Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1874, Page 2

A LITERARY CURIOSIFY. A Ia4y occupied a whole year tu searching for and fitting the following thirty-eight lines from Englieh and American ports. reads almost as if it had been written at one | time and by oue author Life. Why all this tou for triumphs of an hoar? short sammer—msn is By turns we catch the fatal } + ‘The cradle snd the tomb, alas! so nigh. be better far than not to be, Phoagh all man’s life may seem a tragedy; Bat light cares speak when mighty dam! The bottom ia but shallow whence thi (Sir Walter Kalergh. Your fate is but the common fat Unmingled joys here no man befall; Nature to each allots nls proper sphere, Fortune makes folly her pecalisr care; Custom does often reason overrale, And throw a cruel sunshine on 8 fool. [ Armstrong. Live well,—how long or short permit to h They who forgive most shalt be most, forgiven. Sin may be clasped co close we cannot see its arse where virtue has not placa Then keep each passion down, however dar, Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear: y Her sensual snares let faithless pleasures lay With craft and skill to rnin and betray, Oh, then, renounce that impious self-« Riches have wings, and gran tear is « dream. ‘Think not ambition The paths of glory le: What is ambition? ‘Tis glorious cheat. 4 tractive to the brave aud great ‘What's ail the gaudy glitter of a crown ‘The way to bliss lier not on beds ord How long we live, not ved$s bu v That man lives twice who lives the m: well. Make, then, while yet ye ma: your God your Christians worship, ‘The trust that's given guard, and] to yourse! For live we how we may, yet die we mast THE GARNET RING. e fishing village which has grown up lea of Mount Satut Michael rouses to its most intense life when it pleases the dog- | the pilchards shell enter the bay. Whether the pilchards more in a certain line of travel, which the dog-fish have dis ered and follow, I do not know; or wheth the other hand, the pilcbards wo some Diest spot, unprovoked by fish 1 unsalted, blushing wu and hidden in remote caves no dog-fish—this I know not. this: that, to the blessing of fishermen ou the pilehards, uncoanted | ear of a sudden, ~ above the water fn which no sunk. Cornish coast, and uncoan! F arrival, pat im untold thouss ngiand, and the we: hey did not coms @ happened, | the food for the haif of E of half Cornwall. thus, this story would wever nor would it ever have been writ For in » ban! of pilchards, whic still memora’ te in the traditions of Mou Michael, so enurmons was the yield that med that Mark Trevor, as bouest aud herman a! ever role ‘his lay of the heavy no man kaaw or ¢ gunwale, aud must | lt heavily ove have been entan boa!wen saw him t the whole catch. gail, the lame ma io the reseus at 6 at length of the seine con'd be parted from e vext length. it was parted, aud with the whoie torce of the three bor i But it was tov lat>, Mark Trevor's body home stark at wonid ever draw seine azein Everybody hked Mark i ved bis little daughier & , the pet of the vil and, a8 soon as a funeral service of more solem Tough children of ogress wn} of gisut-kitlors ish on the dead how agreed that Peg should ve Of a child of the regiment, that she should bs cared for as wellas the very best of thom; it came to be a custom, that, at the endofe: drawing of the long seises ing to the success of th dranght of dshes, should bring twenty, or fifty,oreven a hundred, of the bs bards which fell to bis share, to whichever but bad the clarge of their pet child, Peg Trevor; and these were called “Peg’s catch.” The tishing laste on the Cornish shore from July te October. that though the plichard is the emaliest of fish he feeds the most of men. Peg’s home, vefure she knew what the value of the freewill offering was, ihe very best of the eatch of St. Michael's Bay always came to- gether by a fre law of seluction. Betore Peg was twenty years old, the superstition of these Cornishm=n ied them ail to believe that the min who put one mean Pilchard into Peg’s catch Of the year by this law of the selection of love, ‘eg an independent little woman in her | ‘way; all the more so when Pey herself grew big enough tc take oversight and watch of her catca. Besides the goodwiil of his neigubors, Mark ‘Trevor bad had but little to leave to the or; girl except good blood, and pretty hut, bis boat, and bis len; On bis litle Auger, the day hi dead, was an old-tashion redding day, he had given tohe wife. It was not her wedding ring, but she wore it sbove her wedding ring, as @ after & fashion of those days. med ring, with « great ca: 5 und this ring this pilubard story grows. The ring was precioasly sa were wont to |: it was some- every mau, accord- The Cornishmen say Tais is eure, that at brought hom inthe middl si among Peg’s be- ew up, Sad knew it other's ring, sh> was fond of lookis took to wearing it herself, when she became ® woman; not, for fairnaas’ sake, be it said, from any love of linary, but be- cause they said there was aspellin ‘garusis | “‘Anywise, there would be luck in what her mother wore,” and so for “luck she would wear it." So raid the merry. goot-hearted,feariess girl. And when, one day, after a hard day's work, the ring was fost and nono’y remembered to Wass littledshed. She we: ndeed. But the next morning all was rigut again. She ssid co, and [ believe it was so. “No need to make ealt when your boat's at sea,” Xo need to cry for an addlea egg.” an, the rivg makes It the band is © it po clesner, Gorni b proverbs, which she could bring to bear on ber ride of whatever argument, and her side was always the cheery aud jolly and hopeful and brave side; for the girl was as hearty as her father was before ber, and she wade tai therefore of what was to her inded a very hap- 4 if the reader really cares to kuow what be- came of this ring, it will be easy enoagh to toll It would ‘not be hard to tell him its bis- tory from that day to this day, nor whose finger net ison at this moment, unless, indeed, just now gone to Star or to Guild's to be set ane’ sp in Anthony Skeue’s cham- yw inn in London. been at work all that hat tobim. Something had the: be thony Skene winter day tn the had ever been confided portant matters Z to call in Mr. ‘Anthony is & £ FA Fas Cir ! i é i ; f i CI i i i f E 3 H é i : g 4 ue i i ' a s fh pat F H £ | were co lone} nthony Skene pleasant bome in Hampebire, andof his mother and father, of his sister Hetty, and of the boys. He kicked off bis boots, and be put on his slip- pers, and be felt as it would like to cat his | throst, he was so lone! The tea kettie was simmering on the hob, as Mrs. Godkin had left it, and sit was always left at seven o'clock. Bat the mere comparison of the loneliness and cheerfulness of tue place with the home-feeling | of the Hampshire hob, where his mother's tea- kettle was simmering, made Anthony Skene more wretched, and, as be looked at ths tea- kettle, he swore a sorry oath. Gn a table at one side were muffins, and a tea canister, a cup, sancer and spoon, with a few la of sugar, a bit of butter, and a bit of cheese. And as An. thony Skene remembered the good cheer at his father's house, and who there were at that mo~ ment round bis father’s tale, and how surely they Were talking of him,he swore another because he was so lonely. 1 chambers were good enough cham'er poor Autbony Skene felt more forlorn than ever. None the less did he make his cap of tea, and vet the saucer upon it, after the fasbion of those days. And he toasted a muffia, and buttered at still the bachelor meal seemed to him— » Was—very forlorn. Andi so it was that be id to bimseli that be would op pilebardy, which his client, John Hold bad sent him with bis last retaining“fee. Pilchards were usually packed in bogsheads; but sometimes a man ip business knew where to finda choice “Jot” put op with much care in along Dox, jast as wiie as the pilehards were long; mach, indeed, as the reader may see herrings packed to-dsy. And such a box had the faithful and admiring John Holt sent to his faithful coun- selor, Anthony Skene. Anthony Skene took down from its nail a lit- te hstehet, with which, with his own hands, he a.lit the wood that kindled his coal. ‘te Ovencd the dex, and picked cut two pilchatds, that he might toast them aiso over the dre. As he lifted them from the box. something sparkled and fell. He found it on the . Tt was garnet ring. The reser, of course, sees that it was Peg Trevor's garuet ring. Autbony Skene warmed the pilchards, toastad them through. One of them took fire, but was extinguished easily; and, though a little smoked, it added to the cheer of the simpie meal. An- thony Skene had made hlaselt another cop of tea. He set aside the tray far Mrs. Godkia to make ali clean in the morning, and then found for himseif a bottle of choice old Port, still halt He brought this oat, with a daintily-cuc , one of six, which bad been his father’s gittobim. He drew up a second chair to bis Feet; be lighted his pipe; be blew carla of suoke into'the sir and watched them as they twisted, dgand broke, se swore no more sorry No; he was more cheerful, becan. Was more comfortable. But all the time he plaved with the garnet ring. And he fancied fancies, and he dreamed dreams. that found their center in the the pipe was out, at of the bettie, and he corked it resolutely, the cupboard, Authony Skens said aloud, “1 will ask the women that wore that rg to marry me; and, if she says Yes,’ will never live in these chambers more. y to say, that, as he spoke of the cham- denounced them by a word which gen- € no longer. Skene was a good lawyer, a hig gias q "scourt said; but he was an im- «dl, when le took the bit be- ot (nee ‘ itwas no commen curb that hindered him, until some other fancy crossed bis way. This is what happened to the ring. But what I an to teil ppened to Anthony Sken ‘ot in that error va prahat you may look in the reports of the [X., x 1X1. Annw Reg. Middl.ts it not all writ ten there? Long before A and Z had or bad been settled, th ing events hap ito Authons Skene, which are now to be written down. The tummer term of \ year was well over, and Anthony Skene, like a!l other men in chambers, Lad earned his long vacation. Hs told Mrs. Gookin th ould not be back for six weeks. He packed his little rouna’ horse- uisn’s valise, after the fashion of that time. Into @ leatber belt, after another fashion of t time, he pat (birty of Queen A ‘ret compattm nes guine nto his belt, lam packet, in the heart of garnetring. Thus equipped, he her's house in Hampshire; and Skenes as well,’ ai | the pretty neighbors, and all the gay yonng me | of bis earty lite, be made holiday for the rest of | that week. There was a pretty Lucy Savage there, who was the nearest friend of Sarah 5 and Sarah Skene certainly bad scliomes hich involved Lucy Savage snd Anthony And Antuony certainly did flirt a lutte Savage; to whom, indeed, he had brough a copy of Mr. Gay's last volume from | town. Bat this is the way with young people, aud must be excused even with barristers in chambers, though tuey carry hidden garnet ri bes. When the Monday came, in s himgelf awa: e Was rather & tender scane sou Suuday evening, when young his good-byes there. Ald his tunderstand why leave he did. < leare 80 soon. the west,” he said, as ho hod avid whi rived. And the girls thought it 40 gran their bother should have important bitsi which could not be «poker of, aud mast b he alinded to, that they were almost con sated for losing their brother by that iis father would not hear to his goiv the horse he had bought in London, but b'm on the best road: so Master Anthor: breakfast. on the * siness WSs, as it may he h to learn woat was the bh gsi ing. For this purpe Anthony armed himself with letters trom great Loate Sishmongers, to ail parties of consequence in their line in Cornwall. And he had, away in the round portmanteau, the painted end of the box of pilcbards, which he had opened in bis chambers on that fatal evening. The journey was vot without adveatares; but the adventures shall not be here described. Anthovy was a bit of a politician; and he was pot sorry to nec the points which were than famonsto liberal-minded Eng!ishmeu lovers of the *‘glorious memory.” from their coane: o with the landingeof William and of Monmouth. Bat be wasted no time in studying history. He Jegged on and on, after the fashion of those daye, and dreamed, as after the fashion of all daye,on what manner of a tinger it might be that this quaint ring now so near his heart had rested or, sud what manner of a woman she might be to whom that little finger belonged, atd what msnner of home it might be which he was going to ask her to leav a what manner of nest that might be to which be was | going to ask herto come. For Anthony Skene was 4¢ young as yon and I are, (though all this was bundred and seventy years go) and could dream with the dreamiest of as all. yet, ail of a sudden the dream brok short. Anthony had still near three days’ ju wey before him, for he had not yet entered Cornwall, and was just crossing a fittle bridge, which may, | believe, still beseen in Tavistock, when the noble horse he rode stacted as if he had been shot, winnied asif in agony, tried to ran, but run in a halting gait, which Anthony did not understand, and then = hort in In answer to his ma-ter's direction, and stood stock still, only trembling and snorting ettil, as if ip pain. Anthony dismounted in an instant, and in an instant more found the cause of sor- row. In @ bit of woodwork on the briige a vicious nail had turned upward, which the poor creature’e foot Lad strack; the iron had pierced into the yuick; and blood already was tlowin, from the wound. Anthouy was farrier enoug' to withdraw the nail tn a moment, but the poor Loree, who showed signs, was wretchedly lame. thony led him back to the snng little inn ch he had left but five minutes before, ant held converse with the landlord. ‘The man had & gray roadster whom he was fain to let An- thony take tor the rest of his jonrney. Bat, after Anthony had looked at his beast, he de- termined rather to go on to Cornwa!! aad hunt up the lady of his dreams, on foot, than ride on sech a jade. After he hed declined the horse, and not till then, his host toldhim thet John Twitchell, a very decent Cornishman, who had been @carrier On the London road for many years, would pass the house the next morning on his way to Plymouth; that John’s cart was light, covered cart on springs, with & good span of horses; that behind John’s seat was a shaded seat, where he was always glad to take up de- cent people; and that, in short, Master Skene could go forward thus to Plymouth, if he chose. And, as he did choose, 60 it was ordered. ‘What was not explained to Anthouy was of much more importance than what was ex- plained. As he sat the next day in the common room of the inn waiting tor John Twitchell, after his breakfast, a sey party of young people came riding down to theiun, on’ of whom, s @ , brown-haired, cherry.chgeked girl of twenty, was to be,as it proved, Authony witcheli’s taxed r party had come down from , the pretty girl good-bye. It enough that the atventure of the day's journey was a frolic to each and all of them. There was much nthe box of cels, tn’ remount the carrt for was to see the young lady himaelf agreeable to the old one. the firet nor the last young man who found him- self in the same position. the stupid bt poor ern to show hup silk handker- chiete, exam: praised the qualit three one riding glovi who had scented the customer from afar, cou! not resist, and herself interposed, sending Saw to duty for which he was more fitted. ‘atitade in a dozen pretty | and with afew more skilf few even those skilful compliments, Mastar An- thony bad made of her a slave. send the parcel home for him. “Three Belis.”* best honse? reat of the bar were there, and hts lordshi pew Spectators which Mrs. Wari inknown beanty zed John good nredly, and he her with devotion. Every possible cane ae lavished onthe little giaqd be had lady's box and her several dain’ Twitchell put something something elre behind ber back; aud it was o1 at ihe last under her feet, and 7 moment that the least atten'ion was prid to Mr. Anthony Skene of the Ne . Who was waiting to take passage also. Thea ho ‘was harried iu; and, as he blessed hi * for such fair companiooship, they started oa their | Way. ‘The journey to Plymouth is but twenty-two miles; and with John Twitchell’s horees, even With all the delsysof Jobn Twitchell's duties and position, they were sure to arrive before three in the afternoon. Mr. Skene was far too well-bred to intrude himseif onthe young gentlewoman, if she were a gentlewoman, whom kind fate had placed so near him. H> began very carefully wits Jotn Twitchell, méelf as agreeable with him as he how. He talked with the lady—if she wero lady—througb John Twitchell, sotospeak; and watched all the time for one attention or an- other, which he might show toher, which might not be obtrusive, butsuch asa geutleman might offer without offence to the noblest !ady in the land, Fortanately for him in this business, Anthony Skene wasa gentleman. Inthe nonler and larger use of the word, John Twitchell was another; he would have wrung Master Skene's n for him, had bt by sign or word offended the pretty young |: horat behind the carter. So sbe wasquite from ¥ pos snoyance, even to her timitlity; and eo, it happened that before an hour was past, they were all three on excellent terms, and the barriers between thelr etation and hers were «Leom‘for'ably broken down. Any qvestion as to the youve lady's name Was so far solved as this, that Jobn Twitch! cali d her “Miss Waring;” and it_appeared thatshe was going to her aunt, Mrs. Waring, of Plymouth. It was while John waterad his side trough, and while Mr. aud Miss Waring walked up the long bili Sk tog-ther, that the talk of the two young people first became brisk and animated. But the day was to» lovely, and they too cheerful for it to ba stil very long; and they really chatted as if they had oid friends. “Oh, no!" said she, laughing. “It frightens me to think of going to London. Piymoath here is quite wondertal enough fora country lass like we.” He bad asked her if she had ever seen London. “ te not Pl; month your home, then?” Yex and uo,” said she. Was she playing with him the least bit in the world? and was | and she determined that le shon!d tell her every- thing about himself, while he learned nothing outher? “Tam so much at home with my dear eld aunt, whom 1 am going to, taat it would be wicked to say that Plymouth was not home. That is one answer. But Plymouth isa great city, for ail that; amd Tam only a country gd wife longed to ark her what her aunt's name was, and to find ont what hor station was; but he did not dare. He did say: “Ls the Life in +4 4 mou 32" “Gay? Gay to gay people, I daresay. It ia ery nice life tome. But i only see the gay peopie when [ go to charch, and see them as they stream in there.” And here she burst into uncontrollable laughter; but sho said: ++ i was going to tell you how badly I behaved to some of Aunt Susan's gay friends; but it will not do to tell you this story. Yet, no. Tdaresay a young gentieman Like you will find Plymouth y lite is very qalet there.” “Then you have some time to read. like to Jend you the last Spectators.”” She looked round rather gratefully. «Would you indeed, just for aday? That ts very kind. My aunt ha a good many; oh, she has t wenty Bat sbe bas - ot had one for two, nor for three months,” and eo they fell to talking of The Spectate Anthony Skene w when be said that he k tlemen who wrote in ‘The thaken bands with Mr. Sicele, and had dined with Lord Fairfax, and descrived very 4 antly Fairfax’s talk about the paper whi then the town talk, he recommended t » to his pretty friend, sposed to lead of its wonders. wis indeed, w overtook them, and toc once again Arrived at Plymonth was eatistied; for Joh deitvered a boxora p into Queen street, and left the door of Mistrees Wart Now Mistress proved to ba the mistress of a well-to- | do shop on a principal street ot Plymouth—a shop which, without plata windows, or sign of any sort, contained almost everything which the neighborhood, rather than tho people of | Plymouth, might be supposed to want. Mrs Waring aud astout apprentice, and a frightened | servant, attended the shop, which was parted from the street by half-door. Ths good woman welcomed ber miece with the undieguised adml- | ration with which every one weicomed her, stepping plamply in front of poor Anthony,who had hoped for the pleasure of giving bis hand to | the young lady as she etepped from the car. | Tiagé, or pertiaps even lifting her from ite | heights. Mrs. Waring left him to himssit, took the girlin both her bands, and tenderly litted her to the step of tho shop, kissed her on both cheeka, and loudly expressad her joy. niece kissed her tarned to b Twitchell good-bye, gave her hand travkly to | Mr. Skene, and said to her annt, “Duis gent man ha been very kind to me.”” Mra. Waring looked up amazed, uncon ti'! now, ard asked the puzzii hat ia tia fear” noone coul cotacs Anthony; he was fain to say himself that he was Mr, Skene; and added, with a Lordyner's prito, “from London.” ‘The words did not betp bisa with Mrs Waring. She thanked him for ai esy fo her charge wih some atste, anit 1D busiled that young lady, her box an: o the shop Mr. Anthony was le '¢ wagon alone. It must be confessed that the hours between I should etator. ftiathe had ‘They were vory mn John Twi kK them under witchell, befvre he is pretty charge at ran eight and three had proved enongh to cura Lim of any immediate determination to preas his journe: of mac had these hours of pleasant unaffected talk | with this pleasant, unaffected girl. ordered his dinner, ate it, looked out of his roll of new Spectators, put them ina parcel, and directed them in his best, to ‘Miss Waring, with the respects of A. Skene;"’ and then. hav- | ing planned onthis campaign for that day and | j, for the next day, started outto make the best | 5, use he might of what was leftof the afternoon | and evening. a bidden — Kee prseamcts rpm the = where the judge and bar made their home, and, among the counsel who rode that circuit, he had found one or two acquaintances. A London lawye no difficulty in obtaining an introduction, even to the judge: walkin a the ts walking gear as the por! Started om his miseion with He was a little amused himself, and a little an. py en to tind himseif goin; a into Cornwall. The garnet ring was less conseqnence to him since he had Mr. Skene | Nor was he so unsuccessful. He young rot as reputation as be had aud so Anthony Skene, bavin, veling gear, and downed suct itesu furnished, base well-secured. bis to make court with ‘lymouth shopkeeper. ut be did not flinch at. And be knew very well, that if he ain, he must make He was not He walked modestly in the shop, and asked ned with care those that appeared, 'y of the best, and laid two or de. ‘Then he asked for the best and by this time, Mrs. se “Liperick? Yes, sir; those [ know are Lim. erick. But we call these as good; they are sewed to my own order.” “Indeed they are, indeed they are,” said the skilfal Anthony. “Ieannot buy such in Lon- don. ‘three shillings, you aay; let me have four pair, Mrs. Waring.” The mercers will cheat me there. Only Mrs. Waring was well-nigh captured then; purchases, and a Should she not Yes, po, yes.” She might send them to the Was the “Three Kells” tho He bad gone there because the “Oh, yes, sir, tt is! Well, the “Crown’ is a No, before; was not golng to join the circuit now, but had some business that would keep hin 1A Plymouth a few da: Could Mrs. Waring name to him a good shoemaker? Of course she conid; and so ou, until, when, at the end of fif- teen minutes, Mr. Skene be baila few rhaps, and which hehad promised to br ber prog that lady, without the least hesits- ton, begged bim to come into her own parlor, and withoat the loast hesitation called the traveler down etuirs. She was surprised z to see her companion 80 soon, and s cordial shauk, amd eald so, and thanked him most heartily for the Fale erp #0 they fell to tathing in the est world; and Anthony told Mrs. Warin, stories of Mr. Addison and Mr. Dick 68 and my Lord Mari- finding Mrs. Waring bad eccie- CALS to tell an ansedote At was with the ‘frightened Sia teacap aad a i; sEeh Ha Ht BH ne : i i i (3 * in no port aanoh: but | y by sight alt the gen- | | How he could get at her, or it he could get at - | ber, in this home to whi {m'on to teli of | | she walke | Mr. Skeno’s curiosity | | She »had driven round | ggain: | saying. | ter,” said Anthony ingeniously, “I could only | Skene nad never been on this circult | really desires is to appe: ve her be ong to be an evidence of A adopted, the idea of askin, nd pted, ae ‘e it wayin the | them is little | riety. ‘and tn short, | orcs a comical afraid there ia the Ina t reflection, tha it poor Hengist, the roan horse. mu co lame, ls was gone tame unfortunate nail? Weil, it was well nigh ten o'clock befara he had told all bis eories. had listened to Mra. Waring’s. +r companion not displeased at the goot ceuse which that lady ehowed es she x er part iu the conversation, bat for her- B Anthony might have desired. At ten be with- with Lim to the assizes to- marrow find for them a good piace, here they might see the (tial of Bleck Will and the Dartmon bruises, two notorious bighwayme: 0 bad even attacked Lord Penrhyn in h age and g for it. Anthony had Isarned iy Penrhyn and the bishop’s wife were be af the trial, and both bis hostesses were Pieesed indeed to be invited to assist at it in such good company. And tothe trial they went together. And so on, and soon, and soon. The youn Tady’s visit to Plymouth las‘ed a fortnight, an the yoang man’s business detaived bim # fort- night too. that he might docks Every morning he wonld keep ap | the pretence of occupation, by going to the | Clerical Ham >r. Teadersiwili surely remember Some of our tTarttock Where | Rev. Mr. Whitterton, whilom or ce-nbridg+ ty parcels. Jonn wont Master Anthony b+ jnst mow Dut for that | kuew bim wel, bi preach oft Wa m-bearied and tmpuisive; Gear lover ot the really eood thin, was deeply rei ete of numor Was o joke. In fuct, © eastiy am peaking 80 much or so often ss Master | fall from his lips, t) open to severe , hat bad skilfully epgaged the laiites to go | sober and sedste. Md, in the other veara, neard. ite wars good and truly devout flowing, and he One min occasion he wie Malden. It was in the church was hented by @ large febioned, cast iron box stove, long enon ¢ ske fin four foot" sticks of woot; and this stove was sitaated in the broad aisle directly in fronto’, and near tothe high patpit, In the mid-t of sermo.- time the oid stove began to smoke fearfaliy The saxon tried ‘o fix it, but only mate it worse. up the green wood with the poker, the snoke rolled up inadense volume, compiectely envel- | oping and hiding the minieter; bat direct heard, from out the cloud, in nearty, tone: «Courage, courage, my friends. wo ene ring We may yet 4 by spending an honr in listening to | hops that (he sravke of our torment will not as the trials as they went on; but every day.once | cend forever!” atleast, and oftener more than once, he would present himself at the Widow Waring’s to fulfill some appoit day betore Not thst they went every day to Q» ancther ocession he preached in Ark- worth, and at the cose of the afternoon eer- ment which had been made the | vices be gave out the hymn, by Mrs. Browa, commencing :—** I jove to steal awhile away ree highwaymen arraigned. Bat there werothe | By one of these accidents which will somet mos blessed Sandays—of course Mr. Skene muat go te urch; there was an ex: thare & sai) in the ba: enough to do where there ix a fovely girl wite-awake young man, aud a dacnn not rowiiling. No, this story is not to tell what be sait to her, or she said to him, as that fortuight *ped This story, a* you kno’ Nor, indved, do the tau teil what they 6:id toe aft.r the highwaymen we . Fil out the Blacks for yo! ar young | friends who have followed the story so far; for will tell ie what happened ay of the fortnight came. fi that the quest for tle lady af the ring was like the que: kuighte—the ebadow 0 a dream. here the queen of that iJeal howe of his, if s would only reign there; and if not, never shar ¥ queen sit on that vacant throne. The spirit valance and cheeriness of this lovely girl were something wholly new to Anthony, cer- talnly somethin; among the fini take them to Play houee sometimes, nor among the Hampshire girls, who came and | went with his sisters, who coald only flirt, but who had so little to ‘say. Poor Lucy Savage, she was not weil-treated! In trath, his new flame bad bad an independent sort or il with one and another of these relatives eut-of the-way corner of England, had been thrown in with books, with chances to read them, and advisers who put her up to readiag them} which books to this hour are the best reading for a hearty girl era manly boy. Thus the knew “‘Comus” by heart, and half the reat | of Milton. She would sing you Shak song’, and Ben Jonson's and Herrick simple way that made the tears rundown your | cheeks. She believed in Sir Roger de Coverley | more thansbe did iu the Rey. Mr. Gribe, the parton; aud she had a straightferward way of telling you what she believed, and what she did not belleve, auch as bons of Anthony's other flames ever had. And Anthony was man enough tosee andknow aud feel and woder- stand that here was such a woman as be had never seen before, nor would be likely to see | again. Whether she had for him auy share en the slightest, of the overmastering pa hich he had for her, he dil not know; but knew he could tind out. and, like a brave as he was, ho knew notime was like this time. eare’s h she was returning, he did not know. He could come to ber hers. Sunday afternoonther | Wa me - gether, decorously following Mr: as fore with her neighbor 1 the calender, Anthony Skene, told his companlon that he loved her better than Ved himself, and asked her to be bls wite. @ girl did not start. bat =he did not speak. ied to speak once; she tried to <peak | and it was only when be urged har to say something that she found life anit nerve to sa5 Mr. Skene, you ¢o not know what yon are y To begin w.th, you do not know waom | yOu are talking to. 1 know I am talking to the lovelsest girl in England, the only woman I ever loved, or ever shall love; and that it is she 1 beg to mawry | m1 You are talking to a fisherman's daughter— you who are # gentleman’s aon.”” “If I were talking to Simon Peter’s daugh- say what I bave suid—that my life is yours to | make it what you will; my home is yoar home, | though for years it must be a poor one; my | heart is your heart,and 1 koow that itis au | honest one. Dear Mistress Margaret, do not | throw it awa: + Me. Skere,” now said the girl, pale with ewmotlon, but stilt keeping boldiyon the way, without faltering in her step, ‘‘you do not hnow that this Sshcrman's deughter works herself for her datly bread. This band you ask for will be on Thursday morning surting out the large fish from the smaller ones, and laying them in boxes for the masket.”” The inspiration of love or the in: genius lighted on Anthony : are they not both the same? He boldly took the little cand which she heid up to him, and slipped on it the garnet ring, and said, “And that isthe ring which I would place on it, if you will let me.’ Lucky for Meg Trevor that they were in the url Alley, which crosses from the High street ints Queen's street, and that no one could see her. She etarted this time, and tremb/ed so that she —, needed Skeve’s arin thatshe might stand. She looked on the ring and on him with wonder and through teara. “It is my mother’s ring; I lost it this day twelvemonth.”” “It is your ring,”’ he said reverently. “I found it this daysixmonto.” And he told her where be found it, how be found it, and how far he his journey to Cornwall the vow had brought ™. “And then— ear | viration of nd then you abandoned love, you abandoned the lady of our the ing, because you met @ little girl in a cart one day! O Anthony Skene, [ am ashamed of you!”” For the girl was in the reaction now, and could laugh; be was graver than ever. No, dearest; but because it is written in the beaven above that I should love you, and you only, with all my strength.” ery pale. And her hand fell back in his and ber eye ela -d up and met his eye, and the whole was told; and hls lip met her hip, and the garnet ring never left Ler finger ain. ‘They tarned back into High street, and they walked back past the church again, and oat into the fields. Yes, the sun was setting when sion to —— castle; | ah, there is always! fant | divergence was great. j it puchards, | d wae well persnade., long be- | {tue Round Tabie | He had found | f 4 | which he had never seen |! al girls in London, who let him | in this | | and siouch hat, give him the air of | es they dragged themselves across the door. | Mr. A. felt something crawling up bis log, and Lb of the fourth du | straw and dirt that had not been moved for s eral years, and there were their snakeships ip alltheir glory. It wasa perfect massacre, for in | quence is that Jarge numbers have been caus in different parts of the country within the past | few days. The eol travels up stream in the ote, and returns down to the salt waters in are the stance, there aresome eight or ten kinds of them,of which several never enter into fresh water. Some of the varieties are, when full grown, ten or twelve feet in length, weighing ove hundred pounds. The kind here, mon twelve to twent as been prov s pawn somew! Like the turtle, for some distance, from that in almost ev they can be found. =. covered up by # most delicate curtain, which water, and Leart aud’ soul and | tity of water, s0 to speak, to keep its gills molst dusing the time itis out of the stream. And the laugh was over on her Hips, and she | heart in its tail, the same as is known to exist = acl in the ¢almon, with pulsations at about ninety- four to the minute. undoubtedly lookin; factory prices. Early lambs are in brisk de- mand, and the market would take a great many more. Wecan have mutton, at least in happen sn» the best regulated choirs, the choris- t r had selected one tune, and the orgsoist had edupon another, tonce were similar, but at the @fth the The chorister’s votoe ) Was loud snd clear, and with @ wave of his hand to the choir be commenced | sf lore to steal. And there he stoppod. the penderous organ were Ue commenced again—" I love to and stopped once mor: Four times xt notes of inkleof the eye.s his rorund visage, came to ¢ “nt he regr: nN YE ed, Lom sure. Ler countof Von life in the country. The chateau belouging to the old marshal are d in Silesia, where they lie amid fertite lands diversified by pleasant scenery. Ths is more apacious than elegant, wall, and green shatters, mak- ing it look like the property of some peasant grown rich, “Its solitary owner rises regularly at 5, warms bis Coffee, which is prepared over ist m Germany gives on a "s dail | nigtit,on his lamp fed by spirits of wine, and then (goes out immediately t» the park.’ His meditative air, as he walke up and down the alleys, his closely-shaven face, well furrowed with wrinkles, his stiff black cravat, long coat me old Lutheran fminister preparing his Sunday ser- mon. At7 the marshal commences a general round of inspection through the stables, gran- ary, mills and distillery, until he arrives at the orchard, where be loves to linger, Knife in band, now pruning some unruly young branch, or anop removing young twigs. At lhe break- Tasts on s bowl of 4oup or a glass of wine, w: th * slice of bread and butter. Then ha ruas through his correspondence. Walking follows, or adrive to visit some neighbor, and the return does not take place until o'clock for tea. On Sundays alone he abstains trom work, bat after going to church he spends the remaining hours sqong bis workmen and laborers in pious read- ing, for he ts sincerely religious. Often, at night, he visits bis wife’s tomb, which is con- aled by & row of cypresses, on a hillock in the park. She died on the Christmas night of 1s68. She wi appear to bi ot young and charming, and they © been tenderly attacied to each Tr, although he might have bsen her fach =r. erever he arrives at his geat, his frst care, | prior to entering the house, is to go and pray at her grave. s A Nice Rous: Live in.—Last sprig Will Moody moved out bis log house in Union Grove, and it stood unoc- cupied and desolate for several weeks, but last July Ed. Asher purchased the property aad moved in. ‘Che first night in the house there was a great rustling on the floor, like the pattering ot myriads of inice, but it wasn’t mice that made the noise; it was the sound from dozens of suakes To the morning Mr. A. used to get up, shake the reptiles out of his clothes, grasp a pitchfork, nd piteh the s.imy devils out of doors. It was ) no uncommon thing toslaughter half a dozen in | the morning. The second and third days were worse thau the first. At breakfast one morning glancing downwards found a beautiful iittie #triped fellow working his way op in the worl. Another time he found a three-foot fellow in | Bis overcoat pccket, who greeted bim on his approaching with a friendly hiss. ‘The nuisance became intolerable. The house was old, and the mortar inthe clinking had given way in many places, and in the evening no sooner was the samp lighted than a serenade of hisses would begin, aud nearly every one of the holes would be ornamented with @ snake's head. At the end y Sir. Asher grasped his hovel and went to the banking of the house, a mass of that banking he found and killed an even hun- dred gatter snakes. Thirty were found in ous neet.— Lit How EF field ( Minn.) Led 8 Live—The er. Hearts in the End of (heir Tail.—The eel season is now at hand, the recent rains having started them in the Sasyue- banns and all the creeks and streams on tueir {all journey back to tide ter, aud the conse- ht There peculiarities connected with ¢ fall, always going in large schools. at m: ay at but few people know of. For in- U the com- fresh and salt water eel, is usually from four inches in length. Eels, it , have both sexes in one, and bat after the manner of other fish. they can travel out of water to stream, 50 rivulet, however small, ‘he gills, or breathing or- acts like a valve andareservoir for thus enabling the fish to take in a quan- Ithasa Envorce THE Doo Laws.—Sheep raising ts Up. Wool brings satis- they came into the Widow Waring’s house: and | Winter, and farmers look cheertal in view of Anthony Skene asked her blessing, which bieas- — gave. 2 largaret Waring Trevor started for Saint would; andon Thursday, just as she had done blooming "i of grass aud the reduction Micbael’s bay on the Monday, as she said she porete iu fever Of aucae Wash, & wer profits of the Hock at the close of the year. pastures, where the sheep have been, are ith white clover, and the increass of brush are strong But the for many year, with her own hands she sorted | ogs still worry the flocks, and Kili sheep, not- out the number one pilcbards of ‘‘Peg’s catch” from the number twos, and with her own hands withstanding the legislation inst them. Some of the states hos good inner the pro- arranged them in the neat boxes which her own | téction of sheep. The owners of dogs have to wit bad contrived, and ber own forethought ordered—boxes which already had the name of very beet catch of the season. oung London lawyer appeared at St. Michael's ay, ais bout the catch, and where man could buy gerne best; and on the Fi day afternoon was making 4 visit to ef ‘Trevor's pretty little Rood ong to thi 2 of old Goody Tremaine, who took care of it and pay a license for every cur they keep, aud the — goes into tg to eep Owners m! v Sane oe. Oe Veny Bese cored, aa security, It not only reduces the number of dogs, but pays for the damage th losses of pay for the This ® great do. What now most wanted is the strict enforcement of the law where one exists, Make every man pay for his dog, and kill the unlicensed. — American Agricullurist. Iv 18 WELL-KNOWN that the English are won- Peg together. But that was the last voar that | derfully i it of American y. but Pea ever packed pilchards with her own haad. | tt is not mm that they confess it. ‘This ir the story of the garnet ring, so far as | berg, ina recent speech in , said thet it has to do with pilcbards. Berg at walk up eS, ae, in the dark and —_—_-ee-____ Cicero's villa, “Exouss My Guove. tain kinds of | BUt ety tab anager mistaken politeness, sincere as they are, are absurd enough to be jue. A common mistake of this sort, with some persons, even in large cities, is to say, ‘Excuse my glove,” when they offer their hand to a casual jnaintancs, e. The bishop sometimes stays at | or cn introduction to astranger. It might be the “Crown;” bat, as the bar and the judges | inferred from this remark that the wearing of always do go down to the “Three Bolls,” of | gloves isextremely rare in # civilized comma- course a Doers 18 more atease with his | nity, or that the wearer wishes to advertise the friends.” Had he been at this circuit before? extraordinary fact that he has gloves. All he ar polite; uever suspect- ‘ing for a moment that he ts simply ridiculous. f you offer to shake hands with any one ina any one as! _.. .) Vet the of Europe u; its ——— tho Iilsens wile tweets river. but kno (1 was ‘twen' lasissipp! could float , and it took ens. Tonly found the bed of the ‘Haif a dozen washer-woman hed damee place where it is custo! to wear ores, You | ed up the Ilissus to wash their clothes.” certainly need no excuse for compliance the habit. You might with equal reason, on origintn the days when gloves were clumsy, and used more for. t : tial of Gress. ym than as an the Giality. Since gloves have pardon for wearing Gloves are now made to fit exactly, so that, wtatnee bereaved en tree ‘one’s friends or acquaintances,an amoun' time and trouble would be ju! would y render a at exhibition and a bore.—Scrib- ner’s Monthly. ¢ ERE SSS - &F Omelettes made of turtles - = eggs are a deli. in wi Se aan as well as an impro- es quakes ie ment, dan, e the At night the sounds seem to * A Wonpgerct Natvegat Parnomana.— receiving & visitor at your house, apologize to | A: had not seen | him for not removing your coat before bidding to | him welcome. the many isa tract of near the head aters of the country is Teplice ofcvery Bumbers, and, taken mm universally | most uninviting re, Th fi phraso probably nad ita | Call the ablding piace ince of te Ev Spirit “Ta eo supertiuous rm M e and -—mvunteins, with rocky- fon al bound in untold ‘abundant rocks grind and grit together uence. in the *‘impor: | Understand Ag be opened the stove door and -tirred | ‘The Grst four notes of there arailare, and that the oniy tation of Engtis' testimony of the millions upon milli out, the vast majority gro gated pusances. and a good how that ica = tsoneor the r Sent the world. They are rarely oxt ought to be cut, and when cat nthe right way. The resalt i« come naked below and are re: no fence at all—nothing but wind sersems—ureful enoogh, perbape, in this respect, but not hedges by any things in whea they e seldom cut ¥ P00 de- | means We bave suggested this often, ant at tho rick ord ine Suppered inimical to hedge culture but reails that sach hedge-cu'tare woul! never pay bas been the real tenor of our remarks, and bow that itis admitted by eur western friends themselver, we may be pardoned for reminuing them that they might have seen it before. As for the remedy suggested In the iumporta- tions of Engtish trimmers, tt ts not likety to be Of any value atall. Eng'irh trimmers know no mote of the principles of trimming hedges than our own men do. Jt isa matter of biscory t the majority of English farmers have let their becges get into such a mess that they ara re- garved as great a nuisance as it Is now repre- sented the western neglected Osage hedges are becoming. The outery bas becn so great those familiar with Engiieh caltural litera. tare must have sean the contianal articles ung ing the abclition of all hedges. travelers tell us of well-ke ese AIS ho more comm geod informa- tion circulating In our American agrica}tui Papers, which becomes generally smong the people, that is no: the case English cheap agricultural literatare, tean feature. There agricu’tural p sort of literary luxary, and th on'y among the higher classes of society then the F Aut nglish hawthors, of which thesa ges are made, isa piant requiring no great to keep in good order. These “trimmers” would find our Osage orange quite another an. The fact is the (sage orange is too much of a tree to make @ good he America. With ektil ttean be kep made into a good hedge. We bave hedges 20 made, but we ver whether such good hedges could ever be made by avy English trimmer, or by one in ahaudred of our western farmers, unless very much bet- ter informed than they now sppear to be; or even then, so as to sake such a hedge generally pay to keep np. It ts evident we have yet to mest the fence question. That live fences in many districcs must prevail seems true. Kut what bas not yet been answered.— German: graph. wn perfec: much doabt ————$_$____ Esit Safe Drink Hard Water ‘There us prejudice that hard water Js dangerous to the bealth, and on that account | we are conrtantly warned by physicians to be- ware of it, bat in England one of the leading authorities on this subject, Dr. Letheby, after | devoting ginny years to an investigation tuto the properties of the water introduced tuto English cities, and tos study of the santtary re- porte onthe subject, comes to the conclusion that moderately hard water i¢ safe: bealthful than oft water. ovly clearer, colder, more tree from air, covsequently more agreeable to the eye and to the taste than soft water, but is less likely to absorb organic substances, to sustain the life ot zy motic organisms, or to exert solvent propertics upon salts of iron or apon leaden conducting pipet. The lime salts exert @ beneficial intlu- ence upon the animal economy, and even pro- tect the system from dangerous outward intia- ences. Dr. Wilton of Edinburg, has also col- lected much valuable materia! un the subject, and comes to thesame conclusions as Dr. Lethe- by. He takes the ground thatthe haman body requires for its nourishment and Support @ eup- ply of certain mineral saits, among which carbo- nate and phorphate of lime play an important partin building up the compactness of the bones and in other functions. We usually obtain phos phate of lime in our animal and vegetable food but not from the water we drink. Carbo: lime, however, is not contained in adeq quantity in our solid food, bat generally opisius i» spring and well water. ithaes n incontestibly shown that in moun- tainous districts, where the water is more or | less bard, the inhabitants exbibit the best phys- ical development. «n the other band it is be- lieved that in large cities the mortality is in- versely as the hardness of water supplied to the | dnbabitants. ater which contains about six grains of carbonate of lime to the gallon, is suit- sbie for use in all household purposes. As a drink and for cooking food, such a water ofers the necessary carbonate of lime for the support of life in the simplest, most natural and most easily digested form, and ts at the same time, more agreeable, fresh and eparkling. 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