Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1873, Page 8

" dadies here, 8 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1873. ~ METROPOLITAN MOBES. The Elements of Elegant Dressing. B The Indispensability of Black Si Its Admizture with Jolors. Sleeveless ‘Garments and Gar- ' mentless Pockets. From Our Oun Corrsapondent, New Youx, Jan, 9, 1873, Portsct toilottes. ars, like everything cles, the result of carefal attontion to the emaliest detaila. It jen't the material somuches the make, or the color so much as the style, which reuders a dress besutiful; and {t is the nice har- ,mony of all with the wearer's figure and sppear- ‘ance which conveys the impreesion of elegant tizing, without giving upleasant prominence to any particular article. Many an.American meiden, In s well-made slpscs, ontshines most Europesn women of wealth and rank, clad in costliest of spparel. But, alas! the American maidens who are con- tent to ehine in alpaca are rapidly, but surely, dieappearing. i EXTRAVAGLNCE IN DRESS. A few years ago, nons but the richest and most extravzgant of women thought of wearing priceless gilks, eatins, and velvots, for ordinary ‘Street-use; but to-day, she who possesses only o6 or £wo costumes of expensive fabrics is con- sidered almost bankrupt in wardrobe. It's cothing now; it is only history repeating itself. The generations of reckless expenditur- in dress in France, from the time of Louis XILL., culmi- nated with- the career of Marie Antoinette, the most graceful womsa of royal blood who ever oceupied the throne of ‘France. Then followed tia Repablic, and 8¥*_p skirts, with untrimmed bodices, of plainest stuffs, became the modo. After that, the styles grew mors expensive, till thoy gradually lod to the almost «wasteful Inzury of the Second Empire. Presto! tho Republic comes uppermost once more, end Aadame Thiers sets the fashion of simplicity by xlways sppearing on state accasions in a modest black silk with high waist. And soit is with ourselves. In our esrlyna-| tional life, we were content to be & race of Jenny Wrone; but, now that weslth hes poured into our laps, as it would seom, mora rapidly than wo know how to manage it, we cast aside our plain brown. gowns, and are lovish of our fincry, a8 perhaps wohavo 2 vight to be, By end by, there ifl como somo tremendous commercial crash, _and then wo shall return to our serges and cali- coes, and wait—pationtly if wo_can, impatiently if we must—till the wheel of Fortuno turns its golden spokes upward again, and wo may in- dulge once more in the agrozable liberality of to- day. & THR QUESZS OF ALL FADRICS, 51 ono may so call it, is black eilk. Itis dear to tho heart of every fine womsn. othing is like it ; nothing takes its place. Nolhing ia o leasant to weer; motbing, if it be good, will cor such bard and persistent nsage, or repey _its posaessor by looking so well. Nothing can D 80 readily repaired and remodgled, and noth- 3ng go fully remunerstea: one for the rejuvens- tion. It ia becoming to everybody; for she to svhom it is not improving is a8 raro as De Mus- eot’s white blackbird. It is coatly at first, but cheap in the end ; and vory few woman who Liave hads single dreas of ths kind will ever bs ssithont one sgain. LACE SILE WITH COLOTS. The old fashion of masking up black silk with colors is being Tevived this season, snd, asit is very pretty, s0metimes economical, and nearly alwnys becoming, it is likely to refein its hold on popular fevor for some time to come. TWO REXARZABLY PRETTY DRESSES Ziave jnst been designed for two young ‘married T firet lad & petticoat of sky- blue faille, trimmed to the Lnee with vertical pufls, drawn on large, soft cords, shout a finger spart. Under each edgoe of each cord was a nar- row Chantilly lace, put on with as little fullness 2 possible. The upper end of every cord was terminated by a foneiful rosette of tho silk and lace. Tho train was of very rich black Antworp ¥ilk, of domi-length, end with & large pouf over the bustlo. It was cat on the edge, from belt to base, in largo, broad scallops. Thesa scallops wera fAinished by two lazge cords, one of blue, which came next the drese-cdge, and the other of black. A bow of magnificent proportions and rarious design, on ihe right sido, fastened tho £nd of 5 blne silks sash, which passed behind, un- der the puf?, and terminated on the loft eide in » single loop snd s beautiful folded end trimmed with Chantilly-lace. The basque, of plack, was formed by carrying the two sido bodies down, aud making en immense bow of them, which reposed comfartsbly on tho pavier uft.” In front, » vest, of bluo, was ated By s conding, stfiar o, thongh emaller than, that on the train. The Sest ends in o decp soft point, edged with Iace like that on tho pat- :x;.colE?bTéx’iggu?uem black, u;t ?lclfle coat- ape, ba & broad, equare cuff, of Dlue, or- pamented witha pu snd tho Chsntilly cdge. Ruffles'of Valenciennes in neck and wriat com- pleted this simple, preity, sndmoderately-ex- pensive toileito. 1 - The other robe was of black Lyons eilk, of a Bre quality. The ekirt was o demi-wrain, with the ?narihble pouf inthe back. The breadtha vere 21l scolloped on the front edge from bottom o top, bound with a verynarrow binding of black, and mede tooverlap tho moxt broadth toward_ tho front.- Beneath the scallops, and following their outline, was sn finch-and-a- ide doubled mide-pleating of lilo Each scallop wes held in rt wos cat in scallops,—the front and sido breadths being abont eight inches from tho rnd,—~and bonnd like the rest. A kilt-plest- o5 of 1as, cight inchos wie, was 1aid tmdor tho_ bottor scallops around the entire dross, A doublo {an bow of lilao and black sastained #hio puff on ono side, and & bow, with long Lilt- " ploated ende, iho other.. Tho basque behind e formed by & small, squaro postilion, cut up tho middle to the waist into two tabs, esch toros inches wido, and covered from the belt down- @rard with alternate loops of lilac and black. . There was o vest of lilac ontlined by a side- pleating of lilno lined with: Llsk, and ending in Ehort, square tabs, corded with o domblo cord of lilsc, tho side-plosting continuing round un- |* der the arm to tho side scem. Tho sloeves were black, and coai-shapo to s’ point midway be- twees tho elbow and the hand. Horo thoy were ‘completed by ebrond, full, kilt-pleated rufilo of filoc, with 8 stending heading of the eame, soparated by a milliner’s f0ld of black, joined . by a dnioty how and cods. Soft pleated rufiles of Malines tulle, in leeves 2ad neck, concluded this moro than Leautiful dinner Tobe. We are 50 sconstomed to having each sult on- tire in itgelf that, when any prety novelty comes along which can be worn on ond dress or suother indifferently, - we handly know what to dowithit. Thercare now beiug made odd and asinty POCKETS OF VELVET RIBROX, 20 be attached to tho belt of any dress. Thos- are of black or colored velvet, and of wide or narrow materigl, a5 the wearer choosoy. ‘Thoy sre abou the sEapé of fency pockets on sprons, z=nd are fastened by two etraps of braid, or & braided chatelaine of parrow velvet, to & fancifal Fosette, concealing the pin that holds it to the 1waigt. In the shops they cost from $5 u?lcca up- ward, but are so casily mado thatanylady, with & few yards of velvet and aconplo of hours' timo, an provide one for her wardrobe with Lalf the putlay. Tho easiest way is to cut s pocket tho desired shepe from o bit of foundation lgce, and »zew the ribbon to this, crossing tho strands at equal distances, #o as to-leave dismond or Bquare-shaped iuterstices between. When the pocket is_done, cat out the lsce wharever it howe, and thera will seom to be nothing but the El:ee& volvet, between the etrsnds of which tho or embroidered handkerchief is coquettishly ‘iaiblo. -Somotimes theso chatelaine pockets are of black and a colored velvet, when they sro plaited cloge, and the belt rosette fs combined of the two, as well a5 tho strapa connecting the pocket with tho rosette. MOTCHOMMS, * Bpesking of hardkerchiefa reminds me that fece bandkerchiefs ecem fo have passed the zenith Of their popularity. They nmow come fargely mingled with fine linen'cambric and em- broidery, and I venturs to say that, before Jong, handkerchiefs of fino cmbroidery, withont lace, will be considered more feshionable, a8 well a8 in far better taste. Nothing can be more ele- gant then & finely-srought handkerchief of linen cambric, and it {3‘almost 28 costly a8 lace, if that po & recommendation. THE ELEEVELESS POSTILION, Basques of velvet are constsutly growing in favor. They are so simple as to require bLut a yard and & half of velvet of good width to make ihem, and {he trimming en regle for them is o plping of silk of the earue shade. It isaconven- ient and economical way to repalr an. old- silk, | of which the elcaves, a3 is flmost siways the cage, Lave outlasted the waist, One of the plainest and most eleguat etreet-suits I have yet £ean waa & brown velvet Eatticolt, unornament- ed ond just clearing the ground; a brown ‘gros-grain _ over-skirt, (wo ehades lighter, faced with o finger-wido band of the velvet; a eleoveless postilion of the same velvet, piped with the ilk, and sleaves liko the overdress, terminated by cuffe of tho velvet. ‘The bonnet was of the silk and velvet comtined, with & shaded brown plume. FURS WITHIN DOORS, . An absurd ll(em})t is being made to introduce fur 28 a trimming for house-dresacs. It cannot encceed ; it is too dear a fashion for any but the very rich; snd, besido, there still remain a few women in Gotham with some gleams of good taste. One lady, of more wealth then wisdom, on New Year's day, woros Watteaun train of ermino over & purple velvet petti- cont and waist. It was s superb dress, perfectly snitablo for Queen Gertruds, or Queen gnhufiuc, or Queen Elizabeth, or any otherof the numorous ladicsof royal blood whom we _are accustomed Lo sce on the etage; ut, for & Queen of Society, it was eminently unfit,~wholiy out of place. Now that mid-winter is here, YVELVET COSTCMES are appearing, but not in 8o large” numbers es Iast year. Tho materialis too expensive, and too easily injured, to be constantly subjected to our filthy sidewaiks and disgusting thorough- fares. Even women who necd give no thought to price are not beyond giving heed to propricty. FurBELOW. — SELECTIONS. DY DUFF PORTER. ¢ Art is the pzth of the Creator to work. —Action may not always be happincss, but there is no happiness without action. . —Tho existenca of animals is incomprehensi- bles it is an abyss in which lights are shining which add to our alarm. —Ifeel that we can grow gracefully old by ‘boing nobly young. —Authority is infallible only as farasitis immutable, —All angols aro affe ‘man form. —Tho desire of distinction grows upon us till excitement becomes diseaso. » —The affections of the earth cling to the earth, and are only uplifted in the hours of our highest victorica. —Doefeat of the intellect is- not the objzst in fighting with tho sword of the spisit, but the ac- ceptance of tha heart. —-Our associates characterize us at last,.if they zro of our own choice. —In Heaven, bosuty is really what the an- cients called it,—the overflowing of Deity. —3fany receive their croed as they do their imoney, becanse they find it in circalation. —Capaeities there aro in us that huve never et taken form, or given more than. fine hints of- their being in existence. —DBooks aronot companions ; they ato soli- tudes. Wolose ourselvesin thom,and all our care: —Change, not constancy, ia inacribed on every leaf in tho volume of Nature, S —Vhoaver wants to create, stands in opposi- tion to that which is. ~—Tho diamond spark is as fall of light, for its size, as the great gem on the brow of a qucen, o enf alvirs imssinent, Do tansitien between being am( ceasing to be, the return.to tho crucible, the possible slipping off at any.mo- ment,—such o precipice i8 Creation. HEn —Everything ¢ man dees is the legitimato ef- fect of an actual cause in hiny. —A compliment is something liko a kiss through aveil, Pleasure sots. her seal theze, even while hiding herself, —Wo believe that more than ons-hzlf of the ns of lovein the hu- tondencies to crime smong men spring directly from bodily derangoments” caused by violatians of phyaical laws. = aes to show —Every increment of knowledge that constancy is &n_essential attribute_of the Divine rule; an invarizbleness which renders the eclipse of an hundred yoars hence predicable to 3 moment. g ——As the resources of the earth are diminished, the resources of the inhabitents of the earth are increased. —Wo ahiould go to Duty 1 to a tomple. —Man- is tho chief productof the Northern climates, and it is in this harsh discipline of ne- cessity that men sre flgéoducnd. —The loes of the first estate is richly compen- sated by tho nndying innocence of Paradise fe- ained. : F —8y innocenco we attain to virtue, &nd by ig- norance we rituin tc the happiness of knowlng. —Cluristianity eatisfies the deopest intelloctual 28 woll a8 morzl and religious wanta of man. —Doath is but & kind. and welcome sorvant, who unlocks twith noiselesa band Life's flower- encircled door to show us those we love. HEIDELBERG.--ON THE TERRACE. “Wa stood. n tho castle's height, Bo full of old romances ; “The moon aboso ehon elosr and Lright, ‘And silvered all our fancies, The Nepkar murmured in its flow, The woods with dew wers weaplng, And, lighting up tha depths below, ‘The quict town scemed sleeplug, Thobatilementa rose grim and stilt Tu majesty before us, And floating faintly up the hill We heard o students’ chorus, Inspired by the brimming cup, Their wards were wildly ringing; “They sang of love—and 1 took up ‘The burden of their singing. 1 spoke o you ; In swost surprise Alittle while yoi hovored ; Then in the depths of those grey eyes Your answr I discovered, Wo vowed that while the Neckar's flow (ow low thewards wero apoken 1) Ban undisturbed these fowees Lelow, Our troth should rest unbrokes. Again Leneath tho walls I stand, And hicra my footsteps linger, : ‘Where once Ipreased with loving band” “This token on your finger. : But now the well-loved view I ses 1ts old enchantment miszcs ; Tho oeniug brocze ighs Leck tome The slsadows of our kistes, Tptired slill the Nockar flows In te soft summer weather ; But Laat ear's leaves and last Fear's vowa Have fiown awsy tngetker, . ~Walter Herries Fallock. Naming Martin Chuzziew “Behold fnally the ttls of {ha pew book,” wa th firet note X had from Dickens (12th'of November) after our return; don’s jouo §f, for L bisve no copy.” Title, and even 'slory, had Leon undefermined whilo we trayelled, from the Hngcflng ‘wish be sull Lad 10’ begin it among thosa Cornich scenea ; but this intention lred now bees fully abandoned, and tho reader loat nothing by his_substitution for the Lgut-house or mino in Coruwall, of the Wiltahire-village forge on the windy outumn evening which opens ths tale of “3Martin Chuzzlewit.” Info that name Lo fivally settled, butonly after much dellberation, as 3 mention of his changes will ahow. farlin waa ihe prefix to all, but the suz- namo vatled from fts frst form of Sweezleden, Eweezleback, aud Swoezlewag, to thoss of Chuzze tos, Chuzzleboy, Chubble=if, snd Chuzzlewig nor was Chuzziewit c at isst qptil sfter:more Desitatlon sad discussion, WEat he hed eeat me in his lotier 33 Gnally adopted, Taa thuss “Ths Life and Adventures of Martin- Chuzzlewig, hla family, fetends, 3nd enemies, Comprising all Ly wills an waye, With an historleal record Gf what he did and what he dido't, _‘The whole forming s complete key to the house of mnu}mfifi.” All which latter portion of (o itlo was of course Jropped as the work becsmo ‘modified, fn ita progress, by cuangen at first contem- plated; but 28 early as tho third number ha scnt mo the plai of #ld Martin's plot to degrade -and .punlsh 411, and the difEcaities he encountertd in de- perting ffom other portions of his echeme were such a8 o render bim, in Lis subsequent stories, moro beat. upon conatructive care at the ontaet, axd adherence as fax aa might ba to any design be had formed.—Fyom ths Life of Dickens o3 John Forater, ; Power of Memorys, Dr. Johnson, 1t I3 said, never forgot ansihipg he had ecen, beard, or read. Burke, Claronden, Gilbon, Locke, Tilotson, were ail distinguiebed for stren memory. When alluding to this subject, Sir William Hamilton observes: For intellectusi power of the high- estiorder, norc were destin, above Grotius and Pascal; and Grotius and Pascal . forgot nothog they Liad ever read or thought, Leibnitzand Euler, were ot Jess celebrated for their intelligence then for their memory, and both could- repest the whole of the “ZEpeid ¥ Ioneilus kmew tle **Corpux Juris” by heart, and yet ho wam ons of the rofoundest ayd mast” origin=! s tors o jurisprodence, Janaop talls uathat he coudd Tepost all that cver. written, gnd whole books”that’ ho Thamistocles could gall by their nsmes the twenty thousand cftizens of “Athens. Cyrus is reported to DBeyeknown the paine of every soldler in hiaarmy. ‘Hortensius (sfter £lcard, the grealost azatar of Zome), after sitting a whola day . atx public sale, correctly evuasiated from memory all 1o things soldy tuckr | prices, nod the names of thelr purchasera. the hhAfllzi\wa! o less distiugul.led’for LL ory than for hits acuteness, 1In LisSouth he was e ployed in one of the public offices of Denmark. Part % bock uf ecconnts having Lo doatcoyed, Do ro- stozed it oy a3 efart of wemory, ; BEHOLD, IT WAS A DREAM. B REODA EROTGHTON. CHAPTER I. - Yestorday morning 1 reccised the following Tetter : - ' WesToy HovsE, CAULFIELD, ——SHIRE. My Dear Dinali—You must come; 1 scom all your excuees, snd seo through their flimai- ness. I hiave no doubt that you are much better amused in Dublin, frolicking round ball-rooms with 8 succession of Lorae-soldiers, and waich- ing Her Majesty's bouschiold troops play polo in the Phenix park; but no matter—you must come. Wo have no particular ~ induce- ments to hold out We fend an exclusive- Iy bucolic, cow-milking, pi roaat- mutton-cating, and fo-bed-at-ten-o'clock-go- ing life; but Do matter—you must como. 1 want you to ees how happy two dull, elderly peoplo may be, with no special bright- nees - in their lot to make thom 8o, My old man—Dbe ie surprisingly ngly as the first glance, but grows upon one aftcrward—aends you his' respeets, and bids me eay that he will moeb you at any station, on any day, st any hour of thoday or night. It you succeed in evading our persistence shis time, you will bo a cleveror women than I take you-for. Ever yours, affec- tionately, JaNE WaTtsox. * AvotsT 15, “P, 8.—Wo will invito our littlo ecarlet- beaded curato to dinner to meot you 8o ns to soften your fall from the eociety of the Plungors.” This is my snewer: - “ My dear Jano—Kill tho fat calf in -all haste, and pat tho bake-moats into tho oven, for L wil come. Do nob, however, imagine that I am moved thereunto by the prospect of - tho bright- Leaded curate, Ioliove mo, my dear, Iam g yot at 2 distanceof ten long, good years from ani addiction o the minor clergy. ‘If T survivo the crossing of (hat, scething, heaving, tumbling abomisation, 8t. Georgo's Chaunel, you may ox- pect me on Tucsdaynext. I hava beea groping for hours in ¢ Bredahaw's® darkness that may bo felt, and I have arrived at length at this twilight reault, that I may arrive at your tation at 6:55 p.m.’ Lut the waysof Bradshaw are not our ways, and Imay eitber rush violently past or neverattain it. It I do, and if, on my arrival, I sce somo rustic vehicle, guided by a lstartingly ugly gentlomsn, awaiting mo, I shall kmow from yous wifely description (hat it is your ¢ old man.’ Fuil Tuesday, then, affectionately yours, ** DINAT BELLAIRS. 4 Aug, 17.” T a8 good as my word ; on Tuoday T sct off. For four mortal houra and o half T am dis- astroualy, hideously, diabolically eick. For four hours and o half T ctirko tho doy on which I was born, {he day on which Jane Watson was born, the dry on which her old man was born, snd lastly—but oh! not leastly—tho dey and the doek o which and in which tha Leinster's pluuging, courlesying, throbbing body was bom. Ow ar- riving at Holyhead, feoling convinced from my acosstions that, a8 the French say, I toush my last hour, I indistinctly request to be allowed to stay on board and die, then and thero; bit, es the stewardess and my maid teke o differont ~view of my situation, and insist upon forcing my cloak and bonnet upon my dying body and fimj hond, I st length succeed in vtaggering on dec and off the accursed boat. .1 am then well &haken up for two or thres hours in the Irish wsil; and, aiter crawling along slow by-live for_ two or_three hours more, amat Iengih, at 6:55, landed, battered, tired, dust-blackened, and qualmiah, at the little roadsids station of Caulfield. My maid and I aro tho only assengers who descond. The train snorts ts ~ slow .way ouvanl, and [ am laft gaziog at tho calm, crimson death of tho Au- gust sun. end smelling tho sweet-peasin the stn- tion-master’s garden-bordor. I ook round in sonrch 0f Jane's promised tax-cart, and steel my norves far tha contomplation :of Lier old man's unlovely featurcs, Bat the ouly vehiclo which I 500 i8 & tiny, two-wheelad pony-carrisge, drawn by o small and tub-shaped bay pong, sud drivon by 2 lady in 8 hat, whowe face is turned expect- antly toward me. I go up nd recognize my triend, whom I have not sech for £wo years—nob since befora ehe fell in with her old man and espoused him. - 2 “1 thought it eafest, after all, to come my- _melf,” eho says, with » bright laugh, My old ‘men looked 20 Liandsoms this morning that I thought you would novor récognize him from my. description. Get in, dear; and let us trot home a8 quickly as wo can.” I comply, and for tho next half honr sit (while the cool everéng wind is blowing the dust off my hot and j=ded face) stealing amazed glancos at my companion's cheery features. Cheery! That is the very last word that, ox- cepiing in an ironical sense, nuy one would haye applied to my friend Jane two years ngo, Two vears ago Jano wus 85, the clderly eldest daugh- lor of 3 large tamily, hustled into obscurity, jostled, sheived, by bLalf s dozen' younger, frosher sisters;” e’ olduriy girl addictod 3 Inchrymoso verse about the gone ‘and tho dizd vod " tho forverlost. —Appe rently_tho gome has come back, the dead resuscitatod, tho forever-loat been fouud again. Tho peaky, sour virgin is transplanted into a gracious matron, vith a kindly, comel, faco, plaasure-making and ploasare-foel g Happiness! what powdor, or paste, or milk-of- ¥osar, can mako old cheoks young agein in’ the cuuning wey that youudo? If you would but bide steadily with us we might live foraver, always young and always handsome. My musings on Jano's metamorphosis, com- Lined with o tired headache, made mo somewhat silent; and, Indoed, thero is mostly a_elacknes: of couversation betiween the two dearest .allics on first_meoting after absence:—g sort of hesi- tating shiver before plunging into the zea of talk that hoth know to lie in readiness for them, “Havoyou gob your harvest in yet?" Iask, more_for the sako of not utterly holding my fotusio. than from sy profound Intarcat iy thie subject, 2s we jog briskly along betweon tho'yels low. corn-fields, where the dry, bound sheayos are etanding in golden rows in fhio red sunsot-light. “Not yet,” answers Jane; ‘we have ouly just begun fo cut gome of it. Howevor, thank Heaven! . the weather lopks as settled as possi- ble; fhere is not s strosk of watory lilao in the weat." . B s - My headsche i plmoat gono, and T am begin- ning to think kindiy of dinner,—a subject from which all day, until now, my mind has hastily turned with 8 scnsation of Lideous iawzyl ro- Jolt, by the tima that the fat papy pulls ip be- foro the old-world derk porch of = modest little house, which has bashfuily biddon its original face nnder a veil of crowded clomatis-lowers aud stalwart iyy, -Set as in s picture-frama by the Iarge, drooped iyy-Jeayes, I sec o tall and moder- ately bard-featured gentleman, of middle sge, 14 | parhaps, of the two, rather icolining towar eldesly, amiling at us little ehyly. “Thls jsmyold man,” cries Jane, stepping gayly ouf, and giving kima friendly, introduc- fory pat on the sboulder. ' OId man, this is Dinah.” s Having thus heon made known to esch other, we shake hands, but ueither of us can arive at eugthing protty to say. Then I follow Jane into her littie house, the littlo house for which sho s 80 happily exchanged her'tonth part of the largo and noisy paternal maneion, Itia an old liouse, and everything about it Las the moderste ehabbiness of old age and long and careful svear. Littlo thick-walled yooms, dark and cool, with flowers and flower-scents Iying in wait for you everywhere—a silent, " fragrant, childless houso. To me, who hove bad ofly locomotives snorting 2nd racing throngh my hiead all day, its dumb sweetness secms like heaven, : “ And, now that wo have secured you, we do not mean tolet you go in a burry,” says Jane, Lospitably, that night, at bed-time, lighting the candles onmy dressing-tablo, ° 5 - “Yog aro determined to make mymouth water, Isce," uay I, interrupting a.yawn to lLiugh “Tohe, 1ancme, who have. ncither 01d man, nor dear Little houso, nor any proapect of ultimately atinining either.” : s : 4 But, if you honostly ara not bored, you will siay with ug_a good bit 2" she eys. laying her hand with kind entroaty on my eleeve. «*St. George's Chaunel is not lightly to be faced again.” R 3 “ Perbapa I shiall etay until you ere obliged to g0 awsy yoursalves to get rid of me,” return I, ¢miling,” “Such things heve happenei. .Yes, without joking, I will &tay a month. Then, by the end 6f a month, if you have not found me ont thoronghly, I tfink Tmay pass amony men for a raore amiablo- woman- than I have ever yet bad tha reputation of.” ; 2oL A quarter of an’ hour latar I sur laying down ‘my head among =oft” #poiv-white pillows, and eaying to myeelf that this delicious kensa: tion of utter drowsy. repose, of soft darkness and odorous quiet, is clisaply purchased, oven by the ridiculous . suguish which my. own sufferings, and—hsrdly lews than my own sufferings—ti demouiac 81zha’ pn@'mumlrn afforded Dy my fel- low-paaeengers, caused me on board the accursed Leinster— e : “Built In the eclipee, aud rigged with carses dack, - GRAPTER I s “Well, I cannot scy that yoit look much rest- &d," rnya Jaue, next morning, comingin g great e, smiling pul (reuh (yes, $hopilc of 19, orea 8 woman of 37 may look fresh’in & print-gown ou-ah August mérning, whon she hns & well af Inating, quiot heppineea inside *ber), coming in with o bunch of creamy gloire de Dijons in her Laud for thp breskfast toblo. * You look in- tiuitely more fagged than you did when I left you lest pighe.” * e : “ Do 12" eay I, rather faintly. - -“Iam afraid you did ot sleep much ?” sog- ests Jane, a littlocrestfallen at the insult toher eather-bedsimplied by my wakefulness. ** Some pegple cun pever eleep tha st night in sstrange ed, and I stupidly forgot to uss whether you at the top.' gloomily. I liked the feather-bed cf mattr: **Yes, I did aleep,” 1 ansywer, wish to heaven I'had not!” : ** Wigh—to—Heaven—you—had—not #* ro- peats ‘Jane, elowly, with ‘a elight, astonished pouse between each words . “ My dear child, for what other purposs did ya go to bed 7y “I—T had bad dreams,” Eny 1, huddering a little, and then taking hor kand, roses and all, in mino. - “Dear Jane, do not think me quite Tun mad, but—but have you gots ‘ Bradshaw' in the house?" 3 - “ A ‘Bradshaw!' What on earth do you want with * Bradehaw ' says my hostoss, “her faco lengthening considerably, and a elight tincture of natural coldness coming into hior tove. “1 know it seems rude—insultingly rnde,” say I, still holding her hand and speaking almost lachrymosely ; *:do you know, my dear, I roally om afraid that—that—that T ghall have'to leave you—~to-day 7" : s s *To leave us,” ropeats sho, withdrawing her ‘hand and growing angnily read. * What! when nob twenty-four Loura azo you eestled'to atay a month withus? What havowe done between then nd now to disgust you wishus 2" - #Nothing—nothing,” ory I eagerly; ‘“how can you suggest auch s thing ? I never had & Lindor welcome, nor ever saw & piace that charmod me mors ; but—but— - “But what#" asks Jano, bor color subsiding, and Jooking s Jittle mollified. T a bost o tall the truth, 1 suppode,” say T sighing, “ oven though I know that you will laugh at* mo--vill call ‘mo -vaporizh—sottishly ‘superatitious ;. but T had av awful a0d hideous “siumber, only dream last night “ Is that ll ' she eays, looking relieved, and beginning to arrange her sosea in an old china bowl. ‘“And do'you think that all dreams are confined to this house ? I never heard before of their affecting any one special ‘place more than another, - Perliaps no sooner aro you hack in Dublin, in your own room snd your own bed, than you' wifl havo s still worse and uglicr et . : 1 shake my head. house—abont you.” “t About me?" she says, with an sccent of ‘s Little arousod intorest. * About you atd_your busband,” I answored, carnostly. " “Bhall I tell it ou? 'Whether you gay ‘Yes' or ‘No,' I must.” Perhaps it cam as a waming. Such things have happened. Yes, say what yon will, I cannot beliova thit any vision 80~ consistent—so etrongely real and niterly freo from the_jumbled incongruition and nplilielinessea of ordinary dreams—conld Lave meant nothing. Sball I begin?” g * By all moans,” answors Ars. Watson, sittin down in an srm-chair and smiling easlly. am, quite proparod to listen—and dsboliow “¥ou know,” eaid I narratively, coming and standing closo beford hior, # how uttarly tired ont 1 was when you loft me last night. I could hardly answer your questions for ywning. I do not think I was ten minates in getting into bed, 2nd it soemed like hoavon when I laid my head down on the pillow. I felt a5 if I could sleep till the Day of Judgment. Well, you know, when one is nsluag‘unn has, of course, no measnro of time, aud I havo no ides what hour it was really; but, at samo time, in tho blackest ad darkest of tho'hight, T scemed to walte, 1t appoared as if noiso hiad woko mo—s noiso which nt first noither frightened or tupriced mo in the least; Lut which seemed quite patural, end which T at- counted for in the muddied, drowsy way in which one does_nccount for things when half ssfecp. Db 15 gradually grew td faller con- sciousness, I found: out, with & cold shudder, that tho noiso I hoard was not oue that belonged to tho night ; nothing that one could Iay on wind in tho chimuey, or mice bohind the wainscot, or ill-fitting boards, It was a sound of mafled struggling, and once Thomd 8 sort of choked, strangled éry." I sabup in bed; porfectly numbe with fright, and for a moment could hear noh- ing for the singing of blood in my head, and the loud batterivg of my heart against my eido. Then I lhnugxt if jt wero snyching bad—if I were golng to be murdered—L Lod, “at lepst, rather be in the light than tho dark, #nd sce in what sort of ehapa my .fate was. coming; o I slid out of bed and threw my droesing-gown over my shoglders, I Lad stupidly forgotten, in my weariness avernight, to put the matches by the bedsido, aud could fiot for the ifo of mo re. collect where thoy were. Al3o, my knowledge of the geography of the room was- 8o emall that, in the utter blackness, without ovon tho palost, ayest rey from the window to help me, I was E; o means sure iu which directlon the door Iay. I can feel now the pain of the blow I gave this right eide_sguinst the sharp corner of tho febla In passing [ was quite surprised this morzing Aot to A5A the mark of a bruiso there. “Bat it was sbout this Atlsst, in my groping, I camo upon the handle, nd tutned the key In the lock, it gavo s littlo squeak, and egain I stopped for & moment, over- como by ungovernable. fear. Thea I silently opencd the door and looked out. You know that Sour door is exactly oppositemine. Dy the line of red light undeérneath it, I couldsee that, at all events, some one was awake and astir withiu, for the light was brighter than that givon by & night-light. Dy the broader band of red light oa th right sido of it I could also perceive that thedoor was ajar, I stood stock-still and lis- tened. The two sounds of shrm, gling #nd chokedly crying had both ceased. All th noiso that remainod was that of some person quietly moving sbont on unbooted foet. Ferhaps Jane's dog Smart is ill, and sho is eitting upwith it; sho was atying last night, T rémember, thet cha was afraid it was ULeginning with' tho distem- er.- Perhaps elthersho or bor old man has en taken with some trifling temporary siok- nesd, Perbapa tho noiso of crying out, that 1 certainiy hontd, was ono of {bem. fighting with the nightmare.’ Trying, by such-liko suggos- tions, to hearton myself up; I stolo across the pazsage and pecped in—" 1 paass in my narrative, - “Woll 7 says Janc, 3 littlo impatiently. She_bus dropped her fowers. Thoy lie in odorote, dowy confusion in ber lap,” Stio {s listoning rather osgerly. Icovermy face with my hands. *Ols, my dear 1” T cry, “Ido not think I con go on. It was too dreadful! Now that I am telling’it, I seem to bo doing and hesring it ovor again—" 3 *1 do not cail it yery kind to keep ma on the ra.s,” she sags, witli a mther forced laugh. “ Probably 1 am imsgining sometking mach worse then ho reality. Nor hesven's eake, speak up ! Whet did you seo " % ! T take hold of her hand and eontinue ; . “Yon know that in your room tho-bed exactly faces the door, WWell, when I looked in—Iooked in with eyes bllnking et firet, sud dazzied by the Iong darkness thoy liad been, it seemed to moas if that bed wero only one horrible sheet of crim- a0n ; bmt, ns my sight grow cloarer, I saw what it was that ceased that frightfal- impreesion of universal red—" Again I peussd with a gasp ‘and feeling of oppressed breathing. “ Go onl goon!” cries my companion, lean- ing forward, and spesking with some petulance. “ Aro you never going {o get to tho point 7 “ Jane,” asy I solemnly, * do not laugh st mo, nor pook-pooh me, forit is God's truth—as clearly and vividly as I séa you now, strong, flourishing and alive, 8o clearly, 8o vividly, with 1o moro of dream haziness uor of contradiction in details then there is in the view Inow Lave of this room and of yon—I saw you both—you 2od your ‘husband, lyiu)z dead—murdercd-- drownod in yonr own bldoi? #What! ‘both 0f ua?" sho says, trying to Iaugh, but her healthy cheek waa rather paled. * Both of you,” I answercd, with growing ex- citement. - You, Jane, had evidently boen tho one first attacked—tsken off in your sleep—for you wero lyin;{ just as you wonld have [sin in bly thit uerosd your throat from there to there ” (touching first one corand then the othery * there was a Huge and liiuvuin gash.” .+ Ploasant " roplies she, with a slight hivor. - “I neversaw any one dead,” contiuued I, ear- nestly, *never until last night. Ihad not tho faintest idea how dead people looked, even peo- plo who die quietly, nor has any pictyre ever iven moe at all a clear conception of death’s dread ook, ~How, {ljen, could I bave imagined the hideous contraction aid distortion of feature, the Ataring, smsz, open -eyea—giazed, yob agonized—the_tightly-clinched teeth that go to make up the picture, that is now, this very min- ite, slanding out in ugly vividhess before my mind's eye?” I stop, but sho does not avail hersclt of the pause to mako any remarks, neither does she look any JTooger at all Isughe ingly inclined. 5 B * And yet," continue T, with a voice shaken with emotion, *“it wae you, very you, not partly you and partly some une eise, 13 is mostly the case ig dreams, but as mlzl:l\gnonnthn youTIam touching now 7 (laying my finger on her arm as “And my old man, Rebin,” eays poor Janc, rather . tearfally, alter’ s ‘moment’s silence, * what about him? Did you see him? Was he dead, too?" R 4 -T¢ wea pvidently he whom T had heard strg- slmg and crytag,” I gngwer, with a strong suud- er, which I cannot keep do or it was cloar thet ko bad- fought for hid lifs. He as lying half on the bed aud balf on the floor, and one clinchad hand was grasping s great pieco of tho ‘ghaots o waa Iying head Gowaward, as i after it strugglo, he had fallep forward. Al his gray hair wea reddened and_stained, and I could seo that the rift in his throst was as deep aa that in youra.” % . “I wiph you yould stop,” crieg Jane, pale sa “hitel ashes and spesking with an accent of vnwilling terror, **you are making mo quite sick ™' - - T must finish,” I anawer, earnestly, *since it has come in time Iam sure it has come for eome purpose. Listen tome till the end; it ia very near.” She doea not speals, and I take her eilence for araent. “* I was staring at you both in astony way,” I go on, * feeling—if I felt at all— that I waa turning idiotic with horror—standing in exactly the eamo spot, with my reck craned to look round the door, and my cye3 unable to atir from thet hideous scarlet bed, when a slight noise, as of eome one cautiously stepping on the carpet, turned my stony terror into a I ng, quivering agony. I looked and sew a man, wit his back toward me, walking -acrozs the room from tho bed to fhia dressing-table. Ho was dregged in the dirty fustian of an ordinary work- - man, and in his hand he held a red, wet sickle. When he reached tho dreseing-table, ho Isid it down on the floor beside him, and began to col- Tect all tho rings, open the' cases of tho brace- lets, and hurry the trinkets of all sorts into his pockets. While ho was thus busy, I caughta full view of tho reflection of the faca in the glass—" T stop for breaths, my heart- is panting 2lmost as hardly as it seemed to pant during the awful momentaT am deseribing. “What was he like—what was ho like? ” cries Jane, greatly oxcited. “Did you see him die- tinet! gannugh to recollect hia features again? Would you know him again if you eaw him3 " ““Should I know my own faceif I eaw it in the Ines 7" [ ask, ecornfully. ‘I sce every line of t now more clearty than I do yours, though that is bofore my éyes, and the otber only before my memor{—" * “YWell, what was he like?—be quick, for heaven's aakel” “The firet moment that I caught sight of .him," continue I, speaking quickly, 1 felt certain that ho was Irieh; to no other nationality "could such a type of faco have belonged. His wild, rough hair foll down over his forehead, seaching his shagged and overhanging brows. He had the wide, grinning slit of & mouth—the long noso, the cunningly L\\'inklins: eyes—that one 50 often sees, in combination with a shambling gait and ragged tail-cont, at the railvay stations or in the Darvest-fields af this time of year.” A pause. 41 do not know how it came to me,” I go on resently, ““but I felt as convinced a5 if { had een told—as if I had known it for 2 positive fact —that hie was one of your own laborers—one of your own barvest-men. Have you any Irishmen working for yon? " * Of course wo have,” snawers Jane, tather sharply; *“but that proves nothing. Do not the_v,nazon observed fust now, coms over in droves ot this time of year for the hervest ?” “T am sorry,” ay T, sighing. I wish yon had not. Well, let mo finish; I have just dons; I had been holding the door-haudle meshanically in my hand; I'suppose.I pulled it unconsciously towsrd ‘me, for tha door-binge creaked s littlo, but quite audibly. Tomy un- epeakable horror the man turnod round, and saw mo. Good heaven! he would ctt m; -throat, t00, with that red, red resping-hook! tried (o got into the passigo and lock tho door, Dut the Key was on the inaide. I tried to scream, I tried to ran; but voico and legs disobeyed me, The bed and room ond man began to danca beforo mo; s black earthqualo scomed to awallow me up ; and I suppose I fell down in 5 swoon, When 1 awoke really, the bletsed morm- ing bad’ come, and & robin was singing ontside my window on an apple-bough. There, you Dave it all, and now let me look for a ¢Bred- shaw,' for I am 6o frightened and unhinged that go I must.” CIAPTER IL. T must awn thet it has taken away my sppe- tito,” I eay, with rather & eickly smile, a5 wo sit around the breakias-table. ** I assuré you that I mesn no ingalt to your fresh eggs oad brasd and butter, but I simply cannot eat.” “ 1t certainly was an oxceptionally dresdfnl dream,” ssys Jane, whose oolor has return 80d who i3 & good Geal fortified and reassure by tho influcnce of bronkfast and her husband’s sltepticism ; for acondensed o shortened .Yor- sion of my drezm has becn told to_him, and he hins casily langhed it to scorn. * Exceptionally drendful, chiofly from ita_extremo consistency and precizion of detail. But_atill, you know, dear, ono hias hnd: hideons dreams “one's solf times out of mind, and they nover came to any- thing. I rememlcr once I dreamed that all my teoth came outin my mouth at once—doublo ones and all ; but that was ten years ago, and they still keep their situations, nor did f about that tima l08o auy friend, which thoy say such a dream is & sign of.” *You say that somo mnacconntable instinct told you that the hero of your dream was one of own men,” says Robin, turning toward me with'o eovert emiis of boncvelent contempt for my supersiitiousness; “did not I understand you to 3y 807 © ) h e, Treply T, not in the least ehaken by hig Durdly-veiled disbeliof. “I donot know how it camo to mo, but I %28 as mach porenaded of that, and am &g still, 33 I am of my own jden- tity.? “ will tell you of a plan, then, to prove the trathof your vision,” returng be, ! g. 1 will taka you through ‘the fields this morning, and you shall sce afl my men at work, both tha ordinary ataff and the harvost casuale, Irish and all. Ifamong them you find tao counterpart of Jone's and my murderer " (a smile), “ I witl promiso then—no, not even then can I promise to believe yon, for thora is such & family lLiko- nces between all Irishmen, et all events between all the Irishmen that ono sces qut of Ireland.” “Tako me,” Lasy, esgerly, jumping up, * now —thiaminuto! Yon cannot be more anxious, nor Lialf so anxions, to prove me a falso prophat s T am to bo proved ona.” " 1 am quité at your servico,"he answars, ‘a8 Baon as you pleaso, Jenny, get your hat and coms t00," ¥ “Andif we do not find_him," says Jane, smiling playfully—* I thiuk Tam growing protty casy on that hesd—you will promise to eat & great_deal of Inncheon, and mever mention ¥ Bradshaw sgain 2" *T promiso,” replied T, gravely. “ And if, on the other Land, wo do find him, you wWill romize {o put no more obstacles in the way of )y going, but wil} let fuo depart in peace, with~ out {aking any offenco thereat,” ATt 19'8 bargain,” she says, gasly. * Witness Robin.” 5§ 8o we get off in the bright dewiness of the morning on our walk over Robin's farm. Itis o grand harvest day, and the whitoned sheaves are overywhere drying—drying in the genial sum, Wo have boen walking for en hour, aud both Jane and I are rather tired. The sun beata ith all his ate-summer strength on our heads, and {akes tho forco and spring out of our hot limbs, 4 0ho Liur of triumpl is approsching,” easd Robin, vith a quiot smile; s ws draw near zp open gate through which 'a loaded wain, shed- ding ripo wheat ears from its abundanco as it crawls aleng, is passing. “ And time for it, too; it is a quarter-past 12, and you have been on yourlegs fully and lour. 3fiss Bellsirs, you must meke hasts an find tho murderer, for. therp is only one more field to do it in.” - ~41g ‘not ‘there ?* I-cry eagerly. “Oh, I am glad! Thank Heaven, I begin to breatho azain ! We pass through tho open gate, and begin to tread across the stubble, for almost the last load hias gone. e must get nearer the hedgs,” aays Robin, “ or you will not see their faces ; thoy are all af dipner.” 3 o do a5 ho suggests, In the shadow of tho hedge we waik closo in front of the heated la- ‘borers, who, sitting or lving on the hedgebaok, are eating unattrectivo looking diiners, I peen ono face after another, honest, bovine, Loglish faces. I have seen & hundred thousand faces like ‘each ono of the faces now before me,—~vory liko, Lub the ecxact counterpart of none. We aro getting to the end of tho row, 1 beginning to fecl rather ssliamied, though infi- relioved, and to emile at my own expente, 1 look again, and my Leart_suddenly stands still nd turns to stone within me. Ho 4 there—not & hand's-breadth from mo ! Great God! how well 1 have remeriberod Lis face, oven to tho mn- sightly mmall-pox spams, tho ‘Ehacged locks, thy nning, shut mouth, the little iy, bass eres] e is_employed in no murderous occapation now ; Lo is harmlesely cutting hunks of coaras read, and fat, cold bacon with a clasp-knife; but yot I have no mora doubt that it is he—he whom 1 saw with o crimaoned eicklo in Lia steined hand~thapn I have that it is I who am stoully shiveriagly, staridy st him, VW, Miss Boliairs, who waa' right?” aska TRobin's cheery voice at my elbow. *“Peri-h * Bradshaw' aud all his Iabyrinthe! Are you eat- isfied now? Good heavens!” (catching s eud- den sight of my (ac(:jn‘!{ow whito you are! Do you mean 10 ea; ou have found him at 1sst? Impossiblal” “Yes, I hava found bim,” I answer, in a low and uneteady tone. “Ikuew I shonld. Look, thero he is—close o ua, the tkird from the endor - Itum away my head, uoable to bear the h_id‘fnv.; rficnll:clionu and L:fici;fion! that the sight of the man calls up, I suj @ that they both fook. * L= g . ““Arcyousura that you are not ‘letting your imogination carry you away ?” asks Lo, pres- cutly, i 3 tone of gentle, kindly remonstrance. g I eaid before, these fellowa ere all 0_much alike they have all the eame look of debased, squalid cunniog. Dulige me by looking once again, 40 83 to bo quite sure.” I utly I look at him once again. Apreieitly becoming avaro that Lé is theobject of our notice, he Lfts Lis £mell dul cyes and locks back at Tae. It is tiie xazin face, they zra the same eyea thas tarued from the plutdered dressing-tablo to catch tho sight of me last_ night, * Thero is no” mistake,” I anawor, shud- .dering from head to foot. *Take me awa; Ieue'—na quick a8 you can—out of the field— ome " > They nomgly, 2and over thehot flelds and through the fiot noon air we atep silontly home- ward.~ Aa we rocch the cool and ivied porch of the Liouso, 1 speak for the first time. “ You bo- lieve me now " S o hesitates. “Iwas staggered for amo- ment, T will own."be added, with candid gras- ity, * but I have been thinking it over, and on rofloction T have coma to tho conclusion that the highly-excited state of your imagination is an- swerable for the hightening of the resemblance which exists between all the Irish of that class into an identity with the particular Irishman you dreamed of, and whose face (by your own show- ing) you only saw dimly raflested in tho glase.” Not dimly,” repeat I, emphatically, **unlosa T now ace that sun dimly " (pointing tohim, as he gloriously, blindingly, biszes from the' sky). You will not be warned by me, then ?” I con- tinue, passionately, after. an inferval. * You will run the risk of my dream coming trua—yo will stay on here in spite of it? Ok, if 1 could persuade you to go from home—anywhere—sny- ‘where—for a time, until the danger was past!” * And leava the harvest to itself?” answered he, with a smile of %uiul. sarcasm; ‘“‘be a loser of two or three hundred pouads, probably, and o Iaughing-stock. to 24 acquaintancns into the at bargatn, and all for—what? 4 dream—a fancy— o mightmare _But do you kmow anytbing of themmn? of bis aatecedents 7—of bis character 7" I porsistod eagerly. e 6 shrugged his shoulders. 3 ¥ Nothing whatever; nothing to his disadvan- tage, ceriginly. Ho camo over with s lot of otliera s fortnight ago, and I engaged him for tho harvesting. For snything 1 have heard to the contrary, bo is & simple, inolfensive fellow enough.” Tam silenced but not convinced. I turn to Jaze. “You remember your promise; you will 2o put no more hindrances n the way of my going ?” “Fon do not mean to ssy that you aro going, really ?" saye Janc, who ia looking ratber awed by what ehe calls the surprising coincidonce, but instill a good dsal heartens band's went of faith, “Ido," replyT, empbatically, “I ehould go stark, stariog mad if I wero to sleop another night' in that room. Ishall go to Chester to- night, and cross to-morrow from Holyhead.” doasTeay. I make my msid, to herex- treme surprise, ropack my just unpacked ward- robe, aud take an afternoon train to Chester. As I'drive away with beg and baggage down the leaty lane, T look back and sce my two friends etanding at their gate. Jane is leaning her head on her old man's shoulder, and_looking rather wistfally afier mo; an expression of mingled regret for my doparture, sud vexation st my folly, clonding their kind and happy faces. At least my lnst” liviug recollection of them is & pleasant one. up by her hus- CHAPTER V. Tho joy with which my family welcomo m return is Iargely mingled with rurpriso, bit ati more lsrgely with cariosity, as to the cause of my so sudden ro-appearance. Bat I keep my own counsel. I have & reluctsnce to giva tho real renson, aud possess no inventive faculty in the way of 'lying, 80 I give none. sy, “Iam back ; is not that enough for you? Set your 1i0dS € rest, for AL 1 sa TIch A you will ev- er know about the matter.” For ane thing, I am occasionally rather ashamoed of my ccnluct. Itisnot that the im- pression produced by my dream is effaced, but that absence and distance from the sceneand. th!Eerscus of it have produced their natural weakoning effect. Once or twice daring the ~oyage, when writhing in laughable torments ia the ladies’ cabin in the steamboat, I said to my- galf, “Most likely you are s fool!"™ I, there- fore, continually ward off the cross-questionings of my family with what defensive armor of silence and evasion I may. “I feol convinced it- was the husband,” esys one of my sistars, after long catechism, which, a8 usual, has resunlted in nothing.. **You are too logal to your friond toown it, but I always felt sure that any man who could take compassion on that poor, peevish old Jane muet be some wonderful freak of nature. Come, confass. Is not Iio & oross between an orang-outang and & Mothodist parson " - 4 Ie is nothing of the kind,” reply I, in gome heat, recalling the libelled Robin’s clean, fresh- colored, human face. *You will be very lucky it you ever secare any one balf 80 kind, pleas- ant, and gntlemm-li ke “Threa daya after my roturn I received a letter from Jano:— : “ WesToN Houre, CAULFIELD, | “ My Dean Divan: 1 hope you are safo home again and that you have mado up your mind that {wo croesings of St. George's Channel within forty-eight hours are almost as bad as having your throat cut, sccording to the pro- grammg yon Inid ont forns. I have good news foryou. = Qur murderer elect is gono. hearing of the connection that there was to be batween us, Robin naturally was rather interest~ ed in bim, and found out his name, which is tha melodious one of Watty Doolan. Afier askin; his namo, ho asked otherthings about him, and, finding that he never dida stroke of work, and was inclived to be tipsy and quarrelsome, bopaid and ked him off at once. Heis now, I hope, on s way back to his mative shores, and if ho ‘murder anybody, it will o you, my doar. Good- bye, Dinah. Hardly yet, have I forgiven you for tlio way in which you frightened me with your graphic description of poor Robin and me, with our heads loose and waggling. . WEver yours, aflectionatoly, - ‘e JaNg Wateow."” 1 fold up this note with a fecling of exceeding roliof, and a thorougl faith tht I bave been o suparstitious, hysterical fool. More resolved than ever am I to keep the reason of my return profoundly scerot from my family. . .The next morning but one we were all in tho breakfast- room arter brealfast, hagging sbout, and look- ing at the papers. 3y sister has jast thrown down the Times, with a petlish exclumation that there is nothing in it, and that it really is 1ot worth while paying threepence a day to eco nothing but advertisements and police reports, Ipickit up as sbe throwsitdown, nud look listlesaly over its tall columns from top to bot- tom. Buddeuly my listlessness vanishes.. What ;': filu’s that I am reading ?—this in staring cap- als 2 ‘‘SHOCKING TRAGZDY AT CAULIIELD —DOUBLE Iamin the middle of a paragraph before I realizo what it ia: “From an early honr of the morning this vil. lago hias been the kgene of a decp and painful ex- cifement, in consequencs of the discovery of the atrocious murder of Bir. and 3lrs. Wateon, of Weston House, two of its most respectod inliab- itants. 1t appears that the daceased had retired to rest on Tucsday night at their usual honr, and in their usual bealth and spirits, The Lonse- maid, on going to eall ihem at the accuatomed bhour on Wednesdsy moruing, received no an: swer, In gpite of repeated knocking. She. there- fore, st length opened the door and cntered. The reat of tho servants, attiacted Ly her cries, rushed to the spot, and found the unfortupato §emlumnn and [ady lyi:g on the bed with their Lroats cut from ear t4 ear. Life must have ‘boen extinet for somo Lours, as they ‘were botih perfectly cold. The room preseuted g hideous ‘spectacle, beiug literally swimming in blood, reaping-Look, evidently the instrument with which the crime was perpotrated, was picked up poar the door. _An Irish laborer of the name of Wetty Doolan, discharged by the lamented gon- tleman o few days ago on account of miscons duct, has elready been grrested on trong suupi- cion, ed at an early hour on Wednesdsy morns ing o was seen by &_farmelaborer, who way goiog to his work, washing Lis waistcoat at o retired spot in tha stream which flows through tlie meadows below ‘the scene of the murder, On being approhonded and searched, several small articles of jewelry, identified a3 having belonged to Mr. Watson, werp discovered in his Ppossession,” 1 drop the paper and sink into 3 chair, feoling deadly sick, . Ho you see that-my dream came true, after Tho facts namrated in the above story - oc- curred ‘in Ireland. The only libarty 1 have l(.'a\:gn with them is in translating them to Eage dy Elt Porkins on Fire-Proof Buildingv. - Tt pains me to hear of 80 many peopla being burned on account of elevatorsand defective flues, To-day Jaid aeshn before the Fire Inspectors, which, if carried ont, will remody the o When I called on the Inspéctar of Baildings ho was trying_somo. exporimants with Professor Tyndall. Thoy were trying to abstract the heat {rom fire 80 0a to leave the fire perfectly harm- less. . The fire was left to burn while ihe heat. way taken away, to beusod in machine shops and under locomotives. Then they tried ex- periments in concentrating water, to bo used in angines in caso of a drouth. The latter experi- ment proved eminently successful. Twelve Larrels of Croton witer were evaporated dovn to o gill, snd this was sealed in a emall phial, to bo diluted eod nsed to.put out fires in cases where no Croton vrater cen be Lad. In somo cares tho water ia tobe evaporated and concentrated- till it be- comes 2 fii:e dry powder, and this is to ba blown upon the firo thirough tin horns—that is, it is to cxtinguish tho firo—in & horn. € Texacinod the powderized watpr With great interest; took 8 horn—in my hands—; coedod fo_elucidato my plan, for cunl‘lficfin fire-proof flues. T told them how the holey tho fluea should be consiruciod of sl ady Iron, or some nou-combustible material and then cold corrugated iron, without any tuzen, poured around the el ‘*Wonderful!" exclaimed Professo and Mr. McGregor ia » breath, *but fvh:;’:flw"fi sou place theso ues, Mr. Perking " g “ My idea,” I seplied. drawing & diagram o wall-pagor with u pnca of ot u v thede flues in overy instanco | i adjoiniog Louse.” A i “Magnificent! but how about the elevators “\Vhy, after patting thew in the nex?vif.fl}“ too, T'd seal thom up water-tight and il (oo with Croton and then le! it frecze. Then fi tum them bottom-sido up, and if they caughy fire the flames would only draw down into g After- cellar, whro it could be drev off into the fur Dace or be applied to tin basina filled wi v 1o ba concontrated. " el gy IN SPITE OF PA. O 1 she was & madd of langhing ays, Au ahe lived I 8 garrot cold s algh, Aud he was a threadbare, whiskered besg, And be lived in » cellar dunp and law, But the rosy boy of the cherub wing Tias many o shaftin his slenderatring, - - - Aud the youth below snd tho malden above Wero touched with the flashing darts of love, Audsbo would wake from Ler & 8'&!;‘:]!‘;51!9!' bdillet doux to 'fl:vn:u“ iy, r stand Jike a statuc bright and falr, And gazo on a lock of his bright red Rair, And bia who was g0 tall and prond, With his step 50 firm and his taugh so Ioud, His beard grew long and his fico grow thi, And he pined in solitude over biagin, Bat one eoft bight in the month of Jun As she lsy in the light of a cloudless mn:'n, A volco came foating aoft and clear To the startled maiden's listening ear. . 0B ! then, from her creaking couch sbo sprug, And her Lingled treceen back she flu;:. oy Bhe fooked from the sindow far below, And he stood beneath, her whiskered texn, 8ba did not start with a foolish frawn, Bat packed ier trunk nnd scampered down, © by And there was her lover tall an true, ¥ bis thread-bare caat of the brightest bige., The etar that rose in the evening rhad Incked eadly down on the mfngb st : ‘The sun that came in his momnitg pride Blted golden light o’er alaughing Uride, A e e HUMOR, b Criminal Court—Sparking another nita' fo. — How do we know s house is often hun; Becanso wo seo the chimney swalloy fies. © —The fact that the only two giratles in-the country wero burned with Bsroum's Musenm, gives the newspapers many pair o' g'raffa. — King Alfrod is eaid to bavo nsed candles to measure time with. Was this the origin of the candle's tick ? ; — The wife af & roofer being sskod if sha waa Dot afraid to have her husband exposad to such danger, trustfully replied, *Oh, bo's insursd.” —It ‘occurred to s Danbury scholar, whils writing a compoeition, Iast weak, to make:ths remarkablo statement that “an ox does mot taste 23 good 2s an oyster, but it can rmn fastor.” . —A shrewd old Yankeo said ho didn't belisre thero waa aay downright cure for lazinesa'ina man; “but,” he added, ““I've known a. second wifo to hurry it same.” : —It is nowelsimed that the architoct of the “Chincse wall* wes & woman: but & womi wonldn't do anything to koop mon out in thst way. - ~—Calitornis houserivos describo soda as “tist eFo stuff which you put in biscuits to make ex; &6t up and Greclan bend themselves.” —A Connecticut rexton prevents the tion. from skifting about and changing ssats y dexterausly applying o gob of pitch to their pereons aa they eutor the scnctuars. Ha sam “The church is no place to fool around jn.” —An exchengo snmonnces, ou tho death ofa 1ady, that sho “lived fifsy years with ber hus- fi!mri and died in corfident hope of 3 battes ! 0. 22 3 —The Savannab Netrs eliminatéa tho horritle In meldge ap its resding mattor. Sers tha News: “X malicious moke in Jonos Cotinty dogged the cows of Mr. Joha Spear nntll tha latter remonstrated with a shot gup, sad—bat | why harrow up the souls of our roxders ? - Itis enough to kuow that the kino will browsa in peace.” Z —The Daabury News saya: “The romurks relatives dnd frionda who aitend a fazernl make npqu the merits of the deccased, ara frequently instructive, At the faneral of an aged resident of Slawwsons, Saturday, a neighbor fcclingly’ob- served that the deparred * wouldu't rare uJ' iy about taxcs any moro. s —In strict observance of the will af Steph Girard, -no clergyman, known to ba such, is 3- lowed to visit tho collzgo of his endowment. A gentlemsn of o clericel cot as to appesrance once presented his pass to the janitor. Thalx- tor, taking Lim in from head to foot with azo -glonce, eaid: “I cannot admit you, sir; yo3 aro a clorgyman.” “Tho duril I 2, said visitor. * Yo can pass,” wa3 the quiot repls. —A gaunt subject of humanity applied for victuals. He was told ho ought to go to work. “Bot I can find no work,” said the begpar. “ Well, go to lecturing then,” was the itablo responso s the door closed. —A roporter was disturbod ono night by 8 noise, which provad to be occasioncd by maa fallen at_his door in a fit, when ho cried to'his bottar-half, ** Mary, Macy, briog my note-book and o candle directly; Lero's o puragraph coms to the door.” : —IResponses to prayers and sermonsmsybs goad, if they come in at the right plece. Not 0, howerer, came in a responge, recestly, fos munister in’ ab African chnrch. . He had ctz8 dosn from thepulpit toinyito a stranger inapeof t30 pews to preach for bim, but wes unsacotss fal. * “ Brothren,” sald be, “I invited 8. to preach, but he declines.” *Thaak God!" ( roared out & man from tho middle of thachursy A Sawm Patch’s Jump. FH “Eli Perkiny” in the New York Commerclal Adon % . theer. ey While in Rachester 1 met Mr. Hebbard, an old iete dent of Geneseo County, who saw Saum Paich maks B famous jump off Gencsea Falls, thirty o forty yan ngo. He 1ays the' jomp day was great day in Bods- tor. - The peoplo or o seo this inte bo i shouldnt .oy intermittent umper, but ~chironlc ~ Jamper, 1€ Sam wan a1l tho thme 34 crazy to Jump down & Wit £all a5 George Francls, our chrunic candidate faz e £ Presidency, i3 crazy to run for the White House, * *Same. batch isd provivualy Jumped orer Nagk 3 Thent, saying *some things cail be done- as wel athers,” ho clashed around like Sergeant Batcs tbroed g . Simpsob, throwed the killens i the well, t2d JI% the Weatern part of the State to Lack up his provel Bfore bis st junp ba bought a Uig bisck bear d Gircus wat, snd led him over the tumpiko to Bo: ‘Sam wan 8 quesr pliflosopher, To had a theory 381 each new generation had more knuwledze ndfl do greater decds than its prodecossor. s oftca, B4 luis fathor knew more than his yrapdfather, asd he knew more than kis father. o “Way, thundoration! Ham, by your arueffiy yonr grandfsther must have been 8 darned foterposed & bystanders but ho only tarned s f: and comimencod talkiug sbout somsthing else. . Bam was 3 great tulker, His tongus wal 0n ths run,” aud bix ey **oa e Jumay or moturiety. Onlo day, when he waa 3 littlo boy, bia motker, ¥4 Urad In y leariog. near Wroekgort, “wat speaking im% precocity, Wiy, waie Ahe, our Sum can read the Dibe 8 spelling-look, ropeat the cateclism from ind 19 | and elice applyd 2 well a3 Lis mother.” safd S3m; “au’ yesterday 1 e &S EE W Y ea off tho saw-mill into the Oume.” Si I g 3 & 3 oo g 2 E § b -] 2 & g % H 2 g < ¥ g 3 % 2 ~oaut the great jamp. Ths morning of the day came, 8sm had 3 twn with the black Ledr, and the crowd fuul‘u fx’om miles a;\‘:nnm g‘xdd:da r;:‘i ump—t0 j1mps hun: 1 owa. ih terTible ~ fall Phlo the boiling A etaging aver the water, and Sam appesred o2 decased g reflors fanoy facket, His I 100k up 8 collestion on shore; while Bam kst and said after jumping Limsell e <oud? 2nd throw the b.ar over, Then, amida vxuzh e nexs, he r2n 2 few wleps sud geve one leapinta ® and fell, cntting the mist fike s lesd sinker, dred feet lota tho wecihiag whiripool. the staging body assumcd an oL\ bead foremost, bot abave bia fect. Ad be ‘ater there was a dreadful 1 awalted with chokipg Ureath hia reappearsnce. minote—two minutes—three minutes—0d 80 the dariog jumper, Then the peopls sest P wail—a lodg murmur of SOTTOW, This was the end of Sam Patch, 5 They say bo kad been daukiog during (be 7 pendicalsr, g3 an previous ocosiuzt. 5% 0 Btruck the water the breath left Liz budy, knor.kked ‘sengalers, Admnnu;e o %0 uu»r!l,fl ‘:' : found bis bady awsy down below a H Eom the rock Ho wever rezurusd to tarov: 2 & bear, or claln the moucy coil d 1 believe in the docirine of the trEaEF ey scula; bur, oa loaking af the dmansc 29 born during the wholy of that fatal day PO Franels Train, “fi;}a it £ W =¥ ® Aethi i, EEE‘? (1) L e —Connecied with Mr. Spargeon’s Schoal, in Londan, is a Bible clase, ;;i‘-“ 1 Mrs, Tarinia Harkhoss, wiich envols o, aud a8 an average attent Siehy of G areCmcrad, aud o consils? Bumber bring their babies with them Hn Ay Wi