. Book of the Royal blue . ious , in the Autumn gloaming, chill with its promise of we, heavy laden with purple and glowing gold. LENVOIAutumn of life is coming with shadows of dun and brown:Out of the hills well hasten and into a shining townWalled in a wealth of jasper with settings of priceless stones:Paeans of joy will mingle with all of our earth-taught moans:One will await our coming: and He, with all-seeing will view our burdens them will he reckon us will be blessed past measure, who, as they enter the him Truths royal purple and
. Book of the Royal blue . ious , in the Autumn gloaming, chill with its promise of we, heavy laden with purple and glowing gold. LENVOIAutumn of life is coming with shadows of dun and brown:Out of the hills well hasten and into a shining townWalled in a wealth of jasper with settings of priceless stones:Paeans of joy will mingle with all of our earth-taught moans:One will await our coming: and He, with all-seeing will view our burdens them will he reckon us will be blessed past measure, who, as they enter the him Truths royal purple and a pure hearts gleaming gold. SKETCHES. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. SIIOrLD tlic Chesapeake ^ Ohio(anal, the waterway of uliicli(■eorjie VVashiiij;t<)ii was tlie touiideiand wlii<-h runs ahnost jjarallel withthe Baltimore \- Ohio Uaih-oad from Wash-ington to tumberhmd, pass into otherhands and he utilized as a roadbed for arailway, it will be the doini; away of oneof the main lines of the old I nder< TIIK CHESAPKAKK i OHIO CANAL. This old I nderyround Railroad was amysterious orifanization whieii existed until Kmaiicipation : it had no salariedottieers, no public reports, no fast-flyingschedules, and declared no one purpose only was it organized—to assist fugitive slaves in reacliing a placeof safety. So perfectly were the plans ofthe railroad carried out that the linesand stations extended from and throughalmost every Southern State and intoPennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, New ^nrkand all the Kastern and New KnglantiStates and on into Canada, (^uiet, easy-going Quakers of Philadelphia were theoriginators and promoters of the Under-ground Railroad, and they gave liberallyof their money to |)erfeet the the system was thoroughly unilcr-stood by the abolitionists throughout thecountry there was no difficulty in securingall the money needed to |)ay e\ ery Rhoades, a wealthy Philadelphian,was the chief f
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