Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1878, Page 10

HE CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBR: i Also saw the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Joneb and Homan etrects. BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach this morning and eveningin the West End Opera-House. Even- ing subject: ‘‘ Christ's Second Coming the Glorious Hope of the Charch.”* . —The Rev. W. W. Everts will preach in the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty- firstatreet, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —B. F. Jacobs will preach in the cvening at the Baptist Tabernacle, Nos. 302 and 304 Wabash ave- nue, —Tho Rev. J. W. Custis will preach in the Michigan-Avenue Church. near Twenty-third atreet, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. Morning subject: **The Great Salvation.” —The Rev. R.De Baptiste will preach in the Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, at 11 a.m. m. epee hae AP owen will presch ia University Place Church, corner of ‘Rhodes arenas and Doug- . .m, and 7:30 p.m. pate Rev be ‘on clarke will preach in the South Thareh, corner of Locke and Bonaparte Streets, at 7:30 p.m. “the Rev. J. A. Henry will preach in the Dear- bom! street ‘Church, corner of Thirty-sixth street, 48 10:30a m, snd 7:60p,m. The Rev. Galusha Anderson will preach in the Second Church, corner of, Morgan and Monroe ‘streets, at 1 a, m.and 7:30 p.m. Morning gudject: ** The Unrighteous Mammon ”; evening? **The Peace-Offering.”” —The Rev. D. B. Cheney will preach in the Fourth Church, corner of Washiogton and Paulina: Htrcets, at 10:30. m. and 7:30p. m. —The Rev. C. Perren will preach in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren aveaue, at 10:30 2% mm, and 7:30 p. m. : '—The ‘Rev. E. K. Cressey will preach in tho Coventry Street Church, corner of Bloomingdale road, at 10:30 2. m. und 7:30 p. m. “Morning sub- ject? ‘+ Justification.” ‘—Tne Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach in the Cen- tennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Jackson streets, at 10:30, m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject: *‘'The Salvation of the Heathen"; even- ing: | ‘‘How We Are Saved.”, ="The Key. R.P. Allicon. will preach in the North Star Church, corner of Division and Sedg- . m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. ‘aylor will prreach in the Cen- tral Church, Martine’s Hall. Chicago avenue, be- iween Clark and Dearborn streets, at 10:35. mm. and 7:30 p. m. * —The Rev. J.C. Haselhuhn will preach in the Firet German Church. corner of Bickerdike and Huron étrecte, atJ0:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. H. A. Reichenbach will preach in the Nordish Tabernacie, corner of Noble and West Ohio streete, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rey. John Ongman will preach in the First ” gwedien Church, Oak strect, near Sedgwick, at 10:30 a, m. and'7:30 p. m. —The Rev. W.J. Kermott will_preach in the Halsted Strect Church. between Forty-first and Forty-second strecte, at 11a, m. and 7:30 p. m. —Millard-Avenue Church, Lawndale. Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Her. C. Swift will preach im Evangel Charch, Rock Island car-shops, Dearborn*ttreet, near Forty-seventh, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:39 p. m: —The Kev. H. M. Carr will preach in Downer’s Grove Church at 11 a, m. and 7p. m. —The Rev. C. H, Kimball will preach_In Engle- Church, Englewood avenue, near Stewart, at a. m. and 7:30 p. m. #3 will preach in the Firet 0a. m. and 7:30 p. m. tetson will preach in the Lake Shore Church, Winnetka, st 10:30 a. m. —The Rev. J. K. Wheeler will preach in Austin Charch at 10:45 a. mn. and 7245 p, am, —The Rev. A. Blackburn will preach in Oak k Church, Temperance Hall, at 10:30 a. m. and 1 —The Rev. F. L. Cha) a. 0 p. m. ~The Rev. C. C. Marston will preach in Norwood Park Church at 11a, m. and 7p, m. —The Rev. 1. L. Stetson will preach in Unity Church, Wilmette, in the evening. —The Rev. C. W. Olney will preach in Hyde Park Caurch at 10:30 a, m. CONGREGATIONAL, ‘The Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach this morning and evening in Plymeuth Church, Michl- gan avenue, between Twenty-ffth and Twenty- sixth streets. Evening subject: ‘+Street Les- sons.” —The. Rev. C. A: Towle will preach morning and evening at Bethany Church. —A union temperance meeting will be held in Taion Park Congregational Church in the evening, at which Dr. H. A. Keynoids, the Red-Ribbon re- former, will preeidg. —The Rev. G. W. Mackie will preach in the South Park Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-third street, at 11 a, m. ~The Rev. George H. Peeke will preach in Leavitt Street Church, corner of Adams street, at 10:30 2. m. a UNITARIAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach this morn- ang and evening in the Church of the Messiah, cor- nerof Michigan avenue and Twenty-third street. Morning subject: **Life under Authority.” Even- ing subject: -* The Personality of God. —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach in Unity Chur. Morning subject. ‘+ Trust"; evening: “+The Choice of the Heart.” ~The Rev. J. 1. Sunderland will preach in the Fourth Charch, corner of Prairie avenue and Thir- tieth street, at lla. m., subject: ‘* Women in ‘Theology and Religion." He will also preach for the Christian Union Society, in Tiloteon’s Hall, Englewood, at 3:30 p. m..on the eame subject, ‘and in Union Hall, Evaneton, at 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. T. B. Forbueh will preach in the ‘Third Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin streets. at10:45 a. m.; subject: ‘‘Inspiration.” Mrs. R. Sunderland lectures at 8p. m., on ‘*The Vo- cations and Avocations of Women.” —the Rev. M.D. Church will preach in St. John's Charch, Ellis avenue, near Thirty-seventh street, at10:45 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Ps INDEPENDEN’ ‘The Rev. H, Mf. Paynter will preach this morn- ing and evening in Calvary Tabernacle, Ogden avenue, near Harrison street. ~The Rev.D.R. Mansfeld will peach this morn- ing and evening in the church at the corner of May aud Folton streets. -Murning subject: ‘‘ Fishers of Men.” Evening sabject: **Blessed Hove.” —Mr. C. M. Morton will speak in the Chicazo Avenue Church, corner of LaSalle street, morning and evening. alt George, W, Sharp will preach in Burr Mis- sion Chapel, 389 Third avenue, at Ila. m, and 7:30 p. m. —John ¥. Morris will preach in Oweley's Hall, corner of Madison and Robey etrects. morning ana evening. “Evening subject: “The Second Coming of Christ.” . ._UNIVERSALIST. : ‘The Rev. Suinner Ellis will preach this morning and evening in the Church of the Redeemer, cor- ner of Sangamon and Washington stritts. Even- ing subject: **The New Testament Gehenna, or ‘The Rey. Dr. Ryder will preach in St, Paul's Church in the morning: no evening service. He willalso preach in the Universalist Church at Aurora in the evening. NEW JERUSALEM. ‘The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach this morning in Union Swedenborgian Church, Hershey Hall, No. 83 Eust Madison strect, Subject: ‘*The Ware of the Bible the Battles of To-day.” —The Rev. W. F. Pendleton will preach this morning at the Temple, corner of Weet W La ton street and Ozden avenue, and_this evening at the New Church Chapel, corner of North Clark and Btenominee streets. Morning subject: ‘+The Rich und Poor in Heaven.” —The lev. O. L. Barber will preach in New Church Hall, corner of Prairie avenue anc Eight- centh street, at lla. m, Subject: -*The Mintetry of Work.” CTIRISTIAN. ‘The Rev. J. W. Owen will preach this morning and evening in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-fth street. —Elder M. N. Lord will preach in the Central Church, Campbell Hall, corner of Van Buren street and Campbell avenue, in the morning. : White will ‘preach in Central Hall, No. 997 Weet Van Buren etrect, morning and evening. LUTHERAN. athe Rev. Edmund Belfour wilt preach thie rning and evening in the English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy ‘Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenue and Erie street, EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church, SS. Peter and Paul, cor- ner of Washington and Peoria streets, the Rt. -Rev. W, E. McLaren, Biebop; the Rev. J. H. Knowles, riest in charge. Holy’Communion at 9:15 a. m. fiany and Choral eelebrauon at 1 am. Ckoral evening prayer at 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate morn- ing and evening at St James’ Chureh, corner of Cass and Huron streets. Communion at 8 a. 11. —The Rev. E. Suliivan will officiate in Trinity ,Chirch, corner of Twenty-sixth street and Michi- “Gan avenue, at 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. Francis Maneficld will officiate in the Church of the Atonement, corner of West Wash- ington and Robey streets, at 10:30 a, rh. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate in Grace Church. Wabash avenue, near Sixtecnth street, at La, m. and 7:30 p.m.” Communion at § a. m. —The Rev. Stephen T. Allen will officiate in St. JInbn's Church, corner of Washington street and Dearest pps Tm. and 7:30 p, m. ot the Holy Communion, T30e ia ‘Thirtieth, eervices at 0 230 ee ead ~The Rev. Arthur Ritchle will officiate { Church of ibe Ascension: corner, of North Lagaiie reets, at 345 a. m. 7:3 Commnnion at 8 a. uh ee ea linan rg will officiatg in St. . street, near Chicazo The Rev. Charles ‘Stanley Lester wil in St. Taul's Church, Hyde Park avenue tera Forty-elghth and Forty-ninth streets, at 10:30 a. m. F; Fleetwood will officiate in St. stage Grove avenu eet, af 10:80 a, mand 7539p. me J .. F_ Cushman will otticlate {a St, phen’s Church, Jolson street, between Taylor aud Twelfth, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. Luther Pardec will officiate in Cal- vary Church, Warren avenue. between Oakley streetand Western avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. Communion at $a. m. w —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will officiate in the Church of the Epiphany, ‘Throop street, be- tween Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:50 pm. —The Rev. W. d. Petrie will officiate in the Church of Our Savior, comer of Lincoin and Bel- den avenues, at 11a. tm. and 7:30 p. m. ~The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate in All Ssinte’ Church, corner of ‘North Carpenter and West Obfo streets, at 10:45.a. m. and 7:45 p. m. The Gond Shepherd Mission, Lawndale. Serv ices at 10:30 8. m. Luson will officiate in Em- Grange, at 10:30 2, m. and —The Rev. F. jmonuel Charch, 7:0 D. ma. ~The Rev. J. Mark's Qhurch, Evanston, at 10:00 8, m. and 7:00 ‘inion at 7: : Po oor allsston, corner of Taylor street and Weatrmavenie, “Sunday-school at 3 p. m.; serv- fees at 4P-siicsion, No. 885 Milwaukee avenue. Sunday-schoo! at $:30 p. m. NEOUS, reach this morning and burch, corner of Sfichi- MISCELLA The Rev. J. Nate will eveniny an fue Slariners larket strects. anne ‘Adventists will hold eeryices this morning and evening at the Tabernacle, No. 91 Sou ith Green etree Progressive Lyceum will meet, at 123 the Pro : noon to-day in Grow’s Hall, No. 517 West Madi gon street. —A medinms' and Spiritualists’ mecting will be held in the parlors of Mr. Richardson. third floor of No. 230 West Madison strect, at 3 p.m., and a mediums’ mecting in the pares of Mrs. Kate Bryant, third floor of No, 334 Milwaukee avenue, at 7:30 p.m. ‘—Disciples of Curist will meet st No. 229 West Randolph street at 4 p.m. awa Gospel temperance meeting will be held in the coffee-house, No. 904 Cottage Grove avenue, from 4to 5 p.m. : —W. 0. Lattimore will lead a Gospel temper- ance meeting in Lower Farwell Hall in the even- ing. Srhe First Society of Spiritualists will meet in Grow’s Opera-Hall, No, 517 West Madison street, atl0:458. m. and 7:45 p.m. Mra. Cora L. V. Richmond, trance-speaker, will conduct the serv- ices. ing subject: ‘*A Summary of the lt ligious Evidence of Sviritualiam,” by the spirit of the Rey. William Ellery Channing; evening sub- ject: ‘Description of Dante's Home in Paradiee,” in verse. —The Rev. T. M. Morrison, Jr., of the Church of the Epiphany, will preach in the chapel of the Washingtonian Home at 3p. m. Temperance es- perience meeting at 8 p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Fed. 17—Septuagesima. CATHOLIC. Feb, 17—Septuagesima Sunday. Fed. 18—St. Simeon, B. A. Feb. Feri: Feb. 20—Ferin. Fed. 21—Otice of the Blessed Sacrament. Chair of St. Peter at Antioch. Feb, 23-St. Peter Damian, B. C. D. ; Vigil of St. ‘Matthias, THE GAME OF CHESS CHESS DIRECTORY. Cnicaco Cress Cucn—Nos. 63 and 65 Wash- ington street. Cincaco Cness Assocratios—Hansen & Welch's, 150 Dearoorn street, opposite Trisune Building. Chess pluyers meet daily at the Tremont House (Exchange), the Sherman HWonse (Basement), and at 425 West Madison streel, corner of Elizabeth. All communications intended forthis department shonid be addressed to Tu Tarpose, and indorsed “Chess.” ENIGMA NO. 116. BY MR. Cc. NADEBAUM. Black. Ring at Q Re iiftn Rook at K Kt fourth Pawn at Q tyrd Pawn at Q 1 fourth Pawn at QB sixth White, King at Q H seventh Queen at R second Nook at K B seventh Bishop at K elchth Koight at QB fourth Pawn at Q 8 second Pawu ot afta White to play and mate in three moves. ‘ PROBLEM NO. 116. BY MM. E. BARRE, CHICAGO. LA bp White. ‘White to play and mate ia three moves. 114) Solutions to Problem und Enigma (No. withheld until next woek. CHESS TOURNAMENT. The following is the score in the Challenge-Cap Tonrnament now being played at the Association Rooms in thia city: Won. Lost 3 wutos rat} om rs Lay teers Scat tree Cr alataial RTE igaisragiat cacretaetaptes paras eS 7 S neeccerrronr eet FRvARY Baws Notas sat pctaeckitatactatal recbccechcbnrccee ERA cmon, meres panene anny TIS THOT a onde tala! ROM lDelstatatgtate er NOTES BY J. E. CLARKE. (a) Dr. Dwyer hua defended himself ably against hig eminent adversary, and has now the better po- sition. (W) To prevent the exchange of Queens, which would have left him with a lost game. (c) He could not capture the Kt's P withont los- ing his Kook—or being mated. (a) In giving up the Bishop Mr. Ensor misjuds- ed the position; this move ought to have cost him the game. (e) The Dr. now throws away his opportunity; if, Instead of taking P, he had played 38..P to Q7, he wonld have wou, ¢. g. 38. 33..P10Q7 ae PxB 6 4K BS 44K. 3 7, and wins: and no matter how Mr. Ensor playa, the reault {a the same. Afterthe move in text, however, it is only a matter of time for Mr. E. to win. AJEEB, THE TURBANED CHESS-PLAYER. ‘The **antomatic chess-player,” introduced in the New York Aquarium at a private exhilation, was ceated cross-legged on a cushioned peacstal, clothed in Oriental garb, with a chess-bourd rest ing on his satin tropsers. The pieces were ar- ranged by an attendant, and the rules of the game— legibly written in English and in German—Iny at the left of the figure. ‘These informed the andi- ence present that cach piece, once touched, must be moved; that the moves of the teure must be made without pauee, and that nobody would be allowed to play more than one game, Daring arun of aseveralgames played against both old and young opponents the automaton’s tur- baned head cremained shghtiy bowed as if in thought, and'the right arm hung down at the side excepting when it moved methodically to and from the board as the progress of the gume required the pickmz up and placing of the pieces. This was done xo carefully that not once was a figure over- tured, though the arm was incumbered with a demi-full sleeve. One of the Turk’s opponents waso fair-haired little tady of some eix or ceven Years of aze, arrayed in a pray felt bonnet and white dress. She seated herself in front of the antomaton, and a number of moves were made on either. side to the evidenz satisfaction of the maid and the enter- tainment of the audience. Soon becoming aware of the aitention she was atiracting, the youthfnl prayer retired 1n confusion, leaving the game un- finished, At the request ‘of the next piayer who approached, the attendant was called away from the side of the automaton. He remained at safe distance autil the game was fmshed. After each game doors on each of the four sides of the pedes- tal, a8 well as one over the chest and stomach of the automaton, were opened to expose to the curious crowd a complication of machinery which was wound up every nalf-hour:’ ‘Tue aniomaton ig well known abroad, having eat along time in the Crystal Palace, London, and at Berlin. gecko Mata Mr. Sheridan Stiook wishes Dr. Damros take the place of Gilmore, at his Garden, cea summer, and the Doctor may accept the offer. Wiether his orchestra will go with him or not Stewart Smith will officiate in St. | isan open question. THE OLD WOKLD. Gleanings of an Elder Woman Therein. ‘ Fernay and ‘Vevay—Sonvenirs of Voltaire and Rousseau in Switzerland. New Paris--The Institute of France. Seance of tho Academy of Fine Arts. Spectat Correspondence of The Tribune. In taking leave of Switzerland, 1 must add a word concerning two places of interest to which we made a willing pilgrimage. One of these was the Chateau of Fernay, where Voltaire lived for so marly years. ‘Ivo rooms only of its interior are shown to strangers. One of these fs Voltaire’s Ledroog, hung with faded chintz, and containing a portrait of Frederick of Prussia, sent him by that mouarch. A portrait of his washerwoman also hangs on the wall; while a miniature model ofa monument erected elsewhere to Mine. Du Chatelet bears record of a relation whose interruption by death probably gave Voltaire the greatest sorrow of his usually vivacious life. This indy died in childbed, and is represented as breaking through the marbly, of her tomb, with a new-born babe in herarms. Adjoining this room is the dining- room, embellished with some tolerable pictures, and with two inscriptiofé in French. Oucof these says: “ His mind is everywhere, but his heart is here.” The other tells his friends that he is in their midst always. The sight of these rooms is a small recompense for a pilgrimage to Fernay: but, when you leave the house, and luok out and around from the terrace, you are WELL REPAID FOR YOUR TROUBLE. ‘The chateau stands upon a plateau command- | ing an extensive view of the adjacent mountains. including Mont Blane. This majestic prospect then daily offered itself to the eyes of the King Voltaire! What inspiration should he not have found in this beauty, this repose? .We visit an arcade of lime-trees where he used to walk, composing as he went. In a small’ pa- vilion is an old-fashioned garden-chair, in which we willingly imagine that heeat, and, seating ourselves therein, wish for one gicam of that. keen, bright intellect,—for ‘one touch of that trenchant sword to help dissi- ate the shains of to-day. Near at hand, ve fiave just scen the little church erected by him, with the inscription: “Deo ererit Voltaire.” ‘The parallelism intended in these words is un- mistakuble, and still oue may credit them with a religious intuition also. Voltaire was a French Alexander Pope, with the same keen, satirical power which characterized the English oct. Less moral in his. life, perhaps more Eindiy in his immediate relations, he seems to have awakened a personal admiration, and to have ett a personal regret, which his English prototype might possibly have envied. Vol- taire certainly grew into an ugly old man; but his young face, as preserved in some portraits, is not only’keen, but kindly. A king of intel- lect surely,—a believer in the divine in our age of gross superstition and grosser skepticism. Deo erexit Vataire.” He preached in this little church,—let us hope that he also prayed. ‘A second pilzrimage to places made classic oy ‘one who naturally suczeeds the great man just spoken of in the thought and literature of france. Au afternoon’s drive in the neighbor- hood of Vevay brings us to the “Bosquet of Julie,” to Rousseau’s garden-seat, and to the Yery scene and surrounding of THE NOUVELLE HELOISE. This exquisite retirement is not like Voltaire’s plateau at Fernay. He loved high eround, from which he could measure himself with the visible universe,—aye, even with its invisible Source and Inspiration. Roussean's haunts have more of the witchery of Jandscape-gar- dening. _ Flowers, - bees. shadowy — grot- toes, and mvetical ins-and-outs. of shrub- bery. A man who wrote 2 book for mothers to read, Which he did not consider fit for their daughters. Aman who worthily understood the value of education, and who committed the deed of shame for which there is no parallel, ia deserting his new-born children, forcing the wretched mother to relinguish and expose them,—a sin which she never forzave him. One basa heart’s-ache over cach ot these great people, for they were great in their gifts and ambitions. But one turns from them with affection to that more wholesome creatness which goes handin hand with family life, and which belongs, like an heir-loom, to the Angio- Saxon race. Never may its brightness dim or diminish! Let all else depart, but let not the ildren banish from the hearth the Future, with its sacred. claim upon the Present, with its precious requital of every sacritice, of every effort truly made inits bebalf—the Future, image of our own Past, eternal promise of our hearts and hoine! But now farewell to Switzerland in good ear- neat. No more last appearances upon its varied stage. Our panorama of travel has unrolicd itself farther. A night of crowded and uncom- fortable railroading has brought us to the METROPOLIS OF ALL FASHIONS AND PINERIES,— tw the city of great hopes and greater desvair,— to a Capital praye, cruel, beautiful, hideous, beyond ail other Capitals that are to-day. Few who visit Paris, coming from America, remember it as I do, thirty years ago. Much of .the Paris of those days has disappeared. Some of the implied demolitions were made just after the Revolution of 1848, in order to employ the working population, who thea promulgated, through their advocated, the impossible doc- trine of “the right to labor.” Their reading of this right was, that the State was obliged to fur- nish employment to all who might demand it. Although this position proved uuable to main- tain itself, the Government of France, ever since that time, has certainly bestirred itself to keep the working class as busy as possible. The greatest changes and innovations were made under the rule of the celebrated Haussman, Prerect of the Seine during the last years of the Second Empire. One of the finest of the new boulevards bears his name. M. Haussmau amassed a large fortune through the operations in real estate, for which his ottice gave him op- portunity. Whether he still lives, [ know not. But the Municipal Government of Paris con- tinues to carry out the new theory of thecity, which sweeps away its old narrow and unwhole- some streets, opening everywhere wide. boule- yards, which promote ventilation and thorough- fare. . THE NEW PARIS, like the New London, is so built up around and through tlie old that the latter is sometimes dif- ficult to find. The demolitions made by the Commune are the most painful and devoid of reason. The beautiful Hotel de Ville, the his- toric Tuileries, still alllict the stranger with their ruins, grown familiar to Parisian eyes. But the unreason of that. time has paSt v down to grasp and lift up the judgment of the people; and, while the partisans of dynasties are ‘and full of agitation, the peopleand their leaders are strong and calin. What a geisthis! Aye, but this power of good was always in the French people, in spite of the demagosic furors, the diplomatic falsities, the political and military complications, which have ey ofeen retarded the crystallization of their so- clety. The French Institute, with its five Academies, is a subject of great iuterest among. cultivated peuple. “Thanks to the kindness of M. Frederic Passy, I have been able to attend two of its public seences, or sittings. The first of these was held by tne Academy of Fine Arts, BEAGX ARTS, for the distribution of prizes, the reading of one or ‘tio discourses, and the hearing of some music composed under the auspices of the ‘Academy. ‘The buildings of the Academy are situated on the left bank of the Seine. Our tickets admitted us to the west amphi- theatre, and without tickets no one could gain admission, unless the Academicians them- selves enjoyed this privilexe. The building is Jow, Grecian in its type, and not very comino- dious. We were allowed to enter by an official who stood without to take our tickets. A cum- mon door and mean staircase brought us into an amphitheatre, which we found excessively crowded,—the heat and want of ventilation be- ing also extreme. The ball is circular in the middle, with a square wing on cither side. The President of the Academy and other officers sit at an official table, or desk, placea at the top of a number of rows of seats, which descend to the floor of the building. The Academicians fill the seats nearest to this place of dignity. They all wear asort of collar of green damasked satin, which reaches the walst in front. In- vited guests fill the seatsin the two wings al- ready spoken of,—the seats in the central nisle being reserved, I believe, for the fami- lies of members of the Institute. There are galleries above this central part. and, on the og- casion which we are now considering, an orches- tra stationed in one of these was performing, as we entered, a symphony composed under the auspices of the Academy of Fine Arts, and now performed for the first time. The style of this composition was learned, and its execution very careful. After the symphony came the an- nouncement and DISTRIBTION OF THE PRIZES, awarded for th? last competition. These re- wards of imerit were all bestowed upon young re > ¥ \ men. The President read each name-alying- giving the character of the work crowned, wer the grade of the prize. Each recipicn. came forward as his name was called, re- ceiving his prize trom the hands of the President, who also shook hands with him. ‘Those who received first-class prizes were also allowed the honor of shaking hands with the other dignitaries who sat at the President's desk. As cach young man turned to go to his seat, he stopped to embrace the master whose good counsels had. brought him to so much honor. The master kissed his pupil oa both cheeks, after which both resumed their places, ‘The President announced a bequest of unusual interest. A poor man- who bad served all his life asa model for artists bad impused upon himself the utmost penury in order to leave his little fortune, amounting to some thousands of franes, to the Academy for the roundation of an annual prize. . After this,the Vicomte de la Boru read a paper giving an account of the sculptor Perrault, a man of humble antecedents, who, by dint of great labor and perseverance, ha not only attained great excellence in his art, but had also become a literary man of merit and authority. The seance terminated by the performance of a ‘*Scene Lyrique ” entitled “REBECCA AT THE WELL,” which took place in the small gallery already spoken of. The characters and voices were as follows: Jebecea, soprano; the Steward of Abra- ham, baritone; the Brother of Lebecca, tenor. After varlous smooth solos and duos by the two first named, the Brother, Laban, arrives, aud expresses a truly French horror and indig- nation at finding his sister alone with au un- known man. He presently allows himself to be pacified, and_ all the voices ending har- monious trio. So much for our first introduc- tion to the precincts of this cclebrated body. An account of a second visit must be reserved for another Jctter. Junta Warp Howe. RUDDER GRANGE. Scribner's Monthty. For some months after our marriage, Euphe- miaand I boardea. But we didu’t like it. In- deed, there was no reason why we should like It. Euphemia said she never felt at home except when she was out, which feeling, indicating such an excessively unphilosophic state of mind, was enough to make me desire to have a home of my own, where, upon exceptional and rare oc- casions,—my wife would never care to go out. If voushould want to rent a house, there are three ways to find one. One way fs toadver- tise; another isto read the advertisements of other people. This isa comparatively cheap way. A third method is to apply to an agent. But none of these plans are worth anything. ‘The proper way fs to kuow some one who will tell you of a house that will just suit you. Euphemia ana I thoroughly investigated this matter, aud I know that what I say is a fact. We tried all the plans. When we edver- tised we had about a dozen admirable answers, put, although everything seemed to suit, the amount of rent was not named. (None of those in which the rent was named would do at all.) ‘And when I went to see the owners or agents of these houses, they asked much higher rents than those mentioned in the unavailable an- swers,—and this notwithstanding the fact that they always asserted that their terms were either very reasonable or else greatly reduced ‘on account of the eceson being advanced, (It was now the 15th of May.) = Euphemia and I once wrote a book,—this was just before we were married,—in which wé told young married people how to go to housekeep- ing and how much it would cost them. We knew all about it, for we had asked several peo- ple. Now the prices demanded as yearly rental for small furnished houses, by the owners and agents of whom I have been speaking, were actually moré than we had stated a house could be bought and furnished for! The advertisements of other pcople did not serve any better. There was always something wrong about the houses when we made close inquiries, and the trouble’ was generally in regard to the rent. With agents ive had a little better fortune. Euphemia some- times went with me on my expeditions to real-estate offices, and sbe remarked that these offices were always in the basement, or else you bad to go upto them in an clevator. There was nothing between these extremes. And it was a good deal the same way, she said, with their houses. They were all very low in- dced in price and quality, or else too high. Sheas- sured me several times that if weeould find any oflice on the secoud orthird floor we should cer- tainly be suited. But'we never found such an olfice. One trouble was that we wanted a house ina country place, not very far froin the city, and not very far from the railroad station orsteam- boat landing. We also wanted the house to be nicely shaded and fully furnishea, and not to pe: in a malarious neighborhood, or one infest- ed by mosquitoes. “It we do go to housekeeping,” said Euphe- mia, “we might as well get.a_ house to suit us while we are about it. Moving is more expen- sive than a fire.”? There was one man who offered us a house that almost suited us. It was uear the water, had rooms enough, and some—but not very much—ground, and was very accessible to the city. The rent, too, was quite reasonable. But it was unfurnished. The ea however, did not think that this woulc present eny obstacle to our taking it. He was sure that the owner would furnish it if we paid him 10 per cent on the value of the furniture he put intoit. We agreed that, if the landlord would do this and let us furnish the house according to the plans laid down in our book, we would take the house. But, unfortunately, this arrangement did not suit the landlord, although he was in the habit of furnishing Houses for tenants and charging them 10 per cent on the cost. I saw him myself and talked to him about it. “But, you see,” said he, when T had shown him our lst of articles necessary for the fur- nishing of 2 house, ‘it would not pay me to buy all these things, and rent them out ‘to you. If you only wanted heavy farniture, which would last for years, the plan would answer, but you want everything. I believe the small cou- yeniences you have on this list come to more money than the furniture and carpets.” “Oh, yes,” said I, ‘* We are not so very par- ticular about furniture and carpets, but these little conveniences are the things that make housekeeping pleasant and—speaking from a common-sense point of view—profitable.”” “That may be,” be answered, “but I can’t afford to make matters pleasant and profitable for you in that way. Now, then, Ict us look at one or tio particulars. Here, on your list, is an ice-pick: twenty-live cents. Now, if I buy that ice-pick and rent it to you at two and a-half cents a year, I shall not get my money back unless it lasts you ten years. And even then, as it is not probable that I can sell that ice-pick after you have used it for ten years, I shall have made nothing at all by my bargain. And there are other things iu that list, such as feather-dustersaud lamp-chimners, that coulan’t ibly last ten years. Don’t you see my ion?” saw it. We did not ect that furnished house. Euphemia was greatly disappointed. *It would bave been just splendid,’ she said, “to have taken our book and have ordered all these things at the sto one after an- other, without even being obliged to ask the price.” Ihad my-private doubts in regard to this mat- ter of price. Iam afraid that Euphemia gen- crally set down the lowest prices and the best things. She did not mean to mislead, and her vlan certainly made our book aitractive. But it did not work very well in practice. We havea friend who undertook to furnish her house by our book, and she never could et the things as cheaply as we bad them quoted. “But you see,” said Euphemia to her, “we had to put them down at very low prices, be- cause the model house we spcak.of in the book is to be entirely furnished for just so much.” But, in spite of this expianution, the lady was not satisfied. We found ourselves obliged to give up the idea of a furnished house. We would haye taken an unfurnished one- and furnished it ourselves, but we hadn’t money enouch. We were dreadfully afraid that we should have to continue to board. It was now getting on toward summer, at least there was only @ part of the month of spring left, and whenever I could get off from my business, Euphemia and I made littie ex- eursions into the country round about the city. Sometimes we had only an hour or two of an evening, but ou Sundays we bad allday. One afternoon we went up the Harlem River, and there we saw a sight that trenstixed us, a3 it were. Qn the river bank, a mile or so above High Bridge, stoodacanal-boat. Isaystood, be- cause it was50 firmly imbedded in the ground by the river-side, that it would have been almost as impossible to move it as to have turned the Svhiux around. This boat we soon found was inhabited by an ovyster-man and his family. They had lived there for many years and were really doing quite well. The boat was divided, inside, into rooms, and these were _papered and painted and nicely furnished. here was a kitchen, a living-room, a parlor, and bedrooms. There were all sorts of conveniences,—carvets on the floors, pictures, and everything, at least so it seemed to us, to make a home comfortable. ‘This was not all done at once, the oyster-man - try .17,.1878—-SIXTEEY ARY .17,-1878-SIXTEED PAGES. J ness under the’ style of es wend domes had lived there for years and berg was.dally added this ahd that until toe them , fas as we saw it. He had an oyster-bed “Sut in the river and he made cider in the win- ter, but where he got the apples I don’t know. There was really no reason why he should not get. rich in time. Well, we went all over that house and we praised everything so auch that the oyster- man’s wife was delighted, aud when we had some stewed oysters alterward,—eating them at a little table under a tree near by,—I believe that she picked out the very largest oysters she had, to stew for-us. When we had finished our supper ‘and had paid for it, and were going down to take our iittle boat again,— for we bad rowed up the river,— Euphemia stopped and looked sround her. Then she clasped her hands and exclaimed in an ecstatic undertone: “We must have a canal-boat!’” And she never swerved from that determina- tion. ‘After I nad seriously thought over the mat- ter, Lcould sec no good reason against adopt- ing this plan. lt would certainly be a cheap method of living, and it would really be housckeeking, 1 Ww more and more in favor of it. After what the oyster-man liad done, what might not we dof He had never written a book on housekeeping, vor, in all probability, had he considered the matter, philosophically, fdr one moment in all -his life. ‘But it was not an easy thing to fiud a canal- boat. ‘There were none adyertised for rent— at least, not for housekeeping purposes. ‘We made many inquiries and took many a long walk along the water-courses in the ‘vi- cinity of the city, but allin vain. Of course, we talked o great deal about our project and our imends ‘became greatly interested in it, and, of course, too, they gave us a ereat deal of advice, but we didn’t mind that. We were philosophical enough to know that ‘ou can’t haye shade without bones. They Were good friends and, by being careful in re- gard to the advice, it didn’t {nterfere with our comfort. We were beginning to be discouraged, at least Euphemia was. Her discouragement is like water-cresses, it generally comes. up in a very short time after she sows her wishes. But then it withers away rapidly, which is a comfort. One evening we were sitting, rather disconso- lately, in our room, and I was reading out the advertisements of country board in the ‘Herad, when in rushed Dr. Heare— one of our told friends. He was 60 full of something that he had to say that he didn’t even ask us how we were. In fact, he didn’t appear to want to know. : “I tell you what it is, Arden,” said he, “I have found just the very thing you want.” “A canal-boat?” I cried. “Yes,” caid he, ‘2 canal-boat.” « Furnished?” askea Euphemia, her eyes eits- tening. “Well, no,” answered the Doctor, “I don’t think you could expect that’? “But we can’t live on the bare floor,” said Euphemia; “our house must be furnished.” “Well. then, I suppose this won't do,” said the doctor, fuefully, “for there isn’t so much as a bootjack in it. It has most things that are necessary for a boat, but it hasn’t anything that you could call house-furniture ; "bat, dear me, I should think you could furnish it very cheaply ‘and comfortably out of your book.” “Very truc.’’ said Euphemia, “if we could pick out the cheapest things and then get some folks to buy a lot of the booxs.”” tive could begin with very little? said Y, trying hard to keep calm. “ Certainly,”’said the doctor,you need make no more rcoms, atfirst, than ygu could furnish.”? “Then there are no rooms,” said Euphemia. “No, there is nothing but one vast apart- ment extending from stem to stern.” “Won't it be glorious!” said Euphemia to me. “Wecau first make a kitchen, and then a dining-room, and a bedroom, and then a parlor —just in the order in which our book says they ought to ve furnished.”” “Glorious!” I cried, no longer able to contain my enthusiasm; “1 shduid think so. Doctor, where is this canal-boat?”” ‘The doctor then went intoa detailed state- ment. The boat was stranded on the shore of the Scoldsbury River not far below Ginx’s. We knew where Ginx’s’ was, because we nad spent a very happy day there during our boney- moon. ‘The boat was a good’one, but superannuated. That, however, did not interfere with its use- fulness as a dwelling. We could get it—the doctor had seen the owner—for a small sum per annum, and there was positively no end to its vapabilities. We sat up until twenty minutes past 2, talking about that house. We ceased to call it a boat at about a quarter of 11. ‘The next day I ‘took’? that boat and paid amonth’s rent in alvance- Three days after- ward we moved into it. We had not much to move, which was a com- fort, looking at it from one point of view. A carpenter bad put up two partitions In it which made three rooms—a kitchen, a diuing-room,,. and a very long bedroom, which was to be cut up juto 4 parlor, study, spare-room, etc., as soon as circumstances should allow, or my sal- ary should be raised. Origirally, all tue doors aud windows were in the roof, soto speak, but our landlord allowed us to make as many win- dows to the side of the boat as we pleased, provided we gave him the Wood we cut out. It saved him trouble, he said, but I did not under- stund him at the time. Accordingly, the car- de several windows for us, and put in sashes, which opened on hinges like the hasp of a trunk. Our furniture did not amount to much, at first. Tbe very thought of living in this indesendent, romantic way was so delight- ful, Euphemia said, that furniture seemed a mere secondary matter. We were obliged indeed to give up the idea of following the plan detailed in our book, beeiuse we hadn't ‘tie sum uvon which the furnishing of a small house was there- in based. “And if we haven’t the money,” remarked Euphemia, ‘it would be of no earthly use to louk at the book. It would only make us doubt our own calculations. You might as well try to make bricks without mortar, as the children of Asrael did.”” “Teould do that myself, my dear,” said [, “but we won't discuss that subject now. We will buy just what we absolutely uced, and thea work up from that.”* Acting ou this plar, we bonght first a small stove, because Euphemia said that we could sleep on the floor, if it were necessar; but we couldn’t make a tire on the tloor,—at least not often. Then we gota table and two chairs. The next thing we purchased was some hanging shelves for our books, and Euphemia suddenly remembered the kitchen things. Thess which were few, with some crockery, near! brought us to the end of our resources, but we had enough for a big easy-chair which Eupbemia was determined I should have, because I really needed it when I came home ut night, tired with my long day’s work at the office. I had always been used to an easy-chair, and it was one of her most denehtful dreams to see me im a real ice one, comfortably smoking my cigar in my own house, after eating wh delicious little supper in company with own dear wife. We selected the chair, and then were about to order the things sent to our future home, when I happened to think that we bad no bed. I called Euphemia’s attention to the fact. She was thunderstruck. “TI never thought of that,” she said. “ We shall have to give up the stove.” “+ Not at all,” said I; + we can’t do that. “We must give up the easy-chair.” “Oh, that would be too bad,” said she. “The house would scem like nothing to me without the chair!” jut we must do without it, my dear,” said I, “tat least for awhile. I can’ sit out ondeck and smoke of anevening, rou know.” “Yes,” said Euphemia. “You can sit on the bulwarks and I can sit by you. That will do very well. I'm sure I’m glad the boat has bulwarks.” + So we resigned the easy-chair and bought a bedstead and some very piain bedding. The bedstead was what is sometimes called a “¢scissors-bed.”” You could shut it up when you didn’t want to sleep in it, and stand it against the wall. When we paced up our trunks and ,Jeft the boarding-house Euphemia fairly skipped with Joy. We went down to Ginx’s in the first boat, haying arranged that our furniture should be sent tous in the afternoon. We wanted to be there to receive it. The trip was just wildly delirious. The air was charming. The sun was bright, and I hadawhole holiday. When we reached Ginx’s we found that the best way to get our trunks and ourselves to our house was to take a carriage, and s0 we took one. I told the driver to just drive along the river road and I would tell him where to stop. ‘When we reached our boat, and had alighted, I said to the driver: “You can just put our trunks inside, any- where.” ‘The man looked atthe trunks and then look- ed at the boat. Afterward he looked at me. * That boat ain’t goin’ anywhere,” said he. **T should think not,” said Euphemia. “ We shouldo’t want to live in it, if it were.”” ** You are going to live in it?”’ said the man. “ Yes,” said. Eupbemia. “ On!” said the mau, and he took our trunks on board without another word. It was not yery easy for him to get the trunks into our uew home. ‘In fact, it was not easy for us to get there ourselves. There was a gang- plank, with a rail on one side of it, which in- clined from the shore to the deck of the boat at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and when the;man had staggered up this plank with the trunks (Euphemis said 1 ought to have helped him, but I realiy thought it would be better for one person to-fall off the plank than for two to go over together), and we had paid him, aud he had driven away in aspeechless condition, we scrambled up and stood upon the threshold, or, rather, the after-deck of ourhome. . * It was a proud moment. Euphemia glanced around, her eyes full of havpy tears, and then she took my arm and we went down-stairs—at least we tried to godown in that fashion, but soon found it necessary to go one ata time. We wandered over the whole extent of our mansion, and found that our carpenter had done his work better than the woman whora we had engaged to scrub and clean the house. Something akin to despsir must have seized upon her, for Kuphemia declared that the floors looked rather dirtier than on the occa- sion of her first visit, when we rented the boat. But that didn't discourage us. We felt sure that we should get it clean in time. Early in the afternoon our furniture arrived, together with the other things we had bought, ‘and the men who brought them over from the steamboat landing had the brightest, merriest faces I ever noticed among that class of people. Euphemia said it was an excellent omen to have such cheerful fellows come to us on the very tirst day of our housekeeping. "Yhen we went to work. I put up the stove, which was not much trouble, as there was a place allready in tho deck for the store-pipe to berun through. Euphemia was somewhat sur- prised at the absence of a chimney, but I as- gured her that boats were very seldom built witb chimneys. My dear ‘little wife bustled about and arranged the pots and kettleson nails that I drove into the kitchen walls. Then she made the bed in the bedroom, aud I hung upa Jooking-glass and a few little pictures that we had brought in our trunks. Before 4 o'clock our house was inorder. Then we began to be very hungry. “My dear,” said Euphemia, “we ought to have thought to bring something to cooks’ “That is very true,” said I, “but I think perhaps we had better walk up to Ginx’agnd get. our supper to-night. You. sce we aré so tired and hungry.”” “What!” cried Euphemia, ‘go to a hotel the very first day? I think it would be dreadful! ‘Why, Ihave been looking forward to this first meal with the greatest delight. You can go up to the Httle store by the hotel and buy some things and I will cook them, and we will have our first dear little meal here all alone by our- selves, at our own table and in our own house.”” So this was determined upon, and, after a hasty counting of the fund I had reserved for moving and Kindred expenses, and which had been sorely depleted during the day, [sct out. and inalmost an hour returned with my first marketing. { made a fire, using alot of chips and blocks the carpenter had left, and Euphemia cooked the supper, and we ate it from our little table, with two large towels for a table-cloth. It was the most delightful meal Lever ate! ‘And, when we had finished,> Euphemia washed the dishes (the thoughtful creature had put some water on the stove to heat for the purpose, while we were at supper), and then we went on deck, or on the piazza, 2s Euphemia thought we had better call it, and there we had our smoke. I say we, for Euphemia always helps Re to smoke by sitting by me, and she seeins to enjoy it a3 much as I do. ‘And when the shades of evening began to gather around us, I hauled in the g-plank Gust like a delighttul old draw-bridge, Eupte- mia suid, although I hope, for the sake of our ancestors, that draw-bridges were easier to haul in) and went to bed. ar It is lucky we were tired and wanted to go to bed early, for we had forgotten all about lamps or candles. For thenext week we were two busy and happy people. 1 rose about halt-past 5 and mude the fire,—we found so much wood on the shore that I thought I should not nave to add fuel to my expeuses,—and Euphemia cooked the breakfast. Ithen went toa well belouging to acottage near by where we bad arranged for water privileges, and filled two buckets with ‘delicious water and Carried them home for Euphemia’s use through tac day. Then I hurried of to’ catch the train, for, as there was a station near Ginx’s, Iceased to patronize the steamboat, the hours of which were not convenient. After aday of work and pleasurable ‘anticipation at the ollice, I hastened back to my home, gener- ally Jaden with a basket of provisions and vari- ous household necessities. Milk was brought to us daily from the above-mentioned cottage by a little toddler who seemed just able to carry the small tin bucket which held 4 lacteal pint. If the urchin had been the child of rich parents, as, Eupbemia sometimes observed, he would have been in bis nurse’s arms,—but, being poor, he was scarcely weaned before he began to carry milk around to other people. After [reached home came supper and the delightful evening hours, when over my pipe (1, soon gave up cigars, as being too expensive and inappropriate, and took toa tall pipe and can- aster tobacco) we talked, and planned, and told each other our day’s experience. One of our eartiest subjects of discussion was the name of our homestead. Euphemia insist- edtiat itshould haveaname. I was quite willing, but we found it no easy mat- ter to select an appropriate title. I pro- posed a number of appeilations intended to suggest the character of our home. Among these were: ‘*Safe Ashore,” “Firmly Ground- ed,? and some other names of that style, but Euphemia*did vot fancy any of them. She wanted a suitable name, of course, she said, but it must be something that would sound like a house and be like a boat. * Partitionville”? she objected to, and “Gang- Plank Terrace did, not suit her. becat gested convicts going out to work, whi urally, was unpleasant. ‘At Jast, after days of talk and cogitation, we named our house “ Rudder Grange.” ‘To be sure, it wasn’t’ exactly a grange, but then it had such an enormous rudder that the justice of that part of the title seemed to over- lance any little inaccuracy in the other por- tion. But we did not spend all our spare time in talking. An hour or“two every evening was occupied in what we called ‘fixing the house,” and gradually the inside of our abode bezan to look like a conventional dwelling. We put matting on the floors and cheap but pretty paper onthe Walls. We added now a couple of chairs, and now a tabie or something forthe kitchen. Frequently. especially of a Sunday, we nad company, and our guests were © always charmed with Euphemia’s ¢unning little meals. ‘The dear girl loved gvod eating’so much that she could scarcely fail to be a ood cook. We removed our hed to the extreme bow-part of the boat, and put up mustin curtains to sepa- rate it from the parlor. We worked hard, and were very happy. And thus the Weeks passed on. In this delightful way of -living, only one thing troubled us. We didn’t save any money. There were so many little things that we wanted, and so many little things that were so cheap, that I spent pretty much all I made, and that was far from the philosophical plan of living that 1 wished to follow. We talked this matter over a great deal after we had lived in our new home for about a month, and we came at last to the conclusion that we would take a boarder. We had no trouble in getting a boarder, for we had a friend, a young man who was engaged in the flour business, who was very anxious to come and live with us. He had been to see us two or three times, aud had expressed binself charmed with our household arrangements. So we made terms with him. The car- penter partitioned off another room, and our boarder brought his trunk and a large red velvet. arm-chair, and took up his abode at, “Rudder Grat 2 We liked our boarder very much, but he had some peculiarities, I suppose everybody has them. Among other things, he was very fond of telling us what we ought to do. He sug- gested. more improvements in the first three days of bis sojourn with us than I had thought of since we commenced housckeeping. And %yhat made the matter worse, his suggestions were generally very good ones. Had it been otherwise might have borne his remarks more complacently, but to be continually told what you ought to do, and to know that you ought to do it, is extreme- ly annoying, He was very anxious that I should take off the rudder, which was certainly useless to a boat situated as ours was, and make af ironing table of it. {persisted that the laws of symmetrical propriety required that the rudder should re- main where it was—tbat the very name of our home would be interfered with by its removal, but he insisted that “lroning-Table Grange” would be just es good a name, and that sym- metrical propriety in such a case did not amouut to arow of pins. The result was, that we did have the ironing table, and that Euphemia was very much pleased with it.» A great many other improve- ments were projected and carried out by him, ant I was very much worried. He madd a flower-garden for Euphemiaon the extreme forward-deck, and, having borrowed a wheel- barrow, he wheeled dozens of loads of arable dirt up our gang-plank and dumped them out onthedeck. When he had covered the garden with a suitable depth of earth, he smoothed it off, and then planted flower-seeds. It was rather late in the season, but inost of them came up. Iwas pleased with the garden, but sorry I bad not made it myself. i One afternoon I got away from the office con- siderably earlier than usual, and I burried home toenjoy the short period of daylight that I should have before suppen It had been rain- ing the day before, and, a3 the bottom of our garden leaked so that earthy water trickled down at one end of our bed-room, I intended to devote a short tine to stufliug up the ersck ia the ceiling or bottom of the deck— seems the must appropriate. k—whicheny But when I reached a bend in the road, whence I always had the earliest ie mg ‘estublishment, I didn’t have that viet Ihurried on. The ‘hearer I approached“, place where I lived, the more horror-strick became. ‘There was no mistaking the bee"! whe ‘boat was ine there! a ‘nan instant the truth flashed u The water was very high,—the oe ag swollen . oi house had floata It was Wednésdas. On Wean eu ote Poarube came Lone early. day alter clapped m: tightly on gronnd my teeth. Yon my head ang He oune iat boarder!" “He bas been fooling with th always said; it was of no ue, and, ‘taking it yantaze of my absence, he has hauled itu a has floated away, and has gone~goue with, we wile ‘and my hone i a si ‘h my ‘uphemia an adder Grange” toaether,—where I knew not,—and wage hee that horrible suggester! them Tran wildly along the bank. I calle, Ishouted and hallea each passing which there were only two—but ther must have been very inattentive to themocent landsmen, or else tiey did not lear me henge paid LO attention to my erles, or they meta fellow with an ax on hi shouted to him before Lreached Hs shoulder, 1 * Hello! did you see a buat—a hous —floating up the river?” house, I mean “A boat-house?” asked the man. “No, a house-boat,” I gasped. “Didn't see nuthin’ like it,” saia th, and he massed 08; t0 itis wife and home ae joubt. But me! Oh, where wi ite’ my home? Se Was my wile and {met several people, but not seen a fusitive canal-boat. "°F them baa 2 thought, ‘d_alond, craft—of How many thoughts came int . ran along the river road? It that ewe ss2 boarder had not. taken the syrfetehed an froning-table, he might ‘haya Zt, {oF in shore! sais one scala £ confoumies mental ejaculations co my acntal eh ald do itis Iwas rapidly becoming epson wha Ralled mae ** Hello!” he said, “are adrift" a you after a canal-boat ‘tes, T panted. “I thought you was,” he said, that way. "Well, ea tell von whee eked She's stuck fast in the reeds a r Sue's ature ta t the lower end of wy Miere's that” sald T “Oh, it’s about a mile ford her a-driftin’ ap with the tide,—bie food ie to-day,—and I ‘thought T’d see somebody site? her, afore long. Anything aboard?” yaar Anything! r, col not answer the man. ding +{n. deed! [hurried on up the siren anes word. Was the boat a wreck? T scanel dred to think of it. “I searcely dared to thnk at . ‘Tne man called after me, and Isto could but stop, no matter what T bist ee, | “ Hello, mister,” he said, “got ans tobacco? Lwalked up tu him. 1 took hold of him by thetapel of his coat. It was a dirty lapel, as reyieinier even now, but J didn’t mind that. * “Look here,” said IL.“ Tell me the trath, I can bear it. Was that vessel wrecked?” Tne man looked at mea Iittlequeerly. Icoula not exactly interpret his expression, “ You're sure you kin bear it?” said he. “Yes,” sald {my hand trembling as held is coat. “Well, then)” said he, “It’s more’s be and he jerked his coatout of my Band eg spranz ana + Shen ke reached the other aide of the road he turned and shouted though I had been deat. soe = Du you know what I think?” he yelled, “] tnink you’re a darned iunatic;” and with that he went bis FSS lastened on to Peter's Point. Lon; Treached it | saw the bout. ess dt was apparently deserted. But still 1 pressed on.. When Ireached the Point I fond that the boat had run aground, with her head in among the long reeds and mnd, and the rest of her hull lying at an angle from the shore. “There Was consequently no way for me toget onboard but towade through the mud snd reeds to her bow, and then climb up as. well as. could. This J tia, but it was not easy todo. Twice 1sank above my knees in mud and water, ant had it not been for reeds, masses of which f tre- quently ctutched when I bela dn I was going over, I believe I shoula have fallen down and come to death in that horrible marsh. When I reached the boat, { stood up to my hips in water and saw no way of climbing up.’ The gang-plank bad undoubtedly floated away, and if it had not it would have been of no use to me in my position. But_1 was desperate. I clasped the post that they put in the bow of canal-boats; [ stuck my toes and my tinger-nails {n the eracks between the boards,—how glad I was that the boat was an old one and had cracks!— and so, painfully and slowly, slioping part way down ouce or twice, and besliming myself from chin to foot, I climed up that post and seram- bled upon deck. In-aninstant, I reached the top of the stairs, and in another instant I rushed * below ‘There sat my wife and our boarder, one on each side of the dining-room table, complaceatly playing checkers! , ‘My sudden entrance startled them. My 4p pearance startled them still more. + Euphemia sprang to her feet and tottered to- ward me. - % Mercy!” she exclaimed, ‘thas anything hay pened ?’” “Happened!” I gasped. “Look here,” cried the boarder, clutching me by the arm, ‘what a condition you're ic you fall in?” “Fall in!” said I. 4 Euphemia and the boarder looked at each other. 1 looked at them. Then J opened my mouth in earnest. “ T suppose you don’t know,” I yelled, “that _ you have drifted away!” é : “ By George!” cried the boarder, and in two bounds he was on deck. Dirty as 1 was, Euphemia fell into mf arms. Ttold her all. She hadn’t known a bit ot it. ‘The boat bad su gently drifted off, and bad 30 gently grounded among the reeds. that the vor- ave had never so much as disturbed their games of checkers. , * He plays such a splendid game,” Euphemis sobbed, ‘and just as you came I thought 1 was doing to beat him.” I had two kings and two pieces on the next to last row, and you: are nearly drowfed. You'll get your death of cold —and—and he had only one king.”? She led me away, and I undressed and washed inyeelf, and put on my Sunday clothes. When I'reappeared I went out on deck with Euphemia. The boarder was there, standing by the petunia bed. His arms were folded, and he was thinking profoundly. As we approached, he turned toward us. “You were right about that anchor,” he sald. “J should not nave hauled it in; but it was such frantle when I met g hi a little anchor that I thought it would be of * 1 more use on board as a garden hoe.” “A very little anchor will sometimes do very well,” said I, cuttingly, ‘when it is hooked around a tree.”” - Yes, there is something in that,” sald he. {t was now growing late. and a3 our agitation subsided we began to grow hungry. Fortunate ly. we had everything necessary on board, 0d, us it really didn’t make any difference ja our household ecouomy where we happen located, we had eupper quite as usual. In fsch the kettie had been put on to boil during the checker-playing. Alter supper, we went on deck to smoke, # yas our custom, but there was a certain coolness between me and our boarder.$ Early the next morning Larose and went Up stairs to consider what had setter be done when I saw the boarder standing on shore neat by. MeHtello!” tie cried, “the tide's down andl. got ashore without any trouble. You stay where you are. ured a couple of males ee tow the boat back. ‘They'll be here presently And, bgllo! I’ve found the gang-plank.. a floated ashore about a quarter of a mile belo here. Tn about ten minutes the mules and two meB with a long rope appeared, and then one of “4 men and the boarder came on board (they aida seem to have any ditllculty in so doin). ved Tearried the ironing-table on deck and ship! it i its place as a rudder. longed. And we are there yet. Our boarder, mains With us, as the weather is still a and the coldness between us is gradually dia ishing. But the boat is moored at both e and twice a day Ilook to see if the ropes are right. tbe ‘The petunias are growing beautifully, Later geraniums do not scem to flourish. Perl there is not a sufficient depth of earth for th ra Several times our boarder has appear ward on the point of suggesting something in. Me “1 tu them, but, for some reason or other, he's nothing. —=—— THE RIGHT FIGURES. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cutcaco, Feb. 15.—In your report this morn Ying of the monthly meeting of the Woms0’s Christian Association you say the proceeds the roncert given on the West Side $24.90. It would be doing great injustice totbe many friends who so kindly eave, thelr serricce syed tomake it the success which It was 10 that error to Fomaln unnoticed. . We $250 clear of all expenses. Jeswiz S. Gar, Treasurer of W. C. Ae were then towed back to where we be Jan. SL were poset