Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1873, Page 11

1 “PALMETTO-LEAVES.” Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe'’s New Book. Sketehes of Life in Florida. Suitability of That State for Invalids. The Labor-Question at the South---The " Negroes Satisfactory Laborers, Ponce de Leon was not altogether ont_of tho way when he gought tho Jountain of eternal youth in Florida. Whers etornal apring scstters its rores, orange-blossoms, ‘swoot' jossamino, and honeysuckles throngh the year, old ago must deley its approach, and yonth mako less haste to * grow scepiro-pale, and thin, and die.” Florida has nons:of the water of immortality that the Spanish’ cavalier Bought so anxionsly, and which has nover becn offered to man, except. 8t the Well of ‘Samaria; but, it his s fowery January,. and s winter garlandod with fragrant flowers and fruit.” S5 .Mrs. Btowe has gatkered into 8 book (Osgood- & Co., Boston ; Jansen, McClurg & Co,, Chica- £0) her pleasant letters from Florida last winter, and they mske bright resding in these dull days. of spring ethereally wild. Her letters are-de- lightfally scented with the odors of the land of - fiowers, and aro made lively by many bits of ited doecription nd- gonial humor; for, whother or not Mrs. Stowe can write good novels or judicions biography,- she does;write easy, gossip lottors of travel. The chapter on “TFlorida for Invalids” givos a very fair and dispaseionsto sccount of tha good and bud pointa of the climate : - * FLORIDA POR INVALIDS." We find an agrrieved feeling in the minde of the Feridian public in viow of o lotter in the Tndependent, by Dr. —, headed as sbove; and wo havo bocn ur- geatly requested to say samething on the other side of the queation. e Litilo did’ we supposs, when we met our good triend 8t Moguolis, apparently in tho height of spizits, the 1ifo of the..ertablishment, snd_hosd promeier of &ll sorts of. bilarity, that, under all this delightful cheorfulness, ho was conteading with such dreary experiences as his article in ent would icad one to suppose. . Really, any one who ehould know the Doctor only from that article might mistake him for vretched hypochondriac; whereas o saw him and heard him by universal repuie at Aag- Dolls, 28 ane of the cheerfest and t of the in. mates, taking overy thing. by the smoothest D:ndle, and not only looking on the bright side imself, but i everybody.- elss - do ihe_ssme, Insging, therefore, our utter astonishment at Snding ur buoraat Doctof mummniog up hia Florida expo- zience fn such paragraphs as these : Erom wisy I pave o I ehould think Florida was - nine-tenths water, and the other fenth mwamp. My are deceived by the milder climate here; and down - they come—to dis. The - mildness, too, a erated. Yo 5 ‘morning, the thermarmeter was at 30 degreos. Outside, our winter overcoats wero n 3 aud great wood: firca ronred i Teaches 80 degrees at mid~dsy ; but, that very night, you may have froet. 4 “ Another fact of Florids is- malaris, Hotw conld 1t otherwise? Souse Manhattan Island two feat decp 4n fresh wator, sud wouldn’t the prics of quinins rise? “T have no objection to the term ‘sunny South,'— 3tis 3 pratty alliteration ; but I object to it Applica- ion to Georgia and Florlda in February. I wish you <ould have scen mo lsst Friday night. We wero riding 240 miles through o swemp,—Okefnokeo of the goog- Tobios. 1 was clad in full winter ity with heavy assion 4 overcoat. - But s careful’ comparison ‘of the incidents in Bis letter solves the mystery, The letter was “itten in an eazly date 1 tho Doctor’s Floridian ex- perience, and befora he had had an opportunity of ex- ‘periencing the benefit which he subsequeatly resped trom it We percelve by tne referenco to last Friday night, and the rido throvgh Okefinckeo Swamp, thai the Doctor was_ then fresh from . the North, 0d " undergoing” {hat process of _ disenchsut: ment which many Norihern travelers experi ence, perticularly thoso who como by railroad. o most ardent {rionds of Florida must edm unb:; that ihis ra ‘preposscssing o wroach tothe land of promise ; and tho mudnight cold ‘Tpon it s something likelyto bo had in remembrance,” When wa crossed it, however, we had & stove, which wexa emall imitation of Neb ‘s furnsce to¥eep us in heart, Othervwise there s a great deal of truth ‘in our-frlend’s allegations. As we lLave eliewhero - remarked, every- place, liko . bit of £lde ‘and its wrong eide ; and sldo, with its ‘tags, end rags, snd seams, and kuofs, snd . thrums of warsted; and the right side, with its pretty picture, It is true, as the Docfor says, that somo in- wlids - do ’come - herc, *_exposo . themsolves im. rodently, snd ' dle: People do- dio in Florida, if they uve the means, quite as su ly as in Few York It ia truo that cometimes the ther- mameter stands at 70 at noon, and that;the nights aro much cooler; 4t i3 trus we ‘have somotimes sovern Sroets 12 Florlda; it Io truo wo Lavo malaria ; it is truo that there are swampa in Florids and it Is quite apt tobe truo that, if a man rides a hundred miles through sawanp at night, he will feel pretty chilly. AL theeo ars -undeniablo truths. We ‘mever primded “fhot Florida waa the Kingdom iasez, or tho land where they shall mo more am mick.” It {s quite thoroverse.: People 14 very winter Liave in our neighborhood had severo preumonta; and undoubtedly many have come to Florida eeking health, and have not found it Tet, on the other hand, {hereare now living fn Florks & mny old estsblizhed citizens and land-owners, ‘whocame here ten, twenty, and thirty years ago, given orerin consumption, who have here for years enjoyed § ® bippy and vigorons life, in spite of Okefiokee #f Swamp and the malaria. ey Tadonbtedly tho comstry would be much better to Eretn if there wereno swemps and no malaria ; and £3,21s0, Kew England’ would be better to live In if there were not six months winter and tbros more month of cold weather thero, As to it fanot Becasnry to rouse Maphattan Ialand under water to ¢ st In and sround New Yérk. The new linds in e York will give yon_chills and fever quit as well #Florida; You can find malarial fevers almost any- e fn tho fowns between New York ond New Esven; and it 1s_notartous that many-estates in the Jhlty of New York and Philadelphis sall chiesp. on L2t account, becauso they are aimost 88 malsrious as #e26 Halian 'villas, . Florids 13 not quite 0 bad =a that yet, al- 5 the developmint. of and tn 3 e onp e development. of “in 8 new couniry. Bt maalaril Donsh it has it fovers -hers ‘are of 1 mild P4 12d esstly managed ; snd they are genorally con- jZedto the fall months. The situstion of Florida, by the sea, and the freo sweep of winds | STmounded A0 31, temper the alr, and blow away malarions Inzegard to consumptives and all other tn the Kltence of o Floridian climate depends very much on Lenatury of the case'and the constitution of the indi- I persons suffer- costittionally from cold ; they - are bright and - well. ‘omy weather; if the winter chills ‘ani them, till, I the spring, they ars in thio cone 2 frosi-bitlen hot-house plant,—alive, 1o b ¢ with every. Iesf gone,—then thess persons quite sure that they will be tho better for & Florids, and better still if they can take up on the contrars, personsare debilitated and i Do: weather, una If cool westher em, ves them vigor an suc] sy T mo ot b0 Florida, and ehould be book- escts, or some other drs, cold climate, ?em-eammpum ‘belonging toboth these classes {sitution ; and the coming of ono of the wrang 4t Florida a of no ueo to himself, and s sure to o dscredit on tho country. A littie good common 4 refiection will settle that matter, : theros a form of what pasres for consump- after all, some modification of liver- £0 {ar 2% we have hesnd or observed, for these cases. The diseases hers t5pe; and, thoso who have liver-com- £row worso rather than better. But Classes of persons on whom tho climate of escta Liko n chiarm, RooT® 8> certain nervously-orgunized d; s i Jire a groat deal of open, out-door life. They & o fortable health during thoso months when iy balf theirtime in the .open air, They HfimgoRerticular diseas ; but they have no great re- *rength, and cannot battlo with severe weather, flfl-!bt‘g:mk!nmwm‘m or on ommy dsye, without rirking mofe barm Y gt good, Su TE T sfzggg f 7 £ there, B 1 £ A 4 B, I H i .Sa i} i3 88 S erg.ecp themeclves up, For want of the erelss which ustaing them in summer, ap- __l-lecpm {zil them. They have restless Sid digestion, and Jook znsously to the ter a5 the only relief, For such how They watch tho simapac, Tho sun $hs"Auys grow o minute longer; 2nd by. “But by what cruel irony reh ever called spring 7 FROY-atorma and - wind-storms on ba eodurance, The long ngony of .k tho -point with many & *an who has borno pretty well the regular T Ad muh wok, 4T bear gt Tty 50560 December. 1 dom't £ : Felrnary tives mo s little; but I face by March I begin to eay, ‘Well, if RPTelty soom, 7. ghall; T can't get muich Ry o O besvlest enow-storms and most e, 0ften reserved for March; and to o e d it Bes given tho firal thrust | 1t 44 tho Py ks tho camel's back, But after % Eagland, comoe Lpril, utterly untrust— Tith 10 ‘nosured outdoor iife for a [‘:fien._ Astothe month of May, tho poet 5 vely Poem ridiculing tho pocts who tho Independ- | songs. Mother Natvre 18 represented as thus sddress- ingthom ¢ “* Bince you have thus combined, ene satd, ¢ My favorite nymph fo alight, Adorning ay, that peoviah With June's indoubted right, The minx, cursed for your folly's sake, SipLIEove horself & shrow; ‘mako your scrib) And bita Jour noses blag.n S 0% ‘Which she generally docs, : : ot fs 1ot really till June that delicatels-constitnted 0# OF persos of impaired vigor, really feol them- perzoz delves out.of prison. They have 'then sbout fve months at most in which they can live an open-air life, before the prison doora close on them again. Now, thio persons who' would bo most besiefited by coming to Florida are not the Sesperately dlscased, tho confirmed _consumnptives, but those of emch im- paired physical vigor that they arein dangerof becom. ingso. An ounce of prevention. hare is worth many pounds’ of cure.’ It is too often the .came that. the caro and expense . that might Bove prevented the disease from metiling ars spent in vain after 4t hes' onco fastened. - Bad it is Indoed {0 sec the wan and wasted faces, a0d hesr tho holiow death-congh, of thosa who havo been ‘bronght hore too lute, Yet, in hundrods of instances, yes, in thousands, whoro o mors sovere Northern winter wonld have fastened, disonso on tho vitals, a winter in » Southern climato has broken tho spell. The climats of Florida is” also of peculiar advantage n Sl dlecses atisndod by nerrous escilabils, The oir i pecullarly eoothing and’ tranquilizing 4t 1 the veritable lolos-cater’s p fall of' quiet and reposo. We hevo known cases where tho eleep Jessnes of years Lea given way, under thia balmy in- fluence, to the most childlike habit of slumber, For_debility, and” the. complaints that spring from debilily, Florlda is not so good a refugs, per. Dbops, ss eomo more morthern point, like Alken, | Tho 'sir herd fs scothlng, but mof particularly bracing. It builds up and strengtbons, not: by any tonic offect in itaelf somuch ns by tho oppors tunity for constant open-alr ife and cxercise which it : “For children, the climate cannof bo too much’ prapsed. Tn otr Litls nefghborliood aro, even about 83 lively youngsters as could often be met with; and the winter - hag ono - long._ out-door - play-spell. \Thero bhas not been: a runnin; 2 t-wharves; in the .boats, ich thoy manage a8 dexterously as litle Sandwiche Ielanders; fiahing, catching crabs, or off after flower, in the woods, with'do troubio of bat), slcet, or wet feet. “Traly it ia a child's Eden; and they grow 'and thrive’ accordingly, - ) -Now a3 fo maleria, That is a.word.req consideration to those who expect Florida n for thoso who como to spend winters meraly. Thereis 00 malaria in winter ; and Dr, G— may bo consoled in reflecting that frost always-destrogs it ; so- that, hen tho tasrmomoter i 15 1o ss7e 3¢ 30 dogreon, thereis no danger, oven though ons bein the same State with forty swamps, 1In fact, for ourselves, wa prefer.a cool winter such s ber-like winter, when it fs warm fn_the middlo of the dsy, and oné can enjoy s bright heartl morning and nfguts, is the most favorable to out-door exerciso and 10 health. - Bat merely ta come o Florids, and idls awsy Hime at the L. James or the B¢, Augustine Hotel, taking no Tegular exercise, and having no emplogment for mind or body, 1 noway to improve by being Lere, It s because the climsto gives opportunity of open-air ex- exclse that 13 5o favorabie; but, if ono neglects oll these opportunities, ho mey gain very little, It cannat be 100 often impressed on_strangers. com- ing hiere that what cold there is* will bs more keealy 1elt than in a Norihern climate, “Persons should vary thelr clothing carcfully to the varying_ temperature, and be quite as careful to go warmiy clsd as in colder States, “In our furnace-heated houses at the North, we generally wear thick woolen dresses and_under- fannls,” end kecp up o tempersture of from 70 to B0 degreea. Iy the Gouth, wo move in much lower temperature, and have only the open fire Upon the hearth. It is thercfors imporiant to go warmly clad, and particularly to keep on flannels untl the warm weather of April becomes a sottled thing, - In regard to the healthfulness of Florida, some things sreto bo bornein mind. Ina Stato that has {he " reputation o invall - many < iy 1ok refas of course, many die. Yet, il latasding t lows from Tocie s, Bcred of 1660 ahowed that the number of deaths’ from pul- monary complaints is 1ess to the population than inany Btato of the Unfon. In Massschusetts, the rate s ono in254; in Californta, ono in 217; in Florids, one in 1,447, Surgeon-Gen, Lawson, of the United States Army, 12 hig roport, asserts that “The ratio of deaths to the Dumber of Cises of remittent fovers has been much less smong e troops serving In Florids than in other ‘portions of the United States, In themiddle division, 1o proportion 12 one death to 38 cases of fover ; in thy nortisern, one t063; in Texas, one t078; in OCalifor- nia, one fn 192 3 while tn Florida it 1s one fn 287, Such ptatistics 2 these sro moro reliabls than the limited obscrvation of any one individual, In re- gand to suddon changos of climate, Florids is cortainly D0t 40 all parts ideally perfoct. There are, ot times, grest and” sudden. chenges there, but 5ot by any means 26 much £0 83 in most ofhor Btates of tho Union. P Sudden changes from hect to cold mre the be- setting &in of this fallen world. Xt s tho stapla subject for grumbliog among tho invallds who visit Italy; £nd, in fact, {t is probably one of tho consequences of ‘Adam’s fill, which we are Got toba 1id of ti}l wo get o tho land of pure delight, It may, however, comfort the hearts of Visitors to Florids, 1 Jmow tht, if the climate hera is not in this respoct Just what they wauld heve it, it 1a about the best thers is going. £5%ts will bo made quity clesz o any ono who will study tho taldes of observations on’ feme perature conttined in “Tho Guide to Florida,” Whero they can ses an sccurato accomnt of tho Tangs of th thermometer for five succossive years, os mpared with that in other States. cannot be to0 often reltersted {0 peoplo who come {o Fiorida ; -and that {z, that thes must ot expect ot onco Lo Jeeve Lehind' thom ail sickmess, 80r70w, paln, inconvenience of any kind, and to eater - at once on tiie rest of Parzdi M <o One thing 2dite, . ; ‘Tne happiness, after a1, will ‘have to bo com- pamative; . and the” inconvenicnces | ‘ere - to o borne by reflecting how muck greater inconveniences araavoidod. For instance, when we have ' days' damp, drizzling rain-storm down here, wo must reflect that, at the North, it isa driving snow-stormn, ‘When itis brisk, cold weather here, it is an {ntoleruble freszo there, The shadow mnd reflection of all fm- «portant changes at tho North travel down {ousin timo. The unexceptionably. cold winter atthe Noria haog put our sesson here bick a month behind its ususl epring-time. The starms travel dowmward, coming o us, generally, a littlo latar, and in modified form. - Wo carinot better illustrato this"thon by two expe- |, | bird-singing; and it waa s most heavenly morning, Wy | - L2 L8 seronest cyes tho tender walked out 15 the calun, dewy freshness, to gather low ‘rences this year. Easter morning we wora waked b ersto dross our house,—tho only church we have now in which to hold services, In the low swamp-land near our home i3 a perfoct fleld of hlue iris, whose _bending Jesves were all beaded with dew ; and we ‘walked in among admiring tke wonderfal vivid- ness of thelr coloring, and gathering the chalceat to £l nlargs vase, Then wo cut varbeuss, wlite, scarlob and crimson, roso-geraniums and myrilo, callas snd Toses ; while slready on otr table were vases of . yellow Jessamine, gathered the night before, The bluo St. John'a 13y in misty bands of light and shade ia thodistance; and the mocking-irds and red-birds wers xinging a loud Te Lieum, - Now for:tho North. “A friend in Hariford ¥ #1 was awaked by tho patter of anow and sleet on the | ° -window-psne, Not a creature could go ont to ch the storm was 80 severo; even tho Insh wero obug:{ 10 Keop housed. -With all we could do with s furusce and moming-glory ‘stove, we could not get ho tom- ‘peraturs of our hoiise above 55 degrzes.” In the latter part of the day we st Mapdarin had ome rongh, chilling winds, which were the remains of iho Northern Ezster atorns ;- but we wero wiso enough to rejoico in tho good we had, instead of frelting.at the shadow of evil, A The last chapter locksyinto et - THE LABOR QUESTION and the lnborers of the South. Whois to do the work? Chinese? Swedes? Germans? “Lot us look at the facts: : A ‘The thermometer for these thres days pest has risen ‘over 90 every dsy. No white man that we know of dares stay in tho fields Ister than 10 o'clock; then Lie Tetires under shade, to take somo other and loas-cxpos- ing work, The fine white sand is blistering' ot; one ‘might fancy that an égg would cook, a3 -on Mt, -Veru- Yius, by siimply burying it in the sand. Yet the black Laborers whom we leave in tho ficld pursns their if anything, more actively, more chearfully, than during the cdcler months. Tho sun awskes all their igor snd all their’ boundicss jollity, When thelr nooning timo comee, they kit down, Dot in the shade, Dut in some good hot place in the sand, snd eat their lunch, and then stretch out, hot and comfortable, to tako "their noon alesta’ with of the sun upon them, Down in tho swami Iand pear our house, wo have watched old Simon as from Dour’ to bour hs drove his wheelbarrow, heavy with blocks bonk, and deposited it, “Wh The question provokes an explosion of Isughter, :Y;h.lh-h. o, ho, ho, missea ! It bo hot ; dl.tulg;ho, 10 1™ 3. - ¥y “% How can you work 807 T ezt even think ol can do such hard work: under sach a sun.” “Dat g0 ho, ho! Lodies ean't: no, dey can't, blees you, ma'am | #' And Simon trundies off vith his bag Tow, chuckling 1 hia might ; comes up witt: smother Joad, throws it down, and chuckles . A Nttla Iaugh goes a great way with Simon; for a bailing spring of content 1a ever welling up within, One tremendouely hot day, we - remember stoamer stopping at Fernandins, Owing fo- the state of tho tide, tho wharf was cight or fen feet sbove the boat; aud the plank mado s steep in- clined plane, down which a mountain of multiferions Ireight was 10 be shipped on our boat. A gang of ne- grocs, great, bravny, muscular fellows, seemed to make's perfect frolic of this job, which, under such a s, would have threstened smnstroks o any wiite Tow man, and ‘ehout d jab- and gwested ehirts ugh, as one after snother reccived bn- their shouldera great bags of cottonsoed, or boxes £nd bales, and ran down the steep plans with them in, fothe boat! At:last, & low, squat giant of a fellow, with thelimbs and musclesof agrest dray-horse placed himself in front of a large truck, and wade his falows vl it bigh with cottonbags ; thes, Lolding ack with a prodigious force, he took {he load stezdlly - p pline Gl within s litde ‘of tig bottom, when ho dashed suddenly forward and landed .\ihfll;ump;h.:dbg:;. Ttgs{:’:,:'otqgmdn sirength hs re again and again, running up each fime apparently an. fresh a6 if Moibing bad bele pened,—shouting, lsughing, g quarts of water, and sweating lito a river-god, Never was harder work donio in s moro jolly spirit. i .. Now, when onlo sees such sights as theso, one may-bo - pardoied for thinking that the negrois the natural la- ‘orer of tropieal regions. He ia immensely strong ; De thrives and fiourithes phyeically under a tempers: turo that exposes a white man to diseaso snd desth, The malariel fevers that bear 80 hard on the white Face have less cffect on the me To® it m-a¢ ' ar t %o mokes: ent home, buf Laving no terrors’ this Lias been. An Geto- . firo on -the | 1o moro than one black family sbout us and multiply, and besr healthy chilaren, {n eituations ‘whero the White raco deteriorate anc grow sickly, Bt of 18 atg, by Northarn smen, who come down with Northern habits of labor, that tha negro & inefi- clent as a laborer. P 1t is to be conceded that the influence of climate and constitution, and tho past- benumbing infiuences of slavery, do mako fhe habifs of South. ern Iaborers very diffcrent from.the habits of Northern men, necustomed, by. {ho. shortness of summer and the length of winter, to sot the utmost ¥aluo on thieir working time, .. ..... In the. Gouth, where growth .goes on all the year round, thero really is no need. of ihat intense, driving gaergy and vigilaico it o of tlmo that at neoded 6 short summers of the North ; an .equal it can bo done with l2aa labor. 2 R * Bt the Northern man, when ho first arrives, befors Iooks with impatient him tho slow abily- abally Black - and white move on. . It takes an aftack of malarizl fever or two toteach him that he connot Iabor the day throngh e der a tropleal sun ea be can in- the mountains of New Hempshire, After.s shake or two-of this kind, ho ‘comes £o be thankful if- ho can hiro Gudjo or Pompey to plow and hoe-in-his fields throngh the blating hours, oven thongh hey do mot plow snd hos ith all the alacrity of Northern farmers, - , . . The untrained -plantation-hands and their ehildren aze, and will be, Sust whal education may. meko them.' 10 education whick-comes to them from the tate, from bein, 60 -and. voters, able fo make cons trscte, choose locations, ond pursno their own courss 1iko other men, is a great deal ; and it 18 operating con- sisntly nd eniesciously. : 2 ‘o give the judgmont-of & practical farmer, nccus- tomedto hire iaboremat fhe North wnd the Bowhs sag, 3 & result of five yosrs’ experiment on this fub” ject, be siss that tho..negro lsborer, carerully looked ofter, 1a a8 good as any that can be Lired at the North, In somo s, they aro better, As a_class,‘they nt, better natured, more joyous, znd axo more o easily satisted. ‘The question aa to- whether, on_tho ‘whole; the ne- groes are valuable members of soctoty, and increasing the material wealth of tho State, i3 best nnswered by the returns of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Com- Plny,—tn institation under tho patronage of the Gov- The report of fhe institntion for the year 1673 s be- forous; tnd from this it appears that negro laborers in the different Southern Btatea have deposited swith - this Trust Company this year the qum . of |$31,260,409 1 The report also shows that, year by sear, thoamount deposited has Incroased. “TAus, " tn 1807, it was only 624,883; in 1868 1t was $3,000,000 0dd ; ‘In 1658 it wan 2| $7,000,000 and oad ; in 1870, $12,000,000'=nd odd; in 1871, $19,000,000 snd odd, ' - Theaa results are conciutive to tho fact that, as o bads, the Southern laborers ard a thrifty, induatrious, pvaieing set; “and, buch ‘sa they afe braved by th 1aTge evidence of thase f such wo have observed thom in our more Limited expéricnce. Our negro laborers, with all the incyitable dofects of imperfect training, ignorance, and the negligent ‘habita induced by elavery, have sill been, a8 a whols, astisfactory laborars. Tliey keep thefr contracts, do their work, and save their gs. We could poln steadily grow- ing up to competence by industry and eaving, All that {s wanted to supply the South with a set of tho.most desirable akilled laborers Is simply education, The negro children are bright ; the bo i octle race who both can and will bear it for them, tliey thraw sway their best clisnco of success {n a most fooliah man- ner. Nocommunity that properly and carefully educates tho negro children now growing up need complain of having an {dle, thrifticss -population avout them. Common achools ought to prevent that. The teachin in common schoola ought 10 be largaly {nduatrial, anq do whst ft can to prepare the childran to get o Hving by doing something wall. Practical sewing, cuiting, and Aiting, for girls, and the general principles of ag. ricnltury £or boys, might be taught witls advantage. ‘Tho negroes are’ largely accvscd of being thiovish «nd dishonest. A priori we ihould expoct they would bo s, We ahould imagine that ta labor without wages. for geners Ltions, fn s state of el dopendence, would o confuss every idea of right and wrong that tho negro Would be hopelesa thicf. 5 Our own experience, howover, 1s duo ia justico to those we have known. On tho fizst plantation, as we bave sald, there were sbout thirty families from sl the different Southern States, Itmight be supposed tlat they wore ® fair mample, ¥ Now sa to facts, It was tho habit of the family to 80 0 bod nights, and lesve the house doors unloaked, and oftcn standing wido open. The key that locked {he provisions hung up in a very nccoasible place ; and J6t DO robbery was ever committed. e used {0 set the broakfast table over night, and leave it with all the allver upon it, yot lost nothing. ' In our own apartment we put our ringa and pins on our toleb-cusiions, aa hud . becu our ibit. We had bits of bright calico and ribbons, and othor attractiye articles, Iying abont ; and the gir] that id the chamber-work was usually followed by tribe of litle curious, observing negroos; and yet we mever missed 6o much 24 a shrod of calico, Neither waa this becauss they did not want them ; for the gife of & strip of_calico ar ribbon would throw them into raptures ; and it was eimply that they did not stesl. Again : nothing is-moro common, when we visit at the North, than to have the complaint made that fraft is atolen out of our gardens., Wehave hnd people tell us fhat the vexation of hating fruit carried off was 50 great, that it ook awuy all the pleasura of o gnrden. Now, 00 fruit is mors besutitul, more tcmpting thon tho orange. Wo livein on oranfe grove, surrounded by nmegroes, and _yet uever 'bavo any trouble - of’ fhis Xind, We lave offen eccn boga of fine organges Iylng all night under the treen; S0 yok neves. Bah we ek with S0y peacerie L] Qertainly it s due to the negvocs that wa have known f0.€ay that thoy aroabove tha average of many in the wwor claszea at tho North for Honesty. Wo havo now for the sreruge négro; what e have: £aid ia by no meurs (o Lest that coa with truth be sald of tho finer epecimens ameng them, . Wo know somo whose dignity of.ckarzcter, deliczcy, good %)orhdple, and gonerosity, ars admiralle, and mors o be sdinired Lecauso thene fine trsits’ havo come up under the most, advezse InJcaving this subject, wo have caly o ra copriction that the prosperity of tho more. Southern States must depend, ina largo degrer, on Jno right treatment and cdueation of the negro population, —_—— THE FUTURE. LIFE. T Bles] And perishes among the dust e tread 2. . ForX ehall fecl the £'ing of cesseloss pain - - 1f thioro I mect i gontls prezonce not, - Nor hear the-voico I love, nor read-agaia’ tbenght, W3l not €y own meex heart domand me there,— - That heart whote fondest throbs to mo wese given 7 2y name on' earth was everin (hy prayer, » +"~And wilt thon never utter it in Heavent ~ - ‘TheTove that lived through all tho storiny past, Axtd meckly with 1wy harsher nataro bore, - And deaper grew, and tenderer, to ihe last, “Shall it expire with life, and be no more 7 £ happler lot than minc, and larger light, - * Avait theo there ; for thou hast boved {hy will . In cheerful homags to the rule of right, . _And lovest all, and render¢st good for il ¥ef, though thon wear'st tho glory of the sk, t thou not keep the samo beloved nswe, . . The same fair, thovglit fal brov, and gentlo £ye;— { Lovelier in Heaven's sweet climate, yet {he saze? Blalt thon ot teach me, tn that calierhome,” . The wiedom that I learnt 80 il 12 this, The wisdom which is love,—fill I becomo - . Thy fit companton in that land of bliss ? Witliam Cullen Bryant. - - <4 e The Czar Nickolas, ' From™ Gen. Joseph W. Revere’s ‘‘Keel and Baddle; & Retrospect of Forty Years of Militery aod Naval Service,” wo quote a-cletch of what he ‘saw in 1852, whon his vessel, tho frigate Constitution, was in the Larbor of .Cronstadt, A- Government barge, under the command of a Ruesian nayal officer, vialted the ship, Ho 88; 3 SWhfle the Rusaian officer was engaged in tha cabfn, several of the boat's crew ascended to tho'déck, and smong them the coxswain, a tall man in the dark green uniform of that humble office, and bearing no other insignia of rank than tho silver chavrons of & fitty officer, This person_walked round the ship, descend.:zlg to the main deck, where ho minntely inspected tho battery and othor warlike sppurtenances. Ho evidently wishod to remain_unobscrved; but his imposing stalure aud noble air did not fail to command attention. z % y Our old North Sea pllot at last observed this incognifo seaman, and reported to the officer of 1ho deck that a personsge.of tho highest rank in Russia was on board, and the Capiain was im- ‘mediately apprisod of his presence and atatlan, Our commanding officer at once comprehended and respected the wishes of the unknown, but directed such preparations to be made quictly as aro customary when a personage of his condition is received. : ““In duo time, the Russian officer came on the qr k; his boat was manned at his re- quest, and, the tall stranger having taken his Placo at tho helm, the boat shoved off from tho ship. : ‘¥A= soon as this was done, the shrill call and . hoarse summons of the boatswain were -heard ; 8 few active topmon sprang aloft, the life-lincs -wera rove and tho yards manned, sud the thun- der of our thirty-tios burst forth in an imperial salute, the Russian standard at the main. . All tho ships-of-war around us, aronsed by the re- pozt, instantly bogaa their proparations ; - and, fore theraverberationsof our guns had céased, their yards were manned, and their cannon an thoso of tho castlo prolonged the deatening ac- claim. The bargo lay for a fow moments abreast of our ship. The tall coxswin Tose from his seat at the tiller, ang gracefully lifted hia cap in acknowledgement. He was Nicholas, Czar of all the Russise,” —_—— —Amterican children have received a severe re- proof from Lord Dufferin, who has been re- viewing, educaticnally, Canadisn . yonths.” Ho was struck, Le seys, while on the St. Lawrenco steamboat, by tho astonishing rudeness of the children pleying about tho docks, and also by the 1iotal“oblivion 'their parents' had of their rudoness. ‘ When I venturod to make an obser- vation on this to the people with whom I was traveling, T was told that these pleasing little in- dviduals camo k"gm the Americon mide of the AP Friabn EN RAPPORT ON THE RAILS, From the Galazy for May, +Is this seat engaged ?” 4 As Iam one of that minority of the traveling public which does not put body on’one seat, feot on another, and beg on a third, I. replied, * No, Bir.” If tho ““no” was abrupt, the ““sir” was conri- eons, echoing tho satisfaction -with which I Judged that my companion on the railroad was & desirable one. In & moment more we heard the Iast of that song with its suggestod accompani- ment of polito frand, *Plen-n-n-ty of room in the palace car, gents,” and a dozen of the Amer- ican public, who could not find tho sasts. they had paid for in- the ordinary .cars, were trooping after ‘the emooth, fat, yellow follow—host of the palace car, to pay fitty cents ‘or one dollar. more for the transportation they- bad slready purchased. “We poor subjects of an unlimited monarchy ! 7 And my companion turned to me with the joint exclamation and interrogation st to a satirical smile. | i ** Bupporting how many royal families; Van- derbilts, Fisks, Tweeds, Goulds, and Pullmans 7' Tadded. - s - - #Yes, yea ; but I introduced an unpleasant subject ; excuse me.” . And my fellow-passenger gravely .bant : hia head as one might ask & blessing. - All the-features of the outskirts penorama wero too familiar to interest me, so I politely studied him in the seat with me,—to tho gen- cral observer only & good-looking man of sociaty, 8 gentloman of fino eize, and build, simply clothed in the fashion, roturning appas- ently tohis country sest for & Sabbath’s rost from the suits'he was conducting in court, or from tho duties of a counting-room. Hia man- ner and first words had pleased me. . I have al- ways pridod myself on an ability to read snd ‘place, with but brief observation and study, those. who amuse or profit me in the occasional cur- rents of travel, or in the continuous vast stream that burries and whirls us all along, a motley, joatling crowd, from the cradlo to the gravo, Immediately there was that consciousness of en rapport that "one- sometimes’ finds introducing and uniting him to an ntter stranger, no loger 80 from the first flash or circuit of invisible sym- pathy, and T suddenly conceived a strangs inter- est or curiosity in my near neighbor. -After the few worda we had exchanged, and he had arranged his few traps and glanced over a book in band, ho sottled himself to a comfort- able ropose; not to ‘eleep, but merely, I sup- Ppose, to enjoy » little rest and quiet of mind after's hard day’s businessand & July after- noon’s walk.. One hand rested in the bosom of his vest, the other lay-holding the book on his knees. His head fell forward a little, and so he soemed very passive and comfortable, a3 if tho life we whirled through, the river-course beside us, tho burr of our sweep by bank,” tunnel, and building, the galloping time mttled by our wheels on the - rails—as’ if - theso mades metro to lull and rest him. So it scemed, for there was a satisfaction, almost a smile, *sa smile that was childlike and bland,” as Truthfal James exprassed it, about his well-shaped mouth and chin. Imarked tho breadth and uneven- neas of his forehead, how hia chestnut hair and side-whiskers had tho beginning of gray in them, how large and curved wero the mostrils of & strong noso. I discovered, as I thought, energ and enthusiasm in the lincs of jaw and side face, in the cloar, tanguine, but dark complex- don, traced with veins and nerves. At the flaico, sccompanring his first wordato’ me, was struck by the fiery nobleness, a8 I resd it, of his eyes, a searching power and strange be- ing tenderness in them. This dignity and h&ufliofl of the cyes were confirmed to mo by bis low, firm, eweet voice. e ‘The opinion I formed in tho ffteen or twenty minutes of contemplation, and afterward from his conversation, was: Here is a man of and in tho world and society, and yot o raro, original, indopendent being, abovo, perbaps, or’ at least & Littlo ono eido from them; at any rate, an in- terosting creature, not the potter's clay, rather the potter. Of course, an ordinary in viduality conld not have impressed & follow-trav- " eler ay he did me in go short a time. AndI+was conscious of a cortain eoxaltation in this railroad chance of malding the acquaintance of and bein; - engaged - by such- a rich, strong character. g wondered whether he was artist, puet, mechani- cian, evangelist, actor, or merchant. ~Hehas, aa I write—more than w0 yearo after that summar aftornoon’s ride—~s placs in another world. o charply was' I'impresscd by my come panion’s nppearance, ' manner, * converation, and Dby—the moro than thoso—a certain aroms or _magnetic halo which I fancied kis personality to exhalo, that my imagination . constructed s romantic theory of his probablo life—sn influence and an enmgle a3 .wholesomo breezes in every alo:a%:mrtcrt ey might chance, No artisan was he i his profession, I mused; but artist in that and the life broader than pro- rexion. S Bp S Sy we' croses uyten el my companion_aroused ‘kimsclf. from ].ur: open- eye nap, and gave atiention to the book in ‘hand; but ‘soon tumed from™ that’ to tho seenery. - My offer to lum of the .soat by the window lad to some desultory remarks, and .thoso passod into & conversation which, béfore wo passed the opposite Palisades, had grown -as werm and earnest a8 tha talk of old friends. * ® Near the south shore of Croton Point, ‘and ‘sbout a quarter of a mile from tho rails, was s sloop zmnginqinn 8 now tack as wo saw it, . In tho aoftening light, o little in-the shadow of the land, gionfly touched by s reflection of the west- ‘ern sky, and caught but for a glance as she -|-tomed "to & new course, and weran between tho vel banks- that open with a dry yawn ri;htgnle the baso of the Point, ’uhe seemed 8s & shape - geen in the clouds, ‘sa 5 fading mirsge—a mysterions unreality faintness encompassing her s the atmosphers of somo phentom craft. - S What s pretty illusion 1" exclaimed my com-. panion, with a igh, s it the sight was 00 ‘quickly shut oak. . **Yes,” Iangwored, ‘like’ a briof ‘dream, & shadow in the water, a.refloction from some river of tho spirit world;” and I gave-s half Iaugh as a sort of apology for my roman N * (Heretofore in this narrative I have not given our conversation, but only suggasted its char- acter and fervor. Now, however, I write the ‘words exactly as spoken.) Thon my companion, furning himselt to me and throwing his arm along the back of the seat ‘behind mis,—an unconscious gesture that seemed | to tako me into his mind’s cmbrace,—said witha Bweet, nervous smile, and a tone of somo hesi- tancy, lowering his voice and slowly, carefally uttering his words: ) *“That little picture impresses yon exactly as it doos me—your words .aro just what mine would . be. But much -more than this something 80 strangely sympathetio between you, good sir, and me, _strangors, it would seem, ever befors this after- 100D, moves me to narrate an incident which the sight of that phantom-like boat recalls. . The— epi—yes, I will call it episode—remains with me an ineffaceablo impression, and yet this is the first time I have mentioned it.” Bome doubt— some instinctivo sentiment that I cannot ans~ lyzo—some involuntary check that has come tpon me whenover. I Liave been on the point of attering it—has hitberio prevented me from re~ peating the facts I was a witness to, actor in, I may say. This repugnance, if I may 60, Waa'not at all euperstitious, for the in- cident had nothing in it ghostly b me, nothing oppressive or fearful, ~only very strange; unaccountable _ certainly sccording -to our rosent lights, but suggesting only = vigorous Fatn of speculstion” to my thoughts. However, 40 give you my little story : I was invitod a. year ago - this emmmer—by. the way; in this same ‘month of July—to join a young friend of mine, my nephew, in s consting Voyage in his yacht, 1 gladly accepted, and becamo one of a small but very dplwnnt party for a fortnight's cruise. We ran down to the Chesapeske, had some charming tripainits waters, stopped at Fortreas Monroe, en- tirely escaped bad weather, and in every m&m - Jjoyed ourselves fully. My nephew is somel g much better than a ‘mere idle young man of wealth. He follows as an artist “his fession of literature, is & man of mach information, education, and conversational power, and; as his life is pure and his manners dignified, he makes & dolightful host. To balance the sweetnoss of three .Isdies and o beau of society, ho brought on the trip E—, ons of our most brilliant law- yore, the Rev. Mr. C—, whose wife was one of our Iadias, and this old fogy myelf. However, my ehort story bus nothing to do with any of those. Our sailing-master, thongh paid by. the month, and one of the best yacht eailors in New York harbor, was a gentleman equal social- 1y to the beat of us. He comes of one of the it families Iu the country, but is Poor and cra- 2y on everything marine. To sailing many achts in summer he joins boat-building in win- tor, and ses-painting at all times. Heiss gen- tlemanly oriei ¥ =1 ST * .| that I most enjo; of © ‘bumor in sction and i Wi o of my ‘nephew his: guosts, I must gay yed our sailing-master. On that trip, often besido him, helm hs hang eud pipo in mouth, I learned some yaluable lessons iz life 4rom him, my junior, and the fun he seagoned them with was & cure for heactachs or dys- Ppepsia. ¥ % T i *This Archie C—, our eailing-master, had a brother, Lis elder, a Captain in: tho merchent servico, If aver one man was proud of aod do- voted t0 another; it was Archie aad his brothor. He 8pun yarus Of him throogh many a night's wateh, and I grow to know tho murchmk%lp tain g0 well that I believe I should have recog-. :A’izcfl him' soywhere in & crowd, ot ses or on & | now I am brought to the real story, asT maysay.: <. “ Our pleasure-trip nearly fl.m‘abedmwe lazily dipped aud rollod one moonlight night off Dar- Begat, - All had turned in excegb chibiald by’ the helm, the watch forward, and I, who, as was my custom, enjoyed an anfe-somnum. stroll and mmoko.on deck. I had planned for & chat. with our master, bat could not get_many words: from -him -that night, slogpiness or, other.causo, he was in his sholl. In tho g8 of ‘my pacing astorn, 1. threw ont ?“”‘g&."’“" 3 bmzd for bim to Zte-to, but at. length discovered that m; ond Was nappin, by the idle helm, € ? Ul 4 Tn n roverie of- cmmnt thought, T enjoyed the guiot, lonely rocki; g of our yacht, the golden | mistiness of the mooulight, the lazy splashing of the water on our sides, and the low, indolent flnprmg_ now and then of our.canvas. A dim broken line and a hazy ray of light in tho west were thio Jersay shore and lighthouse. Sometimes my ear caniht very low the um of - tho distant" surt. * Nowhere scaward was there a gailin sight, | until guddenly, and greatly to my astonishment, as I wheolod . in my march,. I discover closs.on our larhonrd, and not 400 yards off, a Iarge brig, her eails hanging, and she as idle in the calm a8 we. - She was not there s minate be- fore; of thatI was sure.. AsIgazed in ntter bewildorment T heard a.voica come lear from & figure on her deck : . **Ahoy! yacht ahoy | Is Archis ——aboard ? Tell him—-" - f 2 “ At that instant,_our masfer sprang from his ggfu, cry;z'lg out, “Who calledme? Was it yom, “My attention. distracted, I turned again quickly to the brig. _There was nothing in sight ! —not a mast nor sail on the whole clearly-light- ed expando. 64+ Did you call me 2" continued Archibald, re- peating Lis quostion, and than, with a little sur- priso, sdded, ‘No, it was not o bit like your voice.” - 5, - %, " .44 Ko, T answered in amazement; I have not spoken a word; but—' I Leeitated whether to sy more, when ho continned,. with 8 short Iaugh, but some surpriso or concera : - “"¢\What s dream—vivid as life! Right off | there,” pointing to the spot where tie bri had scemod to mo to ¢ right there thought™ " was s brig a4 03 our little cxaft, -and. a: fellow on deck, - whom I 2w as plainly 1a T 500 you now, Mr, —, hailed s oxactly in Brother Ben’s voice, but husky a Dit— Ahoy! sacht shoy! Is Archio —— aboard? Toll him—," and thou I wake up, and find it all gammori, * Woll, what's the use of being awake, ot enawered 1, trying to hido 3 0]’ answered I, ide my un- comfortable amazement uudexg 8 light inZch—- “Ohol a skipper asleep, aud with nightmare ' *Ho laughed, and losded ¢ fresh pipa, while T steppod forward and asked of the_ watch, ¢ Any eails o sight to-night?" 4 Nary one, air, {0 bless my oyes. Gener- ally they is most plentifull off hera, Oply -seen 8 steamer's smokoe away off starboard an hour of better ago ; that's all this watch, 50 far.’ ¢ Hov strange!” 2 “\{What's that, sir?’ “t Abem. Strange? Why, 80 near harbar, you sce, and 1o sails.” : *F Yog, gir ; rathor g0." . “Tho Captain called up a freah man to relieye him at tho wheel, and ho and I descended to the cabin. Ianid nothing to him of my mystorions de- lusion (a8 much 50 to him &5 to me), and we soan turmodin, I Iay awake some time that night, turning the matter ovor in my mind. It puzzlod me groatly, and many times sinco have I tried to study it out t4 some practical solution ; but—oh, I made an entry of it in my diary the next morn ing—here it is now.” ity m oo inside pockethe drew onta emall note-book, and turning over its pages for a fow- seconds, o handed it £0 mo at this item : “ 21a¢ July, 1870.—About 11:45 p. m., off Bar: negat, hailed'by . . 11" ercly a 1memorandum, of sigokicance to no ono but jts writor. * Twrelvo hours afterward,” ho continued, as T returned the note-book, wo wero landed in Now York. Returncd to my usuel work and theeo almost daily trips by rail, I somatimes re- called that incident of tho y: havo eaid, Inovor ropeatad it experienco to avy one. Iwantedto keep it all to myself until I might pick out its meaning. And now tos chence_compabion, X hand it for his considera- 'tion. Is it.an intoition or moere chanco that . brings us 5o eu tapport ? -t * Howerer,. - to - resume ~ the. story”—I. Had bowed my. head and smiled a recognition of his implied compliment, bat, much_absorbed in “the narrative, end supposing it unfinished; had spoken no words to-delny its continucnce~‘to resumo the story. One morning, ‘early in Sep- -tember, as I ren down to the 7 o'clock -train to Now Yorl, I bought- the Times, 28 nsual, and my " eves happening . accidentally on ¢ Marine Intelli- genco,’ 1 resd st. tho close of its column this ‘pursgraph.” ‘Hero . he ngain handed me his Siary, marking o page iih. hia fager. On this pago there was pasted a Erinud sljj under the written dato of Bept. 5.1t ‘read: “The brig Racer, —— master, lost at sos - July 21, in command of Rollinson, firat mate, from Singapore and Padang, arrived 2d and anchored on th bar ; ceo upthis - ., and re- ports passed Capd of Good Hope June 27, and crossed the cquator July 18 then had light winds from S.'E. to'N. W. to Iat. 6. On after- noon .of 21st took & hurricane from W.S. W.; veering dontifually until near miduight, vhen it -struck s fercely from B, W. . Bligpod hoavy seas that stovo bulwnrks, ssils, -and bow and stern. The rolling broke loose s, top spar that ‘struch the Captain and kmocked him into tho sea. The blinding spray-immediately - shirt -him from' sight, but n6 bot conld have been lowered in the sea then running, and probably the Captain was instantly killed by the blow.” - . :Forcibly impressed, I looked up from the book to my companion’s face, mutely asking him to proco S ,%“ Do you notice the coingidence of-dites in this and in my former entry 2” ko saked, ind stretched out hia hand for the diary. = “Yes,” I 68id ; * go on.” , * Well, - what- romping is meagre and gives no ‘clue to the unravelmont we dosire. Boon _ after..I _calld on Archibald in Tonth stioét. Ho “was ettlod for {ho wintér at hisstudio, Hisbrother's doath bad wounded him deeply. . Ho gavome all the particulars that he hsd obtained from Rollinson, the mato. They wers but littlo miore complete than the news- apor paragraph.” What surprised mo was that B ke forgotten his dream on the yackt, or had failed to notice the idontity of dates. ' At any Tate bo eaid not sword of thoso—seemed not fo connect tho two evonts in his mind ; and I did not-wishto call his attention to shem. Bo the matter remains to this day.” When & fow moments of silence had followed m; com?mlon‘u , 1 asked, drawing a long Beaath, And, uirmlt concluvions do you draw from that remarksble experienco?” - “ Nona eatisfactory. _And you, myfriend, how think you of it? - But first, is it not'a little sin- ar that I should lay open this subjoct for the gnr:z and only time to you? Entire strangers until a while ago I took this seat beside you, sud"now we are o0 closely drawn togather that I havo exposed o very secret drawer my tal gesgions, ~ Wel rhaps of my ‘men 1, Eu-nl;x may_be able to see throg, zv?fiu:."! can't explain #.” He looked st Lis watch as he spoke. We were but a few miles from Peekskill by this time. I asked another question : Ao you s beliover in spirituslism " T can't answer you, sir, as Ido_not really understand what spirituslism is. I know.of deceplions, excltameats, ssparstitions, dle tals, delusive exhibitions, and—and—sleighls of itled spiritualism, magnetic allractions, an g:'od umbugs. At the same time I Trotot doubt The - evidenos of ecmo very 80, very good, and very homest people Tho! haed, Sporieds 88 1 Buvo Jast “dono, experiences of som of the mysterics labeled in that way. Beized a8 a religious system, it seems fomo s feeble plank. . Parsonally I have never koown of any other spiritual (if that is the term) communication than thitT have namated. ~By tho way"—bere ho pasused for & moment in" fhoughi—* by the way, T wonder if my interest awhile sgo ln the first chapter of the book I have iz my band may not have induced—that and the picture we Eaw Jjust south of Croton Point—my confidential rovelations. The first chapter of Argyll's ‘Beign of Law’ is on the ‘supernatural—vbat itis, Let mo'resd one por- tion of it.” "~ 3 Ivhdlyunan!od. R P *4?Thg Reign of Law in nature is, indeed, so far s we can obsorve it, mniversal. Bat tho common idea of tho eupernatural is that which ia st variance with patural law. above it rvi t trip, but, as I | 227 u’u: little, comparatively, which we know of nat- ively, . para; 03 of na hmng"b'e, sbove and modify the small part- we “Thankyon, my friend ; thatis very well put,” he replied, and continued his reading. . * * Noth- ing, however wonderful, which happens accord- ing to natural law, would bo_considered by any- one a8 superpatural. Tho law in obedience to Which 8 wonderful thing happens may not be ton ; but this wonld not give it & supernat~ ly believe it Hence it that-a man thoroughly of natural law as oni- it mxythmf to bo fac Posscssed of tho iden Vereal, Zoser _oould Bupernatural ; becsuse on secing an t, = over new, marvelous, or. incompre mm'hinx:oxu would escapo into the conclusion that it wag the Tesult of some natural fore been ignorant. . . . Thisis not the, conclusion "of pride, but ‘o humility of mind - . Beeing the boundless extent of- our ignorance of the natural laws which regulate so many of the. ‘phenomens around us, and still mora of tha phe- nomena within us, pothing can be more reasona- blo than to conclude, when wa ses something which is to us a wonder, that.sometiow, if wo goly knew how, it ia'* alright,'—all according to_the constitution and course of mature.’ - He closed his book, and_hurriedly gatting to- ‘gether hig few traps, swinging hia duster on an arm, aud bnttonng his gloves, ho said: And {80, my friend, these facts in my own experiénce 1 cannot explain any mora than I can doubt them. I construct no theory from them. As thoy were, I believo.thers must be some law for them. . But here we aro.” 3 . ‘* What, sir, do you got out here?” I had thought—but a good thought his ticket said * Poughkespate.” evening to you. I am indebted to yourcompany for a—-" % “Yes, yes—a sudden ! 1% Good evening, gir,” and with.real fervor I 2dded from the. warmth of my heart, “Itrnat wo ghall meet again.” ¢ + -That ho answered with a poculiar smile, sweet, flitting, but rather incomprehensiblo, and he was gona. o~ B -4 What a man |" I thought, © what dignity and (quietude of manners! so embracing in his sym- pathies. intelligence! elous narra-‘ tive that. It absorbed me, as indeed did all ha snid. -Ab1how I shall enjoy telling of this for- tunate ride to the company-I am to- dine with fl_)-mnrroAI:d It mIlgh: mlioun lknfildl for ; magazine.” 80 leasantly soliloqmze for soveral miles beyang Peekalill.- But why had I not asked his name? Cartainly his ticket was for Poughkeepsie, I secmed sure of that; what then conld have suddonly changed his plans to leave the train at Pesksiill? : -Howover, what matter to me, except the prema~ ture loss of hia chnminfi;acinty, at he did or did not change his traveling plans?. The. inter- viewlad left moin 5 very pleasant state of mind, 88 when one closes some enrapturing romance and sits looking over it at nothing—an inter- Iudo of sonsation between the romance lost and tho reality to be quickly undertaken. . Iwas con- Bcious, in o remote kind of way, of the soft night settling down on the river gorges of the m":%h. lands. I saw the twinkling tiers of light i Coz- zong', Garrison's dopot, the blaze and..glare of tho Kemblo fonndry; and the short, rattling |° tunnel under Breakneck brogght me. out of Teverio to the open piece of road opposite Corn- wall, anda g upof my sensos to s traveler's reparation to lesvo the cars. - We were nearing ishkill. *In time for tho ferry-boat? Letma see.” - 3 “But my watch. Whereisit? Could T havo loft it on my burean at the hotel? Stupidl stapid! Could itbe possible?” . . 1 tried to recsll events—my dressing, whera I had last ooked at my watch, etc., but they were all in revolving maze. Misersble confusion. There was nothing to do on tho moment but {o telograph trom Fishiill-to the hotel pro- prictor. B . #Fishkill] for-r-r-y to Newburgh 1" . I rushed from the cars before they wera fairly at a slandstill, ran Into the depot, soribbled oif a message for the operator. - * How much 7" *t My pocket-dook: /" Tis pocket, that pocket, vest pocketa, insids, gutside—nowhere. 1 felt 4a if- all my blood, 1t drops like lead, had gone through the pores .of my feet into the ground beucatli. I.jerked. off 1y Liat, peored into it, answered ot fhe wait perplexed telograph operator, but hurried intg the depot-room, hat in hand, with the. wild, ‘wavering look, and scurrying, uncertain steps of s lunatic, 1stoppod_somewhero, my head un- covered, my limbs oll fimay. Aly fingers falt ain for the nccustomed vesi-chain; they clutched somothing, a couple of links, & piece of metal. T grasped tho Litle Lroken bits of jowelry and studied them intontly. What did it mosn? 1 looked up; probably tho eyes of all that trav- ! cling throng wero fixcd on ino with wonder, per- haps amusement. Suddenly & faint, sucering whisper in my brain seemed to gay sgain sn agein londer sud quicker with aach ropetition, then with a whirl of lnughter, * Argyll's ‘Reign of Low.” Hs, ho-a-n-al” Alas! 1 saw it. - Tstambled to o bench and sat down on my— my hat! A eracklig, crumpling report, then a burst of lsughter. I came to my genses and rushed ‘for the ferry., Without accident I Tesched my femily that. - summer . night. My wife never knew me moro quiek. I had no interesting anecdote to tell at noxt day's dinner Darty. My lots that July afternoon om the rails s @ gold hunting watch, value $250; a pocket- book, contents, $93.75; my conceit of - ability o read people, value, .0000. .~ .. 5 . P. S.—Mortification prevented ms from -at- tempting to have myen-rapport ecoundrel ar- rosted ; but now, more than two years after, I latn that he'died Iately in Auburn prison, where prison, he was filling ot o sentencs for forgery. ; dhitibesio i iy “THE LAMB IN THE SHEPHERD'S ARMS. ; "After our child’s untroubled breath Up to the Father took ts way, « Andon our home tho ahads of death, Like o long twilight, hsunting lay, And friends came round with us to weep ‘Her littlo spirit's awift remove, This story of tho Alpine ; ‘Was told to us by one we lova: | They, in the valley's sheltering care, ! Soon crop the meadow's tender prime, , when the sod grows brown and bare, pcEo ehepherd stives to ma¥e them el o ves o green ” - .-That hang along the mountain-side, | - . Where grass and flowers together lean,- - . + And down through mist the sunbeexs glide. . Dut naught can tempt tho timid things ., *That sicop and rugged path to try, 202 Thongh sweet the shepherd calls and sings, . . And eeared below the pastures lis; 24 T4l in e arms thel s e tared long the dizzy vergs to §o,— ‘Then; heodless of the rifts and bresks, . Théy follow on o'er rock snd emow;, "And, in thoss pastures lifted fair, A dey it thae awianet sead, The shepherd drops his lowly care, And sheep and Iambe togeihor feed. This parablo by Nature bresthed 3 Blew on me 35 the south wind frée _ -. O'er frozen brooks that float unshexthéd ¢ | From icy thralidom to tho sea. * " & bllstul vislon, through tbe nigat, - Would all my happy senses mway, Of the Good Shepherd on the hight, * . Or climbing up the starry way,_ ‘Holding our Iittle lamb aslcep; And, Jike the burthen of the ses, Bounded thst voice slong the deepy + Arise, and follow me. 83; y e Proposed Abolition of Gloves. From the London Globe, 3 It seems curious for a8 Frenchman to proficn the abolition of gloves. - And yot Le Sport, which is supposed to the barometer of the ever- varying caprices of fashion in France, gravely s that kida must be done away with, oven on Bate occasions. The eighteenth century de- ised them, therefare there is a precedent for o present. Binco 1789, gloves booame mmocs and moroeb. fashion, and the reason is; suf- ficlently obvious, But th’sguxar their conven- fence in & mixed mociety, fas that of France at the present day, the more.superfinous the iro whoro thero Ja Litlo. dispaniy of Ak Whon you know your man, @18 no obfec- tion 0 hands with him, even withont a glove on, but it would be the height of in-- convenienco to have to wash your hands after every sbake froa a person with “whom yon were For Boquspin Dasclos: v g el bas Ths's tor epl esides, as 2 a small foot, is generally the sign of aristocratic descent, why should 1t be concealed within & vulgar 'integument, where the fingers of the Fanl are on equal terms with the horny ones of leville and BMontmartre. If the.ab- sence of gloves was to bo tho sign of high breed- ing, mafy 8ome unpleasant mistakes would bs 1ikely to doeur, for it is mach _easler to 80 with then to buy thom. Gloves have alws lased ap im ¢ part in human affairs. E‘hny. and stockings, were the favorite mediuma by which poison was conveyed by tha Borgiss, the A , and tho Briavilliers. 1t was eaid (with What trath wo do not pretend fo know) that it was only through the hands and feet that polson could bo _instilled. They have. also played their part in politica. At the time -of the death of Charles X., certain deputies who wers ready to trim at 3 momont's notico used to appear at thoopera in Paris witha yellow glove on ono with, above, ‘or.in violation of | te amount of God's law Iaw of which he bad be |, E?tlfi;:-“' the glove has been ;"f;vbr(!aedwknn are. Many an asphant rushed ha, Py out of the clo’- mtmars he has bmp- Pitilegsly smubbed by an awful dowager, be~ -] cause he haa secured one of those gloves which ho has been Sqacezing all the evening on the if fair"hand of his beloved, tillthe unmendable ;| Foat haa borna testimony to the vigor of his af- | fection. In short, putting sontimentalism aside, it would bo difficnlt 0do without gloves even on tho scoro of eleanliness,’ but perish all the gloves in the world rather than that the mittsns of our grandmothers should agaw come into vogue. - ZokY : : - SPRING, Bhe comes with saft and gentlo tread ; 8ho wears a crown on her besuteous head, Elowers of tha fairest, oveliest hue,— -, % Tbe primroeo paloand the violet blue, ' <" i Her finger glitter with jowels bright,— P L treunbling dow.drope, gemms of Sight, - She leaves her track on the velvet sward § 1A 800g 8ho tesches to very bird. - - {Bad hearts o pleasure haa she begailed. .~ Bay, Bow shall wo greet thia fairy-chfld? . .- Bmiles ever glow on her blushing faco; A wealth of flowers in her path wo tracy ; Bho trips along with a Joyous bound,— A gurland. er tach siop ia found. Wooing T doth gently 3 ‘Her rosy lips with a soft gmn. Pl“l Old Winter frowns as be puses by, - And gives o the world his farewell sigh. . - Beneath the shado of thy golden wing, Ho droops, O beautifal, langhing Spring ! Bleasings attend her where'er she goea; S The hawthorng bloom in the wild hedge-rows ; Tho streams in their clearest crystal giide, | . 5 Tobathio her fect in thelr limpid tide, 3 i And now she visita the stlent dead, é‘fi\lflmzw.;;:rmm&od R T lowers up an 8 grass grows green,. ‘ And the frosta ofgwlgtn 10 MOre are Been; & friends revisit each lonely tomb, ST They murmar, “The angolchild has come,” - - . Thon hence to the city, crowded o'er; - Blolovingly stops at &hch hembls dobr s Moro waloome her smila on esch bare, cold wall - Than tho costliest gems in the festal bali; . . - _ Hearts whero life's Spring was never knows, Eyea where its light hath nevar ahone,’ Now throb and sparkle with blisa untold, . .- : : A3 tho vernal gifts of tho year unfold, : She climbs £o tho lonely Iattice h igh, Whern tho child of misery Tonts &5 dias Woolng with many & winaing 3 ‘Her touch ia light on the sufferers brow; © i - Her breath s cool on the hot cheek now ; No aickness or sorrow, privation’s sting, Can atill thy influence, gentle Spring 1 - On, on, otill on, Mke s spiritbright, = 0 < - 8 Frommpemnnmmmum%nfiuuam; ol To the captive's cell likea dream of home, Dnwearied and welcome, thy footsteps comie, Thy mission of Tove fulflled to Earth, To the infant Bumemer thon givest bifth ; Then away, sway, {o the woods along, birds lesd the The wee iee with chirp and song. re feel what a blessed thing 7 lovely Spring | 5 3 & Dusy, HUMOR. 3 Joint education—Gymuastics, B -Back-ache is & spine-all complaint, i “What is the present **little game™ in femala costume? _Back-gammon, of course. ZWhy does & photographer 'use & black cloth ? “To make hia camera obscurer. iio do 8 * —The motto of the Good Templar girls of Ba- - lem, N. J., ig: “The lips that wine shall never touch mine,” q —Having traced a number of . Hiborniciams to & Greek origin, the Rev. Dr. Hopkins remarks that Trsh bulls were once calves in Greece. . —“%What does the sun bring up in spring?” . asked a New Britain Bunday-school teacher. | *Mnd,” made anawer a precocions Gradgrind of el Pennsyh instesd of —A in Penn: i sy LR Py il of view the Throne of Greece.” The dominie had once been s reporter. SNV — Billy Brown, did yousay that my faterhad Dot as much senss aa Billy Smith's dog " N 1 never eaid any such thing. AL I said was tha Billy's little dog had mare sense than your fath- er; that's all I ever eaid.” * Well, it'a well you Qidn't say the other, I tell you.” ~: : —A gelfish_California- minister recantly Te- fused to parform the marrisge mervice for s couple where the bride was his own abscunded - : wife, And thet sggravating woman said thathe | wes just as mean as he always used to be.” . —** Ain’t you going to send_that boy of yours, 10 echool, Bill ?* “Bill: *Oh, will L] He wenf one day, and when he camo home he told mae it was reprens'ble'to got drunk] Think I'll have prantal feclin's outraged, and_all tho sweet an’ oly union of ’ome_'Mection broken by swells | teachin’ of him? _Como an’ stan’ s pint1” -~ _ ; —He met Miss Kitty ata ball. Aftor falking abont tho balloon asconsion, the westhar, an other things, ho asked rather abruptly: “ Where s your motbier#” L, " said tha swoot damsel, “1 have left hor at homo. I generally do when Icome tonball. . What is B homo Without & P young ladica n Wat bury aro getting - roun; cs in Waterl aro - o o high-tosod. < Wiy r-ad obd e | d-p-1 I that you?" ia the way one fair ona salnted another one on the stroet yesterday, and tho angel in bustles and high (heels meaily and poctically responded - *You betl Im your katy- - id every timel” _* . i —When George. Wither, the Puritan poat, was. taken prisonor by the Cavaliars, there was agen-, _ eral disposition displayed to hadg him ot oncos' 5 but i John Denham saved bis Lfo by ssying 16 - ¢ Charles L, “I_hope your Majesty will not- hang poor George Wither, for as long ssholives it 1 can't bo suid that L am the worst post in i and."” . 4 : A Jehuina drab overcont: spprosched the arrivals on A night train, and, in 5 yoice Emooth 85 oil, said, invitingly, “Will fhee have s care: - riage 7" " Of course the brethren epeedily filled . 1 his vehicle, But when tho ‘nexé query came,: : { Whers'a fhou's baggaga?”. they saw tho docap~ i * with great disgust, a8 quickly clam~ Sre1 o . (o fonioet st of 1 sl % n {0 this day cannot account for the sudden change'in the mannor of his passon- gers, and fsils to ses where the. Iaugh comes in. e s sung i Wisaestes b | —A respectable young man in bor hay boen inbumanly trestod by his landlady, and - finally ejocted from her house, where he had all ./ the refining influences of » home for $3.50° 8 | weel, meroly because at the breakfsat table, the other morning, he- advised. her, in the presence of the othar boarders, to send the butter-to & hairdressor snd sel it for » wig. g i —A careful bridegroom in Cleveland kept the ‘wedding-ring in - his mouth during the fore of the ceremony, #o that he could find it when - tho proper moment arrived. He mumbled along all right antil the ministor winked, as & hint to produce the ring, when' in- his norvousnesa he Bwallowed {t, and, there’ being no stomach-pump on hand, he was stood:on -his head by threa groomsmen, to recover the * golden pledga.” - - ~— The Court Journal prints .thia :'** Tho-Ger-- man Emperor, while visiting s villsge in hia Iand, was welcomed by the schooLchildren of the plsca. After their speaker had made 8:speech - for them ho. thanked them. - Then, taking an - orange from s plate, hio asked : 'To what Klng-- - dom does this belong?’ *Tho vegetabla dom, sire," replied the girl. " The Emperor: too 0ld coin from his pocket, and holding it ap, asked, ¢ And to what kingdom does this belong 7* #To the mineral kingdom, sire,’ Toplied the littls girl. ‘Andto wb.ciingdm do I belong, then ?" asked the Emperor. ‘The little girl colored _ ‘deeply, for she did not like to ssy ‘the_animal kingdom,’ a3 hoe thonght she would, lest his- Majesty should be offended, when s bright thonght came, end she eiid with radisat eyes, ‘To 's kingdom, sire.’ -The Emperor deeply moved. An:'en stood in his oye, Ha placed hin hand on the child's head and ssid, most devoutly, ‘God grant that Imay be sccomnte ¢ ed worthy of that kingdom.’” What we admire in' this uul.wryis the que:t ‘uncertainty of the Emperor ~ : ere aresoms capital Scottish anecdotes ins. recent number of Every Saturday, smong them oneof » dying Highland chieftain, who asked - - i 6pi if thero was any whisky In and then, half spologetically sald, fys lx'efi;;m e e in, b 1t ook weo on the table.” Here is another: Dr. Rob- ert Knos, the great teacher of an: wmyh oneof his letters in this way Gentlems there are po_text-books I can recommend. wrote one_myesl, but it is poor stuff. Ican't recommend it. Tho man who knows most about: » subject writes worst uponit. If youwanta d text-book on any subject, recommend = § mha man who knows nothing earthly abont the * The result is that webavenogood . text-book on =anatomy. We . will have one - soon, howover: Prof. Monro i3 going- ta write one.” This Prof. Monro was 80 that ho'was in the habit of using his dfather’s . - loctures, written more than & I years be-- forohis day, and students were eleofrified bg s bearing- him" (in 1829 and 1880) - drawl omf. 1 “ When I was in Padus, in 169L.” ~'This was the .. - ;‘-!Bmd for fun, and showers of peag descended on - onro's b:a!. who could -nover ‘undorstand what it was all about. There{salsos storyof & . * Beotch gervant, who, when asked how ¢ his lord~ ship” (i. e. hig maater) “12 answored, *“Ihope -he's woel," He was, in fact, dend; but the old san-" * ‘vitor was too cautious to commit himself, in his opinion, ng to his condition. Among other drinking anecdotes and savines is that of an 17 subject.