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The Toast for Labor.
Here's to the man -with the homv
hand,
Who trigs at the breathiner bellows :
Where anvils ring", in every land.
xie o iovea dv an gooa lellows.
And here's to him that goes a-field,
Ana through the glebe is plough
ing, Or, with strong arms the axe doth
" wield, - .'
While ancient oaks are bowing. '
Heres to the delver in the mine,-
lhe sailors on the ocean,
With those of every fcraft and line
Who work with true devotion.
Our love for her who toils in gloom,
Where cranks and wheels are clank
ing ; .
Bereft is she of Nature's bloom, fj
Yet God in patience thanking. 1
A curse to him who sneers at toil,
And shuns his share of labor ;
The knave that robs his native soil,
While leaning on his neighbor.
Soon may this truth be brought to
earth,
Grow more and more in favor ;
There is no wreath but owes its
worth
To handicraft and labor.
Then pledge the founders of our
wealth
- The builders of our nation;
We know their worth, and now their
health
Drink we with acclamation.
Illusions.
A gentleman who had lately
lost his wife, looking out the win
dow in the. dusk of the evening,
saw her Bitting in a garden chair,
lie called one of hia - daughters
and asked her to look out into
tLo uardun MAVliv." ftllfV ootil.
4 tt- rt li or
is sitting there." .An
other daughter was called, and
she experienced the same illusion.
Then the gentleman went out into
the garden, and found that a garden-dress
of ills wife had been
placed over the seat in such a po
sition as to produce the illusion
which Had deceived himself and
his daughters. During the last
weeks of the long vacation I went
alone to Blackpool, in Lancaster.
There I took lodgings in a house
My' sitting-room
was on the ground floor. On a
warm autumn night I was read-
ing with the window open, but
ta e blind was down and was wav- fore the'ciose of the next half ceil
ing to and f ro in the wind. It tury), is to continue to be deflect
happened I was reading a book ed ten thousand miles out of its
on deinonology ; moreover, 1 had
been startled earlier in the even-
ing by pro longed shrieks from an
upper room'in the house, wnere
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my landlady s sister, wno was
1 . t
very ill, had had an hysterical fit.
T. t . i. i ,i
1 had just read to tne enu 01 a
long and particularly horrible nar-
rati ve when I was disturbed bv
the beating of the curtain- the
wind haViuor risen some and I
got up to close the window. . As
I turned round tor the purpose,
the Curtain rose trentlv and dis-
closed a startling object. A fear-
ful face was there, black, long money after all. A hundred mil
and hideous, and surmounted by lions of dollars sounds pretty
two monstrous horns. Its eyes, large, but one gets used to hear-
large and bright, gleamed horri-
blv, and a month garnished with
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immense teeth grinned, at me.
Then the curtain slowly descend-
ed. But I knew the horrible
thinsr was there. 1 waited, oy no
"means comfortably, while the
curtain fluttered about, showing
parts ot the blaek monster. At
last it rose again so as to oisciose
the whole face. But the face had
lost its horror for me. For the
horns were gone. Instead of the
two nearly upright norns, wnicn
before had shown black and fright-
- i. i i i
ful acrainst the liirht back-ground
of sea and skv, there were sloped
-ears as unmistakaoly asinine as 1
felt myself atthe moment. When
I went to the window (which be
fore I felt unable to approach) I
saw tnat. several siray uonKeA's
were wan4ering through the front
gardens of the row of houses to
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wincn my longings ueiongea. n
ispossible thatthe inquisitive gen-
tleman who had looked in at win-
now was attracted oy tne napping
curtain, which he may have taken
for something edible. " If so," I
remarked to m3self, V4 two of your
kind have been deceived to
night." A friend of minetold
me he bad been disturbed two
nights running by a sound as of
an army tramping' down a road
which passed-some two hundred
yards front his house; he found
the third night (I had suggested
an experimental test as to the
place '.whence the sound came)
that the noise was produced by a
clock in the next boose, the clock
having been newly placed, against
the party wall. We all know
Carlisle's story of the ghostly
voice heard each evening ot 'a
low-spirited man a voice as cf
one, in likefnl dumps, proclaim
ing, " Onco I was hap-hap-happy.
but now I1 am miserable and
how the ghost resolved itself into
a rusty kitchen jack. There is a
case of a lady who began to think
herself the victim of some delus
ion, and perhaps threatened by
approachiug illness, because each
night, about a quarter of an hour
after she had gone to bed, she
heard a hideous din in the neigh
borhood of the house, or else (she
was uncertain which) in some dis
tant room. Thenoise was in
reality the slightest possible creak
within a few feet of her pillow,
however and produced by the
door of a wardrobe whichshe
closed every night beforegetting
into bed. The door,aboat a
quarter of an hour after being
closed,' recovered its position of
rest, slightly beyond which it had
been pushed in closing. In an
other case the crawling of a snail
across a window produced sounds
which were mistaken for the
Strains of loud but distant music-
; ... Tl. , CU.-.. J. :il ,JU- .... .Ve,
The Isthmian Ship Canal,
That ships are sooner or later
to cross the Isthmus connecting
North and South America, at
some point, there is not a shadow
of doubt. That the tide of com-
merce between Europe and the
Esstern shores of North and South
America on the one. hand, and
China, Japan, the East Indies, and
Eastern Africa on the other (a
commerce, by I the wav, which.
great as it is and long as it ha.y
continued, is but a beginning
compared to what it will be be
direct course by a tew miles more
or less ot mountain and rock is
entirely, inconsistent with the
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spirit ot the age.
It is
only
a
t . 4 ' m 1
question or time and money
Money is the Archimedean fuU
. : .A. I A - .1 X
crum upon wmcti, u modem en-
oinetnng can rest its lever, it can,
perhaps, hardly move the world,
but it can move anything .in the
world.
What pecuniary interests de-
maud pecuniary resources wuj
not fail to accomplish. And it is
not a question of so very much
ing.. it ; and the people of tins
country' have expended that
. i it .1.1
amount in Killing eacn otner, iu
fifty days.
By whom is it to be construct-
ed t it is very easv to answer
by whom it ought ta be construe
teq. feecretary t ;sh is said to
have stated that this country is
competent ior tne enierpnse witn-
out European assistance, and 1
needed no such announcemen
to make the fact patent to al
i . i mi..: 1., .
tnat we not oniy can out ought to
construct a ship canal across 'the
Isthmus. Both commercial and
political reasons make it impera
tive that the AmTicau nation
should own and control the grea
highway between the two oceans,
Mr. James C. Mcdeley, in
letter to jnqmctrmq. evincing
careful consideration of the sub
ject. compares some of the routes
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taisea or, ana recommends a
route across the Isthmus of Pana-
ma, near where the existing rail
way now crosses entering tne
Pacific by the Rio Grande, a lit
tle to the vnorth of the town of
Panama, where the railway now
terminates. It would necessitate
a cutting for several mile3,with
a summit depth of about 180 feet,
rapidly decreasing in depth fyoln
the summit each way, and still re
quire about eisrhtv feet of lockage
A canal about the size of the Suez
canal is, estimated to cost, even at
excessive prices for construction,
about one hundred millions of
dollars, the major-portion ot wiich
would be for the deep cutting and
the locks. But is it not ques
tionable whether locks are advis
able ? They are certainly not de
sirable, and when we 'consider
that the work is for all time; and
will be of increased utility with
each succeeding year, anything
that increases the expense, or di
minishes the facility of operating
t, should be avoided, even at a
very t largely increased cost of
original construction. If a canal
can be constructed at all. it can
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be and should be constructed
without locks .-r-Amcrican Artisan
Simmons' Sorrow.
" Frank Clive," the humorcst
of the Buffalo Courier, like so
many other emulative farceurs of
he press, is going the way of the
Danbury News man, and this is
ns style. of telling what Mr. Sim
mons is a man of several sorrows,
yet he has frequently said that the
saddest hour ot his existence oc
curred during his ninth year; It
was on the occasion Ot his intro
duction of his Aunt Plummer's
ortoise-shell cat to a scrubby cur,
or which he had just swapped his
ack-knife and his entire stock of
tfes. A trifling misunder
standing betwaen the animals re
sulted in the ruin of one quartette
stand, six house plants, two china
vases and one cat. Simmons con
templated the havoc with pro
ound grief, lhe same noble
emotion that wrung tears from.!
the manlv heart of Alexander the
Great swelled the bosoni of the
juvenile Simmons, and he refused
to be comforted because there
were no more cats aoout those
premises for his dog to worry.
To add to his unhappiness, none
of the heartless household sympa
thized with" him; and while he
was engaged in a painfully excit
ing interview with the paternal
Simmons in the woodshed, Aunt
fMummer, by a copious libation of
hot water, induced the dog to gO
away from Simmons', leaving only
a lock of his! hair as a souvenir.
It was a generous lock. In fact.
the dog didn't carrv oft" anv hair
to speak of. Simmons sorrow
, w
was never quite assuaged until he
had privately cemonstrated, by
experiment that Aunt Plummer's
next cat eouldn t swim with more
than t"VO or three bricks tied to
her neck. Although Simmons is
president of a society for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals, the
Sufferings of the brute creation do
not affect him as painfully as they
did in his voutb.
Iliisiuess Rents.
The New York correspondent
of the Boston Journal ascribes the
diminution of spring business
there to the tremendous rentals
that have to be paid. It is stated
that the rents demanded on 5 road
Jfe. M A A
wav range between S4,uuu and
10,000 ; and that, because no op
diuary business can add this to its
general expenses and leave a pro
lit, there are now 100 business
places, including some, of the
most desirable on Broadway, va
cant on that street between the
City Hall and Fourteenth. street
This state of affairs has alreadv
I cured itselfiri part. Astor has
just leased one store for $3,500
lpr,which he asked $12,000, to
the 1st of May. Another similar
brought but one-sixtn oi tne nrst
price. One tbat had commanded
$2,000 was hnally leased for 5600
and still another fell from $3,000
to $1,000. " Otner like examples and little ones who see the bus
are giren. t ! I band and lather go out in the
The mining of Coal.
WHAT
n
COSTS.
An old dilapidated sprin
i or wn
gon, a small shaggy mule tuggin
i rr
along, such as are often seen in
the coal country, on the front
seat perched a boy, alongside of
the boy a grimy miner with lamp
on cap, in. the; rear of the wagon
anther grimy miner sitting in the
bottom of the wagon, resting
something iu his lap, all bearing
the black sooty evidence of recent
toil in the underground, treacher
ous recesses of the coal mine.
The mule pulls as if the load was
very heavy, and well it may, for
underneath that- coarse, gray
blanket, with his head resting in
the lap, of the grimy, smobtj but
warm-hearted miner, lays stiff and
cold the body ota man, who but
a few hours before was full of life
and health, workingliheerfuHv in
those darkchambers, thinking
perhaps u of the wife and seven
little ones at home who will wel
come him at eventide "when he
returns from Vis Work, knowing
that though grimy he 'may be,
those little one3 will welcome him
with a warmth seldom found in
the homes of, the high-born and
wealthy, his blood flows. in their
veins and the tie is strong. It is
his first day in the mine, and he
does ucjt dream of danger, the
engine is laboring heavily, the
machinery is rattling noisily, the
win rope is running over the puK
le37s, one car is descending and an
other is assoending, the cars can
not be seen, but the winding rope
tells this, he has occasion to cross
the apex of the slope, he is warn
ed of the daager of crossing while
the rope, is in motion, but be has
callous to danger, time presses,
and he attempts to cross, he has I
nearly crossed, but no he is not j
yet out of danger, those shiny,
ails in the soles of his .brogans
lave sliped on the rail, he stag
gers and clutches the air for some-
hingto hold on to, but, oh God !
here is nothing but vacancy, he
clutches in vain, underneath him
the swiltly moving rope, the fast
revolving puneys aoove nun,
nothing to save, what an agony
there is in those two seconds, a
lifetime of thought crowded into
an instant of time, who can tell
what were those thoughts, were
they of the wife and little ones at
home, or were they ot the incom
prehensible, that boundless cter-
nity, none knows save one ; ne
cannot save himself, he falls, he
clutches the fatal rope and in a
twinkling is caught in the pulley
and thrown out a lifeless mass ot
mangled flesh and broken bones,
and the body, which a moment
before contained the breath of life,
lies inanimate upon the damp
floor of the coal mine. The day
is wainiug, and the wife and lit
tle ones will soon, expect their
bred-winner. AJan we imagine
childish voices asking, perhaps
frequently, "How soon will papa
come V but, alas, he will come
no more to you. Even now the
messenger is coming to tell you of
his sad fate. The dilapidated wa
gon! the shaggy mule, the bov,
the miners, the coarse gray blank
et covering: the body of him you
loved best, is nearing your quiet
home. Little do 'ou dream o
vour loss, and who can tell the
agony of that wife and those
children who full of joy were
looking for the return ot the hus
band and father.
Let us here drop the curtain and
hope that He who has numbered
the hairs of our heads.and kuow
eth when a sparrow falls, will hot
desert the widow and tlie orphans
in this their time of need.
Readers, this is no fancy sketch,
it is what the writer knows to
have occurred. It is occurring
every day in some portion of the
coal region; It is "what it costs
to mine coal."
Do we ttiink that we are pay
ing too much for our coal, let us
remember the anguish of the wife
morning but konw not whether
he will return at night. Ex.
The imarTiaffe of Great Men
Byron married Miss Milbank to
get money to pay his debts. It
turned out to be a bad shift.
Robert Bums married a farm
girl with whom he fell in love
while they worked together in
the plow field. He was irregular
in his life, and committed the
most serious mistakes :n conduct
ing his domestic affairs. - yx
Milton married the daughter of
a country squire, but lived with
her but a short timeT He was an
austere, exacting, literary recluse,
while shewas a rosy, romping
countrylass that could uot en
dure the restraint imposed upon
her, so they separated. Subse :
quently, however, she returned, "
and they lived tolerable happy.
Queen Victoria and Priuce
Albert were cousins, and about
the only example in tholon- line
of English mouarchs wherein the
marital vows were sacredly ob
served, and sincere affection exis
ted. Shakespeare loved and wedded
a farmer's daughter. She was
faithful to her vows, but we can
hardly say the same of the great
bard himself. Like most of tlie
great poets, he showed too little
discrimination in bestowing his
affections upon the other sex.
Washington married a woman
with two children. It is enough
to say that she was worthy of him,
and they lived as married, folks
should in perfect harmony.
John Adams marriea; th r
daughter of a Presbytf rian clergy
man. Her father objected, on
rooralsof tho profesion. .
John Howard, the great philan
hropist married his nurse. She
was altogether beneath him in.
social lite and' intellectual capici-
y, and besides this was fifty-two
years old, while he was but twenty-five.
He would not take "No"
for an answer, and they were :
married and lived happily toge-
ther until she diedhich occurred
two years afterward. .
Peter the (ireat, or uus3ia,
married a beasant. She made an
excellent wife and sagacious Em
press.
Humboldt married a poor girl
because he loved her. Of course
they were happy.
It is uot generally Known tnat
Andrew Jackson married a lady
whose husband was still living.
She was an uneducated but amia
ble woman, was mot devoutly at
tached to the old warrior and
statesman.
John O. Calhoun married his
cousin, and their children fortun
ately were neither diseased or
idiot3, but they do not evince tne
talent of the great State Uight
advocate. .
Influence of Xewtpaper.
Small is the sum that is requir
ed to patronize a newspaper, and
amply rewarded is its patron, !
care not how humble and unpre
tending the gazette which ho
takes. It is next to impossible to
fill a sheet raith printed matter
without putting something that is
worth the Subscription priee. I
well remember what a, marked
difference there was between those
of my school-mates who had, and
those who had not, access to news
papers. Other things being
equal, the first were always deci
dedly superior to the last, ib de
bate compositionvaud general ir
telligence. Daniel Webster.
. A little girl being asked what
dust was, replied that it was
"mud" with the juice squesed
OUt. ' -T- ' ' -' :
The married ladiesin a western
city have formed a Come Home
husband club. It ;is ; about fonr .
feet long, aud ban a brtufc'at the
end of it.
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