Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1874, Page 11

1 | : TIPSO G A PRERS THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, ’AUG.UST' 2, 1874. > 11 = BERLIN. different States,—tho army-taxes. It is also a o Talk Relative to Another War petween Germany and France. 1he French Straining Every Nerve to put a Monstrous Army in the Field. ¢ Reithstag, on the Contrary, Discussing the Propriety of Reducing {he erman drmy. ister Bancroft’s Resignation== ~ Ris Bostility to the Pa- pal Power. » nce of The Chicago Tribune. st G fgznus,_;ply, 7, 1874 aris correspondonts of the London press lging Istely in' some very cheap e iog respecting tho dosigns of. Bismarck F‘@ti,buue Travce. If tho horoscopo which men Lave mado Lias aliy gignificance wo must believe that Germany is P! B pen v s oL sl ibe2 M‘w PRECIPITATE A WAR icipatory measure. - Already those seers ‘"’,,,':;::p:m; from their legitimate occupa- A il the plan for tho. ensuing cam- ia P S an omniscience, -at -least of T, which st be, vers - ditgouragiog "".; Hotters against tho peaco of nations, o ¥ saufpulate’ Dismarok, *thu - Katser, and Stde, s nceremoniously 2. the exhibisors of Peochand Judy their pasteboard. et o- vhere s the ompipresenco of € snted than at Paris ; aod,from the emana- Gms ofits represcutatives, - oo is justiied in o that the bearts f nen are us bare to o ratiny 85 tho most ultr Bolsemian could “;:withont stopping to dwell on the oninions 4 heso London journalists in Paris,—which, are about as worth- $oass opinions can be,—a survoy of the condi- in 31 temper of both countrles will afford & Zach better solution of the vexed question as to shether the peace of Europe is threatenea more 1 Germang's Jove of conquest than the dreams & reanche which prevai in Franco. The *lis- ired'un Conscrit de 1513 " is & work wrtten enfessedly for the purpose of disparaging the mititary deeds of Napoleon, or, to use a better ession, it was o pro‘est against tho Chau- fuismof thesge. Butit signaily fails of its @k, Ttis moro of a pean than o disparage- pest, sod from the eimple resson that fhs writers conld not divest themselves of that grmputy for military achievoments which is so sizcngls inberentin tho Fronch charnctor. This is the keynotoof French politics, and Messrs. Erck- manp-Chatrian, in this subjective respeet, are frpical. Of the poiitical parties to-day in I'rance, 'WINCH BEPRESENT TEE INTERESTS OF PEACE ? Absurd! il ne s'agit pas de (@ paiz. The Legit- imistg, with the Comte de Chambord on the throns of the Bourbons, would muke an Ultra- nontane crusade. L' Univers entangled thetwo wtions in diplomstic correspondence because of 4 ll-advised utterances; &nd, in tho annexed wmitory, & spocial and eevers surveillance oer the Prench journals bas been jxnd peceesars, that the ignorant peas- wuy be not kept in & condition of erpeseal irritation. The bitter hatred against Geraxcy Las even developed a sort of relizious freary, o which the **moshier of God” plays s prozivest role a5 an outepoken critic of German ctavb-policy. As the trespass of Her Grace dess not come witlin the jurisdiction of the au- thrites, she plas & pretty freo hand,—much to fha ssusfaction of the Bishops and priests, who wo mote Lipited in the expression of their foaghia. Of Napoleoniem in posscssion of tho firone, it is Barcly necessary to speak; snd, as i -Republic ceded the aniexed portions of Aissce ana Lorraine, the Republic of the fu- 2 will exeay to win shem back. x Tee eigniicance of the immenss military pepaatione which are going on in Franco =i gest to be overlooked. From the ot of & German crite, the army which Fazea will shortly be ablo to put in the field vl pumerically inferior only to that of Rus- 5 while, in point of equipments, it will be i2lestin Enrope. Truly, the dread of a re- ion of Paris must be very great when, od with debt, and with an unsettled f politics, ull France accords o hap- iuing every nerve to reorgauizo a xxsttons sry, But this reorganization - PRECEDED, NOT FOLLOWED, Sinnovetions in tho German military system. 2uhsbly it was o matter of precayance, or, het- zeil it is the ouicome of ideas similar o e which Monsieur Fouilleo ventilates in an wide upon L'idee moderne du droil chez les Zmanges. 1 bave neither the space mnor ntion to discuss tho article, which fered in a Inte number of the Recue des Deuz es, if, indeed, it would bo-pertinent to the Sct 3 but a remark which occurs bas cer- some bearings on the case. Tho differenco 2u the French and German theories, saya fahor, is, thas, while the former base their Indtheses cf abstract right on reuson, the Ger- ¢ oa the contrary, refer theirs to the will (timie), As deductions from these premises, sueenr Fouilleo aseribes to German scholars bpcig, and to German statesmen the Gizintat might makes right. The assertion aithetieory of rigit which prevails among th moerm - philosopbers of Germany 18 foxdeien the will, is true in oune sense, i bt ja pot the eenso in which the sathar of fho abovo arziclo ases the expression. ¢ foandation of right,” says Hegel, *'is the ERd; and its nearer determination and esvres- tistobo found in the will;” but **not the ®diridual will; it is the unizersal will which de- bestight 'fn itselr.” It is in the ignoring o Gt sery essential differenco Detween in Tl and niversal that the mistake of the au- coneists. Thus the French diplomats, wko "edineya assoverated tha thelast war was the eritille result of Bismarck's far-seeing and palons™ policy, find their views sup- Mtdby 3 wholly-unexpected authority ; and axwonder, after thie, that the ingeuuous reach pution bestirs itself in order that it may WiSpuie, if neceseary, auy movements of tho fium&ndhmacrifiml Germans?” % internal affairs, further, of Germany, are Rehas do not render the prospect of another Wy gnatifving to tho poople. Whatever Yrnight be cherished by statesmen of en- {‘;};g the borders of the Lmpire, they cer- o FID N0 £E10 AMONG THE CITIZENS, i uations, “the German is mest gensi- Bresect to domostio life; nowhere elso Ybefonnd that quaintness of social com- oo, that utter frecdom from scheming Sikion, od that plainaess of life, which aro et here, Desides, the potitical relations by Smponents of thie new Empire are not the most gatisfactory nature; espreiully in St to Bavaria is this tie case. Bavaria s the e to o governed by a very vacillaiing h Fuesile King, “In a moment of onthusiasm fomspeed te Te-cstablishment of tho German fere; and bis conduct eince scems to verify ioFVierh, “Done in haste and ropented st tou Tis porsonal relations with the Em- Eaae best ehown by the fact that, on tho sty of the latter, when most of the Princes aotlemen of Germany were present in Der- e Sugrailate him in person, the King did = BapD 260d & recognition of the occasiou. s actions of the Bavarian Parliament are frei 88 10 create the best of feclings be- fapletvo Conrte. In tho case of 8 Bava- 7eiop who was about to be shown ot of iy P8 conformatbly to the laws recently en- |,nh’=l the gubject, the Lower House, by il 10 t075, fiatly protested against the ey 0 of the aforesnid laws in the Bavarian Iy ";'fl:. on the ground that it was_costrary to Ny rved righis of Bavaria, 2ud, therefore, o puitionel.” An address was_evon anded e g from the 76 protesters, begging his e, i : 179 3 Beter of the iccrease of tho ammy to en, it was for u long time u, 4 MATTED OF DOGBT, L sghietber Davaria would arant tho requisito 55 troq 12¢ Spenersche Zeitung, in comment- Ry 00 the matcer, said tnat, if the Bavarian Eeq iie W88 not williug to_voto the requisito ¢ Government wonld supply it from the how —Uity. Thisis signidcant ag show- i ’m‘l’:n‘ weak the bond is which unites e Germen States of the Exmpire, The Iy of ‘;{'l‘l does not, whether fram policy or %l“‘x Oity, asenme to regulgio the most : tatare 10 tae relationship of the well-known fact with what diitulty the above- mentioned Army bill was forced through tho Tteichstag. Only the most energetic protesta- tlons on the L]:ub of Bixmarck, and the threat that he would instantly resigu if the bill was not passed, finally sccured its awceptanco. Thus, whils Rusein s bueily Selavonizing sll its inhabitants,—a process pecaliarly trring to its German subjects on the Baltic,— and developing and ceutralizing its pow-r iz n way that makes it eeem possible that Napoleon’s prediction may somo dny bo ro- alized ; whilo France is arming as if antious to repeat Jens and Auslerlitz ; and Austria, with o well-appointed ermy, is ready to rencw, on a fa- vorable opportunity, the struggle for tho hege- mony in Germany,—tho Reichstag—with an in- souclance somewhal surprising. considering that, of its two probuble allies, Italy and England the ono is impotent from its geographical situa- tions, and the other {s but a nation of trades- people—spends days in debating as to whother the army ehall not be reduced to a size hardly capable of defending the boundaries azainst one of tho neighboring enemies. Comment fn the case seems bardly necessary, ! THE RE: TION OF MR. BANCROFT caused & fecling amoug tho scholars of Berlin alin to absolute sorrow. During the fow years Lo has passed liere as Minister of the United States, ho has been ablo to gather around bimn o circle of tho most brilliant intellects of Ger- mauy, whose estcem for hin was exhibited in o very complimentary sway in the farewell dinner given inhis honor at their bands, ** No other person,” sa¥s the North German Gazelte, ** since i!w appearanco of Trauklin at the Court of Trederick the Great, hns doue a8 much to estab- Jish bappy relations botween the United States and Gormany, as Mr. Bancruft.” e stauds vory ll‘lgh, both in the estimation of Bismarck and the Emperor, which latior caused 2 portrait of himself to be painted expressly for Lim on the occasion of his departure. Certainly no greater compli- ment. however, could be paid to his talent, than the enthusiastic recognition of the learncd coterieof Derlin. Oup gentleman informed mo that mnever in his life had he met with o person of such varied and exhaustive knowledyo as Mr. DBancroft,—oue who seemed to have all depart- ments of learning so thoroughly at command. It is true that come tongues wiisper that ho sacri- ficed independence for the eakd of popularity ;3 that his toadyism was too conspicuous; and that —to climax his misdemeanors—he had becomaos denationalized; but I never found auy raliable grounds for thoe assortions, Certainly no_other American is a8 ablo to appreciata tho political, eocial, and mtcllect:m‘ Iife of Germany, a8 he; and, if his views are not considered to be tincturedwith the necessary amot patriotism, republicaniam, or kome other m'” of dubions_significition, his shoddy ecritics should ascribe the scewing anomaly Lo their own ignoranco. = Mr. Bancroftis woll kuown bore for his un- quelified approval of the course pursued by tho Government in respect to 1ho Cathiolic Church ; and has also autioinced as Lis eonviction that COGRESPONDING STEPS . WILL LL YOUND NECES- sooner or later, in the United States. A mem- ber of the Sapreizo Ecelesiastical Court (Ober- kirchearatl) of Germauy, and & warm personal ormed mo latels, that to friend of ~Lanerotts, in i con tion, Intter ~is quite *determined tho metter on his return home, fully convinced as be is thal the indifferenco of American states- men is earnest of the translation of the Uuited States into a Papal eatrapy. 1f Lo carries out Lis plan, it may be taken for granted that the subject will be” sharply discassed, snd a profu- sion of facts and criticisme—the fruits of his his- torical studies and keen powers of observation— veatilated, that may work a revulsion of public feeling on'tho subject. For myself. however, T do vot think his polemics will be heard beyond the circlo of his friends. e is now in his 75th vear, aud, besides the impediments of old age, his tme is occupied in the revision of his * Wis- tory of the United States.” Prro. ——— FiOTHi R GOOSE IN LITERATURE. Thers are two of the same family celebrated in public and song,—*Tho Goose that laid the Golden Egg.” and Mother Gooso. The fable of the bird teaches us a practical lesson, but we claim that “ The Melodies of Mother Goose™ have hada wider influenco upon the literary world than - any other work since tho iime of Shalispeare. It is, for the most part, an unacknowledsed in- fluence. As we grow old and diguified, wo have a wonderful way of forgetting our childhood’s ditties. But, if we will follow our love for poo- try and song back to the fountain-hoead, we will find that it generally prings from the ruuniang, rippling rhymes crooned and caroled again and again by loving mothers cad aunties, as they hushed us, aud trotted us, and sang us, to sleep. The poetor man of lotters rarely cares to trace his inspiration back to #uch a jingle as— Dickory, dickory, dock, The molse tan up the clock, &c., though Pope does soy that * Ile lisped in num- bors, and the numbers came.” But, igvore it as he may, tho finest produc- tions of our modern poet are full of the echozn of nursery-songs. In many cases he has dono but little more than to continuo the lines that fell upon his ears in the days of helpliess infancy. Somebody, somewhere, 2 century £go, more or less, arrangod this “ Old Nurse-Bool of Ihymes, Jingles, and Ditties,” and gave it to the world a8 Mother Goose's Melodies. Whether the writer choso this nom-de-plume as s tributo of respect to the bird from whose plumage sho plucked the quill with which to write the book, weo canuot say. Who, when, or where makes litle difference. Only we pity those poor little children who were born away ‘back in tho dark ages, and who never °* Patry- caked,” or rodo to ** Laubnry Croes.” We are glad that our lincs fell to us in pleas- anter places, aud that ours was the goodly heri- tnge of Mother Gooso : for we love ler merry rhymes, just becausa thiey are 0 nonsensical, und simple, aud siliy. * We uncongcionsly compsare all metres and melodies with ber measurey, and aro pained or pleascd a8 they clash or chime with our child- hood's ideal. The music in *How docs the water come down at Lodoro” i caused by the samo rhythm that flows in * Petor Viper picked & peck of pickled peppers,” and Thoro was a crooked man, and he went a crooked milo; 1ic found & crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. Longfellow is e2id to have given to the world anew verge when he wrote ** Hiawatha.” But do we not find something quite ns uniqus in tho following : TLere was a fat man of Bombay, Who was smoking one zunshiny day, Whon o Lird called a fuipe Flow away with his pive, Which vexed the fat mun of Bombay? Then, too, we find in this inimitable collection all varieties of style and cormposition. *‘ Sing & eong of sixpence” is s play perfect in all its parts. * Jack and Jill” i a finished drama. % Ding, dong, goes the bell,” is highly trag- ical. “The tirece wise meu of Gotham, who went to ses in a botwl,” rings out like a prophecy. + Husb-a-bye. baby, on the tree-top,” is an ail: gory; while ** Siug, sing, what siall I sing? * is 2 pure Iyric. Woe know that Dickens was conversant with Mother Goose. In Sam Weller's esyings, we Licar only aa echo of Vinegar, veal, and venison, Are werry good witiles, I yow, The trials of Sir Peter, in Sheridan’s celebrated #gchool for Scandal,” are nothing compared with the sorrows that wrung the heart of the **Bach- elor wio lived by himeell,” and who wout to London to buy him a wife, as, in that fatal fall, Down came wheelbarrow, wife, and all, Jeau Ingolos, before writing * The Songs of Seven,” must have heard, *One, two, buckle my shoe,” eto. T X Sometimes, in reading Alrs. Browning's poems, we fnil to seo the comnection; but is it not oqually the caze in— Up she goes and dovn she goes; 1If you haven't any apples, 1'll give you some plums? “Addison, in his famous * Esesys upon the Im- agination,” fails to account for avy such flights as— tho azitato Hey diddlo dtadle, * g Tho cat’s in the fddle, ete. Mother Gooso contains the germ of sll our modern modes of thonght. The mass of the siory-tellers of the day write upon this plan: T tell you a story ‘Avout Juck and Nory, ow my story's beguns Tl tell you auatber About Jack and his brother, And now my story is done. Booksa of travel are but a repetition of, Pusey cat, pueey cat, where have you been? T've been to London, to visit the Queen. All the dissertations upon domettic economy do not express the subject moro ueatly than the lines about ** Jack Sprat and his wife.” Tne way in which many of our large orphan- asylums are condocted is illnetrated in the ex- perienco of old woman who lived in a shoe: gl?: bad £o many chltdml;luhelvllld::'l knLD;V wlhnt&o do; e gave them ome broth without any Lread; She S ped them 2l souaily, aud eeat ihew to bed, The Darwinian theory is bat a decelopment of— Biow, wind, blow? and go; mill, go! That the miller may gricd his corn Thiat the buker may take it, Aud iuto rolls male it,’ Aud ead us some hot in the morn, . The furor ovor * Woman's Rights ahd Wronga ™ i8 Lut such strains as, the following, put upon a new sounding-board : There was an old woman, and what dc you think 2 She lived upon notling but victusls and driak ; Victuals and drink were the chicf of her diet, And yet, this this old woman could never keép quict, When a man joins a ring at the prescnt day, the chances that he will come out leader in the gameare not nearly 50 good as when. a fow yoars ago, he stood, with bated breath, listening to the portentous words: Otireery, zwo-ery, ziceary zany Uollow-hone, erack-n-bone, ninery ten; Brillery zpot, it must he done, Twlddiedun, twaddlednr, twenty-one, 0, U, T, spells oat. Thero are several pructical advantages arising {from an early acquaintance with Mother Goose. __Many au accountant, reckoning the days for interest, would make sad blunders did he not ro- member— Thirty days hath Seprember, April, June, and November; Tebruary has twenty-cight alone, Al the rest hiavo thirty-one, Excepting leap-vesr—that's the timo Wnen February's duys are twenty-nine, X rtands for playmales ten, ¥ for fivo stout, etalwart wen, &c., isthe only sure way of fising ihe Roman nu- merals. In that soverest of all taeks, tho learning ona’s letters, tho way will be mado easy if it comes in Ltho form of— ' A, B, €, D, pray, playmatcs, agree}] 00 mabbbe e o ; . Tho reasoning facuitics sredeveloped by think- ing upon such enigmas us, “Two legs €3t upon three logs,” &c., and . Humpty Dumnty eat on (hé wall 4 lumpty Dumpty had a great falfy Al thedectors fu the land Couidn't make Hummpts Dumpty stand. The force of cxample is well 1ilustrated in— Jack and Jill went up the Lill ‘o draw a pail of water Jack fell down and broke And Jill came tumbling Humility and importance of self are finely blended in— Littlo Jack Horner sat in the corner, 2 liis Christnias pie; He put in his thumband pulied out a plum, And cried, What a big boy am 1! Finally, the sympathies are quickened and the heart enlarged by hearing tho short-lited and moing tales of tho *Threo Blind Mico,” and “Little Bopcep,” cto. Quixore QuicksiemT. e “PAST ALL DISHONOR.? A combination of circumstances led me to be- comeo a frequent passenger, in the summer of 18—, on a stenmboat leaving the wharves of Now York, whose destivation was Boston. A person who Las been fortunate enough to make this journoy in favorable weatler, nced not be told that tho trip is delightful ; particularly so if it bo mado in ono of those * floating paluces " belonging to the ** ¥Fall River Linc." On one of thess occasions, just before tho bont started, & protty girl, of perbups 17 or 18, stepped abourd, inquired for the Stoward, and secured & state-room, saying sho wns going turough to Loston. Her manner was easy and self-possessed ; et a certain audacious sanciness in her splendid brown eyes, the jauaty way m which sho wore her Tarkish hat, her independznt air, and n nameless suggestion of mischief which appesred to lurk in overy movement, arrested tio observer's attention, and scemed to indicate tlat she was proficient beyond her yearsin tho world’s knowledgo ; that ber tutelage, to say tho least, bad partaken more of lenionce than of prudence. Iler dress was rich, and exquisitely Dbecoming, but with no attempt at conspicuous ornament. Her hair was of the same rich brown color as hor eyes, and fell Gown to her waist, resting as lovely on ber fair young shoulders as if cach ecparate hair were endowed with clectric Ife. From the moment the vessel started she was the target of universal atteation. The ladies eyed her very narrowly, and cnticlsed her dress and manner with that merciless geverity known only to the gentler sex. The gentlemen cast sly glances of admiration fram beneaths their hats and behind their nowspapers; and tho gravest of them looked more amiablo at sight of her bright eyes and childish couslenance. As we swept out into the Sound, she came on deck, where most of the geutlemen and several ladies woro cougregated, and di- rected » fusillade of small couversa- tion st the Capiain, addressing bLim in & tono of reckless lovity, and with a familiari- ty whuch startled the ladies and amused the gon- tlemen ; and othierwiee couducting herself 1 & mauner whick left no doubt ss to her social status. 1o less than ten muuntes, every lady on board wes her avowed eunemy. and not at all afraid to let it be known ; but she chattered on, in ler rollicking way, rezardless of smiles or frowns,—appareutly the irredecmuable devoiee of {houghtlessness and folly. . ‘The afternoon drifted slowly by, froighted ‘with a delicious lancuor, as the majestic vessel plunged steadily onward through the weste of waters. The passongers lounged listlessly from deck to cabin. reading, drowsing, or musing, as their various temperaments inched them; but all yielding, to some extent, to tho droamy con- tentiuent which seemed to pervade the utmos- phere. We sero all on deck, shorily after tes, ndmir- iug the runset, which flooded the sen and sky with & l.mmsmrmqu splendor. It was o gay company ; not & sad face could be found amongst usall. The too intense heat of tho day had subsided, and & soft breezo had sprung _up; to breathe the air was, in itsclf, an inspiration. Our irrepressible and too-confiding young-lady passenger was there, and her chuldish jnugh Tang; out aboye the rest. Bhoe lad selected tho good-vatured Captain and one or two of his oflicors a4 the especial objects of ber flippent, though by no menns vicious, raillery ; and they permitted it, partly from au nequived habit of amability toward all passcugers, and partly bo- cause they wero amused by ber irresistible vivacity. Tie lady-pasecngers, of course, shunned and Xept aloof from her s from a n0Xious poison, a8 if her very contact wonld breed pestiieuco. The gentlemen did likewise, 1o a great extent; more, [ beliove, from & teuder regard for feminine opinion, than from any cousiderable instiuct of horror, Suddenly the smile died on her lips, and her face became inexpreesibly sad and earnest, as she gnzed far out across the water. Iler atti- tude and expreesson, &s she stood thus, formed a picture which will hever fade in my memory; shie looked 8o innocent, 80 childlike, and 60 iu- tensely sorrowful. In a mwoment sho turned to the Captain, with something of ber old mauner. Leachung up her delicato white hands, sho tookhold of hLisabun- dnut whiskers, o each side of Lis faco, as the reador bas scen a petted davgliter caress her father, and, looking up into his face, ssked, with groat solennity: +Ind you ever want to die, Captain 7" “Well, no, my child,” io replied, somewhat prised at her changed manner, *Icau't say thiat T over had a grent desire to die.” **And if you bad such & desire, what would youdo?" “Qh! in that case,” said be, a8 he loosed hor bands and turned away, **I thiuk, as it would be the most available method, I should jump over- board and drown myself.” Scarcely had he finished speaking, when she whirled, but one hand ou the railing, and leaped into the Sound. ‘The whoie movemont was so instantaneous that it was impossible fcr any one to auticipate or provent it. A cry of horzor went up from those who saw tho movement, Some stood transtixed aud un- ablo to move, while others hurried about in con- fused excitement. The Captain and his crew worked liko the noble men they were, and had the boats lowered and manced almost instantly, A moment after hor dieappearance, sho came to the surface. Therawas nothing scared in her cxpression, and she made no_struggle to save hereelf. Ieaw her face distinctly, as she came up, and fancied I could detect in it the sumo sor- rowiul look it had worn a fow moments_beforo; though even that expression could not wholly de- pnvefln of a certain jaunty grece which becamo 1t well. It was only a mowmentary glimpse which wo bad of hér; for she disappeared just as the first Loat touched the water, and we never saw her afterward, though every possible eilort was made'to tind Ler. 1 think I never saw sadder men than those rough eailors, when they pulled tho heavy yawl alongside, and replied, to & hundred simulta- neous interrogatories: ‘“We found no trace of ber at all.” ’ "And those gentle ladies, who shrank with such avergion from her half eu bour before, had many 2 tender utterance for her now, and could not yoice their pity when they knew thal, while she laughed the loudest, the homalees child’s poor lieart wad brenking. And later, when, on looking through Ler state- room, they fonnd a littlo ratchel, and in ir, among other trifles, a crumpled bit of note-pa+ Eer, with verses written on it in & small, cramped and, the pure, sweet toars of human sympathy, as1hey read, fell on the paper like a benison. 1 preserved a copy of the vetses, and will re- produce tirer bere. I ami nuable to say whether ihey. were original or no. If 8 duotdtion, I have never been so fortunate as to read them in any publisbed book : A MAGDALEN'S DEATH. T can fio Tonger endure this polinting, Tlian fesiering breat ‘Merciful desth, Not sxdly, tearfully, But gladiy, cheerfully, Go to wy dealh, Prieats tay rofuso to graut sanctified burlsl Here imto me 3 Father, T thunk Thee ! a blessing 18 always held Qver tue sen. Ay, in its wildest foam, Aye, in its thickest gloom, “Bleut 15 the sea, Welcome, O Sea? with thy brekings and dashings, Thut nover shall cease § Dovwn in thy angricst, etormiest waters Ob, hido me in peace, any on earih to whom she bad been dear. No last word for those who might, perliaps, wait ratiently to loarn bLer fate, but wait i 'yain, until psinful apprehension subsided .iuto calm pair. No explanation of Lio motives of that rashucss, which thus bad et its daring fuot \épv.l)ln the laws of Nature, which are the laws of o We Imow tho decp ses holds many secrets such ns these, which hever will be fathomed till tho end of time; and, knowing this, is it the purt of manhood or of wowanhood to sit in jndgment on that which the Creator bas folded in. mystory? For whnt power, #nvo tho far-reaciug Prescienco-of Almighty God, can lay bare_the complox ~motives of thie human hoart? Is it moro than justice to demand that_judgment bo susponded until tho sea grives up its dead, and the dead give up their wwiul secrets ? 1 haveno eympathy with that apotheosis of vico which would, in any caso, oxalt ths wanton intsa heroiuo; but,in all Eincerity, 18 it not tme that she received more of charity aud less of censure, moro of pity and less of scorn, from thoso who can afforil to be maguanimous? For what, among earth's moanest croatures, roceives losn of charity and more of censure than she? And surely, nothing in heaven or earth stunds wore w aeed of pity, or less receives ft. Turo. CARPENTER, RAIN. “Ratn—is {¢ rain 27—and the drooping grain LocLed up frou the fovt of the hil; But the night-wind sighed over the steep hill-side, A monsent, then ol was otill, Silent and dcep, the colil ehndiws creep U'er Lill-side and burnicg plam Bt the clear, dark sky, whers no storm-clonds le, Gave never s prumiic of rain. “1g it rain ot last *"—and the flowreta fast Awoke from their iissfol drean Of the riin-drops' play, sud the dasbing spray, 5 the stream, : ac niignonetis Cropt utt uf their Biding-jiace, But all in vain, for it was not ratn That startled their slumbrers deep,— Dut the conl night-breess in the weary tress, Each lestlet Lbeking to sleep § Whilo el gleaming ntar, sercny and far, Whose rayk througll th shiadows ateal, 80 cool sud bright, in th rifts of light, Beenied mocking their vain sppoal, S0 agzin they sicep, in the miduight deep, And again they dream their dream Of the darhing spray, and the rain-drops® play Ou the waves of ¢ool, dark stream, But, waking oft, they whisper soft, And 1nurmur, with many ar'gh, In a low refruin, % Glve n rain, give us rain, 0 givous to drink, or we die” But they wakied no more when the night was o'er, Aud areamiess frew thelr sieep; The glowing Bun kissed ey'ry ous, bt beamns o'er them creep. o up thie lily its cup, =0 Lid its pallid face; Whil= the violet and the mignonetta Blept on in teir hiding-placo. Tiil aiown {lie West, to the Ocoan’s bresst, Went the Sun in his deep Ceapadr ; Low tisey fudé and fadl, pelved ety there; Aul the Sea wax gieved, and his tosom heaved, And bis toars feil In pearly howers,— Who L millions ain, withcut reck or patn, Now wept o'er the dyin, ci San garnered wall each tear as it fel, T gaTners L gold, {encd away, at the Ureak of day, Ere his tule wes faily told, Fro the ree-taps tall (o thie Jowrets fall “The rafn-drops, with paster end pour. Tiiy-cup white, with jewis ko bright, Is filled unto fowizg oer. - Tl violet and the mignonclio their faves fair, a sy ect surprise, And flowers and grain, to the Giver of rain, Briug Lomage of grateful praise. 0, rain did nc'er geom half ¢o falr, And no'er blow winds so free, For each raiu-drop elear is a pitylag tear . From the cool, Lroad breast of the Sea. GoobEzow, July, 1674, LotTiE . Rose. phicfivibas PARE o ) IT ANSWERS MY LOVE NO AiORE. Tho shadow of mght are falling, The voices of nizht are calling, And tho darkucss hongs avpailing O'er valley, and mountain, sud moor: A face is baunting my dreaming, With eyes that bave all the feoming Of 2n angel's with love-light beaming ; But they answer 13y love no more. Afy memory wanders—ah ! whither? Return, sad lingercr, hither ; The waves of Life’s atill, dark river Filow farther aud farther from shores Flow farthtr, and still are bearing That face with its manly daring, Far, far eway from my caring ; But it unswers wy love no more. *Tis fading, and leaves no token, To the Leart its eflence b broken, Of the love its lips have poken,— Of the soul-trusting love of yore: Furewall to the light above mé, owell (o the jog around me, arewell to the henrt that lovod mo— - It anewors my love nomore. Pensis, Iccland Women. A writer in the Cornhill Magazine says: *In one regard the women of Iccland have obtained completer equality than their sisters in Contl- nontal Europe. They reccive exactly the same oducation 28 the men do. Thore are no schools in the islands, naturally, as families ive mostly o dozen miles apart, and instruction is there- fore given by tho father to Lis sons avd daugh- ters alike and togethor, tho priest—where there is & pricst—sometimes adding a Yittlo Latin or Danish, Thus the girl learns all her parcuts can teach bor, and i8 a8 good an arith- meticlan and as familiar with the Sagasas hier brothers. Accomplishments, of course, sre precty well out of tho question; psinting, not only from the dificulty of procuring materials, tut because there is rcally nothing to paiut; daucing, becanso you can seldom gather a suffi- ciently large party, and have no rooms big enough ; instrumental music, on acount of the impossivility of transporting 3 piano over rocks and bogs on the back of a pnni. Never- less, wo found in s remoto house (a good wooden bLouse, by the way), upon the coast, where wo were hospitably entertained for a day and night, not only a piano, but sev- eral young ladies who could play excellently on it, aud a_guitar, sccompanying themselves to sougs in four or five languages,—the Swedish, as we thought, the prettiest of all. Thoy lived in the most desolate spot imaginable—the sea rosring in front on along etrand; inland, & plain of droary bog, snd behing if, miles’ away, grim, shapcless mountains. They bad no neigh bors within 10 or 15 miles, and told us they were often without a visitor for months together. But they wero as bright and cheerful as poseible, and, though they did not respond to the sugges- tiow of & dance, they. sang and played to two of ua all evening long in the tiny drawing-room while the storm howled without, and theiwr worthy father (who was a sort of general mer- chaat for that part of the island) and the Lord- Lieutenant of the county, who had dropped in from bis house, 30 or 40 miles off, brewed noble bowls of punch, and hald forth to our third comrade in & strango 1mixture of tongues upon the resources of Iceland.” — % —A self-possessed young man called at & house in Atlants, Ga., s few mornings ago0, and asied to see his wifo. * She is not here,” replied the mistresy of the house. *Thcre is Do or here but tho members of my own family. “1iVell,” he replied, * it'a one of them I want to gee. 1 married your eldest davghterlast night.” e B R O R R R SYBIL NUGENT AXD THE ARTIST. [ * Cousin Emily, I wish you were twenty years younger.” 8o do I, my dear.” **You would be just as good a chapsrone, and von would enjoy a little time in London.” **I do not think, Sybil, that I am quite past that yet.” “ THER WE WILL GO, e will take lodgings in a nice part near evory- tlung; aud wo will shop ail tho morning, and lunch bt 3 pastry-cook’s, and shop all the after- noon, sud go .to the theatre in the evening. Aud, when we are tited of all that, we will come Dback to dear Nutiing, and the doge, and mars, and cows,” * A ittle change will be very nice,” said Miss Emily Neodham, who always acquiesced, and was senerally loved in consequence. That she Latd not been particulatly loved was a loss to some one, for slie would havo made an admirable wifo. et husband would bave got his own wayin everything; but perbaps that would have been bad for him, too, and Miss Emily's colibacy was probebly all fot the bost. . It was very convenient for Sybil's step-father, Gen. Von Flopdollingen, a German soldier and politician, who married an English widow with one incumbrance, and, when be lost the former, folt rather hampered by the latter. Il kept her at school as long as possible; bat, when she reaceed thé age of 21, sho was independent, as sho inherited her own father's fortune, which was 4 nice little property.” The General, indoed, would lave liked her to live with him, become naturalized, and bestow her band and what was in it on one of his néphews; and to this end she wpent geveral holidays in Prussis, sud might lave loft school somo years sooner if she had shown a wish to live abroad. But ehe called the soil of the Teuton Step-fatherland, and did not care much for her cousins-German. So Gon. You Flopdollingen, who had promised to look aftor her intoresfs, and who wad a conscientious 1uan in privato lifo, was puzzled, {ill Miss Emily Needham %as suggested as a fitting companion for Lier young aud sprightly relative, whon he gindly accepied her services. As for Sybil Nugent herself, she was pleased cuough to bave COUSIN EMILY, who had always been a faverits, to live with her. She mado aa cffort at_firzt to Dromote her into an‘sant, but the familiar *“Cotsin Emily " rose {0 Lef lips, and the attompt hal Lo be given up. Lastly, the attempt suited tie elder lady anILlS- 1y. Sho waa posr and lonely, aud sho lked com- fort znd compsnionship. A tiip to London would be very agreeable; #i:d so they rosolved ion. Thero was a difliculty. she Lnew any ono at all in upon the oxcurai Sybil asked Emily London. Ccusin Emily thought awhile and then said: “Thero is Jave, Mrs. Hinchbrook's lady's waid, who married and_eetllsd in Londou, where 8o lets ladgings. I lmve ber address somewhere.” “Lew lodginga!” cried Sybil. * Perhaps they aro vican:, sud we can have them. Find out where she lives at once, thore's a dear.” Cousin Emily's huge rosewoud desk vieldod up & card whick snnouuced that Mrs. Kogacs bad genteel apsriments, repleto with every comfort, 1u Gower street. ** It must be in quits a fashionablo part,” said Sybil, consulting a map, ** becanse it is near Ox- ford etreet and the Brivieh Anzenn.’ So Cousin Emily wrote to dlrs. Rogers, who hed beon many ycars in the service of ber priu- cipal crony in the Cathedral City, and to whomn she bad preconted a work-box on ber maarriage ; and reccived in reply by recurn of poat to the effcot that, by the most extraordinary accident in the world, her drawing-room floor was vacant. 5o, oue fine October day, the young maid and the old one found themseves transferred from their bright, roomy home in the country to DINGT LONDON LODGINUS, which Sybil commenced at ouce to brighten up with flowers. They then commeneed & life which the male mind sbudders to contemplate—a life of shop- ping. Not that Sybil bad many wants, or made many purchases, tut thoso which she did make weni a prodigiouns way. Supposivg she deter- mined to gos a mantills, do you think they went to tho nearest shop for sucki things and bought voe? Notabitof it. They looked in all the windows which dizplayed such things in St, Paul's Charchyard, Oxford sireet, and Regent stroet, aud, when they saw something which. ploased tiewm, they went inside and overhauled tis whole stock, diverging, at tho shopman's in- stigation, into every article of female costume Trom valldresses to stockings, aud then lefs, say- ing thoy woald thiuk about it. When hungry, they turned into pastry-cooks’ shops, and aloices and sweet cakes. About 3 o'clock they were exhausted, and weut home to tex ; ufzer which they saled out agam to o thea- tre, a concert, or an entertamnwment, and then wound up the day wiik a hearty supper. This kind of life was sll vory well for the youug one, who had the constitution of a cas— sowery, bub at the end of threo days Cousin Emily fell ifl. Sybil was much concerned, aud wanted to call in'a doctor, but the invalid didnot cousider that neceesary. +1 think, dear,” she aid, meekly, that if wo wero to dine sometimes I should be ble to stand it all well coough.” So they ? ADOPTED MORE REGULAE HABITS, and Sybil left off working her chaperonosohard, obtained books from a_library, hured & piauo, aud started a picce of silk flower-work. flut as her constitution znd habits demanded » good deal of exercise, and she could not walk about London alone, she fraternized strongly with the landlady, Ars. Rogers, and took ber about with Lier, as the best thing iu the circumstances. Jrs Rogers was a lady of considerablo con- voreational powers, but ~perhaps sho was most graphiz when sho talked about Ler lodgers, past aond present. Her ground floor was now occu- picd by an old gentleman, who spent tho greater part of his waking life in the Lbrary of the Bitish Musenm.— The top part of tho house was temanted by an artist, who had many merits, and ono grent fault, a poverty which caused him to bo backward 'in his rent payments, Lo was accustomed to go away for weelis, or even months, togother, wiikout leav- ing any addreas; he was thus abscut now. One’ steady wet day, when Sybil bad played, read, worked, till sbe got tho fldgets in all her restless imbs, a curiogity which had already been awakened, became imperative. She sent for Mzs. Rogers, and agked whether gho conld not see the deserted studio. A “There's only rubbish, mies,” eaid the lapd- Iady; * but please not to move any of it, or Le will go on at_me like apything when he comes back. Not that Lo has zny right, being in arrears, but he has a way with Lim, and L am nnft-khcm.nd, snd ho pays what Le can, TLis is the Ley.” ¢ Sybi{took it and ran up stairs. DBut when she turned the lock a feeling of shame came over her, a8 if eho woro prying, o at losat trespass- ing. llowever, she pusbed the door back, and eutered A MOST UNTIDY APARTIENT. There were easels, one with a half finished painting upon it ; thero were varions articles of costum, mate and female, scattored about ; in one corner stood 2 dummy figure, attired merely in yellow boots and spurs, and a cavalier hatand feather. Specimens of ancient armor lay in a heap, from which protruded likewiso a modern muasket aad bayomet, @ cricket-bat, foils, and single-sticks. Thero was a rack of curious pipes, Germaoan and Turkish. There were casts of famous statues, and what eeals aod tables thero were were imitation antiques. Two large portfolios on stands fook up a good deal- of room, snd tho litter was com- Dleted by the hoaps of piotures, ia varions stages of progression,—vory early stages, indeod, most of them,—piled up hers 2nd there. The walls likewiso were covered with picturcs, eome of which wero finishod. Ono, on Arisdne, just waking up to the face of Theseus' desertion of Der. was honored with o very smart frame, which had boen hung almost out of sight by tho “Hanging Committes " of the Royal Academy Exbibition. The longer sno looked at the pic- ture, the mora it plesscd her, and at last she got quite indignant with the Academy officiats, who Jhad bung 1t in & bad place, and with the public, \who had not bought it. n, gradually feeling a¢ home, sbo went in for & zegular inspection of all the studies and and sketches and half-formed designs in the room; and at last even dipped into the portfolios. The resuls was that, instead of passing the ten minutes she first proposed to lLierself in the etudio, she . BPENT THE WHOLE AFTELNOOXN T and talked of nothicg buther discovery to Cousin Emily all dinner-time. Not content with that, she introduced her Lo the studio on the fol- Jowing morning, though the weathor was fine, and the elder Jady took fair interest in tha pic- tares, sbo was mot g0 enthusiastic as the Sounger: enthusiasm i apt to fail us before our yes and teeth. b Cousin_ Emily ! is it not shamefcl that snch & beautiful painter should get o little for s works—barely emough to live on—whilo mero daubers sre paid—oh, ever 80 much?” i1t is & pity be does not try daubing, then.' +Oh, he could not do it; real genius cannot be concealed. Hois a handsome young man, scapes. pose of studying miles farther. ligh melancholly cyes, and board—dark, of courss; but he is not really melancholly; quite the ro- verse. And eo good! ho half kupports his mother, who is the widow of an Indisa ofticer, with only her pension to live on; that is why ho has devts.” ** Why, Sybil! how did you come to know all thia Ar. . What is his name 2" ** Doria is his name, but I have nover set eyes upon hiw. Alrs. Rogers told me ali I have just repeated.” “Oh!” gaid Courin Emily, who had experi- enced the nearost approgeh {o tho feminine sen- sation called o *‘turn ™ which lher placid natare pormitted. Ste was a4 all events affected. It became quite a babiz of Sybil's to run np and look over the abseut artist’s sketches, and no doubt sha would soon have begun to criticise sad find fault, only, before she had time to reach that utage, stie left the lodgings. 1t was not likely that a well-connected young 1ady of good fortune, andsubject to noanthoricy but the law of the land and public opinion, should be allowed to remein long hidden in London. People who bhave money always find Telations, counections, and friends, who are aliweys glad to seo them. In o fortnight, Sybil aad Cousin Bmily were dowiciled in a LOSPITALLE MANSION IN BELGRAVIA. One June morning, Harry Doris was in his studio painting aod talking at intervals to a frioud who was o sad loafer, but atoned for it by buying a picture now and then, and who was b present lounging on a sofa smoking a Turkish pipe, the flavor of which vleased him. “Well, how do_vou get on—pretty well, I hope?”said_the loafing friend. **Escuse me wentioning it." Huarry was not the least discomposed. © I am,” eaid he, * certainly doing better this year thao I Lave ever doue before ; this year, when it does ot matter, and I bave only wjyself to provide for.” “ Don't talk hke that, old follow ; vou made your motker's declining years comfortable, and bave no cause for regrot.” As the old ties break e form new onea. Apropos, are you goiag to marry the heiress 2 ** What heiress 2" “ Norcenary man! Have you so many in your eyo . Why, iliss Nugont, of courae ; everybody has settled it for you." ‘ Perhaps everobody has decreed that I am going_to bave the Koh-i-noor set in & scarf-pin. Poor iss Nugent! I imagino that she expocts to do better for herself than to marry a third- rate canvas-spoilor.” “ Well, you are pretty intimate, at all events.” ‘1 have met her out at parties, certainly, and we talk togother a good deal, having many sub- jects of interest in common ; but the idea is rigicalous ; she ig A GREAT DEAL TOO micm.” “That 18 a fault most fellows would look: aver,” observed the other, laughing. *1 could not,” eaid Doria. Fancy its being in your wifc's power to toll you, whenover you. bhad a row, that but for her you would be 2 pau- per ; that your house la bers; your sorvanti hers ; youreelf a thing sho has™ bought. No, thank you.” **My desr Luoifer, you exagzerate. If yor are gettivg a8 much for portraits as I expect you | will 2 conpic of yeprs Lence, you will bs able to marry any woman and preserve your independ- ence. How sburply your Acadomy picture was ennpped up. It was not sold beforehand, wae i “No; and I put an extravagant price on it, out of s sort of bravado, because Jones tried to oheapen it one day before it was finished. What a funny suimal tho public ia! The price tha: pictura fetched brought me more orders in & week than I bave ever had in a year.” + Perhaps tue merits of tho picture, mot ita price, did thas.” 4 Not & bit of it ; it is not balf so good a8 my ¢ Ariadue.’” “ Oh, you Lave #old that, too 2” “Yes; nud to tho same person ; 3t least, the mame is tue sama ; Needuam, Aliss Neodbam.” * Anotber Leiress 2" “1don't know;a (600D CUSTOMER, ANYHOW." **Well, good-bye ; I have finished your chi- bouque, and am duo prosontly at a classisal con- cert. Dy-the-by, will you come? I have a sparo ticket. Lerhaps Miss Nugent will be there.” . No, thank yon ; I hate classical music. Be- sides, 1 must work. Good-by.” When & man sunounces that he reslly must work an idle fit is coming over him ; it it eqniv- aleut to tho * I won't givein ™ of one who is just beaten. Directly e was nlone, Doria sat down in the place his visitor had vacated. So peonle talk, do thev? Was there anything in ber manner to justify outsiders in thicking sho would have him if he asked hor? What did it matter? He did not ask her. Butwas it pra- dent togo to places where he was sure to mect her? He must avoid her in tho fature: she wotld go back to the country ina fow weeks, and then he would forget all about her,—*out of sight out of mind.” He had mada s good be- giuning by declining to go fo the concert. Poor Doria must have been very far gono whea he tried to deceive himself. Ho knew well that Sybil Nugont dishked classical music as much 18 he did, aud would certainly not be there. In truth, he had hardly admitted to himself how far bis happiness was bound up with the love of agirl. Hewas not a suscoptible man; his af- fections wero stronger than his pnssions, and both were well under command of his resson. e certainly would not haye allowed himself to grow o fond of Sybil had he been aware of her pecuniary position. He had met her at differont houses whers ho was a habitual guest, and, from her rotiriog manners and simplo stylo of dress, formed the conclugion that she was a poor girl, rather patronized by the friends with whom she was staying. He was one of thoso men who never catch floating gossip till long after it is stale news to every- body else; and when at last he learned that sho was wealthy. and that ho was rising rather in estimation a8 n successful bLeiress-hunter, he felt the WOUXD GO DEEFLR THAN IS PRIDE, and ho had a. good, thuck coatin;; of that, too. Yes, e bad tooauch pride, and very littlo venity, and lack of the latter quality originally confirmed hita in his idea that iss Nugent was poor, prob- ably dependent. Wonld sho listen to him—draw to him as she did, if it were otherwiso—to him, a poor, little-cousidered artist, with no prospects beyond bigart? As for Sybil, she en- tirely reciprocatad his affection, and had mado up her mind, at a comparatively carly stago of their requaintanceship, that if shodid not marry Lim she would never marry any one else. Of course, in her case, thero Was @ 8pico of To- mance about the matter. She got to know aud like him kefore she caught his name, which had been slurred when she was first introduced to him; and so the coincidence struck her very forcibly when she suddenly and accidentally learned that ho was the very man whose studio sho had examined in s0 unceromonious a fashion, and whoso * Ariadue” she had purchased in Cousin Emily’s name. Sho felt perfectly con- vinced that he loved her, and wondered why he did not say #o. ) Are there any limits to human perversity? Lovers are torn asunder by povarty every day, ‘tmt here were a couple who positively failed to come together simply and only hecause one was rich. It was not so ordinary_love affair; they bad never taltked of love. But_ their tastes, ideas, eympathies, sgroed so admirably that they foemed positively made for ouo another ; and to friends who kuew them both, it scomed more thon nataral, almost neceggary, that they should marry. If of the sawe sex, they would have been fast friends. Had their ages been very diseimilaz, or had they both passed the_zgo of the paesions, they would still bave been drawn closcly together. These cases are very raro, bat they oceur, and when two sach peoplo meet, and marty, they attain a degree of bappi- ness not often vouchsafed to mortals. And yeb THESE TWO NEVER MET AGATY, Dorm stuck to his reaolution, and avoided Sybil, whe went back to tho country and took to ritual- ism and fantassic embroidery. Anotber May came round, and Harry Doria had four portraits—three ladies, one * of a gen- tleman "—hung on tho academy walls, besides » classical study, which sold for a_high price. Ho excolled mostly in fizure-paiating, but fig- ures must have foregroundsand backsrounds, and he was not quite eatisfied with his land- So, when the scason waned, ho packed his koapeack, and started off oa a soli- tary walking and sketching tour, for the pur- & nglish slies, streams, and trees. A wandering life of that kind baving greac attractions for bim, and the autumn bein; Tomarksbly fine, the month which bs intende to spend out of town expanded to nearly three, and iv_was toward the cod of October that he entered a pretty village, which took his fancy so much that he stopped, though it was early in the afternoon, and he meant to have gone some *I must have that church-porch and the avenne,” bo said to himself, 38 he tamed into the_old-fashioned inn, where he lcft his knapsack and ordered his dinner, and then went out again with his portfolio and water-color box, to urilize the couple of hours' remaining das- ** What is tho name of this place?” he asked his landlord that evening. * Nutting, sir, Nutting,"” re);‘ued the host, as- tounded at the depths to which human ignorance cowd gipk. Nutting! That was the nama of THE VILLAGE WHERE STEIL LIVED. She had often talked sboat it, and eaid what o preity sketch could bemade from the church- vard, and how often she had tried to take it and Liad failed to satiefy herself. Whata strange coincidence that he should have wandersd therel It Jookied like o fatally. . You are a stranger in these parts, ma added the Taadiord, ERS AT Yes: but I bavo often heard of Natting, :r;m 2 friend who know it vory well. There id roity place, Owlanest, i Xn(tt{_ng flae o aest, bere, 1f it 1s the same *¢ Yoa, sir, yes ; that’s right. Shall anything miore before the bar do:::.’ yf:u‘;::‘ woare ear{ly pztopllu hero.” * oria did not slecp much that night. mado up his mind to avoud tho heiress nnffi’;fi?fl er, and yet, now finding bimself close 10 her, the tomptation to call was very strong. In the morn.. ing it occarred lt?_hlte‘ that the struggle might be unnecossary : Alies Nugent had very li from tho nelghhorhood. "7, sty gone 0 is living at Owlsnest now?"” when bo mentdor. sy *Miss Needbam, sir, for the present,” tho roply, which acted o him like s cold-rares douche, for b had not bolizved in his theory of Sybil's probablo abeence ono jot. At aay rate there was no necé for him to hurry away. By~ the-bye, what name did tho landlord say, Need- ham? Why, it was & Misa Noedham who Dbought his ** Ariadne™ and other pictures, and whose patronnge socmed to have been the turn- m::;pinu& inHui.s c;lr]eer, and had brought him such luck. Ho would certainly call, and in duco Limself foa ladyof ) i SVC_B EXCELLENT TASTE AND DISCRIMINATION. It did not occur to him that Needham was by DO mezns a1 uncommon name; ho was too glad of an excuse to anter the ho i iu.‘}x{xhnud. uso which Sybil nad e spont the morning in sketching the scencs which sbe had often spoken of 'i!hgeullmr:im. In the alternoon he oxlled at Owlenest, and sent . )m['! u\!u‘dh 1d is8 Needham would 606 him presantly, i did ot mind waiting a fow minies B e ghowa into the dining-room, whiro the first oby jeet which met his ere was his own “ Ariadne,” Lung in the spot which was most favorably lighted in the room. Other pictures of_his or- namented tie wally. Presently, a lady dressed in deep mourning en- tered tho room. Doria introduced himself, and oxplained that, bems by accldent in her noighbor- Linod, he dud not lika to pass on_ withont paving Lis compliments to so kind and liberal s pat- "o piet bough o pictures wera honght in my name, it true. Ar. Doria,” sald the lady; "%ut there lii 1o harm in “your knowing now that my poor friend was tha real parchaser.” ‘‘Indeed!” eaid Duriz, rather mystified. ‘A friend, you say—" “ Your friend, also, Mr. Doris; my dear Sybil reckoned yon a3 one.” **Bybil, Mias Nugent. was the secrot purchssar of my pictures!” cried Doria. *‘Oh, how blind Iwas! But you said your poor friend. Has any misfortuno happened to her? You aroin monrn~ ing; she is amuy—" “Havo you not heard 3" Basped Cousin Emily, turning very white. ** Poor Sybil, three monthi 2g0, caught the typhus fover in acottage. It was a very deadly type, and SHE ONLY LIVED THREE DAYS."" The ehock may be conceived. From erroneoms reasoning he had missed the chance of a life- long bhappiness. And how often, from falso shame and false conceptions, is sich the case ? We will not explain the feelings of Doria. They may be guessed at. . Oneof the beet picturss he has ever succeeded in painting rupreienm a village charch-yard, in which one grave {a conspicuous. He has been offered a fancy Yricu for it, but it is not for sale. T donbs if it will leave his stadio during his life- time.—Chambers’ Journal. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. Tpon a conch within a chamber fair, Tho fated Princess lay, In creamless slurber bound, and unawaze 01 passing night and day. And Time, that bronght alternate bloom and blight To all without that bower, Lef: her unaltered in his onward fiight ; She seemed beyond his power. As lifelees as Pygmalion's statuoLove, Ere gifted with a soul, There alept she in a magie trance, above an's polence to control. At morn, the sunshine through the casement stream’d Its glories, young and warm ; And tenderly its loving lustre gleam'd Around her fairy form. Tt Kiseed her parted lins of dewy rose,— 1t played with gentle glow Tpon kier lids, and woo'd them to disclose “The shining orbs below. But yot she woke not at the soft salute; ‘Thoso lids, 80 smooth and white, TUnopen'd Iay,—the lovely lips were mute, ‘Though smiling in tho light. Birds perched upon the tres that blossomed near, And chanted through the day ; Bat all unheeded feil upon her ear Thoir wald and airy iay. At eventide, the tender, solemn stars Came out Into the biue, And, beaming warmly through the Iattice-bars, Soft ehimmera o'er her threw. And when the storm came, and the wild winds beat Tho rain with sudden dash Against the pane, her face 1 calmly sweet ‘Showed in the lightning’s fask, Spriog burgeon’d into Summer, glad and booxn, That grew to Autumn prime, Aud Autama with its splendor faded soon To dreary Winter time. Year follow'd year; the yonng wazed old and gray, And yleldod to Deatls elain 3 Their children Jived thelr date, then pass'd asay Bat she was left the same, : And, ever fair and fresh as in the hour ‘Thiat spell her senses froze, Shic waited thero the fatal kiss, whoss power Would Lreak her long repose. GERTRUDE MaOx, B i THE HARVEST-MOON. Again the ripened grain is cleanly sharn ; ‘Again the carth her yearly bounty yields s ‘Afmain the sheaves itand clastered in th Saids Like golden tents, Along the tarseled corn The night-wind rustles, and the archard-tress Utter Iow whispers to each passing breaze, And once again bangs calmly over all The barvest.moon, Beneatls this dusky splendor, Thia dresmy Suminer-softnese, sweet and tendar, While cooling dews in balmy silenco fall, Coms out and stand, your arm about mo,—so, “Twras thus we stood together years ago. Jnst such o night as this! Just so the lesves orn 3 Just so like tents stood up the clustered sheaTes; ‘And royally above us, on her throno Of dusky bive, eat th full harvest-moon. Well T rememiner what yon ssld to mo Under the moonlight, what were my replies, And what I read 8o clearly in your eyes. "Twas sweeter than the moonbeama ! And I ses, Just aa T eaw it then, that tender light. ‘A2 then it shoue on me, it shines to-night, And that wasloug 3go. Wo two have trod ‘Ways often stecp and rugged, and our rose a5 often borne its thorn; yet still it Llows In frzgrant clusters by the atony road, Beneutls tho barvest-moon my cyes are wet ¢ With happy tears,—I keep my lover yet. Erues . PR~ secasil A Saratoga ¢ Saw.?? From the Virginia City (Ner.) Enterprite. Hank Monk, the stage-driver, who gave Hor- ace Greeley his memorable mountain ride, in common with sll his tribe, hates tho sight of the pondercus architecture in the trunk line known as the ‘‘Saratoga band-box.” He likes & ‘ Saratogs " atout 2s well as 2 cat likes Lot goap. Ho wow drives on the stage-line Letween Carson City and Lake Tahoe. He was driving on the same line last summer. A TVirginia_lady who was stopping at the Glen- brook Houzss had a * Saratoga™ at Carson which ghe wished brought up to the lake. It wag about "as long and wide 28 3 first- class spring-mattross, and 7 or 8 feot high. The Jady bad mauaged {o got it as far 2 Carzon by rail, but thoe trouble was to get it up into the mountains. Hauk had promised two or three times to bring i up **mext trip,” but always arrived without it. At 1aat Hank drove up uext evening, and, as ueual the lady came oat upon the verands to asi if ho had bronght her trunk. Like that great and 1z00d man, Georze, Hank cannot tell a lie, and s he said, ** No, oa'am, I lLaven't brought it, but 1 think some of it will bo up by the noxt stage. +Some of it!" cried the lady. “ Yea; may bo half of it, or such & mattor.” ‘*Half of it !" groaned the horrified owuer of the Saratogs. “Yes; balf to-morrow and the roat next day or the day after.” *VWhy, Low in the name of common gense can they bring half of it?" * Well, when 1 left they were eawing it in two, and "—''Saw- jug it in two! Sawmg my trunk in two?” “That waa what I gaid,” coolly answered Hank. “Two men, with a big cross-cut saw, were working down through it—sbont in the mid- dle, I think.” *Sawing my trunk in two P—and all my best clothes in it? Sawing it in the middle!” And in & towcring passion sho rushed indoors, threatening the hotel, the stage~ line, the railroad_company, thetown of Careon, and the Siate of Novada with suits for damage. 1: was in vain that she was assured that thera a3 no truth in the story of tho sawing—that 3Monis was e great joker ; ehe could not be made io pelieve but that her trunk had been sawed in two until it arrived Totact and ehe had- exam- ined its coutents most thoroughly.