"11m early part of the war, on dark

Satarday night, in the dead of winter,

titers died in the Commercial Hospital in

t i cmnati, a young woman over whose

1 only two and twenty summers bad

, i ( A. Rlif liad once been possessed of

an enviable share of beauty, and bad been

aa aha herslt" aavs, "flattered and sought

for the ebarma of the face ; batalaa ! up

oi; her fair brow had lone been written

that terrible word prostitute I Once the

p.ide of respectable parentage, her first

wrong atep waa the small beginning of

tha "aaaao old atory over again," which

ha been the only life-hiatory of thous-

Js. Highly educated and accomplish­

ed la main . s, alio might hare ahown in

tlit batt of society, but the evil boar

that proved her ruin waa the door from

childhood, and having apent a yonng life

in diagram and slmme, the poor friendless

onn died the melancholy death of a

broken-hearted outcast.

wr?iewlTinjme4litti!ly" carried to Kuos

ary tastes, who was at that time editor oi

the National Union. In the columns ot

the paper on the morning of the day fol­

lowing the girl's death, the poem appear­

ed in print for the first time. When the

paper containing the poem came out on

Sunday morning, the body of the victim

had not yet received burial. The atten­

tion of Thomas Buchanan Reed, oue oi

the first American poets, waa ao taken

with their stirring pathos, that be imme

diately followed the corpse to its final rest­

ing place.

"Such are the plain facts concerning

her whore 'Beautiful Snow' shall long be

i-nK iubered as one of the brightest gems

iii American literature."

THE HEAL I'lFPL SNOW.

Oh the anew, the beautiful mow,

Filtlsf tat sky sad the earth he low j

Orer the bauaa lose, ever tha street,

Over tha heads of the people j ou meet.

Dancing,

ma

Skimming