... Romance

When a young lawyer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he was engaged to be married to a young lady to whom he was devotedly attached. TJie biographer has given us in a brief but deeply interesting sketch the history of this sad episode. A "lovers' quarrel," originating in the gossip of village girls, separated them. Trines are causes in the philosophy of life, as in nature, which sometimes produce convulsions, catastrophes. Young girls of the past generation in a country town wero narvelously like yoang girls of the preceding and of the present generation. The gossip of thoughtless c hi ldren , scarce gro wn to womanhood, produced eöects which they little imagined. The lovers wore parted. The 3eparation would have been only temporary, perhaps, but tor her suddsn duath. In a very touching and eloquent letter he begged to be alTowed to see bis dead love. In this he said: "My prospects are all cutoff. and I feel that my happiness will be buried with her in the grave, lt is now no time for explanation, but the time will come when you will discover that she, as well as I, Las been niuch abused. óod forgivo the authors of it! My feelings of resentnient against them, whoever they may be, are buried in the dusl. I have now one request to make, and for the love of God and your dear departed daughter, whom I loved inünitely more than any other human beingcouk' love, deny me not. Aflbrd me the melancholy pleasure of seeing her body before its interment." Perhaps to the unsenlimental reader this is but a trilling incident in a human lite, But, after all, the mighty torces which nioye, hwiii.unt aro the forces wbieh come from the affeetions rather than from the cool intellect. Men have died, and worms have eateu them, and this for love. He who endoavors to measure the soul, to analyzo the moral and iutcllectual part of man or woman, and who ridicules what we cali suntiment, leaves out the most important elemeDt in the whole subject of consideration. When ia later years Mr. Buchanan became a public man, pulitical antagonists, aecording to the accepled American style of political campaigns, raked out of tho history of his youth this incident, misrepresenLed and fal3ifled it. Ttie oíd uonlician, who knew belter iban any man in America how to meet and reply to all the attacks and accusations, true or false, of opponents, never ullowed the solernn sacredness of this memory to be tarnished by any allusion to it ou his part. Onoe he told a trusted friend that there were among his papers letters and relies which, when he was deid, would, if necessary, set this history truly before all who were interested. I would seem that before hisdecease he came to the conclusión that the story of his love belonged alone to hiraself and to her, and that it matbercd little what was said here when he and shu shoiild talk it over where there aro no gossips or seandal-mongers. His exeeutors found a saaled package endorscd with directions to burn it unopened, and they obeyed the direction. The course of true love, says our Hographer, in terms of very simple eloquenoe, "ran in this case pure and unbroken in the heart of the survivor through a long and varied Jife. It became a grief that could not be spoken of, to wnich only the most distanc allusion could bernade; a sacred, unceasing soriow, buried deep in the breast of s man who was formed for domesticjoys; hidden beneath manners that were most engaging, beneath strong social tendencies, and a chivalrous old-fashkfied deference to women of all ages, and all climes. His peculiar and reverenlial demeanor toward the sex, never varied by rank or station or individual attractions, was doubtless in a large degree caueed by the tender memory of what he had found or fancied in her whom he had lost in his early days by such a cruel fate." The immediate effect of this sorrow was to change the course of bis life. He bad previously dotermined not to enter political life. He now sought excitemenl and associations with men, and accepted a nomination aud election to Congress. The village gossips who arted the lovers are rcsponsiblc for a ast deal that has since occurred in the listory of the United States. "Well, what's tne show for a spicy Daper to-morrow," said the chief of a tVestern paper to the city editor. " don't know yet, boss; but I'vo got a ïouple of men out killing trampa, and [ think we'll dish up a few spreads for you before midnight," replied the energetic and enterprising executive. -