Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1873, Page 11

’y THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBLR 21, 1873, 11 MLLE, OLYMPE ZABRISKL A Pieco oi_‘ Club-Coesip. T. Cailey Aldiich's Lest Story. Erom the Atlantic for Octehrry Wo 0¥ necunluuied fo wpeak with o certain ight liouy of & o temieney which women Luve to goswip, o if tho sin ifeell, if bl n vy, wete of tho gentlor ges, nud coulil by no chanco Lo o mneculine peceadillo, 8o far ns my observation gocw, nou are a8 much given to: small talk ag women, and it is undeninblo that wo have pro- fQuced the highost typo of gomsipor oxtant. Where will you fud, in or out of Jterature, anothor such droll, dolightful, ohatly Lusybody. re Bamuol Pepys, Eng,, Becrotary to the Ad- miralty in tho roign of thoee fortunato gentlo- mon Charles I and James 1L of England ? o is tho king of taltlors, ny Bhakspearo g the kingof poots. _ S If it camo to A mattor of pure gossip, I would back Qur Club ngainst tho Borosis or any twomon's club in existunce, Wherever you eco in our drawing-room four or five young fellows lounging - in cosy-chairs, elgar in hand, sud now aud then bringing thelr lends fogothor over tho _small round . Japan- os6 tablo which is always tho pivot of theno social circles, you mny bo suto they sra discussing Tom's engagement, or Dick's extrav- aganes, or Havry's hopeless pasaion for the youngor Mies Flonrdelys. It is horo that old Tipploton gots exccrated for that .cvorlasting bon miol of his which was quito a success at din- nor-partics forty yoars ago; it i8 hore'thobello of the Boason pasees under tha -ecalpels: of merei Icea yoiing surgeons ; it is 1 's financial con- dition is handled In b way 4] ould make B'a- hair eland on end; it is lere, in short, that everyihing is canvashed;—ovorything ‘that hap- peiss in'our sot, I menn, much thet nover Lap- sons, nd o great deal {lint could not posaibly: nppon, It was at Our.Ciub that I loarned tho particulars of the Van Twiller.affair, ... .. It was great entortairment- to Our Club, the Van Twiller affair, {hough it was rather a joylors thing; I faney, for Van T'willer. - o underatand tho caro fuily, it should bo "undersiood ‘that Ralph VanTwiller s one of the proudest sndmost seueitive men living, Ho is e lines] deccendant of Wouter Van Twiller, tho famous old Duteh Gov- ernor of Now York.—Nieuw Amsterdam, s it was then ; Lis ancestors have alwaya beon Bur- gomasters or_ Admirals of Gonerals, and his tnothor is the Mia. Vanrenseolaer Vanzandt Van Twillor whoss magnificont place will be pointed out to you on the right bank of the Hudson,, as ot paks up tho hintorio river towards Idlowild. talph is about 26 yoars old. Birth mado him a entleman, and tho riee of ronl cslate—some of t in the family sinco the old Governor's {ime— made him millionaire. It was alindly fairy that stepped i and mado him & good follow Blgo. Fortune, I take it, was in her most jocund mood when sho heaped her gifts in this fashion on Van Twiller, who was, and will be ngain, \vbnl:l this cloud blows over, the flowor of Our Club. About a year ago thera came a whispor—if the word ¢ whieper " Is not too haral & teym to sp- 1y to what geemicd a mere broath floating gently fin-uugh the atmosphiore of the billiard-room— imparting tho intolligonoe that Van Twiller was in some Kind of trouble. Just saeverybody sud- deuly takos to wonring £quoro-toed Loots, or_to drawing his necksearf through & ring, 8o it be- camo &1l at onco tho fashion, without any pros concerted agreemont, for everybody to spenk of Van Twillor a8 & man in some way under & cloud, But what the cloud wae, aud hiow ho got undorit, nud why bo did not got away from it, were points that lified themeelves into the renlm of pure conjecture. Thero was no man in tho Club with slrong epough wing to his imagination to soarto the eupposition that Van Tywiller wasembnrrassed in moucy matters. WaslLoin lovo? That ap- cared nenrly as impotsiblo ; for if he had boca B Tove afl tles Worldeothnt i, perbaps & bundred first gnmflinn—wonm liove known all about it in- stantly. "V H 1ias the symptors,” anid Delaney, langhs Ing: “Iremembor oncewhon Jack Flemming—" %XNed! " eried Flemming, * 1 protest against any allusion to {hat businees.” Y 1ha 5aa ‘ouo night. when Van Tiillor hed waudored into the Olub, turned over tho magn- cinew absontly i {ho Teacing-rogm, And.wan- dered out again without speaking ten worda. The most carelers eya would liavo rematkod tho crent chango that had_como'over Van Twiller, Fow st 1501 ho would iy v gomo of biliards with Bret Harto or Jobn y, or stop to cliat a moment in tho vestibulo with Whiteluw Roid ; but he wan an altercd man, When at tho club, ho was usuully {0 be found - in tho small smok- ing-room_up-stnire, sented onn fauteuil fast atleep, with tho Inet number of the Nalion in his bund, Oneo if youwent to two or threo lnces of An evening, jou yaro cortain to_meot ‘an Twiller ot thew nil. You seldom met him in society now. By end Ly camo whikper number iwoj-a whis- yer moro crpkatic thati number ouo,' bub still Tntracestles to’ any lungille mulh-picce, This tite the whispor suid Vun Twiller was in lovo, Tut with whem ? Tho liet of possible Mra. Ven T willors was carefully examined by experionced naw, nnd o chicek placed agninst o-flio old Knickerbocker here nnd theye, but nothing satis- fuctory wived af. Then that eame sbill emall voice of rumor, but now with an easily doteoted stnccuto ehmpners toit, eaid that Von Twiller was in Jove—with an actregal. Van Twiller, whom it Led talien all thego years ‘and all this warto of raw maccial in the way of ancestors to brivg to perfeetion, Ralph Van Twiller, tho net result und fower of Lis fuce, tho descendant of Wunter, the #un of Mis, Vourenstelnor Vao- andt Van Twill in Jove with an sctrosal That was 100 ridiculous to bo belioved,—and g0 everybody believed it. 8ix or toven memhers of the club abruptly . digcovered in (hemselves an unsuspocted Intont puseion for the bistrionis avt. In kqunds of two or throo they stormed successively all’ tho thentrea _in - town. Bootl's, - Wallack's Duly's Tiith Avenuo (not burnt down ther), and tho Grand Opera-Hougo, Even the sliabby homes of the druma over in {he Howery, whore tho Geymanio Ihespius has not tahen oul hie noturalization papers, underwent rigid ex- losation, DLut no clue was found to Van Twil o1's mystoricus attachment. The opera Loufe, syhich promised tho widest f0ld for investiga~ tion, produced abeolutcly nothiug, not even' & crop of suspicions, One night, after several woela of this, Delaniey and I {ancied wo caught 2 glimpso of Van Wyiller in tho privato-box of an up-town theatro, where gomo thrilling “tra~ pezo perlormunco vas going on, which wo did not cnro to eit through; but we coucluded | nitorwards it was -ouly somebady that looked Jike' him, Delaney, by the wey, was upususlly active in this scarch, " Xdare an{})n never quito forgave Van Twiller for calling bim Muslin Do- lmmyt. Ned is fond of Indies' sovioty, aud that's & fact, The Cimmerinn durkuoss which surrounded Van Twiller's juamorats lefs us free to Indulge in tho wildest conjectures, Whether eho way Dlnck-tresned Melpomenc, with bowl and dagger, or Thalin, with the fair huir and leughing faco, wae only to be guessed at. Itwas popularly conceded, Lowever, that Van Twilier was on the point of forming a dreadful mesglliance, Up to this period Lo hind visited (ho Olub regu- Iarly, Buddeuly ho ccased to appear. Ho was ot to be teen ou Brandway, or iu the Central Tark, or nt tho houses ho generally fraquontod. His chambers—and mighty comfortable oucs thoy were—on Thirty-fourth streot were desert- ed.” Ho had dropped out of the world, shot like o bright particular star from his orbit in the lieaven of thu hest sacioty, “ Where's Vau Twiller &7 #Who's seen Van Twillor 2" ¢“What has becomo of Van Twillor " Delanay picked up tio Eecufug Los, andread, —with & so‘cmuily iat betimyod young Firking Tnto exclalming, ** By Jove aow [" “Narried, on tho 10th stant, by tho Rev. Frisr Laurcnce, at the resldence of il bride's imelo, Montuguo Capwlot, Esq., Miss Adrienue T.o Couvreur to Mr, Ralph Van Tyillor, both of this clty, No cardn,” ¢ It striken me," gaid Frank Livingstons, who had been rufiling tho losves of a mugazino at tho other ond of the table, ** that you fellows are in & groat fovor about Yan Tywiller,” 5o wo 3 +¢ Well, ho hias simply gone out of town."” “ Where " Up to (ho old homestend on tho Tudson,” # It an add time of yoar for s follow fo go Iuto tho country.” ‘1o has goio to visit his mother,” pald Liv- {ngatone. * In Febrnary i # 1 didu't know, Dolancy, thero was any statute in foreo p-ulnlnlix,g u man from visiting Lis mother in Fobruuty 1f ho wants to,” Delaney wado somo light remark about the leasuro of ccinmuning with Natuie with a cold T tios hiead, sud tho topss vias Groped, ‘Livingatono washand in glove with Van Twiller, gud it any man shured hia confidenco it was Live Tugntonn.” 116 wuk awire of the gostip and pcen- Jation thut kad beon sifo du (ko Giuv, pur-he cither wae not at lborly, or dld not {bink it worth while, to relinve” our cuvriosity. In tho comeo of n week or two it wan reporied that Van Iwillor wan going to Europe ; and go hodid, A dozen of us went'down lo the ficotin Lo “e0n Itm oft. I wag refrerhing toFaveecmething on poritiva na the faet that Ven Twliler hud railed, Bhiortly sfier - Van Twillea’s depatiure, iho vhele (lig como cuts Videlher Livitprlene fuund 0 e reered (oo Leavy s Lncen, oF W ol-er R ETR hore ndh eietten on e VeLranrginer ined 1 ]ml of e, Yirzmat Vin Syilen, Iemnat aeyg lut ce esvereg (he Citite e var it e 4 oo of e Gk, Vin, Pwiller Lo acivadly Lo vay deeply in- tereeled, —1.0t ju an actrc ctama wus 1ot Ler hundlc walk in 1ife, bul Mu rpa Zabrieki, whoro renlly Rm cue fealn on tho fispeza had mutenished Now Yotk the year hefore, fhougl they had foiled to itract Dolaney and o tho. night wa wandored Into tho \lll-m\\'n thoatro on £lio trail of Van Twilior's myslery. & Uhat 8 man like "Van" Twiller should be fasai- nated- for on instant by a conunon civeus- il geems incrediblo; but it is niways: tho norediblo _ thing -that bappens, Desiden, Mademoiselle Olympo was nol & ccmmon efrcus- girl; #ho wns n most daring and starthing gym: 'nnato, with s benuty and a graco of movement thint gave to Ler mudscious performance almost an.air of prudery, , Watehing hor woudrous dox- tority and plinnt Btrength, both oxercieed witlout nppatont effort, it -zeemed the most natural pro- ceeding m_the world that ehe should do those unpardonabla things. She hind o woy of molling Irom_ono gracoful posturo into another, like the dikgolving figures thown from n stercopticon, Fbo -wae.Jika o lile, radiant shapo out of tho Groctan mythologs, now poired up thero tbove {6 gon-lighis, nid now gleamitg thiough the air liko n tlendergilt nrow. L um deecribing Mademoigelle Olympo as &ho appearcd to Van Twillor on the. fivst ocension when he sirollcd’into the theatre whero sl:e was performing. Tomothowasa girl of 18 or 20 years of nge (moy be ehe was much oldor, for Pearl-powdor.and - distance keep theso peaplo *Eu petunlly young), slightly but oxquisitely “built, with stieva of silver wiroy rathor profty, perhiaps, aftor o manuer, but showing. plainly the effccts of the oxbaustive drafts eho woa moking on her physical vitality. Now, Van Fwiller was an antbusiaat on tho gubjot of enl- inthonics, “IfIlind a daughter,” Van Twillor usod to suy, I wouldw't eond her.to o boord- ing schoofl, or & nunnery: I'd send her to o gympssinm for the flsst five years, Our American women have no phyeique, ~Thoy ore lilies, pallid, protty,~end periskablo, You marry an Amorican woman, and what do Yot mnrry? A benducke. Look at English givls, Thoy dre nt lenst rokcs, aud . last tho osson through.” Walking homo from tho thoatro that firat night it flitted through Van Twiller's miud that if ho conld give thin gir's pot of norves and muscles to any one of the two hundred high-bred women ho know, he would marry her on the ‘apot and worsbip her forever, Tho following evening ho soo Nademoisolle Olympe. again, * Olympe Zubiigkl," ho thought, a8 Lo saun- tored through tho lobby, **what s queer mamol Olywpo .is French, and Zabrieki is Polish, 1t is hor nom do gnorre, of coursd; Bor.real namo_ is probably Sarah Junos. What ind of crenturo can eho bo in private .Jifo, I wonder? I wonder if sho woars that costumo all the time, and if sho springs to her meals {rom a horizontal bar, Of courto she rocks the ‘baby to slocp on the trapeze,” And Van Twiller went on muaking comical domestic tableaux of Mademoisello Zabriski, liko the clover, satirical {og hio was, until the curtain roro. ’fihln was on Fridey. Thore was & matineo tho next dny, and Lo attended that, houph Lo Lad sccured s seat for iho weual evening entortainment. Then it be- camo a hablt of Van Twiller's to drop into’ the theatra for half an bour or 8o every night, to as- sist at the interlude, in which ehe appesred, Ho cared only for her part of the programme, and timed his® visits accordingly. It Wes & surprise to himsclf when lio reflectod, 0no moining, that he bad not missed a single performance of Mad- emoieelle Olt’mpe for two woeks, “Thig will never do,” said Van Tiwiller. «Qlympo”—he called hor Olympo, e if Fho wore an old acqualutance, and ag sbo might Lave heen considerod by that time—*is a wondorf crenturo; but this will nover do, Van, my bog, you must reform this altogether.” ! But batf past 9 that night eaw ‘him in his nc~ customed orchostra obair, and so on for another neok. A habitleads smon so gently in (ko begiuning that s docs not perceiva bo 18 led,— with what silken tr reads and down what plensant ovenues it leads him! By and by the soft sillc {hirends becomo iron chains, and tho plensant avenues, Avornus ! Quito 8_new element bad Iately entered into Van Twiller's enjoyment of Mademoiccllo Olympu's -ingenlous feats,—a vaguoly boin ap- srelicusion that eho might elip {rom that awing. L:F Dar, that ono of the thin cords supporting it might eomp, and let ber go headlong from the ~dizzy heipht. ~Now and thon, -for a terrible instant, he would imagine her ly- ing a glittoring, pulpitating boap nv the foot- lights, with no color in her lips | Sometimes it secmed as if tha girl wero tompting thin kind of fate. It was a bord, Litter life, and nothing buté yoverty and sordid mitery at Liomo could Liavo driven her to it. What if rho ebould end it all £oma night; unclarping (Lat littlo band 2 ItJooked so smwall and while fiom whero Yan Tniller ent 1 : Lhis frightfnl ides fascinnted whilo it chilled i, ond holped to mako it nearly unpossible for him to kecp awny from tho theatre, In tho Deginning Bis atterdanco had not inteifered with bis rocial dutics or l‘lcnbnren: but now he camo to find it digtastoful after dinner to do anything Lut reud, or wallk {he streets aimlorsly, until it wes {imo to go to the play. When that wns over, ho was in Do 1meod to go anywhore but to his ooms, Bo hio dropped away by juscnsiblo depices from his Labitual boupts, wes' miesed, and begsn to bo talked about at the Club. Catch~ ing somo intimation of this, ke ventured no more in the orchestra stalls, but shrouded him- eclf behind the draperics of the private box in which Delaney and I thought we saw him on ono for (ko logiiininto went to occasion, Now, I find it very porplexing to explain what - Van Twiller was wholly una- blo: fo explin himeclf. Ho_ wua not in love with Mademoiuello Olympe. o had 1o wieh to speak to her, or to hear her speak. Nothiog could Luve becn easier, and nothing Turthior from his aeeire, than to_know her per- ponally, A Van Twiller personally scquainted with n_strolling femalo acrobat!’ Good heny- cusl Thet wes something possiblo only with the discovery of perpotual motion, ‘laken from her theatriesl gotting, from her lofiy perch, so {0 eay, on the trapeze-bar, aud Qlymape Zabriski would_bave shocked overy aristocratic ibro in Yoo Tuiller's body. Iie sias simply tascinntod by Lor marvelous grace and olan, and the maguotio reckleespess of the girl. It was ~yery young in him and very wenk, and no member of the Boroals, or all the Borosisters togother, could have been moro severo on Van Twiller than he was_on himsolf. To be weak and to know it, is something of & punishment for a proud man, Van Twiller took his punigh- meont, and wout to the theatro, regularly. When the engagement comea to an end,” ho. mediteted, ** that will fiuieh the business.” Jademomello Olympe's ougagement finally did como 10 n end, and sho dopartod. But her en- gopement_bad' beon highly benoficinl to the fronsury-ckiest of tho up-town theatre, and beforo Yau Trwiller could get ovor missing lior, #ho had roturned from o short Westorn' tour, sud her immediato renppoarance was undezline on the play-bills, - On a dead-wall opposito the windowa of Van Tller's sloepg-room thoro appaaied, as if by magle, an aggrossive postor with MADEMOISELLE OLyyre Zanusnzon it In lottors atleast a foob bigh. ‘This thing stared him in the face when Lo woke up, ono morning. It gave him & sensn- tion as If she had called on him overnight, and lott her cards £ From timo to time through tho fln{]lm regard- ed'that postor with o eardonio oys, o had piti Joesly rosolved not to . repest tho folly of the previovs month. To éay that this mortal vie- tory cost him' nothing " would bo to deprive 1t 6f merit, It cost him {unternal slmfisleu. It iu a fino thing to seo & wan soizing his tomp- tation by tho throat, and wrostlng with it, ava trsmpling it undor £dot, o Bt. Antiony. lia was the spectacle Yau Twiller was extibiting to tho augels, The evoning Mademolsolle Olympe was to malie_ her_renppearance, Van Twiller, having dined st the ¢lub and feelivg moro like himeell than ho hrd felt for wocks, returnod tohis chamber, and putting on dreseing-gown and slippors, pilod wp the groater portion of bis li- Dbrary abiout him, and foll to reading ssiduously, Tharo s nollibg ko quiet gvehing st liotio with semo slight intellectial dccupation, atler one's festhors have Loen atroked the wrong way. When the lively French clogk on {he mantel- piece, buse of malachite simmounted by a lying bronzo Mercusy with itw arms_spread gracefully on_the air, and not remotoly sug- gestive of Mademoiselle Olympe in the act of oxceuting her grand flight from the (rspeze,— when the clock, I repeat, utrick nine, Ven Tyiller 1 ald no altention to 'It. That was cor- tainly atrivmph, I em onxfous to render Van Twiller all “the justice I can, at thin point of the narrative, Inapmnch’ as_when tha Lalf-lour” sounded = musicully, like & cyslal Lall dropping into e siiver bowl, ~her ealn York .an ‘appalling Whisper floated up tho ho ross frem (ho chair nutnmnucnll{, thrust his fect into his walking-ghocs, throw his ovorcoat across bis arm, and strode out of the room. To te weak and to mcorn your weaknens, and not ta be ablo (o conguor it in, ou lina beert wid, & hotd (hing; ond T euepect it wes ot with unelloyed tativfretion that Van "Pwiller i i o i vene [ the ek part pte bex Ll titer Light anry cent or Mt eile O net (o oy avnel Qeditien of Van T a0 o ST} 1R Liteo-o we anvotenlan L fore, 1 thouglt of Ohvinye quide o 1tember Letween bieakfist avd dumer, Tig - culy nttonded {ho intcalndo Yegulnly, bnt ho Legun, in_enita o2 himeolf, {0 occupy b Icleure Tionts’ of night by dreaming of hior. “Fhin wn oo minol of a good thing, wid Ven Tviller xo- ot garded iteo. DNewidos,. tho dream was always tho same,—n hariowing dieam, o dream singt- Iarly adapled fo sbnitoring the horves of a nian like Van Twiller. 1o would imagine himsell neatod ot the theatre (with all the membors of Our Club In tho parquatto), yintcliny; Nadomol. sollo Olympe a8 usnal, “wlien suddonly tunt young lady wonld launch herself desperately Teom (he (rapozo, and come flying through tho air liko o fivebrand buled” st his private hox, Then {Lo unforlunate man would wake up with cold drops stending on his forehend. There is ono redeeniing toatura in this infafu ation of Van 'I' r's which tho sober moralist will Tovo to look upoi,—tho sereno unconscious~ nees of (ho peron who caneod t, Bho went ihrough her.rolo with admirablo aplomb, drew it may bo aesumed, punctually, ona ‘omt first to Tasl ta btve been Imnorant re wos s mirernblo slave wearing lor «chaing nightly in the lefi-hand prokecnlumi-box, That Voo . Twillor, baunting the thentre with tho . persistoncy .of &n ex-nctor, conducted himeclf © po diserestly oo not to draw tho fira of Mademolselle Olympe’a_blua eyes, ebows {hat Van “Twiller, howover deoply undut o kpell, wus ot in _love, T say thin, thotigh I think if Van 'Twillor had not Leen Van Twiller, if he hnd been o man of no family and no potition aud no money, it New imd heen Paris, and Thirty-fom{h atreet in tho Latin Quarter—Dbut it io useless {o speculate oh what might have happened. What did hap- pen jgsufiicient, I lm&?mned‘ then, in tho rccond weck of Queon Olymypo’s recond uncontcious rnignhfllat ud- son, effccted n landing at & poiut bo- twdon * Spuyten Duyvel Crook ®nd Cold Spring, and. sought oul & slalply mansion of Dutch architecturo standing on the bank of tho river. The Whispor n(mlfihl\my informed tho Indy dwelling.in ihis mansion that .ull was not waoll with tho last of tho Van Twillers, that ho wog [:mdunllinalrmgin himsclf from his poors, aud wasting his nighits in o play-houto watching o mifsguided young woman turbing’ nnmnidenly esummereaults on & pioco of wood attached to two ropes. % Mra, Vanrensrolar Vanzandt Von Twiller camo dosn to town by tho next train to look into this 1ittlo maiter, " - 4 : Sho found the flower of the family taking an early breakfast, at 11 a.m., in his cosy apart- menta on Thirty-fourth streeb. With tho least: possiblo circumloculion. flic confronted him'with what rumor had roported- of his pursuits, and waa pleased, but not tao much pleared, when lie avo ber an exact’ nccount of his rolations with (ndemoirello Zabriski, neither concealug nor qualifying snything. As a confossion, it wan uniquo, snd might iave Leon a grent déal less entortaining, Two or threo times, in tho courso of the narrative, the matron had some difficully in preeorving the gravity of her countenmnce. After meditating a fow minutcs, sho {apped Van Twiller goftly on tho mm with the tip of her parasol, and” invited him to return with her the noxt day up the Hudeon and malko a brief visit at the home of his nncestors.. Hs accopted the invitation with ontward alasurily and inward ro- luctance, When this was gettled; and the worthy lady hiad withdrawn, Van Twiller went dlmcl]x o tho establishment of Mosere, all, Black & Co., aud polocted, with unerring tasto, {he fincet diamond bracplet' procurablo. For_ Lis taother? Dear me, no ! Sho had thoe family jowels, -- Twould not lilie to state iho enoymous sum ‘Van Twiller paid for thiy bracelot. It was puch aclasp of diamonds as wonld bayo hastencd tho. pultation of n pafrician wrist, It was ¢uch o bracelet as Princo Cawmalzaman might have sent to the PTrincexs Dadours, and the Princess Badours might have been vory glad to ot Tn the fragrant Lovant morocco cneo, whore these bappy jeweis Hved when they wore at Tome, Van Twiller thought ully placed his card, o tho back of which hia” bad written o lin beg- ging Mademolselle Zubritki to accept tho acconi- Tavying trifte from ono who had witnessod her groceful perfoumances with intorest and pleasure, 'his was not done inconsider- atoly, *Of conree T must incloce oy card, ns 1 would to any Indy,” Van Twiller hnd enid to Dimeell; “a Voan Twiller. can neitber writo an ationymou lotier por miko an AuORYMOUS proa- got Blood eutnils ite duties s well as its priv- egen, Fho calot aiepatelied to Tta destination, Van Tuillor felt carior in his mmd.e 1o was under cbligations {o tho gil for many au agreoablo Lour {Lat might otherwise kavo parsed heavily. Tlo bad paid tho deht, und he hnd paid it en gvince, in beeame n Van Lwiller, 1o spent the Test of tho duy in looking at omo pietures at Goupil's, and ut tho Ciub, and in .making n fow puichnges for his trip up the Iudeon, - A con- feloueness (Lt Lis trip up the Hudron wax o disorderly rofreat came over him unplensantly at intervals, When he roturied to his rooms Jate ut night, ho found & noto lying on the writing- table, Mo started a8 bin oye caurht tho words — Theatro " stomred in camine lottors on ovo corner of tho envelope. Yan Twiler broko tho seal with trembling fingers, Now, thia note pome timo aftorward fell into tho hands of Livingstone, who rhowed it o Stugvesant, who showed it to_Dolanoy, Who showed it to mo,.and I copied it es a litorary curigsity. The note ran o8 followa : Mr, Van Twisixr—Desr Sir: { om verry greatfull to for that Bracelett, it eemo Just iu the nic of time for me, Tho Mademofeclie Zubiiekl dodg is wbout pintd out. My teurd is getting to much for me, 1 shiull bave 1o grow a mustach tud take to some other Une of Lusypces, { dent mow what mow, but will Jot you .mo, You -wout feel bed §f i rell that Draceleit, { have scen Abrabams Moes and he IllElexo will -do {lie equare thing. Pleas accep my thanka for youre Beautifull and Unexpocted present, Your respecifull Bervent, & CuAnLEs MONINORENCT WALTERS. Tho noxt day Ven Twiller neither expreesed por folt any unwillingness to spend a fow weokn with hls mother at, the old howentesd, And then ho went abroud.—7. B. Aldrich. A SONG OF AGE.. Summer fa gono, and Antumn Ta red ou tho corn and hicavy Yot skica aro eweet and clear As fu the sontbful year, Tho Forests full and Yenfy, But in tho Northern clond Eita Winter datk und rude, And Bummer’s golden glory Who will remember . u tho loug, long, diemal hours, 1a tho days of December? . The morning hopes of chilihiood, The vislons pure and tender, "To thio Lroader duy of youtl, To {he keen high light of truth And reason wo surrender: Dut as we tosich the goal Black Winter numbs ihe soul, ‘Aud manhoods glesm of glory Who will pemember In the long, long, dimul hours In tho deys of Dovembor? Ah1 wiero such lifo Iifo only, Tetter not bo than be thus 1 a sce through (his brief day Moye full frem hopo IV\'I{ ad Ang to blank Nothing leave us, 0 #till vur ysgue unrest, . God's voleo whthin tho bresst] TFor jn God' eternsl Bummer ‘Who will remamber. “Bhio loug, Toug, dlymal bours Aud tfia duys of Deceruber? —F, T, Palgrive, i Shoving o Camely A travoler from Pekin to Siverls, aeross tho groat_deeort of Gobl, tolls s that, whoucver o camel's feot havo becomo very tendor aud sore 1rom long marclics, tho poor creaturo lica down, Hiy driver knows at onco that his feot hnrt him, nnd Joolss to fiud out if tho thick ekiu of tho feot ia blistored, Whenever o blister is found, two or ihrea strong men, wateh of tho eanrol nntil it is not naticiig théw. AL just the right moment_they muko p rush im togathior upon tho cajuel, throy it ovor upon the elde, andnialio iy fast, Then, with a peedlonudo for that use, they new # gquaro pleco of loathor large cupugl to cover the hurt place over (he en- ol's fool, tho ekin of which is quite thick enough to o hrough, withont hurling tho. aiingl. With bis now shoos on, the_eamel is quite ready to got up und march on. 'Tho plecos cf leathor atovory carcfully propared for this ure, It somotiimes Lappens et a camolligs fown fu the midwt of Lik long marcly aerpes the wido doscrt, snd dioy, The uatives tuke tho thickest part of Lis gkin to meko thoes of. Theeo bits of skin thoy tako qul, day uiler duy, when'on tho march, aud pul), until tlioy become so soft angd yielduig that & cone] with Dlistored feot socup grateful 10 bave ehoes mids of 1t, although bo woyld ro- rirt the ehooipg te the last, were Lie not held so tLut Lo could not wuve,—Lural New-Yorker, usauily Mopgols, keep | THE LOSER WINS! From Allthe Year Round. On & bright spring morning, o fow yoars agn, my rogiment marched out of Colchestor on ronto for Italaud, whera wo had been ordored, to the wnupeakinblo dingust of {he youoestors, who g on duty (b Sicler” Lle as forelgn worvieo, Mo raduess Wil whieh wo ma:ehed ant of e pleaswnt quiilers way deepened o rofernd welsaelioly by many dupy’ wacki i from Duidin to our new winton, and wo touk wvor our Lurtacks with hcavy hoartn, . Howcvyoer, after six mouths' texidenco our feel- ings hind undergono considorallo chauge; half ho regiment wod ot out-statious within casy dis- tauco of headquarters, whoro our band played twlce o woels, bringing togather to otoquet fights and afternoon ten the swrouuding familics, who returnoed our-small attontions with bound- less hospitnlity, * 8ix monllie’ ‘dnuér pariics, craquot partios, riding partics, mnd plenlcs, had done thelr work but too effectunily, for the mess canunltion .showed two Coptaing warried and +threo subsltorns ougaged. The Captain of my troop, Frank Fgremont, waa an ensy-goiug follow as any In HorMajesty's servico ; so; freod from tho constraints of hoad- quarters, our duties were confined to moming rnrada, Yo left etablo duty to tho specinl su- pervikion of Irovidence nnd the Sorgennt-Ma~ jor, and b 1 p. m., whon tho unforinuates at headquartern woro confined to tho stables, lenru~ ing to linte everything in (ke slape of o trooger, wo were genotally to be found driving through ;tho village to somo sceno of foutivity. Our stution, Dallywillinm, was &. curiously, dirty village, in undulating grass country, stud- ded with comfortabla farni-bouses, and some large domnins and_ residonces. Tho courtry way woll woodedj tho fields of that emorald green, Bo eeldom kcen out of muist Tielnnd, whoro Naturo paints hor most beautiful land- seagen in water colors, and tho eky-lino broken by n serrated mountsin 1owge that supplicd o Dbackground leaying notbiug to ba desired. A bird's-gye view of the country showod Bally-. willinm et in tho midst, like a refuke heap Fu u gardon, A salmon river fowed by tho barracks, and, in winter, hounds mef four days o weelk within easy distance. Tho peoplo of the noigh- Lorhood were hospilable ; fishing and shooting without end wero freely given us ; 8o Egromont and I were fain to confess that our good fortuno Lind drifted us into a capital station. * Where nway to-duy, Jack #" nsked Egremont ONo MOrNing, as w0 sut vmokimg after purade in {heo room that did duty £s & mess-room. . T (Linis I sholl fish tho Grangemoro wators,” I roplied. 3 A shadoyw passed over Egremont’s opon face as Tpoko; bo mado_no further tomark, but fme Imoiwed himaclf in tho Fiold. 7 The Moredyths of Grapgomore weore our staunchest allies. A weclk aftor our arrival #Mr. Meredyth had called upen us; in o montb friondship Lad sprung up, and ere tho summor Lad well come o nlliauce offonsive and dofensive was completed botween tho barracks and Granga- more. Need Iwuny tho altraction that drow us there almost daily was not Mr. Neredyth, with his gonial bonkommio, nor yot Mrs. Morodyth, who 88 tho orgauizar of overy social smusp- mont won all hearts ? Liouse—ono homo from Indis, the otber dovoti: g Lis talents to tho destruction of the varions aui- 1mals, birds, and fishes, thekilling of which comes undor the head of *sport.” No, I may ns woll confoss at once—thers was s daughbtor,’snd such & daughtor! Of Adela Meredyth I tball not give an analytical description ; she was dark, nnd, ns even the ladiew sillowed, vory beautiful, with a namelcss graco in every movement of her beantiful figure ; & Lieavon of lustre in ber dork eyes, and charming in- gouciance that maley an Iriy) 80 fatal to the unwary, csmeh.lly to an Englishman, accustom- ed to the o more siid_ colduess of our English _ Indies. or Mujesty's Twonty-ninth Huesars - went down bo- foro hier charme withont tho shindow of roiit- auce. Ere thaSeptembor gold bad clothed the corn-flelds, I was hopolesely in love, and ag Tiopelessly despaising, for Tsaw ihat Egremont hnfiuhu struck bis flag to the Glangemoze queen. A uuivorsal favorite, rich, haudsone, and giftod, hho wos everything o woman could desire. Ldared not hope, with him for a rival. and_eaw, with all the puin that jeslous pangs could inflicr, that while 0. ten eilont ond conetruined with me, with Lim Adols Moredyth was always gay snd charm- ivg, §iatt an bour attor my aunonncement to Egro- soont found mo walking slong (ko viver bank toward Grangemore, ostensilly to fish, but in reulity to enjoy, motl-like, tho light 'of hor presence. A I wallied along, ipr 1ho twentisth o 1 dotounined to *'do or dio,” and to learn my fute if opporlunity offered. Iire- wintibly passionato appeals shaped them. selves’ in my brain; my spirit Iud already flown forvmd 'to Giangemoio, nsked tho eventful quertion, been sceepled, and my poor desertod body was uncunsciously doing its four miles an hour slong tho woll-kuown path, Fabing in spirit Eeon marvied for yenrs, und gons the round of slmort overy earthly amusement, L wax, I think, 1n tae aet of aceept g » Lrilliuht cffor for my daughicr, when my cartle in tho air was shaitercd. “ Hallo, Jack, whors 8ve you going ? " *¢ GGood morning, 3r. Braudon,” ie:o_ Loy “saf, Tom Moredyth and Adela heyself, lazily basking on the cool river buul, whore 1 foied tuen, 2% #Well, Jack, 8o L Liear you ara going to ride TFrencl's Clanticleer at tho Crossbuue rucen next Monday 27 Yo, I hope to." #I¢s's nasty conrre; have you reen it7 " *No. I am ansid a close inspection might dovelop my bump of caution too mueh. I shall watk over it before the raco, on Monday.” “You will require to siendy Chunticleer at his fonces. Yon remembor, Adels, what an awful cropper he gave French {n the run from hero last winter; hio loges his head when othor horses ave galloping beuide him," 1 hear Capt. Egromont is going to ride also,” eaid Adela, T'ho first romerk she hod medo since I joined them! Jealonsy and I lind a sharp dialogue over the fact of hor thinking of Egromont, and the conclusion was not a pleasant one. i Yeu,” anuwered 'om, * and, I think, to win, T know, nfifll!!l% in the raco {o beat Warhawlk ab tho weight, if he ntands up, of which there is but litile doubt, for ho isn perfect fencer. Come, Adels,” ho added, “let’s linvo a Lot about the two horsos; you shall have your choice, for balf dozen palr of gloves." *Which sball I take, Mr, Brandan 2" “ Whichover you prefer,” 1 answered, with what I meant for a killing look of eutreaty to show somo prefercnce for my mount., ~ . “Thon 1 thinl Iehall take Warhawk," sho snid, with an airof unconscious innocence, mosk aggravating to a man iu my state of mind, %1% no use sponding tho day hore,” said Tom, a8 he jnmped up, ‘I mean to seduco tho wily trout from his sbudy rotreat.,” And hae left . At lost wo wore alono, the' long-wishod- for, “opporlunity bad mrived, snd I deter- mined to soizo it this timo. Lut the question *| was how to commence ?. S8hould I plunge into tho businees, inmoding res, aud sey at_once, “Miegy llerm\yth!lavn youl" or ought I lea the convorsation delicatély tothe sibjoot, and when I had prepared hor miud for the roception of tne intelligenco, declare that, without ler, life would be insupportablo? Tho first plan would be too abrupt, and, s for the second, all capability of framing . thought in Isngusge suddonly lott mo; my brain’ refused fo’ act; 1 wos dimly cougeious of an ovorwhelming desire to say nmuethlu;fi but tho immensity of my desire refusad to bo trammelod i the nerrow bounds of langnage, I could only feol liko & ploading crirvinnl, aud look like a faol. Bho "was simply irresintiblo as she at, pleking » honesauckle {o piccos n tho bright tunlight, ond presented 08 beeutiful o pictire as over crowned tho combined oftortn a;‘ naturo and ait, Armed with the prettiest and most becoming summer dress, the tinicst and sauclosy littlo boots, & soft whita silk kerchiof tied loosely and carolssly round hor beautiful neok, gud & hut, for the fabrication of whioh, as a dungorpus man-trap, the oreating millipor deserved incarcoration tor lifo} hor chicols buffuged Ly a coft blugh; ‘ber lips wlightly ptiod, and her ‘sof, dark, downenst oyos,” eho was clisrming, Al lnst T qndo ‘an offort, and succcoded in breaking tho silenco. “'What n lovely day 1t Is," T enunot suy thed my observation wys brilllant, but 1t wan something to' hnye spoken, even thonghmy voleo souydad 1ik & crouk, for, by oo wystorioys proceus, my heart had jumped into oy throwt,” whero It stuck orosswiso, . aul llfi:y tongue had Locomo too largo for my mouth, 3 ©Ycog, boutiful, but rather byight tor fishing, i 1t not 2" X ) 5 ST agsuve you I intinitely profor basking to flu)nnfi.“ L hnt Ie & want of devotion to spoxt against swhich you rhould wirnggle. Pom scknowleilges thiat flic Le: atting &in of tho army i luziuens,” 1o you dis likio tho army *" Y N—n6, not at all. Yot T sm wut sure that if . ploxion, Capt. Tgremont 7 nid Nor yet the sons of the |, 1oveled in aluug life of romuntic bliss, whila: T \’vlu{‘«'sln r;,n I wonld adopt it for a profession.” z hy 7" e ) nana to mo, parden me, a rather profit- Jeen oxinteuco, 'Coufess you feel, sometimes, o littlo ltke a drone ?" I dctormined to nend In my papors at onco. Now for the plun}:n. e #No, I do hot feal the least like ono. Ile- levo n'dvone Ia, I (ho teain, o haopy follow § he entw, drinks, and b3 merry, whilo I ain thorough- Iy W By py, : * Ouo luwl, nnd T felt £he had rend my rory ; e who weciod Lo piis ik fhow o, iud elauged, th Fibject. ' “Don't mind whnt Tom enid abont Chon'i- cleor, Mr, Froneh would not have ngked you Lo yido bim If ho wero ot eafo, and I havo seen hita go adtieably.” #Dae Mier " wor courge,” elio _ocontinned lurriedly, * you and Capt. Tigromoint, will coma to (ho snces iith u." * 1 wis not alluding Lo the races,” said I, de- ternined to have my say ot Jnat, I wan—-"" + Beo, T'om lins hoon successful ; ho hoan flsh !Imunt go oud Innd it," sho exclnimed, sturt- ng up. i g\b I‘Lnb momont a boat shiot round tho bend, propelled by Egremont, who uoulled like o ‘waterman. o stoppoed when ho #nw us. “ Aro you not afraid - of spoiling . ’ieur com- doln. +i Not at all,” e roplied ; its n Iovul{ dny on the river ; do come for a short pull. Seo, I Tinvo room foryou In tho storn, nud you cen ack, hold that etorn stoady whilo Misa Merodyth slops on it,” At ho spoke, ho backed thn hoat to the bank, and oro 1 well Tnew what bad bappened, shie was mthing In tho sters ; ho putlinguway with a fush of trinmphant dolight ou his face. “Weo won't -ho- long, Mr. Brandon ; have & trout when wo return,” sho laugbed, as the boat #wopt awsy down stream. Istood furn short timo, Lotn by furious jenloury. Then decliving Tom’s invitation Lo romam for luncheon, I utnrt- ed hiomo Jike ove domentod. She loved him af- tornll.- I recalied her tone as thoe bont passed _nway. Lvery syilable was o polzoned dngger. Kuowing ' that I loved Lor, sho luughed at ‘mo! Egromont was thenno doubt telling hor tho story shio would not hear from me. Tha boat gliding ‘on in tho noontide hush—tho oars at Test—ho bonding forward in. passlonate pleads ing—Adela listoning with folded houds and downcast oyow, with® boating heart and height- enad coler, while & maguotic, unspokon languago ’told Inm hie was loved. It'wos too bittor, and with o blackncss of dospair thatI had mover lmu%hmd possible, I flung myeelf upon my bed -and Iny thero for hours. 1 did not oo’ Egromont nntil noxt morning, whon neitor of us alluded to tho cpisoda of the day heforo; but I thought ‘that, for s snccesnful lover, ha looked rather gravo. I dotermined novor to so0 Adels ognin, .snd adhored to my doterminaiion with uncon- filmmhlo firmness for two days, when Mr. Mere- lych callod at the barracks, snd jnsisted on our roluruing with him to Grangemoro. “ How very ill you look, Nr. Brandon,” wag Mra. Mdredyth's first obzervation to mo, as I jomed bor® ip the pleasuro-ground after Glnner. “You havo boon _working too bard, or trainiug too hord, after tbe manner of you gentlemen riders. Ko wd aro to.havo Ihe ploasnre of bringing you and Capt. Dgremont o the raccs. How pro- voking it is that.only ono of you can win; bt romomber one of you mut win, for I am do- turTiq'nd that tho winner shali bolong to my party. + A dotermination that will no doubt bo shared by Aome flve or six othors,” I mqlln(l. i No matter; my mottois: *Whoro thero's o will, thore's s way.' You muet try bard, that I sanll not be disappointed.” 4 2y dear Mrs. Merodyth, I am an oxomplifi- cation’'of tho fallncy of that old ndage.” “Indeed! Porhaps you did not wish with all your might.” 1 did, Indoed—withall mysoul,” Leaid, sndly. “Then,” she replied Lindly, **you must have Been willing an impossibility, & fault of no great maguitudo at your age. Itemomber, thero ia anather ofd adago, What is, is beet. If want of succers bns mndo_ you unhiappy, 1 am sorry for you; you must only tako courage. In tho futuro you Will perhaps ngreo with the poot thut *Sor- Tows romembored aweoten prescnt ‘juyu.‘" # Then you think unbappiness {s not an un- mitigated evil 2" “1 think it is questionabla if it bo an ovil. Mappinees oxists but by comparison with its roverso, thercfors tho existenco of one ts necossary to that of ihe other. How- ovor, theoriziug on unbappiness will not make it loss. Take the advico, Dir. Brandon, of an old woman ; donot give way to unhappinoss. You havo youth and health, the groatost blesuings of this lifo; do not liv down like a coward bocuuea you havo failed in somo dasire, Try ngain, aud. it unsuceessful-still, lot it iuspite you with a de- termination nover to rest till vou succeed. If #uccess doos not follow, you will novortheless, in the attempt, have eecured the unisiling panacen for all worldly misery—work, Now comoin, aud Adeln and Capt. Egremont will charm away your Diuo £t with o duct.” Dear, kind Mra, Moredyth! Little did she now the refined torturo sbio propared for me, I believe thoy epng well, but that duot will over bo to mo ono of the most unplearant 1eminis- conces of my lifo. 1 atina comer, and ro- membor considering {hat the mutual declara- tious of love, nnd Lis cool requost that sho would fly with him somowhere or other, over tho moonlit sen, wore posilively. outragoous, and ehould bove besn sm‘)pod by her father. Dur-~ ing tho evening Adola appenred more affablo than usual; her maunor. to me was half- apologotio, but I -preserved whnt I conmid- cied a dignified coolnees and reserve. Tho wrolchod evening at length came to nu end, and wo drovo home silent and thoughtful. NMonday exme at Iast, a beautiful day, too fine, indeed, for the horses and ridors, for the ground wus a8 hard a8 iron. I had beeome madly anx- ious that Egromont sbould not win the raco. For buu I had conceived the mest unrensonnble hintred. In overy look of his T thonght I could detece s gleam of triumpl which I rosonted bitterly. “Ve arrived enrly, and nd I been in o different mood for amusomeut. thore was abundant field Hundredy of- vehicles came uring on_ to the courso, from the well-appointed drag to the most extraor- dinary constructions that ever sot the tules of goach-building at defiance. Soyenty or eiglty long gypsy tents were crommed with thirsty natlvos, aud many thousands {hronged tho courso, overy foneo having it crowd of particn- lur admirers, as they ealeulated on tho probabil- ity of a fall—tlio fall boing to ao Irishman the main intorest of a raco. Baving tbreaded. my way through tho car- ringes, with their attondant. rouletto-bonrd nu niggor mstrels, and received at lonat thirty i virulions to retyrn for luncheou after the race, and many wishes for success, I tool refuge in tho snddling-yard, whoro I found Chsnticloor Tooking it a8 paint, nud bis ownerrather suxious, but evguine, The fist race was over, and around each carrisgo and frap lunchicon-parties gathered and eujoyod themsolves; I remeined .on tho stand chowing tho oud of bltter fancios, for.I conld pee Igreinont laughing and chatting gaily with Adols, Who wasthe'contro of s pleas- ant knot. S At length tho eaddling bell sounded, and I ro- turngd to the carrioge for my whip. + What's tho matter, Brandon " naid Mr, Mer- edyth ; ‘ youlook more like goiug to drive a henrna than to ride Chantielogr, Qomio, have o glagwof wine,” . - . Egrcmont was_talking to Adela. ¢ Wish mo: succoss,” I hoosrd Lim whispor. Of course, slie hnid yeh, for as ho turnod sway I kaw him take hor glove from hor lap and . slip it into his bionst, I drank mil champaguo ata gulp, *‘Auother, plosse, Thanks,” ~ Aud, as quiokly, ¥ swgllowed that, Mr. Merodyth look- od g little astoniched, As Adela buuded mo the whip, she whisperod, * What is tho mattor #" Bho looked sad, and T thonght, pitylng, at which my prido rovolled, I made no answer, but hur- vied away to tho dressing-room. Bovontoonliorsencama tothe post for the prin- cipal ovent, Iwasongof thelast out of tho weighing-yard, and aa T emerged, War- hawk wos eantoring by the _wtand, As Lo “went with & grand swinging atride, o was ‘accompanied by s munnur of nd- miration. Egromont's white jacket sud red cap contrgsted woll with the horso'a color—a jot black, shining hiro satin, 4 hord, and toaring at his bit, glven me no timo to look right or left ns wo swoap past the stand in our firat rusts, I reo a oloud of gray, pink, bive, black, groen boforo aud around mo, and wonde 28 wo como at Lho firut fauce, ow we ean pousi- bly jump, pocked i (i fying crowd, Chantieleer, Wild at ol timos, Iy nind now, with o horee's toil whisking i hin foco, a loseo on his cight hand nud oo bii Jofr, preclud- gy the porribatity of rworving, whilo Tt n Qi conreluugnicsy of i young tne Lolilad me, to Tisure niy dent lon should wo fetl, A wlight #nchenfie mythe paco, 1 #re tia bluo sud whito Lalloou Licfure subrade & v wenter wits down on his horeo, 1t he M1 I avens| how 1 pruy for the sufoty of that bine and whie— with 'n vivid econrclousnces of tho Nemonia ustorn, Chanticleer appeara datermiugd to lool_nt nothing but that horeo's teil, I tako a pull ok hlm, then the blne aud whito jacket iver out of the lino of sl Lt, snd disclosos & single bank, Quick ns thought Chinnticleor riuon to it ; I eeo bis hond for an lnstant botween the glenming_ hind shocs of tho borso in Iront, Tho littlo balloons to_the right nnd left pop up and down Jike painted floats at s nihblo, And wo aro all gafoly over, Now that_tho possibility.of caeape has boon domonstrated, Iom beginding to feol mora nb_oave, and nfixprnnch tho noxt fonco in & more hopeful mood. Tho horses aro " gottling into tholr stride, aud, s I venturo to look round, I distingninh tho faces that sur- mount tho littie balloons. Vansittart over- looks a green that would mude him tho favorite with the multi- tudo had he uot wornared eap. Goro glures from nbove a cerieo and gray ; Alaneorgh, black and ellver; M'Dormott, Lefroy, and threa or four moro of our mon, all looking before them with hard-get faceu. Nono of tho honbommio that digtivguishes the hardest rnvwith hounds, whare, no matter what tho pnce, thore is alwoys timo to lling an obsoryation to ab uccompunging Niwrod; to gasp, “A good ran—splondid,” olo. Horo your companion riders aro nob 80 much participators in & eport, as meou to Lo beaton, and the oxcltomont’ ig_purely soMfish, I feol that if my bluo and whito Filut folls, I can noithor pull to_right or oft, but must fn straight on bim; I hope, in thint caso, I shal not kill him, but that is ontire- Iy his ffair. My porsuing Nomesis is no doubt actunted by precigely similar feelings. Wo hava pnssed tho accond fonco iu safoty, and_begin to stragglo o littlo, Iod by o raking gray riddon by & man I o scerlof jacket. Warhawk goos on soc- ond, thon comos & black and silver, noxt my blua and white losdor, and thon comes tho ruck, with ‘whom I am swinging along. lmldinf Chantlclcer with all my might. Tho noxt fenco is n wall; tho scarlol and tho whito pop up and dowa as before, but _tho black nad slilvor, instond of ohecking iteolf in its downward flight, dienpponrs, and, a8 *Chauticleer flios [mut, 1 catchn glimpso of & horso utruggling to bis foot, and s bisck and silvor_figurs lying within & foob of whero wo lauded.” Howover, there is no timo to look round—tho imprabability of his escapo from the rueh of horsen bohind strikes mo for a momont, and I think no more about him. Another singlo is passod In the samo order; o small double, » burdlo, the brook ; and now Wwe are’ come ing ot the prmelpal attraction for tho ono, have casualty lovers. ‘T'wo or threo timos I have lieard “tho simultancous “OhI" from tho crowds at tho fonces, procliming that somo unfortunate in the rear has como to gricf. At tho doublo is o largo crowd in hopeful oxpecta- tion of o fall § nor%a tho expectation dlgappoint- ed, for tho grn: strikes tho baul, and disnppoars in tho off grip, ‘where ko lies with bis back Lroken, Warhawk Lias takon his fonces boautifutly, and is now fm- roving tho_paco; Chanticleor bas buuglod a fiulo at the double, but 1 feel him ioln_ well within himeelf, and_range forward Desido my blue and white leador. 'As wo como into tho slraight, Igremont makes tho paco & crackor, and ‘wo aro obligod to call on our horses to keop our place, Tho thunder of the otowd pgreots us a8 wo paes tho atand, sud Warhawk's name is ahouted from thousands of throats. Clhanticloer has again Tost his head—the noige is too much for Lim, An T pass, I gco Adela just raie hor handkor- chief,—a littlo, lmost unnoticeablo wave,—of course to Egremont, I am mad with joalous fury, and, giving Chanticleer his hend, raise at hini, ou past tho stand ovor the first bank, Thero i8 no steadying vow, I have but one insane iden—to throw Egromont snd- kill him, it Eust“;lu. ocy Do net carry her glove in his breast! Af- ter wo r:nss tho sccond fenco, bo says, ** Jnck, vou'll kill that horeo if you don't steady him at is fencos 1™ Ho i now riding besido e, with L aix of soven liozges that Lo staod vp, bnlC: a-dozon lengths in the rear. I ncither look at Lim, nor answor him. Tho brook is pnssed, nud we aro still racing neck and neck for tho double. I stenl p look ut him; our eyea meot for av in- stant; Iwonder if ho'rends tho woild of Lints that gleams in mine, “Tooll” ho muttoers, ns lio takes a pull at Warbawk, whose head stenls back to my wido, and then out of sight. As I como at tho fonce I see strofched outside tho crowd the poor gray who had so gallantly lod us a fow minutes before. Chanticleor rises like o bird, and Iands lightly ds a deer. I henr a shont, and, Heavon forgive mo! I hopo that Warknwli and his rider hnve shared the fate of tho gray, but on looking round I see him olose on my quarter, and pickitig up his Jost distanuco at every strido ; but two horaes follow us, four are down at tho fonce. Now commences o flerco stiugglo for the run home. At the last hurdle Warhawk is Dalf o longth in frout.. Wo lave enterod tho straignt, and now with whip and spur I urgo Cliauticloor, Wo are gaining at eyory atrido, I seo Warhawls liead ngain gliding back of mo. I hava o clear neck already’; ton strides moro and the race is won ; when suddonly the green- swerd over which T Bave been fiying liko n swal- Jow jumnpsup tomeet mo; I feol an if I wero cngt in the midst of & thousand plungin Lorses ; “ovor and over and over Lroll: when at Jongth I stop, and sit up stuoned aud dizzy wilb my left arm hanging loosoly, I sco poor Chantioleer lving at s little distance with Lis neck broken, and tho boy who had yun bo- fore him and causod our fall being curriod away dead-or insensiblo, Triends rushed to my acsistanco, and lifting me to my feot, half supported, half carried mo to tho Morodyihe' carringe, whera I waa placed beside Adoln, whilo tho Liorses wero ordored for an imnodinte start, I had at first avoided looking at Adola, What cared she; bad not hor lovor .won? Now I Jooked nt ‘hor and saw hor_ faco was pale ng death, hor eyos fixod on me with a tortured look. Mra, Boredyth was busily engaged outting up naplins for bandagos. [ whispored: *It's nothiug, Mies Moredyth—only a broken arm, | I congratulate you on Egremout's sug- c “*Don't falk of him, I hate him," she mur- mured, and she looked efraight into tny oyos. “Y”on gevo bim your glove to carry in tho ¢ No, Lo took it without my permisalon,” sha 8ald, vory dotorminodly, while 1 saw tho. tears moiston hor dnrk lnshes, p A hopo—a brillisut flood of hope—broke on my soul, Mr, Moredyth was returning witha doctor. Not & momeiit was to bo lost. Do vou love him " “No | “Adoln, do you love ma i Not a word, but ono quick, glad glanao, a sin- 1o prasaura of the handy 0 tha duotors hosd :\ppufiwd ovor tho carriago door, Ilnd won af- oy all, Need Y toll my bappy illness, my blossod con- valesconeo, ot Girangomore ; how consont was iven, aud wedding presenfs wore mado, and s 1idal party sot out for o qulet parish churoh on o bright Janvary day ; how, at the dejouner, tho clergyman made & guady-gvudy spoech, whoreat his wife was edifled ; aad the old friend of tho Tamily made a touching ono, wheroat the Indics wept ; andthe beat wman mado s funoy ono, wherant the Lridesmalds blushed ; or how, nt Iust, the happy couplo started for 'tho railway statlon, pursued by a hearty choar from tho aii- temblod tenantry, and & oloud of slippers of evory shapo and hue—are not all these things writton inthe aunnlsof Qraugemoro und the parish registry of Dullywillinm 7 REPAYING, Beenuso X have kieeed you, Minguillo, Aly mother s feolding mo go, “Tupt's o racor,” sald French, na ho walked begido me, glvlu? me those {novitablo lust dirco- tlong, “Watoh im, bug don'e ride at him until the st mile, glv Lo iv fastor at bin fonces than you pro, and Ohantioloer does mnot like being passed, Bome of theso fools will make the yuns ning, Keop about fourth until you gnr qaver tho doublo iu the sccond round, thon 1ot fum come if.ho will" * Qoo Jugk to your honor, and safo home," said the graom, with a last affeotionate pat on the horne's neck as Lo turned him for his canter. Clinnticloor was o bright chestnyt, hot-tem- pored, like ull Lis color, As he went aloug Hwinging his hoad abous, snd pulling hard, Tanw thut I hind rough wark bafore me, for already ho wa oxcited by'the crowd and tha noise, 1 avolded looking at the Moredythn' carriage 8 Toussed, Wiy should T lpok for & pasgitig rlnu 0, When Ligromant catriod horgage d'quour u hib bronst ? bt T hioard Tow's chaory yoice, * Ggod Juck, Uhanticleer,” sud it soundod like n w ready, gontlomen ? Gol" Wd are off ; 0ff with o i je and » plunge, and o thunder of huofs that diowns for ud over the shout that Joaps from u muliitudo ut o start, Clisuticloor, plunginig forwurd, sw it )i Quick | quitk 1 give o buck tho ¥ss, darling, Tgavo you a hort Lo aga, As it dono wo Iy got to undo ft— Tor wollior, you Buc, 18 50 crosay Bt s Kisn givon back {o e giver, ‘Attor all, 14 not mtioh O 4 1oss, But Loyday ! Bingulllo | what's {is, elre Why, 1iero Wo a70, worse than bofoio} T bade 'yau yesforo mony Angl dow=-you havo takon t et 3 T, thoro! The Prize-Packngo foy's Dream in o Uhureh, Ono of tho most alarming easos of REomnambu- Usm with which wo ara fumihur is that _of the prizd:puckuge boy who operstaa on ta Narels- own Railroad, in Philadelplin. By somooxirao:- diuary combluntion of cirounistouces, | thie cLildof sin wus induced to gn 0 churoh’ & fow Sumlnf»l ufi{c. und whilyt Mistoning to the sormon 'h‘n fell asleop in ibo back pew where Lo ent. I'here Liad boon a Bunday-roliool meoving thore heforg shaveh, and ail tho Bibles fud wi unwupapers were piled up fy il vow,” Buddenly thi vomerseless young orphat Jred up u bundlo of the papers in hin sloup d1egan to wall up the alxlo, throwing onc A0 ¢ A0 pow ue be wont along, Whon lio gol mukea a mistake i Tisiug, . nidor tho leo of tho pulpit ha stoppod and walt- ed two or threo minites, Tho minister looked cross-oyed at Lim and glared at him through bia speetnclen, but the young brigand was uncon- #efous, Thon hoe ghdod down tho alsla and smazad the congregation by romoving the papors from onchi powv. . When ho reachod the roar ho #eizad an armfil of Diblen and rambled up the afr lo agniu, toyslug thom at the oceupants of tha pewa, Ite. goln under the pu'pit, aed wholly indierent to the cizenmatar-co that the clorgy- i evew ngun were ont of (hio thoir natural shinieht po:ition, nnd were masing his spoctacion look Jiko s doublc-Larrelod locomotive head- Tieht, the Infant brigan ¢ pranced down the aisla thio kocond timo,yelling: Horo's yor prize paok= nges, only 10 conts; onch ons contmns a prizo worlly from 10 conte to $101" and grab- bing for Lho Diblo ns ho procoeded. Tho mine ixter waved bis hand at ono of {hio deacons; the dencon and the soxton charged on that boy, and tho orgnuint tells us the thrao soudda down the thoraughfaro at tha rate of fifieen linots on hour, while (ho sexton alook tha bo; up, and tho dencon boxed his onrs, and wisho it woa not wicked to swoar, ‘I'hon thoy took Iimup into the etcople and kitled him. Wa aro not cortain thot thoy Lilled him, but we think thoy did, of conrso, for that is tho only way in which ho could bo kopt quict. Wo would havo butchered him long ago if wo could linve got him alone in a steople somewhoro,— Alax Adeler, —_—— THE COMPLAINT OF, THE OYSTER. Sie ftur ad ostrea, ‘Tho baleful month, Boptomber, has dawned on esrth once more,— ‘That crucl season of tho year thint mollusca #o doplore Tho month that dous #o much th pousivo bivaivels Joy o nar ; ‘Tho first montls after April that contalns tho fatal B, No lunhgar can we dwell in peace within our muddy omo ; No longor ean wo in tha 00z of sea or river roam ; Nolonger ’mid tho algn can wo sport, and love, ‘snd wo For wo acb outlnwed, snd a prico 1a set upon our hoad, Tho dredger with resatloss srme Wil drag us up to carth Tear paronta from thofr Jittlo ones, with most nnseeme y mirth, £ Bow n:luumln“; on our hesrthstones, and our altars CCTALO § 5 R Aad Igavo our helploss orphans to lament our bitter ato. Plled up upon & bar wo lto, {emptations to mana ust, Ul o ato romovod. o' ferl tho cold uita's eruel iruat ; P Bo closely picked wo esnnot breatho, and Jook on death us blles 3— Tho Diack Hols of Caloutts fa 1o clrcumatance o this, My Lonse i broken into, and my fesh is racked and o0, ; Tnt1 X really como to wish that I tind ne'er boon born They plorc mo through and througls wi y T4t me ip with futves il fopke, Ny And carvo awsy at mo 45 though T had & dozen lves, per, blsck And doluge ma in vinegar until my soul has fled ; Upon my unresisting bead shurp lomon-juics thoy And 13 {otsto catsup lavo me, hoedicss of my pain, My toara o pity st thein mot ; my throbbig hoart Deforg thoir orual eses, my muto appesls of wila Movo in tfiex.r'-om. 1o zemblanco to & sympathizing liros ; But down tlielr throals thoy thrus - o e e y 8t mo, whilo yot moans T'm slowed, 'm steamed, I'm scolloped, rosst tored, fricd, and brofled; T’ N ol T'm’ pickled, pied, and raitiad, souped, and sauced, aud grilied, nd bojled ; Thero'a no Ingenious torturing to which man can sub. o whih Tarh '0 wliteh I nin not put, without el Euse ok gty t one hand ralsed to And {n my gaping wotnds they pour salt, and red, Tho horse s gusrded Jealously from man's too cruel grood And ats an_'.l dogs and pigeons aro protected at thelr But no Luninno philanthropiat has made, that T ca A statuo for proveution of man's cruelty to me, S It really §s too bud that sometling is not done for usg ‘That we are over doomed to be Er.nbllm:d and molrn“z:A us § Won't some land ostreophiobiat justaco what he can do, ? Aud gotan 5, 7, T. 2, 0, 0, T, —-fluf(an Gazette R —_—— o HUMOR. N You ean uso o postaga-stamp twico, Th timo it will cost you 8 conts, lh% second tlmg g.’{%‘ ;-Hul‘n is tho latest doscription of a kiss: ***Twas night. A reat warm couple stood in the {)}:‘I’:.oc‘s‘l‘(: ‘:n:ml.\’bdn:;xfl& 'l‘hoirhliplln touched, and ound like a'cow ont of the mud.” i s —Young Gont—"Might T sk Misa—" Yory sorry, sir, but for tho noxt threo dances,” Y. G.—'Itis not duncing—uh—it is—it's—beg your pardon, miss, You azg eitling on my Liat | ™ * —A conductor on the Fort street routs wag passing through tho crowdod car, yestorday morniig, whon h picked up a 60-cont shinplag. tor. Holding it up, ho nsled who had logt it, whon fourtcon handd wont up and fourteon per. sona callod out, “T did.” Tho conductor put the ‘monoy in hin pockot,.—Detroil kves Pregs. _—A poox fawily in Foud du Lao, Wiu., con sisting of a man, his wifo, and eloven obildren, recoutly Lind $100 loft thom, and tho poor, ovor: worked woman has bought'a £70 silk dress and gono to taking musio lewsons. —The power of women ia fincly lllustrated In tho caso of & Kontueky girl, who flirted with a locontotive engineor aud so distracted his atton. tion that ho nogloated tho boilor, aud an oxplo- sion occurrod, killing throo men, l;fl-\—;fiy({:‘(o?‘r‘gm :upox [n-‘conny nonh:hfid the fol. viug item in its soclety gossip; * @ amis and delicious Mies Pilklzggton, l\’vhmw c.hnm):hg‘; mind and person have turned tho heads of our gallonts, now does ber hair in braids, and pat. Tonizes thin papor exolusively in her persousl make-up,” ~—The followiog lines are said to _have been :fl%{zd from a stone in Oxford, Now Hamps #,To all my friends T bid adlon; ‘A moro sudden death you never know; As T wos loadung tho o1d maro to Gyt - Bhe kioked, and dlled mo quicker'n a wink," ~A Hartford man, who had tarried lato nt a wino suppor, found his wifo waiting his Toturn, h‘l o liigh atato of norvousness, Said she, ** Hora T'vo beon waiting, and rocking tn the chalr, 'till y head aping rotnd liko u topl" “Jusa g0, wifo, whero I'vo boon," 108, 3 the r}\tmosplmm !(“ ! e T —Au exasporated Yankoo on Lon rushitig about with an uoshaven K’I::I:ng zslv.v! morulugs ngo, demanding to kuow *fif thoso women~ will' nevor leam mothing!” Ono of hin dsughters had cut maplo-gugar with N0 of s razorn, with tho othor & sosond daughe tor nad sharponed her lond-ponail, whilo his wite had stitfonod his shaviog-brush’ by using it in glulng somo broken furniture, —A cortnin porson had s friond who wag a toleer, Ona dey be ssid to bim, 1 am going & journey; give mo yaur ring, thon I shall alwaya ave you noar mo, for whenevor I look upon it you will oomo to my remembranco.” The mirer mnde answer, *1f you wish to keop me in re-: membranco, 88 often as you look at your naked fluger remember that you asked a certain person forhis ring, and ho refused to giva it to you! " —An uncouth child of naturo writes foolingly anont & popular topio: “I could stan’ boint called o Liar an’ & thiof,” says he, ‘““or even by’ told that the ole man kep' a hoop-skirt factory but when ono of thom lonfin' goslin's como nmuni }nfi Tuay\u‘ }s‘ 1 Smi "u\Injhin to do with that ore * Dotsoy nor I is Oul jus riz on m; d-lo, and imrl{m;d bl d%\\'l’l." : :Nn o —A lady took hor son, of some 8 yoars, aluich, Aftor tho timator bad beon’ preses ing about half an hour, the littla fellow grow sioopy and bogan to nod. Tho mothor roused him luto attention soveral times by pushing; but as it scemed o hopoloss onse, 0o’ coneluded to lot him aleop undisturbed. ter & while'the little follow hind hiy BIE out, and saw the minis. ter Ilfl‘l hotding forth, o looked upiu his. mother’s. faca aud innocently nshed, **Mother, tsthis Bunday night, or is it noxt Bunday night 7 —Witness the talk overheard by an emlasary of tho American Sunduy-Sohool Unjon when irying to ostublish u Sabbath-sehool in the Tuy Bouthwest: T kuow thore {8 n bug undor the ohip, sure a8 you Ia.born, Thar is some triok "hout this thang, or that man wouldn't come way down hero aud make that Sunday-school for nuthin’ aud gin us books. Jint as sure s you're a foot high therg's authin' desd, mind what T tel) you, ‘Thar'll Lo somo fellor 'round hore 'otsing taxos for it arter a whilo, Just like thoy do witly the deostriot echaoola. L8 boon long thar," ~Anewly-married man took hia brida ona tony to Bwitzerland for the honeymoon, sud whey, thoro Induced lier to uttewpt with him the e cont 0F ono of tho higheat peaks. Tho Indy, i+ at homo had nsver anconded i il highor than 4 chureh, was muoh alarmed, and bad 15 to riod by tho guldos with hor oyes bllndfolded v adnot to witacsd tha harvora af the on, misg—e am ongaged —n 'hie bridegroom wulked closo to hor, ¢ lating with her oa to ber feav, Ianptio Thoneymoon v«hlulrm, but the 1erefaitiuon of ufe was suck that overy word wos # You told mo, Lovuors, that yon alu happy, uo mutler whora you were, bo you vere iu my company, ‘Then why 1ot happy now 7 Yew, Olimrles, T i, 1.1 who, robbing bystorleally ; **but'T neve e bovo the yuow-live,"