Volume I. Washington City, D. C., April 23, 1871. Number 7
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<d VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., APRIL 23, 1871. NUMBER 7. A HYMN TO THE TYPES. ing revolution of the earth, and hear the march bably; of my own age, though her self-pos- "In a month I set out for my trav&k. An- in the morning, there to nod in chairs by the the foot-lights shouting "fire! fire!" A terri- records, an order issued to the legation in Paris Mr. Babbitt observed that part of the leather W8S I BT CHAIUJEB'. O. KALPINE. of the moon in her attendant orbit. session might have stafliped her as much older; easy coach conveyed me to Londph, and the side of a bed-ridden mother, a widow whom ble uproar succeeded. The manager went when Mr. Polk was President, and Mr. Buchanan discolored ; and wheu he reached the boat, a t'h'éy supported oii their hard won pittance, Secretary of Stute, directing the minister to send darkly colored liquid was dripping from the sack. H O eiliinl. myriad army, whbse trae metal "My parents loved mfe tenderly, and, fail- but the bloom of her cheek, and her bosom just third day I lay sick in Paris. Sqr§ of Bftdy on tho stage and tried to quiet the alarmed such private letters as he might place in the dis- With lufinlte labor he Worked his dispatches • Ne'er flinched nor blenched before the despot Wrong! ing to soothe or conciliate me, they removed ripening, were indices of a girl's years. She and of brain, strained in nerve, and stunned fifty Cents, or at most a dollar a night. audience. In vain—there was a general stam- I Ye brethren, linked in an Immortal battle patch bag to the agent at "New York, and not through to Paris. French officials regarded with from the busy city to a secluded villa in the raised her eyes at length, and bade me good in sense, I persisted in my resolve, afld was The play of "Pizarro || contains a stage pede, though no lives were lost; not even the H With time-grown Falsehoods, tyrannous and strongl trouble the department at Washington with them. suspicion the dripping bag, and pronounced it afternoon in a voice which reminded me of whirled, more dead than alive, ScroSs the Con- . baby. The youngest child that can walk is infant. It was uninjured, and-so was the cap- I Fragments of strength and beanty lying idle, suburbs. Those labors which necessitated I chuckled over this considerably. Governor "une chose extraordinaire;" Arriving at the bu- ..selected, because its mother says, "I am sure tain, who says he don't like to think how near I Each in its place until the appointed day; abrupt or prolonged sound were performed the faintest lullaby. The quiet tone was sec tinent to Berlin. In the period^pf. UfWC. Marey was Secretary of War at the time, and I reau of the American legation,' Mr. Babbitt had • Then, swift as wheels the squadron to the bridle, without our grounds. The domestics were onded by an assuring glance, and directly we months I had traversed all the leading king- he will speak soon. " It is a very disagreeable he once came to killing a stage baby. felt that I had the sarcastic old politician on the curiosity enough to remain and see what its con- Ye spring into the long compact array! enjoined to conduct their operations with the were conversing without restraint, as if friends doms, and pushed my purpose to "the sandy and hying part for a baby. Every body, hip. After calliug his attention to the usage I tents were. The hag was opened, and its important 1 I Obedient, self-contained,.and self-contcntcd, utmost quietude. Carriages never came to of yeilrs rather than acquaintances of an hour. banks of the Nile. Every moment , in this Cora, Pizarro, Alonzo, and the soldiers in HER SNOWDROPS. found established iu our legation, I instructed dispatches were found to consist of a liberal con- I Like veteran warriors in the mingled broil, 1 journey was an infinity of tortur^; biit in the' torn pull, drag, and twist it about. Rolla him as to the rales governing other legations, aud signment of pickles, considerably damaged by the threshold, but stopped at the lodge ; the " Heraine was the impersonation of compo- BY THE AUTHOR OF "A WOMAN'S FOBM8." I Each giving help where just his help is wanted, wound up by citing the order referred to ; and as having the huge jar smashed, and the contents drives were strewn with bark to drown the sure. The neutral tint of dress corresponded bitterest pangs I remembered, the divine con- frequently seizes it by the hair of the head B Nor seeking more than his due share of toil. "The woman who sits In tho firelight'here, this order hail never been modified or revoked, I mixed with the letters, papers, aÎTd official docu- rattle of wheels; familiar fowls and beasts with the smooth tresses of her brown hair. summation, and kept on. My infirmities were nearly swiping it. He bawls in its ear, froths H thriving, not vainly, each to bo a leader, Kissing her child to its lovely eleop, had acted under it iu good fahli. ments. I your capitals are captains of the file, were excluded; the pines were cut down, Her toucli was magnetic, and petulancy van- increased rather tnan diminisheil. In the in its face, and slobbers over its little naked, Has the faith of a soul more tender and elgur, My triumph was of short durathm. It lasted A circumstance similar to this occupied to a I Tlie crown you aim at, to inform the reader, though they liad moaned for half a century; deepest thunder I could hear the delving .of shivering bosom. He jerks it .off its feet and In its higher beauty, than yours, to keep. ished at her smile, as at a charm. Her intel- 4 during the time a steamer required to cross the bearer of dispatches I once sent to London. One I And help old Truth on for another mile ! the angles of the house were rounded, that the beetle; and though the whole vault blazed ¿by one arm slings it over his shoulder, where ligence was, doubtless, the secret of her power. '' Ah, she does not love you lying alone, Atlantic and return. I was favored with a brief, of our charming couutry women, while in England, the wind might not seream and sigh of mid- KWhat wondrous dreams of beauty may be flying, She divined my moods without inquiry, and with electric light, I could seethe twinkle of it must strike an attitude in air, held by one A thing of the past, a phantom at most— informal note from Secretary Marcy himself, and requested one of the Misses Mason to select and T'nwlnged, unuttcred, through yonr silent mass! The roof Of your grave all overgrown night, and the flapping of a shutter would have cheered them without effort. She led me out the glow-worm. But among ffli?tnuTKtilde of ami. It dares not cry when he frightens it by the first two sentences disposed of mc and my send to her, through the dispatch bugs, a pair of I Even as a prism in some deep grotto lying. With the wild; thick sands of a distant coast. warranted the dismissal of all the servants. noises which haunted mc, the ludsC uQp>isJ.cnt sprinkling false blood on its face, nor when, stays, or corsets, as we ciill them. They were TTntU the informing soul of Qenius pass, of the unhealthy atmosphere engendered by case. Thick carpets covered the floors. My apart- " Sometimes she Is sad at a rustling sound—, / I Filling the cavern with a light as tender my sensitiveness, and I sometimes forfot my were the footfalls of men. There were pauses still holding it by the arm, he rashes at break- "Sir," it ran, " your communication of the sub- purchased and sent to the bureau, but unfortu- Like radiant wings in the palms, it seems; ! As that which breaks from Love's half downcast eyes; ment» lay in a remote wing, and were sur- in the lives of all other beings. Tine weasel neck speed across a shackling bridge, with ject of the abuse of the legation dispatch bags at nately arrived after the bag had been made up disability for hours. She was as good as she She can feel the shining Equator wound, I Then the cold gem awakos to rainbow splendor, rounded with double walls, filled with wool, and scut off. Tlic next day an Iri6li gentleman was capable, and as amiable as she was reso- ind the hyena rested sometimes, and I i'Ottld shouts confusing it and shots flying fast and Like a chain of gold, through her shadowy dreams. Paris is unsatisfactory. I had supposed that such | Where, couched in moBs, beside the fount it lies. from my native town happened to call on his way to deaden communication. Goodly books avoid their haunts, but men ivere fbr'qra' alert thick. The bridge crossed, lie tosses the baby ubuse originated from your ignorance, and I learu lute. We fraternized immediately, and I felt " She can see the Night above you make home through London. Instead of giving hhn I Oh I what a burst of glory when ye mingle were provided, but n»ne which coujd arouse - and ubiquitous. I heard them in aliysgQ^ upon down anywhere behind the scenes, recking from your communication that it was premedi- all the newness of a regenerated life.