Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1874, Page 9

THE CHICAGO DAILY 'TRIBUNE: SATURDA MAY 23, 1874, ‘9 e e T e e e Madh s B deanien sl st sl ket Sl B R T R SO . e : ROME. The Denolate Campapgna, and Its Deadly Malaria. A Plain Resembling thoe Rolling Prairies of Iowa and Kansas, Its Geologieal Formalion—Evidences of o " Strugglo Dotwoon tho Forees of Firo and l_Ynter. The Land Mainly Dovoted to Pastnragee«s Sowe Whoat Grown, at the Peril of Iuman Life, Ho Batisfaotory Explanations es Yot Givon of tho .Causos of the Insalubrity, Hopes Entortained of Disinfecting the Oampagna by Planting Forests of the Eucalyptus. Tree, Bpectal Correspondance of The Chicago T'ribune, Roxe, April9, 1874, ‘Roms can only bo appronched by passing through the great plain known over tho world - s THE OAMPAGNA, and whoso reputation i chiéfly derived from the deadly malaria which in summor overapresds it and renders it uninhabitable by the human race. I had formod an opinion, before seelng it, that it was & low, flat prairio, marshy and wot in greator part, and that its fatal insalubrity aroso from tho decaying of rank vegetation and tho putridity of stagnant wator undor the action of a fervid Itallan sun, Ihed probably confounded it in somo way with the poisonous Pontino Marshes. But, since I have travorsed the Marshos, and crossod the Campagny in several directions, tha crroncous improssion has been corrocted. The Pontino Marshes lie o considorable distanco boyond the Campagna .to tho southeast, and are on tho right hand of the travelor going to Naples, some distance from the railroad-track, and eitunted towards tho sen~ shoro, as the Calumet marshes aro towards Lalo Michigan. The Campagus is no more liko & marsh, or low, wet plain, than are Cool, Lako, Du Page, and Kano Counties (striking off tue Calumet swamp from Cook); and it covers about the same ares as thoso counties,—its longth boing 02 milos, and its broadth 46 miles, Rome is situated NEZADLY IN THE MIDDLE of- this great fover-broeding plain, boing 18 to 20 miles from the son to the southwest, and 20 to 80 miles from the mountains which girdle the plain and bound the horizon to the northward and castward, [his plain embraced the groater portion of tho ancient Latium and & considerable part of Etrusia, and was loug the ‘Dattle-flold of o tribo whose subsequent victories ‘brought all nations undor its rulo, ‘The Campngos of Rome groatly rescmbles the undulating or rolling prairies. of Iowa or Kansas. Aloug {he margin of tho mountains thero are foot-hills and ridges which project a aliort distance into the plain ; in somo placos Viey riso into low conos, of tha shupe of an in wietad bowl,—in others, ‘more like an inverted ;aucer; and tho tops of theso elovations aro of- ton crowned by o village. But nine-tentha of the plain may bo described as AN UNDULATING TRATRIF, whose surfaco assumes 10,000 unexpeated forms and shapes. Beon from the clevation of ous of the mountaine,—at Tivoll, for instance,—tho COnmpagna looks like o green sea, sloping by im- porceptible descont towurds the Moditorranean, which can be distinguighed in the far distance by ite glitterlng roflectiona in the sunlight. But the Campagna viewed from a hoight does not presont those abrupt transitions and animated contrasts which one obssrves in passing over it in any direction, and which make the most at- tractivo landscapes. Bometimes the rond abrupt- 1y desconds énto a Lollow, or ravine, where tho viow is excluded on nearly all sides; and then it ssconds to a breezy upland, from which s wido prospect is commanded. Sometimes it winds along n hillsido or lateral valley; agnin it is crowded on oithor hand by not high but recipitous cliffs, which saeem to have been torn )y ocarthquake violouco ; and these will be foi- lowed by long, gentio swlld § then Ll and dell, valley or glen’; and noxt ono will come to un in< dnacgibnbfix sract, which tho geologists declare to bo the CRATER OF AN EXTINGT YOLCANO n tho contro of which s frequénsly a littlo Iake or pond, with a stream lssning thorefrom, and the water thereof discolored and impregnated with sulphur, Bome of these ara used as min- eral gprings. Forty of thouo extinct volcanoes Lave boon traced out and mapped on the surfaco of the brond Campagna. The whole region is intoracoted and veined with streams, rivulets, and throads of water, wlose fountaing are springs issuing from hill-sides or glens, and all finding their ' outlot in the Tiber, which, rolling down from the Apennine Moun- tains, traverses tho plain to the son. < 'I'he numerous ravines, rents, and sbarp hill- eides, as well as tho doep cuts l.pxouE the ridgos for the railways, expose to vicw the geo- logical formation of this plain. 1It. is clearly marked with indications of n strugglo botweon tha forces of fire and wator. ' It in obvious that the plnin was onco part of the bed of the Mediter- aneen Bea. Tn athousand places strats of sand and gravel can be sppn,—the formor often hardened 1mnto sandstone, and full of marine shells. But the Onmpagna oxhibits more of voloanic than of marino nction. ‘While it yet Iay under water, it was tho Bcone of & 'LONG ERIES OF VOLOANIO GONVULSIONS, which wero coutinued aftor it emcrged from the ses, as i shown by - the scores of dead orators _ scattered all over if. Atter the land -hiad slowly rigon from tho waste of waters and the voleanoes burnt out, the Ct agna had then a rough, irrogular surfaco, i E«nled with depressions, wihich tho wators, ouring down_from tho Aponnines, converted to lakes ; md'bg;ulnw degrees, in tho course of timo, filled up tvith debrjs angd lime deposits, In what wero ouco ghajlow lakes we now fiud atrata of sand and marl, 8ud also large deposits of yollow travertino ‘(s kind of limestono), of which the finest buildings snd most-enduring ruing of Romo _are constructed,—for example, tho Coliseum and 8t Peter's. Ono ocan seo tho process of the formation of this traverine stone ing on now'in & pond not far from the ruing of Hadrian's Villa, 16 miles southeust of Rome. 'Tho little siroam Anwhlg into tho pond is etrong- ly improguatod with the carbonato-of-lima incrustation, which s filllng up tho pond. B this procoss, in a few centurios more, the pon will bo complegoly closod, as bundrods of athor ponds on the Campagun have hoon in the sumo ‘way bofore if. ‘Thus tho imagination can go back to tho timo when tho Coliseum and Bt. Petor's waro hold in solution in lakelets ay CABDONATE OF LIME | The astios aud ecorie disoharged from the dead yolcanoes, disposed in Iayers over the murino doposits, and gradunlly copsolidated by waier and pressure, formod ‘the reddishi-hrown, soft building-stene in common uge in Rome, called fufa ; while from the lava-flow of tho volcanoes {s obtained the hard, durk, flint-lika substanco with which tho stroots of 'the Hternsl Oity.” were in anclont timos, sud are now, paved aud which stood & thousand years' iravol on the Appisn and Flaminian Ways and other yoat military highways wlileh radinted from finmu over tho Campagna and Italy. i The Campagua of linma 1 thus “seen to e & vast tablet, on shich tho action of sult wator, voloonie fires, enkthqunken; frosh wator, and the washings of tho Apobnined, hitve Fecorded thelr variois inseriptions ini chinructors so pluin that /i ;lunyw he Iato aud lunonted Col. Fostor wauld have enjoyed an exploration of this singular Csmpagns, aud what a_decply-interesting ,and 1ucid roport of wht he discovered he conld’ have written “Wuy is the Romun Campayps in ny or i A FEVEL-STRIOKEN PLATN E‘ : have found no satlafeciory auswer bp thiwgues tolligont person may read them ag ho runs,” tion, and no writer hos explalnod it in a.-way that I can fully indorso, and I'lnve no theory of my own to offer in licu of theirs, To tho eyo, the Roman Campagna shonld bo the hoalthiest plain inItaly. Therols nostagnant water, no marshos or swamps, theroou. ‘I'ho stroams that isane from its Lill-sldos_ore biight, puro, and hoalthy waters, Tho undulations makoe it everywhero solf-dralning and dry ground. 'As remarked, it oxactly rosowmblos tho rolling prairies of Kansns, and suroly thoy are salubrious, ~T'ho woathor is no dryer or hotter betweon BMay and October, ou the Roman Cnmpagun, than iu South- orn Kansns or Coutral lllinols. Dut it Is ns *treeloss, houselons, and untnhnbitod, as tho uu- peoplod districts of tho Far Wont,” Thisis o sirange contrast to tho otllor parts of Italy, which swann with population l,ku a beo-hive, nand are plantod all over with trees,—mulborry, olive, orango, pine, shoutnut, poplar, and other varietios, I'ar ng the oye can piorce, one scos only & treoloss, rolling, nvur-uhnuglng plaln, . covored with short grass mtxed -with wild flowers; but with ‘no hwinan lite, oxcopt dark- sinaod, brigand-looklug shophords and hords- men, dressed in cloaks of sheop-skins and cnlf- slin trowsors, halr sldo out, with igh, conical hat, and nccompaniod by wolfish-looking dogs, which nid their mastora in tnking care'of the flocks and hiords, In every diration this molan- ohaly acone doprosses the ‘mind of the travoler, and makes bim feol that he is pausing through A LAND OF GHOSTS,— tho shades of tho great departed of anclont Romo, Tho dead clty throws its solomn shadow over tho wido plnin, which once tcomed with rural lifo and bustled with agrioultural industcy. ‘This platn ia that world-renowned Campagna b0 inseparably connected with the oarly history of Rome, It'was once accupied and ofined by lit- tle commonywenlths which cost the Roman tribe conturies to overcome and conquer, Who has not rond and sympathizod with the gallant strugglo of tho Veli, whoso city, not 12 miles from Romo, stood 'n sioge of ton years boforo ylelding, and whose rung are distinotly visible to this day? : But at ast, whon Rome was wealioned by licon- tionuness aud Communiym, tho barbarian Coths strode over this Campagua with fire and sword ; nnd, aftor thom, the Muny, and Lombards, an Sarncens. ILvory habitation wes destroyed, every tres hown down, and the inhabitants were muidored or dinporned. Tho Campagna never again was populated. It grow over with grass and woeds, and foll into the bands of n fow proprictors, who, for many conturies, have dovolod the Iand to pasturage. A few yoars ago, the number of propriotors of tho Campagna was 173, of whom sixty-four wore church-corpora- tions, such as convent-ostates 'for the support of monks, nuns and frinrs, Tho ecclosiastica liad absorbed moro than half of tho wholo Cam- pagna, and the reidus bolonged to nobles who had doscended fron: the rolatives of Popes snd Cardinals. The owners do not manago thoge enormous osiates themuclyos, but rent thom to a_body of middlemen, about fitty i number, called ** MEROANTE DI OAMPAGNA,” who resida in tomo, and were incorporated by tho Papal Government., Thoy bave all grown very rich,—some of them being emong tho, wealthiest mon in Rome. They own the vast flocks and hords, and hire the shepherds aud their yellow dogs. Thoy employ overeeers, who rido about on horsohack, under umbrollas, with pistolain thelr bolts,—exactly liko tho slave- drivors on Southern plantetions in the days of Chlvalry,—and overlool tho hordemon and shep- herds, and the cattle and sheop under their charge. During tho vory hot sonson, when the geass witts and “dries up and tlie hoavens are like brass, the panting flocks are driven from the treoless plain to tho mountaine, where the air is cooler, and whore verdure, shade, and water aro procurablo, A It would not ba strlcflx accurato to aflirm that thero aro no honees and no cultivation on the Campagna, ‘Thers is on each ostato ono, and on somo of the very largost more than one houso, of stone, also a storehouse and stable,— tha whole inclosed by o high stove wall. Here tho oversoer and his “various sssistants reside; but there is no permaunent ehelter provided for {he shopherds and laborers, Cheir habitations congigt of mud-huts on the hill-sides, near spriugs ; often in & deceyod, auciont tomb, or in somo of the natural caverns which abound in the voleanio rocks.- Bomo of them live, with thoir familics, in covered carts, drawn by o don- key, or mule, which ara moved about from one part of the vast estate to anothor, But al the ground fs not uidor preturo. haps ono-tenth of it is in cultivation, CHIEFLY IN WHEAT, of whick it producos s vory large yiald. «The ground is plowed by whito, tong-horued oxen, and the whaat is sown in Oclobor and harvested in June. Whon the grain is neaxly ripe, mossen~ gers aro digputehed into tho neighboring mount- aing, who hire an abundance of hands, of both soxes, to out it down with tho sicklo, The om- p]o:er furnishes food and wine, but no shelter. The work begius at .earl; zfmvn, and con- tinues till wght, with two hours' rest at noon. The overscers ride up and down the flelds to slimulute and encourago the toil with flask or oatb, The- rel:}mm and bindors at night throw themnselves down beside thoir ehoavesy their bodies Lathed in porapiration, nud exbausted by tho fatiguo and tlerce heat of tho day, The chill winds blow and henvy dews full soon after gundown., Tho deadly malnria be- gins to ries from the pluin, and tho polson of fover pagses through -their veins. Before the {lrst woek ends, Lulf the harvosters are sick, nnd drag their weak and woary legs to their mouu- tain-howes, whora E MANY OF THEM DIE. Tofora the secoud weok olcses half tho remain- ing hauds are stricken down with the same re- morsoless disease, and aro huppy if they have strongth to crawl liomo,—perchance to die ot their own doors. Buch are the ways nnd condi- tions on which tho Campagna is oulti- vated. Tho poor wretches who cut down the grain receivo for thus rivking their lives for two woeks tho misorable pittance of 3 fraucs a day for reapers aud 2 francs for binders,—~G0 and 40° cents each ! The bouuty of the Campagnn to the eyo of humanity becomes lonthsome and hateful. ‘T'his poisonous malavis which over~ sproads the Campagua is as dondly Lo physical health as tho mental nightsbade of the Dark A%c! was to the iutolluctual powors. 2 Maony argue that tho uuhonlthiness of the Campagoa i attributablo to tho want of oulti~ vation nod the destitution of iress, But the treeless, yolling prairies of tho Westorn States, which it #o strikingly resemblos, are not un- healthy before they are culsivated, pud why should these plwlninu ba inselubrious ?* Somo say that the soil holds water, which, evaporating through the rich vegetublo' loam, sonds up o ‘malartous exbalation. But the Joam is not ag deep, rich, or humid, as tho soil of the Illinois or Towa prairies, 'Thoro ure no mmalies or stagupnt water suywhere visible, Tho streams run low in summer; many of the springs go dryy the vordure wilts for want of moisture, and the earth is parchod for luck of rain, Tha herds and flaoks have to bo driven up into mountain~ valleys and hill widos Lo find water and pastuxago, Btill, in tho faco of this {summer-drought, the fever-breeding malaria lays low nearly sll who breathe 1t after sundown, Thoso who do not floe to the mountains take refuge within the walla of the oily, and the hospitals of Xowme ara filled every summor with TR VICTING OF THE OAMIAGNA, Sinco Rome bocame tho Cupital of Iialy, the Government’ has appoluted & Board of medical exports and skiliful chemists to investigato tho caugo of the snmmor-sivknoss of the Campagua, and to dovigo somo rolief thorofrom, ir remedy con be found. It is koown that, in anclent times, the Compognn was not hoslthy; that there was coneidorable aickness; but it was not necounted to bo a plagua-spot. It wae densoly populated, snd dotted over with towns and v‘xl"nucs, a8 tho other plains of Italy aro at tho present time. 1f tho Roman -Campagna wero opulated as thickly as the othor plalng of the Peningula, It would contain o million aud a half ot inhabitants ; whereas thore are but. n few thousand hordsmon, shepherds, sud overscers, Por- sonttored over it. Compared with all othor por- tions of the Kingdom, swarming with busy lifo, it looks liko Goldsmitiv's Doserted Village. It is & gloomy solitude, with the silenco of denth Droodlug upon it, Amoug the various sohemes for disinfooting thio Campagus of its summer malaris, the Roman hewapopers uro aotively discussing the sanitary propertien of "THE AUSTRALIAN EUCALYPTUS,— an evergraon géum-trun which growa with extraor- dinary Tapidity. Iv.isalloged thut it possesos tho power of absorbing tfio poltionous gases from tho ir, and rendering healthy ‘tho districts in whicl I plavio fiu ‘leged wonderfal eanitary offact in unhealthy districts of Algeriu, whore {t has boon planted, is clted in proof of its valuo as n disinfocting treo, Its Jouves pou- tess the samo offact as quinine in_ the opre of chill fevors, Madamo Bodichon, who fntrodueed the now tree into Algoria a fow yoars ago, thug wrltes to an English gentloman in Roma: 1f ou oguld sge tlio fragrant forosty of Iuanlvptns iave, Whera fover-broeding pluine formorly ox- Iutod, hut ore wich 10 nora, you would be thiank. ful for what you helped mo to do. ~ Plonse sond e somo 1moro soed, cupecially of tho Rod Gum (Lucalyptus Colossa), which ktands auy smount of sun,‘and grows magniticently in tho dosort. Inover did » better work in my life than plant- jug this Fucalyptus in Algoris.” uo great trouble with this tree, howover, Iy ita BENTIVENESS T0 FUOKT when young, "Lhe plauts sut out in the yiginity f Wlorance™ hiave wintor-killed, Mthough thoga InNice, Cannos, and Milan have survived, whilo thoso in‘Naplon grow boautifully and luxutiantly, Thora are a fow in Tomo, planted o fow yonra Bgo.by . way.of oxporimont, which havo.withitood the frost. " I smw ona in the court of the Doris Palaco, on.the Corso, 40 or G0 faot Ligh, only four o five yoars old, whish lookod healthy and | vigorous, and a dozon others at 1the Borgheso Talage, noar the Quirinal, somo of them of tho holght of 30.or,more fool,-four :years.old, which woro uninjurod by the sharp fros of tho past wintor, Ono of tho »newspapor-writors statos 4Lt He has-scon thom covorod with suow and honvy icicles in Australla, .without injurivg thom l‘ and thot thoy apparoutly grow almost s woll in dry ns in molst situntions. ‘ They are probably about as hardy as the flg, somo of tho opecios porbaps moro 8o.” It is statedthat thoy aro being extenslvely .planted in .California, yhore thoy live and thrive fiuely. -8till, in.the {nco of this testimony ms to tholr power of re- sinting-frost, tho oxperimeonts mado at Florence show that thoy cafinot ondure 10.0r-12 degrass of. cold below tho freczing .nulnlf—l\ point to which tho.thermomotor occasiounily {alls.on the Rtomnn Campngna, The Government lins offer- &d 6,000 Bucnlyptus-plants to land-ownors about Romo this epring, to rot out by way of oxpoti~ mont. The prosont intention seoma to bo to TLANT EXTENSIVE FONESTS of thin.troe ou-the Campngnn, if thoy sre found nblo-to ondure the comparatively slight cold of the winfers of Rom wiflch raroly evor freczes ice moro than an inch thick, although tho * Tra- montana " winda-from tho mouutaing feol vory cold aud Aob.one's tosth to xutmnr. - It would bo .an .inoaloulnble blessing it 4his gum-troo__accomplished what is hoped for it, and changad thoso fovor-strick- en, uninhabitable plaing into salubrious abodes for busy men. It ia - olaimed to omit n.fragrant, antiseptio, camphorato effiu- vin ; and, a8 it grows with extraordinaryrapidity, it disongagos from tho docaying Vogotabla matter in.the grouud the poison called malaria and digohargen .the purs aqueous molsturs into the air. It furthor acts to produce a.shade, and thereby lowors tho temporature of the air in sum- mer, which causcs:the water in the soil to stag- natomore slowly ; and any delay of stagnation1s a gnin to health, It s said .that experiments with the sunflower (which is a rapid grower and produces an oily seed) in malurious districts hava boon beneticial in & marked degree. It is much grown .in China for.the sake of.its ealu- brious aqualities, ns woll as gorgoous flower. An- ofih:r argumont in favor of tho Tucalyptus, Is thai TIE WOOD 18 VALUADLE . for fuel and many othor domestic_purposes. Whon cut down, it.booomes quite hard aud solid, a8 the sap avaporates ; and it is.claimed to be a8 durable as locust or waluut, andmore so than boeoh or hickory. And thon it grows about ten times na.fust ne most troon, shooting up 8 to 10 foot o yoar, aud increasing ‘the dismeter of .its trunk 2 or 8 inchos annually after it fairly gets started. If whatisalloged of tho Eucalyptusbo trite, why may it not be successfully introduced all around the Gulf conat of the Southorn Statos, and to distanco of 75 to 160 miles Lack from the sen? As it become acolimatizad, it will grow hardier, Tho Fronch éxpoot to revolutionlzs the climate, praductions, and ealubrity of Algerin withit; snd the Romans are fondly hoping.that it may oventually bo tho menus of restoring henlth in summer within thoir walls, and rondering habit- ablo onco moro their fortilo Campagna, ovor which disease and doath have so long brooded, AN INNOCENT GRANGER. How Farmer Smith, of Madison, Oute ‘witted o MoneysLenders From the Lezington (Ky)) Gazotle. A farmor—we will call him Smith _for short— lives in Madison County, and would be kuown, at least by roputation, to many of our renders, wora his right name given, But tho incident we now relate, though coming tousin = relinbla way, wan known to fow outxide of his neighbor- hood. Farmer Bmith lived in 2 quiot way, and was suppoged.to have accumulated something ahead bosides having a protty good farm. After bis second son bad been mairiod about a yoor, he concludod to settle noar the old man's, if he could rent & place, Hearing of this, Mr. Thompson—again we withhold the true name—thought there might be a chanco to sell a cartain place on protty fair terms. Br, Thompson was n money-loaner, aud nothing suited him so well as good intercst, backed by;good security; aud he was, moreover, gonerally considered & pretty shrewd tradoer, Ho rode ovqrto sec old man Bmith, but the farmer enid ho did not feel able to buy—ho might buy on o credit if the prico was low onough aud_the intoreat was not too high. His #on *“Jakey,” he said, would havo to pay for the farm bimeelt if the trade was made, but bis son was o good farmer, and, he thought, it would bo all right—at leass tho fand would be there, and would be_good for_what remainod unpaid if his sou ghould fail. What seomed to startle tho old follow was 12 per cent iutorest that Thompson wantod, Tinally, however, after a groat doal of talk, tho price was agreed on at 320,000, ono-fifth cash, and notes at one, two, throe, and four years, with 12 per cont interest from date for the romainder, Tho contract was drawn, and thoy woro about to sign, whon the farmer suggzosted that if he should at any timo get any more money than was due on tho notes, he wanted to bo allowed to pay it, and count off the 12 per cont, The proposition scemed reasonabls onough to Thompsou, and hoe could not object to its insertion in the contract, and so the docu- ment was signed in duplicate. The deed was to Le ready, the notos drawn, nnd the first paymont made on the following Saturdag. When thie timo arrived, both wore cPunctunlly on hand, the first 4,000 was paid, and the notos were ready for signature. ** Mr., Thompson,” said Varzier Smith, * I'vo boon thinking' about tha interest, and it scomad skerry, 80 I thought T'd gothor in'soms little money I hiad out, and Doy part of it, and "—pulling from bis broast- pocket a roll of monoy—** jist count that.” T'ho money was counted, sud, with 12 percent off the first note was paid, Whon ‘hompeon hed pocketed the monoy, again Smith said : ** I've got o son livin’ in Mis= seuri, Mr, Thompson, and ns acon as he heard I wwas buyin’ o furm for Jukey, Lie sond me a littlo maonoy "—pulliug & voll from his right sido breeches poclot—*‘ nnd 80 whatever it is we'll credit it on the next note, if you have no objec~ tion." ~ Again tho monoy was countod, and witl, the 24 per cent off, just puid the note to a cent. * Well, that's - luck,” vesumed the old man ; ¢ and now, Mr, Thompsou, the old woman Lng boon solling right smart of butter and aigs, and sowme chickens now and then, when thoy come 'round the country s buying, aad sho told mo this moruin’ that I bettor take what ehe bad, and maybo it wouldn't come amiss.” A roll was pro- duced from the left sids brosches pooket, and, wheu counted, just paid the third note aftor the 36 per cont wus deducted, and Thompson enid not a word. Bmith seemcd to bo considerin, for some minutes, and thon, raféing Lis hoad, said, o8 though o sudden thought struok him': * You knowad my darter, 8al, dldn't yo? Loast- 'wise you've seon hor. Sal was a fine gal. .About five yoars ago, at bog-kiili' timo, ons o' my honds tuck 'sick, and what doos Sal do but turn_in and bolp ug, nd, I toll you, shie could eling o bog across hor shouldor oqual to dry mnn on the ground. Well, you kuow, Sal marriod your befora last, and her Liue- band Hibbell—you know Bibboll—is doin’, they tell mo, as pood & grocery businoss as any man in Kirkeyillo, Jakoy ho wont over to mop Sal and Iibboll the othor day, and thoy was n talkin' abont this bore interest business, and Sal says to Hibbol), says sho— “ Nover mind what they enid, Mr.Smith,” broke in ‘Thowpson, * just hand over the money you wero golng to say they sont you,” Aud sure onough tho old man produced utill another roll from somo secret pocket, which, when counted, proved to be the cxuct umount necessary to pay oft tho lnst note whon tho 48 - per cent Liad beon duly takon off, ‘Lhompyon pockoted the money, went straight to the Qourt-Liouse, acknowledgad the deod, and handed it ovor, with only this remark; ¢ You aro the d—ut old rascal I ever saw 1" —_— UNFINISHED STILL, A baby" boot, and a ekein of wool, Taded und sofled, und soft; 0dd things, you say, und no doubt you'reright, Round u seaiman's neck thin stormy night, Up iu tho yardw aloft, Mot lka it's fally, b o Wiion 6 1 ot fo st 100% Berot ev m&:m\m slflolml m} the hu‘:o llr)fll". 4 a wedding-ring oy ti 1) 1t han Which ey w0 ciovs 1o maae PO My wifo, God bless Lior | Tho day befora Blie eut Lesido my foots And tho sunlignt kiswed et yollow lutr, U 0 ngory, deft 'y Taitted o baby's boats — o 4 - ‘The yoysge was ovor; I came gshors: Lut, thivk you, found | there 7 fi rave d:.“: d]:illl« tisd Anclukisd whitog wottuge vmply, aud der) "M it boeida tho e, 1St Thie little boot, 'Lwas unfutsbied atill ; “Lho tungled skelu Iy uear s But tho kalttcr bad gous wway to reat, Witk tho bube a ';f.%:‘"i boe qulot b ahyard draac, wCanicil's ‘Imum‘. el “TINAY “ Always missing thoir opportunities,” grum. ‘blod the doator ; * always golting into tho wrong placos, somoliow, aud doing -the wrong things. That {8 the wny with pooplo. Now, thoro is Wolby—look at Wolby: the idea of Wolby sot- tliug down into o .country pursop, simply bo- cause his mothor's aunt rogarded the Church ag his vocatton, sud could bnve made it Incon- voniont for him if e had disngreed with hor. Doerr mo,"—dropping suddonly futo a woarled sort of abstraction, and staring at tho :brown- stone front on tho opposito sido of {he utroct,— ‘*what fools women malko of onogt wmon some- times, and—ywhat kuaves 1" Tt soomed ae if tho sight of ths brown-stone front was suggostive, and .added a spark -to n now train of thouglit, for ho sighed again, and rumpled his shaggy bair with his largo white hand in an odd, disturbod fashion, **And Durant," he enid, fu.a lower volce, “ kindly, gontle litlle dollow aa ho iy, made for” home lifo, and simplo; tondor Liome pleasures— to-think of his,marrying & woman like that, and holng workod to denth by-hor, and disnppointed to the coro of Lis soft henrt by lior, and draggod {from post to pillar, to Lor-balls, and parties, and fonsty, and watering-places! Qod bless my soul"—ghaking his brond shoulders like n.big water-dog—*‘ what a blunder it was| And then thero's tho child,” he wout on the noxt minuto, “and ¥ L TUAT BLIP OF A GOVERNESS GINL, with her novols, and ber romanco, and her big, lost-looking, dronmy oyes. What right has o protly, ellly, vague cronturo like that to maken governess of horsolf? What .does sho know about moldiug » child's mind, aud rooting out ovil tondencics, and checking little offshoots of wrong, and all that gort of thing? Sho'sn baby horsolf. Al!-thero ehe is nt.the window—star- gazing, I supposo,” ‘Tho nursory was in tho hl[iheub story of the house, and the houso was n larze one, so tho window at which thoe solitary young figuro stood was high enough, and near enoug] to the starg, for all star-gazing purposcs, ‘I'he window itsolf .was thrown open, aud tho light within showed the glrl leaning upon.the mll and resting her clun on hor hand, But she was not looking up ; 8he wns looking down. Tho stars hor forlorn girlish eyes snw: were the twinkling atroot-lamps, strotching thomselves down the streot In a varrowing vistn, If the doctor him- self folt rather noglectod and out of sorts to- night, ho was not,alone .in his.temporary dojoc- tion, for his young acquaintance across the way was out of spirits too.' 1¢ was ko lonely in Teddy's protty nursery thero when Toddy was asleep, aud “the world -that scomed "so far ‘be- low tho high -window was ull lighted up, and ‘Teddys mamms was .out enjoying horgolf in all hor bravery and besuty, and even tho sorvants were having asocinble sort of gath- ering in:their own domaina, “1t.isn't so drondful in tho daytime, whon Telldx {nlks -and ‘poople seem to be properly alive,” anid Tina, ‘hor great molancholy binok eyes roving hero and thera until at last-thoy set- tled on tho doctor's study.window, I sup- poso it is -bocanse Iam-up horo ail by myselt in the sileuco .that everybody who passes ap- penais like a sort of ghost. TUERE I8 DR. THEOBALD looking out, and be looks like a ghost, too, I wonder what he i thinking about 7’ It would be #afe enough to ask him .from horo ; one needn't be afraid.of beivg answered. What are yon thinking about, Dr, Thoobald ?* she snid, softly ; and sbe gave him a little nod-under cover of i.’l.\o ]“lmlfiuam, o slow, drenmy smilo touching or lips. .8ho had observed him far oftoner than hio had obsorved -her. Ho had been.an object of intorest to Lor from the first day of her arrival, whon she had .seen. his comfortable cerriage drawn up before the pavement, and had watehed for hie oulcoming with the flunry curiosity of utter loneliness. .Her life nt the third-rate boarding-gchool at which sho had been educuted liad .not hoen & pleasant,ons, but she lLod becomo used to its dull routine, and, being .only a girl, thero had beon other girls’ among-tho fifty third-rats pupils whom sho had learned to like, and whom sho was sorry to lewve. There had boen poor, much-suubbed Jeuny Ackerbury, whom she had clung to and pitied, simply because Jouny was tho shabbiest, aud lonoliest, and ‘least popular nmong thom, becnuse hor bills and her leasons wera always behindhand, and hor weekly al- lowancs was such o spectre aud mockery. She had criod over Jenny piteously when' sho hud bidden hor good-by, aud she had given lier & new chorry-colored neck-tie, with vowa of etornal fidelity. Indeed, she had crled over n grent many people that last day, and had not even been able to restrain bor emotion over the fare~ well glaes of -severoly-turt ourraut-wiue con- doscondingly presented to Lior in the snuff-ol- ored parlor by Miss Bilkersou tha elder, whoso habit it was to preside solemmnly upon all such occaslons, 8he had felt a yoarning even toward the' Misses Dilkerson, notwithatanding -their rather sharp disciplive. o, when she hnd landed ot Lier destination, with her sole worldly possen~ sions in bLor emall truuk, she had FELT HER DESOLATION STIONGLY, Bhe had neither father nor mother, A distant rolative hind educatod her ruther grudgingly, with tho understauding that, onca educated, shé must take oare of herself; and there the matter stoud, She - was oducated as far as the Bilkorson resources went, aud a situation 28 nursery- governess had’ been supplied hor, aud .she was considered provided . for, ter her tirst awlward attempt ab patting T to bed, she had been ungrateful onough, despita this bounty, to ory herself to sleep, with a half- frightened fecling of desolatoness, and a :terri- ble louging oven for the woak tea, thick bread- and-butter, aud namrow bed, of the Bilkorson establishment. Bho would have had Jonny aud Georginu Dlair and Sophy Adams Lo conflde int at leust, if she Lud been thore, and hero there was nobody. But.m o fow days the grandeur nbout her ba- gan to attract attention somewhat by its novelty. She Jfound out that Mrs. Durant .was youny ond n beauty, and thet she lived .a wondrous exciting life, full of what seom- ed to her young nursory-govorness the most gor- #oous romance, though it wus withal o tritlo starthing in sume of.its, faghionablo phuses, Sho wore dresges such nu 'Lina’s favorito horoines in- dulged in, and soemed to have boon every- whero ; in fact, she intarested lier inoxperionoed admirer 8o deoply that Jonuy received a uix-p: Ietter upon tho stbject, and wll Misy Billterson's elder.pupils wore stivred with envy and .exelto- wont for u woek, Dul it was not_very long be- fore Tina lost hor epgor interest in the mistioss of tho houschold, or nt loust lost the groator pn’: of it, nid by that timo sho was boginuing tobe FOND OF TEDDY. Bho could not have lived. withqnt & fondnesn for somebody or something, aod the proity noglected child “wound himselt round hor soft impressionablo Leart. Sho was not 8o nwkwatr, about dressing and nndroxsing him afior all, and, in o cortnin inoxperienced and perhaps dosultory Iashion, she munuged to tench Lim for a shott time oach dny, though the truth was, shio-was more nurse than ‘i;avnrnnsu. 8ho tool him out every moruing, and it was in ono of theso morn- ing walka that tho doctor had firat encounterod hor strolling on the graus in the nearest park, an opon novel in her hand, and hor small charge wandoring bofore her, The faot was, slio had boen 20 much intorested in her bool that sho had elnost tumbled over the doc- tor, and liad looked up at him with such s fright- oned start, and such au almost childish apponl in her grent mulnnuhul?’ oyos, that ho Lad smiled in epite of himself, They had ofton met since thou, though they hind not spoken to ench other, aud Tina hud watchod the groat wun from her nursery window, never dreaming that.now and then bo was watchimg her too. In his profes- gion Dr. heobnld 10as n gront man, e hnd done much for scionce, and his follow-workors regarded him as an authority; ho had beon a man of ideals and enthusinsms, and hod pox- yessod courage and powor enaugh to live u{) to ihem, Ho had oven become n fushion, too, with great poeplo who would nover be great enough to understand i, 1lo had been merous and stoadfast, and had reapod Lis rownrd aa few men have ‘the for- tune to roap suoh rowsrds. So Tins hoard of his fame and prowess maro than onee, nnd, in her fungcent yomantio sdwmiration for all groat thingy, became 4 QUITE INTERESTED IN BEORET, #he liked to watch him from her window. whon the study was lighted und sho counld soe him at work; sho liked to weave grandiloguent ro- maucos sbout him; sho ovon wont 50 for as to ]ylnu o threo-volumad novel, -built npon one of hor pet me' of whioh he was tho bero, and cortuin large-oyed, rathor vaguo young porson, who died early, attor 8 most touching donth-bo seenc, the heroine, It was boesuso Etholinda hind dled young that he had not matried. Some- timou sho oven fanoled that she could toll Ly iy air when ho hed beon to visit tho spot~ less oross of marble ou which was wseribed hor namo, “Btholinds,” and nothivg elso, Sho would not liave beon sorry to huve boon Bthels ,haviog been 8o rash, inda horsolf, and dicd youny, sud have boon mourned for by auch s man, 4 Holpokw a0 kind," she sald, watohiug him, . &1 don't' think I should:fanoy man if T had not boon toldt.” In truth, Dr.-Thoobald was n sort-of com- .panton for her In many of hor lonely howrs, Sho lled to his silent, imrosponsive fignre: ofton | -whon sho wa tired of Lor novol and Toddy-way asloop; and tho faot that ho seamed ontiroly-un- conacious of hior oxiutonco nb such timos waa to Tior:tho gront charm of hor convorsntions, Bub she did not tallk to him long -this ovoning, In nshort tine hoturned awny from | the window, nnd was lost.to'hor night forn fow | minutoes, and whon huaprnm-nd inview.again.ho | Iind higJint on, nud was deawing on his gloves. “Homust ho golng out,” murmured Tiun ; “Idnre soy to seo o pationt—porhaps o poor ane. Thoy say lio i very.good to poor people.” And pho watehiod him-uutit bo loft tho room, | anud Lhon watchied -him descend tho atone steps into.tha etroot, and thon sho.smiled hor dronmy, lalf-unconscious smilo- again, ** Good-night, Dr. Theobnld," sho said ;.and, when lie wax oul of mghi,-slio turvod away from:hor window. ‘I'io room soomed more silont and .desolate Ahon over, 'Teddy's- soft, regular broatliug only added to the gonoral lonaliness, « 8he took up abook and turned the Toaves listlossly, bLut slio wad too rontless to read, and even the adven- turos of ouo of tho most thrilling of herolnes {ailod to interest her, i 1t Is vory tiresomo," sho sald, with:a litllo awn, ‘L wish I daro go out.” And then, rightoning suddenly, ** And WHY OAN'® 17 It is not late, and I could buy Tndd(y‘u Dbirth- day rnm,mb to-night instond of waitibg until morning," g \I6 wad such o novel idon, this ono of going ont into tho .world below herself, .and having o share of tho light, and passing to and fro, that it q‘ fte toolk possossion of her, an dn two mihutos sho was ) standing before tho glass buttoning her sumo up to tho thront, and tyln%hor hat nndor hor-halr, feoling linlf oxclted and half timid, She had promised horself the luxury of buying Teddy n modest birthdny rosent, No onoalss would remembor him, poor ittlo man 1 .and it would beo much nicerto hinve it rendy for ‘him as .s00n as he nwoko ; pud.then whore could bo the harm of ,;iohxu out? .Miss Bilkerson had ofton gone out shopping at night, 8o it camo about thut, au bour Iater, Dr. The- obnld, -turninyg the corner of the stroet on his way:homo, wes startled by the sound of his own name utterod in o girlish voice, with auch & ring of, torror inits tones that he turncd in some alarm, 4 “ Doctor!” the cry cama to him. bald! Oh! plenug, plense]” He eaw what [t moant thon, Two rough-look- fug follows, who had ovidently been ,annoying somo Jne, turned nbm‘{)ly away, and wore out of gight before he could reach the spot whore thoy had stood, and a girl who had brolen loose {from thom flew to meol him {n such a tremor of fright that for a momont vhe could not spoak, **Don't be frightened,” he snid, kindly; “I will take core.of you. ‘lakemy arm aud stand still for o minute or o, You are scnrcely oqual to walking just yot. There, there!” patting hor small, cold, clinglog hand soothingly,” * You mnst not cry, Nobody shall hurt you.” “ I am little Teddy Durant's governcss,” sho eaid, lifting hor face and showing him ler rant oyes, almost wild. with her childish terror. *T ain Tiua Floyd, and _L.wont out to buy him a birthday prosent. And as I was coming home thosa dreadful men followed me, aud they would talk to me, though I begged them to go away. And one of them tried to kiss me, but I'suw you Just in time, for a8 goon as I ealled you they ran away, Ican'ttellyouhow thankful 1 am to you— ho-wae a gront **Dr. Theo- I 0AN’T, INDEED.” And .she cnded with au innocent sob anda fresh burat of toara, I should have died if he lad kissed me!" she oricd, clenohing her little hand ; “I should baye dicd /" Hor hat had fallod off in tho struggle, and hung by ite elastio from her hnnd just as'she had onngeht it, tho tonrs in ber oyos, tho piwsionnto | little air.of fear and disgust in lior whole faco and figure, Even this lnst childish, augry gos- ture itsolf roused .in her doliveror's mind a curious sort of iuterest and admiration, “Iam very glad to have been of .gorvice to you,” be snid, rather awlwardly. 3 “Iam afraid,” faltored 1ina, “that I ought not to have bean out aloue, but I did not think that any one could be so—go_eruol, and it is so dull in"tho um‘florg after Teddy is asloep, ' I shall never go out by mygelf again,” ‘I think,” said Thoobald, “that 1 would not, in your place. 'You aro too young and—unace cugtomed to tho city.” Butho had barely es- caped ndding * too protty,” which was the truth, They woro only ofow yards from the houso, and, when thoy reached 1t, Tina turned round upon the thresbold with & t{mid, troubled air, *‘I beg pardon,” she hositated—* bus if you would not mind -my - saying o, I shonld lika to ask {ou unot tomention it to—to janybody, Iam afrald Mrs, Durant might be angry, aud {f sho wore to send ma away from here I havo nowhero else to po. *Iwil say nothing about it,” he roplied. ¢ You may roly upon mo.” And ho Lold out his hand to her, The sowll brown * Thank you,” unid fluvu touched his timidly, Tiun, and good-night,” ‘Tt was quite natural that she should take n greater intorest in-tho_tall, looso-jointed figure, and inits passings to and fro from the honss to the carriago, nnd from tho carriago to the house, aftor this. Bho felt ns if she hnd a greater righ to be interested now. Ho had been kind -to -her too, and she was gratcful ay well as admiring. When ho met Lor in-her walks Lie always bowed to her as if he had not forgotten, and once or twico Lo stopped aud askod avout Teddy, in thnt kind yot hatte abstrnctod way of hig. It was boonuse lie hud 80 much to think about thut he had that nbstract- ed air, Lius faucied. “She did not know that ho was 80 littlo used to.the society of women that even the dark cyes of u pale-faced governess umnde him somewhat awkward and confused. She sometimey: saw bim at the house, when ho cama to.spond an ovening wilh DEr. Durant, and ho often dooked thoughtinl sud caroworn; so she was sure that it wrs beonuse he was 8o over- worlked and studious. » -But she was destined to gain a nearor view of tho grontness she set 0 far apart from herself and hor ignorant girPs romauce. One winter night, as the doctor sat at work smong his books, a visitor was announced, whose hurried entranuce roused him abruptly from his studies. It was Mry. Durant’s uursery governess, her pale young face looking prler than over under the bisck shawl he hnd thrown over hor hoad, and her eyos fall of tears, ““1 do not know what is the matter with Ted- dy, Dr. Theobnld,” she oriod, breathiessly, ** I THINK HE I8 DYING, and Mr. and Mrs, Durant are ont, Yon will come, won't you? We don't know what to do, and the sorvonts are so frightencd that T was obligod to como for you mysolt," *+ L will como at once,” be enld, and hurrled out of the room with hor, muttering two words to Limself, * Poor Durant 1" But when he saw Teddy, he erid: “Poor ljt- tlo follow!" Toddy was in strong convulsiony, aud a French cook and an Irish chambermaig wora wringing thoir hands over him. ‘Tho other servants liad followed thoir mistross’ oxsmplo, end gous out. ; **Nobody but a slip of a echool-git],” he said, in a vexed undertone, *“'I'he wrong place again, Poor child!" And he scarcely knew whether ho meant ‘Peddy or his govornoss by this last pilying phraso. But iu ten minutes he repronched himsolf for Sho was not 8o awkward aflor all. Bho touchod tho littlo follow with hauds o deft and tondor that Lo saw sho might ba trusted, and m all service for him sho way so ready and simply {raclable and f.uutls that she might beve shamed nn oldor and wiser woman. And once, botwoon the convulsions, when the child was quiet for u few minutos, and lny with closed oyes in hor arms, sho took tho Jitela hand that restad ou her bosom aud touchod it softly to her lipy, with a sorrow his mother might have shown, “I love him," she said; “and he loves me, Don’t die, Toddy—don't dio " Wheobald romombored this when, ot mid- night, Mrs, Durant roburned, Bho came into the room in her rich dress, a foverish flush on her bosutiful face, o tired-out look in lior eyas, and, stunding at Tina's sido, shie looked down at the ohild with un air half impationt, Lalf weariod, ‘I bo really ll?" shosaid, ‘I hopo not. I don'’t undoratand ohildren, and Mr. Durant isso onsily frightencd! He docsnot look ill now, but I suppoye Lo is Lotter than he'was. You nra vary, kind to pay him so much attention, doo- tor,’ ., Blo did not romnin intho room long. She was worn ont, sho sald, and nervous; und in- deod #ho sosmed both. If sho was wanted, “'na muat oall her, Angd so sho loft thom, sigh' lu%n littlo au sho turned away. ut shio was not disturbed. ” Whon Dr. Thoo. bald loft tho house, Viua was sitting at Toddy’s bedside, with that soft, ALMOST MOTHERLY L.ODK on Ler pale, girlieh faco, aud it was plainly ber intontion to remnin nt hor post all night, I would not liko to lenvo any ono with him who might fall nsloop,” sho said, “And I am sure Luhall not full asloop. L conldu’t, you kuow, while I am #o auxious about him," My, Durant was away from home, and his wife's ongugomonts wore of auch a nhturo thut shio had littlo timo to spend in the nursery ; and Dbeuides, us sho hind paid, she did noc understand ohildron. Ho this was by no monns tho lnst uight Tina spout with her charge, In faot, ele spent Doth day mnd night with Lim, ‘| to cortain old grimblings of Lis about this-was \ ‘burning In_ tho nnrse slanding athis study window, waw -tho slight | b When he was o lititlo bottor, " she Pl"m‘ With him* and -tried to amuso him, with: n simple patienco which quite touchod Thoobald's heart; and when ho ‘was not o woll alo nursod him, snang to him, and catriod him to.and fro in hor slendor arms, with~ out & whadow of lmlmuunco at his ehildish frot- {ulness, Ofton and ofton, when the liyhts waro’| at night, Thoobuld, protiy figuro paolng slowly nud rather wenrily backiward and forward.nordss the flaor, with its burden iu ilsarme; and walphing it, hewont back *“protty, sllly.slip of a governoss ‘;Irl"' There wasl somotling in Lot nfter afl—tiioro must bo, nolwithstanding hor hig . molancholy oyos, || and hor romances, und novels, and kohool-girl | ways, Blio wan vory shy and thnid in hor man- mer loward limself, ‘Indeed, sho waa 80 ovi-, dontly afrad of ‘Lim thnt somotimes ho almoat ' fanclod that ho lost pationoo with hier, But that way of bers with tho child—that unselflsh, un- u\[unpln.lning, simplo tonderness—always moved . im, 5 Au to Teddy, ho waa in rather an uncoriain; condition, somalimes botter, somotimos wors #sometimoen pmminln(flo be strong onough to ru nbout very soon, and then again fatling back into Xnnlmuru or fever, or somo othor state oqually {Boouraging. -~ . “Lato’ hours, and polito diesipation, andt fashionable folly have left their mark upon him," growlod Thoobaid to bimsolf, * Whatcau ong.expeot with such. s mother?” The groat Dr. Theobald, Lo it known, kad cortaln old-fash- loned notlona of his own. f But with Tina's belp tho boy wonried through a fow changoful weeks -without seoming ot an timo so_soriously -ill nato give rise to frosl alorm, But at the ond of the month A BUDDEN CHANGE CAXIE, | 88 it woro, without o moment's notice. o had boon a little utronfiur to pll appenrances, for n day or #o, thongh he lind boen mora than weunily frotful ; and ono evening Dr. ‘Thoobald, making his dnily call, found him lying upon the hearth- ug watching Tiua, who knelt near hum, building 8 onatlo of blocks, and -at the samo time tolling him s story. Ho was vory much intorested, and rathar rescoted ‘'hoobald’s ontrance upen the seene. g ‘‘I'm very well, only I've got n hendache,” he said, with o queer old-sounding sigh. * Tina can 'tond to mo. Go on, Tinn. ‘And so the glant carriod tho benutiful lady to the onstle, ang draggod hor into the dungoon—nnd that's tho dungoon—by her golden hair, and—' Go on.” ‘* In g minute,” said Tiua, raising her eyos to Thoobald's, 1 (hink bo'is bottor, thaul yon, and he i8 yory good about his medicine,” When Mg Durant came in to sco him before going ont that night, sho thought thathe was bet- ter, too, and #aid so to Tina, with o relieved- air, “I hope ho will bo quito well by tho time Mr. Ducant returns,” sho added, and thon kissod him, and bade him good-night. But at half-past 10 » messongor flow across tho street to Theobald with news that struck him with alarm. Teddy had beon seized with con- vulgions again, and seemed worso than ever, And when the dootor ontered tho nursery, ha anw that all was over, “Bend for his mothor," he said, bricfly, But no ono know where she had gouo except tho conchman who had drivon her, The housp- ‘hold seldom kuow whora slio spent lior evenings, ‘* And Mr. Durant is away on businoss,” gaid na. Thay did their best, but every offort was uso- loss. The time had come now, aud the honrs of the briof lifo wore numbored. Tina could not Dbelipve it ; she could not boliove the truth aven when she read it on ‘Theobald's face. “‘He onnnot be going to die,” she criod, *Ho was 80 much bottor only o few hours agol Itold him stories until he fell agleop.” Bhe had nover seen m:‘y one die in ber lifo, and a strange awo took hold upon her whon at lnst sho began to ronlizo what was going to happen, ' Only hor innocent love nupgurtud bor. Would it hurt him todie? Would ho know? . - It was midnight whon the ond eamo, and Theo- Dbald was with her, standing ot tho bedside. Tho convulsions consed, and a slow, subtle abange began to creep ovor tho ohildfsh faco. ‘Ihero was 8 now pallor, a faint gray shadow, as it were, n curious solomu gettling of the pretty features, at the sight of which Tine brole into » low huslied cry. . *Daotor," shie enid,—* dootor, look!- O, what is it 2" Iio touched her trombling hand in kind ro- straint. “rr 18 DEATH," be unld,ufantly; ‘“but you necd -not fear it. ‘Why should you 2" But it was not oxactly fear that stirred her so deoply. It was sometliing olse. Ho was 8o all alone, poor little fellow! ~All the sorrow iv hor innocont affectionato nature broke forth in ono burst of griof at that momont. “ And his mothor is away!"” ghe ‘sald; ‘*and there is no one to say one little prayer, or to siolp him to sy one if ho could speakl Oh, ot mo speak to him,—tob me try | 1 taught hifa n little prayor onco, if ho could remember it, Taddy dear ! ob, Teddy dear, look ab Tina!” Perhops it was because hor voico und mado itnelf dear to him that it had power to reach the dulling senso. His langnid oyos oponed slowly, end fixed themsolves woarily upon her face. She had Lnolf down beside him, and sho took his hand, beuding over him, weaping sotly, 41¢ Teddy could remember his prayor,” she mnid, tromulously—**if Teddy ‘would try to say it I" He looked at her for a fow secc- onds, and then his cyes, still fixed upon hor, filled with & sudden light—a mystorious, swlal, uncongcious brightness, “When I lny me down to sleop,” ho mur- ;muaa, slowly, *'Ipray—tho Lord—my soul to— osp,” v “And if I die—" said Tina, # Bofore I wake,” the slow, child's voice went on, inking a littlo, “T proy—the Lord my—my soul to tako. Amen,” “Amen!” said Ting, “And good-by, Ted- dy; good-by," Aud sho hid her face upon the small hand, for as the “*Amen". died awny tho mysterious, wful brightness suddenly dic out, and left tho littlo face iipon the pillow FAID AND COLD, ‘*Don’t cry,” kaid thie doctor, touching hor on the shoulder n few moments later. **1t ig far bottor ag it Is,” It was a terrible blow to Mr. fmmnt,. but lo mado no outery over it, way to be demonstrative. Perbinps hiy time for that was past. Chunco brought him homo the next mornhui‘, outirely unproparcd to hear the news, aud he found” his boy laid in his cofin, the houschold ful) of mourning, and his wifeshut up in hor room, all responsic bility having falion upon Tina and Theobald, Ho went to the darkened chumbor of death, looked at tho solemn, childish figuro for & whilo in o etuuned eilence, and then spoke to Theo- bald, 2 ““Whore was Dolle when—when this hap- pened?” Lo asked, **Bho wasout. It was vory sudden. Sho did not know." Ho bent ovpr the coflin, and with s trembling Laud moved a flower. **Bho was out,” he snid, in &' Jow, hard volce, **And did not know!” 'Theu he looked up gud- donly, “Was anybody with him?"™ he do- maudod. v Theobald laid his hand upon Lis shoulder, “ Bliny Flood was with him," he unid, * and I mysclf, Ho was not alone.” *Thank you," brokeuly. “I did not oven Bho did not tell me,"” It was not his know that he was ill. Aftor the fuueral wag over, and tho sorrowful oxcitement hud to some exteut passed away, Dr, “Iheobald, in s study, beghn to look &t tho nursory windows aorosu the way with a now wonder, What wora they going to do with the govorness? Whatwould ‘she do with berself, tathor? And then remembering that simpla apoach of hory, “T huve nowhere olse to go,” he Tolt a tittlo disturbed, She was not tho sort of girl who might safely face the world alones, And then his mind would roturn to thut simple, sorrowful scone ut the boaside, to tho alight Ineeling flgure - clasping the littlo liatloss Land, to the fnnocont prayer So innocontly uttered, to tunt Jast Amen, whon the awful brightuoss died out, and o the -gnd, low ory, ** Good-by, Teddy ; good-by.” And tomehow or other, end as tho picturo was, he would not Lave Torgotten It for great doal, Ho did not teo Lina for eoveral days aftor the fuuoral ; indeed, might not Lhavo. soen hor again ut all, but that, going to the houso one morn- ing, lio grw o cab standing boforo the door with & small trank upon it, and hurrylngup thesteps, he mat tho givl face to faco, Bhe was looking paler and moro youthful than ovor, lio thonght; and when Lo held out his hml,ld to her, slie made o poor littlo offort at & smile, : “Iam going > BACR TO 3188 BILTERSON'S," 0 bo afrald? Wounld ' anything ibat lmfipunod to horp .Only Tins Floyd, who know barely enough to mako a nur- Rory govorness, and who had no friends but the thifd-rato pupils at the third-rato 1 yominary for oung Indion.” There wana' litlla pain ot her hoart Whon Bho romemberod how far she stood helow him ; but, romantis and ignorant and fond of novols ng slio was, she had nover Liad any ren- timental fanoles of Dr, Theobnld's dascondlng Lo or lovel ; so if aho aaid * good-by " & little and- 1y, shio nid It quite_alinply, sud left bim no ale tornative Lint to roply in tho samo manner. “(o0d-by," ho eald, I amn sorry it Is good- Dy, though. I have beon wondering what' you waonld do,” “Thank you," she snawerod; ' yon woro very kind to think of me, Ivory ono is very kind, .Mr. Durant "—but_thora her volce fal- tored somowhat—* Mr. Durant has boen very good to me," sho nddod; * and Le snld It waa for Teddy's anko," ‘Tho cab drova awnay ton minutos aftor, nud loft . Theobald standing upou tho stono stopa Teoling curiously disturbed. ** Bick to Mids Bllkorson's,” ho said to hime gelf, ‘4 Iy thut tho right Elnco,! wonder ? Lot uu“lz.npn thnt Miss Bilkorson will troat her woll 8o back to Mies Billkorson'a Tins wont, and was roinatalied in the baro bedroom with Jenny Ackerbury, and taught tho mmallor pupile grame mar and i;nogm))hy and wes rathor envied ag one who ind koon tho world., Bbo waas fond of Jenny Ackerbury, too, ns ovor, and oy ready to holp hior and lision to 'the relation of her wooa ; and yet Jouny Ackorbury, with all her dullnoss, u':wtwhn Tiua did not” know horsolf, numely, tha A OITANGE, TAD COME OVER HER, that the molanoholy black eyes Lad an abseni look somatimos, that now aud then thoy seomed sad or wistlul, One duy, walking at tho head of hor proe cemslon of pupils, tho oldor Miss Dilkorson oaw that o' gontleman, in passing, howed to somobody behind her, and turning with some sharpness, she found that it wa Tina who had heen bowed to, and that Tinn looked frightoucd. Hho hockoned to her with her parasol. “ Who wae that—poruon who bowed to you ?* slio domanded, when the culprit came, ‘¢1t was Dr. Theobald,” said Lina. o was Mr. Durant’s family physician, and when Toddy waa ill I saw him very often,” ‘418 It the Dr. ‘Theobnld 7" “I think 8o,” Tina faitored. * Ho la vory cele ebrated."” ** Oh1" snid Miss Bilkerson, in a rathor mollls fled tono, “ You may go baclk to your place,” And Tina went. Bhe bad n gront denl to do at Miss Bilkor- 8son's, and hor small charges kept hor very busy, and yot the time scomod to pass vory slowly. 8ho did not find another situation for so lon that sho bad quite sottled down into hor nlé‘l pluce, when the prospeot of & change camo, and even this, when it camo, was the prospoct of such a change as sho had never droamed of. She was sitting by tho piano in the parlor oue aftornoon, giving & music-lesson to & dull little girl, and foollug’ rather woary and spirit~ lens, when o ring at tho front-door attracted her sttention, and in & moment or 8o moro gome ono ‘wag usherod into the room. Bho rose from her seat rathor hurriedly ; but, whon she confronted thio viditor, aho turnod firat red and then white. * IT WAS DR. TUEOBALD, and Dr Theobald advanced toward hor with out- stretobiod hiand. ‘‘Blisa Floyd!” ho eaid, And then In n strango voice, almost nsif ho could not controt it, ' Tioa 1" Bl did not Imow what to eny. Ofton ag sho hod thought that she would like to seo him again, she bad never fancied that the sight of hia faco and the sound of his voice could movo hor as it did. 8ho carcely dare trust horsolf to sponl, Aod yet, of courss, he could only have come on business, #* Miss Bilkorson is in the school-room,” sho faltered. * Did Janot take your name?" ** No,” he snid, with & curious, almost des. pornto decision, /It was not Miss Bilkerson T camo to #eo. Can you postpone the rost of this music-lesson ?" T think it is finished,” enid Tins, * Youmsy go up stairs again, Nannie,” But when the child had left the room, sho was so frightened that sho would have liked to run away horself. Bho foltas sho had nover dona sho gnid, in rather o timid way. * ‘Phoy wero so good aa to wny that T wmight como nud help to tench tho little onos until £ could tind sumowliore togo, You know thore s nothing more for me tol It:u horo. Guud-fifl. Dr. Thluubnld.“' was & onrious thiug to acknowledge, ovo Wimsolf; bub tho tratli wa that Lo had meses boforo folt exactly tho pang ho fult that moment 8t the-tono of hor simplo * Good-by, Dr, Thoo- bald." Sho spokesomothing as if thoy woro o far apart from ouch olhor that it way impossiblo thn ho could cave vory much—ay if it had nevor pre- tonted ilsolf to Lier mind that ho conld bo moyod. by hor going or staying, Aud, indeed, such & faucy nover lad prosonted itslf fo her . ‘How oould euch aman be touched by before. Blie was full of a strango tremor, and could not lookup, And in a fow moments sho becaino conscious that'Lor visitor was disturhod too. Thehand with which he held hors was un- stondy, and for a littlo whilo he did not speak— only stood looking down at her drooping faco. But a¢ last ho broke tho sllenco. He led her to tho sofa, and made her sit down. ‘*Will you ait thero,” said-ho, **and havo ap« tionco with me for a Littlo while 2" She could not make any protense at boin, onlm, or believing that ho was calm. - Bho sai #You™ in n low, timid voice, and st still, look= ing ot the ponuil with whicl'sho_lad boon point- ing out notes to her pupit, Theobald turned about and began to walk up and down the room before hor, his hands clasped behind liim, a sin- gular excitoment in his maunor. ““L'ina,” he said, *I bave como to make an appeal to you."” +*To mel” she said, with an innocent start, “To you," he went'on, his voico shinking. * And it is suol o_presumptuious appeal that I can hardly hopo that you will hoar it to tho ond, 1 have beon passing through @ sort of mental crisis latoly, I huve beon slowly discovering that—that ‘'my life is worth very little to mo without ono thing which you have taught me to long for. I do not_know exactly how it has been that all my life I have somehow or othor ‘missed what usually comos early onough to both wen and women, Porhups it has been through some fault of my own. dare sny it hes, but now tho longing has come, and I canuot boar it. I haye been » man of faucios and theorios. I have tind theorics of wrong and right. I have ovon had a theory sbout you; mnd it bag ended in this way, that you, innocent child, have tanght me that Ijwas o blundoring fool, wise ouly inmy own stubborn_crotchots. Nay,” turning round to her, pulo-facod and hums ble, ufltntml boyond measure—** nay, lot o ond, T binva not words to toll you how I huva learned all this, Ounly I love you— 1 LOVE You!" » And then that momont he was kneeling at her sido, holding hor small cald hand, and bending down to luss it with o wondrous reveronco. Tina, trembliug, could only let him hold and kivs it. The little Pnncfl sligumd down upon tho floor. Was this herself — Tina — whom the Misses Bilkerson snubbod, and who had nobody but Jenny Ackerbury to caro for hor much ? “Waa this Dr, Thoobald, of whom she had thought in that sad socrat way ns & horo ‘who would forget all about her bocauss she wag not worth romembering ? A wild bliss filled hor bhoart, and a little sob broke from hor throbbing throat, ‘“You arogo young,” sald Theobald, almost mournfully, #that it 1s hard for you (g undoer+ stand all at ouce; and I do not ‘ask tiat you will, Only I haye thought of it so loug along that I ‘could Dboar it no longer, and to-day I vowed to myself that 1 would toll yon, and ask you gt least*to lot mo try to ténoh you to think kindly of me—only thet until “you are ready, God knows I would rather loge ny poor lifo than sbock or wound you, Vill you say that I may come hers to nea youand try? I will spealk to these people and malo them undorstand, if you will only say that Xinny." ‘There was n 8ound ns of = rustle of sillc upon the stairway, and Pina heard it. nud know it was Mins Bilkerson coming todemand an explanation. The glil’s black aeyos dilated like n child’s, and #he was paler thau evor; but whou she rose to lier feot as the door oponed, Bomething in hor faco—n somothing uew, and sweot, and brave— told Theobald thut ho had not lost bis canvo, *I wag not awaro, 'Cina," said Miss Bilkerson, grandly, “that you were entortaining a visitor.” Tinn stopped forward. “This is Dr, ‘Pheobald, Miss Bilkerson,” she eald, “and—and . UE WISIES TO BPEAK T0 YOU," And with one innccont upacchful look at her lover, slipped out of the room. Ho told her afterward what e had intonded to tell her that dny it ho bnd not so broken down, Ilow he minged "her from the nursery window i Low hio had thought of Lor almost unconsoionsly at firet, and quite eonsoionsly after ; how his memory of her hnd grown into his fifo, until ha had bogun to long’ for something more real 3 howbelind faflad to' undorstand himsolf, until tho truth Lnd como upén him like n shock ; how ba had foared and wonderad and thoorizod, un- i1 tho sight of her as sho walked amoug tho pupils that day had struck him to the henrt, aud forcod him to take tho strange stop of coming to her with 1o oxcaso but tho ono of his ovor- Whelmiug lovo, And the ond of it was that of courdo ho won her. Indoed, the truth was that he hind won hor long ngo, ovon bofore she nyer guestod that hor sad shy thoughts of him wora more than roverently admiriugones, And whon Bho was his wifo, tho wifo of tho groat Dr, ‘Thoobald, and the beloved young mistross of tho house sho had rogarded with snch awo, tha time onute whon she told im so.—Zarper's Maga- zine for June, e —A young man was fined §10 in Connactiont, Ingt woolt, for shaking Lis handkezchisf al o young Indy, The Judge, in passivg sontonca romarked that it was n fortunate circumstang :‘lm: tho m\mg 1ludl_vhhud shalen hor's at b raf, or Lo would have geut hi monthy. * pee