Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 23, 1873, Page 11

i « THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 93, 1873, 11 WOMEN AND MONEY. Tinancinl Embarrassmonts of Maidons, Wives, and Widows, The cnrront lteratura of the dav ia bocoming cholkod with writings on the subject of woman In Yior varlous rolations, Evory shallow-mindod seribblor ogotistloally contributos ks worthless nddition, until » povfoct Rod-River raft g beon formed, Impeding intelloctual navigation, and cauning all consorvalives of hoth uoxes 1o hopo that kind Providonco will soon raize up somo litorary - gonlus of . tho nitro-glycerino ordor, who will blow tho whole thing into atoms. Day by day the list of agitating quories longth- ens, * “Bhould womon -esrn monoy?” If 8o, in what way?’ How' much ouglht individual women to oarn ? When thoy have earnod it, In; it thoirs or thelr hushands’? It it belongs to thom (which fa n hotly-contosted point), oughe thoy to board, or try cv-oporative housekaoplng ?. Aund g0 op, and on, sud on. : Notw, in this ondloss disousslon, no ono soema to take into ncoount the totally-differant views « of money. held. Ly mon and women,—a difference originating in the education of ohildhood. With tho prospoct of furnishing himsolf, from his own purso, with tho coveted slod or skates, tho Doy runs on errands, picka. up chips, eplits kin- dlings, and loarns bis firat losson in monoy-got~ ting, and * tastes tho ewoata: of solf-roll anco and indopondencs, Did any lille girl ever, . buy hor idolized doll | with the procoeds of her ohildish Iabors? Sho may havo wrought on her patchwork, and dusted tho furniture, ' and ‘rocked the baby, and sot the table, but it novor suggested itsclf to anybody that any pecuniary emolumeonts could attend hor offorts. 8ho wae taught how to do thono things beeanso all women ought “to'bo tsught thom. Tor the sest, i sho wantod anythivg, sho must ask somebody, to buy it for hor, -Just horo tho logio failed, bocause a woman vory ofton wants things, and has nobody to buy thom; in whick cago 1t in great convonionce to bo ablo to earn monoy and buy thom hersolf, * e - GIRLB AT FIOMB ars genorally dlacontonted in proportion to the paternal income ; the' mora monoy tho father, the more unbappy tho daughtor. Bo long 68 tho family-iucomo ia 8o small that tho daughtor miist boar somo of tho household re- sponsibilities and asnume somo- life-duties, sho cannot bo altogother unhsppy., Nobody is who is oLligod to forgot himself o part of tho timo. Heayon hols ho girl who risos from thoe breakfast-tablo with nothing partioular to do all dny{ Bbo saunters into tho parlor, and turns over hor mutle, and plays & fow of hor old plocos, and tries tho Inat now one. A focblo conscioutiousness in regard to neglocting her musio, for which hor father was so hesvily taxod Tu bor sohool-days, {s her strongost in- centiyo to even this poor nttention to hor pinno. Sho bns hoard too much good music not to - know ‘- that she - is mob proficient, - nnd _ nover can _ bo, o Chen sho lounges away to hor painting or draw- ing, but still is secrotly conecicus thatsho is not working, buv only amuaing herself. - Then, tired of that, she finishes tho last now novol or does a littlo worsted-work. o the day hoa run away to lunch-timo. Then & mnap, tollot promenade, or callors; and 80 evoning arrivos, which, if thoro I8 no lecture, nor concert, nor thoatre, nor oven o gontloman-caller, {s o dioary onough timg. At last tho day is o’er. Bbe js'dlscontontad, but is incapable of giving s reason. Sho acknowlodges that sho ought, to be gratoful for all the tom- oral blessings showered upon hor ; but still sho o't grateful. ‘Sho docan’s onvy the shop-girls behind the counters, or tho Iady-clorks _ going . home with lunch- boxes, and ghe: is very sure she wouldn’t be a millinor or dreesmaker, If gho could bo & widter like Goeorge Lliot, or a ainter liko Rova Bonbeur, or & soulptor like gfiss Hosmor, she would like that, abo thinks; but tolecture, or stady medicino, or suything of that kind, is 8o horribly unfominine. She never could do anything so unwomanly, Then she winds up by wishing sho was aman, A father who allows his son to floish college, and settlo down in oxpectation of being supported, is not much surprised when .he turna out dissolute and becomes a disgraco to him; but girla are drifting out of college every day, and silting down with folded hands, waiting for bread to be put in their mouths, aud clothos to bo "put on thar backs. TIs there guy difference in hmman souls that idloness anid dopendenco should be ‘dograding in ita offocts on ono and not on anothor? TFor swhat are theso young women waiting? Tnoy aro walting to be | tmarriod. As things aro with- thom, that scoms to bo their only hope of being raiged out of the slough of ecliluhuess, and of boing'onnobled by n shre in tho burdens of 1ifo; but_yot, suppose they should fail of marringa? One’trcuibies then to thivk of what material i consiruoted that much-slandered clasa, tho . OLD MAIDS, It scome to ba, pretty -generally understood that, unless a woman is’a genius, sho cannot af- ford'tabo an old maid, darriago being the Tighost Lonor woman can gain, thoso who fail of it aro somewhat in tho posiiion of the ndvonturors who haye sought to sealo the Mattorhorn, or find tho open Polar Bea, or exploro tho mterior of Africa, and, Laving failod, aro~yot expectod, in virtuo’ of their fruitloss’ attompts, to bo moro then ordinarily oougmmhm? ond enthusiastio over their successful rival. It is no use for ono of theso spingters of uncertain ngo to draw a long face, sud announce, in morslizing tones, that she is glad sho did not murry her firgt love. No woman can romember Ler first love. It was contomporary with hor doli-playing ago,. Yours 2go,—too many to bo specified,—n G-year cld dsmsel was ovorhoard stating to her 0-yesr old brothor her conviction that a cortain Charlio of suitsble sgo loved her., ¢ You little goosol” snawored tha brother, with truo frsternal blunt- ness, “ho don't come here to seo you. IIo comos to_sec me. Ho don't even spork to you." #That's what makes mo think go," was the lncid roply. It seomssnd that, when women Enve !\\BK an intuitive consciousness of tho tan- dler pasgion, it should not be brought inlo active gorvico, Any anclent spinster, Lowover, wio lios awako at night ]nmnm(n%hox splnaterhood, can havo hor griof mitigatad by & caroful porusal pf tho morning-paper, whioh is always -full of the woes of tho wedded ; snd sho can further polaco hersolf by quoting tho proverb that It |8 bottor that people should laugh at you be- cause you are uot marriod, than” be unable to lrugh yoursolf bacaugo you aro.” ow, in regard to the financlal status of the old mnid : Sho may mako hor homo with soma married relative ; but still shie is generally tho ossossior of & slonder_store, gainod either by Kmmy or saving in earlicr years, which sufficea for her modest wants. Knowing tbat she can- not earn ono penny, she is nocessitated to savo. two ; and thus, isolated from masouline benofi- eonce, she has brought upon her sex the acousa- tion of utinginces, Whon ono remembers her solf-denying contributions_to foreign missions and to ler own oburch, and her provident care of dumb animals, tho accusation is felt to be un~ just, Thero area good msny old maids jn the world, but not too many for the nged fathers, the lnvalid mothers, or for incapables generally. Tho ranks of the BUSINESY WOMEN are gnuern]]fl rocruited from amon whose widowhood bas roduced thom fort to punuy, or young girls whoso education is too lrm((o to admnit of teaching, aud whoso refinomont unfis thom for the Lilchen, Itis this lattor olass, particularly, who aro mow standing of bay againat o hordo of eoribblors, Womon who want angols _to do thelr cooking, mon who are tired of eoitling disputos betweon wives and Biddics, nobodios who want to Eec thoir sentimonts in print, ,and uneducated woman who hold an ill-concealed Fmdvfo againat better-cultured women in strailened ciroum- atances, have all raised an outery againat shoy irln, clerks, eto,, and demanded thoey should acomo sarvants, ‘¢ T'his dosiro for employment in stores and oflices arises from o roprohonsible aistagto for housohold work,” enarla * Head of the I It is to be prosumed that his for omploymoent in tho Ohambor of Commorce ariges from s roB- reheusiblo distaste to digging potatoos and milk- ing cows, " You are \vorklng ot wagos muoh losa than can be got in auy private kitchon, You are eacrificing hoalth and monoy to » mistaken Ides of gontility,” - expostulntes ¢ Physician,” Probably the timo was whon Physiolan's profes- slonal incomo wae loss than thal of his presens conchman ; but I pity tho man who would have darod to advise him to go to work ina atablo, There sooms to bo no moro valid resson why o watnan shouldn't prefor & sowving-machine or & pon to & mop und a dish-oloth thon that & moan should glrnlor tho camern or forcops to the hod or tho shovel, At any rato, thero doen not noom to bo any nccessity for tho publio lashing itsolf into & fury becanse a’ ceriamn clamy of women prafor . rathor to momsure rib- bons . than to wash dishes. Bat i does,. Tho poor crouturcs wora first soundly berated because thoy did not wish to put them- solvas Boolally on » par with tho olasa usually widows rom com- found In tho kitchon. Noxt, theyworo rapronohs ©d becattso of tho loynoss of tholr wnges, Nono of tho veliontont protoctorn In print geomed to bo struck with the flea that the beat w:{ to romady that ovil would ba for public opinion to force tho omployers to raino wagen. Tho next thing on tho programma was on pilempt on tho part of tha reribiblars to torny Uicmselves fnto & oo mittes of ways ond teans to sl these Jady- onpluyes how to live ou thoka samo meugro salariod, A the leds-auiployes liad boen ons gngad for yoars in doing that very thing, tho whole affair must lave appearod to thom in tho light of n good joke, It it ia stch o stratn.on the publie infolloct to domon- ntrato to womon liow to live on 80 a weck, the enalogt way to cut the Gordian kuot would bo to glvo thom §19, Uoneidering tho divorso State laws rogarding tho {inanciol status of MAURIED WOMEN, tho subject in n delicato ono to handle, Com- menaing with the bride's troussent, it sooms to Lo pretty generally conceded. that the propor thing fot the young Iady to do s to juvest all hor ready money in hor wodding ontfit, It Is dim- enlt to asslign tho oxplanation of this cuatom. 1t woilld not seom, howover, to by vory compli- mounlary to the futtro husband, Tho publio is lod to bollove that tho wifo-cleob naver hod nny gwmount of olothes boforo, and never expectn to havo nn{ again, from the ardor aud porsoveranca with which eho sows hersolf, +horalutorn,hor malthor, aud ail hor fewala depoud- ontn, to death, 1t is a curious obarnotoristio of brides, that overy'ono of thom would ratlior go to tho., nltar jndod, palo, and thin fromn OVOE- worls, than ta.-have'ono ruflle Ioss on her com- ‘monest white skirt, or ono fold less on hor tray- olinig-drees, Whon a womsn who has nover footed s ,bill for Lorsalf in all hor lifo marrics, and goon from bor fatlhor'a houno - to lior hug- ‘band's home, she eimply cxohnnges ono almonor for'anothor. Generally, ehe in kept as much in tho'duri ag to donsoatic rosources and housohold- fluances whou o wifo as when aho was 1 daughtor. ‘When hor husvand brings homo s §600 shawl, slic nover suspects that whont has rison;: and, swhon hor, congorl'a. face. growa loweriog and Dbinck over dress-maling: bills: with 840 aud &76 itome, sholg wover ‘informed thas pork han gono down. . Bho iu perfoctly at soa as to what sum it n propar for her to expend on hor- solf. A wonun ought not to fool it a burt to hor solf-rospect; to sk her husband for monay, and yot sho usunlly doos. She defora it till tho Tast noment ; porheps, just o ha is aummfi for 1ho door, aho fallers out something about s littlo monoy, Stating oxnctly for what it in nooded. Thon vomes the samo old formula. Thoro ap- Eunnu siraight line—perbapa two—botwoeen the maband’s oyes. Ho hesitates o momont. “How much do you. want?" in ‘s dubjous, nnnoyed tono. names the Jowaest possiblo sum. wait till to-morrow?” Thon ho appoints a lator mooting at bis offico down town. Bhe Lieops the appointinont, sud opons negotintions with the would-bo facotious quory,. ¢ Woll, Georgo 1 supposo you know what I'vo como for 7" Mooy, ofcourse,” ho retorts, * \What havae you dono with all that doliar I gave you Iast weok 7 Wrren-) " L ——— THE ROYAL LITTERATEUR. The Lato Snxon Xing, and Kis Trans- lations of Bryant and Othor Amer- ican and English Poots, Dr, Rudolph Dachn, in the Vieana Press, King yohn of Ssxony lind somo time ago ox- pressod hus desire to read to mo his translations into German of Southey's, Bhelley’s, Burng’, and Bryont's mastorpicces. When I called at Pilnitz 1ast month I fonnd that the royal translator was 00 mick to recolve mo, But my card was deliv- ered to him, and so I received & fow days ago anothor request to ¢all upon him. o I found the gemial old manin an ensy-chair at an open window in his library. ' I bolieve that thoro ia hordly ‘s litorary man who would not be enviovia upon viaiting that library. Itis fall of tho rarest litorary treasures, and overytlung in the quaint, old-fashioned room 18 80 convenient 1y arraoged that the book that is wanted can be found in & momont. ‘Tho King looked wan and very palo. Ilomado sn attompt to rido, but soofog that Lo was vory fachle, I hastenod to bog him to keop his soat. “You have boon very sick, siro,” I said, ro- spectfully. : ki “Yes; my dnya are numbered,” ho replied In a low tone, ““aud yot, n month ago, I thought I would live several yenis yot.” 1attempted a word of encouragemont, but he intorcepted ma by a End smile, shaking bis head once or twice. Thon he bronght np tho subject of his trans- lations., Evorybody. Iguys bomago to his splen- id trauslations of “ Danto, whick will always re- mun & standard work in Gormen hteraturo. Tho more auxious I was to hear somo of lus translations from the grent poots of England snd Amerlea. Mo landed mo sovoral large shoots of parchmont, on which ho had writtou in Pluo ink, i unusually inrge characters. In 8o doing ho romnrked smilingly s 1y ayenight heo lons minoo failed mo tu s groat extout. But still T W ot uso glagsos. T sm wrilivg in regular lapidary style, though, ns ho_ quories, The = wife “#Can't you you see.” Tho sheots I read contained transtations of somo of Bholloy's minor poems. I read them carofully, and compared the rendering with the original, "o Lin pointed out the difMcult paseages, . and cousuttcd me a8 to the folleity of his trans- Intion, Igavo him my opinion frankly, and ho ‘unhositatingly nccepted my suggostions. 1 mot poor Bhelley in Ttely, many yoars ago, and passed two days with him at Sorronto. Tiock was with me, "and I wos amused ab tho rathor excited ditcussions the two had about difiicult passages in Blinkspearo, whoso plays Tiealk was then translating into Gorman, 1 was told," I romarked, * that Your Majosty was lilewiso at work upon & tranglation of somo of Shinkspearo's plays,” #Qnly Romeo and Julict,” ko roplied; but T am dissatisfled with my worl, and shall not allow it tobe ])II‘.\“SL\CI]." Ho told mo then exactly what he had ready for the ' prers—some 8eventy poems, About one- fifth aro from Bryant and soveral other American ootd. Bog! Tho English Ianguage causad mo s great denl of difficulty whon I attemptod to learn it flrst. That was forty yoars dgo, whon I spont throe monh_at the court of King William IV. of Togloud, I supposs I hnd made mysolf 8o familiar with 1tallay, of which I was , poesionately ¢ fond in my youth, that * the ntronfi torse Dritish fonguo was rather indigeslble for my spoiled Southorn stomach, and I give it up in dospair. But abont 1860 I resumed tho study of tho l“li““"v ond I havs now grown very fond of it. read En- glisk gnpors evory morning, and for yoars at our racoptions I have been able o convorse with Englishmen and Americans in thelr own ver- nagular,” I exprosnsd to the old King my gratitude for the appointment as Professor of English at the Univorsity of Loipsic, 1t is o groat oversight of my predecessors,” bo Brid, in m;;!y, “not to bavo mado such an appoinfment long 8go. Sinco 1850, at least ono- fourth of the irnde of Enxony haa beon with England and America ; and now, thank God, every pupll at our Jycenms who roaches tho sec- ond olass has to learn to apoak Bnglish 1" ‘The King seut for refroshmonts, and eipped & Littlo champagne, 4Tt is tho only wino I can atand, ho sald, *It is the poet's wine, How difforent from the thick atrong 01d Falerian, which Horace praises #0 highly | Had tho genial Roman known cham- aguo, T bolleve ho would havo despised his E‘n orian a8 wo do."” Tho King rose, and X thought it was a glgonl for me to dopart ; but he rostrained me and srid; #Xeop your seat, and look over my tranalations, If you find anything to alter, note” it down on this sheet, 1am going to lic down. It docs mo 5“‘(!’ to slesp an hour or two at this timoe of tho y.! 1Te shook hands with mo, tottored fechly out of the room, nnd loft mo alono st his desk, I performed my work conacientiously, and lozm&ngnml doal fo auggeat. When 1 paused during my work, I could not help wondering at the uqxlldy-llku confidenco with which the old King had loft mo at his own desk, But I ofton heard similar traits of his, I looked awhila at tho old dosk, It sesmed to havo stood thoro many a year, _Momontous documenta, involving the Jifo and denth of many, bad undonbtedly boon signed on it. A curlous fonture was the King's writing-tools; raven's quills, which he cuts himself, "'Thoro lay alno the old penknife which ho usos for that ‘purposo. No school-hoy would give moroe than a few couta for it. Onthio floor, Lioside the King's chair, lay a copy of Vic- tor Hugo's # Annoc ‘Carriblo.” Tiad his Mojenty thought of tranelating the torrible book of the republican bard of Franco ? Whon my work was done I rose and & servant from tho ante-room stepped in and informod mo that my own couvoyanco had been sant bnolk to tho city, and that ono of tho royal curriages wos waiting for mo. B Y ad Ventilntion. e A proteat apatnnt drunlonnoes has Just beel mado by & distingulskied Gorman, which dogorves attention from its noyel phuaco\ngv if it is not now in substance, tho Amoriean Instituto of Arcbitects, in a papoer rond boforo the Aworlenn Heaith Associntion at Now York, on tho health princlplo of architec~ ture, donoinaes bad ventilation as productive of tho worst kind of intoxication, Oarbonio neld, which i thus developod, ho says, in & most lorrl- blo_azant of digenns, lnsanity, and hnmoralily ; aud tho ore fearful bocatieo . lndulged by all clasnea, Our good penpla who crewd ovor loated clwrolies and hulls, and nit for an honr or two in a clocely packed maus, with closed win- dows-and doorn, may bav th thoy got oul of doory qinln. but they will bo surprized to bo Lold that thoy ara really drunk- ards, Buch, howover, thoy aro, 1t Mr, Ploiffer bo mflm, anil worno oven than thofr fow brothron and gistors fn tonoment-houses, Tho latter can- not help themeolvos, whilo Llio lattor voluntarily subjoct thomselves to tho Influoncos of a polson which ine not evon'the morit of being & ploasant stimulahit, LUKE. (In tho Colorndo Parl, 1873.) ... WY DNET UABTE, ‘Wot's thiat yon'ro readin’?—a novel? A novel—well, “ i darn'my skinl You, & yian grovn sud beardod, and st auch stult oz that fn— Blaff nbont gale and thelr aweolhoatls] No wonder you'ra thiu 0z & knifo. : TLook at mo I—clar two Lundrod—and never rend ona. Sy lito | B That's my opinlon & novals, And, oz to thelr Jyin’ Tound Lore,’ Thiey beloned ta'tho Todge's daughter—tho Jadge who i camo ll? last yoar i On ccount uf his lngs, and tho mountalns, and tbo - balsnn o pino and firg | i . At his daughtor-yoll, rho Fond novels, and fhat's + what' tho maltor'with her. Yet ahio \v‘:u ‘lv‘v‘nol on tho Jedgo, and stuck by him day and u A Alons fn "'fi’rf’m“ up yor—till eho grow liko » ghost, 1+ all while, Bho'wus only o allp of n thing, oz ght and ez up and e T3 wilenmoke blown through tho Woods, but sho " £ Wan't my Kind—noway § spea‘kgnntl:' gals, d'y0 mind that house oz you riso: the 5 g : Amilond nhnlf from White's, and jist above Mat. Hingly’a il 2 = You' do? 'Well, now, thar's & gall -What, you maw or 2 O, come naw, thar, quit | 4 Bho was only bodevlin’ you boyé, for tomo sho don't + " cotton ono bit, Now, alip's what I call a gal—oz pretty snd plump cz o uatl s s i Tooth bz wiiito e7 hound’s, and {hey'd go through a + toupenny-nalls o R Eyes thot kin susp ke a cap. Ho sho asked to know | @\Whar T was bid,” Blte A} O, it's jlat liko hor sass, for sho's peart eza . Katy-dia, Y : Bad'sthat was 1 talking of 1—01 tho Jedgo and his *", daughtor—sho read abed, . And somelimes sho rond thiem outloud to the Jedge on tho porels Whoro lio gat, - And "twnn how “Lord Auguatus” said this, and how * Lady Dlaneho " sho nald titat, Bu! the -Xcka! of nll tiiat I heord was & yarn that and a hunter chock And they neked mo 1o hoar, but T asys, ** Alias Mabel, notany for mo} Whon I lfkes I can eling my own lics, and thet chap and T shouldn’t agree.” ‘Yot somehow-or-athor slio was always ssyin’ I brought or Lo min Of folkn about whom sho had xead, or suthin belike of thet kind ; And thor warn'no end o’ the names that she glve me thot snmmer up here,— - #Robin Hood, “Leathor-Stocking,” “Rob Roy,"—0, * T tell you, tho critter was quedr, And yet, cf sho hadn't beon spiled, sho was harmless eriougl In her woy, 8ho could jabbor {n Frerich to lior dad, and they say ihat sho knew how to play, 3 And shio svorked mo that shot-pouch up thar—which thio man doesn't 1ivo oz kin use, Andslippers—yon seo 'am down yer—oz would cradlo 7 ou Toiin'a peppoase. Yot along o thiem novels, you eco, sho was wastin’ and mopin’ oway, i And thion sho got shy with hor fonguo, and at last had ‘nothin’ ta fay And, whonovor I iaFponed around, her face it wan bid ' Dol And it worn’t uhtil she loft that she give me ez mich oz.a ook, And this wos tho way it was, 1¢was night whe I kem ‘up bers To say fo ‘em all # Good-bye," for T reckoned togo for iner At “gun-up” tho dny thoy left. So I shook ’om all round by tho hand, *Copt Blabol, and shio was sick, oz thoy gave me fo un~ derstand, " But, st a8 X passed the houso noxt moraing, at dawn, somb oul, Tike » littlo waver o’ mist, got up on tho Lill yith the sun ¢ ooy ‘Miss Mabel it was, alone,—all wrappod in o mantle'o" v 0y— And shostood there atraight in the road, with s touch @ {ho un in hier faco, Ana sho looked mo right in tho oyo—T'd soon Buthin ko it hefore When I Innted n wounded doa to tho edge o’ tho Olear Lako aloro, And X my kuo on 49 mock, snd Jist was elfal my uif, Whon it giva ma with 1ta 1 lnok Uk that, and—well, 1t gol ufr Carl Ploiffer, Becretarv of #Woaro going to-ilay,” sho sald, *and I thought X wonld say good-hyo o you in your own house, Luko—theso woods, and tho bright biue vk | S You'vo alwags been kind to us, Luke, and paps hes found you sttt As good s tho atr Lo Lresthos, and wholesomo na Taurel Troo Iill, “ And wo'll alwaya think of you, Luko, 08 tho thing wo ‘conld not take away s Tho balsam that dwolls in ‘tho woods, the ratnbow that *lives in tho apray, And you'll sometimes think of me, Luko, a5 you know you oneo sed to hay, A rifig-smoko blown through tho woods, a moment, but nover to stay.” And then we shook bands, . Slio turned, but s-suddent nlie tottered and foll, ; And T cruglt et sbarp by tho waust, and held Lo & ‘min{i—wall 1t was oply o minft, whilo ehe lny’ Ez n suow-flako lero on my broast, and then—vwell, sho tmolted away— And was gone. . . ; And thsr are’her Looks; but T ‘exya not adty for me, @ood ‘onongh may bo for somo, but them snd T mightaiagree, Thoy spiled a decent gal e2 might hov mads somo chap s0u Xnow, that oz cold snd oz o wife, ‘And Jook at'moI—clar two hundred—and noves xead ono in my lifo ] ~Seribner’s for December. Gotting Clothen. TFrom the Danbury News., ‘When s woman buys an article of wearing :P- {nrnl it is all right. 8ho is not counscled to ako It buol bocaitso of this or that dofact. 8ho ignores mau's knowledgo in the matter, sud hots only 0 glad to oscape to mako any protost. But whou ho upholsters himsolf in any particu- 1nr, sho glvos the articles the most critical oxam- ination, and in nine cnses out of ton hurries him right back with it. Between that man's rogard for his wifo and foar of tho merchant, ho loses & great donl that is pleasant in this woild, It is al8o a little singular what o wondorful offect the store where you bave mada the pur- chass hag upon the fit of the articlo, I have kunown a man to go back threo times with acoat, The firet timo it pinched him a littlo undor the arms, ‘Tho dealer had him try it on; then pulled it down in the back, 5t00d off and squintod at it, and thon satd, * How doos that fool now ?* The msn, perspiring at every pore, and fool- ing that ho was guilty, in Romo way, of takin, unfair aduantago of o trusting follow-mortal, confosacd it was much bettor, and wont off. The next day he appeared, with tho impression that there was no wool in tho.eloth ; his wifo satd go. The aalosman gave him such a pitying lanco, and whipped the coat over from one sido 0 tho othor 8o rapidly, and talked 80 fast abont texturo and wool, that the misorable wretch was g:nd to got the garment back, and got out of the store. Two dnys later, hie aneaked in again with the cost undor his arm. This timo it pinched across the back, Tho tailor had him try it on sgain, and then rubbed it acroes the back” and pulled 1t ot the front, and said ho never saw anything fit liko that in his life; and the man went off with o Bimilar belief. Ho didn't go back any more; ‘but ho used to stand in front of that atore, whon 110 ono was looking, and shake his fist {hrough the window at the tailor, and think up the thinge Lo wanted todo to him, but which thero ap- pearod no immediate prospeot of doing. —_— XiorsceShocing Extraordinarys L'rom the New York Times, Nov, 10. Bome days ago s match was mado botween two horse-shoers of South Brooklyn, ench man bot- ting $100 that bo could make mora lorse-shocs than tho othor within o epeoified time, Tho names of the men aro John Burns and Georgo Boylo, and, es both have the reputation of being adopts in tho art of harse-shooing, the contest exclted a good deal of intorest. 'rfiomutohnmn oft yosterday, sud was attended by largo num- bors of horag-shoers and sporting mon from Now Yorl, Now-Jorgay, and even 5.0 nelgboriog Btates of Conneeticut and Penusylyania, Goorge Boylo worked in s brother's nhng on Living- aton streot, and Burns worked at_Blavin'a shop, on Atlntio avonua, Tatriol Doylo watohod Burns, and Blavin watchod Boyle. Fnch man budaimlymr. ‘The mon workod eight hours, during whioh Doyle turned out 11,010 shoes, o hondacho when | Novels tho wholo diy loug, and I rockon she rosd them while Durna manufactured but 11,000, thus losing tho matoh. As an exhibition -of endur~ auco and ekill, the feat was & most romarkable ono, and surpaeses anything in the horee-nhioo- lm;‘lhm ovor accomplished in Amorica, Bome lh:lr‘uunndu of dollara cuanged binnds on the re- oult, 4 HUMO! ?nu totch of pauie makes tho wholoe world —A modern writor on soclal sclenca divides the humau raco Into threo clausos: Thoso who thinlk it ln 8o, thoso who think it isn't so, and thiose who don't care & —— whothor it g 80 or not, 5 —Jack, who I# at boarding-scheol in tho cotin- try, writes homs: * Pleaso sond mo o good trap 1o catoh woodchuck and a ploco of carpot for mo to say my prayers on.” —Jouking told his son, who proposod to .buy & cow in pritnership, to bo suro and buy the hlmlor half, na it eats nothing and gives all the milk, —>innfo—* I'm in such a quandary ;. for.if T turn my back on Charley e becomon offended ot onco; nnd, if Idon't, ho can’t see my now puckles. What shall I do?" . ~They hurry things up in Dubuque, A young man thore met n atrango girl on a street-car the other day, paid her faro, and married her threo Lourn aftorward, Dlesa you, my ohildrén | —~The Louiaville Cowrier-Journal says that because an oflice-huntor - handlos Lhroe “or four tUT Liorns {n a bar-room, hoforo brenkfast, that I8 no renson why ho shonld try to palm himself off on the Gnuiom sgn ‘‘horny-handed farmor." ‘—Thors is nothing plensantor, when in tho do- cllning years of lifo, than to baye the boy who “53‘ to'catch all tho flsh and find all the Derrics comio to you fou the loan of & halt-dollar,. Time worka its revonfre. —Dnthusiastic Englieh tourint in Scotland to nativo conchman—"' And is thal indeod the house in which Rob Roywas born?" Nativo conche mun—* El; uir, an' {t's just aito o' thom,"” —Accordlug to Bocoher, ** Tho chonpost thing on earth is mean man. A failhful dog dics and ia missed, s good and stately Loro dies and hio fa muiased, tho emigration of tho Lirds n au- tumn is & sourco of snduoss to us, but mean men dio nnd fow tenra fall.” —The old-clothes deslors sny that vory little stock is brought in. Wearing old garmonts ia grou'ln? popular, and it may thrn out befors tho winlor Is over that it will bo high atyle for gon- tlomen to attond opora with spectacles in the. roar of their pantaloons—ZLouisville Courier~ Journal. ' ' % ~Tho panfe has roached Utah, Businessmon, secording ‘to an oxchango, are reducing their number of wives, and gotting rid of all other outstanding obligations a8 fast na posalblo. ‘—Domestlc Economy~—MMither—'¢ Now, Joan, whon tho folls como to toa, mind yo divort them a8 mucklo as yo can. And, Jean, whon the oakes and sic-like things aro han'ed round, bo mannerly, and sot the oxample by just sayin', * No, thonlkyo,' to it all.” —Ono' of tho -Ynlnlmnm atudents at Yalo was accoated by n' Sophomoro tho other day with, “What's your namo?” ' The gentloman from Japan answored politely, - giviug his surname, 0l rojolned tho questionor, you hoathan don’t have but ono name, I sco ?” " What' wos the firat namo of Moses ?” was tho u‘} ly. —Uss and Abuse—Old Gent—* You don't monn to toll me, waiter, that you can’t glvo mo a toothpick." Waiter—** Well, sir, wo used to koop 'om, but the gents almost invariably took "em away whon thoy'd dono with ‘om.” e ~—Not long since, at Bunday-school, tho tonch~ er, aftor h'ymfi hard to impresa on the minds of # class of small boyn tho sin of Sabbath-break- ing, nsked: “Ia Bunday bottor than any other day?” whon tho smallest boy in tho class an- mwered: *You bot your boots it s 2" . “—Writing o skotcli of bis lifo, on Trishman snys that ho early ran nwng from his fathor bo- caueo he discovered that ho was only his unclo. —Throo littlo boya—good little boys of tho Bunday-school biography sort—wore compariug progress in tho : catechiem, I lave got to onginal siv,” seid the firat. I am in total do- pravity,” snid tho second, *‘But I am away ba- yond rodemptian,” said tho third, —Irageible Old Party—* Guard, why didn't you wako mo au T asked you? Hore am, miles bo- youd my station1” "Guard—"Idid try, sir, but 211 I could got you to #ay was, *All right, Mloria, got tho children their broakfast and I'll bo down in'a winutol’” —Sunday Btories.—Aunt Ethol—*But whon his brotlren next &nw Josoph, they found: him in a position of grest suthority and powor.” Alico—* Was ho a king, Aunt Ethel?" Aunt Ethel—''No, But he was very high—nearl; mext to tho king.” Alico (vho is fond of cards —*Was ho o knave, then —Awful thought (if it goos on much longor) —Thero is a Tichbourne from which jno travelor roturns. —\When Judy's milkman Leard of the noise thoy'ro making about the adulteration of mills, ho said, * Water fuss!” —An old nogro woman was heard to oxclaim, “Thomas Joifcreon, you and James Mudison como into tho Louge,” and bring Abe Lincoln along with you, or I'll rench for you, suab[” osh Billings says: * 1 will stato for the in- formation of those wio havon't iad a chance to lay in sokrit wisdom az freely az I hiave, thatono single hornot who foals wall can brenk up n whole camp-meoting.” —A Mr. Dahm runa a stove and hardware storo up at Eaglo Harbor, and the Marquette Journal sayy: ¢ Ho must have mn extansivo trads, for wo havo heard Lis namo mentioned in counec- tion with all tho stoves aud smvnplyu we ovor saw put togather hers oy claowhore.! —A tondor-lienrtod lttle girl camo In from the' woods and ehowed o faco covered with mosquito- bitos. *Why did you not drive them mway 7" said tho mother. *Thoy would not go," Bnid tho child, *““Why did you not kill thom 7 Tt would not have beon right,” was the answor. * But I havo seen you kill thom at home,” urged the surprisod mother, *‘Yes, mammn,” arguod tho child firmly, if they como Into my houso and bite mo, I Kill thom; but if I go into the ‘woods, that s their house, and I havo no right to kill thow,” —A young 8 ‘mado an ovening cull upon a e’ouug lud{ It Famng along toward 0 o'clock, whon tho' y ady inguired the time of ovoning, * Fivo min- utos t0 9,” was tho mp]y. *How long_will it tako you to go homa?" *¢Fivo minutes, I should Judgo.” “Thon,"” enid tho young lady, it you Btart now yon will got home just at 9 o'clook.” Ho porformod tho feat on timo. —Johnny attonds_school, which will explain the following short dialoguo betweon him aud bis father : **Johuny, Ididn't know you got whipped the othor day,” said ho, * Yon didu't? Well, if you'd been in my brooches you'd have known it.” i & —Unclo James, walking with niocs Mary, sged 4, ‘wlnts to thomaon, on whose digo tho dark spots show quite pluinl‘ , and Bay8 Thero 18 & man in the moon, burning brush.” The jnfant- ilo realist puts up her littlo nogo and enuffs, say- g: * Yos, I 'moll tho 'moko 1" ~A good old eldor of church, who was given to extravagaut oxaggoration, was at last called 10 nccount for hia oifentes in thal roapect, avd admonishad not to ‘{:l\-a way to tho bnsumnfi 8in in future. Tho good old man received tho ndmo- nition meokly and earnestly and ssid : * I know how prone 1 am to thia fault, my brothron, and it hay given moe tortures of pain ; and night after night I have shed barrels of toars over [t.” Tho meeting adjourncd in silence. DANDERRIES, Thureday, the 27th, is announced as & day of Thaoksgivi ngi. Businoss gonerally will bo sus- ponded, and tho day given up fo contomplating our blessings and throwing dico for turkeys. —A reader in New Brilain vory truthfully and lnfl(gumtlg agserts, that no woman, however nervous she may bo, has a right to wake her hueband from a sound sleep only to tell him on his iuquh-lng what is the matter, ** Nothing, only I wanted to soe if you wero awake.” —A Nice Quontion of Taste,—Joweler—What kind of a chaln would you like ? Young Man— Well, I don't xnow, hardly, What kind of & chain wonld you think I ought to hnve ; tuat is, what stylo would you think would bo ilm mos bocoming for a young man what carries grocor- fos to somo of tho bost familios in town ? —In anewor toacomplaint of the price of oqgu, & White-atroot grocor took occasion to ex- plain that it was on account of tholr ecarcity bo- causa of tho panio, and upon tho customor Erntuuufilthut ehie conld not soe the conncction atwoon tho two, ho furthor oxplnined, that ow- ing to tho general deprossion, tho hona were sunning on half timo. She took the egge. —A vory prudent man in Danbury providea himeolf With an extra bat for the month of Noyember. Ho carrios it {n his cont-tail pocket, and whon the wind lifts the ono from his hoad, o slnlfihmny jams on tho other, and thon puts aftor tho firat, and thus not only snves much ohafllng from the unrefinnnma, but actually gots orodit as s philanthroplst,—tho general impres- sion bolng “that hels in' pursuit of somebody olso's int. —The Eesox stroot girls aro puranod by an oxtraordinary fato, No sooner s ono of them engaged than some groteaquo oconrronco bronks ur tho match, Tholast instanco was on Friday n th. whon & young man leaving his young Iady’s house foll tdown the front stoop, and se- varaly cut bimsclf with & tintype of bla adorod, on which he struck in o sitting posture, Whon Lie found out what hurt him ho was 80 mad le oould not epoak, aud whon she discoverod whero bo carriod hurdp‘cmm sho wua so enrsged she did spoak—and to Bomo offect, 'Thoy thon part- ed. Bho shut horwolf ue in her room, and ko nt for & dootor to plok ont the viccos, Wag oung ontloman in Augusts, e, flately | RALPH DAYNER'S DOOM. It travelora noo strango things, £0 do artists, at least . Jandseapo paintors do, for thoy are travelors a8 woll, and In pursuit of thoir voca- tion vielt so many romoto places, and como in contnct with so many sorts of pooplo, that they ought to bo good story-tellars, Tho rural aud son-fariug populations, with whomof nocossity thoy hava to mingle, offor many curious atidles of ohnraoter ; aud tho slotchor from naturo, who chiancea to Lo a wriler also, may pick up nmong thom incidents and stories by tho scoro, Ihavo como across many, but the brush has claimed 8o much of my timo that, like moat of my ernfh, I have had but little inclination to give any to tho pon. Howevor, within the Iast weok somo clroum- stancos hnve ocourrod under my vory oyes of B0 tragic s naturo, nnd associated with so torriblo a nlory, that I am tempted, bofore I leave tha spot, to utlitzo the long ovenings now sotting in by writing down the fots au tiioy havo come to my knowladge. ¥ 1 am staying at & little public houss called tho Pilot, tho only hostolry in the small village of " Pitsdonn, situsted at tho foot of that cnormous ‘rango of chalk.olilfa whioh, at ite Lighest point, is'markod on tho charts of tho soulh coast as ‘Shigglo Hend: Tho’soant population is com- posed of & fow flshormen, faym-laborors, and sonio lime-hurners-~theso lattor being tho most numorous, for {ime-burning ia oarried on oxton- sively in tho district, and whore thoe obalk bogine to'rige from the flatter country by the beach tho kilus abound, . Odd gaps and roads wind down to thom through the upheaved goll and fantastio mosses of land-slip, rondered moro fantastio by thojcuttings, oxcavations, and. blastings con stantly golng on. Littlo groen platoaus jut out hare and thero half-way down some of the taller cliffs; and notably thoro ia ono which, ovor- banging o kiln on one'side, and cntoff onm tho other by a xising preclpico of chulk, Is accossiblo only by s narrow winding path desconding from the upper hoights, . . 'This, togother with the range of white oliffs; vory varied in form, and rising {n some places to hundreds of foet; the burning limelkiln with its film of amoke, its dark, cavornous furnace, its adjacont stack of driod gorae for fual j the carts and horaes going to and fro down the steop rond to'tha bench, and ncross tho sands to tho littlo craft that hna put in at flood-tide, and s now at the obb loft siranded to recoive Liorcargo of limo« stona; the moving figures, and somo boats—mado up a bib of coast saenory which tempted mo to submit for a woek, or 80, to the limited accom= modation offered by tho Pilat, I had markoed down the scono durting a long wall, and had do- tormined to taks up my quartors at tho rough inn for the purpose of painting it. 8o six days ago I camo over, bag and bag%nga. from Helmstone, tho waloring-placo whiore § Ve staying, and 8ot to work botimea the noxt morning. .- Tho sutumnal woather, was’ boautifdl effect just what I wauted; but tho lttlo craft as abacat, and 88 sho formod item in the pioture, I' grow anxious for ler ap~ earanco aa tho tide camo in. 'Whon it was atits En;mt, Thowever, sho slowly rounded the hoad- Innd, and droppod snchor in hor old borth a little ‘bofore noon, Lknow that by the timo tho men Liad Liad thelr dinuer sho would bo lying high and dry, snd taking in her cargo, in tho usual pictur- oafla fashion. ¥ sting for a .while, I strolled down to the baancl to got o closor look b hor. She was rough aud tub-lilte—ns might be expected, romombaor- ing hor trado—outter-riggod, and of from fitteen to twonty tons burdon. ~There was = dock, and cabiu hatchway forward, an open hold, and the vollow lettors on lier blagk storn announced that sho was the Botsy, of Helmstone, and that Ralph Daynor was her mnstor. The sos waa calm, but thoro was just cnough ripplo breaking o tho shoroe to prevent tho Bur{mr of somo vory high words issiing from the tiny cabin being honrd, Novorthalens, I could makoe ont onongh to undor- stand that there was a man abusivg and bullying o woman. Onco thoro was, something vory like & ecream, but soon all was silent, and prosontly o gailor emorgad from tho hatchway, Calling to a boy, apparently naleep in the hold, the two got into tho littls boat which the cuttor had in tow, and pulled aslioro, ‘Then they hauled it up on to tho heach, and I saw,. that tho man was a huge Drond-shouldored, bull-neclked, ill-looking fellow. As he walkod awsy toward the kilns, exchanging 2 fory rongh words with tho men at'work thero, and disgppeared up the road leading to tho vil lago, I thought I kad nover scon & orao spaci- mon of his clnss, Bitling down agaln to my easel, I beoame mdch absorbed, pud s the dinner-hour left tho spot quite dosertad, I romained for o long timo from the interruption of nu{ of thoso on-lookors Who nre always.moro or loss attractod by tho sight of an artiet Rketching. Praoctice has made mo_generally indifferont to those molostations, and Ao, whon after a whilo T was conscious thal gome one was standing near me, I at first paid little hoed to tho fact. Dut whon for a momont I chanced to turn my hond, I was rathor slartled Dy tho sullcn and forbidding aspect of tho indi~ yidual at my elbow. Ho was & tall, thin, pale- faced man of about forty, with shaggy iron-gray benrd and matted hair, Dressed in s besmirched and scody euit of black, and woaring an old chimnay pot-hat, ho looked very different fromany of my usual audi- enco; but it was not so much this which dis- turbed e as his unplessant staro—a stave bent upon me, bo it ramarked, and not upon my pic- turo, Icould sce outof the cornor.of my cyo that 1o was not rogarding what I waa doing at all. . Ho hod his back turned too much toward tho oazal for that, and oach time that I glanced up at him, and our oyes mot, I encountered o dark, sinistor scowl. I triod, howover, to ignora his presenco, although I contess it affoctod mo disngrooably, By degracs, too, I had o sonsa- tion that he was trying to got mnecarer to me without my knowing it, and I becama suro of this at last as I furtivoly watched his feet. They ‘wero cortainly croeping, a8 it vere, toward mo, and, without taking a stride, ho had got much clogor to mo than Lio wag when I first noticed him. Ho was now not above & yard from whore I eat, and go I looked up at him at 1ast point-blank, Ho winced & little undor my steady glance, dropped his wild oyos for 8 mo- ‘mont, and moved slowly round to the othor sido. Again I tried to go on with my worl sed to for- ot him, In a more solitary place Xshould have elt rathor uneasy ; nay, was Inot roally fool- ing 80-now 7—for hore, at this hour, with the conat uttorly desorted, I waa as much alono as I well couldbe. did not know what to make of tho fellow, Did ho want to attack and robme ? Ho hardly looked like ‘a picicpocket ; - but yet I could not doubt, from his strange behavior, that ho had somo ainistor intontion, Resolving thus much in my mind, and eeclng that he was again ureeplng 1 his eat-like, stonlthy way toward me, and this time, na it seomed, trying to got bohind mo, I stood up aud- denly, and facing Lim, anid angrily: Wbat do you mean by this dodging about 7 If you want %0500 what I am Qoing, look &t It and bo off, ‘and don't antioy me any longer.” 1 Lad pitobied my casol in suoh & position as to mako it impossiblo for sny body to gob to my rear without passing vory close in front of mo firet; for wag about holf-way up tho oliff road, just st ono end of its zifizng bonds, with & stoop slopo down to tho beach on tho loft hand, and on the right & shoor wall of rising challk, Instead of angworing mo, the follow burst into & low, im- portinont laugh, and, a!lpmui ‘botwoon tho cagol and tho odge of the oliff, waa bohind mo in A mo- mont, 'l‘uruln;z' slmost aa rapidly, howover, I +waa again face to faco with him; and now thera was barely & foot's space betwoon us, Ho ap- poared ecarcoly propared for this movomont, and again winoed porceptibly undor my sleady gazs, is long, bony fingers, which wero romarkably claw-like in their action and form, twitohed norvously at his beard, his laugh ceased, hia eyes dmgpnd, ond ho shranle baok as if ho tl’l’nunhl wag going to striko him, much as a fierco dog that had mot bia mastor might have done. Bofore IThed limo to speak ha shyly and awkwardly, but with somo politeness, raised his hint, noying, in s Aoft, gentle volco, ' beg your ardon j L thonght Y know you. Ism sotry to avo disturbed you, and I wish you good-morm. ing." Thon, ngain slipping by mo, he walked away down tho rond to the beach, occasionally Taokiing back furtively ovor hin shiouldor fn my direction. e passod oloso to the cuttor, finally disappearing round some jutting rooks, with his fiead bone toward. the gronnd, appatantly deoply absorbed, and notioing nothing around him. Tight glad was I tosea bis back, for I bad nover baen 80 much put out in my life by the importinencoe of au idler {x and ke etrango con- duct and sppoarance of this man set me wonder- ing who e could bo, But tho intorcst inmy worlc ongo revivad, ho vanishod for a time from my mind. Only when the short twillght drove mo to my rolitary uhol: in tho parlor of tho little jun did’I think of him again or make any in- uirics, ¥'Noy thio Iandlord aldn't kmow nothin’ st all about such u oustomer; ho hiadn't never seon his Iiko up that way ; uo, nor no mors hadn't tho ono or two natives who wora by this time drop- ping in for tholr ovening swmoke and glass, I nnd the. .’ conspicious’ | any traco of the fugitivo. Indeed, I boliove the havo aaid that the Pilot’s nccommodation is lim- ited; and hoyond my snug clean little hodroom my privacy doea not go. This is no bnrdlhl{v, howover, for I havo aliways hoon usod to_rough- ing it} and thore Is tothing objostionabla to no in occanionally mingling with tho homely fro- quonters of a villags alg-houso, Thus I smoked my i plpo, and listonod to or chatted with tho fow customora n¢ thoy came in from timo Lo timo, Hovornl of them hiad foon ma ai work during tho day; but, of eourno, a3lt was whils thoy wero abaont that ny nlrango viaitor Lind lp]ponmd, and a8 they kilow nathing of hiin otlierwise, they could give no information. At » tablo in tho farthest cornor of the room—whlols was fairly spacious, consldor- ing~ tho size of ho houso—in company w&h two workmon from tho limolilns, sab: tho fillooking follow whom 1 lind #oon como esboro from the outler. wad gotting Into, I woe surprisad to soo hiin tharo, aud askod of a flsherman closo besido me o it was this man had not gono off with his craft and hor cargo befloro 1t got darlk, Oh," eald the man in an nndertono, “ ha bo's a ‘proper radical kort o' oliap, that Raiph Dayner j thoro's nover no knowin® what he'll bo up to 1" Homewhiles Lio'll fo higsell right eno', snd somewhiles o 1" just loave it to hia Jad an ‘miass, and go off on’ tho drink for a wock or twoat 6 timo ; and I reckon that's what ho'a up, tonow, Ireckon thoboy and one o' our men uil {nke tho Detsy round to IHolmstons to-night better thanho wonld bisnelf ; and his missuo won't bo nono the worso for it noithor. Proper radicnl Lio bo'a Lo hor too somowhiles sure-ly I" 111 ugon hor ?" I suggestod. *“Yon, X reckon ho doos,” went on thoman # and sho bo & poor sad nort o' crotur, teo, kin o’ cracky they dosay somowhiles, Oarmless ono’, you know, sir, but a littlo weak in lior head like, and Lot malea b all tho worso for bor, don't you sao?"” Ot couree I could #oe plainly onough, nnd of ocaurso I could now understand ‘tho sounds I had Lioard from on board the outter in the morning, Our faritior tallc was here Intorrupted by (ho sound of wheola stopping at tho daor of the inn, followod by tho hurried ontravoo of iwo strane erd, Ono was o strong, broad-shoulderod man, n apposranca rather liko an uppor groom out of livery; tho otlior, also tall and strong, looked like a doctor. Ho said, abruptly, Do any of you hioro happed to have socn wandoring about ovet tho downa and cliffs to-day a Lall, thin, palo- fapad man, with & benrd, drossed In’ Llack, and wonring & high hat?" 1 inatantly ropliod that corlainly T had seon a ‘E:rlon answoring this description, and I briofly 1d tho gentlemen undor what ciroumatancos, “That's ho,” ho roplied, * without doubt, Now look hero,” ho added, addrossing tho com- pany gonerally, who wero of courss all attention ; e {5 n madman, and this morning ho cncnped from thoe asylum at Helmatone, Now Ioffer £ xoward, toany ono who slall bo tho moans of holping us to secure Lim., Depond upon it ho in Dok far off, but s it is dark, I am ofrald wo may not boablo to find him till limmnrnhi\f. Btil), it any.of you who know the country woll will guldo me and my man, wo will go and do what wo can. Ho'll bo sfowing himself away under some barn or, hay-rick, or down on ihe shoro somewhere,. rarhnpu. Can you lob ua have a lantorn or two, andlord " Naturally the whole roomful was astir by thig time, Every ove voluntoored his servicos, and a couplo of iantarns being produced, and & move mide towards tho door, tho doctor paused 88 Lo resohed it, and said, * Now, stoady ! I muat warn you of one thing ; ho is very dangerous, what wo call a homicidal menizc—that is to say, he will try to murder, try to ntrrmfil‘o. any body Do gets bold of who howa tho slightost foar of him, He has already killed a man in his mad- nows 3 that is wbx Lo has beon ohut up. Bub it you faco him boldly, look straight into i oyo, and show that you are not afraid of him, you will have no moro_difliculty in dealing with him than you wonld with ono of the sheop on_theso hilla; but 1 he sces you shrink from himjfor an _instant, he'll have his fingors in your ‘neokocloth beforo you know whore you aro, and slight as ke is, b 18 aa strong ns o lion.” 1 nood not say what flashed through my mind at this moment, or how thankful I'folt for tho escape I had had. Among tho six or oight ergor, listoning faces turnod toward the doctor whila ho spoke, thors was only onoe that grew palo; tho tallent aud biggest man in tho room waa the only ono who shiowad the slightest sign of cowsrdics, Tliia was Ralph Dayner, tho owner of tha cutter, who, nt tho concfaslon 'of tha dootora words, drew back, unperceived by m'nr,vhud{ but mo, to tho cornor whoro ko had been eifting, and, with nomothhl? that wag very like shudder, snnk moodily into Lis chadr, sud took & deop draught of tho liquor in front of him, Iwas tho Iast to loavo ths room s the littlo crowd wont forth into the night, and I left him still sitting thovo, Having, by tho nid of & lantorn, conducted the doctor to tho spot whero I had been skotching, and pointed out the way the man had takon when ho-eft mo, I rotwned to - tho iom, having no mnd to gsgint farthor in tho oxclting search. Dayuor had not moved from his corner in the parlor whon L Ecn]‘.ml in, and I went to bed full of uncomfortablo roflactions npon_the oscape I hind had from tho clutoh of thoseloug, bouy fin- gors. Had not somothing urgod mo to assumo au angry, dominant tono toward the unfortunate madman as promptly as I did, thoro is no doubt ho would hava wreaked his homicldnl proponsi- ties upon mo, : He would have crept to within o, springivg distanco, aud tlien, like & wild boast; would havo nlmnglnd o or oliff, As it waw, finding me_proparcd and roso- Iute, he suddenly assumed the fawning tone and, bypooritical manner which I have uunderatood to b port of the cunning displayed by thoso aflict- od with this direst of dioeasos. With no small regrot I loarned noxt morning that tho scarch proved fruitless, and ihat tho lunatio was slill at large, It was very much like hearing that o man-sating tigor was prowling abotit tho nolghborkood, and & contosl 1o L iug hesitatod” abont going on with my work. Yot T could not woll atford to loso a day, snd a5 I had shown mysolf mpster of tho situation once, 1 would roly on being able to do so again, Thoroforo, koaping n eharp look-out, it was not long ore I was onsconced in my old position, and fully ongrossed with my skotch, Aa luck would have it, tho spot wos unusually quick to-day, Tho Lifns, ‘though still burning, wero not being fed ; the Dotsy did not come round from Holmstono ; and with tho oxcoption now and thon of two or threo nntives loating about, on tho watch, os they gaid * for that theer oracky chap, ns nohoay "cept tho ganflomsgn a-draftin’ had o]n‘ppm'l oyos on,” I had tho oliffs and tho roed all to mysolf, just at the vory time whon I could have cheorfully submitted to a little com- pany. Late in tho aftornoon the dactor and his man, ‘both looking woary sud travol-staiuned from their want of rest ond long tramp, paid mo a short visit, Their scouts, they snid, had failed to find doctor was Inclined to doubt the statomont I had 1mado, for ho oross-oxaminad mo again aud again upon tho whole matter. An hour or mors pass- ed ; tho beach, a8 far as the eye could stretoh, wap quite dosorted, as also wero the tops of tho cliffs, along which, from my position, I could sco somo way. The 6un was doolining, the thin film of bluo smoko from thoe limelkiln roso prottil, across the little greon platoau before mentionod, and the wholo offoct ab this timo was ono of por- feot calm and peace, but alsoone of intenso lonolingss, At last, howaver, this was rudcly Dbroken by tho appestanco of Nalph Dayner com- ing down tho road. Ho was far from gobor, and lurched and staggered in his gait. Ho stoppod now_and thon, and appeared to be looking va- oantly about soaward for his vessol. As ho noeared me ho said, sulkily : "D?'yf 'appen ¢ ha' seon that theer boat o no ? ! 27} “Not slnco yesterday,” I repliod, shortly. # Not sinco yestorday #" ho repoated, moodi- 1y, first turning_his blood-shiot eyes upon mo, and then toward the spot whore sho bad boen lying. _“What d'yo mean by yesterday? What's yeaterday ? 'T'warn't yostordsy I Dbrouglh hor round, waa it ? an couldn't ha' been,” ho con= tinued to ‘muttor; g g-mornin’s Whero the Dlazos is eha gono And then he staggored a pace or two farthor down tho road, stopped, camo_back, scowlod at me, muttored anothor oath, aud retreatod by tho way ho had como, had watchod him reach tho sccond beud In the road above mo, whon I aaw him suddenly glvo o start—much na if ho had soon a ghost— and set off running with all bis might. Wondor- ing what could have produced such unlooked-for agllity in n man of his bulk, I behold, at about twenty yarda from him, a tall, dorl figuro omorg- ing stealthily from out of ono of thio many out- tings or chalk-pita by tho stdo of tho roid. immodiately recognized tho madman. o was without his hat, snd was stooping or crouching, 28 it soomed at first, but, a8 Dayner took to Lig hosls, o presently et off runuing after him. 1 stood ur from my ensgol and shouted. Thad o whistlo with mo, and blew it with all my might —did overything T could to ralge an alam, Yor & momont a turn In tho road hid alike pursuor and purgucd from my viow, but prosontly thoy both stood out oloarly against the evening sly, upon the tor of tho noarest oliff, Tho pace at which tho hosvier man moved wns oxtraor- dinary : foar seemed to havo lont him wings; novortholess the othar was steadily galnlng on him, and for an instant it looked ns if thoy might encountor at tho clift odgo for thoy wore susuing straght toward it White I trombloa at thp thought of what might then follow, for T could fmngino that in his blind torror Dayner did not know in what direotion Lis was - running, Lo furned nimbly wnd doubled baok like n have; leg, thrown mo over the, ‘liouschold. Vory soon a hnwk was soen but, again feeling himself ovortaken, hearing, doubtloes, the quiel: hreathing of his purator als’ ‘most fn bl arm, soomed about to nyo him in hia graep), th torrifiod fugitive took auddenly to tho litt}o wind« 8 onr (for tho Inttor, with ontatrotohed ings path that lod from tho uppor holght down to tho greon plateau overhanging tho limokilo, ‘Tho remnant of his wits fairly scared out of him, Lo probably hardly saw whitiior lio waa ‘golng, or bo would have romemboered that, as from hero thoro wns no esospo, a strugglo for life would suroly onsuo, Ronohing tho grasy, Dayner mndo for tho - §0 nbove the kiln, aud this brought him to within fitty yards of whore I was standing. I could ngo tho torror of hig white bloated Fluu ] and, na hta bowilderad Fnzn foll upon tho yawn= ing rod-hot pit of burning lmo bonanth him, and ho know that e was caged, ho throw up Lia arms with a shriok, and, lurning round, en countored tha maning face o face. - They closod in an fnstant; tho fatal grip was slrondy on Daynor's throat, Daspite avery offort, he faited to shale 1t off, or even to rolnx it in tho loast but his enormous strength enablod him to lifh: Ellxlil?]nuuum“ oft the ground a8 if ho had beon o As ho ald go thoy foll, but Daynor downward, and for sevoral momonta thoy wore rolling in a liuddled hanp tafinther, tha thin, alnowy form of tho madman clinging {0 and entwiniog tho other's bulky {rame 88 n sorpont might coil round an elopbant. Daynor strugglod to s fook again, and in tho wild whirl which followed I eaw from the deopouing color of his faca that fl"fl“ torrible fingors must bo tightening their old, It was o fearful spectnelo ! THithor and thithor for n fow momontn moro upon that narrow ledge of turf the two bodios swayed, now going witha . henvy thud against tho wall of chalk on the ono sido, and thon staggoring perilously near the shoer cliff abovo tho kiln on the other. Twico again thoy fell, and twioo gain Dayner got to his foot, He wag now tearing at tho madman's beard and bair, and denling emashing blows with his hugo flals at tho faco of his foo; bat the grip ovidently novor for an fnstant lesaoned; it was stoadily’ domfi its fatal work upon tho viotim, All of asuddon the big man's strongth scomed to fail bim eutirely. Oncomoro tho tvo dropped to the ground, this timo 80 olosa to tho odgs of tho plsteau that in another inatant, bofore X (!(ml(]7 woll renlizo the horror of the ovent, théy- Liad: fallon, locked in their dendly embraco witl ;:&ih olthur, into tho fory doptha of the lime-kilo low A An inquest on the unrécai;nlznbla charrod re- maine of tho two misorablo men hay branf{he out the torrible soquol to this tale of bratality and:madnees. That aftornoon, while the whola villago was in commotion at tho nows, thore ar- rivad tyvo policomen from Helmstone asking for Ralph Dagnor. It apposred that the lsd who belped him to sail his craft, finding that 'his mastor did not return in tims to savo the day- light on tho previous oyoniug, got one of the bontmon on the beach to aid him in taking hox back to the neighboring port, as Lo had to do on' many othor occasions whon, as my flsherman friond had_suy fmlnfl, the burly ‘ruflan bhad takon to n drinking bout. Tho man and the boy Eab into Helmatono &flmt place. not halnfh an our's gail off) just ab night-fall ; but on their 7, not Leciog anyibiug of Mra. Daymer, thoy looked into tho littls fore-cabin, and,” to their dinnsy, found the poor woman bleeding and al- most senseloss, Bhe faintly told them that hor ‘husband had struck Lor a tromendous blow just boforo ho loft his boat in the morning ; and they ‘had hardly got hor on shoro whon sho died from its effeots. . A dreadfnl retribution had overtaken hor mur- derer, and I had witnessod it, as also had many, othora; for besides boing . attracted to tho spot by myshonts and whistlings, s#ma of thio na- tives of Pitedcan had canght sight of the begin-; ning of that chase for life, and of courso had followed it up. But, from a slrango coinoi~ dence, accident, or whatover it may Lave boen, . the instrumont selected by Fate to deal this act’ of retribulivo justico turncd out to have beon a fenrfully fitting one—tho miserablo manino be~ ing none other than the brother of Mra, Daynor, « ‘Tho taint of muducss wes in tho family, and onco, not loug b0, 1t Was provod bo had attacks ed hor husband, after somo high words botween thom, and nearly atrangled him, This was the firat sign of that homicidal mania whiah, ear}; loading to one murder,.ns tho Doctor hai atated, terminated in tho oatastrophe X bohold. This accounted for Doyner's boe havior when he first heard of the lu-, natio boing at largs, and tho abject torror ho dis- played on rocing him suddenly emorgo from the chalk-pit. His nerves, shattered by his disso~ lute lifo doubtless, tho rocollection of those ter- riblo fingers, which had once already beon at hia throat, scared hiv wits nttorly, and” led to hig sooking eafety in flight, the ‘one courso of all others tho most fatal to have sdopted in tho proscnoo of such & madman. > I doubt if I shall evor havo the Loart to finish my skotch, IfearI can never look upon it lines without secing that awful death-struggla still going on upon the littlo green plateau which is 80 prominent a feature in tho subject. At presont the canvas stands with ita faco to tha wall; and overy thing concorning the tragedy being now ovor, and my prosonce of no farther uao, T ¢hink £ho wisost thing 1 can do s o’ packc up and quit tho Pilot to-morrow - morning, on- deavoring aa far a poasible to forgot my visit to Pitsdonn, snd all connected with it.—Englir Afagazine. ——— THE BURIAL OF MOSES. Deut, 3: 6. By Nobo's lonoly mountain, ‘O this side Jordan's wave, In a valo In the land of Moab, Tlhere liea s lonely grave; Ane 10 man knows that sepulchre, And no man saw it o'er, A For tho Angol of God uptiirned the Kol And 1aid tho dead man thero, That was the grandest funeral ‘That aver passed on oarth, And no mon hoard the trampling Or saw tho train go forth, Noluelesily as the dayligh Comes back when thenight is dons, Ana the crimson stroak on ocean’s chsek Grows into tho grest gun ; Nolselessly as tho epring-time ‘Her crown of vordura woavos, And all tho troca on all tho hille Open thelr thoussand leaves : Ho, without sound of music, o ‘?r aot? of thiom n::g wept, i ontly down from the mountain's et "Tho Rroat processlon swept, Pa(r)chlnm %m'gnlfl ol,:'l flhl lah n gray Both-peor’ Outof hia lmmly‘:}rm S Looked on the wondrous sight. Perchance the Hon, atalking, & Btill shiung that hallawed 6] For beast and bird have seon and héard That which man knoweth not, But, when tho warror dioth, Hls comrades {n tho war, 'With arms rovorsed and mufiied drim, Tollow his fanoral car ; They ahow tho bannora taken, ‘Thoy tell the battlea won, And uftor him losd his mauforless atead, ‘Whila poals thio minute-gun, Amid tho noblest of tho land Wo lny tho sago to reat, And give tho bard an honored plac, With costly marble drest, In tho great minstor-transopt, aore lgtts ko glorioncall, 6 organ rings ane 0 &yreof oir eings, Along the emblazoned wall. This waa tha trucst warrior That aver bucklod sword ; This thie most gifted pact T'hat aver breathed & word ;. And nover Earth's philosopher ‘Traced with his golden pon On the deathiless pago truths balf ‘Ax 1o wroto down for me, And had ho not high bonor ? “Thie Lllside for a pall ; ol in atato whtla Angals i o atare tor tonorn il 5 ; tho dark rock-pinos, e toasing o ‘Over hia bler o wavo ;- e plames, And God’s own Land in thiat lonely land Lo lay lm i the gravo,— In that strango grave without a nams, Whonce hiy utovfMnod elay Shall break ogain, O wondroua thought | Before tho Judgmont-Day, And stsnd with glory wrapt around On the hills o novar trod, And speak of the strifo that 'won our life ‘With tho Incarnete Bon of God, Alonely grave In Moals land § O dark Both-peor's hitl | Bpou to thoso curlous hearts of ours, ‘Aud teacl thom to b still. . God listh 1iin mystorioa of graco— s 13 ikl Shomy oo, s ti hiddon ol 0 hides thom deap, e the den sloe] 0f Lifm Ho loved 50 well, o Mps, O, F, ALEXANDES, —_— A Singular Encldents A nowspaper publishod iin Laconia, N, H., re- Intos (ho followlng : A fow days since o well- known oitizon, then living near tho Wiers, was quito siolk, and n diot_of partridge was rocom- wended, to proonro whioh o sou of the slok man. travoled tho wouds in all dirpotions, witliont succoss, and_roturnod home dmppnluuu‘? :hu yin aver with somothing utru:fi;liux in its olaws, an tho somothing proved tobe a uico fat pariridge woundod, butnot.doad, that, whilo over the door- ard of tho siok man's house, got frao of the awk's claws, and camo tumbllug_down ot the very door whero ho was neodod, ~ Tho timo was. whon such an ovent would have hnynn accounted & miraole, now it ouly happoued go,"