fifty miles thick, are quite untenable. He would have us b.Vhevo, wliil.. .' ho oato 'ayer of molted matter, just below tho earth's crust, may be a kind of glassy slag, that, not fit bolow thislayor, asalminder bent on discovery would find tho pure molten metals, of which the heaviest—gold, platinum, etc.—would be at tho earth's centre. Very likely the mas3 of tho earth is molten iron and this view i" qu'fo cor^obor^t"'' by th" f"ct that tho broken fragments ot some disrupted world, •which, in the form of fcrolitcs, arc continually falling from the sky, are often metalic iron. But what a tantanlizing thought it is, that just under our feet are countless tons of the precious metals, only waiting for John

Whopper to lnt us know the route by which he passed through to China. s'rribncr's for M'o/.

THE Suez Canal is a maratime success, but a financial failure. A largo number of steamers have passed thro' it without difficulty or detention and twenty English steamers were advertised to sail for tho East by way ofSuez in the month of March. But the tolls are too high for sailing vessels, and the war between France and Prussia has had a disastrous effect upon tho commerce of those nations, from which a large revenue was expected. The Canal will probably have to change htmds unless it'eoh uutiiitti ia raisod, »»nJ exactly who is willing to invest ccrtain dollars in such an uncertain enterprise, with no security but a mortgago upon desert lands with a title more uncertain still, is a question hard to answer. The short h~*-' *v~y on* of th" embarrassment would be for the British Government to purchase the Canal, and keep it open at merely nominal rat«s the benefit of the coaisxerre of ths

Fr»nce of Eng. overcome, though the present necessities of the former may undermine an opposition that could not be surmounted. At any rate let us hope that com-nK-rw will gain 5*0 much by her Incalculable losses.—Golden Age.

IT is said that republican^switiment is rapidly increasing in North Germany. The soldiers are carrying home from" France something more than laurels, and tho fate of one Emperor should teach another Emperor what fiimsv stuff thrones are made of. There is a sympathy of peoples, which educates democracy faster tha.n monarchists dream.—GOUUM Age.

Ax abbreviated Bostonian is subjected to grave uncertainties every time be gets sick. His extremeties aro so near

mat condition OI sell auuegauuu itl* ho really h.d no objection to thl. .r- him. rangcmcnt.

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THE GREAT GODDESS. S NOT SURPRISING. In all cities, from Paris to Pooria, Voung lawyers sometimes deSjjiair of there is a circle, girt round with iron defenses which give no encouragement, bands and oflimiteddimensions.which but old practltion'efe— more especially^ opens itself only to tho initiated and when the fees'are remunerative and closes against ma 113'an eager aspirant. rortain-i-can- see no discouragements Its periphery is so shadowy that no one held forth by the evidence not to be can say where it begins or whereitends counterbalanced and. overcome by proyet it is so clearly defined, that we can often say of some luckless individual, "Ye build, ye build, butyee:iter not in!"

The goddess who presides over this Definite Indefinite, is called Fashion.! Her f-vorites "re•n*',l!known "y.d pv"h envied. Every human being wishes his proper rank and no matter if the socalled "first society" of a city bo wanting in many a desirabl.- characteristic 110 matter if it be ti ivolous. rossiping, and intellectually poor, or the reverse, everyone wishes to be in it. No one wants to feel that iis cannot enter that mysterions gate. Many use the privilege but to refuse it but it is more agreeable "to be won and not consent" than to have no option whether you will consent or not.

I have seen the most curious instances of this power of fashion, while .--onie people arc, by nature, recluses, and care for their fellow creatures very little, most men and women are gregarious and care a great deal. Scarcclv anyone but would prefer to foul th.n. he could enter fashionable society if ho wished it. One of the most learned, most respected men 1 ever knew—a professor in a learned institution—was so hurt because he was left out of a fashionable party that I10 bewailed it in set terms. "But," said his wife, "would you have gone?" "No,"said the indignant professor, "but I could have refused."

That is it. We do not want tho world to go on without us. iV

MARRIAGE MAXIMS.

A good wife is the greatest earthly blessing. A man is what his wife makes him.

It is the mother who moulds the character and destiny of the child. Make marriage inattor of moral judgment.

Marry in your own religion. Marry into a different blood and temperament from your own.

Marry into a family which you havo long known. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company.

Never both manifest anger at once. NPNNV

THCR, UI1-

less the house is on lire. Never reflect on a past action which was done with a good motive, and with the best judgment at the time.

Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other, Let self abnegation be the daih- aim and effort of each.

The very nearest approach to domestic ielicuy on earth, is the mutual cultivation of«m unselfishness.

Never find fault, unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed and even then preclude it with a kiss, and lovingly.

Never allow a request to be repealed. "I forget," is never an acceptable ox cuse.

Never make a remark at the expense of tho other it is meanness. Novrr nnrt- for day without loving words to think of during your absence. Besides, it may bo that you will not meet again in life.

Tr0.i/"J AT SUFEJiA GE A1IROA D. In England, local and parochial meetings, women owning property have exercised tho right of suffrago since the passage of tho reform '.till of 18:50.

In Austria, by the Imperial Patent of 1804, in the class of landed proprietors, women possessed of property qualification vote as well as men.

I11 Sweden, women vote for three of the four orders of which the Diet is composed—clergymen being elected by their own school only. For the three other orders, women take part in the election, "peasant women, burglieressos, and ladies of quality" voting for their own particular order in the Diet.

In Russia, by tho ukaso of 1861, abolishing serfdom, each proprietor was obliged to make over to his serfs not only their huts and gardens, but a certain amount of aranlo land for their farms. This was to bo held by tho sells ot each village in common forninoyears that time expiring in February'last. This land is now held in foe simple by tho villago or commune. Besido this there issomoindividual holdingofland. But for the commune, or joint-stock corporation, each houshold gives a communal voter, and the important fact to bo noted is that this voter representing tho family may bo either male or female «nd it issaid that it has boon more common through these nine years to send women to vote than men.

SMUFF-DIRI'ERS TAKE COURAGE.— This filthy class of women in North Carolina and other afflicted States have met with a gallant defender in tho person of the "editress" of a North-Caroli-na paper, who, in apologizing for the practice, says th-it "women havo so weary a journey through life—so many burdens that it was meant for her to bear, so many humiliations she must necessarily undergo—if she can, in so simple a thing, find solaco for even one sorrow, wo say, God bless tho means that accomplishes the good, without moral or ment«l injury te herself or others." This is bad enough but in the n«xt pflr«^r».ph, while saying she does not "admire nor encourage" snuff-dip-ping, she says she "will not condemn a

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so universally followed here, those older and better than herself." She concludes tho article with the old argument of "you're another,"by asking the men the following conundrum: "Do you consider it nice, refined, or commendable, to have your mouth always filled with tobacco, to be spitting about promiscuously, night and day, or else with a pipe disfiguring the most attractive feature of the face?"

THE Daily

News, of London, thinks

•hif "thn ml dinger and trouble for France lie in the fact that she is not ono but two nations, each with differing aims and ideas. There is the France of •owm "nd thn Frinco of th"? provinces

of the Pope. These two nations are in constant war with each other. Tho country is not homogeneous it has no moral or intellectual unity, and until i* acquires internal harmony it will simply pass from convulsion to convulBIUN." YC.5, but in all thU IV-nco ia merHv a representation of the state of the whole world. Thero can be no permanent peace anywhere until men acquire,through intellectual development and scientific discovery, a common basis of intellectual conceptions.—Golden Age.

A LBADiKQ orthodox church in St. Loui* has iu its Sunday school a cloan of adults who aro studying Swedenborg's works.—Golden Age.

A MASSACHCSKTTS man has commenced swallowing himself, no has got his teeth down.

leuteness and sagacity well

fessional paid. A priofier was one© arraigned in Kent county,Mich., for stealing pork.' He retained a young dented ana ingenious mertber of the profession for his defense.

Having listened to the prisoner's own story and heard from him what in all probability the people's wiimssen would swear to, he candidly informed his client that it was useless to waste money on his defense. "Never you mind," was theconfi lent reply "you argue my c«Sv grod and strong, just- as if you believed me a persecuted man, and I will give you twenty dollars."

The lawyer worked up to tho contract and before lie had half summed tip he had the jury in tears at the bate ideu of snatching* such a bright example of domestic and social worth from the bosom of his family and the socht.vof his neighbors to be thrust among iVlous in Llie common j«il.

To his astonishment his nppe: 1 wis effective—tho prisoner was acqu: Closeted together after the ^t and discharge of tho culprit, ai.d »o I twenty dollars having been p'i'ul r, tho lawyer said: "By the by, that was a most surprising verdict, considering what the Government proved." "Not at all," was the cool reply "six of them jurymen had some of the pork."

The mercury in that lawyer's bump of self-esteem fell to zero.

THE Christian Statctrmmi of" l'liikutelpliia is a wellmeaninir journal, seeking for the truth, and findinga good w-1 of it. Wo h-ive no disposition to (':scuss with its editor any of tne !h«o!ogical questions to which I10 apparently in--vites us, but he makes a remark "bearing on political morals which wo will quote to condemn. Ho says "The citizen who does not desire the time when the children of Jefferson Davis I and Robt. E. Leo will be ashamed to tell their ancestry, is not loj'al to hi* I country." If The Christian I thinks that the abovo sentiment is an emanation of Christian statesmanship, we do not agree with it. As a matter of fact, the angry passions elicited by the civil war "aro dying out *and as 11 matter of principle, wo are opposed to rankling them into their former flames. If the Christian religion is to bo ol' any such worth to nations es it is to ii.uividiu.is, it must eiv^l.i .i» mo forbearness and nood-will between two governments once at war, but now at peace, as it does between two individual disputants, who, after their dispute is settled, agree to take each other by tho hand. We cannot see how loyally to our country, or fidelity toils liberty, requires us to ha to men whom we liavii. conquered. Moreover, in whatevermerited obloquy tho names of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lt 0 will e.oit^inuo to be held for the crime wiucn these men committed against their country, we--stoutly maintain that 110 bill of attainder either political or moral, should, on that account, attach to their deseendents. It is Jodonly, and not man, who has a right to "visit tho iniquities of the fathers upon the children."—G'oldm Age.

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ANECDOTE OF DAXI: STEM. It is well known that the lato Daniel Webster was a man of luxurious tastes and expensive habits, which frequently, brought him into pecuniary difficulties. Apropos of this a friend sends us from Washington the following ancedoto, which we do not remember to have seen in print: A Western gentleman,, shortly alter the great statesman's, death, inveighed seriously, to a mutual friend, against these habits, and enforced his remarks with a practical illustration. "Wliy, sir," he exclaimed, "I traveled all night with Webster in a, stage coach out West, not long ago, and in the morning wo all got out at a little hotel to stretch our legs and 'ret break-« fast. Webster took upatravoling-caso, with combs, hair-brush, and toothbrush, all of which ho used vigorously. When he'd got through I ask"'l hi'n to lend me his tooth-brush, as there wasn't any at the sink where wo washed, and Mr. Webster courteously complied. Alter using and rinsing it off 1 handed it back and, will you believe it? th« extravagant followjust pitched it over

into tho bushes. It was a good now brush, too, and might have lasted him two or throe months longer. No wonder he was always in debt."— Kditor's Drawer, ill Harper's Magazine fur Mny.

OLD STYLE COURTING.—Thoro Is not .• a country-bnd nian or woman now living but will toll you that li!"' can offer nothing comparnhlo with the innocent zest of that old stylo of courting that was done at singing school in ths star-light and candle-light of tho first half of our ccntury. There vr" i'nvr hoarts so withered and old. but they boat quicker sometimes when thoy hear,

old-fashioned churchcs, tho

wailing, sobbing, or exulting strains of "Bradstroet or "China," or "Coronation," and there floats down on the current of these old melodies to that fresh young day of hopes and illusions—of voices that wcro sweet, no matter how false thoy sang—of nights that were rosy with dreams, no matter what Fahrenheit said—of the girls that blushed without cause, and

lovers who talk

ed for hours about everything but lovo. —Lippincott.

AM, RIGHT.—A man passing up street lato ono evening, a few weeks since, saw some one loaning against fho door ot a church, and on looking more closely observed that bo was in tho act of taking ft drink from ft bottle. On the man approach and probably thinking him to bo a patrolman, tho fellow reeled around, and taking hold of the doorhandle, said

S'oll right, sir, board here, r, and alius tak'r drink 'fore K° hod." Tho man called his attention to the fact that the building on which ho loaned for support was a church, and suggested that he had best go home before the bottle had him in the gutter whereupon tipsy corked his bottlo and said, discouragingly: "This fhc'r third bmof Von mistaken, an' ef I find manymoro meotinV houscs that iook like

boardin'-pl tc*

bottle won't hold out. Glad you ain p'lecoman, s'r."

A RICH bat ignorant lady of Boston, who was ambitious that her conversation should be up to the transcendental style, in speaking of a friend said

His is a paragram of polltnoss "Excuso me," said a wag sitting next to her, "but do you not mean parallelogram?"

Of course I ment parallelogram/* replied the ambitious lady "h«w c«tM I have made such a mistake?"