Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1877, Page 10

10 SATURDAY, AUGUS' THE CHICAGO TRIBUN tho atont gray leaves of Epiphytes, perched high up Jn the branches of the great trees; then both white and crimson myrtle-biooms hang from creepers running, Hke the shrouds of 8 vesaul, up the tranks of the giants of the for- cst: then sweet-acented Detdrobiums hang pendent from many a stem, mingling thelr yol- Towtsh Mossoms with silky and transparent fronda of Trichomanes and Hymenophyllum; then the native Screw-Pine, bound like ivy with a network of rooticta to some supporting stem, expanie, in the enfiet of its eage-like leaves, its curious spadices, and its white, sugary, rpotha- ccous bracts, sought after by natives and school- bnys as @ delicacy; then, too, Wenmannia racemosa fs gay with a profusion of racemes of while veronica-like blossoms; then, onthe edces of precipices, Rhabdothamnus Solandri displays Sts orange-colored bells; and Knightis erceisa, a tree whore timber pre- fenta g curious Interwoven aprearance, bears its honeyauckle-blossome. On the mountains, at this reacon, Ranunculus nivicola, a robuxt But- teronp, remluds the mountain-shepherd of his native feta; and, on tho volcanic peaks, Just tencath tho ‘enow-line, may now be found, in fall bloom, Dwarf Veroueas, Sencelo cleagni- folla, Claytonia, Forstera, Gauitherfa, Selmesia. Ozothaminns, and other interesting plants. On the sea-cliffs to the north, Metrosideros tomens toxa puts forth ite really splendid cymes of crimson myrtle-blooms; and a beautiful crim- fon Veronica. with a large, dark-green; glossy leaf, may be found in the same locality. c fs a creat dearth of herbaceous flowering plants here,—the Buttercup, a white Linunn, Ouresia, nfecble Violet, and Daisy, with a small pale Mesem bryanthemum, belne nearly all that we possess. “Strangers, however, from aalmust every clime are stealing in upon and amidst the ‘native plants. The Purple Forglove of Britain,and the white species from the Canaries, now crow by tho alles of the forest-roails; while Thistles, Hawkweeds, Daisies, and Butter- cups are everywhere. In our ganions, Azano Atnericana ts quite at home; variegated and other Yuecas rend up pillars of tul Hpeahapedl blossoms; Camelins. six or seven feet bigh, tear a profusion of delicate blooms; — ant Rhododendrons open their great cups, ehedding rich fragrance around. Near to the sea, Ger- antums and Pelargoniums blossom all the win- ter. Indeed, a bouquct may bo gathered in North New Zealand any day in tho year, both in the forests and in the gardens." THE MOUNTAIN + BOOMER, OR SHOWTL. Among the animals inhabiting the Pacific const is the Apladontia leporiva, arodent anda burrower, which bas been named by thescttlers Mountain-Boomer, from tts habit of making a kind of boomtng noise. “It ts also called the Mountain-Beaver, from its resemblance, Inlooks and in its manner of burrowing, to the common beaver. The following account of the animal is contributed to the American Naturallst: “The Showtl inhabits the western slope of the ‘Cosst-Range’ of mountains, from Puget Sound to California. He isadigzer par excel- lence, and burrows Into the sides of the hills, usually in the neighborhood of aspriog. He is patriarchlally soctal, and setties his progeny around hit, often forming quite a community. Mc is of a retiring disposition, choosing the deep reccescs of the mountains for his home, and ap- pears to understand futultively that the white inan isto hin an undesirable neighbor. He is herbivorous, and is supposed to subsist upon the roots and succulent sicms of annual plants, chief among which {s the mountaln-fern; and proceeds to enjoy bitself in the bosom of his family until the return of spring. Whether he really hibernates or not, is a disputed point with the Showtl-sharps of this region; but the weight of authority appears to favor the views of the hiberuation{sta, I know that I have neve or been able to procure any spocimensin winter, and those of curly spring are semarkable for recdiness, a5 though a square meal were among the dim recollections of his past. On the con- trary, those caught in autumn are fat, sleek, jolly-looking tellows, like the rest of the Inhab- itants of this yalley,’? ‘The Showtl Is exceedingly shy, and hence ts seldom seen away from his home. Hols caught by etees urnps inserted tn the mouth of his bar- row, and vet, being wary, he’ fs dificult to cay ture. When cauebt, even by the foot only, hels generally found dead by the trapper, ‘Lhe ant- mal is barmlicss, subsisting wholly on fcrn- roots, and Interfering with none of the rights of the other denizens of the Western wilds. AFRICAN EXPLORATION, Tho subject of African exploration {s recely- ing active attention In most of the countries of Europe. National Committees, in connection with the International Commission at Brussels, haye been formed in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Austro-Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and tho United States. The Kingof Belgium has been a acc- ond time appointed President of the Interna- tloual Association, but has announced that ho whl next year decline tho ofllee. The Exeeu- tire Committee have decided to found a station in the Trans-Tanganyika district, A denot will be established at Zanzibar, ant three others at intermediate points. One of these inst will be pinced under a Catholic misafon, and the other two under Protestants. The Baptist Misstonary Soctety of England contemplate fonnding a station near the Falls of the Conro, a region unvisited by Europeans for over fifty veara. Itisexpected that a ploneer- party will be dispatched to reconnoltre and as- certain the disposition of the natircs. Mr, A. A. Anderson, who has for many years been engaged In scientific explorations between the Zambesi_and Orange Rivers, in Southern Africa, has started from Cape Town upon another expedition, by wayof Griqualand West. His object is to examine the gold-benring qual- ittes of the country, with the view of identifying it with Ophir, and to discover the extent of the cotton-flelds existing within tt. Specimens of the cotton fibre, and of the native cloth manu- factured from it, have been exhibited by Mr. Anderson at Cape Town, and aro eald tobe of very strong texture. PNEUMATIC RAILWAY. The following account of a pneumatic raflway. In contemplation between the South Kensington Station of the District Railway and the Albert Hall, fs quoted from Natures ‘The line will rise the whole way to the Albert Hall, the rul- ing gradiant being 1 io 48 The train will lo blown through the tube by an ejector,—in other words, a great centrifugal pump, two fect in diameter, fixed close to District Station, and worked bya pair of condensing engines exerting about 170 indicated horac-power. The tunnel will be of brick, and the floor will be paved. Its cross-sectional arca will be 105.5 square [ect; at the end of the train 4s fixed a screen Be plato, with an area of 104 square feet, the diflerence being atlowed for windage, The train will con- sist of nix carriages, ot Very high build, the tail- gauge being four fect. ‘This train will old 200 passcngers, and the total load will be thisty-tivo tons, ur ten tons less than the welghtofa efngle engine on the Metropolitan Railway. Tho max- imum resistance at twenty miles an hour will be about 2,420 pounds, requiring to overcome it a pneumatic pressure of 2.0 ounces per square inch, aud 162 horse-power, assuming the weclul effect to be 60 per cent." HYDROPHOBIA. In a lecture upon bydrophobfa, lately de- llvered by Dr. Mcleod, Professor of Surgery in Glasgow University, tho speaker remarked that, “Ifo mad dog was to bite through the clothes, he would not care, becauac the animal's teuth would be cleaned from poison by rubbing through the cloth, and there would bono fear of bad results, If persons were bitten by adog, {t was foolish to destroy tho antinal there aud then, for mora than once he knew of cases where amen hod recorveren from hee was Ehoueht to be hydrophobia merely by being shown the dog that had bitten them, all sound and clothud in ite right mind.” BRIEF NOTES, It {a stated that a Portuguesa company bas obtained a considerable grant of land fn Mozuin- bique from the Government at Lisbon, and will soon commence using ft In the cultivation of opium, Mr. Packord baa described and figurcll the blind beatle, Adelops, of Mammoth Care, but the carly stages of the insectare unknown. The Adclops Delarouzt, o blind beetle inhabiting the caves of the Eastern Pyrenees, ling been rcared from the larves by M. Valery Mayct. Acitizen of Sonoma, Cal., brought the seeds of the cork-treo from Spatn twenty years ago, ond hes reared from them five trees, which ure now twenty-five and thirty-lve fect in heleht, and from ten to twelve inches in dlamyter at the base, Onc coat of cork, an inch and a half thick, has been stripped off. Young salmon, welghing four, pounds, have been’ taken in James River, above Richmond, this season. It {is supposed they belong to the lot of California salmon which were put inte tha river In 1874. ‘Three salinon have beeu captured In the Delaware within three mouths. The lost was sala to weigh nine pounds. Despite the bard tlmes, which compel all classes to forego many of the luxuries to which they havo been accustomed, it is announced In Vick's Floral Guide that the famous florist of Rochester has had 10,000 new customers this Season. This argucs a continued growth in our country of the luve of flowers. A paper has lately been read at Oxley, Queens- land, by Mr. Landsborough, an experienced Austrian explorer, to show that forcsta ‘are in- creasing in that country, with the result of a marked Improvement upon the climate ond the soil, Now that sleep keep duwn the grass, the annual fires, that used to rage with great vio- Jence and destruction to tho vexetation, have almost ceased, and regions formerly vold are, In consequence, clothed with trees and molstcncd by rains. In Queenslaud the change fs cspecial- wards horslly-cut coats, a Jewel-set wolp, and | blackon, according to the nature of the sub- galters.) Ills project was to emigrate this coming autumn to Vinginla, the most hopeful of colo- ules, ‘twas said, for gentlemen settlers, buy o farin at a cost ut 4600 or £700, aud lve upuu it. Nota brilliant outlook, he kuew, aud yet all that be had to offer! This und his own creat Jove,—an expression for amoment flushing lis faco that made even Aunt Hosle think hin handsome. Would Daphne accept him! Daphne accepted him; three weeks later, knelt ot his side before the village altar—caring for him—well, in the dreamy fashion young girls do care tor the first man whose lip-worship has rafacd thelr Ives from commonplace to drutna, but sobbing in earnest terror when tho moment neared in which she must loosen her arms from Aunt Hoste’s neck and drive away, amidst ao avalanche of old shoes and huzzas, Uurry Chester's wife! She was of a nature so rich in good as to ren- der her passfonate allegiance to every new hause of duty) a matter of course Vhatever Mr. “Chester'a shortcomings. and tkey were many,—Dapline clung to hun during the eizht months in which they lived side b: side with an unswerving, blind tenderness thal oes nut always fall to the lot of worthler men. Did she, ut any moment, love him with auch full measure as she had to gefve during these eight mnonthey Reader, she believed she loved im, an Where a button goes, ‘twere an eplzram. ‘To offer the stauip of the very Guelph. ‘They spont thelr honeymoon in Sark. It rained; and before ten days were over Mr. Chase tur bad ceased to repre his yawns or ilu over his expletives in his bride's prea- ence. After thiscame their wedding visit to the uld aunts at Flef-de-ta-Relne, a visit during: which it was understood that preparations of every kind ghouid be act op foot for the coming | warfare had Jong bee! exodus to Viruima, Weeks, bowever, gli way into ionths, the harvest was gathered in, she russete of lulu autumn came to settle on flelu and hedgerow, and still Mr. ter's projects tovk’ ne delinite fori ay, he Uegan, at times, to talk about # steeple: chase on Quernee Common in the coming spring, a! Mat-racca In uly after a while to digcuss the wisduin of startlog for Virgina atall. Cotunlal lite a deuced chance, even for sina with capital. Just us much to he zalucd in the old country as abroad If a fellow had paticme to walt, and braing—'twas acight to Wateh Aunt Housie’s face when he talked of vraina—to utllize. Why, here in these islands avery coud thing might be done fn breeding ant exporting the litte Normandy horses! lone could only rent pasture-groand enough some- where ja the nelxhterhoud of Quernes, he was cortaiu a mode: fortune mixht be realized by borse-breeding, aud at less risk than ta any coluny guing. Pending this—— Pending this, Mr Barry Chcster speot. daye—as Uhu winter wore on, bis evenings wou tote away from hume; wore fashier wore suuwier jewelry, aod sbowed bis pro- {es for uut-door life fa geucral by taking a promiuent partia the manly exer! of sland. Perilous runs tu pursuit. o} 3 of Barry Chua which be might stance across which it travels? At was Just a plece of his old miserable luck, so he thoroughly and honestly beileved; pos- sessing in acouspicuous degrees that batl-mark of Incapacity, the habit of laymy his failures at the door of othera! Circumstances had handl- capped hin before hls birth,—for Aunt Hosle’s {ntultion proved. correct. Mr. Chester's mat Ge: waa the daughter of agamekecper. As ac school; asalad put him into the wrong pro- fesslon; ond uow, just precleely at a time ot life when o fellow wants worldly counsel, worldly judunient, he had been foot enouzh to saddio hinself with a wife!—s creature with o waxen baby fact, a heart and temper sweet if you will, sweet to mawkishness!—but about ‘as fit, she and the old aunts together, to help or gulde a man with practical wiadons as it they had al} hewn picked up off some desert island in the Pacific, Frum the comparatively Innucuous follics of paper-huuting and pigconu-killlu, Mr. Chester Sauk, step by step, to grosser pleusuress was heard of at length by the alfrigated MM! sittarta os frequenting taverns, skittle-alleys, and the like piaves of unballowed resurt. Ho grew inorose and silent during auch hou twenty-four as it was his pivasure to ape: homo; throw the quict househuld (nto ever-In- creasing disorder by the lateness of bis houra; complalned of lie meals, complainedot Starts walting! Jn tine, rave every syiuptom of tho morbid discontent which, bora of djencss, sad- ows all the Innocent environments of such mons lives with ta own blacknces. And now, at length, tho -Affes Vansalt- tarts, taking counsel togetber,—Daphne tho: durat not admit Into thulr secret,—resulved **to speak!? Solemn and warni jooks, paraboll- tal bints, leading remarks thrown out wt tho dloner-table~all the small artillery of dumestic n employed Ww Garry Chester's delicacy was not of aulllciently fine texture to be wounded go long as Flef-de- Jnltelne offered a couvenlont roof under Ide free of expense. He must be spoken to In erfectly plain and uuninlstakablo tunes, and Tnco- dora Vausittart, of her own free cholce, uudertook to be the spokesworma Auut Hosle, to whom Chester's sins of omis- slon and utherwise were specially abhorrent, was Yet, at this crisis, the most lentent of the three sisters towards the wronz-locr hinwell, Just as the law uf her own life was effurt, so was the | one Sunday morning! Jaw of her judgwent upon others inercy, Sho ly marked, and Mr. Landsborough hints that, in time, the great desert in Central Australia may “blossom as the rose." The Exnosition buildings at Parts are oro- grersing rapilly toward completion. ‘The xpace allotted to the diferent nations {s already filled, and, in many cases, more room is “tequested than can be allowed, China will he represented by an ofMiclat Commission, and Siam will make agrand display. Liberia will, for the firat tinic, exhibit her products in the great World's Fair. —<—<—————- PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN MISSIONS, ‘To the Editor of The Tribune. Mission House, 29 Centre Staret, New Yon, July 23.—-You had the courtesy to pul- Ush entire the paper which I reat to our late General Assembly; and as our Forelen Board, with the help of the Juterior, New York Eean- gelist, and other papers, is representing that I am needlessly delaying on interview with sald Board, will you kindly tet your readers know that the first invitation of said Board reached me after the date named in ft for the aatd inter- view, and that its accond Invitation named aday which conflicted with a public engagement which [had made before the Assembly met, both of which facts were promptly made known to aatd Board, That Iam here In the atlsaton- House to-lay,—the very next recuinr stated fortnightly meeting of ‘our Foreign Board.— and {t has no quorum here to mect me; that as avon as the Board permits me to compare with the originals in its MS. ninutes my datataken from salt minutes, when Iwas on tho Standing Committee of the Gen- eral Assembly, to examine, them so as to become able tarcfcr the Honrdat onceto dates and ager of its notes to which [desire its attention, shall gladly welcome the desired Interview. Yours sincerely, BR. G. Witpen, P. 8.—Princeton, N. J., July 80.—I have de- layed this a few days thinking if the religious papers published my notes to them I would not trouble you. But the New York Aeangeliat mutilntes and omits most of ny note and tho dutertor farls to notice is possitly my note failed to reach it. If you will inscrt the above in your ‘Irioune it will be o kindness, WwW a, CHARMED. My craft is launched npon the crystal Naas, (Was ever boat so trim, so light as mine?) Far 1 will float, and, as adown I glide, Drink deep of Life's bright wine, T feel the coming of the morning breeze ‘That fane my Lrow, yet ripples not the stream}; Featouned above me arch the fronded trees, Fairer than any dreani. So nwift the waters sweep my shell stong, The tolling oaremen I can smile to sce ‘Their rough craft urging ‘zalnst thecurrent strong: Why float not don with me? Yet ottil they upward tolled! 1, drifting on, O'ertouk # gay and gallant company, ‘Their barges carlanded; and ev'ry one Laughed, drank, and sang in glee, ‘They langhed, for toil and sorrow atirred them Drank, for from Pleasnre's fountains, tempting, clear, ‘The life-wine bubbled, whence # song they caught, ‘Theitling the atmosphere; Drink deep, drink deep of the sparkling wera! Forget thy sorrow in songs He who would weep or work {6 0 alave— ‘Drink and thy pleaauro prolong. ‘Drink deep, drink deep, For tho wave brings sleep Ani freedom from carthly care, White dreame, like flow'ra Of Ruen'a bow'rs, Bhall weave in the apicy alr, Tdrank! ae words, though little, thralled my ‘The current almont ceased—the boat lay atill; The ev'ninz ahadows saw the day depart— Morn klesed the distant hill, And sthil I linger, Inger, drifting slow: ‘My heart bente etrangely to the ewelllng song Of ono who sings on yonder dark clifl's brow; ‘To her do I belong. ‘ . . . . . . Asong trills clearly on tho perfamed alr; An empty boat deifts Illy o'er tho wave: ‘The fonm-wreathed rock where alngs tho Stren fair Bhaduwa the bostman's grave, Moontann. Instinct of the Potato-Hug. . Rutland (¥7.) Herald, Mr. Ross, staticn agent on tho raliroad In Proctoraville, Informed usa few days sgo that jhe saw an ariny of potato-bugs on thelr tramp by rail, all going east. fle tried to turn them around onthe track, but tho little Colorado emigrant could not bo made to ge west any- how, and all he could do was to turn the bug westward fora tmoment, When left to himself agatny the Instinct of the antmal as ho walked along the rail would turn hin about again, and cattivand only would thearmy go. It fs’ sup- posed the bug fsona strike for hicher wages and better food, or, peradventure, wants a drink frum the Atlantic waves, THE OME. LETTER-NOX. Letters for the following correspondents of Tho Tomo havo deen recetved at Tur Thinner ofce,’ They will be forwarded to thoae to whom they are aidtersed pon application: "Orlona ‘Klaine; dane @.8.. Champalen, (11); 3t E. af. Trask; ''Gunaika laron”; ‘Up and Down"; Profersor, Jolict; Emily Rowe; ' Flora Tele"; **Gertla Moore"; ‘*Montie’; '*B, Ls *+Sabarban": Cricket"; ‘The Phyatclan. JONUN AND MARY. She shanned the alnewy, enn-stalned hand ‘That strove to clasp her own in parting, And left her childhood's home for town, With foolleh sense of *tdradgery * amarting, He inbored on in field and forent; Bat, though his grief was hard to bear, Work, will, and time did mend his sorrows, And bronght him peace, and wealth to spare, ‘The years rolled on with many changes, But none more marked In all this while— The rose tn Mary's check ‘sa Illy; ‘Tho teardrop aparkles, not the emile. O font, polluted breath of cityt Why must you blast this pralrfe-flower, Steal all ber grace, wilt every blossom, And givo her shame alono for dower? The atep that once was light and Iigeome, And tripped along our countey-road, ‘To-day 's uncertain, slow, and heavy, Asif eho dragged a weary load. And Jonn! They met but yeater-ovening, ‘Twas not eo dark but we could seo The rose again supplant the lily— Her trembling arma clutch ata tree, ' Ter ercs, averted, dare not question Mia atorn compassion, as he passes, tall, Tio epoaks not, stops not, though he plainly hoard hor ‘Moan, asin pain, **O is thie alin’ Poor girl! how cruelly tho lesson Ts branded in thee ns with glowing coal: ‘That stains of work and weather leave no traces Compared with those that scorch and sear the aout, But God forbid that I should chide thee, Or seck to shut thee out frem human folds; I pity thee, and pray tho Father That He would give what man withholda, * Marwoop, August, 1877, LeRor. eS THE CONVENTION, ETC. ‘To the Editor of The Tribune, Martoow, Ill., July 90.—Two weeks ago I was plunged In deep despair, and thought that bence- forth I must ait outetde the charmed circle gather- ing at the Inglealdo; for never could I hope togain the intellectual status required fora welcome to the hearthstone. But I have made up my inind that those who do not like these light, frothy let- tors ahould tarn thelr attention to the more solid publications of the day and gather in the words of wisdom found there; and let the poor, tlred moth- ers, and housekeepers lil] aympathize with each other and give advice through The Home as long as the editor eces proper to give tham the pace, Methinks he will not soon. give the command to halt, Judging from tne extended circulation of Tie Titatnx eince this department was ertablishod. A fow iicht, jolly letters sandwiched between the advisory ones core tainly improve the flavor. As to using The Home asatoedium for obtaining patterns, why cannot the space be dovoted to romething better, and let thore who wieh for any particular article write di- rect to the one who offered it? I tinve been very successful in getting thore I wished in” this way, That Convention! Can wo build a mammoth wiewam to hold it, or are all of the ulder members to retire in favor of the now-comera? It hus, much that ap- pearance now. A few of the charter-members still honor us with thetr prosence, hut most of tho next Inatallment have vanished, Kitchen Devotee, cannot yuu revoke your decision, and return to us? Wo cannot aj! rise above the ateam of tho ten-kot- tle, and consequently can appreciate good, sensi- hile letters on every-day topics, It takes away tho enjoyment of the anticioated meeting to think that Instead of those whu had become endeared to us by thelr writings, weshall meet o bevy of new facea with whoee nines wo have not become famit- iar enongh to focate them, and we ehall bo worse puzated than ever if the number continues to Increase at the rate it lins since the meeting wae Rewrets Some of the older members announce he intention of going only as lookers-on, Mt woman's curiosity impels me to cry ont ogal i this. I want to aco that tay on evory one, 1 can stare ateach ono and know at whom I am staring. Well, dear old Bachelor Unclo, why do you wish to know If Madge SMtadcap and myacl! are relatives? Are we the ones you would choowe from all the cir- cleto take cate of you during an atiack of gout? If s0, say the word, and in consideration of your remembering ua when that will is made 1 think we wll gladly. cheer yuur lonely houra with our mise chief, By the way, Uncle and Deronda would bo greatly aurprtecd to ace that ** romping, laughing ness to gall. Barry Chester was a apendthrift, aman devold of principle, an finpostor. Barry Chester, unless pretty stringent measures were taken by tho Opposition, would infallibly entangle everybody who had the misfortune to be connected with him in his own ruin, Accordingly, one Saturday night when, by Teason of next morning's associations, the Prodigal might be expected to return from his haunts at an carlicr hour than usual, ft was iid, hla father fad sent him to the wrong |. plunned that the three Miss Vansittarts should alt a in solenin, inquisitorial state for bia re- ception. Not a word have I, here or elsewhere, to urge for Mr. Chester; not. plea to advance In exten- uation of his gullt. Yer 1 confess, when I think of that torrltle Council of Three, of the first nioment in which his fate presented Itself to his eyes, I feel that this young man owned a com- nion humanity with myself. ity him. It was arude March midnight; the casterly Dlasts blowing up sheer from the Cherbourg Straits, and Learlug fey destruction tothe carly Woom in orchards and frult-gardens aroun: Quernee Bay. As Mr. Barry Cheater, with head bent low, made his way slong the narrow garden-path towards the house, Ils cycs, never very keen at this hour of ‘tho twonty-four, were too bilnded to note that shafts of unwonted Nght plereed through tho binge shutter chinks of the parlor win- dows. Il{s bifssful ignorance, however, was of short duration, While, with unsteady finger: he was still vainly endeavoring to it the latch: key Into the lock (yes, Barry Chester hind actu. ally established a fatch-koyat Ficf-de-la-Reine) the door started open, and an apparition ate before hiin,—an apparition whose linport, stupe> ficd though his senscs might be, he grasped oa the moment! Mise Theodora, dieascd in her second-best silk, her “head be-rib- boned and = awe-inspiring, =a candle— supported by one of the soldom-used thout result. | parlor candlesticks—in her hand. Barry Chester stazgered into the house- pluce, lovscned his scarf, took off his ereat-coat, then turned sullenly round upon Miss ‘Theo- dora, who by this time bad locked and barred the frout door and stood coldly confronting im, “You lave not taken to any of Daphnoe'’s—— tricks of sitting up for me, I hope, ma'am?" ‘This was his greeting to her. “Tnave waited up for you once, Mr. Chea- ter,” replied Theodora, in oa staccato, arctic tone. “UT have walted up for you. Once! Ou With 5 purposs! You thoy be quite sure I shall not lose my reat on had the charity born of strength, the insight of | your account a second time.” ® pure, unseltish heart inte the temptations mod backslidings of her fraiter brethren. Miss Theudora’s imagination exercticd it- scl{ more upon the fictitious trials of young ladles aud genttcmen thay upyn those Of dvsh-and-btood, and her condemnations wero unchangeable us a stone-carved decalogue, bis | Barry Chester idle because he was weak? A coin, though lzht, oved not necessarily be bad? Give him time, and, under the influence of Daphne's affection, thi would yet come straight? Never! Stts8 Theodora had no beltel fo men coming atralgne who bad once suyk to faverna anit skittiealleys, And as to his tine ucwspaper; stceple-chases where the atificat W - fence was a furze-crowned hurdle; the irene, Bo.ts Bis tnterens crounn they ewe must breakoeck leap a two-footdcep | Tueodora Vansittart, with a kindilog eye, tavk, —iilcd—befurchand = from the | “that Barry Chester knows a Warwickshire Sta- parish wateicart; trottipg-matches, plgcou- murders, and all such lliputian feld-sportd as the limbted areca of dry Jand and the shaky Unancial condition of the Nimrods themselves permitted. Who sould reason with him as to the error of Lis ways! Not his wife, fur certain. Young, mer by sight! And the hetnousuess of this crime really awept away any lingering scruple or pity she mizht yet have felt towards the culprit. it bas been remarked that human nature ts best judged of, as the housewives judge of linen of long-<loth, in small samples.” Oue might add, still in nonsewlfe language, Jznorunt, devoted though she was, Daphne by | that human uature, like moat mixed fabrics, re- this timc must have entertained suspicions, you tuay Ds eure, OS to the fineness of stuff! in Xie Chester's nature. But sbe bid these suspicions eatously, cven frum herself: believed ju ol things, hoped all things, by look or word reproached” Chester for nis neglects or questioned him as to the hours that he passed away from ber side, And by ee rethence uoknowipgty helped on bis ruta There are human temperaments so adjusted that the mere contact of virtue sects polsonvus | inan, too, must not be cri to ther, Daphne Vansittart'a almple, truthful charac- ter wus une to have called forth every digber quality fa alover endowed with 0: eli- quires to Le a bit uoravelcd betore we can right- Wy judge of it at all. o unrarcler ike home life: themecting aman at breakfast and dinner, and again at breakfast Dever | next moruing, in cvery victssitude of temper, with bis mutton over-roast and under-roast, In his domestic affections, in his slippers! “Otd beads, ny dear Hosic, do not grow on shoulders of six-and-twenty. ‘That a youug fellow of Mr. Chester's age should love eects pleusure 13 but natural. A man of the world, end » military tlelsed bythe standard of Ficf-lc-la-Relue ethics." All these exculpa- tory scutiincote bad Miss Theo-tora been wont to urge In the days when Aunt Hosle first expressed ber duubte as to the character of | he vacy, ordinary manhood. Upon Barry Chester | Dapbue’stover. Angutumn and winter spent (who shall say through what Lidden amoral | under the same sof, suspicions, little ‘by little chemletry {) ber devotion acted as a directly evil | dawning to yertalncles, reearding the nature of influence. Dees not the samo ray of light bleach or * ticed to turn unty Famiiles, bad saf- big friendship with ths milk of Theodera’s kind- Ant upon that she turned back into the pare tor, with all the majesty that conscious virtue lends; Chester, halflefant, half-cowed,—well he knew the kind of acene that must awalt him, —following, He walked up tothe hearth-rdg, held bis chilled hands out for a moment before such scanty remains of yraicash as atlll emoldered in the grate, then turned round and looked from one to the other of the three old sisters. Miss Isabella, deaf, {nexora- bie, in her easy chair and spectacles; Theodora, slert, upright, prepare for ac- tlon; Aunt Hoste, her good face a couple of shales palcr than usual, her eyes turned away from him. “Lam in for judgment, I see," he remarked. “Let us get it over without delay. Daphno,— where the-——is Dophnct?! glaring savagely round the rvom for his wife. “Better have a full court, bad we not, before tho trial begins!" “Daphne went to her bed three hours ogu,'* cried Aunt Elosic, looking up quickly, ‘ Daphne knows nothing about our—our—'"? The words died on her Ups. Never were lips Jess fitted for onunctating judicial sentences than Aunt Hosic's. But Miss Theodora took up the cue Promntiy. ‘*—about our feeling it a duty, Mr. Cheater, to expostulate with you asto your conduct. Yes. We hare waited ‘now eight’ months—it fe elght months on the 2th wince your in: ¢, aod Yeur preparations for Virginia are nu more ad- vanced than they were then. Wo desire to ask explicitly, oa behalf of Daphne, and of our acl er what your futentions about the future re “Well, if Chester had down tuto a hearty, reasunless passion, it been better for him, so fer as the immediate defense of bis poaltion went. Instead of this, began, thickly, slowly, doggedly to argue. fool who argues can scarce fall to resent you with au analysis of the very height, Breadth end deptis of his own folly. Through Barry Chcster’a bazy, inconsecutive talk, what wpre the facts prominently shown! Not, certainly, that all human effort, especially that of gentlemen emigrants In tho Bouthern States uf <Atmerica, must, of hidden necessity, prove fruitless; that a man’s destiny {s born with him; fay ust as well ‘be met with folded ns with uplifted hands; and that happy accident, a turn of luck, Wasas ikely to befall one here in the Channel Islands oa in Virginia—rathcr ltkeller, ‘This was what he sought to prove. The things ho laid bare tn all thelr deformity wero—the weak, ¢evitatized brain, the faulty associations, the perplexcd despondencg, horn of scit-indulgence, slcotiol, and nicotine, of Mr. Barry Cheater. By the timo ho finished even Aunt Hoate'’s checks were dyed with a flush of honest shame, Miss Theodora sat more severely upright pan the edge of her chalr than ever, Old Isabella Yansittart (orimed beforehand with a few of thy Tuoperfan sentiments commonly used as stalking-horacs in family contentions) uttered the axiom “ Conduct Is Fates" opening her cyes as sho spoke, with the stony blank wideness of {ll-euppressed sleep, {ull upon Barry Cheatcr's face, “Yea, Coniluct. That isthe word!? Miss ‘Theodora, preprriy harder than before,‘ ald to hit closer and ‘ursuc fortune, if you will’ our lamented papa used to ‘say to his” children, but remetmber that there fs something more fortunate than fortune, more successful than success. ‘Conduct! To what strange uses men’s aphorisms put! Spendthrift, open-banded George Vansittart quoted as a promulgator of copy book morality! “As for accident—no one but on imbeclie," continued ‘Theodora, hotly, “would cver speculate upon the accidents of life, (happy turn of buck! It any turn of luck befall you, Mr. Cheater, it will be for the worse. You may rely upon that.'* He muttered somo of the old futilities about horso-breeding. ‘If one could ront a few acres of movrland thera on Quernec Common, even—the litle Norman horses—a ready market in England———"" Tut Miss ‘Theodora put him down briskly, “Horse-breeding} In an island that you micht cover over with a Union Jack! Aman might as well talk of raking a fortuno by oyster-beds on Salisbury Plaiu. Haye you ever in your life mado inouey by horses Have you al ask honestly, “Mr. Chester—have you gaincd either in reputation or pocket by your connevtlon with the fear Steeplc-chases, trouling-matchcs, and paber-hunts—sluce you marrivd Daphue '* Tt wasa polsoncd dart, Tho Misa Vanolttarts had a wido acquaintance (Aunt Hoaie atuong the working, Miss Theadora anoug tho ornamental or tiscless claas¢s) in tue island. And from every side stories had reached them of Mr, Barr Chester's sporting transactions. Stories of af- teralinner bets, repudiated when he was sober; of suspicions of foul play between himselfandthe other gentlemen” riders; of noble quarrel; of yet more iguoble reconciliations. Ugly ato- ried, all of them! “7 {ust don’t mesn to stand thl@sort of crosa- questfoning,” be exclaimed, with rising temper “My moucy ts ayonn todo as I choose with,aud as regards iny debte of honor—" “Honor!” interrupted Theodora. * Oh, I think, sir, the less wo say on that subject the better. When you arried Daphae, such money as ahe possessed was givea Into your hands.” This was true, Daphne's fortune, amounting, poor child, to be- tween two and three hundred pounds, had been made over unreservedly tu Mr, Chester, on the condition thut it shuuld furalsh forth his wife’ colonial outdt, ‘You told us the on four — ‘hunor,’ that it our {ntention to settic In Virginia; uat your capital——"* And supouse I have found out that settling in Virginia, that all scttilog, ts a ——- mistake!" he retorted. As Ch capital-—" Mr. Cheater his eyebrows, folded his arms, aud, glancing up at the Juw-raftered cell- Jog, axe B allopressed kind of whistle. He had, fa truth, ed the stage of recklessness at which a inau will fain “let the tow gaug wl’ the bucket.” Even the pitiful motive-power of sclfigh enjoyment fo life was spent; and he cared not how svon or how absviutely bis beg- kared condition of soul and body becaine known, * Your capital, T buve uo doubt ro wish to imply, s siounshiue,” ssid poor Miss Theodora, —a choking sensation rising Iu her throat as the full measure of their misfortune began to break upon her, © If tt be so, snd as it ty fio blo for us toask you to prolong your wislt at Fief-de- le-Reine » (awful was her ‘chill { ing of that | wor “visit, the more reason for Daphne's ¢, and your own, that = young cit” valk Into the Conrention with anecta- | thes astra te her claeste nome an the allvery atrancda glistening aniong hee raven tresses, Marry Ut. Free, x lady resident of Chicago raid she thonght moet of the letters {n tia department emanate | from the aMce of the editor. Poor man! Jehe demented? Is itto this yon refer, or are they. na deslrous of good roclety tliat they xasume fe: nine names to come In npon! 1 have never felt {hat there would be a lack of gentlemen, for I have noticed they are eo anxious to go where beanty reipne”? that they sli come in tho guise of reporters-—often of mythical papers. Healdes, tho sterner acx pragces a little of that enrlosity of which they dectsre we have the monapoly, Kenyon, please aend your bunion recipe, ao that Imay have my fairy feet cred, ready to dance at the great ball. Hf anybody aske me, which T hone they will, as T do not want to wind up the sfalr with the word spelt with aw. The many who have asked for directions for making ctyar-lighters take heed, and donot ask me torepeat them A$ offen as some arc asked, Viease Preacrve directions, and, as f intend to donate a dozen to our char! y table, T beg of you don’t everybory go to making them, butaave a quarter wherewith to buy one. Cot six elnts elaht inches long and six six Inches, Make a frame of these with the opening fone by two inches, laying tho slate touching cach other. Crt eix sitive two and one-elghth inches; fori a cross of these and sew together with coat black thread, making cignt arma to the etitch—thet in, tak log the thread across the top plece, then throngh tho length of tha top piece, then wrap it around between the arma of thecros, Vince font others, one on each ride vo thatthey may tonch each other, thos making nine groups of stitches. Sewono of these ornaments at lop and bottom, cach of the middle of fraine, placed diagonally on it. On the middle of each comer and vides make a long X, of tro ploces fou! long, the one end being close ayalnat the Ii one end and on the outelde of the other. In tho middie of the corner X, place a star with elght ar-sthreo ioches long, joined in the centre by a dike se oniready deacribed, and, on the sides, stars one one-half tnchcs across, ‘Take two strips five inches long: leave the lower ends threa inches apart and join them. three-fourths of an inch from the upper end: at the crossing, placo a amalt it and another down eacn strip eo that the points will jurt touch; sew there tu the back part of the top of the frame, let. ting the lower atars touch the pointe of large one: ‘The frame part is now complete, but to ha stand alone, take a strip four inches lone, tigatanules In the middle @ slat six and a half inches und two etrips fouranda half inches; tet these three be seweil on at one time. Tako a elat one a half inches, and scw these threo to lt, sepa- rating them tothe full length of this one andahale inches, Join a short stnp to each corner, crosn there two overthe tong midile one, and saw where these three join, jen this four-inch ririp on the paca of the frat cross the lower of the three slate that form tho frame proper, letting the four-inch strip be on the outside .of all others, to give tho necossary epring. Wut @ corresponding slat across the bottom to hold the pletaro in, ond the frame is done, In sowing tha largentars to their placess, lottwo of the arms coma Out just to the ends of the fraine, thus making ove notched enda aa finish; Inthe side stara Jet the top plece lie directly over tho middle alat of tho frame, Tho ends of cach piece must be notched before using, excopting the two on which the three top stata are sewed; one end of each of theee, and five used inthe brace or enpports thero aro olzhty+ two plecca compusing the whole. Frames are beautiful made of walnut slats oiled; instead of the many atitenes ornamonting tha cross at top and bottom use a small ater, and tho effect will bo prettier, the wood belng'so dark that thread-work does not show much. ‘Thess walnut frames have at the appearance of elaborate carving. Amen, Mauve Les. — CULTURE. To the Editor af The Tridune. Loxpox, Jnly 20.—As now contributors havo appeared in Tho Home to engage In the battle of the critica, perhaps one moro lance may be per- mitted to join In the tournament, especially as new arrows have been drawn from the exhauatliess quiver and discharged at random, Was {t not enough that Bryan and Sky-Bine and Fern-Leaf should be 20 cruelty stabbed in the anp- posed Interest of Intellectual culture, but the gen- tle Noral genius ehowld be o second time insulted nnd cren tne poor defensulcss sunflower derided In an attempt oat sarcasm, which would place Mark Twain himself in aA quandary to explain where the point comea in, by ‘one who enters Tho lome for the sole purpose of freeing her mind of something which It ts sup- pored sho calle critictem? It {s amazing that persons so familiar with authors and tie most erudite of roviowa as ort Stanford taken pains to inform the public sho ta, should condescend to read The Home, much less to send gratuitous insuite to ite honored members, Wo should as soon suspect such learned peuple of reading ‘*dime novols." Itiethe very cheapest ‘way for IIterary axpitants to ride to glory and dis- play asuperabundant amount of intelligenco(which feels to be too much for them tw take care of at home), by taking it out to alr and calling attention to others" deficiencies, There aro some astoniahin; assertions it th fome, not tho least of whic! Is Sweet Sizte n’e "* (what au appropriate name) remark that our ** mental fe starving.” With auch, anamount of good reading from nuthord almost inGnite In genius, no ono neod atarve becausc o few poor housekocpers and achool-xirla write for The Mome of Tas Turn Tholdea is absurd ta saublinedegree! One would think culture some. thing new, just budding, and must bo carefully nursed to. prevent its dying, instead uf ite having arrived wt such perfection of growth that thore ix danger of the world growing to} vy. Mra, Vale's ferocious attack on The Tioine's honored members was called for ' 4, 1877-TWELVE PAGES, nodoubt, but ahy answer in defense waa ‘tune called for and unmerited."" What rurpassin tm- pnienee! Timagine Deronda will come to. tie rescue of the fault-findern, who fancy that without thelr personal attention entture is in mortsl dangeratthe handaof The Home circle, in, tne pame way Chat obeyed the call of Mra. Vi They have cach a few graing of eomnior ie and ageod cound ‘bump of Individuality, and will need rome other bait than faticty, Under such lendership as Mrs, Vale's nnd the satiant body-suara, who announce themselves a4 com- etent to 9 in her, there 1s little danger hat culture’? will become a **lost canec." Tn this age of mitch real inanenming cultare and mneh more of the loud-rolcedl preten- ttous kind) it ts quite refreshing to meet with same tele dettclency. Fortunately, Mra. Mate's, Phy- aician’s, and Gunaika’s instrnetive artictes, every one, hy the way, intendod for practical nee ‘in tho honsshold, and not a mere aftemnt at display of rhetoric of cnitnre. meet with approbation. lace they not pursued the even tenor of thelr way, nelthor looking to the rignt of left for somebody to. find fauit with? Would not thelr oxamplo be good for theao critica to follow? Have you not ‘*hen- peeked" The Homo enoogh to antlefy even yoursalves? In **ahaking up" The Home sou seem not to be aware that you are nt tho same timo anfmadverting upon the judgment of the editor, whu le stipposed to know what this de- partment was intented for, and how to run it, Wallitower, are you at aworde'-points with old ind men, that you give them the credit of Mra, Valo's bitternvas? Give honor to whom honor fadue., Without donbt it warm drs, who wrote thatletter, The men may epeak for themecirer, but well say for the old made you do theim too much honor. For ill-natured remarks commentl me the married woman, as many lettera in The Jlome will bear witnere.' Look at the many apite- fnl flings at old maids and other Clasnes, and even the patterns aome have so kindly rent are not exempt from abure, but tho mother-in-law haa been neglected. Invelgh against wropg and defend the right as valiantly as yon can, but for pity rake do nut de- rend to eich nnnecessary business aa abnse, oF ridiculing oven aganilower, If Internal dissension tlocs not destroy The Home it i* destined to don good work in giving the sobstantial, practical Woman, who is reatly the mainatay of the srorld, her opportunity. ‘Tia nonsensical prating of “culture” and ‘*artlatic effect’ will give piace to an era of common senso. s **To-morrow tho critics will commence. You know who the critics atc? The men who have failed in literature and a Did these learned critics, in their extensive rond- Ings, ever notice this quotation, which [extract froma brilliant author? Some call on the old writers tocome back and redeem The fiome from the Philistines, ae though having written a year since gave them a pre-eniption titlo out of which aome one had wronged them, Is there § quartce- sectlon left for Susan Norreut THE “WOMAN QUESTION.” To the Editor of The Tribune, Lem Cantar, Ill., nly 30,—A vaat deal of non- sense ia talked and written nowadays abont ‘oman's sphore," and yet everybody reaiizes thatthere {8 a large corrent of truth and good, sound sense underlying even the weakest dlsserta- tion thereon, In these daysof **rueh and riot” many of the old Ideas of woman's gentleness ond delicecy have been lald aside with other old-fash- foned garments, and now that thero is such a mania for old things !t eeems appropriate to havo them taken out and sired. Fi ind foremost, it Ia ale ays an accepted idea that a woman's chiet charm is her womanly purity, honor, and virtue. And here let me try snd draw the linc between honor and virtue. A wom honor, first of all, is in her reserve; and upon this, as arnle, women are in the habit of trampling widly.’ For honor is not virtue merely,—{t {a something far finer and moreeasily stalned, more irrevocably lost. Webster telle ua, thot virtue 19 a **morai excollonce"; **practice of daty and abstinence from vice, ¢s- pecially female chastity, virginity, purity." You Gnd 1 Know plenty of chaste matrun who are, as Corsar would have hie wife, **avove pl- clon"; women who are tender and trae, noble and strong; but I am afraid, ashamed, rather, to count the few out of all those who hayo kept their honor ** bright as young diamonds in their infant dew," ‘onipare them to the numbers of those who havo tratied it in the dust and mire of half score of rascaily little Mlirtations, And this last word— flirtation—Is the most insidions of enemies ton woman's delicacy and honor, What can we expect in the way of honor from girl who, from thetime she was 4 years old, has been laughed at abont hor “beans, and bas had half-a-dozon little **hus- banda” aclected for hee because it was *' #0 cute, You know." Who by the time she is 18 has becn *encaged " half-a-dozen times, and to whom the old, old atury,"’ practically and theoretically constderad, has indead bocome a very old rtory. She has had, evor since sho was first ‘out,’ lots of beanx, and stacks of fove-letters, and haw Bnawered’ them all; her photograph fe deitting around in the possession of all her numerous ad- mirere} and yet this plel—and she Is the average specimen of" to-day’s socloty favonte—may be, and a, In ono ecnse, perfectly virtuous. She Is accounted by hor genticmen friends asa ‘mighty nico ple" who Is **awfully. {oye and ''not ‘bit stat": and for this elie has racridced more, perhaps, than ehe has ever dreamed of. When sho marries, —weil, men areto be pitied, Tho ‘*com- Ing man" will find no curnor in that girl-heart in waich to creat: a now feeling, and as to tindlng any delicate ‘*honr frost ta melt and thaw away" with bis firet kiss, why bless met aho would be puzzled herself to tell you when or by whom that ‘*thawing" oporn- tlon was performed! And eo Jt ts that women allow themsclyca to rnthloanly trample upon thelr Aonor which should be **chaste as Ico, As poro ns snow,” Did Chavo a voice that would be heard bythe womenof Amcrica—the force- enlighteneit women. —T onl call upon thinkin: them fn the name of Jnatice and tnmantty to rigs thie dire evil,—to begin thelr ‘reform nove. women of to-day. To Jordan ralbin her letter notlonz azo—onr young wamen the preat pur. ef behind the throne, whose moral excellence mliall redeem tho world.” Ie requires but concerted action to have the wrong righted, and that spveil- ¢ the young ‘And now a word to, and for, Mra. Vale. In one of hin onrltent estaya—'* Voltatro "- Carlyle raya: “*No character, we may afiirm, was evcr rlzhtly unilerstood tilit had first been rozarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of rym. pathy"; and at the ast of the éreay ho adie: “Tntolerence, animonity, can forward no catecs and teant of all beacema the canse of ravral and ree ligious tenth.” Hfow many quarrels, my. dear Mra. Vale, might we avoid’ If we could, or would, overcome our unworthy and frequently une founsed antipathics to certain individuals long enough to regard them with ** a cettsin feeling not of tolerance only but of avmpathy.” The mera {net that we are opposed to them, that we conrldcr ont own opinions right and thelre wrong of ridicne lous, that we believe them to be ine or atupld ‘on the questions at iesne, ts In itaclf auficient ty render us incapable of forming a just or. candid oplnion of the persons of kdeas we é0 violently de. nonce, My dear sister, would you net have Tha Home think well of you even though you ditfer with them? Would you have them crittc*e your convictions in a spirit of intolerant hostility, of in a desire ta jenn the tenth, whether that trath he on sour side or on theirs? Why not act towards others ax yon would have oth- ers act toward you? For myself, in many respects Lazree with sou mont sincerely; ditlo Swect Six. teen and Kiitle Brown; but Cdo not exactly ap- prove ef your personalities. As Sweet Sixteen pays, ‘*The Home accme composed of very com- bnetlble materiale," and 1 fmazine that If you will not pay tho nllghtert attention to thelf unmerited atinck upon you. but will pursne tho even tenor of your way, and proccail to give us ® few letters “aciniillating with logie and thoaght,” you will do mnch towards closing the existing breict, and cause the tl-feeling between the partles enzazei to become **small by degrces and beautifully lexs,"* Xpley Jane, Tam ‘youre truly," when yon ray that your **heart ta not India rubber,"?etc., anc, hike ‘you, extend "my band, with a hearty Gud bleaw you," to Mrs, Male, Phyriclan, Deronda, and many others, Fearful feat tho editor become dis Feet with me for my long-winded epiatle, I beg eave to aubecribe myrcif an Constant, P.-O. Box 127, ——— GUSIT ON. , To the Editor of The Tribuns Pouo, ., July 30.—Mra. Vale having raised a quostion that agitates the minds of The ilomers to some oxtent, it may be well for each to give his opinion upon ft, pro or con at once, and then lay it forover on the table, While Mrs. ¥ uttered somo suggestions that merit a respectful consideration, there are but ferr, Yapprehend, who sympathize with the tone ur anb- stance of horcanntic criticisms. It in the belief of many that The Humo conducted on ber plan would algnally faltof the object for whieh it was erected, and which makes ft now eo immensely popali It te not to be presumed that The Ilome was cre- ated forthe sole purpose of furnishing a medium through which expertenced and scientific writers might convey thelrabstruse reasoning to ecientlate, Dut, on the contrary, {t was genorously offured by THe TrthuNe os a means whereby tne poople— the common oeople aa well—might speak or ba Fpoken to upon those things which aro interesting and valuable to all, in this Intensely-important journey of life. Thosa of Mrs. V lewton't literary taste ** Principia, “or Humboldt's **Cosmor,” or perhaps in Poo'a ** Eureka,’ or ** Guld-Bug,* or eomewhere lsc in the realms of philosophy or demenology, something that would wold them spellbound in Imperturved meditation. Yet, while they might enjoy all of this learning, there are thousands of other cotmmon-genacd peo- ple who would not read The Homo ns a newspaper af itehould contain it all. It should net be over- looked that many of us interested in Tha Home Decomne surfetted with sclentific recreation during the houra of professiunal toll by pouring over musty tomes upon theology, medicine, or law; andthere yot remain tous ihe Atlantic’ Monthly, Sclentisle Ameriean, Blackwoaw'e, Scribner's, and acores of kindred periodicals to satisfy any addi. tional want, besides the tens of thousands of volumes in miscallancaus Ibrarica yot unread; so that The Home, with its medley of fresh wit and wisdom once 6 week, Ipnotan unwelcomo Ingre- dient In that '*yarlety’'which **19 tho spice of Ufe, and given it all its favor.” th Mra, Valo does not happen td azreo fn taste and opinion with many of us who have bo- como wedded to The Home, for the simple reason that it te just what it fs, and not what she would bave [it become. If it were conducted wholly {on accordance with what I nnderatand to be her idea, 1 feol frea toasy that thera. ta an owl vislting my premises occasionally that looke as thougn ho ‘would banker after it, but ho ia tho only one there that would, Iu not this wholo question as to tho difference of opinion between ua regarding the merits of The Lome exhausted by the logic of the colored gentlo- “It isa cood thing that all men do not roe alike, eleo they would all be in love with bie wife"? Chat and myself happily, in harmony in all thine vortaining to Iterature and love, agree in nothing more fully than In the opinion eo beauti- tale eapreens’ by her asto what The Homo !s and should be, {t will doubtless become better and better by the additions of cantos, oricls, verandas, kitchen-cx- tenaions, green-houees, and parterres, as tine man whe eat you should leok out for work of some kind without tetar." “Work?! fellow brought up as I have been!” he auswored, giving a glance of saddened jauntincss at his nerveless, palo hands. “And what branch of hard labordo you suppose I am best Utted fori—a blacksmith, or carpouter!” “£ think you fitted for no work: whatever,'? exclatinod Theodora Vansittart with emphasis, “So many posts in this world, however, are flied by mon whose only: qualification {a incapacity, that you need sarcely allow your conselencu to be troubled on that point! Tucre aro clerkshlps I. should tagline, und Governineut, a tho Surely, through the iutercat of your friends, through the Warwickshire Btamers, for exam: a “Curac the Warwickshire Stamers!" As ho uttered this never-to-ba-furgotten mal- ediction, Mr, Chester brought his band down upon the mantelshelf with a violence that sont the mortar rolliugin an avalanche down the chimney, and caused tho heads of two Iittle wiee-alrung Mandarins, tho corncr ornaments, to wag well-nizn to dislocation. ‘Theodora Vansittart answered not a word. had, small positions lke 8 Bhe rose, took begroom ccnille from the aide table, fxht ft with stately, deliberate precision, then offered hor arm to her cider itor, aud, sorrowlully followed by Aunt Hosto, left Mr. Chesteralane, Alone with the ram and wind of that harsh midnight festa like so many ghosts of his life's wasted hours), the certainty that his pitiful came was Up,—roof, dinner, pocket-monoy, all furicitad —for companionship! Tho succecding Sunday was murk and chill, 4S day not soon to be crased from tho calendar of anions memory. During the foronoon Mr. Chester kept to his own room, as was iis’Buuday-norning wont. Dinner passed olf in gritn “silence, only broken by geucral- ittes, interesting neither to gods nor men, from the Nps of Miss ‘fneodora, Alterwards, hvedless of the alect aud wind still beating up fromm the sea, Barry Chester went forth into the garden and for an hour or more paced up and duwn the distant archard-terrace, smoklog or hulf-smiok! through cigar after civar, tls head down! his steps irregular, bis arms folded across hls breast; Daphne, sick at heart, with sho knew not what new fear, wateliug him, unseen herself, from the house. ‘To thishour there is ouo window she can never stand at—nu, not when summer is ot its bravest—without the culd and darkness of that last. Sunday, without the tmiscranic, restless figure of Harry Chester, coming back before herslghst fle remained about the place all day; towards nighttail made the abrupt announcement that he shoutd start for London next morolng. It was his particular request that no one in the house would get up, or go through tha form of scelug hin off, He had spoken to Jean Mario; the lad would borrow 8 spring cart, and drive him quietly to tue steamer = soou after ‘daylight. As to Daphne's accompanying bim, be bexged— using some of cur moro forcible en- &ltab abjurationa—that he might. be spared the very Ppopaeal of such folly. Wiof-de-la-Reine was, doubtivas, still open to her, though not to him. Let her avail hersel( of its ebcitor while shecould. He was going to London—Oh, to look out for enployment, then, if be was to be subject to such strict cruss-exaimination! Avs- way, ber presence would be an (auatnemized) jucuwbrauce to bim,—-ua (anathemiacd) ¢x- pene, which he had neither means our fuctina- 10n tu incur. Promise to write? Of course; faithfully, sacredly! Thus, with the iip- pant caflousness of w vulgar nature, ho an- Qwered, the girls trembling aruis around Lis neck, ber Hpe touching bis cheek, Prowlee anything, 60 long ws he might be spared hyster- tea und scenes! Let Daphue, tu returu, E ledge herself ty be silent about blo wheo be wis kone. If tradespeople ur others persiated io asking questions, say that he was absent on busiuess,—well, op business Mkely to detain hin loug,—aud that she bad uo means of for- warding eltuer letters or messages to bis ad- reas. All through the ofght Mrs, Chester by awake, weeping scalding tears for t sorriest ecouudrel upoo whom a woman's love was ever wast At daybreak came Jean Siario’s signal of revellle trom tho courtyard below. Then, choking back ber sobs by force, * lost abe shor jor poor Barry,” Daphaoe had to nerve herasit the moment of Goal ae; ya; god in the dim morning hor husband stooped, and, kiesing her on tho foro- bead, wished her a cold good-by,—their last! Smarting undor an unousy senacof moncy vbli- Ratlons, doubtful as to what claims might be put tn against hint at the eleventh hour, Mr. Ches- ter devoutly hoped that, im parting from his wife, ho had partod forever from tho whole Vanslttart family. As he passed throuzh the house-place, however,~—a broad tilod passazo dividing the front door from tha stairs,—Aunt Hoste “stood before him; red about the eyelids, hur whole demeanor giving uninistaka- ie tokens of a night spent otherwise than in sleep, “Res lly, Miss Vansittart, this ls quite un- Becessary,” ho was begloning. She stupped hin by taking his hand, She lott it illed—illled with her own well-worn pursc, containing such slender savings frum the pro- ceeds of the poultry-yard and dairy as wero legitimately hers ta give. Daphuo's husband tnust not go away from them in anger, nor ferl hurt by her offering. Itwasa little lonn that, {f his cash ran short, might prore useful, and that bo could return when things wero lvoking brightor. She wished him ali success; was cone ddent ho would meet with work if he sought for It In earnest, and—and, meantime, would ho Pronitse to write Lome faithfully, for Daphne's soko Well, reader, fora momont, Barry Cheater hesitated. To accopt Aunt Hosfo's monoy Wus an action that, cven to his cons acience, I suppose, bore an unpleasant resem- blance to the robheryofachitd. At all events, ho hesitated. Then—the good moincnt passed; ho thrust the pursc away into his pocket; inut- tered some incoherent words about pride, abuut, ul fortune, about spcedy repayment, and, without looking {nto Aunt Hlosie’s face, was une. 3 It was probably the most foullsh action of Micnrictta Vanaittart’s lifet yet was ft one of the follies that have a swect taste in the memo- ry, In the dark days to come this was the soll- tary moment, out of her whulo intercourse with Burry Chester, to which Aunt Hosle could took back unpained. With her ready protmptresa at distilling the sou) of Incss “out of things evil, she remembered, uot that Chester an cepted, but that ho hesitated to Recep her gilt, aud from this frail premise arsucd that acti. Tespect, that honor, might have come to light atill in that lost heart.- “If life had been kinderto him!" This was an uufailing spolony of Aunt Hosto'’s for ill- doers virtually past tha pale of apology. “Wa women, whose portion Iles iu abeltcred places, know so little uf the fierce teinptation that a biait haa to withatand. If life had been kinder to him Lifo pressed with piteous harshucss upon Daphne from that day forward. No tidings of Barry Cheater reached Ficf-de-la-Relne for ore than’ a fortuight; and tong before the expira- thon of that time the {import of ble abrupt de- parturo had inv matter of common tulk even among the world of tisher-folk {no Querner Bay. Ife had fluwn, nut froma bts wife alone, but from his debts, of honor and otherwise. “Tn short,” a0, tar Nye he wrote to Daphne, “his returo to the [slands was (impossible, She might write, If there could any guod—he failed to seo it—in such a correspondence. Letters scot to a certain address, London, would be forwarded to him, But bo must beg her not to louk for coustaut replies. If anyiblog {n the shape of improved money prospects befell nim he would let her kuow fast enough.” Aud not oue word of af- fection, of regret at leaving her, of inquistuds about her state, ‘I'he letter might as well have been written to Miss Theodora, to ono of bis crediturs, tu any indifferent tan or woman on earth, as to her whose lose followed him night and day, whuss thoughts wore oue prayer for him, whose prospects, for evil or for bappincas, were bound up irrevocably with his until death should set them apartt Her heart was crualiod; her faithfulness stood the whock bravely. Pour Harry was so tdi cur- respondent, just that. As soon as there was cheoricr news to coummunicate his Jotters would grow longer, aud—sbe. Ob she would cure ber- self, perforce, of this foolish habit of frettiug over thelr separation, and be content. wo the stories set atloat about bln by wicked tongues, Dapboc believed nono of them. When bis prospects brigbteocd his creditors would be pald, of course. A poor two or three buodrod pounds! What wae this to a man of Barry's talonts, Barry's resources! Give bin time to look about him for employment, time to set going the intereat of his friends, and all would come right. Muapwhile—— . (To be continued neck Saturday.) AN OLD PICTURE, ack per sriit eet ue yun a ong,tong thoughts.” ‘That Ikeness—** my wits?" No, only a friend, ‘uae tain all Ua wile in toe drawer with. theso Dost-coversd ang time-worn, Ielgh-hol OW Inter dead flowers, and 8 acrap of a loves nS A ribbon, a glove, and such thi Wo've all had our fanctes, but Loy Like inaina, as tho poet woll sings. Tle might add Iike Ife, too, Heaven knows we've Each ono, though wa cover them u We dink the rich wine, with ite Dubvleand sparkle, Wut tho bitter dregs stay inthocup. | $* A avvect facet" I bollave it was callod Let mo scomsho was twenty that eumm Grasp was never 20 green, skies so blue, su plenty, Auto that Juno, just ten yoars ago, Very futras you sce; proud and cold, too, they oy’ will's uncer sald, Bat aie had a warm heart, as] know; Slender hand and curyed instep, high-bred Jn cach ate, Aud siveice over gontle and love A woman to die for. To scom—to a lorer— Like an Angel fom Paradiso, come To lead erring oiortats tu worship thelr Maker, And atrive fora Heavenly home, You salto at my fancies, no doubt; but this ple- ure ‘That you henpened ta pick up just now Sweepe the Present away, makes the Future seem barren, In apite of my marital vow, Suet bohappe ta kegmeyous atures eteae ty 13} jo know Pe: he Letme lock up tho desk, with ite seont of dricd Diossome, Dead bupen nd old loves that allure, ** And the lady?" © married these alx years, And I'm in my noneymuon still. Such talife. Como—your aria—we'll be goltg. What's 20 weak a6 a foolish boy's Launa Zany, oe A Little Negro Murdore: Correapan tence Churteston (8. ewe. Arman, 8. C.. duly 27,—Prove in erline is not inet with frequently among the nexrocs, and tnatances of It ure rurc in our State, Yester- day a murder was corumitted about avyen miles from here that was quickly traced tow negto bov of 12 years of age. Tho victim was a negro girl of 8. “She had been scut by her parcnts to the house of the buy's parouts, living a little distance away, With sone message, aud, alter cousilerable length of time, not returning, her parents started in search ol her. When they ar- rived at the uelubbor’s house they found only the boy at home, the grown persons haying beet absent the whole day, uut put receiving any sat~ {sfactory answer from bim they commenced to trave their little daughter's footsteps, and sven came upon her body lying on the ground in tho woods, hastily covered aver, the head being ter- ribly crushed aud inaugled. Suspicion polnted at once to the boy, and the Sherilf, living near by, was udvised of It to-day, and Imme fatty arrested the boy-murderer, who made a {ul confesslon when he foucd concealment uw ing. He sald t he motive for the crime was to revenge bimecl£ upon the girl for telling livs on him at different times. eu she came to the house and found no one there, she bal started back, and he bad followed Ler until the: reached aqulet spot, when bo seized Hight knot and struck ber upon the bead until she wasdead. He then ran back nome aud got & hoe, and, digging a shallow hele, ho pulled up arty trash, and sticks upon the body to conceal te “One Cossack Killed.” London Examiner, The stereotyped Russian bulletin, “One Com sack killed,” given birth to many uighiy surcastical remarks; but, as wu matter of fact, the phrase offers uu larger a Geld tor sarcusid thau the fact that twice two make four. The adyance-guard of every Coeiack recunnulssance is always preceded by two Cossacks at sue distance in frout, If they moet with tho cneuF aud one is kilicd, or falls severely wounded, comrade at once gallops back venfre a terre to tho bead of the column, whitch, if in superior force, then advances, whilet the cocmy retreats; of if toferior in pumbers, falls back, and no or Kagemeutiollowsatall, +