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MOOBE’S BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB 
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fear lefts advocate of truth, John Th/ter,) ift I 
full of real poetic gems.’’ He read It over again, ] 
and then again, and then was convinced. Of 
course it was Mat; she was eapable of this; 
she who cared so little for fame had become 
truly fatuous, “And all the secret about it is 
thla-sho has reached tin; hearts of the people ; 
sho has helped them In an jrsthetle and moral 
son*e," mused John Thayer. 
“lean now Inform you who Mrs. Grey is; 
and l discovered this morning that I had been 
acquainted with her many years,” said John 
at dinner that day. 
“Oh, John! it is the first and only time lever 
deceived you. t wanted to tell you before this, 
but could not muster courage Buffiolent.” 
“Strange 1 did not discover it before, for you 
have been a poem, not a problem, to me, all my 
life, sweet May.” 
So fame csino, and the hearts it made glad 
were only glad because they had made glad 
and strong other hearts. 
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PRESENTIMENTS, 
BY E. Id. W. 
Social Stojiics. 
She knew he would be there. Reader, if you a 
have never boon notified beforehand in a super- a 
natural manner, that some unlooked-for thing b 
is to occur,—If you never /elf, you knew not 
why, that, something was going to happen ; in y 
short, if you never had a presentiment, this r 
story is not for you. You cannot understand t 
how, with no reason which she could give, she a 
should so confidently know that tier beloved « 
would be under the weeping-willow by the n 
brookside. You cannot realize bow it could T 
be that, when she had every reason to suppose i 
him a score of miles away, she should be so im- i 
pressed with a feeling of his presence near. If f 
you are so faithless as to affirm that present:- t 
meats are a superstition, listen not to this tale, t 
Let me assure you it Is “founded on fact,” and c 
you would learn from it not to deny the pos- l 
slblllty that others have fell what you, with v 
your practical turn of mind, may never have 
experienced. j 
It was a beautiful summer's eve. All nature 
seoined at peace. The sun had departed from 
view, and there remained but a few bright rays, t 
that seemed lingering ns if reluctant to leave 
such a beautiful world. I’oor lltllesuuuy-huired 
Lenora was a martyr to the indomitable will 
of cold and cruel parents. Her young and ' 
timid affections had been won by a noble youth, ^ 
the very paragon of perfection; but her hard¬ 
hearted parents, resolving to blight, two young ^ 
]marts and make their future forever dev old of 
all happiness, had prohibited tln lr daughter 
from receiving bis calls. They alleged for a 
reason that she was too young to receive 
marked attentions from an entire stranger. 
Alt! she was young in years but, alas 1 she was 
fast growing old in sorrow. Her lover, pierced 
to the heart at this terrible decree, had loft the 
scene of bis troubles and taken flight to a not 
far-distant city, declaring that his spirit would 
ever be with hers, though oceans rolled bo- 
tween; but to-night she felt, that he was bodily 
as well sis spiritually not, far away. Her resolve 
was taken. She would fly to him. She hoped 
to reach the spot unbeknown to her parents, 
but if site should ho discovered they could do 
no more than kill bar—and was she not dying 
by Inches already? 
Thinking “discretion the better part of val¬ 
or," she resolved to cross the meadow rather 
than go by the road, as in this way she would 
be less liable to bo observed. Who carefully 
arranged her dishevelled hair, and enveloping 
her ethereal form in aroboof snowy gossamer, 
-he ventured out, alone and so young, into the 
starry night. The dew was glistening in the 
moonlight. All unheodingly she brushed the 
pearly drops from the tall grass with her trail¬ 
ing draperv Her eyes were raised to the stan > 
heavens ns she sped her to the place where 
she felt that her heart's idol was awaiting her. 
She was nearing tlie gate that opened into the 
highway, just across which was the drooping 
willow.' But, just before her flying feet had 
reached tills portal. she carelessly stepped a 
little aside from the beaten path and was, with¬ 
out warning, precipitated Into an old well 
which, owing to the negligence of sotae oue, 
had been but partially refilled. Oh, such fear¬ 
ful. terror-stricken calls for pa and ms as issued 
from that excavation! Such cries, from one 
so frail and tender, were heartrending- 
So thought a gentleman and lady who were 
riding past. He immediately descended from 
bis carriage and lifted her from the horrible 
pit. The eye of love is keen, even though it 
looks through tears and mud, and recognizing 
her lovor she exclaimed, “Ob. my beloved Al- 
y>hon-so ! I knew you were here.” He, begging 
her to control her peut-up feelings, led the 
way to the carriage and introduced her to his 
mIlly-wedded bride. They bore her surely and 
silently to her home, a more firm believer than 
ever in presentiment s—and, reader, are not you ? 
YOUR HOUSE. 
Do think seriously about it, if you are going 
to build one, before you lay the foundation 
stone. There is so much of your whole career 
depends upon where it stands. Don t. put it 
down In a hollow! You may call it a vale or a 
dell, a dale or a valley, or whatever poetry come- 
uppermost; but, my word for it, you will be in 
a hollow after all. It Is not really necessary 
that, your new structure should go uj on the 
site your grandfather honored with his. Just be¬ 
cause the well and the garden and the fool- 
paths are located. Go from point to point on 
the farm ; find where you have the favor of sun 
and air-currents; the most cheery view and 
grandest outlook 1 Get upon a hill where there 
is breathing room—where you can look down 
upon the world and it will bo forced to look up 
toward you. There's more In it than you may 
imagine. There's a saving of health and spirits 
and patience and self-respect and dignity hid 
therein. A feast of beauty continually before 
the eye is an unsuspected famine to doctors 
and devils. Ah, you will add a largo percent¬ 
age of comfort to your li fa by being considerate 
in this. 
And when you have made your choice will 
you not set to work to beautify it? A bit of 
fence and the wife’s offering of rose bushes in 
the yard is not the best you cau do. Spread out 
a trifle. Don't murder all the trees off for the 
sake of the grass. Jf nature forgot them you 
can supply the deficiency. I tell you it will pay. 
Tt. will bring a cash value to your farm to have 
it known as the nicest one in the neighborhood ; 
it will gel you customers and bargains and in¬ 
fluence, If that Is what you most prize, which 1 
trust Is not. But, above all, it will be the strong¬ 
est wall of defense you can build bet ween your 
children and evil Influence, if you put your heart 
In the work, and a shrine where their raomories 
will worship forever! R - °* 
KANAKA SIMPLICITY AND HOSPITALITY 
The old conundrum about the number of 
apples eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden 
of Eden has stal led on another tour. We are 
sorry, for the answer!has never been correctly 
given, making the result as follows :-Eve 8 and 
Adam S5, a total of 10 only. Now we figured the 
thii g out far differently long ago. but through 
exceeding modesty never proclaimed the result- 
which is now given:—Eve 8 and Adam 8 also. 
Total 16, 
A recent letter-writer in Honolulu says: 
“ In traveling about these islands the observer 
Is struck with the simplicity and gcuerosity of 
the Hawaiian people. It seems a pity that such 
a race should perish. A man may journey from 
one end of the archipelago to the other, in open 
day or the midnight darkness, and he is as se¬ 
cure as if he were in his own house. A for¬ 
eigner never thinks of carrying firearms, for 
there is no one to molest him. He never goes 
hungry, for whatever the Hawaiian bas, 
whether poi, taro, or fish, is shared with the 
stranger. When they were a wealthy and a 
powerful people, when almost every foot of 
land was cultivated, and there were from 300,- 
000 to 400,000 inhabitants, they killed fat bogs 
for their guests; but those halcyon days are 
nearly passed, because iu nine cases out of ten 
they are now too poor to afford that luxury. 
But. the aloha (love to you) is ns hearty as ever. 
And hearing this aloha and seeing the miser¬ 
able surroundings are contrasts indeed 1 The 
surroundings, generally speaking, are poverty- 
stricken in the extreme. The majorit y of those 
who meet you and greet you are but the wrecks 
of a people healthy and powerful In their bar¬ 
baric state, but diseased and helpless In the 
civilization brought to their doom. But even 
to this day, like an oasis In the desert, there 
are nowand thou families to be found whose 
blood is untainted with the terrible poison 
which bus nearly decimated the Hawaiian peo¬ 
ple. This Is especially true of the chiefs and 
chiefesses, some of whom are splendid speci¬ 
mens In physique, princely-looking men and 
queonly-lOoking women." 
A CUP DANCE. 
Charles G. Leland gives a description of 
the dancing of the Egyptian girls, in which he 
chronicles the performance of one young per¬ 
son, declaring it to be “quite a poem.” He 
says“ Placing a cup, symbolic of temptation, 
on the ground, she danced around it in a style 
which was perfectly Spanish, turning the body 
and sinking low with great grace and exquisite 
art. The cup appeared to exercise a terrible 
fascination and she seemed afraid to drain it. 
The fear was perfectly acted. Five times, with¬ 
out aid from hor arms, sbo almost lay on the 
ground with her thirsty lips just dallying with 
the edge, and then rising swept in the dance, 
and thrilled and shivered, and turned, and sank 
again. The 6ixth time she bad completed a 
a"circ)e. and no longer able to resist, she ap¬ 
proached the cup with throbs and pauses, and 
then without using her hand lifted it from the 
ground with her lips alone, draining It as she 
rose, and the tragedy of temptation beingover, 
merrily danced about the room In quick step, 
with her head thrown back, holding the cup all 
the time in her mouth." 
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TEN GUINEAS’ WORTH OF ADVICE. 
sequence of which he refused his consent. The 
| son, who was desperately In love, threatened 
the father that he would marry her without his 
consent; and the father. In his turn, threatened 
that, lie would not give him a shilling. The 
young Jew answered that be would force him 
to do It, and that, if be refused dividing his 
substance with him, he would get himself bap¬ 
tized to enjoy the benefit of the English law, 
which (then) assigned to a Jew child becoming 
a Christian the half of the father’s property, 
Iloaz, confounded at this answer, went, to con¬ 
sult Fielding, to know if such a law really ex¬ 
isted. Fielding told him that it did cx’st, and 
was in full force; but added. If he would give 
him ten guineas he would put him in a way of 
frustrating Ids son’s hopes, so that be should 
not be able to get a farthing. Tioaz Instantly 
told down ten guineas. Fielding having pock¬ 
eted the money, told him his only remedy was 
to “ turn Christian himself! ” 
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FAILURES IN SOCIETY. 
Society Is full of failures that need never 
have been made; full of men who have never 
succeeded, when they might have and should 
have succeeded ; full of women who, in the first 
half of their days, did nothing but eat. and sleep 
and simper, and in the last half have done noth¬ 
ing but perpetuate their follies and weaknesses. 
The world i-. full, I say, of such people full of 
men in every trade ami profession who do not 
amount to anything, and of girls and women 
without any trade or profession, who have no 
desire to amount to anything; and I do not 
speak Irreverently, and I trust not without duo 
charity, without making due allowance to the 
inevitable In life, when I say that God and 
thoughtful men are weary of their presence. 
Every boy ought to improve ou his father; 
every girl grow into a nobler, gentler, more 
self-denying womanhood than the mother. No 
reproduction of former type will give the world. 
the perfect typo. I know not where Die ruil- 
lcniiim Is, as measured by distance of time, but 
1 do know, and so do yon all, that it is a great 
way off as measured by human growth and 
expansion. We have no such men and women 
yet—no age has ever had any—as shall stand on 
earth in that age of peace that will not come 
until men are worthy of It.-Ilcv. W. If. II. 
Muiray. _ 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS. 
The following anecdote is told ol the cele¬ 
brated Henry FieldingThe son of one Boaz 
de Paba, a celebrated Jew, was on the point of 
marrying a Christian lady. His father made no 
objection to the intended wife’s religion, 
but was greatly dissatisfied with the match 
on account of her small fortune, in con- 
A potential dance—the Can-can. p 
The largest moth ever known—The behemoth, t 
A LEGAL tender—A lawyer minding his baby. 
A country without fair women would si m- v 
ply be stag-navion. g 
The hornet is beautifully defined to be the a 
red-hot child of nature. s 
Miss Anthony always concludes her prayers s 
with “Amen and women.” f 
A Western paper suggest Jack Frost as the 1 
author of “ Beautiful Snow.” 
An exchange tells of an “ undertaking wisely 
abandoned before It was begun.” 
An impecunious citizen said the only change 
ho was allowed was that of the weather. 
A Georoia girl allowed 800 men to kiss her 
at. 25 cents a head for sweet charity's sake. 
A young lady jumped into the Ohio River 
to recover her muff — just to keep her hand in. 
A Danbury boy severely injured his spine in 
trying to imitate a gesture he saw Mr. Gough 
make. 
It Is melancholy to think of the number of 
widows and orphans made by the death of one 
Mormon. 
When was beefsteak first mentioned in his¬ 
tory? When King Henry VIII. dissolved the 
Papal bull. 
“Matchless maid," is the way a presump¬ 
tions young man addressed a lady of a very 
uncertain age. 
At a late conference session a clergyman 
gave a reason why the Baptist Church is like a 
beaver's hut, “ There is only one entrance to 
it. and that is under water." 
A Vermont newspaper announces that its 
minimum charge for a first-class marrlaae 
notice will be fifteen pounds of dried apples. 
Notices with “ poetry ” v/ill cost more. 
A Southern editor says of a rival editor that 
“be is inclined to deny the crime of belngyred- 
headed. Well, you may call it auburn, or 
blonde, or anything else, but our tmprespion is 
that he would be entitled to the first plaoe in 
any torchlight procession.” 
The custodian of what, had been Garibaldi’s 
straw-stuffed bed tn Jsohla was heard to mut¬ 
ter, on seeing a lady carry away a few straws as 
a relic, “They will do It! I’ve stuffed it six 
times already since the Goneral left," 
i At a party, while a young lady was playing 
with a peculiar brilliancy of touch, a by-stander 
bachelor exclaimed, “I'd give the world for 
those fingers!’ “Perhaps you might get the 
whole hand by asking,” said the young lady’s 
observant mamma. 
An abseut-minded man entered a shoe store 
i the other day, and wanted his boy measured 
f fora pair of shoes. “But where’s thoboy?” 
a asked the dealer. “Sure enough," said the 
i, man; "I've left him homel I'll go and get 
ti him." And off he started for his house, six 
- blocks away. 
jJfeMrath Reading. 
HIDDEN LIFE. 
BY MRS. M. M. B. GOODWIN. 
Plant the seed in the silent earth, 
The Master will give it a glorious birth : 
Mysterious Life's in the casket brown— 
A royal robe and a golden crown. 
And soon from Sts lowly grave ’twill rise, 
A gift from the garden of Paradise, 
With bps dew-Inden, wondrous fair, 
A child of the sun, a bride of the air. 
Are yo weary, tolling from morn till night / 
A blessing will follow, but do the right; 
There Is no harvest for idle hands. 
No grapes where thistle Or briar stands. 
No lilies, white ns the drifted snow, 
In bramble thickets will bud and blow. 
The lowly pansy, with violet oyes, 
Neglected weeps, and weeping dies. 
Life’s dreariest spot may yield sweet flowers. 
And Its darkest day have some sunny hours; 
But only the toilers will sec the sm, 
Or gather the flowers when the day Is done. 
There’s a promise on every hill-side brown. 
When Autumn shall shower her blessings down ; 
Then plant the seed and prune the vine. 
For the harvest is sure in God’s good time. 
Newport, Ky., 18J4. 
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LOVE IN ALL ITS PHASES, 
flow do we understand this word Lav c? 
What is its meaning? Let us define and see. 
Love is divinity. Love Is immortal; therefore 
ennnot die, but exists forever. Then why do 
we say, “ Love in all its phases,” just tho same 
as wo would say, Divinity in all its phases, or, 
In other words, in all the different grades or 
degrees that we sec it existing in the human 
mind. 
Now, every mind is more or less Divine, ac¬ 
cording to Its perfection or imperfection, ac¬ 
cording to how much the sins of this world are 
mixed with it . What are the sins of this world ? 
Whatsoever you do that you would not that 
others should do unto you. That Is sin ; and 
every thought, word or act corresponding to 
that principle Increases your sins and lossens 
the Divinity within you ; consequently wo have 
all the grades or degrees of Divinity, or “ Love 
in all its phases ” from that which we see in the 
lowest and crudest, forms of humanit y up to 
the highest, even as it was In J knits. 
O, Holy Father, bless everyone who reads 
these lines. Help them to turn their minds 
within, and come to Thoo in Spirit and in 
Truth, which is with their whole might, mind 
and strength,—asking Thy help to cast all those 
sins from their minds, and creating in their 
stead that Love which is of Thee ; causing it to 
grow from the little seed that is there, to be 
the greatest of herbs, overshadowing and 
dwarfing all evil t houghts, words and acts, until 
they will cease to c\i* t.. So may it be. 
Palmyra, Neb., Feb., 1874. k. m. b. 
ANCIENT AND MODERN WORSHIP. 
The Rev. Dr. Griswold says :—“ It is worth 
our while to notice a marked distinction be¬ 
tween the Ideas and practices of the ancient 
Christians, and many of our time. In relation to 
tho objects and purposes, among Christian peo¬ 
ple, of meeting together in the House of God. 
Now, the prevalent idea Is that the groat feature 
in public services Is a carefully-prepared ser¬ 
mon; and that all the services prior to that, 
are, as it were, subordinate and preparatory to 
the discourse from man's lips which Is tofollow. 
Then the idea of public service was prayer and 
worship. Now, with mzny, the sermon is up¬ 
permost, the central service of the sacred as¬ 
sembly, and all other services preparatory to 
that office. Then the Supper of the Lord (which, 
in apostolic days,was always celebrated on eve it 
L ord's Day), was foremost and the ceutral ser¬ 
vice. All othor services were then preparatory 
to that service. Then a presbyter in the Church 
of Christ was appointed “to feed" und “to 
govern” the Church of God, Now, among 
many, a minister of Christ must be chiefly 
known as a “ preacher.” An evident illustra¬ 
tion of this change from primitive ideas may be 
found In the manner of constructing places of 
worship. With those who inclined to the mod¬ 
ern Ideas, the pulpit is the great contra! object 
of g&ze In a Church ; while wo can, with more 
difficulty, find altars and prayer deaks. With 
those who inclined to the old scriptural idea 
that Christians meet for tho breaking of bread 
and for prayer, the altar is naturally the central 
object that attracts sight; and then prayer 
desks or litany desks, lecterns and pulpits in 
their proper relative position. But with these 
hints, a reflective mind can work out the whole 
thought for himself. 
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Correct Living. — Before we betake our¬ 
selves to rest let us review' and examine all the 
passages of the day, that we may have the 
comfort of what we have done right, and may 
make redress of w'hat we have done amiss, and 
make the shipwrecks of one day be as marks 
to direct our course in another. This may be 
called the very act of virtuous living, and 
contributes wonderfully to advance our reform¬ 
ation and preserve our innooence. — Mathew 
Htnry. 
