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And thousands, too, who never heard

Thy voice, have kindled o'er the page On which thy brave and lucid word

Went forth to move and mould the age.

The pulpit was thy "joy and throne;"
No less in Harvard's august chair,
Thy manly, genial wisdom shone

And breathed its blessed influence there.

To-day, O loved and honored one,
What throngs rise up to call thee blest,
And pray thy slowly sinking sun
Long linger in the glowing west!

[From the Transcript.]

THE GIFT TO EX-PRESIDENT REV. JAMES WALKER, D. D., spoken of in the "Transcript," yesterday, is thus described:

A cup and plate in silver, relieved with gold, are made to tell the lesson of his life, and the good wishes of his old parishioners and friends. The cup is nearly a foot high, with a pedestal bordered with gold, with ivy and lilies in wrought silver upon the stem, and with rich designs and inscriptions upon the bowl, which is lined with gold. Upon one side of the bowl the seal of Harvard University is given in bold relief, with the motto, "Christo et Ecclesiæ,” in raised letters, and with blades of wheat on one side, richly chased, and a vine branch on the other. Upon the opposite side of the bowl is the name of Dr. Walker, with the chief dates of his life enclosed within branches of olive and oak. Around the rim of the cup is the inscription in church letter, "The Cup of Blessing which we Bless."

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scription did not read "upon the eightieth
anniversary of his birthday," a form of words
which would convey the meaning accurately),
and were sent to the Doctor in a handsome
case of morocco lined with blue silk.
ington, who saw the gift at Tiffany's before
it was sent away, and whose judgment is
authoritative, pronounced it a gem of Chris-
tian art; and the letter that went with it
said that it was meant to tell the Doctor at
once that his friends believed that God had
blessed him in his life, and that they gave
their own "God bless you!" in this pleas-
ant and lasting form.

[From the New York Evening Post.]

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GIFT TO KING'S CHAPEL. The late Rev.
Dr. James Walker, ex-President of Harvard
College, left a special gift for Rev. Dr. Os-
good of that city, the nature and disposition
of which are thus stated: "Dr. Osgood re-
ceived the costly and exquisite pieces of silver
and the richly-wrought cup and plate that
were presented to Dr. Walker last August,
when he was eighty years old, by his old
parishioners and friends. The gift was, of
course, accepted with gratitude, but the re-
ceiver thought it too sacred and impressive
to be kept private in the household, and
therefore offered it to King's Chapel, Boston,
where Dr. Walker had so many friends, and
where he was invited to be pastor after his
retirement from the presidency at the
sixty-six.
age of

The

The minister and wardens of King's Chapel signified to Dr. Osgood their grateful acceptance of the beautiful memorial, and the intention of the congregation to keep it with their communion plate and use The plate is a foot in diameter, with a gold the cup and plate at Christmas, Easter, and border of ecclesiastical pattern, and a wreath, Whit Sunday at Holy Communion. vine and berries engraved around the inside. formal presentation of the gift was made in The name is in the centre, surrounded by the Chapel on Sunday morning, Feb. 28, by the words, in antique letters, "Thine old the minister, Rev. Henry W. Foote, and the age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou correspondence concerning it was then read. shalt be as the morning." Both the cup The only condition attached by Dr. Osgood and plate are inscribed, after name, "From was that it should go to Harvard University old parishioners and friends, upon his eigh-in case the Chapel should ever cease to hold tieth birthday" (it is a pity that the in- it."

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Visited John Brown's grave at North Elba, half a mile across the fields from Hanmer's tavern, two miles by the road. His house, unpainted, small, one story and a half, with a small addition behind, is on a cleared plateau of five or eight acres : Whiteface," in full sight on the north and a fine view for a full semicircle or more, all round to the east and south of the Adirondack ranges; on the west and south, woods. The chief point about the place is the cleared, level plateau, laid down to grass, with scattered stumps now old and growing small; on this the house stands; my companion admires the taste that chose such a spot, — the finest site, he thinks, that we have seen. The grave is in a little enclosure, fifty feet square or so, close by the house, at the northeast; a huge boulder, of a flat rather than high shape (it is about eight feet high), occupies a full third of the enclosure; it seems bedded deep in the earth; steps lead to the top of it, and there, where the side of the rock rises a little from its general slope, one reads these words, cut into the solid stone and facing the

east:

JOHN BROWN. 1859.

The grave lies at the side of this boulder and has at the head of it a slab, — an old one removed from some other place, with an antique inscription to the memory of Captain John Brown, who died in 1776; under this is another one to "John Brown, born 1800, executed at Charlestown, Va., Dec. 2, 1859;" | other inscriptions to his sons crowd the

stone.

This little enclosure is in grass, with a rose-bush or two; off at the east corner is a small maple. The rugged, massive rock is a fit companion at the grave; it is to be hoped that no other monument will be set up. . . . . It comes over one here that this man, more than any other one person, must be thought of as the victim of slavery, and that in him-whether it be true or not that his mind grew disordered are shown the revulsion and the protest of human nature itself at the horrid system.

The nobly simple inscription upon the rock at John Brown's grave was placed there by a citizen of Boston.

TO A LADY,

[Whose ring bore the motto Dieu est ma Roche.] What went ye forth in that fair wilderness To look on, lady? - fawns of mottled skin, Or trembling does driven to unwonted deeps, Or the wild Saranac, half its glory gone Of grace obscure and lovely loneliness, And woods unconscious of the tourists' din, Where now no torrent unregarded leaps? Or to see Autumn his red mantle don, And the free forest in imperial dress? Lady! thy legend should have graven been There in the Adirondacks, where he sleeps Whose soul, the song saith, still is marching

on.

God was his rock, and fitly in the shade
Of God's first handiwork that head was laid.

GENERAL SCHENCK, U. S. Minister to England, has been using an old American anecdote to good advantage. To the wife of a British cabinet officer, who assured him that "England made America all that she is," he said: "Pardon, madam, you remind me of an answer of the Iowa lad in his teens, who, attending Sunday school for the first time, was asked by his teacher, 'Who made you?' He replied, 'God made me so long (holding his hands about ten inches apart), but I growed the rest.'”

MARY BOOTH.

BY THOMAS W. PARSONS.

WHAT shall we do now, Mary being dead,
Or say, or write, that shall express the
half?

What can we do, but pillow that fair head,
And let the springtime write her epitaph, –

As it will soon, in snowdrop, violet,
Wild-flower, and columbine, and maiden's
tear,

Each letter of that pretty alphabet

writer is in error; for, so far from "Mother Goose" being a creature of fancy, she was, we beg to assure him, a veritable personage.

The mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet, the editor, in 1731, of the “Boston Weekly Rehearsal," was none other than the original Mother Goose, the Mother Goose of the world-famous Melodies. Mother Goose belonged to a wealthy family in Boston, where her eldest daughter, Elizabeth Goose, was married by Cotton Mather, in 1715, to Fleet, and in due time gave birth to a son. Like most mothers-in-law in our own day, the

That spells in flowers the pageant of the importance of Mrs. Goose increased with year?

She was a maiden for a man to love;
She was a woman for a husband's life;
One that had learned to value far above

the appearance of her grandchild, and poor Mr. Fleet, half distracted with her endless nursery ditties, finding all other means fail, tried what ridicule could effect, and actually printed a book with the title, "Songs for

The name of Love the sacred name of the Nursery; or, Mother Goose's Melodies Wife.

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She hath fulfilled her promise, and hath
past;

Let her down gently at the iron door!
Eyes, look on that loved image for the last;
Now cover it in earth, - her earth no more.

MOTHER GOOSE NOT A MYTH.

MR. WILLIAM L. STONE, of this city, writes as follows to the "Providence Journal: ".

for Children, printed by T. Fleet, at his printing house, Pudding Lane, Boston. Price ten coppers."

Mother Goose was the mother of nineteen children, and hence we may easily trace the origin of that famous classic,

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she did n't know what to do."

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ABOUT THE AGE OF HORSES. A short time ago we met a gentleman who gave information in regard to ascertaining the age of horses after they have passed the ninth year, new to us, and will be, we are sure, to most of our readers. It is this: After the horse is nine years old, a wrinkle comes on the upper corner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter he has one well-defined In the January number of the "Brauno-wrinkle for every year over nine. If a horse nian" appears a well-written and interesting has three wrinkles, he is twelve; if he has paper entitled "Mother Goose's Melodies." four, he is thirteen. Add the number of In the first paragraph is this sentence: wrinkles to nine, and you will get it. So "Here the traditional bard is Mother Goose, says the gentleman, and he is sure it will of whom nothing certain is known. . . . . not fail. But more than the name history does not horses over nine, it is easily tried. As a good many people have In this statement, however, the the horse dentist must give up his trade.

reveal."

If true,

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surgery. This uncultured woman, born with an instinctive knowledge of anatomy, lives in a handsome villa about twelve miles distant. She is sought by people from all parts of the world, and, though she sometimes attempts to straighten limbs that have been distorted from birth and to correct the blunders of unskilful professionals, her specialty is the setting of hip dislocations, and I believe in this line she is without a living rival. I had been recommended to visit Regina, as she is familiarly called in this neighborhood, to see if she might not be able to regulate an arm that has troubled me somewhat since an accident I met with a year ago near Rome. The marvellous stories I had heard of her skill, the flattering tributes paid to her character by people of all professions, nationalities, and creeds, encouraged me to believe that my salvation rested in her hands, and I sought her this morning with my heart in my throat and my arm in a state of suspense. I went on alone to the villa of Regina, with its broad, cream-colored walls shining brightly on the hillside. A maid held the door open as I approached the villa, and I was at once ushered into a small drawing-room tastefully furnished. A portrait of Pope Pius IX. hangs conspicuously on one wall; a life-size photograph of Regina is on the opposite side of the room; a smaller photograph of the famous lady stood on the étagère in an elaborate frame, while a third was set in the cover of a large volume which ornamented the centre-table. This book, presented by the city of Trieste to Regina when she removed to her present villa, contains four thousand autographs of the best-known citizens of that place. There was also a large album, containing the photographs of many who have been successfully treated for deformities of various kinds by that lady whom I had come to see. While I was looking at this album she entered, a very plain woman of forty or more; short, stout, untidily dressed. The lower hooks of her waist were bursted, and there was nothing attractive in her personal appearance. Two of her front teeth were gone,

der that she has never attempted to write
anything else. When it was time for me to
leave her I hated to go; her atmosphere is
wholesome and strengthening; her home
beautiful and full of peace."

her hair was rolled into a small wad at the
top of her head, long gold eardrops dangled
upon her shoulders, and about her neck she
wore a massive gold chain. We proceeded
at once to business. She stripped my arm
to the shoulder, touched it lightly here and The narrative in the "Daily Advertiser"
there with a touch that was exceedingly concerning Regina del Cin recalls the case
agreeable. Her examination of my case was of Rev. Dr. Temple, of Troy, N. Y., who is
so slight, the questions she asked so few, undoubtedly the New York gentleman there-
yet her comprehension of my condition so in referred to. His hip was dislocated by
complete, that I strongly suspected the lady an accident in which he was thrown from a
of being a clairvoyant. She lays no claim carriage. He endured excruciating agony
to any such gift; was born with the genius for years, during which the best surgeons
for bone-setting, which she is continually of this country and of Europe found them-
exercising, uses the simplest possible reme- selves unable to restore the displaced bone
dies, and in all cases performs her opera-
to its socket. The London surgeons sent
tions without giving any pain whatever. I him to Paris, and the Paris surgeons de-
had proof enough of her marvellous skill.clared that he could not be cured; or, if at
In the hall I saw a heap of crutches, braces, all, only by a quack, — plainly meaning he
and straps, iron stilts, and other horrible could not be cured. Dr. Temple chanced
aids such as cripples are forced to seek. to hear of this woman, and, despairing of,
These were left at the villa by sufferers who aid from the regular faculty, went to see her.
had found complete relief under her roof, His account of his experience is most inter-
and many of them bore touching inscriptions esting. The woman made but little exami-
in token of gratitude and affection and as nation, and seemed to have an intuitive
voluntary testimonials to her skill. The knowledge of what must be done. She di-
place looked like the shrine of some saint rected him to apply a poultice over the
with its multitude of votive offerings. There affected part for a few days, for the purpose
was one steel shoe with a sole at least a foot of softening the bone. She then, in the ten-
in thickness. Knowing me to be an Ameri- derest and easiest manner possible, put the
can, she called my attention to the inscrip- bone back in its place; the cure was effected
tion on it. I found that a gentleman of New and the pain instantly ceased.
York city had left it, certifying that he had
been "cured of a dislocation of the hip of
seventeen years' standing, instantly and with-
out pain." It is her custom to ask no fee
for her services. You pay according to your
means. Those who desire it, and for whom
it is necessary, lodge in the house and re-
ceive her constant attention. She says at
once whether she will or not attempt a cure.
The good woman, after much persuasion,
consented to give me her autograph. My
conscience smote me for urging her, when
I saw the great beads of sweat starting out
on her forehead as she bowed over my
pocket album and wrestled with her pen.
Her signature is as unhandsome as possible,
and under the circumstances I don't won-

Dr. Temple preached in this city and
vicinity several times last year.
He is a man
of high culture, and of most estimable and
lovely character. He had just returned from
Europe and was entirely well. There was
no soreness or lameness left, and but a little
inequality in his step owing to the long con-
straint put upon the muscles of his limbs.
He states that a son of the woman, who was
a priest, had the same power the mother
has; but unfortunately he died a few years
ago. For many years the woman was much
troubled by vexatious opposition from the
regular faculty. She now, however, has a
license from the Italian government direct,
having been successful in treating a mem-
ber of the royal family.

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