Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1873, Page 11

“PHE CIIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1873. THE BRITISH MEDICAL LION. Moeeting of the British Medical Association. Sir Willism Furgusson's Address on the Water-Supply of * London, Cholera and Typhoid Fever as Results of Polluted Water. Celebrities in the Medionl World---The ‘Woman-in-Medioine Question. Correapondence of The Chieago Tribune, 80 Nonrorx Quanx, Loxnox, Aug. 10, 1873, THE DRITISH MEDIOAL LION. Ihavo seon him in all his glory, and a very noblo beast ho is, aud vory kind withel, except to an unforsunato woman now and ‘then, who hias boon “ oaten up " in her attempt to entor his don, Knowing that this view of the modical Driton was ono to which a safe distanco lenda onchantment, I live to toll tho story of how ho looks, ncty, aud thinks,—claiming tho distance 08 an oxcuso for all errors, TIE DRITISH MEDICAL ASBOUTATION hes just concluded its forty-first nunual meot- ing. Thiy is tho second timo only that it has mot in the City of London, aud it was a success boyond all provious successos, It was not only tho largest meoting of tho Association thathas ever been beld, but the largest over hold by the modical profession. The firat London seasion waa held elovon yonrs ago, when the old nawoe of tho Association, ** Provinclal," was chnngad to tho presont namo, * British.” Up to this time thoro was n lack of genial community of feoling botswoon town and country, and tho motropolitan plysician took upon himuoif cortaln airs of suporiority, In the moantime, tho country- practitionors quietly asserted for thomselves a professional status which tho city-dignitariea havo been forced to acknowledge, and tho result is the union of the Provincisl sud Motro- politan Associations under tho common namo, Dritish. This, I take it, has moro than . professional eignificanco. Americans who spond thoir timo in London hotels havo no iden of tho groat distance of tho Motropolis from tho Proviuces, It cannot be computed in miles, for a fow hours' rido will take oue to tho limits of tho Kingdom.: The distanco is ono of educa- tion and culture: It is scarcely too forcible to say that the distanco is the differonce betweon CIVILIZATION AND BARDATISM, It {s the boast of Motropolitan civilizetion that 1 can measure its exclusivences by tho atrocious barbarisms of Lancashire, Yorkshire, otc., whose rank growth enocroach upon the very border of that civilization. London, hoary with age, rich! with gold, ripe with culture, must be wanting in morale not to foel ashamed that thoro is an un- oducated person within tho small circle of her Provincos. To return to the unionof the Metropolitan and Provineial bodies of medicine. It arguos well for tho improvement of the moral timbro of modern oivilization,—England being the ac- knowledgod centre. No clags of mon, clorgymen not oxcopted, have greater moral power at their command than physicisns. By moral power, I do not mean this or that religion, or profession of faith, but that power which does for man- kind what tho light, heat, and actinism of the sun do for nature. The scientific men of & community or nation must always affact tho tono of the morale of that community or mnation; henco tho significanco of their movemonts, Modorn modicino embodies TIE MOST ADVANCED OPINIONS of modorn science; hence, when *tho largest sesceintion of medical men ever voluntarily banded togother" declare thera shall bo nsither country nor city in their kingdom, there is hopo fortho * Eduocation Act” and its logicel resulis,— tho grafting of Metropolitan culture upon tho wild growth of tho Province, and tho civilization of England’s domontio barbarian. And I must add that, whilo this barbarienlives, and in someinatances climba into the pulpit of the Establishod Church aud to a seat in Peilinumont, murdoring all the b'a and r's in his way, it is vory inconsistont in the Salurday Revicw to speak of AMERIOAN BARDARISNE. It is very ungratoful for it, as an organ of the English peoplo, to wish that the great number of Amerioan travelers who are in Lurope this year had remained at home. Itiwould have boen fur moro appropriate for it to havo assumed tho position of & fond fathor wolcoming home his numorous family, whom ko could not support, much less educato, from a country that had sup- pliod thom with both living avd learuing., Tho objectionablo American traveler described by the Salurday Revicw s, in nino cases out of ten, tho Dritish subject romodeled, stuitously educated, his’ horoditary cmptfl pockot for the first time filled, returning to his nativa land to “yhow oft,” It is but matural thatho should want the Queen to sos how hio gots on ; and I doebt not the monoy be hrlnfin Lack is quite ac- coptable to Her Majosty, Thisis a digression, for which tho Saturday Retiew is responsible. At 10 o'clock in tho morning of AuH. 5, the Presidont of the Association, Mr. Alfred Daker, znd tho Prosideut-olect, Sir William Furgueson, with 700 of tho proroaulon, attendad & choral or- vico nt 8t, Paul's Cathedral, Tho principal fea~ turo of tho seryico was Mendelssohn’s ¢ Hoar My Pinyor,” which took the placo of the anthem. The infiuence of tho music gavo ouo & fine op- portunity of secing tho lon iu roposo ; bul, &t wight of his gray hinirs, curiosity toned itself into vetorution. Upon moro than one gray-honded oue could bo reud the word # coNsERyATIEM " written as an illumination by the rich light of Bt. Paul'a dome and windows, ~ Coasorvalism in medicine menns, I and my patients must dio ac- cording to_rulo, ratner than live by innovation, Doubtless England's gray Loirs save England's peaco, polisically speaking; but tho oxtrome caution of the old lion soversly chafos the spirit of tho young lion. The young mon of Tngland complain that there is no room for them; that tLo places of trust and honor aro given to m‘a{ hairs; that youth is a orimo and ago & virtuo, heard ono young Englishman say Lo thought old men had no right to live; they ghould got out of the way, and mako room for the young,—so obnoxious had his goniora becomo to him. Whother good or svilin its vesults, it is truo that Lere old ago is always an authority, and in many things fhe suthority, Honco L was not surprised to find mony giey hoada in tho British Medical Assoointion. Tho first address was given by the Presidont, Bir William Furgusson, in tho large hall of King's Collego,—tho tetiring Presidont, Mr, Dakor, having delivored his valedictory, and Leon olact- od Vice-President for lifo, T ey NMr. Bakor, be- cause here all surgeons arc culled Mr., whilo Bhynlulnnu aro called Dr. Tho subject of tho rouidont's oration was THE WATED-BUPPLT OF LONDON. This question, he thought, docs not belon, exclusively to w&ter—com[mulnu‘ engineors, ni rate-puyers, but to public bygieuo; honco its importance to tho medical profession. Next to tho trentment of diseaso and accident, it should stand foromost in the professional mind, Of course, Father Thames recoived his well-dosorved ralfe. 'Cho woalth carried on his surface be- low London Bridgo well-nigh dofies caloulation, Losides domestlo wealth, the argosien of every country are wolcomo to his waters. Theroln licy tho truo greainoss of the Themes, But hiave those who have lived, and ara atill living, on it banks, doalt falily with tho groat stroam? Ilo has boen called upon to sustaiu human life, and to be the cloaca of human aggregation. n stroams have boen run shallow, aud bhis olear waters dimmeod by the Oithiest pollutions. Tha river thus abused was, in the days of Honry VI, declared by Parlinnontary documont the fincet suhnon atroam In 1lis Mujouty’s dominions, This polluted stream is a largo source_of the water-supply of the south and west of London. ‘T'he spoaker then dwolt upon tho necessity of wator. Without it, both annimal and vegetabla lifo must ocease. Tho sourco of supply, tho quantity, quality, and expense, from separato bends,—e: llxlernallnF to & cortain olass of community,—tho quantily and quality boing tho wost interosting to physicians, “The Thames 18 dequate to elthor, Furthormoro, tho speakor thought thero was entirely too much stress Iaid upon the quality of water. - ‘pune wATER " can not be recognizod boyond the testh.. It mixes with many differont seorotions, and all the ingradlents of our food, so that ita chomical purity ia ootirely .lost before it has fairly begun fits” work in tho syatom, Then, agniu, eavagos thrive on putrid meat and surfaco-wator. 1o thought many physiciaus aMfooted oo miich tho afcs of tha prre chemiat, and askod the question, *‘Are wo mnot in roality tao fastidiona about ‘pure water'?" Whilat tho publio, uninfluouced by the opinion of tho doo- tors, hagglo over the purity of tho water, the moro 1mportant foaturo—an amplo ln]:lpiy—iu ovorlooked, The amount required for drink is 88 nothing compared with that which is neoos~ sary foroosnlnq, washing, art, and manufac. turcs, How to inorease the supply without dry- ing up tho Thames, was an important quostion, Many approved the idoa of luumnaln{; tho supply of the mYfllnud towns, - London includod, from the lakes of Cumborland and Westmotelaud, Tho l}:onkur thought England might bottor make use of ER GREAT NATN-PALL. Instoad of lotiing the floods damage our bost alluvial soils, destroy snimal and vegotablo lifo, endanpor man himsolf, and flually flow uninter- ruptedly to the ses, might not much of this flood bo impounded on our, water-shods, and thero form small and large resorvoirs and lakes, whick would be amplo supplies of ihe bost water at ovory soason of the year, and oven koep in fair volumo somo of tho pr{mlllu atreams " The spoalcor thought soft wator much the best ; that the impto hiousowife overywhero sought ik by & natural instinct, In Glasgow, & oity of half-a- million inhabitants, thera ln\wlnfi of £40,000 yoarly for sonp, o:vln;i to the softness of the wator, which comes from s mnatural resorvoir formed by tho water-shed of tho distriot. Allthatthe learned surgeon said was truens far oo it went, Itisall well anough to savo monp, and still keop clean ; but tho vital point of ihe “ wator-queation " - WAS ENTIRELY IGNORED, and that, too, at a time when it is alarmingly important that it should be understood. Cholors ia raging all aronnd ua; Kaveralcados have boen roported in London. Typhoid fover is an opl- demio in somoe of tho mostaristocraticquarters of the city ; phyalcians’ familics erpecially have beon sfllicted by this mnlady. - In tho majority of tho cagos, the polson has Doen traced to the milk of = single dairy, or rather farm, The ocoupant of snid farm has died receatly of typhold, and the name fovor hias been raging in tho neighborhood, The conclusion of the investigation shows that tho milk is poisonod -by tho cows drinkiny polluted wator, or that the water usc to ‘rinse out tho cana" contains enough of tho poison to infect the mil No dilution by water can bo oarried on on alarge scalo without doteotion ; but the way In which milk-cans are cleaned will account for at least n bialf-pint of water in omoh,—cnnnglh to ronder many gallons of milk unfit for use, if the wator bo Eowage-polluted. The suspectod milk liaa passod into a state of putrofaction with unususl rapidity, and complaints of it have beon mado to the company. Apropos to this are the INVESTIGATIONS MADE BY DR, EDWARD BALTLAND concorning tho ** Localized Outbreak of Typhoid in Inlington in July, 1870." He found that the radical ource of contamination was tho wator suppliod from an underground, dofective tank. This dairy-tank was construoted of wood which had beoomo burrowsd by rats ; hence, an open- ing wag made between it and somo olddrains. Dr. Ballard suggosted that the rinsing of tho oaus might poison the milk, - This afforded consider- able amusocment, considering tho traditional be- «ffof about milkmen ; but, whilo he proved that -this might bo a sufliciont cause, it was after- wards discoverod that the milk in quostion had been regularly diluted 10 por cont by the pol- luted wator, . William Sedgwick, surgeon, in a paper on cholera, says milk itsolf may undergo BOMP, UNIEQOGNIZABLE OHANGE, by which it aequires properties cspaplo of pro- ducing -ymgtoma of poisoning which are analo~ gous to, aud sometimos identical with, those of cholera. Ho then rafers to the cases which oc- ourred in 1826 at Aurillao, a village in TFrance, which wora investigatod by Profs. Orfleld an Maro, commissioned by the Fronch Acadomy. In this onno, fittesn or sixtosn customers of 4 partioular dealer in goats’ milk were attacked with all the symptoms of cholora. The Pro- fossors eaid thoy had met with parallel oases roported to thom by the police of Paris. Thoy could in no instanco trace the prosence of min- eral poison, and were diaposed to ascribe the poisonous alteration of the milk to **new prin- ciples formed by a vital process.” Thers is an~ other instanco, which ocourred in Malts, Oct, 13, 1856. *‘About twonry persons wore moized with violent vomiting and ofhor symptoms of cholera, which were ascertained by the Police Physician, Dr, Felica Calleja, to bo causod by drinking tho milk of two goats.” Mr, Bedgwick enys: ‘“It is mnot wnocessary to assumo that the animal from which = nozious eecrotion has besn obtained has baon iteelf injuriously affected. Polsonous honoy mey be secreted In boos which haye fed with im- punity on certain flowers ; and thors is no pliysi- ological reason why milk capable of dovefuping eithior typhoid or chiolera shiould not bs necrotod by cows which have drank with impunity water unfit for our own uso.” With theao serious facts beforo us, you cannot wonder that WE WEDE ALL DISATPOINTED in the address of Bir William Furgusson, Hae chogo for lis subjoct the moat important branch of what is known as State Mediciue; and be- cause, foraooth, it requirns lcss water to quench thirst than it does to koep clean, thereforo tho koeping clean {is more important, or _the uality of water for the London supply is secondary to the quantity. e must have purposcly ignored the queation of infection, of which London is full of sad illua- trations. A man of his position and loarning muse underatand it thoroughly, and his silence, 8 tho Liead of such groat authority as the British Mcdical Assooiation, is inexcussblo on any known grounds, Each day of the seesion—Tuosday, Wodnesday, Thuredey, and Friday--~was thus wmarked by a leading address, delivered by tho Presidents of tho Bectious. .. THOE ADDRESS IN MEDICINE Y was doivered by E. A, Parkes, M. D,, F. It 8. It was a vory ablo oration, IIa gaV0 A Very ox- hnustivo history of Laenmecs Auscultation, Bright's _Albuminmi, Verchow's Embols ism, iho theories of inflamma~ tion, Emumu. disonses of norvous Byatom, the hitherto obsoure Entozolo and Miorophytio disongon, and sll the discoverles thai may bo clagsed under the vaguo term ‘' blood-poison- ing." Like a ekillful rhetorician, he usod the Eowor of contrast, placing tho oldand now mide y sido, &0 that to seo was to ba convincod. THE ADDRESS IN SURGERY waa given by John Wood, F.R. C. 8, I. R. 8., Professor of Burgery in King's Ooflego. Ilo dogoriboed all tho new mothods ; was opposed to tho practios of hermetically sealing up wounds, according to tho plan deduced from Tyndall's exporimonts upon the purifying resulte of tho colton-tiltor of Pastour. Horvy hasshown that tho method does not provent putrefaction, nor tho abundant formation of microzos. Ho dwelt at length on the subject of f'lnaun surgery, dotailing somo wonderful opera- iona of the making of new organs and rostor- h? of old. In Rhinoplasty he must be a skill- ful oparator, judging from the apparens easo with which he Las mnde now nosea out of flapa from the patiouts’ forohead or cheeks. Undor tho hend of Anesthetics, the speaker sald: * We follow but tardily, in thls old country, in that combination of pleasure with utility ‘which han led Iately tho inventive genius of our Tranest- Iantio brothren to the associntion of osthotics with anocathetics, in the porformance of opore- tions, undoer those agonts, to an obligate accom- ‘paniment upon tho organ, and an appropriate addross by a popular preacher, improving the ocoasion on behalf of morala.” 1 really do not know whother this was intended to be complimentary to the Amorican surgeona or athermise, But, as I beliere in Zschary Tay- lor's plan of gaining & viotory, Itookit us & com- pliment. TNE ADDRESS IN DIYSIOLOGY wan dolivered by John Burdon Bauderson, M. .. F. R, B, Professor of Practical Physiology in Univorsity Collego, & man who bears the jm- Emun of genius in evory featuro, The iden that 6 olaborated in his address was the reciprocal influenco of empirical epecnlation on the ono hand and exporimental skepticisa on the other, choosing tho physiology of the febnle stato as an interesting aud nnYortlnt example, The thoughts were necessarily clothed in technical Ianguago for the mont part ; hence, could scarco- ly bo made iutorosting to the goneral reader, 1 MET PIOF, SANDERSON sftorwards at the University College soiree, Jhiero ho explained to me an invention of his by which ho was timing tho pulsations of n frop’s heart, Au ho talked, bin eyes flashod with tho fire of geulus, As Ilooked nt Lim, I could not han recalling tho old Grook fancy or philogophy of the * dwmon"™ h{lwhlch wmen of sroat {hought ave Inspired, Tho same night, the samo Colloge, YROV, MATCY, of Tarin, author of *La Machino Animalo," made vory intoresting demonntrations in physi- ology. It wan & rare opportunity of meciug fwo of tho groatest modern lights ju oxpoerimental physiology. Ilere, too, I met 'TUY GUEAT VIROHOW, of Burlin, or of the world, rather, ' Radical .| walstband, for he bolongs to all nations, Ho told meo, In his broken English, that lus Amarioan puplls woro very industrious and very intelligent, bLut they lacked patienos,—our na- tional ain, T foar. Dr. Parkes, inhin addross, eaid of Virchow, *“Iohas tonclied pathology at all potnts, and novor without adorning it," By his 8ids stood THE NENOWNED LEITRION, & vory distingulahed-looking neraon, having moro of tho Italian than the Gorman typowof form and foature. Timo wonld fail mo to describa oven tho oyes and nones of THE OELERMITIES it wan my good_ fortune to moat at this clegant "MHHOM Bir Willlam Forgunon, Jenner (who saved tho lifo of the Princo of Wnlnn‘), Pagot, Denham Bennott, Spencor Wells, Grafly ;Hew- itt, Dr. Quain, aud sooros of othors of world- wido fame. . SPENCER WELLS invited me to a gardon-party at hin cauntr{-uant. Golder's Hill, Hampstond, The place Is un- usunlly interesting: A green, undulating turf; olusters of grand old oaks, such as Ruskin tells us of; aviow of Windeor Castlo and tho sur- rcumflng hilla ; but, bost of all, it was the old home of David Garrick, Horo I'met OLD DR. WENLER, the author of “QCurlositios in Civillzation.” 1o said he liked the froodom that was accorded to his profession in Amorica, in that a physician might boe literary and still not lose casto. Hors s man is slmost ruined profeasionally. if ho at- tompts anything outsido of his profsssion; for examplo, fis can not bo both physician and poet, It is taken for granted thnt all tho professional man does in auy other divoction must bo sub- tractod from tho quality of his profousiousl work. Ilo said, too, ho was a radical in roligion and politics, but he belicved in tho English fashion of & = horeditary Prosidency, thoraby avoiding €runl agitation. I told him, if ho wore to como to Amorica ho would doubtloss find himself a. Consorvative Congervative, thero Is auck n difforonce betweon tho English and Amerfcan mosniog of tho word E 1 think tho first experieitco of a Presi- dontial “m"“'fi? would gond the English Radi. cal home with his fingors in his cars, and '‘God 8ave the Quoen” on his lips, Greily Huwitt houored mo with an_invitation to lunch, a visit to his private hospital, and the ‘most satlafactory convorsation on tho WOMAN-IN-MEDIOINE QUESTION I bave heard in Lurope, Hosums it all up in the assortion that it Jo not a question of sex, but of genius; if a woman can do it, she ought to do it. 1Io thinks Edinburgh dld o very shabby thing in nccepting tho matricula tion foos, and then closing the door. Bponcor Wells thinks it » mistake for womeu to atudy medicine, but bo would help thom if he could, or rather would do nothing to hinder, a8 the thing will corroct itsolf if let alome, Dr. Quain thinks Iaw and theology are just tho pro- foanions for women,—they would excol in both 3 madicine involyos too much exposure, Whila any lawyor or divine you might talk with would ssy modioine is far botter adapted to women than oithor law or theology. 80 womon atand juut outside all the professlons throughout tho United Kingdom, And, though I have been tho recipiont of marked courtesy from the medical lion, I was all the time conecious that hie felt about hia profes- sion as Bhylock folt about his eating aud pray- ings . S0 GENTILE ADMITTED. The British medical lion is vory nice fo talk with, and walke with, and oat with ; but I fear, if I should ask to onter his learned den, he would gnash his teoth and roar. Banaw HACKET? STEVENSON, ——— A NEW “PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE.” Threa pllgrims, tofling up the Rhine, ‘Ware fain to taste esch kind of wine In honor of the vino, And s through vines and valleys, wandering up, Xhey talked sud walkod aud sloppod to aup, And wrote thelr visious of the cup. First to thee, ob, Inglohetmor, Wa pay our vows, by way of primer, And—wash theo down with Kudeshoimer, Then Affmanshauser's ruby red, Threo bottles to their gory bed We lower down among the dead ! Wine of my heart, old Affenthaler, Tad I a sweotheart I would call her Attor theo, thou soul-anthraller. Then, aparkling topsz, gay Hockhelmer, Pungent, witty, old brafn-climber, ‘Aud Tighit hand of tho rhymor, ©h | Lisbfraumilch, thou draught divine { Dids*t suckle this, old Father Riiue? Or wort thysalf tho father-mother of the vine? Marcobrunner, ovor for theo, ‘Wino of the ‘“ancient chivalrie,” 5 Tl break s lance with any fos there be, Oh smilling valley of the Brearac! How talo and story take us back ‘Along Time's legondary track, ‘Whero Bishops, abbots, friare, priests, O'or thy fair wincs at Joyoun foacts, Rept vows of abstiuonice from fiesh of Loaats | ‘Nisrateinerberg, bleat {a that humzn throttle ‘Whosa thiret {3 quonched by ous full bottle Of thy ethorinl and delicions tottlel Jolly, gonial, dry Markgraffor, - Tow dust thou chango the dullest quatter Into a sturdy, honeat langher! Johannisberg, ‘twere right to tsino ‘A wreath for thee from every vine That grows, thou nectar ¢ Robber of the Rhine] Bixteon wines in cleven dsys, Thees proclalm the pilgrlia's pratse Bettor than the poot'a lays, Which sults this rhymer best 7 Give mo but Ingloheimor aud the rest; Why winies, liko kisaes, go by lest! But, sh, the sun, how flerco he throwa his Rayp, and burns theso pilgrims’ noses ‘To tle ripe, rich, ruby red of Rhenish roscs PAUL MARTINDALE, —New York Evening Post, —————— The Boy Who Peppered the Nostrils of 2,000 ¥cople. From the Janesville (IWia,) Gazette, Sept. 8. _The spirit of malicious mischief which has given no respite to the tortured spirit of George Iuss found an aperturo for wholesale oxit in the numorously attended party at tho Harris works on Friday night. Aftor long and patient watch- ing, hia expectant vision took in the grand op- portunity to retiove himeelf at one foll swoop of tho overburdenod desiro to inflict his mischovous iugenuily upon his follow croaturce and achisve tlat sudden distinction which comes to those who enter with the true epirit of energy upon tho consummation of “well laid plans. On Friday afternoon George purchased a quarter of a pound of cayenno pepper and placed it gafely in'his outeide pocket, That night he attonded tho party, Ho had no invitation, but George stands not upon the conventionalitios of that society which refunes him recognition, Ho had businoss thero and he went, Cunutiously he on- tered the crowded room, threading his way hore nud thero, moandoring to_tho right, to tho loft, forwards, backwards, and as he progressed in hia travela tho quarter of o pound of cayonuo pepper which ke had Donght in the af- ternoon, mproad itself ~in _merpontino shapes . upon the floor of tho room. Then Qeorge withdrow to & rotired cor- nor and enjl;:yod the encezing and oxcited re- marks of his two thousand victims, e wont homo Lappy that night, and doubtless would baye beon 60 atill hiad not Marshal Crotzenber, ulled him from under the sidowalk on Nort aln sireet last Baturday aftornoon aud taken bim to jall, This morning ho was brought into the prosonce of Justico Smith to anawer tos criminal charge, and the upshot of the affair is that he is sentenced to forty days in jnil and fine of $14.90, 'This sontence is a sovero one, but the offense, given perhaps more in & spirit of migchief than malice, was of an aggravated nature, and George must furnish the example for scoros of other boye who are ripe for just such fua. ' e i The Parlor Match. From the New Orleans Tinea, Thers was an olderly lady from Bugar Hollow trading in Cobbet's storo, Nolson streot, Satur- day. Bhe had boen looking at the coffee and luflra, aud was examining somo hair-pinas by biti qflmm to goe if thoy woro genuine, when she stopped on a parlor-match which was lying on the floor, ‘The explosion that followed so startled her that sho jumped to ono eido, and so doing struck agalust v barrel of ax-helves and overtuined thom, loat hor balance, sought Lo Bovo hergelf \1{ clulohing the ehow-cage, but waa too lato, and wont down with the ax-holves, drawing o badly-demoralizod shov-case on tuE of hor, aud neatly choking hersolf to doath witl & holf-awallowod bale-plo. On Mondsy the agont for parlor matcheu callod on Mr, Cobbot to show his Eoodn and was immeodiately pouncad upon by that hul‘\-h!unl, who, after lmocldufi him down, dragged him out on tho walk, ait hold him whilo the clerk warmod him with an ax-holve, and Mra, Cobbot poured water on his Thon Cobbet told his wifa and clork to hold him whilo Lo wout in the houso for & gun, and it was during his absence cn this mission- ary enterpriso .that tho ngout succeoded in gate ting on lig feet aud out of tho nelghborhood. Wodon't know whoro o is now, but he uu- doubtedly left town, as Mr, Cobbet looked around for bim with the gun until late that night without any succoess, THE DAPHNE. 1 From Appletons® Journal, Ono day thoro sat at lunch, In thefr own cot- tago at Springtide Boach, & pair of veterans in | marriago, As such, it was tho oustom of ell thelr young unmatod friends to apply to thom for solace and advico In momenta of need, Buddeuly, thero was heard upon the resound- ing pinzza tho rapld rat-a-tat-tat of Indies' foot. Moro trouble,” said the gentleman. 41t pounda like Nannio Armitage,” responded tho lady, lintoning, with hor hand hovering like 2 dove over bor tea-servico, Thore was & paseage of bell-ringing and in- torlocution in which & sorvant playod a part, ‘Fhen thoro waa & sound of o rushing of akirts. Tho matron aroso and hestened Into the bijoun parlor adjoiulug. The door was Lurst open, aud {liero appesred n wild and gasping fairy, all in blue and while. Bhe had bLracelots on hor wrista ; a jingling chatolaino depended from hor bolt ; aud somo of Ler protty blond hair had stragglod down upon hor round forehead, * ho soomod to be violently ropressing horself, Hor bosom was in a tumult, and sho wrung hor soft hands. Bhogazed for-an inatant st tho ten- room door, which was slowly closing, and then sho oponed her rod lips, throw out hor arms, and, in the vory fury of norrow, darted upon her friond, orying : iy “0Q Polly, GEORGE " 4 Quarroled with George I” 4 Yo, quarrclod with George. It's trno, it's true. Oh, ploaso don’t make mo say it again! ploase don’t!" And sho cast hersolf upou her friond’s ncck, aud, winding hor arms about hor, sho pressed hor burning cheeks upon that socnro and tendor rofuge, tho eloulder, and gave borsolf up to griof, Tho master of the castlo appearod at tho door, But there instantly oame into his wifo's face, as it confronted him over tho throbbing form of the confiding ono, » suddon cat’s-paw. Thoro- foro, he quictly rotroated, and roturned to his tabla again, “ Quarrolod with George!" Yuruned the sym- athizor, “oan it bo pomsiblel Is it”—(stow- y)—* 18 it—n—a tif?, Nannio ? oris it—(quickly) —% 5, very sorious mattor? a—" “Why, we have scparated!" oried the suf- forer; ** we havo had vory hard words, aud wo Lo akon loave of each othor, forover] ™ Tioro there was a long silonce, ono of those pauscs which always ocour iu such oxtromitics, nand which aro ocoupled insonsibly by both par- tios in an approach to & common ground. One of the two pcople becoms more calm as her friend was calni, and the friend became mora sorrowful evon a8 the othor was sorrowful, “Poor Nannie," she murmured in hor ear, “ppor child—and you wero so Liappy, too." 4 Oh, oh, o bappy,"” was the return, in s brok- on whispor, Va0 tery/ happy, Yolly. Andjvs all over now—I—I think I snall die."” ** And what was it about, Nannie 7" © Oh, about the Daphne," “ What, George's yacht ?” F “Y—yen—oh, how I hate the name] it has made me so terribly miserablo. I so long for rent, Polly, 8o long to hide mo somewhero out of tho way of human beings aud human concorna. I—I sm very weary and hoartbrokon—I—oh, dear—oh, dear I" There was a talo to bo told. The shades wore closed, and tlioy wont and sat down whoro the sea-breeze blew upon them, It was indoed about the Daphme, the boat which was o _truly famous for esiling on _tbo wind. Blio was a schoonor of soventy-and-odd tous burden, shapad like o flsh, winged like an englo, and posed liko a swan. Bho was only two yoars'old, and had slready outeailed tho club- leot in all weathers, and had borno away tho “Van BSchoonhoven Oup” two years in suce cesslon. “To—mnrrowl" said Miss Nanofe, with inter- polated sobs, *'you know tLat this groat raco of 1873 is to come oft, If tho Daphne wina ié, she Will retain the cup—and—" “ Oh, I know all about it,” was the blithe re- sponso, “Tom has beon telling me for {hreo woeks, It will bo a tremondous wffair, and I should think that all tho world waa coming—okh —Jet mo ask you beforc I forget—do you romem- ber how much the Daphne won by, 1 1871 " ‘¢ In 1871 ?" queried Miss Nannie, in a foeblo voico. “In 1871, I think it was by eight and threo-quartor minutos ; yos, that is right, cight and three-quartor minutes,” 4 And in 1874 7" Miss Nanuio, with hor protty finger on her quivering Hra, roflocted o moment, «In 1874, tho Potrel, Georgo'a great rival, camo in aload, but the Daphne had o time al- Jowanco of fifteen minutes, and so she roally bont the Potrel nnd the whole flest by five min~ utes. Iknow Georgo was dolighted. Ho #nid he had rather havo won that race than a dozon liko that ot 1871 * And who owns tho Pstrol, Nannio 7" 4 0n, Olary Vedder,” anid sho. “ Clary Voddor! Why, that littlo fly-away Busio Btaats is his qfflancce. Bhe was tho one that was 80 much in love with Goorge in tho Tromacha two yoars ago. But lio didn't smile upon her, and sho's hated kim over gince. An wouldn's klio be happy if hier Clary's Potrel could only carry off the cupl” And tho astuto tacti- cian shook her head and roflected upon the mat- ter, But in & moment she roturnod to carth? again with a start: ¢ Fnrflvc, Nannie ; come, poor child, tellmo, tollmo all about youz trouble,” &ud sho wound hor arm about Lor afrosh, and ‘bent her head to liston, “‘Bul Goorgo is so taken up with his pleasure, Polly, It is yacht, yacht, yacit, from ono week's eud to thonoxt. Yostorday, he wsa doing noth- iug but oxpnrimanfiniwith » now self-detaching boat-fall. "He is all the timo thinking of dead- water, and hia now wire-rigging, and Lis coppor- sheathing. Ho is allowing his soul to rust out, Polly, Ono can't be playing all tho time.” Hero she ran off into a volvety donunciation of Georga and all his works, Bhe granted him Landsomo, aud generous, and ardont, and supremoly intolli ont, * but alas! Polly,” she criod,with a tromu. ous light in her soft oyes, “he doesn't Bes tho groat world as T soo it." ‘And you askod him to givo up yachting, Nannie ?” “Yen, Polly, {bogged him to think of the Emcluuu time he wae wasting. I told him that did not believe he wae serious enough, and ho said ho thought ho was too serious alrendy, aug— & And then, what?" Wiy, then, I vxplained that with his tal- onts ho ought to bo doing something groat in some way or other. The world is full of torrible wronga and wickedness, and I told him that be was very culpable not to be aroformer.” ¢ And whrt did ho say to that 2" * Woll, ho said ¢ "Puhaw ' “Did fio?" ' Yeu." I simply replied: ‘I implore you to at:fl this waste of your youth. Detormiue to make up your mind to do groater and bottor thinga than cruising sbout in o petty boat. Bay to yourself, “I will conso,”’' I urgod him to coue to » dooision at onco, to turn about imme- diately, to make the splondid resolve to quonch his c{ldish desire for a transiont triumph ovor the Petrel to-morrow; but—but—" 4 But what, Nannio ?"" ** But ho only walked up and down very furi- cnn!f' while I #al thero pleadiug and bescoching watil T grew exceasively tived ; I am aure 1 must Dave looked very wan and lonely.” 4 And thon, I'supposs, the quarrel began?” *Yos, immodiately. énarga was like & tigor. Ho snid ho had a mind to turn fisherman at ouce, and to romain #o all his days, Then, Polly, I began to discover that the spriukhui_ of roses on miplth was a vory shallow ono. 1fafinished by asking me in & very oxcitod menner what it was that I wished him to do? What particular Inbor would xesm proper for him to undortake ? What wore the torriblo faults that Lo was com- mitting ? ¢ Goorge,' sald I, indignantly, * Ileave all that to yourself; your own conscienceissonsi- tive onuugh to furnish you with convincing anawers,'” Horo Miss l{unnia bridled for o moment, and then suddenly broko down into an- othor fit of weoping, aud cast herself for a second time upon the tender bosom of Lier friend, The friond romained s moment In deep thought ; then she whispored in & siven's voico, sud with a siron's embraco, ‘' Naunie, doar, Laven't you besn to ‘hear Littlo Benjamin Droy- fus preach lately 7" “0h, yos, 1’011)" all tho girls go." “I tfmu(L L uo,’ And why, pray?” Miss Nanuio looked up with inflamed eyes, “Woell, bacauss yon echo that Snor boy's pant- ings after splondld virtuss, and, hike him, are nat at all suroof what thuy conslsf or whora thoy maybegin; Liston & moment to tho Trumpot of Wisdom. Thero is such a thing ss keeping your uritles In haud as well us your faults, You inve suddonly concoived the {den that Georgo in not_loading a lifo that in distinctly profitablo to anybody, It takes a protty wise ‘mmou to prove thut, to begin withi; but, supposing it true, wo find you wishiug to anfnate Liim to think more— to opon L oyos to tho good Lie may do with Lis weallh—to learn tho pleasures of & more wsthotio, intolleotual, and—"" ¢ And religious, Polly." l" \'?gy, aud 1oligious Ufe, Is mob that your panr #Yoll, und how do you set aboutit? Dy Polly —I'vo' quarrcled with 11 putting fionmm in a position to direct' him snew ? By plaolng yoursolf in ndvance? Dy instructing yourself in tha definite methoda by which Lo may. riso? No. ¥or when he fairly asked you what ho should do, you ati onco foll back upon your santiment. You ahould know that you must Inooulste poople with goodness, not ahoot it into them. It was not tlia mont sagacioua plan for you, s full-fledged Puritan, to foap euddonly out, and demand that your bont friend should give up hin boat ploay- ura becauss you, in Holiiary self-commmnnion, had declded that he should. If you aro con- vinced that the fow wooks in tho year which are spent by George in _such aport might bo hottor amplo‘;od, you should have_set about persund- ing him by clow dogroes. ¥ vonture to believe that you havo not tho roniotest ides of the pless- ure of which you wieh to doprive him., I think jou have never boon upon tho wator, No? I hought not, Thon, bofore you ask George to sur- render pomothing of which yon do mot undor- ataud tho natare, would It not havo beon botter to havo asked yoursolf, ‘Am I suro that I am not making mischiof 7' If you had dono so, then tuis sorious trouble wonld not have como_ upon ou. Bonjo Dreyfus, who {8 ailing and Llood- one, thongh vory good, has ralsed you into a moral atmosphero too raroiled for ono tobroathe on short notice. Thercforo, if you want George to ascond Lo thoso lofty, hu(y‘hts with you, you must toll' bim nloul% aud porbaps he will grow accustomed to it by dogrees. I don't beliove, my poor Nnonjo—" At this instant the sounds of oight Loraes’ fact upon the road-way in front of the cottago burst in at the window.- ‘Lhon thoro wad & groat rein- ing-up, and a groal prancing, and snorting, and jiugling of sllver harncss-bells, Intormingled with tho high notos of femnlo imEufloummnu, W Hi Pipl hi Pop! A, I sayl” Then, ¢ Alra Mrs, Tom! Pollyl" + WTt'g Busio Stants! Al on fire, a8 usuatl 8it atill, Nannie, please. Blio wou't get out." Bho oponed tho shindes. #0h, there you ore, Polly, aren't you ?" “Yes, Miss Noise, hore 1 am. Aron't you coming in 7" = . “Doar, no! Pip, baquiet! I justoomonp, Polly, about the rogatia to-morrow. Clary haa got passcs for the judge's boat, and wou't iu\l and Tom go aboard with masnd mo? I now you won't feol liko cruisivg., 8ay yes.” “Yga; and many thanks,” # Goodl D’yo know I've beon to see the Oup —tho Van Schoonhoven, you know? It's & boauty! Al satin-work and bright lighta. Tho Potrol's golng to win it thie year, bocauso Clary Lias hind o new—but that's a secrot. I do so want him to got it away from Qcorgo! Iaup]\nuo it would mnke Nannio horribly—Keop siill, Pop, Toin Townsend | Il kil him!" SBho made & dash at & fiy upon. her . pony's flank, but, as most flica do undor liko ciroumstancos, it flow off intact. “I 'mevor snw thom go thick as they sro this' year, P-o0-o-r Pip! P-0-0 Popl Whoni Hil O Polly, they'ro such voxatious dolights | They ivill go, you seo. Negatts will be carly I .Wo'll paddle off o the Judge's boat at 9 o'clock from Olary pler. By-by " And with lior ribboned \vlflg pm&wrly crosaed, and with her arms squared and her ei‘fll to the front, she vanishod amid a fourlsh of whools, The lady looked around laughing. But sho was slono—Miss Nannie had fled so- crotly. Betoro the day wae much older, and bofore his wife had had an opportunity to explain to him the case we wot of, Mr. Tom Townsend strolled out with his cigar. He tool his way down to tho water-side for the purpose of picking up some ‘more dym:ht-goauln against the morrow. Although ho did not own a yacht, ho had groat regard for those who did. He reached the edge of the cliff, and looked down upon tho wator and the vesscls. Tho squadron was sssemblod, and most of it lay at anchor. A fow craft were sailing about upon the glittoring blue, and tho horizon was dotted with them. The sun waa bright, the brooze was frosh and cool, and from the boata below thoro camo tho fitful sounds of prepara- tion—the rattlo of ropes, the fall of blacks, tho voicoe of mon, and tho clauking of chains. Thero was & man sitting upon o bench under the ono spruce-truo that the cliff afforded. Ho was also looking down. He was brown, power- ful, and, at the moment, thoughtful, + Hallos, Georgs " Ho looked arouud. ¢ Halloa, Tom I They shook hands, and then both were silent for an instant. Townsond trifled with his cigar, and the othor becamo ab- stractod. ; “ Have just heard about it, George.” (He #aid this on the strongth of Miss Nannio's fivat exclamation.) “ Heurd rbout what ?" “0n, it]" “ QOh, yes! " Goorge moved restlessly, and took off his Wkt and fanned himself once or twico, Thon ho put it on again. I didu't think it had flown go far quito yet.” 4 Ob, Polly and I ara tho only onos that know it. I—upon'my word—I'm Borry, Georgo.” They both looked off upon the sos. italow roar filled up tho interval. * Yog—yes,” oriod the yachiman, ** it's protty rough. I'scted liko a brute, I suppose. But she rather took mo by surprise, and I—woll —I don't know."” “ How did it como about? " * Why, you sce, I've boon making & groat deal of = fool of myself during tho last throe years, about boating, It's rather laid hold upon me, and so Nunnfo thoro took it into her head that £ ought to ba doing somothing worth a little more to the world in general; though I am not suro that one can study or work to much profit in June, July, and August.” SWell 2" *“Well, and sho bronght me to the point at once, and asked mo to give up to-morrow's race. Pardon mo if I any that that was a sottlor. I especially wanted to wail that race. Vedder as got o long maln-boom for his Patrel, and ho oxpoots to beat me. Thon, I wantod to keep the Vaa Bohoonhioven Oup, Thon, spesking gonot- ally, Ilove thosos, and all that belongs to it. You know that I bave n groat intereat in the club, and sll that belongs to it ; the intorest of a father 1 may eay. Then, you seo that it came to be somewhat of & trial to give it up.” “Theso littlo girls aro protty long-headed somotimes, Georgo, observed the othor. #Qb, I know it—I know it. I've suffored my- self to boat 8o muoh that I'vo come to consider it a right and o necessity, I suppose.” “You used to do & littlo writing snd a little upnnklng‘ didn't you?” “ Yeu.' ¢ Wall, and Naunie remembors it, no doubt. Perbaps shio's ambittous, Bhe wants to marry a follow who has, or will haye, his suy in aftairs. Porhaps sho can't sco much hope of " this_ whils ho does nothing but desiro and schemo to beat a lot of other yachta with his own. No doubt she's been fretting her lifo away ever sinco you've beon in love with ker ; bus it is only now that the idea lins burst out.” " IyJovol I ehouldn't wonder if that wero true." Thero's no particular glory to bo got by lying under the weathor-rail of a schooner whils hior sailing-mastor has her canvases pulled here and thero so that he may got over tho? yater faster than some other eailing-master, oh “ Well, no.” “ Give it up, Georgo." ¢ 0h, I havo.” #You have ?" 4 0Oh, yes, You know that old Fonder han boen ut mo for s year to sell him the Daphne, and ho teased me again yosterdny, I had little thought of doing it until Nannie spoke up; but uhe was 60 clear about it, and had it so much at heart, and thers was no ground left for me to ptaund upon. Upon my word, I feel guiltyat oven eitting here and ataring at the boats, I supposo I ought to bo looking after my elocu- tion at this vory momont,” Do you menn to say that you're going to scll your yaclit to Fonder| " W Xxnotly that, And right oft.” o aross to hia feat, * Come, go over with me, Wo'll flud him at his cottago at this hour." ¢ But what's the hasto? " 4 0h, ho wanta to kel her himself in to-mor- row's raco. e'll take hor, so I am told, justas slio is, crow and all. There will be nothing to o but to make s sort of verbsl traunfer, and the thing ia done.” # But the Van Behoon—" #Don't man, dou't! Iam in a fever of virtue, Tet it take itu course.” They accordingly went to search for Fon- der ; aud, when thoy discovered bhim, tho ownor of the Daphne entered into a negotiation with- out flrnhuu,‘ whilo Lis friond stood at o distance, emoking, Lho talk waw briof, The whilom yaohtsman cumo out again, ina few minutes, Learing hiwwolf a8 one mlg\xt who bad ondured tho rack with honor. “ Well ?" askdd the friond. “1t'a done, 1lo's agroed to takoe tho oraft, it sho's all I represonted” her, and he will sail hor to-morrow in his own name, Al, Tom, my hoart has had a bwist, Ican't stay hore to sce the snorifice, It would maddon me to watch tho Daphne come in & sovoud or & thitd, and Fondor 18 surs to make Lor do tho one thing or tho oth- er. 1'm golng to drive off into the country till v’ all over, Come with me, wou't yon 7" 0, Iean't ; I'm marsiod, you kuow." 4 Aly, yos—that's truo ; I forgot it for tho mo- mout,” ¢ But Nannio! " Y Nauuis 7 Woll, you can tell iar, if you like, Noj wall. Oa tho whole, I tiiuk I'll It ko fiud it out by acoldont. If T should mend bor tho story of my convoraton, it will look a little liko an act of "the good fox of the fablo. A wenk child of Inxurz cannot, with a good grace, sud- donly doolare himsolt foboa glant of virtuo to ono who hna always boen a giantoss. Bhe haa lonr boen abovo’ mo, Tom, and I hope that a night of meditation will put ‘ma Into » fit state for prosontation to het to-morrow. Good-by,” Hadisappeared, Mr, Townseend went liome nndltluld hiswifo that there was herolemin the world. At dusk, Mias Nannlo eat alone in hor garden, with hor plaid drawn up about hee shouldora an nook, Hor hoad hung down, and sho wopt in gi- lonce. This senno of solitude and desortion wag now tohar. In tho daylime tho gny sunlight kad furniphed hor with distractions; but now sho was in the dark, listeniug to tho dicary roar of tho wators, and tho still more dronry murmurs and upbraidings of hor heart. At 0 o'clock, a man np{;onred boforo hor J it neumed s if ho shot up frum out tho ground, Thera waa a obriek, But It was nobody hut tho Daphoo's sailing-master. 1fo wan in soarch of tho ownor. Miss Nanuie ropliod that she did nol know whore ho was. Tho man made n gos ture of surprise, which did not escapo the young Indy's notico. Ho Intimatod that o had”como horo, bocauso ho bad boen successful in all his provious sonrchien, This wau inuocont on his part, but Miss Nannie blushed red in the davk. Tho eailor was about to rotire, whou Mins Naunlo ssled him what his orrand was, ) This lod to telling hor of tho attompted trans~ for of tho yacht to Mr, Fonder. Miss Nutinio spraug to Lor foet, 4 But, Mr. Founder, mom, won't take the boat, nor hove anything to do with her, beeauso fonr of the men have gone oft iuto town, and thero ben't onough left to sail her to-morrow,” Bliss Nannio, oxeitod beyond measure, fired half & dozon quostions stralght into the matter, Thon did the yacht still’ Lolong to its old ownor? Yes. Wan it cortain that ho could bo found, in timo to rectify mattors? Tho Oaptain shook’ his lond. Then, unless the men wers gooured and brought back, the race would be lost ? Em[:\hnticnll{, ye, Whoro wers thomen, in all likelthood ? In'some of the liquor-shops ot tho town. Wero there many of these places ? About 500, Would the Captain assist bor to find the runaways? (Vith admiration) Yos! To thie pass, then, bad shocomo? Inaman- ner infuged with iron, she ordered out her conch- man, and thon her pouy-phaston and & light spring-wagon ; thou sho ordered the coachman into the lattor, and bade him follow, whon she and the Captain lod in the other vohiclo. Thug arranged, the party bogan o soarch for tho recrennts. Thoy descended into the low- ormost and tno vilest parts of tho adjacont city, and Miss Nannie, with her skirts gathored in front of her, pushed, withont the smallest hint of recoil, into tho dona that she saw. Whon she appoared, brawling ceased, mon put down thoir liquor, and tho proprietors ndvanced and asked rospoctfully what sho wanted. Tho first of tho crow sho maw was lyin;: liko & log npon the floor of & foul back-parlor. 'Tho Captain and coachman .took him by the hoels and shoulders ond placed him in the wagon. Miss Nen- nio rodeomed his cap for {1, (he ‘had pawnod it to the bar-kooper for10conts’ worthof somo terriblo drink), and then she drove on to tho noxt place, four doors off. The noxt eailor with the Daphne’s uniform was sbout engaging ina fight, Ho bad already beon knocked down, and was coverod with blood. He drooped in- stantly as Miss Nanuic poiuted him out with hor whip, and the'ring seattared silontly, This cap- turo taggored to tho wagon of his own accord, Then the Lunt went on ~till midoight, At that hour all tho bars were closed, and yot thero ro- mafned quite & bundred unsearched. Dospair ! Thoy pauncd in the dark sud desortod treob. The coachman was surly, and it began to rain. Buddenly the fighting srilor (probably grateful at_his salvation from a thrashing), suggested, “ Btation-'ouse, mum." They drove there in o hurry. Lawhad solzed upon fifty individuals, Misa Nannie, with ber hend smimming with sicknoss, descended with the Oaptain to_the gas-lit crypta and searchod tho motloy and nolsome crowd, The two eail- ora were there, Thoy were in » drunken slecp, and thoy were lifted bodily snd taken to tho wagon, whore thoy rolled and groaned with the other two. Thus l.rlumdphnnt, tho cortege roturned to the neighborhood of the boach aud the boats, The Captain'a yanl Iny beside & pior, and into it two of tho sailors wero lifted. Tho Captain rowed them off to the yacht, whoso hight was to boscon in the distance. In twonty minutes le came ‘back agnin. Thon the remaining two wero do- posited in the boat. Miss Nannio thon chmbed down into the stern-aheota, Tho conchman and the Captain wondored. Sho nddressod tha first ¢ “Drive home and say that I ehall slcop on the Daphne to-uight. "Thon sho eddressed the gocond : I am going to male sure that noothor mishapa occur. Give 'way, pleaso, I've got the tillor-ropes.” All that night sho sat argus-cyed upoen tho damp deck, careloss alike of thie fug and tho Iand-awoll. She fondly belicved thatsho was roventing mischief. Bhe did not sigh or nod, ut nt overy creak of the cordage, or flickor of tho lentern over her head, sho started up to look. Bhe would not have known it if tho yacht woro sinking, or drifting ashore, but it plessed hor to wateli all tho same, 8ho often half wish- od that Georgo would row up and catoh hor sit- ting thore, and ahe flouted tho Iguoble desire only to make room for it to return ngain. Bho was full of heroics. Ior courdge swelled with svory ona of tho dismal hours, She was a chang- ed woman, g0 eho docidod. Her littlo burst of ouorgy had filld hor with valor, \Vhat could sho not do! Bhe ignorod her apeschos of the morn- Lng. and thought Polly had been sillily soft with o, But whero was Georgo ? Bupreme anxloty, and n sonse of supreme worth, exercised hor spirit, and sho longed for daylight, in order that she might *do.” At meridinn, or theronbouts, on the next_day, day, tho greal race of 1670 was coming home with & northesst broeze, and all Springtido was mad. The hills were coverod with throngs of gazers, and tho waters wero packed with boats and barges, which were packed in theiwr turn with ladios and tho crities who did not yacht, The wide course was cloar, and the judges’ sloop alone seemed to block tho way. Tho six racors woro bearing atmifihz down, two milos off, Artillery boomed, bands brayed, aud the throngs on tho outermost highlandu be- an to broak up, and to strosm toward the goal Eu order to aco tho finish, Like groat Damon, hard upon the moment, & wherry daebod out from tho shore and made for the judges’ boat in spite of tho cries and com- ‘mauds of the water-police. Townsond and his fevored, swoet companions eaw it “Hurrah! Horo's Goorge!” Twenty hands were stretchod out to help him up. Inlight of the whifisoru which, since day- light, bad been circling about the town concoru- ing the Daphue, and Miss Nannie, and himsalf, ho was the incarnate mystery, o was in a blaze of excitemout, Ho took Towneond's arm, “ How could I holp coming back, Tom? I smollod the easterly wind from the ocean twonty miles in the country, and I turnod my horse around di- rectly, Look ab that, sirl" "(Ie pointed to the race) “Who says that is unworthy of manly admiration?” He put a number of rapid ques- tions, Tom professed great ignorance, Allthat Lo found out ot tho momont was that all the yaohts, the Daphuo aud tho Petrel among them, find sailod a8 had boon iutendsd, 4 Where's Nannio? Quickl Horo?" 4 No, Probably in agony somowheroe," “Q Tom, Tom, just look =atthat sight. De- your it with your oyes, You'll never sce i's liko again! Bixclouds racingl Why could not Nan- nie find pleasure in such a scone? Hasn't she n soul? Jove, the Daplhno leads! Aft with your mala-shest, mastor! \\’bty—\vh —in tho namo of morcy doesu’t ho haul aft his main- sheot 7 Io'a doing it! ho's doing it! Now your Jibal f‘mu jibs! Oh, why am Ihoro? Foudor gots tho onp 1" 2 The boats came on. The alr was alivo with cries and scroams, and tho trumpots und guus made more noisoe than ever, The Daphuo was first, tho Potrel second, ana all tho others everywhers bobind. 'Che groat schooner, rising and’ plunging in the groou sea, hugged oloso to the wind, and coverod hor decks with epray. Trom hor im uenso Ccau- vases, towering and swelling in the nir, thero camo & deep roar, and hLor dizzy ‘mast-hoada cut buge, wild circles against tho azure 8ky., or black sud glitlering bow turn- od an emorald furrow, and behind Ler thoro boiled a caldron of fonm, SLo was a mill- fon times a swan. Sho fled like o fright- ened fish, and it ssomed as if she were about Lo rise Into the air, Bho aporoached tho homo-buoy. Gnurf;b folt himrolf cnst iuto tho dust, #Ididu't think sho'd do that for any other man but mo; Lut, like all her nox—ah, what n paco that is] lool at thoso sails_swolll hear tho maats crack; and see the mist about her bows [ It Nanulo wero hero, 'fom, I belicve—by raolous, thero's a woman aboardl A woman, t you'll boliove it, aboard n racing- yacht! Fondor's slater, I supposo, I"--at Lib instaut tho Daphuo shot past the {udgun, at the distance of threo hundrod foot, and & pro- longed -cheer rolled down from the hillsidos, and # fett do jote burst from the guns upon the bench. Tlags dipped, floats of yawls pul ont, aud sounds of applause arono from ull quarters, “Flie Duphue rounded-to, aud the pealia of her saila dn:{:rmd with arattle. Tho yachismamy oppressed with aload of sorrows, atarod gloomily, It noomod an If tho lamp of hls happitiows Lisd gono out. Ho could not cheery ho could not by glnd; true, his yacht hnd won, bnt yot she hu‘ won for anothor man. Hin ocoupation was gonoy Ho was no longoer o sailor. 1lo was a bookworm. Ha caut an alion’s glanco onca mora upon hlg unrivaled boat, 1o gzave n vlolont start. Then, with o singlo bonnd, ho threw himeclf headlong into hin yawl, aud, shipping the onra Hko light=: ving, wau off for his yacht,. Io saw Tom and bawled + - 2 That is not Fondor's aistor, It's Nannlo!" ¢ Townuond laughed, aud called Polly to lock ak tho flying horo, : Nanuio was walting for him, blushing like ay rose, Yo leapad abuard, and, spocchlesly soize, ing lior hiaudy, drow hor to tho othor aide of tho' main-oail, and thore ombraced hor privately, o atammered through two or tll:rno oxplan: tions, and sho, with seant articulation, dotnile tho default of Fonder, and her soarch for the drunkon sailors, and her usurpation in "1—1 your” sbronce of the command of tho Daphno.! ¢t wos thorofore elear to the yachtsmen that tha ‘oot waa atill Lis, 'aud that thio Von Bchoonhovon Cup was otill his, and that the lovelicst of alf womon was atll hia. i 0 was ovorcomo by this cloying flood, nn s Delploss, I0o could ouly sigh e ha or cyes. 7 0 Goorgo, that I sliould ovor havo thought! that you woro doing wrong!” she faltored g “that I nbonld ever havo boon your eritic. Ah, Polly mado ma so sshamed, 65 sorry—ka vory sorry. T was very much orushnd, Goorgo ;. I—L longoed to find you; I hoped'thot you would como g0 that Tilght ny that we miust Lo toench other as we woro bofore. I didu's know how much you wero to mo. I thonght fora littlo whilo™ that wo could separato as slraugers separate; but ah, that dreadful Touolinoys that camo over mo! All was sa black—go wrotched! DBut" (hore sho put a littlo moro silver into her tona), ““Junt nt th worst of it, the sailing-master camo with hi doloful story, Aud—but you know the rest, Goorge. Ah, who could "have been gladdex than I was this morning when wo forged pnst the Petra), (fm;t aftor we ronnded tho red buoy, and atarted down through tho Old Chanuol ! 1 was o littlo ill, I think, ot fvst; tho Captain #md I looked white just whoun she struck the awolls fn the open—nnd—and I guoss beiug sicls made mo a littlo clonror-headod, George. Pora haps wo can yacht for threo monihs and ha groat in tho otber nine, can't wo? Bpeak— can't wo? And you'll forgive my being, for just onco, a littls, s tery littlo, barum-scarum, won'g you Goorgo bloomed. Avpert Wensten, Jr, —_— - . HUMOR. y Tho oystermen’s grecting for the 1st of Bope tember—* Iore wo RI" —Arbuckle gooa to Now York with Gilmore, and thers will bo no more cornet in Boston—ex copt in johnny-cake, nays the Lowell Courier. —Lottor-carricrs tata thut young ladies gene orally writo ** L'rivata” ontho corners of thoix posatal earda, —Firat losson in kissing—Tho gontleman should be a little tho talicst. Iic should have # clean faco, n kind oye, and & mouths full of ox« prosion, {nstead of tabacco. —Interosting Invalid—!Doctor, I want my husband to take mo to Paris. Now, do tcll mo’ what com[;lnlnt[unghl. to have.” [And that's what tho bill vas for.] . —An English jury recontly returned a vordiet of “Not guilty, but we believe Le broke into the houso for all that.” —An unfortunate in Indianapolis who lost soyeral toes by a car-wheel, was consaled by am' Irishman near by with * Whisht, thers, you'ra making more noige than mony 2 mau I've scon with his head off."” —A Danbury boy swanta to know if {t is right for his folks to pay 8500 for o piano for his sis« ter, and mako bhim pick borrica for circus monoy. —An Indiana lad{ of an original turn of mindg bages her nrpum on for a divorco on {ho cire cumstance that her husband's leps are too long for hor to keop step with him when thoy take a walk togethor, —A 8t, Paul woman who used to keep throe girls now doos her own work cheorfully. Sha found her husbaud throwing kissos at them, —A young lady in Gloucostor is charged with keeping & light bitrning in the parlor until very Jatoon Sunday night,” in order to harrow tho sensitivo faolings of 'an onvions ncighbor iuta tho boliof that sho has really got & beau, v —% What,” eaid » toschior to o pupil, ** makos you fecl uncomfortablo after you have dona wrong 2" * My papa's big leathor slrap,” foels ingly replied the boy, —An Englistunan who in visiting in Danbury, 8rys ho haa but n poor idos of 3 country ihat had. to got ita weathor from the Government.. —Cruolty to animals—throwing physio to the dogs. —A bridn] procossion in Milwaukeo was fout hours pausing & given point. The point was n, saloon. —A man in Yates County, N. Y., who has been an invoterato smoker for fifty years, has sud~ denly and pormanently given itup. o knocked the dnsl.\ou oft his pipo into a keg of blasting- powdor. —Tho American peoplo will bo roligved to learn that tho forty-eight hours’ delay in the ‘ublication of the Albin (Ta.) Independent lnst wools was due to tho fact that ho had placed twonty-oight ears of green corn in his stomacls. for bis 10 o'clock Junch. —Tho Boston Transcript wants to know what. mado Lot's wifo go back on thie old man? Waa' sho discontentod with her lot? $ —A fow mornings ago, says & Kontucky rarak paper, wo meckly approached an emigrant wagor aud inquired of,its sustero proprictor, ** Whither bound #* Mo 'lord removed his q’uul to the lnr= board eido of his mouth and coolly romarked 3 843 tIl{oua of your d—d business.” d it wasn'é either. 2 —Recontly, whon a yonng follow in Tllinola asked] tho father of his lovo for permission, ete., cte,,! ho roceived tho following reply: Yos, takot hor, and welcomo, ~Bho's run awsy with o' schoolinaster, cloped with a showman, shot o wild cat, and whipped ber mothor, and thai sooner you take hier tho better." —It is singular what & littlo thing will put n man out. A Jersey City lawyor was making a( high-flown spaech the other day, telling about: angols' toars, whon Ilis Honor said : ‘" Confino! your romarks to tho dug-fight ease.” The lawyert sat down, . —Not long ngo, in the Court of Appeals, @ certain lawyer of Celtio extraction, whilo arguing] with onrnestness hio caso, stated n point and: thon procecdod : *And, if It plazo thio Coort, if* I am wrong in this, T have another point that ig! aqually conclusive,” = —Young Laird (to nowly-appointed foolman) z; “Woll, Donald, how do you like trousers® Donald (horatofors a gillio, who has nevor worn anything but Lilta): ** Aweel, sir, I ind 'om vora' *acomfortable aboot tho sleaves !"—Punch. —A Mormon_farmor succeedod in playing . & thorongh confidence gamo on the potato-bugs,l Ho_ planted a grain of corn in each potato-hill, ! and, a8 the corh eamo up first, tho bugy thought! it was & corn-flold, and started for other scones, —Boston Young Lady i\\'lw takes no intoresk in politics)—Papw, is_Butler going to dio snon 7 Papa—No, my dear, I hopo not, HBoston Young Lady—Well, then, you neodn’t save mo tha papera any more,.—New York Commercial Ad< vertiser. A Bcliool committee in Tilinols brought charges tlie othor day against ono of tho local teachers, the wpecifications of which are ag follows : ‘.1, Immoirality ; 2. Parsholity ; 8. Keoping disordly. Behoal; 4. Carrying unlafle woopings.” ‘Tha man who wrote this charge intondy to koep the ¢ gchoal ** himself next sossion. —A Ban Franciaco milliner has invented s hat' which will probably soll well, in cases whora blushing s not 8o spontancous as it might Lo, or usod to be. When tho wonrer bows or loworg the hiend abiiptly, & tiny pair of steel clamps compress tho artorion on onch side of the tews ples, sending the blood at onco to tha cheeks. * —Tho most n.mmlliu;& case of deafneas that we evor camo acrosy outside of an asylum was thab of an old lady wholivos just mcross tho slrees from the Navy-Yard, 'Ilio other day thoy fired aanlute of twenty-ono guns, Thoold lady wasm observed to atart aud liston ns tho last gnu was firod, and thon shio oxclakmod, ** Como in{” —People who carry §500 Govarnmont notes {o pay stago faves and do their marketing with will' bo glad to rord tho rosult of tho slaborate com-! Pm'mon of the now countsrfeit with the genuine ksue. Doubtloss thero will bo agront ovorbaul- ing of €500 Dills this morning, You can toll a/ nowsboy who lins gob “stuck ™ on one of thero counterfoits by Lig thoughttul oxpression,—New York Tribune. 3 —An old Troy rivor-man nn{u lio Is disgusted tp hour peopls now-a-days talk of low water in (fin 1iudson. 1Mo remnrks iliat ho can romombor woll, years ago, whon tho river was law, e - sevoratos (Lat ono time all tho passongers. of tho Now York bont had to oloso their windows during the entire tiip down bocauso tho steam- or's whools raised such a dust. 2o Iady who tapped Lior husband gently with o fon oL & party, {0 othor night, aud said & " Tove, it's growing late, I think wo had holter vo home,” is the kamo ono who, afler gotting amo, sliook the rolling-pin nndor bis noso sud pald t * You infernal old ecoundrel, you, if you ovor look ab that mesn, lmnl{. ealigo-fucod, mackerol-oyed thing that you looked at to-night I'l bust your houd wide open,”—Zchange.