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WAYNE
VOL. 1.,
EVENING BRINGS US HOME.
rm dreimlng stone on In islet
ln t e deep en l.ttunn’rlII[ tee.
and the song or [Is rlppung veter-
le melody sweet to me
in roogh Itva this morning,
Evening in: brought it rest.
with white sntla lurltd, the ltshermen
nnclr to the thorn hive some;
They ere resting now at their cnbtrr doors,
Evening his brought them home.
Thu I(bl‘Illd'S wing! Ire Llred It lallt
or their night ecross th room,
They nu folded now in thnir roolry nest-
Evenlng hie brought her home.
rm dreaming otmy lot-lg tourney
his rionny w rm,
And the hour when my btnt. wlu author.
And its Iattartd rsilsbe furled.
Mlny s trlend hi: gone trom me,
very trr IvtIy ere some;
out tnla wlurperdrics the teardrops-
l-zvening will bring them home.
some may have perhsps (olgotlen me
on the butlo-lield unite,
But s bond unites our severed heurrs,
we ire psrtnurs in -
And somo-thnlr berm wen blighted
In the errly news or Iy;
Their rry is dart with stormy clouds,
me is very cold sud grsy.
Othurs In very tuiut end worn
in the but or noondey run:
They rsise their burning mud. and cry,
0121 when will thy be done?
Ye ntly ceue your wesry mousing,
There are rugrls rt your side
who wul lord you through this turnres
To the c in, cool evcntide,
rerhnpe they but once in sorrow
A mun
But thst pissed uwsy tor ever
when evening brought them home.
over the ripples there is e line
or gold thet lends to rest.
The west get. redder and redder,
And the hour rur evenseng.
Lovely Ind tile is the morning,
llrlgnt in God‘: glorious sun;
but wnry eplrlta rest at eve,
“'hon the long, long dsy is done
WHAT SAND MAY DO.
BY SCHELE DE V'ERI'.'.
Not many yeurs ago the mertnutile world
of Pruuia was greatly excited by s myste-
rious robbery, which tor nu nuusunlly long
time puulctl the acute police of that king-
dom. The Roylll Bttttk lutd sent Iboxwith
a hundred thousand dollars from Berlin to
Munster. Upon its urrivnl, thecheet looked
as if no strange hunil hail touched it; but,
when opened, n psclrnge or r tbousnnd dol-
lnrs was milhsing, and its phioe wns tilled up
with mind. In rain did ollicilils nnd detect-
ives endeavor to discover s trace ol the in-
genious robber. A renowned geologist occi-
tlenublly llcztrd or the dilliculty, nnd st once
suggested thnt some of the sand should be
sent to his study. An lzoufa exnmillntiou
enabled him to state with wlel-.tblect>ru't.inty
the looslity from which the send was prob-
uhly token. Tht-reupon samples were sent
him from all the stations through which the
box hsd pussed, nnd he decided upon the
very town where the robbery must huve
been cotultlittaod. “'ith this cue the detetr
lives went once more to work, and soon the
thief was disoovcnzd and convicted.
For sand is at once the most common and
the most vsried or apparently worthlea
things. in every vsllcy und plniu, on the
court or vnst continents end along the banks
or tiny brooks, weier is lorever rolling up
end down countless grxilts ofsuttl. only s
few pieces on earth, litre the oorsl-island: or
the Pttcidc, built exclusively by the lime or
indefnlignble tiny workers, no without its
presence. It in the oldest child of our
ntourthlm; nll the powers of tho utmos-
pherio world-wster, ite, end wind-hive
used their utmost olforts, year after yeer,ege
utter ego, to breslr down glgsntlc mouuutinn,
to crush, grind, md wear the fragments, end
. to with them down into the plain Iltdtotlte
GAZETTE.
VVAYNE HALL, DELAlVARE CO., l’A.,SATU1lDAY.0Cl‘OBER ‘)8, 1871.
NO. 23.
ocaun. Some have found rest. here;
others hnve been drowned in the seat, where
heevy pressure and the cementing power of
salt water have hardened them into vllst
muses of ttundrxtone. .
But by far the largest part remained lying
loose, the toy or every breeze, tho swilt sud
euro Inaeenger or destruction. Here it
covers vsitl steppee with its flrtul, glittering
mantle, changing its aspect with every put?
of wind, or sugulhng, us qulclinand, the un-
wsry trevcller. There it rlsesin vslttclouds
trom the centre oftlle great desert, end builds
upon the unfrequented cosst between the
Cnnhries And the Cape Verd islands enor-
moutl downs of more than six hundred feet
height; while other muses are drifted eadta
wsrd, end rtesdily encrouchuponthe velley
or the Nile, covering spllinx ind pyrsmid
uliko by their irresistible power.
The universal sand consists in Llle main
cve , L I the some rulstunce, the well.
known mincrsl which in nu psro at‘ the
world and in all lsngusgcs of men nppeurs
under its old Germnn nerne or quurtl. It
owes its vust distribution to ltsliurdncss ;f<lr
it is the hardest of nll stones, eurpnssing
even the hardest substance known in the
vegetable rind animul kingdoms‘-the ensmel
ofour teeth. Hence the ludicrous complaint-
ol'Gocthe’s Wenher, who writes to his he
loved Lotto: "Only, no more mud on yonr
letters! In t moment of nptllre I carried
your note to my lips, and my teeth suliei-ed
y.” u other sdmixtures sre hence
soon reduced to almost impnlpuble powder
by its superior power, end only enough is
lett to give to the send ofeech loculity some
slight pssutinrlty or form snd color. This,
whcre porphyry prevsils, the mud will is
sume s tiir pink hue, while the bright scalus
of mic: minke it known In ttilvtar-sand.
xnturv, however, allows none or her chil-
dren to dritt idly through the world, but
mrlrer them worlr hard and pcxseveringly
for her Muster. Hence quartz Also, hard as
itir, end indimoluble by my hnown llnid,
ruust dually change its fonn and yield to the
llniversul solvent, wuter Wherever eund
sppesis, it is lrept in perpetual motion, snd
this incessant friction reducvm it tiunlly into
utmost invisible particles, which are dis-
solved in water. Plants llS0, when decont-
pnving, restore to the earth the smell portion
cl quarts which has given them their
re gut; nnd, es tpmrtz can, besides, be
clnnlneted rrom clry, it circulates, rlrcr ell,
in Apiw or ,, rentlyirnlestructible hurd-
head, through all the reulme of Nuture. But,
when it is thus, us it were, dissolved, it no
longerrelnins the ions or small, irregulsr
grnins, such is we we in send, but sppears,
Is Err u shape and color srecorloerned, clad
in forms of perfect heuuty.
It is one of tho minty mttrveloutt lnwn
which rule our enrth thnt solid bodies as-
Mime tired forms; whomver they End reu-
crystsllize, us we call it-their shrpe de-
pends not on their surroundings, but on
pcrmsnent lows Thus, whenever uusrti
changes into crystul, it epponrs with untnil-
tug rcgulrtrlty as e pynmid or six sidm, or
. column with six sitlctl crowned by n pyra-
mid. Nor does this unitorrnity rpply
merely to the genernl outline : all the unglee
correspond with the utmost Etlelity. It
matters little whether the mass be lurge or
small; there my be but one column or
quite in number joiuedtogethcr, end thesub-
eterice may uppeer dim und unnttractive or
clear Ind brilliant like I dinlnond-the six
siths ero never venting, the euglee never
very, end, Ibove all, the point et the end of
the crystal, which is characteristic of qllnrll,
is never nlvmtt.
This rock eryrtul, at we commonly cell
the beeutilul product, wsr well lrnown to
the eneients, snd highly npprecinted by
Greeks Ind Ratnltns alike. They thought
it wss solitlilied wstcr, Ind believed, on lhst
-ocount, tlnt but we: mill to its: existence.
it wee eagerly sought other under the Ceeeeriv,
end constituted a lluvorite erticls or luxury.
xero bod s lugs ludls msdo otcrystsl, Ind
two euperh goblets, one of which, sdurned
ith scenes from the “ Iliad," cost In Ilrnost
fabulous tum. In his insane wnttlt be de-
strayed both cup, "to punnh his ego by
preventing my one from ever using eguin
ttudl glorious gohlels.”
In our day, rock-crystal it not vnlued no
higllly;lltrger pieces src worked up into
cups tor ornnment;tho smelter
ones serve is seals or us jewelry. This dt-
cline in public ettlimulion is unsinly due to
the perfection with which on-stsl.glsse is
nowadays produced; for even in the lnltt
century pieoes of rock-cryllal were still
counted Intollg the most vnlnnhle jewels of
roynl treasures, raid the Frcnchaovcrnmeut T
paid one hundred tltotumnd Elana fornnurn
etten inches’ height, adorned with bnssre N
lief: ofscenes from the Old TstsmeltL
Ifmcll-crystal is not oolorlue-, but tinged
with delicate hues, it eppeers he loptiz or
uruethyn. The former vrriee in color, Ind
ssumns accordingly diliererlt names; btlt '
can also be changed by skillful sppliution
otheet, end jewelers know, by the rid or e
gentle Ere, how to trnnstcrur In inferior sm-
cthyst into is superb gold-topsv.
A curious future txmnected with the or-
diuary roclil-crystal in the manner in which
stormed The largest snd clerrvst umseen
have been found in Madugztsur, where inv-
elers report the existence of locks measur-
ing live and six feet in diameter-but little
is known with precision about them. in
the D.-tuphille, however, end in Switwrlund,
they ere found in enormous nurses in so-
culled crystal-mvcs. one ofthe letter, near
the Grllnscl Puss, and discoventl in 3720,
was one hundred md twenty tee deep, sud
ut the largest pleoe ten feet wide. Hero
crystals of eight hundred weight, Ind nu-
merous smaller in round, which
rewarded the lucky hntlex with I handsome
fortune. Hence the Swiss pursue theieeroh
utter crystals with as much mgernms end
oontempt of dsuger [IS the hunt of tho
cltumois.
While sttpenttition end vague wonder no
longer lend to mcllecrystslut iiclitioutt velue,
science has lesrned to npprceiute their true
usotulnen, end uses them on “glllaes” tor
optiml instruments undspecmscles, forwhich
eir lltirdntru ntulses them irtvulunble, as
5‘-
they ere not injured by dual, und hence re. And
ntttin pure end clcur torever.
Itis thus thst poor, despised send, trod
under foot without e thought by high and
low, mes, it were, spirituslized, Ind
ltssulnes I iomt of ltllltclllua beauty, while it
lends to man its aid, and enshlctt him to
search out the secrets of the inhnitely smell,
is well Is to ewet-p the vust spam or the
nltivene. In all the realms oiNlttun:tht:l1
is no cltztuge like that which llmnslornts the
shapeloas sand or the plnins into s priceless
crystsl, nnd rushes otthe worthlouo refuse of
Irtcienl. mountnim In iltvslunhle serum of
‘ill: GOLDEN RULE.
no you to eihe-a kind Ind true,
“Don any or do that same untur-
hlssnrsor.-oh, surely marriage is s
grout lull sscred responsibility! it is s burlr
in which two souls venture out on life's
stormy see, with no rid but their own to
help them. The well-doing of their fl-ail
vessel must in future solely rest upon them-
selves. No one can Lillie pelt either to msr
or mslre their blue or misery. rrom her
husband alone must heneelanh [low Ill the
hspplnse thst the wire is dmlined to know.
He is the only being she mustenreto please.
All other men us now to be to her but
shudows glancing on the wall. And he-
whlt is his share in the complrti‘ Ilow
dots he fulfill his promise-redse his
pledge? For duet he not swear to gtuild
Ind cherish, and look lenicntly on thefsulte
of the gentle girl he takes to his heart!
And in return for In her duty and sweet
obotlieueo, be true to her in sickness uld
heulth, in weelth and in poverty, forever
Ind forever; end blamed Ire the unions in
which those feelings me toctered Ind pn-
served.
THE SEASNORE.
mount on, 0 utlluv
I love to hear thy iuoa
Tho vt1Iltl‘IllrnenlIIlunui IA) melody.
in thy undying tone;
Lo: on the yielding send 1 he alone.
the while cur. Iround mt1d.l-nw thelrterven
And pert me mm the world. hit me tlhovn
For one short hour he plouures and its spleen,
And. rep-ed iu dreemy thought, some peeoernl
nlulalenu glceu.
No votes ollny living thing it uerr,
San the wild tel.-Illn‘l’l wllll
ids the land.
use grit-t which chruge or teene ll powerless to
mt.
“ The use epprorcnes with its weery hesrt
lilosning unquietly,
In mruost grict, too lnnqttll to depart,
speaks in that troubled sir-ll:
yet its ghd wives rot-in esuelng merrily:
ror hope trom them ooncclll the werutng tone.
GIlly they nuh towstd the shore-to die.
All their bi-lght lpl-Iy upon the here send thrown,
wbllesttlt nottntl them well. the ad Ind ceaseless
morn.
And thur lt taln lire; end in the bl-us!
Guy epnrliltng hopes Irluv,
are one in turn lust shows its glcsuitug crest.
Then tells nwny and dies.
on life’: hare tunda each cherished vtaion Llet,
numbered with those thnt will reborn no more
while the worn heIrt laments wbnt grlclcan ne'er
restore.
Yet. still the bmlren nvet, nt1.riug,Ilrlve
Asutn W rear,
seeking in sparkling beeuty to rnrtva
in their nrst carver;
they strive in vnln-their lustre bright end cleer
rorselres them now, with earth Illdlln and mind;
And thus the hcsrt would relic lu vhlonl den
5 epethem new ente
Bub hnda their brightness gone, by earth i sold
touch protrned.
Long hue I lingered here; the evening reir
ln robes or mist dnwt nl h.
The tlnrlns be: right lorth in and desprlr
more end more dlstentl i
hushed l.Il e beIvbln‘l'I melancholy cry,
r night approaches with llu step otage,
when youthu ansrp gt-let. ere sottensd to s sigh,
he dim eye eiar beholdr l s
Thrt hold. the records ud ot torrn-re tormer nee-
And nsluro enmrs my complaining
With her own uuiet lore,
Bid: me observe the mist nccltdllzg slow
From the deserted shore,
And lrsru ihnt, scsuered Ind denlnd no more,
The lsllcu wlvel In wsltcd to the lklvt:
That thus the hops l bitterly dcplere.
Though test they tall belore my :echlng eyes,
I-‘Ill but in tours on certh to liceven to rise.
3
A Rohthrrlc S1'oln'.- The llxrtford
(Conn.) Post teye e lady and gentlcnnn see
now living in that city who were engnged
to be nutrried more then thirty yenre ego,
end who are ttiu enxiously waiting the
day when Ihay shall be made one. In 1840
lltey hell been engaged for some time, but
did not marry bet-ntue much had I mother
tlepcltdetlt upon him Ind her for support.
The two mothers returcd to live togetlter,
Irltl their cltililren would not lcsve them,
but decided to pontpoue their marriage
until one or the other should die. Both
mothers are still living, end the gentlemen
continues to visit the Indy, their lilisl duty
sLi.ll keeping them spurt. The men he. had
consumption tor sever-.1 ycsrs, Ind doubt-
less ere either of the now very egcd mour-
crs sltnll mire their dcpnnure he will hIve
gone to hie lust resting piece. Every day
s trembling old Romeo, issuing hssvily on
a cute, with lceble steps, wcnds his vuy to
the house of Juliet, r withered maiden hdy,
whose lluir is silvered by ego and trouble.
Truly, they deserve htpplnsss it sny couple
ever did. -
Liars’ CHANGE.-At Almost every step
in life we meet with young men from whom
ticipete wonderrul things, but otwhovu,
uller cereiul inquiry, we never hesr s word.
The em-rvestence or youth end pssslon, ind
the fresh gloss ofirltellocl end imaginItion,
endow them with . isise brilliInt-y, which
malree fools orthemselvsv and otherpeoplu.
Like certain chinues, cnlicocs, sud ging-
l.sun,theyshow tineiy on their tit-st newness,
but ranuotetand tllenun end the ruin, and us-
sume u very sober aspect utter washing tlny.
CURIOSITIES OF MEMORY.
Jolttt Kenlllle uwd to shy that he oould
term a whole number or the Morning Past
in tour (llys, snd General Christie made s
nintilarctalaertion; but it is not lmowu how
litr either of them verided this s1.st.ement.
Robert Dillon could repeat in the morning
six column: or s newspsper which he hid
rend over night. During the repeal dehetee
in the llouse of Commouii, lhirty-seven yesrv
Ign, one or its wrote out his
speech, sent it to the lIeVt’ItpIpe.l'1l,lnLlre
pmted it Ito the House in the evening; it
no found to be Ille some verbatim u thnt
which he hul written out. John Fuller, :
land Igellt in lvortollt, eonld n-menlber every
word ofa sermon, end write it out correctly
em-r going home; this was tested by com-
periug his written Ieeoullt with the clergy-
mull’: rnnnuscripi. smligcr uould repent.
humlred verse. or more en.-rhsving lead
them I single time. Seneca could repent
two lliountuttl words on hearing them once.
hleghhbeoclii, who Ind s prodigious
memory, was once put to u severe lest.
gentleman lent him s lnuuumript, which
no rosd And returned. The owner, some
time nttorwnrdlg premnding he hell lost it,
begged lusglisbeechi to write out is much
is he could remember; whereupon the
letter, eppaling to his memory, wrote out
the whole Siva)‘. Cyrus, if some oi‘ the old
historians In to be credited, could remem-
ber the name of every soldier in his im-
verscd order without. making 1 single mis-
take. A physicinn of lilnssechusetts, about
hslrr century ego, could report the whole
of “ Pnndise Lost" without mistake, sl-
though he had not read it for twenty years.
Euler, the great lnathemeticiun, when he
betama blind, could reput Illa whole of
Virgil’: “1Eneid," nltd could remember the
drst line and the llhll line in every pego ol
the pnrticulsr edition which he lied been
wctltttornod to mad lit-fore he beanie blind.
One kind or retentive memory my be
considered he the result or ltlteu’ hIrd work,
This is rretpn-utly shown by persons in
humble life in regard to the Bible. An
old boggzbr-utln it stirling, known some
to y yesrv ego -1 Blind Mick, suordsd In
iruzlance of lllilt. He knew ill!) whole of the
Bible by heart; insomucll tltIl if I t-elttence
were read to him he could name book,
cheptcr, sud verse; or, ifthe boolt, chupter,
slid Tense were named, he could give the
end words. A gentleman, to test him, rt-
penwd a we urposely mulling one Yt-r-
bell innccurscy. Alick helittltetl, nsmcd the
place. where the purunige is to be round, but
it the some time pointed out the verbal
error. The time gt:-tltlelttan a.-trod him to
repent the ninctieth verse of the seventh
cllnpurr of the book of Numbers. Mick
rlmott instantly replied, “Thole is no r h
verse; that chapter her. only eigllty-tlilte
Vehldk"
Tm: Chxum lIv:sn.txn.--“Sutlicient
unto the day is the evil thereof,” says the
oereleee husbund who neglects to provide
for Ille future of his family. He tries to
put down the spectre of went that I-Iises its
hand Above the dehtl lert-l of his thought-
lasnexs; but “it will not down” It his bid-
dlng, end he lives from dry to tlsy, not
knowing but that lo-mormw his deer fsmily
only be hunched upon the unknown sen of
the future, Iml left to butfot with the waves
ofldvsrsily until dealh shall release them.
it Twit-sorrow sud to-marrow And to.rnorvo
M lllnti
And Is“ our yesterdiys hcve lighted (bola
Thu wnyladulliliralh.” .
Life is et the best uncertsin ; end in llut
hour that is to be the last what would the
en husbrnd not do to be back sgsin
where he might by prudent toreihonghr Ind
foreucliolt provide for his family?