Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1872, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1572. EUGENIE GRANDET; oz, Scenes of Provinciel.Life. Praralaied from the Frenck of DeBalzac Jor The Chi~ cago Tribune. XIIL. Filva yesrs went by, in which no event left its nark on the monotopous existence of Eugenio und her father. There were butthe samo things steadily done, with the chronometric regularity of the motions of the old clock. The deep melancholy of Mademoiselle Grandet wa3 s sewet for nmobody; but, even if everybody Tcould guess its camss, never did & word spoken by her justify the suspicions whicl all the social gatherings at Saumur enter- tained as to the state of the heartof the rich heirins. Her scle company consisted of the three Cruchots, and some of their friends, ‘whom they had gradually brought into the house. They had tanght her to play whist, and eame every evening to make up agame. In the year 1827, her father, fecling the weight of infirmities, was compelled to inform her regard- ing his landed estates, and told her, in case of sny difficulty to consult Cruchot, the notary, whose honesty was known to him. Then, toward the close of this year, the goodman at last, at the age of 82, had s paralyticattack, which made rapid progress. Grandet was given up by Mr. Bergerin. As ehe thought that ehe would soon ba alone in the world, Engenio held herself, mo $o speak, nearer to herfather, and pressed mora closely this last link of effection. In her fhoughts, asin those of all loving women, love was the whole world, and Charles was not there. Blo was sublimo in ber caro and attention for boerold father, whose faculties beganto give way, but whose avarice sustained itself instinc- tively. The death of this man did not differ from his life. Eerly in the morning, 43 was rolled midway of his fireplace snd the doorof his closet, doubtiese full of gold. He remained there motionless, but looked with anx- isty, now_at those who came to see him, now at $i:6 ‘iron-lined door. Ho wanted to kuow the cause of the least noisebs heard; aud to the Totery’s grexk estonishment, he heard the yawn- jngof tho dog in the court. He awokefrom Bis apparent stupor on the day and hour when Lo bad to receive rents, settle with the tenants, and givo reccipts. He then moved bis Theeling cusir till_he wes opposite the door of his claget. He hsd his daughter open it, and watched until che Lerself put away the bags of money, qne upon another, and until she shut the door. Then ehe silently returned to her place, 8o soon s eho hed returned to him tbo precious key, always kept in his wflstocnt'ipeeket, and which e folt from time to time. Then, too, bis old frieid, the notary, feeling that the rich heiross wonld jnevitably marry his nepher, tho Presi- dent, if Charles Grandet did not return, re- doabled his cares and sttentions. Ho came every day to put himself at Grandet's disposal ; went at his order to Froidfond, to the farms, the mesdows, and the vineyards; sold the crops, end transmuled everything into gold and silver, which was Becretly added to the sacks heaped up in the closet. Finally, tho last dzys camo, during which the tmassive freme of the goodmen was nghting with destruction. Hewished to remsin seated at one corner of his fire, beforo the closet-door. He seized hold of, and rolled up, a1l the coverings they put on him, and said to Nanon, * Lock this p, so that they may not rob_me.” When he oonld open his cyes, to which his life had_re- kreated, he turned them at onco toward the door of the closet where his treasares lay, and edid to his danghter : Are they there? Are they thero 2" in a tone indicating a sort of frantio terror. *Yes, my father.” “Watch over the gold; put some gold beforo we.” . Eugenie spread out some louis on a table for and he remained for hours with his eyes ized on them, like a child who, when just begin- ning to see, looks stupidly at the same object; nnd.‘rl.\ku & child, he smiled painfally. “'Thia warms mel” said he occasionally, zllowing an expression of porfect happiness to sppear on his countenance. en the rector of the parish came to admin- ister the sacrament to him, his eyes, which had ‘been apparently dead for some hours, became resnimated st tho sight of the silver croes, candlesticks, rod Loly-water vessel, which he cdly, and his wen moved for When tho priest put the gilded ips, thathe might kiss theSavior, ghdul motion to seize it, and this 1ost effort cost him his life. _He called Eugenio, whom he did not see._though she was kmeeling befare him, and bathing with hor tears a band glready cold. €My father, bleas me ?" asked she. « Take goofi care of everything. You will give me an account of theso things down hers,” Esid he,—proving by this last remark that Chris- tisnity must be the Teligion of misers. Eugenie Grandet then found herself alone in $he world in that house, having only Nanon, at ‘whom she conld look witha certainty of being understood snd comprehended,—Nanon, the paly being who loved her for herself, and with whom she conld talk of her griefs. Grande Nenon was a providence for Eugenie. So she was no longer a servant, but an humble friend. After her father's death, Eugenie learned from Mr. Cruchot that ehe an income of threo hundred thousand livres from lands in the district of Seumur; eix millions invested in three per cents at sixty francs, and then worth »eventy-seven ; and slso two millions in gold, end a hundred thoussnd francs in crowns, with- oat counting arrearages to be received. The to- tal valnation of her wealth was seventeen mill- ‘on francs. e;;Whure can my cousin bo ?” gaid she to her- seld. The day on which A, Crachot delivered to his client & statement of the fully-setiled inher- itance, Eugenio remained slone with Nanom, reated one._on each side of the fireplaco in that empty sitting-room, where avexzching Te- called its memories, from the raised chair in Wwhich hor mother had sat, to tho glass from which her consin had drunk, <t Nanon, we are slone—" «Yes, Mademoisello ; and, if I know where he I&L:)iut ‘darling, I would go myself and look for The sea is between us,” said ske. While the poor heiress wept, together with her cld servant, in that cold and obscure house, which to her was the universo, nothing was talked of, from Nantes to Orleans, but tke seventeen millions of Mademoiselle Grandet. Ope of her first acis was to give & life annuity of twelve hundred francs to Nanon, who, already baving one of six hundred, became 8 rich match. Irn~ess than a month, she paseed from the con- dition of maid to tlat of wife, under the protection of _Anioine Cornoiller, who %23 eppointed ms gen bailift of the’ estates - BI Jands of Mademoisells Grandet. Mcdzme Cornoiller had an immense advantage over her contemporaries. Though she was 59, she did not lock over 40. Ber coarse features had resisted the assauits of timo, Thanks to her monastic life, ehe braved id age with & high complesion snd an iron tealth, Perhaps sbe nevor looked aswellas she did the day of her marriago. She had the »dvantages of hor aglinese, sod appeared stont, fat, strong, and weering on her indestructible face an wir of heppiness which made many peo- ple cnvy Comoiller's fortune, Sho hs o e color,” ssid the r “She can kave children,” szid the selt-dealer; “she isas well Leont as if she had been in brine, by your leave.” ~:She is rich, and that fellow Cornoiller has mado & Iacky hit,” said another neighbor. After she {aft the cld honse, Nanon, who was loved by tho whole neighborhood, received innumerable com- pliments as sho went down tho winding strect to tao church. Eugenie gave her three dozen tsble-clotha for & wedding present. Cornoiller, turprised by such magnificence, spoke of Lis mistross with tears in his eyes; he would have let himself be cut to siozes for ber. When che becamo Vogenic's confidant, Madame Comoiller, en- :o72d 8 happiness equal to tost of buving a hus- band. She §v1 at 1ast & pantry to openand lock 1, aad provisions to give out every morning, b5 her dead master bad done. Then gha had two eervants to look after,—a cook, and a chamber- raid who hsd to mend the linen and make Mademoiselle's dresges ; while Cornoiller united the fanctions of bailiffl and superintendent. It is unnecessary to say that the cook and chamber- taid selocted by Nenmon wero reel pearls. So Mademoiselle Grandet had four servauts, whose Jovotion was boundless. The tenants, therefore, 3id mot notice the goodman’s death, o thor- oughly had he establiched the methods and Bysiem of bis admiistration, which were care- fally kept in force by Mr. and Mra. Cornoiller. 'A% 30, Eugenie had Lnown noue of the joys of life. Her pale snd weariful childhood had Leen spent with a mother whosa unap) reciated and sore heart bad always suffered. When she *-=rglly left this world, this mother had com- ~fated her dsughter for having to live, and i in her soul faint remorse, but eternal et. The first, the ocly love, of Eu- % was_for her a causo of melencholy. ? baving hed glimpses of her lover few dnys, ahe had given him her heark. be- -8 soyereign . attributed his first successes to the magieal in- tween two Kisses, slcathily given and received; then ho had gone, putting & whole world between her and him. That love, eutsed by her father, had almost cost 2:er her motaer, and had brought ber but porrows, blended wita faint hopes. Thus, 9p to this time, she lad reached out tc\‘\-.ud_v zppiness, losing her powsrs, and no exznanging them. In moral, ss yell as in physl- cal lifo, thereis an inspiration and an expiration ; the soul has to abeorb the feelings of another soul, and assinilate them, in order to restors them mors besutiful. Withont this benutiful bumzn phenomenox, there is no life in the heart; it is withont air,—it suffers and wastes away. Lugenie began to suffer. To her, wenlth was peither & power nor s consolation; she could exist Lut by love, by religion, by her faith in the futuro, YLove expiained ofernity to her. Her heart and the Gospel showod her two worlds to be looked forvard to. Sho buried herself night and day in the Lssom of two infinite ideas, which for her, perhaps, were butono, Bhe wit] drew within berself, loving, and believing her- golf loved. During sevenyenrs, her passion had inynded everything. Hor treasures wero not the millions whoso revenues wera accumulsated, but Charles’ dressing-caso; the two pictures huog up by her bed; the jewelry ronsomed from her father, prondly displayed 6n » bed of down in a bureau-drawer; and her aunt's thimble, which ber mothet had used, and whioh she put on every day, to labor at some embroidery,—a work like that of Penelops, undertaken only that she ‘Tmight put on her finger that gold replete with memories. 1t did not seom likely that Mademoiselle Gran- dot would wish to merry during her period of mourning. Her gennina piety was known. So tho Cruchot family, whose course was wisely guided Ly _the old Abbe, oontented itself with hedging ia the heiress by surrounding ber with the most sffectionzte attentions. LEvery evening her ait- ting-room was filled with s company made up from the most devuted Cruchotins of the neigh- borhood, who Jabored to sound the praises of ths mistress of tho houso on every key, Bhe bad a physician in orsinary of the chamber, her grand almoner, her chamberlain, her first hflf of the robes, Lier prime minister, aud, sbove Der chancollor, & chancellor who wished to tell ber everything. If the heiress had wished for a train-bearer, they would have found her one. She was o gueon, and sho most skilfolly finttered of all queens. Flattery never emanates from grest souls ; itis the appurtenance of little minds, which euccoed in making themselves still smallor then they are, 8o ihat they may the better come within the vital sphere of the per- son around whom they gravitate, Flattery means thera is £n interest concerned. Bo those persons who ceme_every evening to furnish the Eitting-room of Medemoiscllo Grandet, whom they called Mademoiselle de Froidfond, suceead- od wonderfaily well in overwhelming ber with reises. This concert of Isudation, new for Cugenie, made her blush st first ; but, insensi- bly, no maiter how coarse the compliments might be, her ear grew 80 well nccustomed to hearing her beauty extolled, that, if any new- | comer had found hor ugly, this reprosch wonld have hurt her much more then it would eight vears befors. So ehe ended by loving these Bweet words, which sho secretly 1aid at the feot of her idol. '[herefore, she gradually became aocnstomed to 2lowing herself to be treated as and to ses her court foll every evoning. The -President de Bonfens was the hero of this little circle, where his wit, his per- gon, his knowledge, and his aminbility wore in- cesgantly landed. ~One remarked that, during goven years, he had decidedly increzeed his fortune; that Bonfons was worth at lenst 10,000 franca a year, ond was inclosed, liks the lands of the Cruchots’, by the vast domains of tho heiréss. Do you know, Medemoisells,” said one freguent visitor; ‘“that tho Cruchots have an income of 40,000 livres?” ¢‘And their savinge,” continued an old Cruchotin, Madembi- selle de Gribesucourt. “A Qentlemsn from Pariahas lataly offercd Mr. Crachot 200,000 francs for his business. He will gall it if he can bo appointed Justice of the Peage.” He wants to succeed Mr. de Bonfons as President, and is taking his precsutions” replied Madame D' Orsonval; “for the President will become Counsellor, and then President in the Superior Court, "He is too smart not to get along.” “Yes, he i8.a very distingnished man,” said another. *‘Do you not think so i Mademoiselle 2" The President hed tried to rut himael? in har- mony with the part he wanted to play. Inspite of his 40 years, in spite of his brown and sour face, dried up a8 almost all judicial physioguo- ies are, he got himself up as a young man, ‘:é‘“’ with a_cene, took no snuff when with KI emoisello do Froidfond, always went there in white cravat, =~ en with a shirt whose heavily-raffled bosom gavo_him & family resemblance to the turkey tribe. Ho talked fe- miliarly to the beautiful heiress, and saidto ber, © Our desr Bugeniol" In ehort, exospt for' the number of individnals, substituting Whist forloto, and suppressing tho figures of Mr. and Mrs. Grandet, tho ecens waa aboub the same as it was when this ptory began. The pack still pursued Eugonio and her millions ; but the most numerous one bayed the best, and sys- tematically environod its prey. If Charles hed arrived from the extremity of tho Indies, be would, therefore, have found again tho eame persons and the same interests, Madame des Graseins, towards whom Eugenie sbounded in courtesy and kindness, persisted in Inguing the Cruchots, But then,as of old, %ngenie 'would have been the central point of the scene; and, a8 of old, Charles would have been the sovereign there. The bonguet once resented to Eugenig on_her birthdays by the Presidont had become periodical, Every oven- ing he brought the rich hoiress a large, magnifi- centbonquet, which Mra. Cornoiller ostentatious- Iy pat in & vase, and secretly threw into s cor- ner of the court so soon as the visitors Were gone. At the beginning of epring, Mad- sme des Grassins tried to disturb the happiness of the Cruchotins by talking to Eugenio of tho Marquis de Froidfond, whose ruined house conl% ‘be restorod if tho heiress would give him ‘back his catate by a_marrings contract. = Mad- amo des Gressins dilated_on_the nobility, the fitle of Marquise, and, tsking Eugenié's smile of disdnin for approval, she went away, eaying that tho marriage of President Cruchot had not mado ss much hesdwsy as_was believed. ‘Al though Monsiour Froidfondis 50, said she, 4 he does not look any older than Mr. Cruchot ; e ia & widower, and he has children, it is true; put he is & Marquis, and he will be = Peer of France; and, just now, find alliances of that %unlity it you can, 1 know, cortainly, that Pather Grandet, when uniting all his possessions to the Froidfond estats, intended to inj t Limself on tho Froidfonds. Ho often told me 50, Fo was sly, was the goodman.” “Why, Kanon,” s=id Eugenio, oro evening, 28 sho wont to bed, *‘he could not write to mo once in seven years " While these things wero taking place st Saumur, Charles had” made & fortane in the Indies. His stock of goods had sold very well. He had quickly Teslized a sum Of $6,000. The baptism at the line had made him lose many rejudices ; ho saw that the best way of attain- Ing fortune was, in tropical regions, s well 88 taSEurope, to biy and sell men. Thercfore, ho ent to the coast of Africs, and engaged in tho glave trade, adding to his traffic in men that of Yhe commodities which could be most profit- obly exchanged ab the verions markets to Shich his ~_ interests carried him. He ‘brought to his business en sciivity which did not allow him o moment of freedom. Ho was governed by tho idea of Tesppearing at Paris Sithall the display of a great fortune, and to Teizo s position more brilliant then the ono from which he had fallen. By wandering smong men and through many countrics, end by ob- gerving fheir differing customs, his jdeas were modified, and he becamo ekeptical. - Heo bad no Jonger fived opinions concerning justice and in- justice, when he saw that looked onas s crime o ono country snd virtuo in onother. Dy tho perpotual contach of interest, }ri6 heart grow oold, shrunk, sod dried up. Tho Blood of the Grandets did not miss its destiny. Charlos becamo hiard, keenon thescent. He 50ld chines, negroes, birds' nests, children, and artists; ho plaved tho usurer on a grand scalo. TThe habit of defrauding the Custom House of itsrights had made him less scrupulous about the rights of men. So he went to St. Thomas, fobuy at a low price goods stolen by pirates, and carried thom to points where they were in de- mand. If thenoble and pure face of Eugenie accompsnied him in " his firat voyage, fike “that image of the YVirgin which Spanish sailors put on their vessel and it he fuence of thevows and prayeraof, that gentlo girl, later, negresses, mulatfo womon, white Worhen, Javanese, Almees, his orgies of all colors, and the adventures which he had in various countries, utterly effaced the memory of his cousin, of Saumur, of the house, of tho bench, of tho liss taken in the passage. Mo only remembered the little garden inclosed with old walls, because thers his venturesoms desti- nyhsdbegun; but he denied bis fmil{; hisuncle Wasanold dog whohsd choated Lim of bis jewelry. Tugenio occupied neither his heart nor Lis thoughts; sho occupied a place in his business matters as a creditor to the amount of six thou- pand francs. That course, and these ideas, ex- laiu the silence of Charles Grandet. In the dica, at St, Thomes, on the coast of Africa, at Tisbon, and in the United States, the speculator bad taken, so£s not to compromise Damo, tho alias of Shepherd. Carl Shepherd could with- out danger show himself everywhero indefatiga- et o2t mie mn duing ths | FARNOW'S 0HRISTI\"IAS PARTY. rost of his life. Following this systom, bis for- tune was rsg:d and brilliant. 80, in 1829, he roturned to Bordeaux, on the Mario-Caroline,— fino brig belopging to & roy- alist commercial house. He pasussxef nineteen Paris. On' this brig wos olso & gentlemau in B ot e ity "Eon Snama i | boyood and the aspirations of bis menhood hed Tenth, Monsieur D’Aubrion, an excellent all been thwarted. He had longed fer an activo old msn, who kad committed the folly | life, of marrying a fashionable woman, and | who disliked much learning, and viewed s publio life with abhorrence—hod brought him Lo Ead gono bo soll his estates. Moosicur and | BP to bis own business, and in tho course of Madame D'Aubrion, of the liouse of Aubrion do | time, had died, leaving him sn spothecary with Duch, whoss last Gaptal died before 1789, e- | & neat stor and trado; ond, if thero was mny |- to an income of 20,000 francs, had a quito | ono thing that Farnow disliked more than an- other, it was tho drug business. Then, his eatly- onabling hor to livein Parig. It was an ander. | 10ve bad been blighiod, and Jomima had mar- taking whoso success would have sosmad prob- | riod Lis rival. And o it had always boen with };mucal_ to everrbody, in epite of | him; todesiro s thing was to loso it,—to hato it o skill thoy attribute to & woman | wagtohavoit. Last, but not least, among his burdens, was his nsme: Famow,—plainly in- lookedather daughtor, of burdening anyonowith | Yiting a pun; and bow many were thero who her, even though he wereaman crazy after declined the invitation?—none. These puns rank, Mademoiseilo D'Aubrion was a long young | wero like coals of fire to his sensitive soul, and e that inseot, the blue-bottle, which has | pe bore them with tho resignation of the martyr whose fortune was in the Talands. In order to ropeir the extravagances of Madame d’Aubrion, duce Lomely daughter, whom the mother wanted .to marry off without a dowry, her means barely of fashion. Bo Madamo_ D’Aubrion hersel? almost despaired sometimes, s8 sho lady, » similar sounding name; thin and weakly, Tith a disdainfal mauth, on. which desoonded a | A the stako, shudderingly, yot dumbly. Almost Towe which was too long, Iarga at the ed, yel. | ¥ery stranger who camo into his store asked: oy o e o s g Mr. Farnow,” and stopped, and thon ng,— of vegetable phenome- | added, as theidea dawned upon him, ‘‘nesr non, more disagreeable in o pale and ennuyed | oo ang gmiled s sickly smile st ,hin b Iowish when in z normal condition, but_entirely face than in any other. In short, she was E° e couid be desired by ' mother | Farnow nevorsmilod st these jokos; no, indoed; of 8, who, still handsoms, had still pretensions. | ho Was 88 grave as o mute at o funeral; yot tho Bat, to counterbalsnce such disadvantages, the | soverity of his countenanco, evon the dash of Marquise D'Aubrion had glran hor daughtera | contempt in his face and voice, seemed to have 10 effect upon theso punsters. All his old cus- very distinguished air, had subjected her to s course of hygieno which temporarily kept her nose of a rensonsble flesh-color; had instructed | tomers, too, cracked their jokes; and such her in the art of dreesing tastefully, had tanght | jokes! Perhaps it was becauss ho conld not her those melanchol Iooks which intorest & | school himselt tosmile when they miled, to man, and make clieve ho is about to meot | poar treir jests with equanimity, that they por- the angel 8o vainly sought for ; she had showed her the mancuvre of ~tho foot, to sovered 80; but, whatever the reason, persevere shove it out at the proS:_ ‘moment | they did, until they nearly drove him mad. o s ettt s ged.b llv-:;t In his younger days, he had written this torri- b e 1mps en! ge! i | ble nome in many different ways, to puzzle the in a word, she had made out of her daughter a joking portion of kind; bat they drovo and have iis smaliness very satisfactory oresture. By means of large gleeves, deceptive corsages, and elaborately trimmed, and o close-fitting cor- | last, set, she had obtained such carious feminine pro- | pursuil s for the sapraclicn of Tothors, e | Provea” metar Jp sl et b el onjoy their miserable jokes s In the meantime, his sensitivoness o subject brought forth its legitimato Inughed st his should have exhibited them in & museum. Charles aasociated o 50@«1 doal with Afsdamo | it them y wanted to ally hareelf | hisex with him. ' Many persons even nssert that, dur- | npon mg" tho pastnze, the boantiful Msdomo | froit, snd, whero ono man had D'Aubrion = neglected Do means to | manner bofore, threo now smiled at it, and en- capture 50 rich o gon-in-law. When they Ianded | joyed that look of deep disgust which would 2t Bordesux, in the month of Jupe, 1827, Mon- cross his face in spite of all his efforts to the sieor, Madame, and Medemoisclle D'Aubrion contrary. and Charles stoppod together at the same hotel, | Th and left together for Paris, The Hotel D'Au- | ed through a magnificont palnco by brion was enten mp by mortgages ; Oharloa was | keoper, and who, after all tho bosaties of tho to freo it. The mother had ol y spoken of | castle had boen shown him, horrified the old the pleasurait would afford hor o give up her woman by &a; ground-flaor to her son-in-law and hor daugh- | now, madam, ter, Not sharing tho prejudices of Monsieur | the glteleton is?” aud he insists that there is a D'Aubrion concorning nobility, she had prom- | skeleton in every house, jealously hid, yet sver ised Charles Grandet to obtain from the good | present. This namo was the bony guest that Charles the Tenth o royal order which would ( abode with Fsrnow, smd before whose horrid suthorize Lim, Grendet, to bear the front all tho othor eares and sorrows of hislifo , | shrank into insignifcance; and ho kept it, not in and to snceeed to the 'title of Captalds Buch | a oloset, but in abook. Yes, he kept & rocord of and 2arquis D'Aubrion. By joining their for- | those jokes, and, with dro: tunes, living harmoniously, and by holding | them, and brougkt forward the smounts, acd sincerizony they could get togother an income of | calcalated the sverages theusand odd livres at the Hotel | though it was » part of d’Anbrion, * And when one has an income of a | This book lay open ‘before hundred thousend livres, & mamo and o family, | that, during the vear, np to thaé night, thers 20d when ono goes to Gourt,—for I will havo | had been 1,485 jokes passed npou Lis name, or you appointed & Gontlemen of the Chamber,— | an average of four for each working day of one becomes whatever one pleases,” aaid she to | twelve hours, or one for every three hours. Chasles, ' 'Bo you il be a8 you ¢hooso, Refer- | Was nob this name, of itself, a heavy enough ‘ouncil of State, Prefect, Becre- | burden for one man? tavy of Legation, or Ambaesador. Charlos the | So theroho sat that evening, behind his pre- Tooth lovas D'Amubrion very much; they have | Scription counter, as forlorna man as ever ex- Imorn one snother from childhood.” i;!{be o3 Cherles had caressed, during fhe passago, all | every thess hopes, presented to him by s skilful hand, | of his boyhood, t end in tho form of unnreserved confidonces. | manhood, every ery of his bruised heart for hel, Thinking that his father’s affairs had been set- vhen there was no help; sud, tohis morbit tlod by his uncle, he_belioved himsolf suddenly | oyes, the past was gloom, ochored in the TFaoubourg Suint Germain, | scured by s gray fog, which gavo no sign of Which everybody then wanted to enter, and | lifting; ond it was Yes, ho knew it was. That tircsome Mr. of Mademoisello Mathilde, he would reap- | Bohlandor b peer a8 tho Count D'Aubrion, as the Dreax | poso of tryin; mageund one day in Breze! Darzled | Farnow thought, for the purposs of uttering his by the prosperity of the Restoration, which he tiresome jost: . you're bad lft tottering, strack by the display of aris- | now!"), and had informed him of that fact. Well, tocratio idens, tho intoxiestion which hegun on | he thonght gri i the vessel still lasted at Paris, when ho re- | more than any o To others it wasa day of jollity and merri- sition of which “his_egotistical mother-in-law | ment; » day when good cheer, had shown him glimpses, His cousin was, | charity reigned; when fires tharefore, to him but & pointin tho space of | home, and hearts were warm with love; but to that brillisnt perspective. He saw Anneite | him, again, As s woman of the world, Annetto nday W urgently advised her old friend to make this | and children; whanhe watched the brigh marrisge, and promised him her support in | faces of the little ones, and then turne: 21l his ambitions undertalkings. ~Annetto m%;;xghad, D'Aubrion, whodecide nsme of D'Aubrion, to teke its arms a hundre endary to the Intoxicated with ambition by this woman, whers, under the sheltor of the blue nose salved to do everything to resch the high po- was delighted to marry off an ugly and tiresome things short, of hia roturn, bis intended marriage, aud his wedding presents, and was showing him the de- Grast Charles listened to him ¢oldly; $hon he replied, without huvin5 fally underatood him I have not sccumulated nearly two millions by the hend of my father's creditors.” days, declare b7’ (g §i.r, in & fow days f shall b called the Count | them of ** wealth and wickednes D'Aubrion. You see it will be a matter of -per- | OX and hatred therewith ™! They' Yeot indifference to me. Besides, you know and rigk the wickednpss, the siall and risk the botter than I that, when n man has an income of | hatred. Th: & hundred thousand livros, his father has never | to their satis committed bankraptey,” added he, politelypush- ing Mr. Des Grastins fowarda the door. 2nd plensantest of mornings, her memory the great and the small events of her love, snd the catastrophes which had | for them. They ak above a ) followed it. The sun shone .nd)nn tho cracked and almost ruined wall, which the though Cornoiller often told his wife thst they the postmsn knocked, and hande: court and the garden. “Paria| It is from him! He has return- {favorably, ed ! deails, w) Eugenie grew palo, and hold the letter for & | drws, the sound of little boots atamping off the while. Her heart best too rapidly for her to [ s, and, looking up, saw the little seamstress open and read if. Grande Nanon remained | fren ncross the way. standing, her two hands on her hips, and joy inbntly that ho had not hoard her enter. 1 Ah, Miss Skemp, i3 it the neuralgia again ?” ¥No, Mr. Farnow,” answered the little woman, mlta_fiuk, c?terry voict:;; & ig i::‘t Jthe neuralgis . on! why does ho return by Paris, ime. It's something better. A Ths et | “\Yoll" snid Farnow, with lugubrious at- 5; “there are better things gecmed to escapo like n vapor shrough the wrinkles of her brown face. Do read it, Mademoiselio I when he went by the way of Saumur Fid 1 Read, and you will know.” {To beconcluded next Sunday.) e g HORACE GREELEY. Tes, thou art gone, O true and noble heatt, Where gloom snd eilenco lull thee to thy regt 3 But, far beyond Death's hushed and crowded mart, Thy soul hath found the Elssium of the Blesk Thine earthly lifo was rich in gentlo deeds, “And words of kindness, cver fitly sald ; wh her The heavenly Amaranth springs from umg:-mmdu, glomy, an ‘Such us thy hand did o'er delight to she And, thro' decades of years, thy toadfast soul T%llcd for the slaye; mor was the toil in vain, Mcn may forget it, but some shining scroll Blem ‘Afust bear the récord, without blot or stain. But now thy toil is o'er, thy rest is won, Tho Master's voico hath spoke *he sweet, *Well qmln 1, 'And thou hast entered on His joy ot last. T be Rast in Peace] The crash of human strife, Haie's hideous sneer, and Falschood's cruel broath, Gin mar no more the calmness of = life [ Ble, audacious, grecdy, like s man who, detor- Wh vay lea beyond tho Valo of Death. 050 DUtHTRY nri mined to make his fortuna hy whatdnavar wava, 4 Mmwa If there ever really was s thoreughly disheart- ened, disgusted, iniserablo man, Farmow wis He was disheartencd at the failure of all hundred thonsand francs, in thres well-boopod | bis plons and hopes; disgusted with himself oasks of gold-dust, on which he expectod to get | and the world ; misershlo becauso he was dis- seven or eight por cent by huving it coined ot | heartoned and disgusied. Tho dreams of his ome. ses medo full | him from one position to another, until at rendered desperats by this oontinual nckeray tells of a msn who wasonce escort- sepulohral voice : ““And you show us the closet where ‘exactness, entered with aa much care 83 itimate business. im, and showed Living over againin the remembering with pain: disagreeable ciroumstance, every £orrow every thwarted longing of his ght his weary and tho futare ob- hristmas-Eve. ad been in (for tho ostepsible pur- g a Sedlitz powder, but, nore likely, what was Christmas to him pleasure, and azed in every s lonely, miserablo an, it wsa a 5ad day,— henhe enviod the men who had wives and felt more dejoctod than ever. Christmas Eve the jollity had already girl to Charles, whom life in the Indies had begun. The stroets were filled with Siado very seductive. His comploxion had | on every sidoho heard lsughier an Bronzed: ‘his manners had become decided, | cheer. * The s boid, as ‘sco those of men sccustomed to cak | overfiowing with people buying presents for tho to rule, and to succeed, Charles | littlo folke, and it secomed as though sl troubles Solt smore at his easo in Paris, 85 ho saw that ho | had beon bsnished for at least a day. Even the could play a part there. Des Grassins, learning Eam— washor-women in tho i p, tawdry toy for {i The stores were crowded slmost to 3, b ho “littlo by ;" fillod_ her pockot with candy 15 child, and enviod oven her. wonld bo s bright day in ought & che: fortune, came to see him, to spesk to him of | and Farnow b the thres hundred thousand francs for which hé | his present to the could pay off his father's debt. He found Charles Christmas, to many, L conferring with the jeweller, of whom he had | the calondar, bt to him——*ah, welll it would orderod jewelry for Madmolselle D'Aubrion's | bo nothing outof the common. There was to be & signs. In spite of the magnificent diamonds | dren at the fine chur SBich Charlea had brought from tho Indies, tho | smiled s grim smilo a3 he thought of the hard, Tettings, tho silver ware, and the useful and | straight-backed seats, snd the pompous Iir. ‘nseless, costly articles of the new household, Pangborn marshalling the littlo ones abont, oost more than two hundred thousand francs, | and distributing the presents with the air of one Charles received Des Grassins, whom he did not | who confers a favor, rather then of ono who recognize, with the impertinence of a fashionable feels plessure in tho giving. Of course, then young man who, while in tho Indies, had killed | gifts would consist of four men in difforent duels. Mr. Des | cons, sad Sunday School books,—just the ver; sins had slready called three times; thin, 8ol of the poor chil- upon the corner, d ho 0es, snd scarfs, and old that children never wish for. and old_conts aro nog looked upon by them in the light of presents, but rather as arti- 3y father's nffairs are not mine. T am | ticlos bound to coms from somewhore without obliged to yon, sir, for the tronble you havobeen | thanks : and Sunday School books, in which 80 Kind es to take, and by which I cannot profit. guod littla Juck always goos to Oongress, and =d little Jim to the gallows—bah ! theso poor the sweat of my brow to go_snd throw them at | liftle fellows know botter than that. Jack was a ““softy,” and never went any place & And supposing your father were, inafew | butto Heavon ; and bad little Jim, if ho was & b » S5l got rich and had & good time. 3, of a *“ stalled 'd tale the wenlth had tried tho dinner of horbs™ What o farco that Christmas gi_mmh wn;.\d h;, tkotluxght F:finu!:.n 2 At the beginning of the month of August of immies, for whom the really kind (butobtuse; this year, Eugenie was ecated on the little | pesple intended it, wouldn't sttend, and flmre) oodon honch whoro her cousin had eworn her | Would be present anly the good Little Jackies an oternal love, and where she cams to break- who would sit quietly and listen fo Mr. P: fast when the weather was pleasant. The poor bern's oxhortations, file past the tres, and ro- gir] pleased hersel? just them, in thab freshest } cdve their nice little religious books, and then by going over in | ohomo and read them. The bad little Jimmies felt that it was no place couldn’t make a noise, mor er, nor langh (except at Mr. gborn's jokes), without @ reprimand from fancifol heiress had forbidden any one to touch, | soxe one. ¢ No, sir-ee, you bet I don't go,” said bad listlo SalS b orushed underit some dsy. Just then | Jin, and of conrsohe wasa child of wrath, snd e d go to the bad place and suffer throngh all ; a otter to | wald Irs. Cornoiller, who came to the garden, ex- | efrnity. peet: : B s Farnow thought about this 03 Mugamoiseue, a letter!” Bhe gave it to | stddenly popped into his brain: W b Andemolselle o 1035 it 4ho omo that you, | hi give 3 party to tho bad ohildren who woulda't expect?” ' What was thero to provent him pect?” s rosoundod s loudly in Engenle's | fom gathering into his family, as it were, for heart u6 hay Teally did botwoen tho walls of e | oo g to church? y, all the neglected little ones of the niighborhood? The thought struck him very and he was about to go more into the en ho heard the rustio of a woman's Ho had boon thinking 80 teapt to be fomm: thn the neuralgia. “Yes,” Inughed Miss Skemp, “I should think 80 and this is one. We're going tohave a party opr a our honso to-morrow night, and I came o®r to Beo if you wouldn't favor us with your otpany.” [t would be im tin with which ¢! ossible to desoribe the anima- th ] o little seamstress rattled off th invitation; but, instesd of being infected od-humor, Farnow became moro wered, in deep dejection: +1 8o eoldom go into wociet] toadd that all pleasuro in life were doad sea frit, or ‘‘words to tuat offact,” when Al interupted him with ; *Well, I'm sure it's your own fault, and you oht to ba ashamed of yoursslf. Bosides, thero ‘While yet Life's noon rocmed but so late olerpassed | o't be any strangers these.” it is my fault,” sighed Farmow. ed, brightening up & litile, ‘mysell, and ——" Mr. Farnow.” smeof giving a party Y give & party 2" ca, imd if youll — Pamnow,” exclaimed the surprised little seamstross, “what ever putb such an idea | thus sown. Good evening, sir and Mr, Pang- into your head 7" horn, having finished his oration, took hims el e answered hositatingly, i not | and his dignity swag. £ % to bo a regular party, you know, but, but "—— e ot e oo 2 bold Goneral, he destroyod the bridge behind | worthy gentlemsn, looked ourlonsly ab the paper Farnow awoke from his reverie s soon as the ole Bchemo cemo out. Like o | door closed behind the retroating form of the him to out off I;}s retrent, and then nufolded to | whereon wag written the oxder of exercises, and the delighted little woman his plan of going oat. | then, taking up & pen, commencedto amend 1t. into the highways and byways, and gathering in 41 One tap of the bell,’ " heread. **Meaning all the little boys and girla, and giving & party | attontion, I suppose, It shall recoiveatténtion,” to them only. #T have a big room, back of tho store, that I and he drow his pen throngh it. # ¢ Twyo taps of the boll. _Class riso. Prayer con clean ont and fix up,” said ke, **and maybe | by tho Superintendent.’ H ses that Olf. Mrs. Winklo will cookt” o dinner for us; and | ¢ *Ts S of thoboll, Singi;?:csi?fh;o isa we'll give ‘om all tho asples—" Happy Homa”’ " _He arosses that off. “Yos, ond candy, and nuts, aad raisias—" *: *One tep of tho bell. Address by tho Su- ——¢'that they can eat, and maybe they'll got | perintendent.’” That met tho fate of the oth- sick, and that's somo comfort,”—with & kind"of of déspairing eTort 1o bo glocmy, id?i_undnodde& hor commendation so heartily, an( ical man fairly forgot his melancholy, caught ers, - g € = ¢One tap of the bell” Confound the boll! ort, Miss Skemp was 80 pleased with tho | * Regular conrse of reading in conc:rt.' e *Nor readin’ in concert, nor nothin’?" Miko uglied g0 pleasantly, that tho misanthrop- | had asked, so ho orased thas lso. ¢+ One tap of the bell. Siaging: I want to some of her onthusiaem, and rattlod awayad | be anangel.” Ono, two, and three taps of the gaily a8 o givl: bell. Classes ariso and march.'” = Farnow “And wo'll havo o Christmas troe. And it | drow his pon through these, and then smiled, sha''t bo Liko the one at tho churzch at all. ‘Fhoro | for thers was notning left but: * Refrosh- shall not be one useful thing upon it,—nothing | ments” and Presontation of Gifts;” and he buttoys. There shall not bo ono book with & | lot these stand. ‘moral upon it,—nothing but Robinson Crusoes. So tha party was fally decided npon. One by D parsy shell bo differant from all others. | ORo, tho confectioner, iho Laker, ‘and tho toy- “Thera shall not be & second-hand coat nor boot, | dealer caught somo of the enthusiasm, seat for nor ovon o first-hand mitton, given away; nota | MOro thau was ordered, and refused to chergo thing to remind the childron of their poverty; | for the surplus. Mgs. Winkle and Miss Sicmp Dot 5 thing to convey & moral lasson.” wero seen upon the street at uvery nnseasonaulo i Ve, and we oan get Mr. Pangborn's advice, | b They say ho's & wonderful hand with children,” | pression that spired against them and wore two hours ahead broke in Miss Skom; our that night, and parted at last with the im- all tho clocks in’ the city had con- S Wall, yos,” a8’ Farnow, doubttully, “wo | of time.” And Famow, for the frat time in can get Lis advice.” Then he thought, parenthet- | Iany yoars, chuckled to bimself, and wished liy: & But wo nocdat follow it.” #¥es, yos, yes, and L'll run right over and seo Mra. Wigkle, and o that the morniug wera come. The morning came, bright snd beantifal, snd tell her all about it,” cried tho | Farnow, again for the first ime in many yoars, excitod Littls sosmstress, *Now, don't forgot | 8rose with alacrity, and chuckled to himsolf nsho W Mf; Farn::& apples, dressed. Hethrewuptho window and lookedont. candy, and nuts, and raisine.” — A mantle of snow had eilently fallen, daring tho «Oh! won't it be grand?” and the little crea- | Right, upon tho flm‘ wretchod street; aml ture fairly ran out of tio store and flew across | about his door Lo saw ho marks of many little tho streo, &0 oagor was sho to communicato tho | feok. 3ike had industriously circalated tho news to Mrs, Winkle. good tidings, sud, vpon the stremgth of Lis “After gho had gono, Farnow fidgated shont, | Word, they had fomnd their way into 2ll the armangod and rearranged the bottlos on hig | Elams and alleys of tho neighborhood, and many shelvon, walked excitadly np and down, and, | cutious. littlo ‘pooplo wero alresdy speculating, whon “young ” Mike, tho boy who swept and and wondering, and dodging about the store, dusted the store, came to perform his nightly | With great eyes and a new interost in life. task, ho was at him in & moment. Mike stared | All the morning, the ragged little urchins wonder at the excited man, snd s faint sus- | gathered in groups about tho srestand dis- icion of insanity Hitted across_his mind when | cassed tho sbsorbing question. They warlaid Farnow asked him if ho could bring s lotof boys | ALiko, and cross-examined bim; with an assumption of superiority, declined to and girls there the noxt afternoon to a party. bim; but that youth, "Bu young * Mike was & cautions youth (his | 8aswor. They hid behind signs and posts, and appeliation ~ young * was merely & sort of mark | kept & waichful ~eyo upon the door t0 distingnish him from some other Miko, and | Which hid the glories they were to see. They Dbore no réferenco to his experience) ; therofore, | Watched until to & turn, wore brought from Mrs. Winkle's kitchou, and then they scurried up an adjacent he wanted to know the particulars before ho committed himself. o immense turkoys, roasicd *4Aro you goin’ to havo prayin', an’ singin', an’ | alley, sud held & meoting, and finally concluded marohin’ ?” “Why?" asked Farnow. 43Cos, if y'are, I can't bring no boys, nor girls that thoy were going to have & “gallus” timo, and that Mr, Farnow was a “ brick.” ‘Within doors, too, sll was bustle and excite- neither.” ment. The little seamstress fastencd packages * Why not P again asked Farnow. of candy, and toys, and little candles upon the e eaia Siike, with grent deliberation, | Christmas-tres, until her Sngera viere sore sud e w5 okt bnl hopropin’ 6 mucl, i fof tiva! | ber bogk almost broken; vot sho ssog wed gome, an’ the mingin' a'n’ 't 80 bad neither,—wo | laughed all the time. And Famow — well,.| could go both af thom,—but it's tho marchin’ | Strange a8 it may deom, Farnow ferintmawow, that gitsns. Bome old _cook rings a bell, an’ | forgos his blighted love, forgot t then they march around’sif we wass lot of swept, and scoured, and e puns, and hammered until his babies. No, sir ; if that's fun, I don’t want no bones ached, snd through it all he whistled fan,” sud Mike expreseed his foolings upon that | cheeril score by sweeping furiously. tosey: . Every stroke of his hammer seemcd 4 This ia to be something mow.” Lvery e e ol 1o 0o singing, nor praying, nor | 8Weep of his broom was a vindiotive plungo d¢ marching,” said Farnow. an imaginary “order of exercises.” In every “ in' i - . | gleam of the firo ho seemed to seo that paper - PI_{’cr readin’ in concert, nor—nor—nuor noth- ifi "R e d?:‘nghuffi % fid "};“‘g g_'“" agd o “Nor reading in coneert. This is tobe a pariy amended, an o laughed,—actually ke, and yonf:.m to do just as you plu:so? xvfii laughed! Ho whistled many tunes, yotall of can make & noise, or 8ing, or dance, or an thetn * one burden bare:” * Thera shall be no you like,” ything | - 3ing in concert, no highflown prayers, no Then," said Mike, oracularly, it Il be bun- | Fhotorical addresees, no marching, no timo for Yum. I/l bring all tho follors.” st; Traly the evoning was beginning to be quite anding and sitting, no regularjty.” He worked steadily, and sccomplished won- Sntoresiiag, for bardly had Mike gone, bearing | dors. The old. dingy-room looked like palace his tidings, before in como Mra. Winkle, fully a3 of the Fairies, for_he fairly covered the walls B 5" \Mies Bkomp had boon. e promised | With evergreens. Hohungnomottoosupon them, such a dinner 28 she Fad naser befora cooked, | but in theic atead two_ pictures.—one, Sauta and grew indignant ot the mention of pay for Claus, rubicund and jovial; and the other, the ocien gervice While she was still talking, the | Babe of Bethlchem in his lowly oradle. gonr again oponed, and in walked Mr. Pang- orn. = Now, I wish it distinctly understood that Mr. Pangborn was not & b i 2 good, eornest, BLUPi an overweening confidenco He thought that all pos ki his own_sbilities. s in life Were ( 4hg treq trimmed, and conceal Asno ona wea allowed_to penetrato fnto_the tchen over which Alrs.- Winklo presided, I am unable to ““‘i&'{'fi“@ il;dyugarmx nfiag :‘:, i:er:- T o Cwar aimpy | mionics cccupied that lady's time; ba can e eken man. He had :g,u;n&nu n(}:: i ‘wonder{ally-savory odors hung Finolly the room was resdy, the tablo set, and Jod_behind a white round, and that he would fit into any of s . hem so exactly a8 to leave no waste room. He ;m;fi%x;d:lrmfi:rfow :td g:i"d":' wiped tho ronily thonght that he was tho man for children, and that they draul in every word Lo ntterod: X e wonld have baen surpriscd hied any one told | And Mis® Bkomp Bus by, bloss my soul! 1 fool ike a new man.” ughed ab hum uatil the tears him that his trestment of children was based 0 B on ot Viair pouimaeiontey o e e A Tosment: but, inwardly, he would have pitied his infor- |’y was an anxious moment, and they watched mant, and plumed himself upon being 80 much | () guapenso that sedate youth as h fall; Thors ponetiating than the restof mankind. Ho | i 8% ou"i0d candien, and nilfod the wasone of thoso people who mako existence a | odor of tho roasted turkey; Tut, when he de- torment to children, by treating them oither a3 | cijag that everything was % hux’:ky -dory,” tho abies or a8 grown-up men and. women (he had | e 0 tho party was aasured, aad they wero himself always been o baby, and knew of only these bwo 8ges of men, the distinction being content The time came, snd an impatient crowd bo- merely one of size); and 80 ho spoke to them sieged the door, Our mela: oly youth, mach either in language figurative beyond comprehen- | ;. sion, or in guch dnivel as only such men can g spesk. He would condescendingly speak | & tured tho romark ven to looking upon the dark eida of life, ven- in bis opinion, it was & scll 3 but & score of angry voices onished to, or pat mupon the hesd, a strangse | yip to “gryup” and “ chetseit,” and hecroak- boy; but he alvays did it with a air which mado the shrinking little fellow .ed no more. It was not a sell. Just as tho elock strack 2, feel his own littloness and the immensity of | 45" Jock clicked, tho door flew open, and tho Pangborn. And thus he stood upon his pedes- tal of self-complacency, & petrified image, even offering o stone when little hearts cried out for crowd entered. The children entercd, but no sooner were they in than s shyness fell upon them, and they hud- bread, e | dled together near the goor, silont snd uneasy. Alrs. Winklo had been opposed to ssking his Farhor wag in daspair, £or, now that oo ot edvice. thom, ho did mot kuow what to do with them, “ Humph!” gaid sho, “him know snything | and Miss Skemp and Mrs. Winide were busy ad about ch:} ;)d.rcn! He don't kuow auy more abous | the other end of the room and could give him no children than my old shoe does sbout law {a | assistance; and, had it not been for the indomi- favorite comparison of her's, by the way]. He's | table Mike, tho par! might, at last, have proved an old fool,” and for once e W'm.kln‘]u judg- | o fai ; tho party migh % B ment of Tan was neacly correct, Indeed, slie failure. % Look a hero!” said that ready-witted youth, hind just finished her denunciation when he addressing the children. ‘‘You see them thero enterod, and 8o thunderstruck at his unexpected | thinga? Well, them thero things is for us, an’ GpPOArance wag tho old lady that she gasped: * Talk of tho Davil—" < Ma'm! " said the surprised Pangborn. maybe we got mapners, mMayoe Wo a'n't, but what's the first thing we got to do?” “Threa cheers," suggested a timid little voico 'Mrs. Winkle said no moro, but, Lastily brush- | from sway back in £he crowd. ing past tho gotloman, was, cono beforo he could turn and confront ber with the mien of in- | then, hip, sulted digaity. Mr. Pangborn's motions wera “You're right !lfihlve,"m\mmd Mike, ““Now th razged cap went off, every littlo Every litt rether slow, an bfi the time he lad turned | veico rung out, and the ice was broken. ‘Thoro ol complefely aroun 0 was half a block distant; | ar 0so & perfect tumult. What a time they did S0, after having Satisfied himself that she was | havo! How tho little onos lsugbed, and talked, not bohind the red bottlo on tho right or tho | and ste, and then ate, and talked, and laughed greon ono on the left, that gentleman sighed, as | ag: ainl ~ With what_wondering eyes they looked Fiough he had intendod to blast her with look, | sbont and sdmired eversthing! How they and was soroly disuppoiated at hor oscape; and, | romped and shouted! There was no disciplio, tu{nfl% ifrm' addressed Farnow. no regularity, no muiformity, but there was Farnow,” said ho, Good evening, | confusion, and noiss, and fun.” It was a perfect sir. The encounter with that—that individual, | uproar, but everybody enjoyed it. Farnow tried sir, and her valgar, 1aé quito disturbod the—ah—the nsnal—ah—tho not to say profane remark, | to look melancholy once, and gave up fromshoer 10cl; of zbility, and laughed instead. Ho played usual balsnee of my reind, sir.” with tho l:.hihl.l'm'xfi langhed with them, and shont- “+The confounded old fool ! thought Farnow. | ed with them. The placid stroam ef words flowed on in spite | geled. his brain #o bring to mind the ol e sang a somic son:i, Imd a\d— forgotten of Farnow's several attompts to check it or di- | plays of his boyhood. Ho was no mors tne se- Sert its coutas, and it was no until he hed. talk- | Fious man; the yosrs dropped. from bis shoul-. o4 over, and nhder, snd sround, and about tho | ders, and ho was a boy. o josed with Mrs subject,—not until he had almost smothered it Winhe, and told her that tho spirit of the great under o pile of faded last yoar's metaphors,— | and good Pangborn was then hovering over that Mr. Pangborn camo te o point. th ‘T regrot that I csnnot be with you to-mor- row [ Thank Heaven I' thought Farnow] ; but I | cious littlo his apirit hopo that your—sh—underteking mey prove | But she was in such go em. ¢ Humph!” said that "fm)dc ’l;gflll‘n‘, ‘:_‘;gng;g; ol oat . a§ ‘humor that I verily sucoessful. I think you cannot do better than | believo, had Pangborn sppearcd in tho body, copy MY mode of procedure. You shonld sos | she wonld have crammed him almost to suffoca~ 5 in MY Sabbath School, Mr. Farnow, sud the | tion with sweetmeats, 88 sbe alresdy had the good effect of discipline would at once be sppar- ent to {ou. I direct the school entirely by taps of thebell. Thus, one tap means attention; | me Do taps, and tho Acholars rias ; threo taps, and | Miss Bkemp. Strango form, and, when the whole 8ohoo] jldren. - arnow was neatly beside himself with excite~ ent, but, nevertheleas, he kept an eye mpon thonghtshad been flitting Y505 at MY | and as, that morning, ho had watehad the kindly they match. Tsitob MY dosk upon tho plat through his Prain ever since the night before; 4, signsl, tho effect is grand,—grand, sir! K ah, 1 expact uo,” aaid Farnow, sbeently. His | a0 six " Tittlo croature working so cheerfully and singing ‘blithely, he had involuntarily compared her thoughts lid wahdered ‘away, and, ab every | with his lost Jomims, and (ob, the inconsiancy pause in Mr, Paugborn's speech, he’ had.mado | of men!) much to his lost Jemima's disadvan- the same remark,—once or twice veryirrelevant- | tago. As he watched her, that afternoon, it~ but, 8 Mr. Panghorn paid no atiention o | ting about among tho children, with flushed b %6 interraptions, this phrase answered aa well | cheeks and sparkling eycs, unaflectedly ontoring into their joys, and quietly -leading them to as sny. “Ag 1 said before,” continued that gentleman, entlo thoughts and kindly deeds, the imaze of 1 regret that I cannot bo present in person: s early love, enshrined within his heart, paled but, boliove me. My spirit shall be with you. | and paled, and then faded quite away. There is such a field for labor among these little So the play wenton. Eachlittle one shout- Tioathen, and they 8o badly need training, thot I | ed and laughed upon the slightest provocation; regret very much my inability to assist you; but | and, in placo of prim classes, directed by taps of my own little flock requires my preacacs, and I | th henr tho still, small voice say: Charity bogins | it o bell, there were excited, noisy, romping tle groups, intent npon keeping up the fun, at homs.” yet paying attention to and obeying Famow’s g 14 #Yes, I suppose s0," eaid Farmow. slightest wish. ¢ have drawn up & programme, however, for + Do you want to dsnce 2" he asked, as at last your guidance; and, 88 1t is co] ied from my | the play began to flag. ©own, it may require to be amended in some par- 'Ol Mr. Farnow,” said Miss Skemp, * ain't eiare, s, in place of the - Address of the | it wicked to dance?” Sha did not know why it B penmtendent,’ you might_substituto one of | should be, but Mr. Pangborn always spoke of v your own; and somo other Littlo matters also | as & ' sinful practice,” and, like other sim- need to be sltered; but that duty I entrust to | plo little sonls, she had a kind of blind faith Jou, Let mo adviso you to procure a ball, and | 1 T onduct tho exorcises with regularity. There ia him. . i “Wicked!” exclaimea Mrs. Winkle, who was nothing like regularity, and—ch—auniformity, | & perfect skoptic as far as Mr. Pangborn was i Yeg, I suppose £0,” said Farnow. in coucarnad ; “'why, bless your sonl! " If dano- *s wicked, I'm the wickedast woman Jiviu®.' & hen a word as to the distribution of the | And everybody will acknowledze that that was gifts, Ihavae found it beat to have the children | absurd. taarch about & few minutes, aud thon fils past. “ Mike kin' dancs,” shouted s chorus of esger the treo in regular order, sad receive heir | voices. ' Him an’Hal, thoy dances.” gifts, Tho children like it, and vory pleasant effect is produced, tad all confusion is—sh— “(3fike, can_you dance ?” asked Farnow. - - ¢ Yon het, that's me,” responded that talented obviated. . In conelusion, I may say that I think | youth, and ho and Sul, joining hands, mounted Sis gathering, rigatly conducted, will heve o | the tsble and dsaced breakdown in & highly very beneficiel effcct, and thay, Some day, & great harvest will be garmored from the soed | twisted. snd euperior and scientific mauner. ¢ was & won; derfal dance. ubled Thay do uged a most agtonishing variety of steps,—st: from breakdowns and jlsgs, from clog g:’fl rmm:v 4 dances, and som sieps entirely origuial,—ax when they ended with a od dosblechatie, : the applanse was long and lond. i ‘Then tho obliging couplo sang a coarse song, - with a dancing sccompaniment, sad the entlmsi- asmrose to 80 high = pitch that when Mike,’ from tho table, galled for threp cheers for Mr. Farnow and the ladies, the oxcited crowd of lit- tle ones gave them six. and a ** tiger” extra. - Just as the noise diod away, the white_curtain was dra~n aside, and the Treo, loaded with gifts and ablaze with lizhts, stood revealad. For a moment the childron seemed to bo strack dumb by the gorgeous spoctaclo, and caly one little follow fouad voica to say = O-sh! but hain's that gay ! ™ Then what & time thore was! The noiso was terrific, the pressure immenso; but thero ware no angry looks snd words, mo jostling. or ** scrouging.” They pressed about the treo, and received their gifts’ with outbursis of childish ploasuro; and aven tho malomozstrative Mike, who had been unnaturally giavo and pompoas ‘before, was heard to shoat at tiis stage of ths. proceedings. There was no marching, and all confusion” was nob obviated ; but somobow all nhxe gilta were distributed, and each received 3 share. Whea the tree had boon complately stripped, tho children held a hurried consulistion, thon Mike, as their spokesman, cama to Famnow, and snid : # “The boys snd girls, thoy say as how it's- gittin’ late, and fhey'dlike to haro you sy some- thin’ to 'em beforo they go,—any little speech ex: ruther,” he explained. = There was & moisture in_Famow's eyes as hy roso to comply, and looked upon ths little ones- gathered around him. . In simplo, earnest languago, then, he told the story of the day, ard little faces brightened and grem earnest a3 little minds bogan o compros end that which had always seemed a mystery. ‘A silance foll npon thom, brolen only by ‘the sobs of Mrs, Winkle, who was crying for very joy,—her honest, kindly face fairly aglow; and thus they stood for 3 moment afrer ho had. closed. Then tho children pressed forward, and showered thanks upon them, iadividually and collectively,—not wordy thsnks, but thanks that came straight from gratefol little hearts, —2nd, with the gentlo lesson of the day fresh i their minds, the children departed, and tho party wai over. . Miss Skomp's party was also a great success. - Baut, a8 it does not como within my premice, I canonly say that the proceeaings of the aftex-, noon farnished a fruitfal topic for com- versatien; and So eager were the guesis to hear the glrhcuhn. aad S0 en- thusiastic wero they in their spproyal, | that Farnow was the lion of tho evening. His wonderfal flow of spints surprised_everybody (Mr. Bohlander even darkly hinfod that sbey Were‘owing to flow of anothor description of spirits, but the idea was scouted axd its origl- - nator ignored), and he was voted a mot jovisl,. © ° delight?al mon. Ho had, also, an opportuaityof sceing his lost. Jemima and the little seamstress side by side,. ‘and, strange o say, he lsaghed (to himself) a&- tho object of his youthfal adoratior, aud da-- clared (again to hirasalf) that she was a2 aZeot-- ed old catamaran. 2 That night, before he went to bed, b locked: into the glass at his face and tried to look wofal; then broke down and chuckled es he said, half-- slond: *“Well, by George! I do Lelievo that L have enjoyed mywelf. Fernow, you'o not far now;” then he chuclled again’ ab_that mapre- meditatod pun, and langhed himself fo elesp. So Farnow's Christmas Party was over. Wait! was it over? True, the night had fullen, the children hed departed, and Farnow was asiep dreaming pleasant drexms ; bt was this al? Who kndws bub from this seed of simpla kindliness brave frnit may grow? Wbo knows but from this day of pleasure great y2ars may spring? One summer-day will &tir the life ia ! gt S o s s e, seods’ which grow to oaks; and who can teil- but that.the germs from which spring nobla thoughts and deeds wore quickencd imto lifs by this one day of warm:h and love? 'And had Farnow lived invaia? I answer, No, \ No man has lived in vain who ha3 caused i3 sound in little enrs, unaccustomed to euch straing, tho Angels’ chorus: i ‘Peace on earth, good will to mea. P, 8.—I have gince heard that Farnow, com- pletely cared of his melsucholy, courted ihe Lt~ tle seamstress, and that they are to be marricd goon. How true this report may be, I am uz- ablo to say ; bub I met bim the other day, and ‘ from his appearance (he has raised a moustachc, 4 and wears a scarlet neck-tie) I am inclined to Wem believe it. At any rate, he is melancholy o longer, and, as he becamo good-kumored and amiled st tho puns, their number gradually di- minished, 2nd now sirsngers aro the oniy ones who attempt thom. While carnestly endeasor- ing to lighten tho burdea of others, he lost his oW, Is it not always so ? e S LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS. ; Bleszed old Santa Claus | king of delights, What ore yon domng these long wiuter nigh's? Filling yoor budgets with trivkets and toys, Wongderful gifta for tha gitla and the boys 2 ‘While you are planing for e i ‘Fray, lot mo givoyou a bit of sdvice. Don't take it hard if T say in your ear, Santa, 1 think you were partial list year Yoadihg tho rich folks with everything gay, i Baubbing the poor ones who came in FOF Way§ ; Now, of all times in the year, I am acre, ) This'is the time to remember tho poor. = { — Pt Lous Dozpn. Plenty of children theroare in our city. Who have no fathors or mothers to Pity; Plenty of people whoso working and heoding Beareely can keep all their dear ones {rom nseding. Now, if I cama every yeat in Dacamber, They are the ones I would surely remeimber. Once, on 3 beantiful Christmas, you know, ! Jesus, our Savior, was Lorn bere below; Patiently stooping to hunger and pain, Bo He might scve us, His lost ones, from shama 3. Now, if wo love him, He bids us to feed All His poor brotders and sisters who nesd. Bleseod old Nick ! Iwas mure if youknew it You wonld remember and certainly do it; This year, st lesst, when you empty sour paek; Pray give s portion to all Who may lack, Thea, {f you ehance to have anything over, Bring » small gift to your friend, Errry CLoT=3, —Emily Huntington Miller in the Littls Corporal. - - Dolls® Shoes. From ths Shoe and Leather Reporter. The manufactura of doll's shoes, altuongh par= taking moro of the toy trado than of Tegular shoemaking, has grown 80 rapidly of late yeare that the fow facts concerning 1t will no doubt be of interest. Qnite a basiness is done in thess littlo articlos by some of the dealers in findings and small waros for the shoe trada in some of the Iarge citics. They are retaled in the toy and fency goods storcs, and about holiday time are in activo demand. Within thro past six or eight years this businest hes grown into considerable importance, axf there e sevorsl manufacturers whiodovota theit whole time to this department, employing quitt & number of operatives. They make use of serapt of moroceo, ete., from shos mauufactories snd Dook binders, which formerly were tlirown away. At first the 2hoes were of the simplest character, and, ss far as any spocial shape was cons cerzed, they were meroly semblance of shoes. But within two or three years there hes been ‘much improvement made in the style and modo l of manufacture—the fashions of the day aro fol- lowed closely, and tho S:u of the household \ must have their dolls dressed ip all respects gimilar to older people, and therefore several airs of shoes must be provided for the several ! sses—alippers, ties, Waiking-boots, shoes, etc., and in varions colors. They must be made to button, tie or Iace, as the case may be. One of the most poguhr makars of these arti- clea informs us that he makes 50,000 pairs per sunum, using abont 20,000 feot of morocco and -shoop, mostly of scraps, besides catting consid- 8, orabls whole stock of all the fashionable colors—yellow, bronze, blug, pink, red, aad cair —whieh sell to the findings dealers at from 31.50 10 34.50 per dozen, Thero zro two grades of shoes, ono for common dolls and the other for wax dolls—the latter of which are made with great care, and are really a vory neat and pretty Srticle, some of them boing largo enough for & tlesh-aud-blood baby of tencer moatha. | piaduinsicdds g da e, «6 Pure? Water Antagonistic 10 Pabllic l Eealthe A writer in the Paris Conslilutionnel devotes ac avticls 30 © Tho Public Lealth of Europs | and the Dangers of Puro Water.” Citing the heavy roll of diarrheea cases in Englend, the in- stances of isolated cholera in London and Paris, , and tho infantile cholora in America, he ar that theas maladies come, most frequently, not 80 much from the heat as from improper diet, aad that a very common causo is the use of pnro or soemingly pure water. It is cortain, accord- ing to ths writer, that the wster purest in appearance froquently contamns : thousands of germs of all worts, only visible through tho microscope—portiapa eggs or germs Tmore cbscuro still—the develupment of which, |} ju the human body, produces morbid affections, jsolated maladies, sod oven e}idemics. .The most effective means of counteracting the dangers of pure waser is_ by boiliug, by which all pernicious i‘mlm destroyed, The writer; yecommends, thereforo, tes and coffee, though' | he also says that wines, and oven slringe’ ° liguors, are good, s alcchol destrogs theis ° microscopic_gemms in water that aro so ox ous to healths =