Where the silver stars as they come and pass He'd a slender form and a girlish face, When our army marched, at the meadow bars, Before us the river silent ran, And we'd been placed to guard the ford; Their camp-fires burned into the night, Somehow, whenever I looked that way, I thought aloud, and I called him Bess," When he started quick, and smiling, said, "You dream of some one at home, I guess." 'Twas just in the flush of the morning light, We stopped for a chat at the end of our beat, When a rifle flashed at the river's bank, And bathed in blood he sank at my feet; All of a sudden I knew her then, And kneeling, I kissed the girlish face; And raised her head from the tangled grass, To find on my breast its resting place. When the corporal came to change the guard, GOD'S ANVIL.-JULIUS STURM. Pain's furnace-heat within me quivers, He comes, and lays my heart, all heated, With his great hammer, blow on blow; He takes my softened heart, and beats it; JERE LLOYD ON "PHRENOLOGY." I remarked, on a former occasion, that I had an abiding faith in phrenology. Well, I'm not so enthusiastic now. I have a kind of vague idea that it doesn't do the right thing by a fellow. I took a little. I had gazed admiringly upon the picture of a subject with his head all laid out in eligible lots, duly numbered and classified, and feeling convinced I had a like number of vacant sites, it occurred to me to have them appraised. I called upon a professor and stated my business, whereupon he invited me to an inner apartment and bade me be seated, remarking, as he prepared for the examination, that we should soon understand each other. I smiled benignly and awaited operations. He passed both hands through my hair in a manner that would have done - credit to a first-class barber, then went over and locked the safe and put the key in his pocket. He continued his survey, explaining as he went along. “You'll marry early and often. Will experience the parental feeling with great intensity, and exhibit it by feeling around your children with a stick, when occasion requires. Are warm, cordial, and ardent in friendship; will cheerfully borrow all the money your friends will lend. Inhabitativeness, large; are liable to home-sickness when away from home and dead broke. Continuity, moderate; love variety and change, especially the kind known as 'small change.' Have a good share cî energy, yet no more than is necessary to grapple with an eating-house steak. Vitativeness, very large; will struggle resolutely through sickness, and will not give up to die while the 'lamp of life holds out to burn.' Combativeness is large, though it doesn't appear to be the kind that hurts anybody. Destructiveness is a strong point, experience powerful indignation, and with large combativeness, would make a dangerous onslaught on hash. Alimentiveness is a remarkable development; you'd ruin the prospects of a cheap boarding-house. Have a natural antipathy to water, but enjoy corn in the juice. Very large acquisitiveness; are eager to be rich, and your creditors hope for the best. Secretiveness is good; you'll keep a secret, or anything else you lay your hands on. Cautiousness is not your trump card. Approbativeness and self-esteem are curiosities; would advise you to paint them with iodine. Firmness, above the average; hold on long and hard, especially at meal time. Have conscientiousness full; feel sorry when you do wrong, and always repent it, and you are kept pretty busy repenting. Hope, very large; have 'great expectations,' which are good things to have in the absence of anything more tangible. You have the kind of veneration that's common at this day— devout on the Sabbath, but fly the track through the week. There's a place for benevolence, but it doesn't appear to be built up. Have considerable mechanical skill, with large imitation and form, and are adapted for drawing, especially a salary, though you are not bad on a cork. Mirthfulness, very large; would make a cheerful funeral. Have an insatiate desire to see and know all about things, and peculiar methods of finding them out. Large order; order freely on credit. Possess good calculating powers; with practice, can calculate the number of beers for a dollar, and the amount of gratuitous 'Sweitzer' that should accompany each. Eventuality, very large; have a retentive memory of facts and incidents, particularly of the fact that anybody owes you anything. If you ever undertake to learn music, there's a piece of woods up in the country, seven miles from any house, where you ought to go." Now I submit this is not a fair deal. BROTHERHOOD.-J. G. HOLLAND. EXTRACT FROM "THE MISTRESS OF THE MANSE." "My Philip, bred in Northern climes, From her far home on Southern plains; FROM THE PRELUDE. The day of Gettysburg had set; The smoke had drifted from the scene, Lay rusting where, but yestere'en, They dropped with life-blood red and wet! The swift invader had retraced His march, and left his fallen braves, Gave sepulture to those who died, And then, swift-sweeping like a gale, And Philip, with his fatal wound, They bent above his blackened face, He answered them: "My wife's embrace!" They wiped his forehead of its stain, Through teeming mart and wide champaign, And wet with weeping of the rain, They gave him to a silent crowd Who raised and bore their precious charge, The hounds of power were at her gate; With lips that slavered with their hate. * With window raised and portal barred, At bay before the cruel chase She held them in her fierce regard. "What would ye-spies and hirelings-what?" She asked with accent, stern and brave; "Why come ye to this sacred spot, Led by the counsel of a knave, And flanked by slanderer and sot? |