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-‘Q7‘ce-sGOLDEN DAYS:-eTa%-
J anuary 28, 1832.
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77 Bil YOURSELF.
H. x.
HY x.
Whate'cr may happen to annoy,
Be master of your ‘if, near boy!
In evil hour the spirit rul
A medal earn in Wisdonfs .-achool.
Should Envy sting, llntc stiikc its blow,
still face them and true courage show;
For soon will brain y‘r.-ur morning star,
Whose light no imgr,
Be ninstcr of yourself, and rate
With helping hand on you will wait.
Be thoughtful, patient. gentle, too,
And wntchlnl t'i'iemls will honor you;
Be cvcr bravo, look up, not down,
And thou shalt wear the limo‘: crown.
But, better still. God's guiding linnd,
W he n you on nntnliood‘-s threshold
stand,
Shall ope xi. path for you to trcnd,
Place oil of ;,r1u.dm-,.-5 mi your head.
New life and noblcr duties, then,
Their iruit Hllitll bear in sight of men;
Like them, a tollor, loving lifc,
You'll stand unsnllicd in the strife.
Through all I‘clli(:llIl0Ul' inollici prayer,
Kind fiitlic-r’s toll, his days of ciire,
Think more of truth and grace than
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we -
Be ever ninster of your.-cit‘.
-m...V,A.
E A R L Y
HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
BI’ ono. n. onii<'ri'ru.
There was a time when Russia consist-
ed merely of thc Ciiardoin of Moscow,
and even when that was tributary to tho
Tartar khans.
The “ Tartar khans ” to whom the
Russians paid tribute, began with the
great conqueror, Genghis Kliap, and the
tremendous sweep of his empire rivaled
that of the Saracens.
The condition of Russia under that ter-
rible savage was much the same as that
of Spain under the Saracens.
It is true that the sway of the czars
was merely nominal, they being subject
in all things to the 'l‘21rtar kh-ans. But
before the Tartar invasion Russia w s a
powerful State, who.-ic capital was origin-
ally far south of Moscmv, and whose ter-
ritories constantly increased, until the
renowned 'l‘nrtar chic!’ sent an army of
seven Iiundrcd thousand of the most for-
midable ol‘ 9 warriors, before whose
advance Ru‘ .i fell.
But, am.-r several centuries of occupa-
tion, the Tartars lost their power and
were absorbed in the ltiissiaii away, just
as the Moors became Spaniards.
Tho Itussiali Empire, therefore, did
not begin with thc rccovcry from Tartar
sway, ut existed ages before, and was
steadily augmenting in >ower down to
the period of the Tartar ()()lla’1lI(‘.‘ll.
By tho ahsorptioii of tho 'l‘urtar.-x, the
Rilneiiiiis wcre considerably improved,
as the S ianiards were by the almorptioii
of thc lloors, aml tho Tartar element in
the ltussian><i is still very perceptible.
Tho R.l.l.‘4.‘4lllll.‘4 are not a now or modern
power vonturiniz into the rccosscs of
lentral Asia, but a people who sul"l‘crcd
untold miscrics from the ’l‘artar hordes,
durin the conquest and .<iibjii;.r,al.ion,
recent y going forth to tho very hnmc
whence HIOHU Tartars emerged on their
mission of conquest to establish lins-
sian power there; and even where their
armies stood, the ltiimiaii (lag waved
over the tomb oi Taiiicrlanc.
1
The Russians have experienced the
same ordeal as the early linglish, who
were conquered and ruled by the Nor-
man-1<‘rcnch, and who absorbed the race
and became more powerful thereby.
But it is one of the errors of history to
deal with Russia as though only lifted
into power by Peter the Great. It is one
of the curious features of Russian history
that, beginning far south toward the
Black Sea, the power of the (‘zars aug-
mented as their capital receded north-
ward and escaped the encrviition and
luxurious sloth of a southern cliinc.
t is believed that so long as the capi-
tal shall remain whcrc it is, in t ie 5
ticth pnrallolof latitude, no such dcn y
is probable, but that the worst rcsult
that could happen to Russia would be
the conquest of Turkey and removal of
the capital to tionstznitinoplc, a place
where Roinan sway sunk into ruins and
where Turkisli fire and vigor have dis-
appeared.
OLIVER WENDEIII. IIOLMES.
iii’ JAMES Jlicxlu’ iii-jxsi-:LI..
The other day, as I crossed Boston
Common, I saw a small, genial-looking
man talking with a little old woman,
who sells peanuts and apples from a
stand set by one of the paths in that well-
known thorongli-
fare: and tho wo-
nian was laugh-
ing so heartily
that I fclt a keen
dcsirc to know
what the gentle-
man was tellin-,=:
her, for I knew
him to be one
who never says
anythin%' that is
not we 1 worth
hearing and re-
membering, and
his name is Oli-
vcr ‘Vendoll
Holmes.
l)0l:lI)1‘l[OllI]0S
we all kiiuw him
and call him;
but he has as
good it claim to
the title of Pro-
fr.s.'mr, and those
who especially
love him ‘en
speak of him as
The Autocrut.
S u pose we
start up Beacon
Street to-day and
go in and see this
great poet, and
author, and plea-
szuit-lookiiig man
for a. quarter of
an hour or so.
llcrc is the liousm, Nunihcr 2913 llcacon
Street, 21 large and liainlsoino house, no-
ticcablc even in this street of liandsonic
liouscs.
‘V0 wait for a few mimltcs in tho rc-
ception-rooni on the first floor, and then
are shown up the stairway and into the
(l()Ul.!)l">l study. It is a large, cheerful
n ith an open lirc blazing on the
hearth, and before the hr rht light sits
the man we have come to I s't llc 1'.-i it
snuall man in " 4, but then: s so imicli
character in hisl c that, as he puts out
lllSli:lllLl to welcome us, somehow his
individuality fills thc room.
The profossor tells us he has just come
from Uaiinbritlgo, whcrc, as rofc or of
anatomy at llarvard Uollcge, he lectures
four times ii week. You see that he h s-
not given up work, and Jun-rl work, al-
has wealth at his roimnimd
.-lliclves jutting out into the room, and
and plaster casts are arranged. It
range tholr book-slielvc:-1.
Mr. I.ongl‘ellow keeps his thousands
of voluinos in closets and on sliclvcs that
rise from iloor to ceiling,
Aldrich and llowclls, in their charm-
ingand artistic roonis, have qliaint and
convoniciit sliclwe.-< in all sorts of placcs‘.
lut to come back to this room in
Doctor Ilolmos’ lions:-,. He tells us [hut
up stairs in his “llospilal for Sick
l1ooks;“ for, as cvci c -‘ N‘
a book semis this p ‘
copy ofthe volume, in must needs rind
some that are ofsmall value and no use
“'1: notice that the hooks are kept on I
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though ho is favnous the world over, and l The
that on tlic topof tlicsc shelves busts about by-arid-hv, if you do not alread
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interesting to note how literary men iir- ‘ school.
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to him. And each of these book-inttkers
wants to have theopinion of The Auloewzt
as to thc mcritsi or demerits of the work,
" IVhich,” says Doctor Holmes. “ they
have no more riglit to than they
have to stop me on the street and ask me
to examine their tongues and prescribe
a remedy for them.”
Now we will step over to the great
bay-window that looks out upon the
river flowing by the rear of the house.
9
it
“Airy oricl on the river sliorc,"
The owner calls this window.
Xl‘hat a delightful situation for a poet,
it his house fronting on one of the
broadest and most frequented streets in
the city! llcrc dircctly beneath this rear
window he has the river, and beyond,
the spires and house-tops of outlying
towns. ltcm llolincs’ poem, “My
Aviary,” and you will know what he
sees from this window.
Herc are several letters oii the doc-
tor’s writiiig-table, each containing a re-
qucst for autographs, and one iat a
young rhymer lias scnt, with a few ver-
‘ onecriiing which he wants “an
5.
opinion.
And that reniimls
QV
me that ()ll(,'l‘ a
tinuo to write. The doctor kindly an-
swercd, “Yes, by all iiicaiis.”
After some y()iil‘S, this same young
man called to thankliis kind critic in
ui.n'r:ic u'i-;:x‘in-:i.L iiouiias.
person, and whom do you tliiuk it was? 1
Bret llartc, whose “ lloatlicii (‘hincc “
and “ Luc ' of Roaring Camp" l>i'ou;:lit
him instant recognition from all rcadcr.-.
-IS
born on the 29th of Aiignst, won, but
how miuiy, I wonder, know that his fa-
thcr, on that happy day, wrote, “Son
l):,"oppo.s'itc tho date in an old al-
inanac‘! The saiid that w s s<atterc
over the paper to dry the ink is still
glittering thcrc to-day.
lVln-,n Mrs-
‘N
.l.‘I‘. R. Dorr wrote for ‘
onthly “ hor poem, “Four
inch is foiinrlccl on this a c
of the illlllllllall, Doctor ilolmcs had the
p-ago photogriqilicd, and sent the copy to
in l V, who, as I happen to know
holds t aniong licr dearest trcasurcs. ’
ithor of “ Two Years Before tho
Mast" was one of little Oliver Ilolmes’
sclioolimitcs whcn he was a boy; an
.ll:u';,r:irct l"ullcr, whom you will learn
:.
know of hcr, u'-as a incinbcr of the saintly]
n College, alnllllp; his clzimiiiaten wer a
Judge it. R. Curtis, (fhicf Justice’ Bigot:
low, l’rol'essor Bcnjaniiii Pierce Rev
Jillll(‘N Frociiiaii Clarkc, and other mcii
of note, and thcsc men havcalways been
his fricnils.
At lllIl(:lllIIfli.l Dec. lid ' >
IlIruL.rI1n.vl lTflil1ll’l,"It gatlicrcd
to the poet in celebrating the H]-[mmm
lay," anid I think Doctor llolmes will
“1W“.l'-“ MOP "'0 new:-ipapors scnt him
with accolinm of thc cclcbration.
In I875), the publishers of the “Atlantic
-WmtlILv" gave am “Breakfast” (it began
at two o’clock in the afternoon, and was
not over until nearly eight in the even-
’ in honor of the scvcnticth birthday
ofthis favorite contributor to the monthly.
um gossiping too freely about
Doctor liolnies, and the editor of UrcI.n-
EN DA rs will shake his scissors tlireat-
ingly at me if I do not hurry to a close.
Yet I feel sure that the boys and girls
will like to know just how mm-IL this
author has written, and ‘ll'ItL?lt his differ-
ent works appeared ; for it is not always
easy to hunt up such things, although
we all ought to know them, so here is a
list that the doctor kindly gave me for
Se.
During his college-lifc, the poet dc-
livercd four poe lS. One before the
“ llasty Pudding Club," onc at an exhi-
bition, cnc at a cominenceinent, and the
class )< c I. In 1838, tho “ Boylston
Pri' scrtation,” an d uring the
years in. ER he wrote “ The Autocrat
of tho llreiikl st 'l‘ablc,”wlii(:li appeared
then in the Atlantic Monthly.
N xt in order was writtcii “The Pro-
fcs or at the lircakfast 'l‘ablo,” in 1858-9,
and that wonderful book, “ lu‘lsic Ven-
ncr,” in 1859-00. In 1861, “ (‘urrents
and Couiitcr-ciirrents." “Songs in Many
, Kcvs," 1862- “Sruiiidings from the At-
. Y
lanlic,” 1864; “The Hllzlrlllitll Angel,”
1867; “Mcclianisin in Thought and
1571; “Tlie l’oct at the Break-
” 1872; in 187:"), “Songs of
ns;” and in 1880, the small
V rich in sweet thoughts and
tciidcr lines, “The Il‘0lili11t(3.”
You will not (-are 21 great deal for this
list just now, boys and girlx, but by-
and y I think you niay be glad to have
it w hin roach for reference.
t';‘IlUI’V”(ll(l Doctor Holmes acquire such
a nine‘. 5 me.
By a mo us that 1 within the roach
of all-hard work. (rod gave him a
talent and he used it. A great Englisli
that she took llolmcs‘
pocm o ., (‘hanibcrcd Naiitilus,"
and tried to mid a word that would he
ettcr if cliaiuzcd. She could not find
one, so carefully had he chosen the
words to express his me-aiiing. Talent
alone could not have done this, boys.
at ll0U(le(l energy and patience behind
in genius.
, l’crliaps the girls who are with us will
like to lizirc Doctor llolines show them
the bcautilul ciubrcidory done by his
son’s ‘ .-, Mrs. 0. IV. llolnics, .l r.
"l‘h<-rc 2 other work likc it in this
i-,ountry. lVith r-iilkcn tlircazls, on
Iinclr-groiiiul of silk or satin, this lady
mints the niost exquisite pictures. And
whether it be “A Field of lliiisics,” “A
Yiewof (‘harlcs River at Ni;.r,rlit,” or “A
hnow Storm,“ the picture is perfectly
pftecuyciil, mid qluitc as liaiidsonic as
mug I one in oi 54.
Most i'cniarkablc of all, she ncvcr
slwtclics the picturclirst, but does the
whole thing with tliasc pmvn-rfiil little
silken tlircads. Small wonder that her
poet latlicr-in-law calls her work “ pocnis
e
in cinbroidery.”
v ‘c.’ .. ,
A CURIOUS WAY TO BREAK A STONE.
A writer who has tried it successfully
says that a stone may be broken with a
blow oi the fist. This is how to go about
it. akc two stones, both of which
>hould be from thrc 0 six inches in
lcngtli and -about half as thick. Place
one of the stories flat and firmly on tho
;,zroniitl. On that stone place onh cnd of
the second stoiic, 1.1 singthe opposite end
to an angle of soniething like forty-live
degrees.
. This second stone in be ke t in si-
tioii by means of a pl0(3(>‘,,0f twilg) or spt(i)ck
of the necessary length. The top stone
must be placed directly over the centre
oi thc lowcr stone, forinin a T. The
top stone should then be struck vuickl '
and accurately at about the centre wit i
the vlittlc-hugcr side of the hand. The
Tivlillx. 01 course, will give way and the
iottom stone will be broken to pieces.
- 7 W W , . A.
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