October, 1878.
THE WEST SHORE.
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81owly we wont ono moonlit eve
Through the wide garden sweet anil nale;
We nw the fragrant lncuit weave
Ita net of shadows nure and frail;
The graceful eucalyptus snlree
Caught each fair atar'i melodloua Arm,
And, trcuiuluiM in thu Mind a ounirul,
Kach outlluod tree reveal wi Ita aoul.
We talked of booke, and btrda and flower;
At laat the dewy night grew chill;
We apoke of abaent friends of oura,
Then for a moment we grew atlH,
To watch the twinkling town and lay,
And tho glad llghta U long array.
Oh, underneath the moon, how fair
Waa thy pure face, aercne Kllalr!
We hail been children aide hy aitlo
Through many aoftly flowing years;
What wonder if, that eventide,
We found a little aco for learn?
80 at the laat no word waa aald,
Hut quiet hands were claaiwd Instead,
And then a aoftly cloning door
Hhut In my world fore vonn ore.
II.
For mo the groat world loomed before,
With unsealed bight and hidden deep;
I c uld not wiit on any ahore,
With apura to win and truth t keep.
1 hardly thought the way waa long,
I only knew my youth waa strong,
I only aaw a lunrlae vaat,
And heard a trumpet' eager blaat,
Yoara paaiod. I never aaw thy face
Except at midnight, In the aky.
In rankN of men 1 won my lOaoc -
To aoma a foe beyond reply,
To aome a friend of royal grace,
To all at tlineea myitery;
And every aong of wave and air,
Took ahape with thoughta of thee, Kllalr.
1 could not think you changed or grew;
Kach woman for your sake waa pure;
In dreama the childish waya I knew,
In droama I aaw the carvun door,
Or heard the music of the nil -,
In those tnomorial hills,
And watched the heavydaden Iwe
Search the white-tufted hiiekeye tree
111.
At laat, whan tuanv years were deml,
I thought to ftnil the cottage gtto,
Where roaei wandered ovorheatl,
And mow-whlte Mice, with their It; ihi
Of endleaa fragrance, loaned to greet
My wayward hut remembering feat;
Tbere might I aee thy face, and there
Hbould touch thy hands, eeenc Kllalr.
Oh, It waa but an empty icc,
A weary, hopeleea, bitter land
I could not aee you face to face,
1 oould not touch your gentle band;
For your white aoul had longed to bear
Dlvtneet enug, till earth grew clear,
And, amlling, in a hapy place,
Tou aaw the augula face to face
In their celeatial fphere.
1 found where memory's marble lay,
And hid my mute Hpa In the graaa;
I felt a wave of weeping (law,
Aa If the world were lull of tears, alaa!
But team could not be mine that day,
At laat the lovliuj starlight . t t
About me aa a babe'a aofl haitda,
And. In the falling dew, I wept
With the aad earth, and louelv landi
And drifting cloud. "O loat Kllalr!
If I can Amfyou anywhere,
Or bond, or free, or quick, Of dead,
The troublea of the world U tear
Ware blossoms on my bendeil bead."
Bo I went out, where currenta maw,
To mingle with the tkloa of men,
And weave my lonely hoiira again
I found a world of toil and pain,
Wboae need 1 measured by my loam.
Ami batter loved my dreaming (ten;
Hut no more brimmed the fragrant wine
Of mirth In any aong of mine
And all day long I hear In dreama
A rustled draaa acroea the .rill;
Your i tame la writ In euneet gleama,'
And wave of duak hen wlnila are ailll
1 never etnk Ut reai, Kllalr,
But that a nam el reaenw thrllla,
A pearly glimmer anmebow fllla
The outlined ihadnw of my chair
And we shall meet, sliall meet aomawhrre,
When this ami has grown s-trng
That It can climb the iu-m long
Tu thy pure realm me. Kllalr
CkmrU$ U. Skimn, in A rayaaal.
t&Oet AND PKKCKl'T.
BBAVRN'h harmony is universal love. Coir.
per.
Ambition i not a vico of little people. Hon-
laiijiie.
Man, while ho lovoi, ii never juite depraved.
Chnrlet l.amh
I.ifk haa always aotion; it ii our own fault if
it over lw dull. liuhrrr l.ytton.
Cautuh s age suspect tho llattoring form,
and only orodita whatoxperionoetolla. TtlWlWn.
Hood ia nevor more effectually performed
than whon it ii produced hy alow degree. -Ihi
May.
Tn elephant ia never won hy anger; nor
muat that man who would reclaim a Ron take
him hy tho tooth. Drytttn.
BaCH dopartod friend ia a magnet that ut
tracta tin to tho noxt world, and tho old man
live among graves. Riehter,
I. in ia a aloon. ()h mon havo slept the
longost; they only liegin to awaken whon it ia
time to die. La Hruymrt,
Cato, tho 'I'houalian, waa wont to aay that
aome things may lie dono unjustly, that many
things may bo dune justly. Mom
Ik wo did hut know how little sumo enjoy of
tho great things that thay Msaosa, there would
not ho much onvy in the world. Youny.
With ovory one, tho expectation of a misfor
tune conatitutes a dreadful puiiiahmont .Suf
fering then aaaumos tho proportions of the un
known, which is the soul's inlinito. IMme.
Sriioi.ARx may ipioto I'lato in stmlios, hut tho
hearta of millions shall iuot the Hihlo at thoir
daily toil, and draw strength from ita inaplra
tion aa the meadowa draw it from tho brook.
Cnlliriii.
Tiir willow which hon Is to tho tompostnfUn
eacapos liettor than tho oak, which roaiata it;
and so, in groat calamities, it sometimes hap.
ioub that light and frivolous spirits recover
their elasticity and presence of mind aooner
than thoae of a loftier character. Walltr Sen.
To bo ambitious of true honor, of the truo
glory and perfection of our natures, ia the very
principle and inoentivo of virtue , but to las
ambitious of titloa, of place, of ceremonial
roapecta and oivil pageantry, is aa vain and
little aa tho things are which wo court. Sir I'.
Syilnry.
Mow often a new affection makes a now man!
The sordid, cowuring aoul turns heroic The
frivolous girl becomes the atoadfaat martyr of
patience and miniatratiou, tranaflgiircd by
deathless love, The career of hounding im
pulaea turna into an anthem of sacred deeda -
'hapin.
lr ever houaohold affections and loves are
fraceful things, they are graceful in the poor,
he tica that hind the wealthy and the proud
to home mav ho forged on earth, but thoae
which link the poor man to hia humble hearth
are of the true metal and bear tho stamp of
heaven. IHrlcriu.
'I'm human heart yoaros for tho beautiful in
all ranka of life. The beautiful things that Qed
makes are his gift to all alike. 1 know there
are many of the poor who have line feeling and
a keen aenae of the beautiful, which ruet out
niiil ilii-a brrauar tin y am har,l pressed tn
procure it any gratification. Mr: Slow.
In thy ailent wishing, thy voiceleea, utiiit
tered prayer, let the desire be not cheriahed
that allliotiona may Mt u.it thee ; let well ha
it Iwen aaid, "Such prayers uever serin In have
wings. " I am willing to he punlied through
sorrow, and to accept it merkly aa a blueing.
I see that all the cloud are angels' faces, and
their voices apeak hannonumaly of the everlast
ing chime. Mr: td, M. Child.
l.t'Minoi a Wati-m Dials, read in an si
change that a notable improvement in watch
ia r i r t.- i from f'hanx ile Konila, Switaerlaud.
Hy a peculiar process the ligure on the dial are
rendered luminoua, so that if etpoaed once dur
ing the day t" the sunlight they remain phu
iihomwiit and visible throughout the niglit.
'reparations are beinu maite for the pnulm lion
of these watches on a large Kale.
HOW TDK SIBKMAN MAMMOTHS WW
KNTKAITKD.
At the meeting of the Rritiah aasooiatlon Mr.
Howarth read a pper on the ditUoulttasi aur
rnunding the extinction of these huge elephants
in Siberia. One of the theories hitherto nm.
pounueii to account for ita sudden dieapear
anoe, he aaid, was that it lived In the central
puts of Central Asia, and that the caroaaaaa
were tloated down the large rivers iu that terri
tory to the sites where the remains were now
found. The examination of the stomach, how
ever, ahowed that the mammoth lived on larch
ur hiruh tree growing at tho verge of woode,
near which the remains of tho animals were
found, and thoir ioaition ahowed that they hail
not wandered far whon they were entombed,
After looking at the proldem from every aide,
ho had come to the conclusion that there had
been a sudden and violent change of climate in
Silieria, which hail froxen the previouely soft
ground, and had also preserved the mammoth
aa in a huge meat safe. Although the mam
moth hail even originally lived in the plaoe
where he waa now found, it was imiossible that
he could live there nuw, owing to the absence
in that pin t of the food whioh would he neoea
aary to sustain him. Such tree as he used in
live on were only now found about A00 miles
from tho spot where his remains were dieonv.
ered. The natural corollary that followed from
this theory was, that sometliinH similar muat he
pustulated with regard to other regions. The
conditions in which the elephant wa found In
Siberia were precisely similar to those In which
it was found in the northwestern part of Una
alan America, and precisely the same aa tho
iu the (treat lakes, where ilie mammoth itself
waa found, and it could not. therefore, be
doubted that the mammoth lived in Kunrpe and
America with the same loo. I and aurrounilluga
aa it did in Siberia.
Womkn'b 1 1 i 1 1 mi n i ,, Womrn. There is a
general sAilimeut that women do not stand by
each other, as men do hy men that w are en
nous, narrow aud small, where Mr (i ia con
cerned! that the greatest obstacles professional
women have to overcome are the prejudices of
women themselves; that if a woman commits a
fault, hnlmdy ia so ipiiok and ready to heaii op
probrium upon her a another woman. All this
la, to a certain extent, unhappily truei hut It U
by nri means generally true. The fashion of
women sneering at womei. ia passing into disre
pute; so that nowaday), no woman who exssets
to pass aa a well-breu lady, ia guilty of the had
taste of speaking disparagingly or slightingly of
her own sex. Kow and thou one does it, think
nig thereby that aha wins the esteem of man hy
so doing. Mho can make mi greater mistake,
Men admire large tiilndedneaa and largo heart
odneaa in women, iuite as much aa women ad
mire thoee iualitlae ill men, The more strongly
and loyally women stand hy one another, the
mors reesMitfully they treat and apeak of one
another, the more women honor women, have
faith in women, the better for us, the more
credit to ua. We cannot expect men to honor
and revere as, unless we ourselves honor and
revsre our own sex. Nuiutny A Simoon.
In tin rnoM A Tor. The Undon l.anrtl
statea that a little child at liritoa ha bara
killed by accidentally (wallowing a atpo-ahing
airbladiler. It appear that the toy ilipped
through the glottis with the bladder down
wards, ami the iuill mouthpiece upward, o
that with every inspiration the bladder became
more or leas inflated, ami thus prevented the
entrance of air to the lung, and produced
death by suffocation. A verdict of acciden
tal!) eulTuaated" wa returned by the mtj.
The oae must lie unique.
A w ah, who thought to have joke at the
eispna oil aa Iriah pniviaiou ilealer, said: "Can
yon supply ma with a yard ml pork?" "I'at,
aid the dealer to his aaciaiant, "give this gen
tleuian three pig' (."