Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1873, Page 12

1” < THE CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBLK 21, 1573, THE TWO PILLARS. The Oldest Symbol Known to the Human Race. & Sacred Tmbiom Among tho Anciont Seandinnvians, Tyrians, and Tlohrews. Derivation of the Dollar and Pound Marks Therefrom, . I Fatceette in the Atlantie for Jannary, Tho intorest in rolies had its foundation in tho trausitory naturo of all material forms and the dificully with which man makes any permanont improgsion upon thom. It has taken bub n thaousand years or eo to obliterato the monu- montal ovidohcos of somo of the grentest citios of tho world. A fow mauuscript-books hove lnsted o little lobgor, but timo at Inst tyrannizos over all; walls crumble, tho anciont books go piccemenl to rags, languages die, the meaning of words and symbols chianges, and it requires tho continuous attention of man to rescao anything from tho sca of ablivion that continually encronches upon tho shores of his- tory. A fow lending ideas and words scom to last foraver, but, as a rale, all human handivorlk that appenls to tho oyo disappenrs Booner or Iator; nnd when we meeb with any artificiab ob- ject which presents to our oyes o form preserved whilo citics bovo crumbled and nations have vaniehed, it Bcems a now revelation of {ho past, But it is in tho uvexpected discovery that famil- iar words, idens, and objects have o pedigree as long ax chronology itsclf, that we get, perhaps, tho most vivid impression of contnct with the past, and thut shadowy liands scem to reach oub suddonly from somo mysterious storchouse of dead and dusty things to clasp our own. For thio great majorily of even cducnted people, such an oxperionco ag thiy may bo found in the histo- ty of TRE MODERN DOLLAR-MATK, S, Tow littlo doestho clork, shopkeeper, or bankor who malkes a huudred times o doy thie familiar figuro, imagino ho is making representationa of tho oldest symbol known to the human raco 3 ono which scems to bavo been elaboraed out of tho mythologics of all tho ancionts, pnmsinfi throngh numborless changos by tho outgrowt! of fanciful legends from tho original idoas, but clearly unccnlgn to the earlicst races, uf whom wo got only shadowy outlines in tho dusk of antiquity, symbol lmown to those who built Tyro and Curthage ns ¢ TIE PILLARS OF IIERACLES," bub os ancient to them ag to uy, In compara- tively modern times pootic faney las conferred this namo on tho 4wo mountains that stand at the entranco to tho Mediterranean,—Calpe on tho nortls, and Abyla on the south side of tho straits. But for moro than 2,000 years beforo tho divorsion of the namo, the form of iho ma- terial symbol was two pillars of wood or stona. “But hiow eame tho Lwo pillara to bo symbolized in tho dollar-mark, and what was their original menning ? ¥ Tho transfer of the title Pillars of Iorcules to tho two mountains furnishes nt Juust n local beginning point in the auswer to tho first of these queries. s ‘According to tradition, Melearthus, & Tyrian navigator and exploroy, snilingin scarch of fubled Atlantis or dimly rumored Buitain, bad prused in 2 bay at the Westorn ostramity of the land bo- yon\f tho straits, aud ot up thero ® TWO PILLATS 48 n momorial, building over them tho temple of Hercules. A colony of ~Tyro waa os- lablished there, and tho placo grow into tho anciont Gades, tho modorn Cudiz. As tho templo iucreneedin wealth through the voliva offerings of passing voyagers it becomo moro splendid, and the lirst rude pillars of stono wero roplaced by othors made of preciousmotals, As late as {ho second contary this temple exist- ed in its greatest splendor. Flavius Philostratus who visited it, testilics o its maguiticonce, and in his life of Apolloniua.of Tynun gives Lho fol lowing doscuiption of tho pillufs : +1fio pillars in the tomple were composed of gold and silver, and 8o nicely blended were tho metals as toform butone’ color. They woro wore than a cubit high,of o quadrangular form, like anvils, whose capilals were inscribed with sharacters noither Indinunor Egyptian, nor such 13 could be deciphered. These pillars are the shaina which bind logether the earih and sea. The {nacriptions on them wozo oxceuted by Iloreulos In tho house of the Parcwm, to prevent discord srising among tho elements and that trmuduhilw being disturbed whick thoy Lad for ench other.” “Theso pillars wero the nneleus of the anciont Gades. and naturaily beenme the metropolitnn oinblem of tho modérn city, as tho horsc's Lead wns of Carthago. Loaving for tho present the explanation of the originnl signification of tho two pillars, the story of THEIR DESCENT TO TS may bo brietly outlined 1 follows: When Clarles V. beeamo Emperor of Germany e adoptod now coat of imperial xrin, it which ihoeo of Spain wero quarlered with those of tho Trupire, the pillars of the arns of Cadiz being nado supporiors in the do Al Seville was an imperi int in which was joined o standard dollar called in tho Meditor- saucan consts * colonunto,” tho most prominent 3gzures in the dovico on this coin being the two pillara nnd the seroll twined about “them, the ropresentation of which with o pen came to be tho nccepted symbuol of the coin, = Acleartiws was & Uyvian, wid cho pilars must, therefore, have been known and revereuced us A BACRED SYMLOL IN TYRL long beforo ho eot fhem up on the shores of tho Atlantic. Additional proof of this o found in tho fact that on tho coins i 'P'yro were prominontly depictod, with somo ather omblems, two shork Xulum arranged as supporters, one on ecither side of tho goneral de- wnice, the proporlions corresponding nearly to theso described by Philostratus, Tho T'yrinns, though not the first peopls to coin money, wore the first to give it general circulation. ' Their coiuago became tho curreney of the” world, and tho two pillars with which it was stamped would naturally becomeo the symbol for money, #o that thas ndoption of the dolinr-mark to desiguato the ++ pillnr-picees * of Charles V. was probably only the ravival of an uncient custom which ab first rofeired to tho ** pillar-picces™ of Tyre. THE PODND-MARE, in all probability, owes its distingnisting fonturo, tho two horizontal barg, to the sumo symbol, though in this connection thoy came into Euge {and by anothor route than Spain, Tho was tho initial lettor of tho Latin Libra, n beianee, and wns used to signity w staud- ard by which to weigh the precions motals, thenamo of the weight bolag derived from tho Roman pondo, o pound. But in the timo of Hlonry VIIL, tho pound sterling which had beon nsed as u stendurd for money was superseded by anather pound, which had beer Zrought from Cairo in Egypl to Troyes in Frauce during tho Crusades, In the 200 years from tho cloventh to the close of tho thirteenth contury, the zoal to rocapturo Jorusalom brought the peoplo of Europe moro in contact with ench other, produc- ing an interchange of idous and customs, though the jealousics of the two or three most poworful nations retarded their goneral adoption. It was probably owing to tho anciont hatred of Britou nd Gaul that this 'royes weight was not dofi- nitoly adoptod in England until it was carried thero by Vonelian goldsiniths, about the yonr 1406, Whon it was #o adopted it was probably distinguished from the old sterling or * caster- ling " pound by ndding to the pound-mark I tvo stroles of tho pen tu represont tho pillars of Horcules, ) TIE COMMON YONKY-SVITOL In tho Mediterrancnn cities, ut as the lower arm of the L was the shoptest, a symmolrical written choracter could be mude more_easily by ehnnging the pillars from the porpendiculnr to tho Lorizontal, In handwriting, itis naiual to mako all strnight mavks slanting and not ups right, and tho chunge from slauting marks to horizontal ones would ho us_rendily ndopted us thor chnngo in Lhe Bymbol, So much for tho stery of tho two pillars as tonnactad with money, T'ho tradition of the Freo Mnsons in regard to the two pillars, which ure o pronmment emblem of thoir craft, i3, that they ropresont the pillars HIN AND BOAZ which liram of I'yre mado for Solomon, and ot onu on vithor #ido of the ontranco to the Yomple, to commemorate the rmnr of cloud by day and of fire by night which guided the’ Tsraclites in their forty yonrs' wanderings in the wildornesy, Whntovor sigimficance tho lebrews may hayo wte tnched to thoso pitlars, thoro i good roason for bolioving that thoy recolved tho natorinl emblon from tho Lyrinns at tho time of the brlding of the femplo, Tho Heriptures givo o minuto necount of tho dimenstons tnd denigns of tho pillare (2 Kiugs vil., and 2 Clironicles iiL), but are silont s to tholr significauco; aud thero iy nothing in the wholo Scriptural nccount of thom to forbid tho conclusion that tho idens symbolized by thom wora ¢ AR DNUOI TYRIAN AR IEWISIL. Tyre hnd heon » rich snd prosporons city for uvm*;i twvo hundrod years when Solomon undortook tho building of the Tompla. Tho Lyrinny had beon skilled in architocturo and othor nrts to n dogree that implicd a high sinte of montal culture, while lho Ilo- brows were yot nomadls tribes living in tonts, Tha " tabornacle was only n tont, and in thls first Hobrow endesvor to givo it o moro onduring structuro of wood and stono, Holomon naturally appealod to the groater skill of tho subjeets of tho frioudly iliram, King of Iyre, Whon tho ITebrows bogan to buildtho ‘Tomplo thoy censod their wanderings, thoy bo- enmo permanontly ostablished, and, na o memo- rinl of this fnct, thoy embodled in the architec- tural design of _the Tompla n symbol which, by the Tyrinta and many othor natlons desconded from tho anciont Aryan stock, was considorod emblomatic of A DIVINE LEADERAITD that bad conducted ~ihem to & nmew and pormanent homo; this was the trio signifl- cance of the two, ]vfllurs. A# long ns the ilobrows wero wanderors, tho pillars of cloud by day and of firo by night waro morely a_motaphor, to expross their befief in n Divino diroction of their movemonts. When they eamo 2t Insbto the promised land, the figirativo pillars of cloud nnd fire hecamo the two_pillars in tho porch of tho empls s the symbol of the vatablishment of the nation, Having thus traced the story of the cimblems Lack throush two liuces of doscent to a common point in Tyre, wo must taken look into, the romotor past to find the origin of the symbol in TH} EARLIEST RECOIDED IDEAH of thohuman race in connection with tho Doity, and from that point wo may follow it doscent agnin through the indopendent routes of Grook and Seandinavian mytholopy. “T'ho nnclont Aryans wha composod the Vedas bad uot thon arrived at tho stago of intelloctunl ~ dovelopmont in which = thoy could entortain tho iden of ' an abstract principlo as the ono umversal Iaw, or of any god oxcept u visiblo ono. To them it scomed impossiblo that thero conld bo n spiritual esseuco ‘witbout somo material form. Tiro, the most iu~ oxplicablo and striking of tho agencies of nature, wag accepted by themas this first and all-per- vading forco which controllod the universe; and tho sun, the grandest and most brilllant mass of firo, a8 the embodiment of the Deity. 1lero nro two veorses of the Vodas, s translnt- ed by Max Muller, which may be called tho Gene- iy of tho Brabhmine, nud in them aro TWO WORDS around which linve crystalized fancies growing into myths, and myths growing into monuments of wood and stono, and ngain into ideal hoings, until the ariginal conceptions havo been almost lost. Yot through all these changes some char- acleristics of the original meaning have been 80 stamped wpon ench new form, that the thrend of counecction, from those anciont days when the first peoples of the human raco worshiped tho sun on tho plning of Central Asia, down through all the ages to tho compara- tively modorn symbol of the Pillurs of Hercules, is umistakablo: | 1, *Inthe boginming there arose the golden CLild, ¢ was one born lord of all that is. He established the earth and this sky ;—Who i the God to whom wo shall offer our sie! ? v 2. “Ilo who gives life, ho who gives strength, whoso command all the bright gods rovere, whoso shndow is immortality ; whose shadow is death ;—Who is the God to whom we ebull offer our sacrifico?” If thore wore nothing but the coincidence of the two words fitalicizod in the forogoing verses with the names of the two pillars in Solomon's ‘Pample,—Jnchin meaning strength, and Boaz to eslabtish,—if (lore were nothing but this to establish the connoction of the two pillnrs, as well ns the Piliars of Hercules and also the Greek myth of Costor and Lollnx, with theso anclonl oXproesions, the identity of all theso myths and symbols might be mors doubttul than 1tie; but THEDE 18 MORE, In tho Vedns the sun s called the “ runnor,” the *quick racor;" ho is called Arvat, tho horso; Agui, the firo; Arusha, the red one, tho strong ouo, the son of Heavon and Earth; Indra, tho god of oll gods, Ha ia ropre- sonted ns druwn in n chnriot over his daily courso through tho Leavens by * the harits,” * tho rohits," and ** tho arushus,"—i. e., tho glenming, the ruddy, aud the gold-colored’ horses of tho dawn, which arc tho fizst 1ays of the morning sun. The floxibility of the idea, within a corfain rango of oxpressions, ecoms to bo acknowledged by tho poots of the Vedns in tho following VOrso : “ flear thou, the brilliant Agni, my prayor, whother tho two black horses briug thy car, or the two ruddy, or the two red horses.” Notwithanding nll the interchanging of names, numbers, and gondors, and tho changing of forms from nnimal to haman and vico versa, thero is an adhorence to the iden of belngs en- dowed with supernntural strongth and bright- ness, and of n contost between, and alternating supremacy of, LIGAT AND DARKNESS [ Ib requires no great srretch of thoe imagina- tion to conceive how, in the Greek molifieation of this many-sided plastic myth of tho suu-lind, TIndra should be the prototype. of Jove, and Arushaof Apollo, and nleo of Herncles. Indeed, it scems probabls that, out of the numorcus names of this ono object of ndora- tion, tho sun, grow nearly all_the wonderful and funtastic system of both Qreel and Scandinavian mythology. In tho Vedic myths tho phenomenn which at- tonded the I'inim:i and sotting of tho sun, the clouds, somo biack, somo ruddy, and some shining liko molten gold or silver, and also his first and last benms darting through, wero spoken of ns horses or cattlo, or beings with human fovms, almost invariably in pairs. In gomo places the ruddy clouds that precede his rising are called tho **bright cows.” Tho two horses which the sun is said to harness to liis ear aro called the ** Arusha,” tho red ones ; in other placos they aro called, the * two As- ving,” tho shiniug mures; and in othors tho idea is moditied still more, and thoy aro called tho “two sisters,” and, at last, wo find, aro uamed DAY AND N10MT, tho “ daughtors of Arusha,” tho one gleaming: with the “brightness of her fatber, and the other docked with stars. Drof, Whitney, in bis ¢ Lssny on tho Vedos," introduces tho *“two As- vins" ns *“ enigmatical divinities," whoso voen- tion or province in Aryan mythology he does not discovar, though, nt thie sumo time, he wtimutes the probability that they may bo idontieal witi, tho Dioscuri of the (irdelis; and Prof, Muller hints at tho snme identity, but with no more ref- orence to their true chinracter of divine fororuu- nera or guides for families, tribes, or races of men wandring nbout the world in wesrch of new homes, It is related of THE DIOSOUNT, thut, whon Castor was Lilled, Follux, inconsoln- bla for his loss, besought Jove to lot bim give his own life for that of his brother. Tothis Jove so far consented as to allow the two brotn- ers to ench pass alternate days under the carth and in the celestiul abodes, their alternato duily doaths nnd_ uscensions into the heavens boing only another version of the story of Day ond = Night, the daughtors of Amisha, The twin brothors Castor and Pollux are represented as nlwn{n clud in shiping urmor, and mounted on gnow-white stoeds,—thus reproduc- ing the chiof ehnractoristics of tho * two Asving,” the shiniug maros of the Vedas, and showing that all those metamorplioses are only vurlations of tho same idea, “I'he Tlebraw miotaphor of the pillar of clond hy and of firo by night, to express the iden of i no loadorship, poluts to the samo nutural objects— CLOUPH AND FIRL— that to the carlier Aryans wero symbols of tho presenco of the Deity ; nud the whole iden might seem o reproductlonsor alaboration of that ¢x- pressed fn the following vorses of the Rig-Veda, writton o thousand yoars boforo 1 “Whorovar the mighty water-clouds went, whore they placed the seed und it tho fire, thonceo aroso Ifo who in the sole life of the biight gods j—Who is the God to whom we shall offor aur sacrifleo # % 1lo who by His might looked even over the wator-clouds, tha clouds which gave strength and llldllu‘)' sacrifieo 5 Ho who alouo is God sbove all s0ds,' Tho fact that nemly evory manifestation’ of tho presonce of the Deity recorded in Hobrow hin- tory down {o the timo of tho building of the Tample was in o clond, shows ab lenst a rematke ¥ublo vegomblance to the Aryan conceptions of the divino presonco, ‘The furthor elaboration of the iden in u{mhnl- Tzing tho rosenco of tho Doity by two pitlrs of woud or stono, and particularly of sueh proseuco in the charactor of o loader through long wun- derings to u pinco of pormanont estublishient, WAH NOT EXOLUSIVE WETHL TIE KEBREWH, Other rucoy with whom the Hobrows could not hinve como in contact had procisely the, sa sywmbol of two pillats of wood or stouno,-—a fact Which malios it ' reasonablo prosumption thut tho two plllars, onn of cloud ono of five, whicn wora thelr prototypo, were not more oxclusivoly & Hebraw iden. In Hparta the twin Diosonrl are #aid to have boen roprosentod by {wo pillars of stone, whioh wero sometimes joinod by a smaller horizontal bar to roprogont their tiwinship, Frequently tho top of ono of theso posta wns carved in the somylance of o luman head, Tho Spartans may hnve borrowed the emblom from the 'l‘yrh\m\{ tho faot that tho anciont Northmen employed the two pillars to symbolizo procisoly the samo idens a8 thoso conneccled with them by tho Hobrows and Crooks makes it quito aa likély that tho Spartaus deorived tho rymbol from the same original sourco as tho Tyrinne, A columm of stono was in fact n COMMON BYMNOL OF THE DEITY among many anciont nations. Vonus was wor- shipped at Paphos nndor the form of a stono. Juno of tho Thespiany and Dinua of tho [eari- any, woro worshipped under tho samo form, Tho most famous of tho Syrinn deities was El Gabal (the atone), n name to which is nkin the modorn Avabic r{nlwl, a mountain, or arock, The vory namo of Gibraltar, ono of the mountning to which pootry has trausforred tho title of Pllinrs of Mareules, is from Gobol Tavik, the mountain, ot the rock, of 'Larik, ono of the first Moors who got foot on tho northorn side of the straits, nnd after whom enmo those who established in 8pain tho brilliant and romantio empire of these suc- ceseors of tho ancient Plienicinus, N l’l‘huru isgood ground for'the presumption that AGRACLER OF TI(E, GREEKS wan only another version of tho mythof tha Diogenrl, Tho Hobrows gavo each of the pillars nomo, though thoy recolyed tho omblom from the Tyrinns, who employed thom ns the omblom of ono deity: and as the Tyrians wore enrlier than tho Groeks, thisg phaso of the monothelstio nignifieanco of tha pillara must have como down from tho snmo ancient source as tho myth of tho Diosenri, ‘With both Qrecks nnd Tyrinna * Horncles," transformed by tho Latins into * Ilorcules," seemed to bo n trausforable houorary title, Tlio proper namo of tho Tyrian Heracles was Melear- Ilmn, whoeo mothor ‘was enid to bo Asteria, the untarey heavens ; whilo the propor name of * the Grook Moracles wos Alewus, who was said to bo tho son of Jove hy o mortal mother, Alemenn, ng tho Dioscuri wore rnid to be _tho twin_sons of Jove by nmortal mother, Leda. Tho Horacles of tha” Tyrlans and {ho Castor and Pollux of tho Grocks wero tho patron doities of. seamon and navigators, ne woll as of fents of strength nnd agillty. Tarning now to the mythology of tho Scandi- navinns, we find in the character of - TiOR ono which_corresponds in all these particnlrrs, Ho was said to bo the son of Odin, tho eldest of tho fodn. by Jord (the earth), Notonly do tho ntorlos of lis foats of strength with hin hammor correspond with thoso of Ilerncles with his club, but o was tho patron deity of tho carly Norso navigators, who wero as daring as even the Thanicians, "The * snored eolnmns " of the Norso mythology yroro o Ligh woadon ponts, or pilars, fationed by bowing. 'lheso stood on either side of the “"high ecat” of tho mnster of the household, sud henco wers eallod * TIE PILUARS OF THE HIQI SEAT," and wero o sort of houschold symbol of Thor. “T'ho upper ond of onc of the pillars being, like the Spartan symhol, carved in tho semblance of o human head, the setting up of theso pillars was the sign of the osiablishment of tho liouse- hold on that spot. When a Northman moved, no mattor how far, ho took his sacred pillars with him; aud when these woro set up, thero was Lis homo nuntll hie mado a formal change of domicile by moving thom Lo some now pot. , When the Northmen discovered Iceland and bepan to emigrato thero thegnered pillars of ench Norse family wera throwti overboard whon thoe shipenme near tho land, and on tho nenrest habitable spot to whero thoy were cnst nshore by tho waves were thoy set up, by planting tho ends in the ground, as A BYMBCL OF POSSESBION, belug in somoe respects a formul uctof “ ontry,” haviug something of tho samo significance as tho act of tho emigrant in the Wostorn Statos who has ¢ slaked out o claim.” ‘When the pillnrs were sot up the honse was built around them, and, though the pillars and the domicilo might be moved to new locations, the place where the piliars were first cast ashoro always retained a eculiar signifieance and socredness to tho family, Thus it is rolated of Throd Irappseon, that his pillars, whon cast overboard, were carricd away by the waves and currents and apparently lost. Mo rettled, howevor, on the enstern sido of Tce- Iand, and hind beon ug thero ten or fifteen years when it was discovered that his pillars hind beon cast nshore on tho westorn const, upon which ho straightway sold his estate aud moved to the locality where bis pitlars had been found. Mnny other instances of tho CAYTING OF TIE BACRED COLUMNS INTO TIE SEA, in order thatthoy might guide Northmen in their eclection of homes in Icoland, are related in Rudolph Koysor's Religion of the Northmen, Of Eiril tho Xed it is told that, having loaned his posts of honor (possibly as a pledge of somo promigo to be fuliilled) to anothor Icelandor, he could not got them back, which gave ocension for u long Toud, into which many other families wore drawn, and many of the adhorents of both partics wegoslain, ¢ Whon the Norse chioftain Thorolf Mostrarskegg left Norway to sottle in Teeland he tore down the temple of Thor over | which ho had presided,—In which ho scemed to have some kind of proprictary right from having built it chiefly at his own oxpenso for tho uso of the worshipers of Thor,—and toolc -with him most of the timber, togother with the carth beneath the platform on' which Thor's statuo had been ecated.” When he came in viow of Iccland the two sacred columus of tho templo wero thrown into the sea; and whero theso wore cnst on shore by the waves lio called tho place Thorsnes, and built the tomple of Thor, placing the two sacred columns, one en cithor side, jnst within the doorway. The incidonts in which tho tivo columna thus appear in the earliost history of the Norso peo- plo are, it is truo, of modemn date when come gnml with their appoaranco at the building of olomon's Temple, or tho ercctioun of the Pillars of Iercules by Melearthus, noar tho Straits of Gibraltay : but their Intor appearance in history Pillars of ‘Thor" DOES NOT ARGUE that they were copied from the Pillars of Her- cules, but only thot written history, or evon chronology of any kind, was not known in Scan- dinavinuntil a mitch lator period than in Byria and Qreeco, Tho Germunio race, however, of which tho Northimen were n branch, had its origin in the contro of Asia near the Caspinn Sen, From thero thoy had bronght the same traditions as tho Syrinns und Groeks; and the religions myths out of which the Greols aftorwards elaborated their fanciful systom of mythology wors by the Northmen, whose rude climute guve imagination o gloomier turn, fashioned into the gnore barbur- ous, grotesquo, and sanguinary 6 aua parmi o cosmogony of the Greeks and the North- men corresponds #0 noarly as to leave no doubt of n common origin, and et the detnils wore so different as to show that: for ngos the ancient storios must Lave boen Landed down from one generation to anothor by peoplo possossod of o vastly differont dogroo of relfnement and sur- rounded by n different aspeet of nature. "I'ho Asn fuith was ns ancient ns the cosmogo- nyof tho Phwniclana and the Greeks, aud tho sacred columns of Thor were not an idos bor- rowed from tho Pillays of Ileracles, but an inde- poudent porpotuntiou of the snmo mystic symbal, ‘Tho facts that the two pillars woro o ssered symbol in threo ancient end_contemporaneous religious, and that thoy occupied tlio Aamo posi- tion nud wignificunce in the tomples of Thor of tho Seandiiayians, Horacles of the Tyrinns, aud Jebovali of the Hebraws, help to confirm the theory of A COMMON MYTHOLOGY a8 the foundation and the source of the ideas of ol the fater faiths, Tho fervid epirit of tho ITe- brows gave to their vorsjon of this and other ancient concoptions & diviner - mold. Aa. tho solar ray of light, split up by the prism, yiolds threo groups of rays, one of which carries with it the main }mrtiau of the lLoat, another tho grenter purt of uli the Iyglit, nud anothor nearly ull tho" actinio qualitios, nud eonch of theso groups embracing two of moro of tho seven prismatio colors, #o the yays of that suclent Aryan sun, the first aud most natural of tho falling on the human 1ing, have boon od mlo n groat variety of faiths, cach < with {t nomo of tha divine light, but in othar ehnractoristics ns difforent as tho gruuru in tho spectrum of tho analyzed solar ray, With one ruce the predominant tralts of rellgious thought aro brilliunt, but meroly sentimontal corruscations of pootio fanvy: with another, cold, praeticnl maxima for thrifey. with nnother) the fervid, but rombro onthusingm, tho zonlous Llufimullam that overturns ompires. the ut in ull thero is the acknowledgment that TEGULAR ALTENNATION OF DAY AND NIa1'® isthe work of God, the phenomenn iudicating i Yl'ummcu to guldo mun around the habituble portions of . tho world, ** Sun and moon go in rogular succossion, thnt wo may seo Indra and halievo,” writes one of the puets of tho Rig-Vedn, “Llhe duy s thine ; tho night also is thine ; thou Lust propared (hio Hght and tho su,"” sings tho poot of Turacl, mroved in Fogland gove all her estute Lo My, Van Huurigh, hor huskand, divested lior elothos 10 0o nold {o puy hor funoral expensos, uad addeds It s aleo my curnest wish that my duyling busband ghould murry ere long o nice, pretiy givl, who I8 a good holisewife, sud, above all, to be caroful that she 15 of good temper,” “P'TIT LULU. From (he Galazy, Slio was n Jersoy Princoss, and her throno was nlow Dit of broken wall outsido tho cottage door, whence sho used to nad hor curly head to tho passers-by, and ecall out. *‘Dood-by, m'siours,” in lior broken English aud shrill baby- troble. 4 Itia thus I snw hor firat—n bright spot of color ngainst tho warm red-brown bnakground of onrth and wall, and tho arch of spotlogs biuo nbova—n dab of carmino, patohod with yollow about the lLead, s torn print garment—onco white—aud two dusty, dimpled, roso plnk logs, tho littlo fat toos clinglng like s monkoy's to tho rough, lichaned inoqualitios on tho side of the wall, . * Good-ly, littlo ono, Thisis tho right way down Lo Rozel Bay, fu it not 7" “Mnls oui, oul. A bns ln. Lulucomo down, Lnlu show m'slour.” Tlo dab of color jumps down, . & great deal moro of the firm, rosy flosh thun propricty ad- mits becoming nakedly patont to tha oye in tho doscont. Two short puds or ingors reach up into mino, and I am provided with a guide on the spur of the moment. * Latlu, Tnlu!” eried o voico from tho cot- tage, *‘ouvas-tu, mochanto? Vions dono do snite, p'tit chat 1" Lulu, I griove tosoo, is not of an obodicnt disposition. Sho stamps one nink foot in the sundy soil, shakos hor yollow hond dofiautly, ond rotorts in o shrill gabble which sounds something liko thig: *V'e’dwre m'siour'bas- vuirl'daty, " Iam freoto confoss that my knowledgo of Jerdoy I'ronch is not equal to a translation. I find mysolf in the unpleasant position of an involuntary child-stealer. /o my rclief, the Iinle-door of tho cottago opens, - and thero comes out n tall, ripe, brown-skinnod girl of 17, with eyos blnck nud ehining as sloo-berries after o shower, aud noat, protty Jorsey features smil- ing_under the great whito sunbonnot, turnod back liko the cup.of & hugo convolvulus. To her I urpunl. Inboring with solomun Dritish dlcupomt on after mylong-forgatton foroign oxor- clyes: “ Mademoiselle, cotte — petite — enfant —a vonlu—" 2 !}‘]lmm'ntly rod lips curve upwards in a ready amile. . “* Ali, yes, m'sicur, it is Lulu's way." (Sho ovidontly docan’t think much of my Fronch, for slie answers in Euglieh.) *‘Bo muny excursion coplo como this way tosee our lmly ond tho gar- dens of La Chaire ahove, that ‘In petite’ has taken the hnbit to play ot guide. M'sleur will plonso-excuse. The neighbors do so spoil the child, sho grows troublesome. Ii done, Lulu !’ “ Lula not trouble. Luln bon sage,” stam- mers the baby-sinuer, stamping & small sivocco in Lior wrath, and hof«uuF tighitly. to, my fingor tho whilo ; then, changing hor koy with the agility of a vocal acrobat, and turning two sud- denly moist blue saucers'of appeal on me, sho whispers, consingly, *Iuln only wont to show do chiomin, Lot p'tit Lulu go, hoin 2 Naturally, Lulu is permitted to go. It is evi- dent that this young Princess is deeply versod in the arts of cajolery—n person not to bo denied mx'yming within tlo compnss of human possi- ity. . The black-eyed dameel and 1 exchanged glances of intelligence, and succumb simul- taneously, Lulu tightons hoer pull on the finger sho has captured, and lends mo off, pattering in shrill triumpl through the dust, aud along tho steep, narrow path which lends onward and downward to the rock-girdled beach of Rozel Bay. By-und-by wo have to stop out of thoway; nn’excursion-car is bonring down upon us, creak- ing and swaying oa the heavy load of gaudily- dressed, bluw?-fncml iiish tonrists,-and neat, sullow-skinned Parisiar, all of the bourgeois clns, but difforont os beings from two distaut sphereg, presses forward on the straining, stag- oring horscs, nnd grates against tho side bf tho fiill. Not wishing to immolate m?‘m:lf. auinvol- untary victim, beneath the wheols of tho de- sconding juggernant, I retiro to o clump of forus and brambles on the outer edge of the path, clutching Lulw's fot wrist tightly, and horribly afraid lest that impotuous young lady should rush forward and bo smashed on tho road, or roll backward nud bo smashed on the boach, The result scems equal, I aw a nervous man, aud grow hot and dam) all ovor with anxiety. Lulu, on the othoer hand, is a8 cool a8 a cucumber. She holds me, indeed, but much a8 o couguering Delawaro could hig captive Mingo, or a stern’ aunt her rofractory nephew, Shanods ber charming head familiar- Iy to tho driver (an wnmistakuble Paddy), smiles upon bim with ull tho sweetnons thoso round Diue oyos can bestow, and bails bim with conda- scending urbanity : *¢ Hi, Malone ! "bo'zour, bo'zour I" "Tho drivor's face ox]lmuds iuto » grin; ho waves his hand cheorfully, t Lulu ;"ln it afthor “ Good mornin' to yo, P’ o ride yor wantin' the duy, mo lady It is possible shat Lulu™ may bave stooped to such an ides on provious occesions, though at prosent she looks o it in the light of an iusult, With great gkill, sho pretends not to henr, and addresses horself patroniziugly to the dusty, stenming oxcursionists, * Dood-by, m'sionrs ot mosdames. Mnlono g8 show you Rozel Bay. Lulu aussi!’ Lulu got son m'slour, V'lndonc!" ‘This Ingt in o tono and with n wave of the un- oceupied dimpled fint which draws instaut and gonoral nttention ou the captive Mingo, Ll in sutisfied. ho car rolls on, and we follow, The cloud of dust is in our oyes; the red faces, cop- per-colored silk gowng, and bideous flowery hats of the fomale 1. T, disappear from view down the winding curvos of the Pnlh. Wo Liear Ma- lone evy, ‘“‘There’s Rozel !,” for tho beneflt of his passengers. Wo, too, rench the cornor. Lulu reliquishes her Mingo, folds her fat palms ecatatically, sots her fat logs as wido apart as is anyway consistont witl an upright position, and, copying Malona's tone with tho nicoty of a prac- tised uctress, repeats, * Zere's Bozell” Then enanging in & voica of glee, and,beginung to jump up and down liko a soft ball of wool tossed into tho uir and Dback agnin—*Lulu show it m'sicur—Lulu—not Malone!” 1 stand still, and look about me—nat tho steep, rough path with ity overhanging wail of ochros vod eaxth, topped by o tngle of foathory grassos and matted white-volned ivy—at the’ broken, precivitous billside—the patciies of golden gorso and fluming purplo boatuer—at tho motley red roofs and steep pobbly paths of the little flshing villago nestled dowu in n nook between tho reon hills and the_yollow strl{) of sandy shora—ut tho gray_qundranglo of the garrisoit wall with ity ltviug sewrlot dots speclding tho interior—nt the broad, lashing sheet of burning blue wators, bouming and dimpling liko o breast- plute of dinmonds under the July sun—at tho rown, weather-beaten flshing-boate hauled up ligls and dry upon the shingly-beach, and far abgye ut the gray roof ol tho wuyside cottagoe ).vll%‘kiug dimly in tho yollow saulight. It is wo protty u sceno, so bright and picturosquo, that I uouh{ lave stood gnzing for a length of timo, Lut for Ly, ‘Taking wy hand again, thatin- sinnating tyrant remarks carclosuly, as of a sub- ject of gencral interost : “Swootlea-in do shop a bas, sweelion,” #1Ia, indecd 7 And Lulu would like somo." “Muls oul,” with most scrious gravity; ‘“tm'siour linyo soma too.” Noustour accedes, scelng it I8 expocted of bim, and together we descend to tho village, Luli pilots tho way with surprlsluif agility to the “wweoty” shop, aud I moakly invest in a small load of tnfy, brandy-bulls, comfits, ote., for my guide, _Bhg, however, hus no iden of hav- ing them made into amoro parcol, but n{mus first oua tiny pulm to bo fillod sud then another, clasping her short fingers fiumly ovor thoir sticky contonts, Imeelly suggost her plunfore aa ai extra rocoptaclo 3 but Lulu, lookiug nt tho holes theroin, shukes her hoad docisivoly, Doubls of tho proprioty of utilizing tho only rowalning germent oconr to botlh of us, whon Lulu nolyos tho dificulty by euddonly throwing back her hend und oponing o, small red cavorn fenced by two rows of wee whito penrls, Il It obedient~ ly, full—vory fuil. Tuiu nods contantodly, and thon, speech boing npossible, gives me one round cheok to kids, uud wo trots away on her homoeward route. Toor, littlo, fat logs, how weary they muat huye grown boforo thoy reached tho jlop of the hilll " Btanding on tho boach twonty minutes lutor, I eaw_the woo whito flgure toiling paine fully upward, and stooping overy half miuto to piok up one of the sweotics which would escaps 1rom hauds or mouth, I'his was my first meoting with Lulu; but long beforo I laft Jorsoy wo had grown intimato frionds, My aoquaintunce with the hospituble mistross of Lin Chairo, whoso gardens, out out of the vock, nre tho show-places of Itozel, bronght o often to that preity bay; and, whothor on foot or horseback, If I ynm«ml tho cottage aud culled, “Where's p'tit Lulu?" out flew tho dim« plod ownoer of that name, dancing for gleo, and hnlding up hor chubby hands to bo taken by **ls m'sionr qui m's donno des wwootics,” Lulu lived with lor grandmothior—a' liard- fuced old dume, wearing the short stull skirl, clumping phoes, and brand-winged snowy cop of Brotuguo—who workod in tho flelds ; and hor proty young aunt Maunotte. Fuather, - grand- father, and unclo had all been lost, drowned in Bery dood | tho aea, out fishing tho night Lulu was byinj and mothor went boforo moming to Aol them, Tho shock killod hor, and loft Tntla orphatod Lo- foro sho was nn hour old; Imé tho child lived aud thrived, Al the neighbors round nbout ];mud und mada much of tho helpless baby; tho 1lghors in ourunlml taking so warm an Intorest in hor wolfare that at 8 yoors old Milo Lulu was tho acknowlodged pot of Rozel, and the riling splrit in that lonely cottage on tho hill-top, T'wo yonrs wnd o half hnd presed when nccls dont ngain brought mo to Jereay for my summor holldny ; nud nd a mattor of course oho of my Airst exeurnions was to Rozel Tay, nnd my kind friond at Ln Chinire, T wns on” horscbuck, and tho day was hob and thunderous, breaking avory now and then into those suddon down-pours,- thoso ferrifio sheels of rain, for which the 'lnlnm'l is no disngrecably noted. 'Not having an nm- brella, I was natirally dosirous of gotting to L Chalre bofors bolng caught In ons of theso wator-upouta ; yobay I neared the well-known Jouss by tho rondside, the romombranca gf Ly mado mo draw rein and slncken pheo, Tooling out for & glimpsn of my littlo friond, and catling ber namo “aloud in hopes of keolng n pair of startled, joyous oyos flash out In fuswer, L Valu ldonl Thors was no_ volca in reply, no rugh of littlo foot, no round, bright faca litted up to kiss me. 'I'ho houso stood thoro, silent in tho yellow, thundorous dight, dust upon tho, groy walls, dust upon the clogod windowa, dust upon the uutidy tufts of blood-red tarnatiops straggling over tho dry, light soil outsido the door. Neyor a sound from within ; nover a puft of emoko from tho chimnoy, The placo looked datk, dismal, ond desortod, ns though a curse hnd fallon on ic: and, wondering nnd disap- pointod, T.rodo down ' in tho village nnd pus ‘(‘: ;ny hordo at the inu before go%ng to Lae iniro. g ‘I'hero I inquired for my baby fzulde of formor yours.Thore, in thestablo-yard, I learnod from the old man who ncted s ‘my groom what hnd bnppenod to the hapy cotlnge, and where its littlo quoon had gone, Lault was cload ¢ Monsicur romembors hor aunt," tho man Bald, “‘a protty, dark glel, with choels liko penchew, and velvet eyos, * Douco Manatto,’ tho flsbors called Hor 3 but for all hor boautiful oyos thoy did not find ber !douce’ to thom. Lo bon Diou knows Liow meny lovers she had in ths vil- lago heko; bub never a ono got insido tho cot- tnge room whore Manette washed and sewed, and kept coro of Lulu while grand'mere was nway.at nover o one of thom elitill Philip Gor- don, 1 privato from the garrison thero, found his way up tho hillpath, and Into Manotte's willful’ Dieart. A, Diow] from that day nll went wrong. Gordon wud nu idle, dissoluto sort of follow, and the grand'mors would havo nono of him. She found out that ho spont overy son in folly ns #oon a8 it came ; that his oflicors looked on him 28 o black sheep; and that, for aught his com- rndes know, he might have n wife in ovory gnr- rigon towd already, Ln grand‘mero turnod him out of tho housoe the frit time sho cnught him there, and forbado Mauotto to see or spesk to him again, * * onotto disoboyed. , “ One can not judge tbéiu things, m'sieur, och? Porhaps the grand'mere wils'over harsh,” Por- haps Gordon persuaded tho girl that ho was n vietim to cruel ealumny and injustice—ca passo, Every thna ho conld got leave in tho day, whon old Moero Lo Brun was fiway, he used to coma to tho cottnge ; und Lulu, happy and imporcant, kopt guaxd an goutinel at the door while tho lovors tallied. Wo in_the village know it nll; aud when vo saw ¢ p'lit L\kln‘ Acrambling down tho hill-path with ove Hitl8 heud” grasping the neck of her pinafore, more thau one of s guoss- od that Manetto bad tucked a serap of paper in thero with 2 mesaago for her soldier-lover. Lulu lilied to bo busy, you know, m'sieur ; her littlo foot never tired of runuing errands for the folk sho loved, * One day tho end of all thin arrivoed. *'Plio regimont was orderod to leave Jorsey abruptly, aud Gordon with difiiculty coutrived to lot Manctto know that he would bo with her by o cortain timo to eny *Good-by,' and make nr- rangemonts for their futuro.. Bebold! n if by alice, that vory day More Le Bran had rhicumu- tism, and would not go to woik, or suffer Mn- nette to lerye lher. Porhaps sho suspecled. Dion gait. At any rate there she was, and thero was Manctto, wildp restloss, miserable, and dreading overy moment Lhat Gordon wonld 2p- car, At lust an idon siruck her. She ealled Lulu, and bade her run down the path, meet hor Tover, and koep him away. Lulu went at_once, Tho graud'mero saw tho child scampor off, and ome back, p'tlt chat, it goes to rain hard! Como thon, wicked ono!* ** Helas! you know Lulu. §ho was willful, In petite, and “sho loved Maunotlo more than_the hard old grandmother. Bho ran ou, not hceding. Tt was u black, stormy duy, like this, bub worso, Great drops of rain began to fall; and Mero Lo Brun, afraid for the child, bade Manette go and Toteh her back, ].-‘ifinm to yourself how'glndly Dior daughior oboyed! Sho How off like a hnre, Tior fuco all ono raso of joy. Then T supposo ln rand'moro suspeeted. $ho roso up ond fol- owed 3 and there, a littlo way from the path, all among the forns und stones on tho shaip slopo of tho Lill, stood Gordon with Mauetto in his arms, and Lulu eitting on n_point of rock beside t)tmm, seroue aud smiling amid all the rain and storm. % 1¢ nll hspponed in one second. *The girl snw hor grandmothor's throatening foce over her lover's shoulder and started baclk, Cordon throw onthis arm to keop her, and somehiow, by accidont, knocked ¢ p’tit. Lulu' off her rock by tho jork of bis clbow. Thon thoro | camo a graat blazo of lightning, . rush of rain which frightenced them all. They heard Lulu cry, and fried—nll threo—to save her as sho foll, 1ell; foll, rolling from rock to rovk over tho forng and brambles, , M'sicur, you nre pglo; you gucss, it was quito uscloss, The old woman .wag 8tifl ; Gordon had to think of dlanctto lest gho tuo, shouldslip and dash herkelf down, When they reached the bottom, Lulu loy thore upon the stones quite still aud white, her little ody all broken, hor hands_tom and bleoding. Dead, m'sienur ? yes, stous dend. 'Ihere was one cut on the littlo hond, all among the yellow curly —you could bhave put your hand in it. “They buried her threo days later, All tho noiglibors round camo to seo her laid in holy qrnuml, In potit ange. Thoro wus not a dry oyo, Honsicur can comprobend; but' tho regiment hud gono boforo them, Gordon with it, nnd ln grand'mero could not leavo Mauette, who lay ill of n fover in her bad. S Tauvre fillo! sho did not dio; but it was full five wecks bofore she could oven sit at tho cot- tage-door ngaiu; und then hor beauty was all gone her skin yellow, her oyos dull, liko an old, old woman, I do not think her brain was over quito right aftor that; who would <look so wanly at you, and sny, ‘Lulu, Luln,’ over aud over again in a dull, hopoless way ; thon ery out in great agony, or ercep away to weop, I think sho knew lier folly aud wrong- doing hnd killed tho inuocent lamb who loved lier, und could not livo it down, Poor Manetto ! ono dny la grand’'meroe shut np lior cottage and carrled her away, She said tho neighborstalked ubout them ; and our poor are verv proud, vufez- vouz, m'sieur, Thev went away to Franeo all in o day ; nnd since then tho houso is empty. Thore is no littlo face to Inugh ont at you; no «hild to take tho placo of ‘p'tit Lylul” Turopon GIFT. —_— OUR CHILDREN. Astho fragranco of tha roses, An it flouts upon tho breozos A8 tho volo of fentherod songster, As St warliles from the treen; As the singing of tho brooklet, ‘An It murmurs through tho valo; As thio ong of birds at even, Wit thefr soft and pensivo wall; As tho glory of th morning, Whio thia aun dispeli tho flgo As tho beaty of (Lo landscape, When s ¢lad n early blooui An'the benuty of tho diamond, When 1t sratkics in fhie lighf,— Aro tho volces of onr ohildren, ‘As they sweotly suy, “Good night " J. ¥, Oranx, e YN A f3ight Mistuke, The Cincinnati correspoudent of the OClove- land Zeader tolls this story about tho advons tures of o strangor in the Constitutionnl Con- voution of Ohio: A upruce, trim follow cnmo inlo the Couven= tion on Tucsday, bofora it bogun business, Ilo seomod lind of restluss, liko n cat in o strango garrol, and hung around the Clork's desk in a tituld usnacr, walting for topo_onegto awk him what ho wanted, but no one asked him, and ho finally mustored up cotirago to inquire of one of the Becrataries for tho Chiaf Olerk, and Ithodes ‘was pointed ont to him, aud the shadows of sus- pontio left his anxlons fuco as ho approacked tho solomn Necratary and said p - 1 holifvo you nre tho Clerls § well, I want to jo&g this Convoption.” i udl lookoed at hint Inquiringly, and said ** Want to do what ¢ * 1 wanl to joln this Convention.” A laok of pily and commivoration enmo over Duil's thonghitta faco, ab doubin of tho fellow'a sanity hogan to dawn upon him, und ho said: * Why, my donr sir, 1 don't understand you." S Why, I am from Indiunapolis [and ho grow four inohos tallor]; I nm acquuinted with Gon, Bol, Merodith and “Gov, Hondricks [he straight- ono about four inchos more] t aud [ want to Jolu this Convention| 'his 18 tho Bliort-1lormed Convoution, ain't it 2" A Bhart-Tornod Cattlo Convontion mot at Mozart 1ll the saino day, and the dologale from fudianapolis had got thiogs mixod, WOMEN AT SCHOOL. Somo Commonts on an English Offie clal RRoport on ‘Thin Subfocts Z'rom the London saturday Review Archbishop Whataloy nead to hold thet there was ono characteristio distination botwoon mon and women. When mon, ho sald, wero spoken of diaparagingly ns & wholo, they woro apt to co- incide, but whon any partienlar man was nte tncked, Lhoy usually stood up for him, aud ald thoir bost to sliow that Lo was not such n bad sort of fellow after all. On tho othor Liand— this was Whatoloy's theory, and wo accept no xesponsibllity for it—womon woro oxtromoly sensitivo ng to.tho goneral charncter of thelr Aox, while qulte ready to join in cutting up the sisterhood in detail. It would b intorest- ing to know what foolings will bo oxolted in tho fomalo mind by tho roport which lns just boon issued by the Cambridge Syndicate for tho ix- amination of Womon. Tho Syndicato affect to roport, on the whole, vory favorably of tho in- dustry and intolligonco of the majority of the cahdidatos who appenved bofora thom at the dif- ferant contres, but thoy take upon thomsclves Lo moko somo romarks which, wo fear, will ho thought to bo offonsively charactoristio of tho arroganco nnd presumption of man, It it stntod that only n fow cangldates, whon oxamined in tho *Horin Pauline,” showed o knowodgo of tho book and nreal hold on the ar- gumont ; whilo most of thom, although nc- quainted more or fess with Paloy’s facts, oxhib- ited groat wonkness in applying them conolu- sivoly. Most of the candidates had ovidently studied {lro Bcripturoes very carofully ; but * the answors to a quostion which asked for o careful mtminary of 1. Cor., xv., scenferl to show that not more than two or three eandidntos had rond tho chuptor 8o a8 to mastor its method and con- noxion.” 'The ladios camo out"strougly in nrith- metio ; but in Bnplish history they grn Hnrensti- callf advised to **avoid mors fluney of oxpres- sion ;" and in English litoratnro * tho besotting error wae irrelovanco,” Thus, when a brief summary of the Zydriotaplta was askod Jor, tho zesult was that a grent many accounts, tha ro- yorao of biiof, wore prosonted, not of the worle, but of Bir Thomns Browne, the writer of it, It is remarkod that it was observablo that sovoral candidates who complnined of want of timo hed signally migspont tho time sllowed them. The oxaminer further noticed graat *good will,” but ‘a very provalent ihnccuracy.” In Euglish composition tho oxamiuer . discovered o weakness for slang aud a tondenoy to flippancy, and ‘““too many of tho writors did not "sufiiciently consider the meaning of tho subject thoy selected,” Ome of the subjcots which wero sot was ‘to fix tho placo of tho novel i modern literaturo; but many of thd candi- datos started oft at o tangent, and oxpatiuted on tho bad effects of ronding novels. Tho oxam- iner endenvors to take the edgo off theso home-thrusts by suggeating that, after all, ho hag, in his timo, rend worso cssnys by mon, ‘Tho examiner may bo very loarned man in his own \mi', but he clearly kuows very littlo abont women if ho'thinks to appenso their nntural in- dignation by n paliry concossion of this kind. We havo very little doubt that women will soo through the fhmsy Ew:tensn of courtesy and concilintion under+ which the examiners en- doayor to disguiso this .attack upon tho goueral cliarnctor of the g sox, especlnlly on those vory points on® which womon are known to bo' most sensitive. A women willstand n good desl, but no Wwoman' with the least #pirit ovor submitted without an cxpldsion Lo an insinuation that she was not & person of a logical turn of mind. Evon the patiout Grisclda, who allowed her children to be taken from her oue by one, would no doubt have startled hor sponso by thoe suddon nnnri:y of hor character if Do hnd ehanced to say, My dear, it is renjly no use trying to arguo with you, for women are always go ifjogical.” All “women are logieall augd whotbior thoy nro logical or not doocsn't mattor, for all the samo they have a right to bo considered so—this is the first great principlo binzoned on the banner of the sox, Yet hore wo find » sucering oxaminer pointing out that ouly ono eandidato iu logio showed o thorough grasp of tho subject, and that ho found it oxcoedingly “dificult to obtninaclenr statoment and ready u) plication of imnortunt dofinitionsand theorema, All this is quito of o ploce with tho malicions and fmpertinent suggestions of the examinors, thiat womon nro distwrsive snd rambling, and that when they kit down to iry to writo a short acconnt of ona subjoct, théy genorally write o loug cecount of somothing elso. The difficulty of obtaiving a “ clear statement " from o lady is alsa o very stalo bit of satire. Tho examiner in Latiu romarks thint tho goncral improssion pro- duced on_his mind by the work done was ** that tho knowledgo shown was in most cases rather duo to a retentive memory than sotually nssim- ilnted with the mind naund thought of tha candi~ dates,”” Thisis put ina very fiue way, and por- liaps tho examiver may havo flattered himself that there was something clever in the sonorous turn of Ms waliguant epigram ; but wo ean faucy we hear o femnlo chorus crying, “ So women aro psrtots, aro’thoy?” Aud it must bo confostod that this is renlly what it comes to. The French oxamitier of course las his hit tho rost.” 1lo thinks it may not be ams to warn candidates ngainst rendoring inlo verse passages which they aro expectod ta ronder into prase. Ilore aguin i6 oo of tho old sarcasms on woman that thoy think tho hard, plin proso of life nob good enongh for thow, and aro always wanting to soar into the region of pootry. Tho samo splrit animatos the wholo of those reports. “Thoy nrofull of sneoring allusions to nll thoso little wonlnesses, roforence to which s known to be peculiarly offousive to the gen- tlor sex, 1t may bo true that women have a rolish for racy languago, aud thero are, no doubt, rumors that 1 the highest cirelos this presion for color, or perhaps we should say for something else than proso, in conversation Lins lod to tho use of a veiy astonishing voenb- ulery; "but only a Cambridge examiner 1s capablp of toliing o Indy to_her faco that sho 14 {lippant and talks slang. Tlo passago, howover, in thoso roporty whicls will_probaliy' bo most Dbitterly rasented is that in which proficloncy in arithmetio is ascribed to women, It will Lo undorstood at onco that thisis ouly anothor way of saying that, if womon are fit for nothing olsio, nt loast they can keop o correct accounut of housokeoping expenses. It rovives at least ono part of tho old Imputation that their uatmal tuisslon i “ to sucklo fools and chronicle smuil beer,” although it is well kuown that no greator insult can nowadays bo paid to's young lady than to euggost that sho possosses, ovon in the most trifling dregree aud shadowy form, sy of tho qualitios of & competent housowife, Altogethor, tlus soeins to us a very scandalous production, "1t hes been ‘Yrintcd Dy the ZLimes as o genuine documont, and names aro appendod to it which are certalnly tho names of gontlo- mou who aro kuown i Cambridge. So wo sup- ‘pose It must bo accepted a8 authentic. It will no doubt bo tukon up by the sox against which it s directod, and wo sball. hear what {s thought of it. Tho objectof thaapthorsof this ncadomical lampoon appoars to liavo beon to throw into an official form & consonsus of the traditional foiblos of womon undor pretense of giving tho rosults of recont oxnminntions, - Soma of them are, perhaps, married men, aud thoy may hiave enjoyed a malicious but.shabby satis- faction in giving vont to remarks which had oc- curred Lo them in the course of domestio con- voryution, but which thoy deemed it moro prudent to sippress, My darling, I do notdispute your faots, but you show grent wonknoss in applylng thom,” or *I do wish you would avoid fluency of oxpression,” or * When you begin to say just s siugle word on one subject, why on carth do you diact off into o thousand words upon another uubject which hns no possible conncction with it v You lnow, dearcal, how I hnto flippancy and slang,” or *Tt's really hopoloss trying to got w olear statemont’ from a lady or expecting lier to bo logical,"—thoso and othor expressions in the Roports bave cortainly n strong flavor of conjugai coutrovorsy, andporhaps the exnminers mny feol relioved in huyipg at Inst found an oppor- tunily of spoaking thoir minds freoly, . Iut atter alt it 1s surely ruther havd on thoe innocont vietims, andit is u pity thoy cannat have their rovepge. In tho old fablatho fion obsorved thut, if tho'pie. ture of ono of his specics lying in the toils of tho huntor had boon paiuted Dy a lion, tho man would huve boon on the grouud sud the liou on tho top of him, Now that the women heve beon photographed by the examinors, it would be in- torosting 1o havo n sketch of the oxaminors, an ropresonting the malo wex gonerally, from (ho Vnint of view of the ladies who wore exomined. Wo sliould probably find mon doseribed as hard, pedantic, aud unimaginative; always in o fuss and hurry, and disposed to ory that time i up, withouzh thore I plonty of time to spare; aud glyon over to uulmramnuuu worship of mero rulo and tochuical formalitios, It would alsa Lo pointed out that man, with all his professed nnxfoty 10 mako the wmost of time, often wasted it shwnofully in sslting for reasons when no FOUHOLE WOro nocuuln‘:? and in aur&)lng at pur- tieular exprossions, dmuuh all tho while he know vory woll what poople monut; aud that, with all kiy honsted lo;im, Lio has nover mastor i that elemenlary sud most useful proposition, “It {8 becuuso it 1" It wlfllt further bo ro- murliod thut, according to the anciont suyiug, Minerva i no sooner startod on o journoy than sho arrived at hor destination, andthas womon Liad o reasou to be ashamed of resombling so ] réapootnblo & goddess in the rapldlt; montal flight. If womont nra &om)‘:"omlmthtzl: quick, mon aro drendfully slow and lodding, and womon ofton allaln by mtultion what s, with nll tholr Inbotlons loglo, fafl to ronch, This would cortalnly bo a good Eubject for tho noxt exarclres in English composition which nro re- quirad to bo writton by Iadics for the Cambrldgo Byndloate, " — e BOUDOIR PROPHECIES. : Y One dny in ths Tailerles, Whelt o eottlvest Hpanish breezs rought seandalous nowa of the Qu Tho fair, protd Empresy nald, Quoary My gond'friond lokes hior head § 1 minttors go on this way, Tl sco lior ehiopping nomo day 1n tho Boulovart-Onpucines,” The aying owlftly went. o {ho Plac of tho Orient, . And tho stout Queen snedrod * Ah wak You ngo proud and prudo, ma bollel But I thhik I will linzard n guoss, T slinll roo you ona ing.playing cheas Wills tho enro of Carabanchiel,” . Doth Indles, though not aver wiss, Wero Incky'in prophecies, For flio Boulovart shopmen well Enow tho'form of atout Isabel, Aushio buys her ntodes de Paris And nfter Sedan, In despair, o Empross, prude and fair, ‘Went to visit Madame aa Mera In lieg vilin at Carnbanchel— Tut tho Queen w: th — The Reggar Roy of Lucorne. Moro Ehnnlll;r"l,l"‘ llmrltll and Iome, Y il a contury ago, bofo: ora bullt abont tho old olky 5F Tawerce - corrert Autrain noblomen formod . kront conplsacy ta conquer town and Iand for Hapaburg. Now tha omerald-greon wators of the Reias d{)wcu Wil Iy past the town. They have lind n long jours noy from their lome among the awful glaciery that bolt and bar the ?‘orlun of tho Alp-land, Thoy hove hounded ovor Darron rocks, nprnkied tho moss and honther above tho renlm of heast nnd bird, leaned fonrless down the blnck Doyil's Gorgo, dashed ovar and.around the boulders with which tho ginnts usod to Py, bud so esor on and ever down liave held thoir courso, till the Wouder-Iake, the Lake of tho Four Cantons, bas rocoived the panting fugitives, Bho hag washed thom clean of tho certh-tint with which they wore !)Dm. ior dopths, the color of dain- tiest robin's-ogg, quictly Dide the wanderors' imporfeotions and sond them on thoir way, clad in their lymuy. Toudly singing thoir untranslated uong. Down by the bod of tho Rouss thota stood an old urende, dim and obzcnro, it placa for murderous council. Horo the scarlet-slooved conspirators mot in tho darkness of tho night, Aftor much consultntion it wasfinally dotermined ‘that with tho swords and dapgers with which they woro armed tho Mayor i Goupellore. ot tho city should bo slain, “Beforo dav shall break tho doomed town shalt bo in their power. Silontly starting on their dondly 1nirsich one of tho noblomen discovers a poor boy lying up- on o, bench in tho darkness of n corner. Ho ig only & boggar-boy, and he lasuo home, no friends, So tho hinnd of the henvenly watchor, whase glances pierco the vail of night, had lod him’hero to guard the town, ITo had listonod to the treacherous plot, and dotermined to roveal it as soon ay ho could escapo_undiscoverod. But suddenly ho is snizod by the desporato mon. Thoy doclare that thoy will instautly kill him, The” sword is raised,” but the boy, = wild with terror, ontrenta thoir morcy, and prdmiscs ho will nover roveal to any man whab ho has henrd, Belioving the promise, with many thronts thoy let bim go. 3 Out_into tho darkness the.boy dashes, He #ocs far off tho light in the cot of n villaga butclior, nnd bastens toward it. Thoro is care- Ioss fensting and morriment horo, and & group of men nvo tolling atorios of daring in tho oldon timo. The boy, with breathless Lasto, rushes info the room.” Tho tears ara rolling down his chaoks. Ho Loolks not into tho face of any one, but hurrics to tho gront stono atove, and crics: *“0 stovol what I have promised nover to toll to any man I must quickly tell to theo! O dear, good stove! I was compolled to swoar; but listen well whilo'T show to you the dangor of tho be- lovad city. Tho murdorors aro inatoning oven now to slay the rulera and to conquor Lucerne once more. They—!" Tut only tho stove i3 thers to hoar thd story of tho Lright, sly boy. ‘The strong mon have quickly taken the slarm; vory soou the con- Bpiratdra aro roizod and hnstened to justice, Tho foes of tho good town are driven out with strong hand, and still Lucerne is freo. “They sought for tho child whoso loyal canning had saved them, but they nevor found him. Lyen to this doy tho Switzers tell the story with admiting gratitude in their tones, but no mun know his namo,, Tho sensoloss stove that heard the warning is still preserved in tne old hall whero the butchera' guild was wont to meet. ? g ‘What think you of tho bravery and artifico of tho nameless beggar boy of Lucerne ? ' v g e e 'The Pretty Nune=-A Glimpse Into an « Italian Convent. _ Thoy nro skl past middlo oge, excopt ono, who is nbout 25. Sho has been in tho convent threa yonrs, und soems to Lo the lifo of tho sisterhood. She 18, without_oxaggeration, ono of tho prot~ tiest women I ever snw, Sho has rich, brown, motherly eyes, clour skin, a lovely mouth, protty toeth, a very graceful form, with quick, cEnrm- ing movomont, and sucl a laugh andl smile! Sho socmed to bo 'caressing and potting me ovory time sho spole or laughed, They woro nll do- lightfully npocent and fresh; they had charm- ing manners; high-hred and olognat, wo should eay in tho world, and showed r protty deforenco to ono nnother; tho Superior they gatherod around with groat love; she said sho had been thirty yeprs o Sny‘n'rlm' ** Quaranto, mia madro " (“ Forty, mothor”), whisperod an older nun to hor. “I vero, o vero " (it is truc), answered tha Buporior, Inughing, and’ shaking” the old nun's haud sffectionataly. I admired the gurden, which I could soe through thelargo arches of tho cloister. Tho protty nun sprang up and threw opon a glass door to show me Low groen oud largo it is, ana snid: ** We raiso our beany and pense, and_all our vogotables, as well ns grapes.” I said to this protty ereature: *You mnst bo the bambino of the sisterhood.” They alllaughed, but her eyes brightoned still moro a8 #ho oxdlsimed : *Non, non; noi sbbumo uns vera bambino. Aspotta, siznora " (No, no; we have o ronl baby, Wait"); and sheran swiftly outof the cloisters, Prosently sho ro- turned, carrying in ler.beautiful, strong arms, but tottering under the weight, a hugo dwarf- Flrl, which she placed on a.seat opposite me, T'he poor child, thoy said, was 16 years old, and had beon ten yonra at the convent. She was not: 3 feot bigh, but had a great, broad, shapoless trunlk, large enough for a good-sized maturo orson. I'ho faco and head, too, wore also very nrge. Sho seomied to havo no neck, and breathed with dificulty. But nothing could bo more lovoly than thio poor creature's faco. The skin was soft ma satin, the foatures woll formed, tho large, dark, sad eyes full of intolligonce, “tho mouth soft and gentle, and without any sign of doformity, not evon tho constant life of suffor- ing which sho must havo had liad loft any pinch- ed or wrinkled muark on her dear faco. Tho look of henvenly pationce was all that told tho sor- rowful story, She said ber name, * Kalorina Toroen,” inn very musical voice, and whon I stooped down and kissed lier, shio put up hor poor little, slonder, transparent hands and pat- ted my chooks laviugly.—Correspondence Phil- adelphia Bulletin, ey A Jolly OLd Party. From the Fincastis (Va,) lerald. Mr. Allens Forguson, of Amsterdam, Va., whe in 72 yeurs of ngo, Intoly visited his mothor in Appomattax County, who will Lo 100 years of ago on tho6th of January next. Thoe good old lady was delighted to kee her boy; andte pro- mote his pleasure, and to gratify that Inordinate socinl feotnro of Tuckalioo charactor yot glow- ing in Lior own lionrt, dotermined to give him' n party, whioh she did by Iuvitmg soven of Allon's schoolmates to dine, Of the eight echoolboyy thus brought togother, Allon was tho youngost, tho other oven rangivg in agoe from 75 to 85 yours, Amwounyg othor topica discusacd at the din- nor-tablo, thut of longovity was introduced, and it wna the united testimony of the party that most of our modorn honlth-flestroying disanses ‘aro due to tho rfn.vmmmlala bills of faro now com- wmonly found thraugh thocountry, and that ** Tioy and Hominy " aro the bost promoters of huullfi and long kfo. —_—— Elent and Discnsc, During the roheating of the furnacos .of arn iron ostublishment in Lngland, snys the British Journal of' Selence, tho men worked whoen tho thermomotor, placed #o us not to be inilionced by the rmliation of heat from the opon doors, ninvked 120 dogroes, In tho Bessomer pits, the men coniinue w knd of lsbor requiving great muscular offort at 140 dogréos. In nomo of the oporations of glnns-mlklu[i, ihe ordinary summer working temporatura is considorably Jovor 100, and the radiant hoat to which thework= men are subjootod far oxcoods 213 dogrecs, In a 'Larkish bath, tho shampooers contino four or flve haars at o time in & molst ntmosphore ng tomporatures ranging from 105 to 110 (ogreos. In “enumol works, mon labor duily iu = hoat of over 4110 dogreos. On tho Red Bon stonmers, tho tempworature of tho stoko Lolois 1456 doe groe, Aud yot in nono of theso casos does any speclal foym or typo of discage develop tuolf,