Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1873, Page 6

“THIE CHICAGO.- DATLY. . - PERICDIGAL LITERATURE. Soribner's, Harper's; and Lippincptt's‘ ..~ . Magazines for June, i Bret Harte- and His.- Works---Driving' Snipe---Irish and Germans-in . America. . . Fins_IX.~-Cornell Universiiy--Recol- " ‘lections of an 0ld Stager The Pirate Béall, .- ¢ Whet Shell We Do -With Scroggs P © _The Raw American Abroed ---Bfr. Gladstone---An ° English Waiter. £ SCRISNER'S. - - DEET EARTE'S works; sccording to no less an cuthori ho gonial German poet, Ferdinand Freiligrath, have drawn hearts Lo Liim wheraver the langnago ‘of Shokspesre, and Milton, and Byron is epokon. His readers, who strotch from tho coasts” of “the Pacific Ocean to . the Euglish const of the North Sea, must feel a kindly curi- ceity to know something of..the life through which 80 much has come to enrich their own lives. This affectionaio inquisitivencss Noah Brooks gratifies’ in Lis sketel. He was born at slbany, N. T., 1899, znd his beptismal nameis Trancia Bret Harto: = Loft fotherless, Tarte wandered off to California in 1, dazzled wilh ,the golden visions which then nsfigured that distant land ; and, won by the fun- tie romance which stories of tho Spanish occupa- tion, sudden wealth, surprising adventure, and novel life and acenery invested the country, ha cast himself into the changeful stream of Lumanity which ebbed zrd flowed ameng tho young cities by tho ses, the pizeclad ridges of the Sierrz, and the rade camps of 2he gold-hunters which wera then breaking the siiil- iess of long unvexed solifudes, Noaga nor condition. .0 quality of manhood, no grade of moral or mental cuiture was unrepresented in that motley- tide of migration. The dreamy young etudent, tho future poc: of the Argonauts of 1849, drifted on with tho rest. For two ar threo years be, like all restloss wander- <13 of those days, pursued & various calling and had o fized abode. An unsztisfied desire for chanee, 5 ‘halr-confessed mpatience with long tarrying in any =pot, scemed o possess cvory soul. Mining camps znd even thrifty towns were depopulated in a single day, tho unnoted casualties of their rough life empty- ug’s fow places, tho Test being eagerly left bebind by men who drifted _far and wide; their late coveted “claima” wers quickly occupied by other rovers Zrom other fields, farfo mined a little, taught school 3 little, tried his hand at type-scttiug and frontier Sournalism, climbed mountains and threaded ravines 2e thie mountcd meesonger of an express company, or zeted 25 sgeut for that company in some of tho mountain towns which we Lave learncd to kuow o well os Sandy Bar, Poker Flat, and Wingdam. Lt ail the whils the lithe, agile, and alert young artist wz8 oLsorbing impressions of the plcturesque life, scencry, mannere, and talx, which surrounded Lim as zn atmusplicre. - 1n 1857, or therenbouts, he drifted back fo San Fran. «tsco—The Bay,”zs tho pleasant city by the sea was foudly called by the-wandering sons of adveuture. “Tise Bay waa tlc littlo Henven. where were cool gea- <winds, good cheer, and glimpees of that scusuous Lifo which was then thougit of a8 a far-off, fuintly-remem- Lered good found only in *the States.” Here Harte rpecily developed into o clever young lilferatenr. “lorking in the composing-room of a weekly literary journal, bs put into type eome of his own graceful Jittle sketchies by way of experiment. .These were noticed snd “sppreciated by ihe editor, and he was translated from ¢ the, case” fo the *edi- torisl room of the Golden Erd, where soms of the ‘plezeaut pzpers which find place’ in his later published ~rorks wero written. Theso ware chiefly local sketeh- 2, like “ A Boy’s Dog,” * Sidewalkings,” and “ From & Baleony.” Meantime, marriegs ond the cares ofa growing liouschold had chenged the vagrant fancy of 1he young writer, and he_rovedno more, He vroton grest dest which hus not been gathered up, and in the columans of the daily popers, 28 well as in the Califor- sifdit, 3 Llerery weally which he come time edited, appesred snnumeralle papers which enriched the cur- zent litezetura of thosa times, and swelled the volume of that higher quality of California journalism which s£eema now to hiave passed quite awny. _cess of unraveling the figures of tho census and “get at the facts licscels is {0 intricato and long! | portunitics for obsurvation Lave been suchas 1o por- tion, 80 strongly doveloped within the past few years. The new feature of foreign parentage, introduced for : the first >time" in tho last cousus; - affords -~ ihe' - data’- Vy ©-which to detormine whether the Irish or Germans inerease, most'rapidly: ' Iis very ingenions'pro- to be reproduced.” -His conclusions diffor * from the general bel'ef that tho Irish are the most, prolific: It s undoubledly en ohnost universal opinfon {iroughont the Lastorn Slaies, au opinios, morcover, \ehiieh extends jus o _conslderable degreo over tho cn- tire country, .that the Irieh exbibitTouch thehigher degreo of feundily. Theremuy bopersons whose op- wade them of tho contrery ; {hiero may bo ‘commitni- Fien wiiere Lo, opnosite vicw provails 3 but e general Delief 15 quite clearly what Las been éxpressed. 1tis easy to oxplan this belief.. Tito Lrish finmigra- tion was the first to reach us, The sccounts s fre- quently ropeatod, in_connection with the Fumine, of tho prodiglous increase of this people, have contbined with the btervations made by our own citizeus in contrasting the increase In the fumilies of theso for- elgners with the rate “provailing amoug the mative populstion, to give this opinion almeet the currency 203 sulhenticity of a proverb.” An opinion thus gon- erally diffused is not soon-or ezsily dlaplaced from tho pular mind. The Germuus camo later ; they. weut Teviely toother portions of 1o country, where thorate of Increase’ in the native population Was more Tapidl than in the cumunitics o which tho Irish teuded, where, _consequontly, th contrast belweei native and foreign habls wis much loss strikivg, and witore, morcover, spoculatious ou tho laws of popula~ tion wete not much indulged n. ence it is that tho bolef firat formod i reapcct to this matter has 5o gen- exaly held its place, and that it is 20 common to €peak of thio increaso of our Iriah ciilzens us transconding That of any otlier portion of our popuition. 1L s the object of tiis peyier {0 whow flat tho belief ia a mis- faken oue; hat the Irih among ue, 25 they havo lacod themacives and as they are occupying fhem- fclver, aro not contributing to the gencral iucreasc of the population in a depreo excecding that o Americen-Germane; on tho contrary, that while, the absonze of dircck or positive proof, ubsolute assir= aneo cannot be reachied, tho probzbilitics incline, and indline strongly, to the greater, fecundity of the latter element. * Gauler D'Abain deseribes an audience with : TOPE PIUS IX. o on-'whom ' the cyes of tho world, Catholic and Protestant as well, are to-day bent with affec- tionato solicitudo : ~ This old_man, entircly. clad in white, white cf hair, +with blanched wrinkies on his face, as If the blood Jiad departed, inspires you immediatels with a very great respect. ' One might eay it wasan apparition of a plantom of enow. His girdic of white moire glitters on thie background of his robo like a blade of fce, The gold chzin which ho weara on-his neck, his red slip- pers, and his glanca still bright, throw. o myste: rious splendor on_that whiteness, His lody has remaiucd -strong; lbe has resisted his cighty winters. His etep is caey; his faco of an excecding gentleness, nohie and mobile, His forche has preserved a Leam- of youthfuluess. is burdened less than_ usual with car hislittlo niece, 3me. 1a Comtesse Ma Ferreti, took tlie vell of tho Oblates at the conveut of Tor di Specchi, That rel’gious festival made hish young aguin, et Pio ‘Nono in his left hand holds aletter behind Tis back; bis right blcsscs tho persons who happen-to boon Lis way. Ho first speaks a fow words toa Car- dinal, thon {0 one of the thres persons in_frock-coats, then to the Archbishop of Tconfum, with whom Lo converses for » moment, I am at the &ido of Mgr, Passavalll; Mgr. Ricel, who hud. the goodness to an- nonnce mo to thie Holy Father a liltle Lefore, gives my name, . ; "4 A%, sou then are the former Generaldn-Chict of tho forces of the Kingdom of Siam 2" “Yes, Most Holy Father,” 4] was very sincarely adllictod by thie death of the Ring of Sinm, whom I loved becauso of the protection he afforded to tlio Oatholic missionarics, Has his suc- ceasor the same sentiments 2% “Yes, Most Holy Father, Prince. Maha - Chulalon Korn followa in the steps of his illustrious father.” The asked one of his chamberlains for the King of Siath's letter, yritten in’ September, 1852, and \shich was presented to him by two young Siamess un- der tho guidance of Mgr, Pallegoix, Bishop of Aallos, and Apostolical Vicar of Siam. ‘Hers s a passago from that curious letter, which, in accordance with tho_cpistolary custom of Somdetel- ‘Phre-Paramendr-Maha-Mongkut, is s very long one Tower of Buddhism but I only old to the plflozophy of that religion, which hns been disfignred by fxbles 50 monstrous 2nd absurd thatft scems to me it will soon disappear from the world. Your Holiness may Do fully persunded that inmy reign there will be no. ecutions of Christians, and that the Roman Catko- Jice; eapecially protected, shall never bo cmployed in any superstitious rite contrary 1o their religion, which matters I have charged the Bisliop of Mallos to ex- in to your Holiness.” “ And e keeps his promise, does he not, Gencral 2" 4 Perfectly, Most Holy Father.” 3 4 So-much the better, for T am not disquicted in that diroction. Would to God that as much could be said of othier parts of the carth] Shall you stay long Tn 1964 hio was oppointed Secrefary of tho United S'2tcs Brauch Mint in San Francisco, position which, during tho six years he held it, gave him time and op- porfuits for more care{ul wark tln any which h had heretoforo accompliehed, During this time some of the most famous of his and skelches were Written. * John Burns of Gettysburg,” # The- Plio- cene 8tull,” “Tho Society upon tho Stanisiow,” “ How urc" you, Ssnitary 27 and other littlc unique goms of verse were written about this time and firet aipreared (for the most part) anonymously in the San Francisco newspapers, In July, 1868, ti:e publication % of the Ocerland Jontily was Legun, 'witl Bret Harte 3 §t5 organizer and cditor, The success of tho maga- =ine was immediate and decided. We cannot fell how much of ita renown was owing to the series of Temark- ablo stories which immediately began to flow from ko pen of the accomplished cditor, or -how much to tho rare talent which he scems 10 bavehad in =aking thic dormant energies of those who conatituted is loyal stoff of contributors. The Oterland became i onca o unique, piquant, and highly-desired element iz the current literature of the Republic; and it found & multitude of readers on both sides of the Atlantic, In its pages, August, 1663, appeared *The Luck of Roaring Cemp,” a story which, whatever may be the merits of those which have sticceeded it, gave Harte tue first of his great fimo s a proeo-writer. Bat it a8 not until January of the next year that the stimu- izted appetite of tlie impatient pubiic yas appeased by ibe yproduction of *The ~Outcasts of FPoker Ziat” o dramatic talo which probably 'contains more firmly drawn and distinct . characters than bave sppeared fn sny ome of Harte's storiea or sketches. - “Aiggles” came next, and,’ mar- shaled in their long_array, the inimitablo. perdonsges who figare in atill Ister Stories emerged from their shedowy reslm and passed into the Janguage and fa~ miliar sequaintance of the English-spenking world. Col. Starbottle, John Oskhurst, Stumpy, Tennessee's Fariner, and Miggles—with Isughter and 'with tears we Temnember them all ; we ehali know them as long 2s we Xnow Sam Weller, Micawber, Little Nell, and the £padly compans cilled nto being by thet ofher magi- ‘cian who has, ot last, laid down his wand forever. THE AECENT OF MOUNT HATDEN -4 n Hew chapter of Western discovery, by R. P- i Langford, who relates his-adventures and the discoveries of Dr. Hayden's Geological Survey ,in {hie Wonderland of the Upper Yellowstone re-" gion. Thearticleis illustrated profuselyand bezu-. ifully; and has an additional interest from the azo explorations of Gen. Forayth in the esme di- ! Tangdon delights in recounting capes and practical jokes : nmong °|llx1':‘ ers was & trapper named Shep —s lively, 10 i \nothing belter than to g ountaineer, who liked itk pilgrim * or ¢ fender foopnl, 815, unfortu «cnongh to confide in his stories of moURLaIA e “What o night 1" said Shep, os the moon rose brond and clexr—what o glorious night- for drivia’ Enipp!” Hero vas something new. Two of our yom o0 | wero eager to learn all sbontthe mystery: »o ¢ L 420 DFivIng Enipo! what's that, Shep?” Tell us about ““Did yo never bear 7" replied Shop, with a face ox- ipressive of wonder ot their ignorance.’ “ Why, it's 33 “old a5 the mountains, I guess; we always choose such weather as this for drivin’ enipe. The snipe are ful 20w, and they drive botter, aud fliey're Letter eatin’, t00. Ttell you, o breskfast of snipe, broiled on the Buffalo chips, is not bad to take, is it, Dick 77 - Beaver Dick, who had just arrived in camp, thus ap- pealed to, growled nn axscat to. the proposition con- taized in'Slicyrs question; and the boya, wore anxious thax ever, prozsed Shep for an cxplanation, #Mashe,”62id one of ihem, “maybo wacan drive 4he enipe to-ufght and get a mess for breakfzst ; what l-\n':B 1);'2 go‘l 1o do, sx-aepd?" - i “ 0L, well, " responded Shep, “3f you're £o pla Iguorant, Tim: afearcd yon wom't.do: Howsssver, sonean by, Tou boys gete couple of them guny: Backs and candles, and we'll go out and sizrt ‘i wp.n Elatcd with the ides of having o mess of snipe for ‘treakfast, the two young men, under Shep's direction, each equipped with 2 gueny-eack and candle, fol- Jowed Liim out upon the plafn, b3 u mile from cimy, accompanied by some balf-dozen mombers of ‘ons parlr, The spob'was chowen hecruse of its prox- -4ty to a marsh, which was supposed o bo filled with snipe. In relity it was fhe swarming- ‘place for mosquitoes. 4 “Nor,” 52id Shep, stationing o’ bogs about ten feet apert, open your sac] Ticuths of %em wido open; =nd after we leave yon, light your candles and Jold %erh well juto the szck, so. fhat Zbe snipe can ses, and the Test of us will drivo ‘eni up. 1t may take a Lttle spell to get em started, but if you wait natiently thos™ come.? . . - Witk this assurance the snipe-drivers left {hem and returned jmmediatoly to cam)y. - * I've got coupls of grecn *ans out there,” said ks, hasly wink, “They'll wait somo time for the :ive {0 como uip, T reckon.” The boys followed directions,—the sacks’ wero Leld wido open, the candles Yopt in place. There they £t09d, the easy prey of the remorscless mosquitoes, An hour passed away, and yet from the ¥idge above 1hie camp the light of tl:0 candles could be zeen_across lan. - Shep now stole quietly out of camp, and, zking 3 long cirentt, came up balind th victims, , T -wEoop, pistol in the air. 1o TR e Somtng s a0 08 8 b oty ), n ami isug] Ehouts of their compnionss o e ughter and Gen. F, A Walker, who knows, if any one does, - Liow to get at the secret of statistics,. conmders Ao guestion of the comperativo Tecundity . of ibe Germans and Irish in the United States, .which he treats under the head of o £* AMNERICAT YRIST AND AMERICAY GERMAXE, " %o be of pecaliar importance now in view of the w & in Rome?™ * Not as Jong us I could wish, Most Holy Father, I ehall pass but a few weeks here.? - B “ Nevertheless, there is muchi to be learned for men who are interestéd in policcs.” “Yery true, Moet Holy Father ; but Your Ifoliness knows that in this world one never, dogs what one wiehes.” . “ Have you still your family?2” - #That happiness bas gone, Holy Father, I lost them all in the French war.” - - 2 o givea me his benediction, and then turns toard a prelato who Lands him n petition, Cardinal Berardi pats on his ‘shoulders & purple mantle, bordered. ail about with clofh of “gbld.. -Plo Nono fakes the head of the procession, stopping now and then and spesking a fow gracoful -words. - We follow. him across the four drawing-rooms which we had olready psssed through. We cut disgopally tho vestibule of the crimson isckeys ind in Lis train Teach a graud drawing-room where . fifty persons are ranged along the wells, The ladies are in black with Talso mantillas. The Holy Father makes the circuit of the whole room, says a word to each stranger, stops for fiva minutes iear an ancient lady, who bursts into toars and crouches upon the ground, so profound is' her emotion. . Soba choko her voice ; she has difliculty in making herself understood. ~Pio Nono consoles her in a truly paternsi manner, Then he addresses a fow words in & firm voice and in French fo tlie_persons thered sbout-him. We.kneel; he gives his general ‘nediction and goes out by the vestibule, followed by his court, passcy the guard-room, whers the Siwisg present arms to him on their knoes, and proceeds io take his promenade in the library, the weather being too_uncertain to descend into the gardens of the, Valican, ° ° 7 C Every day this ceremony is repeated. The. Pope, AL Ganier seys, rises at 6in the ‘morning, alone and without aid from & chamber- 1ain, in spite of his extreme old age: Having performed his meditation, he rings for his clizmberiain, who watches ‘in a Toom adjoiniug his, and proceeds to read his mass in_the Pontifical chapel, aesisted by his Grand Almoner, Mgr. de Merode, Archbiehop of Mitylene, and his eacristan, Mgr. Mari- nelle, Archbishop of Porphiry. . A quarter of an: hour Iater o takesn light meal, receives Cardinal Antonelli, ‘opens his letters, gives audiences, . At half-past 11 or. &t midday. his promenade begins. At2 o'clock ho dincs, cating Jittle and drinking Bordeaus wine, which 1l sisterhocd of St, Joseph of Bordeaux send him. Ho' rests’ himself “avout 4 on an extension Thafr, ~ Then -~ he -rocefves' the Cardinals, the ous orders; studies the matiers submitted o him, ‘At 7 the oflicial receptivns are opened wntil 9.0'clock ; he goea to bed at balf-past 10 gril oclock, Heno fonger fesves the Vatican ; this impressionable Pontiff, who used to love the acclama-. {ions of the populace, . wears mouruitie-ra B palsce. At Rome therpare no lemews tither religious fetes or pontifical. o ; said to.bo kind ond tender, but a1 «“{fia‘}:moi:a ‘Rarely does he turn back from a first oot s anent and things please biw or.dsplease him at first sight, and preserve in his eyes thielr agreealls or disagrecable rhysiognomy. .. Thiy spontaneity of re-, &olve, which procecds from 5 great delicacy of (lie per- ceplite facultice, renders him o _pereon moided with difficulty. In" truth, the great art of Cardinal Anto- nelll, by which Lio has preserved thie favor of.the fov- ereign through a long reisn of twenty-seven years, hag been to discover Lis faintest -thought d‘conform ‘himself o them, #F e e © J.AL Hard;in - .- - 3 veeee . * CORNELL UNIVER2ITY, gives, in the courso of his.description of - ils origin and present conditjon, a brief. account of Mr. Comnell's” endowments, ‘and the disposition of the land-grants, about which there-have been | 50 lodly uttered charges of corruption : ! The-University wus born in troublous times, -1ts- germ lay in the act 6f Congress, ‘paszcd in the darkest days of tho war, July, 1852, whereby public lands were 2pportioned among the several Slates for the purpose of encouraging instruction in agriculture, the me- chanic arte, and military tactics. The abareof the Stute of New York umounted, in scrip, 0 90,00 acres, After much delay, and not Little_counter-legistation (for the detnils of which tlie rendcr may consult the Laws Relatingo tho Univermty, printed. by order of tho Trostces), this scrip and thie proffercd endownent of $500,00 1rom . Cornell \ere consolidated, and tlio Universify was incorporated in 1865, It was gpen- ed in October, 1563, with'a fucully of sixteen profcenors and two assisiantz, and ou entering class of over threo hundred. The faculty were strangers to the_students, and almost etrangers fo one another. There was but one Luilding available for recitations, * and cven that Was unfinished, ‘The road leading'to tho University was in wretchcd condition, and at times almost fmpassablo from frequent rains, Only ono who witnested the dificullles .under ‘which Pretident and facully struggled throughont thot fall ferm cen realizo tho burden of them or appreciate tho amooth: ness aud regularity of tho present organizution, Not befere'thie Christmas vacation camo fhe first brcathe ing-spell, when the faculty could look'eround theny and sec that tho University really had consistency and shape. Since that time progress has been nni. form and rspid. The number of full professors has grown to ‘iwenty; of ‘asmatant professore, cloven; _insiruciers, (hres; non-resident pro. fessors, eight ; besidesa number of short-course joo- turers on special topics. In round numbers, the entire educational stafl may be caliinated at fifty, The num- ber of students bas increased 0695, In placo’ of ono over-crowded building there are now fve, whilo {he ground for the sixth, the Sage bullding, has already been braken, B : The funds; also, havé been greatly sugmentod, The griginal endowinent was composed of. the $500,000 from Afr. Cornell and the scrip for nearly a million of acres of Western'lands. To his ordj gift. Mr, Cor- nell has cdded the land on which the buildings are erecled; a large farm for the agricultural departmiént, spparatus, and .other dopations ageregating over differcnces in the political affinities and political -aptitudes Jf these two elements of our popula- £100,000 ndditional, Of the. scrip, 405,000 acres wers eold ne ecrip for abont 1" an ncre: aud the vroceeds - Like her dear elf she was, alone,. T am not yet & believer in Christ ; I am a pious fol- |, added to tho other casl endowments, The serlp for the roméining 540,000 acres was earcfally located, chicfly | in Wiscousin, Sowme of theso lands Luve . recently becn soldat o Lindsoms profit; upwurd of 200,000 acres at €1 and 51 85 an acre. _Tho incomo from vested funds hso thius' been raised from $00,000 to £120,000, whilo thers ks atill o Feeiduo cf 270,000 ncres of cholcs “Western lands Lield for futare ssle. These, from “ The OId Cabinet,” noed no'in- troductory word of prais . i : . A RIDDLE OF LOVERS, There lived 2 lady who was lovelier y Thisa anytling thatmy poor pdll moy pant— Though X wouid follow round (ho world Hll faint T £ell, Tor just ono little look at Lo Wio said afio secmed liko this or. no tatat From touch of mortal or'of earth ;—blest saint Berene, willi many o faithful woralilper ! Thero {3 10 poet’s’ ‘wonld not, i When laid against the whiteness of hier meck, Proud, £olenn face—muke there a pitifal blot. 1t in %0 strango that T can nover spoak ; Of ier without a tear. O, I forgot ! . Tsis surely may fall blamclcss on that chock 1 . : \ : But of my lady's lovers thero were two Who loved bier more tkan all ; nor eho nor they Thought which of thiese two loved her best, Ona way This had of loving; that another know. Ou round Liex neck bravo avms of empira threw, And covered her wath kiescs where she lay, Tho other at apart, nor did botray Siwcet sorrow at that eight ; but rather drew 1is pleasure of Lis lady throuzh the soul Aud'senso of this-one,” So thero truly ren -t Two soparute loves (hrongh ono emLizce,—the whold That lady had of both when ono bogsn o clasp hier closo and win hier to love's goal. Now read my lovers’ riddle if you czn! A I WILL DE DRAVE FOR TIICE, DEAR NEALT. T will bo bravo for thoe, dear hieart; for thee Aty bossted bravery forego, I will 4 For thee bo wise as that wike king, uni{l That wige kig's fool for thy szke I shall be. No grievous cost in anything I eco That brings thce blizy, or only keeps thee etill, In painless peace, §0 Heaven thy cup but £l Bo empty mino unto eternity ¢ Come to ue, love, and let mo touch thy face! ZLoan to me, love, and breathe on me thy breath | Fly from nie, love, to some for hiding place, 1t hy onc thought of me or hinderet Or hurteth thy swect sonl,—thon grant me grace "o be forgolten, though tiat grace be death, ; HARPER'S, Thaddens Stovens and Franklin Dierce, the # Old Stzger™ saye, in his f* RECOLLECTION: . wore among tho Congressmen who used to risk ' their money at the gambling-table of Long's well-known establishment on the comer of Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue: The Washington gambling-houses have mever been supported to any cunsiderable extent by tho resident population, Members of Cougress, particularly from 1o South, Soutbwest, aud West, wero tho largest con- tributors fo the incomos of the sporting men, Cone tractors and Indian traders were generally bold and sometimes desperato pluyers, Membors of the Houss frequently staked their mileage and per dicm at the faro-table, and they played all sorts of round games, +short cards,” as they wero called, in the club rooms, Probably {he smount Tisked would not constitute what is termed “high play” in theso days, - but the losses of these men of limited means wero often suficient to keep them impoverished and_embarrassed during thelr entire Congreesionsl service, Some men pliyed for excitement chilefly, not caring much whother they won or losl, Thaddeus Stovens wea one of this description, e wns like Fox, who described winniug at huzard ns the grestest plossnre in life, and losing at the sams gamo us the Dext greatest. Stevens lust ond won with the szmo spparent indifference, He played with consummate coolness, never lost his temper, und nover incroased the amount of his bet eitlier to retrieve his losscs or more rapldly to incroase his winnings, His sarcastic Temarks upon the discomposurc of his fellow-pliyers, who sometimes excaimed with rage and pro- fanity at tleir ill luck, were always witty as woll * ss~ catting. While ~{hey wers eating and drinking with the voracity of cormorants, e never induljed in anything more stimulating than a cracker. and 3 sip of water. The contrast belwcen hia coolness aud apparent apathy und the eager, fierco ex~ citement of Sthers sitting ot the seme table and en- geged in the aame pursuit was amazing. I lave rare- 1y seen a more pilisblezud paiufal exhibition thau wes often prasented by the ungovernod passions of a gamic- sterafter a run of fll luck, "o Mr. Stevens euch dis- plays of weakness secrued to ufford smusement rather than fo excite sympatby or compassion, He was & hard, cynical man, capablé of acts of henovolenco under strong emotion, but gentleness or tendernass vas not his ordinary miood. - e threw off more good things in conversstion without effort thun unymsn I ever saw, and bis sayings were poiuted with a degreo of epigramumatic force that I never witnessed in auy olher men. . £5 Gambling on the tarf Lad its votarics, as well, among the dignitaries of tho land. Then as now, on the race-course, the outsiders used to be taken in and plunderad by the kuowing ones. Esperienced turfmen were nccustomed. o laugh &t the iden of .a fair race. The result was known to g few favored ones in gdvance. This was the cage in important Faces with hardly an excep- tion. And cven meu of the highest repute, and of the nicest senso of honor, get their notions of right and wrong sadly confused nudor-the temptations of the race-course’: A A more chivalric, high-tozed, and galiant gentleman: than Gen, Jeckeon Gid uot live umong his contempor- ries. And yet o story was current in Tennessea some fifty yoars sgo—whetlier truoor false I am notable to say—which goes fo show {Lat even ho wes shrewdly suspected of playing bi il the * advanteges,”. in the dainty phirascalogy of eporting men. The story ran in this wise: . The Generzl. hecame discontented with a mulatto boy, who bad Leen his favorite rider, and sold him to a naighbor, who wzs hls great rival on the turf. The boy was to'ride in & very important race sgainstn fa- vorite horso of the Goneral’s, Jackson had a’heavy bet pending ou the race, aud Lo was overheard rewot-, strating with his Inte rider: # You black rascal, mind; what 50u aroabont, Nono'of your old tricks with me, If T cateh you aquirting rour tobzczo-jnice in my Loy's. eyea Tl cut your heart out.” : S “This moy Bave been a puio fabrication ; but if sharp practico on the turf had not been the rulo zather than tie exception, an annecdute of this description could not havo obtained currency as applied to Gen, Jackson, - In speaking of the Klexican Commission, tho 0l Steger” says: 4 ‘There was a degree of form and ceremony sbout tho' ‘organization of ilie Board, which was endeavorod to b carried out in the. procecdings, altogether distasteful {othe Commisrioners, wio. Were practical, scusiblo with Do nonsense about them, There wass gers, and these understrippers id contrived to surrousd the Bosrd with @ &oFt of soletn dignity, the reflex of which they expected to enjoy themscives'in an enbancod degreo of obsequiousness and sexvility on the part of claimants, This thing was carried 60 far a8 to provok ) somo mer- riment among gentlemien visiting the Corunission, and in the Bourd also. A newepaper: correspond- cnt,’ ‘on -futimate ferms with the gentlomen composing the Board, determined tfo. khock tho senaitive nerves of {he subordinates who had formed such an exaggerated estimate of the dignity and consoquence of .ihe concern, Calling in af the antechamber, he desired ono of the messcngers to in- auire whether tho Board was specially engaged. Tho niegrc made the inguiry, and informed the genfleman tiat the honorable Cowmmissioncrs were considering o gaze, but they would recelvo any communication which B ko i e Dot A propere s Risaence; proposition shich he desired 1o offer, - Tho sccrctary. and clerk opeed thoir oyes fu amazement, con- founded by lii prosumption. Tho President conr- teously replied that the Board was considering an -in- poriant case, but would ear auything which tho gen- tuan Jight bave to prayose. - - move,” gaid he, * that the Board irn, und go around to Potter’s and take a drink.” a s, wd g 4 Carricd unanimously,” roplicd the President, and thexitting was closed for the day. =, i 7 o< : TEE MABQUIS OF JIASTINGS, better known'in_American history as Tiord Raw- don, was one of the most succesaful and efficient of the British oflicors in America... While-en-. gagedin his compaign in this conntry, ho was very zealous in the garnering of ‘precious facts in’ his ‘experience. Ho scems o have obtainod. from somo of {he détomplislied enginoers of tho British army a series of skotchos, -in water-color, of many of tho scenes and ovents in his experi- euce hero. A cousiderablé mumber of ‘these sketches have been “proserved uutil the present timo, 2nd, in_consoquence of tho nuthriftiness of Lord Rowdon's grandson and titular sucees- sor, the late Marqnis of Hastings, -they found their way, some of them into the hands of pri- vato purchagers, and others into the ‘public -auction-rooms of London, Some of {heso: fell into the Lands of Thomas Addis Emmet, ono of the most generous and liberal of the few Americans who indulge in the costly but delightful avd useful pastimo of gath- ering.up for preservation such precious grains Of the fine-gold of our history, which might otherwise bs forever lost ;- and he ks placed them at tho service of Mr, B. F. Lossing, who makes them the throad of o paper entitlod * Tho Morquis of Hastings in America.” Thése ekotch- es portray the attack on Boston, tho burning of | qhulnslom, the battle of Bunker Hill, Now Yark, the landing of the Pritish forces in Now Jersey, and are accompanied with comment and decription by Mr. Lossing, whoso studies have made him o familiar with this interesting ground. - % Ccmstnm:fa F. Woolson, in * The Wine-Talands of Laks El‘{e,'? recalls the treditionsof the de- parted. Indian tribes who used to tarong their slhiores, tolla the ‘siory-of’ tho battle of P Bsy, where Porry rescusd the lake from British control, and reciles the fresher episode of THE PIRATE BEALL: ; The young Virginian, an officer of the Confederate Srmy, Was hung as pirate and spy on Governor's | burying thoir valuables; snd_looking fos the flames of Tsland, New York - Harbor, Feb. 24, 1865, Tho Zealoncs was just; and s gxecutioh & seccasary pact of .the discipline’of war. Yet now that years have elapsed,. and wp, can roviow the past without(hat| ternible personal. intorest that.mnade our hearts:burn “within s, thero is somothing Worlhy of note in the ator ot tlils man, who, young, wealtliy, and editcated, threw himself, as it wore, into the jaws of death from sincere thoughh mistaken lovo for his nativo conntry, + Jobn Yatea Boall was 5 native of Jeflerzon County, Virginia,. - He gradusted at the Uniscraity of Virginia, Chaglottesville, and at the Lroaking out of. {ho rebell fon owned s largo plentstion in his native country; . bis property wws estimafed at $1,500,000, and;in | wdditfon’ o was said to, be the lelr of ‘zn estate. 1o --Eugland. --In “the earliest = duys ‘of $ho . war. Deall:-organized Compuny G, Second Virginia : Infantry,~ ond . bis .. Tegiment. after- werd formed -patt of tho original © Stoncwall Brigade,” under Stonewall Jackson, 1o fovk part in many battles, but it 1 bis piratical cxpedition among the fslznds of Lako Erio_which brings him withiu the Tauge of our smbject—an _expedition which ended in dizzator and_death, Itis well remembered along tho - Inko shore ; Buffalo, Datroit, and Cleveland wero filied with excitoment ; the citizens pstrolled the strasta by nighis aud visions of plratical crate suiling boldly 5 and firing upon, tho defenscless houscs flled all oyes, Exhansted Olifo’bad sent fnto the field reglont after regiment beyond her guota, but her northern frontier was enlirely exposed, and if, scomed en_casy thing to sail across from Oanads und ‘batter down hier towns, | Looking biack npon it now, it still seems casy ; snd yet it was never done, although Canada swarmied with conspirators, under tho leadership of Jacob Thomp- son, kocvet agent of tho Confederate Governmewt. Tho Uulted States had but ono war vesel on tho lake?, tho 3fichigan, o paddle-wheel stcamer carrying elghleen guns, Tho capture of tlis boat would enable a Fmall Body of men to carry deatructfon from one end of tho laka to the other, - Iu Soplember, 1864, the Michigan wos Iying off Johinson’s Island, Saudnsky Bsy, wiich had buen used since 1863 38 o dopot for prisoncrs of war; liero wero confiued 3,480 men, all, with the ox- ception of sbout one hundred, oflicers of the Confod- eracy, cnough to command an_army of 80,000 men. Tho little istind was maturally uppermost in ths thoughis of the Rebel officers in Csnada, It wis mear at hiend, o stesmer could run across fn the night, and in tho winter a.lsnd force could attack it, for the ice wa strong, and nowhere was thero more than five milen botwecn fsland and fsland, strotehing like stop- ‘ping-stones actoss tho lake from Point Pelce to the Olifo mafn-land. No other prison was on _an expoeed fronticr liko this, and were 1t not for the guns of tho Michigan s roscue ight bo.effected ; the Michigan, therofore, must be captured. .. . . : On the morning of the 19th of Beptember the steamer Philo Parsons, plying botween Detroit, tho islands, and Sandusky, left Dotroit at the usttal hour on_ler, woy © down'the Hiver ; at Sandwich; on the Canadian_bids, four men came on board, and at Malden- 3 party of tweaty mors, bringing with them u large old-fashioned truuktied with ropes, As at this period thers was o constant stream of fugitives crossing the border, flec- ing from, the . draft, pr coming back with emply ‘pockets, this Malden perty cxcited no comment; and the stoamer went- on her_way throngh Lako Eric, stopping at tho different {slands, and taking on o num- Ler of passengers for Sandusky, After - lesving Kelley’s Island, tho last of tho_group,. suddenly four men came’ toward the Clork, who; owing to the absenco-of the - Captain, . bad ¢ boat, and.. leyeled revolvers at Lis hoad; at tho ” gamo moment tho old " black trunk was opened, and the. wholo party armed themselves With ‘possession of 'tho dofenseless” boat, Tho course was thou changed, and fter cruiving about at random: for somo time (he pirates turned back to ono of the jsinds liddlo Bass—and -stopped at tho dock, While here tho Teland Quecn, 8 stexmor pising betwien Sandusky and the islands, camo aloagaide, and, suspocting notli- ing, threw out & plank in order '{g land_somo freight, Inatantly the pirstes swarmed up her sides, calling up- on the Coptain to surrender; shots were fired—ap- ‘parently more for the purposo of intimidation than for ‘sny real injury—Ynives and hatchels wero held over the passengers, among whom were thirty or forly one- ‘Bundrod-days men on their way to Toledo to be mus. tered ont, Tic pirates were few in number, but tiey were well armed, snd held both steam- era’ st their mercy. The Captuin of tho Island Queen mado sturdy resistance, endeavoring in vain to cut tho ropes that bound his boat to the Far- sons; and the engiueer ; refusing to obey the ordera of th pirates, was shot {n tho choek. Resfstanco wan cvidently useless ; the passengers were put into tha lold, with a guard over them, and {he Captain was askell if many stracgers had 'come to Sandusky that morning, und of there was any excitement thcre. After some delay and discyssion among ihemsoives the pirates decided to exact an oath of secrocy for twenty-four houra from the women and citizen pas- sengers, and allow them to go on shore, together with tlie hundred-dsys’ men, whom they peroled, and then ihe two steamers, Insbid together, started out toward Sandusiy, the Uaptain of the Lriand Queen being ro- taiucd, with the Lope that Le conld be forced to act o ilot, 'When four or fivo auiles out tho Ieland Gmeen was scuttied, and absndoucd, cnd the Pur- sons went on alone, A debato sprong np emong the pirutes a8 to whether or ot they skould run into” dusky Dy ; cvidently something had fafled the: some one hnd disapponted them, Atlength the Csp tain was ngain put into the hoid, the boat's spoad was slackened, and sho wis kopt crulsing up and down outside as if waiting for 3 aignal, Chicf in comtsand of these Taiders was Johu Yalea Beall; big sppearence and- manner rendered him conspleuous smong tho others, whoare deseribed, in {0 language of ono who saw ilem, 238 *1n0an, Iw- Lived sct; Burley, the second in ‘commiand, Leing s porfect desperado.? In the report of, Jacol Thomp- son, secrct. agent of the Confederacy in Canad: dochment belui Dlot s relafed, - Thezo wers two parts, the firct loing. the expedition by water under Beall, and the second 3 conspiracy on ¥horo, Ly mesus of which tho oiicers of the Michigen were-to e thrown off their guard, so thal upon -3 uiven . iaal Beall conld eteam Tapddly in, surpriss thiom, azd cap- ture thc boat. A cannon-shot sent over Juinsou's Tatand vwaa {0 fell the prisoners that tho hour of rescue hiad come: Bendusky was next to be attacked, and, after licrsés Liad been eecured, tho prisoners wees i mount and make for Clevolund, the bozts co-opersiing, end from Cleveland strike acrocs Ohio for Wheeling anc fha Virginla border, Tho key to thy whalo mov ment was the capturc of the Michigan, % * Tha plot on sliore wes Leaded by a Confederato ofi cer nzmed Cole, As haa boen related, Beall parformed i peri with entire ‘succsss: and, had the other head ssesscd equal capacity, no doubt the plan would Java boen succesefal, aud the wholo North taken Dy surprisoe ot this daring raid and rescuo upon a. hitharto peacoful and unuo- ticed ' border, . The = 2,000 young officers riding “for their lives ihrough the lLeart of Oiilo, whore there was 110 organized forea to appose them, whould Liavo scemed like a pnantom bard to the astouishod inbabitznis, Even tho famons raid of John Morgea, weil-remembered in the great redbrick farmie houses of the central counties, would have beea eclipeed by (his fiying troupe, the fawer of the Souih. ern ermy. On the Joko Beall would have heid the whole const at bis mercy, and tho familiar old Michi- gan, tarncil into piratical eraft, would have carried terror into overy barbor, . But the plot on shore falled, _ Cols spent his money fraaly in Sandusky, and managed to procurs an futro— duetion to the ofiicers of tho Michigan, inviting thom to supper-parties, and playing tho part of a genialhiost whoee wines aro good and generously “offered,” Tuo tedium -~ of - tho daily 1ifo upon ' the Steam- er and in the small town was enlizczed by his bospitality, and- for somo all went well ; Dbut graduaily: bo -bégan_ to - mar. his own ploi by 80 much_incantiousness and euch & want of dex- ferity in his movementa that o suspicion was urouscd in Sandusky; and his maneuvres were watchad the ovening of tho 19th of September, Colo had invited the officors of the Michigan to = supper.pary, Every- 1hing was prepoced for them, the wine wae- irugged, and when by this means they had been renderad belp- Tss, o pignal was to notify Beail that all was ready for s Attack. Dut in' the mezntime suspicion Lsd grown into cerfainty,.and, at the very moment of uccess, Cole was avrosted by order '6f tho commender of the Michigon, the signal was nover given, snd Beull, on Dioard of the Paraons, etrained Lis eyes In vain towerd Bandusky and Johnson’s Island, "cruising up snd down outside tho bay, now talking with prisoner, - the * Capiain, . and now urging men tq éaro 4 Dut fue .men, s disorderly rabble, _gathered together in'Canada, Tofuzed to eiiter tho bay ; and, at Iust disappointed xnd disheartoned, Beall gavo the dig- nal to. turn tho bost and sbmidoned theattempt, Back went tho Pursons, withrher pirate. crew, past Kelloy’s Iuand, where the alarmod’ inhsbitpta wero “his aff and’ make tho aitack alone, burning Sandusky ; past Middle Base, whero tho un- fortunste, passengers, Wwhtching on ti bach ehortly after midpight, ssv her fly by, the fire pouring out of her smoke-stacks, and 4 making for the Detrort River 1iko u reared pickerel.” The Captain aud thoao of tho crew who had boen retiined 'fo- mneg the boat wers put ashore upon' en uninhnbited feland, and after Teaching {lic -Canadian shore mnd seuttling {he stesmer, the pirstes disbinded, ond Heall, the mastor- spirit, was Jeft to brood over o failure which had the a4ditfonal bitterness of possible success, Tn tho morning thelake-country people woke up to Biear the news. Incendisties and conspirators in their idst, raiders by 1anG and pirates by ses,—thess wero the tidings of thio breakiast-table. Battcries, soldiers, . and Generals wers ‘hurried hitlier and {hithor, stern investigations were ordered, guards doubled, and above it -all -rose thesound of popmlar comment in newspapors and’ on -sireet cornors, until the buzz apread through theistion, To Lo stire, the horse was ot stolen, if we cail tho Michigan a horse, but thera Was £n imtcnse. amount of shutting the stablc-doar. And when the old steed appearcd again i the various harbors of the lake, sho was regarded with curiosity and redonbled affcction as one wl:o bad indeed suuffed the battle, thongh from afer. Tn leas {han four months Besll was: captured mear tlie Suapension-Bridge, and taken.to New York, An attampt tobribe the tutukey with §3,000 in gold hav- ing been dizcovered, tho suthorities sent Lim to Fort Tafayette, and whild there Lo mado an appest to the Iar of Kew York to indertake bis defense, For a timo no one responded, bnt at lexgih Alr. Jamcs T, Brady offered Lis vervices, and the trial began before a mili- {ary conrt... Beall wns chargod with tho selzure of tho steamer Philo Parsons, at Kelloy's Island, Lako Erio: with tho seizuto of the steamer Island Queen, at Mid- dl¢ Bass Taland, Lake Erio; with being o Rebel spy in Olifo and Nevw ork ; and withan attempt to_throw {lie express car off thi0 track between Buffalo and Dua- Xirk, for tho purposo of robbing the express company'a safe, Tho ollicers of tho cajtured sleamers cnme from o West to. {dentify him, and it is sald that Beall frankly oonfirmed . their {estimony, To. miarking that 25 regazded the Jako affair tho trial had een fur and fmpartial, In tho defense amanifesto from Jefferson Davis wis offered, asicrling that these . ncts upon the border were committed by Lis authority, and should bs recoy 15 the acts of lawiul bollig: erents. But the Court promounced the verdict of “ Guilty," and Gen, Dix approved the finding, order- ing the prisoner to bo hung on Governor's Islund, Sat- urdsy, the 18th of February. In reviewing tho testi- mony Gen, Dix sald :* “ Tho sccused is shown to be & man of cducation and refinement, and it s dificult to 2conat 10 Bis agency in. transachionn 1o sbhorLemt to moral -sense and s0 mconsistent with all tho rules of .honorable. warfare.” +In this opinion, all just-minded personswill agres. And yet, as an-éxample of judg- ment, mistaken but equally sincere, an examplo of perverted vision, tak tho farewell ltter of Deall to hia rother, written' on tho eve of the day appointed for his execntion : “Remember me kindly to my friends, * Say to them Zam not aware of committing any crime against so- .- Too eager qu navy rovolvers, bowic-knives and hatchots, and took | - would offer o clear fleid for inleresting end cicty. Tdle for my country. No_ thirst for Llood or Jucro snimsted mie o my eoreo....My handaaro. cleau of bload, unleas spilled in conilict, snd not 8. ‘cent eiriched 1hy pocket..... Vengeatco is ming, safth_ thie Lord, znd I s}l repay, - Therefore, do not show, unkindness to tho prisaners ; thoy are halpler, - g 4 JorN YATES BYALL" A ehort respite was afterward granted by President Lincolu to cuabie (he mother to sce -her son ; but-on e efternoon of _the 24th of Febrnary the excention took place, upon Governor’s Ieland, New York Harbor, the prisoner responding to the prayers of the Epis- copal servico for the dying, but ofherwiso remaining apparenily unmoved. . Ong item in tho newspager ac- cauntg of the day ia worthy of note. - During the wholo “of the ‘long proccedings ' before” the exccution tho ounz mon_ kept his eyes steadily flzed upon tho ‘Boliern horizon, as if looking toward the very heart of the country for which he was giving up his Jife. Tieall was,tinely formed, about five feet eight inches in hieiglf, with Linzel cyes, brown bair und beard, and afirmly Compressed moutk, o was 33 years 0id ab the time of hia deuth, © WHEN A DREASt COME3 TRUE is tho impassioned refrain of Carl Sponcer’s song: % 1 liold your hand in mine, my darling, darliag § 1 Jook.within your oyes ; I ask you1dle questions, only earing o Liear your low replfes. And all o while tho glimmer of a wondor— A moon-Tit reck of clond— Fiitu o'er wy silent heaven of joy, whilo under Tt stars my soul is bowed., I think how oft the fatnro will require ft— “ b, Lo then did it seen ‘Te-morrow 2nd t-morrow will desire {6 Vaiuly 28 any dream. Whet is 1t moro? Iu dreams the eyes are holden They know not noar from fur ; 1 wako with outspresd anms, a shadow folding— And such 1ifo's vsions o : It 15 but tonch and sight a Litle platne, A voice that telling, hiden ; : I doubt, *O Leart, =Ft thou ro muchs gatnar 7 For something still divides.” H 0 firo of God, O living, winged creature That in this cloy doth risc, Tow canst thou warm to thy divine nature - These lips and hands and cyea 7 s colony I approvo as the bust punishment for grest Critgizals. . 10, aeems :tome" {0 answer pefecily the double object of all punjshment—the: protection. of soclety, within the limits of justice, and the reforma-: “tion of “tho convict, It fulflls the first of these ob- Jects—tho protection of Soclety—for the most danger- ous criminals are thus’east out from _the bosom of soclety ;. the grave inconveniences of relapse are avoided, and .would-be erininalsare deterred by tho rospect of banishment from their country and fami- ly. The eecond objcct is equally met, thot of moral- _izing these individuals, and giviog them hope aud the Tneans of becoming ngain uscful to thomselves and so- - ciety in another country, where; after undergolng part of their punistimont, iy can séud for their faunliea or found new ones, thus beginning another- exiatence in an entirely different atmosphere, which will not se- duco them into their former exrors.” % This s the true point—to 8o mansge the criminal that when he bas suffered his punishment he may Liave, at least, the chance to begin'a ncw and beiter life, aud to make even his period of punishment as natiural and healthfal as is consistent with bis seclu- sion from general goclety. Aud this can by best done by exile or penal transportation. It is not done atall under the State Prison system. P 34 - THE TRIAL OF NIXOX, who was hanged the other day in New York, had its comio passages, liko all the other tragedies of life, which serve only to throw into darkoer relief the .terrible . consnmmation. - “The Drawer” proserves one of thege interludes, whick ' occur- red :in the testimony of a colored man, named William Henry Johnson, given in a manner that rendered rezistance to laughter imposaible: William Henry Johnson (colored) testified thaton the day of the shooting hie saw two men having an'al- tercation in Chatham strect; one of them was on ‘horseback, and the other drove a wagon. The man in the wagon toid the man on horseback to get out of the way, when the lstter turned round and attamptod to strike him two or three times, Cross-cxamined by District-Attorney Phelps: - Q.—*Whero do you live, Johnson” A, “Ins garret.” [A laugh). Q.—** What is your business?” A.—* My wifo fol- lnw;}‘ho washing business, but she’ mmakes me do the worl - : Q.—* Whore was the wagon when you eaw it 1" A— ¢ "Fyyns in the street,”, [Laughter]. Q.—Whzt part of the streat?” ~A.—“In the street, that hastost to their meeticg, Hoping desire to I, . Thou standest half abashed, in tenderest greeting, Yet finding welcome clill, WIth stinted bread the life-long Lunger stayin, With fasting vistons blessed.c oo s .+ With longing that makes life perpetual praying, A stranger her confesscd. 1f yet, O deaxcst heart, the world grows dearer, ‘Bacauso 7Lis sweet 0 ntand (While that which never has enough cries, Nearcr) One moment hand to kand, % Whet will i bo when every barrier breaking Lels heart to heart come through 7 Will Leaven leave one corner for an aching When tiie long dream comes true 7 . * ro-yoenowW,” by Miss H. R: Hudson, is s very long pocm, of which the last verses suffico to give the catas- tropho, and show the drift of its story : A ‘The ancient clock, bedecked with flowersy Was pointing out the sign of two: Too swiftly now the busy hours Moved onward in the courses due, "Tho bridal presents, loving dowers Of oldaffection proved anow, Lay underneath their tiny Lowers Unheeded; and the momouts grew, Ard mado anothor hour, The while 8he weited, grown heart-sick with dread, e sisters sought with harmlces gotle To smooth the careful words they said, 2 And triod with many a winning wilo To scatter fears that silence fed. Still, with white lips ehe tried to sinfle, ‘But turned away and wept instead. “Hemay be fll.” “If that were so e must have sent us some brief word.” ‘e had the note two days ago.” Perhaps somo now deiny occurred.” 1 never kmew the time €0 slow.” £aid onv, in whirpers scarcaly heard, “ How strange ! If we could only know! Tlis coming could not be deferred 1" “And then, what ufl? the people say " “0h, hiéh | spesk lower ; bko may Rear.™ 415 thit 8 dusi-cloud, far 2\way i Upon the read, end ccrsing near?™ “Itis!itis] Lhopeend piay Tt may e Roger! Litdo fear Gt that it s, A wedding-dsy ithout a bridegrcom wordd v quecr.” The nofec of wheels liad reached Ler ar, The tramp cf horzes driven fast 1iow quickiy every Lrow grew ciear That clouds of Goul hua overvast ! And, laughing out 1ith suaden chieer, cricd, ** Alt, 4o 33 come at List| T know I hrd R0 cease for e But yet, thank keaven, th 1 wonder whet has kent him go! Audl Ece—1ny eyes ure swollen and r Tacy're ouly ot the bridge. How elow, “Till mo whex they are mear [ ehe aid. 42 emocthicd tho lices’ tumbied encw. Bewresthed tho flowers thet crowne. fier head, Suiled at the mirrcr's pretty snow, And paced {he floor with restless i esd. * They'ro Liere, and iiere is Roges: & Xay, Uiy not Reger ™™ “¥hy, whry, thenh Astrenger, and s hair i ray. “ Bat Hoger's with: him. Lock 2gain No. Now he's at the dcor; %.at stay— Liston. They asked hin ¢ Waeve 2 ind ‘when?” Whiat w2 it that 1 herrd Lim uy ? Tiae Erie Railway? Found.at ten?” A kmot of peorle in the doos, And voices loud, then hrisbed and Jow “ How many kilied7” * You say at four 2" *“A crowded troin!” *“If she should know!” *Dead when you found kim ?” “ Long before— Aud killed, I think, by one hard blow. He must have lain £ix bouws or more Netted within thie ruins so, “Tle hiad this lotter in his hand ; 1t 6aid ho was to wed to-dsy. - b 1 thought perlaps—you understerd— 7 The news might come some herdor woz." Oniy & girl’s defpeiring cry Ringing acroes the sunny air, A murmur, fading to a sigh, Then sudden sflence everywhere, And none bad known that eho was by, J-And noe had thought {o raye or epar - They stared, aghast, * Was she £0 “You did not tell mo she was there { ATd 41l the summer breazes fanned ‘Each tiny leaf and bloomy spray, And still throughout tae happy Jard - The blossoms toid that it was May ; i For hearts may breek and loves grow cold Betwixt the morning and the eve, i And utill the cunsct gives its gold ¢ + o thore who tmile, fo thoso who grieve; And graves are filied and men grow old, 4nd still the busy eeasons weave Now lives and loves; and last year’s mould. Covers the dust of thoso they leave. “ WHAT SEALL WE DO WITH ECE0GGS? "™ asks Charles Nordhof,—Scroggs being the:col- lective appellation by which he designates the inmates of the soveral thousand jails and cor- rectionary institutions of the country: Self-protection compela ociety to impricon (ffend- erw, but It has no right to_destroy or seriously impair the criminal’s chance in lifo after the expiration of bin term_of puniekment, for to do this s to injuzo not ‘merely tho man, but s itaelf. Iam not spenking ere of ¢he rights of als out of any morhid or mawkisli entimentalism such as leads many good but | ‘mistaken men to sprose capital punishment. The worst use you csn make of #omie men is not to hang them; it 152 summary end wholesome Wey of ubating some nuisances, I should rather eay that the worst use you can mske of a man 18 to stick him into a State Prison for a term of years, o Now, in the place of building new prisons, why should wo not try exile—penal transportation? We bave in Alasks ag immense territory, in almost every Toapect well sulted 1o bo e scene of 8 pensl colony. It is isolated, and escapes wonld be easily prevent it is almost uninhabited; it bos a chein of falands sult- able for zoparate colonics; its climate on the coasts is suflicfently mild, and yot 2ot tropical, but bracing and Tealthful /it 0ff’ra fow or no tén:ptations to ; and yet it is o conntry in which convicts who had scrved out their time, or enrned their discharge; could live comforiably, and build up s new and prosperous society. At present Alnska is s uscless and expensive posses- sion, Two Federal a compauies hold posses- sion; bat it lics too far outof the Way to tempt eat- tlers, Uscd as a pensl colon, to which the moet hardened of our convicts might at fizst bo sent, it valusblo experiments in _the © management a5d reformation of criminals. It is not sickly, Like tlie French.penal sottloment of Cayenne; nor Las i, liko Austzalia, a climate g0 mild as to enable runaway conyicts to live 2 vagrant life in the busb, Itisa cour. try in which industry and foresight arc necestary to enable 3 white man- o exiat; and thus the natural conditions of life would help in disciplining the crimi= mals sent thither. . s Baing controlled by the Federal Government, it {s prolable that, if Alaska beeame o penal colony, Weat Point oflicers would be its rulers and guardians ; and these, who are, aboye a1l strict disciplinarians, 7o d- mirably caloulated to’ manage _rightly a coavict population, which necds, above - all _ofher thinge, o leam obedlence to anthority, and to'bo subjectad torigid discipline. of mind and body. Moreoter, tho gradusto of \est Point is, as & Tale, s man of ‘honor and n gontleman, Ho Kuows nothing about contracts ; ho performs his duty; he is honest and respectable ; 'and under his rule, af least, the convict would not commonly have teforo hima yernicious ecxamplo of greed, and other low forms of ice, Thero would be no lack of work in Alaska for a penal colony, howover numerous.- Tho country has no roads ; ft has no publlc buildings ; it has no mechanic arts ; it would need, if it had & population, artisans of all kinds ; and for half & century to cdmo o penal colony fn Alssks rightly minsged, ought t bo self~ supporting, wilh abundsnco of usal abar for overy convict, - The question of penal transporiation has not come very prominantly before the public in recent years. It was not even discussed at the recent Prison Con: gres= in London, though & report was resd upon it by Count i Foresta, Procureut-General of Ancous, whosald : * Transportation with comvulsory labos in. ot on the sidewalk.” % A—“Onthe Q.—* On which side of the_strest 77 #amo gido that T was.” . —+ How near was the wagon to the sidewalk 7" Well, upon my soul, I conld mot tell. That'sa Q 78 ‘pretty hurd thing 20 tall, &3 Tdid not meastre it.” Q—‘Ara you deaf” A.— “ Sometimes” lsugh.] Q.—*When you first saw the man_ on horseback, wliere was he?” A~ Onp his beck.” [Great laugliter. Q.—“WWhere waa the wagon?” " A.—Well, boss, L gueas wo talked about that beforo.” ' [Applause.] Q—“With what hand did he_strike tho prisoncr?” A.—“He struck him with no hand; be struck him with the whifiletree. "Pon my honor I can sayin which hand ho held the whifflotree, except it was the right or the left.” [Laughter.] % Q—*1era they near Barnum’s clothing: store?” A.—Well, sco here now, boss, T ain’t able to resd nor write, and T can't toll Barnum’ from A. T. Stewart, or any of them big folks, Ly looking up 2t their names.” Q—“When did you tell this to 3r. Howe?? A— “Mr, Howe? Mr. Howe, when wasitX went to see you?" [Great laughter in the Court, and counsel - Joired.] Q.—" Did you know Nizon?" A.—“No,Taid not Jnow him from Tom, Dick, or the devil. (Continued merriment.] The fact is, boss, men will got into musscs, parjiciarly colored folks. You know, some folks béeo down on the colored people. 1moan folks 18 Lave no eddicatiun, and dou’t know their grammar nor thelr dictionary, I can write my name—no, I can't efther, como to think of it.” [Laughter.) Q.—“Do’ you know officer Van Buskirk?” A.— “Who? What? Does he kuow me? Iguessnot. No, sah.” (Laughter, during which the Court ordered tho witness to retire.] - LIPPINCOTT'S. Prentico Mulford, in *Our Monthly Gossip,” caricatures “THE BAW AMERICAN’ in Tondon, on his way to the Vienna Exposi- tion: Aany of them sre Commistioners from various States. Some havelands to sell or otRer financial axes togrind. Of such the Langham Hotel {s full. The Langhean i3 the nearest spproach to an American hotel in London. There, though not a guest, you may pass in and ous without explaining to the bail-porter who ~you are, what you are, where you - come from, or what You want; you may thero enter ond retire without giv- ing your pedigree, naturalization papers, or a certifi- cate of good charicter. At other English hotels some- thing axalogous to this is commonly required, e, wko have been in England a full year, look down withan oir of superiority on tho raw, the newly- arrived American. We are quite English. We have worn out our Amcrican clothes, We have on English Bate, with tightiy-curied rims, and English stub-toed boots. We know the intricacies of London strest navi- gatlon, and Islington, Black: Camden Town, Macknpy, the “ Surrey Side,” Piccadilly, Regent snd Oxford sireots, the Strand,’ and Fieet 'stroet aro all mapped out distinctly in our mind's ese, Weare ekiiled in English money, and no longer pass off half- crowps for two-shilling pieces, We are real Anglo- Amerfezns, _ - - 5ut the ruw Amberican, only arrived s week, s in & mazz, a confucion, & burry, He is excited and mye- tified, He tries to apppear cool and nnconcerned, and is oiiply. ridiculous, His cards, besring his name, title, and officfal statts, he distributes as freely as dothi the winter wind the enow-flakes, ‘ Inquire at the Lang- ham oflice for Mr. Smith, and you find he has blos- somad into Gen, Smith. He is always partaking, or Sbout to -partake, of offi- clal dinners, o feels that tho eyes of all Engtand uro upon him, Heis dressed a 1s bandbox,—bat immaculate in fts pristine gloss, white crevat, umbrells of the slimmest, enczscd in silken wrapger. Aspeckof mudon Dis boots would tarnish the national honor. Common- Iy, ho istakon fors hesd butler, He drinks much stout. He eats a whitekait dinner befors being forty- eight liours in London, and tells of it, - All this makes Tum feel Engiish, You meet him. Heis overjosed. He would talk of cverything—your mutual cxperience in America, bia sensations and impressions_since arriving in Eng. Lad. He talks intelligibly of mothing. His brain isamere rag-bag, shreddy, confused, parti-colored. Thus ho empties it: * Passage over rough;” ZLon. don wonderful;” “Dined with the Esrl of — gesterdsy;” “Dino with Sir — to-day;” “To "the Tower;” * Westminster;” “New - York growing:” “5t, Paul'a”—going, golng, gone! and he shakes hands with you, and is Off at Broadway guit straight toward the East End of London for his hotcl, whic lies st the West End, . In reality, tho man is not i his right mind, He isun- dergoing the mental scclimatization fever. Should he stay in London for three months be Imight recoves and begins to find ot where hc s, Bubeix month henco howill havereturned to Americs, fancying he has seen London, Paris, Rome, Geneva, Vienns, and whatever other piaces his body hus been hurrled through, not his mind; for that, in the excitement and rapidify of . his flight, has strcamed behind him like the tail of comet, light, attenuated, vapory, caiching;nothing, ab. sorbing nothing, Occasionally this fever takesan abusive phase, Ho finds in England nothing to like, nothing to admire, Sometimes he wishes {mmediately to revolutionize the Governmient. He is inconsed at the costof royaty.. o sees on every side indications of palitieal uphoaval. Or lie becomes culinarily disgusted, Becsuse thers ireno buckwhest cakes, no codfish cukes, o hot bread, no pork and beéans, no. mammoth ’ oysters, stewed, fried, and roasted, ho can_find nothing it to est, Tho English cannot’ cook. -Beeause he ean find 0 noisy, clattering, dish-urashing restsurant, full of acrobatic wallers racing and balancing under immenso piles of plates, and shouting jargon untransiatable, unintelligible, and unpronouncesble down into, tha lower kitehen, he cannot, connot eat, - JMB: GLADSTONE 18 80 prominent s figure in the history ‘which our times are making, thatany information sbout him as 2 man and & brother will be eagerly read ; and the following very full sketch of his person-" al and domestic relations is_opportune now, s he visibly draws near tho end of his official Theze i no doubt that, had 3r, Gladstone followed. Ris personal incination’ when his Irish education achomo broke down Last March, Lo would have retired from office; He Is now 64, nnd- it may be fairly ques- tioned whether thero exisis a man who far forty-six years bas worked bis brain harder. It is no light iabor | to read for the higheet honors in -even.one schioal at Oxford, and Alr, Glsdstono ‘read for them n two, He geined s double firet,” which*méant at that time a first-class both in- claasics and mathematics, Forthe with. he plunged into political esssy-writing; until in 1634 he_Turther sdded to his labors by entering the ‘House of Commons s M. P. for Newnrk. . -~ . Mr. Gladstone’s father was, as.most peopls aro ‘aware, a Liverpool merchant of Scotch descent, This 'gentieman was the architect of his own fortunes, which aroze in mo slight degree out of his connection with ‘the Uniled States, Having been sent to this comntry bya firm largely interzsted in the corn trade, he dis. charged their business to their-entire eatisfaction, whilst, ot the eame time he made vary valusblo busi- ‘ness connections cn his own account, which material served him when at a later period he Limself embarke: in businss. He mado s lirge fortunc, but it did not sppear at his death to be gs great 98 1t was, because ho gave his younger poni the Dulk of their . portions during bis' ifetime—to avold lezacy duty, people said. To his eldest son ho left can- siderable chtates in. Scolland—to the younger sons, avout £100,000 aplece. - The eldest, Sir Thomas Glad stone, is 2 very Worthy man, but ‘nowise remarkabla for ability, Ho has one son, and has had iz dangh- ters, Foursurvive, and all are unmarried. g The next brother, Robertson, an eccentric person ‘whose indiscreet speeches must often have made his statesman brother feol very . hot, continuos the patormal businesa at _ Liverpocl. ’ Tho ~third, ohn - Neilson, wes, socially . speakin theflower of tho flock. " T1¢ was a Goptain 1n the navs, from which he had retired many years prior to death {n 1663 and o member of ‘Parliament, By his wife, 8 singularly excellent and charming woman, he had ovaral children, who msy be said to pretty nearly monopolize the feminine charms of the Gl e family. One of these married the Earl of Belmore, an Irish nobleman, who lately returned from s not yery successful gubernatorial career in New South Wales, Both Sir Thomas and Cspt. Gladstone ' wers decided Conservatives. . William Ewart i the fourth biother. “That young ‘rother of mino will make a nolse in the world soms of theso days,” said Capt. Gladstone to a fellow-middy as his Lrother turned away from bidding him good- Dye just before he was about to start on s cruise; snd the Words were certainly prophetio. . Mlr. Gladstone ‘married when he was 50. iis wife was one of the two sisters of 8ir Stephen Glyne. The English aristoo- racy contains a great many sets, and the Glynnes wero in the intellectnal, comprising such men as the Dukes of Argsll end' Devonshire, - and Lords Der- by, Btaobope, and Lyttelton, Mra. Gladstone and her sistor were martied on the same day 0 two of the fine est intellects of their time, Tho younger, ¥hose men- tal gifts were far - superior fo the ) LEE ey - Mr. Glaastone bas 3. Lurge family. . “Bai for some time-been tnsmrum’m:,mg‘éfi‘ lished no reputation for notabla capaciiy, and it i r that, with “tho exception “of “his younger brot. ers,’ none of the: s 278 “remarkably 1y this respect. Mrs. Gladstone 1a o person o il kindness. of ‘hert and uniiring bengvetenes: Smt Is full of schomes for. doing good: hospitals, cect valescent institutions, etc, find in her ap’ e ready.friend, to the negleck, it is wi domestic_dnties, There is in_amusing ll:wwme m‘ns ago 1; '!’el:flm:x arrived st her horsy Tegpanse to an on to dinnar. ‘ in vaia for the rest of tho party, for whmarg':l’:m hosteas was ot 5 lotn to account. . At length che farmey sside and opened her blotting-book, which quickly o vealed the causo of the Fucsts’ non-Tbpesrance—ths yitations wero Iying there. Thoy bad been wriliey, but nover sent. In London the Prime Ministar—wlip has an fn. different official residence, which 1o and is funily have occasionally occupiod, in Downing strest—iive, n Garlton-Touse Terzacc. - 1t1s 3 besntifal house,ins not by any means well adapted for party-giving, for i {60 Eomateacten thab ctrenlation fs s oo b 8 1f you once got Info a room, s0u must stay there; _wheress halfths charms of Lady Palmerston’s famou; ‘pabties ot Cambridge Houso was the free circulatinm the rooms afforded, enabling 50u to pass right romg s quadrangle, and {hus essily find an acquaintancy or get sway from & bore, Afr, Gladstane's honss hayy fine double staircase, and it will derive interest aftar daya from the circumstanca that, standing ot thy hesd, Lord Russell took leav of the party he Dad lrg, and pointed to his thon host 38 his slccessor, - A oo s Lanom, Tor, Wittt extoenot uation on, for, w! cl L::!tgrd,lthvzryt&n-ut. Tt stands ‘between Pali ag and St. James’ ark. One side faces 3 strip of besuti. fully-kept garden,” which lies between the_termcs and _the ~row ' of formed by thy’ Senfor United Servce, Athensum, Travelers) and Carlton Clubs._The othor sids has's charming ‘pros. poct over St Jamew Park. In_summer ths iy iy ovly, for il ugly objects are obsoured by iy folingé, amid which glimpses are obtainod of the pine nacles and fretted towers of the palace of Parliument on the one hand, and. toss of 18 venerabls neighbar, thénajostic abbey, on tho other. It was hesothn] Bunaen passed his London . dsya, and the readers of his momoirs will remember frequent references to thy chavms of his house, It may well be imaginet how- grest s boon it 8 to - fhy toil-worn_ Minister to find himself, 28 it were, fn'y garden, with only tho distant roar, like thatof the 808, to remind himashe sits nhis studs that fre mifutes’ walk across that plessant park will bring him to Downing street, snd thres more to the Treumry benct in tho Housd of Commons. - In the country most of his time is spent at Hawarde Caatle in Flintahire, about six houra from Londa, Thiz s the ancestral seat of ra. Gladstone's brother, Sir Stephen Glynne, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, whoso family have held this property. for conturiey, Sir Stephen ia » vory by mun of seived babits, Bra family arrangement his house fa the country abods ot gl In earlior life, Sir Stephen and his two brothers. in-law, Mr, Gladstone snd Lord Lyttelton, formed sn_unfortunstely fovorable estimate of certain mines, imto which much of the fortune -of fir Stephén and his sisters went, and from which it Dever - came out agaln. There was ome other brother, the late Rector of Hawarden. Ho died sbout & year 3go, and Mr. Gladsione's second sam, Stephen, was sppeinted his successor. The lising, in the gift of Sir Stephen, fs very valoable, '3 - Gisnae ‘the Qéd wituont a go3, and the_title will, therefore, on Sir Stephen's dealh, be extinict:- As matters now stand, it may be presumed that Mc. W, H. Gladstone, the Brimo Minister's eldess son, will suceeed to the Hawarden estates. +Mr. Gladstone has himself recently increased thy family nterest sround Hawarden by purchase, Abont . five years ago the state of his inances were the falk ot the town, and & number of people, capecially-of the Conservative party, avowed themsglvesin & position o nasart from personal knowledge that he was ruinsd, Thare was no just ground for such a statement, and, *Hke so many other absurd rumora, it died out. ' Nons of Mr..Gladstone's danghters are married, nor is bz .eldest son, ; Against the raw American portrayed by Pren- ‘tice Mulford, Wirt Sikes, in * Bowery England” puts the DIGNIFIED ENCLISE WAITER a8 & contrast: ~ Our train lesves atten minutes past § this after. noon, and we shall be in London esrly in the cvening, It ia Dow 4 o'clock : we have ordered dinner for thit Bour, and 8o we sit down to our soup. - % Please give us onr dinner without any delsy now,” sy tothe pompons head-waiter, ¢ far wo must the train ot ten minutes past 5.7 - The man bows_stifly and retires, e finish the soup, and wait. When we gt tired of waiting we eall the Besd-maiter tous : * Are you basteniog our din- ner "4 Fials atrectly, sir,” -he answers, and walks sol. emnly away. We begin to grow fidgety. Fiftesn min— utea sinca tho soup, ad 1o fuh vot. Bunker swears el blow the head-waiter up in another minute. Just 28 he is quits ready for this explosion the fish arrives, Al Bail1 T lay it open. : “Why, it's not done!” I ery in const “There, there! Take it sway, and bring the meat.” With an air of grave offensa the man bears it solemn- Iyout, Then we waitagain. And wait. And wait, “Good gracious | cries Bunker, “here half ta honr good and we've had nothing but soupl I really must blow this fellow up.” i Pl e aiter b arest dignity, aad solemnly ter the with great & deposits before us—the fish againl He has it rocooked. Wa attack it hurriedly, and b the waiter for Goodness’ ake bring the reat af tha; dinner instantly, or. wo must lesve it. 4 And Pm sbout Balf starved,” growls Bunker, More waiting. Five minutes pasx. Ten. < 4 Oh come, T can’t stand this | cries Bunker, ing up with his napkin round his neck, and striding ror iy BiEo Teaning neort 5 tlae bt weE ek o 2 side-] th his e folded, ' ook hero 1" Dunker ejscalates ‘“can yon bemsda to understand that wearein 3 hurry? Would balf & dollar be any inducement to you towake up and look sround lively? 3 W hiave got to take thosa cars in exacily twelve min utes,” showing his watch, ; ready paid for, Lwant to get it befare I go.” 4 Certainly, ir,” says the pampous asa, with slow indifference, ditmer directly. John!” o our waiter,, who is now placing the meat on thie table, “‘serve tha genPm's dinmor directly.” ‘Bunker stares at the fellow as Clown starca st Han lequin after having cut him in two, in dumb amsza ment st the fact that Harlequin is not in the leust disturbed by being out in two. T wonder,"” he mutters 5s he returns to the table, 4if that unmitigated wooden imaga of o dunderhesd would pay any attention if T were to ick him? " 4 No—not {f you were to tio & pack of Arc-crackers; t0 his coat-tail and light them. He knowa his busi- nexa too well, The firat duty of an Eaglish head-waite, er1s to be dignified, 13 {t 15 that of & French heade waiter 0 be vigilant and polite.” : “ Besides,” ramarka Amy quietly, “I don't suppose? the man hed an idea,of what you meant by those: cars,'if ho ever kniew what a half dollar significd,” - 4 ¥ell, womust be off. Time’s up, We shall mias: the train, <Good-bye, boys, Yon causit atill and fin 1ah your Qinner in pesce.” FE3 5 o Goodvbye to our friends from Paultons—good-bye. And then we rush ont, and do miss the traln, It 8 § o'clock 10 minutes and a quarter, English trains go on time—English dinners dont, Wo finally get off at T.0'clock. Just_befors we leavs, 3 waiter comes up to me =nd_5ays {n & cagual M3 a7 * Found yous humbreller yet, air 1" 8 N ~ - ‘s Yzat kind of ter humbraller was it 1c 1n ! eat littla brown umbrel,” nder " ™%a, with anfvory. “ Wy, 't wonder §2 that brek e ) Bt rondes 1 nat s yons I make haste 10 lodk. Yeq, thersit is, my beloved, : long-lost umbrells, quibtly leaning agsinst ihe wall it corner, behind'a pillar, behind a big arm. of sory h]flhg L "chalr, where ol “ever placed it, Pil'take my. cath,’ but this ‘waiter, ks e to gt 2 shilling for ahowing whare'he Bid 1t 1 that your humbreller, sir7” the waiter says, rub. " bing hus hands and getting In my way an T walk beiskly out, at peril of being stumbled over by my hurrying:, feck. T scorn o reply, but T give him a glance of auch withofing contempt that I trust that it plerced fo his~ wicked heart; and will remain thero, s punishment and . & araing, 3 the st day of his bads W, An Eaglish * very thick, however, He has probal Hidden many » genermashs umbrelia sigcer ol . KATY’S GUESS. % With twalve white egge.in a downy ness The old hen sits in = box in the hed 3 - And the children, yestardsy, stood and guessed Of the hopes thst hid in her speckled breast, 3 Of the dreams that danced through her red-crowned . 4 8ho thinks, s=id the Iabor-hating Ned, “* Of & 1and where the Weasels are all asleep, i . Where the hawks are-blind and the doge are desd;, Whors are hespa of corn 1 high us the shed; 2 And plenty of earth-worms for her to est.” <4 Sho remembers the country fair,” ssra Bess, * And the prize she took at Hampton town.” No, 0, she don't,” cries James tho less, 48lio dreams of her lttle ducks, I gueaa 8he 1s wondering yet why they didn’t drown.” And what sa3 you, littls curly pate? 1 sea a thought in your merry eye, “Bhe fink,” ssys the bright-eyod baby Kate, As sho Jifts the latch of the garden gate, “Yeze'll be tickens to akstch for by and by.? Three chieers for tho wisdom of thres years old;, " Who told you the secret, littls b That love I8 better than ease oF gol: ! . That labor for love paye a thousand fold 2 “ Qo finked it corself 77 Well, don't forget. —Helen J, Angall. 2 Frightened Orators. %" For the encouragement of all who fear an 8u- . dience, we reprint the' following from Haw-: thorne's “ English Note-Book " Bualwer and a certain Dr. — were talking to- gether about publia o:ruking, and the doctos said he feared heshould never be a good speaker; he falt 8o badly befora he “got on his legs.” * Da you feel your heart beat.” said Iwer; “when you are going to speak 7" E ¥ Yes.” . “ Does your voice frighten you " ¥eq," “ Do alt Yea," Do you wish ths floor to open and you?” P “Yog 7 2 - 4 Why, then, yod will make sn orator!” Hawthorne got on to relate that Canning, o8- - one occasion, just before speaking in the Houze, agked a friend sitting near him to feel hia vnisei . which was throbbing .intensely. *I know 1. shall make one of my best speoches,” said the - rntuxIa“Premie:, “becauss I am in such an awfus your ideas foreake yon 7" =