The Fremont Weekly Journal, 1867-01-11

"Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Normaii blood." Years ago at .a graud old cathedral overlook'ng the Rhine, there appeared a mysterious organist The great com composer - poser composer who had played the organ so long had suddenly died, and everybody, from the King to the peasant, was wondering who could be found to till his place', when, one bright Sabbath morn, as the sexton entered the church, he saw a stranger sitting at the crape-shrouded organ. Be was a tall, graceful man, with a pale butstrikingly handsome face, great, black melancholy eyes, and hair like the raven's wiDg for gloss and color, sweeping in dark waves over Lis shoulders. He did not seem to notice llie sexton, but went on playing, and such music as he drew from the instru instrument, - ment, instrument, no words of mine can describe. The astonished listener declared that the organ seemed to have grown human that it wailed and sighed and clamored a if a tortured human heart was throb throbbing - bing throbbing through its pipes. When the mu music - sic music at leDgth ceased, the sexton hastened to the .stranger and said : ''Pray who are youf . . "Do not ask my name," he replied. "I have heard that you are in want of an organist, and 1 have come here on trial." r : "You'l be sure to get the place," ex exclaimed - claimed exclaimed -the sexton. "Why, you sur surpass - pass surpass him that's dead and gone, sir!" r "No, no ; you overrate me," resumed the stranger, with a sad smile, and then, as if disinclined to conversation, he turn turned - ed turned from old Hans, and began- to play again. - And now the music changed froui a sorrowful strain to a grand old psean, and the mysterious organist ; "Looking upward full of grace, : Prayed, till from a happy place God's glory smote him in the face," and his countenance seemed not unlike that of St. Michael, as portrayed by Guido, '... . T ' Lost in the harmonies which swelled around him, he sat with his far-seeing gaze fixed on the distant sky, a glimpse of which he caught through an open window, when there was a stir about the church door, and a royal party came sweeping in. Among them might be seen a voting irirl, with a wealth of gold en hair, eyes like the violet hue, and lips like wild cherries. This was the Princess Elizabeth ; and all eyes turned to her. as she seated herself in the vel vet cushioned pew appropriated to the court. Ko sooner had the music reach reached - ed reached her ears than she started as if a ghost had cro3sed'her path. The bloom faded from her cheek, and her whole frame grew tremulous. At last her eyes met those of the organist, in a long, yearn ing look, and then the melody .lost its joyous notes and once more waned, and signed and clamored. "3y my faith," whispered the king to his daughter, "tnis organist has a mas ter hand. Hark ve, he shall plav at your wedding." The pale lips of the princess parted she could not speak she was dumb with grief. Like one in a painful dream she saw the pale man at the organ, and heard the melody which filled the vast edifice. Aye, lull well she knew who he was, and why the instrument seemed breathing out the agony of a tortured heart When the service was over, and the royal party had left the cathedral, he btole away as mysteriously as he had come. He was not seen again by the sexton till the vesper hour, and then he appeared in- the organ loft, and com commenced - menced commenced his task. While he played a veiled figure glided in, and knelt near a side shrine. There she remained till the worshippers dispersed, when the sexton touched her on the shoulder and said : "Madame, everybody has gone but you and me, aad I wish to close the doors." "I am not ready to go yet," was the reply, "leave me leave me !'' The sexton drew back into a shady niche, and watched and listened. The mysterious organist still kept his post, but his head was bowed upon the in instrument, - strument, instrument, and he could not see the lone devotee. . At length she rose from the aisle, and moving to the organ-loft paus paused - ed paused beside the musician. "Bertram," she murmured. Quick as thought the organist raised his head. There, with the light of a lamp suspended to the arch above fall falling - ing falling full upon her, stood the princess who had graced the royal pew that day. The court dress of velvet, with its soft er ermine - mine ermine trimmings, the tiara, the necklace, the bracelet, had been changed for a gray serge role and a long, thick veil, which was now pushed back from the fair girlish face. "Oh ! Elizabeth, Elizabeth !" exclaim exclaimed - ed exclaimed the organist, and he sunk at her feet, and gassed wistfully into her troubled eyes.

What should a man do when his' boots leak ! Take to his pumps, of course. . The geological character of the rock on which drunkards split is said to be quartz. A vaunting demoiselle of North Carolina boasts of having received from her young cavalier, a letter 32 feet long. Think of it, ladies lOf yards of poe try, adjectives, etc, etc. The following somewhat remarkable advertisement appeared in the columns of a recent number of a newspaper: "Lost, by a poor lad tied up in piece of brown paper, with a white string, a German flute in an overcoat and several other articles of wearing ap ap-parreL" - parreL" ap-parreL" A musician at an exhibition of scrip tural tableaux having been requested to play characteristic music for each scene, convulsed the audience, when the sub ject of "Christ walking on the water was presented, by striking up "A life on the Ocean Wave," and for that the "Prodigal Son's Return" the air "Johnnie Comes Marching Home." ' A story is told of a groom who had enormous feet The horse trod on one of them, whereat the groom flew into passioD, swore and beat the poor beast till a by-stander interposed, asking why he'was in such a rage. t "Rage !" shout shouted - ed shouted the groom : "the beast trod on my foot" Your foot," eyeing its extended surface; "why, the horse must put his foot down somewhere" ' - : , Mrs. Partington says she can't under, stand these market reports. ' She can understand how cheese, can be? lively, and pork can be active and feathers drooping that is, if it's raining; but for her life she has no notion how whisky can be steady, or hops quiet, or spirits dull; nor how lard can be firm in warm weather, nor iron unsettled, nor -potatoes depressed, nor flour rising, unless there had been yeast in it, and some sometimes - times sometimes it would not rife then. .':'3kiwestern paper tells a story of distressed Agriculturalist: "A farmer dropped in herer some days ago to pay his tax, putting on long face to correspond with tbe times. On entering the house he told the tax gatherer that times being so hard, could not raise the money at all, and dashing a bundle" of greenbacks on the table. 'There,' said he, that is all that I can pay.' The money was' taken and counted. 'Why, this U twice much aa ou owe.' 'Dangee' give it me again said the farmer, 'I am dashed if I ain't took it from the wrong pocket' A good deacon, away np in Maine, recently, in addressing a Sabbath school, made a point by the following anec anecdote: - dote: anecdote: "Children," continued the deacon, "you all know that I went to "the Legis Legislature - lature Legislature last year. Well, the first day got to Augusta, I took dinner at the tavern; light beside roe at tb'e table sat a member from one of the back towns that had never takeu dinner at a tavern before. Before bis plate was a dish peppers; and he kept looking and look looking - ing looking at them ; and finally, as the waiters were mighty bIow in bringing on things, he up with his fork, and in less than time he souzed down one. The tears came into his eyes, and he seemed hardly to know what to do. - At last, spitting the pepper into his hands, laid it down by the side of bis plate, and with a voice that set the whole table a roar, exclaimed, "Just lie thar and cool." While Phineas Rice, an early Metho Methodist - dist Methodist preacher, was stationed iu one the .New York churches, he found that many of the young people of both sex sexes - es sexes were accustomed to leave the church before the elose of the evening service. It annoyed him, and Jie determined stop it , The next Sabbath evening, be before - fore before he commenced his sermon, he said "Some of my brethren have been greatly afflicted that so many youDg wo women - men women leave the church before the service is through. - But I tell them they ought not to feel so, for doubtless most of those that go out are young women who live at service an 1 their mistresses desire them to be at home at nine o'clock, and if they are not at borne at tbat time they will either lose their places or offend their mistresses, and they don't want do either. They must either go out time to get home at nine o'clock or stay at home altogether. This would very hard for them. And servant girls have beaux as well as other girls, and the young men have to go out and wait upon them home; and so hereafter, when these young women leave the church before the service is over, you will understand who they are and not feel badly about it." The brother who gave this fact said "We were no more annoyed after this; they either stayed away, or stayed till meeting was closed."

: 1 a Prof. Agasstz is lecturing in Boston on the "Wonders of the Valley of the Amazon. The following are notes of his remarks on the above mentioned subject: . Many tropical fishes are brilliantly striped, spotted and colored. Odc has broad, black plaids upon a golden ground ; one has each scale variegated with yellow, blue and orange, so that the combined effect, when it darts thro' the water, is indescribably brilliant Some are red, some bright green, and some purple or crimson stripes and spots. They also have often curious appendages about the nose, elongated jaws, or nostrils, or fringes of feelers that resemble Jcinglish whiskers. - Une fish has so short an Upper law that the strong teeth with which the lower jaw is provided have no corresponding ones to meet them. This creature has feel feelers - ers feelers some feet in length, which it can elevate like a fishing rod, and thus as it lies hid in the mud, seize prey and drop it into the waiting mouth below. One family, the Chillichthys, has the power of secreting so much water as enables it to leave the river and travel for miles upon land. Professor Agassiz has often seen them at this distance, and has even known of their making their way up the rough bark of trees. A gentleman, our consul at Surinam, wrote him that, with the same shot, he had brought down a parrot and one of those fishes. They build a nest something like that of the stickle-bach, but larger and of coarser materials. Here they deposit eggs and sit upon them. Another fam family - ily family collect in the trunks of trees. A hollow log has been sent him, in which seven of these fishes, of good size, had crowded themselves; the were so clos ely packed that he was obliged to split the log in order to remove them, and he could not yet understand how they had ever moved about in such a close mass. Of one family of fish the fat has the property of discoloring the flesh of any auimai tuai ieeasuponn, ana some times producing an eruption, lhe In Indians - dians Indians take advantage of this to produce the bright yellow spots which we often .see on green parrots, ihey teed tne birds on the fat of this fish, and the eruption thereby produced changes its feathers. There are in our cabinet a number of parrots which we had classi fied as of different species on account of these yellow markings, which we now find to be a mere product of this inge ingenuity - nuity ingenuity of the savages. One variety of fishes grows to a great size; it is often fifteen feet in length, and is the beef of the Amazon valley, form forming - ing forming the principal food of the Indians. Some of the fish are very formidable, and much feared by travelers. They have wide mouths armed with sharp serrated teeth, and will quickly cut out a piece from the flesh of an animal. A cow or mule that should fall into the river would be devowered in the space of an hour by these fishes. One family strongly resemble tbe electrical eel with which we are acquainted, only they are more highly charged with electricity, so that one of their shocks is too power ful for a man willingly to bear. After three or four strong shocks, the electric ity is for a time exhausted, so that the natives, as numbolt has told, when tbey undertake to capture these eels, drive mules into the river to receive the first shock of electricity, and afterward se secure - cure secure their prey with comparative ease. A bankrupt merchant returning home one night, said to his noble wife; "My dear, I am ruined ; everything we have is is in the hands of the sheriff." After a few moments of silence, the wife looked calmly into his face and said: "Will the sheriffse II you !" "Ob, no !" "Will the sheriff sell roeFOh, no!" Will the sheriff sell the childred ? "Oh, no!" "Then do not say we have lost every everything. - thing. everything. t All lhat is most valuable re remains - mains remains to us manhood, womanhood, childhood. We have lost but the re sult of our skill and industry. We can make another fortune if our hearts and hands are left us.'' .

I of no he in of to : to in be : It ill ot a t When a young lion reaches the age ot two years be is able to pull down horse or an ox; and so" he continues to grow or increase in strength until he reaches his eighth year, and his talons, teeth an-1 mind are perfect and he-grows no more, for twentj years after he arrives at maturity his fangs and talous show no signs of decay, but after that be gradually becomes feeble, his teeth fail him, and he grows "cubbish." He is no longer a match for the treraend ous buffalo, he is over matched even by the peaceful ox ; so he prowls around the cattle krawls, and snatches a lamb or a kid just as be did when lie set out with bis parents, nearly thirty years be before. - fore. before. A woman or child at night shares the same fate. His strength and sight now decline more and more, till the mighty lion grows weak ami mangy, and crawls about from place to place, eating any ottal he can pick up, and de spising not even so small ' an animal as the field mouse ; so he starves and dies, or is fallen upon and slaughtered by a few cowardly hyenas; or, discovered unable to move beneath a tree, and knocked on the head by some wander ing hunter. A Second Grace Darling. The Providence Press has the following: "On Tuesday last, while the wind was blowing a gale from the southeast, three men started off in a skiff from the shore at the lower end of the inner harbor Newport, to rescue a sheep which had by some means got adrift, but owing to the gale they were neither able to reach the sheep or return to the shore, aud were fast being swept off into rough wa ter, where their skiff must inevitably have been swamped. In this situation they were discovered by Miss Ida Lewie, daughter of Captain Hosea Lewis, keep keeper - er keeper of Lime Rock Light, who at once took the light-house boat and put off to their relief. She reached tbe men, took them from the skill, which she took in tow, and afterward went in quest of and saved the sheep, and landed the whole safely on terra Jirma. ' 1 his is not the first act of this description performed by this young lady. ' Miss Fannie Paine, who is but thir teen years old has since May last per formed the duties of paymaster in the Eagle Works Manufacturing Company, in Chicago. ' In eight months of this year, she will have paid out a quarter of a million dollars, keeping the time sheets and pay rolls, and a private account book with and for each of the three or four hundred men employed. She receives the money weekly from the bank to the amount of $4,000 to $5,000, carries the transaction of paying all the men thro' and settles and makes her balances with the cashier. She knows every man in the establishment, the force divided into eleven departments, each having its re responsible - sponsible responsible foreman. She commands salary of $25 per annum, takes two music lessons each week, and attends an evening course at a commercial college, where she has a scholarship. : The owner of the omnibus lines of Gottenburg, Sweeden, some time since provided each of their vehicles with a water "reservoir, from which the pas passengers - sengers passengers can quench their thirst. They have now extended their courtesy by providing each traveller with a news newspaper - paper newspaper giving tbe latest intelligence, aud which he can read while in the omni omnibus. - bus. omnibus. Alexander Gun, an excise officer in Scotland being dismissed from his em employment - ployment employment by misconduct, an entry was made m a book kept for the purpose, as follows: "A. Gun discharge 1 for ma making - king making a false report" " Jewels of great beauty and value, be belonging - longing belonging to Polish young ladie, are to be raffled for in London, to raise funds to assist exiled lovers to finish their studies. There is no greater obstacle to suc: cess than trusting in something to turn up instead of going to work to turn up something. . , , . Wit should be always seasoned with truth and with a regard to circumstances- " ''"'.

"Why are you here, Bertram t" asked the princess." - - " 'I came to bid you farewell,, and. as 1 dared not venture into the palace, I gain gained - ed gained access to the cathedral by bribing the bell-ringer, and having taken the vacant seat of the dead organist, let my music breathe out the adieu I could not trust ray lips to utter." ' - - - A low moan was the only answer, and he continued:- -'-.-.- . "You are to be married on the mor morrow?" - row?" morrow?" . - ' ; -"Yes," sobbed the girL "Oh, Ber tram, what a trial it will be to stand at yonder altar, and take upon me the tow which will doom me to a living death." "Think of me," rejoined the organist "your royal father has requested me to play at the wedding, and I have prom promised - ised promised to be here. : If I were your equal I could be the bridegroom instead of orcranist:-but a poor musician must give you up." ;;'-!,' "It is like reading - soul and body asunder to part with joti," said the girL 'To-night 1 may tell you this tell you how fondly I love yon, but in a few hours it will be a Bin ! Go, go, and Ood Mess you l. ii f '"-"' -, one wared him 'from her as it me would banish him while she had power to do so, and he how was it with him He rose to leave her, then came back, held her to his heart in a long embrace, and with a half smothered farewell, left The morning arose in cloudless splen dor, and at an early hour the cathedral was thrown open, and the sexton began to prepare for the brilliant edding. Flame-colored leaves came rushing down., from the trees and lay in light heaps upon the ground ; and the ripe -wheat wavod .like a golden sea, and berries dropped in red and purple clusters brer rocks and along tbe Rhine. .. . .. . y ' At length the palace gates were open open-, - , open-, and the' royal party appeared, es corting the Princess Elizabeth to the cathedral, where her marriage was to be solemnized. It was a brave pageant; far brighter than the untwined foliage and blossoms were the turn, of plumes, which floated from stately heads, and the festal . robes that streamed down over the housings of the superb steeds. But the Princess, mounted on a snow snow-white - white snow-white palfry, and clad in snow-white velvet, looked pale and sad ; and when, on nearing the church, she heard a gush of music, which, Jough jubilant in sound, struck on hei ear like a funeral knell, she trembled, and would have fallen to the ground had not a page sup supported - ported supported her. . A few moments afterwards she entered the cathedral. There, with his retimie. stoodlthe bridegroom, whom she had never seen before. 'But' her glances roved from him to the organ- loft, where she had expected to see tbe mysterious organist He was cone, and she was obliged to return the graceful1 bow of the king, to whom she had been betrothed from motives of policy .-Me chanically, she knelt at his side on the altar-stone; mechanically listened to the service and made the requisite respon responses... - ses... responses... Then her husband drew her to him in a convulsive embrace, and whispered "Elizabeth, my queen, my wife, look up." ... Trembling in every limb she obeyed. Why did those black eyes thrill her so. Why did that smile bring a glow on her cheek I Ah! though the king wore the royal purple, and many a jewelled order glittered on his breast, he seemed the same him ble person who had been em ployed to teach organ music, and had taught her the lore of love. ""Elizabeth," murmured the monarch, "Bertram Hoffman, the mysterious or ganist, and King Osgar are one ! For give my strategem. I wished to marry you, but I would not drag you to the altar an' unwilling bride. Your father was in the secret . 'While tears of joy rained from her blue eyes, the new-made queen return returned - ed returned her husband's fond kiss, and for once two hearts were made glad by a royal marriage. . - ' '

a Is it a doctrine of. deuiaVof -ruciik-ion, of asceticism ? Is it a doctrine of loss ) , Indeed it is noC It is a doctria-i of gain. In a word there is no sue!, thiDg as self sacrifice in the vulgar sen. It is impossible for a ruatv nobij to k -hiinsejf. It is impossible nobly to thro " one's self away to give one's self to the world for nothing. He cannoT7?'y ' The return inevitably comes in. II -3 gets most who gives most He. w!. goes out of himself - a little way for oth others, - ers, others, finds all others thronging in to'hku. Thus Christ gave all he had for mankind and mankind have been washing Lis feet with tears ever since. " He left sou! out through a spear wound, aud the adoring millions of Christendom--. have been crowding through tbat spear spear-wound - wound spear-wound as if it was the avenue to a tem ple." Self denial, pure self denial for love, is but self assertion on a higher plane.. Self renunciation, is self - demanding. You refuse tripe, because you wish am ambrosia: - brosia: ambrosia: you decline beer,; because jbi thirst for nectar; you consent to wear old clothes because you prefer to sc-o new clothes on other people ; you fore your dinner, because you have greittr satisfaction in' seeing dinner on sow' poor man's table; you die, beeatise f give other people life is dearer t ypu than to keep life yourself. You cannot, be good, perhaps,, and have the pltfta cake too; so you give up the plum c-iki People talk about the pain of sacri- fice. . They smear the cross wish bloo! : they paint the crucified with livid coun countenance, - tenance, countenance, stiff lips, eyes dry with sorrow j but nobody erer'triade" a sacrifice wjth-' out confessing it be the happiest tbiri" he ever did. Nobody ever let his life run out in free human love, without bc" bc"-ing - ing bc"-ing in an ecotaey. It is a privilege of the angels to' have mercy rise so hjtxh that it brims over, ami goes tricklir, r away to feed beggars. To have somucli humility that it .cannot contain iiself,. but will give all for lore, is bliss almost too deep for mortals. As the, greatest boon he can bestow, the Christ on tL eve of his death promises his -joy to his disciples. Of course, you do not under understand - stand understand this; 1 do not understand it; verc few people do understand it;, it is h& great mystery, Still it is profoundly" and literally true some of ns under understand - stand understand the delight of coramunii-atiu.- thought; more of u understand the !f light of communicating pleasure; more still understand the delight ofcommu ofcommunicating - nicating ofcommunicating life to ofi'spriug. Guess ' from these the delight they have who com- municate goodness; who give, their souls; who pour outQieir beinsy; eveu though it be through the flood-ates of death. Rev. O. B. Frotkiriyhavt. ' Value the friendship of hirrj wbt stands by you in the storm ; iwtinjis of insects wij surround you in th -shine. ... . H

There was once a farmer who liai! horse which had served him faithful ; till he was too old to work any longer, and then his roaster would not give Lin; anytatisg tsseat, but si4:. - - "I cannot wally nod apy use lor you now. put still l mean you wen, ana so. if you will show yourself strong enoflg a to. bring home a hon, 1 will requite you, but now you must make yourself scare. in this stable." ' E - So saying, the fanner drove the poor horse out: and he went with droopu.; head towards the forest to shelter him himself - self himself there from the weather.' In amom; the trees he met a.foxwho asked why he looked so careworn ' and walked downcast ;- -t . . " "Alas!" said the horse, "avarice arr! fidelity dwell not in the' same house to together; - gether; together; my master has forgotten all tlw services which I hare Tendered him fo so many years, and, because, I am tin? ble now to work any longer, he wiuoc - give ma any fodder, tut has driven m" out of the stable;" '''. 'Without any' hope f" asked the Fox. The hope is poor," replied the horse "he said that if I were strong: enoug" to bring him back a lion he would, re receive' - ceive' receive' me ; but he knows well enough I cannot do-that". " .'- Then I will help yow," repued it fox ; now lay down and stretch yourse' out, and do not stir, so that you ma appear dead." ' ... . - The horse, accordingly; did as he-wa bid, aDd the fox went to the lion whos den was not very far off, and said him, "3iear here hes a dead horse, coma with me and you may make a cap capital - ital capital meat". , . . . - - ... The lion accompanied J.he fox, aiii when they came" to the horse the fo said: ' - ' ;' "Hist! listen to what I am about to say; you can have this at your conveni convenience; - ence; convenience; I will bind it to you by the taU and you shall then drag it away to your den, and devour it -at your leisure. ' This advice pleased the lioD, aad, in brder that the fox might knot the horse' tail fast to him, he stood with his back towards it quite still The 'fox, hown -er, cunningly fled the lion's legs togetTi' er. with the hairs of the horse's tail, at; pulled and knotted Jill so' carefully tha: no strength could divide it As soon a his work was finished the fox tapped th horse on the shoulder, and cried : . -"Drag, my friend, Wagf ' ' "The horse, jumped up at once a3 d rew - the' lion . away with: him. Tb; beast soon began 16 roar, so tbat ail the birds in tbe fowst flew away for terror, bat the orsc Jet lum roar while he qui quietly - etly quietly dragged hfm to bis master's door. Now, when the farmer saw this proof et' the fidelity of Lis horse, he thougLt betterof -his former resolution, and saiii to the faithful animal '"You shall "re "re-uiain - uiain "re-uiain -with me now, and live at your ease.' And so the good horse had goci meals and good treatment till he died. ' -