Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1873, Page 10

THE CIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUNT 24, 873. . ENGLAND AND scoTLAND. Bome Notable Sights---Blen- heim and Chatsworth. Tho Abbey of the Fountaing-—The English Lakes, The Highlands---Lochs Lomond and Ka- trine---Scott and Burns. Sterling Castlo-Edinburghe-Mel r080 Abboy---Abbotsford. Bpectal Correspondente of The Chicago Tribuns, } Toxvon, July 81, 1873, - I shall writo you to-day a vory desultory lettar, sbout X know not what. I havo takon a month's xapid journoy to the English lakos, o the Beotch lakes, tho oountry of "*Iiob-Roy," of the **Lady of the Lake,” returning by Edinburgh; theuco to Molrose Abbey and Abbotsford; thonco by Durbam, York, and Lincoln Cathedral; pausing 2t Tpon to sco the far-famod Abbey of tho Founlaina; and wo bsck to London. Whatever sy ocour to me in looking back over this pano- - Tamn 0f boauty and sconos of historio associa~ tions, I will jot down, withotit any attempt ot ‘anything but the roughest akotch. " In looking back nnd recalling tho palaces and balls, and msgnificont country-soats which are foundall over England, two stand out: clearly «leflned in momory a8 the most imposing : L 'DLENIEDM AND OUATBWORTIL. For & doscription of the former, any one who over heard Edward Everott's oration or locture upon Washington will reonll one of the finost =ploces of word-painting in the langungo,—that in which, ho describos Blonheim, and contrasts it withMt, Vernon, X beliovo the objoct of tho lecturo waa to ralse monoy to ensblo the Mt. Vornon Assoclation to purchase and 'restoro Mt. Vornon, and tho arator was contrasting the munificonce with which monarchioal govern- ments reward tholr heroes and siatosmon with tho noglect (shall I not say the ingratitude ?) of Republics, At all evonts, there is to bo found n wonderfully flne and graphio desoription of Blenhoim,~the finest private residonce in England, i It waa cortainly the MOBT MAGNIFICEXT OIFT evor made fo & soldier or atatesman for mervices to his counitry. It is s prince- ly ostate, with =& grand old park, stooked with hiandreds of door ; with avenuos of onks, and elms, and bocches, whose vigorous life can be traced back far carlior than the great battle which thoy commomorate. There is ona part of the park, howover, which was planted to Topresont by treos the position of the Duke's ‘attalions at tho groat battle, Tho palaco is im- monso In 8izo; rich in plotures by the old mastors, and in statuary; sndits library con- taing- many thoussnds of volumes. THE MONUMENT to tho Duko of Marlborough stands just ono inch from the centre’ of the main entrance to the palaco, and rising majos~ tically high above tho grand old troes in the paric in which it is situated, it is aocnapionaus abjeat, not only from overy part of the domain, but for. miles around. It s crowned with a colossal tatuo to the Duke, and on its column are ro- counted tho history of his life and services. v A siroam runs through the park, which sup- plies tho water for an artificial lake, ond the banks of thisstream, rising untohills, enabled the landscape gardoner to produce, with grass aud troes, and ahrubs, effects unequaled in boauty and varisty, What i8 called tho American Garden, largoly planted with azalias, rhododendrons and honoysuckles, was s marvel of bloom and beauty, Bpeaking of the MUNIFICENCE OF ENGLAND %o her soldiers, overy travelor must be improsscd with the woalth and honor she hae lavished upon Marlborough and Wallington, and scarcely loss upon Loid Nelson. Apsley House and Blon- ‘heim aro 48 honorable to England a8 to the Iron Duko and Churchill ; and you can scarcely finda squote or & park in suy ity of England but you wll be protty sure to seo rising upabove its treca s column to one of these idols of tho English people. As to Chatsworth, whoever wants to read a flne desaription of the Z EHOW-PLACE OF ALL ENGLAND, 16t him tarn to Downing's * Landeoape-Gardon- ing," and ho will find it in the appondix. Itisa good spocimon of Downing's style, and was originally publishoed in the Horliculturist. + Furness Abbey, and tho ¢* Abbey of the Foun- tains,” are nmong the most picturesque of all tho old ruins of Bugland. Both sro situated.on the banks of small ruuning streams, and quite gecludod from town and village, FOUN CAINS ABREY is in the park of tho Marquis of Ripon, and ap- pronchod only ‘through a most boautiful and richly-wooded valloy. It is vast in extont, of exquisitely bosutiful workmauship, and enough rowmains to show its groat sizo, snd to make it all which could bo- desirsd -in & ruin. You have hero, set in a frame-work of rich folinge nud greon turf, with a bright, clear stream running undor its walls, an old ruin, of & wejesty and dignity such as Milton or Michnol Angolo might have dosigned. Tho s aro covered with ivy and wild flowors, and myriads of birds mske thoir nests in tho openings snd crevicea of tho stones, Bituated, as it is, far awuy fram town or city, or evon village, in the midst of tho wildost park-scenery, so gupint and peacoful, itis oxceedingly improusive, t is 50 old that tho stone monumonts of the old Bishops and Barond are 0 worn with ago that neithor name, nor date, mor insoription can sny moro bo (road. Occasionally an_offigy with legs crossed, can be made out, indicating that, at gomo timo far back, some Crusader had boen buried there; Dbut who? Stone cof- fins may often bo found, but tho re- maing have been ouo for centuries. The stone crumbles, tho arch falls, the mnssive column is overthrown, sud man tries in vain to commemornte himeelf or his fellow. The abboy, tho {mlwa. the cathodral of 800 yoars ago, is al- most A]wn{snn ruin ; and oyor it oreops tho kind- 3’ ivy, seoking to hide and covor tho wounds of me. THE ENGLISI LAKES. The English Lako-scenory is worthy of all tho Linke-poots have snid and ‘sung of it. The ole- uonts which combine to formt are somowbat peculiar : First, the water of thosolnkesis of a doop, dark blue, and, in the shadows‘of tho hills, nearly black, Then tho folinge noar the water is vory donas and loxuriant, and grows, in many places, flown to the very margin of the water, Ivery 2apo snd promontory, every green slope, shelters 2 cottsge or statoly mansion, all buils of gray, old mossy stone, and nearly all in the old Eng- ‘inks or Elizavothan stylo of architooture, and -iany of {hem clothied with vy and woodbine ; wnd theso aro sot iu the richost lawns, and sur- -ounded with tho most lovely flowors and shrub- rery. And‘coutmutlufi with this, at the wilder alies aro stoop, rocky kills, that ofton rise from ho water's edge nbmptl \ 80 that there 1s a com- rination of the beautiful aud the grand uot ofton .een in such closo proximity. +In the wilder Iakos, such as DERRVENTWATER AND JOTLERMERR, hore s anothor feature of exceeding boauty, Iaro tho bills rise from 1,000 up to 3,000 fost, nd aro covered with grass, forns, and skeep, to lie very tap. Tho hills aro so sfcop that ono rould think nothing but a mountsin-goat could limb them. As the road winds along tho sides 1 theso monutains, it makes ono giddy to look ardown to the brook that murmurs o man undred feot bolow you that you cannot catoh o sourd, And yot this same brook, not far off, ill bo soon rushing down the sides of the 1ountain, Jeaping from rock to rook in besutiful aterfalls, looking like & sllver ribbon stretchod om top to bottom, two or throe milos ng. Enmctlman you ~will sce half-a- jzen of theso boautiful silver ribbons 1. an _amphithostro of hills on every de, snd tho effect is excnndlngl lovely. At 10 foot of theso rock; hfllue’on will always flud oudows coverod with gonile sheop, within- imeorable hedges of hawthorn, wild-rose, and veet-brier, As we crossed tho line into BCOTLAND, Beotch songs and Sootch muslo, tt and Burns, o th “he memory, andour wholo party mo throngl ¢ f S wora constantly lookin, #ight of .tho tartans and hear the bagpipos'; but nono appearad, and wo toro soon remindod that the Bootland -of to-day inuot exactly the Soot- innd of Rob-Roy and Forgus Molvor ; and,’ as wo pasgod into & commonplaco modorn villago, oue of tho party burat into tho song ¢, My heattin in tho Highlandsy— . ., \ty honrt a not horo; - My heart fa in tho ‘Miglilands, A chisstng the door. Wo sang suatolien of Beotch nangu& and ro--| a citod Boott's pootry, until wo ronhed GI TUDNA AND RCOTT havo thoroughly improssod themeolves upon tho Scotch. Eyery lams you moet will slng for you n song from Burns, and stnge-drivoraand boatmen around the Bcotch Lnkes will recito Bcott by tho hour, Evory town honors itsclt by oracting monuments to their momory; every fhm andl gil‘l“hu ita tale and legond connocted with their o8, Wo eatlod u? Loch Lomond, and, returning to Inversnaid, all mounted to iko top of the.conch, and rode ovor tho wild pass, across Rob-Toy’s country, to tho hoad of *LOON RATRINE. Wo atald ovor-night horo at a littlo hotol with an uupronounceablo Gaclio namo, and 'this was tho only liouso visited. ~The scono wan stern, and wild, and solltary. At mldnight wa woro starilod from our sloop by the soundof tho bagpipes undor our windows, Whothor played bythe ghost or tho doscendant of ** Old Allan Baue,” L could not toll, With tho morning wo learned that tho clan of the McOregors ls, as a clab, oxtinct. Thoy nre all doad, or scattorad, no one Xnowa where. Tho landscnpo sooms sad, and to MOURN FOR THE DAYH OF ROMANCE, when tho glonm of olaymores, and tho waving of tho tartane aud plumos of chioftaine bright- onedthe acone ; whou the rocks and glona ecliood with bagpipos of hostilo clang, T'he Chiofs are dead, thoir swords aro rusty, the clans soattorod, and tho romauco of the Highlands lives ouly on tho pages of Scatt ; but the shophord sloops I ponco in hig cottags, and tho lowland herd and tho lowland maid aro safo from tho *Catoran,” Wo aeiled down Loch Katrine, passing *‘ Ellen's Islo,” guarded on eithor eide by Bon Lontond aud Bon A'an, But I am now upon ground whicl Scott Lins mnado o familiar to ull that I forboar soy attompt at doscription, and pass on to BTERLING CABTLE. Around this rock-busod castlo is coutorod moro of. Bcotland's history and romanca than anyiwhoro olse, aud nowhero oan be found n Jand- seapoof morostriking fontures, A high,precipitons roolk, rising soveral hundred foct from the midst of ono of the lovellest valloys, covered with the most luxuriant vordure, is crowned with an ivy- coverod feudnl castlo. Wallaco’s monument—an imposing Qothic structuro—is noross tho vnllnfi, ADSpafntu to tho field of Bannockburn ; whils away to the north_riwos tho bluo outlino of the Highlanda,—Bon-Ledi, Beu Lomond, Ben A'an, Bon Vorlich. Biorling castlo— ‘With her shattered wall, Dlack with the miner's blast, upou her height Yot ahows of what slie wau wlion shell aud ball Reboundlug 1dly on her strength did light 3 Tower of Victory! from whonea thio ‘"g‘{“ Of baftiod foes was watchicd along tho plati. Tore was once Scotlaud’s proud capital ; and ‘history and rowance combino with nature to give it interest. A dozon bnttle-flolds are sproad out intho valloy under its_walls, Wallaco, tho Bruco, the Stusrts, Fitz-Tnmes, Douglas, Roder- iok Dhu, and, above sll, Mary, the bonutiful Queon, whoso tragic lifo 8o touches the heart that her crimes are forgottou,~—all theso ‘havo ocoupied apartmenta in this old castlo. Tho tilting-ground is a greon mondow directly undor the walls, adjoining the King's gnrdun, ‘whoso Ttalisn outlines aro still presorvod ; and a_wiu- dow in the walls is shown, whero it is said Queon- Mary looked out u‘mn tho Knights and uoblos contonding in the liats, horsslf nnseon. After npcud‘nfi some timo in tho castlo, read- ing Beott, and listoiing to old logends from an old Bootch roldior, we went out upon tho ram- parts, soated oursolves upon the grass, and the pipornof a Highland regimont stationed at the fortress played for us Sools wha ha? wi Wallace blod ; nnd, while wo listened, Wallace’s monument was beforo us, and Baunockburn under our oyes. And thon wo had * Hail to the Chief;” and'tho eyo wandered across the plain to tho Tronsachs and Bou Ledl, And then “Tho Campbells aro coming ;" and go on, until the declining sun ad- monished us that wo must leave this enchantod cantle. . How Scott hss impressed himself upon the foonory, tho cnstles, the ruins, tho lochs,—in- dood, npon all Beotland | Everywhoro you rocall tha groat ¢ Wizard of the Norfh,” and the cron- tions of his fanoy seom moro real than the real~ ity itsolf. ogom. EDINNURGIH, The * Modern Athens,” as Edinburghia called, s ono of the monthninlnreuquo cities in the world, It ia a city of hills, and rocks, and monu-- mente. Tts castlo, high on a rock liko Stovling, is sec- ond only to that. Scott’s monument—u Gothio structuro—is & conspicuous objeet from almost every part of the city. It seoms to mo the most absolutely perfect in its proportions aud do- aigns of nngth'mg X over looked upon. ? doubf if there s in the world o more beautiful street than Prince's streot. On ono sido of it runaa besutiful park, with Boott's monument, and statuos to Victorls, to Allon Ramsey, to Wilson; while across the park is the caatle, cm\m[nfinm high, rocky hill, with the Britieh flag, and the walls nearly always gay with the scarlet of tho British soldiors, Farthor oaat iy Calton Hill, with its Ligh column in honor of Nelson, the Burns monumoLt near; and, still farther, Arthar's Sont, which ovorlooks the city ; and, af its foot, Holyrood Palaco and Abboy. Whilo looking at the Scotch rogalia in the castio, linquired of our Bcoteh gulde, who woro the uniform and decorations of Victorin: *‘When will Bcolland have o King or Quoen of hor own, to wear this crown and wiold this sword?” The old Scotchman llmxaed, and, afters mo- mont, eaid, *Whon all the elder brothers and sistors, and their descondants, of the wife of tho Marquis of Lorno, ara doad,—hor descendants surviving. " Ennnfia things have gecarred in the hiutory of past dynastios. We wore disappointed in MELROSE ABDEY. As o ruin, it does not comparo with mnny oth- ers. Although wo did not sco it by * palo ‘moonlight,” yot, slooping with my window opon- ing dircotly ipon tho Abboy, X was awakened nt midnight by o torrifio thundor-storm ond the most vivid lightning, snd tho ruin, turret, bro- kon arch, and tower, were almost constantly il- Juminated. In thored shimmer of tho lightging, tho old gray stones looked weird and ghoat-like. - To an Amorican, tho most intoresting house in Scotland is ATDOTAFORD, 1t is s moat dolightful, kome-like honss,—not too large to bo enjoyable ; and, with ite fibrary of 20,000 volunos, tho {dontical chair and dos which Scott sat aud wroto, tho old arms in the armory, the entrance-hall with the coats of arms of all tho border familics, and its historical ralics, it is such a placo ns the render of Beolt expects to find, Tho ruling passion of the ¢ Author of Waverly" was to found a fapuly, aud entablish for them such a home as Abbots- ford. For this ho toiled with an industry and energy unoqualed. lle sccomplished hin purposo, and loft this, tho reproduction, to & groat extont, of the old, Qothlo, castellated res- idence, but mado comfortablo by modorn im- provements. The houso and its contonts are to- dny o Beotch romance, a poom in stono, worthy of” tho author of *The Luy of tho Last Min- sirol.” Good night. ST P, IRISH COQUETRY, 8asn Patrick to Blddy, Good-mornin', mo dear ! 0 5 bit oy & wacrot Uvo ot for yor eats It youreel’ that is Jukin' 8o charmiu’ thie day iffiat the heart In mo Lreaut Iy faat slippin® awsy," #4170s you thu kin flatther, Misy Diddy repiles, And thirows him a glauco trom her merry blug oyes, # Arrali, thin, cries Patrick, * 'tis tivkin av you Tiunt’s makinl me Leart-sick, me_darling, that's thruet Bure I'vo waited o long whilb to toll ye tiila sntue, And Biddy Mofonoy 'Ll Le sich a fofno nsme," Crios Blddy, * Have dono wid yer talkin', I pray ; Bura me heart’ not mo owa £or this maty a day'1 1 gavo i away to a good-lookin! boy, g thfulks thero da s oy 100 TIddy Molloy ; §o don't bathior tno, Put ; §ist bo uley,” suys sho, “ Indado; if yo'll fol me, 1 will tht 1% suys ho, ' a blt of & flirt tha yo areon tho sly ; I'll not troublo yo moro, but I bid ye good-byo," " Axsaby Palsioh” crion Diddy, ot wheto aro 3o oliny Buro it 1an't the beat av good manners yo're ehowin’ “Ta lavo ma g0 suddint £ #¢Qcl, THdY,” ories Pat, *You lisve knocked flis cock-feathoni Jist out v me at " Gome back, Pat!" waya she, * What for, thin.2 " sayy o, Dekaso I meant you all the time, sir 1™ aays lio, e ST Quglous Practices Tho Pall Mall Gazelte makos anoto of a curlous practice which provails among fruiterersin Lone jon. Yarsons buying Wost Indisn pinespplos ara suked whether thoy will havo hoads to the fruit, Inother torms, West Indian pinospplos are dressed for dessert at & small cost a8 Lritish hothouso pines, by the ingenious plan of inserting in tho summit of the fruit & tuft or orown of leaves be- longing to the latter, and thus guosts are docoiv- o foto the notion ' that the inosnple ol %:mw tho table waa gnmwn in the hothouse of thoir host, who probably nover had a hothouso, u}nd knows notling sbout tho cultivation of pines. out to catch tho first HERMITS. A Few Specimens of British An- .chorites. ' Odditio of Human Naturo. From Chambers® Journal, Bir Honry BMaloverot, one of London's “worthlos nino that wero of might,” attor holp- Ing to recover the Ioly Cily frompsynim hands, fluding his morits unappreciatod, rotired in dudgoon to a cavo noar Jacob's Woll, of which Lo conatituted himgelt guardian ; Inaisting upon ovory would-be driuker of tho wators Laving & round with him ero quonching bis thirst. This muscular Oliristian of tho olden time might have como homo to play tho hermit, for his sovoreign would mcarcoly have rofused to have inductod such o doughty doer as tho horo of Cornbill into o coll, undor tho royal sonl and patont, na Eng- 1lsh Kings woro wont to do whon & men could not live o life of wsnintly eeolusion with- out loavo obtawmed, Tn such ' ) LIGENSED UERMITS, Bhropshire, sesms to havoe boon especially rich. Tn 1170, one Blothorus sanotifled Botwood by his prossuco. 'fn the reign of Henry IIT. there was a hermitage on tho Wrekin, tounnted by Nicholss do Deuton as ** Hormit of Mount Gilbort," to whom tho King, by o royal patent, orderad tho burgessos of Bridgonortn to pay six quartors of wheat aunualiy ont of tho issuos of Pondicston Mill, which thoy held under tho Orown ; to givo bim greatorleisure for * holy ex- orcises, and to support him during hia lifo, so long a8 ho shall bo a horomito 'on tho aforesaid mountain.” Edward IIIL. appoinced no loss than four harmits to difforont Lormitages in the neighborhood of Dridgonorth, The power of appointment was somotimes vestod in ecolosing- tical authoritios ; in 1498, wo find the Prior of Durlam _granting s liconso to John Man, o Yorkshiroman, o lead tho lifo of a Lormit ; and in 1499 ho liconsed three others of tho same in~ clining. At the boginning of the eamo contury, the bridgo ovor tho Tyno, at Nowcantle, bonsto a Hormut of its own, supposed to have been buried in his cell, for n skoloton was found in a corner of tho pillar on which the tower stood, when the remaitis of the anclont hridgu wore ro= moved in 1775. Al this, Lowoyor, is by tho way, our purposo boing to discourde of thoso who em- bracod o lifo of solitudo whon the odor of sancti~ ty no longor clung to tho racluse’s vocation. In tho reign of Elizabath, thore dwelt at Fox- Bill, Lincolsnire, n zich, benovulont, ao- compliehed gontloman, Tord of - o' fair eutato, tho bappy fathor of a woll-married daugliter, loved by bis tenantry, esteemed by o wido circle of friends, Houry Wolby, ot tho ago of 40, woe a man to Lo envied, His liappiness would havebeen unalloyed but for the existence of an ill-regulated younger brother, who one day capped all condonod misdeeds by atlompting to shoot his pationt rolation. I stoad of bauding the ungrateful wretch over to the law, s ho doserved, Wolby fook tho strauge xesolution of . INFLICTING A LIFELONG PENANCE. upon himself by rotiring from the world he was woll-fitted to “enjoy. ~ Bolioving solitude was casieat found In 8 great city, bo did not fly to caveon somo wild dosort shoro, but, loaving Lincolnshiro for London, took up his abode in o house on Grub streot. ‘Threo rooms, opening upou each othier, ke sot upart for Lis sole use— one for eatiug, one for studying, one for sloep- ing ;.and from tho day ho ontered. tho Liouso Lo that upon which he wis_carried out of it io bo Dburied in Cripplogate Church, he nover ot his foot outurdo thonrrrow bounds he had presoribod himeelf; “noither in all that time did son-in- Jaw, datightor, grandchild, brother, elater, or Kinsmian, strangor, tenaut, or Borvant, young or old, rich'or poor, of what dogree or condition socvar, look upon hi faco “—savo only his sorv- ing-maid, Elizabeth, who lighted his fires, pro- vided his simple food, and lkept his rooms cloan, And oven sho sofdom boheld hor master, since he nl\vnf'u retirod to his bodroom whils #ho fot his monls on tho table, and took rofuge in his study while sho was busy in his chamber. A linguist and a scholar, “ never logs alone thian whon alone,” Welby TOUND COMPANIONGHIP TN TIOOKS, tho howrs not dovoted to thoso silont frionds being dedicated to-dovotion. Ile let his beard go nnshavon, is hair untriinmed, until bo ro- sembled o hormit of tho wilderness rather than the denizon of a cily. Ho dressed in ead-colorod cloth. No_flosh, fow] or fish ovor posscd his lips ; ~ontmenl water-gruel suflicing his appetite, supplomented oy mid then with & salad of coof herbs, In tho article of broad o was somowhat extravagant, eating only tho middle of the loaf. On extraor- dinary occasions bo indulged in tho yolk of an og, troated himeolf to somo Eweotmont, or st for s draught of frosh milk from o red cow. Hiw ono boverago was not, as ono would have thought, water, but * four-ghilling beor.” Whilo living thus fiugally himself, tho hermit of Grub stroot fed bis sorvants well, and no callor upon Dusiness lind rosson to complain of ecant hos- pitality., e kopt no holidays, but never failed io provido plenty of sossonable cheor at Chbristmag, Lastor, nnd other festival times. Then quits s buiquot was served in hia own room, with no lack of wine. Pinnin, a cloan napkin before him, and donning a p of holland sleoves, tho rocluss would eit down snd cut up each dish in turn, sending one to one poor neighbor, ona to anothor, untll the tablo svas bare again; when Lo would say grace, put up hia knife, bavo the cloth clesrad away, With- out having tasted s morsel himself. Nor was ho mindful of Lis neighbors ouly at suoh times, As he sat ot his window, if hesaw any woak, sick, or lamo folk pass by, ho-would send after thom “‘not u trifle to sorve them for the presont, but such ns would reliove thom many days after.” Thoe abatinenco this city anchorite practiced did not shorten his daya, for Lo attained the age of 84, dying in 1636, having spent more than halt his lifo in his unsclfish seclusioa; and wo cannot oy ho did not deserve the Wator-poot's valedio- ntrong boor.,” He' nover ' bm‘nd oxcopt for lenthior- whorewlth to mond his clothos—a short i}nclmt, » palr of trounors, or rathor knickere ockort, and » oloak with a potkod hnodl whioh did. duty. s hond-covoring, ' Io was bis own tailor, and all hia garments,woro. of, Ioather, Toppirs bolng. oxpeditjously, . if nob noatly, oxo- outed, by nailing any ploco ho found or buF od whorovor ho could find toom for it. After nfi in this way for mora thau thirty yonrs, Bigg die: in 1607, at tho ago of 07, His shoes, composed of moro thon ton lu{nr« of “lonthor’ patohos, are {ct prosorved,.ono in tho Ashmolosn Musoum, Lo otlior In tho collookion ‘of Bir John Vanlt~ ton, of Dinton. In 1767, Edward Train diod at Goloshond ; for twonty yonrs hio had lived in his gardon, and NEVER SLERT IN A LED 1 ho was a victim of disappointod love. Should wo bo far wrong, wo wonder, in saylug tho sams of Angun Hoy Flotchor, who, shrinking from tho socioty of bis kind, modo bimsolf & homo in tho wildest part of Glonorohy, his only compan- dons hiy goats and his_dog. A good ' shot, and an export anglor, river and moor ylolded ail tho food ho nooded, whila hisflock suppliod him with drink. At night,: ho and his four-footod friouds slopt together in s rude hut. This aoli- tary-liver was alwaye roady to sharo o moal with A hungry. wayfaror, although ho might hiave said wih Donmark's Princo: ** Man dolightame not, nor woman oither.,” Whothor he lived long onongh o tiro of such a lonoly lifs, or dled in bis mountain hut, in past our tolling. In 1864, a man namod_Woalos diod noar Mary- port, at tho ago of 87, For TWELVZ Ol JOUNTERN YEANS Lo had lived in a small opon-roofod, one-roomed dwelling, of which Lo was both architoct and builder, and which stood in the curner of ono of two flelds belonging to bim, . His solitude was sharod by a dog and & ost. Wonlos was partial to dirt ad well nn dlscomforc{ lio nover cloaned his abodo, or took off hia clothes, and doclined to have anythiog to do withi soap and water. In the last two_yosra' of Lie oxlstonce. ho was obliged to go upou crutches, but it was soldom o went outsido tho .door, and ho. never von- tured many yards boyond it. Towards tho end of hia mieorable lifo, ho was barely ablo to sit up in his bod, placod by the sldo of & firo, whicl was only kopt alivo by the kiud offices of casual ‘poassers-by, mpon whom o also doponded for provisions, . The cat and dog fod from the gamo dish a8 thoir master, upon victuals cooked in a frylng-psn, which they clonned with thoir {ongues atbor ovory 1noal, Weslos lived, if it can bo oalled living, upon ab income of £20, de- tory complimont : 01d Henry Weliy—well bo thou for ever, Ty Purgatory's past, thy Heaven ends never, A YERY DIFFERENT SPEGIMEN of hummltjy with a_craze was Rogor Crab, tho self-stylod Bnglish Hormit, who thought himself the wondor of the age he lived in, becsuse ho abjurad flosh moeats, and went in for water, com- bining in his singlo person all the virtues of tho vegotarian and teototaller. Like somo modorn abstainers, ho dolighted in contrasting the old Roger with the now oue, settin; ugrt 0 formor o o frightful examplo of pride, drunkennoss, and ginttony, gloryimg In lying, chenting, and cozoning his neighbors; while' tho latter, of courso, was tho quintowsonco of earthly ooducss. Crab had, in his hot man- iood, morved undor ' Cromwoll, usiog bis sword, ho esys, in Erntuuca of libert. aud poace, aund fighting that goot fight, hed his_skull cloyon by a royalist blade, Then he somehow offonded against military dis- cipline, and was sentenced to death, but escapad wfih two yenars' imprisommnent. Upon being ro- lonsed he'sot up as * a baberdasher of hats " in Oliesham, Buckinghnshira ; a calling ho fol- lowed until ho suddenly nwoke to tho sinfulness of lylng, swoaring, and doceiving necossary to carrying on his trade, and convinced himsol€ bo- sidos that the Rechabites, who neither planted vinoyards, nor built housca, nor indulged in ani- wal food, nor drank strong liquors, woro tho models mon should imitate.” Bo, wolling off hin stock in trado, hie gave ull hio lad to tho poor, and retired to a small pioco of ground at Ioken- ham, whereon ho built s hut, in which he lived upon_broth thickened with Lran, pudding mado wil.h bran and turnip-leavos, hierbs, roots, broad, dock-leavos, mallows, sud’ grass. Mo prided himsalf upon being ALONE IN THE LAND *n this opinion of caling,” tho only man of the snmo mind huving diod botaro ko got usod to tho change in his digt. Crab, howavor, wus not al~ lowed to starve himeclf in _poace, gnflhibly bo- oauso lio inveighed furiously against thosn who declined to follow his oxampla, Ho was put in the stooks, sBent to prison agnin and again, and drivon from place to placo, In 1055, ho was liv- g in 8 govo none Usbridgo ; but Lo died i Lon- don In 1640, and was burlod in Stopuey churchs yard, whore lus tombstono may still bo #oon, and the_quaing, laudatory lines in his memory be rend, Whilo the hormit of Ickonham was toaching by oxamplo that sackeloth s the ouly woar for a Uhriu‘im), his brother of Dinton was showing in the samo way that thero is nothing like loather. e, too, bad done the Roundhoads soma servico for Johu Dlgs, s.man of somo education, an potty well todo astimos went, ind actod as clork to the rogiclde lord of Diuton Manor, and according to local tradition, officiatod, as ono o the masked hendsmen, at tho oxecution of Carlos, Attor the rostaration, Digg grow mis- anthroplo, and . WITHDDEW FROM THE WORLD, making hiy summer lomo in the beech-woods of the Ofillmu\ Hills, and dwelllvg in winter in a cave noar hus old master's houso, 1o subsisted \:Eon tho unasked charity of the poople round about, who supplied him with meat, and flllod " his threo bottlos with milk, alo, and -rived from Lis eatnto, tho two flolds aforosaid. The Old Hormlt of Newion Burgoland, noar Ashby-do-la-Zouch, William Lolo, who, nine yoars ago, was still in the land of the living, IAD ORIGINALIDEAR a8 to what mannor ot lifo a hormit. should Joad. True hormits, Lo srguod, ware always abottors of frecdom, and he therofori folt froe to ‘dwell in a comfortablo cottago, to' dine well, tako his Deor and hia *bacoy at discrolion, withont being o hermit any tho less. Tho bruth is, Lolo was rather a erazy hobby-rider tlan a hermit, but his hobbios weare vory inoffenslve ones; his odd fan- clesboiny !flonh\ on ehuducbrnlhlgnfhlsgnrdofl sud tho deoking u?hlu own person. The former ho filled with strango dovicos, such as flowsr-covered mounds to represent tho graves of tho Reformors, floral offigios of the Apostlos, and fantastic do- signs intonded to picturo purgatory snd tho inquisition. If bias parterrey were 1ald olit in a childish way, lio only anticipated tho fashion of making o flowor-bed look as much liko a bit of nnr{mb 18 possibla, But, bejug as fond of sym- bolism as 8 modorn ritualist, and as fond of ombloma as old Quarles, his gardon was a mnss of S ¢ EMULEMATIOAL BEDS, graced with oxplanatory molioos in flowers and oolored pobblos. Thero was a Fosst Square, with its Vonison Pasty, Round of, Boof, and othor ap- propriato dishes. Thore was ‘* Gossip’s Court,” with tho motto, * Dou't Tell Anybody,"” tho orchestra, with * God Save Our Nable Quoen,” and * Britons Novor Shall bp Slavo.” Tho kitchen-walks, with beds shaped like cookiug utonalls. | This wondorful garden contaiuod & wedding ‘walk, ‘ threo seats of self-inquiry, o Bank of Faith, » Holy Mount, o Nooh's Atk, & Tatnbow, & Jacob's Laddor, s churgh, & hoart in- closing {ho Boso of Sharon, tio Lormit's coat of mms, the sand-glass of Tiwe, and o muititude of ‘othor fanciful dovicos, Tho whimsical old fellow troatod his body much the ssmo as bo treated his gardon. He provided himsolf with TWELVE ENILENATIONL BUITS. One was o kind of frocl-coat of soft, brown loathor, ombroidored with braid, buttoned down tho frout with white buttoun, and bound round tho twaist with o whito: girdle. Another was of white cotton, - huuging . loosoly ovor tho body, ., with, the ‘“order of tho Stor"—n ~ hoart-dhnped . badgo - incriboi “Liborty of Conscionce”—on the loft breast. A third was made after tho style of military cos- tume at the boginning of this contury ; with this ho wore a hab that cost him many & slecpless night in its invontion, and mauy a menl to pay for its being mado, ‘Fhis, which Lole considor~ ed a porfect_bosuty, was something botwoon the old cocked-hnt sud that now worn by fleld- officers; but, iustead of a plume, it was sur« mounted withi two upright peska. This wouder- ful production was only ono of twonty ODD BPECIMENS OF HEADUEAD, snoh as the -Patent ‘Ton-pot, with ita motto, “To draw the flavor out of the tos bes —unfon and good will;" the Wash-basin of Reform, inscribed ‘‘Whito-washed faco and collyed heart;" tuo Doohivo, inscribod Tl toils of indusfry are woot; b Wiko poople liva in peaco ;** the Holmet, with its belligerent promivo, * Wil fight for the birtbright ‘of con- Egcionce, lave, life, prnsm-t , ond national inde~ Poudonce;” and tho Odd-Follows' hiat, with it out-at-albows motto, * Without monoy, without {rionds, without oredit.'’ Our odd hormit found it dlfticult to make both ends moet, and in 1864 It was sadly writton of him: * e is now in Buck poverty that ho is thankful for any sssistance which doos not roquire him to relinquish his prosent modo of living. Ho has a brothor in compotent oiroumatances, who has offored to sharo his home with bLim, but, ‘No,' asya tho old man, ¢ for what would thon becomo of my garden "My hoort is in my garden. I canuot eave it." Iu Now Kllpatrick churchbyard lies Besom Jamio, THE KILLERMONT NIRRMIT, onco tho Fat Boy of .a traveling exhibition, but in Iator days a Liawker of besoms, living, when ho wau at homo, in s house of his own raising, called Mossnappy Hormitage, furnishod with lot of tin utensils and rubbieh of all sorts ho had collected in his travels. . Ono day, a noigh- bor of Jamic's, who had not scon tho hermit for some timo, fearin, snmothlufi Was wrong With him, broke opon the door of bis hormitago and found the poor fellow all but dead. Ho diod the noxt day, leaving bohind him £16 in his pockets, and moro than £20 in the bank. Au- other Scoteh recluse, who tried to hide his nationality under tho name of Bmith, mado him- self a nest on Bkiddaw, near the edgo of a oliff, about 800 yards up tho broast of the mouutain, Dy clearing ont s hole about 4 foot doop and 4 foot in diamoter, lining it with mows, and mak- ing a portablo roof of reeds, which he shut down from tho insldo whon ho retired to rost ; QURLING HIMSELY LIKE A DOQ, to accommodate his limba to the Jimited space at hig commaud. A tourist who saw him aftor ho had spont three summers and win- tors on Sliddaw, thus describes him: *¢ His nplwnnucn is ludicrous in the extrome, Iis ‘hair is thrown over his shouldor, and Langs far down his back, forming the only protection to hig boad ; his clothos scem to bave boon in the lieight. of faghion twenty years ago, and quito, tlroadbaro; ho woarano shoos, and goss on his poregrinations in hus llcckluf;-feat. 1o makos almost dnily visits to leswick, whero he pur- chayes ton and sugar, mixiug aud eating thom dry, 1is only cooking apparatus is a small pau, in'which ho cooks messes of vory questionnbla ingredionts, bolling them by thoaid of lighted tollow, Ho has txuuo & pasglon for water- color drawing, and has proved himself no moan artist, o enjoys very good henlth, conaidor- ing his mode of living, . but hes ocensionally a touch of rheumatism,” This strange obaracter wog gometimen heard PREACHING TO THXE BREEP on flio hilly, and was onco-unfortunate enough to bo sont to tho county jail for frightoning gomo of the folks abont Keswick, Possibly, ho still ocoupies his mountain nost, for the Iptost nccount of his doinga concludes; “‘ Having flne {uhed his term of imprisoument, kehan now gono back .L‘n Lis old haunts, & cleauer, if not s wiser, man. 1t would soom that thero are water hermits as woll as land hormits; at least wo have heard of ono, Ho hed boen a schoolmaster iu Cornwall, until ho took it into his head to huy a ship's Inunoh, convort it into a aailing-boat, and MAKE IT JUIS ALODE, holdiog no communication with the onter world oxcopt when novessity compolled Lim o go on shoro to tay In supplies. During the summor months, Nicholls cruisod nbout thie cosat; in the wiuter he laid up in some creck, Thia went on for four years, until ho had Lis boat 8o badly in- E‘u’ml by the wintry gales that hodared not leave ylor Crook, One mm-uin;i the boat way boarded by a cousin, who, entering the ocabin, found the'man ho sought lying doad; his own Liand had ended s lifo woarigome to himaolt and useloss to others, Wisely spake one, whom shallow-minded men called = oynio: # Heavou has given us affections that we may udo them—not smother and kill them ; and a noble world to live in, that we may admiro it and Him who made it—not shrink from it, as though wo dorod not livo thore, bt munt turn " our backe upon it and {ta bountifal Provider.” - |- P e CREEPER'S ‘HYDROPHOBDIA. RNomarknble Kxporicnce’ of o New - Yorik Mernld Ieporigrs Gearge O. Iarding in the Indtanapolfs Sournal, It wau about 8 o'clack in tho morning. The papor had: 5onn to pross, and the clanking of the ffroat oylindor praer, turning out fntolligonco by 0 ream, mirigled with tho roar of early markot 'v,nhlclnn In thostraot. It was a habit of the forao " to alt around for an hour or two, sraok- ing and exchanging les, after tho work was dono, instead -of going off to bod lko rational crontires, No matier how ?mht the rush, or how -Inborlous and oxhausting tho work lind boen, the boys all scomod to get thoir * second wind" about this timo, and woro nover moro wakoful, Lounging shout tho dosks, or sit- ting with tholr foot cooked up ‘on the window silla, the ataft fndulged in s wide range of -dlsousslon, ~embraciog oll tho lo- cal topics, hnd often degonorating into * chaft." On tho night in question tho subject happened to bo dogs, and somo of the “whoppingest” dog ntorios I ever listened to woro told. Finally tho * Hydra," so-called on account of the num- | of honds that had been put 6n.-him, lend the conversation to tho subject of hydrophobia, and we wero all harrowed \1{1 in tho most distressing manner by a sorios of Ibterosting rominiscencen of that distrossing dlsenne, Finatly the ¢ Oroop: or,” who had heretoforo- smoked his cigar in silonce, oconsionally mixing a little of the old Frouchman’s Frontignan with sn eqnal quantity of whisky in a glsss and drinking-it, spoko. The Oreepor was o new accession to the forco, and camo to us all soedy and rod-eyod with indi- cations of o rocont wallow in”the slough of despond, ‘Wo-oalled him the Oroepor on account of hin soft, cat-like troad, e was usually roti- cont and unobirusive, but the usual animation of tho conversation, and the inspiration of the mixed Fontignan and Bourbon seemed to have hm))!md him. - “‘oys,"” knid the Crespor, * I have listoned to your convoraation with paluful interest. "For amatours you axo unnuslly well posted in hydro- ‘}hobln. am glnd nono of you have quoted ouatt, who was tho infernnlest liar on esrth, But, bioys, you can't loarn all about hydrophobin {from books and pnpers, or ovon from observa- tion. Thoro is ono thing lagking, and in that I hinvo tho advantago of yon. I'vo biad it " Wo all startod, and Ioked to Boe if the Oraop- ot was quizzing us. ¢ #Tho d—] you havol”anid tho chicf. Tell us about it." . ** Well, it was noversl yoara sgo when X first camo over from England; I had brought. with mo a littlo Scotch terrior which I'd raisod from s pup, and to which I was very much attached. I 8ot work on tho Herald, and deuced hard work and poor pay it was, too, I can toll you. Didn't undorstand tho ways of tho blarst. od country, you know, and . conldn't com- poto with.thio oursed Yankos -reporters, who snapped up everything ahoad of mo, aud rushed In with if.” You must know a reporter is & kind of dotached pirato, who cruises around ou his own hook, and only gots paid. for what ho gota in. Bomo weoks he may be in luck, whilo othor wooks ha starves. Well, me and Prince (that ‘wna the dcxfi) bad w pretty hard tmo of it, and wero kicked' out uP ono boarding-houso nfter anothor until finally wo took an_lry. eky-light room in the sixth story of a Division streot lodging-houso, and took onr ;menls whoravor wo could got'om. Ouo day I hocamo discouraged aftor throe-days’ fast, and began to think of lunge from the East River forry-boat, *Oh, od " gaid I, “must I atenl, or starve, of drown ?” - Princo heard me, and, wenk a8 ho was from want of food, hie_startod down. ¢ Whore aro you going, sir#” But for onco tho dog diu~ oboyod me, und, boforo I could arrest him, ho was, gone, 1o, t00, doserts mo, I thought. Kyen tho' boasted fdelity of tho dog ie o myth. DBut 1 did poor Princa an injuatice, su subtoquontly apgearod. In about fiftecn minutes he return~ ng_ slowly dragging with him a beofsteak woigh- ing abouf throo pounds, which he Iaid at my foot, and thon faintod from oxhaustion. Aftor oating about & pound of raw beefstenk, I threw somo wafor on Princo, and rovived. him, aflor which wo disposed of tho balauce of tho beef be- tweon us and folt bottdr. Of course I knew Trinco hod stolen the meat from tho butcher around the corner, but a starving man has no conscionco,and 1 ot only failed to raprove him, but absolutely encouraged him. I also took him around and introduced him to a bakor, and after that wo Liad hoth bawud aud meat. -Wo got along nicely for somo weoks, but ono day Prince camo homo covered with blood, and without any stealt or bread, and with no fail to spoak of. The haolf-inch that was loft was hardly worth wag- ging. Tho butchor had caught him in tho act, and with his cloaver had whacked off biy' orgag. of epeoch. I hed n silont tear, and proceoded to do up tho gory remnant in Russia salve. Poor Princo, howavor, Inugnished snd becamo potulant. Ono day whilo I waa dressin, bia tail hio bit mo in tho hand, It was a sligh wound, acarcoly broaking tho skin, and I paid no attention toit. In a'day or two Princa died, sud I took Lim ont at night and secrotly buried im in the garbage-barrol. ¢ About three weoks hind passed oince Prince's doath. My affairs bad materially improved. I Lad written up a throc-column lotter from Bouth Afrioa wict, ploased old Donnott vory muich, on account of tho lucid mauner jn which it ox- plained tho situation in that part of the country, and ho had taken me rogularly on tho ataff at n fair enlary, to writo forcign corrospond- ence, I led loft the — Divisioun-streot rookery, and was lviug in a civilizad gort of way. Oue morning, while hoist- ing in an early cookiail prnlrnratur to writing up my Patagoninn correspondence, I oxperionced a vory peouliar shudder g the fluid touched m; lipd. Thoroe was really nothing In it, so far as could eee, any moro than one of theass cold shiv~ ars which ocensionally run down the * spine of a man’s back * even in hot weather; and yot thero scemod to bo somothing more of it, too, if I could only have got at it. "I thought about tho thing in tho morning, and the thing bogan to grow upon me, until finally I concluded to try auothor cooktail, No sooner had the liquid tonched my lips than tho shiver was ropoated, with greater forco. This time it wasa gort of spasm, or galvanic shock, that ran through mo, and my teoth fastenod with s click on tho rim of the tumblor, ne tho cocktail weut homo. Ieat tho tumbler down and meditated. I caught sight of my fenturos in the larga pior glasy bohind the bor, and it soemed to mo that I was looking wild, I couldn’tunderstand it atall. While [ waa thinking another mau came in and took & drink, snd I folt the mamo shivor whon the fluid tonched his lips, By and by, a8 I stood thero, the barkespor poured out a glass of wator for a customer to dilute his whisky with, and the gurgling sound of the wa- tor affoctod mo _unpleasuntly. All at onco it dashed on mo, I remomberod Princo, aud the Dito on my band. I know, than, tho poor dog was mad, and had bitten me. It would make most any dog mad to have a butcher cut off nine inches of his tail with o cleayor. I could acarce- ly rofrain from shrioking with approhousion at the thought, but I was dotermined to know the worst, f went straight to my room, poured out a glass of wator, aud attomptod to driuk it. I nover did liko water much, anyhow. No sooner did tho fluid touch my lips than & violent spaam convulsed mo. There's uo uuo in aitompting to doseribo the sgony, becauso Innguage is inade- quate, It wosn'b Ehyuicnl puin nor montal ago~ ny, but somothing botween tho two. I'd rathor thiust ono arm i molton lead, and lot *it stay thore uatil it burnt off, than endurae one of thoso ydrophobic spasms, “Igont for o doctor, For somo reason hig rosence was the horrible torture. On inquiry ¥leunud Lis namo was Wators, and I disohargod him and sont for another, who brought a wholo ‘medical echool to stndy tho case. Gentlomon, it you have over scon & caso of Liydrophobia 1 nood npt dotail the phenomena, 'Tho convul- wions grow moro violont, and X folf mysolf sink- ing faat. Thero is ouo orror, howovor, which 1 wish to corroct. Most peoplo-think that in & convulsion the patient ia nnconsolous, Not so. o in out of his human mind, it is true, but for tho timo being he thiuks, reasons,and aots like a dog, Toall hltnum ond purposes he is a dog, 1o barls like & dog, biles like a dog, and whinos like n dog, Whon ho comen buck (o his human shell bo Emm vogue romembrance of his dog life, aud the sufforings ho ondured, By aud by, ad the disonso progrosses, hiy two natures gul mixed, and in Hxs quicscent intervals batweon spasms ho finds it hard to toll whether ho ls dog orsman. Mis mind wandors on bones aud rats, and he feols o dispouition to smoll things. “I hiad heard of an old Dutch woman at Flushiny who had & mad stone, I didn’t have much falt in tho thing, but one of my frionds had sont for it. Itarrived just as I was at my Inst gasp, A mamont moro aud it wonld have boon too late, Ao ntono was appliod. It adhered like a locch, and— “You wore saved!" shouted the exclied chlef, who had listoned with paluful intorest to story. h Now¥ snd th Orsoper, lighting a fresh olyar, with imperturbable nohohalanco ; *'I gavoa loy, sad whine, as the utone took hold, but my sys- tom way too much dobilitated to siand the'reac- 1 diod in two minutea after tho mad stono took Lold.” Tho cliief golzed his rovolvor, and drow a boad on the *Oreopor.” * Dut no,” ko sald, aftor squinting & moment at tho Oreeper's forehoad throu, h%hn pights ; ** you are too groat a liar to die, I'll put you in oliarge of tho obituary de- partment of tho paper." | wards ¢ CONFUCIUS. Teachings of the Chinese “Mns- ter,” Extraots from o Hoathen Gospel, . From the Golden Aqe, Profoondly nn wo boltovo in the good necom- plished by the Christian Gospel among hoathon nations, wo boliove alinout a8 profoundly in the good which the Hoathen Gospoel would accom- plish among o Christinn poople. A littlo more intorchanga batween the two would bo an almost equal bonofit to both. "An & typo of heathonism which might be intro- dnced with advantage.among Americans, lot us toko (a8 a good roprosontative of tho beat) the toachings of Confuclus. Qortalnly no dovout reador of the COhristlan Biblo oan road the Confucian extracts with which wo proposo to gild this column of tho Golden Age, without » sonso of gratitude that sncha man a4 their anthor lived snd diod, and left his namo and procopts to bo a moral inspiration to a hinndred milliona of tho carth's presont tolling and siriving inhabitants. In the Book Woi Ching of the Confitolan Ans~ locts (Dr. Loggo's tranalation) it is writton : !Tho Mastor sald : Bco what o man doea; Mark his motives Examine in whnt {hingn he rests ; Iow can s man concn‘r‘hh charactor 7 How can o man conceal his character 77 Lot us apply briofly his own soarching test to tho rovered toacher of the Coleatinl Empiro. ‘The socrot of a man's influence for good is to he found in his test, whother of sction or pro- copt.* And In cstimating tho moral ' charactor of o man like Odnfuoius, it is right that we should seleot from tho teatimony of hia disciples, tho ‘oat that thoy have to ey of him ; from his own words, thoso which bost disflay his motives; from nis asplrations, those which show tho high- ost objects of his trust aud confidence. Tho o8- timate will negossarily diffor from the usual one, mado with thoe spirit of enmity and dotraction; };u‘t?who shall gay it is not moro just and truth- ul Tho philosophor Teang piotures Confucing as one *gittad with ability, yot putting quostions to thosu who wero not ; posaessed of miuch, yob putting questions to thoao possessed of little ; aving, aa though Lo hiad mot; full, end yob counting himsolf ompty; offonded sgalnst, and yet entoring into no altorcation.” Anothor said: * The mastor was mild and yot dlfnmml; majestio and yot not florce ; respoct- ful and yot etmi.“ ‘Tazo-Kin asked Tezo-Kung, saying, *When our mastor comos to any country, ho does not fail to Joarn all about its governmont, Doos ho ask his inlormnfion, or ig it givon to him?" Tze-Kung roplied : * Our mastor is benign, up- xight, courtoous, tempoerats, and complaigant, and thus he gets his information.” On one occasion whou the disciplos had boon tolling thoir wishos, Tazo-Lioo enid : ** Master, T shonld liko to henr your wishas #”. The master soid: “ They are, in rogard to the aged, to givo them roat; in regard to frionds, to show thom sincority ; in rogard to the. young, to troat thom l.médufl i ; u anotheroceasion Tszeo-Kung askod, 1 114 thoro one word which moy srve sa's ralg St practico for all one's lifo?" ~ The mastor unid ; ** In not reciprocity such o word ? What you do not want dono to vouraolf, do not do to othors,” Again ho romarked to 8ln : My doctrine. s that of an_all-porvading unity.” {l‘hs discipla Taang roplied, * Yos.” Tho maater went out, and tho other disciplos nsked, ""j‘"g: 4 What do his words mean?" Teang said: *‘The doc- trino of our master is, to bo truo to tho princi~ plos of our naturo and tho bonevolont axorclso of them to othors,—this, and nothing more.” Fouch's oskod about benevolonce, Tho mastor said: “ It is to love all mon,” Shall we assume from theso eayings that, 500 yoara boforo tho adveut of the Great Mastor, Confucius had attained the height of Christian othios? Hardly—for whon ome one ssked bim: “What do you say_concorning tho prin- ciplo that injury should” be rocompoused with kinduoss 2"~ Confucius answored : ** With what thon will you recomponso kindness? Recom- povso infuiry with Justico, and recomponso kind- ness with kindness," ‘Thoro were four: things, we rend, which Con- fucins tnught—lotters, ethics, devotion of soul, and truthfulness, Andthe following are four things from which ko was entirely freo. Ho had no foregone conclusions, no_arbitrary prodetor- ‘minations, no obstinacy, and no egotiam, #They Who know the trath," ho said, “are not equal to those who rovera it, and they who rovor it aro not equal to thoso who find plessure n it Of himaolf Confucina’ said: “The leaving of virtue without proper cultivation; tho not thor- oughly discuesing what is learned; not being abfo to move toward rightaoustioss bf which & knowledgo i gained, and not being ablo to change what is not good :—those aro tho things which occasion me solicitude,” Again be said: *“ In.lotters I am perhapa oqual to othor men, but the character of the suporior mau, carrying out in his conduct what he pro- fosscs, 18 what I bave not yet attained.” Btill again: ¢ Tho eago and tho man of por- foot virtue—bhow daro I rank myself with them? It may simply bo said of me that I strive to be- come such without satiety, and teach otherawith- out woariness."” The character of the “suporior man" which Confucius emulatea may bo judged, in part at lanst, from the frequent roferencos made thero- to in tho Analoots. “The puperior man bends his attontion to what is radical. That boing established, all practical coursos naturally grow up. Filial ‘piety and fraterual submission—are they not the oot of all benevolent actions " “Tho suporior man in everything considers rightoousness to bo osentisl.” “Tho object of the superior man fa truth,” #The superior man doos not even for the gpace of a single.moment not contrary to virtue, In moments of haste he clings to it. In sezsons of danger ho cloaves £o it.” “Tho superior man i modest in his speoch, but oxceeds in his actions.” “1Pho guperior man i8 not morely firm, but Is owroctly firm.” ¢T'ho superlor man thinks of virtuo; tho small man thinks of comfort.” “IThe superior wan thinks of tho sanctions of law; the smoll map thunks of favors which he may receivo.” _ 170 mind of tho superior man is conversant with rightoousnesy; the mind of the moan wan iu conversant with gain,” #The superior man is affable but not adula- tory; the mean man is adulatory but not affable.” “Tho snperior man baa a digniflod easo with- out pride; the mean man bas pride without dignified ongo.” - WThe progress of the superior man is up- the progross of tho moan man {g down- wards.” Tszo-Kung askod : ** Has not the suporior man his biatrods also ?” ‘Thio mastor said: ** Tho su- perior man /iea his hatrods, Ho hates thoso who praclaim evil of ~othora. o hates thoso who slandor their superiors. Ho hates those who have valor meroly and are unobservant of roprioty. He hates thoso who aro forward and Xntarmiuarl. and at tho same timo sro of con- tracted undorstanding.” Of Tuzo-Oh'an, Coufucius eaid he had fonr of tho charactoriutics of o superior man, * ln his conduot of bimsolf he was humble ; in sery- ing his superiors hoe was rospectful; in nourish- ing the people he sras kind; in ordering tho poople ko waa just,” “Taze-Ohnng ‘asked nbout a porfocs virtuo. Confucius roplied ; * To bo able to practico five things overywhoro undor heaven constiiutes a porfect virtue.” Teze-Chang.bogged to ask what they woro, and was told : ' Gravily, gon- m'uui“v of soul, aincerity, earnestnoss, and kind- noas, ) On anotbor occasion Confucius gaid : ‘' Bupo- rior men, yot not always virtuous, there have boon, alasl But there lias novor boen & moan mau, b tho same timo virtuous,” And again : “ Without rocflgl_llsz divancos of heavon it is impoxsible to perior man.” ‘I'szo-Iung aakied, saying: ¢ What do_you say of nman who is loved by all the peopls of his villago?" Tho master roplied: “ Ve may nof for that accord our approval of him." *And what do you say of him who is hatod by all the pooplo of “his “village?" 'The mastor Teplied: 4 Wo may not for that conclude that he is bad. Tt is bottor that the good in tho village lovo him, aud that the bad hate him.”" Aguin T'eze-Kung esked: ** What do you ssy concorning the poor man who yet doos not flat- tor, and the rich man who s not prond?" Tha mastor answored: *'They will do; but they ars not equal to him who, though poor, is yet cheo:~ ful, or to him who, though rich, lovea the rulss of. 1raleeLy." « ‘Whole pages of cthical sayings are ‘worthy of citation from the Analects. A fow will suflice to show the lotty lavel of Confacian morality, In tho Book of Raatry aro §00 pieces, but the the or- be a su- design of thom all may bo ombraced in {hosd santoncos ¢ . ¥ !*11avo no dopraved thouglita,” " Lot ovory attalument In what is good bo firmly graspod.” “ Lo erlnnt virluo be accordod with," '; Hq’l faithfuluoss and sincority ax firat prine clplen.” 5 . “Wlon you hiavo faults, do not fear fo aban- don them.” * A man of perfoct virtuo, wishing to bo op- tablishod, sooka alno to entnblish otliors; wishe iug to bo enlarged, ho seoks wlso to eularga otliors.” ! In virtuo a thing romoto? I wish to bo vir- tuous, andlol virtuo {s at hand.” Ho much for tho actions and motives of Confu- o8, Lot us Aoo In what things ho restod. 1In tho Book Thze-Tlan wo road that tho mantor waa Rut in foar in K'wang, 1lo aid; ** Aftorthe doath of King Wan, was not tho truth lodged in mo? 1f hoavon Ling wishod to lot this causo of truth porish, then I, a future mortal, abould no$ havo got such w rolntion to that eouse. Whilo hoavon docs not lot tho cauao of truth porisl, what can tho pooplo of X'wang do to me 7" At auothor time when his life was in peril bo- caueo of hila tonchings, Contucius eafd : ' 1f my principlos aro to advanca, it is so ordorod. If }é)‘:;l); nl')n“m]f‘n“, it ll; 0 x&;rl\urodl.l What can the -Iih, Loaon, do whon sucl 5 cnmgd i ] orderiug is con- Onco, indospondency, Confucis " Thora 15 10 O that Toos rae - Ths it nows me.” Tho disclple ‘Pazo-Kung auked : ** What do yon moon by Il}ul nni'hxg that 110 one knows you 7" Confucius ro- pliod : #I do not murmur againet Heavon. Ida not murmur against mon, Ay studics lio low, sud my penotration rises high, But thoro g hoaven ; thal knowa mo | In the faco of evidence like this shall wo ga on ropeating tho misslonary ostimato of Confu. olus as the toachor of a low order of wordly wis- dom, & moro profossor of court etiquotto, and filfuu?lrntot of tho fgnoble ark af golting oo in o 2 ‘While on the ono hand {t ia o vain boast to say ihat Confucianism ia na high as Christinuity, or that Confucius was tho poor of Chrint, yot, on tho other hand, it ill-bocomer Obristion missionarlos—ofther to Ohins or elsewhoro—not to recognizo in Confuoius bim- golf ono of tho most Ohristian missionaries who over lived, A littlo moro hoathonism of his kind among all Christian agots wonld bo s littlo oxtra * lonvon, still furthor loavening the whole lump, * And as the Ohlnese aro coming very fast ro Amoricn, and as Mr, Francla Galton wants them to come still fastor to Africs, We hopo that, in coming, thoy will confor on those two bonightod continents tho precious Gospol from which we Liaye taken our toxts to-day. —_— ““HANGMAN FOOTE.” A Scomo In Congress in 1818, Depictod by Ono of the Actors. In his “ Rominiscences of the Past,” now bo- ing published in tho Washington Chronicle, ex~ Honator Footo relatos the following incident: It was oarly in tho summor of 1848 that an occur- ranco tock place in Washington City which was productive of great sxcitoment at tho time, snd which called forth, also, much of that sort of crimination and rocrimination which never fails to loave bohind it faclings of permanqut alicna- tion and rancor, oxcopt, perchance, in a fow bosoms of & moro generous mould than ordinary mortsls can oxpect to powsess. Soveral of ; the unfortunate sons and daughtors of a raco whom & gelish and semi-barbarous policy, originating in tho Old World, and darkening with its gloomy shadows tho benutiful hills and valloya of our own natal land for more than two sad conturics of shamo and gorrow, woro prompted by that love of freedom, which 18 overywuero inhoront in the human ‘bosom, to project & schomo for their own enfranchiso. mont, and it was undorstood that some of thom had sought concealment -and xefugo in the froo BStates of the Norih yhither thoy had boon countolsd to go by soveral membors of Congress of much and deservod promiuence at the time. One or two of thoso rofugees wers reportod to have boen in tho ownership of certain Southorn mombors of Congrass, who had brought them to Washings ton; mot for malu,—whiol would have beon a pal- able violation of tho thon oxisting Iaws of the letrict of Columbia,—but a8 domestic servants, and deemod by them, at least, altogethor ossen- tial to the convenionco and comifort of them- gelves and of their familics. A movement so unusual and soeming to bode -such oxtensive mischio? in the future maybo easily imagined. - 10 havo had a very sttrtling influence in cortain quarters, snd much lgfimvmon was supposed to havo 'beon lont to thu affair by the circum- stanco that the mombers of Oongross from the fros Blatos, who wero charged to have given thoir countenanco to this project of clopement, boldly confessed their own complieit; both in the newupn‘)om ond in the two the National Legislaturo, sont in_ the Bonato, on tho mornin tho flight of these poor childron of ndaga bad occurred, I found Mr, Calhoun on his fost, nnd donouncing, with a forvid ves homenco of touo and mannér, vory une usual with this gravd and solomn Benator, What he depioturod s s fearful vutrago upon the ‘wholo body of Bouthorn slavoholders—an out~ rago ho said, which, if tamely submitted to, ‘would in a shors time bring about tho entiro ovar- throw of asysten of labor alike indispensable to the onjoymont and prosperity of the cotton and tobneco-growing region oa tho woslth and great- ness of other portions of the Republic, -Whon ho closod his remarks, not without striking indica~ tions of oxhoustion—he came to my soat_and said: ‘“Inow loave this matier in tho hands of my younger friends from tho Bouth. I have stood here long in tho front of battlo, almost single-handed and alono, defending the rights of our lave-holding constituouts, snd 1 begin to feol it to bo high timo that such men as your colloaguo, Mr. Daviy, and yoursolf, should coma forward to my rolief.” 'This was an appesl which I found 1t almost impossible to resis, though really I had novor seon tho time when X would havo either gone or sent an sgent in quest of & runawoy slave, and bad alwaya boon dis- posed to recognize the faot that onwe whoso acutencss and intelligonco wore such as to on~ ablo him to achicve his own deliverance from thraldom, m(th be woll presumed to be alio- gethor capable of enjoying » stato of fresdom and of oroditably maintaining his now-found righto, Waiting & fow minutea for that Bo- anerges of debato, John P, Halo, of New Hamp- shire, to close & most stormy and indignant Dbarangue, in which his facility intho applica tion of potential and striking epithots had boon fully displayed, I lesped to my feet and made, a8 must frankly confoss, under the ovorwholming oxcitement of tho moment, one of the most fumy, rabid, and insult- ing spoochos that has over dishonored o grave and dignified parlismentary body; in which Itold Mr, Halo, in plain torms, that woro Le to visit any uliukfy-nuulnd violnage in Bis- uinnigpi, and thore use such Ianguage s that which ho had just uttered, I did not at all doubt that ho would incur the hazard of boing struitg up ononc of tho loftiost treos of the forest; - and that in such case, should there be sny want of awilling oxecutioner, I would mysolf turn hongman for his benefit. ' These frantio and in- decont words Lied scarcoly hoon onumorated era I became painfully scusible of the stupid and unbocoming nature of my conduct, and I would hava raally given worlds to racall all the non- sonso I had uttered, In loss than forty-cight - hours I receved hundreds of anonymous letiera filled with the most caustio roviloment, snd othors inclosing the most hidoous caricatures of o poreon whom theso eame caricatures desome inated “Hangman Foote.” I positivaly writhod in agony. Nover had my solf-respoet suffered #uch humiliatlon, — An American Asks the Emporor of Ausiria to ‘Knkoe o Drinic A Vionna corrospondont of the Now York Her« ald, giving an acconntof the Austrisn Emperor's vistt to tho Amorioan Dapartment st tho Viouna Ixpoeition, states that His Mnjenty oxamined tho bottles of American wino, *looking at the Inbola_and tho gildod and sllvercd svathings around tho nocke, and asked thoir qualitios, and whothor thoroe was any special variety not grown in Europoe. Iau’)poun this question must have inspired one exhibitor from Oalifornia, who wag not, a8 a froo and indopondent citizou of a land whore all aro Emporars, sbove takinga drink with his’ Austrian brother. As it was, ho was ready with bis gife. Thore was the golden- nocked bottle, in cooliug, eoothing ice, and & dozon champsgno glassos, of Bohemian fluouess, and he stood with his Lnifo ready to snap tho confining cord, and lot tho pont-up sun and fatness of Oalifornia rush out to warm an Imperial hoart and gladden his gracious oyey, ‘The Emporor sauntored along until bhe oame to the display. *What wino s this?' ho said, ‘ohnmpnfimn.' ‘It is vory boautiful' ho m‘jolu- ed, reforring to tho label, we suppose, ¢ Will Your Majosty tako a glass of champague ?' said {lio Oaliforuit, froouman in tho most a Tablo toray *will Your lln{out Lost our American wine? and ho rajsod his glass and put the knifo to the cord, Frauois Josoph {;nnuml o sogond, looked his Imporial American brother full in the faco, siilod, and said, ** No, thank you 1" It was rathe horein, ousos of ‘When I roached my aftor er early in the morning, we fanoy, and, -g-ln, foreign poople do not tako lbertion with ohame pagno.”