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DISAPPOINTED WITH THE OCEAN.
THE COURIER
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Ono day an ardent youth whoso wholo heart burned
With feverish Iovo that had not been returned,
Sought an alchemist for the thing he yearned.
'There is a maiden's heart that I desire'
Said he. "Good sir, a potion I require
To kindle in her breast love's fiercest fire.
'I'd have my soft approach breed in her cheek -The
tcll-talo blush. I'd havo her gentlo, meek.
Can you inform me what's tho thing I seek?
"No other maid has any charm for me.
Without her love I'll perish quick," quoth he.
"Come help me out of my oxtremity." '
"Take this," replied tho ancient patriarch,
Producing vial filled with fluid dark.
"Twill kindle in her breast tho proper spark."
Tho lover thanked him kindly and withdrew,
And swiftly to the maid ho loved ho flew;
But he was back in weeks that numbered two.
"I find," quoth he; "this is most wondrous stuff.
I'd like some more, for this is not enough."
"What!'' cried the old alchemist all in a huff,
"Does sho not love you long to bo your bride?
What more do you desire?" The lover sighed.
'You little know tho ways of men," he cried.
"Tho girl you mention was a winsome pearl.
She loves mo, but what matters that, you churl?
I want this bottle for another girl."
Tom Masson.
THE COMMONWEAL.
I'd like to join tho commonweal, and think, perhaps, I can; as
proud as Lucifer I'd feel, and big as any man. This is tho way I
felt and thought about two weeks ago; I hoped to join, but I did
not, and now I don't feel so. I'd rather work for Calvert's son, at
forty cents a day, than mosey down to Washington, and walk threo
fourths tho way. Then I don't fancy camping out, with scarce a bit
to eat, dressed in thin pants and roundabout, and nothing on my
feet. Tho officers are cared for well, and handsomely are fed, in
some grand, cosy, warm hotel each furnished with a bed. Tho
men lay out upon the grass, exposed to wind and rain, and so tho
weary hours pass, in hunger and in pain. The big-bugs in a carriage
sit, or on their horses ride; they do not care a little bit for trampers
at their side. I do not like to beg or steal from people on tho way;
but this is what tho commonweal is doing people say. What they
will do I do not know in Washington, D. C, but I've concluded not
to go I'll just wait here and see.
"I read with a good deal of surpriso in Harpcr'a Monthly for
May that Mr. William Dean Howells was disapiointed in tho ocean
when ho first saw it, says "The Saunterer'' in Town Topics. "Ho had
seen lakes and bathtubs and glasses of water beforo thaj, and tho
everlasting Boa struck him as a small affair. Ho turned away from
tho wido waters when ho reached tho seiicoast, and found pleasure
in looking at some trees that Longfellow hud written verses abcut.
I am afraid that Mr. Howells was considerably affected at that timo
of his lifo. And I hope that ho has learned since then that tho
ocean should not bo disappointing to young authors. It is a bigger
thing than Longfellow's iootry, I should say, and can teach more to
tho mind of man than anything yet written in books. It may bo all
right for a writer to set it down that ho was disappointed when ho
saw tho ocean. Ho might add; 'And I didn't think much of tho
earth, cither.' It looks airy and effective for a man to show that
ho was blaso beforo ho left school. Let it bo remembered about
William D. Howells that when ho first looked on tho ocean ho was
disappointed. It was nothing but water."
AT ELEVENTH AND O.
O, where is tho crowd which so recently stood with gabblo and
bluster and blow, demanding, not work, but tobacco and food, at tho
corner Eloventh and O. I met there a mason, whose pitcousgroan
and suffering I hoped to allay; I offered a job, but he'd not touch a
stono for less than four dollars a clay. I went to another, whoso
sorrowful faco depicted his iKjverty gaunt; I offered to him a desir
able place, but he said. "It's not work that I want." I asked, then,
of others their several needs, and each ono averred, "I don't know,'"
and this is tho way that a fellow succeeds at tho eorper- -Eleventh
and O. Then I thought of tho scripture, which closely implies that
a man must his destiny carve, and in this, I oelieve, tho truo policy
lies "If a man will not work, he may starve." But whero aro they
now, that pestiferous crowd, which stood at Eloventh and O? Havo
they gono to the grave yard wrapped up in a shroud I'd give half
a dollar to know.
Little drops of water, Iittlo grains of sand, mako tho mighty profit
on sugar o'er the land.
The Superiority
Of Hood's sarsaparilla is duo to tho tremendous amount of brain
work and constant caro used iIb preparation. Try one bottle and
you will bo convinced of its superiority. It purifies the blood, which
is the source of health, cures dyspepsia, overcomes sick headaches
and biliousness. It is just the medicine for yoa.
When the ico man comes bo sure tho name LINCOLN ICE CO. is
on the wagon, they have no pond ice. 1010, O Street.
FVHWTlR STOMAS KflD MTOMRt
All the New Spring Styles in Furniture just arrived, and at prices lower than ever.
QniclcMeal Gas Ranges from $15 to $33.
IOO Leonard Refrigerators from fc& to 550.
See tx& Syracuse Weeel, Itas sx Winner.
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