Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1874, Page 9

ITALY. The Reconstruction of the Na« tion. Its Form of Government---The Par- liament, King, and Min- isiry. Bad Condition of the Finaneos, and the Causes of That Condition. Tho Immense Work that Had to Be Done in the Process of Reor« ganization. Construotion of a Railway-Systems--Sup~ pression of Religlous Corpora= tlons ==+~ Advancement of Popular Educa- tion, Unparalleled Improvement of the Coun- try During the Last Fifteen Years, Bpecial Correspondance of The Chicago Tr{dune, Tosr, March 25, 1674, In a former lattor was briofly traced the amaz- {ng reconstruotion of taly in 1859, with the fin- 1shing touchen recoived in 1866, in the liboration of Vaoetis, and in 1870, which completed the work by rostoring to the nation its ancient Cap- {tal; and it only romains to glance at the use the nation has mado of its now-found Liborties, Xtaly again hoa * moxe-nuLE," after having boon doprived of it for a period that datos buck boyond tho timo of the Anglo- Saxon invasion of England, and up to tho time of tho withdrawal of the Roman legions from that feland. The allen tyrants have beon ex- polled from hor borders; the Hapsburga and tho Bourbons are gono ; and sho now enjoya tho form of government of her free choico, and that bost suited to her montal dovelopmont, tra. . ditious, and dosires, Tho patricians, and the ploboians aro satisfied,—the ono with aristocratio ‘embloms aud appearances, and tho othor with sub- stantial demooratio rights and priviloges, which seours political and oivil liberty in sa full mons- ure a8 oan bo found in any other nation in Eu- rope. The Italians have melf-government olmost * up to the Ropublickn stand- ard juo the United Btates of Americs, The snftrago is not quite univorsal, av n small property qualification is roquired to enablea man to vote. But almost every man, not & pau- peror oriminal, is enfranchised, The oloctors chooza thoir own Mayors and Common Oouncils in all the citios and towns of Italy, which is not the csse In Franco, where the Diotator and Junto at Parls appoint all tho Mayora and control tho Counails, Tho Italian voters elect the Doputies to tho Chambor of Deputies, or Lower House. The Kiog sppoints THE BENATORS from among tho most distinguished oltizens of the rosim, who aro over 40 years of ago, a0 that the Upper Houso i not a Houso of heroditary Lords, 23 1n, Great Britaln, but is constituted of mon past tho middle age of life, who have done the groatest service for tho State, or have in othor waya distinguished themselyos,—a condi- tion of the nomination being that the person should either fill & hugh office, or have wmoquired fame In sciencs, ‘lterature, or any othor pursult tending to benofit the nation, or, fiually, that he should pay taxes to the amount of 6600 sunoally, . TIE DRPUTIEE OF THE LOWER NOUHR are elocted in districts of equal eize, by & ma~ Jority of all oitizens over 25 years of age who Pay taxes to the amonnt of 40 liro, or 88 per au- num. Priosts may voto, but aro not eligible to soata in the Parlismont; and Cardinals and Bishops aro not sppointod to bo Benators. Neither Senators nor Doputies receive any sal- ary, parqnisite, or other indemnity for their ser- vices. Henos thers ars no national scandaly sbout malary-grabbors or back-pay-stoalera smong the Italian ** Congrossmon.” The Sen- ate at presont consists of 270 members ; but the number varies, a3 vacancies ocour by death, and the King may appoint now members at pleasuro. Khe Princes of the Royal House who are of age are Bouators, these being the only hereditary members of the body. The Lowor Houss is tompored of 508 mombers, being one for every ¥0,000 nouls according to the last census, exclud- ing fractions, As to TR MONAROR HIMAELY, ho waa elected Kingof Italy by the popular Yote of the different Btates, and the Orown was also formally conferred upon him by the Parlia- mont, with succession in his family, Victor Emasnuel, therefore, holds his Italian Crown, not by “Divine right"” nor hereditary aucces- sion, but by popular election,—as much so as s President of the United Btates holds his offico by the will of the fnnplu. The King administura the Govornment through & responsible Ministry, and may, at tho requost of tha Ministry, proroguo the session of the Parliament, or dissolve_the Lowor Houss and order a now oleotion ; which is only to_bo dons, however, when the Mlulatrfllfl defented on some important moasure, or the Houso carries against them s vote of want of confidence. In this re- 'Em' the Italian Conatitution is moldod aftor thatof Groat Britaln, The Ministers have & :Liht toattend tho dobates in both Houses, snd 0 part the disoussion, but - not to _ vote, ~ umless _ thoy are also members of the body, which they are oligible to ho by appointment by the King =28 Benators, or slection by the voters aa Deputies. The ealary of the King fa §3,000,000 per annum, out of which he must keep opon a score or two of palaoes scattorod about the Poninsula, support the oivil liet, and pay eoveral thousand Crown- sorvants who take carc of the Royal palaves, m;k, ':enr!‘i‘ gn?r:;’ds. an(ors ut‘he un{on of Italy, ly & dozon 08, 6AC its Cupltal, Court; aud Royal palaces, Bl THE ' BURIEKS OF LOOALITY" require the King and his famlly to live in all these former Gapitala aud palaces * by turns," Tlhue, you will read of Limself snd morganatio wife and children (for be is supposed to bo a Royal widower) living in ono or other of tho pal- cos at Naples, while Princo Humbert, the heir spparent, 18_occupying the Quirinal palace in ome ; ex-King Amadeus wiil bo living fu the paternal palace in Turln; the Princoss Clotilde, maniied to Princo Napoleon, will be ‘ocoupying e P‘!““ of the Doges at Venice; and tho Eing's cousins, Priuces Alberto aud Eugenio, wnd othor collateral branches of the family, ara rovided for {n the superfiuous palaces in lfllm, arme, Modena, Genos, IYorence, Bologns, Plus, Yorugia, Anconn, Palermo, or Maaena. You observe what su affluonce of Royal palaces Etaly posscsses. She will not neod to build any uew ones fur a considerable time to come. The largo private dominions of the relgning family were given up to the Btate in 1860, to help dofray the heavy expenses of the new Gov- ornmont, “Tho ostates of tho absconding Bour- bon toyal tamllios have boen conflacated, sold at aublin'unla, and the proceeds paid into the Na- onal Treasury. 1t would be a good thing for the Tressury-Department, if throo-quarters of the Royal polaces wers alao gold, and the monoy ueed to meet tho ever- recurring dofiolts in the budget ; for tho worst feature 1 the affalrs of the Iiallan Government 1s tho annual oy lxrzxmnm;al Oren LRgEIFTS, , the oxpensos exceoded the income, in 1868, by $07,600,000 § in 1809, by 19,200,000 ; in 1670, by £01,400,000 ; in 1871, by $22/400,000 | in 1872, by 823,600,000 ; and in 1878, by $30,000,+ 000, ~making a {otal of 8247,200,0001n the poricd of six years of profound peace and domestle qulet; for the annexation of Rome f{n 1470 was not attended by bloodshed or military prepara~ ggim The .mz?}:udddggtlle?y tgr 1874 fa ,000, ode def ave beon 40 the national debt, and & chary e froney, drawing B per cent at, lens fpast ddml, whisk the Goverien) tazen .| nonrly all montal light extinguishod holders, The Governmont ia making a strong affort now to put stop to thess annual dofloits by imposing now taxes. If it be not done, national bankruptoy is Inevitablo, THE TOTAL PUDLIO DENT of Ttaly on the 1st of Jauuary, 1874, liad reached tho oxcosalvo amount, for a’ country so poor in flacal rosourcos, of $1,860,637,000. Tho total chargen on scootint of tho publlo dobt, compria- ing interost, managomont, and nlnkluu fund, wero ostimated, in tho budget of 1873, nt 8165, 000,000, or moro than ono-half of the total avdl- nary roserves of the Kingdom. Tho intorest- bearing dobt of Italy oxcoads the intorest-boar- ing debl of the United Statos of Amorloa b; 881,000,000, Dy tha 1st of March statomont, ordelvo th latior to be, $1,764,085,000, inlud~ ng tho Pacifio Nailrosd bonds, ‘The tux-paying ability of the United Statos is_far moro than twice na groat ag that of Italy, Indeed, it would Lo ssfo tocall it throo or four times aa groat. In Italy o dollar represonts two days’ Inbor, taking a genornl average of all olassos, while in tho Unttod Biates, a dollar ie earned In half a day or thercabout; aud thon the population of tlio Unitod Btates outnumbers Tialy bso?]no-thlrd. Tho Inttor hna now, in 1874, 47,700, of inhabitants, while the formor has tully 42,000,000, Notwithstanding the mildness and tho splon dor of tho olimate and tho excocding fertility of tho soll of Italy, it is, comparatively sposking, A VERY POOI COUNTRY. Troddon under foot for many centuries; with 3 with the ‘mechanical arta butfoobly_dovelopod; without inyontion-or entorprise; without coal or iron mines; with scarcoly a milo of railvond or tale- sr-ph-wlm; and onch littlo Btate loadod with lobt, tho paople of Italy bnfm their oxpori- ment of nationsl oxistonce in 185, aboul ag doatitute of resources and empty-hauded as it 18 possiblo well to concolve, They wero almost in & ploneer stato as far as roady means Woro con- cornod, Italy was rioh {n bistory and dramatlo intaroat; sho had boautiful logonds and stupon- dous ruins; she was fall of churchos and piotures of Saints and Madonnas; sho bad once boon Mistross of the World, The geoat vislon of 'Romoe filled the minds of siu- donts, and fired tho imagloation of poets ; scholara of other lauds Lad studied hor wondor- ful history, and traced the giddy holghts to which she rose, and soundod the profound depth to which sha foll. Bho had sn opulont past, but s pauper's prosent, Bho seomed ‘utterly bankrupt, if not actually dead. numnnn{ with woary with ita long journoy aud faint withy ity protracted atruggles of ceaturios, had sunk into s stato of apatholio despair. The dismembered parts of Italy woro in this apparontly-hopeless condition in 1859, whon tho trumps of Viotor Emanuol and Garibalai called on thom to swaken and gird on their armor—if thoy had any. Tho nation was suddouly constituted; but, while thoro was an .empty tronsury with wiich to commonce businoess, the work to be done WAS IMMENSE, and dolay was imposuiblo. Tho soveral pro- oxisting debts bad to be mssumed; and theso wero largo, An army bLad to be organized and eguipped, and & navy builé: for it was not known how soon war might bo re- nowed with Austria,'to bo waged single-handed, Thore was scarcely a foot of railway in Italy, and fron ronds wnr:findluponsnb}n totho progroas, development, and dofonse of tho young nation, Thore was no syatom of public-scticols for popu~ lar instruotion, sud, outside of the pricathood and nobles, not one adult in ten could road a word or writo his own osme. National illiteracy is synonymous with national woakuess and im- becility. Tha lands of Italy wore all in the hands of the uobility and tho Church. Primogeniture and entail kopt tho estates in the groat familios, and absorbed tho smallor_holdings continuaily; . while the monka monopolized millions of acres, and lived the livos of uscless droucs, upon the renta of lands obtainod by pious frauds, The conatruction of A RAILWAY-BYSTEM ocost the State soveral hundred millions of dol- lars, Where com{mulnu undortoolk the woul, the Governmont had to guaranteo tho interest on tho bonds ; and this continues to be a considerable, but decressing, itom of oxpense. Where com- panies would not build, the Government laid out roads and constructed thom for military pur- poses, Many of tho rallways of Italy wore ex- coodingly difiicult to construct, on account of the mountainous cbaracter of the country. As sn example, thore aro 120 tunnels on tho Shore Rallway around tho Gulf of Genos, from Nice to Pisa, a distance of 160 miles. 1 counted, in one part of the rond, thirty tunnols in 20 miles dis-" tance, all cut through granito or limestone rock, Bome of the tunnels aro 1, 2, and oven 8 milos loug, on ths roads of Northern Il.ll{ and across tho Aponnines, Think what it cost to boro that Mt. Cenia 10-milo tunnel under tha granite Alpal The railway-system_of Iialy is now almost comploted, The length of lines owned by com- panies ia about 3,400 miles, aud by the Govern- ment 1,250, —makiog togother 4,630 miles, This msy not scom great, but it muost be borne in mind that Italy contains only 118,000 square ‘miles,—barely as Jargo an area a8 that of Ililnoia and lows; but, unliko thow lovel surface, it is more mountainous than Ponnsyivaunia, Itis a long narrow peninsuls, stretching from the Alps to the southenst, » ‘distance of 800 miles, in the well-kdown form of A nooT,’ with the Islaud of Bicily near its tos, in the shape of & shue. Ruunivg down through this boot-shaped country is the great Apeunino range of mountaing, liko a huge back- boue, from which project numorous riba, —thus converting tho whole poninsuls into » system of mountsing and valloys,— govoral of the latter spreading out into largo laina; tho vallovs of tho Po, tha Arno, the Ti- er, and the Voltarno, being the largost. It will be seen how dififcult it must be to conmstruct raflrosds in such a country. But thera aro rail- roads now running to almost every town and dis- trict in Italy. In 1867, when the flusncial pressuro attained a severity not known boforo, the Parlisment or- dered the salo of tho most romunorative of the Brate rfll\ylfln, from which was realized £50,000,~ 000,—1lcss than half what thoy coac. They also ordored the BEIZULE OF ECCLESLASTIOAL PROPERTY not aotuslly needed for religious purposos,— such a8 vast ostates bolongiug to convonty, ob- tained originally, not by purclinso, but by gitt of the owners on their deathbeds, who, undor the influonco of ghostly foars, oxchongoed their real ostate for prayers for th 'GDOS! of their souls, 2 '1].\« Itmlhnu ll;lllzfiu: ment concluded that the ronts and profits received by the monks during the centu- ries they had possossion of those lands bad sufli- cloutly recompensed thom for all the prayers thoy had ever roally said for the souls of the donors. The lande thus confiscated have been sold on ton yeura® timo, in limited parcels, and the money recoived thorofrom is mainly devoted to the en- dowment of model schools and the support of public schools, for which, bosides, sn annual appropriation of $,000,000 s votod by the Parlin- ment. ‘Thero hiad beon reslized, up to 1872, from the sale of ecolesiastical lands, the sum of $175,000,000 ; and it was bolieved the remaining portions ‘would bring as much more, Two grout purposes will thus be accomplisbed : thousands of landloss porsons will beocome freoholders, and o national fund will be obtained for the educa- oation of tho children of the poor. Those church-lands in tho hands of privato owners aro boing mado vastly more productive than they were before. The number of monka and nuna who wero dlspossessed of lauds was 28,001, besides 8,229 other persons belonging to mendicant orders, The Parliament onacted in 1806 the total SUPPLESSION OF ALL RELIGIOUS CONPORATIONS,— their real cstate to devolve to tho State. All monks and nune who had taken rogular vows provious to the 1st of January, 1884, wero pen- Bloned for life, recolving 600 francs csch por anpum ; lay-brothron and sisters, 250 franca ench ; and sorvants, 60 ‘ylam old and upward, who had sorved more than ton yesrs, roceive 120 francs ; 8o that tho mendicunt ordors woro not turned out of doors naked aud penniless, as bes beon slleged. By another provision, soy- oral monsstories wero aot aside for tuo rocoption of such monke and nuns as wishod to continue thoir monastls lifs, The cburches which hava worshiping congrogations woro not molosted, Tho rogular un?elntln olergy have ealarles paid by the Governmant, the totat of whioh smount to about $11,000,000 per annum. 1n nothing bas the Government-exorted itself moro stronuously than to promoto and improva POPULAR EDUCATION. ¥ There have boen opaned throughout the King- dom, since 1860, forty-one great modol echools for the training of ‘teachers, They are really normel sohools, DBosldes theso, there are high eohools catablished in allthe large citios, Thero are also twonty-two universlties in Italy which rocoive ald from the Btate, many of them of anolent foundation. ‘The one in Rologna was founded A, D, 1110 that in Naplesin l‘flfl that in Romo in 1248 that in Turin in 1412; that io Gonoain1448; and thoroare sovoral othora noarly asold, Thenumber of ntudontson thorollaof all tho uniyersities, in 1872, was 16,688, —tho num-~ ber having more than doubled mince the uniun of Italy in 1860. o number of children I“Mfl“n&)lfl the pub- 1lo schoola in Italy is about 8,000,000, But, not- withstanding all theso efforts of the Govern. ut, general education stands etill quita low in the Kingdom, According to the census of 1871 more than two-thirds of all the adult: menand women gould NEITUER READ NOR WHITH. ‘The Qegresf fliltarsoy distare vary gredtly i the soveral Biatea of Italy, * An offolal return is. Bsusd by the Govornment in 1870 furnishes de- tailod tabular information rogarding the amount of odueation roosived by the conscripts for tho army betwoon 1887 and 1871, According to this rolurn the perosntage of ‘ analfabate,” or total- 1y illiterate, young mon of the ago of 21 yoars dratted into the army, was aa follows for various provinoes ¢ Could neither vaad nor 1orite—from . Vicanza, 33)¢ In evory 100 men, Turin, 40%¢ {n avery 100 men, Navara, 20} {n every 100 mon, Milan, 30 in evory 100 men. Dergamo, 33 fn evory 100 men. Voulco, 043 in evory 100 man, Pavia, 41 in every 100 men, Gonos, 54X in evory 100 men, Modens, 68 in ever 100 men, Mantus, 58 In every 100 mon, Floronce, 04 in every 100 mon, Bologms, 04 In evry 100 men. l.qhqrnSx X in overy 100 men, omo, 08 in‘overy 100 men, Naples, 13)¢ in overy 100 men. Tavonna, 77 in ovory 100 men, Oalabria, 82 in ovory 100 mon, ‘The Island of Bardinis, 71 in overy 100 men, The Jeland of Bicily, 84 in overy 100 men, Tho wholo list of soventy provinces oxhibit s genoral average of 64 Pur cont of young mon withont tho slightest rudiments of eduoa- tion, The wholo of Southorn Italy averaged 77 por cont of total illitoracy, But oach year the pox cont of *' know-nothings " 2 18 DEOREASING. - ‘Tho enormous diificulty of educating vast masses of paoplo who for mauy conturics bave boon sunk {n total ignorance, can Lardly bo np{)m- ciated by cducated paople born and ratsed among froe schoola and acadomics. Dut Italy was not as weoll educated sa the poople of the Amerioan Blave ttates before the Rebellion. Tho vast majority of her pooplo were equally ag linnmntu the slaves and the poor whites of tho South. Yot Italy has progrossed in popular oducation yory muoh fastor than the South has einco the closo of the Civil War, The army is made & sohool; and, while two-thirds of the young consoripte, when thoy ontor it, can neithor road nor writo, not one of ‘thom is permitted to toke his dischargo until ko oan read, write, and oyplier, Thousands of those saldiers, I am told, roturn home proity woll cduoated,—msauny of them wall enough to bocome sohool-teachors ; othors to bocome olerks and sccountauts. The brlghwntlnmmomntud to bo oflicors, snd are sout to the military schools to complete their education, DXVENUE AND EXPENDITURES. The revenuo of the Governmont from all sourcos, for tho yoar 1878, amountod to $315,- 000,000, and the expendituros to 345,000,000, which oxcoeds that of the United Btatoa. But then this includea protty much all tho expendi- tures for objocta which, in tho United Stato, are providod for by Btate asnd county taxes, and somo thinga which do not fall on tho Treagury in our country; for inatance, tho support of tho olorgy, whioh 1n Itsly costs the Governmont moro than 812 000,000, fncluding tho salary paid to tho Popo, But the grent itom ia tho intorost on tho national debt, which, with tho sinking fund snd cost of management, swallows up more than half the ravenuen. Arms and fortification exponsos cousume $40,000,000, snd tho navy makes way with $10,000,000 more. Enormous military and naval foroes aro kept up for a conu- try of such lmited rosourcos. But the people say that: national unity and indepond- ence must bo presorved af any snorifico. Having tasted the swests of union and liborty, thoy are A\rmly regolved to maintain them, ovon if mational pankruptoy bo tho rosult. Wora it not for the throatening attitudo of tho Ultra- montane party in France, tho Italians would re- duce tholr warlike srmamonts, and thereby ro- Iove the distross of the 'Cressury Dopartmont. Dut they foar that Franco may undertake to wiost-Rome from them and broak up tho nation. Of all things, their 1ntensost drond is of dis- memberment. Against this they will struggle and fight tothe last extremity, The Italiang are smbitious to move rapidly forward in their new carcer. Thoy loug to be- como a grent, firat-class, rich, and intluential nation, and afe impationt of time, and oannot boar to move in acoordance with the moasure of thoir strongth. Honce thoy have maticipated their rosources by 3 AORTOAGING THE FUTURE. They plead in justification that thelr country hias boen 8o recontly reconstructed from its die- membored fragmonte that other nations have ot tho start of thom; that, botwcen tho attlos of Watorloo and Solferino, a period of forty-four years, tho other Powera of Europe have enjoyed tho full benofits of the railrond and tolegraph systoms, and the wondor- ful improvements in the arta and aclonces, and in tho advantagos of popular education. Previ- ous to 1850, Italy had no nowspnpers, and very fow mon who could read them ; no schools for popular instruction ; ‘miserablo postal syitem ; scarcoly any tolograph-lines or raflronds : no manufactures worth mentioning ; very littlo foroign commorco ; hardly a stoamer bolonging to the country ; the bost provinces were in tho Liands of tho Austrisns, and the others under tho faot of the Bourbons ; thers was no goneral systom of woights or mengures: no uationsl currency ; & dozen systems of tariffs and cus- tom-houses ; passports wore demanded overy few miles ; no accquaintance or commerce ex- |- isted botwoen the peopls of the various States, and in each provinco thoro was a differont dislect ; the whols country was infested with raggod boggars ; *tho mountains filled with ‘prodator, Yu—i;zmdu» toiling masscs misorably poor and without i ope ; aud the whole land given over to superatition, bigotry, snd ig- norance. Consoquently, in tho great efforts this heroio peoplo iave mado to escapo from thoir formor miserabla condition, thoy havo doubled tholr debt, mnrl.EugeLl their rosonrcos, and hospad up taxah which aro hord to bosr, ‘faking into con- sideration what o slow country tluy was, tho seoming mental atagnation, and the difficulties that always moet the roformer in overcoming & coudition of vis fnertia, and gotting tho ma- chine to move,—I 8ay, taking thess things into dno conmderation, Iialy has made GREATER EDUOATIONAL TROGRESE AND MATERIAL IMPROVENENT during the last fiftoon yoars than any other country in the world, Thla agtonishing (lnvalog- mont proves the vitality and greatuoss of the old Roman atock, which has survived so many conturies of abuso and oppression, snd springs fresh and vigorous from roots supposed to be long since desd, It showa that blood will tell in mon &8 woll as o horses. It was a maguificent race in anolent times, and made & record of mighty deeds such as mo other race of mon hag over approsch. ed, much less surpssred. It only needed opportunity and tho gonial sunshine of Liborty to rcanimato the dormant energies and bring forth hopa from despalr, of this wondrous, lght- hearted yot determined and heroio Roman peo- le. Trulyitisa resurrection from the dead, which corruption scoms to have put on im- mortality, and changed docsy sod ruin Into stalwart lifo and invinolble recroation, J. M. —_— EARL HALDAN'S DAUGHTER. 2t was Earl Haldan's daughter, Ble look'd across tho water, And long aud loud laughad shes # Tho locks of alx princoases Must be my marrisgo fee ; 80 by, Lonny boat, and ho, bonny boat) ‘Who'come a-wodiog me 1" 1t was Earl faldans duuglter, 8ho walkod along the sand ; When sho wan aware of a knight a0 falr, Gamo sailing to tha land, o salla wore all of volvet, 1ils mast of beaten gold, And * Hoy, bonny boat, and ho, bonny boat 1 ‘Who safloth lieFo 5o bold 7 # Tho looks of five princesses. 1 won boyond the soa; 1 abore tlelr golden tresses, To fringe a cloak for thee. Ona hanful yet is wanting, But one of all the tale, Bo hsy, bonny boat, and ho, bonny boat ] ‘Furl up thy velvet sail I' ol I leapt fnto the water, That rover young and bold ; o gript Earl Haldan's daughter; Ho ahora hor locks of gold; “Go woer, go woep, proud maldes, Tho talo Is full, to-dsy, Now, hiey, bonny boat, snd ho, bonny boat] {1 westward bo, and away | —From Kingaley'a ** Amyae Lelgh.” Potato=Bug: From the Joliet (1l.) Signal, On the 19th of July last, Mr, Miokaol Collins, wh.lh engaged in digging potatoos on tho farm of ‘T, Talt, kirg,, captured a numbor of potato- bugs, and put them in an empty bottle, closlnj tho mouth to provent their escape. o plac the bottle by a Enal on tho ground, making tho remark that Le would sscortain ‘*‘liow long tho ‘eritters’ would live, anyhow." ‘Tho summor passed away and the winter followed brlnglnq‘ no thought of the inoarcorated bugs, Lmet week, in pasaing, Mr, Collins ob- sorved the bottle and ploked it up. It contalucd tho intact though motionless forma of the po- tato-top destroyers, In tho caprice of [‘hn momont, ho took the bottie to tho houso and lield it over the fire, Immense was his astonish- mont on porcolving the bugs tako to thomsolyes logs and walk. In o fow moments the interior of tho bottle was & writhing mass of Colorados. Eight months without food, exposed to th extremes of summor and winter, and still living, Tals siutament i faly vouohod for, sad showa Wh‘l‘z 08 farmiess and potatoss kave Lo eontend THE CHICAGO DAILY{ T0 MARRY AGAIN, OR NOT, No man eyor had a fondor or botter wito, I Eay 80 now rith as full conviotion ss I enld It whon £ looksd my Iast In hor doar doad frico, and Xkissed {6 nud the fingors that liad wrought mo doftly and untlringly for tho poor, for our chil- dren, and foi mo, I amahalo, aotive man of 70, and, througb God'a moroy, capablo of muoch en- Joymont ; but a day and night pass not without thoughts of Liow wall sho suitod mo, Low simply sho admired mo, how tonderly slo loved me, what & happy old couplo wo should havo beon, **I wonder you NEVER MATRIED AGATN, Morton,” said my early friond, Jack Hathaway, to mo once, * You must have wanted a'wifo in tho parish as woll a8 at home, and you must fool vory lonely in the long wintor ovonings,” Thon I knew that hie was thinking lovingly of Dbis fat littlo wite and common-placo ochildron at liomo, and I wad glad of it, for bo is & good croa- turo, and thougli wo are intelleotually nutagonis- tie, and ho sometimos offends my tasto, I liko nhim booauss wo woro Inda togethor. I felt that I must say somothing, and I folt that I astonished myself more than I satonishod him when Teaid : “To toll you tho'truth, Jack, I did think of it onco." .L 1 waa 8o takon abnok by the having made such s oonfldenos—I hid nevor breathed tho fact— had intended nover to breathe it—that I felt as I think I nhould'{uol it one of my good sound front teeth foll out; and I had to attack s pieco of coal. A 4 Thon what hindored you ?" “Well, to bo condid— POSTAGE-STAMPH," 4 Postage-stampa ?" lio queried loudly, “1tis a ourions slory,” I aoswored. I will tall you nll about it if you really fool intorestod, but I would rathor not have it repeated.” © 1 am as doop 58 & woll, and of course I'm in- terested.” With that ho crossed his legs, loaned Dig'chalr, and looked expeciant. Ibogan: * Youknow that I waa loft a wid- ower with two children, a boy and & girl. They wont to school ag soon 88 thoy wore old onough, About sonding a boy, thoro can be, in my oplu- fon, no doubt; and I do not beliovo that a goli- tary girl can bo educated, with advantage to lier- solf, at home, Sho roquires companionship, back in wishos for i, sud ought' to have it.- I even took care to provide it for mino in hor holidays, My wife had always takon great intotest in tho Daltona, Dal- ton was the porpotusl curate of Furzeohaw, about four miles off, and ho had married & favorite sohoolfellow of hers. It woa an imprudent match; neither of thom hnd aoy money; of course thoy had a large family, and Furzoham was worth £120 por sunum, Mary hulFMl them a great denl, and, ‘You'll bo kind to the poor Daltons—won't you?' was smong hor latost ox- pressions, Thoir oldost dsughtor was two venrs oldor than ours, and ten yours wiser. Iduca- tion, a8 it is usually undorstood, she hed nono: it was nlmvl{ impossiblo: first, thoro was no monoy for {t; noxt, her mother wanted no money forit; noxt, her mothor wanted her to help in nursing, sowing, cooking, housework, 1 muat say tho child waus & strong caso IN FAVOR OF NO EDUCATION, She had nbundance of talent ; and hor father being & gontleman, her mother & gentlowoman, sho acquired easy, self-unconsclous manuors, talkod with taot, road aloud charmingly, wroto & capital lettor—sho even danced and saug whon sho bad opportunity. Now, partly for hor sake, to glyo her tho rocreation sho desorved, and & Elimpu of better social things than oxisted at omo, but much more for my own girl's sake, I always had Dorothy Dalton'to spond hor vaca- tion with her, and I trented her in overy respect a8 another daughter, even to kissing bor and blossing her night and momlnin It went on thus aix or soven yoars, till Anna married, which she did at eightoon. Dorothy, bad beon fnvaluablo duriog the trouble- somo poriod of proparation for tho wed- ding; ood whon it was over I askod her mother to leave hor with mo for s timo, not only to 8ot now_arrangemonts going, but to tolkk to ma; for Charles, who was with mo for tho long vacation, was yory dull, &_mero boo= worm. ~Mfs. Dalton agroed; aud for seversl woeks all went on dolighitfully, Dorothy had sn exquisito gift of comprnionahip—could sot con- vorsation going when it was wanted, and her silonca was nover glum or ox‘zprnnnlvc. Asfar as 1 am concerned, this state of things might have lasted to the prasent day—I should nover have droamed of putting an end to it—but one morn~ ing I'was alarmed by A VIBIT PROM MRS, DALTON,— 1 say alarmed, not ouly bocause her countenanco botokened trouble, but bocauso X know- that 1t was barely possiblo for her to leavo, her family. My firat thonght was of some pecuniary diffi- ou{l ; not that sho or Dalton had over asked for oven a small loan,—yet how could thoy make both eods -moot? Hor gs: yords woro: ‘I want to spoak to yon one. ©“i80 you shall,’ Ireplied, ‘Now, my doar fi‘od frignd, what's tho mattor? Nothingserious, opo ?' *+¥No," she eaid taintly, and witha quivoring 1ip, not looking up at mo; ‘but I want Dorothy t0 some home with me to-day.’ 44 Why ? £ askod. Is Dalton {ll, or ono of the ohildren, or aroyou? What ia it? “She broke into toars; and knowing the womsn's long enduranco, ‘her strongth as well ;n tondorness of chiaraoter, X was very much af- leoted.” t++Come* como,’ I sald soothingly; remem- ber what an old friend Iam, Tryand fancy that L am Mary,' I whispered, and I took and kissod hor mugfmnnd hand spoiled for society, but in my eyes wmade venerable by holy house- Lold tofl, “ Bho wipod her tears, and said: * We have all forgotten that Dorotby 18 NOW A WOMAN, ‘We ought not to have sllowed her to stay with ou after Anua went away. People are making Il-natured romarks,' # Then I felt exceedingly angry, and said: ‘I really think that my age aud soclal position on- titlo mo to have a ymm*1 lady staying in my bousa ag long a8 sho and her Emntu choose, oven if sho hes not, as Dorothy has, grown up o8 ono t]»f xfiny own family. How .did you hear this ossip 7 - o "fn the most innocent, unexpented manner, from my doar little Mattio. Bho went to Mies King's to buy me soms cotton. Tho Browns, who were in the shop, did not soe her, and mado observations, which sho ropeated, and askod me to explain.’ W1 should have liked to know what the ob- servations were, but I chooked myself, and in- quired: ‘Do you believe that this sort of thing {8 worth noticing? To mo, it scems utterly con- tomptible." % “%No, it ia not,’ sho answered firmly : ‘aociety bas made rules, sud thoy aro useful, and we must abide by them, I WILL TAKE DOROTIY DACK, it you plensa; and I am sure you understand'— hor volce falterod—*how much X like, and have always liked, her to bo hore. You are asocond father to Lier,! *t You won't toll hor?" 40 no;: thore is no occesion. It is simply Lmn that X am in vory much want of her holp ot oma,’ “ Thon I reproschod myaelf for having boon selfish in keeping hor 8o long ; and she camo in, radiant dnd aifeotionate, and’ T folt that a sort of vold was mado in my life, which I knaw not how to fill, I drovo slowly back, aftor leaving them at yurzeham, and stopped to givean order at Whale I was thore, these words. tho saddler's. caught my enr: * Will she tako thoold one orthe young oue, think yo?’ “I could not'ace the spenker; I did not know the voice, but, at.tho momont, tho worda seomed to have an unpleasant signifl- oanc, though probably they had no refercuce to 0, * Things do oceur very oddly,” intorpolatod Jack, % They might havo alludod to something quito different, Ciroumstancos soom somatimos to bo tingod by what fa uppermost in tho mind, Tho man might have boen talking of horses ?fl:)ws that hio had to goll, Had you any notion YOUR 80N ADMIRED MIES DALTON ?" “ Nong whatovor, o was b that time very baokward socially—devoted to liard reading, sud if hoe spolte of women at ell, it was to dopraciato thom intlicotually, I should have boon hard on Lim for it, but that ho could mot remember his mothor ; and Auns, dear oroature, is not olov- per el # Bho 18 none tho worse for, that, In my opin- fon," interrupted Jack, * As n rule, clover women do not add to home Lappiness, which i tho f“l‘.\t”nl ond for which they are sent Into this world. 1p was ugeless to anawer this, though it frris tatod me ; Lo had always taken a low tone, or Lie could not have inarriad tho insipid l{itlo womau whoso twaddlo was quite up to his mark. ** But go on James," ho continued; “X want to got at the ponln{;e—ltumpl. I think, by the way, that Mre, Dal dsughter home, Unless eople horeabouts are almples or more go s tlian they are ton was right to take hor, that hor alsowhero, thoy would infallibly” sa parenta woro trying to oateh your son for hor I winood agalu, and sald:s * Yon may bo right ; but as I'iave novor troublod about gonsip i—-poaslbly booausa I had nover boen affooted by t— I THOUGHT IT VERY IARD at the time, Thore was I, doprived,of the harm- less, pleasant flitting B“‘&m about my quiet liouso; sud sho was romoved from surroundings that suited hor to a very mongre home—" - “Whero sho must have boen vory - much wanted by bor mother,” intorruplod Jack, #“Tho faot Is, Jamos, tbnt. I suspect you woro, quite unconsclously, in love with the yam;r lady." “Nol" roplied I, stoutly; “ of that I am quito cortain; but I admit thataftor Ihad thought ovar tho mattor somo wooks, I asked myself why I should notmnarry hor, if her fimruuln would givo hor to mo willingly, and it slie thought sho could bo Liappy with mo, That, inn way, sbo loved me, I wans a8 sura ag that I lovod hor—not with a lover's lova—that was asimpossible for mo as sccond-sight, but .with affeotionsto ap- thntlon cordial admiration, gonuino plessuro n hor annioty. Toould talo hor from poverty to afltuonce, and, when I diod, loave her inda- pondent, “\What prospsct has & poor parson's daughter? ~ Ho can lenve hor mothing. If, by some painful procees, ho contrivos to odicato hor——as it is onlled—to mako = goy- ornosa of her, WIIAT A LIFE 18 DEFORE nenl . I doelaro I think s girl had botter marry any lind, good man who loves Lior, than tonch, toach, tosoh; conflict with tho old’ Adam In childron dry aftor day, yesr aftor yoar ; having no freo- dom of action, no homo the whilo, Lill sho is too old for it ; and, after helping. hor family, hna porhiaps saved what gives her twanty or thirty pounds per sunum, on which to lavguish:.nd die. Dorothy, moraover, could onl{ 0 fis for a vory inforior situation; sho had bright parts, but no systomatio training. What was-to becomo of hor, hor mothor, and slsters, when Dalton died? 8ho might—with hor attractions, she probably would, como across more than ono man who would be fond of her, but could not marry without monoy. Of what uso would that be? Aftor disonss- ing the mattor with myself a month, I wrote Lior L3 falwr. of whioh I romember overy ‘word—ay, oven the position of the sentouces. "I .told .her that, though not with s young man’s love, not with the sacred love I had glven my wife, 1 LOVED LER} that T would rojoion in hor prescnco, would shiold Lor s far ns I could from tho ills of life, till my aeath, and after it, would sdvance her brothers’ and nistors’ intorosts, mako her mother's life oagier. 1 told her to tako hor own timo to con- sldor and to consult her paronts. I wrote late ono night, aud noxt mormng tho letter scomed to mo too important for my own post-bng. I was not afraid that the scrvantsor Post-oflice people would think it odd that I wroto to her, for I had often done that; but 1 resolved to tako the lettor mysolf, aud post it at Cromsford, Tho Post- maator thore had married o panshionor of mino: she wonld be glad to soe me: the walk wae & plonsant one, and I wasin o framo of mind whioh demanded quick motion. I atoppod out choerily, that bright Soptember ‘morning, wondoring, among other wonderings, whothor Dorothy and 1 should ovor walke that way as man and wifo " B I Now," interrupted Jack,” I suppose wo aro COMING TO THE POSTAGE-STAMPS," “Woare," emudl, “but wo must como at thom my own way, Tho Post-Oftico at Oross- ford was a grocer's shop. Tho mistross, my friond, Mra, Bims, was, ay I oxpected, pleased with my visib, + t8uch o ploasuro, to be suro, alr, and fan looking 8o well—* frosh a8 a fourtoon-your-~old," 88 my good-man do say of you, alr, special.— Yos, Le's nicely, sir s thunk you—gone to Boxhom ‘market to look about some piga. Where's o fine now sort thoy do say, that Sir William have brought into” tho country, from Shropeliro, You'll come {nto the parlor, eir, and it down, You may wall look at all them lottors, Icouldn't say how mauy hag been_for stamps this morn- ing; snd I hudo't ove till halt-su-hour sgono. Mastor Clarlio, too, ho have boen for some. Lhoy left thoir lottors, and I smd I'd sea to stamping them, sud that I will, surely.’ “ Tl do it for you,'! smd L ‘I seo you want to put away there goods; und it will amuso me whilo I talk to you.’ 8o, notwitustanding rosistanico on hor port, Y bogan, I darouay there wero botwoon thirty ond - forty of them, aud I wos gotting rather tired whon I camo to the last. 1 nad really not Jooked ot tho addrosses of the others. I could not have told where ono of thom was going; but this ono —' ¥ .. Waa to Mise Dalton, o FLOX YOUR Box ! " oxolaimed Jnok. w It was, indeed,” I replied; ‘‘and I cannot attompt to dosoribo my foelings. I bolieve that 1 was for somno soconds uncoaoscious ; tho ground soemed gouo from under my foet. My own son was deceiving me ; and I could not conjocture Low fur Doruthy was involved. Tho one “miser- ablo vonaolation was that my own lettor romain- od sufo in my pocket. I waé not committed. I concludo that my countonanoe had chauged, for, whon [ roso to go, a3 X did .immodiately, Mrs. Bima ontieated mo to havo somo brundy, esying she was sure that ‘tho smoll of tho nusty dips had upuot me ; but what could she do? Poople must nve, and sho must soll what thore was a do- wand for.' . You neod not be told with what differont foolings I walked homo; tho ontiro aspoct of lifo wos changed for me. +Dorothy was irre- lri\wv.hlf lost, and huu‘glnz over mo was the dis- agroeable nocessity for an oxplanation with orles, As far as my obsorvation reached, ho Liad not only shown no proferonca for Dorothy, but paid her less attention thav, in my opinion, slio Lind zight o expect from him. 1t anaoyed me excoedingly to become awaro that I was an 'UTTER STRANGEL TO MY SON'S INNER LIFE; T thought him moroe than usually silent at din- nor, but then I was constrained snd hoavy- Leatted, Assoon as the sorvant was gona, I said: *Pray, Oharles do you cousider me an in- quisitivo man ?’ ~ * {Cortainly not,’ he roplied. ‘No man loss g0, I should say.’ +iHavo I evor,’ I demanded, ‘shown any dis- trust of you,or any disposition to hampor you by uunccessary oxercige of parental autnority ?’ “He looked nmpzed, and answered: ‘No, sir ; I havo alvaya folt, whon gomparing my po- sitfon with other mon's, that I was singularly fortunate in my father.' “ That's well, I have the less difilenlty, thon, in putting o quostion to you. What's tho mean- mgof o lotter addregsed by you to Dorothy, which, without blame being” dus to anybody, I saw this morning at Crossford Post-Office ?* “Burpriso, displonsure, and o sort-of doggods noss wore in tho countenance ; ho turnod away from me, and somo seconds—thoy seemod to mo minutes—passed beforo ho aaid ;" * It would nov- or havo occurrod to mo that thoro was auy- thing out of the way in my writing to hor‘ i wo have beon brought up like brother and sigter. » * ' BUT WY WALK BIX MILES to post your lettor? I ahould not bave thought auything about seoing a lettor from you to Dorothy on the tabloor in tho bug, though I sliould "haye remindod you that you could not corrospond with her with propriety, You might, of courso, have written a casual noto to lior about & book, or some arrangoment.’ 4 +Why infer,’ bo nsked, *that tho lotter you have seon was not ono of this character 7' 4 4Tn the firat place,’ L replled, * booause you took the troublo to poat it whero it was in the highest degroe improbable that I should see it ; and lastly, from your evasions. “Then thero wag s long pause, and I thought ho was dotermined not to speak. 4 {COharles, I eaid sternly, ‘Dorothy has boen 8o much among us, that I am respon- slblo for whatever, involving her happiness or ‘misory, is connooted with any of us, _As your fathor, and in place of hor fathor, I domand what rolation exists botween you and her, whioh leads to your writing to Ler clandostinely. It I anunot elicit it from you, I shall huve an’ fmmo- diate explanation with her.' * Ho lookad badgered, ill-tempered even, and gald hurrledly snd surlilys ‘Iwrote to Doro- thy to ABK HER TO MARRY MK some day.’ v Alkied her to marry youl' I exclaimed, ‘I ut asido your gross disraspoct in iguoring ‘mo [n so important & mattor, and romind you thut youhavo not taken your dnfirno, that you are wholly dependent on mo, and that, duriug my lifetimo, unloss I assist you, you witl, in al} probubility, hsve nothing” befor than o'country ocurnoy. 41 gupposo It waa not unnatural to expect that you would holp mo, slr, ns you aro very fond of Dora.' “Thig o said in a tone which softened me & little, Aftor ull, thought I, hels vory young, #Pray, whatanswer do you expect from hor ?' -1 inquivod, I was rolioved to find that sho was jnnocont of sught that would havo lowered Lor in my oyea. B8lo was lost to wo forever, whoth- or sho ms}ltod Charles or not, but sho was worthy tho place I iad given her in my henrt, aud would haye given hor in my house, “Without fving bim timo to roply, Iwontont *Ihave oo good an opinion of her to boliovo that sho will auswer you without consniting hor mother. ¢ T boggod her to sny nothiug to any ono.’ @ ¢Then elther,’ I rojoined, ‘rnu ®re moro ignorant of the world thanI belleved even a reading-man oould be, oz you have endeavored consolounly to Ioad herto'ssh as s moduit glrl should not. Pray, what resson did you give for such a requost ? “¢Thiy that, in tho avont of hor taking me, mome_yoars musc olapso baforo X conld marry; and I gliould dislike boing pointed at asan ongagod tnan all that time; and that if sho ro- fused mo, 1t waa no businesn of any ono olso,’ 4 45118 000N BELFIBIINESS exasporated mo, I got uv»nml walkod about the room, ‘Good heavensl’ I ofaculated; ‘and you aro a vory young man, and my son.' ‘440t course, I did mot put it quite so brondly ns that' he obuorved, rather apologotically; ‘bub you oxpoct confl- donge, and I'sm not & man of mony words, I ronlly took pains to write & propor lettor, and I think sucooeded. I always hiad s notlon that I should nover marry. A collogo life han beon my object since I 'was old onough to have ono, and, ns rule, I find womon a bore; but Dorothy is dlfforont from all othor womon I kuow—suite mo, in fact, X thought [ should liko to make suro of hor, and would not mind waiting for hor, You soo, it conld all go on quictly cuough, I should soo hor horo a groat deal,’ HT got my son down 64 -utterly abnormal, nnd 1 think 1disliked him for a minute, but I remom- boerod his anr mother's loving prfdu inhimasa littlo child, aud rolouted. W "¢ Have {mu any resson for expooting that Dorotby will accopt you? ' I inquired. 4 Ha lonned back comfortably, put his handa in his pockots, nnd enid: * Not exactly; but T do not toe why sho should noti sho {a vory fond of usall, Atanyrato, I will lot you know as 80on o8 [ got on answer.' *With that ho scomod to consider the confor- once over, and that he was at liborty to loave tho room. 1 wasglad whon ho waa gonme. I puzzlod mysolf vory much a8 to 1OW DOROTHY WOULD ACT— not as to whather she would accept Charlos—It nover occurrod to mo to dlscuss that with my- nolf. Would sho toll hor mother? Undeniably, sho would wish to do 80, for sho wns oponuess iteelf; but sho would bo unwilling to snnoy Charlos, bocouso he was my son, if for no other ronson, Would sho write to mo? or-would her fathor or mothor write? Unless they sent s spocial messengor—and thoy guarded consclontionsly againat neodloss small oxpensos—. hore conld be no lottor till the third day. In the interval, thore was no porcop- tible change in Charles’ waya, oxcopt that howaa constrained whon wa were alono. I imaginod that he feared I should rencw tho subjoct, but I was not at all inclined to do that, I lLiad discov- ored a great gulf, unsuspectod bofore, bolwoon my firat-born and myeelf. My lifo was placed in & now groove, and did not—perhaps never would —run onsily iu it, and that odious gosslp bad given tho'first impetus. I beliove my bands trombled o little when X unlocked tho post-bag on thet third morning. Thore was no lotter for Charles, but anote from Mra. Dalton, asking mo to call as Boon as I could. I gave it tohim without & romoark, Me put it in_his pocket, ond did not read it in the room. Soon after brenkfagt I walked to Furzobnm. Dora camo to me in the little study, and agnin I felt how chauged I was. Upto that time wo had held ont both hands mutually and simultanoously, and I had kissod hor as henrtily aud naturally as if she had been Auna : now, my own_socrob con- sclousnoss mado that imposeible, and the somo- thing unoxprossed by me, or somothing which X did not fathom in her, hold bor back. # Coloring and looking distrossed, she gave 'mo one hand, saying ¢ It was very good of you to come 80 soon, but I thought you would. + T mado an offort to be playful, and rojoined : ¢ You know I have uttorly spoilod you, kitton I “The smilo this ovoled was n poor pitiful spectro. “¢Come,’ I went on; ‘I know why you sont for mo, 80 you B NEED NOT WORNY YOURSELF about how to begin. Oharles has told mo." *¢0h! Tam so glad, Bub why did ho not do B0 boforo he wroto tome? It would Linve saved mo grest unhappiness. I do not kmow if I ouglit not to have kept hia secrot, though T ghould bavo felt quito guilty hiding’ anyhing, espeolally such & thing, from mammn; butl could not. Tho lotter was taken to her, and, of courso, sho has always opened and road my lotters ag if they wore ber own.’ *+Quito right; tho longor she docs so the bottor. Charles had no right to mako suchsa an:ms}. Iam surprised that ho did not know ottor, ¥t T am sorry to hnye done unslhing dis- agreonble to any of you, I am so fond of Annnj uul' you have slways, aiways beon o kind to mo. “iThore is mno bharm whatever dono, Dorothy: ciroumstances holped you out’of a dificulty, as they often do help the innocent.” “Then we wora both silont. I saw she wanted to go on, but did not kuow hows: and, for my- solf, I had & sort of foar of what I should hoar— but I helped her. ¢ Woll, Pussy,’ I asked, ¢ what are yon going to say to Charles?' 447 do not know;' and she looked miserable. 4T hayo always thought yon wore very olear in your viows, and distinct in stating thom.’ 44Yoa; I know my own mind quito woll; but —.' Bho stopped, sud acemed about to ory. ‘I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO,’ sho went on. 4 ¢Do yon mean that yon donot know whether youlike Oharles well enough to accept him or not “!0no; butthers are so many dificultios.' This was sald bardly above Lior breath. 4 "Do you mean the long engagement, and 8o on? #gho blushed' with voxation, and suawered : 40 dpar! no. But I am so afraid of hurting your feolings, or rllsglannmg you. Idoso wixhqt had never happenod.’ ? “s .But, my dear child, what could thero bodis- pleasiog to mo, or injurlous to my feelings, in jour boing attachod,to oy son 7 I think it would ‘ym an tndirect complimdht to mo,” “Bho hardly let mo finish, but apoke very earnostly. g *+Did yon over think that T—, No; you nover can have supposod that ; you must have baon a8 much surprised a8 I was. If any thing of that kind had been going on, I must have boen the most decoltful orcature possiblo; but Iam atraid of your thinking that Charles would not have asked me, if [ had not encouraged him, 1 am suro I should say #o of any one in my ecir- cumstances. I hopo tho losson witl maoke me vory oharitable. bave really nover thought obout Chartes at all. It no more entored my head that he thonght about moe iu that way THAN THAT YOU DID.,’ 4T winced, Sho had beon speaking so fast that T could not got in a word, I was sitting in what they called humorously her father's onsy-chsir; she was opposite, on o low soat, leaning forward, with hor littla hands clasped in her lap, hor Erauy warm brunetto complexion heightened, or ovos sperkling, ber countouance exprossing what sho was tzying to put in words. 4 Dorothy,’ T eaid, * you will griave me very much, if you'imagine for one moment that it would be possible for me to doubt your candor. I am gure you wore as much surprised as I was. To tell you the truth, my dear little girl, I never ave Oharles credit for 8o much good tasto, and t Lad nover ovou enterod my hend to think of his nmrr{m at all. + 8ho looked, however, only partially relieved when she roturned : ‘X am [4 ad you understand me—I hopo you always will, £ “ And is that all you have to say to me, ora 7' “No ; I want to know what I amtodo? 44t must dopond ontirely on your own foelnga. I amquitoasanxious for yourhappiness a8 for my own childron’s, Do you lovo Charloy?’ 8l only replied by teara; nnd I bogan to con- sider it sho had a secrot fondness for him, and thought X might object to hor want of monoy, soIwenton: ‘Ifyoudo, I considor him the Iucltlost follow in tho world, for, though he is my own boy, hie Is not warthy of you," Y4T wull tol] you all, sho 6aid, Wiping her oyes, ‘I DO NOT LOVE HIM; . T am auro T nover shonld love him woll cnough to marry him; but Ido not like to say soto yon; it soema #o ungraclous.’ . #1n the depth of the meanncss hidden in my hoart, I was delightod that sho had spoken thys of my own son, but I smothered the foeling, and walkod to the window to look out. (T am afrald you think me ungrateful,’ sho resumed. ¢ 1'hnt would be uttorly unroasonable, No ono can command his hoart.! ¢ You sco that I do not think I could make Charlos happy if Imarried him without lovin, hl-in'; aud {t could not be right, aithar—cnuls £+ Qertalnly not.! 4 ¢ T hopo ho will sea It all as you do.’ ¢ LIt not, it caunot be helped. e has man- aged very badly, Young ladios are not usually gained by a coup do main, In my young days, wen wont thoughtfully and carofully to work, vonturing on littlo graduated attontions, which hiad an infinite charm in thomeolyves, and wore skillful feclors. Whatevor be Charles' d(ann'poinp- mont, he s no one to blame but himsel, V¢ T am so glad you think so’—this waa sald in hor own natursl manner,—*and yet it is g groat shamo to aay 80, But you doundorstand— dou't you ?' + Of course I did, and told her 8o, Then she sakod if T would toll Oharlos for hor, “ [ compressod wy lips, Iaid my head on ons eldo, and tried to look as it L were consldering, # What does mamuna say ' I inquired, “Blio thinke I ought to answer hia letter, It 18 duo to N;ubuho n{g.‘ s il 3 4 wag of her mothei's opinfon. Of . I did not nea Lior lotter; and ‘En never rausx?r‘::dl:a ihe aubiech afturwards, Oharles aakod ma ne | k. questions whon I roturnod home, mnde no re- mark on Dorothy’s declsion, which, I know, ml:ahodhlm noxt day, and boro his rojootion wi TITR APPARENT IMPABSINITITY which had charactorized his wootng. Ho took his followship, and sottlod juto a consclontion’ rospootablo, somowhat pompous don, I do not think ho ever met Dorothy gubsoquontly.” ¢ Tt waa a pity for the girl, and sho waa ovie dently o nico girl," obsoryed Juok: '*and hor fathor and mothor must havo boon disap- pointed.” “No doubt, When -Dalton. was dying, tw( yonrs Iater, Dorothy was vory hoavy at his honrt, “!To think'of that bright, protty, ligh-spirited oroatare, ohilled, drilled, kopt under, ns I have uoon girla as _swaot, llvely, and good a8 sho is, laceratos mo, o sald to me, ono day, And thor Itold him thut, with God'a Liolp, ho nover should bo; that I hnd taken fol‘nfllnll%\l about wha would bo bost ; and that, if Mra. Dalton agreod, : would find the monoy for thom to starta schnol for little boys, which I conaidered tho loast laborious undortaking for Indics, and she not only noed not he soparated from hor,drughtors, but would bo materlally holp«d by them. Ilia look of por- {f“ satisfastion s among my dearost recolleo- on, ! “You'ro & good follow,” remarked Jacl, hu‘gll}llyt. ot at ‘a1l Jack. I made no saorifics, and insured myselt i VERY GREAT NAPPINFSS. Thoy have always sucecedod oxtromely wall, and thoy spond tholr summer holidays with mo Auns, her husband, and childron come a Ohristoins, As to tho lonolinoss which you thought must oppross me, I know nothing abous Of othor men's hidden oxporiouce, I know nothing ; but for myself, I llnb1 that, a8 I grow old, thotgh I cajoy sooloty with undimivished zeat, I am more indopendent of it. No one is loas doar to ms, but all are lesa necessary.’— Ohambers' Journal. 4 ——— BINLEY AND *“46." gon Masstoba posk of smow, Night holds iillmitablo sway, Wirs buta slagle lotr ago " 10 crags snd olissma, hgh and I Resplondent shiono Wikt sy sl . From out the sky no stat-ray shines, N \v}i’fim thé m{uu‘lt l‘aommllaaéx i St o mournfug through the toss! Like aomo unqulot sl bmodh:' ik, ‘Tho winds swaep to and fro, U And seem in saddencd mood To broathie o wall of woo. A first thoy only aighed, . But now they monn and sobj And since tho evontida Thoir maddoned pulsea turob *© © - In quickor, faster flow, ‘Aa their fleating footate,s glide Or tho cold cxpanse of sitow, And all the \lYlpcr ale Ts Alled with drifting clouds, Wihila flonds that ovol tiere Ars weaving. lhl!tlnq hrouds; Tossing in eudless whirl “They recl in goblin mirth, And tlien the shrouds they hurl On tempost's wings to carth, . *Tyms "even o'clock near Bridgor's Gap, In atation that Awayed in the tampest weep, ‘Whoro & lightning-jerkor enjoyed his uap, ‘Whion n Gal fror the Canyon broke s sisep, And ho caught tho words from tho subtle clicks “gend Dinley down horo with %46," Hoon Binley had mounted hin iron steod, And the iires of the furnace glowed agaia, A3 tho pondorous monster dovoured its feod, And rollod from the siile-track on to the miatn, ©Out on tho night where the snow-flakes fal Out whoro tho blagta of- the Lompests ros Binley shoutod his triend farowell, As fie opened tho thrattic-valva ono notch mora, Then over the winding track he spod, Where thapathway With chasina aud crags was lined ) Tho glare of Lis groat Light gieamed ahoud, And tho suow lke a bride's voil strosmod bohind, And soon tho sound of tho olankingsteel Was drowned in the ochoes from hill to hill; He felt, the cogine sway and rool, But tho throttlo woat one notel farther still, And down the grado liko » courser flest, Tlungod through mountains of drifted snow, Tho engiua plows through tio crusts of ploct, And hurls thousand foot holow Tho ponderous musses that bioclk it way; Tlirows them far to the left and right, Into the black, oblivious night, ‘Toreach tho canyons by break of day, Andnow old Binley feals the thrill ‘That the soldior feels whon ho meets his fos § 116 open tho throttlo-valve wider atitl, “And his furnaco burns wit o fleroer glow, As tho piston flashies in faster stroko § Dut firm 08 o rock stands the engineer, And 1o his honest old boart of oak ‘There beats not tho slightest pulss of fear, But aoon tho eogine 16 running slower, Thougli ts pathway les ona levol grade ; And then a tromor comos stealiug o'er Dinloy’s hand on the throttle lud, Thore's b slncking up of tho driving wheel, ‘While tho engino struggles with human will § “Thon slowly ccusos the clink of atoel, Aud tho panting monster is standing still Thicker and faster tho drifting snow ‘Throws round Its viclim ita winding shest, And quenches tho glare of the headlight's glow, As Binley mutters, “I give up beat,” Noxt morning a snow-plow forced its way To tho spot where the buried englno 1y § ‘Thoy kowed & path through tho frozen crust, And tiien was the ghastly atory told ; Thero sat Blnley bealdo hia trust, With his hand on the throttlo-valvo, stiff and cold, —Dref Harts in Frank Leslie's Weekly, st L . The Bnobnb. From the Wondera of Vegetation. The baobab is a plaut of moustrous. size, the most colossal and the mostancient vogetable monument on earth, has rouud, woolly lenves, which conuist of from threo to seven loaflots radiating from n common centre, and givin, them sgomowhat the appearance of & hand au magnificont whito flower. It s nn onor- mous bro, lLoldiog amoug plunts tho place that tho elophant holds smong animals—n hosry witnoss of the las changes which the earth hns undergone, and dolugos that Linve buried boneath their waves the prodiction of oarly agos. Sovaral haobabs tht bave boen measured wera found tobo near seven~ ty-seven foot in circumforenco, From its branchos hang, at times, colosaalnats, three feet in longth, and resembling large oval baskets apon at tho bottom, and looking from the dls- tanco liko 80 mauy sigusal flags, 2 It would take fifteon men, with their arms oxtended, to embiaco tho trunk of one of thess groat trees, which, in the countrios through which the Bonegal {lows, aro voneratod as sacred monuments. Enormous branchos ave’ given off from tho ground and spread out horizontally, giving the traon dinmoter of ovor 100 fuet. “*Ench of thoso branchos,” says Mr.Daonton, *would be o monster tree elsewhere, and, taken togother, they soom to make up a forest rathor than a reo.! 1t is only ot tho age of 800 years that the boababs attain thoir full size, and then conse to SIOW. E% o fruit of this trae is cblang; the color of tho shell passes in ripening from green to yel- low and brown., The fruit i cnlled * monkey brond,” It contains u spongy subatance, pulor than chocolite, aud filled with abundant juico, Tl bark ia nehy gray in color, aud alindst an: inch_in thickness. ‘'Iho negroos uf tho Senogal grind i down to powdor, and in this' Stato thoy uso It tosonson their food und to maintain a moderatoly free perspiration, which onable them the moro easily to withstand thoe heat, It serves, also, a8 an nntidote for certain fevers. —_— P Distinguished EBonceScttors, ‘A statomeut in & Connoctious paper that the Dr. Btephien Bwoot who died in Franklin, m this Stato, the othior dny, was mot tho original distinguished Lone-sottor of that name, but his gon, bas impelled & corrospondent of the Hart- ford Courant to write as follows : *Dr, Stoplion Bwoot’s fathor, grandfather, and groat-grand- fathor wore r!lsunguinnml bone-sottors, Ho wore his uncles aud grand-uncles, back to the original Bonoul, who died i North Kingaton, f. L., in 1751, nt the rgoof 90, This Benoni was in owrly life an ofloer in the Dritish army, and wog better Luown to his noighbors as ¥ Captain"™ than as “‘Doctor”™ Sweet, but hig akill in bone-gotting was of high repute in Rhode 1sland and in Enstern Qonuectiout, His son (or un{:lmw ?), Job Sweot, became still moro 'diu&n- fi“ shed, and after tho revolutionary period uron Burr sent for him to come to New York to reduco the dislocated limb of his danghter, Theo« douin, and tho old Doctor to tho last day of his lifo onjoyed tolling the story how he outwitted the New York practitionars,” When he was in- troduced to his pationt, tho professional surgeon of the family wha presont, and aftor briof cone sultation it was agreod that tho opora- tion should bo pertormed that sftornoon, Whon the surgoon had lofs the houso, Bweeb asked permission to make an oxamination of tha onue, ’gnylug ‘lio'd Hko to #oe just what Lio'd gob todo.” ‘Burr cousented, and the doctor, sfter some familiar chiat with the littlo putiont, wiieh dissipated hor fours, acquainted himself with the precise uaturo of the dislooation, and his hands comprossod the limb move irmly, the suffersr gave ona sarenmy, thore wasa “ollok" nathe bona onmo to its tho, aud the doctor auid, with ona of hia droll laughs, *“Choro now! I guoss 'twonk bo worth whila” for me to come back sgain afior dinnor.” He would nover toll me what fee hie roe colved (or tlia oparation, but he uald, *Alr, Dure pald him bansum~=vory haueum,"