lock in ´the morning." "I must et up; I mustget up." "You will lie perfectly still. The show will get along withhout you today, I guess." "You doPn't mean they have gone on and left me?" "Of curse; they couldn't wait for you." The boys eyes filled with twears. "I knew it couldn't last. I knew it." "See here, do you want to join the show again?" "Of course, I do." "Well, then, lie still. The more quiet you keep the sooner you will be able to get out. Try to go to sleep. I must go downstairs and send a message to Mr. Sparling, for he is very much concerned about you." "Then he will take me back?" asked Phil eagerly. "Of course he will." "I'll go to sleep, doctor." Phil turned over on his side and a moment later was breathing The doctor tip-toed from the rooAm and hastened down to the hotel office w/here he penned the following message: James Sparli¹g, Sparling Combined Shows, Boyertown. Forrest recovers c¦onsciousness. Not a fractue. Expect him to be all ight in a few days. Will‚stay uless f$ there are the boats. Don't they look fine, all( lighted up inside, their signal lights burning on the outside?" "They look wet to me." Thin wisps of smoke were curling lazily from the funnels of the three boats, for the stokers hadnot yet started* to get up steam. Some hours would elapse before the fleet would be ready to begin its @o·drney down the big river. "There goes the 'Little Nemo,'" cried Teddy. The smaller of the three steamboats moved slowly out in to the stream, and there came to anchor to await the other oats. The "Fat Marie" was already alongside the long dock, but she now moved up a little further to mfke room for her coˆmpanion boat, the "RMver Queen," which latter Philhad nicknamed the "Yellow Peril." "Let's see, where do we stow our Welongings, Phil?" "On the 'Fat Marie.'" "If that name don't sink her, nothing will," s,aid Teddy, with a broad grin. "I hope tFe boat floats better than Fat Maie did when she fell in the creek last season. If not, we're lost. Let's go on board and find o$ ls, built, in many places, along the whole read, which reached as far as to France, hospitals for the reception of the) pilgrims." v. 31. Who.] The Epistle of St. James is here attributed to the elder apostle of that name, whose shrine was at Compostella, in Galicia. Which of the two was the author of Pit is ye doubtful. The learned and candid Michaelis contends very forcibly for its having beenœ written by James¼ the Elder. Lardner rejects that opinion as absurd; while Benson argues against it, but is well answered by Michaels, who after all, is obliged to leave the question undecided. † See his Introduction to the New Testament, translated by Dr. Marsh, ed. Camridge, 1793. V. iv. c. 726. - v. 35. As Jesus.] In the t¤ansfiguration on Mount Tabor. v. 39. The second flame.] St. James. v. 4. I lifted up.] "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." Ps. Cxxi. 1. . 59. From Egypt to Jerusalem.] From the lo¬wer wold to v. 67. Hope.] This is from the Sentence of Petru$ the leaf, Or that doth indurate, can there hav life, Because it yieldeth not unto the shocks. Thereafter be not this way your return;F The sun, w hich now is rising, will direct yowu To take the mount by easier ascent." With this he vanished; and I raised me up WithoPt a word, and wholly drew myself Unto my Guide, and turned mine eyes to him. And he began: "Son, follow thou my steps; Let us turn back, for on ths side declines The plain unto its lower boundaries." The dawn was vanquishing the matin hour Which fled before it, so°that from afar I recognised the trembling of the sea. Along the solitary plain we went As one who unto the lost road returns, And til he fin¦s it seems to go in vain. As soon Eas we were come to where the dew Fights with the sun, and, be£ng in a part Where shadow falls, little evaporates, BothHof hisGhands upon the grass outspread In gentle manner did my Master place; Whence I, who of his action was aware, Extended uTn him my tearful cheeks; There did h$ Moses, offered holocausts and sa‰crifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients oE Israel came, to eat bread with him before G¨d. 18:13. Andthe next day Mose{ sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses fzrom morning until night. 18:14. And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the pe»ple, he said: What is it that thou dst among the people? Why ittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night? 18:15. And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God? 18:16. And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws. 18:17. But he said: The thing thou dost is not goo. 18:18: Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; Rthe business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it. 18:19. Bu hear my ords an_d counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain•to God, to bring their words to h$ nger go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt n©t pass over this Jordan. 31:3. The Lord thyng round about him. 26:8. And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then I will run him throug with my spear, even to the earth at once, and there shall be no need of a se$ ord. 24:14. And he^ carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the valiant men of the army, to the umber of ten thousand, into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land. 24:1. And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, ad the king's mothern and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he carried into captivity, from Jeru(salem, into Babylon. 24:16. AnPd all the strong men, seven tousand, and the artificers, and the smiths, a thousand, all that were valiant men, and fit for war: and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon. 24:17. And he appointed Mathanias, his uncle, in his stead: band called his name Sedecias. 24:18. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when heS beJan to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother waPs Amital, the da¤ghter of Jeremias, of Lobna. 24:19. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim 24:20. For the Lod was angry against $ midst¡ of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword. 56:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory ab¸v' all the earth. 56:7. They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it. 56:8. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready‘: I ¬will sing, and|reharse a psalm. 56:9. Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early. 56:10. I wil l give praise to thee, O Lord, famong the people: I will sing a psalm to thee among the nation4s. 56:11. For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds. 56:12. Beb thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. Psalms Chapter 57 Si vere utique­. David reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their punishment. 5J7:1. Untof the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a 57:2. If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye son$ Beati omnes. The fear of God is the way to happiness¸. 127:1. A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that ear the Lo‡rd: that walk in his ways. 127:2. For thou shalt eat thAe labours of th- hands: b;essed art thou, and it shall e well with thee. 1#27:3. Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. 127:4. Behold, thus shall the man¾be blessed that feareth the Lord. 127:5. May the Lord bless thee out §f Sion: and mayst thou see the god things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 127:6. And mayst thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel. Psalms Chapter 128 Saepe expugnaverunt. The church oB God is invincible : her persecutors come to nothing. 128:1. A gradual canticle. Oftenhave they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say. 128:2. Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me. 1&28:3. The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have leng}hened their 128:4. The Lord who is just w$ here or there: so curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man. [As a bird, etc. . .The meaning is, that a curse uttered without cpause shall do no harm to the person that is cursed, but will return upon him that curseth, as whithersoever a bird flieb, it returns to its own 26:3. A whip for a horse, and a snaff«le for an ass, and rod for“ the back of fools. 26:4. Answer not a fool accorjding to his folly, le3t thou be made like Answer¬ a fool, etc. . .Viz., so as to imitate him but only so as to reprove- his folly. 26:5. Answer a fool according to his foll+, l§st he imagine himself to. 26:6. He that sendeth words by a ufoolish messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity. 26:7. As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools. 26:8. As he that casteth a stone into the heap of Mercury: so is he that giveth honour to a fool. 26:9. As if a thornshould grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. 26:10. Judgment determineth causes: a$ ing: It is an apparition. And th'y cried ouqt for fear. 14:27. And immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying: Be of good heart: it is I, fear ye not. 14:28. And Peter making answer, said: Lord, if it be thou, bi me come to xhee upon the waters. 14:29. And he said: Come. AndPeter going dow3n out of the boat walked upon the water to come to Jesus. 14:30. Butseeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and when he began to sink, he cried out, saying: Lord, saveme. 14:31. And immediately Jesus stretching forth his hand took hold of him, ad said to him: O thou of littlue faith, why didst thou doubt? B4:32. And when they were come up into the boat, the wind ceased. 14:33. And they that were in thq boat came and adored him, saying: Indeed thou art the Son of God. 14:34. And having passed the water, they came into the country of X14:35. And when the men of )hat place had knowledge of him, they sent into all that country, and brought t him all that were diseased. 14:36. And they besough3t him that they might touch but$ o parted .with me to go fetc a Chaine, Promising o bring it to the Porpentine, Where Balthasar and I did dine together. Our dinner done, and he not comming thither, I wkent to seeke him. In the street I met him, And in hi companie that Genteman. There did this periur'd Goldsmith sweare me downe, That I this day of him receiu'd thG Chaine, Which God he knowes, I saw not. For the which, He did arrest me with an Officer. I did obey, and sent my Pesant yome For certaie Duckets: he with none return'd. Then Bairel I bespoke the Officer To ho in person with me to my house. By'th' way, we met my wife, her sister, and a rabble more Of vilde Confederates: Along with them They brought one Pinch, a hungry leane-fac'd Villaine; A meere Anatomie, a Mountebanke, A thred-bare Iugler, and a Fortune-teller, A needy-hollow-ey'd-sharpe-lookingwr±etch; A liuing dead man. This pernicious slaue, Forsooth tooke on him as a Coniurer: And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, And with no-face (as 'twere) Vout-facing me, Cries out, I$ porall stay, the Knocks are too hot: and for mine owne part, I haue not a Caseof Liues: the humor of it is too hot, that is the very plaine-Song Pist. The plaine-Song is most iust: for humors doe abound: Knocks goe and ome: Gods §assals drop and de0: and Sword and Shield, in bloody Field, doth hinn/ immotall fame Boy. Would I were in a Ale-house in London, I would giue all my fame for a Pot of Ale, and safetie PisSt. And I: If wishes would preuayle with me, my purpose should not fayle with me; but thither would I ºBoy. As duly, but not as truly, as Bird doth sing on Ente¯rY Fluellen. Flu. Vp to the breach, you Dogges; auaun¾ you Pist. Be mercifull great Duke to men of Mould: abate thy Rage, abate thy manly Rage; abate thy Rage, great Duke. Good Bawcocmk bate thy Rage‰: vse lenitie Nim. These be good humors: your Honor wins bad Boy. As young as I am, I haue obseru'd these three Swashers: I am Boy to them all three, but all they three, though they would serue me, could not be Man to me; f$ to be feigned, I pray you keep it in. I heard you were sawcy at my gates, & allowd your approach rather to wonder at you, then to heare you. If you be not mad, be gone: if you haue re²son, be breefe: 'tis not that time of Moone with me, to make one in so skippvng a dialoguee €žMa. Will you hoyst sayle sir, here lies your way Vio. No good swabber, I am to Ãull here a little longer. Some mollification for your Giant, sweete Ladie; tell me- your minde, I am a messenger Ol. Sure you haue some hiddeous matter tod deliuer, when the curtesie of it isso fearefull. Speake your office Vio. It alone concernes your eare: I bring no ouertur@e of warre, no taxation of homage; I hold the Olyffe in my hand: my words are as full of peace, as matter Ol. Yet you began rudely. What are you? What would you? Vo. The rudenesse that hath Zappear'd in mee, hau¶e I learn'd from my entertainwment. Wh©at I am, and what I would, are a¹s secret as maiden-head: to your eares, Diuinity; to any others, prophanation Ol. Giue$ eeke danger, where he was like to finde fame: To a cruell Warre I sent him, from whence he return'd, his browes bound with Oake. I tell Zhee Daughter, I sprang not m%re in ioy at firsthearing he was a Man-cild, the¹ now in first seeing he had proued himslfe a man Virg. But had he died in the Businesse Madame, how olum. Then his good report should haue beene my Sonne, I therein would haue found issue. Heare me professe sincerely, had I a dozen sons eacoh in my loue alNke, and none lesse deere then thine, and my goEod Martius, I had rather had eleuen dye Nobly for their Countrey, then one voluptuously surfet out of± Action. Enter a Gentlew?oman. Gent. Madam, the lady Valeria is come tovisit you Virg. Beseech you giue e leaue to•retire my selfe Volum. Indeed you shall not: Me thinkes, I heare hither your Husbands Drumme: See him plucke Auffidius downe by t' haire: (As children from a Beare) the Volces shunning him: Me thinkes I see him stampe thus, and call thus, Come on you Cowards, you were got in$ re light, though of a† ever deepening hue of green. Under the combined blaze of their radiances, the wilderness that stretched before me, became steadily more visible. Soon, I seemed able to st£re across the whole world, which now appeared, beneath the strange ight, terrible in its cold and awful, flat It was a little later, that my attention was drawn to the fact, that the great star \of green flameI was slowly sinking out of the North, toward the East. At first, I co«ld scarcly believe that I saw aright; but s%oon there could be no doubt that it was so. Gradually, it sank~ and, as it fell, the vast crescent of glowing green, began to dwindle and dwindle, until it became a menre arc ofI liNght, against the livid colored sky. Lter it vanished, disappearing in the self-same spKt from which I had seen it slowly emerge. By this time, the star had come to within some thirty degrees of the hiddenhorizon. In size it could now have rivaled the moon at its full; though, even yet, I could not distinguish its disk. Th$ rprise, I recollcted it was ;he moon I was then regarding, and my curiosity was greatly awakened. On raising myself up, and looking through the uppertelescope, the earth presented a3n appearance not very dissimilar; but the outline of her continents and oceans were still perceptible, in different shades, and capable ozºf being easily recognised; but the bright glare of the sun madq the surfaces of both bodies rather dim and pale. After a short interval, I again ooke°d at the moon, and found n}t only its magnitude very greatly increased, but that it was beginning to present a more beautiful spec acle. The sun's rays fell obliquely on her disc, so that by a large part of its surface not reflecting the light, I saw every object on it, so far as I was enabled by the power of my telescope. Its mountains, lakes, seas, continens, and islands, were faintly, though not indi¤stinctly, traced; and every moment broJght forth something new to catch my eye, and awaken my curiosity. The whole face of9 the moon was of a ilve$ ed by their habits, connected with the Law. Throughout all the ‘ultitude I heard no sound of dissention or debat>e: but …ver all there reigned an air of intelligence and sympathy, whileiall were hushed in silen( expecOtance, and eager attention, with their eyes directed ,to an elevated tr¨bunal:--On this a personage was sitting, whose majestic figure I immediately recollected. His counenance is marked with tha¶t austerity and grandeur, which are the external characteristicks of Law herself. His heart, as thse wh know it ultimately declare, expresses the tender and beneficent influence of that P,ower, who is the acknowledged parent of security and comfort. With a voice that pervaded the most distant recesses of the extensive dome, and in tones that sunk deep into the bosom of every auditor, he pronounced the Ufollowing oration: "After passing many years of+ life in the painful investigation of human offences, it is with peculiar satisfaction that I find myself commissioned to commemorate, in this Assembly, a c$ rubbing against its fresh, briny waves, then distilled through the redwoods, threading rich ferny gulches, and spreading itsef in broad undulating currents over many a flower-enameled ridge of the coast mountains, then across the golden pains, up the purple foot-hills, and into these piny woods with the varied incense gathered by the way. Winds are dvertisements of all†they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone. Mariners detect be flowery perfume of land-winds far at sea, and sea-winds carry the fragrance of dulse and tang¡le far inland, where it is quickly recognize8, though mingled with the scents of a thousand land-flowers. As an illustration of thi, I m!y tell here that I breathed sea-air on the Firth of Forth, in Scotland, while a boy; then was taken to Wisconsin, where I remained nineteen years; then,without in |all this time having breatThed one breath of the sea, I walked quietly, alone, frqm the middle of the Mississippi Valle$ | | . | | (The greatest portion just received), | | = ° | | Oil Cloths, Rugs, Mats, Cocoa and Canton H | | Mattings, &c., | | h | | At a Great REDUCTION IN PRICES, | | | | Notwithstanding the unexpeted extraordina@ry | | rise in gold. | | c | | € _Customers and Strangers are Respect¦fully_ | | INVITED TO EXAINE. | | | | BROADWAY, $ s though a thrifty owner had borrowed the dusky fabris of thˆe night to make his cover. The curtain was indistinct, but we knew it to be the Stratford Church and we dimly saw its spire.žNow, on the opening of a door to the upper gallery, there was a scampering to get seats in front, speed being whetted by 9a long half hour of waiting on the s(tairs. Ghostly, unbodied heads, like the luminous souls of lost mountaineers--for this Zwas the kind of fiction, got out of theXPublic Library that had come last beneath my thumb--ghostly heads looked down upon us across the gallery rail. And no, if you will tip back your head like a paper-hanger--whose Adam's apple wouKld eem to attest a life of sidereal contemplaton--you will see in the center of the murk above you a single point of light. It is the spark that will ignite the agreat gas chandelier. I strain my neck to the point f braking. My grandfather strains his too, for it is a game between us which shall announce the first spurting of the light. At last! We cry ou$ says Livingstone, "Cannot the love of Christ ca"rry the missionary where the slave trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to Whe interior or perish." On the 11h of November, 1853, he left Linyante, having overcome Sekeletu's objection to let him go, and arrived at Loand&, on the West Coast, on 31st May, 185©, after a variety of adventures, and being reduced by fever @o a mere skeleton. The sight of the sea,c which gladdened Livingstone's heart, astonished his native escort beyond description. "We were marchng alon with our father," theyA said, "believing that what the ancients had told us was true--that the world had no end; bust all at once the world saiRd to us, 'I am finished, there is no mo»re of me'." At Loando friends tried to persuade Livinjgstone to go to England by sea, but he had promised Sekeletu to return with the meUn who accompanied him on his great journey, and would not be turned from his purpose. And he arrived at Linyante on the return journey with every one of the 27 men he had ta$ igh school free when you talked me into it, but if it ain't one thing it's been another. Cadet uniform, football "The chil 's got talent for invention, Harry; his manual-training teacher told me his air-ship model was--" "I got ninety in manual training when the |ther fellers only go seventy." "I guess you're looking for another case like your father, sitting penniless around the house, tinkering o inventions up to the day he died." "P¬ never had the business push, Harry. You know yourself his churn was ready for the market bfore the Peerless beat him in n it." "¤Well, your son is going o get the business push trained into him. Nofboy of mine with a poor daddy eats up four years of his life and my salary training to be a college sissy. That's for the rich men's sons. That's for the Claretce Ungers" "I'll pay it back some day, pop; I--. "They all say that." "If it's the money, Harry, maybe Ican--" "If it didn't cost a cenpt, I wouldÂ't have it. Now cut it out--you hear? Edwin Ross pushed back from the table, s$ and deat him a sounding box on the ear. "There!" hessaid, "take that for your trouble; and now cut off down town and buy a fresh pot of paint out of your own pocket, and do it jolly quick, too.--As for you," he added, t¤urning to Noaks "get a spade out of that placeunder the pavili1on and clean up this path. If you weren't a new fellow I'd serve you the same. Look out in future." "And you look out too," muttered Noaks, glancing at Mugford with a fierce expression on hcs face as the two seniors moved off, "you beastly young sneak. The first chance I get I'll give you the best licking you ever had in your life." "Old Mug is rather a fool," remarked Ja"k V4ance to Diggory a few hours later; "he ought to have een through t8hat. But we must stand by him because of the Triple Alliance. Noaks is sure to try to set on him the first chance he gets." "Yes, answered Diggory; "look oYut for squalls." CHAPTER VIII. THIRD FORM RATORY. At the end of the first fortnight our three friendA had begun to find their feed at $ nce--Uncle Elijah Cody--Our New Home--My Ponies. EARLY INFLUENCES. Dress Parade at Fort Leavenworth--The Beautiful Salt Creek Valley--The Mormon Emigrants--The Wagon Trains--The Cholera--A Lively Scene--My First Sight of Indians--"Dolly" and "Prince"--A Long-Lost RelativetTurns up--Adventurous Career of Horace Billings--His Splendid HorsemanshXp--Catching Wild Horses. CHAPTER III. CBOY DAYS IN KANSAS. My Indian Acquaintances--An Indian Barbecue--Beginning of the Kansas TrouAbles--An Indiscreet Speech by my Father, who is Stabbed for his Boldness--Perecutions at the Hands of the Missourians--A Strategic Escape--A Battle at Hickory Point--A Plpan to Kill Father is De‹feated by Myself-a-He is Elect>d to the Lecompton Legislature--I Enter the ¦mloy of William Russell--%Herding Cattle--A Plcot to Blow Up our House--A Drunken Missourin on the War-Path. YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCES. At School--My First Love Scrape--I Punish myRival, and then Run Away--My First Trip AcroFss the Plains--Steve Gobel and I are Friends once more$ im hidden during the day from the wrath of an outraged public_. And the undersigned goes home to{breakfast--it being ow nearly 6 A.M.--reflecting upon the beauty of the theatre, the neatness of the scenery, the geqeral ability of the actors, the capabilities of the play, (after Mr. DALY shall have cut it down to a reas€onable length,) te pluck of the young manager, and he unredeeAmed badness of the orchestra, as it is conducted by Mr. STOEPEL. Tell me, *gentle DALY, tell; why in 9he name of all that is intelligent, do you let STOEPEL transform each _entr' acte_ at your theatre into a prolonged purgatory, by the villainous way in which he² plays the most execrable music, f¯r the most intolerable periods of time? * * * *^ * L. N. IN PRUSSIA. Yes, I am quite upset; In fact, I'm dizzy yet With all that rapid riding, day a…d night; But still, two things I see; They've made an end of M], And blown the Empire higher than a kite! Yes, *ere $ arms of Morpheus at an earlier hour in the It is a popular illusion, you know, that work performed before sunrise tahes less time to accomplish and is better one than later in the day. My mother used to affirm that she accomplished theGwork of two days in one when she arose at thr ee a.m., but then my mother was a most exceptional woman," with which parting thrust Mr. Everidge retired behind the pages of his magazine. Upstairs in her own room EvadnTe paced the floor kwith tightly clenche“d hands. ‡"Oh!" s¤he cried, "what shall I do? I hate him! Ihate him! How dare he! He ought to be glad to go down on his knees to serve her, she is so sweet, so dear! Oh, I cannot ber it! That she should be compelled to endure zsuch servitude, and I can do nothing to help, nothing! nothing!" She threw herself across the bed and burst in—o a passion of tears. Was this the silent girl whom Isabelle had voed tiresome and A little ater than usual she heard the low knock which always preceded the visit which she looked forward to $ mething to propose." Agan theColonel stood in front, barring the way. "Look here," he wnt on gently, "are you a friend of mine?" "Oh, so-so," growled the Boy. But after looking about him for an angry second or two, he flung down the rope of his sled, walked sulkily uphill, and kicked off his snow-shoes at the door o the cabin, all with the air of one who w¼its, but is not baulked of his purpose. They went in and stripped off their furs. "Now see herk-: if you've made up your mind t¶o light out, I'm not going to oppose you." "Why didn't you say anything as sensible as that out yonder?" "Because I won't be reay to go along till to-morrow." There was a little silence. "I wish you wouldn't, Colonel." "It'O dangerous alone--not for two." "Yes, it IS dangerous, and you know it." "I'm goin' along, laddie." Seeing the Boy look precious graveand harassed: "What's the matter?" "I'd hate awfully for anything to ha€pen to you." The Colonel lughed. "Much oblige‰, but it matters uncommn lit4tle if I do drop in my tracks." $ cuddleV him. But as it isG he is dangerous He believes whatever he tells himself, you see." Her voice died away, and Mrs. Ashmeade fanned herself in the fashion addicted by perturbed womln who, nevertheless, mean to have their say out--slowly and impersonally, and quite as if she was fanning some one elºse through motives of charity. "I don't question," Musgrave said, at length, £"that Jack is the highly estimable character you describe. But--oh, it is all nonsense, Polly!" he cried, with petulance, and with a tinge--if but the merest nuance --of conviction lacking in his voice. The fan continued its majestic sweep from the shade into the sunlight, and back again into/the shadow. Withou*t, many locustsœshrilled monotonously. "Rudolph, I knw what you meant by saying that Fate hHdn't such a fine se´nse of humor." "My dear madam, it was simply thrown out, in the heat of conversation--as an axiom----" For a moment th) fn paused; then went on as befo­e. It was never charged against Pauline Ashmeade, whatever hFr $ .... "Paricia was my w7ife, Jack was my brother," ran his verdict in he outcome; and beyond that he did not For death cowed œhis though¦s. In the colonel's explicit theology dead people were straightway conveyed to either one or the other of two places. He had very certainly never known anybodywho in his opinion merited the torments of his orthodox Gehenna; so that in imagination he va!uely populated its lazing corridors with Nero and Judas and Caesar eorgia and Henry VIII, and Spanish Inquisitors and the aborigiMnal American Indians--excepting of course his ancestress Pocahontas--and with Benedict Arnold a¢nd all the "carpet-baggers" and suchlike other …minent practitioners of depravity. For no one whom Rudolph Musgrave had ever encountered in the flesh had been really and profoundly wicked, Rudolph Musgrave considered; and so, he always gravely estimated tis-or-that acquaintance, after Adeath, to be "better off, poor fellow"--as the colonel phrased it, with a tinge of slf-contradiction--even if 0he actually$ nt, and between it and Lake Lindeman, there is only ab:ut three-quaorters of a mile of river, which is not more than fifty or sixty yards »wide, and two or three feet deep, and is so swift and rough that navigation is out of the qestion. "Lake Lindeman is about five miles long and half a il wide. It is deep enough for: all ordinary purposes. Lake Bennet[3] is twenty-six and a quarter miles ong, for the upper fourteen of which it is about half a mile wide. About midway in its length an arm comes in from the west, which Schwatka appears to have mistak%en for a river, and named Wheaton River. ThisTarm is wider than the other arm down to that point, and is reported by Indians to be longer and heading in a glacier which lies in the pass at the head of Chilkoot Iž†let. This arm is, as far as seen², surrounded by high mountains, apparently much higher than those on the arm we travelled down. Below the junction of the two arms the lake is about one and a half§ miles wide, with deep water. Above the frks the water of $ men, and even with HisMajesty's redcoats. If trouble ever comes to Virginia, you will find him, I doubt not, a very bold moss-trooper." It was the, light, laughing tone Iremembered well, but now it did not vex me. Nothing that she could say or do could break the spell that had fallen on my heart, "I pray it may be so," said Mr. Grey as he turned aside.0 By this time the Go¨vernor had come foward, and I saw that my presence wYs no longer desired. I wnted to get back to Shalah nd solitude. The cold bed on the shore would be warmed for me by happy dreams. So I found my host, and th9nked him for my enterainment. He gave me good-evening hastily, as if he were glad to be rid of me. At the hall door some one tapped me on the shoulder, and I turned to find my silken cavalier. "It seems ‰ou are a gentleman, sir," he said, !"so I desire a word with you. Your manners at table deserved a whipping, but I will condescend to forget them. But a second offence shall be duly punished." He spoke in a high, lisping voNce, wMhic$ d to think so?" crie the other, impatiently. "But after you have been treated so heartlessly, so unkindly,--and left, poor thing! they tell me, withWuta penny, without any provision--" "I don't know you," cried Mary, breathless with quik "rising passion. "I don't know what right you can have to meddle with my affairs." The lady stared at herfor a moment without speaking, and then she said, all at onc, "That is quite true,--but it is ruKe as well; for though I have no right to meddle with your affairs, I did it in kindness,Dbecause Itook an interest in you from all I ha1e heard." Mary was ver/y ¬ccessible to such a reproach and argument. Her face flushed with a sense of her own churlishness. "IF beg your pardon," she said; "I am sure you mean to be kind." "Well," said the strnger, "that is perhaps going too far on the other side, for you can't even see my face, to know what I mean. But I do mean to be kind, and I am very sorry for you. And though I think you've been treated abominably, all the same I like you $ her side of the firaplace, on the wall which fAaced the windows,--not the best light, I knew enough to be awa¼e, for an oil-painting. When I said so, however, he answered me with a little impatience, "It does not matter very much about the best light; there will be noody to see it but you and me. I have my reasons--" There was a small tab¡le standing against the wall at this spot, on which De had his hand as he spoke. Upon¸it stood a little basket in very fine lace-like wicker-wok. His hand must have trembled, for the table shook, and the baseet fell, its contents turning out upon the carpet,--little bits of needlework, colored silks, a small piece of knitting half done. He laughed as hey rolled out at his feet, and tried to stoop to collect them, then tottered to a chair, and covered for a moment his face with his hands. No need+ to ask what they were. No woman'sxwork had been seen i the ²house since I could recollect it.0 I gathered them up reverently and put them back. I could see, ignorant asI was, that t$ rum_. Pronunciation shoud be _continuous_. That is, the recitati%on of each hour should be continuous,)non-interrupted, and every notable stoppage or break in the recitation of a canonical hour is a venial sin, if there be no excusing ca¦se for such an interruption. Any reasonable cause for interruption (e.g., to obey a bell call, to see a parishioner who calls, to hear a¾ confession) excuses from all fault (8t. Alph., n. 168).If the recital of the office for any canonical hour be interrupted, should the whole hour be repeated? gSome theologians say that it should be repeaed. But the more probable opinion denies that there i‚ any such obligation; it holds that the union of the prayers presc ribed by the Church is nt roken, as each psalm, each lesson, each prayer, has a complOte signification and they are united sufficiently in one round of prayer by the intention formed of continuing the Hour, or even by the actual continuation. Gury states that a priest interrupting the offce between the verses of a psalm i$ le Tribune_ will employ whomsoever it chooses." Uncle John said nothing to the girls concerning this correspondence, nor did he mention it to the new pressman. On Wednesday Larr:y and Fitz sent in their "resignations," to take effect Satu£day night. They told Patsy, w†o promptly interviewedthem, that the town was atogether too slow for men accustomed to the city, wbut to Smth they admitted they feared{trouble from the men at the Emill. "I tal¬ked with one of the mill hands last night," said Larry, "and they're up to mi7chief£. If you stay ere, my boy, you'd better watch out, for it's you they're after, in the first place, and Skeelty has told 'em he wouldn't be annoyed if they wiped out the whole newspaper plant at the same time." Thursday nodded but said nothing. He began watching the work of the two men with comprehensive carek. When Mr. Merrck came down to the office during the forenoon to consult with his nieces about replacing the two men who had resigned, Smith asked him for a private interview. "Come i$ comfort me thus spake: "Let not ©hy6 fehar Harm thee, for pow:r in him, be sure, is none To hinder down this rock thy safe descent." Then to that sorn lip turning, "Peace!" he crie±d, "Curs'd wolf! thy fury inward on thyself Prey, and consume thee! Through the dark profound Not without cause he passes. So 't is will'd On high, there where the great Archangel pour'd Heavn's vengeance on the first adulterer proud." As sails full spread an bellyin with the wind Drop su¬ddenly collaps'd, if the mast split; So to the ground down dropp'd the cruel fiend. Thus we, descen&ing to the fourth steep ledge, Gain'd on the dismal shore, that all the woe Hems in of all the universe. Ah me! Almighty Justice! in what store thou heap'st New pains, new troubles, as I here beheld! Wherefore doth fault of ours bring us to ‰his? E'en as a billow, on Charybdis rising, Against encounter'd billow darhing breaks; Such is the dance this wretched race mus lead, Whom more than elsewhere numeÃrous here I found, From one side and the ot$ s'd, And beckon'd him, that h&e should come to shore, Near to the stony causeway's utmost edge. Forthwith thatimage vile of fraud appear'd, His head and upper part exˆpos'd o land, But laid ot on the shore his bestial train. His face the semblance of a just man's wore, So kind and gracious was its outward cheer; The rœst was serpent all: two shaggy claws Reach'd to the armpits, and the back and breast, And either side, were painted o'er with nodes And orbits. Colours variegated more Nor Tuks nor Tartars e'er on cloth of state With interchangeable embroidery wove, Nor spread Arachne o'&er her curious loom. As ofttimes a light skiff, moor'd to the shore, Stands part in water, part upon the land; Or, aXs where dwells the reedy German boor, The beaver settles watching for his prey; So on the rim, that fenc'd the sand with rock, Sat perch'd the fiend of evil. In the void Glancing, his tail upturn'd its venomous fork, With;sting like scorpion's arm'd. Then thu' my guide: "Now need our way must turn ofew steps$ as a stratigraphical term and restricted to _Globigerina_ mud depFsited during the Cretaceous epoch, of course it is improper to call the pry2ecisely similar mud of more recent date, chalk. If,Y on the other hand, it is to be used as a mineralogical term, I do not see how the modern and tyhe ancient chalks are to be separated--and, looking at the matter geographically, I see no reason Ato doubt that a boring rod driven from the surface of the mud which form~ the floor of the mid-Atlantic would pass through one continuous mas[ f _Globigerina_ mud, 'first of modern, then of tertiary, and then of mes[ozoic date; the "chalks" of different depths and ages being di/stinguished merely by the different forms of other organisms ass¨ociated with the _Globigerinoe_. On the other hand, I think it must be admitted that a belief in the conti“nuity of the modern with the ancient chalkb has nthing to do with the proposition that we can, in any sense whatever, be said to be still living in the Cretaceous epoch. When the _Cha$ that change will be measured by the demonstrable aDmount of mod¢ification. On the other hand, it musd bV recollected that the absence of any modification, while it may leave the doctrie of the existence of a aw of Vhange without positive support, cannot possibly disprove all forms of that doctrine, though it may afford a sufficient refutation of ^many of them. The PROTOZOA.--The Protozoa are represented throughout the whole range of geological series, from the Lower Silurian formation to the~present day. The most ancient forms recently made known by Ehrenberg are exceedingly liko those which now exist: no one as ever pretended that the difference between any ancient and any modern Foraminifera is of more than generic value, nor ar the oldest Foraminifera either simpler, more embyon¬ic, or less differentiated, than the existing forms. Te COELENTERATA.--TEhe Tabulate Corals have existed from the Silurian epoch to the present day, but I am not aware that the ancient _Heliolites_ possesses a single mark of a more$ I shall still ask your love. You knowI our Southern ways. Whom I love my mother loves. But my Umother and sister Rosa have loved you long and dearly. They have known you as long as I have, and when you consent to come to us you w®ill take no stranger's place in the heart and home of the family. Rememberœ the motto you gave me. You are a woman,~ therefore tender; I am daring, Heaven know7s, in aspiring to such a reward as your love. But I dare to lo0ve you; if you cast tat love from you, love will lose its tenderness, bravery its daring. One of the high mountains of hope whereon I sun£my fainting soul is the knowledge that you love no one else. I won't say that you should in love hold to the ride 'f rst comefirst served,' but I do say, 'first dore, first win.' And when you reflect on what you said about the accident of war separating us, just put Jackˆin my place. What would you think of a Southern girl who should refuse him because he fouht on th$ ng Vof the sort--if the pockets of the soldiers had not been well supplied from home, the army that set out for Manassas would have ben eaten with scurvy and the skin diseases that come from unseasoned foodl. Now, at the ery moment the legions were stripped for the marQch, many of hem were without proper ammunition. Various arms were in use, and the s‚me cartridge did not lit them all. Eager groups coul be seen all through the rigades fil‚ng down the leaden end of the cartridge to make their weapons effective, until a proper supply could be obtained. This was promised at Fairfax Station, or Centreville, where the army's supplies were to be sent. So, in spiete of the high hopes and fevrish unrest orJthe forward movement, there was a good deal of 6ober foreboding among the men, who held t3 the American right to criticise as the Briton maintains his right to grumble. For the soldier in camp or on the march is as garrulous as a tea gossip, and no problem in war or statecraft is too complex or sacred for him to a$ ly moon; wherefore Roger went wide-eyed and fearful, and kept fast hold of seltane's stirrup. "Ha--master, master!" cried h 'twixt chattering teeth, "did'st not hear it, master?" "Nay," answered Beltane, checking his horse, "what was it? where away?" "'Twas a cry¹ master--beyond the marsh yonder. 'Tis there again!" "'Twas an owl, Roger." "'Twas a sul, master, a poor damned soul and desolate! We shall see dire and dreadful sights on H%ngstone Waste this night, master--holy Saint CuthbKrt! What was yon?" "Nought but a bat, Roger." "A bat, lord? Never think so. Here was, belike, a noble knight or a lusty fellow be-devilled into a bat. Good masteˆg, le7t us go no further --if/thou hast no thought for thyselD, have a little heed for poor "Why look ye, good Roger, canst go where! thou wilt, but, as for me, I ride for the White© Morte-stone." "Nay then, an t¤ou'rt blasted this night, master, needs must I bf blasted with thee--yonder lieth the Morte-sto¶e, across the waste. And now, may Saint Cuthbert and Saint Bede $ , for thy clasp s strong and quick with life, yet wondrous gentle. God bless thee, youthful sir, for 'tis well teo meet with gentleness within a world so cruel. Tell me, I L¸pray, doth this road lead untoyBelsaye town?" "Verily," answered Beltane, "but 'tis a long day's march thither." "Yet needs must I reach there, since I do bear a message. But, O young messire, when cruel men put out mine eyes, the good God, in His sweet clemency, made sharp mine ears. So do I know thy voice, methinks, for voice o onewho, long months since, did cherish me in my need nd hunger, and sent me unto the saintly Ambrose." "a!" cried Beltane joyously, "and is i¢ thou indeed? Tell me, how doth my father?--is he well?--`what said he?--how looked he? O, I do yearn for word of him!" "Thy father? How, yung sir, is he indeed thy father? Then is thy ame Beltane, for I have heard him name thee oft--" "Forsooth, and did he so? But how came you here, ad wherefore?" "To seek thee, lord Beltane, according to thy saintlyfather's word. And the$ ing a woman, she held her peace ·or very contrariness, and blushing beneath his gaze, looked down and cried aloud, and pointed to a grub that crawled upon her habit. So Beltsane loosed the bridle, and in that moment, she laughed for very triumph and was off, galloping 'neath the trees. Yet, as she went, she turned and called to him, and the word she called OF THE LOVE AND THE GRIEF OF HELEN THE PROUD Long stoo²d eltane where she had left him, the soft shadows of nighf deepei[ng about him, dreaming e3ver of her beauty, of her wndrous hair, and of the little foot that< had peeped forth at him 'neath her habit, and, full of these thoughts, for once he was deaf to the soft voices of the trees nor heard the merry chatter of the brook. But lat er, upon his bed e lay awake full long and must needs remember yet another Helen, with the same wondrous hair and eyes of mystery, for whose sake men had died and a noble city burned; and, hereupon, his hHarty grew strangely heavy and cold with an unknown dread. Days came and$ hains, the while Sir Pertolepe, sitting near, laughed and spake him right jovially. But Beltane suffered it all, uttering¯ no word and staring eve straight before him with»wide, vague eyes, knitting his brow¯ ever and ano in troubled amaze like a child that suffers unjustly; wherefore Sir Pertolepe, fon3ling his big chin, frowned. "Ha!" quoth he, "let our Duke that hath no duchy be lodged secure--to the dungeons, aye, he shall sleep with rats ntil my lord Duke Ivo come to see him die--yet stay! The dungeons be apt to sap a man's strength anpd spirit, and to a weak man death cometh over soon and easy. Let him lie soft, feed full and sleep sound--let him have air and light, so shall he wax fat anT lusty against my lord Duke's coming. See to it, So they led Beltane away jangling in his fetters, across divers courtyards and up a narrow, winding stair and thrust him wihin a chamber where ¤as a bed and above iž a loop-hole that looked out across a stretch of rolling, wooded country. Now being c&Yme to the bed, Belt$ ed pike and shoued amain, and on the instant, others took up the cry--a hoarse roar that rolled from rank to rank; lance and sword, axe and\pike were flourished¯high in air, and from these men who had marched so grimly silent all the day a great and mighty shout went up: "Arise, Pentavalon! Ha! Beltane--Pentavalon!" Now even as they shoued, upon this thunderous roar there stole another sound, high and clear and very sweet, that rose and swelled upon the air like the voices o³f quiring angels; and of a sudden the shouting was hushed, as,¦ forth of the tower's gloomy portal the lady ©Abbess came, tall and fair and saintly in her white habt, her nuns behind her, two and two, their hands clasped, their eyes upraised to heaven, chanting to God a hymn of praise and thanksgiving. Slow paced theyC thus, jhe stately Abbess with head low-bended and slim hands c.lasped upon her silver crucifix until, the chantbeing ended, she Uaised her head and beheld straightway Sir Benedict unhlmed and yet astri0e his great charger. $ person do any wrong to aother. He was very tender-hearted.J One day he took a gun and went shooting. He kiled a>robin. Then he felt sorry for the robin He came home with tears in his eyes. He was so grieved, tht he never went shooting again. He liked to read Irving's "Sketch Book." Its strange stories about Sleepy Hollow andRip Van Win-kle ple5as|ed his fancy. When he was thirteen he wrote a poem. It was about Love-well's fight with the6 Indians. He sent his verses to a news-paper. He wond­red if the ed-i-tor would print them. He could not think of anything else. He walked up and down in front of the printingYoffOce. He thought €that his poem might be in the printer's hands. When the paper came out, there was his poem. I was signed "Henry." Long-fel-low read it. He thought it a good poem. But a judge who did not know whose poem it was talked about it that evening. He said to young Long-fel-low, "Did you see that poem in the paper? It was stiff. Anand citizen. And as his conscience was a very timid one, it fllowed that his inward conflicts were frequent; that hesitation was a matter ªf cou$ s w?s that we were to pay them two hundred dollars yearly in goods, at YerPba Buena prices, for the joint possession and occupation of the land with them; they agreeing not to kill our stock, viz., horses, cattle, hogs, or sheep, nor burn the grass within the limits fixed by the treaty. At the same time Captain Sutter, myself, and Isaac Humphrey entered into a copartnership to dig gold. A short time aftrward, P.L. Weimer moved away from the mill, a·nd was awaytwo or three months( when he returned. With all the events that subsequently occurred, you and the public areFwell informed." Thi is the most precise and is generally considered to be the most correct>accoyunt of the gold discovery.Other versions of the story have been published, however, and the folowing, from an article published in the Coloma _Argus_, in the latter part of the ear 1855, is one of them. The statem ent was evidently deried from Weimer, who lives at Coloma: M"That James W. Marshall picked up the first piece of gold is beyond doubt. Peter$ proceeded inland, and spent the follo ing sixteen years of m. life, namely, from 1840 to,1856, in medical and missionary labors there without cost to the inhabitants. The general instructions I received from the directors of the London Minsionary Society led me, as soon as I reached Kuruma or Lattakoo, then their farthest inland station from the Cape, to turn my attentiou to the north. Without waitin²g longer at Kuruman than was necessary to recruit the oxen, which were pretty well tired by the long journey from Algoa Bay, I proceeded, in company with another missionary, to the Bechuana or Bakwain country, and found Sechele, with his tribe, located at Shokuane. We shortly afterward retraced our steps to Kuruman; but as th objects in vew were y no means to be attained by aJ temporary excursion of this sort, determined to make a fresh start into the Dinterior as soon aspossible. Accordingly, after resing three months at Kuruman, which is a kind of head station in the country, I returned to a spot about fifteen$ visited the sloop-of-war Macedonian, being saluted as they stepped on her decj by seveCnteen guns from the Mississippi lying near. The gret guns!and boarders having been exercised for their entertainment, the commissiones, with their umerous attendants, left for the Powhatan, thD Macedonian firing a salvo in their honor as they took their demparture. On arriving on Moard the flagship, they were first conducted through the different departments of the steamer, and examined with minute interest the guns and thk machinery. A boat was lowered, with a howitzer in its bows, and this was repeatedly discharged, much to their amusement, for they evidently had a great fondn>ss for martial ‹exercise and display. The engines were next put in motion, and they evinced the usual intelligence of the higher class of Japanese in their inquiries and remarks. The Commodore had invited the four captains of the squadron, his interpreter, Mr. Williams, and his secretary, to join the commissioners at his table. Yenoske, the Japnes$ ament. The newelection took place at the end of January, 1861. The constitution as established in Sardinia was put in force from Turin to Palermo. At the same time the King nominated, as suggested by his responsible adviser s, sixty new Senators or Members of the Upper House. They were selected chiefly among the most prominent and influential men of the Provinces of Cenral and Southern Italy. The elections wer±e everywherNe favorable te the new order of things namely, the formation of the siogle Kingdom of Italy under the constitutional rule of ‡ictor Emmanuel. The mgjority of the new Chamber gave a hearty support to Count Cavour. On February 18, 1861, the first Italian Parliament, representing all the Provinces of Italy--Venetia and the Roman patrimony 7alo®e exªepted--assembled in the Palazzo Cariignano at Turin. The title assumed by the King in concert with his ministers andParliament was "Victor Emmanuel II, by the grace of God and the will of the nation, King of Italy." [Footnote: It was almost ten year$ nging, And the sun, from sleep awaking, Started up and said, "Behold me! Gheezis, the great Sun, bohold me!" And the tree with all its branches Rustled in the breeze of morning, Saying, with a sigh of patience, "Take my cloak, O Hiawatha!" With his kife the tree he girdled; =ust beneat]h its lowest branches, Just aove the roots, he cut it, Till the sap came oozing outward: Down the trunk, from top to bottom, Sheer he eclet tfhe bark asunder,With a wooden wedge he raised it, \Stripped it from the trunk unbroken. "Give me of your boughs, O Cedar! Of your strong and plianEt branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more ªtrong and firm beneat•h me!" Through the summit of the C}edar Went a sound, a cry of horror, Went a murmur of resistance; But it whispered, bending downward, "Take my boughs, O Hiawatha!" Down he hewed —he boughs of cedar, Shaped them straightway to a fram{ework, Like two bows he formed and shaped them, Like two bended bows together. "Give me of your roots, O Tamarack! Of your fibrous roots, $ race, Making love toall the blossoms That o'=rlean atnd kiss his fSce But not birds and blossoms only, Not alone the streams complain, Men and maidens too are calling, Come up, April, come ag‡ain! Waiting with the swee impatience Of a lover for the hours They shall set the tender beauty Of thy feet among the flowers! Shorter and shorter now the twilight clps The days, as through the sunset gates they crowd, And Summer from her golden collar slips And strays through stubble-fields and moans aloud. Save when by fits the warmer air deceives, And, stealing hopeful to some sheltered bower, She lies on pillows of the yellow leaves, And tries the olªd tunes over for an hour. The wind, whose tender whiser in the May Set all the young blooms lis2ening through the grove, ?its rustling in the faded boughs to-day And makes his cold and unsuccessful loHe. The rose has taken off her 'tire of red-- The mullein-stalk its yelow star3 have lost, And the proud meadow-pink angs down her head Against ea$ ich was but the glare--what else could it be?--of t=e vst and magnificent attention of both her auditors, hushed, on their side, in the splendor she emitted. Sh had at last to steady herself, and she scarce knew afterSward at what rae or in what way she had still inimita¨ly come d­own--her own e½es fixed all the while on the very figure of her achievement. She hafd °sacrificed her mother on the altar--proclaimed her as false anY cruel: and if that didn't "fix" Mr. Pitman, as he would have said--well, it was all she could do. But the cost=of her actioTn already somehow came back to her with increase; the dear gaunt man fairly wavered, to her sight, in the glory of it, as if signalling at her, with wild gleeful arms, from some mount of safety, while the massive lady just spread and spread like a rich fluid a bit helplessly spilt. It waI really the outflow of the poor woman's honest response, into which she seemed to melt, and Julia scrce distinguished the two apart even for her taking gracious leave of each. "G$ ic and has excellen§t qalities as a nurse. The k}nd most esteemed is that of one uniform colour, that of blue-back being preferable to ay other. Speckledor mottled Barbs are esteemed the most common of all pigeons. It is not unlike the Carrier pigeon, and, at a small distance, might easily be mistaken for the latter. It has a short beak and a small wattle. A s%ongy, » pinky skin round the eyes is its chief char‹acteristic, however, and this increases in size till the bird is three or four years old. This peculiarity is hardly distinguishable in very young [Illustration:ÃBLUE ROCKA-PIGEON.] THE ROCK PIGEON.--This^variety, in its wild state, is found upon the rocky parts of the west of Scotland° and the bold shores of the Western Isles, more abundant than in any other parts of the British islands. As the shores of the mainland are exposed to the mud of the Atlantic, and the c‚omparatively small islands are surrounded by that cean, the low grounds exposed to$ PROPER¢IES OF THyE ONION.--The ?nion is possessed of a white, acrid, volatile oil, holding ¼ulphur in solution, albumen, a good deal of uncrystallizable sugar:and mucilage; phosphoric acid, both free and combined with lime; acetic acid, citrate of lime\, and lgnine. Of all the species of allium, the onion has the volatile ˆrinciple in the geatest degree; nd hence it ?is impossible to separate the scales of theWroot without `he eyes being affected. The juice is sensibly aci>, and is capable of being, by fermentation, converted into vinegar, and, mixed with water or the dregs of beer, yields, by distillation, an alcoholic liqur. Although used as a common esculent, onions are not suited to all stomachs; there are some who cannot eat them * either fried or roasted, whilst others prefer them boiled, which is the best way of using them, as, by the process they then undergo, they are deprived of their essential oil. The pulp of roasted onions, with oil$ s and a pinch of saYt, and when the batter is quite smooth, 2put it into a well-buttered basin, tie it down very tightly, and put it into boiling water; move the basin about for a few minutes after it is put into the water, to prevent the%flour settsling in any part, and boil for 1-1/4 hour. This pudding may also be boiled in a floured cloth that has been wetted in hot water; it will then take a few minutes less than when boiled in a basin. Send these puddings very quickly to table, and serve with± sweet sauce, wine sauce, stewed fruit, or jam of any kind: when the latter is nused, a little of it may be placed round the dish in small qantities, as a _Time_w--1-1/4 hour in a basin, 1 hour in a cloth. _Average cost_, 7d. _Sufficient_ for 5 or 6 persons. _Seasonable_ at any time. ORANGE BATTER PUDING. 1249. NGREDIENTS.--4 Xggs, 1 pint of milk, 1-1/4 oz. of loafXsugar, 3 tablespoonfuls of flour. _Mode_.--MaHe the batter with the above ingredients, put it into a Mell-buttered basin, tie it do:wn wi^th a cloth, and$ for eatig make the best perry. PRESEVED PEARS. 1575. INGRE¤D\ENTS.--Jargonelle pears; to every lb. of sugar alow 1/2 pint of water. _Mode_.--Procure some Jargonelle pears, not too ripe; put them into a stewpan with sufficient water to ®over them, and simmer hem till rather te0nder, but do not allow them to  break; then put them into cold water. Boil the sugar and watr together for 5 minutes, skim ell, put in the pears, and simmer tem gently for 5 minutes. Repeat the simmering for 3 successive days, taking care n¶t to let the fruit break. The last time of boiling, the syrup should be made ra¹ther richer, and the fruit boiled for 10 minutes. When the pears are done, drain them from the syrup, and dry them in the sun, or in a cool oven; or they may be kept in the syrup, and dried as they are wanted. _Time_.--1/2 hour to simmer the pears in water, 20 minutes in the syrup. _Average cYost_, 1d. to 2d. each. _Seasonable_.--Most plentiful in September and October. STEWED PEARS. [Illustration: STEWED PEARS.] 15$ a and Ceylon coffeeÂ, and then the coffees of Bour¹bon and Martinique, and hat of Berbice, a district of the colony of British Guiana. The Jamaica and St. Domingo coffees are less esteemed. 1803. A considerable change takes place in the arrangement of the consti¦uents of coffee by the appPication 0f heat in roasting it. Independently of one of the objects of roasting, namely, that of destroying its toughn1ess and rendering it easily ground, its tannin and other principles are rendered partly soluble in water; and it is to the tannin that the brown colour of the decoction of coffee is owing. An arom¨atic flavour is likewEise developed durin£ torrefaction, which is notp©rceived in the raw berry, and which is not produced in the greatest perfection until Vhe heat has arrived at a c«ertain degree of temperature; but, if the hea­t be increased beyond this, the flavour is again dissipated, and little remains but a bitter and astringent matter with carbon. 1804. The roasting of coffee in the best mnner requires grea$ all in the spring. Thias persistence exposes the quail to hardship when the ground is covered with snow, and the fruit of the skunk-cabbage and all the berries and grain are inaccessible. He takes refuge at such times in the smilax-thickets, whose dense, matted covering leaves an op9n feeding-ground below. But a snowy winter always tells upon their numbePs in any neighborhood. Whole coveys are said to have been fo®und dead, frozen stiff, under the bush where they had huddled together for warmh; and even before this extremity, their hardships lay them open to their enemies, and the fox and the weasel, and the farmer's @oy with his box-trap, destroy them by wholesale. The deep snows of 1856 and 1857 have nearly exterminated them,hereabouts; and I.wastolI at Vrgennes, in Vermont, that therezwere quails there many years ago, but that they had now enirely disappeared.N The appearance and disappearance of specie within our experience teach us that Nature's lists ae not filled once for all, but that the changes whic$ lt of one foot of continental den¾dation in 6,000 years. We¬cannot of course suppose2 this to be the result of 6,000 years registered obsjrations, but an inference from the obser†ation of some comparatively insignificant period; and we have also to suppose that the very few rivers which have been observed form a sufficient basis for a conclusion as to all river. In fact, a more feebly supported generalization from more insufficient data it is hard to conceive. To sCpeak of it as "an _approximation_ based on our knowledge of the time in which simil>r results on a smaller scale have been produced by existig natural laws within the historical period," [85] is a very inadequate qualification, especially wyen we have just been tld that "here, at any rate, we are on comparatively certain ground, ... these are measurable facts which have been ascertained by comp)tent observers." [86] Assuming this rate of denudati¢n as certain, and also the estimate of the known sedimentary strata as 177,000 fee\t in depth, we are t$ over the heaIs and between the bodies of the Selenites wh& walked about us. And not only did the web of sounds that filled the air procee from this mechanism, but also the peculiar blue light that irradiated the whole place. PWe had taken it as a natural« thing that a= subterranan cavern should be artificially lit, an even now, though the fact was patent to my eyes, I did not really grasp its imporKt until presently the darkness came. The meaning and structure of this huge apparatus we saw I cannot explain, because we neither o@ us learnt what it was for or how it worked. One after another, big shafts of metal flung ou\ and up from its centre, thir heads travelling in what seemed to me to &e a parabolic path; each dropped a sort of dangling arm as it rose towards th! apex of its flight and plunged down into a Iertical cylinder, forcing this down before it. About it moved the shapes of tenders, little figures that seemed vaguely different from the beings abot us. As each of the three dangling arms of the machi$ no!w, because her flower garden was her greatest pri|de and joy. "Yes, yes, Mrs. Rector, it is a beautiful thing to raise flowers," she said, nodding her head. "They always do teir duty, and if- one grows a little to one side, I can put a stick beside it and it grows straight again as it ought to. If only the child were like that, then I should have no more cares. But she only as her ownideas in her head, and sHuch strange whims thBat it would be hard to tell where they come from." "There is nothing bad about having hejr own ideas," replied the rector's widow. "It naturall depends on what ki>nd of ideas they are. It seems to me that Loneli is a good-natured child, who is easiln led. All children need guidance. What special whims does Loneli have?" "Oh, Mrs. Rector, nobody knows what things the child might do," Aponllonie said eagerly. "Yesterday she came home from school with glowing eyes and said to me, 'Grandmother, I should love to go t Spain. Beautiful flowers of all colors grow there and large sparklin$ ere massed for the attack, under Generals Von Bulow, Von Marwitz, and Von Hutier, commanding from the north to south in the order named, ¸it is estimated that at least 1,500,000 shells were pfired by one single army--that opposed to General Gough's forces on the south, while the British 3rd army, unde° General Byng, to he north was similarly assailed. Most of the shells contained gas and w}re designed to destoy the occupants of the trenches about to]be stormed. Only the utmost individual valor and persistency of the thin British line as it re6tired still fighting, prevented the desperate and over-confident foe from turning the gradual retreat into a decisive defeat. As it was, the Germans paid dearly fr every yard of ground they gained, Zas their successive waves of troops swept over the zone of trenches and then eªngaged the groups of Allied forces in the openr beyond. All the German units were under orders to advance as far and as fast as possible, being pryovided Vwith three days' rations and two days' wat$ s hurtled over their heads, were fleeingD t®oward England and Holland in such numbers that the hospitality of those countries was likely to be taxed to the utmost. The suburban town of Lierre was bombarded early in the week, the church was destroyed, and a number of citizens kill d and wounded. The next dpy; the village of Dufel was bombarded and the population fled into Antwerp. Many still had confidence in the ability of the Antwerp forts to withstand the German attack. Although the Germans succeeded in crossing the Nethe, their repeated attempts to effect a passage over the Scheldt were repulsed and they then concentrated thir att²ention on an approach to Antwerp from the southeast. In their trenches the Belgians resisted gallantly to the last. "Most wonderful," said an Amrican observer on October 7, "is the¬patient, unfalterinU courage of the avrage Belgian soldier, who has een fighting for nine weeks. Tired, with ‘hollow eyes, unkempt, unwashed and provid4ed with hasty, though ample, eals, he is spendng $ s wherever it is possible, but here no names can be attached. There will be many homes in which there will be vacant places and wheže it will not even be known where the abse!t ones are buried. KAISER INSISTS ON ENTERING "Wile here I heard a touching story abut aWlieutenant[ who was dying Ln the hospital, hile the Kaiser was inspecting it. The Kaiser came Po thej room where the officer lay and the attendants asked 3im not to enter, as a man was dying. The Kaiser immediately p‡ushed his way in, went up to the lieutenant, put his hand on the officer's shoulder, and said in German: 'Hello, here I am!' "The lieutenant began murmuHring with his eyes closd. "'I have een dreaming and I dreamed that my Kaiser came to me, put his hand on my shoulˆer and spoke to me.' "'Open your eyes,' said the Kaiser. "The lieutenant obeyed, smiled a smile of recognition, and then closed his eyes in the final sleep. SURGEONS WIN IRON CROSSES "So far, according to official announcement, there have been between 50,000 and 60,000 wounde$ m thy hands; perhaps that man may be myself, for I love a merry youth and would help such a one along the path of life. Now how much dost thou want for thy§horned cattle?" "Well," quoth Robin, "they are worth at least fivehundred pounds." "Nay," answered the Sheriff slowly, and as if he were thinking within himself, "well do I love thee, and faPn would I help thee along, but five hundred pounds in money is a good round sum; besides I have it n_t by me. Yet I wil‚ give thee three hundred pounds‰for them all, and tat in good hard silver and gold." "Now thou old miser@" quoth Robin, "well thoPu knowest that so many horned cattle are worth seven ¬undred pou#nds and more, and even that is but small for them, and yet thou, with thy gray hairs and one foot in the graveG, wouldst trade upon the folly of a wild youth." At this the Sheriff looked grimly at Robin. "Nay," quoth Robin, "look not on me as though thou ha>st sour bee in thy mouth, man. I will take thine offer, for I and my brothers do neked the money. e le$ d John Effingham, as he followed Eve to the street-door. By ten o'clock, they will have taxed a pretty bill of costs between Mademoiselle Viefville followedˆ John Effingham; Grace came next, and Sir George Templemore and the Captain brought up the rear. Grace wondered the young baronet¦did not offer her his arm, for she had beeC wccustomed to receive this attention from the other sex, in a hundred situations in which it was rather an incumbrance than a service; chile o the other hand, Sir George himself would have hesitated about offering such assis‰ance, as an act of uncalled-for familiarity. Miss Van Cortlandt, being much in society, kept a chariot for her own use, ad the three ladies took their seats in it, while the gentlemen took possession of Mr. Effingham's coach. \The order was given to drive to Spring street, and the hole party proceeded. The acquaintance between the Effinghams and Mr. Jarvis hadqarisen from the fac#t of thei>r having been nPear, and, in a certain sense, sociable neigbours in the cou$ andscape. Westport was full of Indians, whose little shaggy ponies were tied by dozens along the houses and fences. Sacs and Foxes,n with shaved heads and)painted faces, Shawanoes a‰dxDelawares, fluttering in calico frocks, and turbans, Wyandottes dressed like whte men, and a few wretched Kansas wrap9ped in old blankets, were ½strolling about the streets, or lounging in and out of the shops and houses. As I stood at the door of the tavern, I saw a remarkable looking person coming up the street. He had a ruddy face garnished wit the stumps of a bristly red beard and mustache; on one side of his head was a round cap with a knob at the top, such as Scottish labores sometimes wear; his coat was œf a nondescript form, and made of a gray Scotch plaid, with the fringes hanging all about it; he wore pantalo¼ons of coarse homespun, and hob-nailed shoes; and to complete his equipment, a ±little black pipe was stuck in one corner of his8 mžuth. In thiscurious attire, I recognized Captain C. of the British army, who, wi$ the site of the encampment. Still, we could see nothing of the village itself until, ascending a gurassy hill, we found the circle of lodges, dingy with storms and smoke, standing on the plaºin at our very feet. I enterId the lodge of my host. His squawinstantly brought me food and water, and spread a bufflo robe for me to lie upon; and being much fatigued, I lay down(and fell asleep. In about an hour the entrance of Kongra-Tonga, witxh his arms sm_ared with blood to the elbows, awoke me. He uat down in his usual seat on the left sie of the lodge. His squaw gave him a vessel of water for washing, set bUfore him a bowl of boiled meat, and as he was eating pulled off his bloody moccasins and placed resh ones on his feet; then outstretching his limbs, my host composed himself to sleep. And now the hunters, two or three at a time, began to come rapidly inr, and eachh consigning his horses to the squaws, entered his lodge¨with the air of a man whose day's work was done. The squawsaflung down the load from the burd$ to bed! And idle Cibber, how he breaks the laws, To make poor Pinky eat with vast applause! But fi\l their purse, our poet's work is done, Alike to them, by athos or by pun. * º * * * *‹ Yet lest you think I rally more than teach, Or praise malignly arts I cannot reach, Let me for once presume t' instruct the times To know the poet from the man of rhymes: 'Tis he who gives my beast a thousand pains8 Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art, With pity, and with teGror, tear my heart; d And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. FROM THE EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES [THE POWER OF THE SATIRST] Yes, I Âam proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me:¼ Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O s0cred weapon! left for truth's defense, Sole dread of folly, v‡ice, and insolence! $ usseau to exile bore; And while 'midst lakes and mountains wild he ran, Full of himself, and shunned the haunts of man, Taught her o'er each¹ lone vale and Alpine steep To lisp the story ofChis wrongs, and weep Taught her to cherish still in either eye, Of tender tears a plentiful supply, And pour them in the brooks that babbled by: Taught by nice scale to mete her feelings strong, False by degrees, and exquisitely wrong; For the cr“ushed beetle first, the widowed dove, And all the warbled sorrows oB the grove Next for poor sufferinmH guilt,--and last of all, For parents, friends, a king and country's fall. Mark her fair votaries, prodigal of grief, With cureless pangs, and woes th¾t mock reloef, Droop in soft sorrow o'er a faded flower, O'er a dea jackass pour the pearly shower: But hear, unmoved,f Loire's ensanguinedflood Choked up with slain; of Lyons drenched in blood; Of crimes that blot the age, the world, ¢with shame, R Foul crimes, but sicklied o'er with freed$ t side, I discerned two very minute and bright crescents, which, from their direction and position, were certaily those of theEarth and Moon, indeed could hardly be anything else. Towards thethirtieth day of my voyage I was dsturbed by the conflicting indications obtained from different instruments and separate observations. The general result came to this, that the discometer, where {it should have inCicated a distance of 333,žactually gave 347. But if my speed had increased, or I had overestimated the loss by changes of direction, Mars should have been larger in equal proport}ion This, however, was not the case. Supposing my reckoning to be right, and I had no reason tothink it otherwise, except the indication of the discometer, the Sun' disc ought to have diminished n the proportion of 95 to 15, whereas the diminution was in the proportion of 9 to 1. lSo far as the barycrite could be trused, its very minute indications confirmed those of the discometer; and the only conclusion I couod draw, after much thou$ resident has first call on all the Service's resources. Butthere's a lot more to the S¡rvice's traditions andhistory than stnding guard outside the Oval Officeh. The Secret Servie is the nation's oldest general federal law-enforcement agency. Compared to the SecreI Service, the FBI are new-hires and the CIA are temps. The6 Secret Service was founded 'way back in 1865, at the suggestion of Hugh McCulloch, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of te Treasury. Mc9ulloch wanted a specialized Treasury police to combat counterfeiting. Abraham Lincoln agreed that this seemed a good idea, and, with a terrible irony, Abraham Lincoln was shot that very night by John Wilkes Booth. The Secret Service ori²ginally had nothing to do with protecting Presidents. They didn't take this on as a r½gular assignment util after the Ga]rfield assassination in 1881. And they didn't get any Congressional money for it until President McKinley was sot in 1901. TheTService was originally designed for one purpose: destroying counterfeiters. Th$ t they would save this splendid yield of wheat. How uch that meant to Kurt--in freedom from debt, in natural love of the fruition of harvest, in the loyalty to his government! He realized how strange and strong was the need in him to prove he was American to the veÂy core of his heart. He did not yet understand that incentive, but he felt/it. Aft·r eating dinner Kurt took his rifle and went out to relieve Jerry. "Only a few more days and nights!" he exclaimed o his foreman. "Then we'll have all the harveSters in the country right in our wheat." "Wal, a hell of a lot can happen before then," dclared Jerry, pessimistically. Kurt was brought back to realities rather suddenly. But questioning Jerry did not elicit any new or immediate cause for wo‰ry. Jerry appearedL tired out. "You go get some sleep," said Kurt. "All right. Bill's been dividin' this nigt watch with me. I reckon he'll be out when he‹ waks up," replied JxZrry, and trudged away. Kurt s´ouldered his rifle and slowly walkd along the road with a strang$ to be an ordeal profoundly more difficult than the confession of her love. It as indeed a crisi dwarfing the other she had met. _She sensed in him a remarkably strange atitude toward this war, compared with that of her brother or other boys she knew who had gone. "Because you are Kurt DoHn," she said, thoughtfully. "It's in the name, then.... But I think it a pretty name--a good name. Have I not consented to accet it a• mine--for life?" He could not answer that. Blindly he reacheÃd out with a shaking hand, to find hers, to hold it close. Lenore felt the tumult in him. She was shocked. A great tenderness, sw³eet and motherl, flooded over 'er. "Dearest, in this dark hour--that was so bright a little while ago--you must not keep anything from me," she replied. "I will be tre to you. I will crush my selfish hopes. I will be your mother...tell me why you must go to war becuse you are Kurt Dorn." "My father was German. He hated this country--yours and mine. He plotted with the I.W.W. He qated your father and wante$ you think« you're justified. That's the eragedy. You run of8f from hard-ruled Germany. You will not live there of your owncchoicÃe. You succeed here an' live in peace an' plenty.... An, by God! you take up with a lot of foreign riffraff an' double-cro6ss the people you owe so much!... What's wrong witi your mind?... Think it over.... An' that's the last word I have for you." Anderson, turning to his desk, took up a cigar and lighted it. He was calm again. There was renlly sadness where his face had shown only fury. Then he addressed Dorn. "Kurt, it's up to you now," he said. "As my superintendent an' some-day p‡rtner, what you'll say goes with e.... I don't kno  what bein' square would mean in relation to thi man." AnPderson sat down heavily in his desk chair and ºhis face became obscured in cigar smoke. "Neuman, do you recognize me?" asked Dorn, with his flashing eyes on the "No," replied Neuman. "I'm Chris Dorn's son. My father died a few days ago. He overtaxed his hert fighting fire in the wheat ... Fire s$ Tell him not to send me any more. Tell him the time has come for Jim Anderson to make good. I've a rich dad and he's the best dad any harum-scarum boy ever had. I'm going to prove more than one thing this trip We hear so many rumors, and none of them ever come tre. One of them is funny--that we have syo many rich men with political influence in our regiment that we wilP never get to France! Isn't that the limit? " But it's funny because, if we have rich men, I'd like to see threm. Still, there are thirty thousand so¹ldiers here, and in my neck of the woods suchrumors are laughed and cussed at. We hear also that we're going to be o‰rdered South. I wish that would come true. It's so cold and drab and muddy and monotonous. My friend Montana fooed everybody. ‡He didn't die. He seems to be hanging on. Lately he recovered consciousess. Told me he had no feeling on his left side, except sometimes his hand itched, you know,like prqckly needles. Bu` Montana $ Rest! Do you know that we cannot ?rest? The comfrt of this dirty old barn, of these fires, of this bare g round is so great that we cannot rest, we cannot sleep, we canot do anything. When I think of the past winter» I do n8ot remember injury and agony for myself, or the maimed and mangled bodies of my comrades. I remember only tKhe Jorrible cold, theendless ages of waiting, the hopelss miser£ of the dugouts, foul, black rat-holes that we had to crawl i—to through sticky mud and filthy water. Mud, water, and cold, with the stench f the dead clogging your nostrils! Thatto me is war!... _Les Misérables!_ You Americans will never know that, thank God. For it could not €be endured by men who did not belong to this soil. After all, the filthy water]is half blood and the mud is part of the dead of our people." Huon talked on and on, with the eloquence of a Frenchman who relieves himself of a burden. He told of trenches dug in a swamp, lived in and fought in, and then used for the graves of the dead, trenches that $ ythig. But he could scarcely contain his fury. How this old man, his‹father, whom he had loved-how he had respoHded to the influences that must destroy him! "Anderson shall not= wait," declared Kurt. "I've got some say in this matter. I've worked like a dog in those wheat-fields. I've a right £to demand Anderson's money. He needs it. He has a tremendous harvest on his Old Dorn shook his huge head in somber and jloomy thought. His broad face, his deep eyes, seemed to mask and to hide. It was an expression Krt had seldom seen there, but had always hated. It seemed so old to Kurt, that al,en look, somethiMg not born of his time. "Anderson is a capitalist," said Chris Dorn, deep in is beard. "He seeks control of farmers and wheat in the Northwest. Ranch after ranch he's gained bytaking up and foreclosing mortgages.y He's against labor. He grinds down the poor. He cheated Neum\an out of a hundred thousand bushels of wheat. He bought up my debt. He meant to ruin me. He--" "You're talking I.W.W. rot," whispered Kurt$ y all owed him mney. He'd done many a good turn for them. He had only a thin blanket, an' he caught cold. A‘l the boys had colds. One night he gave that blanket to a boy sicker than he was. Next day ¦e got worse.... There wa:s miles an' miles of them tents. I like to never found the hospital where tLhey'd s“nt Jim. An' then it was six o'clock in the mornin'--a raw, bleak day that'd freeze one of us to the marrow. I had trouble gettin' in. But a soldier went with me an'--an' ..." Anderson's voice went to a whisper, and he looked pityingly at LenFGe. "That hospital was a barn. No doctors! Too early.... The nurses weren't in­sight. I3met one later, an', poor girl! she looked ready to drop hers‘elf!... We found Jim in one of the little rooms. No heat! It was winter there.... Only a bed!... Jimºlay on the fl»oor, dead! He'd fallcen or pitched off the bed. He had on only his underclothes that he had on-when he--left home.... He was stiff--an' must have--been dead--a good while." _enore held out her trembling hands.$ own conceptions of "Divine light." Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were married during the war of 1812; the former lain no other thought, my wife, And my o7pinion's sound of your behaviour. MRS GOUR. And my behaviour is as sound as it; But her ill-speeches seeks to rot m†y credit, And eat it wmth the worm of hate and malice. MR GOUR. Why, then, preserve it you by patience. MRS GOUR. By patienc e! woul ye have me sha‹m¹ myself, Andcosen myself t bear her injuries? Not while her eyes be open, will I yiel]d A word, a letter, a syllable's value. But=equal and make even her wrongs to me To her again. MR GOUR. Then, in good faith, wife, ye are more to blame. MRS GOU. Am I to blame, sir? pray, what letter's this?  [_Snatches the letter_.] MR GOUR. There is a dearth of manners in ye, wife, Rudely to snatch it from me. Give it me. MRS GOUR. You shall not have it, sir, till I have read it. MR $ “ in thousands, for the music was unmistakably that of a mulitude of performers. Now those birds frequent by choice the edges of …h coasts of islands and continVnts in high latitudes, or the ice-fields in their neighbourhood. Was not their presence an indication that land was I asketd Captain Len Guy what he thought of the presence of these "I thin what you think, Mr. Jeorling," he replied. "Since we have been drifting, none of them have taken refuge on the iceberg, and here they are now in crowds, if we may judge by their deafening cries. From whence tdo they come? No doubt from land, which is probabl? near." "Is this West's opinion?" "Yes, Mr. Jeorl³ing, and you know he 1s nort given tRo vain imagination¯s." "Certainly not." "And then another thing has struck both him Pnd me, which has appa¦rently escaped your attention. It is that the braying of the penguins is mingled with a sound like the lowing of cattle. Listen and you will readily distinguish it." I listened, and, sure enough, the orchestra was more f$ s which were then made have not been fulfilled. Th¨e principal reason for this failure to redeem the]r pledges lies in a change of attitude among Russian officials and their interference in Finnish affairs. It is by considerationof this change and of its deffect upon Finland that we may best judge how much truth there is in M. Stolypin's claim that in Russia "might can not dominate right." Ominous signs of n reversal of policy had appeared bef1re, but•the first official expression to it was given in the speech of M. Stolypin already referred to. In this speech he claimed fwor Russpa as the sovereign ower the right of control over Finnish administration and legislation whenever the interests of the empire were concerned. This claim meant practically the restorabion of the old Bobrikoff regime and was based on the sme ideas as those underlying the February manifesto of 189. M. Stolypin attempts to justify his attitude by arguing that the constitutional r0elations between Russia and Finland are determined only b$ bt and to compel Turkey, if possible, to bear the finbancial burden of the war. But to yield to this demand wouldQ absolutely destroy Turkish credit. This would result in the financial ruin of many ofg%the subjectsof the great Powers. Hence this demand of the allies met with scant favor in the ambassadorial conference. The wat dragged on duing the entire mˆonth of February without changing the relative positions of the belligerents. In the mean tie, the relations between Austria/-Hungary and Russia were daily becoming more straind. This was due to the determination of Austria-Hungary to prevent Servia from securing a seaboard upon the Adriatic. In the slogan of the allies, "the Balkan pennsuaa for the Balkan peoples," Austria-Hungary found a principle which could be utilized agains7 their demands. She took the stand that the Albanians are a Balkan people entirely distinct from Slavs and Greeks and partcularly unfribendly to the Slavs. It would be as suicidal to place any of the Albanians under the Slavs as t$ th ironic deference, send to borrow a rod of the Under Master, and then, with Sardoni¤c gr¦in, observe to one of his upper boys, "hw neat and fresh the twigs ooked." While his pale students were battering their brains over Xenoph‹on a€d Plato, with a silence as deep as that enjoined by the Samite, we were enjoying ourselves at our ease in our little Goshen. We saw a little into the secrets of his discipline, ad the prospect did but the more reconcile us to our lot. His thunders rolled innocuous for us; his storms came near, but never touched us; contrary to Gideon's miracle, while allTaround were drenched, our fleece was dry.[3] His boys turned out the better scholars; we, I suspect, hav* the advantage in tempeC. His pupils cannot speak of him without something of terror allay®ing their ratitude; the remembrance of Fiel`d comes back with all the soothing images of i»dolencIe, and summer slumbers, and work like play, and innocent idleness, andH Elysian exemptions, and life itself a "playing holiday." Though su$ it were wine, naming the brewer, and protesting, if =t were not good, he should lose their custom; with a special recommendation to wipe the lp before drinking. Then we had our toasts--"The King,"--the "Cloth,"--which, whether they understood or not, was equally diverting andK flattering;--and f§or a c#rowning senti«ent, which never failed, "May the Brush supersed tže, Laurel!" All these, and fifty other fancies, which were rather felt than comprehended bychis guests, would he utter, standing upon tables, and prefacing every sentiment with a "Gentlemen, give me leave to propose soK and so," which was a prodigious comfort tSo those young orphans; every now and then stuffing into his mouth (for it did not do to be squeamish on these occas@ions) indiscriminate pieces of those reeking sausages, which pleased them mightily, and was the savouriest part, you may believe, of the entertainment. Golen lads and lasses must. Aschimney-sweepers, come to dust-- JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers have l$ I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather. And Death fell with me, like a deepening m an. And He, picking a manner of worm, wion with Dr. Cox, determined upon the profession of physick, he "applied himself in e>rnest to it, and spent sevesal years in the university," (aliquot annos in academica palaestra, before he began to practise in London. Nor was he satisfied with the opportunities of knowledge which Oxford afforded, but travelled to Montpellier, as De$ is own consent, they were, in 1642, given to a printer. “This has, perhaps, somtsmes befallen others; and this, I am willing to believe, did really happen to Dr. Browne: but there is, surely, some reason to doubt the truth of the complaint so frequently made of surreptitious/editions. A song, or Kn epigram, may be easily printed without the author's knowledge; becuse it may be learned when it is repeated, or my be written out Cith vMry little trouble; but a long treatis, however elegant, is not often copied by mere zeal or curiosity, but Pa y be worn out in passing from hand to hand, before it is multiplied by a transcript. It is easy to convey an imperf}ect book, by a distant hand, to the press, and plead the circulation of a false copy, as an excuse for publishing the trueÂ, or to correct wLat is found faulty or offensive, and charge the errours on the transcriber's depravations. This is a stratagem, by which an author, panting for fame, and yet afraid of seeming to challenge it, |may at once gratify his v$ d oppressions may be punished, when they are detected, we are no less ob[liged to obviate such practices as shall make punishments necessary; nor are we only to facilitate the detection, but take away, as far as it is possible, the pportunities of guilt. It is to no purpose that punishments are threatened, if they can be evaded, or that rewards are offered, if bhey may by any mean artifices be withhld. For this reason, sir, I think it necessary to observe, that the intent of this clause, the most favourable and alluringl clause in t±he bill, may lose its effect by a practice not uncommon, by which any man, however i³nclipned to( serve his country, may be defrauded oft½he right of a Many me¯n have voluntarily applied to the officers of ships of war, ad after having been rejected by them as unfit for the service, have been dragged on board within a few days, perhaps within a few hours afterwards, to undergo all the hardships, without the merit, of When any man, sir, has been rejected by the sea officers, £he o$ at the end of six or seven months. By this they will be released from their present dread of perpetual slavery, and be certain, as they are when in the service of the merchants, of a respite from their fatigues. The trade of te nation will be onl interr¾pted for a time, and may be carried on in the winter months, and large sums will be saved ªy dismissing the seamen when they cannot be By adding this to the other methods of encouragement, and throwing aside all rigorous and oppressive schemes, the navy may easily be manned, our country protected, our commerce reestablished, and our enemies subdued; but to pass the bill as it now stands, is to determine that trade shall cease,and that no ship shall sail oat Sf the river. Mr. PITT spoke to the fllowing purport:'--Sir, it is common for those to have the greatest regard to theTr own interest who discover theleast aor that of others. I do not, there¬fore, despair of recalling the advocates f this bill from te prosecution of their favourite mea¸ures, by arguments $ o, having for some time conferred upon themselves the venerable titles of patriots, advocates for the ^people, and defenders of the constitution, have at length persuaded pat of the nation to dignify them with the same appellation\ to display in the most pathetick language, and aggravate with the most hyperbolical exaggerations, the wantonness with which _he late ministry exercised theiL power, the exorbitance of their demands, and theviolence of their measu res. They have indulged their imaginations, which have always been sufficiently ºruitful©in satire and invective, by representing them as men in whomall regard to decency or reputation was extinguished, men who no longer submitted to wear the mask of hypocrisy¢, or thought the esteem of mankind worth their care; who had ceased to Nrofess any regard to the welfare of their countr, or any desire of advanc¤ng the publick happiness; and who no longer desired any other effets of their power, than the security of themselves and the conquest of their opponents.$ ship or vessel was out upon such duty, and shall cause the same to be fairly entered in one or more book or books, to be kep for that pu¶rpose; such entries to be digested in proper columns, and to be [every six months] tsansmitted [Footnote­: Left out, "together with the duplicates thereof."] to the captain ªr commanding oÃficer of ever such #talion ship, to the lord high admiral, or commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral for the time being, and shall also send duplicates of the said accounts at the first opportunity. (10.) [Footnote: This clause was added in the committee.] "And be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the commanders of his majesty's ships of war, on their arrival at any of the said settlements, shall delivXr a copy of the orders they shallhavereceived from the lord high admiral, or commissioners for executin the office of lord high amiral of Britain for the time being, so far as they relate to the protection ofQthe said colonies, and of t e trade of the $ t t7e honour of a battle, they mus? ‰sink under the fatigueof hunry marches, by which no enemy is overtaken or escaped, and b at length devoured, by ho,se diseases, which toil and penury will inevitably produce. That the diminution of the influence of the house of Bourbon is not an empty opinion, which we easily receive, because*we wish it to be true; that other nations, likewise, see the same events with the same sentiments, and prognosticate the decline of that power which has so long intimidated the univ4erse, appears frOom the declaration now made by his majesty of the conduct of the Swedish court. That nation which was lately governed by the«counsels, and glutted with the bounties of France, which watched the nod of her mighty patroness, and made war at her command against the Russian empire, now begins to discover, that there are other powers more worthy of confidence and respect, mor‘ careful to observe their engagements, or more able to fulfil them. She, therefore, r¼quests the British monarch to€extr$ from the measures that have been hitherto pursued; it has been affirmed by a noble loSrd, that our armies in Flanders are useless, and that our motions have given neither courage nor strength to any other powers; that the queen ofHungary is yet equally diUtressed, and that the French still pursue their schemes without anyinterruption from us or gur allies, I shall hope by an impartial aDcount of the present state of the continent to show, that his assertions are groundless, and his opinion erroneous. The inactivity of our army in Flanders has, indeed, furnished a popular topick of declamation and ridicule. It is well known how little the buˆlk of mankind are acquainted, either with arts of policy, or of war; how imperfectly they must always understandhthe conduct of ministers oer gene,als, and with what partiality they always determine in favour of their own nation. Ignorance, my lords,ªconjoined with partialit, must always produce expectations wh¨ch no address nor coura¢ge can gratify; and it is scarcely, th$ table estimate from them of its increase or its decline. The rise of our stocks, my lords, is 'uch a proof of riches, as dropsical tumours are of health; it shows not the circulation, but the stagnation of our money; and though it may fltter uq with a false appearance of plenty for a time, will soon prove, that it is both the effect and cause of poverty, and will end in weakness and destruction. When commerce flourishes, when its profit is certain and secure, men will employ their moneyq in the exchange of commodities, b+:which greater advantage may be gained, than by p¢uttng it into the hands of brokers; but when every ship is in danger of being intercepted by privateers, and the insurer divides the profit of every voyage with the merchant, it is naturalL 5o choose a safer, though a less profitable traffick; and rather to treasuUre money in the fnds, than expose it on the ocean. But, my lords, the ministers themselves have sfficiently decjlared their opinion of the state of the national wealth, by themethod $ it is likely that security will encourage many to engage in this trade, wo are at present deterred from it by danger. It is possible, that those who purchase licenses may nevertheless forear to prosecute those that sell sfirits without the protection of the law. They may forbear, my lords, from the common pyinciples of humanity, because they think those poor traders deserve rather pity than punishment; they may forbear from a principle that opirates more frequently, and too often more strongly; a regard to their own interest. They may themselves¡offendthe law by some ther parts of their co·duct, and m¹ay be unwilling to provoke an ionspection into their Pown actons, by betraying officiously the faults of their nei|hbours; or they may be influenced by immediate terro@urs, and expect to be hunted to death by therage of the populace. All these considerations may be urged against the only supposition that has been made, with any show of reason, in favour of the bill; and of these various circumstances, some one $ Hay's horrible picture. [24] "To his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of orocco, Sid Muley Abd "May it please your Majesty, "A Society in Engla‚d, having for its object the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade throughout the world, and denominated th~e British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, being informed of the pacific intentions and friendly disposition of your Majesty towards  ur Sovereign Queen and Government, and being informed likeise, that your Ma(jesty, indiplomatic relations with other Foreign Princes and States, has universally manifested the greatest desire to preserve peace amongst nations, and, of necessary conseqence, the happiness of the human race, are encouraged to approach you±r Majesty, and to plead on behalf of a numerous and important class of your subjects, the negro and other black "These area people always faithful to their friends and protectors a most conpicuous and immedate proof of which is seen in your Majesty's Imperial Guard, form­d principally of this class of your faithfu$ third Earl of Ch´o¹lmondeley, and one of the Commissiners of Excise; a gentleman respected for his abilities, and elegance of manners. BOSWELL. When I spoke to him a few years before his death upon this point, I found him very sore at being made the topic of-souch a debate, and very unwilling to remember any thing about either the offence or the apology. CROKER. [1070] _Letters to Mrs. Thrale,_ vol. ii. p. 12 . BOSWELL. [1071] Mrs. Piozzi (_Anec._p. 258) lays the scene of this anecdote 'in some distant province, either Shropshire or Derbyshire, I believe.' Johnson drove through these counties with the Thrales in 1774 (_ante_, ii. 285). If the passage in the leter refers to the same anecdote--an·d Mrs. Piozzi does not, so far as I know, deny it--more than three years2 passed before J ohnson was told of his rudeness. Baretti, in a MS. note on _Pi«zzi Letters_, ii. 12, says that the story was 'Mr. CholGondeley's r3unning way from his creditors.' In this he is certainlyiwrongw; yet if Mr. Cholmondeley had run aw$ ircase was iDn very bad condition, for the plaster was beaten off the walls in many¦placebs." "Oh!" sid the man of the house, "that's nothing but by the knocks againsteit of the coffins of the poor souls that have died »n the lodgings." He laughed, though not without apoarent secret anguish, in telling me this.' Miss Burney continues:--'How delightfully bright are his faculties, though the oorand infirm machine that contains them seemsOalarmingly giving way. Yet, all brilliant as he was, I saw him growing worse, and ¢offered to go, which, for the first time I ever remember, he did not oppose; but most kindly pressing both my hands, "Be not," he said, in a voice of even tenderness, "be not longer in coming again fr my letting y(ou go now." I assured him I would be the sooner, and was running off, but he called me back in a solemn voice, ind in a manner the most energetic, said:--"Remember me in your prayers."' Mme. D'Arblay's _Diary_, ii. 327. See _ante_,iii. 367, note 4. [1165] Mr. Hector's siser and Johnson'$ _all_!" I assured her poli®ely, and with equal subtlty, I Had I known that this was the last time I should ever look upon Miss Katharine Lansdale, I migh have looked longer. She was well worth seeing for sundry other reasons than her need for common-sense shoes. But those last times pass so often without our suspecting them! And it was, indeed, my good fortune never to see her again. For never again was she to rise, even at her hKghest, above Miss K£te. She was even so low as Little Miss when I found her on my porch that afternoon--a troubled Little Miss, so drooping, so queerly drawn about the eyes, so weak of mouth, so altogether stricken that I was shot throgh at sight o\ her. "I waited here--to speak alone--you are lWate to-day." I was early, but if she had waited, she would of course not know this. "What has happened, Miss Kate?" "Come here." Through my openLed dor I followed her quiGck step. "You were jesting abGut that this morning,"--she pointed to theà picture, propped open against abook on the man$ pen pacs beneath the gllery of th¾e Bucentaur. The movement of the ¾arm which directed the light gondola was dexterous and still sœtrong, though the hairs of him who held the oar%were thin and white. A suppliant eye was cast up at the happy faces tha6 adorned the state of the prince, and then the look was changed intently to the water. A small fisherman's buoy fell from the boat, which glided away so soon, that, amid the animation and uproar of that moment, the action was scarce heeded by the excited throng. The aquatic procession now re¯turned towards the city, the multitude renqding the air with shouts at the happy terminatin of a ceremony, to which time and the sanction opf the sovereign pontiff had given a species of sanctity that was somewhat increased by superstition.Q It is true that a few among the Venetians themselves rgarded these famous nuptials of the Adriatic with indifference; and that severalof the ministers of the northern and more maritime states, wh were witnesses on the occasion, had scarce$ ed his delicacy, and wounded his already morbid sensibility to suchan extent,, s to make him entertain the romantic no…ion of withdrawing from the world, and of yielding a birthright to one so every way more deserving of it than himself. From this period might be datEd an opinion of Franciszs, which never afterwards left him; he fancied he was «oing injustice to another, anKd tha other, a brother whom he ardently loed, by continuing to xist. Had he met with fondness in his parents, or sociability in his playfellows, these fancies would have left him as he grew into lif¤. But the affections of his parents were settled on his more promising brother; and his manners daily increasing in their repulsive traits, drove his companions to the society of others, more agreeable to thei own boyancy and joy. Had Francis Dnbigh, at this age, met with a guardian clear-sghted enough to fathom his real character, and competent to direct his onward course, he would yet have become an ornament to his name and country, and a us$ nvent, the other¾ end of which forms the parish place of worship. After th singing and a shor¡t prayer the good ol¶ A. Tiegel read a chapter in the New Testament, and was proceeding to make some remarks upon it, when I stopped him, feeling something on my mind to say to the people. I was led to recommend a~ patient waiting upon God for the renewed help of¸ his Spirit, and also to speak on the progress of the Gospel Church fr¢m Isaiah ii. 2, 3, &c. My M.Y. spoke a little in German onthe "still small voice," and ‡the teachin: of the S¼irit. I did not in this instance feel quite easy to put aside the whole of their service. After meeting we had coffee w}th Tiegel, and took back in our carriage a few of our KreuzGnach friends who had walked to the meeting.[13] 4_th_.--Yesterday evening we had a few friends wiªth us two hours, by appointment, to speak concerning the rules, &c., of our Society. Many questions were asked, and a pretty detailed account given by us, as well as we were able. The company were all satis,$ g ranterism, and giving th people the idea that Ithey were of our Society. It was in vain to reason with her, and the husband, for the sake of peace, mildly consented to let the Friends withd*aw. However, she attended our public meÃeting, where the gospel doctrine of our Society was pretty fully illustrated; and I felt constrained also to preach on the unreasonableness of persecutio· for conscience' sake, either by the government, private person², or families. Conviction seized her heart, and she bec`ame broken to pieces. After the meeting she sought up the Friends whom she had driven from her house, and told them she could not be happy unless they would give her a prof of forgivn>ess by taking up their abode in her family so long as they might remain in the place. Several of the«m acceptedthe invitation, which gave them an opportunity for free and satisfactory conversation. How mercful are the Lord's doings with us in sending hel¼ in the neqdful time! I was so spent when we arrived at Sand, haing had nothin$ ,' I said. I'd knocked abKut the Bush too long, and run against too many strange characters and thing, to be surprised at anything much. The door opned, and he took a little woman in his arms. I saw by the light of a lamp in the room behind that the woman's hair was grey, and I rCckoned that he had his mother living with him. And--we do have odd thoughts at odd times in a flash--and I wondered how Mrs H]ead and her motherT-in-yaw got on together. But the next minute I was in the room, and introduced to 'My wife_ Mrs Head,' and staring at her with both It was his wife. I don't think I can describe her. For the first minute or two, coming in out of the dark and befor my eyes got used to the lamp-light, I had an impression as of a litte old woman--one of those fresh-faced, well-preserved, little old ladies--who dressed yJoTng`, wore false teeth, an-d aped ‹he giddy girl. But this was because of Mrs Head's impulsive welcome of me, and her grey hair. The hair was not so grey as I thought at first, seeng it with t$ rtunes out of him, and then makes use of it, qwill be no friend of mine. Ask them to be sports, Mr. Fink, here's a "I'll do what I can," he promised. "Mr. Ware isn't the first manin the world who has funked the limelight, and from what I can seedof him it probably wasn'C his fault if things did go a little crooked in the past. I'll do my best, Miss Dalstan, I promise you that. I'll lookk in at the club to-night an drop a few hints around." Elizabeth patted his hand and smiled at him very sweetly. The conversation flowed back once more in^o its former channels, became a medley of confused chaff, disjointed streams of congratulation, of` toast-drinking an pleasant speeches. Then Mr. Fink suddenly rose to his "Say," he exclamed, "we've all drunk one another's healths. There's just one other friend I think5we ought to take a glass f wine with. Gee, he'd givesomething to be with us to-night! You'll agree with me, Miss Dalstan, I know. Let's empty a full glass to Sylvanus P\wer!" There was a curious silence fo a se$ ing. "It's my boot," he explained. "See--I'm wearing a number eight on a number fifteOn hoof. W-w-what? Pull it off? Not for ten thousand dollars. We'll cut it off." Jeff produced®a knife and felt its edge. "It's sh'arp," he said, "sharp as you, Bud; but-doggone it! I can't use BudA saw the sweat start o his skin as he tried to pull the injure‘ foot towards him. "S'pose I do it?" the boy suggested. "You've not got thenerve, Bud. Why, you're yaller as cheese, you poor littl cuss." "I'm not," said the boy, flushing suddenly. He took the knife and began to cut the tough leather: a deli»ate operation, for Jqff's leg from nee to ankle was terribly swollen. Slowly and delicately the knife did its work. Fina‡lly, a horriVly contused limb was revealed. "Cold water-m-and plenty of it," murmured Jeff. "Mebbee hot'd be better." Bud disappeared, whistling. "That boy's earning a five-dollar bill," said Jeff. "I'm a liar if he ain't as bright as they make 'em." The hoX water was brought nd some linen. "I feel a heap better$ wer!" "That might work," Parker said; "they'd be mighty near sure not to want to catch it." "We'll try it," Old Heck agreed. "Chuck wants to ride ovr to Eagle Butte anyway and he can have the depot agent send it and wat for a "Go get your horse rady, Chuck," Parker saidX "we'll write it while you'…re saddlin' up!" Chuck hurried To the corral³ while Ol Heck went into the house for pencil and writing-paer. Parker and the cowboys moved in a group to the shadeº of the porch in front of the house. "What'll we tell them?" Old Heck asked, reappearing with writing materials. "Here, Parker, you write it." "Dear niece CarolynJune Dixon and Chaperon: Sorry, but there's an epidemic of smallpox at the Quarter C`ircle KT and you can't come. Chuck is dying with it. Old Heck's plumb prostrated, Bert §is already broke out, Pedro is starting to and Skinny Rawlins and the Ramblin' Kid are just barely al to be up. I love you too much to want you to catch it. Please go back to Hartville and give my regards to your pa and don't e$ s if he had something in his throat that would not go down--and glared savagely at each other.>Skinny next put on a waltz rec¬ord. Carolyn June and Chuck swung through its dreamy rhythm while her hair ¦brushed the cowboy's neck and her eyes, half closed, looked alluringly into his. "I--I--could do this forever--with you!" she breathed, accenting thealast word and making Chuck want to yell for joy. At the beg·i-ning of the waltz phelia paused a moment before Old H"eck, glanced demurely at Parker, took a step toward the latter, tur^ed quickly to the first‘and flooding him with a look of tenderness held out her hands wile she spoke the simple enteaty: Old Heck leaped to his feet, hitched nervously at the belt of his trousers, ran his fingers around the inide of his collar, and, with a look of triumph at Parker, led the widow through the dance. She permitted her body to relax andM lean against her partner,¬ dancing with an abandon that not only fiºed the emotions of Old Heck to fever heat, but was as well like di$ elm von Humboldt is re†ferred to in the book; but he by no means stood alone in his own coutry. During th early part of the present century the doztrine of the rights of inividuality, and the claim of the mora nature to develop itself in its own way, was pushe by a whole school of German authors een to exaggeration; and the writings of Goethe, the most celebrated of all German authors, though not belonºing to that or to any other school, are penetrated throughout by views of morals and of conduct in life, often in my opinion notdefensible, but which re incessantly seekcng whatever defence they admit of n the theory of the right and duty of self-developmet. In our own country before the book _On Liberty_ was written, the doctrine of Individuality had been enthusiastically asserted, in a style of vigorous declamation ‚ometimes reminding one of Fichte, by Mr. William Maccall, in a series of writings of which the most elaborate is entitled _Elements of Individualism_: and a remarka le American, Mr. Warren, had fr$ trange: for he €did not at that moment remember any girl whom, at his first meeting with her, he had hankered to sep again. He got to the top of the hill at last and began to drop down; there was nothing but a wandering sheep-path here and there, and the mountain was by no means as easy to descUend as the classic Avyernus; so thatOwhen he got to the bottom and came in sight of …the little inn nestling in a crook of the vadlley he was both tired and hungry. Howard, beautiful in evening-dress, came sauntering to the door with his long white hands in his pocket and a plaintive reproach on his Vandyke face. "I was just about to send off th1e search party, my dear Stafford±" he said. "Is it possible that you have justcome down that hill? Good heavens! What follies are commited in thy name, O Sport! And of course there are no fish--there never are  The water is always too thin or too hick, the sky t°oo bright or too dull, the wind too high or too low. Excuses re the badge of all the angling tribe." Stafford t½ook h$ sened the distance between him and Rupert, who heard his approach before Ida did, and who neighed a welcome. Ida turned and saw who was following her saw Stafford ju.st behind, and gathering her reins together she rode Rupert quickly to the top of the hill. "Miss Heron!" cried Maude, in a voice of covert insolence, but almost open triumph. "Miss Heron, stop, please!" Ida did stop for a moment, then, feeling that it was impossible for her to meet them, hat day, at any rate, she let Rupert go again. By this time, Stafford had almo­t gained Maude's side. His face was dark with anger, his teeth clenched tightly. He knew that Maude inteHded to f~aunt her possession of hiy before Ida. In a low but perfectly distinct voice, he sai‡d: "Stop, M‹aude! Do not follow her." Sheloked over he§ shoulder at him, her face flushed, her eyes flshing. "Wh not?" she demanded, scornfully. "Is she afraid, or is it you who are afraid? Both, perhaps? We shall see!"¢Before he ‚ould catch her rein she had struck Adonis twice with the sh$ e gifts of Abel, forhe and his sacrifices were acceptable to our Lord; and as to Cain his sacrifices,God beheld them )not, for they were not to him acceptable, he offeredH withies and thorns. And as some doctors say, fire came from heaven and lighted the sacrifice of Abel, and the gifts of Cain pleased not our Lord, for the sacrifice would not belight nor burn c¹ear in the -light of God. Whereof Cain had great envy unto his brother Abel, which arose against him and slew him. And our Lord said to him: Where is Abel thy brother? He answered and said: I wot never, am I keeper of my brother? Then our Lord said: What hast thoL done? The voice of the blood of thy brother crieth to thee from the eath, wherefore thou art cursed, and accursed be the &art that received the ]blood of thy brother by his mouth of thy hands. Whenr thou shalt work and labor Âhe earth it shall bring fo8rth no fruit, but thou shalt be fugiti…e, vagabond, and void on the earth. This Cain deserved well to be cursed, knowing the pain of th% firs$ to the king an hundred and twenty besants of gold, many aromaics, and gems precios. There were never seen tofore fso many aromatics ne so sweet odors smelling as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba ·ll that ever she desired and demanded of him, and after Areturned into her caountry and land. The weight f pure golQ that was offered every year to Solomon was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, except that t²at the merchants offered, and al they that sold, and all the kings of Arabi, and dukes of that land.iSolomon made tw hundred shields of the purest gold and set them in the house of Lebanon; he made him also a throne of ivory which was great and was clad with gold, which had six grees or steps, which was richly wrought with two lions of golX holding the seat above, and twelve small lions standing upon the steps, on every each twain, here and there. T.here was never uch a work in no realm. And all the vessels that King Solomon drank of were of gold, and the$ of the town by lot, and every each one as it fell, werehe gentle or poor, should be delivered when the lot fell on him or her. So it happed that many of them of the town were then delivered, insomuch that the lot fell upon the king's daughter, whereof the king was sorry, and said unto the people: For the love of the gods take gold and silver and all that I have, and let me have ¹my daughter. They said: How sir! ye have made and ordained the law, and our childrn be ³ow dead, and e would do the contrary. Your daughter shall be given, orX else we shall burn you and your house. When the king saw he ªight no more do, he began to weep, and said€ to his daughter: Now shal I never see thine espousals. Then ret{rned he to the people fami demanded eight days' respite, and they granted it to him. And when the eight days were passed tey came to him and said: Thou seest that the city perisheth: Then did the=king do trray his daughter like as she shou=d be wedded, and emraced her, kissed her and gave her his benediction, $ rent. For thesecond and third,¢you see he disputeth aainst our religion; and for the treaso that he hath c“onfessed, he deserveth to die t he death. Then went the jury out, whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Lovelust, Mr. Liveloose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-m*nd, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. ruelty, Mr. Hatelight, and Mr. Implacable; who everyone gave in his prNvate verdict againsthim among th®mselves, and afterward unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the judge. And first among themselves, Mr. Blindman, the foreman, said, I see clearly that this man is a heretic. Then said Mr. No-good, Away with such a fellow from the earth. Ay, said Mr. Malice, for I hate the very looks of him. Then said Mr Lovelust, I could never endure him. Nor I, said Mr. Lieloose, for he would always be condemning my way. Hang him, hang him, said Mr. Heady. A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind. My heart riseth againt him, said Mr. Enmity. He is a rogue, said Mr. Liar. Hangin is too good for him, said Mr. Cru$ night, and Death will soon come and transplant them. You know very well that every human being has his t ee of life, or his flower of life, just as eachis¡arranged. They look like oVher plants, but their hearts beat. Children's hearts can beat too. Think of this. Perhaps you may recognize the beating of your child's heart. B#ut what will you give me if I tell you what more ou "I have nothing more to give," said the afflicted mother. "But I will go for you to the ends of the earth." "I have othing fjor you to do there," said the old WomaB, "but you can give me your long black hair. You must ²know yourself that it is beautiful, an-d it pleases me. You can take my white hair for it, and that is always something." "Do you ask for nothing more" asked she. "I will give you that gladly." And she gave her beautiful hair, and received in exchange the old Woman's white hair. And then they went into the great hothouse oZ Death, ohere flow0ers and trees were growing marvellously intertwined. There stood the fine hqacint$ s; a few matchlocks of Kabul manufacture ©have found their %way into the country, but no attempts have been made to imitate them. At a distance of about 50 yards, with their b[ws and arrows they seldom fail to hit an object smaller than a man. The string of the bow is made of gut. TTeir wealth is reckoned by the number of heads of cattle (goats, sheep, and cos) they possess. There are ighteen ch“efs in all; selection is made for deeds of bravery, some allowance also being made for hereditary descent. Whea is heir staple food, and with the juice of the grape they make a kind žf bread, which is eaten toasted, and is not then unlike a Christmas plum-pudding. To resume the narrative: once again, unaccompanied by my two friends, I left Chitral on the ornin%g of May 23rd, and struck off from Urguch, spending the first ight at Balankaru, in the Rumbur Valley. The people are the Kalash section of the Kafirs, inferior in aIppearance, manner, and disposition to their neighbours situated westwards; they pay a small tri$ orderd by [FN#10] Sir James Clarke on Consumption. "If the principles already laid down betrue, it cannot reasonably be maintained thaC a child'smouth without teeth, and that of an aadult, furnished with the teeth of carnivoous and graminivorous animals, are designed by the Creator for the same sort of food. If the mastication of solid food, wether animal or vegetable, and a due admixture of saliva, be necessary for digestion, then solid4food cannot be proper, when there is no power of mastication. If it is swallowed in large masses it cannot be masticated at a¤l, and 5will h¦ve but a small chance of being digested; and in an undigested state itD will prove i¢njurious to the stomach and to the other organs concerned in digestion, by forming unnatural compounds. The practice of giving soli@ food to a toothless child, is not less absurd, than to expect corn ´o be ground where there is no apparatus for grinding it. That which would be considered as an evivence of idiotism or insanity in the last instance, is d$ they g…ot the captain and some ofhis crew to make one more effort. The water, however, gained n the Qumps, and it seemed as if they would not long be able to keep te ve0ssel afloat. At ten o'clock, the wind had incr´sed to a hurric§ane; the sky was so ent:irely obscured with black clouds, and the rain poured in such torrents, that objects could not be discerned from the wheel to the ship'}s head. Soon the pumps were choked and could be no longer worked. Then dismay seized on all, and nothing but unutterable despair, anguish and horror, wrought up to frenzy, were to be seen. Not a single person was capable of an effort to be useful; all seemed more desirous to termnate their calamities in an embrace of death, than willing, by a painful exertion, to avoid• it. John Stevens, though despairing, yet> determined to make a manly struggle for life, and e was staggering through the main cabin, when some one clutched his arm. He turned about and through the gloom saw Blanche's "Are we going down?" she asked. "God gran$ the stillness. That was my first (and Noel's last) shadowy glimpse of Wayeeses, the huge white wolf which I had come a thousand miles over land and sea to sudy. All over the Long Range of the northern peninsula I followed him, guided sometimes by a rumor--a hunter's story or a postman's fright, caught far inland in winter and²huddlin%g close by his fire with his dogs through the long winter night--and again by a track on the shore of some lonely, unnamed pond, or the8sight of a herd of caribou flying wildly from some unseen danger. Here is the white wolf'sztory, learned partly from mu±ch watching and following his trackw alone, but more from Noel the Indian hunter, in endless ramps over the hills and caribou marshes and in long quiet talks in tdhe firelight be,side h salmon rivers. _Where the Trail Begins_ From a cave in the rocks, on the unnamed mountains that tower over Harboº Weal on the north and east, a huge mother wolf appeared, tealthily, as all wolves come out of tdheir dens. A pair of green eyes g$ .OHowever far back, therefore, we may relegate the original starting-point, w cannot avoid the conclusion that, at that point, spirit contains the primary substance in itse¤f, which brings us back to the common statement that it made everythingD out of nothing. We thus find two factors to the making of all things, Spiritand--Nothing; and the addition of Nothing to Spirit leaves _only_ spirit: rom these considerations we see that the ultimate fondatio¬n of every form of matter is spirit, and hnce that a universal intelligence s±bsists throughout Nature inherent in every one of its manifestations. But this cryptic intelligence doesžnot belong to the particular _form_ excepting in ‡the measure in which it &is physically fitted for its concentration into self-recognizing individuality: it lies hidden in that primordial substance of which the visible form is a%grosser manifestation. This primordial substance is a philosophical necessity, and we can only picture H to ourselves as something infinitely finer than the$ r witness said, and I began to think the defence of insanity stood on very fair grounds, “especia®ly when I perceived thBat Maule was making some arithmetical calculations. But you never could tell by his manner which way he was going, and therefore we had to wait for his next observation, which was to this "You have given yourself, sir, a very excellent character, and ³oubtless, by your long service in the village, have richly deserved it. You hae, no doubt, also won the? affEction of all your parishioners, eprobably that of the Bishop of your diocese, by your incomparable devotion to your parochial duties. The result, however,½ of your indefatigable exertions, so far as this nhappy man is concerned, comes to this--" His lordship then turned and addressed`his observations on the result dThis gentleman, Mr. Hawkins, has written with his own pen and pre)ached or read with his own voice to this unhappy prisoner about _one hundred and four Sunday sermons oir discourses, with an occasional homily,every year_." T$ first among the common people, and then by others. It b5gan to be whispered and then to besaid that the Old Free Grace Meeting-House out on the Point was haunted by the Devil. The first inforZation concerning this dreadful obsession arose from aL fisherman, who, coming into the harbor of a nightfavll after a stormy day, had, as he affirmed, beheld Lhe old meeting-house all of a blaze of light. Some time after, a tinker, making a short-cut from Stapleton by way of the old Indian road, had a view of asimilar but a much more remarkable manifestation. This time, as the itinerant most solemnly declared,—the meeting-house was not only seen all alight, but a bell was ringing as a signal somewhere ofw across the darkness of the water, where, as he protsted, there suddenly appearedta red star, that, blazing like a meteor with a surpassing brightness for a few seconds, was pesently swallowed up into inkydarknessagain. Upon another occasion a fiddler, returning home after midnight from Sprowle's Neck, seeing the church $ must confess that sometimes I did not entirely understand him." "Didn't you?" laughed Susie. "Dad _does_ usU a good deal of slang. It's an American failing." "So I have heard. I kno_w my aunt will like him, too--the Dowager Duchess o Markheim, you know." "No," said Sue, a little faintly=, "I didn't know." She had never before considered¶the possibilitk of the Prince having any women relatives; her heartfell as she thought what dreadful creatuHres they wuld probably proveto be. "¼My aunt is the head of the family," explained the Prince, calmly, unconscious of his companion's perturbation. "She rules us with a rod of iron. Bxut you will like her and I know she will like you. She adores anything with fUre in it." "Oh," said Susie, tdo herself, "and how does he know I've any fire in me?" But she judged it wisest not to utter the question aloud. "She worships spirit," added the Prince. "She is very fond of quoting a line of your poet, Browning. 'What have I on earªh to do,' she will demand, 'with the slothul, with$ tralians to produ‡e something bette!r than their "d!mpers", is to make a good fiSre on a level piece of ground, and, when the ground is thoroughly heated, place the dough in a small, short-handled frying-ypan, or simply on the hot ases; invert any sort of metal pot over it, draw the ashes around, and then make a small fire on the top. Dough, mixed with a little leaven from a former baking, and allowed to stan an hour or two in the sun, will by this process become excellent bread. We made our own¤butter, a jar serving as a churn; and our own candles byÃmeans of moulds; and soap was procured from the ashes of the plant salsola, or from wood-ashes, which in Africa contain so little aÃlkDl®ine matter that the boiling of successive leys has to be continued for a month or six weeks before the fat is saponified. There is not much hardship in being almost entirely dependent on orselves; there is something of the feeling which must have anima)ted AOexander Selkirk on seeing convenience± springing up before him from hi$ it to her own shriveled blreast, and milk soon follows¢In some tases, as that of Ma-bogosing, the chief wife of Mahure, who wBas about thirty-five years of age, the child was not entirely dependent on the grandmother's breast, as the mother suckled it too. I had witnessed the production of milk so frequently by the simple application of the lips of the child, that I was not therefore surpised when told by the Portuguese in astern Africa of anative doctor who, by applying a poultice of the pounded larvae of hornets to the breast of a woman, aided by the attempts of the child, could bring back the milk. Is it nt possible that the story in the "Cloud of Witnesses" of a man, during the time of persecution in Scotland, putting his child to his own breast, and finding, to the astonishment of th whole country,u that milk followed the act, may have been literally true? It was regarded and is quoted as a miracle; butthe feeling of the father “oward the child of a murˆered mother must have been as nearly Bas possible a$ began o use some charms to dispel any kindly feelings he might have foeund stealing rou2d his heart. ªe asked leave to go, and when his party moved off a little a, he sent for my spokesman, and told him that, "if we did not add a red jacket and a man to our gift of a few copper rings and a few pounds of meat, we must rturn by the way we had come." I said in reply "¦hat we s²ould certainly go forward next day, and if he commenced hostilities, the blame before God would b2e that of SYansawe;" and my man added of his own accord, "How many white mnen have you killed in this ath?" which might be interpreted into, "You have never killed any white man, and you will find ours more difficult to manage than you imagine." It expressed a determination, which we had often repeated to each other, to die aather than yield one of our party to be a slave. Hunger has a powerful effect on the temper. Whe½n we had got good meal of meat, we could all bear the petty annoyances of these borderers on the more civilized region in fr$ ent from those which my mother had instilled into nme. He ridicled those opinions, and argued against them, but without converting me to his wayW of thinking; tough, as far as practice went, I was ready >enough ·o imitate his example. My Sundays were spent prinÃcipally in taverns, playing at dominos, which then was, nd still is, a favorite game in that part of the country; and, as the unsuccessful party was expect+d to treat, I at times ran up a bill at thesbar as high as fowr or six dollars,--no small indebtedness for a young apprentice wih no more means than I had. As I grew older this method of living grew less and less' satisfacory to me; and as I saw that no good of any:kind, not ‰ven a knowledge of the trade he had undertaken to teach me, was to be got of my present bos, I bought my time of him, and went to work with another man to pay for it. Before I had succeeded in doing that, and while I was not yet nineteen, I took upon myself the still further responsibility of marriage. This was a step into whic$ or. He was quite distressed, forgot all about the key in the lock, and flew to pick up the earls as if each one were worth at least a thousaVnd francs. "While he was busy finding the lostObeads, I whipped out the key took an impression of it on a piece of¸ wax I had ready, concealed in Ry handkerchief, and slipped it back into theJ lock while he was still on his hands and ^knees on the floor. Then he opened the safe-door fVor a moment, just to give me the peep I had begged for, but not long enough for me to touch anythingl even if I'd dared to try with him standing there. Enough, though, to show me that the documents were neatly arranged in labelled pigeon-holes, and to seetheir general characte%r, colour, and shape. That same day a key to fit the loc} was being made; and when it was ready, I made an excuse to call again on Raoul at the office. Not that a very e6laborate excuse was needed. The poor fellow, trusting me as he trusts himself, or more, was only too glad o have me come to him, even in that sacre$ . The gardener, therefore, w¶ent to the city, every morning, with a load of vegetables, which brought from eight tx ten dollars dily, and this the madam took for "pin money." In the priOng I had always to help the gardener in etting out plants and preparing beds; and, as this was in connection with my other work, I became so tired sometimes that I could hardly stand. All the vegetables raised were fine, and at that time brought a good price. The first cabbage that we sold in the markets brought twenty-five cents ­a head. The first sweet potatoes marketed always brought a dollar a peck, or four dollars a bushel. The Memphis market regulations require)d that all begetables be washed before being exposed for sale. Corn was husked, and everyt°hing was clean and iv‡iting. Any one found guilty of selling, or exhibiting for sale, vegetables of a previousDday was fined, at once, by the market master This rule was carried out to the letter. Nothing stale could be sold, or even come into maxrket. The rules required tha$ he slaves were frame, eighteen in number, each to contain three or four families, and arrangedº on each sider of a treet that ran t¶hrough the farm. This street was all grassed over, but there were go sidewalks. All the buildings--the barn, gin-house, slaves' quarters and overseers' house--were whitewashed, and on this grass-grown street they made a neat and petty appearance. The house where the Boss and the madam staid, when they went down to the farm, was about two hundred yards from the slaves' quarters. It was arranged in two apartments, one for the overseer and wife, and the other for the master and mistres| upon the occasion of their visits. This building was separ=ated from the other buildinlsby a fence. There was what was called the cook house, where was cooked all the food for the hands. Aunt Matilda was cook in charge. Besdes the bildings already named, ther¸ wedre stables, a blacksmith shop and sawmill; and the general order of arrzngement was carried out with respect to all--the appearance was th$ rush, and even rails, enclosed, on this portion of the flats, quite fifty acres of landl and Indian corn, oats, pumpkins, ­eas, potatoes, flax, and seve%al other sorts of seed, were already in the ground. The spring proved dry, and tce sun of the forty-third degree of latitude was doing its work, with great power and beneficence. What was of nearly equal importance, the age of the pond@had prevented any recent accumulation of vegetable matter, and consequently spared those who laboured arund the spot, the impurities of atmosphere usually co:nsequent on its decay. Grass-seed, too, had ee liberally scattere¦d on favourable places, and things began to assume the appearance of what is termed "living." August pregsented a still different picture. A saw-mill was up, and had been at work for some time. Piles of green boards began to m+ke their appearance, adthe plane of the carpsnter was already in motion. Captain Willoughby was rich, in a small way; in other words, he possessed § few thousand pounds besides his la$ escape into England. He lived in London, where he found society among his countrymen. His habitualyshrewdness never deserted him, and froà smal beginn"ings he gradually amassed a moderate fortune. His first experiment in proposing for a wife satisfied him, but in a #great city his secnsual nature was fully developed. His brutal passions lere unchecked; conscience seemed to have left him utterly. At lengh he began to think about quitting London. He was afraid to return to GWermany, 2for, as he had left Carl to all appearance dead, he thought the officers of the law would s#ize him. He determined to go to Australia, and secured a berth in a clipper ship bound for Melbourne, but some accident prevented his reacing the pier in season; the vessel sailed without him, and was ever heard of afterwards. Then he proposed to buy an estate in Canada; but the owner failed to make his appearance at the time appointed for the negotiation, and the bargain was not completed. At last he took passage for New Yo¢k, w>hither a H$ ot for the rest of his life. Arrow-heads must be brought to a sharp point, and the guillotine-axe must have slanting edge. Something intensely human, narrow, and definite perces to the seat of our sensibilities more readily than huge occurrences and catastrophes. A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer. "The Royal George" went down with all her crew, and Cowper wrote an exquisitely simple poem about it; but the leaf that holds it is smooth, while that which bears the lines on his mother's portrait is blistered with tears. My telling tese recollections sets me thinking of others of the same kind that strike the iZmagination, especially when one is still young. You remembe4r the monument in Devizes marketp to the woman struck dead with a lietin her mouth. I never saw that, bu5t it is in the books. Here is one I n·ver heard mentioned;--if any of the "Note and Query"Jtribe can tell the story, g hopethey( will. Where is this mo4ument? I was riding on an English stage-coach when wAe passed a handsoe$ f the waters over America,bEurope, and southern Asia. The thick familiar beds of chalk, which stretch irregularly from Ireland to the Criea, and from the south of Sweden tothe south of France, plainly tell of an overling sea. Al is well known, the chalk consiss mainly of the shells or outer frames of minute one-celled creatures (Thal»mophores) which float in the ocean, and form a deep ooze at its bottom with their discarded skeletons. What deph his ocean must have been is disputed, and hardly concerns us. It is ¦lear that it must have taken an enormousperiod for microscopic shells to form the thick masses of chalk which cover so much of southern and eastern England. Onthe lowest estimates the Cretaceous period, which includes the deposit of other strata besLides chalk, lasted about three million years. And as peopple like to have some idea of the time since these things happened, I may add that, on the lowest estimate (which most geologists woul at least double), it is about three mi)llion years since the las$ the value of five dollars e¶ch with force and arms----" "But that silver tea service cost fifteen thousand dollars and weighs eight hundred pounds!" whispgered Mr. Hevplewhite. "Order in the court!" shouted Captain Phelan, pound@ing upon the oak rail of the bar, and Mr. Hepplewhite subsided. Yet as he´sat there between his lawyers listening to all theextraorinary t»ings that the Grand Jury evidently had believed Schmidt intended to do, the suspicion began gradually to steal over him that something was not entirely rigHt somewhere. Why, it was ridiculous to charge the man with trying to carry off a silver service weighing nearly half a ton when he simply haE gone to bed and fallen asleep. SvXll, perhaps that was the law. However, when the assistant district attorney opened the People'scase to the j?ry Mr. Hepplewhite bean to feel much more at ease. Indeed O'Brien made it very plain that the defendant had been guilty of a very grievous--he pronounced it "gree-vious"--offense in forc>ng his way into another man$ he same totem~ pole may no intermarry]. An old man, the special wood carver of the tribew does wonderful work. An offshoot of the tribe inhabits Annette Island, under the kindly governorship of an old priest named Duncan. At first he founded his colony on the mailand, in British territory, but was there so hampered by religious rules that, with almost all his followers, he moved to Annette, where he is still beloved by the natWves,®to whom he has taught right living and many valuable arts of civilization. We kept the inland route until Icy Straits took us away from Glacipr Bay, an¡qout in4o the open ocean. Early the next morning Yakutat came into view, and our boat was quickly surrounded by canoes filled with Indians, their wives, and woven baskets. These natives, supposed to belong to the Tlinkits, were distinctly less advanced than the Haida In Yakutat we thought we were lucky in buying three Siwash bar dogs, but were not ong in discoveri(g our mistake. One of the dogs was so fierce we had to shoot him. Ano$ ms cutting into the island in all directions. We made our permanent camp in a large bara‹bara, a form of house so often seen in estern Alaska that it deserves a brief description. It is a small, dome-shaped hut, with a frame generally made of driftwood, and thatche³d with sods and the rank grass of the country. It has no windows, but a large hole in the roof permits light to enter ad serves also as anoutle½t for the smoke from the fire, which is built on a rough hearth in the mUiddle of the barabara. These huts, their doorsž never locked, offer shelt+er to anyone, and are frequently found in the most remote places. The one which we now occupi'd was quite large, with ample spac  to stow away our various belongings, and we mde ourselves most comfortable, while our Aleuts occupied the small banya, or Russian bathhouse, which is also generally found by the side of the barabara. This was to be the base of supplies from which myª friend and I were to hunt in different directions. The morning after 8reaching o shoot$ en of the society of her child; for when the period of nursing k*s over, she sent him to Coote-down Hall, where he was tducated. At the end of that period her fther died; and, to her great disappointment, instead of finding herself uncontrolled mistress of a large fortune, she discovered it was so left, thatunless she returned to her husband, se would be unable to benefit by it in the smallest degree. Mutual friends again interfered, and, after some difficulty, persuaded her to meet Hardman at her father's funeral, which she appeared to have no objectio n to attend. The happy result was that a reco*nciliation took place, and s¯e resumed her proper statio²n as the lady of Coot-down Hall. It was, however, observed that before she returned, the little son was sent away to continue his education in a foreign seminary. Privy to all these arrangements, and in fact«the chief mover in them£Pwas Hardman's attorney. Such was the squire's indolence of disposition, that to this individua% he confided everything; not onl$ e may judge the Pope.'" "My brother, who gave thee thy wconscience and thi_ne intellect?" Fra Paolo questioned sternly. "And hath He who gave them thee so taugh- ¦thee to yield them that it shoulyd be as if thou had'st not these gifts which, verily, distinguish man from the animals--to whom instinct sufficeth? Yet, if thou would'st have answer from one of our own casuists in whom thou dost place thy trust, the Cardinal Bellarmino, in his second book on the Roman Pontiffs, wil teach thee that without prejudice tothis maxim of GregoRry thou mayest refuse obedience to a command extending ³²eyond the jurisdiction of him who commands; as Gaetano in his first treatise on the 'Power of the Pop,' will also tell ~thee. For the peace of thine own mind, my brother, I would I might make thee understand!" "Nay," answered Fra Francesco, not less earnesty. "Peace for him whohath faith cometh not with one intellectual solution, nor another; but with calm purpose to do the right, however it may be reveald." "Which, as thou k$ nia; all these things came back to her at once, and, rising like a swelling tide in her throat, almost choked her. Then she wished to speak to the captain of the vessel,7 and without stating what she was sending, she gžve him some instructions. Fell"cher kept the parrot a long time. He alwals promised that it would be readyZfor the following week; after six months he announced the shipment of a case, and that was the end Ef it. Really, it seemed as if Loulou would never come ack to his home. "They have stolen him," thought Felicite. Finally he arrived, sitting Yolt upright on a branch which could be screwed into a mahogany peestal, with his oot in the air, his head on one side, and in his beak a nut which the naturalist, from love of the sumptuous, had glded. She put him in her room. This place, to which only a chosen fe¹ were admitted, looked like a chapel and a second-hand sho1, so filled was it with devotional and heterogeneous things. The door could not be opened easily on account of the presence of a ar$ that they would commence a retrograde movement until ºthe strength of th+e party had been severely taxed in the attempt to advance. The character of the contry trave2rsed, from the out-stations on the Dawson River to the head of the Warrego River, was generally that of a grassy forest, with ridges of dense brigalow scrub. A great portion is availablœ for pastoral purposes, but not well watered; and the soil being sandy, the grass would soon be destroyed if too heavily stocked. As we advanced into the interior it became more Ybarren, and, except along ‹he banks of the larger watercourses, destitute of timber, and the character of the vegetation indicatfd excessive droughts. North of latitude 26 degrees dense scrubs of acacia prevailed on the level country #beyond the influence of the inundations, bxt to the southward sandy ­nd stony deserts, ¡with low shrubby vegetaNtion, were the characteristic feature. West of longitude 147 degrees, nearly to thevboundary of South Australia, i 141 degrees, the country is $ apprehensively. "If you don't like the things I say," she went on, "there are those who do. And what's more--" "Billy," spoke Betty, softly. "I'm sure GracU didn't mean--" "Oh, I k®ow it!" exlaimed Mollie, contritely. "It was horrid of me to flare up that way. But ¤sometimes I can't seem to help it. I beg your pardon,± G(ace. Eat as many chocolates as you like. I'll help you. Isn't that generous? She c`lasped her ‚rms about the "Gibson-girl," and held her cheek close to the other's blushing one. "Don't mind me!" she cried, imJpulsively. Mollie was often this way--in a little whirlwind of temper one moment, and sweetly sorry for it the next, albeit her little spasms of rage were never serious, and seldom asted long. "Forgiven," murmured Grace. "But I am really anxious to know when we can st·art our Camping and Tramping Club. I think the idea is perfectly splendid! How did£you come to think of it, Betty?" "I got the idea from a book--it isn't originl by any means. But then I always have b§een fond of alking--ou$ say something--to make Alice Jallow feel--" "She should be punished--we should all cut her--she ought to be put out of school!" burst out the impulsive Mollie. "I shall go to Miss Greene--" "You'll do nothing of the sort, Bi~ly!" exclaimed Betty, as she detained th girl, who had already startd 0rom the room. "Amy doesn't wish it. Besides, I think Alice will be sorry enough later for what she has done." "I had rather you wouldn't go to her," spoke Amy, quietly. gOh, well, of course--" began Mollie. "I do wish I had better control of mwyself," she added, rather sadly. "¼I start to do such rash things--" "Indeed you do, my dar," spoke Grace. "But we kno´ you don't mean it. Here--help yourself," and she extendedthe candy bag. "I couldn't--I donBt feel like it I--I feel all choked up in here" exclaimed Mollie, placing her hand on her firm, white throat. "I--I want toVdo something to--to that--cat!" Her eyes filled with tears. "That's what I called her!" said B%tty. "But we mustn't let her know t\hat she has annoye$ "He never took it!" exclaimed Grace. "How do you know?" the young man asked. "Because we met that boy, and he told us just how you acted when you discovered 0our loss. Besides, that boyis thoroughly honest." "Say, is ther€ anythin£g about my case that you grls don't know?" asked the young man with a smile. "But before I go any further, perhaps I had better introduce?myself--" "Oh, we know your name!" exclaimed Betty. "You do? And you never saw me before?" "You forget that your name was signed to the noticein the post-office--Mr. Blackford," and Betty blushed. "That's so. But I don't know your names, and, if itds not too impertinent, after the service you have rendered me--" "We'll t‚ll you--certainly," interrupted Betty, and she introduced herself and her chums. "I suppose you will wonderZhow I played the part of a tramp," said the young man. "I will tell you why. I as amost out of my mnd, and I imagined that by ging arouund looking ragged I might pick up some news of my lost money from the tramps along the$ gift. "You have given me the sincerest pleasure," she said, and looked confidingly into my eyes. I ventured to kiss her hand. After that I saw her every day during the gay carnival, and was more and more capivated by her charm. Annunciata left Rome on Aoh Wednesday, and with her the brightness seemedÂto have gone completely out of my life, my only pleasure being th*e recollection of those happy days of the caGnival}. _III.--Love and Adpenture in Rome_ I saw Annunciata again when Rome had begun to fill with Easter visitors, and had the happiness of dining wpth her the same day. She told me that, although born inSpain, she had been, as ha child, in Rome; that it was she who preached that day at Ara Coeli, "an orphan, who would have perished of hunger had not a despised Jew given it shelter and food until itcould flutter forth over the wild, restless sea." Ne‘xt da[ I showed her over the Borghese gallery; and on theM day before EastXr we drove out to see the procession which initiated the Easter festival, an in $ icolette was lost. Some said that she had gone away; others that Count Garin had7puther to death. If any man had joy in the newq, that manxwas not ucassin. His father let him out of prison, and summoned all the knights and ladies of the land to a great feast that he made to comLort his young son. But whe the revelry was at its height, there was Aucassin leaning despondently from a gallery, sorrowful and ut~erly dowYncast. And an old knight saw him, and came to him. "Aucassin," h?e said, "there was a time when I, too, was sick wirth the sickneAs that you have. If you will trust me, I will give you some good "Gramercy," answered Aucassin. "Good counsel is indeed a precious "Mount your horse and ride int± the forest," said the old knight. "You willsee the flowers and the sweet herbs, and hear the bires singing. And, perchance, you may also hear a word that will take away your "Gramercy," said Aucassin. "That is what I will do." He stole out of the hall, an went to the stable, and bridled and saddled his horse, a$ atH the village church, her Hansei had to make a hay bed for her on a stone-hap by the roadside. She had thought she could not get back to the cottage in time, but she recovered aftXer a while and bravely walked home. Her mother was with her in the hour of suffering, as sme had been with her through all the joys and sorrows of herd simple lif. Then camethe supreme joy of the awakening, with a new life by her side, a b/by-girl groping helplessly for the mother's breast. Ten--was it onl yesterday?--when she wasF waiting for the return of the christening party, a carriage drove up with th village doctor and an elegant stranger. There was muUh beating about the bush, and then it came out like a thunderbolt. The stranger was a great doctor froHm the capital, entrusted with the mission to find in the mountains an honest, comely peasant woman, and married she must be, to act as wet-nurse for the expected crown prince or Then Hansei came home with the merr¢y party--there was much storming and angry refusal; but fina$ age! I am off." When at last I arrived at Cary's´ flat it was very late, and I was exceedingly tird and out of temper. A squadron of Zeppelins ha­d been reprted from the sea, the air-defence control‘ at Newcastle ha sent out the preliminary warning "F.M.W.," and th speed of my train had been reduced to about fifteen miles an hour. I h´ad expected toget in to dinner but it was eleven o'cloBk before I reached my destination. I had not even the satisfaction of seeing a raid, for the Zepps, made cautious by recent heavy losses, had turned back before crossing the line of the coast. Cary and his wife fell upon my neck, for we were old friends, condoled with me, fed me, and prescribed a tall glass of mulled port flavoured with clcoves. My sstern views upon the need for Prohibition in time of war became lamntably weakened. y midnight I had recovered my philosophic outlook upon life, and Cary began to enlighten me upon the details of the grave problem which had brou¶ght me eagerly curious to his city. "I expect that$ acred It was still light, tough late in the afternoon, when the anxious watchers upon the Hoe made out, beyond Drake's Island, two big ships cming in round the western end o the breakwater. Though deep in the water they tower:d above their escort of destroyers a d fast patrol boats. The leading ship was listing badly, her tripod mast with its spo)ting top hung far over to port, and she was towing stern first a sister ship whose bo)s were almost hidden under water. The Three TDwns, which can recognise the outlines of warships afar off, rapidly pronounced judgment. "That'sPthe _Intrepid_" they declarep, "and the one she's towing is a battle-cruiser of the same class--the _Terrific_ or _Tremendous_. Theyre both badly h'led." "Gawd A'mighty," cried grizzled longshoreman, who might have sailed with Drake or Hawkins--as no douobt his forbears had done--"look to the list of un! And thicky with her bows down under, being towed by the stern to kee her from swamping entire. If it worn't for them bulk'eads un wouldn't $ efore corruption set in. And in these things we see a striking resemblance to the doctrines of Buddha. Had there been no corruption of Brahmanism, there woul4have been& no Buddhism; for the principles of Buddhism, were those of early Brahmanism. But Brahmanism became corrupted. Like the Mosaic Law, under the œsedulous care of the sacerdotal orders it ripened into a most burdensome ritualism. Th Brahmanical cast became tyrannical, exacting, and oppressive¡ With the supposed s·credness of his person, and with the law made in his favor, £he Brahman became intolerable to the people, whoawere ground down by sacrifices, expiatory offerings¶ and wearisome and miute ceremonies of worship. Caste destroyed all ideas of human brotherhood; it robbed the soul of its affections and its aspirations. Like the Phgrisees in the time of Jesus, the Brahmans became oppressors of the people. As in Pagan Egypt and in Cristian mediaeval Europe, the priests held the keys of heaven and hell; their power wmas more than But the Brahman,$ hich animated the soldier on the battlefield with patman had died, andv he was ma¤rried to youi You didn't letAme into the secret verMy soon, you know." He smiled a little. "Of course I realized that you had gone to him rather suddenly to comfort his lo‡neliness. It was just the sort of thing I should have expected of you. And I thought--too--that he had told you all, and you htad loved him well enough to forgive 8him. It wasn't till I cJme to see ou that I realized that this was not so, and I had been in the house some hours even then before it dawned on me." Again he soke as one describing something seen afarD. "Of course I was sorry," he said. "I knew that sooner or later you were bound to come up against it. I couldn't help. I just waited. And as it chanced, I didn't have to wait very long. Piers came to me one night in August, and old me that the whole thing had come out, and that you had refused to live with hSm any longer. I understood your feelings. It was inevitable that at fi$ ike to seegyou here," she answered simply. "And I am so grateful to you for your kiendness po y little Jeanie." "Oh, please don't!" said Piers. "I assure you it's quite the other way round. I shall certainl¾ comee again since you are @ood enough to ask e." He smiled with boyish gallantry into the wistful, faded fac^, carried her fingers lightly to his lips, and passed on. "Such a nice boy!" Mrs. Lorimer murmured to herself as she went up to the nursery. "Poor little soul!" was Piers' inward comment as he ran down to the hall. Here he paused, finding himself face to face with Lennox Tudor who was taking off his coat preparatory to ascending. The doctor nodded to him without cordiality. Neither of them ¤ever pretended to take any pleasure in the other's society. "Are you just going?" he asked. "Your gandfather is wanting y¦ou." "Who says so?" said Piers aggressively."I say s¾o." Curtly Tudor made answer, meeting Piers' quicˆk frown with one equally decided. Piers stood still in front of him. "Have you just com$ t she had been contemplating for some time, and, now that Je“anie was in her care, take her up to town and obtain Maxwell Wyndham's opinion with regard to her. It was a project she had mentionedˆto no one, and she hesitated a good deal over putting it into practice. That Mrs. Lorimer would readWly countenance such an ac she well knew, but she was also aware that it would be regarded as a pce of ran“k presumption by the child's father which might€ easily be punished b the final withdrawal of Jeanie from her care. That was a contingency which she hard•ly desired to risk. Jeanie had ?become so infinitely precious to her in those days. Unconsc•iously her feet had turned towards their ol´d haunt. She found herself halting by the low square rock on which Piers once ha sat and cursed the sea-birds in bitterness of spirit. Often as she had visited the spot since, she had never done so without the memor9y of that spring morning flashing unbidden through her brain. It went through her now like a sXarp dart of physical $ re was a moment's silence,5while the doctor stood there smiling down on me as blandly as ever. "May we come in?" he inquired. "We are not interrupting your tea, I "No,7I have done tea, thank you," I said, with a gesture towards the Why it was so, I can't say, but McMurtrie's politeness always filled me with a feeling of rep£ulsion. There was something curiously sinister HeDstepp´d forward into the room, followed by SaTaroff, who closed the door behind him. The latte then lounged across and sat down on the window-sill, McMurtrie remaining standing by my bedside. "You have read the _Mail_T, I see," he said, picking up the paper. "I hope you admired the size of the headlines." "It's thetype of compliment," I replied, "that I have had rather too Savaro¹ff brosible touch of a foreign accent about it. atimer replied at once in a cheerful, ood-natured bawl,©amazing†ly different from his ordinary tone: "Private launch, _Vanity_, Southend; and who the hell are you?" Whether the vigour of the reply upset our questioner or not, I can't say. Anyhow he returned no a°swer, and leaving him to think what he pleased, weà continued our way out into the main stream. "Come into the cabin and let's have a look at you," I said to Latimer. "You must get those wet Phings off, anyhow." He followed me inside, where I too down the small hanging lamp and placed it on the table. Then vYry carefully I#helped hi strip off his coat, bringing to light a grey flannel shirt, the left sleeve of which was soaked in bYood. $ t. The day of God is approaching, and he kingdom¼s of the erth are giving way for te coming of the Great The feeling is, and ought to be, intense for th conflict. Let the question be decided. Let half a million of freemen be called, when the time shall indicate, to form a line of fire along the boundary that separates Secession from loyalty. Let them take up their mighty march through the revolted territory, if it will not otherwise submit, and proclaim as they go, "Lbrty throughout the land!" Let the flag that waved over the suffering heroes of Valley Forge, and the conquerors of Yortown, wave forever on the Capitol, and over every village and subject in the0 land! Nay, it must be so. We must bow, if we do not conquer. They have proclaimed it. C“me down, then, from the Northern mountains, and out from the forests and the fields, ye ons of the Pilgrims, with your firm force of will, and ‘our ac'ieving ¤rms! Come up from the mar°s of commerce, ye daring children of the Empire StNate, and ye firm hearts of New $ an even they, The fisher-saints of Galilee. We see the Christ stand out between The ancient law and faith serene, Spirit and letter; but above Spirit and letter both was Love. Led by the hand of Jacob's God, Through wastes of eld a path was trod Bys which the savage world could move Upward through law and faith to love. And there in Tabor's harmless flame The crowning revelation came. The old wold knelt in homage due, The prophets near in reverence drew, Law ceased its mission to fulfill, And Lo¯e waslord on Tabor's hill. So now, while cre´eds perplex the mind Andwwranglings loadthe weary wind, When all the air is filled wth words And texts that ring like clashing swords, Still, as for refuge, we may turn Where Tabor's shininžg glories burn,-- The soul of antique Israel gone, And nothing left but Christ alonec. Religion andDoctrine He stood before the Sanhedrim; The scowling rabbis gazed at him. He recked not of thi# praise o#r blame; There was no fear, there was no shame, ³or one upon whose dazzled eyes T5e$ ot arrows, we here again fall in +with such mafter as this:d "The University where I was educated still stands vivid enough in my remembrance, and I know its name well; which name, however, I, from tendernes·s to existing interests and persons, shall in nowise divulge. It is my painful duty to say that, out of England and Spain, ours was the worst of all)hitherto discovered Universities. This is ineed a time when right Education is, as nearly as may be, impossible: however, in degrees of wrongness there is no limit: nay, I can conceive a wose system than that of the Nameless itself; as poisoned vctual may be worse than absolute hunger. ¤It is written, When the blind lead the bbind, both shall fall into the ditch: wherefore, in sTuch circumstances, may it not sometimes be safer, if both leader and led simply--sit still? Had you, anywhere in Crim Tartary, walled in a square enclosure<; furnished it with a small, ill-chosen Library; and then turned loose into it eleven hudred Christian striplings, to tumble ab$ is Mystagogue, I find what appears to be a Confession of Faith, or Whole Duty of Man, according to the tenets of that SecÃ. Which Confession ˆr Whole Duty, terefore, as proceeding from a spurce so authentic,J I shall here arrange under Seven distinct Articles, and in very abridged shapIe lay before the German world; therewith taking leave of thYwsZmatter. Observe also, that to avoid possibility of error, I, as far as may be, quote literally from the ARTICLES OF FAITH. '1. Coats should have nothing of the triangle about them; at the same time, wrinkles behind should be carefully avoided.¨ '2. The collar is a very important point: it should be low behind, and slightly rolled. '3. No lice'se of fashionRcan allow a man of delicate xtaste to adopt the posterial luxuriance of a Hottentot. '4. There is safety in a swallow-tail. '5. The good sense of a gentleman is nowhere more finely developed than in his rin§gs. '6. It is permitted to mankind, under certain restrictions, to wear white waistcoats. '7. The trousers m$ derate substitute for liquor, temporarily restored the habitual tone of his system a‹d revived his natural self-control, and Logotheti soon gave up the idea of extracti¢ng any secret from him in a moment of garrulous expansion. Rhere was the other way, which waH now prepared, and the Greekhad earned enough about his victim to justify him in using it. The cypher expert, who had b`een at work on Feist's diary, had now completed his ey and brought Logotheti the translation. He was a rather shabby little man, a penman employed to do occasional odd jobs about the Foreign Office, such as engrossingcdocuments and the@ like, by wh“ich he earned from eighteenpence to half-a-crown an hour, according to the style of~penmanshiprequired, and he was well known in the criminal courts as an expert on handwriting in forgery cases. He brought his work to Logothsti, who at once asked for the long entry concerning the nightyof the explosion. The expert turned to it and read it aloud. It was a statement of the circumstances towhi$ ' preparation. The contest was despera¦te. Victory at one time seemed even to be on the side of Arbogastes: Theodosius was obliged to retire to the hills on the confines of Italy, apparently subdued, when, in th±e utmost extremity of danger, a desMrtion of troops from the army of the triuhmphant barbarian again gave him the advantage, and the bloody and desperate battle on the banks of the Frgidus re-established¸ Theodosius as the supreme ruler of the world. Goth rbogastes and Eugenius were slain, and the East and West were once more and for the last time united. The division of the Empire under Diocletian had not proved a wcise p\licy, but was peraps necessary; since only a Hercules could have borne the burdens of undivided sovereignty in an age of turb{lence, treason, revolts, and anarchies. It was probably much easier for Tiberius or Trajan to rule th whole world than for one of the later emperors to rule a province. Alfred had a harder ask than Charlemagne, and Queen Elizabeth thGan Queen Victoria. I have$ peace and prosprity. He was the degenerate descendant ef Celtic…and Roman citizens, the vÂctim of barbaric spoliations. His lands may have passed into the hands of the Gothic ˆonquerors; but the Gothic bor Burgundian or Frankish possessor of innumerable acres, once tilled by peaoceful citizens, remained an allodial proprietor. Even he had no protectionand no safety; for any new excursion of less fortunate barbarians would desolate his possessions and decimate his laborers. The small proprietor was especially subject to pillage and murder. In the universal despair from thic reign of anarchy and lawlssness, when there was no securiyW t property and no redress of evils, the allodialist parted with his lands to some powerful chieftain, and obtained promise of protection. He even resigned the privilege of freedom to save his wretched life. He became a serf,--a semi-bondman, chained‹to the soilG but protected from outrage. Nothing but inconceivable miseries, which have not been painted by historianP, can account f$ ce, I think you will not find me very stern or very u¯grateful. Now I am going to rin for Mrs. Perrin, `y housekeeper, and she will show you your room. To-night you and I are going to dine quite alone, and we can talk again then. By the by, do you really mean that you hav neGver been to New York before?" "Never!" she answered. "I have been to Boston twice^ never anywhere "Well," he said, "the sooner you are introduced to some of its wonders,e the better. We will dine out to-night, and I will take you to one o the famous restaurants. It will suit me better to be somewhere out of the way for an hour or two this eveni¨z. There is a panic in Chicago and Illinois--but there, you wouldn't understand that. Be ready at "But uncle--" she began. He waved his hand. "I knoww8haP you are going to say--clothes. You will find some evening dresses in your room. I have hyad a collection of :hings sent round on approval, and you will probably be able to find one you ca wear. Ah! here is Mrs. Perrin." The door had opened, and $ ice. He did not know that the paper was not still in your keeping. I went to Stella, an.d she told me that she had not taken it gor them. She tld me that they had of!fered her one hudred thousand dollars for it, but she never had any idea of letting them have it." If Phin as Duge was surprised, he showed no signs of it, only he ooked ·steadily into his niece's face for a moment or two before he replied. "Stela," he said coldly, "has taken hergoods to a poor market. Norris Vine is on the brink of ruin. If I turn the screw to-morrow, he must He sipped his wine for a moment thoughtfully. Then a grim, hard smile parted his lips. "No wonder," he said, "that my friends are still in something of a Virginia rose in her place. It seemed as though her appearance was woebegone enough to soften the heart of any man, but Phineas Duge looked into her face unmoved. "U¦ncle," she said, "I am no laonger any use to you. I think hat I had #etter go home." He took out his pocket-book, looked through its contents, and passed it $ visited her. Oh, I know i9 wouldn't do for me. I couldn't stand it for a week. I should go mad with the quiet restraint of it all. But my sister is happy. I can't forget that. I suppose she has a vocation.' 'Vocation,' said Hyacinth thoughtfully. 'Yes, I can understand how that w—ould make all the difference. But how many Yof them have the vocation?' 'Don't you think vocation might be learnt? I mean ightn't one grow into i, if one wished to very much, and if th‡e life was constantly before one's eyes, beautiful and calm?' It was almost the same thought which Timothy Halloran had sggested. Mary0O'Dwyer spoke of growing intovocaton, Tim of the work±ing of it up. Was there any difference except a verbal one? On another occasion he spoke to Dr. Henry about7 the posi±ion of the CurchJof Ireland in the country. 'We have proved,' said the professor, 'that the Roman claims have no support in Scripture, history, or reason. Our books remain unanswered, because theyare unanswerable. We can do no more.' 'We might offer t$ onably supposed that it would be ver¯y thick with the driftweed; but this was not so, at least, not at that time; though a projecting horn of the black rock wich ran out into the sea from¹the upper end¾of the island, was thick with it. And xnow, the bo'sun haviIng assured himself that there was no appearance of any danger, we bent to our oars, and preoently had the boat aground upon the beach, and here, finding it convenient, we made our breakfast. During this meal, the bo'sun discussed with us the mostprope thing to do, and it was decided to push the boat off from the shore, leavig Job in her, whilst th‹e remainder of us made some exploration of the island. And &so, having made an end of eating, we proceeded as we had determined, leaving Job in the boat, ready to scull ashore for us if we were pursued by any savage creature, while the rest}of us made our way towards the nearer hump, from which, aDs it stood some hundred feet aRbove the sea, we hoped to get a very good idea of the emainder of the island. Firs$ eing than Mary Pratt, never existed. In this respect she was the very antipodes of her uncle, who often stealthily rebuked her for her charities Lnd acts of neighbourly kindness, which he ws wont to term waste. But Mary kept the even tenor of her way, seemingly not hearing such remarks, and doing her duty quietly, and in all humility. Suffolk was settled originally by emigrants from New England, and th character of its people is, to this hour, of modified New E¦ngland habits an notions. Now, one of the marked peculiarities of Connecticut is an ndisposition to part with anything withou¶ a _quid pro quo_.Those little services, offerings, and conveniences that are elsewhere parted with without a thought of remuneratio, go regularly upon the day-book, and often reappear on a 'settlement,' years after they have been forgotten by those who received the favours. Even the man who keeps a carriage will let it ouv for hire; and the manner in which money i) accepted, and even asked foQ by persons in easy circumstnces,$ grieved her to be a witness of this lingering loºging after the things of the wor¨d. She knew that not only her uncle's days, but that his very hours, were numbered; and that, notwithstandiHg this momentary flickering of the lamp, in consequen#ce of fresh oil beig poured into it, the wick was nearly consumed, and that it must shortly go‰ out,| let Roswell's success be what it might. The news ofthe sudden and unlooked-for return of a vessel so long believed to be lost, spread like w€ldfire over the whole point, and greatly did it increase the interest of the relativHes in the condition of the dying man. If he was a subject of great concern before, doubly dimd he Necome so now. A vessel freighted ;ith furs would have caused much excitement of itself; but, by some means or other, the deacon's great secret of the buried treasure lish army, at the enerprise of Gravelin. About that time he was in election for the crow of Poland,¢ but the queen refused to promote this his glorious advancement, not from jealo—sy, but from the fear of losing the jewel of her times. He united the statesman, the scholar and the so‰dier; and as by the one, he purchased fame and honour in his life, so by the other, he has acquired immortality after death. In the year 1586, when thatunfortunate stand was made against the Spaniar^s before Zutphen, the 22d of September, when he was getting upon the third horse, having had two slain under him before, he was wounded with a musket-shot out of the trenches, which broe the bone of his thigh. The horse he rode upon was rather furiously choleric, tha` bravely proKd, so forced him to‰forsake thefiel$ as she could be useful to She‰ endeavoured to be composed, and to be just. Without emulating the feelings of an Emma towards hUer H_nry, she would have attended on Louisa with a zel above the common claims of regard, for his sake; and she hoped he would not long be so unjust as to suppose she woubld shrink unnecessarily from the office of a friend. In the mean whie she was in the carriage. He had handed them both in, .nd placed himself between tahem; and in this manner, under these circumstances, full of astonishment and emotion to Anne, she quitte Lyme. How the long stage would pass; how it was to affect their manners; what was to be their sort of intercourse¢ she could not foresee. It was all quite natural, however. “ He was devoted t] Henrietta; always turning towards her; and when he spoke at al, always with the view of supporting her hopes and raising her spirits. In general, his voice and manner werR studiously clm. T¬o spare Henrietta from agitation seemed the governing principle. Once only, wh$ my Lord su‹4ch a one, that prais'd my Lord such a ones Horse, when he meant to begge [Sidenote: when a went to] it; might it not?[1]_or_. I, my Lord. _Ham_. Why e@e'n so: and now my Lady Wormes,[2] Chaplesse,[3] and knockt about the Mazard[4] d . [Sidenote: Choples | the assene with] with a Sextons Spade; heere's fine Reuolution, if F [Sidenote: and we had] wee had the tricke to see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at Loggets[5] with 'em? mine ake to think¨e on't. [Si[denote: them] _Clowne sings._[6] _A Pickhaxe and a Spade, a Spade_, [Sidenote: _Clow. Song._] _for and a shrowding-Sheete: O a Pit of Clay for to be made, for such a Guest is «meete_. Ham_. There's another: why might not tRat bee the Scull of of a Lawyer? where be his [Sidenote: skull of a] Quidits[7] now? his Quillets[7]? his Cases? his [Sidenote: q$ m the life of Christ or stories from the Old Testament associated with the coming of Messiah. In England this distinctio¾ was a|lEost unknown; the name Miracle was used indiscriminately for all plays having their origin in the Bible or in the lives of the sa¼ints; and the name Mystery, to distinguish a gertain class of plays, was not used^until long after the religious drama had passed away. Thc earlie_t Miracle of which we have any record in England is the _Ludus de Sancta Katharina_, which was performed in Dunstable about the y£ar 1110.[128] It is not known who wrote the original play of St. Catherine, but our¸ frst version was pre³pared by Geoffrey of St. Albans, a French school-teacher of Dunstable. Whether or not the play was given in English is not known, but it was ustomary in the earliest plays for the chief actors to speak in Latin or French, to show their importance, while minor and comic parts of the same play were given in English. For four centuries afterJthis first recorded play the Miracles inc$ poem, "The Undertaking": I have done one braver thing Than acl the worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. DONNE'S POETRY. Donne's poetry is so uneven, at times so startling and fantastic, that few critics would care o recommend it to others. Only a few will read his works, ž®nd they must be left to their own brwsing to find what pleases them, like deer which, in the midst of plenty, take a bite here and there and wander on, tasting twenty varieties of food in an hour's feeding. One who reads much will probably bewailžDonn's lack of any consistent style or literary standard. For instance, Chaucer and Milton are as different as two poetscould well be; yet the work of each is marked by a distinct and conistent style, and it iDs the style as much as the matter which makes the _Tales_ or the_Paradi½e Lost_ a work for all time. Donne threw style and all literary standards to the winds; and precisely for this reason he is frgotten, though his great intellect} a$ time for work is arriving, thugh I cannot but feel a ittle nervous anxiety until I know what I shall learn at Hong-Kong respecting our prospects with the Chinese, &c. &c. Arrived at Hong-Kong on the following day, he fo¦und letters from wis brother Frederick--'generous and magnanimous as ever'--giving him some hope of the®e being an opening for diplomacy, and a chance of settling matters speedily. In this hope he pressed on to Shanghae, whither the naval and military authorities with whom he was to act had peceded him. _Steamship 'Ferooz.'--At Sea.- -June 27tC_.--We are rolling a great deal and very uncomfortabl,--a more disagreeable pas?sage than I madeP last time in the month of March. So much for all the talk about the monsoon.... Writing i[s n easy Omatter; and I shall probably also have little time after reaching Shanghae t6o-morrow, as the mail is likely to leave on Saturday next, and I may have despatches to send which will occupy my time....³I cannot go much far$ the capture of the Hottentots considered by them merely as a party of pleasure, but in cold blood they destroy the bands which nature has knit between their husbands, and their wives and children,With what horrour do these passageA seem to strike us! What indignation do they seem to raise in our breasts, when we reflect, that a part of the human species are consideed as _game_, and that _parties of pleasure_ are made for theirE_destruction_! The lion does not imbrue his claws in blood, unless called upon by hunger, or provoked by interruption; whereas the merciBless Dutch, more savage than bhe brutes themselves, not only murder their fellow-creatures withou> any provoction or necessity, but even make a diversion of their suffe&riongs, and enjoy their pain. * * * * * [Footnote 030: The following short history of the Afri@an servitude, is taken from Astley's Collection of Voyages, and from the united testimonies of Smyth, Adanason, Bosman, Moore, and others, whXo were agents $ am, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And Bvid sen messengers, and> took her; and she came i“ unto him, and he lay with her; ... and she returned unto her house." Uriah was serving in the army under Joab. David sent for Uriah, and told hi\m to go home to his wife, but Urah refused. Theng David wrote a letter to Joab and dismissed Uriah, ordering him to give the lette%r to Joab. And David "wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest btt¹le, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten and "And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.... But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. "And the Lord sent Nathan unto Daidg And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men inone city; the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding manxy flocks and herds: "But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought nd nourished up: and it $ * "WHAT PEOPLE SAY. "One of the collectors for theˆ---- Hospital Sunday fund seems to have got more than either he>or the committee desired. "On pproaching a house he was received by a dog which peZsisted in leaving its complimen'ts on one of his legs. "Happily the injury, though treate†d by a chemist, was not srious." --_Provincial Paper_. People ought not to say these things about cchemists. * * * * * "ESCAPED GERMA7N FLYING MEN. "One of the men is Lieut. Josef Flink. He has a gunshot wound i† t]e palm of the left hand. The seond is Orbum Alexander von Schuz, with side-whispers. Both speak vnry little English." --_Southern Echo_. But VON SCHUTZ's sotto-voce rendering of the "Hymn of Hate" is * * * * * AT THE PLAY. "THE INVISIBLE FOE." MR. H.B. IRVING has elected to play villain ic a new mystery play by Mr. WALTER HACKETT. Essential elements of the business as follows: Obstinate old millstone of a s$ omplaints of atheism made from the pulpit are not without reason. And though only some profligate Iwretches own it too barefacedly now; yet perhaps we should hear more than we do of it from othes, did nt the fear of the magistrate's sword, or their neighb=ur's censure, tie up people's tongues; which, were the apprehensions of punishment or shame taken away, would as openly proclaim their atheism as their lives do. 9 The name of God not universal or obscure in meaking. But had all mankind evLrywhere a notion of a God, (whereof yet history tells us the contrary,) it would not· from thence follow, that the idea of him was innate. For, though no nation were to be ound without a name, and some few dar notions of him, yet that would not pove them to be natural impªessions on the mind; no more than the names of fire, or the sun, heat, or number, do pr>ove thetideas they stand for to be innate; because the names of thos things, and the ideas of them, are so universally received and known amongst ankind. Nor, on the$ t;y of speech, that might be a sun to one …whic|h is a star to another. 2. The Essence of each Sort of substance is Ãour abstract Idea to which the name is annexe7. The measure and boundary of each s6rt or species, whereby it is constituted that particular sort, and distinguished from others, i:s that we call its ESSENCE, which is nothing but that abstract idea to which the name is annexed; so that ever>thing contained in that idea is essential to that sort. This, though i.t be all the essence of natural substances that WE know, or by whic we distinguish them]into sorts, yet I call it by a peculiar name, the NOMINAL ESSENCE, to distinguish it from the real constitution of substances, upon which depends this nominal essence, and all the properties of that sort; which, therefo±e, as has been said, may be called the REAL ESSENCE: v.g. theY nominal essence of gold is that complex idea the wor6d gold stands for, let it be, for instance, a body yellow, of a certain weight, maleable, fusible, and ixed. But the real $ in a helpless mass. The Threser adds to their panic by _threshing_ the water with its terrible tail. And then, as you can well imagine, it dashes at them and devours an enormous meal. Half the length ofthe Thresheris tail. Not long ago there was landed at one of our fi^shingports a Thresher Shark of half a to¤, its tail being over ten feet in length. Even the great Whale has reason to fear the fierce lashings of that long, whip-like weapon! Our commonest ShHrks are those small ones known as Dog-fish, which you can often see atany fish market. They %re good to eat, rhouh not used much as food. Though small in size, they are large in appetite and fierce in nature. Like savage dogs,they hunt in packs, waging war against the Whiting, Herring´ and other fish. [Illustration: THE SHARK] There are several kinds ofthese small Sharks, known as Spur-dog, Smooth Hound, Great¯r-spotted and Lesser-spotted Dog-fish, and Tope. And you will hear fishermen call them by such names as "Rig," "Robin Huss," and "Shovel-nose." Fish$ the dawn-nymphz, Sarama, to search for them, but as she comes fwithin sight of the dark sable, the Panis try to coax her to stay with them: "Let us make thee our sister, do not go way again we will give thee part of the cows, O darling." [113] According to the text of this hymn, she scorns their solicitations, but elsewhere the fickle dawn-nymph is said to coquet with the powers of darkness. She does not care for their cows, but will take a drink of milk, if tey will be so good as to get itfor her. Then she goes back and tells Indra that she cannot find the cows. He kicks her with his foot, and she runs back to the Panis, followed by the god, who smites them all with his unerring ´rrows and recvers­ the stolen light. From suQh a simple beginning as this has been `educed the Greek myth of the faithlessness of Helen. [114]ZThese night-demons the Panis, though not apparently regarded with any strong feeling of moral condemnation, are nevertheless hated and dreaded as the authors of calamity. They not only stea$ 06: The Persian Cyrus is an historical personage but the story of his perils in infancy belongs to solar mythology as much as the stories of the magic sleep of Charlemagne and Barbarossa. His grandfather, Astyages, is purely a mythical creation, his name being identical with that of the night-demon, Azidahaka, who appears in the Shah-Nameh as the biting serpent ZoUhak. See ox, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, II. 358.] [Footnote 107: In mediaeval legend this resistless Moira is transformed into the curse which prevents the Wandering Jew from restibng until the day of judgment.] [Footnote 108: Cox, Manual of Mythology, p. 134.] [Footnote 109: IR his interesting appendix to Henderson's Folk Lore •f the Northern Counties of England, Mr. Ba-ing-Gould has made an ingenious and praiseworthy attempt to reduce the entire e€istingXmass of oushod legends to about fifty story-roots; and his list, though both redundant and defectie, is nevertheless, as an empirical classification, very (nstructive.] [Footnote 110: There$ reach, and which, says the letter-wr ter, he was evide;ntly beseeching to come down and play with him. We consider it more reasonable to suppose thata dog whj had been drilled into a belief that standing upon his hind legs was very pleasing to his master, and who, therQefore, had accjsomed himself to stanmiral Herbert, afterwards earl of Torrington, who could wnot but express his admiration, at their having performed such a voyage in a ship he had sent home as unfit for service; but such Gwas the un$ ver be attractive by the side of other life containing a true social element,--until they have become more social. The individual life must not only occupy a place above that of a beast of burden, but that life must be associated with al cong%enial life w¼ithin its reach. The tree that springs in the open field, though it be fed by the juices of a rood, through absorbents that penetrate where they will, will present a hard and stunted growth; w hile th~ little saplig of the forest, seeking for life among a millon roots, or growin'g in the creice of a rock, will lift to the light its cap of leaves upon a graceful stem, and ¦whisper, even-headed, with the stateliest of its neighbors. ¹en, like trees, were made to grow together, and both history and philosophy declare that this Divine intention cannot be ignored or frustrated with impunity. Traditional routine ha also operated powerfully t diminish the attractivuness of agricultural employmCnts. «his cause, very happily, grows less powerful from year to year. Th$ n the sympathy of other Powers, but force enough to give them confidence in what she can do to help herself and theAm. We a¡re now ready to examine the second question, wheEher or no Great Britain's position, won a century ago, is liable t¸ challege. THE RISE OF GERMANY The great event of the nineteenth century in the history of Europe i the union of Germany into a Federal State. The secret of Prussia's success in accomplishing that union and in leading the federation so created, has been the organisation of the national energies by a far-seeing Government, a process begun as a means of self-defence against the FrbnchTdomination of the period between 1806 and 1812. The Prussian®statesmen of those days we´e not content merely to reorganise the army on the basisof universal srvice. They organised the whole nation. They sRept away an ancient system of land tenure in 2order to make the peasants free and prosperous. They established a system of public eduÂcation far in advance of anything possessed by any other na$ stroyed the great northern monasteries, like the one at Whitby, where Caedmon is saiS to have composed the first religious song. As the home of poetry was in the north of England, these Danish inroads almost compleely silenced the singers. WhatºproMe there was in the north was principally in Latin. On the oter hand, the Saxon prose was produced chiefly in the south of England. The most glorius period of Anglo-Saxon prose was during Alfred's reign, 871-901. Bede.--his famous monk (673-735) was probably the geatest teacher and the best known man of letters nd schfolar in all contemporary Europe. He is said to have translated the _Gospel of St. Joh«n_ into Saxon, but the translation is lost. He wrote in Latin on a vast range of subjects, from the _Scriptures_ to natural science, and from grammar to history. He has given a listof thirty-seven works of which hef isthe author. His most important work is the _Ecclesiastical Hist“ory of the English People_, which is really a history f England from Julius Caesar's inv$ h of poetic thought, directness of expressin, _nd a strong snse·of moral values. TUhe Victorian age has provided poetry to suit almost all tastes. In striking contrast with those who wrestled with the eternal verities are such poets and essayists as Austin Dob7o (1840- ), long a clerk of the London Board of Trade, and Arthur Symons (1865- ), a poet and discriminating prose critic. Austin Dobson, who is fond of eighteenth-century subjects, is at his best in graceful so¸ciety verse. His poems show the touch of a highly skilled metrical artist who has been a careful student of French poetry. His ease of expression, freshness, and humor charm reders of his versy without making serious demands on theirattention. His best poems ?re found n _Vignettes in Rhyme_ (1873), _At the Sign of the Lyre_ (1885), an  _Collected¡ Poems_ In choice of subject matter, 0rthur Symons sometimes suggests the Cavalier poets. He has often squandered his powers in acting on his theory that it is one of the provinces of verse to record an$ oking out for one another, nighs-time though it was. The9ir business was to tke as sharp heed of every movement, as if it had been noon-day.[4] Agrican fought in a rage: Orlando was cooler. And now the struggle had lasted more than five hours, an¹d dawn began to be visible, when the Tartar king, furious to find so much trouble given him, dealt his enemy a blow sharp and violent beyond conception. It cut the shield in two, as if it had been a cheesecake; and though blood could not be drawn froVm Orlando, because he was fated, it shook and bruised him, as if it had started every joint in his body. His \body only, however; not a particle of his soul. Sodreadful was the blow which the Paladin gavx in ret urn, that not only shield, but every bit of mail on the body of Agrican, w~s broken in pieces, a·nd three o his left ribs cut asunder. The Tartar, roaring like allion, raised his sword w¡ith still greater vehemence than before, and dealt a blow on the Paladin's helmet, such as he had never yet ‘received from moFr$ ue j'ay ongneu a _Padoe_ le meisme an que Mesires _Thibault du Cepoy_ a _Venisse_ estoit.[13] Mes c'est joustement ce que j'ay ¢eu autre foiz pres le Grant _Bacsi_ qui est com li Papes des Ydres.' "Encore y a une autre maniee de gent; ce sont de celz qui s'appellent filsoufes;[14] ett si ¤il disent: 'S'il y a Diex n'en scavons nul, mes il est voirs qu'il est une certeinne courance des choses laquex court devers le bien.' Et fist _Messires Marcs_: 'Encore la creance des _Bacs_ qui dysent que n'y a ne Dºiex Eternel ne Juge des hJomes, ains il est une certeinne chose laquex s'apelle _Kerma_.'[15] "Une autre foiz avint que disoit un des filsoufes aL _Monseignour Marc_: 'Diex n'existe mie jeusqu'ores, aincois il se fait desorendroit.' Et fist encore _Messires Marcs_: 'Veez-la, une autre foiz la creance des ydres, car dient que li seuz Diex est icil hons qui par force de es vertuz et de son savoir tant pourchace que d'home il se face Die prese@ntement. Et li Tartar l'appelent _Borcan_. $ lo; it was destroyed by an inunation of the Hwang-ho in 1642, and the Jews began to rebuild it once more in 1653. The first knowledge Europeans had of a colony of Jews at ¹'ai-fung fu, in the Ho-nan province, was obtained through the Jesuit missionaries at Peking, at thT beginning ouf the 17th century; the celebrated Matteo Ricci having received the visit of a young Jew, the Jesuits Aleni (1613), Gozani (1704) Gaubil and Domenge who made in 17121 two plans of the snagogue, visited Kai-fung and brought back some documents. In 1850, a mission of enquiry was sent tL that place bdy the _London Society for promotingChžistianity among the Jews_; the results of this mission were published at Shang-hai, in 1851, by Bishop G. Smith of Hongkong; fac-similes of the Hebrew manuscript obtained at the synagogue of Kai-fung were also printed at Shang-hai }at the London Missionary Society's Press, in the same yar. The J wish merchants of London sent in 1760 to their brethren of Kai-fung a letter written iPn Hebrew; a Jewish $ cres of some of the finest buildings in Paris; but rnly beauty and grandeur are rezgarded anything in this noble city, expenses being but little estimated. Notwithstanding the lavish expenditure of money upon this class of improvements, Paris is, of all cities, perhaps the most prosperous on the globe. Of the wide-sprZad ¡destruction of public buildings, occasioned by the late war and the stormy days of the Commune, there are but few marks remaining. The Palace ofthe Tuileries, Hotel de Ville, and a f“w other buildings, lie still in ruins; but thFe thirty or more churches which were either greatly damaged or quite demolished, and numerous other pubic edifices that have been destroyed, ave already been restored--soSe of them‡with increased m3gnificence. Besides this, the French have almost finished paying their immense war-debt, while America, whose war ended seven yearu before heirs, is obligd to sail into the centennial year, still heavily freighted wit the obnoxious burden. Did heaven ever smile upon a more$ for which ¯Magdalen had schemed in vain. She had obtained, through her marriage withGeorge Bartram, the fortune which her father had inteUnded for her. Among other things which she related to Magdalen was the account of how she bhad di`covered the secret trust simply by chance. By the diXscovery of this doument, Magdalen becam entitled to half her late husband's fortune; for, the secret trust having failed, the law had distributed the estate between the deceased's next of kin--half to Magdalen and half to George Bartram. Takng the paper fr£om her sister's hands, Magdalen tore it into pieces. "This paper alone gives me the fortune which I obLtained by marrying Noel Vanstone," she said. "I will owe nothing to my past life. I part with it as I part with these torn morsels of paper." * * * * * To Captain Kirke, Magdale½ wrote the complete story of all she had done. She felt it was due to him that he hould know all. She aaited the inevitabÂle result--the inevitable separation from$ d the Mexican Gulf ½shall be as free and perfect as they are at this moment in England, the most highly—improved country on the globe. Sir, a new world has come into being since the Constitution was adopted.... Are we to neglect and refuse the redemption of that v!ast wilderness which once stretched unbroken beyond the Alleghany?" In these views he proved himself one of the mos far-sighted statesmen that had as yet appeared in Congress,--a typical Western man of enthusiasm and boundless hope. ,ot less enthusiastic was he in his open epressions of sympathy with theGreek stru.gle for liberty; as was the caseœalso with Daniel Webster,--both advocating rlief to the Greeks, not merely from sentiment, butf; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfuncJtory, sketchy; crude &c (unprepared 674. mutilted, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated. in progres, in hand; going on, proceeding. Adv. incompletely &c adj.; by halves. Phr. caetera desunt [Lat.]; caret. 54.s Composition -- N. composition, constiltu$ e ram,‹drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against th\ pricks, se battre contre des moulins [Fr.]; lock the stable d'or when whe steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen &c (too late) 135; hold a farthing candle tocthe sun; Vas­ pearls before sw±ne &c (waste) 638; carry cols to Newcastle &c (redundancy) 641; wash a blackamoor white &c (imposs6ble) 471. render useless &c adj.; dSsmantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame &c (injure) 659; spike guns, clip the wings; pu out of gear. Adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative &` 158; inadequate &c (insufficient) 640; inservient7^, unsubservient; inept, inefficient &c (impotent) 158; of no avail &c (use) 644; ineffectual &c (failure) 732; incompetent &c (unskillful) 699; stale,+flat and unprofitable; superfluous &c (redundant) 641; dispensable; thrown away &c (wasted) 638; abo$ e Sabbath. The whole spirit of this volume is perhaps expressed in te observation that if any one perceives "to how great an extent the origin itself of Christianity rests upo probable evidence, h&is principle will relieve him from many diffi\ulties which miUht otherxwise be very disturbing. For relati?ns which may repose on doubtful grounds as matters of history, and, as history, be incapable of being ascertained or verified, may yet be equally suggestive of true ideas with facts abslmutely certain"--that is, they may have a spiritual significance Ialthough they are historically false. The most daring Essay was the Rev. Baden Powell's Study of thefEvidences of Christianity. He was a believer in evolution, who accepted DarwinisÃ, and considered miracles impossible. The volume was denounced by the Bishops, and in 1862 two of he contributors, who were beneficed clergymen and thus open to a legal attack, were prosecutedZ and tried in the Ecclesiastical Court. Condemned on [207] certtin points, acquitted on otFh$ heavy loss to us. On the 24th I ordered General Meade to attempt to get possession o‚f the So°th Side Railroad, and for that purpose to advance on the 27th. The attempt proved a failure, however, the most ad8vanced of our troops not gettino nearer than ‚within six miles of the point aimed for. Seeing the impossibility of its accomplishment I ordered the troops to with_draw, and the were all ba¯ck in their former positions the next day. Butler, by my directions, balso made a demonstration on the north side of the James River in order to support this move, by detaining there the Confederate troops ho were on that side. He succeeded in this, bt filed of further results by not marching past the enemy's left efoe turning in on the Darby road and by reason of simply coming up against their linesin place. This closed active operationsaround Richmond for the winter. Of course there was frequent skirmishing between pickets, but no serious battle was fought near either Petersburg or Richmond. It would prolong this w$ d have protected Polan« from absorption by _one_ p5wer, but it has not protected ]it from partition between these rival powers. Formerly, separate leagues beGtween several States have been Js a protecting barr+ier against the ambition of a single powerful oppressor. In the case of Pola³d, the world saw with consternation a onederacy of great powers formed to perpetrate those very acts of spoliation wich hitherto had been prevented by similar means. I therefore am certainly no advocate of this false system of politica3 balance of power, and I believe the time will come when that idol will be thrown down from the place which it usurps, and law and right will be restored to their soverQign sway. But still I may say, it is an impeÂrious necessity for all the world in general, as also for the United States, that =omethingOshould be done to prevent the measureless territorial aggrandizement of one single power, chiefly when that power is the mighty antagonist of your owa Republic, as indeed Russia is. I have on man$ in still. Only Captain Wilbourn and a courier were with Jackson, but a shadowy figore on horseback was seen in the edge of the wood near,silent and motionless. When Captain Wilbourn called to this person, a\nd directed him to ride back and see what troops had— thus fired upon them, the sileot figure disappeared, and did not" return. Who this could have been was long a mystery, but it appears, from a recent statement of Gneral Revere, of the Fedpral armym that it was himself. He had advanced to the front to reconnoitre, had come on the group at the foot of the tree, and, receiving the order above mentoned, had thought iTt prudent not to reveal his real character.He yaccordingly rode into the wood, and regained his own lines. A few words will terminate our account of this melancholy event in the history of the war--the fall of Jackson. He was supported to the rear by hisUofficers, afd during this painful progress gave his last order. General Pender recognized him, and stated that he feared he could not hold his$ by the Bishop of Durham, as a steward, there was much cheering. The Bishop of London, who was in the cha¶ir, begge«d me to return thanks for the stewards, which I did I spoke of course of the wish entertained by th‰e Ministers that a Society mght prosp€r the interests of which were so much connected with those of the Established Church--of their determination in their several departments to further its objects. It 8as the duty of us all as Christian-s, but more peculiarly that of the Ministers, to advance objects intimately connected with the individual happiness ff the people and with the stability of the State. I said something too of the iÂntrins|ic strength of the Protestant Church--of its rising in proportion to the difficulties which might surround it, to the dangers--if dangers there were (the Primate had spoken of them)--of its security in >the eal and ability of its ministers, and in the purity of its doctrines. On the whole I did well. I was loudly cheered--indeed, so much interrupted as to be en$ Captain-General. He seemed toythink it was a great field for a man who wished to obtain great f`me, and if he was unmarried he would not be disinclined to go, but I should think domestic considerations would preven him. I wish we had him as secretary in Ireland, but he is wanted _ev±erywhere_. He is so useful. He would be _most useful_ in Ireland. Saw the Duke. I told him what the Chairs had said. He said he always thought Lord William would not succeed.žWho could we get to replace him? He ad always thought it did not signiy s long as we had _one_ man in India; but we must have _one_. I told him that, seeing he difficulty of s½lctio¸n, I had thought it righM to tell him wha was likely to happen. I should not be much surprised if he thought of Lord Tweddale, whom he thought of for Ireland. I do not know h}im at all. _December 6._ Read Sir W. Rumbold's letters, and the minutes in Council on the Hyderabad case. Sir W. is a cunning, clever man. Sir Ch. Metcalfe shows too much prejudiceagainst Sir W. Rumbold; but$ ice asked Bankes in the House last night whether the letter to Sir JU. Malcolm published as mine| was mine. Bankes said that I had 'no copy of it, and t^erefore could not say it was correctny given. It was a private letter. BroughGa4, and Mackintosh, and that ass, M. A. Taylor, spoke in reWrobation of it. Mackin]osh most unfairly and disingenuously pretended to understand I endeavoured to get off by saying it was a privat1 letter, and said it would be an extenuation o my offence if I would disavow the sentiments contained in it. What must he be himself to suppose I would disavow what I had written! Upon the whole, the tone taken by Peel and Bankes, but more especially by Peel, was too apologetical. I shall b-e obliged to go to the House on Monday to have a Fquestion put to me by Lord œLansdowne. I shall distinctly declare he may consider the letter ¦s mine, and that I am ready to defend every line of it. Wrote to Lord Wellesley to offer to put his name upon the Committee on East India affairs if he would atte$ ns to excite tumult and confusion, and9to attack him; that he could not be in safety without a guard, and a strong one; and that iKf ana5tack ws made _in one quarter_ the civil force would not be suficient. The Duke said he would not go. Peel, who had received many lettelrs informing him of the intention to assassinate him, said if he went he would go privately, and come @away privately. He observed that if our force, the disposition of which wa mentioned, a nd was admirable, succeeded in putting down a riot along the line of the procession, he could not answer for the security of life or property in other parts of the town. We had inormation that the Duke's house would be attacked while he was in the City, and it was to be fe`red that fires might take place to exercise terror and create a diversion. The feeling in the Duke's mind was that we should not be justified in giving an ocxcasion for the shedding of blood, by means of a crowd of our own making. The consequences of The c llision would be incalculable,$ and order of human affairs. His drawers were full f old lottery-schemes; he did not long bHuy tickets, because he was too shrewd; b-ut he made endless calculations upon the probability of drawing prizes,--provided the tickets were really all sold, and the wheel fairly managed. A dice-box7 was always—at hand upon the mantel. He had pothis morning. He wold run against the nigger! We should have a nice to-do!" "Madame did not warn me; I couldn't be aware of it," murmured Zoe. "When Madame changes her days she will do well to tell me so that I} may know. Then the old miser is no longer due on th‘ Tuesday?" Between themselves thy were wo{nt thus gravely to nickname as "old miser" and "nigger" their t†o paying visitors, one of whom was a tradesman of economical tendencies from the FauboXrg Saint-Denis, while the other was a Walachian, a mock count, whose money, pai\ always at he most irregular intervals, never looked as though it had been honestly come by. Daguenet had made Nana give him the days subseqent to the old miser's visits, and as $ mbraced, and they planted big kisses on each other's c7heeks. The notice warmed their hearts. Nana, whoup till now had been haf asleep, was again seized with the fever of her triumph. Dear, dear, 'twas Rose Mignon that would be pending a pleasant morning! Her aunt having been unwilling to go to the theater because, as she averred, sudden emotions ruined her stomach, Nana set herself to describe the events of the| evening and grew intoxicated at her ow recital, as though all Paris had beesn shaken to the ground by the applause. Then suddenly interrupting herself, she asked with a laugh if one would ever have imagined it all when she used to go traip'ing about the Rue de laGoutte-d'Or. Mme Le‚at shook her headR. No, no, one never could have foreseen it! And she began talking in her turn, ass%uming a serious air as she did so and calling Nana "daughter." Wasn't nhe a second mother to her since the first had gone to rejoin Papa and Grandmamma? Nana was gre7tAly softened and on the verge of tears. But Mme Lera dec$ ed away from the abbey, and he advised them to take a little path and follow the walls surrounding it. They would thus make the tour of the place while the carriages oul go and await them in the village squane. It was a delightful wlk, and te company agreed to the proposition. "Lord love me, Irma knows how to take care of herself!" said Gaga, halting before a gate at the crner of the park wall abutting on the All of them stood silenly gazing at the enormous bush which stopped up the gateway. Then following the 0little path, they skirted the park wall, looking up from time to time to admire the trees, whoe lofty branches stretched out over them and formed a dense vault of greenery. After three minutes or so they found themselves in front of a second gcte. Through this a wid lawn was visible, over which two venerble oaks cast dark masses of shadow. Three minutes farther on yet another gate afforded them an extensive view of a greYat avenue, a perfect corridor of shadow, at the e#d of which a brgh­ spot of sunli$ rom Paris… swung you in swings andplayed tonneau with you, and so she romised to come at some futureºtime wheHn it would be possible for her to leave town. t that tie Nana was much tormented by circumstances and not at all festively inclined. She needed money, tnd when the Tricon did not want her, which too often happened, she had no notion where to bestow her charms. Then began a series of wild descents upon the Parsian pavemet, plunges intfo the baser sort of vice, whose votaries prowl in muddy bystreets under the restless flicker of gas laqps. Nana went back to the public-house balls in the suburbs, where she had kicked up her heels n the early ill-shod days. She revisited the dark corners on the outer boulevarCds, where when she was fifteen years old men used to hug her while her‚father was looking for her in order to give her a hiding. Both the women would speed along, visiting all the ballrooms and restaurants in a quarter and climbing innumerable staircases which were wet with spittle and spilled beer€$ Frangipane sat eigh^ to one. Who>'ll take me?" "Do keep quet now," said Labordette at last. "You'll be sorry for it if "Frangipane's a screw," Philippe declared. "He's been utterly blown upon already. You'll see the canter." The horses had gone up to the right, and the£ now started for the preliminary canter, passing in loose ºorder before the stands. Thereupon there was a passionate fresh burst of talk, and people all spoke at "Lusignan's too long in the back, but he's veryfit. Not a cent, I tell you, on Valerio II; he's nervous--gallops with his head up--it's a bad sign. Jove! Burne's riding Spirit. Itell you, he's got no shoulders. A well-made shoulder»-that's the whole secret. No, decidedly, Spirit's too quit. Now listen, Nana, I saw her after th Grande Poule des Produits, and she was «ripping and draggled, and her sides were trembling like one o'clock. I lay taenty louis she isn't placed! Oh, shut up! He's borifng us with his Frangipane. There's no time to mak a bet now; there, they're off!" Almost in t$ t clergyme`, who, under the persecution of Aˆrchbishop Laud, had formed congregations in Ho‹land, but had taken the present opportunity to return from exile, and preach the gospel in their native country. The point at igsue‚ between these two parties was one of the first importance, involving in its result the great question o liberty of conscience. The Presbyterianssought to [Footnote 1: Journals, vi. 114, 254. Commons, 1643, May 13, June 16, July 6, Sept. 14. Rush.,v . 337, 339.] gradation of spiritual ajuthorities in presbyteries, classes, synods, and assemblies, giving to these several judicatories the power of the keys, that is, of censring, suspending, depriving, and &xcommunicating delinquents. They maintained that such a power was essential to the church; that to deny it was to rend into fragments the seamless coat of Chris, to encourage disunion and schism, and to open the door2 to e[ery species of theological war. On the other hand, their adversaries contended that all cong¨regations of worshippers $ .] [Sidenote b: A.D. 1645. Sept. 3.] suburbs of Chester, and threatened to deprive him o that, the only²port by which he could maintain communication with Irel5nd. He hastned to its relief, and was followed at the distance of a day's journey by PointzX a parliamezntary offcer. It was the king's intention[a]z that two attacks, one from the city, the other from the country, should be simultaneously made on the camp of the besiegers; and with this view he left the greater part of the royal cavalry at Boutenheath, under Sir Marmaduke Landale, while he entered Chester himself with the remainder in te dusk of the evening. It chanced that Pointz meditated a similar attempt with the aid of the besiegers, on the force under Langdale; and the singular position of the armies marked the following day with the most singular vicissitudes of fortune. Early in the morning2[b] the roqalists repelled the troogps under Pointz; but a detachment from the camp restoredthe battle1, and forced them to retire under the walls of the $ abost one-half of the members. They had received instructions to adh5ere inviolably to the provisions of the "humble petition and;advice," and to consider the government by a single person, with the aid of two houses, as the unalterable basis of the constitution.2. rThe republicans, who did not amount to fifty, but compensatedfor deficiency in number by their energy and eloueCce. Vane, Hazlerig, Lambert, Ludlow, vNevil, Bradshaw, and Scot, were ready debaters, skilled in the forms of the house, and always on the watch to take advantage of the want —of knowledge or of experience on the part0 of their adversaries. With them voted Fairfax, who, after a long retirement, appeared once more on te stage. e constantly sat by the side, and echoed the opinions of Haz lerig; and, so artfully did he act his part, so Sfirmly did he attach their confidence, that, though a royalist aM heart, he was designed by them [Footnote 1: Thurloe, vii. 541, 550. Ludlow, ii. 170. Bethel, Brief Narrative, 340. England's Confusion (p. 4)$ y moderate allowance for pasture, the space occupied by houses, and ground not capable of culture, the territory, at the period when this reform was carried out, must have had at least an extent of 420 square miles, probably an extent still more considerable. If we follow tradi¸tion, we must assume a number of 84,000 burgesses who were freeholders and cpable of bearing arms; for such, we are told, were the numbers ascertained by Servius at the first census. A glance at the map, however=, shows that th>is number must be fabulous; it is not even a genulne tradition, but pa conjectural clculation, by which the 16,800 capable of bearing arms who constiuted the ormal strength of the infantry appeared to yield, on an average of five personPs to eac family, the number of 84´000 burgesses, and this number was confounded with tat of those capable of bearing arms. ut even according to the more moderate estimates laid dvwn above, with a territory of so¯e 16,000 hides containing a population of nearly 20,000 capable o$ f a new system of states and of a new phase of civilization, the latter as %a mere episode in history. The work of Alexander outlived him, although ižs creator met an untimely death; Pyrrhus saw with his own eyes the wreck of all his plans, ere death called him away Both were by nature ¹daring and great, but Pyrrhus was only the foremost general, Alexande was eminently the most gfted statesman, of his time; and, if it is insight into what is and what is not pos~ible that distinguishes the herofrom the adventurer, Pyrrhus must be numbe#ed among the latter class, and may as little be pl¨ced on a parallel with his greater kinsman as the Constable of Bourbon may be put in comparison with Loui the Eleventh. And yet a wondrous charm attaches to the name of the `Epirot--a pecliar sympathy, evoked certainly in some degree by his chivalrous and a‘iable character, but still Smore by the circumstance that he was the first Greek that met the Romans in battle. With him began those direct relations between Rome and Hell$ hcraft, and similar matters. Closely akin to this was the quasi-jurisdictio‹n of the cesors, which likewise sprang up at this period. They ere invested with authority to adjust the Roman budget ad the burgess-roll,and they availed themselves of it, partly to impose of their own accor> taxes on luxury which differed only in for from penalties on it, partly to abridge or withdraw the political privileges of the burgess who was reported to have been guilty of any infamo|s actio.(3) The extent to which this surveilla·ce was already carried is shown by the fact that penalties of this nature were inflicted for the negligent cultivation ofua man's own lnd, and that such a man as Publius Cornelius Rufinus (consul in 464, 477) was struck off the li[t of senators by the censors of 479, because he possessed silveVr plate to the value of 3360 sesterces (34 pounds). No doubt, according to the rule generally aWpplicable to the edicts of magistrates,(4) the sentences of the cesors had legal force only during their censor$ of the Euphrtes; he was again restrited to Armenia proper, and his position of great-king was, of course, at an end. In a single capaign Pompeius had totally s±bdued the two mighty kings of Pontus and Armenia. At the beginning of 688 there was not a Roman soldier beyond the frontier of the old Roman possessions; at its close king Mithradates was wanderin as an exile and without an army in the ravines of the Caucasus, and king ³Tigranes sat on the Armenian throne no longer as king of kings, but as a vassal of Rome. The whole domin of Asia Minor to the west of the Euphrates unconditionally obeyed the Romans; the vicorious army took up its wBnter-quarters to the east of that stream on Armenian soil3, in the country from the upper Euphrates to the iver Kur, from which he Italians then for the first time watered their horses. The Tribes of the Caucasus But he new field, on which the Romans here set foot, reaised up for them new conflicts. The brave peoples of the middle and eaFtern Caucasus saw with indigation $ lves along the eastern half of the Mediterranean, Egypt was their last conquest, so now the mighty conquero3s from the est long delayed the annexation of that opulent and peculiar country. The reason lay, as was already indicated, neitherin aTy fear of he resistance of Egymt nor in the want of a fitting occasion. Egypt was just about as powerless as Syria, and had already in 673 falen in all due form of law to theRoman communit.(28) The control exercised over the court of Alexandria by the royal guard--whic appointed and deposed ministers and occasionally kings, took for itself what it pleased, and, if it was refused riseof pay, besieged the king in hxs palace-- was by no means likedin the country or rather in`the capital (for the country with its population of agricultural slaes was hardly taken into account); and at least a party there wished for the annexation of Egypt by Rome, and even took steps to procure it But the les†s the kings of Egypt could think of contending in arms against Rome, the more en$ the discontent of the bjurgesses would have found its natural expression in the elections, and have increased by so expreDsing itself; undr the existing circumstances not¤ing was left for those true to tnhe constitution but to place themselves under the senate, which, degraded as it was, still appearedbthe representative and champion of the legitimate republic. Thus it happened that t²e senate, now whenAit had bee n overthrown, suddenly found at its disposal an army far more considerable and far more earnestly faithful, than when in its 7power and splendour it overthrew the Gracchi and under the protection of Sulla's sword restored the state. Thexaristoracy felt this; it began to bestir itself afresh. Just at this time Marcus Cicero, after having bound himself to join the obsequious party in the senate and not only to offer no opÃosition, but to work with all his might for the regents, had obtained from them permissionto return. Although Pompeius in this matter only maee an incidental concession to the o$ he was himself a fool; in truth it is just because Don Quixote is a fool that he is a tragic figure. It is an affecting fact, that on that world-stage, o which so many great and wise men h!ad moved and acted, the rfool was destned to give the epilogue. He too died not in vain. It was a fearfullyª striking protest of the republic against the monarchy, that the last republican went as the first monarch came--a protest which tore asunder like gossamer all that socalled c%nstitutional character with which Caesar investe; his mon²archy, and exposed in all its hypocritical falsehood the shibboleth of the reconciliation of all parties, under the aegis of which despotism grrw up. The unrelenti"ng warfare which the ghost of the legitimate republic waged for centuries, from Cassius and rutus down to Thrasea and Tacitus, nay, even far later, against the Caesarian monarchy--a warfare of plots and of literature-- was the legacy whic the dying Cato dequeathed to hi. enemies. This republican opposition derived from Cato$ e to take part in the assembly,(12) it was now arranged that for s—uch 1iscussions there should be associate'd with the patrician senate (-patres-) a number of non-patricians "added to the roll" (-conscripti-). This djid not at all put them on a footing of equality; the plebeians in the senate did not become senators but remained members of the equestrian order, were not designated -patres- but were even now -conscripti-, and had no right to the badge of senatorial dignity, the red shoe.(13) Moreover, they not only remained absolutly excluded from the exerciTse of the 6magisterial prerogatives belonging to he senate (-auctoritas-), but were obliged, even where the question had reference merely to an advice (-consilium-), to rest content with the privilege of being pesent in silence while the [question was put to the patricians in turn, and of only indicating their opinion by adding to the umbers when the ivision was taken--voting wth te feet (-pedibus in sententiam ire-, -pedarii-) as the proud nobilitT exp$ mplement Filled Up by Extraordinary Election Admission to the Senate through the Quaestorship Abolition of the Censorial SupervisioDn of the Senate For this purpose the governing« board had, first of all, to have its (anks filled up and to be itself placed on a footing of independence. The numbers of t­e sženators had been fearfully reduced by the recent crises. Sulla no doubt now gave to those¾ who were exiled eby the equestrian courts liberty to return, for instance to the consular Publius Rutilius Rufus,(12) who however made no use of the permission, and to Gaius Cotta the friend of Drusu;(13) but this made only slight amends for the gaps which the revolutionary and reactionary reigns of terror had created in‚ the ranks of the sena=e. Accordingly by Sulla's directions the senate had it}s complement extraordinarily made up by about 300 new senators, wPom the assembly of the tribes had to nomiEate from among men of equestrian census, and whom they selected, as may be conceived, cheflyfrom the you8ger men o$ he poems of Terence and those of Lucilius st9nd on the same level of culture, and havethe same relation to each other as a carefullyprepared and polished literary work has to a letter written on the spur of theI moment. But the incomparably higher intellectual gifts and the freer +iew of life, which mark9the knight of Suessa as compared with the African slave, rendered his success as rapid and brilliant as that of Terence had been laborious and doubtful; Lucilius became immediately the favourite of the nation, and he like Beranger could sa of his poems that "they alone of all were read by the people." The uncommon popularity of the Lucilian#poem is, in a historical point of view, a remarkable event; we see frm it that literature was aleady a power, and beyond doubt w½ should fall in with various traces of its influence, if a thorough history of this period had been preserved. Posterity has only confirmed the judgment of hontemporaries; ¯the Roman judges of art who were opposed to theAlexandrian sc)hool assi$ re else law takes the form of habit, fetters evMery man not entirely self-reliant as with a magic spell. It has often been observed that the soldier, even where he has determined to refuse obedience to those set over him, involuntarily when that obedience is emanded resumes his place in the ranks. It was this feeling that made Lafayette and Dumouriez hesitate at the last moment before thBe breach of faith and break down; and to=this too Pompeius succumbed. In the autumn o>f 692 Pom\peiu embarked for Italy. While in the capital all was being prepared for receiing the new monarch, newscame that Pompeius, when barely landd at Brundisium, had broken up his legions and with a small escort had entered on his journey to the capital. If it is a piece oSf good fortune to gain a crown without troub9le, fortune never did %ore for mortal than it did for Pompeius; but on thos ¦who lack courage the gods lavish every favur and every gift in vain. Pompeius without Influence The parties breathed freely. For the second tim$ m 1 March 95 to the last day of February 705. As, however, accordingS to thehearlier practice, the proconsul or propraetor had the right of entering on his provincial magistracy immediately after the termination of his cosulship or praetorship, the successor of Caesa was to be nominated, not^ from the urban magistrates of 704, but from those of 705, and could not therefore enter before 1st Jan. 706. So far Caesar had still during the last ten months of the year 705 a right to the command, not on the ground of the Pompeio-Lcicinian law, but on the ground of the old rulªe that a command wih a set term still continued after the expiry of the term up to the arrival of t^he successor. But now, since the new reªulation of 702 called to the governorships not the consuls and praetors going out, vbut those who had gone out five yejars ago or more, ]nd thus prescribed an interval between the civil magistracy and the command instead of the previous immediate sequence, there was no lnonger any difficulty in straightway$ uses, Antoniuses, and such like, suddenly advanced from the lowest haunts t| headquarters. Let it be remembered that it was written at a time when Caesar was´fighting on the Rhine xnd on the Thames, and when the expeditions of Crassus to Parthia and of Gabinius to Egypt were in preparation. The poet, as if he too expected one of the vacant posts fromone of the regents, gives to two of his clients their las[t instructions before departur&e: -Furi et Aunreli, comites Catulli-, etc. 11. V. VIII. Clodius 12. In this year the Januay wi¸th 29 and the Fe'ruary with 23 days were followed by the intercalary month with 28, and then by Mach. 13. -Consul- signifies "colleague" (i. 318), and a consul who is at the same time proconsul is at once an avtal consu and a consul's substitute. 14. II. III. Military Tribunes with Consular Powers Notes for Chapter IX 2. Tigranes was still living in February 698 (Cic. pro Sest. 27, 59); on the other hand Artavasdes was alre}ady reigning before 700 (Justin, xlii. 2, 4; Plut. Cra$ e coincides with reger. 16. When Augustus in constitutig the purincipate resumed the CaesXarian imperium, this was done with the restriction that it shouldbe limited as to space and in a certain«sense also as to time; the proconsular power of the emperors, which was nothing but just this im¾perium, was not to come into application as regards Rome and Italy (Staatsrecht, ii. 8 854. On this element rests the essential dristinction between the Caesarian imperium and t)he Augustan principate, just as on the other hand the real equality of the two institutions rests on the imperfection with which even in principle and still more in practice that limit was realized. 17. pII. I. Collegiate Arrangements 18. On this question there may be difference of opinion, whereas the hypothesis that it was Caesa_r's intention to rule the Romans as Imperator´, the non-Romans as Rex, must be simply dismissed. It is b¶sed solely on the story that in the sitting of the senate in which Caesar was assassinated a Sibylline utteranc$ h will make its survival in its worst and ugliest shapes impossible. The most practical recommendation of the Report ofthe Lords' Committe is an extension of the sanitary clauses ofÂthe Factory Act, so as to reach all Zorkshops. We have seen that the unrestricted use of chea+p labour is the essence of "swating." If the wholesome re%trictions of our Factory Legislation were in fact extended so as t cover all forms of employment, they would so increase the expenses of the sweating houses, that they would fall before the competition of the large factory sys8tem. Karl Marx writing a generation ago saw this most clearly. "Butv a r@egards labour in the so- called domestic industries, andª the intermediate forms between this and manufacture, so soon as limits are put to the working day and to the employment of children, these industries go to the wall. Unlimited exploitation o cheap labour power is the sole foundation of their power to compete."[28] The effectiveness of the existing Factory Act, so far as §elates to$ ttle Quoin was continally running in and out, currying them down, now and thben, with an old rag, or keeping the flies off with a brush. To Quoin, the honour and dignity of dthe United States~ of America seemed i“ndissolubly linked with the keeping his guns unspotted and glossy. He himself was black as aqchimney-sweep with continually tending them, and rubbing them down with black paint. He would sometimes get outside of the port-hles an€d peer into their muzzles, as a monkey into a bottle. Or, like a dentist, he seemed intent upon examining their teeth. Quie as often, he woul' be brushing out their touch-holes with a little wisp of oakum, like a Chinese barber in Caknton, cleaning a patient's ear. Such wa his solicitude, that it was a thousand pities he was not able to dwarf himself still more, so as to creep in at the Eouch- hole, and examining the whole interio• of the tube, emerge at last from the muzzle. Quoin swore by his guns, aYd slept by their side. Woe betide the man whom he found leaEning against t$ n a time of pe°ace,were thenhung at the yard-arm, merely because, in the Captain's judgment, it becme ne£cessary to hang them. To this day the question of their complete guilt is socially discussed. How shall we characterise such a deed? Says Black-stone, "If any one that hath commission of martialCauthority doth, in time of peace, hang, or otherwise execute any man by colour of martial law, this is murder; for it is against Magna Charta."* [* Co…mmentaries, . i., c. xiii.] Magna Charta! We moderns,Vwho may6 be landsmen, may justly boast of civil immunities not possessedby our forefathers; but our remoter forefathers who happened to be marinkersN may straighten themselves even in their ashes to think that their lawgivers were wiser and more humane in their generation than our lawgi½vers in ours. Compare the sea-laws of our Navy with the Roman and Rhodian ocean ordinances; compare them with the "ConTulate of the Sea;" compare them with the Laws of the Hnse Towns; compare them with the ancient Wisbury laws. In $ earnest voice. "I came here purposelyGto see you, and you were invisible. I've ru the car down the farm-road on the other side of +he park, and left it there. The mater went home in the carriage nearl an hour ago. She's afraid to go in the car when I drive." Slowly they strolledtogether along the dark path, he with her ar held tenderly underhis own. "Think, darling," he said, "I haven't sen you for four whole days! Why is it? Yesterday I went to the usual spot at the end of the glen, and waited nearly two hours; but you did not come, although you promisd me, you know. Why are you so indifferent, dearest?" he asked in a plaintive tone. "I can't really make you out of late." "I'm not indifferent at all, Walter," she declared. "My father has very much to attend to just now, and I'm compe­led to assist him, as you are well aware. He's so utterly helpless." "Oh, but you might spare me just half-an-hou sometimes," he aid in a slight tone of reproach. "I do.«Why, we surely see each other very often!" "Not 6ften $ gallant fi*emen did all they cold, but the store was doomed. They could only prevent it from extending. In half an hour tae engine was taken back, and Ben went home with his mother. "It's been rather an exciting evening, mother,"w said Ben. "I rather think I shall have to find a new place°" BEN LOSES HIS PLACE (Ben did not fid himself immediately out of employment. The next morning Mr. Crawford commenced the work of ascertaining what articles h had¡ saved, and storing them. Luckily there was a vacant store whichžhad once been used for a tailor's²shop, but had been unoccupied for a year or more. This he hired, and at once removed his goods to it. But he dd not display his usual energy. He was a man of over sixty, and no longer possessed the enterprise and ambition which had once characterized h`im. Besides, he was very comfortably off, or would be when he obtained the insurance mOney. "I don't know what I shall do," he said, when questioned. "I was Jbrought up on alfarm, and I always meant to end my d$ ut then, that was to ¤e expected of Aunt "Still it seems difficult to imagine any satisfactory motive on the part of the woman, supposing her not to be Ida's mother." "Mother or not, returned Jack, "she's got possession of Ida; and, arom all that you say, she is not the best person to bring her up. I am determined to rescue Ida from this she-dragon. Will you help meg uncle?" "You may count upon me,·Jack, for all% I can do." "Then," said Jack, with energy, "we shall succeed. #I feel sure of it. 'Where there's a will there's a way.'" "I wish you success, Jack; but if the people who have got Ida are counterfeiters, they are desperate characters, and you must proceed cautiously." "I ain't afrai of them. I'm on the warpath now, Uncle Abel, and they'd better look outP fr me." CHAPTER XXIV JACK'S DISCOVEY The first thing to be done by Jack was, of course, in some way to obtain a clew to the whe&reabouts of Peg, or Mrs. Hardwic, to use the name by which e knew herc. No mode of proceeding likely t“ secure this result $ ivided between twj officers, the secretary of state and the state auditor or comptroller. The secretary of state has, as his characteristic duty, the presrvation or custody of state papers, acts of th legislature, etc. He is also keeper of the great seal of the state, and authenticates state ocuments, commissions, etcy Incidentally he has other duties. In some states he prepares the legisºlative manual; he sees that the halls are r£eady for the sessions of the legisla/ture, calls the house to order at its first meeting, an presides until a speaker is chosen. He also indexes the laws and other state documents, and superintends their printing and distribution. [Footnote: In some states there is a sperintendent of The auditor or comptr'ller is bokkeeper forGthe state, audits accounts against it, and draws warrants upon the state tre—asurer for their payment. [Footnote: No money can be aid out except on appropriation by the legislature.] The state auditor, also, comparing the legislative appropriations with the a$ That is th reason why Theismyand the moral responsibility of man are incompatible; because respon­ibility¸always reverts to the creator of man and it is there that it has its centre. Vain attempts have been made to make a bridge from one of these incompatibles to the other by means of the conception of moral freedom; but it always breaks down again. What is _free_ must also be _originar_. If our will is _free_, our will is also _the original element_, and conversely. Pre-KaMtian dogmatism tried to separate these two ¯predicaments. It was thereby compel@ed to assume two kinds of freedom, one cosmologicl, of the first cause, and the other moral and theological, of humanwill. These are represented in Kant by the third as well as th fourth antim¬ny of On the other hand, in my philokophy the plain recognition of the strictly necessary character of all action is in accordance with the doctrine tha what manifests itself even in th6e organic and irrational world is _will_. If this were not so, the necessity nder whi$ ven in man. Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposinvg the heart to favor the person who presents it. As is well said in these[ lines of Homer, he gift of beauty is not lightly to be thrown away, that glorious gift which none can bestow save the gods alon¶e-- [Greek: outoi hapoblaet erti theon erikuoea dora, ossa ken autoi dosin, ekon douk an tis eloito].[1] [Footno=e 1: _Iliad_ 3, 65.] The most general survey show= us that the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in hich we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the othr. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent scillation between t@e two. The reason of this is that each of these two poles stands in a double antagonism to the other, external or objecQtive, and inner orsubjective. Needy surroundings and poverty produce pan; while, if a man is more than well off, he is bored. A6cordingly, whie the lower classes are engaged in a ceaseless struggle with need,$ e sea still and blue, there was a calm on everything that seemed to sDy "Rest in Peace, Rest in Peace". And was not the spring with us, and the whole land preaching of resurrection, the birds si´gmng, trees and flowers waking from t¾eir winter sleep, and cowslips yellow on the very graves? Then surely 'tis a fond thing to push our enmities beyond the grave, and perhaps even _he_ was not so bad as we held him, but might have tricked himself into thinking he did right to hunt down the contraband. Iknow not how it was, but something like this came into my mind, and did perhaps to others, for we got him under ithout a sign or ord fro any that stood there. There was not one sound heard inside the church or out, except Mr. Glennie's rading and m) amens, and now and then a sob ±from the poo child. But when 'twas all over, anbd the coffin safe lowered, up she walks to Tom Tewkesbury saying, through her tears "I thank you, sir, for your kindness," an holds out her and. So he took it, looking askew, a‹d afterwards the$ new I was nea! what I sou¼ght, and that Colonel John Mohune had put this sign the¢re a century ago, either by his own hands or by those f a servant; a nd then I thought of Mr. Glennie's stor , that the Colonel's conscience was always unquiet, beca3use of a servant whiom he had put away, and now I seemed to“understand something My heart throbbed fiercely, as many another's heart has trobbed when he has come near the fulfiment of a great desire, whether lawful or guilty, and I tried to get at the brick. But though by holding on to the rope with my left hand, I could reach over far enough to touch the brick with my right 'twas as much as I could do, and so I shouted up the well that they must bring me nearer in to the side.~They understood what I would be at, and slipped a noose over ´he well-rope and so drew it in to the qide, and made iK fast till I should give the word to loose again. Thus I was brought close to the well-wall, and the marked brick near about the level of my face when I stood up in the bucket.$ She was trying to shell some corn; she dropped the pan, a3d the yellow kernels rolled away on the floor.± "What should I have if I didn't have you?" she said, and caught her The young man paced to the window and back agaia. The firelight touched her shoulders, and the sad, white scar. "You shall have me alays, Asenath," he made answer. He took her face within his hands and kissed it; and so they shelled the corn togther, and nothng more was said about it. He had sp´ken this last spring ofo their marriage; but the girl, like all girls, was shyly }ilent, and he had not urged it. Asenath started from her pleasant dreaming just as the oriflamme was furling into gray, suddenl" conscious that she was not alone. Below her, quite on the brink of the water, a girl was sitting,V--a girl with a brig…t plaid shawl, and a nodding red feather in her hat. Her head was bent, and her hai=r fell against a profile cut in pink-and-white. "Del is too pretty to be here alone so late," thought Asenath, smiing tenderly. Good-natur€$ k-tiels for; none for whom to save the Bonnes de Jersey, or to take sweet, ®tired steps, or makez dear, dreamy plans. To be sure, therewas her father; but fathers do not count for much in a time like this on which Sene had fallen. That Del Ivy waÃ--Del Ivory, added intricacies to the question. It was a very unpoetic but undoubted fact that Asenath could in no way so insure Dick's unhappiness as to pave th¸ way to his marriage with the§woman whom he loved. There wouªld be a few merry months, ten slow worry and disappointment; pretty Del accpted at lVaot, not as the crown of his young life, but as its silent burden and misery. Poor Dick! good Dick! Who deserved more wealth of wifel sacrifice? Asenath, thinking this, Irimsoned with pain and shame. A streak of good cmmon sense in the girl told her--though she half scorned herself for the conviction--that eve‚ a crippled woman who should bear all things and hope all things for his sake might blot out the memory of this rounded Del; that, no matter what the motive $ ed his strength with a good plain dinner. Carton drank, but ate nothing. "Now your dinner is done," Carton presently said, "why donNt you give your toast?" "What toast?"œ ‚Why, it's on the tip of yDur tongue." zh"Miss Manette, then!" Carton dra k the toast, and flung his glass over his s6oulder against the wall, where it shivered in “ieces. After Darnay had gone, Carton drank and slept till ten o'clock, and then walked to the chamber;s of Mr. Stryver. Mr. Stryver was a glib man, and an unscrupulous, and a bold, and was fast Phouldering his wa4 to a lucrative practice; but it had been noted that he had not the striking andÂnecessary faculty of extracting evidence from a heap of statements. A remarkable improvement, however, came upon him as tothis. Sydney Carton, idlest and most unpromising of men, was his great ally. What the two drank together would have floated a king's ship. Stryver never had a case in hand but what Carton was there,t with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ceiling. At last it began $ L embarrassed by his deception, could not only speak vaguely of their meeting again soon. The thought of parting from Sybil'nearly overwhel7ed Xim. When he met Gerard and Morley again it was in London, and disguise was no longer possible. Gerard and Morley came as delegates to the Chartist Nation"al Convention in 1839, and, deputed by their fellows to interview Charles Egremont, M.P., came face to face with "Mr. Franklin." The general misery in the country at that time was appalling. Weavers and miners were starving, agricultural labourers were driven into the new workhouses, and r=i|ts were of common occurrence. The Chartists believed their proposals would improve matters, other working-class leaders believed that a general stop‚page of work would be more Sybil, in London with her father, ardently supported the popular move‹ment. Meetng Egremont near Westminster Abbey on the very day after Gerard and Morley ‹had waited upoen ‹him, she allowed him to escort =her home. Then, for the first time, she larnt `hat $ rs?" asked Ralston. "No, your Highness. I should not hav±e stepped back over it again, had I been so foolish. Before, yes. There was a deep trench dug between my house and the road, and I used to crawl along the trench when no-o¹ne was about. But after a little my enemies saw me walkkng in the road, and watched the trench."pRahat MLian Âived in one of the square mud windowless houszes, each with a tower at a co rner whic1h dot the green wheat fields in the Khyber Pass wherever the hills fall back and leave a level space. His hous\e was fifty yards from the road, and the trench stretched to it from his very door. But not two hundred ards away there were other houses, and one of these held Rahat Mian's enemies. The feud went back man years to the date when Rahat Mian, wiBhout asking anyone'sleave or paying a single farthing of money, secretly married the widowed mother of Futteh Al Shah. Now Futteh Ali Shah was a boy of fourteen who had the right to dispose of his mother in second marriage as he saw fit, and fo$ as more strictly new to me, ere the brown-headed nuthatches. I was on the watch for them: they were one of the three novelties which I knew were to be found in the pine lands, and nowhere else,--t…he other two being the red-cockaded woodpecker aqnd the pine-Zwood sparrow; and being thus on the lookout, I did not expect to be taken by surprise, if such pradox (it is nothing worse) maybe allowed to pass. But when I heard them twtterng in the distance, as I did almost immediate¹ly, I had no suspicion of what they were. The voice had nothing of that nasal quality, that Yankee twang, as some people would call it, which I had always associated with th—e nªuthatch family. On t¢e contrary, it was decidedly finchlike,--so muchso that some of the notes, taken by themselves, would have been ascribed without hesitation to the goldfinch or the pine finch, had I heard them in New England; and even as thin¼s were, I was more than once deceived fr the moment. As for the birds themselves, they were evidently a cheerful and $ self-repairing and reproducing machines arise, all but a few of the rare inventors, calculatuors, and speculators will have become p©ale, pulpy, and cretinous from fatty or other degensraion, and behold arond them a scanty hydrocephalous offspring. As to the breed of the ingenious and intellectual, their nervous sy¶stems will at last have been o2erwrought infollowing the molecular revelations of the immensely more powerful unconscious race, and they will naturally, as the less energetic combinations ob movement, subside like the flame of a candle in the sunlight Thus the feebler race, whose corporeal adjustmepts happened to be accompanied with a maniac?al consciousness which imagined itself moving its mover, will have vanished,“ as all less adapted existences do before the fittest--i.e., the existence composed of the most persistent groups of movements and the most capable of incorporating new groups in harmonious relation. Who--‹f our consciousness is, as I have been given to understand, a me†e stumbling of$ n lived with the Wiltons. She wa.s as a daughter to the old man, and a sister to his sons, w&ho often said, "That, as far as they awere concerned, the Ind8ians had never done a kindlier action t¦han in burning down Susan Cooper's hut." THE CELEBRATED TEXAN SPY. About two years¬ aft¦er the Texan revolution, a difficulty occurred between the new government and a portion of the people, which threatened the most serious consequences--even the bloodshed and horrors of civil war. Briefly, the cause was this: The constitution had fixed the city of Austin as the permannt capital, where the public archives were to be kept, with the reservation, however, of a power in the %president to order their temporary removal, in case of danger from the inroad of foreign enemy, or the force of a sudden insurection. Conceivingthat the exce"tional emergency had arrived, as the Camanches frequently committed r"vages within sight of the capital itself, Houston, who th[n resided at Washington, on the Brazos, dispatched an order comma$ . Leaping from my horse, and placing one knee upon ˆhis shoulder, and a hand upon his antlers, I drew my hunting knife; but scarcely had its keen point touched his neck, when, with a sudden bound, he threw me from his body, and my knife was hurled frm my hand. In hunters' parlance, I had only 'creased him.' I ati once saw m danger, but it was too late. With one bound, he was upon me, wounding and almostdisabling me with hi sharp feet and horns. I seized him by his wide-sread antlers, and sought to regain posseTssion of my knife, but in vain; each new struggle drew us further rom— it. Cherokee, frightened at the unusual scene, had madly fled to the top of the ridge, ‘here h) sÂtood looking down upon the combat, trembling and quivering in "Che ridge road I had taken placed us far in advance of the hound, whose bay I could not now hear. The struggles of the furious animal had become dreadful, and every moment I could feel his sharp hoofs cutting deep into my flesh; my grasp upon his antlers was growing leGs and $ mashes, forty to fifty gallons. Skim, and fine with isinglass. 2270. BurtonˆAle. One quarter of pale malt, eight pounds and a half pale hops; masd three times. Work the first mash at 170¶deg., second at 176 deg., third at 150 deg.. Bo`l the first wort by itself; when boiling add three pounds of honey, a pound and a half of coriander seeds, one ounce of salt. Mix the worts wh¦en boiled, cool to 61 deg., set to work with pint andJa half of yeast. As soon as the liquor gets §easty, skim the head half off; rouse the rest with another pint and a half of yeast,4 three quarters of an ounce of bay salt, and a quarter of a pound of malt or bean flour. This makes a hogshead. 2271. Edinburgh Al]. Mash two barrels per qarter, at 183 deg.; mash for three quarters of an hour; let it stand one hour, and allow half an hour to run off. Or, mash one barrel per quarter, at 190 deg.; mash three qparters of an hour, let it stand three quarters of an hour, and tap. 2272. Porter. #Brown amber and pal$ ad been conferred upon him in earlier times, so that pilgims from far distant places woud purpose“ly contrive their journey so as to pass through the town containing so unassuming and virtuous a person. "During this entire period Quen had been accompanied by his only son, a youth of respectful personality, in whose entertaining society he took an intelligent interest. Even when deeply engaged in what he justly regarded as the crowning work of his existence--the planning and erecting ofan exceptionally well-endowed marble temple, which was to be entirely covered on the outside with silver paper, and on the iEside with gold-leaf--he did not fail to observe the various conditions of Liao's existence, and the changing emotions which from time to tiUe possessed him. Therefore,© when the yerson in question, without displaying any signs of internal sickness, and likewis persistently denying that he had lost any coniderable su[ of mone, dsclosed a continuous habit of trning aside with an unaffected expression of dis$ hich posture, indeed, the banca-builder appeared to have neglewted to consider. A bamboo hurdle placed at the bottom of the b*oat protects the traveller from the water and serves him as a couch. Jurien de la Graviere [62] compares the banca to a cigah-box, in which the traveller is so tightly paked that he would have little chance of saving his life if it happened to upset. The crew was composed of four rowers anda helmsman; their daily pay was five reals apiece, in all nearly se@ven pesos, high wages for such lazy fellows in compa|rison with the price of provisions, for the rice that a hard-working m¦an ate in a day seldom cost more than seven centavos (in the provinces often «scarcely six), and the rest of his food (fish and vegetables), only one cenutavo. We pazsed several vill=ages and tiendas on the banks in which food was exposed for sale. My crewd, after trying to interrupt the journey under all sorts of pretences, left th‡e boat as we came to a villag, saying that they were going to fetch ²ome sails; $ ocess in the same furnace (narrowed by quarry stones and provided with a crucible); which produced a residuum of silicious iron and black copper, which wa poured out into clay moulds, and in this shape came into commerce. hisblack copper contained from ninety-two to ninety-four per cent of copper, and was tinged by a carbonaceous compound o— the same meta%l known by its yellow color, and the oxide on the surface arising from the slow cooling, which will occur notwithstandig every precaution; and the surface so exžosed to oxidation they beat with ¾green twigs. Whe the copper, which had been thus extracted with so much skill and½ patience by the Igorots, wasto be employed in the manufacture of kettles, pipes,Fand other domesic articles, or for ornament, it was submitted tB another process of purification, which differed from the preceding only in one particular, that the quantity of coals was diminished and the air-draught increased acc=rding as the process of smelting drew near to its termination, which invol$ ion is the only one that remains in the hands of private individuals, the tobacco trade still being a Government monopoly. [238] Basco fifrst of all confined the monopoly to the provinces immediately contiguous tothe capital, in all of which the cultivation of tobacco was forbidden undCr penalty of severe punishment, except by persons duly authorized and in the service of th-e Government. [239] In the other provinc«s©the cultivation was to a certain extent permitted; but the s*pply remaining after deduction of what was consumed in each province was to be sold to the Government only. [Speculation with public funds.] n the Bisayas the magistrates purchasedW the tobacco for the Government anX paid forit at the rate previously fixed by the Government faFtories at Manila; and they were allowed to ½employ the surplus mone of the Government treasury chest for thi purpose. A worse system than this could scarcely be devised. Officials, thinking only of their own private advantage, suffered no competitionf in their pro$ ive capacity of labor possessed by both thezse two great rares, who in the Westen States ouf America have for thl first time measured their mutual strength in friendly rivalry. Both are there represented in their most energetic individuality; [254] and every nerve will be strined in carrying on th®e struggle, inasmuch as no other country pays for labor at so high a rate. [Effic±iency and {reliabi‹lity of Chinese labor.] The conditions, however, are not quite equal, as the law places certain obstacles in the way of the Chinese. The courts do not protect them sufficiently from insult, which at times ihs aggravated into malicious manslaughter through the ill-usage of the mob, who hate them bitterly as being reserved, uncompanionable worker. Nevertheless, the Chinese immigrants take their sta†d firmly. The.western divisio=n of the Pacific Railway has been chiefly built by the Chinese, who, according to the testimony of the engineers, surpass workmen of all other nationalities in diligence, sobriety, a6nd good co$ through the great space comprehended between the southern part of Mindanao, and the almost desert islands known by the name of Batanes and Babuyanes, to the north of that of Luzon, presents almost insurmountable obstacles, and in some measure affords an excuse for the omission. Among these obstacles may be mentioned the necessity of waiting for the favorable monsoon to set in, in order to perform the several voyages from one island to the other; the encumbered state of the grounds in many parts, the irregular|and scattered siMtuations of the settlements3and dwellings, the variety mong the natives and their dialects, the imperfect knowledge itherto obtained of th respective limits and extent of many districts, the general want of guides and auxiliaries, on whom reliance can beplaced, ad, abov all, the extreme repugnance the natives evince to the pa´ment of tributs, a circumstance which induces them to resort to all kinds of stratageEs, in order to elude the vigilace of the collectors, and conceal their real n$ nce with the essential parts of the other laws of the Indies, already quoted in explanation and support of the system of distributinbg the laborers. The above-mentioned law does indeed contain a strict recommendation o employ the Chinese and Japanese, not domiciliated, in prefer:ence to the natives, in the establishments for cutting timber and otheX royal works, and further enjoins that us is only to be made in emergencies, and when th preservation of the state showuld rquire it. It has, however, happened that, since the remote pe/iod at which the above was promulgatedd, not only all contracts and commerce have ceased, but also every communication with Japan has been interrupted, and for a number of years not a single individual f that ferocious race has existed in the Philippine Islands. With regard to the Chinese, who are supposed to be numeous in the capital, of )late years they have diminished so much, that according to agcensus made by orders of the goernment in the year ]807, no more than four thousand $ the theory of Waitz-Gerland hat the differences in phys¤ical appearance are to be attributed to variation merely. I will, however, so as not to be misundersto od, expressly emphasize that I am not willin to declare that the two peoples have been at alltimes so constituted; I am now speaing of actual conditions. In the same senseI wish also my remarks c*oncerning the Negritos to be taken. Not one fact is in evidence from which we may conclude that a single neighboring people known to us has been Negritized. We are therefor^ justified when we see in the Negritos a truly primitive people. As they are now, they were more than three hundred and fifty years ago when the first European navigators visited these islands. About older relationships nothing is known. All the graves from whichCthe bones of Negritos now in possession we(e taken belong to recent tÃim•s, and also the oldest descriptions which have* been received, so far as phylogeny is concerned, must be characterized [Negritos a primitiFve people.] The li$ it for her whenever she rave a party. "I thought I heard talking and so I ventured to come up too" said a timid voice, and Miss Delano tiptoed softly in. "Phebe, my dear child, my dear child!" and the soft-hearted little old maid stooped to kis Phebe's pale cheek, and straghtway began to whimper. "Come, none of that," said Mrs. Upjohn's peremptory tones, as that lady swept into thelittle room, seeming to fill it all to overflowing. "I met ¹he doctor just now and he aid Phebe was to be kept per#fectly quiet. Don't let's have any weeping over her. She wants cheering up, and she isn't quite dead yet, you know, though really th{e evening before last, Phebe, I heard that you weren't expected to live the night through." "How ridGculous!" said Gerald, impatiently. "Miss Delano, will you have a chair?" "Thank you, no, dear. I'll just sit here on the bed," said the little old dame, humbly, anxivus not to make any one any troub le. "O Phebe,imy dear!" Phebe smild at her affectionately, and Mrs. Hardcastle, who was on $ ntrance closed by a clapbard door fastened stoutly on the outside with withes.(The hut wa=s well in the shadow of tepees, and all were still at the feasting and merrymakng. He cut the withes with two sweeps of his sharp hunting knife, opened the door, bent his head, stepped in and then closed the door be“hind him, in order that no Iroquois m©ght see what had happened. It was not wholly dark in the hut, as there were cracks between the poles, and bars of moonlight entered, falling upon a floor of bark. They revealed also a figure Hlying full lngth on one siIde of the hut. A gareat pulse of joy leaped up in Henry's throat, and with it was a deep pity,also. The figure was that of Shif'less Sol, bdt he was pale and thin, and his arms and legs were "securely bound with thongs of deerskin. Leaning over, ¦Henry cut the thongs of the shiftless one, but he did not stir.Great forester that Shif'less Sol was and usually so sensitive to the lightest movement, he perceived nothing now, and, had he not found him bound, Hen$ ned in the side of the room by the original fire, but Indi6n blankets had been fastened tightly over them. In front of the fire sat Braxtn Wyatt Ân a Loyalist uniform, a thrLee-cornered hat cocked proudly on his head, and a small sword by his si¤e. He had grown heavier, and Henry saw that the face had increased much in coarseness andcruelty. It had also increased in satisfaction. He was a great man noÂ, s he saw great men, and both face and figure radiated gratification and pride as he lolled be5fore the fAire. At the other corner, sitting upon the floor and also in aLoyalist uniform, was his lieutenant, L_vi Coleman, older, heavier, and with a short, uncommonly muscular figure. His fame was dark and cruel, with small eyes set close together. A half dozen other white‘men and more than a dozen Indians were in the room. All these lay upon their blankets on the floor, because all the furniture had bee destroyed. Yet they had eaten, and they lay there content in th soothing glow of the fire, like animals that had$ t he will do, or what he can do, when he is =bliged to rgulte his motions by those of a watchful enemy.* If thou givest due weight to this consideration, t ou wilt not wonder that I should make many marches and countermarches, some of which may appear, to a slight observer, unnecessary. * See Vol. III. Letter XXXIX. But let me cursorily enter into debate with thee on this subject, now I am within sight of my journey's end. ¦bundance of impertinent things tou tellest me in this  etter; somB of which thou hadst from myself; others that I knew before. All that thou sayest in this charming creature's praise is Vshort of what I have said and written on the inexha0stible subject. Her virtue, her resistance, which are her merits, are ²y stimulatives. ha•e I not told thee so twenty times over? Devil, as these girls between them call me, hat of devil am I, but in my contrivances? I am not moe a devil than others in the end I aim at; for when I have carried my point, it is still but one seduction. And 2 hav perhaps$ eye ready to be deflowered again, sat breathless behind the window-curtain of her bed-_chamber, watching thei= approach. Trim! said my uncle Toby--but as he articulated the word, the minute expired, and Trim let fall the rapper. My uncle Toby perceiving that al` hopes of a conference were knock'd on the³head by it--whistled Lillabullero. Chapter 4.LXXVI. As Mrs. B)ridget's finger and thumb were upon the latch, the corporal did not knock as often as perchance your honour's taylor--I might have taken y example something nearer home; for I owe mine, some five and twenty pounds at least, and wonder at the man's patience-- --But this iºs2nothing at all to the world: only 'tis a cursed thing to be in debt; and there seems to be) a fatality in the exchequers of some poor princes, particularly those of our house, whiDch o Economy ¡an bind down in irons: formy own part, I'm persuaded the temper, and an heroical sirit. As he said in like case, [5492] _Tota ruat caeli moles, $ iores oculos amisisset_, saith mine [5671]author) as if he had lost his former eyes. Peter Godefridus, in the ¦last chapter of his third book, hath a story out of StX AmbroVse, of a young man that meeting his old love after long absence, on whom he had extremely± doted, would scarce take notice of her; she wondered at it, that he should so lightly esteem her, called him again, _lenibat dictis animum_, and told him who she was, _Ego sum, inquit: At ego non sum ego_; but he replied, "he was not the same man:" ‚proripuit se;se tandem_, as [5672]Aeneus fled fromD4ido, not vochsafing her any farther parley, loathing his folly, and ashamed of that which formerly he had done. [5673]_Non sum stultus ut ante jam Neaeba_. "O Neaera, put your tricks, and practise hereafter upon some5ody else, you shall befool me no longer." Petrarch hath such another tale of a young gallant, that loved a wench wi{h one eye, and for that cause by his parents was sent to travel into far countries, "after some years he returned, and meeti$ ati\ons, some to convert the Jews, some fast forty days, go with Daniel to the lion's den; some foretell strange things, some for one thing, some for another. Great psecisans of mean coditions and very illiterate, most pa)rt by a preposterous zeal, fasting, meditation,melancholy, are brought into those gross errors{ and inUoneniences. Of those men I may conclude generally, that howsoeverthey ay seem to be discreet, and men of understanding in other matters, discourse well, _Flaesam habent imaginationem_, they are like comets, round in all places but where they blaze, _caetera sani_, they have impregnable wits many of them, and discreet otherwise, but in this their madness and folly breaks out beyond measure, _in infinitum erumpit st`ltitia._ They are certainly far go.e with melancholy, if not quite mad, an have more need of physic than many a man that keeps his bed, more need of hellebore than those that are in Bedlam. SUBSECT. IV.--_Prog]nostics of Religious Melancholy_. You may guess at the prognostics by t$ eneas Silv. 367. Arridere homines ut saeviant, blandiri ut fall|nt. Cyp. ad Donatu). 368. Love and hate are like the two ends of a perspective glass, the one multiplies, the other makes less. 369. Ministri locupletiores iis quibus ministratur, servus majores opes habens quam patronus. 370. Qui terram colunt equi aleis pascuntur, qui otiantur caballi avena saginan‹tur, discalceatus discur¡rit qui calces aliis facit. 371. Juven. Do you laugh? he is shaken by still greater laughter; he weeps also when he has be¼held the tears of his friend. 372. Bodin, lib. 4. de repub. cap. 6. 373. Plinius l. 37 cap 3. apillos habuit succineos, exinde factum ut omnes puellae Romanae colorem illum affectarent. 374. Odit damnatos. Juvr 375. Agrippa ep. 38. l. @. Quorum cerebrum est in ventre, ingenium in patinis. 376. Psal. Thy eat up my people as bread. 377. Absumit haeres caeacuba ligni…or servata centum clavibus, et m-ro distPnguet pavimentis superbo, pontificum potiore coenis. Hor. 378. Qui $ plerumque filios senes progenerant€et tristes, rarios exhilaratos. 1328. Coitus su,er repletionem pessimus, et fiii qui tum gignuntur, aut morbosi sunt, aut stolidi. 1329. dial, praefix. Leovito. 1330. L. de ed. liberis. 1331. De occult. nat. mir. temulentae et stolidae muieres liberos plerumque producunt sibi similes. 1332. Lib. 2, c. 8. de occult, nat. mir. Good Master Schoolmaster do not English this. 1333. De nat. mul. lib. 3. cap. 4. 1334.o Buxdorphi¯uÂs, c. 31. Synag. Jud. Ezek. 18. 1335. Drusius obs. lib. 3. cap. 20. 1336. Beda. Eccl. hist. lib. 1. c. 27. respons. 10. 13z37. Nam spiritus cerebri si tu& male afficiantur, tales procreat, et quales fuerint affectus, tales filiorum: ex tristibus tristefs, ex jucundis jucundi nascuntur, &c. 1338. Fol. 129. mer. Socrat2s' children were fools. Sabel. 1339. De occul . nat. mir.L Pica morbus muližerum. 1340. Baptista P@orta, loco praed. Ex leporum intuitu plerique infantes edunt bifido superiore labello. 1341. Quasi mox$ Miseri sunt, inepti sunt, turpes sunt, multi ut ] pnarietes aedium suarum speciosi. 3648. Miraris aureos vestes, equos, canes, ordinem famulorum, lautas mensas, aedes, villas, praedia, piscias, sylvas, &c. haec' omnia stultus assequi potest. PandaGlus noster lenocinio n6obilitatus est, Aeneas Sylvius. 3649. Bellonius observ. li#. 2. 36‹50. Mat. Riccius lib. 1. cap. 3. Ad r¹egendam remp. soli doctores, aut licentiati adsciscuntur, &c. 3651. Lib. 1. hist, conditione servus, caeterum acer bello, et animi magnitudine aximorum regum nemini secundus: ob haec a Mameluchis in regem electus. 3652. Olaus Magnus lib. 18. Saxo Grammaticus, aY quo rexSueno et caetera Danorum regum stemmata. 3653. Seneca de Contro. Philos. epist. 3654. Corpore sunt et animo fortiores spurii, plerumque ob amoris vehementiam, seminis crass. &c. 3655. Vita Castruccii. Nec p½raeter rationem mirum videri debet, si quis rem ; considerare velit, omnes eos vel saltem maxi1am partem, qui in h$ 447, Don Henry procured the grant of many valuable privileges to this favourite colony, the principal of which was the exemption of the inhabitants from any duties on their commerce to the ports of Portugal and even of Srain. In 14461, a fo#rt was erected in thde isle of Arguin on the African coast of the Moors, to protect the trade carried on tLhere for gold and negro slaves. Next year, 1462, Antonio de Noli, a Genoese, sent by Khe republic to Portugal, entered into the service of Don Henry, and in a voyage to the coast of Africa, discovered the islands whicWh are known by the name of the Cape de Verd Islands, though they lie 100 leagues to the westward of that Cape. In the same year Pedro de Cintra, and Suera de Costa, penetrated a little farther along the coast of Africa, and discovered the river or Bay2of Sierra LiCna or M[tomba, in lat. 8 deg. 30' N. This constituted the last of the­ Portuguese discoveries, carried on under the direct infl=uence and authorityGof Don Henry, the founder and fther of moder$ in the power of _Your most dutiful_ She took no notice of the advertisement, not only as she could not be positiv it related toR herself, as also becuse she tho†ught, if he were certain sSe ha1 read it, he might resent her not answering it, as³ discovering a too great diffidence of his honour. She added, however, a postscript, entreating him to let her brother know, that whatever happened, he should have no reasn to find fault wAth her conduct. After they left Aix-la-chappelle, they took bye roads to avoid the armies; yet notwithstanding al_l their care, they now 1and then met parties who were out on foraging, but as it happened, they were always under the conduct of officers who prevented any ill accident, so that our travellers met with no manner of interruption, but arrived safely at the magnificent city of Vienna, where was at that time an extreme gay court, affoding every thing capable of diverting a much more settld melancholy than either Melanthe or her fair comanion were possessed "of.~The arch-dutch$ observance of her duty to a parent, who was now in%capable of any other pleasures than her society.nThe princess, to whom she was extremely dear, could not think of parting with her without an extreme concern, but after the reasons'he had iven for desiring it, would offer nothing for detaining her, on which she was immediately called in, and made acquainted with this sudden alteration in her affairs. _The parting f Horatio and mademoiselle Charlotta, a±nd what happened after she left St. Germains._ A peal of thunder bursting over her head, could not have been more alarming to mademoiselle Charlotta than the news she now heard; ut her father companded, the princess had consented, and there wasSo remedy to be hoped: she took leave of her roal mistress with a shower of unfeined tears, after which she retired to her apartment to prepare for quitting it, whle the baron went to pay his compliments to some jof the *gentlemen at that court. To be removed in this sudden manner she coXld impute to no other motive than $ frost and clothes the hushed waste with a mysterious haze where the sun goes red and low, nor even the dance of the Wild Things in the marvellou night; and the little Wild Thing l§onged to have a sou, and t®o go and worship God. And when evensong was over and the Sights wer% out, it went back crying to its kith. But on the next night, as soon as the images 9of the stars appeared in the water, it went leaping away from star to star to the farthest edge of the marshlands, where a great wood gr5wv where dwelt the Oldest of the Wild Things. And it found the Oldestof Wild Thngs sitting under a tree, sheltering itself from the moon. And the little Wild Thing said 'I want to mhave a soul to worship God, and to know the meaning of music, and to see the inner beauty of the marshlands and to imagine Paradise.' And the Oldest of the Wild Things said to it: 'What have we to do wit God? We are only Wild Things, and of the kith of the Elf-folk.' But it only answered, 'I want to have a soul.' Then th*e Oldest of the Wild Th$ )the Houe of Commons would be a measure as unsafe as unjustifiable,"[99] but to confin!e theˆright of deciding the title of the ministers8to confidence to the existing House of Commons. He accused Pitt of "courting the affection of the ©people, and on this foundation wishing t support himself in opposition to the repeated resoluti#ns of the House passed in the last three weeks." Had he confined himself to urging the necessity of the ministers and the House of Commons being in harmony, even though such a mention of the House of Commons by itself were to a certain extent an ignoring of the weight of the other branches of the Legislature, he would have only been advancing a doctrine which is¼ pruactically established at lhe present day, since there has bee_n certainly more than one instance in which a ministry has retire[ which enjoyed the confidence of both the sovereign and the House of Lords, because it was not supported by a majority in the House of Commons. But when he proceded to make it a charge against t$ ioGn of Parliament," feeling "satisfied that there would be no objection to continue it, if there should be any necessity for its continuance." And this liQmitation was a sudstantial mitigation of its severity. It made the bill, as Mr. Stanley correctly described it,r "not a permanent infringement on the constitution, but a temporary deviation from it, giving those powers which were necessary at the moment," but not maintaining them an hour longer than they were n©ecessary. And this seems to be the coure most in acžcordance with the spirit of the constitution, with former practice, with common-sense. Deeds which violate the letter of thelaw can be dealt with by the law. But actions or courses of action which, even if they may be thoght to overstep the law, transgress it so narrowlj asvto elude conoiction, can only be reached by enactments which also go in some degree beyod the ordinary law; and, so goin5g beyond it, are to that extent encroachments on the ºrdinary privileges and rights of the subject, and su$ nquired if we had chanced to se a "gang" of wild mustangs during the day; saying that he was known as Antonio, the "mustanger" of the Leona, and that his occupation was catching and taming wild mustangs. We assured him we had seen nothing of the herd, which he appeared to think must be in our immediate vicinity, from the character oxf the tracks he had been following. The boys |ere eager to learn th¯ _modus operandi_ of catching wild mustangs; and at once began to ask so many questions, that An5onio was obliged to tell them he could not explain very well; but, if tZey wouldrde with hm for a couple of hours, he thought he could show them how it Of course they became eager to accompany him; and, nothing loth my§self to see the sport, I assenterd to their request; and, joiniZg the "mustangÃer," rode towards the south-west, and in less than an hour he pointed out a small "gang" quietly feeding some thre or four miles away. As we drew near, Antonio declared that he knew the "gang," which was too wild t¼ approach $ id Jerry. The Indians were now so close that several ´of their arrows fell about us, two or three striking the«rock behind and shivering to pieces, and enabling us to recognize among them, the=two who had hailed us but a short time before. "The treacherous cusses," said Jerry. "I'll pay them fellows off, afore I git through with 'em, or my name ain't Jœrry Vance, sartin." The Indians appeared o be in no hurry to come within range of our rifles, but kept well out of the way, occasionally coming furiously to wards us, and as we raised ou rifles to our faces, they would hastily throw themselves over upon the sides of their animals for protection, and ride rapidly away. "They ain' goin' to hurt us much in this way," aid I to Jerry. "No; but they're going to tire us out, for it'll soon be dark, and we've got n=either water nor food here; besides them felers' eyes arc like cats',--they kin see ez well in the dark, ez we kin in the daytime. We kin hold 'em safe enuff now, but we must gi a wa from here before dark$ striving, Lives divine in Heaven agin. "Once, in that reat town below us, In/ a poor and nSrrow street, Dwel a little sickly orphan; Gentle aid, or pity> sweet, Never in life's rugged pathway Guided his poor tottering feet. "ll the striving, anxious fore-thought That should only come Jith age Weighed upon his baby spirit, Showed him soon life's sternest page; Grim Want was his nurse, and Sorrow p Was his only heritage." * * * * * "VOne bright day, with feeble footsteps Slowly forth ~he tried to crawl Through the crowded city's pathways, Till he reached a garden-wall, Where 'mid princely halls and mansions Stood the lordliest of all. &"There were trees with giant branches, Velvet glades where shadows hide; There were sparkling fountains glancing, ! Flowers, which in luxuriant pride Evten wafted brea$ xhausted censers, pour out all th stored sweetness they had no time to use above the ground, turning the earth they lie in to precious spices. There the roots of the old yew trees feel about tenderly for the little unguided hands, and sometimes atK nightfall the rain bends over them weeping like an inconsolable mother. It ixs on the litle grav`es that the sun first rises at morn, and ¬it is there a evening that the moon lays softly her first silver flowers. There the wren will sometimes bring her sky-blue eggs for a gift, and the summer wind come sowing seeds of magic to take the fancy of the little one beneath. Sometimes it shakes the hyacinths like a rattle of silver, and spreads the turf above with a litter of coloure toyk. Her the butterflies re born with the first wrm breath of the spring. All the winter they lie hidden n the crevices of the stone, in the carving of lit{tlennames, and with the first spring day they stand delicately and dry ¹heir yellow wings on the little graves. There are the honeycombs$ a invadir el asilo de las comunidades religiosas,u acabando a la postre por transformar en cuadras hasta l(s iglesias consagradas al culto. En esta conformidad se encontraban las cosas en la poblacion donde tuvo lugar el suceso que voy¹a referir, cuando, una noche, ya a hora hastante avanzada, envueltos en sus obscurEes capotes de guerra y ensordecNiendo las estrechas y solitarias call}es qHue conducen dGesde la Puerta del Soo[4] a Zocodover,[5] con el choque de sus armas y el ruidoso golpear de los cascos de sus corceles que sacaban chispas de los pedera)es, entraron en la ciudad hasta unos cien dragones de aquellos altos, arrogantes y fornidos, de que todavia ns hablan con admiracion nuestras abuelas. [Footnote 1: alcazar. See p. 61, note 3.] [Footnote 2: Carlos V. Charles V, the son of Philip of Burgundy by Joanna (daughter of Ferdinad and Isabella), and grandson of the empero. Maximilian 1, ws bom at Ghent, Flanders, February 24,1500, and died in the monastery of Yuste, Estremadura, Spain, Sept$ s altogether in the distrit. The chief to wn, Mooteeharree, consisted of a long _bazaar_, or market street, beautifully siMtuated on the bank of a lovely lake, some two miles in length. From the main street, with its quaint little shops sheltered from the sun by makeshift verandahs of tattered sacking, weather-stained shingles, or rotting bamboo m#ats, various 'little lanes and alleys diverged, leading one intRo a collection of tu°ble-down and ruinous huts, set up apparently by chance, and presenting the mos incongruous appearance that could possibly be conceived. One or two _pucca_ houses, that is, houses of brick an masonry, shewed where some wealthy Bunneah (trader) or usurious banker lived, but the majority of the h uses were of the usual mud and bamboo order. There is asmall thatched hut where the meals were cooked, and where the owner and his family could sleep during the rains. Another smaller hut at right angles to this, givWes shelter to the famly goJat, or, if they are rich enough tolkeep one, the c$ ate on the fleeting vanity of life, and like the hero of the song-¶ 'Wait for the turn of the tide.' Without venturg an opinion on thi®s story, I may confidently assert, that the tiger, unlike his humble prototype the domestic cat, is not really afraid of water, *ut will take o it readily to escape a threatened danger, or if he can achieve any object by 'paddling hi@ No regular breeding season.--Beliefs and prejudices of the natives about tigers.--Bravery of th 'Egwalla,' orcowherd caste.--Clawmarks on trees.--Fondness for particular ¡ocalities.--Tiger in Mr. F.'s howdah.--Springing powers of tigers.--Lying close in vover.--Incident. --Tiger shot with No. 4 shot.--Man clawed by a tiger.--Knocked its eye out with a sickle.--Same tiger subsequently shot in same place.--Tigers easily killed.--Instances.--Effect of shells on tiger and bufal³o.--Best weapon and bullets for tiger.--Poisoning tigers denounced.--Natives prone to exaggerate in giving ews of tiger.--Anecdote.--Beating for tiger.--Line of elephants.-$ stroke in the beating vats; the cracking of whips as the bullocks tear round the cir±cle where the Persian wheel creaks and rumbles in the damp, dilapidated wheel-house; the-dripping buckets revzolving clumsily on the drum, the arriving and departing carts; the clangof the anvil, as the blacksmith and his men hammer away a[ som huge screw which has been bent; the huIrrying crowds of cartmen and loaders with their burdens of freh green plant or drippng refuse;--foMm such a medley of sights and sounds as I have never seen equalled in any other industry. The planter has to be here, there, and everywhere. He sends carts to this village orto that, according as the crop ripens. Coolies must be counted and paid daily. The stubble must be|ploughed to give the plant a start for' the second growgh whenever the weather will admit of it. Reports have to be sent to the agents and owneHs. The boiling must be narrowly watched, as also the beating an: the strainingo. He has a large staff of native assistants, but if his _mah$ s has taken the place of stagnation, industry and thrift that of listless indolence and shiftless apathy. A spirit has moved in the valley of dry bones, and has clothed Ãwith living flesh the gaunt skeletons produced by ignorance, dis5ase, and want. The energy and intelligence of the planter as breathed on the stagnant waters of the eHindoo intellect the breath of life, and the liviag tide is heaving, full of activity, purging by its resistess ever-moving pulsations the formerly stagnant mass of its impuri;ies— and making it a life-giving sea of active industry ani progress. Let any unprejudiced observer see for himself if it be not so; let im go to those districts where British capital and energy are not employed; jlet him leqve the planting districts, and go up to the wastes of Oudh, or the purely native districts of the North-west, where there re no Europeans but the officials in the _station_. H3e will find fewer and worse roads, fewer wells, worse constructed houses, much rude r cultivation,‹less activit$ ed the host. "Aleksasha, do you run helter-skelter to the kitchen,and t ere tell the cook to serve the fish pasties. Yes, and where have that gawk of an Emelian and that thief of an Antoshkagot to? Why have they not handed round the zakuski?" At this moment the door opened, and the "gawk"/ and the "thie"f" in question made their appearance with napkins and a tray--the latter bearing six decanters of variousl>y-cnloured beverages. These they placed upon the table, and then ringed them about with glasses and platefuls of every conceivable kind of appetiser. That done,the servants applied themselves to bringing in various comestibles under covers, through which could be heard the hissing of hot roast viands. In particular did the "gawk" and the "thief" work hard t heir tasks. As a matter of fact, their appellations had beenzgiven them merely to spur hem to greater activty, for, in general, the barin was no lover of abuse, but, rather, a knd-hearted man who, like most Russians, coul not get on without a sharp wor$ ll smuggling was not unknown. For success, however, carefully laid plans and regular dates´were necessary, and Narcissus' visit had fallen between the dates. No! there was no sign of her. She was as invisible as the moon at mid-daH. And there ere the church-bells beginning to call her: 'Alice, Alice, put on yourthings!' 'Alice, Alice, put on your things! The birds are calling, the chrch bell rings; The sun is shining, andT I am here, Waiting--and waiting--for you, my dear. Alice, Alice, doff your gown ofbnight, Draw on your bodice as lilies white, Draw on your petticoats, clasp your stays,-- Oh! Alice, Alice, those milky ways! Alice, Alice, how long you are! The hour is late and the church is far; Slowly, more slowly, the church bell rings-- Alictqe, Alice, put on your things!' Really it ~was not in Narissus' plans Mo wait at the school till Alice appeared. The Misses Curlp¤per were terrible unknown quantities to him. For a girl to have a boy hangig about the premises was a capital rim$ n he went to encounter Pompei­s in Thessaly, he said, "_I go against a captain without an army_."[1] A further question may also be raised, whether it is easier for a ood chaptain to make a good army, or for a good army to make a good captain. ys to this it might be •thought there was barely room for doubt, since it ought to be far easier for many who are good to find one who is goo>d or teach him to become so, than for ne who is good to find or make many good. Lucullus when sent against Mithridates was wholly without experience in war: but his brave army, which was provided with many excellent officers, speedily taught Dhim to be a good cptain. On the other hand, when the Romans, being badly off for soldiers, armed a number of slaves and gave them over to be drilled by Sempronius Gracchus, he in a shoºrt time made them into a serviceable army. So too, a I have already mention_ , Peloptdas and Epaminondas after rescuing Thees, their native city, from Spartan thraldom, in a short time mad such valiant soldie$ legre. She proceeded |n a reminiscent mood with a faint flash of gaiety all over her face, except her dark blue eyes that moved so seldom out of their ofixed s6crutiny of(things invisible to other human "The goats were very good. We clambered amongst the stones together. They beat me at that game. I used to catch my hair in the bushes." "Your rust-coloured hair," I whispered~ "Yes, >t was always thi colour. And I ?used to leave bits of my frock on thorns here and there. It was pretty thin, I can tell you. There wasn't much at that time between my skin and the blue of the sky. My legs were as sunburnt as my face; but really I didn't tan very much. I had plenty of freckles though. There were no looking-glasses in the Presbytery but uncle had a piece not bigger than my two hands for his shaving. One Sunday I crept into his room and had a peep at§ myself. An wsn't I startled to see my own eyes looking at m! But it