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TUE CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, IB77—-TWELVE PAGHS, ~~ LITERATURE. The Sixth Volume of the Ency- clopedia Britannica. Flora Round” About Chicago-.-The Primworts and the Blad- derworts, Tho Cactl of Arlzona---Hatching’Catfsh- Eggse--So Fish Slcopt LITERATURE, ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. The sixth volume of the Encyclupwdia Brit- annica has just come to hand. It includes eub- fects ranging {n the alphabetical order from Cli ta Dav. The most noticeable articlesare: Cil- mate,” by A. Buchan: Clocks,’ by Sir E. Beckett, Bart.; “Coal,” by HM. Bauertnan;7 “Cobden,” by Henry Richard; “Coleridge,” by G. D. Boyle; “Comet,” by J. Russell Hind; Communism,” by Mrs, Faweett; Comte,” by duhn Morley; *Confuctue,” by Prof. Legge; “Congreve,” by A. C. Swinburne; ‘ Constantl- nople," by the Rey. C. G. Curtius; Cookers," by d, C. Buckmaster; Co-operation,” by R. Bomeray “ Copyright,” by Edmund Robertson and E. 8. Drone; “Corregrio,” by W. M. Ro- setti; “Costume,” by A. 8. Murray and the Key. C. Bontell: “Cotton,” by Isaac Watts; “Copper,” by James Paton; “Creeds," by Principal Tulloch; “Cranmer,” by W. Brownlug Smith; “Crimea,” by Commander J. B. Telfer; “Oliver Cromwell,” by A. Nicolson; “Croquet,” by Henry Jones; ‘Cuba,’? by Keitn Jolinson; “ Daniel," by the Rev. T. K. Cheyne; “Dance,” by W, C. Smith; Dante," hy Oscar Browning; “Danton,” by John Mar- Jey: “ Darlus," by the Rev. A. H, Sayee; and “David,” by Prof, Robertson Smith. It is not necessary at this late day to enlarge wpa the minuteneas of information displayed throughout this edition of tha Encyctoviedia, norte do more than refer tothe excellent typor- rapy. Many of the articles are in themaclyca interesting and exhaustive treatises on the sub- jects of which tuey buxport to be only common- pleca summaries, Wo do.not know any otucr sonree, for Instance, whence can be de- rived 40 concise a deseription of the Fame ot “Croquet” asit fs at present plased In Great Britain. The game there has been elevated to the dignity of a science, and its terminology, rules, and nlstory are ect forth In the Encyclo- pedia with becoming gravity. The article on “Cobden? will have special intercat at tho pres- ent moment, In vlew of the late celebrations in Great Britain, and the subject of “Corn-Laws"? happily comes in the sume volume, so that tho survey of Cobden’s work is complete, and the reader has the adyantuge of views taken froin Gifferent standpoints and by different writers. Tho student of literature will linger with sume leastire over the articles on ‘Colcridge, ? Hh Ack + Coleridge,”? ‘Conareve," and "Cowley; while the histo- dan may find matter forreflectfun, reseorch, and dispute, {0 Nicolson’s view af.“ Oliver Crom- well and Morley's essay on “Danton.”? Above all will the political-cconomiat turn to Mrs, Faw: cett's article on ** Communism,’ which happens to be especially timely, and which has already received larure commendation from critics on the dthersideot thewater, Thearticleon Clocks" takes up twenty-three pages, a largo number of which arc devoted toa technical consideration of the subject. An article of fascinating in- terest, and all tuo short, fa one on Clubs,” which starts with their birth in the infancy of luman institutions, and clozcs with their flour- ishlng period of to-day, when club-life has {invaded the sanctuary’ of the home. The article on Coal? consumes — thirty- five pages; that on ‘Comets. cleven pares that on "Commerce," eleven pages; hat on '* Copyrights” twelve pages; that on “Corals,” eightecn pngca; thaton ‘Costumio,”* —perbaps the most interesting Ip the volume,— twenty-six pages: that on ** Cotton,’ twenty: Beven pages; that on * Crusades,” ten that on “Crustacea,” thirty-four page there are many others yarying from five to ton’ Es in length. The articles {n this volume, on be whole, scem to be more compact than in somo of those which bave procedcd, and the’ consequently afford promise that the total worl will be brought within reasonable Imits, Lit- tle, Brown & Co., of Boston, are the American ublishers of the Encyclopedia, and subserip- fons are received by Jansen, McClurg & Co., of Chicago, nly of De Stendhal,” Sliver Briaze, a Counterfeit ree Comets Wh. by WT Howe Je and Citrlouy Inventions at the Cente Hsidintion Vic by Edward Wi, Kuegits ation of Gabriel," by Catherine d. a Waverly Oak “Dicken rent ‘nectatione."” hy "Rdwin P. Whipple; «The Chili ot the State, by BALL. BM. Are Titlea and Dehte Vroperty Wells; “The Contributors’ Clubs” '*Kecent Litera ture, 4 HARPER'S MAGAZINE for Sentember (Marper & Tiyon,, New ¥ Contenta: **The of a Ship," Inetrations): Titan,” by Helen 8. Conant (with seventeen It- Instrations). ‘Gen, Stark and the Tattle of Kennington," by HW. W. Herrick (with eight il. Instrations); ‘*Snow-Storm on Mount Shaeta," y John Mute with eeven ilnetrationals ‘tMa'mectio’ (story), by, Mine Es A. Mi "by Anna te Y oem); ** Prince rd Jaland." by 8. Ge We Benjamin (with leven iiustrations; * Ali (poem), by Harriet Prescott Spofford (wlth two illustrations): **Shadowa" (story), by Mra, E. T. Corbett (vith five Manteatloniay: *1A Group of Classical Schools," hy Horace #. Scudder (with cizht Hustrationsy: **The Hastor'a Keverle,” by the Vs Kington Gladden (with one Mluetra- Mon); ** Popular Exposition of Some Scientific Expetlmentstare Vi, Concerning ‘tuermome- Fa ¢] ters." by De. John W. Draper (with nineteen {Mnstrationay; **Erema: or, My Father's Sin," by I. D. Blackmore; ‘American Workimen from 4 European Point of View,” by Leonard W. Bacon; **A Visit to a Country-Hotise, and What Came ‘of it” (story), by Annis T. Iowella; *Walts from Motley's Pen. by Park Renjamin, dr, *A Railroad Stud; by ward Tnwiand | Record ator’ tor'a Itatorical Recor: LIPPINCOTT'S MAGA Feb NF far Septemper (1. Th Lippincott & Co. niladelpiiar. Contents: “Among the Kabyles,” by Eaward C. Bruce (Winstrated); °*.X Fadaan Holiday," “hy Char- Jotte Adame (iustrated); ** A Law Unto lier- aclf, by Reoccen Harding Daviay ** A Wish,” by Henrietta BR. Eliot: aine Pattereon-tona artes” + ASummee ar yy Kdwardt Bellamy: 1 {Sketch}. by Howard M. Jonkiies 7A Great ay” (Story), fram the Talian of ‘Bdmondo ae Anicles *? A Venetian of the Eighteenth Cen+ tury,” by If. SM. Benson; **Iteine: Buch ter Lie. der,” by Charles Quiet; " ** The Marqule of Los. ate (Coucluied), by George Mucionald; + Gur i 1 Dur Month. N BOOKSELLER for Aug. 1 (American oinpauy, New York), ICAN LIGKARY JOURNAL for Auguat Ht, New York) NU-ROOM MAGAZINE, for Auguat (Calon lishing Company, New York). UCh—Current numvers (Puck Publishing Con- pany, New York), SPARKS OF SCIENCE, FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO, Tux Primwonts anv THE BLADDERworts.— The Primworts (Priinulaccw) have littic to offer mankind save the ineeuse of their fragrance and beauty, yet this is suficient to make thelr name dear to all busied or amused with to culture of flowers. ‘The order fs distributed over the north- ern and colder portions of the globe, very few of them occurring within the troples, and these inhabiting tho seashore or lofty altitudes among the hightands, It includes alittle above 200 apecies; and flret among them, because themost popular at the present time, we name the Chinese Primrose (Primula Sincnals). Not a plantintho entire colicction of the florists is more satisfactory for home-culture,—fts thick elusters of pink or white blossoms expanding throughout the long winter-months, and richly rewarding the Ittle care needed to preserve thelr luxurlance. The En- gush Primrose (P. vulgaris), with yel- loWish-white flowers, Is common {n our gar- dens; and so are the Polyanthus, a varicty pro- duced from tho P. yulgarus, and showing many delicate and lovely tints; and the Cowallp (P. veris), with its cndtess varicties; and tho Oxlip (@. clatior), with its yellow flowers. To our greonhouses and flower-bordera wo hayo trans- ported the beautiful Aurela (P. aurleuia) from tho Alps, and magnified its loveliness a thousand-fold by cult!vation. After the Primroses wo" name the Cyclamens (C. coum and ©. Europeum), whichin late wine ter and carly spring are the pride of parlor-gar- dens. Thelr purple or roscato flowers, cach springing from tho root witha singlo stem, are yery elegant. In Siclly this pretty plant {s call- ed Sowbread, because its tuberous roots, though posscssing an acrid property, aro eagerly tie br | flowers about 4 in the morntug, a then about 2 in the afternoon if the tine. antl of closing thei at the approac storm, ‘Then there is the neat little vine nated Moneywort (Lysimactia nunimularia), which fs fo tnuch used dn baskets; and the more showy dimbing plant. with yellow, purple esed flow ers, known asthe Navmbrugia. The Urimworts gre al) herbaccots plants. The Primworts are represented In our floraby the elecant Dodecathon Media, whieh blossoms in the fields and copses in May and dune. It is popularly named the Americar Cowslip, or, in the West, the Shooting-Star. The plant Is very. lovely In cultivation, OF the Loosestrifes (Lystmachia), wo have the L, thyrsifotia, growing In wet places about Woodlawn and Ainsworth; the 1. stricta, found southwest of Hyde Park; the L. ciliata, com- mon near the river at Riversile and Harlein; the 1. lanceolato, at Hinsdale and Calumet; and the L. longifolla, abundant on the pralrics. Allare plants of humble aspect, bearing yellow flowers In spring and summer. ‘The Water-Pimpernel (damolus vaterandi, var. Americans), has. been discovered at Thatcher, but It Is rare in our ricinity Tt iso low herb, growing in dark sot!, and having en- Ure leaves and racemes of white flowers, pro- dured through the summer, ‘The Bladdcrworts (Lentibutaces), are neither useful nor ornamental, yet there aro striking peculiarities in the stricture of rome of the species which excite the deepest Interest of the observer. They are herbaceaus plants, living in Inarehes or in water, in all parts of the world, but especially is wari countrics. One genus, the Genislen, is almost exclusively Brazilian, ‘There are less than 200 species in the order, und of these we have threg all belonging to the genus Utricularia, The Greater Bladderwort, U. vulgaris, grows Jn the sloughs along the Iake-shore, Its stems arc Immerged in the water, and all along thelr Tenth are crowded with tnely-cut leaves, aod thlekly set with littio bladders, The yellow flowers rise above the water, two or three Ina raceme, and usually continue all summer. The U. gibba is. rare pinwe among the bors at Mil- ler’s and Cilbson’s station; and the U. cornuta s common at Millers, It las veen supposed that the bladders onthe stems of the Utriculartas answered the sole pur- Eee of keeping the plants afiont, but it has nately discovered! by the use of the mero. evope that the bludders are in reality mostin- gentously-constructed traps desiened for catch ing water-anlinats, ‘The Inference ls, that the viants Iced upon the Loy creatures they cap- ture, and hence that they belong tuthat curlous class designated ns inscctlyorous. Mrs. Mary ‘Treat, of New Jersey. vublished about tro Years ago an interesting acenunt of her observa. Hons in connection with the bladders of the Utriculariag, which was reproduced in condensed, form tn these colum: In fils work upon “Inecctivorous Plunts,” Me. Darwin hasdevoted several chapters toa record of bis experiments with the Utricularins, the Pinguiculas, and the Uenliscas, Ho found all the species whitch ho exatnined to have the habit of capturing and subsisting upon insecte. ‘The Pengincula yulzaris, a small perennial plant,having about elzht rvot-leaves in a clurter, the largest about oneand a half inches in leugth, and three-fourths of au.inch in breadth, 18, ae cording ta Darwin, “not vnly supported too Jorge extent by the extraordinary number of Inscets which It habitually captures, but like- wise draws soine nourishment from the pollen, leaves. and eceds of other plants, whieh of adhere to its Icaves. .1t fe, therefore, partly a vegetable as well asan animal feeder." ‘Chis, and other species of the genus, capture insects by means of the ylscid secretion poured ont rom glauds ou the Icaves, and, whon its vie- tins are entangled, elawly folds its leaves over them, and digests then: at its lefeurc, ‘The Palypomiphatyx, a genus of Bladderwarts conflued to Western Australla, fs furnished with bladers which lave su action and a purpose similar to those of the Utricularia, Thu Gen- Isens have, some of them, similar bladders, whilo they boast a singular contrivance, resem- bling an eel-trap. It consiste of a hollow in the biode of the leaf. with a tube lending to tt, which is lined with hairs, that permit insects to pass In, but not to return. These extraordinary traits of the Lentibulace: render it one of the most intercating of the natural orders, THE CACTI OF ARIZONA. Afew weeks ago, Ure Cutacca, a strange group of gaunt, Icaflees plants peculiar to Anvcrica, was described in the “ Flora Round About Chicago." The San Francisco Post pub {tehes some Interesting notes on the usce to which certain species are putin Arizona, which we take the liberty of borrowing: ‘The Candelabra Cactus bas been employed by the Apoche Indinns for communicating signals, Ite holght is Aftcon or twenty (vet, but aveasionally 9 arenty Injured, by sneb | When dead and dry pe hollow, and jt reparates 4 Der of sticks or poles, these having been chiefly together by the rind, The frnit of this Cactus makers pleasant preserve. ‘That of an- other, the ‘Prickly Pear,’ ts well known to travelers, The young leaves of the eee Pear Cactus’ are cooked as a vegetable. the dish pruduced being something like string-beans to appenrance and taste; the leaves are also highly estectned for use in maklug poultics to draw a splinter. The *Niggerhead! Cactus farnish reatly-mnade fish-hooks fn countess numbers; hy surrounding the plant with fire, it prodaces water for the thiraty traveler, the heat driving fits fluids to the Interior, whence nearly a halt- gallon Is obtained. 'Mozgucy’ ts a palatable preparation mate by roasting the leaty headle of the Century Piant: It saved a whole garrison in Arizona ten years ago from acurvy. The *Ocotily isan aaeemnblage of green poter, ten to fifteen feet Iong, joined only at the hase, Each pote Is surmounted by a scartet Mower. The poles are cut off and planted (rooticss) as fences, and continue green for several years, butdo not flower if ths tops are cutoff, Very serviceable fences are thus obtained, as the poles have sharp thorns in vertical rows, HATCHING CATFISIT-EGGS. The catieh tn tha New York Aquarium were engaced in the month of Juty In batching their exesy—a process which ts described ns follows In Foratand Streams “Tie movements of the mate fish, when watched closely, disclose the fact that, precisely Ue same as iu the artificial propagation of fishes, the poucipal object fs ta keep the water pure that immediately surrounds the spawn; to accomplish which he covers the eges with iis body and fans thee with fis tues, by which means thedesired object fs attained. It was probably from observing the movements of Hve fishes tn the act of hatching thelr young, that the art of artificlat’ breet- ing was rst sucgested. ... The first thing the female tsh does 4s tu dlacover a place sult- able to deposit the spawn. which, when dune, is teftentirely to the care of lier snouse, who digs a hole, to the bottom of whiclrit attaches the eggs with a kind of cement, and then, a8 stated, covers then and Keeps the water con- stantly avftated by tanning ft with bis tins. At the end ot the nluth day the young fetes are scen within. and three days later thes break thelr cavermg und come forth posres: cd witt all the pluyfulnessof a sportive kitten, For the firat week or tivo they derive their austenance from the sac to which they are attached, but. when {t is entirely absorbed by the Uetle fel- lows, they are ina condition te acvept food or ecuk for ft themselves," —— DO FISH SLEEVE In answer tothe inquiry whether fish eleep, the Aquarium Journal states that it ls unablete giveadefinite answer, although the tauks in the New York Aquartum have been enastantly and carefully watched forthe pury of de- termining the question. It publishes, however, acommunication from D. 8, Jurdan, of Irving. ton, Ind. which throws a little lt upon asub- Ject which naturalists have thus far been unable todetermine. Mr. dordan says: | The matter looks to me thus: As ive go downward among the lower types of the vertebrate | nery- ous system, we find the. different nervous atutes less specialized, and and Ices distinctly marked. Min aud the higher vere tebrates sleep soundly‘; Lirdasleep ! with one eys open,’ Reptiles are torpid,or balf-asieep, inuch of the time; but thelr asleep and awake stages are much Jess different than those of birds. fn fishes [ an uunble to distinguish any surt of slecp, except such as involved in states of quiescence in certain species, nnd iss torpidity at certain scasons In others. If any important facts have been adduced to ehow any real or periodical ‘steep,’ 1 have not noticed them." = sac = “AN INCIDENT. Adark and tarid oars With drifting enowilakes whirling by; A narrow, nulsome street. Where every one you meet Looks cold and sai; A litte harpist’s song, Meard In the horrying throng A tiny, plaintive tute, That, rising. scems to fost Far, far aways Two little hands, all bine with cold, ‘That strike the harp-strings. dent and old; A wietful face; ae a Curls streaming In the Winter's blast, Like tattered ventions froma mast; Dark, pleading eyes, Aholy Sabbath-morn— an the ‘ood $s found te sarednte a uuim- ‘THE REY, L. T. CHAMBERLAIN Dissolution of the Connection with the New England Charch. Why He Goes Enst--The Action of the Council. The Congregational Church Connefl, called to take action on the letter of resignation of the Rey. L, T. Chamberlain of the New England Church, met tn the church yesterday sfternoon with the Committee representing the church, composed of Messrs. W. H. Hradley, E. 8. Chea- brough, William Dickinson, E. W. Blatchford, John P, Wileun, Albert 1, Coe, and C, J, Rich- ardson. The following members of the Counclt were preeent from other churches: H. Z. Cul- ver, delegate Firat Church; OH. T. &teele, tlelesgate Plymouth Charch; We. C. Bradley, delegate Unfon Park Church; L. V. Haskell, delegate Lincola Park Church; the Rey. C. A. Towle, pastor, Dr. 3. D, Twulug, delegate, Bethany Church; F.G. Ensign, delegate Leavitt Street Church; the Rev. J. R. Kuowdell, pastor, and HH Rollenight, delevate, Clintan Street Church; the Ikevy. B. F. Williams, pastor, and O. A. Bogue, delegate, Forty-reventh Street Church; the Key. Simeon Gilbert. pastor, and George Richardson, dele- gate, Winnetka; W. R. Fluyd, delegate, South Chicago W. Scoville, delegate, Oak Park; 2M. Witliaine, pastor, and H. M, delegate, Je‘Terson; the Rev. We A. Lloyd, Ravenstrood; W. HL. Brewster, J. 2. Young, delegates, Wlue Island; and the following specially fnvited clergymen: Trof. Fisk, Prof. ilyde, Chicago Theotogical Seminary; the Rey. J. 8. Humphrey, Secretury American Board of For- eln Missions; the Rey. James Powell, Bcere+ tary American Misstonary Assuciation; the Rev. iitiauy £, Holyoke; the Rev. NA. Mil the Rey. W. W. Batton, 0, D.; the Re: H. Bascom, DW. U., Hlnadate; ¢ ey. Willan UL, Beecher; the Rev. W. A. Nichols, Lake For ext. ‘he Kev. L. FP. Chainberlain, the pastor of the church, was also fn attendance. The Council was called to order by the Kev, Mr. Bascom, and the Rev. dames Powell was chuset Scribe. An election for Moderator resulted in the cholceof the Rev, W. W, Patton, D. D., wito opened the procecedinus with pra} Mr. E,W. Biatehfurd, Clerk of the New E Bland Chureh, read frum the church records the proceedings of the churcit-mecting at which the pastor's letter of resignation was read, and the Committee appointed to call the Council. THE MEV, SR. CHAMBERLAIN, at the invitation uf the Moderator, gave state- incnt of his reasons for resigning. — In general, they were that he iad concluded he could de ture for the Mester’s Kingdom ina new feld. Eight years age he had become pastor of the Sew Bugland Church, and te coukd truly say those cight years bad been a period of wnceas- ing toll, with the exception of a few weeks’ vaca- tion, when the hecusslty for physical revupera- (ion af contre prevented etudy. When le went East this summer and received the offer tobe: come pastor of the Broxdway Chureh, in Nor- wich, Conn, he heran to consider the question ‘of health mure serivusly than ever. Jn bis new field there would be oppurtuaities for crest and study which he could not enjoy here. ‘The pe- cunlary provision in the new Heal would enavic him tucarry ut a programme he had formed for study fi a larger direction, and, white loutt to leave a church where his associations had beeu so pleasaut, yet this desire tor tlie for sell-Im- proyement, and the feeling that he could do as much wurk for the Master in New England as in Chicago, hud preponderated. The New En- gland Cnaurch was never before ina position where the removal uf {ts pastor. would be attended with fess Injury to {ts progreas. in fact, so prosperons was {ts condition that nothing was to be feared on that score. For the New Englund Church be should always en- tertain the vreatest affertion and the decpeat Jove, and wherever he went {t would always be remembered in hs prayers. DEACON BRADLEY, of the Church Committee, explained that {t had not been thought wise to act on the tesignution, but. simply to accept the pastur’s recommendation to refer I to the Council. The news of the resignation bad bven received with great sorrow and regret, but, knowing that their pastor had deliberated over the matter, and decided it once for all, the Chureh had thought {t best to simply acquiesce in his recommendation to. refer the letter to the Council, The New England measure of success which Mad attended the church under Mr. Chamberlain's ministry, Atth{s point the Cornell went fnto secret fessjon. results of {t¢ deliberation were afterwrards made known tn open meeting in A REPORT presented hy a comettee consisting of Prof. isk, the Rev. B. F. Willinins, the Rev. Dr Mumphrey, Dencon Bradley, ahd Deacon Beo- ville. ‘The’ report was read by Prof. Fisk, and was as follows: Ala mutual coancil, convened duly 17. 1877, in the house of worahip of the New England Charch, Chieagn, called by letters missive from aatd chareh and tts pastor, the Kev. Ieander T, chamberlain, tw cunsider the question of dusulving the pastoral relation with a view to hin becoming pastor of the Siroadway Congregational Church, of Norwich, Conn,, the following minute was adopted: Thts Counett, after prayerful consideration of the qaention, reluctantly advise tne dissointion of the present pastoral relation, to t: effect 19, At the eame the thisConnetl dera It titty place un record the manifest favor of God whic! terted ayou this charen during the eizht years of Mr. Chamberlain's pastorate, — the largest bat o1 among the Congrecatlunal ‘charctes tn tals city, Theseeignt years have been with this church at once year of ereat trial and of Ereat pronpeity. When the tire of 1871 swept away nut only the bores of the memuere of thie church but aley ite beautiful house of worship, leaving nothing but seated and nnatzhily walls, tt was largely through the couraze, enerey. and skititul leadership of its Pastor thal this edifice arose, more camniodions and peautifal eveo than the one which had de- scended to ashes. | Nur han its material rosperity surpaserd ite spteiingl. At the opening of thin rate, the church bad upon ite all 205 mem- it now haa nearly twice thal number, —444, ~ of which 113 menibers -mute than one-fourth — sod the In- e has more thay kept pace with that of its . Thus, mndet the faithful and aole —feaderstito of ite pastur, this chatch haw beets Cunstantty growing during there eight pears in waterial and spiritual prosperity, putting forth & helping band by ald of eister chutcnes and of every Roel enterprise, while the paxtor himscif has tens dered valuable service ta our churches by lis coun- evisand Ime labure, We part with bim with no Iittle regret, but with the ansutance that he will be found eqnally fathiu) and eMlcient tn the new yastorate to which Birine Providence seems to have called him. And we hmptore the bleesing of Heaven both upon him and upon this church. that the one muy dnd bin pew pastorate ae fruitful as this tas been, apd that the olber may Gnd on equal- ly able and devoted pastor. * ‘The above revurt wax adopted in the private seanion, there being only one dissenting voice, Uthat of the Rev. Mr. Beecher, who thought, ant touk to puins to conceal it, that Mr. Chamber- Jain should not be given up without more of a struggle, The report wes afterwards signed in tue open ineeting by the Moderator and Scribe, and tue latter Instructed to prepare # copy for Str. Chamberlain aud one for the New England Chunk. ‘The Rev. Me. Bascom made the clos- ing praser, and the Council was dissolved. THE SINS OF YOUTH. Inthe days of Ite nnthinking May-time, The heart langha at wiedom, and xyes, Youth grants me a ecason of play-thine Ere | walk inthe poterer ways, Twill bask tn the snustine a eeason, Tivill drink of the nectar of life, And then Twill cliep hands with reason, ‘And throw myself into tue strife. But the sunshine engendcre xatic ‘Aud reusuous srawthe in the heart, And the nectar of yonth ds narcobe | _ Fo tue soul, the divinity part, ‘That elcepa while an uncontrolled torrent, ‘The dery river of youth, Rushes on, and sweeps into te current ‘The bridges of virtue and trath. ‘Then cometh the morrow, gricf-cumbered, With tears for the folly that's past, And the heart tella the soul that, bas elambered, "This ecavun of #in ts the last. It recks alter Joys that are enrer ‘Than thore that its poor pleasures win, And, waiking ty ways that are purer, Sight dream {3 bad never kuown sin. Dut ghosta that walt not to be hidden Inmidnlght, and darkness, and shade, Stalk forth oll cumssked and unbidden— Grim ghots that can never be laid, Think not that a xin once forgiven in buried and covered fram sists ‘Tia the will andthe justice of Hicaven ‘Tuat ita ghost walks abroad day and night, The Love most Supreme and Eternal Can waeh the heart free front alt si But those inleehapen phantoms Infernal Stlll polnt to the stains that have been, You can ive down, stone for, regret them, ‘You can reaurreet virtue and truth; Dat you cannot—yon cannot—forget them, ‘The ane you commit In your youth. O you in your falr days berinning, Loo. well to the deeda that you do, And see that no phantoms of sluning Shall darken the eunlight for you. Then curb the young heart tat ie ewelling With ite rich tide of turbaient life, a needle had beencarclesslyjelt. It plercedher thigh and totally disappeared in the flesh. Me:t- feal men sald it could only be reached by n tay fuctston, and concluded to leave it there fn the hope that it might work Itectf out. ‘The pain, however, became so severe that the young Indy wan contined to her bed. Son magnet was suc- gested, and, a powerlul one being secured and applied, in four hours the needic reached the eurface, ralsed and protruded itsclf througn the skin, and wae instantly extracted. Jt had been in the fleek for three weeks. MAJ. O'GORMAN. Mis Speech on the Irinty Intoxieating-Tiquort Hi The drollest member of the present British Farilament fs Maj. O'Gorman—of Ireland, of course, His speeches—mixturcs of the sensipic, the vigorous, and the absanl—are enre to quicken the most singgtsh debates. The Hone ot Commons ls merry and attentive whenever the Malor has tle fluor. A few days ago the Irish Intoxteating-Liquors bill—the main clausa of which provides for the shortening of the hours for the sale of Hauor In Trelant on Satur- day evenings—catne on for a secon readin, and the Major took the opportunity of scintiiat- dng a litle. The hovorabte member, he said, who had tn troduced the bit, was not satiated with keeping the Christian Sabbath holy: he wanted to kee baly the Jewish Sabbath aleo, ‘The tonors incmber was in rather too greal a hurry fo inte the valley of debusaphat. [Laughter | had been fusinaated that tte, the speaker du favor of drinking in fretand by the peop but nothing could be farther fron the: te There was ne man in thot House ar in Ireland who more desiret to sce the ple suber, Whisky ts the destruction of the peopies it ruins thelr health, and makes then lower thon toe brutes inthe field. [we tad here an otd Hreton sare, he would say: “Ga, my offers fiaughter[, to the tnnded warehouses, Drae out the puncheous, the pipes, and the hogsheada of this polson, Swill the streets of my city with tt plaughter}; and as the vers dows lap ft up and fall prostente under tte influences, Iet Wonation baw pro- rer that the tebt may be destraction I Interest of the so-called nation Ree Nowy there was sumething statesman ke In that, [Great Janghter,| ‘That was the proper Will ta bring in for drefatls let wae there ever such a pullug, miserable bill as the Present one? What, he would ask, were the people to do when they cameout of the theatre ant taund the pubtl: houses closed! “rhez wanted le dea great many things bestde liqnot after the theatres. Laughter.) There were crabs and lobsters (renewed laughter] und euch things, and there Was noe hour at the day in whitu they tasted nu sweet os alter the theatre. [eats| For one he would emphatieally record is protest agatust a Will which cleurly “invaded the rights of thy people of Ireland. Bnsgtet members would not dare to pass such a bi for England. [Itear. bear.| As for the Tory mem- bers Unat rat apposite him, they sat there in consuquence: of the support whieli thuy received fron the rumsedlers and the parsuna; and the first thing they did was to show their uratitude to the former cluss of persons by extending the hours for closing public houses In Landon and all over EF H from 12 to Lall-past 12. J An : Only in London] Well, were five millions of people. [flear, hear, and Jaughter.| For bimeelf he would wppose a bill which trampled upon the bertics of the people. fLaughter.] The Major's eloquence was not abortive. The motion for a second reading of the blll was lost without a division, amid the cheers of Irish members, —— THE GRASSHOPPER PROBLEM. To the Eduor of The Tritune, Wasmtxatox, Kan, Aug. -J4.—The conun- drum of our friends from Calhoun Ceanty, Ia., can be partially explained. In Kansas, on tne ‘7th and 8th of this month, and upto the pres- ent writing, the wind has been in the north tro- thirds of the time. The "hoppers can be secn at. noonday flying very high towards the sun. On the 10th, about 4 o'clock p. m., during a shower, a few were driven to the ground, doing no dam- age, eating nothing, One hour afterwards, the sun shining out, they left; their direction was southwest. Noone Sppeare 1o apprehend any trouble from them, for the "hopper appears to be doomed. ‘the companion of his ilight is a tly with wings that in the alr give dt the appearance of » Rrassliopper, but on closer inspection proves tv be the tachl- na fy, which praducce the parasite maccate known to Infeat the locust. With a tew tore specimens are found fifty fect high. To make No trace of the last night's storm—, church would never part voluntanly with’ Mr. | And keep your robes clean fur the dwelling ralny seasons, we expect to sec Lhe plant-fecder PENIODICALS RECEIVED voured by swine. They grow so abundantly as | jeg sigual light It le only necessary to sect fire an heftitane san aa cold'tm Chamberlain, He held too warin’a place in | That ‘waite for you after the strife, destroved by his carnivorous genes, Lbops ATLANTIC MONTHLY. for Beptomber ‘at, o, | 10 form the clilef food of tha wild-boare of tha | jjear the ground to one of the vertical rows of Foe errand inwiast cmbrace-- | 125 Hearts of Ms congregation, Yet his reasons Etta Wnnues, | that your correspondents, will continue to ro- Houghton % Co., Hsien, ‘Gantentes “ne | at andsome Pimpernels come next ‘fa our { Prickles with which the plant Is adorned; tha Gills guacle the Sronen streets thileste ive wish believing. that, tue hava of A Curlous Use for the Magnet. hunrters, Our corn in the flelds 1s becomiog Aidriche. "io" Uy Raga’ Fawcett; sree | enumeration, The Hearler Pimpernel (Anazal- | Or ara beeen Hip: * Pap. amb “ths 4 Necpine mother taan huntule cot, God was in tt. Acurlous instance of thie utilityof the magnet | hurd. The coming. two weeks tnakes the crup tlous Lives of Chaucer," by T. It. Ils arvensis) is called the Poor ston’s Weather- | candelabra becomes a torch. But the Tw al) that's left. Frnver Mansi. Deacon Chesbrough mate remarks of a sitni- | Is mentioned In the Adelaide Jégister of June | of corn, Yours in the interest of agriculture, “Consular Bervico and society In Exypt," by | Glass from Sts regular habit of opening its | plaut ts not destroyed, nor indcod | Mirwavurc, Aug. 14, 1 Jar tenor, dwelling particularly on the unusual A young lady sat down on a sctteo on which CHARLES WILLIAMSON, Al. D. (a PR A AER I SESS ISD OSS Aa PARE 1 SESE TF AES ES i SP without ashade of meaning {n hier vole, “it 1s | escurto you, | suppose, child, to Inquire if she One or two crafty allusions made by Sir John | Daphne, roy red. ‘Tdou't belleve they are woman who bas been already married,” | his white umbrella, primrose gloves, and fault- A BLUESTOCKING. BY Ms, EMWARDS, Actnonor *Ovcnt We to Visrr Ment “Lean: A Woman or Parmox," ** Ancutn Loven," Erc., Etc. CHAPTER VIL. NONANCE. “Yes, his maternal great-aunt must havo deen a Miss Clavering of Logan,” says Jaabojla Vansittart, with decision; ‘vo-belress to the Logan estates, anda noted beauty. Tho Marquis je Valinont washer Orst lover, Ho got killed Inaducl with the eclebrated Col, Buller, and alx months later sho married Henry Vansittart, ® first cousin of our fatuer’s, It was the year of the peace," gocs on Isabella, ahutting her eye that she may botter recall these oxtrancous de- tails of tho narrative. “I was 15 years old, and just going over from Edinburg to o school im Brussels, A Miss Kin- lock, in the old town, .made my frocka— Rinlock, or Kinnaird, I woald not bo sure ag to the name, bat I know sho lived in one of tho wynds running out of the Lawn Market. Aye. eyc,—six months alter her loyer’s death Ellen Clavering married Henry Vanslttart. Iremeu ber being taken to the theatre, and secing tho bride and bridegroom. [t was Siddons’ benefit. Bhe played re, Beverly in the “Gamester,” You understand me, Theodora; you are follow- fog what I say? A great-aunt of this young tnan Severne married our father’s cousin, Henry Vanuslttart.’* Notwithatanding tho beauty of the Juns night, the lamps in tke farm parlor are lit, cur- talne closcly drawn, aud tho two elder sleters are inthe thick of tho backgammon contest with which, summer ond winter allke, their evcntless days come toa close. Auut Lose sits silent at her knitting; a shade more of gravity Shou fa usual round her Itps. “There, Daphne! You hear,” crics Mies Theodora, as Daphna Chester enters, '+ Ace cording to Isabella's chronology, wo may claim a klod of kinship with your hero. Nandsome fa that’ = haudsome —doea,'* continues Theodora, “ir John BSeverue {sone of the very ugliest men st has been my Wek tumect, Still, thers can be no doubt he Debaved with presenco af mihu as rezarda the child. Presence of mud, simply, As to think= wy there could have been any danger with Paul Actually under my own eyes, it Ls ridfentous, No womay cau be prompter than Theodora Vau-ittart to confess herself a helnous and Tulzerablo sluner, 60 lung ag abo confesses It in the words uf the Iitany, her Sunday bonnet, and the presence uf a respectable congregation. To Own that she has cver fallen asleep in daytime isan oumission of oncoming ege beyond her morat strenuth, “Uglyt"” exclaims Daphne, {ndignantly, Aunt Hosle chiming in a deep-toned second, slr Jobin Beyerno ugly?" "Too remarkable, ay upusual extent,” an- fwers Mise ‘Lheodora. “J might tndecd say of his face that {t has no Hne of feature at all. A fa.e,as our Foor father used to rewark, without S profile, Wheu { saw hia at works in the bay- Geld this afteruvon, £ could uot help feeling how Well the employment eat upon him. But, of fourse, youth, animal spirite, aod a wunburot skin bave always a certalu arn for sotme tastes! Straight betore Daphne's eyes hangs the pict- We of ainan witha * ling of feature’; a pho- “Oxtaph Dearly hfersize of Barry Chester taken uthe dayaot ther courtehip,—tbhe early days fheo Miss Theodora was loud ‘in pralae Of aria- cratic profics,—dushed with warm bope, Loa, 2a the acoruof the Lauded Gentry geusrally, ic Warwickabire Stamera in particular. tie turns aside from if, with one of the sharp vans of pain that any vivid rewcmbrance }: ber marriage always occasions her. Sir van Severne has @ great heart. Who could av about the protile of a insu who bus iten yuur saiugtion, rescucd that which is dearer ioe thau your own lifel sir John Beverue vi" ber voice trembles—*‘ ts everything to ine at obe Butuan being cau be to another.” Abew! Sister,” cries Bliss Thecdore. not your turn to play. I have thrown clnqace aguli, und do not enter,"? “ He aye,’ muscs Miss Vanalttort,, lhold- he ing dice-box lvoaely between her well-formed, withered old banda, ‘ft was in the year of the peace. J um quite ure about the year, because of my goulny to avhool, and | am certain that a Miss Kinluck, or Kinnaled, living by the Lawn Market, mado i frocks, ut what tenders the comlng of this young mon really extraordinary is, that two nights ago-Ihadudreain, You hear, altof you, odresm!*? : Isabella's tone fs oracular, Sho ts a fine, up- right old woman, dressed ag middle-aged lad! uscd to dress forty yeara ago, wit a ker- chicf of solt " ‘white net showing above the throat of her gown, 2 front of flat flaxen curls, and a turban. You could no more imagine Isabella Vansittart without those curle, thot turiau, than could Itnogine a Terburgh without a white dreas, or o Paul Potter without cows. Eyen in iacss she has been known to wear them. atill— for the doctor. ‘IT su him, as plainly as I see clther of you, dripping with water, supporting Paul in” hia arma, and with bis right band holding out o wedding-riag, Not altogether such a dream as could bo wished, Jam aware, but wo must re- celve such things," says Miss Vansittart solemnly, we imust recelya such things for euod or for evil es thoy ure Sent to us. ‘That dream portends macriage,’” That Demoiselle Isabella possesses tho faculty of second sizht, or at Icast of dreaming propiitic reams, is n fact acknowledged in every fisher-hut and farm-house around Filefde- la-Reiue. A commonplace philosopher would probably account for the gut by natural means; in the Gret place, becattee her utterances are wont to be post-prophetic; fn the sccund, becuuse se has rvached an see at which existence itsctf ia Hittle clac than a dream, tho boundary-line bee tween sleeplug and walking well-nigh ob- Witerated, the dreamer himsolf scarce ea- pable ot «lstinguishing between the real and unreal’ images which flit uncon: nectedly before his miud. No such fu: credulity, however, shadows the simple falth of the Qnerhee country-fullt; and miuny an Miu. Wek y-lbuitog” heifer has been sud below its market value, many a Ushiug-buat kept from starting at Ite destined hour, under the in-- fuence of Demoiselle leadelta's dreams, Even Aunt Husic, the least superstitions of living creatures, keepe a corner of belief am[det all her eound, healthy skepticisms for Jsabella’s prophecies, “Marriage?” she. exclalins, letting go ber knitting with an abruptness that causes at Jeast a quarter of a row of stitches tedrop from the pins, and with an acerbity very unusual in her Vole. “I wish the word were expunged from the Engllsh lan- guave, Marriage! Here—at Fiefde-la-Relne!” Injustice to Aunt Hosic, I must offer a tont- Hote as to this bold attack on our eoclal inorall- tles, The one dread of her life {s a second lover, a second shipwreck, for Daphue, aud dur- tg the past two hours she las becn keeping stealthy watch over a certain pair of tg- ures Lhsppily unconscious of . ber ascru- fay) as they stuod together Iu the sup sctonthe beach, or Joltered through the suft Gray shadows of the farm garden, As we grow old our fmagination ig apt to make freer ute of the rains of incinory than of untricd materials when we indulge ig visluna of the tuture. Aunt Hasic's mutrimonutal alr-costles—she los been couatructiug nut a few this evenng—are better furnished, you may be sure, with nd torture-chaubere than with the erraces aud rose-twined bowers of which youth Joves to dream! . ** Fiéf-de-la-Relne ts no place for talk of wed- Singer ES she continues, with a quick glanco at Dapbue’s face. As loug as we contiue our reveries to potato crops and heifers we sball do well.” “ But Flefde-la-Reine is not Europe,” says the girl, iu ber subdued voice. ‘There are peo- pie In the world beside us,—people for wi the word ‘life? has still a meanin, Sir Jobo Beverne, for instan He bas beon telllug me atout "if ibe yuice falters, she steativs It 50 promptly that oven uit Heals Hoes Bot dobest tho weakuese—‘about the lady he Is enga tomarry. A Miss Hardcastle. ee Theodora Vansittart looksrouud,with a jump, from her backgammon. ‘¢ ‘“Hasdcesstic! Well, { protest this ts ove af the moot curigus things imaginable, 1¢ did pot, cime of the Dinorben family. * Tinguired nothing,” Daphucanswers, atittle wearily. “But if you sre curious la the matter, Aunt Theodora, you will huya an opportunity soon of investigating it at frat and. Miss Mardeastle. ts coming over from London ino friend's. yacht, it seems, before Sirdobn Severne leaves dersey.”” “And L have no doubt will prove to bo the daughter of my very oldest friend,” crles poor ‘Theodora, to Whom the words ‘yacht! and “Londou" sound lke delightful echoes froin somo higher state of existence. “I know them fn Dubliny wo were quartered there together,—and a pair of the most elegant creatures they were, Captain aud the Honorable Mra. ardcastle—or Harrington! Now I think of It, 1 believe tho name must Lave been Hare tington, At all events, these chance meetings are most charining,—-unexpocted flowers along Ufc's duaty wayside! If novelwriters were to set down hialf the romantic things thut actually happen, the eritles might well call thelr altua- tlons over-colored.”" {carenot what romances fo on fn the world,” bayh Aunt Hosie, rising and resting her hand kindfy on Davhne’s shoulder, ‘60 Jong as we keep clear of thom. Romances are delight: Jul atlatrs, 1 bave ne doulit—to every one but the people who enact the promincut parts.” Daphne is silent. CHAPTER VII. REALITY, Three days specd by—Oh, the quickness of timo when, from the tliat of things, days must need ba unique, tho first or the last of a too- brief, too-great human happiness! On tho fourth comes a telegraphic message informing Soverne that his infstress has reached Guern- soy, Elght-and-forty houra, perhaps tess, Miss Hardcastle und her friends will give te the smaller island, and thon--Sir John may look for their arrival in Jeracy! Elght-and-forty hours more of the Fools’ Paradise into which he has allowed a graceful head, g trick of aweet apecch, to lead him, and ho shall take up the thread of lawful lovemaking just whero it wag dropped three years ago; shall realize how far a boy's ball-room fancy and aman's day- light judgment can be wade to assimilate, ‘The shadows chase each other across tho mose-grown dial,—does Mra, Chester recall the hours before the Goverament-House ball when these same shadows Were all! too laggard furhert ‘The lust day has come, and, as usual, the lovers (I mean the people whounder no possible circumstances muet cyor be lovers) are apendivg it together; the hour, 4 of the afternoon; the scene, a shady spot upon the beach which by camnion consent has grown to be called Sir John’s nieller. Beverne fs really a figure-palntcr of more than averageamatcur skill, and has half Alledasketch- book with Quernec portrulte,~—Alrs. Chester, who. honestly believes herdelf to be receiving friendly lescons in water colores, forever ut his side, ‘To-day, after long perauaston, Margut—rubl- cund, taclturn Margot~has been induced to serve as model, Asaiatter of principle, with a solld basts of experience, Margot regards portralt-taking os an occult practice wut to be encouraged by church-going Christian folk. Margot bad oa cousin who, i an unwary mo- ment, let hersclf be “frappco” by a traveling photographer, and was subject to attaques do nerfs forever afterwards. «She has heard tell how M. Simonet, the witch cattle-ductor the other side the island, bas got hiy house buy; about with images, aud if you offend hin ani M. Simonet choose to buru a Ught before your image——No, this is a subject on which Margot refuses to be expanalye. Aa every c however, bas Its weakest Mok, $0 bas every ‘human conscience {ts price. Margot’s yulnerablo polat is—pride, pride of race. ‘A legend runs throughout thedistrict that ber great groudisther wos the wan who, in the times Of the war,” sould the island to the French; a legend which bas always glveu Margot a kind of soctal or brevet rank among her peers. Fits Feeclieciog proves atropger than ber osin- « eae to 1731 and Baron Rullecour sutlice to raise tin her own estimation to the dignity of real charucter, aud, as 1 bare sald, alc yi Yiclds, and with the muscles of ber inouth ect Hke fron, her complexion deep: eniug and deepening through every . shade af peony, to black. ‘endures an hour and ahall of torture Inthe comblned interests of history and of art. At last the portrait ts fins ished. Margot, hotter than if she had been reaping under un August sun, lias rushed away out of human len. into: the coul dupths of the farm-bousy still room, and Mrs. Chester and Severue arc loft glone,—Paul enjoying hfs after- noon siesta upon bis mother’s lap, Slr John luaily sketebing ina Froup of -grown boulders for the forecround of a picture, already taken, of Daphne and her Hitle son, Alaa, 1f he works lazily, he Is thinking bard; counting with ausarty areas every look from the soft, lucent hazel cyes, every eile trom the sweet lips, that after to-lay shall be as nothing to him! ‘The atelicr, It must be explained, Is situated ina tiny creek or inlet, scarce a coupic of stone's throw uistaut from Flefde-la-Relne,—a creek down whose steep, overhanging banks the prime roses blossom. ulmoat to the tde’s level, under the iret sun of March, and which, now at mid- suIuCr, aro knewsleop in bracken-ferns sud bliberrles, A solitury [chen-stained rock, hale lowed Into weirdest shapes by wiad and sea, Vields. auelter towards the middle of the creek frum the afternucn sun; and beveuth this rock, precely at such a point as ta be invisible from the su iit of the bank, is the “ateller.” ‘The breeze uvstics sleepily amongst the long seu-grass; on bigh. thers is scarce motlop enough to bear along the few clouds fleckiug the hot azure of the sky. I(t ts one of those rare days when every com- motest object, every meanest Mower, of nature ig at its fairest,—bow much more the fair lace that a man loves, with the love of fye-wud- twenty, and from which to-morrow's guy shall inevitably part hii! “Next tothe performance of one's duty, tho beet thie is—one's well-carned rest ufterduty." ‘Thu ku apteasant, slightly-drawiug volco Mal an & trom the bauk unmediately ybove, ao ¢luse to them that little Paul hears it through his reuns, and ball awakens. We have pearched for the tau it was our duty to search for, lo vain. We give tho manu up, We sit down.’ Daphne peeps out. cautiously. between 3 crevice of tucks snd grass, and dlacerns a lady ah + Hecacpan young, well-layured, and newly Upou thia last point, woman-Iike, Mrs. Ches- i Is uo shadow of indecislun; while as to ress— + Aunt Theodora should bs here, Sir John,” she Whispers, uot without w feminine Mutter of excitement inher tone, “| Why, she fs later than the latest number of the (‘it Courier dvs Lanes! A skirt—Ob, so narrow that it would take a year’s study to learn to walk iu it at all, Atramn (for our bilverry-buyhes) carried over one aru, aod a hat—~how cun ‘sich hata be made to keep ov human heads? Move ouly anc yard farther from me and you will eee ber. But Soverne dues uot sth, “I saw guite ecpouch pillowgase phirt aad, inposstls hats a3. 1" pase thro Part » Chester. Is she pretty t tou can os ously promise me the ol of a pret- Speak lower, or they will hear.’ lnterrupts wtting aside the impenuing votpl- still ucknowledisiug it. with a blusl. Daphue, ment, aus “Pretty! bi ii ut “Precisely. 1 gm uot goles to vacate ny present position for the ad age of looking at @ hut, a dress, end an ugly woman!” * Reddlah-brown eyes and baire reddish, yet with a golden tiut ruuving through the tights.” “ Aurccornus Fluid, Twenty-one slilljigs and sixpeuce a bottle.”? “Very black lashes and evebrows." * Authnony and o pencil." “A pale skiu, 9 ness iu onc Une with the forchesd, and @ discontented mouth. No, she fe susiling,—i am perfectly convinced that they arc bride and bridegroom,—she is charming.” “The question is,” says voice number two from the baok,—just for a moment Sir Johy y, 20 ‘The Bat aud drees are starts a Httle at the sound, bether thy Uret best shhig ws be, not to perforin ony’s duty at alli It certaluly wus less dusty at sca aise wo have found’ it among these borrible an “But among the lanes, my dear child, we bare c en. “Our position is not bonosaple,” whispers bride aud bridegroow. ‘They are lovers, poor things! We have no right to overhear their cone versatlo: falls to Metening again with alt her And t] might. “Besides, there js something 1 have long wished to speak to you about, only f could never fined av opportunity, 1 intend to marry.” The speaker is u bored, “atroctously good- louking fellow of two or three and: thirty. His dress, the cut of his blonde mustache, the fact of his carrying a white um- Urella as a protection from the sun, lead you to cluss him, ut a glance, as a Continental En- gishinan, but of what particular type it would be hardtosuy. Certainly be is not a bankrupt; bankrupts have too much to tidak about to be ured. Nor 4a he an artist; pv artist ever wore a Waxed mustache. Nora special correspond- ent, hora pricst in muftt, nor a cottou-lord. ‘Che scriva of negations lands you in diplomacy, You remember to hava seen ornaincotal men of this xgenus—thind secretarics with — faint- cst ultimate yiews as to payment aud = promotion—bevering round the Em- bassics in Paris and Viet Get or leading cotiHons, to the admiration of all save lucre-seeking parents, at Ambassadors’ balls, Men posscsshug muen of the cosmopolitan live- Nneqs which replaces conversation at dinner- parties, vechewlug politics from predilection and Brinciple alike, but knowing their Brillat-Sava- rin by heart, and who are inwardly well posted ju ths last green-room gossip of the theatres Human creatures, whoso depth of shatlow: *twera Lard to fathom, and yet whose company ig frequently better worth huving than that of wher men, * Disvurs debons mots, fades caructeres,” No. ‘The verse of the ott French cynic hits too hard, Bon mots, a8 former generations understood Uicm, cost labor, The modern tao geuticiian Jeaves that to the stall of funuy hewapapers, would ne more tink of claborating a witticisin than be would aspire to the dlscov- ery of a new planct, or the composition of a new sauce. OF the three achievements, Lam quite sure he would look upon the composition of the sauce as the greatest. “Marry! Cola tue it te the lady who witha disdainful Mttte curl of the lip. a disdainful inflection in the clear, sbightly- votes. “You, who have ssid" . © That it was bard to sco of what use married men could be in the scheme of things, Well, we ure most of us queer studies, perhaps, from point of view. I think you, mydeur, at al) are Hot @ fitting person to decry ware c. “| think we came to a decision sume timoazo that there wos one subject of which you and 1 would never epeak until it was forced upon us. Myeuarriage "the clear voice falters a bit— “can have vo connection, in the whole wide world, with you.” “None. Possibly that ts the fact that has meade me thinkaf oponlog a domestichappiness account on ny own bebal; “Domest happiness! Qh, thig ta the beat th va yy beard)" iz Nomestic bappiuess, A Jez of mutton to- 3 ahaa totnorrow, Perambulators, 81i ners. Are there to be uo wore cokes and ale tn the suri do you suppose; because one in- always fatu: g person uf whom we have koowl- vty have consumed herei” There tev little pause after this: theu— “It would be asking too much,” exclais the firl'e Fuice, petul yy it would be treucbing ou ground too for an ouloude vbserver, (0 inquire the name of your intended {” Ke Tput much the suine question to wyself to- ‘To yoursel[—what absurdity !’? At breakfast; initing my speculatious, for fortn'’s sake, to the cumpany bregeut, yaturally. bul for Joruiughow J would bave dred on Lady y That goes without saying, You forget, per- haps: thst heady Lydia's reniest charter bis, ID} jorolugbam. Watherwards, coming down, with a ci from the ideal ‘to ae en "and earnest, thought—— You need uot look so scornful, my buor cnlld, I am perfectly iu earucat.’? “Beornfull 1f How wonderfully one’s face Must belie vie at theese!” —" That I could nut do better tban think of Agatha do Mauley.!" “A widow." “1 adore widows,” (Under the shelter of the rock beneath, Mrs, Chester colors. Sir John Sevcrne is looking singularly upaccountably il) at bls ease.) procecds the voice masculine, with rlow en phasis,—* a womans Whe las been once tralned, homer badly, in the way wherein she should fO,—must have catned some rudimentary knowl. edge of the art of dining. If the first hus- band had a temper, she has bropality drilled {ato putting on her bonuct with patch. Two cardinal virtues, This brings ustoa question of the late Mtr, du Mautcy's temper.” “Do you know what I am thinking!" crics the girl, impatiently. “Lam thinking that Eeaty month, every Lour you live, you grow wore ani more footish." “Tknow it. At two-and-thirty years of age I am fool enough still to carry ® heart about with me, somewhere." “A heurt!" ashe repeats, mockingly, “A heart that beats for Agatha de Aauley!" “Of couree, If you choose to say su.'? 4A designing creature, old enuugh to be your traudmottier, and fust, extravagant evough—ne!} i should be aerry to tinish the comparison, Married to Agutha de Mauley, you would be In jatl, both of you, in a fortulizlit, Now tf you were to turn your thoughts to Mattic Rivers-—-"" “4 Aged 29, emuncipated to the extent of living alone jn chambers, suspected by ber en- emiles of the most advances theology, and by her friends of the very beavicat — tlirta- tous, and at the present. moment col- locting _ materials fur a. three-voluine novel! It Is a curious fact," the speaker arka, deliberately, ke a mun carefully rau cking the storehouse of his thoughta—"a deuced curious fact—that all the new-looking vople whn go about the world (0 yachts should be accompanied by writing wuinun fu search of materials for a novel. Timet with previstly the same thing Inst autuniu—somewhere on tho Levant, was itt? Cousin Felix, you may not be very deep in some subjects, not quite as deep as Fraulein Schnapper, for tuetance. But for gencralizatious, at once rapid aud profound, 1 dun't know your equal.” 5 “Yee, If Thad Clementins and a dictionary constantly at hand f belicve £might pass inuster Ju time, Sir John Severne springs to is feet with an | 7 abruptness that sends tis colur-box, pencils, and Daphne's portrait spluning? 2 — CHAPTER IX. THE XEIT-ORLYT. “Have you got any shade among the rocks leas necktie, would seem less adapted for sea- heach acrambling than for reposing beneath the arning of u city cafe or wateriug-place kur- soal. At last, after a good many abortive starts, and forced halts, and unexpected avalariches: of sand, the descent fs accomplished. Miss Mardcastic quits Felix Broughton’s arm, ‘The lovers, divided during the Japse of three cruel ycard, stand face to face, cy shake hands, Cousin Feliz looking on with the pleas- antest—I bad almost said the most fraternal — expression in the world. They don’t tind ‘one syllable to say. Ts this the beginulng of the end? “Clementing forgets to introduce me," rex marks Mr. Broughton, coming forward with his little alr of genial suarvity, a hand outstretched, “Or perhaps she thinks ita case In which intro- duction is auperiizous. How are you, Severnc? Welcomes back from India, Warm, is {t not?! “Very warm," repeats Sir John, laconically, and submitting to, rather than accepting, tle profered hand-shake. **You arrived in dcrevy this morning, LT conclude, Clem—— Miss Hard- castle He hos thought of her as Clementiua during their three pas of betrothal; as Clementina has written her love-letters, hopeful, deapalre ing, ardent, gradually coollogs by the score. Yet now that hope is so near fruition, uow that they are to be married in Auguat, snd stand under this Junc sun looking into cach other's eves, the familiar Christian namo refuses to leave his tips. (And during the last day or two. he has scarce been able to restrain himself from calling Mrs, Chester * Daphne.") “Yes,” answers Cousin Felix, upon whom all the oncrous burden of talking seems to fall, but with grace, “we ran over from the other isjand, Serscy—no, Ciuernsey—help me, Clementina, you know { never can remember which Is which, At all events, we ran over from the other placa this mormng, Jorulngham found out from some culpably futerested pilot, no doubt, that the tides would suit for loncer, and hurried us of In the very middle of our breakfast. Capital fellow, Jurningham; ou know him, Serernet"* “Tremember hearing that Lady Lydia Jor- ningham tad » husband.!? sf Prectealy the very man, and an excellent fellow, too, in his quict, unobtrusive way, but crazed on the score of fish, Aht!'a animation brightening lis bored volce, the face of a pretty woman, the faco of Daphne, comes within the range of bis eyeglass, what’ diden there!” says Cousin Felix, glancing jazilydown | have we here—sketching ( under the edge of his umbrella. It fon modest boast of Mr. Broughton's that | pencils no situation of life (and, unless bis friends ma- Jign him, he has been fn some sufficiently com- plex ones) has ever put him off his guard, exer | her yellow hale glistening Sir John Severne's colurbox, overtumed, bis and sketch-book, lie on tho eand. Daphne, with rensca osten- sly fixed on the distant aca, sits, half Iu tight, half in shade, beneath the rock; in the sun, ber girlish wee upset the equilibriuin of hls fnely-balanced | figure looking inore girlish than its woot to tho consclonce. ‘The sudden apparition of Sir John Severne, at the very fostaut when he, Felix Broughton, ts mmurinuring sult confidences futo the esrof Sir Joho Scverne's promised wile, causes him no j at be embarrassinent. A frightened ttle cry from: Miss Hardcastle, plain cotton own that forme so strong acon- trast to the silk attire, the drawubsck skirts, the fan-shaped ‘train of Miss Hardcastle, Little Paul, rosy stilt from slevp, stauds barefooted, finger on lip, intently watching the new-comers ide. . inst——that is, I was sketching fn 1 gays Severe, betrayed a, bla ne ewer a foreground, turn into the weakness of a0 excuse. her guilt-strickeu face, bring the truth hame to | sces such wondestul effects among these Jersey his woral perceptions before be bas bad tine to survey the ulatcrial aspect of thlogs through his eyeglass; and on the moment, with the look, the vaice of innocence, he hita upun an appropriate commonplace. “If there is any shade worth speaking of, you shall be tho mountain aud we Mahomet, otherwise—" “We have been driving half over the (aland,” erles Miss Hardcastle, actually betrayed intothe {discretion of excusing herself, ‘At fast I re- rocks?" “Charming effects, in truth,” returns Couslo Felix, with au expressive glance tn the direction of Daphne Chester. Aud then there isa full stop. Miss Hardcas- He traces bleroglyphiles on the sand with tho point of her par: Sir Jobu Beverne acarches with ull Lis might far. something to aay, and searches {2 yall. Mr. Broughton pulls down the puluts of bis blunde inustache with the air of a philosopber, but 5] not. Daphuo, country-taught Daphne, ta the first to bi the silence, thereby illustrating the old adage as the most fect simplicity being ofttimcs membered the name of your friend's house— | the most eestor breeding. Fiefde-ta-Reine, is i not? Aud the people Bho rises, hesitates for au instant, then comes there directed us to the beach, sud—sud we fomwant, 8 sinile of geuuine weicoue round nor were looking for yoa——"" “ And have been unexpectedly successful in our scurch,"’ says Cousin Fetlx, calunly—all this before youug Scverne has uttered a word, Al- Jow sme to offer you wy arm, Clewcntius, as tho question of shade scews decided. Tho bank is steep.” ‘fho bank is steep; Clementina's bigh- heeled boots are tight, Cousin Feliz, with | intorrupts Sevorne, a Megs ‘lementina. - : “Every onu around Fiefde-la-Reine will bo gua to"see you, Miss Hardcastle. Sir Jobo everne has told you—no!—what makes us look upon hi as ap old and yulucd friend? Ab, then, you must. hear our version of the story. Haul, como hero. ‘This is ‘my Uttle son, who 1 L—" 9 “For a certain high spring-tide would never have bt me the kt ines of cabot-Gehing,”? ao tH “Do your best, a ‘