(Jljc jT ariucr's iHou tljlyjHsitov^ 



133 



Wliile this rushinfr of the iron wheels is stirred ? 

 When we sob aloud, the human creatures near us 



Pass unhearing— at least, answer not a word ; 

 And we hear not (inr the wheels in their resounding) 



Stranirers speaking at the door. 

 Is It likelj God, Willi angel's singing around him, 



Hears our weeping any more '? 



•' Two words, indeed, o( praying we remember; 



And at midnight's liour of harm, 

 Otir Father ! looking upward m our cliamber. 



We say softly for a charm t 

 We say no other words except Our Father ! 



And'we think that, in some pause of angel's song. 

 He may pluck tiiem with tlie silence swoet to gather. 



And hnhl both in his right hand, which is strong. 

 Old- Father ! If he heard us, he would sujely 



(For ihey call him good and mild) 

 Answer— smiling down the steep world very purely— 



■ Come and rest with mo, my child.' 



' But no," say the children, weeping faster, 



" He is silent as a stone ; 

 And they tell us. of his image is the master 



Who commands us to work on. 

 " Go to !" say the children ; " up in Heaven, 



Dark wheel like, turning clouds are all we find ! 

 Do not 'mock us! we arc atheists in our grieving— 



We look up to Him — but tears liave made us blind ;" 

 Do you hear children weeping and disproving, 



O my brothers, what ye teach ( 

 For God's possible is taught by his word's loving — 



And the children doubt of each ! 



And well may the children weep before ye— 



They are weary ere Ihey run! 

 They have never seen the sunshine, nor the glory 



Which is brighter than the suii ! 

 They know the grief of men, but not the wisdom — 



They sing in their despair, with hope at calm — 

 Are slaves without liberty in Chrisldom — 



Are martyrs by the pang without the palm! 

 Are worn as if with age : yet unrctrievingly 



No joy of memory keep — 

 Are orphans of the earthly love and heavenly— 



Let tlicni weep— let them weep! 



They look up with their pale and sunken faces, 



.\nd their look is dread to see ; 

 For you think you see their angels in their places. 



With eves meant for Deity. 

 ' How long,' they say, how long, O cruel nation. 



Will you stand, to move the world on a child's heart, 

 Trample down with mailed heel its palpitation. 



.\nd trend onward to your throne amid the mart ! 

 Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrant! 



.\nd your purple shows your path — 

 Jiul the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence 



Than the strong man in /its wrath.' " 



*.\ commissioner mentions the fact of weeds being 

 thus confounded wilh the idea of Howers. 



f The report of the commissioners represented instan- 

 ces of children, whose religious devotion is coiitined to 

 the repetition of the two first words of the Lord's Pray- 



Anecdotes of the Hawk .\ni> the Eagle. 

 Jm a recent visit to the Kemielieck, it was my 

 ])leasiire to tarry a slioit time, quite near the 

 slioi-e. Early one delightftil mornini;, a,s I stood 

 on the thi-eshhold ol the door, surveying the gen- 

 tle .scenery of the river and watcliing for sturgeon, 

 wliicli frequently dart through the motionless 

 surface, and then with a loud plunge dash again 

 into the water, causing the unfolding ripples to 

 float to either liauk — my attention was arrested 

 liy the aiqieaniiice of a large hawk which was 

 rapidly descrihiug circles in the aii-. Presently, 

 with s"udden swifmess, he made a spiral descent, 

 and then <larted sli'aight into the water, from 

 which slowly <'meiging he hroiight forth a i>oh!e 

 sliad-lish. The hawk soon alighted on the hank 

 wilh his captive, and placing the shad in that 

 position which would offer the least resistance 

 to the air, and therefoi-e the less irnpe<le his 

 flight, he fastened his claws into eacli side of the 

 lish, and glided off with his hnoty, passing di- 

 rectly over my ln;ad, the clear vista ahove afford- 

 ing a perfectly distinct and (deasing view of the 

 captor and the captured. This circumstance 1 

 nientioncil at hreakfast, when another incident of 

 a similar, hnt far more interesting nature, was 

 related, and can he confidently relied upon as 

 lieiiig strictly true. 



Early in the season a gentleman had occasion, 

 at sunrise, to visit his wear ; and on his return, 

 attracted hy a rustling in the water, he ohserved 

 a large and fiercely strong hawk striiiigliug to 

 master a very rrctive salmon, which he had drag- 

 ged to the sinface, and was endeavoring to bear 

 away. With no little difficulty he finally accom- 

 plished his ohject, and slowly began to wing his 

 way for an adjacent thicket. At this moment, 

 the gentleman described, perched upon a rock 

 overshadawed hy a small cluster of trees, a hold 

 and beautifiil eagle, wdfich, in common with him- 

 .solf, had been a close observer of the scene that 



had just been developed. When the hawk had 

 flown a sufficient di.stance from the river to ren- 

 der a retreat with his prey impossilile, the eagle 

 shot forward with great swiftness, immediately 

 overtook and encountered him. The hawk made 

 a most vigorous and brave resistance, but his 

 incumbrance was so great, that he was soon 

 Ibrced to submit, when, reliuqnishing his grasp 

 of the salmon, he withdrew again to the river. 

 The fish was immediately caught up from the 

 ground hy the eagle, which pioiidly mounted 

 upward with his prize. 



The salmon, still being alive, commenced a 

 brisk flouncing, and, (taking advantage of the 

 eagle's inexperience of his trick,) after a lively 

 fliiUer, bounded from his embrace, and fell once 

 more to the earth. The eagle made a despeiate 

 pounce, ajid the doomed fish was borne upward 

 a second time in the air. The gentleinan watch- 

 ed the majestic soaring of the proud bird, and 

 su[iposed that he was taking his last glimpse o( 

 both ihe conqueror and the vanquished, when, 

 to his great siM'prise, he liehelil them desceniling 

 rapidly. The eagle either loimd his prisoner too 

 industrious or too burdensome, and once moi-e 

 alighted u(ion terra firma. 



j>eizing the salmon hy the head wilh one talon, 

 he divided him with the other by tearing him in 

 two. The larger [liece he resumed, and then 

 swiftly swept through the air with appai-ent ea- 

 gerness to leach liis resting place. The gentle- 

 man advanced to the spot, and taking up what 

 the eagle had ahandiiued, carried home the tail 

 of a fi-esh and elegant salmon. The fish was 

 served iqi at the table and much praised for its 

 fine flavor and raciness, hut the incident was not 

 related until the repast was ovei'. 



Hasvks occasionally eng;ige wilh salmon that 

 are too powerful for them, and, having plimged 

 in their claws, they become entangled, and are 

 drawn a long distance through the walei', and 

 thus frequently drowned.— Boston Transcript. 



The Spot Pond .Aqueduct.— We have re- 

 ceiveil a circular signed by a conunittee of the 

 Company incurporated by the last legislature for 

 the purpose of constructing an Aqueduct from 

 S|)ot Pond in Slonehamto this city. Carelul es- 

 timates and e.-iaminations have satisfied the com- 

 mittee that the cost of the work, including the 

 purchase of the Pond, will not e.xceed §500,000 

 —of which about .'$37,000 is reserved for cou- 

 tinaencie.s. The capital of the company was 

 fixed at half a million by tin; Charier, with the 

 privilege of increase to double thai amount, and 

 it is confidently believed that the shares will all 

 l>e taken by the citizens, all of whom know, and 

 many of vvhom feel the want of a much larger 

 sujqily of pure water than can be furnished by 

 ihe old Aqueduct Company. Jamaica Pond, from 

 its considerable elevation, is unequal to furnish 

 water to the hicher parts of the cily, but the lev- 

 el of S|)ot Poiirl is foriy feet above the State 

 House floor, ami thei-efore the proposed aqueduct 

 can be carried to the highest hill in town without 

 the least danger of a failure in tlie supply. The 

 aiea of Si)ot Pond is 283 acres, capable of yield- 

 ing at least 1,7.50,000 gallons per day, and the 

 commiltee calcidate that a nctt income of $50,000 

 will be realized the first year for the use of not 

 more than 500,000 gallons daily, leaving a nullion 

 ami a quarter gallons to siqjply a progressive de- 

 maud. The subscription books will be kept op- 

 en from the tenth instant to the first of October, 

 at the office of Thomas .\. De.Nter, Merchants 

 Bank building, where further iidbrmation will be 

 given to inquirers.— Bosion Evening Gazelle. 



which all their departments are conducted. The 

 loss inevitable from this extravagance and waste 

 must come out of the pocket of the stranger who 

 patronizes the establishment. Any one, too, who 

 will look at the servants, and the manner in 

 which they dress, will not be surprised that they 

 want high lees from all n[)Oii whom they attend. 

 lma<rine, as is actually the case, the waiter dressed 

 in fine broadcloth, a rufiled shirt, white cravat, 

 elegantly worked collai-, pmnp.s, and occasional- 

 ly, white gloves, and what a contrast do we see 

 to those we have been accusKuned to have around 

 us! This finery in which these servants dress, 

 is no doubt borrowed from the servants of the 

 nobility, who are vei-y gaudily ariayed. The ar- 

 istocracy seem to have quite a passion for hand- 

 some servants. Of course they are dressed in 

 livery, but as livery is not confined to the nobili- 

 tv,biit extends to many commoners as well, I can- 

 not see its use, unless it be to distinguish the 

 servant from the master. A stianger, without 

 this distinction, would be at a loss to know who 

 was the gentleman- the servant being in many 

 instances the better and more intellectual man 

 of the two, as I have often observed in Hyde 



Park. . ,, 



The practice of giving fees to servants in t.ng- 

 land, iias become as much a part of her system 

 as the revetuie laws themselves. It is a custom 

 Ihe moi-e especially vexatious to Americans, be- 

 cause they have not been u.sed to it. The evd 

 does not consist in any thing so much as the un- 

 certainty as to what you have to pay. It when 

 one's bill weie presented at a tavern the amount 

 due to servants were added on, according to 

 some fixeil and geneial rule, there would not be 

 much reason to complain. But, as it is, the trav- 

 eller is often put to the necessity of paying moi-e 

 than he can afford, or than the services are vyorth, 

 for fe.ir of seeming to impose upon a menial by 

 payiiv to little. At many public places, where 

 no tickets of admission are sold, anti.]ue places, 

 churches, noblemen's seats, &c fees are regulady 

 exiiected. and generallv the gratification felt by 

 the stranger is such as to make him feel that 

 any little sum he may have to bestow, is well 

 spent. 1 can tolerate a poor widow, making her 

 livelihood by exhibiting the memorials of such a 

 man as Shakespeare; lean e.xcuse a vvorkmari, 

 in a hot manufiictory or foundry, toiling and 

 sweating from day to day for lean wages, asking 

 for the wherewith to buy a bottle of ale or soine 

 comfort for his family ; but when 1 see noble- 

 men, who are rolling in wealth, and splendor, 

 and superfluity, making as it were public places 

 of their seats, irrounds and galleries, permitting 

 their establishments to be shown for money, 

 which indirectly finds its way to their pockets, 

 or else payitig their house-keepers and porters 

 with what is received, and thus permitting these 

 gentleineu in livery to levy contributions upon 

 the public, wherewith they may gamble, and 

 carry on biffh life below stairs, 1 can find no 

 justification ibr such practices being carried on 

 hy men, who assume to be above everything sor- 

 did, and more than that, who style themselves 

 noble. I do not know bow the practice o tak- 

 ing fees could have become so general unless it 

 be" a sort of exten.sion of the principle upon 

 which John Bull has acted-that of taxing every 

 thiiiL' that would bear it." 



E.NGLISH I.N.NS AND E.XGLISH SERVANTS. — An 



American, writes thus to the Richmond Enquir- 

 er from Felton, in Northumberland County, Eng- 

 land : 



" I have had cause to he surprised at the com- 

 forts to l>e had at the country inns of England, 

 eipialline, as they geueridly do, those of ihe best 

 hotels oi' London. I say surprised because the 

 terms, as coinpai-ed wilh those of London, are so 

 moderate. At this inn, the price of lodging, 

 such as a prince might be cnnlent with, is only one 

 shilling. Meals are not quite so cheap, hut much 

 lower than the same in London. You know the 

 London hotels are proverbially high priced, the 

 world over. This is not at all wondcrfiil, when 

 you consider, in addition to the heavy taxes upon 

 every thing that is used, the extravagance with 



Thf Growth of the Elm.— Against planting 

 ornamental trees, the selfish argument is often 

 urged, that inauv years must elapse, before they 

 attain to any considerable size, and consequently 

 the person who plants them cann ever expect to 

 derive advantage from the operation. We would 

 (savsthe Mercantile Journal) recommend to such 

 persons, the perusal of the following commu- 

 nication from Exeter, in the last number of the 

 Porisinouth Journal: , „ 



..S,R._In vonr "Rambles about Portsmouth 

 I observed vonr largest Elm is 13 feet round the 

 "irlh. In our crooked but interesting town. Col. 

 N Oilman, when a boy, planted »" t>^" '«;f;i'^ 

 his father's door, which 10 years since measured 

 13feet9 inches,-and Ihi. <lay that go?<l C°'°"- 

 nel who is hale ami hearty, measured it again, 



nil fou"td it to give 16 feet 4 -"ches, gaming in 

 10 years 2 feet 7 inches. It is ca led Gov. Gil- 

 mm's Ehn,'' and under its magnificent shadow 

 ["rwrUer last evening witnessed the naphats ol 

 a worthy pair of souls. amicus. 



Exeter, Sept. 13, 1843." 



