principle of Arbitration in carrying out the Washington treaty and the friendly feeling toward America, we give one of the resolutions adopted unanimously at the great meeting in the evening, and the report of the remarks made upon it as given in the Darlington paper.

"That this Conference desires to express its great satisfaction that the late serious differences between England and of the negotiations, both the late and present Administrations America have been settled by Arbitration, and that in the course in this country and the American Government have all admitted that a reference to Arbitration was the best mode of settling the complicated and irritating questions in dispute. The printhis and many other cases, this Conference earnestly recommends its invariable application in all International disputes.

Our reception was most gratifying, and the references to the Geneva arbitration were heartily applauded, even as much so as in America. By especial invitation we accompanied Mr. Rich-ciple of Arbitration having thus been successfully adopted in ard, on Wednesday, January 29th, to Darlington, some two hundred and fifty miles from London, to attend a meeting in behalf of international arbitration. Darlington is a city of nearly forty thousand inhabitants, the home of the Pease family for several generations distinguished for benevolence and their interest in all good works. Henry Pease, Ex- M. P., and President of the London Peace Society, greeted us on our arrival, and entertained us most hospitably at his mansion. W. felt it was well worth a visit to Darlington to have the pleasure of the acquaintance of such a man as Mr. Pease. His father was the patron of George Stevenson, the inventor of the locomotive engine, and we saw the first engine constructed by Stevenson. The meeting at Darlington was very large and influential, and its proceedings were fully reported in the papers, from which I cull a few items only.

ton, the convening secretary.

The Chairman said he had been rather unexpectedly called upon to take the chair on that occasion, and was at a disadvantage through not being conversant with the proceedings that had taken place previous to that meeting being called. He stated that there were several gentlemen who had hoped to have been present, but who were unable to attend, amongst whom were the Rev. J. G. Pearson, the worthy clergyman of St. Cuthbert's, who regretted his inability to be present in consequence of the state of his health. There were two gentlemen who he hoped would be present before the Conference was closed-Mr. Henry Richard, M. P. for Merthyr, who was a strong advocate of the cause of International Arbitration, and he would be accompanied by a gentleman from America (Rev. Dr. Miles), both of whom would addres the meeting in the evening. He (the Chairman) was happy to see so many gentlemen who had taken an interest in the subject come there that afternoon; many of them had come from a distance. It was not, as he understood the association, to be at all confined to the town, but to embrace

Mr. Edmund Backhouse, M. P., proposed the second resolution, (see second resolution of the Conference.) The Hon. member remarked that it was probably not a very pleasant thing neutral court to adjudge us guilty, however unwittingly, of a to pay three millions of money, nor a very pleasant duty for a branch of international law. But there was one thing more unpleasant still, which was to sit with the consciousness of injustice hanging over their heads-(hear)-and he was quite sure innocently we might have wronged the American nation in a that there was no one present who did not feel that, however time of supreme difficulty, they ought willingly to pay the damages assessed by reason of our negligence, and so make the best reparation in their power. (cheers.) Principles had been established which were not only a decided The value of the recent treaty could not be over-estimated. advance on the hazy outline of the old international law once commonly appealed to, and which reflected the higher civilization which the world had reached, but which constituted an invaluable basis for future contingencies. Mr. Backhouse concluded by congratulating his Worship on his position as president of the meeting, and by expressing his own personal pleasure in being present at a meeting so unanimously in favor of peaceful arbitration between nation and nation. in an eloquent speech. The Rev. Mr. Miles, from America, supported the resolution

He

A Conference to urge the adoption of a permanent and recognized Tribunal or Court of Arbitration for the amicable settlement of all international disputes was held in the Central Buildings, Darlington, yesterday afternoon. The circular convening the meeting was signed by fifteen gentlemen residing in various towns and localities in South Durham and North Yorkshire; and in response to the invitations there was a large and influential attendance, including Mr. Henry Richard, M. P.; Mr. J. W. Pease, M. P. for South Durham; Mr. Erious than that recently added by the part she had taken in the He stated that England had no gem in her diadem more gloBackhouse. M. P. for Darlington; the Rev. Mr. Miles, Boston, illustrious transaction alluded to in the resolution he was called United States of America; M. William Coor Parker, Darling- upon to support. He did not only appear in England as the sentative of the great American people and he had brought representative of the American Peace Society but as the reprewith him the good wishes and benedictions of clergymen, judges, lawyers, and statesmen representing all parts of the land. brought with him the endorsement of their Secretary of State, the Honorable Hamilton Fish, and the endorsement and sanction of the Chief Magistrate of America, Ulysses S. Grant. (Cheers). After referring to the reception accorded to him on his arrival in Liverpool, he alluded to the settlement of the Alabama dispute, and said that although one of the speakers had said that England had lost by it, he had to bring to them the esteem of the American people, for the magnanimity and forbearance of the Government in that great transaction. They felt in America that the party in that transaction that had shown the most forbearance, that had shown the most magnanimity, that had made the greatest concessions, was the party that had not been beaten, but had risen to the highest eminence (Cheers.) In the United States of America there was the Supreme Court, where all disputes were settled, and as that Court tried all disputes between State and State, so it was proposed by an International Court of Arbitration to settle all disputes between nation and nation. As illustrative of the horrors of war, he said that during the siege of Paris, 12,000 little children under four years of age died of starvation, and in one hour 800 widows were made by a single Prussian regiment. Last year, Christian nations had paid five dollars for the purposes of war, against one-half dollar to send the Gospel to the heathen. Was the time not come for Great Britain and Amerito a successful issue, for the God they worshipped was a God ca to join hands in that great and glorious movement to carry it of Peace, and the Saviour was the Prince of Peace? (Cheers.) The motion was then put and carried.

the whole district.

Henry Richard, M. P. spoke ably both in the afternoon and evening, in response to resolutions commending his measure in Parliament.

At half past seven a public meeting was held in the Central Hall, which was well filled by a highly respectable audience. The chair was occupied by Mr. R. Luck, the mayor of Darlington, who was supported by Mr. J. W. Pease, M. P.; Mr. H. Richard, M. P.; Mr. E. Backhouse, M. P.; Mr. H. Pease; Mr. W. C. Parker (honorable secretary).

As showing the profound satisfaction with the adoption of the

Mr. Henry Pease then proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Richard and the Rev. Mr. Miles.

We have given but a hasty and most imperfect account of what has been done in prosecution of our mission. Let me close by saying the voice of the noble British nation is for peace. We have found a degree of sympathy and interest in the movement of the friends of International Peace which we did not anticipate and which is most animating. Let our friends at home take courage, and persevere in their efforts with new zeal. The time for work in this great cause is most auspicious. Let it be improved. J. B. M.

THE FALL OF NAPOLEONISM.

BY PROF A. CROSBY, SALEM.

And what a penalty upon ambitious France, so infatuated a devotee to military glory! So many of her sons sleeping their last sleep upon the battle-field !—such beautiful provinces wrested from her, so that she is now wholly separated from the Rhine, which she had so arrogantly claimed as her natural boundary-such a crushing weight of indemnity for the war! We would not exult over the fall of any one; but we cannot and, perhaps severest of all for so proud a nation, the overbe insensible to the greatly brightened prospects of the world throw of her warlike fame! She may, however, find a full through the overthrow of the late Emperor Napoleon. "The compensation, and yet more, if she will now seek a higher Empire-it is Peace," was one of his most frequent and favorite fame, striving to be first in the arts of peace and righteousness, declarations; but such was his deceptiveness of character that rather than in the atrocities of war, if she will establish a good the world had learned to interpret his utterances by the rule of system of universal education, and will mature and render peropposites. These smooth and specious words fell heavily upon manent her republican government. The recent decease, in exile the ears of the intelligent, as if they had been spoken thus, and disgrace, of the bold, bad man who treacherously and blood"The Empire-it is a constant menace of war." Hence, the ily overthrew the Republic of 1848, at the head of which he nations of Continental Europe, apprehending that the storm of had been placed by too confiding a people, and which he had war, for which he kept such a vast accumulation of men and arms solemnly sworn to preserve, gives a more assured hope for the in readiness, might at any moment burst upon them, felt con- future of France, and for the interests of general peace. It was strained in turn to keep up vast armaments in constant prepara- his very nature to plot; he breathed an atmosphere of selfish, tion to repel an attack. We cannot say that he was solely re-cold-blooded schemes and intrigues; and the nations can breathe sponsible for the terrible incubus of this system, so crushing to the interests of humanity; but certainly the apprehension of danger from him was the standing excuse with governments for turning a deaf ear to the pleas of the friends of peace and their over-burdened subjects in favor of disarmament. That this danger was not imaginary was fully shown by his last war. Desiring at home the prestige of military success, how eagerly did he seize upon the most frivolous pretext for declaring war; and how suddenly did he follow the declaration by the advance of his armies, in order to take Prussia by surprise! It was simply a tiger-spring upon his fancied prey; and how great would have been the calamity had the spring been successful! But, happily, he had entirely mistaken his strength He was hurled back from the frontier, over which he had anticipated so easy and triumphant a passage. Defeated in battle after battle, he was driven to Sedan and there compelled to surrender. Then came abdication, in the vain hope of saving the crown for his son, imprisonment, and exile.

""Tis done but yesterday a King

And arm'd with Kings to strive-
And now thou art a nameless thing:
So abject-yet alive!

The Desolator desolate!

The victor overthrown!

The Arbiter of others' fate

A suppliant for his own!

"Thanks for the lesson-it will teach
To after-warriors more
Than high Philosophy can preach,
And vainly preached before.
If thou hadst died as honor dies,

Some new Napoleon might arise,
To shame the world again-

But who would soar the solar height,
To set in such a starless night?"

more freely now that he has ceased to breathe. They can now more securely lay down their arms, and trust to treaties and oaths.

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee, saying, 'Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.'" May this be the last of Napoleonism !

"MILITARY OR RELIGIOUS?"

Under the above caption the Baptist Union refers to the fact prosperity by introducing a military department, and justly rethat Bowdoin College proposes to increase its popularity and marks that the measure" will not relieve them. We are not a warlike people, and colleges should not attempt to foster that spirit. The spirit of the gospel will do them far more good. This movement will not draw, it will rather repel. War has no charms for American youth, and the stiff, constrained etiquette of cadets has attractions for very few. Scholarly enthusiasm, Christian devotion, lively sympathy with the conquests of civil industries and skill, the magnetism of enterprise and purpose to do a grand work for Christ, and the world would afford a far better relief than this appeal to Mars."

ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION CASE.-GREAT BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL.-The statement that England and l'ortugal have chosen M. Thiers as arbitrator in the question for several years pending relative to certain territory on the Eastern Coast of Africa is officially confirmed. A protocol to this effect was signed at Lisbon on the 25th September. The Temps remarks that England affords an excellent example in thus continuing to have recourse to arbitration to settle pending disputes. The Temps and the Journal des Debats regard the choice of M. Thiers as a mark of high respect and consideration for the Republic and its illustrious President.

ARTHUR HELPS ON WAR.

MISERIES OF WAR.

It seems but a trite subject to dwell upon, the miseries of war and conquest; but really the extent of woe which history discloses is something portentous, and should occasionally be brought back to our minds. A single page which you read coldly and calmly through-a dull one perhaps, hurried over and soon forgotten-often contains the record of an amount of misery which must have touched a hundred thousand hearts, and an amount of destruction which must have called for the

raises the price of provisions. Is that a benefit to the many? It is not even a benefit, in the long run to the producer, whose sure gains are based upon the gradual improvement and permanent well-being of the great masses of the people. That the poorer classes should be able to buy a little more bread, a little more meat, and be able to house and clothe themselves a little better, is of far more importance to the land-owner, the corngrower, the manufacturer, and the merchant, than any fitful gains that may be got out of the disordered state of things which war inevitably produces.

I suspect that few people thoroughly believe, or at least realize to themselves, the fact that those seventy millions have been spent in war, and that the Queen's subjects, far and near, are so much the poorer, for that money having been so laid out, and would have been so much the richer, and more too, if it had been expended in industrial pursuits.*

But to place the question on much broader grounds. In labor of a generation of hard-working men in replacement and every country, Great Britain being by no means an exception, an reconstruction. The more we extend our researches the more immense amount of reproductive work, requires to be done, in Can anybody conwe are impressed by the extent and penetrating nature of this addition to that which is already going on. misery and destruction. Ofttimes, after following the regular tend that it is for the general interest that this reproductive blood-stained tramp of history, Babylonian, Assyrian, Median, work should be indefinitely deferred, and the most wasteful Persian, the wars of those bitter little Greek States-the work that can be imagined, i. e., active warfare, be undertaken formation of the Macedonian empire-the dissolution of that in its stead? Men's energies are limited, and the two things, empire-the overwhelming movement of the remorseless Ro- internal improvement, and external outlay for war, cannot go man, crushing down all nations under his feet-the irruption of on together. Who would not wish to have seen those seventy countless hordes of barbarians, with their Attilas, and after-millions of money, lately expended in the Russian war, approward their Timours and Ghengis Khans-the endless small priated instead to reproductive work at home, especially when bickerings, bathed in blood, of counts and dukes and roitelets, we find it an exceeding difficulty in our greatest city to obtain Merovingian, Carlovingian and Capetian-the grand and fool- three millions for the most urgent public purposes? ish and pre-eminently blood-thirsty Crusades-the fierce disputes of pope and emperor and antipope-desolating religious wars, perhaps of thirty years' endurance-the hideous conquest of the New World, and the steady business-like wars of aggression and succession and annexation-the student thinks he knows something about the wreck and ruin which the quarrelsomeness of mankind has produced upon the earth. But People read of credits voted, year by year, for millions of then, deviating some day from the usual course of history, he money, of issues of Exchequer bills, of certain great financiers comes upon the records of some corner of the world, which he attending at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's office, and as supposed to have been neglected by the demon of discord, and they read these important announcements, they almost think finds that there, too, there have been immense, continuous that the expenditure is in some mysterious way provided for and blood-thirsty wars, and what they call splendid achieve-by words and paper and certain financial jugglery. They do ments of all kinds, not hitherto much written about not fully comprehend the fact that so much solid capital has because the names are hard and the provinces obscure, but gone from them and their heirs forever. Then again, taxation which have not been neglected from any deficiency of atrocity. is a subtle thing, and you have to follow it into all its ramifica-until at last the wearied student begins to think that the sur- which it does to you and your descendants, when the bulk of the tions before you discover and rightly appreciate the mischief face of the earth, if rightly analyzed, would ensanguined mass of buried ruin. money raised by that taxation has been spent unproductively. To insure good internal administration, to maintain such a readiness for war as may prevent war, or such as may make war, when it comes suddenly, less expensive no money judiciously spent can be considered to be wasted. But all beyond that is pure waste, if not for the few, at least for the great mass of the people, whose interests every statesman is bound to consult first. There is then, I contend, no argument for war to be found in the fact that it may be useful to some private persons, or to some few classes of the community.

prove one

Now, I ask, has nothing been gained by the study of all these records? It sometimes seems as if there had not, and as if mankind were ready, now as ever, to rush, upon the smallest provocation, into the accustomed track of deliberate carnage

and certain desolation.

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A more instructive course of reading could hardly be laid down for a student of history than his taking the records of some considerable town, and seeing the evils it had suffered from its foundation to the present day by wars and sieges. good town to choose would be the most ancient town in Europe, Padua. Let the student see and consider the injuries that Padua has received from the bellicose disposition of the world. It is not taking an extreme case; for there is Padua, visible on the face of the earth, after all that it has suffered: whereas, of how many once flourishing towns may it be said that they now only furnish disputes to rival antiquaries, who do battle about the sites of these towns, which, in their utter destruction, afford a grand field for learned argument-and final doubt.

WHO IS BENEFITED BY WAR?

On the other hand, it will, I know, be contended that war is not all loss.

"Mullis utile bellum" is a well-known saying, and there is, unfortunately, some truth in these unpleasant words. But has any one numbered the millions to whom peace is useful? Let us enter into reckonings upon this matter. War may be useful to contractors, armorers, the population of some seaport towns and arsenals, occasionally to certain classes of ship-owners and merchants, and generally to those through whose hands the money raised for war passes. But how very small a proportion do these people bear to the great bulk of the population! How insignificant and transient are their interests compared with those of the mass of the people-a mere vanishing quantity, as the mathematician would say. We may also admit that war

Amongst the greatest curses attendant upon European wars, We cannot preas they affect this country, are foreign loans. vent money going where it pleases. It is one of the freest of earthly things. It will not be besieged, or impressed, or severely controlled in any way. Still it is well to note the mischief that occurs from its free movement in any particular direction. Every improving man, every person who is striving to produce more and more out of land, or by manufactures, is to a certain extent stayed and hindered by these foreign loans: They must make money dearer for him. If this is not a great national evil, it would be difficult to say what is.

When I am asked, "But what plan do you propose for reducing the military establishments of Europe?" I cannot say that I have any plan, or that I believe that any one else has.

I sent this essay of Milverton's, while it was in type, to a well-known statesman of long standing in her Majesty's councils, with whom I had be come acquainted when at college. The truth is I was afraid lest Milverton should have been led into exaggeration upon some of the above points. This statesman, however, instead of restraining the argument, carries it further. These are his words in a note upon the above passage. "We raised a Parliamentary loan of £3,000,000 for India last year, and a further sum of £12 000,000, in England and India, will probably be required during the present session. How different would have been the result, if these immense sums could have been applied in growing the raw materials for our manufacturers in the valley of the Ganges, raising there the wages of the ryot and facilitating the payments of the landed proprietors in India, exthe West Riding, thus benefiting simultaneously the Eastern and Western dotending the manufacturing and commercial industry of Lancashire and of minions of our Queen."

there is some chance of disbandment; and for the masses of mankind it is the maintenance of large armies, and not the war itself, that may prove the greatest evil, causing general depression, augmenting taxation, hindering trade, and circumscribing a matter of course, that attracts comparatively, but little notice. There is no end to the increase of armies; it goes on silently from year to year, and every year valuable materials of all kinds are used up in a way which will soon go out of fashion. We find it difficult enough, in northern climes, to provide warmth for our poor people; think of the coals used for war-steamers even in times of peace. In fine, it really becomes a question whether we had better not have a war once in every ten years, which might lead to some considerable disbandment, than a peace full of daily alarms, which gives good reason for a constant increase of armies, and a constant addition of expenditure for warlike purposes.

But we may gradually induce such a state of feeling and of opinion, as would almost unobservedly lead to that reduction. Men, I know, are seldom satisfied with these undefined and distant hopes. The human mind delights in specifics, and is apt to believe that for every evil there is a specific remedy. If adventure-moreover perpetrating all this mischief steadily, as something hitherto unknown were found out, there would, they are apt to think, be no more wars. But there is no specific, I fear, to be found out for persuading potentates to disband armies; and there is always the pretext, and often the good excuse, for a potentate, that he cannot disband any portion of his army while a neighboring potentate maintains his in full force. And who is to begin the good work? Happy indeed would it be for mankind if the work were of a nature that could be left to obscure students to settle. All that they can do is to point out the nature and extent of the evil, and to dwell upon it without exaggerating it; to illustrate from the rich resources of history the magnitude of the evil; to prophesy disaster from it when they can honestly do so; and to show that its consequences are such as in the long run to promote the destruction, rather than the stability of empires. If they can sow any of this good seed they must leave it to fructify in the minds of other men of their own time, and in the minds of other men of future generations. For this is not an evil that will be cured in a day.

TEMPTATION AFFORDED BY LARGE STANDINO ARMIES.

As some excuse for monarchs, we must own that the natural disposition of mankind is to make use of whatever they possess, whether it be advisable to use it or not. The man who has the gift of eloquence cannot bear an enforced silence, however injurious to himself it may be for him to speak out,

"Et sua mortifera est facundia."

The man who has the rare faculty of exquisite expression will write books, though the writing of books is, as some think, the most deplorable occupation, except grinding metals or working in a coal-pit, that has yet been invented by human beings. Something, however, has to be said for this use of certain faculties, as there is generally behind these faculties a force and power which require to be used. Nature seldom makes such incomplete beings as those would be who had a wonderful power of expression, but yet had nothing to express. The danger from an injudicious use of power is much greater when the power is arrived at by accident, and is not by any means innate. Hence the man who has half a million of soldiers to play with is grievously tempted to use them, whether the use be wise or not. You might nearly as well trust a child with a large whip, and expect him not to slash about with it in a most inconsiderate manner, as to expect a man who has at his command immense armies (perhaps an hereditary acquisition) not to do something with them, however uncalled-for that something may be. Hence in all states the wholesome dread that there should always be, of large standing armies being maintained upon any pretext whatever. This is the great merit of constitutional government, that, with a view to home affairs, it naturally has a wise jealousy of the existence of such armies. Constitutional governments are not much more averse from foreign war than despotic governments are; but fortunately the means for immediate warfare are never so ready to their hands. It may be noticed that these large standing armies are comparatively a modern invention. When barons and their retainers were summoned by the tenure of feudal service to assist

their monarchs in a foolish war, if they chose to go, they went, and pillaged, and devastated; but when they came back, and were disbanded, the country had not to bear the expense of a standing army, and the barons returned to their private affairs, perhaps to carry on feuds with one another (their private busi ness), and the state was not exhausted by maintaining men-atarms for the especial purposes of monarchs.

THE MISCHIEF OF AN ARMED PEACE.

After what I have said of the evils of actual warfare, you cannot charge me with underrating them. But I really do believe that the mischief, if not the misery, of an armed peace, is more to be apprehended. This sword hanging over us takes somewhat of the savor out of every banquet. A great war ended,

PROMISE OF PEACE.

Experience, far from dooming us to unbelief, as some affirm, shows us on the contrary, that in spite of the hindrance to common sense in a world where folly and ignorance have on their side the heavy battalions, every century removes some of the lamentable prejudices which have been regarded as basis of the social order. Cannibalism, slavery, serfdom, the accursed religious persecutions, the death-penalty so lavishly administered, the stupid trials for witchcraft (to mention no more), were not all these looked upon by our ancestors as necessary, as much as war? Before Beccaria, the most humane judge used as an indispensable means of detecting guilt, what a French poet has described so well in his line :—

"La torture interroge, et la douleur repond."

Yet the legitimate influence of a great philanthropist, inspired
by the genius of good sense and humanity, freed the world
from one of the worst infamies which ever disgraced legisla-
tion. If some improbable catastrophe does not plunge the
"Middle Age," war,
civilized world into the night of a new
too, will have its turn. Its opponents are no longer scattered;
those who themselves bear the sword feel an ominous pain in
their own hearts; popular sentiment is so far from opposing the
propagation of peace-doctrines that wherever the martial
theory is dominant, emigration becomes almost an Exodus, and
we see whole populations crossing the ocean in mass to escape
the barracks. The signs of the time, as the Gospel calls
them, instead of indicating that the peoples will bear
the crushing burdens which wars lay upon them, from
which they gain nothing, show that if the governments, which
are not usually brilliant in their shrewdness, go obstinately on
in this way, they will give new food to the alarming social ag-
itation, the symptoms of which, every day more manifest, set
to thinking all judicious souls. They ought not to overlook
the fact that a narrow horizon no longer bounds the vision of
the nations. The husbandman, not less than the artisan,
knows now that there are States like the great American Re-
public, where the terrible" blood-tax" is drawn from no one,
and where the labor which is going to transform our earth is
more in honor than the temper of fighting. So this powerful
State, which needs no war for its marvellous increase, each
year gains the population of a whole French Department, and
has found ways of making continual "annexation
pense of the European kings, without losing a man or a dollar.
realizes thus in one sense that prophecy of the Sermon on the
Mount, which so much scandalized our warlike ancestors,
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
-Dora D'Istria.

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at the ex

NEVER DESPAIR.-Look at the good things around you. Accept your lot as a man does a piece of rugged ground, and begin to get out the rocks and roots, to deepen and mellow the soil, to enrich and plant it. There is something in the most forbidding avocation around which a man may twine pleasant fancies, out of which he may develop honest pride.

"SPERO MELIORA," OR I HOPE BETTER THINGS. could earn by hard toil. She kept a large lot of hens, and

DEWDROPS OF THE LAW OF KINDNESS. NO. 11. rail-road, a few rods from the steep walls of the bridge that was

She had done all she could. Would it save the train and all on board from a death so full of dread to think of? She will soon know. Hark! it comes at full speed. She hears it on Some few years since, the wife of a poor man who had long the far side of a curve in the road. There! its great red eye been dead, though poor and old, paid for kind acts done her in comes in sight, and casts its light on the rails all the way to a way that I will tell you of. She dwelt in a gap in the wild the red gown on the pole. Sharp it screams like a live thing woods far from a town. Her one child, a girl of twelve years, on the edge of death. It quakes with dread. A cry and lived with her, and she fed and clothed both with what she shout run from end to end. The men at the brakes bend with