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I BY 3A3rox oatY.I mu , m mulm s ahoher rlnhln .Shat time the gloaming was mellow with mar
S And the whispering hlarebells, their curti wSrindtng,
Swelled the idir1of the dyiag day;And out of the se of othe r pir, palsi.o
Love the great master, touc ed the keIs,And the rhyme cBae Mirth Ia the eld, old fash-
Ion,Hal fear, half bhope-ed the wedls ware
('ome, my s oul, let us reason together:C~om,, for the shIowas duarken aheadul;
Care and sorrow tighten the tetherLife's sun through the mists glows dim and I
red.Come, ere the long, low light of the summer
Fade to the Irown of the atumn lea;Come, lest the foot of the careless cemer
Lay weary in paths made rough with grief.
Soil, where thoughts like the white-winged
Snothe s h ofthil dim, de4 e.e,Wbihe to me thy sweet evlsis,
Whispelr and sigh. but do nct grieve;Out of the delths of thy charmed chambers
liaise me a song that shall thrill afar;Kindle thy rure, blow bright thine embers,lem anher dsoul like ite sgles pl star.
Boul, my sou, that Iet walked thy journey,Thr ak Wisage talye, io height and scaur,
Whose shleld is dark from a noble tourney,Whose lance droops low with the weight of I
Look ps yonhills, whose crest bright sunned isWith the last glance that the dead day
Up the voiceoCf thy De Profundis 1Thrill to those courts where no sorrow lives!
Soul, wilt thou love, where to love is losing?Log wilt thou wander In ways that err;
Daily with hopes, that thy barren choosingn V ia s g Notg eal frs Wayliw.
Wilt thou not turn and say to her spirit,Lot I that love thee wll love no more
This is a hard thing that we inherit:To love and to weep, lo, this is sore!
Ot of the depths of the heart's d7esu alGoeas the ong, passionate cry o a
Ah, God! btht the cros, is hard for the ring! iAh, God! for the rest and the wings of the
dovelAlt that in that pare, fatkthihti en t
The dim lost half of my lie might lie!Ah! that the bud might Ilther the blossom!
Shall these thnlgs be Who knows? Not I.
Out of the depths of the starlit distance .. aA pale gleam shows where the moon come up,
And bheerp the dre.•s of dtlt strange etistence tMay lurk the sweetnets that erowns the cup,
And faith and bho , and the spirit's paAienceStrengthen the beart and lighten theyes..
Ah, soeill my sellat is hop f e nations,And ik s i , botoy, Mand-hut, sadWise.-
go thka, my song speak ,wilyto her;ing to he.' eslf with her late uand long; 1
Perha she will hoar oh so• lp of lthe •etlmof t eer. ,Rt oat of the dqf.ts it'f & da,.s it fs
may come, like light *ua th•p et rll he m
Love's soft glory, our love's calm peacel. "-Appstfs' Journal.
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"I WILL IF YOU WILL."
The Kay Ilouce is a plea•antlittle hotel.standing half way up the side of a mountsin in New lnamlphire.
In the parlor there. one July evening,were four people-Mrs. St. John and herdasrghter Elly, Miss Emilly May and Mr.Millburn. As Elly St. John went-to the tpiano, these two last dlippsd out on thewlleony, and stood lirlteingvs Elly sung:
"eCould we forget, could we forget!Oh iat Lathearen rassagye 'The past shld fade like a morning tream,In a ilae dropof edly stream.Ah! we know what you would say,thtt we are too tired to hope or pray;lor, beet with easeless jar sad et,liod and ou ca t forget."'1 they sorl, will they luetd
Ssety ,-When wi the l pangl and strain rthey are parted ever to meet again?rver trie shall raet hei given rneaselesi eart, or hsapy in aven? rThat whleh has be It m be yetSwe coldealylearn to ;et
But the stars shall cease to rie and set,fall fer m Ieaven ere we beget.
illy sung with an nlatensity ad pathos jwMc•bornuowed non of •s force from bwithin, for she was a good-natured, in- aconsequent sort of a girl, who had hnever had a trouble in her lile. The
"m idlmeal ruie a b often quite tlLum t of selfgo or experience. a
Milys mualn hurt fly cruelly, andstirred and roed the old sorrow which ehadbaut jt beg to fall asleep for a lit-tie. oe ba elly and fondly aman who hai gewt id of her and lefther, beause be was greatly her Inferior.
Much as she sared, I rejoiced whenher engeg enet with Lewis Leightonw broken. Ibad kLnow Lewis fromhis earliest hildhood, sad La ld always adisliked him as a selci, e aoelted prig.Wad iss Mary married him. ber di ap-pointment would have been aaspemkably .Erser than it was. As she lmmed overiebsiony whtle lly sung, and lookedsalf herhe will the hisrt
-tbeaistP' Then rbe ..aeeo-
hmber; butbehadumesma belsbewhl lbe hait Ilirii bem sh:esllsedtbt he was ak•ing her t e his wife.
Ho speke at a wery sahrimse no-m t. He and m y had been very
-ood Mards that sumemer. Te hbadwaedemed In the woods, aendalWaeh lngt.s"had a to Wr2n lls to-awer dreamed as a o*br, and
when he reuentai Intt lightshe shom, ad srtsed and alit-
Oh hush!l" she saki abaiply. "Itaner ean be-never I"",Do you then dislike c moch? I
mi vest MULburn, tryinl very ard top"ak qu-et. dSehavbte to d. -tne s allit '
lek Hm4burd tanimrd, a I
ai t.', • tu• touea•. malt thatoD e•_ ted; I av.-
Evert went upo thit td , wheatfriend, Dick wen awlttbg ie time-Dick wis hba o laehteen. e b ehaentrylag to wor hith WV t@magh oep~
ntrteneb br his vametoI lokm.,her of verad h e ead ban oortally
ly ad s aft s ila3 fie,"we wtlfnrev to the ba r to. ar
Ad thelaneo erai ti ease, andmentaly abused Miss Map a "cold-hearted ilety wheeb epithet lsh did netin the ok t dnraw .
Evert and fick wei wpW hy
ant per-vrscnce of things Inthis world.
She knew that Evert was good andmanly. and sensible. He was In a fairway to wln reputation at the bar, and, ifnot just handsome, was attractive and
ST'here are dozens that would be proudad happy to accept his love; and noth-
ng would dO butht he must throw it
away on me," thought mily imptdent-ly. "But it's never worth while to pitymen very much. 'hey n. stly get overetrurbles very easiy, f here is no
mVey lot." Frim wh it may be in-ferred that Miss May was perhaps a bit ofa cvIdc.
Emily My lved with her imother,in an inland town in New York.She had a little property of herown, and, with wiMt he could ears byher pen, she managed to diess herself, payfor a summer's journey now and then,and keep her own hous over her 1asd. ,
& was her way to. look after h4r eknektlbores poor or not' to visit, n aw ndthen. at the hospital anid the eountyhouse,and do what her band found to do. Shemade no fuss, and laid w no pales.andwas under no eccleslaical "dlrt tom"in particular; but I amiinaied t1 thidks: e was as useful, and far more agreeable.than if I d made f hius in a
r M ihe het, ilii•. ever tlaakdd
mer, she came home, and settled quietlydlown to her wpgk.
She was busy at be da b ne dayOctober, when a carriage drove rapidly
and s tped e doornd Ierang e b•. i went to tlhe rherself, upon whdth Dick's hurry seemedsuddenly to subside; and when he cameinto the parlor, te qpe•te to ind matdiflculty il lCea• ai n , and lm-ly, greatly wondering, asked after hisfriend Miltbwrm.
" Oh, Miss May," i sala. wth a shk-tin voice, " Evert is dying."s'n lm ~ ystarty. and
ow N ad been rather melo amat-1Ically luclined. He d meant to t llkethe hero of a lady's novel, and administera severely inflexible reproof to the womanwho had trifled with Evert; but in MisMay's pmssaese hbefadisticahle, and willly refrained.
" le went ot shooting with a fool of aboy, and 4e, te boy, fired wild, andEver# was, badly hurt, anti fever set in;and, h ! Missl ay, he keeps asking foryou, and 10 won't be quiet; and the doe- ator said, i•'oucotftl you ought to come,far itu might maka difference. There'shl• note. and Mrs. ]illburn's." [
'lThe do P r yrot• saccinct, I# con--r Ig tI• state o the a*,'MisN s.'s
f htpjosbly ke'p 'thso ntll lW4n' o ,w an incoheM otted
-ist , bwn 4thl unknown young lady-imce oi s. >r boy.
• y not retfuse; her motherhurrd o ho nd in two hours she wasseatei beesMek, on her way to Spring-field.. IHetre etions were not pleasant.Every one would talk, and suppose therewas aroman Elly St. John would besmretak My aralgi ir w was Sa little chatter-ba ; and to try to make amysterf 1N the maMer lSlkI. be aworse.
take ih.L class on Sunday- Andw-hato td ofQtbr .LMIipromied fo' i
In"g " '" wermen ny', lbeo M t wouldhave a hippopotamus'handy in the house;'and if Mr. 6ll p l • !uhorribly em rrasing I
On the whole, ]Li May's s wererather those of veation than romance.
They rode all night, and when Emilyreached the door of the handsome old-fashioned house n Springfield, she wasenancious of "lookinglike a fright," anadwished herself anywhere else.
The door was no sooner opened than ashe was embraced by a little old lady In Iblack, ad a pretty girl an elegantmorning dress. Both were In tears, andhad evidently be for s•me time on theverge of hystecs ; and Emily at once sett down as " women who
of you! So.Mlllburn.
guardian an- I
and I were 1
,e u tone ;then hae ,
SIfh he there mightila chance the doctor;'hut so m on nursing'-ali the d expressiveslnce. , and sob-bng, one would
Eml-- one -drop of Iwiter."
'he e, w . ily's critical 4ets, lioqh-nythlng but capable, wasIfusing over. in way that was
"ost a t ofand as the ice r
t ftheglass she
:" Tbas ~S , Lsaid, In her ordi-sweet beVy Now if you
SW1 try~rbieUietjrlW lsaj with you."
or rbut e fe dis- 1guss i excl d in someaaisure to snbade a time, he-_s completely yl m
:-Now nursinga in a feverapsends ths novel; but, in
s ral a but a ro-
;Emly May, at Evert flmlbrn's bed-1ide, feldtsk ln an etreie!ylse po-sltl; int b eh t rek • a fortherewas nothlg b dan. Thenumrse
only cyand rustle abot, and eovnest
a~ -ddlr exeedihly, werand e
to hlyselfte rulve dramed you wrs_aga-* • ,, wha fat•int "NowI s it tou snd o phantom. '
had gsme s t thi deatr
,andIkse idlh-f;ii d m lealeat last he mlght posblyl•ve a fewdaysbutnw longer.
3Ya tirreenuesstehg IhtS timethere was remaimesho wed tak hame. is heart was set on this ki,adle plaidwrC r what se sh atheele ben, with a vohe 'en thatwle v4entsly talk; ad e s so o
d i e sowel and iweopsuret m n tthn not yafuse dear 1Evert' t request.
Emily did what nine women out often would have done, and consented.
" What hiarmn can it do"' she thought." It is only a mere form, but It gives methe right to be with him to the end, andwill prevent any talk; and he is so good,and has loved me so well; and if it com-fort. Idm now to think that my name
ll1 bb Millburn in.tead qf .iay, whyshould T refuse?" Andl thoh it crossedherminnl thati a. dld P4 pwoullbev-ry . e•"• IbaiEO Mr, nil hoe tstcrl herssmelf heeause tis sillr Ilotb had c 'me toher unbidden and twitedv up her hairtight and pl n. and went to mn.et the
lergynman in icr ol! black mohair, whichbad become considerably spottedt downthe front in the course of jher nursing.
The •atlwas tuaihas b olt ai pssible,and then Mrs. Millhburn sent every oneaway, and for two days the bride stoodover the bridegroom. and tt againstleathtSll lhaiwas ready toalt. ,
The deter gave up the patiet en-tirely, and ee•rst to do Maytldnl : and.as sometimes happens in like eaMses, hetoo kr trn for the better; and slowlythe l ce trembled, the scale inclined,_bd ite had won.
SI'll tell you what it is," said the doe-tor. " your wife haasaved your ,th"
vert tuml iis hhli P* p illow.r1d m•mor emy but s!e had
ntthe iex coom. whereshe sat down, feeling, tor the first time,
a ck. that she was actual.ta tr .I f should she do? What
could she say ? ow could she tell Evert,ter all, that 4 he only eomraU him ase wbuld hav ge to Frt Iurphy, it
he had sent for her, and consented to thatmarriage rite as she bad lenrher silvercandlesticks to hold Father Flanagan'sblessed qidlleashea Judy Murphy died ?re dodtor went down stairs: andpresently Mrs. Millburn and Iiatty cameto her, and overwhelmed, her with em-braces $nd 5atitude, a1d 4 poh.t appliqueset, add gmentary talk about herSthings," and proposals to send for her
othir, i ale td .togtier. Emilyresolutely put aw y thought for the time,but she could not help feeling, in an oddsurprised w , that she was not unhappy.and despid herself for having a sort ofashamed, furtite Interest in those "things'which Mrs. Millburn and Hatty were
A weekd tater that y, Evert was al-lowed to slt'up in his chair, white andwan enough. bufvitlks k of returninghealth and life. mi• I ttingalmostwith her 4a to hi, ag out intothe UIssing lea s bra the greatelm.
" e ' she aim we L d a yr, uti shedid Mbturn her h~ -
" mnlyJ di t ell."Nodeswer 4
& i ao ,h••ch Il whatWles ffMl ke no
advantge ry q4 r 2 Iill setyou eoas su D as il Iei o wishSto'spare you trotle3 lw e allblan* on myetf, I btamwr db long-
ing to be mray; nd ac r' Iql ld delaywhat must come at tlast?' I dap say Dickand Prs. ,aey, the ntise, an do all 1ne- ow."
'llYr'sr r HMrs. Mary's attend-uuuo I am sure k is nothing to tmi," said
.lv. in a remarkably cross manner.""'ouareaa ry with. me, but there
i.abe no didl , ler. You cameawa mfi home sdeh ly that it wouldu-b tly na•l you to return toyour mother tnow.
f3 lt here, to Eveft's dismay. Emuily hidher face, ailbegas to eryhn quite a pas-sionate and dlattrssful fs•hion. Evecrt
ioseith ji c lty..atd went to her, -itai not more fti-pbree seps."De you •rvw4o lllgoursell ?" she
said through her sobs, and she took hold-! hi and mdpde iim sit dowpn.ind then
turn~l away, and laid her henl TOn thewin w seat. :
"What ean I do?" he said, distressed."It's to bad! Oh, it's too bad !" she
said in the most unreasonable way."I know it, Kmily. You are as free a.
though no word had ever passed betweenus. Do you want to go to-day I willmake it easy for you with mother andHatty," he said, with a pang.
She went on cryinz, and then in a min-are she said, In a most incoherent fashion,
"I-1 didn't think I was so very disa-greeable." The words dropped out one
by one between her sobs. "But. ofourse, If you don't want me--""LEmily ! What do you mean? Will you
stay ' Will you really try tocare for me ''he asked, with a sudden light in his eyes."I don't know. I--did think-as mat-
ters are, we might try to make the best ofit," she said in the faintest whisper, whilethe color ran to her fingers' ends.
"You will?""I will if you will," said Mrs. Millburn,with a sweet, shy snile.
And she kept her word--From the Al-diues for April.
e Value of Time.pring s nominal . The feld la-
bors of the year will moo. commene, andIwe should see thatleverytba is ready forenergetic, tematio work. How to make,,
money by farming is the great question.There ae two ways of ptingtich. One ]Isto spend lesthan yoa earn; and theother Is to earn more than you pend. It Imyy bethoe ht that this is a d ltl mwithout a dlirene but •uch Is not the iease. The farmer who aias to save 50centsaout of every dollar he ge is verydifferent man from the Armner who aims
toget50 lstead t$l.00. One savesutas much monaey as 'he other. Buttthe latter ha jast twlo a much to spendas the former. And it will make quite adiflerenee to a armer and to his famil•and to the eomallnity in which he lives,whether he spends 5l00 or $1,00 a year;or still more whether he spends $2,000 in-stead of $1,000. The distinction wenu make,therole, is Obe with eosuaderlg. We.iea__e__ us .Oom•, but we .Ielleve stimoftIn wbr•.g aWh Jolk W hnason wasiowIng one hot day in his summer fal-
8 ar auegMce bay some eattle.Mr. J. told him aprice and then started
the horseb, Sand tie fCiniher walked by his-de. He w.vory fAt, and theland was
soft and mellow, and the perspiration soonburst fom every pore. ythe time hegot s the lad of the wiiftato 'iplitth 4tlbsace." l rr. it ne. ni dthe butcher d ed by
When they got back to the_•m~hiughd tr. .: pairP i a e plow
tiiarted t bhorses. "Bold onobtihe buhel maer. "I'll
take 'ea; I would not walk up and 4tat lde •lagai or detble moneyH•e.ib a man who knew his own mind-hr.-w wat Wlh cattle were worth; andsaove be ksess IA salass of time. Heknew that a~ and h tea were worth0cep~saaahb . Be knew that if he
stppo4 ad eant ae ritb the batclherthl men the Sold would be liktely to do
laswork Lwhbhewaskne. An houaedtaletsk weald p twMeem t him 50
etntd. He was -duiimlne to save 50cents and run e rit oilf the batcher notgvinr wbhat th•e ttle were worth. Andthis affords one reason why Mr. Johnsonhas Elislslgriatoiunlbrt, broroaght up a
a'eda evarea huntreda by farming.-Amei-rici
AgriUlidst. . -
A NKw ExGr.xND paper describes a"boardintg marm "' whose economicaltendenc'h s hlad her to p!ace her boardersupon an allowance of matches. Everyevening at tea she goes round and placea single match at the plate of each board-er, aad sabould that mitch fail, there is noappeal to the match safe,
Death of a Noted Woman.
Oxa of the strangest careers of moderntimes has just terminated in the death ofLady Elklenborough at Damascus. Forty) ears ago she was one of the most notedwomen in Europe, and her residence inthe East. has long beet a sort of seanda-lous romance. The daughter of the lateAdmiral Sir Henry Digby, beautiful, wit-ty, and rich, she named In 1824 the Earlof Ellenborongh. who was afterwardGovernor-(eneral of India, and who atthat time was one of the most brilliantmen of the day. She was about seventeenyears of age at the time of her marriage.and Ellenborough. who was a widower.was thirty-four. They lived togethersome slx years, sad her dissolute conductwas a cause of scandal for some time pre-vious to the catastrophe of her elopementwith Prince Felix Schwaramberg, a cele-brated rose, then Austrian Minister inLondon.. The event caused an immensesensatio.i in the world of aristocracy andftshion. Ellenborough procured a di-vorea from Parliament and never marriedagain; but. his runaway wife soon sepa-rated from Schwarzenaberg, and in !412married Baron Venningen, a Bavarial.Tiring of him presently. and with hergreat wealth and personal tascinationshaving little diflleultv in procuring di-vorces under the easy laws of Germany,she was marrie.ln succession to five otherindividuals; but as none of these uniousmet her expectations, they were all dis-solved after a short duration. In 1sl.1 shewas living in Athens with her eighth hus-band, a Greek colonel, Count Theodoki;but without waiting to become a widowshe had this marriage also diPsolved, aldset out for the Levant. During a journevfron licyrout to LDam.scus she found anew atlinity in the person of an .1rahcamel-driver, kInown as Shelkh Abdul,whom she married] after the Arab fashion.and who was the ninth and last of herconjugal partners. For a whole year sheaccompanied him on his journeys betweenBeyrout and Babylon, faithfully fulfillingall the duties ot a earneldriver's wife,even to milking the camels. Tiring ofthis n oadic life, she built for herself acharming palace In DIamascus, where shehas since lived in her own style, a greatobject of curiosity to all European travel-ers. -Abdt", aen.a..... ..a . L....l... as a
V4 eela.4.iwp IUy s Pitably e-tertaoied bytier whenever he came to theplace. AogZ t ic gorut u com.plettwd nrl tw/h e I pqiYears.leaving a co ossal fortune to her aitimesof the Digby family in England, and amemory of warning and of shame.-N.,..&Wa. . . , , . "
Comtagoks and Ihletiea Dtsle sses
nu. SrMas Tnrn'.sov, a well knownEnglish physician. recently lectured onthe above topic in London; and from hisdiscourse we glean the following:
It is considered a settled fact that dis-cases of a contagious nature are causedand spread by inflnences largely withinthe sphere of human government andcontrol. Every form of Infeetlous feverhas its idiosyncrasy. Enteric fever andchoilera tend chiefly to disseminate them-selves through water. passing into thewe.lls and fountains of daily supply, andat times traveling from house to house inthe milk cans of easy conscienced dalry-men. Scarlet fever hibernates in a draweranl. aml, oL Qles for9 with.ame olh a4Tm am to bethrown with it around the threat or head,of some new videim, and so start thenceupon afresh career. Typhusfever crawlssluggishly from hand to hand and mouthto month, and is immensely sociable inits spirit, languishing away when con-demned to solitary ooaanement. Typhoidfever generates itself where ilth. oveycrowding and Impare habits of life pre-vail; and relapsing fever glides in thetrack of privation and misery.
The means now knows of controlllngthese evil malatrants are, in the main,careful isolation of the sick, the preser-vation of the water from which daily sup-plies are derived hn uncontaminatingpurity, the uannedrpi' asqaJlatloualike of hospitals and dwelling a'ousea,,the immediate removal from the vicinityof active human life of all excretions ofthe sick, and the destructiooof their mor-bife inflaenee by aixing them with an-tiseptic and tusiafeting agents (such -carbolic acid, sulphuric ad, ch•rides 9lime and , aa of potash,and charcoal),, s•praat livingtpv, o-ance of any kind -of exeesses, a. abveall the cultivation ofan intelligent famili-arity with natual laws.
In regard to anlsepti. and disinfec-tants, Dr. Thompsea states that It shouldbe understood that agents of thecharacter of carbolic acid are properlyaantislsles, and perste mainly by rret-ing the process of fermentation and de-cnmpositlon, while agents of the natureof Condy's fluid (permanganate ofpotash) chloride of lme, and especiallycharoal, are dislneeants, and aet by al-sorbing the nogious products of ecdis-position. This e showed by perimma,a few drops of carbolle aid casig aeessation in the evolution of gas Iubblesfrom a fermenting soltion of suar; andthe violeant color of Comdy's Idk was in-stantly discmharged wh&n combined withwater in which ws a taune of sulphuretedhydrogen. The lecturer also exhibitedremalis of a rat which had been plaoed ina Jar of eharcoal six yearsao. Only thebones and afew hairs were to be seem;and although the jar had been cover•
et•pn~ldatllton. not of d le smell was at any
Ir Is very orty'bow mq of thebst novels of the present day tdl withmore or less distinctiveness npon ale-tiom of religious belief. We set aslde, ofours, tho, e m y _sorics-a ezg.
tnt 'their1Atbther5 the veciet ii.blsh-wlia confessedly stories with'Wlpl• tti_ to. Il"voocate
cettain theological tenets is of the veryessence o the book. In these, if we onlyath lYct, n utl. w~eb-Ometimes
r eemy • 'gndsf~y be strived! 4by erely gand at that of the publi•b•er-the reider Ils.ebld t oce to fore-east *t•o fare w• ch is provided fbrhiba, Im i l~e to read or not to'read according as his bias may innelshim. liBut evem la thes which assume eomeh diactleC ofee, and whose writerswonld fairly rpdate ay maeh desigh as
toite•mu th gret problems of sllg-ion, intmdf beg Ettlt ignored or
disguised in vagune gnerlties, are as-snmed as having a momentous influeneupon human uia . TIhey are not b ghpCWzalnmtip te the e ah round, perh ,but they.o eviently present to the usott ej•J uasemeuts&a 9grsve mp-
tae."our deneraflon be indeed go in"reverent and Irreligious as It is said to be,the traces of character are not to be foundin our highest works of fiction. If thereis skepticism in them, it is skepticism inthe better sense of the word. The doubtsare those of the honest doubter; theq~estioning is not of a seeering or cap-tlous kind, but has the earnest tone of theinquirer who seeks an answer. Even if
prevalent formsk of belief are sometimesheldi up somewwhat rudely to the light,andshown to be here and there but thread-Iare spiritual raiment, it is without preju.dice to the living body of truth whichthey are intended to cothe.-Blackwoord.
The Stery of Two Levers.
Twenty-six years ago Jamnes Sanderson,a r". pectabe person residing in the Scot-tish lebrides, then verging on 40 years.maele court to a girl some 16 years of age,and was accepted; but a rival muchvounger interfered, and bore off the prize.''his made Sinldrsonifeel revengelfu ; andthe girl's new lover having been enragedin smuggling, Sanderson inffored uponhim. and he liad to leave the islands, towhich he never'came back. The peoplewere so violent against Sanderson that hle.too. was forced to leave, but had marriedbefore doing so. his wife being taken tospite his old mistress, who had not gotmarried.
Arriving on the American Pacific coastin safety, he bought a la ge tract of landa few miles norti of Fort Langley. andldevoted himsltIf to its agricultural devel-
opment with so much energy and skillthat a few years made him comparatively,wealty. Better than this, however, thenew life brought with it such endearmentof the woman whoma he had wedded with-out other love than he had been able tosimulate fur her deception, that the in-er.ase: of their children was his conversionI$ 1. he became a widower, he remainedso ten years, when he sent home to a sis-ter in the Hebrides, to engage a wife forhiin. Hlis old flame was selected, andsaid -he was willing to go to him whomshel had jilted twenty-4ve years before.
Frorn time tune of her second lover'shnau.ty flight under the denunciation of hisenemnr. the smnugler's sweetheart hadnever heard of that Individual agai; andthe lapse of time and the Increasing bur-dens of her lowly estate made her muekless imperious at forty than she was atsixtcen. The wealthy farmer of British'ohanll s her ample means for her
outtit an vage, and the long voyagewas accomplhshed without incident as faras Sau Francisco. From the latter eiyshe was to proceed up the coast to herdrstioiiro on a steamer in which a pas-ae was specially aeeued for her, andwhie awaiting this vessel she was seen
nn reeoldzed at a hotel by the aceptedlove, of her youth, who had bieen Cali-fernisa ver skies hle untimely *44pturefrom the ebrhjes, T w ad ranam tismeeting, a long s•ory dh elh ide, ard-ala.. f'r the'waltlng wlsr-%k fll rei"eal at thed love. * .Moth lovers, however wev mgnah so-
bered by the discipline of maturer years;and the lady having explained by whosewish and means she was in Ameriea, de-dclared that shemust go onwardas she hay.promisel, and full her engagement if itwas still exacted. She would faithfullytell all to him who awaited her at the endof her journey, eqnlss that she couldnever love him now as she had latelythought possible, and abide lIy his owndciclon. If he yet claimed her he musthe obeyed: if not she would return toSan Francisco. "As the story ends withher reappearance in the Califernlaneity afew dayssao, and quie marriage there tothe former smuggler, it may be inferredthat the Colum wowr was at oncesenible and magsaimous under his lastdiappointment, and 4aally proved him-self the friend of the woman with whomfate had twice denied him a nearer, dearerrelationship.-4hesrd (N. 8.) atriot.
Ratio of Live Stock to NpaIatiem.
PaoF. THEMIOLa RoLpas, of OxfordUniversity, Enagland, has omleda cmli-ous table sho the proportion of do-mestieated live s *ik to po laftlon in theshief countries in the world. lIthows thefollowing results:
Great Britain : one cow to every 12 pes'sons: one sheep to every person; and onepi~ to every 10 persons.
-rancehas a cow to every 6 nemns; asheep to every person, gnd apIg toevery6 personaos.
Sweden has a cow to every 31-. pensons; a sheep to every 2 3-4 persons; :anda pig to every 13 ersehs.
Norway has a aw to* 1-2-4 shep to 1-- and a pito 1w 8 IprFC .
Denmark hs a ow to l--a shlep to l-and a pig to 4persons.
Prussla hasa eow to -a sheep to l-and apig to 6 persoms.
W urtemburg has oov( to 4-a sheep to2 3 4-and a pg to 7 perons.
Bavaria has a cow to 3-4 sheep to 2 14-- and a pig to 5 penMes.
Saxony. has a cow to ;6-sheep to S-an-l a pag to persons.
Hlollandfas a c~w to 4-a sheep to 4-and a pig tf12 persons.
Belglum has a cow to 7-4 shoeep to l-.a a pgto 8 persons..
Austria has a eoow to 6-a sheep toS-d l hat It mo? 1 t 31-.4 sheep
to -- and a to 7 14 promna.The United te hasacowto4 perses
-a sheep to each persob-and a pig to1 -2 peftons.
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Ga.w•xo ia snubjectL b itself. Itsmiseries have e1 learned in su ring.and rhymed in mog. It is the dread ofmasculine bnhmanty, and s onre of thethings that pld y trhaser somesmlable wome into fltAl and fualt-and-in ones, and make happy homes tempa'rldlistrelng. Now ifere is no need ofl the dia~e d imoevemlmee, the
lsdehe sad pnemoals and -that come I the tr. a •lsnin. Theis urgent necessity tiat once a ear, atlestr, and perhaps twlee,motprs of thehose shold uMndergo the me thIroqhsenovation. Let your weekly elesm!nand sweqep s bse as as mstiill dust and dirt slft Ii nahide inunsuspected places, and mags will de-potd their ,eggs in apetsi and .Paint will pow dlgy, sad cWagcome .grlme4 with smoke. But mostof our spring el binag is done tooson, udhbefore we ana- withot AressafIlv " The very is benslkeeper die.likes t kadle them re in ths et, whenthe prloa orlsain ; gd,ifIt be aMedo.r 1irwtin her' amn ,that dcleasing ir alwdys to he dme at aeatala tie, a o mttr w t hem westher,theme will be dsyawhsrts t to have ire
is to be very ,perhapeslek. For, as our e says.
there are sp•engs wh the r•emeswen'the cozemrqd hwithmlskm, d it isalmost fatal , at hast, L tIo ialte dis.-ease, to turn the house ot o rs adw•tndows till their rigor is latasd."
S!eg•ua t• topand tse m room ata n resthetwee. det Fanpay's end'
your.qrs for or e aanddiown to mother's and the egesthsmenLeave stairways and hails till you havefnished the parlor floor. Only clean onbright sunny ilays and when you feelwell. By extenmling over three weekswhat is usually accomplished in one, youwill save time, temper, and health, for itis not work that hurts, but worrying overwork.-eMrt and BHome.
timlshaing.
WE all agree to consider "gush" un-worthy; "gushing people," whether inparlors or periodicals, are accepted ob-iects for satire. Now, as we have knownsoome decidsail v gushing people in societyand in the public prints to "peak of -"gush 'with derision, we infer that there mustbe some amlbiguity as to the meaning oftihe term. It is. pelrhapts, worth while toask, "What is " gush,' and in what does 1
Its inferiority inhere?" Usually. thoughnot necessarily, persons who gush, ad-mire rather than criticise: but whateverthey do, they do with profusion. Thevoice is commonly in alighlkey ; but itis not wrong or unworthy to admire. I" Gush'' is not objectionable because it ispitched in a high key. There is very 1genuine and exquisite admiration. Much cmin literature in which the k~y is high has cvalue and truth.
The objectionable quality of "gush"is, not that it po".esses theseqnallties, hut thaf it profetsesthem, and possesses them not. Ad- tmire all you choose ; you are but one lit-tie beinJ In this boundless universe, andyou have all outside of you to admire. !the higher your ecstacies, the deeperyour worship, the greater you are un-questionably ; only be sure you don't lay Ielaim by written word, or splech or gest- Itire. to ecstacies which you do not feel. IIf you love your kind, and are "human," Ithere is in the boundless expanse of his-.tory, in the experiences of thire people Iamong whom you imove, sufficient oppor- Itunity for all the "sympathy" you can Icommand. Your sympathies, and appre- Iclations. and subtleties about your friends amay be never so supelrftine they may be
uile beyolndl the reach of plain people, Ibut itf you are sure of their truth, you can inever be justly accused of "gnsh." It is Ionly when you tollow some loose fashion, Iwihen you take some half.formed. super- Ifleially-felt impression. and. In some amodish way profces a depth or an eleva- Ition which you do not poisess-it is onlythen that you may le sadd to '" gush."
F tacy, spirituality, love, joy in the per-ception of betuty, all these are true:"gush" laialse. Now, it may often happen that a young,perjon, or for that mat-ter an old oin, may not have suf•meent in-tellectual peer or auelbts depth of e-x-perienee to test the trth.Of any effusionof the niA&. o rg•l mewbere re- 1nmrkslhosw mw ,tlste wu t frthan to e true. Truth for th r, ea aelaly whsr .attepsts the Miore a.-
,ppib believes iu•'a sonething whhe is worth the attention of men, must, of course, first, hlself Ibelieve that Ihe is truthful. Sometimes Ihe is mistaken, he often is; but, 1after all, the owly consent which Is Iworth anything Is the writer's own Icertainty that he Is right. He must ctake upon himself the responsibility of be- Iing mistaken ; but in most of the * lsh,"we see there is no such even mitaken Iconsent of the intelect and conscience.Really, the writbr half knows be (veryoften shie) is talking nonsense; if he 1priced truth safllelatly, he would notspeak so. "Gush," we think, therefore,is often the result of a ieble nt , butoftene the result ofS lack of dignity andthe want of in instinetve love of tth.We doubt if nmun persas writ "gush"for the love of I); but people who make alivingby witing, and who have at statedtimes to cover so much sapQe with ink,even when they are capable of betterthings, dor too often acqube a way ofwriting frea the bad iste e the heador the heart, and of awrching the deep-er themes of life with pest and Isldaerity. This is the " gsh" whh is utterlyobjectionable, whether it be written forthe public or spoken In the ear of Mend-sblp.--Heark and BsH.an
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UC'on this head, Dr. Hall, in his Jour-al of Helelth, itmorausfy dsom s m
the endeney oathe tness follows:It is really agreat wonder that every-
body i not ead ad usrted a theworld tself aused up enth ly, If the thous-andth part of what is told as about micro-scopical mdlot r"diseo ,"oelledis trues One m will have it that theglorlous Union over which the stripes and 'sta float so p dly will soosa comed•poplatedbeca s re1ittable people
t r adren; do-stred myriads of bugs In the chatelras Iand waterfalls of the ladies, boring into Itheir skulls and suckng out all the e.Imaltiag brains of the dear .delIdtfhia. !A German saeas now tells us that every Isl, of tea we take is full of oil? globuls Iwlakch get Ito the lugs diret, .,weakenthtem, set up a cough, and the person dies Iof consumpIon. 'Anather man has found Ithat the pset spri water, ••l ascrystal toll appearance, if let al0a willd~post a sdledment whieb gmmahotes ty- Ipolver' he proposs that ev- aerybody ah quit drinking whiett. An-other ays that brd • sao mch lime Iin it that it is turing us all to bone, and Imakes us stiff in the joints, that bein the Ireoneas be as litheb, spritly old
en nowrdays; hence we arefull ofmps and rheumatse long befbre our
time theore we had better quit eatingtbad altogether, and live on raeend sa-go and tapioca. The Water ee lkM as-sues thait pork sad beans and ham and
eS are full of abominable tricAiae, andf one is swallowed and gets f•,yinto the system, he,ele r 1t. wll
breed a million more in a short time, andthat reapt bee has juvedIle tae ms tainit. ATsbhe omeTo.,Ds, sad Hasry, all in a row, leaded dowa with micr-scpsan ltims widt shw asplia day that the atir swarming withliving monsters and putridM pelof,-whlihBy into the taoth aud crawl up the nosead clreep into the ear; hene it is deathto breathe such pestilential as, and thatthe best way i to keep tbe mouth shut,slug up the nose, and ram cotton into theears.* Ever so may learned profesonal gea-
gemen have been torturing poor figuresfor years to make them tell-the stupendous
bth@ everybody is either cusy or soonwill he that the annual increae Is tenfier euL consequenatly n eleven yearsevrybedy wil be eaoay, and more too.Theact le that the people who spnd
their time habtc-h.|,tlhetfonaerie.,eught.to be put to work and be made toearn an hones llviig. This world bbsbeen pretty we takan ar et fr somethosads of Yea, incresg in coomfortand wealth and life, the a.V lesgt 0owhich ist ha doahed ewMi two cen-
threfold h tliSd-tft stttB_ tl I- thatthe Grnt krs af a will soaaae althe naonstie forces of life for the ft-ture as eventually to make "the Wlenesad solitary p it he glad, adthe d,ertto rejoice and blossom as the rose,"and the race he h•hppy .tll.
Forn thousand English ministers urgethe Archbishop of Canterbury to supportin the House of Lords the bill to legalizemarriage with a deceased wife's ister.Why should the parso be so prtial'ttheir slstrestin-t
larital Respemsblilty.
A mrnrors question r dinkf the re-sponmibility of a hu4bahnd for the acts ofhis wife has recently been decided in thesupreme Court of Illinois, and in deliver-ing tihe opinion of the Court Judge Thorn-ton took occasion to make an elaborate re-view of the changes which recent legisla-tion has made in the legal relations be-tween man and wife. The case In ques-tion was one of slander. Anet :lobsoonhad sued one John Martin for slanderouswords used respecting her by MargaretMartin, John's wife, and the ease hadcome to the Supreme ('ourt on appeal.The decision was that the husband wasnot liable. The Court held that a liabilitywhich has for its consideration rirhts con-ferred should no longer exist when theconsideration has failed. If the relationsof husband and wife have so changed asto deprive him of all rights to her prop-erty and to the control of her per-son and her time. every principle of rightwould be violated by holding him stillresponsible for her conduct. So long asthe husband was entitled to the propertyof the wife and to her industry, so long ashe had power to direct and control her.and thus prevent her from the commissionof tort, there was some reason for his lia-bility. The reason has now ceased. Theancient landmarks are gone. The maximsand authority and adjudications of thepast have faded away. The unity of hus-band and wife has been severed. They arenow distinct persons, and may have sepa-rate legal estates, contracts, debts, andinjuries. The chains of the past have beenbroken by the progression of the present.and the wife can now enter upon the sternconflicts of life untrammeled. She nolonger elings to and depends upon man,but has the legal right to battle with himIn the contest of the forum, to outvrihim in the healing art, and to climb withhim the steps of fame. And as her brainand hands and tongue a• her own, inthe judgment of the Court sil aloneshouldi be held responsible for any slan-'ders she may utter.-New York ASb.
PasamlaL
Ax English paper has given an inter-esting and curious account of Pagmaini,which it would be worth the while of anyone Interested, as so many people arenowadays Inquestions of "temperament"to readit tis emmon to talk about theartistic or poetic temperament as if there
4a-oumr ntoet.Peiate r ite, or mu siciand s n-o ke-Pf- f&ab tntt the daenhecesoma-. --- a-- I " arealmost as great as the dlietenesa betweenthese again and all others. The tempera-
eant of a aian, r Instance, on whomphysical causes act oddly and instantly attimes, at others not at all ; who travelswith the greatest speed from place toplace, taking care In the hottest weatherto have the carriage windows closed; whodelights to talk loudly while rattling overthe roads; who resents being spoke to whilewaiting at Imn to change horses; who, onariva l-at his hotel throns all thedoors and windows open to take an"alr-bath ;" who is very fond of money,but carries papers of imnenswa value in apocket-book, mixed with concert ticketsand letters; who seldom notices sceneryor cares for the sights of foreign towns;who cares little where he sleeps or whathe eats or drinks, but when he goes outto dine generally eats so much as to bringon Illness; who is in the habit of remain-ing taciturn for days, at other timeshowever, of joinlangin conversation "free-ly ;" who, after dinner, habitually sitsin hi roem in total darkness till half-tten, when he goesto bed; who is continu-ally mixing with men, but has no friends;who is faithful to both his parents, is attimes very generous, and who, if any onementions music in conversatio, relapsesinto sullen silence or goes off into someother part of the room-what sort of atemperment Is this, poetic, artistic, archi-tectural, dramatic, or lunatic? It is noneof these, It is the musical temperament,the traits havingall been Iaiusted byPaganini himself.-N. Y. Na•ion.
The ruby ranks third in hardness amongpreo nu sses. Its color varies fro theightest pink of rose tint to the et
carmine. Specimens are often f inhleich blMe exhibited in one part and
red in another; sometimes the two colorsare nmore or less intermingled, producingpurple shades, and even greater varlega-tions are occaonally seen from the pres-ence of additional ors A ruby, eithertoo light r too dark, is notas desirable asone of an Intermediate shade. The mosthighly priaed are those of the '"Ieon a-biod" ,,olor, a pane deep redee fromthe casts of either blue or yellow. Thisshade exactly agrees with that of the freshblood o4 a pie as seen when droppedon white paper. The best rubles are al-ways set trasp nt, but those delicientin color are backed by ftoll of appropriateshade. In buylag a stoa set with foil thepurehaser will naturally be on his guard;but where it is without a back it may besnpposd that its real color is apparent ata glance. Not so. Someswlndllng jewel-ers sucaeeded in the plan of lining the In-side of the buand made toencircle the stonewith crimson enamel of such a shade as tolend a proper hue to a faulty gem.-Ez.
A Willfl Weman.
A rF.AL argonat of fearful vitality, atall and extremely ugly female, ealled atthe postoea. yesterday, tendered aninety-alae eoppers to the urbane clerk, andmsked io len thereof three eent stamps.The olidal remarked that he could onlyreceive taour coppenrs •a legal tm rd
deavord to eonvince the fmae that hewas guided by certain rales, and bhad nolatitude in the matter. She waxed wroth,and remarked that when nla the course ofhuman events it became apparent thatUnited States coln was to be re•sed by a
fta ellell, the thought herbd died in rvain, and eosad-
rdi duty to bring the Oovernmentto ecounmt. Then sbe p•ed the eorridorof ts pone ati she had made thi-tthr eparate tenders of the coppersautl obtaied t•grty-thre three antstaA. DrinzASr frse cika wito theclerk she ga much e nsolicited ad-aies .und.othirwlse contributed to the
of spectators.-asa Francisco a
DsnopSr, Mian., aspires to be a healthreort, and won't hear of havinq such athing as a regir ngraveryardlsstt sbould-etr invalids rom going thither.
A crs-opsanrrv cemmanion called theof German extraction, long
teson.near DufBfao, are attracting at
Tax taes In Cslilornla-Stata, countyand munlcipal-range from three to fourper cent. on the value of property.
TwaR is a farm in Essex county, Mas-sachusetts, which has been in the posse- .slon ofthe same family for 231 years