Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 17, 1874, Page 10

10 g THE STORY OF A RING. A Sketeh from Ienl Life. “The atory of that ring ?" Ob, yes! T did tell you you ahionld hoar it somo timo, and I don't like unfulfilled promiscs to remember, ‘You've ofton hoard mo apoak of that summer on the Island ; what anow oxperionce it was to boro isolated from tho great, busy world, and nover to know whon to oxpect thy malls, and somotimoa not to ueoa dally paper for o waek. Occasionally & transport-boat would paes, loaded totho burricane-roof with jolly boys m blus, bound for the Red River or Mobile, who woull give . arvinging cheer from o thousand hoorty volcon L they awept thelr way Southward, And agnio a great hospital-bont would miido silently up-river, frolghted with untold suffer(ng, bound for Dubuque or eome other Norl[rqm hospital, in topes that tho bracing air, nourishing faod, aud botter caro, might rostore, #igor to tha exbaustod frames, wounded Hmbw, and attonunted bodies, that had givon so much for tho country they lo\;;i; Inland was o Govorpment wood-yard, snd stormers frequontly ran in Lo wood up, and thon owr hittle humlet presonted o busy sceuo, Dur cilago wos noar tho Inuding, aud, \\:hou thio stenmar-whistlo blew tho #ignal for stopping, pur housohold was alive with liope and expecta- ton, from Father Hedstrom to the lnfschio\'nua littlo Buck in tuo llitchnn—An'nt Jano's young- " ent woolly-pated hopeful. What lettors {mm Iriends migbt thore nol boj what nowa from s War, what supplies for our wcanly laxder, to add to tho absoluto nnccu!f\rlcn of our soldier-rations! 'Thin last was no little itom to {adies nccustomed to tho comforts and many of the luzurica of evilized hife; and our com- migeary genorally prevailed upon the hoats stoward to part with o fow frosh oggs, apound or two of butter, or anice, juicy steal; aud tho colored pooplo strucx lively bargnins with tho boatmen for largo supplics of luscious water- molons nnd vorioties af muskmolon, tho like of which never grow in our {oo-rigorous climate. As it took from one iwo Lours to wood up, wo usunlly recoived o eall from soveral of 1hio pan- sengeis and officers, who gladly availed them- eolves of tho opportunity of oxploring our lovoly Island, and enjoying its many Deautios yl paturnl scenery. ‘Tho winding wood-ronds dis- elosed some excecdingly picturceque views ; ar- bore, formed by luxuriant vines climbing tall trocs on one tide of tho path, then throwing their clinging arms across o cluep tho branches on the other side ; urched gatotiays, u]\p}lrcllfiy mado by tho accidental bending of a eapting lke likon bow, which was shortly fostooned with dowering vines ns beautifully as Ievereaw it dovo Dby the Land of art in orbamental gar- dening, Visitors wero very welcome, ag thero was bub one white family beeides our own on the Island: that was the Surgeon's, with whom the Post- Commandant Iedged when up from Vicksburg. Somelimes frienda from Goodtich niado us g fly~ Ing visit, nnd ocenmonally somo well-known faco under & soldier-cap woull beam tipon vs most nuexpeetodly, by somo of tho odil chavces of war, bringing together old acquamlnnces who 4id hot ko they wera sithin a thoueaud miles of cach other. You who bave but to crows tho street, or tako o tew minutes’ drive, any time, to 200 o frieud, can know nothing of the oxquisito Joy of such mectings. Our rough lito Liad its compentations. One warm aftornoon, after our merry, nolsy little trecdmen Liad been dismiseed for tho day, diuner was over, and we had taken our usuul siosta, the hoarso seream of # whistlo announced the coming of o welcome varintion to the d-ilg; monotony of our lives. Tho * Duke of Argyle ™ was rathier & favorito boat, a8, from moro fro- quont calls, wo had formed somoe acqumntanro with its oflicers ; 80, 88 shio drew near cnough to rayenl her wname, wo waved o greeting with bats aud ‘lmnukertihxol‘?‘ flfl){l th]u pli, which was lonrtily rotnrned, e, ® Buton Chidmlas, or * Clit" an hie woy gencrlly called, always ‘an up to our domicil, to give usthelulest K:lpnra and have a littio chat. In former calls ho hal sonfided to me the fact that ba wos friendly to the South, but had neveor taken up arms, having belioved from the first that it would be but throw- ing away cffort in alosing ceuse. Notwithstand- lng tho antagonism of our sentiments, I liked s gonial good-hutor, tropical warmth of man- oor, lively imagination, and gallant courtesy. As wo strolled leimirely down oro of the shady ronds, frequently meeting mule-teams with heavy fonds of wood for tho vard,—often driven: by women, a8 most of the able-hadied freedmen wero away in tho army,—T observed tha hogrow thoughtful, and failed to bail each grinning driver with meriy nougenso, as was lus wont, o slowly turned & very heavy gold ring, which litted too loosely on Lis ittlo fhugor, und I di- vined his seeret,” ** Clit," gaid I, *yon haven's told me fho mosl important news: you'ro in love,” o coloted and lauglied, held up bis Liand to show 10 the heavy band, und auav erad, *You are right: Iam caught fast.” el mo nbont it," I said, with the freedom a lady mey uso taward o junior mascaline inond, “Well, it's o littlo unfortnnaty that sho is & most nuqualified httle Rebel, and demands that I don Confederate {;my and joln the glorious tiecosh. I would do unything for my Dossie, and I have promised to leave the Argyle when whon wo get buok to New Orleaus, und enlist under the Stars and Lave. Now, betveon you and mo, I consider tho war nearly over, und conld joln oithier sido without much fearof firing a shot at the other.” Of course I lectured him eoundly, but holight- 1y laughed at my reprimands, in his airy way; and, a6 wo neared the Ianding on our refurn, ho shook hands cordially, thanked mo for keeping his ecrot concerning bis disloyal svmpathies, wished wo all mnnner of gocd-fortune, said, **Remember ~ your wandering boy in your prayers,” and, with a st strony; pressure of Liy friendly band, was off for the Giulf. Asthe food vessel ewung out into the current and glid- cd rapidly awey, the last I saw of * Cht" wns a wave of bis hut from tho texnw, whera ho had neeended to give a final farewell to our Istand. home. Fhe days swent monotonously on. Five houry wore passod in tho yudo little schoolbouso of dlabe, with manilest improvement 1 sy of vur pupils of all agoes. Our Governmeni rutjons of flour, bacon, and Eeans, with cotfes and very brown sugar, were improved by such additions of vegetables as wo could make from the linited supply raiscd by tho superannuated negrocs in very imperfectly-Uiled soil, I must uigress loug snough to describe one of our Sunduys to you. Wo always made it a point Lo dress better than on other'days, as one menus of unpresging npon the colored peovla that it was tho best dny of the seven, It was pretty grenernl among them slso, whero their circninstances pernutted. Mr. Hedstrom was pot able to preach ono Sundny, nnd, aa Snbbatk-echool was ot held till th ool i tho afteinoon, ** Uncle Billy ™ {bought Lest to improve the mormme, und aunounced to lns friends ho would hiold meutivg at the urual hour, “fhe ecrvicas hud slready commenced whew vo outered, and * Uncle Billy" was holding forth with n zesl thal was senrcely according to kuowledgo, bul with marked ofioct upon Homo of hig sublo aulitors, On n bench directly in Dront of tho preachor nat huif-a-docen of tho oldest women, who wero perpotustly rocking to sud fro, and moaning in n cerinin rort of 1 wmoay,—now louder, now lower, an tho r of the proachier vioro note ov less aturing on e thetic. A tko congregation recotved nnmnr:lmu rewforcements, it became evident tht tha bonse would vot holil all the henrers; ¥o the elildren wero gent out, with o loud whispur, ¥ Geb out, youdrr!"—“Am't yon got mauuers "nough to et out fa' you bestérn 4l finally tho yuom waa cleared af all the picaninnies, who played aud quarroled outside, all tho rost of the morving, notwithstanoing that occawionally n turbunog hoad waa sbakon at them out ot the ungluzed windows, with n warning, * Hold you' nolso duyy "sturbin' tho meoun'! ™ Homoexpressions in the prayors woro peculiar, 0 Lord | gib us do silber slippors Ut wo may slido from one skies ob glory to annder!® w() Blassa Jesns! RNoat do debill beatold Baton, sure 'nuff!" . Then camo tho hymn, “lued off ™ by tho prenchor, aud tung with areat farvor by the whole congregation, but with such quantity and qrality of miuor intouations, peculiar to thie ne- §ro, that, though tho tuno originnlly was a fu- wllize ong, tt 80 lost iteelt in wavers aud quavers that & white man couldu't follow it, At lougtl with & flomish of Lis big red sllk handkeron: * Unclo Lilly " anmounced Lis toxt ; ¢ ¢ And #ho ent de apple, and de man ulso.' Now, frien's, Adam o wan's gwine to eat no ap Lue oo sbo eat, and den sbo ‘fruld to beall wlonn i do ain, and so shie eay, * Adam, you tuh ma? and ho eay, * Yo, Ebe, T lub you ullers, Don shio say, * Fat littlo picoo ob applo, jen' fo pleaso mu ;' and ho eay, *I can't; do Lovd ho v, * Lot dat ar treo ‘lone," and I'so gwino to,' Dau Ebo she tell Adax, * You don’t lub maj L knaws 1ou dou't,’ and he fcols pnsorful had, and eays. ‘4 'ub vou a heup eight; Il do THE CHICAGO. DAILY TRIBUN. mighty sight for you, but I can't eat do Lord's applo,' Ho ‘Bbo goos off, au' pouts, an’ ponta ; and whon Adam goes to neb down by hier, ho snys, ‘Go way derl—you don't lub me.' 'lenrs liko ho conldn't stand dat ar wo- how; an’, when sho seen hio's “most o mind to do {t, £ho coman back all 1y and, puttin® hor arma raund his neck, #ho pyw, * Bat jew' o litlle nieca ; it's mighly nice. I you lub nio, Adam, Jea” cat a tinte bit, nd Tl gih von all my Tub and awoet kisnos;' and sho looky into s oyos so toinin’ dat Adam glbs it up, and takes n littlo bito; but ho couldu't swaller it, and it stnek fast fn his t'ront, and da¥ 'ts to dis day: and dabls what mokes do_Adam's l¥))l’fl in " obery man's t'ront to-dny, Bimoe-by de Lotd eome along and #ng, * What's Adam 2 and Adam hie Tosp stilt be- Dind v treg; don do Lotd say, londer, * What's Adam ' and bo dnen't como out; so ho 'plains, *Two hid.” And do Tord aske, ‘What for you done Wid? And Adam suesk ont and oy, “’Causo Lbs she - oat & pleco ob you old applo, and_gib mo somo, nnd I done eat it too.,! Don da Lord gots ‘uprisin’ ungry, aud send down do lightnin', aud de flve, und do big wword, on’ ohnsa’om hof out dalnr gerden - mighty quick time, And den doy hat to toto do wond” an’ water, ind pick do colton, and llqo do corn, in troubleation and uweat ebor sinee," Ab this polut the nwaylog women's groans broko into & wail, which was taken up by othors, uutil tho room was full of confreed lamontalions and ejaculations, imprecations upon * dat old sorpint,” and ageniplions of praixo to “do breas ‘v Tinully, n brother struck un n popular eamprmeoting niclody, aud all tho voices were aoon diverted mto the now chanuel, and tho audicice roxo na their eplrits becamo exalted, and shouls from ono and other lioke forth: “I'so got do powor["—*Glory to ding't Jesual"—* Hnlleluinh | "—* I's0 found do Lord!"” Ilaudshakivgs, ombracings, and congratulations, becamo - general ; first with tho white folks,—~handsheiting only boing oxtended to thom, howover ; thon with tho old- ors and deacons ; Instly with tha brothren and uistern prominenouaty, . We loft them jnmping violontly with the oxcess of their emotions, elap- plugs hands and shoutiy; voeiferously, until they would sink down overcome by phystent exluus- on, “ Do I think thero was eno spark of religion in tho wholo procoeding 2" Well, o few had a littlo apprebonsion of the truth, but, with tho mgjoriy, it was merely auimal exeitoment, My room-maato, ilign Jeavulo Porue, was o re- finod, delieate, necomplished lady, aud an excel- lent Christlun, Sho often vivited the mnegro querters to comfort tha afllictsd, read to the old anct vick, aud eo carry o bit. of choor to almost comforcless dwellingd. Coming pnat tho wood- yard ono cvening, sho observed o very loavy gold ring on tho littlo finprex of a girl engrged in piling wood. Sho asked the girl where sho z2ot t, and learnod she found it in Lho mud, just abovo water-mnrk, near the Ilapding. tho day aftee tho Argvle last * wooded up ™ there! Being o Methe of tho stricler sort, Miss Jeanuig nevor wmaje\wh'i'. oxcopting .a brooch, wheaa usetulness overbalancod s ornamental objece tion; but she folt impressed with n dewlio to ob- tam that ring, Sko found the gisl willing Lo soll it, and told "hor to como up in_the cvoning to coucludo tho Largain. TFivo dolias and n aquentity of good elofbivg, judiciously solected by Alivs Jeannio, nmply satfslied tho dusly dam- gel, and the nng was transferred Lo Miss Joan- iv's rosseesion, 1t was Lwonty-two earats fine. und- bore inplde the engravivg, ** Your Beasio,” I had vo doubt in my own mind that it was my friend ** Chy,"—tho gift of bio_httlo Robel} Dut no inquiries that we mede elicited any infor- mation concerniog his whereabouzs, and, siter wenaring the pretty ornmment half o dag, Miss Jeanuie 1ald 1t away, aund wo soon forgot all nbout 1t I rattier wanted i, as * Clit " hud been ooro particulnyly my fiicnd than hors; but, find- ing thut shehad au inexplicable impresnion that sha biad better keep it, I said no more sbout if, and, ns I said, it was Iaid away to lido its tine of usefuinees, for, in aftor days, that impulso pr ed tobe a epecial providence that saved her from deepuir, v ‘Flic summor-days aped by, bringing the term of our enlistmont to u cloge, nnd, although wo woro sorry to patt from thoso wlio had proved thomeolyes truo fricuds amid tho aunoyances, privations, and dangers of cimp-lifo, vot wo sladly 1eluruod to the comforts and socinl privi- egnn of our happy homes, Years passed, bringing trouble and sorrow Lo Miss Jeaunie, a8 sho nlterwards told me,— though, forntime, I lost track of her, ns our homes weve o different States. IHer good old futhor followed his gentle wife to the other world, after bnt a few weeks' soparation, nnd, upon sottling up tho old_sontleman's nifairs, thoro way found to bo hut little loft boyond the supply of Jeanule's preeent neods ; wnd her own heulth was too delicato to admit of any employ- ment for the incroass of her income. Dut 1t did vot matter so much, n§ tho was cordinliy wel- comed to the houschold of hor married vistor, whero sho found rest and happiness with ihe litilo people, to whom sho was eccond only to their mother, But, after n time, misfortuno, followad ‘her here; for, in Lho hord timen’ succoeding tho War, tho houso in which her broyhor-in-luw was u partner failed, avd his handsome residenco aud its elegaut fur- niehings wero honestly ziven up o the creditors, 1t Jenunio wos cotieated to stay and take n ver nicha in the humble home to which her tor waw reduced ; bt eho could not consent to add to the expenses of an aircady-largo family, and mmeditely st hoveelf to thinking of somo mezum by whicl sho could earu hior own Buppors. Sowing was ont of the question, and*hoi eycs neio weak ; and her fuvouto ceeupation, tonch- ing, wes quito Loo arduons for her delicaie hoalth nudl dizordered nerves. She hind too much pride to wish to remein in the noighborhood of her former proupority, and, taking her few worklly posscrsiony, sho lourneyed to suother State, aud uoufih‘. cmploymcnt In a strauge ci After many rebuffs und discouragements, whiclt wera exceecingly trying to her proud and songitivo nature, and just nsshe hnd exhausted hor lender mony sho suecoeded in getting something o do by which shie could support her- Holf, though thoe kind of work was dinmetrically opposod to “her Iuclinations, and the profits sinall, Sho was to travel for n ladiea® furnishing store, and introduce a new stylo of corset, which oy €0 mide 18 10 bo i nico support for ukirls, and yet to dimiuish tha temptation to tigat lec- ing, "This was alittlo in her lino, ns sho had long advocuted o reform in drees, As shie was o total stranger to tho house, sho was expected to pay for thio stock with whieh sho started out, at wholesalo, ‘I'hls eo dimivished liey tittle atoro of money thint sha was vblized to state the engo to herlaudlady, and request lor to wait for payment for tha last woek’s board nutal her raturn from tho trinl-trip. Tlus the kiud- beurted hostesn coongented (o do, and eho uet forth on her now work with cousldorable courage. ho mot with quite us wmuch succesn ausha hud dnred hope for, und rotwrued to the city with n lizhtenod heart, and woney enough Lo réplon- ish hier stock end pay her bonrd-bill. Nest miorniug sho went out early to purchnes some trifling necesenry, ond returned to broak- Tast, intendinyg to proceod to her moro important business immedistely altorward. As Stiss Joannie preputed to go out tho tecond twme, £ho put her lind into her pocket to mako raro. her tiersured money wns snfos but what was her surpriss to diseover it was not there! Lamking sho must bave left it in ker 10om, she procecded to muko u thorough aearch ; but to her consternation it was not to be found! Upow. votleetion, sho could not veeolloet buving sean her pocket-book sinca slio Inud it upon tho counlor while wuiling for hor chingo ab tho morning's purchase, Hoping uhie might flud it ot the Litls shop, she onorly inquired, but only Lo bo disuppovted, nnd sho tuzned bLor tost slowly taward her bonrdin, house, fecling that sho'was n bankrupt ! Itonch- ing hor 100m, sho throw horsol! down and gave way to a pnssionate burst of teara,—tha tirst sho had yielded to amid nll tho diseonragements of the paut anxious weekw, Bho had not tho face to tell ber landiady and nmpln{crllmt sho bad hoen robbed, lest they should ‘thiuk it the trumpad-np story of animposter; ebo would uot go Lnck penniless to fiepend upon her mister; shoe rovoit. ed from the thought of nppealing to tho bonov- olenco of etzangers foy o loan: and eho folt ay it sho ought 1t to stay nnother mght under tho ehellor for which she was alrondy in debt, aven if they weald keep her; and wavos of hopeless misery srmed to overwhelm her. Rven the despeinto hiought of nelf-destruction tempted het whib o whort wuy oul of all her trouble, Finally nhe grow calmer, sud tho brave howt tried deviso somo aub of hey unbappy circumsiances, Hho thonghs over her simple peezossions, wondering if therd wore not_gomething tho could pawn, Her ranzlo woulld bring renrcely anything; her wardrono must be kopy to supply the necoesitios of tho coming winter ; and bor brooch wns_ too cheap to bo pledged for more than two or three dollnrs, Buddenly sho sememborod the ring, Sbe ¢id not kuow how much it was worth, but way suro it wonld bring more than nuything clse aho contd spare, 3 Ouca moro sho kot forth, with little hopo in hor howrt, and, wsbumed to nel for diroction, looked anxiously in ulf likely placen Lill uhe raw tho sign of the thyee goluen 3(1 la, Feeling liko 2 crimwal, poor Juanulo cntered the fore liddig wluco, prodnced her iroasurs, and aled with 'a throbblug bemit how mueh could bo advanesd’ upon {hat. Gold wau very high ut that time, aml, after somo patloyineg, tho Isizelite oored en ndvanes of cight doilas, with priviloge of yedeaming (he riug within six weaks, ‘Thezo wore moi o favornbilo fertns than sho baddaredhipo for, fho Look Lo suaney and invested sy ark «f itin threo epocle meu ¢u182td UEOR Which to take oudezs, nud the to WAy rost In fanoy ‘Uralding and ombroldery-stampaid atticlen, ox.ulrb ono dollar, whlely ~ sbe offorod her lundindy us pladge of good faith, aud totd her ntory,” The ftiud woman wan loth to tako the monoy, bt slio, Loo, wat poor, aud tiecded her littlo gaine, though her prompt bolfaf In Miva Tovunic's story groatly roliwved wy tron- Dlod friend’s ming, wiio had oxpectad_only ‘cold inoradulity. 8ho did not knor on I did, Ehat her honest faco bold unmistakably its own trath and pnrh.Y, andacould searcoly fail of winning cradenco anywhera. Stamped_pattorns would uwot pny her faro on the railrond, as they would for food and lodging in tho conntry-towns where shio traveled ; o, In #pito of Novombor winas and Iey footways, nhe waiked to tho flrat statlon west of the city, earry- ing lier, honvy sutehot tive miles, aud renching tho litdle villngo eold, hunary, and voarly cx- bauatad with the unwonted oxcrtion, Lut Provi- donce iliveeted hor foot to where thero wero sym- pathatlo honrte, and nob ovon o sister's Liand conlid have ministorod unto her noads with mora Kiudlinoss than did thoso Good Snmaritans Into whoss teuder miorcies sho foll that first wonry nlght. Rofreshed and strongthenod, not less b tho Christinn lovo and wympathy llmfv mani- footad than by tho substautial hospltality thoy genlly foreed her to necept, slio wont on her way rejoleing ;s and, when roady to 10 on Lo the next station, the littlo woman felt ablo to take tho enrs, lilio ouy othor lady, Ono day, ns I was busy ovor my housshold af- Iairs, thqduor-bell ruug, and, ng Katio roturned f1om anwering it, sho onid, ** It's a lady in piain gray, ma'am ; but, an she dldn't give no uamo nor nothing, but wantod tho lady of tha louso, and carries her own satehel, I guesy i's an agont-woman.” Now, you know 1 e principlec agalnst ngonts, conmdering thoir wholo end and ngm to bo to coax, wheedle, or tire you into buying.something yon don’t want, just to get rid of thew. Ivaa abont to send Kolle back with tho word that I didn’t wantanything whateoever, when, observiug o streale of crock on Katio's noso, nud heing a litilo sensl on tho suhfucl. of noatuess in the kitchen na woll ns ont of it, I changed my mind nd wont myself. Dleasod bo Jatio's crocky noso! ¥or ona'instant we stared at each other ; thon, ns I deshed towards her with tho oxclunation, “Is this my dear old Joan 2" gho roso and elasped mo {n her army \\'ll.ll;‘ her old familisr greetivg, * My dorling girt!™ Of courno, wo had n delghtfut visit, but she would not spend the sinter with me, ny 1 en- tronted hor to do, Sho told mu har story, and said tho ring had kopt her from utier despair in tho darkest day of hor lifo s and, us she navor should wone it, shio would liko ma Lo havo it, I gladly redecmied the helpful little oirclot, and did for ber ail that her proud indepeudouce would porinit, which wae litilo enough ; moroly afonn nuficiont to purchasp a moroe varied and profitablo tock, and provide for lior own com- fort till ber financial skios olzared a little. Hoving fricads in tho city, I introduced 3isu Jeanuie ton fow who L knew would upprociate lier roflnomont, intelligenco, and steriing intog- rity, notwithstending ehe was o poor girl. Uhey secured lor & bonmmg-g\lmo in o lovoly Chris- {inn family, whers shie hal overy comfort of o homo of apuidance and eultoro. * Shio soon won tha respect and ndfection of a nico littls cirele of {riends, who intorertod thomselvesio flad o moro congonial cecupation for lier: nod iu a liitle while alio had (o hearly vatiofuction of leaviug foraver Lho diotnsteful ** cnrpat-bagging,"” as sho called hor agency-businere, and taking n counler in & Inrge, airy nlmy up town, at n good enlary. But her exporionco had not been without its ma- terial benefits, as ateady porformanes of du however distastoful, soldom is; nctive oxercido in the open air had restored an eujoyable Gerreo of hexlth, and made her equal to tho ensy dis- cbargo ot her new Iabors, For noarly tvo veors ¢l lived a happy, con- tented lifo in her ndopted city, onjoying mueh of really good socisty, thotizl, of conrse, not tho most fashionable. * Meauwbile, aho liad won the rogard of an estimable gentioman, who adinired tho quiot strength and self<lependenco hiddsn under gentlo sweotvess of mavners ; and laat year ho carried her away to the clearor gkics and rofter airs of the Paciflo Coast, tho worthy Drido of an accomplished eltergyman, And no my ring epeaks to mo with varled voicen, liko a 'song in many lkoys; of youthrul Tove uud manly hone; of & far-sceing Providen- tial eara; of o way of “escapn from lemplation to doubt tho Father's ever-present love and holp ; of honest independenco; of vittue's victory and roward. Arrene S — SONG OF THE MYSTICS. Thongh thon sbonldst live a thoueand years, ‘Whataver Fute glves, 2 wha )= W 18 ¥ Let this support thes fn thy feazs, *fifan Joses but tho lise Lo lives And only lives tho lifo ho lo * Longest and uborlest arc but one; Lhio present 1€ tha eame Lo all 3 The past ia doue with und forgots Tho futurc i not yet hegun ; Notliing from ofiher cun befall, For nona can lose what lio bus noky Al inings from a1l Eternfty Comi round and round the whitling spl:era 1t musken no differanco i€ wo seo o kama thing for » hundred yéare, or for a million, hoy ate liero: Who longeat liven, whio kliorteet dles, Lones the same sweet earth and akiod, For they remain—wo disappear, T will foll theo what to do: 301d o these things which aro fowy Boar fu wnind that every mau Livea in tho presont day alone; Yesterday I forever flown, TG-DIOTFOW 11 MR £, OF Can s Bhort s the time {hat ench man Uve, And rmail tho nook: of esch thereor 3 Tho longost famo ot long wnevives, Bul, Itko a forch, in Landod o, Dy puor, tired runnces, u they fiy, OF whom lic strongest eoon will dir, And wwho themsolves do never know, Much lees who died to long age. Toll mo, what doen it mozn 2 “Vhint. hon hnat, reaciied tho end— Hast gano on bourd—tio vosage mads And como to gisoro, Descend ! 1 to znother lfe— An wiveat men declare— Tlhiero ig, o siirw, uo wnt of gods 3 They {oliow even thero. I hinply ton state Thiat Lnows 1o joy nor patn, I'hon wilt no longer X Nor inake the v ‘What harmonion O Universe, I8 5o with e, Nothluyg too early, or ton late, ‘Tt 14 at thy sppolnted dato, Evorthica s fruil to me, Whleh tly eeagong, Nablre, bring 1 Al things from thee, and ail fu theo, ‘Ta thee returnetl: overything, “ Dear city of Ceeropla,” The poct said its sreots who trod s ‘Wilt thon not kay—bn wire and say— * Dezr vity of tho livieg God "7 —R. H. Staddard in the Independent, iy Driosts and Nchoolmnsters in Frances Throe curions nrticles, says the Manchestor Zxaminer, havo just apperred in tho Dizneu- vieme Siecle, under tho elgnnture of Francisquo Bareey, 'I'ho writer has obtained Pn!floufiiml of roport addressed by the villago rehoolmasters of Trauco to tho Amister of Lublio Instruction, Tisarticle deals with tho antwor of the gehool- nietors Lo o question put them by the Minister, asling what complaints thoy had to mako about tho nuthority legnlly exorcined by ihe elergy avor public instriction, ‘Pho ropiied uro certain- Iy startling, Trom tho Selno-ot-Oita comes tho Tollowing ¢ * Liflleuls indoed in tho etuation of the schoolmaster when 1o of his chatrick do not ngree! korve two masters. Wao knvo known a rehoo maater who polisted the floors of his priest's lionse, and the heavy workt in gen- oral." Another priczt had appitad for hii ecliool- magter to be chnugad, denounielig him as an ene erqumens and & demon. Inguiry olicited {he fotlowing answer: * M, lo Cave wished to mnkio hia senoolmastor dig his gurden, e yvofused {o doit, I'his was tho nole cuuro of Lis vage, On tho tmestor's refuenl o sing, boing ill, s curo caused bim toloso fouriecn pupilsoutof twonty- rix, threatoniny the parents 1o dismiss tha ohile dren fram catechnam clasw,” Other statoments follow, almost e hard Lo helieve, A schoofmas- tor {8 bratatly diswissed for declining to give HIX weeks justend of the Jegal manth ny holidny, 1is wifo, beiug in childbed at the timo, diés fiom the effect of tho removal. Another in mailo Lo do ponance on his nees in the chuyeh on funday before all tho yarmh. In fuct, it wauld eewm by thevo reporly il tho vitlage schoolmaetor is no botrer thun & worvant ol tho core, 1o says “Jy nchoolmnsier,” ay ho suys ]y wneristan” "It {n tho eehoal- maater's duty fo feld (ho veetmente, to riug tho Lotls, and to sweep tho churel, and ho neoms to Do luoky if hio ecscapes mora menial dutice, Hohools kept by roligicux urs granted overy nd- vantago., **In geneval, tho kalary ot u refigleus,” reports the Acutlumy of Desaucon, “is higher than that of alate, Who Communa supplios wnd keopws up thelr furnituro, 'I'va roligioux ara wanied wharo ono luje sufices, Al! if wa daved to tell what wo suffer in this rudo lifs wo should open many cyuh ond diegipnto many wojudices, 1t Qs an jujuutico to loavo tho poor Iny sehoolmneror utruggliog with tho mum- Liera of o laege sehool, witdlo, eloso by, there 1w n Toundacion of roliglens or religlcucen threo (e no numoroy fo ity slail” IL1s {o boe obxceved the B, Boreoy nppears tobo.donling with n pri. vato report coliceted oight years ago. Ilo ny. puroy us that (higanrororso still ot tho preas out time, . THOMAS YARN. From Appletona® Journal. Mo wos s fallute, an innocent, colorless fall- ure, holdiug his placo fn tho encrgotio uwn of Aosahirook rather bocanes ho wag too amorphous to b kicked out than from any power of his own to koep in. 'homas Yarn lind vover mado o llv- ing, but had hung, & barnacle, on gomobady cluo's Jiving all hin life. Ilo was ugly, and dirty, and poor, and Jazy, set theso termo seom loo otrong for o nebulous o cresture, Tho colora in which his portrait shonld bo palnt. ed ara what the Frouch call leinls degrades— unuffy brown, pale-olive groena, mixod and tardy grays: no black, no white, no red; all shad- ow, doad lights, a poor, forlorn, faded ploturoe, which no gallery vovetod. Ie was n gort of n connceting link botwoen tho onrth-worm and man, suggeativg both oxtromes. Yet tho crea- ture wao kindly, and kad bis own littlo comor of srit and humor ; once in about ten yeats ho anid o good thing, ITo had nover harmed anytbing, not avon afly ; in faot, ho and flies wore rathor intimato, and had acquired n right of posscesor- ship from long occupanoy of & dirty, curtainleay tavern=window, which wns tho height from which ‘thomna Yern survoyed lifo na it wont on in Mossbivok, Ilo wne In somo romoto way supposed to bo a gentleman, perlipo beeausn ho uover did suything, porhaps for n botlor veason. At any rato, he was tolorated insomo of the bent front-parlors when on con- tennialy, and on such infroquently-oscurring oc- casious o put on e clean shirt and made o call. ‘Chomaa ¥arn wan not diity for the same rencon hint s Bald to havo govorned a celobrated En- ghieh scholar, “because it vhytned with Goethe ;" no, poor Thomnswag not ovon Hiorary, thot next fo nothingness in good, hard-working -New Ea- gland. Iis habits grow out of n nlovonly soul 3 tho cold watera of onorgy and ambition hadnover cascaded down Thowns Yarn's back, 1o wau sunk low in tho sluws of lnzivexa and inortia. Who known what had deprived Thomas Yam of his birtbright of suceess? who fwows what beatt-achos had panlyzed lus energlos # who knows any of " the proal mecrely of Naluro? — why ono braiu works and nnother will not# and why oue wau s siiil while anothor man runy ? QOno thing Thomos Yurn always possessed, and {hat wae the villago nows, Ihe tavern-windos, | in spite of the thes, was a good fleld of obseryne tion. lio waut 1ound with tho roturns of elece tiony, with tho doaths and marringes, aud tho latest, woll-authouticated seandal. Nover maligs AN, never proua to see ovil, ‘'homas still told what ho heard—an invainablo Jocal newspaper, Ho would put his sad ligura in penitently nt the sido door, ay if to suy that the uews ho bronght was e only excaso fo¢ Leiug, Theto wero tumois of bis onco being seon driving a horxo, but this was not well nuthen- ticatod. 1t gave too much euerzy aud deciston to tho pctare, und wa8 rojccted by most as fm- probablo: but ono’ great, grand, important thiug ho had dono, une ovent 1itunnnated his cx- {stouce, and ho nover wan tired talking of it und Lonotiug of it. 1o had once been mnrried, aud hocould pot forget the mride, pomp, and cir- cumstanco of that occasion, DPousibiy nt theb moment Lo might bhavo been cleiner cud moro prosperous than as any subsequont oue; olso why did that vory protly givl, wath her Joug, binelk hwir,—ulwiy remembeored in the villago ndmicingly,—why nud slis w0 over-eslimuuted her own puwera of cne durance ad to marry Thomas Yarn? Murry him she did, and vatwmally died in tw uummui‘})o s lifo, aver afier thudmmm beauty und enint of Mo nevor could auliiciontly praise lier bair. Ho placed it among tho constullitions like Deroniec's, and woro ono long trees,“Solded in - China-puper, next biy bemrt. The way he worshipoad his *Mury m Ileaven " offirned Thomus Ymn's cluim to the numo of gonticiaan, Ife hed been ** in buginess” when ho muried, but ho failed immedtately, and tbot continued to he bis bueiness fovover after. Lho Lavorn swallowod im up, ond 15 was on its worm-salen porch thut “ho firsk lewmed that ho was ro- wembered in Gov. Hammond's will. Some ono elsa knew that piceo of news bofare ho did, Gov. Nammaond waa 4 rch uud prominent citi- zou, who bad boen Lerribly strickon, iu the midst of his prosperity, by the daeath of s only #on, & young man_but few yoard married, who bud loft one young daughier. 1t was a prowl old name, and Gov, Ham- mond did not ko to Lave it dic out. But Fats was stronger luan he. Ho left bis fino properly to_ this littlo girl, somicthing in tho eamo diseppointed frnmo of nund sy j Dombey, and bo added a eingular codicll. It was to charge Ins oxceutors to pay a small an- nuity to Thomas Yarn, and to givo him the charge of his hibrary, which wes larga nnd tn greu: disorder, aud which needed urtention and ropuie. “Chis library kad come from *‘two Inwyors, ono gentloman, and ono clerzymau ancestor,” as Gov. Hammoud was foud of explaining his vari- ouR forbears, aud had beon geny v tumbled by the Governor, no great reader, into an nnoceit- pied room, which was ol unsuited to it, hoing i wing of the houga i which Emily, tho enild: heirewy, Hved;with Ler Aunt Margaref nnd the old sorvants, The littlo wnconscious owner of all tbin rambling properly vy n healthy, hearty, robust little girl, with an early propensity for tales of funey, and legitininloly fot novel-reading. Bho spent her Saturduy uffornoons, and sonio purt of the next duy, in her library, ritting on tho Lop step of & ladder reading ** Thio Catenges ol Glonbummie,, “A Simplo Story,” or % Chaddens of Wureaw.” "Thete, wrapped i thoe delicions wmaptlo of romauce, woultt vk siz for homw, while Thomes Yarn would look up from his pusto-pots us n dreamy molo might contomplate wbutteifly. o and she wero great friends aot hnving evrived ab tho critical age, she did not notice his_soiled habits as Aunt Marguvet did, but willingly put lor eoft, white hand in hig, nud was lod o Mary's grave, listening with wush gravity Lo the account of that famous wedding, -nod looking with wvoelly-sorrowtul oyen at tho loug tresy of Leautiful hair, It was o part of Suturday afternoon to Lwiiy ; n part of *Thaddens of Wareaw ;" n part of that golden primoe which Emily was passing through ; and, ae ho was indulgent, aud let Lier pregs wild-flowers it soma of the old theolcgieal works, Lmily thonght ho was & modol librarian, Emily fouvd the library rather overstocked with the eermons und grave folios of her clergy- ruan ances:or, rathor too spursely furmehed with tite ** Thaddous of Warzaw ™ sehool of litera- turo. Sho had gone through Scott, and gontla Miey Ansten, and Miss Kdgeworth, aud dall old Mra, Shorwood, whous story of *Rich in tho Kitchien and Peor 1n the I'arior * is chicfly vatuu- blo forits recipe for wmnkmg gooseberry-tarts, Hhe had wept aver that vedeeming work of ** Lit- tlo Henry nnd his Dearer ;" whio had nhuddered over “*Tho Ruflien Boy;" and shoe had got to Popo. 'Thon the began to sigh for Ivesh fiolds and paztures now, Cooper sho tried wad conld not 5 and, us for tho theological works, what wero thoy good for but to press flowers in ? O old, qry doctors! «id not youv pulses boat ny this imago of spring, and hopo, and joy throw opon your musty pages, and laid tho freshly- gotliered flowors 1 your heavy grasp? Woro tnesn the only flowers you bad heljed to presa down gl dry up? Who will read tiroso accumulated words of windom—old normons, theological trautiscs, rece ords of undying dullnesn? Why doos tho great- est of subjeets lead to such poor writing # *L wish thera woro nomo novely,” said Ewily, ong duy, fron tho top of tho step-faddor, “ Novels v’ goud for young peaple,” seid Thomas Yarn, ** But, 1 like thom,—I liko a book that Is vers benutiful In the bogluni und very sad in tho middlo, and very magmiticont at tho ‘end 1" said Lmily, who did not want for words, Vell, I guors.you'd better uot rend oo many of 'om, Lot je't ab all Wk bfe," smd poor Ll:omas, rememburing the taveru~vindow ; ** bu- sitles, your Aunt Mlargavet vuys you walk in your wleep, tnd have bad creams, and I_guesn you'd beteor go off and geb zonsd mare wild-tlowe: So Lmily would” denas oft to the woods, avd Thomay looked up some more noveln for her, and, tlnding u good, old-fushioned atoyy, wouht leave 1t aceidoatally on the top of the step-ladder, sul- flelently rewarded it howaw her flush of ploay- uro au sho diseovered it I'horo were uo poisons oug plats i this Forost of Ardonnes,—ull wau the poed, wholetomo pasturago of -whicls Chorles Lumb spenks; and tho young maiden who wus thus sct freo was e protecied ay the Indy in “ Comug," or thul othor deiicious ercaturs of whom great nglisk Shakupeuro suys : A thontnud liverlod augels Invkey v, Thomas Yuin, in spito of s inabliity Lo make o living, wan £0 gould w erentura that s vittue #houe through hiy hedragglod exterior, us the #un himself vhona throngn that tavernswindew throngh waich he waw tho dintant woulil, Misi iluegaret, veetangular npinetes that sho wis, permiticd wm the guurdianelip of ler nieca without fear,—nay, shio oven aduttod in to thab icy, frigid zons of wirtun which nure vounded Lorsell, 1Ilw suten tho edge of hig chair s lior presenco sl ha told lioe thoseiaps of naws slie Ko doarly lovod to hoar, Oh! onoio of theeo oveaslony, whata ploco of nows sho told bitn! .it would bo his own! ** Yon nny shut up the library, 3lv, Yo, Iam olug to tako Lmily off to sciiool. Tho Trays 008 will allow you' your accustoried stipeud” (Mlses Margaret Toved to ueo o now and grandlto- ‘juont phrage ne wall a6 another), “and your work ean bo resumed in_the spriug’s now £ pro- for to havo the lbrary slut, Good-ovoning | Aud who awoptont withontn lonk ; hroiden, who had aver ilatiorod him or goftened the ag- porltica of Fate to this creature 7 Loor Thoman ! From him that hath nolhlng uliall bo takon evon thal ho hnth | 110 took out tho picos of folded China-papor, and looked langs ot the trass of black hair. 1o wonderad, knowing how low down ho was, that Do coutd Uo 1o exquiaitely miserablo, Thoro In o great balent o hutnan nntura for pain, and suf- Torlng, and dull griof. U'hint sldo of or nataro Hoomi to bo singnlarly gifted, Wo Liave no sach unlimitod powers In tho way of Joy and gladnoss. Aftor tho eixteenth year of oxistencs 18 passed, It eooms donbtful if any ono can feol raplurously happy for o very long timo,—eny thros minutes, But the power of sufforing conatantly grown with omr growth, nnd strongtiiens with our trengthr, No ono over complnined that ho had not_talont ouough for this wort of thing, Iven Thomas Yarn, who had_scomed to_havo talent for noth- ing olse, felt within himwolf tho compiohonsion of an intelloctual colonsus for oufforing, Iti8 o hard thing to tako out of & poor lifo il friondship, the unquestioning lovo of a child. 1o saw Lmily furtisely during thoso i'cnrs when_uha danced ovor that myaterious and,—that bordotland of ghtlhood nu& Wwoman- ltood,—~Dbut whon she came homo from boaid- ing-rehool, ol laoked at Thomns Yarn with now oyes,—ho who liad not prown cleaner, or younger, or moro_ngroeablo,—ho folt that ho “hmd lost his little friend. She ro- instated him {n the lbrary ; bus sho oamo thoro goldom horself ; ehio had'a now Look to rend,— lior own romance was bolng writien ; lovers wero coming in the flosh, inotend of on tho vellow pages of hor old bools,—82 Thomaa and Memory dusted alone, One day 'Fhoman took down a volume of Scott's +' Commentaries,” fn which ho saw n moth creep- ing, and, ns ho did wo, a wild-flowor Toll out. — ono of thoso which had not been_olovated to the dignity of Lmily's herbarium. It was n Loavy old ook, with n parchment cover ; and, vs ho dustod nud shool it, Thomas Yarn shool: ot his fate,—a folded papor foll Lo tho ground with bits of forn, n prexsed violet, aJady's-slipper, and sov- eral fringed polygalas, 1t wann will, " 1o kuew the hundwritlng woll, for in his struggles for existonco ho had bean n, eopyist, and had often met tho stiff, statoly, old- fashionad, copper-plata band of Gov. Hammond, o read on througis the formal plirasocy aud logal forms,—ho read on 08 a_man doos in & dveam, oud ho nover,l:new Low Jong it took him to flud out whot wus written on thal pleco of prpor. 1lo mizlit have fainted away,—if g0, ba camo to all by himsolf. It was o wili, leaving all bhis property to his nntutal son, Thomas Yarn. 1t i witheezed by Deboreh Dooiittle (misnamed -woman ), then and now cook to the catshlioch- ment, and by old Deacon Rameey, wao had boen gathorod to s fathore, ‘fhomay Yorn remombered the date of tha will which bad given ali tho pranorty to Emily, yos, this wos writfen n year atter. t was no tecorded, fhat ha know wall, but ho thought Deborah would romomber signing it. e went Lbrough all thosa mental oporations. with lult Lis mind, tho otlior half was paralyzed with surprieo. Mo was looking at it with bloared eycs when be licard a [rosh voung voico singing v the hall, Ho I fnst thine to pus the paper 1 pethaps the poorest old_pocket i tho world, whon Emily opened the door. Thomes Yarn was sarroanded with faded wild- flowers, Ho oven had a Plecn of fern in his Iiand, endeavoring to hald it as If it wore thing to which ho was accustomed. Ifow Loilly Inughed an she saw him | ** ¥o you liave found some of onrold flowers ? How yellow they are, poor things! Look at that violet. They ave like pooplo who have had sictness nnd troublo. T wonder If Ishall ever look lile ono of thesa 7" * Yes, they aro yellow," eald Thomas, feobly ¢ do you remember when you put thom here “1 remembor! Why, noj it might have beon tho summer aftor I had the mrasles, or the #ummer beforo I went to school; Idon't ro- member{” Thonins Yarn took his way home thnt day through Lhe kitchen. It was 1ot the first time, for Dohorals was very apt to waylay him with the proffer of u cup of ten, or somo of her nleo dishes, alwave doing it with respoct, for sho thought, with tho roet of 3lossbrook, that Thomna way a noor gentloman ; and he, not o person to be invited to dinver, would pause fur- tivoly, and at Doboral's neat trblo snateh n cup of ton or rich doughnut, gratoful vartety to tav- ornfara! Ho, witen lie appeared down tho stairs, Debo- rah hustled ronnd, and put a plate and koife and fork on tha eide-tablo. *¢No," enidd ‘Fhomus Yarn, * nothing to cat." “Why!_whatoomdover has hapnened to you, Mr. Yarn 2" wnid Deborab, ** You look us white ug n sheot I . ‘* Deborah, do you rontember witnessing o pa- per for Gov. Hammond in bis last iliness 2 **Well, yes, I guces I do, Mr, Yarn, The Gov- eruor wan terrible quoer in hig lnot sickness, Ho wandered round, aud went to (hs library, aua wouldn't stay in bed, and wroto things. Yos, mo and Deacon Ramsoy soo him sign something, L Hupposs it was Lig will, giving overything to Mis# Emily. He was awful tronbled, tio @swv- ernor wag.' _After his son died ho got «queer, and then, after Miss Hammond died, he got queorer. T ozpect tho Governor hard boen rather hard on tho poor when he was nkiug his fortune,” ‘ Dehoreh, put on yonr speetacles, and soe if this is your signatura 2" Dohorah produced nome very lnrpo ., glaesos, and procecded {o fib them with diflienlty onn very smail nose. *“Well, yes, I wrate that, T never was good with my pen : and I was kiud of flustered when the Governor lio ealled mo, nnd Doncon Raweoy Tio wus conghin’ awful at the time; he died, poor man, before the Govornor did ; end then I hind my dinner on, and the soup wag a-burnin’.” ‘Chomay Yorn wag half up the street beforo Deborah bad finiehed, and had ronched the Reg- istrnr's offico. Yer ity™ will was rocorded ; fhis was not, but this way writlen 2 year aftor the other. ‘fhion the poor koul traveled back ou his recol- loctions, aud ho suw, hero aud thero, the Hure of thot stately man, who had been bis father : ho recagmized, Liore nud there, that ho must hava seerotly helped -him from fimo to timo; ho rémembered, too, thut Lo had not helped him when help might heve saved Mavy, and Lis koul swelted with bitterness, But, 1o the hours that death waited for tho Gov- ernor, ho had paid this tardy debt to eonscienco, Ifo bad hnid the paper in tho old book, ho hnd sont Thomasg Yarn to the libiary, and Lo had loft therest to chance. Miserablo, vulgar fraction ol contcience-money! Migerablo plnying with justice! Gov, Hommond, like many a ditfinitied gontleman, uncovered his real charncter in his will, and showed the poor nnd maan thing which u o appearanco kad diaped and oruaweuted, - "Whomae Yern went to Mary's grave and. con- Fidered, Tlo #nw from that humble spot Gov. Hummond’s tall Corinthien column klenm throngh tho trees. Ho thought of the changa it +wonld mnko in the villago treatmont if ho an- nounced tha fact., Cho tavern-window would censy to bo his post of observacion; ho would £it of an ovening on tho broud pnzza whore Miey Misu Margorot avd Eamily receivod their guests Ile would becomo o man of fortune, n power in tho State. Ho looked down nt his germonts. It oven accurred to him that he should bhave a now euit of clothes; but, us theso airy visions floated bofors him, ho looked sgain tho graus st tho store, eud read ; HMARY, WINE TO THOMAY YARN, “!835- DIED sEPT. 22 Aviip 92, and bo deelded that ho did not want fortune, famuo, consequance, enough to teko it awzy from Emily, i cbild-Triend. She, next to Mary, was tho dearost thing to Thous Yarn, Often bo determined to burn tho will, but ho did not, 1o vven bought u pioce of oil-silk, und carefully rolded it avonnd the paper bofors re- lurning it tu his ragged pocket. Fome- tmen, when he was particularly forlorn, he would tako it out uud vead it, and becoma o riech wan for a fow hours; then Emily's Jaugh would rewound through the house, or hio would seo her, guy and trivmphaug, drive fug oft to picnics and to eloigh-riden, tha suc- wemiful young hioiress aud belle of Mogsbrook and ho would fold it awny. Thomas Yarn'watehed with o fenlous oyo tho yuen who approached Fmily, and Le paw to Lin Hotraw that ho bugan to blush and lcok down when Itoruce Frazier oamo near her, It bognn 10 bo villago talls that thoro wus to bo nn ongage- munt, Now, Horaes Frazier hind camo {o Mosshrook o 8tudy Juw ; ho was not of the Lown, Darhais ho brought some foreign ginese with bin; he weu haudsome, dressod well, und Lind faseinnting mavuers, Lt tho tavern, in thin instanco, Lad bocoma an important post of oheervation, nid Lhumas Yarn knew of nights ‘pasted In gam. bling, of drunken bonts, of tho grme and degradntion of n dissoluto life, Yet whwt could hosayordo ¢ \What Lioadway make sgainst this young and elaver man ¥ Ualors ho hud resolved on i voursn of action, Bnily had come into the library, and had ane nounced ber engngonmont to bim, *+ 0 Mina Emlly Pdon’t! Hijsn't woithyof you! 1la is n gambler, o droukard, and worso ! Don't love uuch & manj dow't murey Lim, Tbag ol youl" buset from \mor'l‘homln Yur'o lps, ‘Lo dewvrlbe Ewlly's ludiguntion would bo fme ¢ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, YS574—TWELVE PAGES, stullfln. Tha ann In the heavons was not moro linstrions than Horaca Frazlor in hor oyen. To attaak bim—and to hor! Hhie swopt out of (he lbeary, aftor n vigorous donunelation, and Aunt Mnrgarot nwopbin, Ib ind Loew o part of Iorace Irazier'espolicy (rracoful pood-for-nothing) to win tho older wauan Hient, and sho hid bt to hoar tho droad- ful nows of the ketack to rush to tho battlomonts and mow down Thomas Yarn with a woll-direoted volloy. ‘' lioar that yon daro, 5lr, Yarn, to insult my nfeco, ond to agunil tho chrscterof herintonded Lusband—you, Mr, Yarn] Who aro you? Why my rolutivo, Gov. Hnmmond, dosconded 8o far ad Lo mention youin his will, I novar could un- derntand. Yo, slothtul, dirty, poor, mean, in- slgnificant—you dnva Lo #poak of 3 gontloman— & woll-drowted gontlomnan liko Mr, Frezier? Lenve this houne, Mr, Yarn (you nover ought to havo huon allowed to coma into 1t), and nover lot thexo oyco hehold you agniy [ Aiss” Marqurot “"held ont o thin forofingor an sho opoke, ke u third.rato Lady Macbeth, Thomnay “ Yarn toso elowly and walked cut; vot, as ho passod her, o fired one Parthian are Tow. 1 will savo Brmily yob," gald ho, " *vrsav “ Qo, baso crorturo!" maid Miss Margare, Tuiously, 4 Whon MMr. Frazler camo to tea that oyoning, both Iadlos received him with greator tenderness than ovor. 1iiy waistcoat wag very Pnrfoct 3 hig' nocktio ahd convorsation delightful's ke was n handromo follow, and in love. _‘I'lioy did not tell him low eruelly lio had boon olandored, Thomas Yarn watehod him forn fow weeks, loping that love mizht moke a bottor qaab of himj but no, it did not. Tho play went on; the dninking-bouts continuod ; oven mily bogan to seo momo signs which troubled her, but, womanlike, sho only loved him_ batter, "That ho mado ber hoort troniblo and ache, was pars of tho ngluation of tho period. ‘Ihen Thomas Yarn toolk n detormination. ITo viont to Judeo Sutherland's offico and bad o pri- vato consuitation with that ominont jurist; ana tho noxt night, as Ioruce Frazler eamo up tho tavarn-ntops, fresh from lifs courting and frosh from Emily's sweet bresenco, on his way to the card-room, Thoman Yarn stopped him. “ Mr. I'razicr, *Judge Suthorland desires to sco you in Numboer 17, if you pleaso.” T'razicr sutlonty turiied toward tho room. IHo was a studont in the Judge's oftico, nnd ex- pectod he tmow npot what in_tho shape of a reprimand, Mo was surprised and offendod &vhen Yorn entered the room and lockdd tho oor, Judgo Butheriand's dignified presence, how- over, ailencod him, and he soated bimsolf, await- ing tho revelation, **3(r, Frazier, wo aro about to make n confl-* denco to you, aud, a8 8 man of honor, 1 ask you ::J‘Fivu no your proinio that you will not rovenl {! Cortalnly, eir, I give you my word.” ‘41t deeply concerus you, ns I undorstand that you exo to marry Miss Hiammond; it deeply con- cerny mo, 18 I amono of the Trusteos of hersiup- ]mned ostate; it deoply concorns Alr, Yarn, ae ho 8 tho roul owner of that estato. IHere is n will, which you shall road; it {8 » verfectly logal docu- ment. although not registerod. One of tho wit- neenes to thosienaturo 1o still living, Of the con- touts of tho will T nm not ignorant, baving boen consulted ns to its form. X" buvo aleo known for uny years, 88 a professionnl secrob, thab Mr. Yarn way a natural son of Mr, Gov. Hammond ; but I hed supposed that my old friend hind aban- doned Liy project of making this will. Hero it is, and in my opinion it will stand.” 1loraco Frazier verd the paper with nttention. Il was ruin to bim, and ho looked it; but ho saul nothing, - & Onee ho turned and gave Thomas Tarn n ;xan‘mhiug, contomptuons, and almost anusod ool **You ara » good-looking follow to turn n young lndy out of hor property!”™ said he, Ccoarsely. = Thomas Yarn did not answor, Judgo Suthorland did. *'No sbuse, Mr, Frazier. Mr. Yurn is trenting you most hon- orably. 1le is not roady to mulke this will public Just yot, but ho wishes you to kuow of it, in or- der that you mny not bo dirappointed in’ rogard to your futuro wife's property. If you love her woll enough to marry her, a ponniless pirl such s eho in, that, of coursc, is o mattor into which Ishall not euter, But it is onr duty to let you knos that Mr. Yarn will, in the oveut of your mayriage, produco this will, and proceed to claim his property "—and the Judgo pushied up Lis glassor, + Horaco Frnzlor wos stunned, as well s might be. Judge Sutherlond was n dry, convincing gort of terriblo men: what ho kaid must bo true. - “Doyon think, Judge Suthorlaud, that Mr. Yarn has any chunce of sunccesy 2 ‘It may bo enough to say fo vou that I have advieed hiin to try,” said tho Judge, dryly. Yeou, that was qulte enonah for Hornco Frazier, 1To loved Emily, in his sclish way, for hersolf; but he was not tho man to do a_gonerons doed, aud tnko her without nponny. Jmily an heiress was qutito nuother thing from Emily venuiless. Thomas Yurn had not mistuken Lds tun, Ho loft town very shortly after, and wrote o few very lovor-lke letters, ‘Fhen he wont throughtho usunl process of protonded jealousy, coldness, and noglect ; then writiug her that, as ho knew he was not worthy of her, lie must beg thot their engugement might comne to-wn end. Ho had told tho truth for once, He waa not worthy of her. But it took Emily somo ¢imo to sce that Love's youpg dream cau liavo an end. Sho went throngh the usual delusions; thought ho still loved her, and that somo eneniy had done this thing. The Ient of music which fluttered off tho piano in the oveniug breezo brought back tho hour when ho had gracafuliy stooped to pick it up for her: the tlowsers about tho piazan still breathed of him; tho wost wind brought her his whispered vows; the moonlight keomed but {o cast shadows which mighe bo his, It was hard to necept lifo withont him. Xnily bad never met pain boforoj it came with its usuat intensity fo tho young and strong, Slo sought to esenpo it, to be~ liove in him, to forgive hin and _she would Leve dono #io to the day of ler death hnd not n newspnper fallen into hor hand with tho news of his marriage—yes, no soon, too! Al, Horace, yon might have eaited! . T'rombling 0ld Lhomas looked on_tho surgical operation which ho lnd performed: sndly e witched the paln cbeek and the dejected atti- tude u3 she gat, once again Lis silont companion, in tho old library. e wonld have given all the fortuno that ko had not hud, twico over, to Lear her laugh; but 1t wans too Jalo, Could he bave foreseon_this, io would not Liave frightonad Horaco Trazior awuy, Bnd, before a yonr lad passed, tho heslthy and Ymapm‘mm young pirl egan to recover from her hoart-break., The samo temneramont which had induced hor to throw **Thaddons of Wareaw ™ hulf acrosa tho room, in ler excitenient at its repidiv-changiug tawe of joy and dospair, came to hor rescue, The unmitigated worthlessuess of ber late lover's charscter began to como to her, althongh shodid not know tho half. That knowledgo sometimey is a good medicino for u hoart disonsed. Aunt Margarot, too, wag us violently desillusionee an conld ba desired ; but sha nover forgayo'Thomas Yarn, nor invited him to tno edgo of u chair, forover moro, in hor cool parlor, Beforo threo yoars had pussed, Emily had re- placod 1lornco Frazier by o far botfor man. Chomas Yarn had Liopt his secrot, and hed soen his Emwily, as Lo bolioved, sufe, o erept to tha libzary not often 1w, for his breaih wus got- ting nbort, his heart boat painfully; ho was golug down to thnt quict resting-place by the sido of Idary, for which ho luuf {‘ong prayed, Deborah begun to go ovor to him, now comfortable soups and eucournging wines, collont Deborih, miskamed Doolittlo ] Iappinesu did pot harden that good yonug beart, which had been such o deur thing to Thows Yarn, £ho novor foizos him, but evan on hisr marringo-dsy tont over to sen if lio could not como Lo the wedding 3 but no, ho was too teoblo,, Doborals suid he 'would uit up at the windowund seo her gro Ly | o Emily, in hor white roben, looked up at the tavern-window 0y sito drovo to ehurch, and kiseed her white-gloved hand to tho faded figuro who watched hor ag sl passed. e had given Doborah & meusage for ber, to Lo dolivered when ehe camo home from hor wmldml,;.jo\mwy. + Toll hor," batd he, *thatshe will find my &ift in the sccond volume of Neott's ¢ Common- turics," on tho third shell of thn lbrar 3 ‘“Juet write that down, 3lr. Yara, if yon l’lu:t\‘uu; my memoryain't what it was,” said Dob- oruh, "fhomas Yoin wrote a neat hand. Tt was tho only thing ho did neatly. Ho wroto it, sud add- od, " amony the wild-tlowers," And when tue boantiful, proud, hnppy young bride eunio hiome, sho went, with lor band in bor husbund's, to wos the prevent. _ Aunt Marga- ret followed, tisTug, * Paor Mr. Yarn bus saved u‘llitllu mouey, L dun't doubt, und o hos given it all to you!" 5 't'huf-g were toars in Bmily's bright oyos, Sha Al ot follow Aunt Margaret's mesulug, Fho wai thil of his lonoly lot, and of her own doar buppluess, g Suo opened (be book, and thoro, with some fadod flowers, lay the folded papor. £ho and Miey Slurgaret readil together. LThoy i not undorstand & uutil Emily's husbaud 1 torpreted it for thom, ‘Wiroy lud heoa hving for threo yonrs in Thomas Yain's houwo on sufforance, 300" had boon thair lul:w».n, lmu-i\'im: IhIn; at uny mowont he conld tura thom out it Lis chioso, Ho had not forgotten to add » whl of hisown, Riving all tho proporty onca aln t0 Bmily— prg{e.rly ho lmdmvngtondsrfi. b Whra I ho " satd Emily wildlys “lotmo ga 0 lm and toll bim what I think of bim!" ke Ol my doar, hnln't you heard ?” mnid Aunk alargarol,” 1Io lian hoon dead a fortninh died on your wedding-day," . AuTUMN, Totnd and ronnd the garden rush dden bl Grsing, Autumn, Al s e b e, Dry voppy-head il larkairapiko. sril whisiod g4 0 wind, Togm;fi’rm;\',!;lsmflnm * Autumn! and Winteris b Tossoi tho sumach-pennons, iy (e esind o fam: ol smd ot Swung tho emply hatamackn o ang fars " Wilo tho orlokets simmered chirruptag bolow, Teen the atar of ovening by Tted (ha Wost wan turnlig, a‘:‘ép"}i‘,‘:fi‘fi‘c’.flu‘v“.’ o3 Bimmer conatollations alaw wha. Great Orion vaniahiug trom orf fhe b &%ifnhz? Badly aaug the ocean, sighing in the day: Far hvay tho Tight-houte. e mmzf.';‘.';'m{rr Tuack ogainat tho sunnot saile wera glidihy yast s Tartt, and nen, and sk, wero saying, ** Autumua tors ‘at faat Hoon will snow be fsing, noon will tompast Boon thio freozing North will 1ath s bikior ‘o Litore s Thieard tho wators whisper, I heard the winds eoms plaln, But aweet, reluctsnt Summer T knaw would comg again, —Clll'nxl'hnrkr. e The Albert Memorinl Chapel ng ‘Windsor Castic. From the London Court Ciroular, This mogntiloent worls, which the Irincon and Princesses of tho Rornl family fntend ns o me- morlal of the Princo Coogort, 18 ho'v comploted and ready for tho inspection of Her Majesty on her ratiirn from tho nortt Althongh 3 ime monsn sum of inoney ke boen oxpmufed in the condtruction of tho memarial, it inust not be aunposed that it {s an entiroly now ovection. In this it diffors cusontially from tho royal mansoe loum at ¥rogmore, whero the romains of Princo Albort oro ~ actually intorrod. The Albert Memorial {8 formod' within the wylls of Cor dinal \,V‘uluoyn chapol, a building onco hnown as tho Tomb Hones, aftuatod botween the denn- ‘LJHJ and 8t Goorgo's Chapol on the Oastlo UL The extarior of Cardinal Wolsey's chapol is familiur to most pormons who Liavo visited the palaco, but, save to achosan fow, tho rvich and rare gems of art, tho costly soulptures, tha marblos and'mosnics, nud thy gorgoous coup d'wil produced by thoir taseful arrangoment, are 28 & #ealed book at presontto the pugllu‘ Bezun neare 1y ton years ago, whilo tho works nt the I mansoleam wero in Lol momue.'f roa;;g;: Balviali, of = Vonico, whose specit mosaics and glass havo becomo ?nm:‘\?u‘:u n:g Mossrs, Clayton and Dall, wore' the artista first “solected to sdorn tho with iheir decorative mnnu(nclnm:,m"‘he: architect being Sir G. G. Seott. Veniuo accord- inglfiv contribited & ntumnbor of mosaic portraite ofthe Kings and Queons, and other historien] Pporsonagoes connected with tho Listory of the castle, which wero placed in tho panels of the falso windows at tho wost ond of tho chapol, Blfinor Salviati also filled in the pancs of the golden-ribbed and bzautifully-desigued coiling With mosnic-worl of rich color and raro dosign. ‘When this much had been accomplialied, there Wa# % pango in the worlt, To Laron Triquoti, whoeo death oy but tao recently boan rucorded, HeorMajentyhadintrusteda grand work, which wan dostined to traunform tho bars walla of tho chiapel beneath the windows into & gallery of marble ’vicluru!, uvrivaled for their novalty and boauty, The marblo intay work of the Baron, which, as a mural decoration, is so much preferable srom its imperithuble nature to fresco-paintiog, hod ate tracted the attontion of the Queon, and Baron Triqueti received & commission to cover tha chapol walls with Scriptare subjects, Afl theas woro deeigned and worked out iu the Parisian atelier of the Barou, aud, as thoy wera executed. one by one were conveyed to Windsor and fixed iu thefr appointed places. Sovoral of thoss bad beon “wofely transported to England whon the Frauco~-Prussian war intorrupted the work, and with i tho oontinued docora~ tion of the memorial. Again thero wag apause; but when poaco wns made the Baron, insplteof n coustitution weakenod by illness, proceoded more actively than ovor with his com. miesion, As time woilk by tho wholo of the blauk syaces upou the walls became covered, and olegant marblo seats wero placed all round bo- neath the inlaid pictures, Then followed the sarcophagus of tho Priuce, surmonntod by s nrhlo eifizy of '*Albert the Good,” ulad ip medicval armor, with the head roposing upon a pillow, which is supported by $woangelic flyurea, Tho snrcoplingus stands upon tho polished mar- ble floor at tho east end of the cbapel, tho faca of the efligy beiug toward the reredos. The Intteris a boautitul conception in white mar- ble of *'Tho Rtesurrection,” with gilded mar- blo cauopy, the whole being inclosed in a chastoly-urranged frame of mosnic and colored marbles, Botween tho sills of the windows and the marble iulaid work of Bnron 'Triquati.thero inn sorios of whito marble bag-roliofs, eculy- tured by Miss Duraut, who, like the Baron, has not lived to son the completion of the chipel, though their worle remains for the udmivation of The completion of the ombaliish- wents hag devolved upon donsrs, Field, Pooio & Bous, tho cathedral masonsof Westminstor, v:lio, indeed, have beon employed upon tho momorial sinco its commeucement, moro or loss. Aftor placing beneuth the narblo soats wrories of bronze grills, consisting of mouogrnms of ** V. A.,” de- vicen of the Royal arme, the falcon and fotter- locls, tho roso and crown, daisy aud crowa, Huns and fleur-de-lis, they have laid a handsomo col- ored warble pavement inopus Alerandrinune Numerous variotics of warble have been cead in tho canstruction of tha flooring, which is rangoit in dinmonds and circles, one of the priu- cipal materials boing . the lpplepen—a Davun marblo of rod and gray, 'The_laying of tus bighly-pohished pavement wus dolayed till the Inst, " aud that operation complotes the decorations. 'The Albert Momorial chapel for tho wngnificenco of its’ juterior must now be unequaled, Withoul seceing it is bmd to realizo tho rich beauty of tho decoratiova which overwhelm the” visitor upon tha opening of tho cloister door. Standing ot tlo entrance, the glasey, polished marvls floor and ceuotnph of tho Prince first catch thoeyo; a glance to the right or left revenls thoso |xnfqn1 mural pictures which coet the decade of Baron ‘Iriqueti's lifotimo, whilo tho softencd, mellow light, a8 it strosms throtigh the psiuted windown, tiuts with many-colored bues ho sculpture, and wmosaics elmost unrivaled, Adorned with tho trensures_that art can bestow, no mors fit- ting memorinl could_have boon choson by {ho Royal childron todo honortoso illnatriouy s paren. T Let tho Sick Dic—0, Louts Longuo’a Sanitary Notions. Paris Corresvondence of the New York Granhle, T was latoly convcmnr with M. Louis Laugue, ong of the Freuch admirers of M. Darwiu, au during tho intorview M. Langue developed ® yery remurkablo consequenco of tho docirine of tho survival of tho fittest, 1lo urged that,inase much as apecles and individuals swrvive in the ntrugglo for ifo only by roason of suporior abils ity to mastor their environmont, whereby ib conon to paes thot the strong propagate “tho atrang und perfection is renched, it is upscientifie and_ubjustifiable to intorfero with nature in Loy work in auy way wheroby thoso who nre untis to survivo shall bo alded in” thoir atmigh. Man is not oxompt from tho action of tho general law of tho mutrvival of the fittest, and thorefore any means wharaby tho wosk are kept in exiat~ ance, and it 18 rondored poesible for them to propugato thoir species, is indofousible. When the iSpartons killed tboir deformod offspring, they vere aiding nature in tho accomplishment of its designs: but much moro sball ‘we aid in thin diveetion if we shall ontiroly do away with doctors, mediciucs, hospitaly, and allthe adjuncts of the healing urt. Tho world is ovorpopulated; there was a thne when it was poesiblo for plagues und epidemics to kill off tho weaker, tho surplusage, of humanily, and loavo un tho ~ earth only those "who, by raw- eon of iheir high physical condiljon, were abla to survive. Dul tho inventious by which wo bave leerned to cuddto tho woak, to doctor and bolster them agalnst naturo, so that nai eonsumptives arve logion, and thers is bard- ly » man without somo latent disonse, have brought abont n condition ot aftairs which it is absoimtely nocessary to chuuge if the raco ia ta inprove.” Let those who uro woak go doirn, ax naturo intended {thoy should, when attacked by diseao, and u a fow goncrations tho doscend. amis of tho strong mloue will eurvive, B Tnuguo s eo steady a devoteo to thin idea thas witon his own ohild was 1l x fow mouths ago, ha rofused to call In u physloia, and the child diod. Whaothor his practica will bo gonoinlly accepted iy vory (uestionablo, oven though ono seen little fault to aind with lis theory. G A Ohoeky Request, A cartam suob, an Amerioan, hearlng that Tord Lyour, the Drlish Awmbaesador, had the fuest wfl:ouollur in Parly, wroto Lim & note ntating bo contemplatod giving a dinner party, and would like to purchase from Lord Lyons hatt n dozen hottlon of fine old porv! Ho added in postacript that he was preparad to pay ¢ hand- somely Yor a primo nxticle,” In roply Lo recelved n toto from tho Ambnssador's sooretary inolosing weard bauxin§ tho rddrons of & wellskiowa wesvbunt on Ruo do la Laixs ) { 1 i | A